ue4-general

[short pasture]

ok

[plush yew]

Why is my buoyancy not working, i added pontoons but my object just falls through the water

[short pasture]

thanks for help man

[plush yew]

can anyone help with my buoyancy problem please if anyone knows?

[tropic anvil]

Can we display full web pages in Unreal?

[granite creek]

uneral water system?

[plush yew]

yes

I wrote my issue earlier like a few messages before

[short pasture]

i am have a issue in my car model i press play and i try to move the car i press a it not work and i press d it not work only w and s button working

[granite creek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKX-OBjz-Lo

[granite creek]

setup input of steering axis

[willow trellis]

Is there any way I can instruct UnreanBuildTool to add extra segments to my binary? Or tell it to increase a given segment's size by a given number of bytes beyond what would normally have? I am particularly interested in mobile Elf files hence the "segment" word. PE format goes with the word "section"

[short pasture]

i already make it

[granite creek]

show me input project settings

[granite creek]

its correct ,maybe check wheel steering settings

also try print string to make sure that input axis fires correctly

[short pasture]

where can i find the wheel steering settings

[granite creek]

in wheel blueprints and maybe in movement component default values

[short pasture]

in one of them?

[granite creek]

first check if your vehicle wheels that are supposed to steer are set to wheel front

then check if wheel front has steering enabled and has correct steering angle

[plush yew]

Alright!! let me ask you all a question? what are some reasons you rage when online gaming? im trying to make an online game that doesn’t induce rage while still being unique and exciting

[short pasture]

in the wheel front blueprints?

[granite creek]

sadly rage is why people play online games

games like league of legends and royale games often team you up with bad teammates to make you suffer

[plush yew]

yeah but im about to snap my phone in half and now i cant sleep

[granite creek]

if you dont suffer it becomes boring

[granite creek]

wheel setups are in movementcomponent defaults

[plush yew]

Its 1 in the morning and i cant sleep cuz i want to destroy something

[short pasture]

jest tell me where i can see that

[granite creek]

your vehicle blueprint -> MovementComponent in left panel and defaults will show up in right panel after you click

[cinder whale]

Hello

I'm working with UE4 and I keep stumbling on dead forum pages - https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/32533-c-event-dispatchers-how-do-we-implement-them - even though the content would be really useful to me right now

where did these pages go? Were they moved somewhere? 🙂 How can I access the information?

[granite creek]

click on movement component

[short pasture]

now i click on it

[granite creek]

thats the pawn movement component is in top left window at the end of list

[short pasture]

yes yes i clicked on it

[granite creek]

now find the wheel settings

there is 4 wheels in that settings

make sure front wheels are using front wheel blueprints

[granite creek]

front wheel

[granite creek]

did you make front wheel bp your self or its the ue4 default front wheel bp?

[short pasture]

you mean in this image?

[short pasture]

will yes i make it my self

[granite creek]

I recommend starting in default vehicle sample and change vehicle mesh step by step and play the game between each step to see where the problem start to appear

[short pasture]

ok

[glacial dawn]

@plush yew just do it cooperative, with no scores of any kind. Without competition there shouldn't be any rage, just a game without winners and losers.

[rigid belfry]

how do i make my projectiles always go in a straight line?

do i code the projectile logic myself? something like OnTick->setLocation" in the forward direction?

dont really need all of the fancy stuff from the Projectile component anyway

[modest trench]

looks like whatever controls their little sprite's rotation is what's turning and not the projectile itself

also yeah you could very easily make this yourself

[rigid belfry]

what do you mean by that?

the ship's rotation is nothing more than visual after all

[modest trench]

when you stopped moving they instantly right themselves

[rigid belfry]

its just sprites

[modest trench]

do they always need to be in front of the ship even if it moves?

it looks like they are moving straight from where they spawn, but the sprite rotates

[rigid belfry]

yeah they follow their original foward direction but they seem to be attached to the player

for a a couple frames, that is

[modest trench]

I just feel like the sprite is aligned based on screen space velocity or something

or maybe that's just motion blur

[granite creek]

disable gravity in projectile defaults

[modest trench]

oooh, they are tilting down

I assumed the issue was the rotation

[cinder whale]

Hello

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/14624-noise-node

A lot of useful resources from the unreal engine forums appear to be dead links, even though the previews work

Were these resources moved? 🙂 Where can I access this informaiton?

[modest trench]

it's cached in google at least https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HwXPqVotR1wJ:https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/14624-noise-node+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-b-d

bummer they lost some posts though

[rigid belfry]

the projectiles are only moving about the X and Y axis

wait

whats that tick

[granite creek]

for a game like that projectile movement component is not recommended

projectile movement component is for projectile simulation

thats an arcade game

either apply force in direction of shooting to an blueprint and disable gravity and let the physics engine handle the projectile speed or apply offset in direction of forward (if you are going to make homing projectiles this one is more flexible for changes )

[cinder whale]

This link is dead

but I need the info 🙂 how can I create a component in C++ that is equivalent to adding a "sphere" component in blueprint ?

Not spherecollision, sphere default static mesh

[modest trench]

click the little arrow and you can get a cached version from google

[cinder whale]

😮

Pretty cool! i didn't know this trick

[modest trench]

not really a great solution but it's something if they won't restore those links

it won't store images etc

[rigid belfry]

not really sure why this is happening

wonder whether this only happens with sprites

[modest trench]

motion blur must affect that material differently somehow

beats me

[rigid belfry]

this is getting ridiculous

[exotic thicket]

are you sure the scale of the object is right?

it kinda looks like it has a weird scaling applied to it

[modest trench]

TAA related?

seeing people who just turned motion blur to 0.0 on the camera to fix this on answerhub

[exotic thicket]

Yeah I mean it's one of the three: 1) Scale 2) motion blur 3) TAA

that's in order of how easy it'll be to fix :P

or I guess it could be also that for some reason the sprite is slightly rotated making it look like that

[rigid belfry]

it kinda get too obscured, but the actor has the right direction whereas the sprite flies off

i think something's happening to the sprite somehow

[exotic thicket]

So why don't you start by checking if the sprite is oriented and scaled correctly

because that's the most obvious cause of this

[rigid belfry]

well it is not the scale

i wanna see what happens if i spawn a static mesh instead

[exotic thicket]

worth a try, I guess you could just spawn a cube instead, it definitely shouldn't look like that

have you tried pausing it after shooting?

eg. pause it and eject, this should allow you to fly closer to the projectile to have a look at it

[rigid belfry]

yeah thats what i did

actually

let me see some footage of these kinda games

because i think this is actually how they should work? i think

[exotic thicket]

it depends on what kind of effect you want for it I guess

if you want the details of your sprite to show then this could obscure it, but it depends on your artstyle

[short pasture]

but how can i to do it

[glacial pecan]

anyone have a link to the Unreal 5 64-bit world precision/size thing?

must have been called something else because my google-fu fails me atm

[dawn gull]

Are there any plugins for multi-threading in BP?

[viral fractal]

Did they say anything about that ?

[glacial pecan]

I swear I saw it

[dawn gull]

I never heard anything about that

[viral fractal]

Me neither... Would be nice if it will get it tho

Or at least origin shift

[glacial pecan]

hrrmmm... I can't have imagined it...

[viral fractal]

We dont know a lot about UE5 so far right

[dawn gull]

Could be Mandela effect, they may have said something similar

[viral fractal]

I havent worked with UE for a few months now and wanted to get the latest NvRTX Branch installed Yesterday but it fails to generate project Files 🤔 has Something changed there ?

Can show the error in a second

i cant get it to show up in english

its missing the projectfile it says..

[plush yew]

Blend material attributes is returning a checkerboard instead of a blend of the materials. If I disconnect either one of the incoming make material attributes nodes it works fine and doesn't show the checker board. What is wrong

[short pasture]

i think this is the problem idk

[slate thicket]

if my game crashes before the editor even shows up, am i fucked

at 75% loading it crashes every time

[knotty summit]

Is 4.27 expected? They mention it in bug tracker, but is it going to be released as 4.27 or we will have UE5
https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-75284

[honest vale]

It was in some tech talk about geospatial data or so

[glacial pecan]

Ahh, glad I wasn't imagining things...

[short pasture]

guys i can do a username system to my game in unreal engine?

[honest vale]

yes you can if you know how

[robust marten]

I'm having trouble getting the game to not allow players to pass an invisible wall but allowing enemies to. Even if I change their channels to something like "player channel" and "enemy channel" the blocking volume only allows both to pass/be blocked depending on what "Pawn" is set to.

wow, actually it's the EXACT same situation as this guy right here. He says he solved it but in usual forum fashion, doesn't post the solution. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/756717/player-only-barrier-only-block-player-pawns.html

[woven copper]

hey i have some problems with a Mixamo Character! He looks realy bad in ue4 compared to Mixamo´s viewer or the Windows fbx viewer and i cant find a solution online :c maybe someone of you knows the problem (left is the Mixamo pic and right my ue4 pic)

[exotic otter]

does anyone know a slate widget that is basically an array of strings i can give in and press on a button to add to an array in code?

