ue4-general

[woven falcon]

and i've just looked at the third person walking animation

https://streamable.com/lkv1cw

is it supposed to have this stutter?

[jaunty cedar]

i've had that before, i think it's just something to do with how the walk/run/etc animations blend when you're at certain speeds

[woven falcon]

this isn't even someone walking, this is just the ThirdPersonWalk dragged into the scene

[jaunty cedar]

oh

..huh

[worn granite]

"avoid"

I don't trust them to not mess with the hardware. I'm talking bios level hackery you can't bypass with custom firmware (also ewwww custom firmware to make a headset not feel sketch)

[woven falcon]

see?
Wtf epic
https://streamable.com/o7ffoy

i thought it was my fault
That i screwed something up with my blueprints, i thought there was no way epic screwed this up...

[jaunty cedar]

i have to use a quest 2 for work and we're on work from home so i just have to have a facebook device sitting there

:(

which sucks too because i am a fairly security conscious individual

daily driver qubes and all that

[jaunty cedar]

turns out there is

the animation is just like that

[woven falcon]

weird

[worn granite]

I don't hard care about it, like I'm not aggressive in my opsec but it is just a bad idea ™️

[jaunty cedar]

i mean, within reason

[worn granite]

It's not like one can avoid having a shadow profile

but why give them extra vectors

anyways we risk off topic

[jaunty cedar]

true

damn was about to go on a spiel about opsec in the modern age

[worn granite]

#lounge it

[robust marten]

Please, if anyone here could help me with an issue I am having with an array, can I PM you about it?

[maiden sundial]

Maybe me, but maybe not.
Hard to tell without any more information

[spare kernel]

@robust marten ask the question in the channel, if someone can help they will.

[woven falcon]

btw- general question-
Is it even possible to take unreal4 .fbx animations, and edit them in blender?

Afaik, blenders fbx import sucks bigtime

[twilit hill]

it sucks way less than a few years ago

[woven falcon]

still not neat yet

[twilit hill]

at least you can now just import, edit and export meshes, probably same with animations

no axies differences etc.

[woven falcon]

ye meshes work fine

[cerulean geyser]

hey guys, is there any way to change settings from a post process using BPs? I cant seem to find a way to change them ..wanted to animate the vignette settings

[twilit hill]

i know what you mean tho, editing animations is a huge pain no matter what you use for it, but in theory you can do all of that in just ue4

[plush yew]

Hello guys
If there's anyone who can help me solve a problem in the project game dm me please.

[deep viper]

Is there some way to monitor the GameInstance data members during PIE? (I obviously can't see its values through the world outliner).

[spare kernel]

@plush yew no one is going to randomly DM you and offer you help if they do not know what the problem is. Ask the question here.

[plush yew]

Oh ok thank you very much

[buoyant oar]

Hello, I wanted to mask my landscape with Height, but when I brush with a texture, the whole tile becomes transparent with it. Can someone help?

[worldly cipher]

@woven falcon stop being everywhere

[rigid belfry]

where could i upload a few project as backup? need to clear my drives

[worldly cipher]

google drive

15gb of free space

[fierce tulip]

thats like 0.1% of a project

[timid gust]

git LFS?

[worldly cipher]

literally never checked my project size

[timid gust]

I would have on git

[buoyant oar]

Hello?

[fierce tulip]

@buoyant oar #rules
done repeat the same question or bump them please :) thanks

[worldly cipher]

my project is only 3gigs but its just a scene so

[obsidian nimbus]

you can print a backup on paper , just need to type it back in when u need it 😛

[rigid belfry]

#graphics

[fierce forge]

hello, do somebody knows how i ca resolve this ?

[rigid belfry]

can i zip up the whole project a project file and store that somewhere? would that work

[obsidian nimbus]

test it b4 u store it

but should work

[fierce tulip]

yes, unless the project was made in a source build with modifications. then you need to add that to the zipfile as well

[rigid belfry]

primitive components contain some sorta mesh. yours doesnt have any

if you dont need any mesh at all you could use scene components instead

they're basically the same thing

iirc

[fierce forge]

i have 2 but i found out what was the problem

i had RVT on a mesh

[plush yew]

I Have some "arrows objects" that just spawn, I don't know how to make them spawn with some kind of physical animation.

[rigid belfry]

what kinda animation are we talking about

do you want these arrows to travel like projectiles?

[plush yew]

physical animation

[rigid belfry]

whats the difference between physical animation and normal animation?

[plush yew]

from the sky to ground

I just want it to work with the physics and the sky to fall to the ground.

[rigid belfry]

make the cupcakes simulate physics

[robust marten]

Is there a way to always make a Function spawn with a Branch attached to it?

[rigid belfry]

yes

you create a function, the press B and left click

and you create a branch

[plush yew]

can you show me a sample please?

[rigid belfry]

if you want a function to return multiple execution pins, maybe try using a macro instead

[robust marten]

That's not always spawning with a branch

Not what I mean

I mean, I mean is there a way to have my function, which has an output of a boolean, automatically spawn with the branch attached

[rigid belfry]

i dont think thats possible

plus adding a branch takes, quite literally, half a second

its just a B+LeftClick

[plush yew]

I tried this but don't work

[robust marten]

I know that but it's tedious and would save me time

[rigid belfry]

the overall time you would save from that, you already wasted by having this discussion

its like comparing going 2 steps at the time compared to 3

[rigid belfry]

why does it not work?

[plush yew]

Wait I will try it again

[robust marten]

Don't tell me what I'm wasting my time doing or that it "only takes half a second". You're belittling me when all I'm doing is asking a question on how to save some key presses and time. I don't care if it only takes half a second, I was asking if it was possible or not, thank you.

[plush yew]

these objects its arrows

[rigid belfry]

it was not my intention to belittle you. sorry if i came off that way

[plush yew]

this?

[rigid belfry]

@robust marten as in my previous message, you could make use of the macro's capability of returning multiple execution pins. you could then add a function inside the macro and then use that directly

[rigid belfry]

yes

[robust marten]

It's alright... Thank you for replying to me about using a Macro

[rigid belfry]

what do you think the problem is?

[plush yew]

I'm not sure

[plush yew]

collision?

But I'm not sure

[dense knoll]

Is there a font that includes COntroler input icons?

like X Y A B

[rigid belfry]

once you check the Simulate Physics bool, the collision preset changes automatically to PhysicsActor. did you set it to something else?

[merry bison]

Can't you just import generic images on controller buttons from the web?

[plush yew]

Thank you very very much

❤️

[midnight wren]

Guys I need help with something. can you pls look in @oblique stormplayer for what I need help with?

[rigid belfry]

do you know how multiplayer works?

[midnight wren]

just getting started

[dense knoll]

the images dont size properly on a screen

[rigid belfry]

if you cant repeat the compendium to the letter(https://cedric-neukirchen.net/), then the answer is no

[plush yew]

But now why I can to push these object 😦 and death collision don't work when character is on it:(

[dense knoll]

it works fine in editors native res

but in any higher res the image moves

drifts*

[rigid belfry]

you need to anchor them

[rigid belfry]

you can push them because they are simulating physics. death collision doesnt work because the collision preset changed

[prime willow]

thanksies so much that really helps ❤️

[plush yew]

and how can I fix it?

[rigid belfry]

are they anchored like this

[dense knoll]

ye

[rigid belfry]

or like this

[plush yew]

I need only drop animation from that, nothing else..

[pure sorrel]

why i dont see the moving light in my blueprints when i simulate gameplay

[woven falcon]

no

[narrow mauve]

I have an interesting challenge. You can have the texture tiled or clamped..but how would you be able to tile it a specified number of times before clamping .....ahhh

[fierce tulip]

if you use a clamp node (or saturate node) you clamp a texture, just set the number of a clamp to X and you clamp after X

[narrow mauve]

Yep..that worked..I never used the clamp for UVs like that..

[fierce tulip]

just remember that uv's are also just math :)

[rapid ridge]

does anybody have any info on ue5?

[gaunt abyss]

no

[exotic thicket]

nobody here has any secret information that you couldn't find yourself, or if they do, they probably aren't allowed to disclose it :P

[kindred viper]

I heard it's one better than UE4

[plush yew]

Why does the ambient occlusion appear? : /

forget it, i soled the problem

[rapid ridge]

yeah no I just didn't keep me up to date and hoped for anything new since a couple of months have passed :)

[plush yew]

ya lo solucione

[unreal comet]

is there a way to make the level tab stay on the left side while in the editor? It drives me crazy when it somehow magically gets put in the middle of a bunch of my open blueprint tabs.

[barren flume]

Uhh can't seem to open my level at all anymore any ideas on a fix?

[halcyon flame]

I updated my project to 4.26 and I'm getting serious hitches when I try to AsyncLoadAsset (specifically music track WAVs) as well as a very long time to start PIE.

was this issue present in 4.25 as well?

[coral lotus]

Hey, is this the right channel for some help..? I'm having some problems with UE4

[lucid grove]

For some reason some of shadows disappear on specific angle

Bad angle

Other angles

[devout whale]

Can someone help me ? Not sure if it's the right channel for my question or not.

[robust marten]

Google doesn't really bring up anything useful... But how would I call a Macro from another Blueprint?

[faint cedar]

Anyone used the UE4 Vertex Aimation Tool successfully in the past few months?

[jovial kettle]

hey is their any big pro to learning C++ or can i do the same thing with visual scripts

im learning swift right now so i have a little understanding of coding

[quick shell]

how should i learn ue4

[spare kernel]

https://learn.unrealengine.com @quick shell

[quick shell]

is the blue arrow the way the characters facing?

