ue4-general

[storm venture]

They do. The docs aren't that reliable. Like you said, spawned actors (during runtime) will run construction script, and also, any streamed level that streams in, or is already loaded and is simply set to visible, will also run the construction script on the actors within it, all during runtime.

Regardless, the thing i mentioned earlier is a bug no matter what, because you get two entirely different behaviours depending on if you save the level manually or if you save it with the popup prompt.

[covert summit]

I just tested this as well, and the construction script was not run for an actor streamed in via streaming volume

[storm venture]

Are you using level instances?

[covert summit]

No

[storm venture]

I should have specified those, I haven't tested with old school streaming

[covert summit]

just sublevels and streaming

So this is in UE5?

[storm venture]

Yeah, and UE4

[covert summit]

or no i see this guy eh https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/LevelStreaming/LoadLevelInstance_byName/

OK well for that it makes sense

[storm venture]

I'll show you the problem in a quick video

[covert summit]

Think of it like level spawning

Of course all the actors in it need Construction Script run, they are effectively spawned into the world -- imagine that you have a construciton script that checks where the ground is beneath it and moves the actor there

it wouldnt know if there would be ground when loaded as a level instance

level instancing is of course intended to load multiple instances of a level in at the same time

i myself dont need that-- i have seen this feature but wondered where id use it. Curious what use case you are using it for?

[storm venture]

For using the level instances? I sometimes need to spawn levels in new locations

But here, check this out

This is normal behaviour:

This is broken behaviour:

Only difference is that I allow the save prompt to save for me

[civic mauve]

The default FPS character has its character mesh attached to the FPS camera, but why would you ever want that?

[covert summit]

the video is helpful, yeah i guess its a bug, BBB's ctor script has run already and should be fine, no need to run it again

why is this a problem may i ask? construction script will run when anything changes during editor time so you should write it to be idempotent and tolerant to being rerun

i get that they are running during level instance streaming--- but if you just do "static prep" in ctor script and "runtime prep" in beginplay it shouldnt be an issue id think

[sick parcel]

when you launch server and client, their windows size and positions reset to a default one, is there a way to make EU to remember how they were positioned and resized from last run?

[covert summit]

yeah that has to be an import settings thing

hmmm i do not see anything about brushes in import settings actually

[storm venture]

Yeah it's a weird bug. I had a bunch of logic on the construction script to automate stuff for the project I'm working on, stuff that involves line traces, unique id generation, referencing other actors, etc. It was all super convenient until i started opening other levels and the actors in previous levels began to freak out during this bug

[covert summit]

because in first person view youd want the mesh to move if the camera moves- the mesh being the arms and potentially legs of the camera

[storm venture]

I'm in the process of moving the construction script logic onto editor-exposed events, so i can just manually click my own pseudo-construction-script

[covert summit]

what sort of things do the construction scripts do in your case?

can you make a video maybe?

confused replies multiple times im on a roll

can you make a video maybe?

im still looking at this ctor script stuff

if, in fact object references are broken when the ctor script runs, it could be a pretty big deal tbh

i was able to repeat it in 4.26 though it behaved a little differently

end result was the actor from the previous load continuing to be ctor'ed on every recompile while in the second level

it could actually be a memory leak, though unreal's garbage collector might be papering over it

[dreamy lake]

I am using a Scene Capture 2D component - And set it to whitelist, but - for some reason, its rendering about 3 of my actors, which are not being put into that list.. everything else, it doesn't care about.. Any ideas ?

[covert summit]

I do know that my initial understanding that it would rerun across all levels is totally wrong, for my project that would have been thousands of print messages on each compile. it's definitely only stuff that is loaded, which I think would indicate that if you want to have it reapplied on a different level you'd need to load that level first and hit recompile, and so on for all levels but not sure, needs more testing

[rare tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/creepy-tongue-weird-funny-gif-13480166

[storm venture]

my most complex use case is hard to explain, but i have UObjects that store data, they get auto constructed for some actors during the construction script, and those UObjects are created stored on an specific actor in the persistent level. it's all essentially a way to conveniently add "storage" objects that correspond to some of my actors so that i can keep track of data regardless of whether the levels that the actors are in are loaded or not. there's more to it, but that's the barebones, lol. but yeah, having that construction script run out of the level ends of breaking the logic that handles all that.

[boreal moon]

Hey! Are there any side effects of using shared wrap option for landscape materials? I am trying to blend 4 materials into one.

[storm venture]

basically, i drag an actor into the level, and i have my special "persistent" actor immediately log that new actor and keep track of it

[grave nebula]

@boreal moonno

[storm venture]

now i just have to have a button in between dragging it into the level and having the log get created

[boreal moon]

ty

[zinc shore]

how do you delete a c++ class from a project like i opend their location in my file-manager and reloaded my project but the classes are still in my content browser

[frosty wedge]

Do I need like special permission to join the Unreal Hangout? or is it open to whomever? I've been struggling to get help on a few issues and I guess am trying to learn in person/ talk to people in person without spamming the wrong channels or blowing up any channel for that matter lol.

okay perfect! Yeah I don't need to stream I'd just like to watch and learn.. That said.. are you aware of people in here specifically using UE for cinematics or film stuff? I'm not using it for games at this time

All good, thank you for the info !!

[vocal sorrel]

Hey everyone. How do I attach a post process volume to a camera so I can start getting depth of field results?

[drowsy snow]

The camera itself already have post process settings.

[plush yew]

I am not able to see size map and reference viewer any idea about it

[vocal sorrel]

Oh okay. I'm actually trying to get my scene to be infared/thermal vision and was wondering if a post process volume could help me with that? @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Well, you can apply the colour map or the blendables directly to the camera's post FX settings. That way only that camera have that effect and don't effect other nearby cameras.

The post FX settings in camera actors are exactly the same as post FX volume provides.

[vocal sorrel]

Okay, so I would have to change the settings on my camera itself to start seeing those types of changes? That's fine because I just need a short video of my scene being in infrared.

Thanks for the help! Im going to give that a go @drowsy snow

[lucid egret]

I broke my .uproject association, how do I fix this?

[vocal sorrel]

@drowsy snow When I change my post process settings of my camera I dont actually getting any changes. Do I need to enable something first?

[next swift]

TLDR: If anyone wants to hang in a discord call and answer newbie questions that would be awesome. Hey y'all! I've been futzing about ue4 & ue5 for a few months on and off. I'm learning but it's slow and frustrating.
Also been playing around with voxel plugin pro.
I'm trying to learn c++ again since I had exactly 1 class in high school, but so far online tutorials have been hit or miss. Online courses have been decent but it feels like they teach just the basics, then just intermediate, then advanced. They don't seem to teach how you connect the basics up the chain to the finished product.
So if anyone is just chilling like me cuz my friends arent on, and you don't my answering newbie questions I'd love to see whatever you're working on and ask some questions!

[plush rivet]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but my hard drive just failed and all I have is a cooked version of my database that I was using, is there any way to get the information back?

[acoustic flower]

This is a stupid question, but is there a way to get the Unreal to stop compiling shaders all the time? I'm working in landscape and its non stop compiling .

[covert summit]

aww man im sorry to hear that. I don't think there's any way to restore the source assets from a cooked build :-(

[covert summit]

No, the landscape components each have a set of shaders based on how many paint materials you are using within that component. Unfortunately it has to do this when you paint a new type of land into that component, as well as if you remove all paint of a certain type from that component

that being said on a good system it usually only takes a 5-20 seconds to update shaders for typical paint operations

if you customized your landscape's component settings then you might have made a lot of very small components, which has better granularity but is less performant and would cause shaders to compile more often

but if you didn't customize them, then you are at a good balance between granularity and perf so you just have to deal with it

[quick shell]

what are the limitations or the reason you say no?

[grim ore]

@quick shell some things are not exposed to BP, so you may need to use C++ to expose them. Some things work better in C++, large maths for example or looping stuff. You can do some general nice stuff in C++ and expose it to BP. etc. etc.

[quick shell]

expose?

[grim ore]

make function in C++, let Blueprints use it. All existing Blueprint Nodes are handled this way

[gusty stag]

speaking of blueprints, I have a real dumb question. So I'm using Live Coding (the ctrl alt f11) in ue4. but i'm confused about actor event graph editing. if I edit an actor blueprint, it says it needs recompile, i know im not supposed to use the compile button anymore. yet ctrl alt f11 doesnt update the compile button in that actor... is this ok?

oh ok, just not the world-editor compile button?

[obsidian nimbus]

you cant drag c++ classes into a level, so u allways need to use some bp 😛

[zinc shore]

I have a plug-in that add a custom character movement to the character class but I can only get the plug-in to work on windows and on Linux it acts like the plug-in docent exist why is that

[grim ore]

linux may not be a whitelisted platform

^^

[obsidian nimbus]

and if you use 100% bp you are using other people c++ 😛

[zinc shore]

I added it and then it wouldn’t even show up

[grim ore]

is it a compiled plugin or source?

[zinc shore]

Like when it was white listed as win64 it would show up but once I add Linux UE stops even showing it

[gusty stag]

thanks @plush yew

[zinc shore]

I got it from the market place and updated it to a newer version of UE

[grim ore]

welp does it have supposed for linux? I dont know if a launcher built plug in can work in linux

[zinc shore]

It’s just shows windows

But I’ve gotten plug-ins in the past to work by adding them to white list

[grim ore]

maybe the others included support or source

[covert summit]

yeah if its got source and its not using windows specific APIs or something it should work

[zinc shore]

I can access the source and I did rebuild it with a project to a newer version of UE

I didn’t seem to se any platforms specific code cuz all it is is a custom character movement component

[meager stag]

Anyone using plastic scm here? The saved folder seems impossible to ignore, I keep getting logs in changesets.

[grim ore]

welp if the plugin is in the folder, the source is there, linux is whitelisted, and you build the project it should find the plugin and build it

[drowsy snow]

#source-control

[meager stag]

Oh, thanks

[vocal copper]

Hey all 🙂 I'd appreciate an advice 🙂 I have a couple BP objects with widgets on level and I have to grab player's camera location, to adjust widgets facing direction. But if I try to get camera location from the camera manager of player controller on BeginPlay, it seems it's not initialized yet and returns zero location. It seems, objects on level get initialized earlier than player's camera.. Is there some sort of event I can bind my widgets rotation reset to? Or maybe there is a better and well known way to resolve such case? Thanks in advance 🙂 plx, tag on reply

witchcraft... Thanks 😄

yes, it's tps, so should suit me 🙂

[nova spruce]

help

nothing is casting shadows...

