ue4-general

[fickle ridge]

What's the max map size in unreal?
Like, is it possible to make a 400km square map, multiplayer?

[acoustic sleet]

Hello guys, does anyone know how to activate multigpu use in the editor. I assumed it was a new feature for 4.26, but the only place ive seen possible access to it is through console variables, but when i try to activate it there, i get a message saying its "read only" . Please can someone advise me on the best way to go about this.

[drowsy snow]

400km^2 map is possible, but not multiplayer.
World Origin Rebasing is not possible to replicate across client without complicated workarounds.

[fickle ridge]

What's the largest map size you can do, multiplayer?

[median sandal]

heya, I'm having some issues with lighting in unreal engine, I recently switched to unreal so I am kinda lost, can someone help me?

[bitter viper]

the further you move away from the world origin, the more bugs and arteffects you will encounter.

[fickle ridge]

Why haven't they made a workaround for that?

Like didn't they imagine people having worlds bigger than like 100mk sq? lmao

[drowsy snow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HBR8Z7gslg

[plush yew]

How could I export render target as an image?

[drowsy snow]

Make a texture out of it and export it as TGA

[pseudo river]

what the heck does the engine store in the virtual memory page file after build has ended

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow It needs to be done outside the editor, ingame.

[random pagoda]

When they update projects like ShooterGame where do they post the patch notes. Im working in the project and I swear the editor is freaking out every 30 min. I cant pull off blueprint pins or click on drop down tabs.. Its getting annoying

[exotic radish]

Say I want to have a global TMap<FDataTableRowHandle, FMyDataTableRow> LoadedItems as a sort of caching system for data tables. Where would be the best place to keep it to access from different actors and components? Is having an actor that serves as a container for this TMap and referencing it and just placing it in levels a bad idea?

[prime willow]

I return~

[drowsy snow]

bing bong

[native bough]

Any body have idea on how to make in game tutorial like when player install tell him click here etc

[drowsy snow]

If it's a game with stage based map (not open world streaming), you can drop in few BP actors that shows tutorial prompts when the player triggers something or after a cutscene ends (I think Sequencer's Director BP can facilitate this)

[prime willow]

o/

[toxic birch]

Hey, I have this node structure right now and it keeps erroring saying that the widget from "create Ally Spawn Chat Widget" wasn't found to execute the remove from parent node. Now I know why it couldn't find it because it didn't even show it in the begin place but it's still erroring for some reason.

or actually

maybe i should move the true to add and false to remove

rather than true to create and add

[marble delta]

You're most likely going to find it best to store the return of CreateWidget in your own variable that you can pass to RemoveFromParent instead of trying to attach the Remove directly to the create. It's usually good practice to not directly wire things together that aren't within the same chain of execution.

[old nimbus]

So basically, my Unreal Editor simply stops responding when I try to load or place this particular tree asset, which is used in Unreal Sensei's 4 hour beginner tutorial

[shell surge]

hey guys, anyone here that is selling stuff on the marketplace ? I need some help

[plush yew]

How do i call find function on this array to find the index of the current level name

[plush yew]

how do i add 1 to result

[worldly lynx]

How can I do this in C++? I did but I get some errors

[marble delta]

Because that function is not static. You've got to find your mesh component instance an then call the function on it.
Like: Mesh->HideBoneByName( .... );

[worldly lynx]

thanks

[plush yew]

how do i add acceleration multipliyer to my player

cmc ?

i am confused

[radiant sun]

Is it possible to get the variable name that you put into an array?

[exotic thicket]

I don't think so, when you put values into arrays, all it does it is copies the value. It doesn't save any info about where the value came from

Why do you need to do that? It's not really something that you'd typically need... but if you really need it for something, you could use a struct which you fill with the variable name information along the actual value (but it still sounds pretty weird)

[radiant sun]

For an objective system, I'm trying to optimise it as much as possible 😅

[ivory gulch]

Can someone tell me why Unreal is not importing certain parts of a FBX mesh modeled in blender? The export settings were alright

[radiant sun]

Guess I could go a simple route and just compare it to a variable though, would be easier lol

[toxic birch]

Hola! When I try to add something from the vault to my project it gives me this warning which says that it already exists but I don't see it in the content tab or anywhere in the project (Ex: As a mannequin or Anims)

I did restart the engine couple of times btw

[radiant sun]

My advice would be, copy the project, then just replace them. It means that if it breaks anything you can easily go back ☺️

You could also search for paragon in the search bar

[toxic birch]

I just tried both, they still don't show up

[radiant sun]

Were your normals all the right way around?

And did you apply all modifiers

[toxic birch]

My other imported model (Paragon Kwang) is in the content browser and can use in all aspects of the engine but I tried adding two others and they just don't wanna show up

[river crypt]

quick question: does anyone know if the imposter system is good for mobile projects?

It does reduce the verts/triangles which is obs amazing but im wondering if it adds more materials to render?

[honest vale]

great

the editor just decided to delete all animation asset references in my animation blueprint

whoop de doo

[runic iron]

Apparently fortnite uses them for mobile but you should probably try both and monitor performance for your particular project : https://shaderbits.com/blog/octahedral-impostors/

For mobile we limit impostors to 1024 textures across the board. In the ASTC format, the 1024s use 341kb each. So on mobile the total texture memory cost is 8.1mb. So when you look at the numbers that way, switching to impostors DID save memory for mobile and everybody else paid a few megs to look nicer.

[cyan bronze]

Im making a fps game WITH C++ and atm im adding projectile shooting and i want to ask that do i add the shoot function to the gun or the player, which is better way in UE4 because in unity i had the gun do the shooting but i need to get the player inputs to the gun somehow so how do i do this

[pseudo river]

how do i disable lumin to stop this

[river crypt]

hm ok it might not be viable if you want to create over 20+ impostors since it might add extra size

[pastel ginkgo]

How do I freeze this static mesh so it doesn't move?

[river crypt]

which stat command shows the vert/poly count in viewport?

[plush yew]

can I keep all content for a map in the same folder and drag and drog everything under the same path in UED?

It's easy to get lost with so many folders and subfolders

I use xxx_yyy_zzz_ssss .... naming conventing for all my files

[tribal prairie]

Hi, everybody) The problems came from nowhere I didn't expect.) I turn on the simulation and the capsule falls into the previous bone. Has anyone ever had this?😤

[unique kraken]

anyone knows how i can update the construction script of a bp based on another bp?

[plush yew]

I have a character I wanna put another piece of clothing on

how should I go about that

[unique kraken]

hmmm

wdym by parent function?

also found this node here

wonder if it does what i want, cant get it to work though

[bleak drum]

hey. is there a place where i can find some clothing/gear for my game? any specific keywords i should use? (for my items)

[unique kraken]

yea reading that but i have 2 different bp´s

this here talkes about beeing a child wich isnt the case

i have variables im chainging on one bp, and then the other one needs to update the construction script

[dense gazelle]

Hi everyone. How would I go about making AI navigate a procedural level made from static meshes? I have a dynamic navmesh set up and it shows in simulation but the AI will not move

[plush yew]

guys, how to calculate tangents for a mesh which I import to my scene in runtime? I have some artifacts on normal map.

[brave niche]

Me trying to launch the UE Editor I built from source

UE:

So wait, I press UEEditor.exe and it lets me create a new project

then when I select my stuff, it send me to visual studio and closes the editor

do I need to build a new editor for this project?

[radiant sun]

\UE_4.25\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor.exe

That's what you should be looking for to launch UE4 🙂

If it doesn't work, try verifying the installation

[plush yew]

i dont understand this lool

[brave niche]

Verify installation? It built overnight

[solemn arrow]

Turn Off realtime preview

[brave niche]

@radiant sun the highlighted project was created from the editor, but the editor will close after I create it. So I reopen the editor and click on it here

[gentle ivy]

you need to set your startup project as your game not UE4

[solemn arrow]

Can someone help me with this? The skeleton looks off from camera!

[gentle ivy]

in visual studio

[brave niche]

Oh? Okay

[gentle ivy]

yeah otherwise it launches the UE4 editor

[brave niche]

Do I need to flip that every time I make a new project?

[gentle ivy]

yes

[brave niche]

wow, that's cumbersome and unfun

lol

[gentle ivy]

its just once per install

if you don't like it you can use visual studio code or another IDE that doesn't do that.

(unless you delete your .vs folder)

[brave niche]

I tried opening after I changed my startup project. Do I need to rebuild it?

[gentle ivy]

yeah hit the local windows debugger play button

[brave niche]

kk

[gentle ivy]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DevelopmentSetup/VisualStudioSetup/index.html have you gone through this?

[toxic birch]

Anyone knows the solution here?

[gentle ivy]

The files are there

[toxic birch]

Well, it says they are but I don't see where

[gentle ivy]

Add it to a blank project

[toxic birch]

It's not only that one, anything I add from the vault does the same thing even though I imported one earlier today and it worked

So I don't know how that messed up

[gentle ivy]

maybe the folder is marked as read only or such

[brave niche]

I clicked the local windows debugger button and it seems to be building another Development Editor. Unsure though. I guess I'll just wait and see?

