ue4-general

[covert summit]

turns out obsidian disagrees

well mostly

[drowsy snow]

Anyway, give Flow Plugin a try:
https://github.com/MothCocoon/FlowGraph

[covert summit]

a pure blueprint like graph, but one that is built around dialog paths gets super messy really quick

let me find the video it was gdc I think

https://youtu.be/oRHl2PLKwfY

highly recommend for background

obsidian games are all about dialog so there's a lot of good tidbits in there, even if dialog is not a central thing for your project

they cover how their tool has evolved over the years

[drowsy snow]

Also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chf3REzAjgI

[covert summit]

and some of the pitfalls

but when it comes to saving state to the game save, it's boring :-)

[drowsy snow]

Saving state is as simple as storing bunch of world changing bools 😛

[celest blaze]

Obsidian really does like their dialog that's for damn sure. lol

[covert summit]

yeah lol

[drowsy snow]

And The Outer Worlds is a UE4 game.

[covert summit]

I didn't actually know that, cool

[celest blaze]

did not know that. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 🤔

[covert summit]

well, I guess what were they gonna use, the creation engine? 🤣 outer worlds definitely has ladders sooooo

in fact there's a fun story about ladders in outer worlds

[celest blaze]

and the flow nodes plug-in is bookmarked for later. good link

[covert summit]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vg247.com/2019/12/16/the-outer-worlds-dead-companion-bug-infinite-ladder-story/amp/

oh god sorry for amp link

[drowsy snow]

It's what I use for my action RPG project. Definitely worth it.

[celest blaze]

That's a good one.

[celest blaze]

Anything that makes the making go faster is cool to me. lol

I also totally forgot Obsidian did Stick of Truth

[covert summit]

theres this little hope in the back of my mind that now that obsidian and bethesda are both MS studios that MS will give fallout 4 to obsidian

in a true twist of fate for todd howard

[celest blaze]

lol I can dig it

[covert summit]

it would just be so perfect

hand fallout back to the team that originally made it

hey, they are super busy over there at bethesda figuring out that "future technology" required for ES6 (aka "ladders")

[celest blaze]

bahahahahah

[covert summit]

tbf starfield or whatever they call it seems interesting

[celest blaze]

It does, but the ED:O burn is till fresh so I'm not holding out hope on space games for now.

So speaking of Dialogue trees and node based stuff. I was actually trying to use the Not Yet plug-in, but couldn't figure out how to implement it. Every example ties it to first or third person with player overlaps, when I want to just use a button to initiate dialogue. OR they tie it to the level BP which from what I know is not a smart way of doing it.

I asked in their discord but got no response and I just left it in the dust after that.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ is what it is

[drowsy snow]

Well, the Flow Graph is not strict to level BP, which is super useful because I'm adapting open world level (and it's fine for single player games)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj76JP1f-I4

[celest blaze]

Yeah. I'm gonna have to look into that more closely.

[celest blaze]

Also this made me cry laughing.

[drowsy snow]

You haven't seen worse:
https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

[celest blaze]

Oh that's priceless

[violet goblet]

i recently tried out to create a "toon shader"
after viewing that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8m8F3Y-WHA
i copy pasted that shader:
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ouq8_ywz/
into unreal, but after applying that, all kinda shakes around, and i dont know why? 😩

https://gyazo.com/07facb6c66f131b1c123c3c0206f17ad

[drowsy snow]

I won't do outline in post process if I were you.
Not only the performance drawbacks is quite high, it's disrupting the vanilla post FX pipeline and possibly particle effects as well.

[violet goblet]

oh okay, thanks for noticing that one 🙂
beginner here 🙂 gald for that info

but can i use it for toon shading (without outlines?) with less performance drawbacks? @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

You could, though I'm also doing toon shading as shading model, without touching any post FX.

[violet goblet]

oh no i got it, i dont really need any post process volume here

yeah, thanks! it just "cleared" up 😄 thanks alot!

[drowsy snow]

As for the outline, I'm just going for the old flipped normal trick. That means you have to be more generous with the poly count due to 2x increase (and I should research into light manipulation), but it works for now with modest performance.

[violet goblet]

thanks alot!

[drowsy snow]

And also it works with post FX pipeline and blends with particle effect.

[frigid bear]

plz

helpu

[drowsy snow]

#ue4-general message

[frigid bear]

oh thnx sorry

[dusky slate]

Does anyone know how World Composition and Level Loading works?

[drowsy snow]

World Compositon = automated open world level streaming, determined by active camera position
Level Loading = normal level travel

[dusky slate]

okay maybe someone knows a quick answer to my question, when i enable World Composition and Load into my Level, i am in a Standalone Level without all the World Comp stuff.

is there a way to load the World Composition and a sublevel in which i want to spawn?

[drowsy snow]

Load the master World Composition worked fine on me, even from Main Menu level.
Though in standalone, the engine doesn't wait for sublevel to load, by default.

[dusky slate]

so basically, i need my Main Menu to be the Persistent Level for the World Comp, and then i can Load the Levels and will still be inside the World Composition?

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

[dusky slate]

the problem with that is, i instantly load the World Composition Level (cause it only has the Skylight etc.) and while the other level is loading i am floating in mid air

until the level gets loaded

[covert summit]

oh god no don't do world comp on your menu

[drowsy snow]

I saw you encounter this issue from miles away

There is a C++ trick that allows the engine to wait for the level streaming to be finished:

void UIsekaiGameInstance::LoadComplete(const float LoadTime, const FString & MapName)
{
    Super::LoadComplete(LoadTime, MapName);

    // Flush world composition on level loading to prevent the player from falling though the ground,
    // and also to prevent sublevels from popping up around the player.
    USystemFunctionLibrary::FlushWorldComposition(this);
}

With UIsekaiGameInstance replaced by your Game Instance class.

[dusky slate]

when i do that, my Engine crashes when it loads the other levels

[iron violet]

hey guys

can you help me

im new at ue4

[drowsy snow]

Oh right, almost forgot
LoadComplete is a function you define in your Game Instance class header.

[drowsy snow]

https://www.dontasktoask.com

[covert summit]

please this

[drowsy snow]

The definition is pretty simple:

virtual void LoadComplete(const float LoadTime, const FString & MapName) override;

[iron violet]

how to place light?

[drowsy snow]

Drag point light from Place Actors panel to the viewport

[iron violet]

but it still pitch black

[drowsy snow]

You have nothing in your level that can be lit up.

[iron violet]

ahhh ok

im gonna try

[covert summit]

lighting does nothing without a surface to bounce off

thats not even unreal or game engine specific

[iron violet]

yes i alredy do that

[drowsy snow]

Though it's interesting that UE3 logos still remain if the level template is missing

[covert summit]

nice, add that to ue trivia night

[covert summit]

screenshot of your light in the level?

[drowsy snow]

Also unlit view for sanity check

[iron violet]

Thanks guys now my project filled with light

[covert summit]

well technically.......

oh never mind. just don't go placing sky spheres wherever you want to put a light

just one of those :-)

[quartz reef]

Does Unreal support export FBX with materials / textures ? I have a skeletal mesh that i need to cut the head off and i can't get the materials/ textures to export with the skeletal mesh

[covert summit]

not sure about materials but you can definitely export a skeletal mesh to FBX

[iron violet]

error: lights need to be rebuild?

how to rebuild

[covert summit]

its not an error

you dont need to rebuild every time you see that message

[frozen stratus]

Need some help... when I apply Angular Impulse below 24 the actor in question turns and then stops after having turned that much. If I apply angular impulse of 24 or greater, the actor keeps turning at matching speed, never stops as I believe it should do. Damping is zero, physics is enable, gravity is off. Basically the actor is floating in the air. I have no problem with regular Add Impulse with small values but for some reason rotation stops

[covert summit]

but for best performance and quality, static lighting (ie prebuilt lighting) is ideal for many types of scenes

to build use the Build button to build everything, or Build -> Build Lighting Only to just build lighting

[iron violet]

how to make it to realtime?

[covert summit]

for your simple scene it will be fairly quick but for big scenes it can take a looooong time

if you dont have lighting built, the editor will treat it as dynamic mostly

you can change the movability of a light to change whether the editor considers it for static lighting build

but if you decide to opt out of static lighting entirely then this isnt the way to do it

instead use Force No Precomputed LIghting in the level settings

honestly though

well it depends on what you are doing

if you have a day night cycle, you basically have to use fully dynamic

i use it for most of my levels, lighting perf is not a bottleneck

but if its not a day/night cycle, the perf gain and quality gain you get is worth it

even if lighting builds are the bane of all UE devs existence

if you happen to have an RTX 30 series GPU, then UE4 has GPU Lightmass which will use the raytracing cores to speed it up

its still... is it beta or experimental right now, but thats not necessarily a reason to absolutely not use it

[covert summit]

to sum it up though, just use regular static lighting and build lighting every once in awhile- probably when you are asleep

until you know that you need fully dynamic lighting

[iron violet]

ok thanks for advice

[drowsy snow]

Laughs in UE4 SSGI

[covert summit]

the editor and even packaged builds will still work fine without building that lighting btw, but the message will remain (in development packaged builds)

oh and also nice little "preview" indicators on your shadows just to remind you that youve not actually finished it

but while working on the game its fine

lmao

i was really hoping that was a "simulator game" like carwash simulator but for doing unreal dev but written in unity

[drowsy snow]

Also Unity (sort of) banned lightmapper plugin not a long ago

[covert summit]

lol

here's to our ssgi/lumen/gpu lightmass/no-more-light-builds-kindof-probably future

[drowsy snow]

Maybe that, I forgot the name

Though aren't Unreal Marketplace prohibits DLLs?