I put in a static mesh

2 point lights. the objects have light/dark sides but dont cast shadows on the floor/walls

[drowsy snow]

Are you using dynamic lights, and Shadow Quality set to Low?
Dynamic shadows practically non-existent in Low.

[quasi quest]

Hi guys, how can I save screen shots of each frame while maintaining high performance? Thanks

[wary wave]

you can't.

[jaunty cedar]

Looking to use an SQLite database in my game for world, npc and item information. UE4 has 2 plugins built in - SQLite and SQLite Support - and both have no description or other information or documentation. What do each of these do, why are they separate, and are there any resources on them? might i just be better off implementing support myself, or are these plugins decent?

[drowsy snow]

What's the point of saving screenshot every single frame anyway?

[quasi quest]

I need to generate a dataset (for deep learning), blender is too slow, I was thinking to speed it up with unreal

[covert summit]

ahhhh

[drowsy snow]

Dataset for what? Deep learning?

[covert summit]

well then it probably doesnt matter the frame rate

[quasi quest]

Yeah

[covert summit]

only have to sit through it once

then youve got your PNGs to feed the hungry AIs

[amber kayak]

Hello everyone, have a bit of a noob question., researched online but still not much answers. as I am getting the same result. But how do you version up a project on Unreal? everytime I do and work on something.. then go back to a previous version, I get the updated result. I literally version up the entire project, I was doing it only with the .uproject file too, but same result.

[covert summit]

but hey

if your AI starts identifying everything as Manny

dont blame unreal 😛

[jaunty cedar]

yeah i think "high performance" in this context means "doesn't take 10 goddamn hours to render a frame like blender" not realtime game performance

[quasi quest]

the scene is very simple, blender reaches 10-20 image for second

[drowsy snow]

If you want to, you could render image sequence out of a Sequencer.

[covert summit]

well you could save them uncompressed, as BMPs to skip the PNG encoding

more disk space, but it would crank through faster

[drowsy snow]

Though just so you know that Sequencer is only editable in Editor (at least without source code modification, but that's another topic)

[covert summit]

yeah actually sequencer could be a good way, you could use editor scripting to build a huge sequencer timeline of all the samples etc

[quasi quest]

thank you very much, now I will look at how this "Sequencer" works

[covert summit]

look im just glad the reason wasnt something like "i want a live replay" or something. best of luck

[quasi quest]

ahah

[drowsy snow]

If you want even faster render (but with a bit of motion quality setbacks), you can use Temporal Upsampling and set the render resolution < 100%.

[nova spruce]

yeah, I found out it was due to baked lighting and the shadow distance being so low I couldnt see the shadows

thank you 🙂

[quasi quest]

Great advice, the images must be 200x200 anyway

[hidden sparrow]

How do I udpate Scene Capture2D manually with the option Capture every frame Disabled?

[drowsy snow]

Though 200x200 is quite small, I'm sure Blender Eevee could render stuff in that resolution in no time

[quasi quest]

Yeah i render with eevee, but some complex meshes reduce rendering to 1 image per second

[covert summit]

is hotdog or no hotdog

sounds like these are built in ones

but still probably not going to be updated (bazinga)

ill go out on a limb and say i bet these two arent user facing anyway

[drowsy snow]

Maybe even that new spanking Cycles X

[quasi quest]

Yes, 0 interaction. Thanks!

[covert summit]

oh yeah here they are

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

[covert summit]

has FSQLiteDatabase-- its a wrapper around SQLite. No blueprint or other unreal specific stuff afaict, yeah just use SQLite directly

[jaunty cedar]

it seems like they have to be used in conjunction, no?

[covert summit]

i guess its nice to not have to pull in your own sqlite and manage it as part of your Solution

[quasi quest]

Forgive me, I don't know unreal and with FScreenshotRequest I had important slowdowns

[covert summit]

assuming whatever version they bundle with it is sufficient

[hidden sparrow]

Thanks!

[covert summit]

well, if adding extra libraries to your UE project solution is intimidating, i cant say this a bad way to get sqlite added to your game, as you just need to add a dependency to its modules, include the files and use it like any other C++ only class in unreal

[jaunty cedar]

I don't need anything fancy, just using it to store information about the game world and the various items, weapons, npcs within it

[covert summit]

might be extra nice if it has support for unreal filesystem abstraction

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

i'm basically just using it in place of what some games might just use a really large save file for in essence, just for keeping track of the state of every object in the world that has specific info that needs to persist, like dropped weapons and open world NPCs (which are randomly generated at the start of each save)

[worthy flame]

How is the node called that you can name types and then later select them in actor or other BP's. The dropdown menu?

[covert summit]

so sqlite isnt going to be smaller on disk than just persisting all of that using USaveGame. I also can't say it will be faster. But it would add SQL querying on top of it and if thats something useful to you then by all means

[covert summit]

totally stabbing in the dark here, do you mean Enums

[peak oxide]

I'm trying to clean up my project, I have a 'Failed to load' message in the Message Log.
How could I rectify this?
Failed to load /Game/icon/icon_mesh.icon_mesh Referenced by Plane.
I'm not using Plane, I don't think I added it.

[worthy flame]

yes, omg whats the name

[covert summit]

is it cause the file's gone?

[covert summit]

the name of what, Enums is the name of Enums

[worthy flame]

no the node thing

[jaunty cedar]

It won't be smaller and probably not faster, but SQL querying will be useful for what i'm doing and it's also just the method i'm used to for managing data like this, not to mention the one that makes the most sense

[drowsy snow]

Switch?

[jaunty cedar]

have to also deal with many to one/many to many relations etc

[covert summit]

yeah thats a good reason to use sql then haha

[jaunty cedar]

so rdbms is the way to go logically

[drowsy snow]

USaveGame makes more sense for games, just saying.

[worthy flame]

yes ty

[peak oxide]

Can I find some reference to it that I can delete? I don't think I'm using it.
Or should I find the icon_mesh somewhere...?

[jaunty cedar]

not even remotely for my use case, read above, need to deal with all sorts of relations etc that make an rdbms the most sensible method, there is no "Makes more sense for games" that applies to all games

[covert summit]

one 🍰 for you for correctly deciphering super vague question

[jaunty cedar]

how tf did you even decode that he was talking about a switch, he just described enums and nothing else

[covert summit]

playing devils advocate here, many-to-many relationships can just be handled as maps from IDs to objects, and ID references in other objects

[covert summit]

dude it is an art you learn around here

it is not easy

[jaunty cedar]

they can, but the most sensible thing for me as the programmer is to handle it this way, esp. with the wide variety of relationships and mappings that are doable with engine built in types and standard maps etc but make the most sense from a logic perspective to do with a database esp while handling the sheer amount of data i'm working with

[static wharf]

Welp, see you in a few hours...

[covert summit]

if you end up making a blueprint ORM id love to see it

[drowsy snow]

I won't save NPCs and dropped weapon in open world. My save scenario would be just quest progressions, player stats, position/safehouse, and time of day info.

Forgetting web stuff on purpose didn't help me either :3

[covert summit]

yep, time to catch up on inside unreal (on your phone, because your computer does not have enough VRAM left over)

[drowsy snow]

Or CPU load for that matter

[static wharf]

Nvm you mean vram

I am fine on GPU VRAM useage

Its using like nothing

[covert summit]

i mean if you are just saving the inventory, stats and locations of those characters it might not be so bad, i guess it depends on the size of the world overall

[covert summit]

is that a 3080ti over there?

[static wharf]

RTX 3060 actually

[drowsy snow]

Compiling shaders involves CPU more than GPU anyway

[covert summit]

oh really

didnt realize 3060 had 12GB of VRAM

huh, yeah it does

[static wharf]

The 3060 ti actually has less lol, but its GDDR6, not GDDR5 like the RTX 3060

[covert summit]

oh yeah i see its because of gddr6x on the 3080 which has 10

[static wharf]

Also helps that I got a new CPU a few days ago, this is way better then my 6700k

[jaunty cedar]

i find my vram is fine on the 1080 i have, but compiling even a few shaders used to hammer my i5 6500 cpu into oblivion and could zap away almost my entire fucking work day whenever someone pushed new art, but since i upgraded to a ryzen 5800x it's like, blazing fast

[drowsy snow]

[covert summit]

yes cpu upgrade is next for me, im on i7-7700, no K

the thing sits at 100% for most things, and some stupid high temperature

[static wharf]

And if you were wondering, I am opening the Infilitrator demo in UE5

Gonna try enabling lumen on it and see how well that works

[drowsy snow]

Infiltrator demo aged so well tbh, considering it was made in 2012-2013

[jaunty cedar]

yeah, but it was a little bit bullshit

it was using lighting features that aren't actually in ue4 and were removed

[static wharf]

I wish there was a free system for distributed shader compiling, I have multible servers, and even one with a AMD Epyc 7302P

[drowsy snow]

SVOGI? Are you referring to the Elemental demo?

[static wharf]

But incidibuild is not free for distributed mode

[jaunty cedar]

oh, i might be confusing it and elemental actually

[static wharf]

Yeah, I think you are thinking about elemental

[jaunty cedar]

but yeah, svogi being in demos but cut from the engine was really stupid

[static wharf]

Speaking of elemetal, I know for a fact that doesnt work in UE5

[peak oxide]

I'm looking into the error and I see that indeed, the Plane does not have an icon.

[drowsy snow]

Infiltrator demo didn't use SVOGI. Elemental demo used to be.

[drowsy snow]

It worked in my potato

[static wharf]

It fails to open for me

[jaunty cedar]

crytek was pulling off svogi on the xbox 360, so it feels weird to say the least that epic had to just cut the feature from even being an option due to console performance apparently with the 8th gen consoles

[covert summit]

stick it in a scene, right click it in content browser, capture thumbnail blam

[drowsy snow]

Elemental demo is a little more easier on load than Infiltrator demo.

