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[wintry bobcat]

uh? idk how to do that lol

[vestal raptor]

Hmm, sounds like it could work, I'm gonna try to figure out how to set it up and see @granite spire

[granite spire]

@wintry bobcat what do you need the parameter for?

[wintry bobcat]

i'd want to set it up for the chrome ball

[granite spire]

@vestal raptor let me know how that crazy idea goes

@wintry bobcat i'm not fully understanding you sorry

[gleaming thicket]

@granite spire how costly is the line tracing idea?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/IntroductionToMaterials/

[granite spire]

@gleaming thicket Line tracing from what I know is fairly light, 20 of them might be good for a test you can generate linetrace spheres on contact too so that could reduce what you need, and allow it to hit under things, though it wouldn't be perfect

[gleaming thicket]

@wintry bobcat you might want to look at some tutorials if you haven't already

[wintry bobcat]

okay here's the timestamp of the video

https://youtu.be/58TxAz2Er0g?t=4779

[vestal raptor]

@wintry bobcat If you just want to create it, hold "s" and left click anywhere in the material

[wintry bobcat]

thanks bro!

[vestal raptor]

@granite spire Not sure if I will finish it today because I'm out in like 45 minutes but if it succeds when I do it I will let you know

[granite spire]

@wintry bobcat UE4 has an inbuilt example in 4.26 that has the light direction already sync'd, btw

[gleaming thicket]

@granite spire so the issue with Kelt's problem is the player vision can see through walls right? But the AI perception shouldnt from what I know. Is it possible to somehow "extend" that class to player?

probably not with BP

[vestal raptor]

@gleaming thicket this method that I tried "sees" throug the wall, ai perception wont go through the wall

https://gyazo.com/c92f31ef644d209ef1a185d2a9d763b0

[granite spire]

@gleaming thicket that's what I was mentioning, but he wants what you described in reverse

[gleaming thicket]

@vestal raptor and ai perception looks at the middle of the mesh right?

[vestal raptor]

Yes, and only at the middle, so if you see the head of an AI it wont register

to change it you need C++

[wintry bobcat]

yeah but i'd stick to this one in the mean time

[granite spire]

@vestal raptor wonder if you could check for an AI, get the height then hit it with a bunch of line traces?

if it's getting the middle of a player, then you already know where it is, so you might want to size it up, but what I think you need is a AI_Perception but for the player

[gleaming thicket]

yeah this is what i mean

[granite spire]

Apparently you can add the ai perception to a player

[vestal raptor]

You can and it works

From my little expirement atleast

[gleaming thicket]

but you dont want to use it because it doesnt detect the head

[timber robin]

Hi, im having an issue with physics, i have a pole and when i try to scale it the Z axis it just gets bigger radius, dont undertand why i cannot just scale it up, anyone having the same issue?hope someone can help.

[gleaming thicket]

we are running in circles lmao

[granite spire]

lol

[vestal raptor]

@granite spire Actually that line trace from the player to the ai + https://gyazo.com/c92f31ef644d209ef1a185d2a9d763b0 have some sense

[gleaming thicket]

@vestal raptor try having an invisible sphere in the ai's head area and check for that with ai_perception

[granite spire]

it's a bit of a complex problem, because nothing i've seen does it, so I can't imagine a work around, generally I can look at something and know how it's done but I don't see any examples of this

[gleaming thicket]

meaning other axis get bigger too?

[granite spire]

@timber robin that's just how cylinders work

@timber robin Thought that being said I just made what you want by draggin 1 axis

[gleaming thicket]

maybe there is like some proportion lock so it increases all the axis together

[granite spire]

the perception should be blocked by walls though

[timber robin]

jejeje its weird

i cannot do that

[granite spire]

might be the type of capsule

[timber robin]

I tried UE4.26 and 4.25 and even UE5 jeje but same result, im sure is just one clic away 😅

[vestal raptor]

@granite spire 3 line traces to the head/ capsule component/ root + this https://gyazo.com/c92f31ef644d209ef1a185d2a9d763b0 did the job thanks for all the help, also @gleaming thicket thank you for your input

[gleaming thicket]

@vestal raptor nice

[granite spire]

we did it gang

we made something that doesn't exist

[gleaming thicket]

@vestal raptor when is the paper coming out mate

I hope to have my name in there

[granite spire]

@timber robin Try looking for a padlock option, if it's only doing 3 directions your sizing is locked

[old nimbus]

How do I make Face out of vertices in Brush Editing tool?

[vestal raptor]

@gleaming thicket when it's ready

[old nimbus]

pls help

[granite spire]

@old nimbus what do you mean by make a face?

[old nimbus]

I have 4 vertices

But they don't make a face

I want to make a face out of 4 vertices

[granite spire]

so you want to add polys to make a face (eyes/nose/mouth)?

[old nimbus]

no

[gleaming thicket]

i think they mean like a face

[old nimbus]

A face

[gleaming thicket]

3d face

[old nimbus]

which comprises of 3-many vertices

[gleaming thicket]

like cube has 6 faces kinda deal

[old nimbus]

no

Like an edge comprises of 2 vertices

I want to make a face out of 4 vertices

[granite spire]

do you have a reference picture of what you're trying to do?

[old nimbus]

Like-
In blender, you select 4 vertices, and press F to make a face

ok wait

[granite spire]

you mean a single poly-face?

[old nimbus]

This is the default stair found in Geometry, but I deleted the face in the back, and now I want to remake it.

[gleaming thicket]

so a plane then

[old nimbus]

Yeah

more like a plane

[granite spire]

@old nimbus you might want to not use that tool as it's only for quick workflow, it's better to make your stuff in blender and import it

[old nimbus]

I just want to make a plane there

lol

[granite spire]

I just don't bother with that tool

[old nimbus]

And I have made a whole House by using only that tool

[granite spire]

yeah

but it's unoptimized, and to change anything or replace that with polished assets ends up being a nightmare

[gleaming thicket]

apparently planes got removed in 4.1

lool

[granite spire]

@old nimbus You have to remake the stairs it seams, which is why that tool is bad

[gleaming thicket]

best way might be to just bring a cube and delete the rest

[gleaming thicket]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/34512/no-planes-in-geometry-mode.html

[old nimbus]

shit

[granite spire]

I remember using it way back, before swapping back to 3Ds max

I feel like a boomer using 3ds max now

[gleaming thicket]

whats the cool stuff kids use nowadays

[granite spire]

all you young hipsters and your cool blender

[old nimbus]

Only professionals use 3ds max

and most professionals are boomer

[gleaming thicket]

yeah we cant afford the licensce

but maya do provide a license for students

[old nimbus]

us Gen-Z hasn't got any money to fund paid softwares

[granite spire]

haha

I tried using blender, the UI and controls are just so clunky

[old nimbus]

I just wanna make a plane T.T

[gleaming thicket]

yeah its not good idea to use the default stuff they provide

[granite spire]

@old nimbus use a box and thin it out

[gleaming thicket]

set an axis to 0

[old nimbus]

But how do I attach it to the stair?

[gleaming thicket]

just drag it

[granite spire]

just group it

[old nimbus]

well

[granite spire]

it's not like you're going for performance here

[old nimbus]

alright

[granite spire]

or pretty

[old nimbus]

I mean

[gleaming thicket]

@granite spire what if he is

checkmate

[old nimbus]

This basically the first thing I have made on my own

[granite spire]

well then you wouldn't use prototyping tools for it 😉

[gleaming thicket]

boomers wont understand

[old nimbus]

What's prototyping

[granite spire]

o boi

[gleaming thicket]

its the stuff you make before the actual stuff

like placeholders

[old nimbus]

like

[granite spire]

one sec let me get you some reading material

[gleaming thicket]

you use the default poop stairs made by ue4 to see how it fits with the environment

[old nimbus]

I basically started UE4 a month ago

[gleaming thicket]

then you go to blender and make a good one

[old nimbus]

I am using them, but I wanted to modify them according to my needs

[granite spire]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/LevelDesign/ @old nimbus

oh goody a clean slate

[gleaming thicket]

@old nimbus but they are for prototyping so they are not flexible

[granite spire]

we can mold this boy

[old nimbus]

Yeah, I just made a whole house out of them

[gleaming thicket]

@old nimbus you can if you want to.

think it like this, you can bang your table to make a sick beat but that beat would probably sound better in a drumkit

[old nimbus]

My logic behind doing so, was to keep everything as much Minecrafty as possible

[gleaming thicket]

there is probably a minecraft pack somewhere

[granite spire]

@old nimbus Build it out of these, you can actually make that static mesh and import to blender to redo easily

[gleaming thicket]

with real assets

[old nimbus]

I see

[granite spire]

Merge then create static mesh

that would be more acceptable

then it's a proper mesh

[old nimbus]

The solution to my problem I can think of right now, is, I'll just have to rescale the whole stair to fit in my environment.

