ue4-general

[prime willow]

Welcome~

[drowsy snow]

Tadaima~

[prime willow]

[odd hull]

If I wanted to add something to the viewport like an attachment to a gun you’re already holding, what’s the easiest way?

[drowsy snow]

Sockets in the weapon's skeletal mesh.

Also static mesh generally isn't good for "hero" weapon, but viable for dropped weapons

[final onyx]

Is there a way to automatically snap any object to 0 height when i drag them into my level? Its annoying keep having to correct it every time

[drowsy snow]

Finally get the epic super pretty lens flare working 😏

[fierce tulip]

@drowsy snow the ones Froyo did a big post about recently?

https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2021-09-ue4-custom-lens-flare/

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, that one. It kinda finicky to work with atm, and I kinda don't like the Data Table approach.
I've consider putting the settings into Project Settings instead, as it's a plugin.

[fierce tulip]

sweet :)

[carmine slate]

Anyone know if it's possible to bulk change the mip level of multiple textures all at once? I have almost 300 textures I need to change from 8k to 2k and it would take me too long if I did them one by one.

[fierce tulip]

isnt there an option for it in the bulk-edit matrix?

[autumn flame]

Yeeeh

There is

[drowsy snow]

Go to the Device Profile to set the texture size's hard limit for each texture group (Window > Developer > Device Profiles). This is non destructive, and you can set different size limit for each platform.

[fierce tulip]

or that, yea

[nova portal]

I am having some trouble with my leaves particles that glow in the dark, does anyone have any clue what could be causing this?

[runic fern]

Hey Guys I want to make Dirt On Glass or Floor and clean it with Broom and Wiper Can someone Suggest an idea for me pelase

Other than Render Target ?

[thick herald]

decals

[drowsy snow]

If the swipe pattern is fixed, I think a fixed flow map hack could work. But for more accurate player driven swiping, well, Render Targets.

[plush yew]

Is something plugged in your emissive node

[runic fern]

Well But the Render Targets just applying on Small Area I was using that for wall paint just half of the wall

[turbid wigeon]

@drowsy snow what a beautiful lensflare shot

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, it manages to looking better than stock UE4 lens flare, while also cheaper to render than FFT Convolution Bloom.

[turbid wigeon]

well hopefully

convo bloom even half res is pretty expensive

but sure is beautiful

the kernels are hard to manage tho, can't easily iterate

you sold me on testing froyok latestest post !

[bold rivet]

UE4 Mannequin mobile is not compatible with 4.27... is there any alternative?

[odd hull]

Assuming I have a different blueprint for character, weapon, and attachment.
In Which blueprint would I want to use the node that adds it to the socket?

Probably the weapon with a “has attachment” bool?

[drowsy snow]

I don't see any reason not too leech one from earlier versions and somehow not working in newer versions of the engine.

After all, it's just a skeletal mesh with bog standard material setup.

[bold rivet]

you mean create a project in a earlier version and export the mannequin to the 4.27 project?

[grim ore]

you should still be able to use it even if its not updated, did you try to add it to your project?

[bold rivet]

yea it won't let me add it to the project

[grim ore]

it works here, change the version like it says and add it

[bold rivet]

oh what the hell it works. i thought it had to be the same version. thanks!

[true geode]

hashtag win

[terse urchin]

Can someone help? I have the same exact problem like this one, except mine is manifesting in Unreal Engine 5 and only for a certain type of foliage. https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/foliage-only-paints-on-spline-meshes-and-not-landscape/212972

[hot maple]

Is it common practice to have a specific player controller subclass for main menus and such?

[carmine slate]

Ah this is great, thank you. Ill try this.

[carmine slate]

I am trying that now and if it doesnt work well Ill try TheHoodieGuy's suggestion. Thank you.

[drowsy snow]

Not for me. I do almost nothing in a Player Controller. The actual input functionality were left on the pawn BPs.

[carmine slate]

Hey guys, I'm following these instructions and now I'm a bit confused on what settings I should change to hard limit all the textures in the project to 2k?

[drowsy snow]

In the device profiles window, pick on the platform that you want, choose the TextureLODGroups...

[carmine slate]

Right, I did that

[drowsy snow]

...and then set the Max LOD Size for each texture group to the size you want, which would be 2048

[carmine slate]

Ah okay, I see

Thank you

[eternal mist]

Hey, Does anyone know how to have microphone input in UE4? I'm trying to make a game controlled by sound but I cannot find any info on how to get ue4 to work with a microphone.

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow can you help me out if youre free to 10 seconds

i cant seem to figure out a decent method for doing animations ._.

[drowsy snow]

Sure thing.

And that's 10 secs.

[prime willow]

xD

[drowsy snow]

Nah, jk xD

[prime willow]

well played U:

So i have a rig and all of that jazz

but when using it for animations it doesnt play nice with the bones already in the setup

I can show you if you can jump in call?

and it breaks the current bones that are already good to go

[drowsy snow]

As in video call/stream? Sure, but I haven't set up my mic again.

[prime willow]

its ok we can type in here or vc louge

i dont use my mic anyways tho i can listen along

[drowsy snow]

LiveLink anim is indeed for Maya only, not Blender

Not even the official Blender UE addon

[drowsy snow]

One of the official presentation from last year, I think

I don't bookmark them. TBH I saw no use for them as I animate things by hand

[prime willow]

How do I add more custom bones
https://gyazo.com/74bee6e9e444357b1f34c00f0fb2b102

[ancient lotus]

any ideas why my result in UE4 is completely different looks for the upper/lower receiver? heres the result in ue4

and heres the result in marmoset

[white cloud]

Good evening,
I would like to know if there is a way to switch from three, to first person without looking stupid with a camera in your head? I'm talking about a real swap, like if I create a new project in UE with the first person mode.

[ancient lotus]

two separate meshes, one for first and one for third with a camera bone on the skeleton. unhide first person and hide third person mesh and attach camera to the first person mesh at the camera bone

[white cloud]

And I could switch with a defined button?

[ancient lotus]

yes

[white cloud]

Great, thanks!

[torpid stone]

why Slay project showing those two controls from Android and how to fix it?

[void palm]

i finally fixed an ammo bug

holy shit

[plush yew]

what was wrong

[knotty vessel]

does anyone know of any tutorials on using shape keys for character customization? i.e. different eye shapes, and different body proportions (ping me if you respond pls i have this server muted)

[plush yew]

What

Just use an animation blueprint and set the body proportions from a var

using a blend

[drowsy snow]

In those cases, usually the facial expressions are driven by bones, and the feature deformations are handled by morph target.

You can buy one asset pack of character customization and reverse engineer them yourself.

[drowsy snow]

Try disabling touch inputs in the project settings.

[white cloud]

Are there people who had this problem during the Build? I have Visual Studio 2019 with the C++ dependencies, C++ Video Game (Unreal) and Dotnet Runtime 6.0.0 installed on my PC. Unreal Engine has no reason to reject my build.

Sorry to interrupt your discussion

[drowsy snow]

What about NET Framework 4 SDK? Not the runtime one.
Also, what about Windows SDK?

[white cloud]

I will try

If it's not runtime, then what is it?

[drowsy snow]

SDK, not the Runtime.

Runtime libs are mainly for already compiled programs and not for development.

[knotty vessel]

thats not what im asking, im aiming to create a character customization system that has slides to scale the size of different body parts, like what the game fer.al has if youre familiar

i dont know of anything on the asset store that has something like this either

and im going to use shape keys to do it, but i dont know how id implement them in

if that makes any sense

im not using the shape keys for animating in this area, its for customization

[white cloud]

Ah that sucks. I have bad luck. It still does.
Is it because Unreal Engine is installed on the \D: disk and the dependencies are on the \C: disk ?

I find the prob! I was using SDK version 5 and not 4...

[rose plume]

hi guys, do anyone know how to enable the word wrap for the text box? i just need the text to stay inside the box instead of keep going across the screen

[granite spire]

there's a button to auto wrap text, you have to set in pixels how far it is

[rose plume]

tyty

[granite spire]

I cannot for the life of me remember how to get every X step in a loop

I thought it was % based but that isn't working for me

[atomic cargo]

Hello, if I'm trying to make an npc hop while it's roaming/moving. I'm trying to make a slime character. I have a basic roam but I'm not sure if the hoping should be implemented in the animation or if it's a node based thing to just get it to jump when it moves

[vernal thicket]

If I have a second mesh which is set owner no see, but I want shadows - do I need to build the lighting to see those shadows? I can't understand why I can't see the shadows from the mesh

[plush yew]

Good morning, i have a problem with the VR motion controller, its floating when i walk on steps or anything else and move back. Gravity is enabled, and so is physics... but capsule keeps floating

[vernal thicket]

Is 'is in air' set to true when this happens?

or 'is falling' even

[plush yew]

i dont know where to find that option? <_<

[vernal thicket]

Inside character BP, do event tick, get character movement component, drag off and type 'is falling' and then print string to see when is falling

Set a delay on the event tick so it's easier to read

[plush yew]

oh wait ... maybe because i have a "floating pawn movement"

sheesh

[plush yew]

my glass stopped working switching from ue4 to 5

its screenspace not raytraced

anyone know why a material like glass would change to a blank uv after the switch

i found the error

its these two nodes

[autumn flame]

You're trying to pass a vector into a float arguement

float 3 -> float

[viscid narwhal]

G'd mornin peeple, is there anybody here experienced with landscape tools and such?