[peak oxide]

thanks bud.

[drowsy snow]

I don't think SVOGI in CryEngine 3 really works well even in console

[covert summit]

I'm going to start using "blam" at the end of all my answers

[static wharf]

It doesnt, I know someone who worked with it, it always has problems

[jaunty cedar]

afaik it runs fine on all modern consoles, even the switch

[jaunty cedar]

i've worked with it and launched a game in CE5 as well as did some work in 3 a while ago

cryengine itself is a right PITA but the svogi itself tends to work super well

[drowsy snow]

Epic is a little bit idealistic when it comes to this IMO

Even then UE4 proper had LPV, which is an alternate take on Voxel GI. Works like a charm outdoors, but not so much indoors.

[covert summit]

the GI solutions in unreal are a graveyard though. Anyone remember light propagation volumes? I think it might still be there

[static wharf]

I have to hop on a conference call in about 20 minutes, hopefully my system can handle compiling shaders and zoom at the same time

[jaunty cedar]

although CE does do some things right - their C++ api for example, while terribly undocumented and verbose, is way nicer to deal with because it's a lot closer to standard c++ than unreal's, so while it's nowhere near as good of an engine as unreal is for usage, it has some things that IMO epic should take some notes from

[covert summit]

yeahhh I dunno hopefully your not presenting

[jaunty cedar]

that and some of the incredible optimization they have going on nowadays with their rendering although ue5 is ahead of them on that in some areas

[static wharf]

I am not, thankfully

[drowsy snow]

It still exists in 4.26, and I used it

[jaunty cedar]

ce still doesn't even have a UI solution though lol, mf scaleform 3 in 2021

[covert summit]

umg is a pain but it works

[drowsy snow]

Though granted, I also mix it with SSGI. LPV alone isn't reliable.

[covert summit]

never used scaleform but haven't heard good things

[drowsy snow]

Don't get @covert summit started on CEF based UI

[covert summit]

lmao

[jaunty cedar]

it's actually really powerful and nice imo, it's my favourite way to make UIs but it's probably among the worst for implementing them

[covert summit]

just dont get me started on how "using CEF is totally free because your computer already has chrome running"

[jaunty cedar]

the workflow is like
fucked

[covert summit]

omg it used flash !?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleform_GFx

ok i take everything back

please use CEF instead

not to say that Flash's authoring tools werent really nice

[drowsy snow]

To be fair Flash is rather lightweight, though it might be my placebo bias.

[static wharf]

Didnt flash die? Dont tell me this is still supported? This looks like a security risk TBH

[covert summit]

well its discontinued

[drowsy snow]

No, Scaleform has long died already

[covert summit]

but "Autodesk Gameware" ? maybe still has some traces of it left?

[covert summit]

it would actually be a hell of a lot lighter than CEF but at least its modern technology i guess

[drowsy snow]

Didn't help that I hated coding things in web.

[covert summit]

nowadays you can just ask github copilot to make your web app for you so

[static wharf]

You clearly havent done UI in another game engine, also known as Source 2, panorama is a pain

It uses CSS and HTML, but its not standard syntax

[drowsy snow]

Who used Source?

That engine is too 90s than the competition.

[static wharf]

Source 2, its much more modern, but still a little dated to be honest

[drowsy snow]

Did Valve even make proper Source 2 SDK accessible to public?

[static wharf]

No, but I was using the Half Life Alyx Modding tools

And then theres the s&box game coming out soon-ish, its a sequel to Gmod, but in S2, and full toolset

[drowsy snow]

Kinda wished S&Box stayed in UE4

[static wharf]

In a weird way, I kinda agree, but valve did a deal, S&box will basically be the S2 SDK, so valve doesnt have to release the full SDK

[drowsy snow]

And Gmod being synonymous to Source doesn't help either

[static wharf]

S&Box is a LOT diffrent, its more of a engine of its own, it wont even have a sandbox gamemode at launch

Also, all gamemodes are more like indipendent games

No more addons, so no more sharing assets between things

Actually

@drowsy snow Its more like the game "Core" then Gmod

[steep light]

super general question, how do you fix the UI when it gets stuck in this mode?

so far I haven't found a way to "cancel" that mode and the UI box remains locked until I move it somewhere else (which obviously breaks all the UI)

[drowsy snow]

Just drag around a dockable tab.

[high path]

im following this tutorial for a survival game and so far i got 1 part and the 2nd part is identical but it just has a different name, here is the first part

then here is the second

i dont get it

why is there nothing there: fixed*

[brave lark]

is there a way to force a packaged game to run in Unlit mode only and not do any of the lit mode rendering in the background. I frankly don't need any of it

[drowsy snow]

Best bet would be turn all your material into Unlit and disable any post FX.

Debug viewmode aren't available in packaged builds.

Or Godot (a better alternative IMO)

Though admittedly Blueprint is quite powerful for gameplay scripting, it has its own appeal.

[brave lark]

that's not the same as forcing unlit though. I'm already using only unlit materials, but switching between unlit and lit mode in the viewport shows obvious color changes

[covert summit]

i love blueprint too much, id use unreal over anything else because of it

[brave lark]

also, this is for oculus quest. I'm looking at godot later, but it's not quite ready for VR development

[covert summit]

apparently unity has a visual scripting solution built in now, no idea if its good

[drowsy snow]

As I said in the same line:

and disable any post FX

[brave lark]

100% unlit materials with a fake PBR system injected

[drowsy snow]

Spoiler: ||no it doesn't||

[brave lark]

I'm on LDR, there is no post process

[covert summit]

isnt it... what was it called... Bolt or something?

[drowsy snow]

It is indeed Bolt.

[brave lark]

it's kind of third party, but adopted into it. it's not ready too

[covert summit]

yeah it was third party but now its bolted on

omg im sorry i couldnt help it

[brave lark]

ontop of that, fuck unity. I don't get source access. So I can't do anything in vulkan later if I wanted to

[covert summit]

i hear that -- i actually started my gamedev in unity years ago

i know C# extremely well so i thought it was a good fit

[brave lark]

me too, XNA before that lol

[covert summit]

it.

was.

not.

[brave lark]

well cryengine in between, but barely any time in that

[drowsy snow]

Don't get me started with its optimisation and over reliance on asset store

[brave lark]

yup

unreal has it's own set of problems. Right now for me it's dealing with low end platforms like oculus quest

I'm ready to just make a branch and tear out everything I don't need

[covert summit]

i mean others have shipped to oculus quest successfully with ue4 using forward shading etc

[drowsy snow]

Even the most integral tools have to be sourced from Asset Store

Things that Unreal Engine has out of the box.

[covert summit]

btw i do wish unreal had a generalized way to build state machines

i am using logic driver though, and its pretty great

[drowsy snow]

I don't know if Unity still banning that lightmapper plugin or not.

[dapper hatch]

Anyone have got squared shadows lol?

Can you increase it for Lumen lighting?

[covert summit]

hmmm, what kind of machine are you on?

[drowsy snow]

Holy smokes, skydome materials are greedy as heck

[dapper hatch]

Will handle what ever 😄

[covert summit]

so what kind of machine are you on?

well in any case, #lumen

[drowsy snow]

For the record, this is the dynamic sky material that goes along with the engine. But 445 instructions...

[covert summit]

the atmospheric sky one?

if not, i wonder what that puppy takes

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, the Sky Atmo dome. I was expecting more optimisation from something built in...

[covert summit]

its totally gorgeous, something that nice is bound to be heavy

[drowsy snow]

I think this HLSL node is the main offender. Heard that HLSL nodes weren't put into account for cutting down instructions.

Though his tuts are more towards cine rendering and less of a game ready one.

[dapper hatch]

I increased it to 4096 and still the same lol

Nothing changed

[drowsy snow]

That was M_SkyTimeOfDay, doesn't even involve VCs.

[covert summit]

your games are more stylized yeah? does the hyper realistic sky material fit art direction wise?

[abstract veldt]

Does the game have to utilize Vulkan in order to easily work on the 3 computer platforms?

PC, Mac, and Linux?

[arctic drum]

trying to create a playstation 1 kinda vibe so im trying to lower the bitrate of my sound effects, how can I do this? I tried editing the quality level of sounds and changing sample rate quality but those settings seem to now be affecting anything. :\

[thorny patrol]

https://i.gyazo.com/22da7370eec9f41b98bb50e22c0b9af2.png

anyone know why my geometry folder lookin weird

[covert summit]

unreal supports multiple RHIs (Rendering Hardware Interfaces), so this is abstracted from you unless you are doing something where the differences matter

[covert summit]

highly recommend authoring your sound assets the way you want and letting unreal remain in it's regular bitrate / sample frequency. Also, check out #audio tons of very smart audio folks in there who are very active

also, resolution scaling to 1% does wonders to get that PS1 vibe lol

found that out while implementing resolution scaling options UI 🤣

and to be clear, I mean doing your bitrate destruction and other preprocessing out of the engine. But the #audio guys might disagree!

[arctic drum]

yeah already on that, some other guys from a different server were recommending the same

and yeah I have a pixelation shader im using to lower resolutions

[covert summit]

nice

[arctic drum]

was going to try and do the whole polygon warping effect too but that is really hard to implement and I dont want to have to work on this project for another week since i was already trying to finish it in a few days and that was 2 weeks ago

[idle mantle]

Hey sorry noob question, I need the UE 4.26 but I dont have the option here:

https://i.imgur.com/WZ0wlZa.png

https://i.imgur.com/Qaz1yZP.png

I uninstalled the previous one and now I can install the 4.26 😄

[brave lark]

nope

[brave lark]

yes, but I can't bake lights for my needs so I'm building an art pipeline

[covert summit]

scope creep, number one shared interest of unreal-slackers patrons

[pallid talon]

What is the difference between "Play Sound At Location" and "Spawn Sound At Location" ?

Is that pretty much the same thing?

[brave lark]

first one is fire and forget, second one continues to exist until destroyed

[covert summit]

right, especially useful for looping sounds

[brave lark]

easier on the cpu and memory to handle things that way. Keep some sounds always present and start stop at correct times instead of spamming create and destroy functions.