[gleaming thicket]

or thin out a cube and group

[old nimbus]

Alright

[granite spire]

@old nimbushttps://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/polygon-prototype-pack I highly recommend this pack, it's $2.49au

infact i'm going to put it in my world now

just realized i probably should

[old nimbus]

Yeah, I don't have $2.49

[gleaming thicket]

you seem to know blender

might be better to create your own assets

[old nimbus]

I mean, it'll be alright if I made assets in Blender, i'm just trying to learn World-Building in Unreal engine.

This is what i made from what I learnt

A stair which fits in my world

However, i think I can still do better

But I am having a problem

I am having problems with group all this boxes

when i group them, the green box which appears outside the group seems to be bigger than my world

[granite spire]

Yeah its just going to get worse as things get more complex @old nimbus

Make things in blender then import them are tools, imo

I dont know level designers that bother with that ue4 tool

[old nimbus]

Looks like I had group Sky-Sphere with the stairs

tada

Yeah, the stairs took me too much time.

49 minutes

I'll keep all of your advices in my mind next time

[granite spire]

Let me see how long it takes in max

[flint rover]

I would go with blender

[old nimbus]

I don't think it would take much time

in 3ds max

But what I wanted to achieve was, stairs which were 100 units broad, and 100 units tall

basically, 1 block of minecraft is 100*100 units in gere

so I am keeping the snapping to 100, and sometimes 50 to make peculiar blocks like wooden slab.

[granite spire]

well that's where you would use a snapping tool

[old nimbus]

yes

The BoxBrush tool seemed to be pretty handy tool for this to be honest

Because I wouldn't be using a single block and texture it and scale it, because it would stretch the textures

Plus I wouldn't want to have a thousand blocks in my scene

To my knowledge, this tool seemed to be the best

[old nimbus]

Around a minute to make the same thing in Blender tho

[granite spire]

idk fam, the time spent trying to make something like that, is time spent learning something in blender

[old nimbus]

yeah

[granite spire]

you won't be able to even texture it well

[old nimbus]

I thought it would be better to avoid the hassle of importing meshes

[granite spire]

there's no hassle though?

[old nimbus]

No?

I've always had problems with importing meshes

[granite spire]

how so?

[old nimbus]

idk

I just.... don't like it

[granite spire]

you literally can save the correct exporting method then importing meshes you setup once

and that's a few buttons

[old nimbus]

ok so, Let's abandon the stairs I made in 50 minutes, and learn how to Import

lesss goo

Brb

gotta watch some tuts

[surreal eagle]

i dont even know what to do next for my game. tell me what to work on

[granite spire]

@surreal eagle what are your skills?

[surreal eagle]

idk i do like everything

[granite spire]

@old nimbus you have to eventually learn how to import, there's no way around it, though it's not hard to click a few buttons

[surreal eagle]

i ran out of weapon ideas

[granite spire]

what was your previous thing?

[old nimbus]

alr

[surreal eagle]

weapons modeling

[granite spire]

oh boy you're in luck, do I have a video for you!

[surreal eagle]

show me!

oh i remembered i need to make grenades

[surreal eagle]

game set in 2055

[granite spire]

@surreal eagle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPkM0Rvbck

@surreal eagle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puzuqS1D2Lc&list=PLPjqp8O5Qe9kF9eprzmw7UkhzJSSJ9Sf5 here it is

[surreal eagle]

because the game is set in 2055 they have some energy weapons

you can litterally make anythig up

idc

hell,even send a picture

[granite spire]

Look at all of them reloads

[surreal eagle]

beautifull

[surreal eagle]

👍

[granite spire]

@surreal eagle I want more epic reload animations

[old nimbus]

This is easier than I thought

[surreal eagle]

i'll keep in mind

i

i'll make the mc flip the gun

[flint rover]

How can I animate the sun in the sequencer? 😄

Like I want to set a position with the CTRL+L method, move it to another point on the timeline and move the sun by CTRL+L again

[granite spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiwhg6bHaYs this just makes me want to make some animations lol

@flint rover you might have to add the sun as a sequencer actor

[surreal eagle]

...

[old nimbus]

ok so

I am having problems with climbing the stairs

which is bad

[granite spire]

@old nimbus set the collisions properly

[flint rover]

Yeah it worked by adding it to the sequencer, but have to animate it via the transform options insterad

[old nimbus]

What's that? 🌚

And how do I do it?

[granite spire]

@flint rover Yeah you would have to do that, though I though the CTRL+L would do that

@old nimbus In the mesh, but you might want to enable it in the project settings

[plush yew]

did any1 know unreal is used by nintendo?

i didnt before lol

[surreal eagle]

gets sued by nintendo

[plush yew]

sued doesn't work like that

[granite spire]

In what way? they sure as heck wouldn't build a UI out of it

[fresh bay]

Hey guys, is there a way to create a mesh or procedural mesh using blueprints or C++?

[plush yew]

apparently its used for some of their games

[surreal eagle]

nintendo doesn't care

[plush yew]

and they used unity for super mario run

[flint rover]

Couldnt get to place any keyframes that way, but this will be fine 😄 just experimenting a little bit and learning as I go

[plush yew]

u cant get sued for knowing a game engine?

lol

You're under arrest you can count to 1

[surreal eagle]

the joke is nintendo loves to sue

[plush yew]

i dont think they do

lmao

[surreal eagle]

remind me to pirate nintendo products

[plush yew]

go ahead.

[old nimbus]

Fixed. ✅ Thanks A Lot!

[plush yew]

people have pirated MANY and they dont care about it, they dont really have a way to sue people who pirate them, or nintendo would need to sue millions of people

[granite spire]

@fresh bay Procedural in what way?

[surreal eagle]

i dont really like their stuff actually

[plush yew]

ok?

[surreal eagle]

i mean mario is ok

[plush yew]

https://www.wired.com/story/nintendo-joy-con-lawsuit/

guess people can sue too lol

[surreal eagle]

but i cant figure out mariokart for the life of me

[plush yew]

you ride a car?

[granite spire]

@plush yew well, their old stuff that's emulated was caught using an emulator, so it doesn't surprise me lol

[surreal eagle]

it's easier to drift a 4 wheeler irl than a mariokart

[plush yew]

lol

[inland flicker]

I'm more interested in the notion that Unreal Engine 5 is "coming" to Switch

[plush yew]

that cant work?

its too powerful for the switch to run

[granite spire]

@fresh bay How do you mean procedural mesh?

[plush yew]

it cannot even run 1080p

[surreal eagle]

i shit you not, i did it once by accedent in deep snoe

[plush yew]

nice

UE5 wont even release fully till around minimum early 2022

[surreal eagle]

haha you should see the prosessor in the watch i'm gonna make.

its litterally the power of a 1980s low end pc

[plush yew]

Nice

[inland flicker]

Well, theoretically, the currently high recommended system specs are for the Unreal Engine 5 demo project --- not actually to use the engine itself --- so that's a common misconception I think

[surreal eagle]

buy what else can you run on 1/10 a watt

and for 3 bucks

[inland flicker]

but yeah I giggle at anything mentioning consoles outputting anything at 4K/60 or any sort of Switchmongering like this

[surreal eagle]

i bet the watch would shit itself doing 0.02k and 10 fps in color

[granite spire]

speaking of nintendo, they're not sue happy, they're cease and desist happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je89wXwiNhI No idea how this has stayed up as long as it has though but cryZENx has been afk for 10 months

[surreal eagle]

samw difference?