[covert summit]

i thought it was about UVs

technically its an external link

[drowsy snow]

DLSS still external link

Which is fine for third party software integration

[covert summit]

if you ask them really really really nicely.... then no

[drowsy snow]

Though it's not a problem since Unreal's lightmapper is solid out of the box 😛

[quaint fox]

im trying to preload some levels using the asset manager when entering the main menu, but it's causing multi-second stuttering in the menu until done... Can i put a limit on the loading speed somehow, so it's slower but more responsive?

[drowsy snow]

That's what loading screens are meant to mitigate.

[quaint fox]

doing it in the loading screen kinda defeats the purpose of preloading it though

[drowsy snow]

So you want to have level switch a la Valley of the Ancient demo?

[quaint fox]

well, mostly i just wanna spend idle cpu time in the main menu to decrease the loading time when the player does finally press new/load game

but it seems to either be assigning too many threads to do the loading, or giving them too high priority

because its killing the main thread too

[frigid bear]

i tried many videos they arent working

because in those thay have made it only for highscore, i want it for time minutes time seconds and time miliseconds

[drowsy snow]

Why not having yout time as seconds float?

You know that something like 1m30s is basically 90 seconds, right?

[drowsy snow]

The problem with that method is that you'll never know which level the player is going to load from their save data.

[frigid bear]

i have my time minutes time seconds and time miliseconds as int

[quaint fox]

that wont be a problem, im only loading assets/levels the player is guaranteed to use... but though its working, its kinda frustrating having the mouse freeze for up to a couple of seconds at a time

[drowsy snow]

That's not a good practice for actually storing time data.

You could make an int struct for the time separation, only if it's cosmetically done.

[frigid bear]

i converted em to floats...

[drowsy snow]

Why not the other way around? Having the time data as seconds float is much more elegant and efficient than having it as int struct.

[dusky slate]

Okay, so i got my World Composition working, now the question is, can i only load one level via Blueprint at a time? like Level Streaming, cause when i spawn, ALL levels load at the same time and i only want a single level to load.

[frigid bear]

sorry. I converted them now but still the highscore is not working

[drowsy snow]

What's not working? All you have to improvise is just reverse the comparison operation, it's like low score.

[frigid bear]

ill try

[drowsy snow]

Create a new WC layer and adjust the streaming distance (in Unreal unit / centimetres)

[dusky slate]

the problem is, the first level is part of the second level. so when i'm in the first level i am automatically in the second, so the streaming distance doesnt matter

[drowsy snow]

Well, the bounds are overlapping. Remember that World Composition streams levels in open world manner.

[dusky slate]

but is it possible to load/unload levels in World Composition?

[drowsy snow]

Not selectively.

[dusky slate]

FUCK

rip

okay, so level streaming it is?

[frigid bear]

i did correct but its still not working

[drowsy snow]

If your game isn't open world or connected by corridors, then level streaming is fine.

[dusky slate]

okay, thanks for the info

[covert summit]

another world composition casualty

all hail the coming of world partition

[drowsy snow]

People seem to forget how World Composition sucks when viewed in high altitude.

The problem is that at one quest (not included in the demo), the airship has to soar high enough that it goes through the volumetric clouds.

[icy quest]

Would using skookumscript and converting my project mean I could run the exe without C++?

[drowsy snow]

I don't know if World Partition is going to work in high altitude.

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

[icy quest]

Bruh

Still tryna find a way around it 🤣🤣

[drowsy snow]

You're still going to need Visual C++ redist regardless.

[icy quest]

What if I use a plugin to shift my language to python or something

That's so depressing

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't matter.
You're still going to need Visual C++ redist regardless.

[icy quest]

Ok thx anyway

[dusky slate]

https://tenor.com/view/hail-the-victorious-dead-rohan-aragorn-gif-19159292

[drowsy snow]

Don't play games in school computer, kids.

[light thunder]

How do I get all actors of a class, including CHILDREN of that class?

[forest holly]

<@&213101288538374145> Could Control Rig get its own channel? It's an entire scripting system now and it's rigging more than animation

[ashen brook]

please don't ping us for this, use the #server-feedback channel

I can see that making sense though

[fierce tulip]

^ on both accounts

[drowsy snow]

I swear I will working on blog post series dedicated to Control Rig.

I just need more testing before settling into the articles.

[hidden cairn]

quick Q. Im casting to a blueprint from inside a widget - what is my object reference going to be for that cast?

the widget is called byt he bp and I want to send back a value

[rich spoke]

Is it possible to backup your UE4 projects?

And use them after reinstalling Windows 10

[drowsy snow]

How about this. Your BP spawns a widget, with the widget having a variable of your BP class object reference exposed on spawn.

[hidden cairn]

wil ltry that 🙂 thanks

[drowsy snow]

Not putting them in C: drive should be fine. Reinstalling Windows typically only mess with C: drive and not any other drives.

[rich spoke]

Huh

I will backup 'em still

im afraid of it

[drowsy snow]

I said typically, because wiping other drive from setup is going to happen only if you deliberately delete all partitions of your disks.

And by deliberately, I mean trying so hard for it.

[drowsy snow]

If you're so paranoid of it, even if it's outside of C: drive, just copy the entirety of your project folder somewhere else or push them to your repo.

[north shadow]

Hey guys i'm learning about HUD and menu and when i want to open a level with button "start" my lvl don't wanna be play but the other are playable ... Why..

[crimson basin]

Hey, how do people tend to work in UE4/5 (mainly as an artist / level designer)? Are you making one UEproject for all your levels / art projects? Or 1 project for each peice of art / level? Using 1 project would help with Megascans and not having copies all over the place. Are there any tech downsides to having multiple levels in 1 project?

[drowsy snow]

Largely depends on your project.

[crimson basin]

Thanks Lorash, obviously if you need to work on a real time / baked lighting each project would need to be different. Do huge terrains slow down an entire project if they exist in an unloaded level?

[drowsy snow]

But then it shouldn't be matter if it's just going to be used for renders.

[crimson basin]

Cool, this quesiton came about as i had a sanbox / testbed project and adding a level with a huge terrain made other smaller levels almost unuseable.

[pale verge]

So I made boxes in my game that are like the ones you can find in crash bandicoot but when I jump near the boxes they jump with me. Why is it doing this?

[eager marsh]

this line doesnt work for some reason

the object has Recharge tag

but it cant detect it for some reason

if i set it to !otherActor-otherActor->ActorHasTag("Recharge")

then it prints collided with

am i doing somethign wrong with the tag

[cedar fern]

hey uh, i downloaded the epic games launcher to try UE5 but now i can't access any of my games... do i need to download a different thing or??

yeah uhm...

uh yeah

[dreamy zenith]

That's possible??

[cedar fern]

apparently i guess

i- well thank you. that fixed it

man i feel dumb now

[vocal herald]

How can I minimize my In Game View to be like 1/5 of a Screen and be at a bottom right corner?

[plush yew]

is this a good chat to ask stuff about unreal engine in general? just general stuff ?

ok, so, im assuming i can do landscapes and everything there for scenery, is there such a thing as already pre-made characters that i can just load them and use them? because all i would like to do, at lesat for now is create stuff, and then look at it from a player's perspective, is this possible?

why unreal UI (border specifically) keeps changing brush tint color to default after setting it to a certain value and then hitting compile+save, is it a bug?

ok, also, how easy is it to create anything scenery wise with just UE?

[plush yew]

provided u have 3D models, extremely easy.

ah so i have to model them outside?

i see

ok so what can i do with just UE scenery wise? without any models?

UE's inside modeller is primitive for specific tasks, it isn't bad but it's quite unintuitive to use. u can see what's being done with that on youtube.

it's nothing to scoff at but if you want proper looks, u need 3D assets for scenery.

[vocal herald]

Does anyone know how to do this? Right now my UI is rendered over in Game View. I need to have my In Game View in a corner and scaled down.

[plush yew]

what about terrain?

yah what lorash said, i'd only add that only reason i often use unreals terrain editor is convenience whenever i want primitive enough terrain, that it can be done there.

which is more than 50% of times, third party 3D modelling software, still highly reccomended. U can only go so far without either using assets or dedicated 3D modelling soft.

hmm

but if i model and texture something outside UE, then its just loading the thing, and put any character in it just to walk on it right?

[plush yew]

no it's not that simple, you might wanna check several beginner tutorials about colliders and UCX imports.

[fierce tulip]

beginner tutorials in general

[plush yew]

you definitely won't get how whole pipeline works by asking question after question about it, that's for sure, been there, done that, it doesn't work that way.

[fierce tulip]

points at the pinned messages in this channel for beginner documentation/tutorials

[plush yew]

unf...

