ue4-general

[crimson lake]

LMAO

[hearty walrus]

apparently the atmosphere object LITERALLY CREATES PLANETS

[crimson lake]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hJ38JaROd02ZDi1xyb9vreI31Yofucid/view?usp=sharing

[static arch]

Thanks Jad

[hearty walrus]

this is so fucking cool to play with

[drowsy snow]

[hearty walrus]

wait so

there's an atmosphere inside of another atmosphere

nvm

BP_SkySphere > Atmosphere

[crimson lake]

no worries man, thank you a bunch

[drowsy snow]

You typically don't want to use sky sphere if you want to use sky atmo

Also no atmospheric fog allowed

The sky atmo itself is the atmospheric fog but more physically based

[hearty walrus]

SkySphere has time

because this is a night scene

[compact river]

I've never heard of any of these things

I'm new to game development, I got a decent amount of experience with java. Should I use unity or unreal engine

and why

[inner vine]

Megascans = highly detailed scans of real-world objects

[crimson lake]

I mean I use megascans with unity all the time lel

[drowsy snow]

You want day night cycle? Just drive the directional light that already tagged for the atmosphere

[idle dragon]

@compact river Unity is easier out of the box in terms of coding due to C#, but it's also hilariously limited compared to UE4

[compact river]

how is it limited?

Performance?

[idle dragon]

For instance, open world games are much harder due to floating point limitations on Unity

[crimson lake]

Unity is generally a lot more buggy and works like a being built project

[drowsy snow]

Alao, optimisation is Unity is ass to work with

[crimson lake]

rather than ue4 as a finished ish project

[hearty walrus]

uhhhh

[crimson lake]

like the new input system that's ass and shat on the world

[hearty walrus]

also unity's watermarked

[compact river]

watermarked?

[hearty walrus]

so you just have "Made With Unity" on the game start

[crimson lake]

unity they start charging you at 100k , ue4 starts at 1 mill

[hearty walrus]

and with the rep that unity has? Horrible idea

I use unreal for 3D, and godot for 2D

[idle dragon]

Unity - way more documentation, tutorials and generally easier from a coding standpoint. Unreal - more polished, more powerful, more futureproof @compact river

[drowsy snow]

Which is why most Unity games suffer from poor performance. Even games like Oddworld Soulstorm that uses Unity had to bring in a whopping 7+ studios

[crimson lake]

this ^^

[compact river]

Is UE a lot more difficult to learn?

[hearty walrus]

kinda

it's a lot more demanding in a way

[crimson lake]

ue likes you to do things it's own way

[hearty walrus]

but there's blueperints

[idle dragon]

UE is difficult to learn but the blueprints are a nice cushion

helps a lot

[drowsy snow]

Kinda, but once you master it, it can bend to your will.

[hearty walrus]

which are essentially, iirc, a visual layer on C++

[compact river]

blueprints? What are those

[drowsy snow]

Visual scripting

[idle dragon]

^^

[compact river]

Ahhh

[compact river]

So UE is better but more difficult to learn

[hearty walrus]

oh and

Dark mode

so you won't be blinding yourself when working at 11pm

[idle dragon]

UE will probably give you the most returns for the future

[compact river]

Unity got that though

[hearty walrus]

isn't it pro only

[compact river]

nope

[hearty walrus]

unity put an accessibility feature behind a paywal-

oh

[compact river]

Mine started with dark mode on

[idle dragon]

I've tried making a flight sim in Unity is it's disgustingly limited compared to UE4

[drowsy snow]

Unreal has dark mode by default since 2014 and not even light theme as an option

[compact river]

I havn't really used Unity yet though

[hearty walrus]

there is a plugin for customising ue4 on the marketplace

[compact river]

I installed it and then started to wonder if I should use UE instead

[idle dragon]

@compact river Use both

[hearty walrus]

but I don't use it at all

[drowsy snow]

Oh right

[compact river]

huh?

why

[hearty walrus]

I'd recommend godot and unreal

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Engine is very customisable

[idle dragon]

Use both Unity and UE4 initially and decide what you need

[hearty walrus]

godot has limited visual scripting, but GDScript is really similar to python

[idle dragon]

We're all obviously gonna say UE4 but Unity does have some strengths

[compact river]

But they are very different, two different languages to learn

[crimson lake]

I personally use Unity for quick prototyping and ue for actual work

[drowsy snow]

Thanks to its source code being available for all licencees

[compact river]

Like the fact it's easier to learn?

[hearty walrus]

unity uses C# and a pro only visual scripting system

[idle dragon]

stuff I've learned in Unity carried into UE4 in a vague sense

[hearty walrus]

unreal uses C++ and Blueprints

[drowsy snow]

Nah, I use Doom for prototyping

[compact river]

So, I start with Unity then go over to UE?

[hearty walrus]

once again, use both

and get a preference from that

[crimson lake]

tbh, start with unity

you'll hate it

[idle dragon]

@compact river I started with both technically, some days I learned UE4, some days I learned Unity

[crimson lake]

then come to ue

[compact river]

how come?

[crimson lake]

one huge example is

[idle dragon]

Unity is buggy as fuck

and not powerful

[compact river]

What made you decide between them?

Bugs?

[crimson lake]

renaming or changing the location or something

will make your project fucky

[hearty walrus]

unity's less complicated, but is a lot more limited

[hearty walrus]

unreal also does that

[crimson lake]

^^ this

[hearty walrus]

speaking of: how do I rename a project

[idle dragon]

@idle dragon UE4 is more powerful and I found I needed to put in way more work in Unity to get what I needed

[drowsy snow]

Mine would be optimisation and being more limited.

[crimson lake]

I mean, if you change any folder, it creates the redirector asap

[idle dragon]

UE4 makes things easier in the long run

[rigid belfry]

https://gametorrahod.com/objectively-comparing-unity-and-unreal-engine/

[compact river]

Why not just start with UE then?

[idle dragon]

Go for it

if you want

[drowsy snow]

Rename the uproject if your project is BP only

[compact river]

Hmmm, what's more difficult, to learn a first programming language or learning UE? Lol

[idle dragon]

I'm just encouraging you to get a... larger view of the force. Good and evil are a point of view, anakin

[compact river]

I've learned java which took me quite some time

[rigid belfry]

this discussion is totally pointless, as people will of course be biased. make your own research and come to your own decision

[idle dragon]

Yeah, that's why I'm saying he should try starting with both

[compact river]

I've also been discussing this in the unity discord

They say the same things

[rigid belfry]

and people recommended unity

[echo phoenix]

Hellooo All I have a problem all little lign are flickering im using 4.26 with Rtx3090 if someone can help me to fix it will be really coool !! thanks

[hearty walrus]

also I have a strong, undeserved hatred for java

[rigid belfry]

color me surprised

[prime lintel]

hi can anyone help me with a sequencer function?

[drowsy snow]

Please upload in MP4

[idle dragon]

@compact river Just curious, do you have a game in mind you wanna make?

[hearty walrus]

https://www.dontasktoask.com

[compact river]

They say that Unity is easier to learn but UE is more efficient and has less limits basically

[compact river]

No, I just want to learn

[hearty walrus]

also I just wanna say

[compact river]

And then go from there

[idle dragon]

Learn both then!

[hearty walrus]

please don't use paper2d
please don't use paper2d
please don't use paper2d

[idle dragon]

I did it and zero regrets

[hearty walrus]

it's like using a chainsaw to cut a cake

[compact river]

At the same time though? Or first unity then UE

[hearty walrus]

you're better off using an engine like godot

where it's designed for 2D mostly

[rigid belfry]

#work-in-progress message

[hearty walrus]

where you start small and build up, and don't have settings that make games look realistic on by default

[idle dragon]

@compact river I did UE first, found it too hard, went to Unity for a few months, found it easier but also more annoying, then went back to UE and now I'm sticking with it.

But occasionally I'll jump back to Unity for the science

[compact river]

Hmmm, I'll try out Unity, ig it also helps understanding the concepts of game development

[idle dragon]

Not a bad idea.

