ue4-general

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: sleeplesscoot886#3701 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[clever axle]

An hour later and I'm still at only 44% 😫

[fierce tulip]

back in ye olde ut99 days I sometimes had to build lighting for multiple days.

[clever axle]

@plush yew show Collision in console

@fierce tulip aint nobody got time for that :D

[light thunder]

Beyond an editor shutdown, anyone have experience with fixing/preventing an issue when actors from a hidden level are still visible and selectable in the editor window Everything is normal during gameplay but I'm worried that while building I'm going to select or delete something, not realize I'm not deleting it from the current level that I am working on

You can look at my list of levels there and see that EVERYTHING is hidden, so nothing should be selectable

[idle garden]

Someone knows what my movable assets change color when I'm far / near to them?

[light thunder]

That's lod or HLOD

check the static mesh asset first and play with the same thing

[idle garden]

I'll check

[light thunder]

Unless there's some distance material function you have on that asset, it looks like a different material is applied to a higher LOD

[idle garden]

I don't think that it's that

I just drop the asset on the map and put it as movable

[light thunder]

Show me that but do it UNLIT

[severe brook]

What does this means?

[light thunder]

It tells you what to do in the middle, above the red text - that is literally the nicest unreal editor packaging error messaging I have ever seen - it tells you exactly what to try to do to fix it

[light thunder]

Weird - post the first gif in #graphics it might take awhile but someone will recognize exactly what is happening

[idle garden]

ok thanks

[severe brook]

ok thanks i"ll try)

[severe brook]

strange , there is nothing wrongs in the middle of the text

[plush yew]

hey

[tawdry sable]

When I change any parameter in a material, UE4 seems to recompile all shaders. I don't know why.

Is there a way to stop this?

[wary wave]

shouldn't be doing all shaders, just the ones related to the material you changed

but also if you're only tweaking values use instances

[plush yew]

wondering what unreal version i should be using to make a game that'll run fine on lower end systems

[tawdry sable]

Most of them are

static bool?

[wary wave]

static switch

[plush yew]

can anyone help me?

[wary wave]

IIRC there's a couple of other static params these days too, but I couldn't tell you what they are

they'll be called "static XX" though

[tawdry sable]

As always, my situation is weird. I have base materials that I created instances from at run time

Several of them layered together using masks

Every shader? :/

[plush yew]

dx11 games that can run on pcs with integrated graphics and quad core cpus with dedicated gpus

[wary wave]

I think I might know what's going on - you may be missing some of the checkboxes that say "used with XX"

[tawdry sable]

I'm fine with it compiling the changed one. Can't get around that.

[plush yew]

i have 4.26.2 installed

[wary wave]

and not saving it when the engine autochecks it and compiles it

[plush yew]

thanks a lot! i originally started developing my skating game with unity, but unity just felt a bit sluggish to work with, and blueprints feels much easier to work with

i don't plan on going that low, i'm planning on at least 30 frames per second on decent integrated graphics, like modern intel iGPU and Ryzen APU systems

but i wanna focus on the visuals along with the gameplay, and i want to make the gameplay feel good on 30fps too, so im not gonna go too low

also looking to implement graphics options

i'm wondering how to implement graphics options and such into my game, so the user can adjust the graphical options for performance and such

[glacial pecan]

Anyone else having problems getting StringTables to update using Import from CSV? Mine just refuses now no matter what I try...

[plush yew]

i have quite literally got every free asset pack i could find, so i might have auto settings

these the options i should choose?

[tawdry sable]

@plush yew This is what I'm talking about. This material is used once, yet I change a parameter and it triggers a recompile of 99 shaders.

[idle garden]

I have found a solution... basically, on the material, I swapped from Blend Mode Opaque to Translucent

[light thunder]

I'll have to file that away myself - I wouldn't have thought that would make it do what the gif showed me, thanks for letting me know

[light thunder]

What type of errors are you getting?

[glacial pecan]

I've checked the Message Logs and Output Logs and I don't see any... do you know what to look for?

[light thunder]

Show me your blueprint where you are trying to update something

[glacial pecan]

No, I'm literally talking about the "Import from CSV" button in a StringTable asset! 😅

[light thunder]

Oh lol

I've had issues with it before - if I remember correctly, you need to make sure your CSV matches the format

I believe the 1st line can cause issues

try the datatable CSV wadstein video

if you haven't already

[glacial pecan]

I just exported a manually input table, and compared it to what LibreOffice outputs, and it turns out, LibreOffice only puts quotation marks around things with spaces in them... so ugh... but Unreal should have at least thrown an error 😦

[light thunder]

yeah that's what I mean, it's super particular and won't always throw errors

try converting it to an excel CSV

it might remove those quotes

[glacial pecan]

I'm using LibreOffice, and there was an option called "quote all text fields" which made imports work again after I enabled them. 🥳

[fierce tulip]

yea, too offtopic.

[plush yew]

Bruh

Unreal engine takes up 50GB

And it hurts my feelings

[fierce tulip]

rules be #rules

[plush yew]

Tru dat

[haughty slate]

Does anybody here have any experience with getting DualShock 4 controller working with UE4 (4.26.2)? I've enabled the Windows Dualshock plugin but getting no response in the editor. Works with steam and games that natively support the controller, so it's definitely something with UE4.

[prime willow]

no way you mean to tell me people are supose to follow the rules for stability reasons

what type of insanity is this

[fierce tulip]

it would be great if we follow the rules so we keep the channels clean and not frustrate others who are trying to get help/are in a discussion related to the topic of the channel :)

[prime willow]

tell me about it~

ive honestly never read the rules because i thought they'd be mostly common sense and so far ive yet to break the rules now that i went and checked on them lol

[fierce tulip]

fwiw its not a long read, and even if you dont intend to break them it can help us moderators when other can point it out to people potentially breaking them :)

[prime willow]

yush yush :>

forgive meeee ;o;

[fierce tulip]

sowwy, dont ban me uwu (and whatever other ascii signage is needed to sound weird) @plush yew

[light thunder]

all I heard was elmer fudd

[fierce tulip]

elmer fud is the proto-uwu-whateverthenameforthatis

ok, too much #lounge

[light thunder]

How do I update a plugin when the epic store says it's already installed to the engine

got it, thank you

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Green#4100 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, I just made a Pawn and after I posses it this shows up. Can I just ignore it because I dont think it MUST be fixed right?

Everything works fine I just dont know if I should worry about it

[tender pecan]

I would not ignore that though. you can see if you can read it and figure out which property you are trying to access, and maybe you just need to add IsValid node to it. \0/
Not all errors will cause your game to crash. but that is an error indeed.

[hidden sparrow]

Yea I know. Its a perfectionists worst nightmare

[tender pecan]

and also the engines

[daring girder]

I have a questions about a widget, but it is related to the blueprints for the widget, where would be the appropriate channel to ask in? would it be UI umg or blueprints?

[hidden sparrow]

thats what causes it but I dont know how to fix the error

my other pawn is just a cube

i tried to do this and branch it but it doesnt recognise when i posses the pawn

I propably did it wrong

[fierce tulip]

life in a nutshell, amirite

[hidden sparrow]

Yes, so how do I make it not trying to get it. I used branch But it always says false even when I posses the other pawn. Is something on that screen above wrong?

[tidal spear]

Hello, I'm fairly new so bare with me. But I have searched and found little to no help on this topic. I'm doing a mobile app nd I'm looking to implement a way that I can remove parts of layer smoothly with my finger, like a scratch ticket for example. Where my finger swipe well delete whatever is under it and show the image below

[hidden sparrow]

thank you so much

[tidal spear]

I have tried adding small colliders that exit whenever I touch them. But it's not smooth nd clunky

[wary wave]

you want something like a render target texture

on a plane, and you want to deproject screen coordinates to world coordinates, then convert those into UV coordinates on your plane

it's not hard to do, but you may need to do a lot of reading if any of that doesn't make sense

[tidal spear]

Yea lol. But if it works, its worth it. Thank you ma G

[drowsy snow]

Friendly reminder for newcomers and beginners to grab the Content Examples project. It contains almost all of the implementation of the engine features, and a good way to get ideas on what they do and how you could use them.

