ue4-general

[ivory gulch]

hi
is there any way I could import a skeletal mesh and make each bone a separate blueprint component? Currently I have to import each bone separately and assign it, one by one, to a different component

[pliant junco]

yo dudes i accidently pressed a button and my windows bar is gone in ue4

[cyan bronze]

How do you guys get textures from blender to Unreal Engine

If i want this model with textures to Unreal Engine. Do i bake all of the materials and add them in unreal

Or how do i get them into unreal because normal exporting doesnt work. I found out that I have to bake them but do i bake materials which has only emission and base color or material which has only roughness and metallic with black color

like thise

Or do i make the emission inside unreal? Also what about if i have all parts joined. Do i make them seperate so i can apply the materials?

[tiny sonnet]

I keep having a packaging error and this is the output log, any help?

[tired abyss]

Anyone had any exp with adding third person controller free camera rotation and adding movement to the pawn properly? seem to have some weird issue with adding movement inpuit

nvm solved'

[tired abyss]

Do we have a built in enum for ue4 thats for cardinal directions by any chance?

[robust marten]

If I wanted to compare whether the actor leaving the box is a child BP of this class, is this the correct way of doing it? For some reason only some child BPs work and others don't.

[vocal herald]

How to get UV coordinates of a pixel that is rendering right now in material?

[robust marten]

When you say cast it to yourself, you mean cast to that BP? What would I use as the object then?

@plush yew If I create a child of vehicle, like you said, and call it BP_Boat, and then duplicate that BP and call it BP_Car, is BP_Car still considered a child of BP_Vehicle?

So this is my BP. If the object enters the box, add points to the player and destroy the actor but ONLY if its a certain actor. For some reason some children BPs still wont register.

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/kzxkednd/

@plush yew

I mean if its a certain actor class*

[fallow hornet]

Anyone experience where meshes are turning black?

How did you solve for it?

So am i

[robust marten]

@plush yew Look at my BP I sent, its only a couple nodes. I did what you said about casting it instead and it still doesnt work.

[fallow hornet]

So I have materials that are fine on one side of my scene but on the other side they are not

I unfortunately can't, (confidential project) but I think I figured it out based on the shading model it is defaulting to.

[robust marten]

Using Is Child Of worked, thank you!

[potent bridge]

How do I decide which HUD widgets load? I want my ammo widget to load on top of health effects for example

[warm pine]

how can i fix this Invalid Simulate Options: Body (BP_BaseCharacter_C_0.CharacterMesh0 ddadada) is set to simulate physics but Collision Enabled is incompatible

ok

when i do that ponkkis look what will happen

that trail is my

[rich goblet]

Does anyone know how to change the roll of a spline? Like bank a turn of a rollercoaster?

[thick herald]

click on the spine points you want to adjust 🙂

[rich goblet]

When it does that it only lets me change the yaw and the pitch. Am I missing something obvious?

[brisk urchin]

Is there a way to make UE4 utilize my hardware better through like its settings?? I have a AMD 5900X, RTX 3080 and 32GB. When I build my level the Cpu hits 100% but my gpu barley hits 30% and only 18gb ram is used on average

[midnight bolt]

cna someone link me to an asset pack that is using classic texture atlas, not in a minecraft way that is only mapped to cubes? im thinking about tiling materials etc, shared in a 4x4 tile grid for example

@brisk urchin there is GPU light build plugin for 426 i think

[light thunder]

I want to invert selection of just the actors on a level (all my other levels are marked as hidden) can I disregard this warning or will it make all my other levels visible and attempt to select their actors?

[midnight bolt]

this only popsup when you have a big selection of actors, like 500+ or something

so just continue

you can always ctrl+z

[brisk urchin]

Thanks, I'll search for it.

@midnight bolt i did a search and found this plugin called GPU Lightmass. That it?

Also, I'm guessing that with UE5 you wont need the above since lighting is done with Lumen? 🤔

[midnight bolt]

i have never tried it tbh so i cant help

its sort of ridicolous how backwards UE4+ is on plenty of things

[midnight bolt]

imagine thinking you need the latest GPU to build faster than any CPU in the past 5 years in demand

no need to fanboy stuff, unity had gpu lighting for a very long time

[drowsy snow]

eats popcorn with fully dynamic lighting

[vital jay]

Hello. Does anyone know how to get foam in fluid simulation working.

[midnight bolt]

no need for gatekeeping. you might wantt o use dynamic lighting at all times. others can't/won't. it's not perfect solution, get real

[glacial pecan]

I wish Unreal would require every C++ feature to also have a corresponding Blueprint feature. So many new stuff, like Gameplay Tags, GAS, Data Assets require C++ for 100% functionality 😦

[plush yew]

why do i get this error when i duplicate the level?

[worn granite]

Priorities though. Exposing everything through a usable BP API isn't instant

[fierce tulip]

any reason for this btw? because in ue4 this is quite counter-intuitive

[plush yew]

How do I force to show the mouse cursor?

[thick herald]

Yarp, but there is stuff that *could * be exposed that would make life easier in BP.

[drowsy snow]

It's not as simple as making UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite) or UPROPERTY(BlueprintCallable)

[plush yew]

can anybody help me?

[plush yew]

Can I not cast from one level to another?

Wanna get my score from one level to another level(game over screen) but the cast fails

[unkempt python]

is there some way to generate collision for corridors or hallways that works? none of the options take the interior into account.

would each wall need to be its own object? or just all the walls for that map

[true ridge]

I have a BP that acts as a particle system for a leaf emitter. Is there a simple way I could have trees automatically place one when spawned or painted in the foliage editor? Currently I hand place them around the level after painting in the foliage.

[scarlet birch]

Web search "Unreal static mesh pipeline" and read the doc page that comes up.

[plush yew]

why do i get this error when i duplicate the level?

[unkempt python]

thanks, hadn't thought of making the different parts of the room their own objects and I'll check that documentation out.

[plush yew]

cant seem to connect them up??

nvm im an idiot

👏

[plush yew]

?

[hidden sparrow]

hey I have a problem, I sent my project which is on 2.24.3 version to my friend. He has 2.26 version and gets this message. Whats the problem?

[coarse apex]

anyone know what i need to change to fix the height of his foot? Im doing IK right now and i think im mostly done

[thick herald]

a guess would be trace height on the foot.

[coarse apex]

where would i change that?

[modest trench]

...wherever you are tracing?

assuming you are using a trace to get where the foot should go

[prime willow]

i use powerik

its free and stupid useful

you can pick heights for how high youll adjust your foot and set which direction the feet arms etc bend

[coarse apex]

yea i have power ik but i just want to know this way of IK as well, also i dont think power ik works in ue5 yet so when iget there i dont wanna learn a dif way lol

[prime willow]

ah

i see

gomen~

[coarse apex]

lol

this is my trace rn and i have no idea what to change

[prime willow]

[coarse apex]

its a copy from the content examples but it doesn't work?

[drowsy snow]

I (still) used Basic IK Control Rig node for the IK stuff. Still didn't see much use from Power IK plugin

[drowsy snow]

Though I highly doubt doing IK in actor BP is easy on performance

[modest trench]

the actual trace is super cheap

but the blueprint vm overhead is there I guess

[coarse apex]

im pretty new to this so honestly idc about performance right now, just want to see if i can get it to work

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, IMO anim BP and CR BP has cheaper overhead compared to actor BP

[modest trench]

the example doing this in the character bp is so weird

like why not just do it all in the animbp?

[coarse apex]

because i dont know how lol

[short night]

How do you fix the Serial Size Mismatch for a Umap Asset?

[modest trench]

I'm not really talking about you as much as this example, oh well

[coarse apex]

gotcha lol

[maiden iris]

Power Ik implementation? shoot me a dm ✌️

[errant blade]

Is there any reason why objects that are too far away from the map center may stop having collision?

and if yes, any workaround?

[drowsy snow]

Because floating point error screw up any physics and collision detection calculation (I think it's further from 20 km or so).
The only way to mitigate that is to use World Origin Rebasing, with the expense of the lack of multiplayer.

[potent bridge]

How do I get the numbers to display over the damage effect? They are seperate widgets.

[errant blade]

Well there's a couple things here
1st- Is there no other way? this is a game with multiplayer i'm modding and this issue is really breaking my maps because the spaceships don't have collision
2nd- These exact maps worked fine with collision in 4.22 but now they don't in 4.26... was this intentional?

[drowsy snow]

increase the widget's Z Order.

[potent bridge]

thought it might of been something stupid simple, ty

[drowsy snow]

I knew it's about multiplayer when people ask about large worlds...

[errant blade]

Well it's a map where i'm using the atmosphere function to try and have space and ground in a planet

it's not even that big

i reduced the planet's radius to like 60 or so so it's really tiny

but the star destroyer and the space station don't have collision and idk how to fix that :(

same exact map worked fine in 4.22 btw (just with a shittier planet and no atmosphere function) i just ported it over

[celest monolith]

i am new to unreal engine

[potent bridge]

heres one more question, is it possible to vary the font size without having multiple HUD components, say an ammo counter, big 12 for ammo you have, and then a smaller / 72.

[celest monolith]

can some one help me learn

?

[drowsy snow]

You can, using Rich Text widget (though the setup is more complicated)

[glass jasper]

Hi all, anytime I try to create a project with Ray Tracing enabled my computer begins letting out a long sustained beep after a few minutes of loading, which I usually associate with heavy renders out of Blender or Houdini that are taking up too much resources. any idea how to approach Ray Tracing in a way that avoids this?

Or in a way that I can simply use it at all

[drowsy snow]

Maybe your thermal problems in your GPU?

