ue4-general

[brittle dawn]

@shut olive that's exactly it

[shut olive]

If the colliders are in front of player, that should give you the effect you want. But YMMV

just know it won't be the most reliable / robust way to do it

but it should work "good enough"

and as you know, the only thing better than "good" is "good enough".

[brittle dawn]

that's what i'm going for, but I'm not 100% sure how. I was thinking about somehow reusing the character movement component, because that already handles the 'walking forward' code

[shut olive]

@brittle dawn Really? Glad I could help

[robust marten]

Thank you

[kindred viper]

no worries

[shut olive]

You shouldn't have to do that very much then...

Just attach 2 colliders to your characters (or use traces)

make them face forwards (or you can rotate to movement direction). then make a method for crouching

altough there probably is one already

@brittle dawn anyway, glad I could point you in the right direction. Rest is up to you I guess?

also, I just realized that if you wanted to change your code to the "hiding behind cover" mechanic, all you would have to do is to switch the bool values on the colliders lol. Head - no collision, waist - collision == crouch.

[robust marten]

I just want to say thank you to everyone who helps other people on here. I know it can be chaotic at times with dozens of people posting issues they have at the same time, but thank you to everyone who takes the time to help other people with their stuff, no matter how big, small, complex or stupid the problem is. You are awesome people. 💖

[shut olive]

@kindred viper you probably blocked me as you said you would, but just know that there's no need to be a jerk, ok? I asked you politely before PMing to show some courtesy, misunderstanding happened and I PMed you anyway.

If you were a man, you would just not answer or tell me to not PM again or whatever. But you had to be a baby and literally announce blocking me in the main chat to get some online sympathy. There was no need to make a scene.

[timber nymph]

does TMap already implement a bloom filter for contains?

[spare kernel]

Bloom filter ?

[timber nymph]

makes contains O(1) if false

nvm I found the source file

[spare kernel]

I never really use tmap and when I have it's only like 5 to 10 elements lol

So not something I ever checked

[timber nymph]

yeah I'm using it as a sparse array so it's far more likely that contains will be false, I'll probably change this

are the licensing problems if we modify the runtime?

there*

[spare kernel]

You can modify as much as you want. As long as you don't remove any copyrights

[timber nymph]

cool thanks

[spare kernel]

That's the idea of having the engine source available

:)

[timber nymph]

yea I'm just not trying to pay for this lol

I haven't looked at the licensing closely

[spare kernel]

Well if you make over 1million dollars then you need to pay royalty

[timber nymph]

I'm safe for a long long time then :p

[spare kernel]

There is no restrictions on modifying code. Only restriction is editor code must not be distributed

[timber nymph]

ah ok

[spare kernel]

As in you cant have editor code in your runtime packaged build

[sick patio]

uh i have a noob question, in the top left there's supposed to be 4 or 5 landscape icons, like the ones under "mode" how do i get them to show up again?

[timber nymph]

lol I've got one million mesh instances on screen and getting 120fps in the editor

❤️ ue4

editor only using 6500mb ram though :p

not as bad as when I accidentally clicked on the instancing component with a few tens of thousands and it tried to list them, I think it hit 28gb

[calm pollen]

on the normal home screen?

if so, just click "Window" then find the one you want to come back and click it

[split kettle]

Is there a general place where I can really noob questions?

[median hound]

no

[winter gale]

https://cutt.ly/ue4-tip-107

[plush yew]

When i make a model in blender and export it, in ue4 the most materials are white even though i exported the model with embedded textures?

The file formats are .dds though

for the textures

Why is Unreal so unstable when creating/editing blueprint structs or enums?.. It's crashed almost 10 times in under an hour, happens when saving or removing stuff or trying to replace references. So annoying...

[lucid jetty]

Unfortunately "Child Actors" and "Structs" seem to be the weakest part of Unreal Engine, causing crashes constantly.

C++ Structs are suggested by everyone. It seems they are easy to create etc too.

[plush yew]

Might have to look into it...

[quaint wind]

_ in the BP I superimposed two mannequins with the same body / "Skeletal Mesh", as well as the same "AnimBP" but some animation does not play on the second character
could anyone help me please?

[long wren]

Hey Guys, If we are creating a linear based game map of a tight city neighbourhood , how should we go about the textures/materials on the buildings ?

[plush yew]

How do I create a c++ struct from the editor?

[lucid jetty]

you can't from the editor, you need to convert your project to a C++ one do things in visual studio

I am afraid I don't know how C++ works so can't help you on that

[lusty carbon]

Some walls in this closed house are just very bright after bake, as if light is leaking inside. But I just can't fix it

[dire lantern]

Guys big problem, I'm using 4.26

[paper cosmos]

anyone know any tutorials that work for multi user editing in UE4, using perforce or git? i have found tutorials on how to set up the server, but nothing to actually help me set it up so multiple users can use and edit at the same time like multi user editing suggests

[fresh plover]

2>Building 6 actions with 16 processes...

stuck

whats the problem?

have to start a new project everytime

[plush yew]

Hey guys, i'm basically making a pc vr game. And I don't know how to set up the vr.

[paper cosmos]

enable the vr plugins for whatever headset your using

best looking at the ue4 docs to find out which plugins

[plush yew]

Oh ok. Thanks

[gloomy ginkgo]

guys my character won't move if I use the "any key" function, any help?

[spare kernel]

any key will consume the input

click the any key node and untick consume input.

[gloomy ginkgo]

ohh

thanks

[lusty carbon]

What's that?

[plush yew]

When i make a model in blender (with .dds textures) and export it, in ue4 the most materials are white even though i exported the model with embedded textures?

Hello guys I have little problem, one friend made me 2 years ago icons for the buttons for my runner game, but now when I import them and set them in the button, it looks weird

I want to be as Quit but looks the Settings button 😦

Is there a way this to be fixed in ue 4?

the size of the 2 buttons are the same- 340 x 100

[glad karma]

Has somebody got experience with xps model? And know which way is best to rig those character to UE4 skeleton?

[sick patio]

I found the answer. you have to revert to the OLD ui, which requires a restart too.

apparently those 20 pixels for that menu was too prime of real estate for the screen. wonder who requested that be removed?

[spark leaf]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with UE4 where-by the context menu (right-click) and also the main tool bar menus will start to behave strangely. Often they just close as soon as you click, sometimes they flicker really fast. Other times just a black rectangle of where they are is displayed.

I have only just noticed the problem but haven't really been using UE4 for the last 5 weeks. One thing that has changed since is that I now have two additional monitors and have my display extended within Windows.

Up until last night I had to close UE4 and restart it to resolve the problem - incredibly frustrating.

As of last night I discovered that if I move UE4 to one of the new monitors its fine. But if I move the window back to my main display on the laptop, its goes nuts again.

Annoyingly, this problem now carries on even when I am not using the two external monitors, so I can be on the laptop only, have the problem and then have to restart UE4.

Needless to say, its hugely annoying.

I've only found one other person experiencing the problem so far, but I am unable to communicate with them to get anywhere as all of my replies get choked up on AnswerHub - hence being here.

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions?

[stuck linden]

Hi, I'm new to Unreal and wondering if it's normal that it takes 2 minutes to start the editor on pretty high end PC? (on linux)

[inner vine]

Yes, that's normal. Especially if you load a project for the first time.

[stuck linden]

Ok thanks

[inner vine]

If you load a large project it can even take way longer than 2 minutes, so if it appears to hang, just wait and it'll load up eventually. It's usually just compiling shaders if it seems stuck.

[stuck linden]

Ok thanks, that's good to know (and no probs, was just curious)

Would it be possible to e.g. design multiple 3D scenes with the editor and then load them via the C++ API ?

has probably too many questions ^.^ but I'm really curious about the capabilites / features

[inner vine]

What do you mean with that? Do you want to use UE to render a 3D scene within something like a Windows form or another application outside of UE?

[stuck linden]

Ha! well actually something like that

If possible I would load unreal purely as a renderer

but I (automatically) imagined that Unreal was totally not designed for that and I have to find a work around

[inner vine]

Unreal is indeed totally not designed for it. It should be possible in theory, but there are probably better solutions, such as using a rendering library instead of a full game engine for your rendering, or by making all of your user interface inside of Unreal.

[stuck linden]

Yeah exactly, I was thinking about the latter

[inner vine]

So basically the answer is "you probably could, but you probably shouldn't"

[stuck linden]

I've been experimenting with Googles Filament library

which is fine for simple small scenes, every decently sized ones.. But I want to experiment with Unreal to see if rendering largers more intensive scenes works well

[inner vine]

Unreal does indeed handle large, intensive scenes well as it's designed around the AAA games industry, where large, intensive scenes are basically the norm. It's probably still better to integrate your application into UE than to try to integrate UE into another application though.

[stuck linden]

yep that's what I'm looking into

I've got a library which parses an XML file that defines the layout of an application (mostly 2D, kinda similar to HTML).

