ue4-general

[kindred viper]

its not as rough as you think because there are lots of tricks in game dev to do things

[idle dragon]

I know, it's just... damn, I was so happy to be done with maths once I left school

[grave sphinx]

Also it looks like you are using an accumulation function to add the result to the world rotation. This doesn't strike me as something you want to additives apply

[idle dragon]

This sounds like the crux of my problem

[grave sphinx]

Look for a rotator or ToRotator function

Off the direction

[kindred viper]

@idle dragon I was tasked with a job once that had me spend 3 months trying to teach myself calculus and advanced trig. It was a horrible time until the time ended. Then I was like "I know kung-fu"

[idle dragon]

I'll post the video of what my dumbass aircraft is doing, it's meant to fly towards the cube, but it's... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrHFSiL3Y8

[grave sphinx]

I'm on my phone so haven't fully digested what you are trying to do yet

[idle dragon]

^ just posted a video of what im trying to do vs what the aircraft is doing.

But I'll try to badly implement your suggested solutions

@kindred viper Any suggestions on learning materials?

[kindred viper]

Freya Holmer's youtube channel

[idle dragon]

roger that

Starting out as a game dev is like the 5 stages of grief. Now I'm beginning to accept it's the journey that matters, not the destination -.-

[kindred viper]

it's not an easy job, but it's a fun job for some. I'm somewhere in between. The lack of money makes it infinitely harder for me.

[idle dragon]

Same.

Never stop never stopping

[kindred viper]

Pain is temporary, quitting is forever.

[idle dragon]

I've been waiting a long time for this, my little green friend.

Uh, wrong quote

[plush yew]

Can you animate your character from one frame to another in an animation to just adjust it?

like a slight head rotation for example

[idle dragon]

Sounds like you might wanna clamp the head rotation for a specific movement, but then again I know very little.

[plush yew]

its ok, ill just track the head movement with my mo cap thanks anyways

[tough pagoda]

Why when I create instances of actor(base class, with configured component) I get the result that both of instances in scene have the same Component in Ownership.
Anybody can explain please.

[kindred viper]

they automatically inherit the component

[broken heath]

You know these raster to vector , image to vector software features/ sites

Can i develop such feature in unreal

Like Texture to spline

[dusky folio]

hey does anyone know how to delete c++ class from c++ classes? i remove it from my visual studio and assigned actor but i still cant delete it from cpp classes

[worthy horizon]

Hey, might be out of line asking this here. But is there special blueprint functions for the camera actor for an nDisplay instance?

[lucid grove]

Heya, is it possible to count mesh size from top to bottom?

[plush yew]

Where can you set when you particle will trigger?

like at what second in a sequence

[dawn gull]

How do I get my displacement map to work? I have it hooked into the World Displacement pin and I set my tessellation to PN Triangles

[odd wagon]

I'm currently having trouble trying to put these closer together, can someone help me?

[dawn gull]

i already set up the tessellation

[open eagle]

does anyone know of the easiest way to make a paper2D sprite go nuts?
like I want it to float to a random location on screen constantly

[dawn gull]

set world location and then do a make vector and use 3 random floats

[open eagle]

I want it to smoothly float there

not teleport instantly

[dawn gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7LcHPxVfU

[clever trail]

mathew wadstein is a hero to us all

[finite lark]

About bullets; is it correct to make them spawn with a capsule collision ?

[clever trail]

Can use a box collision too tbh, but sphere fits better for me

Although i'm a linetrace lover so it's hard for me to say

[silent parcel]

I'm new to Unreal so I may just be being a dumbass, but in a beginner level tutorial I'm following the dude says you can use a Post process volume to change exposure, but it's not working for me at all

I got infinite extension on and it works for AO intensity

But exposure doesn't change at all no matter what I do

[dry moon]

Anyone know how to properly do floor with procedural mesh? Not sure the best way to do the tops, always end up with overlapping verts

[silent parcel]

Engine scalability is also on Cinematic

[cursive salmon]

Hi, Do you know if the localization dashboard also works on Android please?

[silent parcel]

Nvm found out I needed game settings on

[cursive salmon]

In my project it's not worked on Android, only on PC. Why it ?

[worldly lynx]

in unreal engine how can change the resolution for the game to 5760X1080?

is that possible?

[uncut sigil]

Hi Guys ! Question : My Finals are coming up and im looking for a nice exercise to train on. Any recommendations ? I'm studying for Shaders and Blueprints. Id say im beginner to intermediate level

[kindred viper]

a traffic light system

[uncut sigil]

Thats a pretty cool idea !

[kindred viper]

yeah im pretty cool.

😄

[versed burrow]

Hi

[uncut sigil]

hi

[vagrant hornet]

how much c++ do you need to learn to make a game?

[median bough]

Has anyone used transform and physics forces on the same object before without getting weird behavior?

[kindred viper]

You need a physics blend for animation to work with physics

[median bough]

Depends on what you want to do. A game can be built using blueprints exclusively.

[median bough]

If you’re just making games for fun do that. Use BPs. Who cares as long as it works and the players enjoy it

[vagrant hornet]

yeah

[median bough]

If you’re trying to get a job...

[vagrant hornet]

i do it for fun

[median bough]

Then use the bps bro hell you may not even need unreal engine depending on what you want to do.

But use what you like and prefer and looks cool

[median bough]

.> I kind of hate add force. I’ve been using it exclusively for a space game and it has weird behavior sometimes. Plus the numbers are huge. I think I’m going to switch.

Plus it’s very slidey

[kindred viper]

physical materials can solve that but they need to have friction against something to be effective in that respect. My general rule is animation superceeds physics. If I need a physics appearance I can always fake it with animation, but if I need physics interaction such as impulse to move an object in a dynamic situation, the blends can help with the right timing and effect.

You can also do magic with pose snapshots during physics simulations and interpolate as animation from there, and perhaps even kick in some physics at the end to make it feel like it was always physics.

[plush yew]

Hello
Unreal Engine 4.26 have bugs, it's better 4.25 about android games ?

[kindred viper]

ue 4.26 has been the most stable version I've used in a while. But all versions have some bugs.

I even run mine with chaos enabled which should break more than I expect, but its fine

[molten solstice]

Idk for Android Games but u can use 4.25, you just won't be up to date! (i still use 4.22 for some projects -> HTML5)

[plush yew]

Okay thank you sir

@kindred viper you know about how chaos physic stuff works? o.o

[kindred viper]

kinda but only in respect to destruction

[plush yew]

Okie thats exactly what I want to learn about I have 3 simple silly questions xD

If you dont mind of course

[kindred viper]

i dont mind. Waiting for a project to update into my vault

[plush yew]

C:

1. Can you socket meshes that can be destroyed onto actors like your third person character?

[versed burrow]

Hey

[plush yew]

Like a square for example

[kindred viper]

@plush yew yes

[idle dragon]

@grave sphinx Hey I'm just curious, could I pick your brain about that vector problem I had earlier in PM's sometime? No worries if your too busy or something

[plush yew]

Can those meshes have morph targets that are active when being destroyed?

Like square squishes or squashes per sqy

Say*

[kindred viper]

a destructible object setup for Chaos Destruction is a fractured asset which is specific to the system. So you can have an original mesh, which you replace with a destructible pre-fractured asset at the time of destruction, so I shall say yes.

[plush yew]

This makes me very content :3

[kindred viper]

Niagara can take care of any morphing of particles from the destruction

[bitter valve]

Has anyone else experienced lag with moving nodes in unreal engine?

[plush yew]

I could not find the answer to those 2 questions for a legitimate year xD

[kindred viper]

@bitter valve try disabling vsync for your GPU

[plush yew]

Oh wait 1 more question

[bitter valve]

I have it set to "Use the 3D application setting"

But let me try real quick.

