ue4-general

[severe warren]

apart from this, i have a question how do i print text(so that i can print the grid indices on top of debug boxes) in 3d space while in editor(not playing)

[drowsy snow]

Not convinced? This function execute every tick is all it took to create that day night cycle. Just rotate a directional sun light, and Sky Atmosphere component will do the rest - it just worked.

The rest of functions are my time struct to second interpreter, which is not obligatory btw.

[queen flume]

Hello mind if I ask will UE4 work on my PC (6GB ram , SSD , Nvidia 730 GT , i5 )

[drowsy snow]

Not hurt to try.

[fierce tulip]

#hardware

[queen flume]

just my boss wants us to get UE4 and idk if my PC can handle

[queen flume]

oh k

[night crystal]

I'm convinced - I just lack experience with ue, is the bottom line - I thought I'd give myself a challenge to recreate a little cutscene I made for my game, it took two full fat days to make - but then when I got into ue4 a half hour ago or so, I just blanked, been like a year since I had it open

blueeeprintssss

when I used it a year ago, I didn't have c++ set up properly and blueprints were too limiting, I hope you guys can help solve that prob

[drowsy snow]

Don't worry, we're here to jog your memory with UE4, and I will help you as much as I can in this server. 😃

[night crystal]

I like to think i'm getting pretty good at c# for unity, but.. thats the only language I know 😛

[drowsy snow]

Also Blueprints has come a long way since 4.1x - it's more powerful in 4.2x for sure.

Also feel free to check out and study the official Unreal Online Learning Courses in your own pace.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/

[night crystal]

yeh, probably will - I remember there being a lot of parallel systems to unity, named differently, hidden in different locations, more or less functional

[grave osprey]

do old project can be used for UE 5 ?

[feral sierra]

I suppose Lumen is making Shadow Depths high right?

[drowsy snow]

In short, yes, but hold your horses - by the time you complete your project, you still use UE4 or long enough for UE5 tech to be matured.

[drowsy snow]

#lumen

[grave osprey]

hope so. i just wanna make simple games

[drowsy snow]

You can run away with UE4 for simple or huge games.
Don't change engine version just because some arsehole told you to.

[grave osprey]

i just curious about nanites. so i probneed to use theese tech. however i dont like the risk prob used later.

[feral sierra]

didn't see UE5 specific sections were created, thanks

[drowsy snow]

Same, but I put it in low priority - right now I'm using UE5 merely for researching, not for productive reasons.

The traditional LOD still holds well, and probably for the better - you reach more users.

[pulsar badge]

Guys I'm getting a error saying buildtool.exe for source build when I build it and can't launch any projects coming from 4.26

[grim ore]

is this a source build or launcher build?

[crisp flame]

hey, im having random long deleted components show up as ghosts in my blueprints

Oo

[willow yacht]

Anyone know how to build UE4 project for XBox Series X?

[drowsy snow]

Do you have the developer account for Xbox?

[willow yacht]

Yes

[drowsy snow]

Then contact Epic for verification and request for platform configuration for Xbox SeX.

That platform configuration is what you need for building to console platforms.

[willow yacht]

Hmm, thanks, I'll try

[fallow hornet]

is there a way to replace the mesh used for a skeletal mesh?

[drowsy snow]

A skeleton can have multiple skeletal meshes (or rather skinned mesh) - if that's what you're looking for.

[fallow hornet]

I think so, I have a car mesh that I rigged and a dummy mesh that i rigged, I don't really want to have to re-import the car mesh would rather import the dummy and then replace it with the car that I already have in engine

[grim ore]

you just change the mesh on the component if that is what you are asking

its a property

[plush yew]

@grim ore Is the unreal 5 something i should start using now if i want to move my project over hence the stability of unreal 5 or should I wait for a full release?

[grim ore]

full release

[plush yew]

okie thx x,.,x

[grim ore]

UE5 Early Access provides you the first chance to get your hands on some of the exciting new features for next-generation game development. However, this is not a production-ready version, which is why we recommend only using it for testing new features, exploring the new capabilities, and prototyping your future next-gen games. If you’re currently developing a game, please continue to use Unreal Engine 4.26.```

[plush yew]

oh oki

I can wait :3

since they did say everything will be forward compatiable

[light crag]

Just got updates from Microsoft for w10pro and after rebooting the machine Unreal is ignoring using GPU...
anyone also face this problem with updates or this is only me?

[grim ore]

45% is compiling shaders

shaders are 100% cpu

the fix is to upgrade your CPU or wait 😛

[light crag]

CPU is 5 3400G

why do I need to upgrade?

[gray narwhal]

Hey all. Anyone know any resources for setting up a Render Que Render Farm for Remote Render?

[grim ore]

you dont, that is the fix for your problem if you dont want to wait. "the fix is to upgrade your CPU or wait"

[drowsy snow]

Even better, wait for UE5.1

[light crag]

Ok, I am switching the CPU to thread ripper

[grim ore]

you can, it would definitely help

[drowsy snow]

Just make sure you're still able to pay the bills and food after buying a threadripper.

[light crag]

I like the way thread ripper really rip the unreal shader threads in seconds

[light crag]

I have it in my heavy system

and I don't pay any bills

[candid steppe]

Who else would just want the ue5 UI in ue4?

[drowsy snow]

Not me 😛

[gray narwhal]

Not me either

The new UI feels like its gone past the over simplification into breaking it. BUT, with a little customization I got it back to looking like UE4. But just a preferences ^_^

[drowsy snow]

I mean, what's not to love from this? 🥺

[cedar wave]

Collapsible docks. Best thing about the new UI imo.

[drowsy snow]

This is technically collapsing.

[cedar wave]

It's not the same and you know it.

In the new UI - I only have the viewport and details panel showing. I mostly navigated around using CTRL + P anyway. Just hit CTRL + Space to get the quick access to the content browser and it's just great.

[candid steppe]

I just feel that the new ui looks very simplistic and less distracting.

[cedar wave]

I miss the large icons though.

[warm delta]

maybe Epic store could start selling GPU's? with scalping prevention? (at msrp prices)

my GTX 660 is not even supported

[drowsy snow]

maybe you'd stick with UE4 instead?

[warm delta]

no!

[drowsy snow]

Reposted here for good measure.

[warm delta]

I am learning UE anyway so I can use UE5...

and from what I saw, I think UE5 dont have the building shaders (90000) etc.

[timber birch]

Pretty. Ancient

[drowsy snow]

It's literally what my game estimated requires (minimum, 720p)

[warm delta]

well with current GPU prices and the PCpocalypse, its impossible to buy new PC (even if I had the money)

[grim ore]

look at pre builts, they are affordable alternatives to building one

or as silly as it sounds, laptops are completely usable and available

[warm delta]

maybe, but I want to build my own pc and laptops dont have good ventilation

[honest vale]

dang, that's almost a decade old GPU

[warm delta]

Thanks!

[grim ore]

you said its impossible, its not impossible.

[warm delta]

I am perfectionists...

[candid steppe]

UE5 isn't production ready so unless you plan to release a game in a year with UE5 and want to tread the line of potential file corruption or just learn how to use it, I wouldn't suggest you use it.

[timber birch]

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 4000€

Ill stick to my Ryzen 9, it compiles quickly enough

[warm delta]

I dont trust AMD, but its seems that Intel fell asleep or something

[serene birch]

got a laptop with a 2070 recently for a fair price

laptop makers seem to be trying to flush there 20xx inventory, probably to make room for the 30xx models?

[grim ore]

I would assume so as the 30 series models have been out for a bit

[timber birch]

Why don't you trust AMD?

I always enjoyed my Intel i7 4790k, but it was absolutely miserable with UE4 compiling its shaders. the entire PC would get stucked often

my Ryzen 3900x doesn't really care about them

[fading fiber]

do you guys have flickering shadows in UE5? looks very obvious in interior scenes

[plush yew]

yes sir!

https://tenor.com/view/anime-gif-14340477

[finite nest]

here

I need help, my epic games launcher wont open anything unless ue4

[plush yew]

I cannot wait for the full release of UE5 I must start making games NOW!!!

[finite nest]

i press that and it wont open

any help

[plush yew]

Restart launcher

[finite nest]

i reinstalled it 5 times now

[plush yew]

ok uhh

try updating it?

[finite nest]

how?

[plush yew]

idk

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/epic-games-store-c73/launcher-support-c82/epic-games-launcher-displays-incorrectly-or-appears-blank-a3609

@finite nest

[grim ore]

you have the store hidden

[finite nest]

also it wont me install the online epic games thing

[finite nest]

how do i seek it

[grim ore]

click settings and see if it says "Hide Game Library"

[finite nest]

cant see it

[finite nest]

oh

thank you

[lost sparrow]

Is there a limit to BSP brush complexity? I can't make any edits on one anymore. Just doesn't move

[agile thistle]

@grim ore did Epic hire you? Because im checking out the UE5 course. Congrats if thats true!

[grim ore]

I produce content for them, I don't work for them... lol

[plush yew]

MathewW the real mvp ;-;

[agile thistle]

damn it.. they should hire you full time!!

well anyways, good to see you there

[lucid grove]

Anybody know does Nanite works with Groom system?