[marble tiger]

I'm pretty new to ue4 and i'm trying to make a car game and my wheels apparently have no collision, i can't figure out why

[plush yew]

ok and considering all of this, which unreal engine do you recomend? i have a pretty good computer, but its not the best in the world

[fierce tulip]

ue4 until ue5 is ready for production. anything you learn in 4 will be usable in 5, minus a few differences

[plush yew]

latest stable 4 version, 5 isn't coming out for a while...

[pale verge]

anyone know why if I have stacked boxes and I jump near them the boxes jump with me?

[plush yew]

@marble tiger double click on wheel mesh and there see complex and simple collision, if complex collision is present there, switch to "use complex as simple" option. it might not have simple collisions.

im asking because i heard UE is quite heavy in general...

it isn't rlly, it needs half decent PC unless u dabble in professional hyperrealistic realtime renders

it's just UE engine has tendency of seeming "heavy" under certain treshold of PC rig, just a lil bit above that treshold - and it works like a charm.

my min specs would be: 16GB ram, GTX 1070, 6 core CPU

[marble tiger]

Eh, now my wheels have capsule hitboxes? And when i try to regenerate it as single convex hull, they completely disappear.

[pale verge]

@plush yew What other information do you need?

[plush yew]

for now, i dont wanna make any specific game, idk any coding to do games

[pale verge]

this is what I currently have setup. When I stack them and move my character near them and jump they jump with me.

[plush yew]

i just wanna model things, and explore them on a player's perpective

[plush yew]

adjust them accordingly, or even better, model ur own collisions outside and pack them with original mesh in FBX with UCX prefix.

[marble tiger]

I just wanted collision on my wheels... and it doesn't even collide with the ground.

[plush yew]

i offered as much of help as i could based on information u gave me, i don't know whether wheels are properly imported, properly setup, whether they are ready for unreal or not, whether they are optimized for simple collision nor complex, whether they come with their own UCX or not. I assume they aren't optimized to be used with unreal, so i offered you one way of doing that - creating ur own collisions via UCX way.

if i was to make a game on it, for pc, where woudl you guys recomend me to start?

[plush yew]

if you want to go solo - from personal experience, i'd reccomend to learn game design and those high level stuff for a while before dabbling into technical stuff, that would set up good groundwork for you to grow into a proper developer.

also u will be more equipped for deciding whether to use engine or not at all.

i have some ideas, but i guess i should start simple :V

@plush yew let me ask you a question to understand where you coming from more clearly, so are you looking for lowest, easiest step to get into game development industry without any specific deadlines or aims in mind or do you want to make something specific and you want easiest entry point into doing that?

[pale verge]

@plush yew Did my previous post give enough info?

[plush yew]

i do have game ideas, but most of them are not fully developed ideas, so i guess the first thing @plush yew

@plush yew then that would be getting good at game design from personal experience, i had atleast 100-200 game ideas with all the systems written down of paper before i even picked engine to use, for me it translated very well into knowing exactly which engine i needed and what i needed to learn first. since around 80% of my game ideas were either first person or third person, it was quite easy to go with unreal engine and then since i had clear plans of how many features i have in my game for example or what mechanics i have - it was easy to google and research them one by one - for example - oh i need subtitle system, oh i need doors that open after a certain amount of time, oh i need jump that feels like mario etc. etc.

in my personal opinion, trying to learn how to technically make games without learning how games work and how to design them, is like learning grammar without the knowledge of the language. it's possible but it will be too many "where do i go now"-s in the way.

Youtube channel i would reccomend that taught me alot would be extra credits (only the videos before their main guy left thought), after that it became less about games imo.

hmm

well the easiest game i can think of that i wanan do would be in 3rd/1st person

simple as this: a man gathering wood from trees, then he has to go process it a few timse in a few machines, load it into a truck, deliver it and sell it

go to the same again so he can buy better trucks, upgrade machines and upgrade the axe

there is such a game on android

called woodcutter frenzy or something

it's quite fun and streamlined game

u buy better axes, more storages, factories to develop interior items and sell them at higher profit, etc.

basically IKEA simulator.

u can find it and try to analyze it, see where it works and where it fails, etc - for starters.

i have one called lumber inc

but my biggest problem in all of this is coding...

i cant learn it :v

yup that's the one

lol where the fuck "woodcutter frenzy" came from

😄

and about coding yeah, i absolutely can't write code aswell, that was second reason i decided to go with unreal and its blueprints. i make everything in blueprints.

they're quite easier to understand the execution flow but you still need to have "programming logic mindset" - there's no way around it.

[gritty inlet]

Am I the only one who finds code easier than blueprints

I swear when I look at blueprints I get a headache

I am a bit biased I suppose, as I am a software engineer

[plush yew]

well you're the lucky one, i can say that for sure. whenever i look at the code, i don't understand shit about execution order. zero! nada! 😆

[gritty inlet]

My issue with blueprints is not really understanding all the inputs and outputs of the modules

I don't know how to hook it up properly

it looks like gibberish to me

[spare kernel]

You should try CryEngines flow graph

[plush yew]

@plush yew and can i make like that, but in first/third person with those blue prints?

[plush yew]

you can make everything u need with blueprints, same as u can with code and then some more.

[marble tiger]

Ah nice, apparently my wheel is being set to the wrong bone, and i can't scale the bone because fuck me i used the wrong unit system in Blender.

[plush yew]

@marble tiger why wheels are on the bone at all?

[marble tiger]

Dude i don't know i just followed a tutorial

[plush yew]

oh i see

so considering all of this, what youtube videos do you recomend? @plush yew

Extra Credits from start till the point where narrator changes.

after that you'll know which part to pick and start working on first, whether to use assets or not, whether to learn 3D or not and what are the game genres and how difficult it is to make each genre compared to others.

once u know that, u will know all the terms like vertical slice, animation, rigging, character movement with blueprints, inventory system, datatables (etc etc what u might need) to search tutorials for by yourself.

this advice should be written above every page or channel that's somehow related to game development. 😆

hmm 😦

[pale verge]

sorry I figured it out, its been a long night for me, thanks for trying.

Sure! So I had a movable box that is also serving as a destructible. It has a box collider on it as well and all that good stuff. I have a spin mechanic that is a lot like Crash Bandicoot, where if you jump you perform a smaller spin to destroy the box in the middle of three boxes. The issue I was running into was that when you would put your character next to the boxes the collider tied to the player was colliding with the collider on the boxes and it would pull it up with it. Now they are locked to the X and Y axis and I just didn't have custom collision setup.

I was honestly just getting frustrated.

[vocal herald]

IsHovered return false if I click on a widget

Is there a way to check if my mouse is over a widget without it turning to false when I click on it?

[sick parcel]

I'm having soo much fun with the landscape tools

first time I use them, I'm 12 again.

[frigid bear]

hello guys, i have question

do you know how in titanfall 2 or apex when you crouch the gun tilts... i want to replicate that but i cant find any videos...

[sick lichen]

I feel like I should be asking this in a beginners chat or something.

I want to try and make a Wargame boardgame similar to 40k.

I've watched a number of Turn based RPG tutorials but they're not quite what I'm looking for. Any tips or recommendations?

I don't want to do a hex/square based movement system. I want to be able to move troops a distance in inches.

I'm still learning UE to be able to accurately gauge distances and sizes so any tips on regards to that too

[exotic thicket]

For flat areas you can just take two points and calculate the distance

[frigid bear]

please

[exotic thicket]

Just adjust the gun's orientation when crouching

[agile tree]

hello everyone! 🙂 i've got a little question. i'm currently using in console command "showflag.wireframe 1" is there a way for me to see this for all actors while in game on a development build for QA?

basically i'd like to see all characters meshes within game across the map

[dusky thorn]

Hi everyone, im new here, im a fullstack programmer, and im really wanna start with unreal engine, i know the basics about the interface, but im need a start project idea. anyone can help me to start with this.?

[cedar wave]

Make GTA6

[gloomy ginkgo]

Guys I need help.
How do i create a simple muzzle flash particle that spawn and destroys itself after few milliseconds?

[fallen gust]

Make a Doom clone to familiarize yourself with the API.

[winter gate]

You can setup your particle system in the blueprint with the player / gun or whatever and have it hidden by default. Then you can call an event and set Actor Hidden in Game (false) >>> Delay >>> Actor Hidden in Game (true)

[burnt horizon]

Can anyone help me

[winter gate]

Just ask a question. Don't ask to ask.

[burnt horizon]

I have a advance battleroyal template and I have to merge it advance inventory and weapon system

Advanced inventory and weapon system I will watch toutrial in YouTube I have to merge this template with Al's v4 the merge it with advanced Battleroyal template

[gloomy ginkgo]

But i want my particle to be like the starter content exploding particle which explodes and destroys itself automatically

How caN I do that?

[agile tree]

does anyone know the UE4 console command for being able to see all character wireframes (bones?) throughout the level/map/area. when i do "showflag.bones 1" it only shows it for myself and nearby actors. but im not able to see through walls for all actors within the area. do i have to increase the render distance for this command ?

[grim ore]

why not copy the starting particle if you like it?

