ue4-general

[robust marten]

Then how would I run the loop to end without completing the rest of the loop? Right now in that pic I am running a loop check to see if the player already has that weapon equipped. If they do, I want it to refill their ammo(Which I will replace the print node with), if they don't, then I want them to pick it up (Which runs when the loop is completed)

[glacial dawn]

Then you'll have to store that the weapon has been found and the position or whatever and, after the branch, you have to check if you found it

[robust marten]

I figured I'd have to do that. I thought there would be a simpler way

[glacial dawn]

@robust marten simpler?? I don't think that's complicated, that's how programming in general works

[fast mica]

Hey - has anyone seen any issues with getting the GH org invite? I did some org cleanup a while back and left the epic games org - tried relinking my GH account but not getting any org invite. Epic Games support itself didn't really seem to understand the issue, but sounds like something in the automation failed. 😂

[robust marten]

Well, for example, I could have 'completed' be empty and just have the true/false run and have them both break when they finish running, right?

[fast mica]

cc @gleaming narwhal maybe?

[glacial dawn]

@robust marten No, I'm programming about 20 years (not ue4, programming in general, for my job) and the way you're saying it's counter intuitive

[robust marten]

Thanks, I'm only 4 months into UE4, didn't know that

[glacial dawn]

@robust marten don't worry, as long you're programming the basic things it'll be more and more easy.

[short pasture]

how can i fix this

[grim ore]

delete the engine? color your sky purple? make it rain lava?

what is.... this?

[cedar wave]

@robust marten Completed execution pin is to be used to do things AFTER the loop is ran. Break is used to exit out of a loop early, so you don't keep looping unnecessarily. Loop Body is what code you want to run on each iteration of the loop.

In your example, of course it still runs the completed pin - because there is code afterwards.

[fallow hornet]

Anyone have any good links or guides on Raytracing? Settings/best practices with the Post Process Volume? Mainly focused around automotive.

[sterile tulip]

Hello guys. What is the difference between the .h and the .cpp ?

[grim ore]

3 letters?

honest answer is technically sorta nothing, honester answerer is one is intended to be a header file and the other the code for organization purposes. more technicaly answer is... thats a general C++ question not an unreal one

[maiden sundial]

Hey, i'm still having a very hard time to find a way to avoid any kind of force when two player collide.
This video here should show it pretty good as i think. Hope someone knows a way to avoid it

[granite swift]

I have a question I'm not entirely sure where it fits in.

In the unreal scalability menu you have a couple of options

However when you change the settings via the 'Overall quality' buttons at the top.

It also seems to affect the LOD on models.

And I'm not sure where I manually adjust that like I would shading, texture, shadows etc.

[scenic moon]

i recall there were a site (from unreal) where they had the live stream videos and details of the same video with written code, anyone knows what im talking about?

[grim ore]

@granite swift click the scalability presets and look in the output log, you will see all the changes it makes. You can duplicate that by executing those console commands in your game if you want or adjusting the scalability settings in the .ini files for the project

[granite swift]

Thanks! I freaking love all your tutorials btw.

[random pagoda]

I dont see the 4.26.2 branch on git. when i went to update in command prompt it said my for was already up to date. Could someone point me to it if its available

[glacial dawn]

@maiden sundial be sure the weapons attached have no collision

[granite swift]

Discovered that it was the variable r.SkeletalMeshLODBias

Thanks again.

[maiden sundial]

Oh wow. I just removed basically everything and it seems like that was my problem all the time 🤦‍♀️
Thanks, you saved me a lot of time 🙏

[compact vessel]

hi, is there any 1 to 1 teachers in this discord? sorry if this is in the wrong chat

[maiden sundial]

Usually you should just ask questions if you got any.
But if you really wanna have 1 to 1 teaching it should be a paid thing which could fit in the Job Board category in case that nobody goes for it without payment

[compact vessel]

yeah thats the idea, thanks

[maiden sundial]

@compact vessel Anything specific you wanna learn ?

[compact vessel]

i have virtually 0 experience so not really, basics and essentials really

i know it sounds silly i just learn much better with someone showing me the ropes

[maiden sundial]

There are tons of videos which are covering the pure editor basics on youtube if that's helping you

[compact vessel]

yeah been through a lot of that tbf

[granite swift]

There's also this.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/blueprints-and-gameplay-for-game-designers

[sterile tulip]

When I open a thirdperson c++ project, does everything become a c++ class or is the character a blueprint class

[granite swift]

Nothing just 'becomes' C++ classes, if you create a c++ project the ThirdPersonCharacter controls for example will be in C++

if you created it as a blueprint project the controls will be written using blueprint.

You can always create a BP project and add C++ later.

[sterile tulip]

When I have a c++ project but create the physics asset of the vehicle in blueprints, are the attributes of this physics asset accesable in the c++ or do I need to create the physics asset as a c++ class to make changes in c++ to it

@granite swift

[faint seal]

Hello, anyone using unreal for TV studio ?

[granite swift]

I don't see why they shouldn't be @sterile tulip, but it's a little beyond my experience.

[light wigeon]

Hi

I need some help 🙂

Im trying to create a c++ project

[maiden sundial]

Have you started it via your IDE ?

[light wigeon]

IDE ?

What is IDE 🙂

I dont know 😄

[short pasture]

guys i can make a keyboard settings?

[maiden sundial]

IDE is smth like VS19, Rider for UE and similar @light wigeon

Like the place where you edit your C++ code

[light wigeon]

Im using vs19 yeah

[maiden sundial]

Is it a project you've downloaded from somewhere or have you created an template ?

[light wigeon]

Yes i created it thirdperson

[maiden sundial]

Can you post a pic of the button where you've tried to start it ?

[shadow orchid]

Anyone here who can help me with steamworks in 4.25?

[maiden sundial]

In this case you should open your IDE and press this button here once it's open

[shadow orchid]

• what should the steamv folder be called
• how to show overlay in preview/standalone

[light thunder]

I found this @grim ore https://youtu.be/eV8oL_vMMiA - could I use this to make a key go back to "listening" for an On Released Event? (i'm having a use case where clicking on a seperate window in Windows (spectator control plugin) switches the input stack quickly, (the plugin activates input again, but it triggers an unintentional ReleasedKey event, and thus, it won't hear the actual real release event because as far as the system is going, it doesn't recognize the button being held down -

I'm wondering if there is way to work around

[sterile tulip]

How do you make 1 actor follow another actor (position)

[granite swift]

Sounds like AI

Pretty sure you could learn how to do it from watching this tutorial series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJEvAGiw7w&list=PL4G2bSPE_8ukuajpXPlAE47Yez7EAyKMu

[sterile tulip]

No like just follow the position

[granite swift]

Like literally just stay ontop of

like as if it was attached

[sterile tulip]

The same as having 2 components as 1 actor, but actually as separate actors

if you know what I mean

having it like as if it were 1 actor together, but as separate actors

so they just move together without being 1 actor

[granite swift]

Could work?

[sterile tulip]

Do I put the other object in ,,parent actor,,? And how do I get the reference of the other actor

[short pasture]

what?

[cosmic matrix]

@short pasture ??????

[mortal cedar]

does anyone know what actor clustering is?

Under garbage collection

[sterile tulip]

guys

does anyone know how to fix the collision of the water plugin?

When I walk/drive on it it just floats in the air instead of going into the water

[frosty bloom]

Anyone know why changing in-game language to Arabic would make everything start lagging?

[dense knoll]

how fix

[mortal cedar]

thanks

[plush yew]

Hello! - Im kinda new here so please tell me if im wrong about anything or if i need to give more information

The case is

Im trying to build my project in order to test it and see if ingame stuff actually work, but everytime i say "Launch" this error comes up in the end of the building progress. Can anybody help me? 🙂

someone can help me to make water?

[grim ore]

@plush yew check to see if that file is there first

[plush yew]

Its not.

[fierce tulip]

only thing that looks off is that Ø, that could mess up stuff

[plush yew]

I find it very odd too, I can play in the editor fine but as soon as i try to launch it rejects me

[fierce tulip]

never use weird letterthingies

[grim ore]

you should not be trying to launch

launch is not what you think it is, thats not playing the game

if you want to test it you would package the project

[plush yew]

it gives me the same error tho

[grim ore]

then the next thing might be fixing the character in the project path that it might not like

[plush yew]

Im going to try and tell y'all how it went 🙂

So far so good

Holy crap, it worked thank you so much @grim ore!

[grim ore]

welp Luos had the same answer as well 🙂

[sterile tulip]

you can see in my image I used the water plugin, however the collision is acting weird

[plush yew]

Thank you so much @fierce tulip Also! 🙂

[plush yew]

where is that image?

Is there a help server or do you ask here?

