ue4-general

[raven escarp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KdbzE_LODE&ab_channel=Uisco

i used that tutorial

also i didnt use the UE4 mannequin

[earnest violet]

I have time abilities in my game like slow motion and freeze time. What timer node do I need and where do I set it up so you can only use the time abilities for let's say 30 seconds and then you can not use it for another 30 seconds and then after this it reactivates for 30 seconds and the this process repeats so on so forth. If anyone one can help me with this I promise I'll give you a mention in the credits of my game. THX! 🙂

[narrow berry]

Hello guys,
I'm still struggling with Discord SDK. I still have the unresolved symbol but I don"t understand why. I am sure the paths are fine

Below is what I have on the build.cs :

public class SquadLeader : ModuleRules
{
    public SquadLeader(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target) : base(Target)
    {
        PCHUsage = PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs;
        CppStandard = CppStandardVersion.Cpp17;
        PublicIncludePaths.Add(DiscordDir);

        PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine", "InputCore", "AIModule", "UMG", "GameplayTasks", "GameplayAbilities", "GameplayTags", "NavigationSystem" });
        PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] {  });

        PublicAdditionalLibraries.Add(DiscordLibFile);
        RuntimeDependencies.Add(DiscordDllFile);
        PublicDelayLoadDLLs.Add("discord_game_sdk.dll");
    }

    private string DiscordDir
    {
        get { return Path.GetFullPath( Path.Combine(ModuleDirectory, "..\\ThirdParty\\discord_game_sdk")); }
    }

    private string DiscordLibFile
    {
        get { return Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(ModuleDirectory, "..\\..\\Binaries/Win64\\discord_game_sdk.dll.lib")); }
    }

    private string DiscordDllFile
    {
        get { return Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(ModuleDirectory, "..\\..\\Binaries/Win64\\discord_game_sdk.dll")); }
    }
}

Is anybody able to tell me at least if I only need those 4 lines (assuming the paths are good)?

PublicIncludePaths.Add(DiscordDir);
PublicAdditionalLibraries.Add(DiscordLibFile);
RuntimeDependencies.Add(DiscordDllFile);
PublicDelayLoadDLLs.Add("discord_game_sdk.dll");

[earnest violet]

I have time abilities in my game like slow motion and freeze time. What timer node do I need and where do I set it up so you can only use the time abilities for let's say 30 seconds and then you can not use it for another 30 seconds and then after this it reactivates for 30 seconds and the this process repeats so on so forth. If anyone one can help me with this I promise I'll give you a mention in the credits of my game. THX! 🙂

[viscid abyss]

how do open these tabs on the bottom?

mine looks like this

[ashen brook]

ahum, ahum

#metahumans now exists

go nuts

[grim ore]

@viscid abyss you don’t. The ui was changed in 4.25. Functionally it’s the same.

Expand your notifies tab and you can see the bar for it to add them to.

[plush yew]

metahuman creator beta out?

finally?

that sounds like big le poggere

im waiting till ue5 to use it

[plush yew]

relatable...

lol

[brazen stag]

Hi! Can anyone recommend a tutorial for adding shooting to my flying pawn?

[upper heart]

When are people expecting 4.27 preview 1?

[plush yew]

I have no idea

[coarse shale]

how can i make a triggerbox to open the door 😐

[sterile tulip]

We are expecting 5.00 not 4.27

[plush yew]

amen

[upper heart]

lol

[coarse shale]

well sorry 😦 my computer doesnt meet the requirement for 5.0 😦

[plush yew]

f in the chat

[sterile tulip]

You need to do this with a collision box I think and an overlap event @coarse shale

[uneven hemlock]

Im trying to make a macro that creates a float and compares it with other floats in a array via "for loop with break". I want to make it that if the float passes the check it returns it. If it fails the comparasions I want to break the loop and re-generate another float

Im kinda confused

thr problem im facing is that

[coarse shale]

@sterile tulip

im new with blueprint

[uneven hemlock]

this means thta

u deleted

a output

and it was connected

elsewhere

just disconeect it and it will leave

[coarse shale]

how can i add target for that door

[plush yew]

problem???
step 1. google
step 2. step 1
step 3. (god forbid) bing

[uneven hemlock]

The problem im facing is that I dont know how to break the loop and call the generate new location along spline funcation at the same time

[plush yew]

oop 1 sec

[uneven hemlock]

I want to call it at these outputs/exec

[vagrant hornet]

how good do you need to be at C++ to make games in ue4

[uneven hemlock]

depends wut ur making

but u need to know the basics ig

[plush yew]

tru

[proven kayak]

I mean, blueprint works for like 70-80% of very basic amateur-ish projects

[uneven hemlock]

ok can someone help me now im kinda stuck

[plush yew]

and now we wait

yes, very nice

[rustic panther]

did 4.26.2 break Curve Atlas Row params?

it won't let me plug in any type of curve

[coarse shale]

why it doesnt play 😦

[plush yew]

i mean the beta is expected to be released during the first half of this year so

you can still play around it and learn how to use the new tech in ue5

and then port your projects when the stable ver launches

yeah, ive read up on most of it already

[coarse shale]

😦 help

[plush yew]

oop

matinee?

you better be joking

i might be able to help with sequencer but matinee nope

[coarse shale]

i just want to trigger open door 😦

[plush yew]

collision box?

you can use collisions in cinematics, activate simulation mode and esc while cinematic viewport is open

also useful when you needa make some michael bay stuff

not sure if my method will work with matinee or not

but try it out

also #cinematics

[inland ibex]

Hey all; having an issue after restarting my engine (closed because I couldn't figure out how to close the stat.streaming window while debugging a texture streaming issue), where I cannot click on anything in my game window. Persepctive/Lit/etc, the gizmo hotkeys work but I can't place or move anything in the game window either, and it has this box view over the top of it.

[plush yew]

restart computer

[inland ibex]

aaand fixed it ._. thanks!

[plush yew]

nah alt f4

[spare kernel]

did not even need to close editor

just drag any window over it, and it fixes it

that box means its stuck in drag/resize mode.

[sterile tulip]

hello guys

I installed visual studio

Do I need to check anything from here or will it work just fine

[slate basalt]

is there a way to obtain the project name from the python api?

[wispy parcel]

Does anyone know how I can find out what version of UE4 my old project uses without having to open it?

[ember copper]

@wispy parcel Yes, open the .uproject file with notepad

also useful for turning off troublesome plugins

[wispy parcel]

thank you vm. i'll try that now

[thick nebula]

i keep getting "the following modules are missing or built with a different engine" after updating from 26.1 to 26.2 but i successfully recompiled the project multiple times at this point

"Engine modules are out of date, and cannot be compile while the engine is running. please Build through your IDE" when i build in VS, its the same issue. i cleaned the project, regenerated project files

not sure what to do

[dense knoll]

How do you get the player viewport rendered onto a texture?

[compact holly]

Ok, I need help. I have 9 foliage types in my game. In the Editor (4.26) the culling distance works as intended. But when the game is goes to standalone it messes up big time and has it render in trees etc only a couple of metres in front of the player. WTH is going on? its incredibly frustrating

In editor

In Standalone

[winged notch]

UE4 has deleted my landscape layers how do i fix it

[thick nebula]

new nvidia drivers today, studio as well

[winged notch]

it leaves 2 of the layers and gets rid if the rest

[next badger]

Metahumans has own custom EULA

[fierce tulip]

#rules re-asking the same thing over and over is not allowed

"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."

[winged notch]

@fierce tulip are you taking to me ?

[fierce tulip]

im talking in general

[next badger]

@compact holly standalone uses custom Scalability profile, those may not be the same settings as you have in the viewport of PIE

[compact holly]

how do I change that ?

[thick nebula]

wrong movie i messed up

[winged notch]

do you know who to ask about it ?

[next badger]

@compact holly https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/Scalability/ScalabilityReference/index.html

@compact holly r.ViewDistanceScale is probably the culprit here

[thick nebula]

i type in the same question 40 different times on google until i figure it out myself... this is hte glory of open source

you have the power

[winged notch]

i have 7

[fierce tulip]

#virtual-reality

[winged notch]

true

[next badger]

@fierce tulip have you got the Metahuman access?

[fierce tulip]

nein

[compact holly]

I really appreciate the help, I cant express how annoying this issue is.

[thick nebula]

tbh, and i am completely unaware of the issue that you are having, but just writing it out explicitly helps identify where the problem may lie. or charting it.

this is the reason i like the visual editor so much

i spend a lot of time just organizing the nodes but it helps my overall understanding of the application ***

[compact holly]

I really need someone who understands this kinda thing on my team 😩

[thick nebula]

bro but then you have to split your millions because you forgot to untick something.

[boreal gull]

Hey Gurus, I'm trying to get the PlayerUI widget to update the name and weapon based on an IntCount variable thats housed within the MasterBP for three playable child BPs.