[inland flicker]

Ugh another cryzen fan lol

[old nimbus]

I wanna be a talonted World-Builder One day

[granite spire]

@inland flicker I wouldn't say fan, I don't believe what he's done is OMFG EPIC because I see loads of flaws, but I can appreciate what he's trying to do

[inland flicker]

I don't really get why you or anyone else would 'appreciate' it tbh

It's copyright infringement of a pre-existing IP developed by someone else 🤷

[granite spire]

@inland flicker asset importing, and throwing lighting around but cleaning up the meshes and levels and sowing them together? that's appreciative grunt work there that can be taken away in an instant

it's like working hard on something only to have no backups, lol

[fresh bay]

I don't know how to explain it too well, but i want some cube marching and i don't know how i could create the planes/mesh in bp on cpp. Or if i want to make a sphere and then add noise to the vertices to warp it around

[inland flicker]

I think game development is cool but a lot of the frontier is ruined by cryzen types with no passion. And you're using another example of the behavior I'm referring to, not disproving my point about him

[drowsy snow]

He's probably got either super C&D'd or hired by a game studio and under strict NDA.

[surreal eagle]

what is a cryzen

[granite spire]

@fresh bay You're probably going to have to start with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJw1pswLRM

[surreal eagle]

oooooooooooooo

WHAT'S A CRYZEN

[drowsy snow]

It would be cool though to see his OoT project got UE5's Nanite/Lumen treatment 👀

[inland flicker]

It's not personal or anything I just find it hard to rally behind someone who thinks it should be okay to profit off others, wasn't meaning to be rude or derail I was js basically

[old nimbus]

My house looks great

I am just waiting when it gets ready and I start applying materials

[granite spire]

I know what you're saying but grunt work can still be appreciated.

If an thief spends 2 years perfecting how to rob a bank, and does it, you can still appreciate his work

[inland flicker]

I just wish we had better examples of what Unreal Engine is capable of than some fanboy's monthly ripoff vlog inevitably waiting to disappear from existence, making you wonder what the whole point even was ... and then you realize it was monetization, and profit, and clout ... and yea Youtube's a cesspool really lmao

I think you're mistaking work for dedication

[surreal eagle]

any help i get is help that makes me happy

[fresh bay]

Thanks, mucho appreciated

[inland flicker]

I can appreciate the amount of dedication he put into a failure project, knowing it would be a failure ... but no, there's nothing I appreciate about someone failing to accomplish something they could've but chose not to for whatever reason

[surreal eagle]

i just want to make a game

[inland flicker]

^ this right here

that should be the only necessity tbh

[surreal eagle]

i just want it to be fun

it cant be that hard

but it is

[granite spire]

I think there's a lot more it's kind of asset flipping

[surreal eagle]

because i have no idea what i'm doing!

[granite spire]

👀 Speaking of asset flips I shouldn't talk

[surreal eagle]

wheeeeeeeeeezeeeeeee

[inland flicker]

What CryZen does is asset flipping, yea. I'm not claiming it isn't. Nor is his use of it any 'better' or 'worse' than anyone else's. I'm just musing that it's a shame he is the most popular example when he doesn't have any unique work at all.

[granite spire]

though I'm just dumping a bunch of stuff in while I wait for artist for this contract work

[drowsy snow]

Is he though? I don't think he's the most popular example.

[fathom locust]

can anyone tell me why this simple line trace is failing to well... trace?

[granite spire]

@inland flicker I can see your point, I do agree

[drowsy snow]

FFS, you get Fat Dino and alike nowadays anyway.

[inland flicker]

@drowsy snow I could be at the mercy of lacking information here, but to my knowledge anyway yes

[granite spire]

@drowsy snow Fat dino is an inspiration to my asset flipper

[drowsy snow]

I don't think you ever heard of Fat Dino.

[inland flicker]

It's interesting actually, I was not aware he was MIA until @granite spire mentioned it though

[surreal eagle]

set debug type to persistant

[inland flicker]

I have not @ heard of Fat Dino

[old nimbus]

Hey anyone has any idea why my gameplay in editor is blurry, when I have Screen Percentage set to 100?

[inland flicker]

time to hit the goog

[old nimbus]

it bcomes normal when I set it to 200

[fathom locust]

its on an event tick, so it should trace for each frame, even so, it still wouldn't trace, and when I try and see if it hits something, it returns false

[drowsy snow]

Fat Dino's cool though. He "remakes" games for memes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHNDoBj8u8&t=465s

[inland flicker]

Oh fuck one of those "I remade x game" folks yeah

[granite spire]

I don't mind him

[inland flicker]

Nothing that was ever done for memes was worth it imo

[old nimbus]

His remakes are tash

trash

[surreal eagle]

are you sure you are triggering the function right? happens all the time 4 me

[drowsy snow]

Nah, I'm different than you guys 😛

[inland flicker]

idk maybe it's just me

[granite spire]

he's probably not an artist but more coder, which there's still an effort

[fathom locust]

I think? But for some reason, its not tracing

[old nimbus]

someone help me here lol

[inland flicker]

but like if Kojima came out tomorrow and was like "lol jk guys I made Death Stranding for the memes" ... I'd still think it sucks

[surreal eagle]

i'm just a confused 17 year old who want to make a fun game

[drowsy snow]

I come from those so-called "shady" side of the game development, so I like Fat Dino and similar creators.

[granite spire]

@old nimbus It's one thing to call something bad, but you gotta explain yourself or your opinion is just a fart in the wind

[loud knoll]

@old nimbus do you have motion blur on?

[surreal eagle]

i come from non game dev world

[granite spire]

@surreal eagle you don't need assets to make a fun game, that's all mechanics

[inland flicker]

i come from my mother tbh

[drowsy snow]

Probably my modding background biased me so much.

[drowsy snow]

You disingenuous dense MF.

[surreal eagle]

think i need some buildings lol, but i met a guy who was gonna help that

[granite spire]

@surreal eagle Open up blender, make a cube with a hole in the side, there u go

[inland flicker]

@drowsy snow Funny you say this, I got my start in gamedev after getting tired of trying to mod Skyrim into a playable product for 2 years

[loud knoll]

@fathom locust what are you trying to do?

[inland flicker]

I'm probably not the only one either, actually lol

[old nimbus]

I dont' know

But it doesn't seem like I have it on

[surreal eagle]

lol it's supposed to at least have 2015 quality graphics

[drowsy snow]

I know that modding Doom since 2007 isn't something to brag about.

[loud knoll]

You guys are better off talking the lounge some folks need help

[inland flicker]

yoooo that Ashes 2063 tho

[granite spire]

@old nimbus check your AA settings

[drowsy snow]

Prototype it with BSP geometries.

[inland flicker]

I still play some Doom total conversions to this day in GZD lol

[fathom locust]

Well, I'm trying to trace from the the camera to a point in the world which would run every frame, and then I would get the impact location of the trace, and then spawn an actor in from of it

[surreal eagle]

lol nie

[old nimbus]

Ok so, what are AA settings, and what tweakings do I have to make in it?

Sorry if i Sound dumb

[drowsy snow]

Anti aliasing is basically soften jagged pixely edges on screen.

[loud knoll]

@fathom locust I can show in live I will be in the feedback and support channel

ok?

[drowsy snow]

Temporal AA is the best non-RTX method of anti-aliasing, but since it uses previous frame for smoothing edges, it's infamous for having ghosting artifacts.

[old nimbus]

By AA, we mean Anti-Aliasing

[loud knoll]

yeah nishu come to support voice channel

I am streaming to help you too

[fathom locust]

oh wait, nvm I'm dumb, I had the reach controlled by a variable, which I forgot to change its default value

[old nimbus]

Hol up

[drowsy snow]

@loud knoll Can I stream just for lolsies?

Though I might stream in different channel.

[surreal eagle]

i'm just here bc its 2 am and i'm lonely

[granite spire]

Sorry I was gonna mention that, and forgot

I would stream but I have to make an animation and go over a crash course on how to set it up again

if that's something that interests someone i'll stream it, i'm currently looking for a based indian guy to teach me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C9Y3gfeHww excellent

[drowsy snow]

I know this channel 👀
IMO his presentation is bad though, his video isn't much edited and a lot of "dead air" sections going on.

[granite spire]

haha he's got what I want though

[drowsy snow]

I'd prefer videos that concise but planned straight to the point.