[plush yew]

The chaos physics setup the fracture itself right I dont have to doany weird special systems for that right?

[bitter valve]

Still lags.

[plush yew]

Like can I import a basic ball and hve it setup the destruction

From blender per say

[kindred viper]

You can create an asset from your mesh that becomes a fracture asset. I would run through the content example and it shows you the different stages. It's really easy to see it visually. But its a specific setup if you want it right. It won't just work out of the box on a mesh. You need to prepare it by making the mesh modular so it can fracture more realistically

[past stag]

What kind of games is Unreal Engine good for? For an example vs Unity

[kindred viper]

@past stag flappy bird

[plush yew]

Okie :3

[kindred viper]

honestly it can do all of them, but Unity has the edge in 2d and ECS based systems afaik.

[past stag]

okay. Whats the current limit on the earnings after you have to pay the royalty? And what percent is the royalty now?

[kindred viper]

thats a question for google my friend. I don't memorise the EULA :p

[rustic panther]

how do you make stat unit not toggled

[past stag]

okay. so its 5% after 1million

I bought the licence for Steam so now I am thinking if I do my game on unreal or unity

I think I might take this as a change to learn ue4 properly

[haughty bear]

https://twitter.com/i/topics/news/e-117009860?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

[kindred viper]

@past stag you won't regret learning UE4 even if you decide Unity is better for your project

[past stag]

yeah I think its really good after I properly learn it. I have done some stuff with it but properly learning it might be really good

[median bough]

Its for a spacegame so theres no physical materials that the actor is touching or i would try that :/

[past stag]

is clang faster than msvc with UE4?

[kindred viper]

no idea. But clang support is probably used more with the linux builds I guess.

[past stag]

Because I am thinking whether or not I should build ue4 with clang or just use the default version from epic

Through it might not be worth the efford

[autumn stratus]

@past stag
if your game is a 2D game it's better to use unity otherwise, you can use both

[kindred viper]

@median bough Yeah thats a situation where you need to decide what exactly you want to be a physics impulse, because you can still fire an impulse of course, but the math for your movement will need to take in extra factors manually. Don't forget, in space you probably don't have friction either right? So it's not exactly too much of an issue

[past stag]

okay. Thanks

[grave sphinx]

sure @idle dragon

[past stag]

Is there any "fun" unreal engine tutorial video serieses?

which show up the cpp coding

[median bough]

gamedev.tv

you could try their cpp tutorial

it cost money doe

fun is relative lol

[white seal]

I currently have a rigged blender model and want to do something with it, but idk if unreal is the right engine for me. How hard would it be to simulate suspension physics for a blender-rigged tank model in ue4?

[past stag]

because I know basic c++

[past stag]

yeah those seem little too pricey for me atm

[median bough]

catch em onsale on udemy or something

[fierce tulip]

udemy sales are fake, they are always on sale with a fake "few more days/hours" counter that resets if you delete the cookie :p

[median bough]

Im mainly having issues tuning the numbers. They're all HUGE and it sort of loses value after a while.

[median bough]

Oh sht no way thats dope.

[kindred viper]

@white seal vehicles in UE4 require a specific setup but if you use the setup method, there is a built in Vehicle Movement Component with advanced suspension. However tracks on a tank may take some extra work. If you fake it with animation based on the wheel component, you can get good reaults.

[median bough]

Im trying to learn how to tune this system so it feels fun to play but the numbers are giantic and transform may make those numbers smaller.

[kindred viper]

@median bough floating point issues are a huge bane in space games because of the size. My suggestion is to downscale everything by a factor but you will have to refactor your physics values with it.

[median bough]

Ugh YES its horrible >.>

[fierce tulip]

or dont worry and keep building until you can convert to ue5 :p

[kindred viper]

I was just gonna type that

😄

[median bough]

I used the universal gravity equation to do gravity and the numbers on all the objects were so huge i just decided to make the gravity constant 5trillion so i could make the rest of the values smaller and manageable.

[past stag]

does ue5 fix floating point problems?

[kindred viper]

You can also do some fake floating point calculations with string manipulation via SetPrecision(fpvalue) in C++

[median bough]

Ok im interested what do you mean?

[median bough]

This question yes.

[kindred viper]

well you can fake the maths by setting the precision per function/class etc. It's how I usually convert geolocations to real world scale in UE4

[median bough]

By what using a constant?

Wait..

No you mean by using this SetPrecision(fpvalue)

Ok ill look into it.

[kindred viper]

UE5 will have 64-bit floating point calcs so fix isn't the word. It reduces the scope for error by a magnitude

std::setprecision(16);

that gives you a faked 16 point precision in a string

[past stag]

How would the world origin shifting work with multiplayer?

[median bough]

But i still need to conver tthe string back to float.

[past stag]

because for an example Satisfactory has 30km2 map with multiplayer without server

[kindred viper]

@median bough read my example, and excuse my sloppy code. I did this years ago. https://pastebin.com/At0gaR6b

it does work tho

@past stag world origin rebasing doesn't work out of the box with multiplayer. They probably slaved away for a while until they got something acceptible.

30km squared isn't that heavy a floating point error, although it's some and transform locations will cause things to jitter. But you can probably do some maths trick to avoid it

[median bough]

AHH i see thank you

I may use this.

[past stag]

but how would for an example space game with multiplayer work?

if it has really large map

on single player the map can be as big as it needs (world chunks or what are they called) and origin rebasing

[kindred viper]

you can localise calculations rather than use world space but then you lose a lot of functionality. However if you dont need that functionality based on world space, its probably ok.

[past stag]

but does local space have that same floating point issue if its far away?

[kindred viper]

no because its local to your object. So the calculations are essentially rebased to the object

you can then fine tune anything that needs to lerp a location

[past stag]

but doesn't something like raycast also require world space?

[kindred viper]

sure but like I said, you lose a lot of functionality

Or it might be ok in the circumstance to lose fp accuracy. It just depends entirely on the situation

[median bough]

@kindred viper Do you happen to know how to use a USkeletalMeshComponent on a pawn? I have on thats a turret from a synthy pack i was to put a turret attached to this object because USkeletalMeshComponent doesnt have SetupAttachment()

[kindred viper]

NASA went to the moon on the equivalent of a C64 processor with no quaternion maths. So maths wins again 😄

[past stag]

at what distance does the floating point precision became bad?

[median bough]

without quaternion? jesus lol smart guys

[kindred viper]

yeah when they reached the euler point of collapse, they sounded an alarm that rotated out of it

[median bough]

cool

[kindred viper]

@past stag around 18-20km

from origin

[median bough]

Never mind im very wrong it has a setup attachment.

[past stag]

so its 1 800 000 ue units (cms)?

[halcyon flame]

is there a good way to ID a particular actor in the level so the GM can find it?

without having to do getAllActorsOfClass at the start of play? or should I just accept doing that one time

[somber rover]

Has anyone released a git or google drive link of all the paragon chars already targeted to the UE skeleton with their weapons removed? Kinda like someone retargeted all the mixamo animations to the UE skeleton then gave them out?

[ripe basin]

Hey All, I got a question that I'm not sure I'm in the right discord to ask but it relates to the unreal engine.ini file so I figured I'd just ask and see what you guys think.

I added LogOnline=Verbose to my engine.ini file and am able to see users that connect to the server along with their IP right.

LogOnline: Verbose: STEAM: - Id: UNKNOWN [0x7F8C153FC640], Number of Channels: 1, IdleTime: 0.050

But the issue is that Steam just returns unknown. It's not a huge issue to me as I'm doing a work around to attach users to IPs but didn't know if this was something I can fix within the engine.ini?

Again sorry if this isn't the place to ask or not related in anyway.

[mystic holly]

Hey, is anyone wanting to just chill and talk while doing our own projects?

