ue4-general

[plush yew]

it was not highlighted so i thought my code is wrong

[lucid grove]

I did

[drowsy snow]

Your code is wrong when the compiler/output log (not to be confused with Error List) says so.

[plush yew]

do i have to write InTraceTag: beside SCENE_QUERY_STAT

[winter rain]

Hey guys, I'm making an FPS game and I edited the idle animation so it grips the handguard of my AK correctly. However when I transition into the walking animation it is wrong again because I didn't make edits to that animation. Is there a way I can "copy and paste" the edits I made to the idle animation and apply it to the walking animation? Or do I have to manually edit the bones in every single one of my animations so they all grip the same? Here's a gif of what I'm talking about:

https://gyazo.com/7b05e1ab8a48e965835816d5aba706a9

[lucid grove]

yep, thats the place i missed 🙂 thank you

[pastel laurel]

Does anyone here have experience with livelink? Every time I launch the editor I have to go into the livelink plugin and set it up again for the input. If I bake and release the project, how does that work?

[vocal nimbus]

can someone please help me with this. Stuck for over a week now :

[plush yew]

i got that

can anyone tell me whats wrong with this

Instigator

[vocal nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/the-muppets-kermit-the-frog-smh-shake-my-head-no-gif-4883582

[plush yew]

problem at Instigator

[vocal nimbus]

No matter what i do, update , still the same

[plush yew]

u are indian i guess @vocal nimbus

[fierce tulip]

#thingsthatshouldgointotheCPPchannel

[plush yew]

oh

[west venture]

Hey guys, hope you are having a great night, I would like to ask if someone knows how to cowork in UE4 I hear something about Multi-User or something like that but I think its more local, I'm working with a friend that I know him in real life, lives in the same country but his a bit far from my house, we want to create blueprints together and that stuff, it's there any kind of tool to do that?
If you can send me a DM

[crimson furnace]

Shows you how much of your resources UE4 uses, opened a level and my RGB stopped spinning on my AIO 🤣

[plush yew]

im new to ue, how do i set the sky?

[tame bobcat]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProductionPipelines/MultiUserEditing/QuickStart/index.html

Does this help? I never tried it myself.

[west venture]

I think that works like locally, i mean my friend need to be connected to my same network

[tame bobcat]

In that case, I think you can use a VPN service like Hamachi and send the IPv4 to the people with whom you're collaborating

[hexed cloud]

Hey guys, I had (and still have) a question about capsules and collision. A youtube video tutorial I watched (can I link it?) entails everything except for this one particular problem I had, and the author hasn't responded yet, so here I am, asking you fine folks.

It involves the VR game development in UE4, and I have a grab-able sword, but it's colliding with the player capsule causing the player to be shoved around violently until I drop the sword. A textual solution was commented, but I'm too inexperienced to comprehend it, let alone implement it:

~ So after the "Set Relative Loc and Rot" of the pickup object. I did a "cast to" the BP_Pawn followed by "Ignore component while moving" which was the capsule. ~

The above line is their fix, but how would I go about doing this? I have no idea even what casting is.. yet.

(I can send the YT link if anyone needs it, not sure if allowed yet)

Sorry if I'm a little vague, I can send screens or w/e to help. #learningcurve

[plush yew]

im like... floating here, maybe it is a border?

[dire spindle]

Hey guys so i was just wondering how i can find how to make my character go onto other animations if i got a weapond equipped or not. I cant find anything on youtube in blueprint and i dont know what to search on please help 🙂

[ivory stag]

How do you make folders there?

Thank you

[pine spire]

Hi guys , I have some trouble with my UE , my Ue Crash at start at 18% .. all is up to date , im lost dunno what to do , if someone can help me pls 😄 thanks

[rare jetty]

How do you make your level dark? I have the one where you control the sun, but when I make the sun go down like under with the thing... it messes up my lights... and they also stop working?

[light ivy]

hi im new

[rare jetty]

Hi new

[kindred viper]

I've been using VS without Intellisense or VAX since around ue 4.8. I wouldn't recommend it but it does have that advantage that I don't rely on it anymore. However when I do need it, I have to go deep diving into code which takes time. Unfortunately for me I can't seem to get VAX setup with my VS install otherwise I would use that.

@pine spire post the log file in saved/logs

[light ivy]

does it work if we copy unity script to unreal engine?

[kindred viper]

go away with that nonsense. You know it doesnt work

[pine spire]

this one ?

[light ivy]

oh thanks for the answer

[kindred viper]

@pine spire most likely. Its usually the newest file in the folder

[pine spire]

Ok , i make you a pastbin from the last , ty

[pine spire]

https://pastebin.com/k7YRaZgn

[plush yew]

im like floating... maybe it is a border? if it is, how do i remove it?

[kindred viper]

@pine spire there is nothing that stands out there to me that is causing it. But I notice you are using Incredibuild which someone might be able to recognise any error for. It doesn't look like the standard log to me but that could be a side effect of using Incredibuild too.

if you aren't using Incredibuild, it's at least trying to use the XGE shader and failing then returning to the normal compiler shader. Which may require building in your solution (in the programs section). As it's failing before it's hitting the shader compiler part, it could be the issue.

Also some of your paths seem excessive in length. There is a MAX_PATH value in windows that can cause issues if your path if too long. My general rule is don't put anything in the MyDocuments/User folders as the paths get extrapolated and can be too long.

[pine spire]

hummm, Thanks dude ! i will investigate with this information ! :3

[kindred viper]

good luck

[pine spire]

Ty 😄 thanks again

[plush yew]

ping on answer pls

[kindred viper]

@plush yew there is no answer because you didn't give enough information. For all we can tell, you are 50 feet tall, or colliding with something, or stood on a plinth. Who knows?

[plush yew]

got it, i meant.. how do i remove this net?

[kindred viper]

you mean the grid?

[plush yew]

idk... i am very new to this

[plush yew]

^

[kindred viper]

It might be worth doing the Introduction to the Editor course on learn.unrealengine.com then. It will only take 5 minutes. But for this purpose, you can click the Show button and enable/disable many options.

[dark relic]

Yeah I think some basic youtube videos would help you, otherwise your going to have a ton of questions about everything.

[plush yew]

ty

[plush yew]

ok, i just did not found that

[kindred viper]

those learn.unrealengine.com videos are great. Even the pros use them

it just seems new people dont 😄

Perhaps Epic should require you to watch the intro vids before you can download it. That would tickle me 😄

[dark relic]

On YouTube just search for Unreal 4 beginner, there loads on there and they are really helpful.

[kindred viper]

I don't really like offering that advice as often the tutorials use bad methods, or are out of date. With the learn.unrealengine.com portal you at least know you are getting the best practice methods.

[surreal eagle]

i want to use a almost entirely pre-rendered lightmap to have a beutifull level and high framerate, how do i do that

i actually saw it done in titanfall2, and i thought that it must all be pre-rendered

[kindred viper]

all lightmaps are pre-rendered. We used baked lighting setups to create static lighting. This can be based on high end lighting systems that don't work well at runtime. Including global illumination and complex ambient occlusion. It can be used in combination with dynamic lights at runtime so it doesn't feel so static.

[queen wasp]

Haha, I was installing UE again on another drive, then I was chatting in discord, probably the window came up "do you want to allow to make changes" and I was in the process of typing on discord and probably pressed n .. the window went away and now I can't open UE.. Have to remove and reinstall I suppose .. bummer.

Trying verifying now.. Anyways popups while you're typing is awkward

Ok it went ok, it said "prerequisites" and I clicked OK and all good..

[queen wasp]

had to also repair and install some more stuff. So hmm, when UE is installing, better not type.. lesson learned.

[cold osprey]

That doesn't apply when using Uefy with Rigify. The end result is a single root armature that works with ue4. Plus it works for bipeds, animals and vehicles.

[plush yew]

yo how come my instanced static meshes only have collision with the player and nothing else?

the collision is set to block all for both the instances and ground

[upbeat crane]

Hey there, little new to unreal (but not new as a game dev). What are the rendering option if I would like to convert the pov of a camera within unreal as a rtmp feed? Right now I simply grab the entire screen and create a RTMP pull with obs, but thats represent a limit of 1 feed per server. (I am using both Unreal normal built and Unreal Aximmetry Built)

[mental oyster]

So I just learned about MetaHuman. Probably a dumb question, but would there be any issues with trying to use the characters in UE4?

And it was a dumb question. Looks like it’s a plugin rather than a standalone app

[proper stump]

Hello, I have a 2D blendspace for walking, left right forward backward. In the animation blueprint, should i take the pawn's velocity as the 2d vector as an input for the blendspace? should i use something else? The base class is Character.. movement component is also available

[upbeat crane]

Looks like i have to use nDisplay in Unreal. In case someone else have play with it: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/WorkingWithMedia/nDisplay/index.html

[drowsy snow]

So another issue I had with Rigify goes beyond exporting.
We also had difficulties making clothes, because I want to have it modular. But since auto weighting put the ORG bones into consideration, this present so many confusion when weighting and testing.

Besides, I already have problems with international payment to get the pro version of Uefy. Don't make me talk about personal financial issues in this channel.

[kindred viper]

I've never liked either of those plugins. I would rather manually rig something then I know what it's doing and control it every step of the way

[drowsy snow]

Also, I already have much easier to work with rig of my own, combined with Unreal's Control Rig which makes me able to create animations in-engine.

[kindred viper]

yep Control Rig was a complete game changer for rigging.

[cold osprey]

The ORG bone weight painting issue you describe also doesn't exist when using Uefy with Rigify. I understand you prefer to you use your own rig and I definitely understand not wanting to buy a plugin. But all I am saying is that the issues you outlined with Rigify are gone when using it with Uefy. Plus Uefy Script is free for everyone.