One of the tags is something like <3d file="my-3d-scene.bin" />

Not sure if that makes any sense .. but I have tags like <image> and <video> which instantiate the required objects via my library.

If possible .... I was thinking to reuse this as much as possible where I load 2D content (images, video) AND 3D all via the C++ API

... it would be great if I could generate my own vertices, textures, frame buffers etc.

...

Would it be possible to render some scene into a texture and then reuse it somewhere else?

[inner vine]

Yes, UE calls those "render targets"

[stuck linden]

Great. Thanks Ben for helping me, I'm aware this are probably things I can read from the docs

And would it also be possible to have fine grained control over what gets rendered? e.g. create a Camera, Scene, View etc. ? I'm asking because I can imagine there is quite bit stuff "hidden" when the engine starts.

[inner vine]

You're welcome, and I certainly don't mind answering questions. A lot of this is in the docs indeed, but if you're new to the engine and don't yet know the terminology it uses then it can be hard to find what you're looking for.

[gloomy ginkgo]

aah! help me! how can I reset the layout of my window?

[inner vine]

Yes, you can just create a camera that renders to a render target and it'll work just like the regular camera.

[stuck linden]

Perfect! And is there some place where I would start/load my library? like a main.cpp ?

[fierce tulip]

@gloomy ginkgo worst case
window > reset layout

[plush yew]

Is it feasible to use a tick system instead of delta time?

Say I just set every character max tick to 60

Will it give a stable experience

[fierce tulip]

an always unstable experience is also a form of a stable experience

[gloomy ginkgo]

there was window > load layout > default

i clicked on that

but that did not change anything

[fierce tulip]

there is also a reset layout

[fierce tulip]

ah yea, same thing. should fix it.

[inner vine]

@stuck linden I think the easiest place for that would likely be the game instance or game mode.

[stuck linden]

Ok thanks!

[inner vine]

Or maybe even an actor, if your library should be able to affect stuff in the scene directly (if it for example has to show sensor data or something)

[stuck linden]

Ok

[gloomy ginkgo]

which one?

[fierce tulip]

the reset to default you pressed.
I just messed up my cascade viewport to try it, worked for me :/

[whole trout]

Is i3, 920mx, 12gb ram ok for small games in ue4 ?

[fierce tulip]

please discuss hardware in #lounge

[midnight gate]

ive been working on my seal game lately
and i noticed that the development is going abnormaly slow and today i found out that its because i try to focus on everything at once
so i would like you guys to vote and help me figure out what should i focus on right now https://www.strawpoll.me/42674544

[gloomy ginkgo]

no does not help

[rigid belfry]

do you guys have any tips on a better level layout? game's a first person horror game

[gloomy ginkgo]

it resets the editor

but not the particle window

[fierce tulip]

@rigid belfry thats a good example of the HRHR/HCH syndrome (hallway/room/hallway)

[rigid belfry]

how do i cure my illness, doctor?

[fierce tulip]

https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/cat-level-design.php

take a daily dosis of that, and your illness should be cured

[rigid belfry]

thanks for the prescription doc

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have death function and when I am dead I still can use my keyboard to move the lines where the character runs, how I can disable this input?
the project is runner game

nvm, I fixed it 😄

when I play the game and when I click the left mouse my player jumps, I don't want to do this action-how I fix it ?

[rigid belfry]

did you set it up so that you jump with left click?

are you using any game template or did you start from blank? @plush yew

[tough pagoda]

Anybody know how to keep log settings in Message Log Window.

I want to see only My Log Category. But after reloading Editor I see again full list from many-many types of logs.

In Message Log Window.

[lusty carbon]

Is there really a way to make two sided materials light bake light properly?

[plush yew]

wdym? I did this game from scratch, like I created third person project and I started making it

[rigid belfry]

so you most likely set it up to jump on left click, right?

[rose cloud]

anyone know how I what C++ type the blueprint variable "Anim Instance = Class Reference" ?

I've tried UAnimInstance* and UAnimBlueprintGeneratedClass* neither are right

[plush yew]

@rose cloud #cpp

[plush yew]

no, I didn't do it this

I can jump with space and left mouse, I want to remove to jump with left button of the mouse

I fixed it

I unbinded this

[plush yew]

hello soory for my bad english i have a problems I have some folder that is not displayed

when I open the file it makes me feel

I tried to reset my interface but it doesn't change anything

[heady summit]

Anyone experienced editor locking to 30fps? t.maxFPS, r.VSync or r.VSyncEditor do nothing.
Funny thing is that once i click outside the editor, to make it lose focus, FPS goes up

Sometimes it can lock to 60. What's funnier a simple tooltip can halve the fps

[wanton lotus]

By reset interface, do you mean you did this?

[heady summit]

Here is an example of 60FPS lock with tooltip bringing fps down by 50%. If anyone knows what's going on please let me know. I'm using 4.26.1

[plush yew]

when I did this, when I play the game I have on the screen controls for mobile devide, how to remove them?

[short onyx]

Cause you'r not focused on the viewport when the tooltip is showed

[heady summit]

why would it halve the frames tho ? @short onyx

and the framerate going up when i focus on other applications instead of the editor

i will try updating everything i can and see what will happen

[queen canyon]

Can anyone link me a good guide about hexagonal navigation principles?

[plush yew]

nvm, I found the mobile joystick and I fixed it

yes boy

😄

im building a widget system but i want to learn how to make a basic umg like start menu have the option to go into inventory or something of that manner

what should i be googling to find this out and make it

@grim ore lord the of engine i beckon to thee with widget tribute :B

[fluid orbit]

hi guys, im new to unreal. whats the best way to texture a landscape? is there a way to texture it in substance or is it only possible inside unreal ?

[rigid belfry]

do my proportions look allright?

unlit

is the size of this castle believable?

[urban bough]

I've seen references to a Maya export being available for Metahumans - does anyone know if Epic released Maya files for the sample project characters?

[proven grail]

Hi guys! May I know which courses do you guys recommend to learn unreal engine 4?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihzBW3vsjA&ab_channel=FlowStudio

Disclaimer. This is not a promotional video.

I'm just interested in creating games similar to this. I was wondering if someone could give me some advises?

@plush yew TQ

[rigid belfry]

please understand that as a beginner such projects are quite literally impossible to make

don't think you'll fire up the engine and create the next diablo or whatever

[proven grail]

I have been learning to make my own environment landscape

@rigid belfry

I do understand every good products need time

and learning also requires time

[rigid belfry]

oh i see

yeah good luck

[proven grail]

Where can i ask questions?

[rigid belfry]

here

[proven grail]

Ahh okayyy

I want to create a soft of 3D mix 2D similar to the game

When i scroll in. It becomes 3D and when I scroll out. It becomes a 2D view

When i meant 2D view. I mean this.

[rigid belfry]

2.5d?

[proven grail]

Yup

[plush yew]

7.5d when

[proven grail]

@plush yew What is 7.5d?

[plush yew]

thats the million dollar question

[proven grail]

Lol

[plush yew]

its an untapped market ;D

https://tenor.com/view/its-free-real-estate-gif-10053760

Hello guys I have little problem in my project, I want when I start the game first 3 seconds the meshes to have not collusion and after this they will have collision nd when I have collusion the character will die

can someone help me?

[rigid belfry]

i dont think that game is 2.5d thought

right? i think its just a top down game

[plush yew]

^

[proven grail]

I think you're right.

I'm struggling to make a top down game that when zoom in it will become 3D

When you zoom out. It becomes a top down.

If you don't mind, can you give me some advice?

[wary wave]

no part of that image is 2d

[rigid belfry]

you simply zoom in

[plush yew]

its 2d in my heart of hearts

[proven grail]

I can't

when i zoom it. It doesn't become 3D view

[rigid belfry]

what are you zooming?

you said you wanted to create a game similiar to the one you posted in the video. you said you want it 2.5d like the video, but "Len's Island" is not 2.5d

you have to create a code that makes your camera zoom in and out

but even then, that requires literally 5 minutes worth of coding. the scope of the game you want to create is so big, that such problems are quite literally irrelevant

[plush yew]

anyone?

[wary wave]

I can't even understand your first sentence, so you may want to start by paraphrasing it and using some punctuation

aside from that, every 'Set Collision' node in those screenshots is setting it to 'No Collision'

[proven grail]

@rigid belfry I think I may had explain wrongly. Thanks for clarifying. I'm still new and I'm trying my best to learn as much as I can. What I meant was I wanted to created a game similar to Len's Island. I initially thought the game is a 2.5D game. Now I know it's top down game.

What I had encountered when I was creating a top down game. I thought it will be cool if i could scroll my mouse to zoom in and it could become a 3D game.

[whole quarry]

add a timeline, disable collision, when timeline ends, enable collision?

[rigid belfry]

it already is 3d

if you zoom in, you simply..zoom in.. you see things from closer

[inner vine]

@proven grail do you mean transitioning between a top-down and first/third-person camera?

[plush yew]

where to add this timelane?

[proven grail]

@inner vine YES!!!

