ue4-general

[prime willow]

i wanna show you what ive been working on!

[drowsy snow]

It's sunny afternoon here in Yogyakarta, after all.
You can DM me for that.

[prime willow]

oops sorry i thought it was a dm

sorry super sleeepy x-x

[violet goblet]

is it possible to have
character which can change clothes and can use clothing tool?
modular clothes +
clothing tool (physics)

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it's possible.

[violet goblet]

oh really ? good to hear that 🙂
the only way i know how to make cloth modular is to use "Set Master Pose Component" but this wont work with pyhsic as i have read

[violet goblet]

may i ask you what your approach would look like?

[drowsy snow]

You can create a new anim BP and only have "Copy pose from mesh" node. This one respects any physics you apply on the mesh, and in BP, it copies any poses the parent mesh made.

[violet goblet]

cool thanks alot i will try that, do i still need to use set master pose??

[drowsy snow]

No, you don't need Set Master Pose if you have that.

[violet goblet]

how would i then combine the "body-mesh" with the "cloth mesh" then?

oh i actually just had to google -.- sry
i found that if someone needs that too:
https://iluvanimation.blogspot.com/2017/04/master-pose-vs-copy-pose-vs-mesh-merge.html

[drowsy snow]

This kind of setup is worked for the Copy Mesh node.
(also the Outline uses Set Master Pose, so it's a mix of both)

[young mirage]

hey guys can some point me on how to change that appearance of BP nodes , make it look cooler in the editor 😛

[young mirage]

like this

[drowsy snow]

It's in Engine/Content/Editor/Slate

All of the image resource files are in PNG.

[young mirage]

is there no default way to do it ? a theme manager or sort?

[drowsy snow]

No.

[kindred viper]

https://jack-myth.github.io/UE4EditorCustomize/Documentation.html

the node stuff you can copy from other people's themes. Probably best to start with the minimal theme

[drowsy snow]

This is for the window theme, not affecting BP nodes.

[kindred viper]

yeah thats why I said the second line

better to copy one of the minimal themes and work from there

[brisk hamlet]

Hello by any chance, any fix to that?

It starts to be very annoying to have to restart the engine for a graphic bug every 20 minutes every day

I saw something about my graphic driver but update it didn't solve that 😦

[vocal herald]

wtf is ADS?

[kindred viper]

aim down sights.

[drowsy snow]

#ue4-general message

[brisk hamlet]

Thanks a lot @drowsy snow

[brisk hamlet]

In fact, there is also a pinned message and 461.40 is not recommanded: It's showning an error message when booting Unreal

Will try 460.89

[glacial dawn]

@brisk hamlet it's related with the hdpi, I tried everything I saw in google with no success. Only way to fix it it's disabling the hdpi support but everything turns very blurry so no fox by now. I'm used to close and open after 20 minutes approximately.

[brisk hamlet]

Sure but did you try to downgrade your driver as suggested?

[plush yew]

Hey guys, very quick question. You know that awful autoexposure thing in any default level ? I tried disabling it in the PPV but to no avail... Am I missing something ?

[drowsy snow]

Set the metering mode to manual - the exposure will be dependant on the typical camera adjustment variables instead.

[plush yew]

Ah thanks, but still in manual I get the autoexposure effect

[drowsy snow]

Do you forgot to set the PPV to be Unbound / have Infinite Extent?

@plush yew

[plush yew]

ah new version

i finally have a goal in this life.

[plush yew]

omg that was it, thanks a lot!!

[steel shell]

when i add a skysphere to my level there are these black spots at the border of the landscape

someone knows why they appear?

when im higher the black border disappears

[potent bridge]

Are there any tutorials online that can help with making the world space affect animations? I want to stop them clipping into walls [Some animations move and go right into walls.]

[autumn flame]

RootMotion

[plush yew]

this is the tutorial

this is my proect

[autumn flame]

And?

[plush yew]

this is not thw same thing

[plush yew]

^

what sohould i do?

[autumn flame]

Right click Cast, convert to Pure

[plush yew]

why dont i have set here?

[autumn flame]

You do that on the Cast and you call Death from the Cast

I don't know the context of what you're trying to do, explain

And it it's blueprint perhaps move to #blueprint

[spare kernel]

@plush yew what is with the random picture?

[plush yew]

? nothing

[pastel ginkgo]

How would I make a spotlight track my character? Like how it would on a stage.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Multi Premium#4930 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[potent bridge]

Would anyone know how to access these from blueprints? (progress bar in HUD)

nvm

[vale bone]

Is there a way to convert static meshes into sprites?

[exotic thicket]

render it into a texture

you could potentially do it with scene capture and render targets but it probably won't be entirely forward

[vale bone]

thanks! Sorry I'm new to this, where is that option?

[exotic thicket]

it's not an option, you have to build that yourself

there's a scene capture component which can be used to render something into a render target, but setting it up so it captures your static mesh and then makes it possible to use it in a sprite needs to be set up yourself

[elder nova]

Hello guys, just joined, I'm new to UE and I'm working on little things to try and learn about the engine

[exotic thicket]

depending on what you're doing, it might be easier to do by loading your meshes into something like Blender, and rendering them out from Blender and then using the results as textures in sprites

[vale bone]

ah right. I just bought a pack on the asset store and it says it includes sprites to use on the HUD, but they're actually static meshes. Do you think the pack is wrong?

https://marketplace-website-node-launcher-prod.ol.epicgames.com/ue/marketplace/en-US/product/keys-mini-pack

[topaz kelp]

Description says they rendered them as sprites, could be they forgot to add them

[exotic thicket]

Yeah if you can't find the sprites you should probably contact the pack author

[vale bone]

hmm ok, thanks 🙂

[dapper swift]

HI all, does anyone know how to make leaves fall from a tree? I saw that in the Rural Australia pack.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/rural-australia

[topaz kelp]

Probably use them in a particle system

[dapper swift]

Your mean like Niagra?

[topaz kelp]

Yep

[dapper swift]

Where do I even start? would I have to learn Niagara, and then figure out how to do that one effect? or is there a tutorial that one can point me to?

[topaz kelp]

Try asking in #niagara if there's something you're stuck on

[dapper swift]

Thank you so much for the link. Thank you also to referring me to #niagara

[plush yew]

?

dont ban me i am asking again this question a day ago

[topaz kelp]

If you include an image it might be easier to understand the problem

[neon bough]

well it would spawn in the ground, only the top half visible

[plush yew]

i have included

just jump the message

thiss is the image

[neon bough]

anyways your collision should match up with mesh

[topaz kelp]

Ah, ok

[neon bough]

hover over a message and click the smiley button^

[potent bridge]

In the latest version of UE4 (4.26), how do I get the camera shake? I'm following a tutorial from UEs youtube but the videos from 2015.

[pastel ginkgo]

How do I get a spotlight to follow an animated skeletal mesh? Basically I want my spotlight location to be static and the light to pitch and yaw to track the skeletal mesh moving around.

[grim ore]

@potent bridgethe old camera shake class is now the matinee camera shake, or you can look into using the new camera shake stuff

[plush yew]

does anyone know any website from where we can get fbx 3d model files

[plush yew]

spawn transform

how do i add here that thing?

[elder nova]

Ok is anyone familiar with text stuff here?

[plush yew]

just search 3d something download

[grim ore]

@plush yewthe SK_Mannequin_Arms is a Skeletal Mesh, you want to add it to a blueprint add a Skeletal Mesh Component then use that mesh

[plush yew]

tysm!

[elder nova]

I'd like some help, I'm building an office, I want to add an object that would allow me to type in text, and that text is displayed in something like a whiteboard on the wall, or even floating text really, what's important is for whatever I type to be displayed in-game in a specific location

I'm new to UE and any help with this would be very much appreciated

[grim ore]

UMG is used for UI, UMG can be in the viewport in the game level. UMG can be used on the screen to take in input. look at UMG

[elder nova]

Yeah but the text has to appear on let's say a room in-game, not on the screen, everything I've seen is for on screen display

[exotic thicket]

you can use either a text component or a widget component on an actor to display that sorta stuff

text component just renders some text, a widget component can render a UMG widget in world space

[grim ore]

"UMG can be in the viewport in the game level."

[worn peak]

a 'cast to' to my game instance works normally inside the editor but when I export the project for windows and try to run doenst

any ideia ?

[grim ore]

gremlins are in your PC?

[potent bridge]

I'm fairly certain he means he wants it to appear on like a TV screen. Does viewport do that?

[exotic thicket]

just make it a world space widget with a widget component and it'll work just fine

[grim ore]

viewport is the thingy you are looking thru in the game, so yep what zomg is saying you can make a blueprint with a widget component and put the UMG in the game level

[worn peak]

works inside editor and doesnt outside, any ideia ?