[kindred viper]

Ive only ever seen the paid version available.

not that we should expect a free version. He's obviously put work in for this

I'd buy it if I was convinced it was effective and saved time though. I just haven't been so far

[last dune]

See #volunteer-projects you will like

[kindred viper]

there isn't a single unpaid gig that I will ever like.

[radiant fable]

is there a console command for undo and redo (in editor)?

[kindred viper]

I don't believe so but if you know C++ you can make one.

it's part of the Transaction system

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Transactions/index.html there is this too

also EUW can handle it. https://chriszuko.com/implementing-undo-in-ue4-editor-utility-widgets-and-blueprints/

[radiant fable]

tyvm, an editor utility widget is exactly where i wanted to place the undo and redo buttons

i've already built the transactions into my node graphs, just need to have undo and redo commands the same as ctrl z and y

[kindred viper]

I used it once for some custom serialized objects that weren't part of the reflected system. It was quite nice.

[prime pilot]

is there a possibility to import a json file and make it a struct?

[kindred viper]

beat me to it. VARest covers that too I believe.

[radiant fable]

i have an editor utility blueprint 'WkTrackButton' inside a larger EUW (WkConstructor) that contains 100s of nested WkTrackButtons as buttons.
i'm having issues communicating from the large to the small, variable changes do send, but functions seem to store in memory and variables contained within don't update.
i'm wondering if there's a way i could consolidate them into one EUW or if there's a refresh feature to get variables to update

[late stag]

I want to fully restart my game dev journey because I felt like I started off the wrong leg, what would be the best engine to start off with again.

[fierce tulip]

lumberyard or unity for sure

[late stag]

ok thanks

[spare kernel]

@late stag if you are not happy with Unreal, go find another engine. Don't ask people here what engine. If you find Unreal too difficulty to use, there are plenty of other engines. But asking what engine to use here, is only going to result in one answer.

[late stag]

im talking in general not Unreal or what ever

[spare kernel]

but this is not the place tho, #lounge or some more generalist game dev discord. This channel really is not the place.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Xlyoid#8692 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[steel shell]

when is spawn an actor via blueprint - how can i set the lod distances?

[cloud stone]

Hello, I've decided to give unreal engine a shot to determine if it's worth switching to. Are there any tutorials that may be able to help me get started?

[versed burrow]

Sed

[kindred viper]

@cloud stone learn.unrealengine.com

[drowsy snow]

See pinned messages.

[cloud stone]

Thank you

Also I was just wondering what your personal thoughts are on the whole unreal vs unity thing?

Do you think one is superior or do you think it depends

[drowsy snow]

I personally found Unreal to be way superior than Unity (I was a Unity user until 2016)

But which one is superior for you depends on your game's needs. Unreal has a very robust 3D rendering, tools, and optimisation, while Unity almost left you with barebone stuff. Godot is even more barebone and free with no strings attached. Strider is also decent option for C# game coding.

[regal mulch]

With Godot you wanna keep in mind that there is no support for other platforms

[kindred viper]

@cloud stone there are 3 engines I would use. Unreal, Unreal and Unreal.

[cloud stone]

I see 😅 I'm coming from Unity so we'll see how things go. Thanks for the feedback everyone

[mental oyster]

How bad of an idea would populating an open-world game with NPCs made with MetaHuman be

[kindred viper]

not a bad idea but it would require some serious LOD work. Like SERIOUS work.

If you had 5 or 6 in LOD0/1 on the same screen, most computers would probably choke. But if you had a limit on distance, or managed better LODs for near camera use, you could get away with a few more. Perhaps even a lot more. For distant chars, you could offload a lot of the performance drain with various effects from lower LOD, anim sharing, niagara particles and vertex animation, imposters etc.

[mental oyster]

Welp, it’s a good thing my hardware forces me to optimize whether I want to or not

i5-3350P and 1660 Super

[kindred viper]

I would rethink what you want to do then. Metahumans aren't exactly for the light hearted. I mean, its fine if you want to make 8 sets of custom LODS for every model, which would include several levels of hair strands, conversion to hair cards, another conversion to hair mesh. Then there are the morph target anims which would need to be cut down and anim shared per LOD. Modular LODS for body, clothing, etc. Not to mention the material LODS. All of which would highly benefit from the 8-LOD system. You can get away with less if you like, entirely upto you but MMO + performance + Metahumans = big budget.

[mental oyster]

It’ll be a single player open world only rather than an MMO

Closer to Fallout or RAGE

[kindred viper]

again, I'd rethink it. You will burn out doing one character nevermind enough for a full game.

unless you are rich and can pay people

thats always an option 😄

[static wharf]

I just rembered why I stopped playing with UE4...

[mental oyster]

You underestimate my lack of self-preservation instinct

[kindred viper]

@static wharf come back when you are over 20k shaders and Ill feel bad for you :p

[lusty plank]

Does anyone know how I can reference an Object Library in an actor blueprint? I can't seem to figure out how.

Might be a terribly noob question

[kindred viper]

when you create it, store a reference to it

[lusty plank]

Uh, like a pre-created one. like I put a bunch of static mesh references into an Object Library, and now I want to reference that library in an actor on spawn...

Does that make any sense?

[kindred viper]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/421736/object-library-in-blueprints-or-from-c.html see if this helps you

[lusty plank]

I've been trying that, but there's no function (even without context sensitivity) in my actor graph editor.

nada

Is there a step I'm missing where I tie the Object Library to the actor?

[kindred viper]

I dont know Id have to guess which step you might have missed.

[lusty plank]

Ahh... Well... Damn.

I'll figure it out

[static wharf]

The more I come back to unreal, the more I rember why I stopping messing with it

In case you are wondering what I am doing, I am importing a bunch of assets, mainly from Quixel

[dapper swift]

Hi all, I need help with tessellation and landscape resolution in Unreal. I can't seem to go beyond low poly fidelity on my landscape.

How do increase the subdivision or tessellation?

[kindred viper]

@static wharf perhaps you should just quit instead of moaning about it. Or, face the fact you are working with a powerhouse set of tools to do AAA stuff that might use your CPU/GPU from time to time, and make you wait for things to happen because not everything is in realtime. Then when you realise every other single engine is the same, you might come back.

[lusty plank]

... @kindred viper I compiled the c++ two more times without changing anything, and now the custom blueprint node for data libraries is working and exposed.... WTF unreal?

And that was after already having done that and having restarted the editor...

Unreal Entropy I guess?

[kindred viper]

Intermediate file ghosting perhaps. It can happen where temp files left over and be referenced and probably why it recommends restarting the editor

[lusty plank]

fair enough

[dapper swift]

Thanks, I've set up a sophisticated automaterial with Tesselation. But the Tesselation Multiplier seems to be acting the same way as the Displacement amount. It's not subdividing the polygons, but rather increasing the amount of displacement

yes, I copied quixel material nodes to make a material function in my material

cool, ill look into it

[spare kernel]

@static wharf please keep your moaning to yourself, a few times you have said "The more I come back to unreal, the more I rember why I stopping messing with it". I am sure people don't really want to hear this.

[next badger]

@spare kernel
"The more I come back to jail, the more I rember why I stopping messing with it"

@dapper swiftby default landscape wont work with the quixel material displacement

@dapper swiftyou can get a working shader here
https://80.lv/articles/building-pine-flatwoods-in-ue4/

direct link for those who cant' find one in text - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kIhDIu-4CG933K0jQca5fDLuulLZ1huY

[faint cedar]

You know

There's no feeling quite like the feeling when you're able to talk about a project that's been unannounced for ages

[chrome vortex]

im trying to figure out if i want to build the horror game i want to make in unreal or unity hmm

[kindred viper]

I dont even talk about it then. I take NDA to the grave 😄

[chrome vortex]

got my GDD setup and designing some map layouts

[kindred viper]

@chrome vortex Use Unity. That way you don't have to come to an unreal server and explain why Unity is still on the table. Or.... use Unreal and win.

[chrome vortex]

🍞

honestly both have pros and cons

bruh

[kindred viper]

I go by this rule. Is it 2d? Use Unity. Is it for HTML5? Use Unity. If the answer is no to those questions. Use Unreal.

[next badger]

@kindred viperis it mobile?

[chrome vortex]

its mainly cause scripting is weird to me in unreal

[kindred viper]

well i give Unreal it's due in that respect. It can do mobile. Although mobile with 4 point lights sucks 😄

[chrome vortex]

and not used to it yet

[next badger]

well, if you used to unity use one

[chrome vortex]

does unreal support FMOD?

i actually dont know

[kindred viper]

yes it supports everything

[next badger]

yes

[chrome vortex]

nice

[kindred viper]

I say everything. I mean in the PC game sense. Obviously mobile and fixed platforms have their limitations

[next badger]

nap time gentleman, have a good time

[chrome vortex]

c++ or blueprint

hmm

that is a question i need to figure out

i know a bit about blueprint already

[kindred viper]

if you need to think about it, blueprint. Then you don't need to think about it. But if you can code already, its definitely worth it.

Just learn BP first

[chrome vortex]

p r o f i l e r

[drowsy snow]

8K textures and cinematic assets from Quixel? Yeah, deal with it.

I mean, having a temporary spike in CPU/RAM usage when importing assets to Unreal is pretty much expected.

[marsh swallow]

We have mounts (like horses) in our project, and upon mounting you Posses it and then attach the character to the mount.

However the camera snaps from the characters camera position/rotation/etc to the mounts default location

is there a way to pass that camera information to the possessed actor?

[kindred viper]

Can you not simply set the original camera as the active one with Set View Target With Blend?