[inner sundial]

is it possible to have imported objects use Complex Collision as Simple by default on importation?

would make me not have to do it on 300+ objects manually

[fierce tulip]

you can bulk-edit them after the fact iirc, though keep in mind that per-poly collision can be a hit on perf.

[inner sundial]

oh yea ik, but i do not have the patience to redo collisions for 300+ objects lmao

eventually ill make collisions for the whole map so that the objects themselves dont have collision

but for now i gotta use that

how do you bulk edit them?

that would also be useful for texturing

[fierce tulip]

select multiple meshes in content browser > edit > bulk edit i think

[inner sundial]

ok, one moment

[fierce tulip]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Basics/UI/PropertyMatrix/index.html

@mystic holly from time to time you'll find people in the voice chats that just hang out, talk about projects and ue4 stuffs

[mystic holly]

Oh that's cool ty

[past stag]

What would be the solution if I want to keep the floating point accuracy?

Because from what I have heard downscaling also has its own cons

[inner sundial]

i could prob join in a minute jsut gotta do a couple things

[mystic holly]

Awesome!

[kindred viper]

@past stag scaling can effect physics so you have to adjust for it

[past stag]

does downscaling have any other caveats?

And what exactly needs to be done to physics?

like if I do 1/10 scale

[inner sundial]

damn

i said hey wassup and he gone

[celest creek]

wassup

ok silly question - how do I convert a vector4 to a vector3 in the material graph?

This is what I'm doing.. but it feels wrong. I was hoping for a maskComponent3 or similar?

[fierce tulip]

breaks are basically component masks

double click on it to see how its set up

but you can just use a regular component mask to mask multiple channels

[proud dome]

If i play with standalone more than 1 player, how do i make them visible?

they were not visible when i chose two players

[median bough]

Hey guys how can i attach a Physics Asset to a Mesh? Physics Assets dont have setup attachment.

[autumn grail]

Can i use a precompiled version of a plugin to package with ue4 source?

[celest creek]

@fierce tulip Ah, didn't think of opening those up. Thanks! But that still means what I'm doing is the most efficient way right? 2 nodes? There's no single node? Like a MaskComponent3?

oh snap.. I see now that maskComponent has options lol

[fierce tulip]

just pust down one, and if red, green, and blue are enabled, but not alpha, is masks out the alpha channel

[celest creek]

I thought I couldn't change it, yes got it -thanks a bunch Luos!

[woeful folio]

Hey all. Does anyone know if it's possible to remap the UVs on splinemeshes? i.e. create a strip where the whole length of the splinemesh is mapped to within 0-1 of the U or V range?

[inner sundial]

bruh

hes back in vc

thats cold

[fierce tulip]

maybe he had to reboot computer, install drivers, or who knows

@woeful folio i dont use them much, iirc initially they are mapped to 0-1. could be wrong though.

[plush yew]

is there any downside from enabling all plugins? xD

[prime willow]

[warm delta]

Hello, Make UE5 support C# instead of C++, Just do it! Thanks!

[plush yew]

hell no xd

[versed burrow]

C++ is well better than c#

[inner sundial]

do it yourself

[versed burrow]

Are u mad

[plush yew]

c# can go %$^$^$ it self

[inner sundial]

acquire source

[versed burrow]

Fr

[fierce tulip]

behave please

[kindred viper]

@warm delta c# is supported via a plugin. there are a couple of them. Mono seems to be the one I hear about most.

[versed burrow]

But c++ is better

[warm delta]

native support will be better

[plush yew]

native php support would be even better

[bitter valve]

Does anyone know of a fix for laggy nodes and menus disappearing?

[kindred viper]

well it has native support in elements of the engine, such as the Unreal Build Tool. So I presume it works fine

[warm delta]

no one wants header files

[kindred viper]

@plush yew PHP support is possible with a socket connection

[fierce tulip]

@bitter valve generally a gpu driver issue, try updating them?

[bitter valve]

I have.

[plush yew]

xD good to know

[past stag]

There is Unity for a reason

[woeful folio]

@fierce tulip You're right that the sections will be mapped to whatever the original mesh used, but that results in tiling textures along the path. I'm using spline meshes for my level map connections (think along the lines of games like Donkey Kong). What I want to do is reveal those paths as though the spline meshes were being drawn out, which will need the whole strip to be mapped within a fixed range.

I can always make a custom mesh with enough edges in to fit along the whole spline without repeating, but that will mean I need to make sure all my splines are roughly the same length. Trying to keep it as flexible as possible.

[warm delta]

😐

[versed burrow]

Unity sucks when compared to graphics tho

[autumn grail]

Does someone know another online subsystem than this 105 dollar plugin in the marketplace please?

[warm delta]

we dont talk about that stuff here

[fierce tulip]

no need to bash unity either

[past stag]

and I guess part of the reason they dont want multiple scripting langs is that then they have twice as much work to do when updating it

[kindred viper]

@autumn grail you can get it from the Master branch ) 4.27) but its not stable yet

[past stag]

yeah

[versed burrow]

@warm delta bruh just learn c++

It's well better

[autumn grail]

ok thanks

[warm delta]

I dont like headers

[versed burrow]

Yeah but unreal is better you know that's a fact

[fierce tulip]

@woeful folio hmm, if you know how often the mesh is used on a spline, you could divide that number with the tex coordinates. but thats... about as far as my suggestions go.

[past stag]

they are like using statements

[past stag]

its not always true

[versed burrow]

In terms of graphics yes

[fierce tulip]

unity just like unreal is just a canvas, and its up to the developers to make something neat.

[warm delta]

also C# is very well implemented and gets even better with each update

and .net 6 is cross platform

[past stag]

it depends. you can do same in Unity as you can in ue4

[woeful folio]

@fierce tulip I'd considered that. Might be an option, I just wanted to try avoid needing a material instance per chunk if possible. Will have a think, thanks 🙂

[past stag]

it just takes more work

[versed burrow]

C++ is faster tho

[fierce tulip]

@woeful folio would only need to run the spline trough a blueprint, grab the times its repeating, and update the material instance on the go.

[past stag]

you dont always need that extra speed

[versed burrow]

It depends tho

[past stag]

yeah

[warm delta]

its faster but c# is readable...

[past stag]

and its not always faster

[warm delta]

and probably will be almost as fast if is native

and switching to C# will kill the competition...

so its a win win win

[versed burrow]

Hmm

[plush yew]

new valve source engine 2 is made with c++ xd

[versed burrow]

Hes honestly almost got me to.switch to c#

[past stag]

Unity is made with c++

xD

[warm delta]

I mean not really "competition" more like obstruction...

[plush yew]

c# is made with c++ xd

[versed burrow]

C++ is just better in my opinion

But whatever u guys think

[past stag]

both langs have their use cases

[versed burrow]

Honestly all I can think of c++ being better is the speed

[warm delta]

I as "end user" prefer simple readable language, its 2021

[versed burrow]

Other than it being easier to learn idk

[fierce tulip]

im fine with any language being added if it helps developers do what they wanna do.

[warm delta]

as long as its C# 😄

[past stag]

game engine supporting brainfuck would be interesting

[versed burrow]

Nah man

C#

Isn't better than c++

[warm delta]

you know C#? used it?

[versed burrow]

Uhhh

[past stag]

its all based on personal opinions

there is no correct answer to which is better as it depends on the person and use case

[versed burrow]

Personally I already learn some c++ so I wo t switch

[warm delta]

you probably will not even notice it and will also like it

[past stag]

I tried to make something with c++ and vulkan..

it was horrific

after that I loved opengl

[versed burrow]

What did u try to make

?

[past stag]

some simple 3d object just being showed on window

takes many hundred lines of code

[versed burrow]

Which would be easier tho

C++ or c#

[past stag]

c#

[versed burrow]

Oh

[past stag]

I first learned c# and after some years I learnt c++

as c++ was some weird lang with too many brackets

[warm delta]

probably felt like going backwards

[versed burrow]

Idk what to do anymore

[past stag]

not really

[versed burrow]

Fr

[past stag]

I also ordered some c++ 20 cookbook one week ago

[warm delta]

just keep doing what you do...

