ue4-general

[tiny imp]

UE4 editor flickers and sometimes small search windows like these below do not render, what could be the reason?

It started happening today after I recompiled the engine with Megascans Plugin.

Compiled UE4.26.1 on Windows

[grim ore]

ah if its in the character you cant do anything about it, drop one in temporarily and use it @shell totem

are you on the latest nvidia driver? if so it might be that @tiny imp

[tiny imp]

Yes I am using latest NVIDIA Studio Driver.

[grim ore]

menu flickering is menu animations but thats different from this one, this one pops up in this channel if you search and seems to be related to drivers and multi displays

[tiny imp]

It was working fine with the regular driver

Yeah I am using multiple monitors and I checked Control Panel as well

[grim ore]

I can say I am on 460.79 game ready without any issue

[tiny imp]

everything seems to be OK

I see, I'll try switching to Game driver

[grim ore]

I know epic has started to blacklist some recent drivers due to bugs so 😦

[tiny imp]

I figured Studio Driver could be better for UE4 but oh well

[grim ore]

it could be, I think its just the more recent ones

[tiny imp]

Thanks for this

[rancid bramble]

Would be cool to be able to set that preview frame to full screen. Never thought about it

@shell totem If it's any help:

[shell totem]

thank you

[fluid lance]

posted in bps too, but it bothers me that I don't understand:
This is the code for some floating rock SMs. Why do all instances of the bp synchronize movement?

[grim ore]

@rancid bramble stupid preferences, I was looking under project not editor lol. good find 🙂

[tiny imp]

Installed Game Ready 461.72 but problem persists, very interesting

I didn't have such an issue before

[abstract scaffold]

I am using a Widget Component for a health bar in my multiplayer top-down game. Everything about it is working great, except when the characters move, the widget doesn't seem to keep up, and it jitters quite a bit. The character movement itself is nice and smooth in multiplayer, but the widget is jittery. Any ideas? It's set to screen btw, not world.

[weak cradle]

How do I reference my player camera in the level blueprint?

[grim ore]

you dont, you nuke the level blueprint from orbit hopefully

but if you have to, and you should never do it, you should be able to get the player character (its your character right?) and then cast it to the class of that player, and then get any of it components by name

[rancid bramble]

Yeah! 😄 Working on only one project I wish it was all in the project settings. So many places to look for. And let's not forget the World settings! Clutter. Just clutter all over.

[grim ore]

ugh World Settings... what a great name for something referring to levels that are also maps....

I literally forget about it 100% of the time

[rancid bramble]

Me teaching some workflows to my team mate: In Blender you export the shape keys and then import them as morph targets in UE. Confused yet? Open the level now... Or is it map? I don't know! Just google it. Then you place the blueprint... Or actor? To the level... I mean map.

[grim ore]

well actor is fine, its consistent. Level/World/Map is just ugh

[rancid bramble]

Yeah

[grim ore]

I mean you literally create a new level, and it says the asset type is map on it and you adjust it's settings in world settings... its all on the same screen

then you adjust its settings in MAPS and modes and when you package its include MAPS

but when you want to go to a new MAP you use OPEN LEVEL

its a frigging LEVELS tab for working on the MAPS in your WORLD....

thats why when I teach that I just use all 3 at the same time and let them know its interchangable

[rancid bramble]

I think level is best term, because a small area in the game is a level. World implies the whole space in the game. Map is just stupid. You can have map of the world. Map of the level. Map implies that each level file needs to be a Counter Strike map. That's good way of going about it to mention them all 👍

[robust marten]

Hello guys. I'm hoping someone might be able to tell me why my hand remains open in my animation? I used keys to set the hand to be closed in all my animations but in the blendspace my hand remains open for some reason. Anyone have any idea why?

[grim ore]

yep no argument except you have to deal with map as part of the engine concept so they just have to learn one way or another lol

[bright terrace]

Would someone mind screensharing with me to help with something? Im just trying to spawn a muzzle flash and its spawning in the wrong place

Im sure its a simple fix I just cant see it

[robust marten]

You have it set to spawn from a point on your gun but its not spawning?

[bright terrace]

yes exactly

[grim ore]

what does your code look like

[bright terrace]

like this 😄

[grim ore]

ok so

socket location, is that in world or relative space?

when spawning the emitter are you spawning it in world or relative space? (hint its world)

[inner crescent]

@grim ore Heyyy...you're Mathew! 😄

[bright terrace]

world!

[inner crescent]

via YouTube

[bright terrace]

I think its just not getting my gun socket location for some reason

[grim ore]

then do a print string for the location of that socket and see what it says

also

you might be right, what is root component on the swap_bp?

im guessing you want your skeletal mesh component

[bright terrace]

teaching me to debug as well I see

haha one sec

uhh yea I want the skeletal mesh of my gun

[grim ore]

welp get that instead of the root and problem solved?

[bright terrace]

swat_bp is my character mesh. I made my firing system in the event graph of my characterbp

[grim ore]

yep so the gun is part of the swat_bp? your character

[bright terrace]

My gun has its own bp

[grim ore]

ah so who owns the gun

[bright terrace]

my character

[grim ore]

or does it exist on its own in the world

ok so then you get your character, which you are doing, now you need to get the gun from it not the root component

[bright terrace]

ok quick question. Where it says root component, is it getting the root component of my gun or my character?

[grim ore]

the top most component on the item you are talking to, in that case your swat_bp

in this example the capsule component is the root

[bright terrace]

ok so im searching for my gun (coming out of the As SWAT BP node on the Cast to SWAT_BP)

[grim ore]

so pretty much what does your hierarchy look like for the swat_bp and how does the gun exist in relation to it? Child actor, attached actor, just a random spawned item, etc.

[ocean pumice]

hi !
i understand i need to find the parent of this BP but i can't find what that is.. anyone ?

don't know what to put as object..

[grim ore]

there is no context to that

you do know what you need to put as object, what are you trying to talk to

[ocean pumice]

to the clock i want the text to show

[grim ore]

ok so where is this clock in your world, how does it exist, who knows about it, hell what is "the clock" in terms of an object

[ocean pumice]

ah

[grim ore]

I would assume a umg widget that something spawns in, so when it spawns in save a reference to it (the return value) and then now you can talk to it

[ocean pumice]

it's an actor but this cast to time keeper node is inside the clock component..

[grim ore]

so there is an actor in the world, that has a clock component?

is that a widget component?

[ocean pumice]

no it's a proper clock

[bright terrace]

I honestly just think I meed screenshare support xD cant figure it out. Im willing to pay $5 for a solution

[grim ore]

paste a screenshot of your swat_bp component list from the top left @bright terrace

[bright terrace]

spreading the love

sure

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice ok so if this is an actor in the world, you could technicaly "get actor of class" to get that blueprint that exists in the world (assuming there is one) and talk to it

but doing that every tick is.... bad practice. You would get it once on begin play then talk to it every tick. But uh. why cant the clock set it's own time?

[ocean pumice]

ok and where would i get actor of class

[ocean pumice]

i just want to display the text i get from my time keeper to the text inside the clock

[grim ore]

so then is this code in the clock?

@bright terrace ok so no weapon in there, how is the weapon created and stored?

[bright terrace]

It is its own blueprint

[grim ore]

yep but it has to exist some how

[bright terrace]

I made a variable to access it

[grim ore]

like do you "spawn actor of class" or ?

[bright terrace]

pointing to its skeletal mesh

mmm ill answer the best I can. It is its own actor

[grim ore]

yep, how does it come into existing?

[ocean pumice]

like this

but this works like this

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice yep is that code above, the tick, inside of your clock with that text?

[ocean pumice]

7

[bright terrace]

idk how to answer that rlly. Its an actor bp. And I kinda just drag it into my level. When my character overlaps it, I can pick it up

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice if that code works, then you can keep it. Its not going to kill anything its just not efficient

@bright terrace ok, so how do you pick it up?

[ocean pumice]

this works fine the problem is that i need to stop time at some point

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice if the time keeper in your player stops the time wont it stop on the text as well?

[ocean pumice]

and the problem is that my stop time is linked to this

so when i sit down on the chair it stops the display of time

[bright terrace]

I have an interaction system. When I collide with the capsule component surrounding my gun, I can interact with it. I set the key to the F key on my keyboard or the top face button on a contorller

[ocean pumice]

lol i'm sorry i'ts pretty specific and complictaed

so i guess it's ok it's just stops the display but the time keeps moving

[grim ore]

@bright terrace yep at some point tho your character (swat_bp) knows about the weapon and can use it right?

[bright terrace]

correct

[grim ore]

in doing so you mentioned a variable before, is that a reference to that weapon? if so that is what you would get after casting to swat_bp since it holds your weapon. Then with that variable (the reference to the weapon blueprint) you can get the skeletal mesh for the gun out of it and that should have your socket

[robust marten]

Real quick can soeone tell me if you can only use so many Keys to edit an animation?

[grim ore]

so swat_bp -> weapon i am holding variable -> skeletal mesh -> get socket

[bright terrace]

would the skeletal mesh go into the object portion of "Cast to Swat_Bp?"

