ue4-general

[dense knoll]

unless that doesent work with Editor Widgets

[leaden dust]

I don't need the position in viewport

I need it in window

anyways for editor widgets

the viewport is same as the whole screen

[drowsy snow]

But the hassle and that goes through testing Linux binaries for all the distros and stuff outweigh the actual user base that demands games run natively on Linux desktop system

[leaden dust]

I tried another method

but for some reason

this time I have a create widget node which is returning nothing

like wtf is wrong with my project

[cinder raptor]

ya'all do realize that they said that Unreal Engine 4 is too big for their Hard Drive Disk??

which if i understand correctly that could also mean that they can't compile it

[drowsy snow]

To be fair, 200 GB is fairly big, but then you can cross compile for linux from Windows anyway 🤷‍♂️

[cosmic veldt]

Hey guys can I get some recommendations? After a life altering data loss due to an SSD a few years ago. I bought an ssd again because UE4 is taking ages to open. Has anyone experienced any issues with SanDisk Ultra 3D 500GB nvme? what would be the best way to prevent any data loss?

[fierce tulip]

#hardware

[obsidian nimbus]

backups

[dense knoll]

This node?

[leaden dust]

so I am trying this another way

[obsidian nimbus]

backup on a spindrive

[leaden dust]

so the problem is

the create widget node you see

literally returns nothing

like the return value is blank

[obsidian nimbus]

also you can pay for googledrive

[cinder raptor]

well we should have asked them/it why it was soo mad/pissed at first place, i guess

[drowsy snow]

Also I'm basically using LocalBuild out of my custom source code modification and just yeeted out my GitHub clone anyway. Took around 40 GB now in my HD.

[leaden dust]

dude he is gone, if you want to rant about linux now please do it in another channel

[cosmic veldt]

yea that seems the obv solution i was thinking about maybe i can use part of ssd as cache or something and keep the data on hdd or something if it works i don't know

[obsidian nimbus]

im lucky enough to never have drives fail on me

[cinder raptor]

imma go send *them a friend request and see why it was so mad

[dense knoll]

dont

he just got mad about no linux support

or that you have to recompile

[cosmic veldt]

never had an issue with hdd but power went out and back for a second it was all she wrote for the ssd and i have ups and everything

[obsidian nimbus]

linux mint is real decent btw

[leaden dust]

I think I will have to create a new project

[dense knoll]

also cool_da_noob did the note wokr?

[obsidian nimbus]

every1 can use it for basic daily stuff

[dense knoll]

That helps sometimes

[leaden dust]

@dense knoll no 😦

my main question is

why is the create widget node returning a null

like how is that even possible

[dense knoll]

when it gets outside of the widget?

[leaden dust]

no

[dense knoll]

or is it random?

[leaden dust]

whenever it gets called

it litereally refuses to create the widget

[dense knoll]

possibly its being called to fat

[leaden dust]

and hence there is no return value

[dense knoll]

fst*

fast*

[leaden dust]

no it is only called when I click a button

and I don't click it that fast either

[dense knoll]

geez im as illiterate as a woodpecker

so theres no draw calls?

[leaden dust]

I'll make a new project

@plush yew its an editor utility widget

it doesn't need a context object for anything

If the new project doesn't work I would probably have to dig DEEP into cpp to see if i can grab the code for the build in graphs

since the engine won't let me build my own ones

[cinder raptor]

soo i spoke with them and it turned out that they didn't had any Hard Drive Disk space because they didn't have any money for a new bigger Hard Drive and are stuck with an old 160GB Hard Disk

[night burrow]

Can someone tell me, if I make something in Blender in exact dimensions and import to UE, will the dimensions be exact, based on default player first person height?

[drowsy snow]

Yes but actually no

[obsidian nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/pain-big-lebowski-john-goodman-jeff-bridgees-bowling-gif-4472135

[drowsy snow]

Long story short:
Blender normally works in metres
Unreal normally works in centimetres

[dense knoll]

good luck

[cinder raptor]

i guess that they do have a point on a second thought, When Unreal Engine is compiled is like ~30 or something GB while raw it's like 200GB soo yeah :/ kinda double edged knife here

[tiny ginkgo]

hey guys! Does anyone know if you can have multiple media players pulling from live cams displayed at the same time? I have a video capture device and a webcam displayed at the same time but the camera seems to lag really badly. FPS stays at 120 and the PC is not under much stress at all. Any ideas?

[night burrow]

That should keep proportions same in theory no?

[drowsy snow]

Not really. There will be scaling and nightmarish deformation issues.

Unless, you specifically set the Unit Scale to 0.01, and keeping the system Metric. Setting Length to centimetre won't work.

I recommend you set the scaling to 0.01 and save the configuration as the default Blender file, especially if you're using both Blender and UE on daily basis like me.

[night burrow]

I see ok thanks

[next badger]

@drowsy snow will Blender ever fix its scaling behaviour?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: amin_rajaaxs#0400 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[drowsy snow]

I won't hold your breath for that if I were you.

[next badger]

@plush yew but it doesn't, if you set it to centimeters it still will scale the mesh 100times

[tame marsh]

It shouldn't be an issue. I'm assuming the webcam is being pulled in as a webcam device but how is the video capture device coming in?

[tiny ginkgo]

Hey @tame marsh I'm having a weird issue! Both are media textures and seem to work fine in the viewport but when I press play the webcam becomes extremely laggy

fps is fine, load is fine

I can't think why there would be a difference between the viewport and live play

[tame marsh]

@tiny ginkgo Hmm, I don't know either. How is it in the mediaplayer asset itself?

Try askign in #virtual-production

[tiny ginkgo]

Thanks, I'll give them a go!

[plush yew]

Hello guys, can you help me someone?
why does my ue use comma in numbers?
is this different from the dot?

how can Ι change that?

[restive yarrow]

https://youtu.be/HFkSJj_AHss How can i paste the coords of a location without my grouped actors merging into one?

[steady vale]

y is this happening?

i used the add button from manage bar on landscape mode

[night burrow]

How high is default fp camera positioned in cm?

[steady vale]

did u ask me?

[steady vale]

idk but it also happens when i am in play mode

the player can see that blank

[night burrow]

I read somewhere it's 180cm

[broken heath]

My static mesh thumbnail is too zoomed out enough to not show what it is (because it hanging in a long wire ) , is there away to focus on the mesh for the thumbnail ignoring its wire

[steady vale]

and also now i noticed

this only happens when i assign a material to the landscape

[next badger]

@restive yarrow you need to select that group actor, it will be in the outliner, an then paste the coords

[dense knoll]

is there a way to simulate raytracing at a lower cost?

on a non RTX GPU
?

[next badger]

if there was, i think it was used instead

[serene birch]

the 10XX GPUs can use the RTX features in a sense, although slow

[dense knoll]

I have a AMD RX 560

[next badger]

afaik amd didn't provided any DXR drivers for those

[dense knoll]

darn

of course when i buy a new GPU it ends up becoming irrelivent in a few years

at least its not a 1 GB VRAM

card

and i did develop on a GPU like that at one point

how much more potato can you get

[velvet magnet]

I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, just, no raytracing

[next badger]

no one cares about raytracing anyway

[robust marten]

what do yall do to kill time while shaders compile or distance mesh fields generate for half an hour lol

[next badger]

you still can work while shaders are compiling

[robust marten]

I'd rather not risk the crash lol

[velvet magnet]

you could develop c++ in a lighter editor

[dense knoll]

Icant do anything when compiling shaders

[next badger]

shaders are written to disc, so even if you crash they will be there

[dense knoll]

my PCs CPU is potat

i just whip out my phone and watch something

and wiat for 15 mins

[robust marten]

Is that why my C drive is fucking bloated to hell while my D drive is nearly empty?

[fierce tulip]

no need to curse

[dense knoll]

thats within a few months of upgrading to a 2 TB ssd

[robust marten]

How much that cost?

[dense knoll]

idk anymore

[robust marten]

lel

[next badger]

spacesniffer

[robust marten]

wut

[dense knoll]

100 - 200 USD

i think

idr

[next badger]

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

[dense knoll]

some samsung ssd

was pretty cheap yet still fast

*cheap for 2 TB

[velvet magnet]

speaking of space, this is my drive lmao, not including another full hardrive whitch is 2 TB

[dense knoll]

F

[plush yew]

Hello guys, I'm new here:) 👋

[fierce tulip]

may I point out that we nowadays have a #hardware channel

[dense knoll]

welcome @plush yew

[past stag]

Does World Origin shifting currently work in multiplayer?