[spare kernel]

yes

normally you want to rotate it 270 or -90

either one

(the skeletal mesh)

[torpid shadow]

I am looking to make a large map but I am wondering how to go about doing this without ruining FPS, I know you can use world composition to load levels in.
Is this how you load in trees and stuff too? Like to have them offload when not near and then load in that "chunk" of the map as you get closer? still new to the map making part

[mild phoenix]

Use LODS)

[wintry raptor]

Do we have a channel for perf stuff? I'm trying to solve some problems with my level eating up fps

[torpid shadow]

I wanted them to completely offload when not within distance, I thought LODS just lowered the graphic quality

[spare kernel]

@wintry raptor not really you can just ask here

[wintry raptor]

So I'm looking at the GPU visualizer and it says ShadowDepths are taking 13ms to complete. The problem is these - which I assume are the entire scene somehow being split up. The map is 1 large landscape. I'm very new to lighting so I'm not clear on what exactly is going on. I have 2 directional lights in the scene (1 is from the parent level, and 1 is for this level that gets streamed in) so that's probably an issue, but is it possible there's something else? Both of the directional lights are marked as Stationary with default settings.

I have a few hundred instanced foliage actors in the scene as well.

I tried adding a cull distance volume in but it was acting very strange with the instanced foliage actors. Either culling them all or none.

[drowsy snow]

@coral lotus and @devout whale , please post your questions right away. If you both only write a vague "Can someone help me?" and not write the question right away, people won't be able to respond, and it's not a good practice.

In the case of wrong channel, others will point you into the right one.

[drowsy snow]

Are both of your directional lights pointing downwards? In my case, I have 2 movable directional lights counteracting each other for day night cycle, and have no problems with the framerate. Both on persistent level, so the sublevels only have other type of lights. Maybe having two series of stationary light is the issue.

As for the foliage, my trick is to have split instanced foliage groups every few m² or so. Instanced foliages are treated as one mesh instead of each tree being its own mesh entity, hence the behaviour with cull distance volume.

[muted crater]

is there a way to change the editor cursor's color or something? i legitmiatly cannot see it on most of the test backgrounds.

[drowsy snow]

WDYM cursor colour? Mouse pointer?

[muted crater]

@drowsy snow Howdy, i mean the crosshair you use in the editor to click on stuff. it seems to usually be a kind of off-white but it's color seems to changed backed on what it's over? (like it turns red when it's over blue text, white on some grey, ect" but on alot of the starter template test map stuff it turns into this nearly invisible Grey-On-Grey

now i admit my monitor is a bit butt, however it still seems like soemthing you'd be able to adjust, esp given that they went to the effort of including colorblind/visual imparement options in the editor itself.

for now i've just had to change alot of the mats to see it properly. which i mean, does solve the problem i suppose, but i'm more curious than anything as again it seems like an odd oversight to not have that given that they PUT and clearly coded a unique and dyniamc cursor.

[prime willow]

ok really dumb question

but you said i can use hair bones to simulate and cheese a groom like system

would i use a bone per hair strand or a handful of bones in each area of the hair

and lets say i have hats in my game would this method be a good idea for hats and hoodies ;-;

oh i can setup the same kind of haircut and just switch it in back parts or top for when hats or hoodies are worn?

i thought i could use physics or sumfin so hats just squish down the hair lol xD

[drowsy snow]

Correct.

[prime willow]

wait i can

O.O

[drowsy snow]

Well, no.

[prime willow]

o-o

so i need to setup alt haircuts for the same kind of hair for hoodie versions

[drowsy snow]

In my case, I don't use hair strands. Sort of.

The strands aren't really strand, they're just thicc strands to represent anime hair.

[prime willow]

o-o

so thick meshes in a sense

so setup haircut, than setup same haircut for each hat type or hoodie/etc and just swamp the hair mesh with hoods or hats of any kind of the similar kind are worn o-o

and add bones on the wiggly parts i would presume

[drowsy snow]

Because I'm having animation where the character wear their caps, I swap the hair mesh with the similar one, except the top part is thinner and the physics bone started much further from the root. Not that it started exactly on the root to begin with.

[prime willow]

ah

so extremely clever work O:

hmmmmmm

that makes alot of sense i guess

so make hair mesh, and variations versions for masks, hats and hoods, put bones in chunks of it where they can move and arent constranded and slap on some smexy physics in engine? @drowsy snow

[rapid linden]

Hey any tutorials for tipewritter trigerred by a trigger box?

[prime willow]

tbh if thats how its setup its infinitely easier than i thought o-o;

[drowsy snow]

Yes, that's the way to go.

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-girl-animated-anime-heart-gif-5601384

[drowsy snow]

Also, to save on nodes, I deployed a trick I learned when creating Million Live machinimas:
Parent your hair bone roots into one single "weightless" bone, attached to the head. This way, you only need one Anim Dynamics/Kawaii Physics to propagate the physics into the rest of the hair bone.

[prime willow]

O.O

oh thats super smorts

can i also layer this with a swamp of scalp hair material

so the models bald head changes to hair scalp material when switching to any haircut that isnt bald O:

[drowsy snow]

Not only this save on nodes, but also you can apply the same exact anim post process BP into the other characters, seamlessly (as long as your hair bones are rooted to that dummy control bone)

[prime willow]

O.O

dang thats really good

[drowsy snow]

Well, you can put hair scalp mesh below the thicc strands. It's what VRoid did with the models.

[prime willow]

oh i created a material slot on the body

wait

i can just slap a scalp mesh under the hair

[muted crater]

Is there any way to change the order of animations inside of a sequencer actor? they seem to just be placed in random heirarchy orders and i can work with their weights liek this but wow i want them actually ordered.

am i just missing a button or something?

[prime willow]

and just layer them like a sandwich

dang thats really dumb smart

[muted crater]

A screenshot of my issue, i'd like to reorder these, apologies for multi-messaging i can't edit the previous post with this screenie

[old nimbus]

yoo I think I'm starting to get Unreal a bit

[drowsy snow]

And it's not heavy on performance too.

[prime willow]

;O;

this is so much better than what i was going to do

this is so good

yay!

[muted crater]

Okay the best i can seem to do is rename them to stuff like 1/2/3 and close/reopen it and it'll go in alphabetical order. which i guess works but again, that seems like an odd workaround for a MoveUp/Down button that i'd expect to be here :/

[drowsy snow]

You could ask this in #cinematics

[rapid linden]

I need help tho, how do I display text when I enter a trigger box?

[drowsy snow]

Compare if overlapping other actor equals to player pawn, then add a prompt widget to viewport.

[muted crater]

Fair enough, i assumed it was a generalized Unreal question given that it was more about a system function than a specific technique, but i might go do that.

[primal tendon]

So I was trying Ball Rolling template, the ball rotates way too much for the acceleration it does, is it possible to make the rotations of ball less but yet keep the acceleration of the ball same?

[drowsy snow]

make the ball bigger and adjust the torque amount, because that's how physics works.
unless you're doing fake ball rotation.

[primal tendon]

Oh thanks for that, it worked, I thought that number of rotations and such could be controlled with blueprints...

[steel shell]

is it possible to automatically import LODs for a mesh, like mesh.fbx, mesh_LOD1.fbx etc?

[devout whale]

Hello, how hard would it be to make a blueprint that controls ai with voice? Like a horror game and the ai will come to you when you talk through a mic or something similar to this.

Please @ me if you respond 🙂

[drowsy snow]

At first I thought you were talking about voice recognition.
In that case, you could use the mic output as a normal audio source coming from the player character, then have the AI certain threshold to differentiate silence noise and voice. Then use the AI's auditory sensing, which is built in to UE4.

[devout whale]

Ay thanks thanks. I'll try searching for a tutorial with some words like "auditory sensing" and stuff

[odd fractal]

Hi

My AI controller duplicates when I use SpawnDefaultController, how to get rid of this?

[dense kayak]

hello guys
i always using unreal engine source from github master branch, but its been 18 days since last commit, my question is, am i limited and cant see the updates
or every body else is like me

[drowsy snow]

#engine-source

[drowsy snow]

I guess it's your default game mode

[primal tendon]

I thought level bounds will also restrict player movement to be only inside the box, but I could go out of it... what to do so that I can make player only be inside a particular place and not go outside it

[drowsy snow]

Use a huge Blocking Volume. It's a proper invisible wall.

Level bounds only signify the bounding box of the entire level.

[stuck scarab]

"Infinite Loop detected" doesnt always have to be actually infinite, is that correct?
I feel like if its just to much or too long to compute it gives you this error as well, am I right?

[kindred laurel]

could someone help clean up my projectiles? theyre very large and clunky and will randomly fly different directions when it collides with anything like the floor, walls or other actors

[tame marsh]

@stuck scarab I think it detects whether the engine is continuously repeating the same action with no discernible changes

[royal stirrup]

Hey, guys! I have a problem, which happen repeatedly.. "Swarm is failed to kick off" when I trying to Build lighting. And it's usually one mesh in the scene, which by a some reason causing this problem. And I must find this mesh in pretty big scene ) So I select half of meshed, delete - check if it fixes the problem, if it does - delete other half from it etc... until I find one mesh ) but it's so annoying... why does this may happen? And there's a easier way to fix it?

[proud dome]

How do i disable a turn animation thats meant for idle when im crouching?

[drowsy snow]

Do you have a condition (bool) that you set when crouching?