[light thunder]

How can I check if an object is a CHILD of something? I have like 15 cars and I want to be able to fire an overlap event if anyone of them crosses (without making a custom collision channel) - this is something that should work

I don't just want to cast to everything going through this volume, only IF the colliding object is one of these cars

@brave lark

[brave lark]

@light thunder you could do that, I think there's a node to check if an object is a child class of something. Or you could just do "implements interface" or a tag

[sand bay]

Hi, I have a few questions about Control_Rig(ing). Can I ask them here? or should I go to another channel? (SUPER new to unreal engine as a whole btw)

[kindred iris]

Is there a way to transform the progression bar in a widget to look something like this?

wait

[fleet sparrow]

How to check collision of a spawn object at runtime with static mesh

[plush yew]

Trying to replicate this mechanic in side scroller, but stuck at this part of the video (https://youtu.be/MLINAJt3lbs?t=733) because my character won't cling to the wall, someone plz help

[drowsy snow]

Mac uses Metal.

[cyan bronze]

I have a question... I have just created a player character in blender. Is making animations in blender better than in unreal engine 5

[drowsy snow]

It's not the matter of "which is better", but which tool you find comfortable with.

also Control Rig and in editor animating is a thing in UE4.26

[sand bay]

i tried learning Blender’s animation tools like 6 separate times. it was always “what does this do again?” first time i use UE’s control rig? I make a half walk, quarter turn, and pose for the camera all in 5 hours.

got to say i like UE’s animation options

blender Probably has more control though, if you learn it

[cyan bronze]

Ok ty

[paper ginkgo]

so i just got the free NeoCity pack through KitBash3D, i downloaded and then exported it but when i tried to open it in Unreal engine 4.26, the unreal editor loading screen pops up, gets to 75% and then closes with nothing happening after. possible reason for it?

[worthy flame]

can someone tell me what object does it need to be. Its a actor. Whatever I attach there is a warning

the cast always fails and it doesnt give me access to variables

[drowsy snow]

The cast node's class has to have direct inheritance with the object reference you want to cast as.

If your NA Region class doesn't have any direct inheritance with Pawn, it'll fail everytime.

If you want to communicate with other BPs with no direct inheritance, consider using Event Dispatchers or Blueprint Interfaces instead

[worthy flame]

its a HUD function with the actor being a child. is that possible?

[rich spoke]

Uh.. I remove these move/scale/rotate icons by accident. Anyone know how to return 'em?

[kindred iris]

Have you tried resetting the layout?

[thorny patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/angy-bladerunner-blade-runner-2049-gif-16913771

[short prawn]

is there a way to set a blueprint to be readonly in the editor so it can't be modified at all?

[knotty summit]

Hello, I saved my project and closed Unreal Engine, but right after that my computer shut down due for some reason (not relevant), after I open the project again, engine crashed. I also not able to open other projects too, and it looks like something wrong with materials.

If I don't open any maps, it doesn't crash.

What should I do? Do you need more info? (I removed saved and Intermediate folders, didn't help)

[knotty summit]

I guess opening blueprints also cause crashes

[wary wave]

if you don't already have debugging symbols installed, install them

then the callstack might actually give you more information

otherwise you're just going to have to attach a debugger and see what struct it is that's crashing

[knotty summit]

Thanks, if I can't solve the problem today I'll download debugging symbols. I remember it was requiring a big space

[drowsy snow]

It takes up quite a lot, but it could save you a lot of hassle.

[zinc flume]

Guys is it hard to learn like visual scripting?

I mean no code scripting?

I want to make a single/multi player action game like broforce

[drowsy snow]

The thing that goes in your way from learning BP is your willing to learn at all.

Also google-fu capabilities.

[wary wave]

no such thing as no code scripting

visual code is still code and all the practices are still more or less the same

[drowsy snow]

Well, pedantic aside, he's likely referring to "no writing line of code"

[wary wave]

most people ask about it because they have been misled to believe that visual scripting magically means they don't need to learn to program

which has a long tail in Epic's marketing for Kismet

and of course is not true

well, it's a scripting language, but that's pedantry again

you absolutely want programming fundamentals to be able to work with it

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: fananrufas#1731 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[sinful mesa]

Is there any tool built in into UE for impostors ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qy4xSv84xQ like this one

[plush yew]

ive been trying to figure this out forever but i cant seem to put my head around it, i was wondering if anyone knows how to make a simple apply button? ive tried everything i could but for some detail i make a character selection menu in the main menu changing a sprite i have in the character bp it works but when i open a knew level it changes back to default, i may be getting it wrong but ive never done it before so im a little confused

[stray ruin]

if you dont save it it will reset when you open new level

[plush yew]

@stray ruin yeah ive been trying to figure that out but ive tried to make a save system and it doesnt work ive make pleanty actually so is there a more simple way of doing it?

[stray ruin]

Ive only used save systems dunno if any other way sry

[plush yew]

okay thank you

[idle mantle]

hey is that possible to go back from 4.26.2 to 4.26 ?

[fierce tulip]

@sinful mesa should have asked that on google :p
result: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/RenderToTextureTools/3/

[idle mantle]

because when I launch a project my friend gave me:

(I press yes for all windows) and my friend told me I need 4.26

[fierce tulip]

you dont need to recompile for going back a subversion. (4.4.1 to 4.4.0)

just means you are missing some stuff he did not submit

[proud dome]

Im planning to make a universal card game (for example, blackjack, poker, spades all in one game), but confused on how to start it off by.
The idea of the actual game is that there will be a seemingly looking 3d environment (a table, and some props on top of it), but since it'll be like an 2d card game, do i need to make the table like an actual 3d object, or just like an image?

[fierce tulip]

whatever floats your boat Tom

either/or

[idle mantle]

mmmm ok will tell him he need to submit stuff

Sorry what do you mean by submit?

File missing in the project folder he gave me?

[drowsy snow]

I've been stuck in 4.26.0, for the record 😛

[fierce tulip]

version control or however he send it to you.
I dont know the exact word for it as I dont compile a lot of stuff myself.

@drowsy snow whats the stuff/files called if you compile plugins code?

[drowsy snow]

Modules?

[fierce tulip]

prooobably, or prerequisitiiiiihave no idea

i need my coffee

[proud dome]

also also, are there any free assets, or tutorials? i literally cannot find a single playing card tutorial on unreal, if i do, they are all in 3d (for like poker and such)

[drowsy snow]

I don't think plugins deal with prerequisites 🤔

[fierce tulip]

maybe because ue4 is generally 3d.
there is a card-game in the learning tab, and there are a few cheap examples on the marketplace.

[drowsy snow]

Try compiling from the .sln / Visual Studio, and see what errors it give.

[idle mantle]

I'm an artist very noob with this kind of stuff, will ask him that thanks!

[drowsy snow]

Usually that happens because something that's required for the plugin is missing, like dependencies (which sometimes went ignored in the .gitignore file)

[fierce tulip]

dependencies was the word i was looking for

[knotty summit]

I looked at the crash logs and saw a BP actor name there, replaced it with the backup file, removed all shader files and my problem is solved thankfully. There was not much space for that big files. 🙂

[sinful mesa]

wow complicated is that impostor thing 😛

[high path]

help where did my components go

my screen looked exactly like this earlier i had all my components but now they are gone but they still function in game?

[zinc flume]

Does anyone here have like finished game lol I wanna try it

Like some of pro devs herr

[drowsy snow]

There's already a lot of UE4 games on Epic Store, GOG, itch.io, and many more.

[zinc flume]

No I mean like someone from here

From this server

[fierce tulip]

nothing free at least

[digital anchor]

fortnite

[zinc flume]

It's ok

[violet goblet]

"Documentation": Substance Painter->Unreal
once substance painter had neat documentation on how to import textures from SP to unreal (and how to connect textures to create material)
is that page gone??

[fresh yarrow]

how do I fix cache/deriveddatacache not being saved? I tried finding the settings in the project settings and defaultengine.ini but there is nothing

[plush yew]

one last question to the one i had about 2 is hours ago, when changing a sprite in the widget for the character can i use the game instance to save it in other levels besides it selecting it and it works then when opening another level it sets the sprite to the default, also sorry for asking its a little bit of a stupid question and also sorry for the bad grammer lmao

[fierce tulip]

@oblique tangle could you please read the #rules
please dont post the same question in multiple channels.

also, i think #blueprint would be the best place to ask, not #graphics so perhaps delete the two you already made, and ask there.

[iron hull]

Hello! which is the best channel for beginner help?

[wary wave]

whichever one is relevant to your specific questions

[drowsy snow]

https://twitter.com/CatherineCel/status/1412698418741383173?s=19

Celliizzaa 🧵 🧶 (@CatherineCel)

I was today years old that I found out Unreal Engine 4 has a class called FScrollyZoomy #ue4

Twitter · Jul 7, 2021, 9:02 AM

Cheek in tongue naming at best

[uneven hemlock]

what does vector length node do

and what does transform direction do

[light thunder]

Is there anyway to put a decal to go mimic a landscape spline? (I can't swap out the static mesh involved easily

[wild tendon]

I have a question, in a video for making grass, they use a thing called Landscape Grass Type in the misscelaneous tab, but when i try to add that to my content folder it is nowhere to be found, is it moved somewhere else or do i have to enable it somewhere or does that not exist anymore???

[light thunder]

It is probably an addon/plugin you haven't enabled or a newer version of the editor maybe

[wild tendon]

ok i will look into it, i was already thinking that but i have no idea what it would be called

No, i am not able to find it in there, any other fixes?

[wild tendon]

thanks alot 😁

[tiny coyote]

is there something like a physics speed value? Because I want to play the physics a bit faster

[plush yew]

Why does it take hrs to install

[fierce tulip]

depends on your hardware and a few other things

[tiny coyote]

@plush yew thanks! I will try it out

@plush yew It speeds up the physics but it also speeds up other stuff. Can I limit this only to physics or only to a specific actor?

Never mind. Set Custom Time Dilation is what I need. Thanks!

[blissful atlas]

Hi guys, im having little problem of output: The render target size doesnt match with the requested size. SceneViewport: 1910, 1006. Media output: 1920, 1080

Anyone knows how to change to match 1920x1080?

