ue4-general

[radiant sun]

I am though :/

Which is why I am confused

[restive eagle]

im using an external program to change these things

[drowsy snow]

Honestly my sarcastic fear is that newcomers will reflect on Dreamworld.

[restive eagle]

not sure if it works in latest versions or not, gave up long time ago on that

[toxic lily]

Putting up an alpha with the place holder mannequin is like the Scarlett letter. Nothing turns off anyone faster then seeing that in a quote “playable customer ready build”

[restive eagle]

tell your users to make their own models

problem solved

[toxic lily]

🙏

[drowsy snow]

The damn project flips assets with no effort, but raking in money in KS.
I both sarcastically and genuinely feared that those starting gamedev merely for profit reflected on those kind of shitty projects.

[toxic lily]

Or just team up with some who can make them,

It’s legit not hard to find someone who can

[radiant sun]

Yeah, and tell them to weight paint, rig and name them to suit your animations too hehe

[restive eagle]

novadays its enough to have a fake gameplay trailer

looking at "RAW"

[toxic lily]

Convincing them is another story

A lot of the marketplace assets are really good too

[drowsy snow]

Remember when battle royale games and Fortnite is at all time high? Everyone tries to make Battle Royale game with no capitals and manpower.
I don't think it's a coincidence that people now tries to make MMO in parallel with how Dreamworld defamed our beloved Manny and making cash in KS.

[radiant sun]

Popular games are so lazy these days tbh

By popular I mean the likes of Valorant

Sure some pretty nice mechanics, decent game, nice visuals. Nothing new though

[drowsy snow]

Some wanted to make MMO as large as the entire Jakarta, but don't have the money and decency to do so.

[restive eagle]

i wouldnt call valorant lazy

have you seen their dev stream?

a lot of work went into that game

[obsidian nimbus]

its called shootergame.exe tho

[restive eagle]

for competitive gameplay there's no room for mistakes

[drowsy snow]

Valorant's optimisation is mindblowing tbh

Granted, they can run away with fully static lighting.

[toxic lily]

Bro people who optimize are the true unsung heroes of development

[restive eagle]

yup, their stream was a very interesting watch

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention their netcode

[restive eagle]

they did struggle at first, but it seems fine now

[radiant sun]

I just wish that Riot would A, add a proper darn launcher. And B, make a game like Valorant only less like CS:GO 😅

[drowsy snow]

Mine was ThirdPersonTemplate.exe before moving to 4.26, which is now Isekai.exe

[obsidian nimbus]

i didnt play it cuz the ring 0

[drowsy snow]

KVM gang rise up

[obsidian nimbus]

kvm?

[restive eagle]

a fellow weeb i see

[drowsy snow]

Kernel Virtual Machine

[obsidian nimbus]

ahh 😛

[drowsy snow]

The codename is always been "Isekai", because of the anime style, and having other world/isekai concept :P

Though the twist is that the story is more "serious" than stereotypical isekai story. No dating mechanics, no harem stuff, though still have revealing kind of garments ;)

[restive eagle]

and i just finished watching some isekai anime today, that cant be a coincident 😄 (but let's not get off topic, cause a mean uncle will show up)

[lusty canyon]

I'm making a single player Western, and right now I'm deciding on the story, I'm thinking about going with a story that follows the real life events of Jessie James, does that sound interesting to anyone?

[restive eagle]

never heard of him

[drowsy snow]

It kinda on topic, because I went my way modifying the engine to get deferred pass cel shading to work

[restive eagle]

have you seen "Sel's" work around here? @drowsy snow

[lusty canyon]

Makes sense, he was an outlaw

[restive eagle]

maybe if you are from USA it's a more common knowledge

[drowsy snow]

I've seen his work and forum post about his approach.
His approach is forward rendering only though, while I'm going for deferred rendering.

[restive eagle]

arent both those approaches meant for mobiles?

i don't work with any of that stuff, so just asking

oh deferred is the default one

[drowsy snow]

Average phones can't take deferred rendering for now tho

And my game is being made for PC/console first. Porting to mobile is sort of the bottom of the barrel kind of afterthought for me.

[restive eagle]

any ETA on that game?

[drowsy snow]

I'm expecting around late 2023 date for it.
Though I'm currently completing the early showcase demo for it for this month.

Expect the info to be posted somewhere in #work-in-progress or #released or somewhere in the web.

[restive eagle]

kk, but i'm more of a fan like Mahour Arms. you can search for posts from softmode

really like his shaders

ahh but they are pretty old, he hasnt been here in a while

[radiant sun]

Anyone know of an easy way to change your application name on build? I know that it takes the project name... But I want to change it, and at this point I can't without it breaking 😂

[drowsy snow]

I think you add GameName in one of the ini files. Can't remember exactly what's the parameter

[radiant sun]

Ah right, will give that a try

I just assumed it'd be with the build settings, like where you set the icon. Anyway ty ❤️

[drowsy snow]

Definitely Google it first though. I forgot pretty much anything about the param and which ini file you should type it in.

[radiant sun]

Nah I think you are right, I looked it up before coming here, but I am so sleepy right now I can't make heads or tails of it 😅

[plush yew]

guys

[feral sierra]

is there a way to smooth normal for the mesh inside Unreal?

[restive eagle]

@plush yew you should use on landed event

and you can check if the velocity was high enough to apply the damage

[ionic cradle]

Are there any tricks to getting things to float correctly with buoyancy?
I made a simple viking ship in blender, put pontoons at 4 corners but it just flips over and kinda spins around

[drowsy snow]

#legacy-physics might know about applying buoyancy.

[shrewd quarry]

looking to do a point and click rpg, anyone have any tips on a channel to check out? (free preferred)

[plush yew]

when i run my project the health bar shows 0%

[restive eagle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQBRVo2Be90

there are plenty of tutorials on youtube

just follow any of them

[plush yew]

ty

[wide beacon]

So do i need to cast to another camera when im making ads

[shell compass]

Anyone know what kind of black magic is being used here to create an event dispatcher that works on User Widgets without having to subclass them from something else?
(The top part there)
https://cdn1.epicgames.com/ue/product/Screenshot/01-1920x1080-d8c6097e75a0ddced6a0a4276e5eed94.png?resize=1&w=1600

As opposed to having to get player controller > cast > bind to dispatcher or something similar

[wispy oriole]

I've seen on a few videos in which people manage to change the colour/opacity of their landscape paint brush, anyone know how to do that? 🤔

[dark ridge]

hello, i need some help with finalising the story for a project, i dont know which channel can i go to talk about it

[drowsy snow]

You can discuss it with folks over #lounge (myself included)
Though if it's for game jam, you can go over to #game-jam-chat instead

[dark ridge]

alright see you in #lounge

[wispy oriole]

Answered my own question :) In case anyone else wondered:

To adjust the highlight color/opacity/intensity, you can edit the CircleBrush Material by going to Engine Content/EditorLandscapeResources. To be able to access this, you will have to show engine content by going to View Options>Show Engine Content in the Content Browser window.

[plush yew]

Does anyone knows what Verse will turn?

just a way to code instead blueprints?

[versed lion]

Does anyone know how can I change the shape of the material? I want it to have a sphere \ circle look instead of a square

[drowsy snow]

Sphere mask?

[versed lion]

I mean in the world it self, its an Emitter

But the material applies the square shape for some reason

[candid lion]

Hi, my UE4.25 project doesn't compile anymore. PC project, no mobile setup, no update, and I have this compilation error :
IOSAppDelegate.h(5): [C1083] Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier bibliothèque de types : 'UIKit/UIKit.h' : No such file or directory
Can someone help me with this?

[mild phoenix]

Hello who can help?How can I do this, I want when I press,delay on released must each time reset timer?

[drowsy snow]

Use Retriggerable Delay instead.

[mild phoenix]

Oh thanks a lot)

[versed lion]

I mean change the shape of that material because it sets the shape to the square by default in the emitter settings @drowsy snow

[wispy oriole]

Particle emitter? You'd need to mask it in the material

[versed lion]

I will try, thx

[versed lion]

@wispy oriole Thanks it worked perfect!

[woven dune]

Hey, guys not sure where to ask this question but I'm having some strange issues with the user interface of UE4. After sometime when editing in the blueprint section it starts flickering black. Sometimes the whole engine will turn black. I have no idea where this is coming from. Anyone might have an idea what this is??

