ue4-general

[vapid karma]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-19230222

somebody

[lyric cedar]

does anyone know the difference between merge actors and merge and simplify actors?

these two is what i mean

[vapid karma]

https://tenor.com/view/404soob-gif-22972808

[static crystal]

Hello people. I've created a game and need alpha testers. Is it allowed to advertise your game on this discord? And if so/or not so, where could I find alpha testers

[fierce tulip]

its a form of recruitment, so you can use the job section for that if you want.
read the #instructions if you wanna know how.
Though since you are mainly asking fellow devs I cant guarantee that people will respond to that as they got their own games to worry about. but who knows :)

[static crystal]

Ahh alright, thanks a lot!

I understand. I'll try a different channel.

[steady owl]

Not in 4.27 unfortunately but I'll be trying one last time soon to see if I'm missing something

[fluid lance]

I've noticed the engine crashes when debugging blueprints with breakpoints. As far as I could see, it crashes when reaching points where struct variables are passed by ref. Anyone else encountered this/knows about it? (4.26.2)

[plush yew]

does anyone know how to cast to something when you dont know what to cast to? Like say youre clicking on a tree, or a rock or whatever

Click on rock, get hit result, its a rock yay, cast to? tree? bush? pawn? rock yay

[lethal bison]

use blueprint interfaces instead. So if you have a function definition then do something or return some value.

[clear light]

interfaces or tags are a great solution

[lethal bison]

tags can be a little hard to track in some cases afik

[plush yew]

I kinda know how interfaces work but theyr just functions right? Does it carry variables too?

[lethal bison]

no but any data can be sent via those functions. If you want a set of variables in a lot of classes you wanna make a component in your class with those values.

Like health and stamina for player as well as enemies with its definitions for damage.

[thick herald]

This might help explain interfaces a bit https://youtu.be/qLpjGxyfZLg

[vapid karma]

where to learn how to develop strategy game ?

[lone rune]

hi, im new to eu4 and i am trying to create a character but im struggling to import it on eu4 like the textures doesnt come with it

[thick herald]

Check out Ryans tutorials. Might help. https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanLaley/playlists

[gleaming gyro]

Very strange issue: I join a match, then go back to main menu (which is client only, not on server), and then I can not go back into the match with openLevel
PreLogin is not ran either, when I try to run OpenLevel again...
is there some auth functions that run before PreLogin?

from this I derived that the client must be denied access in step 2, before prelogin is called, but it works first time connecting

[fierce tulip]

@thick herald i removed the embed because discord link.

link to it is still there though :)

[thick herald]

ah. oopsies

[plush yew]

Yea I figured it out

but the variables arent shared with their child actors

even tho the name is taken?

[plush yew]

why does this happen lol it was fine before

[plush yew]

Anyone know why 1 of my monitors isnt blending colors properly? I tried updating everything

[surreal tundra]

hey all, im trying to import a groom that is 600 mb large because of amounts of hair and details, the import has been stuck for a very long time and not moving. is this too much hair to import you think for a groom?

[stiff bane]

idk what the exact problem is but if its the clipping you just need to change the near clip plane i think

[stiff bane]

if its only on that monitor and everywhere else its fine its not a unreal engine problem so you should not ask that here

[stiff bane]

maybe ye, just let it go it can take very very long, if you get really sick of it kill ue in task manager and reduce the groom quality

[plush yew]

this is only a problem in unreal engine though

[stiff bane]

ye but still if it only happens on that monitor its not a ue problem

[plush yew]

facepalm ok

[dense knoll]

anyone know the cause of this error? Happens consistnatly when i leave the editor open for more than 3 minutes with particles running

[limber pebble]

Why can't my character pass through this asset? I'm new so I don't know many things about ue4 (The Ball is supposed to pass through the tunnel)

[fierce tulip]

you arent even showing any attempt of getting into the tunnel in that video <_<
and its probably the collision of the tube mesh you'll need to inspect.

[midnight dawn]

hey, can i ask some newbie questions ?

like how to get input from keyboard... im a fast learner

[limber pebble]

you mean like, when you press W you go forward

[midnight dawn]

yeah. i searched the input word or keyboard word into the bp but didnt find it

[midnight dawn]

and a utility bellow them

[limber pebble]

Did you already make axis mappings

[midnight dawn]

aside from axis though

i'm looking for raw input checking

it's easy with c++ but with bp i cant find it

[limber pebble]

Sry Then I wont know how to help

[midnight dawn]

thanks for the attention anyway

[limber pebble]

np, you can report your question if you want so people can see it

repost*

[midnight dawn]

okay, so
** anyone know how to get raw key input in BP?**

found it myself :D it was in
Input>KeyboardEvents>[KeyName]

[limber pebble]

congrats

[limber pebble]

Do you mean this? I've literally tried everyone option.

[plush yew]

Turns out my posterize effect was just enabled still and forgot

but still had monitor profile issues

[vivid ginkgo]

Guys, how do I save the changes i make in the BaseEngine.ini (in a source build)?

[plush yew]

right click solution and rebuild

[vivid ginkgo]

if i changed this, should i rebuild selecting DevelopmentEditor or DevelopmentServer?

And you mean i should right click where it says Solution 'MultiplayerGame' or UE5?

[wicked sparrow]

Is the list provided after this popup a list of items that didn't transfer successfully? It doesn't seem to indicate which ones failed?

They all look like this 1402 entries

[vivid ginkgo]

@plush yew

[plush yew]

i somebody use obs i need help tks

[plush yew]

Top of the branch or whatever, the Solution file, first thing that expands everything

I mean you could try rebuilding just the INI file but i dont know how well that works lol

[vivid ginkgo]

Ok, and do i chose development server or editor, since i changed the tickrate?

[plush yew]

Where are you given these 2 options

[vivid ginkgo]

Shouldn't i chose something here? i mean, i'm new to building from source and saw that u have to do this, idk

[plush yew]

Ask here #cpp

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DevelopmentSetup/BuildingUnrealEngine/

says use development editor

but that could just be the intial

How I do that @stiff bane ?

[ivory willow]

Hello folks! I need some quick help if anyone is able to provide it haha. I have weapon assets from the unity store i am trying to move over. They are PBR. just need to know the proper material set up (from unity)

I assume normal and ao are just rgb to respective slots?

[plush yew]

yep

[ivory willow]

what about the other two?

[plush yew]

I think albedo=spec and the smoothness=roughness

[ivory willow]

gotcha. thank you very much

what channels though?

[fierce tulip]

albedo = base

[plush yew]

Idrk what albedo is but that looks like your bmp

ya i guess so

[ivory willow]

so for the first one - rgb to base color
what about transparency?

For the second - Which channels to metallic and roughness?

[plush yew]

is it a png

you can stick the alpha in opacity from your base

maybe? or your base depends on your file type

[ivory willow]

yes. .png

[plush yew]

I could check to be sure

[ivory willow]

what do you need?

[plush yew]

if you open up the texture for your base

uncheck the channels to check if it has an alpha

if not just plug in the rgb

[stiff bane]

in the project settings

[ivory willow]

just plain white. is it possible it got yeeted in the import?

[plush yew]

Umm its possible you didnt include the transparency/alpha

I just use photoshop

[ivory willow]

can i send you the original real quick for you to look at?

[plush yew]

i guess i can do it really quickly and you can fix it yourself

shoot me a dm

Thanks @stiff bane

[stiff bane]

yw

[midnight dawn]

hey. another newbie question ... How can i set a custom camera instead of the default one as DEFAULT?

[neon bough]

set view target with blend

[radiant surge]

could someone help me out, I have multiple trigger volumes but rather than adding blueprint for each volume, is it possible to make an array of all trigger volumes and incorporate into 1 event? This is what I have and it works just fine but I really dont think it is very efficient to duplicate this for every volume. Any help is appreciated

[shut burrow]

Keep me posted bro and let me know if there's anything I can do!

[old kite]

i wanna learn how to dynamically animate a single object in ue4 but cant seem to find any tutorials. i have a skeleton mesh rigged imported into unreal and can grab the joints and move them in the editor, but i would like to blueprint or code the rotations of those joints so its like a wiggling worm for example. can someone point me in the right direction or terminology?

[autumn torrent]

Does anyone know how to check if an actor is overlapping a specific box collision?

[twilit gate]

hi there
is there a way to add an unreal project manually to the epic launcher? starting the project from engine doesnt seem to work

[fierce tulip]

generally if you run the uproject it appears in the launcher

[autumn torrent]

that's what happened for me.

[stiff bane]

can someone explain me what the 'Editor Symbols For Debugging' is?

its so huge and i cant really find out what is does

[sly vine]

hey guys i need help with the cinematic no one there even answer my question probobly they ignore

this is my sweet problem #cinematics message

[stiff bane]

right i see idk if its worth the 32gb tho 😄

[untold coyote]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but i figure it can't hurt to start here:

I'm looking to implement a prying gameplay mechanic, where the player uses their weapon to pry things off the walls or floor to do things like open doors or expose hidden stuff.

Offhand I have a vague idea of how to explore doing this, but I'm still new to UE and don't know if there's a standard / simple way to implement something like this. Some key things I'm wondering about at the outset:

1. How to make both the actor and their weapon snap/move to an appropriate spot for the actor's prying animation.
2. Is the naive implementation of having a separate static mesh for the pried object that switches between being physics driven the best way to go, or would it be somehow better to try something like spawning the pried object, having an explicit animation for the object, etc.?
3. Access to whatever's behind it: is it sufficient to just have it blocked by the pried object with a collider?

[stiff bane]

i see thanks

[echo juniper]

Hello ! I am trying to get the Unix timestamp also known as POSIX time or epoch time into unreal. I know RAMA made a plugin but its impossible to compile a project with it; so i need to make a function in visual stuio but I dont understand at all. In the .h I have this : // Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Kismet/BlueprintFunctionLibrary.h"
#include "GetUnixTime.generated.h"

/**
*
*/
UCLASS()
class SMARTHOUSEVIVARIUM_API UGetUnixTime : public UBlueprintFunctionLibrary
{
GENERATED_BODY()
UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable,Category="CustomTime")
static FDateTime FromUnixTimestamp
(
int64 UnixTime
)
};

in the .cpp I have this

// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.