If I use p2p

[sleek spear]

hey people, i have a 16 bit image single channel image, can i somehow split it into 2 8bit channels with minimum information loss?

[leaden dust]

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can create the wires connecting nodes in a custom node editor I've tried to make

What I have is a 10000x10000 pixels canvas panel on which I place the nodes

The nodes themselves are derived from a parent widget which hosts the spawning, moving and deleting capabilities

Each node is made up of a bunch of slots

slots is basically one row of a node

My original approach was to create a line widget

but for some reason

unreal doesn't let me create a widget

Its bugged or something

So what else can I do to draw lines

I could draw lines using the draw line function but how would I keep track of which lines connect what nodes 🤔

[restive yarrow]

Thanks a lot. Ill check and see

[fluid swallow]

Hello ! i am having issues with the unreal engine editor after a few minutes sometimes even an hour my editor will bug out and every time I right click inside a blueprint it will instantly close the window or even typing or dragging things

[leaden dust]

Uh guys I am running into another issue

In editor utility widget and blueprints

when you change a variable

they are not reset whenever the window is closed

and only reset once the editor is restarted

any idea on how I could reset the variable values

tried all of these but they don't seem to wrok

[restive yarrow]

No it didnt work

@next badger

https://youtu.be/HFkSJj_AHss

this still happens

How do i move grouped actors via coordinates without them mixing up ...

nvm found it 🙂

[woven cliff]

is there away to compensate for world settings on 4.26 gpu lightmass?

[broken heath]

Can i edit static mesh thumbnail ?

[frank oar]

Hi guys.
This cast is to an actor BP witch a static mesh, I am basically just setting a bool so that the actor can turn its simulate physics on when the trigger box is set off...

What would I attach into the object of the cast ?

[timber cypress]

Hello everyone. Im new here and looking for some help about light bleeding walls, I know is a common issue and maybe anyone already replied about ths topic, but can't get rid of this after try many things I found on internet

[frank oar]

Is there a reason I can not find camera shake like I see in the tutorials ?
I am in a third person game

[timber cypress]

hmmm, Camera shake should be for first person only?

[frank oar]

Some of the tutorials use it in third person games

[timber cypress]

ok

Do you have a good solution to get rid of light bleeding walls? I did everything on intrenet talking about it but still can't get rid of this bleeding shit. Well there is a solution I didn't try it talking about put black walls around the room hidden after render... But I have an indoor and outdoor scene

[frank oar]

@plush yew yes, but it seemsto be missing a lot from the details pannel

Top is mine bottom is tutorial

[fierce glacier]

I can't say i ever did it, but in principle - the weight maps are assets, you can copy them, and save them, and reuse them on moved landscape

Create a new weight map, it will show you a generated name, copy the generated folder to new location and point to the weight maps in the layers of the landscape (they should appear in yhe drop down of weight map selection)

Let me know in pm if you can't find it, and i will turn computer on and make screen shots for ya

[frank oar]

tyvm I am just testing it now 😄

[rotund elbow]

how do i unset bodes simulate physics ?

[timber cypress]

Anyone using UE for archviz?

I was there, but no one responding 🙂

[rotund elbow]

i want to make a temporary ragdoll

how would i undo the raggy

because i already do the raggy

[timber cypress]

But my doubt is about light bleeding walls, so is tha same for game devs

[autumn latch]

I'm having an error. Can you look #packaging ?

[lucid grove]

Hey

Anyone used SaveExtension from marketplace on ue 4.26?

Right now on marketplace last version is 4.25, but on github 4.26

Im not sure how to work with it

Simple copy-paste didnt work

[robust marten]

Often, when opening an actor blueprint, I have to click on "Open Full Blueprint Editor". Is there a way to set it to ALWAYS open the full editor?

[ocean grove]

Hey does anyone know how to find where your project file is stored?

Like the specific path/dir

I somehow ended up with 3 copies of the same project on 3 different drives and I can't for the life of me figure out where the project I have open is stored.

[glacial dawn]

@ocean grove press show in explorer on any file. You'll know the folder for sure.

[ocean grove]

@glacial dawn THANK YOU!

[dusky slate]

Does anyone know a Fix for the Flickering Menu issue without downgrading the Graphics Driver?

[warm hornet]

Outside of the official Learning section are there any really good paid online courses that focus on advanced topics like AR, simulation etc?

[honest vale]

what do you mean you can't?

it's a reference viewer, you can't edit anything there

in order to edit the references you need to edit the actual assets that have those references

be that actors having references to other actors, materials, static meshes, skeletal meshes

materials have references to textures

[sleek spear]

can i play 10bit videos in unreal?

actually i want to use a 10bit video as heightmap

[frozen pond]

any idea how i could create quicksand ?

[worn mirage]

I have a small concept I'd like to work out but it will require some small terrain deformation. I've done some research on the matter and terrain deformation seems to be quite a hurdle. Are there any examples or free plug-ins available to help me understand what I need to learn to tackle this?

[frozen pond]

you need voxels plugin for that

there is free version on marketplace

[jagged halo]

when spawning a client, it seems to randomly start at 0,0 for one frame before being repositioned to the true location

is it expected? can I do something to avoid the glitchy reposition ?

[worn mirage]

@frozen pond The free version doesn't support instanced foliage which is a problem.

[jagged halo]

it seems to be this issue, but that seems a fairly obvious bug ... does every UE game have to workaround this?
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/1763537-help-shows-spectator-camera-at-middle-of-map-the-first-time-character-spawns-solved

[frank oar]

Hey guys,
How could I make the speed of a rotating object alternate ?

Like the speed of a fan in my case, I want it to slow down every couple of seconds so the player can run through it...

[misty wharf]

Have two speed variables and swap between them on a timer?

[pearl shoal]

It depends on how you handle the rotation. Try to blend between two max rotational speeds on a timer that controls when the slowdown happens.

[thick charm]

Hey, anyone who can help me out with an issue i have?

I have this animation thingy setup and when blendspace turns to 1 my rifle animation gets run and if its 0, the character idles normally,
Im trying to change this int from another bp but cant get it to work

It worked at first but suddenly just stopped working

the bottom image is the bp that changes the int

[pearl shoal]

How are you changing the variable?

[frank oar]

@pearl shoal I will have a mess with it to see if I can manage something like that

[thick charm]

On the second image its the "combat state" thingy that changes it

instead of casting i have setup interfaces

[pearl shoal]

Also, if you have only two states, use blend by bool

[thick charm]

im gonna add more in the future

that's why i want with an int

[pearl shoal]

Ah, I see

And the combat state the only thing it needs to do is Mesh->GetAnimInstance->cast your animinstance->set var

It should work no problem

[thick charm]

like i've done without the delay?

o wait nvm

so how do i cast?

im very new and learning constantly, do i do it like this?

might be completely wrong lol

this is how i got the interface

[rigid belfry]

why would my ref variable return none if its not failing the cast? edit: i fixed it by adding a small delay. seems like there is some travel time in multiplayer

[vale trout]

where can i change my fbx import settings once i clicked the dialog away with dont show again ?

[thick charm]

holy fuck i fixed my shit lol

[jagged halo]

am I missing something? it sounds a really stupid issue - are controllers truly rendered before anything else, including HUD, thus leaving the room to a few frames of rendering whatever is at the center of the map?

[obsidian cloud]

https://www.artstation.com/pranavborawake

[rigid belfry]

first message on server and its self promotion. on the wrong channel too. nice

[pearl shoal]

Awesome! 👍

[thick charm]

Thanks for the help btw😄

[ember quest]

I know there is official app for iPhone that can be used for real-time facial capture in unreal engine for metahumans etc but is there any way to do it with android?

[thick charm]

Anyone knows how to cast when there is multible players

[ember quest]

There is only 1 android app I found called "face mocap" that send mocap data to ue 4 but even with that I would still need to create whole system that handles actual tansformation of 3D character model face points

[thick charm]

This used to work when there was 1 player but not with 2.

[sleek spear]

can i use 10 bit videos in ue4?