[grim ore]

welp first

it is working in the build version

your print is what is not

see the little yellow warning notice on the Print String nodes?

[worn peak]

?

[worn peak]

it just say 'development only'

[grim ore]

and what do we think Development Only might mean?

[worn peak]

my print its working on both

i have the log message from the print

inside and outside the editor

inside i receive the 'worked'

outside i receive the 'failed'

what u talking about 'the problem its with the print node' ?

[grim ore]

I assumed when you said exported for windows and the try to run doesnt you meant you packaged it for use and you didnt see the message

so my bad on that one. Is your default game mode set to use that game instance?

you should always have a game instance, so maybe print string out the name of the game instance it is getting before you cast

[worn peak]

yep

i mean if u talking about that part on project settings

btw when i press launch on the toolbar

i receive this error

[elder nova]

Sorry, bear with me I'm dumb and new to this, so I went to user interface and selected widget blueprint called text, opened it and I have this gray grid, how do i make it into a world space widget?

[exotic thicket]

@elder nova You need to create an actor, give the actor a widget component, then assign your widget blueprint that you created as the widget class in the widget component's settings... if this is unclear, you probably should look at a few tutorials on how actors, widgets and such work :)

[grim ore]

@worn peakusually the Launch button from the editor is not used for testing unless you know what you are doing, packaging the project is how you would test a built version.

[elder nova]

Thanks, appreciate it, will hit YouTube, sorry for being a pain in the ass my brain's not what it used to be

[plush yew]

why did not it work for me?

[elder nova]

I'm a little old see

[grim ore]

@plush yewif you are doing this at design time, you dont need to do it at run time. arent you just trying to add them to an existing character?

[exotic thicket]

no worries, there's a lot of stuff in UE to get the hang of at the start :)

[worn peak]

@grim ore I packaged

i used this

[grim ore]

yep that would be fine for testing, you just said you get the error when you Launch and that would be expected as Launch is weird

[worn peak]

nono

the error i get using this package option

[grim ore]

you need to print out the game instance that the game is being packaged with since your cast is failing

[plush yew]

yes, i do (sry if i sound dumb i am new)

[grim ore]

@plush yewjust use the option to set it in the blueprint

[plush yew]

ohh thank you so much for you help!!!

[grim ore]

@worn peakso your getting packaging errors?

[worn peak]

u mean this ?

to check what game instance its trying to use it ?

[grim ore]

yeah if the cast is failing you should find out if its using another game instance instead of the one you set or nothing at all

[worn peak]

let me check this print game instance u said first

[plush yew]

where can i find it?

[grim ore]

click on the skeletal mesh component

your trying to set the Skeletal Mesh on the Skeletal Mesh Component in your Blueprint

[plush yew]

Hi guys, quick question: I want to align loads of spotlights in a row. Is there a way I can do that, but only change the settings of ONE spotlight, and it will affect all the others in the row ? (Like a cloning system)

[plush yew]

?

[grim ore]

this mesh is supposed to be in your blueprint right?

[plush yew]

yes

[grim ore]

did you add a skeletal mesh component to it?

[plush yew]

did not

[grim ore]

then you cant add a skeletal mesh to it

components are the parts of the blueprint, you want to add a skeletal mesh to it (the arms) you need to add a skeletal mesh component

[worn peak]

back

[plush yew]

i did that right now

[grim ore]

yep now in the details panel set the Skeletal Mesh

[timber birch]

Question

[plush yew]

that worked ty ty ty ty

[worn peak]

its givin me this in editor

[timber birch]

The UE4 overview windows, why is there a difference in viewing the Overview vs lets say Roughness

https://i.gyazo.com/2a56de0a66562c7baca840fe16bcfec9.jpg

https://i.gyazo.com/3d9709c7e320b8a0ea254c953eff404c.jpg

[worn peak]

and this outside

[timber birch]

Roughness is much darker in the tiny window 🤔

[worn peak]

my game instance name is 'MyGameInstance'

[grim ore]

@worn peakyep it looks like it cant use your custom one for one reason or another, you said you had a package issue so I would try and fix that. Maybe run a Validate Data (from the file menu) and try packaging again

[worn peak]

it found a error but it was on a engine content

in 'tutorialAnything'

[grim ore]

maybe just open the blueprint and save it again and try packaging, see if that error goes away

all I can think of is it's not packaging/being able to load your custom instance (you have it set and you cant really override it)

[worn peak]

i runned the validate data

found just a error inside engine content about a 'tutorial' file

i creating another personal game instance and change every cast to it

to see if works

[narrow mauve]

WTF

For a second I thought Rural Australia was photographs

JESUS

[ocean narwhal]

how can i change the top down controller? do i need to make my own controller?

[ember walrus]

you can find it in the topdown folder, and change it whichever you want

[ocean narwhal]

oki

well it says its just readable

[grim ore]

show the blueprint? show the issue? and what are you trying to change

[steel crest]

Sorry if this question has been beaten to death and i guess their is no definitive answer. What are the best ways to create a game overall? 3rd person rpg specifically im curious about. As im learning im at a bit of a loss where exactly to start, UI, combat, xp/skill trees/ AI, equipment, maps, etc etc, i imagine somethings are best made before other things, but is their a kinda tried and true rationale to follow? i know it would be game specific, but must be a general guide line to make systems that wont requires full overhauls down the line once you implement newer ones. If anyone has good content on the matter please share

[grim ore]

there is no best way

and there is no definitive answer

you do you, and if you don't know you yet then start doing stuff till you figure it out

[ocean narwhal]

now i can change it

weird

[grim ore]

"i know it would be game specific, but must be a general guide line to make systems that wont requires full overhauls down the line once you implement newer ones. " this is Iteration and normal for any development

[ocean narwhal]

and it says move to hit location, but what decides the speed

[grim ore]

speed of?

[ocean narwhal]

id like to make the speed faster or slower with a variable

the player character

in the top down controller

it says move

[grim ore]

the Max Walk Speed on the Character determines that

[worldly lynx]

how can make a custom event with C++ just like we do with blueprint????

[ocean narwhal]

oh ok

[ember walrus]

The speed is attached to the character, it's on the character movement compenent

[grim ore]

@worldly lynxyou would make a custom event in C++...

if your asking how to make new functions in C++, you need to learn more C++

[cedar wave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwqgmhOL8gs

[worldly lynx]

I know how to make normal functions , I need to know how can we create custom function for setting Replicates and all of custom things for sever and client , we can do it as easy with custom events in blueprints , but how can we do it c++?

[ocean narwhal]

i might just be being a smooth brain, this early in the morning

but i cant find the walking speed

[grim ore]

@worldly lynx do you have an example of what you are trying to do? Your question is weird

@ocean narwhalare you in the character?

[worldly lynx]

wait a min , ı will show you with image

[ocean narwhal]

i believe so? in the blueprint right?

[grim ore]

yep, the Walking Speed is determined by the Character Movement Component on the Character, click on that first then you can find it

[worldly lynx]

I want do all of this stuff inside of c++ codes, look at right - top of image , how can set this things in c++?

[cedar wave]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Networking/QuickStart/index.html

Then - you also have this https://github.com/tomlooman/EpicSurvivalGameSeries

Which uhhh - looks like oh Mr. Tom Looman finally updated it to a modern version of UE. So that's super cool.

[ocean narwhal]

i still dont see it. i guess ill take a screen shot and yall can tell me where like im dora the explorer

[ocean narwhal]

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

i didnt look in the component area

smooth brain activate

[ember walrus]

that's the firstperson character

[ocean narwhal]

yeah but thjat is also here in the topdown one i think

so can i take the max walk speed and make it a variable so i can change it?cause id like to make a stat called speed, then have that change the max walk speed

[grim ore]

yep

[ember walrus]

nevermind i was looking the wrong pic!

[ocean narwhal]

so ive made the variable speed

can someone please help my smooth brain. so ive made this integer, and how can i now make Max walk speed this integer

blueprints are very foreign to me

[grim ore]

you might want to start learning them then

if you want something similar look at how people implement shift to run

[ocean narwhal]

ok

i cant find anything to set max walking speed

[quiet raft]

if i drag a decal on a brush it sets the material, if on static mesh it is applied as decal, how to control this?

[ember walrus]

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

[plush yew]

Hi guys, I'd like to learn Unreal Engine but I don't know where to start. I already have some knowledge in C++ and 3D modelling softwares, any advice?

[quiet raft]

select your character movement component, type in property search "speed"

[plush yew]

can you recommend me any video, pdf?