[gloomy ginkgo]

but I don't understand how it is made

[grim ore]

well have you looked at the documentation, or watched any tutorials on that system? if not.... of course you dont understand how its made

if its a cascade particle, the required section has "Kill on Completed"

it also has duration which determines if it loops or runs once

[winter gate]

Oh wow just discovered that within the starter content there's a blueprint called BP_LightStudio and clicking on it or dragging into my level causes UE5 to crash.

Cant even right click on it either.

[grim ore]

weird, no issues here in 4.26.2

[fresh shoal]

try learning instead of copy pasting it will then be easier to you to merge both

[arctic path]

instead of always casting to character, can i do this as a function?

[dense knoll]

UE4 stuck on this

[arctic path]

wow that worked 😮

[plush yew]

@plush yew i searched the guy you said, but he has a lot of playlists :V can you send me the right one?

[eager marsh]

can anyone help me out with tags on collision

for some reason it cant detect that the object has the right tag and keeps printing false

[fresh shoal]

#legacy-physics no?

[eager marsh]

its more the tag system itself not working

collision is fine

[north shadow]

Hey guys do you know why when i import an fbx in mixamo there are no texture ?

:/

Help me :-:

[covert summit]

wow microsoft has really been putting that AI into the office suite-- now its making games

[arctic path]

did you type the tag name into the correct spot?

[arctic path]

https://tenor.com/view/mangasainthilaremanga-manga-saint-hilare-manga-st-hilare-grime-grime-music-gif-14291749

[covert summit]

and gifs too, so lifelike

😛

[eager marsh]

@arctic path figured it out watched a tutorial and he placed the tag on the collider box and it still worked i coudlnt see tag component for actor so used blueprint to just set the tag manually and that did the job

[arctic path]

dont forget to make sure you set up the capsule as well with no collision or linetrace wont go thru

[eager marsh]

@arctic path when i try to set the capsule to no collision but mesh to blocking the character just falls through the floor is that how its supposed to work

[arctic path]

hold on there you set it to custom and let me look real quick did this yesterday 🙂

[eager marsh]

so capsule is set to custom overlapping everything

mesh is custom blocking everything

but character still falls through the floor

[arctic path]

hold on a sec

[eager marsh]

i was thinking maybe its because mesh is child of capsule but thats how its setup and dont think i can change it

it works fine for other objects though

[arctic path]

your doing this is in the child and not the main? thats not very smart lol

[eager marsh]

its default for blueprint class for character

since its defualt i kinda went with it

this is how bp class sets it up on its own

[arctic path]

set the mesh up like this

[eager marsh]

its setup similar only diffrence is it fires of overlap events

[arctic path]

thats weird then something is not right

[eager marsh]

it seems since capsule component is the root it is the only collision that is being checked

im trying to find out how to override or change that

From what i read thats just how the defaul character class is setup so I’ll have to make my own custom pawn and add character movement on my own

[arctic path]

Yeah do that becuase i did this all the other day.

#work-in-progress message

Do a BASECHARACTER_BP

and make 2 childs or how many you want for it for teams

only add the code to the base bp

[eager marsh]

yeah just started unreal a day ago so figuring how it works out

[winter gate]

Is it better to complete one level or one character in its entirety before moving onto the next? Or is it better to sort of work on all at once with lots of iterations until the whole game is finished?

I'm working on one level and multiple characters at once. Seems like it's the way to go.

[cedar wave]

Do w/e works for you

There is not one path

[dense knoll]

How do you change the material of UE Hair? Im not getting a n option

[north badger]

Any thoughts on how to fix this material flickering?

[north shadow]

Hey guys do you know why my animation is not taking the size of my character ?

[north badger]

@plush yew any thoughts on the flickering?

[barren ocean]

Getting this error message before UE crashes. I'm using GPU Lightmass, a couple stationary spot lights and one sphere reflection probe.
Do you have an idea what I could be doing wrong here? Or do you know where I find the log file mentioned in the error message?

[drowsy snow]

Try running in DirectX 11 mode.

[barren ocean]

Ok, currently "Default RHI" is set to "DirectX 12", I'll try your suggestion and set it to 11. Maybe my graphics card is too old? Got a GTX1060..

Unfortunately it didn't help 😭

[drowsy snow]

DX12 is unfortunately broken with the editor.

[drowsy snow]

Maybe increasing TDR delay? I doubt it'll solve the problem, but Substance users have success mitigating it.

[barren ocean]

Hmm, it seems like I can't use GPU Lightmass if I don't switch to DX12.

[barren ocean]

I might try and see if CPU lightmass behaves the same or not. Thank you for your help @drowsy snow 🙂

[narrow mauve]

stop being so lazy UE jeez

[chrome beacon]

Hello everybody. A lot of assets which are normally installed in their own proper folders do not show up within the engine's browser. How do I fix that?

[fresh shoal]

Got a GTX1060

• Cries in Intel UHD 620 *

[fresh shoal]

make sure to import them not just put them in the folder

[chrome beacon]

are .uasset files and their own folders, they cannot be manually imported

[fierce tulip]

where did the uassets come from?
how did you move them?
what ue4 version did they came from, and in what version did you try to add them?

[stuck linden]

Im getting this crash when trying to join a session anyone know why

[chrome beacon]

are all of the same version of those the editor does show in the browser, I'm using 4.26.2

[fierce tulip]

that only answers my last question

[chrome beacon]

are from an old project I had in another drive after I got an SSD and i was forced to add them manually with the entire project

[fierce tulip]

that properly answers the first question :p
what do you mean with manually in this case?

[chrome beacon]

cut&paste

[fierce tulip]

was the folder structure identical?

[chrome beacon]

yep

[fierce tulip]

then basically the only reason for them not showing up is probably them being from a newer version, else there is no reason for them not showing up.
the only other thing I can think of is accidentally opening the wrong or duplicate project

[chrome beacon]

what I don't understand is why some files and folders are showing up and why others dont

so, how should I fix that?

can I?

the files are definitely from the same version of the engine

[fierce tulip]

iunno, i would have just opened the old project and migrated.
you can try and delete saved/intermediate folder, see if that helps but... iunno.

[chrome beacon]

didn't help, the issue persists

[fierce tulip]

then im out of suggestions

[chrome beacon]

Thanks anyway

[quaint snow]

is there a way to set vertices position of a sphere brush through blueprint? as if I were modeling it as usual, but via blueprint nodes

[drowsy snow]

BSP brushes? No, you can't.

[quaint snow]

yeah, BSP brushes 😦

oh could you elaborate a bit how could I go for it?

[fierce tulip]

it might help explaining why you try to do it, in case someone knows a better approach
so now what you are trying to do, but why.

[quaint snow]

the idea is that I have a set of X,Y,Z coordinates that defines some geometries, so I'd like to set each of these X,Y,Z to the vertices of a BSP brush so this brush will be shaped the way I'd like it to be, you know?

[drowsy snow]

But why?
Any specific reason not to use Procedural Meshes?

[quaint snow]

honestly that's the first time I hear about Procedural Meshes 😶

i was googling stuff like "how to edit geometry brushes via blueprints"

[drowsy snow]

http://www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/2020/10/23/runtime-mesh-generation-in-ue426
http://www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/2020/11/11/procedural-mesh-blueprints-in-ue426

[quaint snow]

thank you bro, i'll have a look at these 👍🏼 😄

[steady hound]

Heyo I started using unreal and do enjoy it so far but I have been annoyed at the performance.

The editor it painfully slow. Like un usable.

I type stuff in the blueprint editor and it takes a whole minute to register it and then lags out too much to properly be able select stuff.

Drop downs also take a minute to open.

And I'm running very high end hardware.

So my conclusion is that unreal is bottle necked.

So question is how do I fix it?

Is there some settings screen somewhere? (I checked preferences but didn't find any settings regarding performance)

My PC specs.
processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40 GHz (A bit low end for now)
Ram 16,0 GB
64 bit OS
GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060

[drowsy snow]

Downgrade your driver.

i know, I know, you're told to always keep drivers up to date, but new NVIDIA drivers are oddballs, and don't work properly with UE4 editor.

At least according to so many reports from other NVIDIA GPU users.
(I'm main on AMD)

[versed bluff]

Settings > Engine Scalability Settings

But yeah it's probably a driver issue, with those specs UE4 shouldn't run that bad

[steady hound]

Thanks for the help will have a look shortly 😄

Also how can I prevent oculus hub from launching when unreal does?

Like if I close it the engine seems to not start.

[drowsy snow]

Get rid of the VR stuff I guess

My knowledge when it comes to dealing with VR stuff is completely empty, so I would might as well ditch it entirely.

[burnt horizon]

I have a advance battleroyal template and I have to merge it advance inventory and weapon system

Advanced inventory and weapon system I will watch toutrial in YouTube I have to merge this template with Al's v4 then merge it with advanced Battleroyal template

[drowsy snow]

what?

[burnt horizon]

I have merge my marketplace content

anyone help me

I have a two template that have not good animations but in Als v4 have a very good animation but they didn't have any pickup
item in advance weapon and inventory system template there have pickup so I have got a toutrial I am merge Al's v4 with advanced inventory and weapon system but I also have advanced Battleroyal template there animation is very bad so I have to merge advance inventory and weapon system with advanced Battleroyal template

[drowsy snow]

Took me 10 or so times to decipher your mess of a message, but that aside...

