ue4-general

[gleaming lotus]

But lerp has two inputs?

[fierce tulip]

make a bigger lerp :p

[gleaming lotus]

Trying to get my head around what that'd look like

Any suggestions?

[plush yew]

geez, ill have to texture a full prop the old school way i guess

[fierce tulip]

yea, though iirc unreal nowadays has a texturebaker thingy

havent used it myself so no clue hwere to look

[plush yew]

thanks for the insight 🙂

[gleaming lotus]

Any suggestions as to how to lerp multiple inputs? 🤔

[stark cipher]

Hi. I imported my house model into the scene,and tried it out. Seems to me something is wrong. Why is the house vibrating? Thanks in advance for the reply.

[fierce tulip]

we cant answer that without showing us the issue @stark cipher

[fierce tulip]

@stark cipher if you want to blend between them that might be a bit bleh, else just a few if's woulddo the job.

sorry, was @gleaming lotus

anyways, @stark cipher its because it has a lot of horizontal lines that are really close together in the distance. you'd have to make a lower-poly lod that simplifies it for the distance. (is my best bet)

[gleaming lotus]

Yeah looking for a nice blend between them 🤔 there is a Lerp_Multiple_Float4 material function but I'm not sure how to use the alpha for it

aha, that got it!

[west jay]

How do I make a button only count as it being input once? for example I have a dash system but it keeps dashing if i hold the button down and thats nothing something i want to happen

[austere thistle]

Hi, I'd like to make a short animated movie inside UE
I'm just not sure which version I should use.
I have a ton of experience in the animation branch, if this helps.

[austere thistle]

cool, thanks!

[neat ether]

I'm trying to figure out root motion, and I made a test animation with the character moving forward and back, but when I play it in UE4 the character just spins in midair, going upside-down then back, what could be causing this?

[dawn gull]

Hey, I'm working on some code to spawn actors on the surface of a sphere, i have the actor that spawns the objects in the middle of the sphere but it just puts all the cubes at 0, 0. Any ideas why? This is my code
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/f5ee30dc/

[jaunty frigate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvJuocemHS4 are these videos made in unreal engine?

[muted crater]

Howdy, anyone know some good ways to do this kind of "the level is moving all around you" kind of backgrounds? In source/GZDoom/Unity i'd write a custom 3d skybox that used render layers to render the background as a moving camera feed as a cam flew around a miniature. Is that still the best way for UE4?
https://youtu.be/okV9XGV4KHk?t=683

I know for stuff like Train Levels and such you often jus thave the bg and such moving while the train is stationary. But this clearly looks like it's playing a video or rendering everything on a dif layer rather than doing anything too fancy. The fact that there's smoke effects that billow up as it moves tells me that the level itself prob isn't moving around, but some cam is.

[true ridge]

@muted crater She looks like she's fully upright during the whole thing so nothing is actually moving. It's probably 100% camera sway with the jet being a stationary play field and the background being a skysphere.

Reminds me of a moving Smash Bros stage background.

[muted crater]

That's also a very good example, yeah, i'd forgotten about those

Would you think that the performance drain from having two camera feeds rendering two dif parts of the world at once would be that big of a deal? that was what gave me pause even though i was pretty sure that's what they did.

or is it 2021 and as long as the city isn't super detailed, it isn't that big of a deal?

[true ridge]

I would imagine the background area has a lot of smoke and mirrors going on in terms of how detailed those props actually are. It's probably something you'll have to white box and test out yourself.

[muted crater]

Yeah, and to be honest i don't fully get skyspheres so i haven't really tried moving them around much, or flying a layered cam through them, ect. Mostly brainstorming atm to make sure i don't chase the wrong path.

but yeah, "try it and find out" is the asnwer (usually is). I def appreciate a second opinion,thank you, it's good to know i had the right kind of idea.

[minor field]

Hey guys, is it fine if I prototype my game in blueprint then port it over to c++ after?

Is that what blueprint is for?

[true ridge]

You can make an entire game in BP. Literally the only time I use C++ is when I have to.

[oblique oar]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/gfzk5k/creating_new_c_class_stuck_on_compiling_c_code/

[minor field]

Wow awesome.

[oblique oar]

im having this issue as well

[muted crater]

@minor field Yeah that's not uncommon from what i've seen. There's actually classes on the Unreal 4 Learning Portal dedicated to showing how to convert bp stuff to c++, and how to use them togeher

[oblique oar]

does anybody have a solution to this?

[minor field]

Sweet!

Thanks guys I was worried I was making a mistake lol.

By not coding in C++ from start

I have made some medium level programs in java and python so I am not completely noob. I get logic gates and loops etc

basic loop for ex add 1 until you hit 10

[muted crater]

blueprints are just abstracted C++ code fwiw, you can actually open up your BPs just see the C++ coding that runs it.

[minor field]

and a little more advanced stuff like scanning a database and grabbing info

[muted crater]

So yeah there's no prob, the issue is gonna be learning how Unreal 4 handles C++ in particular cuz it' got it's own C++ quirks.

[minor field]

definitely past hello world

[true ridge]

BP has all that, you'll be fine.

[minor field]

ahhh

[minor field]

Sick!

[muted crater]

that's why people say "you can make your whole game in BP", cuz it's just abstracted C++ code.

[true ridge]

If there's something BP doesn't have there are ways to expose C++ only things in BP so you can use them in BP.

[muted crater]

Yeah, true.

[minor field]

Isn't the benefit for using C++ to clean up it up and get it to run better

[muted crater]

it can be, as raw C++ code ran without the abstraction is faster. But there's alot of stuff that BP is just alot quicker to make with, it's great for storing data.

and tbh unless it's complex math that runs every frame or something else real complex it prob isn't that big of a deal

[minor field]

Plus I'm sure it's easier to make things interact like when I was using python and calling a program I had made before to be used in a different progra/part

I forget what that's called lol

oopsies

[oblique oar]

im trying to learn c++ for unreal

its extremely difficult

[minor field]

have u done python

pythons pretty easy and fun af

[oblique oar]

because of poorly written documentation and less tutorials

[muted crater]

BPs are also good becuase damn-near every part of unreal 4 uses them/ties into them/references them, so BPs also communicate with everything else in-engine easily.

But yeah, i'd def recommend looking at the C++ classes on the unreal 4 learning portal. they go over the pros and cons of C++ and BP and ideally when to use one or the other.

[oblique oar]

also, im having a problem with intellisense

its not working with unreal

no autocomplete at all

its such a pain in the ass

[muted crater]

yup, it just kinda doesn't most of the time

i had to use a dif third party parser to handle it.

[oblique oar]

i see tutorials, and intellisense always works for them

tf is wrong with my computer

😭

[plush yew]

whats intellisense

[oblique oar]

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=intellisense

@muted crater can you help me out with this

[true ridge]

I think worrying about the speed of your code in BP vs C++ is a bit premature to be honest. The kind of performance gains you'll get will be dwarfed by other thing you do to optimize your game logic.

[plush yew]

ya the only things id ever convert to C++ is the structures and enums

[muted crater]

I think I had to use Virtual Assist in order to get proper C++ autofill and such. https://www.wholetomato.com/visual-assist-ue4-unreal-engine

It worked super great, but also is a pricey plugin (i think i tired a demo they have somewhere0

[oblique oar]

damn

[muted crater]

@oblique oar i tried for like a week and never got intellicense to work with unreal 4

[oblique oar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8DNygzljXY&list=PLWUvrI0mg8VLrvq3n2iu45lhCo69uluDK

it works for this guy

[muted crater]

I'd recommend trying out that plugin, it'll at least work and let you know if you want to even mess with it.

oh yeah, i'm aware it's supposed to and i've seen it

but no dice sadly

[oblique oar]

sadge

the worst part is

it doesnt tell you when somethings wrong

takes 10 minutes to compile

and theres an error

[limber oyster]

This is Player State functions, is anyone know how to use them, is there any documentations on this to transfer datas from one level to another because i can't seem to find anything about this.
Thank you ❣️

[muted crater]

@true ridge This is a very good point, god knows i've wasted alot of time on this subject.

[oblique oar]

should i try vs code

instead of visual studio

i was having trouble with code as well tho

[muted crater]

I don't think it ended up working either way.

vs code is usually lighter and faster, but i don't recall it working great with unreal 4 from what i recall.

(i mean i could be wrong i'm sure others got it to work fine, was just more than i cared for)

[minor field]

so anyone that has done multiplayer, how much harder is it actually

isn't it just making sure certain things replicate etc

and to make sure to do logic on server

requests on clients

[muted crater]

much harder. unreal 4 has alot more tools to test multiplayer than something like unity does, but every problem you could run into gets dramatically more complex once multiplayer comes in

i've been on projects that derailed for years due to switching to mp

[oblique oar]

wow

[muted crater]

government projects at that

So yeah, alot of it is in replication but expect that to cause more issues than you'd think it would.

[oblique oar]

my compile time recently increased 10 fold

and i didnt make any changes

why would that be happening?

https://gyazo.com/3f9434904e5b3ffa10cc5fcf40240683

also when i open in visual studio

it gives me the developer command prompt

[rancid lagoon]

does anyone know how i can make dice in a game?

