ue4-general

[rich oar]

Is there a way to do:
LineTraceForObjects (OnHit) (OnEnd) for example. I know those arent actually available nodes

And is LineTrace CPU intense ? Im working on the best way to look at a weapon on the ground and then make the UI appear if the linetrace is hitting it.

I dont want to create a collision sphere around the weapon itself. I want the UI only to appear when you look directly at it.

I have this working but cannot make the UI go away when you stop looking at it. I am using IsValid? to ensure im only setting the UI visibility if its the correct object type

Here is where im trying to get the UI to go away when looking away from the weapon

[plush yew]

what is the most streamlined way of moving stuff from modeling programs to unreal engine
I have tried
max to unreal (fbx)
max to unreal (USD)
max to unreal (datasmith)
max to unreal (ascii)
blender to unreal (datasmith)
blender to unreal tool

everything has its pros and cons but what method is the best for preservation

[plush yew]

hi, someone knows how can i apply alpha channel to multiple materials?

[plush yew]

is it even possible to get a mirror working in unreal engine 5 without planer reflections

lumen reflections are just not finished lmao

[crimson monolith]

Has anyone got into the weird issue where FMath:RoundToInt occasionally works? I use it some places but there is a place that no matter what number you give, it rounds to 0.

[plush yew]

why is modo the only cad tool with a proper bridge for unreal lmao who tf uses modo even

im using it just for importing to unreal but jeez

[brisk mirage]

where would I ask question about world comp?

[plush yew]

#level-design would be a good place but general is fine too since this discord isnt narcissistic about asking questions in general

you may get a more quality answer in level design however

[brisk mirage]

ok thanks

[upbeat oak]

Is there a console command to set a games rendering mode to unlit in a packaged game?

[plush yew]

@upbeat oak a workaround could be to select hide in game for all lighting then add a skylight

[upbeat oak]

nono not in editor

i mean in game

like a console command

[plush yew]

lol thats what i said

you can disable lights so they dont render in game

[upbeat oak]

cant add a skylight in game lol

[plush yew]

no the skylight could be adjusted to look identical to unlit

[upbeat oak]

i know

i cant add a skylight

i just want to know if there is a console command that will change a games viewmod to unlit

[regal mulch]

Your best bet is to check the console command list or to follow around what the F keys do in the editor

[upbeat oak]

oh yeah i know all that shit in editor

f3 4 5 and 6 control viewmodes

f5 is unlit mode

i mean in game in a packaged game

[regal mulch]

I know

You don't understand

I said check what they are doing

So you can do it too

Whenever you want

[plush yew]

yo wtf, when importing skeletal meshes from 3dsMax game exporter or Maya game exporter I get this
LoginId:5f4b590c4578dc2c66a8e38a820619f7
EpicAccountId:f453d5aa6a014e42a090446618382db2

Fatal error: [File:D:/build/++UE5/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/ShaderCompiler/ShaderCompiler.cpp] [Line: 970] ShaderCompileWorker crashed! Fatal error: [File:D:/build/++UE5/Sync/Engine/Source/Developer/Windows/ShaderFormatD3D/Private/D3DShaderCompilerDXC.cpp] [Line: 297] DXCCompileWrapper(Compiler, TextBlob, Arguments, CompileResult) failed: Result=8007000e 0x00007ffd7f4ec154 ShaderCompileWorker-ShaderFormatD3D.dll!DispatchCheckVerify<void,<lambda_a4aeaa7886a904f9dd18002a9b003559>,FLogCategoryLogD3D12ShaderCompiler,wchar_t [84],long>() [] 0x00007ffd7f4e25fe ShaderCompileWorker-ShaderFormatD3D.dll!D3DCompileToDxil() [] 0x00007ffd7f4da8d8 ShaderCompileWorker-ShaderFormatD3D.dll!CompileAndProcessD3DShaderDXC() [] 0x00007ffd7f4e0150 ShaderCompileWorker-ShaderFormatD3D.dll!CompileD3DShader() [] 0x00007ffd7f4e11be ShaderCompileWorker-ShaderFormatD3D.dll!CompileShader_Windows() [] 0x00007ffd7f4e0ce5 ShaderCompileWorker-ShaderFormatD3D.dll!FShaderFormatD3D::CompileShader() [] 0x00007ff694aca470 ShaderCompileWorker.exe!ProcessCompilationJob() [] 0x00007ff694acb667 ShaderCompileWorker.exe!FWorkLoop::ProcessInputFromArchive() [] 0x00007ff694ac69a5 ShaderCompileWorker.exe!FWorkLoop::Loop() [] 0x00007ff694ac4570 ShaderCompileWorker.exe!GuardedMain() [] 0x00007ff694ac47cd ShaderCompileWorker.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() [] 0x00007ff694ad2a38 ShaderCompileWorker.exe!wmain() [] 0x00007ff694ad3d68 ShaderCompileWorker.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() [] 0x00007ffdd2007034 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction [] 0x00007ffdd2ac2651 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

UnrealEditor_Engine
UnrealEditor_Engine
UnrealEditor_Engine
UnrealEditor_Engine
UnrealEditor_Engine
UnrealEditor_Engine
UnrealEditor_Core
UnrealEditor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

[regal mulch]

Or search the console command list

[plush yew]

anyone know what causes this

[upbeat oak]

apparently r.ForceDebugViewModes=1 is one half of it

but then theres another command you have to put in

[regal mulch]

Seeeaarrrch the command list

If you already have keywords

It's under Help or so in the editor

Generates a searchable list as html file

[upbeat oak]

http://www.kosmokleaner.de/ownsoft/UE4CVarBrowser.html im using this site which appears to be everything afaik

only mention of the term unlit is mobileHDR

simple dynamic lighting might work actually

[bright root]

Pixel Streaming,
Im really looking to chat with someone who knows the end to end process of pixel streaming. I can make it all function and work online through ngrok.

I have a couple of ideas about streaming with audience controls and a browser based coop game mode but not sure on the right approach in terms of servers etc or a self contained 1click solution. its kinda different use to the standard purpose for this.

[limber idol]

hello we refer me here cvar I might find a solution to my problem the animation of myself my weapon does not always work I share a video with you where we see the animation for the muzzle flash is normal I have not finished if someone knows how to help me I would be grateful thank you in advance

[tough solar]

Your instructor has probably rebuilt their game project and it was hot reloaded in the editor. Simply run "build current project" action either from Build menu, or "Ctrl+Shift+A" > Build current project, or RMB on your project in Explorer panel and select Build project.

[pliant junco]

can ppl extract meshes and animations from packaged products?

[late verge]

would anyone happen to know of any good tutorials that show how to achieve really nice overcast lighting?

i have experience with bright/sunny lighting but this is my first time trying to replicate an overcast and i’m finding it quite difficult

[plush yew]

heck causes these shadows in ue5

the stippy shape

[limber idol]

hello to my referer here to find a solution the problem is my animation of my weapons which does not always work someone could help me I will be grateful

https://youtu.be/kuN7THefR34

[knotty hollow]

when I have a packed texture, which channels go where for the R,G,B, I don't know if R is metallic or if R is roughness etc, this is for Metallic,Roughness,AO I think

[limber idol]

The values you are seeing are RGB color values represented as values between 0 and 1 (they are Vector3 in UE4) instead of 0-255 which is what most image editors use.

The numbers you are getting are the RGB values divided by 255 so:
R - 50/255 = 0.196
G - 100/255 = 0.3921
B - 150/255 = 0.5882

@knotty hollow https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/ExpressionReference/

[wraith onyx]

multi-user editing gets out of sync pretty quickly, using Radmin VPN between two citys, any tips to make it a bit more reliable? (E.g. can't see things other person made but they can see edits to a cube made before)

Could it be caused by anti virus scanning the project folder or something?

[drowsy snow]

Don't use multi user editing. Use source control and external communications.

[wraith onyx]

But want to use multi user editing... (along with source control and discord chat of course)

[drowsy snow]

There's a reason why Epic rolling out One File Per Actor system as opposed to maintaining Multi User Editing. The latter just doesn't work.

[wraith onyx]

Do you happen to know if OFPA will be available for 4?

[drowsy snow]

It's already available in 4.26, actually. It's just that the docs were written on UE5 section.

[wraith onyx]

Ah okay, we are using 4.27 updated yesterday

[drowsy snow]

The only drawback (from my foundings) is that sublevel name in the World Outliner would get jumbled, thus can be confusing if you're using a lot of sublevels.