[worn mirage]

@thick charm Are you sure the anim instance is the proper players instance?

[muted trail]

so i'm trying to set the content through a button on another widget and it doesn't seem to be working

[magic fern]

Hello guys, anyone using Dungeon Architect? I wanted to know if it is possible to have a different ground if outside or if inside.

[rigid belfry]

whats that button for? right now every time you click it you're creating a new empty widget, which could result in memory leaks

[muted trail]

it's for an in game journal

[plush yew]

Hello guys!
This is the last export - an apk game from ue but I can't install it on my phone. I need help. What else I have to do after the export to complete my game?

[rigid belfry]

first solution is obviously initializing all your references and simply calling them later. otherwise, you can use a is valid/validated get to first check wether an instance of the game journal already exists

[rigid belfry]

you did not explain why its not working, but again, everytme you press that button, you create a new empty widget.

so you have journal , journal 2, journal 3 etc.

[muted trail]

journal entry 1,2 and 3

also i fixed the reference issue

by passing the reference through when the slot is made, thanks @rigid belfry

[chrome socket]

I need help with animations of an AI chasing you.

Can someone help me?

[rigid belfry]

why is my client in first person view when i am telling it to be on third person? server is working as intended

[chrome socket]

@muted trail can you maybe try and help me?

[muted trail]

i haven't started working with animations yet so i'm not sure

[chrome socket]

ok

[plush yew]

Hello guys, i really need help with something.

I am trying to create an particle emitter (fog_texture) of an exhaust (car pipe).

Im following every single step from this Lynda course and doing exactly as im told to, but in the end my particles are invisible.

Please someone help me"

[muted trail]

actually have you checked if your camera location ?

[chrome socket]

huh?

[rustic dirge]

Quick question
What is the difference between unreal particle system and niagara system?

[rigid belfry]

#rules 2. Be patient when asking for help. This isn't an official Epic Games support channel so we can't guarantee a response. Don't ping people unless you're replying to them. If someone can help, they will. If not, come back in a few hours and consider rephrasing your question or adding more details.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/ArtificialIntelligence/index.html

[chrome socket]

ok

[rigid belfry]

btw having fancy animations is not a requirement for a new programmer. you need to finish games. i often use literal cubes for most of my stuff because i know i dont have the artistic skills required to create something good looking

instead, i focus on programming

you should really try to decide what your goal in unreal is, and work towards it

you want to make a horror game? there are tutorials on youtube that can help you

plus being chased by a giant red cube is way scarier than the mannequin in my opinion

[pure barn]

there is remarkably little info on landscape painting

does anyone know if its possible to get height maps to work with it?

[frigid gale]

anyone else have issues where the engine crashes and you lose a bunch of work even tho you're constantly saving frantically every time you make a change? idk what the point of saving is

[pure barn]

are you saving the right levels?

[frigid gale]

I only have one level at the moment

[pure barn]

i see....

[frigid gale]

I don't mind it crashing as much as I mind losing progress lol

might reinstall

the error was something about the D3D device going away, idk gonna go do something else

frustrating losing half an hour when I changed a lot of things in that time

[pure barn]

ok nevermind, scratch heightmaps, all i need to know is if i can use texcoord with landscape painting

textures too small and im not a fan B(

[autumn grail]

Is there a tool for fluid Simulation in current release? Or a plugin ?

[plush yew]

Hey guys, have a question, for my games I'm not gonna have full on animation, just different poses, should i just remake my models in each pose, or pose them with armatures?

or rigs

[drowsy snow]

Watching through Asher Zhu's presentation on "fluid sim", he uses Niagara Simulation Stages, which can be obtainable by Setting-up master branch of UE4 source code
It can be used on 4.26 because it only consist of .uasset files, although I have yet to experiment with it.

[autumn grail]

@drowsy snow thx

[pure barn]

its better to rig them in case you end up deciding to animate them later on down the line

[autumn grail]

@drowsy snow https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/master/Engine/Plugins/FX/NiagaraSimulationStages is empty

The Plugin repo is empty

[drowsy snow]

Well, you need to set up the entire branch after cloning it.
Again, it's ony .uasset files, which are not included in the GitHub repo

Just exclude any platform except Windows (or Mac) so that you don't download unnecessary dependencies.

[autumn grail]

ok

[surreal vector]

Hey there I have a question, when you convert an object that have collision to static mesh it is still possible to have collisions?

[autumn grail]

@drowsy snow Please , i have cloned the source code and have done "git checkout master" it's not that i have to do?

I have to build from source ok

[soft fiber]

When I look at examples of the canvas panel on YT, it seems to have a size. My canvas panel doesn't show a size?

[grim ore]

after you get the source, you need to follow the rest of the instructions which includes downloading the dependencies using the setup batch file

@soft fiber in the top right of the preview window you can change it to show as desired, and other options, not just the fixed resolution size

[soft fiber]

@grim ore ok, thanks

[pliant void]

is there any way to scale z value without it stretching the landscape?

[candid falcon]

anyone know what this is?
it seems to still open and work anyway

[bleak copper]

Btw: What are the rules of UE4 serialization when fields change?

The ideal seem to just be make a new struct (ex: if a save game changes) and copy from old to new but yeah. Curious if there's known simplifications

[autumn elbow]

Where is the Motivation to work on my game Channel? 😄

I love my game, I love the design, and concept... all that stuff, but I find it harder and harder to sit at my desk and work on it.

I find that I would rather help solve other people's bp issues and what not, then work on my own.

[sullen sonnet]

Why does this get stuck? It's a default project with some basic shapes added in and a landscape. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/127723854171734016/824111015763116112/unknown.png

It stays like that until i force shutdown

@autumn elbow i know exactly how you feel man

[dense knoll]

Switching the default RHI to vulkan causes the engine to freeze loading at 18%

and shaders dont compile at all

[pure barn]

my cine camera is not doing depth of field

bumped everything up to max to test

focus plane

nothing change though >:/

[sullen sonnet]

all these questions and non can help big oof

[pure barn]

everyone is either asleep or getting ready for bed

unfair

[calm pollen]

does anyone here have any experience with setting up google admob in a android app?

im just wondering:

1- would this setup work to display an ad

and 2- do I have to fill out the Ad Id Index or is that in the project settings

[sullen sonnet]

idk how to help you @calm pollen but that range between ads makes me triggered because it's so frequent xd

[calm pollen]

yeah I know lmao it was just for a example im definitely gonna change that 😁

[sullen sonnet]

👍

[plush bear]

does this double up as a help channel?

I'm having two issues when setting up a 2 wheeled vehicle.

Issue 1 is solvable through better setup but more a question for @patent cobalt. I've setup the vehicle such as described in your tutorial yet the axis for the wheels has imported incorrectly and so the wheels do not align. I was wondering if their is a solution for this?

Issue 2 has my head done in. Even when I have rigged the vehicle properly with armature the wheel colliders never collide. They always pass through the ground. I must be doing something wrong but I cannot put my finger on it. Is there a solution?

[timid spade]

is it possible to run ik once just to offset bone positions?

because currently i want to offset the bone positions to be able to re use animations for multiple weapons

but ik hasn't given me good results

[sonic quest]

May be ask on Unreal Forums. Anyway, this is a community service. Don’t expect everything to be answered.

[sullen sonnet]

@timid spade use sockets on weapons and translate bones to those sockets

[timid spade]

some math would be involved right?

[sullen sonnet]

not that i can think of. Maybe a little bit if you want to fine tune the location of the bones

[timid spade]

well if i wanted to move the hand to a socket wouldnt the elbow have to bend as well?

or will it naturally bend if i move the hand

[sullen sonnet]

you would need to use ik for that

[timid spade]

i tried ik

i got this result

https://streamable.com/agvkkp

it happens when i get near the origin of the world

and as i move further away its less noticeable

[sullen sonnet]

then your vector isn't setup correctly

wAIT NO

[timid spade]

also, ik has a lagging

thing

idk how to explain it

like if my shot animation plays, it lags slightly behind the animation

[sullen sonnet]

what ik solution are you using ? two bone ik?