#include "GetUnixTime.h"

[twilit gate]

doesnt do that with ue5 on my system

[grave pollen]

is there a way to aim niagara particles at a location /actor that moves?

or perhaps rotate the socket it comes out of in real time?

[autumn torrent]

anyone?

[broken heath]

Hmm print string on actor overlap wont work?

[jaunty matrix]

anyone here know anything about making camera mods? ive been trying to use a custom camera for the bandai namco game "little nightmares 2" but no matter what i try for the player controller the camera just doesnt activate. Any ideas?

[plush yew]

Can someone explain why it stops after the trace hits something?

After the branch

I meam theres nothing after the branch, but its a tick so shoudnt it keep going?

[cinder lotus]

Anyone able to give me a hand? I've been following a tutorial. game was working perfect, then i followed 2 episodes purely on ai, setting up a behavious tree and tasks. when i went to test it, broken. i'm getting "Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CameraPawnRef". Blueprint: CameraPawnController Function: Movement Speed Calculation Graph: MovementSpeedCalculation Node: Return Node"
the screenshot shows its not getting player pawn (prints not working everytime nomatter what i change haha) but for the life of me i dont know why because it was getting it fine an hour ago and i dont think i touched anything related, ive tried everything i can think of but im pretty new and would really appreciate help

[plush yew]

good evening I would like to know if you please to be able to create a water fountain for office must create a water cartridge next to it and I add it on unreal or I can take everything directly on unreal and with the texture I but for the machine and for the water cartridge I would like two things to make small bubbles when the player serves water and at the same time a water effect inside thank you I hope to have been clear thank you ^^

@plush yewhm but it should keep going if it cant spawn another one right?

why does it stop then when it hits something?

[somber stump]

Please, someone, does anyone know what this error is? It happens everytime I close UE4.27 after a simple VR test session.

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff

D3D12Core
D3D12Core
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
D3D12Core
D3D12
D3D12Core
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_D3D12RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll

[plush yew]

@plush yewI found the problem, just not sure why it happens

[fierce tulip]

that is a very generic error that doesnt give us any info unless you install the debug symbols.

[plush yew]

it breaks when the trace hits itself

or not

[somber stump]

@fierce tulip Very reasonable, what's debug symbols? I'll get it then post again when it happens later

[fierce tulip]

you'll need to add them to the engine by clicking the down-arrow next to engine version and selecting it. (its a BIG file)
if you do, please put the log into pastebin.com which is easier to read.

[obsidian nimbus]

my guess its a null pointer

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas is it possible to use procedural foliage tool with some sort of custom splines or something like that?

[plush yew]

so nobody its possible help me?

tks @fierce tulip

its very easy

[fierce tulip]

there is no real simple answer.
fountains are hard, you could bake a simulation (and optional) run it trough niagara, or fake it with meshes and panning textures, etc.
the cartridge could be the same thing, but it all depends on a lot of variables and there is no clear way of answering it.

[plush yew]

............

https://tenor.com/view/palla-deserto-desert-hot-gif-6014273

tks

[fierce tulip]

years of love and pain :p

check the pinned messages for getting started stuff :)

and above all, have fun

could be worse, it could be ArnoldC XD
https://esolangs.org/wiki/ArnoldC (better link)

[pale ferry]

So I hope this is the right channel
I've got some trouble using AO in my material, it just doesn't take affect on the material and I'm wondering what set up I've missed
This is what it looks like in Substance Painter

This is unreal engine

AO

[fierce tulip]

#graphics wouldve been the right channel
and without a roughness map yea... it wont look good

and AO kiiinda doesnt do too much on its own

itll depend on the lighting on it, and only does minimal good, and is only affected by static lighting.
basically kinda useless imho.

[pale ferry]

but it still looks different to the same texture in substance painter

[fierce tulip]

get a roughness map :)

[pale ferry]

I did, the difference aint that much tbh
so it seems as if i need to do changes on my light source?
or enable ao in post processing?

[fierce tulip]

if your normal map is correct, along with your roughness, and albedo it should be fine.
(be sure the textures are 8bit)

[pale ferry]

@fierce tulip thanks for your help

[fierce tulip]

but yea, enabling AO in PP wont hurt to try

[pale ferry]

alright

[fierce tulip]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/PostProcessEffects/AmbientOcclusion/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LightingAndShadows/DistanceFieldAmbientOcclusion/

[azure nimbus]

Anyone know why sometimes your plugins are built they generate -#### versions.

[pale ferry]

I dont know how or why but I exported to targe (*.png before) and it works now

nevermind, i set up the scene from new and the angle of the mesh is what it made AO
so after all it's the Light Source

[fierce tulip]

some people multiply a low value of AO texture with their albedo, but then its not really pbr anymore.
i'd wait and see how it all looks once you got a decent scene all set up, can always opt to do it if you feel like "artistically expressing yourself" hehe

[autumn torrent]

I’m trying to make a blueprint that when someone presses the f key, it checks if they’re overlapping a specific box collision and spawns a particle effect. I feel like it should be really easy but i can’t figure it out.

[fierce tulip]

there are some, but they tend to be a bit afk-ey hehe

hugs kittah

[wet schooner]

you could alternatively also try sending them a email

[fierce tulip]

maybe @wicked tiger can give some advice, or at least a good contact :)

she's always helpful

[plush yew]

what the heck are you talking about

[autumn torrent]

Epic Games staff

[flint dagger]

Nevermind, friends.

[autumn torrent]

can anyone help with this?

[wet schooner]

try #blueprint

Could enable and disable a bool tied to a box collision pretty easily or do it purely input based depending on your needs

all kinds of ways to do it

[autumn torrent]

i need it to run a check though, is "character" overlapping "box collision"

[cinder lotus]

Anyone here able to help a noob with basics? I'm halfway through a tutorial and suddenly all my cast to blueprints won't work. I've tried everything but for the life of me can't fix it. On the verge of giving up.

I think it won't recognize the player pawn. But I've been going in circles for hours I have no idea :(

[wet schooner]

that's why you set a bool tied to entering a collision zone and disable it when you leave the collision zone

but that's just one way of doing it

this isn't the right channel to talk about i'm afraid

[winter gate]

Why do I keep seeing this warning message? The material works on my screen but the console is yelling at me...

LogStaticMesh: Warning: Invalid material relevance for Nanite static mesh [SM_Linear_Stair_nanite] - forcing default material instead.

[mild ruin]

How to turn landscape into mesh

[fierce tulip]

generally means that there is something in that material that isnt supported by nanite @winter gate

also #nanite

[plush yew]

hi somebody use Pr? tks

[winter gate]

hmmm strange, its not a translucent material and it renders perfectly fine in PIE

[mild ruin]

Thank you

[shadow ravine]

Anyone know how I can put my variable into a folder in my BPs

[median wigeon]

Hmm… what’s unreal engine and how do I install it?

[fierce tulip]

slaps @median wigeon

[trim pike]

hello

my directional light keeps getting locked when it becomes aligned with the positive and negative z axis when i rotate it using ctrl l

how can i stop this?

[rancid lagoon]

i have a bunch of city maps and i want my game to come with 2, but if the player wants more places, how can they download the other maps seamlessly into the game?

[kindred viper]

@rancid lagoon https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/AssetManagement/

you can load from disk, scroll down a little here and it gives an example

[pastel ginkgo]

How do I light my scene with just an HDRI backdrop in UE5? The floor is black. Not getting light from the hdri

[idle stump]

Add a SkyLight.

[pastel ginkgo]

HDRI backdrop has a skylight within it.

[idle stump]

Fill out the cubemap, maybe? I haven't used it that way though

[pastel ginkgo]

So weird. When I use a regular skylight it works. As soon as I turn on the HDRI backdrop the floor turns black again.

[dense wren]

hi guys

im having that after mergint a pack into my project

inventory system

how can i fix it

[flint dagger]

DId you maybe setup the project as a mobile first, scalable 2d/3d project?

[rancid lagoon]

thanks

[kindred viper]

no worries

[pastel ginkgo]

No, blank normal project.

[flint dagger]

Oh, then I'm unsure as to why turning on HDRI backdrop, which should actually just be on would enable that for you.

[pastel ginkgo]

Yeah in UE4 it works as intended. Must be a UE5 thing.

[flint dagger]

might be!

[pastel ginkgo]

Anyone have a tip on how to place an HDRI environment into the scene besides "HDRI backdrop"?

[untold coyote]

I hope waiting several hours is enough to not count as spamming. 😅 I'm looking to implement a prying gameplay mechanic, where the player uses their weapon to pry things off the walls or floor to do things like open doors or expose hidden stuff. I'm still new to UE and I have a vague idea of how to start figuring it out, but don't know if there's a standard / simple way to implement something like this.

[pastel ginkgo]

Wonder if there's a workaround

It would be nice to use lumen. Regular skylight works. So I can use that to light the scene. Do you know another way to get the backdrop up?

[astral rapids]

the red diner and its associated objects arent casting shadows upon building lighting. "cast shadows" is checked. could someone help me out?

[merry oar]

hopefully this is the right place. All of a sudden, when trying to open my project, it tells me that I have corrupted data. Looking at the logs for trying to open it up, it brings up a bunch of these types of errors: LogLinker: Warning: The file 'Content/_Main/Characters/Animations/Jump_From_Stand_land.uasset' contains unrecognizable data, check that it is of the expected type.
If I remove one of the uasset files it complains about, the project loads, but a bunch of the other uassets seems to be corrupted. Not sure if there are other things in my project that may be corrupted.
Am I screwed here, or is there something I can do to try and recover?