There is no right or wrong answers

[compact river]

I have kinda worked with game development before but that was addons so not quite the same

[idle dragon]

C# is more intuitive than C++

[drowsy snow]

Hopefully this will be your final clue:

I used Unity to learn making 2D games and understand the basics, after modding Doom for years. And then my need arises, so after doing Unity for a year, I shifted to UE4, after I understand the basics.

[compact river]

ig you have to save and load first?

[idle dragon]

That's a good blueprint for learning stuff

[compact river]

oh what, that's weird

[compact river]

Thanks a lot, I'll go try Unity until I feel it's limits and then go over to UE

[drowsy snow]

That's the way to go 👍

[compact river]

Lmao

[drowsy snow]

Because Unreal games are far more optimised than Unity

[compact river]

kk, I've found an official unity guide so I'll just go from there

[idle dragon]

If you want a good intro to Unity and are interested in animations, watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vApG8aYD5aI

I started there and it was pretty fun

[hearty walrus]

also quick question

how the fuck would I do fur

[compact river]

But I need to learn the basics first right?

[hearty walrus]

and not literally nuke any pc playing the game

[idle dragon]

@compact river Not really, you are introduced to coding in that tutorial

[echo phoenix]

Hi all I have a big problem with the flickering in ue4 I try temporal AA issue but it doesn't fix it if someone can help me can be really coool

[idle dragon]

series of tutorials

He basically grabs your hand and walks you through every step

[compact river]

ahhh so it's not just this one video

[drowsy snow]

Small rant:
Genshin Impact is a Unity game, but the game struggles to render 5+ NPCs on screen, in base PS4. Compared to FF7 Remake, which is a UE4 game, able to render living 10+ NPCs no problem im the same hardware.

[hearty walrus]

ShouldHaveUsedGodot™️

/j

[compact river]

But there's some very popular games made in Unity, how come they didnt use UE instead? ig they have the knowledge?

[hearty walrus]

UE's designed for photorealistic games

[idle dragon]

@compact river Oh sorry I linked the wrong video. Here's the whole playlist from start to end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhvQDqmgmU&list=PLwyUzJb_FNeS8s7OQKeNIr3NMHBIbhFeC

[drowsy snow]

Depends on the game and hardware target

[idle dragon]

only watch if your interested, though

[echo phoenix]

@plush yew I totally disable it and it's still here 😦 Maybe i have to disable it in the Engine ini ?

[idle dragon]

there are other tutorials too

[compact river]

NPR?

[hearty walrus]

updated

[rigid belfry]

https://learn.unity.com/

[hearty walrus]

I meant to say "N-

[compact river]

Thanks a lot, I'll watch em

[hearty walrus]

thanks

[echo phoenix]

@plush yew thanks for your help

[hearty walrus]

but it's not the main "Thing"

once again, chainsaw + cake argument

[compact river]

Ahhh so like animated games?

kinda

[drowsy snow]

And yet I'm able to make rendering like this

[hearty walrus]

Look like RWBY

I like it

[drowsy snow]

Actually UE4 is capable of NPR rendering

I mean, a lot of anime games use UE4 nowadays

[drowsy snow]

It's from Idolmaster Million Live

[hearty walrus]

well today I learned then

[drowsy snow]

I make machinimas of that game to battle test my materials and codes. Also researching stuff along the way

[compact river]

Anyways thanks everyone for the honesty and help!

[static arch]

Sorry for asking so late - which engine version are you using? 4.26.2?

[crimson lake]

correct

[static arch]

And it was never opened with another version?

[drowsy snow]

Meanwhile me stuck with 4.26.0 and live with whatever bugs in Control Rig lol

[crimson lake]

oh

uh

I think it originally was 4.25

but that was a while

back

[drowsy snow]

Rebuilding the engine tooks way too long 🤣

[static arch]

Might be version locked for me because of that

Or because of the Houdini plugin (not using Houdini rn)

[crimson lake]

houdini plugin shouldn't force close it

though

huge kudos and thanks for trying to help man ❤️

[slim idol]

Am I the only one who suddenly started getting this error inside Unreal Engine? It was never an issue now it happens all the time =/ Anyone found a solution?

[static arch]

Luckily doesn't, but when it's (version) locked, it won't show up

[crimson lake]

oh

dick move

[static arch]

Unreal playing checkers in that case, unfortunately

[hearty walrus]

wait question

[drowsy snow]

I admit, my debugging methods is rather unorthodox, but hey, it works while waiting my artist to get his work done.

[hearty walrus]

Click to interact or [KEY] to interact

[crimson lake]

welp

happens

just have to place a bunch of stuff in order again

no biggie

[hearty walrus]

I might go with both, where you're given the option to user either E or Click an object to interact with it

[crimson lake]

shit timing

but no biggie

[static arch]

I'm not sure how far you were but at this point it might be more efficient to rebuild it

[crimson lake]

yep, I'm rebuilding the stuff for tomorrow first

[drowsy snow]

Maybe your driver's freaking out.

GPU drivers are weird, lemme tell ya.

[static arch]

Sounds good!

[crimson lake]

then going to make some maya plugins for tuesdays'

thanks a bunch man I hecka appreciate it ❤️

[static arch]

PLEASE use source control for those projects

[crimson lake]

I set it right damn now

[static arch]

No worries! Was time for me to give something back to the community after such a long time

[slim idol]

my 2080 rtx is up to date tho 😦 i even reinstalled all drivers

[crimson lake]

if you ever need some quick 3d work, shaders, houdini or some sleezy tech shit, don't hesitate to hmu ❤️

[drowsy snow]

Sometimes updated drivers can cause issues. Maybe rollback the driver?

[static arch]

Watch out, I might fall back to that ;D

[crimson lake]

Highkey, I'd love to give back ❤️

[static arch]

Good luck for the interviews tho! You'll do it

[hearty walrus]

I use source control but it doesn't seem to do anything at all

[crimson lake]

Thanks man, I'm tryingggg

[echo phoenix]

@plush yew Im sorry i try to disable the TAA and it doesn't work 😦 do you know how i can totally disable it

[slim idol]

humm will have to rollback 2 versions x( will do, thanks for the idea

[echo phoenix]

thanks

[drowsy snow]

I use GitHub all the time, even for my most miscellaneous projects.

Never know what hit them files.

[hearty walrus]

github would probably have an aneurysm if I uploaded all this to them

so I do plan on making a local git instance

[drowsy snow]

In Project Settings, find the option for antialiasing

[hearty walrus]

and syncing all my unreal projects to it

[drowsy snow]

You can switch to FXAA and see if it solves the problem

[hearty walrus]

also new question

[drowsy snow]

In case it still didn't work, try clean reinstall, by downloading the last version that works, use DDU to uninstall the current driver, and install the driver you downloaded from clean slate.

[hearty walrus]

how would I go making a notification-esque system

like if you go to open a door and it's locked

[drowsy snow]

My method for this would be Event Dispatcher

[hearty walrus]

(+and change the rectile when near)

because there's this in the FirstPersonHUD

[drowsy snow]

Either use Event Dispatcher and assign the events, or use Blueprint Interface and call message on the event

[echo phoenix]

@drowsy snow I still have the same problem 😦

[drowsy snow]

I personally used the former for specific case scenarios, and use the latter for more "one for all" case scenarios

Event Dispatcher requires you to specifically reference the object that have the ED, while Blueprint Interface just depends on which BP class has that Interface installed.

[rigid belfry]

what i really like about interfaces is that you can just send messages to anything and if they implement the interface, good! otherwise nothing happens

no need for fancy checks or anything

[pastel ginkgo]

This is absolutely incredible. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/ultra-dynamic-sky

[prime lintel]

is there a way to enable RotatingMovement function in the sequencer?

it works in play mode, but it doesn't in the sequencer

[drowsy snow]

I still creating my own sky system

[drowsy snow]

Sorry, I can't spot it from my phone.
I'll check it again once my PC is done compiling stuff

[echo phoenix]

@drowsy snow Thanks for your help I try many methode and nothing work great thanks a lot !!