[fierce tulip]

should be at least a few tutorials if you google "ue4 dice tutorial" me thinks :)

or if you feel like taking it apart yourself/wanna just get it over with https://unrealengineresources.com/ has a template.

[rancid lagoon]

thanks

[oblique oar]

honestly my slow compile time is probably because of using an external hard drive

i should probably put the project on my ssd

[sterile lichen]

they are invoked during seamless travel between levels when old player state replaced by new. search about it for details or more in #multiplayer

[bold holly]

yo, I cant figure out why my partical systems arent interacting with light. Its just in a kinda of unlit mode and the rain particals are just bright

[plush yew]

Did you add something to the emissive node

[bold holly]

yes

this is what i have

[mental field]

Okay, so I loaded up a completely blank project, created a new gamemode and basic pawn, and set the default pawn of my gamemode to my created pawn. However, when I do this, the game creates a default CameraActor to use as the player camera. How do I change what the default camera is for my player upon starting the game? I know I can switch the camera using a blueprint, but I'd like to find a way to do this without the default camera being created in the first place

[bold holly]

Nvm, I figured out the issue!

[plush yew]

Im trying to learn ue4, and see how my friend (passed away), made a global material and applied to mesh. But i cant seem to see the graph node for this material because its a instance. How do i open the graph node to see how he made this material. When i go in the material edit, it doesnt show the final result, and when i open the mesh itself, the material isnt applied. However, the material does show on the mesh in the editor viewport. What am i doing wrong? I've been trying to open the material graph for days on two scenes, a archviz one from ue4, and my friends scene. :/ Pls help

[trim silo]

Guys, is there any way to make level streaming smoother?

I have big level separated into multiple parts, they are quite big and have between 2-4k actors in them

i wanted the level to be seamless without loading screens

it works but there is a big hitch when the level is loaded/unloaded

is it possible to smooth it out somehow and make it load in the background without any hitch?

or is it the actual sheer amount of actors loaded at same time the problem and there is no way around it

[plush yew]

right click the instance

[torn pilot]

anybody knows how to get rid of a capsule component sticking to walls? i tried a phys material with NO friction on the wall and the capsule. if i look in the CharacterMovementComponent, they apply a repulsion force. but i feel like it should be possible to disable the friction between a capsule and all other objects by default. am i missing something?

[coarse crown]

Hey all, how would I solve an issue where my unreal engine 4 editor constantly crashes whenever viewing a specific direction in a map (may not even be just that direction - it's fairly random but when it does crash i can replicate it by looking to the right). It only happens in one map I've been working on

I can't get much work done on this map now because of this and it's very frustrating

Assertion failed: FVector::Distance(Initializer.ViewRotationMatrix.GetScaleVector(), FVector::OneVector) < (1.e-4f) [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/SceneView.cpp] [Line: 479]

[turbid cove]

Hey guys, does anyone have any experience in creating HMI (Human Machine Interface) in UE?

[deep lion]

Does anyone know where to find any good raycast / diablo style combat tutorials for UE4?

[unkempt python]

trying to have a HUD widget show up when a player picks up an item and I keep getting an error saying "Accessed None trying to read property InventoryTooltip"

forums say something about having to Set the variable but I've been trying to actually figure out how to do that and haven't found any success

[real wasp]

I've been looking into Bink. Big announcement with no documentation or tooling. You can create a bink media player and text that follows the same mediaplayer process. There's no way to encode a video to bink2 as far as I can tell. There is a commit that hints to adding Bink2ForUnreal.exe.pdf but it's not in any repo or release. https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/220176c2e93823e42eca60e856b10e88a86869ba Does anyone know where this is at? Not for general use?

[dusk nebula]

Is there any good fps tutorial I should follow if I just want to learn a bunch of systems? I followed Matt W's fps mvp series already

I know what I want to make but I'm currently at a roadblock with AI, animations, and networking

[dusk nebula]

If my understanding is correct, you need to actually create the widget from the widget blueprint. So you use that node and drag the output into "promote to variable". You want to do that on begin play or anywhere else where you can guarantee that it will have been created before you need to reference it. You can create the widget and not add it to the viewport or screen until you need it, too

Widgets function similarly to actors in that they're both made from blueprints, and neither can be referenced without actually having been created

[unkempt python]

what node to I promote to variable?

this is the HUD widget blueprint I have

[dusk nebula]

Is that in your widget's blueprint?

[unkempt python]

yeah

this is the item parent part where it says the error is at

[dusk nebula]

You need to create it somewhere else that can actually run it

Where would depend on your application

[autumn flame]

Setting it to itself literally does nothing

[dusk nebula]

If it's a character Hud, use "create widget" (?)

*on event begin play sorry

So that when the character spawns, the widget is loaded into memory

And there's a node attached to the create node that's a reference to the widget. Promote that and you can reference it later

Whatever event runs when you pick up your item can also run something to add the widget to your viewport, and you can use the similar remove from viewport node at whatever point it should go away

Is that similar to how you want it to function?

[unkempt python]

so, in the character blueprint, EventBeginPlay>Create Widget>Promote To Variable ?

[dusk nebula]

Yeah

So the widget is "created" and in ram, and only needs to be added to the viewport

[dusk nebula]

It's not construct

[unkempt python]

that was the one result when I pulled off the event pin and typed create widget

this is what it looks like when I plug in a class variable of the widget I want

[dusk nebula]

Just type outside of the pin

Right click and type widget

[dusk nebula]

Yeah that

[dusk nebula]

Then pick the class name that matches your BP name

The return value is a reference to the widget object

So you create a variable that is set to the value of that pin

That's literally what "promote" does

[unkempt python]

some more pins showed up on the left when I selected the class

[dusk nebula]

They aren't relevant

They're optional and don't affect normal widget use, generally

You can look into specifically what they do if you want, but it doesn't really matter for this application

[unkempt python]

So now do I get thirdpersoncharacter>get InventoryTooltip variable I just made> then plug that into the set visible part of the item parent object?

[dusk nebula]

Is "set visible" a variable in the actual widget or something?

I know that the few things I use are add to viewport, remove from viewport, or "set render opacity" instead of removing the widget

[unkempt python]

the set visible is part of a blueprint class I'm using as a parent for all the items. I want the widget to show up in the hud when an item is picked up, so put "Set Visibility" at the end of the picking up blueprint.

in the parent item blueprint class. the widget blueprints is just setting the widget text fields

[dusk nebula]

I don't know much about that, I guess, but I think you would create your widget, make it a variable, add it to the viewport, and then set its visibility to false

In theory you could also do something like on item pickup, check if there is a widget of that type, and if not, create the widget and set it to visible. If there is a widget of the type, it skips creating one to set the already-made one to visible

[unkempt python]

thanks for the help, but I'm still getting the error and I'm really not sure why now. if you were going to set up this HUD popup how would you do it? like, say I deleted all the variables I've tried making to reference this widget. I just have my thirdpersoncharacter blueprints and my widget.

sorry for asking for more, you've already given me a lot of answers and I've learned a good bit.

[dusk nebula]

Can you clarify how it should work from the outside? Like, you want your character to be able to pick up this item, and for it to display a widget on the player's screen?

[unkempt python]

The player hits E and picks up an item. When the item blueprint resolves (ending with the actor destroying itself), this hud widget I made pops up somewhere on screen (which has a blueprint for specifying the text fields and picture), then is removed from the screen after a couple of seconds

I'm also really new to HUD stuff in general so maybe I set something up wrong there, though I'm not sure I'd be getting this error if that were the case.

if you need pictures of anything feel free to ask

[crystal yew]

Hey there!

[unkempt python]

Hello

[crystal yew]

Anyone know any good packages for arms? for a first person shooter?

[dusk nebula]

Okay, so to start you should create your widget from a blueprint when your character begins playing and promote the return value to a variable. That variable will be set to reference your widget when it's created. At this point, you can either use "add to viewport" and then "set render opacity" to zero, or you can just stop after creating the variable. When the item's pickup event runs, you would use a custom event to tell your character's blueprint to set the render opacity of that widget to 1, or if you stopped during that step, you would add it to the viewport. When the item's timer is done, you simply do the same thing in reverse

You should test just creating the Hud and making it visible when the player spawns, by the way

Then you can do "event [test key of your choice]" sets it to visible, and so on

I forgot to mention that you'll need the widget reference when you change your opacity or viewport state, so that's why you promote it to a variable

[plush yew]

cant wait to make a bootleg garrysmod cinema with this

[coarse crown]

So installed the symbols, not a ton more info, at least not meaningful to me - any ideas where to go from here? https://pastebin.com/1ks2w75N

[dusk nebula]

I think the better approach would have been to use paste bin or something

[coarse crown]

good point, updated my message - thanks for the suggestion

[sharp crest]

can someone do some really simple model changing for me? I will pay $5

pls dm me if u want

[crystal yew]

Hey I got game idea for any devs interested

[sharp crest]

No.

ltierally everybody has an idea

[dusk nebula]

Isn't there an ideas channel or something?

[crystal yew]

Couldn't find it

[near breach]

Has anyone here have diffculty finding people to help them in a project

Seems I'm the only one

[fervent stag]

Hell yes.

