ue4-general

[proud dome]

Guys, why do my land animation seems delayed?

[thick nebula]

@grim ore it took me a while to realize that’s not a Pope hat

[grim ore]

lol

[upbeat tendon]

How can I look up a hostname to get an ip to open a tcp connection?

[cerulean geyser]

yea right now by hand yeah..i dont plan of having branching dialogue tho

[neon bough]

in c++ with GetHostByName

in blueprint, no idea, maybe it autoresolves the hostname

[coral lotus]

Does anyone know why my displacement might not be working with Quixel Megascans surfaces...? I've got the plugin for megascans enabled and ticking displacement doesn't seem to create any at all...?

[cosmic matrix]

hi,
I m trying to use anim montage in the same scope where i m attaching the actor to a master pose but i have "lag frames" when the animation is in default pose before playing montage

something like that

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kenw-VMxtaSDqqJ6mF3ofsrDpfEKiz1t/view

[neon bough]

that might be because your whatever ticks before the master pose component

you can set when something should tick, if you don't need physics on your "slave" you can set it to tick after physics

[cosmic matrix]

you think this is due to physics?

[neon bough]

if you get 1 frame lag

[cosmic matrix]

more like in the video

[neon bough]

hm, no idea, i don't know what happens there

[cosmic matrix]

oh well okay

😦

[neon bough]

is that the picked up weapon which shows up in ref pose for a frame?

if so you could either set it invisible until the master pose component is set, or attach it after setting the master pose component (if you don't do that already)

but that's just some guessing, not sure if it would solve the issue

[cosmic matrix]

yeah that s why i m doing

[idle dragon]

Question, how feasible is it to call a variable from one actor, and use an interface to get it to another actor? I'm just wondering if I'm demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge of blueprint interfaces by asking this question

I'm currently using casting to call variables from one actor to another but I've read it's increadibly intensive in the long run and shouldn't be used.

[neon bough]

maybe try with a one tick delay, e.g. set master pose component and stuff => delay(0) => set weapon to visible

[cosmic matrix]

you can use polymorphism yeah but interface are used on many class at the same time so if you have only on class with this variable stay in that way @idle dragon

[neon bough]

the delay only works in event graph, so you might have to move some part of the logic over there

[cosmic matrix]

yeah anyway it s in cpp

[mint raptor]

So if an actor in the persistent level references an actor in a sub level, when that sub level gets unloaded if the actor in the persistent level still references it does Unreal keep that actor alive? It seems as though it is in my case, the actor doesn't show in editor but it is still ticking and hitting a break point in the "invisible" actor's tick function

[coral lotus]

Does anyone have any experience with getting displacement enabled with Quixel megascans and surfaces?

^for whatever reason having displacement enabled doesn't do anything

[severe ibex]

@coral lotus is this in ue4?

[coral lotus]

Yes : /

[severe ibex]

I think you need tessellation on the mesh right? But TBH I've not used it in UE4 before, just others like 3Ds Max.

[kindred viper]

@mint raptor it can persist until garbage collection cleans it up I guess as GC isn't instant unless you force it.

[spare kernel]

Actors will always be cleaned up as Destroy on an actor calls UObject->MarkPendingKill

so nothing will keep it alive

tho it should not tick, meaning destroy is likely never called it

[severe ibex]

I've got some questions regarding large assets, is it better to split a large mesh into numerous parts increasing draw calls or larger parts? I think I would still have the same number of textures and materials with some multiple UV maps for details.

Is it far more costly to have larger textures over draw calls?

Is there a specific way to prepare textures for assets other than atlases and trim sheets where you can? I'd like to try and do things in a "industry standard" way, or am I being too stringent and should just worry about whatever looks best?

[proud dome]

How to initiate animation if player has a specific movement speed?

[coral lotus]

Hmm, its only a PBR material, I'm using a Albedo, Displcaement, Normal and roughness maps for it

[mint raptor]

My issue was something else not related to level streaming thankfully

[severe ibex]

@coral lotus https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/MaterialNodes/1_12/index.html

You read this?

[rustic panther]

how can I fix this? I made a water body, but deleted it and can't get rid of this error now

[coral lotus]

I hadn't seen that - thank you

[worldly cipher]

Anyone know how i can increase the distance on which light is being rendered?

[rustic panther]

deleting the landscape gets rid of it, but IO can't just remake the landscape, there's painted layers on it

[severe ibex]

@coral lotus no worries.

@rustic panther can you try fixing up the redirectors in your project?

Right click on the contents folder and the option should be there.

[idle dragon]

how do I set a float output of a blueprint interface using a variable from another blueprint?

I want my blueprint interface to have an output = current speed of an actor

[grim ore]

add it as an ouput to the interface

[idle dragon]

Are you possibly able to post a demonstration in editor? Apologies, for some reason my mind is having a hard time picturing it

[idle dragon]

I have the float output, but how do I set it in another blueprint?

[grim ore]

your going to have to show a picture maybe of what you mean

[idle dragon]

ok ok

[grim ore]

your other blueprint would implement this, so you probably want an input

assuming you call this from something else and pass in the float

[finite lark]

@grim ore can I bother you again?

it turned out i had to redoo everything

[idle dragon]

Basically the output speed needs to = the current speed of a character, which is a float from another blueprint

[grim ore]

do you know how interfaces work?

[idle dragon]

just learning them now

[grim ore]

its just a generic event

[idle dragon]

I had a feeling this wasn't possible though

[grim ore]

something somewhere has to implement it (have it on it), and something else can call it

so what are you trying to do?

[severe ibex]

@grim ore while you're here oh master of the YT tutorial videos, whats the best way to pass information from one BP to another? Isn't casting to and get all actors of class very costly?

[idle dragon]

I have a vehicle going at a variable speed, and it can shoot a projectile. The projectile needs to add the speed of the vehicle to the speed of its self.

[rustic panther]

didn't have any, I do that often

[idle dragon]

Im currently using casting to solve it; but that's too intensive imo

[severe ibex]

@rustic panther just a shot in the dark from me there sadly.

[grim ore]

so the vehicle, which spawns the actor, needs to pass a variable to the actor?

[idle dragon]

yes

[grim ore]

once you spawn it, its already the correct class you just set the variable on it

no reason or need to cast

[rustic panther]

should only ever do get all actors once for rare things, there isn't a best way to communicate, but interfaces are pretty handy

[grim ore]

the easiest way is to just expose the variable on spawn in the actor your are spawning and you pass it in as you spawn it

@severe ibex yep no best way, it all depends on what you re doing

[idle dragon]

how exactly do I expose that variable? is it just a case of making it public?

[severe ibex]

@rustic panther @grim ore so you mention interfaces? Whats this exarctly?

@idle dragon little eye next to the variable.

[idle dragon]

Got it

[grim ore]

the eye is not expose on spawn, expose on spawn is expose on spawn

[severe ibex]

I'll shut up

[grim ore]

and then magic

it passes in the variable as part of the constructor now

[rustic panther]

interfaces are things blueprints "subscribe to" and can be called without a direct reference

and you can pass any sort of information with them

[severe ibex]

@rustic panther oh fuckin' too much to handle at late night. Do you have a link to some documentation I can peruse later?

[grim ore]

if you every need to go "hmm, I need to cast to this and if it fails to this and if it fails to this" because you dont know what you are talking to? use an interface

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Types/Interface/index.html

[rustic panther]

https://youtu.be/G_hLUkm7v44

[severe ibex]

Cheers just found those :)

Would either of you have any input or opinion on how you would want assets to be prepared for use in engine?

[rustic panther]

like medium, rare or well done?

[severe ibex]

I'm a 3D artist but always eager to do things the best way.

[rustic panther]

the center is the pivot

[severe ibex]

Lol

[rustic panther]

maya or blender?

or something else?

[severe ibex]

More like draw calls over textures

[rustic panther]

oh well for draw calls as a modeler, you just need to realize how many textures you actually need per object

and to really think if you need a transparency

[severe ibex]

So would you say textures are far more costly than draw calls?

[rustic panther]

each material element is a draw call

and each object that isn't instanced is a call

if you makew a car you should have like one texture/material thats all transparency and one that's diffuse

textures cost memory

[severe ibex]

And for larger assets like a train? I've seen the train yard project has some very smart materials but the train is broken up into like 100 pieces.

But my own project has less pieces with perhaps more textures.

[rustic panther]

draw calls aren't a big deal for PC or consoles

more so for phones

[worldly cipher]

Is there a way to assign all actors with a specific material another material without clicking on each one manually?

[rustic panther]

but you should still make your assets correctly

[idle dragon]

@severe ibex Ha! it works. Many thanks to you. One last question, is this way less system intensive than my needless casting method earlier? I'm hoping so

@grim ore

Sorry I might've mixed you both up, thanks to matthew i mean

[severe ibex]

@rustic panther indeed, thats what I am striving for as I want to be doing that well and not just a really good looking asset thats very expensive.