[knotty moth]

Hello can someone point me to the right channel where i can ask about model problems?

[short pasture]

i don't know how

[viral fractal]

"Failed to download 'http://cdn.unrealengine.com/dependencies/2636758-e606e606851e4693b1729dd35dcef7ae/345f37ad429b27f1360cf26aa535ef037724f7c4'"

now this is happening when loading deps. for source build

i can load the file manually.. where the hell does it go in the UE folder ?

[inner silo]

@woven copper yea its happend with me too

why is the only head moving ?

[woven copper]

did you find a fix?

[inner silo]

@woven copper no its a website problem *the image is fake

[woven copper]

But when I open the file with the windows fbx viewer it looks like the one on the website?

[ocean grove]

Is code from older versions automatically updated when switching engine version or will it just break? I'm doing a module and they used 4.24 and (Like a genius) started my project in 4.26 and my code isn't working like theirs and I'm assuming its the difference in engine versions.

[inner silo]

@woven copper but the mesh is fake

[pseudo river]

UE 5 when

[rocky epoch]

it came out weeks ago

[pseudo river]

Lies

[plush yew]

its not out for real till later this year, expect during the late year of 2021

[pastel yarrow]

Hi, guys is there a way to download the metahuman character as a static mesh?

I want to use the animations from mixamo, but can't find a way to do it

[plush yew]

its downloaded the way it is in quixel bridge

[pastel yarrow]

Yeah I know, but they are as blueprint

I would like to get the character as static mesh, or put some good animations, but the issue is that the rigging they used is quite complicated and gives some work to get work with the default character or mixamo animations

[inner silo]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/832612232093368350/unknown.png

why cant i move the whole mesh ?

[plush yew]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

welp time to set up the discord game sdk set up in unreal

this makes total sense

no stroke here

[lament oxide]

could someone explain to me why the rotation of a camera differs when a pawn is placed in the world compared to its position in the blueprint

these cameras are facing forwards but when placed into a scene they are side on

and if I rotate the character the cameras remain the same rotation

[earnest violet]

I am trying to stop my game's intro music from playing if the intro is skipped when clicking on a Ui button? I am using a simple audio stop node but it want an audio component reference in the target. Does anyone know what goes into target on the stop audio node? I thought it might need my actual music file, ya know a sound cue or sound wav but that's not the case me thinks. If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be forver grateful! Thx. 🙂

[tawny nacelle]

there is no " stop camera shake " in my unreal engine .. any help how to stop " play world camera shake"

[earnest violet]

I am trying to stop my game's intro music from playing if the intro is skipped when clicking on a Ui button? I am using a simple audio stop node but it want an audio component reference in the target. Does anyone know what goes into target on the stop audio node? Please see screenshot for quer. THX! 🙂

Someone please help. I really am perplexed as to what node I need. Someone take mercy on me and tell me what I am doing wrong? thx

=/

It basically wants to know what sound I want to stop playing I think but the target don't accept sound waves or sound cues and my intro music is a sound cue. 😦

[stable orbit]

Hello, just looking at this for the past couple of days and trying to understand what exactly they're doing here: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/industry/hmi To me it simply seems like people are just going to be using their UMG to create designs and connected them the car (very basic answer).

Or is it something they haven't actually released yet and that's why I can't seem to find anything about it?

[tough stream]

it actually tells you what node you need, "target is audio component". Instead of playing sound at location or sound 2d you could make an audio component and set the sound on that to be the intro music you have, then play it? that's my first thought

[earnest violet]

@tough stream If I type in "Audio Component" when searching in the target I don't know what to choose as it won't let me let me point it towards a sound cue that is playing! Any ideas what audio component node I need I don't get it I'm rerally dumb! 😦

[tough stream]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrvr0MHIac check out this

[earnest violet]

@tough stream I need to know how to stop a play sound 2d node. Got any tutorials for that m8? Cheers then bro! 🙂

[tough stream]

you can't stop a play sound 2d node, it will play out the sound until it's finished

[earnest violet]

@tough stream Okay thx! That helps a lot nice bro. You just saved me hours of torment. Thx once more Kira!

[surreal vector]

Hi there i have a question, is it possible to make a collision between only one object and a pawn? or an object with collision that one pawn can go through?

[grim ore]

yes, set up custom channels for collision

[surreal vector]

qlright thqnk you

[sharp willow]

cheers VS

[winter hull]

Hey guys, i want to implement ai controlled tank movement logic for my rts game (like command and conquer). I need a box collision component and rotation before movement. I started with a pawn and started my own movement component but i realized its probably overkill for the task. Where should i put my logic? Should i use pawnmovement controller as parent for my controller?

[sullen drift]

hey, simple question. when you convert actors into static mesh, will you still be able to edit them? like for example i have 2 cubes, and i convert them into one static mesh, is it possible to resize one of the cubes from the static mesh that i just convert?

[winter hull]

it is

[sullen drift]

how do u do that

[winter hull]

sorry i got that wrong

[sullen drift]

oh

[winter hull]

its probably not possible in ue4

in my mind i was in blender joining cubes 😄

[sullen drift]

oh lol

[winter hull]

but why join them at all?

just use 2x static meshes in your scene?

[plush yew]

What's that pfp 😬

[sullen drift]

because i had like 600 actors in my level

for just 1 house

[winter hull]

uhm

what are you trying to accomplish?

destroyable walls?

[grim ore]

@winter hull if its AI there should be no probelm with putting any logic in the character/pawn or in the controller, generally you just put it wherever it makes more sense. If this one AI controller will controller more than one pawn/character type, in the controller. If the movement code is unique to the pawn/character, then in that

[winter hull]

thanks mathew 🙂

love your yt tutorials by the way 🙂

[glossy spruce]

does anyone know where is the Basescability.ini file at? I cant seem to find it in the Config folder. Do i need to create it or something?

[short pasture]

those buttons not working on my car model

[short pasture]

what i will to do?

[cedar wave]

Because you're not processing the input on the car

Literally all I can say without you showing more

[gray kindle]

any idea why this could be happening? the grass gets darker the further it gets from the camera

[sullen drift]

thats a nice landscape dude

[drowsy snow]

I have seen this too many times.

It seems like more forum post didn't survive the Discourse change than what we thought.

[gray kindle]

thanks!

[sullen drift]

i made this with only starter contents, cubes, and textures from quixel

[misty wharf]

Yeah been seeing this a bit. You can find a google cache of a lot of them though

[vale silo]

does it make sense to have 2 behavior trees, one for non-combat and for combat, and switch them (if possible) when appropriate, instead of having one massive behavior tree that incorporate both combat and non-combat behaviors ?

[shell hamlet]

anyone here that have knowledge about Daz3D to Unreal plugin?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it's possible.

[vale silo]

right, but does it make sense ?

what are the downsides to using multiple BTs?

[viral fractal]

What program should i select when building from source now ?? It doesnt Display BlankProgram or UE4 anymore

[dusk echo]

Hi guys I recently decided to try to learn Unreal. I have some programming experience with c++ and I used Unity. What tutorials do you suggest?

[ocean grove]

Have you seen any of the unreal learning modules/

[viral fractal]

Jump into the editor and make yourself comfortable with the UI, try to do the stuff you used to do in unity

Once you did that, look at Tutorials

[ocean grove]

I strongly disagree.

[viral fractal]

A learning by doing approach always worked best for me

I recommend what has proven to work for me

[grim ore]

@viral fractal building from source? it should show UE4 on the top right you build from that

[viral fractal]

Yeah it used to do, but Not anymore

[grim ore]

what does your show in the solution manager?

[ocean grove]

Oh no that definitely works for some people, but I really think people should be pointed to the Learning Modules on Unreal's website.

[dusk echo]

Do they have cpp tutorials aswell?

[ocean grove]

They are somewhat tedious, but lay down an extremely solid foundation.

[grim ore]

if you dont know the engine/editor, dont try and learn the C++ parts of it

[ocean grove]

Great question

[grim ore]

and yes there are some C++ learn courses

[viral fractal]

only these

[grim ore]

not in the build menu, the solution explorer on the right

you should be building from that

[dusk echo]

I'll check it out after I can navigate through the editor ofc. I just wanted to know since I am not used to cpp used for gamedev.

[viral fractal]

yeah i did, but it doesnt work

[ocean grove]

@dusk echo https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses these are what I'm referring to.