[quiet raft]

@ocean narwhal

[ocean narwhal]

Holy moly

That helps a bunch

[daring cedar]

Any idea when we will be able to do fluid simulation like this in Unreal Engine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjEUzCpyWGA

[grim ore]

@plush yewread the pinned messages in this channel

@daring cedarthat is inside of Unreal Engine

[plush yew]

thanks

[daring cedar]

Yea but I don't know how they did it and there are no tutorials yet

[grim ore]

did you read... the... stuff? https://twitter.com/Vuthric/status/1331758077968744452

[idle dragon]

Yo, this is just a general question. I have a procedural system that hides/teleports a road section along a straight line. Would any blueprint affichonadoes here let me know if it would be easy to implement splines into this system so the road can procedurally generate along a procedural spline?

Sorry if this question doesn't make sense

Basically - can I make a procedural spline that generates itself in game, and can I have a road that follows it

[quiet raft]

do you have experience with fluid simulation?

[daring cedar]

No I only did it in Blender but when I import it in UE I could only make it play the simulation

[quiet raft]

i mean writing fluid sim

i assume this is what the dude from the video did - he wrote his own fluid simulation, he used unreal to get collision mesh (or voxels or whatever) from, and used niagara to render the particles of his fluid sim

i would assume he could relatively easily transfer same fluid sim backend to any other engine and render it with whatever tools that engine provided

[sonic granite]

I am trying to import an alembic cache into UE4, and it's looking super jagged in the viewport. Comparing the wireframe views between UE4 and Houdini shows that somehow UE4 messes with the mesh upon import?

[daring cedar]

How can I write my own fluid simulation?

[sonic granite]

I exported with OGAWA format out of Houdini. Anyone knkows what's up?

[quiet raft]

https://youtu.be/-cKgZrrBJ2w?t=1232

huh apparently its now part of niagara

[quiet raft]

yeah if you were to

you would find out

[zealous spire]

Hi guys, apologies if this is a nooby question but I'm struggling to find a straight answer online. I need to combine these skeletal meshes into one asset (not in runtime but as one selectable file in the editor) is there a way to do this without exporting to 3Dapp and parenting/childing the bones?

[leaden hornet]

how can i stop these 2 materials from blending this way?

i have no clue why its prioritising the grass normals but the sand color

[grim ore]

@zealous spireyou would have to do it outside of UE4

[plush yew]

Hello!

[grim ore]

@leaden hornetI know your asking why but... we have no idea what your material look like or how you are blending so the why would be you are doing it wrong?

[ocean narwhal]

So I set speed to a number.
Did get speed.
Got the character movement and did set max walk speed. Confused why it isn't changing

[leaden hornet]

ill make another screenshot

[grim ore]

@ocean narwhalits not changing because you are not learning how blueprints work, you are doing random stuff

[leaden hornet]

these are the 2 layers i use

i've set them to no weight blend

[ocean narwhal]

but isnt there learning by doing sorta thing

[leaden hornet]

weight blending is diffrent from heightblending right?

[grim ore]

@ocean narwhalsure if you are capable of doing that

[ocean narwhal]

like i now know a lot more than i did when i woke up

like you can drag stuff just into the screen

[grim ore]

but its also like saying "I can learn to drive a car" without understanding you have to turn it on first and getting confused on why its not going

you dont understand how to USE blueprints. randomly doing stuff with them to learn how they work is fine but.. you kinda need to learn how they are used first

[quiet raft]

well i never learned how to drive a car and im doing alright. what do you mean i can drive faster than 20m/h? Whats clutch? There are more than one gears?

[grim ore]

learn the flow, learn what the colors mean on nodes, learn what an execute wire is, learn why there is an execute wire

@leaden hornetyep but thats not the material, the material behind the scenes is doing the blending

hell if you are going to learn by doing then look at working blueprints in the templates and see how they are set up

[leaden hornet]

what is the name of the problem im having so i can search tutorials

thnx for helping btw

[plush yew]

Hello everyone, I'm a new game developer and recently I have started to work on my Unreal project. I'm preparing to invite one of my friends to help me with my project and was wandering how to collaborate with him. I know that unreal has Multi User Editing but it's a bit buggy. We live far from each other and we have tried github but the results are the same and aren't what I want. We have errors most of the time. Do you guys know any kind of collaboration that would work smoothly. Thank you!

[zealous spire]

@grim ore thanks mate, thought so but was hoping there was another way

[quiet raft]

i really need to drag decals on brushes, it is very annoying that i cant 😄

[grim ore]

@leaden hornet #graphics might be more help but it seems like its not using the correct normal for that layer. if you remove the normal for the grass does it used the sand normal?

[leaden hornet]

the sand and the grass are both fine if they arent layered on top

but as soon as i brush the sand over the grass this happends

but i want the sand to override the grass

so it doesnt get affected by the grass at all if its at 100% opacity

[plush yew]

Someone invited me this server and I have no idea what should I do

[grim ore]

Leave?

[fierce tulip]

too late, learn ue4 naow

[grim ore]

Could always just wait the 42 days and start learning UE5 instead

[wise trail]

42 days?

Is this for real?

[cedar wave]

Git/perforce/plastic (some kind of version control) is pretty much the standard way. If you're looking for a Google Docs like experience, not really there yet.

[plush yew]

I knew about perfore and Github but didn't know about plastic. Thank you I'll look into that

[cedar wave]

It's pretty much the same thing. Just another version control

[plush yew]

Just want to try all of them to know which one suits best for me

[cedar wave]

If you're are trying to be cheap? git + git lfs + azure

(or gitlab instead of azure)

UE recommended way? Perforce

[plush yew]

?¿

[plush yew]

okay, what can I learn?

I'm always aiming for cheap xD

[cedar wave]

I prefer Plastic over Perforce personally. Easier to work with and cheaper as well.

[plush yew]

Trying it right now. Thanks!

[river crypt]

is there a way to build for iOS using only windows pc

?

[grim ore]

not legally

[brazen venture]

can someone help me when you open settings widget and when you click the x button then it sends to main menu, and if it is opened from pause menu then when you click x it opens pause menu

[river crypt]

I see...cant believe that there is no work around

[winter portal]

Was wondering if anyone knew what could be causing this. Every time I open any game made within unreal, it just crashes after about 2 seconds with no error at all.

[wise trail]

That explains a lot

[cedar wave]

With how locked down Apple is - why would you think there is a legal one?

[wise trail]

You need a license dont you for apple?

[river crypt]

well the license is no problem, its only 99 dollars but it seems like I need a mac to actually make a build

[wise trail]

Use a vm?

[cedar wave]

Apple's whole thing is to lock you into their ecosystem

[river crypt]

yeah Im not experienced with vm

[cedar wave]

So they require you to use their stuff

[grim ore]

hence the not legally part. you can do it

[wise trail]

@river crypt Good a time as any to learn

[grim ore]

or just buy a new mac mini and do it

[wise trail]

Ye

[grim ore]

or rent a remote build service to build

[wise trail]

Something that can handle your build

[river crypt]

is there such a thing as remote build service?

[grim ore]

@brazen ventureif you plan on using the same widget for settings in game and in main menu, pass the current widget to the settings menu when you add it to your viewport/show it and then when you go to hide/remove the settings menu just show that passed menu again

[river crypt]

seems im better off just buying a mac...

[grim ore]

it is

but if your cheap or crazy or bored, then there are alternatives

if you plan on building for iOS/macOS as a real supported platform then investing in the ecosystem is the correct thing to do

[smoky timber]

Hey there guys! 👋 How's everyone doing today?
I'm stuck with an issue so I was hoping someone more experienced could help.
I have 7 languages in my game, added them all via the localization dashboard. But it seems, some languages like Russian or Chinese or Greek, some of their characters appear as question marks.
I'm using the regular roboto font UE4 uses. Does anyone know how to fix those special characters?

[grim ore]

@smoky timberthat means that character is not supported in the font, you need a supported font for that language

[smoky timber]

Is there a possibility to choose a font for particular culture?

[grim ore]

It looks like Font Families might be what you want

Sub Font Families being used for specific language/character ranges

[river crypt]

so if I have the files on my windows, I guess i cant just transfer the project with a ssd to a mac?

guess remote building would be the only option?

[grim ore]

sure you can, or you can use a shared network location, or you can use source control (you should be using source control)

[river crypt]

cool, so if I just get it up on my git then a mac user should be able to take it down no problem?

[grim ore]

yep

[plush yew]

what is that?

[grim ore]

might have some weirdness on the first commits on the mac as it builds the mac specific config files the first time and has to sync them but other than that you just need the project

[plush yew]

deleted that accidentlly

[river crypt]

awesome, thank you for the info it has really helped me out!

[steel crest]

Watch ue4 with casey, matt aspland, and ryan liley, ue4 casey is best ive seen to explain the concepts, and those others for general tutorials

[brazen venture]

can i create a new widget for a button (2) then when one from main menu is clicked just hide other button and so on?

[grim ore]

you can do that yep. From my experience the settings menus are not always the "same" between a main menu and in game menu so most of the time this wouldnt be an issue

[brazen venture]

ok

sure

[plush yew]

how do i create a new thing like this?

