ue4-general

[modest swan]

How do I loop a aminmontage

[spark cobalt]

Hello everyone! I’m looking at various VR IK body solutions available online, does anyone have any experience with these and could vouch for one in particular?

[wise trail]

Anyone hear about this uservision cheat? Does it work on any unreal engine version? It just seems like shooters wont be a thing ever again.

[pliant junco]

stupid question here but how can i deleate this selected boots?

[stray ruin]

in blender

or maybe put transparent material on it

[pliant junco]

That is a great idea

[stray ruin]

[fiery notch]

clear the boot mesh in the mesh drop-down tab for the 'viewport' section. right click it and select 'clear'

should unassign the boots so you have no boots on it

[pliant junco]

how can i change this fire's colour? I've done colour over life but it dun change

[stray ruin]

in color over life "Out val" should change the color

[shy moth]

i'm having a weird problem with the landscape vis tool. its cutting out just fine, but when it does it changes the material of the landscape to something random. i'm pretty sure all the blends are set to weight and i've tried using the same material in mask mode, different materials, duped mats, etc. its driving me crazy. anyone have any ideas?

[ionic temple]

I'm having the same problem on Linux as well. Have you figured it out?

[echo zealot]

Should i get used to ue5?

Will ue4 be old soon?

Or can you stay on ue4 for some more years?

[shy moth]

ive been using five and its great. lumen and nanite are awesome

also megascan integration

[cursive hazel]

Cheers! I found the part where it shows the waterfall. Could look better indeed. I'll have another look at the store 😉

[bleak zealot]

i want to make a camera for a 3rd person shooter game does anyone have idea how to do it or any tutorial ?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: ! Haru#0915 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[harsh tiger]

I've bought a plugin that allows you to access local files on your pc or oculus quest 2. The problem I'm having is it can't seem to find the videos file path on the quest 2. Any ideas why? From what I can see in sidequest it should be under \sdcard

[dire coral]

idk much about this but did you try to manualy put the directory

put the path to the folder or file you want manualy

[harsh tiger]

From the documentation for the plugin, you add all the drives to this array and it should load them up

https://gyazo.com/4800f5c3bb274cfa66c172095ec5be5b this is all that shows in the app though once the apk has been packaged and uploaded

I do some looking around online and it seems to work on the quest 1. But it appears something has changed for quest 2, however it's not clear what it is

[zealous magnet]

Here's a general question: how would you guys implement a rotation control for the mirror dish? I thought a couple of ways, like holding down a button and then translating the mouse input to the mirror, but I'd be keen to know what the anticipated way of controlling such thing would be

a mouse drag while holding down a button? Or pressing a button once to enter some sort of "rotation mode"?

it's hard to think of a good concept for this 😄

[burnt ether]

Hey there! Can anyone give me a direction for doing "In-Game-Patches" ?
Like you start the game it checks for a new version and downloads it ?

[glass berry]

virtual textures (UDIMs) going nuts after transferring files to another PC

do you guys know any fix for this?

[charred leaf]

What have you tried so far? My first thought is to make sure all the filepaths are the same.

[glass berry]

when i convert it to regular texture, then again back to VT it works, but I have to send it to a client need to make sure it works well for anyone

[charred leaf]

hmm. I'm not sure I can be of much help. I'm a newb to unreal but my other thought is just to open up the final package on another computer and test it out.

[twin folio]

Hello guys, I have a slight issue I'm facing with an unreal project. I downloaded this project from a tutorial to follow along, whenever I try to open this project it gets stuck at 45% on the loading screen and eventually crashes after sometime. The is first time this is happened to me and it's only with this one project.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?

[granite drum]

Waiting helping

[twin folio]

Nope, it just crashes eventually with a crash report screen

[pliant junco]

most likely the tuto is not compaitable

[granite drum]

Show us the logs @twin folio

[twin folio]

I forgot to take a screenshot of the crash report. Are they stored anywhere you can find them perhaps?

[twin folio]

Does it has anything to do with the version I'm currently using? When I open the project, the loading screen says it's from version 4.26.2

This is the tutorial I'm following, the teacher states that it's compatible with 4.26 in his download link https://youtu.be/3hmRN8bXMM0

[wintry torrent]

Hey how do I make it where these 2 match regardless of how much I stretch or shrink it
https://gyazo.com/89aadf203a83c0c5f1ff629de17a8e93
https://gyazo.com/9b1dacb753430d742cc6edf94935dd80

Nvm I figured it out its "Constrain Aspect Ratio"

[rich oar]

Random but:

Best laptop setup for Unreal Engine ? I am working from my Home PC and want something I can take with me when I travel. I've owned some over the top gaming rigs over the years and it was more than I needed. I need something with good FPS and compilation times

Any recommendations?

[regal mulch]

First recommendation: Use the right channel. #hardware

[bleak zealot]

guys how to get the stream role ?

can u answer me ? @regal mulch

[rich oar]

Didn't even realize there was a channel for it...

[forest holly]

Anyone gotten a megagrant for their own game?

[glad arrow]

I am unable to use Google Play login to save user's data incase a player reinstall the game and want to start from where he left. Like saving the levels unlocked , characters unlocked, player level etc.. is there any way to save the data in the player's Google Play games account ?

[wary wave]

#mobile

[clever axle]

Hi!
I'm trying to create a new controller and pawn and then have the player possess that.. How do I do that?
I tried this but it's not working: https://i.imgur.com/Ex4oqNB.png

[lapis tulip]

crash log

app crashes randomly during play

any idea what is the problem , i think its related to shaders but how can it figure it out its large map a lot of shaders

[wary wave]

there is not enough information in that log, but it is definitely some kind of renderer issue

my best guess is a serious bug causing memory to overrun the mapped space, but this could be either an Epic or an Apple problem

[light thunder]

I had some media textures that I had working fine in an editor but they did not show up in a packaged build, can anyone advise?

[manic flicker]

does anyone know how to stop foot sliding while trying to animate a character

[timber minnow]

Hi, does anyone here can help me with this issue :
i've created an open world in unreal using worldcompo , long story short, i spawn some foliage using the grasstype ( runtime foliage )
and in editor if i don't press build grassmap , the grass is floating in the air .
i have the same problem in build, and i can't rebuild grassmap in build

[green cradle]

Hello, is there a way to invert the scene pan ?

when i drag left i wanna go right

I got it, dw

[brittle plume]

But the off topic chat?

[pliant junco]

doing the roll but this keeps happening. any fixes?

[knotty summit]

Anyone using 4.27 here? I was going to ask if you can check Modular Gameplay Features has been added to the engine? Can’t check it out myself as I’m not able to access my computer.

[upper bison]

With landscapes, is it for every 1k it equates to 1 km, or is it calculated in a different way?

[pliant junco]

u can weight it manuelly

u can pop into blender and weight paint it

excatly u can manuelly weight it to the skeleton

[thorn topaz]

Is it confirmed 4.27 is last release until ue5?

[fierce tulip]

unless something weird happens, yes

[prime willow]

if your game doesnt have the white ranger karate kicking a dinosaur ill be very upset D:

[green cradle]

Why does my skylight not have a gizmo?

[wet grotto]

hello, does anyone know how to launch UE4 editor with DebugGame configuration outside of Visual Studio?

[plush yew]

is there a way I can make a ribbon start small and get bigger?

[pliant junco]

https://tenor.com/view/power-rangers-kick-dinosaur-gif-22158993

[prime willow]

Yasssssss

[pliant junco]

Its actually lord drakkon

[prime willow]

make him kick lord drakkon-dino

[pliant junco]

i actually got the morph right lol.

does it look ike tommy to you?

[prime willow]

oh nice

it looks good

just needs the morph animation

[pliant junco]

does tis look like tommy to u lol?

[prime willow]

sort of

like older tommy with short hair or younger tommy

yeah it does xD

just has a wider nose

[pliant junco]

Yea trying to fix tht in blender but undecided if i should stick with the beard or not lol

[prime willow]

give him his goatee

beard makes him look rapey and weathered

[pliant junco]

Ok

[charred leaf]

Last time I saw tommy he had long black and was clean shaven.