@marsh swallow

[marsh swallow]

When it comes to camera controls, I am not exactly the greatest. lol

Even after 5 years, camera controls still elude me. 😄

i always assumed you had to use the camera attached to the actor

[kindred viper]

no not really. It can be anywhere but its generally best in the place where you are controlling and looking from as a view. However in the case of a mounted horse, it makes sense to have the camera in the position of the object mounted on it. So if the camera is already there, you can switch to it.

[manic aurora]

Is there any way to have animations play while you're editing things? So for example I have this modular character here who is supposed to play ThirdPersonRun but only does it on run time.

[marsh swallow]

@manic aurora yes, you can use the variables in your AnimBP and set them which will modify your StateMachines.

So if you have a condition path in the state machine for bIsRunning then if you tick the box in defaults of the AnimBP, it will trigger the state machine to move

it functions on whats called "Preview Instance"

[chrome vortex]

i was debating on how to do the programming for my horror game

would it be considered lazy to base some scripts in your owngame off of scripts from the horror engine template?

mainly like the event system setups and some other things

flickering lights

[prime willow]

video games are a form of expressive interactive arts, the more you template from someone else the less imaginative and expressive said interaction becomes due to sameness or other means such a cliches, far before you start coding your game you should have it mapped out from bare necessary details to all means that will encompass the project and work from there

however it is an expressive artform so do what you do but understand there are consequences and rewards for following others footsteps and carving your own

[chrome vortex]

im trying to avoid using the template as much as possible, its just derivitive of systems of like the blueprint for "jumpscare a to happen when in a trigger"

and derive my own code from what i see in there

so basically following a tutorial but not directly using the template itself

[prime willow]

following tutorials to figure out how to craft parts of your game is fine tbh

but try to make it your own

the jump mechanic wasnt really a think until mario in the 80 or later

however there is over 1000 spins on the jump mechanic o-o;

Each one bending and twisting the function of goig up into so many varations that each game feels unique with their jump systems for the most part

[drowsy snow]

And yeah, to be fair horror games aren't known for their complicated mechanics, compared to RPGs or action shooters.

[chrome vortex]

i am firstly a environmental and sound design artist, programming is usually my weakest ability so im just like trying to figure out to have a simpler system in place for when i have triggers/puzzles

Plus working on the project alone is tough

i cant get stuff 3d modeled, or programmed by someone without spending money, which is especially hard since my budget is basically 50 bucks

Im probably gonna have horrorengine open on one window and my own project opened in another, and learn how it works from the blueprints so i can derive events systems in place to mine

which is pretty much... a step by step tutorial except a bit more work

Like derivative work as a one person team always makes me contemplate "is this going to be lazily designed" since I don't have the time to model everything by hand

[manic aurora]

Thanks! I'll test that out right now

[chrome vortex]

Honestly, i feel like i could probably do a much better job of this game in a gamejam(then refining off of it post jam)

[vernal dock]

Can someone tell me why i would use a blueprint with a public data asset vs just a blueprint for creating different objects

[plush yew]

Ok guys I have a question. I have started to use Unreal in my beginner dev days, then I moved to Unity for some reason, can't really remember, having ai issues over there so I figured I'd switch back here, but my problem is with UMG, should I switch anyway and just figure out UMG or spare the trouble?

[vernal dock]

umg seems more complicated then it actually is

its pretty straightforward

[plush yew]

Well see what I wanted to do with it is put a image behind some text and make the image scale on the x axis to fit the text

[vernal dock]

umg works in layers so put the image before the text

[plush yew]

yeah i get that part

[vernal dock]

there are a ton of tutorials for it look on youtube for umg tutorials

[plush yew]

just having trouble scaling to fit the text

but ok

[vernal dock]

have u tried using horizontal box?

im not really sure im going off memory and im not at my work machine

[plush yew]

no i have not, but I do plan on having the text have multiple lines, so I need the image to scare on the y if there is another line

scale*

[mental oyster]

Should I give Human Generator (BlenderMarket) a try or just wait for access to MetaHuman

...and I’m just now seeing the price

[plush yew]

Is MetaHuman gonna be free?

[mental oyster]

Well shit

[mental oyster]

No clue

[drowsy snow]

Free for Unreal Engine users obviously.

[plush yew]

Oh, is that confirmed, or are you just guessing?

[drowsy snow]

Confirmed.
I'm one of the first batch of users who tried it on day one of the early access.

[plush yew]

ah. where's the link to sign up?

[clever marsh]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/early-access-to-metahuman-creator-is-now-available?sessionInvalidated=true

click find out more and request access

yo what am I doing wrong here? This is my first unreal engine game.

[plush yew]

Just a side note @clever marsh but for your first game, you're making a realistic game?

I wanna be a low poly dev

So I'm not going the whole story driven long game route

[clever marsh]

I have alot of Unity experience, thought why not lol

[plush yew]

Which would you say was easier? You're using UE4 so I think I already know what you're gonna say

[clever marsh]

UE4

lmao

[plush yew]

I ditched Unity for AI navmesh issues

[clever marsh]

blueprint is alot faster than typing out C#

[plush yew]

true that

[clever marsh]

and i hated missing a semi colon and spending 3hrs finding the problem

but yeah I have no idea what this problem is and it's pretty annoying

[drowsy snow]

Unreal also has better optimisation so that's that/

[plush yew]

Ok

ONE THING I hated with Unreal

ONE THING

The newer latest versions would kind of bug out like a graphics bug and I would have to restart the engine

I'm talking like I would open up a menu, it would close, and repeat until I restarted UE4

[drowsy snow]

If you use NVIDIA GPU, see pinned message.

[plush yew]

Yeah but one problem

I want newer driver to game good

Or will downgrading not hinder gaming?

[drowsy snow]

Downgrading shouldn't affect your games.

[plush yew]

Ok and do you know if downgrading is confirmed to work, or is it sort of a try it out thing?

[clever marsh]

yo do you guys know how to fix this, i tried to do it but i really dont understand why I can't move it

[sharp crest]

How do I get a random vector from stream?

Random unit vector seems to give the points around a sphere or something

And I can't use random float 3 times because I only have 1 seed and I can't figure out how to get 3 unique seeds from it

[stray ruin]

if you mean move the explosion then just click on it in the bar and check attached box and choose socket name to attach to

[clever marsh]

is there an option for the gun lol, the highest think i see is the hand

nvm i got it

thanks for the simple answer

[stray ruin]

np

[plush yew]

hi. i tried to make a c++ class inherited from SpectatorPawn but it says

Successfully added class 'SpectatorCharacter', however you must recompile the 'FirstPersonShooter' module before it will appear in the Content Browser. Failed to automatically hot reload the 'FirstPersonShooter' module. Would you like to open the Output Log to see more details?

[frosty veldt]

Ok, was about to say I guess Max Grapple Distance is about 10,000.0 or so? What about printing the actual normalized values themselves, before multiplication? As long as you are fully aware of the data values at each step, you can work out the issue

[fleet scroll]

is there a way to just disable the vault cache?

[gleaming umbra]

please can anyone tell how to export metahumans to unreal engine

[tight needle]

hELP ME

[worn copper]

Create metahuman and you can export that metahuman frkm Quexel Bridge

[plush yew]

can anyone help on this?

[mental oyster]

Unreal Tournament but every HUD element is a .jpeg

[kind dew]

Can anyone explain why this does not do anything to the character:

but this does:

top is called from a projectile on hit, bottom is called in the character that's being launched itself

[vernal dock]

my guess is simulate physics isnt enabled on the enemy?

[kind dew]

but the character is the same

the BP_MasterEnemy on beginplay -> works
Calling LaunchCharacter on BP_MasterEnemy from a different blueprint -> doesn't work

[vernal dock]

where are you calling onhitenemy?

[kind dew]

what's weird is i even overrode the "onLaunched" event in the character blueprint and just called a simple print string. it prints

[grim seal]

Yea, that actually helped me, i solved the issue after printing all the values and figured out a solution. Thank you!

[vernal dock]

can u send me a screenshot where u are calling onhitenemy

[strong crag]

Hey, I got a problem. I set my texture pool size to 1.5 GB and now the Project I was working on keeps throwing the Ran Out of Video Memory Error and shuts down UE4.

I opened up the Content Examples Project and it seems fine. Where would I find the .ini file to edit that and put it back to a reasonable size so it doesn't keep kicking me out?

[main fox]

Hi everyone, bit of a trivial question here. I am new to game development and teaching myself with the help of some very helpful people. I can't seem to wrap my head around this one however. My pitch that I am setting is based off of the world rather than the pitch of my camera movement which is what I am intending to do. How would I go about achieving this?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/804142836710768700/840777313921531915/Capture.PNG

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/804142836710768700/840777221311430706/Capture.PNG

[restive yarrow]

why is primitive component not showing up when i search it?

[ionic geyser]

I'm tying to upload a file to ocules app lab and it keeps asking me to change something in the metadata file, I have never worked with android before. Is there anyone that could help me?

[sweet axle]

Can someone point me int the direction of finding info on how to implement this animation into my character. i can only find ropeswinging and although they're similar the maths will be totally different.

[topaz kelp]

have you gone through the UE4 specific steps for app manifests here? https://developer.oculus.com/distribute/publish-mobile-manifest/#specs

[craggy umbra]

can anyone point me in the direction to look for how much real time tutoring costs?

im too much of a retard to follow along these tutorials

because questions pop up and i cant get then answered in real time

it just leads to frustration

[main pewter]

if I have a uv unwrapped plane and want to assign a material that has color A on the foreground and color/texture B on the background of the plane - how could I do that?
I thought about checking double sideded in the mat and then gernerate somehow uvs in the material to "wrap" around with one color on each side. any ideas?