[timid spade]

yes

this is what happens originally

ive tried multiple combinations as well

no luck

this is my setup

[sullen sonnet]

1 min

[timid spade]

ok

[sullen sonnet]

yes so two bone ik is only using two bone... hence the name

[timid spade]

yes

im a little confused on how to set up the node

what the joint location and ikbone actually are

i assume joint location would be the elbow

[sullen sonnet]

try using CCDIK instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCgZxeFN5_8

[timid spade]

also for effector location space

[sullen sonnet]

or FABRIK

[timid spade]

what should i use

the weapon is a seperate actor

id have to use world, correct?

[sullen sonnet]

effector is where you want the hand to be placed

[timid spade]

ahhh i se

the problem with this is

its laggy

[sullen sonnet]

?

[timid spade]

one sec

here

look at the hand in relation to the gun

how would i eliminate that lag

[sullen sonnet]

not gon download that sorry 😛

[timid spade]

ok one sec

im gonna post it on streamable

https://streamable.com/ywtxu7

ignore the clipping thats not the issue

its just delayed movement

it looks weird

[sullen sonnet]

im not seeing lag like you say

it's just clipping

[timid spade]

let me fix the clipping

maybe itll be more noticeable

why is it clipping?

i think i was just seeing things about the lag

youre probably right

[sullen sonnet]

ook

[timid spade]

the clipping still occurs, im gonna try FABRIK

also @sullen sonnet whats the difference between CCDIK and FABRIK

[sullen sonnet]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/NodeReference/SkeletalControls/CCDIK/index.html

how are you iterating to do IK?

with tick?

[timid spade]

yes

i have a function connected to event tick

that function gets all the info and stores it

[sullen sonnet]

hmm im not sure why it's clipping FABRIK or CCDIK won't fix the clipping with gun i think

[timid spade]

event tick is only 50 times per second correct?

[sullen sonnet]

event tick ticks every frame as far as i know

[timid spade]

oh

ive been told wrong then

ill try turning down the firerate

see if it changes anything

[sullen sonnet]

you can adjust the tick somewhere i think

[timid spade]

nope that didnt help

i dont think adjusting the tick will help

[sullen sonnet]

it won't

[timid spade]

it looks like its extrapolating the position of the socket

idk why it would

its way better now

it still moves tho

idk why

it has something to do with the rotation limits

[sullen sonnet]

fuck around with the location and how it goes to that location, im not sure what else to do

[timid spade]

yeah thats fine man

thanks so much for the help

took me 2 days to figure this out lo

[sullen sonnet]

i don't think it's rotation

[timid spade]

well capping the rotation helped

i capped the elbow to 5 degrees and it didnt clip as far

[sullen sonnet]

that's weird

it should stick to the gun no matter what

@timid spade

wait

[timid spade]

i think i just figured it out

its precision

[sullen sonnet]

show me the full animation bp with that ik

[sullen sonnet]

i think it's a blending issue

or transition

[timid spade]

i think so too

it only happens during recoil

[sullen sonnet]

ye

try to make blend 0?

[timid spade]

should i add another ccdik node after slot arms

also that just just play recoil anims

cause it doesnt blend

[sullen sonnet]

no

[timid spade]

ok

adding the node certainely helped but

now theres lag

[sullen sonnet]

try putting your ik stuff before or after blend

u don't need extra CCDIK

[timid spade]

ill try after

now theres lag

and im not tripping this time

but its def better

[sullen sonnet]

still clipping ?

[timid spade]

no

that fixed it

its just a bit laggy now

im not sure if its that noticeable

[sullen sonnet]

show

[timid spade]

https://streamable.com/h8bj2e you can tell the hand stays a bit behind especially near the beginning of the anim

[sullen sonnet]

do automatic fire

[runic narwhal]

Why?

Says it's not compatible with object reference

[timid spade]

here https://streamable.com/g3xz9w

it doesnt have to move far when doing automatic fire

i think it lags when the socket moves far away from the hand

maybe im just tripping again

[sullen sonnet]

check the socket when firing

[timid spade]

nvm im def not

the location?

or if its valid

[sullen sonnet]

just visually

[timid spade]

ok

how would i do that

can i highlight it?

[sullen sonnet]

in view port on top left click show, developer and bones i think

it doesn't show apparently

[timid spade]

i got it

showflag.bones 1

very cluttered mess

https://streamable.com/zv08pw heres what i got but theres a lot of ghosting

[sullen sonnet]

ye it doesn't show sockets

[timid spade]

damn

i think its just ik

[sullen sonnet]

🤷‍♂️

[timid spade]

wait wtf

it just fixed itself

[sullen sonnet]

was about to say lmao

it looked good XD

[timid spade]

i have NO IDEA

what just happened

[sullen sonnet]

trick of the light

and doing the same shit for 2 days fucks with your head lol

[timid spade]

also another quick question why does unreal ghost so much

yea bro legit

i was ready to just make 50+ animations

[sullen sonnet]

what you mean

[timid spade]

look at the video with the bones visible

[sullen sonnet]

motion blur

[timid spade]

the bones are ghosting

ohhh

[sullen sonnet]

xd

[timid spade]

ive never enabled it

[sullen sonnet]

it's on by sdefault

[timid spade]

its off

or am i in the wrong place

[sullen sonnet]

it's off for the engine when not playing

it's different when playing

[timid spade]

i got it

thanks bro

i was so annoyed

[sullen sonnet]

ye

no worries

[timid spade]

holy crap

it looks so much better

[sullen sonnet]

ikr

[timid spade]

can i enable it on certain things?

[sullen sonnet]

i think you would use depth of field for that

unless idk what you're asking xd

[timid spade]

i want to enable it on bullet casings

so they dont look laggy

[sullen sonnet]

depth of field is what you want i think for that

but it's a pain to set it up

i haven't messed with it much so idk how to set it up the way you want right now

[timid spade]

its fine no worries

you were a great help man thanks so much

i finally figured out this dumb shit

[sullen sonnet]

game dev is hard XD

[timid spade]

fr

[tardy ocean]

I tried converting my entire project from BP to CPP by copying my content folder into a new project, any clue as to why it may have shifted my character up?

[candid falcon]

so I just found the solution to this problem, it seems that most people already have this file, but if the "a" at the beginning is capitalized ("A") it can't find it?

its seems harmless as everything still works, its just annoying cause you have to click past it to open it

[errant blade]

Unreal Engine: Oooh~! So you want to delete an asset, eh? Well, it's time to spin the wheel! Everytime you delete an asset there is a 1/10 chance the program will eternally freeze until it eats all your 32 GBs of ram and you have to close it with task manager! Are you feeling lucky?

[sullen sonnet]

why is level streaming not showing up? Using 4.26.1 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/127723854171734016/824158562741125160/unknown.png

[sullen sonnet]

can't have level streaming volumes if using world composition apparently

[mystic robin]

i packaged game in android when i run all mat show black only few have there mat

[candid mist]

@scenic moon I figured out why BPS to Static Mesh wasn't working for me, perhaps yours was the same case: the brush was on a different sublevel than my current (active) sublevel; once I made the sublevel with BSP active, it instantly worked 🙂

[gleaming wing]

Hey guys. May I ask, I'm having a really nasty issue with basic control rig, can I ask the question to everyone here or is in another chat?

[leaden dust]

So there's a 'Draw Line' node in the UMG widgets, I have an editor utility widget (which has no relation to game performance), will drawing 100-200 lines crash the window or engine by any chance?

[grim plank]

Hi

I am new

I want to know how to make setup an reload animation for the gun. An animation which takes the magazine out of the gun

So how can I do it?

[grim plank]

can u send a picture?

[leaden dust]

@grim plank of the node?

[grim plank]

yup

[leaden dust]

@grim plank

[dense turret]

Hello

[proven mauve]

Hey all! I'm struggling a bit with the author-at-source approach of localization.

Can I realistically localize my SOURCE LANGUAGE, in an external PO editor?

The docs etc say this is just for "spot checking".

[grim plank]

it is normal bro
https://youtu.be/6FP6pvgh-rs

[proven mauve]

Its very awkward because for source language (en), I end up with msgid and msgstr being almost the same, but not exactly...

And I can't update msgid because localization import can't serialize that back into blueprint or C++

[grim plank]

👆watch the video that I sent

[leaden dust]

@grim plank my man did you see my question?