[rustic panther]

right click in content bwoser -> asset actions -> bulk edit

[severe ibex]

@idle dragon you totally did lol

[worldly cipher]

thanks

[idle dragon]

lol damnit.

[severe ibex]

@rustic panther I do actually work for a VR mobile company at the moment but there's no senior 3D artists to learn from.

[idle dragon]

I can be your senior 3D artist. I've got a theoretical degree in it.

[severe ibex]

@idle dragon is that theoretically good enough? :)

[idle dragon]

theoretically yes

[severe ibex]

Though technically I am the only 3D artist so that makes me the senior also

[idle dragon]

@grim ore Just going to bug you one last time to say, without you I'd have probably been using casting like an idiot without ever needing it

so thanks :)

[severe ibex]

I guess I should try to find some authority on the subject but spending too long on Artstation makes me sad haha

[idle dragon]

oof never have i seen more talent concentrated in one website than artstation

really kicks your ego

[severe ibex]

@idle dragon MathewW is a gold mine of information, his WTF youtube series is perfect.

[idle dragon]

I'll look it up

[severe ibex]

Its fuckin ace.

[idle dragon]

I've subscribed to him

I must say though, he needs someone to make him better thumbnails for his videos

https://i.gyazo.com/3fb54441671051c2c14761d36a0a9b7e.png

[severe ibex]

The man needs no clickbait.

[idle dragon]

the youtube gods won't take kindly to this

[steel shell]

is it possible to get the currently used diffuse texture of a material?

[coral lotus]

Hey, sorry I've asked this a few times now, but does anyone know why my Megascan surfaces are not giving off displacement/tesselation when I'm using them? despite me enabling displacement in the Bridge Addon?

[cerulean geyser]

its not possible to bind the positionX Y in widget images?

[coral lotus]

Sure, here is the material I'm using...its using an albedo map, roughness, displacement and normal map. unfortunately adjusting the tesselation controls doesn't seem to do anything

[opal gust]

how do i get this instead of

this

in animation composite

i cant find this anywhere cuz i dont know what to look up

[idle dragon]

Anyone know any quick ways to decrease performance hit of automatic weapons without deleting the projectile too early? If I fire an automatic weapon in the air long enough (to the point that there are 130 or so projectile actors), I lose about 10-20FPS

[thorn violet]

Ever managed to understand this issue? Editor taking 30 mins to start up and seeing this each time

[severe ibex]

@idle dragon are there meshes involved with each projectile?

[idle dragon]

oh absolutely

[severe ibex]

Are they casting dynamic shadows?

[idle dragon]

how do i check?

[severe ibex]

Select the mesh in the BP theyre being made in

Should be in the details panel, "cast dynamic shadows"

Though you could also make sure they don't cast any shadows.

[idle dragon]

Done it, thanks. I'm still losing the frames though, hmmm

[kindred viper]

you have 130 or so projectiles ticking. You need to pool things

[idle dragon]

I've heard of pooling before

[severe ibex]

Hmm, dynamic shadows was a big problem for me, so thought that might be it.

[idle dragon]

Is there a good tutorial on pooling projectiles?

[kindred viper]

bear in mind, unless you need to actually see the projectiles, there is no reason to use a projectile. You can just trace hit

[idle dragon]

nah i need to see the projectiles

non negotiable that is

[kindred viper]

fair enough. Then object pooling is the way to go and perhaps another method than the projectile component if that is what you are using

[idle dragon]

What exactly is object pooling? I have an idea, but only an idea

[kindred viper]

it's when you spread the performance cost of a bunch of objects over a series of frames instead of every single frame. For example, you can predict where a projectile is going over time based on it's velocity and vector direction. So there is no need to work all that out in one go. You can tick less and interpolate movement of several objects instead

[severe ibex]

How do you pool exactly. I am curious as this sounds useful

[idle dragon]

Yeah, in a game where I'm inevitably going to have potentially hundreds of projectiles at once, I need this

can't be losing 10-20fps already when I haven't even started with the actual art assets

[rain lintel]

Im having an issue with my checkpoints where if I rotate it in the world, it inverts the controls when I start playing.

[coral lotus]

That's very bizzare. That's a snowy surface with displacement and tesselation, no real messing around with materials to achieve this?

[idle dragon]

@severe ibex here's a thread on object pooling i found, dunno if it fits your needs though https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/h0hvrh/how_do_you_set_up_a_robust_object_pooling_system/

[tawny nacelle]

why is the scene ( socket ) in the air or not in the right location

[coral lotus]

That's really bizzare. Looks like we've used the same texture as well. I'm not sure what is causing this. I've endabled Displacement in the Mixer plugin settings...the closest I can get with displacement creates this weird effect

[thorn topaz]

damn that shout out from 2 yrs ago

did you read the few messages below the one you tagged?

[upbeat tendon]

@neon bough thanks c++ is great for me, i my google powers tonight were useless

[thorn violet]

Hehe. Was desperrate, went hunting with search function

[thorn violet]

Fixed this specific one by just increasing to 2048, but ran into other bullshit now. Doing FAsyncPackage::LoadImports and Adding linker dependency for pretty much every file (discovered by turning on VeryVerbose logging).

it's like it's trying to rebuild all links every time I open editor

[worldly cipher]

btw are there any free scattering tools?

[coral lotus]

Does anyone know why my editor is running so slow...? It's lagging hard, but using like .4% of my CPU and 6gb of ram...?

[worldly cipher]

what about GPU?

[coral lotus]

I'm running a 3070 as my gpu which is sitting at idle temps

[worldly cipher]

oh

What exactly is running slow?

if its shaders then you could up the priority

i used Prozess Hacker 2 for that

[coral lotus]

the editor and simply moving my viewport around. It was mostly fine, but then I added a second viewport to help me move a camera and now its tanked hard

[worldly cipher]

on my old CPU that increased compiling times from 20 seconds to like 5

[severe ibex]

@idle dragon always good to know about it at least, thanks.

[worldly cipher]

FPS wise?

(also ill brb so ping me)

[coral lotus]

fps wise...? feels like 5?

Also just put all my viewports into Unlit, and it made no difference

[fierce tulip]

https://github.com/RoelBartstra/Designer
https://www.unrealengineer.com/blog/designer-100-released

[ornate bobcat]

Hey guys, i'm having a problem with all my builds giving a fatal error message on start randomly (sometimes they don't) What is the best channel for me to post about it?

[worldly cipher]

thanks ill look into it @fierce tulip

@coral lotus i honestly dont know. does that happen in other projects too? how large is the project?

[coral lotus]

Hmm, is there an easy way to check..? or just looking at the file size in windows explorer?

[worldly cipher]

show file size, task manager and what it looks like

[coral lotus]

here is task manager

my main_builtdata file is 254mb

@worldly cipher if thats any help..?

[worldly cipher]

can your Ram go over 16gb?

windows sometimes sets it so you can only use half of your ram

other half would go to windows itself

[coral lotus]

I've got 32gb available yeah

huh

well I restarted

and it fixed...

[worldly cipher]

oh yeah, i assumed you tried that lol

[coral lotus]

wait no

[worldly cipher]

restarting ue4 often does the job for me too

[coral lotus]

as soon as I go back to a lit viewport, it goes very slow again

[worldly cipher]

what does the scene look like

[coral lotus]

there really isn't much

[worldly cipher]

whats the resolution of the textures and polycount?

also

check your priorities

on the ue4 tasks

that nothing is set to low

cant help too much with in-engine tough

[coral lotus]

hmmmm, this seems like an awful lot right...?

[worldly cipher]

but yeah the outengine things

[coral lotus]

all 4k textures

[worldly cipher]

8 million tris?

idk how well ue4 handles high poly

[coral lotus]

I have no idea how I've got 8 million tri's

[worldly cipher]

but that seems like quiete the thing

tried deleting the scape and see if that fixes it?

[coral lotus]

the 8 million tri's plane seemed to fix the problem

yeah I deleted it

wtf

[worldly cipher]

wait

just a plane? 😆

[coral lotus]

yeah

Not a clue

maybe something to do with my tesselation..?

[worldly cipher]

did you import that from somewhere?

[coral lotus]

nope, dragged it in earlier

wait unless I made it from a landscape

I can't quite remember, but defo didn't import it

[worldly cipher]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[candid root]

Anyone know a method of occluding water inside a boat using 4.26 water? struggling to find anything via google not sure how to go about it.

[cerulean geyser]

is there anyway to break a data table row by class? because i need to specify in rt which data table to read

i guess i can just feed it an empty one and then change the variable via code..dunno

shoot i guess it doesnt work

[thorn topaz]

you have a ton of BPs?