[plush yew]

@autumn flamei dont see anything wrong with that

it works perfect in unreal engine 4

it only shows this as an error in ue5

what i want to know is why ue5 cannot handle this and how to resolve it i cant think of any workarounds to achieve this node setup in ue5 myself

[autumn flame]

Then #ue5-general
That's what the error says, you can use ComponentMask in case as a workaround

[plush yew]

u know what

thats actually a good idea

should i push my a+b to a component mask

or component mask first

its a glass opaque and a glass transluscent

[autumn flame]

Dunno where the error originates from but i imagine from a texture of sorts, so you can use it after that

If you need the color of it then it's a different story

[plush yew]

speaking of texture why is Targa (TGA) the most popular texture format for unreal engine games

does it help performance

[autumn flame]

TGAs are less problematic

iirc Engine processes them better for example the mipmaps too

I personally had problems with PNGs too where TGAs worked so sticking to them

[plush yew]

is there any disadvantage

got it to work with the component mask btw thanks

[autumn flame]

TGAs take more space

Really doubt it's that much of an issue tho considering the new Oodle compressions too

To me PNGs were mostly problematic regarding working with Alphas

[plush yew]

tgas take more space

yep

my game is sitting at almost 70gb

just this little section of the map is around 40gb lol

https://streamable.com/hm5wtz

[autumn flame]

You gotta see when the game is packaged how much it takes

Dunno if UE5 has Oodle but if needed you can switch to a method with bigger compression ratios but slower decode

[autumn flame]

Just ask away your problem, doubt anyone will raise hands saying me meeee!!! :p

[plush yew]

i have another issue

https://streamable.com/it335q

i dont want rain any more opaque than this

[carmine shuttle]

can some one share his dual screen layout?

[plush yew]

but when its under directional light its invisible

is there a way to make a mask to make it more opaque under light

[viscid narwhal]

Oh well u're probably right, thing is i'm having a bucket of problems right now 😄

So i've got this 16k heightmap imported into unreal, tried both importing it full and importing it split into 16 tiles using world compo. Anybody knows why the latter gave me an average of 40fps with 3-5mil tris drawn while having it imported as a full 16k landscape gives me 120fps while drawing 18-22mil tris? i'm also noob on performance thingys

[autumn flame]

World Comp is getting Deprecated, but had a similar issue when using it

Solved by creating Tile impostors with the tool they provide for each Tile

Basically when far enough from a tile it will be replaced by a StaticMesh

I honestly don't think World Comp is worth it rn, had so many problems with it, don't think it works with the Water System too

[plush yew]

does Level Streaming is getting deprecated too?

& what are that green squared division on the terrain tool?

I am minding making a low-poly terrain, however, the best result is only achievable by modelling on external software, as the terrain tool make curve smooth as vegan butter

[drowsy snow]

Nope. Level streaming in code is here to stay.

[plush yew]

if I start now defining my level streaming volumes, it will migrate flawless to UE5?

[autumn flame]

May be cause you didn't build light, or you can set it to movable

[plush yew]

I mean, at least on the plan

[plush yew]

ah, so there is nothing with optimization of any kind, regardless streaming or world comp

[autumn flame]

Oh

You mean the green squared vision when you create a Landscape?

[plush yew]

yes

[autumn flame]

It's just the Landscape Quads

[plush yew]

hm

a matter of division-organization?

[autumn flame]

Resolution and LODs

[plush yew]

I am minding a low-poly terrain, divided by level streaming, as I want to run on most hardware possible; ok; I will rely heavily on navigation invokers. Can I build the base terrain divided (and called by streaming) or should I model it as a full piece and use streaming just for landscape plants etc.?

[viscid narwhal]

So world comp is bad bad. The only actual reason i decided to go for a landscape is because it allows for material layer painting , which shouldn't be possible on static meshes, is that right?

[autumn flame]

World Comp is literally getting removed and replaced with World Partition :p

[viscid narwhal]

How low poly btw?

[autumn flame]

Landscape is good yeah, in case you are worried about polys you can always adjust Landscape LODs

[plush yew]

this is a huge mountain

it does not get more defined

[viscid narwhal]

Ah yikes thats true. So a full piece 18km landscape CAN be fine? Also landscape lods are auto generated or do they need setting up?

[autumn flame]

Auto generated

You just edit that value there

[viscid narwhal]

I dont know about mobile gaming honestly, but for everything else i wouldnt worry about polys if thats your final model

[autumn flame]

I suggest Wireframe view for when adjusting LODs

On Landscape

[plush yew]

will World Partition works with terrain out of the Terrain Tool?

[granite spire]

Hmm multi dimensional arrays are a pain

[autumn flame]

Yes

[plush yew]

what is the difference between WP and Level Streaming?

[granite spire]

surely there's a simple idea rather than this atrocity

[autumn flame]

WP uses Level Streaming but for Tiled Landscapes

[plush yew]

what do you mean Tiled Landscapes?

anything that is on world space?

[autumn flame]

It basically creates a SubLevel for each Tile

You can load and unload parts of the world

[plush yew]

so manual level streaming creation will feel pointless

[autumn flame]

Manual Level Streaming is for more scripted levels

WP is done for open worlds

[plush yew]

for all axis world partition?

how can they unload & load a block of terrain, since it is the same mesh?

[autumn flame]

It's not

[plush yew]

or, again, the fixed terrain is the only mesh that does not get unloaded?

[autumn flame]

That's the thing

Each Tile is a different Landscape

Different Level

Put together to create the entire Landscape

In the Persistent Level

[vivid copper]

hello, im new to unreal engine.
is ue4 the one i should start with? that would be what i guess, but im not familair with ue4 or 5 so im not sure.

[plush yew]

yes, as skills translate; blueprint scripting etc.

[vivid copper]

if skills translate then what are the reasons that i should go for ue4 instead of 5?
not trying to be a smartass, just curious

[viscid narwhal]

I think you really dont wanna deal with bugs and such while starting out

[autumn flame]

Theoretically UE5 is not that stable rn but soon enough when UE5 will release most will transfer over

[vivid copper]

i see

[autumn flame]

But at the same time UE4 basically works the same as UE5 scripting wise and all that

[vivid copper]

so i wont miss out much if i decide to start learning ue4?

[autumn flame]

Not really, you will most likely have to get used to the new interface when going over UE5

That's really it

[vivid copper]

alright, thanks for the information

[granite spire]

This is the "multi dimensional array" searcher I have, it just loops through a struct, it's disgusting

[plush yew]

ok, so there is no such a thing of loading and unloading just a part of a mesh in streaming logic

[autumn flame]

You assing the items to a stream level and when you unload it, the item unloads too

Imagine it like opening a new Level

But without actually opening a new Map

[plush yew]

ok I got it

I was just thinking if Unreal could do these type of thing

who knows, the code there to me is alien tech

[viscid narwhal]

Maybe you're thinking of LODs...

[autumn flame]

If he means reducing the quality of it for performance based on distance, then LODs

Ye

[plush yew]

I do not think so; I was thinking, lets say an huge spaceship that loads and unload like occlusion culling do with the mesh?

[viscid narwhal]

I think he means whether it can be done or not on a single mesh

[autumn flame]

Best way i can explain Level Streaming is

Imagine having a big Space Station and you take an Elevator

When taking the Elevator you unload the previous Level and load the new one

So the section you're not using is not loaded in memory

[viscid narwhal]

Oh yeah, nvm

btw isn't there always a bit of a stuttering in frames whe loading/unloading?

[autumn flame]

If it loads it all together yeah

Not sure if it can be done async

Never looked into it much

[plush yew]

really thanks

@autumn flame

I was spending like an hour trying to figure ot why it wasnt working

now it works perfect

[viscid narwhal]

I really feel like an alien when talking performance

[plush yew]

pfffttt who needs performance

raytracing eyelashes

thats what we need

[autumn flame]

Raytrace the raytrace

[plush yew]

raytrace the lumen

whoops

[autumn flame]

Resolution scale 200%

[plush yew]

streaming culling

[viscid narwhal]

hi poly meshes instead of HUD elements

[plush yew]

maybe in ue6

[autumn flame]

Just create your UI with cubes and text renders, plop down a RenderTarget and render it on the UI

[viscid narwhal]

in ue6 the average indiegame will be around 5tb

[viscid narwhal]

Where the fun in that... Also u won't be using nanite with that approach

[autumn flame]

Next step of optimization

Everything is a StaticMesh for Nanite

[plush yew]

next step, gamification of real life, no more video-games

ue7 = metagame, indies can now generate AAA titles

ue8 = Verse++ rewritten

[granite spire]

Multi dimensional array

[viscid narwhal]

UE9

Multidimensional arrays are a thing of the past

So i was diving into material creation in designer and i was wondering, whats the typical workflow there? Do you use the tessellation displacement in unreal? POM? Do you actually slightly displace the mesh (which i've read should be cheaper)?