[toxic birch]

I can import other stuff from Bridge and Megascans

[gentle ivy]

ideally you should be adding anything from the vault into a blank project to migrate to your real project to avoid bloat

[gentle ivy]

yup, builds the parts that's now needed for the game.

[brave niche]

Okay. Interesting.
UE just gib dedicated server support in the binary distribution so I don't have to do this kthxbai

[gentle ivy]

heh

I think you actually can now days just package a server directly from the editor

maybe you still need a source version of the engine

[brave niche]

According to documentation

I can't

[tired mulch]

Hey guys just making a placeholder blood effect but every time I simulate the effect comes out black but its red in the particle effect screen any solution to this please?

[gentle ivy]

ah, yeah. Looks like it's specifically still source builds but you can now build it from the editor.

[gentle ivy]

your lighting is effecting your particles

if you showflag.lighting 1 it should show unlit

(to check)

[tired mulch]

Ok I shall try that thank you (I have deleted the skylight and directional lighting which is weird though)

[gentle ivy]

That's the most common reason at least.

The particles should have an unlit option as well

[tired mulch]

Awesome I'll give it a look, thanks for the help

[late stag]

Hey is there someone that drives irl able to help me with something really quickly

[mild phoenix]

Hello guys who know what is object for weapon blueprint?

[autumn grail]

Hello , my problem is:

-I have One skeleton for my two characters , and they share also the same AnimBP
-The characters have Armor pieces which are child actors
-I have retargeted the skeleton as explained in the doc ( the root bone is Animation , the pelvis is Animation scaled , and the other bones are skeleton )

But the armor looks fine with the first character and don't match precisly on the second

first character

second character taller

the boots are not correctly placed

i have tried to adjust the location in BP but it dosent match

How can i do?

[late stag]

If someone drives in real life can you give me some feedback on this suspension

[solemn marten]

I'm still getting the 404 error page on the Unreal's github version but I linked the account and I already received the confirmation email

[thick herald]

Contact Epic, ask them to revoke the connection so you can reconnect. I had to do that, mind you, it took a few emails to actually get them to read what I was saying.. 😄

[bleak drum]

im looking on some tutorials on how to make armor pieces (which you can change during the game, on your mesh) in blender, any idea where to start? any good ones out there pretty please?

[toxic birch]

So I'm having a bit of trouble with the "Move To" task in the behavior tree. The character isn't really moving to the blackboard key that I passed in. When I do simulate the game and check the blackboard key value for the vector I pass it DOES have a value but it just isn't moving towards it

I assigned the AI Controller to the character and made the AI Controller start the behavior tree

Not sure where to point my finger here as nothing seems wrong

The task to get the vector is working because I see the vector's X,Y,Z while simulating, the move to which is a default task isn't though

Which is weird

Yeah, the task is running fine

But on the behavior tree it's not getting past the default "Move To"

So it's executing the first task, returning actual results then when it gets to the "Move To" It doesn't get past it

It highlights that it's running it but the character doesn't move

[pastel ginkgo]

Post a vid where the camera isn't locked to the truck. Just moving side to side

[river crypt]

does anyone know why my sk mesh lod does not want to show LOD 0 in the scene but goes strait to LOD1?

seems to work fine in the actual asset window

but once in the scene it just does not want to work

[mystic holly]

For some reason when ever I try going into the vr preview it won't work. Everything is working fine on my desktop, my hmd is being tracked. But when I go into my headset, there's just a big fat loading screen for ue4

Anyone know a fix?

[dusk summit]

Anyone knows how can I make 2 lod levels show up at the same time? Like LOD 0+1 > LOD 1 > LOD 2

[sharp kestrel]

I'm following a tutorial on making a dedicated server and I cannot find a file named "Win64" in WindowsNoEditor\Engine\Binaries. How can I get this file? This is for 4.26

[valid acorn]

This is really simple but I'm struggling a bit as am new to UE4. Any suggestions how I can record a clip of me walking throught a level? OBS seems unable to capture UE4.

[thick herald]

OBS is usually fine. Just make sure you have the correct display options in OBS. If you are using the window it needs to be set to the correct 'window' of UE4 (as OBS see's it)

or just capture the whole display

[drowsy snow]

Is there a way to reduce hitches when streaming in/out landscape chunks with world composition? I already have my landscape chunks small in the hopes to reduce the load time (it's around 500KB / chunk) but still got short burst of hitches.

[merry bison]

I'm using OBS everytime I record something from UE, no issues at all.

[valid acorn]

I'm on a pretty new PC, fresh install of OBS and it's all kinds of unhappy. Managed to get it to record tho 😄

[restive eagle]

you need to download the engine from github, compile it and then build dedicated server binaries

@drowsy snow are you testing in editor or packaged game?

[drowsy snow]

In editor, haven't figure out yet how to get collision working even when the landscape isn't entirely loaded.

[restive eagle]

it should be fine in a packaged game

had the same issue with short freezes

[drowsy snow]

Also I think there used to be mesh LOD generation for landscape, but I forgot where it is.

[restive eagle]

there should be yes, last time i used world comp was ~3years ago so dont remember myself

but as far as i remember you will have to remove everything from that level to build lods

and with collision had the same issue, for a workaround i made a manager which would disable physics for those actors so they wouldnt fall to the oblivion, but maybe there are better approaches for that

[ivory steeple]

What is this error?

[pastel ginkgo]

Click the build button

[merry bison]

it's not an error, just a reminder that the light isn't calculated properly, if you press build it'll go away - until you do a change in the scene

[drowsy snow]

Either build the lighting, or use entirely dynamic lighting.

[ivory steeple]

thx guys~!

[mystic holly]

pls help

[drowsy snow]

I found it - it's in Level Settings.
The tooltip for the generate button somehow still mentions "requires Simplygon", even though Epic yeeted them and uses the built in decimating tools since 4.22

[fierce tulip]

heh, worth a reportsie

[toxic birch]

Any ideas?

[celest mantle]

is this a bug in 4.26?

i press background change color no ui show up

is there another way to change to white background for the particle

4.25 works fine tho

[analog wasp]

hi

anyone?

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas. How can i with animnotify jump to next section

[drowsy snow]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[analog wasp]

I'm trying to learn how to extrude a hallway from a room and I can't figure out how to do that, would someone mind helping me with that?

if anyone wants to help me just reply

[hidden pendant]

Anybody have any good resources for learning the engine ? I just finished q series about landscapes. But the blueprint section makes me cringe into oblivion

[drowsy snow]

If you're using BSP geometries, extrude it with the brush tools.

[modest trench]

googling "100% cringe free Blueprint tutorial" at once sir

[hidden pendant]

Haha

[drowsy snow]

Just go full on C++ with no BP whatsoever - at the cost of everyone will hate you for it

[analog wasp]

I'm trying extrude a specific spot of the wall not the entire thing

[hidden pendant]

I mean the problem is I'm code illiterate

(

[modest trench]

you need to embrace the cringe sir

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't matter. BSP geometries can be edge looped, and the extrusion method is the same.

[hidden pendant]

But I really want to make a prehistory type game like bannerlors except open world

But I know that'll never be possible without coding

I'm a 3d artist and thats the extent of it

[drowsy snow]

Blueprints and C++ are meant to complete each other.
Yes, Blueprint is somewhat obfuscated C++, but it handles many of the hard work for you without absolutely hard coding everything, like asset referencing.

[analog wasp]

Now I'm just confused

[hidden pendant]

Yeah it looks better visually imo

I'm def more visual

The lines of code make me cringe even more

Just dont really know where to begin to really grasp it

I was watching one tutorial

And they were plugging stuff in and I couldn't even imagine how they interpreted the use of some of the nodes to get the desired effect

My mind was melted

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[modest trench]

learning the "why" they use certain things where can only come with experience

[hidden pendant]

Very true

[glacial skiff]

any ideas of how to create a material in blueprints?

[hidden pendant]

I dealt with that when learning modelling and texturing

For some reason when I deal with code I become impatient as hell

Which is a recipe for disaster lol

[hidden pendant]

I will try this out , thank you

[drowsy snow]

As in creating material in the editor, or creating one out of thin air in runtime?

[glacial skiff]

in editor

[modest trench]

do you mean changing parameters of an existing material from blueprints?

[past mountain]

no

completely making a material instance

and moving it to a path

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/creating-pbr-materials

[past mountain]

not run time

[modest trench]

I think editor scripting might help

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProductionPipelines/ScriptingAndAutomation/Blueprints/ScriptedActions/index.html

Not sure if they can make full new assets?

why do you need to automate materials like this anyways?

[past mountain]

i don't have much time to do materials for many textures

this just makes it eaiser

[drowsy snow]

You have to have much time for that.

[past mountain]

my idea is to select a bunch of textures

find out the type of material (diffuse mask ect..))

and make a material instance from them

i have finished the 2nd part

making the instance is something i don't know

[modest trench]

ah, this looks relevant

https://youtu.be/mu17hNXF7NY

ooof... the link 404s

[past mountain]

i am not about to buy this

also

this is not what i'm looking for

[modest trench]

according to the marketplace specs it's made with two BPs

[drowsy snow]

You can go C++ editor scripting, and copy whatever the engine's doing when creating material instances after importing FBX.
It's complicated (and considerably overengineering), but it'll achieve exactly what you're looking to do.