[thorn violet]

Our project is huge, yeah. 58K files in our Content folder 🙂

Not sure about exact # of BPs

[thorn topaz]

so it's probably a combination of a shit load of redirectors and hard references

[thorn violet]

Yeah, which is fine. But they're being reloaded every time opening editor

never did that on 4.20 - 4.25

only since went to 4.26 today

[thorn topaz]

then I'm not sure because I thought previously all hard references were loaded

when opening the editor

but that just goes to show the flow of references is bad if this is happening

[thorn violet]

LogStreaming: Verbose: FAsyncPackage::LoadImports```

[thorn topaz]

you should be loading things as needed

[thorn violet]

When I turned on Verbose logging

300 MB log by the time it finished

just with that stuff

endless loading and linking

[somber rover]

Bought a char off market, rigged to UE skeleton. Whenever i delete his skeleton and replace ref. with the UE4 skeleton and click on his MESH I get this warning, but when I press OK it makes my player char work, but it breaks my AI that's using the UE skeleton, so when I go to click on my AI mesh I get the same warning, and when I click on OK it fixes my AI but breaks my player char. Any ideas? https://prnt.sc/1280xlj

[rustic panther]

can you get the Editor Bookmark camera positions in blueprint?

in the level blueprint or something?

[delicate mesa]

anyone know why live link face app would not connect to livelink under sources? i tried with ue4 remote and it connects successfully on the face app it struggles to even find my pc at all

[rustic panther]

so I can use the "Create Camera Here" option to make a camera instead of trying to use the bookmark

[kindred viper]

@somber rover looks like the preview mesh is the issue, which you can change

[somber rover]

What should I set the preview mesh to? right now my player char is this https://prnt.sc/1282zkq and all my AI is just the basic UE mannequin

[kindred viper]

its like a 1:1 system i believe. if you open the manny, it should have a preview mesh where its showing the animations. I think you could just use that one

[somber rover]

yea no matter what I do either the player char skates around in the A pose, or if i fix that the AI characters skate around in the A pose

[dreamy schooner]

hello, is there anyone around who might be open to answering some mixer questions? I'm giving it my first shot today.

[grim ore]

if you are using that character, why not use its skeleton?

[somber rover]

because whenever I just retarget the anim_bp to him, he doesn't move anymore after I attack

[grim ore]

which anim_bp?

[kindred viper]

@somber rover I wouldn't have thought that would be the issue. It might be the inputs he used to fire off the anims being different than yours. Did it come in a project or just as a mesh that installs to the project?

[grim ore]

I would assume you would import the new SKM, retarget the anim_bp to the new skm, then just use the new anim_bp? thats the way its supposed to work atleast

then your AI would be using the old anim_bp and skm since Im assuming your AI and old player shared those?

[somber rover]

I bouught this kit https://prnt.sc/1283q4r and the cartoon char I showed above, and trying to use the cartoon char to this kit

[grim ore]

yep and your not trying to use 1 animbp for both meshes are you?

[somber rover]

yea, just like any other char i've ever done. Like the GOthic Knight that was free a long time ago. I added the Gothic Knight to my project and just deleted his skeleton and replaced ref to the UE skeleton and the gothic knight works just fine and so does the AI characters

but when I do the same thing with the cartoon boy, it doesn't work

[grim ore]

which part does it fail at?

have you tried not regenerating the skeleton?

[somber rover]

making a whole new project again

aight got a whole new fresh project with the cartoon boy added

https://prnt.sc/128423b

after I do that he just skates around in the A pose while you see the UE mannequin guy behind him is working normal https://prnt.sc/128476p

I double click his skeletal mesh like this and get this message https://prnt.sc/12848ks, I press the OK button and now he works just fine, but the UE mannequin guy now skates around in the A pose

[sudden olive]

Guys I need your help, I don't know actually what to do. Could someone tell me how to spawn mobs till I kill for example 50 ?

[grim ore]

and if you didnt click ok what happens?

[sterile tulip]

Hello Mathew

[grim ore]

@sudden olive mobs die -> tell something that the mob died -> something keeps count then does something when it hits 50

[somber rover]

if I don't click ok he just says skating in the A pose and the AI mannequin works fine still

[grim ore]

but does the editor window show up?

[somber rover]

yea it shows up and is blank it has no mesh in it

but if I click YES, i get this now, the player char is working just fine but the AI mannequin is skating around in A pose https://prnt.sc/1284bgp

so when I go back to the mannequin mesh and double click it, i get that same window pop up asking me YES or Cancel, so I click YES again and the AI mannequin works but the player char skates around in A pose again

[grim ore]

open the new character and click no then show what that window looks like

[somber rover]

this happens if I click NO https://prnt.sc/1284gcu

and if I click on anything in the top right Skeleton, Animation, Blueprint, Physics, that YES / NO window pops back up

[grim ore]

if you click on skeleton does it go to that tab?

[somber rover]

yea, it opens up the SK_UE4_Mannequin_Skeleton window

https://prnt.sc/1284lgp

[grim ore]

click on preview mesh on the top right, change it to the boy, and does it change?

this part

[somber rover]

it gives me that YES / NO window again https://prnt.sc/1284mx3

[grim ore]

yep click no

[somber rover]

I clicked no and get this https://prnt.sc/1284o68 mannequin stays in the middle, but the ICON for preview mesh changed

[grim ore]

yep something seems weird with that mesh, like its not compatible.

[somber rover]

I ran into this problem one other time with the stylized fantasy female char from N-Hance, even tho they said it was rigged to UE mannequin, it never would work. so I requested a refund and Epic got back to me and said they could confirm the char def. wasn't rigged properly to the mannequin and gave N-Hance 48 hours to fix it or give me a refund, and N-Hance immediately refunded me without trying to fix it

So that tells me this char also isn't properly rigged even tho it states it is

[grim ore]

have you tried retargetting it and not just swapping the skeleton?

also, have you tried this on the default third person template. your using a custom project there is no guarantee it's skeleton is correct

[somber rover]

I tried right clicking the player chars anim_bp and retarget it to the boy char and it retargets fine, he just doesn't work right, Like when I pickup a sword and attack with it, you can't move or jump, or do anything after you attack

let me try with default third person really quick

[grim ore]

so then its retargeting fine, perhaps the animation blueprint is hard coding a cast and since your using a new one now it wont work since its going to fail that cast

if the character retargeted fine, the animations worked and preview worked, then its an issue with the pack you are using

your not really supposed to just swap out skeletons due to issues like this

[somber rover]

yea, default third person template does same thing. I get YES / NO screen and mannequin don't work if I select YES but the boy works, and when I try to change back to the mannequin char I get YES / NO select YES and mannequin works but the boy doesn't

[grim ore]

have you tried swapping the skeleton and not deleting it?

i assume its the same result as deleting and replacing the reference but shrug

[somber rover]

yea I tried that, same thing

[grim ore]

yep as far as I know you should be using retargetting but that just leads to another issue. weird that swapping randomly works

I tried it on the characters I have here and its fine, i dont have either of the ones you mentioned

[somber rover]

https://prnt.sc/128512t this char works just fine no matter how I retarget. Delete skeleton, Swap skeleton, retarget anim_bp, ect

[grim ore]

maybe its just using a newer base mannequin skeleton and the others are older, or vice versa. who knows art is weird

[heady quartz]

I’m trying to make reloading feel a lot more natural between running and idle. Do you guys think additive animations or having separate animations and blending them using a blendspace is the way to go? For first person

[grim ore]

if retargeting works tho for animations it just breaks something else I would think thats just some hard coded casting in the character/animbp

definite bummer that some work and some dont tho 😦

[worthy forge]

Anyone know how/where i can find a 3 Model **Stand **like this. I'm going to put my gun on a stand like it but cant find one so far from a google search

[somber rover]

If you can't find one on the UE market, artstation, cgtrader, then you'll most likely have to make your own or pay someone to make one for you

[devout whale]

Any one know any ideas on what to add to a zombie survival game ? Want to make it pop from the rest I suppose

[narrow mauve]

Hm. Does anyone know a simple way to extend the cloud base of the volumetric cloud system all the way to the ground?

even at 0 it is still about 100 meters above ground

[rare pulsar]

I am curious is the CHAOS 4.26 Build for destruction already out of BETA and can be used? Or will it be added to 4.27 as a usable version for a game? Or should i ignore it for now?

[plush yew]

My sky looking something like that.
I want to create pink clouds everywhere.
Someone help?

[kindred viper]

@rare pulsar I've been using Chaos for the past 3 builds and it's been fine

[remote parrot]

Is there a way to make character movement speed constant? I don't want it to increase gradually but rather use the max speed all the time

[echo frost]

Dont have faith this'll get answered, but I'm trying to import a uasset mesh into unreal to export it as a model, but no tutorial I'm finding helps

[remote parrot]

Like from other 3d programs ?

[echo frost]

Idk, it's a uasset from Ark lol

[somber rover]

if it's already a uasset file, just put it into a blank project and export it as a FBX file

[echo frost]

I guess I'll try that

[somber rover]

I mean, that's literally the only thing you can do

[remote parrot]

You should always have faith Dr.Eggman

[echo frost]

I just get lost in the files and when I think I've found the one I'm looking for it's not the one I was actually looking for lol

[rare pulsar]

Ah thanks you, wasn't sure if its already out of the alpha / beta since i never really checked it again.