Right now metahuman with hair completely destroys performance

[agile thistle]

I'm fairely sure though that they'd hire you if you apply and clearly state your motivations.. you are a top notch supporter

its all alpha

[uneven crater]

I could use a tutorial or two on making a game using c++

Pretty much all the videos I've found are about blueprints

[grim ore]

do you know blueprints?

[uneven crater]

No

[grim ore]

do you know Unreal Engine?

[cedar wave]

Weren't they supposed to have a livestream today? 🤔

[grim ore]

livestreams are in about 1 hour

[cedar wave]

Ah - that's it.

[uneven crater]

I'm new to programming in general

[cedar wave]

Stick to BP and learn UE, then move to C++.

[grim ore]

then why jump into C++.... its the opposite of smart

[terse zealot]

what's the livestream focus today?

[cedar wave]

Yesterday - they said they're going to explore UE5 some more.

[grim ore]

Learn Unreal Engine which teaches you how it works and how blueprints work which then you use to learn how C++ work in UE4.

[agile thistle]

yeah, start with BP, its actually very comprehendable

[grim ore]

dont' start with a masterpiece, learn to draw a circle

[plush yew]

listen to matheww

im making a game with an insane scope and hundreds of documents

for it

absolutely shit idea

[agile thistle]

eventually a circle can become a masterpiece 😆

[plush yew]

its beyond overwleming lol

[uneven crater]

Ugh fiiine

[plush yew]

trust me

a smaller simplifer project has a decent return if you make it with actual care

[agile thistle]

also take a look at programming fundamentals

[plush yew]

and use such to build upon systems and such for your future games

plus smaller easier games are a type of passive income which can make future games easier to make because of more money for items and necessary tools :3

dont be a dumbie head like me lol

[cedar wave]

The best games that I've ever played in my life are actually nice and simple.

[plush yew]

^

[grim ore]

tetris!

[plush yew]

pretty darn much

yasss

sonic

[agile thistle]

Skyrim 😆

[plush yew]

megaman x1

mario for the nes

vectorman

dumb simple games and they hold up gloriously 30+ years later :3

if you really want to make a bigger more higher scope game break off parts of your main intended project and turn that into smaller games to perfect the systems and also make smaller projects that will lead you into your own ideals

make a combat system and create something like street of rage

or nice movement and create a runner like game etc etc

eventually slap them all into one game~

[viral lagoon]

I wonder if AAA studios use cinematic tools such as Level Sequencers and Actor Sequencers for cinematics/animations or if those studios use internal tools or custom UE4 integrations.

[shadow orchid]

Not sure where to post this

anyone have experience using the BuildPatchTool to deploy to the Epic Games Store?

[grim ore]

@viral lagoonyou can see SQENIX using the old matinee tools for KH3 so yes I would expect they use sequencer now https://youtu.be/mCivGl28qK0?t=174

[icy lark]

Hey pls help how to open a ue4.26 project with ue4.24

😦

I wanted to package for html with ue4.24

but i am making it in 4.26

😦

that sucks unreal team needs to work on that

ah i see..

does ue5 have that?

tell

I will try. thanks.

[grim ore]

Download source, change the asset loading code to ignore the version check, hope the .26 asset structure for those items is the same as .24 and if not step back the changes to make them compatible, and then your done. easy!

[icy lark]

How do i change the asset loading code?

[cedar wave]

Downloading the source, find the code that loads the assets, modify it as needed.

[grim ore]

yeah the easy! part of that was me being sarcastic

[tame dust]

Hi guys, can someone point me to a tutorial or tell me what I should search in the docs to learn about how to mix/layer two or more materials/textures so I can paint to mix them (like painting a dirt texture on top of asphalt texture etc)

[grim ore]

on landscape or static mesh?

[tame dust]

both, is it different workflows?

I will most likely be bringing in the ground as static mesh

[grim ore]

well yep since landscapes use landscape layers

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LevelEditor/Modes/MeshPaintMode/VertexColor/

for normal materials

[gray narwhal]

Anyone know how to use a UDM texture in a material instance? Normal methodology doesn'y allow UDM's

[tame dust]

thanks Mathew

will read up on those

[latent sonnet]

Which is best to use?

[dawn gull]

Is there a way I could do something like this with Niagra since the old particle system isnt available on UE5?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LALLbM0Cwzk

[icy lark]

Can you pls help me out finding the files? There are too many source files.

[fierce tulip]

@dawn gull you can enable cascade in ue5, prolly in plugins tab

that said, its well possible in niagara

[dawn gull]

i only see this

yeah i havent used niagra before but ive used cascade a lot

[grim ore]

@icy larkno I can't. It was just an offhand statement. If you had the experience to do this change you would know how to do it already, its not an easy fix. If you need HTML and have to have it in UE4 then you have to use the last supported version of the engine

[icy lark]

Thanks for the reply Mathew. I will try.

[coral solar]

Hey guys, I've just installed UE 4.26.2 and this is all I get when I open a project... Blank project, fresh install. Stays like this for hours without change.

[grim ore]

@coral solarwhat does your task manager show for CPU usage?

[coral solar]

Task Manager

[grim ore]

what tasks are running under UE4Editor?

[icy lark]

When I open a project, Its like this for a couple of seconds. Make sure you have close all other heavy apps. I think that might work.

[grim ore]

just the one task? no shader compilers?

[coral solar]

Restarted my PC, opened only UE and same issue. Only has Unity open together with UE for the pic as I got fed up and went back to Unity lol

[coral solar]

Nope, no shader compilers running

[grim ore]

super weird. maybe check the log in the saved folder in that project

normally when it gets "stuck" like this its due to incredibuild being installed on a machine

[coral solar]

I will say that I installed UE to a secondary hard drive, but apparently that works?

[coral solar]

Never installed that or seen it running on my PC before

[grim ore]

yep shouldn't matter where. If you have Visual Studio installed I would check for incredibuild in the VS installer as a possible issues but normally that just limits the compiler to 1

and your not showing any compilers

[coral solar]

Here's the project log if that helps

[grim ore]

yep that looks like its loaded, might be just a gpu incompatibility or some other weird issue 😦

oh your GPU might not be supported

I'm willing to bet that is the issue

[coral solar]

It is a pretty old GPU I will admit

[grim ore]

yeah it doesnt support DX12, but does support SM5 so it should work but.... 512MB of GPU memory might be an issue

[coral solar]

Not the best CPU

[grim ore]

yep all that info is in the log

the CPU would be fine in terms of letting it load atleast

[coral solar]

Yeah would think that too

Low specs would more likely just make it perform poorly, but at least load

[grim ore]

yep but the driver might be so old that it doesnt support UE4

[cobalt hollow]

hey, friends, uhm, do you know how to enable Lumen on a default (not Valley) project? Info is scarce this days

[coral solar]

I've been using Unity for years and it performs well enough to develop games and run multiple clients in full quality for multiplayer testing

[grim ore]

the only way to know for sure would be to pick an older version of the engine that supports SM4, like 4.7, and see if it loads

[coral solar]

Okay, I'll have to try that

[grim ore]

@cobalt hollownew UE5 projects have lumen enabled, otherwise its in the project settings -> renderings for older projects

and all that info is in the docs....

[coral solar]

Thanks for the help 🙂

[grim ore]

I am curious to see if it works

[cobalt hollow]

Yeah, allright, I might've missed that. First time I've opened UE, not yet accustomed to it's docs.

Good lord

[viral lagoon]

You are right! This kind of video is exactly what I was hoping to find. Thank you!

[coral solar]

Downloading 4.7.6 (only option there was). Might take a while because my internet speed has already been throttled for downloading over 1TB in the first 15 days of the month 😆

[grim ore]

aww 😦

[coral solar]

When they say uncapped they need to be prepared for gamers and gave devs haha

game*

[light thunder]

I've pulled up an old project and it's ticking something to the screen - it's the name of an actor - I'm trying to find the print function that is doing it but that's troublesome (because I have a lot of them) - I've tried looking at the execution flow to see if I can find any ticking/timer events - any other thoughts? (I tried deleting to see if the triggering actor would throw a error but that didn't work)

[grim ore]

use the find in blueprints and look for the print string?

[past basin]

I have updated my graphics drivers and played with editor settings but nothing seems to fix the problem. Occurs after using the editor for about an hour
https://youtu.be/O-VzqQYEQWw

[grim ore]

you can also look for the exact string printed, or part of it, and the find in blueprints should find it if its part of the print string node

@past basin ?

[past basin]

i tried turning it on or off but doesn't seems to change anything

[grim ore]

turning it off should fix that issue if its the menus only

if it also does the right click content like the blueprint node lookups then its a driver issue

[light thunder]

There are a lot of it - the problem is it's getting the actors name when I print it - so maybe searching for the "get display name' node?

That or I wish I could see where it's printing from - sometimes it tells me but not this time

wait let me check output log - doesn't it show the name it's printing from?

(my output log takes an inordinately long time to load, (like 30 seconds0

[past basin]

thanks it fixed the position issue but flickering is still there. and sometimes it is completely gone. i am using an nvidia gpu, will it help if i install the studio drivers?

[light thunder]

Output log found it - I had forgotten that it shows the name of whatever actor is printing to screen

[grim ore]

compltely forgot it defaults to the log as well as screen

@past basinthe flickering is a driver issue for sure, most people seem to say the newer ones cause the problem and older ones do not. I use 460.79 without issue personally

[light thunder]

Am I reading this right - "tried to access but Actor is pending kill - so I'm looking for a destroy command somewhere?"