[brazen venture]

thanks

[grim ore]

that would be a blueprint, probably with a Character as the parent. So make a new Blueprint Class and choose Character

[potent bridge]

Question, is is possible to select what parts of a UI element can be extended? for example a health bar.

[grim ore]

extended?

[potent bridge]

if max health increases the bar gets longer

[grim ore]

sure

[potent bridge]

currently I can achieve that if the bar image is beyond a certain length, but any lower and it starts to affect one ends details

[grim ore]

the anchor would be on the left so when the bar gets longer it grows to the right.

[potent bridge]

anchor, so how would I set that?

[grim ore]

you would build it out using a box/9 patch image

look into that technique

[potent bridge]

any tutorials online for that?

[grim ore]

what that does it splits it into 9 parts, then just the far right would be moved and the middle would be filled in (the solid part so scaling it is no issue)

and anchoring is just a normal part of UMG, its where the starting point for drawing the image is set to

[plush yew]

what's wrong w that?

[grim ore]

if you look at the way the UMG button is set up you can use that as a basis

[plush yew]

this is what i get when i start

[grim ore]

and this is the technique, I am sure there is more info out there on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-slice_scaling

@plush yewis there a problem?

[plush yew]

yes, when i start w this user

this is what i get

and then boom

@grim ore

[grim ore]

well that character is empty, what are you expecting it to do?

[potent bridge]

@grim ore So for 9 patch, do I have to modify my graphics in PhotoShop and separate it?

or can you do this all in UE4

[grim ore]

no, you would just make sure its designed how you want it. It seems like its designed fine you would just use BOX for the draw as and make sure your margins are set up correctly

[potent bridge]

So this is accessed through the image asset yes?

wait.

@grim ore So in the widget, its draw type is set to box, but where would I access borders.

[grim ore]

you basically slice it in the UMG editor so its similar to this

right below box is the margin

[potent bridge]

Okay, how would I get that to display? Because otherwise its a blind guess

[grim ore]

you dont, its ablind guess lol. but as you are adjusting it your image should be adjusting in the editor

[potent bridge]

Good point

[grim ore]

I mean i dont have the source image and this is horribly bad but

[potent bridge]

I see.

[grim ore]

you can see how it just stretches in the "inside" which is fine and the edges are kept at the settings you choose for the margins

another way to visualize it is to set it to border and

you get the "inner" part as clear so you can more easily set it up

[potent bridge]

got it working, thanks as per usual Mathew, you're amazing.

[grim ore]

yay 🙂

[olive mason]

fuck it im go to unity

[fierce tulip]

have fun!

[winter portal]

I am honestly so confused, I can load the unreal engine. But if I load any game made in the unreal engine, they all crash without errors.... why?!?!

[grim ore]

If unity works for your project, go for it!

@winter portalwell this isnt a UE game support channel so we cant help

[winter portal]

Do you know where I could get support?

[potent bridge]

Or I thought it worked.

[grim ore]

from the game devs

[junior nimbus]

how do I add Unreal Engine to Visual Studio 2019 so I can package projects?

[narrow mauve]

This works perfect for 2D textures but for my volume texture it is creating a 'back and forth' effect. Almost as if I was using a sine. I am not sure how to fix it.

Ohhhhhh...I see what is happening. It's going out of a 0 to 1 range and looping over like a tiling texture coord

[zealous ridge]

Can someone please help me with implementing procedural animation in unreal engine. I couldnt find anything on youtube nor were there any articles there for ue4. Most are just showcasing their work and the tutorials are of unity.

[tawny pier]

This room has no lights and it's still bright as hell I need it dark. How do I darken it?

[zealous ridge]

Maybe you are in unlit mode

[untold yacht]

hey guys, anyone know if u can change the annimation length to a variable duration ??

[plush yew]

hi !! 😄

can anyone redirect me to the right channel please? 😄

i finely have everything to make a big ass game ; i want to make a big big big map like gta

question :
typing it :p

[tawny pier]

its not in unlit mode, it's lit.

[versed burrow]

Same lol

[plush yew]

do i need to make lots of little maps with composing and client; and after that make the bigg ass landscape with the landmass to make after i done that do i need to make more levels then like if i made my stadium do i have to make the stadium as one level in the map or an actor ? or do i need to put it on the landscape map ?

dont care if it takes long the gamer have to has the minimum performance loss of it

i think i have to make a level instead of an actor ?

[plush yew]

then do it

you have expierience when it comes to easy loading from levels?

my exp. of making that is lots of lag

its like 4 sepperent landscapes with 1 big 2med and 1 smal all migrated as one landscape(map) connected with bridges

so i mean on every landscape tile i have to make a 'level'

that means the smaller the tiles the more areadimanic things i can make ? like better light more to do more epic fights with less performance loss?

if thats correct to i thank you sir

suggest me how many tiles gta5 shall need when you gone make that ? 🙂

or me 🙂

okay; i am at 25 now 5x5 on 64 probably going to make it few times bigger

i think so to :p

[untold yacht]

https://gyazo.com/0293494c52c9abb2374d738dbcf87f12

how do i remove collision box after actor "dies" ??

oh wait

think i got it

yey fixed it X)

[quiet raft]

build will include only whats referenced in levels right?

[versed burrow]

@plush yew are u trying take a story mode game?

[quiet raft]

how to make a blueprint out of existing pp volume?

[tawny pier]

Is there a way to make a raycast ignore a certain class of object? Or make a certain class of object immune to raycasts?

[warm hornet]

What is everyone using for source control? Git? or is there a better alternative?

[pulsar badge]

@grim ore 42 days ue5?

[tawny pier]

Ok now, for some reason, when I go into a "dark" room, it starts out dark like I need it to be but then it brightens up and I need it to not do the latter.

?

I tried messing with the post process volumes and not sure exactly what setting to use for that.

[sweet axle]

The content example project on the learning page in epic has procedural animation examples and i'm pretty sure theres a procedural animation tut on the unreal channel one youtube.

[tawny pier]

I got the raycast thing working but not the light thing. There isn't a way to just make the sky light stop when it gets to an object?

[spring ether]

Evening everyone, I'm using the Beta Modelling toolkit, I can't seem to snap to the vertices on the meshes the toolkit creates. Is this possible?

[kindred viper]

@spring etheryou can vertex snap by holding V when you drag an object. Or you can use the Surface Snapping menu button near your scale/rotate/etc buttons

[umbral ferry]

where to change name of the package build

current i have windowsnoeditor

still want to change...

and i don't speak about exe name

[umbral ferry]

yeah

[tender bluff]

#https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221799337414361089/844361567897911306/unknown.png

pls help 🙂

why are my shadows so damn sharp

i cant figure it out

[umbral ferry]

do this each time 😒

[next dome]

hi, anyone know a way to fix this hair disappearing in distance? https://gyazo.com/1985bfd149633e887efeec8975fa8646

[pastel ginkgo]

Is your LOD set to 0?

[tender bluff]

so nobody has any idea how to fix my landscape shadows being sharper than a knife

[next dome]

i have the command r.ForceLOD set to 0 yes @pastel ginkgo

but it doesnt help

[pastel ginkgo]

Try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13UTK6_KaYA

[lucid grove]

Does ue4 render pawns that not in view? Culling seems to working great with static objects, but cant really tell about characters.

[next dome]

@pastel ginkgo that helped. cheers!

[robust smelt]

Guys, please help. When I swap skeletal meshes during run time, the skeleton is not updating to use the new rig proportions of the new mesh. any idea how to fix that?

[narrow mauve]

Does anyone know a studio that does networking/dedicated server stuff

[drowsy snow]

#hire-a-studio

[drowsy snow]

Also Improbable (the one who made Spatialos) have The Multiplayer Guys that offer co-development for MP stuff.
https://www.improbable.io/multiplayer-codevelopment

[autumn grail]

Can help me? i want to set the member of my struct variable but it doesnt update. i have verified the value i get from the "+" node is 37.0

I have tried in construction script and on begin play (runtime)

same result

[autumn grail]

That dont work also

in the Struct Out the value is also 37.0 which is correct

but the variable struct of my bp is not updated with this value

[late stag]

What would be a good approach for a physics based vehicle

[autumn grail]

@plush yew The problem is i want it to be precalculated in construction script

[sharp kestrel]

Is there any way to increase the CPU usage for building ue4 from the source? It is only using around 9% of the CPU, judging by what task manager is telling me, and it is taking absolutely for ever (3 hours +) and it still hasn't completed.

[polar verge]

Can Unreal Engine pull content from online?

Such as making API requests?

VaREST might be what I'm looking for.

[hollow flame]

Hello, I'm trying chaos vehicle in Unreal Engine. But the car is not moving. Can you help me?