[kindred viper]

I don't think it's advertised as production ready yet but I could be wrong. However, for destruction it's been fine. For other physics it might have some bugs still. I see the odd problem here and there but it could be their project specific stuff

@echo frost im not sure you are allowed to do that unless its for non-commercial, non-public use. I'd be wary. However for hobby work/learning it might be ok. I'd check out any devkit they have tbh.

[rare pulsar]

I see do you think they put a final version in 4.27? Or do you think it will still be in 2nd version?

[echo frost]

I was just gonna 3D print it as a personal keychain, but I guess I wasnt really thinking about the legal concerns.

[prime willow]

@kindred viper Do you mind if I bother you with a question?

its color/material related

[kindred viper]

sure but it's 3am here so if I answer it with utter gibberish or don't understand because its material based, dont be offended 😄

[prime willow]

thank you i appreciate it ❤️

um my question is im setting up a character creation system and matheww said i need to setup materials or clothing/hair to be editted color wise as an option for customization

however i have no idea how to setup that or even the term to look up how to set up color changes for the mesh or objects

what should i be looking for to figure it out?

[kindred viper]

when you create a material, you usually have inputs into the Material Shader node (the big one with Base Colour, Specularity etc). You can make those inputs as Parameters by right clicking on it and setting it to a Parameter. Then save the material. In your content browser, find the material and right click it. In the menu you can create a Material Instance. It will show the nodes that you set as parameters. Then you can change them without recompiling the material. Its best practice to do this with any material you want to change on the fly, because the recompile can only be done in editor, but material instances can be changed at runtime. If that helps any.

A good example of this, in the customisation sense, if the recent Car Customiser project (which lets you change the colour of materials on a car model). Might be good to check there, but also learning about how to make Material Instances is vital either way.

[prime willow]

wait

so i should always use material instances on my meshes

not the material itself?

[kindred viper]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/learn/automotive-configurator

yes thats correct.

[prime willow]

okie o.o

and the method above youre explaining

would that allow players playing my game to be able to change the colors of the clothing itself

[kindred viper]

yes as you can freely change material instances at runtime

[prime willow]

like youd see in typical gaming cusotmizations

[kindred viper]

indeed

[prime willow]

:3

okie ill go apply this right now

thanksies so much have a nice sleep okay ❤️

[kindred viper]

oh I have a couple of hours to go yet. This is the quietest time in my house. I get my best work done in the wee hours 🙂

[prime willow]

yush yush my samoyed sleepy as heck so i can get work done too lol

[plush yew]

Hes catching all of the Z's

[vast pawn]

How do I open a project with certain actors in the scene hidden?

[kindred viper]

you would hide them before you save and close it. Then next time they will be hidden

[vast pawn]

I tried that already; doesn't work

so those huge icons that get in my way I tried hidding them in the scene component by clicking the eye icon save close and then restart UE4

but I still see those icons again.

[kindred viper]

In the viewport -> Show -> Advanced -> Show Billboard Sprites. Disable that

@vast pawn

[prime willow]

@kindred viper oh i almost forgot sorry sorry but can this method apply to the leg skin material and arm material and chest and face if the bodies skin material is split into multiple material slots?

[kindred viper]

sure. each slot can contain a material instance.

[vast pawn]

alright thanx @kindred viper

[prime willow]

and than i can just weave the color system to move all of the materials skin color at once? :3

via a widget of some sort

[kindred viper]

sure. The sky is the limit

[prime willow]

;D

[kindred viper]

although you can change that material too so really the sky isn't the limit. World Bounds is :p

[prime willow]

good good :3

id hate to change the skin color and only the legs change >_>

how would my super smexy demon race have every shade under the rainbowwww

[thick nebula]

is there a way to not use the Navigation box for top down? it seems to take a long time to compile on large maps, i wonder if the started content is not appropriate for much larger maps

[kindred viper]

what do you mean by navigation box? The NavMesh?

[prime willow]

if i setup a material do i have to save it after making changes one by one

actually

i can test this xD

[kindred viper]

pretty much yeah. its compiled

[prime willow]

wait i can just hit save all instead of one by one o-o

nvm have to do it one by one lol

[marsh swallow]

This is the issue we are having:
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/990046/destructible-mesh-disappears-after-packaging.html

Destructible meshes are no longer visible until you fracture them. This is only in packaged builds and is apparently a result of using: "Support Compute Skincache" which is required for RTX

Is there any way around this?

[plush yew]

Hello everyone. I have two questions

Can someone please help me on increasing the wind in my foliage?

[marsh swallow]

Are you using the Wind function?

[plush yew]

Tried, but it seems like nothing happens

[plush yew]

Like there is some movement, but not sure how i can increase it

[marsh swallow]

I just showed you. Incrase the intensity

but its also dependant on the mesh and the way you make the UV/material

[plush yew]

Where do i see the editor? 😟

[marsh swallow]

huh?

what editor?

[plush yew]

this has some movements - quite abrupt, but it doesnt show that in the main scene

[plush yew]

where do i see this, or add this and to what should i be adding this too?

A bit of a noob

[marsh swallow]

Ahhhh i see. You have to go into the material for the mesh itself

so you see that green thing there on the right.

Thats the material instance open it up and then scroll down the defaults list and find Parent Material

open that and you should have an editor and see the Wind Function

[plush yew]

there is no wind function

I think i got it :))

thanks @marsh swallow

[marsh swallow]

Yup! there ya go bud.

[plush yew]

I have another question 😇

Has anyone made houdini engine work? I am getting some windows SDK error when i try compiling it

[kindred viper]

install the windows SDK its asking for

[plush yew]

You mean, i have to install a new windows altogether?

[kindred viper]

no. google for Windows SDK

[plush yew]

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/

[kindred viper]

thats one of them. there is a Win 8 SDK too. Might wanna get both

[plush yew]

Oh wow! it was a separate tool! Darn! I wasted 3 days thinking its an entire OS

thanks @kindred viper will give that a shot

[kindred viper]

no worries 🙂

[thick nebula]

anyone know what this is? [ERROR] Channel registration failed. Reason: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally in swarm agent? i tried opening up the port in my firewall but nobueno

[fleet sparrow]

Is it possible to convert a Plugin to project?

[kindred viper]

not really. a plugin is essentially a module or collection of modules.

[thick nebula]

i remedied this by just completely deleting the firewall entry. when i ran "recompile lighting only" windows firewall asked me if i wanted to allow it

in case anyone.. gets... t h a t . . . i s sss sss uuee

[thick nebula]

is there a way i can make is so navigation doesn't need to be built every every time i open my project

[stuck linden]

does anyone know why my anim bp (apply additive) makes it change location/scale... (2) is where its supposed to be (1) is when i select the animbp for the mesh

heres the code on the anim bp

[pastel ginkgo]

Anyone know why my actor is black after building with gpu lightmass? I have to check and uncheck overridden light map res to get it back to normal.

[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 try Meta Human which is only on the latest version, does anyone know how to fix this blue red lighting.

[devout whale]

Any one know any ideas on what to add to a zombie survival game ? Want to make it pop from the rest I suppose

[naive dune]

Sooo...Matthew was a great help yesterday and threw many suggestions my way, but still can't get live link face to work..if anyone has some extra ideas https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/1027010/please-help-cannot-see-phone-when-using-live-link.html

[drowsy snow]

Zombie survival is the boring genre for me (given that I play Doom), and most mechanics are already used one way or another.

If I have to give general suggestions: take cues from your favourite survival zombie games. Look for what makes them stand out to you. Imitate and iterate upon it.

[steel shell]

i have mesh_LOD0.fbx and mesh_LOD1.fbx... how do i setup the lod automatically on import?

[plush yew]

anyone knows why i get this error?

[little osprey]

I'm surprised this discord didn't die..

[drowsy snow]

Not even close.

[drowsy snow]

Make your sky sphere mesh movable.

[plush yew]

how do i do that?

[drowsy snow]

Just set the movability flag to Movable in the Details panel.

[plush yew]

i dont see that option

[naive dune]

Why would it?

[drowsy snow]

The SkySphereMesh, not the BP itself

[fierce tulip]

mainly because of how annoying the moderators are XD

[plush yew]

got it. Thank you very much @drowsy snow

[rigid belfry]

why is my bound event getting called?

shouldn't the bound event only fire when i call it? i am not calling it from anymore right now

[weak heath]

Hi, I want to make a tool that read skeletal mesh bone positions make some calculations and export data to json files. Can it be achieved with blueprints?

[proud dome]

Yo guys, im making a third person game with first person perspective (its an multiplayer game), and i want to know how to make a system with guns, and relatively everything that comes to fps games. Im making a game that has similarities with "Due process" and "Unturned", so i need to know the most efficient way to implement first person perspective, so making animations for gun aiming and all that wont be that hard.

[devout whale]

Yeah true true, lots of zombie games out there, but so is fps games. I was thinking to make a rust type zombie game. Where you build your territory and survive for as long as possible. Not sure if its going to be good idea or not. Can you think of a game that does this ? 🤔

[drowsy snow]

Fortnite STW sort of does this.