[granite spire]

nice he has a patron

yeah all of the animation ones are like 20mins long

2* speed lets gooo

oh boy he's still dragging on lol

[drowsy snow]

Also completely unrelated question:
Is there a way to rotate multiple Control Rig controls in one pivot, akin to Blender's Transform Pivot Point? I'm struggling to make weapon poses because of the rotation is using individual pivots and not median point pivot.

[granite spire]

I think I might just do it myself

@drowsy snow import the weapon using unreals thing

[old nimbus]

@loud knoll I won't be able to join VC lol

[loud knoll]

ok

good luck man sounds like you should read up on what the rendering settings do at the project level before changing them but you got a temp fix for now.

[old nimbus]

ok, I'll try

[drowsy snow]

For context, I'm animating entirely in Control Rig. Weapon's fine, but I'm having hard time rotating both the socket bone and the hand IK bone in one pivot.

[toxic cliff]

Hi, not sure if this is the right channel to ask but does the sky light require a sky atmosphere and a directional light to work? Getting some unpredictable results and just trying to understand how exactly it works

[drowsy snow]

No. Sky light is basically cubemap lighting applied to the entire scene.

[granite spire]

@drowsy snow Can't you just select both those bones?

[inland flicker]

that's what she said

[drowsy snow]

I did select both controls, but they're rotating in their individual pivot, not somewhere in between both of them.

Do you have idea about the problem here?

[toxic cliff]

@drowsy snow ok thanks! it's weird because it seems to just not do anything when I delete the directional light or sky atmosphere🤔 it is set to moveable

[granite spire]

@drowsy snow where are you rotating them?

[drowsy snow]

In viewport.

Again, context: animating with Control Rig + Sequencer

[granite spire]

ahhh

yeah i'm not too sure, that's a youtube question I think, I haven't used UE4 control rig

[drowsy snow]

The sky light didn't recapture every time, so you need to recapture to update the skylight cubemap. Though in 4.26+, there's an option to do real time sky light capturing, in conjunction with Sky Atmo.

[drowsy snow]

Well, I already scour through the internet. YouTube still have yet to go that far, and Google searches only results for rotating actors in code, not Control Rig controls in viewport.

[granite spire]

I wish I was of more use, but it may not be possible

[toxic cliff]

weird because I did have the real time capture enabled too🤔 but I will test again. Thanks for your help

[drowsy snow]

No worries. I'm probably touching Control Rig limits here anyway.

[drowsy snow]

Oh yeah, depending on your GPU power, Realtime Capture took around 2 to 4 second to update, though performance cost is very minimal. It's best for slower day/night cycle, and not good for super fast timelapse or sudden changes to Sky Atmo light.

[granite spire]

i'm putting together a bear animation, would it be worth to stream I wonder

[old nimbus]

The only solution I found is Screen Percentage

[drowsy snow]

Do you mind reposting the issue you're having?

[pulsar ruin]

I want to write if the character collides with an actor that destroys the character, but here I wrote if he collides with anything, it destroys the character, how can I determine the thing that collided with it only destroys the character?

[old nimbus]

wait, I'll repost it with images

This is of the editor, when I am not playing, everything is in High Resolution.

This is when I play the Game, and everything becomes blurry, even when I am not moving.

[drowsy snow]

Okay, try enabling Temporal Upsampling.

[granite spire]

@old nimbus looks like a post process effect

[old nimbus]

for some reaason, this does not look blurry in the image

[old nimbus]

how?

[old nimbus]

and what effect is this?

[drowsy snow]

It's in the Project Settings.
Find for "Temporal Upsampling" with the search bar.

[old nimbus]

ok

It did work a bit, but didn't fix the issue

How about I delete the Post Process Volume

Since the only thing I am using it for is Keeping the exposure stable

[drowsy snow]

Do you override the Focal Length variable?

[old nimbus]

no

[drowsy snow]

Just to make sure, check what's the value of Focal Length in the Post FX volume

[wintry bobcat]

why is my sun so bright af. i tried to lower the sky light to .3

[surreal eagle]

hi

[old nimbus]

Looks like there's something wrong with Projekt settings

[surreal eagle]

holy shit it cant look that real!

amazing!

[drowsy snow]

Try putting a Post FX volume, set it to Unbound, and adjust the exposure.

[old nimbus]

Yeah, it has to be Project settings for my problem

[wintry bobcat]

got it. thanks

[surreal eagle]

night

[old nimbus]

Help

[coarse turtle]

So in the editor when I select the Foliage, it won't let me place FT in my map.

any idea why

I don't see the highlight effect

[old nimbus]

My problem got FIXED!! @loud knoll

[topaz slate]

Quick question...why is this happening?Shouldnt the hollow cylinders stay on the bigger ones??Theyre made in blender and exported as .fbx files

[old nimbus]

Resolution scale in my Engine Scalability was at 25%

[loud knoll]

@old nimbus yeah thats great that's what I told ya, you had a setting that lowered it then the Post Proc was upscaling

so you were getting back to normal res

[old nimbus]

Yes

[loud knoll]

good job finding it

[runic fern]

Goodday guys are they anyway to run more than instance on same device while using pixel streaming

Like when someone load a website it will launch instance for each webpage

[old nimbus]

Last Night I was making Landscape by Unreal Sensei and I put too much foliage in there, and my frame rate dropped below 10, so UE4 suggested me some settings, which messed up with the Scalability

[drowsy snow]

That's too low tbh

[old nimbus]

Thank You!

[drowsy snow]

Also disable editor's auto monitoring.

[old nimbus]

the foliage was too much

[loud knoll]

no worries this is the stuff you remember and everyone makes mistakes like this.

[old nimbus]

alr thanks to everyone who helped me

[surreal eagle]

......................................................................................................................................................

[loud knoll]

game development is just breaking things and fixing them

making breaking fixing

[drowsy snow]

@old nimbus Monitor Editor Performance? shouldn't be checked.

[surreal eagle]

i do that to reverse engineer

[old nimbus]

Unchecked. ✅

[drowsy snow]

Also feel free to mess around the screen percentage in the editor viewport menu. it goes as low as 50, and TAA upsampling still handle 50% just fine.
This one only affects in editor viewport and not in-game.

[old nimbus]

No, viewport is fine

ok

[wintry bobcat]

guys can you suggest me some source for free 3D stuff for my scene?

[drowsy snow]

Quixel Megascans has some 3D mesh goodies. Model Haven isn't too shabby either.

[old nimbus]

Quixel is best

[vocal herald]

Any idea how to fix this or what causing it?

[drowsy snow]

The man made objects isn't so best though.

Quixel stuff is best on the natural objects and materials.

[old nimbus]

yeah

Like tree stums

stumps

[old nimbus]

waht is happening here??

[vocal herald]

I spawned a lot of foliage and this happened

[drowsy snow]

I can't load GIFs for some reason :/

[old nimbus]

I spawned a lot of foliage lastnight, and my editor went blurry

It just got fixed a few minutes ago

heheheh

[drowsy snow]

I heard mass foliage are having hard times with UE5, maybe go to #ue5-general

[old nimbus]

UE5 is going to be Epic as soon as it's release comes out.

[drowsy snow]

Sure, but I won't immediately change to UE5 though.

[old nimbus]

I would

Because I have just started out, and don't know much of UE4

[drowsy snow]

UE5 as it is, is still questionable for PS4 gen hardware.

[old nimbus]

Hey, what's your hardware specs?

[drowsy snow]

You can start out with UE4 though.
Many things in UE4 carry over to UE5, so you're not losing anything. It's not like back when migrating UDK/UE3 to UE4.

[drowsy snow]

Just say it's a potato laptop, with dead dGPU.

[old nimbus]

Until UE4 releases, I am going to be learning those many things which will pass onto the legacy

[old nimbus]

How bad can it be?

What's the GPU?

[drowsy snow]

So far in loading and compile times.

[drowsy snow]

Radeon R5

[old nimbus]

Hmmm nice

I have GTX 1650

[drowsy snow]

It's been 4 years of service, it met its death earlier this year.

[old nimbus]

A few months ago, I used to run Blender 2.79 which has Cycles only, and the PC has only 2 cores, 2 threads and no GPU

a 10 year old PC

The scene which this laptop can render in 20 minutes, that PC took a whole day.