[drowsy snow]

You can "solidifying" or adding thiccness of your mesh in your DCC software, and assign the UV map or material slot accordingly.

[main pewter]

I know but I don't want to go this extrastep (its a simplified example what I want to do). I'm pretty sure it can be done in shader.

[drowsy snow]

Maybe try come up with your own HLSL code or USF code to check the face's normal direction, or try flipping it with Vertex Normal node somehow.

[main pewter]

TwoSidedTexturing Node is all I need 😄
UE is so easy - when you know what you're looking for 😉

[drowsy snow]

Huh, didn't know about that one node.
Never do two sided texturing in my practical uses. :man_shrugging:

[main pewter]

I also normally don't - but for a virtual VR Showroom you want so save every geo and drawcall you can - even if thats only a backplane - but if you have >1000 of that actors in your scene it sums up quite good - and it's a good place to hide some marketing logos as well 😄

[drowsy snow]

I admit, I can't stomach VR, so when people go "this is for VR stuff", that's where my knowledge stops.

[lapis plinth]

Hey guys, i need to play a sound when i interact with an actor, i need it to be played fully before i can play it again, how can i do once this then wait for it to finish to reset it ? Thanks

[gritty spoke]

Hey guys! hope you are all doing well! Just got quick question, is there a way to calculate possible impact point of two actors if I know forward vectors and speed of them?

[drowsy snow]

If it's for sound or damage based on speed, you could simply get the hit impulse on hit.

[gritty spoke]

it's for navigation, so I need to calculate location of impact point before hit impulse happens

[drowsy snow]

You could do line trace with length depending on the velocity.

[gritty spoke]

line trace sounds like a good trick, I will give a try, thanks for directing me 😁

[gleaming umbra]

i know that and i have made a metahuman trying to export it to unreal engine and having it opened downloaded it as directed in the documentation yet i cant export it

[main pewter]

it sais check your logs. whats in there?

[gleaming umbra]

i cant understand what is written there should i send my log files here

[vernal dock]

can someone tell me the difference between using a data set on an actor instead of creating child actors

data asset* not data set

ill give an example to anyone willing to explain it to me

[drowsy snow]

Data asset or data tables?

[vernal dock]

data assets

[vernal dock]

so my thing is for health pick ups...i want to have a varied healthpick up system...so my data asset contains staticmesh healing strength and pickup sound

[azure wharf]

Hey, quick question about DLC/packaging. Is there a way to package a sublevel loaded by blueprint (this is a sublevel from a map that is in normal version of the game) with DLC pak?
By default, If I have main level and sub levels in DLCs' folder, then both of them are cooked/packaged into a single dlc pak, but if the main level is in normal version of the game, then the sub level gets packaged along with it, even though it is still in DLCs' folder (I guess the reference from being included as sublevel causes it to get packaged as well)

E.g. in this scenario, MainLevel_DLC_Sublevel is packaged with MainLevel into the main pak file, where as rest of the content is packaged into dlc pak file

[hardy nacelle]

Can I use both Chaos and Psychx simultanously? (Chaos for 4 wheeled, and Psychx for others)

[drowsy snow]

You can, although it may cause performance issue due to multiple physics solver going on at the same time.

It's not hurt to try use both simultaneously though.

[vernal dock]

hoodie you see my example i sent ya

[sweet axle]

you have to have an unreal project open for it to export.

nvm, i see you do have it open. maybe it has something to do with account linking

[vernal dock]

can someone please explain to me why i would use a data asset on an actor as apposed to creating a child actor instead

i will explain further if someone is willing to explain it to me

[topaz kelp]

If you're making several types of pickups with different behaviours/scripts, then id go with actor

[vernal dock]

thanks neobab

[topaz kelp]

data assets are usefull for simply storing data and making it easy for designers to edit

[vernal dock]

yeah thats why i am using that so my designer can create different health packs

so he only has to change 3 variables the mesh the pickup sound and the healing power

[topaz kelp]

sounds like a good fit then

[vernal dock]

ok cool

[river crypt]

hello! real quick question: to package for iOS do I need a mac for that?

seems... stupid

[drowsy snow]

This is basically Apple.

[ruby crystal]

Hello, i am currently making a racing multiplayer splitscreen game. I have set up a checkpoint system where you have 3 checkpoints on the map. The first one is at the startline and the second one in the middle of the course and the last one on the finish line. When you drive through checkpoint 1, 2 and 3, a win widget opens at the screen of the player that drives through it that says "you win", but how can i make it say something like" 1st place" for the first player that drives through the finish line and 2nd place for the second player that drives through etc. I assume it has something to with an overlap array of some sort but i'm still pretty new to blueprints. Anyone willing to say what nodes i need to use?

[charred stirrup]

Hello. Why, when exporting a model from the engine and then loading it into the 3D editor, the fabric between the legs disappears. As I understand it, the fabric is made separately from the character model and is somehow added in the engine, the question is, how can I add it as well? Thank you.

[fallow hornet]

is there a way to control the variant manager in sequencer, ie key a frame to turn on a variant?

[kindred viper]

@fallow hornet event tracks. However sequencer needs a reference from the world, so you might have to have a blueprint in the world that manages the events.

[echo phoenix]

Hi all I just made this building in maya and when i export my mesh with a multi Lambert material in fbx and import in UE4 all my material are black. If someone can help me it will be really really cool ! Thanks

[kindred viper]

@echo phoenix it wont work. You need to remake the material in UE4

[drowsy snow]

If you make materials in Maya, it wont work.

[sweet axle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vA21Sy3L6w 2 free months at skillshare in the comments section for first 1000 likes. currently at 648 likes
[5:18 PM]
was looking for references for running cinematics and found it.

[echo phoenix]

@drowsy snow @kindred viper Thanks for your answer I just see that even if I put Megascan material all my normal have to be fixed 😦

Strange problem

[sweet axle]

https://youtu.be/9vph7ANlp5U

[echo phoenix]

@sweet axle Thanks for your link I just watch it before did this mesh it already work for another geometry but when i do this new geometry it have some black material surface I don't understand because these too geometry have the same material

[sweet axle]

Its been awhile since i used maya but you must just check that all your faces are facing the right direction. On the top look for the surfaces tab and then i think its the first 2 or 3 from the dropdown. Really has been awhile but thats where i would check first and then move from there. Never actually imported anything from maya into unreal myself but yeah, the materials should import properly if everything is in order

[kindred viper]

not all materials are created equally.

[echo phoenix]

Thanks for your answer it's what i feel I feel that the normal are facing in the wrong direction even if it's the same material

[kindred viper]

there are shader techniques and methods available in offline renderers that don't work in unreal. Thats why we say "they wont work". They are not implemented. You need to remake them.

you can always bake inside the DCC to a texture/s but actual shader code will differ.

[echo phoenix]

Hmmm I see what you mean I will first test if its my Normal facing and if it's not that I will try to bake inside the DCC I will search it

thanks for all your help

I let you know when i will fix this troubleshoot

THANKS !!

I just find the technique, It's the Normal orientation. You can make your geometry in Maya and just click on the Normal icon on the UV/Normal panel of the Mesh Editor and it reverse all the face inside unreal

[kindred viper]

im actually suprised a lambert based material imports ok. I used to have to bake all that stuff out in 3ds.

[sweet axle]

Maya is pretty advanced these days. I was trying to understand why you said the materials wont work. For me i was thinking complex materials might give a problem but simple colored mats shouldnt be a problem at all.

[kindred viper]

yeah my maya time was short lived before I moved to Blender where nothing works anyway 😄

[sharp willow]

Hey there.

Does anyone know how I can make an object/mesh fade out over time?

[kindred viper]

@sharp willow there are many tutorials for it. Material fade over time. Check that out

[sharp willow]

cheers

[sweet axle]

I've downloaded blender 4 or 5 times now and still havent used it. Got a friend that swears by it though.

[kindred viper]

yeah I love it. It's just full of caveats when building for Unreal.

[sweet axle]

All of them are. Choose your demons to deal with in dev hahaha

[echo phoenix]

@sweet axle Yeah it was really basic material a lambert one it's was normaly okay but the material had a problem in this geometry so I was thinking that it's link to how the face is showing and the problem is that

@kindred viper In Ue4 mesh editor it's really powerfull you can AutoUnwrap and turn all the face in one click so it's more faster to do it in UE4

[kindred viper]

its faster to do it right first time in your DCC tbh :p

[echo phoenix]

oh i don't know the DCC ?

ahaha

[kindred viper]

blender/maya/3ds etc. digital content creation

[echo phoenix]

I will check

[sweet axle]

its way faster if you just download from marketplace hahahaha

[kindred viper]

its also wiser to do it in your DCC because if you have to reimport, it will lose your changes.

or it might. I dunno. Unreal is magic sometimes.

[gilded needle]

Evil Devil Magic.

[echo phoenix]

ahahah Yeah Unreal is getting more and more powerfull but I prefere to import things correctly

so maybe I will check how i can do it directly in Maya

I just begin maya yesterday ahahah

[sweet axle]

there is a maya plugin

[steel crest]

Hey hope this request is allowed here, had some help from someone putting a spell together, he used standard first person template, im using als, ive copied the code and changed the right nodes, and added the variables needed etc, however there is one that i cant get to work, i have the first person test project there so im just copy pasting whats there, changing camera and cast nodes, but i just keep running into issues

[kindred viper]

waits for question

[echo phoenix]

@sweet axle Oh what is the name of it ? Thanks !!