[grim ore]

find the closest #channel to fit your question, or in here if not.

[plush yew]

I'll ask here

I don't know how to create decent water, because I'm new

Use the new water gersher

._.

i need this effect

that white foam

Yes im not an expert in water but the new water gersher plug in has all those options with foam and bubbles waves etc, watch a tutorial a lot of good ones out there

can you pass me any of those good tutorials?

[meager holly]

@grim ore Sorry for tagging you but I just wanted to ask something very specific.
There's a problem in UE4 where if you use saved cached pose, for a non-looping animation the Start Position option doesn't work. Meaning that there's no way to reset the animation unless you loop it which introduces even more problems.

I got this problem recently and when I searched for it, there was a 4 year old thread on the same topic. Would it not be fixed or is that intentional?

[plush yew]

I exported some plant models from c4d as an fbx but when i import them into ue4 the leaf textures alpha doesn't work and its just flat leaves on plants

It goes the same with other models like trees etc.

[grim ore]

what does your material look like?

@meager holly if this was reported on answerhub 4 years ago it would have had a reponse by now such as a bug they intend to fix or working as intended

[rigid belfry]

whats the new update about? 4.26.1

[plush yew]

😦

[grim ore]

@plush yew why not ask the person who did that video what they did?

[plush yew]

Its transparent in c4d but ue4 its filled even though it the material instance it appears to be transparent

[grim ore]

yep so what does your material look like?

[plush yew]

Ill just send an image?

because there are almost no good tutorials, or do you know a page to learn how to make water?

[grim ore]

paste it in here yep otherwise we cant even guess what is wrong? like is your texture bad or your material setup bad or is it in the wrong domain or..

@plush yew what did that have to do with what I said? that video is from UE4 so why not ask them what they did

[plush yew]

this is the ue4

[grim ore]

the material, the actual material. the nodes

the stuff that makes the stuff look like that

[sterile tulip]

@plush yew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9jZbhI3Xg

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

[plush yew]

I just need this white foam effect, nothing more, no video teaches you how to do that

It doe

[plush yew]

THis one

[grim ore]

I dont understand. I literally googled "ue4 water foam" and found 4 video hits.. how are there none?

[plush yew]

Can you tell me in time to teach how to do that?

[grim ore]

just because someone doesnt hold you hand while you do it does not mean they dont exist

[plush yew]

11:12

thanks for your help bros

anytime

so about the texture what did i do wrong?

nothing

not you mate

[grim ore]

@plush yew what does the material look like? the nodes

[plush yew]

one sec

[grim ore]

ok so that is the issue

you have it set to opaque and not transparent

[plush yew]

ye i haven't changed it from importing

[grim ore]

yep it doesnt magically know you want it to be transparent

in the details panel on the left you have to change the domain to translucent

[halcyon flame]

does anyone know if it's possible to manipulate spline handles (tangents) so that they have unequal magnitude?

[grim ore]

sorry, blend mode lol.

masked works as well, either one. then plug your alpha into the opacity or opacity mask

[rancid bramble]

Hey, guys! Just thinking of this and can't figure out how to do it. If I wanted a collision check for a flattened sphere, how would I? Think a sphere scaled 0.5x on it's z axis. If you can help me figure out a way to get something like it for a trace

[plush yew]

Do i do both or can i just change the blend mode?

[grim ore]

then you might consider changing the shading model to two sided foliage

and then enabling two sided checkbox

its one or the other, masked is better on performance if your art is ok with it

[plush yew]

One sec it didnt work ill send a screenshot

wait a second

I think it did

ill check

The textures are weirdly glitched its like its all transparent

[grim ore]

what does the material look like now?

[plush yew]

The front is transparent from the side you look at it so like in the screenshot earlier

the facing side is gone and the back is seen and this changes as you move around

[grim ore]

what does the material look like now

[plush yew]

One second

diffrent angles

[grim ore]

ok so..

[plush yew]

different*

[grim ore]

the material is the material, its this part

usually when someone wants to see the material its the actual stuff that creates it

we dont know what you plugged in where so we dont know what is happening

[plush yew]

I don't have the opacity connected

[grim ore]

yours shouldnt look like mine, we want to know what yours looks like to get that result

[plush yew]

Ok so i send the nodes?

[grim ore]

you did it before, just take a pic and paste it...

[plush yew]

my normal is turned off but idk if that changes anything

[grim ore]

yep... soo thats not any different than before

plug the output of the A on your texture into the opacity node

[plush yew]

Its dim how do you make it visible

like you cant connect it

[grim ore]

its not dim, I see it white

[plush yew]

nvm

[grim ore]

opacity is for translucent, opacity mask is for masked. one will be usable depending on what you chose for the blend mode

[plush yew]

Ok so it sort of worked ill send one sec

Its outlined but the texture glitch stays

[grim ore]

compile and save it then look at it on the mesh

[plush yew]

Ok

[grim ore]

if its still weird, uncheck two sided

[plush yew]

Works thanks!

[grim ore]

now you might want to try it on the masked mode (with it plugged into opacity mask as well) and see if it looks good enough. If it does keep that

[plush yew]

Ok thanks

another question

how do you change randomization of a texture pattern

[grim ore]

might need to show what you mean and want

textures arent random, they are textures.

[plush yew]

One second ill import the texture

Something like this its too unnatural how do you make it so the patterns aren't the same?

[grim ore]

look at using macro and micro texturing

[plush yew]

Its like repeated i changed the U and V offset and tilling to fit the shape but the patter is bad

[grim ore]

its not a one click solution

[plush yew]

I see

[grim ore]

and of course its repeated, its one texture at one size in one direction

[plush yew]

how do you randomize that?

[grim ore]

you dont use one texture at one size in one direction, you use macro and micro texturing

[plush yew]

Im not sure what that

[grim ore]

you can look up texture bombing or texture variable or macro textures or micro textures

https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/landscape-macro-tiling-variation.php

[plush yew]

Ok thanks, im just much better at blender with this stuff so im not very familiar.

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/TerrainAdvancedTextures.html

[plush yew]

Its quite advance im not that good at nodes even idk what 99% of it is

ill try following the tutorial

[south ridge]

You can also get a better effect with better crafted textures

There is no real solution for more than 3 repeats of tiling (more than 3x3 repeats visible) beyond what @grim ore suggested

[thick nebula]

is this possible? The first interface works but when i try to get the camera working it does not blend
https://i.imgur.com/8AtFiUx.png
https://i.imgur.com/zHBPFUY.png
https://i.imgur.com/3jjuNHR.png

[plush yew]

well this is quixel bridge so idk how good it is compared to others

[south ridge]

But for up to ~3 tilings, you can still mostly eliminate perception of tiling by crafting the texture well

Eliminating the patterns that the eye catches on

[south ridge]

This is about crafting the actual tiled texture data

[plush yew]

Ah ok i see

[south ridge]

You need to eliminate patterns that the brain notices. By masking out these patterns, you can attain like 3x tiling without it seeming like there's much tiling. But obviously it requires authoring every texture carefully

Then with micro-macro texturing you can multiply it into e.g. 9x tilings without perception of tiling or more

[south ridge]

I count about 9 repeats here, so if you want to maintain same texturing, you will need to add a detail texture on top

[plush yew]

i was planning also adding vertex painting

[south ridge]

Vertex painting works together with detail textures and such

Vertex painting provides only a very coarse variation - very global changes. You can mix detail texture based on vertex painting to get really good results

Can have multiple detail textures/etc

[plush yew]

If you have two made materials for vertex painting how can you join them together do you copy and pase the nodes and link it with a lerp?

past*

paste*

[south ridge]

Pretty much. Or put them into a material function for convenience

Then you don't need to copy and paste and you can still have them as individual materials

[plush yew]

How is that done wait that can save a lot of time?

[grim ore]

@thick nebula the code is confusing. your talking to the game instance to call some code, but that code is not in the game instance but in the level?

[thick nebula]

i am trying to follow along with the multiplayer tutorial. they have all the menu options in the "steamserverinstance" game instance. the camera is referenced from the level, and i created a blueprint interface to call both the menu and the camera separately. preferably i want to load the whole level at the beginning of the game and work from there, so it kind of makes sense.

[grim ore]

I see you calling the interface event "Show Main Menu" while targeting the game instance yes?

[thick nebula]

this would be the instance of the main menu.

[grim ore]

ok so.... thats calling Show Main Menu while targeting the game instance right?

[thick nebula]

yes it's current instance, i believe

[grim ore]

ok so then in the game instance, in the Show Main Menu event, you are calling the Get Camera Main Menu event while targeting the game instance right?

[thick nebula]

i have "get game instance" again linked up, but i guess i could technically pass it through the interface

[grim ore]

this is you calling Get Camera Main Menu targetting the game instance right?