[glacial skiff]

but they want to do it in blueprints

[drowsy snow]

If you want to do it entirely in BP even without creating C++ blueprint function library, you're likely SOL 🤷‍♂️

[modest trench]

I think there's a chance

you can apparently change asset metadata from BP which is surprising

[past mountain]

i've shifted to editing the asset

[dense knoll]

UE4 keeps getting a d4d crash
Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/D3D12RHI/Private/D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 671] SwapChain1->ResizeBuffers(NumBackBuffers, SizeX, SizeY, GetRenderTargetFormat(PixelFormat), SwapChainFlags) failed at D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/D3D12RHI/Private/Windows/WindowsD3D12Viewport.cpp:376 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED with Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG Num=3, Size=(517,63), PF=18, DXGIFormat=0x18, Flags=0x802

[past mountain]

which i can do

without any help

thank you

[drowsy snow]

Increase TDR stall to more than 10 seconds in your Windows registry.

[dense knoll]

k

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.substance3d.com/spdoc/gpu-drivers-crash-with-long-computations-128745489.html

It's Substance doc, but it's about editing the registry, so the steps still apply.

[modest trench]

does this happen on long gpu builds etc?

interesting

[dense knoll]

its aldready at 8

and the crash happens instantly

[drowsy snow]

Actually yes. I tried high res rendering with Movie Render Queue, but somehow it stalled for a while, Windows said "that's enough chief", and voila, DXGI HUNG

[drowsy snow]

8 seconds is not enough
crank it up to 60 seconds or more

[dense knoll]

still does it

[modest trench]

you gotta restart man

[drowsy snow]

You replied so fast, I don't think you thought of restarting the computer.

[dense knoll]

oh

ok ima do that

[late stag]

wdym

[pastel ginkgo]

How do I get rid of this giant seam where my texture meets?

[pastel ginkgo]

Like where the camera doesn't rotate with the truck. Just follows it level

[terse ice]

how do i change the lightmap quality to avoid this mess?

it's been a while since i've used ue

[stray ruin]

anyone else get lots of crashes when using structs

[late stag]

ohh

my root is my skeletal mesh

so i cant really do that

[terse ice]

oh. why won't textures work on this mesh?

[devout whale]

I want to create an fps game, do you reckon I should use raycast or physics based weapons, or even both? I want to create an experience like fortnite, cod or any other fps games. What do you recommend.

[late stag]

raycast for sure lol

depending on the type

[devout whale]

Yeah I was getting raycast vibes, you reckon using physic based bullets for grenade launchers would be good? Or raycast with bullet drop?

[late stag]

nah physics for grenades

[devout whale]

Thanks, have a good day

Nice pfp btw 😏

[late stag]

thanks 😏

[dull lintel]

Hey there... As many before me... I am creating a game that has modular characters that the players can use. However, I was wondering... What is the typical approach to doing something like this? Where you can change clothes, hairstyle, weapons, etc at runtime.

Is it most common to:1) import all of the mesh options with the parent character and then hide/show the mesh options as sub-objects at runtime? OR 2) do you import all the mesh options as stand-alone objects...and just marry them to the correct skeleton on import?

[terse ice]

how do i make ue use the complex collision instead of the simple collision

[bitter valve]

In the static mesh and in the collision settings. Set collision to use complex as simple.

[mystic holly]

For some reason when ever I try going into the vr preview it won't work. Everything is working fine on my desktop, my hmd is being tracked. But when I go into my headset, there's just a big fat loading screen for ue4
Anyone know a fix?

[drowsy snow]

The thing is you would hide the skin underneath the clothes, to avoid clipping issues.

[terse ice]

thanks

[sharp kestrel]

How do I get a folder named "Win64" to pop up in the WindowsNoEditor\Engine\Binaries file? This is for packaging a ue4 project and isn't the github server binaries.

[bitter valve]

Hello. Thinking of a new game idea, so if ya dont mind taking a minutes to read this. ~Thanks
https://www.reddit.com/r/Videogameconcepts/comments/ng9w3w/big_player_building_a_civilization/

[dull lintel]

Hey there... As many before me... I am creating a game that has modular characters that the players can use. However, I was wondering... What is the typical approach to doing something like this? Where you can change clothes, hairstyle, weapons, etc at runtime.

Is it most common to:1) import all of the mesh options with the parent character and then hide/show the mesh options as sub-objects at runtime? OR 2) do you import all the mesh options as stand-alone objects...and just marry them to the correct skeleton on import?

[sharp kestrel]

Yes but for a tutorial I am following there is a Win64 folder in the Engine Binaries. I need this folder

yes

[kind dew]

Any Idea why PlayerState is returning null here? This is in my player controller blueprint

[sharp kestrel]

ponkkis like this https://i.gyazo.com/f4dce5f85443a155ee25d5cfc2d7bff4.png

Im following a dedicated server tutorial and I need that folder. That is what it is for. Do you want a link to the tutorial?

[drowsy snow]

I assume you want more in-depth answer, as you dismissed my short burst answer, so here you go:

Games often approach modular characters by having copies of the base model "wearing" different clothes. For example, shirts, tank tops, bras, mails, pants, trousers, skirts. To prevent clipping issues, the skin underneath are removed and the cloth mesh merged with the skin mesh in the DCC software. If not, you will have either the skin or the cloth clipping out.

As for the switching, you would divide the head part, the upper body part, the lower body part, and the feet part, and "soft" mix them in engine. You then sync the pose of each meshes with the parent mesh that has the active animation data - often it's the head part. Of course, all the different body meshes have to share the same skeleton, otherwise you'd have a hard time syncing the animations.

In Unreal Engine 4, this can be done with a Blueprint of any Actor class derivatives, containing the skeletal mesh components corresponding to the body part that can be swapped at any time, and an animation Blueprint that allows you to sync whatever the parent mesh is doing without compromising any animation dynamics you might put in on them (usually fake physics).

I hope this is clear enough, as typing in a small text box is quite difficult.

[unique kraken]

those are a lot of draw calls per min?

yea idk, i smacked 32 copies of my char in to see how things go

[drowsy snow]

IIRC GTA V around 5000 draw calls per frame, and it's one of the most optimised games.

[unique kraken]

yea they are instances, sry

how do i see per frame?

that would me much more helpfull lol

bcs it says min

[drowsy snow]

It's min as in minimum

[unique kraken]

https://tenor.com/view/boom-anime-wow-amaze-surprise-gif-7257186

3:30 am i shouldnt work anymore

[narrow mauve]

Uh..my ...LODs...arent..working..tf

[unique kraken]

hmm but 1k for smacking 21 chars in.. seems high to me then

32*

[drowsy snow]

That's not bad though, in the grand scheme of things.

Again, GTA V has around 5K draw calls per frame, and that includes everything.

[unique kraken]

sure but i just started out. i guess im going to rework my mat setups. probably can combine some

yea my character roughly has 7

not roughly, it has 7

[narrow mauve]

OMG

SHHHH

[drowsy snow]

Unless you want to have character crowd as dense as Hitman games, of which squeezing the least amount of draw calls per character

[narrow mauve]

NO ONE SAW ANYTHING

SHHHHH..we dont speak of this

[unique kraken]

im a character artist

[drowsy snow]

It's already 08:27 here.

[unique kraken]

and im working out a way i can put my chars into ue4 and well just store them there basically

all onto the same skeleton as long as they are humanoid. but the mats always mess with me bcs i always try to set up everything and want freedome lol

channel packs?

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of which, is it a good idea to repurpose biped skeleton for quadrupeds?

[unique kraken]

^^daubt it, many animals just have different bone layouts

i could imagine you could pack birds together

another keyword or connection would be nice

[drowsy snow]

Okay, channel pack is the act of mixing specular, roughness/glossines, and metallic into one texture

[unique kraken]

im useing 2 8x8 textures for my char

https://tenor.com/view/anime-thumb-thumbs-thumbs-up-tcha-gif-5426971

[drowsy snow]

Say, the specular is in the Red channel, roughness is in the Green channel, metallic is in the Blue channel.

[unique kraken]

yea i know what it is, just didnt hear the term befor

but my textures are so low, there isnt anything to optimize lol

https://tenor.com/view/konosuba-megumin-magic-anime-circles-gif-16458298

magic

no but some are not fully worked out yet

its mostly math, shading etc

https://gyazo.com/80dd56a488a5c60309ae225ad35a3111

[drowsy snow]

The lesser the texture sampler count, the better.

[unique kraken]

oh hm

i have 3 uvs

but vertecis on the same position merge, right?

i specifically looked out to have most of my uv vertecis on the same position to merge them when importing

im unconventional

https://tenor.com/view/kingjulian-kiss-gif-8373792

[drowsy snow]

Don't say there's some HLSL or expensive procedural material going on here 🤔

[unique kraken]

im not a programmer if thats what u mean. but i worked some stuff out in bps etc

[drowsy snow]

It's never a good idea to procedurally generate texture every frame, which Unreal will do.

[unique kraken]

nah

[drowsy snow]

It's not a 64kb demo tool, so procedural textures without prebaking it is discouraged.