It's located in the Learning tab in your Epic Launcher. Download size may vary, depending on which engine version, but for 4.26, it's around 3.5 GB.

[dusk tartan]

Guys, the game i made starts VR if its installed on launching pc. how do i disable this?
If i disable steamVR and oculusVR in plugin settings, game refuse to build...

[fair summit]

whats the difference between integer, integer64 and float

[fair summit]

ok i get it

[drowsy snow]

[pine rock]

trying to make my character fly by pressing, can fly is checked in the movement. when i press it the character makes a short motion but doesent fly

[misty owl]

I want to keep track of interactions between my character and NPCs, so they can affect encounters later on in the game. How would I store that information in the player data? I haven't done much of a dive into recording the results of game events and player choices, yet.

I have a system in mind to keep it simple. like if there are three different options you can choose, each with three different moods, then I'd store the value 0-8 for the result of that interaction.

Looks like DataTables would be the answer?

Cool, found an inventory tutorial that teaches working with DataTables, and I need to learn that, anyway. Should be able to roll that knowledge over to creating a system to track NPC interaction

[quasi finch]

Hello everyone! I'm having a technical issue with ray tracing and sub surface scattering and I was wondering if I could get some help. Also please let me know if this is the wrong place to ask. Basically the colour of the subsurface scattering looks vastly different in the viewport compared to the render. I'm using the subsurface profile with burley for the skin material and brute force ray tracing. Thanks for any help!

[rancid lagoon]

how do i edit the template? I want to have a light that swings around like the 20th century fox intro thing, but it keeps changing color and doesn't move. How to i make them move in the way that i want?

[winter gate]

How would I remove all unused materials from my project if I've compiled from a source build instead of the launcher?

[wary wave]

manually

[winter gate]

And from the launcher you can just simply remove the asset and it cleans up automatically right?

[wary wave]

no, it will do nothing to your project

it will remove the version from the cache

[winter gate]

For a bit of background info here, I started a project from the launcher using blueprints and now realized that I need to use my own source build so I'm wondering if I can still remove all the unused assets via the launcher before I generate visual studio project files.

[wary wave]

you can't remove anything from a project using the launcher

[winter gate]

😮

Someone else lied to me then!

[wary wave]

also, generating visual studio files is just for your project, it is not a source build

the engine binaries etc will still be the launcher versions

[winter gate]

On the launcher > vault > remove local files? Isn't that it?

[wary wave]

no, that remove the assets from your vault cache

the launcher can never remove anything from a project

[winter gate]

So when you download an asset pack from the library, add to project, then only use one or two items, you're telling me there's no way to automatically remove all of the unused stuff?

[wary wave]

there is not

there is no way for the engine to know that it is not used

[winter gate]

Okay so I suppose the correct workflow is to make copies of the ones I'm using into a separate folder

Then I can delete the entire asset pack folder after

[wary wave]

yeah, keeping organised is often the best way to deal with things

but I wouldn't install any asset packs into a project

[winter gate]

So many copies of copies..ughh

[wary wave]

I would install them into a dummy project, then migrate the individual assets I want across

[winter gate]

okay that makes sense

[wary wave]

the migration tool will copy across the referenced files etc used by the asset you're moving and leave everything else behind

[winter gate]

Okay so now that I've got a source build running, what do I need to do so I can generate visual studio code of my existing project I started via the launcher?

[wary wave]

right click on the project file, then switch the engine version to your new one

[winter gate]

ohhhh I can see it says Source build at : .... file path

[wary wave]

once the engine version is switched, open the project in the editor, then add a new C++ class - this will trigger creating a C++ VS project for you

[winter gate]

I made a backup just in case

[wary wave]

always reasonable 😄

[winter gate]

I'm always scared with these things, I really don't want to break my project

And to open in the editor it means opening the solution file first, then debug > start? Correct? I do that every time instead of the launcher?

That's my last question for now, I swear 🙂

[wary wave]

nah, just double click the project file

[winter gate]

I have to get into the habit of opening the UE editor from within visual studio by following the guide here right? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DevelopmentSetup/BuildingUnrealEngine/

[wary wave]

and yeah, I always open it from VS

[winter gate]

after it's been converted

gotcha

[wary wave]

once you've generated a C++ file and have a VS project for your UE project, I would always run the editor through VS by opening the project's VS project

running it through the debugger means when it crashes you can, well, debug it

[winter gate]

uh oh

I didn't let it finish compiling shaders while it was running and now I'm getting build error

Should I try clean? Rebuild? build?

Ill just start trying stuff and see how it goes, thanks for the help so far @wary wave

[wary wave]

compiling shaders should not have been a problem - but if you run into build errors, take them to #cpp

[devout swift]

When I launch my game as standalone through the editor, it shows in 16:9 aspect ratio (as expected)

but when I launch it through the command line with -game it shows in a square 1:1 aspect ratio

what is going on? why isn't it 16:9 as well?

I'm running this from powershell:
C:\Users\Jorge> D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-Win64-DebugGame.exe C:\Users\Jorge\Documents\UE\UMM\PuzzlePlatforms\PuzzlePlatforms.uproject -game -log

If I try to manually resize the window, it just scales up/down but in the same 1:1 aspect ratio

Ohh I was able to fix it by unchecking this:

I then resized the window manually to make it wider and now it remembers the new size

QUESTION:
How can I launch a new standalone game instance from command line at a specific aspect ratio or resolution?

[tender orchid]

Hey so I wanna make a game but I am not sure where to start. I have a idea but I am not sure where to start when it comes to making the map as I know that is what I wanna do first. Does anyone have any tips or youtube videos I can watch that would help?

[winter gate]

You can probably just start out with videos after searching for "introduction to unreal engine" on youtube at first. Then once you start your own project, I found this guys channel to be very helpful in the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ

[vocal sorrel]

Hey, i thought i would ask again, is anyone familiar with the UE4 Environment Project? It use to be called the UE4 Community Water Project

[quaint abyss]

Hi, can anyone assist me with issues I am having in VR mode when creating a level?

[tiny sonnet]

This is general advice but should I learn c++? I have been using UE4 with bp for 2 years now but I feel like I should start learning c++. I reconsidering my decisions as I aldry know too many languages and I'm aldry starting to forget a few like PHP

I don't use PHP anymore

[pliant junco]

how can i get a static mesh to be a child bp of the mesh? cuz i can't parant socket

[knotty summit]

So I've been asking how do you organise your project in order to improve mine and I found out this:
https://github.com/Allar/ue5-style-guide
Really helpful, and it shows me how bad my current organisation is. 😅

[drowsy snow]

PHP isn't even remotely relevant in UE development.

[tiny sonnet]

I used it for server management before for a ue4 game

So external but still

[dusk tartan]

Guys, the game i made starts SteamVR if its installed on launching pc. how do i disable this?
If i disable steamVR and oculusVR in plugin settings, game refuse to build...

[inner cloak]

is there a tutorial to setup a skeletal character to turn it into a control rig ?

[dusk tartan]

yes, first link in google actually

[inner cloak]

for some reasons, i am not seeing it .. mind pasting the link or complete title ?