Ive tried to change in editor preferences, but when i hit play the resolution back to 1910 x 1006

[late trench]

Hey,
I wanna make a dancefloor that chages colors at random or with a pattern.
This is my result so far but there's plenty taht isn't working for me. I would like to animate the transition between colors with a fade. I would like to have some squares turned off. And I would like to have a fixed color palette.

this is the material that I applied to a plane in an actor BP which I repeated to make the dancefloor

this BP

I feel like I should be looking into a single material or a particle system but I don't know how to do it. Can someone point me a tutorial whith techniques similar to what I need?

[cedar snow]

https://twitter.com/Mrdodobird/status/1411439339750379522 @late trench

Ian Hubert (@Mrdodobird)

Animated this traffic light system with only the two keyframes offsetting the UV data in a mapping node :D Each light gets its own column in the control texture, which feeds the strength of an emission material. The countdown was overkill but I had to. #blender https://t.co/yt6UAnDIyk

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[tight ember]

Can anyone help me figure out this d3d device loss error. I keep crashing while using the content browser and cascade modules. I went threw everything I could find on Google. So please I accept all forms of help

[worn copper]

Getting this error on standalone launch: Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/RenderCore/Private/ShaderCore.cpp] [Line: 379] Shader requested a global uniform buffer of type 'SceneTexturesStruct' at static slot '[Name: SceneTextures, Slot: 0]', but it was null. The uniform buffer should be bound using RHICmdList.SetGlobalUniformBuffers() or passed into an RDG pass using SHADER_PARAMETER_STRUCT_REF() or SHADER_PARAMETER_RDG_UNIFORM_BUFFER().

[sinful mesa]

Question about occlusion culling. It doesnt seem to work on trees and foliage spawned by procedural tool nor manually painted by foliage tool. Is it normal ? I am speaking about hardware occluding

[cloud grove]

Hey all very new to UE, seeking help. Need to rotate an object around the world origin, world space (0,0,0),
when I press spacebar. Has this question been asked or can anyone help. Appreciated

[rancid lagoon]

you can put a ball that is hidden in game and make whatever needs to spin as a child of it. then in blueprints make the spacebar input stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAJo3VpLAoI i know this looks different, but in the video the guy talks about what you need. I hope this helps

[cloud grove]

Thank you @rancid lagoon

[rancid lagoon]

Are there any Epic employees here?

[rancid lagoon]

np

[fierce tulip]

@rancid lagoon yes, why do you ask?

[rancid lagoon]

just curoius

[grim ore]

randomly people from all places randomly show up in this discord, so randomly there might be Epic employees. everything is possible!

[grave pollen]

Well that was random

[tight ember]

@fierce tulip you able to help me? You might have better knowledge about d3d errors.

[grim ore]

if its lost or hang, its a hardware issue 90% of the time

[fierce tulip]

to quote myself
#ue4-general message

"could be anything"

[grim ore]

overclocked card, overvolted card, etc

hell bad PSU causes it. like he said, could be anything

[drowsy cobalt]

Idk if you're the real Matthew, but boy are those tutorials useful.

[fierce tulip]

best bet is always, house build on an ancient burial site

[grim ore]

call the Poltergeisterer!

[loud knoll]

if need help with your hardware link the specs it will help its a bad idea to overclock anything on a dev pc if it decreases stability even .1 % for me anyway.

@fierce tulip You going to be streaming anytime soon? I miss your streams

[vocal sorrel]

Hey everyone, is anyone familiar with trying to create an infrared camera or giving objects a certain temperature through blueprints?

[loud knoll]

couldnt you do that with the em channel on the material, and change per object so the bloom would make it look like increased temp?

create a float var named temp and hook it to the em mat channel then you can boost it in the construction script

[vocal sorrel]

I can give that a go thanks! I have a big freight ship in the water and have it pick up the various different temperatures. Would that just make the whole boat black/white?

[tight ember]

Dang I don't Even know where to start.
@grim ore I sure hope it isn't hardware I have a new 3090.

[loud knoll]

well you would have to set it up so the game play elements were hotter to show up over the background so the player knew to go for them

I would start with the boat and set up a base temp so it looks cool then boost the objects based on importance

so the player can see the priority

[grim ore]

@tight emberdownload something like msi afterburner and downclock the card in memory, core, and vcore. see if it helps.

your 3090 might be factory overclocked and just this side of unstable

[tight ember]

See this is what I have been doing. haven't underclocked it yet.

[loud knoll]

oh 3090? yeah check the temp's those things run hot get HWmonitor as well so you can see what the temps are for the CPU

[vocal sorrel]

Thank you for all this info @loud knoll it sucks I am not comfortable/experienced enough to make this but I'll give it a go. I am imagining it in my head what you are saying but I don't know how to actually create it in the blueprints

[loud knoll]

What temp is it @tight ember

[tight ember]

I have 2 custom fans around it. 13 total i case, ,3090 doesn't ever break 58

[grim ore]

I know my 3080 was stable in everyything but 1 UE4 project when loading it would crash with d3d hang and lost. This was due to me undervolting it 1 step too much. Everything else ran fine it was just that one random project

[loud knoll]

@vocal sorrel well thats the fun part of game development, taking what is in your head and figuring out how to do it mang we all struggle with it

[tight ember]

Wait CPU temp or gpu

[loud knoll]

@tight ember both I monitor both when I am having troubles

[vocal sorrel]

@loud knoll True yeah. Is there any tutorial or something you could refer me to that is something like you talked about?

[tight ember]

I have a led that show temp based on color. It's always green so less than 50 for cpu

[loud knoll]

@vocal sorrel go through the learning tab of the Launcher and start at the getting started tab, in a few weeks you will be able to create this idea

[tight ember]

Is it possible a absolutely terrible mesh I scaled up to 5000 is causing this issue? Maybe bad material on top of that?

This didn't really start until a few weeks ago after I added a water material to this bad mesh

[grim ore]

anything could cause it, hang or lost is when your trying to do something and something goes wrong. its really generic but too much pressure on the GPU tends to be a cause

like pushing the GPU past the limit of how much power it needs to do the operation, or doing an operation that takes too long on the GPU and it thinks it is hung

[loud knoll]

@tight ember does it happen with a template project?

[tight ember]

Hmm ill have to see if removing it helps

[loud knoll]

I would leave it

and create a template project

[tight ember]

Idk actually

[loud knoll]

and create simple spawner that spawns spheres until you see your memory hitting like 20 GIGS

or what ever something to stress test your machine

random colors etc

if you use a template project then you know its your machine

because those projects have nothing but clean perfect bp runnings them or good enough that they dont break anyones machines just report errors on builds on one case

[tight ember]

Ill give this a shot when I get home.

[vocal sorrel]

@loud knoll Thank you so much! yeah this is for a job to gather real data so its a little time-sensitive so Im just gonna put my head down and get to it!

[tight ember]

And seriously @grim ore and @loud knoll for helping me find a road to try.

[loud knoll]

@tight ember please tell me this isn't with UE5 because if it is that then well all bets are off

if you are using UE5 then just tell yourself you are a tester working with unstable code and really that is all you can do right now unless you want to fix the bugs they are fixing.

[tight ember]

No it's ue4

I just absolutely can not believe it's a faulty GPU. It's has to be something else. Like sloppy work on my end

[loud knoll]

well since you aren't at the machine its sort of useless to help right now when you cant do anything to fix it

[tight ember]

Right. I feel that. I just can't focus at work. This problem is eating my attention

Especially when google had helped me zeto

[loud knoll]

Well since GPU are in such high demand I wouldnt be surprised if a larger % are used and or returned and resold but if you are sure it was new that should give you hope, but I got GPU's directly from Nvidia and they had issues so it can happen.

[tight ember]

So thank you. Ill probably return in 3 hours let you know what is happening

[loud knoll]

I am getting my 3080TI from NVIDIA directly and still am waiting for it, so I am sad

[tight ember]

I wonder how much of a headache it would be to use my warranty.

[loud knoll]

none in stock for even employees

[tight ember]

See that's my fear of even sending it in.

[loud knoll]

well I would do a real test on it outside of unreal

[tight ember]

Like I probably won't get one back for like a year.

[loud knoll]

test it with other games and sample projects

its unlikely broken it might need the BIOS updated and settings tuned but you can do that

first thing I do is stress test new hardware

so I can tuned it and not worry about crashing

[tight ember]

I have with game, it ran Skyrim and GTA 4 at max settings no problem. I also use microdose vr. And that is a ue4 game, witch also has zero issues

[loud knoll]

try and do some GPU rendering

[grim ore]

just take the pressure off the card and see what happens, there is a good chance UE4 is just pushing it past its limits. make it run slower basically and see what happens

[loud knoll]

something that hits it hard with the stress test softwares out there

[tight ember]

Does video renders in adobe count?

[idle mantle]

Hey what visual studio do I need for UE4? my friend told me I need to install VS

im a noob

[loud knoll]

they have it listed on the install page @idle mantle

with a link

they have community version

[pallid cove]

Hi, guys. I keep getting this PISS-POOR message when I try to run and debug my game. I need some help here!
Any volunteers?

[loud knoll]

its free and works fine, you can use 2019

[idle mantle]

I will install VS 2019 then thanks! 🙂

[grim ore]

dont use vscode, use VS or Xcode @pallid cove

[idle mantle]

its not free lol

I will use Xcode

[grim ore]

VS 2019 Community is Free

[loud knoll]

very free

[idle mantle]

ahhh thanks a lot! btw its not for me it's for opening my friend's project lol

im an artist ^^'

[grim ore]

are you sure you need it to open their project?

[pallid cove]

I tried for VS, but I hear that it's not compatible with UE4 from my pal Shawnthebro.
As for XCode, here's a picture of what's happened.

[idle mantle]

Oh ok 😮 but if I don't need the editor is that a problem for me?

the project give me error message if I don't have it I think

will test..

[grim ore]

I can say VS and Xcode work in macOS , with Xcode being the actual recommended. tryin to make Code work isnt going to help your issue

[idle mantle]

I have windows10

[grim ore]

@idle mantlewe dont know what your friend gave your for their project, or what they used when making it. I was just asking are you sure you need visual studio to open it?

[pallid cove]

Oh, really?! THEN WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?! HOW DO I FIX IT?!
EXPLAIN THAT TO ME!