How long you've been actually learning Unreal editor?

[drowsy snow]

Because by no means Advanced Locomotion System is meant to be plug and play, nor it is beginner friendly. It's super complicated to be integrated or merged with other templates or custom needs, but if you know what you're doing, it's going to be worth it.
It's what it says on the tin: Advanced Locomotion System

You're also attempting to use Advanced Battle Royale Template or something, and judging by that alone, I can safely assume you're jumping the gun too early from your early Unreal learning journey (in other words, you're not experienced enough)

[marsh swallow]

Is there a to create buttons and add them to a horizontal box inside the UI via PreConstruction script?

[drowsy snow]

Attempting to make Battle Royale game is a super common newcomer trap.

[drowsy snow]

You could, but I'd recommend that the buttons are contained within a User Widget, with your own Set Text logic and other stuff.

[marsh swallow]

i kinda wanted to stay away from sub widgets due to the way i have to set it up

:/ but i dont think you can create them dynamically.

at least i cant see it via BP

[burnt horizon]

@drowsy snow no I will already merge Al's v4 with advanced inventory and weapon system but after I have to merge advance inventory and weapon system with advanced Battleroyal template

https://youtu.be/7bIMADqzRnM

https://youtu.be/tjOKn-hXmz8

I have to merge this two template can anyone help me

[drowsy snow]

Because merging marketplace templates is not something a beginner would do...

How long you've been actually learning Unreal editor?

[burnt horizon]

I am learning from 3 months

That I need help from other I will give this template free but anyone merge it then get me project back

[drowsy snow]

Redistributing non-free marketplace assets for free is not legal.

[burnt horizon]

No anyone make me merge it

[drowsy snow]

And that's the problem.
You need to learn more about the editor and the Blueprints system, and actually get hang of it, before attempting to merge marketplace templates. 3 months of experience from nothing isn't enough.

Master the workings of Blueprints and anim BPs first, then come back to merging both templates once you're getting hang of it.
Again, merging marketplace template is not a beginner matter, and wildly differ from one template to another.

Be patient when learning. Nothing is instant.

[burnt horizon]

But I have to merge in this month

Can anyone tell me the process of merging

Ok I will give you demo of merging advanced Battleroyal template + ultimate shooter kit

In my timetable

[drowsy snow]

Who set you the deadline?

[burnt horizon]

https://youtu.be/EHu2TndWFX0

[drowsy snow]

We have similar case like this where someone attempting to alibi on "their project manager" for jumping the gun too early as a beginner.

[burnt horizon]

https://youtu.be/tjOKn-hXmz8

=

https://youtu.be/hftURP6JoGE

[winter gate]

Im also new but its my understanding that "template merging" isn't actually a thing that's directly built into unreal. It's more of a manual step by step process of trying to implement aspects of both games into one. So it's just game dev, you just have to figure it out and learn it. Like 菊地真 said, I'd also recommend starting with getting a better understanding of blueprints.

[burnt horizon]

I only need player movement and pickup from advanced inventory and weapon system to advanced Battleroyal template

[winter gate]

Sounds easy enough, good luck 😄

@burnt horizon Watch these videos ---> https://www.youtube.com/c/MathewWadsteinTutorials/videos

[drowsy snow]

Well, if you're know what you're doing, then do it. Good luck.

[potent cypress]

Guys can anyone help we with this error, I am panicking
LogEditorServer: Warning: Failed to find the world in already loaded world package /Game/Level-1/level-1! Referenced by:
Package /Game/Level-1/level-1 is not currently reachable.

[drowsy snow]

Maybe <@&213101288538374145> could help clean the unnecessary embed previews/YT, starting after Darinius's message

[weary basalt]

Why?

[potent cypress]

Can anyone help me with this issue? I am panicking

[drowsy snow]

It felt cluttered and spammy.

But I maybe wrong for asking for little cleanup.

[weary basalt]

Why didnt you ask him to remove the embeds?

[drowsy snow]

What are you exactly doing when the error hapoens?

[potent cypress]

This message showed up after launching the Engine

[drowsy snow]

So it's in editor?

[potent cypress]

I can see the .umap file in the explorer, but the engine is not loading it

[potent cypress]

Yeah, my map is not being loaded by the editor

[flat pewter]

Is there a "FarClippingPlane" option for camera rendering in UE4?

I only see NearClippingPlane

[drowsy snow]

You can't open it at all?

[potent cypress]

There's no map file to open, I can see it in the windows explorer but I can't see it in the editor

[drowsy snow]

Far Clipping Plane doesn't really exists.

[drowsy snow]

The closest thing you're looking for would be Culling Volumes.

[flat pewter]

I see. Was hoping there was a setting for that like in Unity.

Appreciate it 🙇

[drowsy snow]

Probably associated version data in the .umap got mismatched/the file itself got corrupted.

Try recovering from autosaved if there's any.

[potent cypress]

I am verifying the engine from the Epic launcher

To see if there's anything corrupt

[drowsy snow]

/Game root directory has nothing to do with engine files.

It's project level root Contents directory.

[potent cypress]

So the map file is corrupt?

[drowsy snow]

Likely so.

[potent cypress]

Is there any fix for it?

[stuck spade]

What's the best resource in regards to learning about capturing microphone input?

I'm new to unreal engine (worked with unity a bit before), but am familiar with c++. Issue is documentation hasn't been great so far

[drowsy snow]

I'm afraid not, if you don't have the autosaves or the backup in repo

[potent cypress]

Ok if I start a new level, is there any way to prevent this from happening again?

[drowsy snow]

Just hope that there's no cosmological mishaps with your disk's I/O

[drowsy snow]

Are you going to use it for voice chats?

[potent cypress]

Thanks for the help

[stuck spade]

Eventually yes? My situation is a bit weird. I'm trying to do in game NPC that will listen to microphone input, and respond with their own text-to-speech, similar to siri. Right now I have a webserver that takes a linear16 encoded .wav and returns a lienar16 encoded .wav, but eventually I want to stream the buffer to the server

to start off though, I'd be happy with just saving the audio locally and then sending the POST to the server, rather than worry about streams rn

[drowsy snow]

That's quite sophisticated. Try asking about your specific use case in #audio.

[stuck spade]

Ignore the other parts of it for now, how can I record a .wav from microphone?

[arctic path]

so @burnt horizon your just taking things and copy and pasting them into your game with out knowing what each thing does? im sorry bud, but your game will be awful. Your not doing anything here, but just straight up stealing even tho things are paid for. This is not how you dev, you need to be creative. This is not creativity.

[chrome beacon]

A long night trying to figure out how to finally manage to have all folders and file showing up inside the editor's browser and couldn't fix that. Any working suggestion anyone? I really need some help with this, I'm out of options right now. Thanks!

[covert summit]

what do you mean

a statement like that makes me think you are adding assets to a project in File Explorer (ie outside the engine)

[chrome beacon]

I was forced to do so.

[covert summit]

why?

[chrome beacon]

I couldn't open the project anymore so I had to create a new one.

[covert summit]

oh that sucks

hmmm what was the error you get opening the old project?

[chrome beacon]

I had some trouble withthe new drive, an SSD

[covert summit]

ohhh

[chrome beacon]

was corrupted somehow

[covert summit]

what was the error you got trying to open it after being corrupted?

[chrome beacon]

I don't remember, I was quite nervous by the fact some drives were suddenly disappearing, with Windows not detecting them nymore

[hazy raft]

is this where i ask questions about game development in ue5

[covert summit]

nope, #ue5-general

[covert summit]

ok, so then you copied whatever you could out before you couldnt anymore?

[chrome beacon]

sort of, I did all scared of further troubles

[covert summit]

well im assuming you dont have the original uproject and folder structure or something

otherwise you could try it right now and see what the error is

[chrome beacon]

I kept it as it was, I did a straight Cut&Paste so the structure was perfectly the same as it was

[covert summit]

i see, but then when opening it after cut&paste it didnt have everything in it?

[chrome beacon]

usually I make a screenshot of the error messages I get but I was doing everythong on the rush

Windows' browser shows everything, the moving was complete

in the editor browser some folders and files are showing up correctly, others don't appear at all

[arctic path]

You cant copy and paste anything like this, you need to migrate it. or advanced migrate it. the only way for something to work is if the root is the content folder.

[frosty osprey]

Hello guys, my cars r sliding and shaking like this in unreal engine, can someone help to fix this?

[drowsy snow]

Please remux it to MP4 first.

[arctic path]

Thats like copying a material to a folder with out the texture, its going to break because it can not find where the reference to the base texture is.

[frosty osprey]

remux?

[covert summit]

cant do it

[frosty osprey]

convert...?

[drowsy snow]

convert.

[arctic path]

then give up all together, you wont learn anything.

[frosty osprey]

which software should I use to do that?

[covert summit]

watch the names of people replying, im helping, not the reporter

[frosty osprey]

can a drive link work?

[arctic path]

sorry then just reading out of context.

[chrome beacon]

I understand that, but all the related items are there...

[drowsy snow]

Don't make us download video of someone's issue. Discord only have in-app player for MP4 videos and nothing else.