[autumn flame]

Tesselletion is getting deprecated

[brittle plume]

Please, does anyone know how to make particles slowly disappear inside an actor? Thanks in advance for future answers

[autumn flame]

You ask it nicely ☺️

[brittle plume]

Goes better? 😊

[autumn flame]

Haha, not you, I meant ask the particle nicely to slowly disappear :p

But seriously, it depends on how you have it setup

[brittle plume]

Unfortunately it didn't work 😦

[brittle plume]

i downloaded it free couf couf couf

emh... wait

It has such a bad quality... They forgot to update themselves to modernity

[brittle plume]

Anyway, does anyone know that I have to click?

[autumn flame]

Oh that's Cascade, pretty old stuff

[brittle plume]

Without replicating the explosion particle in real life on my pc. thank

[autumn flame]

Check Scale Color / Life

Distribution

Set it to a Curve

[brittle plume]

wait I missed something? 😂

[autumn flame]

It already has points

Check them

[brittle plume]

right?

[autumn flame]

Expands the OutVal too

[autumn flame]

Can you show me the actual Curve?

[brittle plume]

emh...? yes, think

What is... the, actual Curve?

Uh @autumn flame is this?

[autumn flame]

Yep

[brittle plume]

perfect, now?

[autumn flame]

Actually try this

Distribution Vector Constant Curve

Change to

Distrubution Float Constant Curve

[brittle plume]

omh...

[autumn flame]

Guess it got deprecated, lmao

Didn't work with Cascade for a while

But should be fine

Delete the points you have

Then create 2 new ones

[brittle plume]

wait, emh... you run too much, you run too much, where is it?

[autumn flame]

Click the trash can

Then click + 2 times

[brittle plume]

ok done

I deleted all Points

[autumn flame]

First one

You created 2 new ones?

[brittle plume]

Yes

[autumn flame]

First one

[autumn flame]

InVal 0.0
OutVal 1.0

[brittle plume]

?

[autumn flame]

Yes

Second one

InVal 1.0
OutVal 0.0

[brittle plume]

done

[autumn flame]

It should fade and scale out over the lifespan now

[brittle plume]

I try

[brittle plume]

It doesn't happen

[autumn flame]

What are you trying to achieve

Like, what type of particle, how do you want it to fade

The setup there is for the actual particle itself to fade out naturally by itself when lifespan is ending

If you are destroying a particle manually, that's something else

[brittle plume]

I think he does it but then he spreads others, I need this cloud of smoke of 1 second precisely under a falling mesh, I managed to do it but anyway as soon as the cloud of smoke disappears it does not do the animation so it suddenly disappears making it all sh- ugly

[brittle plume]

In "Lifetime" I found this

[autumn flame]

You destroying it anywhere?

Cause Deactivate should just stop it from creating new particles

[brittle plume]

no? Destroying? no no I think you mean "Destroy Component" as soon as I don't need it anymore, I just took off the active car and put that as soon as it falls, it activates and then detaches after 1 second

[autumn flame]

Destroying deletes all the particles too with it

[brittle plume]

yes

[brittle plume]

But he doesn't do it slowly, they suddenly disappear

[autumn flame]

Yes

That's what Destroy does

Deactivate it, have a Delay, then Destroy

[brittle plume]

I was writing to you in Italian I realized it later, I mean that ... they disappear, all of a sudden, that is, they do PUF, and not slowly, slowly,

[autumn flame]

If you destroy them, they will poof yes

[brittle plume]

i try, again

wait a second

[brittle plume]

Now they no longer appear directly 😂

[autumn flame]

Dunno what you're doing

My suggestion as i said is Deactivate -> Wait -> Destroy

[brittle plume]

The Particles 😦

[zealous magnet]

Is it possible to move a whole sub-level around?

Like, I want to be able to build a certain room interior in a sub level with origin at 0,0,0 and then place that sublevel containing the room interior at a certain position in the main level

[drowsy snow]

If you're using World Composition, then yes.

Sort of, because it doesn't keep all the actors in dead center on their own.

Though World Composition is mainly for open world maps, so might be a bitch to deal with in more linear map progression

[blissful kindle]

just downloaded ue5 and i'm getting 20 fps

how do i make it run better

[opal coral]

Hey, a team member was working on a .umap file, pulled some new files (unrelated ones), and now their umap doesn't show up anymore, except in explorer. Reimporting it doesn't work, and their previous version is quite old. Is anyone familiar with maps suddenly disappearing from the content browser? Any ideas how to restore it?

Same engine version and all

[drowsy snow]

Get a better PC, or disable Lumen.

[blissful kindle]

how do i disable lumen

[drowsy snow]

Also #ue5-general

[blissful kindle]

oh

alright

[drowsy snow]

This channel is still predominantly UE4.

[naive grail]

Hi there everyone! I've been bashing my head against this for the last couple days, getting close but still can't quite figure it out. I've been working with the UGCExample and extending it.

I'm building a moddable game. Currently I just want my game runtime to be able to load a UGC Mod pak that's been packaged from the editor.

So far the way I do it is call:

1. bool bDoesPluginExist = IPluginManager::Get().AddPluginSearchPath(PluginPathWithTrailingSlash, true);
2. Then I Register the mount point for the Pak that's found by this RegisterMountPoint(FString::Printf(TEXT("/%s/"), *ModName), FString::Printf(TEXT("../../../%s/Mods/%s/Content/"), FApp::GetProjectName(), *ModName)); where ModName is the FriendlyName of the mod.
3. I then append the AssetRegistry.bin for this Mod to the Game runtime asset registry using:

FAssetRegistryState PakState;
PakState.Load(SerializedAssetData); // Where this is the AssetRegistry.bin referenced from the mount point "../../../%s/Mods/%s/AssetRegistry.bin"
AssetRegistryModule.Get().AppendState(PakState);

4. I then run IPluginManager::Get().LoadModulesForEnabledPlugins(ELoadingPhase::Max);

Now, this order of execution seems to work some of the time and I'm able to discover the .uplugin file, load a UGCPackage and instantiate a static mesh from it. But sometimes this does not work at all, and sometimes I am only able to discover .uplugin without the assets. I believe because there is some asynchronous operation happening in the AddPluginSearchPath function, RegisterMountPoint and FAssetRegistryState::Load. I'm eventually able to get the assets if I continue rerunning this execution order.

I'm wondering if anyone has some pointers or tips on how to load a .uplugin .pak at runtime and be able to add it's .uplugin to the plugins list?

[drowsy snow]

I never touched UGC so I do apologize if my answer don't sit well with what you're looking for - but if you want a moddable game, without having to ship a modified UnrealEd, then IMO the better way would be to come up with your own solutions/workarounds or having runtime scripts in languages like Lua.

UGC still isn't exactly align with what would usually comes to mind in terms of moddability and end user ease. I think in the end you'd still have to ship the modified editor to get the plugins working correctly, which can only be done through Epic Launcher and through several agreements.

If you insist, though, maybe try looking for approaches and details on delivering patches or DLCs, as it's fundamentally the same as that.

[naive grail]

Thanks @drowsy snow

It's not a problem for me to use a modified UnrealEd as it's for something internal. I'm mostly just wanting to load in content at runtime.

I think the solution is close, it's more to do with these functions working asynchronously, and trying to find the easiest way to execute things in the correct order

[drowsy snow]

As for custom assets, the modding community has already put together decent methods of hacking in custom models without having to have the modified editor. (Bandai Namco games made with UE4 already have a sizeable modding activities)

Again, though, treat it as you would like adding DLCs and patches into your game, if you're going for the more "official" route.

Loading additional .pak file in runtime is basically how DLCs are handled.

[naive grail]

Thanks @drowsy snow

[hollow cairn]

hey slackers
I'm thinking about doing a splitscreen co op project and I was wondering if it's possible to make a screen that switches from split to single depending on where the players are?

I don't want a tutorial or anything I just want to hear your opinion if that sounds doable or not and how complicated that might be

[sinful willow]

Hey, does anyone know if there is a way to setup collaboration on the same project through a VPN?

[distant siren]

hi dear,I created my character swimming in the sea: forward, backward, right and left. , the only problem is that I can't get it to move up and down to make it go higher on the sea or lower on the sea, what did I do wrong?

first screen is in animation BP the second screen is in CharacterBP

[hollow cairn]

is your char swimming on the surface or below?

[distant siren]

swims in the deep soil of the sea

[hollow cairn]

huh, does he sink if you place him higher and then press play?

[clever flare]

were can I find view settings for the content browser in UE5?

[distant siren]

no it always floats! can swim forward back left and right, I can't move up and down to change her swim in the sea water level. I'm using him as the only character swimming without connecting him to the walking character ,I don't need to make him walk, the game is all inside the sea

[hollow cairn]

so the character should swim up when you look up right?

[distant siren]

exactly but it doesn't swim if I look up or down.

[hollow cairn]

that is weird

[lethal wigeon]

Did anyone else had this issue?

I created a custom cube with a custom collision. I import them and for some reason the Collision gets rotated on import. When i set all rotations to 0 it works, but if press reset, the collision doesn't scale at all.

[distant siren]

yes, in fact, from the screenshots I sent, I didn't do anything wrong?

[hollow cairn]

I don't see anything wrong, but I am a beginner so don't take my word. Just thought I would try to help 😅

[distant siren]

thanks

[lethal wigeon]

this more or less fixed it. but iam still confused. cause the cube should not care about its forward axis.... all transformations are freezed in maya and both cubes are on 0,0,0.