[wraith onyx]

Noted thanks

[plush yew]

why cant I use play montage in a function?

is there a better why to get a random montage to play then?

[drowsy snow]

Make sure your animBP uses the slot.

[bleak drum]

please, how do you disable that default constant light fade again? before it drives me nuts

[drowsy snow]

Auto exposure?

[bleak drum]

but its turned off :/

(in my project sttings)

[drowsy snow]

Check your cameras and any post process volumes that overrides it.

[bleak drum]

ok will do

[drowsy snow]

Both can still override what's in Project Settings' Rendering section.

[plush yew]

@drowsy snowno I mean the node, ''play montage''

the one that has all other extra options like blend out etc

[ashen brook]

That's a matter of opinion and entirely up to you, but I would recommend to keep roughness in the green channel due to slightly higher bit depth in the most common compression formats.

[plush yew]

it cant be used in a function

[ashen brook]

It's probably a latent node, anything the takes more than one frame cannot be used in functions. You should be fine using the event graph though.

[plush yew]

ah that makes sense then, yea tried keeping it tidy with functions

ill probably use an array then so I dont have 17 play montage nodes

[ashen brook]

Yeah that seems unnecessary. Just get random from an array and plug that into the montage node

[native tulip]

why is there no way to linetrace by specific shape?

[plush yew]

those are called collision boxes

[native tulip]

@plush yew collision boxes arent custom, you only have some shapes

[plush yew]

you can combine them

and you really dont want very complex shapes do you?

[native tulip]

nope i dont

you have a point

[plush yew]

what are you trying to do?

[upper kraken]

Hey everyone, I have a question!
What is a good way to approach planning of a small game mechanic prior to programming? Take a keypad for instance, type in the correct code, then it'll open a door. Do you just tend to jump straight into coding? Or do you tend to write some things down, take notes, think about how it would work in detail and only then get into coding?
Currently I tend to just jump straight into it, start with the first thing that comes to mind, face roadblocks, try to overcome them, until I have something that kiiinda works, but it feels more like a patchwork and has many bugs and especially issues further down the line. Is this an experience thing or are there renowned planning methods?

[acoustic slate]

Hi folks, wanting to ask a question about components. I am new to coding in C++/Unreal and currently working on a spaceship which I'm coding my own custom components into (sensors suite). In Unreal, am I better coding multiple custom components (e.g damage comp, shield comp, targeting comp etc...) or am I better just having a few larger components encompassing more (sensor suite as a whole). Is there a performance benefit to either as well? Thank you kindly in advance..

[plush yew]

@upper krakensounds like your learning 😄

you cant really plan it out either, but I get what you mean. Altho this is a good thing

[cold bridge]

I have a platform that is lowering itself when a character steps on it, the logic works (via overlaps) but one issue is that it's like the platform doesn't exist - the character is not "on" the platform, but rather "inside" of it and when stepping on it the legs are within the box. how can I solve this?
"can character step up on" value is marked to "yes" on the mesh

[azure topaz]

can someone explains me exactly what construction script is? cuz i cant understand it right

[mental helm]

It's mostly there to help generate or assemble a actor. Could be a spline mesh that you can interactively draw out and modify parameters, or a platform that generates a base under it with a line trace, or you could add some sort of randomization or distribution element

[azure topaz]

ah got it

thanks alot

[upper kraken]

Hahaha, dang I'm found out! xP
Yeah I'm very new to programming specifically so I was hoping there were some renowned ways that experienced users tackle specific tasks, but then I suppose it is really an experience and workflow thing that I still need to properly discover. Thanks!

[bright aspen]

how can I make this texture megascan, the same size on all walls?

Becouse if the wall is strached, the texture is bigger too

[muted crater]

Does anyone know if the maya livelink plugin allows you to models in maya and quickly send that geo+collision into Unreal? the Blender To Unreal plugin does this, but i can't tell if the maya integration is purely for animation or what.

[upper kraken]

Try using a World Position Node in your material, maybe in conjunction with TexCoord to scale your material if necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYe54XrZYI

[bright aspen]

Ok but how how can I get into the bp? ( 0:36)

[upper kraken]

You double click on your Material in the Asset Browser?

Is that your question? haha

[bright aspen]

@ebon ridge

[weary shell]

Hello everyone, I'm new member. Is there anyone familiar with the dataprep tool can help me?
I create a Actor Component Blueprint with many functions to add to Datasmith static meshes. So, I want to create a operation custom node to execute in Visual DataPrep as attached image

This is my Blueprint for operation custom node, but maybe I get wrong something. Can anyone please suggest me how to fix this?

[plush yew]

this only seems to happen on the build when i click play game to create a multiplayer session

[old flare]

can anyone suggest me a good unreal engine blueprint tutorial

[shadow ravine]

Quick question, I'm trying to edit a hand animation for a weapon hold so my character can wrap his fingers round it. But after adding the bones to the layer tracks and getting them in position then applying my animation goes back to the hand being open. Could this be due to curves conflicting with it or am I just missing something?

[shadow ravine]

Also is it possible to attach a mesh with two sockets left and right hand. As currently my character's left hand keeps floating out of the pose.

[thick prawn]

Hello ^^
It is possible to change or add a new collider in character class? Like i want char collide as a square and not a capsule
Thanks ^^

[cold bridge]

any idea why blueprint debugger won't pop? I'm playing in the editor, triggering the things (stuffs are printing and executing correctly) and the breakpoints are not hit

[cold bridge]

nvm seems like a reload of the editor figured it..

[dense wren]

guys

im trynna look at where the mouse its pointing in my side scroller.. thing is that all tutorials i saw already, use aim set animation blendspaces, is there any way to not do that?

[azure topaz]

so i have to connect SM door frame with static mesh, but it wont connect, what am i doing wrong?

can someone help me?

someone?

[dense wren]

you need to call it out from there

not connect it i think

in the select asset option

idk if a static mesh goes there tho

[plush yew]

Hey, how do i use Unreal Engine (Easy Anti Cheat) ? There should be added free but i found nothing in docs etcß

[dense wren]

theres an anticheat plugin in marketplace, i think its free

[plush yew]

its not easy anti cheat

i looking for the announced eac

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-online-services-launches-two-new-free-services

[azure topaz]

so i have to make set static mesh BP and then drag it out ?

[plush yew]

i cant preview any anims

[azure topaz]

how can i fix it?

[plush yew]

Found it ... https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/services/en-US/GameServices/AntiCheat/index.html

[dense wren]

click on select asset, then select your sm door

[azure topaz]

yea, but i have to connect sm door frame variable to set static mesh aswell

[pseudo void]

Does anyone know if epic has any plan to ever bring the epic launcher to linux at all? Since the engine can be run on it, I don't see why not have a way to get your assets for it

[dense wren]

theres a linux channel if you check at the left

[dense wren]

maybe ask there

[azure topaz]

i did it, but still wont connect, how do i connect it ?

[dense wren]

no idea honestly

[azure topaz]

thats what i get when i try to connect it

[dense wren]

mm

search on internet

leave it a side and learn something else

if you get stuck you loose time

[azure topaz]

how do i do it static mesh component?

oh thanks man, you saved me <3, appreciate it

[shadow ravine]

@plush yew thought I'd let you know I resolved my ALS problem 🙌 ended up finding a guide on YouTube to create a new socket for each item and rewire the blueprints with a attach to hand function for each item 🎉🎉🎉😂

[knotty summit]

Is there any way to start my project with FPS opened?

[deep swallow]

(Engine version 4.22)
I desperately need some help. My project suddenly started crashing when I start it just after it reaches 83% loading. I retraced my steps but it started happening again once I added another blueprint.

I somehow figured out that if I delete ANY few blueprints, even those who have been in the game for years, it starts working. It is not code-related at all. Maybe a setting. There are maybe 400-600 blueprints in the game, and removing ~300 Kb puts me under some invisible threshold that makes it work. I have deleted Saved/Intermediate/Binaries and refreshed the project multiple times.

There is something wrong in the loading process that causes a stack overflow, and the error message I get from the crash dump is "The thread used up its stack". I can find absolutely no information about it online. Without getting past this I might just not be able to work on the game any more, ever, and it feels like anyone besides me would've encountered it at some point. Please, I don't know what to do, it gives no information about what the issue is.