Each Child has it's own but the PlayerUI is reading a 0 first, then the correct Int and overlaying both the 0 Int and the correct Int.

Is there something I'm missing/going over my head here on why its drawing the names twice?

[thick nebula]

can you click it while it is playing?

[next badger]

@boreal gull maybe it's 2 widgets spawned?

[thick nebula]

i can see that

[next badger]

@thick nebula i mean, it's not 2 names, it's whole 2 uis with the bars etc

[thick nebula]

yes i think you are correct

is there documentation on properly migrating a project after an engine upgrade?

it keeps aksing me to rebuild in IDE and i'm losing my mind

[viscid abyss]

Sorry for the really late response but i managed to create one but how do i drag it on

[boreal gull]

That was my initial thought too, however there's only ONE "create widget" and "add to viewport" with the exception of a pause menu.

[next badger]

@boreal gull and only single player?

[wary ferry]

so i was extremely happy today

about metahumans

god was i enjoying the tool

its pure

pleasure

https://tenor.com/view/pleasure-placer-gif-12913159

[boreal gull]

Single player, yes. I still think you are correct, however. I just don't understand how its drawn twice.
While not the correct scripting, a "remove all widgets" on "event begin play" before creating the widget seems to solve the issue.

[wary ferry]

epic not giving us bodies to the mix

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-the-office-steve-carrell-yikes-cringe-gif-6056240

[boreal gull]

add it to your best 5 minute blender rig 💯

[mighty copper]

Remember it's beta and more is on the way... I'm just happy they're making headway...

[fierce tulip]

#metahumans for meta human (and pet) discussions

[prime willow]

ok

can the meta human creator be used not only for creating a character

but as a character creator for the game you make?

[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? 🙂

[prime willow]

oh

[eternal star]

This is more of a general question, lets say I buy some tree assets from the marketplace, and then I distribute a map editor/mod kit for my game, can those marketplace assets also be included? Do I need to package them a certain way? the epic faq says I need to bake them, Im assuming that means I need to load the assets into a pak file?

[glacial pecan]

Wow, you can't remove comment bubbles from comment boxes in the material editor?

Also, damn, I wish I was able to comment material parameter collections the way you can comment enums...

[plush yew]

hey I have asked this about 3-4 times here no one gives me answer. How to get All Assets window shown in Viewport?

[eternal flame]

Need some help! I have been trying to connect omniverse 4.26 connector... I think i have installed correctly.... I think i am missing a step... but i can not find anything anywhere... what check mark am i missing or how do i log into omniverse through UE4 ---- Solved ---- you Need to use the Correct Server witch by defualt is "localhost" folder structure. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ue-4-26-1-not-connecting-to-nucleus/174000

[inland ibex]

How do I go about adding dithering to Megascans assets that all share this master material? The master mat doesn't have a standard material input, and trying to add dithering to the pixel depth offset nodes of one of the material instances connected to it results in some pretty weird things, where it dithers shading rather than intersection

Megascans assets are imported from Bridge, in this case.

And here's what the material attributes look like. I can check a box in the material settings that brings back the normal material attributes, but that unhooks the material function and breaks things

[fathom monolith]

How much ram is needed for using UE 4.26.2 with the MetaHuman Sample project, and can I use the pagefile as ram for UE 4?

[dry latch]

I've been having problems getting terrain visibility to work. Currently when I use the terrain visibility tool, the terrain dissappears, but I can't pass through it where I've painted

Any ideas ?

[fathom monolith]

Unreal Engine crashed while loading the MetaHuman project.

Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/D3D12RHI/Private/D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 671] hr failed at D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/D3D12RHI/Private/D3D12Resources.cpp:413 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED with Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DRIVER_INTERNAL_ERROR

UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_HairStrandsCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

[bold orbit]

I just redeemed a code to get project files but I don't know where to get them. Can anyone please help?

[fathom monolith]

What project files?

[bold orbit]

Unreal Learning project files: https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/2906296?r=False&ts=637540183218675738

[fathom monolith]

I don't think you can use redeem code to get project files.

[bold orbit]

idk how else to get them, that's what it's telling me to do

[fathom monolith]

Huh, sorry, not really sure.

[grim juniper]

Are you following the instructions?

The "Additional References" page has a pdf with instructions for redeeming the code

The only part you do in the launcher is create the project

[bold orbit]

ok I see it now, thx

[fathom monolith]

Any idea on fixing the d3d error I had?

[earnest violet]

what do I type in search to get the check if key has been pressed please?

[mighty comet]

Out of curiosity after some toying with animations the past day, these are the conclusions i've come to, anyone see anything horribly wrong about my deductions/notes?
https://i.imgur.com/2B6sJXW.png

[jade bobcat]

https://forms.gle/fDuTiayHKP5QNDN2A
if you have the time please offer your view on our survey that looks at how often you are able to fully finish a project and more.

[plush yew]

here we go again

:P

[sterile tulip]

hello developers

who here is a developer

[tough stream]

on my own going down the only road i've ever known

[plush yew]

eyyyy

[icy mulch]

Hey i need some help my default landscape is a different for some odd reasons even when i start a new project

[fathom monolith]

Can I use a pagefile on windows to increase the amount of ram the unreal engine can use?

[south ridge]

Basically no

You need more actual real physical RAM

[quiet token]

increasing pagefile increases the amount of memory available to ue4

it will be slow memory even if its ssd, but its still memory..

thats the whole point of a pagefile.

[earnest violet]

Does anyone know how I temporarily disable the TAB key please? THX! 🙂

[sterile tulip]

Hello guys

Do you guys use Visual Assist

[dim arch]

anyone know if there is a backup of the forums? checking some post but a bunch of images are missing

[earnest violet]

Does anyone know how I temporarily disable the TAB key please? THX!

[brave lark]

if I don't run construction script on drag is it still safe to use construction script for customization stuff?

[wicked hollow]

Anyone else notice OG Mr Miyagi? 😆 wax on... wax off

[pastel ginkgo]

Anyone know why the hair is missing when far away? I changed lod to 0 and it worked for everything but the hair.

[drowsy snow]

Or, you know...

Download more RAM

[analog palm]

Alright.

I need your guys help.

The launcher is deciding to be stupid and says i need a specific thing in order for the program to run.

api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32-l2-1-0.dll This file in particular.

Anyone know where to get it?

[brave lark]

that's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. it should make you download all prerequisites when you install an engine

[analog palm]

Apparently it seems to be a common issue with others.

I need this help soon.

NSR is calling my name.

[hearty gust]

any reason why this wont cast over?

[grim ore]

Why what won’t cast over? Where is it supposed to go or do

[hearty gust]

its an animBP

getting this error

kinda stuck lol

[grim ore]

You don’t need a target. The target is self.

You need to give it the info it wants

Your in the anim instance.

It’s a pure node. It doesn’t have execute wires you plug in data and it gives you data.

[hearty gust]

I see what you mean

[plush yew]

I think I recognized a walking dead character too...

[hearty gust]

Thank you @grim ore

[drowsy snow]

I find this image to be offensive...
(sarcastically ofc)

[hearty gust]

lol

[analog palm]

I’m trying to run the epic games launcher as an admin but it’s not working for someone reason. Anyone know why?

[hearty gust]

PC restart might help? If you havent already

It does for me sometimes

[analog palm]

Ok, i'll give it a go.

[hearty gust]

Let me know if it worked

[pastel ginkgo]

Anyone know how to copy an animation from one actor to another within a sequence? I'm trying to copy the sample animation to another metahuman.

[analog palm]

It’s still not working.

I’m growing desperate.

[hearty gust]

Did you clear your launchers webcache?

@analog palm

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/epic-games-store-c73/launcher-support-c82/troubleshooting-epic-games-launcher-issues-a2676

[analog palm]

I don’t think I did..

How do I do that?

[hearty gust]

^

[winged notch]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-miyagi-nod-gif-18252241

[cedar wave]

So - I'm having an issue where my in-game UI is not showing up in a packaged build, but it works perfectly fine in the editor.

I have my player controller create the UMG Widget, store it as a variable. Then when the pawn is created and it gets through its Begin Play, I then pass this variable to the pawn and add it to the viewport.

I've also tried putting the logic into the On Possess event - still nothing.

Any ideas?

[wide swift]

can anyone help me i need to use decal in android but its not working while i am previewing it .... will decal works in android

[supple sparrow]

Is it possible to create parallel timers in blueprints? For instance, starting a bunch of timers in 1 second intervals that all last 10 seconds each?

[magic wren]

Hi

I need a little help

I put this together in the hopes of moving my character but that just doesn't happen

I did set my character as the default pawn in the gamemode

[wintry steeple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjctaoU3mg4

[coarse shale]

After i build and export the application. There is lots of motion blur. How can i disable that?