[dusk tartan]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/AnimationFeatures/ControlRig/

[inner cloak]

thank you very much @dusk tartan !! 🙂

[tired forge]

Anyone out there experienced in both Unity and Unreal? I could really use a mentor on this subject... I'm wanting to pull my hair out over Unity shaders and GI/mixed lighting. I swear it's all fubar but I'm also just a beginner so maybe I'm being a fool. I'm hundreds of dollars into Unity Assets have already started writing a bit of controller code... but I guess my level design is still bare since I haven't been able to get anything to look right for weeks.

[drowsy snow]

You might have better answer if you're asking on the Unity Discord channel.

[tired forge]

definitely not there, maybe the forums

hoping to find someone who's familiar with both engines, but I guess that's a little rare

[drowsy snow]

It's off-topic anyway for asking on Unity tutorial/guidance, in Unreal Engine circle.
While we do mention Unity at times, it's largely making comparison and taking few jabs on it, not providing guidance in Unity.

[tired forge]

any comparisons of GI/realtime light systems would be amazing to hear

but I understand that it's off topic

[modest trench]

in UE5 we have screenspace GI and Lumen, that's it

[barren flume]

Is it possible to import a skeletal mesh and ignore the merge bones error? The bones match exactly the same when I look at the assign skeleton section for the mesh but it just fails to assign

[solemn schooner]

Not really sure where this question would go, but for a current project I am looking to allow people to create mods/scripts to extend the game. I want this to be able to be done on the server side, similar to how FiveM works with resources. Question is, how could I allow for the creation of scripts that get loaded into the game, I'de rather use a language that is more appropriate for scripting rather than needing c++. Then having some functions exposed that allow them to interact with the base game.

[drowsy snow]

You could have something like Lua, make some custom exposed functions and variables, and read the scripts on the fly.

[solemn schooner]

Yeah, thats what I'm going for. Not even sure where to start looking though in terms of setting that up

[inner cloak]

hmmm .. maybe i dont need ctrl-rig .. what i am looking for is how to give poses to my characters, i dont need anims cuz all i want to do is take screenshots

[dusk tartan]

ctrl rig is actually good for that

since you see changes instantly

[dapper oak]

can someone explain to me how all of my blueprint and cpp files have just magically disappeared from my project

theyre just gone

all my progress

gone

[inner cloak]

@dusk tartan trying to understand it, but its its a bit confusing to me

@dapper oak did you try to do a find files? ... were you saving regularly ?

[dapper oak]

the last time a worked on it was maybe tuesday and i saved everything. Just opened up rider again to get some work done, everything seemed alright, file size the same. When it opened all my code files started closing and said something about no configuration

rebuilt the solution and now everything is gone

and im dumb enough to not make a backup on github cause i though "oh its just a small project"

just opened another project and everything is working fine

so dunno what is up

[dusk tartan]

i have no knowledge about it, sorry. but it can surely used as a poser tool

[marsh quarry]

trying to bake this texture on the render target but everytime I bake, the render target is set to all black (or orange)
can anybody teach me how to get the render target with this stripes.

im doing like this to bake currently

i want my render target to be something like this, instead of one big black square

[plush yew]

Is anyone else working with ue5 preview 2 having the problem where your physics actors just fall through the world now? What's even weirder, is that it changes every time I click play. Sometimes the actors fall through the floor, sometimes they bounce like normal. Doesn't matter what collision I have enabled. Box, sphere, compex. All the same result. It either behaves as its supposed to, or it doesn't. In-between simulations where all im doing is clicking stop/play between sims. It is not consistent

[river copper]

Does anyone have a UE4 course recommendation for a beginner?

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[drowsy snow]

https://learn.unrealengine.com

[river copper]

is it for c++?

[severe brook]

it is possible to recover crashed project?

how to revert if project doesnt open at all?

where can i find it?

hah ok thanks)

maybe you know the default path to ini file?

ok

[vagrant hornet]

why is the water plugin so broken for me?

I see people making perfect beaches and shorlines but I get my terrain completely breaking before i can make anything nice

such as this

[haughty slate]

Implementing controller support in my project for the first time and I've noticed with my Xbox One controller the default axis value for UP on the left thumbstick is 1, however for UP on the right thumbstick the default value is -1. Is this normal? Something inherent to the way the controller was configured in the factory?

[limber swallow]

Hello, I want to have a blueprint that I can call from anywhere that will instantiate niagara systems to show my damage effects. Is that a bad idea? What would be the best way to achieve this? I can make a blueprint with the logic, but how can I access it from my actors when they receive the damage? As far as I understand I only need one instance of this for the whole game, as it will only spawn the niagara systems at the correct locations and nothing else. I would also need to be able to call it from c++. I think I could add an actor of that blueprint into all my actors that cause damage, but that seems somewhat wasteful.

[plush yew]

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don't click the link above

[severe brook]

Does nanite work in VR projects?

[vagrant hornet]

how do i stop the water plugin constantly breaking?

im not doing anything complicated

just a new landscape and water ocean

yeah

also looks pretty weird from above

whats that?

like a heightmap mountain?

Thank you

yeah

a mountain like this?

[copper iron]

Quick question. How can I detect what gamepad is being used, like Xbox or Duallshock? (Without 3d party software)

[fathom bone]

Does anyone know how to fix this?
I've tried "fix directories " and validate data and now I have more errors that before

[wary wave]

you presumably have assets missing

I'm guessing you've done something like delete or move them in Windows, which you should not do

[old nimbus]

helpme
howdoIfixmyspacekeyback
iremoveditandnowicantputitback

[fierce tulip]

downloadANewSpaceBar.com

[daring girder]

The following drive locations have limited free space.
It is recommended that you free some space to avoid issues such as crashed and data loss due to files not being able to be written and saved.

3,948 MB Free C:Here it displays the location
The project directory.

I keep getting this message when I load my project, how to i change the location that it is stored in?

[old nimbus]

bruh

ineedhelp

andgooglewontsolveiut

[fierce tulip]

we cant fix your broken keyboard over here, and its rather offtopic as well.

[old nimbus]

shitz

ok

[fierce tulip]

@daring girder you can just copy-paste your entire project to another drive.
after that, do the following: (to get some space back)
windows button > write: disc cleanup > rightclick > run as administrator> and select anything you feel comfortable with to clean up some space on your C:/ drive

[plush yew]

Hi

[daring girder]

Ok so if I move the folder at the specified location called unreal engine, then UE won't tell me that it cant find stuff, it will know where I move everything?

[fierce tulip]

i was talking about your project, not your engine

also, Hi!

https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/ue4-change-move-project-folder.php

[daring girder]

okay, so I navigated to the location specified in the messageC:/Users/julia/AppData/Local/UnrealEngine/4.26/
The project directory.

but I cant find "the project directory"

[fierce tulip]

that does not sound like your project, but your unreal engine install location

[daring girder]

oh darn, do i need to uninstall and reinsatal in the correct drive. I could have sworn I chose the correct one, but I guess not.

[fierce tulip]

actually, what your describing is the location for dirived data cache. you can remove that, but would result in your projects having to recompile shaders again.
it might not make much difference in the long run

[daring girder]

So there is no way to move it? I just need to clean up a bit more?

[fierce tulip]

among things.
you can read this about it (the common questions part)
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DerivedDataCache/
but you might wanna do some exploring yourself as well.
maybe someone else can advice some more, but I gotta head out

[daring girder]

thank you

[unique kraken]

been wondering, is there a way to easily find a print string?
id like to keep a bunch of print strings in my project just to check certain things but im worried about finding them later

like, a button to switch through all print strings

ah nice

side question, is there a way of like structuring this whole thing

as i would want to be able to see certain things always checking on my screen

for example "is certain thing ticking" if it does in a wrong situation i know i gotta check something

hmm i mean more like a sort of print string i can structure on the screen, bcs if anything is ticking its easy to miss single ticks

thats what i mean

[steep valve]

can anyone tell me if im doing something wrong here (MySubObject inherits from UObject)

{
    MySubObject123 = CreateDefaultSubobject<UMySubObject >(TEXT("MySubObject123"));
}

// gets called from blueprint Tick
MyParentClass::AccessMySubObject()
{
    // crash
    MySubObject123->DoSomething();
}```

[light thunder]

Notice my vehicles were hitting a ramp - checked player collision view and I can see the problem - but all of my landscape spline control points are at the same Z height - what else should I check?