[thick nebula]

this is the level blueprint

[grim ore]

yep that was the next step in this process, but your jumping ahead

[thick nebula]

that is the steam server instance

[grim ore]

so then jumping ahead your last code is in the level blueprint, not in the game instance, so how are you calling that code?

[thick nebula]

sorry, "SteamGameInstance"

[grim ore]

for this issue it doesnt matter what its called

the issue is your code for the "Get Camera Main Menu" is in your level blueprint, so how are you calling it? all the code you posted is targetting the Game Instance and not the Level Blueprint where this code is

[thick nebula]

i am sort of following you

im not sure if you are asking me a question or that is dramatic pause

[grim ore]

not really a question, pointing out the issue

[thick nebula]

ok, then the answer is i do not know

[grim ore]

your asking your game instance to run code it doesnt know about

[thick nebula]

but yes i see now

[grim ore]

unless I am confused there is no code for "Get Camera Main Menu" in your game instance to run

[thick nebula]

that was supposed to be the interface

[grim ore]

the interface doesnt have code, its a conduit between two things basically

in this case between the thing calling the event and the thing holding the event, your widget and your game instance

[thick nebula]

so i was trying to put that in between

[prime willow]

@grim ore I've decided ill deal with cheaters and all of that mess when it comes i want to make my game offline with the ability to play online i know save editting is garenteed due to it being offline but ill figure something out

i guess so my question is if my game will be offline but have online lobbies of the same playable maps or area which would be considered like a base or main town hub that players can play on would i still follow the same tutorials about basic multiplayer replications or would i need to make some type differences in the settings for when connecting online to play or offline

im not asking for a tutorials or how but the terms i might want to search

so i can go figure it out and burden you less than need be x3

[grim ore]

@prime willow maybe look for a lobby system? but honestly its going to matter how you want stuff set up, what stuff is "online" and shared, and what is not, and then what the online stuff is actually doing

[prime willow]

ah

so lobby system is important

[grim ore]

so like if you wanted the exact same game but drop in online and offline, would be it be dedicated servers or is a player a host

[prime willow]

and than picking whats replicated and whats not

i would prefer deticated servers for lobbies

as i want the town to fill up with a ton of players

i know hosting might be a terrible idea for that

[grim ore]

if its just community for example and nothing that interacts with the offline component then it should be pretty easy, you just make a virtual space for them to play in and duplicate their "looks" when they go online

[prime willow]

well i want something like monster hunter world

forr example

where your completely offline

but can go online and everything is the same

[grim ore]

I want to say monster hunter is a listen server setup for example

[prime willow]

but your now with players

[thick nebula]

this can not be done with dedicated

[grim ore]

and monster hunter you cant interact with other players directly

[prime willow]

yeah my game has pvp

so definitely going to need direct interactions lol

[grim ore]

your basically going to just have to have the same game running local and multiplayer in the end then

[prime willow]

but i mean the idea behind how mh world works where its just play offline or connect to a opened lobby or private one and play online

[thick nebula]

you want to make a party system before you join a dedicated server?

[prime willow]

so id have to setup the game entirely locally

and than run a backend version for multiplayer when they connect online right?

[grim ore]

its gonna be a big challenge

[prime willow]

definitely will be

i know so with my stupid scope but im willing to put in the work if its possible

i just gotta figure out what im doing lol

[grim ore]

honestly try and find something online where a similar game explains their server setup, or just harass #multiplayer lol

theres like no way to just figure it out 😦

[thick nebula]

are you using bps only?

[grim ore]

well there is... if you have a decade or two

[prime willow]

woah we have a multiplayer tab

[winged notch]

How to i fix this tessellation glitch ?
#graphics message

[prime willow]

i know dragon ball xenoverse 2 does exactly what im looking for

but that game uses a hub world and loaded in and out missions its not an open world per say

[grim ore]

that last part is the important distinction

[prime willow]

yup thats exactly what i thought too

[grim ore]

and do they allow player trading

[prime willow]

that the hub aspect makes it easy

no trading ingame

[cedar wave]

Harassing #multiplayer is my preferred approach currently

[prime willow]

you have to earn everything yourself

[grim ore]

most games like this with hub stuff doesnt allow player trading

[prime willow]

due to duplications?

oh wait

you can trade in xenoverse iirc but its nothing of real value

[grim ore]

makes it easier to manage stuff on the development side

and less cheating

[prime willow]

i see

[thick nebula]

less scams

[grim ore]

save game locally with awesome item, go online and give item to friend, delete old save game and reload the one with the awesome item, repeat

[prime willow]

so doing something like monster hunter world and or xenoverse is more feasiable due to its offline structure

[cedar wave]

1. Read docs/blogs/pdfs
2. Attempt to implement
3. Try multiple approaches
4. Question existence
5. Ask #multiplayer

☝️ my personal workflow

[prime willow]

i know sword art online games do it too

i will steal that work flow as soon as this conversation is done lol

my real issue is trying to find the right terms for what i want to implement in my game o.e

[sterile tulip]

Hello guys. What is new in 4.26.2?

[prime willow]

somehow im too stupid to figure it out soon enough

[grim ore]

you sound like you have it right and comparing it to other games is a good start

[cedar wave]

Just explain the best you can, even reference other games, and someone will probably be able to help. Then also tell you the term.

[winged notch]

water

[prime willow]

yesh i like to reference older games to just have an idea of what im doing or what its called

[grim ore]

I think a hub tends to be what is used for alot of this, guildwars 1 is similar to this

[prime willow]

some things are a bit harder to figure out though o.e

[grim ore]

hub based MMO tends to be a term thrown around if its all online

[thick nebula]

@grim ore how do i call the level blueprint to the game instance blueprint without an interface?

[prime willow]

yup yup

[grim ore]

@thick nebula you can never call the level blueprint, even with an interface

[prime willow]

but i want my game to be pretty opened up like botw or new genesis phantasy star online 2

[thick nebula]

lol i keep replying to the wrong messages

sorry guys

[prime willow]

ok

so

lobby systems

and figuring out whats replicated and whats not

[thick nebula]

so then how do i access that damn camera

[prime willow]

and deticated servers more than likely due to pvp

[grim ore]

pretty much. some games like that basically just start up a server locally and connect to it at all times

it just makes it easier

[prime willow]

ah

[grim ore]

so then multiplayer is just redirecting your connection to another connection instead of local

[prime willow]

so i can run them back to back incase ya wanna connect online

interesting

[grim ore]

@thick nebula you need to get a reference to it somehow using normal blueprint communication. if its the only one in the world, get actor of class works. If its not, you can try and find it using a tag. You could always put the camera in another blueprint and have that blueprint handle the workload. You could have that camera as part of a blueprint tell the game instance or whatever is handling this stuff about itself.

[prime willow]

alright thanksies ill get back to work

appreciated dearly mathew ❤️

[thick nebula]

can i just put the camera in the game instance blueprint? or do i have to make a whole new controller/character?

the latter was what i was trying to avoid, maintain a single topdowncontroller

[grim ore]

the game instance doesnt exist at design time so no you cannot

what are you trying to do here?

[thick nebula]

just make a menu with a background of the level.. kind of like overwatch. i assume they have separate levels for menus.. but i would like to just load one level

[grim ore]

if your just trying to make the camera in the level be the active camera, set it up to do that

[thick nebula]

as i said, i'm just following along with the tutorial, which uses the instance blueprint for the menus, but also experimenting. i learn a lot like that but its sloppy

ah ok i will try that...

[grim ore]

there is probably a reason it does things a certain way, the level blueprint is a hole that eats code alive and should be avoided if possible

[willow wyvern]

I've come across an odd issue - the asterisks that appears indicating an assets needs to be saves, appears immediately upon loading the map, and will not go away regardless of saving method. It appears to save everything when I close the project and save via that dialogue box, but still a bit unnerving. Any thoughts, or anyone else who has encountered this before?

[grim ore]

any construction scripts running that might get triggered? have the project open more than once?

[willow wyvern]

I closed the project completely, and opened just that map. I will double check the level blueprint. I did have some code there that referenced an object that I beleive my partner nuked when he changed up the map.

[thick nebula]

wowwwwwww ty that was much faster than trying to completely learn interfaces but thank you

once again, that reply has nothing to do with original statement, my bad

[stiff sail]

so i have 2 questions atm.

1. how do i overwrite the "esc" key force quiting the game?
2. why does my right click menus stop working after 30ish minutes?

[thick nebula]

there was an update today.. i do not know if it addressed it but it seemed to update some things with nvida drivers. are you on nvidia? i have the same issue with the disappearing menus.

[stiff sail]

aye yeah nividia. is it a driver update or unreal update?