[runic fern]

Guys im trying to Package for android i got this error

[worldly rose]

I get the following crash every time I open a Blueprint, or a level that contains an instance of that Blueprint:

LogCore: Error: appError called: Assertion failed: Tag.Size == Loaded

Is there a way to fix this, or is my only option to revert from source control?

[plush yew]

having a weird issue with having two viewports one overhead brush/grid mode while the other is the perspective. Trying to switch between them creates a weird lighting glitch

Makes it extremely hard to work with

4.26 btw

[twin folio]

@granite drum @pliant junco hey guys, I got my problem resolved now : ) I had to rename the config file in my project to "config_old" to get it working

[pliant junco]

ahh ok mate good for u 🙂

[charred leaf]

I'm stumped on how I can make changes to my mesh's color persistant when I go back and change the skeletal mesh. Not sure if there is a way to compare the color of the two meshes and then keep which ever option then change the skeletal mesh accordingly.

[knotty summit]

No, it is not. I was having static mesh references in my datatable and switched them to soft reference variables, but it still showed up in size map. To fix that, I had to remove everything in datatable and create them again

So similar approach might solve your problem

You’re welcome 🙃

[sterile lichen]

if you have a Cast or any other reference to blueprint type it will be still hard reference for linker

which is sometimes fine for blueprints that always loaded (game instance, game mode etc)

[fair summit]

whats the difference between widget blueprint and editor utility widget

[honest vale]

most likely the latter one only works in editor and not in a game

[fair summit]

oh god oh no

i was using editor utility widgets for my whole game

[sterile lichen]

Widget Blueprint is UMG widget,
Editor Utility Widget is an special Widget Blueprint that runs in editor and registers context menu action

[fair summit]

will editor utility widget not work when the game is released

[sterile lichen]

no

it is an editor extension so it will not be present in game in any way

[fair summit]

i hate my life

[sterile lichen]

you can try reparent blueprint to UUSerWidget

that will make it regular widget

[fair summit]

is it in class settings

[sterile lichen]

yes

[fair summit]

i cant find it

[sterile lichen]

just userwidget

[fair summit]

still cant find it

[sterile lichen]

well, rip

[fair summit]

is there a way to make it manually

[sterile lichen]

i think you can still copy the widget tree between two umg editor windows

and blueprint nodes are copyable too

[fair summit]

because I can find my usermade widgets

wait

i found userwidget

nvm

i hate my life

[fair summit]

my game is umg only

only 2d

this will take ages

[sterile lichen]

next time read before using 🙂

just not abuse them too much just because of blueprint casts

use native types instead

[sterile lichen]

nvm, you can not reparent Editor Utility Widgets. as it is a separate asset type.

if you have only one player controller bp then with 99% chance it will be always loaded

so it does not matter

[fair summit]

well that makes it even worse knowing the answer

[dusky slate]

So, can anyone explain how the Lightmal resolution works? is higher always better? what is a good number?

[tawdry oasis]

A lot of big words in this discord. Make a fella feel dumb

[sterile lichen]

with c++ magic can create a new widget blueprint and copy Ubergraph/widgettree and do any manipulations

but has limitations

[fair summit]

welp

might aswell remake the whole game

or just ditch it

ill just try to package the game cause why not

[tawdry oasis]

Don't sound so sad buddy

I bet your game is great

[fair summit]

whats the point if i cant even release it

not even privately for me

[prime willow]

ok i has the silly question

if i export a tail with bones to unreal

[tawdry oasis]

Why not?

[prime willow]

cant i make animations particularly for said tail and its bones regardless of morphs or not

[fair summit]

i was making a 2d game for the past 2 months using editor utility widgets instead of normal widgets

[prime willow]

i also ask because i have no idea how to animate components onto actors or what to even search to figure that out ;-;

[fair summit]

and i accidentally found normal widgets

and this made me wonder whats the use for editor utility widgets

so i asked and turns out it wont work when the game is published

[tawdry oasis]

Damn. That's pretty rough..but....I bet you could remake in one week since you know what you are doing now

And have most the code.

[fair summit]

well i did come out benefiting after all

[tawdry oasis]

Is a mistake..but, you learned a lot I bet

[fair summit]

its the longest game i have been working on im now familiar with saving, variables, casting, sounds and way more

[knotty summit]

Try to package your game more often, even you don’t make that kind of mistake too often, sometimes small things might not work in built projects so it’s always good to package and test your game

[fierce tulip]

@prime willow please be patient. *points to #rules *

[prime willow]

oh shoot sorry sorry

ill delete it

[south valley]

Im new to Unreal Engine with no blueprinting and Scripting experince. Im trying to make a 2d game. Can you please tell me how btw I got most assets I just need help for free.

btw this isnt a copy and paste took so long to type it all

when i was with another game engine (godot) my assets would clip when animating

like a small part of the other frame will clip into the next one

[maiden sundial]

What was the default interval of the GC again ?

I think it was somewhat between 30-60 seconds, but i'm not sure

[hazy lake]

GC being Garbage Collector @maiden sundial ?

[maiden sundial]

Ye

[hazy lake]

It's tunable in Project Settings

[south valley]

hey\

what version do i download?

[shy nebula]

so I have an odd question. Not that im buying a faster SSD for UE4 but I am wondering if a much faster SSD would reduce compile times?

[hazy lake]

See Time Between Purging Pending Kill Objects

[maiden sundial]

4.27 if you want the latest

[south valley]

what about the best doe

[hazy lake]

The best is 4.27

Unless you're in it for the memes, then 4.20 is objectively the best

[south valley]

wdym da memes

[wary wave]

it does, so long as your CPU etc can keep up

[hazy lake]

It was an attempt at a joke, usually the latest version is the best

[south valley]

im just trying to make a 2d platformer game

[south valley]

lol ok ill download the latest

but now

it takes so longg to dwonload

it said wiat for like 2 minutes

[shy nebula]

thanks. I have the 3950x with a Gen3 SSD. Thinking about getting a larger SSD that can saturate gen 4 specs

[south valley]

engine symbols?

UGH IT SAYS I NEED TO GET MORE SPACEEEE

WHYY

[hazy lake]

Welcome to game development

[analog tusk]

dunno where else to post this, is there a way to make these dropdowns display something by default?

[shy nebula]

I actually didnt know how to test that however Now that I think about it I could monitor that in windows cant I

task manager

[hazy lake]

I have over 12 TBs of hard drives in my current desktop, get used to running out of space

[analog tusk]

i'll try it ty

[south valley]

HAHAHAHA I REMOVED 3 GAMES FORI TT

FINALLY

14gb wtf

well im getting a gaming in maybe 2 months so by then i might do it

well im on a optiplex 5040

ill make it work xd

[tawdry oasis]

Nice dude. Now i.know who to ask when I need help ;)

[shy nebula]

@plush yewok yeah it doesnt eat up my ssd usage. Perhaps I should learn how to use swarm and buy a compute pc

lastly anyone else having flickering issues with UE4 4.26?

Perhaps its my GPU IDK I just bought a 3080 and I THINK it has to due with that stupid ray tracing bs

IDK how to disable it yet

[south valley]

you need a gpu?

[shy nebula]

ah

OK I wasnt sure because it didnt do it with the 1080ti. At least I know my gpu isn't being fried

[dire lantern]

Anyone know how to fix that?

[fair summit]

nah dont take my word for anything

i know how it works but im not that good at it

[dire lantern]

Those pixels & halo-ish effects

[south valley]

give me ur fried gpu

I NEED A GAMING PCC

is a 1060 3gb good enough for unreal?

[dire lantern]

I have 3090

[south valley]

😮 ill send u my adress rn

[shy nebula]

NAKO do you have a post process bias

[south valley]

i try to make optomized 2d game

[dire lantern]

post process bias on the cinema actor camera?

[shy nebula]

im thinking probably like exposure, image effects, or DOF

im leaning on DOF though

[dire lantern]

yeah of course i have them

[shy nebula]

try to process that image without DOF

[dire lantern]

@south valley

[south valley]

what happened

yo thats alot of ram

does unreal engine have a watermark like unity does when you open up the game?