[dusk echo]

Thank you man I'll check it out later

[viral fractal]

it starts "BuildAgent" when i want to launch the thing now

[grim ore]

learn how the editor works, learn how stuff in the editor works in the engine using the built in systems and blueprints. then if you feel the need to learn how the engine uses C++, take that knowledge and apply it to C++

[viral fractal]

i followed the same procedure as always when building the engine

[grim ore]

show the solution explorer?

[ocean grove]

They really hold your hand while going through the basics, I hadn't realized I had some serious foundational knowledge gaps

[grim ore]

right click UE4 and "set as startup project"

[viral fractal]

facepalm ok.. i forgot that xD thank you

[grim ore]

🙂

[viral fractal]

what a few months of being outside can do to your brain

[grim ore]

yep you had BuildAgent as the startup project (its bold)

[viral fractal]

it auto selected that

ah finally it works

[fierce summit]

Hi there, i've written a lot of movement logic in my maincharacter's class (inherits from ACharater) but i suspect there is a "cleaner" way of doing things ('im a newbie) do you guys have advices? Is a big big class ok or should i split into a few little ones based on their functions?

[viral fractal]

now i wonder if the default engine changed aswell.. i dont remember UE4 not showing up up there

this here is the nvidia developer branch

[grim ore]

@fierce summit all of that is fine, just do it based on your project and how you want it. In the controller? sure. in the character? sure. in components on the character? sure

[vale silo]

@drowsy snow what are the downsides to using multiple BTs?

[viral fractal]

ah there they are, what i wanted 👀

[fierce summit]

thanks a lot

[grim ore]

I can say that it seems to be common for projects once you start cleaning them up and they get larger to break it apart into smaller classes based on their functions. People seem to like to make components that handle "stuff" so they can just add "stuff" to "stuff" lol

[vale silo]

@grim ore do you happen to know if there are any downsides to using multiple behavior trees instead of a single one ?

[grim ore]

none that I can think of off the top of my head. it seems to make sense if your tree is going to be robust

alternately I know you can have like child and parent nodes and graphs

your top level could just be your "what should I be doing" then it could drop down into the idle graph or the combat one

but yeah almost never anything wrong with reducing bloat 🙂

[vale silo]

thanks

[night stirrup]

Im having the weirdest problem on my editor. The meshes that are behind are rendering on top of others.... and this happened from yesterday to today , with no change other than adding the megascan plugin to the engine (which I already removed but nothing changed....). Has anyone encountered something like this?

[plush yew]

oop

[night stirrup]

Also, the engine icons are flat on XY plane !?

[grim ore]

you did change something

you changed the near clip plane, dont you remember doing that?

[night stirrup]

holyshi

yes

i did

but when I did it was working fine

[plush yew]

ah, dont yall love hdd

[night stirrup]

YES

[grim ore]

yep it uses the old settings for editor stuff, it wont use your 0 value until the next restart

[night stirrup]

THANKS @grim ore

Also, love the WTF is and HTF videos :D! Thank you for that too

[honest vale]

at that point you could just outsource your HDD to your ISP and get better latencies and read write speeds

😄

[plush yew]

lol

[mild belfry]

gotta love physics

[viral fractal]

does nvidia have a discord or where could i get help with RTXGI in UE4

for some reason it does... nothing

[dense knoll]

How do you set emmiter bounds

[glacial pecan]

Is it possible to have an unreal material automatically detect if it's in a packaged build or if it's being played in the editor?

[deep viper]

It seems like the editor viewport controls (e.g. QWEASD) still function during PIE and Standalone, is there a way of disabling that input behavior during Play?

[grim ore]

it shouldnt. Are you sure its not spawning in a default pawn and your using that?

[storm burrow]

so some guy on reddit said ue5 on 21.04

i highly doubt it

but you never know 🤷‍♂️

[grim ore]

yep it's definitely coming the 21st

no reason why not to beleive a random person on reddit

[storm burrow]

oh, i'm with you kek

but let's see how our comments age

[deep viper]

I might be using some other pawn.
My GameMode has "A_Player" (my custom pawn BP) saet as the default pawn, though I am unfamiliar with how UE4 chooses which pawn you use when you press Play.

[storm burrow]

maybe we need to eat our words

😄

[grim ore]

they could have atleast made it a tuesday like all other normal releases, might have been more beleivable

[storm burrow]

oh ye i didnt check, lemme se

a wednesdaay

hah

also i feel like it wouldnt be out of the blue

[grim ore]

@deep viper it uses the default pawn you have set in the game mode or it uses any pawn you have in the world if its set to be possessed

nah knowing epic it would be out of the blue lol

[storm burrow]

i think they'd announce sth aka "ue5 news on day xz"

[grim ore]

but knowing epic it would literally be out of the blue, not "hey guyz I have inside infoz it will be tomorrow trust mez"

[storm burrow]

hm

fair

apparently one of their marketing manager said during stream that there'll be news mid may

we'll find out i guess

[grim ore]

only thing I have seen is someone on a forum mentioning .27 coming out in July I want to say? that atleast seemed to come from epic

[storm burrow]

yes, that was in a github comment

but it was an estimate from epi

epic

so maybe they had to push it back

[grim ore]

well .27 in july seems to make sense. its ~ 2 months or so from preview to release, and its april right now

[storm burrow]

in the automotive webinar some mid may stuff was allegedly mentioned but i didn't check

yeah

also .27 is mostly bug fixes

[deep viper]

GameMode has a spectator class. Can the player possibly use the spectator class in the absence of a Pawn?
I should start by possessing a Pawn in my GameMode BPs BeginPlay graph.

[grim ore]

if you tell it to be a spectator yeah but I thought that was for MP.

and there is a ghost pawn and yeah spectator pawn

[deep viper]

I read in some google searches that Pawn supposedly has a setting to "disable default bindings", the editor currently no longer reflects those screenshots, so I'm trying to find the source of these invisible editor-like input bindings.

[grim ore]

you should be able to eject out and look at the pawn that is being used

the ghost and spectator pawns I beleive are C++ special pawns that have the input inside of them

[potent bridge]

Anyone know why when I import an animation from mixamo, its flat on the ground?

[grim ore]

you could rotate it on import if thats happening

[potent bridge]

no animation plays at all actually

this is weird, its a new model, and it says imported bone are different from original

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/8dc2dd3c7228c91b011bf1093ea5dec8
This is what im getting when i setup haircuts

and im not sure whatsoever what im doing wrong

ive tried 3 different tutorials same thing everytime ._.

the left is the tutorial

the right is what i get..

[deep viper]

The F8 possession hotkey works the first time (and doesn't work the 2nd time and onwards), I can possess my pawn manually with the PIE hotkey, but my BP possess node does not posses the pawn (the BP path reaches a string that is successfully printed to console, so the code is taking place).

I know I need to successfully possess the pawn at least in order to get the player camera to match.

[dusk echo]

Does the Metahuman creator rig the model for you?

[storm burrow]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/b65b940d0af8ba55c02cde0db90ffbd8022d00ee

4.28 confirmed 😂

[grim ore]

well thats normal since they have to split off .27 from the main branch

just means .27 might be coming soon

[thick nebula]

ohhh goood.

[storm burrow]

that def makes sense, but i liked my theory better 😂

[kind dew]

I'm getting this error on startup. 4.25.4

UE4Editor_RenderCore!DispatchCheckVerify<void,<lambda_3eaf9d41760c8cfd32c61d857509485f> >() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Misc\AssertionMacros.h:161]
UE4Editor_RenderCore!FVertexFactory::GetStreams() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\VertexFactory.cpp:209]
UE4Editor_Renderer!FMeshPassProcessor::BuildMeshDrawCommands<TMeshProcessorShaders<TBasePassVertexShaderPolicyParamType<FUniformLightMapPolicy>,FBaseHS,FBaseDS,TBasePassPixelShaderPolicyParamType<FUniformLightMapPolicy>,FMeshMaterialShader,FMeshMaterialShade() [D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Public\MeshPassProcessor.inl:57]```

[digital anchor]

first time using Dialogs https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Dialogue/index.html
does anyone know if those are customizable? in case i want to show the subtitles in a box etc.

[clear coyote]

hi! I need help to open my project. I startet to get this error today/ I've tried multiple stuff like regenerating the binaries folder and clonning the repor again but it didnt work. My temammates can open the project with no further issue though. Does anybody know what is going on?

[rigid belfry]

how to prevent my character from going faster while moving diagonally?

[grim ore]

@digital anchor the built in subtitle system is not, you can create you own tho using the same basic setup and UMG

[plush salmon]

Is there a way to reparent a data asset?

[rigid belfry]

why cant i multiply a float with a vector inside the math expression node?