[frosty osprey]

so

which software to convert?

[chrome beacon]

what I don't understand is how some stuff was correctly detected and why others weren't

[arctic path]

Right click on the folder, click migrate, do advanced migrate. thats it.

becuase you are copy and pasting things to a folder that is not the content folder! you cant do this with out an advanced mirgrate......

[covert summit]

no read the context

[frosty osprey]

alr m converting

[covert summit]

they cannot load the original project at all

[arctic path]

Oh

if you cant load the project just delete everything in the uproject.

[frosty osprey]

there u go

[arctic path]

    "FileVersion": 3,
    "EngineAssociation": "5.0EA",
    "Category": "",
    "Description": "",
    "TargetPlatforms": [
        "Lumin",
        "Windows",
        "Mac"
    ]
}```

boom.

[covert summit]

wtf

[chrome beacon]

how can I migrate something that the editor doesn't show up... if they did show up there was no need of a migration. it would migrate only the items it does detect...

[arctic path]

im going to take a leave of absence from this conversation. This is just so simple stuff.

[frosty osprey]

@drowsy snow here it is

[covert summit]

yeah no its not

[covert summit]

ok when you load the new project with your old assets put in place, what does the output log tell you

[frosty osprey]

Can someone help me with this...?

[covert summit]

patience my friend

[chrome beacon]

I don't get any message saying that something didn't load

[frosty osprey]

ok

[covert summit]

close your editor, open it and load your new project, go to window -> developer tools -> output log, and paste the result

[drowsy snow]

This looks like friction issue to me.

[frosty osprey]

so.. how can I fix it?

[drowsy snow]

First, how do you setup the tire physics?

[frosty osprey]

I found these vehicles from the marketplace

It has tire config friction set to 1.5

[chrome beacon]

Alright... the file is huge. Basically it has a long list of assets, marked in red, which it says are too new but I don't see how that can be possible

[drowsy snow]

Then the friction is out of the question.
Does it slide sideways in a completely flat plane?

[frosty osprey]

yes

but while m driving it, it shakes but doesnt slide

I have another car which lifts its front up a little bit when entered game but doesn't slide or shake

[frosty osprey]

like the tires aren't touching the ground

[frosty osprey]

that was bcuz of the front tire size, I fixed it.

but not the truck sliding and shaking

[arctic path]

look for vehicle game in ue4 learn, and use that for a reference.

[covert summit]

too new, or they have no editor version

[frosty osprey]

the vehicle was already premade, found in marketplace

I just added possess

[arctic path]

did you ever add the correct surface to the material?

[covert summit]

paste just one of the errors @chrome beacon

[frosty osprey]

I have tried making one from scratch and that also has the same problem (in a different project)

[frosty osprey]

which material?

[arctic path]

landscape.

[frosty osprey]

correct surface... idk what u mean

[modern sinew]

So currently, my moving carpets accelerate whatever goes on it, and also I use failed casts to check what type of object it is, which probably not a good technique; anyone up to help me fix either or both of those?

[frosty osprey]

I just added textures?

wait ill send u a pic

[arctic path]

you need to add a physical material to the material.

[frosty osprey]

this is the landscape material.

[arctic path]

whats the pack.

this will make it easier

im watching a movie anyways

[frosty osprey]

which pack? ;-;

[arctic path]

where the vehicle came from

[frosty osprey]

oh

wait Ill find it

[arctic path]

Vehicle Variety Pack?

[frosty osprey]

yeah

[arctic path]

adding it hold on

[covert summit]

When time passes in these cases it seems like a lightbulb has clicked on how to work around it, I hope that is the case for you, it sucks hard to lose work in this case but it just underscores the importance of always having 2 recent local copies and ideally something off site if you can

or better have source control to off site

[arctic path]

this pack comes with the vehicles and no player pawn lmfao no wonder why it was free

[frosty osprey]

yeah

[arctic path]

sorry bud but that does not work in ue5, therefore i can not help. the blueprints break.

[frosty osprey]

ohh

[haughty burrow]

hello i am having trouble duplicating film grain onto another project of mine, here is a picture of it working

[covert summit]

wait a vehicle pack does not need to come with a player pawn

[haughty burrow]

this is my other project where its not working

[arctic path]

drivable vehicles with interiors for you to drop and use in your projects.

no player pawn but drag and drop into world settings lmfao

[covert summit]

"into world settings" wtf

[arctic path]

easy to implent, but still false advertisement.

[arctic path]

bro do you even use unreal engine?

everything you are saying is like russian

[frosty osprey]

not only that vehicle pack, I created a vehicle too and that also has the same problem in a separate project.

[arctic path]

that is a setting that you have that is breaking something then. gravity, physics. something you did

[covert summit]

everything you are saying is Russian my friend

you never drag and drop into world settings that makes no sense

[frosty osprey]

everything is stock except I disabled motion blur m pretty sure

[arctic path]

dude you dont UE. DRAG AND DROP INTO UE

WORLD SETTINGS

get freaking blocked bud

[snow crown]

@arctic path chill out bud

[arctic path]

give me a second let me look at this

[frosty osprey]

ok

[maiden swift]

@arctic path Lay off the insults and stick to spreadsheets, please.

[arctic path]

lol will due bud. The man does not know ue lingo. Drives me mad xD

[covert summit]

hmmmmm

[maiden swift]

We were all major newbies at some point. 🙂

[frosty osprey]

I am rn ._.

[arctic path]

true i should not get mad at that

[frosty osprey]

can't get a car to work properly, have been facing this issue for 2 months

[covert summit]

I'll assume you mean drag and drop into the world. The world settings is a different thing and it just doesn't make sense to drag and drop anything there

[maiden swift]

I'm not sure if this is true for anything in World Settings, but you can in fact drag and drop some assets onto properties, such as materials or meshes.

[arctic path]

you can drag and drop a player controlled blueprint into the world settings once you set your gameplay override.

[frosty osprey]

can we move on from this debate...?

[arctic path]

monster hold on debuging the asset pack gimme a sec.

[frosty osprey]

ok

might work for u, but idk why no cars work for me in any projects

[chrome beacon]

Not fixed at all, unfortunately. I was just googling around again to find a damn solution

[covert summit]

all that is fair, sorry if I missed the context, but @arctic path we can all be friends without the anger, sorry if I spurred it with my responses

[arctic path]

all good bud, i was just losing my crap for no reason 🙂 we are here to help each other.

[covert summit]

did seem that way, but it's all good :-)

[arctic path]

works perfect in there default map. make a video of enter exit vehicle

[chrome beacon]

frustration runs wild at times but, at least from my side, is always directed to objects and other not alive stuff not to people... I guess is the same for almost everybody 😄

[frosty osprey]

ok

[arctic path]

I have made in my 3 years of ue, about 30 projects. each time i wanted to do it better, then scrapped everything. Now I have all this knowledge in my mind, once in a while you slip up and just lose your crap. (today was that day lol)

[covert summit]

I'm not stressing, you've got more experience than I but I'm here mainly to share my knowledge too, and I love when folks teach me things :-)

[chrome beacon]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull would be proud of your words 😄

[chrome beacon]

Anyway... at this point I see no solution for my problem

[covert summit]

did you post a sample error?

[arctic path]

i can almost guarantee this is because of physical material.

[frosty osprey]

ok

[arctic path]

you need to set that for the landscape.

[frosty osprey]

so what now?

[frosty osprey]

ok

I watched a video, created a physics material with friction 1 and set that to landscape material

still same

[arctic path]

open up the demo tutorial level

set your player pawn into the gamemode pawn setting

and see if the same thing happens.

[frosty osprey]

gamemode pawn setting....

[arctic path]

go to playground

[frosty osprey]

ok

[chrome beacon]

is a long list, all saying the same thing I can summarize in "LogAssetRegistry: Error: Package filepath/filename.uasset is too new"

[arctic path]

inside world settings set your player pawn

then spawn in

[frosty osprey]

ok

[chrome beacon]

but I don't see how that is happening, especially if it doesn't happen with everything but just some things instead of others

[arctic path]

make a new project, drag and drop all your stuff into content folder.

[frosty osprey]

It takes like 5 mins to load a level :/

[jolly anchor]

Hi, I made a build with the use of Livelink. How do you use the build on another computer? It doesn't seem to detect the iPhone/Livelink if its ported to another PC.

[frosty osprey]

ok opened

[chrome beacon]

That's what I did and as far as I know... that's bad, even if no alternative seems can be found

[covert summit]

assuming you haven't upgraded the engine from the one used for the old project this would seem to mean "unreal doesn't understand this file"

[young quartz]

I am very new to unreal engine and learning from basic. Anyone expert in realistic rendering? Are there any tutorials to follow? Can any expert hit me in DM to help me learn the basic or just answer some basic questions?

[frosty osprey]

I did it

[covert summit]

perhaps the ones that errored were the ones corrupted :-/

[frosty osprey]

the possess is not set up

but atleast the cars arent sliding

[paper ginkgo]

so i was trying out the kitbash3d free neo city. i downloaded it for pc but was unable to open the uproject. but when i tried it on my mac it opened right up. any reason behind it?