[wet schooner]

check out lightmaps maybe, i can't really help but that may be interesting to you

[tender granite]

Anyone with knowledge of the water plugin had this problem with the river brush? It works fine most of the time but this happens in some areas.

[cloud stone]

What kinda tools does Unreal provide for 2D games? Are these tools being worked on and improved?

[rancid lagoon]

they have a side scoller template that is 2d or another that is 3d

[autumn torrent]

They’re yours. Do anything you want.

[arctic flame]

I have a camera set up like this:

        Camera / \
                |
                |
                | SpringArm
                |
                |
Player----------x----------Enemy

the problem is that when there's an obstacle between the player and the enemy, the camera would get stuck inside the obstacle.
(i.e whenever the x in the diagram is inside a wall or car or something)
Is it possible to have a SpringArm attached to another SpringArm to solve this problem?
If it's possible, I'm not really sure how to set the position of x since usually the Camera position is just controlled by the PlayerController's ControlRotation.

[pastel ginkgo]

For anyone else wondering. I found a workaround by disabling "Affect Distance Field Lighting" under the HDRI backdrop mesh.

[crisp spade]

I have just installed UE4 and it crashed right after I started it. I checked my computer configuration and nothing wrong. How can I fix this problem?

[vocal flume]

Hey Guys! Just wondering how you manage your code bases.. I’m developing for iOS and android and it’s exhausting to maintain two code bases and make the same update twice for each change.

[rancid lagoon]

it happended to me. Just unistall it. delete chache files and all then re install

[crisp spade]

Thanks for solution. I did it without deleting cache files. I'll try it once more time 👍

[rancid lagoon]

you should delte the chache. if there is a problem it will be in there

[spiral shoal]

anyone have idea why i lost pose after i retarget skeleton?

it is so strange, some of them are ok, but rest of them became T pose after I retarget skeleton or save my project

[pliant junco]

water body ocean not working

nvm it worked

[pastel ginkgo]

Any tip on how to make a rocky ground that extends into the horizon like this but with a rocky texture?

New to this. Still learning

[primal tendon]

You mean basic? Like applying the style to that land?

If you have already applied the styles. Tile sizing, lighting, normal strength needs to be adjusted to make it similar on a large size of land like that

[pastel ginkgo]

I did try this. The tiling was obvious. Is there a way around that?

[plush yew]

how do i go about making an emmisive material turn ON on a radio BP that i made when it switches on? im very new to ue4

im using a tracer with E button to turn on radio and make it play a song 😅

my question is prolly too noob and not worth an answer lmao

[crisp spade]

It worked. However, this time UE4 is crashed with another issue 😅 Should I try to uninstall and reinstall again?
Update: My bad, It seem like the same problem but another code

LoginId:e1c04d4a4469062f47d4cda709a12c10
EpicAccountId:a008937a3e384f2c8a23a5e507c549d6

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000023200000002

[plush yew]

LogInit: Display: LogUObjectBase: Warning: Error: CDO Constructor (ArtemisGameMode): Failed to find /Game/ThirdPersonCPP/Blueprints/ThirdPersonCharacter.ThirdPersonCharacter_C

please ??

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/516376/cdo-constructor-gamegamemode-failed-to-find-third.html

no work

for some reason my textures still dont load fully when complied with android vulkan or es 3 it only loads half but the textures are for mobile anyone know why?

hummmmm

[bronze vault]

Look into Dynamic Material Instance, you will have to know how to set up a material. But once you get your material set up it should be ez. https://youtu.be/IVKVXjaT6QM

[vernal summit]

hi guys i just downloaded UE 4.27 and I am starting a new project in VR. how can I get the hands mesh from previous version?

[plush yew]

LogInit: Display: LogUObjectBase: Warning: Error: CDO Constructor (ArtemisGameMode): Failed to find /Game/ThirdPersonCPP/Blueprints/ThirdPersonCharacter.ThirdPersonCharacter_C
[09:14]
please ??
[09:14]
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/516376/cdo-constructor-gamegamemode-failed-to-find-third.html
[09:14]
no work

THANKS

[plush yew]

thank you!

[plush yew]

it worked! 😅... but i didnt follow tutorial. instead, found workaround

[bronze vault]

Haha, awesome! Look good!

[bronze vault]

Did you just do a material swap?

[plush yew]

yeah

well thing is, i want to uh 'compile' this for vr, but not sure if this swap will work

[bronze vault]

I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I have been wrong before 🙂

[plush yew]

i have an issue now, the material state starts as "turned on", ... not sure how to start it as off 🤔

oh nvm fixed xD

[clever crest]

Hello guys! I'm trying to package a project and still have access to sequencer features in the packaged project meaning I would like to render movies from the packaged product and not from the engine. Any idea if that is doable and how?

[regal mulch]

Hm, not sure but I kinda doubt. The Sequencer stuff is probably an Editor Module or at least requires one. And Editor Modules won't package with non-editor targets.

[low mica]

I cant seem to cook content for windows and I don't know how to fix it, can anyone plz help me

[clever crest]

ye thought so too but a dev can hope no?

[regal mulch]

Dev is still non-editor afaik

Not sure if you can include editor stuff. I think there is a boolean when you build via the frontend

But not sure if that allows using editor modules

[frosty veldt]

Hey All,
Any idea what may have happened in a project's render settings to render occluded objects? It seems like some scenery like walls etc, that are closer to the player, are no longer being rendered before any occluding objects. I'd assume that UE4 would sort all rendereables in a front to back order. This used to work (a gameplay feature depended on this) but sometime in the last few weeks it seems someone had changed something in the project and asking around has bore no fruit....

[regal mulch]

Try clearing your intermediate folder

[clever crest]

alright thanks!

[plush yew]

please ini

this no see the face why ?

[teal charm]

can i have different nav meshes for different actors? i see that i can set max agent height in project settings, then i can change it in the movement component but it is still trying to run into a wall that it can't step over

[plush yew]

Any marketing tips for Mobile game to get first 10k download

[thin tendon]

@plush yew Give it away for free. People love free stuff and its an easy way to get a boost early on

[low mica]

How can I do that?

[thorny thunder]

The folder in the dir or the project

[regal mulch]

Just delete the intermediate folder

It regenerates itself

[vocal herald]

why my MS not going down after I delete an actor? I've added several actors and my ms increased to 60ms. After I've deleted all of them and left only a plane and a Directional light it didnt drop down

[plush yew]

It is free

[stiff bane]

removing actors does not really increase performace

[amber girder]

Btw, who broke the documentation links? F1 in the Editor -> 404. Nearly all links found on answerhub linking to the docs -> 404. Seriously broken

[primal tendon]

How do you make water more realistic, like when a car goes on it, it leaves a short time trail of tires, and also splashes the water around near where the car is touching?

[dusty gull]

Hi! I just moved my project from 4.26 to 4.27 and the engine is crashing while loading, it gives me an unhandled exception error in the UE4-Niagara.dll, anyone has any idea? In 4.26 everything works great.

[stiff bane]

very complicated

there is a plugin called UIWS that can help

pretty expensive but if you claimed it few months ago you can use it

maybe just spawning a emitter under the tire can work

[fierce tulip]

@dusty gull you might wanna mention that in #niagara hopefully one of the devs knows whats up.

any additional info you can give them helps.

[dusty gull]

Ok, thanks!

[sick parcel]

should I update to 4.27?

or not a big deal

[fluid lance]

@sick parcelDepends on what ur working on. There are virtually no extra features/benefits for game devs, but huge ones for filmmakers.

Just look at the feature highlight for it, see if there's anything there you need/want

[sick parcel]

oh I see

dont care then, thanks.

[fluid lance]

Same here, none of that is for me 🙂

Besides, if I remember correctly, 4.26 is the last ue4 compatible with ue5 - is that correct (still correct)?

[mental helm]

UE5 EA, but yes

[sick parcel]

oh wait, so they diverge?

didnt know, interesting

[mental helm]

But on full release of UE5 it'll be 4.27 to UE5

Yeah just a small divergence

[potent kite]

Hi 🙂 , I created new level, why is it so dark

I tried changing exposure in posprocessvolume. but no change.

[tribal raft]

Hi Delsin! Was it made using ILIAD? If so, feel free to join Praxinos discord to get help!

[vernal summit]

where can I get the mannequin hands for vr ?:((

[primal tendon]

First person template has mannequin hands, why not import it into VR template...

[vernal summit]

they are rigged ?

[primal tendon]

Probably no control rig... only pre created animations.
Why not use third person template with camera in the head + https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/control-rig-mannequin

I wanted first person with legs and body when I look down, but first person template had only mannequin hands, so I did something like this:

[cinder knot]

wouldnt it be cool if epic made some constraints for control rig

like being able to grab a certain of a gun like the magazine

[dreamy wasp]

What's the word on UE 4.27 ?

[wary wave]

other than 'it exists'?

I have no idea what kind of answer you're expecting?

[outer blaze]

Hello, does anyone know any tutorial for creating a combo system like devil may cry?

[native swift]

Hi guys,

I'm having an issue with my two handed weapons where they don't connect both hands to the weapon.

This is a video of my blueprints and an example of the gameplay results:

https://youtu.be/5u_PacI9TAM

Just an added note, I am using the ALS pack for my character movement and base function.

Thanks in advance.

[pliant junco]

how to i put my water body down. small gap between land and water

[low mica]

You meen this one?

[regal mulch]

no... just the Intermediate folder in your project root folder

[low mica]

Ah yeah sorry I dont know wich one that is

Is it this one?

[mental solar]

I have given this door a custom point of origin in blender, now its somewhere else since I parented it under the building, how do I put this back?

[low mica]

Did you export it with FBX?

If so, export your model on 0 0 0

[plush yew]

try checking combine mesh on import settings

[mental solar]

Yes

[mental solar]

No I dont want that, I want these to be separate.