[mild dew]

I am having this weird problem where my landscape spline mesh has gaps. I found no solution on the internet and I searched a lot. I have done this over 10 times and the result is same nonetheless. Someone said to keep the origin of the mesh at center/ at the end in the modelling software (mine being blender) and I did that too with no result. Can anyone please help me?

[rigid belfry]

does this look proper? it fixes my problem but maybe there are better solutions

i also wanted to collapse it in a math expression node but i dont really know how that works

[rigid belfry]

a bunch of parentheses later, and it works. wonder why it was giving me error with both [ and { parentheses thought 🤔

[cold helm]

Hello everyone, hope this is the right space to chat. I'm very new to all of this and was wondering if anyone could get me started in the right direction of learning, or hiring someone to make a stage that i can be green screened in realtime with moving camera angles. this video best describes what id be looking for! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df8GZphBxmE

[rigid belfry]

can i convert a sprite into a texture in editor?

[dawn laurel]

So im looking to make a crappy version of swbf2 or similar for a game idea. its not a serious project, are their any good free mass multiplayer templates out there? The only one I know of is the Shooter game template, which i think is pretty outa date and is made for more arena shooters.

[plush yew]

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask you how I can create an animation for the wheels to move?

[rigid belfry]

multiplayer templates are useless if you dont know how networking works

and if you do, you dont need multiplayer templates

[dawn laurel]

i know the basics but its more that I have severe ADHD and so cutting out the boring work really helps me with hobbies. Replicating a lot of the basic things and the doing the project "chores" kinda stops me from finishing a lot of projects

[weary willow]

Hi Everyone, I am wanting to use ALS V4 and create a combat system from it. I am decent at Unreal and Animations BP but looking through some of the Base class and Animation BP there is a ton of complexity to it. Does anyone have some tips in order to cut down the learning curve haha? Thanks 🙂

[warm plover]

Either animate the mesh in your modeling software and reexport it or separate the wheel and animate them via either a bluprint (if you don't care about performance you can just use the rotating component) or via the sequencer as you seem to want to do here.

[plush yew]

how can i wxporte the model

?

this is a model of marketplace

[weary willow]

Thanks! I I'll do this and add abilities and keep the core motions in and I think that would be great 🙂

[rigid belfry]

tips on making the transition smoother?

its a bit scuffed, but i could teleport the player just out of vision, so even if theres some small jitter, the player will never notice it

[radiant jasper]

how do i spawn a specific amount of ai characters from a float variable

[rigid belfry]

maybe a For Loop?

[radiant jasper]

yeah was just thinking that

[rigid belfry]

dang it, just found a bug when i was about to go to sleep

[radiant jasper]

problem is the value is coming from a different map

[rigid belfry]

save it on the game instance

[radiant jasper]

ok

[rigid belfry]

since thats a persistent actor

you can store most data there and never lose it while changing levels

also makes it easier to save the game

[deep viper]

does anyone know how to use the same timeline node for two different blueprint control paths?
Making two identical timelines means twice the effort, I'd like to have multiple BP logic paths reference the one timeline.

[narrow mauve]

I need help. I have clouds I've simulated in Houdini with pyro and created volume textures out of them. I want to be able to add each 'cloud' as its own 'actor' in the scene..not just put into one texture that tiles over the entire sky. Does anyone know how this would be achieved

[worn granite]

Two instances of the timeline, ticking independently? Or two paths using the same timeline instance

[deep viper]

Two paths using the same timeline instance. My goal is to have two paths using the same float curve for their timeline.

[worn granite]

But it's the same timeline

right?

[deep viper]

I'll have to take think about this again. I'm misunderstanding this for sure.

[radiant jasper]

i am trying to get this node added to my bp but its not showing up for some reason

i have the plugin installed

[worn granite]

I think you can so it either way @deep viper

just a matter of what you're actually trying to do

[deep viper]

I am using a 1 second linear timeline for rotating either 60 degree Clockwise or CCW.

[worn granite]

the node is not required to use a timeline, you can interact with a component directly

you can just bind events to the delegates manually

So you could clone a timeline at runtime and bind the events as needed

or you could bind many things to one timeline

look in "My Variables" and find the component named the same as your timeline node

[deep viper]

So I would be building the timeline's BP graph at runtime?

[spare kernel]

well UTimelineComponent is basically a wrapper for FTimeline, so you could also do some stuff in C++ in your own wrapper, like i don't know, making a BPAsync Task node ?

[worn granite]

You can use external curves as well

might make it easier to set all this up

[worn granite]

this is true, but I assumed we were exploring BP only stuff

[deep viper]

I might just be confusing timelines with float curves. I don't mind using more than 1 timeline, I just want to use the same curve for my rotation animation.
Edit: Thanks guys, I'll try external curve option in the timelines.

[spare kernel]

use external curve then i am sure its possible with timeline comp node

if its not, welp..

[radiant jasper]

anyone know how to get this node

[mossy nymph]

if its UObject

not an Actor(Component)

you;'ll need to override its GetWorld()

to get it

[radiant jasper]

i am trying to spawn a character

like its a bp

[deep viper]

I got my actor to spin like 60 times instead of rotating it 60 degrees. I forgot how much I underestimated rotators.

[mossy nymph]

whenever you right click on event graph

unreal calls GetWorld() on the CDO of that class

if it returns something unusable

you can't use functions that require world context to work

and if you're not using c++, there isn't much you can do about it

[radiant jasper]

this is in the level bp tho

[radiant jasper]

ok so im using the spawn ai node but the ai that its spawning doesnt move like it should

heres my bp

can i use the character bp for the ai as the behavior tree?

[radiant jasper]

nvm fixed it

[dark stag]

anyone having this issue lately with the editor where menus are dissapearing? looks like a redraw problem

[restive eagle]

@dark stag check pinned messages, you'll need to downgrade your nvidia drivers

[radiant jasper]

or just use 4.26.0

[drowsy snow]

I still use UE4.26.0, mainly because I'm using custom build one

Upgrading in the hotfix would be a massive time loss

[radiant jasper]

yeah same

[spare kernel]

that happens in4.25 also

so your 4.26 is not immune

[radiant jasper]

oh

weird

[spare kernel]

happens to me a lot and we are on 4.25.4

still not 100 percent sure what is causing it, and why Epic have not fixed it, cause i mean a lot of people must be experiencing it right?

only time it never happens if i only use a single monitor

[radiant jasper]

doesnt happen to me

i have 2 monitors

[spare kernel]

i have 3

but even if i use just 2, it still happens

[narrow mauve]

Im having this issue too

[tender parcel]

Hello

[tender parcel]

Yeah its the new version its here now

[spare kernel]

thing is if it starts happening on one screen, i can move the UE4 to another screen and continue just fine, menus don't flicker.

[tender parcel]

i dont think its the real

how do you know ?

thats cool haha

[drowsy snow]

My problem would be flickering menus instead

Wait
Who's deadmau5?

[restive eagle]

🤷‍♂️

[drowsy snow]

Are they a popular person or what?
I think I missed something here

[dark stag]

ah TY, didnt see it up there

[restive eagle]

its not the place to discuss someones business

[spare kernel]

does not matter if it is "deadmau5" or someone use that name. it is irrelevant.

[tender parcel]

guys i made garrys mod 2

[modest trench]

https://twitter.com/AndiDev_/status/1383034287931416578 :0

Andreas⛵ (@AndiDev_)

Did you know? By dragging a return value onto the function call in #UE4, you can spawn a return node and add that type as output. https://t.co/viwFg8JPtf

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Twitter · Apr 16, 2021, 12:27 PM

[spare kernel]

#work-in-progress please.

[tender parcel]

oops sorry

[radiant jasper]

does 4.26 support html5 still?

[fleet sparrow]

Sphere/Line Trace vs Collision, which one is cheaper?

[digital anchor]

a SphereCollision uses a Sphere Sweep to check for collisions

so, same thing

[fleet sparrow]

Planning on using for bullet drop...

[fresh shore]

I set the number of players to two in the editor, but when I run the project it still gives me one screen

Is there a reason for that?

Only in standalone game though

[drowsy snow]

No, it doesn't

Probably for the good reason, web browsers are still bottlenecking performance, you'd better have cloud gaming like solution.

[radiant jasper]

i mean like the separate html5 branch

does that still work with 4.26 or no

[radiant jasper]

and if so is it possible to add that to my existing ue4 download?

[glacial dawn]

Weird, I have one specific character that when dies it goes flying with the sky like crazy with physics activated. The others goes fine. No components with collisions. To solve it I had to give again collision and immediately remove it. Just for one character. Any thoughts? Thanks on advance.

[narrow mauve]

Does anyone know how I can have volume materials that use the volumetrics system but can be placed as individual actors in the world..and not as one single actor spanning the entire sky

[drowsy snow]

Assign the material on a mesh instead.

[narrow mauve]

I do that but it doesn't work..