I asked whether drawing a large number of lines (100-200) crash an editor utility window or the engine itself

[grim plank]

oops

Sorry bro. I dont know about that

XD

[golden grove]

have anyone encountered this issue before? ive setup an tessallation landscape material with auto cliff, however, the engine thinks the steep part of my tessallation is also a cliff. any ways to fix this? (red part is cliff)

[sick patio]

has anyone made an infinite hallway, as seen in PT silent hill, tutorial?

[drowsy snow]

Just use portals
It's basically Non Euclidean Geometry

[sick patio]

thanks? just look that up?

[drowsy snow]

Either portals

Or

Stitching up sub-level also a good idea.
Basically the part where you step down a staircase in the small room is where you unload a copy of the hallway behind and stream in another copy of the hallway in a separate sub-level

The path would be like this:
Hallway -> staircase room -> another hallway

[sick patio]

oh and have level streaming

and the door if a hard portal reset?

[sturdy plinth]

I have one major question for my future workflow: Is it better to create static function blueprint library (function meant to be used as node in blueprint), is is better to create them in C++ or in blueprint ? I have an example of the function Angle, created in C++ and blueprint (both can be used in blueprint).

The goal is to be able to access them by blueprint.

in one way, create them directly in blueprint allow quick iteration, addition/deletion of files etc. but if I do them in blueprint, if one day I need inside a C++ file some function, I can't access a blueprint function from C++. So I think I will create them in C++, to be able to call them in both C++ & blueprint, what's your though ?

[steel shell]

what is the advantage of a bigger tile size in the virtual texture setting?

and what is the disadvantage?

[ashen brook]

use vertex normals instead of pixel normals for your slope detection, or use the pixel normals from before you apply the tessellation normal adjustment

[noble bridge]

if there is anyone who is able to vc rn, please do.

i need help

[thick charm]

Anyone knows how to cast when there is multible players.
This used to work when there was 1 player but not with 2.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/824035987855900672/1e5051602d70a8baa9d76daa959abc27.png

[golden grove]

thx for the response, i will look into it tomorrow

[ashen brook]

You mean multiple classes? In that case, avoid direct casting and use either interfaces (preferred) or create a common base class for all your classes

[thick charm]

I do have interfaces setup but it doesnt work 😦 wait a sec i'll show u

Here

It used to work but suddenly stopped working

[autumn grail]

@drowsy snow I have setup the project and placed the Plugin in the engine repo , the uasset files are visibles in the editor but not the .umap files

[golden condor]

Cries in BSP :’)

[exotic thicket]

ProBuilder was pretty good

There is the new modeling tools thingy which seems alright, not sure if it's near ProBuilder in terms of features yet though, but it looks maybe slightly better than BSP's already

On the other hand, ProBuilder also had its own quirks and wasn't quite there in terms of comparing to say with Blender

[proud narwhal]

How can I convert a few 1000 actors into static meshes in place?

[golden condor]

Blender is a full 3D suite. I don’t want it to be that. I want it to be good enough for a simple blockout, which ProBuilder is. BSP is amazing but it’s really lacking compared to ProBuilder.

[exotic thicket]

Yeah.. have you tried the new mesh editing tools?

[grim plover]

this engine is so fun to use, i get so excited when things work. i literally just started two weeks ago and i love designing environments

[golden condor]

Are you talking about the simple mesh editing? Or is there something new I am missing?

Because I heard rumors that BSP is getting an overhaul so idk what exactly you mean here

[exotic thicket]

"modeling tools editor mode", it's in plugins

[golden condor]

Ow yeah, still lacking.

[exotic thicket]

hopefully they'll keep improving those, I think it works a bit better than BSP's already

[proud narwhal]

I know I can rightclick and go > convert to static mesh, but that just puts a static mesh in a folder, it does not replace the one in the world

[golden condor]

It does, but it’s not something to use reliably since it’s still in beta.

[exotic thicket]

I dunno, as far as I can tell it spits out regular static meshes so I don't think it's going to break randomly :)

[golden condor]

Well, beta is never good for production. But it’s nice to experiment with and hope it comes out soon.

[wanton bloom]

Hello, my mirror and metal material has got a problem when i look that material from far its looking like this:

But when i came to closer its getting darker

i trying put sphere reflection capture but nothing not changing

[serene birch]

SSR

you basically only have SSR working

for your reflection capture, make sure you built them I suppose, and that they are correctly placed and the right size?

also you'll need static lights to see anything in the reflection capture I suppose ?

not "static" in engine but existing at the time the capture is done (aka in the editor) I think

[wanton bloom]

i changed my light to static

this is when i far

This is when i came to closer

its blurry

[serene birch]

well increase the quality of the capture then

try maybe a cube capture instead of a sphere too

[wanton bloom]

PostProcessVolume like that

[serene birch]

nah those are SSR settings, I'm talking about the size of the capture texture I'm pretty sure you can configure in the reflection capture actor

[wanton bloom]

u talking about sphere reflection capture?

[serene birch]

either sphere or cube reflection capture

you have one no? you said so earlier

[wanton bloom]

i searching quality but

[serene birch]

check it's settings

[wanton bloom]

no have settings

like quality

i have

reflection capture but

not has settings like quality

[serene birch]

resolution

or size

[wanton bloom]

nothing.

is this?

i found in the project settings

[serene birch]

yes it's there

a little intrusive if you only wanted to improve the quality for a single capture though

[wanton bloom]

where exactly should I place the spheres?

[serene birch]

I can't answer that for you

each sphere is one extra texture to store/use etc...

[copper swallow]

Hey guys, how do i make it so my projects only open on VS Code, and not vs community, it defaults to the latter for some reason

[real bolt]

Hello, does anyone knows how to rotate the sky material with a shader ? I've tried the rotate about axis thing but it doesnt seem to work with uvw texture

[rocky radish]

it's in the project settings

[frank oar]

is it ok to use particles like this ?
I am trying to put dust throghout my level, Ill continue to do this throughout if its ok

[waxen harbor]

is anyone getting fps drops in 4.26 compared to 4.25?

I got 120fps -> 70 fps for any map

[sweet acorn]

Hey guys. Recently i wanted to get into unreal so i download it and messed around with the ui etc. I got a bit used to it but now i don't know what to do. Where do i even start?

Should i make a game or something?

[ashen brook]

This depends. What exactly are you doing in your sky material, and what exactly do you want to rotate?

You could use world position offset to rotate the entire mesh, for example. Or you could rotate the texture coordinates if you're using a cubemap

both need slightly different setups and math

[exotic otter]

hi, is there a good way to Spawn an actor in ue4 classes that are not uclasses?

I need to spawn an actor temporarily in a non UCLASS singleton

[plush yew]

so anyone know why when opening visual studios from unreal like double clicking the folder etc etc the solution explorer and the error window disapear, i have to manually get them back each time

a little new to visual studios layout so keep that in mind

[abstract scaffold]

Trying to set a relative locaton of a camera. If I say to set the Z to 400, it is getting set to like 399.9987. Is there a reason for that? Can i get it to 400 exactly every time?

[timber birch]

Has anyone had this issue before? https://i.gyazo.com/994ab4d30ac5e9474f6f7f8647aad5dc.jpg UE4.26 water lake and river, river doesn't blend at all

[vocal flume]

I have something strange happening. I have a endscreen (widget) that will be displayed when the game ends. This works fine on my android device. LG V4 running Android 7. I have a few beta testers added through play console. They are not able to see this widget. Why is this happening one android device and not the others? Is there a common cause for this?

[ocean grove]

uhhhhhh

Anyone know how to turn this off?

[grim ore]

you can type in the console SlateDebugger.Paint.Enable 0

[vocal flume]

@grim ore I created a widget and saved it to a variable in the game instance. Then from my BP I referenced that variable from game instance and added it to the view port. Now if I do a destroy actor on the BP, would the widget disappear?

[steel shell]

in the texture setting of an udim, what is the "Power of two mode"?

[grim ore]

assuming its still referenced somewhere (your GI), and its still on the screen (you added it), it should be fine

[steel shell]

and when converting a udim to a virtual texture, what is the texture size threshold?

[robust marten]

Why does adding a new enum row take longer and longer the more I add? Is there a limit to how many I can have in 1 enum?

[vocal flume]

Does it make sense to create all widgets required for my game(create widget nodes) in the begin play node of the game instance, save them to variables and then call them as required? Or create widgets as and when required? Also are these widgets removed from memory when I call remove from parent?