[whole quarry]

add LOD, when they have a certain viewport %, use a 3D plane that holds a image of whatever you want it to be 2D

[proven grail]

That is what I have been trying to say. I just don't know the words yet.

[whole quarry]

Google is a power one should obtain

[wary wave]

transitioning between the two cameras basically means you need to interpolate between two positions

[proven grail]

Thank you ben!!!

[plush yew]

lol

I know

but I wanted to ask where to ad it-in character bp or in the actor bp

[whole quarry]

to whatever actor should act that way

[proven grail]

@wary wave thank you!!!

[plush yew]

okay, so inside of which

[proven grail]

How can I do that? Is there like a guide I can follow?

[rigid belfry]

like in ARK where you can go from first person to third person?

[rigid belfry]

first of all. how do you control the character? mouse? wasd?

because if you want a first person camera, its hard to move using a mouse

[proven grail]

wasd

[rigid belfry]

ok great, make that work. try to create a top down camera and wasd commands

[proven grail]

I agree wit hyou that using mouse to move is hard too

[rigid belfry]

start small

[wary wave]

it's basic math, I think the real problem is that you don't even have the knowledge foundation to work these things out

I would go do some total newbie tutorials to learn some basics first

then when you're more confident with the basics, start thinking about your project

[proven grail]

What tutorials do you recommend?

[wary wave]

I wouldn't know

[rigid belfry]

check the pinned messages

[proven grail]

Ok

[plush yew]

this way? @whole quarry

[whole quarry]

yea

[plush yew]

okay

I didn't do anything in the timeline cus idk how to work with it

😄

[rancid jay]

any idea how to make Insight work with Editor instead of standalone?

[plush yew]

Lets say i have a sphere, and want the sphere to contain different planes, each of which comes with a variable controlling the scale of the plane. Can I use vertex offset (only in xy plane) using the plane parameters as input, so that the sphere stretches to accommodate the planes? Proportionally so that its still smooth and continuous

[plush yew]

I set the length of the timeline to 5 seconds

and nothing else

and doesn't work yet 😦

[plush yew]

anyone can help me with the problem please 😭

I am fighting with it for hours 😦

[rigid belfry]

what was the problem again?

the timeline is not working?

[plush yew]

no

I want when I start the game the player to go through the meshes first 3 seconds and then to have collusion

I did a function in the third person character and I put it after overlapping but doesn't work 😦

[rigid belfry]

I want when I start the game first 3 seconds the meshes to have not collusion and after this they will have collision
set actor collision false by default. on begin play, delay 3 seconds, set collision true

i dont think a function is necessary at all. doesnt a simple "destroy actor" work?

[plush yew]

I don't need destroy actor

this is runner game

you get it 😄

like when I hit object I will die

this node?

[knotty heron]

shouldnt you pick collision then in the collision enabled node

[knotty heron]

this one*

[plush yew]

I don't know

I tried with different nodes

[plush yew]

I tried with al of the functions

still doesn't work

😦

[knotty heron]

you could use on begin overlap events and kill on overlap when the game time is over 3 seconds

[plush yew]

hmm

didn't get you

but will try to do it

this?

[knotty heron]

on begin overlap -> death

[plush yew]

why? wtf

if on overlap death, this is the code

I don't think it will help

[knotty heron]

I thought you wanted your character to die when he runs into an object

[plush yew]

no

when the game starts, first 3 or 5 seconds the player to go through the objects(no collision), then the objects will have collision and when the player hit them, he wil ldie

that's it

[rigid belfry]

ok

ignoring the fact that the mechanics seems not fun

[knotty heron]

@plush yew

[plush yew]

so this?

doesn't work again

bruh

[knotty heron]

your delay is on .2secs

[plush yew]

a okay

again doesn't work

bruh

[rigid belfry]

why does it "not work"?

what should happen

what isnt

we cant understand

whats inside the death function

is that function not working?

[plush yew]

it is not working as I described 😄

IT WORKS

IT WORKS

NICE

the last problem is that I can't package the game

[manic aurora]

You'll want to review the red errors in your output log, looks like there's one above in that screenshot

[plush yew]

?

idk where to check the output file

[manic aurora]

I mean the outpug log you're looking at right now

[plush yew]

okay

so?

[manic aurora]

I don't know the answer to that specific error, I usually just google each red error I see and try to clear it out

[plush yew]

aha okay

gg 😦

[manic aurora]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/fiweuz/getting_an_error_while_packaging_anyone_know_how/

(just as an example, I've had a lot of luck just googline each error.)

[plush yew]

aha okay

I checked it

but in which of the .ini files to go into? 😄

[knotty heron]

anyone know how to fix this? I tried everything, also applying scale etc on the armature

[plush yew]

How do I cast the foliage actors in my character BP?

[runic fern]

Get All Actors of Class and Select your Foliage Actor

[wary wave]

the first question makes little sense, and the answer is worse

@plush yew what are you actually trying to do?

[runic fern]

My Answer is Worse

[plush yew]

Idk lmao It was not a real question

It was

Huh

[broken heath]

How do i set my asset files to open with older versions ?

I have made assets to sell in market place , and i want to add different versions

[wary wave]

you cannot

you can move forwards in versions, but not backwards

[runic fern]

Is it Possible to Export the Remote control Web Interface with the Package because its not packaging with project ?

[wary wave]

you may have to recreate stuff manually if you really must go backwards

[rigid belfry]

how do i create a simple post process material that makes everything look unlit?

[inner vine]

Add a Scene Texture node, one of the buffers it can access should be the colour of everything with no lighting applied.

[broken heath]

I start my bps from 0

[inner vine]

Then just connect that directly to your emissive colour slot

[broken heath]

?

[inner vine]

@rigid belfry I think the BaseColour (as stored in GBuffer) is the one you need.

[plush yew]

Can someone help me and my friend with multi user editing - my problem is that i cant make a session, when i click on create server it works but i cant make a session can someone help?

[spark leaf]

Anyone?
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[grim ore]

@rigid belfry https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/stylize-renders-with-post-process-materials

[dense phoenix]

Which programming chat room would I go to to ask for help about NavMeshes?

[rigid belfry]

here

[dense phoenix]

ok cool. SO, For a Unity College class I'm taking, the book says to create a NavMesh through the modes panel, but I don't have any NavMesh options once I open it up. How do you create a NavMesh in Unreal 4.26?

[rigid belfry]

pretty sure navmesh is located in the place actors window

[jaunty zinc]

search for "NavMesh bound"

yeah

[rigid belfry]

place it in the level and scale it up accordingly

[jaunty zinc]

also you can press P and itll appear in green, so you can see where it is

[rigid belfry]

why are you using unreal for a unity college class?

[dense phoenix]

oops I mixed up the words. I JUST finished a Unity class before this Unreal class

I can english good

[rigid belfry]

oh

is that an actual college class? thats cool

what are you studying if you mind me asking

[dense phoenix]

Game Development. Many of the classes at the end of the list of required classes to graduate are classes that teach you how to use many of the programs that are commonplace today, such as Unity, Unreal, (for some reason) Android studio, and more

The early classes were teaching the languages like C++ and C#

[knotty heron]

Where can i check my output log even i cant find a fix

[rigid belfry]

window-> output log

[knotty heron]

thx

[rigid belfry]

well how is it? i am actually thinking about applying for Game dev college

[dense knoll]

Assertion failed: World [File:D:/Build/++Portal+Promotion/Sync/LocalBuilds/PluginTemp/HostProject/Plugins/SaveExtension/Source/SaveExtension/Private/SaveManager.cpp] [Line: 251] How d oyou fix this?

[worldly lynx]

i am using set view target with blend to switch between camera like resident evil but i have a question how to you base player input relative to camera location?
suppose you have resident evil style camera which changes in every room , but everytime it changes the controls are messed up???
Please help

[knotty heron]

BRUH why do you have to change the scene unit scale to .01 in blender for it to work

[light thunder]

What's the trick to tweaking the volumetric fog settings that they don't create a slideshow -

[knotty heron]

doesnt that make it smaller

[dense phoenix]

In all honesty, I'm at baker, and the classes have been a hit or a miss. Half of the time you're learning real things that can be a boon to your career, other times you're given assignments that ask you to google how to do it.

For example, the Unreal class I'm taking right now has thankfully been really good, though my Unity class was labeled for beginners was very unhelpful and a waste of money.

[wooden jacinth]

can someone help me

my animation broke

[dense knoll]

Assertion failed: World [File:D:/Build/++Portal+Promotion/Sync/LocalBuilds/PluginTemp/HostProject/Plugins/SaveExtension/Source/SaveExtension/Private/SaveManager.cpp] [Line: 251]
How do i fix this, This happens only when running a packaged or launched game

[dense phoenix]

But don't let my experience Dissuade you, as it can all depend on which college you go to as well

[plush yew]

I'm editing my widget system

And a widget i made will only full screen every widget item i put in the box

Yes in the tutorial it doesn't do that for him xD

Send help

[knotty heron]

and if i set the system to centimeters instead of meters but leave it at 1 it doesnt work thats so weird

[plush yew]

[rigid belfry]

i dont think i understood, but maybe you've got the size set to fill instead of auto
-its the first setting on the right

[plush yew]

oh possibly

i can check of course x3

where do i find the auto fill button

its on this widget i made

i cant even add more than 1 button D:

fixed it

[lucid grove]

Hey guys can someone help me with procedural foliage settigns?