[unique kraken]

i dont follow

[narrow mauve]

K so this is new to me. My meshes are not switching their LODS

[mystic holly]

I swear I'm the only person who never get's help

[narrow mauve]

I havent the faintest idea why

[unique kraken]

didnt change the distance?

[narrow mauve]

They are all stuck at their hlod

its so weird

ive obviously done something totlaly unaware

but I cant figure out what

[unique kraken]

well did u manually fix the distance when the lod should trigger

[narrow mauve]

the lods work in the mesh viewer just not the landscape

I didn't even realize this until the last 20 minuntes trying to fiogure out how to fix it. I noticed my performance was bogging down (big open landscape with lots of foliage)..and then it dawned on me..and I realized that the meshes were being rendered to their full detail as far as you can see and the mesh lod viewer shows them all attheir hlod

.... 😐

[solid pebble]

hi

[unique kraken]

okey, any documentation on how to modify the capsule on run time?

i just want the top to move down, like the crouch does, but my own thing

[dull lintel]

Thanks! I didnt see ur previous.

[bold jetty]

Hey, was recommended here by a friend of mine. Can anyone here help me solve a weird problem I’ve been experiencing?

It involves Steam and Unreal Engine

Idk how anyone here feels about it but
I’ve been trying to downgrade FNaF VR Help Wanted on Steam to its earliest incarnation

But every single time I start it up, it instantly gives me a UE4 crash screen and closes

I used the Depot Downloader to download all the files, but it just insta crashes every time I start it

If anyone here could provide some help, I would really appreciate it

[midnight cloak]

Somebody know i have this error Blueprin runtime error"Acessed note trying to read preprety componentAimBot",

Here

i see the component

so why he said he dont see it?

[drowsy snow]

That seems like a class reference, not object reference.

[paper sphinx]

Ok guys, I have a pretty complicated question but here goes. I am making a cinematic shot so FPS does not matter and I am also using raytracing. In the background of my shot there is a mountain. I have painted many trees onto this mountain and the surrounding terrain using the foliage paint tool. These trees have culling set to 0 in the foliage panel. These trees also have a material with Blend Mode set to Masked and Shading Model set to Two Sided Foliage. My problem is that after a certain distance, the tree meshes partially disappear but the shadows are still there for some reason. As you can see in the image, the tree meshes above the green line have dissappeared, apart from where the ridges of the mountain are(the yellow arrows are pointing to where some of the trees are still there). And also the shadows are still there(you can see all of the faint splotches above the green line, those are the shadows). When I go closer to the mountain the trees reappear all over the mountain, and also the hills that are closer to the camera(bellow the green line) have all of there trees. I don't want this, I want to see trees all over the mountain no matter the distance. I have r.RayTracing.Geometry.InstancedStaticMeshes.Culling set to 0, and I also have r.RayTracing.Translucency set to 1. Thank you to anyone who may have any help 🙂

[signal bone]

Hey

how can i make my models be imported as flat polygons

instead of smooth

because im going for a low poly style

[drowsy snow]

What DCC software you're using?

[signal bone]

im guessing youre refering to what im using to do models? blender (idk the term ddc sry)

[drowsy snow]

Have you try setting the shading to Shade Flat, and mark all the edges Sharp for extra measures?

[signal bone]

i do have them in flat

but when they load in ue4 they appear smooth

gonna try with edge sharpness as you say

[paper sphinx]

Ok, i've figured out a part of the problem (sort of). I think it is partially to do with the LODs, because i figured out that the foliage is actually underneath the terrain

so for some reason when the mountain is far away from the camera the foliage goes underneath the terrain but when the camera gets closer the foliage goes to the right place

but then again i dont think that it is the LODs because when I force LODs to 0 it has the same problem

It may be something to do with the shader

Hey guys

what is the console command for freezing LODs?

I have found more clues

In this image i forced the LODs to 5 and the trees reappear. BUT, at the same distance that they were dissappearing before they are now losing their self casted shadows.

Why is this? How do I remove this?

I know what its doing but I can't figure out why

its culling the raytracing at a distance

I have raytracing culling turned off

so why would it be doing it by distance?

pls help someone

I am in dire need

[paper sphinx]

ok dont worry about that problem

it is the origional problem i need help with

why is the foliage bellow the terrain when i am far away and above the terrain when i get close

even though the LOD is 0 the whole time?

[wary ferry]

heya I would like to talk to some folks about game design whos outside of my usual influence radius

anyone interested to review my "idea" for the minute to minute flow of a game i work on?

[drowsy snow]

Not guarantee immediate reply, but I can take a look at it.

[hidden pendant]

Do you guys think having an open world map of west europe would be too demanding ?

[sinful token]

Is there any good source giving tips and rules to placing reflection capture sphere?

I place but they always conflict

[honest vale]

@hidden pendant demanding how?

workload wise? Definitely

[drowsy snow]

It's not really the matter of demanding or not - it's about what you're going to fill the world.

[sinful token]

and the reflectiopns are pretty distoreted

[honest vale]

I mean, you'd need a hundred years to do that at least 😛

[hidden pendant]

well of course it wouldnt be 1to1

but i have this map set to the highest map resolution in the reccommended section

[drowsy snow]

The map of FF14 in comparison, was small, but then expanded over time as new expansion lands.

[hidden pendant]

The idea was to make a bannerlord esque type game

except open world

but not with the same graphical fidelity

something a little lower

[paper sphinx]

good luck. 😉

[paper sphinx]

Have you made any commercial games before?]

[paper sphinx]

Is it just you making this game? or do you have a team of people?

[gentle ivy]

Is there any way to prevent BP from remembering your open function tabs?

[wary ferry]

heya I will hit you up in an hour or so 🙂

[plush yew]

People

I was released gta sa unreal engine

https://youtu.be/4BOjV1W_BqY

[drowsy snow]

#work-in-progress #released

[plush yew]

Great

[brittle thistle]

Is it possible that add view mode in plug-in?

[drowsy snow]

You have to modify the engine for that.

[lethal jasper]

reset laoyt doesnt help

[honest vale]

that's... interesting 😄

[lethal jasper]

this came after 4.24 -->4.26 switch 😄

[brittle thistle]

oooh, okay... , modifying the engine is so boring

[brazen forge]

Hello guys, I have a question, so I guess you all know Minecraft right? The wold can become very big where it takes hours/days to reach the border (3.7mil blocks) about 30h of pressing [W]. Could this be done with Unreal Engine 4 too? I know UE4 has a chunk loading feature/function and how would that work when having caves or objects that should connect with each other. So a mountain wouldn't just cut off suddenly into a cliff.

[brittle thistle]

Are you a QA?

[hidden pendant]

I've never made one no. But I am active in the annerlord modding community where I make 3d models and toy with the editor there.

Here's a roman face mask helmet i made

Now I'm just kinda focusing my attention on game making in general. But like I said I dont plan to make it graphically impressive. Probably even close to valheim

But with nw Europe

Open world

With bannerlord mechanics but in real time

Thats the plan at least lol

[drowsy snow]

I'm so beat right now.

[ember walrus]

Can anyone give me advice to do this kind of widget? I have 5 Character on map and i want their icons to show up like this.

[drowsy snow]

Use Z-order to stack them up.

I'd also recommend you to just premade the widget with that layout in UMG editor, so that all you need to do is swap the texture.

[ember walrus]

Thanks, i'll do that

[paper sphinx]

Make a few simple games first. You will get a feel for how hard it is to make games. Then you can figure if you want to go ahead with your dream game.

[hidden pendant]

wont let me delete these folders

also i cant re import the 3rd person content for some reason

my mannequin was broken

so i deleted the folders for 3rd person

the contents within were deleted but the folders remain

?

[drowsy snow]

Right click the folder -> Fix Up Redirector

[hidden pendant]

nope /:

[drowsy snow]

Usually the folder refuses to go away because of the redirectors remained.

[hidden pendant]

yeah its weird

[drowsy snow]

Fix up the redirectors in the folder and then delete the folders.

[hidden pendant]

I did that already

didnt work

[drowsy snow]

Just yeet them out in File Explorer then

[hidden pendant]

okay

but

[hidden pendant]

now when i re import the content pack theres nothing inside

lol

did i accidentally delete them from the file explorer when removing them in Unreal?

[vocal herald]

I need to take 1000 camera shots with random locations. I made a blueprint that randomizes camera location. Any idea how can I make a rendered camera shot for 1 frame each time camera changes its location?

[hidden pendant]

nvm i got it

was just a bug

just reset

[drowsy snow]

It's a two way process:

1. Use SceneCapture2D component to capture a scene to a render target.
2. Export the render target into a file (if that's what you want). See here:
   https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Rendering/ExportRenderTarget/index.html

If you want to have 1000 operations of capturing and rendering to disk, do not do it simultaneously in one pass.

[finite dew]

So I had a refund from an asset around 13 hours ago but I still dont have my money yet. Any reason why ?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Jemmy simp de braixen#7114 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[next badger]

Have anyone used 2 CPU builds for UE4?

[drowsy snow]

As in two separate computers?

[next badger]

as one computer with 2 cpu's

[bleak drum]

hello everyone. id like to create an inventory system, istead of using an existing one. but i dont know where to start as i head there are many ways to do it WRONG. can you guys point me in the right direction please?