[near breach]

@fervent stag. Like you too

Even finding someone and then they raise their prices for the models

Like fuck

I thought it be easy to find a group of people

But holy shit

Its hard

[fervent stag]

used to be, now almost impossible

[near breach]

@fervent stag what you mean?

[fervent stag]

a while back I put out an ad in the UE forum looking for help. I had 5 replies, two which joined us. The two were on the green side, but they developed into really skilled people. I could use a few today since one left to be lead designer in a designing company and the other chose a different path entirely. I've run ad's repeatedly over the last year and not one response.

[near breach]

@fervent stag did y'all develop anything

[fervent stag]

as for release? not yet. We're about 75% there though, so we're plugging along as best we can and hiring contract help as needed

[prime willow]

everyone wants to be the legendary solo game designer most of them leave dead projects all over youtube and forums

big sad ;-;

[grave pollen]

im gunna finish mine

my eyes r bleed and my brain is mush but ill finish it

ive come too far

[brazen ibex]

Help!, for some reason when i play the instance , my debug filter doesn't show any BP, so i cannot see if my BP is working or not, P. S. i am new to unreal engine .

[prime willow]

that is my exact sentiment lol

keep at it

im more than sure youll be able to pull it off if youre willing to fail and learn from it few hundred more times

[sharp crest]

any mods here

who should I ping

someone choose a number between 1-3

@weary basalt pls delete my msg, job done #freelance-jobs message

[weary basalt]

Delete your own job mate

[prime willow]

^

[weary basalt]

#instructions

[prime willow]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

[blissful wedge]

heyo, Im having a problem with the engine. Is this a right channel to ask?

[sharp crest]

oh

ty didnt know u could do that

[sharp crest]

just ask

[blissful wedge]

Alright, Im having a problem with converting the UE4 project to UE5. I have 3 maps in my project but when I open in UE 5, it just shows one of them.

Also I get this message on startup

Someone suggested me downgrade to 4.26 first, and then try to convert to UE5 but it said 'Unable to open this project, as it was made with a newer version of the Unreal Engine'. I tried to switch to the 4.26 version inside the folder too, but that way the same 2 maps dissapears

[grave pollen]

hundred? Try thousands 🙂 I'm literally dying over here

but I love it

[indigo cradle]

Hi guys. I noticed 4.27 doesn't start if I have SteamVR installed. Has anyone else had this issue?

[sharp crest]

your issue is that you are trying to use ue5

👍

[unkempt python]

my directional light doesn't seem to be affecting the player, landscape, or trees drawn with the foliage brush. does seem to be working completely on my bluespace actors though. any simple tick-box I'm just not seeing or something? (going to sleep now, pls ping me if someone knows)

[regal mulch]

You can't go from 4.27 to UE5 preview

And you can't downgrade projects

You will have to wait on the actual ue5 release

Which is suggested anyway

UE5 preview is not meant for production

[blissful wedge]

thanks @regal mulch good to know

[simple yoke]

Hi, I am not too sure if this is the right place to ask, but for Meta-human how powerful does my pc need to be?
I have a gaming pc, 3060rtx graphics card

[hidden bloom]

This announcement so Awesome Cant Wait https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/mold3d-studio-to-share-slay-animated-content-sample-project-with-unreal-engine-community

everything will be in the proiject to recreate the trailer

[brittle plume]

I have a problem with character choice on my game
The problem varies based on what I select in gamemode ... but it never gives me the character I choose

The menu, character choice and World (Playable Level) use different Pawns

[maiden lion]

hey guys

is anyone here somewhat experienced with coding in/with the unreal engine and could answer me a couple of questions ?

[peak island]

is there a help channel? Or can I ask here?

[regal mulch]

All channels are help channels. Pick the one that fits your topic and just ask.

[maiden lion]

I have general questions on how constructing anything works.

a series of questions I'd like to ask in DM if anyone has the time for that

only takes a couple of minutes

yeah I know, it's just that it is super basic questions about the process itself

and it's a lot of questions as well

like, imagine someone has zero experience with game dev

that's bascially me

alright then

[regal mulch]

There might also be no-one willing to put time into answering all your questions via DM

[maiden lion]

might be

I'm writing it out here

[regal mulch]

If you have so many questions that you think you require active 1 on 1 tutoring, you can search for a tutor via the job board, paid preferred .

[maiden lion]

not really, it's basic stuff as I said

workflow type of things

you'll see in a bit

so first of all:
I have a game concept in my head that's not too complex (and I'd like to start with the core mechanics such as an attack animation for example)

the game's concept is a top-down bird-eye view game, twin stick control (for example), so bascially an ARPG
as an example for a possible skill, you can spawn ice-shards that act as a barrier
(like this https://shorturl.at/buDU1), which:

• block the path of the AI,

• freeze enemies on touch (avoided by AI, so pathing is considered),

• slow enemies in a specific radius (not avoided by AI, so pathing would only consider the object (and with that its freezing effect), but not its slowing effect radius)

• additionally, you'd have a skill that can pull, let's call it 'frozen singularity'. to make it thematically appropriate, which acts like an inverse nova, pulling all enemies in a specific radius

the goal with these things would be to have tactical/strategical mechanics which focus on your (and therefore enemies) position, which you can then use to your advantage

now to the questions:

1. how would I even start here (fundamentally, assuming I have a clear concept in mind, considering things like classes or whatever that are required later maybe)
2. how would I for example create these properties, such as "freezing when touching object X (ice-shard)
3. I have a VERY little experience with TTSLua which I used to create a couple of things in TTS, such as "effect X happening when button Y is clicked" and I've seen a little bit of javascript (which looked somewhat similar)
   , so considering that:
   is using blueprints compareable to that? You have a an event that is being triggered when pressing key 'Q' for skill 'Ice-Shards-Wall', which calls a functions that spawns that object, let's say in the ground/beneath the ground, moving changing the coordinates height-coordinates so it looks like it's growing from the ground or sth? Is that how things are done?

a wall of text but there is just multiple shorter questions, sorry

I could have written it in like a 3rd the size, but I wanted to be very precise

and all that ignoring stuff like the visual parts, such as an aura for the slow-effect and other things that are primarily visual

[light thunder]

I'm trying to allow a user to import an image into the game during run time and have it saved - the only tutorial I could find was for texture streaming that took a URL, but I prefer to just use a blueprint file browser and allow the user to pick any image from their computer. I've done elements of this before such as dynamic material instances as well as save game objects, but I've never had to import an image during runtime - am I able to specify that a file selected by a blueprint file browser is an image? A lot of these things work by using strings I'm just not sure how the engine detects what the file imported actually is and how that would be converted to a texture parameter for dynamic material instance for example

[sterile lichen]

you would need to create a file browser yourself (a widget if you want to keep it in game style), opening a shell file browser would be not very nice looking
as for detecting file types just look at extension, when making file browser you can add file extension filters
for how to load generic jpg/png image ask google

[winter wedge]

anyone knows anything about this

still can't solve this

[plush yew]

is it normal for unreal engine to freeze when dragging a static mesh in the scene or does my PC just suck

[fierce tulip]

bit of both?

depends on polycount, amount of materials and complexity of materials that all need to be loaded

[plush yew]

4k mats

diffuse roughness and spec

[fierce tulip]

there you have it hehe

[plush yew]

i have a 3070 and a 8core cpu

i dunno

i feel like ram maybe the problem

i have 16gb ram

should I get more

[summer plume]

I have these actors in my game that all use the same blueprint. I need them to have unique names above their head. I know how to create the widget for one, but how would I assign a set of, let's say 50 names from a list, onto 50 unqiue actors (still same bp)? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

[steel leaf]

I was wondering if I'm the only one who has weird result using auto key interpolation in timelines ? I don't have the same results since I updated ue4 to 4.27

I think it has to do with the version

[regal mulch]

1. That's not reeaaaly basic. I don't think anyone can answer this. Way to big of a question.
   UE comes with the #gameplay-ability-system which has a lot of Effect, Ability etc. classes available to make this process,... easier I guess. Needs A LOT of learning and requires c++).
   If not, then you basically have to code a similar system by hand. How that exactly looks like, can't tell. Depends on what you all need. Lots of games are done without the gameplay ability system, with a simple ability system people coded themselves.

2. Can be some State Machine, with some State and that StateMachine can live on the Character and one of the States can be Frozen, and the State then handles the rest.
   But again, can't really give you much info here, way too big of a question.

3. Blueprints in C++ but simplified (you can't everything that C++ can), with restricted access to what the Engine offers (not everything is exposed from C++ to BPs and BY FAR not everything can). Idk how that relates to your experience with other languages. I guess it can help if you have OOP experience.

[regal mulch]

Either have an Array in the BPs with the name and pull a random one, or store the names somewhere else, like in a DataTable.

Ah you said unique names

You could have the Array solution on another object, like some manager component on the GameState

And then if you pull a name out of the array, you remove the entry

Then it would be unique

[summer plume]

Hmm, sounds interesting! I'm not quite sure how I would even begin with that tho 😅

[plush yew]

do u guys use ue5?