[plush yew]

anyone know where this lod comes from

i searched the static mesh and material and found nothing

it appears on some of my water actors but not all

[iron wadi]

Hey, wasn't there a UDN only issue tracker for hidden issues? I am searching for issues UE-112667 and UE-113081, but they are hidden on the issue tracker and I cannot find them on UDN.

[hollow dove]

Why does the top of my mesh have Broken shadows but the bottom is fine

[vestal turret]

Anyone know how to use IK Stretch Bone from Blender into Unreal ?

[plush yew]

thats not a normal map lol

nanite is insane

[autumn grail]

How to do for having the skeletons appearing in the list of "retargeting animations" ?

ok ty

[tame marsh]

Look into Mesh Distance Fields if you haven't yet.

I just noticed you're using UE5 though so I'm not sure if that's present there

[plush yew]

@tame marshits not related to mesh distance fields

not enabled nor does any of my meshes contain this

[dusk tartan]

Hello everyone, i have a question, when i hit play in unreal i want it to play from a lens of a camera in my scene. Is it possible ?

( if the question isn't clear or something please tell me, i will explain ty ty )

[plush yew]

yo wtf

if u use an emmisive object as a boolean in the modeling editor plugin (comes with ue4/5 by default)

u get this

the boolean object leaves a emissive insert

[humble moon]

Hi! I have a general UE question, should I be using a Player Controller for my multiplayer game? If so, what should I be doing with it.

[plush yew]

@plush yewunreal engine material nodes are already baked

it doesnt bake anything

it just adds it as a new material slot to the mesh you apply the boolean

[autumn flame]

from the bakery

[weary remnant]

Is there a way to add an issue to Unreal Engine Issues (https://issues.unrealengine.com/)?

[harsh tiger]

This is the end of my crash report when trying to run my app on the oculus quest 2 in standalone. Any ideas what it could be?

[autumn flame]

You can't have Mobile HDR with it

[harsh tiger]

I have mobile HDR disabled in project settings

[autumn flame]

Odd then

[harsh tiger]

Sounds like unreal to me 😂 i'll restart the project and do a full rebuild. Maybe it didn't realise it was disable or something

[autumn flame]

In case you could try to force it with the console command, never know

r.MobileHDR 0

[autumn flame]

Huh

I'm not getting that

Nv,

Nvm*

I am

[harsh tiger]

When I play in VR in the editor everything works perfectly. It's just when I try the apk on the headset it crashes on load

[autumn flame]

Does the crash window tell you anything useful?

[harsh tiger]

Inside the headset? Nope

[autumn flame]

Seems like it's a bug with 4.25?

Lots of posts about it crashing on 4.25

Seems like it crashes in the Apk indeed

Are you able to try another version?

[stuck nova]

Anyone know or have a resource I can check out to have a tile set change via button press?

Like player can toggle different tile sets by key press

[novel ember]

Does UE4.26 keep backups anywhere but the Saved/Autosaves folder?

[royal magnet]

Can anyone tell me why is this happening, this is a megascan asset? and first time I am having this error

[ember star]

Can I open the world composition overhead map in game, as a minimap feature?

[grim ore]

world composition is an editor feature, so no

[ember star]

Is there another simple way to get a top down visual of an area?

I guess just spin camera, add an opaque overlay, and markers?

[grim ore]

usually a render target onto an image using the UI system is a simple way

[ember star]

Nice, thanks, ill try that

[royal magnet]

funny part is it looks fine in the scene but when you open from the content browser this is how it looks

Mr. Mathew you must know what this is 🙂

[hollow cairn]

is there any way I can split up the default mannequin and use for example the legs somewhere else?

[royal magnet]

You can fbx export it and split anything you want in your 3d software

[hollow cairn]

like maya?

[royal magnet]

yes

[hollow cairn]

cool

[royal magnet]

just do right click and find ' asset actions'

[hollow cairn]

thank you

time to download Maya again

[royal magnet]

or blender 😄

[hollow cairn]

it's just I know how to use maya from school 🐵

[harsh tiger]

I have another project that I've used 4.25 on with VR since the start of the year and had no problems. It's just this new project

[summer plume]

Is it normal that my compressed images (around 200kb) increase in file size to about 10x (2mb) when I import them?

[carmine shell]

I am working on this horror game where the level is really dark. I mean. "can't see one meter away from you dark".
Now I want to know if I can have editor only lightning which will not be there when I run the game as PIE or standalone cause it's hard to work in dark and the Unlit mode is just too white . xD
Sorry, I am new to this so not sure.

sorry. how do I do that?

oh okay.

That makes the world brighter but... hold on. let me show what the issue is

This is how it looks

When I crank up the exposure compensation, it looks like this

Inside, in game it should look like this, when you're inside the house

after cranking up exposure, it looks like this

I am looking for a solution where I'll have lights to work with when working in editor. but lights should not be there when I run the game to test

[grim ore]

you can add lights and make them editor only, hidden in game. You can try adding another level (if using level streaming/levels) that is just lighting and then disable it when playing, you could add apoint light then pilot it as your temporary camera in the editor

[carmine shell]

I tried the editor only solution, but that is only applicable to builds. Not PIE.

I might need to check the solution with a lightning level.. That sounds like a good idea

I have another issue related to perforce version control with UE4

I am trying to save my progress with the save button and I am getting the following error

[grim ore]

Actor hidden in game will have the light work in editor, but hidden when you hit play

[carmine shell]

as you can see, I added a point light and made it an in editor only actor

it's still there when I hit play

[hollow cairn]

wtf stupid ass light

[grim ore]

i didnt say editor only

Actor Hidden In Game

Editor Only has the Cooking header above it, that would only apply for the final product for editor only crap you dont need like arrows

[carmine shell]

oh right.

sorry. You are right

[grim ore]

the easiest way if you just need to see whats near you is to pilot a point light

[carmine shell]

yes but I kinda need to see the whole level while working :3

but yeah this actor hidden in game is what I need

this is great

Now, the next thing. If you have worked with perforce and can help me with my problem. :"(

[grim ore]

I dont work with perforce but #source-control might help

[cedar wave]

Yeah - Mathew prefers the ol' floppy disk method

[grim ore]

no I use source control, like perforce, but never in the engine itself

I just tend to do it all outside using normal programs and not the in built source systems

[cedar wave]

Imagine having to use UE4 with floppy disks though 🤣

So many floppy disks

[drowsy snow]

🤔 💾

[grim ore]

depends on the size of them, or if you consider a Zip Disk a floppy

[carmine shell]

xD I'll check that out. Thanks @grim ore for the help.

[drowsy snow]

Office 97 alone took 46 or so floppies and that was less than a gig

Multiply that by 200

[cedar wave]

9200 floppy disks, lol

[rain hatch]

Is there any way to import .fbx files with the textures, or do I have to manually set them in their material?

[vast anvil]

Gving unreal insights a go.... why do some frames render at the same time as the cpu, but some wait for cpu to finish, or even longer before doing the rendering? https://i.imgur.com/A1iXc3L.png

[drowsy snow]

Most of the times it's the latter.

[rain hatch]

Any other format that could work easier?

for faster iteration

[drowsy snow]

Faster iteration would be reimporting them, but glTF is the closest you can get (though if anything, it's rather finicky)

[rain hatch]

I guess making a custom material and importing them using a naming convention is the way to go

[muted imp]

Hey guys I'm trying to make a stopwatch for a course run but I don't know how. I want to make something like this - https://youtu.be/ey34YhzMpjw

[rose plume]

anyone know how to lower a audio in bp? i tried these 2 but it didnt make a different

[quaint notch]

Anyone know if there's a way to write an FTEST for multiple players?

[dry wedge]

Any can help me for this

all bones are created correctly what could be the problem?

sprint is ok everything is ok just running is like this

[fleet scroll]

This question doesn't pertain to the engine so I'm asking in general chat. Where do I report an epic games user account for their username? This dude's username is "NÄGGER"

That a with two dots, if I'm not mistaken, is german and pronounced " ee "

or "i"

[drowsy snow]

Simple enough. Decrease a float variable for the seconds with the world delta seconds.

[humble moon]

should I use a player controller?

[quaint notch]

Ä is pronounced like the A in 'hat'

[dry wedge]

@plush yew They really were like curves I used the curve copy system and now they work correctly a lot Thanks

[plush yew]

Damn all these free model packages are unsupported on 5.0

[plush yew]

damn 30 gigabytes

[light thunder]

Question - is there anyway to stop my streamed level from causing slowdowns? I don't have "should block on load" check - I don't care if it takes longer, I wish I could tell it, "load everything slowly and gently' but I'm not sure how to do that exactly

To be clear - this is a packaged build - while these are not "small levels" they are not huge world style either - the hitching is occuring

[dense knoll]

this errror pops up every five secconds

[marsh swallow]

okay so i was messing around with our default character settings and inputs implimenting MoveIT! (which works great btw) however i never marked down the settings we had for movement/camera controls.