[odd coral]

how do I get rid of these erroneous entries?
there is nothing I can do about them. not select, no rmb...

[drowsy snow]

After almost 5 years of using UE, it's the first time I see this red Unreal dragon tooltip.

[drowsy snow]

Reload the level

[tame marsh]

I think it's only now I realise that icon is some kind dragon

Must be some kind of relic from the Unreal days

[drowsy snow]

It is.
First seen in the '95/'96 tech demo when Unreal was meant to be pure dark fantasy before going sci-fi.
Also remastered in UE4 for the default billboard sprite.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/default-blueprint-sprite/5445/2

[woven falcon]

quick question:
If i can override individual bones with new animations using "Layered blend per bone" like this

then what is the point of making these montage animation slots?

why do i need a montage animation slot that limits itself to upper body - if i can just override it using this node?

these things

[drowsy snow]

#animation

[woven falcon]

oh right

[odd coral]

??? UE4 the best! 😛 😄 Thank you.

[proud dome]

how do i disable crouching when player in air? atm i have this set up

[drowsy snow]

kinda simp-y but okay, no probs.

[odd coral]

yeah as long as your level is small... why do people put up with so much crap? I hope UE5 is better at that.

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/fd2b7838ed1fce28d4fa7af294a382de So im getting this

and all i did was make copies of the folders that my textures are from

is that a really bad call i should avoid or sumfin?

[drowsy snow]

Are you referring to the landscape or something else?

[prime willow]

models

i made copies in the content folder and now the warning is popping up

nothings changed in the actual editor or map ;-;

[drowsy snow]

...what kind of warning? the Texture Pool Size thing?

[prime willow]

yes ;-;

will this cause issues when making my game

[drowsy snow]

Not really. If it disappears after a while, it shouldn't be a problem.
It's just mean that the total size of textures loaded in VRAM in that moment exceeds certain limit, which is dependant on the hardware.

[prime willow]

oh

so this wont be an issue in gameplay or when making strides in my project o.o

[drowsy snow]

Yes, unless that message appears consistently everytime you load the level.
Worst case scenario will be like Final Fantasy VII Remake's infamous low mipmap door texture.

[primal tendon]

After I scaled a ball to 2 physics stopped working on it (I'm trying the ball rolling template). I keep the ball at air it doesn't fall down at all. And also snap to ground (End button) doesn't work. Any idea why this is happening.

Ok I tried again, it works for 1.77, but not any more than that

[prime willow]

it disappeared :3

[drowsy snow]

Yup. 😄

That's reassuring. Your texture stuff should be fine then

[normal kraken]

Hello everyone! having some funky pixelated shadows everywhere, not sure what is causing it since the lightmap uvs and lightmap density is fine. I've been playing around with light/ shadow settings for some time but nothing seems to change. FYI the lights are static, thank you.

[gray sage]

Have you guys tried out Metahuman?

I got early access last night and i was messing with it and was just astonished, not only by how good it looked, but how easy it was to use.

[spare kernel]

#metahumans

[gray sage]

I figured that was specifically for asking for help, not just talking about it

[modest trench]

I swore they used this icon for godrays a few years ago

[prime willow]

probably texture breaking based on the animation?

but i dont know lol

the model might also be being stretched

a tiny bit past its limit o-o

[faint juniper]

@prime willow forgot to add - character is modular so body is a different SK from Legs

[prime willow]

o-o

than i am really confused lol

[royal stirrup]

Guys, seems like I need to build UnrealLighmass to fix my problem. But I don't have a UE4.sln file. I have engine with sources installed..

How can I do it?

[proud dome]

How to set a delay when a player can press the same inmput key again?

[faint juniper]

@proud dome I'm far from expert on this however what I would do is have some logic at the end of your KeyPress event. That will have a Bool that sets to True and a delay (time you want button to be deactivated) then Bool set to false once delay is over. Back on your KeyPress, Branch > Is Bool True or false, if true (do nothing or warn player that they cannot press again) IF false, allow to press

[drowsy snow]

I presume this is your problem.

[upbeat tendon]

odd question, i am going to write a plugin, i think it might be useful for people so i thought eventually i would open source it, would it be better to create the plugin in a blank project?

or does it not matter?

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't really matter IMO
Plugins have their own base classes and stuff, and applicable to any projects.

[upbeat tendon]

might be easier to add it to git from a blank project

[faint juniper]

@drowsy snow I don't follow? modular characters are common practice and dont tend to have gaps

[drifting geode]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/927220/black-height-fog-real-world-light-values.html

[drowsy snow]

What I mean is that your animBP don't sync up with each other.

[ashen tundra]

hello everybody 😊 . Anyone can tell me please why my char is distorted like in a bad physic asset when used Set Master Pose Component ? Thanks in advance

[warm hornet]

Anyone able to tell me why I am missing the 'New C++ Class' option when I right click in my Content Browser?

[drowsy snow]

I assume it's a modular character set, but the bone orientations don't match up.

[drowsy snow]

Does it missing in File menu bar?

[ashen tundra]

hmmm, in fact, actually it's for my custom character used on the ALS asset. One method is to use Set Master Pose instead of the long process of retargeting or the like. I tested on no less than ten characters from the marketplace, the method works perfectly. But on my character which comes from CC3, correctly scaled to epic skeleton, the set master poses distorts the character and the visual looks exactly like the distortion of the ragdoll of this character.

[burnt lichen]

Hello, can I ask for a 5 minute conversation with an advanced UE programmer to clarify if an idea of a project I have is doable/ how hard to figure out with the knowledge I have of the engine? Due to the amount of context needed to understand my point I'd prefer in private msg. Thank you.

[warm hornet]

@drowsy snow Thanks!! So is this a change in 4.26 or?

[drowsy snow]

It's getting more context aware.
The option won't appear if you're in Content folder.

[echo phoenix]

hi all i have Two problem in my project if someone can help me it will be really cool

The first is the artefact with the distance and antialiasing it cause lot of flickering

and the second I made a Projector effect with a spot but when i'm far my vidéo projection disappear

if someone can help me it will be really cooool

[tired escarp]

Hi

Humans of discord

[drowsy snow]

Try asking it on #graphics

[echo phoenix]

Thanks @drowsy snow

[quaint snow]

i'd like to render my project in headless mode

how could i do that?

[hard quarry]

I have a audio component inside an actor.
I call it manually by blueprint , but I can only hear the sound, when it is set to looped.
Any ideas why?

[drowsy snow]

#audio

[mighty hearth]

I can't seem to find the official github project to download the Unreal Engine source from, is it down or something?

[drowsy snow]

Is your GitHub account enlisted in EpicGames organisation?

[mighty hearth]

what

Ohhh I might not be signed in mb

[drowsy snow]

The UE repo is set to private, and only those enlisted in EpicGames organisation can see it.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue4-on-github

[mighty hearth]

It says the account is connected

Ah nvm

[idle dragon]

Hey, is Delay in blueprint tied to deltatime by default? Meaning if there's a lower framerate it's still basically the same, or will I need to add more functionality on top of it to take into account framerates?

this little bugger here

no worries if no one knows, even the ue4 documentation cant clear this up

[drowsy snow]

Delay is real time operation, not framerate dependant.
If you want to have framerate dependant delay, you could create your own countdown timer gate with Event Tick

[obsidian nimbus]

its not frame accurate but framerate wont matter for a delay

[quaint snow]

how can i run unreal editor with flags? i mean, where do i add the flags to run?

[obsidian nimbus]

delay of 0 should be 1 frame tho

[idle dragon]

damnit, that's what I was worried about

[drowsy snow]

Do you mean commandline args?

[quaint snow]

yes

[plush yew]

hey guys i need some help, does anybody know how to make something happen at a specific time (for a live event)

[quaint snow]

i'd like to run the editor with that flag -nullrhi but i don't know where to put it

[idle dragon]

I should mention the delay is actually 4 seconds and it's meant to be triggered after a button press D:

so I'm in a bit of a kerfuffle here

[obsidian nimbus]

how accurate should it be?

[idle dragon]

Eh, not really that accurate, but it would be nice i guess

[obsidian nimbus]

1 tick on 4 sec is not much

well i sure hope its not 🙂

[idle dragon]

I'm just paranoid that a low framerate will make a 4 second delay like 8 seconds or something

[obsidian nimbus]

wont happen

[idle dragon]

if it's just a >1 second difference I dont care

[idle dragon]

oh thanks

[obsidian nimbus]

unless it takes 8 sec to render a frame

but u should be more like 60 frames a sec

[drowsy snow]

You could either run the uproject from CMD or create shortcut and adding the args after the file name. Something like this:
"D:\Unreal Projects\Isekai\Isekai.uproject" -dx11
Note that your project's DefaultEngine.ini or WindowsEngine.ini can bypass some of the commandline args you put in, especially in regards to RHI.

[idle dragon]

What would the difference be if I theoretically went down to 10FPS for a few seconds?

for like a 4 second delay

[obsidian nimbus]

if its in the middle nothing

[idle dragon]

ok cool, thanks

I'll not give a shit about it for now haha

[obsidian nimbus]

u shouldnt

10 fps wil give a few ms discrepancy

in worst case

[idle dragon]

a few ms = broken game

/s

Nah thanks for assuring me though, it's nice not to worry about that shit now

However...

Does delay take into account pause screens?

[obsidian nimbus]

yea i think so

not 100% sure

[idle dragon]

I'll test it now, wish me luck

[drowsy snow]

Yes.
Not sure in widget bp though

[idle dragon]

UMG?

hmmm

[obsidian nimbus]

menu stuff

[idle dragon]

ah

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Motion Graphics

I was meant to say Widget BPs.