[knotty summit]

No it doesn’t have such a thing

[south valley]

LETYS GOO

everytime i saw a game with a unity watermark I would delete the game

[knotty summit]

You actually have to sign contract to use their logo in your game

[south valley]

even when i was a kid at 5 years old

im talking about the one

where you start up the game

and it says unity

then the game

[knotty summit]

Yes, you have to sign contract to use Unreal Engine logo

[south valley]

Good

Thank you for telling me

[knotty summit]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/branding

[tawdry oasis]

that seems wierd

[south valley]

its like a red flag

like a warning

[tawdry oasis]

lol

its just a game 😉

[south valley]

all of the ones i didnt unistall right away are trash

complete garbo

[tawdry oasis]

unity doesnt make a bad game..people make bad games

[south valley]

and alot of ppl feel the same so i dont want people to t hink my game is garbo

i know

but all of the ones i saw

are bad

[tawdry oasis]

hearthstone is built on unity..is pretty good 😄

[dusky slate]

does anyone know how to use lightmap resolution? what is a good number?

[south valley]

im not saying they arent good games

[south valley]

I SAID WATERMARKK

BRUHHH

did u hear me the whollleee time?

ofc unity is good as a engine

its just something about the watermark when you load up

[tawdry oasis]

what you said implies that you delete games because you found oput they were made with unity..

[south valley]

BRO

I SAID BECAUSE IT STARTED

WITH THE WATERMARKKK

BRO

CAN YOU READ?!?1?

[tawdry oasis]

thats even more rediculous lol

[south valley]

BRUHHHHH

[tawdry oasis]

i cant reAD all caps.. :S

[south valley]

Then ignore me

Ok nice

[tawdry oasis]

yes, my child

[south valley]

im 15

so u better not be 14

LOL

nvm its a joke lol

[tawdry oasis]

thats a ncie rig

[light thunder]

I'm having a trouble with decals flickering in the distance, can anyone advise, can I brute force some setting?

I've confirmed it's not z fighting or anything

looks just like it though and it's distance based (i'm assuming camera distance based technically)

[primal tendon]

So in unreal engine sequencer, I have many keys at a particular time (take example 005), how do I select all keys, because drag selecting all sounds like a pain to do everytime

[light thunder]

this thing what you are looking for?

someone help me destroy this graphical glitch

this appears in a packaged build and performs the same on another computer with different hardware

I ...am dying.....

[void merlin]

Looks like a texture issue. Possible z-fighting. Might want to make sure that the model where the crosswalk is isn't overlapping another model

[light thunder]

no read above, it's not

i've deleted everything other than the mesh the decal needs to draw on top of

[feral sandal]

👋

[void merlin]

Ah sorry, missed that. So yeah. You're right. Definitely something to do with distance, and possibly lighting

[light thunder]

I'm using dynamic lighting

[void merlin]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/665473/decal-draw-distance.html
It might have to do with this. Have you messed with the set fade screen size?

[light thunder]

ah but yo uare right

I looked at it in unlit and it goes away, so it's a lighting problem

these decals are in the level, they are not blueprinted

[autumn latch]

hello guys

what is soft?

[dry moon]

You can't use GPUCompute Sim with Mesh Render in Niagara?

[autumn latch]

can anyone explain or documantion

[light thunder]

It means you haven't loaded that thing into memory yet but might - you use "resolve reference" to convert it to a normal reference -

[void merlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZl3CNpwRUk
Apparently you can turn decals into blueprints, which allow you to change the set fade screen size, which should change when it starts to fade, which MIGHT be your issue, as there's still flickering in unlit mode.

[void merlin]

No, sadly.

[light thunder]

an example would be - you want to tell a Character BP to search for the nearest treasure, but you have different levels - so at begin play, you would say, "Find the special treasure" and you have made on your character blueprint an "Instance editable" SOFT reference - this lets you pick an object on a level that doesn't exist all the time

[dry moon]

@void merlin Unlucky, would be nice for Fish

[light thunder]

I DON'T have flickering in unlit mode

[prime willow]

[void merlin]

There was still a flicker in this video

[light thunder]

no that flickering is just drawing - before I was getting flickering even if I wasn't moving

[autumn latch]

Thanks, If I make Load Asset, memory is also kept. If I don't, the memory is not kept. So how does it optimize?

If I use "resolve reference", is memory kept too?

[light thunder]

yes, you are literally loading that asset into memory

but it ALREADY exists perse

if you load a level for example with objects you have used as soft references, they are loaded the moment the level is loaded

[prime willow]

so my furry race

has functioning tails now

idk how i forgot to do that for 8 months

just gotta make armor for the android gundam race

[light thunder]

I've set the decal fade screen size to zero (it's defaulted that way )

[feral sandal]

Good to know! Will take a read

[autumn latch]

that is great, thanks.

[light thunder]

@plush yew can you take a look at this - I've been stuck on this stupid problem for over an hour - determining that this is NOT z fighting (i'm deleting everything underneath the decal except for one thing)

The problem seems to go away mostly when I am unlit - but I can't figure out how lighting affects a decal

I've also set the fade scree size to 0, which should mean it never fades

[prime willow]

if i wanted to slap my tail on a mesh would i use skeletal mesh component for that?

[light thunder]

thanks anyway I appreciate it

[prime willow]

[light thunder]

Literally a tailbone is a socket

[prime willow]

and ill be able to add breast physiques to it right?

[light thunder]

sorry, NOT socket, a bone

[prime willow]

wait i want something called tail socket?

[light thunder]

no I mispoke

[prime willow]

o-o

yes

i want to put floppy meat powers on the tail

so when the beast race flips and floops and lunges

itll fly and whoosh around xD

would i start with skeletal mesh for that?

also if any of you guys know

you know those really amazing 3d artists who have their models wiggle and jiggle when they move, like their tummy shakes a bit their legs swish back and forth those guys

can i do that with soft body physiques in unreal to my models? o.o

[light thunder]

You need to also learn how the skeletal system works

[prime willow]

oops sorry xD

ah i see so i need to learn skeletal mesh stuff to learn how to do that to different parts of the body at runtime o.o

no no nno sorry i just wanna learn what the heck i have to search to go learn how

well my mesh runs walks ive retargeted animations and im working on state machines too atm >:3

[obsidian nimbus]

most games use baked physics for jiggle

[prime willow]

however i still cant figure out how to add ik's to his arms in specific

i might have to add ignore bones or sumfin so it works like his legs do

okie so skeletal mesh, baked psyiques and components

thanksies guys ill go look into it

[autumn latch]

@light thunder sorry for ping, Can you explain the difference between them?

[light thunder]

I don't care if you ping me, I just might not answer it but I appreciate you trying to be polite - As far as I can tell, those should do nearly the same thing, the cast is the only difference

are they behaving differently for you?

I haven't watched it but this video seems exactly what you are after - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ENnLV19Cw

[autumn latch]

I am loading and using this photo in memory.

[autumn latch]

In this photo, I am using the resolve soft reference, does it also load it into memory here?

I was wondering the difference between them.

do they mean the same?

[light thunder]

probably

watch that video though

[autumn latch]

thanks for this.

[light thunder]

or at least fast forward and try to find where it talks about memory

[autumn latch]

I'll check it out now, thank you for everything.

[plush yew]

how do i change the size of a particle emitter so it starts small and gets bigger?

I've tried a lot

[knotty summit]

If you cast something it will be loaded to memory anyway so if your goal is avoiding unnecessary memory usage, try not to cast any BP class or heavy objects. You can cast native classes or use blueprint interfaces instead
(Talking about second photo)

[autumn latch]

Thank you for the information, I was trying to understand the structure of soft.

[prime willow]

[feral sandal]

I then spent this time watching a video on how compilers convert source code into an executable

Which was really cool but not helpful

Anyways. I'm going to go watch that now 😅

[crimson peak]

Having a fade out error in the log, but the fade out is working still. Very odd

[cloud stone]

What is wwise and what’s the purpose of it? Is there any benefit to pairing it with unreal? The website isn’t clear about this

[prime willow]

state machines are weird

[crimson peak]

Fixed

[prime willow]

I GET IT

that's why people have start and end animations

so they can force forge a blendspace between state machines

holy cow you nerds are insanely smart xD

oh thats cool

you can have a state machine start from any 1 and connect to as many as possible

[vocal sorrel]

Hi there, is anyone familiar with exporting Twinmotion scenes into Unreal Engine 4?