[grim ore]

they wont be removed until the garbage collector comes to collect them

so removing wont remove them from memory until nothing references them

and as for making sense, thats up to your project.

for example an inventory for a player UI, does it need to be available if the player is dead? can anything open it or use it besides the player? should anything but the player handle it?

a main menu? something that pops up when you hit ESC? can it be used at any time? might be good for game mode or instance

are you using multiple levels? does this always need to be in memory across multiple levels? Game instance, if not somewhere else.

etc..

hell you could just make a blueprint actor that sits in the world that handles all of this, or a subsystem could be created to handle it, or uh put it all on your weapon because why not (dont do this)

[vocal flume]

All my questions about the widgets tie back to my current issue that I’m stuck for 4 weeks now. Widgets don’t show up on some android phones. It works fine with the test device I have. 🙁

I have no idea what is wrong as there is no error message.

[grim ore]

so the ADB logcat doesnt show anything?

[vocal flume]

No..

[grim ore]

definitely weird. Does it do this for all widgets or just some? Its possible ue4 is not compatible with that device due to its GPU

I would also try it not just in openGL but in Vulkhan if you can

[vocal flume]

It only happens for one widget that is displayed after the game is over. I’ll try the Vulkan thing

[grim ore]

well if it only happens for one widget, then it sounds like basic UMG is supported which means most should be. Have you tried to eliminate that widget as an issue? as in just like literally make a new scene as your default that just shows that widget and see if its shows up on device

[vocal flume]

I’ll try that tonight after I’m done with this bullshit 9 to 5 job I’m at.. 😊

[orchid plume]

hello again, would anyone be able to give me a bit of help with OSC?

[rustic dirge]

Can someone explain me what is the difference between a niagara system and a particle system?

[grim ore]

chances are by particle you refer to Cascade which is the older FX system, that has been replaced by Niagara the new FX system

[rustic dirge]

I don't know, the "particle system" that appears when you create a new asset

[grim ore]

well you dont just randomly create a new asset, how are you creating it?

if you mean creating a new "particle system" then yes that is Cascade, the old system, and has been superceded by Niagara

[rustic dirge]

Right click on the content browser

[rustic dirge]

Basically never use cascade always go for niagara?

[grim ore]

if you are learning, probably. Niagara should support everything cascade does and is the default going forward. Cascade is still there since its been around for 5 years so has more documentation and tutorials and existing content

[rigid belfry]

why are there three instances of player controllers if i am running 2 players, one of which a listen server?

[grim ore]

client has his controller, server has his controller (since its a listen), server has a controller for player 2 since its a server

thats my educated guess

[unique kraken]

anyone knows how i can add a rotation to another one

im reading up on it but it doesnt quiet work out

tells me multiplying them would give me what i want but thats just simply not the case

i have 2 global rotations, both are 0 initially and adding them should just not change the result

[rustic dirge]

AddRelativeRotation

[unique kraken]

hmm not a thing i have in ctrl rig

[rustic dirge]

Ah sorry

[unique kraken]

maybe that?

[worn granite]

lmao transparent nodes tho

[timid spade]

is there a way to make these interchangeable with a variable or enum?

[grim ore]

what are you trying to do?

[timid spade]

i want to be able to choose whether the target gets info from the 1st or second variable

i have 2 sight blueprints

one with a 2dscenecomponent and one without

[grim ore]

use a select node

[timid spade]

ah i see

thanks

[grim ore]

your index can be a boolean and your options those 2 items

[timid spade]

is there a delay node

something similar to delay(ms);

wait how come i cant call a delay in a function

but i can in an event graph

[vocal flume]

If I set my target sdk version to 23 (android 6).. does that mean my app won’t run on anything above android 6?

What does it do exactly?

Documentation says target is what os the app is expected to run on.. so if I want it to run on everything android 6 and above.. do I have to set it to 23(android 6) or 29(android 10)?

[rigid belfry]

anybody has any experience with multiplayer? why is this happening exactly? client's bool should have the same value as the server

[grim ore]

@timid spade functions are self contained, they run and are done. only the main graph can be delayed is why

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element

To maintain your application along with each Android release, you should increase the value of this attribute to match the latest API level, then thoroughly test your application on the corresponding platform version.

[real bolt]

Yeah I just want the texture to be rotated

[ashen brook]

Is it a cube map or a spherical panorama texture?

[real bolt]

Cubemap

[ashen brook]

in that case, if cubemap, use rotate about axis like this:

@real bolt

[real bolt]

Thank you

[ashen brook]

the reason for this setup is that the RotateAboutAxis function does not return the rotated input, but instead an offset from the input to get to the rotated position

it's more useful this way for directly outputting into the World Position Offset pin, but counterintuitive if you want to just rotate a vector

[limpid arch]

Hello people! I don't know if this is the right channel, but I am at a place in my project where I'm stuck without further knowledge.

How do indie people with ... Not a lot of knowledge in blender create their own characters to be used with the mixamo skeleton? I used MakeHuman and tried to use Mixamo to set the skeleton, but it doesn't work out like I wanted.

Thanks for any help!

[rigid belfry]

not sure wether we're allowed to post other discord servers here but theres a blender discord server that could probably help you more

[rigid belfry]

its discord.gg/blender

[neon bough]

first of all, MrMannequin addon for blender should be worth a take a look at, as it gives you a blender friendly rig which you can export to UE while being compatible to the UE Mannequin rig

second, mixamo and unreal doesn't work out of the box, but theres a tool to convert the mixamo animations to be compatible with the UE4 mannequin rig (it contains an FBX with the mannequin which you have to upload to mixamo)

https://terribilisstudio.fr/?section=MC thats the tool

[limpid arch]

I'm using a mixamo character, not the mannequin, so mixamo animations work well right now

But I'll definitely have a look at the tool

[neon bough]

ah ok

[rigid belfry]

if you're actually serious about animations, using the mr mannequinn tools would actually be better

[neon bough]

the mannequin way has the advantage that you can still use animations from unreal marketplace

[rigid belfry]

of course you'd need to dedicate your time doing animation work instead of coding. me myself i like to program, so i dont really bother with the artistic side of things

[neon bough]

and basically most tutorials and stuff are focused around the ue4 mannequin

[limpid arch]

I got a bit familiar with blender in terms of animations

But sculpting and modelling.. holy hell

[neon bough]

now my question.... when having a list of ~100 store items in my game, whats a good place to hold them so i don't have to load them each time they are accessed? is game instance a good place?

[rigid belfry]

why would you store 100 items? thats a lot of data

use data tables and structures instead

[neon bough]

can't use data tables, each item is it's own file as they can be created in an creator mode

thats why i want to avoid loading them from disk each time

and i'm talking about their meta data, so they aren't really object instances which take up a lot of memory

let's assume each item is 10kB, thats just 1MB of memory for 100 items

[grim ore]

will the store be loaded all the time, how often will the store be loaded?

[neon bough]

idk what crazy stuff the players will do, but i assume it's not that often

[grim ore]

any reason not to just load it when needed then?

and if you are not showing all 100 items at once, you dont need to load them all at once

[neon bough]

speed

[grim ore]

so whats the actual numbers then in loading them the first time and every time after if they are in memory?

[neon bough]

thats one of my problems, i can only sort/filter them after loading them

[elder haven]

Hi! I have a problem and I need help
I have an object that doesnt get the material right, its like when I throw it its like washed out
and I try that on another level and its ok
so its not the object I think that has the problem but the level
do you have any idea of what might be happening ?

[neon bough]

idk honestly, but i dont want that to be a bottleneck if the tradeoff is a few megabyte of memory, which is usually affordable

[grim ore]

@neon bough so you want to optimize the system before you know if you need to optimize it?

[neon bough]

yes

[grim ore]

I guess if you want to do that make a generic store actor somewhere that just holds it all, unless you plan on having multiple maps then the GI or a SubSystem are the only things that are going to persist between loads

[neon bough]

ok, thank you

[neon bough]

looks like you have way more light in the 2nd scene, either tweak your material or the lighting

also... bake your light from time to time, >4k outdated objects, that could also mess with lighting

[elder haven]

i didnt quite catch that ?

what do you mean by >4k outdated objects ?