[sweet axle]

Yersterday? and you already have a building to export? Took me a week to just to learn to find stuff in maya. Thats one thing i love about unreal. Its way more complex than any other software i have ever used and manages to turn all that complexity into something easy to use compared to maya and 3ds and even blender.

[kindred viper]

huh?

[sweet axle]

wrong tag for reply. was supposed to tag 2 ppl

[kindred viper]

😄

[sweet axle]

hahaha the love unreal was for you

the yesterday part was for Chems on doing the building in one day in maya

[fossil spade]

This Pillar was made from a Brush then converted into a Mesh. One of the UV Channels looks messed up, any way of fixing this as when I rendered the light it caused the mesh to become darker then it supposed to. Second UV Channel is fine and within the box.

[kindred viper]

my first task with Maya was horrid. My middle mouse button was broken. Imagine that in Maya. So I had to write a MEL script to rebind the navigation. Just as I got used to using it, I bought a new mouse. And just as I got used to that, Blender 2.8 came out and I dumped Maya like a hot potato

[sweet axle]

i dumped maya for unreal

[kindred viper]

@fossil spade that UV is outside of it's 0-1 space it seems

its also overlapping

in fact. Id remake it entirely

[fossil spade]

@kindred viper Thanks for the help

[kindred viper]

try marking a couple of seams and unwrapping. Make sure there is a margin

[sweet axle]

just remake the brush. Thats what i do. Converting brush to static mesh doesnt always work out for me. i have to convert one at a time.

[echo phoenix]

@sweet axle ahahahah Yeah i Try to focus on finding a powerfull workflow to create what i Think I think now everysoft is powerfull you can do it in Maya blender 3DS Zbrush too is really powerfull for Hardsurface and building asset

[kindred viper]

ahh in-engine modelling. I never trust it 😄

[safe shoal]

UE5 be happeninnnnng https://twitter.com/CoalitionGears/status/1391770889553907716

[echo phoenix]

But thanks of you all to help people to find the right answer

[safe shoal]

Yeah wrong channel 😄

I mean we probs all knew this but that's the first public info I've seen of any big partner studio using it

Pretty much 😄

Seem to trade staff all day long

[kindred viper]

I thought all the early access studios were beta-testing things already

[safe shoal]

Yeah no doubt, that's the first public announce I've seen though

[echo phoenix]

There is a Early access of UE5

[kindred viper]

not for the public but yeah

[echo phoenix]

ahaha

[safe shoal]

Wonder if they'll do a mid-public beta like they did with UE4

[kindred viper]

hope so. I want to get a headstart. I missed it with UE4 and was pretty sad about that

[grim ore]

I dont think it was ever supposed to happen in "march", just early 2021 no?

[safe shoal]

UE4 was tough to get into tbh, you had to have some kind of legal entity IIRC

Because NDA's etc

[drowsy snow]

I'm still comfortable with UE4 😆

[sweet axle]

I missed the month they gave away the weapons component and the fps weapons pack used in the agr fps pro. That makes me sad

[kindred viper]

I've never missed a free monthly asset. But that just makes my launcher lag when I scroll :p

[drowsy snow]

Even though UE5 will be come out next year, I'll still be using UE4, even if people would question me like I'm a boomer

[safe shoal]

A lot of folks will I think, tbh.

Porting won't be too bad, but deprecated stuff that we rely on in UE4 will likely be gone entirely in UE5

[kindred viper]

I'm moving to Unity. I feel bad for them and want to help them advance to the new era as fast as possible. I'm lying of course.

[safe shoal]

PhysX for e.g.

[drowsy snow]

Unity already shot themselves in the foot for so many times recently

[kindred viper]

yet it still reigns supreme

[drowsy snow]

Especially in Indonesian game development space.
Unreal is like that lonely kid in the corner.

[sweet axle]

I will migrate over if i ever come across a situation where i cant do something in my game that ue5 can and atm ue4 does everything. And also if ue4 becomes obsolete, then i will also migrate.

[kindred viper]

it won't be obsolete for at least half a decade. I highly doubt all support will just drop off. There are too many licensees out there.

wow that would suck 😄

[sweet axle]

Exactly. For little ol me ue4 is perfect.

[kindred viper]

4.28 has been mentioned on git already

I guess. It would be nice if they continued on both for a while tho

[sweet axle]

Just call it what it is. Unreal Engine Update ####

[kindred viper]

thats my point. They can't just stop UE4 development because UE5 is out because they are different beasts

[drowsy snow]

What if

Unreal Engine 2021.0 XD

Go with Unity's cumbersome year versioning xD

[fierce tulip]

enough reason to name it ue5, and not 4.2x

[kindred viper]

it did once it worked 😄

[sweet axle]

hahahaha

[kindred viper]

interfaces are cool

[sweet axle]

Its called the Windows Trajedy. Huge Corporation psychosis. Stuck between versions.

[drowsy snow]

It's also the reason why Mortal Kombat 11 and Mass Effect remaster still uses UE3

[kindred viper]

all my version numbers are based on The Epoch 😄

[sweet axle]

hahaha

[drowsy snow]

Although walking sims like Life Is Strange still get ported to UE4 for the mobile version

[kindred viper]

Mass Effect remaster is a scam tbh. But I wasn't aware MK11 was on UE3. Thats impressive as hell.

yeah good way of putting it

[rotund sandal]

is there at all a sort of help me section on the server?

[kindred viper]

they are probably scared of the ME zealots who bashed them over Andromeda so hard. They won't want to kill a franchise I guess.

[sweet axle]

how you mean?

[grim ore]

I think every channel on this discord is a help me lol

[rotund sandal]

just have a minor issue with travelling to another level

[kindred viper]

I still think ME3 looks great. It really used UE3 and aside from a few shiny materials, you could say it was an almost perfect game. #ue4-general

[sweet axle]

when i started learning maya i saw tuts from 2008 and i thought back then just the modelling side was impressive with what tools they had compared to what i was using

[kindred viper]

@rotund sandal check your path to the file. Make sure the file exist. It's not getting the right path

[rotund sandal]

I have this setup as an actor so that when you hit it, it should shoot you to the next level

[sweet axle]

sorry, was thinking about something else along the lines of what you said.

[rotund sandal]

im guessing it needs the example map still

[sweet axle]

rename the map in your content browser to that name

or rather the map you want to use as level1

[rotund sandal]

so rename level 1 to "FirstPersonExampleMap"?

[sweet axle]

rename firstpersonexample to level1

[rotund sandal]

issue is i can't rename it as there already exists a "level1" level

[sweet axle]

Not sure then. Save everything. level 2 isnt saved yet and perhaps if you trying it from level2 then it wont work try it. maybe.

Or maybe if you are on first personexample then perhaps your setup is looking for current level but only 1 2 and 3 are lited.

listed

[rotund sandal]

to be honest i'm not understanding why it's not working when the example map is in the section that its trying to call

the "URL" is invalid huh?

so it's basically saying it can't find the level

[grim ore]

yes, the URL would be the full path to the map or if its in the correct folder just the map name

it also depends on which node you are using

if you mouse over the item the tooltip gives you the full path

[rotund sandal]

im using the open level by name node

[grim ore]

what is the text you have in that node?

[grim ore]

if you mouse over the map you want to open, what does it show for the path?

[rotund sandal]

game firstpersonbp maps

so i think the issue is that there is no "game" folder?

[grim ore]

ok and with that code above, the level1, it doesnt load?

ignore the game folder part, i just wanted to see where it was at

[grim ore]

yep I gotcha, so that code above doesnt load level1?

[rotund sandal]

yeah it wont load it

but im thinking that i need to duplicate the actor and change the level name in the code

[grim ore]

what error does it give now since you changed the name?

[rotund sandal]

the error code hasn't changed

i'm on vc it you want a tad more control with help

[grim ore]

if the error code shows third person example map and you changed the code to open level 1

then... youve got a difference issue

[rotund sandal]

this was made with the first person template

[grim ore]

ok FirstPersonExampleMap then but the question still stands

are you getting an error with a DIFFERENT map name than level1?

put /Game/FirstPersonBP/Maps/level1 as the Level Name for the Open Level node

[rotund sandal]

doesn't work

this is a group project so i'm not the only one that has been modifying code and what not on the project

[grim ore]

well that code should work, whats the error? and are you sure its coming from that blueprint and not something else

[coral lotus]

daft question but should I be building my lighting if ray tracing is enabled..? will I be getting better results?

[rotund sandal]

pretty sure its coming from the correct place

[kindred viper]

@coral lotus depends on your lighting setup. Not all lights are dynamic and raytracing should not mean you ignore baking of lights. It should be a compliment to it for performance sake.

[coral lotus]

Okay, thanks very much

[coral lotus]

I'm not really liking the result that baked lighting gives me however...
Are there benefits to baking lighting other than performance..?

[kindred viper]

if you don't like the results, I would suggest the methods are bad. I've seen better lighting that has been baked than most of the raytraced stuff I see around these days. It's all about the techniques and artistic skill. Lighting isn't easy. Certainly not when I am doing it 😄 I just put lights in and pray. But any lighting guru should be able to present perfectly adequate static lighting that complements with dynamic lights.

[wintry steeple]

how to start learning unreal for beginners

for free

[kindred viper]

learn.unrealengine.com

[coral lotus]

Okay thank you very much 🙂

[wintry steeple]

im looking for a complete beginned course

[kindred viper]

I just sent you to one

[wintry steeple]

on youtube or somewhere

[kindred viper]

if you dont want the advice. You failed already

[wintry steeple]

wdym?

[kindred viper]

I mean you asked a question. I answered it.