[fierce tulip]

check the pinned messages on this channel

[golden horizon]

guys, I'm sorry, but...do you have any idea for HOW to stop SteamVR starting and giving errors every time when I try to do something in Unreal Engine...

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas, for some reason i cant change light intensity at runtime

simple node

Working on construction script

[woven dune]

Oh wow thanks!

[lucid grove]

But not live

[lucid grove]

Disable VR at plugins section. All of them (mostly steam and oculus)

[dawn gull]

Is there a way that I can put the default FPS arms and gun on top of the default third person character?

[hard escarp]

I've having an issue where both of my listen clients are somehow sharing data in their UI/Widgets. Any thoughts on why / what I should look into to fix it?

[plush yew]

how do i permanently onn word-wrap in visual studio

[lucid grove]

I have it

Ofc

The problem was it was set to static which cant change runtime 🙂

[primal tendon]

How to enable collision with grass tool, I'm trying to mix grass, trees and large boulders and such with it and even if I am changing the mesh collision to use complex as simple, when I place it manually it works but using LGT it doesn't, anyone know anything? I searched online and it seems like this has been a problem from past 6 years, they did say about PFS but I don't prefer that all that much....

[sick parcel]

Hi guys, quick question, I'm starting to develop a multiplayer game, nothing fancy, thing of a Tower Defense PvP of sorts, to give some context

my question is, should I start with MP in mind, or I can just start by normally developing like any SP game?

Also I would like to have a mode to locally test where I can switch from player 1 to player 2

trying to find what could be the best practices of this

if you have any tutorial in mind that might cover some of this, I welcome it.

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywBqQtTHMo&list=PLL0cLF8gjBprG6487lxqSq-aEo6ZXLDLg

[hard escarp]

@sick parcel Multiplayer is its own unique beast. Taking a working single player game and converting it to multiplayer would probably be easier if you started from scratch.

[sick parcel]

Got it

@plush yew that's from 2017, does it still apply?

[frozen pond]

is there a way to force mesh fracture ?

from bp?

[fringe wigeon]

anyone know how to change the colour of the volumetric clouds in Ultra Dynamic Sky?

[wide beacon]

does anybody have any idea how i can fix my ammo counter? i have it so it appears on screen, but it will not update to tell me howmuch is in my clip

[civic cobalt]

Mathew Wadstein here?

[plush yew]

i think yess

[fierce tulip]

he's always lurking

[civic cobalt]

i was hoping i could ask if i could use code found in his tutorials for a commercial marketplace asset

[fierce tulip]

you might have to contact him, or wait until he un-lurks

[civic cobalt]

yeah, thats what ill do, thanks

but he is on this discord isnt he?

when was the last he was spotted? 😄

nvm im gonna email him

ue5 new ui is so sexy

but im kinda sceptical about nanite

what do you think? @fierce tulip ?

when i saw 200gb sample project first thing i thought was full game will be 1tb

[modest trench]

Nope

[civic cobalt]

but i have to say it looks really really god, the models (scans)

[modest trench]

Packaged Ancient is 25gb

[civic cobalt]

my opinion - still if you wanna make good game you gonna retopo scans at least

hmm

thats not 200gb

still pretty hefty

i dont know

ill have to see it in some game

how it performs

[drowsy snow]

Thanks to the new Oodle.

[modest trench]

Ancient is a next-gen rough demo

It's not really a reasonable game

[drowsy snow]

Honestly Epic acquiring RAD and making Oodle free to use in UE is a godsend.

[civic cobalt]

do you have any numbers about oodle?

how much % can i save

in packaged game size

[drowsy snow]

Eh, we still make few hand modelled stuff ;)

[drowsy snow]

Judging by Valley of The Ancient proof of concept project, estimated around 75% size reduction.

[civic cobalt]

good for you, soon its gonna be like miniatures in movies, lets hope not.

[fierce tulip]

once we get the full workflow down, know do and donts, and optimize properly I dont think we'll see a massive increase in overall filesize.

[civic cobalt]

i see

[drowsy snow]

Which is scared me tbh
I want my games not to exceed 100 GB packaged.

[civic cobalt]

wow thats wow! i want to try that for my game

oh man, weighty projects u got there

[drowsy snow]

Oodle is also available in UE4.27

[civic cobalt]

is it by default?

just press package and it works or setup needed?

[drowsy snow]

My projects' total file is currently 30 GB in size. Packaged is around 1 GB.

[drowsy snow]

If you're in 4.27 or 5.0, yes.
Though for me, an extra work is required because I need to backport it to 4.26 😁

[civic cobalt]

is backporting even possible?

i never succeeded in doing that

[civic cobalt]

long way to 100gb

[drowsy snow]

It's a C++ plugin, and available in 4.27, so I don't see how it can't.
Though it's difficult to backport 5.0 stuff to 4.x, because of new engine modules exclusive to 5.0

[civic cobalt]

i see

[drowsy snow]

I would expect my game to have 40 GB packaged size, with Oodle enabled.

[civic cobalt]

open world?

big?

what would take so much space?

scanned assets?

[drowsy snow]

Open world (6km x 6km) and audio assets.
I hard limit the textures to be 4K max though

It's still being made for PS4 gen hardware in mind.

[civic cobalt]

i see, interesting

[drowsy snow]

I know, not as big as others who wanted to reach 20km x 20km 🤭

But I prefer quality over quantity.

Also it's a single player only, so I only use replication stuff for replay system, not necessarily multiplayer.

Though I tried to have multiplayer practice applied because of using replication, so might as well future proofing it in case I want to make MP mode of it.

[civic cobalt]

good luck dude

sounds promising

[hasty lantern]

guys how hard would it be to make an android version of my game made in ue4?

[civic cobalt]

have you tried packaging for android?

[drowsy snow]

It would be hard, to say the least.

Especially if your stuff isn't prepped for lower end hardware in mind.

[hasty lantern]

no, but don't I need to change anything in my game before doing so?

[fierce tulip]

the unreal docs have quite some info on preparing for mobile, what works and what not.

[hasty lantern]

you mean only using lower resolutions of my items or another things aswell?

oh ok i'll read that ig @fierce tulip

[vital jackal]

is there a way to just get rid of these 'errors' everytime I load my project? it's nothing much but it's just annoying

[drowsy snow]

By fixing the invalid references or outright deleting the offending assets.

[vital jackal]

will give it a go, appreciate it

[drowsy snow]

It's pretty much an asset expecting to use another asset that it has reference on, but it can't find said asset.

[summer scaffold]

hey is it a correct place to ask for some guidance and advice related to Landscape material in UE4 ?

[versed lion]

Any idea why is the lamp on the left is marked with a 'X'?

[drowsy snow]

You have too much static/stationary lighting.

[wary wave]

can never have too much static / stationary lighting

you can however, have too many of those lights casting shadows

you have a maximum of four overlapping light sources, that are both static or stationary, and cast shadows

[versed lion]

Thank you for the quick response, I will look into it

[drowsy snow]

Is there any convention in writing GameplayTags names? I'm kinda confused to make one that's manageable later on.

[grim beacon]

What is the console command to show gpu/cpu bound performance?

[drowsy snow]

Stat UNIT?

[grim beacon]

@drowsy snow that's it thank you

[drowsy snow]

Also Stat UnitGraph if you want to have graph of the frametime over time.

[grim beacon]

That's pretty cool, thank you

[charred kraken]

Help UE is bullying my PC

[civic cobalt]

delete system 32

[drowsy snow]

Derived Data Cached (which are mostly shaders already compiled) goes to C:\ drive by default, and it should kept that way. You should configure the rest of your UE stuff somewhere else.

Around 20 GB, in my experience.

rough total.

I don't think it'll have much difference in speed, because you're dealing with the project files more.

[frozen pond]

shadow questions: i got huge fps lost on actor that have multiple elements - multi element shadow, but after i set it to static shadow it won't cast anything, only dynamic one, any solution ?

• i have some werid ui bugs my controlls like combo boxes becomes transulcent, when i'm trying to scren shot them they are normal lol

[brave mesa]

can someone explain me the difference between migrate from one project to another and, just copying the uasset files to the other project via explorer?