[ocean pumice]

i think i just messed it up @grim ore the stop time function doesn' actually stops the time it just stops it's display

[grim ore]

@bright terrace you have the structure above and your basic blueprint was close. Get Player Character -> Cast to Swat_BP -> get your weapon variable -> get the skeletal mesh for the weapon by its variable name -> get the socket location/rotation

in reverse order you want the socket on the weapon skeletal mesh. the weapon blueprint holds that mesh. your variable in your character refers to that weapon blueprint. your character is of type swat_Bp. you can get the character by using the get player character node

[wooden leaf]

I don't see a support channel. is there a support channel for ue4 in BP

[bright terrace]

yeaaa im just not seeing it @grim ore

[grim ore]

right now you have get player character -> cast to swat -> get root component right?

replace get root component with get "VARIABLE NAME FOR YOUR WEAPON"

then from that get, do a "GET VARIABLE NAME FOR YOUR WEAPONS SKELETAL MESH"

then from that you should now have the skeletal mesh that is your weapon and has the socket on it

[bright terrace]

Ok so I did do that. And it says that gun object reference is not compatible with my swat_bp object reference

Cast to Swat_bp -> Get M4

the variable it gives me is just floating and doesn't connect to anything. If I try to connect it directly to get socket location it automatically gives me the root component

[grim ore]

what is the name of the variable that holds the gun in your swat_bp?

wait a sec, where do you spawn this emitter at? what blueprint

[worn copper]

My Vehicle Tyre Collision not Working Properly in Vehicle Blueprint. But Working Perfectly in Vehicle Asset you Can See. here

• I have tried almost 10times from Yesterday.

[bright terrace]

it was just called "skeletal mesh" but I just renamed it to "M4Custom"

emmiter is being spawn within the firing system of my swat_bp

[grim ore]

ok so....

we can skip half of this since the weapon is already in here isnt it?

[bright terrace]

I am not sure tbh xD I could say yes but that doesn't mean I truly understand

[grim ore]

at some point you pick up your weapon blueprint from the world and your swat_bp keeps track of it. what is the name of that variable?

[worn copper]

Why my Tyres not Working... Whats the Problem

[bright terrace]

"M4Custom" that is my weapon variable name

[grim ore]

ok so inside of the blueprint for your weapon, what is the name of your skeletal mesh?

[bright terrace]

M4Custom_X

[misty cargo]

Mathew have u done anything on
This variable I just discovered it recently and online isnt telling me much about it

It hold frame, frame rate, and subframe

[grim ore]

so inside of that blueprint you should be able to go from the line trace to the spawn emitter without using a cast (you are already in the swat, no reason to get it). You should be able to inside of there right click and "Get M4Custom" then drag off of it and "Get M4Custom_X" then drag off of that and "Get Socket Rotation" and do the same for the location @bright terrace

[lyric timber]

can someone help me understand actor and gameplay tags?

[grim ore]

@misty cargo based on this I would assume its part of the external syncing system for stuff like live link or external video production hardware

[misty cargo]

Ahh can I use it to hold like a sub data variable in a array?

I'm still new to this stuff

[grim ore]

its a variable, you can probably use it for whatever you want if you just want to store data but all it is is a custom struct

[misty cargo]

Custom structure

Can I make my own structure?

[grim ore]

you can yep, its under blueprints

[misty cargo]

I didn't think about it

Ummmm do u have a video in your belt on that?

[grim ore]

I assume I do lol, its just a container for holding multiple variables

[misty cargo]

Is it wtf is? A struct?

There's two parts

[grim ore]

probably lol

[misty cargo]

Ehh u can make a structure pin setup with the thing u make a data table is that what u talking about?

[grim ore]

data tables use structures yes

[misty cargo]

I thought there was something inside the blueprints that u make a set of variables into one thing and u just bring up the name in a search function slot like a map but it wasnt its own variable

[grim ore]

remove the widget if its valid when you leave the second sphere?

seems like the easiest solution

the other option would be to lower your trace range on the line trace so you have to be near it to hit but still inside the outer, that way if you were facing it and backed away towards the exit you would get out of trace range before leaving the outer area

both might be good as well 🙂

[plush yew]

hi

[misty cargo]

Omg custom structure is amazing now that u enlighten me that u can put structures in structures

Thank u Mathew

much more neat

[grim ore]

you are pretty much doing that anyways, vectors/intpoint/rotators/etc are basically structures

[plush yew]

i'm using apex destruction plugin but i want to make my mesh more study

what can i make for this

it's just get destruct when it takes a little bit damage

[misty cargo]

i figured if u can call a cutsom structure on its own then u can put it in a structure

which makes things less messy

[ocean grove]

Hey any idea why the text in my widget keeps reverting to white after I set it using the ink dropper?

[misty cargo]

Now I can do a grid of items way better

[grim ore]

@plush yew I beleive there is a Damage Threshold setting in the destructible mesh

[plush yew]

yeah i used it and it's hard to destruct mesh for character

but when mesh fall to land it destruct easly

[ocean grove]

Not doing it anymore.

[feral moon]

Hey, I have a problem...I sucessfully created a stencil mask to make the particles of a material to be visible only when the particles are inside a mesh, the material used for the particle is Surface/Translucent...However, I need to step this up by making the material a Volume/Post process...but when I apply the custom stencil in the material instead of it to be masked like with the other shader, this simply dissappear completely...the stencil on the first shader is applied on the opacity, on the second in the extinction parameter, any idea?

[plush yew]

@grim ore

[grim ore]

@plush yew #legacy-physics might have more help, thats all I could suggest for that

[plush yew]

The mesh is shattered at the smallest damage for some reason
When I do not receive a certain size of damage
I don't want it to break up

[misty cargo]

Cool beans

[worn copper]

Can anyone help me with this Vehicle Tyre Problem...

[willow eagle]

does anyone know how to post a request or box in the #volunteer-projects section?

or do I have to plug in a website or something

[fierce tulip]

there is an instructions channel in that subsection

[plush yew]

#legacy-physics

[past wing]

I am trying to use Unreal's UCameraComponent, however I am bit confused on to why it doesn't have any way to support near & far plane in perspective mode, anyone got ideas on it?

[digital anchor]

near is at project settings

far is infinite i guess

@past wing

[past wing]

@digital anchor so there is no way to control these programmatically (through C++ code)

[digital anchor]

no

at best you can use the console var for near

[timber mesa]

Is unreal engine just REALLY slow when opening up for the first time?

[grim ore]

no, your machine is just slow

[timber mesa]

I really dont think so.

Its been half an hour now.

[grim ore]

the engine opening is relative to your CPU speed

check your CPU use in task manager, if its near 100% you just wait

[timber mesa]

Its been 100% for like 30 mins now.

I have an i7 8th gen. DIdnt think it would take this long.

[grim ore]

yup now you just wait

[marsh basalt]

Hello everyone, just joined the discord. Trying to learn the engine since its been like 6 years that I had last used it.

[timber mesa]

Hello.

[shell totem]

Is it possible to disable anti-aliasing for sprites only and leave it for everything else?

[past wing]

@timber mesa - Try Unity and see how long it takes to load

[dry latch]

Does anyone have "Sci-Fi Modular Hangars Location" on Epic marketplace and tell me if it is any good for kitbashing ? :p

[timber mesa]

It eventually loaded, so my average time would be 30 mins.

[ocean pumice]

any idea on how to make this timer stop incrementing ?

thanks 🙂

[fringe rivet]

shlilugi

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice you have a timer handle, you would call clear and invalidate on that timer handle and it would stop the timer from happening anymore

[ocean pumice]

thanks a lot ! and that would be the best method to do a stop and resume ?

[grim ore]

thats how you stop it, to resume you would start it again

You can use Set Timer by Function instead of event and then call the name of it instead of it being wired directly. this would let you call it again later from anywhere

[ocean pumice]

i feel like the timer handle is not really the timer because when i try this, it doesn't stop the time and the events related to it from happening..

[grim ore]

because you wired it poorly

[ocean pumice]

great, then i would need to set timer by function where exactly ?

[grim ore]

the pause timer node should be hooked up to your variable itself

[ocean pumice]

ah damn.. yeah my approach of ue4 rn is sadly a bit poor 🙂

is taht better ? because the sound tick keeps happening but the figures on the clock are frozen..

[grim ore]

your sound is not part of your timer, so why would it stop?

[ocean pumice]

oh smart

but the events are still hapenning though

i guess i would need to do something here as well..

@grim ore

[grim ore]

well thats setting a timer so it would make sense

but that just calls it the next frame for the most part and only once

so whatever calls that should be stopped

[ocean pumice]

ah yeah like right after check for event node

i'll try that thanks again

[rotund elbow]

how do i get the bone/socket name from a sub mesh into notify tick

[frail sail]

Anyone tried to import NVIDIA DLSS 4.26 plugin on 4.24 ?

does it work or gonna broke with lot errors?

[celest blaze]

hi, any leaks about ue5 alpha eta? 🙂

[fierce tulip]

no

[celest blaze]

fine, thanks 😄

[misty cargo]

thanks again mathew this is way better now having structures in structures and using enum its the best combo

enum switches what values i need while structures in structure makes the ultimate grid of values

[trim silo]

After packaging a game is there a way to prevent people from extracting assets etc?