[drowsy snow]

Honestly there's a lot of ways to approach inventory system, and what worked on one project specifications may not worked on others.

[next badger]

instead of using an existing one
Which one exactly?

[bleak drum]

any?

[next badger]

instead of any?

[bleak drum]

instead of buying one on the asset store

i prefer to put that money in a udemy course or whatever that will teach me how to do it

[next badger]

there are free ones as well

[drowsy snow]

Isn't there one inventory system that free? I forgot if it's permanently free or used to be free for the month

[bleak drum]

wich one? only foudn one that is beeing shot down in the reviews

[thick herald]

https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanLaley/playlists

[fierce tulip]

save your udemy money, get that pack. find out how it works, improve upon it. done.

[thick herald]

Check near the bottom of the play lists

[fierce tulip]

moa'd. since there is a discord link in that url i have to remove it.

rules being rules and all (I do agree its great stuff)

[bleak drum]

yeah i dig Ryan's stuff, but his inventory course is like 6 years old

[drowsy snow]

Nothing beats the free costs of reverse engineering

[thick herald]

beat ya 😄

[fierce tulip]

even better :p

[bleak drum]

to reverse engineer , you need skills, you wrongly assume i have those skills 😄

[thick herald]

@bleak drum Ryan's stuff is aimed at beginners, easy to follow and adapt

[drowsy snow]

It's called "Action RPG Inventory System"

[bleak drum]

yes moa.d i have used his stuff a lot, i just fear that inventory course, which is 6 years old, is seriously out of date

[drowsy snow]

@bleak drum

[bleak drum]

yeah action rpg inventosy system loks awsome, i almost wanted to buy it

but its 35€

[thick herald]

It still works fine, and if you encounter something that has changed, that's a learning opportunity for you to see what's changed and work out what to do yourself 🙂

[bleak drum]

a udemmy course is 15 bucks 😛

[drowsy snow]

Oh wait, it used to be free for the month
whoops

[bleak drum]

too bad i missed it, cause it does a lot of things im interested in. guess ill buy it

(i started this month :P)

[thick herald]

That tutorial was last updated August of last year, so you should be good

[bleak drum]

ah yeah sorry

was seeing another one, from 6 years ago, my abd

and got a copy of that free inventory system, guess i have my work cut out 😄

[late stag]

So I'm my game I am using a skeletal mesh but I want to add visual upgrades what would be the best way to do it.

[drowsy snow]

As in changing the material only, or swapping mesh?

[bleak drum]

also, since im here, and you guys are in a helpfull mood 😄 Did i understand correctly that if you want to make, for example, a chest armor; you need to attach it to the character skeleton in blender, remove the character, and export the chest piece with the skeleton? and then use the character skelymesh as master and attach that armor to it?

[drowsy snow]

If it's a rigid armour and not enclosing the entire body, attaching it is fine.

[bleak drum]

i started with pants and a shirt.. so i was sht out of luck....

now i have a beautifull tshirt, but its clipping like a mfker

[drowsy snow]

If it has cloth piece, however, you'd might as well replace the skin underneath the cloth, to avoid clipping issues.

[bleak drum]

ow

[thick herald]

CHAOS cloth physics 😉 😄

[bleak drum]

so, export the torso cut up ?

yeah Moa.d i read somehting about it, but SOO MUCH STUFF to cover

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[bleak drum]

and animation is hell btw :> i have reexported my mixamo anims like 5 times since the start of the project.. i hate it :> 😄

i see, makes sense i guess

but, i will have to cut up my dude first then

hmm

thats why they use the box armor from infinityblade in all those tutorials? 😄 to not bother with skellies? 😄

[drowsy snow]

For example, in the character mesh for my game, we removed the cloth piece that wraps around the body part tightly, like this pants piece.

[bleak drum]

what about the blouse? it looks like cloth too

[drowsy snow]

If it wraps around the skin without any physics or "opening", you should remove the skin underneath.

[bleak drum]

on your char, did you cut that brown blouse too, or is it far away enough to make it static?

[drowsy snow]

It's not a blouse - it's a vest
No, we didn't cut anything underneath the vest, as it has (fake) physics simulation going on.

[bleak drum]

k. i think im understanding it all better. thanks a lot for all the help 🙂

[vagrant hornet]

is 4096x4096 terrain res fine for an open world?

[drowsy snow]

Per tile heightmap or overall heightmap?

[vagrant hornet]

overall

[drowsy snow]

The closest you'd get is 4081x4081, which is around 4km of landscape per tile.

Overall landscape resolution can be way bigger than that - World Machine can export it on per tile basis, if you use that tool.

[vagrant hornet]

ok

[thorny atlas]

Hi, guys, does anyone have a Riging sharing sample memtioned in this video?

[drowsy snow]

AndiDev himself might have one over his own YouTube channel.

[thorny atlas]

Thank you, I have subscribed his channel, but he does not have that I think.

[vocal nimbus]

is there a day to night setup in UE that i can use? I want the sun to rise and set and the moon to show up

and reverse

[toxic birch]

Repost since no one answered since yesterday:
I'm having this issue here where the first task is running and it is returning the patrol path vector to move to but the AI character isn't actually moving to it...

I don't know why

[fierce tulip]

why not ask in #gameplay-ai ?

[toxic birch]

oh, my bad

[plush yew]

how and where do i apply acceleration multiplier on my player pawn

[potent cosmos]

@vagrant hornet did you assign this to the character?

[vagrant hornet]

?

[dense yoke]

is there an area for beginners on here?

[fierce tulip]

not really, we do have a beginner-care-package thingy in the pinned messages on this channel

[hidden pendant]

we out here

[fierce tulip]

@hidden pendant thats kinda #wip or #lounge stuff
also, i recognize the netherlands on that map and the lack of water when zoomed out too much :p

[hidden pendant]

true lol

[dense yoke]

@fierce tulip thanks will check out ray whatshis names tutorials 🙂

[toxic birch]

Yeah, I posted in the #gameplay-ai

[oblique tangle]

Hey all! Super random, but is there a feature with UE/blueprints whereby I can record player locations/rotations and bake them so anims can be built off of them?

[restive eagle]

@oblique tangle https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/control-rig-mannequin?sessionInvalidated=true

[oblique tangle]

@restive eagle Thanks! Not interested in making animations in game, but will control rig allow for me to move around in game and record the loc/rot of the player for export? Not sure if this is even a feature supported in majority of game engines

[restive eagle]

other than that you can only save poses in editor

but with control rig you can make anims

@oblique tangle you can save bone location/rotation but i guees you would need to do that for every bone

as far as I know control rig is just for making anims, so as you said it's probably not what you want

try looking into how to save a pose of your character, have no idea if this can be done while you are playing the game

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Pose/SavePoseSnapshot/index.html

this maybe? seems like not

[gleaming crypt]

who can help me resolve a couple issues with my project? they are probably very simple fixes but im pretty new and have no clue how to fix them

[cedar wave]

No one can help you with anything if you don't explain the issue.

[gleaming crypt]

yh ik lol was hoping someone would dm me

im making a tower defense game for a school project and ive ran into 3 major issues, 1 of the turrets only shoots once at the enemy, the other turret doesnt seem to be doing any damage to the enemy and the enemies cant reach the end and destroy themselves

[fierce summit]

Hi there so i've been learning ue4 for a few months now and i think it's time i begin a bigger project. I'd like to have some advice on "early-decision" from more experimented developers.
My goal is to make a multiplayer shooter with advanced movement like wallruning.
Would you suggest using the advanced locomotion pack?

[restive eagle]

i would recommend not starting any MP games without having a solid understanding of the engine

my biggest mistake was when i started learning unreal was that i started with a MP project

[grim ore]

@gleaming cryptthose are 3 issues, try and work thru one at a time. Does your code fire more than once for your first problem? we have no idea what the code is so asking for help with a specific problem with code could ge you help

[fierce summit]

I've already started with a single player project, its not finished or anything but i've learned a great deal about the engine and i think its time i move on

[restive eagle]

you will be redoing your project everytime you learn some better practices, why not learn them first and then start learning networking?

[gleaming crypt]

i can always upload my project if someone wants to check it, and ive been trying to work through it but im just completely stuck

[restive eagle]

networking has way less information out there, you will struggle a lot

if you are still convinced to learn networking then atleast read this https://cedric-neukirchen.net/Downloads/Compendium/UE4_Network_Compendium_by_Cedric_eXi_Neukirchen.pdf

[fierce summit]

But what do you suggest i learn first then? I'm ok with the basics, i know cpp, i've done movement (a lot) and animation and GAS

[restive eagle]

doesnt matter much really, you can take any system like a grenade throw and make it replicate for other clients

or look into how to join/create a session, but while learning it's not that important

you can start with reading the guide i've posted

[grim ore]

if you want to start with multiplayer start with multiplayer, not a game or a larger project, but learning multiplayer like they suggested. Pick something small like a single level with 4 players that all need to do separate goals (pick up different items perhaps) that have customization such as colors

and just make sure its all working networked from the start menu to the end and the restart loop

[fierce summit]

it looks usefull thanks a lot i didnt knew it existed. gonna read it

[restive eagle]

yup, it was written by one of the mods from this server. you wont find anything better for a beginner

for multiplayer it's very important to understand how the communication works between server and clients

[fierce summit]

yeah i was thinking doing just a simple game server with movement replications and build on top of that

[grim ore]

movement isnt an issue, movement is built in

try having client 1 spawn in an item and have client 2 pick it up but not have client 3 or 4 able to and then client 2 is able to equip that item to a socket on their character and it's now visible to the other 3 clients but not the client 2 that picked it up since they are in first person and they dont see equipped items

its simple....