[obsidian nimbus]

umg can go all sorts of odd on ya 😛

[idle dragon]

I swear if you guys are wrong about this I'm calling you out in my credits when I release this game.

[drowsy snow]

As DISCORD BAIT-AND-SWITCHER please.

[lusty crypt]

I am going to take a class to learn unreal!

[idle dragon]

have fun!

[drowsy snow]

I'd love to buy the physical hard cover print of the Groom asset white paper 😛

[lusty crypt]

It’s a complete beginner, I never did unreal

[plush yew]

is there a forum for people with null point exceptions? xD

i mean support

[lusty crypt]

Wdym

[plush yew]

i mean a stackoverflow for unreal

[calm pollen]

hey how would I make a timer that keeps counting down even when the app is closed? im trying to make a daily gidft sort of thing

[lusty crypt]

Don’t understand

[drowsy snow]

https://answers.unrealengine.com

[plush yew]

hmm, thx

is there a forum for forum support? XDD

[drowsy snow]

Do the timer in your server.
You could do it locally with launcher running in background, but it'll be prone to system time tampering.

[obsidian nimbus]

stackoverflow is for unreal 😛

[drowsy snow]

Open the answerhub home page again. The thing usually don't redirect after OAuth page.

[calm pollen]

yeah the time change thing is what im trying to avoid lol, how would I make the other option where it runs individually rather than going off the player's device settings?

[plush yew]

i see xP funny anyways xD

[drowsy snow]

If you don't want/unable to setup dedicated servers, you could fetch time data from internet time website instead. Usually those website have some minimalistic API to parse the actual time in Unix Epoch timestamp. But then most online games that have daily gift system has dedicated servers to keep track and validate the time passage.

[calm pollen]

ahh gotcha, what kind of internet time websites are there though? Are they dedicated to being used for stuff like this or is it just something like https://time.is/ where the time is always shown?

[drowsy snow]

Internet time sites are mostly used for non-games, though.

Again, you should do the daily gift validation in server instead of client.
One can still tamper with the variable in memory (Cheat Engine stuff) and go through certain date in the future to collect the rewards

If you do all the time and validation in dedicated server, your daily gift program is less susceptible to tampering.

[calm pollen]

ok ill look into it for sure, thanks so much for your help 😄

@drowsy snow dont those servers cost money though?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but for mobage purposes, perhaps you could run away with cloud server providers like Linode or AWS.

[calm pollen]

ok ill check those out, thanks again 🙂

@drowsy snow one more thing, if I used the "GetTimeOfDay" node, that could be tampered with by changing the time on the player's device right?

[drowsy snow]

Yes. Get Time of Day fetch the time data from local system.

[calm pollen]

alright

[dusky folio]

hello, i got problems with moving, rotating and scaling objects for ex: when i try move something the arrow will move but object not, any help please?

[thorny coral]

i have a problem, if i enter the first level here through the main menu, i cant move but if i open the first level through the content browser, i can move normally, what is going on?

[ember shadow]

Hey, i was wondering if anyone would help me with a simple BP pawn sensing problem 🙂

[idle dragon]

@ember shadow whats the problem?

[vernal matrix]

What is the best way to make your third person character play a particle affect with a button press

[young mirage]

Any rumors or ETA on UE5?

[idle dragon]

@vernal matrix where is the particle effect happening?

is it a gun or just on the character?

Usually the easiest way is to "spawn emitter at location"; with the location usually being a socket on the character.

[ember shadow]

@idle dragon I sent you a DM

[vernal matrix]

So its a animal want like a cloud affect to play when button is pressed like to escape

[modest agate]

How can I make an object to be movable just by being hit by a bullet?
I mean, when the character touches it, the object must stay static, but when the bullet touches it, it must move.

[vernal matrix]

So it would come from its body since its a lizard

@idle dragon so just make a socket then do button press connect to spawn emitter and make a socket?

I was trying that last night didnt do the socket part

[coral lotus]

Hey, somewhat new to Unreal, having some problems w/ my PBR textures....I've got this sign, that I've imorted into UE4, which I textured in Substance painter...This is my texture set up

[idle dragon]

@vernal matrix https://gyazo.com/6455dd750076fffbe1012152fc3ecaa3

[coral lotus]

This is the texture set up

[idle dragon]

Event button press > spawn emitter at location > get socket location and add that to the location pin

[coral lotus]

However, it seems like the roughness map isn't working quite as it should, as in SP, this is how reflective it is

[idle dragon]

If you cant get socket location, attach a small invisible mesh component to the socket at get the location of that

[thorny coral]

anyone? pls?

[idle dragon]

And make sure your specify the emitter template

@thorny coral try posting a thread on the ue4 forums at reddit if no one answers here too dude.

just incase

[thorny coral]

alright

[idle dragon]

Anyone here know a good resource for free explosion and weapon sound fx? I'm currently looking through http://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc#1605030813191-c5a1f3d0-8baf audio bundles but it's like finding needles in a haystack

most of the audio is stuff i just don't need

[quaint snow]

can i take a screen shot of my game when i'm running it in off screen render mode?

[inner vine]

You could try using the highresscreenshot console command, but I'm not sure if it'll work

[spare sun]

what is more expensive - having skin and cloth in separate materials (so 2 drawcalls) OR making 1 material and just giving clothes 0 subsurf?

[ember shadow]

This all looks correct right?

[quaint snow]

i would want to, but as i'm running in off screen render mode i don't have access to the editor console

the game is just basically running in background, then i want to take a screen shot of it

[inner vine]

Can you use the "execute console command" blueprint node?

[wicked sparrow]

Anyone aware of what was added to the Content Examples? Just noticed it needs an update.

(as of today)

[odd fractal]

https://i.imgur.com/aorJegn.png when I do it, certain animation defined in animBP state starts cycling endless, can anybody explain why it happens?

[idle dragon]

@odd fractal Maybe a Do Once node somewhere? or implement a boolean branch check that turns off when it cycles once?

[drowsy snow]

の

[young mirage]

待っている

[drowsy snow]

Invert the roughness map with one minus node

[lusty stratus]

I might be interested in hiring a team to make a game for me, but i have no idea what a realistic pay is. Could someone give me an estimation in DM's?

Of what i should post for.

[lavish forge]

Is there a channel here in this server for tutorials online?

[kindred viper]

@lusty stratus That's an impossible question to answer. I'd break it down into what you need and ask in #career-chat perhaps. You will get so many variable answers based on all your variables that you won't get the same answer twice :/

[quaint snow]

i'm running my game in headless mode and its simply spending same amount of resources as if running in default mode

shouldn't it be spending less resources due to cutting rendering off?

[kindred viper]

depends on the game, what is doing the rendering and where the bottlenecks are.

[quaint snow]

it's actually pretty simple, i'm just running the basic example of UE, the one with two chairs and a table

[kindred viper]

is that an optimised scene? It never felt like it to me. But yeah... that does sound conspicuous

[quaint snow]

just running it as it is, haven't changed nothing tbh

if it was a more complex project, would rendering off screen make notable difference right?

[rigid belfry]

whats the latest version that still supports html5 packaging? 4.23?

[kindred viper]

@quaint snow yeah because logic still flows and memory access/processing is still occurring. I'm not sure but perhaps some scenes have a requirement based on it actually rendering something too. I can't say for sure.

@rigid belfry I believe so. But that barely supports it which is why it's a community project now 🙂

[rigid belfry]

does the github repository have more features compared to unreal's? i wonder 🤔

[plush yew]

Hi all, quick question regarding materials. Would anyone know why my materials look weird in UE compared to Substance Painter?

I have albedo, metallic, normal and roughness maps. I pluged them all into a new UE material, but didn't change anything else. Am I missing some settings somewhere ?

As you can see the metal on the plane looks almost wet!

[kindred viper]

@rigid belfry I'd honestly use the community HTML5 setup if I were to use it these days. Or... just make a game in HTML5. 😄

@plush yew plug a value into Specularity and drop it to 0

[warm knot]

Anyone know why this is happening after building my scene? It was fine before i did a production build and now all of a sudden this has happened, uv's are fine and lightmap is all green on quality. any help would be much appreciated!

[kindred viper]

looks like messed up UVs. Perhaps it never had a lightmap channel when imported.

it tends to use channel 1 for lightmaps where the original uv would be on 0

just a guess

[warm knot]

I have set up lightmaps for the mesh and set the engine to look at the right channel, like i mentioned it was fine when i built on high but it has only happened since doing a production build :/

[plush yew]

Thank you for your answer. Did you mean something like this ? It didn"t do anything I'm afraid

[robust marten]

Super noob question but how would I properly cast to a widget to get a variable from it?

[kindred viper]

yeah thats what I meant. It should have killed the wet look

@robust marten first you need a reference to a widget instance. Then you cast it to the type of widget that has the variable in it. If it succeeds then you can get access to the variable.

[warm knot]

Constant 1 is what you want to use which I don't think you are?

[plush yew]

Hello

[steel crest]

Sorry to bother you guys, looking for advice on issues importing mixamo anims to use in advanced loco system, where is best to ask? new to discord and ue4 i dont want to be spamming wrong places

[plush yew]

Ah I also tried it but still nothing 😦

What specs do you use for unreal? Im planning to buy a machine.

[obsidian nimbus]

get all widgets of class and get 0 is prolly gunna work if there is only 1, but there is prolly a better way

[robust marten]

I'm still a bit confused. If I create the widget reference, how would I set it?