[plush yew]

What if I use two animations at the same time? I mean if I play a reload animation via character blueprint When an animation is playing in animbp. What will happen? Will character bp ignore animbp or will they blend?

[peak ridge]

guys how can i change focus range? This is not the case in the standard camera settings. I need to expand the area that is in focus without changing the aperture. I want to add parameters near focus and far focus. How to do it?

didnt find tutorial

[outer phoenix]

I can't get access to this node

[subtle hedge]

I'm only a beginner but I ran across this video and it seems like it could have some good technical info for you. At around 8 minutes he has a good breakdown of focus https://youtu.be/doUDJFKLyZs

[outer phoenix]

Take recorder is enabled

[rough kraken]

Ok, so I have a component. If I want data from a custom class i wrote in C++ to show up in "Details" what do i do to make that info show up? I thought "UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite)" was all i needed

IE I have these params

i would like them to show up under details here

im assuming its the "UClass()" part i need to modify

[unborn wolf]

Hey there everyone! I've been looking all over the interwebs, and can't find any information about emissive materials working with raytracing. Does anyone have any information about that? I did find a link to this forum post: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/working-emissive-materials-in-rtgi-with-screenshots/130840/34

[rough kraken]

kk lemme try... see that term made me think it would appear in ANY details window ever

which sounded like a bad idea

yeah that is what i am reading... so far no dice, but i will continue reading

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, what is the best way to check if many conditions are met? For example I want the door to let me through only when i clicked all 5 button before. I could do this with booleans, but I think it is not the best way to do this?

[rough kraken]

got it 🙂 thanks for the help (I needed to add "EditAnywhere" to some different places... heirarchies)

[manic flicker]

Hey Any tips on how to stop my character sliding when moving ive set up the animations its just sometimes it moves as intended and sometimes it slides

[prime willow]

If i wanted to have two different types of damage

criticallly hit and normal state hurt state or been attacked which have different animations and effects

would make them state machines be best ;-;

or just blueprint setups for the standard hurt state

actually nvm

making them a blueprint under hurt state would probably be best as the animations will blend proper from critical hit to hurt

[bronze wing]

When ever i press any of my movement controls (WASD) it moves me backwards. Does anyone know whats happening?

[thick herald]

Yup, you're moving backwards 😄

[bronze wing]

😑

[bronze wing]

it doesn't happen when i use the starter content first person character

[plush yew]

maybe you accidentally set all keys to do the same thing sub-consioiusly? sorry if this doesn't help/is obvious

[bronze wing]

unfortunately not. that would be a way easier thing to fix

[stray ruin]

probably check the input keys in your character blueprint

[bronze wing]

those are all set correctly

[thick herald]

If you share a screenshot of your projects input mappings, and the blueprint that's dealing with them we might be able to help more 🙂

[winter gate]

Sounds like a good usecase for the #gameplay-ability-system

[bronze wing]

@thick herald im using the same nodes as the template first person character

[thick herald]

Okays, and the input mappings in Project Settings?

[bronze wing]

all the same

[thick herald]

Hmm, odd indeed. Have you checked to see if anything like a controller is lying on something moving a stick or that kind of thing? Looks to be set up right, if there isn't any other input perhaps restarting the project, or a bug.. I'm at a loss otherwise - sorry 🤔

[bronze wing]

no prob. thanks for the help

[stray ruin]

I think your movement input is wrong

@bronze wing

[sharp crest]

naming be like

[bronze wing]

@stray ruin didnt work

@stray ruin i hooked it up correctly but still no

when i shift it also locks the shift

[stray ruin]

something weird is going on then like you are in the wrong blueprint or its being overriding somewhere like gamemode or controller

hard 2 say

[bronze wing]

ok well ill look some more i guess then

[rough kraken]

do you know why i would have two of this class? is it because I have the C++ class and a blueprint made from it?

[sharp crest]

yes, rename the blueprint one

[rough kraken]

ty ty

[sharp crest]

hey do u get on these featured screenshots/weekly spotlights?

[worn granite]

I never have, but once a project who stole my work did

[sharp crest]

rip

shouldve screamed at epic

[worn granite]

Didn't matter

[sharp crest]

sry :/

[worn granite]

It's fine, work at a real studio now. Haven't been ripped off in years

[south valley]

are uhhh

blueprints easy to learn?

i dont know if to code or to blueprint

i never done either

[coarse apex]

hello newbie question, I have a human character mesh with a rigged with a skeleton and another human mesh very similar to the already rigged mesh but not, is it possible to easily rig that meh to the others skeleton? Any plugins are ok (even paid idc) but either way any advice would be great, thank you!

[worn granite]

they're okay. most of the high level concepts are basically the same

it's still OOP.

You're still using UE

[south valley]

yessir

im not using it though im downloading it overnight

since my pc slow af

cant wait to get my 1060 rig

[worn granite]

I meant BP vs C++

[south valley]

im on a fucking optiplx

oh c++

i would like to learn that

[worn granite]

I would pick up the Udemy course (I think there's actually one for C++ and one for BP) that is supposed to be good.

[south valley]

ok ty

[worn granite]

But only after exhausting Unreal Online Learning

[south valley]

but should i pick

bp or c++

?

i want to do both

but idk which one to start with

people say bp is 2x faster than coding

but then some people say coding is good for alot of things bp virtually cant do

[worn granite]

try both

use them both

[worn granite]

this is nonsense, total non-metric

[south valley]

like how fast u can get it done i mena

[worn granite]

People suggest using BP first, especially if you don't have a coding background

[south valley]

and wtf does it take so long for it to download

its been saying waiting for a long time now

im going to loose it

im just going to go to bed

and TY SO MUCH you dont know how much you helped me

I was getting confused on what to do and stressing out on it

like the same thing with picking engines

but i chose unreal and im sticking to it

🙂

good night :mmon

epic fail

🌝

[prime willow]

thank you ;-;

[rough kraken]

anyopne know why this text is showing up as placeholder text, instead of the text i input?

wait i think i see

yeah nvm. Font family somehow became empty

[stuck scarab]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/spawning-resources-like-ore-patches-from-factorio-alternatives-to-perlin-noise-sought/247185
Input appreciated. Looking for better ideas to spawn resource patches like in Factorio

[prime willow]

is there a possible problem with linking a state machine to 3 or more other state machines that they shuld be able to translate into via inputs or lack of inputs?

or should you only link from roots to first extensions

[twin folio]

hey guys, does anyone know why my gizmo is not showing for my exponential height fog?

wait a minute, as a matter of fact none of my gizmos are showing up. Weird

[chilly schooner]

I've got a spline road that I want to prevent players from walking off of. I'm assuming I want to use blocking volumes around the edge everywhere, but is there a better way than adding these manually? Can I make some sort of custom physics mesh around my spline's static mesh?

[stuck linden]

does anyone know why its returning false

[rough kraken]

im no pro yet, but i don't think even if i was, from that pick i couldn't say XD

dumb noob question! why is this directory empty, but if i check it for references i get this

X__X

[stark gyro]

the lighting is really dark and idk why

any ideas?

its light everywhere but the character is dark not light

[rough kraken]

not perfectly sure, but it looks like you have some light options OFF in your output window

that is from your output window right?

[prime willow]

im realzing that through the state machine system

i can have incredibly flexible and fluent transitions between actions if you set it up right

itll look like spghetti tho xD

[desert flume]

Im brand new to unreal engine. Can you create characters in blender to use in an unreal engine project?

[plush yew]

Most definitely yes.

[rough kraken]

yes, look up porting

i dont know much except to say "yes"

[desert flume]

Awesome thanks for the help

[burnt marsh]

I've experienced some odd behavior in the provided top-down template. In the editor it works as expected, but in the Mobile Preview the actor, well, acts dumb.
Instead of walking around the cube he is walking against it, sliding left or right until he might be able to pass... or not. What's the issue here?