[radiant sun]

That feeling when you whack your head off a wall trying to sort compiler errors

[radiant sun]

It takes as much space as the assets do, that's all I know

To cut down on space just delete stuff you don't use

And use common tricks such as texturing the same objects to look different

[neat shale]

hey you guys know that city park collection map

thats optimized terribly

i found one of the tree meshes was over 400,000 triangles

what the heck

actually no

what the hell

[plush yew]

how do i attach this thing to the player's hands?

where can i find them?

oh, thank you!

[neat shale]

yea im lowering all the lods in the meshes rn

my crappy gpu can only get 9 fps when looking at the map from a distance

[timid frost]

use cull distance

[neat shale]

i need a cull distance volume for that correct

ive never used one so i might need help setting it up

[plush yew]

how do i change the position of the hands?

in what object? (this is the deafult fp)

[neat shale]

got a problem. When i use it all the trees dissapear. any idea why? is it a foliage thing?

[plush yew]

where's the animation sequence is?

i'll google it, ty

how do i change this to be other color?

[vocal sorrel]

Hey everyone. How would I make a boat move through a water source i created? When I go to keyframe the boat it no longer floats and reacts to the water properly

[brazen stag]

Hi peeps, so quick question. I have 8 identically laid out maps (planets with rings but each is a little different) and I want to use the "take high resolution screenshot" tool to get some cool images. How do I ensure that the viewport camera is always in the same position so that each image is laid out the same?

[plush yew]

?

[brazen stag]

Never mind, i just figured it out. I can use the drop down on the view menu (top left of the view port) and use a placed camera. I'll just copy paste that camera into each scene... For anyone interested... Don't mind me just talking to myself, lol

[mild phoenix]

Who know why this arrow isnt moving?

Its muzzle flash arrow

from advanced inventory and weapon system

[plush yew]

how do i change that

to that?

i dont have an option

[grim ore]

the arms are a skeletal mesh, what is the knife?

[mild phoenix]

make sure its skeletal

[turbid plover]

you ever figure it out? im also getting RVT flickering

[radiant sun]

idk where else to put this, but if you are having packaging issues check this link out, it saved me so much frustration... Admittedly I did have to redo project settings and some collision presets, but that's no biggie. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/350501/packagingresultserror-error-unknown-cook-failure-2.html

[plush yew]

idk how is that called

[grim ore]

mouse over the knife, what does it say at the top of the tooltip

[grim ore]

that would be why, its an animation sequence. not the actual skeletal mesh

[plush yew]

oh, can i change it?

[grim ore]

change which one? you just need to find the skeletal mesh for that knife and use it

[plush yew]

WAIT YOU ARE THE GUY WITH THE HTF/WTF VIDEOS

[plush yew]

oh, thank you

[plush yew]

here is the mesh, but it is not designed like the animation

[grim ore]

if you change the mesh, you need to change the animation it is using its another slot in there

[plush yew]

oh, ill try to find it

[grim ore]

it should be right above or below it, the animation setup

there are tutorials on the learn page, or in the docs that cover how the animation system works

[turbid plover]

increasing the border padding on the rvt asset fixed it

[mild phoenix]

Who know why this arrow isnt moving?

Its muzzle flash arrow

from advanced inventory and weapon system

[grim ore]

what happens when you try and move it?

[mild phoenix]

its not moving

staying in its location

[grim ore]

is there any code in the construction script?

[mild phoenix]

yes

[grim ore]

maybe that code is stopping it?

[prime willow]

if i turn my actor mesh into a blueprint

can i still use them in something like third person bp

so the mesh blueprint has their own values and the third person bp puts more of the base stuff unto such mesh blueprint

o-o

like a jank version of laying

[grim ore]

technically you can have child actors in blueprints

if thats good or not, I have heard there could be issues but I never ran into any. I used them for examples as weapons for a player, the weapon was it's own BP with it's own stuff

[prime willow]

i know last we spoke you said setting up parent to child bp's would be good for making certain mesh based races have their unique systems

but i feel like so correct me if im working

putting those differences in the blueprint with the mesh actor would be better or smoother

so each races mesh has their own blueprint and i can cram the stuff in there maybe?

[grim ore]

sure, if its nothing special you could also make a component that handles that info , like a race component or something

[prime willow]

o.o

oh

smoothe

very smoothe mathew

[grim ore]

like people make "health component" that they use to handle health on stuff

[prime willow]

wait

what if i made HP for example

[grim ore]

actually inventory component seems to be common as well from what I have seen

[prime willow]

its own blueprint

and i added a compnent for each races HP differences >_>

in the hp blueprint lol would that work

[grim ore]

it could. like ok so for the inventory for example its a complete component that handles health. If something needs to have health and handle stuff that deals with health (damage, etc.) you just add the component

[prime willow]

o.o

[grim ore]

whenever you want to "damage" something you check for the component and let it handle stuff

[prime willow]

ah

[grim ore]

so this then lets you just add health to stuff, say adding a health component to a box now can make it destructible

[prime willow]

yeah i definitelly want to have destructible systesm for my game

[grim ore]

and I started this with inventory and it went to health lol.... brain not working. for inventory you could basically give stuff inventory just by adding the component

[prime willow]

and i plan to share the systems i have for destruction for free <:

oh

i see

[grim ore]

so say you had 10 shelves in a room, one could have an inventory component and now its lootable and stuff

[candid steppe]

Where do y'all find sounds for your games?

[prime willow]

marketplaces on the internet

make your own

download freeware

or royalty based ones as well

you have options if youre creative

@candid steppe ^

@grim ore wait

so lets say i have a room full of items

under inventory

i can slap HP onn each one of them via this compnenet set up

for example 6 different types of boxes

could i slap that inventory component onto it and all boxes become lootable

[grim ore]

in theory? i've never done it that way but if you set it up then yes

[prime willow]

and can you attach different animations as well via the animation notify? o.o

[grim ore]

dont see why not, like the animation could be tied to the actor itself and the damage or destruction just tells it to play it

[prime willow]

i see

and i can use any level of blueprint for the compnent right?

like master class character etc

and setup the child or parent that way right

[grim ore]

no, its an actual class

[prime willow]

ah

[grim ore]

when you create a blueprint look at the bottom 2 options

[prime willow]

o.o

[grim ore]

just kinda depends on if its a data component or something that has a scene root

[prime willow]

i see

o.o

everytime i look into unreal engine

i realize how much more i love it

and how much fun it is compared to most games atm ;O;

[grim ore]

yep inventory seems to be a common one that I see people doing, I just am lazy and do it the lazy way but thats because its lazy and I dont plan on expanding it (always just for prototypes)

using components seems to be the right way to make things extendable

[bleak copper]

Btw: Is there a way to prevent Unreal Engine 4.25 from loading the Epic Games Store in Firefox every time you turn on the engine?

[prime willow]

i see

[bleak copper]

That's really really annoying.

[prime willow]

ok matheww i will bother you 1 last time with this :3333

[grim ore]

well I mean here is the key, when you are in a blueprint all the "stuff" in it (meshes, sounds, etc,) are components. thats the way they work

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/6d022c6821703dc2ea9ef6068691284d

https://gyazo.com/12e9a32eabc26106fc6fa2644abcfd21

these all the setup i have for multiple races in my game

i want to create a system where the player can mess around with morphs and all of that stuff to make their own character have their settings saved and used everytime they play their character

like your standard mmo or rpg game with creation systems

so would making the meshes a blueprint be wise for that :3

or leave them as actors

[grim ore]

well actors are blueprints...

[prime willow]

i mean meshes

oops

lol

sorry sorry

the purple bared version in case im using the wrong words x-x

[grim ore]

honestly I dont know. The only modular system I used basically had every piece as pieces and you had ablueprint for the character and just set each SKM on the blueprint for the character

so blueprint character made up of 10 components, and you set each mesh component

[prime willow]

well the characters have a crud ton of morphs for all of the shapes and such

[grim ore]

then I guess if you used morphs you then set them on each mesh

[prime willow]

instead of being segmented into pieces for rebuilding

[grim ore]

either one works, if you want them to be able to piece together then they have to be pieces otherwise one generic one they can morph

[prime willow]

so blueprint the meshes and possibly setup some sort of morph saving system i would presume o.o

[grim ore]

@prime willowpretty much sounds correct. There is a docs page on making modular characters that might help

[prime willow]

ah okie ill look into them ❤️

[grim ore]

either way would probably work in the end to be honest, just how you want to do it

[prime willow]

o.o

oh ok ok

[merry gazelle]

dumb question but I want to spawn building actos in a grid and fit them together, some are odd shapes (e.g. L, T, U, etc) so think Tetris. style blocks fitting together. I was wondering if there's a common word that would describe this type of sorting in a grid? At the moment my searches.