[magic wren]

in the project settings, there is an option of motion blur i believe

search for it in the search bar

then disable it

then re-export

[magic wren]

pls someone help me with this

[granite creek]

control rotation is zero by default you have to change it using Add controller yaw input

and please use sample codes from third person as learning resource

btw Pawn does not react to add movement input without a movement component

[magic wren]

its a character, not a pawn

it has a character movement component

[magic wren]

thats what i cpoy pasted

*copy

[granite creek]

did you setup inputs in project settings?

[magic wren]

yes

I also hooked up a print string to the axis value of the input, it was working fine and printed the correct values.

I think something's up with the add movement input

because i connected it to a tick event to test whether it moves. I put in a direction and scale as 1 but still the character didn't move.

i even set the scale to 100000000000000

🥲

[timid pilot]

We cannot export free metahuman model to Maya, or another design Tool ?!

[magic wren]

Maybe i am a little late but
https://www.dll-files.com/api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32-l2-1-0.dll.html

you can download the dll from here

then paste into system32

[rigid belfry]

why are you getting the controller rotation?

[magic wren]

Shouldn't I get it? I did that to get the forward and right vectors

[rigid belfry]

no

you are getting the rotation's forward vector

which doesnt make sense for what you're trying to do

off the controller, get the forward and right vectors directly

[magic wren]

ah ok that makes sense

Thank you

that worked

[rigid belfry]

pretty sure thats how they do it in the third eprson template anywayu

[past knot]

Hello everyone, I am trying to import some uassets that a friend of mine send me. We both use the same engine versions and he migrated the file from his project. However when I am trying to import the uassets in the contents folder I get an error that .uasset is not reckognized. Copying and pasting from explorer also does not work.

[viscid abyss]

so i have created a notifier but how do i drag it onto the montage?

[rain laurel]

hey

can i get some quick help with a material

its super simple but for some reason i cant find a solution online

nvm lol

figured it out

[fierce tulip]

rubber ducking wins again!

[viscid abyss]

would anyone know?

[rigid belfry]

hey! how come some people are able to reply to their own messages while i cant?

[fierce tulip]

try holding shift, or click the ....

[rigid belfry]

oh wow whats all this then

had no idea this was a thing

[fierce tulip]

ikr

[rigid belfry]

i think you just right click on it and a couple of options should pop up?

maybe

on the timeline, not the event

[viscid abyss]

tysm

[rigid belfry]

is there a way for child classes to inherit from components events?

[drowsy snow]

Does parent event works?

[pastel ginkgo]

Can anyone help with copying an animation to another actor? I have a sequence I recorded using a metahuman and I want to copy that sequence to another metahuman. I can copy the animation but it doesn't seem apply it to the new metahuman.

[earnest violet]

I have slow motion in my game. What's the best way of deactivating it for 10 seconds after it's been active for 15 seconds? thx! 🙂

I know it should be done with timers but I don't know how exactley

[plush yew]

anyone know if is possible pose characters on unreal engine? the idea is take some screenshot, so i was thinking if is possible pose them in the landscape (?)

[drowsy snow]

Use Delay after activating it.

Set Global Time Dilation: 0.x -> Delay: 10.0 -> Set Global Time Dilation: 1.0

[plush yew]

Hey guys,
so I'm planning to develop an open world mobile game with a map, kind of like Gangstar Vegas by Gameloft, for making the 3D map tho, I need to hire some ppl but I'm unable to understand what all skills I need to hire ppl in,
can you please help me by telling what skills I need people in to completely make a good 3D map with lighting and level design, I have the concept and this map will be based on a real life city so for reference they'll have a lot of pictures

note: I'm asking just for the map/environment part and not the whole game development

also,I already have this kind of 3D model that I bought a few days back

[drowsy snow]

Oof, that's quite ambitious.
What you generally need is the skill to create the environmental assets, replacing the placeholder boxes.

[plush yew]

so an Environment artist, 3D modeller, that's all?

[drowsy snow]

In regards to the map alone, yes.
Of course, you also need competent AI agent driving/walking around, but that's a different story.

[plush yew]

alright thanks

much appreciated

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/651805250881060895.gif?size=64

[short pasture]

wow that kinda big map

[plush yew]

yes, haha

[earnest violet]

@drowsy snow Can u elaborate plz?

[drowsy snow]

What they said.
I really hope the AI didn't suck though. As much as beautiful CP2077's Night City is, the immersion is being held back by shoddy AI.

[short pasture]

hmmm good

[sturdy plinth]

Hello, I wonder how Do I have acces to the FSceneView from a static function ? in Unity I can just do SceneView.LastActiveSceneView. How to do in Unreal ? (it's for editor tool purpose, I want to access the ViewMatrices, and the UnscaledViewRect of the sceneView

[short pasture]

i still working on my game my game is a racing game

[meager stag]

Anyone knows why the normal map gets all screwed up when fed into Input (A) in a material function, but works as param/texture sample (B)?

[rigid belfry]

what do you mean?

[pastel ginkgo]

Is there a way to control a CineCameraActor with an Xbox controller?

[short pasture]

guys i can delete those? i jest wanna my car model things in there

[serene birch]

judging by your default texture, your param sampler is probably NOT set to "normal map" mode

[chrome ivy]

Should a component simulate physics in order to generate Hit events?

[meager stag]

It is, just plugged in whatever there as placeholder 😅

Or wait you mean on material with function 🤔

Let me check

[serene birch]

yes

UE4 sets default sampler mode base on the texture you put in the material

also metalic, roughness and similar "not a color" textures should not be set to sRGB

normal map isn't a color so it should not be sRGB too

incorrect sRGB setting for normal maps mess them up weirdly

[plush yew]

hi, anyone try this tutorial? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyXxI4Mw05E

my model look broken in unreal

[earnest violet]

Below is my code which is wrong. Basically what I want is when player clicks on slowmo on widget button it activates slowmo for 5 seconds. I want it so you can keep turning on and off for those five seconds of activation but after that there is a 10 second wait befor you can use slow motion again. Can anyonne plz help me?

Can anyone help? I'd really appreciate it

whoever helps will get their name in the game's credits

[rigid belfry]

havent fully read, but you should look into hard vs soft references in programming language

you only need to cast to your character once, no need to cast each click

[rigid belfry]

is it like that ability in gta5 where the guy slows time while driving

and you can turn it on and off

[earnest violet]

@rigid belfry slo time while shooting it comes with activate node and deactivate node and it's a component

@rigid belfry All I want is when the ui button is clicked for slow mo it enters slow mo but slow mo then can be deactivated and activated as many times as you want for 5 seconds and after that it disable slowmo for 10 seconds

[rigid belfry]

maybe try with timers

you set a timer by event/function, and if you promote the timer handle, you can then do stuff like play, pause, clear handle

[proven kayak]

What is the best way to get a ray tracing/dynamic lights only scene in the engine with all the features? AKA not the current RTXGI build

[earnest violet]

@rigid belfry If you have a look at the screenshot you will see that I have timers but I think I set them up wrong. Can u help a little? Thx bro! 🙂

@rigid belfry Do you know what's wrong with my timer code m8?

[rigid belfry]

i cannot help you right now, i wont be online for a couple hours

[earnest violet]

ok m8

[rigid belfry]

just real quick, i doubt that "set timer by function" is doing anything

since the on clibked button is not a function

right now it would't even work as an event probably

you need a custom event

on click, call the custom event

set timer by event-> custom event

[meager stag]

@serene birch Wasnt that unfortunately. The tree is still not getting its normal for whatever reason, only the terrain's I am blending with.

(right one is normal simple material for comprison)

[earnest violet]

@rigid belfry Ok thx man 4 your insight and knowledge! 🙂

@rigid belfry On Clicked (Button_SloMO) Signature Error: The selected function/event is not bindable - is the function/event deprecated, pure or latent? [5990.15] Compile of WB_Game_HUD_widget failed. 1 Fatal Issue(s) 0 Warning(s) [in 579 ms] (/Game/ThirdPersonKit/Blueprints/User_Interface/WB_Game_HUD_widget.WB_Game_HUD_widget)

I took your advice but I am now getting this error. Dam this shit

[fresh shuttle]

does anyone know what in the world is going on with my imported models?

it has a huge area of black artifects

i imported this mesh into another project and it works fine there,anyone knows how to fix it?

[drowsy snow]

I guess something to do with the lightmap

[odd wasp]

hey

[fresh shuttle]

i see ,it gets worse the more i increase the engine graphics

[tight river]

update question -- I'm currently using 4.24.3 and doing tutorial on gamedev.tv. If I update to 4.26, will it break anything I'm currently using? And what is the best way to update the version on Windows 10? Does UE do it all in place, or do I have to uninstall current version and then install new version?