Reddit thread with more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/ph6lp9/project_crash_on_startup_stack_overflow_due_to/

[plush yew]

i have a problem making ads camera i cant look down

[wet schooner]

could it be colliding with something

[weary shell]

Edit your character BP and try this

[wary wave]

My best guess is that you have things just casually referencing everything else - which means each time you load an asset like a blueprint (Asset A), it's crawling through all the things that Asset A references to ensure those are loaded (Assets B) - it then crawls the dependencies for each of these to ensure that these are loaded (Assets C)... and so on.

each step in this chain is going to be exponentially larger than the previous, so I could see this triggering a stack overflow situation if you somehow didn't run out of memory loading an entire game first

[deep swallow]

I'm not sure this is the issue, but in that case it would be impossible to make large Unreal Engine games? And how would one solve it? My game is not big by any means, and as I say removing just about any blueprints (even older ones that have compiled fine for years) will make it work again. The blueprint I was working on that made this appear was just a second generation child of another blueprint. The issue doesn't seem to be a single blueprint, but rather the volume of blueprints in some way causes the error. I've never seen anything like it after several years of programming, and the error information is nearly nonexistent :/

[wary wave]

I mean if you're not controlling how things are loaded and when, through soft references, that would almost certainly do it

[dense wren]

guys

im trynna make my side scroller

[deep swallow]

What do you mean? It crashes when I try to load the project, it doesn't have anything to do with implementations

[dense wren]

and i want player to look at mouse

like aiming with weapon, but i dont wanna use guns only a bow that im not yet adding

[wary wave]

do you know what a soft reference is?

[dense wren]

i want the player to look atleast just with his head to where mouse points

but all tutorials i saw teaches how to do an aimoffset blendspace

but i dont have aim offset anims without weapons

only with the player holding a gun

is there a way to do it without aimoffsets

[deep swallow]

I've heard about it in C++ but I don't see its relevance in this context

[dense wren]

c++ its also used in ue4

[lucid beacon]

where can I get support?

[wary wave]

^ignore that, it's not strictly helpful - I would suggest you probably want to do some reading around the subject and how they're using with regard to UE4 and asset management

[deep swallow]

Well yes, but why would the project crash when loading because of soft references due to having X amount of blueprints in the project?

[lucid beacon]

How can I change my character without remaking animations?

[wary wave]

it's probably crashing when loading because you don't have them

[dense wren]

change the mesh

[lucid beacon]

but then the anims wont work

[wary wave]

the asset reference tree is so long, it's causing a stack overflow

[dense wren]

the skeletons might not be the same

[dense wren]

.

[dense wren]

you need to check if the skeletons are the same

[dense wren]

add the anim bp

over the mesh options

[lucid beacon]

they are

[dense wren]

you need to select the animation blue print

[lucid beacon]

they are

[lucid beacon]

I did

[dense wren]

in the anim graph check if everything is correct

also that is the marketplace character right? it should be compatible

oohh

also

your human mesh is in t-pose

[deep swallow]

So I can't have as many variable references as I want in a class or something? What am I supposed to replace them with?

[dense wren]

the ue4 manequin is not in tpose

but you need to retarget them definitly

create a humanoid rig in both

[deep swallow]

Just to be clear it loads when I delete blueprint files, not from the map. The map is basically completely empty

[dense wren]

then retarget

[wary wave]

you can have billions of references, the problem is you have HARD references to everything causing long reference chains

you need to break those chains

[dense wren]

hey ponkkis

would you help me with something

aight

[wary wave]

ideally, you want soft references to certain assets, and you want to try to reference only native or abstract base classes in your code (e.g. Cast to Pawn, not to 'ThisSpecificPawn' which has lots of assets etc)

[lucid beacon]

they are all the same

[wary wave]

in order to prevent enormous reference chains being created

[wary wave]

depending on the size and complexity of your project, doing it this late in development could be quite the headache

but it does want doing

[dense wren]

mm

i was having that same problem the other day

[lucid beacon]

idk

it wont work

[dense wren]

and somehow made it work

[lucid beacon]

im new to animations

[dense wren]

dont remember how

i retargeted

[deep swallow]

There's essentially a limit to how many child classes one can make from another class? And this limit is somehow cumulative between all blueprints in a reference tree?

[wary wave]

there is no limit

[deep swallow]

Just a limit on how many references between stuff there can be?

[lucid beacon]

Can anyone help me?

I just want the anims from the regular character to be on my new character

be he just sits in tpose

[dense wren]

you did set the anim bp up in the animation tab? over mesh?

[deep swallow]

Like I have "Manager" classes that refer to nearly every object in the game to keep track of them, so every object in the game probably has some reference to other objects

[dense wren]

the same animbp you was using on ue4 mannqin

[wary wave]

it's only a problem if it's a direct reference to something that contains a lot of direct references to other things

this might help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ENnLV19Cw

but you could even have issues where you have circular references, where A ultimately references B, which ultimately references C, which ultimately references A

this could also cause something like a stack overflow during loading, in theory

[deep swallow]

I think I have a few of them, but not in the ones that I can delete to make the project work

So far I've been successful when I delete the most recent blueprint, all vehicles, a few interaction points etc, it's almost random if it will crash or not and it just started happening the last few weeks

I'll take a look at the video though, thanks!

[wary wave]

hopefully this is the root cause of your problem, it certainly sounds like it is

fixing it will probably be an unfun couple of weeks though

[deep swallow]

I do have huge reference trees so I'm hoping for that too. Basically I have maybe 12 manager classes each handling different aspects of the game (pawns, enemies, buildings, vehicles etc) and in the game mode I have a reference to each of those manager classes, because the game mode can always be acquired. In the beginning I used the controller as this sort of "master manager" though, so there are many cross references between them...

[wary wave]

there's a reference viewer and a sizemap tool inside the engine that can help you work out where these things are

just looking at the sizemap for any given asset will show you what can theoretically be loaded as a result of loading that asset

ideally, it's just the art associated with that blueprint as an example - when it is not, it's an indicator of a potential problem

[deep swallow]

Alright, so the goal is to try to reduce the size of that size map, because that causes the stack overflow

[wary wave]

not directly, but it is a symptom

[deep swallow]

I am still learning so I really appreciate you taking time helping me 😄 This is one of those invisible problems you don't know you have until it hits you in the face

Yes, right, it just displays the issue

[plush yew]

I'll try ty

[deep swallow]

@wary wave The red colour alone tells me this blueprint is screaming in agony 😂

[weary shell]

Ok. Let me know result 🙂

[glacial pecan]

Anyone know why on earth box colliders for an actor wouldn't show up in packaged builds on a streaming level?

I mean, the actors and the colliders are there when you play in the editor/standalone, but only the actor is there in the packaged build, not the colliders!

[wary wave]

not even close to the worst I've seen, but yeah, that's a whole lot of references 😂

[deep swallow]

So basically a single class that references nearly everything in the game indirectly is not ideal? Like in this case, you have A that references B C and D, which refer to E F and so on, but to make F communicate with A, F (and basically every class in the game) has a reference to A, which I assume creates a circular references and messes with memory. I'd assume the reference to A wouldn't load everything related to A, which is probably wrong. How would I go about communicating between blueprints in a hierarchial structure efficiently to keep references down?

[wary wave]

ideally you want clear hierarchies of control, so that certain gameplay elements don't really need to know much about the specifics of other elements

the managers are a good step in this regard

[glacial pecan]

only soft references don't load... regular references load everything

[deep swallow]

....Oh.

Welcome to learning-land. Population: Me

[wary wave]

you want to have abstract base classes for most of your gameplay elements, so that when you want to operate on something (e.g. Enemy A attacks Objective B), that it only needs to know that it is an objective (e.g. Cast to Objective Base, call generic functions)

the abstract bases prevent hard references between the unique elements that don't need to be there

[glacial pecan]

Me too. 🙂 Also recommend to look into blueprint interfaces... they're cheap to reference

[wary wave]

yeah, interfaces can be a good option

I tend to use components instead, personally

they're easier to manage and more visible

[deep swallow]

But if I understand correctly, if I change every reference to A to a soft reference instead of a hard reference, so there is a clear hierarchial flow in a single direction, then that'd likely alleviate many of the problems?