[idle mantle]

I will test if it fix my error message

[grim ore]

did you generate your xcode solution files from your .uproject? @pallid cove

[pallid cove]

???

[grim ore]

right click the project, services, generate xcode

[pallid cove]

Did that. Still nothing for the xcworkspace.

You guys REALLY NEED to join Shawnthebro's discord.

[grim ore]

do we?

[pallid cove]

You don't seem to have certain knowledge that he has. You guys haven't figured out this problem much yet.

[dark depot]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[grim ore]

well... uh...

he hasnt figured it out yet has he?

[pallid cove]

He's trying harder to help me than YOU GUYS have, even if he doesn't have a Mac.

I already tried your suggestion of generate XCode Project, and it went nowhere.

[dark depot]

then go there for help. there isnt a requirement for people to help you here mathew is taking his time to try and help no need to basically insult people becuase you can get your project to work

[pallid cove]

I've just gone mental because I haven't gotten progress in figuring out this problem.

[median kettle]

does anyone know why shadows are wacky after building light

[upper mortar]

Just a question: I have about 2 weeks (most days) of unity experience and according to everyone unity is easier to learn than unreal. But I can't do shit with all the unity tutorials. For example, I tried making a character movement script that works properly and got somewhat better result than all the tutorials I saw but it still wasn't as good as an actual game like half life. Then I tried making landscapes but as much as I tried I couldn't even get close to something like eevee on blender and I can't find anything about urp or hdrp, hoping it would look better.

So is it worth at my stage trying to ditch unity to learn unreal instead or is unreal gonna be even more of a pain?

[grim ore]

you have 2 weeks into learning

give it a couple months if not years

and since 2 weeks is enough for you to learn the engine, spend 2 weeks with Unreal and then you can make a better decision https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[steady siren]

Guys how can I make these shadows a bit more nicer?

I have deep shadowsn on

a dynamic light single light source in the scene

disntance field on for the light and the static mesh

but this groom doesn't have a nice shadow

[ember geode]

Ue5 will be worth the learning curve.

[steady siren]

I have increased the resolution of distance fields

and lightmaps

don't really know what else to do

[tepid granite]

Hello, is there any way how to import virtual cameras output to vmix?

[distant totem]

give this a try https://twitter.com/HighlySpammable/status/1372767837614350340
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LightingAndShadows/CapsuleShadows/QuickStart/

[limpid gulch]

Is it possible to make a wireframe mtl for objects in Unreal?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it's possible.

[limpid gulch]

How do I do it?

[blissful atlas]

Guys please how i restore my plane? I cutted and now is cutted forever

Everytime Ill make a plane, now come like this

[charred temple]

Can anyone tell me how to add jumping to a VR project?

[steady siren]

@distant totem does this work for static meshes too?

[frozen pond]

how to change level position on persistent level ?

[uneven hemlock]

How do I add a sphere collision that acutaly collides

doesnt collide

[steady siren]

change the collision to overlap all? @uneven hemlock

[uneven hemlock]

Didnt work

[steady siren]

make sure the parent is not passing down any collision settings

[fierce tulip]

get a newer device

[grim ore]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/updates-to-mobile-rendering-support-in-unreal-engine-4-24-and-4-25

[distant totem]

not sure, I think it's only for skeletal meshes. Have you tried playing with lightmass settings under the world settings? Mostly Num Indirect Lighting, Indirect Lighting Quality, and Smoothness?

[distant totem]

I think this is the same feature as the one found in skeletal meshes
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LightingAndShadows/MeshDistanceFields/HowTo/DFHT_4/

[steady siren]

I have used distance fields and they did the trick on the static mesh really nicely @distant totem
But on the groom hat, the shadows aren't crisp

like I sent the screenshot

And there is not distance field setting for the groom actor

[plush yew]

hey guys im new to ue4 how do i make ui?

like a hotbar sort of thing

i know nothing about this stuff

[steady siren]

@plush yew The deep shadow option is already enabled
And I have tried the hairstands commands. They don't do much

I can try the hair shadow density thing

[cedar snow]

@plush yew https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=umg+tutorial+ue4

that should get you started

[plush yew]

thanks

also is it possible to import character animations from another game such as fortnite?

[steady siren]

Tried these set of commands. Didn't do much

[cedar snow]

there are free character animations from another epic game on the market place

search for paragon

[plush yew]

ok

[limpid gulch]

Is it possible to hide the triangulation if my model is all quads b4 I imported it into unreal?

[celest viper]

what is this

i understand the Roughness part

its called a scaler i think but how do i create it

[thick herald]

default is hold down S and left click

[celest viper]

thank you

[thick herald]

🙂

[normal lantern]

Hello Everyone, yes Yet another newbie...:(

haha back when i was in school we had YAST (Yet another system tool) in linux... guess i could be YAN(Yet another newb)

I'm running into a problem trying to run stinking faceware on my own model.. I'm following this god awful tutorial by faceware

but right at about 3:08 he talks about dragging in a asset pose (that we have been using) well i hate to tell you "We never have been using it!" i checked all their vids

So i have a model with animation sequences, and it has all of the facial identifiers for "eyeblink" and such

but when i create an asset pose it gives me Pose_1500 all over again, but they are all tied to the full animations... not the individual eyeBlink curves

If anyone is willing to pass a newb some help anything would be appreciated

I'll be hanging in Artist Alley for a bit

[steady siren]

maybe its a naming thing?

[normal lantern]

I have no clue, but i've been racking my brain for 2 days now trying to get that one part figured out

i've tried creating the asset from the blueprint

i've tried creating it from the actual animation

i've tried creating it from the skeletal base

still comes out screwy

The metahuman is cool, but i don't really want to play with the metahuman, want to play with my own designs

Looking at the (Face Mesh) it has all thre morph targets, but anytime i create anything based on the mesh it doesnt carry forward the targets

[steady siren]

I don't have anything to advise you except if you know something to be working, I always try to reverse engineer it

and then follow the same pipeline

[wet schooner]

This may be a dumb question but is there any way to make the axis transform control thing straight

it's super annoying to try and make accurate dupes

If I have to that's one thing but i'm wondering now if i'm just being dumb and there's a better way to do it haha

[stray ruin]

maybe change gizmo to local or world space

one of the buttons on top right viewport

[wet schooner]

I did not know that was an option

ill check the top right rn

[wet schooner]

oh my god you're a livesaver, thank you

this will help save a lot of time haha

[stray ruin]

lol np

[old dune]

hey guys, been on U4 for about 2 weeks. So far in self learning im just working on simple things like a basic map with a racetrack and simple vehicles. I have the map making down pretty well minus a good understanding of how layers work. I got roads from splines down but whenever i adjust them i need to manually update to the terrain which causes the landscape to overlap sections (plus when i place a vehicle it tends to slip through the spline mesh itself) If im in the wrong group let me know its literally my time posting

[stray ruin]

are you using a normal spline bp or the spline landscape layer thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WIWuybAKj4

should update terrain by itself

[old dune]

ive been using spline mesh from landscape. the tutorial looks immensely helpful ive found several but none that explained the specifics. thanks!

[stray ruin]

gl

[fair herald]

Does anyone know what the XRVisualization plugin is, a good documentation link much appreciated.
I was looking for it on the net but I couldn't find anything interesting information, not even an introduction, all I find is a doc page with some function list.
I like to know what it is and what it do.

[open gorge]

❤️

[misty gazelle]

I am making a game where the player builds a car from the ground up, similar to Robocraft and Crossout. Of course, due to the nature of how the tires are applied, I can't just use a vehicle movement component or vehicle wheel component. I have ventured into raycast hover components that I can attempt to modify into wheels. However, I don't know how to implement this so that the wheels have an effect on the system as a whole. What should I do in order for the wheels to be able to move an entire assembled vehicle, similar to Robocraft and Crossout? Thanks in advance!

[loud knoll]

@misty gazelle I never played those games or did much with the vehicle component but it seems it would be easier to extend this component by adding the ability to remove the tires so they can be swapped with what ever the player does which I would assume would be putting different types of tires with slightly different capabilities, you might be able to just hide the default tires when they are swapped the properties change to give them the right properties. In a sense the car would always have tires but they wouldn't be visible to the player until they locked in the build or placed the different version on to the car.

to add to this if you want to have a hover craft with no tires to be a "legal" build then swap to your other movement method if the player creates this type. So this way you get the benefit of the tires if they build that or no tires if they build that.

[paper ginkgo]

so im trying to drag and drop a .uasset in to my project but getting an error that its an unknown extension but both my project and the .uasset should be for 4.26 so idk why im gettting it

[kind dew]

I'm trying to migrate animations from one project to another. But when I do, the folders in the destination project are just empty.

[icy egret]

Hi I have a question
Can I use "Set master pose component" with some AnimBP setting?
I want to use same skeletal mesh for 1st and 3rd person mesh, then I have to make 1st person mesh head disappear, but I don't want 3rd person mesh head to disappear
so I should set 3rd person mesh animation not to disappear

[upbeat fjord]

How can I make my tree foliage collidable. I added a collider to my tree trunk but my character just goes through it still

[ashen frost]

any knowledge on how to edit when the jump animation plays?

my character just kinda looks stupid when it starts jumping because its 2 inches off the ground lol

[brazen mirage]

my app always crashes here is the log file

Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Windows/D3D11RHI/Private/D3D11Util.cpp] [Line: 198] Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0020 - 'INTERNAL_ERROR')

UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_SlateRHIRenderer
UE4Editor_SlateRHIRenderer
UE4Editor_SlateRHIRenderer
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

PLS HELP

[heavy fulcrum]

I recommend checking the third person template state machine

as a template

Im new to EU4 but I copied the same logic and got my jumps working

[young quartz]

anyone expert in megascans? How to fix the pattern ground material? Any specific tutorials on megascans?

[ashen frost]

Thanks for the feedback mate, will look into that

[heavy fulcrum]

The third person template in general is a fantastic starting template

I came from Unity recently and UE4 has built in components worth like $60+ in unitys marketplace

amazed me

[ashen frost]

I see, idk if it’s a magascan problem tho

I think if you reduce the size of the tile enough, it becomes hard to notice the pattern, I only remember following a tutorial a long time ago; I don’t mess with works editing a lot but hope it kinda helps

[ashen frost]

Lol yea, unreal tries to go for things like that in their engine but unity recently added a third person template to i believe

[heavy fulcrum]

While I find animation for movement to be much easier in UE I am struggling with how to implement actions

such as attacking

Does Unreal have something similar to Unities Animation trigger system?