[wintry steeple]

i was following a freecodecamp tutorial , and i coudnt understand anything

[kindred viper]

probably because you didnt goto learn.unrealengine.com

[wintry steeple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNW4FPHuZE&t=1163s&ab_channel=freeCodeCamp.org

the website u sent , which one do i start with

there are many courses

[kindred viper]

anything with Introduction is usually a good place to start. Introduction to the Editor, Introduction to Blueprints. etc

[wintry steeple]

oh

where did you learn from

[kindred viper]

I taught myself

this stuff didn't exist when I started

[wintry steeple]

without any help?

damn

[kindred viper]

not without help. I scrapped for information from google and the source code.

[wintry steeple]

oh

[kindred viper]

if I had learn.unrealengine.com at the start, I'd have saved myself a lot of stress. Its truly a great resource.

[undone karma]

i can ask there for some help 😦

[kindred viper]

@plush yew yeah my bad. I didn't want to sully the youtube resources, especially that one which is epic beyond words.

[plush yew]

here im standing and here(lower place o the map) im floating

[kindred viper]

I remember this issue. Still waiting for the extra info I asked for last time.

[plush yew]

this one?

[plush yew]

^

[kindred viper]

yeah remember when I said "who knows? You might be 50 feet tall or colliding with something. Need extra info" or something similar.

[plush yew]

oh

it was me lol

[kindred viper]

aye

[plush yew]

here is the info

[gaunt abyss]

Feel free to ask your question

[kindred viper]

yeah just not in DM like he just did to me. Kinda rude.

dunno why today has been one of them days for it, but I've been DM'd several times in the past hour.

[plush yew]

this happens too

[kindred viper]

looks like simple collision over your mesh.

[plush yew]

im new to this, how do i remove it?

[kindred viper]

open the mesh, remove collision. Try using Complex Collision As Simple instead.

the ideal method is when you create your mesh, create a collision mesh for it and call it UCX_yourmeshname and it will import with it as collision automatically.

[static wharf]

Playing with 8k textures in ue4 is fun, good thing I have 12 GB of vram.. and I am still running out of vram lol

[kindred viper]

yeah. You should load up a few metahumans. See how long that 12gb lasts.

[static wharf]

I was about to try that

[kindred viper]

I wouldn't

1 will cost you 10gb to start.

[static wharf]

Just for fun, I will even disable texture streaming! Who needs that?

Here goes nothing!

It begins

It is sad

Very sad

[kindred viper]

wow you complain a lot about things you need

[static wharf]

I know, its fun!

[honest vale]

why would anyone disable texture streaming?

[kindred viper]

its truly not. You are a psychic energy vampire that negs the engine with every sentence.

[honest vale]

like, do you want to render an 8k texture on a mesh that's just 2x2 pixels on the screen? 🤔

[static wharf]

Yes

[honest vale]

why

you'll just get shimmering due to aliasing

[static wharf]

Why not?

[kindred viper]

it's a trap.

[static wharf]

This is just me messing arround, I am not trying to "make" anything per say

Oh this is fun...

At least its not that many

At least its not that many

At least its not that much

[drowsy snow]

And then I thought my sarcasm was dangerous enough.

[static wharf]

Out of curiosity, is there any way to do a thing like swarm for shaders?

[drowsy snow]

And then I thought my sarcasm was bad enough.

Shoving 8K textures in a small mesh without mipmapping and texture streaming is one peak of sarcasm I ever seen.

[kindred viper]

@static wharf XGE shader compiler as part of Incredibuild.

[static wharf]

I am guessing its expensive considering I need to contact them to get a quote

[pale steppe]

Beginner question please, how can I change my configuration icons? I made a green color but now I want to update the icon to reflect that.

[kindred viper]

@static wharf

[static wharf]

Where the link to that?

[kindred viper]

google it

[pale steppe]

you can see the same problem under the configurator, I made a green color but I don't know were the blue icons came from.

[static wharf]

Found it, thanks for sharing that

This will be very useful considering I have a dedi

[drowsy snow]

Maybe #aec-visualization has more familiarity with such enterprise visualisation tools.

[cyan cargo]

As someone who is going to be converting their mobile app to iOS this summer and needs to get an Apple device to do so, would it be wise to get an M1 Mac Mini or a non M1 Mac Mini.

I only ask because I hear of issues with some of the material shaders and other random bugs, but also hear each OSX update seems to fix problems for different individuals

[drowsy snow]

#macos or #mobile should have more knowledge about it.

[plush yew]

I need help regarding like there are 5 different player in a racing game they all should have different color car

[nimble pumice]

Hi! Are you allowed to provide an editor in the game you made with unreal?

[drowsy snow]

Not the unmodified Unreal Editor, no.

[nimble pumice]

Not the Unreal Editor but a custom editor which is in the game (but not utilizing or using the actual unreal editor)

[drowsy snow]

If that's the case, I don't see how you couldn't, permission wise.
Just the matter of implementing it in runtime.

[nimble pumice]

So as long as I am not shipping the unreal editor or using the unreal editor as an editor for my game for the public I'm fine?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[nimble pumice]

Alright, thank you!

[kindred viper]

anything using the editor only is covered under the eula to make sure you can't export it legally. But afaik there are ways around it as there are ARK kits and other games on the launcher for such things. But it would be a separate license I guess. And most likely only distributable under the launcher section they live in. But you can emulate what they do with other code.

[nimble pumice]

Okay, thanks!

[coral wasp]

SpaceX Accepts Dogecoin As Payment For Lunar Mission Next Year

[drowsy snow]

No one cares about that here.
<@&213101288538374145>

[static wharf]

Wow incredibuild was waaaaay easier to setup then Swarm, Swarm was a pain

[upper heart]

@coral wasp #lounge is the correct place for off topic discussion

[coral wasp]

Thanks

[lean mauve]

Does anyone know how can I add RVT blend to material that looks like this? I am new and this looks quite unfamiliar. All megascan materials look like this

[kindred viper]

@static wharf thats amazing to me because swarm has no setup aside from building the program in VS.

Incredibuild can kill a build during setup

I hope they made it a lot easier before I used it again. Might be the time to try it again

[spare kernel]

@static wharf you got a build farm?

ie multiple build machines?

[static wharf]

Got a dedi and a server here at home, along with my main PC

[spare kernel]

tbh i find incredibuild pointless

our TR build machine can churn out a buildin 15mins

with cooking and packaging

[static wharf]

My systems... cant, but using this it is actually making a noticible diffrence

But

I just started using it

So we will what what time tells

[shell trout]

Hi, I want to make a networked FPS with unreal and I am looking for a good example or best practices about how you handle animations for the locomotion and combat.

Currently, I am using ArcInventory, Gameplay Ability System for gameplay for inventory abilities and the basic unreal mannequin with custom blueprints.

The typical questions I have are:

• How would you handle the different stances, grip, locomotion in the animation blueprint?
  Like, do you have a locomotion state machine for normal, rifle equipped, gun equipped, blade equipped and merge the state machine
  Or use layered animations?

• How do you handle short transition, like equip/holster animations?
  I am using a very short montage (0.2s) in a gameplay ability, but it is so short that you barely see the animation with the blending.

What are good examples of such system, and production proven technologies/plugins?
IT seems like the Advanced Locomotion System and MoveIt are the most popular, but what do you think?

[snow crown]

ArcInventory
thanks for using my plugin 🙂

I use MoveIt for locomotion nowadays

and for stances, it has a pretty solid mechanism for changing stances given the gun

there is a tutorial on the arc inventory documentation page for how to integrate it with inventory

it works extremely well

as for equip and holster anims... I just downloaded a pack of animations for that, set them up as montages, and play them on the character in the right slot

it's super trivial

this is how I got it working with Grenades (same theory, just configured the throw animation to be a montage, then played it on the character): https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/698655659193008208/836845413532434462/2021-04-27_23-04-24.mp4

took me all of 10 minutes to get the animation playing correctly

took far longer to do the gameplay code around it 🙂

[late anvil]

Hi, I was wondering if its possible to automate the new pass/shader model creation. So it somehow creates the necessary files with the input data. Right now its a paint to do it since you have to dive into 500 files

Its possible to auto generate the necessary files so you just have to worry about name/shader functions etc? I think of it as some kind of a tool. Ideally this tool will be updated for each new version, dont even know if its possible or easy to do.

[sweet axle]

Check the new AGR plugin on marketplace./ The guys youtube channel also has loads of mp tuts

And a whole fps mp series

[plush yew]

hi 😄

watcha doing guys

[shell trout]

Thanks for your answers, I'll be looking into that ^^ Moveit looks like to have the feature I am looking for

I'll probably get it and look at the fps multiplayer serie

@snow crown I discovered MoveIt by looking at the integrations of ArcInventory ^^

[idle dragon]

Question, where does the "displacement" part of the texture go?

[light goblet]

I think you have to change the lighting model for the material to gain access to that pin?

Can't remember what you'd change it to, been ages

[idle dragon]

hmmm

[light goblet]

It might tell you if you try plugging something into it

[static wharf]

Why is this decal (the one on the left) losing color when it is rotated correctly, but when it is rotated incorrectly (like the one on the right) it has color

Wait no

I am dumb

It has color

I am blind

[idle dragon]

@light goblet It didnt

[late anvil]

Normals are applied relative to the decal forward direction

[static wharf]

Oh

@late anvil on another one it does lose color, even when facing the forward direction

[idle dragon]

Got it. You need to turn on flat tesselation on the material

[late anvil]

it should point towards the wall

[static wharf]

Oh ok

[late anvil]

can you post the material graph and the decal type?

[static wharf]

It wont let me see the material graph, I imported it from megascans

[late anvil]

open the parent material

does it improve when facing the wall?