[daring schooner]

hi, I'm experienced with unity and godot but still new to unreal and I have a few questions :

• Is there an unreal equivalent of unity's scriptableobject, as in being able to create a new type of assets that holds data and functions relevant to said data.
• If I want to make multiple type of enemies/playable characters in my game, what would be the proper approach? Creating a base "character" blueprints with functionalities like health and other common stuff, then make other blueprints inheriting from it with their unique stuff like models, animations, AI, etc? or are there other methods?
• Is there anything like the animation system's state machine but for "code" blueprints? as in a state machine except with functions in each states instead of an animation to play
• If I want my character to be able to have multiple weapons with each different states and transitions animation-wise, is there a way to swap sections of the state machine on the fly without breaking currently running animation, or should I have every set of animations within one state machine?
  also, is it fine to use exclusively blueprints in a project if I'm not doing anything uniquely fancy performances wise like world generation and whatnot?

[grim ore]

@light thunderthat or a natural kill, like falling outside the world or its lifetime being met.

[light thunder]

it's a pawn in this case, my main now - and there's no kill functions (like health events or anything)

[dawn gull]

I can answer part of the last one, yes you hypothetically could use only BP but it's relatively slow in the editor. When it's compiled it's as fast as C++ with blueprint nativization.

[light thunder]

I wonder if changing the map is doing that

[daring schooner]

oh yeah I don't mind stuff being slow in the editor

[light thunder]

@grim ore LogSpawn: Warning: SpawnActor failed because of collision at the spawn location [X=2128.964 Y=-38550.133 Z=779.987] for [BP_VRBasePawn_C] LogScript: Warning: Attempted to access BP_VRBasePawn_C_0 via property VRPawnREF, but BP_VRBasePawn_C_0 is pending kill

not the clearest message but maybe it creates the actor but doesn't spawn it, and if the collision stops it from spawning in the world, I guess it would see it as "pending kill"

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, when I launch my game and alt tab out of it for few minutes, the game freezes and doesnt want to unfreeze. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[light thunder]

I would have thought not spawning it because of collision wouldn't have triggered anything, it should have just said, "invalid/no reference" for the vr pawn

[hearty wagon]

hi there,
how can i move an asset in screen space? while placing them in the editor's viewport? like moving them in all directions?

[grim ore]

@light thunderwell if you have a "spawn Actor" node -> do something with spawned actor and that spawn actor fails due to "destroy if colliding" then that would happen

it would still spawn it, then destroy it due to collision preventing it from staying

[light thunder]

Yes thank you I'm glad you explained that to me

[warm hornet]

Anyone familiar with the source control inside Unreal for git workflows? How robust is it? Are any external git tools necessary?

[fierce tulip]

they should work, though most users would say it might be best to use tortoisegit (or any git) and pull before opening ue, and push after closing.

[night crystal]

is this as simple as it sounds, or would reinstalling be a waste of time?

[still mason]

For some reason, Turnkey doesn’t seem to be work where it doesn’t register any of my SDKs. When I try to install the SDK as what it suggests it keeps failing.

[fair crest]

Hello, I'm using the steam leaderbords stats, it was working fine, activating the achievements and counting the stats, but suddenly this is not working anymore. I don't have changed the programming and I even created another project and put the same programming. In the other project the achievements worked. Anyone know what can be the issue?

[night crystal]

I haaaaaaate watching a twenty minute tutorial and then at the end, it just doesn't work

my fault? his fault? outdated tutorial?

fml either way, I just want to import a custom skybox - why is this so hard

[scarlet birch]

A bit confused that during the stream it seemed like he was indicating that precision issues still crop up at about 10k units with UE5. Did anyone else catch that? Did I misunderstand what was being said?

[lean sparrow]

Hey guys, quick question regarding raytracing on unreal. Is an RTX 2060 enough to use UE4 and 5 raytracing features? Like dynamic GI

[raven island]

any1 know how i can get my megascans material? all i see as a parent of it is m ms surface material

but where can i find the actual material i need to put it in a material function

but where is it? if i click material instance to find parent it brings me to that

[lean sparrow]

Thanks @plush yew

[raven island]

so if i dont have seperate materials i cant make functions of them for my landscape material?

yes but all 4 instances come from same material

somehow

its 4 different materials

[potent bridge]

Would anyone know how to make an object fall faster in UE4?

[autumn grail]

I open my game in standalone with separate server , when i join the server with the 1st process it possess the character correctly , but it fails for the second process. the second is seeing the origin of the world.

it is because the two processes have the same ip?

the minimaps of the two processes are the same. i think the second process try to possess the first character

solved

[hearty wagon]

is there any physx paint like placement for objects in unreal?

[lunar kiln]

Can anyone tell me why I'm getting these small, flickering black artifacts on my landscape? I've noticed it happening with certain materials in the past, but I'm not quite sure how to resolve the issue. I'm running an RX580, stock clock. This also happens in a few games I've played, like Siege and Insurgency: Sandstorm, but not with others. Thanks in advance!

[lusty carbon]

What file do I need to write to in order to have UE4 launch for a set of console commands without having to write them every time I launch my project?

[drowsy snow]

Your project's DefaultEngine.ini

[midnight wren]

how do i recompile my project

[heady quarry]

Does anyone know if it is possible to give a character a square hitbox instead of a capsule?

[agile thistle]

yes it is

[heady quarry]

How?

[agile thistle]

its called boxcollision

put it in your characterblueprint under add components

this is UE5 but its just the same in 4

in the character blueprint left sided

side*

[heady quarry]

That didn't work because the capsule is the root component, and I cant change it.

The box doesn't collide with anything.

[agile thistle]

you might want to scale it down and add the box collision

then use it whenever you want to register hits or anything

i think it might also count if say anything enters/overlaps etc

im bad at explaining lol, there are experts here who do it better

[heady quarry]

It does register overlaps but wold collide with walls.

Also I just double checked, and it a paper 2d character, I don't know if that makes a difference.

[agile thistle]

you can set the collision preset when clicking on the collision box in the details tab

set it to block all

damn thats not doing it

i just tried

[heady quarry]

Another thought I had was using a pawn or something like that, but I cant figure out how to give it gravity.

[clever sequoia]

Hello,
does anybody know, how to get rid of this flickering?

[fierce tulip]

looks like there are (at least) two instances of the meshes on top of eachother

[clever sequoia]

I just painted some trees... with the foliage tool.

And as soon as the leaves are out of sight the flickering stops.

[glass rapids]

Hi, I'm trying to make a camera system like Fortnite (https://gfycat.com/needytintedgilamonster) When the camera goes down past a certain point it starts to move away so it doesn't overlap. How could I do that?

[grim ore]

that looks like a normal third person camera setup where the spring arm is being pushed in towards the character as it hits the ground

[fringe rivet]

Hey,
So does anyone know how I can get the bottom result for my physics-based cube character?

[fringe rivet]

Also, use the spring-arm component

[glass rapids]

My camera overlaps the mesh, is there a setting I need to change?

[grim ore]

show what its doing?

[fringe rivet]

Hm,
I honestly do not know

[glass rapids]

okay, give me one sec

I just made a gif for it (https://gfycat.com/illegalpeacefulbrontosaurus)

[grim ore]

it looks like your camera is not colliding with your players mesh or the capsule

they also limit the range for the camera

you can set max pitch for a camera to prevent it from going all the way down

[glass rapids]

how would you go about doing that?

[grim ore]

they might also be manually limiting the arm length on the spring arm based on the rotation pitch to prevent "upskirting"

[glass rapids]

How would you go about updating that?

[grim ore]

on the move of the camera the pitch can be checked and if its greater than an amount downwards you can pull the spring arm in

easiest way might be a map range where you set the starting point for the pull in and the ending point (the min and max for when this effect starts as the camera pans down) and remap that to your spring arms normal length and your closer length then apply it

so if camera is within this range of the pitch below the player, it checks to see what length the spring arm should be and sets it. since this is checked on every camera move it would be smooth

[glass rapids]

okay, I will try that

thank you

[grim ore]

its just an idea, the probably had 100s of hours into just making the camera work right lol

[glass rapids]

yeah, I just bought some animations so I wanted to make a good camera to work with them

It works, thank you so much

[worldly mango]

Hello, anyone else having trouble accessing this documentation page? https://docs.unrealengine.com/InteractiveExperiences/GameplayAbilitySystem

[glass rapids]

yep

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/GameplayAbilitySystem/

there ya go

[worldly mango]

thx

[glass rapids]

np

[plush yew]

so by the release of ue5 epic will keep release ue4 in lts branch ? or will stop it ?

[drowsy snow]

They'll keep UE4 releases in the number branches, as per usual.
(though older 4.1x branches got demolished)

[ancient lotus]

question, im trying to setup a physics constraint to make it so the target (white part) only falls backwards, however it seems like it only rotates on the 45 degrees both forwards and backwards as if the rotation of the constraint doesnt matter. how can i solve this

[woven elk]

This probably 've been asked before. When I use megaScan Bridge . It keeps storing at my c:\user, can I change location?