I want all the objects to be separate and have the origins I given them in blender

[plush yew]

you would want to set the static mesh of the door to the same location as the house static mesh

because thats how you exported it

[low mica]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqLA2J_XZWo&t=2s&ab_channel=CesarAlejandroMonteroOrozco

[plush yew]

rocket science lol

[hollow falcon]

Anyone know why my character would refuse to spawn at the player start when loading the game? It's miles away from it and I have no idea why. Deleted the terrain, which didn't work. The Spawn Player At... is set to 'Default Player Start'. There isn't much in the level right now to throw it off, so I can't understand what's causing it. Has anyone else had this issue before?

[ember lark]

Can someone point me to something explaining how to make my viewport only take up a small portion of the total window?

Application viewport, not the editor viewport — that one’s easy

[plush yew]

Press f11

Idk

[thorny thunder]

yes that is what he was talking about

[weak sorrel]

Hello ! Is there a way to temporarily deactivate Warning popups ? Cause it's filling my screen, and even the other screen above and doesn't let me work :

[tiny coyote]

How can I define the exact name for my packaged game? Just name.exe without any platform names etc.

[bitter siren]

If I package my UE4 game in shipping mode and then run the packaged game, I seem to have a memory leak and it starts going up to the 2000-3000 MB range and sometimes even past 10,000MB!

When I deploy my game in development mode and then run the game from the windows command prompt with low level memory enabled (-llm as a command line argument), the memory usage never passes 600MB.

What the heck!? What could possibly be going on here where LLM enabled is preventing a memory leak but otherwise there is extreme memory usage? I thought I would be able to use stat LLM to figure out what my memory issue is but I don't have a memory issue when LLM is enabled.

Any help would be mega appreciated.

[mint nebula]

why the uv isn't correct? It was directly imported from quixel and I did't do anything with it, I just drag and drop and this is what happen.

[supple viper]

I have a separate shadow model for the player, but I don't want it to throw any shadows on the player model, only the environment and other models.. Does anyone know how to do that?

[mental solar]

This is ridiculous! I am trying to set the door's pivot point to this place, and now it is there since I imported the whole mesh with "import to level". But now I'm unable to move the mesh or edit any of the collision. If I normally import it, everything works but the pivot points as I set them. What the hell do I do?

😭

[grim ore]

import to level is making it all one complete mesh? the entire level? or what is the issue with that part of it

[mental solar]

Yes

[grim ore]

also as a note, the individual items when exported out from your DCC use 0,0,0 (world origin) for its pivot. If you want that corner to be the pivot you would move that corner to world origin an export out that one mesh.

so you need to do that if you want it correct on import, or when importing just the mesh use the offset options to move the pivot, or after import use the mesh modeling tools plugin (in ue4) to move the pivot

[mental solar]

That sucks, is there no way to just set it? I have tried with the alt+middle mouse button, but it always reseted

[grim ore]

using the set pivot inside of the editor viewport is temporary, its doesnt change the actual pivot

otherwise use one of those 3 methods to "fix" it

[mental solar]

but what if I want to have the pivots of all objects at the places I exported them in?

do you mean I can only do this with 1 object?

[grim ore]

if you want it to come in exactly like you wanted it with pivots then the import to level is that option, but you see the issue with it

otherwise a single fbx file when imported in will use the world origin as the pivot for the item

[mental solar]

I dont really understand what the issue is, I just cant move it, and dont know if I can even select the objects like this. Can I make it work like this somehow? I want all my pivots like I made them in blender

[grim ore]

datasmith might allow an import and keeping pivots, I have not tried it recently

[mental solar]

Well how do you guys even develop games without pivot points? Everything needs that to be in the right place

And you can impossibly rotate objects without pivot being in the right place

[grim ore]

on import what did you set the hierarchy type as ? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Importing/FBX/FullScene/

and like I said when you export out the mesh, you set its pivot at 0,0,0 in the DCC program and that will be its pivot coming into UE4. Or you adjust that pivot on import as an offset. or you manually adjust it after import using the plugin.

[plush yew]

You could select all the objects and hit SHIFT S and do cursor to world orgin, then right click and do geometry to origin

the worst thing about 3d

[pure sorrel]

how do i ad a mesh for an sphere

just a static mesh?

[grim ore]

add it to what?

[pure sorrel]

i though i need to add something, or is making an sphere just enough for collision detection?

[grim ore]

yes and no? we dont know what you are doing or what you want

[pure sorrel]

i just have a sphere now and want to detect collision with player

[grim ore]

is it a collision sphere? in a blueprint or in the world or ?

[pure sorrel]

its just a sphere made through blueprint in the actor

[grim ore]

that should be fine then, that is a static mesh component with a Sphere static mesh and that static mesh has collision on it

[pure sorrel]

actually whats the difference between collison sphere and just sphere?

[grim ore]

the "sphere" in the blueprint components section is a Static Mesh component with the sphere mesh set up for you automatically, the Sphere Collision Component is a collision component in the shape of a sphere. There is no mesh on that 2nd one

if you need a sphere you can see and do stuff with in the world, you would probably want the "Sphere", if you just want a round thingy that is invisible you can do collision stuff with then you want the Sphere Collision

[mental solar]

But I dont want my objects to be at the same place

[pure sorrel]

why i dont see my player thats in the scene when i try to store it in my blueprint variable as a reference

[plush yew]

its impossible

[mental solar]

😭

Why did I switch to unreal from unity, unreal cant even handle my models how am I supposed to do anything like this

[plush yew]

Unity is shit

[mental solar]

So Zorel, if I can call you like that, how do you create doors, in unreal engine?

If I may ask.

[plush yew]

lots of ways

you could just have a door mesh with 2 different mesh 1 with 90 degree turn and have it flip flop between them

[mental solar]

That sounds like a dirty fix

[cedar wave]

Matthew explained how you can get your doors to work, if you don't care to follow their advice, not much others can do for you.

[thick herald]

You could create an actor BP, and use a scene root component to act as a pivot.

So you aren't moving the door mesh as such, you're moving the actor which contains it.

You think correctly

[pure sorrel]

how do i store reference to my player in blueprint

[thick herald]

Create a variable for whatever it is type, such as Character.

[supple viper]

Is this even possible lol

[pure sorrel]

but when i search for it i cant find the player

[thick herald]

what do you mean when you search for it? When and where are you searching?

[thick herald]

That is going to require some serious magic to pull off.

[unkempt zinc]

Hey anyone else confused by Level Snapshots, I have it set to name my snapshot with date but the naming is clearly not the date.

Why does it say 4-20 and not 9-13

[pure sorrel]

when you give the variable value

[thick herald]

Let's say you have a variable in your BP called PlayerChar, you set this to be of an object type of the type of character you want to store. It could be just 'character' or it could also be 'Third Person Character' for example.

[pure sorrel]

yea but cant find it when i search in the box

for player the way I named it

[thick herald]

what did you call the variable?

[pure sorrel]

my character is named player

[thick herald]

is the variable there?

[thick herald]

That's a player controller you have set it to.

[pure sorrel]

ye i know

i need to find the player

it isn't showing up

[thick herald]

You should be using character etc, as I mentioned earlier unless you need to have a reference to a player controller.

[swift pagoda]

I actually managed to get a packaged build to run using just an Intel Pentium all in one pc at over 280+ fps.. no dedicated card and no hidden stuff. For the people that want to know, I added the mobile renderer into the RHI options and turned off direct X 11/12

[thick herald]

You also haven't said how you are using the variable, so it's hard to know what you are doing and what else might be going wrong for you.

[pure sorrel]

oh wait

the id was topdowncharacter

i was continuously looking for the name i gave it

[mild ruin]

What the name of the node that make the texture color pops more

[pure sorrel]

why this doesn't work or i am thinking to simple 😅

[cedar wave]

Actor probably doesn't generate hit events

[pure sorrel]

something like this

[unkempt quartz]

you need to call destroy actor from withing the hit actors blueprint, cast to it from the hit result

[pure sorrel]

i dont really understand this is the blueprint of the actor

not the player

[unkempt quartz]

Do you mean the 'power' node?

[mild ruin]

Idk thanks I will try it

[unkempt quartz]

create a custom event inside the actor and link destroy actor, then from the player use the hit result from the line trace to call that custom event from with in the hit actor

[pure sorrel]

done it

[rain sparrow]

Hi, guys! I'm newbie in UE4, so I wanna try to make my first game. I choosed twinstick shooter preset. As my first question I want to ask, how to change a direction of fire? Now it shoots with arrow buttons, but how can I change it to shoot where is mouse cursor set?

[pure sorrel]

like this?

[unkempt quartz]

from hit actor you'll need to cast to the target actors class the from the cast node pull off your destroy actor event

[pallid cove]

I need some help with this thing here. I want the subtitles to be at the bottom of the screen, and the size to be larger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZCZQcXdUU

[pure sorrel]

how do i trigger that custom event?

[unkempt quartz]

use the cast to blueprint node

[thorny thunder]

If you are in the same BP just type out the name and give it a execution wire, if not cast to the bp where it is and then type out the name and give it a execution wire

[unkempt quartz]

Im assuming what they are trying to attempt is to shoot a target and destroy it, so it will have to be triggered in the blueprint that is doing the line trace

[pure sorrel]

casttoblueprint doesnt exist

[pallid cove]

This is what I have for subtitles, @grim ore:

[unkempt quartz]

pull from the execution pin and type "cast to"

[pure sorrel]

no jsut collision with player

[pure sorrel]

do i need to pull from the break hit result?

[unkempt quartz]

like this?

[unkempt quartz]

when you type it replace "actor" with the name of the blueprint you want to destroy

[thorny thunder]

Not tried it but could you make the front size bigger within font uassest?

here

[prime willow]

I Return!

[pallid cove]

That shit didn't help. UGH!