Spread distance for example

I set it to 450

but its still near each other after i resimulate

The only way i found it working with big collision numbers, but that impact whole scene and other meshes

[tough perch]

I have a question. i have two monitors and im currently making level design. Is there possible to take cine camera to another screen so i can see results while creating scene on another screen?

[rocky epoch]

You have to play with the collision numbers.
The Collision number means the trunk of the tree, and the shadow is for the crown.
Try to set it up more precise.

With those the trees won't intersect each other.
Anything you want to grow under the tree, under its "shadow", turn on "Can grow in Shade".

Spawner is a bit tricky as it simulates real world scenario.

[terse belfry]

Hi, when I take a high res screenshot some meshes are not displayed. How can I fix it?

[rocky epoch]

Some seeds starts to grow on the ground in the area (Initial Seed Density),
then after the next year (if the Num steps is more than 1), those trees are spreading their seeds (with the number of Seeds Per Steps) around them (Average Spread distance and variance).
The next trees will be shorter than the older ones.

And that is happening until a few years (Num steps).

With that you will have clumps of trees, with some bigger and smaller trees around them.

As that is not fully random (it will use the same random numbers in every simulate), you can use the Distribition seeds if you want to use new numbers.

I forgot what is the Max initial seed offset though.

I hope I could help with something. I am just playing with the spawneras well and I had trouble to wrap my brain around its logic.

The issue is with the spawner you have to a bit plan ahead what do you want to have in the forest.

[rigid belfry]

why are my fps still capped at 90 after writing the command t.MaxFPS X?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: epikzaddylol#9999 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[hard quarry]

I am currently recording a video with the sequencer, but some objects like this lamp do not get drawn fully. Any ideas why?

[rigid belfry]

spoopy

[lucid grove]

Yeah but wit high numbers of collision other trees inside volume not spawn due to lack of space. Is there a way to keep collision as it is, but make distance bigger?

[fierce tulip]

@somber rover removing message so people wont contact him. we got it logged.

[rocky epoch]

Literally just started to build a spawner for a forest, I will share its settings, maybe it will help.

There is 4 different Static Mesh Foliage in that Spawner so far with identical settings.
With 200 Shade radius (I got it the Diameter from the Mesh), and 22 Collision Radious (I checked the trunk with a cylinder.

[plush yew]

i cant seem to call up a custom event i made

but the other 2 work fine

where might i have screwed up D:

[spare kernel]

🔮 nope no idea @plush yew

[plush yew]

.<

im trying to cast via the game instance but the other two show when 1 in particular doesnt

i dont think i need it tbh but i feel this could be problematic later on when this occurs for something important lol

[shy kiln]

Sorry for the delay. What questions do you have?

[plush yew]

i have all of the questions!

[stiff verge]

i have this cable attached to stuff in blender.. how should/could do something like this in unreal?

[fierce tulip]

i'd look into the cable component

[dense phoenix]

I finished creating a behavior tree and blackboard for an AI in my game, but how do I attach it/ make it work with the Enemy character I made to use the AI?

Alternatively, I got the error code "Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetBlackboard_ReturnValue". Blueprint: EnemyCharacter Function: Execute Ubergraph Enemy Character Graph: EventGraph Node: Set Value as Object" here, could that be the problem?

[spare kernel]

blackboard is not on the character tho?>

you need to this in PossessedBy, and pass in the controller to get the blackboard

also don'r recommend doing that like you have, very bad

[dense phoenix]

Well that's how the book told me to do it :/

[spare kernel]

book is wrong then or you copied/followed wrong

[dense phoenix]

Wrong in what way?

(also just finished double-checking, it was done word for word)

[stiff verge]

@fierce tulip thanks

[celest vapor]

I managed to get the Steam Online Subsystem (Using the Advanced Sessions plugin) working for my game and it works when i launch a "standalone" from my editor but I packaged it and opened it up and I dont get the steam overlay (steam is open and logged in)
Am I missing something? or whats going on here?

[subtle adder]

Hey all, Total newbie here. I have played around with steam but just finished playing a game made in unreal engine, and was really impressed! I would love to learn to make VR games with unreal and then sideload them into my Quest with sidequest. SOoooo where would be a good place to start??? any suggestions?

[stiff verge]

install unreal watch tutorials

[lunar scarab]

Hey everyone, need help
I'm trying to make a co-op game between VR and desktop. Problem is, I can't get this spawner thing working with multiplayer. I created a pawn that spawns by default, and depending either you are a desktop user, or VR, it spawns specific character and possesses it. When hosting it spawns and possesses normally, but when joining: it spawns a TPS character no matter VR or not, and no input is working Any tips?

[upbeat fern]

Hey lads, Have an issue with going over multiple monitors - dunno what I'd search for this one.. only happens on 3rd monitor tho

[plush yew]

sincerely guys

if you cannot call up a custom event created in the gameinstance blueprint

wot should a person search to figure out why xD

i can use the "show [custom event]" for 2 out of 3 widgets i made*

[dense phoenix]

So, I got the error code "Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetBlackboard_ReturnValue". Blueprint: EnemyCharacter Function: Execute Ubergraph Enemy Character Graph: EventGraph Node: Set Value as Object" here on the highlighted block of code, could anyone help me figure out my problem?

[calm heron]

Hello,
I am looking for a means to document the blueprints in UE4 sort of like JavaDoc works for JavaScript. I built a project for a university assignment using UE4 and there is a requirement to be able to push our code documentation out to a HTML page. Does anyone know of any tools or plugins that will automate the documentation of a UE4 blueprint project?

[stiff verge]

@dense phoenix do you connect those displays in different gpu?

[dense phoenix]

Yes, they are all connected. The top panel checks if the enemy is on point 1 or 2, and the bottom panel sets/checks the enemy location

[dense phoenix]

they're connected like so

[silk lintel]

Can anyone help me figure out how to rotate towards momentum? I tried a few different ways but my brain hurts from all this vector math

Basically all involved setting a 'LocationNew' and 'LocationOld' and passing out the values, but for momentum (well technically acceleration) I have to do that again with a 'VelocityNew' and 'VelocityOld'

So it's kinda confusing >-<

[somber rover]

When I press Build Lighting Only the window pops up and goes away.... fix??

[north monolith]

Is there any good tutorials on how to export and retarget a daz3d model with clothing?

[cedar cypress]

im trying to install UE4 so i can try out metahumans creator and im getting this error, what do i do with this?

oh wait

hold on

i think it might've cleared on its own

[cedar cypress]

trying to launch meta humans doesnt work

?

[plush yew]

"create an association in the default apps settings page"

-> "default apps settings page"

https://tenor.com/view/thinking-tap-spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-contemplate-gif-5837190

Damn, I learned about Cable Actors in the Quixel Warcraft breakdown yesterday, and now... Everything. Must. Cable.

I should find an excuse to put a flag or something in my project, just to use cloth sim.

become the cable D:<

I love these little physics "freebies"

i love free unreal teaching resources

I remember running the solver in Maya way back in the day, and now it's just runtime

Cables and cloth, let's gooo

its worth more than all of the gold in the land

add cable and clothes in every tree

UE is so fun, once you get past the up front pain of orienting yourself

yesssssss

I mean, it still hurts… but at least I can do some cool stuff now

im learning papa

but soon :B

i become matheww

[cedar cypress]

Ah shit, here we go again

[sweet axle]

I'm a newbie for 4 months now but i recommend any tutorials by Mr. Wondra. There are tons of beginner tuts but IMO his leave you with some basic tools you'll need for your journey.

[cedar cypress]

newbie here too, what exactly can we do with MetaHumans right now, is there a character creator yet or is that coming later?

[lucid grove]

Heya fellas, can anyone suggest something about foliage shadows optimisation? Right now forest shadows has the most heavy fps impact in my scenes.

[sly wagon]

@real wasp @plush yew I use this website for sounds 😄 https://freesound.org/

Im surprised people liked the sounds, I didnt give them much thought.. was so focused on the visuals and getting the lightning to work

[real wasp]

It came together quite nicely

[cerulean geyser]

anyone know a good tutorial on how to get a NPC character to use just his head to look at the player(like in older videogames?) I wasn't able to find anything on youtube that actually does that. I know there's the look at node in animation blueprint, but im not sure what's the math i need to get to get the target to be the player's camera (so the npc looks straight at us)

[wind falcon]

Hi, im new to unreal. Does anyone have a tutorial on blueprints?

[plush yew]

@wind falcon check out ryan laley on youtube, he has tons of playlists on different game types, just follow along and you'll pick it up

[wind falcon]

Thnx!