[ancient lotus]

preferences or settings, theres a path for your files that you can set

[dusk nebula]

How do I add a camera to the player's screen as an event? I'm basically trying to do like in Portal 2 where you can hold a button and show the other player's screen over part of the first player's

[ancient lotus]

@dusk nebula render target. keep in mind this would be more performance heavy as its rendering what the other player sees ontop of yours

[dusk nebula]

I'll look into it, thanks

[autumn grail]

Someone here know how to replicate child actors?

please.

[gusty stag]

has anyone done 'large vehicle' stuff in ue4?
So Im building a sub, and its not like a car or jeep where you can just group the actors. its more like.... an apartment building with controls to move it around, which you can step away from and walk around the sub still.

anyway, i ask because, in ue4, i import my static mesh for the sub... and the Center of Mass is weird. because the collision is all crazy shapes, physx gives a CoM thats way off near the 'big' shapes, and the axis of the CoM are tilted too.

what do people normally do, for importing large vehicles, to fix the CoM? I'm aware I can just set position... but the orientation, not so much...

heres my CoM widget in Editor, to give you an idea

[finite ocean]

Excuse me!

How long is the sale going for?

On the marketplace. I can't find any info on when it ends.

[autumn grail]

The armors (child actors of blueprints containing skeletal meshes) doesnt replicate

[deep stump]

What’s the average price for someone to create a modern menu UI? Just looking around for prices 😌

[trim elm]

Volumetric Clouds Material & Sequencer Question: Does any one how to add parameters from inside a Cloud Material Instance into sequencer? It lets me add the Material to sequencer but that only allows me to switch between material Instances but not add any specific parameters from that material instance. Might anyone know?

[exotic lion]

Uhh. Is there a tissue for this issue? XD

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas, is it possible to disable physics of character but keep its bones position?

For example npc dies, ragdoll gots enabled, 5 sec delay and physics got disabled

In my case when i disable physics character gets back to its idle animation

[ancient lotus]

@lucid grove disable its simulation?

[lucid grove]

Yep

[mighty copper]

I would say make sure you have the latest video card driver for your card if you haven't already that is.

[indigo totem]

any reason why my foliage is flickering? how would somebody do the fixing

[pure echo]

is it possible to put multiple material instances on the same object but in different sections? Ex. 1 big plane for the floor and different Material on various parts of the very big plane?

[signal bone]

Hello im in the need of hte help

i got this uasset files but when i go to ue4 > import

they dont recognize them

[clever marsh]

yo question

so I am making a main menu and when I start it up the hud from the game shows on my screen. (health, minimap, etc.) what line of blueprints do I use to remove the widget from my screen?

[pure echo]

@clever marsh you might be able to check when u spawn the widget into the world

[clever marsh]

It's a different level and I need to know the line of blueprints to get rid of the widget on event begin play

[grim ore]

@signal bone .uasset files are already imported files. They go in your project folder and are not imported.

[plush yew]

hi

[plush yew]

it might be the problem that the asset was made for unreal engine 4 and not for 5

@gaunt abyss

hi

[gaunt abyss]

Hi
?

[median island]

What exactly is "Realtime rendering"?
I get crazy coil whine noise from my PC when I have it enabled. The noise goes away if I disable it.
But I'm wondering if I need it or what it does

[grim ore]

@median island it means stuff updates in the viewport like animations or effects and such.

Coil whine means it's pushing your video card too hard

[median island]

I had to go to Project Settings -> General Settings -> Fixed Frame Rate: 30 to get rid of the coil whine
I think it might have to do with v sync too maybe, I don't know how to disable v sync in the Editor

[median island]

Anything above 40 fps and the coil whine starts and my PC goes super loud
I have i5-11400, 32 GB RAM, 5700 XT, Noctua fan
What's up with that..

[finite nest]

any help?

i mean i deleted running, i tried to replace with walking and in result the character just t-poses

[loud pilot]

Hey guys! I worked in the past with UE(only c++ programming) and now want to learn environment design. Can you recommend me some good courses? (Doesn‘t matter if it is paid or for free) or is here a section for resourcec like courses? Thank you in advance 🙂

[noble finch]

epic!

[fast ginkgo]

In yesterday's stream, they said no 4.28 is planned; it's going to be 4.27 then 5.

[icy narwhal]

Under AppData->Local->Unreal Engine, the engine is taking over 60+ gigs on my SSD, can someone tell me if there's things there that are safe for deletion and can be deleted to free up space?

[drowsy snow]

You can delete all Derived Data Cache files, but it'll cause your engine to recompile ALL shaders, and it'll fill up your drive again.

[icy narwhal]

D_D

I should buy a new drive den.

[finite nest]

I am testing metahuman for first time!

[plush yew]

Will the performance of my game be always different to when I ran it standalone compared to running it in the editor?

[icy narwhal]

Yeah unless you cap it.

[plush yew]

ok good 🙂

Now side question, why did the source code vanish from github 😄 Did not yet see someone talking about this 😄

and apparently I'm the only one noticing this or what 😹 ?

[flint rover]

Hey peeps, how come the Kite Demo assets are so damn annoying to open? They're not that high poly, niether are the textures anything out of the ordinary... But whenever I try to open them they just load, load and load. I can open hi-poly assets from megascans with 8K textures in a matter of seconds. But opening a tree crashes my browser, tried it with different versions, even with UE5. SAme problem

https://tenor.com/view/crying-black-guy-meme-sad-gif-11746329

I just want to place same trees god damn it

[drowsy snow]

Set the max texture size to 4K (4096)
It'll load only up to the 4K mip

[flint rover]

Where can I do that? Problem is I cannot even open the editor for the actual mesh because it freezes

[drowsy snow]

Not the meshes, but the textures.

[flint rover]

Yeah that doesn't seem to fix it either sadly

[drowsy snow]

It worked with my own 8 GB RAM system. What do you mean not fixing it?

[flint rover]

It still freezes my client

When I try to open the mesh

[honest vale]

more like GPU manufacturer used cheapest parts possible 😄

[drowsy snow]

Even with max texture size ≤ 4096?

Is your RAM happens to be < 8GB?
Because it works fine in my shitty potato system.

[flint rover]

I got 32 GB RAM 😦

As I said before, opening other very taxing assets have never been a problem

But for some reason these assets do not work, no matter what I do

[kindred viper]

there are only certain assets that have trouble loading for me. Who knows why though. That kite demo was for a specfic purpose on a specific setup for a specific reason. The fact they gave it away at all in asset form is just a bonus (or a curse).

[wary wave]

first time you open an asset in that demo it's building distance fields, which takes a long time

for some reason they aren't saved with distance fields

[drowsy snow]

Guess my potato is weird, because those assets only problematic in 8K max size 🤔

[kindred viper]

didn't know it was distance field based work. You live you learn

[warm drum]

hey can anyone tell me how to add sound to zombie i added the sound in the idle animation but it plays very loud and it plays when i am away from my zombie can anyone fix that

[drowsy snow]

Spawn Sound Attached

Use the zombie actor itself as the attach target.

[warm drum]

okay thanku

[drowsy snow]

Also there's audio attenuation settings - you can ask it over on #audio because I forgot exactly what the settings are.

[warm drum]

but i wanted that sound to play when i am close to zombie

okay

[stiff beacon]

I just reopened UE4 after going to sleep and turning my PC off, and EVERY. SINGLE. TEXTURE. is completely gone. The ones that look like theyre still there become blank when i start to drag them. What the hell could have happened??

[flint rover]

I see, do you know how long on average this usually takes?

[wary wave]

depends on your hardware, but it is slow

[pliant junco]

Please help?

[autumn grail]

there is no way to replicate f***ing child actor components?

[pliant junco]

its not cooking can someone please help me

[finite nest]

anyone using streamlabs?

i need help

sorry for the server just uhh

how do i stop that black background

[cedar fern]

can i use quixel bridge in ue4 the same way i can for the ue5 early access?

ah nvm

[drowsy snow]

Nope. You still need the Bridge app for UE4.

Though honestly doesn't make difference to me.

[cedar fern]

but can i use the assets in ue4?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, you can.

[cedar fern]

great, UE5 looks amazing but i don't think my cpu likes nanite that much, it's super slow for me

do you think it'll be more optimized after full release?

[drowsy snow]

It should be, though I won't hold my breath until at least 5.1 or 5.2 released

[cedar fern]

yeah, i just wanna try and make a simple vr scene in unreal cuz it takes so damn long to get everything set up in unity

[neon bough]

nanite doesn't even work properly in VR yet

[cedar fern]

wasn't planning on using nanite for VR

[drowsy snow]

I bet it'll be half a decade for VR to be even capable of Nanite + Lumen without making everyone collapsed.

[plush yew]

Is it wrong

[neon bough]

if you start an project, UE4 is probably always the best bet

[cedar fern]

yeah, downloading the engine right now

[neon bough]

depends... does get current level index return the right value, are your level names in the right order in the array?

[plush yew]

yes

[neon bough]

then it should be fine

[plush yew]

is this correct

[plush yew]

but when my player collides with the trigger the game get quit

the next level is not been loaded

[neon bough]

well, then there are crystals remaining

or does it quit with a error?

[plush yew]

but if the crystals are remaining then why the trigger quits the game

[flint rover]

I got the kite demo assets working, like you mentioned I just had to wait for a while but now the textures are not linked hehe

[neon bough]

because your quit game condition is true

collect all crystals 😄

i would replace the quit game thing with a message telling the player that he is missing crystals

unless that was for debugging

[humble imp]

I need your help for a moment. I'm not so sure anymore, but doesn't exist a term for the (sudden) popping up of objects in the game world?