[pure sorrel]

i see no reference to my custom event from the other blueprint

[unkempt quartz]

id watch some tutorials on youtube on how to cast to other blueprints, there will be some short ones that will probably help you

[thorny thunder]

https://youtu.be/PTZCZQcXdUU?t=292 He talks about how to change it in the vid man, could have at least watched that. The link has the time set so play from there. It is just what i said as well

[pallid cove]

I TRIED IT BUT IT DIDN'T WORK!!

[thorny thunder]

Chill out man, im just trying to help

[celest creek]

@mental solar I didn't read your whole thread there about the door but just keep in mind you don't have to merge your meshes when you import them. That's an option, hit the down arrow in one of the sections in the import window.

[pure sorrel]

srry did everything you said

i made an custom event in my sphere blueprint

and now trying to tigger that from my player bleuprint

[prime willow]

i agree respecting people wasting their time and efforts to solve your own problems without pay or legal reason to is probably a good idea

[plush yew]

wb

[prime willow]

[unkempt quartz]

Screenshot both blueprints if it still isnt working

[humble bay]

I know there's something that looks like this in Unreal and that allows its user to know about all file sizes in the project. What is it called again?

[thorny thunder]

file map alt +shift + M

[humble bay]

thanks

[thorny thunder]

there you go if you are not in engine

[humble bay]

I appreciate it

[thorny thunder]

NW 👍

[celest creek]

@pallid cove If you don't know how to make the text go to the bottom of the page go through a bunch of widget tutorials first. You will run into a lot a questions and hair pulling if you don't learn it first. But essentially you'd want to look into anchors and slots.

[pure sorrel]

oke the string is printend, but i dont see the custom event when isearch for it

[unkempt quartz]

you need to cast to the name of your blueprint your trying to destroy, say if you named it "EnemyBP" you'd write "cast to EnemyBP"

[pure sorrel]

ye but thats what i try to say it isn't showing it

[celest creek]

Hey, so in movie render queue we have this file name formet:
{sequence_name}.{frame_number}

I'd like to be able to use a similar {string} to get the project name and use that in my Output directory path instead, is that possible?

../../../../../folder/{project_name}/Saved/MovieRenders/ <- like that?

[unkempt quartz]

like this, this is about as simple as i can explain it, if you cant get it still you'll need to watch some tutorials on youtube on how to cast to blueprints

[pure sorrel]

i understand you but....

[celest creek]

If it's not showing make sure the other BP has been compiled once at least

[pure sorrel]

i doesnt appear

[celest creek]

Not sure what could be wrong, it should be straight forward. You sure it's an actor sub class you're casting to?

Sorry, I just read the last couple of messages here so might be missing something

[pure sorrel]

maybe ue5 bugg

[cedar wave]

BongBong is using a Hit event specifically, not an overlap event. If the Hit event is not firing off, the collision setup is incorrect. That is where the focus should be, not doing a different method entirely

[pure sorrel]

like i said the print event is triggering

i just need to trigger the custom event, but i dont see it appear

[cedar wave]

It also doesn't make any sense at all to cast to Actor when the Hit event gives you an Actor.

You would cast if you need a specific type of actor

How you handle the destruction of an actor depends on your architecture. You could have the weapon that hit the actor destroy it, or you can have the actor handle the hit response itself. Both of these would have different code that would need to be written

[pure sorrel]

now everything in scene get destroyed on hit 🤣

[unkempt quartz]

casting to a specific actor filters out all others, otherwise everything will be destroyed

[cedar wave]

When you call DestroyActor, it requires a specific instance reference. It doesn't filter anything.

[unkempt quartz]

that's why you cast to a class

[cedar wave]

Of course it would, you're telling it to

Set up the correct collision channels and you'll be fine. No casting required.

[upbeat tendon]

Can mobile players play with pc players on a dedicated server?

[cedar wave]

If you set up cross-platform networking, sure.

[upbeat tendon]

I see, does anyone actually do this?

[cedar wave]

Fortnite

[upbeat tendon]

I've not actually played

But don't pc players smash mobile players?

[cedar wave]

Doesn't matter. Wasn't your question

Yes, cross-platform network play is possible. Is it a good idea? depends on the game

[upbeat tendon]

Well I wondered if it is fr fortnite

[hollow falcon]

This may be an idiot question, but is there an equivalent to z order but between widgets? For example, I have my UI widget open from the second the game starts. However, I also have various widgets with cut scene animations (credits, game intro, etc) that I want to run. I can get them to load, but the UI widget is still visible over the top of it. I want the animation widget to be a higher 'z order' so it covers it completely when the animation is running. Is that doable?

I tried setting the z order of the image on the animation widget to 50, but it still didn't cover it

[unkempt quartz]

are you setting the z order when adding the widget to the viewport?

[pure sorrel]

isn't this just for collision

[hollow falcon]

the z orders are for the components in the widgets. For example, most are 0 by default. But I've got a couple that are 1 or 2. However I want the image in the animation widget to be over the top of everything. I'm not sure of any other way to set z orders?

[unkempt quartz]

collision channels handle all interaction between two objects overlapping included

[pure sorrel]

i just wanna know why this custom event doesn't show up

[unkempt quartz]

show us your blueprint again

[flat trail]

Who says macros cant be useful

[bronze vault]

If you are adding multiple widgets you may need to set the z order here.

[hollow falcon]

oooooh I didn't realise you could do that! It works perfectly! Thank you muchly : )

[pure sorrel]

oh it works now

i was thinking one step ahead I had to first connect to the blueprint and then to the custom event inside that blueprint, my bad.

[cedar wave]

It depends on what you are doing. If you have a custom event inside of BP_Player and you are using an actor reference, then it wont show up because that event does not exist in Actor, but it does exist in BP_Player. In this instance, you would need to cast to BP_Player in order to call the event.

[unkempt quartz]

glad you got it working

[cedar wave]

But originally, you were just trying to use DestroyActor, which exists on all actors

[pure sorrel]

basically the two white spheres got the blueprint with the custom event.

[unkempt quartz]

thats the way, good job

[shrewd surge]

Can we make big maps based games like GTA V or CyberPunk 2077?

[prime willow]

yes

landscape mode

in the top bar will allow you to make larger maps

or use landmasses in plugin section

however youll have to actually build the world unreal wont do it for you but you can pick your ideal size and allow your creativity to go from there

[shrewd surge]

Got it, thanks

[prime willow]

[shrewd surge]

Is everything possible with blueprints?
I was looking for PUBG type of multiplayer game, is that possible using blueprints?

[prime willow]

yup

[shrewd surge]

I am not coder, so asking

[prime willow]

just takes deeper understandings of blueprints and optimizing the blueprints for your uses

[shrewd surge]

any tuts, links from youtube?

[prime willow]

youtube tutorials engine learning tab and many other resources will set you straight

um

[shrewd surge]

Hmm, okay

[prime willow]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unreal+engine+tutorials

most any of these would be useful but ill have to find the engine links

[grim ore]

Well I mean you literally saying any tuts but we don't know what you want it for or you're learning ability or how complete you want it to be so...

I mean if you literally want us just to Google that for you and return back a random search result we could do that but that seems silly on everyone's part

[prime willow]

very true x-x

[shrewd surge]

was asking specifically about tuts for learning blueprints from noob to pro

[prime willow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/learn <- this might help

as well as typing in the above as i did in youtube lol

[grim ore]

Then yes the default tutorials provided by epic and the documentation is a good start

[cedar wave]

Note - if you want to have PUBG amount of players, you're gonna be using some C++

[shrewd surge]

Isnt it possible only by using blueprints (visual programming/scripting plugin)?

[grim ore]

shrug that's on you. The tools are capable. Your skills limit what you can do.

[shrewd surge]

Thanks all for the info

[grim ore]

The c++ need Is if you need a massive amount of players at once then you probably need to dip into it.

[prime willow]

however its best you first figure out what your game is

Core pillars
experience you want players to have
Mechanics that facilitate those ideals
world/character/level/story(if you want any) design

and a few key aspects that'll set your game apart from your competitiors

or what you feel is important for your games basis
it can be something as simple as i want to wall run and slap people with big booba's for maximum damage and note it down and work downward from there

afterwards learn the basics of blueprinting and afterwards lean into things relative to your games overall design

and if youre game is multiplayer

start with that first

or you will have to remake your entire game top to bottom :3

[shrewd surge]

is landmass is procedural or will it load whole map at same time which need more process?

[prime willow]

also im not saying to take matheww's words as gossip but he is pretty much the most insight person youll probably meet when it comes to unreal so do take heed of his advice and warnings itll save you endless hours

[prime willow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwJiN8LLnQI&t=549s

[dreamy lake]

My blueprint character class component details panel data goes invisible when I change specific values and then compile, and otherwise crashes the entire editor after I made some changes in C++

• This doesnt happen on its parent blueprint character class though, and was wondering if this is happening due to the blueprint potentially being corrupt ?

[prime willow]

My C++ is bad so i cant help you ;-;

[grim ore]

Are you hot reloading when you make changes in c++? Are you making changes to the header files for that class?

[dreamy lake]

Its all good, just wondering - cos I havent actually experienced this before.

I turned hotreload off.
And I haven't changed anything in the header.

I did change some stuff in the constructor, but thats basically it - I switched out an inventory component class name change in the constructor to a new one I wrote, they got the exact same details panel info, minus some original functions, and otherwise added some new functions to that component.

I even went to try to switch it back to the old component, but past that point it seems like it would just crash the editor and otherwise go invisible when I change those specific variable settings.

[flat trail]

I can admit this took time

[prime willow]

press C after highlighting a bunch of the nodes in question and write comments

so you dont get confused on what they do eventually xD

hmmm

This yellow vector

that has -96.0 pushes my actor to the ground

but when crouching itll go way into the ground

im having trouble figuring out a node that'll detect the floor and use that for the Z axis on placement

any assistance would be graciously appreciated~

[elder bone]

I'm looking at importing CAD files into UE with datasmith, and so far so good, but is there any way of rigging them up for animation/control within UE itself? I've looked at Control Rig, but it seems to require a skeletal mesh to exist? Does anyone have any tutorials they can point me to as a lot of rigging stuff is way beyond what I need/want. I just want to pivot something around for example. I'd imagine that would be possible I just need pointing in the right direction to sniff if possible please.