[glass jasper]

hm what sort of thermal problems might pop up in a gpu? Thanks @drowsy snow

it's a 3090 so I assume it should be able to at least open the project

[sleek solar]

is that evga 3090?

[glass jasper]

@sleek solar no, FE

[storm venture]

why does foliage disappear randomly with pathtracing?

[drowsy snow]

Try checking the hardware sensors with HWinfo while you're doing heavy workload.

[marsh garnet]

Hey, why should I use event dispatchers over just calling the event?

I have to create a reference to each actor anyway

[errant blade]

I activated that option, it didn't change anything

[drowsy snow]

Wait, I assumed you're using World Composition

[errant blade]

I'm not sure i know exactly what that means but i went into the world settings, checked "world origin rebasing" (which forced me to also check world composition or it was greyed out) then tried again and the space objects still lack collision

Also i should mention when I say they lack collision it's odd, because they collide with bullets and the camera and even the player, just not with the vehicles (even if the meshes are set to blockall, also if i lower the mesh from space down to the ground they do collide with vehicles)

this is a bizarre issue

[simple oasis]

Hi, i have a problem and i can't find a solution, when i import my mesh and materials from blender to unreal engine, some parts of my mesh are just darker for some reason even though they have the same material, i duplicated some parts in blender since i had to use differenr parts twice etc. and rotate them around etc etc and some of these duplicated parts are darker in UE, but in blender in rendered mode everything looked fine and they looked the same

[drowsy snow]

Probably bad normals 🤔

(by normals I mean the face normals, not necessarily the normal map)

[simple oasis]

um so you mean i should recalculate normals in blender?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, see if you can spot the bad normals in Blender.

[sleek solar]

it could also be an issue with import setting inside UE, try reimporting mesh with different settings

or maybe when you exported from blender to fbx, you selected wrong options

[simple oasis]

ok i will try, i am new to UE and also blender its for a very important school project, which might determine if i go to college or not lol

[drowsy snow]

The saber itself could be a simple emissive cylinder, and the trail effect can be achieved with Cascade or Niagara.

[simple oasis]

@drowsy snow thanks bro u just saved me a lot of stresss, i recalculated the normales in blender, seems to have worked, i might have to ask you again in the future for some advice 😅😅😅

[neon bough]

well, 0 multiplied with something is 0

[modest trench]

try making it just a liiittle bit grey

[neon bough]

also you may want to plug the color node to your base color material attribute

but that depends on what kind of look you prefer

[modest trench]

probably lots of nice tutorials on that

look around

[prime willow]

i closed

the my blueprints window

how doe sone open it back up D:

now i cant see my functions and variables

[pallid rock]

Anyone in here tried pixel streaming your project? If so- what hosting service did you use and was it super expensive?

[flat swallow]

i am looking to hire someone who can make mods for unreal 4 do you guys know where i might be able to go for that?

[pallid rock]

Maybe depends on what you're looking for. I've used Fiverr and Upwork for some things for UE4. Other than that, you may reach out to some of people who build and sell content on the marketplace.

[prime willow]

nvm i fixed it

[flat swallow]

looking for custom mods

[coarse apex]

hey I have this problem idk how to solve, in my animation bp i have my emote -> control rig -> Output Pose and the problem is when I set the alpha to 1 the feet dont lift up but the IK works, when I set it to 0 the IK doesnt work but the feet lift up

[pallid rock]

More advanced than I have ever hired for- but you could try your luck at posting something on https://www.reddit.com/r/gameDevClassifieds/

[flat swallow]

thank you :D

[pallid rock]

No problem. There is also a job board on this discord channel. Try #freelance-jobs or #hire-a-freelancer

I've never used them though

[hazy lake]

What do you mean by mods for unreal 4?

[flat swallow]

like custom models to replace other modes

[hazy lake]

Like making mods for games built on Unreal?

[flat swallow]

yea

[potent goblet]

Injection, or does the game have mod support?

[hazy lake]

Ah, good luck with that, modding built Unreal games is not an easy process

[flat swallow]

not sure new for me so what ever works

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention, this server does not support modding any games, Unreal Engine games included.

Consult to your game's modding forums or other UE4 game modding forums.

[pallid rock]

Anyone in here tried pixel streaming your project? If so- what hosting service did you use and was it super expensive?

[potent goblet]

What do you need pixel streaming for?

[hazy lake]

Usually when you're at the point where you need pixel streaming cost is not a concern

[pallid rock]

I've got a prototype that I want to push out via a web browser. My beta users will vary in number from 1 to maybe 500 at a time- likely no more than that.

[hazy lake]

Don't bother, just get them to download it

[pallid rock]

That expensive huh 😦

[potent goblet]

More like waste of time and resources

[drowsy snow]

It's way cheaper to host a file for download as opposed to setup a server for pixel streaming.

[hazy lake]

It will also be expensive, running 500 simultaneous gaming computers in the cloud is not cheap

[pallid rock]

That -expensive- time consuming huh 😦

[hardy knot]

Wait, this is an Epic Games coding software?

[drowsy snow]

This is server for Unreal Engine developers.

The same engine that brought you Fortnite.

[hardy knot]

In the rules

Ew

[pallid rock]

Blah- It's for a setting where a presenter will ask an audience to participate- so having the audience download in the middle of the presentation may not be super high success rate. I think many would just not download. If it was browser based, I think it would have higher participation.

[hardy knot]

Might go to unity then 😅

[hazy lake]

lol why

[modest trench]

a man must have principles

[hazy lake]

What's wrong with Epic Games lol

[potent goblet]

Fortnite bad. But, technically speaking it's a well built game

[hardy knot]

Fortnite was the second worst game that I ever played

[potent goblet]

Also the devs of unreal use the games they make on the engine to test and improve it. I don't think unity does any in house stuff like that

[modest trench]

does it need to be a fully rendered 3d game on their phones?

[hardy knot]

Next to one of my own design

[pallid rock]

Most will have laptops

[pallid rock]

But no- it's more just a scene or two that has some interactivity

[drowsy snow]

Your preference is your oyster, I'm just living on it.

[hazy lake]

IMO, I would do this in Unity WebGL if you really want this, or the deprecated community-supported Unreal Engine HTML5 fork

[hardy knot]

?

[drowsy snow]

There's one guy who touted his HTML5 build fork of UE, but seems it kept behind close doors until he get the MegaGrants. Might be wrong tho

[hazy lake]

Sounds fishy

[hardy knot]

Well riddle me this, why can't both be used to code a game?

[flat swallow]

Dont have perms to talk there is there a way to gain access

[hazy lake]

What am I looking at

[modest trench]

comparing the PUBLISHING LICENSE and Creators LICENSE

[pallid rock]

Sorry, I've never tried. Might want to message one of the mods.

[hardy knot]

The unreal engine licenses

[potent goblet]

Unreal does stuff other than gaming. One of the licences is for that if I remember right

[hardy knot]

I'd like to make a game, but I don't plan to sell

[hazy lake]

Ah, you likely don't need to bother with licenses, unless you've got a few mil in the bank ready to make the next big game

[potent goblet]

Also you don't really need to care about the licence if you're making a free game

In essence I think

[modest trench]

you don't pay anything until you make +$1,000,000 gross rev anyways?

[hardy knot]

Not exactly a free game, more of a personal game for a couple friends

[hazy lake]

Isn't it like 2 now @modest trench ?

[modest trench]

looks like it's still 1

(we might starve)

[hazy lake]

Dang it, how am I gonna afford all this Caviar now?

[modest trench]

you have nothing to worry about from licensing here, you are free to use the engine to make a game for your friends

[neon bough]

well, i think you still have to inform epic about your project

[hazy lake]

Nope, only if you make over a million

[neon bough]

it's just that you don't have to pay any license fees

[modest trench]

Do you even have to make them aware if you just post it somewhere for download?

[neon bough]

i think thats part of the license iirc

[hazy lake]

If it's free to download that's under the creators license

[hardy knot]

Would anyone like to help me and my friend on the basic code?

[modest trench]

#volunteer-projects

[hazy lake]

Just checked, you're right. but only when you actually get any income

"When you generate revenue from a Product or Distribute it to end users, you must provide Epic with advance notification at unrealengine.com/release, as early as reasonably possible, including the name of the Product, the format of distribution, unique Product id (where applicable), and the distribution channel(s). However, no advance notice is required for Distribution of Non-Engine Products."

[hardy knot]

We need to walk before we can look lmao

[potent goblet]

Oh right I forgot how confusing the license stuff is. Basically if you plan to distribute it to the general public (which you will if it's a game) go for the publishing license. You can change the license (or choose both) later on anyway

And it really doesn't matter for your case

Just go for publishing

[hardy knot]

Ok

Figured, if my friends like it, others will like it

[hardy knot]

I can't type here

[potent goblet]

Take a look at #instructions

[hardy knot]

Thx

@buoyant granite $unpaid

...

[modest trench]

message them directly

[potent goblet]

Message as in DMs :)

[hardy knot]

There

[soft tree]

Looking to see if there is a decent workflow for working with 'prefabs' in unreal.
Turning grouped items into blueprints work, but then there's the issue that they can't be be individually modified without editing the all instances (or without creating a complex architecture). It's also incredibly slow to work with when there are a lot of child actors involved
I see there are a few plugins in the marketplace, but they don't seem to have the best reviews/support

[jade surge]

Is there a way to check the performance of a script? I am looking for a way to check how costly things are. Is there some sort of tool for this I can look into?

[drowsy snow]

Use the built-in Unreal Insights.

[storm venture]

is fog with path tracing broken?

[modest trench]

also stat uobject

[thin latch]

hi evereyone, how to fix this issues in unreal 5, coz im double check the modelling and there is no flip dan double mesh

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[flat swallow]

how do i dm the manny bot it wont let me

[drowsy snow]

Make sure you enable DM from servers.