[odd wasp]

is it possible to import a custom skeleton or do i have to use the one on the mannequin

[earnest violet]

I am trying to get my slow motion to deactivate for 5 seconds after it's been on for five seconds. If you have a look at my code you'll see that it does deactivate once it reaches the end of the code. The only problem with this is that if the player selects the slow motion again it will work. This is not what I want. I want so when you've activated slow mo you get 5 seconds of slow mo then 5 seconds cooldown where the player can't enable slow mo again for another 5 seconds. Can anyone help me please. I've been at this for hours. HOURS!

[solar gorge]

Looks like you’d want a simple branch and Boolean. Boolean like “Ability_On”, have that get set to true when the ability’s on, and get set to false when you allow it again, and of course a branch.

[grand ferry]

Hi! Noob question/problem. It seems I am not able to orbit around objects in my Viewport with alt + MMB, It has the same behavior if alt is pressed or not. I have tried everything I can think of so far.
The object is foucused using F
I have tried enabling the "Orbit camera around selection" and "Use UE3 Orbit Controls" in the Editor Pref. Nothing changes. Is there something I am missing?

[earnest violet]

@solar gorge Where and how do I set the branch(s) mate. Sorry I am dumb and new! 🙂

[solar gorge]

Hold on a sec. isn’t that infinite loop you just made...

[earnest violet]

Dunno

=/

[solar gorge]

What’s the reason to connect that very end branch back into your cast, that’s an infinite loop it seems.

[earnest violet]

Ok I will break

@solar gorge Where and how do I set the branch(s) mate

Sorry, forgive if I am particulary thick and sto0pid

[heavy sail]

Help my unreal engine crashes when i add an actor

My machine is above the required specs

[earnest violet]

@heavy sail maybe upgrade or downgrade toa different UE4 version

[solar gorge]

Assuming your gonna use that timefxcooldown bool, that first branch you have, move that set to true, to the false side of its included branch, and connect the rest of your code that was on that true, to that set/ false.

[grand ferry]

@earnest violet maybe just make a bool, when you have entered the slowmo state, you cannot enter it again. So you could disable the onClick if you are already in the slowmo state, and enable it again in the end

[dense knoll]

How do you use shape keys in ue4?

[grand ferry]

@earnest violet might also be better to ask in the #blueprint channel

[heavy sail]

here is my error log

[earnest violet]

@grand ferry Hi! How do I disable the Onclicked Button please? 🙂

[plush yew]

I just love having to make my computer ingest 400gb of megascans

[winter hull]

hey guys i activated sounds in editor and now i dont remember where to deactivate it

im going bananas with this ambient sound

please somebody release my pain and tell me where that option was 😄

oh nvm -.-

typical 2 seconds after asking i found it

[tight river]

derp -- got 26.2 downloading now. didn't realize that all of your versions are available thru the launcher.

[earnest violet]

What do I type into search that brings up the node to re-enable clicking on a widget botton with mouse? Thans a million! 😦

[grand ferry]

@earnest violet here is one way for example, should work

I think, Im a noob too 😄

[plush yew]

How do you change the scale of you objects permanently, so when i use foliage its not tiny.

[grim ore]

You have to change the import settings when you import them or you go into the mesh, change import settings in there and re-import them

[simple dock]

Hola, I'm having some troble importing metahuman into unreal engine

I have unreal engine open but the button is greyed out

I have both open, and I've tried restarting one, and the other and starting them in both orders. I'm guessing I need to wait for the update

[plush yew]

thanks again

[drowsy snow]

Have you checked the export option and make sure Bridge detect the Unreal plugin?

TBH I'm still reluctant to install Maya 😦

[simple dock]

Oh I think I got it now it was set to Blender

[sly island]

Hello, new UE user here, have a question regarding trees. Many projects ive used, the tree limbs are animating within themselves, so the base tree is static and the rest of it animates inside of it giving it a blurry trippy look. Im trying to either get the trees to not animate or animate without that double effect in a sequencer animation. I can't seem to find any info online on where or how to disable that effect. I like that the trees move in the wind but it just looks trippy.

[simple dock]

@sly island that will be temporal anti-aliasing along with motion blur post processing, disable one, the other or both and it'll clear up

[sly island]

@simple dock awesome, I will try that, thank you very much!

[boreal raft]

hey there, anyone has this issue?

[novel lodge]

what time frame is considered spamming ?

[plush yew]

?

[novel lodge]

like say I post something in released

and I wanted to post it again

what time-frame should I wait for before I do so its not considered spamming

[plush yew]

maybe a half day or a day?

[novel lodge]

thank you

[simple dock]

anyone figured out how to make the hair render as mesh in the LOD yet?

[cedar wave]

Depends on what it is honestly. But if you released your game/tool, then posted again half a day later, heck, even a day later, I'd consider it spam and immediately become disinterested in the project. Simply out of principal.

[simple dock]

I know someone was working on it since hair rendering is to expensive for many hardware

I've had a look and the only way to do it seems to be export the hair mesh and it's really convoluted, you'd have thought they'd have included an option to render mesh only hair

I guess it's for high end only, I can't find a way to render mesh only hair and turn off the strands

I know the guy whos working on it hasn't figured it out he's been looking at the source code to force rendering of mesh hair only but it seems overly complicated

he hasn't slept yet though, He's gotten the metahuman to render on his Oculus Quest 2, but with no hair so both of us are now trying to figure out ways to force mesh only hair

[robust raptor]

Hello, I tried Multi User Editing with a friend, but when he imports models and materials, the materials differ from each other, any fix for this? Or did we do something wrong?

[median bough]

Hey guys how can i downgrade a project, i want to go from 4.26 to 4.24, its just a gamejam type project so pretty small only like 10 real files so if its not possible ill just port the code and stuff manually.

[regal narwhal]

Hello!
I have a static mesh, which is dark after i build the light. I made a second UV channel in blender (with smart UV option, because im not rly using blender, just get the model there), changed the value of the lightmap coordinates index in UE, but its still dark.

[crisp thicket]

how do I convince my friend to get into unreal engine?

🤯

[light thunder]

Why would you need to?

[spare kernel]

@simple dock we have #metahumans channel

[plush yew]

hi anyone know why the landscape look bright even without lighting in the scene?

[light thunder]

because you aren't lighting the scene that's why you are seeing the default colors at their max brightness essentially

[plush yew]

mmmh and why with another project if i delete all the lights turn all black?

i can't reproduce this?

[odd wasp]

can i use blender for models and characters

[light thunder]

because you are changing the lighting modes in the editor, most likely your previous engine didn't have the lit mode set

[light thunder]

yes you can but look up the unreal engine pipeline tool and spend some time making sure that it's installed correctly, definitely pay attention to what the scale is set at or you will bring in models that are 10 times or even 100x too big

[odd wasp]

where can i find this tool? and can i use a custom made skeleton?

[light thunder]

@spare kernel ever heard of this use case? I need to initiate the input system to record the actual physical release of a key - however, I'm using a plugin (the author has tried to help but doesn't know the solution either) and this plug-in interrupts input only for split-second, but that interruption still tells the input system to fire the OnRelease Key.

That means when they actually do release the key the system is not listening.

I've tried using a victory plug-in to simulate keypress - but it only works half way, it actually fires the action as though you press the hardware key but the hardware key still doesn't listen for the OnRelease event -

**how would I manually tell the input system to begin listening for physical, hardware event of a key being release? **

I know it's a pretty unique use case but it's game breaking as it currently stands for me

[odd wasp]

@light thunder where can i find the tools

i'm looking for them and i can't seem to find them

[plush yew]

i don't think, look at this

[regal narwhal]

this is the lightmap if it matters

[fringe jetty]

so wild see what u guys can do as a unity developer 😆

[frigid forum]

Hey all, not sure where to ask this so I hope here works. I've been working a small project for practice with blueprints, and when I go to launch the game through unreal (im on 4.26) Unreal becomes unresponsive and if left without ending the process through task manager will freeze my entire system

Is this a problem with unreal or is it something I'm doing?

[fringe jetty]

This doesn't sound like a UE issue try backing up your projects and reinstalling

[frigid forum]

Well the thing is when I play the game (not launch) it works just fine

I only want to launch the game to see if there is a difference in performance. For some reason when I play the game the FPS gradually drop and I was wondering if it would do the same in a launch

I wanna first see if it does the same with projects on 4.25

Yea, same thing happens

Which makes me think it's a UE issue

[plush yew]

oh god, time to implement the discord sdk to do logins aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I want to make an online game that i can enjoy. i mainly dont enjoy them cuz online games always put me in a beginners team against Pro veteran team

so i was currently working on a Fan game Titanfall, but recently ive started thinking, what other type of online games are out there that i could possibly enjoy. anyone got any ideas?

[rich girder]

Hi everyone. Can you help me please? I'm looking for a tutorial (could be video or something else) that shows you how to apply good OOP (Object Oriented Programming) practices for Blueprints in Unreal Engine. Do you know any good ones for me to study? I found some sites that talk about OOP but none about applying that to Unreal Engine.