[kindred viper]

@polar verge yeah there is a VARest plugin. Works a treat

@hollow flame you have to do the exact process it says in the Vehicle workflow documentation. Any deviation will break it

[topaz granite]

is it normal for a map level to be responsible for populating your game with a bunch of objects, like the playercharacter and UI widgets and etc? i feel like my map's "BeginPlay" event is like 35 miles long and that's probably bad...

creating objects and widgets, binding events to them, calling initialization functions on them...

[hollow flame]

@kindred viper I did the same, even looked 3 or 4 times

[kindred viper]

@topaz graniteIm not a fan of using the level blueprint for such things. It's better in a blueprint manager type class. Then it's re-usable. Otherwise you copy/paste into every level and if you change things you have to go do it in every level.

[topaz granite]

ah i see - but you do still have a sort of single "populate the level" sort of manager blueprint?

[drowsy snow]

Consider splitting it with Sequence node.

[torpid shadow]

So I have been working on a game for sometime and ran into a big error, the game crashes when certain things happen when I am playing in the viewport but not when I play in the standalone mode. I am just curious if this means it is truly playable, not sure why it works in one but not the other but I am just trying to see is this actually usable for now then.

[topaz granite]

i guess that makes it prettier at least

[drowsy snow]

What's the crash log?

[torpid shadow]

LogUObjectGlobals: Warning: Failed to find object 'Object None.None'
I get this a few times and then it tells me there has been an infinite loop detected in my save system
I was using a pack I downloaded and somehow it got corrupted and looks like it took most of my game with it, I have been trying for days to undo whatever happened but its not wanting to work

[brazen venture]

I cant build peoject becasue of this error
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): ERROR: Could not find NetFxSDK install dir; this will prevent SwarmInterface from installing. Install a version of .NET Framework SDK at 4.6.0 or higher.
PackagingResults: Error: Could not find NetFxSDK install dir; this will prevent SwarmInterface from installing. Install a version of .NET Framework SDK at 4.6.0 or higher.

[ancient lotus]

@sharp kestrel VS should compile using all your threads, linking is another story (not as multithreaded) but you should still have near 100% usage. Check and see if you have your threads limited in VS settings

@polar verge Yes, I show an example of it in this playlist using ASP.Net as the API to communicate with a database: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7m5s8xR-jg&list=PLnHeglBaPYu-H3Gqe_94oFkmn9amBXNZp&index=18&ab_channel=SneakyKittyGameDevSneakyKittyGameDev
I have another series doing the same thing but for persistence using Kotlin as the API language (much simpler) as well

[native flicker]

Hello im brand spanking new to unreal and have never worked on a game before

[ancient lotus]

Welcome

[native flicker]

ive never been able to comprehend writing code and the blueprint system looks easier for my brain

[ancient lotus]

Well if you want to give an attempt to writing in UE4 with C++ then this might help you if you have a very basic understanding of programming, this series starts you from just native C++ with no UE4, covers everything you will use in UE4, then moves you into UE4 by making very simple features
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UaQ4ZztT9U&list=PLnHeglBaPYu9FFgnYww2UC1g3F7fYWkaT

[native flicker]

alright cool

how can i tell if something i want to make is over my scale?

or what is a good first project

i want to make something to work on for a long time but simple enough to get a solid foundation for

[ancient lotus]

if its something that will take you 5+ months to make for a learning project, thats probably over your scale. start small with something simple like making a door system. you walk up to the door, press F, the door opens. then expand on that by making the door open with an overlap event/box component. then expand on that by making the door open based upon the weight of objects in the box component. then figure out how to replicate this and make it work in multiplayer. then move onto the next thing. stuff like this that has alot of tutorials for if you get stuck, it would be fairly simple for beginners, and it shows results quickly to keep you interested while allowing you to expand it

[native flicker]

I was thinking of making a 1st person turn based dungeon crawler

something that doesnt seem 2 hard

[ancient lotus]

thats not a bad option

[native flicker]

idk if its 2 ambitious but i was thinking it could be a card game as well

instead of turn based combat its a turn based card game

[ancient lotus]

against AI or multiplayer?

[native flicker]

AI

randomly generated roguelike

[ancient lotus]

go for it

[native flicker]

now the question
3d models or sprites

i could go for that 2.5 doom look

[ancient lotus]

what is the simplest for you to make

[native flicker]

i cant really draw

and 3d modeling is extremely hard to me

[next nebula]

how can I make the widget disappear when I look away?

I can take the false branch and destroy all widgets but I dont want to do that

[elfin bolt]

Remove from viewport

[next nebula]

that doesn't exist

[elfin bolt]

From parent

Remove from parent

[next nebula]

ok...

how do I reference the widget

if the branch is false

[modest trench]

sounds like you need some way of storing the last "looked at" widget?

or having the widget dissapear on its own?

[next nebula]

having the widget disappear if its no longer in the trace

[distant totem]

why doesn't advanced search syntax work in the content browser anymore? one AND two one && two ect doesn't work like it shows in the docs

[next nebula]

alright wait

I figured some stuff out

[little shard]

How does one find out the command to summon entities in different games via console? I know for example in the game Grounded you type something like summon BP_blahblah and it spawns.. another game had CH_blahblah, but this game Im trying now I dont know what character to use before the entity name. I am using UE Viewer to check out the game contents to find entity names to spawn like here

[next nebula]

ok how do I remove one specific widget now all of them

[dusk nebula]

my right click and popup menus disappear after an hour or so and I'm basically forced to restart the program. Is there a known fix for this?

[next nebula]

I figured it out

for anyone wondering

[jaunty matrix]

... wut

how is it squiggly

[honest vale]

low lightmap resolution on the floor

[jaunty matrix]

even on 1024 overridden its the same

only a bit better

[distant totem]

It's an error specific to hardware/driver combinations related to Nvidia drivers, with no clear fix from anyone. I had this happen constantly to me, but since i've updated to the latest nvidia drivers (466.47) I haven't had it happen in a very long time. Every time it happens, go reinstall your drivers from geforce now

[little shard]

Is anyone here familiar with ue4, console commands, ue viewer? Please help me with summon/spawning .. I can't figure out how to spawn in this game. Ive done it with other games.

[distant totem]

your in the wrong server, nobody will help you with breaking apart others work

[little shard]

Okay

Didnt know where to ask

[drowsy snow]

Go into the game's modding community, if it exists.

[dusk nebula]

so I've imported a few images that have transparency and I just assumed that I didn't have to do anything to make them work, because the first one just kinda did, but the others that I've imported in the same way right next to it have a black background

the differing shades of white are intentional, by the way

[drowsy snow]

Honestly felt like I'm condemning where I came from everytime I yeeted out a newb asset ripper or modder, but then again, this server isn't condone both things out of respect to the creators.

[dusk nebula]

I also looked and none of the image settings are different

[prime willow]

what term would i be looking for to create a system

where you have an inventory

and you can swamp out the outfits your characters wear in the inventory

and the outfit worns changes

;O;

[dusk nebula]

like a wardrobe?

or loadouts, classes, builds

[prime willow]

yeah like a wardrobe

not classes and loadouts lord no im not there yet

just the clothing o-o

[drowsy snow]

Modular characters?
Equipments?

[prime willow]

yeah i guess

like how characters can change weapons

and the model of it changes

but for clothing

[drowsy snow]

You can repurpose equipment system for swapping clothing.

[prime willow]

so you can chan ge your fashion on the fly

granted i might want to add mechancis and systems to the clothing on a piece by piece level

but in general idk the term for what i should look for to make a clothing change system that is tied to your inventory which wuld be a widget setup o-o

[drowsy snow]

Well, again, equipment system is your clue.

[prime willow]

okie so there isnt a special type for clothng

i was just hoping i wasnt fluffing it up by using something like a modular compenent system for clothing with cloth physics o-o;

[drowsy snow]

Clothing physics only affect the mesh so code wise it won't affect the backend systems.

[prime willow]

:3

thanksiexs ❤️

[drowsy snow]

Feel free to HMU if you need more assistant, maybe on setting it up or things to adapt later on.

[prime willow]

yes yes ❤️

youre honestly precious and i hope to be as useful to you as you have been to me one day!

[untold yacht]

https://gyazo.com/ed06f163194d50526f519000c1ab5618

hey guys i think this is getting the wrong rotation can u se sometihng wrong ?

[next nebula]

how can I set my integer to a random number between 1 and 10...

[clever axle]

Hey everyone!
I'm trying to CalculateFrequencySpectrum for an audio stream. I hooked up a source bus as my sound wave input but the output of the node is empty. I'm trying to figure it out from the code but I can't find the node in the source code. Any help with this please?