[devout whale]

Oh yeah true I suppose. Well they basically do ig. I was thinking of combining cod, rust and zombie mechanics into one game. Even if its not a huge success

Haven't heard of that game before. Might have to check it out

[devout whale]

If making fps gun animations I would check this video. https://youtu.be/IV6XP-EDzw8

[proud dome]

it has nothing to do with third person characters

[devout whale]

I guess thats a pretty good addition like rust I suppose

[proud dome]

as i said im making a multiplayer game

[devout whale]

Oh alright, sorry then no clue in what I could help in

[rigid belfry]

the multiplayer fps game by epic uses both first and third person animations

most of the code is in cpp iirc

[proud dome]

yeah i know that, i just dont know what my next move is to make a smooth aiming animation, since the first person i have atm is cast to third person character

[rigid belfry]

if you're interested, open the epic games launcher and under the learn tab, if you scroll down you'll find "shooter game"

[proud dome]

Is there a way to completely disable animation on a bone?

[stuck linden]

does anyone know why my anim bp (apply additive) makes it change location/scale... (2) is where its supposed to be (1) is when i select the animbp for the mesh

[fierce summit]

Hi friends,
So i'm still working on my Iron Man simulator and my iron man character needs to fly. Currently i have problems with the hitbox and collision detection and i would like some help on the matter. I've been told a tird person character is always meant to have an upright capsule and its not meant to rotate on other angles than its yaw. But because Iron man can fly horizontally i've setup another capsule that contains my mesh and that i can rotate however i want to fly in all direction. My setup looks like this:

The problem is that the Character capsule does not collide with anything as show here:

[past basin]

The animation may have incorrect size. Try reimporting

[fierce summit]

The big capsule is the character one and the small one at the bottom is the root component. Currently only the root component collides and i've tried activating collision on the other one but it doesnt seem to do anything. If anyone has suggestion or can help i would appreciate a lot.

[stuck linden]

It's extracted from a game @past basin i doubt is that

also i tried it.

[past basin]

There may be a scale setting when importing like static meshes but not sure. At worst case you have to scale the animation down frame by frame in blender

[stuck linden]

how do i do that

[marsh swallow]

@fierce summit it will never work and heres why

This is an age old UE4 issue when it comes to registering the collision of the capsule with physics and hitting into static mesh objects. You will experience this with things like mounts as well. We explored this awhile back and found that you have to rebuild from the ground up your own MovementComponent

The MevementComponent is what is responsible for causing the block against the meshes. Its just holding you in place. and ONLY the root Collision is calculated in the MovementComponent that comes with character.

So u will need to create a new pawn (not character), and make your collisions u need then make your own movement component.

then it will work just fine. :) We never ended up implimenting but instead just fudging a 1/2 way in the middle solution which is making it larger around the character and then juat bending the mounta neck left or right.

[olive ginkgo]

if ur making different colour themes for a game, is it easier to have a base image you use for all different themes and code the themes in or have premade graphics for each different theme?

[fierce summit]

First thanks for the detailed and awesome ansewer

Second: This is a freaking nightmare ahah

[fierce summit]

This is interresting. I thought it was happening in the physics engine or something

[fierce summit]

Is this complicated? I'm still an unreal noob idk if i can pull it off

[modern kite]

Is there a way to monitor performance in a development build?

[fierce summit]

I'm seriously considering cheesing the whole thing and just moving the rootcomponent around to always have it "in front" of my mesh but then if something comes from behind it wont work

[merry bison]

I have a floor which consists of a cube static mesh. I'm trying to create a hole in the floor with a subtractive geometry box and it doesn't work. Because one's a static mesh and the other is a BSP, I'm guessing. So what would be the best solution to create holes in the floor? I'm thinking, skip the current floor and create a new floor with BSP and subtract the hole with a box then convert those to a mesh... or is there a better/smarter way?

[marsh swallow]

@fierce summit okay so yes its not easy to do however i think someone made a superhero kit that has what u want with a custom character and movement component.

[weak cypress]

how should i start a new project?

[marsh swallow]

so something to keep in mind is think about the weapon you have in hand. it clips through walls even though you put collision on it and then set it to block all channels. because the physics engine is not rendering it as blockable because its all based on that root collision capsule.

this is also why vehicles have their own movement component because it polls collision differently based on many points.

We did all the work like 6 months ago in testing to prove this and come up with solutions

but the solution was to start from scratch on our chars movement component and we just werent gonna do that for only mounts (horses and such) 😂

[sand inlet]

I have seen a few nice level elements that people use for scale in their generic scenes. It is a grid object for walls and the ground which help visualize size. Are those builtin or freely available?

[stuck linden]

How do i deal damage to a character? I was using my enemie BP as a "SkeletalMeshActor" and it was working, when i switched to Character it doesn't work anymore bullets go right thru him

[fierce summit]

Thanks for the advice i'll investigate the char movement componentcustom way. do you have any good resources for learnign this? Also i did not found the superhero flyign pack u talked about, only animations, do you have the link? thanks a lot again

[fierce summit]

there is a blockout pack on the unreal store i think that is what you are talking about. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/blockout-tools-plugin

[maiden sundial]

Anyone ever faced this problem when importing a skeletal mesh into Blender ?

Should normally look somewhat like this

[hidden aurora]

Can we download old versions of a purchased product in the marketplacE?

[hidden aurora]

Check import settings

[maiden sundial]

I did, but i don't know if anything in here is the source of the problem

[hidden aurora]

Would you mind sending me the file so that I can try, if you want.

Check collision channels

[analog summit]

Hi!
When I test the game in editor, it is ok, it works.
But when I compile and play the game on my phone, I get the cast fail error.
Any idea why?

[distant cobalt]

Heyy I can c++ is it hard to Code with ue sdk?

[fierce summit]

no its just a few things to learn but its ok

[cloud igloo]

I'm trying to revert my running animation back to the default animation. The problem is that when I copy and paste the positions, the numbers change! Can i unlink them?

[proud dome]

How do i deny an input key while in this animation?

[analog summit]

if you press the little yellow curved arrow from the right side, what is happening?

[cloud igloo]

It reverts back to this animation

But the problem is that I dont want that animation

[proud dome]

check the addictive layer tracks

and send a screnie

you prolly have set changes here

[cloud igloo]

Im referencing the original default tracks rn and I'm wondering if I should delete these?

[proud dome]

Go in those tracks and delete the key points where the rotation is made

[proven mauve]

Is there a way to get current UE4 version from command line?

Something like ue4 gen, but for ue4 version?

[cloud igloo]

Will do thanks!

[analog summit]

Have you tried to use " Is animation Playing " node?
Or create one more boolean variable, canDoThis?, And set it as false after A and B of your flipflop, and as true at the end of animation

[maiden sundial]

Is it just me, or is it a shame that assets from the market place don't provide the raw FPX files(I obv just mean that for assets like static meshes, skeletal meshes..) ?

[proud dome]

like this? idk doesnt seem like it 😄

[tacit sonnet]

anyone know how to get the edge of an object easily ? i want to spawn wall along the edges of my floor but my floor size can change so i want it to be dynamic to the edges of the floor. any ideas ?

[analog summit]

Add an arrow symbol in your BP to the edge of the floor, and use that arrow as your spawning point

so you will use the arrow location to spawn the wall at that loction

[tacit sonnet]

ill have a look. thank you @analog summit

[cloud igloo]

Does anyone know how to get the camera to follow the direction you look

[analog summit]

You Need to use a custom camera, or just rotate the boom arm to where you look

[cloud igloo]

Alright thanks

[analog summit]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/736301/view.html?sort=oldest

[cloud igloo]

I've added a slide mechanic to my game. The current key is z but how do I make it so that it has to be shift + ctrl?

[analog summit]

you can use "Is input key down" node

[maiden sundial]

I think you could use the Action Mappings for this which you'll find in the project settings.

[analog summit]

so you can have two of this

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/707311/multiple-key-press-for-an-action.html

[cloud igloo]

Thanks guys Ill try it out!

[cloud igloo]

So this would be the one I use right?

[analog summit]

That one, or last one... You have more then 1 way to do this

[cloud igloo]

Alright cool thanks!

[dense knoll]

why does ue4 source take so long to open

*The zip

[fading forge]

hello, i'm working on a student project and I have some problems when i try to build, does someone have an idea?

[analog summit]

you compile for what?

[marsh swallow]

@fading forge Find which BP threw the error up above in the cook and see which Function needs refreshed in a BP.

[fading forge]

ok thanks i'll try that

Is there a way to find which blueprint cause the error? 😅

[analog summit]

do you use plugins in your project?

[pure wasp]

no I just have those, but not enabled and never been enabled

[fading forge]

I called my friend who is in charge of the blueprints

[analog summit]

Are you able to package a clean, blank project successfully?

[fading forge]

Normally none was added

[pure wasp]

i will try right now

[devout rose]

Can anyone tell me if the foliage tool in unreal works with BP Actors ?

[pure wasp]

Yep I created a new project and was able to packaged it

[analog summit]

can you share the log file?