[narrow mauve]

Am I supoosed to be able to apply them to meshes if I want..because it never works

it's always totally translucent

[short pasture]

how can i processing the input on the car

[solar gorge]

Gotta love when you use an old UE4, and text wrapping doesn't even work. lol

[rigid belfry]

yesterday i implemented teleporting borders and while i think they work "okay", they also added 1 or 2 bugs. before i start fixing stuff, i just wanted to know whether it'd be better to simply put collision boxes without the teleporting stuff

[short pasture]

are you doing a 2d game?

[rigid belfry]

ye thats the goal

[short pasture]

i have to ask is this map is good to be in my racing game?

[modest trench]

It's free so why not try it out?

[short pasture]

ok i am to try it

it trying to crash my laptop

[vernal thicket]

Anyone know a good way to find the specific array index of 1 of a specific BP in the level?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: mrprogames#0602 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[drowsy snow]

^ Whut

[unique kraken]

hey does anyone have like a shortkey list for the sequenzer?
for example completely randomly i found ctrl g for reseting transformations.
i would like to know all there is for example a "paste fliped pose" or something would be nice

[unique kraken]

yeno

this seems directly to be inside the sequenzer window.
while the viewport is also related to the sequenzer

but this might be helpfull to some extend i guess so thx

[inner dagger]

I was working on the Converting Blueprint to C++ Tutorial and for some reason when I try to open the project now I get always a crash report:

Is there a way to recover this - I didn't have this under version control

[pearl sentinel]

Does anyone has any experience with NFTs?

[vestal goblet]

so i'm having a bit of a problem

i have this command window at the bottom of my editor and can't seem to get rid of it

[fluid meteor]

Hit the ~ tilde button

[vestal goblet]

i always forget the friggen tilde exists on my keyboard

thanks man

[fluid meteor]

Your Welcome! I did it once about 7 years ago, lol!

[vestal goblet]

lmao #neverforget?

[fluid meteor]

HEHE!

I forget things daily, lol!

[static zealot]

Hi everyone, can't really find anything similar anywhere but, coming from Unity, I'm accustomed to combined translate/rotate/scale widget that doesn't seem to exist in UE. Is there something like this or can it be coded? 🤔

[worn copper]

I have map with many villages and evry village have around 20-30 Houses.
Should Merge Complete Village in one?
Is it Good or bad for performance?

[tender parcel]

hey guys

who is good with Lua Bindings please ?

(in c++ / ue4)

i have a question about states

[glossy spruce]

[summer yew]

hi, whats the best tools or method to rig a game character? - I use 3dsmax. ( already scoured the web and there is way too much information, I need someone experienced to simplify it for me please. Thank you

[viral fractal]

The one you find the best for your skills and workflow

Try different ones, stay with what feels best

Many people praise mayas rigging stuff

[summer yew]

I should have explained it clearly. - Say I use CAT in max, now am I animating each move by hand or am I using mocap. I tried mixamo, but as my character isn't actual human size, I am getting deformation.

[viral fractal]

So its about animating and not rigging ?

[summer yew]

so I assume, each move, ( walk, run, jump, shoot, ) are separate hand made animation, that have to be combined in Ue4 right?

[robust marten]

Has anyone had their Nav Mesh randomly stop working? I've even replaced the nav mesh with a new one but my AI doesn't move at all. It was working yesterday but now when I booted it up today they stopped moving. I've checked their behavior and nothing has changed, and I never updated the engine or moved any files or anything. SOLVED: Had to delete the recast and readd it when adding new nav mesh

[summer yew]

its probably both at the end output

I have to rig to create an animation to be used in Ue4. I am just trying to understand the process

[rigid belfry]

no

pie is slightly slower

while using cpp, and the difference when using blueprint is significant

there's a video comparison somewhere on yt uploaded

[dire crescent]

Is it possible to launch a external program?

[glad comet]

hey everyone, quick question which seems like it should be easy to fix but couldn't find a solution in forums. when i save as a map, all the actors on a level animation sequence go red and have to replace them one by one. there is no easy way to replace them all, right? it is a bit silly as one 'save as' to be safe and have to overcome this 😄

Oh dear, just found fix bindings in the advanced menu, but leaving the comment as it might come handy 🙂

[autumn bluff]

qualche italiano?

[white kelp]

Hello everyone, quick question. I have three lighting setup for a sense.how to preset three lighting setup in web control server?

[idle stump]

I have a widget blueprint "B" inside another widget blueprint "A". When I edit "B", compile, save -> it doesn't update in "A". Is there a way to force it to refresh or something?

Found a forum post about the same issue, can confirm restarting engine fixed it for me. I guess it's a bug in 4.26? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/umg-user-created-widget-not-updating-until-engine-restart/224312

[rigid belfry]

pretty sure it should be refreshing on its own

say you change the name for example, that should be updated on a successful compile

[idle stump]

@rigid belfry That's what I thought too but sometimes it just doesn't work. I just restarted and it's working like you say now.

[narrow mauve]

I need help understanding something about Volume materials. I have tried to setup the most basic volume material and apply it to a mesh..a cube..a plane..a sphere..just to see if there is any result..but it is always completely translucent..I am not sure where to apply a volume material to see its result.

The only thing on Volume materials I can find is from Ryan brucks a couple years back..and it doesn't work. Everything else is using the volume material for the volumetric clouds..not one single use case can I find it anywhere else

[rigid belfry]

GunCheck,MeleeCheck,AimCheck...smh should've used a BrainCheck

[plush yew]

hello

I am getting started with unreal..
need advise.
I am self thought unemployed hobbyist
who makes games in his garage...
I like c++ alot.
I previously struggled with Dirext X,Cryengine
and now I am doing pixel engine.
Struggled with various degrees of success.
Eh should I buy a new computer to run unreal
or continue with the skills I already got?

[runic iron]

Yeah it can get messy very quickly. Some tricks to make it cleaner are putting some info for similar anims in montages, using sub anim instances and a few others node.
Some Epic Games Japan guy made a presentation about this, check from slide 77 to the end in particular. It's in japanese but there are a lot of screenshots so you can grab a thing or two https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/ue4animation-blueprint

[rigid belfry]

while i cannot personally give you any recommendations, if you do end up needing hardware recommendations, check out #hardware

[plush yew]

thank you but.. what about the cost investment?
My goal is to sell my own games ..self employed.
One man production..
So my resourses are limited..

[rigid belfry]

sorry to be harsh but... you say you've previously made games in your garage, yet you've not been successful. what makes you think ue4 will make you achieve your goals

if your resources are so limited, maybe get a side job instead

[plush yew]

You are not being harsh, at all.
Well I never before intended to finnish any game either.
As a self thought guy I always game games at the side or other things
and this year I am unemployed and spend more and more time on game making

Getting a job aside is not a bad advise..
but that might slow down my work

[rigid belfry]

i mean, i work 160-ish hours a month and can still do some coding just fine

its not like i'd be coding 8 hours a day if i were unemployed anyway

[plush yew]

I dont need unreal for my games....
Should I jump on this new technology or not?

its mostly the pressure from people.. why don't you switch to the best possible new technology

No seriously .. getting a job aside might be something I am seriously considering

[narrow mauve]

You aren't making any sense. Why are you asking us what you should do? Makes no sense..we can't answer this for you..

[fierce tulip]

study the engine first, study how much challenge it would be for you to do it this fulltime, do some math, estimates, and then decide if its worth investing, etc

[rigid belfry]

i mean...you could do much more and faster in unity as a solo guy if we're being honest

but the scope of ue4 is so, so much bigger

is there something similiar to a Paper_Pawn? i need to create a couple of enemies but i dont really need a Paper_Character

[plush yew]

Eh its cool I got some answers I was looking for.
I was asking if it was worth switching to this new platform
if was economically worth it and in how time consuming..
sukebi-scotty? If I dont know about Unreal ??
I know a little. I can learn blueprints or c# ..its not hard to switch languages

it is difficult to compare Unreal to Unity ..it all seems
like the difference is what you get used to use

[vagrant hornet]

how many people have metahuman access

[rigid belfry]

whats a good way of handling projectile damage?

[kind dew]

I'm getting this crash on startup:

ShaderParameterStruct.cpp] [Line: 285] Shader FHairClusterAABBCS, permutation 0 has unbound parameters not represented in the parameter struct: HairStrandsVF_CullingIndirectBuffer

any ideas?

[rigid belfry]

whats better, spawning each projectile individually or use a for each loop and spawn projectiles that way?

also, i have only 1 event thats called when shooting, and i always check weather i can or cannot multishot. would i be better to have different events for each shooting variant, or is the performance hit irrelevant for just one/two if statements?