[regal mulch]

No, unless I would want to fiddle around with early access features.
UE5 is not meant for production yet. Use UE4.26/4.27 and wait for the proper release of UE5 next year if you want to use it for production

Please use the job board via #instructions

[plush yew]

you guys like ue5?

when is the production release

[thick herald]

#ue4-general message

[regal mulch]

#unreal-faq

[plush yew]

HELP

I have a 3070 and a recent i7, why am i getting 12fps with raytraced gi
samples per pixel=32
bounces=1

[thick herald]

volumetric clouds + aurora + etc etc probably.

[plush yew]

no

you watched the video? @thick herald

lol

literally facing away from the room fps goes wayyyyy tf up

sky is just fine and has 0 fps impact disabling

how to make a static mesh or a material ignore shadows?

[tall kiln]

How do I keep the editor playing when the window is inactive?

Right now it pauses if I go to a new window

oh wait I got it

[summer plume]

Is it possible to get a variable from an actor into a widget?

[plush yew]

Thats spooky

[plush yew]

When you make it set a variable or use get all actors of class

[summer plume]

Like this? I'm so lost

[plush yew]

Is the widget made already when you get in game or is it like a pause menu

cause when u use create widget node

just set new owner var

but ya that is your only other option but things tend to get messy ... also no idea how to make it work in multiplayer yet

[summer plume]

I have these four actors of the same blueprint and I need them to have "Name1" "Name2"... and so on

[plush yew]

well thats easy but theres tons of ways to do it

[summer plume]

Well I'm stuck and clueless 😄

[plush yew]

just loop the generated array and set a name var

it should be easy

how do you stop shadows from casting on a mesh

how to make a mesh ignore shadows

you could try a seperate lighting channel bro

[summer plume]

Make the material an emitter?

[plush yew]

good idea muhii

[summer plume]

Could you please elaborate? I feel really stupid right now lmao

I put an integer variable array on those 4 actors, exposed the value and set them in the viewport to 1, 2, 3 and 4, but how do I get that value into the widget...?

I could then just do this with the array, but I can't retrieve the array from within the widget

[coarse leaf]

What is the benefit of having my designers export our gun assets as "Static Meshes" vs "Skeletal Meshes, with no Skeleton"?
Can't seem to find much on this online, besides the page below where Epic talks about merging all Skeletal Meshes into a single mesh with your modular Character.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/

[plush yew]

just gimme a sec

Id probably do something like this

Its just id probably figure out another way to do it befoer using the get all class

[summer plume]

How would you do it then?

[plush yew]

Why do you need them all named ?

Are they players or NPC?

[summer plume]

NPCs

Basically, those little dudes would be my discord server members and I want their name's displayed

[plush yew]

If i were you id just expose the variable and name the from the editor

[maiden lion]

is there an official guide on how to create UI (such as healthbars for example)

[plush yew]

start with a specific goal, so in your instance it would be healthbars

every time you learn how to do something specific it will expand your knowledge of UMG as a whole

[summer plume]

How would I set this up?

[plush yew]

i just posted the setup in bp of actor

[summer plume]

Ok, I have it setup the way you showed it in the screenshots, but how do I get the variable into the widget?

[plush yew]

So no w you would continue another way

Oh i see

Whats the widget for?

[summer plume]

To display the name above the head

[plush yew]

ye so on begin play of actor

[summer plume]

What do you mean?

[plush yew]

On begin play of NPC do create widget and set the widget text variable your using on the make text function

so make a new variable in widget TEXT

then set it with the exposed name in eidt

editor

[light thunder]

How do I filter out assets on the store? Searching for UI elements and all I am getting are sounds, I'd like to filter out the sounds (not filter IN)

[woven marlin]

Now i'm kinda lost on this. How do i create weapons that triggers on enemy?
Is it an just one Actor class? how do i attach an actor to a socket? do i need to create blueprint class out of it?
I need some details about this because i don't know where to start

• New to UE4 *

[summer plume]

Sorry, I'm not following... This is within the actor event graph. Is this correct?

[plush yew]

if i were to post every step it would take like 10 images lol

but no

[inner sundial]

ah yes great detailed listing

[summer plume]

We can go into DMs if you want

[plush yew]

ok but gimme a sec

[light thunder]

There are so many things that you are going to need to know, you should really check out a course on one of the different learning sites, or through Epic, or on youtube

[summer plume]

I have all day, I'm in no rush! I really appreciate the help!

[woven marlin]

Yeah but i couldn't find any C++ tutorial out there that describes how to create swords with different dmgs and how to deal dmg etc..

I know there's TakeDamage function that i could implement

[light thunder]

Do you already know C++?

[woven marlin]

Yea

[light thunder]

There is one on Udemy by a call named Ben Tristum, most of it is in C++, though you should expose many things (like the damage amount) into blueprint - only the calculations or heavy math should be in C++

But to point you in the right direction, you have two main events - the hit event and the damage application

[woven marlin]

I think i have this course on Udemy, is it this one?
I've followed a long for a bit but then it seems like it's pretty boring so i stopped

[light thunder]

Hit Event - Should be a Collision event that takes in an actor input and you can put an interface on the actors you want to be able to damage - then call the damage event on that actor that implements the interface

[light thunder]

yes - my advice to you would be to look up what you want on blueprint

because every node you want to do in blueprint CAME from C++ -

the logic is entirely the same

[woven marlin]

Yeah but i like C++ structure

Blueprints are messy

And i'm aiming for a networked game

so later on, i need to go in-depth

[light thunder]

That's fine - so why not pseudocode in blueprint, while you learn - get the basic functionality to work and then immediately look up the corresponding function names (which will probably match) in C++

you are going to find a tutorial for that same event in blueprint much easier on youtube for example

essentially you'll do much of the same thing in C++, only your syntax will change, instead of using reroute nodes and wires, you'll be using parenthesis and semicolons

[woven marlin]

Hmm

[light thunder]

so I'd watch a video on how to get an actor to hit another and even if its in blueprint, just watch it, and you'll probably be able to figure out even from that, how to do it in C__

[woven marlin]

That seems like a good plan. But the thing is, i've already started with C++ and used blueprints for animations (from Youtube tutorial lol).
I think thats a solid idea to watch a video on blueprint and figure out how to do it with C++

Thanks!

[light thunder]

Ryan Laley is good, and you've already probably seen Mat Wadstein's WTF videos

[woven marlin]

Yup i did for Mat i think

[plush yew]

I found a trick to use lumen exposure to my advantage to make tv look like its lighting a room

[light thunder]

looks good but dim the lights so we can see the effect more clearly

[plush yew]

@light thunder

it was the wrong video lol

it was in ue4

i forgot when switching to ue5 it changes recording folder

so what u do is take a media texture

[light thunder]

that's cool - there's a plugin on the marketplace but it is expensive and I couldn't get it to work

[plush yew]

and add the diffuse

to the emissive

on low

then u enable lumen and bam

its all one texture

@light thunderthere is a plugin for media?

its built into unreal engine lol why get a plugin

[light thunder]

No, it's for atmospheric lights from media textures - mainly uses rectangular lights, looks good in the project but I couldn't get it to work in mine

[plush yew]

I fixed the exposure and got the correct color coming through

if u want ill share the blueprint for it

[little shard]

Can someone help me unpack a .pak file? Ive done it before with .bms files but for this pak it aint working.

[light thunder]

that's for UE 5 though right?

[regal mulch]

Why would you need that?

[plush yew]

yeah

@light thunder

it will work on ue4 too

both have gi

[light thunder]

I'll try it I guess - you had mentioned lumen but I'd not thought that was in 4.25

[plush yew]

it doesnt use lumen

it uses gi

it can use any kind of gi

[light thunder]

sure DM it, that looks awesome btw

[little shard]

I want to extract audio from it.

[regal mulch]

Is it your own content?

[little shard]

It's from a free game I got. I like the music in the game that's all.

I was wondering if someone could help me out 🙂

[regal mulch]

Probably not

That sort of stuff is not legal and we aren't allowing discussions about it

[little shard]

Oh

[wary wave]

most games mix the music in layers anyway, so you'd get nothing you can listen to out of it anyway

[regal mulch]

You can do whatever you want, but we don't want peeps to discuss it

[light thunder]

My advice would be to upload a sample of the music to one of those music ID sites or email the developer and ask where it is from

[little shard]

I understand.

[regal mulch]

• keep in mind that you wouldn't be able to release your game

[light thunder]

The developer would be probably happy to tell you where the music is from; they are the ones who picked it out - or if they made it themselves, they'd be pleased to know someone like the music as well

[fierce tulip]

^

[little shard]

True

[peak merlin]

I am learning UE (I have Unity background). Is there way to prevent UE from spawning its own camera and use the camera actor added to the level ?

[regal mulch]

Usually the PlayerController handles the Camera on possess. There is a boolean in its defaults that you can set to false

Can'T remember the name, something with handle active camera target or so

Then you'll need to set the view target to the camera that is in the level

[light thunder]

Just remember there are world settings on each map that can override your project settings - aka what is your default pawn for example, which would change the camera your level uses

[regal mulch]

Which you can do via the LevelBlueprint to stay simple

[plush yew]

is there any way to lock the camera location? ive tried everything i could but cant find the correct way

[regal mulch]

Lock it where

[peak merlin]

I am not managing camera via my character class.