In more detail... In editor point and click can navigate a maze, however, on mobile he just bumps into a wall and gets stuck.

I am suspecting that the nav mesh differs on mobile, probably being super low res, since you can't pass passages that you could pass through in Editor when moving the cubes too close.

Not sure how to circumvent this, to have identical behavior in Editor as on mobile

[gray basalt]

Is it ok to handle all links between C++/BP in assets stored in game instance ?

[azure nimbus]

@stuck linden well clearly your online sub system function is returning false... add a breakpoint and step through it

[exotic plover]

Hey there good people, I was wondering if someone here can give me some advice or insight on Unreal Chaos destruction. I have heard it is buggy, but when i was using it with a VR game i implemented some blueprint nodes and after every game preview in the editor it would crash my computer after i closed the game preview window, Is this related to chaos or is this a blueprint thing?

[exotic plover]

Consider Zbrush if you have lots of art to make, i recommend it over blender any day

Though it costs a fair bit.

[prime willow]

is there a node for splitting your blueprint across twice

like row one will fire as row 2 fires

like branch

[pliant junco]

sequence i believe

[prime willow]

but not only on fail

oh sequence?

[pliant junco]

so u want 2 falses?

[prime willow]

2 trues

going off at once

with different stuff on each route

[pliant junco]

im not sure for this but i think, u can add a sequence node to true in branch. correct me if im wrong

[desert flume]

Noted. Ill be doing my research. I appreciate it

[brittle plume]

Hi!!!

[fierce spade]

hello! I need help! I don't know anything about blueprint, I want to know that how can I link the location of pointlight (or spotlight) in the scene to the Angle of Skylight. please help! thank you a lot!

I don't know what to do now 😭

[brittle plume]

Write in #blueprint

I think it's the right chat

[fierce spade]

ahh thanks!

[red pond]

guys, I've got two graphics cards from two manufacturers (AMD and Nvidia), how can I clearly and explicitly communicate to Unreal Engine to use only AMD card or only Nvidia card?

[brittle plume]

🤷 idk

[sterile lichen]

editor works only with OSS Null, Steam and others can be loaded only in Standalone

[plush yew]

i keep getting this error when exporting my mesh
Imported bone transform is different from original. Please check Output Log to see detail of error.
i did do some research but nothing was helpful on it i know its probably a stupid question but how would i go about getting rid of this error? the only helpful or barely helpful thing i have found was its a error that isnt to much to worry about but i still would like to fix it just in case

i am a little knew to exporting a custom rigged mesh so i have no idea what i am doing i did try a while ago but just scrapped it because i had no idea what i was doing

[astral phoenix]

Hello im having a problem when i want to do some landscape i cant seem to do anything and i have this big square marker and not the sphere one, can someone help me? 🙂
https://gyazo.com/e0e01535d2829e8e14ee4a036061736e

[honest vale]

hard to say anything without seeing what tool you have enabled

but my guess is you have some landscape component specific tool enabled

[astral phoenix]

https://gyazo.com/1a9b75286fa2fbf8bcbf1ee37df4418d

[green cradle]

Why can i not open my project??? O.op

Its corrupt?

i see it here, but it gives me an error when i try to open it

[drifting elbow]

it basically says what's the issue: you don't have an app association between uproject files and Unreal. It's a windows thing

opening from launcher should work, btw (double click the icon in the launcher)

[green cradle]

theone i took the screenshot of? the error comes up if i double click it

[drifting elbow]

do you have UE5.0EA installed?

[green cradle]

if i open the engine instead of the project, my recent projects are blank

Yea, ii started using it yesterday

And i saved it all before i closed it

[drifting elbow]

well, there are some known issues with project visibility and UE5.0

[green cradle]

So theres no way to retrieve my project?

[modest trench]

I wonder what occurs if you open the file with Engine\Binaries\Win64\UnrealEditor.exe using Open With?

ue actually uses a list of engine installations somewhere in the registry afaik

I'm not entirely sure what the default "open this" thing for .uprojects actually is

[green cradle]

Opening it now

[modest trench]

if that worked try setting it as the default

hopefully it works with engine version associations for when you inevitably have 3 different engine versions ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[green cradle]

yep, that works perfectly, i just cant open the project through the epic launcher 😛

Thank you

[brittle sedge]

how can I make a slippery/ice effect?

[modest trench]

I would at least google the error message (but assume ue4 answers are relevant to you)

the issue has a decent chance of happening to older versions and there might be a better solution

aha! https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/579855/this-file-does-not-have-a-program-associated.html

there's the real answer

[green cradle]

Looks like i dont have that UnrealSelector at all

[modest trench]

it might also be inside your engine binaries UnrealEngine\UnrealEngine\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UnrealVersionSelector.exe

[burnt marsh]

Why is it that in the top-down template the character can perfectly navigate a maze on his own point and click in the editor, while on mobile preview he's just running straight into a wall?

[stuck linden]

my packaged game doesnt start because of this

anyone has any idea how to fix it?

[green cradle]

thank you @modest trench! Worked like a charm

[burnt marsh]

nvm, I found the problem... in mobile preview the procedurally generated terrain differs from the one in the editor, oddly the navmesh, however, is still as seen in the editor, which causes problems in navigation. Can someone explain how to adjust this so the navmesh is adjusting to the terrain on mobile?

[stuck linden]

does anyone ahve any idea what plugin is this

[burnt marsh]

since the cubes have collision, and the navmesh prohibits navigation in areas that are invisible (based on the editor's exclusion) navigating is almost impossible in mobile preview

[green cradle]

is it normal for my terrain sculping to stop X distance away from water?

[astral phoenix]

Could u help me with my issue?

[sacred spade]

hello is theres a single tutorial on how to make the mobile game drag and pan camera for unreal engine?

[green coral]

o/ waht would be best gpu for ue5? 3060/70 or amd 6700xt?

I can not find much about it other than amd still has like half of raytracing performance

[south valley]

I FINALLY GOT UNREAL ENGINE

FINALLY

IT TOOK OVER NIGHT

AND WHEN I WOKE UP IT SAID 50% I THOUGHT I WAS A GONER

BUT THEN.. THEN

IT RANDOMLY BECAME 100%

[cunning edge]

whenever I upload a fbx why it says fbx not smooth

can anyone can help

[formal cedar]

dose it lets you import it?

if yes then its fine

[south valley]

How do i delete a project

[manic flicker]

I have very basic coding experience (High school computer science lessons) Do you think I should try to learn c++ or stick with blueprints I want to know which one would be more beneficial in the future instead of trying to learn both at the same time

[fierce tulip]

depends on the person using them.
getting to know blueprints helps you understand the cpp part of it.
can always move to cpp once you have a better understanding of blueprints and want to expand upon them.

[stuck linden]

does anyone know if theres no way of installing this on unreal engine 5?

[queen river]

any unreal engine wizards in here i need some help pls (i posted my problem in #animation )

[green cradle]

Hello. i started a blank project and made my world. is it possible to somehow get the car from the car demo and put it into my project?

first time unreal user

[stuck linden]

put it on your project content folder

[green cradle]

Huh?

[stuck linden]

Right click the car blueprint and migrate to your project

[green cradle]

Do i have to make a project to get that? im not understanding

im brand spanking new

[thick herald]

Which car demo are you referring to?

[green cradle]

erm

gimmie a sec

this, i just want the car and the controller from it i guess

Just so i can drive around my level

[thick herald]

Yup, you can add that. Give me a mo and I'll screenshot the place to add it.

[green cradle]

Sure, thank you 🙂

[south valley]

I got a vertical sprite sheet and unreal thinks its horizontal
how do i fix this?

PLSSH ELLPPP

[thick herald]

Ugh, it's taking too long to boot up, here's a video 🙂 https://youtu.be/wGHU_RhxV44?t=17

[south valley]

hel;ppp0pp

im dyinggggg

and i cant get up

[thick herald]

<@&213101288538374145>

spam

[fierce tulip]

@south valley please behave, and read the #rules a bit. thanks

[south valley]

bruh

all i need is help

🤦‍♂️

[fierce tulip]

yes, but you also need to followthe #rules or you wont be getting much help.