I had patience man

Making something for whole day, and waiting another day to render it

Plus the test render I made were very low quality and not as many as I do now

I do like 10 test renders now, but previously I would do only 2 or 3

[subtle marten]

LogLinker: Error: Bad name index -1/67Question, I suddenly got this error regarding one of my textures imported, I literally did nothing to it the last few times I was cooking it and it worked fine. But now I have this error. Anyone knows how to fix it?

[azure ridge]

so I'm wanting to make it so that my characters "attack", but don't physically affect each other

how can I do this? I'm not sure i'm understanding the collisions correctly. I'm using the top down template if that matters

This is what happens currently

[drowsy snow]

You'd use the collision as triggers and not a blocking collision. With that collision cast frontward, you'd check for any enemy actors that overlap with it to be applied with damage (depends on your implementation)

[old nimbus]

Basic Design of my House is Ready Yay!!

[azure ridge]

would that affect navmesh navigation as well as ensuring they don't fall through floors?

[drowsy snow]

No, navmesh only affected by blocking collisions, not trigger collisions.

[azure ridge]

i don't see trigger collisions on the capsule, am i looking in the wrong place?

i fixed it. turns out it was the mesh of the sword that was colliding, which was of type "worlddynamic", which wasn't being ignored

[zinc mist]

im planning on making a simple platformer for a game jam and wondering if its better to write my own third person controller or use the out of the box one?

[drowsy snow]

Repurposing the template isn't a bad option. Plus saves you a bit of time.

[zinc mist]

so like dont rewrite it all myself -just extend off it.

[drowsy snow]

After all it's a game dev speedrun, time saves that's viable are matters.

[zinc mist]

true

cheers

what about for other projects? is it worth writing my own or not...

[celest sable]

guys why myy vertex groups wont show up in unreal, I have a car with seperated 4 wheels but when i go to physics only body will show up in skeleton tree?

[zenith creek]

Does the latest version of UE4 uses vulkan by default for desktop? windows

[drowsy snow]

Actually, no, UE4 (and UE5) on Windows uses DX11 by default.

But you have the option to use Vulkan in Windows/Linux. OpenGL is no longer supported on desktop.

[zenith creek]

Oh. How do you switch to vulkan?

[zenith creek]

i know a long time ago you had to download the engine from source to use vulkan. Not sure how to switch now though.

[drowsy snow]

It's as simple as setting the default RHI in Project Settings.

[limpid pier]

Hi

[versed lion]

Hey

[hidden pendant]

can someone explain to me how to get these into my project?

Im not familiar with using install to engine

Is it just applied to all projects automatically with these types of addons ?

or do i still need to migrate it somehow to my project ?

[covert hedge]

anyone would know why sometimes the properties window of the editor stays black in fullscreen, and gets glitchy if not maximized, as in, if i click any thing that will result in a dropdown select it shows the editor that stay in background?

[median island]

Someone said UE has difficulties working with 3D platformers, I was wondering what could they be?
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/npofdz/unreal_engine_5_for_2d_developers_is_this_a_good/

[granite spire]

@median island UE4 paper 2D was an abomination when I used it 4 years ago

compared to monogame/xna which was like butter to work with

[median island]

Definitely not 2D, but he mentioned 3D platformers

[granite spire]

3D might be hard to get the feel down

since you may not want realistic physics or something I guess

that's only me guessing though

[weak heath]

hey guys, I have a huge terrain with a lot of foliage and the terrain surface changed and the foliage are floating or under ground. Is there a tool or option to reapply foliage to the terrain and/or meshes?

[stray tangle]

Just delete the foliage and replace it

[weak heath]

thanks, but no

[stray tangle]

Does anyone knows how to change bone position with IK like when I grab an item and play the grab animation sometimes the actor I want to grab is not in the right place to were the animation is moving so is it possible to change were the hand is getting to each time I grab an item to the item location?

[drowsy snow]

For one thing, you can limit the movement into 2 axis, and practically make 2.5D platformer.

[drowsy snow]

Character collisions in UE is capsule approximation by default, and don't "slide" by default. You can revamp the movement component or make one from scratch, suiting your needs.

[median island]

What are some downsides for using UE in making 3D platformers?

[drowsy snow]

Short version:
Nothing, really.

Long version:
The downsides are pretty minor and shouldn't be huge deal breakers.
For one thing, the character movement component, used as is, may not met your specific needs. You can always expand this with BPs, however. You may also encounter difficulties if using Paper2D elements.
Other than that, no major downsides in using UE for making 3D platformers.

The minor downsides are pretty technical, you shouldn't be worried much about them.

[midnight wren]

What is the main difference when making a single player fps vs a multiplayer fps?

[earnest violet]

I left my game in working order and when I return to making it after two weeks away from it the bullets are now NOT shooting out of the player's gun. I know this is a bit ambiguous but has anyone got any ideas what's causing this plz? 🙂

[drowsy snow]

In multiplayer FPS, you need a local first person view for the player character, and the server side third person view for other players to see. You also need to make sure the local view isn't visible on other clients in the session.

You can pretty much ignore this in single player FPS.

[kindred viper]

@earnest violet maybe the gun rusted? I mean,.... throw us a bone so we can help at least 😄

[midnight wren]

So basically I give everyone their own instance of a local view

[drowsy snow]

Think of this way - in MP FPS, you see a pair of arms holding a gun, representing your view. Other players should see you as a character instead of a pair of floating arms, but you don't see the character model of yourself. The character model you use that the other players see should also responds to your movement, shooting, reloading, and other actions.

[earnest violet]

@kindred viper I don't know what to say as I left it working fine and now there is this problem. The collision of everything looks fine and there are no compile issues on the projectile

[kindred viper]

I would also state the main difference between them is the events/functions/settings that are server broadcast or server only. You don't write logic for the local client usually. It's for the server to broadcast to the local clients and update remotely. The entire architecture changes according to required replication

[hidden pendant]

can i get some help here 😅

how can i access this addon in my project exaclty when they are labeled "isntall to engine"

Im only familiar with "add to project"

[drowsy snow]

If you don't put your project to source control, you can just install it into the engine, and enable it in your project.

[hidden pendant]

Okay thanks! how can i enable it in my project exactly?

would it be like a plugin?

[drowsy snow]

Well, it is a plugin.

[hidden pendant]

thats what im asking

But I went to the plugins and its not showing up

[drowsy snow]

Try search for the plugin name.

[hidden pendant]

Yeah I did /;

[hidden pendant]

maybe its on source control ? but i have no clue what that is

[drowsy snow]

No, it's in the Engine folder.

[hidden pendant]

I eman my project

[vocal herald]

If there are too much foliage on a screen it just disappears. Any idea how to fix it?

[drowsy snow]

Plugins installed from launcher goes to the engine's plugin folder, not per project.

[hidden pendant]

please read what i said ....

lol

[hidden pendant]

Im respoding to this

Idk ifmy project is on "source control"

[drowsy snow]

Do you even use GitHub? Perforce? Subversion?

[hidden pendant]

Im completely new to UE4

So i guess not

[drowsy snow]

Chances are you don't even use source control, so that's out of the way.

[hidden pendant]

Okay

I'll try opening and closing my project

I installed it to thge engine when it was open

:I

that was it lmao

thanks mon @drowsy snow

[granite spire]

@vocal herald Probably an LOD thing I'd say.

it maybe also your settings for how many actors get displayed

[vocal herald]

do u know where can I change this "how many actors" setting?

[drowsy snow]

View Distance, I guess. That's more tailored for instanced foliage meshes tho

[vocal herald]

I mean my foliage completely disappears

even the close ones

[leaden dust]

What does 5 users on the perforce free plan mean exactly. It will only let 5 people log on to the server?

[wary wave]

5 accounts, yes

#source-control

[drowsy snow]

You can still use Git though, albeit with large file size limit. If you're working with 8K textures, it'll be an issue.

[pulsar ruin]

what i must be do?

[drowsy snow]

Do you have Visual Studio installed? (Not just the Visual C++ Runtime)

[leaden dust]

@drowsy snow what's the file locking support like on git

i really don't want to deal with BP merge conflicts

[drowsy snow]

Never had conflicting tasks, but I accidentally tripped file locking, and it worked well IMO.

[leaden dust]

@drowsy snow how do you manage to avoid not changing a bp someone else is working on?

[drowsy snow]

By communicating it before hand, and applying strict sandboxing policy? Granted, I'm not with large team, so my way might not applicable on yours, but me and my contributors worked and tested BPs in sandbox Developers folder before being staged for use by me.