[hearty walrus]

ok wait so

I was looking through the metahumans page

why the fuck does that guy look similar to Morgan Yu

[calm sedge]

He doesn't?

[drowsy snow]

Try changing Taro's hairstyle in the MetaHuman Creator

There is one hairstyle very close to that

[viral fractal]

what is it about this engine that causes random features to just stop working completely when absolutely nothing was changed ?

[still schooner]

do you guys think days gone developers using latest versions of ue4? :D

[viral fractal]

no

very unlikely

[still schooner]

so it must be like 4.20?

modified but 4.20

[viral fractal]

when was that game released originally ?

[still schooner]

april 26 2019

[viral fractal]

prob. even pre 4.20 but backported some features

[hearty walrus]

why does the door get locked in one position?

I can't move the door by moving the root, only through selecting it directly

[still schooner]

so we'll see the weirdd ue4 anti aliasing again..

[drowsy snow]

Gears 5 is a frankenstein of 4.11

[idle dragon]

So I just ran into a weird problem. The flaps on my aircraft used to be aligned perfectly with the aircraft, but now are not. In-game they dont apply the rotation I set in the Blueprint class.

Any ideas?

[hearty walrus]

uhhh

[spare kernel]

@hearty walrus get the debug symbols and crash again, that error is useless to debug

[pastel ginkgo]

Send it when you’re done

[rigid belfry]

are there any console commands to set the game as borderless?

[upbeat tendon]

Am I right in thinking the hud isn't initialised in spectator mode?

[drowsy snow]

It's closed source tho

[rigid belfry]

launching the game as standalone and the game doesnt feel like its borderless. the audio does not play in the background while alt tabbed for example

[calm sedge]

Is developing in blueprints just faster?

I bought the C++ course on udemy, just wondering if I should have gotten the BP one.

[rigid belfry]

what course?

[drowsy snow]

Well... BP has faster in-editor compile time, and you'd typically fine without C++, unless you need to create specific stuff or going down the optimisation rabbit hole.

[calm sedge]

The one made by gamedev.tv and epic

https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealcourse/

[drowsy snow]

Most UE4 devs I know prototyping stuff with Blueprints first, then translate it to C++ when they think the BP does what they want to achieve.

[hearty walrus]

How would I get the First Person HUD?

[calm sedge]

Oh okay that makes sense.

[sage dove]

guys, most of my materials turned to default gray checker, even though the materials are still applied, and textures all in place

[rigid belfry]

ignoring the fact that if you need to cast to a widget, then your logic is flawed, this is how you cast to a widget

[sage dove]

also switching into another scene and coming back crashes the engine, what could this be?

[rigid belfry]

why would a character not move only on a standalone game?

also, why would this return 0,0?

[hearty walrus]

@rigid belfry I ended up changing the method used

so it's a Widget

[rigid belfry]

#ue4-general message

you dont need casting for stuff you spawn

you already have the reference

whats going on here?

[hearty walrus]

wait @rigid belfry

I'm trying to change the image on the Widget

by calling a custom function

[rigid belfry]

this is my movement logic. could the deltatime be causing this problem? but how?

what

its working now? but why? i didnt change anything

no wait, it seems to be a problem related to a float movespeed var

speechless. anybody has an idea?

i'll try not using deltatime

god. even just typing that, i feel the cringe running in my veins

[crimson lake]

guys, apologies again, any clue what this error is ? : 0] It is only valid to set BatchElement.NumPrimitives == 0 when a IndirectArgsBuffer is used

[rigid belfry]

actually, i think i know where the problem is

[crimson lake]

O

MM

I think It's because I had

multiple skyspheres

by mistake

[warped wasp]

fellas

[simple meadow]

Hover Car!

[warped wasp]

can soemone help me here

like

[crimson lake]

lmao you're going to hell

[warped wasp]

i've been trying to

idk how to rig this properly 😭

[crimson lake]

I think houdini has a

Car rig

module

thing

[warped wasp]

uh i dont have houdini ;_;

i was using blender to rig

i'll show u how i rigged

one sec

[crimson lake]

That's a straight Blender problem then I suggest going to blender discord

[warped wasp]

this should work, right?

[crimson lake]

(unless someone here is amagician pls help)

[warped wasp]

fr

[crimson lake]

uh

what are you trying to achieve

with this

[warped wasp]

a car that drives

😭

[crimson lake]

from the look of this I think you haven't rigged before correct?

[warped wasp]

yes

very much so

[crimson lake]

the joins are

[warped wasp]

i've only done modeling/texturing

[crimson lake]

everywhere~

[simple meadow]

Blender has some specific export requirements on the FBX, did you make sure to check those? It particularly effects armatures/skelatal mesh

[crimson lake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9LMcvfOX8

I got u

this should work straight out of the box

[warped wasp]

i was watching a tutorial, so yeah i'd hope so

alright im gonna watch

[crimson lake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNA6V_vpgvI

this later to make sure all the settings

[shell zephyr]

hello, how could i make a character lose health if an enemy reaches a specific point on the map? any ideas?

[crimson lake]

are the same

[warped wasp]

aight, thanks

[crimson lake]

Make a volume

if the character hits the volume

you send a message

to harm the character

[simple meadow]

Blender to UE4 for armature and rigging has lots of bad info in tutorials, so don't take what you hear in even reputable ones as correct

[shell zephyr]

thank you

[crimson lake]

got u

if you don't know how to 'send messages' yet

[simple meadow]

wondering if anyone knows the best way to approach dampening collision between two physics objects, specifically when you are carrying two boxes - with a simple setup depending on how you pick up the bottom box in the stack it makes the rest of the boxes 'jump' and fall off (walking around does the same thing). Changing the mass has no effect, and I don't want to change the gravity (a gravity of ~3500 gives good carrying results but breaks everything else).

I'm thinking of having a box collider around the objects being carried so that they know if they are on top of one another or something but I'm not exactly sure how to approach it, any advice?

[crimson lake]

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

this will make you a wizard

[shell zephyr]

yeah im still learning thank you very much

[crimson lake]

watch every second trust me it's gold

[calm sedge]

My kb shortcuts in editor arne't working for some reason

When I hit f it doesn't focus

[crimson lake]

Anything that has to deal with physics directly are screwy

[crimson lake]

check your keyboard language

[calm sedge]

English united states

[crimson lake]

try uk?

and try another application

[simple meadow]

100%, I'm expecting it to be either a hacky solution but was wondering if their was a convention

[crimson lake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uihVAX05R10&t=39s

this is gold

it saved my life a while back

then there's friction and lotta shet

[calm sedge]

I can type in other apps.

[crimson lake]

shortcuts?

[calm sedge]

yup

[crimson lake]

try resetting

all the bindings

and setting custom binds

[calm sedge]

Okay good call, that workeed

[crimson lake]

got u ❤️

[calm sedge]

Should I finish the raywenderlich unreal tutorials, watch that two hour vid on bp or just start trying to build something.

[crimson lake]

what are you trying to achieve

(i have to go in a second so add me if you want me to answer something specific ❤️ )

[worldly leaf]

Can someone teach me how to make a certain UI?

[hearty walrus]

How do I change an image widget?

I'm trying to change the brush

here's the code

[calm sedge]

@crimson lake the simplest clone of the arcade game gauntlet that I can.

I want to make action rpgs but I know something like zelda is years away and too huge so I want to try to make gauntlet.

But with one type of enemy and one class to start with.

[warped wasp]

hey jad uhh i think i have aquestion

is it possible to perhaps connect the wheels and tje body?

like

i got the hitboxses and stuff

but it still falls

[tawdry sable]

Did you ever figure this out?