[pure wasp]

Can i send the doc txt here or in private ?

[analog summit]

try it here, maybe other people are looking at the file

[pure wasp]

did you mean the blank project log file or for the real project ?

[analog summit]

the log file from the one with the problem

[pure wasp]

hop

[analog summit]

is this project for VR?

[pure wasp]

nope, but we use a template (the CCG toolkit) and maybe this one use VR at some points

but i managed to package the project before without any errors

and today it doesn't work

[analog summit]

what is different now about the project from what it was when it worked?

new textures?

[pure wasp]

new blueprints, new meshes, new textures, new materials

(btw thanks for taking your time to help us)

[winged crypt]

How do we disable Chaos in 4.26 to use Physx again?

[grim ore]

4.26 normal build doesnt use chaos

[winged crypt]

Hey Mathew, not sure what you mean by normal -- binary? We compiled UE from source

[grim ore]

did you get the normal version of .26 or the special chaos branch or did you compile it with chaos support?

chaos just "doesnt happen" unless you make it

[winged crypt]

Ah gotcha, I think we have the normal. I just noticed all the Chaos plugins are enabled 🤔

[grim ore]

that sounds like maybe the chaos branch then. you should be able to just disable the chaos plugins

[digital anchor]

its also enabled here (without chaos)

[grim ore]

I gotcha but I dont think its actually "enabled" in the engine unless you specify it

[digital anchor]

yeah its doing nothing probably

[analog summit]

Can you check where you use this texture M_InfiniteTexture

[fading forge]

We have some errors about the reference, but we don't find it in the project

[pure wasp]

we don't use it, and I don't know where it comes from to be honest

[analog summit]

Try to find where in your BP you use that.
Open any BP, Ctrl+F , type M_infiniteTexture and press the small button from the right side. It will search in all your BP's for that texture

let me know if you found anything

[pure wasp]

😥

[fading forge]

same

[analog summit]

you used this, oK? Just want to be sure 😄

[pure wasp]

yep ^^

[grim ore]

its possible that texture is a redirector to a texture that is now gone,was never there. Search the project folder itself for the redirector or try and fix them all up lol

[analog summit]

D:\you\Epic Games\Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Content\EngineSky\BP_Sky_Sphere.uasset ?

[fading forge]

Yes he find it

should we delete it?

[analog summit]

try to find if you use BP_Sky_Sphere in your project

[fading forge]

it's this one?

I used it in the environement

[analog summit]

Do this again but search for BP_Sky_Sphere

[idle dragon]

Does anyone know how to make a good foundation for an allied AI team and an enemy AI team?

Is it just a case of making a class?

[fading forge]

I remember when i wanted to add it to the project I had some problems

but I don't remember exactly

[analog summit]

Or you can just Right click on that BP_Sky_sphere > Referemce Viewer, if you will see just the BP in the viewer, is not used

[devout rose]

thx 🙂

[analog summit]

but if is something like this, it is used. In my case, in level01

[fading forge]

Maybe we can try to delete it on all the maps and rebuild?

[analog summit]

yep, but first, backup your project

[analog summit]

Do you use any of those maps in your project? And the Default_BP_Sky_Shere_C ?

[fading forge]

Yes we use the "Enviro" level

[merry bison]

I watched a tutorial once that described which folders are required if you want to send your project to someone - and which folders that can safely be deleted. Can't find that tutorial, does anyone remember which folders..?

[pure wasp]

we tried to delete it and package the project again, but it changes nothing

same amount of errors in the log

[analog summit]

In Project Settings > Packaging, add the levels you want to build into 'List of maps to include in a packaged build'

[analog summit]

at least the that error should disappear from the log

[plush yew]

I don't understand what I have to do to have the opacity?
I need that, too.

[bleak zodiac]

swtich from "opaque" to "translucency"

[pure wasp]

i'll check that

[plush yew]

Thank you

[pure wasp]

indeed, 6 warnings instead of 42

with the 3 levels we are using now in the "List of maps to include in a packaged build"

[radiant venture]

Hello....i wanted to ask a Question that can i use the free unity store asset packs in my commercial game in ue4, because the asset packs i want are under standard EULA and i guess that according to standard EULA one can use it in any engine i guess im not sure so if someone could help me in it i would be very thankfull. :) thankyou

Finally someone...

[merry bison]

You better ask the creator for permission, just to be 100% sure - since you mention that you will use them in a commercial game.

[radiant venture]

Yeahh... i will then... thankyou

[merry bison]

np

[analog summit]

But it still can't finish the build?

[pure wasp]

nope, 99 errors

[analog summit]

log file 😄

[true ridge]

Kinda dumb question, but what exactly is the control rig for? What would you use it for outside of what you do with animgraphs and all that?

[pure wasp]

yeah sorry xD

here it is

[plush yew]

so i made a 3 players multiplayer game and idk why but in game i get 20 fps
but when i stop the game i get 100 fps

[topaz monolith]

I am using a png 512x512 of a white circle in the widget BP, the quality in game is pixalted, does anyone know how to fix this? i guess u cantdraw circles straight in the widget bp?

[plush yew]

I need to change color material in the white clouds to pink clouds of "Volumetric Clouds" any idea how to do it?

[pure wasp]

That was my conclusion at first, I tried to refresh all my blueprints and see if I could fix thos world context but it change nothing

Unfortunately the solution proposed on this post doesn't help

[raw iris]

Hello im new to unreal im making a horror game and download horror engine at the start it has some guy talking how do I remove that audio clip?

[pure wasp]

It's a blueprint project ?

[raw iris]

No when I downloaded the pack it said start project so i clicked that

Im not sure if im making the game on the wrong thing and am just on the map that showcases the assets i might be

[pure wasp]

i can't help if not in BP xD

[kindred viper]

if it's in a blueprint function library, it should need a world context and to be static functions right?

if the post said removing it helped, then perhaps its being used before the world exists.

[sage tree]

I need some help, not sure where to ask because its about the editor not development. whenever I am using UE4, my microphone volume in windows is super quiet, and stays that way until I move the recording level slider in windows sound control. its REALLY frustrating.

I keep it at 90, but when using UE4, it sound slike its at 1, and I have to move it to any value, usually to 100, then back to 90, and its fine, but it does it again randomly while I am working.

[olive rapids]

Hello everyone! Please help; i bought a model from marketplace. It is rigged to epic skeleton but i dont need. I only want to animate with mixamo, i tried retargrting but i doesnt work. Do you know how to export the model without rig? Or have got any advice for this issue?

[kindred viper]

@olive rapids if its a skeletal mesh you can merge the mesh and it will create a new static mesh with a baked texture.

[olive rapids]

Thank you Marc. I will try!

[coral lotus]

hello...can anyone help me here. None of my Quixel surfaces are having any sort of displacement or tessellation at all. I've enabled Displacement in the mixer settings before importing my surfaces and I'm using the most up to date clients for bridge and UE4, yet I'm getting no displacement at all.

[analog summit]

Try this
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/872200/view.html

1. re-compile all the BP's
2. This is what a guy said on the forum: "my problem was due to a corrupted variable"

[sleek spear]

there are some assets i need in every project, i update these assets frequently and i dont want to copy them to each project after each update. can i work with symbolic links and directory junctions etc?

i guess i will try it

[pure wasp]

I try and I'll let you know the result

[polar fossil]

does the foliage system generate the positions on the gpu at runtime like decima, or does it cache them to disk?

[stray smelt]

any suggestions for how to optimize a large crowd of spectators? I've tried changing(removing, basically) shaders and reducing polycount, but the fps increase is negligible. I assume the animations and skeleton is the highest resource drain?

[polar fossil]

there were some good gdc talks from ubisoft on crowd optimization

they were using a lod system for the crowd and only had high quality fully rigged and animated actors near the player

they had a second lod with high geometry but low rig (no finger animations)

they had a lower level with geometry and even lower animation rig

and their final lod was a low poly version with only vertex morph animations no rigging

[stray smelt]

nice. I will take a look. I've tried reducing the overall quality (shaders, polys) to PSX-level. However, this actor does consist of several meshes (e.g. legs, feet) so it would make sense if that's why

[stray smelt]

thats sweet

[polar fossil]

if your crowd of spectators are like stadium spectators that don't really move from their seat maybe you can get away with just that

i'd also look what niagara could do with instancing those morph animated spectators

[stray smelt]

these are great pointers. thank you!

[polar fossil]

no problem

[faint juniper]

How are Element IDs decided for Materials? I need to switch Element 0 and 1 around positions

[coral lotus]

hello...can anyone help me here. None of my Quixel surfaces are having any sort of displacement or tessellation at all. I've enabled Displacement in the mixer settings before importing my surfaces and I'm using the most up to date clients for bridge and UE4, yet I'm getting no displacement at all.

[thick knoll]

Hey peeps! I am trying to create my own Conolution Kernel but for some reason no matter what I do it colours the entire screen (even when set to 0 scale) and blurs my entire screen the more I increase the convultion scale but this doesn't happen with the engine default

I have it setup to be a 32bit EXR, I know this part is working because I imported / exported the very same one from the engine and it works great, it's just my own custom ones that do this weird stuff!