[river stag]

I would not bother, meshes, textures etc can always be retrieved by hooking the graphics api

[misty cargo]

Plus if people can read the projects cooked content they can re-enginer and asset retriever

So no matter how u cook it it's still going to eventually get it's assets retrieved

[trim silo]

Yeah i was wondering if there are different levels of settings or encryption or something

[misty cargo]

I believe so but u just need it to cook it to where the game can't just be completely ripped apart and hacked to look exactly like the game but have a virus inside it

Which I believe default settings would work on that

[fierce tulip]

yea, lets not discuss this. thanks :)

[misty cargo]

Sorry about that

[fierce tulip]

np

[trim silo]

hmm is security a bad thing?

[azure field]

Hello, good afternoon. I was wondering, do we need to upgrade our projects to Unreal 4.26 in order to import them into Unreal 5 when it is released? Our current project is in Unreal 4.24. We are trying to minimize how often we need to rebuild materials and we would like to wait if it is possible.

[misty cargo]

From what I'm aware of is unreal 5 is supposed to be compatible at that version but I'm not sure xD

[gaunt abyss]

UE5 is suppose to be like a transition between a few major engine versions (4.22 to 4.26 for example) so first going to 4.26 I think is advisable since it will reduce the number of possible API changes

[azure field]

@gaunt abyss @misty cargo thank you both for your help. i will take this under advisement. Do you guys anticipate a 4.27 before UE5 is released?

[misty cargo]

I just remember from the last personwho said something about ue5

[gaunt abyss]

I think 4.27 will release before UE5 (final version not preview) but I have no clue when UE5 will release so that's just a guess

[misty cargo]

Ue5 a lot of people say it will be released near the beginning of next year

[gaunt abyss]

preview I think should be in the coming months

[azure field]

ok that really helps

[exotic thicket]

Rider added preliminary UE5 support in their recent update so yeah seems they'd probably release a preview or something 🤔

[gaunt abyss]

^ yeah

[azure field]

i can wait for 4.27 before 5 then. that golden rule of 'never upgrade in the middle of a project' matters

[dim ermine]

What can I do to prevent an event or function from executing?

My scenario: I'm spawning a an object class on begin overlap.
I only want this to occur once, each time I overlap. However, it triggers multiple times when I overlap just once, even when using the do once node.

I tried branches and gates to no avail.

I also want to disable the function from running after I have spawned just or 1 or perhaps say 5 objects. How can I do so?

Can I also just disable the overlap from occurring? I tried using the set collisionenabled function but that didn't work.

[open sigil]

Hi people. I'm currently working on automated rendering pipelines using editor scripting. I'm looking for a way to trigger a play-in-editor or launch via blueprint or console command but I can't find any of these. Could someone please help me ?

[stark ledge]

Check the pinned messages in #automation I'm sure there was something in there with an example or GitHub link that launched PIE from c++

[open sigil]

ok @stark ledge thx

[late stump]

Hi, im trying to export an animated material from substance designer to unreal but not too sure how to make the material "alive" in the engine.

[fierce tulip]

that really depends on the settings, we have some substance users in #graphics try asking there.
you might want to explain in more detail whats animated about it though.

[late stump]

alright ill do that thanks !

[grim ore]

@dim ermine I dont know if you found an answer but you might want to do a bit more debugging to see what is causing the overlap event itself. Figure out what is triggering it using debugging (prints or breakpoints) and go from there. Based on what you have there it should only overlap once for the player since you are checking for that but you say its not

[abstract scaffold]

Having an issue with mutliplayer widget components (Health Bars) looking fairly choppy when the other characters are moving. The characters themselves are moving really smoothly. Any ideas on how to smooth that out?

[fringe abyss]

has anyone distributed a project on furioos or some other pixel streaming solution before? I´m looking for a way to host multiple instances of a unreal project on the web. Any help would be appreciated 🙂

[hoary lodge]

Having a massive issue with SetSmartLinkEnabled. It doesn't seem to work in runtime. My Unreal version is 4.21.

[dim ermine]

Tbh i'm rather stuck. Would appreciate any help or pointers on where I could be looking. I suspect there's other issues too.

Since it seems another one spawns at the world 0,0,0 coordinates and the one I overlap with get displaced

[timber nymph]

can I group bindings in the input settings?

I'm binding F1..10 and 1..0 and it's a lot of noise lol

[hushed tangle]

Hey, so i'm applying for a program at a college for this summer; what should I call the blueprint system in UE? Like what's the general name?

[marble delta]

@hushed tangle It's just called Blueprints.

[hushed tangle]

But like Scratch for example is considered "Block Code". Is there a similar thing for the Bps?

[marble delta]

No, not really. You either implement things in Blueprint or C++.

[hushed tangle]

Okay, thank you!

[narrow mauve]

Does anyone know how I could 'sample' from a texture to drive some scalar value to multiply a variable by.

[plush yew]

When I untoggle sprint on my character, he snaps back into his walking position. How can I stop this?

[narrow mauve]

say if I could sample from a noise texture..and the black/white would be my 0-1 value I could use to multiply a variable by...but not for a material..for a variable in code

[wraith cypress]

I heard it called specifically "Node based scripting language" or "visual scripting language"

[hushed tangle]

AHhhh that's a good one, thank you 🙂

[pulsar ruin]

is there any lowend pc unreal user here?

[robust marten]

Change the blend time to 1

[plush yew]

You can use a noise function, it's what produces the texture.

I don't know if you can pull from UE for that, but I've used 3rd party perlin noise functions for a few projects — for exactly the use case you described.

[robust marten]

Is there a way to "hide" array items temporarily? I want to create a way to sort my inventory by category(Enumeration) but I don't see a way how I could hide an array item instead of deleting it. I was looking to do something like this way?

[narrow mauve]

Okkay thank you

[timber nymph]

blueprints are called a Visual Scripting System by Epic; generally they're a Visual Programming Language (VPL)

or more properly I think it's the Blueprint Visual Scripting system

so BVS

[hushed tangle]

ok, thanks!

[worn granite]

worth noting, scratch is also a VPL by this definition @hushed tangle

[narrow mauve]

I was thinking I could use 'noise' and use the resulting 0-1 values to change the temperature accross the landsacpe

[hushed tangle]

right

[narrow mauve]

that way I dont need to use a grid and do advection math

[timber nymph]

@hushed tangle the way you described scratch as "block," blueprint would be called "nodal"

[worn granite]

Noodle Coding

[hushed tangle]

ahhh i see

[timber nymph]

lol

[hushed tangle]

haha

[timber nymph]

literal spaghetti coding

[worn granite]

only if you want

[floral heart]

With the right font, all languages are spaghetti languages.

Just looked at scratch for the first time

[ebon wave]

is there a way to add a delay between console commands? e.g. command 1 | delay_here | command 2

[hybrid cedar]

how can I solve this

I can’t use my mouse

[shell totem]

is it normal that I have such a horrible looking AA using FXAA?

[plush yew]

That sounds cool!

Using noise functions as a way to introduce natural variation is a great technique. Depending on implementation, noise functions seem to output 0 to 1 or -1 to 1 — either way you can remap that to whatever you want. For example, I map the output to degrees, and have used noise as a way to smoothly randomize velocity (unit patrols, particle movement, etc.)

[hybrid cedar]

help 😔

[plush yew]

I think Shift + F1 restores mouse control if you're running the game. Is that what you mean?

[hybrid cedar]

no , I wad editing the object

was *

but I don’t know what I’ve pressed

it unlocked

I can’t move in the world

or choose any object in the map by the mouse

[plush yew]

Terrifying.

anybody use Rider for UE4 code. is the IDE supposed to index unreal engine source files every single time you open the program?

[azure field]

Would anyone happen to know if WaterBodyLake can have animated splines?

we have this lake that we would like to animate to connect to an ocean.... like a timelapse

[plush yew]

Right ty

[pliant rose]

morning lads, forgive me where shall i go with this

[timber nymph]

lol

S H A D E R S

+20C after that

[nimble warren]

So i tried Generating visual studio project and got this error "CompilerResultsLog: ERROR: Could not find definition for module 'APEX', (referenced via Target -> Launch.Build.cs -> Engine.Build.cs -> RenderCore.Build.cs -> RHI.Build.cs -> VulkanRHI.Build.cs -> HeadMountedDisplay.Build.cs -> AugmentedReality.build.cs -> MRMesh.build.cs -> PhysicsCore.Build.cs)", anyone know how to fix?

[limpid otter]

In a production Unreal game, how do people store their key tuning data (ie: monster health, weapon data, etc.) usually? Is it: a) data tables, b) blueprint values, c) ini values d) something else

[worn copper]

How to enable Collision mode?

[latent pier]

guys

how do you

nvm

can someone help me with unreal engine plz. My friends and i decided to make a game rather than wasting time playing them. But we kind of dont have any idea how to start or start up the stuff.

[runic fern]

Check youtube tutorials or Epic Online Learning@latent pier

[mellow apex]

hey guys, i've experimenting and learning with the new volumetric cloud system but for some reason I can't get rid of the grainy/pixelated look. I've been troubleshooting this for a while but still haven't found the solution. any ideas?

[winter gale]

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1369169830654275585?s=19

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1369532218750607363?s=19

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

Quick #UE4 Tip number 123.

Disaster Recovery plugin to restore session after crash.
https://t.co/dAwhIJx1ZN

#unrealtips #unrealdev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine

Twitter · Mar 9, 2021, 6:15 AM

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

Quick #UE4 Tip number 124.