[wary wave]

when you want to check something has a component, you can just do a 'Find Component by Class'

well, not everything, you'll need to come up with some sort of strategy

[deep swallow]

Interfaces are fantastic, but they can't do return values 😦

[wary wave]

components do though 😄

obviously things do actually want to be loaded - you just want it to be in a more controlled manner

[glacial pecan]

sure they can

[wary wave]

and yeah, they do have returns, what they don't do is contain data, ergo values

the parent actor would be responsible for that, which is fine

[glacial pecan]

just remember that soft references need to load... so if you cast afterwards, it then kinda defeats the purpose... again, interfaces to the rescue here

[deep swallow]

Ah, I might've missed that then x.x
And yes, having interfaces be bundled with data (such as an HP variable with an interface that handles damage) would be golden

[wary wave]

that's the kind of thing we do with components

a generic 'Health' component can be added to any actor that has health

[deep swallow]

Basically nearly every blueprint I have gets the game mode, casts to the custom game mode class I'm using to access all the variables and manager classes, and sets it as a variable. Would this casting make it take up memory despite using a soft reference or does it just load the asset temporarily?

[deep swallow]

Good point, I have a lot of good practices left to learn, I must admit. Main priority is to get my game working again though 😄

[glacial pecan]

I think every blueprint should get the game mode and then use an interface to talk to it... that way, you can change or use whatever manager class you want, and the blueprints don't have to know or care

I'm throwing interfaces in for almost every class I have, which might be overkill, but it also enables me to just swap them out if I want to, and the game will still work

[next dome]

hi guys, im having issue where a material flickers with small black dots

https://gyazo.com/04c61fd13f67cf561a7ba007a74dbfe8

anyone know how to fix it?

[deep swallow]

Hmm... I'm not sure I understand how it's supposed to be implemented optimally. Here's a short example: This is from the blueprint of my "miner" class. When this guy is teleported in, I want to tell the Miner Manager that this guy just arrived, so the Miner Manager puts him in an array and keeps track of him for reasons. How do I go about this without creating an interface call for nearly every function I want to use from the miner's blueprint?

[glacial pecan]

Well, I'm not the right person to answer that, because I have an interface call for every function I want to use. 😄

[deep swallow]

Haha fair enough... I just don't quite see why this would cause problems, it shouldn't really use the reference to DevMode until I call a function or get a variable from it 🤔

[glacial pecan]

again, I do think that's where you're wrong. if the reference exists, everything associated with it is always loaded, if the object that references it is in memory (and that can cascade super easily... hence, why soft references and interfaces are made to eliminate that risk)

[deep swallow]

Oh I think I understand now. So if one were to be crude, if I would replace every reference to this game mode variable with a function that gets the game mode and casts it to my custom game mode, it would not load the asset? (of course this is at the cost of runtime computations to get the game mode and cast it)

I might have been overusing variables to make sure I only have to get things once to keep runtime costs down, so it doesn't have to get the game mode every time it wants to do something...

Like if I just made this a getter function, it doesn't keep the asset loaded in memory forever, but in this case I should use a soft reference

[glacial pecan]

I think we're approaching the limit of my knowledge as well... because the gamemode is always running, and if it has regular references to all managers, then every class involved is always loaded anyway... again, I've avoided (I think) all those headaches by padding nearly everything with interfaces

[deep swallow]

Yeah, thank you for the help, it has definitely set me in the right direction. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how you are supposed to use references then, the video I'm watching makes it sound like a reference is an instanced version of an object, basically a local copy for that actor, which can't be right... I'm gonna do some more research and digging and see if I can crack this

[glacial pecan]

https://youtu.be/K0ENnLV19Cw

[frank pumice]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/277180820484259840/883781136726241320/unknown.png

why is angle working but not the speed

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/277180820484259840/883781347682963456/unknown.png

and why is the function not updating the speed var

[deep swallow]

I'm watching that right now, but unsure how relevant it's gonna be in my implementation as mine is a game with tons of blueprints and they seem to be working with a smaller demo which also has a level... I spawn everything in my game dynamically from a read text file, the map itself is basically empty, which is why I need all those references 😉 If I don't get anywhere I'll be back! 😄

[shadow ravine]

Having an issue with my gun firing animation where my character doesn't fire in the direction the gun was pointing before firing. I've setup the montage layer override to the right arm. But I can't for the life of me work out how to resolve this. Anyone got any ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itjtz5EETZg

[glacial pecan]

This image is from a CSV file (ie text file) that I just exported from a DataTable in my game. The blue highlighted column is a soft class reference... if wasn't, the moment this text data is read in the game and parsed by Unreal, ALL CLASSES would instantly load, regardless if they'd ever be used or not (in my case, regardless if that particular monster is ever spawned in game or not).

[deep swallow]

I'm not sure I understand, doesn't all objects in the game always stay in memory and references just pulls data from where they are in memory?

Also, the way they use soft references seems cumbersome, they load the asset manually when they want to use it, and then cast it, which costs execution time. In my case I could instead technically have an independent function that gets the game mode and casts it instead, since the game mode is accessible from anywhere, and it would do the same for the same execution cost?

And if I'd change all of those, I'd hope that actually helps my issue... would be a pain if I change all this and it turns out not to help

[glacial pecan]

Regular references always stay in memory, yes. Soft references only gets loaded when you tell them to (and garbage collected when you stop using them).

But as I said, if you cast immediately after loading a soft reference class, it kinda defeats the purpose... hence, interfaces... there's a step back you need to take and think about the big picture a bit before it clicks (or at least there was for me). 🙂

[deep swallow]

What I mean is, I'd assume a reference would just reference to the object itself (basically a location in memory) so that it can get the variables when needed, but here it seems to create some humongous reference chain that causes a crash when it just tries to see what's connected to what, which still isn't intuitive...

Yes, I hope it clicks, this is a nightmare issue because it is not entirely clear how to solve it. I'm gonna try removing a few references to the game mode from some classes and see if that leads to being able to open the project without crashing...

But wait, no, I don't see how a soft reference would help. In the video they load a soft reference and cast it to a regular variable, to control when something loads into memory. If I would do the same I'd still have those circular dependencies? Soft references seems great for models and textures to reduce VRAM/RAM usage when running the game, but my project crashes when loading the assets, during startup. Unless I'd not do a variable and instead cast from the soft reference every time I use it...

Maybe your interface method would work better, but it's still hard to figure out what end to start...

[rose glen]

Hi everyone, I posted a question with details on reddit regarding ios deployment, rather than posting here and spam the chat, please take a look and help me 😭
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/pg15gt/ios_deployment_with_free_dev_account/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[steady owl]

Possibly running into a few 4.27 specific issues. What did you run into?

Damn 😦 got any links to more info / similar reports?

For me sessions aren't even creating properly

Seems like a pretty fatal set of bugs, yeah I can confirm that this happens even not using the Steam Sockets plugin

There doesn't seem to even be an issue listed in unreal issues yet

better report it!

Seems to fail due to this: Warning: STEAM: Failed to initialize game server with Steam!

Maybe it's looking for a dedicated server rather than creating a listen server?

[shadow ravine]

Can anyone tell me why I am getting 2 of my weapons spawn in. One's on the floor the other is in the hand. I'm just trying to replace the static mesh spawn with a actor bp spawn.

Ignore the Actor Spawn exec pin as I forgot to update that in the example of what I'm attempting

[halcyon basin]

Hello, does unreal still have the rotating mesh bug where it does not register collisions for pawns that are not moving? My door seems to be working this way?
I have a door that opens/closes and if you stay just where the door needs to close/open and be still, the mesh clips thru you, all physics are setup and collisions..

[steady owl]

Found a fix: putting bInitServerOnClient=true in the Engine.ini under OnlineSubsystemSteam

[shut burrow]

I too would like to know this

[steady owl]

See the fix above

Let me know if you find other issues

[shut burrow]

ty mate!

[steady owl]

Well actually seems like it's still a bit broken, the sessions created don't appear to be findable and when leaving the session the game crashes due to an assertion

I'll stick with 4.26 for now I think

Looks like there's another warning when creating that session Warning: STEAM: AUTH: CreateServerSteam is calling the depricated AdvertiseGame call

Which may be why the session isn't working as intended in 4.27

[final moth]

does anyone know why the editor stays in this mode

every time when I go to the cinematic viewport and I go out of it, the translate icons gets messed up and I can't use them any more

For example, the icon which I should click to change between world or object transform mode becomes unresponsive

and the icons change to be like the ones in the cinematic viewport, with the exception of grid icons

does anyone have this problem?

this looks like a bug to me.

[shadow ravine]

Anyone know how I can get my ALS character to have a more accurate line trace. I've had to put a new spring arm and camera in to be able to spawn it as I couldn't work out how to spawn it from the shoulder camera that's already functional. I'm sure there's a better method that what I'm doing here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K-2bf0-ouU

[gilded lichen]

Hello, has anyone got a good tutorial for procedural generation?