I suppose one way I could do this is to linetrace lots of times randomly trying actors until all the spaces fill, however this would be extremely inefficient

[maiden sundial]

Uhm, how should someone translate the Max Walk Speed of a Character into meters per second ?

[worn granite]

that's uu per second

uu being unreal units

[bleak copper]

Uh... m/s is 100 uu/s

[worn granite]

Default is set at 1 cm iirc

[bleak copper]

(Assuming your game uses default scaling)

[maiden sundial]

So would that mean if the Max Walk Speed is 100 it's already 1 m/s ?

[bleak copper]

If you don't do any weird scaling, then yes.

[maiden sundial]

Alrighty, thanks ^^

[worn granite]

that's why gravity is -980 on the Z axis

[burnt hull]

anyone have any idea why the orthographic camera would not show a static mesh?

i have some static meshes that show, others that dont

[fluid lance]

Asked yesterday, gonna try again: is there any way of exporting a variable from unreal? I'd need a simple bool to flag users that have finished the game on a moodle platform.

@burnt hullcamera too low and clips into them?

[grim ore]

what is the moodle platform? does it have an api you can use

[runic fern]

Why Download image failed to download when i package the game but in editor downloading normally

[fluid lance]

@grim oreWe didn't make it yet, but I could check and we could just buy it/add the required/recommended api. There's a question on their forums on this particular topic - no answer.

[burnt hull]

it seems to not display meshes when they are too far from the world origin. is there any way around this? that's a pretty weird limitation

53k units on the X axis and orthographic camera cant show the mesh

[grim ore]

well usually you would use an API and make like a REST call and do whatever you want, ue4 has that built in using C++ or you can use like the vaREST plugin

[fluid lance]

@grim oreNo bp solution I take it? 😛 the project is bp-only so far, I could try and learn a few cpp lines just for this I guess.

[grim ore]

vaREST plugin

[fluid lance]

@grim oreThanks, found it, will get to work reading on it, see what I can do! And btw, can we credit you in the "special thanks" section of our game credits? You may not know it, but you've helped quite a lot while I was developing with some pretty important things I found no solution for anywhere else - like the guids & this one for instance.

[grim ore]

i mean you can do whatever you want lol 🙂

[fluid lance]

oh lol wtf, it's even free... 🤦‍♂️

[grim ore]

yep thats why I suggested it

and I know it works well once you learn it, if just send a simple API call it shouldnt take long to pick it up

[fluid lance]

now I need to read up on what "rest" actually means. The "spreading" never ends when indie deving 😐

[grim ore]

nah, just need to know its the way stuff is sent and received from web services for the most part

[fluid lance]

😒 I swear I should have known moodle will somehow **uck up with their weird "requirements"
"All functions should be named as

{fullcomponent}_{methodname} - example: core_user_get_user_preferences"

That is from their website...

[raven tendon]

Can someone kindly share the ue4editor.exe for 4.26.1? I seem to have corrupted mine

no option to verify

maybe cause it needs to update to .26.2

its just the exe thats messed up. Fixed it for another version

idk how but running the uproject standalone from cmd led to this

[spare dawn]

Hi all 👋 a rookie here, and im kinda looking for a community to help me learn better 🙂 first question is: do youtube tutorials still work for ue5 as with ue4? or are the mechanics of the two engines so different that they dont overlap? and 2# what am i doing wrong with megascan assets making them look like shit when importing them into UE?`for instance i took a landscape mat. from megascans but first im having issues with the tiling of the material and second it look hella aweful. any pointers?

did a one year game dev course using ue4, but i kinda forgot most 😫

[fluid lance]

@plush yewI checked them out, they're nice, MathewW's one is straight to the point, clear and simple - as always. Basic concepts and first steps, great for rookies if u ask me.

[spare dawn]

thanks. any suggested learning material for starting out? know the "basics" like i can make a landscape, and i can shape it using sculpting tools but i forgot how to paint different textures, and i dont know anything about lighting even though i love to learn it.

[fluid lance]

@spare dawnIf u'r shaping it using "sculpting tools" - I don't mean to sound nasty, but you don't really know how to use a landscape 😛

if you are into shaders/materials, you can checkout Ben Cloward's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoG9TB1eL6dm9eNbLFueHBQ It's packed with nice stuff for all levels i'd say

[spare dawn]

well i do know how to import height maps, that iv made using terrasculpt or world machine or any other landscape 3rd party tool

thanks

[fluid lance]

From my experience they're useful more for makeup and such, not the main shaping/modeling of the terrain for too many reasons to list here, but I'm guessing you know what I mean.

[prime willow]

anyone here atm that knows their way around the groom systems?

[vocal sorrel]

Hey guys how do I keyframe the movements of my mesh when I hit simulate?

[fluid lance]

yea, played with it some, I still prefere to use height textures as alphas for mountains/pits/etc, or whole landscapes. I'm just using terresculptor, works like a charm 😛

@vocal sorrelbetter ask in #animation

[vocal sorrel]

okay thanks! @fluid lance

[fluid lance]

@plush yewwell, terresculptor is free 😄

hm...i'll check that out too 😄

the worldkit

I'll check it out 😄 good info 🙂

[prime willow]

nvm fixed it

no more groom with stretch

[vagrant hornet]

how would i make a world border like fortnite

[fluid lance]

@grim oreThank you very much! As always, you provided a solution 😄 it works, I can push vars out of UE4 no problem. However, on moodle's side is a whole new story, so I'll just search for someone else to integrate that into our future platform. Thanks! 🙂

[solemn vortex]

Hello I am a graphic designer of 2D games And I do the best work with the best quality and the lowest price

[merry gazelle]

damn if you do the best quality at lowest price you really under sell yourself 😅

[fluid lance]

coughs if something sounds too good to be true, it's not.

except for lumen/nanite ofc 😄

[late stag]

when i use unreal i keep getting this d3d error and its only in unreal it doesnt happen right away but it happens so often i cant do anything

it gives my the device removed error

i didnt see any

and everytime it happens my screen goes black then shows it

in command prompt?

[late stag]

???

to add on when i tryed to reinstall driver through geforce expirence my pc crashed and said cpu unhandled exception

[clever marsh]

yo so when I click start on my main menu, none of the AI I have are functional or chase after you or anything. Any solutions? My entire game is depending on it lol

[late stag]

yea it started happening after i installed the new driver

how would i do that?

so the one i have is 466.62 imma get the one before

ok

ok i backstepped to my friends version that works

so im testing now

[rich kayak]

Hey guys, yesterday I was working on my project (its a mobile project) then I wanted to use a spotlight as lantern. But had to turn option to make this possible on project settings.
The engine asked me to restart the engine and now the project dont open anymore. Stuck on 75%. Anyone with a solution to open the same project and fix that?

Its an empty level and during 10 hours.

Or it is compiling the whole project content?

[drowsy snow]

Likely recompiling shaders for the editor

[rich kayak]

Oh, I see.

[neat shale]

so uh im trying to use cull distances in this map still but like

it wont work with the trees

[rich kayak]

It is not

I will wait longer but, the usage of cpu is 0% and no stuff using or saying compile like usual or the swarm agent

I did opened the visual studio, theres no log there. Should be right?

will try the dbgview.exe

Where it is located?

Yes, I did that.

The last thing he says is the build complete running the engine, none more

let me print it here 1s

[late stag]

i stepped back and now it works

[rich kayak]

I use Raider, its all on same location, but I am opening the vs

[late stag]

yes

now everything works perfect

smh nvidia

you guys want to see a sneak peak on my racing game 😉

[rich kayak]

Nothing.

75%

hm, no changes.

but now the screen with the % is not working

But if I continue I can see the window again, lol.

Everything I was programming was working, just changed the light. Weird.

[prime willow]

I return!

[rich kayak]

Looks like the editor cant find a animation I had on folder is failing to load

and not finding my character skeletal -.-

maybe that the issue?

[spare dawn]

why is that every material or asset i bring from quixel megascans look like "shit" compared to others imports i see on Youtube?