[lament shore]

Is it possible to do source engine style skyboxes in ue4? Geometry physically in the world that is projected to the surrounding environment?

[shut olive]

@cerulean geyser lookat?

[plush yew]

@cerulean geyser personally I would animate all the range of motion of his head, then put the animation into a blendspace controlled by parameters

[fringe drift]

How many times per second is EventTick supposed to run?

I though it was 60 ticks per second, but it seems WAY slower than that during testing!

Is EventTick tied to framerate?

[coarse turtle]

How do you calculate ue4 recommended landscape sizes?

[plush yew]

Yes its tied to framerate

@fringe drift

Which is why you multiply stuff by delta time if you want it to be framerate independent

[honest vale]

it runs on every frame

time of a frame is variable

[rare dawn]

The recommendation is 2017 but it depends on what your making tbh

[jaunty lion]

Hmmmm, got a question guys.if anyone knows. There's no way to modify terrain in game, at runtime, without modifying the engine right?
Then I'm reading too, if you do that and are using some sort of, in Editor, terrain mechanic at runtime hacking it in...that's against the EULA?

[fringe drift]

Thank you, this helps immensely. What unit of measure does delta time return? Seconds?

Or 1/60ths of a second?

[honest vale]

seconds

[fringe drift]

Kk, so at 1 FPS, delta-time becomes 1?

[honest vale]

yeah

[fringe drift]

Awesome, thanks!

[spark leaf]

Hey all, menus/context menus keep flickering/disappearing, requires UE4 reboot constantly. Looks like a multi-display issue. any help/suggestions?
#ue4-general message

Hey, thanks for this, I am having this issue but it seems to be related to multi-display. I can move the UE4 window to one of my monitors with the display extended in Windows and then it behaves correctly. Put it back on the main laptop display, goes mammories up again. Still think a driver issue? Its only happening with UE4.

[winter gale]

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[fleet jay]

Hey guys, I was working with megascans materials, I was trying to delete some materials and I think accidentally I have deleted something which might be referencing to the Master material and now my displacement Map for the textures is set to the default texture in the Master material and is not automatically adjusted to any new shader i import. Any clue how to fix this ?

[steel shell]

is it possible to move the landscape in z direction via a blueprint?

[shut stump]

Hello

The XY coord polarity in UE4 always felt mixed up for me, now I looked more closely and yeah it's not what I've been taught in mathematics

Perhaps this is different with 3D?

[serene birch]

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/952661474501111808

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic)

Sorry y’all I was young and this coordinate system stuff was confusing https://t.co/S2tkQRfAHr

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[shut stump]

The object location arrows point to positive, Z is fine, but either X or Y polarity is reversed, when you adjust your rotation to show X pointing right, then Y points backward which is down in 2D, but Y is negative when it's down in 2D, not positive.

Same goes when I orient camera so Y would show correctly according to 2D coords, in this case X positive is to the left and that's where the arrow points, even tho that's suppose to be negative in 2D not positive.

[fringe drift]

Okay, I am having a problem with one of my HUD elements. I am using an image (with an alpha layer), which has parts of varying opacity. It's a shield icon, and the edges of the shield are less opaque than the inside.

This image shows up correctly on my HUD widget.

However, when playing, the HUD widget starts at the correct opacity, but then quickly turns 100% opaque everywhere on the image. It appears as if the image is being redrawn again and again with every tick, and an infinite number of the images are being stacked on top of one another.

Does anyone have tips on how to resolve this issue?

[native garden]

My project doesn’t cook. Is there a good way to fix this?

[fringe drift]

You might have a log file or something in that directory it gives you.

Check that appdata folder?

[shut stump]

Goign to the TOP view in UE4 viewport apparently it's based on X so X shows correct.

UE4 2D Top: X -> Right, Y -> Down, Z -> Backward

CryEngine 2D Top: X -> Right, Y -> Up, Z -> Backward

UE4 3D Perspective: X -> Right, Y -> Backward, Z -> Up

CryEngine 3D Perspective: X -> Right, Y -> Forward, Z -> Up

I used my own "right" "fowards" meanings in this case, tho X is actually forward in math I guess, but this isn't math class this is a 3D Game engine with camera and why not make myself at home right here, tho it's funny in that case we don't have to conform to the math's usual 2D XY polarity which was the case I'm trying to make so whatever lol.

[mint folio]

Hey guys, sorry for the basic question - but how do I make an interactable object?
For example, I want to have a static torch located in my map, and when the player presses 'E' next to it it lights up the torch.
I have a static mesh of a torch and another fire particle but obviously they're separate.. having a brain fart on how to use them both in an interactive way

I have the 'E' button mapped to an 'interact' action and all of that... but i don't know how to link it to a static actor

[chrome cosmos]

I'm quite a beginner so i might be wrong, but wouldn't it be a blueprint, with casting (or better an interface) and an overlap volume?

[wary wave]

I'd probably line trace rather than overlap, but essentially yes

[neon bough]

then i wonder what was taught to you... if you look on a map x/y are on the flat surface, and height would be the z-axis

if you want something that uses Y as up axis, go play minecraft, that does that weird stuff

[wary wave]

it's common for games to use X/Y as screen space coords and Z to represent depth, and some 3d renderer / game coordinate systems do this

Unreal though does use the 'top down' perspective with Z representing height

[neon bough]

well, it's kinda for 3D on 2D space

blender does Z as up axis, too. but in composition for the final render the depth is referred to as z-depth

[onyx merlin]

is there any way to check the performance of a single function in UE? I gotta generate like 30 million random numbers and gotta see how long it takes. (I am not allowed to just use chrono)

[last flax]

I just posted a question specific to animation in #animation. We are really stuck on this and on a tight timeframe, would really appreciate any help on it. Can't seem to get the Animation Sharing Plugin working as intended. Can provide more info/screenshots as requested ❤️ Thanks

[wary wave]

axes are arbitrary, so you'll see all kinds of differences

[neon bough]

opengl does it also with z as depth iirc

[shut stump]

@neon bough Where did I say I want Y up ? I wasn't even talking about switching any axes or it's letters, only the polarity of them.

[neon bough]

nvm me

hadnt noticed your longer elaboration about that

but yea what you said makes more sense

y should point upwards in top view

[shut stump]

I just checked in blender latest stable I installed earlier, if the arrows show positive polarity then Blender is also correct, same way as Cryengine, Y is forward, X is Right, Z is Up

Whereas Unreal has Y reverse, the arrow pointing backward

[neon bough]

minor annoyance... i used to make minecraft mods before, where it bugged the hell out of me that Y was the upvector 😄

[shut stump]

Yeah, I've never came across Y being UP in any math/school, literaly never.

And I was in construction school, physics, geometry, only basic architecture (I never went into it later on), never saw Y up.

[spare kernel]

Minecraft does Y UP?

[neon bough]

yea, but that comes from it using opengl i guess

[spare kernel]

no excuse

[neon bough]

😄

well that started as an hobby for the dev, he never thought "hey this gonna end up as a big eco system where many people will work with"

[spare kernel]

probably cause it was originally 2D camera

iirc from Notch's initial idea

and made 3D, and left Y as up, and made Z the Y

i hope, only rational explanation i can come up with

[neon bough]

well opengl describes 3d space on a 2d plane, so it kinda makes sense

it's not a world oriented thing, like something like unreal is

[spare kernel]

yeah makes sense

[neon bough]

unreal puts the abstraction of 2D space to 3D space between the dev and the engine

[fresh plover]

i have a bit of an annoying problem in ue4

after a while c++ classes wont compile anymore

so i have to start a whole new project sometimes

whats the problem>

[gentle mirage]

Did u check the documentation?

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/824457/solved-i-cant-create-new-c-class.html

[scenic fox]

when i import my animation, it gives this warning

LogFbx: Warning: IMPORT TRANSFORM ERROR : Bone (Feet_R_end:197) Source Global Transform (-5.878304,-0.232955,0.736915|0.000000,0.000014,-87.196846|5.261316,5.261316,5.261316), Converted Global Transform (-0.011171,-0.002367,-0.084566|0.000000,0.000014,-87.196838|0.010000,0.010000,0.010000)

the animation changes the pivot of the mesh when i put it on the character.

[fresh plover]

i can create new classes

but it will get stuck

[gentle mirage]

Yes bur u say the wont compile

[fresh plover]

on the compiling process

[scenic fox]

help

[gentle mirage]

Search the forums and u will find the answer

[scenic fox]

me?

[gentle mirage]

A quick google search will do

Nah the other pal

[scenic fox]

oh okay

damn this warning sucks though

[gentle mirage]

Did u try to search forums?

[scenic fox]

i did but i couldn't find anything that worked sadly

im looking on youtube rn

[fresh plover]

well

after chaning BuildConfiguration.xml

wont compile anymore

haha

[gentle mirage]

Did u animate it in blender?