[thick nebula]

unreal update

prob both to be honest

[nova kernel]

anyone recommend good AAA Quality or items that can be amped up Vehicles? Ones that can be used as props as well as setup to be driveable?

Also, anyone have any good recommendations for good Characters? or a program/software to create good ones?

[twilit hill]

does anyone know if theres a limit or common problems with migrating a huge amount of assets from one project to another?
i basically plan to ready up my project so that i can export it to an ue5 project in the future, which i of course need to prepare with all the plugins i currently use etc.

other than that, its a bit of a stalemate rn cause big topics such as migration, plugin compatibility, render differences etc. are unknown

[grim ore]

nothing ever indicated that UE5 projects would be "different" than UE4, they said you should be able to open ue4 in ue5. I would just make a copy of the project and open it in 5 when the time comes

[twilit hill]

they said that? thats good news

i wasnt keeping track in detail, thanks for the info!

[grim ore]

"We’re designing for forward compatibility, so you can get started with next-gen development now in UE4 and move your projects to UE5 when ready. "

[twilit hill]

so basically just continue and then eventually open this project in ue5, confirm all possible migration prompts and hope that it wont burst half the stuff

oh yeah, plugins may still be a problem tho

[grim ore]

I guess move is open for debate, i assumed just opening them in 5

yeah engine plugins might be an issue

I would think project ones not as much

but yeah we really dont know for sure, we have no idea how much of the base code will change

[twilit hill]

i was away for a couple months now, ue5 have that new mesh culling thingy right off the bat?

[grim ore]

nanite? the infinite detail? I beleive so. it was presented as such atleast lol

[twilit hill]

i can imagine there might be an answer to that in one of countless videos

ah ok

cause thats kinda the biggest deal

[grim ore]

i mean a presentation and reality.... are never the same heh

plus its just preview coming soon, maybe in a year on final release it might be all neato

[twilit hill]

oh yeah my stuff is all hyper optimized anyway, but i could expand on some territories if mesh detail wouldnt matter that much anymore

kinda to keep it in mind if i continue atm

[grim ore]

well I assume it will matter somewhat, somehow they still have the handle the data and there has to be some limit

or atleast a bottleneck

[twilit hill]

mh a year?

wasnt it supposed to be first half of 2021

[grim ore]

for preview

release supposed to be end of the year

[twilit hill]

ah ok, i remember that wrong then

anyway thanks for the info, would have taken me way longer to find those

if even

[grim ore]

yep preview soon, update to fornite afterwords, then release later this year

[twilit hill]

ah i got another super question, pardon me, im a bit out of touch with the latest news, but is the DX12 RHI currently implemented production ready or wouldnt you use that one for ongoing development?

i noticed massive differences in renders by comparing d11/12

[grim ore]

i would assume it is, nothing seems to indicate otherwise

fortnite has Raytracing now which is DX12 so thats a good enough indication to me

[twilit hill]

ah good to know

i did some performance tests as well, they are basically the same

so why not rolling with the more recent one, even if its just a wrapper mostly

[plush yew]

Hi, would anyone happen to know why my HighResScreenshot contains way less reflections in the water than in my viewport ? And the overall look of the water is worse

It's strange isn't it ? All the settings are on "Cinematic", Ray tracing is on... But the high res screenshot looks really bad compared to the editor :/

[nova kernel]

I keep seeing this truck in UE4 games and other games, anyone know where it comes from?

[chrome crest]

Does anyone know if UE4 supports sixaxis/accelerometer input from a ps4 or ps5 controller?

[fierce tulip]

it should

@left terrace #work-in-progress or #released

[left terrace]

shit my bad

[fierce tulip]

np

[willow wyvern]

The asterisks that appears indicating an asset needs to be saved, appears on a map immediately upon loading, and will not go away regardless of saving method. It appears to save everything when I close the project and save via that dialogue box, but still a bit unnerving. Any thoughts, or anyone else who has encountered this before?

[stone bay]

Is it possible to use the chaos destruction system on a character?

[rustic panther]

how do you convert delta time to frame rate?

[scenic moon]

1/dt

[kind dew]

Someone zipped up their project for me and I am getting this crash when I try to launch it:

"Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/RenderCore/Private/ShaderParameterStruct.cpp] [Line: 285] Shader FHairCardAtlasTextureRectVS, permutation 0 has unbound parameters not represented in the parameter struct: Tile_Coord Tile_Resolution"

[stiff sail]

damn bug where my right click disappears is back. ue4.26.2 and GeForce drive 465.86
this is getting really annoying.

[jaunty haven]

Hey guys I am having a wierd issue with lighting,
all of my roof is black and spoty, this issue came 1 month back, previously thought my lighting is not built or something.
but now i cant even fix this.
I am using 4.25.4 oculus source Engine

[light thunder]

How do I execute console commands via launch shortcuts? like on a packaged build exe

[light thunder]

maybe the lightmap uv index is set to a different channel?

[jaunty haven]

@light thunder actually it worked with 4.25.3 but not with 4.25.4

[idle stump]

Is there a better way to disable character movement other than just not adding input? I tried CharacterMovementComponent->DisableMovement() however this freezes you in midair. I don't want to stop the character from falling/being moved. I just want it to ignore any movement from AddMovementInput(). I can just add a boolean which I check before adding the move input but I figured there was probably already a built in way - I just can't find it.

[grim ore]

try using the disable input node

[idle stump]

I'm using C++. But i did see that which put me on the right track. I think that functionality actually comes from Pawn, not Movement Component.

[grim ore]

the player controller actually

it removes the actor from the input stack on that controller

[idle stump]

Right

[spare kernel]

what i do is when a GameplayTag is added that prohibits movement, i just disable the movement inside the controller

if the tag also stops movement, i call CMC->StopMovementImmediately

     * Locks or unlocks movement input, consecutive calls stack up and require the same amount of calls to undo, or can all be undone using ResetIgnoreMoveInput.
     * @param bNewMoveInput    If true, move input is ignored. If false, input is not ignored.
     */
    UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category=Input)
    virtual void SetIgnoreMoveInput(bool bNewMoveInput);``` is a good function

@idle stump

this gets blocked in void APawn::Internal_AddMovementInput(FVector WorldAccel, bool bForce /*=false*/) { if (bForce || !IsMoveInputIgnored()) { ControlInputVector += WorldAccel; } }

[cedar wave]

@grim ore Man - I hate you. I was watching one of your videos and then saw another one that I was curious about, then another one, etc... for about an hour and a half. I was supposed to be working on my project 😛

Just too good of videos

[grim ore]

lol 🙂 well the good thing is eventually you will run out of them and have to get back to work

[idle stump]

@spare kernel Thank you. Currently I have my AbilitySystemComponent on my Character but I'm realizing it should probably be somewhere else. Do you keep yours on the Controller or the PlayerState? My game is not multiplayer - although I would like to do a different multiplayer game in the future.

[spare kernel]

Playerstate

But character is fine

Setpaw in your controller can bind the tag to disable or enable move input.

Setpawn

What I did :p

[idle stump]

@spare kernel So, override SetPawn in your controller and do what in there?

[spare kernel]

It the asc and bind the tag that should disable movement

Get

Then if tag is added or removed call setignitemoveinput as required sorry on mobile

[idle stump]

Like this, right: AbilitySystemComponent->RegisterGameplayTagEvent(FGameplayTag::RequestGameplayTag(FName("State.Debuff.Stun")), EGameplayTagEventType::NewOrRemoved).AddUObject(this, &AGDPlayerState::StunTagChanged);

(taken from tranek/GASDocumentation)

So are you saying you bind a GameplayTagEvent directly to SetIgnoreMoveInput somehow? Or you have some handler in your controller that does the logic in between?

@spare kernel

[spare kernel]

I have a function that calls it

I don't bind to specific tag I listen for all as I do other stuff

[grim beacon]

Can someone send me an engine material screenshot? I've played with it in the past and I want to see how it originally was

It's the default sprite material

[tawdry valve]

Can anyone share me a tutorial for sword collisions or impact, so on impact I can create sparks

[jaunty haven]

is there something wrong with Unreal engine Lighting with 4.25.4 ?

[spare kernel]

Not that I have noticed what's the issue

[grim beacon]

@granite creek Thank you!

[plush yew]

I'm a little rusty sicne its been a few months but I'm having a problem. Make a character. change NOTHING from default. disable gravity on the capsule. thing still falls. google is not helping. I've done this multiple times before what am I missing

had to set gravity scale to 0

but gravity wasn't enabled to begin with?