[rich kayak]

Since I cant open my project for migration, I will copy stuff and throw on another project. Hope to not lost my stuff

I did

from the start to be honest not even the previous

I tried this too

deleted all rebuildable folders and nope

the config folder was the one I have changed, deleted everything there got the stuff from my sc and nothing too

[late stag]

https://streamable.com/a4ap8j some sneak peaks to be excited for 😉

[rich kayak]

I have copy the stuff to other project, its working fine there, same config I wanted

Will just need to change the project name on all cpp and .h files, but thanks for trying

[digital onyx]

What is the editor doing when it is"preparing textures" (opening the medieval village for the first time, and it is taking ages)

[quiet token]

can you show screenshot of what it looks like ?

[modest trench]

might be the preview mesh

[digital onyx]

Interesting, thanks. Does it write this to disk somehwere? My project folder and derived data caches weren't obviously growing. Or does it just edit the textures in place?

[late stag]

ok thx

I've been working on it for a week and a half

[celest trout]

Hey, I am wondering how I can get the A.I. to walk forward instead of going to random locations in the NavMesh?

[plush yew]

Guys I need help

Why when I

Click on a sub menu such as build options menu

It does not drop down the Menu

[lavish garden]

hello. i would like to learn to simulate a basic galactic field in unreal. how would i start? where would i start to learn to do that?

i've seen some tutorials on making planets, but nothing on how to make the galaxy around said planet. 8D

[celest trout]

I would try to learn about creating sky or sky atmospheres. I am not sure, though.

[lavish garden]

i was wondering if starting in niagra might be better, but i didn't know if it would translate into game objects (if that makes sense)..

[celest trout]

Yeah, I am not sure. I think you can try to learn about both of the things.

[weak echo]

Is there a way to stop the editor from flickering? I have a RTX 3090 with the latest drivers installed

[uneven hemlock]

i have a box that detects overlapping actors of class bike base. Bike base is a pawn but it returns actor

how would i change the output to a pawn

isntead

this is why i need it

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow ; O;

https://gyazo.com/b9f77e409ef180ab5534b510f59bd2c5

[drowsy snow]

wokes up

[prime willow]

i cant seem to fix this

also hiiii

my third person actor

it spawns another set in gold when i press play

but it doesnt exist when i do normal editor stuff..

if i delete my third person bp it fixes it but now he doesnt exist on the map

[drowsy snow]

Have you checked the auto possess in the third person pawn you placed?

[prime willow]

auto process? o.o

[drowsy snow]

No, I mean auto possess

[prime willow]

auto possess? o.o

[uneven hemlock]

why wont this work

it already knows that bike base is a pawn

so why is it saying its an actor

[drowsy snow]

It's right here, hun.

[prime willow]

ooo

Lemme check :3

[uneven hemlock]

did u use ur own phyicis constraints or the built in wheel system

[drowsy snow]

You might need an extra cast node.

[uneven hemlock]

how would that work?

[drowsy snow]

Cast to Pawn -> Possess

[prime willow]

ok i changed it to fit your settings :3

[uneven hemlock]

O wait i did it

it works

im now in the bike

[drowsy snow]

Does it work?

[prime willow]

its fixed

;D

no more extra ones

thanksiesssss

[drowsy snow]

No probsies. :3

[prime willow]

nearly done with the creator systemmmm

so close

i can almost taste the combat system D:

[drowsy snow]

Come on, I already working on the combat system xD

[prime willow]

my creator system has too many piecessssss

;O;

still need to put all of the pieces in a salad bowl see how that goes

oh

[drowsy snow]

Good luck on the character creation system ✊

[prime willow]

yeah about that

Matheww said id need a saving sort of system

for the morph changes made

[wise tide]

how can i get map size thats universal

[prime willow]

wouldnt that mean id need a save game system if i wanted to save the character creation changes between playing and closing the game o.o

@drowsy snow ^

[drowsy snow]

Oh, yes, you do need a save game system for that.
My approach would be storing all the values in Game Instance, then based on that, saving them to a save game data.

[prime willow]

so i need a save game data system

and i need to store the values changed via character creation to the game instance before its moved into save game data?

[drowsy snow]

Yes. I found it to be more convenient on handling saving and loading the data.

[prime willow]

is this safe for a multiplayer game?

Well actually i do want locale saves lol

[drowsy snow]

Game Instance doesn't affect other clients, so it's pretty safe.

[prime willow]

since i want offline and online play xD

ah okie okie

do i set up the same stored values into any game istance for the game

via boolean or such?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it's like how you would with normal variables.
And because Game Instance persist as long as the executable is running, you can load existing save file, create a new one from, and clear them when going back to main menu.

[prime willow]

aah

thats really smart

ok im going save this for reference

[drowsy snow]

Screenshot it, print it, put it on the wall if you want to xD

[prime willow]

yush

i have a very very long wall

that i post conversations and stuff from around the net on

:3333

[celest trout]

Is anybody, currently, free, at the moment?

I wanted to discuss what I would need to improve in the gameplay part of my project, and I felt that it was not necessary to ask in the Un-paid Gigs channel.

If anybody is, feel free to Direct Message, me.

[prime willow]

its easier than asking over and over lol

[late stag]

I didn't use any physics constraints we calculated our own physics in c++

All of the physics we made

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of physics, I wonder if Bullet is worthy replacing PhysX in UE4 🤔

[north finch]

@buoyant granite hey if its ok if i can live stream ?

[drowsy snow]

Message him with !stream command.

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/f1869b0e30632dcdf504927d3e703897 @drowsy snow how do i do this

he presses something and it makes a bludge on the lines D:

[drowsy snow]

That's reroute node. :3
Double click on a spline to make one, and make your BP code less looking like a plate of Indomie Mi Goreng.

[prime willow]

o.o

okie good good

[pastel ginkgo]

Why do we have to enable smoothing when exporting a fbx for unreal? What does does that even mean?

[midnight ferry]

@pastel ginkgo when exporting an fbx from what software?

[wise tide]

How can i get map size universally thanks

[midnight ferry]

@wise tide like the size of your map in world units?

[wise tide]

nah x and y values

wanna make a universal map boundary

[midnight ferry]

Is your map generated dynamically or is it static?

[wise tide]

if i can get the map width and lengh i could stop actor from going outside using blueprints and could work on any map

they will all be static maps

[midnight ferry]

I'm sure you can get some kind of bounding calculation going but's likely going to be buggy. Have you tried just throwing a giant box in the scene as an invisible actor and checking against it's size as your bounds?

there is "getboundingbox" but you have to feed it an actor

hence the giant box suggestion

[wise tide]

can create blocking in map editor but if i have to do that for so many maps gonna require time all im making is a rts so its top down if ya feel

[pure echo]

has anyone ever locked themselves out of project using perforce? like unable to check-in/save things anymore?

[midnight ferry]

I have a similar top down game style and I'm locking the players camera to a specific bounds based on the scale of the grid they're working with. I wonder if you could set some presets for the RTS map editor like a 10x10 or 100x100

[wise tide]

yeah that makes sense

[midnight ferry]

@Negative locked out as in the files are checked out by you and you for whatever reason also cant revert them?

[wise tide]

though some maps are gonna be larger and smaller so unless on map load it also sets the size of that map as boundary

[pure echo]

@midnight ferry I got a new motherboard so it considers it a new PC and i didnt check things back in 😦

[midnight ferry]

oh shit I know that problem

uhhhh

I did that to myself haha

not in pv4 but

Motherboard swap and it got royally pissed at me because windows didnt like that

[pure echo]

lol yea

[midnight ferry]

If oyu cant get back tot he other mobo youre kinda in trouble I think

I might be able to ask our IT director but

[pure echo]

I can i guess just gotta move some parts back

[midnight ferry]

I'm not sure

I hate that motherboard pairing nonsense

its literal garbage

it took me like 3 days to convince microsoft I didnt steal their software and simply bricked a motherboard

[pure echo]

oof

[midnight ferry]

their tech support is just trash tier sometimes

.<

[pure echo]

yea i was just seeing if there was a quick way without changing out motherboards

[midnight ferry]

If youre not using logins like your microsoft account or whatever and its only tracking by motherboard I guess if you still have the files on disk you could jsut check them in as an update couldnt you?

[pure echo]

I was also hosting it off my old pc, so i cant use that perforce server anymore xd

[midnight ferry]

rip.