[hearty walrus]

okay new question

I don't know what on earth is going on and I'm so frustrated

This part of the code works

but, only when I use a delayed On Construct event

the custom event that the door is MEANT to fire doesn't work

[misty creek]

Unfortunately no, I never managed to get that working. I used a workaround with a static mesh and line traces. But I'm not sure if that would be helpful with what you are trying to do

[tawdry sable]

I just have a (very large) map, and I'm trying to scatter instanced on it in certain areas only

I'm unsure if that feature is working at all. All it's ever done for me is output (0,0) or hang the editor

I'm kind of amazed that they'd go to the trouble of adding this as a feature, then barely bothering to document it at all

[misty creek]

Well, it's not exactly procedural but I'd take a look at procedural foliage spawners

Then you can use an invisible material layer to only have it spawn the instances in certain areas

But that should be pretty performant and relatively simple

[tawdry sable]

This is all totally new to me, so thanks for the tip

This has to be done at run time

Or when the game starts. If that makes any difference

[misty creek]

Well, if the map changes at run time then I'm not sure if my idea will work

Does your map change?

[rigid belfry]

are you changing the crosshair when you can interact with an object?

what are you trying to do

[hearty walrus]

yeah

[rigid belfry]

then thats the wrong way of doing it

[tawdry sable]

No, it's a replay

[hearty walrus]

what

[tawdry sable]

So the map is fixed

[rigid belfry]

you should be using linetraces and blueprint interfaces

[hearty walrus]

wait wait wait

linetraces

I'm only checking if the player is in the bounding box

[misty creek]

So the instances aren't always suppose to show?

You might be able to put a procedural spawner in a blueprint and control it through that

[hearty walrus]

wait @rigid belfry

How do I make the UI react to the message

[rigid belfry]

create a new blueprint interface, create 2 functions

[hearty walrus]

I've already done the first one

[rigid belfry]

note:you should have an Actor Object Reference input

[hearty walrus]

okay done

[rigid belfry]

on your UsableActor, on begin overlap send a BeginInteract Message to the actor overlapping

[plush yew]

hi anyone know the game champions online? i link a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-ToUWwBtvk i was thinking if is possible create a character creator like this in unreal engine (not for implement in a game) i want to make this as a tool, to create your characters

btw i was thinking if unreal engine have limitations for this things (?) maybe unity is a best option? idk

[rigid belfry]

edit: actually, this was false. you dont need an "other actor" input. also, first image is wrong. off the "OtherActor" pin, simply tipe "beginInteract"(your function name) and send a message. note: you could still have other inputs, and send different data based on whats triggering the function

[fallow hornet]

anyone know a way to only get the camera components from the audi configurator to work?

[rigid belfry]

inside your character, add the interface, implement the function(right click->implement) and do your logic

[fallow hornet]

I just want the camera no linking to the Camera level variant set

[hearty walrus]

Would the character be the Crosshair UI

[rigid belfry]

now we have a reliable way of talking between blueprints. all thats left is reliably sending data

i need to know how your crosshair logic is currently set up

[fierce tulip]

i see no reason why you cant make this in ue4 (or unity)
All you need is experience, put in effort, and some luck.

[hearty walrus]

There's no logic

unless you're not talking about the widget

[rigid belfry]

what do you want to happen?

[plush yew]

so is doable, i was thinking hire a small studio btw, i don't think someone without the right experience can make something good, to big

[rigid belfry]

how much 💸 you've got

[hearty walrus]

Whenever the player is in range of the door, the crosshair changes to indicate that the door is interactable

[rigid belfry]

and whats happening right now?

[hearty walrus]

nothing

in an older version of the code, the debug message is said and nothing else

[plush yew]

is not only me, the budget now is 70k, i was searching a site for ask studios about how much can cost a project, you know "a idea" but nothing

[rigid belfry]

assuming thats dollars, thats a yearly salary for a programmer 😄

[hearty walrus]

and I'm standing here like

"Your games have budgets?"

[plush yew]

eur, yep but you aren't making a full game man, i mean this is a 2009 game and the company was small the time the game was developed, i doubt the budget for the game was millions

and how i say is only a stand alone tool, i not counting all the 3D models etc etc, only the "fuctions" the coding part

[rigid belfry]

depending on what kinda crosshair we're talking about, maybe you'd want a draw texture node

[hearty walrus]

it's an image set

[warped wasp]

Y'all, is there a way to connect wheels to body in a car

because uh

[hearty walrus]

God bless kenney.nl

[warped wasp]

This is wack

[hearty walrus]

uhhhhh

[fierce tulip]

@warped wasp please read the #rules
You have been asking this multiple times, and without much time between it, and in many (unrelated) channels.

[narrow mauve]

I am using a scenecapture 2d component to capture the volumetric clouds to create a mask..its drawn a render target and the RT is read and spawns my rain effects at those locations..however it is very slow and hitches when it updates. Does anyone here know of an efficient method to produce this result

[warped wasp]

My bad

[echo phoenix]

Hi all I already post something about this but I still have the same problem about Antialiasing effect I try to disable temporall AA and nothing repair this artefact if someone can explain me it can really help me THANKS

[calm sedge]

Do you attach scripts to objects in unreal like unity?

[crimson lake]

yep

Bones don't have to be connected in any specific way

but you usually use the bones

'skeletal bones'

the way you need them to work

[warped wasp]

I see, that's cool

[crimson lake]

so for instance

a car

can have one root bone

and a bunch of wheel bones

[warped wasp]

Ya, I think that's what I did

with the rig

basically I made one root bone as the body

Extruded the root bone

Seperate it and made the extruded bone a wheel bone

By moving it to the wheel

And doing the same thing for the 3 other wheels

no luck though

The bones show up though so that's alright, ig

[crimson lake]

so

show me your skeletal mesh

[warped wasp]

This would work in theory, right?

I also saw a tutorial of this guy doing the same thing

[next badger]

@warped wasp you need to properly export skeletal mesh from blender, and import one to ue4

[crimson lake]

show me the skeleton in ue4

not in blender

[warped wasp]

oh shoot I'm not on pc

Uh

One second

[eternal rain]

If I break a Rotator into 3 floats then check the Yaw for its value, will I need to do OR condition for it to work right? IE: If I want to do the action if Yaw is between 88 and 92, will I also need to check for Yaw between -268 and -272 for the action to work right?

[potent bridge]

Are packaged games any smaller than the development environment? My project file is currently 3.66GB.

[crimson lake]

Depends on what you're doing

and what you're using

if you have a bunch of megascan assets

you should easily expect 1 tb worth

make sure you delete all the assets not being used

[fierce tulip]

you can just make sure any unused asset is not part of the packaged build <_<

[crimson lake]

dis^

[fierce tulip]

(though yea, keep projects clean. a clean project is a clean mind)

[potent bridge]

Megascan, god no.

@fierce tulip Wait theres an option for that? Awesome.

[crimson lake]

yess

there's also a plugin that deletes all unused assets if I remember correctly

[drowsy violet]

Guys i wanna ask about megagrant?

Who can help me?

Somebody here?

[dark depot]

might help to just ask what you want to ask about it then if someone knows they can help for the most part the megagrant site covers most stuff. But most the time if you just ask its easier to know you will get an answer here @drowsy violet

[drowsy violet]

Sorry for too many post.

[dry latch]

hey I have this particular error when building my wame. Any ideas ? I have no clue

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogSavePackage: Error: Attempting to save a map package '/Game/Bunker/Maps/demonstration_BUNKER' that does not contain a map object.
PackagingResults: Error: Attempting to save a map package '/Game/Bunker/Maps/demonstration_BUNKER' that does not contain a map object.

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/29d1a36ec2b920aa928e89fcc498fbc2

so my groom wont stick to where its suppose to settle

idk what i did wrong i followed the tutorial step for step lol

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

[plush yew]

is there a better way of getting the bigger of two floats?

[narrow mauve]

If one isnt greater than by default the other is greater

[gleaming creek]

Use the Max function?

[plush yew]

is that what the max function does

[narrow mauve]

I never did it comparing two floats but you can get the max of array

[plush yew]

damn max really does do the thing

[narrow mauve]

yeeeeeeup

[echo phoenix]

Hi all I turn Dlss on on UE4.26 and i have some issue with gjosting

ghosting

do you know how i can disable ghosting effect ?

Thanks

[restive shadow]

Anyone know what the units are for max chunk size?