[robust marten]

Add an extra 0 or two or 3 to the distance

[shadow ravine]

But that doesn't help with the camera rotation accuracy, it'll just make the line trace further which at the moment isn't a problem

[robust marten]

The longer your trace the more accurate it will be at the starting range. Also, use the forward vector of the muzzle, because you want it to shoot from there, right? Also why aren't you simply using GetWorldLocation for the muzzle?

[shadow ravine]

Yeah from the muzzle so I'll increase the distance then and add the forward vector to the muzzle socket location and see how I get on. Any idea how I can get it to shoot at the floor when aiming down as in the video example you can see how the camera rotation isn't working with it too.

[stuck linden]

does anyone know how to put the character at the ground?

[robust marten]

Move them closer in the character BP?

[stuck linden]

but then thing like crouch dont work

he goes under the terrain

theres no way to just stick him to the group

ground or something

[robust marten]

Why does your crouch move the entire mesh downwards?

[robust marten]

How does it look when she isnt moved down?

Could it be your root motion?

[torpid stone]

Hi when I drop 1000 fbx into unreal it asks me Import options every time, can I automate that?

for each file

so I can't bear to click the fbx dialog 1000 times every few minutes

[robust marten]

Should be an import all option, no?

[torpid stone]

I click it, still appear every time for each file

whether Import All or Import, it shows for each file

4.27

[light crag]

c4d support is removed from ue4? datasmith is failing to import c4d.fbx files .....

[plush yew]

good evening do you know why I can't see the walls? thank you ^^

[plush yew]

yessssss is true lol

how do you return them in blender sorry I remember more slol ^^

@plush yew

tks

but

nothing

...

edit mode?

no is good sorry bro

but i no inderstand because now

^^ is outside i no have wall

why?

wtf

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, I have a button in my widget. What is the best way to make the player click it for example 5 times before it actually does something. Do I make a variable and count how many times he pressed it? or is there a node that sends output only after 5 inputs?

[plush yew]

thicker the wall each purple side can be?

its possible you show

fast please

because for me is good

ok tks is very eazy omgushhhhhh

sorry for this

[neon bough]

or use two sided material/geometry

however, usually you don't add faces where the player shouldn't look from

[surreal eagle]

Game design decision: I'm probably not going to add wallhanging like I wanted to originally,as it probably doesn't add too much value to gameplay, because I have the inclusion of a vault system

For reference,my game is a fps game with advanced movement

[surreal eagle]

Autoclicker

[plush yew]

I have a weird question where i dont even know what in particular im looking for but hope you guys know

i want to have classes like mage, warrior, healer you know that kind of thing, but i want animations like idle, walk, run, etc etc to change based on class selected

What would i need to google gooder U:

to figure out how to do particularly that

@drowsy snow if you know the answer to this with your huge brain poke me on snowie or ping me here pls ❤️

[surreal eagle]

Make a enumerator and use a switch on statement

[plush yew]

wait that would work

[surreal eagle]

Yep

[plush yew]

so i wouldnt need something like multiple animation blueprints

[surreal eagle]

Nope

[plush yew]

just enums and switches to swamp out animations based on class?

[surreal eagle]

Basically

Works good with blend on integer

[plush yew]

youre a really a pretty clever villian

[surreal eagle]

Yes,I'm a mad scientist

[plush yew]

i cant wait to see your project darling~

[surreal eagle]

You can't be a supervillain without a genius

[surreal eagle]

Thx

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/love-yamamoto-akane-haikyuu-anime-gif-20789577

[surreal eagle]

So the trick is to use a switch on int node in your anim bp

[plush yew]

int node?

[surreal eagle]

Go into the anim bp and type it on

[plush yew]

okie um gimme a secx i was just about to go shower x-x

[surreal eagle]

To tell this to the animation blueprint, use a cast node

[plush yew]

it comes up as constraint

under skeleton control nodes

[surreal eagle]

Dm me and I'll show you how to do this later tonight

3-3.5 hours from now

[plush yew]

o.o sure

[surreal eagle]

Take a break while you're at it

[plush yew]

that works perfectly~

[surreal eagle]

Cool

So

What's your game about

[plush yew]

so to viciously simplify it

Arena fighter

with an open world(if possible)
with an emphasis on advance movement and extreme player expression through race gender, age differences and styles/combat

[surreal eagle]

Hm

Sounds kind of neat

Not something I'd usually play

[plush yew]

shhh youre buttering my toast x///x

[surreal eagle]

But if I didn't have to pay for it I'd try it

(I have no moeny)

[plush yew]

well i dont want to sell dlc or microtranscations and want to update the game for at least a decade or so

[surreal eagle]

Now put sugar and cinnamon on it

[plush yew]

so i cant sell it for free ;-;

[surreal eagle]

Based

[surreal eagle]

Nah I'm one guy

[plush yew]

well i grew up playing games on the atari

[surreal eagle]

Id help you a bit

[surreal eagle]

Age?

How old are you man

[plush yew]

we didnt have internet updates so the ability to forward patch games was revolutionary to me it dawned that infinite possiblities could occur like living breathing constantly updated worlds hell universes if you had enough people but we all see how the industry did with such an incredible ideal

oh about 2 and a half decades

[gaunt abyss]

lol

[plush yew]

:3

[surreal eagle]

Hm I'm almost 1.8 decades old in that case

[plush yew]

nice nice

[surreal eagle]

Birthday in 7 days

[gaunt abyss]

That sounded so funny to me lol
about 2 and a half decades

[plush yew]

lol shush xD

and happy pre not birthday yet ❤️

[surreal eagle]

Yes

Thank you

[plush yew]

:3

be back in a flash

my laundry's done

[gaunt abyss]

But may I request this friendly encounter to be moved to DMs or #lounge

[surreal eagle]

I take it you're very into anime

[plush yew]

oh sure i dont mind

[surreal eagle]

Hence the inspiration for your game

[plush yew]

ill move to louge after i get back

[gaunt abyss]

👍

[neon bough]

aren't there animation assets? which you can just swap out for your current class?

i wouldn't clutter all the stuff with switch nodes

[surreal eagle]

That's what I'm explaining to this person

[surreal eagle]

I use only blend nodes in my abp

Cry

Also some graphs

[woven marlin]

why when i add a socket, it gets scaled so large?

and any static mesh gets scaled

[neon bough]

well what i meant is a collection of animations, not the usual animation sequences

ALS has one animation set

yes, but you still have the same running animation, regardless of it blending over a stance like handcuffed/rifle/whatever

[lyric cedar]

anyone know why my skysphere isn't lighting up my world?

i thought it was meant to do the job of the directional light?

[gloomy cosmos]

how do i make something switch between blueprints

[neon bough]

you would have to provide more context^^

[woven marlin]

anyone knows whats the issue here?

[gloomy cosmos]

so when i press t it changes blueprints

sO lets say when i press t it switchs from phys gun to a weapon (Pistol)

[gloomy cosmos]

is that enough

[neon bough]

well, it explains what you want to do, without knowing how your setup looks like

i think you should watch some tutorials about what you try to implement

[lyric cedar]

anyone know why this is happening?

every time I press play

these actors I have physics simulated on

it's like theres a small explosion on the bottom of them at the start of the game

no idea why

[neon bough]

they most likely are placed in something that they collide with on game start

try to move them a bit upwards, and see if it still happens

also downtown west assets are kinda awful 😄

[autumn flame]

Tables are totally in the ground a bit :p

[lyric cedar]

mad how you know what assets i'm using lol

[lyric cedar]

i think that's part of the issue although it might not be everything

[neon bough]

i spent hours reducing their poly count 😄

so i'll recognize them even in 10 years xD

[lyric cedar]

what were you doing that for?

[neon bough]

performance

i don't need planes with 100 vertices

[lyric cedar]

i've literally spent a week making a map with these assets lol glad to hear they're awful

[neon bough]

it's a hate love, i also like their overall visual quality

and you can improve performance within unreal quite a bit with LOD settings and mesh merging once you setup stuff the way you like it

[autumn flame]

Just wait for Nanite and go for 1 million polys a table

And use complex collisions for it

[lyric cedar]

half this discord is "wait for ue5" and then i use it and the other half is "don't use ue5 bro it's full of bugs rn" lol

[neon bough]

he said wait^^

[autumn flame]

It was a joke too :D

[shadow ravine]

I'm trying to get my pawn sensor to print strings when the player pawn enters and leaves the sensor. But I can only get it to print on entry, I'm using a validate on the sensor but this might be the wrong approach. Anyone got any ideas?