[past stag]

its not yet arrived

I also like to read programming books before I go sleep :D

like c++

its little heavy text but nah

[warm delta]

yes I also like to fall asleep faster...

[past stag]

I can read some hours of it

[warm delta]

oh, you are strong

[versed burrow]

Wait

[autumn grail]

C++ is object extension of C which is the most powerfull language , it's not a language , its a super assembler , nothing can be nearest to the machine

[versed burrow]

Uhh desync

[past stag]

until I feel like I cant read more and eyes are closing

xD

assembly

[warm delta]

I can read 1 paragraph of anything at most 2...

[versed burrow]

I knew it was some how more powerful

But who knows

[autumn grail]

writing in C is like writing in assembler

[warm delta]

its "low level" language

[autumn grail]

C++ is just a little more delayed

[warm delta]

so you have to work harder

[past stag]

C performance is slow compared to C++. C++ language is an object-oriented programming language, and it supports some important features like Polymorphism, Abstract Data Types, Encapsulation, etc. Since it supports object-orientation, speed is faster compared to the C language.```

[past stag]

its not exactly like that

[versed burrow]

Guys

[past stag]

you can get more efficient code by manual assembly

[versed burrow]

Lets just stop talking about this and enjoy it for what it is alri :)

[past stag]

yeah

something lighter

[versed burrow]

Bro desync

[warm delta]

we dont need that level of efficacy today (in game dev industry at least)

[versed burrow]

Say something

[somber rover]

LOL just laughing to myself at everyone talking about C++

[versed burrow]

...

Y

[past stag]

🍉

[autumn grail]

The syntaxe of c++ is symmetric , i love it

its not that javascript

[past stag]

lets move back to unreal

[somber rover]

unreal has C++ 😉

[autumn grail]

🙂

[past stag]

yeah

[warm delta]

😡

[somber rover]

so much better than blueprints 🙂

[versed burrow]

Rr

Fr

[warm delta]

btw blueprints needs some changes from what I saw

[past stag]

.... I am not going to start aother thing

[versed burrow]

Blueprints are actually just

Ugh

Can't Stand them

[past stag]

they are good for prototyping

[warm delta]

maybe simple stuff

[past stag]

and things like movement

[past stag]

yeah

[fierce tulip]

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

[versed burrow]

C++ can also make movement

[warm delta]

but it becomes spaghetti really fast

[past stag]

thanks. that is great video

[fierce tulip]

poor code can also be spaghetti fast :p

[autumn grail]

the only problem with c++ is that time it takes to compile with this VisualStudio slow like hell

[warm delta]

yes but not like bp spaghetti 😄

I think it should be modified to look more like code

[past stag]

I am not going to use visual studio with ue again

now that rider for unreal is a thing

[somber rover]

I use to play text based games called MUDs back in the 90s, so quickly learned C++ so I could work on a few of them

[past stag]

althrough its beta

[warm delta]

flow should be top to bottom

loops should contain nodes inside them

that way it will also help people transition to code

[worn basalt]

hello

anyone is here??

[warm delta]

no

[past stag]

ofc

[somber rover]

no we all died

[worn basalt]

iam new in unreal

[inner sundial]

no one here

all gone

[warm delta]

#introductions ?

[somber rover]

congratulations and welcome

[worn basalt]

thyanks bro

[worn basalt]

just join...

[past stag]

was it good decision to purchase steamworks licence before making a game...

[worn basalt]

i want to be a game developer 😕

[past stag]

there did go 85€

[warm delta]

it happens...

[somber rover]

Welcome to Unreal Engine

C++ is faster and better than blueprints
YES Unreal is better than Unity
No you can't learn UE in one day and no nobody will teach you the tricks for free.

Anything else feel free to ask

[warm delta]

also you cant build GTA V

[past stag]

half of that is true

[past stag]

you can

[worn basalt]

ok thank u very much

[worn basalt]

i think that unreal is more powerful than unity

[inner sundial]

YES Unreal is better than Unity
subjective

[plush yew]

this will never end xD

[past stag]

with 3d yes

[warm delta]

you probably forgot what business model unity had before it got pwned by UE...

I never forget

[worn basalt]

i think that you guys all works like a family🥰

[autumn grail]

I don't understand how we can do a game with unity

[warm delta]

they still want you to pay to get dark editor layout?

[autumn grail]

and i ve tried it

[past stag]

no

[somber rover]

I tried unity for like 30 minutes, it was so confusing and boring, even the tutorials was terrible. I tried out UE4 and after 30 min I was so hooked I couldn't try anything else out and been with UE4 for 6 years now

[past stag]

...

where are you using that return value of that?

[past stag]

just drag the white arrow thats on the right of almost every node into it. From some node thats called before you need that return value

like you have those other nodes

but that "create dynamic..." has output

shouldn't you take it from there to somewhere

[versed burrow]

Imagine using Blueprints

Jk

[plush yew]

But I want to change a material only by timer event for 10 sec.

[past stag]

but why are you then creating new dynamic material instance

[warm delta]

#blueprint ?

[plush yew]

yeah sorry about

[warm delta]

just saying...

[plush yew]

creating new dynamic material with timer? Can I do this?

[past stag]

What is this option and does it actually work?

[kindred viper]

only one way to find out 🙂

[autumn flame]

Moves World Origin on Client to avoid float precision problems

iirc it doesn't really work tho, been problematic, tried to use it, but never know

[kindred viper]

^^

[versed burrow]

I dont understand anything here except for the first one

[white seal]

what are the best tutorials to learn to use unreal with cpp?

[kindred viper]

udemy course gets a good rep

[white seal]

is there anything free that is good?

[kindred viper]

sure. Tom looman's c++ course was decent. Not sure if its updated.

[autumn flame]

GameDev.tv is pretty good, it's not that expensive either, 10 bucks

[kindred viper]

You can use Unreal Learning Portal to learn a lot for free

[warm delta]

nothing much to understand, just remember what each type called and what it can store

[versed burrow]

Hmmm

[warm delta]

look for example values will be easier

[white seal]

ok, ty

[versed burrow]

Question

Ok so it's a variable

And int can store numbers in it basically

[kindred viper]

it can store integers

they are different than floats

[warm delta]

and its limited

from +something to -something

[versed burrow]

Ohhhhh

Alri

[kindred viper]

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=types-signed-unsigned-integers

[warm delta]

in UE C++ base types are the same as in C++?

[kindred viper]

mostly but they are templated for memory management

[autumn flame]

Different naming too

Some of them

[warm delta]

hmm

[autumn flame]

int -> int32
char -> TChar
string -> FString

most notable

[warm delta]

so UE adds GC to variables?

[kindred viper]

mostly

you wont be spending any time setting up memory management unless you get into some deep editor stuff or resort to native C++/C

[warm delta]

another reason to use C#

[kindred viper]

no reason to use C#

[autumn flame]

Have mercy

[warm delta]

its has GC from start

[kindred viper]

so does unreal

[worn basalt]

@warm delta in unreal we use C++ or C#

?

[warm delta]

and unsafe if you need pointers

C++

dont listen to anything I say, I am bad influence

[autumn flame]

I think it can be considered UE4++

[kindred viper]

if you wanted to, you could use C# but im not sure it will improve anything but what you know already in terms of workflow. If you are used to C# sure, its gonna be faster. But if you don't, is it really faster to learn if Unreal does the work for you anyway?