@scenic fox

[scenic fox]

ye

ye

i think it's cause of unit scale

[gentle mirage]

U can check the blender forums too if so

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/28650/maintaining-local-pivot-point-when-importing-fbx-to-unreal-engine-4

This might help

[fresh plover]

@gentle mirage it think the problem is resolved

about the compiling

[gentle mirage]

Yeh forums has everything

Ue4 documentaion isnt the best but helps

[safe sentinel]

nevermind, found the channel to ask in

[warped grove]

Any motion designers here?

[broken heath]

Has anyone tried mac mini m1 with unreal engine?

[grim ore]

I have

[broken heath]

Oh great , Hows it?

[wary wave]

does it even run the editor?

[broken heath]

It does , and i heard it works well with 4.21

[grim ore]

depends on what you do, I only tried with .26 launcher and source builds so I dont know if its improved since then. GPU was not supported normally, have to run it in metal preview mode since there is no opengl. Performance was "good". cpu wise comparable to an amd 2700x, gpu uh.. gtx 1050 or so?

it works "out of the box" with the older ones but you just twizzle a few things in .26 and its fine

I mean it worked, I could compile and deploy basic projects to macos and ios, and it felt a crapton better than a normal mac mini

[wary wave]

running with 8GB or 16GB memory?

[broken heath]

Is it worth it ? generally i will develop using good specs windows and then copy it to mac to do ios build , do u think it can do the job for a heavy game?

[grim ore]

this was on the 8gb models. I tried all of the m1 mac variations

[wary wave]

but 'performance of a gtx1050' doesn't fill me with faith, hehe

[grim ore]

I didnt buy it for doing dev work on, I have a real PC for that, but use it for remote build and deploy yep

the GPU is surprising for the mac mini is the biggest takeaway when compared to the older ones

like WoW runs at a good frame rate, you can actually "game" on it

[wary wave]

yeah, the older mac minis are terrible, which is why I was a little surprised UE4 even runs

I'm not sure I'd use WoW as an example though, the game is ancient at this point and runs on a potato

[grim ore]

if I had to do work on it in UE4, I could do work on it. if I had a choice, I would use a real machine

latest wow can hammer a gpu and cpu

[broken heath]

So using it for build purposes only , while using pc for everything else can work right?

[scenic fox]

i used to do it on a shitty laptop and it worked decent for some odd reason

[grim ore]

I personally use the base m1 mac mini right now as a headless desktop for remote windows builds and for native builds if needed

it works well enough to remote in, open the project on it, and build it

[broken heath]

How long do u think it can take to build something like low poly third person game

On m1

[grim ore]

if you ever tried a mac mini before this feels nothing like it

the cpu performance when compiling the engine was about the same as when I would build on a 2700x

[broken heath]

I never tried a mac at all , forced to get for ios building now

[plush yew]

I got this bp where it will find the closest unoccupied chair, it works, untill all the chairs are occupied, any idea?

[runic fern]

@wary wave hello i have a question
Yesterday someone asked about foliage actors how he can get it in player Character
....
My answer was for all actors if you want get a reference or call them as i know
Get All Actors of Class
doesnt matter which actor in generally i meant how to call
was that wrong or not ?

[plush yew]

i tried setting the variable to empty but it breaks it

[scenic fox]

why use get all actors of class when you can use event dispatchers though?

[broken heath]

@grim ore so generally do u recommend me buying mac mini for mobile ios development or I should think of older macs instead

[runic fern]

not all people using dispatchers xD but i meant if he used this method is it wrong ?

[grim ore]

@plush yew it sounds right, set it to nothing, try and find one, if nothing is set return nothing or a boolean that says false if not found. then your code outside of this needs to handle finding nothing

@broken heath it depends on your project size and if time is money for you. at this point the base m1 mac mini is much faster than an older mac mini and price wise cheaper or the same as the older ones at this point.

[scenic fox]

no really i was just curious like i use event dispatchers like all the time, i never really needed to use get actors of all class unless i was testing.

[plush yew]

if i set to nothing at the start it doesnt seem to work properly

[wary wave]

he asked about casting, though the question was not clear. If someone is casting, they have a reference, so there's no need to 'GetAllActors'

[runic fern]

Because he said the answer is worse so i want to learn the good method

[wary wave]

though generally speaking if you're using 'GetAllActors' during gameplay you're probably doing something wrong

[grim ore]

@runic fern that can get you the main foliage instance actor, but how do you get the individual instance he wanted was the question

[wary wave]

ah, is that what it was

I didn't see the conclusion, heh

[grim ore]

and like was mentioned generally getting all actors has a better way performance wise

[runic fern]

the dispatchers right

[plush yew]

these two dont have a chair and default to an occupied one

rest of them do work tho

[grim ore]

the other way just depends on the goal and the setup, ED could work sure. so could setting up a public variable and setting it at design time. So could getting all actors once and storing it for later.

[runic fern]

cool

[gleaming creek]

I had the (probably naive) assumption that "get all actors of class" would be optimised in the engine

[grim ore]

@plush yew yep just walk thru the code and fix it. no chair should be set -> look for chair -> if found a chair set chair -> return current chair value. whoever calls this should be doing nothing if the chair is not set.

it might be optimized but its still more costly than most other methods.

[scenic fox]

ok here's a question i could need an answer for, what's better BP Interface or ED?

[runic fern]

and also he can use blueprint interface

[grim ore]

neither might be better, both might be situational

[scenic fox]

ah.

[grim ore]

like I would use an ED to have an item that spawns register with the game mode so the game mode can keep track of it. or perhaps the game mode might need to tell everything to do something if its listening. good uses for the ED.

but an interface would be good to generically talk to something and say "hey do something" and have that thing only do something if it can

[plush yew]

@grim ore i did try a bunch of solutions but they dont seem to work so I came here if someone knows one? 😛

[grim ore]

if you have to cast, an interface can be a solution instead of casting, as an example

@plush yew I blocked out the code you should use. What do you do when the chair is invalid, no valid chair was set. why move the character?

[runic fern]

yes good info thanks guys

[plush yew]

well the issue I cant set the variable to null or empty

[grim ore]

you can set it, setting it to its defaults for that variable would be null

[plush yew]

the highlighted part of the bp seems to be neccesary

[grim ore]

literally set chair near to nothing

[plush yew]

if I do that the bp doesnt work as intended

[grim ore]

then fix the BP to work with it

your asking why its going to the occupied chair, you are telling it to

[grim ore]

you are setting a default to a chair, not to no chair

[plush yew]

its just going to seemingly random chairs

[grim ore]

yep again fix your code.

[plush yew]

im trying

[grim ore]

set chair to nothing -> find closest chair that is not being used -> set chair to that chair. At the end of this loop return current chair. The code that uses this should move to the current chair, or no where if the current chair is nothing.

[plush yew]

thats what I got no?

[gleaming creek]

Since we're kind of on the topic, if you wanted to do some work on any actors of a certain type within a radius, how would you do that efficiently?

[plush yew]

set chair to nothing, find chair not being used, set that as chair

[gleaming creek]

Keep a list of them all to avoid using get all actors of type?

[plush yew]

i just added it to an array so I can do another for each loop for the closest one

[grim ore]

so then what does your code above this do when it finds no valid chair?

also

your setting chair near in that loop if its not occupied

but that could be different than your nearest chair right?

[plush yew]

yea thats why I got 2 loops

[grim ore]

no reason to set chair near in that first loop if you arent using it

[plush yew]

itll find the nearest chair in an array of not occupied chairs

[grim ore]

you only want to set it when you find what you want, which is the nearest non used chair.

[plush yew]

hm i had an issue when I hooked up the array element into the new array

[grim ore]

if your having issues you might need to rethink the code. Its honestly way too complex for what you want but you keep doing it this way

and frail code will break, then you patch it, then it breaks again

[plush yew]

cause ive been googling and asking for a week now and I cant find any solution 😛

[grim ore]

I gave solutions originally but you keep insisting on doing the double loops

[plush yew]

i know you did but I coudnt make that work at all

[grim ore]

that doesnt mean it was wrong

[broken heath]

Last question, Do u think Apple or Epic games could ban each others to the limit where we can’t develop for ios ?

[grim ore]

@broken heath if you dont own the entire tech stack, yes. its like that with anything.

[plush yew]

never said it was wrong, I coudnt figure out how to make it work, its to advanced for me

and I cant find any posts or videos at all that has my issue 😛

[broken heath]

Didn’t get the entire stack thing i am a foreign 😇 didn’t get the answer

[grim ore]

if you dont make all of the software you use when you make the product, anyone in that chain can screw you

[gleaming creek]

Also hardware, in the case of mobile devices

[grim ore]

so in theory microsoft could decide you cant do IOS dev on windows anymore if you want to get technical

so yes epic or apple could prevent you from using UE4 to build out to ios but you have to have faith they wont since you are using them for your software stack

[broken heath]

Yes , I agree but do you think apple or epic could screw us likes this? i mean they could but do u think they would?

[plush yew]

if it benefits them then yes

[broken heath]

Your own vision

[gleaming creek]

That thing with the chairs looks really over-complicated, I'd suggest starting anew and making is simpler.