Ah check your collision on your static meshes you use for the splines - this one was a custom one and I needed more precise collision, it had a simple box collision which raised it up over everything else

[plush yew]

How could I create mercator projection to procedural texture?

[tardy wing]

Hey, I have a problem with UE4, can anyone help?
Well, I downloaded the UE4 source code and I don't know how to import it into the epic games store ...

...

Help?

#volunteer-projects

help...

[vagrant hornet]

https://github.com/UE4-OceanProject/Environment-Project

this or the default water plugin

[ancient lotus]

what are some ways to measure actor performance? is it possible with the profiler

[native tulip]

how do i rotate an actor on a custom vector/local rotation (not with add actor local rotation but something more like set actor rotation)

[plush yew]

why is my game so dark?

[native tulip]

maybe camera settings? lights too dark?

[fierce tulip]

maybe you unintentionally wanted to make a horror game

[prime willow]

no no he forgot the pay the electric bill

[native tulip]

hehe

[prime willow]

[plush yew]

this is in game

[plush yew]

lmao

the lights are fine

[native tulip]

shadow of the tomb raider remastered remastered?

[plush yew]

that is unlit it looks like a 2002 cs1.6 map

[plush yew]

lolol

but seriously why is my game so dark

in this guys video i have the same exact light setup and settings but his game looks so much better and brighter

[native tulip]

i dont know sorry

[plush yew]

his

mine

like wth

[native tulip]

thats nice ass lighting

[plush yew]

no answers?

[native tulip]

i dont know sorry

[plush yew]

bruh

[glacial dawn]

Do you have some sky light? Try changing it from static to dynamic, or playing with the indirect lighting in the fog object

[elder haven]

I restarted my pc

Does anyone know what to do

This is out of the blue and I'm freaking out a bit

[wary wave]

#hardware

[elder haven]

cool cool

[plush yew]

is that what you mean?

okay now it is pitch black

ok i kinda fixed it but not completetly

[surreal eagle]

i ned advice

i'm makuing a game
and i bought this kit
it gives the shooting mechanics,but the animation bugs are a big issue
it's really good otherwise,so should i just reverse engineer it to met my needs?

it'd be a lot of work ngl

but i think it would still be helpful

because i'd basically be gutting it anyway

[young quartz]

How to get world displacement of the landscape in blueprint?

blueprint of the material

[wary wave]

you can't

[plush yew]

what do you mean it bugs? can you show an example?

[surreal eagle]

makes it look like the shoulders are ripped off the body,etc etc

[plush yew]

Please show

[young quartz]

so I want to pass landscape displacement to material attributes.. How can I pass?

[plush yew]

Stupid epic fix your launcher

Your working to much on ue5 that you can’t even fix simple bugs in the launcher

Does UE support .mov files (with alpha channel) as splash screen?

good evening everyone, how do we get the menu of options open I make them disappear now I'm bothered

place actor its ok tks

[supple viper]

this model has a separate model for shadows and I don't want its shadow model to cast shadows to its visible model but don't know how to do that

[plush yew]

any idea?

[supple viper]

no

I'd say just try it

[soft tree]

Is there another non-unreal marketplace for scenes/environments?

[autumn grail]

Hello , Please , is there something special to know for replicate variables of type BP ?

i mean my character have properties being variables of type BP objects

i want to replicate them when they change

[surreal eagle]

developing parkoor xd

[plush yew]

its o k

now i have probléme lol

i no have water ?

why?

[young quartz]

is there any way where I can pass the displacements from landscape to material instance?

[solemn schooner]

I'm setting up a system where people can extend the game by writing scripts in LUA. However I also want them to be able to add/replace the models, maps, materials etc. What would be the easiest way to set it up to allow for those custom assets to be included alongside the lua scripts?

[plush yew]

its for me the question ? @young quartz

[young quartz]

no man.. I am having my own bunch of problems

[plush yew]

^^

ok bro

own bunch

gooooooooood

thanks lord fidely ever

the must fiablity coach

https://tenor.com/view/lord-jesus-christ-sacred-heart-savior-gif-13610800

[young quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/suicide-gif-14427950

I quit

[exotic thicket]

You guys okay? There is room on this channel to ask more than one question at a time

[young quartz]

can anyone just tell me.. I have a landscape and I want to pass the displacement forward in a result

ask in #animation to get help

[plush yew]

I thoight this was careers chat lol

[midnight cloak]

Hi i want to my ennemy rotate im direction of my Hero when he Shoot

Somebody know what i'm doing wrong?

[wraith sonnet]

Anyone know if there is an easy way to build the engine as monolithic but then force certain modules as modular?

[rancid lagoon]

how do i change the gamemode mid game? I have a main menu, but it only works in tis game mode. Once i press paly i want it to change my gamemode. How do i do it?

is that blueprints or C? im working with blueprints

ok thanks

[midnight cloak]

and for my probleme?..

[steady mountain]

hi guys

im new here

and new with unreal

[idle mantle]

Hello @steady mountain Welcom!

[steady mountain]

thank u!

ill need help

cuz im looking for unreal do make animations

and i tried some times to use it but i found it kind hard

[idle mantle]

#animation try to ask there

[steady mountain]

thanks!

tomorrow ill start lookin for it

i use daz characters on my stuff so

[idle mantle]

Great 😄

I'm more a Reallusion user

[steady mountain]

i saw an musician who made animations with it

and i got curious

and it seems that unreal is more simple to render animation more than other programs

[idle mantle]

Great 😄

I have also a big problem, UE crash and I don't know the reason

when i click on play

and escape for quitting the gaming mode

it crash........................ im so tired of this here the error message: https://i.imgur.com/d9LTLU7.png

[pine rock]

is it normal that i have to disable gravity on my mesh to enable a character to fly?

[idle mantle]

*"Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000" ** WT is that??

[drowsy snow]

The callstack is barely helpful. Consider installing debugging symbols

[idle mantle]

I'm very bad at debugging, and debugging symbols? Sorry but I don't know what is that 😮

you think it's my other programs interfering? - bad internet? or maybe corrupted files? I dont know

ahhh 183 - 109 ... will check the lines

[drowsy snow]

Actually this one.

Also it's not UE5 specific, it's also a thing in UE4.

[idle mantle]

how can I access that pls?

[idle mantle]

Oh ok I just clicked on Verify and now wait

@drowsy snow what should I do after that?

It's 38.86 GB!!!

[drowsy snow]

Not verufy, but options

[idle mantle]

ahhh sorry

[modest trench]

you need a lot of hard drive space for this stuff

[idle mantle]

It's insane: https://i.imgur.com/6zCJv2j.png

I'm confused :/

[modest trench]

turns out a few million lines of C++ engine code means a lot of symbols

[idle mantle]

omg :/ not for me then

wait I have another drive with 100 GB but it's not the C: drive.

pff I clicked on it see what happen... https://i.imgur.com/3XgIM4G.png

[plush yew]

if I open multiple PIE windows, is there a way to mute the sound of certain PIE windows?

[idle mantle]

aahha https://i.imgur.com/9HHT3RN.png

maybe...