When mounted, the horse and camera is working with the exception of when pressing left or right (A or D) the mount does not respond to turn and go forward in that direction

think simple movement. 😄

what in the heck did i miss

You can see its all working and i can move the cameras as i wish, then the W/D keys orient direction to the camera, however when pressing A or D the horse should turn and move forward in the right or left direction

ummm

please ignore this

im stupid

you see... when you feed in nothing... you get... nothing

[celest hull]

Can someone point me towards a tutorial on multiplayer character system. I am missing a simple thing, i know, but i cannot seem to get over this particular hurdle. I am having trouble keeping the settings for Char1 seperate from Char2. I just need an overview of a multiplayer character selection system. Conceptual level is fine. Thanks

[dawn glacier]

when im importing something from blender the material is not importing at all or not correctly. What is the proper way to import models

only thing im finding is that you gotta check import materials in ue4 but i have that checked

[coral jolt]

Can someone direct me to a tutorial on how to import a metahuman in UE5. I was able to download the metahuman but when I hit the add button on quixel bridge the folders it creates are empty except for the clothing. Can anyone help?

[vague shale]

For some reason the editor isnt detected new or changed files in the project directory and I need to manually import things to get them to show up. is there some option or hotkey I need to slap to undo this?

[indigo cradle]

I have a question about renaming folders. I notice that Unreal creates redirectors and leaves the old folder in place. Is there a way to get rid of the old folders?

[drowsy snow]

Right click -> fix up redirectors

[drowsy snow]

I see that Direct3D 12 in Unreal is still unstable 🤔
It used to crash A LOT even in 4.26, so I just full on using Direct3D 11.

[drowsy snow]

Unfortunately this is like one of those questions that no one has the definitive answer. God knows if Epic already started using internal version of World Partition for Fortnite when everyone else outside UDN struggled with the level streaming merits.

[burnt tinsel]

help

i have a 3d screenspace widget

but widget component on clicked event isn't firing

only the button onclick event works inside the widget bp

but i want it to work in the actor bp

[autumn grail]

Hello , how to prevent seeing 0.0.0 location with camera on begin play , when loading open 127.0.0.1 map?

I have tried with sequences playing but we see this ugly 0.0.0 point for 1 second

is there a way to deactivate base camera for a moment?

[drowsy snow]

Hide it with a persistent UI? 🤔

[autumn grail]

good idea thx

[slim blaze]

Anyone using Apple silicone?

Is unreal supported?

Please @me if reply

[icy plaza]

I got this problem where nothing wants to snap to a certain surface anymore. Decals ignore the surface. Other geo ignores the surface as well. Does someone know why?

[wary wave]

Unreal Engine does not support modern Apple devices.

[slim blaze]

I saw it on the roadmap for unreal 5 though, not happening?

[wary wave]

as far as I'm aware, Epic are banned from Apple's development tools, so this seems likely the case

[drowsy snow]

Apple's being a jerk lately, and virtually nobody cares about gaming on a Mac ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It's kind of a side effect because of Epic v. Apple lawsuit, and Apple said "f___ you" to Unreal developers for using Epic Games stuff.

[wary wave]

eh, intentionally break a contract and then suing them when they enforce their conditions doesn't exactly put you in the good books

[drowsy snow]

TBH I don't give a bloody damn about Apple. Windows/Linux on PC and Android on mobile are reigning supreme.

[wary wave]

Apple were well within their rights to block those accounts (which is now upheld by the courts)

it's a case of 'fuck around and find out', really

FYI, if you were to sue Epic about anything, they'd block you in a heartbeat

hell, they block your developer account instantly if you so much as reverse a marketplace charge on your credit card

[drowsy snow]

To hell with Apple and their closed environment.

[autumn grail]

I have tried with a Black UI , it is not added before we see the 0.0.0

i ad to viewport the UI at the begin play of the level blueprint

where is the very first execution of the game

[drowsy snow]

Eh, not really. From what I know, level BP executed once the level is usable by the game thread, not the moment it started loading.

[autumn grail]

Game instance should be the very first spawned and executed no?

i ll try

[distant siren]

hi dear, I should have a character activate that chases me throughout the level while my character runs away and is chased. is there a tutorial on this thing?

[deep kraken]

regarding modding, i want my game to be moddable, in realtime by providing a lua interface. the EULA says that you cant distribute any of the Engine Tools with your game except from the Marketplace. Does an ingame scripting interface to the engine count as an access to engine tools?

[wary wave]

if it's referring to a tool you yourself have written, no, the EULA does not apply

but you can't ship a game executable with editor code, e.g. anything that would be wrapped inside a macro like #WITH_EDITOR

[deep kraken]

so basically if i build a standard release version, i can provide an interface to any part of it to the player

[wary wave]

pretty much

you can write any tool you want into the normal packaged build

you just can't include any of the engine tools

[deep kraken]

thanks

[urban dirge]

How to solve this error? error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED with Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG. I have gtx 3090. Error appears when baking light.

unreal 4.26 or 4.27 with rhi dx12 and ray tracing, gpu baking

[distant siren]

if i want to make an enemy run for the whole level and when i touch it i restart the level, is there a tutorial?

[misty wharf]

Are you trying to restart the enemy or the level?

[drowsy snow]

Use the more stable DirectX 11. Sure, you'd lose the raytracing, but Lightmass still works.

DirectX 12 and in some extent Vulkan is still quite unstable in UE4 (and UE5 EA1 last time I checked)

[burnt tinsel]

help

[night flame]

hello all!
give me advice please.
I want to make a 2D game.
question: is there any difference between rendering animation or rendering sprites?

[drowsy snow]

Not sure what you mean by "rendering animation".

[autumn grail]

Can someone help me with groom

its like that in viewport of the groom

and like that in the blueprint

the roots are stretched

[light thunder]

I wonder if there is a way to slow down the process - one day I"ll have to experiment by breaking up the biggest levels into smaller ones and streaming ALL of them in, but one at a time with a slight delay

[drowsy snow]

The better way would be to somehow decouple the loading from game thread, but I know it's super destructive.

[grizzled sonnet]

does anyone know why my displacement maps are always incredibly scuffed??

i have this set up and it looks fine in the preview

but this is what it looks like in preview

why does this happen??? i could never figure out why it does this

even when i apply the material to a flat plane it looks scuffed

like wtf is this?

[drowsy snow]

1. Likely your mesh being the culprit
2. Vertex displacement is NOT NECESSARY for small bump details. I can't stress this enough. Consider using normal maps for small details, or Parallax Occlusion Mapping for more macro faux displacements.

Also, no, Tessellation is not a good magic bullet.

If one wants true displacement, UE5 has Nanite that can decimate huge poly count in real time, because it's easier to decimate poly count than subdividing tris on the spot.

[grizzled sonnet]

but i thought the whole point of displacement maps is to not have to use lots of geometry?

or am i confusing it with normals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR5lrtilWE&ab_channel=3DChallenges

im sort of trying to follow this tutorial

except this is in blender

[drowsy snow]

You're confusing it with normal maps.

[grizzled sonnet]

he uses JUST the displacement map, yet he gets this result

[drowsy snow]

Blender does not have limitations of real time game rendering, that's why.

[grizzled sonnet]

i even tried it in autodesk maya

cannot do it, it looks scuffed no matter what i do

but even before, with different tutorials when I was starting out with unreal engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4dV5cLQAMI&t=1s&ab_channel=Quixel

like this, i followed it word for word, step by step

[drowsy snow]

Here's the thing:

Those two software you mentioned, they used offline rendering by design. They can damn the real time rendering and its limitations for all they want.

[grizzled sonnet]

my snow ended up looking like a blop of white, zero displacement

[obsidian nimbus]

vertex displacement displaces vertex

it cant displace if there isnt any

[drowsy snow]

Unlike those offline renderers, in real time rendering, displacements can only displace existing vertices.

[grizzled sonnet]

what do u mean offline renderers, whats the difference between online and offline ones

[obsidian nimbus]

you can use displacement on a super high poly mesh and bake a normal map out of it tho

[drowsy snow]

Or using Nanite, which basically realtime mesh decimating.

[grizzled sonnet]

so do u reckon if I add more polys to the model, will it work?

[obsidian nimbus]

also its only in UE5

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but you'll going to damn performace with it, if you're not in UE5 and not using the Nanite system.

[light thunder]

Anyone know an input wizard? I've got to figure out a way to trick the engine into think a key has been pressed (the simulate keypress from Victory Plugin doesn't work for me) - so the game will listening for a ON Key Release event - (I'm using a special plugin for a VR application that makes a popup game window that you can use to have a widget, but if you click in the screen, it will temporarily interrupt input for the VR user. So if the VR user is holding down a key and the instructor presses a single mouse click into this other game window, it will immediately drop input (and fire an OnRelease Key Event) - I can put logic into it that can bypass whatever action would be applied to a REAL OnRelease event, but I can't make the system go back to Listening for the OnRelease event again, the VR user literally will have to hit the button again

TLDR _

1. VR application, with special popup boxes for the instructor to run someone through VR experience
2. Clicking in special popup box immediately steals input, causing VR Player input to drop for a second (which fires OnRelease Events)
3. Input immediately goes back, so VR player doesn't necessarily release
4. Can't figure out a way to make the game engine listen for OnRelease event again, to bypass the original input dropping

In my application, someone is holding down a radio button and its the main "gameplay" so it's a big deal

and if you click into the popup window they stop transmitting

[grizzled sonnet]

do u reckon this is enough

[drowsy snow]

You can achieve almost the same effect with normal maps.