[plush yew]

on the z axis, im trying to make is so when the player jumps the camera doesnt go with it

[light thunder]

You can get the player controller I believe and access the player camera manager I think

[regal mulch]

Hm not sure. Simplest way would be setting the Location on Tick to something you know is correct

[light thunder]

then you possess the camera you want

[plush yew]

okay thanks

[regal mulch]

Or to make it "proper", you can use the PlayerCameraManager

Which allows to override a function to update the camera locatio/rotation etc.

There you could define your own logic to keep the Z value relative to something

[light thunder]

The tick event works but it can be a bit hacky too - but depending on what you are trying to do, sometimes it's the only practical way to do it quickly

[regal mulch]

Yeah the PlayerCameraManager ticks anyway

So it's not like one is doing something super bad

[plush yew]

alright well thanks for the help

[light thunder]

The main reason btw @plush yew is usually to isolate an axis - you get the camera rotation (like if it is on something and immediately set it but you don't plugin one of the axis, you put the one you want to remain consistent, so setting it's rotation to 90 ) would keep it pointing that way, even if the camera was being rotated by something in the world

[plush yew]

yeah what i did before what getting the camera breaking and making a vector changing the z value to around -50 and setting it but that seemed to only literally set it i did try to use the event tick so it could repeat it but it didnt seem to work

[light thunder]

there are other methods, like using a "Look At:" function, that are easier to implement and that's what I'd recommend

using that and you can set it's rotation realtime via the tick

it's supposed to be a cheap calculation too

[verbal shell]

Hi!

[plush yew]

ah alright, i just wish unreal had a lock or something to make something like it easier, i mean well just a click

[light thunder]

There are plugins that do that but you can make a blueprint library function that does it in like 5 minutes

then you just call that and input your target blueprint

[plush yew]

not gonna lie i just found out what i did wrong, so i did get it right but what happened is i was just using some of the wrong nodes like i just walked over it, i think i may have done something else wrong to but im not to sure what it was

[light thunder]

Now you are a REAL developer 🙂

[verbal shell]

Does anyone know a good tutorial on making a realistic character?

[split aspen]

neat 😆

what kind of GI is that?

[peak merlin]

Ugh.. that is not of much use tbh. Even though setting the camera makes the player in view with PlayerController->SetViewTargetWithBlend UE is still spawning a camera of its own. That spawned camera is being referenced by PlayerCameraManager and GameplayDebuggerCategoryReplicator.

@regal mulch can we stop that 👆 camera spawning at all ?

[tired abyss]

Anyone know of any good studies/blog posts that explain the paradigm of MMO's and how players need to be online constantly and economy flow etc, just for some personal research im writing up about potential issues

[dusk nebula]

https://www.google.com/search?q=mmo+design+blog&oq=mmo+design+blog&aqs=chrome..69i57.3288j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

[tired abyss]

Well yeah i have already taken a browse through

but sometimes really good developers that dont carry a huge name write some really nice blog posts

[dusk nebula]

I hate to be a contrarian, but aren't good developers the ones who become popular?

[regal mulch]

Not sure. Would need to check why it's spawned to begin with.

Bethesda is popular last time I checked

[dusk nebula]

Lol

[regal mulch]

Somewhere there is a joke in this

[dusk nebula]

Square circle

[finite nest]

I am in a process of making a game launcher. Its halfway done. Anyone wants to partipicate with adding their games?...

[plush yew]

Ue5 seems interesting

[frozen pond]

any idea how to get rid of that? its from hair - clothes

[plush yew]

What resources could you recommend for learning Unreal Engine in general? Or just using C++/BPs for UE?

[light thunder]

Youtube, Udemy, Epic has courses, I recommend you at least go through one course, but there are youtube playlists of people who walk you through making a game, like a FPS

[plush yew]

Any specific course on YouTube?

I'm aware that Epic Games has a good documentation, as well.

[light thunder]

You'll have to decide what style you like - they are all good if they are rated well and they have good feedback - honestly I'd listen to the instructor and if you don't find them boring or annoying that's good enough

[plush yew]

Alright. I should probably take a look into the paid courses as well. They probably explain it more in the depth.

[summer plume]

How can I stop the names from showing up through walls?

[light thunder]

yes and they are worth their money - just don't ever pay full price on udemy - they will have sales every like other day

[light thunder]

I think you need to look into visibility/camera on the collision maybe?

[plush yew]

Yeah, just saw a course, 84% off

[light thunder]

honestly if the price is cheap, I'd buy a few, and then skip to like 5 chapters in, and just listen and see which you prefer

[thick herald]

check pinned messages in this channel. Links etc 🙂

[thick herald]

Udemy is always got discounts it's their way of making you think you're getting a good deal

try again, they are there 🙂

[plush yew]

Oops, it seems that I've lost my internet connection.

I see it right now.

[thick herald]

The official learning hub is chock full of information, I'd stay away from paid courses really. Loads of free tutorials on youtube etc

[light thunder]

I don't agree with staying away from the courses - because the ones that are 'complete" will show you a very wide range of different elements of the engine to learn - but will also have the frequently asked question on each lesson - the youtube comments might have some of that, but I can just about guarantee that on the courses that have been out for a year or so, you'll find someone has already asked the same question you have (and someone answered it) - this is the main reason why I recommend the courses to someone who is more or less new to UE

[plush yew]

@split aspenLumen

[thick herald]

Perhaps a better way of say would be, stay away from paid courses until you know what you need to learn from them. No point in dropping hard earned cash on something you might have got elsewhere. There are great paid courses out there, but the issue becomes not all courses are updated to match engine updates etc. Everyone has different styles of learning and ultimately there isn't a right answer to this so I default to "stay away" which is perhaps not the most useful 😊

[light thunder]

But that's just it, you don't know what you don't know - $10 or $20 bucks is nothing if you have access to those FAQs on individual lessons -

[thick herald]

I try not to guess on how much something costs for another person, especially given the broad range of nationalities that ask for advice.

[light thunder]

This is a very good point

[thick herald]

You're right in saying that knowing what to learn/to look up is a struggle for new people.

[unkempt python]

I have a directional light set to movable with a green light color but the green doesn't seem to affect anything other than blueprint actors I've imported in. Any tips?

[light thunder]

try setting something else to movable to rule out that it's not a static lighting problem

[unkempt python]

like make another light and set it to movable?

[light thunder]

no, I mean like take a cube or something in your left, and change it's mobility to movable

[unkempt python]

did it, didn't change color

[unkempt python]

does that mean it's not a static lighting problem?

[light thunder]

probably

not sure, try adding the same green light to a new level that has precomputed visibility disabled

[unkempt python]

for some reason it's working in the new level

but it's apparently working in the regular level but only on certain objects

[light thunder]

are any of those objects movable?

[unkempt python]

they don't seem to have an option for it, nor does the parent. though they are blueprint actors with the object mesh being a component of the blueprint

these are some trees I foliage painted in by that object and they're totally unaffected

but they look green like they should in the test level

[light thunder]

the static meshes you have to change on the blueprint to be mobile - in the world itself as well

[unkempt python]

I made a BP of the tree static mesh and set it to movable mobility. what's the world thing I need to change?

[light thunder]

Check world settings - precompulted visibility - set that to force no

[unkempt python]

didn't seem to change it

[plush yew]

Any tips to make mobile game reach to audience

[small panther]

If I wanted to include a pdb file in my game for the end user, what are the downsides to this? I'm aware that it increases file size, and that it allows the end user to get debug information and such, but is there any other downsides?

[frozen pond]

Node Result uses potentially thread-unsafe call Random Int. Disable threaded update or use a thread-safe call. Function may need BlueprintThreadSafe metadata adding.
How to disable that ?

[untold cobalt]

?

Hello, why does everything look like this?

[frozen pond]

widget maybe?

[untold cobalt]

hm

it just shows the waters like this

[split aspen]

oh I see, thanks

[dawn gull]

How can I add an arrow to a capsule and have it move with it but not rotate?

[fluid lance]

Can someone pls explain to me how an 1920x1080 png, set to fill a widget on a monitor of the same size looks like it's actually not 1920x1080?

it's the same on both sides...

@dawn gullDon't add the arrow to the capsule, add it to the capsule's parent

[dawn gull]

The capsule is the parent, but it doesnt matter cause I fixed it. Was unrelated

[dense knoll]

UE4.27 likes to lag my pc to a hault when i try packaging

and this is only in 4.27

[untold cobalt]

?

[plush yew]

?

[plush yew]

?

I cant change my pfp buggy discord

What did u guys made with ue?

[mellow turret]

Do you only use blueprints? It could be using all your CPU cores/threads at the moment of packaging

[dense knoll]

yea

but this never happened before

even in 4.26

[mellow turret]

you can open task manager and check the resources being used

[dense knoll]

i think it has to due with kraken compression tho

[knotty summit]

Which prefix do you use for niagara particles?

[dense knoll]

still use cascade

AND this error loves to ruin my day

[fierce tulip]

NE for emitter
NS for system
etc

[knotty summit]

Thanks, will rename them like that. Couldn't find anything in style guide for niagara

[young fern]

Hey guys

How do i make a game launcher

Like where you can change quality settings

[fierce tulip]

buy a rocket launcher, convert it to one that launches games, shoot games at people.

wouldnt you just do that in a settings menu instead of the launcher?