[modest trench]

there is a -nosound argument for standalone processes?

ah SoloAudio console command

au.debug.SoloAudio

then au.debug.ClearSoloAudio to return to normal

[idle mantle]

Hey I installed it

I clicked on apply

now I launch UE

I open my scene again

click on play, and when it's playing I press the key ESC

and crash again

This time with this: https://i.imgur.com/2loH0Fq.png

Sorry for your eyes...

https://i.imgur.com/R5zePdk.png

omg I have no idea what is that

@modest trench So sorry to ping you man ahah but maybe you know?

I'm so stressed I need to fix this tonight :/

Almost 3 AM

This is so strange that it's working when I press the PLAY button but it crash when I exit 😦

maybe this is my internet connexion? because lately its sooooo slow pffff

[rancid lagoon]

what exactly is your problem?

[idle mantle]

Simple; when I exit the playing mode, it crash

[rancid lagoon]

if you are in multiplayer it is a possibility that your computer just cant handle it (idk what computer you have)

[idle mantle]

It's not multiplayer maybe I have a plugin that use Internet I dont know

[devout swift]

How do I get rid of this message in my packaged WindowsNoEditor game?

[idle mantle]

and my internet is slow lately so maybe it;s the cause but I dont know

[idle mantle]

Build u scene?

[devout swift]

i mean, how do I prevent any debug messages from showing on my packaged game

I did this

[rancid lagoon]

you need to change the package title to dev. or something other than debug

[devout swift]

does that also remove the in-game console you access with backtick ` ?

I would like to keep the console but remove the other debug messages

[rancid lagoon]

yes it does

[rancid lagoon]

if you rebuild all levels you can get rid of the rebuild lighting on your packaged game, but you do not need to change the packge title. soory for what i just said

sorry for my bad typingh as well

[devout swift]

so when I package a game, it doesnt build the maps+lighting during the package process?

[rancid lagoon]

no it never does for me. it always re compiles the shaders tho

[devout swift]

I see, so just gotta remember to build before you package?

[rancid lagoon]

how could i assign game modes to specific levels? ie. main menu has one game mode the gameplay has another game mode. How do i switch between to two?

[rancid lagoon]

yep

[devout swift]

in the world settings I believe

[rancid lagoon]

oh thanks!

also how do i make auto save change its time?

it saves like every 30 secs

[sweet axle]

Editor preferences

[devout swift]

just type auto save in prefs

[rancid lagoon]

thank you!

[idle mantle]

anyone can help me please?

maybe someone who know how to debug

[idle mantle]

this is so weird..

it's when I quit the "playing" viewport..

playing mode works but crash when I quit the playing mode

[idle moat]

@idle mantle it seem like a nullptr

[dapper oak]

if im trying to make a set of classes for like a bass character type with different components and interfaces should i be doing that in like a plugin or is there some kind of other package creator where i can just take those c++ classes and move them to any project i want?

[zinc cave]

Ya'll, can we just give it up for The Ascent? One of the most beautiful and detailed uses of UE4. This art team is stellar! With DX12 and raytracing on, this game is one of the most gorgeous games to date. The amount of detail and resolution of textures and reflections is so sweet. The sheer number of assets, and the intelligent use of modularity (not a word) is really clever. Lord I hope someone does a FP mod for this. Would be fun to try out (ala' Alien Swarm mod). Oh...and the game is really fun.

[craggy sorrel]

Im not sure where to go but Ive been having problems with splitgate and having this error code pop up each time I try to start it

[drowsy snow]

...you're showing nothing.

[craggy sorrel]

thats the problem im not sure whats happening

all i get is that error code

[drowsy snow]

No error code in sight

[craggy sorrel]

its not showing the messege?

[drowsy snow]

Nevermind, it's not the Unreal Editor.

[drowsy snow]

Had to look closer that it's a shipped game, not the engine editor.

We typically only giving support things Unreal Editor stuff in here, and not giving tech support on running finished UE4 games whatsoever. You might looking for the aforementioned Discord server and ask around.

Basically this server is mainly for developers and not for end-users.

[craggy sorrel]

i see thank you

[covert summit]

also why in the hell did it show the in-dev error message on a shipped game

i guess they shipped a dev build?

[modest trench]

better crash logging?

[covert summit]

doesnt seem to be working 🤣

[modest trench]

it's doing its best

[drowsy snow]

That's questionable. It shows nothing at all lmao

[covert summit]

it tried

[drowsy snow]

Probably those early access title

[craggy sorrel]

it is

[drowsy snow]

Tried Postal 4 one day, and that game uses in-dev crash reporter too lol

[covert summit]

and this is why our actual editor crash reports don't get looked at smh

[plush yew]

hi every

i have question for yours please

I need the character not to cross the bridge and be able to walk on it thanks

[weak urchin]

Have you set up collision on the bridge?

[plush yew]

I import this bridge from blender I have nothing to touch

@weak urchin

[modest trench]

I would just "use complex as simple" in the static mesh collision settings

[drowsy snow]

Bridges are not something that's typically have physics simulation, so yeah, using complex collision won't cost much.

[covert summit]

#animation

and also I defer to hoodie

[hearty cosmos]

ty!

[covert summit]

do you mean getting the actor location from the context of an editor plugin or utility widget or at runtime?

that doesnt really answer my question, but there is "Get Actor Location" node that gives you the actor's location...

if you mean "what is the original location of an actor that was statically placed in the editor, no matter when im asking for it during runtime" there isnt one

you would just need to save the location at Begin Play and reference it later

[native tulip]

how can i set an actors rotation based on his local axis?

[covert summit]

can you elaborate?

[surreal eagle]

I'M TRYING TO PLAY A ANIM TO BONES ONLY BELOW TH PELVIS BUT IT JUST PLAYS BOTH ANIMS

HALP

[native tulip]

lets say i have this setup here and i want the actor to rotate on their LOCAL Z AXIS so that it doesnt look messed up, how would i do that

basically i want the control rotation to define where the actor is looking

[surreal eagle]

I HAVE an anwer

one sec

[native tulip]

AddActorLocalRotation would work i think? but i dont know how to do the math for it

[native tulip]

i dont think you understand what i want

[surreal eagle]

oh

[native tulip]

i want to rotate the local Z axis

[surreal eagle]

the absolute z axis??

[native tulip]

whats that

[surreal eagle]

just rotate mesh and hitbox

[native tulip]

the hitbox is the root tho

[wise trail]

Question why is the custom collision section in the project settings limited to only 18?

[surreal eagle]

set relative rotation draged off mesh

[native tulip]

ok i actually think that should work going to test it

[surreal eagle]

can i get help

[covert summit]

this is physically impossible

what you probably want is IK

[native tulip]

i dont want ik xd

i just want to rotate the actor on their local axis

[covert summit]

alright whatever you want lol

[surreal eagle]

know hohw to make anim bps?

i want to play a anim only on the legs

[native tulip]

im sorry for sounding a bit rude but i think you didnt understand what i meant xd

it ok tho, i think i can find a cheeky workaround with the mesh relative rotation

[covert summit]

you are looking for Layered Blend Per Bone in anim bp

[surreal eagle]

thats what i had

it doesnt work tho

here i'ma open stream

you tell me what to change

[covert summit]

sorry if i myself sound rude, you might have good reasons for rotating the character to fit the angle they are standing on, but most of the time you want the character to be parallel to gravity, not the surface they are on

you might be changing what gravity means though, i cant know that

if so, then you're fine

[native tulip]

im on flying movement mode so im not sure if its ok to defy gravity

[covert summit]

no im not going to just go look at your stream im sorry. im happy to help you here in text chat though 🙂

[surreal eagle]

k

[covert summit]

not sure how flying movement mode matters for what id expect to look at as a player. Unless there's game logic to say that gravity is pointing toward that plane you are standing on id expect to see this

programmer art

[surreal eagle]