[frigid forum]

One of my favorite MMOs is Elder Scrolls Online

[plush yew]

is that a skyrim game?

[plush yew]

hypixel

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[frigid forum]

Based on the Elder Scrolls series, yea. It's story based, but it has a lot of cool things in it. Not sure what type of games you're taking inspiration from so this could be a very far off thing

[plush yew]

as of now, im using Titanfall 2, Halo wars, Civ Rev, TABS, and Fallout 4

[frigid forum]

The closest thing to ESO is Fallout 4. But it's still pretty far off

[plush yew]

i might try to combine two of my game projects later, as of now, im just trying to make a titanfall fan game that wont make me want to break my controller in half

[dry latch]

what is 4.26 Chaos ?

[frigid forum]

I just made a new project with only starter content in 4.26.2 and the engine still froze. I'm pretty sure this is a problem with UE for me. Is there any way around this other than un-installing and reinstalling?

[grim ore]

we have no idea of knowing, you would have to check any crash logs or system logs or task manager, etc. The majority of people are not reporting this issue

[frigid forum]

It doesn't provide a crash log, just freezes. Task manager says its using about 60% of my cpu but it's unresponsive

[honest vale]

is it compiling shaders?

[plush yew]

Maybe i changed something in the settings but why do my gerstner waves not have the foam settings like anisotropy, bubble detail etc in the global scalar parameter value?

[frigid forum]

I left a project on launch for a while and it was frozen, but a windows firewall popup came up telling me to allow access to something for unreal. Just windows being a pain for a good 2hrs straight sadly

My projects now launch properly now

[thick nebula]

i was totally uninterested in the metahumans until i saw it can do lowpoly

i know that sounds kinda stupid but it could help my project a lot very quickly

i wonder how soon until you can mix and match animals

[short pasture]

this is to much how can i delete them faster

[plush yew]

I have an issue with my materials again after exporting from c4d to ue4

In my ship model the sails are non transparent and two sided however in ue4 they are one sided and weirdly transparent, what did i do wrong?

[mystic agate]

Can someone PLEASE help me out solving a lighting issue i'm having with mega scans assets. I'm sure its a simple fix but I cant seen to solve it.

[novel lodge]

Is there a channel for portfolio reviews ?

[trim bough]

please i need help to replicate my delegate 😂 just kidding

[short pasture]

how

[plush yew]

can't you just shift select?

[short pasture]

oh ok i am to try

[novel lodge]

The two sided Check In the material options

Or your model may have normal issues

[mystic agate]

WHY! so frustrating.

[plush yew]

It works but the weird transparent thing stays

[plush yew]

this issue where its kinda see through

[mystic agate]

Downloaded assets? botched. Everything else? Normal 😡

[plush yew]

try different light like add a skylight?

[mystic agate]

Have one :/

[plush yew]

try a changing directional light?

[mystic agate]

i mean sure but

not rly a fix

[grim ore]

@plush yew your plugging a color into opacity.. your telling it that the item has opacity and can be transparent... what else are you expecting it to do for that part?

[plush yew]

ill try that thanks again

but thats what the file name is called?

it says alpha so idk?

then what do i plug in?

Cuz the RGBA makes it look more transparent

[grim ore]

whatever you plug into opacity will make it transparent or not depeding on the color you put in with white be opaque (non clear) and black being clear

you are plugging in the RGB channels, which makes up the color of the texture, so it certainly seems like your going to get a grey (partially clear) look

you need to determine if that texture is set up with values or just a mask (1 or 0, black or white no grey)

then you need to figure out which channel (R G B or A) that alpha is set to

then just plug that in to the correct input

[plush yew]

How do you find it?

[grim ore]

usually its in the info for wherever you got the asset, otherwise you open up the texture in UE4 and start looking at the channels

[mystic agate]

A week later and still unanswered 😢

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/mlk6l7/beginner_lighting_issue_help_appreciated/

[grim ore]

for example on this texture, I unchecked all but alpha and you can see the alpha channel is the one that should be used for this

[plush yew]

its pure white

[grim ore]

you have 4 channels, which channel looks like it should be the one for opacity

you have to look thru each of them unless you have instructions

[plush yew]

i dont have instructions

I might just be stupid and doing it wrong but when i select one channel it puts up the same texture for example just blue has the same as just green and red

[grim ore]

chances are then just one channel is the correct alpha mask

[plush yew]

Where is the alpha mask?

is it the opacity?

[grim ore]

by alpha mask I mean the information used to represent the alpha for your material

[plush yew]

I get it im trying them out rn

[grim ore]

be it a grayscale that is used for pure opacity so you have partially transparent, or a black and white actual mask that is used to determine if its clear or not with no in between

try plugging in just the R channel into opacity

[plush yew]

It worked thanks i changed it to masked from transparent and plugged the previous image into opacity mask and R into opcaity like u siad thx

said*

[indigo escarp]

hi pls
how can i create a regenerating health bar

[plush yew]

Another question i create animations and cinematic in ue4, and when you create a hair simulation for example for a character you need to click simulate for it to actually work but is there a way to have a simulation in your sequence without clicking play because that doesn't work, does that make senes?

So you clip sequence captures your simulation, or to animate with a simulation for example.

[kindred viper]

with hair you can affect it in editor with Niagara

[short pasture]

guys can anyone dm me and give me his car model i new in unreal engine so

[kindred viper]

there is a vehicle in the sample for UE4

Both a simple and advanced vehicle in fact

If you want to make custom vehicles, I would run the tutorials on setting up the assets as its extremely important.

[short pasture]

hmmmm ok thanks for help

[plush yew]

But with water simulation like something floating, but you animate it to flow forward but still with the simulation active?

[kindred viper]

I've seen that done recently sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y77-gymwsQ0

thats the one I saw

[plush yew]

thanks ill look at that

[fierce tulip]

"non transparent"
they are transparent, the material is set to translucent (aka transparent) and not masked.

[plush yew]

I fixed it its ok

Im trying to figure out how to animate with a floating simulation in gerstner waves simulation

[short pasture]

there is errors

and this

and this

how can i fix them

[light thunder]

Recreate the variables

[grim ore]

did you copy paste that code? or migrate it over... probably should migrate

[light thunder]

You'll have to recreate them if you copied them

[fierce swan]

Quick question, I'm trying to spawn random health orbs. I'm trying the following approach, based on a video.

1. I have Target Points pre-positioned in the level.
2. The target points are fed into an Array and I am getting a Random integer in Range to spawn my orbs (Spawn Actor) randomly at one of the target points.
3. My Orb BP has a particle emitter, with a collision box around it.
4. I'm using the "On Component Begin Overlap" event on my collision box.

The problem I'm having is that the if my pawn overlaps ANY of the Target Points, even if the orb isn't spawned at that location, it's firing the Overlap event. Any ideas why or am I misunderstanding how this should work?

[short pasture]

i can fix them?

[grim ore]

if you copied them, right click the bad nodes and tell them to create. if you copied them, maybe consider migrating the stuff and not copying

[short pasture]

are you talking to me?

[grim ore]

yep

[short pasture]

like this?

[grim ore]

right click any variable and create it

but again... if you dont know what you're doing you might want to start with learning first. If you copied these from another project, you should have migrated them

[short pasture]

i am don't know what i am doing

[grim ore]

we know, you should learn.

[kindred laurel]

Hi I was just wondering if anyone could assist me with my AI animation?

and then it wont let me get the velocity :((

[grim ore]

have you looked at how the default third person template handles this?

[short pasture]

yes i should learn because i want to fix my game and make it better

[valid sun]

i have a problem i try to login the quixel with my sony account and its still loading its been like 2 hours

[kindred laurel]

yeah and ive tried to replicate it but I dont have a jump or anything for it so idk what to put in its place

[grim ore]

@kindred laurel you are in the animation blueprint, you are trying to get who owns this animation blueprint (Try Get Pawn Owner) and then casting that owner (probably the character?) to the animation blueprint... does that not appear to be wrong?

[valid sun]

il try to restart my pc

[grim ore]

the default third person anim bp.. it doesnt cast anywhere in here to get the velocity jumping doesnt matter for any of that part.

[kindred laurel]

ah okay i just didnt know if i was supposed to put something in the place of 'is in air'

[valid sun]

iam back

[grim ore]

well if you are not using that part, just dont put it

[short pasture]

but where i can learn to fix the errors

[grim ore]

you still only need to ask for the pawn owner (the pawn this anim bp is running on, probably your character) and get its velocity directly. You were trying to get the pawn and tell the pawn it was an animation blueprint and that is why it was not working, the anim blueprint has no velocity

[robust raptor]

Hey guys, when my friend edits a material and saves it, my UE4 crashes. (we are using Multi-User Editing). Any fixes for this?