[frosty osprey]

Shall I set up the possess?

nvm I dragged it in

[chrome beacon]

I love UE but that part, the way it doesn't always recognize things and forces to re-download everything is a real bad pain in the axe, as somebody's used to say...

[frosty osprey]

@arctic path I dragged it in and it is sliding.

[arctic path]

so its your cars blueprint then 🙂 something is not set up correctly

[covert summit]

so normally you can actually pull in uasset into another project. You shouldnt, (and instead use migrate) but if you have to it should mostly work, though you are almost guaranteed to run into problems with those assets down the road. but if you could load them you can then rebuild them with a reference for problems you run into

unfortunately if you did have a catastrophic failure resulting in corruption of a lot of files, well

unreal can't just fix that for you

[frosty osprey]

I followed a tutorial on YT to set up the possess.

[chrome beacon]

what I don't get is why it says those assets are if newer version of the engine when they're not

[arctic path]

Watch the video again, you might of missed something very very miniscule. A simple tick on something, or connection to node.

[chrome beacon]

I guess that's the case here, sadly

[covert summit]

my guess here is that either the version indicator in the uasset format is corrupted to be a random value greater than what's expected, or that unreal is saying I can't read it at all, and thus it must be newer

[frosty osprey]

U know the red sports car right, I possessed that first by watching video. That works fine and doesn't slide. Then I pretty much copy pasted the blueprints on the truck but that is sliding.

[chrome beacon]

At this point all I can do is find the way to recover the source files from the uasset and redo everything from tere. It's a huge work to do but at least not everything is lost. I just hate that

[frosty osprey]

But Ill still recheck.

[chrome beacon]

Yeah, that makes sense

[lavish spruce]

Hi there, maybe someone here is able to help me out. We are using a Repo to share our project in our team and so far it worked without any issues. All of them had clean installs, loaded the repo project and it worked just fine. We just provided the project to a new member (clean UE4 install), but for him the Pawn does not spawn at all. We are using a Player Start, but neither in the Editor or when launched UE is spawning a Player, just the controller and he ends up in coordinates 0,0,0 with his camera. We are really confused how this is possible after it worked out for two other people in our team but the for the third one its behaving differently.

[arctic path]

weird that it works for me tho.

this truck or the one in front me me ahve zero sliding

[frosty osprey]

but why not for me ;-;

[arctic path]

retrace your steps bud, delete it all and redo the tutorial.

[frosty osprey]

ok

[arctic path]

stop and start the video over and over again, to make sure everything is correct.

[frosty osprey]

yeah, m doing that.

[arctic path]

udemy courses in a nutshell LOL

[chrome beacon]

that looks like a "Trucks - Cars-Cracker" or "Trucks - Feast Of Destruction" game 😄

[arctic path]

I wish i knew how to do all of that. vehicle destruction is WAY WAY out of my pay grade even tho i used to love those type of games as a kid.

[chrome beacon]

I can imagine

[arctic path]

free btw

https://driesderyckere.gumroad.com/l/EDtXz

[chrome beacon]

There is almost everything out there... 😄

my next goal is making a dragon mountable to fly and burn things down

haven't found any tutorial for that yet

[arctic path]

simple to do that just make a line trace to where the projectile is, then on impact do destruction.

[frosty osprey]

I watched the full video again, I didn't miss anything

[chrome beacon]

yeah, the mounting part is the thing I need to crack up. I have the Dragon IK plugin and the RidingSystem plugin but I still have to dig into them

[arctic path]

so weird my dude 😦

wait did you look at the physics asset tho!

[rancid lynx]

https://youtu.be/Dh3VJ5PqSYQ?t=219

how does he move the item in this video when he picks it up. when i attach actor my my controller is passes through walls if i move my hand into walls. his object does not move through other collisions. is he attaching the actor to the controller, with some sort of ohysics constraint? or is he not attaching? how is he moving the item. i know how to attach and detach.

[paper ginkgo]

alright, so ive been trying to get kitbash3d project working on my pc. everytime i try and open the UProject it gets to 75% and then closes, even if i let it sit for an hour nothing

i eventually tried doing this on my mac, which has worse specs in everything. and it opened on the first try

i tried packinging it from my mac and sending it to my pc but was still unable to open it. anyone know what the cause might be?

i mean i dont really get why im able to open it almost right away on my mac but not pc, ive opened other projects from the web before

[covert summit]

this sounds a little inconsistent of a description. If the loading window just stays open at 75% it's definitely shader compilation. If it gets to 75% and the loading window disappears then it's not, it's probably some kind of crash. If that's the case check the logs to see if it's indicating some kind of problem. Normally UE will give you the good ole crash window but perhaps it's not able to?

[regal mulch]

Would check the log files

[arctic path]

dont open kitbash uproject lol, paste the contents into a new project's content folder. btw kitbash materials are trash as well xD very very bad port to ue.

[covert summit]

._.

[gray sable]

Anyone help me, i don't have colors

[paper ginkgo]

it gets to 75% and then dissapears, but not getting a crash window

[frosty osprey]

Hi, m back

[paper ginkgo]

how do you mean?

[gray sable]

If i start the game i have colors

[arctic path]

make a new project, take the folder in content of kb and drag it into the folder content of new project.

from there let shaders compile

[paper ginkgo]

i meant with the materials being trash and alright ill try that

[gray sable]

Anyone help me

[arctic path]

i forgot what they did, but it was something really stupid when i bought a pack from them

[gray sable]

Anyone can help me with the colors?

[covert summit]

change from the Detail Lighting view mode to Lit

[gray sable]

How? 😄

[covert summit]

And omg patience

[frosty osprey]

I checked rn and the front of car is being lifted into air :/

[covert summit]

look in the upper left for Detail Lighting and change it to Lit

[arctic path]

theres your issue then physics asset, this is not something i know how to fix lol

[arctic path]

at least you know the problem now

[frosty osprey]

yeah I guess

[gray sable]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[frosty osprey]

but in the previous car, the physics asset was fine and still it was sliding and shaking.

[covert summit]

yeah these are just visualizations of your scene. Lit is how it's displayed in game

[gray sable]

Can I have an other question?

[covert summit]

don't ask to ask, just ask :-)

[gray sable]

I turned off all light but my game have a light.

How can I turn it off?

or delete it

[paper ginkgo]

alright well that worked. do have one more question so in the folder under actors there are 9 blueprints and eahc one has an image of a building on it but when i drag it in to the world its empty and i need to go in to Meshes and materials and choose to add ones. is that how blueprints work?

[covert summit]

toggle off the sky sphere too, if its still lit, then search for "light" and toggle all that off too

[frosty osprey]

@arctic path Hey, I findled with the physics asset a bit and the truck seems to work fine now. Thanks dude

[gray sable]

IDK what is the problem

[covert summit]

exposure compensation probably

[arctic path]

the blueprints have everything merged together, the single assets dont

[gray sable]

How can i chage it? Sorry i'm stupid in the light settings

[covert summit]

do you have a post process volume actor in the level?

[arctic path]

np dude 🙂 im glad we fixed this

[gray sable]

I don't have

Maybe the water

[covert summit]

nah its not the ue 4.26 water body actor

[paper ginkgo]

so althought the picture of the blueprint has an image on it dragging in to the open world wont import whats in the pciture?

[arctic path]

the blueprints are so broken my dude, lol i dont think kitbash even knows what they are doing when it comes to ue

[covert summit]

i dont know how you acquired this project, whether you started it from scratch or what, but regardless, UE has exposure compensation on by default, and it can be controlled by the project settings under Engine -> Rendering -> Default Settings -> Auto Exposure or just search "exposure" in there

you can also place a post process volume in this level to override that, usually by setting Infinite Extent (Unbound) to true and then modifying the exposure settings on it

[paper ginkgo]

lol alright, is there somewhere else that provides asset packs for walls and stuff? the KB stuff is still better than anything i could make

[arctic path]

like what tho?

[gray sable]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY MUCH

UR MY MAN

[paper ginkgo]

idk, just like anything? just some well made assets so i can focus on animation and vfx lol

[arctic path]

i use this and modular snap to make almost everything when it comes to mapping. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/blockout-tools-plugin

[covert summit]

np, auto exposure / exposure compensation is not the enemy but you should definitely know its there and how to control it

[gray sable]

Thank you!!

[arctic path]

just use megascans materials paste to walls bam, AAA.

unless you want to create your own material base for all your materials for scaling and allowing overlapping 🙂

[paper ginkgo]

hm so it seems none of the texture materials actually have textures attached to them lol

[arctic path]

lmfao I TOLD YOU

i waisted 400 dollars on 2 packs from them, and they never worked for me but the meshes where beautiful.

[paper ginkgo]

and im not seeing any easy way to link the 67 materials to their 120 various textures

[arctic path]

LOL

[paper ginkgo]

i might buy one just because its still better content than i could make and eh whats life without some difficulties

thanks for the help

[arctic path]

honestly

just buy what you want from the marketplace, look at reviews before you buy them. i spent about 4,000 just on the ue marketpace on things that someday ill use.

if you think your game will make it, its worth the investment.