[plush yew]

guys i'm looking to drop small fortune on unreal plugins, any advices about absolutely must have ones are welcome

so far got adviced to grab Electronic Nodes so tell me what u think about it aswell

[drowsy snow]

Electric Nodes is purely editor cosmetical and not going to affect your game end result in any way. You can buy it if you have extra money to spend, but in practice, I don't think it's worth it if you're care more about the end result.

[plush yew]

Thank you for your input, which plugins would u reccommend?

i'm going to be in for a long haul (estimated time for my project to be finished is 2 years) so if i'm going to be innit this long, i want to make it as comfortable as i can.

[drowsy snow]

Largely depends on your project's needs and scope.

[plush yew]

well it's 3rd person rpg, something close to genshin impact - as for scope, 2 years estimate

it's just there's so many plugins, i just assumed if there are some that are absolutely must have, community would know here

[drowsy snow]

Recommended? Yes. But absolute must? No.

[plush yew]

I see, which ones are recommended then - one i'm using almost everyday is sorting plugin that makes horrible blueprint connections straight (Graph Formatter), that's why i thought electric nodes would be usefull when someone recommended it.

you can mix and match, i would say it's even preferrable way of doing things.

Hello everyone I would like to know please if I start using the BP can continue with a part in c ++ or you have to choose one or the other or can you mix the two ?? thank you

So for example if I use the maximum of BP and if my games are very complex I can simply add C ++

??

[cedar galleon]

That's the wrong way to approach a problem. My advice is, don't spend money for solutions you have no problem for, you may later on regret it if you change the direction of your game or maybe even cancel it, or some plugins get discontinued meanwhile, have bugs or don't work with newer UE versions, or some tools get built-in counterparts, or there becomes a better alternative available etc. etc.

[plush yew]

@cedar galleon but the thing is, the experience i had with productivity tools lite and Graph Formatter was that i didn't even knew that i had the problem but once i started using them, my blueprint writing times significantly improved, also times where i would sit and watch blueprints, not knowing what goes where almost dissapeared.

Ofcourse i'm also wary of plugins becoming derelict, that's why i'm looking to spend money on plugins that will probably help me even if i don't know that i need help, in a way PTL and GF did.

[cedar galleon]

As i see it, If you didn't know you had a problem, then you had no problem, because in this case it related to time available to you. If you had the time available to spend on blueprints it was not a problem. And if you had time-constraints your natural problem solving intentions would direct you towards searching for a plugin that solves this most obvious hurdle.

[plush yew]

@cedar galleon i disagree, i was just spending hours (even days) organizing blueprints and files because i didn't knew any better, that doesn't mean it wasn't a problem even if i had the time to spend on those things, it was time that was lost since i didn't knew automation tools like these existed.

if i didn't listened to someone on facebook who said that these two plugins were absolutely must have, chances are, i would be doing all that stuff by hand up to this day.

[cedar galleon]

The problem is that the 'time lost' argument is so un-ending that it only really matters from experience if there's an external limit set, not one that you take out to compare arbitrarily when some commercial offer suggest to do so.
This is my experience, but maybe you have a different view on all of this

[potent goblet]

They can be mixed, and apparently most big games do use a mix. C++ is good for base classes and I believe special functions?

[plush yew]

Tks bro perfect

^^

[cedar galleon]

And if you had done this for a while you likely would have noticed your slowness and likely turned to searching for a solution to it (which is the natural reaction) so you would likely have purchased it then (after you noticed you had that problem)

[plush yew]

@cedar galleon Yes i understand your sentiment, i just disagree with it being right way for me, since i don't think i have either enough experience nor time to discover every time wasting problem or plugin i need by trial and error, I prefer to stand on the shoulders of giants, so by my logic if there's a plugin that atleast 50% of community uses, then it's more likely than not that it will be useful for me. too bad unreal market doesn't have sort by popularity option.

[cedar galleon]

Ok, in this case you're relying on someone elses judgement about where your problems are. That's your choice, good luck (not sarcastically)

[plush yew]

@cedar galleon more like " I rely on someone elses judgement and solution on most common problems" - since i wouldn't call organizing files in folders and blueprint connections "my problems", i'm quite sure it's as general of a problem as it gets.

but since i was inexperienced i didn't even knew about that simple general problem.

[cedar galleon]

The problem here is that 'most common problems' might not be your specific problems. In your example they are, that is somewhat a happy coincidence, which is what i was arguing about. But i think we don't have to go furthere here, i just wanted to make you aware of something i learned from experience but your view on this is different, which is okay.

[plush yew]

@cedar galleon yeah, honestly it might have been miscommunication from my side aswell. when i asked for "absolutely must have plugins" what i meant was "plugins which solve most common problems that engine has on a very basic level that almost everyone encounters (just like sorting blueprint connections)".

and not " specialized plugins that are aimed to solve very specific problems that very few developers might encounter depending on what they are developing". i guess i should've been more clear about that, so my bad.

[desert prairie]

Hello, so basically, last month when I 1st tried unreal engine, I chose the 1st person template for making a game and have made some maps, however when I went to youtube looking for tutorials on making a shooter game, they all told to use the 3rd person template. How can I move the files from my 1st person project to the 3rd person one?

[scenic fox]

hey how do i make a sine wave on a vector curve?

anybody?

[plush yew]

Does anyone know a really basic uv wrapping tutorial and bringing it in ue4 and texture it? Cant get my head around it. For blender

[drowsy gull]

What is Unmirror u and Unmirror v？

I checked them , but UE devoured half of my map

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/HowTo/TracksEvent/

[plush yew]

Can anyone help me with a widget issue

I am following a tutorial on how to make a 2d game

its awful but it teaches me so thats good

however the piece of text at the top that states ur score overlaps its self

I can show you what I mean but I can't explain it

I will get a photo now of it

You can see at the top

it overlaps

I looked back on the tutorial and am unsure on why this is happening

Alrighty will do now

What part sorry? The graph or the setting of the actual text

Oh ok U know

I*

This it?

Sorry if its not I am a noob lol

Is that in the graph?

yeah ok

It is then

It only said 400 because thats the score I got lol

I didn't make it so the obstacles kill you (yet) so it can just got forever

Ok

I will post the pic now

Ok

Sorry, how do I get to event construct. I am new lol 😅

[pliant junco]

how can i make these white walls invisible?

[plush yew]

I used to know

I used to use ue4 ages ago

There are loads of tutorials on how to make invisible mat I think

https://youtu.be/nrOm8G82p2Q

Ok I will have a look now

Ok I found it

Do you want me to take a pic of it

just the list of stuff on it

ok

Is this it?

Sorry again if its not

oh I see ok

Sending the pic now

oK

Ok*

Only 2 times

They were at the exact same time

How do I break point it?

I will be dead honest lol I have no clue aha

oke thanks

I got this

I have no idea what it means lol

Or if it’s just a instruction

Ok will do now

I have no idea what all of this means

So where do I use the breakpoint?

Ok when I played it stopped me on my print sting

So what do I do know to fix it

But I don't know what it is?

But I am using the breakpoint on a print string

So do I delete the hide restart button thing

yep

But how do I find where it is being made 2 times?

Alrighty

[wispy bobcat]

loaded up my map and all my landmass blueprint brushes broke and no longer affect the heightmap - is there a way I can reset them? new blueprint brushes also don't affect the heighmap anymore 😦

[desert pagoda]

Is there any free hosting for the Unreal Engine server?

[magic fern]

Hey guys. Anyone knows how to put a price of a item at free on the steam inventory side? I can only put as 0.01€

[pliant junco]

ue4 crash after deleating assets?

[fierce tulip]

it sometimes happens yes

[pliant junco]

especially on large files?

[fierce tulip]

its a bit random, can be any file. but if there is code/blueprints using it, it tends to happen a bit more often.

[pliant junco]

ahh i see thx mate

Yea mate it happened again 5 times in a row

jesus

[kind mulch]

As in dedicated servers? Because if so not to my knowledge, they are usually also pretty expensive to host and thus not a very viable option for most people.

[pliant junco]

after deleating physics asset it happens. Bloody hell lol

[glacial pecan]

Is there an easy way to get all colliders to show up after you press Eject in the editor?

[glacial pecan]

Thanks! Is there an editor preference to go with this as well? (To always have colliders visible?)

Tried searching, but perhaps I used the wrong keywords...

[exotic thicket]

Not sure but doesn't it default to on if you leave it on? Also you an access it (and some other settings) from the Show menu

[glacial pecan]

Interesting... it's glitchy for me... after using the shortcut, I see that the menu option is checked... but next time I hit eject, they're still invisible... yet the menu option is still checked... hitting alt-c did nothing... hitting it again made the visible...

and it always does that on every eject... so seems bugged 😦 (and I'm using 4.27)

[desert pagoda]

?

[trail kernel]

Hello frnds i am having a werid problem. I am using 4.26 from source code and after creating a cpp empty class when i try to open the .uproject file it showing "engine module out of date. . . Trying building from IDE"
After I search on Google i cme across this post on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/nhmsm2/engine_modules_are_out_of_date_and_cannot_be/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=comments_view_all

There is a person saying it has problem with path and also i have run the command which i am not getting . Please help .

[dense knoll]

Does anyone else have a issue where loading a level and than loading another level will cause the game to just not accept any more inputs?