[warm delta]

C# just so smooth 🤩 compared to C++ (at least for me)

[kindred viper]

yeah actionscript 3.0 is smoother for me than C++ but there is a point where you have to take that step if you are a game dev. It doesn't hurt to know, it benefits the end result and it gives you external options that lets you use any code you want. Including C#. Just whip up a .SO or DLL and you are good to go

[warm delta]

actionscript 3.0 😄 I forgot it even existed...

[kindred viper]

that was my bread and butter for years 😄

[cedar wave]

The difference between UE's GC and C# GC - Epic has control over UE's GC, not so much if they opted for C#. So they can optimize it specifically for games.

[versed burrow]

Copy's and pastes

[warm delta]

makes sense

[latent sonnet]

How would I create an object that can only be collected once? Like a star coin in New Super Mario Bros?

[warm delta]

destroy it probably

[latent sonnet]

It recreates itself when the level is restarted though.

I did come up with this though.

Trying to see if it works.

[autumn flame]

If you don't want it to reappear after Loading the level

Have a Bool in the SaveGame, when it gets collected that Bool is set to True to say it was collected

Next time you load the Level check the SaveGame and if True then Destroy Actor

You could use the BeginPlay or the Level Blueprint for a direct reference of something placed in the world

[latent sonnet]

Why does it seem to effect all the actors placed though?

[autumn flame]

If you are running that logic in the BP of the Cats for example, it will check each one by one so all will get deleted

[latent sonnet]

Ohhhh.

[latent sonnet]

So I'd have to run it in the Level Blueprint? If so how would I get a reference to the actor? Would I just use cast?

[autumn flame]

If they all share the same BP, then it's more complicated

[latent sonnet]

Wait I'm confused...

[autumn flame]

So lemme get it right

You have cats in the level, if one gets collected you don't want it to reappear if you reload the level

[latent sonnet]

Yes.

Or at least, not add to the player's toatal.

[autumn flame]

You need a SaveGame Array of Bools

If you have 20 cats, you need 20 bools, so make it an Array

Each item you want to create a Integer variable in them called Unique ID or so and assign from the Details panels of the Level

Then when you load the Level you get the Array of Cats, check agains the Bools based on the ID and decide if to Destroy or not

Basically ID of item is Index of Bool Array that contains True or False

0 True
1 False
2 True

Etc etc

[latent sonnet]

How do I do this? I have to create each item seprately?

[autumn flame]

Nupe, create an Integer in the common class, expose it (click the little Eye) and then edit the instance of each one of them in the Level with different IDs

[latent sonnet]

So in the BP of the object I want to collect, create the integer, expose it, right?

[autumn flame]

Yes

[latent sonnet]

Then what?

Sorry I'm just a little confused.

[autumn flame]

In the actual Level you can click each collectible and assign them their IDs

first will be 0

second will be 1 etc etc

[latent sonnet]

Oh got it!

Then what would I do with that?

[autumn flame]

Imagine them as Arrays

Remember you have an Array of Bools?

Use that Integer in the Collectible to save its state

So get the SaveGame, Set Bool to True based on the Index from the Integer

Hard to explain but

If i collect Item 0, it will set Index 0 to True

I collect Item 1, it sets Index 1 to True

So you have a list of Bools declaring the State based on IDs

And when you reload you can check that list again to see the saved state

[latent sonnet]

Okay, I think I get it...

[autumn flame]

Example would eb

In the Cat BP

When i Overlap i access SaveGame, set the Index of the Bool of my Integer to true

On Begin Play i load SaveGame again, check if True or False, decide if to Destroy or not

So Overlap will set when you collect it to True

BeginPlay will check if it's True to start off

All based on the Integer that equals the Array Index of the SaveGame

If you need a visual example i can try making one

[latent sonnet]

I would greatly appreciate that.

[graceful sentinel]

guys, time to time, like every 20~30 minutes, I just can't see my menus and stuff like that. Any way to fix that bug?

[autumn flame]

@latent sonnet

You could use as Slot Name the Level Names

So each Level has their own progress saved

and ofc i forgot to do it but you need to plug SaveGameObject too when you SaveGameToSlot

I suggest if you want to keep it more dynamic to not create the Array Values manually but use Size to Fit

Edit: You wanna Destroy Actor too after the Overlap

[vocal nimbus]

Can someone please tell me why this is not working?

[autumn flame]

You may just wanna Rebuild, start from a clean slate

[cerulean geyser]

quick question, when possessing a different character(using bp node Possess inside my controller) my previous character gets in the state before i left it (for example, he gets stuck running while im possessing the other character. How can i fix this?

[plush yew]

I have a material and I want it for an obstacle for 10 sec with "BigEvent timer" only, after that I want return in normal material
any idea? The problem is that "BigEvent" there is in first person character and material is other class

[cerulean geyser]

casting to first person character?

[autumn flame]

it's cause when you unpossess it loses the controller so it doesn't process anything anymore

use the Spawn Default Controller node after possession

[plush yew]

what do you mean?

[cerulean geyser]

ill try thanks

[cerulean geyser]

u set your material as a variable in first person character, and then from the other one u want to he materials, u cast to first person character, get that variable, and change it

[cerulean geyser]

it worked! thanks

[plush yew]

how do i fix this, it is stuck at 39%

[pulsar mica]

hello

[plush yew]

hi

[latent sonnet]

Did I do it right?

[autumn flame]

You wanna set the first Item to True too and Size to Fit on both

[pseudo mason]

Restart PC or UNREAL ENGINE

[autumn flame]

Plus Destroy Actor after Overlap

[latent sonnet]

?

[autumn flame]

Yep, Item to True too

And after both Save Game to Slot

Destroy Actor

[latent sonnet]

Ah! I got it!

So each one I put in the world I give a different ID, right?

[autumn flame]

Yes, best way would be the first one you can collect to be 0 then next one 1, next one 2 etc etc

So basically in order

[latent sonnet]

Got it! Thank you so much!

[autumn flame]

It's some manual work, but shouldn't be too bad :p

[plush yew]

I restarted my pc and it still wont work

[willow raven]

Hello anyone knows if we can access a Material Layer parameter via blueprints?

[rancid lynx]

Do i need to correct these bone axis for UE4 ? This is the default for blender. but the Z and Y are swapped. I have no idea if this will be a problem for "Control rig" or anything inside UE4.

as you can see, the Y is pointing up, and Z is going forward. but perhaps thats just a visual difference? maybe rotating the Z would turn the head left and right? idk, ill test it X_x

oh.. maybe its no problem, rotating the Z makes the skull rotate left and right, so probably its just a UI difference between blender and unreal, im guessing X_x, probably corect.

[kindred viper]

@rancid lynx there is automatic bone rotation on export you could use. It can also force it but I don't trust either to work all the time. Just have to play with it

[rancid lynx]

thanks. I have no idea either, my blender animations look great when imported into UE4, but the control rig plugin inside UE4 didnt like the scale or something, so im trying again X_x

[kindred viper]

hmm that sounds odd as its usually based on the bone when you set the controls up.

you could just make sure it's running as x-forward, z-up manually

[spare kernel]

@plush yew give it time 😄

if your pc is not very fast it will take a while to compile all the shaders, etc

[tender parcel]

HELLO

[mental solar]

How can I move this folder? I tried 2 youtube tutorials, none of which worked.
They told me to just move the folder and open the projects with clicking 'browse'.
Maybe I just did something wrong, but unreal placed everything back into the first folder where I dont want them...

[fleet pasture]

Hello, any android unreal engine developers? I need help badly with my mobile game. iOS help appreciated too. Mainly ads, and in app purchases getting set up, and other things. PM me please!

[polar verge]

Player Controller is being specified in Game Mode. I'm trying to possess a pawn but also choose a new Controller class to use for this different pawn. I'm not seeing an option to change the Player Controller class to a new one.

Is there a way to do this?