[young fern]

Idk many games made in ue4 have a settings prompt menu

Before launching the game

[fierce tulip]

almost all of em have it in-game

[young fern]

And all of them look the same

[young fern]

Im not talking about the professional games im talking about homemade games etc

[fierce tulip]

same

[young fern]

For now im just experimenting

[fierce tulip]

if you wanna do it pre-starting the game you'll need an application that can edit ini-files (which contain settings) and such

which is kiiinda out of the scope of general unreal questions

[young fern]

Oh

[fierce tulip]

you could try asking the people in #lounge maybe one knows.

[young fern]

Is there a way to make a settings menu ingame in 4 minutes?

Something like that

[plush yew]

...4 minutes?

[small panther]

Was just thinking that lol

you can def find tutorials and such but I doubt any one will be 4 min

[fierce tulip]

4 minutes are over.
anybody got their assignment done? :p

@young fern unless you purchase one, I doubt you'll get one done in 4 minutes unless you are an expert (or got one laying around you can use)

[vocal sorrel]

https://gyazo.com/77c762ab215c557c4c3eb8fd58505059
Does anyone know how I can fix this? Ive tried installed nodjs multiple times

[regal mulch]

Due to it being umg and blueprints this might take something about 30 min. Not because it's hard but because you have to wire this all up individualy

And depends on how many settings you want to expose

It's not a fun task..

[mellow turret]

sometimes UE4 consumes all my RAM and this message pops up, is it an issue with my gpu?

I have 32gb of ram

this one happened particularly when selecting 3 clients, and selecting "Play as client (network mode)", then selecting "Play standalone game" (not PIE)

[wet schooner]

This is related to videocard memory not ram memory as far as I know

[light thunder]

HOW do I convert a 2D Texture, which is coming in as TRANSIENT, to something that isn't transient???

[weak cradle]

ay bruh im about to punch my monitor

what are these white lines

and how do i get rid of them

[light thunder]

looks like the editor windows got bugged - unless this is in your game itself? Try dragging a tab of one of your editor windows (like LEVELS for example)

[sly island]

Anyone know how to hide the preview selected camera in 4.27? I can't seem to find it anywhere lol

Nvm found it

[weak cradle]

sorry i just saw your message, i ended up resetting ue4 and it worked, even though it took like 20 minutes for it to boot up for some reason :/

[bitter valve]

Hello, just need a general idea of what I should do. I'm creating a game where there will be ai with different jobs. Now I want theses jobs to only affect certain things. So say they overlap an actor with box collision for them to collect something, I want only set ai with a certain job to get whatever it is. Should I create a base ai class and then create some sort of enum list or something? Or is there something easier?

[dusk nebula]

Wouldn't that be the kind of thing where a component could be added to keep track? I don't know a lot about the system, but I know you can add a component from a blueprint to an existing actor

[bitter valve]

Huh. So the component will have whatever variables are needed to know what the actor is?

Ill have to look into it.

[dusk nebula]

I honestly don't know lol

I've been meaning to look into what I was talking about but currently know nothing about it

[bitter valve]

Ok. Well thanks for mentioning it. Ill have to take a look tomorrow.

[plush yew]

Maybe an animation graph and just change anims based on task

[zinc wind]

Anyone know why all my levels would be completely black when opening the project after two days?

[plush yew]

Does anyone know how to include a shader you make in the custom node for materials? I have this, but am getting some errors with it;
#include /Engine/Shaders/Test.ush
return 0;

[zinc wind]

So, the issue is actually that every object is visible in the brush view, meaning it's there, but things don't show up when playing, or in the perspective view. Any ideas?

[plush yew]

does anyone know how to add houdini plugin in Unreal 5?

Just to add in the error I am getting when trying to #include a shader in the custom node
UE 4.27 is version used

[zinc wind]

Furthermore, if I restore the project to a backup, it works then, but I fixed a lot of bugs and implemented a lot between the previous backup and the current one. I know it was working when I saved it, and I can't find any useful info. Feel free to @ me any time if you know what's going on.

Screenshot of issue

sigh it was an issue with the clip plane, not one of the top answers for when you search the issue : /

[plush yew]

anyone know the answer to this basic question I know it sounds simple but i just got into unreal engine

If i want realtime caustics

https://github.com/NvRTX/UnrealEngine

do i need this branch

or the official 4.27

or do i need 4.27 then overwrite its files with this branch

I dont get it

[prisma marlin]

hello...i have question...do FIFA21 or any other latest sports title use actual foliage(which is tend to be really dense(small but dense) because its sports ground)? because i wanna try it out but i think that much foliage would be pretty heavy for system taking in size of ground even with LODs.

because i was watching some footage of fifa21 and it does seem like there's an actually gemoetry on ground

geometry*

[fluid lance]

@prisma marlinThey probably are but only up close. Look up foliage culling on yt. I'm assuming they are doing foliage up close, LODs further, and they cull it and just leave a nice grass material with fuzzy shader and normal maps (maybe not even normals when too far).

[plush yew]

how do you eliminate skiing

[neon magnet]

Getting crashes and these errors when using things like rect lights
Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff

0x00007ffeefeae497 UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed6f91d1 UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed6a50c9 UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed6c0310 UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed6ac711 UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed6b173e UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed67244d UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffeed65f6ae UE4Editor-Renderer.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff09671507 UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff09672860 UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff09679aa5 UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff09c1022b UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff09c07370 UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff93457034 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007fff941bd0d1 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

Crash in runnable thread TaskGraphThreadHP 27

Any ideas? I can only think ntdll is something to do with nvidia driver

[toxic cliff]

Hi!🙂 do you need to compile the engine from the source code in order to compile a plugin for a different engine version?

[humble patrol]

is there a way to get help for UE5 or ill just have to uninstall for now and wait for updates?

[peak merlin]

I tried with a blank(Default) level. Same behavior: 1 additional camera gets auto-spawned besides the custom one.

[prisma marlin]

oh cool...thanks...i will look into it.

[regal mulch]

Yeah pretty sure that's in c++ somewhere

[regal mulch]

void APlayerCameraManager::PostInitializeComponents()
{
    Super::PostInitializeComponents();

     // Setup default camera modifiers
    if (DefaultModifiers.Num() > 0)
    {
        for (auto ModifierClass : DefaultModifiers)
        {
            // empty entries are not valid here, do work only for actual classes
            if (ModifierClass)
            {
                UCameraModifier* const NewMod = AddNewCameraModifier(ModifierClass);

                // cache ref to camera shake if this is it
                UCameraModifier_CameraShake* const ShakeMod = Cast<UCameraModifier_CameraShake>(NewMod);
                if (ShakeMod)
                {
                    CachedCameraShakeMod = ShakeMod;
                }
            }
        }
    }

     // create CameraAnimInsts in pool
    for (int32 Idx=0; Idx<MAX_ACTIVE_CAMERA_ANIMS; ++Idx)
    {
        AnimInstPool[Idx] = NewObject<UCameraAnimInst>(this);

        // add everything to the free list initially
        FreeAnims.Add(AnimInstPool[Idx]);
    }

    // spawn the temp CameraActor used for updating CameraAnims
    FActorSpawnParameters SpawnInfo;
    SpawnInfo.Owner = this;
    SpawnInfo.Instigator = GetInstigator();
    SpawnInfo.SpawnCollisionHandlingOverride = ESpawnActorCollisionHandlingMethod::AlwaysSpawn;
    SpawnInfo.ObjectFlags |= RF_Transient;    // We never want to save these temp actors into a map
    AnimCameraActor = GetWorld()->SpawnActor<ACameraActor>(SpawnInfo);
}

[bronze badge]

Hello! everyone, Im looking to create modtools for a game, anyone know where to find info or get in contact with Epic? 😀

[regal mulch]

@peak merlin It's probably this code. At the bottom it spawns some camera actor

[peak merlin]

Wow 🤦‍♂️ . why would they do that ???

wait that says AnimCamera. Why do we need a separate camera for animations ?

[regal mulch]

Could be for whatever system thay need

[neon magnet]

Nope! Everything running stock in the engine so dunno 😦 I usually get crashes with rect lights.

[peak merlin]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/bt4sio/c_ue_spawns_extra_camera_and_overrides_mine/

I guess it's necessary and I need to ignore it.

[copper flicker]

C++ question.. If I try building a default C++ project, in VS, it errors. By default. Not always.. but most times. I get these errors. Again, this is a completely new, default Unreal project, I did not add a single actor or line of code.

I'm running the latest version of UE5. And a VS version installed by Unreal..

And this is happening with both First Person and Third Person templates

Any idea?..

[maiden lion]

well, let's say I decided to dismiss the idea of doing everything with blueprints:
How exactly would one start implementing anything?
As in: How do I implement the ground/floor in a level, with textures and so on. That's not done by C++ at all? Do I do that directly in UE and once these assets are within my content browser I can for example load it in and transform it? Or should for example first create a level and then each object has it's own ID, then I'd try to manipulate that in the way I'd like. Like the Object/Actor does not have physics yet so if I hit it, nothing happens. Then I use classes to define physics behaviour or whatever? It hard for me to imagine how things are done on low level.