[static wharf]

It does

That fixed it

But I also had a diffrent one point to the wall and it was lossing color too

[late anvil]

decals sometimes are weird, be sure it still visible on shadow

[static wharf]

If I scale a diffrent one too small, it loses color too

[late anvil]

too small on the forward axis?

[static wharf]

And now it suddenly isnt doing that

Now its fine for some reason

What the heck

[late anvil]

XD

[static wharf]

Unreal, stop being weird

[junior nimbus]

Making a diablo clone to practice as a noob. Dungeons are a little too dark, but I dont want to fill them with point/spot lights. Is there a good asset/solution for a concept of Light Radius (a la Diablo 1 and 2) that illuminates around the character for a given radius and isnt obviously a point light

[late anvil]

use the non exponential falloff option, on something like 4-2 should give a ambient light vibe

[junior nimbus]

Thanks, could you also tell me where to find exponential falloff?

Is it a part of a point light?

[idle dragon]

Is there any reason why my geometry is seethrough on the corners?

It seems to occur when I apply a texture but I can't know for sure.

Yeah, it occurs when I apply that concrete texture

gotcha

@plush yewcorrect, cheers

[late anvil]

Its a parameter for all lights. Its used a lot when optimizing, because it allows for accurate light/radius so you dont compute for things that are almost no lit

[junior nimbus]

that worked, thanks a lot!

[late anvil]

🙂

[steep egret]

Hi, I'm having trouble making precise parameter adjustments in Unreal using my mouse. I use a Logitech MX Master BT mouse, which is supposed to have something like 4k DPI resolution. When I scrub on a parameter in the details panel in Unreal, a tiny movement of the mouse sometimes results in an enormous change in the parameter. For example, if i scrub over the Y-axis Location parameter, the model may zip out of frame like it was jet-propelled. I've tried adjusting the mouse sensitivity, but it doesn't make a difference.

How do you folks deal with this? Are you using some other method to dial in your parameters?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[sweet sphinx]

Hello, found this server recently as I decided to start learning unreal engine for virtual production. Any youtube playlists that would help me out? Reply to this message if you have any (with ping)

[late anvil]

The parameter slider is exponential, the more you go to high numbers the more it increases or decreases.

Usually the solution is input the value manually

[steep egret]

Thanks for the info. Is there a way to change this via an INI file?

[late anvil]

not sure

[steep egret]

Start at the Unreal Learning Center. They have several courses in VP and a good course about making an indie film with unreal. Also look up Matt Workman on YouTube.

[sweet sphinx]

link?

[steep egret]

https://is.gd/NIXQn7

[sweet sphinx]

lmao

[plush yew]

is 1:<80 smaller than 1:<10?

hi

i dont know how to put in roads with a spline mesh

i know but its kindq bad so i found this spline thing, is it posible to use it good with road meshes?

[mortal cedar]

Maaaan. When's unreal 5 being released? I hope they sort out chaos physics by then

[plush yew]

in short: i u want GI, use RTXGI from nvidia. then you have everything ue5 can do llul

[mortal cedar]

I want Chaos and Oodle tbh

plus isn't lumen and nanite non RTX tech, so ATI users can enjoy their benefits

[plush yew]

is a game where there are 4 human fully animated characters, and more than 10 animated alien creatures with IK and shoot-limb-gone-system too much for one person?

[plush yew]

amd users can enjoy rtxgi from nvidia yes

[mortal cedar]

though I think nanite somewhat requires next gen hard drives to be used properly

[plush yew]

i dont think u can make a game urself with so many high poly models

[mortal cedar]

well I dont think amd have DXR cards out yet?

[plush yew]

physically impossible

[timid gust]

Anyone have experience with the Water plugin? I'm trying to figure out how I can automatically apply a sand texture around the ocean/river/lakes similar to the pic in the docs. example: https://docs.unrealengine.com/Images/BuildingWorlds/Water/WaterRiver.webp

Anyone have any ideas?

[plush yew]

amd has ray tracing cards lol

[timid gust]

The docs don't have any info about this.

[plush yew]

so. if you cant make a game with many photorealistic models, then you dont need nanite

[mortal cedar]

I am actually making a game with photo realistic models so yeah lol

but thanks for assuming lol

[vale grove]

Is there a quick way to add rain to my Unreal Environment using the WeatherActor?

[plush yew]

if you use already finished meshes then yes. but if you do them your own. you will never publish this game

[timid gust]

Why?? You can photoscan, decimate, and generate LODs...

[mortal cedar]

I dont know what you're on about multi. plus models dont have to "photo realistic" to have a lot of polys

[plush yew]

u can do that with very limited amount of real life objects.

u cant do anything with that

[timid gust]

yeah you can

you can literally photoscan an entire building

[mortal cedar]

ofcourse you can lol

[plush yew]

so why do u need nanite then if you dont have photorealistic models

[plush yew]

yes. with a shitty quality.

you dont need nanite for that

[timid gust]

Get a good camera

[mortal cedar]

you can also model stuff in z brush and skip the lod/decimate step

seems like a massive time saver

[plush yew]

you dont even need a good camera for that

[timid gust]

it always require cleanup after anyways

[plush yew]

ehm no. cause you dont have such a big storage.

u cant just import 200 mb models

[timid gust]

yeah you do if you dont want any artifacting from motion blur or blurry textures

[plush yew]

u cant make a good model of a building photogrammetry

too expensive

u need a lot of points in reality capture

impossible

[timid gust]

its not worth it to clean up after because its easier to just use reference and model it yourself

but its possible

[plush yew]

you cant model eeach model photo realistically

[timid gust]

yeah you can

what

[plush yew]

how many decades do you need for that

or does your game only have 2 models

[timid gust]

its mostly the materials and imperfections that make it look photoreal

not the poly count

[plush yew]

so in short. if you create small games you dont need nanite XD.....

[timid gust]

xD

[mortal cedar]

multi its just unnecessarily negative language. "you cant" "you wont". You don't know what games people are making, or where the tech can be used

[timid gust]

yeah

[plush yew]

we already know for sure that u cant create a big game like crysis as a one person team

[timid gust]

like i wouldnt recommend photoscanning an entire building but saying its impossible is ridiculous

[plush yew]

what do you mean ?

[plush yew]

yes. u dont recommend cause its too expensive if you wanna edit it in reality capture

[timid gust]

many reasons

[mortal cedar]

who cares lol. small teams especially can make very good use of nanite and lumin. the whole point isn't to make photo realistic worlds, its to save artists time

[plush yew]

how does nanite save time tho if it runs on only 30 fps

[mortal cedar]

???

[neon grove]

question does the air absorption method curve be Linear or Logarithmic?
for long distance audio like airplane or a loud car engine

[plush yew]

u dont have benefits from nanite if you dont have many high poly models. right?

[timid gust]

you know his models?

[mortal cedar]

🙂

[timid gust]

lumen looks awesome

[plush yew]

he cant have many high poly models 😄

its one person.

[mortal cedar]

I guess I'll delete them all lol

[timid gust]

he can

[plush yew]

not 1000 persons

[mortal cedar]

my bad haha

[plush yew]

having 2 high poly photorealistic models isnt that

[timid gust]

especially if using tools that can generate high poly assets

with noise

[plush yew]

?

what

show pic

[timid gust]

and sculpting

one of the points they mentioned about nanite was just importing high poly from zbrush

[plush yew]

yes but only a fraction of a game could have organic models

[timid gust]

cool

wouldnt it still help?

take a step out of the process

[mortal cedar]

you should really work for Epic, you could let them know their tech is a waste of time

[plush yew]

a tiny bit. yes. but again. youre not a big team. and you create only a few models. so its pretty useless

[timid gust]

LOL

[pastel ginkgo]

Why is my control rig changing positions when I save?

[mortal cedar]

sorry guys pack it up, multi premium has spoken

[plush yew]

i mea nits literally a waste to wait for ue5 just to save 10 hours.

[timid gust]

oh yeah are you waiting for ue5?

i wouldnt wait but i wouldnt assume the tech is gonna be useless

[plush yew]

not anymore after i got rtxgi

[timid gust]

i wanna try it all out

[plush yew]

no need for ue5

[timid gust]

what

[plush yew]

how many years of professional experience u got?

[mortal cedar]

haha

[timid gust]

so just stop updating the engine then?

call it a day

[plush yew]

nobody's saying updates are bad.

[timid gust]

im sure there are improvements to be made all over

you are saying they are useless and not needed

[plush yew]

for our cases,

yes.

they are

[livid timber]

guys, may i ask how viable is ue4 for developing a small app in html5?

[spare kernel]

No one knows what UE5 is going to have or whatnot. So i am stopping this discussion here, as its turning into a bit of a flame war.

[mortal cedar]

Its fine, you might need to remove a lot of stuff to make the app size small enough though

[spare kernel]

@livid timber they dropped support for html in later version, there is a community plugin for it.

[mortal cedar]

Oh right

[livid timber]

ye i saw that, dont know how much pain is to set it up

[spare kernel]

can try #web for info

[livid timber]

but if i were to make an app that is basically get data and use it with formulas... i might be over my head trying it with unreal?

[timid gust]

do you need use stuff in unreal or just building a normal web app

[livid timber]

hmm normal web app i think

[timid gust]

if you just want to add 3d stuff to your web app you could use something like threejs

or sketchfab

[livid timber]

im saying unreal because it is more familiar for me right now

i see

[timid gust]

it's gonna be a lot easier to just use html/js

[mortal cedar]

if you don't need 3d stuff a web app would be pretty straight forward to make

[timid gust]

and google

[livid timber]

ye, but i never used anything for apps besides unreal and game maker

thats why im a little lost here

[timid gust]

what do you want to make?