[plush yew]

yea I got no idea lmao

ive been on it for more then a week

my brain is mush

[grim ore]

ill show you what I suggested again in a sec, I just have to write it out

[plush yew]

okay thanks 🙂

[gleaming creek]

If I understand it correctly, all you want is something like this:

(I just used apples instead of chairs because I had an apple class)

[plush yew]

yea but I want it to have more variables

so closest chair, but also the chair thats not being used, (else it will just go to the chair someone is sitting on)

[grim ore]

with this being the actual code calling it

[gleaming creek]

You forgot to update the distance 🙂

[grim ore]

this just simulating 10 thingies searching

[gleaming creek]

In my example, replace "is valid" with "is chair in use"

Also, the local variable for nearest distance should start at 9999999

[grim ore]

uh no i didnt...

lol

and yes default value for the local variable for the distance should start at a stupid high number (your max search distance)

[plush yew]

@grim ore see I had that when I started out and somehow it didnt work 😛

ill try again tho

[gleaming creek]

😉

[grim ore]

yeah I was in the middle of debugging, I was trying not to make it too ugly with more prints so I didnt validate like a bad coder

but yes the concept we said. your just... making it harder since you couldnt get it to work this way, but we can so... we know it works

[gleaming creek]

But I was curious about what you were saying about not using "get all actors of class"

(but either way, don't do "get all actors of all types" and then try to cast them all, that's definitely not efficient)

[grim ore]

well for this one you could always use a get actors of interface

but I would say a radius check, get overlapping actors like check, might be smarter

[gleaming creek]

Would that be more efficient? I'd have to open the code for get actors of type and see how it works

[grim ore]

its possibly more efficient if its designed to keep a short list

but yep good question and either way I wouldnt use get all actors unless I had to and even then you arent doing it every frame.... hopefully

[kindred viper]

it's always nice so you don't need to get every actor and cast away the chaff. Plus you get actors regardless of class then. Just need to have inherited/implemented.

[grim ore]

I guess you could do a maaaaaassive test to see if either is more efficient lol

yep interface would be good for when your looking at "usable" stuff instead of just "bp_chairs"

[gleaming creek]

I was just thinking because I have some custom-made vision code, and right now it just does "get all actors of type <things interested in being seen>", and then filters them on distance

Wasn't quite happy with that (though in my case, the only thing the AI are interested in seeing right now is the player, so... that's a list of 1)

[grim ore]

well if your doing something like that why not use the EQS system and stimulus which is designed to do that?

not saying its more efficient but its literally designed to do what you just described

[gleaming creek]

I vaguely think I looked into that and decided it wasn't appropriate, but I can't remember why now

[grim ore]

it was definitely wonky at some point but in .26 was finally removed from experimental status

[gleaming creek]

Looks like it probably still does the same thing as I was talking about - get actors of a class, then filter them by distance, then traces, etc.

So probably not any more efficient as such

[grim ore]

oh yeah its the same concept just all in the BT system and without any seperate coding

[gleaming creek]

Yup. Probably why I didn't use it (I'm using priority AI and not behaviour trees)

[grim ore]

more designer oriented would be about what I could say? since all of the tweakables are in the BT itself

[gleaming creek]

Anyway, probably worrying too much about optimisation there

[tough pagoda]

Anybody know how to keep settings for Message Output for Logs?

After restarting settings are reseting.

[gleaming creek]

(I could also optimise that "get nearest chair" example a lot by doing things like not calculating the distance twice, for example)

[steep timber]

Hi im actually folowing this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqiZ7x02Jds to make a inventory and at 2:20 there is this small panel with the 4 stripes on it and i cant find it. Can anyone tell me the name of the panel pls ?

[grim ore]

I dont see a panel with 4 stripes at 2:20

you can right click and copy a link at the exact time or take a screenshot

[grim ore]

so which part of that screenshot

The one that says Return Node....

[steep timber]

the panel he is actuallyon

with the 2 violet and the 1 red conection

[grim ore]

oh the double = sign

[steep timber]

y xD

[grim ore]

that is boolean equals

[steep timber]

ahhh ty

but its name equal

[grim ore]

well technically I think its a name == name

yeah but it returns a boolean is why I said that

[steep timber]

ok ty alot 🙂

[gleaming creek]

You get that node by typing "==" into the box when you drag out a wire

[light thunder]

So, TIL you can open up an FBX in Visual Studio - neat.

[plush yew]

@gleaming creek @grim ore I think it works, it probably does. Need to tweak some other tasks tho but its fine. Thanks 😄

hey help me please with sound volume issue anyone pls 😦

Ive made own soundmaster class and submix and im trying to mute sound and I got it working, now I opened the project and its not working...

Any simple blueprint command to just mute all sound, even just a console command?

been searching this discord and whenever someone asks this same question no answers. or answers about making some own submix and class. which is quite dumb but nevertheless I did what they said and now it doesnt work.

[grim ore]

pretty much that answer is the answer is why you are seeing that answer

[plush yew]

Thanks that really helped!

all in a days work

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-boy-cowboy-gif-12550037

[grim ore]

well you question was "how can I do this a different way than the way it is supposed to be done"

[plush yew]

not really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acalh1WjHEw followed this one and it worked. Saved my project, closed project, went to make coffee and opened my project. Now it doesnt work.

[grim ore]

so start debugging why it doesnt work?

[plush yew]

So I am asking is there like a console command for muting global volume or something because this submix thing doesnt work for me anymore and I dont know why

So I made a custom event under the widgets systems I even setup variables for it via the widgets themselves but I can't call up 1 particular custom event only 2 out of three show

[grim ore]

no. there is a way to mute sounds in game, there is in PIE only, but the way the sound system works right now uses the sound classes and mixes and that is the way it works.

you had it working once, so it does work, you just have to fix it.

[plush yew]

I dont even know where to start debugging, tried the basic printstring but it works fine for printing it

[grim ore]

the sound mix override is generally where you change the volume

make sure that is running and make sure your classes are using it

[plush yew]

I tried it also, but not working 😦

tried it with node set base sound mix and then the override

ahh I hope not some corruption thing, as I saved the project and instantly closed it

well off to debugging somehow ->

I even set it up the same way in the game instance for all 3 I hope

Yet no dice with ingame menu

@plush yew I back up my project on every successful step i make towards completion

As I've had to start over 4 times due to not backing up so often

wow you are a good backuper

I only backup 1-2 times a day when Im working on the project

[grim ore]

@plush yew so context sensitive is on and your not pulling out of the class these events are in, pull out of the as PHGame Instance return value

otherwise the engine has no idea what you are trying to look for since your just pulling off the generic execute wire

also the blueprint your in at the top might not know of the changes to your phgameinstance class if you havent let them both compile recently

@plush yew I can confirm that in .26.1 this code path works as expected before and after saving and reloading the project. setting your base sound mix to start with then eventually overriding it with the new volume is all that was needed to change volume as expected. The other nodes are just for testing

[plush yew]

Good to know. I am working in 4.24. I had it working even without the override before.

Going to start from earlier project and just doing exactly what I did earlier.

[grim ore]

oh well the override is what sets it

[plush yew]

oh so i might just be stupid

[grim ore]

unless your just swapping out new mixes with new volumes

[plush yew]

good to know

I will ofc trie override it tooo

ill check in a second

[grim ore]

if you just want a pure mute it all and let someone sort it out you could just set your base sound mix to have 0 for the volume and set it

[plush yew]

Yes in my sound mix had a master sound class which was turned to 0 and then another mix that turns it to back to normal which was 1

[grim ore]

would have to make sure all sound classes are included and muted in that base sound mix then

[plush yew]

Yes will double check that too.

[grim ore]

yeah make sure all your sound classes are in that base sound mix, maybe some of your sounds are set up to use other classes correctly and your not catching them in your mix

[light thunder]

If you are making a new texture in Photoshop, you set the size but you can also set the resolution - what should I put here? epic docs talk all about 2048 x 2048 but what to put for pixels/inch?

[past pilot]

Anyone use the new Buoyancy Component? I have an issue where from the outside my 5000kg boat can barely be pushed by the player, but when i get in the boat and run against a railing, the boat moves like it weighs nothing and is being pushed from the outside.

[plush yew]

I did leaves separated from trunk for a possible implementation on a Wind System I found on youtube. How can I go to stick them together in the foliage tool?

(yes I did some shit on the texture when mixing with the flower bushes 😐 )

these trees are in size of ~1.5 units in Blender (without any metric or inch parameter set), is that too small or I will run into physics problems later on?

the whole game is set to have the character as having 0.5 units of height, however I did not imported it to Unreal yet

but as far as I remember, I would need to set the physics manually, but setting them into the bounds of the model did not had problems

having a wind system with a dense vegetation like this is asking for trouble?

[steep timber]

how do i get this small "quantity" panel ? if i type "quantity" nothing appears. i have in "Designer" a small text called "quantity" is the panel in the tutorial referenced to it ? if y how do i get a panel referenced to a text in "Designer" ?