[tough needle]

Don't know if this is the right channel for this but i guess its a Funfact about Unreal Engine so.. yeah.. i didn't knew that this was possible:D

[drowsy snow]

Actually the hotkey is Ctrl+Alt.

[tough needle]

you are the first one who knew that this is actually possible lmao

message bombed every dev i know and so far no one knew

[drowsy snow]

The ones before me might already know about it, but decided not to make it a Eureka discovery.

[fierce tulip]

^ hehe

[pulsar ruin]

vs 2017

[drowsy snow]

Also, another fun editor stuff:
Some experimental asset type have dragon inside it.
🐲

[tough needle]

rly? which one f.e.? 😄

[drowsy snow]

Can't recall about VS2017, but in VS2019, these are the configuration that works for me

[drowsy snow]

Ah crap, I forgot which class has that experimental flag...

[oblique tangle]

Hi all! Super random, but I've recently been attempting to add in a pole swing mechanic to a personal project of mine, I've mucked around with said mechanic before but integrated it in completely off of physics/add forces - I'm looking to make it completely animation driven now, but I'm a bit stuck with trying to get the overall smoothness of attaching to the pole and detaching feeling nice, I'll link some vids of what I'm trying to achieve - If anyone has mucked around with moving from animations to movement (& vice versa), I'd love some help with how you guys tried to make it as smooth as possible! Any responses would be greatly appreciated, cheers! 😄
https://i.gyazo.com/bb334e03c76ec668d1f55939f7a3e826.mp4
https://i.gyazo.com/46ef32a9315bbf4225e91bbc211869f3.mp4

[tough needle]

ahhh yes... the gold old spiderman 2... loved it... but actually i have no clue how you would achieve this.. sorry my friend 😄

[zinc mist]

how do u convert a blueprint project to cpp project to allow for cpp in project?

[potent thistle]

is it worth buying ram with 3600mhz instead of 3200? Does it make unreal faster?

[zinc mist]

i swear in ue4 there was a button for that

[robust oar]

guys

[wary wave]

if UE4, you can add a C++ class from file menu or content browser

one or the other is probably still present

[robust oar]

I'm unable to generate project files as it says the project is built with different engine version

what should I do?

[zinc mist]

does not seem to be there anymore

[wary wave]

switch engine version or install the correct version

[wary wave]

is it not in the main file menu?

[robust oar]

there must be another solution

[zinc mist]

nope

[wary wave]

huh

[zinc mist]

ye ikr

[wary wave]

you need a correct engine version - you should ideally be using the version the file was saved in

[plush yew]

can anyone explain this

[drowsy snow]

IIRC it's in Tools

I'm actually loading up my UE5 so can't have immediate cross-check

[zinc mist]

thanks 🙂

[wary wave]

it's exactly what it says it is, the audio component is being destroyed when you're trying to use it

[zinc mist]

wierd they moved it haha

[vagrant hornet]

why does unreal sensei's auto landscape not work

like i cant change his textures

this is his material

why use a brick texture for the texture?

but then it shows as a rocky texture?

[pulsar ruin]

why i can't add player position to view port ?https://ttprivatenew.s3.amazonaws.com/pulse/gohawise-gmail/attachments/17061514/TinyTake01-06-2021-03-13-01.mp4

[regal mulch]

These are GameModes

GameModes are spawned by UE4 itself, internally, and can either be hardcoded to a Level/Project or set runtime via GameModeShortcodes (or whatever they are called)

So in other words, you don't drag and drop those into the level.

[fierce tulip]

@vagrant hornet because that material is connected to a material instance where everything is tweaked

[vagrant hornet]

thanks

[pulsar ruin]

so what if i delete it!

[regal mulch]

Not sure what you mean

[pulsar ruin]

i delete game mode from level

what i must be do to add it in the same level again?

[regal mulch]

At the top of your Editor, there are few bigger buttons, one of them says "Blueprints" on it. If you click it you get a dropdown menu.
At the bottom this you can see "World Override GameMode". You can select your GameMode there (for that specific level).
You can also select it Project-wise with the option above the World Override in the same dropdown menu.

[vagrant hornet]

how do i find the material instance?

[plush yew]

what does this mean

[rapid river]

Hey everyone, I'm interested in just generally familiarizing myself with unreal engine and getting comfy inside it. I don't plan to develop anything but I just want to learn how to import models and set up animations/blueprints. For example, I have a gun I want to demonstrate working in UE4, I have animations set up in blender but im not sure how to get it to work like an FPS shooter (such as left click to shoot, different firing modes bound to a key on the keyboard, ect..)

[zinc mist]

hey why is this property not showing up in my Actor in details. (its a component)

private:
    UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, Category="PlatformMover")
    float movementSpeed = 10.f;

[plush yew]

this is different

yeah but the error is at the same node

[zinc mist]

ue5 is legit so fucked for me

cpp is compiling but not working

and to delete cpp classes or components ineed to close ue5, delete the files then delete binary folder

and even then it cant rebuild project files

says i need to build from source

which gives me even more errors

hhahaah wtf...

[drowsy snow]

It's in Early Access after all ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[zinc mist]

it basically fucks me off and means i cant continue with the project

i have a feeling its bc its a blueprint project

now im getting this random shit

yea

well i jsut deleted the project

tried creating a new cpp project

didnt even get past creating it

[wary wave]

ask somewhere else, because that kind of activity isn't supported on this Discord

[lament lodge]

how long it will take to clean up unreal while installing

[onyx nest]

where else...

[wary wave]

I wouldn't know

[worn peak]

sorry to ask here in not the ue5 chat but

any1 with previous versions tried to package it with the ue5 ?

[small grail]

yeah i had trouble with UE5 not recognizing my windows SDK. i reinstalled but still had same trouble. I chalked it up to early access problems

[timber plinth]

Im a beginner what is the best version for unreal engine 4

[celest creek]

People! I'm trying to figure out how to enhance the UE camera rig... is there any good examples out there? Struggling to find any.

@timber plinth The latest 🙂

[timber plinth]

Ok

U sure

[celest creek]

Yup

So what I'm looking for is a constraint system (look at, up vector etc) inside a nested hierarchy camera rig example.. if anyone knows of any

[worn peak]

@small grail that exactly my problem, do u remember if u made more them just reintall windows sdk or what version u installed

[small grail]

yeah i just reinstalled the latest SDK but it didnt solve the issue

[worn peak]

oh

[pulsar ruin]

@regal mulch why my mesh component not hide when i trigger with the charterer https://ttprivatenew.s3.amazonaws.com/pulse/gohawise-gmail/attachments/17063004/TinyTake01-06-2021-04-56-54.mp4

[onyx nest]

Anyone?

[worn peak]

so it wasnt possible to package with ue5 ?

[reef mortar]

Hey guys! How do you go about 'Spriting' in your game? I'm working on a FPS game, and by pressing 'shift', my character runs faster. All I'm doing here is changing the Play Rate of the animation to give the user proper feedback, but I feel that's not enough - I just want to get rid of this 'dull' feeling of the way sprint works on my game.

Perhaps a subtle camera shake on every step?

Do you have any techniques to make 'sprinting' more fun?

[fervent owl]

hey guys sorry to bother any one here that can help with post processing volume

im trying to make darker room

[worldly aspen]

Does anyone know of a way to break apart blueprint into static meshes like prefabs in other engines?

[warm hornet]

Anyone encounter Out of Video Memory trying to allocate a texture? (followed by crash) Googled but so far can't seem to find an answer. I've increased my paging file size (Windows) but this is realted to GPU memory I believe, not system RAM.

[regal mulch]

I assume the meshes are retrieved through legal ways, so discussing such things is not allowed on this server.

[regal mulch]

UE4 doesn't have a Prefab System like Unity.

[worldly aspen]

I know, thats why I wonder if there a way to break blueprints apart in the editor

[regal mulch]

Components if at all

[worldly aspen]

can you elaborate?

[pulsar ruin]

@regal mulch

[regal mulch]

Stop pinging me for help Mohamed. I'm not your personal assistant. This is against the rules.

[prime willow]

But i want someone to build my game for me

[worldly aspen]

we can already combine meshes into blueprints, just wondering if there's a process for doing the reverse

[prime willow]

what am i suppose to do learn this myself :/

[regal mulch]

So cutting one Mesh into multiple Blueprints?