POM would work better on flatter surfaces, like grounds. Hence it's used for snow trails and alike.

[drowsy snow]

Probably not enough for that detail, but you're using UE4 anyway so...

[grizzled sonnet]

but even then, that snow tutorial was made ages ago, and i attempted it in the same version that the guy was using

[drowsy snow]

@grizzled sonnet

[grizzled sonnet]

and it still didnt work, I did everything the same to the DOT

i went back an forth in that tutorial for hours

days even

until i just gave up cuz it wouldnt work

[drowsy snow]

For comparison, The Last Of Us 2 uses POM for snow trails.

[grizzled sonnet]

what does POM stand for

[obsidian nimbus]

paralax mapping

[drowsy snow]

Parallax Occlusion Mapping

[drowsy snow]

Basically you're faking a displacement with it, though may not work well on curved and angled objects like your mesh.

But for flatter surfaces like snow field, it works good, and relatively easier on performance.

[drowsy snow]

I'm not sure if VR has this different enough, so... #virtual-reality

[grizzled sonnet]

then how did that guy in the tutorial do it so easily

is it just because blender?

but why can blender do it but nothing else can, even tho its the same concept

[drowsy snow]

Basically yes.

[drowsy snow]

Because Blender's material system is not 1:1 with others, and there are no concerns about realtime rendering, at all.

[grizzled sonnet]

so is it literally impossible for me to achieve the same effect in maya?

[light thunder]

This is more of a Windows limitation, I will actually check #cpp

but vr is still a good idea

[drowsy snow]

It's impossible if you don't know how to improvise them.

[night flame]

hi, i mean, which is easier for the GPU:
there are 100 animations on the stage with bones
there are 100 animations from sprites on the stage

[drowsy snow]

Assuming you're going to make Smash TV / Alien Shooter type of game, shooting hordes of enemies:

In many cases it's the latter, but CPU's still play role on handling those on screen regardless.

I think in most parts, CPU has more work with dealing hundreds of AI agents and their own animations than the GPU would to render them (and sorting them) on screen.

[night flame]

thx!

[hollow cairn]

do I export the thirdpersoncharacter blueprint?

nono, just the mannequin mesh right?

[royal magnet]

Hey man, no just the mesh, find the mesh, character, if you have the mannequin on your scene click on it and use search icon, little magnifying glass to locate

Yes blueprint for action, you need just mesh, legs,arms and stuff

[hollow cairn]

there are three 👀

mannequin, mannequon physicsAsset and mannequin skeleton

just the basic one?

[royal magnet]

Yes, the one when you click and just opens mannequin not any blueprint

Just export the asset and try

[hollow cairn]

ah yes, thank you

[royal magnet]

No problem, hope it will work out fine

[lapis iron]

what channel is for Shader work?

[formal needle]

Hi guys , Im working on multiplayer, and there is a problem that i need to replicate this attachment in order show in widget at client, but tmap variables cant replicate ,i try using function and getting function cant be replicate. Any idea how to replicate this?

[winter gale]

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1443191329958219778

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

In #UnrealEngine 5, you will get a brand new interactive Blueprint pin inspection when a breakpoint is hit. In this image you can see how rich the tooltip is for the Return Value of Get Owner node.

#UnrealEngine5 #UnrealFeatures #UE5 #UETips

Twitter · Sep 29, 2021, 12:30 PM

[wary wave]

it's a nice idea, but boy does that UI need to be better

using the variable categories would be a good start, giving it an actual window so you can actually do stuff whilst it's visible, etc

[warm hornet]

Anyone know if its possible to lock a viewport to a specific view? I have a 2 viewport setup and bookmarks set for different views. However when I switch views I only want one viewport to change and the other to remain 'locked'.
This is really essential for client presentations when you might have Pathtracing enabled in one viewport and regular lit or unlit mode in another.

[harsh tiger]

Does anyone know how to access videos on the quest 2? I've got a plugin for this. But inside the app I only see a folder called \storage and inside that is an "emulated" and "self" folder which are both empty. How can I give my app access to the internal storage on the quest 2?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/video-player-360-2d-180-360-stereo plugin in question

[light thunder]

is there anyway to add a UI to the viewport and magically have the player camera ignore it?

[native swift]

Hello, does anyone know how to emmit audio from an AI? as in it plays from where ever the AI is and is louder depending on player radius. Currently the audio plays from the AI's original location at the start of play but doesnt follow the AI once its starts moving. We are using spawn sound at location, then get active location

[winter gale]

This is first pass. Probably they will improve it down the road.

[candid grail]

I am having a problem where all my item icons turn white?

https://gyazo.com/6dac939edccf4dcaa5a5e226ffee2f63

https://gyazo.com/979324c240afdf1fd771b130e6c769f6

https://gyazo.com/fb4eb0a0a1a79f04c8e402dac4db58c8

https://gyazo.com/83fe6cbedc67f4431f1e740f3921e9c2

[grim ore]

what conversions are you doing into the set brush from texture node?

[sterile lichen]

i wish this was a thing too https://twitter.com/exifrexi/status/1432608327910006786

Cedric 'eXi' Neukirchen (@exifrexi)

Vastly improved variable inspector for Blueprints.

@UnrealEngine You still have the option to get this into UE5, if it isn't already. Who do I need to ping to get proper Epic eyes on it? Don't make me @ Tim.

Such QOL improvements are still really needed in UE. https://t.co/NHm4uQ3lFW

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[candid grail]

https://gyazo.com/57c1fce8d23f249ca75734e3f73c47da

[grim ore]

first thing to check is to see if that code even works, unhook the texture input and force a texture in there. if that works the icon should show up now (wrong one, but the node works)

[candid grail]

It does, i think it is a GC thing, when I change my texture in my item class it works for a bit, but then all of a sudden it just stops working..?

https://gyazo.com/2eeb2d8bd449dba33067301900c13b12

[grim ore]

thats for pre construct right?

[candid grail]

Yes

i only do pre constuct?

[grim ore]

so have you verified then that the code itself is actually sending in a valid texture 2d reference when running? breakpoint on the set brush from texture node and when it fires in game see what the input is for that texture

or oh.. this issue isnt at runtime is it?

[candid grail]

It don't work in runtime ether

[grim ore]

debug it in runtime with a breakpoint then

[candid grail]

No, but I don't see what I would be able to change?

[grim ore]

I can say I have that same basic setup using a variable (not default but a variable on the widget) and it never gets cleaned up here

[sturdy smelt]

Hey Guys im importing an Pose, like just 1 Keyframe, and the Problem is, that my rotations of my arm get curshed totally, any idea why?

on C4D it looks good

[grim ore]

just to make sure when running its actually getting something valid for the texture

[candid grail]

You are right, i get None...

[granite spire]

why does this problem sound familiar

[candid grail]

?

[granite spire]

things randomly stop working, I've had a few of those, I do know there's a few issues with empty arrays in structs as I found out as of 2 days ago

what exactly is your end goal here?

[grim ore]

backtrack then and see what your base class is then, it must be bad for some reason if its returning nothing

[candid grail]

This is the correct way of referencing a texture asset, right?

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly, Category = "Item")
TAssetPtr<UTexture2D> Icon;```

That is the only actual code I have, everything else is backend unreal stuff?

[granite spire]

because if you're setting that and it's a reference, and the reference is null then it's a timing issue, as your model is being set before the reference, I recommend a temporary delay of 0.1 and see if it works

i know UE4 gets me on it's timing of how it generates things

[candid grail]

Nah, I reference the class defaults.

Not an instance of the class.

[granite spire]

so the class default is null and not being set?

[candid grail]

Nope, that is verified.

[granite spire]

if that's the case then that's working as intended

[candid grail]

Also, all the text works...

[granite spire]

defaults are preexisting data you set out of game

[candid grail]

yea?

[granite spire]

I think even if you set a reference when it's created that's not part of the defaults

as defaults are different

from memory

[candid grail]

But why would only the texture fail then?

[granite spire]

though i'm not understanding what you're trying to do

[candid grail]

I'm trying to make the texture not display as white, but the specified texture in the item class.

[granite spire]

what's the list you're trying to pull from look like?

chuck us a screen shot

I got a feeling I know what's going on

[candid grail]

No list, only what i sent before; the WBP_ShopItem is a ui element that takes an item class to get default info from.

Most likely, but how?

I am wondering if i actually want an UTexture2D* instead of a TAssetPtr<UTexture2D>...

[granite spire]

So this icon is pulling a null? if you set this on the BP itself manually I would imagine it would work, but I think it might be like models how you can't reference them and you have to create a variable that holds that data

thought you're doing it through C++, I know in blueprints you can just add a variable image and use that (I think), I know UE4 locks out some things like models from defaults

[candid grail]

This seems to have fixed the problem.

[candid grail]

It needs to be done in C++ for architectural reasons.

[granite spire]

yeah from what I see TAssetsPtr might not reference correctly

[weak urchin]

Does anyone know what the processing exports means when saving? It takes a full ten minutes to save a fairly simple map.

[granite spire]

do assets not reference correctly but a whole class does? maybe

[candid grail]

Yeah, but I thought having a pointer to a texture would be worse; I guess unreal is swapping it behind the scenes.