[rigid belfry]

is there a way to merge the box brushes to make one unique mesh?

"merge actors" does not work, and i think thats because brushes don't inherently have a static mesh

if that is not doable, is there a way to quickly and effieciently change all of the brushes material to something else?

oops, did not expand the dropdown

[grim ore]

@steep timber maybe pull the image into paint and circle or highlight what you are missing. It seems weird the tutorial would skip stuff.

[steep timber]

y he doesnt show how to get the panels at all

[grim ore]

what is "Quantity" supposed to be?

[steep timber]

the number of stacked items in the slot

love 64 wood in minecraft

[grim ore]

so its a widget? a text widget perhaps?

[restive shadow]

Does anyone know if the 4.26 water plugin foam is bugged at the moment? I can't get it to show up and the ripple solver seems to be broken even on the demo map.

[steep timber]

i have no widgette called quantity

[plush yew]

@grim ore didn't work i even recompiled so I went wrong somewhere between the custom event I made and the widget blueprint i think

[grim ore]

@steep timber did you say in designer you had a small text ?

[steep timber]

y

the text is called quantity

[grim ore]

@plush yew try checking context sensitive and dragging off again and this time dont type show since.. you know.... your custom event does not contain the word show

ok so chances are you need to make it a variable so it shows up in the blueprint like this @steep timber

[plush yew]

Oki

[grim ore]

in the details panel you can set the widget to be a variable

[steep timber]

ahhhhh y that was the problem ty xD

[plush yew]

Okie so I'm stupid

[grim ore]

I didnt notice it the first time you were searching (the issue) but you should still have been pulling off the return value object and with context on

[plush yew]

I didn't type show and tried pulling the name itself instead of the show part of it.and it worked

Thanksies matheww!

[grim ore]

yeah your name for your event is not "show whatever" like the other 2

[plush yew]

Its weird because I didn't write show in their names either tbh..

But this one won't pop up when typing show

[grim ore]

well someone typed it

custom events are called what you want

[plush yew]

Oh yeah I definitely wrote show

How did that floop by my head

Ugh I'm so dumb

Sorry for wasting your time >_<

[grim ore]

it happens. eventually it happens enough you start naming things in certain ways

[plush yew]

I guess I subconsciously wrote it x,.,x

[grim ore]

eventually you even start combining stuff into just "ToggleWhatever" with a boolean instead of ShowWhatever and HideWhatever

then you get fancy and just make one uber event that takes in your stuff and does it all lol

[plush yew]

Lol

Oh gosh

I kind of like the latter part

Uber event

[grim ore]

but thats also why designers and engineers get paid the big bucks and you take time to do all the crappy work before the fun part

[plush yew]

Yeah I'm trying to build the foundation of my game

And its a 16 hours a day every day x,.,x

Maybe its finally getting to me lol

[grim ore]

yep its normal to do stuff over and over eventually as you refactor

[plush yew]

Yeah yeaj definitely but I'm learning so much its crazy

[grim ore]

like I just realized my combat system works great for 1 on 1 fights but once I have more than 1 enemy the damage only works on 1 of them at a time lol

[narrow mauve]

Anyone know why my orthographic views are nothing but grey

[plush yew]

Yeah I'm getting there soon

I wanna have multiple enemies and flowing combat like batman or spider man ps4 so huge learning curve coming soon

[grim ore]

@narrow mauve you are zoomed out too far, click on something in the world outliner and F to focus it (or double click it)

[plush yew]

Nontheless thanksies for the assist now I can get back to work :>

[narrow mauve]

Matt are you the guy who makes vids on YT lol

"the guy who makes vids on YT" really narrows it down

Hey Matt are you that guy with the face

lmao

[spice socket]

Can any recommend good climbing system tutorials?

[potent reef]

Hi, which setting did i need to change? I tried unreal metahuman with iphone live link app. But the mouth is always open a little, although i am not. Thanks before!

[restive shadow]

you have to go into the app settings and create a link to you computer's IP address

There is a tutorial on youtube if you search and should help get it working

https://youtu.be/2vL6PQgy66o

So here's another weird thing with 4.26 water. I don't get the underwater effects and when I modified the water material to show distance fields, it only shows up under the water surface. Anyone else see this or know how to fix it?

[true falcon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yjcwZLQqlE Also CodeLikeMe has bunch of tutorials for different stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLmi5RcoOU8

[worn mirage]

This is kinda crazy... changes made to a widget aren't showing up when I play the app. I've done the usual save, build, play countless times but now when it runs it shows me an old build. None of the changes are in the running build. o.O

[rigid belfry]

build? are you playing in editor?

[worn mirage]

yes, Ive even deleted all the folders besides Config and Content and rebuilt

[plush yew]

Z position of 0 is the recommended in objects?

or a bit higher so the stem of trees and grass do not get consumed by the terrain?

[serene minnow]

Hey! Quick question:
With world composition, when i open my main level (the persistent) all the sub-levels are invisible and their content doesn't show up in World Outliner.
I need to unload and re-load the levels to be able to see their objects in the world outliner.

Am i doing something wrong?
Is it possible to auto-load all the levels when i open my main map?

And have them visible (the eye icon next to the level name) at start?

[restive shadow]

I think that's by design. Some world comp maps are so big they would crash the editor if you load them all at once

[serene minnow]

@restive shadow Damn.... have a Houdini Asset in my scene that depends on the Terrain tiles beeing loaded at start

[light thunder]

What setting did I change, so that this seems more pixelated than it should - (see shadows) - scalability is all set to cinematic

That's the way it appears in the editor viewport, not because discord downscaled the image

[idle merlin]

Heyo!

Quick question that I seem to be struggling to get a straight answer on is how to go about using C++ and blueprints. I'd just like a confirmation if I'm understanding this correctly:

Creating a new project as a blueprint project means I cannot directly use C++?
Creating a new project as a C++ project uses C++, but can I still use blueprints?

The project type doesn't seem to be changable? Or are they one in the same? If so, why is there an option to choose between C++ and blueprints?

Thanks!

[restive shadow]

@serene minnow if you need to load all the tiles at start, then you're not gaining any benefit from world comp. You can change the distance the tiles load to a very large number if you want to load them all at once, but again, you're better off using HLODs and no world comp at that point. Just my 2c and maybe someone else has a better workaround/answer

[rigid belfry]

you can still create c++ classes even after creating a bp project

[serene minnow]

@restive shadow Yeah, you are right. I am trying to generate a system with Houdini that works on huge landscapes that are input from UE4 to Houdini. But i guess i need to change the way the system works instead of changing the way UE4 works 🙂

[potent reef]

Thats not what i meant. I already connected. What i mean is whenever my mouth is closed, the metahuman mouth not perfectly closed. Always giving a space, opened a little.

[idle merlin]

Thanks Righy, I'm just a little confused. A plugin I'd really like to mess around with states the following:

C++ project is a requirement. BP projects are currently not supported.

If you can still create c++ classes after creating a BP project, why would this be there? Alternatively, should I create a C++ project, and then just add blueprints as I need them?

Great to know C++ classes can be created at any time. I'd really like to make use of C++.

[steep timber]

again a panel i cant find 😦

"Set Integer (by Ref)"

i allready checked "Pass-by-Refference" on bost inputs but nothing changed

[rigid belfry]

i have no idea if starting with a c++ project matters at all. this is a blueprint project and i can still create c++ classes as you can see in the pic. you might have to compile a bit longer the first class you create but there shouldn't be a difference

[lucid grove]

Heya, is there a way i can change "Cast Shadow" on the run in foliage static mesh? For example i want to make option in graphic settings that toggles shadow on grass.

[wanton lotus]

Use "Set members in struct" node instead. Not sure why they break the struct to then set an integer by reference when you can simply set the integer in the "set members" node. Select the "set members in struct" node and choose which variables you wish to edit in the details.

[sterile tulip]

When I try to build geometry

After I changed distance lod settings of landscape, my mesh starts clipping through the ground. Anyone know why?

[steep timber]

if i type in "set members in struct" i just get a very very long list but "set members in S-Special" isnt in it

[wanton lotus]

S_Special is my own struct, yours is called ST_Item.

"set members in ST_Item" should get you to the correct node

Then expose "Quantity" as pin and plug "Final Quantity" into the pin.

[fresh plover]

so

my project isn.t compiling again

[plush yew]

Can anyone please explain why I cant see "Cast To ThirdPerson Character"?

do you have a third person character bp?

[idle merlin]

Thanks Righy!

[gleaming creek]

Your character blueprint is probably called something else?

[midnight wren]

will metahuman be free on unreal like megascans

[steep timber]

im a bit confued. what i now do with Break ST_Item ? can i jsut delete it ?

in the tutroial its supposed to lok like that

[willow tinsel]

@weak hemlock Which game engine did you use to build your game Lost on Corix T-98?

[wanton lotus]

Yep, delete the break node and plug your struct variable into the set members node.