[thick nebula]

when music bot for voice 😂

[timid spade]

https://streamable.com/ipg543 any idea why this is suddenly happening (was fine before)

im using ccdik to attach the arm to a socket

well the hand

[tender parcel]

i think its wrong socket

[timid spade]

socket is correct im pretty sure

theres no other socket with the name

otherwise it would just go to root no?

[thick nebula]

is there a way to mass/batch/bulk replicate variables?

[timid spade]

how many do you intend to make

you can copy paste

spam it

oh sorry i misread your quesiton

[thick nebula]

that's fine i'm asking for spooky in VC

[mental solar]

anyone know how I can place this to another drive?

[inner sundial]

anyone know what type of texture this is?

its name is stormtrooperbody_segoout

[obsidian nimbus]

it is multiple maps

makes more sence if u look at R G and B seperate

i think

[inner sundial]

hmm

im not sure i fully trust you on this one

[obsidian nimbus]

ok its a png

sego could be spec emis gloss occlusion

but i dunno

[inner sundial]

obviously its PNG but its metalness roughness and AO

[obsidian nimbus]

so you know what it is

[inner sundial]

now i do yes

took a bit of research

[rigid belfry]

which are stored in the r,g and b channel

[inner sundial]

R is metalness G is roughness and B is AO

[obsidian nimbus]

there is some sort of usual thing to plug in one of those channels, but ppl just use whatever 😛

[naive dune]

@grim ore So you helped me out with trying to connect to the live link face app the other day, the issue was in the phone's app permission settings. The allow access to local network was turned off 😣 just in case you were wondering...

[mental solar]

I have only 1 mb left on the drive, I cant even open my project like this xD

[drowsy snow]

Delete the unity folder lmao

just kidding

The UnrealEngine folder in AppData is mostly for Derived Data Cache, which includes compiled shaders for use in editor.
The one you're looking for might be in Documents\Unreal Projects

Also I won't recommend storing UE project files in C:, as it can get big real quick.

[mental solar]

thanks, I will try that

[mental solar]

if I will be satisfied with unreal, I will delete it... xD

I just noticed that the files I wanted to move were only 400 mb, so I can keep those. I only moved the files you said, and its working now. Thank you so much

[proud dome]

I have a stamina system set up, so when u sprint and jump it consumes stamina, but when i SPRINT JUMP, itll regen after the jump even tho im still sprinting

[dusky cypress]

is this a good scale for a car? 👀

[fierce tulip]

if its a car for ants

[dusky cypress]

oops

[lunar bison]

how can i make a task system that's in order

[glacial pecan]

even the latest and greatest editor scripts can't populate data tables, can they?

[mossy nymph]

its fairly easy to take a dataset and populate a data table with it

not sure that it can be done with blueprints

[glacial pecan]

ah... yes... so much neat stuff in Unreal can't be done with blueprints 😦

[worn basalt]

unreal engine is better or game development or Unity is better???

for*

[glacial pecan]

are you seriously asking?

[mossy nymph]

add row takes a generic table row struct, blueprints don't really know how to connect your custom struct into the generic one without slicintg it

[worn basalt]

yeah

[mossy nymph]

its fairly simple to do in c++, 10 lines of code or so

[worn basalt]

iam new so thats why just asking

[mossy nymph]

what kind of answer do you expect to get at Unreal discord? 😄

[stray ruin]

UNREAL ENGINE IS WAY BETTER DONT EVER USE UNITY

NOT EVER

[worn basalt]

Unreal as well but

[worn basalt]

forever??

[stray ruin]

UNTIL THE SUN BURNS OUT

[glacial pecan]

Ok, well Unity has very little rules. You make up your own rules, so it's easy to do anything. But you have to make up your own rules. Unreal follows Epic's rules. You get a lot for free, but if you don't like Epic's way of making games (very FPS multiplayer focused), you have to start circumventing them. So it's a matter of taste.

[fierce tulip]

Hak, you already had a discussion like this last night.

[worn basalt]

yeah but i didnot ask for unity

or maybe....

[stray ruin]

why does everyone always wanna know which is better

just start learning and find out

[fierce tulip]

https://i.gyazo.com/20f59703866612f99891e058251343ed.png

[worn basalt]

........

[stray ruin]

exposed

[worn basalt]

just kiding

ik ,unreal is UNREAL

[fierce tulip]

anyways, it doesnt matter what engine you use, its just an engine. a canvas.
its up to the dev to make awesomesauce in it.

[worn basalt]

actually iam learning game development

[vocal nimbus]

Can someone help me with this?

[kindred viper]

I could make you something in Unity that is just as terrible as I would make it Unreal. 😄

[stray ruin]

[kindred viper]

Give me a AAA budget though and it doesn't matter what engine I chose. It would be epic.

[worn basalt]

yeah i just saw some reviews on unreal

😍

[kindred viper]

Unreal is a way of life. Im sure it for Unity users too. We are but artists, and we interpret with our tools.

with that, my night of work is done. I bid you all good night 🙂

[worn basalt]

GN

[proud dome]

How do i make it so when i play test, the progress doesnt start with 0%?

[dim merlin]

Hi, ive set the collisions of a asset to 'complex and simple' but how does the engine know what to use?

i want my character to use the complex shape

[steel leaf]

Hello, I have a very simple question, I have a 2d pawn, I have the X and Z velocity, and I want to know what is the "speed" of the character, how can I do that ?

This seems to work

But I would say there's a node for it

[glacial pecan]

anyone saved a reference to a level in a data table? if so, how did you do it?

damn, I always forget... you get a level with a "name"... that's just a string... in 2021... like it's the god damn 1980s 😆

Unreal is so ass backwards in that regard... (I think even level streaming was a pull request... as if Epic doesn't care about levels at all)

[noble barn]

Heyho. When having Blueprint Merge Conflicts, using Github Desktop, it "automatically resolves" them, but actually just stores some LFS pointer file in their position (ie they are unuseable). Do you know how I stop git from doing that, or how I can tell it to accept "theirs" or "ours"?

[drowsy snow]

Do you even have LFS enabled in the repo?

[graceful lily]

Hey everyone,

Im new in UE4 and i have a Problem with my UE4.

Every time I work with the program, after a certain amount of time, my buttons start to flicker when I want to select them.
As soon as I click on it they disappear again, as. Ex. when i click on Settings, the Context Menu flickers and closed ...
After the restart it works again for a certain period of time and the same thing starts all over again.

does someone know a solution?

[drowsy snow]

Is your GPU NVIDIA?

[graceful lily]

Jep RTX 2070

[drowsy snow]

Downgrade your drivers. See pinned message for the reported as reliable versions.

[graceful lily]

Ah okay, Thanks.

Nice to know. ^^

[viral fractal]

eh, how exactly are we supposed to find anything in this abomination of a file browser ?

[drowsy snow]

Use the search box lmao

[viral fractal]

what if i dont remember what its called exactly

[drowsy snow]

The search bar is pretty forgiving tho

[viral fractal]

pretty bad UI design tho imo.

[noble barn]

@drowsy snow Oh, sorry, got caught up with something. Yep we do

(regarding the Git issue, whether we have LFS enabled)

[drowsy snow]

Well, my general rule working with Git is no LFS allowed.
Granted, even our source asset files doesn't reach 100 MB, so I can avoid LFS at all, but LFS have that kind of merits where Git isn't bothered to compare files changed.

[noble barn]

I am honestly not to versed with Git, but disabling LFS would mean disabling the syncing of files larger than X?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, any file larger than 100 MB won't be accepted. That's why Unreal Engine's default .gitignore excludes build/compilation footprints like the ones in Intermediate files.