[granite spire]

sounds common to the mesh itself perhaps

well at least you figured it out

glad I was of 0.0001% help in jolting ur brain

I know if I forget something I google it and figure it out as I type it

[candid grail]

Haha, you guys led in the right direction; I havened thought to change the data type xD

Yeah, me to.

[sterile lichen]

that is quite ancient article

[granite spire]

yeah I UE4 be crazy

[sterile lichen]

TAssetPtr is like blast from 4.10

[candid grail]

Jup, I think it will be deprecated as well?

[granite spire]

sounds like redundancies

[sterile lichen]

it is typedef to TSoftObjectPtr nowadays so replace with TSoftObjectPtr

blueprint has ASyncLoadAsset node that takes in soft pointer and loads it

[candid grail]

That's what is was!

Thx

[sterile lichen]

the small bp node SoftToPtr simply uses Get which will return null is asset is not loaded yet

worst part of AsyncLoadAsset is that it does not have automatic output pin type resolving like most of others do, so need to cast

one day they will fix it

[granite spire]

Ahhhhh

that is valuable

[distant siren]

if i want to make an enemy run for the whole level and he follow me, is there a tutorial? I mean I run away from the enemy who runs after me for the whole level

[grim ore]

there are official AI docs, there is an AI course, and there is google. so yes there are tutorials

[near breach]

Damm one uses 4 anymore

[distant siren]

do you have the link?

[warm hornet]

Can anyone tell me what the limiting factor is in terms of texture resolution? I have 20 4K maps for a desktop application.

[grim ore]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/introduction-to-ai-with-blueprints @distant siren

[winter gale]

Its almost similar to the one I posted. I think Epic saw that.

[sterile lichen]

i guess it is first step to proper tree view

of variables

like in VS debugger

hopefully they will finish tree view too and backport it to 427

[distant siren]

I HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS I MEAN SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC,but thanks 😉

[grim ore]

that course has what you want...

how much more specific do you need?

[distant siren]

something more synthesized as possible

[grim ore]

begin play -> move to actor. done.

[distant siren]

sorry but i don't understand english well.

[distant siren]

I would say a great start, good, are you starting now?you have a great future to begin play😂

[grim ore]

that is the code you asked for. that is how you can do what you want

[distant siren]

come on I'm kidding I meant more a specific tutorial., but ok 😉

[grim ore]

what did you need more specifically?

[distant siren]

a tutorial that shows you exactly what you need, this means. not that. I've seen that there are specific tutorials out there about what you want to do

[grim ore]

the one from epic shows you exactly what you need, the docs show you that as well

[distant siren]

a tutorial that shows you how to make an enemy chase you throughout the level, and that's it. simple

[grim ore]

and this is literally all that you need, like I said.

[distant siren]

exact

sorry but i don't understand english well.

and is it a problem for you?

but in reality there are those who upload specific things, let's say that they are two different ways of thinking, you just need to go on the internet to find out that it's a little like me and a little bit like you say

[grim ore]

Googles? https://youtu.be/Z3mWSpKb3Kw

[distant siren]

there is no absolute truth in your way of thinking or doing a tutorial,

The world is beautiful because it is varied

[distant siren]

good

[grim ore]

or again.. the official tutorial where this came from

or I dunno, read the docs

[distant siren]

exactly, I just meant to be a little more relaxed and have a more open view of life

[grim ore]

https://i.gyazo.com/5a90823ea33deacafad33be14f1bb222.gif

[distant siren]

exactly, these are references that can help you the most you understand ,? leonardo da vinci argued that you can not just do theory without practice, the two things walk together, if I can have a specific tutorial of a thing today, tomorrow I will be able to walk alone .. understand?

my comment was inherent in the fact that when you do something you really like and you find it in a tutorial you will be stimulated to do even better, more than a moan is a comment. I understand that you were wrong. 😉

I can assure you that the problems of life are not these and that you were wrong to judge me, you took me a long time, sorry. bye

maybe I go to another discord group, too many moans here;)

[viral veldt]

When you copy or get an asset name it has a period in the name and repeats twice. For example: '/Game/MSPresets/Textures/T_Default_N.T_Default_N', can someone explain what the significance of the dot notation is?

[urban dirge]

But without dx12 and raytracing GPU Lightmas does not work

[drowsy snow]

CPU Lightmass still works in DX11.
And you can still block out the levels before you switch to DX12 temporarily anyway.

At least with my puny Intel i5, CPU Lightmass isn't terribly slow (but I still favour dynamic lighting)

[urban dirge]

yes, and I really need gpu lithmass speed

[urban dirge]

CPU bake for 20-25 hours, gpu bake 10 min

[drowsy snow]

My i5 is practically nothing compared to your setup, but building a lighting with Task Manager process trick, I built indoors in a lunch.

[urban dirge]

and i have 3090, so my choice is gpu lightmass 🙂

[drowsy snow]

But hey, I still can't relate as a low spec dev, still resorting for CPU Lightmass.

Who am I to say, a puny potato GLaDOS attached in a portal gun.

[obsidian nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/burning-hot-nvidia-gpu-fire-gif-20813194

[drowsy snow]

Even then I think Epic kinda prioritise on software RT right now to be working on DX11

Not sure about vulkan tho

Though it also seem that Epic is also working on Vulkan more than DX12, because native Linux practically have no other choice than JIT compilers like DXVK
Vulkan has been a lot more stable on me compared to 4.20 or so.

[obsidian nimbus]

i updated my binary from 4.27.0 to 4.27.0

[drowsy snow]

Well, my bias against realtime raytracing didn't help my case.

[obsidian nimbus]

also im at 5.0.0 EA2 now

the 4.27 update was kinda big

[drowsy snow]

I prefer full raster but playable in many device, over some fancy realtime raytracing but even rich kiddos barely get 60 FPS

[drowsy snow]

Well, it is, the engine code almost got revamped.

[obsidian nimbus]

i didnt see the patch notes of 4.27.0 to 4.27.0

[drowsy snow]

It's either stuff from 4.26 didn't work, or backporting from 4.27 is futile.

I attempted to backport Oodle to 4.26, but the changes just going deeper and deeper, I gave up and cherrypick the changes to base 4.27

[obsidian nimbus]

backport lumen to UDK

[cold bridge]

hey guys I'm having an odd issue. I'm attempting to make a sequencer play at the beginning of my level, but my player is not being hidden eventhough I tick th "hide player" in "set cinematic mode", anyone got an idea?

[drowsy snow]

Not sure about "set cinematic mode", but how about setting Actor Hidden in Game?

[cold bridge]

doesnt work with "playerstart" objects

anyways it seems the node doesn't wait for play to end so therefore it just sets everything back to what it was before.

[drowsy snow]

Not even sure about PlayerStart as it is just an invisible spawn point...

[cold bridge]

this is not what I said.

when playerstart is responsible for spawning a player pawn, you cannot set the visibility of the player pawn itself, it's created in runtime..

so you cant just add the visibility to the playerstart object

and you do not have an access to the player pawn bp object before the game is executing so you cant make it part of the sequencer

[drowsy snow]

Does getting actor of class, and hide it when you run the sequence, not in the sequencer timeline, sounds too hacky for you?

[cold bridge]

again

[grim ore]

do you need the player you are trying to hide?

[cold bridge]

hiding the player start object won't hide my player bp, it's a different object

[drowsy snow]

I mean, it doesn't guarantee to work on multiplayer...

[cold bridge]

I don't plan on making a multiplayer game anyways

[drowsy snow]

The character class, NOT the playerstart object

[cold bridge]

thanks for the answers, as I wrote above I found the answer

mate, the character class does not exist in the environment before the game starts

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure it's solvable with just get player pawn.

[cold bridge]

you cant assign it to the sequencer

[drowsy snow]

In BP, not in Sequencer timeline.

[grim ore]

you could do a custom event in sequencer to do that, sure

[cold bridge]

it's not the intended way for it to work, I found the solution in the forums

no need for all of that.

[drowsy snow]

Alright, whatever works for you.

[cold bridge]

the sequence player fires off "on finished" when done. you can use the proper "set cinematic mode" to turn everything off once you're done with the animation, all from the level blueprint....

[grim ore]

what was the solution? ah

[drowsy snow]

Is this concerning Sequence exporting?

[cold bridge]

I don't know what you mean

I just wanted a simple cutscene sequence for my starting of the game and I found this to work best...

[drowsy snow]

👍

[cold bridge]

thanks you 2

[stray tangle]

Hello, I have a trouble in a character ai not working after being un possessed

[cold bridge]

for future reference, this is the solution that works for me @drowsy snow @grim ore
It just lets you regain control right after the sequence is that. I wanted to emulate a sense of the player "waking up", looking around and settling on... then letting you control it, but since it has a mesh and 1st person view, it looked awful with the character visible.

[drowsy snow]

Nice.

I'm not going for this approach tho, as my game is mainly third person.

Also benefit of mainly third person is a true FP camera.

[cold bridge]

yea, that's true, it's a different approach and solution

[maiden sundial]

Any idea why this always happens when i start the editor ?

[edgy rover]

Hi guys, I've set up 2 nodes - 2 screen system using nDisplay 4.27 with an integrated cine camera like this. However, I couldn't get the same result in 4.26 nDisplay, because the cinecam was able to be applied to only one screen/viewport. Does anyone know how can I get the same result in 4.26?