[prime willow]

thanks but it didnt work

that or im messing up somehow x3

[terse mauve]

Hello noob here

[prime willow]

hi noob ❤️

[terse mauve]

Last night I started my first project so that’s fun

[prime willow]

very prouds~

https://tenor.com/view/anime-love-heart-blow-kiss-flying-kiss-gif-17701920

[terse mauve]

Hello yourself 🙂

[umbral monolith]

Hey, quick question here:

For a shooting system for my project, which is better, using projectiles or line tracing?

My project is a singleplayer VR game targeting Oculus Quest, so performance is a high priority, and the gun designs will be bolt-action/semi-automatic guns, and shotguns

[terse mauve]

Wholesome gif is my welcome msg love it thx @prime willow

[prime willow]

it'll be a journey but the hardest part is the beginning

like riding a bike

once you start to get it you can coast through most of game design its the first hump that'll give you trouble so dont quit when it gets hard okai love~

[terse mauve]

Fr fr, I’ve already got a plan for the game and some rough drafts but the hardest part is moving files amongst my devteam/friends

[terse mauve]

Thanks 🙂

[prime willow]

so im not sure but i believe source control may help

[terse mauve]

Interesting

[prime willow]

possibly a cloud service like one drive as well

[terse mauve]

we have a GitHub for now

[prime willow]

youd have to pay about 9.99 a month but i think it comes with a 1tb or more

so you can easily make files available to all members who you give access

[terse mauve]

Interesting

[prime willow]

it also comes with a pletra of products like microsoft words and excel etc

[terse mauve]

I think I made the biggest mistake of my life tho… I’ve never used C++ or Blueprint in my life yet I am trying to make a shooter game with like 10 game modes including a free play mode 😐

[prime willow]

so start very small

i know how jumping for the moon can be exciting but you give yourself an insane workload with little to no understanding

atm you shouldnt even think about all of that first try and get a grasp of the blueprints

and when comfortable move into C++

its not all that hard i learned it at 12 years old lol

but for design you may be doing much morecomplex things than making a webpage and such

there are tutorials everywhere from learn at unreal to youtube channels and forums you can hop onto

[terse mauve]

I have a HUD, a playable model with some basic functionality, and a working health system…

[prime willow]

well there you go youre making you way already ❤️

[terse mauve]

The hard part is that I am making a fan game and finding models that work is not fun…

And I am semi smort I am taking on blueprint first

[prime willow]

well fan games if using assets that belong to others will most likely never see the light of day, but if you dont want to use your own models or mostly free ones like daz 3d or such others found in blender addons go ahead but if your game has multiplayer

start there

the way you rig things in blueprints varies from single to multiplayer so learning that will mean not remaking your game from scratch all over again xD

[terse mauve]

Should go ahead and mention though that it’s an SCP game so it’s under creative common, so as long as it’s free I am good

[prime willow]

ah okie

be wary if their rigged widely differently you might have to setup the same systems per mesh ._.

however i was very stupid

so i learned unreal from whatever angle helped build functions needed in my game

[terse mauve]

nice

[prime willow]

so i simply searched concepts mechanics and systems i want and built from there and than spiralled aorund to learn the basics

however thats really dumb i dont advise it unless you learn really quickly

also you can always use unreals marketplace for things you want however knowledge about blueprinting or C++ will be needed to mold others assets into your own

[hexed tendon]

Is there a place that describes all the basic plugins shipped in UE4? Like what is the "Common Conversation" plugin? I can't find it on a web search

[prime willow]

there's a plugin page in edtior

[terse mauve]

Currently I am just watching someone named DevSquad

[prime willow]

devsquad is a good place to start

[terse mauve]

I can go at a decent pace i did the Hud, health, and basic model in like 1 or 2 hours

[hexed tendon]

Like this page in the editor has no info

[prime willow]

o.o

im not sure maybe i misunderstood your question

[terse mauve]

I am working on this project with @plush yew so that should be interesting

[prime willow]

well i wish you two the best of luck, keep at it start with multiplayer spin to other systems and believe me it gets infinitely easier after the first few months if youre consistent

and google is your best friend

[hexed tendon]

Gotta love this one too - what the heck does this even do? LOL There has to be somewhere they list all of these with detail of some kind

[prime willow]

I believe the documentation may cover the unreal engine based plugins

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/

[hexed tendon]

Yeah, not that I was able to find as such, but there's a TON of stuff in there that doesn't always respond well to their search

[terse mauve]

Anybody know how to convert Blitz3D models to FBX or OBJ?

[spiral shoal]

anybody know why my character could not rotate with my mouse moving? I followed a TPS aim offset tutorial, but my Pitch and Yaw are locked at 90 and 180

[terse mauve]

I never had that issue

[terse mauve]

😐

https://youtu.be/0mgm16ki8zM @spiral shoal

I don’t know what you are going for but this helped me with a similar issue

[spiral shoal]

I checked the video, this is not the problem I met

[terse mauve]

I must have misunderstood your question my bad man

Good luck

[spiral shoal]

this is how it should works

but mine is locked at this angle

[prime willow]

something both of you may find useful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCosEReF9J8&t=3585s

[spiral shoal]

thank you all the same

[terse mauve]

@prime willow I am essentially making a Garry’s mod roleplay with extra steps

cause LUA is aids

[spiral shoal]

Please tell me how to fix it😭

[prime willow]

o.o

[spiral shoal]

@plush yewcould you please add me as a friend?

I see...Thank you

[plush yew]

hey guys someone know how to disable spinbox keyboard input?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: John Logostini#2442 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[prime willow]

[fierce tulip]

dude #rules, history def shows you are a repeat offender.
@winged notch we are watching you closely now.

[prime willow]

[spiral shoal]

I checked different tutorials and still could not fix my aiming problem

anyone would like to take a look at my unreal project? i could use teamviewer or zoom😭

[worn mountain]

If I wanted to create a voxel based 2d pixel game where every pixel is destructible, should I use static meshes for each pixel?

[fierce tulip]

there is an amazing voxel plugin for unreal, i would prolly use that.

[river moth]

Yea, the Voxel Plugin is really cool.

[dusky slate]

Can someone help me with my problem:

In my AI Perception i set the Actor i see to my TargetActor in my Blackboard. Now when i want my Homing Missile to fly towards the TargetActor i somehow have to convert the TargetActor wich is an Object into a Scene Component, how can i do that?

[digital anchor]

cast to actor > get root component

[dusky slate]

well okay, that works, but thats not dynamic then, the TargetActor is my PlayerCharacter_BP but can also be another Enemy for example, so i have to get the root Component of the TargetActor

[digital anchor]

what

that will get the root component of the target actor, no matter what it is

just cast to actor not your player character

[dusky slate]

ah okay, now it works

thanks

[celest hull]

Really REALLY need to know how to do this at runtime -

Thanks

[toxic gorge]

Hi, I've run into a strange issue where I've got 4 player characters on the map and 3 of those characters keep teleporting to 0,0,0 and falling through the floor but only when I run as standalone or run as listen server. If I run as client this doesn't happen and they behave as intended. What might be causing this? Thank you.

[unkempt python]

anyone have any good videos about animation blueprints and blendspaces for total beginners? like, basic UI explaining stuff.

[unreal venture]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Programmer

happy programmers days !

[unreal venture]

i can help you out if i get free , personally

[unkempt zinc]

Anyone know why none of my lights are emitting light?

Its all on

[prime willow]

if i have multiplayer races and age differences like adult and teenager but they use the same materials and textures

[sudden portal]

anyone know why i cant fix up these re directors ?
it just runs fix up re directors like normal but they are still there after.

[prime willow]

should i have secondary sets for the other mesh thats exactly the same with different textures

or just use them again for the other model

[wet schooner]

try restarting unreal, helps me sometimes when that happens

[sudden portal]

tryed that, no help. in the end i found a fix.
Had a look at the referances and saw i was poniting to some files that did not exist in the content browser but i saw them i explorer, so deleted/moved them out off content and restarted the project and now the fix up redirectors worked 😄

[mental solar]

It's not possible to uncheck the merge checkbox if you import it from File-import to scene

If I import it like that, the pivots are preserved but I have no way to move the mesh, resize it, or edit its collision, which I absolutely need.

If I import it normally by dragging it into the content browser, everything is perfect except the pivots, which are all at the same place and no way to edit them

[prisma marlin]

hello...i'm facing issue where when there's any shadow above decal, my decal just fades away or completely disappears. anyone know what's the issue or any solution ?

[prisma marlin]

alright got the solution... thank you

[plush yew]

Hi everyone,
Anyone knows if there's a way to know if the player have a video card that supports ray tracing hardware acceleration?

[winter wedge]

help this mesh keeps disappearing at certain angles

[plush yew]

you have how much lods?

[winter wedge]

none

[plush yew]

strange...

[heavy yew]

Hey, I am doing a tool where you can draw on screen with mouse. I add to a render target that I use as an alpha and on every tick it ads a "dot". With fairly thick pen and slow drawing this is fine but with faster movement I get dotted lines. This happens if the movement within a tick is more than line width. Pretty obvious I guess.

Question: is there a handy way of drawing a line between two points?

[surreal eagle]

hi

good evening

[surreal eagle]

line trace by channel

i need to get a blank t pose animation single frame please help me

[heavy yew]

hmm. not sure how I would use that. Now I get the mouse position (I make cursor visible and this is desired) and draw a dot if mouse is pressed.
But I don't know how to get into texture a line between point A and point B

And sorry, don't know how to create a blank anim

[midnight dawn]

hey

anyone managed to make out with vscode with intellisense ?

all that's needed is the include path, which I can't find anywhere

and when I open the project through thatfile>open vscode project from UE4 , it opens up the c# part, not the c++

so i have to open a script in order to open the c++ project in vscode

which errors all the includes because the include path is empty

[surreal eagle]

trace based on the camera rotation and traeout but it's forwads vecotr*distance

[heavy yew]

I can get the points (coordinates) but I don't know how to draw a straight line to a texture between two points.