[plush yew]

unreal engine stucked when i clicked the material

[neon bough]

it might compile the shaders for the material in the background

[neon bough]

spawn?

[humble imp]

well, spawn isn't very descriptively in this context or?

[plush yew]

is there any good free material pack

[fierce tulip]

your question isnt that meaningful either, do you mean controlled popping, unexpected popping, bugging, spawning, emitting, constructing, or generating?

[neon bough]

the twinmotion materials are a good start imho, at least to get some inspiration for own material setups

[humble imp]

@fierce tulip
I should have guessed that the adverb I chose would be misunderstood and have now replaced it. I am concerned with the sudden, much too late appearance of objects in front of the camera.

[fierce tulip]

could be many reasons, hard to guess without seeing the issue at hand me thinks

[pliant junco]

can someone please help?

[neon bough]

you might want to adjust the near clip plane value

[pliant junco]

do i need to uninstall and install again?

[humble imp]

Yeah thanks, I think clipping is the term I was searching for

but maybe it is also low draw distance

[neon bough]

possible

depends where they pop in

far away from the camera => draw distance / far clip plane (but guess it's just called draw distance in UE)

moving backwards and pop in front of camera => near clip plane

[humble imp]

Okay, thank you @neon bough

[unborn hound]

Hi! 👋 I don't know if I should ask this question in a specific channel,
Does anyone know of a way to get a camera to only render one (or just a few) Static or skeletal meshes?

[drowsy snow]

I assume you're using SceneCapture2D cameras, of which it is indeed able to selectively render certain actors (not necessarily limited to meshes)

[unborn hound]

you are assuming wrong haha, ok thanks a lot, this is what i needed

[plush yew]

how to invert controls for specific level

[tacit sonnet]

any idea whats wrong with my texture ? using 2 procedural mesh components to create the floor for procedural buildings. starting to run into issues using 2 components

[tacit sonnet]

couldnt you multiply any input from the player by -1

and have the script only enabled on that level

[plush yew]

can you tell me briefly

as i m new

[tacit sonnet]

my knowledge using blueprints is not amazing but i will try

so if the player presses 'W' for example

you want them to move forward so you apply X amount of velocity + in their forward direction

any value multiplied by -1 is inverted

so you take that velocity and * it by -1 and they move backwards

when they press W

you can do the same for mouse axis etc

[plush yew]

i want to do in my level 2 blueprint

[tacit sonnet]

do you have any movement code atm ?

[plush yew]

i want to change this in level 2

[tacit sonnet]

so you want the opposite of this in level 2 ?

[plush yew]

yeah

[tacit sonnet]

add a float multiply node

and then multiply the torque by -1

see if that works

im sure there will be a bp for it

but idk what it is

[plush yew]

i have to create a function that means

[tacit sonnet]

that should invert

any movement

on that particular axis

[plush yew]

how do i apply on next level

[tacit sonnet]

well it depends on how you have structured it

but

you could create a boolean

which is called something like 'isInverted'

set it to false for the rest of your levels

and when the level = level 2

set it to true

and while its true

run the inverted code

[finite nest]

any help?
i just deleted running animation to replace it with walking but in result is shows this also i cant find blueprint

[willow gust]

Is it possible to import Unity3D humanoid animations into Unreal Engine?

[fallen marten]

if its an fbx then yeah you should be able to

[mild phoenix]

Hello who can help in "Ultra Dynamic Sky" asset when its start raining I have this bug

[worn obsidian]

That is uniquely beautiful. I would leave it in as a feature, Sony style.

[inland flicker]

Why do y'all in here want to make video games? Just curious if you don't mind sharing

Is it the pay, the freedom of a creative outlet, or some kind of inspiration for something?

[haughty slate]

All of the above :p

[pseudo swift]

is there a way I can render out the reflections?

[haughty slate]

And honestly, I feel like my sanity depends on it. Reality is collapsing in on itself so indulging the imagination is a nice retreat in some respect. Plus, videogames are just awesome.

[pseudo swift]

this worked for other viewmodes but not reflections, is there a console command for it? I couldnt find any in the docs..

its not in here either

[unique kraken]

anyone knows of tools/ workflows for procedualy PLACING stuff.
like, lets say i build myself city asstes. different houses trees etc. instead of literally palcing each one id like to have a system or tool

[rotund rapids]

Hello, I was thinking about maybe making a linear boost Sonic like 3D game in this engine at some point. How should I set up Unreal to develop this Sonic like game?

[unique kraken]

Sounds like all u need is to setup some camera switches

And some base movement I guess. That doesn't sound to hard I would say

Can you elaborate?

Or a link or something

I'm not a Big programmer. I can use some bps but mainly character related

So some sort of guidance, a link or so would be nice

Ah sry didn't realize

Thx

[unique kraken]

Well the links don't work

[tough cove]

would anyone have an idea as to why unreal engine is claiming i have overlapping in my UVs when i definitely made sure they weren't overlapping before i brought them to substance

[unique kraken]

Maybe substance generated some?

[tough cove]

I have 18 UV tiles for the textures

sure the UVs aren't perfect but I was super short on time completing this

UV's are seperated based on material and parts

I made sure in unreal to make virtual texture support on

[fierce tulip]

lightmap needs all that into one uv tile.
if there is anything overlapping itself, or mirrored it will also give problems.

[haughty slate]

Look up some guides on how to move actors, how to get player input and move a character, maybe do a bit of research into using Unreal's physics engine (so you've got options) and then.... experiment!

[tough cove]

putting it all into one UV tile would mean doing UVs and Texturing all from scratch again right

[rotund rapids]

@haughty slate Got it!

[tough cove]

and I definitely don't have time to be able to do that

as I need to get this all done today

[fierce tulip]

nah, add a new uv-channel, repack it.

[tough cove]

in substance or unreal i'm confused

[fierce tulip]

in your 3d app

[tough cove]

that would mean doing textures again no?

[grim ore]

then dont do static lighting, use dynamic

[fierce tulip]

you can try it in unreal, but that only works if no vert is overlapping, or any poly is mirrored

also no, because the textures are still assigned to your first uv-channel
unless you are redoing uv's in substance (not sure if that is a thing) just add the new uv-channel afterwards

[tough cove]

"because the textures are still assigned to your first uv-channel" not sure I understand what you are meaning here

[haughty slate]

Could somebody please explain to me how Add Impulse at Location works? I'm doing a clean up of some code I haven't touched in a while and found such node. I remember just faffing about with it and putting in what feels like silly coordinates and somehow getting the desired result. On paper it seems very obvious - you specify a force and at which location in space that force is applied to the mesh. Running some tests, that doesn't seem to be the case and I'm not really sure what is going on.

I'm trying to make a wheelchair flip in the direction it is travelling when the player hits the brakes at too high a speed. This code works exactly as intended, but my mesh certainly isn't anywhere near 100000000 units tall on the Z axis, so what is going on here? I've achieved similar results with just a simple cube and I really don't understand it. Is this world space or local? Because adding a transform direction completely breaks it, which should ordinarily translate world to local.

[tough cove]

if I change anything with my UV's i'd have to do all of my texturing again

[fierce tulip]

textures > uv channel 0
lightmap > uv channel 1

or do what matthew said, use dynamic lighting

[tough cove]

oh is this stuff in unreal

[fierce tulip]

ok, im out.

[plush yew]

i want to change the value of acceleration only for a specific level how do i do it

[grim ore]

@tough covehow many UV channels does your mesh have in UE4?

@plush yewdefine acceleration? but you can store a value in a game mode specific to that level and use it?

[tough cove]

i've got 3

[plush yew]

oh sorry i thought i have sended the image

[grim ore]

use a custom game mode then and get that value from your game mode on begin play and store it in the character so it uses it

[tough cove]

the mesh is in seperate pieces rather than making the whole thing one mesh as I didn't have time to boolean and fix the topology

[grim ore]

@tough coveif you are using baked lighting you need 1 UV assigned for the lighting, it can be an existing one or a specific one. You can make that in an external program or have UE4 use it. If you do not want to do this you have to use dynamic lighting.

so each mesh has 3 UV Channels?

[plush yew]

Dumb beginner question but how can I run a code snippet(like say turning off gravity) for a set duration of time(in blueprints)?

[plush yew]

i already have a game mod. but how do i do that you are telling

[tough cove]

by UV Channels your refering to basecolor/normals/Occlusion+Roughness+Metallic

or are you referencing to something in Unreal Engine

[grim ore]

@plush yewduplicate the game mode, open it up and create a new variable that has your custom value in it. Set that game mode as an override in the world settings for the map. On begin play your character can get the game mode -> cast to your special game mode -> it will fail on all levels but this one -> on this one it will pass so you get that special variable which has your custom value and save it to the player (set his local acceleration variable to this new one), and now when you use your acceleration variable in the player its the one you got from the game mode

UV channels are UV channles

[tough cove]

technically my first time using Unreal Engine so I won't understand some of the terminology you may be referencing if it's got to do with unreal

[grim ore]

they are not textures

UV channels are not unique to UE4 its a modeling thing

like its literally a thing for modeling

[haughty slate]

Anybody here familiar with Add Impulse at Location?