[plush yew]

Thanks

[rigid belfry]

you dont need to cast to a widget

you already have a reference when you are creating it

[obsidian nimbus]

yea u can prolly get a ref when u create it, and than cast to whatever owns it

[warm knot]

try set it to .5 ? It's what I tend to do also you have a sphere capture in the scene? for the metallic? also when texturing in painter it isn't exactly the same as UE4 , Try this for when your texturing in substance for UE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu8wR4df0IE

[kindred viper]

yeah you can store that @rigid belfry but sometimes you want to store them as the base Widget class and cast. So it's a good habit to know

@robust marten I highly recommend this video. It will turn you into a blueprint god in 2 hours 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE

[robust marten]

But I get an Access None error when I try to use the reference without setting it

[rigid belfry]

when you do "create widget" off the return value you promote that to a variable

and you now have a reference to the widget

[steel crest]

sorry, is there an animation import/retargeting place i can get some advice?Never used discord

[kindred viper]

#animation

[plush yew]

Thank you very much for your help. It seems that 0.5 improves it but only very little. I'll watch that video now and hopefully I can improve it more. THanks a gain

[steel crest]

thanks marc, tried there but not very busy, hopefully get replies soon, appreciate it

[robust marten]

That would only create the variable within that blueprint though, right? I need to access another widgets variable from within a second, separate widget blueprint

[kindred viper]

yeah some channels are kinda dead

@robust marten the video I posted will clear up all issues you have. I don't highly recommend many videos but that one... it's golden.

[warped wasp]

How to use hdri, sir

[pure path]

How do I set up a system so I can essentially "paint on" textures to the landscape? (I am very new to Unreal Engine)

[warm knot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpyDdFWL9WM

[pure path]

Dang that's awsome, thanks!

[autumn grail]

Is it possible to set master pose component on child actors containing skeletal meshes

it looks like the skel meshes dont move with the anim BP of the character

they are armor pieces

[upbeat tendon]

i am trying to setup FileLogging Analytics, I created an actor and tried to write an event, this doesn't seem to have worked as no json file was written, does the session start up have to be called somewhere other than an actor

oh i fixed it 🙂

[ionic oxide]

When working on a project, do you write your own movement component or just adapt the CMC to your needs?

[exotic thicket]

CMC is extremely powerful so if you can adapt it, it makes sense to use it

but it can be pretty tricky to customize depending on what you need

[kind dew]

how would one go about making a vehicle with different "modules" (engine, wheels, transmission, etc) that could be upgraded that would effect the stats of the vehicle?

would it be a vehicle blueprints with child actor blueprints for each module?

[exotic thicket]

It kinda depends on exactly how you'd wanna make it work

The simplest possible way would probably just be to have separate static meshes per each component which you swap out based on which modules is attached

[woven falcon]

How do i make it so both inputs must be active in order for the code to continue without making a bunch of booleans?
https://i.imgur.com/O1ynM6S.png

i already have like a list of 20 variables in my blueprint, and i don't wanna use up a bunch of booleans that are only ever gonna be used once

[modern root]

Use input actions instead of keys and then you only need one boolean

[timid gust]

check the events in project settings

input action events

[woven falcon]

you mean like that?

I thought this was a list of OR

not AND

now i can either press W, or Shift

[timid gust]

checkbox on the right

[woven falcon]

oh lol

[timid gust]

select shift

[woven falcon]

i'm blind

lmao

[timid gust]

xd

[woven falcon]

thanks

[pastel ginkgo]

Does anybody know how to reduce aliasing? This is ridiculous. I already have temporalAA on. Link to full screen image https://i.ibb.co/DDhQ7VH/Screenshot-60.png

[analog spindle]

Hey folks does anyone get an issue with editor windows opening up to be completely black, not opening or opening to show the window behind them and then fixes itself with an editor restart? It usually starts after 10/20 minutes with the editor open

[gleaming lagoon]

Coming from a Unity background experience (Roughly 6 yearsish), does Unreal support prefabs instances of model and meshes?

[south ridge]

It doesn't strictly look aliased, but it looks like it's rendering at a reduced resolution

[pastel ginkgo]

It's not a render it's just from my viewport.

[south ridge]

Check the scaling settings and such

So it isn't slashing your output resolution in half

[pastel ginkgo]

Scaling at epic. 100% resolution scale.

[deep pond]

Alright, and hi everyone! Sorry about asking it here, but there is no sub-sections related to this... Has anyone had any problems with the APK uploaded via OneDrive, changing it's hash apparently in some time, so i'm getting this error (please do not mind the APK's build name, it's for some testing purposes): https://i.gyazo.com/9d910c5eddce9e858002a6eca66d0297.png

[timber birch]

[timber birch]

Isn't that due to the Tonemapper setting supplied in the project...

Hmm no probably not, its pretty low actually

r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=False
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0.5```

[steel crest]

wheres best to ask about blendspaces, using als?

[deep pond]

@steel crest Sorry...

[steel crest]

what for

[deep pond]

For saying there is a tab on the left side, with some sub-sections, and the one of them is starting with "A" - Animation

[steel crest]

thanks, new to ue4 and discord i didnt know what sub was most appropriate

[plush yew]

I don't really know where to ask but how would I get a widget with different text and image each time to appear at random

[tall kiln]

Does anyone know of a good place to look for tutorials on making Unreal Engine lighting similar to whats found in the World of Warcraft Engine?

[warm delta]

Hello, I have theoretical question, if I model famous actor, lets say Henry Cavill, he can sue me right? and if I change his hair to long white and make him look like his Witcher character, now The Witcher owners can sue me? but not Henry?

[tall kiln]

only if you sell it.

usually based on intent. Do you intend to make money off it? then yes. If its a portfolio piece that you are simply studying your skills then no. Otherwise the world would be sued over everything.

[warm delta]

if I want to sell it and I model him as one of his characters he cant sue me?

[tall kiln]

he cant technically because he doesnt own that character, the franchise or parent studio owns it. And you dont want studios coming after you.

[warm delta]

I thought so...

[deep pond]

You probably do not want to mess with the court and the law, even at that part of it that is inclining to some property owner, and who can and willing to defend their right against some others

[warm delta]

off course I don't, just wanted to know how it works...

[deep pond]

There is actually a great livestream on the UE4 official channel, with the EG lawyer as a guest. In short: do not mess with Texas. Or do not trust some random people on the Discord, and please feel free to watch it! 😄

[somber rover]

Quick question, bought a char off marketplace, it's rigged to UE mannequin with a few extra facial bones. When I retarget it to the UE skeleton then click on the mesh it says "such and such bones are required, add them now?" so I click on OK and everything works fine. But it breaks the AI characters because they are using the UE skeleton, so when I click on the AI meshes it says "Such and such bones are missing, add them now?" so I click on OK and the AI works but it breaks the player char again.

Can I just duplicate the UE skeleton and have each one use a diff UE skeleton?

[vast pawn]

Is there a way in UE4 where I open my own project and start off editing on the level I am currently working at instead of the default one?

[somber rover]

Yea, Project Settings > Maps and Modes

Change editor startup map

[vast pawn]

got it thanx

[next dome]

hi guys, when i disable ray traced shadows inside a point light, my fps goes from 8-9 down to 1 fps and its super laggy, any idea why is that? should it not be the other way around? since disabling ray traced shadows should increase performance, not decrease

[steel crest]

Anyone want to help a brother out with a blendspace that works in preview and not in game, followed guide to a T and nothing, need a keener eye than mine to know whats wrong

And it turns out the blendspace is fine, but it only activates after right click for the slightly zoomed camera...wtf

[idle dragon]

Question, was Niagara supposed to be some sort of replacement for the original particle effect creation system in UE4?

[warm delta]

The Niagara VFX System is one of two tools you can use to create and adjust visual effects (VFX) inside Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Before Niagara, the primary way to create and edit visual effects in UE4 was to use Cascade. While Niagara has many of the same of particle manipulation methods that Cascade offers, the way you interact and build visual effects with Niagara is vastly different.

from docs

[idle dragon]

ah, thanks

[olive ginkgo]

can i use a psd file with visual scripting and create nodes for seperate layers?

like if I make a mockup of my UI in photoshop, can I then use that mockup to assign code or something to each photoshop layer

[drowsy snow]

There's PSD2UMG plugin in marketplace, IIRC its free

[worn granite]

And if it doesn't work you could, in theory, make what you want

not in visual script though

since you'd be building out everything

[olive ginkgo]

i havent done much c++ or other stuff mainly just visual scripting, but in theory wouldn't that be an easy way of coding seperate elements?

[olive ginkgo]

ill check it out ty

[worn granite]

"easy"?

Depending on what you mean, probably not

are you saying you'd do nodework in photoshop? hide layers to remove the logic?

That's not easy at all, it would be easier to just do a layers feature in the engine

If you mean you change the psd and it auto imports and maybe you can create types of widget classes and associate it with layers (by name) - yeah you can set that up

it's harder than you're thinking, but it would make sense if your game has lots of UI

[tardy basin]

Have any if you guys made first person shooters before
And if so, have you made any scripts/blueprints for picking up guns off the ground

[charred plume]

Hi, I have question. I imported this month free market place asset "Low Poly Cat" into my project but they are not smooth shaded. Is there option in UE to enable smooth shading?

[olive ginkgo]

I think thats what im trying to do? I want to just use those layers in the photoshop file for the different elements in game. And possibly have them update as I make changes in photoshop?