[fierce summit]

ok gonna try somehting like that. thanks a lot for the advices

[plush yew]

How could I add more depth (bump?) to procedural noise?

[paper crest]

i think ive killed my animBP,

its crashing and crashing now

any chance i can edit it? how

[pallid cove]

I keep having this issue with compiling:
CompilerResultsLog: clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
I really need serious help. I don't know how to fix this on an iMac.

[grim ore]

roll it back to a good version using your source control, or read the output log and see what it says

the last error in the compiler log is normally not the actual error, look above it to see what causes it

[paper crest]

ripp, ive got no source control

[pallid cove]

Me neither. Shawnthebro doesn't use that for his fighting game tutorial. Also, this was the last error in the log.

[grim ore]

yes

LAST ERROR IS NOT NORMALLY THE ACTUAL ERROR

error error error error then "something broke, you gots error"

so you need to look to find the actual error that caused the "I give up I cant do this" error you are seeing at the end

[pallid cove]

This is the output log

[late stag]

The mesh

But I don't want to make like 1000 different meshes for one car

[grim ore]

CompilerResultsLog:   "AHitboxActorBP::TriggerVisualizeHitbox()", referenced from:
CompilerResultsLog:       AHitboxActorBP::execTriggerVisualizeHitbox(UObject*, FFrame&, void*) in HitboxActor.gen.cpp.o
CompilerResultsLog: ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64```

this error is right above the actual linker failed

[astral phoenix]

Hey im using https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/achievement-system-blueprint-compatible in my game and it works fine in the editor, but when im package my game and try it the achievement system dont work. what can i do? 🙂

[pallid cove]

Wow, I didn't notice that. So how would I fix it?

[grim ore]

are you doing a hot reload or building in xcode?

[pallid cove]

I tried a compile before, but the error above stopped me from doing that. I am also building the code in XCode.

[grim ore]

yeah based on what the internet says this might happen if you build in editor and not xcode, they suggest closing the editor, doing a clean in xcode, and try building again

[pallid cove]

I've been using XCode.

[grim ore]

try cleaning and rebuilding see if it gives the same error, if so you might need a more specific module for physics

[severe ibex]

a bit arbitrary but has anyone got swarm agent running through a wireless network? I have a laptop that's connected via the wireless but the PC is directly wired to the router

[runic iron]

So apparently there's some ff7 remake talk but it's jp only https://youtu.be/naaDgfKKzFU?list=PLr_Cbd4sUDTwkjs-dreE91hRpk28ykqie&t=2480

[fringe rivet]

Hello

Okay, so, I was wondering

Is there any plugin or tutorial on a voxel landscape, that, if a chunk of the ground is not being supported by anything, it becomes it’s own separate object and enables physics?

If so, that’d be real neat.

[plush yew]

how do i select this

[exotic thicket]

I don't think there's anything there to select. You need to select the edges instead

[pallid cove]

I decided to uninstall UE4. Will reinstall to see if it works again. Same might go for XCode.

[little breach]

https://pastebin.com/TPRRXxCE why am I getting this error when I try to package my project?

[finite dew]

Has anyone had a refund from the marketplace ?? And how long does the money take to get in your account?

[narrow mauve]

Anyone use treeit?

[grim ore]

@little breachusually the error causing the error is above the error line that you posted, look higher up to see if there are other errors

[little breach]

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogInit: Display: LogPhysics: Error: FBodyInstance::GetSimplePhysicalMaterial : GEngine not initialized! Cannot call this during native CDO construction, wrap with if(!HasAnyFlags(RF_ClassDefaultObject)) or move out of constructor, material parameters will not be correct. is this related?

[grim ore]

it could be, I dont know where that is at or any other issues. maybe post the entire log or try restarting the PC and try packaging again

[fringe rivet]

Hello

Okay, so, I was wondering

Is there any plugin or tutorial on a voxel landscape, that, if a chunk of the ground is not being supported by anything, it becomes it’s own separate object and enables physics?

If so, that’d be real neat.

(reposted)

[little breach]

I have posted it above, I will try a restart tho, I doubt it will fix anything, but it is worth the shot

[grim ore]

there are quite a lot of files that are missing, did you delete files and not clean up redirectors?

but yes that 1 errors seems like it might be the issue

[fringe rivet]

But could voxels be left flying?

[little breach]

yea I deleted some of them since they had compile errors, and I thought they were the issue

not sure on how to fix that

error

[fringe rivet]

I sort of want terrain that is realistic, so floating masses of terrain wouldn’t be stationary in the air

[little breach]

why don't you try and make the voxel engine yourself? I did some in the past and it's not that hard

[fringe rivet]

I’m not really that experienced, are there tutorials?

[little breach]

not really but there are some papers

on octrees

mesh generation

[fringe rivet]

And would adding physics be a big extra step?

[little breach]

no, if you go with octrees

you just generate the mesh, and then let the engine handle the rest

octrees allow you infinite detail

[fringe rivet]

What exactly is octrees?

[little breach]

while classic 3d arrays allow you little detail, with potentially infinite worlds

[little breach]

octrees are just some boxes that split into 8 boxes

[fringe rivet]

Oh

[little breach]

and the process can be repeatead

as much as you want

splitting splitting splitting

[fringe rivet]

Infinite?

[little breach]

until it's the amount of detail you need

octrees allow you infinite detail with ok performance

and chunks with 3d arrays(minecraft like) allows you infinite worlds

I for instance combined them for a older project of mine

octrees with 3d arrays

and I've had the infinite detail while keeping the infinite terrain(it's not good for low end machines)

[fringe rivet]

Would it be pixelated?

[little breach]

depends on the mesh generation algorithm

[runic iron]

You can check the voxel plugin, it has a free version that you can try too https://voxelplugin.com/

Pretty sure it was made by someone here, phy iirc

[astral phoenix]

Hey im using https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/achievement-system-blueprint-compatible in my game and it works fine in the editor, but when im package my game and try it the achievement system dont work. what can i do? 🙂

[fringe rivet]

Thanks for the help

[grim ore]

@astral phoenixpackage it with logging enabled and check the logs

[astral phoenix]

''Unloaded''? why does it unload it? https://gyazo.com/706623f2e505c6d3ffed128c2309de4d

[fierce forge]

hello, is there any way to delete an actor at a distance, save it in memory and if i'm close to the location that actor had, it will get spawned (with all the variables the actor had) ?

[grim ore]

it sorta does that now with culling, or you can LOD it down to almost nothing

or you can have a radius around your character that hides/unhides stuff as it gets near it

[fierce forge]

i will have like over 1 million, and 1 million actors with just a mesh that is invisible will cause lag

[grim ore]

LOD or build your own radial culling then

[fierce forge]

it's procedural mesh

[grim ore]

but keep in mind destroying and spawning in actors is going to cause issues as well

[fierce forge]

i'm not gonna spawn all the actors at the same time

[grim ore]

based on what your asking tho visibility is what your asking about, if you destroy it then its gone and you have to recreate it. if you "delet eit but its still in memory" then its not deleted, its stil there just not visible

otherwise you keeping track of stuff based on distance and destroying/recreating

[fierce forge]

like if somewhere is not generated, it will generate (i'm making a voxel world generation)

[astral phoenix]

@grim ore did u know why the plugin got unloaded? 🙂

[gleaming rain]

Hi. I'm trying to prepare the localization of my game. I'm using the Localization Dashboard. Now problem: if there is any way to exclude some files from text gathering? There is a category "Exclude Classes" but texts in those classes are still gathered. If that option is not working? Thank you very much for help

[toxic birch]

Is the sky sphere the same as the sky atmosphere?

Because I can't find a "Sky Sphere" in the place actors panel and somehow it's not in the world outliner

[grim ore]

its a blueprint so it will only show up if you have used it or its added by default in your template

are you using a template?

if you are not it is in the Engine Content under the EngineSky Folder

[toxic birch]

I am using the template but I'm pretty sure I accidentally removed it, which is why I'm trying to add it again

[grim ore]

look in that folder then for the blueprint

[toxic birch]

Done, thanks!

[ancient spade]

Hi guys!
Any idea why my editor is opening multiple PhysicsMaterial Asset type in 1 single tab showing multiple values on some variables

[steady hull]

That usually shows up if you have multiple assets selected. It says multiple variables because you have those assets selected and some of those values are different than others

[ancient spade]

I know that, but it never opened more objects as one tab

See?

[steady hull]

Doesn't that mean you have 17 of them

Maybe they're grouped

[ancient spade]

yes but why it doesn't open single tabs

[grim ore]

because you opened it in the property matrix

[little breach]

https://prnt.sc/13cubnn now why am I getting this error? google doesn't seem to help

[ancient spade]

What does that mean?