[green cradle]

@thick herald ?

all the blue prints are erroring? O,o

[spare kernel]

@south valley no one here is required to help you, people help you because they want to help. Just be patient. If no one replies, reconsider the question and ask again in a few hours.

[cyan bronze]

Any setting i could use to make the niagara system to update faster and earlier. The particle starts from my muzzle socket witch is on tip of my barrel. Can i make it so that i can actually SEE it start from the tip of the barrel

[south valley]

Ok that was almost 10 mins ago LOL Ofcourse I know or else I wouldve went into a full argument with the mod

oh lol ur a mod

[green cradle]

it doesnt make sense, i change the gamemode to the ADV Vehicle controller but when i press play, it just does nothing

Could anyone assist me? 😭

[south valley]

I FINALLY GOT IT

THANK YOU LORD

AMEN

ALL OF YOU PRAY THAT U WOKE UP THIS MORNING

[green cradle]

I had a blank project, i made my gameworld. I've now imported the ADV car demo from the starter content, changed my gamemode to the car... But nothing happens

If you need a video of whats happening, i can get that gladly

[full gale]

🦊 "So an In-Game Menu & an Interactive System walk into a bar..." https://www.twitch.tv/divinedevstudios/ 🦊

[grim ore]

@green cradle"nothing happens" isnt very helpful to figure it out. And your assuming the car game mode is what is spawning in that vehicle in that template.

did you check to see what default pawn that custom game mode uses? did you check out how the sample map with the template is controlling the car?

[green cradle]

I have no idea what any of that means, im brand new

i've watched many tutorials

they import the asset. change gamemode in project settings, press play. and it works

Mine does not

@grim ore

[idle summit]

I'm not certain but you may need to adjust your player spawn position, it seems like it may be under the map or something from the look of it.

Greetings all!

[green cradle]

How would i do that?

[idle summit]

What template is this from by chance?

I'm still also new and learning but I would be happy to take a peek for ya

[green cradle]

its a blank project i made today. and i just imported the vehicle template and trying to make it work

[green cradle]

I followed this that MOA posted, yet his works, mine does not

[idle summit]

It doesn't look like there is a default pawn set in there, does it give you any options for setting that by chance?

Not sure on if this would utilize that or not being the type of game it is

[green cradle]

where would i find that?

[idle summit]

it would be in the maps and mode settings page where you went before

right under game mode I believe

[idle summit]

anything selectable for default pawn class?

[idle summit]

Sometimes with these you just gotta fiddle around with them until you can make them work i've found lol, but I also like picking stuff apart and messing with stuff 😬

[heavy wadi]

does ANYONE have a fix for the HISM crash in 4.26?

[green cradle]

With default pawn, im not longer inside the meshes, But still nothing really happens

[heavy wadi]

it will go away if you force DX12

but in DX11 it crashes randomly on load

[grim ore]

@green cradleso when you say you watched many tutorial and this is what they did? is that for THIS EXACT TEMPLATE PACK or in general? because..

[green cradle]

they used the 3rd person and 1st person content pack

[grim ore]

yep, those are not the same

[green cradle]

it will be the same

[idle summit]

ah

[grim ore]

the fact it says NONE for the pawn is why its not spawning in anything... its spawning in NONE

you cant assume 1:1 when programming if its not identical

[green cradle]

theres no vehicle pawn though..

[grim ore]

so I mentioned did you load up the example map and see how they are doing it?

[green cradle]

I'll try it now

[grim ore]

they are using what most of the other example templates do, a manually set up auto possessed pawn already in the level

[idle summit]

I'm so happy, I finally have a computer that I'm going to be able to dive into UE with again =x

If you ever want to convince your wife you need to spend the money to buy a better computer just try loading UE on a Microsoft Surface tablet 😂

[green cradle]

opened the demo project. Can't move the default car

[idle summit]

controls set?

[grim ore]

if you added the template pack, it should have added the controls. your going to have to check

[green cradle]

took 5 Play presses to make it work

Ah. it seems i need to install the chaos vehicle plugin

[grim ore]

if your using 5, its possible. You shouldnt be learning on 5

[green cradle]

Hallelujah

I am using 5

Now i need to add colliders to my objects

[rich oar]

Don't mean to be redundant but I didn't know where this post belongs.

---

So I'm working on an FPS character controller from scratch and have a few questions:

For debugging, I moved the characters mesh and camera/etc back so that I could see the capsule component in game.

Question 1: is there a way to use a debug type of capsule component to show the same result instead of actually having to move the character mesh and camera back away from the capsule component ? You obviously cannot move the capsule component forward by itself because it's the root.

Question 2:
is there a way to make the adjustment of CapsuleHeightSize not affect the actual position of the child actors ? The way I am getting around this currently is by adding the difference to the body and camera spring arm. Because of this.... When I am using VInterpTo:: to smooth the crouch function, it causes it to snap... Obviously because of the setting of relative position adjustment upon reducing capsule height size...

I'd appreciate any help I can get.

[winter gale]

Anyone seen this? Maybe this is old but I came to know about it right now. https://angelscript.hazelight.se/

[atomic marten]

So I've made a trigger in UE but for some reason the "OnActorBeginOverlap" doesn't trigger when I use a ball I've made but it does trigger when my character walks through it. Am I missing something here?

[grand oyster]

so im making a game about super speed and im not sure how to stop my character from sliding when i stop also how to i make my character always face the way my camera is facing

[autumn bluff]

Maybe the collision type of the ball

[vestal anchor]

Is there anyway of seeing what assets are taking a long time to load? Or just in general see what order the engine is loading up assets, both in editor and packaged projects

[runic fern]

Hello Guys I'm trying to package APK with 4.26 since 3 days not working

i have this error now

[grim ore]

@rich oarthere are "Draw Debug" nodes that you can use to visualize an object like a capsule, or you can turn on the visualize collision option to see your actual collision.

@runic fernyour error is above that

[runic fern]

i will send the log

[rich oar]

I do have the capsule collision visible in game, it's the fact that I'm having to move the mesh and camera at an offdet to see it. That's what's messing it up. I'll look into Draw Debug

Thanks

[runic fern]

not this xD

ok now this is the whole log

first red error was this Mathew

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v7.Java7

[grim ore]

yep that looks like the issue and there are a few references on the internet to why

[runic fern]

what do i need to reinstall jdk or gradle i installed the SDK and NDK about 150 times since 3 days 😄

[grim ore]

you need the correct matching files. I dont know what you have or what you are using but this post has info for .26 https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/963711/ue4250-could-not-initialize-class-orgcodehausgroov.html

[runic fern]

yes i found that im using the latest version of SDK and NDK so i reinstalled the android studio 3.5.3 to get the recommended version

[grim ore]

latest version might not be the right one is the issue

[runic fern]

i will check the JDK and see

[grim ore]

I dunno, I do know that post has version info and what they did to get it to work on .26

[wintry torrent]

Hey guys any recommendations for udemy course

[charred leaf]

@wintry torrent Do you have any experience programming?

[wintry torrent]

Yes

For gaming though I kinda like blueprint

it was fun when i was messing with it

@charred leaf im looking at 2 courses right now i am not sure how they are

https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal-engine-5-the-complete-beginners-course/

https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealengine5-make-your-first-game/

[grim ore]

why not use the free courses that epic provides?

[charred leaf]

@wintry torrent I was trying to find a course for you on youtube that is called 1st hour with unreal engine or something to that effect that was good. Honestly if you already have programming experience you probably just need to familiarize yourself with creating 3d objects and manipulating them.

I think the one I was looking for was one that Epic made. Not sure if it still exists.

[wintry torrent]

Oh ok I was just wondering because they were on sale. I have been using Unreal Engine 5 pass couple days too

[charred leaf]

Mathew is right though, you're better off just using Epic's tutorials and then messing around with the engine.

[plush yew]

hello everyone I have a problem importing with an fbx file why it does not want to open on unreal because I have a bug at 80% wtf

[wintry torrent]

Thx @charred leaf @grim ore

[grim ore]

wtf indeed, wtf indeed

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

[void crater]

Hi everyone, so I'm having a weird specific issue with importing animations in UE4 and assigning it to different models, I made a video about it, can anyone just spare 6 minutes and give it a watch? See if anyone can help me with this?