[autumn elbow]

OnEndOverlap ?

Are you using the AI Pawn Sense ?

[shadow ravine]

No idea, these are the only events I'm getting

[autumn elbow]

Try using a collision object rather than

[shadow ravine]

Okay I'll give that a try

[autumn elbow]

it's easier and faster

[drowsy snow]

@prime willow I might have the answer for that.

[shadow ravine]

I did have a Move To attached to my pawn sensor, I did have the pawn sensor "Pawn" output hooked up to it's Target Actor but now using the box collider I don't know what I can connect this to in order to get the character pawn.

[neon bough]

other actor

if you want to move to whatever your NPC collided with

however, be aware that using colliders as "sense" will let your NPC see through walls

so what you probably want to do, is add a line trace check in the collision event

[shadow ravine]

Thanks that's helped a lot, I'll look into seeing up the line trace for an AI, do you know of any good guides?

[neon bough]

you would just make a linetrace with start vector the NPC actor location, and end target the other actor location

then compare if the hit actor result from the linetrace is the same as your other actor

that's the basic version of it

the advanced version, will trace from the NPC eyes location 😛

however, i would just go with pawn sensing, it's in the engine for some reason

and the reason that there's no end event isn't a big deal imho, perception isn't instant actually there should be something like on target perception updated

the next thing you'll run into is that with colliders it also can see 360° which is (except for robots maybe) not what a player would expect

so you end up rebuilding the whole AI perception thing which the engine already has built in 😛

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/ArtificialIntelligence/AIPerception/

maybe you used the old component? IIRC there are two in the engine

[plush yew]

when exporting from 3dsmax i always get missing body and hair mats

im exporting baked vray materials

what could cause this

[dreamy wasp]

Hey man, you seem to be doing something that I am having an issue with.... receiving shadows.
How do you get the statue to be only half lit by the window?
My objects/actors all seem to take light from a source, but not cast a shadow on anything but themselves.

[plush yew]

@dreamy waspare you using raytraced shadows

or regular

make sure both your meshes and your light itself have it on, in details panel search raytrace for both

also if you're using a skylight play with the intensity

[dreamy wasp]

That front panel and the plane's nose should be blocking lots of light, but all the red areas are lit like they are by themselves.
The orange area should have a shadow from the seats, but it does not.

That front panel and the plane's nose should be blocking lots of light, but all the red areas are lit like they are by themselves.
The orange area should have a shadow from the seats, but it does not.

I am using spot lights

light this

[plush yew]

is this using raytracing

i will help you find a solution but i will need to know what youre using to render

is it lumen, raytracing, or default

[dreamy wasp]

default. ITs for VR

I was just trying to get the feeling to be better than the standard full ambient light

add some shadows and such. I looked at some tutorials on line, but they seem to have everything 'just work'.

I had the lights set to stationary, but then I got this warning about too many overlapping lights. I have 4 lights. So I switched to Static.

Light settings are pretty much the default. except I chaged Inderect lighting intesity to 0.5

[plush yew]

try checking if the window material or mesh is messing it up

[dreamy wasp]

yeah. I can't figure it out. I just brought in a standard cube, and it gets lit by the light, but casts no shadow, on anything but itself.

cast shadow is checked

is there a setting somewhere for 'recieve shadows'?

[keen bramble]

Any got to know where is the apply button after editing an animation in ue5

[glacial pecan]

Is there an update to 4.27 out? I can never understand how to update the engine in the launcher...

[plush yew]

There's a little plus button in the library screen for ue4 on epic games if you press it it will either add a new version of unreal depending on what you are on or if you already have it fully updated then it will add the version before that if you want to use a older version of unreal it's as simple as a click and install

[plush yew]

.

[glacial pecan]

Thanks... I had a small "i" icon next to that plus which said there was a new version of the engine out, and then when I clicked the + it only added 4.26 so that's why I was confused

[plush yew]

Your welcome and its okay it's just older versions depending on what you have, and since thus version only came out a couple weeks ago thats probably another reason

[plush yew]

hello do you know please how to remove the preview on the ground in momde play i can remove it in view port mode in show thank you.

[stray ruin]

if you mean the text build lighting

[red nebula]

hi there, i am still new to unreal and i wanted to make a sky with volumetric clouds. so i painted some clouds using material: M_VolumetricCloud_03_MultipleProfiles and when i opened up that material i had these settings to play with...

after i tweaked them it looked awesome and than unreal crashed lmao

so i tried to replicate the process but when i opened up the details for M_VolumetricCloud_03_MultipleProfiles the details were different

i am trying to fix it for like 2 days now

please help

i need the first details on M_VolumetricCloud_03_MultipleProfiles

[plush yew]

does Lumen allow for raytraced shadows and reflections yet

or is raytracing still broken in ue5

[plush yew]

it didnt work

i just see my characters head whenever i try to look down

[weary shell]

could you show your project Input setting and character BP?

[plush yew]

sure

[weary shell]

Try to add axis mapping for look up and down as attachment image. If it's not work, continue try to enable "Use pawn control rotation" of character's FollowCamera. I hope this help 🙂

[plush yew]

ill try

I'm making a devour style horror game, but I don't know how to do the monster's anger and decrease in health when the mouse is close, can anyone help?

it didnt work

who did you tell

[short mesa]

Is there a way to replace Actor's DefaultSceneRoot using blueprints? Basically to construct the entire actor via the construction script?

[naive burrow]

Hello, how do I set a game object's velocity using blueprints?

[regal totem]

heyyooo

[cyan bronze]

Why does the sword disappear for a frame or 2 sometimes

In the end of the attack

[azure topaz]

can someone help me,
i have to make a gate with sequence node,but i dont know how am i suppose to do it correctly

[cyan bronze]

It also disappears in the player mesh skeleton when previewing from some angles

[wet schooner]

Try making your materials two sided just to be sure that it isn't somehow

Sorry i can't offer much else

[true geode]

Is there by chance a max limitation on emissive objects in UE5?
I'm playing around with creating my own Sun and I didn't quite notice any change in light being casted onto my ground plane or map surfaces.
The light you currently see is just from the "DirectionalLight-test" however if disabled, it all goes dark.

I'm utilizing a sphere for the artificial sun.
Scale size: X: 36999999488.0 | Y: 36999999488.0 | Z: 36999999488.0
Also I have created my own material instance with this as well and tried to tinker around with the emissive options, basically setting it to the utmost max it would go, but still no effect onto my ground surfaces it appears

[thick herald]

Is there a reason you aren't using an actual directional light?

[true geode]

I really just wanted to create my own Solar system, starting with the sun, trying to scale everything down in inches.

Starting with the sun obviously 😛

I was hoping there would be some way which I could make the object so outrageously emissive that I could mimic the sun and its effects also within UE

The Sun sits at quite a distance from my starting demo arena, however even if i move it closer, I do not seem to see any lighting added from it

[exotic thicket]

iirc there was something about emissives that they don't really function in this way unfortunately

I was messing about with a spaceship thing at one point and ran into the same issue

[true geode]

drats

lol

[naive burrow]

Hello, how do I make an AddForce node that pushes an actor in the forward direction?

[shadow ravine]

I'm having an issue with my AI logic. I'm using a collision box to detect the player pawn overlap and basically I'm trying to allow my zombie character to play the scream animation when the player first enters the collision box. Otherwise just play the run animation. Which works fine but the issue is the Move To only works once, after the AI gets to the player it stops moving, but continues the animation. Anyone know how I can fix this so my AI continuously moves to the player if in the collision box (after int scream)? https://youtu.be/W-KJfDojCrM

[thick herald]

It's trying to get to the players exact location or within 5uu of it, which it can't do because the player is always there, hence it's always running.

Increase the acceptable radius

[shrewd moth]

Anybody know how to fix this… I reloaded my project and half of it is gone

[naive burrow]

Why won't this add the force in the same direction it's facing?