[worn granite]

that plugin is the closest thing then, ue doesn't do psd natively

[olive ginkgo]

do you know if youd be able to do something with that plugin that is similar to this fake code?

        show layer 1
    if pet = tier_2 
        show layer 2
    if pet = tier_3 
        show layer 3
  else idk how to code lol

so based off which tier the pet is, i can turn on/off layers in the photoshop file which then update in game?

[worn wasp]

How to make a vehicle drive itself from point A to B?

Luckily the road is straight so i dont think using splines is necessary.

But if still it is, please tell me how to. Thanks in advance!

[quiet token]

@olive ginkgo an array of Layers, then if pet is tier0 u just get array index0, and it will be layer1.
only 2 lines of code no matter how many layers or tiers

Layer* someLayer = ArrayOfLayers.IsValidIndex(PetTeir) ? ArrayOfLayers[PetTier] : nullptr; or somethin idk

[olive ginkgo]

I’ll look into that ty 🙂

Arrays is something I can kinda do

[pastel ginkgo]

What is going on with the shadows here?

[outer cosmos]

how should i prepare wall this big for ue4

[vital dagger]

Please give me details about how to attach mobile touch input in UE4 PC project? Like fire, crouch,prone, inventory...etc buttons??? Please give me details and blueprints

[upbeat tendon]

I remember years ago the old ue4 wiki had a great page on how to write a tcp client in c++ written by someone called Rama, what happened to the wiki it seems to have gone

[royal stirrup]

Guys, does anyone have a problem with "Swarm is failed to kick off."? I tried all possible solutions I found at google, but nothing helps... I build engine from sources, rebuild lightmass, cleared lightmass cache - nothing works out for me.

[violet goblet]

what happend to my content browser??

[plush yew]

Not quite sure what the libary are trying to tell me here. Any ideas?

[regal mulch]

Editor got stuck in the "Rearrange Window" mode. Grab some other tab and drag it over it. Then place the Tab back to where you grabbed it from. Or just restart the editor.

[violet goblet]

thanks, i closed the content broweser and opend it up again, seemed to work

[regal mulch]

Maybe the Chaos branch when you try to add a new engine version

[plush yew]

No, i tried installing it and made no difference. so uninstalled it again. also just tried restarted the epic launcherr with no effects

[regal mulch]

Hm, does it say anything if you hover the dot?

[plush yew]

I didn't know you could that. It said Update available. but then i clicked the dot and it disappeared. thanks

[amber shuttle]

how do i decide minimum and recommended system requirements for my game?

[plush yew]

I play tested my game on lower spec setups.
I made a VR game while my low spec setup is just below minimum required for oculus rift. still did a steady 90FPS so I just cheated and followed the recommended and minimum for oculus rift

[blazing dock]

I dont know if I should ask this here but.. I play a video on the loading screen of my game, but, before the video starts, the background stays black for like half a second. What can be causing this issue? Is the video taking a little longer to load ?

[steel shell]

how do i import a lods texture automatically?

i have mesh_LOD1.fbx with mesh_LOD1_u1_v1.png

if i import mesh_LOD0.fbx with auto lod import, it imports all lod meshes correctly but assigns only the lod0 texture to all lods

[drowsy snow]

Not to be confused with me.

[plush yew]

Hi guys, not sure if it's the right channel, but anyways i hope u can help me.
I'm currently working with RoadRunner and trying to import OpenDrive and .fbx files to Unreal.
Anytime I'm trying to import, i get the following Error. Can't find any helpful infos.
Would it help to reinstall? Or any other suggestions? Thx anyways. (working on Ubuntu)

[tame marsh]

UE4 Wiki is now offline, but some resources have been migrated to a community led website. I thinky ou might be referring to this? https://ue4community.wiki/legacy/tcp-socket-listener-receive-binary-data-from-an-ip/port-into-ue4-(full-code-sample)-1eefbvdk

Also man, Rama, I don't know who they are but they were a shining beacon in my early days of UE4 development

[plush yew]

Does anyone knows a way to detect what CPU a player is using to be able to set personalized auto-performance settings ?

[weary basalt]

    FString OSSubversion = FString();
    FPlatformMisc::GetOSVersions(OSVersion, OSSubversion);

    const FString OperatingSystemBitsize = FPlatformMisc::Is64bitOperatingSystem() ? "64-bit" : "32-bit";
    const FString OperatingSystemVersion = OSVersion + "(" + OperatingSystemBitsize + ")";

    const FString CPUBrand = FPlatformMisc::GetCPUBrand();
    const FString CPUChipset = FPlatformMisc::GetCPUChipset();
    const FString CPUVendor = FPlatformMisc::GetCPUVendor();
    const FString CPUCores = FString::FromInt(FPlatformMisc::NumberOfCores());

    const FString GPUBrand = FPlatformMisc::GetPrimaryGPUBrand();
    const FString GPUDriverInfo = GRHIAdapterUserDriverVersion;

    const FString Memory = FString::FromInt(FPlatformMemory::GetPhysicalGBRam());

    const FString DefaultLanguage = FPlatformMisc::GetDefaultLanguage();

Not sure if device info is accessible in Blueprint.

[plush yew]

I never touched C++ but I guess this was just a matter of time until I had to get my hands dirty

thank you for that

[fallen flower]

Who's messed around with Speech Binding? It can understand 'one' and 'jump', but not 'two', 'three', etc.

anyone have a better experience

?

[neon bough]

what's the main influence for memory usage in light baking?

currently when baking my map, it's using ~100gb of memory, and i would like to cut that down

[viral carbon]

is anyone familiar with this issue? my game works in editor but not packaged

[valid sun]

can you add fpsk for free next month

[fierce summit]

Hi there, i did not found a way to modify the axis around which the "Swing limits" in a constraints for a physics asset are limited. Can anyone help please?

[fair turret]

Hey, could someone comment on which perspective is better for an Indie platformer + fighting + story based game?
Third person or top down?

I'm personally biased towards top-down as I think it could help in reducing effort

[serene drift]

top down will help reduce the workload

[fair turret]

Could you please elaborate? So that I can give a more convincing answer to my team members?

[serene drift]

top down focuses the camera without any rotation, you don't need to show the horizon, you don't need to think about draw distances, etc.

models can be simpler/arcadeyer because you can't see the models up close anyway.

combat and interactions will be simpler to make too.

because you just need to think of less stuff in general

compare snes zelda to zelda breath of the wild. besides the graphics being nicer, there's so much more required to make that game feel complete.

[fair turret]

Please carry on, I'm finding lots of great words coinciding for what my trail of thought was

Or well, if that's all. Thanks a lot

😁

[serene drift]

that's all, haha 🙂

[fair turret]

Ty

Would anyone else also like to give an opinion? I'd appreciate more feedback

[exotic otter]

hi maybe someone can help me. When rendering a viewfamily given a canvas and viewFamily, the rendertarget I render to has full white in A. while I only want objects that are actually in the scene being rendered white, the rest needs to be translucent

[finite lark]

Im trying to make a Lock On System.
Want to spawn an area around the character that return an array with all the AI inside but it doesn't work

who can help me out?

[grim ore]

well what are you using to do that?

[finite lark]

im spawning an actor ( a sphere ) infront of the character that returns all the overlapping elements

so im not sure if "being overlapped " it's correct or not

[grim ore]

that would work, sphere overlap actors is another option instead of spawning a sphere

should be the same result depending on your settings

[neon bough]

do you spawn the sphere in a place where it overlaps already with the actor? because, if im not wrong, it wont list the actor then

[finite lark]

like this one ? Im confused. because previously it wasn't working

[finite lark]

yep that was the issue

the character spawn the sphere infront of him self and then i want it to return an array with all the AI inside, getting the closer one in order to lock on into it

[grim ore]

if you use the sphere overlap actors node you dont have to use another component

[finite lark]

But if the sphere spawn overlapping aleready an actor it doesn't return it

[finite lark]

im gonna try thank you

[neon bough]

what could i do to reduce memory usage for lightmap baking?

[grim ore]

lower lightmap resolution, lower the amount of stuff being baked

[neon bough]

well... is there any way to break the baking into chunks?

[grim ore]

using lightmass volumes might help, otherwise using different levels but then they wont blend together well

[neon bough]

hm, it's a small city environment with currently ~4k objects, already using lightmass importance volume to limit it to the main area

[pine glade]

Hey I have a question. I was making a game on my old laptop but by the time I got a new PC so I saved my work on USB and now I dont know how to transfer my project to unreal Engine can anyone help me please?

[plush yew]

hi

[neon bough]

guess i'll have to deal with it and might have to upgrade my pc soon or later 😭

[neon bough]

actually it should be sufficient if you copy the project directory to your new user projects directory, the launcher should then list the project

[tough pagoda]

How to lock camera rotation?

[pine glade]

Yes but I cant copy everything it gives me error on some files like shadows...

And I cant find my .uproject either

[neon bough]

what kind of errors? the uproject file is in the project directory

[plush yew]

@tough pagoda UseControllerRotationYaw and Pitch

or setup in camera options

[pine glade]

Like derived cache is missing and I cant copy some files from Build folder

[grim ore]

@finite lark so this is agiant mess of code but....

[neon bough]

well, the important ones are Content, Source, Config and your uproject file, the build folder isn't necessary

it would rebuild the stuff in there

[pine glade]

And do you know where can I find my .uproject?

[neon bough]

in your project directory

[pine glade]

I just dont see it only .exe file of that game

[neon bough]

maybe on windows it wont show the extension if it gets linked to unreal

[finite lark]

thank you. rn im fixing the spawn location

it seems it's harder than what i thought

lol

[grim ore]

did you copy the built version of the project or the actual project? if you have an .exe its not the source files @pine glade

[pine glade]

I copied the actual project

[grim ore]

show the folder contents?