[sterile tulip]

I am trying to attach an actor to the possessed vehicle. How do I get the reference of the vehicle which gets possessed at start play? This is in the actors blueprint (self is the actor and in the parent the vehicle reference needs to go to attach it to the vehicle)

[granite creek]

is your game offline ? if its override event posses from panel in the left

[sterile tulip]

Its multiplayer project

also Im a beginner

[granite creek]

event posses is only called in server

what is actor that you are trying to attach?

[sterile tulip]

is just a door

which will get attached to the vehicle

[granite creek]

so why attach it in begin play?

[sterile tulip]

Why not ?

[granite creek]

I'm sorry why attach it in on posses ?

[sterile tulip]

I need it to be attached to the vehicle from the moment it begins to play

[granite creek]

okay then on posses part is not necessary

I suggest that vehicle spawns door actor in beginplay then attaches it to mesh

[sterile tulip]

I dont know about posses or anything, I just have created the vehicle project template in the templates and it automatically possseses the vehicle at start

[sterile tulip]

yes thats what Im trying to do

on begin play attach the actor to the mesh

[granite creek]

on begin play of "vehicle " Spawn a "Door" then attach it to "Mesh"

[sleek solar]

why not just add door as component?

[sterile tulip]

I need it to be a separate actor for functionality reasons

[sleek solar]

it can be a component...

there is no point in making door as another actor

[jaunty haven]

@spare kernel using Oculus 4.24.4 branch, HLOD output texture is pink. Lighting has no indirect lighting from skylight

[restive eagle]

@spare kernel check the #freelance-jobs someone posted for unity 😦

not sure if thats allowed, curious to see 😄

[dire parcel]

this error message, how can i fix this?

[restive eagle]

you cant downgrade a project to an older version

only upgrade to a newer one

someone already told you that in another discord....

[dire parcel]

no they told me to download the newer version to make it work

i got in vc and asked him

[restive eagle]

he says that its not backwards compatible with older versions

[dire parcel]

and he said thats how i fix it and then he said he doesn't know than so i came here for help

[restive eagle]

thats why he told you to get a newer version

he's right though

[dire parcel]

alright thank you

[restive eagle]

use the same version that the project was built on

or a newer one

and you'll be fine

[dire parcel]

alright i appreciate it thank you bro

[restive eagle]

no worries

even the error says the same thing

[dire parcel]

i could have sworn the guy i was wroking with was on 4.26

thats the thing but i will double check with him

[restive eagle]

you are getting this error using 4.26?

[dire parcel]

yes i just downloaded it and it gave me that message

let me fully close it and reset it and try again

[restive eagle]

would be really weird if you are getting this with 26

other than that you could try rebuilding it from source, but still same rule applies that you can't use older versions than the projects version

to change project version, right click on .uproject file and switch engine version

[drowsy snow]

PROTIP: If you want to package/cook your UE4 game without active connection all the time, disabling Usage Data collection before building can help.

For some reason, having usage data logging on prevents the build process from going further in offline mode.

[drowsy snow]

There's also one in #volunteer-projects

[restive eagle]

yeah its a bit weird to look for unity devs in a ue discord

[wintry ravine]

Hey, does anyone know how I can get particle system beam with a fresnel effect almost

something like this

[drowsy snow]

Unless you're picky about having 3D cylindrical beam particle, using 2D texture for the beam particle don't hurt.

In case of the former, just divide your emission input with a fresnel node.

[timid spade]

im using ccdik to bind an arm to my weapon

and all of a sudden it started lagging behind severely

[wintry ravine]

Thanks for the reply, I've been thinking about just opting for the latter. Ill give it a shot, thanks again!

[plush yew]

Good Morning, I am in search of a Maya Curve to UE Spline Script, is there any chance anybody could help me with a hint? I am researching since last week and not really found what I was looking for. Thanks in advance!

[rose sun]

Hello everyone, is there a channel where I can ask for help regarding a project in working with In Unreal? I'm struggling to find a solution so I thought I'd ask, thanks in advance!

[earnest violet]

Anyone know how I get the UE movie logo at the start of my game, where I set set it. Is it in the project settings? Thx! 🙂

[harsh pebble]

Can anyone send me server invite where i can find help with UE4 🙂 Thank You

other than this xD

[rigid belfry]

i traced some boxes inside the construction script which were set to persistent draw time, now they are not disappearing no matter what i try. is there a way to remove them which doesnt involve closing down the engine?

[modest trench]

I found this:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Rendering/Debug/FlushPersistentDebugLines/index.html

[rigid belfry]

neat, it worked

wonder if theres a console command for that too 🤔

[modest trench]

if there is I can't find it

would be simple to set up a console thingy I suppose

can you make custom cvars/console commands in BP? I wonder

that would be neat

oh... it's literally FlushPersistentDebugLines

in World.cpp

[rigid belfry]

is the box extent the same as the unit's scale?

i need to see which instances are colliding and removing them. anybody has a clue?

[vagrant hornet]

will ue5 be out before summer?

[restive eagle]

Unreal Engine 5 was revealed on May 13, 2020 with expected full launch in late-2021

thats all we know

i wouldnt be surprised if they decide to delay it a bit more

[short pasture]

guys how can i to back to my map

[restive eagle]

click on object and "F"

[grim juniper]

either set the camera to move fast in the top right, or select an object in the outliner and hit f

[short pasture]

where the object

[restive eagle]

in world outliner like fox said

[short pasture]

i click on it i try click f it not work

[restive eagle]

anything else but that......

[short pasture]

ok i am to try anything ok

[restive eagle]

thats how you got here in the first place

by selecting sky sphere and clicking F, thats why nothing happens

[grim juniper]

Hitting F will focus the camera on the object that's selected. Doing it with the skysphere selected moves the camera really far out to get the whole skysphere into view.

[livid timber]

guys, may i ask if i can acess meta human creator tool? or is still a wip?

[vagrant hornet]

i dont think so no

[mild phoenix]

I think not yet

[restive eagle]

only few demo characters but without the creation tool

@livid timber hi btw 🙂

[livid timber]

oh!

frutis!

long time no see bud, hope you doing well 😄

[restive eagle]

yeah its been a while, doing pretty good. doing some work on the project if you saw my server but lets cut it short since its not the place to discuss it further 😄

[mild phoenix]

Hey @everyone Who can help I have an error when I packaging my project
ERROR: Failed to create directory 'E:\Unreal Engine Source\Android_Multi
I reinstall engine but it didnt help
Although rebuild my project

[deft raven]

Guys I was thinking, how Red dead redemption 2 has this insane draw distance?

I think if someone make this in unreal engine you need the nasa to run the scene

[short pasture]

hmmm

[fierce tulip]

@deft raven just proper lod-ing, culling, and some other tricks

[hexed eagle]

If I have an inventory, that has a TArray for a list of weapons the player has, should I use

TArray<class AWeaponBase*>
or
TArray<TSubclassOf<AWeaponBase>>
i'm guessing... the first
then when I run over a pickup which has TSubclassOf property, I cast that to AWeaponBase, and add it to the array if it's not already in there
right?

[astral phoenix]

Hey, im wondering if some1 can help me? im trying to do so when i have 3 blue balls i can get a Yellow ball, but the yellow ball destroy the 3 blue balls i allready have, so im left with 1 Yellow ball, but the only way i can get a new Yellow ball is to get 3 new Blue balls, how do i do that? 🙂

[deft raven]

Nahhh, have his limit, I think is not doable have the same result on unreal engine

Rockstar engine is crazy powerful

[fierce tulip]

lol, okay

[deft raven]

“Lol” if you reply with such a basic answer, at least gave a example for your reply

I say you can’t reach rdr2 quality, if you say “not true” make me a example

I can’t find any

[deft raven]

Lol

[fierce tulip]

its not worth my time to argue such things.

[deft raven]

-I can’t prove nothing, I translate to you 🙂

[fierce tulip]

lol, okay

[deft raven]

That’s it, btw why you continue reply? Lol

[next badger]

Irony...

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: CR#4930 was banned.

[deft raven]

Any news about metahuman release date?

[kindred viper]

@deft raven early access opens tomorrow from what I hear on the rumour mill.

[next badger]

Was that image crashing the Discord?

[fierce tulip]

i dont get it, user has been active on slackers for a while and then proceeds to do this. why would a moron do that?

[dense knoll]

Someone else got into there ac?

[deft raven]

Wow, that’s awesome if true, btw I don’t think we need to wait to much at this point

[kindred viper]

bear in mind, it might be the case that not everyone gets early access. It would be better for Epic to cherry pick I guess. Get some real feedback instead of people doing things wrong and complaining they are bugs.

[dense knoll]

Why does the Asset pack "Medival Docks" Like breaking/corupting when upgrading engines?

[kindred viper]

depends on how much the versions change I guess.