[pure echo]

the project seems perma locked into using that server too, i copied the files and hoped it wouldnt reconnect with that server but still wont let me change the settings of it

i just started using perforce like 3 weeks ago and still getting used to it so i was hoping there was a way to unsync the ue project with perforce

[midnight ferry]

can you like jerryrig the old mobo to some cardboard and plug it into stuff to turn it on ? lol

[pure echo]

lol yea i think i have to

[pastel ginkgo]

I have a fbx and when I import it into unreal it says this. "No smoothing group information was found in this FBX scene. Please make sure to enable the 'Export Smoothing Groups' option in the FBX Exporter plug-in before exporting the file. Even for tools that don't support smoothing groups, the FBX Exporter will generate appropriate smoothing data at export-time so that correct vertex normals can be inferred while importing"

I can export it with smoothing enabled in blender. I just want to know what it's doing.

[pure echo]

i had that issue, i think it had something to do with the newer vrs of maya

i remember changing the export settings in maya to something else to get rid of that..

@pastel ginkgo https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-lt-forum/2018-not-exporting-quot-smoothing-groups-quot/td-p/7591768

[midnight ferry]

I believe it has to do with vertex normals

If there is no vertex normal information stored in the model - UE4 has no idea what side is facing outward or inward

So in Houdini - exporting a mesh doesnt require smoothing groups but does require that you add vertex normals to the mesh so you can ignore the warning.

In Maya, I think export smoothing groups is on by default? I dont use it enough to remember though

I'm guessing blender is the same

[dusk nebula]

my right click in blueprints now zooms instead of moving. what did I accidentally press?

actually I tabbed back in and it seems fine so idk

[neon bough]

sometimes it acts like alt key is pressed, so tabbing around helps usually

[midnight ferry]

the good 'ol roll face on keyboard technique

[wise tide]

how i go about receiving information from interface? i have made one and set the information but from another blueprint how do i gather that

[midnight ferry]

you mean widgets?

[drowsy snow]

Use the Message variant of the interface function.

[sharp crest]

feeling so op every time I use the filters syntax

[drowsy snow]

I see you changed the editor font

[sharp crest]

yes, dark nodes plugin

[drowsy snow]

I'd rather doing the modifications myself than going for Dark Nodes.

[wise tide]

do i need to use the input cause i only what the output

says i need a input

trying to send an array from gamestate BP to pawncontrolla BP

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow whats thhe difference between an animation and a root animation of the same animation o.o

[worn copper]

Can Anyone Help me with Character Creator I can't Buy it

[prime willow]

i have back root than back normal

same with lefgt and right ones

in a 10 way movement pack

[drowsy snow]

Simply put, Root Animation is the animation of the root bone. Useful if you want something like a walk cycle to affect the actor transform.

[prime willow]

walk cycle to affect actor transform

new term for me x3

[drowsy snow]

Root motions for walk animations are more used for cartoony, exaggerated walk cycle.
Though root motions also common for rolling or dodging animation.

[prime willow]

so if i wanted a blend space for walking

use normals

if i want that action game dash root

and or cartoon movements

[drowsy snow]

Oh right, it's actually Root Motion, not Root Animations.

[prime willow]

yesh that

[drowsy snow]

Correct!

[prime willow]

ah

Yay me!

[restive eagle]

your card gets declined or what? you can contact epic support and they might help you out. or choose a different payment method

[worn copper]

I'm talking about reallusion. My mean I can't afford it

[restive eagle]

ohh, so what kind of help you need. i dont really understand

[drowsy snow]

Likely need someone to bought CC for him.

[restive eagle]

yeah get me one too then 😄

[drowsy snow]

Honestly I'd rather have MetaHuman Creator.

[worn copper]

Ya that can be one option. If someone have Character Creator

[worn copper]

Its Good but it drawback is clothing options

[drowsy snow]

You can always bring it to DCC softwares for editing though. It even has the source files for Maya.

[worn copper]

DCC software?

[drowsy snow]

Blender, 3ds Max, Maya, ZBrush, etc.
Those are Digital Content Creation software.

[worn copper]

Ohh but it will need so much efforts and time also expertise. That way i can't complete .y project

[drowsy snow]

That's just how content creation works, really.
It took effort, time, and expertise.

You can't go lazy with it, otherwise you'll find yourself in internet drama.

[prime willow]

^

[restive eagle]

and asking someone to buy stuff doesnt look too good

[worn copper]

Yaah. But for individual It's not the Good Way.

[worn copper]

No I'm not asking to buy for me specialy

[restive eagle]

for who then?

[worn copper]

If someone have already brought it for there use.

[restive eagle]

i'm pretty sure you can't share these kind of things

unless you work on the same project

atleast thats the rules for epic marketplace

[worn copper]

I think I Should go with fuse & mixamo

[drowsy snow]

Or you can hire somebody else to make contribution - that's also an option.

Fuse/Mixamo won't play well with UE4 standard skelmesh stuff, though. You have been warned.

Adobe ditched both software into limbo anyway.

[restive eagle]

most of the options for this kind of stuff will probably require to put in some extra work with softwares like maya/blender

unless you get something straight from the ue4 marketplace

which is always unreal compatible

[worn copper]

Okay so I can export 15 Characters outof Reallusion Character Creator Free Trial That can be better option for Start atleast

[restive eagle]

you should make sure if you can use these assets for commercial use, if you are planning to sell your game

[worn copper]

Looking into it Thanks

[drowsy snow]

Generally Trial versions don't allow for commercial use.

[restive eagle]

we know that developing a game is really time consuming and challenging, instead of looking for shortcuts you should consider a long term solution. either finding someone to work with or start learning it yourself

[prime willow]

^

[restive eagle]

you can always try posting in #volunteer-projects , maybe there is someone who is still learning and would like to contribute for their portfolio

[worn copper]

I Can make complete Character from Scratch but just to save time . ready options are the good option for me now.

[restive eagle]

then i would recommend making 1 model with bunch of morphs that you could create a lot of variations out of it. sure it will take time, but will save tons in the future

in any way you either pay with money or your time, both are very valuable

[runic fern]

Hi guys .. Download Image node not working after package .. it fails

Why

[strong slate]

Hello people! What’re some of the best learning resources for UE out there? I’ve picked up some udemy classes during a recent sale but I’m wondering what else is out there

[drowsy snow]

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

Instead of losing money from Udemy, take the official Unreal Online Learning courses instead, which is absolutely free.

[plush yew]

im making an open source garrysmod clone and im making it open source roality free and completely free to play so it can be quickly expanded and improved upon. I would like someone interested in working with characters and world design, from simple concept to actual implementation. If interested please feel free to dm me and ask any questions. Didnt post this in jobs channel because this isnt a job, just looking to collab with people who are passionate about sandbox games

[drowsy snow]

Still belongs to #volunteer-projects

[plush yew]

close but not really a gig

[drowsy snow]

It's still a gig offer, in the end.

[plush yew]

we disagree on what kind of activity it is, your opinion dude lol

feel free to it no bother in trying to argue lol

[drowsy snow]

<@&213101288538374145> Does non-profit collaboration counts towards #volunteer-projects ?

[weary basalt]

Are people being paid for their work?

[plush yew]

lmao

[snow crown]

yeah, that would go in #volunteer-projects i think

#volunteer-projects is for collabs too

i am porting a different source mod to UE, and if I were recruiting, it would go in #volunteer-projects

[plush yew]

its also for the discussion of

thats why i put it in general lol for people not interested in collaborating

either way why bother trying to argue where it belongs? silly when its in a general discussion

[drowsy snow]

I had discussions with someone on #freelance-jobs even though I don't take it due to scheduling constraints.

[tribal oak]

Small question: If you add widgets inside a parent widget at runtime, will this increase the number of draw calls?

[inland flicker]

There is very little on udemy in the way of UE that isn't attainable for free in some capacity elsewhere tbh

[strong slate]

I’ll definitely take a closer look at that! I thought I had browsed through it already and it seemed to me there was a lack of ... depth? I guess but I’ll give it another go there

[strong slate]

Yeah, I mean I’ve watched some game dev academy stuff on YouTube that goes through a lot of the basics but I guess I’m wondering what, if anything, I’m missing by going through the free avenues

[inland flicker]

The free stuff is a bit less focused but if you know what to rifle through and what you're generally trying to learn on a case by case basis you'll be fine

I strongly recommend having someone walk you through source control before you get too involved, though. I personally am considering ditching gamedev entirely due to it

[strong slate]

True. I’m just starting out really so it’s hard to pick specific points of focus rn but , I’m extremely excited to learn

[strong slate]

Like the problems with source control in game development?