[plush yew]

probably cm

[restive shadow]

It’s a file size. So I assume bytes or Mib

[buoyant stratus]

When compiling the engine from source, how would I add a custom define to build with?

I'm trying to define CAD_INTERFACE since it's needed to import CAD models w/ Datasmith

(before you do what one of my friends did and recommend I just download it from the Epic launcher, I'm doing this for a small work project and we can't install the launcher on work machines)

[drowsy snow]

I'm gonna bring it here from #cinematics

The problem with control rigs is that it doesn't treat rotators as actual rotator struct in sequencer and just 3 float, so the option that was available in static meshes aren't available here.

Is there any way to somehow use quaternion interpolation for control rig controls? Manually adjusting the axis beyond (-)180° in sequencer can be tedious and inaccurate.

[sly coyote]

quick question, is there a way to refresh all the placed actors in a level, Ive noticed if i make changes to child actor classes sometimes the actors that are already placed act as though theyre the older version of themselves...this is most easily recreated by over riding a parent function after placing an actor....so am im forced to have to manually replace all the actors or is there a hidden little "refresh all" hotkey somewhere i dont know about?

[drowsy snow]

Okay, I figured this out

Turns out you have to use Euler Transform so that it won't have the gimbal lock issue

[buoyant stratus]

figured out you can't use datasmith on engine builds you build yourself bc of something missing

[neat current]

Hi all! I'm trying to export the groom and it's LOD from Unreal. What's the way of doing it? I'd really appreciate help

[plush yew]

https://youtu.be/UZnjFbbgqWU

That should solve all of your issues

Google parts you dont understand

[neat current]

I just checked it. Great tutorial, but it didn't cover how to export it from Unreal. I already finished the hair in Unreal, but the client wants all the LODs in the project, and I exported all, the groom is just left.

[plush yew]

I made the hair in blender seems easier and take 10 minutes I cant help you with making hairs in unreal as I didn't even know you could do that..

Id say search forums github

Or the unreal forums someone always has an answer in those areas

I apologize for wasting your time x,.,x

[neat current]

I did the hair in XGen, imported in UE4. I guess the easiest way now is doing the LOD manually in the XGen project and export as another alembic file to the LOD folder

You're totally good man. Thank you!🙏

[plush yew]

Aww thx good luck on your journey! I hope that method works 😚

[plush yew]

Do you know how I can lower the specular of many objects at the same time?

[hearty idol]

I see the master branch of ue4 shows the engine version of 4.28? What is this? That sounds exciting. Is that ue5 alpha?

[regal temple]

Anyone know a good youtube tutorial on creating skill trees?

[plush yew]

i dont know

[toxic owl]

My editor appears to be stuck on load (more than 20 minutes). From the look of the process manager it is spinning a single thread and gradually allocating more and memory. Beyond doing a clean build and tossing out the derived data cache (both of which I already tried), is there anything else I could possibly do to get it out of this state?

[past nebula]

how can I reset the map view of I get out of it and screen now is black

kinda my first hour learning unreal so sry for noob question

[atomic forge]

I love ue4 n' all, but why does blueprint viewport controls have to be different than regular blueprint view controls....

[drowsy snow]

I presume it's good ol' shader compiling

[toxic owl]

Usually when it does that I see multiple processes running. I tried attaching the debugger to see what it was doing and superficially it seemed like it was stuck loading a uasset file in the Paper2D plugin. I could detach, wait a while, and re-attach and it would still be loading that file. I'm not very familiar with the process of discovering and loading the asset files, so maybe this is normal. I'm just going to try uninstall/reinstall. 🤷

[drowsy snow]

No, it's Unreal Engine 4.28

Like, I get it that upcoming UE5 features are exciting and all, but most of the features listed are already available in UE4 as we speak. As much as exciting Nanite and Lumen sounds like, I think traditional LOD thing is still more practical, and LPV (and the new realtime sky light algo) still do the job well for dynamic GI due to the similarities with SVOGI (despite what Godot leds you to believe, SDFGI is still brittle)

Again, it's not like the situation where UE3 stuff is incompatible right away with UE4 (which is the reason Mass Effect remaster still uses UE3), so there's no reason to wait for UE5 instead of just jump in to UE4.

[karmic radish]

Hey guys! I have a question. Currently I'm trying to work with Lenovo Thinkpad T440p and it's horrible. https://deals.dell.com/de-de/productdetail/8aow Do you know if that configuration would allow me to work comfortably with the UE4 3D projects (without RTX of course)?

[astral ravine]

Would anyone want to test steam multiplayer on a test build with me?
Small packed project around 300mb. It's just the starter map with a basic server browser.

DM me for link

[pastel ginkgo]

How to I get my lighting to not look like garbage? I'm trying to bounce some light into this room but it looks grainy. How do I get it to look clean? I'm using a basic white material with a roughness of 0.5. Is there anything else I can try? Maybe adjust the material? I already have ray tracing on.

[sage dove]

Half of my materials display the default gray texture, even though when you open up the material, it looks fine in its own window, how is this possible?

[feral sierra]

why do you think LOD is more practical than Nanite if you haven't tested it yet?

[sage dove]

Can you force a shader recompile?

[sage dove]

even the same material shows up correctly on one mesh and is default gray texture on another mesh, this is really weird

[uneven mica]

Hello, how can i make that when i place trees in foliage that they arent like that

They should be straight

[cobalt shadow]

untick align to normal @uneven mica

on your folliage settings

[royal stirrup]

hey, guys! can you give me a hand here please? I started to use sublevels and encounter some problem with lighting. I have two sublevels - City and Hangar. If turn city visibility off the lighting becomes a lot brighter by a some reason. I through maybe it's post process in city sublevel, but look like it's not the case. If I turn visibility of all object of City sublevel from outliner lighting doesn't changes. Only if I turn off the sublevel. Where should I look for issue source? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXYnFvc_dCo - here's video to illustrate the problem.

[cobalt shadow]

I guess it's your post process, make sure all of your post process exposure are set to infinite bound and Metering Mode to Manual

or if you have multiple post process, make sure the one with the correct exposure has the highest priority

[royal stirrup]

@cobalt shadow yea.. it was it. I just moved global post process to persistent level and now it's fine. Thanks.

[cobalt shadow]

happy to help ! 🙂

[wide swift]

do anyone know how to do a stun effect like this , what shld i do for that effect

[shell zephyr]

how can i make my character walk through another character?

[restive yarrow]

by disabling their collision

[shell zephyr]

the collision of the capsule or the actual character?

[serene fog]

hey guys, i'm a beginner and need help

[honest vale]

@shell zephyr it's the capsule that collides

set the collision response for pawn type to ignore

[shell zephyr]

does both character have to be setted to pawn? or do i just need to set to pawn the one i want to walk through?

[serene fog]

So i'm following a tutorial as a complete beginner and i'm left confused. Why do you have to keep linking everything to Array Element? I don't understand the importance? Why is linking everything with the white lines not enough?

[glacial dawn]

@serene fog if your tutorial doesn't explain that you should follow another tutorial. The white lines are the process flow, and the blue lines, in your picture, are the actual array element you're working with in your loop. Try to start with the unreal courses, the first hour of code it's great for that.

[serene fog]

what would happen if i were to only connect the white lines and no blue ones?

[drowsy snow]

You have no data to feed into the node.

Think of it this way:

Having the target as empty is like your boss giving you orders, but ambiguous as to which things you have to work on.

[serene fog]

i see

but the box after the Branch is connected to a white line so it should already do the thing right?

[drowsy snow]

Well, no.
Again, going to the boss' orders analogy, you still have no idea for what to do with that one other order. For all you know, his order can be applied to any other stuff.

Computer programs are like that but "dumber"

[serene fog]

man, it's hard to think like a computer when you already know the plan

[drowsy snow]

Which is why good planning based on game design basics understanding is required.

[serene fog]

i see

i'm still in high school and i'm going to go to college next year to learn programming

[drowsy snow]

Godspeed on your college ✋

[serene fog]

thank you

[distant acorn]

is there a help channel?