[fair summit]

I have a widget blueprint (GameWidget) which has a variable (eg: money) that is binded to a text and increases each time I click a button and I also have another widget blueprint (ShopWidget) that has a textblock that I want to bind to my variable so it can display the amount of money I have but in the shop blueprint so the player doesnt have to go to the GameWidget to see the amount of money he has and goes to the shop again, I tried casting to GameWidget but Im not sure what I should put in object

[sly vine]

hey guys i have a trouble start the engine its never happaned to me

each app of ue have ("0xc000000e")

the editor , unrealversionselector , epic games launcher and much more

[fair summit]

Im pretty sure that is more of a windows problem more than it is a problem with ue itself

[fair summit]

does that problem happen to other apps unrelated to ue too

[sly vine]

no

only ue

[fair summit]

did you reinstall epic games launcher

[trail kernel]

Hey can u tell me about my issue that what type of path changes i must do?

[vestal edge]

does anyone know where i can find a server for the game unreal

[sly vine]

lot of times yes

[plush yew]

hi

i have a problem with UE5

All objects on scene is invisible...

[glacial pecan]

What could cause a tag name to suddenly be None?

This usually prints the same as the debug print node...

Guess I should have asked in #blueprint

Great... how the heck can I find the source of this?

literally zero google results

[pliant junco]

hey guys i have a question to ask. lets say i made a city model in blender and i wanna put it in ue4. Would i need to put collision and other stuff in there?

[pseudo vessel]

@pliant junco You should just add that under FBX

[pliant junco]

so i can just import onto blender and boom i dun need to fix anything?

[exotic thicket]

@pliant junco https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Importing/FBX/

[gaunt roost]

hi, I played around unreal before and built small games with it but only hobby projects. I haven't touched the engine for 2 years now and I'm thinking of re-learning the engine. Should I download 5.0 or should I stick with 4.26?

[exotic thicket]

from what I understand, ue5 is not recommended for anything but testing atm

[simple oasis]

hello, i imported an object from blender, which i already UV unwrapped, but it says it overlaps 1.9 percent in UE4. IDk how to fix this

[gaunt roost]

alright thanks, guess I'll just stick with unreal 4 for now.

[covert ivy]

Hi guys ! Do you think it is possible to create a system which can switch runtime between a 3D character and a 2D character character (a sprite, indeed) ?

I was watching some vids of Dragon Ball FighterZ and Guilty Gear Xdr. It's 3D games but with an ashtoning illusion of 2D. Really, it super nice ! But I always found that it lacks a bit the charm of an old-school 2D anime sometimes, mostly in the facial animations. Apparently, Arc System (the dev team of these 2 games) use 3D but also 2D for some effects. So I was wondering if it could be possible to create a similar system to Arc System's but which can switch with a 2D sprite some times. Not always but let's say during some short cinematic close-up, for example... 🤔

It could be so nice ! 😍

[desert pagoda]

?

[wary wave]

I'm not sure what you're expecting, but I'm also sure the answer is no

[robust marten]

Would anyone know how to stop certain Destructible Meshes from breaking that have impact enabled when they aren't actually hit? For example, the door and the window have Impact Enabled as I want the player to be able to smash stuff into them to break them. If I hit either with my hammer then they break as one would expect but if I say, take the TV and throw it into the window it causes everything "touching" the walls that have impact enabled to break. I tried setting the Damage Spread to 0 for the walls but that doesn't work. Not sure exactly why this happens only when something "impacts" the objects.

[sick slate]

Does anybody know where i can find how to render a scene with multiple gpus? i have an rtx 3090 and an rtx 3080 and i want to combine them for faster rendering if its possible

[covert ivy]

Was it an answer to Szopu.cpp or to me ? ☹️

[wary wave]

the other guy

[covert ivy]

oh, ok ^^

[autumn grail]

I don't know what i have done but now my inventory widget can be dragged only one time , after that its stuck on the screen and when i open it again it opens a new one

and they are both stucked , not movable and objects not clickable

i don't what code share

[autumn flame]

No code share = No way to help properly

[robust marten]

go back through the tutorial and compare the code to theirs

[autumn grail]

I have fixed the half part

i changed "add to player screen" for "add to viewport"

i juste came back to

now the second widget appearing is draggable and clicable and works well

i don't know why there the first get stuck , and a second appear

[light thunder]

@drowsy snow I'm doing sequencer image exports - does premiere automatically compress them, because I can't have 1.4 gig clips just laying around all over my PC

[warm thistle]

can somebody please help me with a pretty simple issue? its in #blueprint

[willow cradle]

Hello guys. Have a problem and need help. After opennig an asset its thumbnail turns white. If i try to adjust this white thumbnails i can make it like at the screenshot. Its shines ...have idea how to fix this?

[glass imp]

Anyone knows how to solve this? https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/605839/possible-to-automaticaly-reorient-the-translation.html, so needed!

[thick herald]

The answer is no, gizmos will face one of 2 directions. Either world or local, in the viewport top right there is an icon next to the transform icons. It will either be a world or a box respectively.

[plush yew]

How do I get the details of a custom event

[potent goblet]

What do you mean?

[plush yew]

I will send a photo now

You can see in the bottom left, I don't have the details

How do I get them

Because I want to change the custom event to a float

[potent goblet]

There should be an option to bring up a details panel under view or window probably

[plush yew]

I will have a look now

Thanks

It worked

Cheers man

[light thunder]

Is this a thing still? I can't find it - Since component cannot be inherited in UE4 by default this needs to be enabled. Just go to ‘Edit’->’Editor Preferences’ and search for ‘Blueprintable Components’. Than check the checkbox and

[wary wave]

probably not

[light thunder]

so how do I make a component a parent of something?

say it's not a scene component and can't be attached

[glacial pecan]

what am I missing with streaming levels? no colliders work... but if I copy and paste the streaming level content into the persistent level, they work

[warped saddle]

#ue4-general Hi, quick question is it possible to use Unreal BluePrints as standalone GUI Program for different languages - JavaScript,Python etc, to handle it into Visual Coding Blocks ?

[autumn grail]

Does someone have an idea why this event is not executed?

[autumn grail]

is this combo adapted for executing a script only server side?

[prime willow]

youre going to have to setup a whole bunch of stuff

but yes you can definitely do that

via filters or post process systems that switch between current parts of the game

you can find pixel post processes on the marketplace and than setup standard guilty gear style artstyle which has many tutorials online for

via blender unreal etc

[bronze wing]

I have made this grenade and it can be thrown and then explode but it doesn't destroy the ai pawn. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[willow cradle]

Update. If i create new material it initially have white thumbnail (

[bronze wing]

do you have an idea how i would do that?

[light thunder]

anyone have any advice for how to get a camera/cine camera to match the exact values of the editor viewport? I'd love to grab this effect for an initial shot but can't seem to replicate it in the camera settings, after playing with exposure and what not, Is there a way to view the editor camera settings other than just the autoexposure?

In particular, I can't seem to catch these god rays

[covert ivy]

Thanks ! It seems that you know what you are talking about. Can you explain me what are these filters and post process systems please ? I already used post processing and to me, it is settings about the lightning and the shadows (it is compositing, in short), so you are talking about simulate 2D facial expressions through 3D, am I correct ? About the filters, I don't know but it sounds something kinda similar to me... 🤔 I was thinking more a real switch between 3D models (with shaders in the style of Guilty Gear) and a pure 2D sprite during some phases, for example a short cutscene with a close up on the face... But I don't know...I'm just thinking about an approach of the thing...

[autumn latch]

Does Collapse Node interfere with actor Nativization Blueprint?

[vagrant hornet]

how to make this trees leaves less dark?

[bleak copper]

Hard to tell what the exact issue is, but it looks like you'd want subsurface scattering???

[light thunder]

How do I ensure I don't miss the beginning part of my sequencer - I've tried to put a negative frame in the render options but I end up still coming in a second or two after my camera starts moving

[vagrant hornet]

like this leaves are dark

these black spots

no translucency

[covert ivy]

Oh ! And to complete my previous message, I've just found this video which shows just what I was thinking ! Certainly I will implement it differently but in the big lines, it's just what I was thinking 😃 (aka switch 3D mesh / 2D sprite in runtime) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cou90jrfDB4

[coarse apex]

hey so im making this npc have a walking animation switch to an idle but im getting a jitter between transitions, how do i fix this? Im in the animation montage and I dont know how to give them smooth transitions.

[light thunder]

Have you watched the animations? there should be a blend setting somewhere

[prime willow]

so tbh im still new to unreal i cant faithfully show you how set it up but you can setup 3d assets and 3d assets and use post process systems with configurations through blueprints to switch the post process dependnt on what you need and when

and have the meshes preloaded and switch out between 2d and 3d just like the link painting me did

however its alot of work

twice the work tbh xD

[bleak copper]

That's not what I meant... I knew the artifact but it's possible that you could have been doing a lot of things (ex: baked vs dynamic lighting, etc.). Here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tap2N0_ZBRw

[vagrant hornet]

thanks

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow So i have this issue and i have no clue how to fix :3
https://gyazo.com/d45192050f3951cbf6f8f0aa9356e4e8

[coarse apex]

i couldn't find a blending option besides the blend mode in/out which ddint do anything

[drowsy snow]

Oh snap, never had Outer issues before

[coarse apex]

It would auto blend in a blend space 1d but it wouldnt play the sequence, it would just sit looping the same animation unless I changed the graph positon

[prime willow]

whats an outer issue xD

oh

im honestly even more somewhat confused :3

about what or how to fix it

i hope not 😄

[covert ivy]

Mh, thanks ! I will see what I can do ! Anyway, glad to see UE offers so many possibilities ! 😃

[prime willow]

wait were you joking or serious

im doing a deep concern now lmao

[drowsy snow]

Well, Outers are tricky thing to take care in Unreal.

My knowledge didn't reach there yet.