[inland flicker]

I mean the notion of what it is and how to use it between team members.

It is total garbage but apparently necessary for collaboration according to some. Just my opinion, it would make a suicidal person pull the trigger with no leftover doubts. 🤷 depends on if you're wanting to go at this solo or not I guess

[merry bison]

After using UE for a month I've gotten to the point that I realize I lack understanding of how to communicate between Game Modes, Levels, BP's, BP Widgets etc. I need to have a communication between these, access their functions, variables and so on. Are there docs, tutorials, courses that touches the subject specifically?

[barren pasture]

Hi, is there a way to enable hidden shadows for groom components in ue?

[strong slate]

Lmao

[woven elk]

Question: After I import the geo(fbx/obj) or texture into unreal. If I update the those do I need to reimport them into unreal? If not then do I need to put those fbx and texture files in the unreal project folder?

I m thinking about the folder stucture of unreal project with my maya project

[merry bison]

Question, from a newbie point of view. If I invite someone to do a job in my project and give him full access to my repository - what protects me from him stealing my project?

[snow crown]

licensing

this is why it's so important to have agreements

[merry bison]

I see.

[steady bramble]

How can I handle blocking the camera in VR? Is there any good way to do it?

[upbeat tendon]

i am experimenting with landscape material layers, i used a no weight blend and the results seem pretty good, i don't really understand the difference between no weight-blend and weighted

[young mirage]

Hi , I often see property categories from different component showing up into other compoent's properties in the blueprint editor, anyone else experienced that before?

like some of health stuff from health component would show up even if I click on the charactermovement component in the BP in the editor

[gilded lichen]

How would I make a selection box? similar to the windows 10 selection box. I would like it detect blueprints underneath it. Could I just do this in a widget? as that is what I'll like.I saw this video: https://youtu.be/67N5O2BhZ_M, but whereas he has it in the world, I would like it on the UI

[plush yew]

how do you export just the body from a skeleton mesh then reimport just the body

the mesh is the skeletal arms, but how do i change the animation of the mesh? (i already have one in my files)

i want this animation

ping on help please

[willow perch]

look into blend spaces and animation blueprints

^^

[drowsy snow]

Simply export the skeletal mesh, and bring it back once you're done.
Make sure that the skeleton hierarchy stays consistent though.

[plush yew]

i exported as fbx, but upon reimport the materials get all messed up

i selected the mesh then the rig before exporting in blender

so i dunno why this would happen

[drowsy snow]

Ah yes. Another blender specific issue.
Try reprocess the FBX file with Autodesk FBX Converter 2013 (it's free and been sat in limbo, so don't worry)

Blender can't read some data that UE4's FBX exporter produces

[plush yew]

i ended up just using tessilation lol

[plush yew]

i have an animation blueprint, but where can i put it in the character person?

[sharp crest]

Can someone edit some texture mapping for me please? I want some parts of the model to stretch the texture more. It's just for small parts of 4 small models pls. DM me pls @sharp crest. I will pay $5
(this should be done in an external program like Blender or whatever, not UE4)

[granite spire]

@sharp crest Ask in paid gigs

@plush yew What do you mean by this?

[sharp crest]

yea Ig. was too lazy to post there lol

[granite spire]

@plush yewTessellation is expensive, use with caution

[plush yew]

look @granite spire

[plush yew]

i have a blueprint animation

and i want to set that to the character

[granite spire]

well you have to rightclick and goto target or retaget

[plush yew]

right click on what?

[granite spire]

are you talking about an animation blueprint?

[plush yew]

yes

i have a mesh

[granite spire]

alright then this is what you want

I recommend looking up a re-targeting video from youtube

[plush yew]

thank you

[granite spire]

no worries

@gilded lichen You have a few different options, the 2D selection and 3D selection, 3D selection is kind of cool, I couldn't really get it feeling the way I wanted though because of hills and what not

@sharp crest Why don't you use UV coords and stretch them in UE4?

[sharp crest]

won't work for what I need

[granite spire]

mmm cause editing UV maps if I remember rightly, is a nightmare because texture stretching

[granite spire]

Alright bois and girls, gonna make the birds poop

wonder if I made this multiplayer, have 1 person as the farmer, but then other players to eat his crops

[real gust]

hi everybody, guys i have weird thing in UE4
i just updated from 4.26.0 to 4.26.2 and... 5 minutes later my PC started to make strange noise.. i opened task manager and... GPU on 75 degrees lol? Just in standalone game?

When on 4.26.0 it was maximum 48-49 degrees?
Who can help with that, didn't find any info on net...

already tried, zero effect...

but lol, on previous version of game engine * temperature was much lower, thats the point

will try it right now, thanks

[willow perch]

could also be a driver issue

[plush yew]

removing tesselation is by far the dumbest decision made with ue5, you cannot use nanite on skeletal meshes which means none of your characters can have nanite. The worst part is there is no workaround, absolutely 0 ways to smooth the mesh of an actor in ue5 currently

hope they fix this soon, i consider it a bug if anything

[wispy oriole]

Anyone experienced this with the landmass material only brush, whereby no settings alter it's appearance. I've had it a few times and can't repo/fix it

well they will provide a solution

[plush yew]

is there a way to reimport asset material without materials and bones just the body mesh

[real gust]

mine is 3070... 😄

i just not into what happens on high temperatures and have some worries about other components of the pc ehh

okay, got it, thanks :DDD

[urban salmon]

Is unreal engine 4 2.5d?

[plush yew]

but does it support 1d?

[urban salmon]

somone said that on the gzdoom server and oh

[plush yew]

xD

[urban salmon]

I got banned from zdoom server idk why that happened

unreal engine 4 supports both 2d and 3d games

[nocturne bough]

Can we use VariantManager in games?
I always see it in use with Automotive projects, it looks useful for games too.

[upbeat tendon]

i am probably going to get laughed at for this question, but should i be using dx12 rather than dx11 these days? (honestly i don't know what dx12 gives me over 11)

[wet brook]

if you don't use any of it's features, instability mostly

[drowsy snow]

DX11 is fine, and more stable than DX12.
Unless you're making heavy use of DX12 Raytracing.

[wet brook]

epic doesn't really leverage Dx12 much expect for RT

[upbeat tendon]

dx12 is unstable?

[drowsy snow]

DX12 is more prone to crashes than DX11.

[upbeat tendon]

not sure what more stable means

[wet brook]

it's not that unstable but it's less stable than dx11

[upbeat tendon]

huh

dx12 has been out years and it is known to crash, damn

i thought maybe it was the reason i am getting weird flickering when trying to use RVT

[drowsy snow]

From my experience, for example, some of my materials, for whatever reason, will instantly crash the engine in DX12, but not in DX11.

RVT works fine in DX11, BTW

[plush yew]

why does unreal engine 5 have no smoothing options for character meshes, the difference between ue4 and ue5 is making my game look like a ps2 game lol

[strong slate]

@ashen frost https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZftEVDuCE

This was good to watch too

[ashen frost]

thanks will check out

[willow perch]

Anyone encountered this before? This is the dialog window to create a new blueprint

It exceeds the width of my monitor

welp, fixed by removing these three folders

[plush yew]

there is too much layres to my material and couldnt redo the skin weights for physics for ue5, is there not a way to smooth meshes at all

there has to be an option in ue5 to apply a smoothing modifier of somekind

[versed lion]

So i have widget that will eventually host a server and let the client join, Now when ever the client loads the IP it loads the server and its showing this:

This (seen below)

[stuck linden]

What do u guys think is the easiest way to spawn a projectile that moves in the air as i move the camera

[versed lion]

@stuck linden Like superhot kinda projectile?

[stuck linden]

i dont know whats a superhot projectile but its like this that i want it to be @versed lion

[versed lion]

Oh you meant something like this? sorta?