[plush yew]

You can uvunwrap a mesh in a bp

[regal mulch]

Uff, idk what you wish to hear here. There are multiple ways of doing this. You should learn the Editor first if you aren't sure how any of that works.

[toxic cliff]

Thanks for the response! So weird I tried compiling the voxel free plugin for ue5 and yet it still thinks its from 4.27😭 then I thought maybe the project needed to be c++ so I converted it. Then it at least gave me the option to try to rebuild it on opening the project but the rebuild failed

[regal mulch]

There are tutorials from Epic and generally the community you can watch

[regal mulch]

4.27 is not compatible with UE5 Preview

You can't update projects from 4.27 to that

Only 4.26

If your project is 4.27 you have to wait for the full release of UE5

Which is next year Q1 earliest

[stiff bane]

any date on new UE5 beta update?

[regal mulch]

check #ue5-general

[neon magnet]

I'm not using UE5 though, my project is in 4.27.

[toxic cliff]

Ah ok, thanks so much! So if I did this with 4.26 version of the project then I could convert the plugin? 🤔 I've seen videos of people using it in the early access so it must be possible but I'm not very smart 😅

[copper flicker]

I don't see why that would be the case

[regal heron]

Hi there. I'm having some light build issues. When I build lighting on one of our PCs and push it on perforce, the other computers get LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILD error messages. I'm pretty sure I pushed everything I need to push (including BuiltData, ...) and can't seem to get it fixed. Anyone has an idea?

[copper flicker]

I'm making a brand new C++ project in the default location, My Docs

I'm starting a cpp file from the cpp classes folder

I press Ctrl Shift B in VS, to build

or compile, or something 😛

errors

I presume UE5 works with C++ right?...

It just doesn't work here, for weird reasons?

maybe it has to do with the version of VS that it installed?

that file is an Unreal file, dunno why it would not have access to it

it was a file created by Unreal

if I remove it.. just for testing.. VS throws another error

Maybe I should uninstall all an try learning C++ with UE4..?

but then I have a feeling the issue is VS, I don't really understand what needs to be installed there

I let Unreal handle everything

and if it fails.. I can't help

O o

[regal mulch]

Might be possible yeah

[regal mulch]

First of all, don't use the Error List

Check the Output log

The Error List is garbage

And second of all, all these errors suggest that files or folders are read only.
Either cause they are marked as such, or cause the process of VS doesn't have enough rights to modify the files.

Try putting the project into other folders, check the read only setting on the mentioned files and make sure VS is opened as admin if it's not already.

[plush yew]

WHY

why do i get these rings with low roughness

[copper dune]

Hello guys can some one explain me why vertex painting isn't working in unreal engine 5

[regal mulch]

#ue5-general

[winter gale]

Answerhub working for anyone?

I'm getting 403 forbidden since yesterday

[plush yew]

same

[copper flicker]

@regal mulchhmmhmhmhhhh.. thank you Cedric! the thing is, I don't really know anything about C++ in Unreal. for one, it seems to not allow me to create C++ files where I want them.. which is kinda weird, I don't understand how anyone can build a C++ project if you can't add C++ files inside Content.. or your own hierarchy. I had to add classes in some special folder, I forgot the name. secondly... I can't delete or move a C++ actor. it's disabled. and thirdly, even if I don't create any actor, the project errors anyway. and it's not like I can ignore the errors, as you suggest, because if I do create an actor, and VS errors, no code will be compiled, and any code I add will not be sent to Unreal.

[regal mulch]

Why even bother with C++ then?

Are you trying to learn it or do you use it cause you think you need to?

[copper flicker]

because I need to learn some... saldy

sadyl

sad ly

😛

[regal mulch]

Have you considered following a C++ tutorial?

Because they will explain these things to you

[copper flicker]

but I can't learn if I can't script even the simplest example

I did follow. but again.. I can't complile anything

even if I don't add any custom code at all, on a completely clean, default project, VS errors

I'm trying a different version of Unreal now, and I've reinstalled VS

[regal mulch]

• C++ Classes can be added by hand, by just placing the files into the Source folder (+- sub folders)
• C++ Classes can be added by adding a cpp and h file via VisualStudio and making sure you select the right folder
• (easiest way) C++ Classes can be added via the Editor, under EDIT (top left). This will allow selecting a parent class ,as well as make sure to generate you some h/cpp code already to start with

When renaming, moving, adding C++ classes, unless adding via Editor, you have to regenerate your project files (Rightclick the .uproject file to find that option).
This will update the solution to have the files added, moved, renamed, etc.

If you want to learn UE, don't use UE5 atm, that's the first thing

Because UE5 is not meant for production, which means it can be buggy as hell.

Use UE4.26, learn with that and then you can update that to UE5 Preview if you want

Don't use 4.27 cause that can't be updated

If you don't care about UE5, then do whatever

[copper flicker]

I'm trying 27 atm... but look, people seem to be able to use UE5 as well, with C++

thanks for the explanations btw!

[regal mulch]

Of course they are

The point is that you will not find a lot of tutorials about that yet

And you might run into bugs

Which will slow down your learning process

So using a more stable UE4 version is better

[copper flicker]

makes sense.

[regal mulch]

About the "Not being able to compile"

[copper flicker]

ok, so again.. I cannot rename or move or delete C++ from inside Unreal?

[regal mulch]

Post the actual error from the Output log

Correct, you can't

You can add them

Rest has to go through Visual Studio or just your explorer

[copper flicker]

wow... madness O o

[regal mulch]

It doesn't make sense to be able to move them in the Editor

The Editor would need to be recompiled if you move/rename files

[copper flicker]

I did not expect this, it was tbh one of the reasons I was thinking I'm doping something wrong

doing *

[regal mulch]

The Editor is based on the compiled code

If you modify the code, or the files, you need to recompile it

[copper flicker]

ok, but Unreal does let you move all other content around

it's how I work with Unreal normally

[regal mulch]

Yeah but that's also not compiled into binaries

[copper flicker]

it just doesn't work with C++

[regal mulch]

Correct

It doesn't make sense for it to work based on how UE and C++ works

In most cases the editor also needs to be restarted after you performed C++ changes

With some exceptions where you can "Hot reload"

(but not with hot reload, but with Live Coding, which you can enable in the editor, cause hot reload sucks)

[copper flicker]

ok, so in 27, with VS installed by UE4, similar errors.. in the error list that you tell me to ignore

[regal mulch]

Don't post the Error log

Post the Output log

[copper flicker]

dunno how to find that

[regal mulch]

It's probably a tab at the bottom

[copper flicker]

and again, if there are errors, I don't expect anything to compile, I've already been there

[regal mulch]

Yeah it's not compiling cause it fails

But you need to post the output log

Or at least the error of it

[copper flicker]

I don't see any output log in Window

[copper flicker]

oh wait.... wrong place to look for a window...

[regal mulch]

Looks something like this

[copper flicker]

yeah, we don't have the same layout

[weak harness]

Anyone here use git/lfs for UE4?

[copper flicker]

I don't have a power shell and no output

[regal mulch]

#source-control

[regal mulch]

That's also not my layout, I don't even use VS

Just a screenshot I was able to find

[weak harness]

Thanks. I forgot that channel existed. I've hidden most of the channels.

[copper flicker]

oh yea, thanks, View it was

========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 1 skipped ==========

so there you go, it fails

😄

this is a default project, nothing custom

2>UnrealBuildTool : error : Unable to delete hot-reload file: C:\Users\Seven\Documents\Unreal Projects\MyProject\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-MyProject-6815.dll

same error really

so yeah.. I can't really learn C++ by just watching videos, and not being able to actually write any code

😵‍💫

[regal mulch]

Close the Editor when you compile

If the Editor is open at the same time, it tries to hot-reload the files into the Editor

Which doesn't work 90% of the time

[copper flicker]

oh yea, another thing... I deleted the C++ actor I made, in a different project, before, and.... it was still showing inside my Unreal project

so it was like.. impossible to remove

[regal mulch]

I already explained that part before

[copper flicker]

you did?..

[regal mulch]

When renaming, moving, adding C++ classes, unless adding via Editor, you have to regenerate your project files (Rightclick the .uproject file to find that option).
This will update the solution to have the files added, moved, renamed, etc.

[copper flicker]

well, sorry, but all this chaos makes no sense to me, I mean, again, this is totally not how I worked with Unreal, or any other app, in the past

[regal mulch]

What does that matter though

Not everything works the same

[copper flicker]

oh, regenerate... hmmmmm

[regal mulch]

The option is something something Generate Visual Studio Project Files

Usually you don't move, remove, rename, files that often

[copper flicker]

oh.. I was just about to say, there is no regen or refresh

sadly tho, this did not work

I made an actor, I killed its files in Explorer, generated files.... it's still here

and speaking of following tutorials, I didn't find any tut yet that would explain all this

how to install VS first of all

and how to handle these files

all tutorials assume somehow that it's as easy as... you start Unreal. and all else goes smoothly

but dealing with 2 apps, UE and VS, that do not seem to communicate.. is like hell

dunno how to even delete this junk actor I created O o

oooooooooooooooooook..... it was step 4. Remove everything in the folder Binaries

after that generate

thanks ponkkis!

tons of yellow warnings in a brand new default 3rd person template..

good job Epic

Epic job! 🐸

it's not possible.. this is a default template

ok, let's make another

best way to edit a C++ project: delete all

😄

btw, before deleting it I managed to see a no-errors compile

so yeah, I've had this before. I make a default project, I build, it usually errors. sometimes, for no reason, it doesn't error

and this is all the yellow stuff I get on a brand new First Person project

no idea what MLSDK is

I'll assume it doesn't matter...