Or having one Blueprint with multiple meshes?

[prime willow]

oh that's actually interesting o.o

[regal mulch]

Generally speaking, one Blueprint (may it be an Actor), can have multiple Components attached to it.

E.g. Multiple StaticMeshComponents

Or even a ChildActorComponent

I would not try to mimic Unity's Prefab system in UE4. It's a different way of coding/thinking

[worldly aspen]

Yes. what I'm asking is if there is a straightfoward way to turn that blueprint with actors in it, into its individual actors placed in the level where the blueprint was

[prime willow]

ok i actually have a weird question

[regal mulch]

Maybe via EditorUtilities, but not natively

[worldly aspen]

if this isnt default behaviour, if you know of a plugin or workaround

EditorUtilities?

[regal mulch]

I assume you have a keyboard, so please utilize it and google for that a bit.

EditorUtilities can help automating some stuff that otherwise would be done by hand.

[prime willow]

if i have a generic system like walking jumping attacking the basics of a actors movement and combat system, but than theres a whole bunch of complex parts like racial based differences between like the robot race or the demon race or the human race,

would it be better to set them up as blueprints and have a child to parent based blueprints attached to said human to demon or whatever race to make those subtle or not so subtle differences or should that all be done in the blueprint for the selectable races o-o

i know ive been told you can go either or but performance wise which would be wiser

[worldly aspen]

alright

[regal mulch]

Usually you have a BaseClass for your common code and then child classes to override/extend/replace the base code

[onyx nest]

How does one make a armature for ue?

[prime willow]

o.o

ah

so the first version

[regal mulch]

No idea, I'm not a 3D Artist. Press random buttons in Blender I guess.

Ripping assets from other games is not allowed to be discussed here, so make sure to not mention that part of your project anymore. Other mods might just remove you instantly.

[onyx nest]

Ok

[prime willow]

^ yeah typically you dont discuss illegal portions of your ideas outloud

you find more clever ways of subtling mentioning the goal without the intent

[onyx nest]

I mean I’m not going to make money off of it

[regal mulch]

Doesn't matter

[prime willow]

however i do not condone such so please dont take my advice :3

[onyx nest]

Sure

[regal mulch]

If you want to stay clean, craft your own world and your own ip

[prime willow]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

infinitely better than another persons limitations

if you arent creative enough to have your own ideals

just slap together other peoples ideas

marios jump with sonics snark and maybe megamans combat with clothing from pokemon

[grim ore]

I am just going to take coca cola and remake it, but I will just give it away so it's ok

[prime willow]

its better than nothing lol

[onyx nest]

Oh I got my Ideas

[prime willow]

than theres no need to rip off others 😮

[onyx nest]

Just not the know-how

[regal mulch]

Marketplace has a huge sale

Get some assets from there

[onyx nest]

To make armatures

[prime willow]

you cant do that because i did it first you can have pepsi though

[onyx nest]

👍

[grim ore]

well what is an armature?

[vagrant hornet]

how do i create a meterial instance for a terrain

[regal mulch]

They mean a Skeleton/Rig

[granite spire]

Get some assets from there and make what I have

while I wait

[onyx nest]

To move the mesh

[grim ore]

I know that.. im trying to walk them thru figuring it out

[granite spire]

for artists..

[prime willow]

right click the material desired and than press the material instance button than rename it

[grim ore]

do you have the models already that need armatures?

[prime willow]

you can always use blender and find a 30 second tutorial on youtube

[grim ore]

was trying to lead them to this lol https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/animation/armatures/index.html

[granite spire]

@onyx nest Just bask in the asset flips, like i'm doing

[prime willow]

im too poor for asset flips or i would buy all of the marketplace assets ;O;

[granite spire]

then get carried away and want to make little spots for your seagull to land

[halcyon canopy]

any 1 know how to spawn sprite in random location?

[prime willow]

ok back to work for me!

love you guys take care and good luck on your projects, i know you can do it ❤️

https://tenor.com/view/cute-girl-animated-anime-heart-gif-5601384

[granite spire]

@halcyon canopy Something like this, that's your tip

that's part of my vegitation spawner

aka blueprint dumper

[onyx nest]

Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to make rigs?

[halcyon canopy]

hmm cant find bp master

[grim ore]

rigs for what?

[onyx nest]

humanoids

[grim ore]

ok and rigging it in what program?

and are the models already created

[onyx nest]

jep

[celest creek]

This section is gone if I place the cineCamera inside a BP..

Does anyone know why that is?

[onyx nest]

Blender? or somethng that is free to use

[grim ore]

use #animation and read the pinned messages in there

[high violet]

is this a good chat for getting help regarding ue4 issues with a mesh not having animations, when it used to

[onyx nest]

thanks

[high violet]

or is there a different channel

[celest creek]

#animation

[grim ore]

also I dunno.... read the blender docs like we linked for it lol

[high violet]

thanks

[granite spire]

@halcyon canopy BP master is my own BP, read what it does

[halcyon canopy]

@granite spire yeah ik. But is there any spawn sprite?

[grim ore]

well sprite sprite or an actor?

you generally spawn actors and yes you just spawn actor

[halcyon canopy]

actor

yeah ik but i dont want spawnactor class

[grim ore]

so you dont want to spawn an actor lol?

[granite spire]

@halcyon canopy well the spawn actor does the spawning, of actors

[halcyon canopy]

i want spawn actor

but i dont have any class for it

[grim ore]

so you dont have a blueprint created for it?

[halcyon canopy]

nope

trying to figure it out still

[grim ore]

then your going to have to spawn a generic sprite actor and set it, or create an actor blueprint with your sprite set up

[granite spire]

well you gotta make an actor class for what you want to spawn, or you can't spawn it, if you wanted to spawn a mesh then that's not going to work really

[halcyon canopy]

actor component ore scene component

[grim ore]

neither

how much have you learned on how UE4 works?

[halcyon canopy]

kinda much but still far way to go

[granite spire]

Top one

[grim ore]

well you might want to do some more of the engine architecture stuff, understanding how components and actors work, before you move on

[granite spire]

that's good advice

[grim ore]

in theory this would spawn a sprite actor you could set the sprite on, but generally you want to use blueprints

[vocal herald]

Why when I add too much foliage it just disappears?

[granite spire]

@vocal herald Probably your graphic settings

[vocal herald]

where can I change them?

[grim ore]

under your settings -> scalability. see if its set to max for the foliage

[lime quail]

Hi guys.Now i'm create main menu in my game.And i place new camera in the scene and set my pawn.But on start game something create other camera.He don't interfere me,but how delete this?

[grim ore]

are you using a game mode that has a default pawn?

[lime quail]

No.I create my game mode and set new pawn

[left stream]

I am trying to create a dynamic material instance for a spline mesh yet it stais default grey material, what am I missing?

[lime quail]

It's my pawn.And he place in the world

[granite spire]

@lime quail From memory, it's just a bug and something UE4 does

@left stream change the name of the parameter from "none"

[lime quail]

This camera take resources my computer?

[left stream]

does not help?

[grim ore]

@lime quailwhat do you mean you create your game mode?

[main torrent]

guys I have a question

[granite spire]

@lime quail That camera is just something that spawns, I don't believe it's taking resources, as it's just a random actor

[main torrent]

is there a way to add fur efficiently in unreal engine?

[lime quail]

Sorry,if I badly written in English.I bad know English))

[grim ore]

ok and when the level runs you can see its using that game mode? what is the name of the other camera that spawns

[lime quail]

Just "CameraActor"

[cloud stone]

Is there a hotkey which allows me to pan across my editor?

[lime quail]

And this my camera

[grim ore]

@lime quailah yeah, I think this is something that is spawned in and was/is used for matinee and such. should not be an issue

[granite spire]

@left stream

[vocal herald]

@grim ore I set it to cinematic

[granite spire]

@main torrent I'm not sure you might have to check one of the artist channels for help

[lime quail]

what is meaning "matinee"?

[grim ore]

old cinematic system

[granite spire]

@cloud stone To pan across it? what do you mean?

[cloud stone]

Yes, like pan across the screen.

For example, in Unity the hotkey was Q.