[plush yew]

Where can I find a roadmap for planned features in Unreal?

[idle mantle]

Hey please, ho0w canj I reupload a project?

https://i.imgur.com/fY6Ik7I.png

I clicked by error on ''not now'' button

I guess... and now I can't "update" anymore

[plush yew]

Are you using Git?

[idle mantle]

@plush yew Yes hum I downloaded the project with GIT yes

but I don't use it otherwise

[plush yew]

I'm assuming that you didn't clone it then?

For your case, maybe try restarting the editor?

[drifting elbow]

we have a large character which is also part of the game mode. The skeletal mesh is fine, but the animation blueprint references lots of animations. So basically when I try to open the playercontroller, UE loads the whole character with all mesh data, animations and more, which takes a long time. how would I fix this?

[woven whale]

hey anybody interested in making a survival game with me?

im currently just thinking of some ideas, but if you're interested; DM me.

[brazen mirage]

how do i turn unreal engine game into exe

[vagrant trench]

Is it possible to package the unreal editor

[vagrant trench]

Package project

#packaging

[brazen mirage]

thx

[vagrant trench]

But keep in mind

You will probably get errors

[wary wave]

no, and also it is against the license terms

[vagrant trench]

At compiling

[vagrant trench]

Oh ok

I tought is it possible to make a software like substance or blender

With the tools inside

[zealous shard]

is Unreal source build supposed to take up almost 200gb? the epic launcher version barely took up 20gb

[neon magnet]

Quick question - should I rig a door with bones or do the usual way of using the pivot and setting up its rotation animation blueprint?

[zealous shard]

Not sure what would be more performance-friendly, but probably easier to just do it through blueprint with a timeline. That way you can tweak it more easily as well if needed.

[neon magnet]

I'm debating on what type of interaction I want as well. I'm leaning more towards an Amnesia-type interaction where you click-drag open a door

because I'm not sure how I'd deal with the collision with the player in the regular "press button to open door" animation, especially since I need to keep the doors opening one way like in real life

[zealous shard]

makes sense

in the past, for doors and elevators in various projects, i typically lean towards controlling them manually rather than through animations, since I have much more control over the actual movement (and for things like you are saying, to click and drag open a door, etc)

[neon magnet]

so bones it is?

[shrewd moth]

Hey All, I am doing a tutorial where I spawn a cube with a button.... I am having a hard time figuring out what the heck to do! Can Anyone help?

[stray ruin]

maybe if you give more info

[zealous shard]

extremely high level, but essentially you could set up your button to call a function that casts to your custom game instance class, which then calls a function to spawn the cube actor from there

[charred siren]

Has anyone ever seen the problem where UE4Editor.exe completely freezes and is unkillable (via task manager, procmon, taskkill etc) without a reboot? It happens randomly to us on 2 different machines, after either building lighting (which completes successfully), or when just loading new lighting data someone else built in the editor. A few seconds passes and then boom, complete freeze. ☹️

Can’t attach a debugger, that freezes too. Seems like a driver interaction, have updated to the latest of everything though (both machines are AMD GPUs but different models)

[zealous shard]

ya GPU driver issue would be my guess as well

[charred siren]

Any ideas how to diagnose further? I haven’t had this issue before but it started happening randomly when we began to block out larger levels

It’s kind of a productivity killer when it’s a coin toss whether you’ll have to reboot your machine to continue working

[neon magnet]

I dunno if it helps, but there is a small tool called "what's locking this file". I've found it pretty useful over time because if I have no idea what is keeping something running, it tells which process is hooked into it that's stopping it from terminating. You'd just need to right-click on the UE4 executable to get a hint hopefully.

oh and as a bonus it allows you to kill both processes that are deadlocked essentially

or you can just do it yourself once you figure out what is really behind it

[charred siren]

Thanks, I’ve used sysinternals to query this & found nothing but haven’t tried this one. I’ve been aggressively terminating every user process but the editor refuses to die, which is what makes me think it’s blocked on a kernel/ driver call

[neon magnet]

Right. I also use Process Lasso which I find far more powerful and useful than the standard task manager or even sysinternals' tools sometimes. The logging of process lasso is very very handy and useful.

[hidden cairn]

heya. There a mod about? Wanted to check something before I ask in channel?

[vestal tinsel]

i have a question

how can i force actor to disappear/ be destroyed?

[granite spire]

@vestal tinsel Depends when you want to do that

set visibility and then destroy actor is what you want

[vestal tinsel]

well, after it reaches target point

[astral dust]

guys what do i need to add in blueprint to make the player eject from the character he is controlling and can freely move his camera (basically photomode)

[granite spire]

@hidden cairn eh, just ask me, i'm here, I was going to stream some UE4 stuff but i'm playing DSP instead cause, I took a nap now I'm all sleepy.

[vestal tinsel]

so far i have managed to get the actor to target point but then it just stays there

[hidden cairn]

Thanks @granite spire - I need to do the EPic trainers assessment - was supposed to do it last year but have been non stop training since Aug lol. Anyway I have tow do two 1 hour training sessions today for the basics and blueprints and record them using Zoom - wondered if anyone wanted to help by being in class? The videos will be private and just for Epic

[granite spire]

@vestal tinsel then when you hit it's target point you want to call destroy actor, it will disappear and move to garbage collection, how you do that is up to you.

[vestal tinsel]

can i post picture here?

[granite spire]

@hidden cairn Oh that's pretty neat, not sure what you would do about that? is it an event? I generally just stream and record it and then act as a help desk.

[granite spire]

Yeah go for it

[hidden cairn]

Well Im going to do a private session on zoom about 1pm my time (bst) so anyone who wants to pick up some skills is welcome - however obviously understand that I will need people to enable webcam and audio and its two pretty basic lessons compared to what I normally teach 🙂

I have six slots but three are taken now

[granite spire]

@hidden cairn Maybe post in #share-your-stream I don't know if people check this

[hidden cairn]

shall do

and thanks JB

[granite spire]

and then post in #events perhaps? I'm not too sure.

I feel it's a good mod question, but I'm a big dumb dumb

[vestal tinsel]

something like this?

[hidden cairn]

will do

[granite spire]

@vestal tinsel Yep, that should destroy it, but that's only self being AI controller, you will have to get reference to your character

[vestal tinsel]

and how do i do it?

[granite spire]

there's a node I don't remember for it

[hidden cairn]

Thanks for the help there JuicyBear

[granite spire]

no worries

[hidden cairn]

you trying to kill an actor on event ?

[granite spire]

in his AI, I don't think you can just run destroy actor

[hidden cairn]

probably not - what you could do however is just cheat

set your actor scale to 0.0001

then hide it

[granite spire]

nah set a boolean flag, that is "pending kill" then add a checker on your main ai char, but then you'd have to get main ai char anyway defeating the purpose

[hidden cairn]

oh good one

[granite spire]

you just have to call the AI controllers parent

this is all going off memory though

[hidden cairn]

AI Moveto is a remarkably useful node

[granite spire]

oh

why don't you setup a killbox @vestal tinsel just use a move to command of the kill box

and teleport the actor there

that would be ultra clean solution

[loud knoll]

lifespan is another way to remove actors

[granite spire]

yeah but he wants it when they move to a location

wonder if it's get parent pawn or something

[loud knoll]

yeah I use lifespan of .02 all the time

[granite spire]

i feel he's doing it a bit wrong, if it's a location, a killbox should be set at that location that does the removal of that ai, not detecting from the ai controller, that's how i'd do the logic for it

[vestal tinsel]

so can i use kill z volume?

[loud knoll]

nah

[granite spire]

that's if you want to kill something if it goes low enough but that's bad

[vestal tinsel]

i see

[granite spire]

usually you setup a killbox BP and place it around your map that anything that overlaps dies

[loud knoll]

dont use a killz make a box and give the AI damage once they enter it with begin overlap

[granite spire]

so then you're not hard coding coordinates in the AI itself, so that it can just do it's AI thing

2 of us have the same idea so it's correct 😛

[loud knoll]

also if you want the ai to play animation after it dies you might have to spawn another copy of it if you wan the body to remain

[vestal tinsel]

so i should create box and make it that any actor that touches it will be destroyed?

[loud knoll]

event destroyed will trigger after the actor dies

well if you want that you can do that or you can test to make sure it is your AI

== actor class

[granite spire]

or set a death timer, but that's event ticks, but also you don't need to spawn so,

[granite spire]

yes

[vestal tinsel]

i see

[granite spire]

I hope that gives you information

[vestal tinsel]

sort of

[loud knoll]

they have a basic tutorial where you create a grenade and blow up an AI

or bomb what ever

did you go through that?

[fierce tulip]

My mic broke and havent received my replacement yet.

[vestal tinsel]

@loud knoll no, where is it?

[loud knoll]

@fierce tulip ah thats cool mang, my mic broke the head phone disintegrated in the heat so I took off the ear pads and wear it around my neck because I am too cheap to replace my 15 dollar mic

[fierce tulip]

hehe

[loud knoll]

@vestal tinsel google is your buddy should be on the epic site thats how I learned almost everything then MattewW has a great set of single node tutorails.