Instantly remove unused material nodes.
https://t.co/mMYx4koT5h

#unrealtips #unrealdev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine

Twitter · Mar 10, 2021, 6:15 AM

[wanton tide]

I hope we'll hear more about UE5 at the MS Game Stack Live even in late April 🙂 they will have announcements on "next gen graphics" and more importantly MS Direct Storage which is going to be a cornerstone for some of the next-gen streaming features in UE5.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/events/game-stack-live/

[timber nymph]

how does showdebug abilitysystem work exactly? when I get the attributes from the actors they have the right values, but the debug values are wrong

oh nvm it just doesn't follow the selected actor

[mortal cedar]

is there a way to change the order of this bar? I'm finding my addons are hiding the play button

[wet elm]

how do i make my material stretch to a plane rather than texture?

[fierce tulip]

@mortal cedar dont think you can, but in the editor settings you can set icons to small, which should give you more space for that play button

(though I do think its worth reporting, as that play button is important)

@wet elm you arent making much sense, could you try explaining in an other way/with visual aid

[wet elm]

ok so basically

you know how a texture tiles over an object

like a texture should

i basically want to make my image the entire plane

rather than tiling

[fierce tulip]

a texture does not have to tile over an object, that depends on texture coordinates

[wet elm]

i'm new to unreal what the hell does that mean lmfao

[fierce tulip]

depending on the uv map of your object (mesh), you only assign a piece of a texture to the object (mesh) its surface, or tile it multiple times.

[wet elm]

and how do i do that

its just the default plane atm

[fierce tulip]

either change the texture coordinate tiling with a texture coordinate node in the material editor, or edit the uv's of a mesh in a 3d modeling application (dcc)

[wet elm]

where do i put the node

[fierce tulip]

you plug it into the uv of a texture sample.
though, you might wanna go over some getting started guides (like the ones pinned in this channel) to get you going

[shell totem]

I can't find any info on how to blur near and far objects in game, but leave the character area sharp. Is that simply not possible anymore after they removed a bunch of DOF features for no reason? Please, anyone, is there a way?

[fierce tulip]

im not a fan of the current dof-stuff.
in fact, i have come to hate it

[shell totem]

So no hope for me?

[fierce tulip]

there is, you might wanna follow along this video (and its 2nd part)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcOZ4tvrgUg

[shell totem]

I'll look into it, thank you

Oh man it involves a 20$ plugin

[plush yew]

why do my subtractive boxes not work on my basic boxes?

[fierce tulip]

generally you wont want to use bsp for level design. simple blockout maybe, but its better to block out with meshes and start using meshes asap.

[plush yew]

how do i create an opening for doors/windows if i cant use subtractive boxes?

[fierce tulip]

meshes

[plush yew]

could u link a tutorial?

[fierce tulip]

pinned messages in this channel should get you started.

[plush yew]

alright thanks my friend

[shell totem]

I really start to think I have to downgrade the version of my project

Just to have functioning DOF

[fierce tulip]

for my own game im considering paying a coder to get the old stuff back

[half yoke]

hello, is it just me or in 4.26.1, on a new project, Gizmos (translate...) are not visible until shaders are not compiled? I've got the ~5000 shaders of new project + starter content, and cannot see the gizmos (and won't until the next 20mn haha).

I don't remember having this behavior on previous versions

[honest vale]

isn't the basic box a mesh and not BSP? 🤔

if yes, that's why. They're two different methods of doing geometry

[teal lava]

Does anyone know if LiveLink for Metahumans will work on a samsung s9?

[midnight knoll]

Hejj :) does anyone know how to freeze some of the bones in an armature so that some moves and some doesnt?

[gritty locust]

how do I get my project showing up in "my projects" in epic games launcher. it works when I open the editor

[sharp cloud]

Is there any way to keep bloomish object over distance? I know it depends on screenspace, but maybe there is a way?

[plush yew]

how can i give weight to a destructible mesh ?

[wintry mango]

Hi guys just decided to download UE4 now. It's my first time coding anything and I'm excited to give it a go!

[fierce tulip]

good luck!

[vocal herald]

I have vectors A and B with an angle between them N. I have vector C and want to create vector D with an angle between them also equal to N. All 4 vectors are coplanar.

How can I create vector D?

[wide cloak]

Hi everyone. So I had worked on a project in unity around 2 years ago and my teammate made animations for our characters. I am now trying to remake that project in UE4 and was wondering if I would be able to pull the animations from the old unity project? I'm not really an artistic guy, more of a developer, and I have lost contact with the animator so I cannot get the raw blender animation files from him so I am hoping to be able to pull them from the unity project. I pulled the FBX from file explorer but it's all one FBX and there's like 40+ animations so I'd really prefer not to scrub through it and trim it 40+ times. Is there a way to pull the animations individually? Would anyone be able to instruct me on how to do this?

[wintry mango]

Thanks Luos!

[fading berry]

@vocal herald You wanna draw a picture or something?

[vocal herald]

No

just wanna rotate vector C by same angular delta between vectors A and B

[fading berry]

that's not what you just said though

rotating a vector by some angle is easy

but the way you phrased that initially is impossible

like asking to draw seven orthogonal lines in 3D or something

to get the angle between vectors you can use cosine (if your vectors aren't normal you also need to account for their lengths)

[frank oar]

After watching the live stream for Blender to Unreal I have begun to test it.

In the live stream they said that if you set Blenders scale to .01 it will be 1 to 1 with unreal.

so why is 1 equivilent to Unreals 2 ?

(notice it says 200 in the cubes brush settings in unreal, I have always assumed thats centmeters right ?)

[vocal herald]

angle just gives me a float. How can I tell to vector C in which plane it has to rotate?

[fading berry]

then you can rotate your C by that angle by just scaling its components correctly (there's a formula for it, I think it's x_new = cos(theta)x_old - sin(theta)y_old, y_new = sin(theta)x_old + cos(theta)y_old, but don't quote me on that)

ah, right if your vectors are in 3D you have to do a bit of extra work

since we're talking UE4 here, presumably, you should be able to do something like:

• normalize A, B
• get dot product between A, B
• get cross between A, B
• rotate your vector C with FVector::RotateAngleAxis, give it the cross product as your axis and your angle in degrees will be acos of your dot product, times 2*pi

or something close to that, anyway, if I made a mistake

@frank oar If that's your default cube, its radius is 2 meters

it extends from (-1, -1, -1) to (1, 1, 1)

the "scale" you see in the properties panel is just the transform applied to your model, not its extents

as in, you haven't scaled your model in object mode if that field is at 1, 1, 1

(you can test this out by spawning a default plane, hitting tab, s, 10, clicking, and hitting tab again -- your scale in object mode will be unchanged even though the plane is 10x10 meters whatever units you have blender set to now)

[frank oar]

I just this moment noticed the scale is 1.000 but the Dimensions (just below it) in blender says 2M
tyvm @fading berry

[fading berry]

huh, I wonder how long blender's listed dimensions as well ... I'm still getting used to 2.8 myself

Does anyone know where UE stores its library/vault stuff? if I've downloaded something but haven't "added to project"

well, I guess the easiest would be to migrate or whatever in my case...

[robust oar]

anyone knows why visual effects are not compiling?

I have ryzen 2700x and I'm using 4.26 chaos

https://gyazo.com/6295e354a9881cea577e64b746b58edb

it stays like this forever

[fierce tulip]

not enough info to give an answer

[robust oar]

I don't know the enough info to give a question really lol

It just don't compile..for no reason

[light thunder]

How would you set up a key shortcut/ macro to open up a particular blueprint? (Or if anyone knows of how to set that up with a third-party program I would love to hear about it)

[dense knoll]

How do i make this texture have a glow like affecy

it gets slightly brighter and glowy

[light thunder]

you want to make a dynamic material instance and then increase / decrease the color or texture you have going into the emissive channel during the game

[dense knoll]

its a 2d idget material

to make the widgets glow

[digital anchor]

make sure your material has used with particles enabled

[stiff bane]

can someone help me get shooting in my game? ive tryed a lot of videos but i cant get it to work.. dm me

[obsidian nimbus]

A/C and multyply D by that?

[patent eagle]

Hello all, is there a common way of replicating dynamically generated textures?

[stiff bane]

i think add a emission node

[dense knoll]

kk

how do you add a emmesion node?

[stiff bane]

guess right click and search for emmesion

[neon bough]

when you import a 30MB fbx and unreal decides to take up 30gb of memory...

[dense knoll]

theres no node with that name

[stiff bane]

hmm

i ony know that in blender it works like that

@dense knoll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45HW6hsJzQ&ab_channel=Jayanam

watch this

its old but works i think

[slim badger]

Hello i need some help about a bug so i have a media player inside ue4 project and when i build it i can see the video play as media texture but when i give the game to my friend and when he launches he cannot see the video playing and the screen stays as white how can i fix it ty :)

[raw crag]

@stiff bane @dense knoll
Emission is a slot on the material output node. In the middle.

[dense knoll]

Its for a widget material

not for a normal mat

[stiff bane]

ah

[fierce summit]

Hi there. I really dont know where to go with this. I have a character that goes really fast. But when he flies fast, he begins to "stutter" . It only does it when running the game standalone or when i package it, not when running in editor. Can someone point me in a direction please?
The video here shows the problem

[dire crescent]

When you squeeze thru a gap normally some boulders in a mountain or something, does this mechanic have a name?