[dense knoll]

its a good thing that only that and some unused actor got courupted when i upgraded

[deft raven]

Yeah probably, happy to see reallusion panic hahaha

[short pasture]

why it not working i trying to put my car 3d model to my unreal engine game

[astral phoenix]

Hey, im wondering if some1 can help me? im trying to do so when i have 3 blue balls i can get a Yellow ball, but the yellow ball destroy the 3 blue balls i allready have, so im left with 1 Yellow ball, but the only way i can get a new Yellow ball is to get 3 new Blue balls, how do i do that? 🙂

[short pasture]

it is easy to create 3 new blue balls

[timid pilot]

Who get access ? Everyone ?

[kindred viper]

dont know yet

[short pasture]

hmmmm any one can help

[astral phoenix]

@short pasture i allready have made so i can get 3 blue balls, but my problem is when im trying to get a Yellow ball the 3 blue balls dont go away :/

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: mrprogames#0602 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[astral phoenix]

damn thats not good, fell bad for u @short pasture

[timid pilot]

Certainly Epic 's customer

[kindred viper]

we are all Epic's customers. But I guess those with a different license might get some favourable attention. However that reels back to what I said earlier about useful feedback. If someone is a partner via license, it makes more sense for them to get it first as they are more likely to be using it rather than the average joe who just wants an autocharacter with no fuss. Metahumans require a LOT of fuss.

[spare kernel]

@elder escarp you asked in #animation already, i would just wait and give it some more time. Try to keep the discussion to a single channel. If you do decide to change it to a more suitable channel then remove your original message if there is no ongoing discussion. #rules 7.

[scarlet birch]

Everything I've seen says access is being given to a selected group of users on 4/15. I filled out the form I found to try and get in but didn't get a response and TBH I wouldn't be my own first choice if I was the one deciding who to give access to.

[scarlet birch]

Your statement is incorrect.

[spare kernel]

UE4 is super powerful, and just like any game engine, its how things are optimized and done.

[elder escarp]

@spare kernel Sure, I deleted both, I can ask later. Sorry about that.

[spare kernel]

i mean you could have just left the question in #animation someone may answer when they come online

[elder escarp]

I rarely get answered about plugins in #animation so I thought this channel could be better

I'm using Blender and UE4 with the Send To Unreal plugin. How can I have a root bone to create root motion using this plugin? Here is what I have tried:

• Created an Armature (named Armature) with no bone named root. Checked "object name as root bone" in the plugin settings.
• Created an Armature (named Armature) with a root bone (named root). Checked "object name as root bone" in the plugin settings. But now even if I animate the root bone, unreal doesn't recognise it as root.

[scarlet birch]

The Armature root itself tends to get treated as a root bone in some setups. It's a common problem and any web search should find you a solution quickly.

[deft raven]

???

[next badger]

"not doable" statement is incorrect

[short pasture]

wow my car 3d model have so much things

[deft raven]

Understood thanks, btw what the sense to correct every grammar error on discord, I mean a lot of people like me is not native English, really need to point out every error? Meh grammar nazi 🤷‍♂️😂

[scarlet birch]

No one is talking about grammar. The assertion you made is wrong.

[deft raven]

And? I not English so? You talk every language of the world? 🙃

[spare kernel]

@deft raven no one pointed out about "your grammar" or your "English".

it was your assumption that UE4 is not as powerful as Rockstar Engine and can not do what it can do.

[deft raven]

I misunderstood, I don’t understand what is wrong

Ahhhhhh ok

Well look like a fAct for me, in this field at least

[scarlet birch]

Ok, then on what basis is that supported?

[deft raven]

From what I see, the best open world on unreal engine I think is the project “boy and his kite” is huge

[kindred viper]

naah my open world is the best. Its infinite

😄

well infinite upto 64bit. But dont hold it against me

[deft raven]

Pretty god, but rdr2 is“stupid” , the draw distance is amazing, and I don’t find nothing like this on UE4

[scarlet birch]

I suggest that maybe it's that you don't have sufficient knowledge of how things are done in UE to make the conclusion you're trying to assert.

[deft raven]

UE4 look easy photorealistic especially with megascan, but very heavy performance

[deft raven]

How I say, I watch the work from pro, for sure I don’t try personally to make a map like rdr2

How I say even from the demo of this guys who has pro, I don’t think UE reach rdr2

Especially for draw distance

If you can make me a example, I’m very happy to see some work

[kindred viper]

its compering apples and oranges sir. One engine is dedicated to open world. One is a general engine that covers more.

[scarlet birch]

The assertion is yours, so to the burden of proof.

[deft raven]

I mean rdr2 is a game you can play, more than a proof

[kindred viper]

There is nothing in RDR2 that I have seen that cannot be done in Unreal.

[deft raven]

If you can link me a video of UE with a big map with the density of rdr2

I talk about draw distance

Not that you can’t make a landscape

[scarlet birch]

Best of luck to you. I don't see the benefit of continuing this.

[deft raven]

I wait for the UE comparizione whenever you want 👋🏻

[scarlet birch]

#ue4-general message

[kindred viper]

draw distance doesn't mean anything. Unreal can draw to it's world bounds if it wants. But you don't want that. You want optimisation and imposters setup to LOD the distance out. RDR2 isn't special in that department. It just had 500million worth of art and dev cost on it.

[deft raven]

Meh every project on unreal is very hard on performance, even with 1000 people I don’t think you can achieve the same on UE at the same performance

With UE5 maybe change

[elder escarp]

It is a common problem that I have solved multiple times. However, things are different with the Send To Unreal plugin, as it is the plugin that controls how the rig is exported and imported into unreal. Please don't make assumptions about the problem unless its constructive.

[kindred viper]

@deft raven I don't disagree that Unreal performance can be bad, but its not the engine at fault, its the people developing with it. I bet you 90% of projects on this earth don't have a trimmed down engine build. Nor do they optimise properly.

[deft raven]

Possible, for sure rockstar team is something that’s no game or project on unreal have, for sure

[fierce tulip]

if only there was a list of open world ue4 games

[kindred viper]

they also use Scaleform for UI though.... so they do have some performance suckers. Because scaleform sucks compered to UMG

[deft raven]

Nothing close to rdr2 for what I see 🙂

[digital anchor]

didnt someone at epic make a real size planet? im pretty sure thats bigger than rdr2 distance lol

[fierce tulip]

lol, okay

[kindred viper]

thats certainly possible Takain, especially now with Cesium plugin

[deft raven]

Ahahah yep big boy, but is very different

[deft raven]

Link me someone master

[digital anchor]

lol, okay

[scarlet birch]

@elder escarp The plugin is just a script that handles the export and import. The root problem and issue is the same. Are you using rigify?

[deft raven]

Rdr2 map is full of meshes of vegetation, trees, animals, the planet look awesome but was very basic, obviously

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Denny#2812 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[spare kernel]

The thing is @deft raven you are just making assumptions without hard proof or facts. You also have the full engine source code, so you can improve the rendering pipeline yourself if needed. UE4 is super powerful, that is why it powers a LOT of games, like Fortnite, Hell blade, Borderlands 3, etc.

[elder escarp]

Its a simple low-poly spider that I have rigged myself. Usually, if I name the Armature object as "Armature" and name the first bone as "root", then that bone becomes root in Unreal and allows for root motion. But if I'm using the plugin, this approach doesn't work.

[next badger]

Should we discuss all engines here? Decima is really nice one. Horizon had huge open spaces, and seamless world navigation.

[restive eagle]

since hes so obsessed with examples, i would ask for a similar game like rdr2(despite the engine) and nothing comes to my mind

[next badger]

already mentioned one above

[restive eagle]

horizon doesnt have mp

which definitely contributes towards performance

i can only think of gta5 but thats not a fair comparison

[scarlet birch]

@elder escarp You can try using the Armature as the root bone. I'm not sure the plugin was written with what you're doing in mind. There are other plugins and scripts out there that are more widely used for moving rigged models from Blender to UE.

[next badger]

Horizon Zero had multiplayer. It was not released however.

[scarlet birch]

You can also just do a standard export to FBX and then import the model to UE.

[restive eagle]

i'm with you guys btw, just was reading this and laughing a bit 😄

[misty vessel]

Snowrunner has a nice dense open world with a lot of terrain deformation as well. UE4 game

[fierce tulip]

days gone, ethan carter, fortnite, stalker, everwild, absolver, infinitisimals, vampyr, obduction, arkham city, Bro's in arms, we happy vew, dragon quest, tales of arise, and i could go on and on and on and on

[spare kernel]

@plush yew Discussion is healthy sometimes tho, but there is a limit.