@neon bough

[neon bough]

it says right on your screen 46xx unbuilt objects

[elder haven]

oh ok

so you think this is a light build problem ?

[grim ore]

it could also be as simple as one having more auto exposure than the other as well due to your lighting

[neon bough]

or that^

but the towels are glowing on the right, so theres a bunch of light

[elder haven]

ok I will try baking then

[grim ore]

the towels may be glowing DUE to auto exposure, if its artifically brightening up the scene the towels would start to get blown out

[elder haven]

the faucet is the same material with the soap

[vocal flume]

@grim ore I fixed the widget issue. Culprit was use external directory for game files option. In android 6 this was creating a UE4 game directory under root. In android 10 it was not. I fixed that and the widget issue is gone. Thanks for your help!

[grim ore]

@vocal flume so what was the fix you did?

[vocal flume]

Enabled Use external directory for game files option under packaging in project settings. Previously it was disabled. It was creating UE4 game directory under root in older phones.

[grim ore]

huh.. thats interesting to know. So its disabled by default?

[vocal flume]

Not sure if I disabled it earlier but it’s good to keep this checked so files don’t go into root folder.

[grim ore]

yep, thanks for the update!

[prime willow]

@grim ore are you around im sort of stuck and im not sure what i did wrong or what to search for to fix this x-x

https://gyazo.com/6e2c45fd9e0f9e7af2351f32c2fc93c0

[safe field]

I heard that Unity has a burst compiler that makes C# faster than C++ now. How does UE4 compare? Will UE5 have similar technology?

[grim ore]

@safe field ask the people you heard that from?

[plucky jetty]

I have, for example, 5 mobs and I need to take damage from each mob and transfer it to the character.
I can write all mobs to an array.
how can I get damage out of each? what to get the amount of damage per second ??

[safe field]

I also heard about UE4 modules, which can help with compile time?

[grim ore]

they can I guess, its just breaking the code down into smaller parts so if you dont touch those parts they dont get recompiled

@prime willow that is super weird.... I have no idea, #animation is my only guess of course but... like... its duplicating those parts?

[prime willow]

well i used daz 3d to add beast hands and feet and ears as well as a tail

[grim ore]

@plucky jetty if damage is part of the actor attacking the player, you can ask that actor for its damage value. its normal blueprint communication. Getting a property from an object. damage per second would be up to you to figure out based on other numbers.

[prime willow]

the morph dont move it

but the bones do

even if detached

oh wait i have an idea of what might of happened

brb

[grim ore]

your casting each object in the array to your class, that class has the damage doesnt it?

[prime willow]

@grim ore I figured it out somewhat

the ears, hands, feet, and tail, are all modular parts in the daz 3d engine

they had their own skeletons in those parts in particular

so the mesh became a modular mesh

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/index.html <-

so i need to somehow merge them or remove the bones and put them in the base mesh and weight paint maybe x3

[grim ore]

oh gotcha.. thats gonna be fun

[prime willow]

definitely xD

but im really glad though as im making strides forward with every moment

in time my game will be fully realized :3

[grim ore]

yeah its going ------>

[prime willow]

yesh yesh C:

[plush yew]

Hello guys

Is there a way to make this as in the video

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

I mean to import a building from 3d software

import it in ue 4

this walking can I do it with cinematic or other way?

[frank oar]

Hey guys,

Does anyone have any recommendations for when I can get some free audio ?
I need some ambient sounds and foot steps.
(Specifically for a fann humming sound and running inside a tin box/ air vent)

@plush yew you mean the landscapes and archvis scenes ?

[plush yew]

I mean that I want to make this walking inside of building, I export it from 3d softwarem then import it in ue 4 and how I can do the same as in the video?

[frank oar]

@plush yew Once you have your model / scene in Unreal, you will have to apply materials, make and build your lighting and when you are finally happy with the way it all looks you will use a camera within the engine to film your walk through.

[plush yew]

Okay

so making a level sequencer?

[frank oar]

if you havent done any of it before there will be some things to learn but its an enjoyable process

[rigid belfry]

does this look proper to you guys? especially the first person movement. how do games handle first person animations? would setting the character to use the controller rotation yaw be better?

[rigid belfry]

https://opengameart.org/ this is where i go during game jams

[sly yew]

is there anyone here that helps people out on learning the basics and understanding cause ive downloaded UE4 tried making my first game, but was lost in some areas and overall confused

[frank oar]

Thank you @rigid belfry ! Any idea if the items on the site can be used commercially ?
(just incase)

[rigid belfry]

https://learn.unrealengine.com/home/library
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/UnrealDevelopmentKit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeKDRqWtGV0&t=1182s

have fun

[runic fern]

Hi Guys I have Issue with VR when im looking to Object i can use OnClick Event using the Controller but when i turn my head somewhere else i cant interact even if im tracing the mesh

[sly yew]

thank you very much imma bookmark these

[rigid belfry]

https://opengameart.org/content/faq#q-proprietary Short answer: Yes, you can use this art. Even in commercial projects.

[frank oar]

@rigid belfry As someone who has played a lot of FPS games, especially multiplayer, I think the video you posted looks spot on.

[sly yew]

its very impressive how many of you guys can just whip up a game in UE4 like its nothing and completely understand it all

[plush yew]

this does't anser my question ,lol , if it is related with level sequencer I can do it, but I ask cus I am not sure how needs to be done

[rigid belfry]

oh trust me. i dont understand anything

i just plug in random pins until i dont get errors

[rigid belfry]

https://learn.unrealengine.com/home/library go to the architecture tab

[frank oar]

@plush yew sorry but I have not done what you are trying to do so I am unable to tell you if it is in sequencer.
I mostly make small games. the comment above from @rigid belfry should help though

[rigid belfry]

i think one of the biggest burdens to surpass as a new ue4 user is that you need to have your expectations low. most will start with big dreams, but will quickly get frustated and quit after 2 days

just like many things in life, the more hours you put in, the better you'll become. the biggest tip i could give is to not blindly follow tutorials on youtube or sorts, but rather learn the concepts, read the documentation. the unreal learn tab does a fantastic job at teaching you stuff

knowing how the engine talks to each other. player controllers, pawns, characters, game modes

these are stuff you're going to reference countless of times. you need to know how these function

[fluid lance]

https://freesound.org/
But you do need to go into a daw or at least some software like audacity (it's freeware) to cut/lopp/do whatever with them. Some are decent, some are bad, but afaik, it's the go-to place for free audio. If you have some money however (really cheap stuff), get some generators from tsugi http://tsugi-studio.com/web/en/index.html
Hope it helps! 🙂

[frank oar]

thank you @fluid lance !

[stable dawn]

Hello. I have a question. Any idea why the material instructions are so high without even any textures etc? Its not in forward rendering btw.

[frozen pond]

i seen one time in some project that you can move to vector using curve but i can't find that

[earnest violet]

How do u spawn in an enemy ai at a certain location when entering a triggerbox because I've used spawn ai class and spawn actor class and I must have tried a million different combination and still the ai does not spawn. Please someone have mercy on me and help me? THX 🙂

Can anyone help me pz?

[delicate mesa]

@earnest violet so your basically wanting an AI to Spawn when you enter a trigger box? if so lemme try doing exactly that and ill tell you if it works

is it a networked game?

[earnest violet]

@delicate mesa It's a single player game. Ineed to be able to get this working so I can create certain kill missions. I am trying to spawn in a character blueprint m8 🙂

[delicate mesa]

@earnest violet worked for me man

[earnest violet]

was it a character blueprint u used m8?

[delicate mesa]

simple trigger box create a blueprint class with it and on begin overlap spawn the AI at your desired location

yes my ai is a character

@earnest violet

[earnest violet]

ok cool what node did u use was either spawn ai from class or was spawn actor from class man?

[delicate mesa]

basically make a BP for the box trigger

try that should work @earnest violet

[earnest violet]

Thx man I will let u know in a min if it works 4 me! THX! +)

@delicate mesa Sorry if I'm being dumb but how does it know the location I want the ai to spawn at? I see you're using Get actor transform but how does that get the exact location m8?