[fierce tulip]

load bearing

[rich mango]

Good morning slackers. Does anyone out there have any experience with the Web Remote Control? Specifically in a packaged project...

[dire crescent]

Thanks

[slim badger]

any ideas?

[fierce tulip]

@slim badger you might wanna read the #rules a little

[slim badger]

yea sure

you mean about 2 right?

[fierce tulip]

yes, it would be appreciated :)

[fierce summit]

I'm going to ask a stupid question but does your friend have the source file too?

[slim badger]

no, he only have the build

[fierce summit]

Well i mean the source file of the video

[slim badger]

i dont think so

like idk why but when it is building it isnt placeing inside the build folder

[fierce summit]

is it imported in your project?

[slim badger]

at my project it works at my pc it works but at him, nope

[fierce summit]

Yeah but if you imported it like in c++ and not in ue4, it would not include the video file in your project when packaging it

can you see the video in your file explorer in your project?

in the editor

[slim badger]

i can see it at the content

but yesterday i disabled cook every material

except in the scene

but as far as i know the video is inside the scene too

so why isnt it cooking?

[grim ore]

Is your movie in the /Content/Movies/ folder? If not, it won't get packaged.

[slim badger]

it is not at the Movies folder but it isnt a move too it is just an mp4 file that i added to content/videos

after created a media player with texture after made it mat and used bp to enable open source

[grim ore]

so if its not a movie but its an mp4, what is it?

[slim badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gui0WgCCoE

i used this tutorial

but except placeing into movies folder

i added it to another folder

[grim ore]

yep

so you followed the tutorial but didnt follow it and now are confused why its not working

[slim badger]

it is working but only at my pc

thats the problem xD

[grim ore]

from the documentation

and again I point out, you followed the tutorial but didnt follow it and are now confused why it is not working

[slim badger]

owh

[slim badger]

yes, sorry :(

[grim ore]

make sure its in the right folder, and any links to it in the media players are relative , so like /Content/Movies/Moviefile.whatever or /Movies/Moviefile.whatever and not c:/locadrive/location/of/files/content/movies/whatever

[sharp crest]

which of these do I need for UE4.26

[slim badger]

owh, aight ty :)

[grim ore]

to do what?

[sharp crest]

for a game to run

[grim ore]

it should package it in the packaged folder for you unless you disabled it

[sharp crest]

but I need the names still

[slim badger]

i dont think that i disabled but how can i check that i did or not?

[sharp crest]

where would that be

[grim ore]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/755610/what-redistributables-are-required-for-package-gam.html

since you need to know what to do for steam specifically

[sharp crest]

4.19 too old

if I dont check it then they will tell me my steam page isnt fine and then send me a list of the ones I need to enable

[sharp crest]

but then I need to wait a few days again for evrification so

I know

but then it atkes longer to veirfy

[grim ore]

ok so I dont know if this helps but this is the pre req file log for 4.26

[dense knoll]

Unreal Project Browser needs to compile shaders...

[sharp crest]

Idk how to read thatlol

@dense knoll yea thats a thing. wait until u install a github version lol

[grim ore]

@dense knoll yes the engine uses slate for its ui which uses shaders

[sharp crest]

that sounds pretty good yea.
there is no proper way for these kind of stuff, all depends on how is best for your game @ebon linden

[dense knoll]

Wait so the engine uses itself to render itself

To render other things

using itself

??????

[slim badger]

yes

what is wrong?

[dense knoll]

How is that not a paradox

The engine uses itself to render itself to render other things using itself wich renderes itself rendering that other thing

[sharp crest]

can I use emissive materials like a point light? to light the area.

[candid grail]

When i open the statistics panel, unreal crashes and i get this error... Why?

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[barren mason]

Hi, so I want to get into game dev and after hard researching unity and unreal I went for unreal. I downloaded the engine, chosen the FPS template, turned everything to max and it's compiling, first it got stuck at 39%, rebooted, now it's stuck at 96%, is this normal ? will I always have to wait a lot of time to open projects or only the first time ? Or is there a problem with my installation ?

[fierce summit]

happend to me too, but i dont remember how i fixed it sorry...

[dense knoll]

FIrst time thing

[fathom bone]

I'm trying to make a simple game with a ball. I can't find the right answer for my problem. I'm trying to make my ball die when it touches the landscape. I've tried to make a box collusion for the ground ,but is not what I want. I want my ball to die from landscape's collision like the floor is lava

[barren mason]

I don't know if it's frozen or not, my PC is good enough for sure...

[dense knoll]

It takes time sometimes

[barren mason]

in task manager, the process CPU is 0% or 0.1%

[dense knoll]

especially if you changed a major setting\

[barren mason]

ram is at 1.2GB

[dense knoll]

Hmm

Engine crash?

[barren mason]

it didn't crash, I'll just try a pc reboot real quick

nothing worthy in the logs as well

ok it created a new project in a few seconds this time

[fierce summit]

Anyone for this please?

[sharp crest]

try googling it

and try to replicate the character from scratch and see when the issue appears

[simple meadow]

@fierce summit Project Settings -> General Settings ->Framerate

Check the smooth frame rate settings to see if this is effecting it, if it's a client/server thing it's probably something to do with replication? You could just have a bug where you are updating movement more than once per frame, hard to say outright

[grim ore]

@candid grail you will need to install the debug symbols from the launcher for your engine and crash it again so we can see why its crashing

[edgy mica]

hey guys i use the movie render queue but it won render my FX, Particles and emissiv light-.- can you help me pls

it won`t**

[fierce summit]

thanks, checking the "smooth framerate" option did the trick. I wonder why, i'm going to try and dig a little more. thanks a lot anyway

[vagrant coral]

@fierce summit typically, simulations can get a little wonky when you're dealing with things moving really really fast

[misty cargo]

I have made code running off one variables made from a custom structure right now it can add 3 different items

The bottom part is the minusing

I have to cut this into multiple functions now

It's too big lmao

[vagrant coral]

For example, avoiding physics collisions completely / having an object pass through another object when it shouldn't be able to, because it's moving so fast. I don't know why you're getting the stuttering issue exactly or why smooth framerate fixes it, but I would suspect it has something to do with a delta between the physics simulation and the rendering caused by things moving so quickly

[rotund elbow]

how do i apply physices forces in blueprint nodes?

[vagrant coral]

@rotund elbow You can try "Add Impulse". Probably you want "Velocity Change" checked to True

[rotund elbow]

ah, so add impulse at location could apply impulses that derive from a hit

[vagrant coral]

theoretically, but then you're kinda repeating work that the engine could do for you

there's an entire physics system (of which I am no expert) in the unreal engine. it's really good already at things hitting each other

[rotund elbow]

I understand. I wanted to try to apply the weapon direction and so on, on the enemy after i turn it into a ragdoll

[vagrant coral]

I think I remember some kind of tick box for colliders called something like "Apply force on damage" or some such

[rotund elbow]

SO that the killing hit also transfers its properties to the ragdoll

ok

goodie

[vagrant coral]

but yes, for your situation you could also "fake" it by getting the location and direction of the hit which killed the character and either calling "Add Impulse" or "Add Force"

there might be a more "native" way of doing it. I would ask in #legacy-physics probably

[rotund elbow]

Ok, thanks! I got enough to explore it at the least.

[fallen widget]

hello, im having an issue with a trigger in my scene involving the player pressing "spaceba"r and a second camera is now the main camera, to see a particular thing in my scene. I bought and downloaded an already made player controller and i dont know where to look to find it's main game object when i press play, can anyone help me please?

[rose loom]

Hi there,
I want to make a short animation of an origami crane that flies and then lands and unfolds completely. I believe that this kind of 3D animation is possible with Unreal Engine. I don't have any skills in this field, I've never tried this kind of software and only have a gaming laptop at about $800 . Is it possible according to you to obtain a satisfying result by training with tutorials found on the internet in one week ?
If yes, which free tutorials / courses do you advise me to start ?

[vagrant coral]

@fallen widget If I understand you correctly, try "getPlayerController" blue print node

[fallen widget]

@vagrant coral is there any way i can call you to show you?

@vagrant coral im not the best at explaining this kind of stuff sorry

[vagrant coral]

not right now unfortunately. but if you haven't figured it out by tomorrow hit me up

[fallen widget]

awesome, well let me try first the solution you gave me and ill brb in like 5 mins

[vagrant coral]

@fallen widget Once you have the player controller you can call "Get Component By Class" with whatever the component is that you're looking for

Example

A more full but random usage

[plush yew]

I have serious questions

[fallen widget]

@vagrant coral this is my issue, im trying to find the player in my scene to plug it in my trigger so that when the player walks in the trigger, but unfortunately i can do it anywhere i havent been able to make it so its only in the trigger

the get player controller unfortunately doesnt work :/

[plush yew]

Does my mesh have to have bones like the unreal mannequins to use assets based on unreal mannequins or can I just be extra smorts and retarget it to work as supposed to using big Brian tactics

[vagrant coral]

@fallen widget your cast isn't hooked up to anything. it will never get called

[plush yew]

Lol

[fallen widget]

@vagrant coral my what sorry?