[grim ore]

if you double click the mesh, go to the top bar and click the UV button, you can see how many channels you have. This is channel 0 for example on this mesh

that mesh is fine, each face is unique in it's own island without any overlapping so there is unique data for making lighting

this mesh is not, it has 6 sides but the UV was not designed for baked lighting as it only uses 1 island that is basically stacked for each side

so this will end up with overlapping UV's and pooor lighting

this is the UV channel on that same mesh that is used for lighting, one unique island per face

now all of this data comes from the modeling program, when it was modeled it was designed like this as its part of the modeling process. Its possible a 3rd party program creates new UV's for texturing but this is all handled outside of UE4 unless you want UE4 to take it's best guess and make one for you

[tough cove]

two UV channels

[grim ore]

so the UV channel with the red would not work, its has data outside the 0-1 range, the UV channel 1 would work but it might give very bad results due to the data being so small in it. On the right it tells you which UV channel it is using. Light Map Coordinate Index

[daring gyro]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/738424654506754131/847812455052607508/unknown.png its my first time using UE and i just wanna get a Metahuman and export it as .fbx but after i import it from bridge its missing the object file which so i cant place it in the scene and idk how to fix that, can some1 pls pls help me

[finite nest]

also, anyone wants to be a voice actor in my game?

[fierce tulip]

#looking-for-talent

[grim ore]

@daring gyroare you sure its missing, did you filter out for skeletal meshes?

[daring gyro]

how do i check that?

[grim ore]

click the filter button next to the search bar and click skeletal mesh

[heady quartz]

Hi, from what I've seen motion blur is available in fortnite for mobile how do i use it for my projects (mobile)

[daring gyro]

filter button?

like i can import other 3d models from quixel without a problem its jsut the metahumans that are causing me trouble

[grim ore]

in your content browser... the screenshot you showed us

[daring gyro]

ohh

no, all boxes are unchecked i didnt touch none of that

[grim ore]

I know, if you check Skeletal Mesh it will show you any skeletal meshes you have in that folder

[daring gyro]

nope

when i check skeletal mesh nothing comes up

ive tried using different metahuman models and none of that worked either

[grim ore]

and no errors come up when you export out of bridge?

[daring gyro]

nope

[grim ore]

did you get any errors when you first imported? It should tell you about a few things that are not enabled but having missing meshes is weird

if you try exporting again after you exported does it tell you its already there in the project?

[daring gyro]

yes it tells me Do i want to import this file again or something like that

[daring gyro]

im not getting any errors

@grim ore im downloading the newest version of UE rn , maybe that will fix it

[cedar fern]

it's been stuck like this for like an hour

[autumn latch]

not working on client, what can i do?

[wary wave]

do it on the server

[autumn latch]

this is not working

i try

not working for client

[wary wave]

well, think about it, debug it, fix it

there are obvious potential problems above:

1. You're getting the local player controller on the server (controller 0).
2. Is CharRef even set correctly?

[autumn latch]

debug say nothing, are u know how can i get player index when i press e keyboard?

[wary wave]

index is different on every machine, you probably want to handle possession in the controller itself.

[proven mauve]

How do I include arbitrary assets into my game?

Obviously only some stuff can be viewed/interacted with, but if I want to put something random, how can I do so?

If I drag + drop it fails to import (unknown file extension, fair).

Can I go outside of the engine to get the file in?

I know I will need to adjust packaging rules so that it gets cooked, ofc.

Like if I want to ship my game with a .blend or .pdf, what is the flow for doing so

[granite spire]

what would be the point to do that?

[proven mauve]

Good question 😓

Its partly a theoretical question. I'm just trying to better understand the asset flow that UE4 takes.

Its not clear to me yet whether I am allowed to interact with the filesystem outside of the editor, or if UE4 will complain.

[thick herald]

You can use the addon Send To Unreal, which does what it says it does, or just export the assets as fbx, obj, usd etc etc

[granite spire]

I have not fiddled with mods, but you'd go down that route I'd say

[proven mauve]

I see. So I need to utilize the asset types that UE4 knows how to handle.

[granite spire]

I would say so, or it wouldn't know what to do with it

[proven mauve]

Seemingly ue4 doesn't know what to do with a PDF, sadly.

[thick herald]

That's the case will all programs, use what they allow.

[proven mauve]

Although it should be able to cook PDF into images, right?

[thick herald]

Why do you want to use a pdf?

[proven mauve]

Not true. In Godot you can include arbitrary assets into the pack files, and it respects it as an unknown entity.

Its called a "keep" import.

Useful for custom handling of user-generated file formats, or even stuff like json-config, or anything else you don't want the engine to touch.

[granite spire]

depends why

i can't think of a purpose for that game wise

[proven mauve]

Instruction manual that gets placed on user system?

Or whatever.

I can think of any number of reasons why the ability to pack arbitrary assets into the packaged game is useful.

[granite spire]

I guess but even then you'd just zip it with the executable

[proven mauve]

But then you lose out on the ability to deal with that layer at the same time as making the game.

[wintry silo]

Got an issue when switching pawns using the player controller. When switching to another player, the player I switch out from is left stuck up in the air during the switch or is still running on the ground on the spot if moving the player during the switch..

[unborn hound]

Hi! all! Is there any way to use render to texture with SceneCapture2D, using post-procesing and keeping alpha information? Basically leaving alpha 1 to all the non rendering meshes/actors in the capture.

[vocal herald]

How can I change the shape of Procedural Foliage Volume or Blocking volume? Or can I only use box shapes?

[granite spire]

@wintry silo If you switch pawns, the other one no longer has a controller, so what probably is happening is the animation is stuck, as it no longer has any AI or controller information to update, the easiest thing would be to setup a "reset" function and call that to reset the animation, you could even have a timer that waits for it to collide with the ground before switching too.

@unborn hound There use to be a way to block out what you don't want on the camera 2D through the use of a "white list" which only items you want can be displayed, I don't know of such a thing existing for post process effects as unbound = everything, the only thing you could do would be to apply their own post process effects to counter what you've done.

@vocal herald is this a pack? I'll need more detail

[vocal herald]

Im talking about built in procedural foliage volume. When u add a procedural foliage volume or blocking volume they are box shaped

[granite spire]

Hmm I haven't had to fiddle with that, I always make my own so I can grow trees and have life cycles.

[vocal herald]

if i wanna make a round hole in my volume, Am I supposed to draw a circle with tons of box shaped blocking volumes?

[granite spire]

I would think so

that tends to be the case for blocking volumes

they're cheap anyway

[clever arch]

Hey Everyone 🙂

Wondering if you can help please (Not sure if this is the correct place to post!)

I'm having an issue where one of my static meshes won't generate a UV lightmap no matter what I do and not sure what I can do to fix it

[thick herald]

In the details panel scroll down. You can choose what shape you want. You can also edit the shape itself if you like by adding / removing / moving vertex.

[broken heath]

The thumbnail of my bp doesn’t show the static mesh inside it , its empty world thumbnail

[short willow]

Probably try fix your mesh first.

[clever arch]

Mesh is fine, Never had the issue before

[short willow]

So you used this mesh in other project before also use unreal?

[clever arch]

yes, recently moved from 4.20 to 4.25 and literally the first time i've had the issue so not sure if something has changed in 4.25

[short willow]

How do you move? Did you upgrade the project? migrate assets? Copied the uasset? Etc?

[clever arch]

completely new project just imported the same tree ive used previously into my project

just double checked the mesh and its all ok no N-gons or anything like that

[short willow]

Hmmmm. No idea then. Maybe check the issues website and see if there are bugs related to it.

[clever arch]

thanks for trying to help anyway 🙂

[short willow]

Yeah, maybe change your uv attr names and try again. I might try that.

[coral iron]

excuse my ignorance please, I literally just started with unreal yesterday for the first time, I've never used a program like this. 100% completely new to this. I'm struggling hard to find places online to help with different problems I'm having, I'm trying to follow different tutorials on youtube to learn different things, such as making an environment. The user says to enable a plugin called "Landmass", a plugin I do not seem to have, this is the continuing problem with every tutorial I follow is that I seem to have way less plugins out of the gate and I just don't understand my own issue here. I apologize for any inconvenience.

[clever arch]

Hey, No its not the same with all tutorials. You may want to look at unreals official tutorials as they generally use stuff that is soley in the engine if that makes sense

[coral iron]

One of the tutorials was from Unreal and I didn't even have the folder or subcategory that said plugin was in.

[clever arch]

it could be that your using a different version of the engine which is common

[plush yew]

with UE5 close to release, is UE4 support going to end?

[coral iron]

I believe I have discovered I may be using an old version, I have no idea how this is possible.

yeah I'm on 4.13, I have absolutely no idea how I did that

I downloaded it last night straight off their website, well, time to fix this I guess, Thank you for your help very much

[clever arch]

inside the launcher there are different versions you may have installed the wrong one

[short willow]

Yeah, the default sorting to get engine is weird.

If you absolutely start new it seems to default to the oldest one somehow.

[wintry silo]

Player I switch over to is stuck in air during a jump during possess how do I fix this. Skynar BP is a child of CH_Human and Ch Human (my commander) is a child of Third Person Char. For some reason the code in Player Controller is not putting the character back down on the ground after switching the player.

so when I switch from commander to skynar and I jump with skynar in the air and switch or when hes running, hes left stuck in the air or running during the switch.