[delicate mesa]

you would have to split the transform pin by right clicking on the orange pin and filling in your data manually there or you could make a actor called AI Spawner and get the transform of that

@earnest violet

@earnest violet in my debug world it works fine so might be your not getting the transform correctly

[jagged halo]

Given GameState#Players Array, how can I access one specific Player State from there? Seems like the only available getter is "Get (a copy)" - shouldn't I use a ref instead?

copying the whole player state seems a little inefficient ...

[pure barn]

why is DoF only affecting my perspective view instead of my cine camera?

[glass egret]

50usd if u can help me fix my problem with alsv4. i did not touch a thing
just standerd migrate worked fine then broke all the sudden
getting on my nerves

[dry beacon]

Im looking for a way to recreate a character movement system like in dark souls. I have the roll all set up and blend space for orientation. What im looking to do now is only rotate the character based on the direction the camera is facing when pressing forward. the other parts will strafe. This technically works when i lock them, but then when i try to roll it only rolls forwards and not all directions. How should i go about this?

[earnest violet]

@delicate mesa Yeah man, thx, that worked! NICE ONE BRO! 🙂

[rocky mica]

I'm currently looking for someone who can make a building asset for me (I need a custom one that isn't actually based off anything on the market). But I'm not sure which channel I should post it to because its not a contract job, and I don't want to sift through every freelancer determining or asking if they are up for the task.

[lament shore]

I'm new to ue and my project got bigger than expected, and I have been sloppy with keeping assets organized.

Need to reformat my pc, is there an easy way to bundle everything up including all assets and transfer to somewhere safe?

[lament ledge]

you can use the post process options within the cine camera

dunno if it would work tho

give it a try

[pure barn]

i was having problems with this yesterday as well

i have the focal plane set up correctly, but none of the depth of field options under post processing do anything

[jagged halo]

can a render target be shown in a widget?

"Set Brush From Texture" doesn't work, the types don't seem compatible

[grim ore]

Make a material with the render target and set that as the material for the image in the widget?

[short tundra]

Can someone please tell me what the frick did they put in there that makes the size of Unreal Engine 4, 20 Gigabytes

Is it really just pure code?

[fierce tulip]

no need for cursing

[short tundra]

Oh well it can't be pure code because there are also the default shaders and such

Still I don't get how does it get that big

[fierce tulip]

code, scripts, actors, and more.

20gb is peanuts

[short tundra]

What are actors?

[fierce tulip]

anything and everything basically

a light is an actor, a mesh is an actor, a blueprint can be an actor

[short tundra]

Basically classes?

[gaunt abyss]

well just compiled binaries (code) is 17GB with the source build in my case

[weary basalt]

You dont get an industry leading 3D Engine in a small package...

If you need something smaller look at Godot or something not as powerful? Choose the right tool for the job.

Everything comes with tradeoffs.

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Engine 4 took 40 GB in mine. That includes:

• Engine code
• Engine assets
• Editor tools
• Editor code
• Debugging symbols
• Platform dependencies (each can take ±2 GB)
• Plugins (200+ of them at your disposal)
• Development+Shipping build configuration
• Build remnants (not including that 40 GB)

Unreal Engine 4 comes with a lot of useful stuff out of the box. It's more than pieces of codes, it's justifiable, and I'm not complaining.

[spare kernel]

my source engine build is 150GB 😄

so... yeah, if you are in this industry, invest in some storage, cause ya gonna need it

[drowsy snow]

I yeeted out the source stuff from my custom build though 😂
Reduced from 210+ GB down to 40 GB

[dense knoll]

UE4 is large

[spare kernel]

why you have a lot of hard drives and space 😄

[drowsy snow]

And not including the game files
I already have 30+ GB of assets to be used for PAST FUTURE, and it's still going on

[dense knoll]

@_@

[drowsy snow]

30+ GB not including 4K size megascans, which by themselves took around 20 GB in my HD

[dense knoll]

How do you fix ue4 assighning the a player with another players aircraft?

When my own custom spawner spawns a aircraft in it gets the owning Player and posses that players pawn with the player

but for whatever reason the CLient just ends up never spawning and the Server posseses every aircraft that spawn

so then theirs just 1 unposesed aircraft

without the client

[grim plank]

whats going on general voice?

*is

[rocky cipher]

Why does my project suddenly not support atmospheric fog? Or clouds for that matter.

[timid spade]

is it possible to enable motion blur on specific actors?

[woeful bobcat]

YO

[rocky cipher]

enabled it but now clouds r terrible

fixed it

nvm clouds still messed up

[jolly ibex]

Hi, I'm trying to create a folder structure in shared drive, but, it shows folder path is invalid, any ideas why its thowing the error

[rocky cipher]

ok so if anyone has same issue. You can't use sky atmosphere and atmospheric fog together

[rotund elbow]

is it possible to edit a model in UE4?

[mystic robin]

when i click on start host go in map and others player go back to main menu. why not all player going into 1 map

[sonic quest]

Could be you are using that on mobile or not enabled.

[sonic quest]

Try change distance-based settings in the details panel. Also, check for the world-radius parameter in the SkyAtmosphere. That affects clouds as well.

[knotty falcon]

Development/Shipping package builds of our project load into the startup level with no gamemode but the editor loads into the startup and then into the actual Menu level, has anyone had this issue before?

We renamed the project (C++) and the mobile build worked fine for a few builds afterwards

[mossy nymph]

@knotty falcon odds are your DefaultEngine.ini has a wrong default GameMode class

it doesn't always update properly when renames/moves are involved

just unset it in editor, set it again and you should be fine

[knotty falcon]

That was the first thing I checked, the gamemode is correct in the DefaultEngine ini

[mossy nymph]

other entries, like default level?

[knotty falcon]

Yeah, the only references to anything to do with the old projects name are the ActiveClassRedirects which I've just removed

[mossy nymph]

DefaultEngine.ini having wrong data is the only scenario where i heard something like this happening :S

[knotty falcon]

Yeah 😐 , the weirdest part is it works on mobile and it works when I run via Launch, just not via Package Project
Cheers for the help

There was however a uasset reference to the old gamemode in the Content folder, I'm really hoping that was the issue

[mossy nymph]

@mystic robin you have to use SeamlessTravel in order to drag other connected players with you

[knotty falcon]

Now its just returning fatal errors when I close or swap map

[worn river]

Hey everyone,
I was just wondering, whether there is some deep-link functionality build into UE4? I know that it exist for Android, Windows and iOS, but it would be great to have a unified way to link to content in our app.
That would especially be interesting for OAuth2 and OpenID, where we need to provide a Redirect URI into our app, hence deep links 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking or URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)

[waxen vine]

Anyone know how to remove a poll from your forum post?

[knotty falcon]

Cheers for the help, turns out it was the Data Asset Labels stealing all of our assets and packing them into another pak file

[azure reef]

Hello guys. I have some actors spawning under the floor and rising up. It looks like it's not working. I'm assuming because of occlusion culling, because if I change to wireframe the animation it's starting and it's working. If not, the animation is not happening. How can I solve this?

[regal path]

I'm having some trouble with the setup of a shared DDC for a project and not inside the editor
If I refer to this doc https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DerivedDataCache/index.html, I just need to add this to the DefaultEngine.ini but it's not working 🤔

[DerivedDataBackendGraph] 
Shared=(Type=FileSystem, ReadOnly=false, Clean=false, Flush=false, DeleteUnused=true, UnusedFileAge=10, FoldersToClean=10, MaxFileChecksPerSec=1, ConsiderSlowAt=70, PromptIfMissing=false, Path=\\192.168.1.19\public\DDDC, EnvPathOverride=UE-SharedDataCachePath, EditorOverrideSetting=SharedDerivedDataCache, CommandLineOverride=SharedDataCachePath)

It's working when I set for the whole engine but not for one project which is weird

[pastel aurora]

Is there an easy method i can follow to snap objects into slot (place) in VR? the youtube videos are way too long and difficult to keep up, is there a ready Bp, i could just edit it to my models and go by?, or any help with steps would be wonderful, thank you so much

[regal path]

i got this in the log output

LogDerivedDataCache: Shared data cache path not found in *engine.ini, will not use an Shared cache.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/102953/creating-a-shared-derived-data-cache.html this person seems to have managed to solve the problem but I don't understand the solution

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Zondax#2718 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[lucid grove]

Heya guys, anyone experienced fps drop on 4.26?

I have two mirror projects on 4.25 and 4.26

4.25