[fierce tulip]

almost every channel is a help channel. just pick the one most adjacent to your topic

[distant acorn]

any1 good with blender?

[drowsy snow]

I use Blender on daily basis.

(and some people mock me for it lmao)

[serene fog]

so i'm still trying to understand (this is the same blueprint as the last picture), with Get All Actors Of Class, you basically put all Actor of a class (elevators) in an Array, and then un the next box you tell it to use everything you've put into that Array (so Items/Elements?)?

[distant acorn]

you maybe see the problem already...

[rocky epoch]

Yeah, first node collects all the items from the class, put it in an array, and the For Each Loop get all the elements from the array, but** one by one**. It gets the first, and do something with it, then the second, etc.
I just wanted to clarify it won't use everything from the array in the same time.

[serene fog]

an item and an element is the same thing no?

[robust owl]

ue3 - is there a way to set the default resolution for when you go to build > play level so that instead of 800x600, it's 1920x1080 for example?

[modest trench]

I have to say this is the first time I have seen a UE3 question on here

[plush yew]

Hi, I am new to unreal engine. Can I check if I want to learn to use the engine well, should I focus on learning C++ coding first or blueprints?

[pastel ginkgo]

Is it possible to add triangles to smooth out these edges?

[plush yew]

hello guys I folow tutorial for inventory esries

but i have problem with this node

idk what is and how I can get access to it

aha

thank you

[distant acorn]

@drowsy snow HELP EMEMEMEMEME REEEEEE XD

[plush yew]

lmao

[distant acorn]

heheh

[drowsy snow]

Chill out mate
I'm doing important household chores right now

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Jellybeer__#9417 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[serene fog]

rip

[willow trellis]

How can I see the actual command line of compiler invocation, that UnrealBuildTool is doing eventually? How can I add extra flags to the end compiler? I am developing on Windows for Android and compiling with clang

[rocky epoch]

Yes, there is many names for the same things usually :)

[serene fog]

i see

[sharp willow]

Hey there!

Concerning the StartTime parameter on all PlaySound nodes/functions:

• Is the value normalized/percentage, or is it raw time?

[distant acorn]

eyo im back

Manny was not nice to me 😦

[serene fog]

thank you Hoodie and Tzupi, i think i understand Arrays now :)

[unique kraken]

hey anyone can tell me how to properly import marketplace aniamtions without having to retarget?

to th default 3. person template?

[glacial dawn]

@unique kraken You can assign your mesh the skeleton of the animations but sooner or later you'll have to learn how properly to retarget animations. The assign skeleton it's problematic with many marketplace meshes.

[unique kraken]

oh, i know how to retarget

but its annoing to do when stuff is LITERALLY the same

what i do now is delete one skeleton and replace it with the other one

seems to work nicely

[glacial dawn]

It's the same that assign it but it'll give you problems with no standard skeleton meshes.

[unique kraken]

yea well aware of that

i know my ways around skeletons, just didnt find right away how to merge exactly the same stuff.

but deleting one skeleton is just fine for that, not much work

[mild phoenix]

Hello for everyone Who know why when I exit from vehicle my mesh,camera and spring arm going to default?

And who know how can I change weight of vehicle

?

[light bone]

What keyboard keys do you guys think are useful to work with a WASD movement setup?

For example, the left shift key

[fierce tulip]

@neat vigil unpacking a game that is not yours is rather illegal, so we do not allow mention of such things here.

[neat vigil]

i have an allow from developer

[fierce tulip]

if that was true, you wouldnt need to unpack

[neat vigil]

they can't share the original files, but they let me repack it myself

[light bone]

I think and I could be wrong here, that could just be alt - tabbing the game

[serene fog]

i have a new problem

[light bone]

Could be wrong 🙂

[serene fog]

i have changed the Player Control Class and the Default Pawn Class to my own, not the default ones, but when i play, i still spawn with the default Control Class and the default Pawn

[light bone]

but the engine defiantly does that, sleep on purpose when your tabbed out,

@serene fog Should probably ask this in #blueprint

[serene fog]

alr

[light bone]

but I would make sure your game mode is selected

as that defines what you spawn

[green snow]

Hello, please my UE cannot play webm files? I tried even mkv and m4v, I use Linux.

[serene fog]

yeah that's what i edited

[drowsy snow]

I still don't know why it's necessary to have Magic Leap plugins on by default

[astral seal]

Okay, so, I recently switched from VS to VS Code for a course, now I need to build a new project from source. However, it's generating VS Code project files (aka the workspace), and I would much prefer to build using Visual Studio instead. Does anybody know how to switch it back? I tried to do it from another project, but that did not work. Another thing that might have caused it is an extension I added to VS Code to fix the issues with it not linking properly and it causing header inclusion to appear as errors within the VS Code Editor.

[flint trench]

What do you do when you get a crash like this really deep in the engine code and the callstack doesn't really have anything to point you in the right direction?```

[Inline Frame] UE4Editor-Core.dll!TBaseDelegate<bool,float>::operator=(TBaseDelegate<bool,float> &&) Line 379 C++
[Inline Frame] UE4Editor-Core.dll!TBaseDelegate<bool,float>::{ctor}(TBaseDelegate<bool,float> && Other) Line 352 C++
[Inline Frame] UE4Editor-Core.dll!TArray<FTicker::FElement,TInlineAllocator<1,TSizedDefaultAllocator<32>>>::Pop(bool) Line 744 C++
UE4Editor-Core.dll!FTicker::Tick(float DeltaTime) Line 88 C++
UE4Editor.exe!FEngineLoop::Tick() Line 5051 C++
[Inline Frame] UE4Editor.exe!EngineTick() Line 62 C++
UE4Editor.exe!GuardedMain(const wchar_t * CmdLine) Line 169 C++
UE4Editor.exe!WinMain(HINSTANCE__ * hInInstance, HINSTANCE__ * hPrevInstance, char * __formal, int nCmdShow) Line 257 C++

[drowsy snow]

What's the difference in terms of functionality? VS Code is another run of the mill text editors - it don't have its own IDE, unlike Visual Studio.

Anyhow, I never even attempt such crazy mess, but maybe get rid of VS Code in the meantime.

[astral seal]

VS Code allows you to develop and compile for any language supported by its packages, and it's technically less heavy than VS itself.

[drowsy snow]

Cross check your code in your project.
Compiler error can be misleading at times.

[flint trench]

wdym "cross check"

[astral seal]

This is my first time using something other than VS for development other than shader programming.

[drowsy snow]

Cross check your own code in your project.

[flint trench]

yeah but my codebase is huge and it could litterally be anything, that crash is super vague

other than it looks to be something to do with a delegate

where do I even start

[drowsy snow]

What was the last edit you made before the crash happen?

[primal tendon]

how to hide the random box lines of components which I have not selected

[modest rock]

Guys are there any other advanced locomotion solutions for UE4, except of ALSv4 ?

[flint trench]

dunno it's been around for a bit and I had to focus on other things

[cobalt shadow]

press g

or you can show > volumes

in the viewport

[primal tendon]

That I do know.... g = game view, but what I meant was, was those box lines always there or was it in the recent updates, Bcoz I remember the box lines appear only when I have selected that component

well whatever, thank you...

[astral seal]

Is there any channel I could use to talk and ask about Pixel Streaming?

[nova kernel]

anyone here work with Exporting Tiled maps for world Comp? And able to do a small task for me?

[shy aspen]

having a problem with Master Materials. only one input is being read...

anyone free for two seconds

[hearty idol]

@drowsy snow im not delaying anything. I am still working on my game in ue4, but ue5 does sound exciting

[robust marten]

I am trying to import a single FBX file but when I try to import it it imports like 800 times. I think it's trying to individually import every face of the mesh. Anyone know why?

[drowsy snow]

There are other stuff like ALS but paid.

[flint trench]

Urgh lol

Figured it out

[drowsy snow]

ALSv4 itself used to be paid in v3, before the creator went on to make v4 free, and then he went noticed by Epic and worked for UE5.