[ornate kelp]

CanI get some help with setting up a combo attack (each hit follows the last, interruptable)? I have the montages and inputs plugged in, but for some reason, he doesn't go to the next attack, so im not ssure if the notfies just aren't working or if I messed up something else

[prime willow]

D:

im doing a big scared!

o.o

x-x

sweet jesus

i might start over

and see what happens

tbh

[clear knoll]

Guys, please explain to me why LiveLink Face does not work in "Standalone Game" mode?
Run Simulate or other modes - and LiveLink works! But not in the mode
Standalone Game...
Maybe I need to add something to the character's bluprint?

[minor pine]

Wtf, do you see it too? One of units is doing this creepy head movements for completely no reason. Am I going mad from working too much? 😄
It's reproducible by map loading, however, I have no idea what might affect a skeleton like that

[clear knoll]

I want to use a character with livelink during streams on twitch... But I can't solve this problem. Because Simulate mode stop when I switch to another game...

[minor pine]

Hahaha

[knotty tree]

Is using decals the wrong way to go about making visible wounds on animated characters?

[drowsy snow]

Not the normal deferred decal, no.

[drowsy snow]

https://www.tomlooman.com/rendering-wounds-on-characters/

[knotty tree]

Thanks, that does seem to be what I'm looking for.

I wish he'd have included the code or some screenshots of the blueprints though.

[minor pine]

Mystery resolved: I have some mirrored skeletal meshes (scale is -1 for one of axes), and only mirrored ones do this weird thing. Looks like a bug with animation for negative-scaled meshes

[knotty elk]

Bit of a strange one, but I'm going through the UE documentation on landscapes, and one of the examples uses the "Open World Demo Collection" assets from the Marketplace, however I'm not able to add these to my project because it doesn't seem to be supported in 4.26

Does anyone know why and if there is a way around it (besides downloading 4.25)?

Much appreciated @plush yew.

[drowsy snow]

Though IMO the Open World Demo colleciton is a bit lacking, might as well grab the Boy And His Kite project in its entirety

[knotty elk]

Will do, thanks 👍

[steep light]

Does anyone have experiences with the player collision viewmode for the viewport being extremely laggy?

I got a fairly complex but reasonable production scene with collisions set up, the collision viewmode has like 1/4th the FPS of my lit viewport, if that

[vestal anchor]

Is there any way to make a keybind so you can increase and decrease the snap values?

[modest trench]

left/right bracket increase the position grid size

[vestal anchor]

Oh didn't know that, ty!

[modest trench]

the bind can be changed too

[vestal anchor]

Yeah I was searching for the bind but couldn't find it

nvm I found it

[desert verge]

First time with multiplayer but i feel like this should be an easy fix. Once the other player loads into the game they aren't moving

[cyan trellis]

My English is very poor so sorry if you don't understand something
Is it possible to do something like this so that directional light illuminates only selected items and not the selected items would be dark then?

[mellow meteor]

Is there a way to increase the size of the WaterBodyOcean with the 4.26 water system? I know that you can increase the size of the WaterMeshActor to render more water, but the size of the WaterBodyOcean volume is still constrained. You can technically extend the island as far as you want, but if the island passes the constraint of the WaterBodyOcean, the underwater effect won't render. In the linked video, it is shown that Fortnite uses the ocean spline to make the entire island and the underwater effect still renders. The island in that game is quite big, so I don't imagine it would fit within the WaterBodyOcean volume. This makes it seem like there might be a way to increase the size. I haven’t been able to find anything in the settings to increase the size, and scaling the actor doesn’t work. Is this something that Epic was able to do because they developed the tool and it isn't available to normal users?
Video: https://youtu.be/w3tTbVNkuwA?t=861

[plush yew]

I have a "fill screen" widget, and I'm trying to position a child widget exactly on the middle of the screen, but how do I know what coordinates are the exact middle?

[light thunder]

If I want to make a camera ignore an actor, how would I go about doing that for an actual camera (and not editing the objects themselve?)

[plush yew]

If I have a niagara particle system component, how do I make the particle system loop until I want it to stop

[devout swift]

is there a quick way I can test my game in another PC without having to package the game?

[stoic sentinel]

Ayo does unreal engine only read bones in order for a model to move correctly or is there something more complex it does? I was thinking of making my custom model using the same bone names as a model from a ue4 game

Also when a game runs does the weight paint have to be exactly like the model from the game or can the weight paint be slightly different?

[ruby quarry]

Hey all. No matter whether I load UE4 or UE5, it tries to load Steam VR. Even though I'm not doing a VR project and even if Steam is closed. How do I get it to stop doing this?

[desert prairie]

How do I transfer a map file from a project to another?

[drowsy snow]

Right click on the map file from the content browser -> Asset Actions -> Migrate

[deep stump]

What type of source control is used for a 300gb game file?

[desert prairie]

Ty

[pliant junco]

guys i need a little help. as u can see there is a small delay after i punch and i dun want tht. can someone help me fix it?

[ruby quarry]

Is there any way to set Unreal so that anything new added without being dragged in is automatically put at 0,0,0 rather than the random location within view?

[pliant junco]

correct me if im wrong but pretty sure textures aren't suppose to be in mixamo.

then i dun know mate sorry

[tidal jewel]

...

https://tenor.com/view/right-dr-evil-sarcastic-okay-bald-gif-17343060

[drowsy snow]

Does it matter, tho?

Why do you need textures just to use the rigger tool?

Also Mixamo's rig is terrible for use in UE.

The tutorial shouldn't require it to begin with.

Something like Auto Rig Pro (which is a paid Blender add-on) is good for UE skeleton compatibility.

[torn bough]

Did you upload your model as FBX?

Because OBJ doesn't work for me with textures

[drowsy snow]

The textures should not even matter in Mixamo.

Ignore the lack of texture in Mixamo.

Are you making a game entirely in Mixamo front-end?

Not even using Unreal Engine?
Because what matters is the texture is present in UE.

Let me reword this:
You only have to worry about the texture if your model in UE4 doesn't have one.

[torn bough]

@plush yew Create a few tests with simple models, maybe just boxes, and textures. Upload those as FBX to Mixamo. Can you see the textures? If yes, then Mixamo is not the problem, your model or the textures are. I'd check the texture paths and the FBX exporter first. Can you open that FBX in other 3D program with textures intact? Only way to know what's wrong is to be systematic and do tests.

[drowsy snow]

Honestly I'd rather ignore the lack of texture in Mixamo and just move on applying animation to the mesh. It's a waste of time concerning about it, because I apply the textures directly in UE.

Many of my Blender viewmodel renders have shit materials, and I don't care, because the materials aren't directly compatible with UE, and I could made a proper one in UE anyway. I'm not making final renders in Blender (or even Mixamo for that matter)

Also because Mixamo rig is terrible to be used in UE, I'd rather import the UE Mannequin skeleton to Mixamo, apply the animations, bring them to Unreal, and retarget them to the custom skelmesh that has compatibility with the Manny skeleton.

[unique kraken]

can someone confirm that "actor has tag" doesnt work in a function?

i just get the tag of a actor, and put it inside a branch, and it all works as expected but as soon as i make a function to reuse it, it completely ignores "has tag" and the branch

[potent flax]

I created cube and empty simple animation in blender. And cube is with empty parent. How can I export unreal this animaton?

[cyan bronze]

When i try to import armature to Unreal Engine 4 or 5 it crashes. I have tried without the armature and it works fine. Also tried without materials and still crash.

[drowsy snow]

If the cube isn't a skelmesh, you can't.

You have to do it in Unreal's Sequencer.

[vagrant hornet]

why do the trees look so bad

like the leaves are flashing black

[fierce tulip]

something going on with the vert normals (in the material?)

[vagrant hornet]

how would i know what to look for?

[fierce tulip]

or two are overlapping

[vagrant hornet]

its very simple material

[fierce tulip]

speedtree node

[vagrant hornet]

yeah

problem is solved when i go up close

[fierce tulip]

what are you doing to that poor normal map XD

but yea, that speedtree node is doing that weird thingy

[vagrant hornet]

changed the geometry type from frond to leaf

pretty sure this is better

[fierce tulip]

yup

[vagrant hornet]

might actually make the leaves fronds instead of individual leaves

[fierce tulip]

NO

never

ever

https://giphy.com/gifs/thecoolidge-the-exorcist-exorcism-max-von-sydow-lL8XYhxpG5fWqgKsYI

[woven bay]

👀

[fierce tulip]

normal maps should be normal maps. end.

this is not ps3 era ue3

and I'll die on that mountain.
No pun intended for the mountain writing atm

[woven bay]

May I know what's going on in the chat 👀

[fierce tulip]

discussing about normal maps :p

[woven bay]

A not so normal discussion about normal maps

[fierce tulip]

every time a texture is packed with a normal map a kitten dies

lol

[vagrant hornet]

where do i find textures for trees leaves

such as this

[safe osprey]

I have these image textures with the names NM,NM_1,W what could they be?

[mental helm]

NM normally means normal map

[safe osprey]

I see

[scenic fox]

each child blueprint has the same variables as the parent blueprint, so basically go in your child blueprint and go to class defaults you can edit the defaults that way

you should find your variable in your class defaults of the child blueprint

no problem man

[cyan bronze]

Im just so done now. For 2 days i have been trying to get this gun skeletal mesh importing to work... But there just is no one who could tell me what is wrong with this. Unreal engine just freezes and crashes like that until i close it from task manager. I have tried on both engines UE5 and on UE4. Only importing the guns mesh works normally and importing my characters floating hands with an armature works.