I built the empty project, all good... after showing me 10000+ errors in error list, it cleaned them up

I added one custom c++ actor, did not write a single line of code in it, so it's like.. an empty default actor, I guess... now it errors again

ok, so I killed the binaries. I regenerated all files. and at start Unreal asked something about rebuilding... and now, the exact same project is not erroring anymore, in VS

[tropic plaza]

Does anyone know how audio samples are stored with FAudioCapture? FOnCaptureFunction signature says float* AudioData, but my audio is scrambled when I convert it to uint16. I have not been able to find any code actually using FAudioCapture

[copper flicker]

so every time you add a piece of CPP code... like a class or maybe even just a variable in a class... you have to restart everything, kill binaries, and regenerate the entire project?

cuz this sure doesn't seem to be what people do in tutorials O o

and it's quite excessive

[autumn grail]

Hello , can i pass a struct variable from client to a server event?

is the struct considered like a primitive?

[tropic plaza]

@copper flicker Afaik, modifying Cpp code should only cause a rebuild of that module.

@autumn grail Yes, you can pass FStructs as RPC arguments, if that is what you are asking?

[autumn grail]

ok thank you

because i tried to pass a BP object and it dident work

[tropic plaza]

@autumn grail You should be able to pass UObject a reference if the object is replicated.

[autumn grail]

replicated and spawned server side?

because my UI widget spawn it

[copper flicker]

well.. I'm new to cpp.. so I don't really get all this. but I had to restart the project and kill all binaries and regenerate files.. just cuz I've added an empty actor. and now I've added a simple comment. and again I have errors

I doubt it's the comment...

[tropic plaza]

@autumn grail If you spawn it only on client, the server wont know about that object at all. It needs to be spawned on server.

[autumn grail]

ok thank you

i'll use a struct

[copper flicker]

I also get this every time I kill binaries

even if I add and remove a simple comment, in a cpp file, a build that seems to comile well will now fail

[tropic plaza]

One gotcha with structs over network is this: You can set UPROPERTY(ReplicatedUsing=OnRep_MyStruct), but OnRep wont be triggered if you mutate/change individual properties of the struct. If you need to watch for mutations, you might choose a replicated UObject where you can set OnRep on the individual properties.

[copper flicker]

and the only way to get it to not error.. is to remove binaries and regen.

I doubt this is how others work with VS and UE

this makes no sense

[wary wave]

I have literally no idea what you've done, but it is not right at all

[copper flicker]

I've done this. installed Unreal. let Unreal install VS. made new C++ FPS project. it already errors.

I kill all binaries, regen files, errors are gone

I create an empty actor. errors are back

I kill all binaries, regen files, errors are gone

I write a simple comment in my cpp file, a line that's supposed to be ignored anyway... errors again

I delete the comment, same errors

I kill all binaries, regen files, errors are gone

🐸

[wary wave]

since when did Unreal install Visual Studio?

I don't think it does

[copper flicker]

yes it does

and then UE handles the selection that makes absolutely no sense

[wary wave]

oh, that does not look like UE4

[copper flicker]

UE4 does the same

I just did it 30 min ago

anyway, doesn't matter, I'm not using UE4

the errors are the same I guess, in both 4 and 5

[wary wave]

but all the error messages you've been posting are from UE4

unfortunately, you've managed to do something wacky with your configuration somewhere - I don't think anyone in the generic Unreal channel here is going to be of much help

I'm clueless as to how you've managed to get it into this state :/

[copper flicker]

amber.. I did nothing

I've installed a new UE4

and a new VS

[neon magnet]

I got these exact errors as well but for some reason I don't see this in the output log, I have to go to the file on disk

[copper flicker]

odd

well, the thing with Unreal.. is that it's a gigantic software that nobody fully understands

😄

[wary wave]

MLSDK is Magic Leap

[copper flicker]

what is... magic.. Leapses....

[wary wave]

one of the platforms that UE4 has a plugin for

[copper flicker]

oh wow... it's not even relevant

[wary wave]

probably not - it's just a warning anyway

[copper flicker]

yeah

so maybe removing everything that is not Windows packaging.. might remove those messages?

or killing some plugin?

[wary wave]

I would really not be going randomly deleting stuff

[copper flicker]

I mean if u only build for Win u can disable all others

[wary wave]

you can't just randomly delete things

[copper flicker]

not randomly...........

but u can delete stuff that's irrelevant to your build

[wary wave]

it has the potential to totally screw things if you don't know precisely which files you're deleting, and why

[copper flicker]

anyway, not important, my problem is C++ atm... ^ ^

[wary wave]

from the Visual Studio output it looks like you don't actually have write permissions or the files are locked

[copper flicker]

amber, I wasn't talking about deleting files

it LOOKS like haha...

but it's not like

those files are Unreal's

so I'm not in charge of that

[serene birch]

I might have missed it but

did you ever post the error you get?

[lean bobcat]

Hey, can any1 help me how to fix sequence render ? it doesnt match with the lit viewport, it looks like there are no lights or something like that

[copper flicker]

yes Stof, a few times

this is what a new project looks like

[wary wave]

yes, it says it cannot access that directory, but what does it actually say in the Output log?

the whole thing that is, not a selected line that you feel might be the relevant one

[copper flicker]

same thing

and sadly.. UE5 doesn't let me do the same trick

not that it was in any way acceptable to work like this haha

but removing binaries and rebuilding is not enough to get rid of the nonsense errors

[serene birch]

UE5 is installed inside "Program Files"

my theory is that the build process wants to write something there but cannot because "Program Files" is read only

unless run with admin priviledges

[wary wave]

VS by default can't operate without admin priveledges

[serene birch]

I'd suggest not installing UE5 or any dev tool/sdk in "Program Files" instead

my VS doesn't need admin priviledges

unless I was runing a build task that required those and my VS 2017 clearly asked me to relaunch itself with admin priviledges

[copper flicker]

1>------ Skipped Build: Project: UE5, Configuration: BuiltWithUnrealBuildTool Win64 ------
1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
2>------ Build started: Project: CPlusPlusTest, Configuration: Development_Editor x64 ------
2>'"C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0EA\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\GetDotnetPath.bat"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
2>operable program or batch file.
2>Win64 using Manual SDK 10.0.19041.0
2>UnrealBuildTool : error : Unhandled exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0EA\Engine\Intermediate\EditorRuns\3792' is denied.

and so on.....

[tropic plaza]

@copper flicker Is this a source build of the engine, or from the launcher?

[copper flicker]

I installed UE5 via Epic launcher, of course. and VS via Unreal

this error is from VS....

from Output

[tropic plaza]

VS should not be touching/building the files in ProgramFiles at all as far as I know

[copper flicker]

goes hand in hand with the Errors pic I showed above

[serene birch]

it's "Unreal Build Tool" that is doing that though, not VS itself

[copper flicker]

possibly. I bet I would have no problems coding in VS per se.. the problem is the connection to Unreal

[tropic plaza]

yes, but a launcher version should have all the binaries already, shouldn't it?

If you have deleted/modified any files in Program Files, you probably have to repair/reinstall from the Epic launcher

[copper flicker]

and again, I did not do anything custom.. this is plain vanilla install, plain vanilla template

neah, I did not delete anything

[wary wave]

it looks like Windows permissions problems

[copper flicker]

VS doesn't have access to Unreal files?..

[serene birch]

just don't install UE5 in "Program Files" 😛

[copper flicker]

I install UE wherever IT wants to install

I did not change its location

so yes, C:\Program Files\Epic Games

this makes no sense tho.. VS is started by Unreal. it should have access to everything relevant to Unreal

how do you even install in a different location? UE installs are automatically handled by the primitive UE launcher..

[serene birch]

myself I install the UE launcher itself in another location!

but I have a few disks and I don't have room in my C drive much

so that explains why

[copper flicker]

and then it automatically installs all UEs somewhere else?

I might give that a try

but anyway, does everyone working with C++ have to do this??

[wary wave]

I have never had any of these problems, but I do also have full admin rights over the entire machine

[copper flicker]

I'm admin too

[serene birch]

having admin rights isn't enough by default unless you disabled UAC

[copper flicker]

so same here, I'm the only human working on this machine

[serene birch]

your account can grant itself admin rights, doesn't mean each process spawned have those

try launching UE4 or Visual in admin mode maybe

unless UAC is disabled, if you don't have an UAC prompt showing off, a process you started won't have admin rights

[copper flicker]

uhhh.. no, I do have UAC enabled, at first lvl