👍

[native tulip]

beautiful

[covert summit]

🏆

[native tulip]

i think i understand what you mean now, but no, its supposed to be wall running if you know what im sayin

[covert summit]

oh yeah if its happening really fast, then that makes sense

[native tulip]

mhm

now ill go cry in a corner because i have no idea what to do xd

[surreal eagle]

i'm making a advanced movement kit wit horizontal

[native tulip]

sorry but i dont buy plugins

[surreal eagle]

k

its not a pluginn

10$

[native tulip]

i mean marketplace content

[surreal eagle]

oh

understandable

[native tulip]

because im a broke 15 year old mostly but yes

[surreal eagle]

17 lol

how do i fix this

[native tulip]

also heres what i want to do, using the control rotation (where the character is looking) rotate the actor so that he can rotate on the wall just like on the floor

[surreal eagle]

do it

[native tulip]

:(

[surreal eagle]

hmm

still cant figure my aninm shit out

[modest trench]

I'm assuming here that you have to get that character ref in the event graph and store it to a variable for later

[surreal eagle]

dm me'

i dont wanna clog chat

[modest trench]

it's just for fast path anim processing

[surreal eagle]

huh

[modest trench]

er, wait threaded anim

not fast path

[surreal eagle]

well i'm trying to have it where the annim only plays on the legs

[modest trench]

oh, I assumed you were just worried about the error

[surreal eagle]

not my issue

i can fix it later

i know how havent got to it

i just straight up dont understand this blend shit

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/NodeReference/Blend/#layeredblendperbone

[surreal eagle]

i read that

[modest trench]

you probably want to set the bone to spine_01 or pelvis

instead of root

[surreal eagle]

ok 1 sec

nope

did not work

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[winter zenith]

I'm trying to add first person to my game, I added the camera to the head socket, but the camera constantly moves with the head animation, causing an extremely nauseous effect. Is there any simple workarounds?

[surreal eagle]

have camera to controll pawn rotatioin

then set camera controll rotation to 0,0,0 per tick

[surreal eagle]

didnt work 😦

[modest trench]

this is a reload animation that plays while sprinting

make sure the bone name is correct

[modest trench]

I think the only real answer here is to not directly attach the camera to a head that wiggles around

[winter zenith]

Well the entire character has the same animation so it doesn't matter what socket I attach it to

[modest trench]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7GG0y8Jmcs&t=730s

[tight robin]

Don't attach it to the skeletal mesh.

[surreal eagle]

makes my guy rotate to the left and i cant fix it

even with anim edits

[tight robin]

Attach it to your capsule collider or something.

[winter zenith]

I've done that and you can see the character, any easy way to hide the character for the camera?

[tight robin]

Your skeletal mesh shouldn't be your character's root.

[modest trench]

you can hide bones by name

[tight robin]

Yeah just set the skeletal mesh to not be visible.

USkeletalMeshComponent::SetVisiblity()

[surreal eagle]

ARRRGHHHHHH

[modest trench]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ I don't know anything about your anim setup or what you are sending it

[winter zenith]

Where would I hide the bones? In a bp?

[surreal eagle]

i can send you the file one sec

[ebon pawn]

Good morning does anyone know if we can publish to a pixel streaming cloud from unreal engine directly

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/PixelStreaming/

Is this what you're talking about?

[modest trench]

probably

[ebon pawn]

Yes thank you. I was using twinmotion and in it there is a feature to publish to cloud and share. So I was wondering if we could do that same inside unreal

[runic narwhal]

Is it possible to have a chaos object that floats? Something that is arbitrarily attached to another object?

[surreal eagle]

i love ow its 2mb ovr file limit

[modest trench]

don't bother

I'm kinda new to advanced anim graph stuff anyways

[surreal eagle]

here i split them into 100 mb

use 7zip to re-assemble them

jam em all together

[modest trench]

sorry, I'm not interested in taking a look at that stuff right now

[surreal eagle]

k

went on a forum

figured it out

took notes

i can sleep now

[young quartz]

I have some scalar info. How should I send it through the material attributes. Which palette to use to add scalar infos to the result?

[tight robin]

What mean?

Material Attributes? You mean you're making a Material Instance?

[young quartz]

I have scalar info like 0-1 and have a material attributes result.. and want to add that scalar info in that result to pass to material attributes further

[tight robin]

Not sure I follow. Are these 2 different materials you're trying to chain together?

[young quartz]

wait I send a pic

[tight robin]

Send pic

[young quartz]

something like this.. sry I m newbie.. so this is how I can explain

[tight robin]

So this is a material function?

[young quartz]

yes

[tight robin]

I have no clue what MF_Displacement is/does.

I have the editor opened and I tried to type it in and nothing happened.

You're talking to a gameplay programmer about shaders so you might as well be taking a cheese grater to your nipples in a lemon juice filled swimming pool.

[young quartz]

lol

[torn shard]

Any way I can tie the yaw of my mouse to the yaw of my camera and have my character move as well

[tight robin]

Yes, do that and it will work.

[young quartz]

I am working with megascans.. so the mf displacements passes the height attributes

[torn shard]

?

[tight robin]

Your camera has a transform. Your character has a transform. I don't know how you've setup the hierarchy of these two components (if they're on the same actor) but you can sample the movement of the mouse and do whatever your heart desires with it.

Your are God of this realm.

This is your dominion.

Fly high, Icarus.

If they're in the same hierarchy, move one and the other will follow.

If they aren't in the same hierarchy, sample it twice.

Or sample it once and use you Player/PlayerController to pipe it to the object of your choice.

And achieve your dreams.

[torn shard]

I feel like we're not speaking the same language

[tight robin]

Third person?

[torn shard]

Yes

[tight robin]

Skeletal mesh?

[torn shard]

Yes

[tight robin]

What's your actor hierarchy?

Show me screenshot

Get that editor UP

[tight robin]

Camera boom?

Follow camera?

Hm...

[torn shard]

Its from the third person template

[tight robin]

I've been mucking about with first person lately, so I'm rusty on 3rd person.

Yaw doesn't really matter for your capsule.

Its cross section on that axis is a circle.

Yaw to your heart's content and it's still a circle. I can't recall how the default CharacterMovementComponent is setup, if it uses the orientation of the CapsuleComponent as its facing direction when determining relative movement from your forward/right axes or not.

If you want the quick n' dirty, slap a tick on your character controller, sample the camera's global transform every tick, and apply its rotation to your Mesh.

Ticks are slow, but you almost always have only one for the character (and you only have 1 character anyway) so it doesn't matter.

[torn shard]

I figured it out, it was insanely easy

[tight robin]

I'm proud of you, son.

HOW ABOUT YOU SHARE YOUR SOLUTION WITH THE CLASS?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[torn shard]

Sure

[tight robin]

👀

[tight robin]

Noice

[river copper]

can i setup rider for UE 4.26?

[tight robin]

Yes, Rider should just work.

[river copper]

wait wat

how

[tight robin]

1. Install Rider

2. Open SLN with Rider

3. ????

4. Profit

[river copper]

sln?

[tight robin]

Visual Studio Solution File

Which Rider is compatible with.

I use Rider in multiple 4.6.X projects.

It has not required any particular configuration for me.

[river copper]

wait w here do i find sln

[tight robin]

Beyond P4 integration.

[modest trench]

Rider for Unreal engine specifically

[tight robin]

Yes, rider for Unreal engine specifically.

Right click on your UProject file.

[river copper]

umm?

[young quartz]

how to remove parameters from default material? I removed the functions and its still appearing in the materials parameter default

[tight robin]

Select "Generate Visual Studio Project Files"

It will shart out an SLN in the same directory

Open in Rider.

Become programmer.

The uproject file will be whatever you've named your Unreal project.