[drowsy snow]

Random Int In Range

[drowsy snow]

I guess #audio could help

[clever axle]

I'll try there too but this is more of a general problem because I wanted to look into the source but can't find it

[kindred viper]

@clever axle it should give you an array of peak data. So I would first make sure the array is valid, then loop the array for each entry

[clever axle]

@kindred viper it works if I just plug in a legit wave file

[next nebula]

Hoodie guy I looked into that a little and I cannot see to find what im looking for

1 sec

[clever axle]

but it doesn't when I hook it up with a source bus

[kindred viper]

yes it wants a sound wave asset

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/SoundVisualization/CalculateFrequencySpectrum/index.html

[next nebula]

thing is I want to check if the random int is a certain number

by having an ==

[clever axle]

@kindred viper well yes, that's what I'm doing: https://i.imgur.com/rtfWOdh.png

but the out spectrum is empty

[next nebula]

ah wait I think I understand it

[clever axle]

So I wanted to debug it to see what's the input even

but I can't find it in the UE4 source

[kindred viper]

that is a stream source. Have you checked if it's a terminated stream source? ie. UDP = non terminated. TCP = terminated. RTMP isn't terminated unless im mistaken.

[clever axle]

https://i.imgur.com/QBFMT8i.png

@kindred viper huh. that's good info. No I haven't. It's most likely UDP I would think.

[kindred viper]

yeah I remember having to hack that with Flash. In fact, I was the first person to hack that when people thought it couldn't be done 🙂

I took the data and inserted /0 at the packet size I needed for it to play in a browser

[clever axle]

@kindred viper damn, bruh, can you help me through this? Most of my game concept hinges on being able to analyze audio streams

[kindred viper]

hmm an access violation there seems like something else is wrong. Can you post a log to pastebin?

[clever axle]

@kindred viper I've actually just now seen some log messages I didn't before. one sec

The debugger just gave me those. Hadn't have them before:
LogOutputDevice: Error: Ensure condition failed: AudioBusPtr.IsValid() [File:C:/dev/UE_4.26_source/Engine/Source/Runtime/AudioMixer/Private/AudioMixerSourceManager.cpp] [Line: 465]

and

LogActorComponent: UnregisterComponent: (/Engine/Transient.World_1:PersistentLevel.BP_Ship_C_0.MediaSound.AudioComponent_0) Not registered. Aborting.

so it appears the media sound component that plays back the stream is not registered (not sure this actually has something to do with this) and also the audio bus is invalid

[kindred viper]

indeed

[dusk nebula]

I'm still having an issue where some of my images with transparency are applying it automatically and others aren't

[clever axle]

@kindred viper ok, during the testing I shredded the audio bus but it's back now. The output is still empty though

and this is the line I get when trying to navigate to the source: LogSelectionDetails: Warning: NavigateToFunctionSource: Unable to find symbols for 'USoundVisualizationStatics::CalculateFrequencySpectrum' []

[kindred viper]

hmm I can't say that that error is. Seems like it needs something to reference it in memory but it doesn't have it. Why though? I can't say. I'd have to deep dive

[clever axle]

ok.. Meanwhile someone over in #audio told me to try AddSpectralAnalysisDelegate which I'm doing right now

[prime willow]

is there a way to export a model from unreal to blender

and keep the shape keys :3

i cant seem to figure it out

[dim merlin]

Hi, anyone knows any tutorial or example asset is around to archive a post process grid material like this :

[kindred viper]

@prime willow Yes but you have to make sure "Apply Modifiers" is unchecked on the export

[drowsy snow]

Also don't forget to check Import Morph Targets when importing the FBX to Unreal.
It's hidden and disabled by default, so it's rather easy to miss.

[hollow flame]

I am having a problem with the chaos vehicle. Can you help me?

[drowsy snow]

#legacy-physics

[hollow flame]

Oh sorry

[plush yew]

how do i copy my map to other project?

[kindred viper]

migrate it

[fierce tulip]

select it, migrate

[dark berry]

Can someone help me out?
I know it's something I've done before, but I can't figure it out, nor can I figure it out on Google.

How do I change the appearance of a material in the asset browser from displaying on a sphere to being a flat image?

[plush yew]

thank you!

[stray ruin]

if you click view options in bottom right of browser there is an edit thumbnail mode, can use left and right mouse to adjust not sure if any other ways

[dark berry]

Thanks for the suggestion! But that's not what I'm looking for. 🙂

[drowsy snow]

I think it's "hard" set depending on the material type.

Surface materials defaults to sphere, Volume materials defaults to cube (I think, volumetric materials rarely appears on preview), UI materials defaults to plane.

[plush yew]

i did it, it just copied the folders and not these files

[fierce tulip]

if they arent placed in the level, obviously they wont migrate with it

[stray ruin]

you can change it from a sphere to flat image with that not sure if thats what you wanted exactly thou

[dark berry]

I'm starting to think you're right, and it's just changed position since I last used it in a much older version of UE4. Thanks! 👍

[stray ruin]

[coral wasp]

HI

[mellow whale]

hey

can someone help me with something? I have a blueprint not working right

[lofty ridge]

i have an project to make a solar system, can someone tell me where to get the materials for it

[fierce tulip]

nasa

[obsidian nimbus]

a real solar system? 😛

[kindred viper]

its true. My first ever 3dsmax full scene was a solar system and I took all my images from NASA because they were high resolution 😄

[obsidian nimbus]

good thing a solar system is mostly empty

so with an empty scene u have 99% done

[lean kernel]

Hi. I'm currently trying the Localization Dashboard.
I have 2 cultures setup (en, de).
I gathered all texts.
Added translations for 2 entries.
But my UMG WIdget (that is linked) is not changing.
In Selected Viewport I see de translation
In Standalone Game I see en translation.
I'm changing Current Language and Locale on key pressed.
But nothing changes.

What could be wrong?

[coral wasp]

Quixel... Substance

[obsidian nimbus]

cuz its free 😛

[coral wasp]

The Starter Content pack? it doesn't matter . it like 1000000 steps to finish your development , and you're taking the first step now.

[graceful onyx]

Hey! I'm currently learning the basics of Unreal Engine via a tutorial series (FPS Game by DevSquad). Can you suggest a subject i could focus on after im done with that series? I would like to jump into Niagara but maybe i need some experience in Animating and Vertex Painting?

[fierce tulip]

you'll learn those along the way once you want more challenging stuff to do in niagara

[graceful onyx]

ah, got it.

So there is no specific path i should take learning?

[covert onyx]

hello, currently rendering for a project on UE 4.26.2, I noticed that my flag simulation was doing anything but when I run the simulation mode on Unreal, my flag works perfectly. I'm using the new UE render mode (movie render queue), do you have any ideas?

[native bough]

Is there a way that unreal engine start early I have core I7 8gb ram Intel 620 graphic card... I have nothing to do with graphics just game mechanics

[plush yew]

i want this barrel to animate

so i need to use timeline

then ?

[plush yew]

i think u should remove the burden on the processor

might work

[late stag]

I am going to start working on a realistic driving game but i cant figure out to either do it in blueprints and which template to use.

[plush yew]

how is this i just tried first time

[late stag]

is someone able to help

[plush yew]

which material is best for canon

[fierce tulip]

@late stag could you please read the #rules thanks.

[fresh geode]

hey guys! I have a pushable object and would like to add sound to it, whenever it moves, can someone give me an idea for a setup?

[plush yew]

what is this ?

[young garden]

I try to rotate this from the top, but It keep rotate it from the center. I just want to use af cube. How can I change the rotation center (pivot) of the default EU4 Cube. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77sQp2qMHuQ
This is not working:

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Chi Long Qua#8014 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[plush yew]

i cant delete folders in my contents folder

[stray ruin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEE2NCrJlc this video will give u an idea

[plush yew]

hi 😄

its about getting hundreds of houses on your world, make the houses and make is as an actor; it explained a big house van be 3 actors; i understand that

the white popup i don't understand 100% what he means can anyone tell me simple please? 🙂

ow i understand now haha lol :p

[lofty ridge]

i cant see planar reflection when i hit play or G, why is that, how to help it?

[radiant sun]

Do you know that way how you find a level on the marketplace... And then you just excitedly stare at the droplets going down the glass windows like a little kid, marvelling at how amazing the graphics are?

[small vault]

Has anyone run into issues with HLODs continuing to bake even though they are disabled in world settings? I'm stumped on it but its costing me a lot of time now. I found some old threads on the UE forums but no resolution unfortunately

[digital anchor]

planar reflection has a preview, but to see ingame you need something reflective near it

you may find some backups at project/saved/autosaves/, but start using #source-control to not lose more work

[keen beacon]

you just answered your own question

[gray mauve]

is there any easy way to make a timed lap system in unreal?

unreal's racing game tutorial on youtube is overly complicated

[grim ore]

is it overly complicated or is complicated enough to get the job done?