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOJo0acX0w

[grim ore]

@plush yewso you have a problem, but we dont have enough info to help out on your problem. Was it just to complain or did you want help?

[charred leaf]

I'm going to hang out in the lounge if anyone is interested in chatting while they work on stuff. It would be good to meet others also doing this.

[hard pilot]

hi, i need help with unreal engine, i wanted to ask a question about lighting?

what channel should i post my question in?

[charred leaf]

This one is fine I think.

What's your question?

[plush yew]

the two

[hard pilot]

i would like viewport unlit to be the shading in my final game

how can i do so?

i know theres a way to do it with the command prompt but it's only temporary

i tried

they just become black

[sterile lichen]

saw it quite a long time ago, mixed feelings
they discovered that writing code as text is easier than writing blueprints visually. discovery of the century. but their designers now write close-to-cpp code now and boost their skill as if they all semi-cpp programmers

[hard pilot]

?

what should i do now ><

ohh

ok

omg perfect!

it worked!

thank you so much

[runic fern]

Mathew now this issue solved when i downloaded JDK v.8

but this one still

 
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   * What went wrong:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   > Installed Build Tools revision 31.0.0 is corrupted. Remove and install again using the SDK Manager.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   * Try:
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   BUILD FAILED in 9s
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)):   ERROR: cmd.exe failed with args /c "D:\Ue4Project\Virtualmall\Intermediate\Android\armv7\gradle\rungradle.bat" :app:assembleDebug
PackagingResults: Error: cmd.exe failed with args /c "D:\Ue4Project\Virtualmall\Intermediate\Android\armv7\gradle\rungradle.bat" :app:assembleDebug
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): Took 13.7866002s to run UnrealBuildTool.exe, ExitCode=6
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): UnrealBuildTool failed. See log for more details. (C:\Users\abood\AppData\Roaming\Unreal Engine\AutomationTool\Logs\H+UE4+4.26+UE_4.26\UBT-Virtualmall-Android-Development.txt)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=6 (6)
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Error

[sterile lichen]

a text version of blueprints would be much nicer

not to the point of old UnrealScript

but still, blueprints are literaly hell to write anything complex. a simple game mode logic covers three screens in both directions

[stuck linden]

does anyone know why my buttons have this weird border around them?

[sterile lichen]

button outline ?

[stuck linden]

How do i remove it

[sterile lichen]

i think it is border settings or somewhere there #umg

[grand oyster]

making a game about super speed and im not sure how to stop my character from sliding when i stop also how to i make my character always face the way my camera is facing

[plush yew]

I need to go up on the stairs so I wanted to know how to do it thank you ^^

PLEASEEEE

[runic fern]

Create coillision for the stair

[shell tide]

Hey, looks like you just need a collision for your mesh. it's very simple to solve. you just need to model a ramp. following the proportions of the stairs. You can do it on Unreal or an external 3d package, like maya or 3ds max

[plush yew]

ok

[shell tide]

did you model the stairs at an external 3d package or did you get a pre made stairs in unreal?

[winter gate]

Convert to a static mesh then add collision either by manually adding in collision volumes or by using the auto generated simple collision option.

[winter gate]

You can increase the amount of ground friction for that particular character’s movement controller component.

[glacial lake]

hello, is anybody out there today

where should i be talking at???

oh no.....

[winter gate]

We’re all bots here it’s just you.

[glacial lake]

lol

i have a really good question

I've been working on my character for the unreal from blender. do anybody have any tips about eyelashes

come on bots

[burnt marsh]

haven't had any luck today either

still sitting on an issue with "dynamic" navmesh in builds, where it generates a completely different one than my procedurally generated level.

in editor it just works like a charm, but that's it.

[glacial lake]

wow

and this is where we talk?

[burnt marsh]

yeah, no help from bots 😄

[glacial lake]

then I'm going back to twitch

lol

...

[hidden sparrow]

🤖 Beep Boop, Question too hard

[glacial lake]

lol

what!?

[grim ore]

well your asking a specific question in the general channel, try #graphics since your asking about graphics

[glacial lake]

so nobody draw faces

[grim ore]

and no, nobody draws faces we all use Metahumans now

[glacial lake]

oh no

i am the last one

[burnt marsh]

Mathew, you are a legend, I watched so many tutorials of yours

Do you have any clue what this could be caused by?

the navmesh in builds, not in the editor - there it's just fine - uses a differently generated level than the shown level.

I thought the dynamic setting was supposed to be... well, dynamic

[grim ore]

i dont, I have not used procedural generation much. your log might point out something weird but yeah dynamic should be dynamic if the objects are correct

[winter gate]

I have a similar issue with the game doing funky stuff in standalone vs PIE it has something to do with the order of things being loaded is different in a build vs play in editor.

[burnt marsh]

I found issues regarding this for 4.23 as well on the forums, so I don't know if it's a bug

[grim ore]

from my testing if your floor is blank with a normal nav mesh then you introduce obstacles it should generate around them, it looks like its generating but with the wrong settings. Since this is procedural are you sure your meshes collisions are correct?

[burnt marsh]

yes, in the editor it works like a charm

it's just the builds, PC, Mobile, doesn't matter

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, I have an animation in blueprint that changes the image tint to red and then sets the opacity to 0. Is there a way so I can have only 1 animation and then change the picture that is animated? Or do I have to have animation for each image?

[grim ore]

maybe start introducing delays to randomly test stuff. like load your world with no generation and see if its fine. then wait a few seconds and generate 1 item and see what happens.

[burnt marsh]

thanks, I'll try that one

[grim ore]

its just weird since it has something it is using for its generation, it doesnt look like the meshes but maybe it is just offset

@hidden sparrowif your using the UMG animation system, you probably have to have 1 animation per image since those are tied into the properties on that widget. If you do it by hand, you can probably just swap in the target for those blueprint nodes in code

[burnt marsh]

Yes, that was exactly what I was thinking...

Also, one issue I see with generated levels is the dynamic lighting for mobile, that's gonna be something to watch out for

[grim ore]

yep, without lightmaps your going to have fun

[burnt marsh]

I already had to fake ortho because there are some shadow issues, so I am feeling I am having a bad start with this kind of prototype already 😄

[grim ore]

sounds like picking the hardest concept to try and test 😦

[burnt marsh]

Guess challenges make us more experienced to work around issues in the future

So that's a good takeaway

[grim ore]

yep as long as your willing to keep trying and know that it might just not work right at some point its a valuable experience on the way there 🙂

[hardy cobalt]

Hello there! I'm struggling with setting up VR hands on Oculus. What channel do I even go to?

[grim ore]

#virtual-reality ?

[hardy cobalt]

dah.. Thanks!

[gleaming hawk]

where can I ask a question about UE?

[simple ember]

hey guys, sorry for disturbing but I need help with 1 thing, I created a landscape from blank template and then imported the third person template but when I press "play" everytime the game launches on the point of my camera in editing mode, someone knows how to make the game always start with focusing on the thirdpersontemplate character camera?

thank you for help

[grim ore]

@gleaming hawkask here if its general, or in a #channel if its specific

@simple emberdid you set up that character for use as the default pawn? did you set that character for auto possess? did you manually possess it? you need to do something to tell the engine that this is the character you want to use (what if you have 100 of them in the level?)

[simple ember]

well idk exactly what to do with the pawn and stuff but I know that I set up only 1 in level

[grim ore]

yep you need to do one of the 3 things I asked if you did

the engine needs to know what to use for the player to control

[simple ember]

hmm ok I understand, but i kinda don't know where to find that

would you help? please

oh no

wait

i fixed it

thank you

i changed this

thank you for helping me!

[gleaming hawk]

Whats happening? Bought a bunch of stuff in the marketplace and when looking in the cart, in each item it gives me a "!" saying there is no supported engine installed... I try and upgrade to 4.27 and i keep getting the message that I am running another instance of installer even though I am not. Considering a fresh install but wondering if I might lose all of my assets that are in my library. Help, please!