[river copper]

ok thanks

[tight robin]

It will be in the top level of your Unreal project structure.

[river copper]

UE5 is like kinda unity?

oversimplified logos

[tight robin]

WTF are you talking about, Jessee?

[river copper]

jessee?

[tight robin]

I don't know, man. Breakin Bad memes.

[river copper]

im confusion

jokes in boomer

[tight robin]

Unreal 5 is Unreal 4 + Lumen and Mega Bullshits.

There you go.

Unity is a game engine made by a bunch of Danes who don't make video games.

AKA a waste of about 100,000 man hours.

[plush yew]

When trying to package the FPS template for Windows it gives me this error near the end. Where's the problem? I have a new Threadripper and 32GB of RAM.

[tight robin]

I do not know, but congrats on your Gucci rig.

To my naive eyes it almost looks like an infinite loop.

Wow I feel enlightened on what do without an SLN already. Thank you for your contribution to the collective knowledge of mankind.

Rider needs an SLN.

Do not listen to this low grade troll.

[regal mulch]

Isn't it nice how kindly people can communicate over a slightly different set of information?

[tight robin]

He feeds on deception and chaos.

[tight robin]

Absolutely not. Mankind only knows the brutal struggle of conquest.

You're either the neckbeard supreme or you're trash not even fit to bathe in the light of your betters.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: The Duke of Octane#6411 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[cyan marsh]

whats the difference between jetbrains rider and jetbrains rider for unreal engine

if i already have rider installed, should i install the one for unreal engine too?

or is there an extension i can add onto my already there install

ooh alright

i'll just install it then

thank you!

it says the plugin is already baked into UE4.25+

and i use latest, which is 4.26 i think so i should be ok

[plush yew]

i have audio ques for everytime i throw a punch in game.

but sometimes maybe like 1/4 of the times i punch all the sounds play one after another

heres a video to show you what i mean

heres what the ques look like

i basically have it set up like this for every sound effect in the game

it doesn't happen for footsteps

[dusky slate]

Guys, very simple question, i want to be able to change the Static mesh that gets spawned by the Mesh Renderer dynamically in my BP. I can switch the Sample Static Mesh, but how can i change the Mesh that gets rendered in the Mesh Renderer?

[cyan marsh]

umm, what should i do?

[wary wave]

it's probably a code / blueprint bug

[plush yew]

how could i fix this

[wary wave]

...fix the code / blueprint bug?

[plush yew]

howwwww

[tender pecan]

I get that all the time (first time after regenerating for example), project should load fine in rider though?

[wary wave]

I don't know, I don't have your code and I'm not psychic

[cyan marsh]

yeah

[cyan marsh]

i restarted unreal & rider and it doesnt show up anymore for some reason

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-yoda-baby-scared-scary-spooky-gif-15594172

[wary wave]

gotcha - right that looks like it should work - put a print string node after the play sound and see how many times it is being triggered

[plush yew]

ok

ok so

the string only plays once

but the sounds still play

its an error in the que probably

but i don't know what

[wary wave]

audio cues set to looping or something similarly stupid?

[plush yew]

no

it only happens sometimes

not all the time

this is sooo annoying

it doesn't happen with any other que's

only this specific punch

well actually it happens with grunting as well

basically the same setup

doesn't happen with this tho

it's so fustrating

it's been happening for like 2 days now but i have ignored it

[tender pecan]

you can put a breakpoint, debug and step through the blueprint event, and step through the nodes as they occur, as they fire, so see if you can pin point or isloate where the 'loop' is coming from, a bit of triage to identify the place
if its intermittent its going to be tricky for us to give you a silver bullet, i mean it could be a few things, one of your cues are set to loop and you maybe just not seeing it,
maybe there is an event firing you forgot about, maybe there is an audio cude wrongly set as a punch that should be a footstep for example, it could be many things, debug it a little and see

what i can tell you is we use audio cues and random nodes and quite a bit more complex than that setup by our audio engineers and have not encountered an issue like that, so it is probably just a setup issue on your end, you just need to kind of work through it to find it

[cyan marsh]

if i made a blueprint gamemode, how can i delete the c++ game mode base?

[wary wave]

yeah, my guess it is something stupid like a cue set to loop somewhere

[cyan marsh]

and also, is it stupid to make my gamemode a blueprint in my otherwise c++ project?

[wary wave]

and you're just going to have to work through the settings on everything until you find the cause

[plush yew]

is there a way to like search through every blueprint to see if a specific node has been used?

[wary wave]

right click on the node, 'Find References'

it will search the current BP, the window at the bottom that appears has a button to search the whole project

[plush yew]

alr so there is only one node with play sound at location with sound being the punch woosh que

[wary wave]

then the problem is likely in the cues

could also be in the anims

[plush yew]

i have notifies to show when something is happening

i do the same with footsteps

i think that's fine

for every wave player the settings are like this

for every random node it's like this

and for output it is like this

i don't see any problems with any of these

[cyan marsh]

probably a dumb question: shouldnt the play button compile and then play?

[plush yew]

what do you mean play button

I want the light hitting the wall from the sun to reflect more around for brighter interior, with what setting can I do this?

OMG

I FUCKING FOUND IT

NO WAY THIS TOOK ME LIKE 3 DAYS TO FIND

oml

i feel so stupid

so basically the audio i used to get all the sound effects are like from youtube and its like 30 seconds of different sound effects

just look and you will see it

grunt 4 and 5 are the entire thing

so it was playing the entire thing

oml

[plush yew]

Like this one, does not reflect the light at all

@wary wave

[wary wave]

lol

[shell surge]

Guys, I need help. I'm using quixel meshes and the light goes through the back sided. it's double sided geometry and still ... any fixes for that ?

[cyan marsh]

alright, gotcha

another question: how do i implement this to c++? i'm following a tutorial to start out and Get Right Vector doesn't have any arguments

[plush yew]

i have this node in the level blueprint

so that it will be splitscreen

it works

i want it to be when i use my keyboard and mouse it affects the one on the left

[dusky slate]

Guys, very simple question, i want to be able to change the Static mesh that gets spawned by the Mesh Renderer dynamically in my BP. I can switch the Sample Static Mesh, but how can i change the Mesh that gets rendered in the Mesh Renderer?

[plush yew]

and when i use my controller it affects the one on the right

but when i use my keyboard and mouse it affects the left

but when i use the controller it affects the left aswell

[cyan marsh]

after a bit of tinkering, would that be

    Rotator.Yaw = GetControlRotation().Yaw;
    FVector r = Rotator.Quaternion().GetRightVector();```?

looks like that's right

[plush yew]

Hello guys, i need some help... It os possible to use live link in play mode ? i'm using the technocrane pluging for the ue 4.26 but it isn't compatible after build game package

Is there no quick way to implement a transparent animated splash screen? GIF, APNG or MOV, doesn't matter. The project setting only has full support for BMPs.

[young quartz]

why there is such weird spots on the texture? How to fix this?

[desert pagoda]

What do I need to make games in addition to the basics of C ++ and UE4 skills? ||I use translator||

[tender pecan]

and lots of tears

[desert pagoda]

I mean IT things, i.e. do you need any libraries, etc.

[tender pecan]

All libraries are included in the engine you would need to make a game.
For everything else, there are plugins that you can get form the marketplace, as for IT, make a game and see where your skills fall short.
It will depend on the game, your team and their experience, the targeted platforms and storefronts, and all have their own caveats, tools and libraries that need to be taken into consideration.

[desert pagoda]

So learning plugins and libraries built into UE4 is enough to start with?

And I want to make games as a hobby, i.e. I will do it myself without team.