[gray mauve]

i dont know man, I tried following their videos but even the comment section is full of complaints about how nothing is working

[grim ore]

which tutorial series is this?

also the Vehicle learn project on the launcher has a checkpoint/lap time system you could look at

[fierce tulip]

so, unless the mesh I import is a 100x100x100 square mesh, it just wont have collision for some reason.
simple as complex, complex as simple and anything in between results in no collision.

nothing is showing up as collision either, even when generating in ue4

[digital anchor]

can u drop the fbx

[gray mauve]

damn it does? i'll check it out

[fierce tulip]

im starting to think its a .26 bug or something.
seems to work on .25

[digital anchor]

works fine here in 4.26, so i guess its settings related

1sec

[fierce tulip]

would be odd though, because when i import a regular cube with same settings it works right away

[ember walrus]

Hi Hi guys, is it fine to use the billboard component as a clickable target in a turn based game?

[digital anchor]

was looking if the fbx had UCX stuff but youre generating in UE right? unless generate missing collision is off it should work fine

[fierce tulip]

@digital anchor delving deeper, it seems to be something with the folder im importing into, importing to another folder seems to work

O_o

[gray mauve]

nah m8 it doesnt have a checkpoint lap time system

[fallow hornet]

Is there an alternative to using depth fade for an opaque material?

Could you achieve the same thing using a fresnel?

[limber oracle]

Anyone an idea when unreal 5 is released?

[fallow hornet]

@limber oracle next year

[grim ore]

@gray mauveI played it before I replied, there are checkpoints as you go around the track and it keeps track of your fastest lap time

what are you looking for?

[fallow relic]

Under the triangles Tab, select Edit Mats. You can then add as many material slots as you want. Select the triangles, make sure to set the "selected material slot" id to the desired slot and then hit assign selected material.

[gray mauve]

im playing it rn bro, it just lets you drive around. No checkpoint or laptime system

[grim ore]

I didnt say the vehicle template

[gray mauve]

oh mb

[grim ore]

a lap timer system shouldnt be too difficult to implement if you break it down into the parts. A blueprint with a collision is all that is needed to trigger it. a variable that holds the current time when it starts, then the time when the collision is overlapped, then subtracting them to get lap time, then comparing that to the last fastest time, then storing a new starting time for the next lap should be enough

[gray mauve]

btw this is the series i had been following for like 8 parts and its super confusing and honestly not a great deal of help

[grim ore]

that would be about 4 years old so it make sense it might have issues right now

but the concept should still be solid

[gray mauve]

perhaps should've just made my game inside unity

[grim ore]

you would have the same issue trying to follow a 4 year old tutorial without any engine experience

the choice of game engine doesnt magically solve core issues

[quaint snow]

guys, does anyone know what's the pprooblem here?
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property None_ExecuteUbergraph_Demo_RefProperty". Blueprint: Demo Function: Execute Ubergraph Demo Graph: EventGraph Node: Play

[gray mauve]

i meant like tutorials would be easier to find and learn

[native flicker]

im extremely confused on where to start

in ue4

[grim ore]

they could be. Maybe take a few hours and try to do the same thing in Unity, maybe its better for your project

@quaint snowthere should be links to click on in the error to take you to the problem.

@native flickerread the pinned messages in this channel. go to learn.unrealengine.com and start with the your first hour or introduction to UE4 courses. Randomly start pushing buttons in the editor. Open up the content examples and explore. How YOU learn is up to you

[quaint snow]

oh, yeah there is. I clicked on a Play link that took me to blueprint graph. It seems the problem is here, but i'm new to UE so i don't know what to do exactly 😦

[grim ore]

show the graph and the error, a screenshot

its hard to just guess based on the error description

[quaint snow]

that's the graph

[grim ore]

so what is Unknown?

it has a warning

there is a very good chance if this is an older project in a new version of the engine it's broke, matinee has been deprecated for years

[quaint snow]

yeah, i think it's an older project, just downloaded it online and imported the map to my project

[grim ore]

yep so what is this project?

[quaint snow]

it's Urban City

[gray mauve]

yo matthew, i just found an unlisted video series from 2017 about checkpoints

[grim ore]

yeah you need to remove that reference its bad now

[grim ore]

yeah that would be the older version, the one you listed was updated. notice the description about 4.8

[gray mauve]

yeah, so should i try following this or would it be a bad idea?

[grim ore]

@quaint snowif you just want to use the map, remove the nodes connected to Event Begin Play

this unlisted list is OLDER than the one you said doesnt work....

[velvet palm]

Need any Landscape mobile MasterMaterial.

[quaint snow]

nice, it did solve 🙂

btw, what was that mantinee actor?

did it got replaced by another thing in current versions?

[grim ore]

matinee was the older system used to animate/make in game cutscenes. It was replaced with Sequencer and disabled in newer versions

[quaint snow]

ah i see

if i'd like to make that nodes linked to BeginPlay to work, you should i do with them?

like replace that Play node targeting Mantinee for a Sequencer?

[grim ore]

you would have to allow the engine to open the matinee, then convert it over to a sequence, then tell it to play the sequence. I know there is a converter in the engine or its being worked on but honestly have never touched it

you would also have to figure out what that matinee was in the first place to see if it is even something you want

[nimble sand]

Guys I'm not an unreal dev but

how are rigs managed in Unreal?

because in games like Valorant

there's indefinite number of characters and indefinite (aka huge) number of weapons

do they manually make these rigs for each character (and each weapon)

im not sure how things in UE work

[grim ore]

did you check out any information about that?

[nimble sand]

google got nothn

[grim ore]

tons for me, but you can share an animation setup between multiple meshes as a simple way of doing it

or yeah if the skeleton is going to be unique you have a different skeleton

and there is no such thing as unlimited, you have set limits.

[nimble sand]

by unlimited i meant varying

uh also

waht if the skeletons are the same?

[grim ore]

then they can share an animation setup

[nimble sand]

how does UE handle merging of gun armatures and character armatures

[grim ore]

you can merge them, or just not merge them

[nimble sand]

wdym

[grim ore]

you can merge multiple meshes at runtime to make one animated mesh, or you can just keep them seperate and play the animation back

[nimble sand]

ah i see

[grim ore]

or you could have the weapon do it's own animations while the players legs do it's own while the hat does it's own while the backpack does it's own while

[nimble sand]

so a skeleton for everything

[grim ore]

could be, could not be. depends on your project

[nimble sand]

whats the most ideal way

[fierce tulip]

@digital anchor reimporting them with the same mesh and with a duplicate mesh (but with ucx_ prefix) acting as its collision works...
no clue how/what/why works properly in other folders/project/versions

[grim ore]

maybe you use vertex animation for everything because your project has a million characters

there is no ideal way, your project dictates your tech

[nimble sand]

hm alr

thanks

[digital anchor]

yeah, never seen this happening tbh

[heavy sail]

Cannot build modules while Unreal Engine is running - please build through your IDE

[fierce tulip]

@umbral ferry please read the #rules and post that in #work-in-progress

[umbral ferry]

ok

[late stag]

hey im not able to add this asset to my project i am using 4.26 choas

[umbral harness]

Is learn.unrealengine.com having cloudflare issues for anyone else?

[late stag]

nvm

[topaz kelp]

works fine for me

huh, looks like they really expanded the amount of courses since last i checked

[grim ore]

@umbral harnesswhen did you have the issue?

[umbral harness]

I'm having it right now

Guessing it's something wrong with my wonky internet

[grim ore]

Where are you located in the world?

[umbral harness]

Sweden

[grim ore]

There was an issue earlier they thought was resolved, I will let them know 🙂

[umbral harness]

I had it earlier today but then it started working for an hour or two, and now it's back :/

[grim ore]

gotcha, I let them know. hopefully they can look into it

what country?

[steel crest]

Progress bar/stats/xp question, is their anything out there that is easy to implement to replace simple progress bars with the hex/octagon type things to display several things at once? Or is it easy to kinda make from scratch? If theirs anything related to this available please let me know

To clarify, replace eg. several bars that go from 1-10, say xp 2, strength6, and speed 4, and make it (triangle in this case) the multiple side shape, with a fill corresponding to that value

[heavy sail]

me after deleting the sky

[amber dune]

when exporting fbx from blender, how do you stop the origin being the center of scene and be the origin of the actual object youre exporting?

[grim ore]

you move the item to the world origin in blender and export it out that way

thats just how it works 😦

[amber dune]

ahh yeh ive been doing that, was hoping there was an easier way

instead of moving everything back to the center:S

[grim ore]

you can adjust the origin on import if that is easier

[amber dune]

probably not, if i have to enter it manuaully

[grim ore]

yep, work either way lol

[amber dune]

boooo

would be nice if the export tool would just move the object to the center before export then back to is original position

[dusk nebula]

hi, could someone tell me how to set up transparency on images in a UI?

it just kinda worked for the first one I imported but now it doesn't

[grim ore]

@amber duneI actually was just going to comment on that, a post I just read says a studio does just that lol. They have a script that they use that duplicates the object, moves it to origin, exports it out, then deletes the duplicate

@dusk nebulayour texture would have transparency on it and it will use it, otherwise your material will be set up with transparent parts

[brazen venture]

My build failed idk maybe license expired

[grim ore]

well you need to uninstall incredibuild if you didnt pay for it, but thats not the error

[brazen venture]

how to do it?