[granite spire]

I think looking up about linetraces and animations might be your go to

[heavy yew]

I found this:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/material-draw-a-line-between-two-coordinates/29401/11

not very simple but will try it.

[granite spire]

you just get position, then forward vector, and that's your start and end point

[muted imp]

Anyone know how to make NPCs react a little when the player runs into them? I want a slight reaction when the player bumps into their shoulder by running past them for example. A NPC gets nudged and stumbles a little but then carries on walking

[toxic gorge]

@muted imp I'd find or make an animation like that and trigger it when player overlaps with the NPC's capsule.

[devout walrus]

Guys i have problem. why keyboard not works in game? and why character doesnt rotate true position?((

[thorny elm]

Hey guys, I applied for a Epic MegaGrant for my game 2 months before. I recently recieved a mail saying, (we want to understand your game better, so lets chat up). Could somebody tell me, What can I expect in that meeting ? And How much a chance I have, to win the grant?

[granite spire]

GetPlayerController > Set Input UI & Game

[wraith gulch]

(UE5) Anyone knows what could cause the shadows to glitch like this? The shadows look fine in the unreal asset editor

[granite spire]

@wraith gulch #ue5-general UE5 is experimental, you could've found a bug that's undocumented, you will never know, so that's why they tell you not to use it.

[vocal badger]

Hi everyone i have a small (i think) problem with the spawn of first player character. When I play i see 2 fp i can solve this only if I delete from the scene my first person with camera and put the player start (but i want my fp into the scene).

Someone know how i can return to the state of default firstperson without lose all the code I made in my fp bp?

[granite spire]

I've personally never seen it, and it could be to do with UE's AA settings, I know that creates a similar ghosting effect, it also looks like it might be the new GI, but it's hard to say, because we don't know how far along the development for these features are.

[wraith gulch]

Okay thank you for your input, appreciate it 👍

[granite spire]

It's alright, it's a reason I haven't made the change yet

[granite spire]

In your game mode, if you have a pawn set, in this case your FP, and then have one manually spawned in the level then you will have 2 of these actors, because you've spawned it twice.

What you want to do is clear the pawn from your game mode, then possess the one in the level on the player controller/state/level via get actor of class.

[vocal badger]

oh okke thank you for helping me it's more clear to me now. But i don't understand yet what kind of value and where i can change it in order to have back only my fp (now the spawn is from the perspective)

[granite spire]

BP_Player is what you want to possess or what ever your player char is, drag it in and it'll possess that, probably on the level itself

[vocal badger]

i dragged it into the scene but when i play i start the level with another character

[plush yew]

Hi all, wondering what's the best way to locally transform a foliage instanced static mesh. I know there are ways to do it in BP and CPP on begin play but I'm looking for an easier / better way.

[vocal badger]

I don't know if that was what you meant (sorry for bothering i'm new in ue4 )

[granite spire]

You have to possess it if you have more than 1 BP_Player then you are going to be possessing the first one in the scene

@plush yew AFAIK foliage is already instanced

unless you use vector materials

[pure sorrel]

everytime when i open unreal it opens in the old map how can i change it so it opens in another map

[granite spire]

@pure sorrel Project Settings > Maps and Modes, change the editor startup or game default

[plush yew]

@granite spire ya, it's just some megascans assets are incorrectly angled, and I'm (almost) too lazy to export them and reorient them in blender. As the foliage is instanced as one giant mesh, all transforms get applied to the whole mesh.

[dense gale]

can someone help me in creating a uv light effect ?

[vocal badger]

ty

[granite spire]

@plush yew int he foliage actor you can use offsets for this, but your best bet is to manually rotate them

[granite spire]

We can't but youtube can

also that's not descriptive enough

[plush yew]

the foliage type doesn't really expose the transform of the mesh though unfortunately. In any case thanks for your input @granite spire

[sly surge]

Looking for a team of volunteers see https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/780560005782568980/887268725651279892

[granite spire]

@plush yew I see what you're trying to do, but manual edit is the only clean solution

[plush yew]

yes, I'm thinking that - cheers

[granite spire]

@sly surge Absolute wrong channel, this isn't for promoting rev share

[sly surge]

sorry

[dense gale]

i have a flashlight which emits a spotlight. when the light hits a decal, the decal should display a message otherwise the decal is invisible (i achieved this using spheremasks). now i have a working uv flashlight but the problem is when i shine 2 or more flashlights it doesnt work, this is because how i programmed it and i am looking if someone can help me bring a solution or a direction to look to support multiple flashlights

[pure sorrel]

why when i use begin overlap vs on hit, the overlap doesn't work

[granite spire]

@dense galeYou would set the decal in a blueprint, and a fake light collision box that's a cone shape that's on your torch, then you would get overlap and display the message if this has collided with it, that would be cheapest, but the message will show fully so you would have to use a rendertarget I would imagine if you wanted just a certain amount of text showing.

@pure sorrel hit is the object is hit, overlap, has to have overlap events so if your collision isn't set to overlap it will not work vs on hit

[pure sorrel]

in ue5 i dont see the world settings underneat window

[sudden portal]

its there for me, under world outliner and world partition

[pure sorrel]

i dont see anything

[sudden portal]

not there ?

[pure sorrel]

iam using ue5

[sudden portal]

so am i as u can see in the top left off the pic

can u show me wat your window looks like

[fierce tulip]

#ue5-general for unreal engine 5 discussions.

[sudden portal]

Anyone done anything with the StreamMediaSource ?

[granite spire]

Can we rename this channel to ue4-general?

[pure sorrel]

nvm fixed it

[fierce tulip]

@granite spire doubt it atm, but you could bring it up in #server-feedback

[granite spire]

👍

[pure sorrel]

why my points are not printed

[thick herald]

because the exec pins are not connected.

[pure sorrel]

why it only stays at 1 number

[mortal cedar]

Has anyone here had experience getting an unreal mega grant, or getting far in the process?

[fierce tulip]

raises his hand

[pure sorrel]

why i cant find the custom event when i drag it from as top down game mode

[robust marten]

Would anyone know how to have a projectile NOT slow down when it hits something?

[civic radish]

Hello i am having an issue where my ComboBox's OnSelectionChanged even its working

I open the drop down for the combobox then select an option receiving no print msg, anyone thing that they are able to help me out? Im new to unreal, using only unity until now

this is UE4

[pure sorrel]

@civic radish connect the purple dots

[civic radish]

still no luck

you mean Selected item and the string correct?

[pure sorrel]

yes

[civic radish]

my blueprint adds options to the combobox = to the amount of video devices the system has, and after one is selected i try to update the webcam on the ui but the event wont fire

I also set the combobox string in the blueprint before adding the options to it

[pure sorrel]

why cant i connect this two

the same here

[granite spire]

@pure sorrel It sounds to me you need loads more tutorials, you don't have a variable called "points" in your top down game mode, or that points has been referenced to something else that had points

[wet schooner]

Ah nice

[pure sorrel]

improved it

[pure sorrel]

i watch tutorials but without trial and error im not learning anything, also most tutorials from unreal are outdated and doesnt directly explain what you need

I only need a return value for the object dont know what to attach

[granite spire]

double check that's the combo box in relation to the event, because that looks correct, try to remake the event

[granite spire]

That's part of game development though, there's still loads of tutorials especially from matthew that teaches you the basics, which is what you need, because things only get more difficult

[pure sorrel]

dont really know what object i need to pass

[granite spire]

well what does it say?

[pure sorrel]

in the tutorial he is passing get character, but this blue print is from points so i try it but cant find anything

[plush yew]

you need to set up reference to it

you could probably use get all actors of class with tag probably

[sick parcel]

Purely from an architectural point of view, I find having the anim notifys all spread on the montages a bit.. disorganized.

is there a different way to do it? (for example, when you want to cause damage while swinging a sword)

[plush yew]

hey

im new to Unreal engine

i have no experience in coding animating textures etc

so i accidentally closed world outliner how do i open it

[fierce tulip]

you can open windows in the "window" drop down menu top right

[plush yew]

where>

?*

[fierce tulip]

*top left

"window"

it should contain world outliner

[plush yew]

thank you so much

[fierce tulip]

np :)

[plush yew]

how can i see the X Z And Y for the base plate in the world outliner

[smoky timber]

Hey there guys! 💯
How's everyone doing?
Have you ever tried the "Horror Engine" for Unreal?

[plush yew]

this is what i see i want to press the base plate and edit the X Y and Z

[smoky timber]

Are you referring to the details panel? Windows - Details.

[plush yew]

i dont know i started today like 10 minutes ago i have no experience

[fierce tulip]

@plush yew check the pinned messages in this channel, it has a lot of getting started content/links

[plush yew]

ok thanks

[smoky timber]

By the way, has anyone of you guys used "Horror Engine" for Unreal? I'm mind-stuck in a blueprint, so I was hoping someone could provide some guidance to move things a bit

[fierce tulip]

please dont repeat the same question (its one of the #rules ), also we have a #fab channel to talk about marketplace content, but the best way is often to see if the creator has a discord channel or an email link for contact.

[smoky timber]

Sure, yeah I'm already in the creator's discord channel, but it seems no one's active. But, thanks anyway

[midnight wren]

Is anyone willing to work on a mini game with me? I have tried to learn ue5 through video tutorials, but I'm having a lot of trouble learning that way. I would learn best through actually making a game and learning as I do.