[gleaming crane]

Trying to find the code behind this anyone have any Idea where it is? I have an open-source build of UE4

[desert pagoda]

Anyone recommend some good materials for learning Unreal Engine (and its C ++ programming plugins)? It doesn't matter if it's documentation or YouTube videos. I am asking because I do not know where I can learn.

[plush yew]

any idea?

[desert pagoda]

Thx

Can you learn C ++ plugins or just Blueprint?

So what about writing code in Visual Studio? What do I need to learn for this? (I know C ++ basics).

But writing code is a normal thing when game make (?)

Visual programming helps and speeds up your work, but writing code by hand is essential.

Big studios make games by writing code.

[drowsy snow]

Here's the thing:
USE BOTH BLUEPRINTS AND C++

[desert pagoda]

I heard about it

So what do you need to learn besides the basics of C ++ to write games in it?

[drowsy snow]

Using Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4 does not make you a weenie.

[desert pagoda]

But you have to start somehow.

But I honestly don't know how to do it

The basics alone are not enough to write anything. You always need some libraries etc.

[drowsy snow]

Make a game with Blueprints first. Familiarise with the editor, and the functions, and other stuff.

[desert pagoda]

Okey

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't even have to be published on itch.io, just being playable is enough.

[desert pagoda]

But I have to be able to use all these plugins.

[drowsy snow]

No you don't lmao

[plush yew]

Do you folks have nothing to do other than arguing here?

[drowsy snow]

If you want to ask question than ask right away.

[plush yew]

peace.

[desert pagoda]

I understand, but what next?

Okey thx

[drowsy snow]

@desert pagoda this

[wary wave]

maybe start with some tutorials or something?

just sitting in here saying "what do?" gets you nowhere 😄

[drowsy snow]

Don't even think about shipping yet. Just make it playable by family and friends.

[wary wave]

aye, I would just worry about getting simple games running in the editor and learning the general process

one step at a time, innit

[desert pagoda]

Okay

[wary wave]

setting up version control is sound advice tbh

[desert pagoda]

I understand that I should start with Blueprint and not worry about C ++ yet?

[wary wave]

most developers will use both

start with basic tutorials

the Unreal Learning portal probably has some decent stuff to get people started working in the editor

[drowsy snow]

Yes, familiarise yourself with BP first, and your C++ scripting will be a relative breeze

I for one didn't get into C++ scripting until my third year using UE4, even though I learned C++ as a late toddler.

[wary wave]

didn't see the one linked, but if it does both, sure seems reasonable

[cyan marsh]

i'm trying to make sort of a jump pad, but i cant get the on begin overlap event to work:

i've got this func in my header:

    UFUNCTION()
    void BeginOverlap(
        UPrimitiveComponent* OverlappedComponent, 
        AActor* OtherActor, 
        UPrimitiveComponent* OtherComp, 
        int32 OtherBodyIndex, 
        bool bFromSweep, 
        const FHitResult &SweepResult
    );```

and i try to link it with
```cpp
BoxComponent->OnComponentBeginOverlap.AddDynamic(this, &AJumpPad::BeginOverlap);``` where BoxComponent is my box component set as a trigger

i put a debug message as the first line of the definition, but it doesnt get executed

this is the declaration:

void AJumpPad::BeginOverlap(UPrimitiveComponent* OverlappedComponent, 
                                                                      AActor* OtherActor, 
                                                                      UPrimitiveComponent* OtherComp, 
                                                                      int32 OtherBodyIndex, 
                                                                      bool bFromSweep,
                                                                      const FHitResult &SweepResult)
{
    GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5.f, FColor::Green, TEXT("Got to here"));
        // ...
}```

[desert pagoda]

Thank you very much for your help

[cyan marsh]

yes I do

[wary wave]

my first guess would be collision channel issues

[cyan marsh]

in my constructor

AJumpPad::AJumpPad()
{
     // Set this actor to call Tick() every frame.  You can turn this off to improve performance if you don't need it.
    PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;

    StaticMesh = CreateDefaultSubobject<UStaticMeshComponent>("StaticMesh");

    BoxComponent = CreateDefaultSubobject<UBoxComponent>("Box Collider");
    BoxComponent->OnComponentBeginOverlap.AddDynamic(this, &AJumpPad::BeginOverlap);
}```

wdym with the editor closed?

[drowsy snow]

Oh shit.

[cyan marsh]

oh

[wary wave]

hot reload is... kinda unreliable

[cyan marsh]

i didnt have that enabled

[drowsy snow]

Close the editor and rebuild all your codes.

Hot reload is super messy, it's like having your entire room filled with garbage

Also make sure to disable auto compile when creating new C++ class in editor

[cyan marsh]

but i didnt have hot reload enabled in the first place

[drowsy snow]

Live Coding is different

[cyan marsh]

wait so

i should ENABLE that?

[drowsy snow]

It's meant to replace Hot Reload.

[cyan marsh]

well that's kinda unintuitive

so i just build all my solution, not only the game project, yeah

[wary wave]

generally speaking you only need to build your game solution

unless you've been modifying other parts of the project, but you'd know if that were the case

[drowsy snow]

Or having Hot Reload remnants

(which at times you still need to yeet them manually)

[cyan marsh]

it still doesn't execute

[north shadow]

how to import as a single mesh ? indont have the option..

combine mesh dosnt appear xd

[drowsy snow]

maybe the collision channels? Though I doubt that's the issue.

[cyan marsh]

sorry, i'm just starting out, what are those exactly?

[drowsy snow]

It's only for Static Meshes.

[drowsy snow]

Simply put, types of collisions (that you can add on your own too)

[cyan marsh]

i know how to do it using blueprints, but i want to do it in c++

that's my implementation though

void AJumpPad::BeginOverlap(
    UPrimitiveComponent* OverlappedComponent, 
    AActor* OtherActor, 
    UPrimitiveComponent* OtherComp, 
    int32 OtherBodyIndex, 
    bool bFromSweep,
    const FHitResult &SweepResult)
{
    GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5.f, FColor::Green, TEXT("Got to here"));
    if (OtherActor == GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController()->GetPawn())
    {
        GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5.f, FColor::Green, TEXT("Should launch"));
        OtherCharacter = Cast<AGraphiteCharacter>(OtherActor);
        OtherCharacter->LaunchCharacter(FVector(0, 0, 1000), false, true);
    }
}

thing is it doesnt run BeginOverlap at all

[calm crow]

Hi, are unreal devs aware that the website https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/store is available only via chrome

my firefox won't load it

where is the official epic discord channel ?

[drowsy snow]

Use Brave thanks

[calm crow]

no i won't use brave @drowsy snow http://ebin.city/~werwolf/posts/brave-is-shit/

wow, mails still exist in 2021 ^^

[plush yew]

Why reflection capture doesn't capturing my walls?

[drowsy snow]

Tell this to everyone else

[calm crow]

well, i think this mail will land in a mailbox full of 2500+ others mail related to firefox user and it just won't be read

[drowsy snow]

God you're such a web snob

[calm crow]

Discord allows human to anwser me directly if they are already on a fix or if i'm the only one signaling this to them

[drowsy snow]

Some Epic employee do present in this server, but they're not necessarily the direct authority.

[calm crow]

In theory with my company i have access to forum coe company. But i mean discord is easier and quieter for an not that important bug

[cyan marsh]

guys

wtf.

i figured it out

for some reason, the collision trigger is at the world origin?

wtf???

[calm crow]

a open bug tracker would allow me to see if there are already on the bug or not.

[cyan marsh]

who

[drowsy snow]

https://issues.unrealengine.com

[calm crow]

thanks !

[cyan marsh]

thanks computer

ok alright

i'll do it

[drowsy snow]

Was all of that snobbery even necessary lmao

[cyan marsh]

    SetRootComponent(StaticMesh);``` like this, right?

just compiled, thats not it

do i actually have to do that