[sterile lichen]

not all plugins updated to support 427 since it released only 5 days ago, check each of them

[desert verge]

Anything good on sale?

[grim ore]

@gleaming hawkthere seems to be a bug right now with the ! mark, it does that even on compatible stuff (I think UE5 has something to do with it) so you can ignore that part, just look at the supported versions line

as for the upgrade and such, maybe something is updated (check the bottom left), if not restart the PC and launcher and see if you can add 4.27. Your vault cache (stuff you have downloaded off the launcher) and your projects are usually not stored where your engine is so removing the engine(s) wont remove them

[burnt marsh]

Mathew, fyi I solved the navmesh issue, was a bit unorthodox, but an execute console command rebuildnavigation after generation did the job

[grim ore]

that was going to be a suggestion but I didnt know how you were doing all your loading. Its weird dynamic navigation was having an issue tho

[burnt marsh]

yeah, not sure, maybe it's related to instanced static meshes

[plush yew]

how can i asign a collision complex to many objects at same time?

[rough kraken]

Dumb question - how can I actually add params to a object's "SpawnActor" node?

Seems like the answer is "no, just derferr spawn and call some "set" functions

[grim ore]

open the actor blueprint, click on the variable you want to expose, check the "Expose on Spawn" checkbox, profit? @rough kraken

[rough kraken]

^^ thanks

Is there a way in code to mark that?

[vagrant hornet]

Ultra Dynamic Sky is the best sky addon correct?

[rough kraken]

or is that editor only?

[grim ore]

in C++?

[rough kraken]

yeah

[grim ore]

looks like yes? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/GameplayArchitecture/Properties/Specifiers/

[rough kraken]

ty again :D... ill have you know while I google most of my questions your videos are coming up lol

[grim ore]

🙂

[rough kraken]

i know a lot of my noob questions are probably pretty "why would you do that?", but as I've said before most of "why" is because i am mostly focused on learning, not just finishing up whatever happens to have spawned that question

[grim ore]

nothing wrong with "why would you do that" when learning... its... learning lol

[sterile lichen]

there should be Spawn deferred and Finish spawning bp nodes

in between you can set rest of props

[rough kraken]

ty 😄

[sterile lichen]

for code meta=(ExposeOnSpawn)

[tawdry path]

Hey guys, basic question. I have been trying to scale up some basic block out houses I made, cant get them to scale properly. Have been surfing google for a good hour now, so decided to try discord.

TLDR : How to make unreal scale like the house of the left.

[rough kraken]

weird, it seems to be staling their location not their size

[tawdry path]

I think it is scaling them in a non uniform manner. but im not sure.

[rough kraken]

moment

when i scale my object its working as you expect

so i am not sure what you might've selected

[tawdry path]

its a collection of cubes rotated and scaled to make the house, not one house 3d object. if that makes a difference.

but thanks anyway

[grim ore]

first question is where are the pivots on the objects on the right, and are they all one "group" or just individual items?

[tawdry path]

this shows it ignoring the direction as well. the door clearly is scaling forwards and backwards not left right :/

[grim ore]

and answering that will give you the issue

[tawdry path]

they are grouped. , my undertsanding is they are all using the same pivot.

but ill double check that thanks.

[grim ore]

uhm

the one on the left is from unity as well isnt it?

[tawdry path]

yeah left is unity, just as an example of what i want

the right is unreal.

[grim ore]

its very possible the item in Unity is under a master game object and they are scaling that

[tawdry path]

the top example is grouped the bottom isnt

the top is the main one, but thanks for checking.

[grim ore]

your going to want to merge them into one asset, or parent them all under something that you scale. your individual assets are all scaling appropriately

[tawdry path]

ok ill try that. thanks 🙂

[vale grove]

Is there any expert with widget here?

I want know how to make big widget and i can move my mouse in it and explore inside it

[grim ore]

do you have an example?

[vale grove]

If you know the game salt and sanctuary they have skill tree so big

You can check it on youtube

https://youtu.be/1ORuRt_jFlA

[runic fern]

Mathew i ve removed the build-tool for android and its downloaded again

And the issue was fixed

But can make the mobile project using shadows?

The ETC2 doesnt have shadows

[plush yew]

What would I need to look up to figure out term wise

Make my actor attack
in the desired 8 way direction
the stick is leaned onto based on the targetss surrounding my character, for reference Spiderman ps4's combat, sifu's combat, absolved combat.

Don't need a break down or explanation just the term(s) I can search to go figure out how to make this happen

[zinc shore]

why dose the server say that my characters velocity is none despite it moving

[grim ore]

@vale grovethat wold be doable, but its very complex and depends on how you want to set it up. You can manually zoom in and out of widgets using things like scroll windows and canvas panels

[vale grove]

I want to atleast understand the basic of this

[vale grove]

I know it is complicated thats why i come here to ask

[grim ore]

well what skill level do you have?

[vale grove]

I am Beginner working one my first game

[grim ore]

you need to learn the basics then, this is not the basics. Start with the learning material from epic, including one on UMG

[vale grove]

I did learn alot but still so much to learn

If u can hive me tips for this skill tree system i would be thankful

[grim ore]

well my tips are use the canvas panel and learn how scaling works

[vale grove]

Ok thanks will try

[tame comet]

Hey everyone - I'm looking for character models for medieval npcs - guards, peasants, etc. Where would be the best place to look for this? The Unreal Marketplace is kind of dry.

[prime willow]

try art station and i believe theres a site for this

i cant remmeber the name something like sketchfab

[fiery notch]

I'd just google for free models and find some that work

If that doesn't work, get some armor and weight paint it onto a base character

Shouldn't be too difficult

Esp. since there's automatic weight painting

[nova portal]

Do we have a help channel? I've got an issue where my layers when doing landscape painting look square and not smooth.

https://i.imgur.com/M7ZRHic.jpeg

this is with brush falloff 0

[tame comet]

Can you explain this a bit more? I'm new to modelling. Even if you can tell me what to look up I can find some tutorials. Thanks!

[humble bay]

Does anyone know where I could find a ready-made VR unreal game WITH the scene (not just the .exe)? I want to practice sound integration

[obsidian nimbus]

@humble bay robo recall mod editor?

[fiery notch]

Yes! So first of all, do you use blender?

I know that weight painting is around in other programs, but I’m a blender native. So i can give much better instructions if you’re using blender as well

[plush yew]

someone is
how to master the guismo of the axes x y z please sure the object because it is 50km lol thank you

[autumn flame]

Hello everyone, wanted to ask something
With Oodle introduced in 4.27 and different compression methods

What's more important, compression ratio or decode time for games?
I know default one is Kraken method but there's Selkie who is infinitely faster in decode time and a lil better than Zlib in compression ratio too

[sterile lichen]

usually compression happens during cook so irrelevant for gameplay but fast decompression speed is actually useful for game

[autumn flame]

Was looking at this

[sterile lichen]

yeah

compression ratio important only if you have 260Gb of assets like some game

[stoic moth]

hello, just curios why do i see what looks like a double rendering of my scene when i do a ProfileGPU ? This is taken while playing in the viewport of the editor (i know it's not the best but just curios to know) PS: when playing standalone game, it has only 1 scene.

[autumn flame]

Cheers Aquanox ❤️

[stoic moth]

also has anyone encountered a problem with AMD graphics cards, if i don't set this command r.bloom.halfresolutionfft 1 the fps halves just like that, the bloom quality doesn't seem to help as much at all as this single command

im running on a 6800m graphics card (laptop asus strix g17 advantage edition) but on the desktop with a nvidia 2070 super i never had this issue

[true ridge]

What would be a clean way of having dialog mixed in with camera cues? Kinda old RPG style where there's a text box waiting for player input before changing to a new camera.

[plush yew]

hi, i am using the 4.26 version and i'm trying to make an ocean. I turned on the water plugin but the water seems to be invisibile

[true ridge]

Ocean plugin?

[plush yew]

yes

water plugin

sorry

uh

[distant totem]

there is a level in the content folder of the water plugin, copy that level (dont modify the one already there) and use that as a base

[plush yew]

starter content?

[plush yew]

still not working

it doesn't show