Im officially just stuck and cant move forward

Blender file ⬆️

Pls someone help me

The one to get it working gets 5€ BNB or Skill

[scenic fox]

first off, holy fuck, that blend file is pretty big is the mesh high poly

if it is

then that probably means that your computer can't handle that many amount of polys

also

[cyan bronze]

The mesh importing to UE is fine

[scenic fox]

what happens after that?

what's the problem

oh

the skeletal mesh doesn't work

[cyan bronze]

its not that high poly

[scenic fox]

Hmm alright, what are your specs, it could be that it's your computer that's insufficient

[cyan bronze]

i5-3570k OC 4.0 Ghz
Gtx 970 OC

Ram 12 GB

[scenic fox]

Have you tried this on another blank template project? does it work there/

[cyan bronze]

I have tried it with old UE4 project which had almost nothing

[scenic fox]

gtx 970 isn't the best, when you are in edit mode in blender does it lag? if it does then yeah it's probably your pc

[scenic fox]

so it doesn't work there either?

[cyan bronze]

No its smooth as hell

[cyan bronze]

No

[scenic fox]

Alright, do you have a weird export setting when you export it in blender to an .fbx file?

[cyan bronze]

Gtx 970 is same as 1060 ti

[scenic fox]

okay okay

calm down

[cyan bronze]

im calm no worries

[cyan bronze]

I have tried almost every setting

[severe brook]

I got it every time( what does this mean exactly?

[scenic fox]

What the actual hell? alright can you export another skeletal mesh and not have a crash, like a skeletal mesh that's not your gun?

[cyan bronze]

Yes i can thise arms

[scenic fox]

hmm alright im lost, did you ever try remaking the skelmesh and seeing if that worked?

[cyan bronze]

Yes i created the armature again

[scenic fox]

:0 okay im totally lost, im sorry. also have you tried reinstalling ue4/ue5?

[cyan bronze]

No i havnt. Its about 30gb so i think i try that today if i cant solve this

[scenic fox]

Hold on don't try it yet im looking at some fourm posts

[cyan bronze]

ok

[scenic fox]

hey does your skeletal mesh have a default material, at least one?

[cyan bronze]

Not sure what do you mean

[scenic fox]

does it have uv maps?

oh, by the way is the mesh parented to the armature

[cyan bronze]

I have also tried deleting all of those and importing, didnt work. Tried deleting materials and only add simple blue material, didnt work

[cyan bronze]

Yes i made few animations like reload and fire but then faced this problem and deleted all animations and tried importing and didnt still work

[cyan bronze]

all of the mesh uv mapped

[scenic fox]

okay wtf, im going to keep searching

[cyan bronze]

K you can also try downloading the file too if you want

[scenic fox]

@cyan bronze

[cyan bronze]

Not virus or anything btw

[scenic fox]

seems more sketchy now that you said that lmao

[cyan bronze]

😄

[cyan bronze]

I dont get crash report since it freezes and i have to close it from task manager

[scenic fox]

uhhh did you have import LOD checked when you import the skelmesh from ue?

[cyan bronze]

No and tried that now and didnt work

[scenic fox]

hm have you tried waiting while this was importing? it may be taking time to import

[cyan bronze]

Waited for 4 hours and nothing happened

1 or 2 times at the start of the problem i got error message but cant remember what is said

Oh and also new thing that has recently started is that i cant get into sculpting mode or weight paint... It crashes blender

[scenic fox]

i honestly think you should reinstall the engine (you won't lose any of your projects so don't worry)

[cyan bronze]

yea true

I uninstal UE5 and UE4 and run some CCleaning and try installing UE5 again

[scenic fox]

yeag

*yeah

[wintry nebula]

Not sure if this is the right channel to post this but ue4 and 5 wont start without crashing and i get the “EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff” error. I cant even get access to the project library without it crashing. Ive tried reinstalling the editor and my graphics card driver and tried the regedit solution but still nothing. On some days it randomly does work but majority of the time it doesnt.

[plush yew]

Hi - I have an input issue where mouse delta is only non-zero if the mouse cursor is not at the screen-edge. I am able to work around it by turning off the mouse cursor in the player controller, but if I turn it on/off dynamically I'm left with the same issue. Is there a way to get mouse delta without it first being confined to the viewport?

I was hoping the enhanced input would give mouse delta (like unity's new input system) as a raw value - something along those lines.

[vestal anchor]

Where are things like r.TemporalAASamples stored on disk? Basically any visual values you have to change through console commands

[pliant junco]

Is there a node that makes my anim montage play faster?

[light thunder]

I'm trying to record a perfect looped video sequencer - I have a camera actor that goes on a circular spline that is a perfect circle - but when I use sequencer because it is not the first event I seem to miss when it happens, I'm always a couple frames late

[vagrant hornet]

how do i make gernster waves look good?

this is current

im unsatisfied with how it looks and im pretty sure the water is the problem

[neon bough]

when recording or when playing the sequence?

[mental helm]

You probably should throw in some distance fog

Palm trees generally aren't straight vertical

[neon bough]

if it's recording, you could work around by starting the camera positioned a bit back on the spline

[mental helm]

Sand gets wet where the waves hit

[vagrant hornet]

i have the wet sand

maybe like foam on the edge?

[neon bough]

put a dead dolphin on the beach 😛

i would add some more vegetation, not only those palms

and/or maybe some broken off palm

[neon knot]

okkkk is there anything simple I can do to reduce C++ compile time?

Even super simple 1 line classes take a ludicrous amount of time to compile

[vagrant hornet]

where can i find support for speedtree?

[patent trench]

Is this the correct channel to ask for help?

[vagrant hornet]

yes

[patent trench]

ok, good, don't want to break any rules since I just got here lol

What would cause the play editor to crash after say 30 seconds to a minute of playing? It's not crashing the engine, so once I hit esc it pops me out to the editor and everything else is working.

I've been reading the output log, and log messages, but nothing is popping up with an error.

I even made sure to install the debug stuff into the engine. I then verified the engine to make sure everything is in it.

[thick herald]

Is your character going downwards at all? It could be your Z kill distance, found in world settings.

[thick herald]

Probably from the SpeedTree site?

[patent trench]

can I post a small clip here to show what it's doing?

[grim ore]

you can try

and like suggested above that doesnt sound like a crash, you would know a crash

[patent trench]

This is what is happening

[grim ore]

that is your character being destroyed and your camera going back to the default pawn

well the nothing camera

[patent trench]

What is causing the character to be destroyed without it dying?

[grim ore]

when that happens press shift-f1 and unlock the mouse, then look in the top right world outliner for your character anymore

we wouldnt know, you would know. one suggestion above was kill z, or you have some other code causing it to be destroyed

[patent trench]

that is exactly what is happening, thank you, at least now I know what to look for.

[grim ore]

If it was me I would eliminate what could cause it. I would disconnect any destroy actor nodes in my code so they dont run and then run around and see if it happens again. IF it does then its not that code and you can look at reasons the engine would do it, if it is you have a start to look. You could also put the character alone in a new map to see if its the character or the map or the AI, or just run the character around and see if its the AI doing it when its near, etc... yay for debugging

[neon bough]

can't you put a onDestroyed event listener and add a breakpoint and see what calls it?

[patent trench]

I'm going to have to do something like that, I unchecked the kill z button and it's still happening

[neon bough]

well, i'm not sure if you can trace what called an event, but its worth a try i guess

[grim ore]

you technically can but in pure BP its really really really hard as the blueprint stack trace doesnt help much for stuff like this

[patent trench]

I don't have a destroy actor in the BP for the thirdpersoncharacter

[neon bough]

put a divide/0 node on there, and see the error log 😛

[prime pilot]

Is it possible to work together in a blueprint class with multi-user editing?

[grim ore]

there is an Event On Destroyed function you can override

they are suggesting you do that and put in a print string to do a breakpoint, but thats more advanced

eliminating all of your actual destroy actor nodes in your code and seeing if they are doing it should be fairly quick (you can do a blueprint find and find in all blueprints)

[light thunder]

Thanks for following up - it's when recording

I'm essentially injecting some code into the middle of my normal stuff, so there is a lot loading before it is reading to play - but I have am not auto possessing - I am possessing the camera on begin play for this blueprint

[sage gorge]

Has anyone run into an editor crash from just trying to open a float curve created in the editor?

[neon bough]

yes, a lot with curves in control rig

my only workaround by that time was to use external curves and reference them -.-

[light thunder]

I'm also having a crash for **using dynamic nav meshes ** if I begin play and stop it while the nav mesh appears to be building, it will crash the editor (and it gives nav mesh as the error) - it's a simple workaround, I just have to wait a few seconds but it does slow things down for iteration and when I forget and have to relaunch editor

[sage gorge]

That's a bummer. I was kind of hoping I just needed to update a driver. So when creating a float curve from miscellaneous and then double clicking to edit it, that causes a crash?

[neon bough]

no, that was the only thing that didn't crash me

i had crashed when adding a float curve to a control rig graph, and tried to edit it there

[rapid spade]

who all are participating in epic games mega Game jam solo

[radiant sun]

I now realise, that although UE is amazingly more beautiful than other engines, that beauty comes at a cost... That's just 4 small scale platformers I made.

[zinc shore]

is the unreal answer hub down cuz i cant visit the site

[glacial pecan]

I can't submit bugs either... so something is weird.

[clever marsh]

yo

how do i merge all of these pieces into one so i can simulate cloth on this cape

i want to merge every piece of the mesh on this cape into one cape

[light thunder]

How do I make a sequencer start and stop recording FROM a blueprint - I can reference the level sequence and I know when I want this to happen but I can't find a way to do it

[fierce tulip]

@faint wren this channel is for ue4 related conversation and questions. we do not have channels for non-ue4 work in progress/finished projects.

[glacial pecan]

anyone else's unreal editor flicker? and then that happens, right-click submenus refuse to show? (I just got a new graphics card + monitor and UE4 is the only thing that doesn't seem to like them...)