[grim ore]

how did you select and open them?

well first, why can't an actor take input?

[gleaming rain]

Bump

[grim ore]

and two, they would handle it no different in C++ than in blueprints

[cyan bronze]

Actors cant take inputs @grim ore

[steady hull]

Is there a better way than using the foliage tool give a landscape grass and the hills lots of trees? I'm working on a new scene where that's all I have so far and building lighting takes forever with 100% CPU too

[grim ore]

Why can't they take inputs? mine can take inputs...

are my actors special?

[cyan bronze]

You use blueprint?

[grim ore]

doesnt matter if its for C++ or not, blueprints are C++ behind the scenes

[cyan bronze]

hmm

will google some stuff

[grim ore]

and you can handle firing any way you want, the weapon could just be a mesh with all logic seperate from it and the action of firing going thru the player who then just gets the data he needs and uses it to calculate anything. The weapon could be a blueprint that holds the mesh and data and the firing event that the player calls when they take the input. the weapon could be nothing at all and part of the character itself and all the data is in seperate data assets.. the options are as endless and programming

[sweet axle]

it takes inputs but not in the traditional way like a character. You have to tell it to move using force or radiuns or whatever, timelines. But it cant take animations or character movement input.

[little breach]

static ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<UStaticMesh> MeshAsset(TEXT("StaticMesh'/Game/Unit0/itembag.itembag'")); this line works just fine in the editor, but it crashes when I try to run it standalone

how can I fix this?

[sweet axle]

the input event can still be called in an actor what you do with it from there is whatecer you want.

[blissful trail]

yo anyone know why this multiplayer system aint workin?
on one device i open a map with (?listen)
on the second device i connect to (myip:7777)
on the first device it opens the map
on the second device it opens the menu level
[and it is portforwarded]

[cyan bronze]

I only want it to call firing

[blissful trail]

heres the bp if that helps

[cyan bronze]

Or call that function that is inside the actor from the player

[gloomy ginkgo]

Guys I used Subtractive box brush to make a door and I can't go through the substrative brush. Any help?

[sweet axle]

or create its own firing function

[near sundial]

I use listen without "?" and it works fine. Did you try it?

[blissful trail]

lemme try

[sweet axle]

create a variable in the actor of that class type

[blissful trail]

didn't work

[grim ore]

calling a function in an instance from another instance is basics, get a reference to the other class and then use that.

[magic lantern]

Wtf is Simulation Generates hit event

[blissful trail]

also on the second device if i try to open any map it opens the main menu level again

[toxic birch]

I still don't understand why the stuff I import from Vault are not showing up anywhere. I imported one Paragon character which worked and then on I couldn't import other ones.

[magic lantern]

@grim ore

[grim ore]

@cyan bronzehow you do it is up to you. how does this "Gun" actor exist in the world in the first place?

[cyan bronze]

Its a gun that gets spawn at the begining to the right place and later i will have weapon switching

[grim ore]

so what spawns the gun?

[cyan bronze]

Character blueprint

[grim ore]

the character is the one taking the fire input isnt it?

ugh ok so thats an issue, your trying to get C++ to talk to a blueprint spawned object

[cyan bronze]

at the moment nothing is taking fire input

[grim ore]

well first decide how input is going to be handled. will the player take the input and do something, or will the weapon take it directly?

[cyan bronze]

Im not really sure which one is better in the long run and how does it work with the weapon switching so i would say that the gun does the shooting

[grim ore]

@magic lanternit does what it says it does. If you are simulating physics, will this collision call a hit event when it hits something/is hit by something else

ok then your code is fine right now, you just dont have that actor listening for input. Call EnableInput on the actor passing in the player controller and it should now listen for any input events you bind on it

and it looks like your binding the event so it should work

[grim ore]

could probably put the EnableInput call in the Begin Play, thats where I did it on my test

[blissful trail]

so if i type myip:7777 on the second window this happens
if i type 127.0.0.1:7777 it works

[grim ore]

well 127 is the local machine so your just connecting to yourself

[blissful trail]

ye idk why my ip aint workin it should be port forwarded

[grim ore]

unforward it and try again, see if anything different happens

[cyan bronze]

@grim ore Are you able to remember how did you write the EnableInput

[autumn latch]

hit eventlerini çalıştırmaya yarıyor

[near sundial]

@blissful trail Does it work when you test from editor? Like running two PIE instances of the game?

[autumn latch]

false ise hit eventleri çalışmaz

[blissful trail]

yes

[blissful trail]

only if i use 127.0.0.1:7777 tho

[near sundial]

Going to main menu is a sign that something is wrong with connection. That's what happens when server quits, or so

[blissful trail]

idk if this is right the

[near sundial]

did you try pinging your PC using port. Just to make sure everything works?

try connecting using some other software. probably there is a ton of test software for this

[gloomy ginkgo]

Guys I placed substrative box brush to make a hole in my wall but I can't go through the hole. Any help?

[blissful trail]

ahh i see it says no

[grim ore]

@cyan bronze

thats an actor that will take input and do somthing, with the input being one of the input action defined in the project settings.

the uh... enable input in the begin play was not needed its a duplicate of the one in BindInput... or the one in BindInput is not needed because its a duplicate.. pick one lol

@gloomy ginkgodid you mess with any settings? are you sure the subtractive brush is going all the way thru the other brush? it should work out of the box

[gloomy ginkgo]

Ohh

No it was not going all the way thru

Thanks dude!

[keen cargo]

Quick question: Performance-wise, is it better to use Landscape Spline or Blueprint Spline to make roads in an open world game?

[winged notch]

why dos this open every time i start 4.26

[grim ore]

did they?

[toxic birch]

@grim ore Do you have any idea for the issue I mentioned previously? I think you were here when I first posted it. Basically when I try to import stuff from my vault. They don't actually appear but if I try to reimport it tells me to overwrite. I imported a paragon character and it worked but when I tried to import other characters it wouldn't work

Let me know what and where to look

i tried searching for them in the search bar and all, they don't appear

[grim ore]

so stuff you own doesnt show up in your vault list?

I didnt see anything

oh loll now they show up

yeah was nothing there when you first posted for me

[winged notch]

@grim ore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50MJf7hyOw&t=14s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvrjeW2Pek

[grim ore]

yep I see them now, just didnt earlier

[winged notch]

ok good

[toxic birch]

nono, I own them but when I try to import them to the project. They say they are imported but I don't see them in the project

[grim ore]

is the project a lower version than the item you are importing?

[toxic birch]

One of the paragon models that I imported at the early stages of the game is there and I can use it but the others are just not working well

[toxic birch]

They're all compatible

[grim ore]

but I would check the output log then. it should tell you why the asset is not loading

[toxic birch]

So.. Kwang is imported and working, I can see the mesh and the anim class and all but the others say they are imported and when i try to "Add To Project" again it says to overwrite the files even though they're not actually in the project

idk it's weird, I get no errors or anything

[grim ore]

close the project, open the project, read the output log in the project it should say something.

[toxic birch]

I searched for paragon in the output log and it only shows stuff about the character that DID work

Nothing on the others

[grim ore]

try something simple then, new blank project and import one of the ones not working into that blank project and see if it loads

[toxic birch]

alright

[pure glen]

Anyone ever get the "Create process returned 2" error? Trying to distribute a apreview build for testing and Ive only had one person able to run it

[grim ore]

usually missing files, for example you packaged up just the .exe and not the actual folder properly. Could be their Anti Virus deleted/locked files.

[toxic birch]

Found it, apparently there was a duplicate of my project with the same thumbnail and all. I was adding to that rather than my project. The duplicate has exactly everything from the original project

No clue how that appeared but at least I found the issue

[grim ore]

yay

[gleaming rain]

So, any ideas? It would help a lot

[fallow hornet]

Has anyone seen with the automotive materials pack that the car paint in certain scenarios fades in around anything that has a gap (like doors)? Is there a way to fix this?

[pure glen]

Oh hey, youre here! Thanks for your videos

As far as packaging, I put it inside of a drive folder and sent it that way. Would that be an issue?

The build that is. Not the project file

[pallid cove]

Here's a dope fighting game making tutorial. Give it a try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEYGkOIxkk&list=PLfAjixzz6o81qGPz5OoDcPQuJm1o7K7oo&index=4

[cloud stone]

When making a decently sized game, is it conventional to use only c++, or only blueprints, or maybe a mix?

[spare kernel]

Mix

[runic iron]

A mix is perfect yeah, take advantage of both

[cloud stone]

So how would you split it up

What would you leave to blueprints and what would you leave to c++

[spare kernel]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/SampleGames/ARPG/BalancingBlueprintAndCPP/index.html

[runic iron]

Too fast...

[cloud stone]

Thanks for that

[grim ore]

@pure glenmaybe the person downloading your stuff is just downloading the .exe and not the entire packaged project structure

@cloud stonethere is also a BP/C++ course on the learn portal for mixing them. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/balancing-blueprint-and-c-in-game-development and https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/converting-blueprints-to-c

[winter gale]

https://youtu.be/ntvrjeW2Pek
https://youtu.be/CfTUll36l1w
https://youtu.be/6fnzUkPDrsI
https://youtu.be/-50MJf7hyOw

[hazy jungle]

hello! I'm new. I'm a 3D artist and I'm trying to get into unreal engine to make a game

[river crypt]

@hazy jungle Welcome 😄

[hazy jungle]

thanks!

ok, so I'm making a sidescroller, and I want to give the camera depth of field, but I have no idea how to do so

[drowsy snow]

Seems like we're going to get the same editor UI as Unreal Engine 4 👀

[plush yew]

In lots of older ue4 tutorials I can see that in BPs they're just able to right click and add any key, while in mine no keys will shop up in the available actions. How can I fix this?