[prime willow]

it's compressing your animations

which saves space and allows faster utilities for the animations iirc

[full lodge]

How to disable or change randomness of particles?

[warm quartz]

Hello. Does anyone have any good tutorials for understanding classes. base classes, parent classes etc and how they all work together overall?

[true ridge]

I've got a collision box on a melee weapon and I'm using OnComponentBeginOverlap to hit things and apply damage. Where could I extract an impact location from this overlap to spawn a hit VFX?

[plush yew]

is there a tutorial or any resources on handling raytracing fuzz

i know you can increase the sample count

[drowsy snow]

Look for denoiser and DLSS.

[plush yew]

but light with bounce lighting you can do things like change the screen percentage and other values before adjusting the sample count for better performance

what about reflections

[void sierra]

Is there anyway to have indirect lighting for non static lighting that I can turn on and off during gameplay?

[drowsy snow]

Use screen space GI (or LPV, which often fail indoors)

Or Lumen GI (if you're in UE5)

[void sierra]

I activated screen space GI in my project settings and restarted the editor but Im not seeing any changes. Are there any other settings I need to change for it?

Im using UE4 26.2 source build

[drowsy snow]

It should be taking effect immediately since 4.24.
Though it won't be working if you're in forward rendering.

[void sierra]

But shouldn't there be some kind of parameter to change the intensity or effectiveness of the indirect dynamic lighting? just like how we can do it with the static lighting?

[wooden bison]

My editors dropdown menus flickering randomly. Spawning in random places. Even worse visual & hitbox of menus seperated only way to use it stable is keyboard keys but still you can't even see ui bcs it's constantly flickering

[drowsy snow]

There are several console commands for that (look it up on the docs)
Though again, if you're in forward rendering, it's useless.

[wooden bison]

Is there any solution for this? I even reinstalled windows, editor, drivers etc

[void sierra]

I have forward shading unchecked in project settings. Ill look into those console commands.

[wooden bison]

He said desktop. I'm using laptop. Is process still same?

[drowsy snow]

In an alternate universe, desktops and laptops is a completely separate kind of electronics.

[wooden bison]

I know but i thougt there should be a reason why he specified as "desktop"

So do i need to install latest driver after uninstall?

[void sierra]

So it seems that the indirect lighting intensity setting in the post processing volume is what controls that

[wispy ledge]

i need to ask which is the better or comparison between gamelift and playfab

[void sierra]

I'm getting this weird effect tho where the object further away from the light turn into a reddish color. This also happens when I bake static lights as well. Im not sure what is causing that

[drowsy snow]

Looks like a stray sky light to me 🤔

[void sierra]

hmmm, I dont seem to have a sky light in my world outliner tho

uuuuuggghhhhh, Im so lost on all this lighting stuff 😫

[wooden bison]

I uninstalled the drivers with ddu but what to do now? If problem is latest drivers which driver i should install?

[drowsy snow]

#ue4-general message

[wooden bison]

Both are incompatible with my 3050ti laptop version 😦

Actually i can't even find my gpu in driver search area

Only GeForce experience gives me a driver and it's the latest

I found this one: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5212

[weak nymph]

When i click play the third person char doesnt appear no more, i play like a camera, what happened?

[cold bridge]

hey,
this issue: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/708994/interp-to-movement-component-only-works-on-initial.html
still happens on UE 4.26
anyone got any suggestion on how to get this effect?
I want to have a elevator platform that only moves up when an object is pressing against a trigger platform someplace else. But if I try to activate it twice it's breaking

[cold bridge]

is the character "visible"? check the mesh

[weak nymph]

ok

thanks

[cold bridge]

was it the issue? 🙂

[wooden bison]

I uninstalled all the drivers and ran ue4 without drivers. It's still flickering. I think it's about engine

[cold bridge]

anyone's got any idea about activating something for the second time? or a better way to have a stopping platform

[quick trellis]

Is there a way to save PostProcessVolume to the project?
In my case i have my ideal effect in one level but want to reuse it in other levels

[drowsy snow]

Make a new actor BP and put a Post Process component on it (also set it to unbound)

[quick trellis]

LFG that worked. Thanks

[dusk nebula]

Is anyone familiar enough with bounties/world events in Diablo 3 for me to make a comparison?

[drowsy snow]

Never played Diablo.

[prime willow]

Diablo 3 is fun

dunno about the rest

but only on console

its painful to play on pc

[thorny warren]

Hey folks! I'm having some issues with getting megascans wind to work right. It's a long shot but if you have any experience with it would love to pick your brain!

[drowsy snow]

I dunno, I kinda biased towards JRPGs more than WRPG, even if I hated turn based combats.

[prime willow]

same tbh but some wrpg's are nice

[dusk nebula]

Well either way, do you guys think D3 world events like Cursed Chest are implemented through individual game states, or what would the equivalent be in Unreal?

Obv it's a different engine but they can't be that different overall

[tall kiln]

Ive been having this problem where Unreal Engine keeps deleting my material functions from Quixel. Does anyone know how to fix this without re-downloading 12 GB of models?

[livid haven]

Odd question. Anyone perchance tried to replicate a TSoftClassPtr or TSoftObjectPtr that is non-null, but whose referenced asset may not exist?

[tall kiln]

update: Found out Bridge was not saving to my SSD.. so stupid... looks like I have to re download. (Im moving between a school PC and a home PC)

[livid haven]

In order to help clear out UI logic from the server, I'm trying to resolve the part where the UE4 engine logic needs the HUD class to be loaded on the server, just to be able to tell the client to use said HUD class.

Since it uses a TSubclassOf<AHUD>, there's the problem. But... if it used TSoftClassPtr<AHUD>? 🤔

[versed lichen]

Anyone know how to turn off textures (like F4 does). While playing a platform built standalone window? Is there a functioning console command.

[drowsy snow]

Might get better answer in #cpp

[livid haven]

The server would not need to load it. It might be able to serialize the reference. Unless of course some part of cooking end up trying to zero out the reference.

@drowsy snow I mean, possibly, but the idea works in BP too - any soft reference.

[prime willow]

yes

[drowsy snow]

Yes, though there might be issue wit root motions.

[prime willow]

^

i still dont know what root motion does

[drowsy snow]

Basically animation moving the actor itself

[prime willow]

so root motion would move the capsule and everything with it

basic animation wouldnt move the capsule and everything with it

also do i have to make duplicate animations for root motion or can i force it via unreal

[shrewd gyro]

Bit of an odd question, is it possible to make an unreal engine project that excludes all of the "3D" portions of the engine, and is just essentially a standard app? I ask because I know epic games launcher is made with unreal engine (or I'm pretty sure based on the crash handler appearing when it crashes), and it seems to have incredibly low GPU usage even for an unreal engine game where it's just an empty level.

[thorn dirge]

anybody know a video or something that can help me improve my games performance in my packaged game people are getting 20 fps

its a small game to

[plush yew]

@thorn dirge there is a Epic Games live-stream on their YouTube channel about performance

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

[toxic owl]

I realize the answer to this may depend on the project, etc. To the extent that the question can be answered usefully, how stable (in terms of bugs, not necessarily crashing specifically) are the latest released builds of UE? (ie. 427 right now, not early access) Is it a bad idea to develop on the latest version? Do people usually hang back a couple of releases? Wasn't sure where to ask this so I'm dropping it in the general channel.

[rancid lagoon]

i am having a very annoying problem. It has never happended before, but i have ue4.27 on a hard drive as my computer doest have the space to hold ue4, but now the luancher is saying that i dant have it installed, even thi my drive is plugged in. PLZ help

[rancid lagoon]

never mind, just needed to restart

[weak nymph]

hey sorry for asking again

which one is the mesh?

[thorn dirge]

Any help with my packaged game using 100% of gpu and fps 20? i tried to look at docs but could not find out how?

[drowsy snow]

Start by checking your frametime with stat unit and see which thread took up the most.

[plush yew]

If your packaged game is packaged using the "development" feature you should also be able to use the console commands inside there by using the "`" key to check. There's a bunch of stat "x" commands you can use to check in real time what's happening. Also: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/

[thorn dirge]

can i do this in the editor?

[plush yew]

Yes

[thorn dirge]

i dont really understand any of this tbh im fairly new to this its very confusing

[plush yew]

😅 Start by following really simple tutorials, there's a bunch on the online learning portal. You can use Youtube as well : https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[drowsy snow]

You can do it in editor, but the editor overhead can give you false reference.

[thorn dirge]

im decent with the blueprints just not to sure how to fix the issue im having rn thats it i was looking at the docs but it was like reading hieroglyphics

[plush yew]

Yeah it's like that sometimes, there's a lot more than just blueprints in the learning portal btw. You actually have to sign into the dashboard to see all the courses. The courses will expose you to more things that might solve your problem, like how to use view modes and stuff to see lighting complexity.

[light dove]

Hello. I have probably a very primitive question for the more experienced people in UE4. I'm trying to create an interface blueprint following this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5G8M2k4kQ but when I add the actor blueprint to the interfaces tab, the interfaces category does not appear in the bottom left. please help

[plush yew]

Have you added the interface in class settings?

[light dove]

yes

[plush yew]

Did you check to make sure the interface has a function inside it?