[weak cypress]

is it normal to take like 30 minutes to compile the base code in VS?

[glacial pecan]

yes, but so was the old one...

[weak cypress]

i started up a new project

loaded into it , then changed some things in the code

then ctrl + b

[glacial pecan]

Ahh... I hope it's known to Epic as well as people on this Discord then 🙂

[weak cypress]

i changed like 3-4 lines in VS for the character controller

and now i am compiling the code

third person

nvm it just completed compiling

i am literally compiling a few changes

it should take like under 10 seconds right?

i literally added 3 lines lol

like i added these lines

and hit control + b

i run windows

[midnight bolt]

a bit late, but im still looking for atlased asset pack to learn HOW to do it properly for tileable objects like wall. why is this important, cause you can pack like 16 textures into one as an atlas, just making it one draw call which is super important for mobile

i've spent so much time and i haven't been able to find anything, except for some youtube tutorials that didnt really ocver it properly

the thing i dont know how to link it

i can move UVs of single models that fit within texture tile

but not a brick texture that can extend across longer length

i believe this require secondary uv layer to map what is using what, but there are literally no examples

atlasing is the only correct way for optimizing for mobile while keeping the quality

[maiden iris]

send you a dm which might help, not quite sure

[midnight bolt]

its not it. mobile or not, you can get the same effect for PC but since they are much more powerful there is no real need

i am yet to find a real example using anything bigger, most flipbooks/atlases are for minecraft style cube wrapping, which is a piece of cake

i couldnt even find marketplace assets using tileable atlases

[weak cypress]

ok so tried it again on an ssd @plush yew took me 6 seconds lol

[steep timber]

Hello im actually making a FPS and i attached a Camera to my gun for aiming but ingame the camera looks in the opposide direction. My gun working properly but if i press rightclick for aiming i watch into my characters face. someone a idea why my camera is doing that ?

[midnight bolt]

and then how would you define the wood parts to use wood tile, and metal to us metal, with uvs expanding across 0-1?

but can you use one material, one object, one texture to map two regions wood and metal, in single uv? i find it impossible

i believe this would require second uv layer/index/texcoord to map what is what

well, im yet to see it executed

hence why im asking for examples

i feel like everyone gets it wrong, or miss the concept of optimization. a big chunk of a level should be one object, one material, one texture, with atlas to keep quality

i can bake 100m brick wall into a single texture, but the texture would have to be like 8k to remain any quality - just pure nonsense

you can instance like modular assets, but not unique houses for example

i will a bit later, but i assume there are no known marketplace assets that did what i asked, paid or not?

i just want to learn how it's done/executed. im really yet to find any real example

trust me i spent hours trying before posting

i just find it impossible without second uv layer.

like this is my sample UVs, this works perfectly for single texutre, but not in atlas. so i would need second uv, to map polygons to certain tile

and in the end to end up with one material, one texture, one object, for entire house as an example

thats zoomed out

but its on the tile. if i replace atlas with brick, its perfect. so now i have to find a way to tile brick within atlas

pretty much

or in other words - i want existing uvs to work with atlas.

not asking for much :P

okay, lets reverse it a little bit - are there plugins that can take single texture, and end up combining it with remapped uvs to a classic atlas?

so i have everything done 'as usual', but the last step is to combine/optimize/atlas

i only know tools that can bake new texture without tiling required, but thats a pure quality loss for tileables

[maiden iris]

^^

[midnight bolt]

how would you loose quality on atlas like above?

[maiden iris]

thx for confirming, i was literally posting him the docs and checkboxxes for it

yeah, i wasnt quite sure what he wanted in the end, but actor merging seems like the fastest solution, without redoing / shifting uv's and stuff like that

[midnight bolt]

this is an output with other tools. it bakes entire texture data to fit within 0-1 - clear quality loss. but in 4x4 tile atlas? im yet to see this done, with precised uvs. i know how to do it on models that dont really need uv mapping and can work with world position

[maiden iris]

if you take 4x 512 textures and bake it into a single 1k atlas, no loss, if you bake it to something below that... loss

[midnight bolt]

so lets say i want to keep 1k.

[maiden iris]

keep what 1k

the atlas, the single textures?

[midnight bolt]

1k combined textures. i can combine them manually or whatever to form 2x2. but how to map it?

[maiden iris]

you don't ... read the docs, it states new uv's....

you model the house, in how many parts you need, texture them... then merge the actor

[midnight bolt]

i guess you guys are far more advanced, so we might be getting misunderstood. if this is doable, someone must have done it before. i found nothing. whats the point? because you will never bake 1km wall onto an atlased texture like mine above without drastic quality cut, but in tileable 4x4 - why would you loose anything?

[maiden iris]

afterwards you get a single actor with 1 texture... size can be setup.... or calculated on importance for you (checkboxx use binning textures)

[midnight bolt]

what about using already tiled texture?

say i downloaded a free tiled texture

[maiden iris]

it will package it into the atlas...

[midnight bolt]

okay, so much talk, but its not been done before? not a single paid or free asset using this technique to investigate myself?

[maiden iris]

i dont have any 😄

[midnight bolt]

i still havent seen any assets using tileable atlases like 4x4

[light thunder]

Is there a way to trigger sequencer to BEGIN recording out, from Unreal?

[midnight bolt]

its abotu final asset.

[light thunder]

I can manipulate everything except the start recording function

[midnight bolt]

absolutetly correct

i assume because most people dont modify their assets

[maiden iris]

search for mobile assets, drawcalls are not that big of an issue nowadays on desktop machines

so i bet some marketplace mobile assets will definitely use atlasses

[midnight bolt]

haha, yeah, i just couldnt find any

ultimately i would prepare my asset in blender

no i didnt. i showed you UVs expanding way beyond 0-1. so now i have to fit it within an atlas

is this a language barrier? how are you going to fit such a big UV into a single tile?

[dawn gull]

What could I do in a material to randomly offset the position of the vertices in a model it's applied to?

[midnight bolt]

i resized it 0.1, its jut NOT POSSIBLE to fit within a square

this isnt minecraft...

[maiden iris]

you move / cut the tiles to fit

[thick herald]

Plenty of blender options to pack UVs.

[midnight bolt]

either im missing something essential or im getting responses from people who dont care about mobile

[thick herald]

The former

[midnight bolt]

well, unless there is an example, i will have to deem it impossible. if its possible, there must be at least one asset pack using that - its not like 100% of marketplace is 100% perfect ue workflow solution

[dawn gull]

Thank you!

[midnight bolt]

it's a brick. some walls are longer that cant fit within tile, without being broken even furhter

i appreciate all the help, but really, there is no example that i can look at within ue4? so maybe... its just not that simple?

[fierce tulip]

this doesnt help with drawcalls in ue4. it just results in 1 drawcall per mesh, loading the entire texture and all its useless parts per mesh. you'd be bottlenecking instead of optimizing this way.

[robust marten]

Anyone with experience with level design mind sending me PM? I’d like to ask some questions about interior design for a FPP game.

[midnight bolt]

is UE4 -so- different, than tons of unity assets are actually using 4x4 tiles as an example? i find it hard to believe

[fierce tulip]

yes it is different

its basically useless in ue4

[midnight bolt]

if i had a minecraft map, using 4x4 tiles, so 16 textures, i could end up with a level using 16 tiles and 1 material, 1 texutre, 1 draw call. how is that different in ue4 than unity

[fierce tulip]

ue4 is not minecraft nor unity

[midnight bolt]

im talking about minecraft style, so everything made out of cubes - those are effortless to map into atlas

[fierce tulip]

yes, but thats not how it works in ue4

if you want minecraft stuff, ask how @silver crown does his voxel stuff.

[midnight bolt]

mind blowing to me. so UE4 always have to suffer on quality for anything tileable, or be used as separate draw call?
i dont want minecraft style

[fierce tulip]

but general ue4, its basically pointless. take it from someone with 20 years of gamedev experience.

ue4 has other means for optimizing

[robust marten]

Thank you

[fierce tulip]

we have instances, hlod, imposters, and much more

[midnight bolt]

so in that regard, looks like unity is the superior one. you can use full atlas, without quality loss, perfect for mobile

[fierce tulip]

lol

no

they are just different approaches, in the end its up to the painter how they fill their canvas

[midnight bolt]

then i refuse to accept the answer that using texture atlas is not a good solution, like please explain me what are the drawbacks here

[fierce tulip]

you'd be loading all useless parts of the texture for each drawcall, loading in the entire thing instead of a small part.

[maiden iris]

yeah i do not really get whats not working with merging actors and ticking the boxxes ive wrote you, that will even calculate the texture space depending on importance (size) ......

[midnight bolt]

how is it going to be a separate draw calls, when in the end, pre atlased objects will be merged into one?

lets say i want to pre-pare my assets in blender.

so its just import, and place on map. how to map to tiles then?

[thick herald]

I get the feeling your fixated on using your solution, as opposed to learning another way.

[maiden iris]

you dont map to tiles pre hand... you generate the atlas... or you use the atlas texture (in blender for example and map your uvs there)....

[fierce tulip]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/one-mesh-to-rule-them-all

then you'll love this one:
https://ue.unrealengine.com/UE-Virtual-production-Whitepaper.html

[midnight bolt]

what's a true pity that nobody have linked a single asset using tileable texture. forget what i need it for - i want to investigate... and there is nothing?

[fierce tulip]

a lot of them do use tileable textures

[midnight bolt]

i misspoke, i meant tileable atlas

like this

[fierce tulip]

because its not used a lot in ue4, there are some low poly (olbert I think) assets on the marketplace, but they use a small gradient-tilemap just to grab base colors.