[calm pollen]

does anyone know how to make a button that screenshot's the player's screen then puts the picture in their photos library on mobile?

[drowsy snow]

One mobile game that I know have in-game screenshot feature stores the screenshot in the save data, not OS level screenshot.

[thick knoll]

I feel like I have seen something in the store for screenshots

[arctic path]

50% off 25 bucks 😮 this is amazing. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/strider-animation-warping

[calm pollen]

like a plug-in or something?

[drowsy snow]

#fab

[somber rover]

Epic answered my refund request and agreed the char is in fact not rigged properly and going to give the dev 2 days to fix it or give me a refund

[pure wasp]

I recompiled all my bp, it did nothing. I trying to see if a variable is corrupted. It takes a lot lot of time

[kindred viper]

@somber rover wow thats unusual

[plush yew]

I need some help here please!
There's an object that when my character take it will be immortal for about ten seconds. How could I do that?
can I use a timer on the death?

[drowsy snow]

The screenshot are saved in the save data as to not prompting give permission to access user files and raise suspicions. Player could simply open the screenshot in game in fullscreen, then screenshot it by themselves in OS level.

[potent bridge]

Anyone got some experience with GoodSky?

[somber rover]

This is the 3rd char I’ve bought off the market that the dev claimed was rigged to UE skeleton and upon my refund request epic agreed it wasn’t

[calm pollen]

yeah i get what you're saying, thats honestly probably better since it makes the app look more secure in the settings to the user

[drowsy snow]

Tried GoodSky before, it didn't fit my needs, so I ended up crafting my own sky system.

[potent bridge]

@drowsy snow Unfortunately thats out of my own range. I'm trying to get a day/night system but it seems to not display the moon if I set it to have a day/night system

[drowsy snow]

Especially now in 4.26 has superior built-in Sky Atmosphere and Volumetric Cloud system, so yeah

[somber rover]

Good sky is pretty awesome and been around a long time. I remember back before it was on the market, u had to pay a monthly sub for it

[plush yew]

I duplicated an animation, how do I change the time the animation lasts (not rate, animation duration in seconds)

[kindred viper]

depends there are several ways. You could have anim notifies tell you when you hit the time you want, then fire an event.

[plush yew]

there should be a simple way of doing something so basic

[kindred viper]

that is simple. You could get complicated with it though like manually tracking the time etc.

you could export the anim and change it and reimport too

[plush yew]

like there is no variable "animation duration in seconds" or something?

[kindred viper]

Sure with a quick google you can find this page. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/UserInterface/Animation/GetAnimationCurrentTime/index.html

there are other accessible functions for such things too

sorry that page might be for the UMG animation time. I speed googled sorry but there is anim graph alternatives

im in a world of distraction right now my apologies

i would suggest anim notifies and fire an event which stops the animations

[twilit hill]

btw, possibly any news about ue5 i could have missed? is there a preview planned for around summer?

[kindred viper]

didn't you ask this like 2 days ago in here? 😄

[twilit hill]

about 10 days ago

[kindred viper]

theres no more info right now. You will know when it happens because the internet will be on fire.

[twilit hill]

yeah i hope, but "engine previews" can be missed by news pages

i really need to get my plugin stuff sorted out and it would feel a lot better if i can get a working set up on ue5 instead of landing in migration hell

[kindred viper]

dont worry about it. forward compatibility has been taken care of for the initial versions. I asked Tim Sweeney about this on Twitter

[twilit hill]

i hope ur right

[prime willow]

@kindred viper if i had a combat & movement system where different types of combos or functions will occur or would occur based on different situations like running/moving/jumping/grabbing an opponent like smash brothers etc

woould it be best to set this up via state machines

[kindred viper]

yes

[prime willow]

or is there an even better method for this

ok

yay

;D

oh also

hmm

ill look it up before i ask im sure someone knows the answer xD

[twilit hill]

also can you confirm or deny a theory of mine? out of all the plugins i use, the octahedral imposter creator is one of them but if i understood that correctly, then UE5 will automatically cull complex geometry right? so in "thoery" i shouldnt have to worry about ... LODs? or did i do a reverse-pessimist there

well cull is certainly the wrong term

[kindred viper]

im not 100% sure but that may be correct. However considering Metahumans are still setup with LODS, there may be cases where it won't be effective

[twilit hill]

yeah i can theorize about that in my mind as much as i want, they will just be theories

hope its not just a console thing

[plush yew]

in epic installer

I get this

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/epic-games-store-c73/error-codes-c100/eoserr1603-a7851

but I did what it said and its still giving me same error?

[near pine]

why isnt it showing cursor

[plush yew]

what do you want it to do?

[near pine]

show my mouse while im playing

[plush yew]

show the cursor in front of the player?

[near pine]

its 2d

[plush yew]

ok but show in front of player or what?

[near pine]

on the whole screen

[plush yew]

ah so you need to set it to show on screen fully

[near pine]

while im playing i want to move the mouse across the whole screen

[plush yew]

at the moment you have it set to nothing

[near pine]

oh

[plush yew]

like your setting target

but not mouse cursor

so its not doing anything

[prime willow]

@kindred viper if i have multiple meshes using the same skeleton

[plush yew]

(btw I don't actually know blueprint just stating the obvious what I see)

[prime willow]

if i retarget animations to said mesh with skeleton

does all of the other meshes sharing the same skeleton have acccess to those retargetted animations

or must i do this to all 16 meshes o-o

[kindred viper]

if the mesh is skinned to the skeleton you can switch the mesh. But the skeleton is what has the animgraph stuff targetted to it

[prime willow]

ah

[kindred viper]

so switching the mesh wont affect that

[prime willow]

so shared skeletons and animations blueprints to said skeletons

are shared with all meshes sharing said skeletons

[kindred viper]

yeah animations aren't mapped to the mesh (unless its vertex anims) so the skeleton is the key

[prime willow]

oh

wait what if i want to change some of my meshes animations

though they share the same skeleton

like my elf race moves more floopy and floaty

and the humans more gritty

and the deamon race more crunchy and aggressively

could i map this to the mesh?

[kindred viper]

you can add more animations

no its the skeleton not the mesh. The mesh is just a visual skin

[prime willow]

i dont want to burden you with the how too i know that can be stress

just the terms im looking for lol

[woven hound]

Hi 🙂

[prime willow]

hi :3

[kindred viper]

you can create several different Control Rigs and have that alter specific animations and such for you, but thats next level right now. Its better to just stack more anims that aren't logic driven in the animgraph (ie. they just play/stop)

[prime willow]

oh

so control rig can work as a mediator

[kindred viper]

yes

[woven hound]

Anybody have hum3d bus model?

[prime willow]

for same skeleton performing different animations in run time

[kindred viper]

you can use it for all kinds of magic

its like an exoskeleton

[prime willow]

i like control rig more and more with every day :3

[kindred viper]

but its got "units" which are just anim nodes

[prime willow]

oh thats cheating

i love that so much xD

its like a skeleton

on top of your actual skeleton

[woven hound]

It would be lifesaver 😅

[prime willow]

ive been watching videos about it whilst working on cc systems

[kindred viper]

yeah and it can have more "control points" than your bone setup so you can add things like tails, hair and such that dont exist on the base skeleton

[prime willow]

woah woah

wait

i can make a tail

and ear ears

dress up a model like a furry bastard

and snap those on

in pieces and have them just work

as if intented that way

just because

o-o;

[kindred viper]

sure check out the control rig livestream/videos there is a demo of a scorpion with full IK rigging done entirely with the control rig

[prime willow]

i saw

i didnt realize that was like

applicable to any mesh form

[kindred viper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP0C_8xNiyw

[prime willow]

sdfghjyrtesd

this makes me very very very very content

:3

can i save this conversation for reference

[kindred viper]

indeed. I did a good week of study on control rig last year. It was great but at the time it missed a few features that are now available.

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-beg-please-gif-8063599

[kindred viper]

you can retarget anims between control rig and Sequencer now. So you make animations in game and export it from the sequencer as an FBX et voila. No need to do the import/export shuffle for minor tweaks

and its non-destructive to your animations

[prime willow]

:3333333333333333333333333333333333333

well i neeeeeed to work with control sooner than i thought than

ok ok thanksies

ill get back to work now

[kindred viper]

no worries

[prime willow]

[barren ocean]

UE beginner here. Is it normal that I can't even open some big UE projects with my current PC? Sometimes it just won't finish loading the project (stuck at xx%). Other times it outright crashes.
Here are my specs: i7-7700 (3.6GHz, 4 cores), 32GB RAM, NVIDIA Gforece GTX 1060. Is my PC just not powerful enough, or is it a common thing?

For example right now the CPU has been at 100% for like 5 minutes and UE just says "Initializing ... 45%" but doesn't increase at all.