[plush yew]

The node in the middle

[vagrant coral]

Your "Cast to SDotCharacterV2" node

[plush yew]

^

[vagrant coral]

instead of comparing the player controller to the Other Actor, call "Get Component by Class" and provide the Component Class argument "SDotCharacterV2", and plug that into the equality check

[fallen widget]

wow you're going a little too fast for me sorry

so i delete the ==, the get player controller

[plush yew]

Take your time bud

[vagrant coral]

Unfortunately I need to go right now but hopefully someone else can help you out. or like I said I can help you out tomorrow if you can't figure it out (but please try in earnest 😄 )

[fallen widget]

fuuuck thank you for your help i'll try to look into it, ill try to decipher what you said up top lmao

[vagrant coral]

You want the ==

You just want to plug in the SDotCharacterV2 that you get from the player controller instead of plugging in the player controller itself

[fallen widget]

ohhhh like this?

[vagrant coral]

also your Set View Target with Blend is broken too. Needs a new view target. I would take that out and just use a Print String call to see if your logic is hooked up right

Nope. Sorry. But can't stick around right now

good luck!

[fallen widget]

fuuuuck hahaha

[vagrant coral]

look at my screnshot I sent you

[fallen widget]

ok thank you so much!

[woven field]

Hayırlı kandiller herkese

[plush yew]

Sincerely does anyone know if you can use unreal marketplace assets designed for the mannequins bones setup with a similiar mesh with different bones names or hierachries via retargetting or such

or must my mesh have identical bones before being able to use said assets and there is no one to bend said assets to work with something like daz or blender meshes via some technical know how ;-;

[broken heath]

Can unreal make a smooth photo viewer experience? Zoom in , out smoothty with pinching?

@plush yew im confused

[plush yew]

well most unreal assets are based on mannequin bone setup

im wondering if you have to change your bones to be akin to unreal mannequin setup

or can i just bend the asset to work with my own meshes that dont have the unreal mannequin like bones ;-;

like a set of animations for example

or a block and attack system

can you jsut retarget it to work with your own meshes or does it have to have mannequin like setups to be used

sorry if thats even more confusing i havent slept iin 27 hours working on my project >.<

[simple meadow]

@fallen widget You need to make sure nodes like this are connected to something, otherwise they are never called by anything

[obsidian nimbus]

@plush yew its cheaper to have it than too create it

so u stuff it where no1 can see it

[fallen widget]

@simple meadow my blueprint looks like this now, trying to implement the things mystical told me about and its not any better... this is so difficult idk what to do

its still changing cameras when im anywhere in the scene and not in the trigger

[ruby robin]

Does anybody know, how to launch packaged build with rendering window? Just a console. I've done this before, but I forgot the command-line attribute

[mint raptor]

All of a sudden my editor be doing this to me...

[obsidian nimbus]

@plush yew the storing of vars elsewhere is also a lot too handle

[fallen widget]

@simple meadow do you see anything in my code that is wrong that could be the issue in my blueprint?

[obsidian nimbus]

u store it and u place it back on spawn, u can just store the actor somewhere

just teleport it somewhere instead of destroy

[grim ore]

@mint raptor doing what? more details

[upbeat tendon]

I am thinking how possible/easy it might be to integrate my game with some external services. Other than a raw socket, are there any protocols that ue4 supports?

[obsidian nimbus]

collision is the only thing u need to turn off to make em nearly free

mayB disable tick

[mint raptor]

When I start the editor, it seems to freeze all component sprite Icons and cause this ghosting effect when I move the camera in the viewport.

[grim ore]

@fallen widget your code is weird just to start with, how much actual learning have you done to this point?

@mint raptor did you adjust your near clipping plane?

[broken heath]

@hidden pagoda i think #animation room will have experts answer u but generally there are work arounds to get your mesh adjusted with unreal hierarchy, i used to upload my meshes to mixamo to rig them then use blender 3d addon that changes bone naming to unreal ones

[fallen widget]

@grim ore i use primarily unity but recently switched to unreal for work, im still very new to everything related to blueprints

[grim ore]

@fallen widget that actual code is bad, and you have other stuff going to it which is probably causing your issue

[mint raptor]

No and I just checked the Engine setting for it, it is set to 10.0

[grim ore]

@mint raptor damn that was my only guess 😦

[mint raptor]

It is every sprite icon for all components in the scene

just happened out of the blue

[fallen widget]

@grim ore idk i found a tutorial online to make trigger boxes in unreal, followed it, and now im having issue finding the character object in my scene, since it's a controller that was bought, not made by us from scratch

[mint raptor]

4.25

[grim ore]

@fallen widget you might need to step back and take a basic tutorial or course or read the docs on blueprints in general

@fallen widget and no your character is not a controller in the scene, that is one issue you are having.

a player controller is not the same as the player pawn or the player character, they are all different types

[fallen widget]

ok so what should i do?

i know i dont have the knowledge of coding that you guys have, it's not my job it's not what i studied in, thats why im here in the first place, to get help

[rotund elbow]

Is it possible to make combat like chivalry/mordhau but make it fully physics based? Like all attack collision resolve are handled by the physics engine. Is it worth investigating?

[grim ore]

yeah but your not really asking for help your tossing stuff at a screen and hoping it works then asking why it doesnt without knowing what you are doing

knowing what you are doing and running into an issue and asking for help is different

this is the basics of what you need for what you are trying.

missing parts is the cast is to your actual character class you are using.

and the new view target is a reference to the new camera/actor with camera you are tryting to switch to (I have no idea what that is)

just simply trying to get player controller and then trying to compare and actor to a component shows a basic non understanding of how the engine works 😦

[obsidian nimbus]

hmm i never went back too a map 😛

[fallen widget]

the bottom of the blueprint is this, it all works fine, the issue im having is that its triggering everywhere not in the box where im trying to set the player into

[obsidian nimbus]

if u open a new map i think its gone

[grim ore]

yes the bottom part says "WHENEVER i press space do this" that is what you asked it to do

[obsidian nimbus]

i never opened a map and went back to the previous 😛

[rotund elbow]

i took my question to physics

[grim ore]

should it only do that when you press space AND are in the overlap?

[rotund elbow]

😄

[fallen widget]

oh i understand

fuck ok yea

[grim ore]

because that code now also says when I release the button, do nothing

[obsidian nimbus]

prolly not of u use sublevels or level streaming

[fallen widget]

no when i release it brings back to the first camera

but since its not in the "if", it makes sense that whenever i press spacebar, it brings me to that cam

the whole top part is basically useless because the "spacebar" portion just overrides it

right?

i need to put it in my "if" condition for it to work

[grim ore]

no, the top still runs when it triggers (on the overlap). its separate from the bottom

define what the actual goal is

[fallen widget]

i go in box trigger

i press spacebar

it changes camera

i let go of spacebar, it brings back to first camera

that simple

[grim ore]

so you need your spacebar check to see if you are in that trigger area

also.. you should not be doing this in the level blueprint but thats a future problem lol

[fallen widget]

well tell that to the 15+ tutorials on youtube telling to put it in the level blueprint lmao

anyways, ima try to put the spacebar into the condition, idk how but ill start with that i guess, i dont have any better leads rn to solve my issue

[grim ore]

this is a very very very bad way to do what you want

[rotund elbow]

Dude i just spent a full workday failing at following a tutorial, It was my fault all the time 🙂

[grim ore]

VERY VERY VERY bad way but it should give the basics if you put in the right view targets

[fallen widget]

well i mean lemme try it

[grim ore]

the level blueprint is fine if you need to test something, or are crazy and want to make poor design decisions. something like this shoudl be a blueprint actor all of its own

[fallen widget]

Well design wise there is no design to be made, but im not gonna go into details. Anyways lemme try it and see if it works

[obsidian nimbus]

lvl bp is super easy to get a ref of something in the lvl tho

[grim ore]

this course actually has a module where you make something that is self contained, determines if you are in the area, and lets you do input when in that area https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/blueprints-and-gameplay-for-game-designers

[obsidian nimbus]

also for level logic its good

[grim ore]

level... blueprint... bad

[fallen widget]

i appreciate it but im not a game designer haha

[rotund elbow]

is there limb separating oob ? I wanna cut stuff

[grim ore]

your final code should probably be more like this with the actual proper view target references (setting the release one to nothing only works because of the way its set up, its not actually correct)

[plush yew]

@grim ore I dont mean to be a bother but i keep hearing you need unreal mannequin bone setup and names to use marketplace content, but im wondering with proper knowledge cani re-target mannequin bone setup based content and assets to work with a mesh of similiar body and proportions if their bones are similiar but named differently via retarget or rebuilding the content to adapt to the models new bone setup ;-;

[grim ore]

the issue with this is you have to copy paste it if you want to use it in other levels, and that spacebar is always active even outside of that area (even if it does nothing). you are also hard coding so say you wanted to change the camera later you have to change it in here and possibly other places if you duplicated this code in the level blueprint

stick that all in a self contained actor bp and it removes those issues

[plush yew]

ill look into how just wanna know if thats a thing lol

[grim ore]

@plush yew retargetting lets you go "this neck bone is actually called spine_01 in this other skeleton" so when the animation is being copied it just swaps bones like that

so as long as the skeletons are similar you are good, its when things are missing or in the wrong order

like if you retargetted a skeleton without fingers to one with fingers, that is fine since the fingers would just get ignored in the end since you never used them in the original

[plush yew]

o.o

[grim ore]

but if say your old one had 5 bones in the arms and the new one has 2... you might end up with issues

[plush yew]

well im using a human model

from daz which is dangeriously close to the mannequin

just named differently

[grim ore]

you are probably fine, and I am sure there is a daz -> ue4 retargetting video out there lol

[plush yew]

so im wondering if i reassign the bones to those akin to the mannequin it should be fine

yes many :>

[obsidian nimbus]

R mouse the manny skelleton, not skel mesh and press create rig

[grim ore]

naming differences are fine its what the retarget manager is for

[plush yew]

im just asking for wonky content that i got for free in the marketplace C:

ah okie

so just retarget and i should be fine

[obsidian nimbus]

that wil create a retarget rig

[plush yew]

yay ;D

[grim ore]

if its structually the same yep, its weird stuff like missing root bones

[plush yew]

practically lmao

mannequin and daz share nearly all of the same bones

[obsidian nimbus]

i wouldnt mess with the whole humanoid retarget rig

[plush yew]

o.o

Mmm?