[sharp crest]

thx

[mental helm]

Yay epic released more marketing only UE5 demo videos. 😴

[grim ore]

@drowsy snowwell those say they were recorded in January 2020 so maybe not

Epic is in the business of making money, they have to sell product to make money so yes marketing is a sin we have to live with

@plush yewcan you show an example of what you are looking for?

[plush yew]

this is from a tutorial i found

@grim ore

[mental helm]

Just saying there's nothing new info wise

[plush yew]

but when i right click it in my own it doesnt show up

when i for example type X

[drowsy snow]

Also the Nanite girl seems to be named "Echo" 👀

[grim ore]

@plush yewwhat class of blueprint are you in,. they wont work in every one. and they should show up they are just named different.

try for example type in "X keyboard"

[maiden swift]

The interviews were recorded in January 2020, so it's an older version of the engine.

[plush yew]

ohhh, I was in widget blueprints the whole time haha, never knew there was any difference to different types of blueprints :-) thanks @grim ore

[drowsy snow]

Still, though, I wish they keep the editor's flexibility - I'm hoping for the UI to be more consistent down the line.

[mental helm]

Is this the best breakdown of how Nanite probably works? https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2726568/#Comment_2726568

[grim ore]

@drowsy snow I think you might be guessing/assuming too much based on these videos lol

[maiden swift]

I'd be surprised if the UI looked identical. I expect it to be very similar, but with a fresh coat of paint.

They're not going to ditch what works well.

[grim ore]

I expect it to be bright green and look like GameMaker... 😛

[maiden swift]

lol!

Lumen in the Land of GameMaker.

[mental helm]

It'll probably keep going the same direction ue4s went. Flatter, less wasted space, less flashy graphics

No one misses the warning stripes /////

[grim ore]

I also dont think they ever said they are going to release the demo to the public

[drowsy snow]

Although UE4's editor UI is already pretty customisable without recompiling the engine.

[grim ore]

which I would love to play with due to the niagara stuff

[mental helm]

If the level is just quixel, they could release it with little licensing issues

[maiden swift]

I hope they do. That'd be a nice bonus. 🙂

[grim ore]

could but lets be honest, if its been a year so far without any release this demo was/is... not designed well heh

[mental helm]

But since it was made for the PS5, might be tricky

[grim ore]

im sure the demo was a "lets just make something work and pray for the best" like most prototypes are heh

[maiden swift]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't release it. But they'll have something, I'm sure.

More importantly, I'm looking forward to the first 5.0 version of Content Examples and new project templates.

[sharp crest]

ye was disappointed too lol

[grim ore]

are we getting new templates tho?

[maiden swift]

Can't say for sure, but I certainly hope so. They're very long in the tooth. We're at least getting a new VR template in 4.27, so maybe?

[mental helm]

I REALLY hope there's a better impostor baker if automatic asset processing is going to be a big part of UE5

[grim ore]

I hope so as well, the newer templates tend to be better than the older but how much do you really need to do to stuff like FPS and TPS

[maiden swift]

Well for one thing, Manny has a UE4 logo on his chest. 😄

But yeah, I would assume they'd at least update the templates to show off Lumen, Nanite, etc.

[grim ore]

well a UE logo, no 4

eh but...

we dont know what platforms lumen or nanite support and templates should be platformish agnosticish

[maiden swift]

They don't need to update any of the templates, but I think it would be a smart idea since it's a new major version.

[grim ore]

maybe we get like the vehicles, an advanced version that turns on stuff like RT and nanite and lumen and uh the other stuff heh

[maiden swift]

Show new best practices, at least.

[grim ore]

best practices alone would be nice lol, some of the current stuff is fire and forget we ever did it

[drowsy snow]

BTW here's how you change the editor font in UE4:

||- Go to the engine directory: Engine\Content\Slate\Fonts

• Replace the Roboto font TTF files with any other font you like
• Make sure the name is the same as the Roboto font files; this is to fool editor Slate to thinking that it loads the usual Roboto font
• et voila, new UE editor font.||

[grim ore]

welp we know its a new marketing push for UE5 so its either to coincide with a year or more material?

[plush yew]

why does my widget UI stretch out over the entire screen when I have it set up like this in the editor?

[pulsar badge]

When i export from bridge ue4 crashes?

[grim ore]

@plush yewyou have it set to desired on screen at the top of the UMG editor, change that to get a more accurate idea of what it will look like.

and to answer the question it looks like that since you set it up like that, what are your anchors set to

[maiden swift]

I think it's both. They said on Twitter the interviews are celebrating 1 year since the reveal, but the YouTube videos say in the description that more info is coming on Wednesday.

So it sounds like new info is finally on the way.

[grim ore]

I did not read the descriptions lol...

[maiden swift]

Wednesday May 26 at 10AM EDT.

[grim ore]

omg your right

[drowsy snow]

That would be Thursday midnight for me

[maiden swift]

Oof.

[plush yew]

where can i see my anchors?

[maiden swift]

^Click that Anchors dropdown and you can change the anchor.

[sharp crest]

Is this location too far from origin? I'm getting weird movement errors. Would moving the world origin to player location fix it?
(X=-3M,Y=-14M,Z=-1M)

[maiden swift]

You may need to change the Size X and Size Y values after setting a new anchor, depending on your goals.

[plush yew]

i cant find the anchors dropdown

[grim ore]

click on the widget

[maiden swift]

Select the widget and look at the top of the Details panel.

[grim ore]

it cant be the root panel, it has to be a child. the root is the entire screen

[plush yew]

its not there?

[mental helm]

Any big tech or gaming events coming up? Epic does like to use them for announcements.

[drowsy snow]

You can replace the editor Slate images to get rid of the warning stripes.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4minimal-my-unreal-engine-minimal-theme/220518

[grim ore]

borders dont have anchors, they fit to the parent

[maiden swift]

Oh, because it's inside a border.

[maiden swift]

Summer Game Fest, June 10. Worth noting that's where UE5 was revealed last year.

[grim ore]

read up on how UMG works @plush yew

[maiden swift]

Epic is listed as a partner on the website, as well.

[plush yew]

Alright thanks guyss

[grim ore]

parents control the children, your parent has to have a way to anchor. your size box does not have a way to size

[pulsar badge]

When ue5 comin D:

[maiden swift]

When it's ready.

[pulsar badge]

they updated their website

[grim ore]

42 days from now

[pulsar badge]

didnt they

[pure echo]

Hello all I had a question about the best way to go about getting various planes to have different effects.
Ex. Mud texture plane = increase friction, Ice texture plane = reduce friction, Lava = apply damage
Also is there a way to make it easy to reuse on multiple maps

[maiden swift]

Yes they did.

New logos, too.

[pulsar badge]

how do u know @grim ore

lol

[grim ore]

because 42 is always the answer to any important question.

[pulsar badge]

um

Why am i getting this error

trying to export from bridge

[plush yew]

wasnt like the number 42 the meaning of life or something

[grim ore]

@pure echoyou can look at applying physics materials and then using that to determine effects

[cedar wave]

One of the things I'm more intrigued about is their new scripting language. I want to see what their actual goal with it is.

Like - we saw it in the context of Fortnite Creative.

[maiden swift]

No word yet if the scripting language is coming to UE5, but it seems probable. Would be weird if it were Fortnite exclusive.

[grim ore]

we only saw it in the context of Fornite

[maiden swift]

But it might make sense, too. It's targeting modders.

[grim ore]

@pulsar badgetry deleting those materials, the master quixel materials, then importing again

[cedar wave]

Yeah - and I agree with pfist - it'd be weird if it was exclusive to Fortnite

[serene birch]

there's a few UE5 videos today

were they posted already here?

[hidden pendant]

Any suggestions on how to deal with drivable boats and bouyancy?

[maiden swift]

Yes, they're in #unreal-news.

[serene birch]

ah

[cedar wave]

Which leads back into - me being curious about more info with it, lol @grim ore

[drowsy snow]

And then I'm still going to stick with UE4 until my game's fully released.

[maiden swift]

I'm sure we'll learn more soon enough.

[pulsar badge]

@grim ore wym

[grim ore]

oh I would never swap to UE5 when it comes out, because it wont be out lol

[maiden swift]

Same here, at least for my horror game. Release date for that is very close. I have another larger project that will likely be ported over though.

[cedar wave]

I'm a patient person. It's just the aspect of UE5 (potentially) that I'm more excited about honestly.

[serene birch]

yeah, in two days even 😄

[grim ore]

@pulsar badgeQuixel uses master materials for its items, that fodler is pointing to those master materials in your project (MSPresets folder). I would delete those, then try reimporting

[maiden swift]

Yep. Also mentioned that in the new post so people know. 🙂