[finite lark]

it keep spawning in the same point somehow

[grim ore]

your trying to spawn it in front of you?

[finite lark]

infront of the camera

[grim ore]

get your location, get a forward vector of it, multiply the forward vectory by a float, then you have your forward location

[golden fossil]

Hello I am making a game and i want that users can add there own character in my game. so can anyone tell how can i do that

[grim ore]

@pine glade the .uproject would be there, you didnt copy it

[neon bough]

^, beside of that it's the correct stuff

[finite lark]

isn't this what i have done?

[grim ore]

@finite lark no your getting the values and doing math on them which is bad

[pine glade]

I did Ive seen it on my old laptop but I cant see it there

[plush yew]

Never heard something like that before...

Maybe someday, but i dunno how much hdd space it will take from everyone

[grim ore]

this gives you a location 1000 units forward of the camera

[finite lark]

ok ty mathew ❤️

i apprectiate it alot

[neon bough]

@pine glade i would just copy it again, on the other hand you can probably just create a new project and copy all that stuff into the new projects directory

[golden fossil]

its already there in one game vr-chat that available on steam for free and users can add there custom characters on it

[neon bough]

you would just have to reenable all plugins which you enabled additional before

[pine glade]

I cant copy it again because I deleted unreal on my laptop so yeah

[grim ore]

@finite lark your might end up with an issue since the camera is behind the player so you might need to make the Z fixed forward

[pine glade]

Ok but ty for help guys

[grim ore]

even if unreal is not on the laptop if the project is still there you are fine, otherwise make a new .uproject file

[plush yew]

once i tried to compile some cool Niagara fx, but failed. it works while debugging, but does not works in release build

[neon bough]

that kind of thing isn't trivial to add

[steel shell]

can i automatically import textures for lods of my mesh?

[cerulean geyser]

is it possible to call a function by name?

(im using data tables)

[neon bough]

yes with cheating, but why would you want to do it in the first place?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Time/SetTimerbyFunctionName/index.html

but in 99,9% of cases there's a better solution, e.g.: interfaces

[cerulean geyser]

ummm

so here's what im doing

im doing data tables for a dialogue system

and i want in some cases

call a function from some other object

from the dialogues

[neon bough]

yea i see, as you can't store a function reference in the data table.... idk what to do in such case, but i'm also interested in a good solution 😄

[cerulean geyser]

yeah

so i was thinking about putting function name in the table

and then cast it to some "function actor" or something

in the world

that has all the functions

or events i guess

that could potentially work too

[neon bough]

what you could do is implement an DialogueAction method in your objects, which takes an UObject as parameter

that gives you the ability to store pretty much anything as payload

[cerulean geyser]

sorry i didn understand that last thinbg.whats a dialogue action? ..

[neon bough]

a random function name that i made up

a function you create which takes an uobject as parameter, then you store the uobject in the data table

and keep the function name the same for anything

and handle the uobject payload in your actors/whatever to consider what to do with the data

[cerulean geyser]

im not a programmer ^_^<;; not entirely sure what you mean

[neon bough]

which part is unclear?

[grim ore]

the easiest way to do this, which is stupid but again easiest, is to have a function ID# that is in your data table. then you have a master function/event/blueprint somewhere that takes in that # then does the event based on that number that is passed in. You could use function names as well but numbers are smaller lol

[proven mauve]

Hey slackers! Can anybody share the format for launching UE4 with map inside plugin?

The example commands I can find are C:\UE4\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor.exe C:\MyUE4Project\MyUE4Project.uproject /Game/MyMaps/TestMap01

[proven mauve]

This seems like its only valid for things in the Content directory. What about UMAPS in plugins?

[cerulean geyser]

what about this?

i mean oops

[grim ore]

thats what Ben meant by cheating

[cerulean geyser]

yeah

i think this could work

[neon bough]

yea it could, but it could also lead to unexpected behavior

[plush yew]

so you can't for example remove this task

[neon bough]

as the function is executed within the next tick and not within the actual execution stack (if im not wrong)

[neon bough]

well, you kinda can with the timer handle that it returns, but i guess he never wants to remove it anyways

[plush yew]

hmm

[cerulean geyser]

should i put some number in the timer?

i only want to call a function once

or event

[plush yew]

what you are actually trying to do?

[cerulean geyser]

dialogue system that can send events/functions

[neon bough]

no, 0 is correct

[cerulean geyser]

like in this line of dialogue, shake camera, or open door

,or give item

[grim ore]

0 generally indicates next frame so I think Ben is correct on that possible issue. the alternative is to call it with a unique name/id and use something like a switch on int/string and then call the function from there

[plush yew]

you mean creating array

user index

[cerulean geyser]

imm gonna try it like this and see if i run into problems. But thank you so much you guys been very helpful 🙂

[cerulean geyser]

oh interasting

[grim ore]

something like that and you just have the Int as a field in your DT

could even use switch on string if you wanted it to be more verbose

[neon bough]

the advanced version of that would be the UObject solution 😛

[grim ore]

yeah this like i said was easiest but... man it can get ugly

but if you dont need a ton why not

[cerulean geyser]

whats an uobject solution?

[neon bough]

which let's you pretty much pass anything you want, specially if you want to pass items around you will realize that you need item references

[hard zinc]

Hi guys, don't know where to ask this, but cant see any proper section

Is there a way to export and bulk edit Texts (along with keys, namespaces and contents) from localization dashboard, modify it and then easily import back without need to regather the text from the game (which would effectively prevent me from using my modified values from exported file anyway)?

[neon bough]

the uobject solution isn't nice either, as it involves try's of casting to the correct object or switch on the class type

so it can get messy

[hard zinc]

or should I just do the work, redirect everything to a string table and then it's my only option to have some kind of order and custom keys without need to going through every single asset and setting it by hand in all the Text variables?

[neon bough]

i think the way to go for that is the data table one, which you can then export to csv and back into UE, that way you can edit it pretty much anywhere

[cerulean geyser]

this is something ill have a ton of(dialogue/text

i think data tables would be good 😄

oh man this gonna be a ton of 😄 now i need to make tables for animation to play on each character and for them to look at the speakr.. .actually that one might be easy...maybe ill just have an actual character reference in the table and everyone looks at that character

[neon bough]

how do you fill the data table with the dialogues? just by hand?

i'm also looking forward to add a dialogue system to my game, but i would rather like to have a node based environment to create the dialogues, to keep track of where stuff branches

[plush yew]

takes too much time...

creating rpg game alone is kinda hell

[neon bough]

indeed

[hard zinc]

I use data tables for most of the stuff, but not all of it, but thinking now, isn't it simpler to just have it string tables anyway then? instead of creating new data structure for such DT that would do the same thing anway?

[neon bough]

so i waited 4 hours for this... LightingResults: Error: Import Volumetric Lightmap failed: Expected 256 tasks, only 0 were reported as completed from Swarm -.-

no error in the output log tho

[fierce summit]

Hello,
I'd like to make it so my character cant glitch into walls while prone, i've seen people juste reduce the size of the RootComponent capsule so the character can go under stuff in prone mode but that makes it so the head and the legs are not in the capsule anymore and they can glitch into walls. If possible i'd like to detect and prevent that and i dont really know where to start, any help is welcome

[thick prawn]

Hello,

I have a problem with 2D template from the engine and its game mode.
I'm trying to make an entry map which is the menu selector for starting game.
But it always spawns default pawn, and I don't have any idea of how not spawn it.
Because if I select none for default and i try to load it in the next map, camera goes so crazy and i can't play in 2, like it rotates 90º.
Any idea of what can I do?

Thank you so much ^^

[grim ore]

are you using the same game mode for both maps?

[thick prawn]

Yeah

[grim ore]

so

lets fix that 🙂

project settings -> default game mode is the default.

world settings for each map -> override game mode

create a new game mode that has no pawn and use that for the game mode for your main menu map

[thick prawn]

Hmmm, I tried something like that also, lemme try it exactly as you told me, thanks ^^

Omg, it works like a charm, thank you so much! I was totally messing around these days because I've never had to edit this
Thank you ❤️

[finite lark]

Following a tutorial on the lock on system ( as it turned out the initial idea with the spawning sphere would have lead to numerous problem ).
The tutorial guy basically

1. Create an AI
2. Gives a BPI to the AI
3. It gives to the AI_BP this function that should calculate the distance to the player.

Now quite easily it take both locations of the player and the ai.
But why it creates an array?

[grim ore]

the actors to ignore? or the object types?

[random slate]

Hey everyone , I have one question.... I installed UE 4.26.2 in my Mac with Big sur OS and it gives me a red blue default screen which I can't change back to normal, however this problem doesn't occur on UE4.24.3 version. I wanna to try Meta Human which is only on the latest version, does anyone know how to fix this blue red lighting.

[finite lark]

the object types

it's basically tracking what ?

[grim ore]

the collision settings basically on which objects you want to overlap with

@random slate try switching to metal for the shader preview type

[finite lark]

so for each target (pawn) it stores it in an array, check the array of target to ignore and give the output

is it right or am i dumb ?

[grim ore]

that nodes does a line trace, part of its setup is deciding which items it should interact with

the object responses are those settings

so you might want to say make a new object response channel for just enemies and then only trace for enemies

or maybe you need to see any walls that are not movable, you might be worldstatic

[finite lark]

gotcha

[grim ore]

usually you would do the former, custom object channels to make tracing easier

[finite lark]

so basically ALL AI will track different thing

isn't it easier to make the player track the enmies instead ?