[left stream]

What should I depract from this image? 🙂

[grim ore]

you can ignore the CameraActor, or you can try and delete it. I beleive its just a editor thing for when you eject for example

[lime quail]

Thank you

[granite spire]

@left stream well that's how you use that parameter, now, where's that result plugging into?

@cloud stone hold right click and WASDQE is your camera controls in editor

[cloud stone]

Thanks!

[left stream]

on that node you just give a name to the material, its not for setting vector parameter 🙂

[vocal herald]

is there a limit of how much foliage can be on screen at once? Cause when I look at places with a lot of foliage it just disappears completely. All scalability settings are set to cinematic

[steep steeple]

Does anyone know why my mesh isn't appearing in the viewport? Apparently I need a hierachical instanced static mesh for actor foliage culling...

[granite spire]

@left stream

[left stream]

it even removes the white material

[granite spire]

so it looks like spline works

[prime willow]

oh

[granite spire]

@left stream it's gotta be that player colour then, those linear colours by default have 0 alpha so no colour you have to set the A to 1

[prime willow]

hmm

[left stream]

yes but it should be the same color as the dots

[vocal herald]

@plush yew when I look at some places nothing culls even far far away. But when I look at a place with much more foliage it culls everything even close to me

[granite spire]

I don't know why they have an alpha of 0

[left stream]

I use the same workflow for the dots its not the alpha

[grim ore]

the internest says instanced foliage has an issue with too many instances and it culling it all, might need to reduce your counts

[prime willow]

nvm ill look into a bit more before asking for help xD

[granite spire]

@left stream It should be, because even if you set it, it's always 0, this is a new linear colour, it's some dumb thing it does by default

Let me take a look at that linear colour

[timber plinth]

I’m having a problem whenever I click launch it cancels it after a few seconds

What to do

[grim ore]

@timber plinthcheck the logs? restart the pc? keep trying?

[timber plinth]

I just downloaded it maybe I forgot something

[left stream]

there is not even a material on it

[vocal herald]

@grim ore yeah, I red that post. But I need billions of foliage, to just take 1 render shot.

[grim ore]

you might not be able to get that

[granite spire]

@left stream Oh I see, what even is that thing? if it's the spline itself being a thick boi then I think you have to get the object on it, 1 sec

[left stream]

its not the spline.... 🙂

[granite spire]

@left stream are you using a spline mesh?

[granite spire]

@left stream well for starters, you're not getting the meshcomponent

when you go to do something like this you're adding the spline, then you have to pull off the return value then go into the components themselves, the list to the left is a return values children

Which further explains how I'm able to access all of this

which you're setting the colour to the component itself, which does nothing

[left stream]

i dont think you are rigth here, but thank you for you effort

[grim ore]

did you try what they are suggesting?

[vocal herald]

@plush yew don't know how to count it. But it's not only because of number of foliage.

[granite spire]

@left stream well you have to get a mesh some how, or you're setting nothing, from what I see

the parent of the spline doesn't know what a mesh is, it doesn't exist

it'll be what I said it is

[grim ore]

just as a heads up, in recent versions of the engine you do not have to actually create the dynamic material instance, just set the parameter for example this works

[left stream]

the mesh is set directly on the node, can u send an image of the correct node order?

[granite spire]

I don't have references at the moment and I have to bed very soon as it's 2:22am for me

[left stream]

i dont even manage to get the material on the mesh

[wise trail]

Just curious does anyone here prefer perforce over something like github for project hosting?

I've had nothing but issues with github

[grim ore]

well I mean.. you can see the literal setup I used there and it works

[wise trail]

Nani?

[harsh tree]

This is my first post here, I hope this is the right place also for rookie questions, otherwise please prompt me elsewhere. I'm going through tutorials but I am hampered by sth. that comes up in every project. Every new landscape has a weird grid-like shading error. Also, my whole scene/landscape starts in a far off position (-12400,-12400,-12400). A lot of tools don't work like in the tutorials for inverting landscape of foliage brushes, their effect can't be inverted. It seems like a fundamental error to me.

[grim ore]

@wise trailif you are working with Binaries then perforce is recommended

[wise trail]

Right now its just source, but it seems github corrupts it when I try to re-pull my work :/

Shits annoying me

[grim ore]

@harsh treethe red error in the top left? that is causing your "grid lines"

[wise trail]

I even had git lfs so idk

[grim ore]

I've personally never had an issue with github

[wise trail]

I'll probably go learn perforce.

I havnt either till I worked with unreal engine

I've used github fine before for things like java etc

But never large files

[light thunder]

What's the trick to getting sequencer to record the audio of a scene? I thought it would do it automatically but obviously I missed something

[granite spire]

@harsh tree

[grim ore]

@harsh treeand as for the location, there is nothing wrong with that. that is based on the size of your starting components

the Location you see is the corner of your landscape, that is why it is showing such a large number

[harsh tree]

Ah, that makes sense - I re-built the lighting, however the lines persist. It's just good to know that there's no fundamental error, thanks!

[grim ore]

well the lines are due to unbuilt lighting, perhaps you built it then moved something and it needs to be rebuilt. If you dont want them for now, change your lighting to movable

[harsh tree]

I'll do that, that's less jarring during the block-out-phase.

[grim ore]

@light thunder if using sequencer render movie settings, enable audio output

[light thunder]

Thanks - how is that tied to the game code - meaning, it will just act as if you hit begin play, so if you want to control what you hear in that video capture, you need to make sure those unwanted sounds are not executed in your blueprints?

[mental shale]

Yo, can I have a list of all the free resources that epic has made free for unreal engine? like quixel and other stuff

[light thunder]

Go to the permanently free collection

[mental shale]

no, not in the marketplace

I mean actual software and resources

[grim ore]

@light thunderpretty much yes, anything that goes thru the default submix should get captured

[light thunder]

ah

[blissful atlas]

Hi! I have some question about media bundle. I input my blackmagic camera as media bundle and im trying to color correction this camera in UE. Is it possible? Someone have a blueprint or tutorial for me?
please

[runic fern]

Hey guys is anyone using HTML5 Copy i have this error when packaging ..

PackagingResults: Error: Unhandled exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'I:\UE4.24 SourceHTML\Engine\Intermediate\Build\HTML5\.emscripten'.

I have no error when building the engine and tools

[granite spire]

@blissful atlas it's probably a post process effect

[blissful atlas]

But is possible to post process only my media bundle?

[grim ore]

@runic ferndont use spaces or . in the project or folder names

[granite spire]

well I found a bug with the animation blueprint this doesn't even work "was visible but ignored" thanks UE4 very specific

oh nvm

it apparently was picking up this other thing

I thought disconnecting an animation branch ignores compiling

[runic fern]

ok Mr Matheww i will try thanks

[granite spire]

still that rotation doesn't even work, RIP

[dawn gull]

Can anybody send that little devil icon inside the UE4 files?

[light thunder]

Why does the sequencer take what appears to be a very long time to render even a small (3 second) clip - 5 minutes seems pretty long - Premiere will render that out in a few seconds - I know sequencer isn't a full-fledge video render like Premiere, but am I missing something?

[runic fern]

  ERROR: Unhandled exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'I:\UE424SourceHTML\Engine\Intermediate\Build\HTML5\.emscripten'.

Same i removed all the spaces and . still have error
@grim ore

[granite spire]

Huzzah I finally figured it out, apparently there was a glitch with the animation BP

[grim ore]

@runic fernany other errors above that?

[runic fern]

nope this is first error shows but now i run HTML5Setup.sh After Renaming folders its installed alot of stuff

[granite spire]

You apparently can't break the node or it upsets the transform bone, you have to instead make a rotator/vector, which is strange, now I can finally rest.

[runic fern]

maybe it wasn't installing all the files because the name

[pulsar ruin]

why i still can't control of the character after move to other map? i wrote codes above in level bp of levels main menu map why the other map have same orders? https://ttprivatenew.s3.amazonaws.com/pulse/gohawise-gmail/attachments/17064201/TinyTake01-06-2021-06-35-32.mp4

[light thunder]

First, go to the blueprint where the actual controls (binds) are used, like X button to jump, and make sure they are firing on that new map - either your reference was lost upon level load to your pawn most likely

[runic fern]

@grim ore

like this

[grim ore]

@runic fernwhy are you using the project launcher for this?

[runic fern]

same result

i was trying to package this from project launcher