[noble barn]

Ah. Hm, I guess only our map's are larger than 100MB

but would that really solve the issue? I guess I am more just looking for a command like "hey, we are merging those two branches, please take this file from the merged branch, and this one from the one I'm on" kinda stuff

I know that there is no resolving like for source files, I just want to discard the changes of the current branch for certain files, and let them be overriden by the branch I try to merge in

[drowsy snow]

Our maps are split into chunks (there are chunks for landscapes, chunks for dungeons and interiors, chunks for building, etc) and I let the engine stream in the maps and LODs accordingly. This way the maps only reach around 50 MB at most, and not exceeding 100 MB in size. Not to mention how I can be more picky about not letting the RAM usage explode.

I'm afraid ditching the LFS entirely is the solution, but merging one branch to the other usually discards unstaged changes.

[noble barn]

Thanks a lot, I will experiment around with that @drowsy snow

[rigid belfry]

how do i code a procedural room generator that doesnt involve nesting 50 if/else statements? anybody has any resources on the topic? free or not it doesnt matter, i want to learn 😄 cpp or blueprint, doesnt matter too

[plush yew]

is there any unreal engine course from start to end

yes

[drowsy snow]

See pinned messages for links.

[drowsy snow]

Maybe someone at #level-design could give some idea?

[ionic oxide]

scroll back #career-chat a bit, you'll see some recommendations

[civic cobalt]

can i change all fonts in my widgets?

[rigid belfry]

you have to change it for each text widget individually i think

[civic cobalt]

damn

[rigid belfry]

yeah. having a general font and game art direction is usually better, since it'll save you time down the road

like, for a pixel game, i'd probably try to find a good font early in the project and make some simple UI

[marble mango]

how many years or month maybe ? to understand this game engine?

[rigid belfry]

just to establish the art direction from the get go

[civic cobalt]

this would probably work if ihavent changed all the fonts already in each text box

[rigid belfry]

whats that?

[civic cobalt]

next time

thats a global font change setting in project settings

couldn't i write a blueprint editor utility that would go through all widgets and change texts font to default?

the tutorials on blutils are scarce

and it doesn't even seem to work for me

[marble mango]

unity editor

[civic cobalt]

wtf is unity

[marble mango]

lol

[rigid belfry]

how many widgets do you have?

[marble mango]

we have 8 widgets on unity

[marble mango]

is that unity project?

[rigid belfry]

it'd probably be faster to do it manually anyway

[rigid belfry]

just the engine? weeks/months

[marble mango]

realy?

really my dude?

[fierce tulip]

< been using unreal engine since I was 18, will be 38 this year and still feel like I only scratched the surface of each engine

[civic cobalt]

this engine is a masterpiece

and blueprints are so omg awesome

u dont need to look at that ugly text code

[rigid belfry]

i mean, it depends on what your definition of "understand" is

[marble mango]

damn dude really dude?

[civic cobalt]

i think to make a simple game u need 6 minths

months

[rigid belfry]

its definitely harder to be a one man team in unreal than in unity, thats for sure

[marble mango]

Bro i swear to god ,i installed unity and making game on it just 1 day i make my game on this stupid game engine unity

Wanna see?

can i send apk on discord

[rigid belfry]

again, you can do that in unreal too

[civic cobalt]

apk on discord? im out

[marble mango]

aight dude iam gonna try it

i just wanna using legal software

Unity is so much cracked out there

[civic cobalt]

@fierce tulip been using your nodes since i was 26

[fierce tulip]

aww hehe

[marble mango]

dude stay legal #2021

[rigid belfry]

https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/2814930?r=False&ts=637555424272804862 you could finish this in a couple hours if you already know whats going on

[fierce tulip]

we dont discuss pirated content on this server.

[marble mango]

Yea i love the decent graphic

do unreal 4 support android mobile?

[rigid belfry]

age is irrelevant, since you get better the more you keep at it

[civic cobalt]

im not complaining about my age

its just a numba

[marble mango]

what u age?

[civic cobalt]

an integer

[marble mango]

no its just a numba?

its your healt condition

[civic cobalt]

@marble mango r u a bot

[marble mango]

Nope

[civic cobalt]

oh ok

[marble mango]

Its a dissease that have nothing cured

[rigid belfry]

Mortal Kombat, Life Is Strange, Injustice 2, Darkness Rises, black desert mobile (i think) were all made using unreal

[civic cobalt]

julianz do u have any .exe files?

[marble mango]

that my game dude

[civic cobalt]

dude.

[rigid belfry]

you could share footage, but not an exe. pretty sure thats an easy way for a ban

[drowsy snow]

Yes. Unreal Engine 4 mobile games include:
Fortnite
PUBG Mobile
PES
Life Is Strange
Mortal Kombat
Injustice

Black Desert Mobile uses their own engine tho AFAIK

[civic cobalt]

does anyone know anyone who knows how to use blutilities? (blueprint editor utility)

[glacial pecan]

https://youtu.be/C9UAuH72z6M

I have a related question, though... why doesn't this event fire in the editor?

It's not allowed to call an editor event from a construction script?

[rigid belfry]

the construction script should already call in editor thought

[glacial pecan]

it does, but then I want to call an event from that that uses a delay... and that doesn't fire

[civic cobalt]

@glacial pecan do you know if i can change all fonts in my all widgets with blueprint editor utility?

[glacial pecan]

No, sorry... I made a user widget with my custom font that literally all my widgets inherit from for that exact issue 🙂

[rigid belfry]

can you even call delay inside the construction script? 🤔

[civic cobalt]

thanks @glacial pecan there is this thing FYI

[glacial pecan]

no, hence me wanting to call an event from it 😉

interesting... the event actually works in the editor, but the print never fires after the delay

[drowsy snow]

Forget that for a moment
I kinda misread that

[glacial pecan]

it fires if I put it before the delay, but not after

I'm guessing attempting to set a variable in an editor utility actor is also pretty futile?

[plush yew]

i have i56300hq nvidia quadro m2000m and 16 gb of ram

can my pc run unreal engine well

[drowsy snow]

Yes

[plush yew]

ty

can anyone tell me where to start from i just installed unreal engine

[civic cobalt]

start with mmorpg

[plush yew]

mmorpg meaning

[fierce tulip]

@plush yew check the pinned message in this channel, it contains getting started stuffs

[civic cobalt]

youngsters..

start with a simple project

like, make box bounce when you click mouse button

[plush yew]

i will try

[civic cobalt]

you can add impulse when the box is set to simulate physics

[plush yew]

its going up my head i will watch tutorials on udemy

[fierce tulip]

take your time, have fun, and dont give up :)

[plush yew]

nice motivation thankyou

[rigid belfry]

my game is a mmrpg battleroyale with different servers that all connect to 1 giant multiverse where it actually swaps from 3d to 4d

[civic cobalt]

ahahaha

u had me on the first half

[rigid belfry]

why its quite simple really

if 3d->set dimension(4D)

[civic cobalt]

i wish i would have a master server for my game, right now its every client for himself

vector 3 + float? oh yeah, im changing dimmensions all the time

[plush yew]

how do i move the screen

[meager stag]

Has Epic communicated their plans to fix the forums? half of links/images are still dead :(

[plush yew]

can anyone tell me how to move screen

[fierce tulip]

there is a thread about it @meager stag (somewhere)

@plush yew left mousebutton + move mouse around
right mousebutton + move mouse around
left and right mousebutton + move mouse around.

[plush yew]

thats so tough to move around

btw thankyou

[fierce tulip]

you'll get used to it :)

[autumn flame]

You can Right Mouse Button and WASD too ofc

[fierce tulip]

oh yea, and that

[drowsy snow]

If you ever played first person shooter games before, the controls should be fairly familiar.

I mean, Unreal was a first person shooter engine after all

[plush yew]

can anyone tell me how to stop while releasinf hands from wasd it ends smoothly while movin

[drowsy snow]

Reduce the camera speed

Or just use left mouse button drag.

[plush yew]

ty

[drowsy snow]

Left mouse button drag is for X and Y axis movement, but you can't look up/down with it, kinda similar to Classic Doom.
Middle mouse button drag is for pan around the viewport.
Right mouse button drag is for look around.