@plush yew the problem is once you get into mipmapping + aliasing and what not you'll bound to see the edges of the other tiles

[midnight bolt]

okay, long story short, even if i get everything working, there is no way to map UVs to existing texture, it always has to be generated from within ue? that's my take away

[fierce tulip]

its just a different approach to optimization, and once you get the hang of it, you'll realize how stupid powerful it is

[midnight bolt]

*existing atlas texture

[maiden iris]

no, you generate the atlas one time... with your needed textures... after that you just use it... when creating a new asset....

and lay the uv's into the tile you want...

its just a texture in the end

[fierce tulip]

ue4's optimization tools/tricks

hlods, instances, yada

im not saying you cant use the tiled approach, but you'll barely get any gains from it, and in the long run you'll more often cut yourself instead of finding profits

if it worked that well, we'd all be using it in ue4

[midnight bolt]

I mean, from my perspective, from 3 4x4 atlases i get 48 unique textures. That's enough to form full level, and end up having just 3 draw calls for 3 atlases

[fierce tulip]

you wont end up with 3 drawcalls, thats the thing.

and especially with nanite, it makes it entirely moot

[midnight bolt]

I'm using 424

[maiden iris]

nanite goes woosh 😄

[midnight bolt]

Yeah I'm focused on mobile

But why it wouldn't be 3? I've done my tests, with big objects maybe i got more for some reason, but it was extremely few

If by using one 4x4 Atlas I'll get 16 draws for 16 tiles, then it's obsolete

But still weird to me

[fierce tulip]

sounds to me you need to understand more about how ue4 works under the hood, before you can do real tests

i remember a blog about tilemaps and how to avoid some of the general issues, but thats like a decade ago and cant 1.2.3. find it atm.
which you can use, but I honestly suggest to see how ue4 works under the hood so you realize that while yes tilemaps can be usefull, you wont need them.

[midnight bolt]

There are as many workflows as there are developers. Most of the stuff i found was for base colors, or Minecraft style. The few tutorials that did cover atlasing, done so on a cube and not in "real" environment

I'm happy to learn new stuff, but i'm not aware of great coverage for mobiles

I guess it's always a trade off for file size and approaches. Atlases should take very little, maybe at higher draws, while baking entire texture keeps it at one, but increase the files size

[fierce tulip]

for now I can give you some reading material, but that is about it.

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

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Mobile/Rendering/MobileOptimization/OptimizationandDevelopmentBestPracticesforMobile/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Mobile/Performance/TipsAndTricks/

https://dawnarc.com/2017/06/ue4performance-guidelines-for-mobile-devices/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-guvLUfwk7fcVOuHCTEehJWf7i6AoDoU65jIKwSIG6Q/edit#heading=h.z6k1hl8sdu33

the last two have links on their own that will link you to more reading material.

[fluid lance]

Is there a way of forcing the tooltip widget to redraw without recreating the parent widget?

[midnight bolt]

There is no need to specify size is you use atlas, since it would be using for example original 512px, instead of trying to squeeze 1km coverage onto 2k, but sounds like Atlas that i think i need will come with different drawbacks

I'll look into the links, thx

[fierce tulip]

lets say you have an atlas though, and you hlod/merge the meshes using them together, you can get some gain with that, but ue4 can also bake its own under-the-hood atlasses for some things, which is part of hlod iirc. there can be gains, but it can also be a waste. in the end, the profiler is your friend.
im not a stranger to using atlasses in ye olde time, but nowadays the odds of really needing them in mobile is really small. its mainly the way unity vs unreal renders/batches/culls/optmizes things.

[midnight bolt]

Non tileables batches great. I can put 16 objects into 4x4, not lose any quality, merge them all and end up with basically 1 draw call.

[fierce tulip]

oh found this in one of my bookmarks
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020756/Next-Generation-AAA-Mobile

anyways, read up, figure stuff out, have fun, and im sure you'll find what works best for you :)

[midnight bolt]

Let's shorten it all to main question. Is it non advised to use pre atlased textures? This should be among the "last step" for optimizing when using single textures?

It seems like an obvious solution to use entire new uv layer to map polygons to certain tile. So like uv0 is using single texture, while uv1 is placed on corresponding tile. Imo

[fierce tulip]

if you are 100% sure all your batched/merged stuff is using the entire atlas, it can be fine.
but the other way around you can be 100% sure the atlas you set up will be used fully.

[neon bough]

idk how that sounds obvious

[midnight bolt]

It's obvious cause i haven't seen a single example of using single Atlas for several models that are tileable. So if have 20 tileable textures, from the sound of all and not looking into links yet, it sounds like it will have to be 20 draws, else i will be wasting quality and increasing size

Can someone show me a final texture of the batching result?

[neon bough]

but don't you end up with 20 "different" material instances if you provide them different UV offsets, anyways?

or would the models contain already the correct UV?

[fierce tulip]

anyhow, i need to scoot.
good luck Sneaker :)

[midnight bolt]

That's the thing that i don't think i got clarification. Can you use Atlas with tileables, while keeping 1 draw call? After all, in the end it's all merged objects, using one material, one texture, and maybe two uvs

[neon bough]

if it really is only one material in the end, which just gets different uv coords from the mesh, then it should be only 1 draw call

[midnight bolt]

Then it's a question how to map "islands" to corresponding tiles, ie wood and metal. But i haven't found a single example

[neon bough]

yea because most people will probably just stick to normal textures and call it a day

i wouldn't put effort in that optimization if its not necessary

[midnight bolt]

Even if ue4 can do it afterwards with one click, there must be a way to prepare it in blender etc yourself, but i have going nothing

If your using 200 textures, that would have to be 200 draws, not that great for mobile vr in many cases

[neon bough]

well have fun working with that kind of texture mapping then

sounds like a pita

[midnight bolt]

Thanks, I'll need lol

[neon bough]

i mean, i appreciate that you like to optimize, but that general idea sounds like you are putting a ton of extra work on you for little gain

[midnight bolt]

An example, i had entire level banned l baked into 5 textures - run perfectly great, but quality suffered immensely. It works if i bake islands onto a single texture. 5 textures to cover it all. Perfect for mobile. But most stuff should be tiling, so there is no need to bake tile after tile if you get what i mean

[neon knot]

Do experienced programmers really just get shit done without trial and error? So far I'm having a lot of trouble working with UE4 because of long load times for several things

In most environments, whether it's using other engines or doing stuff with a graphics library, I'm constantly compiling to see what's happening, but the learning process for UE4 is so far quite sluggish

[neon bough]

well, it's an complex environment which allows for a lot of failures

[neon knot]

What do you do during compile time etc. if you're confident things will work?

[midnight bolt]

I haven't done that sort of baking yet. I was merging in default mode. But regardless, i think now is establishing what's proper - and by sounds of it all, i should stick to using separate textures until final step

[neon knot]

Ah. Hm. On my end it's more like 10 mins lol

I keep waiting somewhere between 5-15 mins between seeing new errors with my project

Well this last one was just running my visual studio code

[neon bough]

stop making errors!

[neon knot]

😁 😔

[zinc shore]

can i change at mesh to self shadow only in runtime cuz i can only get the variable it never shows me the option to set it

[midnight bolt]

Then how does unity handles it?

[neon bough]

they do evil witch tricks

[midnight bolt]

Neither do i, but tons of their assets are in tileable atlases. If it can be done in blender, I'm still looking for right info

[neon bough]

google "blender minecraft texture atlas" there are some tutorials, which may help

as minecraft does that nonsense, too

[midnight bolt]

Unity does your in all axises

Minecraft maps to cubes, useless here

[neon bough]

no

[midnight bolt]

Map 1 km wall to such tile with 2 polygons

[neon bough]

minecraft also has static meshes with other shapes

which use the same texture atlas

[midnight bolt]

It's vixels, cubes. Nothing complicated to map to Atlas

Bad example

The atlas i posted with more than 4x4 is from unity

Rules up and down, left and right for big walls for example

Tiles

Well that one was extracted from game to see how it's done, not from marketplace

[neon bough]

so eventually they have more than one drawcall!?

[midnight bolt]

That's the giveaway from another post within ue4 itself too. Maybe large mesh won't remain 1 draw, but certainly won't become 16 cause of 4x4

That's fine. But don't act like call if duty mobile or pubg isn't using atlases lol, with no quality loss, while keeping draw calls low

You call it bs, like nobody modern is using it

[neon bough]

the consent was that the majority doesn't use it in UE4

[fierce tulip]

not sure how much he can say, or knows about that aspect, but iirc @frank escarp works/worked on pugb.

[midnight bolt]

I think the consent can be that 90% don't care about mobile

I'd love to hear more from him if he has time to explain

[neon bough]

or 90% dont care about that level of optimization

[midnight bolt]

Because 90% don't work on mobile stuff..

I guess it's different definition of Atlas. 4x4 is Atlas, so is baking 50 models into single texture with uv fitting within uv 0 1 without tiling

[neon bough]

also, aren't texture arrays kinda what UE has to offer for that?

never worked with them, tho

[midnight bolt]

yeah how?

@plush yew can you show me your example atlas for more complex object than a minecraft voxels?

for something that is tiling

still not a shred of evidence that is doable; while pubg/codm does exactly that. your link isnt mapped to tiled atlas as it seems

then run cod mobile and see how they are loosing quality on repetetive texture contained in an atlas... they dont

[neon bough]

can't get the picture out of my head of the moment the python users recognize that nodes don't need to be perfectly pixel aligned (looks at python syntax checker...)

[midnight bolt]

not a shred of accessible assets. did pubg developers developed a new flawless workflow for tileable objects, without using 20 8k textures to map a big arena?

forget pubg/codm. i showed a sample atlas. yet nobody is using it, like ever except for base colors?