[grim ore]

well that setup above, when that trace runs, says "hey I want to trace against anything that is a pawn and I want to ignore myself in that check"

so it would probably find other AI and the player

[finite lark]

As a noob the first thing that comes to my mind is the fact that it's an enormous quantity of calculus

rather than let the player costantly track the ai

rather then all the ai tracking everything

[grim ore]

well what is the goal of the above?

[finite lark]

creating a lock on system

so the player knows what's the nearest enemy

[grim ore]

yeah thats for the AI to lock onto the player

thats why that code was written like that

[finite lark]

oh.. im dumb then

[grim ore]

the start is the actor (the ai), the end is the players location, then it says get any pawns in this trace, then it says also ignore me in that trace. my thought is its looking to see if any other enemies are in the way

[finite lark]

hmm however here it's showing the player locking on

[grim ore]

you might have similar code for the Player sure

[finite lark]

so, it's better to have this function into the player

[grim ore]

well that code wont lock onto the enemy, its for the ai -> player

you would adjust it if you want it in the player

[finite lark]

yhe i'll try

thanks

[grim ore]

actually, I take it back

no I dont lol

i thought maybe it was doing a reverse from the enemy to the player for locking onto the enemy

but that would be weird

[finite lark]

hmm actually i think to have got what he meant

he creates a function from the ai that track the line trace once in the radius of the player

[grim ore]

I know when I did something like this it wasnt very hard. If I hit the "lock on" button, I would line trace forward, see if i hit an AI, set that as my "lock on target", then in the tick if I was "locked on" I would turn to face the "lock on target"

[finite lark]

so they send it only when the AI are in the radius

[grim ore]

that seems like yeah if the AI is near the player it locks onto the player (the code you pasted)

[finite lark]

nice, sorry for the mess

still trying to learn

[grim ore]

hey you are learning, thats a plus 🙂

[cloud juniper]

Looking for experienced people to help with a mobile game

[grim ore]

#instructions is where you want to go @cloud juniper

[fierce summit]

anyone for this please?

[plush yew]

When I import an object, it breaks into a lot of pieces. Is there any way can I import it as a single object mesh?

[fierce summit]

yeah you can fuse them together in blender

[narrow mauve]

I'm in dire need of hiring a studio that does networking/dedicated server stuff..I can't find ANYTHING

everywhere it's just 3d modeling, characters, levels...wheres all the networking guys??

[plush yew]

Thank you

[cloud juniper]

I cant talk in #volunteer-projects

[plush yew]

Ok I will

[naive dune]

oh wow, didn't know THE MatthewW is here

I have this question: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/1027010/please-help-cannot-see-phone-when-using-live-link.html
would greatly appreciate it if someone knows how to fix it 🙏 It's a simple connection problem but can't get it to work. I think I'm doing everything right...

[grim ore]

is live link enabled in the project?

[deep viper]

Can PointLight component nested inside an Actor only be Movable? Or can I make them static lights if I don't have the intention of moving the actor at runtime?

[grim ore]

It seems like you can make them static, it will change the mobility of the parent

[deep viper]

Thanks Mathew.
Turns out I was inheriting from a parent blueprint with Movable root component. I set that root of the parent BP to static and now I change my PointLight mobility 👍

[grim ore]

yay

[naive dune]

Hi @grim ore , yes it is

[grim ore]

go back into your iphone app, remove the .1 target (just leave the .13), and remove the port (leave it at default)

should just show a target of 192.168.1.13

[naive dune]

ok will try now n see if it works!

[grim ore]

well do that, then shut down the app and start it back up

make sure the app shows your face and the green icon on the bottom right, when that happens it should broadcast to the editor and the live link window should show it as a source and subject

if it doesnt then its your machine not taking the broadcast

[naive dune]

So i've done as you said, but unfortunately still does not work 😦

removed the .1 target so there is only 1 target left

The icon is also green at the bottom right, i show the preview mesh as well so it is detecting my face

[grim ore]

yep so then its broadcasting to that machine (the 192.168.1.13)

I would make sure you shut down the editor and the app on the phone and then start them both up now that you have the right settings if you havent

sometimes it doesnt reconnect to the editor

I can say I have mine set up like that, just tested, and nothing is open in the router and nothing special in windows firewall other than the normal letting ue4editor through

[naive dune]

Yeahh...i opened the app and project anew but still the same 😔

[grim ore]

its something on your machine or router then

router should just let stuff thru, your machine if firewall is off shouldnt be blocking it

[naive dune]

hmmm yea it's strange

I tried using different internet source as well, like hotspot on my phone..which gives me a different ip address but even that doesn't work

[grim ore]

I know you did it in command line, but is it showing 192.168.1.13 in networking setting as well?

I think it has to be on the same network so it makes sense it wouldnt work

[naive dune]

yes, shows up as the same

[grim ore]

also its sorta silly but if you have seperate SSID's are they both on the same?

[naive dune]

Don't think I have seperate SSIDs..not sure what that is tbh...but its showing the network name I am connected to on my computer

and connecting to same network on phone..

[grim ore]

yep the network name, mine is DeathnetWork5 for example but I also have DeathnetWork

do you happen to have another pc you could test with? if not ugh. If I ran into this I would see about forwarding 1111 to the pc in the router and just double check to make sure windows firewall is off

and its silly but if you have a 3rd party anti virus it might have a firewall

[naive dune]

I do indeed have another pc i could test with, couldn't get it working with that one either 😆

I believe I did manage to last time though!

[grim ore]

sounds like the router then which is weird

like perhaps you forwarded 1111 in the router to a specific machine and its not active anymore?

[naive dune]

nopee i don't have other anti-virus software, just Windows defender..current computer I'm trying to run on is Windows professional if that makes a difference..other is home

[grim ore]

shouldnt for this, running pro here

phone has an ip and a port, phone has it set to broadcast, phone is broadcasting it will show green for facial recognition and then send all that data to that ip and port

livelink is enabled on machine, it listens on the default port for anything coming in, if it hears that info it will show it in the live link window and then in this case the phone name and green for active data

if it never gets a good facial match then the data never gets sent in the first place, but if it has one and the editor finds that connection it will then just go yellow instead of green in the editor

your hitting all the keys so it should be working 😦

[naive dune]

Yupp experienced that one last time!

[naive dune]

It is indeed frustrating 😝

It should be a simple thing which should just work

[grim ore]

its got to be on the router side if 2 machines are failing is my thought. It could be on the phone end but that would be weird

[naive dune]

That's why I'm a bit stumped...

and after searching answerhub not much on it but for those which are they talk about permissions

How do i 'forward 11111 to the pc in the router'?

I'm guessing you mean 11111 instead of 1111?

[grim ore]

I never noticed lol, is it 5 1's?

[flint trench]

anybody figured out a good way to test Steam inviting on 1 machine? I was thinking about a VM but I don't wanna have to package each time I wanna test pref, Is there a way to launch a standalone instance into a VM?

[naive dune]

I believe so!

I highly highly doubt its anything to do with the engine version but you are getting it running with .26.2?

[grim ore]

well on my router it would be port forwarding and I just forward that port to the local machine, but this generally is only an issue for outside -> in and you should be in already

but from this page https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/LiveLinkPlugin/index.html

do you have more than 1 network adapter on that machine?

and yes .26.2

im just loading up the metahumans example and the facear example

[naive dune]

yupp same here

[naive dune]

err...let me see how to check and check XD

[grim ore]

well right click the network icon in the task bar bottom right, open network settings, go to change adapter option and it should list all adapter

[naive dune]

Yes, I believe I only have one for wi-fi

[grim ore]

ughh....

[naive dune]

and that is the one I am using

[grim ore]

that was my last idea

like literally it should just work out of the box, its probably not the machine

yep that looks like my setup basically, only one active so it should be the only one used

if you really wanted to eliminate them as issues, right click the ones you arent using (the LAN and Bluetooth ones) and disable them but...

thats like hoping for a miracle

[steel shell]

how can i know what texture is being rendered on a mesh?

[grim ore]

you probably cant? you can find out what material is being used

[naive dune]

If i connect to a different network, so not through the wi-fi router..should probably work, right?

If the cause is most likely coming from the router

[steel shell]

how can i find that out?

[naive dune]

I tried using the data on my phone then turned on the hotspot so my PC connects to it so they're both on the same network essentially

heck, I even used another phone's hotspot, connected the phone which has the app to that hotspot..and my PC to that hotspot that still didn't work :/ so...might think its the machine not the router

but doesn't work with another machine either sooooooooo... 😕

[naive dune]

Open the mesh and you can see the materials on it in the details panel

Click the magnifying glass icon to browse to the material

[steel shell]

but if the material changes on runtime, i cannot see it like that

[naive dune]

In run-time maybe just get material inst and connect it to print string?

[grim ore]

you can get the current material on the mesh

[summer elk]

Your IP can be switched in your network, make sure to double check ipconfig when connecting

[fresh geode]

hey guys i am using the spawn actor node and i spawn a pushable blueprint. when i interact with that spawned object, its like it spawned 4 instances of it and not only one

[naive dune]

A question for @grim ore why do you have tomatoes? at the start of your videos? 😛

[plush yew]

Hi why cant i use stamps anymore? :p

[grim ore]

@naive dune it's a play on words for Tutorials

[plush yew]

anyone know how to use them ?

[naive dune]

I see! 😀