[upbeat tendon]

let me see if i understand this right, i want a player to select a character before spawning, so I have them spawn in as a spectator, then once they are ready, I should then destroy ? kill the spectator pawn and then that will switch me to calling the default pawn?

[kind dew]

no 2 different levels. Character selection level, and then your game level

[mighty fiber]

Hey, is anyone free to answer some landscape questions over voice?

if someones interested, please pm me when convient. Thanks!

[glacial pecan]

Ehhh... is it just me or did someone flub a 4.26.2 warning screen?

[narrow mauve]

I need some solution where I can add individual volumes in the sky using the cloud rendering system. Not a volume that tiles and spans the entire sky..but volumes bounded in a box. I have some volumes I've created in Houdini and exported them as slices. I can add them tiled to span the entire sky but this is utterly useless to me. They are meant to be individual components of a larger picture. If anyone could please help me on this.

Which type of assets?

[short pasture]

why

[glacial pecan]

it looks like the wire goes past (behind) the cast node... 😉

[short pasture]

now i fix by myself ok

[warped wasp]

hello people

i come with the need of help

so you see this car right

for some reason the physics for wheels is just

go n e

i cant change the wheel's hitbox

does anyone know why?

[shell zephyr]

is there a way to make this repeat a specific number of times instead of looping infinitely?

[narrow mauve]

Maybe each time it fires add a + 1 to an index..and have it close the loop after it becomes == to number of times you want

idk

[spare kernel]

@short pasture please do not be rude, you might not have intended for it to be rude, but what you said could come across as rude.

[warped wasp]

oh yes additional things that might help with debugging hopefully

uh

this is during the mesh

and skelton tab

this is during physics tba

this is weird

[soft fiber]

How do you assign text to an Text Message Reference?

This is UMG... does the set need to be done by binding?

[tropic mason]

Wouldnt it be SetText(Message 222)? - it looks like you are trying to set the text box itself, you need to be setting the text variable on it.

[rigid belfry]

from the Text widget, drag from the blue pin and type "set text"

[soft fiber]

Thanks... you're are right. I was thinking the variable was to the value of the text box.

[soft fiber]

Found it.... Thanks!

[warped wasp]

hi @knotty slate :D

oh I need to got o bc lounge

My bad

#vc-lounge

[upbeat tendon]

@kind dew why would i have a character selection level? that would mean players would have to join/rejoin every time they respawned

[idle dragon]

Is there a way to check how long a button has been pressed? I have an input axis for the accelerator, and i want to check if the player has held it down for a single second

any tips?

forgive me if this is a dumbass question

[finite dew]

Can anyone explain why the model is not loading in properly?

[idle dragon]

@plush yew thanks a bunch dude, this seems like what i need <3

[soft fiber]

Maybe the normals are flipped?

[finite dew]

Ugh :/ looks like I cant use that asset in ue4 then :(

[placid dirge]

Anyone know hot to use a MetaHuman with 3rd person blueprints? My trouble is that all the skeletal meshes are separate per body parts....

[hearty walrus]

Using this code - why can I not escape a crouch by letting go of the key?

[dull bison]

Hi Iam very new to Unreal how can I start it and I very new in game dev so please help me out.
Thanks in advance ❤️

is there any video or tuto??

[hearty walrus]

they're all tutorials

[hearty walrus]

New question

how do I do an action on a button's release

since the Released pin doesn't appear to do anything(?)

[sullen drift]

`

[hearty walrus]

I've already tried it

in runtime, it does nothing on release

and I just get stuck in either sprint or crouch/crawl

[lucid grove]

Is there a way to attach actors to landscape? Like if i move landscape actors move with it

[soft fiber]

I'm using it, it works fine?

[hearty walrus]

right after crouching

[soft fiber]

Your class probably doesn't accept input.

[hearty walrus]

even without the button pressed, I remain crouching

[hearty walrus]

it's the default First person character template

[soft fiber]

What blueprint are you using.

[hearty walrus]

huh

hold on

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/jh27p3sf/

yeah

[soft fiber]

Did you try a print statement to see if it working?

[hearty walrus]

just did

and there's no print when the button is let go

[soft fiber]

It possible the input is received elsewhere first.

I've had that problem before.

[hearty walrus]

I don't think anything else is wanting input

considering this is the entire map

[lucid grove]

Controller, other BP and Inputs inside project settings can override it

[hearty walrus]

wait I'm gonna try something

FIXED!

old method was using any key + a shift/ctrl modifier

now it responds properly

[upbeat tendon]

is the hud disabled if the player is specating?

[plush yew]

Can I attach an anim trail to an object that only moves within the actor or level sequence and still have the trail show?

[kind dew]

Oh sorry I didn't see you mention the part where this is after the player dies. I thought you meant like a character select screen before an rpg starts, since that's by far the most common use-case, not the battlefront style change-class-after-you-die screen.

then yea you'd have a camera for just the UI when you die, switch to that when the player dies, theyd choose a character, which would all be children of the same base character class, and then you'd spawn them in manually

[radiant haven]

Does someone know how to achieve this effect using only a material no PP or Wireframe(Double Model) ? https://i.imgur.com/8Zxopuc.png

[lucid grove]

Hey! Do you have few minutes to check something with me

[indigo escarp]

is there like an offline version of the ue4 documentation

[shell zephyr]

hello, i made a nav mesh to make an ai be able to reach the Target Point by it self, the issue is that it gets really close to the wall and sometimes gets stuck, is there any way to make it go a little bit farther from the wall?

[abstract frigate]

Does the AI character has a collision? maybe that would help

[shell zephyr]

nvm i found out theres an object called navmodifiervolume

so i just shrink the path and it should not touch the wall

[vocal plank]

Is there a marketplace plugin or free community addon that can do physical audio stuff? Eg play sound effects on various physics interactions? Like how source engine does it?

[warped wasp]

okay so i really hate asking to ask

but does anyone know car physics and stuff

just dm me if you do 3:

[pastel yarrow]

Hey, is there any place where I can get sound libraries?

I am a newbie and I don't even know where to start

[echo star]

you can purchase them on the asset store, alternative have a look through here 🙂 http://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

[pastel yarrow]

thanks, I am looking for specific ones, so I would prefer to get it from websites

[calm sedge]

Hey guys, I am brand new to the engine and doing the unreal course, however it's action rpgs I am interested in, and jrpgs. Is the action rpg sample too hard for a beginner to learn from? Should I really start with arcade games?

I've done a bit of stuff in unity, mainly canvas stuff and made a tamagotchi.

[echo star]

RPG's are definitely one of the more complex genre due to all the systems required. If you want to develop your skills you'd possibly be better off starting with something a bit simpler, or find a good tutorial series to follow along with

[calm sedge]

Okay would something like gauntlet still be too complex?

[kindred viper]

everything is relatively complex in games dev. Especially when you are looking at the whole picture. If you take it one step at a time, it's not so complex. The ARPG sample is a great place to start. You have, at least, a framework as an example. So any questions you might have should be answered there. However you have to assess it based on the game you want to make. It might be unsuitable for purpose.

[knotty heron]

My particle emitter is not at all following my characters rotation even though I attached it properly with snap to target rotation? Doing the same thing with a basic cube works fine

[kindred viper]

can you show the code you used?

hmm isn't that supposed to take two components?

[knotty heron]

I put the particle emitter as a component and activate it instead of spawning

[silk pebble]

You can do it with Surface channels on materials and line traces.

[calm sedge]

How do assets work, I am thinking about buying dungeon architect but it's 200$, is that per seat?

Or per team?

[tender parcel]

--Tests

local script = {}

function script:onPropSpawned( prop )
  
  --ignite( prop )

end

function script:onKeyPressed( Ply, Key )

  if Key == "Right Mouse Button" then

    local Pos = toVec(Ply.position)
    local Forward = toVec(Ply.forward)
  
    local myProp = propSpawn(Pos + Forward * 250)


  end

end

return script

Successfully integrated lua with ue4 ! 😄 ( https://github.com/rdeioris/LuaMachine/ )

[calm sedge]

I found it the license is per team

[crisp turtle]

Hello, has anyone had luck getting Metahuman working through Blender or do you know if its possible?

[pastel ginkgo]

Anyone know of a way to invert the y-axis on a gamepad for working in the editor?

[calm sedge]

Maybe you need to use quixel bridge to push it to blender @crisp turtle

[crisp turtle]

you can only push to maya but ill give it a shot

[plush yew]

is custom time dilation only supposed to affect timelines?

My actor rotates based off a function that runs every tick. When I set its custom time dilation to anything else the rotation stays the same

[narrow mauve]

I have a scene capture 2d component that on a timer recaptures the volumetric clouds and make a mask out of it..which is then read and any UV that is equal to 1 gets rain... but its extremely slow and lags a few seconds everytime it runs. Anyone think of how I might go about it more efficiently

[narrow mauve]

Here the mask is used so I know where to spawn the rain particle system. However the lag it causes to draw to the material, read the uvs and know where to spawn the particles is very slow and lags. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[drowsy snow]

Try to get creative with your texture/UV mapping. Using wireframe effect ad hoc in material would result in a lot of triangles instead of your desired quads.