[grim ore]

c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler intermediate file: 'C:\Users\Lietot�?js\Documents\Unreal Projects\MyProject - kopija\Intermediate\Build\Win64\MyProject\Shipping\Core\SharedPCH.Core.h.pch': No such file or directory

your user name where your project is stored has characters the editor does not like

[brazen venture]

of frick

[grim ore]

you uninstall it the same way you installed it, with visual studio installer

[brazen venture]

i have to unnistall ue4

?

[grim ore]

for project folders you should try and put them as close to root as you can, not in your documents if you have a choice, and you should not use - symbol

you dont need to uninstall UE4, you need to uninstall Incredibuild from your Visual Studio Installer

[brazen venture]

Oh ok

[amber dune]

@grim ore cool, i might look into writing a script myself

[brazen venture]

only increbuild?

[grim ore]

yes incredibuild is an issue

[brazen venture]

i unnistalled it but same error

should i restart ue4

[grim ore]

the error has nothing to do with incredibuild

incredibuild was a warning and different, your issue is your project is in a bad location

[brazen venture]

oh

when i updated from 2017 o 2019 vsc then everything broke

ITs VSC bug or UE4?

[late stag]

does advanced vehicle system have good physics?+

aorry

[stray ruin]

@grim oreIve seen 100s of your videos and learned a ton from them, just wanted to say you did a great job on them

[grim ore]

@brazen ventureyou should move your project folder, and rename it, to try and fix this issue.

[brazen venture]

Will it not break anything?

[grim ore]

if you move the project folder, no it should be fine everything inside of it is inside of it

[brazen venture]

Oh ok thanks!

[crystal pine]

Why is it so difficult to render a still image in UE4? It's like rocket science..

[dusk nebula]

could somebody help me figure something out? I'm trying to destroy one of a group of actors on an input, but I don't know how to store a reference to each one in order to destroy them individually

in this case it actually doesn't matter what order they're destroyed in, so I figured I could use an array but I just don't know how

[grim ore]

how are you keeping track of the actors?

[dusk nebula]

I'm storing a reference after spawning

I like your vids btw

I can destroy one but then I get an error after closing if I attempt more than one

[grim ore]

are you trying to destroy just one of them, or all of them?

[dusk nebula]

I'm trying to destroy one per input, which I'll later change to be another action

[grim ore]

but it doesnt matter which ones? just say you spawn 10 then input you want one of the 10 destroyed so 9 are left?

[dusk nebula]

yeah it doesn't matter because they're all functionally the same

[grim ore]

then after you spawn you should be Add them to an array

and on input you check if the array length is more than 0 and then get the first one from the array and destroy it if it is

[dusk nebula]

so I'd use Make Array with one pin going from that reference to the actor?

[grim ore]

your array would already be a variable, you wouldn't be making it just adding to it

[dusk nebula]

okay so the array needs to be a variable already

let me try this really quickly then

[grim ore]

you probably also need to add to the end of that a Remove Index so it removes the now blank entry from the array

or you could first remove the item from the array then destroy it

[dusk nebula]

am I missing some simple way to get one item from an array?

it destroys all of them at once because I referenced the array

I don't think I could use random array item because the remove node would randomize again

[brazen venture]

I have tried everything still the same error. Is it VSC bug?

[dusk nebula]

I actually figured out that I needed to just use a get node on the first item. Thanks for helping me

[grim ore]

@brazen ventureshow the error log again

[grim ore]

welp all you did was move it from one folder with the issue to another...

fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler intermediate file: 'C:\Users\Lietot�?js\Desktop\deleting this folder will couse death of you\egreefes\Intermediate\Build\Win64\MyProject\Shipping\Core\SharedPCH.Core.h.pch': No such file or directory

its still under your user folder which is the issue

make a folder in your root drive (C:) and call it Projects, then move the project into there

and remove all the silly stuff, spaces should not be in a project name

[brazen venture]

Oh ok

[wise trail]

Is there an easier way to get resources for a source build instead of installing a binary launcher for ue4?

[grim ore]

what resources?

[wise trail]

Plugins, assets

From the ue4 market

[grim ore]

third party sites like gumroad would be about it, if you want the official stuff then not really

[wise trail]

Hmm

Okay then ty

[ember geode]

Anyone down to make a dark souls VR game?

[young garden]

I try to rotate this from the top, but It keep rotate it from the center. I just want to use af cube. How can I change the rotation center (pivot) of the default EU4 Cube. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77sQp2qMHuQ
This is not working:

This is not working

[grim ore]

@young gardenyou would have to import your own item with the corrected pivot, or use the new modeling toolkint to change the pivot on the item you are using, or make it all in a blueprint with a corrected scene component as the new pivot

[young garden]

So I can't use the UE4 cube

[grim ore]

you can if you "use the new modeling toolkit to change the pivot on the item you are using, or make it all in a blueprint with a corrected scene component as the new pivot"

[young garden]

Thx a lot. What is the easiest way

[grim ore]

probably using the modeling toolkit to do it in editor since you dont have to leave

[young garden]

Ok thx a lot. I'll try that.

[grim ore]

you could even just make a box using the modeling tools and it will automatically put the pivot on the edge it is snapped to

now with that all said, based on your screenshots I would have personally just done all of this inside a standalone blueprint (code, meshes, etc.) and this wouldnt have been an issue

[young garden]

Perfect I will try modling

[young garden]

But it does the same if I use af cube in a standalone blueprint

[grim ore]

when you put stuff in a blueprint you can have parents and children, using scene roots as parents you can make new "pivot" points

with this code it would rotate the root (which is the scene component) which rotates the child based on its location to it (moved down so its new "pivot" is on the top)

using scene components to offset/move where stuff is/layout stuff is pretty normal

also all your code is inside here, not in the level blueprint which makes re using this stuff easier. plus level blueprints are evil

[young garden]

It get this error

[grim ore]

yep you are targetting something with your code, a scene component, mine doesnt it targets the actor itself (read the second line on the blueprint node, the smaller words)

[young garden]

OIC

[wintry raptor]

Whats up with the extra column when importing a CSV into a Data Table?

[grim ore]

that would be the index, its basically an array under the hood

[wintry raptor]

Are you responding to me Mathew?

[grim ore]

yes

[wintry raptor]

There's 2 index columns though. When you import a CSV, the first column is set up to be the index.

[grim ore]

on your file that you import your first column is the row name

[wintry raptor]

Scratch that, you're right.

[young garden]

That was the solution . Thanks a lot.

[wintry raptor]

I guess since I'm using 1-X integer values as my "Row Names" it looks weird, but if I were using strings, it would make more sense.

[grim ore]

you can re order your rows, if you did that then it would make more sense

[wintry raptor]

yeah i just changed the test rows to 2 4 6 and it cleared it up immediately

thanks

[inner cloak]

Hey guys, i'm doing the Wall Climbing tutorial from Crocopede, thing is, it does not work where it should turn green when getting close to the mesh !!!

it does this when getting to the wall

[dusk nebula]

does anyone know where I could find some good assets for a progress bar?

[inner cloak]

What features do you see on the progress bar?

[grim ore]

are you expecting the red horizontal capsule to go green? My guess is its not colliding which is why its red. make sure its collision settings match the other ones

[inner cloak]

That is the thing, it should be colliding .. maybe there is some setting i dont thing of !

[grim ore]

check the collision settings then

[ember geode]

100% it's collision setting.

Been there done that.

[inner cloak]

Pretty sure it is, but it seems to be hiding in some blueprint graph section or such

also, the vertical one does work properly

[grim ore]

yep just check the collision settings tabbing back and forth between them to see what might be different. or maybe copy the one that works and paste it and rotate it and see what happens

[inner cloak]

Argh .. i feel dumb .. found the issue:

[untold yacht]

https://gyazo.com/1d73653d51d6552717f5728fbd598764

hey how do i get destination to a "player character" this is inside the enemies "Bp"

[small basin]

I'm trying to use an "Instanced Static Mesh" component, but if I add an instance the scaling gets weird:

Why would the spawned instance no longer be scaled (1,1,1) but (1, .99, .99)?

[grim ore]

its probably 1, its just a floating point error

[inner cloak]

in the video i follow, there is a green ball showing .. how do i get that ?

[drowsy snow]

Floating point error

[grim ore]

@inner cloakyou do have it, its the hit location. your screenshot showed it on the top of the mesh n the vertical trace

[inner cloak]

yes, it does on the top, but not the side