[granite spire]

@wintry silo I'm going to repeat my reply.

If you switch pawns, the other one no longer has a controller, so what probably is happening is the animation is stuck, as it no longer has any AI or controller information to update, the easiest thing would be to setup a "reset" function and call that to reset the animation, you could even have a timer that waits for it to collide with the ground before switching too.

[wintry silo]

I had this problem and also after switching back to the commander, the AI pawn just stands there dead and dosen't continue following the player. So I had two probkems with the ai.

[granite spire]

You're also getting all actors of class, which appears to be incorrect, as you should want the spawned character

[wintry silo]

??

[latent sonnet]

Uh... How do I fix this?

[granite spire]

you don't want to be looping through class actors every time you hit 2

[wintry silo]

i wouldn't know i followed a tutorial to switch the pawns.

[short willow]

Lol

[wintry silo]

well it switched, but leaves the player animation running when switching or stuck in jump.

[granite spire]

you're always trying to grab actor 0 and seeing if you can control it, if there's other actors for CH Human, you'll only ever grab details from the first one

[wintry silo]

the timer to refresh ai is here

i am not doing a multiplayer game but a single player party companion game.

[granite spire]

well that's because without a controller, a pawn will cease to do anything, you might have to reload in the AI or have the AI take over

if you possess a pawn you have to reload in the AI I would assume

I don't know what tutorial that is but it's messy

[wintry silo]

i don;'t know how to actually reset the ai again to follow the player after leaving the pawn.

i know how to possess it, but not how to restart the ai after unpossessing.

[granite spire]

I've never had to deal with that type of logic, I can only go by guesses

you should be able to just reassign the AI

set the AI controller ref

[wintry silo]

the ai was assigned in the player controller by this array.

[granite spire]

if you've possessed it, i imagine the ai controller ref gets overridden

[wintry silo]

this allows the 10 party members to be assigned.

[granite spire]

oh lawdy

whos tutorial is this?

[short willow]

Can you give us link so we can go report it? Lol

[wintry silo]

what are you insinuating Penguin?

[granite spire]

you don't get all actors of class, when you have the party reference there

then loop through an array with a for loop

it has a remove function from the party members but then a size of 10, but that could be incorrect as you might have that array shrink to 5, which then you'll get errors galore

[wary wave]

there are... a lot of really truly terrible tutorials out there

[wintry silo]

well I don't know what the correction is. I only tested this with just one of the pawns to see if it will work or not, Here's how I set it up for the others.

[granite spire]

I might as well write a better one

[wintry silo]

I managed to get the levelling component working for all the pawns. But not the unpossess part so get the ai to resume again.

[granite spire]

@wintry silo you're only ever getting index[0] of the CH Loana, this is bad because one could exist if you destroy it

[wintry silo]

I'm not sure why index 0 is bad when the pawns are picked by an array index with that register code.

[granite spire]

it's 3:11am, I have to sleep but in 12 hours if you're still struggling hit me up

I have to put in a capture system into my crappy game so I might see what I can do

[wintry silo]

so you want me to add in the index numbers to the get arrays for each pawn.

[granite spire]

well i'm only seeing half of your code, if it's the unpossess not working try and reassign the AI

unpossess then setAI to previous possessed unit

you'll have to manually do that

[wintry silo]

only code I have is this

[granite spire]

why is there a pause timer?

if you unpossess your ai controller probably won't be valid

if it's doing what I think it's doing

[wintry silo]

that it was from a tutorial, as i don't know how to write the logic for unpossessing the pawns.

[granite spire]

I would look up a bunch of tutorials till it clicks

matthew doesn't have any on this

surprisingly

[wintry silo]

been trying that.

[granite spire]

let me see what I can come up with after work tomorrow

I know I easily got mine to work when you loot a chest

[wintry silo]

ok

[granite spire]

but it's nothing to do with ai

[wintry silo]

i have got the widgets working with the game mode for the levelling system so when i possess pawns i don't lose their values off the screen.

[granite spire]

yeah

you should be storing all of that on the game instance or the blueprint itself

[wintry silo]

so i have got stuff working, just not everything working. gem collecting for all pawns is working and that was done with an event dispatcher

[granite spire]

a lot of tutorials over complicate things with event dispatchers

[wintry silo]

its not a one single map game, but a game of different worlds. so there will be different maps.

[granite spire]

yeah so game instance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w594D3qtLs

mathews tutorials are on point

[wintry silo]

i just need to know how to set up a multiple world game with that game instance. Not used game instance yet.

[granite spire]

look through his if you need help

they're A++++

[wintry silo]

Got the dialog system all working for basic dialog with the data table, but not the Dialog Choices yet in the dialog.... That's more harder to do as it has to be dynamicallky created in the same widget somehow..

[granite spire]

I should probably continue streaming my little adventure game I been doing

might be handy for everyone

it'll be funny seeing an experienced dev be forgetful for things

[wintry silo]

my game is storyline based contains alot of dialog. Thisis why I need to use data table. Is it possible to generate dialog choices using a data table, or canit only be done with an internal default array list with the NPC you chat to.

[granite spire]

I'm actually not sure, I have to do the same thing so i been thinking on it

i'll end up making a "smart" dialogue system that you feed in results, and that NPC will pick from a bunch of choices

[wintry silo]

there's 2 ways I've seen dialog branching being done, 1 with a behavior tree which is alot more tedious to set up all the dialog branchings in the conversation, and the other is with an array list. Not seen it done yet with a data table to create a dialog tree in a conversation. Kotor II had its own a dialog talk editor which made things so much easier..

[granite spire]

which might be just a bunch of enums

[wintry silo]

A bunch of enums, not tried this. Sounds interesting.

[granite spire]

I was thinking a struct array for dialogues, then enums to tie the code together, but then a data table for random conversations based off the personality and type of npc

[wintry silo]

because I'm running the dialog struct through the data table.

[granite spire]

say you wanted a shop keeper, you could have like an intensity level dialogue or something

so if he is high tense and hates you the dialogue changes

that's what I'll probably do

[wintry silo]

i'll just get my struct to show what I've done so far.

[granite spire]

but then there would be loads of predefined stuff

i'll have to figureout something later

but an intensity thing sounds good

[wintry silo]

so I have got dialog working so far with the timer for showing all the NPC conversations.

[granite spire]

then if you kill someone that's friends with someone, you can raise the intensity level, or get super complex

[wintry silo]

and that all runs in the same widget.

[granite spire]

make sure you keep calculations off of widgets as they already run bad

[wintry silo]

calculations? But to generate the butons to the dialog so you can branch the dialog conversations is a little tricky.

[granite spire]

so you'd feed it elsewhere

[wintry silo]

here's the widget

[granite spire]

if it pulls the dialogue from an NPC then that's ok

[wintry silo]

yes I set all the row numbers in the dialog actor itself

[granite spire]

yeah

if widgets pull complete information, that's all they should be doing

[wintry silo]

and the data table set up

[granite spire]

Yeah not too bad

[wintry silo]

So that works in showing all the assigned dialog conversations with npc's. Now its just the dialog button choices to do. Random dialog can also be done as well. I know how to do that.... I did that in my batch file most of my game is still in batch file format containing all the game dialog and its choices.

I only placed some of my game in unreal engine.

[granite spire]

I see

You might then reference choice with another column linking the rows up and producing buttons that way

Then have another column called btn choice text

[wintry silo]

I didn't jump into Unreal Engine and just started making a game, I designed a prototype of the whole thing in batch text format first (game in text form) so I could playtest out all the storylines and choices and rooms and values in the game. So I went about it different, I knew it would take longer if I tried to do the changes to dialog in the engine itself so I done all the changes to text outside of the engine.

[granite spire]

I see

[wintry silo]

yeah otherwise you have to keep on starting and stopping the engine too much all the time just to see the new changes. So text changes to storyline ect were all done outside the engine. Then I could just insert the dialog in.

[granite spire]

Yeah thats what data tables are for

[wintry silo]

ok I have this in the data table as well. put in an empty array for dialog choices

This I'm not clear on "You might then reference choice with another column linking the rows up and producing buttons that way
Then have another column called btn choice text" How would this be set up in data table if its possible to set up the choice buttons this way?

because i want the choice buttons to read text from the data table when you click on them. So I don't have to re-create another widget.

what pins do I need to add now to my dialog struct to make this work for the buttons? So I can pull the choices in from the data table
through the dialog struct if we can use the same struct.

[unborn hound]

Thanks for the reply, I am using the white list on the camera 2d, the thing is I need the "empty" space to be filled with alpha = 1.
However, in order to get the postprocess rendering in the generated texture I need to use the "Capture Source" as "Final Color in linear sRGB" and I loose the alpha info in the generated texture.
So, if you need transparency in the texture, you cant use Final Color , but if you don't use Final Color, you loose transparency D:

[broken heath]

Help i renamed a folder and i lost the blueprints thumbnail , now its just a white sphere

How do i return thumbnail

[wintry silo]

can you undo your last actions with ctrl z until the folder is restored

[broken heath]

I restarted the

Project

Thinking that would solve

I have no undos now

[wintry silo]

I think I have to put the dialog choices in a different data table...