[restive eagle]

he would still argue that all these games are nothing like rdr2

[fierce tulip]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

"lol, okay"

[restive eagle]

its mkay

[spare kernel]

One thing people fail to realize is proprietary engines are built for the type of game that is being created. UE4 is an engine that can support different types of games.

look at call of duty using IW engine (based on ID Tech), its great for FPS, but will suck for other games.

[misty vessel]

This causes Unreal to have all sorts of overhead those other engines don't have, and ties into the point Marc made about stripping your build to optimise your project.

Not meant as a negative point for Unreal, just meant as a point to keep in mind when developing.

[deft raven]

Exactly what I was saying but people hate me

[elder escarp]

Really! Could you suggest a few? I had the impression this is the best one out there. I hate doing the standard export/import because there is always an issue with something.

[scarlet birch]

I use auto rig pro mostly

[elder escarp]

If I use the Armature as the root bone, how would I "animate" the Armature?

[deft raven]

Rockstar produce open world for years, the engine obviously is perfect for open world

[scarlet birch]

It has an option to export a model rigged with UE Mannequin bones and rotations.

@deft raven Unless you can provide an argument supported by facts on how the engines work and their rendering works perhaps you should move on. "I feel ...., " " It seems like..., " these things are not useful.

[deft raven]

I can’t use the rockstar engine 😂

[restive eagle]

wasnt your point that unreal is not capable of making something similar?

just because there isnt a clone of rdr2 doesnt mean it cant be done

[deft raven]

The only proof I can provide

[deft raven]

Only talking about landscape and draw distance, not gameplay or other

Btw i love unreal, is a godsend

I don’t know why you act like angry fanboy, only because I think that something “better” can exist

[restive eagle]

because you kept on demanding proof

[deft raven]

I was curious if someone made something similar, is that bad?

Sorry to be curious

[scarlet birch]

You continue to devolve to insults. There's an inevitable conclusion to the conversation. I'd move on.

[deft raven]

Insults? Who,
? Where?

[spare kernel]

@deft raven if unreal engine is not suitable for your game, find an alternative, or modify the engine to suit your needs.

[deft raven]

Unreal is perfect to me

Only curious about his limits

[spare kernel]

so what is this discussion about then?

there is no limits.

[deft raven]

How I say I was curious if some project exist

But only start hating on me

[restive eagle]

when your hardware catches fire, thats the limit

[deft raven]

Understandable

Unreal is the best sorry guys

Peace

[scarlet birch]

@elder escarp Sorry, my knowledge is a bit limited. I tend to use Auto-rig pro for rigs in Blender. I would recommend just exporting the model and importing to UE without the script for now, unless you want to look at other plugins.

[elder escarp]

Thank you very much. I will check out Auto-rig pro!

[grim ore]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman-creator

[deft raven]

WHATTTT

Best toy is here 🤯

Wher come from your profile pic?

[drowsy snow]

Not to the scale of Rockstar, that's for sure.
Besides, sometimes smaller open world can mean more substance in the world.

[deft raven]

i agree

[drowsy snow]

Oh snap

I gotta make a photorealistic human version of my waifu (Makoto Kikuchi)

[deft raven]

i can't

[dense knoll]

SIgnup forum broken

[fierce tulip]

they are on it

[deft raven]

same, maybe to many people?

[dense knoll]

Most likely

[drowsy snow]

Dang, I thought it was my VPN screwing the form up

[grim ore]

@plush yew https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/RootMotion/index.html

[dense knoll]

Im guessing theres like 50+ people per seccond signing it

[deft raven]

probably lmao ahahahha

[next badger]

DDOS!

[wary ferry]

am i the only one having issues with the metahuman creator access application form?

[deft raven]

@plush yew wow you are like 8 years old right? what a kid hahahaahha

[drowsy snow]

No shaming in the hall plz

[wary ferry]

yeah wtf Oo

[deft raven]

sorry, but he say to contact in dm

and the blocked me hahahaha

very mature

[wary ferry]

doesnt matter now tell me

[drowsy snow]

<@&213101288538374145>

[wary ferry]

if you also have issues applying for metahuman xD

[deft raven]

bruh

[wary ferry]

denny you should stop 🙂

[fierce tulip]

im rather done with all this

[wary ferry]

just continue dont delve into it

[deft raven]

you read what he have done? come on

[scarlet birch]

With the Metahuman form even though it says failed several people have told me they received an email afterward confirming it submitted.

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: Denny#2812 was banned.

[scarlet birch]

and there's that inevitable conclusion.

[fierce tulip]

no use waiting for two more strikes

[wary ferry]

i got .. 2 xxxD thanks for reminding me xxD

WHAT

WAAAAAT

character artists its OVER now

haha

ffs NOO 😄

[drowsy snow]

Third time's the charm

[next badger]

tried 15...nope...i'm feeling like a DDOSer

[wary ferry]

honestly didnt think they would have that stuff rdy to so fast

check your email acc

[grizzled axle]

I got 3 confirmation emails even when my form didn't want to submit 😬

[wary ferry]

it goes through but sends an error on the website

[next badger]

@wary ferry HOLY...thank you for that info

[spare kernel]

it's like the two generals problem

[wary ferry]

whats that

[spare kernel]

i remember when a food delivery app did that 😄

[wary ferry]

yummi

[drowsy snow]

Ah yes, Tom Scott reference

[next badger]

I feel even worse now

[spare kernel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem

[fierce tulip]

oh god, me too

long list is long

[drowsy snow]

Okay, lads and lasses
What kind character would you going to create the first time in MetaHuman Creator?

[fierce tulip]

i'd try to remake a character from another character builder

[scarlet birch]

Spongebob

[plush yew]

can u access marketplace website thru firefox anyone? I can not and not the first time ...

[next badger]

@fierce tulip yep, i'm interested if it's possible to bring custom character there and make all the face morphs

[rocky epoch]

female Tim Sweeny

and sell it for good money

I am sure that is a fetish for someone

[drowsy snow]

I would make a photorealistic rendition of my waifu, Makoto Kikuchi (as seen in my current PFP)

[wary ferry]

first thing i will do is check how well you can adjust them, if they have full body, what licencing rules apply and so on

[rocky radish]

can't even request access

[drowsy snow]

Nah, I'm going to mess around with it first 🤣
My projects are using anime characters instead of photorealistic digital humans, so it don't have any productive use for now

[wary ferry]

check mail

[kindred frigate]

I still cannot log into my Epic account on my PC. Works on the Mac but I use my PC. Has been going on for a few weeks. So frustrating.

[wary ferry]

you and i need to talk

[next badger]

@wary ferry
MetaHuman source assets can be downloaded for animating in Autodesk Maya. However, you cannot publish MetaHumans as final content unless rendered with Unreal Engine.

[wary ferry]

we are also working on anime characters but we are looking at metahuman nontheless

[next badger]

Characters generated in MetaHuman Creator, including those in the sample project, are licensed for use in Unreal Engine projects. This means that you must render MetaHumans with Unreal Engine; you cannot render them outside of Unreal Engine.

[wary ferry]

to see if its a replacement for cc3 for starting new characters for other product lines

[rocky epoch]

but jokes aside, will do what Ephraim will. I am sure for our project that fidelity is overkill. So I am curious about if I can use somehow a lower quality version

[plush yew]

so anyone succed?

[rocky epoch]

I got error messages but got the confirmation mail

[rocky radish]

nothing there

[next badger]

No. MetaHuman Creator and the MetaHuman assets may not be used for the purpose of building or enhancing any database; training or testing any artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; neural networks; or similar technologies. 

NOOOOOOOOOO

[scarlet birch]

I could see using it in some creative ways to get to more stylized end results. You can always use LODs and edit the materials. We've already seen some creative things like what Luos was doing with the hair and skin.

[wary ferry]

maybe someone should make an announcment about the error message but mail still comes? @spare kernel

[wary ferry]

we have worked a lot with stylized chars and from my exp you actually get worse results if you start with a human base

since it removes the "style" of stylization

[rocky radish]

i didn't receive the mail

[drowsy snow]

about the anime style characters? I have some milk tea ready.

[wary ferry]

noice 😄

[scarlet birch]

Depends on what you're going for. I'm sure there's a lot that can be done with it.

"Stylized" is an overly broad term.

[wary ferry]

definitly! i was more talking about matching a certain spectrum of style

[plush yew]

now we need metahuman but stylized

moths ago i wast trying to make a character creator but not succed

[wary ferry]

we have been looking into that and decided its overkill because the facial animation system for metahuman is BONE shape based and that means every face you do needs pretty much the same topo and polycount or your matching will f up real hard

so you have hundreds of bones that have to be placed by code

[plush yew]

yep, btw how hard can be create something like sims4?

[drowsy snow]

cough VRoid Studio

I do use VRoid Studio as a basis for the model. Outfit and animations (and some textures) are still handmade, though, the built in stuff is very janky at best.