[shy aspen]

what isa wrong with my auto mat? only one texture appears.

[drowsy snow]

Those volumes are always there.

[shy aspen]

could i get a hand by anyone for my automaterial/master material???

[plush yew]

is anyone able to access nvidia's rtx build of unreal? https://github.com/NvRTX/UnrealEngine

I've linked my github and epic account, and even have access to the branch.

but I just saw this

[shy aspen]

@modest rock could i get a hand with an auto mat?>

[modest rock]

What paid solutions for locomotion are there ? I didn't find anything on marketplace except ALS

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: JustWallaceMate#3303 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[drowsy snow]

Guess ALS is one of its kind then

If you really despise ALS, you can create your own locomotion solutions, making use of the new Control Rig and PowerIK. Or, you know, find with another synonymous keywords.

[modest trench]

I swore there was another locomotion plugin

[static arch]

On the repo? That's somewhere else, I can't find that text in the README.md of the repo

[modest trench]

Yeah, "MoveIt"

[modest rock]

Making my own will take too much time. I need something ready-made.

[drowsy snow]

This

[modest trench]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/moveit-locomotion-system

[modest rock]

This is for multiplayer but i need just locomotion system

[static arch]

Where do you have that mesh from? Sounds like multiple objects instead of one inside the model

[drowsy snow]

Just ignore the multiplayer stuff.

[knotty heron]

My timeline doesnt work when called from a custom event?

it works on begin play

also if i turn on autoplay

[drowsy snow]

It doesn't hurt to have "multiplayer" replication stuff in a single player game anyway. If anything, it's bullet proofing your project shall the need arises, even as mundane as replay system rely on replication.

[static arch]

Would you be able to provide screenshots?

Genuinely curious by the way, in case I need one in the future as well - what's wrong with ALS4?

[robust marten]

Just had to press Control + J to combine them in blender lol

[drowsy snow]

I presume the lack of manual like documentation? They didn't want multiplayer, so perhaps nothing to do with the lack of proper MP replication either

[modest rock]

Thanks for info guys! Are there anything else besides ALS and MoveIt ?

[modest rock]

Lack of documentation and usupport. Its almost impossible to add even simple features or even figure out how everything works

[static arch]

OK ;(

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention it's kinda difficult to retarget, and didn't put quadrupeds into account, so I had to hack my way in

[knotty heron]

Its only getting called once at a time

[mild phoenix]

Hello for everyone Who know why when I exit from vehicle my mesh,camera and spring arm going to default?

And who know how can I change weight of vehicle

It's too low

[drowsy snow]

I assume it's for RPG like health system?

I never do Timeline to drive health value to begin with. Usually I just straight up subtract the health, and do the "climbing down" number effect in widget.

Is there a specific reason to use Timeline to drive health value?

[knotty heron]

I'm trying to get the health to climb down from 100 to 0 while being stunned, but also want the value to be saved where it is as soon as he recovers

[drowsy snow]

Are you "destroying" your character class upon enter and "respawn" it upon exiting?

I can't see this case happens without somehow respawning the vehicle actor.

[knotty heron]

Just wondering why it works on beginplay but i could also try that

[drowsy snow]

Ever consider using Delay, or Set Timer by Event?

Delay will pause a node flow until the timer runs out, while Event timers allows an event to be executed after a period of time.

Also you may consider doing a hack with "break"-able loops, and subtract the value with World Delta Seconds inside the loop.

If the character is dead, break the loop by using Branch (or even making use of While loop), checking either its status (KO or not) or HP.

[knotty heron]

Yeah that also sounds promising, I guess Ill be using that instead

[astral seal]

Okay, so, I need to (in the future) integrate a Video Chat feature (via plugin) with Pixel Streaming. My thoughts on this are that if I do it lazily by first doing Video Chat integration and then implementing Pixel Streaming, the signal will be have the twice the roundabout time (once to the Pixel Streaming server, and then once more to the Agora servers, and back twice). My idea is to create some native app that is the host for the Pixel Streaming itself and the host for the Video Call where the Call itself is not implemented in the Unreal Engine application to avoid the double bounce problem. Is this feasible or a good idea? Any general concerns?

I'd ask in #web and/or #plugin-dev but they don't seem active, plus I didn't ask a real question there, just wanted to check for experts, so I'm asking properly here now, and hoping for a response.

[thick herald]

There are several locomotion options on the marketplace. Simply search the marketplace with "locomotion"

[plush yew]

I have a line of roof tiles that are all instances, but importing them into unreal makes them all individual meshes. I cant see any import options to preserve instances

[fierce tulip]

unless weird explaining, you'd want your rooftiles merged and not instances

[thick herald]

Naa.. individual tiles for added realism 😄

[plush yew]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/RTXGI it says it here

[twin geyser]

i cant seem to drag a 3d model into my content browser. is this because i am using 3d veiwer

[shell zephyr]

how can i make that if the healthbar reaches 0 the character does something (like deleting it self or whatever)

[spare kernel]

healthbar has no correlation to a character doing something when it reaches 0

if your health is all done inside a widget, you have a bad design flaw

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: breadloafandcool#5235 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[earnest wigeon]

very new to ue4 and game making in general. i notice a lot of people make things work like guns, cars, that type of thing before making a world

is it a bad thing if i start on the world before anything else

[verbal plaza]

I need help on how to import this file, so I can open it in unreal editor

[rose tiger]

hi, i'm new here and in ue4 but does someone know how to import a map from sketchfab to ue4?

[short pasture]

guys how can i fix this

[mossy nymph]

click Show Output Log

then go through errors 1 by 1 until there are none left

then try packaging again

[short pasture]

in there it said that

[rose tiger]

hi?

[short pasture]

the community one?

[short pasture]

i am now downloading it

ok

[twin geyser]

i cant seem to drag a 3d model into my content browser. is this because i am using 3d veiwer

i need help

[short pasture]

3d viewer not 3d veiwer

[grim ore]

@twin geyser you would have to drag in the source files from your file explorer if that is what you are trying to do?

[short pasture]

now what?

[twin geyser]

ok

i m trying to drag this

but it wont let me drag it into the content browser

[rigid belfry]

try clicking the import button

inside unreal

[plush yew]

Hi, I am wondering if the code in UE4 would be simple or complex to write in C#

Things like AI and stuff

[rigid belfry]

depends what ai we're talking about

the ai in my 2d spaceshooter doesnt even have an ai controller(well technically any pawn not currently possessed does) for example

[short pasture]

is it to get so long?

[hollow star]

depends on a lot of factors, like hardware for example

[grim ore]

@twin geyser what happens when you try and drag it in? also what file format is that file in (we cant see the extension)

[twin geyser]

it shows the circle sign thing

[short pasture]

ok so it will get so long idk

[grim ore]

yep we need to know what type of file it is then, open the properties to get the extension or turn extensions on. If its showing the red circle its not compatible

[twin geyser]

oof

i think it is a fbx

[grim ore]

fbx is compatible, so that should work

[rigid belfry]

right click on the file and click show properties

[granite holly]

hey guys, can someone help me figure-out a bit on material "opacity mask" ? I'm below for vocal or text here 🙂

[rigid belfry]

ask your question

[granite holly]

The last thing that needs to be done is to simply open your desired material and apply this material function for the “opacity mask” node. You will need to set the shader type to “masked” if you haven’t already for this to take effect.

here is what I'm trying to understand

[grim ore]

which part of that are you trying to understand?

[granite holly]

apply this material function for the “opacity mask” node

this

dunno how

[earnest wigeon]

anybody know why unreal might not load for me. i was running 1.24 when suddenly it crashed and wouldnt open up again. installed 1.26 and it wouldnt even load up the first time

[grim ore]

which part? the material function or the masking part? we dont know what you have done. Is this a text tutorial, image, video?