[broken heath]

Thank u i solved it , (hidden in game) can mess up the thumbnail

[wintry silo]

ok good to hear

[unborn hound]

Ok I found a solution in this thread
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/scene-capture-doesnt-render-post-process/105626/9

[light thunder]

How would someone go about making a material that cascades, like running lights? I could make a blueprint actor i'm not sure if that's the best way to do it - ideally would be a material function

[lyric timber]

why does the color from a subsurface shader not show up in ray traced reflections?

is there some kind of work around?

[latent sonnet]

Looking for this but it's not showing up?

Ah nvm I got it. Needed to Click on the Skeletal Mesh to add it

[wise trail]

Ahh

[lyric timber]

how do i fix this

[wise trail]

What happened to skin

[kind dew]

how do you get the "Blueprint Session Result" from a created session?

[short willow]

You probably need a cheaper version of skin shader for the reflection(like one that doesn't use subsurface scattering and other fancy stuff)

[wintry silo]

how do you set up the logic to read button choices text from a data table into a mouse click?

[lyric timber]

what do you mean "for the reflection"

@short willow can i change that somewhere?

[short willow]

You probably need to create you own shader base on the metahuman ones?

[lyric timber]

umm...

i thought thats what i did

[short willow]

So a rough explanation, the mirror unlike offline renderer(vray, render man) they don't actually do ray trace calculattion.

They are render in a different pass and read back as texture.

And during that render a lot of things are disabled to speed up the rendering time.

[lyric timber]

lol

[short willow]

So as you can see, there are no indirect lights for your sink, towel etc.

[lyric timber]

right

[short willow]

Means they don't even look up the light maps

[lyric timber]

there is a setting to change them but hard shadows is the best looking right now

i can add a base color to the SSS and it shows up in the reflection

but it also messes up the shader outside the reflection

i know how it works. i just need some kind of work around

[short willow]

I haven't personally set up this in unreal before, so my hunch is that you need a switch somewhere so if it's a call to render target, you use the cheaper version skin shader that are just surface model.

In offline renderers we call it a ray switch.

[lyric timber]

that seems beyond what im willing to do

[short willow]

Don't know what is unreal equivalent

[lyric timber]

i was thinking i could render 2 shots and edit it in post

but thats lame

[short willow]

Lol, welcome to the real-time world

[lyric timber]

inefficient^

[short willow]

Or you can do the terminator 2 approach

[lyric timber]

i mean this is going to happen to all the humans that walk by a mirror. thats not good

[short willow]

So no mirror just double on the other side and very good lighting control

[lyric timber]

i mean in all reflections

i can see her colorless body on the tap

[short willow]

Yeah if you have other reflection other than that mirror, then invest the time to do the rayswitch then .

[lyric timber]

i have no idea how to do that

[short willow]

Cause I also have no idea if you can override that render target part.

[lyric timber]

i can try to add a generic skin-tone to the base color and tweek it till it looks ok

[short willow]

If you are using the rtx ray tracing, probably ask that in nvidia's forum would be faster.

Or in the #virtual-production channel and see if someone know about it respond.

[lyric timber]

@short willow thx for responding

[zealous magnet]

In the profiler, what do these values actually mean? Especially Calls - does it mean how much it was called in general, or per tick?

[inner sundial]

in the source control tab for git beta i keep getting an error saying source control failed even though the path is set right

[wintry silo]

how do you get the data table to generate text dynamically in the buttons?

its needed for dialog conversation choices buti don't know how to generate it in the widget

[plush yew]

why does the text in my editable text in a widget appear so small?

Where can you download the ue5 desert canyon map showed in the showcase?

[light thunder]

Everytime - I swear I've changed this multiple times and didn't think about it - but apparently I was wrong - running out of space kids? Check your vault cache

[daring schooner]

I enabled planar reflections and restarted unreal and now I'm stuck at 39%, any idea if it's actually stuck or just taking very long to load that one % for some reason?

[light thunder]

It's literally recompiling all your shaders, or a lot of them

So it will take a long time to open, and then it will say like "compiling shaders 4,405"

[daring schooner]

oh yeah it just reopened

didn't know it had to recompile all shaders

[light thunder]

Yep, have fun - I'd think about other total recompile functions and enable those too, might as well do it only once

[daring schooner]

don't know the other ones, still pretty new to unreal

[light thunder]

things like forward shading, if you are going to use for example ---maybe distance mesh fields but I can't remember if that triggers a recompile or not

[daring schooner]

oh yeah speaking of
can I use distance mesh fields for reflections somehow
iirc GIProbes in godot add reflections that way so that'd be nice in unreal too

[light thunder]

I'd check #graphics for that - note it is typically not as busy their chatwise as it is here, so it might take awhile

[daring schooner]

okay, I'll do it later, thanks

[wintry silo]

how do you code a dialog skip button ?

[haughty adder]

Guys. Anyone have experience in developing multiplayer game in unreal engine.
Me and my friends we have all the resources, models, landscapes and npcs ready.
But we really lack in multiplayer experience. If any of you have a basic or good idea about introducing multiplayer in unreal engine, please DM and we can talk about it.
I can show you our project amd the videos regarding it.
It's actually a pokemon 3d open world game. Being pokemon fans, we have developed it a lot.
If you are willing to help and checkout the awesome videos of the game that is being developed, please DM.
Thanks 😄

[plush yew]

Hi, anyone knows how can i know if the user support ray tracing?

for dlss plugin, there's a function called IsNVIDIADLSSSuported

but for ray tracing i can't find anything

[echo phoenix]

Hi all I just use UE5 yesterday and I try to find how I can blend two quixel Material like in uE4 for Vertex Painting but I don't find how to do ?

[coral iron]

Hey, I'm trying to come to an understanding with importing megascans, when enabling displacement in the plugin for Quixel, it gets rid of the texture for the material like so:

but when the setting for "Enable Displacement" is off it works just fine

why is this?

[smoky timber]

Hey guys! I have an issue with the navmesh's cell size in UE 4.22. I change the cell size to 9, but all the time, it seems Unreal changes it back to 19. Could delete save or github affect the cell size navmesh value somehow? Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Any suggestions?

[light thunder]

Does it change back real-time, like right in front of you, or when youload the editor after closing it?

[smoky timber]

When I load the editor after closing it

[light thunder]

Try to save ANYTHING on that map, not just the navmesh - make sure the changes you made persist

sounds like a source control issue - it's supposed to not let you save it but sometimes for certain aspects, like shader compiles, if something is 'source controlled' but not read-only, it will let you'save it' but it won't actually save (basically you've only saved a temp file, which is gone as soon as editor closes) - you'd have no way of knowing directly though

[smoky timber]

Oh ok gonna have to check. Regarding regular save it works. I constantly add new stuff. Everything except this navmesh :(

[plush yew]

hey

im trying to make a simple glass material on unreal 5

apparently the previous raytracing stuff is deprecated or something

does anyone know how to make a simple glass material on ue5?

[fervent maple]

Hi, anyone knows how can i know if the user support ray tracing?

[wintry silo]

how do we do the dialog skip logic with the data table to skip audio and reset the data table row? I got dialog working, but i need dialog skip

[autumn grail]

Does someone have the same graphic caard bug with ue4 editor when , after 20 minutes ~ the widgets begin flickering and are not visibles?

[fervent maple]

I had this bug, it's the NVIDIA driver

[wintry silo]

unreal engine also dosen't respond with the mouse when first booting it up i have to switch tabs in order to get the window to respond.

[autumn grail]

Pirrita you reversed to an older driver version?

@fervent maple

[wintry silo]

my machine also been randomly freezing, then screen goes all black and saying that it lost the video signal....and the only way out is to push the reset button to boot it back up.....

[fervent maple]

yes

[autumn grail]

which was it please? or do you remember where to search for

[fervent maple]

I'm using now 460.89

[autumn grail]

ok ty

[true ridge]

Was there a setting for swapping between controller and keyboard UI buttons or was that a paid plugin?

[sharp crest]

why does my texture look like this when I'm attaching it to a material? it should be transpernt

NV. this fixed it.

[serene birch]

I don't see why it should be transparent considering you didn't show any value plugged to the opacity pin

[sharp crest]

I was trying to combine 2 textures, not actually make it transper

[coral iron]

can anyone help me decipher these errors?

[serene birch]

you must have plugged a vector plug into a vector plug of smaller size

like passe a float3 to a float2

[coral iron]

I should have explained I'm brand spankin' new to this, and this is just me looking at the parent of a megascan, I'm trying to import with displacement enabled but it gives me the default checkered skin instead of the intended result. TL:DR, I have no idea what that means

I found this on the issue:

If anyone runs into the same problem as me, it seems to just be a bug for this project type (VR), unfortunately the work arounds are not easy

[autumn grail]

I'm stuck since 3 days on how to replicate my characters armors can someone help me?

[drowsy siren]

guys im trying to use virtual run time textures but all my textures are black when i try to paint, does anybiody knwo why?

[steep basin]

advice on using quixel assets and getting collision setup good?

deff in the wrong place my dude.

https://tenor.com/view/kevin-i-cant-gif-8493709

[modest trench]

asking for pirated content is against the rules

[strong slate]

Ty Alucard

[steep basin]

iv spent thousands on my epic account on random crap 🤣