[plush yew]

sims4 charcter cretor is a freaking dream

[plush yew]

i know vroid but is limited for me idk, look to similar, but very good base

[wary ferry]

we tested roid but didnt like the resolution too much. might still actually go into a similar direction though since our current look isnt ... just there yet

https://ruyo.github.io/VRM4U/

tested his approach which is quite nice ont he surface level

but still needs a shit ton of work to be production ready

[plush yew]

btw with vroid you can use a app where you have hair model and some clothes, and if i remember correctly is ok for commercial use

[scarlet birch]

I'm pretty excited about what it means for making movies and shorts with Unreal.

[wary ferry]

especially with lights from the back

not from me but the VRM4U guy

[plush yew]

perfect for background people, imgainge crowd and scene like this, a time saver

[scarlet birch]

I could see using it for an entire animated cast too.

[next badger]

@dry sigil check the mail

[gray kindle]

Oh, so thats you!

[plush yew]

after see ghibli using 3D models... metahuman can be used for a 3D movie for sure ehehh

[drowsy snow]

For me, the lower poly is a "godsend", because I still use the old backface trick for outline which could double the poly count

As for the materials, I create custom ones.

[dry sigil]

oh, thanks!

[plush yew]

senpaiii

[lunar sundial]

Does anyone know how to fix this error? I've included the error message and the nodes that are causing it

[wary ferry]

GOGOGO 😄

[plush yew]

don't flex 😡

[wary ferry]

what

this is BRIDGE

anyone can have this already

[wary ferry]

https://quixel.com/blog/2021/4/14/metahumans-have-a-home-in-bridge

[plush yew]

what they load character on bridge? cool

[wary ferry]

yesss 😄

its in the mail man 😄

[next badger]

50 of premade are there

[wary ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-chest-bust-rip-shirt-gif-4172168

because they KNEW we would rip their release day server apart xD

[next badger]

@lunar sundial you're referencing something that is NULL...maybe some actor that is not spawned at the time of the call etc

[drowsy snow]

I also battle tested the materials in my Million Live machinima project. This way I could spot what needs more work.
Both projects uses the same engine mods, materials, and some codes.

[lunar sundial]

ah ok. I think I know how to fix it then

[dense knoll]

when i package my game it wont launch

[drowsy snow]

Full Rebuild, maybe?

[plush yew]

LINK IS WORKING

Only me???

[dense knoll]

Nope

[plush yew]

you need to look at blue protocol, if i remember on a livestream they show how they make shaders etc etc, the most convincing "anime game" i ever see

[restive eagle]

quixel servers are struggling a bit as well

unless they were always so slow

[fierce tulip]

note: submission form will go trough (generally) but will give a false negative. so after submission please be patient hehe

[sterile tulip]

Guys

[plush yew]

i think the servers are full of weirdoos, epic need a break ahahahh

[drowsy snow]

I can gosh with how the materials are not a Post FX thing, works with fully dynamic lighting and what not XD

I also learned Control Rig and try to find the limit of it because of the machinima project.

[drowsy snow]

Source?
I can't get that specific topic on google so far...

[vagrant hornet]

yeee

[sterile tulip]

Which one do I cast to, what is the difference between casting to blueprint vs casting to blueprint class

[vagrant hornet]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman-creator

early acces

[next badger]

@sterile tulip casting to * will return an instance of *...for class it will return class reference (used for spawning from class or comparisons)

[drowsy snow]

Class is for creating object

[sterile tulip]

I want to get the vehicle mesh as a reference from this blueprint

So I use the one without the class?

[plush yew]

see months ago idk, pretty sure was on the official channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQitQB5ISPu10a-DW5usIfg

[next badger]

yep, generally you use it w/o class

[wary ferry]

no they need more weirdos

[boreal gull]

Having trouble getting this float to subtract a percentage off the fuel bar. It decreases by the correct amount the first time, then the entire bar disappears on the second deduction.

Having trouble getting this float to subtract a percentage off the fuel bar. It decreases by the correct amount the first time, then the entire bar disappears on the second deduction.

is there a more reliable/simple method?

[plush yew]

i receive this email, all done? i need to wait now right?

[vagrant hornet]

oof

[next badger]

@vagrant hornet it's bugged on site, check the mail

[plush yew]

write me the same thing 10 times, look the email

[drowsy snow]

I'm getting confused with both @plush yew and @vagrant hornet due to both sporting kermit PFP 😵

[plush yew]

nice pic

[fierce tulip]

note: submission form will go trough (generally) but will give a false negative. so after submission please be patient hehe

[restive eagle]

lol okay

[next badger]

@boreal gull check the math

[plush yew]

It says form submitted

[restive eagle]

in the meantime people can check this

[next badger]

@boreal gull
(100-4)/100 = 0.96
(0.96-4)/0.96 = -3.167

@boreal gull

@boreal gull oh...my version may be incorrect too...swap the ui and setter

[restive eagle]

mine was a fresh install so dont know

[plush yew]

low conession?

[restive eagle]

and it will take 1hour to download 1 character

[next badger]

i think now Epic servers are at heavy load

[restive eagle]

maybe they dont have servers in eu or just overloaded

[plush yew]

be patience

[boreal gull]

It appears to be working!
THANK YOU. You're a life saver.

swapping set and UI fixed a bug where it deducted twice the specified amount on the first instance, and correct after. with your help, it deducts the specified amount every time correctly now.

[next badger]

@boreal gull you need to remember that those green nodes ONLY and ALWAYS executed at the time they are plugged to the BLUE ones (or setters)

[heavy sail]

I compiled UE on Linux and the project browser loads but it complains about a missing .vscode directory even tho i my distro has no packages for VS Code

[next badger]

@boreal gull i.e. whole graph result is not stored anywhere

[boreal gull]

understood! i see the error i made in expecting it to carry a regular number/percent at the same time.

[heavy sail]

I use arch btw if you ask

[next badger]

@heavy sail #linux

[heavy sail]

I'm pretty sure that's for general Linux talk

[next badger]

most people here are not using linux

this discord is for ue4 talk

[vagrant hornet]

is ue on linux?

[next badger]

so the channel hter is about linux build of ue4

@vagrant hornet no...officially - no

[drowsy snow]

But I think you can cross-compile for Linux from the comfort of Windows
Or set up a Windows KVM and run UE4 inside if you're super nerd about it

[scarlet birch]

You can build for Linux from Windows using Clang

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/GettingStarted/index.html

There are people who do it.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/BeginnerLinuxDeveloper/SettingUpAnUnrealWorkflow/index.html

I mean, there's a page on the docs covering how to get started with it.

Personally, I have way too many tools that are tied to windows to want to do it. It is nice to be able to compile a headless server for Linux from windows though.

[short pasture]

can you dm me and give me that font

[boreal gull]

sent

[sterile tulip]

guys

what does come in here to the object

I want to change the physics constraint attributes in the blueprint of an actor

[glacial dawn]

@sterile tulip cast to it's to convert one class in another class, isn't an invoke method. What do you need?

[fallow hornet]

Is there a way to activate World Displacement and Tessellation Multiplier on a Deffered Decal that is set to Translucent?

[plush meadow]

hey guys new to unreal and i am currently making a game for my course and im currently stuck on putting pain volumes in my level, when the character resets from falling off the map, they respawn sideways and i cant seem to figure out why, could anyone help please??

[feral nexus]

i've checked high and low all over the internet and haven't found any documentation that covers this anywhere. it's incredibly frustrating. any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated. 😄

[dense knoll]

hOW do you get all widgets

and have them all render on a stereo layer instead of

[restive eagle]

so everyone got access to meta humans or i just got lucky?

[mellow turret]

is there a channel to talk about blender?

[sterile tulip]

no but there is a server to talk about blender

I send you a link @mellow turret

[knotty slate]

how do i prevent this render crash from happening, it occurs at any minute, it dosent matter what the situation im doing. Please, if someone has an idea or solution feel free to ping or dm me.

[knotty slate]

dunno

i cant get access

[vagrant hornet]

will ue5 have a UI overhaul?

[feral nexus]

most definitely

[vast raptor]

I don't know what I pressed but for some reason whenever I press play now, it won't react to my player input

[knotty slate]

does anyone know the issue?

[vast raptor]

ah my bad, I just looked in the extra play options, I was doing "Simulate" and it kept doing that whenever I pressed play

[dense knoll]

How do you capture what the player sees onto a render texture? Like widgets the players view

[winged notch]

what do i do i restarted UE4 and my landscape is trashed on

what why is my layer info gone ?

[sterile tulip]

did you use landmass

[winged notch]

no

[raven escarp]

Hey! i tried to blend animations earlier today but it did not work