[grim ore]

@short pasture start with structured learning from the documentation or the learn.unrealengine.com website or youtube

[silver mulch]

ive been getting sudden crashes in UE4 ever since updating my nvidia driver. Keeps saying it has lost the D3D device. I've done every step i can find online but nothing is fixing the error on my laptop

[kindred laurel]

what should i put instead of the 'is falling' and 'is in air' because those say they need someting plugged?

[short pasture]

no i was have a normal car i delete the car and i delete his things in his file and i add a car model and if i prass the play button in unreal engine editer and it said there is errors

[grim ore]

that looks fine, if you arent using the is falling or is in air or that part just dont do it

[kindred laurel]

I'm also sorry to ask this question but I seem to have forgot how to get into the third person state machine?

[grim ore]

on the left

you have your Graphs and Animation Graphs

[kindred laurel]

oh sorry on my third person when i go onto it it won't show the state machine

[short pasture]

ok @grim ore

[grim ore]

in the character or in the anim bp?

[plush yew]

I've made a mistake i enabled Texture LOD in project settings next to ray-tracing and now its just stuck at 39% when launched.

[grim ore]

yes on the left, animation graphs

you have both your code graphs and animation graphs collapsed, the small triangle.

[kindred laurel]

oh thank you!

[grim ore]

@plush yew you wait for it to compile the new shaders then you can disable it

[plush yew]

ok

[true trail]

wow, I just learned that StringTables are not registered in unreal until I open them and save - every time after reopening the projects 😄 Trying to read data from them before doing that resulted in empty strings.
The hack from this thread
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/string-tables-not-loaded-at-start/115171
works, but there surely has to be a better way of doing this 😄

[plush yew]

it loaded my cpu 101%

[light thunder]

What are the console commands to make something go full screen?

Because setting resolution doesn't work, even if I put an f\

[kindred laurel]

I was also just wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction surrounding my objectives. I have objectives set up around my map along with some yellow emission cylinders to act as 'way points' for them to go to. I was just wondering if anyone knew a way to make it so that the next objective and 'way point' doesn't spawn until the last one has been met?

This is what my blockout looks like with them both spawning at the same time. the objectives are collision boxes that bring text on screen when I collide with them

[dull swan]

Anyone know why these HDRI material settings are all greyed out?

[devout portal]

Question: does anyone know of a good reasonably priced online source control service that works with unreal? Not git hub or perforce. Is it best to just rent a server?

[fluid turret]

How do i check if a key is being pressed?

[uneven hemlock]

Quick question

is it possible

to make an array of emtpy

like an array of 10 null pointers

[short pasture]

what i am to do

[upbeat tendon]

How do other analytics systems work? Push data over http? Stream over udp?

[plush yew]

I did some lighting and it's not bad on the ship but at the back doesn't seem right can anyone tell me what i should change and how, i'm not a professional so i probably wont know how to change it?

Its a bit too bright in some places but idk how to change it so it stays the same brightness in other places

[misty wharf]

Is there a way to rebuild a navmesh in C++? Or would it be better to just set the runtime generation to dynamic? I have some objects that can be removed from the level, so I don't want characters to continue pathing around them.

[ocean grove]

How do yall deal with frustration when your code isn't working?

[hexed eagle]

therapy. lots and lots of therapy 😉

I have a question : I've got this : TArray<AWeaponBase> Inventory;

if I add a weapon to the inventory, I use Inventory.AddUnique(Weapon);, where weapon is a property of my function (AWeaponBase* Weapon)

when I retrieve an item by index, ie: Inventory[1] or whatever, does it return a pointer object? ie: AWeaponBase* Weapon; ?

do I need to cast it, or anything before using it?

and 2nd question: How do I check if my inventory already HAS a specific weapon type?

            if (W->GetClass() == Weapon) {
// return found weapon
}
}```

this doesn't work

oh wait.... I may have found my problem

[misty wharf]

I might be easier to assign weapons a unique ID. Then when checking if your inventory already has the weapon you can just compare IDs.

[hexed eagle]

yeah, I'm thinking that might be the way to go too

[misty wharf]

I don't know how large you're expecting your inventory to be, so I guess if it's like 1000s of weapons that might not work great lol

[hexed eagle]

I base all my weapons off the WeaponBase class, so a Rifle or Handgun are both children of WeaponBase

[novel lodge]

it returns a pointer

[hexed eagle]

so if I add them to the inventory, and try and see if I have that weapon based off GetClass, they all return WeaponBase

[novel lodge]

so unless you added a weapon twice each one is a pointer of type AWeaponBase

[novel lodge]

just do if w == Weapon

and if you wanted to then use functions in the subclasses, i.e. rifle then you would cast

[hexed eagle]

ok, testing that

[novel lodge]

IDK I just set mine to dynamic

haven't noticed much performance impact

[misty wharf]

Probably what I'm going to do

[novel lodge]

TArray<AActor> Actors; Actors.Add(nullptr)

[novel lodge]

you could place that in the player controller

then set the options like this so other actors (i.e. characters) can still handle input

[uneven hemlock]

blueprint

i just made my own object blueprint

called it null

and gave it no funcation

so then I just make an array of nulls

LMAO

[surreal eagle]

Oh loo

Lol

[winged notch]

how do i fix this ?

it save 2 of my layers info but the other 5 get deleted when i restart UE4 but 2 stay

[novel lodge]

No

why

would

you

do

such

[novel lodge]

just use the add node

[uneven hemlock]

i did

wait so if u leave it at sleect asset

it just makes it null?

[novel lodge]

pretty sure it does

try it first though

[tiny sonnet]

It's been a few months now, is 4.26 less buggy than before now?? I'm still using 4.25 but I like to use metahuman so yeah

[novel lodge]

never had buggy issues with 4.26

[rigid belfry]

yes

[uneven hemlock]

o ok

good to know

i will do that instead

[rigid belfry]

just like setting an actor reference to null

[tiny sonnet]

Multiplayer? It wasn't stable for multiplayer a few months ago

[rigid belfry]

i have donesome multiplayer and havent crashed once

[novel lodge]

my main project is multiplayer and haven't had any issues

[tiny sonnet]

Ok thank u

[rigid belfry]

about the most recent ue4 livestream( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCt4oLEQ2LU) i havent watched it yet, but do they cover procedural maze generator perhaps? looks like it by the thumbnail

[thick nebula]

metahumans is fun

attention to detail is amazing

[brazen coyote]

hey can anybody help me i have been working on a level and i saved it and then shut off my pc last night and now its nowhere to be found in the project folders

i found the backup Umap file thing but when i drag it in the content bar it doesn't work im new so i might be missing something any help would be appreciated 🙂

[grim ore]

the backup is not named the same as the original, so rename it to match what it should be.

if you saved, the original should still be there

[brazen coyote]

this is in the auto saved thing

so i rename lets say the most recent one

Just hillcamp.umap or?

sorry this must be torture for you im still learning

[grim ore]

yes whatever it was called before, without the _Auto more than likely

it has to be the correct name, and in the correct spot to show back up

but why is the original gone?

[brazen coyote]

no idea man everything else in in my project that level is just gone? its so weird

like it was just in my content thing

just beside those folders

and then boom

it said unknown extension

is it game over 😦

[cedar wave]

Is UI (UMG Widgets) generally handled in the player controller?

[rigid belfry]

what do you mean by that?

[cedar wave]

Like - where is the common/ideal place to put UI widgets? I read on the forums about how it is advised to put it in the player controller so that it can persist from one pawn to another, however, I have been having some issues with that in my networked game.

Plus - the Owning Player pin from the Create Widget node expects a player controller.

My thought process is that the UI widgets should be placed where they need to be - like, the UI for a shooter character (crosshair, ammo count, etc) should be on that character. Or the UI for being in a vehicle (speedometer, fuel tank, damage) should be on that pawn. And the UI stuff that everyone needs should be in a controller (like options menu, minimap, etc)

[kindred viper]

I guess you can do use the playercontroller for it but you can really do it from anywhere. They do expect a player controller for input but I believe it defaults to player 0 so you shouldn't have to worry about it. Often I have functionality for spawning widgets in a place that is accessible throughout the game, such as the GameInstance. But really it's inconsequential. It just needs to be accessible.

[cedar wave]

Well - it's not entirely inconsequential. I was running into an issue in a shipped build where the UI wasn't being added.

[kindred viper]

and what was the issue?

[cedar wave]

Not 100% sure to be honest, I just changed how I was adding the UI and it appears to be working now.

[kindred viper]

then I dont understand your refusal of my statement 😄

[cedar wave]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ui-in-editor-testing-but-not-in-packaged-game/213634

[kindred viper]

I guess if you do it wrong, it wont work but really I guess its down to what you are trying to do

[cedar wave]

This is the post I made about it.

[kindred viper]

ty ill give it a read

so the problem was the OnReady was not firing?

on the client

[fervent verge]

Does anyone know if you can install UE4 onto an offline system?