And i thought you meant superhot projectile by the game super hot which moves the projectile as you move in the game

[drowsy snow]

Superhot mechanics would be much simpler to implement, as it's manipulating the Global Time Dilation when velocity is >= 1.0

[untold girder]

The projectile he's showing isn't superhot. For that ability in particular, the player can click to send one forward or hold to send one forward which will follow the mouse for a few seconds as well, changing directions as it goes, unaffected by player movement

[stuck linden]

sorta ye as i move the mouse the projectile moves with me

[tame shore]

Problem with player controlled AI Character.
I need that AI Player Character (which is controlled by transferring the location of mouse click to AI Move To) do not be able to rotate in his movement direction, while he sees the enemy.
For this I set disable Orient Rotation To Movement parameter in CharMovementComp when he see enemy, and enable when he lost him.

But, when I giving the order to move in opposite direction (more than PeripheralVisionHalfAngleDegrees value) AI Perception node Updated and set See Enemy variable to false, and along with this, Orient Rotation to Movement turn on, although he should still be able to see the enemy, since directional rotation is disabled.
I guess it's because AIPerception apply PeripheralVisionHalfAngleDegrees value relative to the movement direction, but not sure about it. In any cause, I don't know how to fix it, so I ask for help from more advanced developers.

[untold girder]

I think you'd just listen to InputAxis Turn and LookUp, right?

[tame shore]

When unit is moving - AIPerception directs it's vision borders in same direction as movement vector

But when unit stops - AIPerception sets same rotation to vision borders as unit's capsule has.

[stuck linden]

where could i put the values tho?

[untold girder]

That's a good one 👀

[stuck linden]

yea i dont have a clue how to do this

[supple viper]

Hi, I'm new to unreal and want to import a model and this part of the model need to be transparent with spec, roughness and normal maps but the only lighting modes that allow these maps to be used make that part white... Does anyone know how I can fix this?

how it's supposed to look like:

[stuck linden]

nvm it was the easiest thing ever

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried Masked blend mode?
Translucent materials in general can't have PBR attributes.

[supple viper]

Not yet, I'll do so right now

[idle dragon]

Yo, how do I get the applied collision to better fit the mesh? Can I alter it manually?

By better fit I mean make it thinner

[supple viper]

Masked fixed it, thank you!

[plush yew]

Weird silly question

If I can't retarget an animation without my animation breaking

Will retargetting the blendspace with those animations still break?

I retargetted the animabp with no issue it seemed o.o

[idle dragon]

@plush yewThanks. Another question, is it possible to save the collision box as a seperate mesh?

The problem I'm running into is when I set hidden on the static mesh, the collision remains

Gotcha

[prime willow]

if i want to setup a control rig setup

should i make blendspaces and such via control rig

or continue currently with normal blendspace stuff

and slap on control rig o-o

[idle dragon]

@plush yewThe problem is the scene component object ref isn't compatible with the collision BP

Is there a workaround to this?

[slender jolt]

Ok, this is maybe not the place to ask, but I have an idea for a system I was working on (I was busy with some other stuff so I stopped), and I just came back to it, and I just want to know how viable it is. Basically, you divide a normal map into invisible hexagonal chunks, and have creatures and enemies slowly algorithmically settle and fight for those zones. Each type of creature would be tied to a "nest" node, and outer hexagons not entirely surrounded by zones owned by said node would gain or lose territory based on things like the amount of higher and lower tiered creatures bordering them and their existing population

They wouldn't have to actually fight for it, enemies would just have a "starve" chance that would cull them based on the amount of food they have available

which would simplify things

[midnight ferry]

@slender jolt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMkADpvO4w likely worth watching based on your post

[slender jolt]

Oh I think I already watched this video, yea something similar to this

but viable in an actual game

Is it too many calculations?

to be running in the background

since it happens slowly I don't think it is

[midnight ferry]

I'd say most anything is viable in terms of making it function

just a limit of your resources and creativity on setting it up I guess

[slender jolt]

There's a lot of little details that are hard to figure out, but I'm working on it

basically I want the creatures to eventually find an "equilibrium", that could be affected by the player

like killing too many wolves, or chopping too many trees

[cinder iron]

Hello guys a friend of mine is color-blind and we are having a tricky time with the EQS system, is there any way we could change the visualisation colors of the debug balls?

[slender jolt]

I think I know what you're talking about but these videos are all about real time simulation with entities, which is a lot more demanding and less defined

for entities all you have to do is have them walk around, and do certain things based on a pattern of behaviour

to actually control where enemies can and cannot spawn based on variables sourced from those same enemies

sounds a lot more difficult

[vagrant hornet]

is there a way to automatically make LODs

or do you have to do everything yourself

[neon bough]

rename them back to their original? or make symbolic links to them with their old name

[idle dragon]

@plush yewYeah I tried the wall too but same problem, unfortunatley.

Oh wait, got it.

Cheers <3

[prime willow]

so what do i do if my skeleton randomly cant be saved and when i restart the editor its completely fine ;-;

i feel like this can cause issues down the line during packaging and development

[obsidian nimbus]

do you have the editor open 2 times by any chance?

just stop using the launcher

its even better than fixing it 😛

here be dragons

[prime willow]

is it better to setup Ik bones via control rig for meshes with the practical same skeleton

or do it via individual skeletons i have

[versed burrow]

.

[vagrant hornet]

is there a speed tree example library

[onyx mango]

I cant compile a C++ module even though I pointed out the location (DatasmithSceneActor.h). Still says it cant find it?

[split sun]

! stream

[onyx mango]

so after adding it a new error show:
Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'DatasmithSceneActor.generated.h': No such file or directory

[split sun]

!stram

[onyx mango]

Isnt this to be generated?

[split sun]

!stream

[old nimbus]

Yeah these vedios are nice

Co-incidentally, I found out about these vedios earlier today only

[onyx mango]

@plush yew ok where is this located?

Hmmm something is generally wrong. Cant find #include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h" either...

[split sun]

!stream

Guys Do You Know How To Shere My Screen ?

[onyx mango]

@plush yew found it but I dont know what to add really. Datasmith is a plugin

Anyway now its complaingn about the DatasmithSceneActor.generated.h

I thought that was generated on the fly?

Yeah googling UE issues this specific has taken the best of me. I spent too many hours on this already.

Also have #include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h" but it still complains about UGameplayStatistics

[plush yew]

Hi

I have a question

So I use ue4 or ue5

[worldly rose]

UE4, unless you have a very good reason to use UE5.

[plush yew]

Why is that

[prime willow]

would level destruction, megascan assets and massive cities and npc's be a good reason to cross over

or should that be waited upon for further developmental updates to unreal if youre in the early stages of game development

[worldly rose]

UE 5 is still Early Access, which means not ready for production use.

[split sun]

@drowsy snow

[prime willow]

okie that seems to line up with everyone elses answers

also i have a silly question if you dont mind

[onyx mango]

thanks @plush yew I did add it. Still have the generated issue and UGameplayStatistics tho 😛

[prime willow]

can you create a control rig that covers multiple skeleton rigs that use the same skeleton however each race/gender will have different animations

even though the control rig is for each all 4 races and their gendered differences?

[onyx mango]

@plush yew jesus christ...

[prime willow]

;-;

[onyx mango]

thanks @plush yew I think the module in build.cs and the typo was it

now it started with the generated stuff again... lol what is going on with the build tools

ah OK so that shows if you have other errors

makes sense

[prime willow]

How do i make it so the camera doesnt affect the third person actor's movement and or body rotation

[rigid bridge]

does anyone know where to get animated and rigged guns

for ue4

[onyx mango]

Trying to GetAllActorsOfClass finding this: class ADatasmithSceneActor : public AActor but it says ADataSmithSceneActor is not a type name?

So its an extension of AActor which works fine. Also works fine in BP. But I need to do this one thing in C++. What am I missing?

[onyx mango]

I ended up referencing it through BP

parts of UE makes me wonder

[prime willow]

@plush yew can you have a control rig

that is in charge of other control rigs

[tired quest]

Hey ! Does someone knows why my character won't spawns where i want ?

[prime willow]

its ok ;O;

im trying to find out if you can stack control rigs

where you have a control rig for the meshes

and minor control rigs that are parented to the main control rig o-o

[tired quest]

I spawn outside

[neon grove]

why is procedural mesh component not producing overlaps?

[hot anchor]

Good work? ^

[merry bison]

Can also be applied to UE

[hot anchor]

Lmao one sec

[rigid bridge]

lmao