I mean if you just want to know where the opacity mask node is, its here

[granite holly]

I've made the material, but I don't get how to add-it in an other random material (in opacity mask entry) to make his effect works

[grim ore]

well it says to apply this material function to the mask input, i would assume before this was creating the function

or it tells you which function to use

[twin geyser]

what do i do after

[grim ore]

what does it show for the Type of File (this is the extension)

[granite holly]

ah ok nvm, I found how to make it ... xD

[twin geyser]

this is how it look like for me

[granite holly]

god bless this discord x)

[twin geyser]

i mean the type of file is a 3d object?

[grim ore]

oh your in a zip file arent you?

[twin geyser]

yes

[grim ore]

yes so those files dont exist then

[twin geyser]

oof

[grim ore]

you have to unzip/extract the file first then you can add it

[twin geyser]

ok

it works thank u

[rose tiger]

hi?

[grim ore]

can sketchfab export the file in .fbx or .obj?

[twin geyser]

there is actually a plugin i think

[rose tiger]

no i have a map in gltfbut i can't find anything for convert it.

[grim ore]

I would assume Blender could import it, then you could pop it out to fbx

[indigo escarp]

how to i disable context sensivity

[steel leaf]

Hello, I was wondering, if I only use the "paper 2d content" for 2 files, should I copy those 2 in my content and then delete the paper 2d content?
I think when I export my game unused files are packaged

[steel leaf]

here

[grim ore]

@steel leaf if you just want to use those 2 materials, you can copy them into your project then disable that plugin

[steel leaf]

Okay thanks you, I'll try that

[steel leaf]

but if I want to use sprites, flipbooks... aren't they in the paper2d plugin ?

[grim ore]

yes. The content wont get packaged if you dont use it, if you are worried just copy the ones you want so you arent touching that folder or assets at all

if you delete that folder its deleting it from the engine, not your project

[steel leaf]

Okay thanks!

[rose tiger]

blender didn't see it

[grim ore]

I dunno why then, it says it supports GLTF https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/import_export/scene_gltf2.html

are you sure its the same crosshair?

I dunno, maybe? I dont know how you are hiding the older hud

removing it doesnt destroy it so thats one issue

if you plan on re using it, remove it then just add it back

or dont even remove it, just set the visibility of the widget to hidden

[broken heath]

Why some people say if you dont have lods , dont use hism

[knotty heron]

Wait how do you destroy it then

[grim ore]

sorry I should have clarified, if you remove it and nothing refers to it, it will get cleaned up

I always store reference so I can re use them later so if you do that you have to clear out the reference as well

[knotty heron]

Oh alright good to know

[broken heath]

Sorry its not about unreal , Can i increase the text and icon size on mac os without downscaling the resolution @grim ore

[late stag]

Guys im creating a super realsitc big MMO game like escape from tarvok and rust

but idk what game engine to use

im pretty familar with unity and unreal

[grim ore]

@late stag use both, double your chances of success

@ebon linden it shouldnt matter, put it where it make sense to keep track of it? both seems valid

[late stag]

really?

[twin geyser]

i cannot find the calculate direction node that they say in this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftLBejDtlqc&list=PLL0cLF8gjBprG6487lxqSq-aEo6ZXLDLg&index=7

4:42

[spare kernel]

Calculate Direction is part of the AnimInstance

[grim ore]

@twin geyser from the video... the first 2 comments... on the video you were just watching... in the comments....

[twin geyser]

nvm

i found it

[grim ore]

yes... in the comments... of the video you were watching....

[spare kernel]

its the first node that pops up in an animbp.. http://www.thegames.dev/snaps/UE4Editor-Win64-DebugGame_8zlFBpiH65.png

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: mrprogames#0602 received strike 3. As a result, they were banned.

[rose tiger]

i've done it but when i'm in ue4 i see it like an object not a map and i can't use it

[grim ore]

well its going to come in as a static mesh, what do you mean by a map?

[rose tiger]

a level

[grim ore]

you put in into a level in UE4 and use it

a level in UE4 is just stuff in a container

[rigid belfry]

is there a way to not make a sound wave auto play on start up?

[grim ore]

uncheck auto play?

[rigid belfry]

cant find the bool

[grim ore]

how is this sound existing in your world?

[rigid belfry]

theres only auto activate

[rigid belfry]

simple audio component on an actor

[grim ore]

yes yes disable auto activate

[solemn siren]

UE4 not recognizing python modules(using natsort), setting up env variables doesn't help. How to fix it?

[rigid belfry]

so i should call activate instead of playing sound? since that will always play the sound once when set to true

[rigid belfry]

you've made a "map" which you exported as a 3d object. the static mesh is that

also it seems like the settings were not properly set up for unreal and the scale is way off

how?

full sentences please

[grim ore]

@rigid belfry the first time seems like it yes, its set to auto play. alternately you could just have no sound loaded and load the sound the first time its played

@rose tiger your scale might be wrong and this "map" is very small

open up the "map" by double clicking it and see what it shows for the size in the top left

[rigid belfry]

like this? feels very macgyver-ish

[wispy knoll]

really weird issue here, running in VR on an Oculus Quest, getting horrendous performance when tabbed into the game (like 3 fps) but when I tab out it goes back to normal.

Also just getting unexpectedly shitty performance (20-30 fps) in a basic scene with a few trees and some grass

[grim ore]

@rigid belfry @rigid belfry maybe more like this if going that route, so it doesnt have to load the sound every time it needs it only the first time

[ocean grove]

@wispy knoll check if steam vr home is running

[grim ore]

@rose tiger yes that is tiny, very very very small

[rose tiger]

29/0,5/8

[grim ore]

you probably want to import and scale it up on import, or export it out at a larger scale.

[wispy knoll]

it's not

[ocean grove]

Hmmm that would have been an easy fix.

[grim ore]

this is in cm so yours is very small

[ocean grove]

@wispy knoll when your tabbed in, what do you mean by that? Also do all your processes look normal, like GPU usage, CPU usage, RAM ect?

[wispy knoll]

GPU usage goes to shit when i click on the window

i hit windows key, goes up to 80%

but if i focus the window it doesn't work

works the same in preview and standalone

[ocean grove]

Is the tree really complex?

I know best practice suggests LODing and baking everything you can to keep fps high.

[wispy knoll]

i get the same issue in an empty scene

separate problems

[ocean grove]

That's super weird.

What's your GPU?

[wispy knoll]

2060S

[grim ore]

do you have anything overlaying stuff. like msi afterburner or nvidia shadowwhatever will overlay on a 3D viewport FPS and other crap and that can totally cause issues in the editor

[wispy knoll]

i disabled discord and nvidia overlays, no luck

afterburner isn't an overlay?

[upbeat tendon]

am i right in thinking that i need to write code to handle transitioning from spectator mode to playing? maybe from the player controller i would call RestartPlayer ?

[ocean grove]

There might be something that doesn't seem like it's an overlay but is, I would pop open task manager and see what's eating up performance

[wispy knoll]

nothing is, it's just not performing when it's tabbed in

[ocean grove]

Maybe try closing everything down and restarting.

[wispy knoll]

been doing this since yesterday

[plush yew]

i need this effect, how can i make it?

[rigid belfry]

i think theres actually a specator controller class

[cobalt shadow]

With 4 simple particle systems attached to your plane.
You'll need a cloudsheet texture, it's actually really easy to do

[plush yew]

any tutorial to teach it?

[dusky cypress]

where can I ask for help?

[wraith moss]

can somebody help? i started making a 2d platform game but the animations are somewhat broken

sometimes its getting smaller the animations dont change when i move

[dusky cypress]

sorry i do 3d

[candid falcon]

what is the quickest easiest way to get the ground location under a point?

[mossy nymph]

lintrace

[candid falcon]

this one here?

[mossy nymph]

that one is fine, as long as your ground blocks visibility

you might hit something else along the way, then you might need to experiment a little

[candid falcon]

ok I got the wrong one I was using normal
I'm early in development of this project and I'm trying to think about future proofing it so it doesn't detect invisible objects

ty :D

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/1f40027cb755296cf3eb6052966960ad

so my groom doesnt have hair colo

i can change it in groom settings and in third person

but it just a black blob in actual play or editor