[kindred viper]

sure

[fervent verge]

How would I go about doing that?

[kindred viper]

you will need internet for the dependencies tho

[fervent verge]

I can not connect it to the internet

that's the issue

[kindred viper]

You can install it on a computer with the internet, then copy it over

[fervent verge]

I need it to see the .dll

[kindred viper]

that being said, im talking about source build here. Binary you can just copy over

[fervent verge]

would binary be the standard download?

[kindred viper]

yeah

[fervent verge]

I've tried that and have had no success I keep getting VCRUNTIME140.dll errors

Is there a way to force the engine to view them?

I was going to do a source install but it's no longer on github

[still pawn]

Is it just me or is there a lot more dead forum links and posts after the forum update. Google is now riddled with pages that lead to Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private. on the UE forums

[fervent verge]

Yeah I've noticed that too

[kindred viper]

@fervent verge you don't have the Visual C runtimes installed I guess. Perhaps update your .NET and runtimes would help

[solemn gale]

hi guys all good I'm having a problem with the water system, in case it models the terrain and pops up the postprocess but the water does not appear put the brush manager and continues the same way everything from the plugin really changes in the landscape runs out of water

[fervent verge]

@kindred viper how would I force it to see my Visual C

[kindred viper]

that doesn't make sense to me sorry. You need to update your runtime files. There are .NET requirements and basic runtimes that need to be installed. Essentially making sure your windows is uptodate and you have made sure it updates all the runtimes it offers you

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads-2647da03-1eea-4433-9aff-95f26a218cc0

[fervent verge]

I have 2017 and 19 installed, and when trying to install 2015 today it said it couldn't due to 17

[rigid belfry]

so while in editor, UI works fine but in a shipped build you have no UI?

[cedar wave]

Correct

Whenever I test in editor - with that setup in I had in the forum post, it works as desired. It's in a shipped build that it doesn't.

[wild cobalt]

hey all,

I had to uninstall UE4 for a while and got a new harddrive and I want to install UE4 to that harddrive, however the launcher is on my C: drive. Will installing UE4 in a different harddrive then the launcher cause issues

[kindred viper]

no

[rigid belfry]

not really going too deep into this since its very late right now, but have you considered using the HUD class?

[kindred viper]

I never install anything that isn't operating system orientated on my C drive. Everything is on separate drives

[narrow mauve]

Does anyone here have any problem adding Curves to materials?

I am trying to use curves for a volumetric clouds and they apparently don't exist when trying to add it

4.26.2

[cedar wave]

I have the problem solved currently - just waiting on my friend to hop online to make sure it works networked as well.

Using the HUD class doesn't answer the question that I really have though. Which is, why does that happen?

[past rock]

Hi everyone,

Got a question on fog/haziness, not sure if this is an Unreal Engine thing or if the Ocean Plugin I'm using may be playing apart in it.
When near sea level, it gets very hazy the further I move the camera away from objects (in this case ships)

But when I move the camera farther up, the haziness dissipates, although the ships do take on a bit of a bright white appearance.
Wondering what settings I might have to play with to maybe reduce this?

Current stuff in my level

I initially thought is was AtmosphericFog, but even getting rid of it doesn't seem to change things much.
Wondering what I should look into to adjust the fog issue

[wild cobalt]

so I can leave the launcher on the C drive and just install UE4 to my D drive without issues then is what you are saying

[kindred viper]

yeah

[rigid belfry]

i think its because of how you're calling the event, but i need to read it carefully. its 1am right now in europe

[past rock]

what I have in my scene for this whole fog issue:

[rigid belfry]

just to clear things up. on clients, only the owning controller exists, while the server has references to all player controllers

[wild cobalt]

thank you

[rigid belfry]

In the pawn’s begin play - I go through a has authority check and if it is server
an event set to execute on server would suffice

something like InitPlayer

pretty sure you could quite literally do "create widget-> add to viewport" on the player controller and it would still work fine

since clients only have their own PC ref and server is most likely(the first created player controller is always 0!!)at index 0

but again, take this with a grain of salt since i am very sleepy

another approach(what i would honestly do) is on whatever event you're creating the widget, add a branch and get the "IsLocalPlayerController" function. on true-> create widget

[rigid belfry]

i think you're not getting any error because the code is running perfectly. only problem is its not getting the right player controller

[stiff sail]

how would i get a var that i made in my player character in a different actor?

[plush yew]

I was thinking about make a character creator like the sims4, not in a game, a standalone tool, i was thinking basemesh + blendshapes, anyone have experience in this? how hard can be make something like this? and if hire a studio or freelancers how much can cost a project like this?

[sturdy vessel]

Most searches now I see broken forum links on google :/

[still pawn]

@sturdy vessel Glad I'm not going crazy, at least the links are reachable via UE forum search but still :/

[sturdy vessel]

yeah, been doing that too, just completely different URL and even forum post id

guess gotta wait for google to reindex

[sick ridge]

Hi @everyone I need help importing an alembic cache into Unreal. So im exporting an animation from Maya using the alembic cache method since its a complex animation. However, I keep getting this error message when I try to import into unreal.

Not sure how to fix this issue

[kindred viper]

you have doubles in your mesh

[sick ridge]

how can i fix it?

[kindred viper]

you need to clean it up thats all

Merge the vertices by distance of something really low like 0.0001 and it will be fine

[sick ridge]

how would I do that?

[kindred viper]

in your 3d tool (maya, blender, etc)

[sick ridge]

yes and how do I merge the vertices?

[kindred viper]

depends, what app do you use?

[sick ridge]

Maya

[kindred viper]

I don't know I use blender sorry

[sick ridge]

okay that's fine thanks for the help anyways!

[kindred viper]

no worries. Good luck and have fun !

[sick ridge]

Ill see how I can figure it out, thanks !

[calm pollen]

does anyone know the best way to get a 2d sprite ball rolling with physics, for some reason mine doesnt roll around clean

it completes like half the rotation then resets, there are no locks on btw

[somber rover]

Anyone know what material node this is? https://prnt.sc/11hezmu

[calm pollen]

@somber rover that means that is subtracting 1 increment from the result (x)

i think at least, hover over it and it might tell you some more

[somber rover]

it's a jpg pic of a material, so can't hover over it

[stray ruin]

its called one minus pretty sure

[calm pollen]

@somber rover i found this online, see how the max of the clamp is 1 and the min is 0, it just takes away from whatever numeric value your colors/textures are set to

[somber rover]

Thanks!

[robust marten]

Let’s say I’m making a fun little shooter. As you kill stuff you’ll earn EXP. on each level up you can pick a random perk. I’m wondering what the best way of going about creating the perks would be to make things as less complicated and neat as possible. Data tables? Simple Boolean variables? Structure? Enum? What would be the best way to keep track of perks in your opinion ?

[plush yew]

Fuck yeah

[polar fossil]

anyone know if the recent nintendo switch performance improvements made in the fortnite fork will make it into mainline ue?

[calm pollen]

it's really what you are comfortable with, I used boolean varaibles that go to a save file, but as long as you know what you are doing stick to what you feel you can do

[calm pollen]

does anyone know why this happens, im trying to make it roll like a ball would but its not cooperating lol

ball is moving btw even tho it doesnt really look like it ^^

[next nebula]

I have a gun I 3d modeled but there are multiple parts to it that I cannot join together otherwise it messes up the model. However, when I import it, it comes out in multiple pieces as if it wants me to build legos.

how can I have his not happen

[grim ore]

choose combine meshes when you import it

[next nebula]

I literally just read that on a forum thank you

the outside of the gun is all f'd up so I need to fix hat now

ugh

[sick ridge]

@kindred viper thanks i was able to get it work by triangulating the mesh

[stiff sail]

is there a way to get a actors static mesh component that you hit with a draw line

[grim ore]

get the components from it yep

[stiff sail]

wouldn't that just get all the components of the actor?

this bottom one doesnt seem right cause its a different type

[grim ore]

either one of these would work, get the actor from the hit, get the static mesh component that is on it, then do whatever

or get the component you hit, cast it to static mesh component, and if it passes do what you want

[stiff sail]

hmmm ok

ayy that worked

thx

[prime willow]

@grim ore so im working on my groom system following this tutorial

but if my characters heads shape can change and bend a bit based on morphs

shouldnt i have morphs on my grooms

so it changes shapes with the head to stay consistent

[kindred viper]

the groom will be bound to the skeletal mesh. It should change with it

[prime willow]

wait

the grooms will change its shape at the head base

to stay stuck to the head o-o

[kindred viper]

Ive not tried it but it should do

[prime willow]

that's really weird but okie than ill follow the tutorial and see what happens

[kindred viper]

I wondered myself about this and variant head sizes

[prime willow]

^ yup

[kindred viper]

it seemed my grooms just worked tho

once bound

[prime willow]

im building a custom creator system for my game and its hard with the lack of proper tutorials x3

[kindred viper]

yeah its no easy task

[grim ore]

not an artist so I couldnt even guess, havent touched grooms yet but I should lol

[kindred viper]

it's about all I've done for the past 3 months 🙂

[prime willow]

ah i understand sorry to bother you with it x.x

[grim ore]

theres no proper tutorials since theres no one way to do it heh

[prime willow]

yesh

ive noticed that

[kindred viper]

yeah the initial creation side is DCC specific, but the import/component setup is the same

[prime willow]

i dont blame you marc ive been procastoting alot lately..