For starters, you can separate the lightmap UV map from the texture UV map.

[silent kiln]

can some one please help me im about to loose my mind and throw my computer across the room

[radiant jasper]

lol whats wrong

[silent kiln]

i hope this is the right place i asked for help in level design but no one is there ATM im trying to just paint a landscape and it wont let me weight layer blend i just get a red paint brush

@radiant jasper i had it working before but now its not at all

[radiant jasper]

uh have u tried restarting ue4

[silent kiln]

yeah like when i click on the + to add layer wieght it says to browse to asset in content browser @radiant jasper

[drowsy snow]

Looking at the page, I think you can save cost by prototyping the levels in classic Doom or blocking one inside Unreal. If you stick with prototyping in Doom, you can make use of procedural level generators like OBLIGE (or ObAddon)

[radiant jasper]

yeah idk ive never done what ur trying to do before lol

[silent kiln]

do you know of anyone else that might be able to help

[radiant jasper]

yeah but i dont wanna just @ ppl lol

@ MathewW is pretty good at ue4 idk if hes still active here tho

[silent kiln]

i understand

[calm sedge]

Oh so generate the levels for gauntlet in doom?

[radiant jasper]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BuildingWorlds/Landscape/Materials/index.html

here is the documentation on it

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, and then you improvise the maps in Unreal with your assets and whatnot.
Coming from Doom modding myself, I use this method all the time

[radiant jasper]

might help @silent kiln

[calm sedge]

This is so crazy haha. I never would have thought of that. Nice idea haha.

[plush yew]

just realised this exists https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[radiant haven]

aight ill try that thx

[timid frost]

hi guys how can i disable character visibility for ai perception i set actor hidden in game but it dont work

[drowsy snow]

Just recently watched an Animusic video, and I thought of giving it my own twist in UE4
(Animusic themselves actually used UE4, but I want to make a more open script for that)

[vocal plank]

surface channels & line traces? sounds pretty expensive to do line trace just to play sound effects

I wrote my own a while ago in C++ that's why i'm asking, wondering if it would make a good tutorial

[plush yew]

What's good for animating for ue4?

[vocal plank]

blender

[sullen quarry]

hi

[mint sequoia]

Is Epic back in office? Have no idea about state of covid there

[drowsy snow]

Control Rig

Also, can you vibrate cable component like a guitar string?

[rancid lynx]

can anyone tell me the major differences between Custom events and Functions? it seems like custom events continue even with no function output node, for example X_x, which I eventually concluded as probable by accident.

[tender parcel]

for your eyes

[forest tree]

Might be better in #released but looks good

[tender parcel]

Sorry

And thx

[marsh cove]

Hey, so I will pay £30 (paypal only) to whoever will work through with me through text + screenshots, to solve the problems I’m having to try and get my zipped project file that I made in windows, running on my Macbook Air M1 2020 (Big Sur) and packaged without any errors so all Mac users can play my game. The money will be paid when it is working like this. Should be familiar with debugging log errors, Mac OS, ue4 and XCode (or I can download visual studio; anything to make it work). DM me if you're interested in helping me, thank you!

[rancid lynx]

are commercial advertisements allowed here ? I was 2 percent considering to try his flat graph theme, until I saw a price tag. thank god it wasnt even 20 percent considering.

ill be sure to come back and sell my game if so X_x

[finite dew]

Where can I find the max brightness in the post process volume ?

[obsidian nimbus]

look like you allready found max

[static arch]

Greetings guys! How do you guys handle working with source and launcher versions of the engine in a team regarding the "EngineAssociation" (in the .uproject file) so it doesn't rebuild after every pull from Perforce? I can set a custom association just fine with my source build but my colleague (with a launcher build) gets prompted for the engine version by the Unreal Selector Tool and then the custom association in the registry gets deleted and replaced in the .uproject file with "4.26" again (which causes a rebuild ofc) :-(

[plush yew]

can unexperienced people use rtxdi?

[finite dew]

Mp working

[gritty halo]

https://youtu.be/bFjh6WjRZ2g

This really amazing

I really want to know

How to make like the animation

go faster with the speed

nvm got it

Just change the animation speed rate

match with the speed

[plush yew]

@finite dew no way you made their mouth go extend fully like a snake

very nice

[rigid belfry]

is there a bool to make sound loop?

[vocal plank]

aww this looks cool. Only want to ask the question: Why? Bored or just don't like the default design this much? lol

[vocal plank]

Events are basically functions, but functions are not events.
In bp graph the only notable difference is that Events can use latent nodes (Eg, Delay) while functions can't.
Also events have a delegate pin which you can assign to dispatcher. So the added logic is that.

[tender parcel]

thx ! because flat is beautiful XD

[tender parcel]

Yeah it was work :/

maybe i'll drop down a little bit the price

[shell zephyr]

hello i tryed making a basic health bar but for some reasons it just remains grey when i press play, i can't figure out what i did wrong

[rigid belfry]

you have a character named "hud"?

[shell zephyr]

the thing is that in this game there is no controllable characters, so i added one and called it hud

[vocal plank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o_37nQ_93c have happy learning

[rigid belfry]

you dont even need the cast anyway

[tawdry sable]

Is there any particular reason that a SkyLight just wont show up?

'Affects World' is checked

[vocal plank]

try removing and adding it back, also it seems to only work together with fog

[rigid belfry]

in your widget, add a "hud" actor object reference variable, set it to instance editable and exposed on spawn. when you create widget, you can plug in a reference of self to the newly made variable

and you get rid of the cast node

[drowsy snow]

Is the cable component good for creating animatable guitar strings?

[rigid belfry]

is it worth the performance cost?

and the time spent implementing such feature?

[drowsy snow]

Nah, it's more for machinima rendering

[tawdry sable]

No dice. Still doesn't show anything

[rigid belfry]

you can make a vibrating animation for each string and play that based on what string is being plugged

in your 3d modelling software

[drowsy snow]

Well, I want it to be semi procedural. Animating 4 minutes of guitar strings manually would take too long.

I do most of the animations in Unreal with Control Rig

[tawdry sable]

Nothing weird here, right?

[rigid belfry]

make the strings out of mini strings, create 1 vibrating animation and tell a piece of string to play based on hand position

or maybe make the guitar a skeletal mesh and add tiny bones that you can then procedurally animate with control rig

[drowsy snow]

I do most of the stuff in Unreal, including animation making.

[lean crater]

Guys why another layout appears after selecting mesh (Size)

[obsidian nimbus]

@drowsy snow guitar strings... totally do that in material

vertex offset

well animating it is an option

[azure shore]

are images or links broken?

[tender parcel]

link ?

[polar ruin]

can you guys help me how to attach a gun to a third person

in unreal engine 4

i have the gun and character

[spare kernel]

attach it to a socket on the pawn

[polar ruin]

how

i just downloaded the software

[spare kernel]

downloaded what game?

[polar ruin]

unreal engine*

[spare kernel]

https://learn.unrealengine.com

i suggest learning a bit first

[polar ruin]

ok

[spare kernel]

also the learning there will show you how to do it 🙂

[azure shore]

oh yeah good luck with learning

just be prepared to spend a long time with it lol

[spare kernel]

thing is no point saying about sockets and attach to if you they don't know what either of them means

always best to go learn some of the fundamentals

[sturdy gorge]

when the build is finished I have this error

LogPlayLevel: Error: ERROR: cmd.exe failed with args

someone has a solution plz

[compact river]

What are the advantages in unreal engine compared to unity?

[thick herald]

Megascans. MetaHumans. Advanced compression tech via RAD Tools. Anything else is probably down to personal taste and experience.

[static arch]

Blueprints! @thick herald

[finite dew]

How can I remove all thsi ???????

This

[calm sedge]

How hard is unreal to learn?

[fierce forge]

is there a way to make this dark part, more brighter ?

[rigid belfry]

how are you making it dark?

[rigid belfry]

whats all this?

[rigid belfry]

hard

[calm sedge]

That's disappointing, how do I make sure I succeed.

[fierce forge]

it is just dark, i just exported it

[rigid belfry]

1 million dollar question

[rigid belfry]

1. do you have light in your level? 2.does the object have any UVs

[fierce forge]

1. yes 2. yes

but the light is coming from up to down

if i put a light under the tree, everything is fine

[rigid belfry]

pikachuface.jpg

set dark tones higher inside the post process material

i dont know

is there a way to have a txt file inside the engine? i wanna save stuff thats come to my mind inside the editor directly

[inner vine]

Do you mean for saving data to be read by code, or just notes? If it's just notes then it's best to just use a separate text file or word document or such.