[kindred viper]

that is because it is compiling shaders in the background before launch as it needs some to render things. You have to be patient but if you look at your Task Manager (presuming windows) you can see under the UE4.exe that its shader compiler worker should be running several instances

So its very normal for this to happen, just need to wait

it will only need to do it once because it stores the data in a Derived Data Cache for later use

[finite lark]

Dumb question, how do i take the first element of an array?

there is no command to pick an element at index

[digital anchor]

MyArray[0] in cpp

MyArray -> Get 0 in bp

[near pine]

HELLLP

this is my code

[finite lark]

this one,

thanks

[near pine]

im tryna rotate character to mouse

[finite lark]

Halo 3 weapon

❤️

[near pine]

but the character jus dissapears

[finite lark]

alot of memories

[main ice]

Hello, I would like to ask for some advice for beginner, I started learning unreal engine few days ago and I am interested about blueprints, any tips how to learn, where to learn etc..?I will be happy for any advice

[thick knoll]

Is it possible to have the same part of a mesh display to material shaders at the same time?

[finite lark]

trying to make the camera looking a certein point

however idk how to

anyone knows a quick command?

[thick knoll]

@finite lark this ?

[finite lark]

to make it short... after sorting an array of enemies by theyr distance

i need to make the camera focusing the one at the index 0 that should be the closest one

[finite lark]

maybe, gonna try

[thick knoll]

it takes 2 vectors and gives you a rotation so it will make the initial object rotate towards the final object

[finite lark]

maybe this ?

[thick knoll]

yea

so you would take the rotation output of the find look at rotation and plug it into the new rotation, based on an event tick for testing it works ok

[finite lark]

so like this

[thick knoll]

doesn't look like you are using the same node, but if your setup works, sure!

[barren ocean]

Oh, that's very nice to know. Thank you for your answer 🙂

[echo frost]

Yeah, unreal keeps crashing when I make a new project so that's just nice

[distant cobalt]

is it hard to use quixel in ue4?

landscape etc

[dusky folio]

XD

[tawny nacelle]

how to fix this?

[plush yew]

how do I play a montage in an animation blueprint state?

[olive ginkgo]

Is there a channel here with some quality YouTube tutorials for small projects? To learn stuff like basic environment creation and lighting etc

[prime willow]

ok if i have a system like chip damage

lets say each attack blocked takes 2% of HP

but i want to have different archetypes of weapons

do different chip damage amounts

would it be best setup the chip damage system

than turn the blueprint into variables that you add to the weapon archetype blueprints

so each weapon archetype can change how much is taken or left from HP or would it be best to set up chip damage individually in each weapon archetype

[dusky slate]

Does anyone know how i can make my Screen space Widget hidden when behind objects? (without a linetrace)

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow ;O;

[drowsy snow]

Let me try interpret it.
So, every weapon have block ratio, like a dagger block 50% of the damage, a sword blocks 80% of damage, like that?

[prime willow]

something like that

where each weapon has their own chip damage falloff based on the attacks damage

and each weapon has its own amount of chip damage

or special systems that apply

like more knock back for using crudels/stick weapons

[dense agate]

Hay so I need help with This. When I paint a layer with another it doesn't compile even after the countdown is up. tried to wait, tried reapplying it after erasing but nothing. Can someone help me out?

[prime willow]

or katanas have less hit stun on combos or more recoil on block

as well as different chip damages for hitting blocked targets

hence using chip damage as an example

of base systems

that each weapon has different values for

o-o

i hope to god that makes sense

i know parent and child blueprints make this possibly easier by chaining blueprints lol

but should i set them up as indidvuals blueprints and plug um in as variables or do them seperate in each weapons setup

[drowsy snow]

I get it. Here's my method, there's a bit of math involved, but it's simple enough:

1. Enemy send amount of damage to player character
2. Store the damage into a variable before actually applying it
3. Check if player is blocking at all. If not, apply the damage and end function.
4. Check what weapon is used to block the attack, and get its chip damage percentage.
5. Multiply the stored damage value with the chip damage percentage. Example:

x = 120 (1.0 - 90 ÷ 100)
x = 120 (1.0 - 0.9)
x = 120 × 0.1
x = 12```
6. Once you get the deducted damage, apply it to the player, then clear the variable.

[prime willow]

ok that sounds really good

but

i mean on a blueprint setup base

if that makes any sense

do i setup things like hit stun in its own blueprint the function i mean

chip damage seperately

the same for stuff like knockdown or stun or you know these game mechanical functions

[drowsy snow]

brb making the BP rundown

[open eagle]

what would be the easiest way to have my character walk back and fourth, like have it walk to the left until it's X location is under -600, and then walk right until it's X location is over 600?

[prime willow]

do i make their own blueprint classes than plug them in to other blueprints as variables or make them all in 1 giant blueprint and go from there or make them in each weapon type of blueprint seperately lol

@drowsy snow also good format lol o.o

better than what i was gonna do lmao

[drowsy snow]

Well, you could create a "master" class where you create the basic logics and whatnot, including damage handling and something that Doom called as pain chance. And then all the characters inherits from that master class.

[open eagle]

cuz rn I feel braindead cuz I can't figure it out

[prime willow]

wait

so i would create a master class blueprint

and would i load in all of the functions i named above like, hit stun, recoil, chip damage etc etc work in there

and have it just inhereited

and if so from that point would i turn each seperate function to a variable to plug it into the weapon type blueprints so they can change specifically when such weapon is equipped or in its assigned use

or would it be better to set that up also in the masterclass bluerprint lol

sorry for the really weird question

its just something that keeps crossing ym mind and im getting closer and closer to having to set that up

and its kind of scary how easily i can screw this up

im using chip damage as an example

but this is the kind of thing i would sort of apply to classes and how that effects your characters

like warrior mage rogue or things llike roles be it tank dps healer etc

[drowsy snow]

All the damage exchanging logic are done in the master character BP, and then you can have the weapon BP store all the stats variables for the character BP that equips it to retrieve for the damage exchange.

The thing you store in weapon BP are mostly weapon type and related stats. That's it.

[prime willow]

so would something like damage dealt, chip damage dealt, stamina lost when attacking/blocking are these the kind of stats you would say in the weapon blueprint o.o

or the exchange/format you were explaining earlier

oh i think i get it

like if katana gives 1+ str

that goes into weapon blueprint

but the whole exchange for chip damage per say would go in master class

as its universal and applies to everything even if it changes via which weapon is used

right? xD

[drowsy snow]

Correct 👈😉👈

[prime willow]

so the latter is correct? :33333

is this also how iwould setup class functions like mage class stat changes and such, warrior stat changes, rogue for example as well

in its own master class blueprint :333333

because if so than its not so scary lol

oh wait i think id be the same way as weapons right

setup master class

than their own blueprint stuff for classes

instead of weapons O:

[drowsy snow]

Yup! That's the way you would do it.

[prime willow]

oh thats really really reaaaaaaally cool

dang its so stupid and simple at that point

oh

one last question

and than from there i just setup some kind of jankness where you can slap around the classes which change which blueprint applies to which character hence changing their class/weapon right? @drowsy snow o.o

[drowsy snow]

If your character classes are fixed, inheritance would work. Otherwise, if you want to have dynamic class change, you would have to define every classes in master BP, as switching parent classes is not possible in runtime.

[prime willow]

oh

well i want classes to be swamped around like you would in final fantasy xiv

same for weapons, roles like healer tank, dps and a few other systems that allow player excpression and builds

[drowsy snow]

For character builds, you could predefine them in the master BP for your character.

Btw if you need more assistance, feel free to DM me. I can't guarantee immediate reply, but I'm also working on RPG so I could give you assistance in more specific cases.

[prime willow]

oh ok that would be really good

hell i could help you too if theres something you have an issue with that i have knowledge in xD

[loud meadow]

hi guys can someone help me
i want to do a footsteps sound in first person character with bluepint pls help

can this work

pls help me

[dense knoll]

How do you export meshes with shape keys correctly

[dense knoll]

Just put a trigger socketed to the charecters feet than when overlaped triggers a sound

[loud meadow]

how

[calm pollen]

anyone know how to make a random number/letter combination? And then bind that to a text to show

[dense knoll]

in the mesh editor

[ocean anchor]

Where would I go to ask how to make a third person camera? I am new to making games

[open eagle]

there's already a third person base in the project selection thing

[ocean anchor]

but I want to make it from scratch

[open eagle]

I would just learn from that

[ocean anchor]

😦

damn

😦

please someone tell me how to make one or a tutorial, i really want to make one with the game i already having, already made a cool obstacle course and stuff

[spare kernel]

@ocean anchor please do not spam, https://learn.unrealengine.com start there.

[worn wasp]

Anyone knows why wheels are far from the body and not in the wheel position? The green cylinders in front are wheels. I used the Showdebug Vehicle command

[merry oasis]

Hello i would like to have a loading screen when i transition between my levels. To get to the next level you must collide with a certain Object. Here is the code that i have tried but instead of loading my level it just loads the loading screen.

[worn wasp]

There is no Open level node

It will not open any level