[granite spire]

I got sick of my astero a50's mic and splashed out because people like my voice so it's a bit of an investment

[hidden cairn]

I got the Samson pro - Im streaming most days and its a great mic

[granite spire]

i spent 6 hours educating myself on mics, lol

then found one that doesn't pickup keyboard typing

[hidden cairn]

Most of the time Im training architects / AEC types so its serious business faces 🙂 Its nice to stream some gamedev now and again

[granite spire]

ahhh

nice

i was going to do UE4 dev but, fatigued

[loud knoll]

I try to never show my face on stream it only scares the kiddies to see such an old man working on a game

[granite spire]

lol

[hidden cairn]

I have three people lined up for teaching now so hopefuly that will be enough for Epic

[granite spire]

I didn't but then I did and my stream got raided so, I mustn't be too bad to look at 😂

[hidden cairn]

gah my ugly mug is all over the streams sadly

[granite spire]

I wouldn't mind being a teacher

[loud knoll]

yeah my days of being a hot dude are long gone now just a fat bald man its good and bad

[hidden cairn]

lol we are all bald fat men

[granite spire]

but streaming helpdesk is giving me a bit of a purpose, I'm enjoying it

[hidden cairn]

this is the way

[granite spire]

lol

i'm chubby and still got hair, been receding for years though I think my hair just gave up and was like "you know what? this is far enough"

[hidden cairn]

looks like I need a "pro" background for this damn stream

[granite spire]

I haven't been stumped on questions around here really, but I still feel like I know nothing

[hidden cairn]

usually its my gaudy living room

[granite spire]

I also don't know how to use twitch properly lol

[hidden cairn]

I cheat and used streamlabs

[granite spire]

yeah I was told last night to use that

dunno what it does but I'll check it out when laziness goes away I kind of just stream because why not

[loud knoll]

streamlabs is good I use it parts of it but made my own theme like 6 years ago before the sold them and it is really simple

[hidden cairn]

its pretty good - its basically a click and go solution

and if you pay the premium version you get hosting, a domain and stuff that automatically fills with your stream and data

www.cgpirates.com - thats my one that I very rarely update as an example

[loud knoll]

yeah I aint paying anyone to stream anything last thing I want to do is try to make money streaming game development

[hidden cairn]

same here. I bought it because I liked the hosting package though

Im a full time trainer so Twitch aint my income stream

not enough people watch the streams to make fat bank anyway

[granite spire]

yeah

[loud knoll]

you would have to use metahumans and create a hot avatar in a hottub then you can really pull in the viewers and $$$.

[hidden cairn]

no public free training tends to make fortunes - learned that eventually

[granite spire]

I can talk to myself for 12 hours straight, so, I have that type of streamer personality, lol

[hidden cairn]

yeah thats about the only way#

lol same here JB

when I used to make tutorials for my old site 3d-palace some of my training sets were like 100 hours long

mostly because I just talk a lot

[granite spire]

good voice + mic + soothing chill stream, I got it made

[granite spire]

I know that feel bro

[hidden cairn]

lol - well my voice is easy to understand and neutral/friendly so I get to teach a lot of Euros where english is a second language

[loud knoll]

alright we are going to get in trouble for spamming bs in this channel

[granite spire]

it's worse when you are passionate about something

[hidden cairn]

tomorrow I am teaching belgians for example

yeah I agree

[loud knoll]

we need to help folks

[granite spire]

ahh yeah that's right no worries

[hidden cairn]

I used to get so damn excited moving verts around

[granite spire]

come to #lounge

[loud knoll]

one last thing you can stream to help people in this discord now - just use the !stream command on the mannybot

[granite spire]

you have to stream to discord though yeah?

[loud knoll]

anyone test DLSS plugin using volumetric fog to see if you get an FPS increase?

[plush yew]

guys do you develop apps on mobile? and if yes what ads implementation do you use?

tried researching and most sources point out that i should be using unity for mobile app development just because the ease of ads implementation

[hot beacon]

anyone know how to fix unreal crashing
"d3d device lost"
i have tried so much and yet nothing is fixing it

[wary wave]

if you're on a laptop, it's probably because Windows is switching between GPUs

if you're not, the best you can do is change drivers

[hot beacon]

yeah im on laptop

how do i fix that

[wary wave]

depends on what you're running, but you should be able to specify to only use the dedicated GPU when running Unreal

[hot beacon]

i tried to

but it did nothing

its only having this problem with unreal nothing els

[wary wave]

it's an Unreal problem that has persisted for a long time

there's really not much you can do

[hot beacon]

.-.

greaatteee

[sage dove]

for me it went away when i updated graphics drivers

[hot beacon]

oo ill try that

[hot beacon]

it didnt work

any other things you know that might fix it

i did something got to do with latency ill see if that made a difference

spoiler alert it didn't

[hardy nacelle]

I have problem with BlueprintImplementableEvent
I have declared function as this

void DoSmth();

And defined it in BP derived from that class (BP -> Functions -> Override)
I am calling it in C++ by DoSmth(); By it doesn't call function defined in BP

[hot beacon]

ook yeah im desperate now anyone know anything that will stop unreal from crashing with this bloody d3d error bs

[vestal tinsel]

so i still have problem with making killbox

[dapper oak]

ive just tried compiling after some editing and now im getting this error 0>C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Classes\Components\PrimitiveComponent.h(2423): Error C4430 : missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int but all that is there is a GENERATED_BODY(). What do I do?

[hardy nacelle]

I am trying to use EditorApplySpline in C++ but I get error unresolved external symbol [...] EditorApplySpline [...]

[obsidian mist]

Hi, i am looking for advice on how to make this projectile sphere from First Person Example, to be movable upon player colliding with it?

[thin tendon]

@obsidian mist Enable simulate physics. Then set it to collide with the player.

An Ai perception stimulus source has to be an Ai controlled source?

When I add a stimulus source component to a building part and not an enemy my AI don't get triggered by the building part they ignore it.

[worn copper]

Do anyone have story Game concept?

[stuck linden]

Does anyone know how to make my 3P mesh not collidable with my own character ?

[fallow hornet]

is there a way to rebind an actor in the variant manager?

nvm answered my own question by right clicking

[thin tendon]

@stuck linden 3p?

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: dev mac#2593 was banned.

[obsidian mist]

thanks it works, now i think the only thing i should make it more realistic is to make more friction, because the sphere takes a lot of time to deaccelerate

[iron frigate]

hey guys! id like to share a project of mine made in UE for the quest, but im not sure how to upload it on sidequest, any leads?

[stuck linden]

third person

[thin tendon]

@stuck linden One way would be to create a custom collision channel for your player and then set the third person mesh to ignore that channel. Or you could set the third person mesh to ignore the pawn channel.

[obsidian mist]

i also wanted before to try dig into jump function in the template but i couldn't, is it maybe because i downloaded unreal engine without the source element?

[light thunder]

I'm using a skeletal mesh/actor class map to spawn a certain actor - the skeletal meshes are simply shown in the construction script so I can see which actor will be spawned and place it accordingly, due to size variations - but I also want to override the construction script so I can just tell it to spawn a certain actor (versus randomly picking one during construction - only problem is, when I select the instance I want spawned, the construction script never shows anything after I choose an instance class to spawn, if I do that it goes invisible (even though the actor spawns fine)

This should be easier than it is - I just want to spawn a certain class and depending on what class is selected to spawn, display that mesh of the actor (before runtime, hence the construction script)

[lost sleet]

Anyone know if there's a way to disable the axis ui element in an object preview tab?

I know in the regular editor you can just press G, doesn't seem to be a way to do it here though

[light thunder]

Might be able to do a workaround by toggling on the collision view and selecting that

then just zoom in onto the object, hopefully it will offset that axis UI element to the collision box's origin - not a perfect solution but could work

[lost sleet]

I'll give that a go, cheers ✌️

[light thunder]

I think at this point I should know what this is or how to stop it, but I can't figure out how (right clicking doesn't seem to reveal anything)

[wooden echo]

Does someone know why my exposed properties still don't appear in the details panel of my class' defaults? Shouldn't there be a "Components" section? Or am I doing something wrong?

[whole abyss]

I'm using an edited version of the movement component for my player, and i'll probably do the same with the enemies. But how should i approach player and enemy interacting? Like punching an enemy, or jumping on one, or for me i'd like to a thing where you can swoop between their legs

How should i deal with collissions then?

[cosmic matrix]

Hello,
I m starting using the replay feature but i can t find the way to exit replay mode after calling playreplay().
Anyone know how to achieve this?
I can t find lots of doc on this feature.

[light thunder]

I'd follow one of the youtube examples, but you can have collision volumes on sockets of the skeletons, and then fire interface events on overlap events - so if a box collision on someone's hand overlaps something, it can check if the thing it hit implements that interface, and activate that interface call on that actor

nice thing about this is that you can make it do something different for each item that implements the interface

[whole abyss]

Would i be able to make 2 specific character's collission capsules not interact momentarily?

If so i could probably do some fancy animations, but still make sure both instances don't suddenly go into a wall or through the ceiling

[light thunder]

You could toggle off collision on one of them but that will trigger any "END OVERLAP" function tied to it - it's not the best way to go about it, the optimal path is using custom collision channels

[light thunder]

I'd worry less about that - those animations will be tied to the character mesh and if they can't go through something, you just have to make sure the collision capsule is positioned correctly

[whole abyss]

For instance, one tiny character, going through anothers legs for some move. If there's a wall on the other side, i'd want them both to just get scooted a little bit so there's space

[light thunder]

But you can also make an event notify from the animation (like when the hand box collision is furthest out) and make things happen then

[light thunder]

That's a bit more involved and I'm probably not qualified to give you the best advice on it

[obsidian mist]

how should i decrement or increment variable? i see that there is macro but it does -1 or +1, i need to change it inside this macro or somehow duplicate it?

[light thunder]

seems like if that was the case, he'd hit his head on the wall and the enemy would play a 'grab failed leg dive to punish player" animation

[light thunder]

Just get the previous value of it and add whatever # to it you want

[whole abyss]

didn't think of that. i was just thinking gamey stuff, like say arkham games, like even if you're doin some fancy move all characters still stay within bounds

if you understand what i mean

[obsidian mist]

using which node?

[light thunder]

there's root motion but you're going to do some more research on that

[whole abyss]

definetely

[obsidian mist]

i think i need to replicate this kind of set

[light thunder]

but if I remember arkham correctly, I think they simply moved both actors to a different location but they rotated the player camera maybe so it wasn't as obvious

[light thunder]

Nope -

simple as that

[whole abyss]

That might be the best solution. Still then i somehow have to check for collissions beforehand. I was wondering if there maybe was some way, with 2 seperate collission capsules interacting, they just stay within bounds, but also still interlocked

Like when you run into a wall, the capsule just stops on the wall

It's a bit complicated to wrap ones head around maybe

[light thunder]

You are going to need to watch some Youtube videos or maybe take a course -

and abandon all attempts to do anything until you've watched those videos and setup those systems

[whole abyss]

right right sure, i'll do some more research