You can use WASD to move around with the mouse button being held, as you may already know.

[plush yew]

ohhh..

[versed lion]

Hey guys, do you know this "Control Rig system that epic games made? so I made a project built in with that system now I don't see the indicators in the viewport

These are not showing in the game viewport, is there any settings i need to check? didn't find answer on google

[drowsy snow]

Open the Sequencer.

[versed lion]

it is open

[drowsy snow]

Make sure the Sequencer is open, the mesh that uses the Control Rig is selected in Sequencer, and Hide Manipulators disabled.

[versed lion]

Ohh my bad I accidentally reset its mesh, by bad 😛 ty for the help btw

[vagrant hornet]

what does unreal slackers mean

[gray carbon]

So i'm having an issue where i have an MP4 video that plays in my game. When I do a build and pack and play it. everything works fine on my computer, However when I transfer that same build to a different computer For more optimal testing the video now just shows a white screen. I tried to do so research to on it but had zero luck with a few different answers from past questions/Forums. i use file media source

[serene drift]

why is it that UE always adds a player into the scene? I've set my gamemode BP not to do it, but it still adds a player.

I took everything out of the scene except for a floor cube and a camera, and it still spawns all this other stuff. even a second camera

[drowsy snow]

no player = no functional simulation

I mean, UE is a game engine after all

[serene drift]

yea, im running into the problem that I'm spawning 2 players for a local mp game, but as I turned everything else off, the game loads 3, as it loads 1 by itself before my script.

[knotty slate]

my engine is disconnecting from my gpu all the time its driving me mad. Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. thats what is says

is there a solution for this ?

[drowsy snow]

Do you use DirectX 12?

[knotty slate]

just directx 11

[autumn grail]

I can't compile the branch master , is this normal or did a make an error?

i mean is the master branch free of bugs?

[spare kernel]

nope it has compile errors, also #engine-source in future.

[autumn grail]

ok thanks

I just want EOSOnlinesubsystem

[spare kernel]

you can make it compile by commenting out the broken code

[drowsy snow]

obviously master branch is still WIP, of course it's going to have compile errors

[spare kernel]

or just pull the plugin seperastetly.

[autumn grail]

Ok

[spare kernel]

damn my typing sucks today

[autumn grail]

But i think the plugin has errors

[knotty slate]

i use DirectX 11

butmy gpu is in dx 12

[drowsy snow]

Are you sure it's in DX11?
Because the D3D Device Crash usually caused by DX12

[knotty slate]

it crashes on both versoins

My gpu just dissconects from my engine

idk how

[drowsy snow]

Something's faulty with your driver or GPU (which could be dead after half a decade)

[knotty slate]

i have a 2070 super. it shouldnt be faulty at all and i reinstalled my driuvers 5 times this week

studio and game ready drivers

[spare kernel]

did you run DDU?

then reinstall drivers?

[knotty slate]

whats that

[spare kernel]

Display Driver Uninistaller

[versed burrow]

Hi

[knotty slate]

nope

im not sure what that is

[spare kernel]

it removes all traces

and requires safemode to run

[knotty slate]

where can i find it?

[spare kernel]

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/

could also be the OS putting the graphics card to sleep

[knotty slate]

what does it do to my device

[spare kernel]

which can happen

change your power plan to Performance if its not already

and see if that fixes it

[knotty slate]

this one?

[spare kernel]

yeah no idea then i only ever get D3D lost when pc goes to sleep

[knotty slate]

mine never sleeps

[spare kernel]

i have a 3080 tho, but my 2070 super before never had that issue

[robust marten]

Am I doing this blueprint wrong? I want it to attach to where it shows in the preview but it just seems to snap to my Pelvis and also doesn't change Material...

[knotty slate]

where do i download the ddu

theres no download button

[spare kernel]

@robust marten your socket names are wrong

PlacedObject vs ObjectPlaced

[robust marten]

Yeah, my bad, I only just changed it back after testing other sockets. Even when it was correct it didnt work. I've tried other sockets and it does the same thing

[spare kernel]

but your not attaching to the mesh

your attaching to the root component

you need AttachToComponent

and supply the CharacterRef->Mesh

[robust marten]

I tried that one too and it still just attaches to the pelvis

[spare kernel]

show me you using the correct node

[spare kernel]

http://www.thegames.dev/snaps/UE4Editor-Win64-DebugGame_G7V9GW5nnS.png

[robust marten]

Actually I found my problem I think. My characters feet were ever so slightly going through the floor so it wouldnt appear

So why doesn't Attach Actor work but component does if theyre both actors?

[autumn grail]

I can't use EOS-OnlineSubsystem , is Steam-OnlineSubsystem stable/good/complete/easy to use alternative? Please.

[knotty slate]

how do you get a 30 series gpu nowdays

[inner sundial]

im trying to get this replaced

in the BP i have it set to something else

but it still shows the old texture

[autumn grail]

show full script

[inner sundial]

i think its some other script imma look around

[late loom]

guys i am trying to find a ue4 plugin that i forgot. It was some kind of blueprint plugin it was in github and was free any1 remembers

[rigid belfry]

maybe if you'd explain what the plugin does

[inner sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down-clear-now-its-clear-now-i-understand-now-gif-21256627

[late loom]

dont remember much but it was some kind of statemachine which made using bp easier. It was free and it was also showcased in UE4 blog

Its also a lot popular

and there was video tutorials about in youtube

[drowsy snow]

Being a rich arse mofo

[paper crest]

btw, when you dragged control rig to level, how to reset transform? 😄

[inner sundial]

it was another script, i figured it out

[drowsy turtle]

um, this is what happens when I open ue4

anyone knows what is wrong?

[versed burrow]

Thank me later

[tardy frigate]

Did you figure this?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Vatsal Anunnaki Gaur#1675 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[fierce tulip]

thanks Ponk

[inner sundial]

where do you change the base projectiles velocity and mesh?

[next parcel]

anyone know of any useful join in progress sync related learning materials? I have a vehicle which can have the doors blown off, etc. by server side/multicasted events. when a new player joins obviously none of the events have fired and the vehicle looks brand new. I don't know where to begin regarding storing the damage states and "initialising" them when a player joins

[plush yew]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/issue-with-epic-installer-cant-seem-to-solve-it-please-help/227375

I am still having this issue

yesterday I was told here to post in forums

but no responds on forums

I dunno what to do...

can I still use epic games unreal engine and games fine without this?

[next parcel]

yeah, I don't have it installed. as far as I know you only need it installed to work with Epics service integration and stuff

[proud dome]

how do i make it fill the whole screen?

[plush yew]

I am just worried it will affect stuff in the future?

[inner sundial]

le stretch

im going to assume thats an image texture

go into the HUD blueprint

and stretch the X value for size

or it may be the anchor point

[proud dome]

oh youre prolly right

[next parcel]

I can't comment on that, but all else I could suggest is disabling any form of antivirus and trying again

[plush yew]

another seperate question, is it viable to run unreal engine on 1 rx 480, I actually have 2 in my machine, but as far as I am aware unreal engine don't support crossfire?

[plush yew]

I don't use antivirus as I do all my security check manually like the virus scanners do

its just slower lol

[median bough]

Guys I have a particle system thats spawning a laser but the laser is always facing the initial direction. How do i get particles to take the rotation and direction of the main mesh?

[versed burrow]

Mate that's so good

👍

[proud dome]

🙂

[plush yew]

@next parcel I tried to disable pretty much everything and still dont work lol

[next parcel]

might aswell forget about it then, if you dont need it then 🤷‍♂️

[inner sundial]

How do you change the base projectiles velocity?

[versed burrow]

Is that for mobile or pc

?

[proud dome]

PC, also why?

[plush yew]

I am not sure if I need it...