[obsidian nimbus]

most tuts do that but create a rig out of the original skeleton

[plush yew]

ah i see

[obsidian nimbus]

R mouse the manny skelleton, not skel mesh

this way u can also retarget the eyes and stuff from paragon to ur new skel

[fallen widget]

@grim ore nope doesnt seem to work, anyways thank you ill try to look further into it to find a solution, thank you for trying though

[plush yew]

ah i get it :>

[grim ore]

@fallen widget welp I can say it works for me, I tested the code before pasting it

[mint raptor]

FYI seems to be a preview bug when previewing in Android Shader Model 3.1

[grim ore]

https://i.gyazo.com/3d8ac7f2191507bd3ccc6414a197a67b.gif

[mint raptor]

Toggling it or switching away from it solves the sprite ghosting issue

[grim ore]

oof.. I didnt think about you using a different preview model

[mint raptor]

ha didn't think that would do something like that lol

[oak root]

I'm hoping someone can direct me to a good resource for doing this..

I have a function to spawn an actor class in game.
I've got a widget that I want to use to get a list of all those actors, and display their stats.

[grim ore]

you can use the get class defaults node to get the class defaults and then magic?

[frank oar]

Hey all,

Is it possible to make a button which normally has one action, perform another while in a box or trigger volume ?

Basically as a test I want to make my mannequin do the salute animation I have when a button is pressed and he is close to the object he is to salute.

I would like to avoid losing the buttons from my control scheme full time as this is the only time I would want this action to take place.

[grim ore]

@frank oar so context sensitive actions? a few ways but it might depends on how you have it set up now and how you want it to work in the end.

like if its just a few ways for that button to work, you could have it adjust based on external influences (your trigger volume tells the player to do X for this action now)

but if it needs to be more robust, like when you get into that area it has to be unique to that area, you could have that area take in actions directly rather than the player

[frank oar]

I just watched your trigger volume explanation @grim ore can it be used as part of a BP to copy/paste in locations or does it need to live in the level BP ?

[grim ore]

well trigger volumes are part of the level so they tend to live in the level bp, you can use normal collision volumes in a BP (and should)

I would not use a trigger volume but a custom actor BP that does what you want

[formal cedar]

I tried to add a ue asset that is in my old project and deleted in my new project, but I get unknown extention error when I try to import, I watched a video that said to copy the file the project folder it didn't give any errors but unreal can't see any of the files

[grim ore]

you cant import .uasset files, those are assets already imported.

you can put it in the correct folder in your new project if that file is older or the same version as your project

if its created in a newer version or in the wrong place it might not show up in your content browser (check the output log it might tell you why)

[formal cedar]

I checked it nothing there

No errors it just dose not show even after restarting

[frank oar]

@grim ore Is collision volume the term I would want to search for ?

[deep viper]

I have an issue with Light source inside the Actor BP.
When I place a Light in the level directly it lights the scene correctly.
But when I place the actor with a light nested inside the actor, the actor's light does not render/light the scene (I've already reloaded the level).
This screenshot has 4 identical corridor segments in a straight line, only the segments near the manually placed light are lit.

[grim ore]

@frank oar w

[frank oar]

tyvm @grim ore

[plush yew]

oh mathew

one more thing if you dont mind

[formal cedar]

Anyone knows what could be the problem? ?

[plush yew]

is it possible to ssetup a peer to peer like connection for settings multiplayer function testing and than just change it out later for server based multiplayer or would that cause a crazy ammount of issues

[grim ore]

what version of the engine was the asset created it? what was the folder it was created in? does it have any other requirements (meshes, materials, linked assets) ?

all of that has to match @formal cedar

[ebon linden]

Did you migrate the files from inside unreal or manually in File Explorer?

[grim ore]

@plush yew I dont think ue4 supports actual P2P multiplayer right now, something has to be a server (listen server setup). You can test using listen and swap to dedicated as long as you test properly

[plush yew]

o.o

[formal cedar]

It was on 4.25 I think I have 4.25 that is updated

[grim ore]

@deep viper no issues here. how is your blueprint set up? Is the light in the blueprint set to movable or static? stuff like that

@formal cedar welp again if the stuff is right it will work. Same version or older, same folder setup, all connected assets available.

@deep viper its also silly but are you sure the lights actually on

[plush yew]

i mean if im going to have to use a server for the game's multiplayer i might as well setup a lobby system and all of that jazz

^ good question

i also wonder if i setup a server for multiplayer cant i still make my game offline based with co-op on couch and online

[grim ore]

dedicated server is a special build of your project

[plush yew]

i dont want to make server based multiplayer and lose the ability to play completely offline if i want

[grim ore]

so you would build out a dedicated server, and run it and you have a dedicated server people can connect to. then the clients all have the client version of the project

you could build whatever you want, its all coding lol

[plush yew]

oh so i can have multiplayer via server and still have a completely offline game if i want

[grim ore]

if you do it right I dont see why not. just start your game without multiplayer and account for that while playing. it will be more work for sure

[plush yew]

i dont mind more work if i can make a proper quality built game

[grim ore]

most of the games that do that kinda are just a listen server setup with just you playing

your basically running on a local server

[plush yew]

o.o well i want a small lobby system with no more than 100 players at a given time

but still want to be able to play offline or with just a 3 person co-op via lobbies you can make and join in on

using your offline saved data

kind of like dragon ball xenoverse 2

or old phantasy star for the dreamcast

[grim ore]

you can do that sure, its just more coding. Its why some games have seperate MP and SP clients as well

[plush yew]

ah okie

[grim ore]

to make a DEDICATED server yes, you need to compile your project using a source version of the engine

this gives you a special headless .exe file for your project that you run

you can then compile a client version of the project

[plush yew]

well that makes sense

thanks mathew ❤️

[grim ore]

same project yes

your code just takes into account when doing stuff if the server is doing it or a client

[plush yew]

so i just need to set this up whilst working on the project to test stuff with a friend as i go :3

[grim ore]

if you dont start a project with multiplayer from the start you might very much have a very much hard of a very much time

trying not to make it sound like you will but.... uh....

multiplayer from the start is much smarter than not

replication is handled however you want

blueprint is just an extension of the c++ code

nothing needs to be on CPP if you dont need anything on CPP

I mean I could take the third person template, make a server and client for it, and have 2 people running around doing nothing special in multiplayer without any special code

[ocean pumice]

Hi! Good evening, what's the best option for working with 2-3 people on the same project and remotely?

[grim ore]

it just takes a few extra steps to build out the dedicated server

yep

i mean thats what replication is, replicating stuff

making some stuff go from one place to another for some reason

@ocean pumice it depends on what working is. realtime or just working with the same project files separately

single player pushing a button to open a door. pushing the button plays the animation. the door opens. done

multiplayer? who sees the animation of the button, who sees the door open. how is the door opening

[plush yew]

wait i should start with a multiplayer server setup before making the game

or jerryrigging it will be hell? o-o

[grim ore]

what if someone is out of range of the door when it opens what happens when they come back

depends on what you want and how the button is implemented

well lets say opening the door. Is the door itself replicated as an actor or is it client only

depending on that determines what you do lol

best case scenario? the player tells the server to open the door. The server runs a multicast event to tell everyone else to open their door and then opens it on the server as well.

and opening the door just does something like a timeline

but now lets say that door was spawned in by the player and didnt exist on the server... whole new problem

ownership of "stuff" becomes the issue in multiplayer, in SP you always own it

[ocean pumice]

Same project file separately :)

[plush yew]

o.o

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice look in #source-control but common ones are perforce, or git.

[ocean pumice]

Ok thanks a lot.. isnt there anything more begginner friendly ? My friends I'm working with are not really at ease with such systems..

[formal cedar]

thanks matheww, i think understand now, one of the ue assets worked after your suggestion

[grim ore]

I beleive it is @light lintel , at the worst there are plugins for it for sure. out of the box I was 99% sure apple store and google play store are supported natively

[plush yew]

@grim ore so i want multiplayer in my game like that youd see in monster hunter world, phantasy star online for dreamcast, or even games like dragon ball xenoverse 1/2 where you can play the whole game offline but go online and do the exact same stuff online but with players and have a few player based functions like trading friendly fire etc

[grim ore]

@ocean pumice technically you could use dropbox or onedrive but its not meant for this stuff

[plush yew]

should i start out with a multiplayer based setup sooner than later or should i keep at it as i am o-o

[grim ore]

@light lintel https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Mobile/iOS/InAppPurchases/index.html directly says if you have a BP project you are good to go and shows examples

[ocean pumice]

Yeah like sending the project back and forth?