[thick herald]

Try add impulse instead 🙂

[naive burrow]

impulse?

nope it doesn't do it

[shadow ravine]

Okay that has helped with the camera bump and a nice space between them for attack animations so thanks for that. But it's still not a continuous run when player is in the collision area: https://youtu.be/5rFspGUti54

[naive burrow]

I could try using rays instead since im making a fire script ig

[thick herald]

I see a couple of things happening there. Let's move to #gameplay-ai

[shadow ravine]

Okay thanks

[true geode]

Needs more jedi power

[dense wren]

hi guys

im trynna make player walk backwards in a side scroller

[prime willow]

locomotion

[dense wren]

character looks at where the mouse is, (right or left side of screen) so if mouse is at right side of screen, and i walk left, then character will be walking backwards

[prime willow]

or 1d blend space

[dense wren]

already did that

i added a walk backwards anim

but it wont walk backwards

it just goes backwards with the walk forward anim

[prime willow]

ok

I noticed youve been asking this for days

and i may have an idea that works

youll need offset aiming animations

[dense wren]

yeah, i already managed to make playe3r look at mouse

[prime willow]

oh okie x3

[dense wren]

now i need to make it walk backwards

[prime willow]

well

[dense wren]

when mouse is in front of player

[prime willow]

is there an imput to walk backwards?

wait

you mean backwards like moon walk

or turn around and walk in reverse

facing the other way

[dense wren]

like moon walk

[prime willow]

oh

[dense wren]

but a backwards walk

not literally monnwalk haha

[prime willow]

xD

you could setup backwards on the control or keyword

[dense wren]

and i added the BWalk in the 1d blendspace

[prime willow]

with walking in verse

seperating it from the other blend space

o-o

so > does forward blend space

[dense wren]

i`v set a max of 400 for running speed and a minimun of -400

[prime willow]

and < does backwards blend space

[dense wren]

fir brun

for*

[prime willow]

you can even use root motion animations

to ensure you are forcefully walking bckwards

[dense wren]

mm i didnt check if root moition was enabled

lemmese

[prime willow]

root motion will force a direction so maybe thats what you need o-o

[dense wren]

yep it is enabled but still wont work

thing is

im in a side scroller

and the initial side scroller example

[prime willow]

o-o

[dense wren]

makes you turn around when walking backwards

[prime willow]

oh..

[dense wren]

so

maybe there is some box to tickle in order to make it work

but idk which

[prime willow]

hmm

ive only worked on third person

so i have no idea how to go from here

[dense wren]

so that it receives the 1d blendspace info of backward anim

well thank you any way

[prime willow]

i'm sorry ;-;

[cedar raft]

Good morning ! 👋

I have a problem with my 3D Widget. In fact when I put it in my actor and that I change its Draw Size by 1920x1080 everything goes well, the Interaction Widget detects the button well but when I change the size of the 3D Widget by 0.2, 0.2, 0.2 (1, 1, 1 at the beginning), my Interaction Widget no longer wants to detect the button, suddenly it no longer works ...
If someone has an idea ?

[dense wren]

mm

there is a thing in blueprints

when you scroll the screen away

mouse wont detect the node`s little circle to unite it to another

maybe tyou are makint it too small

to be detected

0.2 its far from 1

[cedar raft]

🤔

I'm gonna try something

[dense wren]

try 0.5 then 0.8 then 0.3

and check

[cedar raft]

Ok I try

At 0.3, it doesn't work anymore

but it's still too big 0.3

Ah

[dense wren]

maybe you can expand the panoramix view of your screen

and put the widget a 0.5

and make it look as if its smaller

[cedar raft]

finally it's not a scale problem but in fact, I put my 3D wIDGET in a static mesh and I don't know why, the interaction widget doesn't work when the button is in the static mesh

Ah but in fact I realized that it already shows me a Widget so the button does not work x)

[silver oar]

Hey guys, I'm trying to apply materials to my model, but I noticed these weird textures on both sides of the model

Is there a way to get rid of them?

Any help would be appreciated

[dense wren]

does the walk backwards has anything to do with this bp?

[cedar raft]

Maybe it's the light that has this effect, try to put your static mesh in the shade and see if it's the same ?

[dense wren]

i think you might have to go to blender, or

change the textures in the material

maybe its a "mirror effect texture" that reacts to light

[silver oar]

I've tried different materials and the weird spot is still there

I could post a screen shot from blender if you want though

Although there isn't anything odd with the subdivision

Oh also fyi, the material I'm using is part of the automotive texture pack from the store

[dense wren]

mm

can you take every texture out? so its completely gray?

in ue4

so check then if that still shows

[thick herald]

Is there more than one face under those faces?

[silver oar]

Like this?

And as far as the faces goes, there probably shouldn't be more

Strange, doesn't seem to show up in blender

[dense wren]

maybe because ue4 has a sun

try moving the sun

to see if the truck its affected by that

(i need help with this) im trying to make my side scroller player walk backwards
the player faces and follows the mouse
so if mouse its at right side of player, i i press A then i will still face right and walk left
but when i do that the walk forward animations triggers
not the backward animation that i already added in the 1d blendspace

[silver oar]

Sadly it's still here

[dense wren]

my recommendation would be to move on from that just for a while

and keep doing your project

and not get stuck

you can go back an try to change that later

[silver oar]

That's fair, I'm gonna see if the other parts are like this too

I've lowered the subdivision down to 4

But I don't really see anything that's off in this

Yea when I imported the model from blender to ue4 at first it was on a lower subdiv count

But I thought it didn't look very good because of how blocky everything was

I will try importing it again

What subdiv count do you recommend?

Can't seem to find the check box for remove degenerates

[prime willow]

i know this might sound silly

but i want to start making my own animations for my games models

[thick herald]

flubb daa weeet shooosh]

[prime willow]

nuu shhh xD

though i agree

that is silly

but i guess my question is idk where or how to start x-x

[silver oar]

Oh haha silly me

[prime willow]

do i just export my model

and start using blender

than reimport him x-x

[thick herald]

sure that can work if you know how to set up rigging etc

[prime willow]

well my model is already rigged i think and in engine i can move with him and everything o-o

do i need to re rig him in blender?

[thick herald]

Try it and see? Cascadeur is a cool bit of animation software. Might not be to your taste but it's something to look into.

[prime willow]

o.o

what if i have morphs per say

would that possibly mess everything up?

[thick herald]

There is also this addon for Blender https://www.blendernation.com/2021/09/05/free-download-advanced-rigging-for-any-armature/

[prime willow]

o-o

oh i get it

you have to rig them again after exporting

makes sense

ok thanksies

wait wait

if i use a low L0d for the model can i still use those animations on my model with higher l0ds?

[dense wren]

anyone tried core?

[narrow mauve]

My notes when trying different phase methods cuz ya

[silver oar]

@plush yew It didn't change much but I did get an error log

[cedar raft]

Good morning ! When I press a button to spawn an actor (inside there is a widget), the widget doesn't work. Except if I drag the actor into the world and run, the widget works. How to solve the problem

[teal tulip]

Does someone knows what are this noises at lightmap density preview ?

[teal tulip]

Turns out its due the instanced stereo due a bug in the engine

[regal totem]

hey i have a question

idk how to explain

but i want a a texture on a plane that changes depending from the angle the player looks

https://youtu.be/oIzWDZt3Mi8?t=143

this is what i mean

[teal tulip]

you actually want a rendering texture aligned to the screen

it don't change with the actor

[regal totem]

kinda yeah i don't know how to explain sorry

i want what you see in the video

but i have no idea how to search it up on youtube

[teal tulip]

screen space aligned material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRQGLKa_hQQ&ab_channel=WataruIkeda

[regal totem]

yes

thank you so much

i had no idea how is it called

[teal tulip]

also just a coincidence for you @regal totem https://twitter.com/JKashaar/status/1047979071609757702

Jan Kaluza (@JKashaar)

Freebie: Object-stabilized screen-space UVs. Probably useful for VFX, I don't know! :D

With a hat tip to @Ed_dV who made the same thing for Unity, here's an @UnrealEngine version.

Material graph in the replies!

#realtimevfx #gamedev #gameart https://t.co/aWrnRnoeCN

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[regal totem]

omg thank you so so much

[crisp summit]

I created a test lake. Everything physical like cubes etc submerged but the character walks on top of the water. How can I fix that?

[dense wren]

guys

how do i walk backwards in my sid scroller

my player points at the direction the mouse is, wether left or right

so if mouse is in right side of character, then A is backward

thing is, i added a backward anim to the 1d blendspace

but when i press A the forward walk anim triggers

not the wbakcwards

[blazing violet]

guys, i need advise. Im working on dungeon crawler and im wondering if i should make it in first person or third person. suggestions.