[paper ginkgo]

alright ty, do need to decide what i actuallt wanna make, still on the beginner learning curve

[arctic path]

we have all been there. i learned how to set up materials in 10 days. trying to understand the logic.... i hated that

UMG is worse

[paper ginkgo]

its a lot of stuff, remembering everything is tricky lol

[arctic path]

it took me about 4 days to figure this out (about 40 + hours lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGh6bt1mpXM

[sullen sonnet]

Anyone know why the virtual bone off set? It supposed to end where the right hand is.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/127723854171734016/864327905945059348/unknown.png

normal here

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/127723854171734016/864328103576207370/unknown.png

[frosty osprey]

Hi
so... I have another project in which the wheels r moving but the car body is stuck at one place but if the character hits it, it starts to float away like massless and the turning or braking of wheels doesn't affect the body.
so I think I have disabled or enabled some option that I dont know which or it is something else idk
It wasn't like this before

[rancid lynx]

https://youtu.be/Dh3VJ5PqSYQ?t=219

when he picks up the item in game, it does not pass through walls. how is he doing that ? when i use attach actor to my VR controller, the items will pass through other static objects, all collisions are set to block. i understand attach and simulat well enough. is he using attach sohere to controller actor and physics constrains or something? or spring arms? i dont understand

maybe the spheres actors root as a soring arm or physics actor? i dont j derstand those well either

[hidden cairn]

Is there a set upper limit to people in the collab project?

ie 16 etc

[drowsy snow]

Not only knowing how to use source control beneficial for collab work, it can also save your butt in the most devastating crashes or data loss.

See the pinned message about Git.

[hidden cairn]

thanks man

[outer zephyr]

can anyone tell me when i put a decimal number on a float it simply puts the old number?

i put it with a coma

and i press enter

okay it was beacause it was a coma

sry i am just stupid

[solid swan]

Hi, do you know how can I render the deep channel from unreal?

[drowsy snow]

As in the scene depth?

[fierce tulip]

kinda sounded like unreal had a darkweb-like channel

[solid swan]

i need to export exr. for compositing department with a layers, the deep channel is something in addition to Z-depth, i think

[fierce tulip]

in the 22 years ive used unreal, this is the first time I am hearing about "deep channel"
you might wanna figure out what you really meant @solid swan

[drowsy snow]

Same, I never heard that "deep channel", now that you mention it's an "addition to Z-depth".
I've done few compositing / video editing gigs, but never heard of that specific term nor ever brought out in any video editing capacity.

[obsidian mist]

did someone used WebUI plugin and if yes is it worth being recommended / using ? For me it should be a lot easier to design UI in html

[drowsy snow]

Never used web stuff for UI (I despise web dev lol), but better watch out for the CEF overhead.

I think Slate (and UMG to some extent) is easier on performance because of it being native to UE4 renderer.

[obsidian mist]

it's yet to consider, i think i won't aim for extravagant ui, but rather something simple alike portal 2 menu

[fierce tulip]

in that case following a few umg tutorials should get you where you need to be.

[drowsy snow]

Portal 2 was made before Valve used Panorama, and Panorama itself isn't a true WebUI.

||It was Scaleform||

#cpp or #packaging

[civic mauve]

oh couldn't find the packaging

[obsidian mist]

yep it was later used in cs go, but i mean making it in native solution than web

[frigid bear]

Hi its me again, I tried many highscore tutorials but none of them seem to have worked, this the only thing left before i release my game, please hel[

[obsidian mist]

does the embedding ue in another window has any real use case, i cant think of the use case it could really help

[frigid bear]

im trying to make it so that whenever my player completes the game it shows if they completed it faster than other people hae, and if so then its updates

[drowsy snow]

Oh yes, definitely. One example thing is custom editors.

And I hope the next version of Quixel Mixer use embedded UE renderer.

Currently it's been built with Unity, and the memory usage is so absurd compared to Blender with some nodes.

[drowsy snow]

As I said sometime ago, just flip the check condition for the high score logic.

Some pseudo code to give you idea (not a real code):

if (CurrentTime < RecordTime)
{
 SetNewRecord(CurrentTime);
}

[drowsy snow]

Fastest time record is basically high score, but instead of more than, it's less than.
I hope you understand this ultra simple improvisation.

[frigid bear]

oh im making the game in blueprints not by code...

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't matter. It's a pseudo code just to get my point across.

[frigid bear]

I know but I'm very very bad with arrays and save games and widgets

[obsidian mist]

what exactly bothers you in arrays

[drowsy snow]

This still one of the most devastating bamboozle for me.

Shame that this one slide didn't age well, and OF/A ended up being a UE5 exclusive feature

[frigid bear]

So I have made an array for the high score and I have also made an array for my time min time sec time milisec

Now I want to make it so that the array of highscore shows the value of my timer when I win the game

[drowsy snow]

Remember what I told you about the time variable?

[drowsy snow]

You can tell me which part that you don't get about storing time data as seconds float, and cosmetically turn it into timestamp in widgets.

I'm trying to simplify your overcomplicating approach here.

[obsidian mist]

what does it mean

[young quartz]

anyone good with megascans surface.. please dm me

[obsidian mist]

just umaps? i understand that actor is definition for any game object that is in world ?

[drowsy snow]

In short:
Actors placed in the level is stored as individual files on disk instead of consolidating them all in a single map file.

[obsidian mist]

ok that's clear, so deleting actor's file result in actor being deleted from the scene

[drowsy snow]

It could be a huge helping hand for level streaming, and it's a shame that Epic promised it for 4.26 in that silde (from this video: https://youtu.be/w3tTbVNkuwA?t=2049) but ended up being a UE5 exclusive feature.

Also the roadmap for 4.27 doesn't seem to mention OFPA anywhere, which is extra bummer.

Also yeah, .umap files can get big real quick, and everyone sworn not to use Git LFS.

[frigid bear]

So should I put this in the event begin play of the level blue print or the game mode blueprint

[drowsy snow]

Depends on where you're keeping track of the time.

The idea here is that the seconds float is the real, actual time variable.

The timestamp struct is fake.

[frigid bear]

So I have made three time variables called timemin timesec and time milisec...

Storing in the gamemode

[drowsy snow]

This is wrong.

Instead of tracking the time as this
4:20.69
You should track the time as this
260.69

[frigid bear]

Lol

Lemme send you a pic of my time code

In my widget, I have made it like this, I have taken my time variables and then used "format" to display them

I have also made it so that it shows how much time it took to complete the game in my win scene

[frigid bear]

this is the win scene

this is the timer

and this is the gamemode

[frigid bear]

ok i did it like you said

ik iin the photos it seems different but i just did it

[drowsy snow]

This is redundant.

[frigid bear]

why?

[drowsy snow]

Because the seconds float already have the decimals, the miliseconds.

[frigid bear]

how do i use them?

[drowsy snow]

You don't need another float for miliseconds.

[frigid bear]

ok ill try

the whole number second is also going up when the decimal number

[drowsy snow]

Also, there are better ways to handle this.

[frigid bear]

the second isnt going up

so can i change that?

[drowsy snow]

This is a better way of doing it. Delay is not needed.

(The NOT node is largely for my convenience)

[frigid bear]

ill try this one sec

[drowsy snow]

I'm assuming they're working on a Time Attack mode, of which my setup above could work.

[frigid bear]

what is get player sec default value

0.1? 1.1 or just 1?

[drowsy snow]

If you want it to start at 0 seconds, then 0.0

[frigid bear]

k super ill try

i feel like the miliseconds should go faster

the fractional value is 0

[drowsy snow]

Delta seconds is basically how many seconds it take from previous frame.

Also world delta seconds, if you're implementing slow mo and want it to affect the timer.

[frigid bear]

ok it might be correct but im very stupid sooo... but thnx a lot im very thankful

now i can just use this value when my game is paused and show it... but when i open my pause menu it pauses the game

i want it to continue again when i unpause my game

[drowsy snow]

Because the World Delta Second node puts time dilation into account, the timer should be halted so long as the game is paused. It'll continue right away when it's not paused.

[frigid bear]

oh ok super

[drowsy snow]

It is Real Time Seconds.

[young quartz]

any one expert in megascans or realistic renders join #vc-unreal-hangout

[frigid bear]

i can use my time sec variable like the highscore variable they use in youtube videos right?

they use it like pickups....

yeah

but i will be able to use like that rihgt?

(i suck at spelling)

[frigid bear]

the default value for the record time is 0 right

[drowsy snow]

It should be something higher.

[frigid bear]

the first time somebody plays that will make that rubnn the high score

[drowsy snow]

Probably 10 minutes minus one, depending on your game.
(which is 599.99 seconds)

[frigid bear]

is this in gamemode?

no celebration but i want to put my new record tim in one text box

[drowsy snow]

I normally won't do this in game mode though, just not my habit.

[frigid bear]

what woul you put this in

and the record time is a variable from a save game

sorry too many questions

[drowsy snow]

I'd store the record in a Game Instance, before making save/load operation somewhere else.

[frigid bear]

i dont have agame istance cus i dont have levels i have only one level

[drowsy snow]

My approach isn't exactly comprehensible by complete beginner, but Game Instance serves like the memory, to store unsaved stuff that can be written into a save slot.

[cedar wave]

All UE games have a Game Instance

[frigid bear]

where is it though?

[frigid bear]

im going to make a save gae function