[exotic thicket]

That might be handy but it requires a custom asset type for it afaik

There might be a plugin on the marketplace, but haven't looked. I just jot down my notes in OneNote for Win10 which works pretty well :)

[static arch]

Just write a editor widget and store it, probably possible?

(With a text box of course)

[exotic thicket]

Yeah I mean you would need a custom asset type to be able to save it unless you're saving it into a property in an actor or whatever

[calm sedge]

Okay here's a better question @rigid belfry where do I start

[inner vine]

Possible, yes, but it really doesn't work as well as a dedicated note taking app

[static arch]

Is the save system exposed to Editor Widget Blueprints? :D

[crimson lake]

Hey guys, apologies for interrupting anything, I have an interview tomorrow and my entire project is crashing repeatedly, the crash was caused by Houdini plugin and Ue
this is the error that's fucking me over :

Assertion failed: Export.ObjectName!=NAME_None || !(Export.ObjectFlags&RF_Public [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/LinkerLoad.cpp] [Line: 4293]```

Bild is the HDA that I used and that's causing the error

it had a Niagra SOP node inside it and ue4 didn't like it

now it's crashing everytime I open it

I really need the help and I'd super appreciate it if someone can help

I tried removing the entire Bild_stuff folder

[exotic thicket]

It's probably a bit late for this piece of advice, but make sure you use source control and regularly commit to avoid problems like this :)

[static arch]

No source control Jad?

Woops, too late to the party

[crimson lake]

I realized fuck me

It's a project I've been chipping in for a year or so

is there any way to disable a plugin without opening the project or anything?

[static arch]

.uproject file :)

[exotic thicket]

Just a random idea, maybe try copying one of your other materials to the file Bild_PlatformReady.uasset file if it doesn't exist

[calm sedge]

Is bild Build?

[crimson lake]

it's a name of a studio

[calm sedge]

Ah okay.

[crimson lake]

like copy pasta a random material asset?

[static arch]

Exactly

Saved me too

Do you remember which asset type it was btw?

[exotic thicket]

Yeah, since it's saying the file is missing that might help, or it might cause it to error out without crashing :P

[crimson lake]

fuck me, genius idea but didnt work this time

[static arch]

Would've been too easy

[crimson lake]

I don't even have a /Game folder

I have like one interview on monday and the other on tuesday I'm mad fucked if this actually dies

[static arch]

Do you have source access?

[crimson lake]

source access?

oh

no c++ bc

[static arch]

Do you use Unreal from the Epic Launcher?

[crimson lake]

who the fuck knows

yep

would it be any different if I build from source?

[static arch]

Did you disable Houdini in the project file already?

[crimson lake]

can you do that without opening

the project?

[static arch]

No, but you'd be able to see what's causing it and probably be able to fix it on the engine level, at least temporarily

Yes

Open the .uproject file with any text editor of your choice

Then you'll be able to remove the Houdini plugin bracket

[crimson lake]

...would've been too easy too

[static arch]

(Or the Plugins bracket altogether)

[crimson lake]

put it to false

didnt work

now deleted it

noth

[static arch]

I'll check the source real quick one sec

[crimson lake]

you're a legend thankyou

😢

[rigid belfry]

😳

[exotic thicket]

heh yeah I guess using comment boxes is an option

[rigid belfry]

check pinned messages

[calm sedge]

Okay I see it, thanks

[shell zephyr]

what have i done

[drowsy snow]

Modding games is one way to start

[calm sedge]

I know a tiny bit about unity but I was hoping to learn unreal for unreal 5

[static arch]

Dw - do you remember which asset type it was by any chance?

[crimson lake]

houdini HDA

[static arch]

In the meantime, try creating an HDA with the same name in another project and copy it over with the exact path and name

[crimson lake]

good call

[drowsy snow]

Don't even think about UE5 lmao
Learning from UE4 is fine. It's not like back when UDK (UE3) is radically different compared to UE4

[static arch]

If that does not work, consult this:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/ProgrammingWithCPP/Assets/CoreRedirects/index.html

This at last should fix the issue as long as you point to a valid asset

[calm sedge]

Is using unreal instead of unity going to triple my development time? My brain is really small, sorry for the stupid questions.

(Just because of it being harder to use)

[drowsy snow]

If you know the basics and willing to try around with the Blueprint system, then it should be fast.

Of course, considering that you haven't achieved far with your Unity project that is.

[static arch]

You busted your grid scaling - look to the upper edge of the view port - grid size -> 10,000

[crimson lake]

akh screw me didn't work

[shell zephyr]

youre my hero xd

[static arch]

Try the docs Jad, the look intimidating but it's easy as long as you follow correctly (Link above)

[drowsy snow]

My suggestion: don't be afraid to experiment. Just go for it, YOLO it like there's no tomorrow.

[crimson lake]

the core redirects?

[static arch]

Exactly

[calm sedge]

Okay I'll try to do that then

[static arch]

Has saved me regarding missing C++ classes (because dumb be always just renames them), and that breaks everything horribly as well, so no panic please

[drowsy snow]

It's fine if you break stuff along the way, whether it's your BP or accidentally crashing your game somewhere.

Figure out what to do, figure out what to avoid, and then keep trying.

[crimson lake]

I would add this in, my .uproject text?

[drowsy snow]

Also, Unreal Engine has an official online learning courses that you can learn for free.

[static arch]

Read carefully @crimson lake

[idle dragon]

Yo, does anyone here know a link to a good tutorial around adding machine guns to tanks or aircraft?

[calm sedge]

Okay, I will try this course in the pinned section and then if I get stuck I will try the unreal course on learn.unreal

[crimson lake]

I'm trying to convince myself that I don't have to go screw with the baseEngine.ini

[calm sedge]

I really think that unreal is the best place for me to be because I'm a programmer not an artist and megascans + metahumans seems like a good basis for game assets.

[static arch]

Haha, I know that feel - project-based DefaultEngine.ini should suffice

[static arch]

You can check the BaseEngine.ini for examples though, Epic uses redirects themselves

[drowsy snow]

Can't give a specific link, but try figuring out with sockets and stuff. Also you want to look on how to make a bone "aiming" at something.

The way it works is that you have both skeletal mesh for the vehicle and another for the weapon.

[crimson lake]

Ah screw me this is definitely not the best time to do this

Wait

what if

I make a new proj

same ver

copy pasta that shit

[static arch]

Yep, worth a try too

[crimson lake]

only contents

[rigid belfry]

if you have a game where some player choices could lead up to a different ending, would that be considered an "Interactive storytelling", even thought the choices are not many. for example, refusing to do somthing leads to you being now bad or whatever

[idle dragon]

Thanks for the pointers :)

[crimson lake]

the world has a knack of fucking me sometimes

[spare kernel]

[drowsy snow]

Well yes
I mean, some Visual Novels have very minimal options that matters, but still considered "interactive story"

[crimson lake]

Pretty sure there's a visual novel style tut in ue4's C++ free tut

[static arch]

Don't worry, engine source broke on me in the middle of a client order yesterday, we're all in this together @crimson lake

[drowsy snow]

It's way overkill tho
Unless it has 3D backdrops/characters or having an exploration mode a la Danganronpa, Ren'Py is the better choice.

[crimson lake]

Aite

it's the

level

that has all the nice things in the world

that broke

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of which, it reminds me of this plugin called Flow.
I think the creator also previously worked on Witcher 3.

[static arch]

It crashes as soon as you paste the level in?

(or load it in)

[crimson lake]

yes as soon as I try to load it

I think

everything else

is

salvageable

cause it's a bunch of tech art stuff, not really a full env

a showcase of a lot of bs

[static arch]

You fine like that?

[crimson lake]

not really

but

[static arch]

Understandable

[crimson lake]

it ees what it ees

[static arch]

Mind sending me that level Jad?

[crimson lake]

Course I don't

Lemme put the entire thing on git

[rigid belfry]

i was thinking more about a small dialogue system

[static arch]

Level alone should be fine

[crimson lake]

Right clicking it crashes my world oof

[static arch]

What happens if you right click the main content folder and fix up all redirectors?

[crimson lake]

let me reopen, just for reference this is a new proj directory that I just made

[drowsy snow]

I presume the level is corrupted somehow? What about the callstack when it crashes? 🤔

[static arch]

Ye ye I know

[crimson lake]

same as before

[rigid belfry]

open the project from the folder directly and share the umap file directly

[static arch]

Unfortunate

[crimson lake]

kk lemme put it on my drive

because

OBVIOUSLY 8.26 mb

[hearty walrus]

okay so

I was fucking around with the camera speed and