[timber tulip]

Hey all! I have a question. Unreal tells me it needs to recompile my project but it gives an error that Windows SDK is not installed. But it is installed 😄 Anyone had this problem before?

[blazing violet]

i had

i installed wrong SDK

[timber tulip]

Hm. Maybe I installed the wrong one too? ._.

Which one is the proper one that's the true question 😄

[blazing violet]

had the same question, which is why i decidedto google how to setup visual studio for unreal engine

[buoyant isle]

Hey I'm in need to use data table for my project to handle items, but I'm using for exemple an actor for a magazine, but obviously you got like 3 times the same magazine so, same actor,same mesh but how to store different data and assign specific data to each type of the same actor

[runic fern]

Hello guys my engine crashes without any error

[2021.09.05-18.03.03:446][824]LogOutputDevice: Warning: 

Script Stack (0 frames):

i found this in log

but nothing else im using Playfab for login when i login for first time its working normally but when i close try to login again it is crashing when i press the "login" button

[static crystal]

What save game extension/method are people using? I'm using the free Save Extension right now but it doesn't load my actors on the right position. So does anybody know a good free alternative?

[lucid beacon]

Make your own

use the SaveGame blueprint classes

Can somone help me? I have a character with animations, but I want to change the mesh without redoing all of the animations, is this possible?

[autumn flame]

Retargeting

[lucid beacon]

This doesnt work

or I am doing it wrong

how can I correctly retarget?

[autumn flame]

Look up a tutorial, not the easiest thing to explain, but you gotta say to it that this bone matches this other if you have different skeletons

This is assuming they have similar skeletons if not almost the exact same layout

[static crystal]

Thanks @lucid beacon Will give that a try.

[lucid beacon]

I am changing it from the normal UE4 Mannaquin to the adventure character

[lucid beacon]

no problem :) hope I could help

[copper linden]

I'm also making my own. I think it's highly suggested commonly!

---

So.. for some weird ass reason.. I have duplicates of like.. very big assembles of meshes in my project inside my map.
Do you guys know of any way to handle that?
Other than just going through and like.. manually checking and deleting as I go?

[surreal eagle]

Why not both

[surreal eagle]

Hold Ctrl and click to select multiple objects at once

[faint venture]

is there a support channel? i cant see to find it but if there is one i'll post my need for help there lol

[copper linden]

While I thank you for pitching in I'm not sure how that solves anything? It's completely random if it grabs a duplicate or not because they occupy the same space. And not all of them are duplicates.

[faint venture]

everytime i launch any ue4 game, i get this

[lucid beacon]

I did it and it said it failed to merge skeletons

[naive burrow]

Why won't this make the sphere go into the direction I'm facing?

[lucid beacon]

we cant see the rest

[naive burrow]

This is the whole blueprint

[lucid beacon]

not sure

How can I use animations on a different character?

Without redoing animbp

[faint venture]

is this the wrong server for help ABOUT ue4 games?

[lucid beacon]

no?

[faint venture]

oh lol i just see a lot of people talking about ue4 software, so i just didnt know where i was meant to ask for help

[naive burrow]

ok think i know a fix for my problem

[faint venture]

anyone have any clues on how to fix this then? literally happens every time i try to run a ue4 game

[naive burrow]

nvm

[plush yew]

do you know how to reset by defaults thank you

^^

[vapid mica]

any suggestions would be appreciate it

[lucid beacon]

Hey! How can I get this to work? When I change my mesh it wont use the anims, even when changing the bp

It works in the 2nd photo but not the 1st

I already retargeted

[lucid beacon]

please give a brief explanation.

reset what by default?

[plush yew]

tks its ok now

so now i have problem for the wall

need colision but ?

how do i do it?

[naive burrow]

Any way to change UE5's transform axises to something normal?

I'm getting bugged to hell and beyond that the z axis in UE5 is the height

[plush yew]

its ok lol so only question please

can copy paste the collision boxes or force to create each time once?

[light crag]

while importing file.uasset file the engine is failed with an error saying file.uasset is too old

the .uasset was created by an old version of the engine or mine is corrupted?

[plush yew]

why can't i import a simple door someone can help me thanks?

[light crag]

in what format your door asset?

[plush yew]

fbx?

look this bro

^^

[light crag]

ok it is an .fbx file

[plush yew]

yes

[light crag]

what is the error in the engine?

[plush yew]

this is blue no is red for

phisik?

color down?

[light crag]

you need to import it as skeletal mesh and then set the textures and then create a static mesh from it and use anywhere you want

[plush yew]

also complicate?

not just take the asset and move it only

[light crag]

I don't see any texture for your materials

[plush yew]

that's why if i want to import just the material please

this is the file

bro

[light crag]

let me check it

[plush yew]

sur

^^

so µ?

bro

[naive burrow]

btw opinions on this?

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, I have a button in my widget. What is the best way to make the player click it for example 5 times before it actually does something. Do I make a variable and count how many times he pressed it? or is there a node that sends output only after 5 inputs?

[plush yew]

tks bro

[buoyant isle]

Hey, I just saw that data tables are read only ? is it true ? ^^

[plush yew]

no its ok the camera

is front

this is probléme

XDDDDDDDD

[light crag]

explain your problem

[plush yew]

#ue5-general to this message you will get better info on ue5 in there also ue5 is still being developed so bugs will be everywhere its best to just use ue4 untill ue5 is fully out unless you dont mind the bugs that have no real fix. late reply but i saw no one replied so

[light crag]

test it

[plush yew]

this is just your uvs also you will need to add a opaque or whatever its called if you want that background to go away, its best to use a cylinder not a cube for it as well

[light crag]

man this is not mine, I am trying to help T-800

[plush yew]

just that I had not seen that the pivot was not placed above smdr on the other hand
if you can explain to me how to animate this pretty door that would be cool sltp lol

[light crag]

I can create a vid turorial for you

[haughty bear]

Looks like there's no freebies this month?

[light crag]

you have blender intalled?

[plush yew]

yes

why?

[light crag]

you need to animate the door in blender and create animation

[plush yew]

no

animate

for

only unreal

[light crag]

then you create the fbx file in blender and import into ue4

[plush yew]

BP?

maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3zh3P520-c

this?

[light crag]

yes as you want

[plush yew]

cool

[light crag]

you can also use blender for more powerful results

[plush yew]

but

told me to animate with unreal not with blender

[light crag]

unreal is not perfect for creating animations

[plush yew]

whut

why

[light crag]

do it in blender and import in unreal

[plush yew]

why did he tell me that it is better to go?

[light crag]

ask him lol

[torpid stone]

is there a drawback in using DLSS? it's so great for frame rate

aside from AMD compatibility

[plush yew]

good ok let's admit that I succeeded in importing the door I have to annimate it on blender and after that I do what for what function on unreal?

so i need probléme please bro

the door when I open it it turns on itself instead of turning in mode
normal do you see what I'm talking about?

please bro

no is possible stream?

[naive burrow]

With bugger I meant annoyed, I’m not experiencing any issues with ue5 that isn’t just ue in a general

[plush yew]

@light crag

i have animation door now

in unreal ^^

[nova portal]

Does anyone here have any experience with freezing time using time dilation. It kinda does the job for me, except that if I touch any physics objects, they will be sent flying after unfreezing time.

My freezing time is basically setting time dilation to 0.0001 and changing the custom time dilation on my character so I can move around.

Does anyone have any ideas how I could fix this issue? Or an alternative way to freeze time and allow me to move around?

[plush yew]

Hey I have a question, so is it possible to change the default sedan vehicle to another model that you made/bought ?

[plush yew]

oh okay ha man your lucky when i used ue5 i ran into bug after bug

[sterile pumice]

Anyone ever have an issue where your project uses the incorrect GameInstance when packaged but works fine in editor and standalone?

[dense wren]

hey guys

how do i walk forward in a 2d side scroller

my player points towards the position of the mouse in thscreen

so if mouse is at right side of player

then A its backward

but when i press A, the walk forward ani triggers

and goes backwards while playing forward anim

i added backward anim in the 1d blendspace already

[sterile pumice]

No idea, I've only ever used UE for 3D projects

[dense wren]

yeah me too, and i did set many blendspaces

but i cant get this to work

[clear light]

Are you using axis input for movement

Or key input

[dense wren]

mm

what do you mean

i got the default movement bp

for sidescroller

which its this

[clear light]

Axis returns 1,0 or -1 dependimg if your pressing A or D

[sterile pumice]

so Axis

[dense wren]

yea

that