[livid timber]

an maths app that takes 3 numbers and based on those numbers and a formula, gives you a result

[timid gust]

definitely just use JS for that

[livid timber]

i cant be more specific right now because is not yet pitched, but the idea is on that line

[timid gust]

or React (framework for web apps)

using unreal wouldnt make sense for that

unless you needed to show the results in 3d and make it look nice

[livid timber]

yeah, i suspected as much...

[timid gust]

JS is pretty easy syntax to learn if you're used to coding

[livid timber]

i will do more research and see what i can get

[timid gust]

👍 good luck

[livid timber]

thanks alot guys!

[mortal cedar]

I believe in you @livid timber

[astral phoenix]

Hey, i have a problem im trying to make a game where i can mine ''Gold'' with a machine, and take the ''Gold'' from a different machine, but how can i cast to 2 different actors? 🙂

[sweet axle]

Use interface

[astral phoenix]

@sweet axle what do u mean?

im new to unreal :/

[sweet axle]

Me to actually. hahaha. But let me try, create a blueprint interface that you can use to determine the amount of gold transporting between the two machines and then implement the interface in both actors. Thats the short of it. That way the two actors have a communication connection

[clever marsh]

yo so I am using the paragon twintblast guy from the unity asset store. How do I make the guns functional, all of the tutorials I have watched have a separate file for the gun but the twin blast gun is a part of the character.

[sweet axle]

or create actor variable in each actor of the actor object type and create reference to each in each and then use functions to do what you want them to do using the created variables.

[lofty quail]

Hey! I have a physics object in the level that I can push around with my character. BUT when i change r.ScreenPercentage the physics gets broken and I cant push the object? Anybody know what thats about?

[drowsy snow]

Didn't know Epic leaked their Paragon assets to the Unity Asset Store 🤔

[clever marsh]

mean unreal lmao

i use unity primarily sorry

[sweet axle]

You can either use the existing gun and build functionality around it or use various methods to remove that gun and add others and still do the same thing. Build the functionality around them. Its just traces and effects missing if you use the existing gun

[clever marsh]

how do I get specific blueprints for just the gun? There doesn't seem to be a file for it

sorry if I sound stupid lol

[lofty quail]

Happens when I lower the resolution aswell, hmm..

[sweet axle]

Oh, you want the gun gone. Just use youtube search, how to remove paragon weapons. Easiest is to just select the weapon material and change the properties so its invisible

[clever marsh]

I want to add functionality to the gun

but from what I can find I need specific blueprints for the gun

[sweet axle]

No. you can do it in bp yourself. You want to see your weapon firing and see what its hitting right?

[clever marsh]

yeah I want to do damage when i shoot lol

[sweet axle]

Then you can pretty much follow any tutorial on how to fire a weapon and implement that. Its the same concept but socket names will be different. You could even just copy and paste the firing code from the fp template and then delete the animation parts, create fire input, chect socket name or create a socket there you will have a yellow projectile.

[clever marsh]

how do I get into the blueprint for the gun

sorry this is my first time using unreal assets

[sweet axle]

the Firstpersoncharacter.bp has the firing nodes. To start with you dont need a weapon bp just yet. trust me.

[clever marsh]

ok thanks, I am using a tutorial and at the point where i use the gun bp

[sweet axle]

If you just starting then you dont want a weapon system just yet. Its gonna get really confusing later on in the project cos there is just so many libraries in your project folder and knowing what all are for is essential for any new changes and as a beginner thats gonna be very difficult to cope with.

[clever marsh]

this isnt my first unreal project, just my first time using the unreal assets

[sweet axle]

Keep doing the tut but dont use it in your main project if you have one. Always good to learn no matter how hard it is. Just keep your main project clean and ready for proper implementation.

[stoic radish]

Hey fellas, anyone of you know how I can approach a Map-Editor?

Or if someone is able to create something like that please DM me

[umbral ferry]

how to configure this

i have 1 fllor and 2 cube and aftre 45 min it still compiling

wtf ?

[drowsy snow]

You could have an object spawner and a spectator cam, and list all the objects (the class and the transform data) inside a struct array. Of course, having the scripting ability would be more difficult, but it depends on your game's needs.

[stoic radish]

@drowsy snow I wouldnt really need a scripting ability just placing predefined props in an empty level

The other thing is how am I able to let player create the map and host it in their lobbies and also how can i implement that with the steam workshop

[upbeat tendon]

i've got some weird periodic slow down, there must be something to help me see what is eating cpu/gpu?

[drowsy snow]

Then you could store information of all the objects placed and their transform inside a variable, serialised to a save data. You can then load the map by parsing the object list and spawning them in load.

I have no experience with steam workshop API, so I skip that part.

[stoic radish]

That sounds doable, now I need it to get that somehow working with the workshop so other players can download eachother maps etc. kind of like csgo

It would be great if someone experienced could help me out here (i'd gladly pay)

[umbral ferry]

Someone can help me to know what to check

i have 1.16 GO file size for 1 floor and 2 cube ?

[drowsy snow]

Disable unnecessary plugins.

[umbral ferry]

where

do we use it by default?

@drowsy snow

[fallow hornet]

When I render something from Movie render queue it is changing the exposure of the scene from what I see in viewport verses what is rendering. I checked and I exposure turned to manual in the project settings. I have my exposure set to manual in the post process volume as well, and no exposure set for the cinematic camera actor that i am using.

[kindred plaza]

Can anyone help me? I'm getting this error. My landscape is a 5x5 tiled landscape with each tile being 2017x2017 resolution. All my textures are 4k resolution.

i tried increasing streamning pool size and i increased my page file size

streaming*

[crimson monolith]

I don't know why but from the last time, my project can only open from Visual Studio but not from the Engine itself, always stuck at 75%, do you guys know the reason of that?

[drowsy snow]

If the hardware usage in Task Manager still shows some activity, wait for longer.

[crimson monolith]

you meant this one, I don't think it does anything

ahh, I see, yeah I work a bit on widgets last time, then I wonder how it can still open normally with VS, interesting

[crimson monolith]

thanks a lot! I'll check those widgets again

[thorny coral]

can i use demonstration maps for levels, aka stuff for modular buildings and houses

[sweet axle]

As far as a i know you can use the entire thing as is for your project. But of course changed to suit your style and remove any unreal logos

[static wharf]

Help, I did a thing

[thorny coral]

thanks!

[analog prism]

does anyone know how to unpackage an ue4 game

i wanna mod a game

[static wharf]

umodel, look it up, but you cant use assets from there, its illigal, and immoral

But thats just for opening the PAK files

[analog prism]

i just wanna be able to access the files and insert mods

[static wharf]

Repackaging them is diffrent based on the game

[analog prism]

damn

where is the right place?

[static wharf]

On another note, how can I avoid running out of ram when importing lots of textures?

I have 32 GB, I am running out when trying to import these textures, even though its only 18 GB of textures

[drowsy snow]

18 GB of compressed 8K textures can explode beyond 32 GB lmao

[drowsy snow]

Modding forums, obviously.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a modder myself, and I appreciate other modders, but getting into "hard modding" (reverse engineering the game files) assumes you already know what it takes to mod games in general. It's different from "soft modding" (using official and supported tools) of which no modding experience can jump in right away.

[vale grove]

Complete beginner here -

Is there a way I can put a tiny flag on my Unreal project?

Just want to put a flag over here -

[exotic thicket]

a tiny flag? like... a 3D model of a flag?

[vale grove]

Right

[exotic thicket]

Sure if you add the model

[vale grove]

To signify the finish line

Haha

[drowsy snow]

Just put the flag right there.

[vale grove]

I am here - https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/assets?count=20&priceRange=[0%2C0]&sortBy=title&sortDir=ASC&start=0

And tried finding a flag

Cannot get any

So weird

[thorny coral]

i dont think i really want to change anything in this map tho, except for the cinematics and unreal logos that i need to remove, can i still move some stuff around and keep it as is?

[drowsy snow]

Why not quickly model one in Blender?

[vale grove]

Where can I get a flag

[vale grove]

Blender?

[drowsy snow]

Blender, that one free DCC software people love and hate.

[sweet axle]

Theres a flag in the vehicle game demo project and also in the content examples.

[drowsy snow]

https://www.blender.org/download

[vale grove]

Ohhhh

[vale grove]

Thank you

[vale grove]

Where can I get content examples

I already looked here

[sweet axle]

I think infinity props also has a flag

[idle dragon]

Question: How do I sort the texture stretching problem on my mesh (on the side there) and how do I fix the weird shadows?

[vale grove]

Thank you @sweet axle

[drowsy snow]

Create a flag yourself in Blender.
Set the scaling to 0.01. Make a cylinder, and a triangle shaped plane. Look at it from the front, edit mode, project from view. Export as FBX, and import it to Unreal.

Honestly Ianhuberting one flag asset is way quicker than scouring through marketplace/learn template

[idle dragon]

Actually, is it possible to add new shapes to the Geometry BSP tab?

[drowsy snow]

Not without modifying the engine code, no.
But you can still manipulate the vertices once it's in viewport.

[idle dragon]

damn

Fixed the texture problem by just doing smart unwraps in blender, still need to figure out that shading garbage

[drowsy snow]

If your mesh has backface culling, try having it Two Sided shadows.
(I forgot where's the option located exactly)

[narrow mauve]

Anyone having a problem where the Lit Preview in a Material doesn't work? It's totally black. I have to view in unlit to see anything

Nevermind

lol

[idle dragon]

@drowsy snowThanks, will check it out.

[sudden olive]

how to make dealy on teleport

so i can use it every 5 sec

not everytime

[plush yew]

@drowsy snowwhen ue5

[neon bough]

not today^

[drowsy snow]

🙊