[plush yew]

well i want to create a lobby system in my sort of open world game where players can interact with the world as if their playing solo but with other players with a lobby where players can just sit around and hang or beat each other up

[grim ore]

you could set up the project folder as part of it and it would sync up as you do stuff, just working on the same files are an issue and it tends to be overkill with temporary writing but it works for just sharing @ocean pumice

[plush yew]

i wouldnt need a server for that? o-o

[grim ore]

something somewhere has to hold data if you want people to share data

always keep that in mind

^^ a listen server in that case which is common

[ocean pumice]

Thanks :) its just that it's kind of heavy to install perforce on all their computers and stuff but I'll look into it then thankds a lot

[plush yew]

not really a mmo but more like a lobby based system where you can make lobbies and people can join said lobby kind of how dragon ball xenoverse 2 but imagine the players can open these up or clans / factions can open them up lock them etc

and the players can run around in a open world like genshin impact for example xD

[grim ore]

a lobby could be a web database thats holds who has started a listen server and their info, people connect to that web database in game and it then shows on their screen that info. when they find someone to play with they then get connected to that listen server who is hosting the game

if you actually need people to play with eachother, someone or something has to host that

[plush yew]

yup same ^

[grim ore]

for you case, say a lobby with chat? web server no problem.

[plush yew]

definitely want a chat system

[grim ore]

actually being in game, dedicated or listen server

[plush yew]

ah

so dedicated servers probably

[grim ore]

you want someone to go "hey i am going to host a lobby", listen server. I want to just go play a game with people in a random space, dedicated

the multiplayer tutorial series is scheduled to be replaced, trust me Epic knows it is out dated 😦

[dire crescent]

hi, a quick problem i got Mobility of /Game/ThirdPersonBP/Maps/UEDPIE_0_ThirdPersonExampleMap.ThirdPersonExampleMap:PersistentLevel.ThirdPersonCharacter_167 : CollisionCylinder has to be 'Movable' if you'd like to move it with CharacterMovementComponent. My collison cylinder is movable

[grim ore]

its just you know... epic keeps updating the networking stuff lol

@dire crescent

change your capsule that it mentions to movable

[dire crescent]

Its does already

[grim ore]

not according to the log it doesnt

its not the capsule component, its the custom colisioncylinder you added @dire crescent

so take a look at the release notes over the last few years and look at the networking stuff

[plush yew]

sooo.. with a dedicated server, i would be able to setup multiplayer player based lobbies like in mhw or pso2/pso1 chat systems and free roaming in the games map as well as being able for the characters to access the games functions as if offline play is occuring but with players right, including matchmaking for PVP @light lintel o-o

[grim ore]

from replacing some of the network subsystems, to adding in replication graph, its been constant progress

and no one wants to make a tutorial in the middle of progress

[frank oar]

Would you use a state machine to drive character actions like crouching and going prone ?

[plush yew]

like how final fantasy xiv lobbies and maps work

something like that but still able to play offline if i want o-o

or just co-op with frenz

[grim ore]

oh yeah I know its just they arent updating it because.... progress lol

[dire crescent]

@grim ore No doesnt seem like i have one, i will try restarting

[grim ore]

I want to replace it for sure, even with just a newbie one lol

I want to say tom looman did a more updated one but I think it might be C++ and paid lol

@plush yew you are going to have to decide exactly what you want and then probably cut part of that out to be realistic. There is a reason most games are not everything

[plush yew]

well i know i know but i have lots of unending time and a vicious drive so ill make cuts or figure a way through if need be xD

[grim ore]

one of the games I play for example, farm together, has local and mutliplayer modes (same save data, listen server) and they were going to have dedicated servers but dropped it just due to how difficult it was to support it in the end

[plush yew]

i just dont want to go warp my project terribly and realize i fluffed up and wasted months x-x

[grim ore]

even if you dont want a dedicated server, do you want to allow people to cheat? lol

[plush yew]

well i dont want persistent mmo like game as weird as that sounds i just want to be able to have the games entire world be populated with players in the battle areas or basic city if a player hosts said lobbies and allow offline play as well if you just wanna play off like o-o

i honestly dont think you can stop cheating

its gonna happen no matter what if people are bent lol

[grim ore]

you cant stop cheating no, but having your data on the client is an invitation to cheat

[plush yew]

true true xD

[grim ore]

so just moving all data to a dedicated server curbs that

for the most part tho if you want someone to be able to do stuff with someone else at anytime at random then dedicated it is

there is no way to answer that

what you need for your project, where its hosted, how its hosted, are all costs

technically you could get away with a free amazon ECS tier machine if you just needed a basic lobby without much loaded for example (free tier is like 512MB ram)

[plush yew]

o.o

[narrow mauve]

its kinda crap

its 1gb btw

30gb of storage

[grim ore]

aww nice, it was just a nano tier when I last used it

[floral heart]

Payday style

It can, but most of the time it's p2p. (Payday 2, haven't examined 1.) Most players' bandwidths are not suited to host high-action FPS games though.

[grim ore]

well easy anti cheat is owned by epic now and part of/becoming part of the EOS stuff so... maybe?

well im sure for third parties not using EOS it will still be paid

[plush yew]

so

as jank and even as bad of an idea as it seems

[grim ore]

but all that matters in the end is does cheating really matter, if not dont worry about it

[plush yew]

lets say i wanna go full offline but have the game flowing and working with all of it online via lobbies or co-op play

deticated server setups

i would presume

i know cheating will go rampant lol

but i want the game to not have to be online all of the time to play ;-;

[grim ore]

dedicated server limit the amount of cheating if that matters

but then if you allow local saves then that doesnt matter if you use those in dedicated

[plush yew]

can a dedicated server still be used in offline play >.<

oh

so i can allow offline with deticated servers

just means cheating cant be stopped x3

[grim ore]

cheating cant be stopped, thats a known factor

how much you care about it and want to limit it is the cost

[plush yew]

but it would limit it is seems

well i just dont want cheating in pvp

because obvious reasons

[grim ore]

then you have to have dedicated servers and saves

not allow offline and online to mix

[plush yew]

dang

[grim ore]

whats to stop me from modifying my local save game to have a billion stuffs and then going online with it?

[plush yew]

hmm

is there no way to make local and online match

before online play is possible

like a check for altering or whatever

[grim ore]

if the player EVER has access to their stuff, they can modify it

[plush yew]

xD

i get it

[grim ore]

sure you can check but nothing stops them from getting to the max right?

assuming you dont want everyone to have max whatever you allow

[plush yew]

so even hard limits like only 1 potion in battle for example

cant stop cheating if local is possible

[floral heart]

Depending on the game you can do sanity checks to verify that what the client says they did is possible, but then you have to solve what happens if the check fails.

[grim ore]

sure since that would be used on the server I would assume, that would be fine

[plush yew]

like for example you have atk def and hp and a total of 500 stats to split between them

if you allow local saves

[grim ore]

but if there is any sort of progress to be made. stuff to unlock, caps to be hit, people could modify them

[plush yew]

can they force break it to like 1000

x-x

[grim ore]

they could yes, but your check online would fix it or not allow them to play

but if you had a progression system or loot system it would be useless

[plush yew]

so i can put a check system in place to make limitations are still intact

looool

i would definitely do that

lmao

im saving that for reference ❤️

[floral heart]

However there are edge cases where you can get a false positive

[grim ore]

this is also all napkin dev, for all we know you can have a perfect community and no one cheats

[plush yew]

o.o

i would hope

[grim ore]

just worst case scenario to know about

[floral heart]

And it really really depends on the game. Idle clickers are going to be different from Chess or roguelikes.

[plush yew]

like i want progression systems and classes and weapons and skills with levels etc

and i personally dont care if people hack and break that

i get it you know

i just dont want people flying around the map insta killing people in pvp or pve

[floral heart]

Idle clickers barely need to be server-side. The only thing you can cheat is how many times you click.

[plush yew]

because i plan on creating a leaderboards and giving seasonal monehs to players who rank high as a thank you for playing my game xD

[floral heart]

You can throw that idea in the trash right now, Snow. 😛

[plush yew]

and i want a completely offline experience which is better if you lobby up in the world with players to increase the fun

ihope i dont have to can that D:

id love to give back to my community

ikr

i have

infinity sadness

xD

[floral heart]

I mean, you can if you want to, but it will never go to a legit player after the first week.

[plush yew]

yup XD

i even thought about a crazy high detailed statsistc system

so i can look into every ranking player and compare it to their average over the course of their entire play

to weed out cheaters who try to slightly cheat for monehs

but people make it hard to have nice things :C

[floral heart]

My favorite cheat is the hack that reverse-engineered the pseudorandom number generation in TF2 and then micromanaged the timestamp for each click so that every shot would become a critical hit.

[plush yew]

hmmm

ok

i have a question

lets say i make the game completely online so i can have nice things and give back to players

can i eventually make it so the game is completely playable offline and the online saves are given to the accounts locally

in case i cant keep supporting the game so players can play offline for however long they want

i really dont wanna be like most games where oh server ded guess your work and effort ded :C

good job wasting 10 years for nuffin

id feel terrible..

[bright terrace]

@grim ore Hey I finally ended up figuring it out xDDD thanks for all your help yesterday

[plush yew]

matheww is definitely best boi x3