[grim ore]

plus gonna be honest, if you have the skills to do it you would make people pay you to show them either with a plugin or being hired to do it professionally

[prime willow]

idk why though its like im not really in it to be honest

oh really?

[kindred viper]

if anyone wants to pay me to show them how to do I come at a reasonably extortionate fee 😄

[prime willow]

ive slowly and surely been building ym creator system and im nearly done

just need to connect the pieces together and make a base outfit via marvelous creator and 1 or 2 haircuts

[grim ore]

yep you could get the basics for sure but after the basics its all custom to your goals

[prime willow]

yush ^

okie back to this tutorial

thanksies guys ❤️

[kindred viper]

have fun

[prime willow]

oh sorry to be a bother again to you matheww if youre still around

but i remember we spoke a while ago about being able to attach events like getting stuck in a window due to your tush morph being past a certain parameter

but couldnt i do the exact same and tie something like your stats atk, def, hp, spd, agl, dex and etc to certain morphs

kind of like how ffarr xiv has morph based differences in the races you can pick which change their elemental attunement and stats slightly

[grim ore]

morphs are just data, dont see why not

[prime willow]

i know dragon ball xenoverse does the same thing as well where your morph options change pertenages of your stats

ah

so okie thats really good xD

[grim ore]

waist morph is X, give it a bonus based on a range, etc.

[prime willow]

oh so it isnt even all that hard

its almost the same as the whole cause event where tush stuck because youre in the window and morph is at x

[grim ore]

well like lets say your morph is 0 to 100 and you want to give them a bonus based on every 25? you would map the 0 to 100 range to say 0 to 4 and plug in the value and it would give you a result

[prime willow]

ah

so for example

lets say i wanted a 10% difference in lets use range

would i map it as 1% per 10

[grim ore]

there is a map range node, or just use the math but yep

[prime willow]

oh thats really really cool >O<

[grim ore]

you would put in the min and max for your morph then the min and max you want it to be mapped to then the value and magic

[prime willow]

im definitely saving this for reference ❤️

okie and i have one more weird question

i just wanna know the term so i can go research it

so i made a mesh and skeleton and used it for my third person character

as my controlable character

however in a tutorial they made me turn the mesh into a blueprint

lemme find it

https://gyazo.com/f03d6132528210b5da12589d625a854d

^ this right here

however is it possible to have multiple blueprints link back to that one above

[grim ore]

well thats a blueprint, probably a character blueprint based on the name

[prime willow]

so they all sort of work as one sandwich

yes character blueprint

[grim ore]

yes, its called inheritence or child/parent relationship

[prime willow]

ah

[grim ore]

its common in programming

[prime willow]

so thats what im looking for

[grim ore]

its already a child

character is a child of pawn is a child of actor is a child of object

[prime willow]

because i want to link a bunch of systems together to a character blueprint so many state machines and such can occur in tandem

damn unreal engine is so cool sadfghj

so its called inheritence or child/parent relationship right

thats what i wanna look for to link stuff together?

[grim ore]

child / parent is what I would look for, inheritence is the normal programmy way of dealing with it

[prime willow]

ah okie okie

thanksies sooo much ❤️

youre definitely best boi

if my game comes out as intended im definitely going to pay it forward to you ❤️

its the least i can do~

[grim ore]

just help out other people if you can 🙂

[prime willow]

thats been the goal since day one ;D

okie back to work for me

[fleet sparrow]

For melee attack which would be best: Putting a collider and on hitevent trigger the damage function or on animnotify putting a sphere trace and trigger the damage.....?

[modest trench]

I vote sphere traces if you can get away with it

I like to store the previous frame's bone position and use that to trace from to the current

[next nebula]

for some reason my text isnt taking its material property I gave it and goes invisible when I click my screen. Any help? I already have High Quality Normals enabled.

[kind dew]

I can't package! i get this error
Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Classes\GameFramework/PlayerController.h(223): error C2143: syntax error: missing ';' before '<class-head>'

[next nebula]

r u handwriting code

or noding

[kind dew]

i don't touch that playercontrol class at all

no cpp

[next nebula]

huh

weird

[lime gull]

Ive got a quick question
If I were to make a moba type game, in the sense that there are unique characters with their own abilities, how would that actually work?
The way I understand it I have to cast either every type of ability / every character in the game to do damage

Would I be able to get a reference to the character hit and do the cast that way? Or are there easier ways

[mystic robin]

When I enable any plugin I can't package game. It's shows error clang++ linker complier.

[calm pollen]

that just means that it's not compatible, what plugin are you using

for example, some plugins can't be packaged into a mobile game

[mystic robin]

Yes I was packaging for mobile

[calm pollen]

make sure to look at it in the marketplace, if it doesn't support your platform its not gonna work

[mystic robin]

But I tried Mobile plugin too. Like Google admob goodie

[calm pollen]

what plugin is having issues?

ill look at it

[mystic robin]

All

[calm pollen]

ok what do you have installed, too many plugins can be a bad thing

[mystic robin]

I only install 3 and enable 1 in my project

[solar gorge]

What does Alt + S, so that it forces me to eject, and how can I stop this? (UE4 tells me the keybind to eject/ possess is F8)

[calm pollen]

ok what are they tho send the names

[calm pollen]

the eject just means that you can view your game from outside the camera view if that is what you're asking

[mystic robin]

I get same error when I use advance session plugin.

[next nebula]

wait im in the wrong help

lmfao

[solar gorge]

I know what it is, but I don't want Alt + S to do that, since it controlls a part of the movement, so I was curious if anyone knows how I would disable such thing?

[calm pollen]

look at the marketplace where you downloaded it, does it say mobile supported?

[solar gorge]

(The Alt + S eject, I want that disabled, not the movement)

[mystic robin]

Yes it does

Admob goodies is made for mobile.

I have 26.2

Is it because of this. Plugins are not updated for 26.2 I guess

[calm pollen]

ok go to edit>editor preferences>keyboard shortcuts, and look for what you need

[calm pollen]

that might be it, send your error message here if you want, I might be able figure it out from seeing that

[mystic robin]

Wait

[solar gorge]

Hmmm, no luck. Weird...

[calm pollen]

what you could do is temporarily bind whatever you need to something else for testing and then switch it back before packaging

[solar gorge]

I'm never gonna package it (its a school project), just mainly like that way of movement, but i'll try to look into it more maybe.

[grim ore]

@lime gull your question is very strange, how would you trigger the ability on the player? that would have all the info on the ability and what it would do so why would you need to cast?

[lime gull]

Lets just simplify it and say its similar to shooting at a player

Whenever the bullet ( ability ) would hit the player id like to lower that players health

[grim ore]

when that ability is used you have all the info on the ability

[lime gull]

How Would I get it to lower a target players health though?

[grim ore]

you would tell the target to take damage. There are apply damage nodes built into pawns, or you could use a custom event to do that

[lime gull]

So within the ability I could just get the target hit and apply damage to them?

Thinking about it, it does make sense )

[grim ore]

yep

[lime gull]

Alright, thanks!

[grim ore]

if you ever get to a point you think you have to cast multiple times to try and get something to happen or to try and figure out what you re casting to, you can look into using interfaces instead

[lime gull]

I think I could just use an Actor overlap node, and then have the overlapped actor / enemy player be the target, I don't think id need to cast multiple times but ill keep that in mind

[grim ore]

you should never have to cast multiple times

[lime gull]

Yea I could just reuse that cast multiple times

[short pasture]

guys why it said to me warinng?

like that?

ok

[plush yew]

I did some lighting and it's not bad on the ship but at the back doesn't seem right can anyone tell me what i should change and how, i'm not a professional so i probably wont know how to change it, i think it's a bit too bright in some places but idk how to change it so it stays the same brightness in other places?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/832339629301956678/unknown.png

[short pasture]

i have a issue if i click play it can't let me drive the car

[thorn lichen]

@plush yew are you referring to the exposure? If so, try turning it down.

[short pasture]

is there a fix for that?

[short pasture]

guys

[plush yew]

exposure in the directional lights

Created this in 5 minutes

[short pasture]

hmmmmm i try it it not work

that is the map

you mean in project settings?

wait what i am to do in project settings?

can you dm me and send to me a video show me how to do it