[supple totem]

hi all, kind of a longshot but has anyone had success uploading their game to EGS w/ epics new self publishing tools? I'm hitting some errors and would appreciate guidance! thank you

[plush yew]

You mean the free horror template? Last time i checked it had over 200 cameras on the scene lol

sometimes i get a bug where a material gets "use with Static Lighting" checked on, and it's impossible to turn it off. As soon as I save the material it goes back on again

any ideas ?

[grim ore]

do you have the auto checkbox turned on as well?

[plush yew]

Ya i know that LOL

[little musk]

How can I change spline tangent default color in editor? I don't want to manually change it for every spline, couldn't find any settings in editor settings either.

[plush yew]

ah yes !!! I did actually

the bug was me all along

[humble bay]

Sup yall? Anyone know how to change scaling gizmo angle like this?

[obsidian nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/must-unsee-spongebob-washing-eyes-cant-look-gif-14237119

[humble bay]

lol, I'm new

thanks for answering tho

[obsidian nimbus]

that gizmo is alligned with the pivot or something

[humble bay]

ik and i want to scale the model's faces

[obsidian nimbus]

usually the blue thing is pointing up, so its allready upside down?

[humble bay]

Yep, looks like it

[obsidian nimbus]

well you might be able to do it in engine but i never done that, i allways get em correct out of my DCC

you could make an actor out of it rotate it in there and scale the base actor

or lookup a better way to do it

if you do it in a D

DCC i would prolly put the pivot also at floor lvl if its a prop

[vernal bramble]

hey there guys, does anyone know why particles could not show up?

I mean, theres a property for them at the blueprint

its assigned

when I hit play in the editor, particle is there, but in game does not show up

[cedar wave]

@vernal bramble TRAITOR

[vernal bramble]

hahaha portfolio man... portfolio

[humble bay]

thanks for the help

[plush yew]

make sure the material is set to render on particle spites near the bottom of the default settings or whatever

[vernal bramble]

still, didnt work, they show up in Particle Editor, just not in game

[plush yew]

anyone ? ^

nvm this works

but that is so funny 😄

[humble bay]

Hey does anyone know how to texture scale only on one axis using this system?

The problem with this is that it only allows my texture to be globally scaled

[grim ore]

make it a vector 2 instead of a scalar (v1)

[humble bay]

Thank you

[grim ore]

your texture coords are X.Y (V2) so you want a V2 to go against it else it "upgrades" a V1 to a V2 with the same value in both

it should find them, should find the actual ED in the blueprint and any calls or binds

probably just stubs for if you need them

[plush yew]

random @grim ore praise everybody for doing Epics job better than Epic \o/

[grim ore]

as I work with Epic that isn't quite true 😛

[plush yew]

oh do You ? finally 🙂 Hope they pay you for each single vid from the past + late fee costs for being, well... late with hiring you

[glacial pecan]

is there a way to basically create a (2d) mesh from a spline and hit test against it?

[pale owl]

I think I may have changed a setting somewhere that stops the "execution bubbles" appearing on the blueprint. The pic below is what I would expect to see but I don't get to see those execution bubbles when I'm simulating. Any clue what I need to do to fix that ??

[plush yew]

@glacial pecan how precise has it to be ? only 4 points ?
draw rectangle then, if anything more idk if this is possible

[grim ore]

you need to make sure you have the current instance being executed in the debug filter (top near the stop/play buttons), if you dont you wont see execution.

[glacial pecan]

arbitrary shape 🙂

[unkempt zinc]

Whenever I try to use mesh paint my unreal crashes, anyone know why?

[plush yew]

@glacial pecan make function drawing triangles per every next two spline points ? third one would be 'the tip'
not pretty, but should do for just hit testing maybe

@unkempt zinc logs or didnt happen

[glacial pecan]

Basically, Unity has a method to draw custom 2D shapes, and it automatically triangulates them and you can hit test against them and so on... Unreal has nothing similar?

[plush yew]

idk, one would guess there should be, not my field of expertise tbh

[grim ore]

cant tell for sure without the actual crash log (debug symbols are not installed) but it says shader issue, have you opened up the material that is on there and the mesh before trying to do this? see if that helps

[plush yew]

@unkempt zinc Saved -> Logs -> X.log

where X is your proj name

[void drum]

Can I use "A" actor's boolean in "B" actor's blueprint?
What doet it call and how can I google it for further study?

[humble bay]

Is there a way to make a constant vector 2 a parameter without creating an error?

[plush yew]

@void drum sure make it public Variable, and get ref to A from B somehow

[grim ore]

the white is a v3 or a v4, you want to put a component mask after it and just use the RG to make it a V2

you could also pull out the R and then add the G to it but.. component mask is lazier

[lament plaza]

Has anyone run the demo "A boy and his kite" ? The demo state to open the map GDC_Landscape_01 but I see large open world map to travel in. The map with the boy is GDC_KiteCine_Map but it's only a map with black shadows.

[grim ore]

@void drumyou want B to talk to A? thats what you might want to google for. Blueprint Communication is probably what you want

[plush yew]

@lament plaza open WorldComposition

havent opened Kite, but for sure it has it

[grim ore]

@lament plazawhen you first open it, there should be floating text telling you what to do. when you "run" it, it will load in the levels composition and the unloaded levels

[brittle widget]

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if it's possible to use .NET dlls within unreal C++? I've found a few places saying yes, and a few places saying no, so I'd like to know the limitations etc.

[void drum]

Thank you both, I only need A's single boolean to trigger B's event and that's all.

[humble bay]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, it worked!!

[lament plaza]

@grim ore This is the only thing I see, and when I do load that specific map, it's just a traveling map demo, where you fly around and see birds, and deers reacting to your presence hovering above them. It's nice but not it's not the demo.

[grim ore]

@lament plazathe demo where its a cut scene and such?

[lament plaza]

The boy flying the kite and going to the cave where there are a bunch of kites ... ?

[grim ore]

hit play again

then try pressing page up

[stray axle]

For some reason when I'm in Path Tracing mode none of my lighting is updating until I move the camera. I've seen other demos online of people using 4.27 Path Tracing and their lighting is updating as they make changes. Is it a setting or a Cvar that has been toggled?

https://jmp.sh/ZRB4qIp

[broken lily]

Anyone know how would I setup collision for a hollow object like a tube?

[lament plaza]

Page up!!! Now, that's intuitive. How'd you figure that out ?

@grim ore Anyways, thank you very much.

[grim ore]

somewhere it tells you page up and page down for the 2 modes, probably in input settings or the main bp. maybe even the docs? lol

[spice rose]

is there a way to modify a skeletal mesh inside UE4 and have it sync to the animation?

when I modify the skeletal mesh and preview animations it looks fine but not in the actual game/engine, do i have to resync the skeletal mesh or something like that?

[grim ore]

how are you modifying it?

[spice rose]

well for example I have a thumb that I'm moving/translating a bit to the left. but it seems this is only for the skeletal mesh preview or smth like that

[grim ore]

thats why im asking how you are doing it

if you are just adjusting bones on a skeletal mesh itself, not the animation, then no it wont save.

you would adjust the animation itself if that works, or you have to edit the skeleton back in your DCC program

if its just moving/rotating the entire thing, you can use the import options to adjust that

[spice rose]

ahh i see, that makes sense, so is there no way to edit the animation from within unreal engine perhaps?

[grim ore]

the animation yes, you open it up. then move your bones where you want them and add new keyframes in those spots as needed and when done you apply the changes to that animation and save it

it adds an additive layer track to the animation

[spice rose]

huh alright, i think i understand why what I was doing was wrong, thanks!

[civic mauve]

How to shoot projectile at mouse position ?

[grim ore]

depends on what mouse position is? first person? third person, fixed camera, the mouse cursor on the screen on a 2d place, the mouse cursor aiming 1000 units down range, etc..

[prime willow]

MathewW

[mild ruin]

What the difference between downloading megascans in nanaite and high

[prime willow]

I'm getting ready good at unreal and solving issues with ease in and out of engine!

and thanks again for always being here to help out us when we lose our way

you're truly the MVP buddy and im sure many feel the same way

[grim ore]

@mild ruinin theory nanite is much higher than high? its like ultra high? or super neato high? or high +1 ?

[mild ruin]

Thank you

[civic mauve]

i have made a top down character editing camera postion of third person controller, i need to shoot projectiles at cursor postion

[grim ore]

look at the top down template, it has something similar that might work for you as it has a cursor it tracks and rotates to face it. you might look into doing Get Hit Result under Cursor which would give you a point in the world that you would use for your end trace if doing a line trace. IF spawning something in you can get that hit result (the point where your mouse is in the world) and then use something like Find Look at Rotation from your player to that point and spawn in your item in that direction

[civic mauve]

thank you so much sir

[true geode]

Really digging UE5 thus far... 🙂

I think i need a real flower pot device like this for my house now 🤔

[tawdry fern]

I want to make a space sim

But i'm not great at game developing

I'm 14 but I want to be a game dev so it's better to start early

[prime willow]

start with blueprints and the basics there are youtube tutorials and learn pages on unreals website and aluncher

and dont feel bad there are 7 year olds making functional systems in unreal on youtube as well as tutorials

just take it one step at a time and make your way down into whatever project you want to forge

[tawdry fern]

Ok

[true geode]

Solid advice 😎

[plush yew]

maybe find a partner lots of kids wanna make games

[tawdry fern]

No one in my school does

[plush yew]

throw some doodles through a couple filters and your good to go

[tawdry fern]

No one has a pc they all play on xbox or playstation anyway

My dad would help me but he lives somewhere else

[plush yew]

this is the first template i planned on using 1 sec

This proably the best start but not a sim... https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fps-tower-defense-toolkit

[robust marten]

Does ANYONE ELSE always get signed out of the Marketplace? I even set my cookies to accept all and every couple hours I have to sign back in, very annoying

[true geode]

negative here

always signed in

[unkempt python]

this pops up when I try to set the mannequin rig to humanoid. the skeleton is saved, dunno what to do.

[last dune]

XD

That is kind of sus