ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

If anything, landmass breaks in large tiled open world landscapes.

[cedar wave]

I haven't gotten that far. I mostly just use the default terrain tools. Seems to work well enough for my usecases

[drowsy snow]

You don't miss out much for not using landmass tbh

For production purposes, UIWS is still king.

[cedar wave]

So is OFPA not available for a lone map? I just checked the World Settings and right clicking on the map itself. Nothing about converting to external actors

[drowsy snow]

Built in water system is a bitch to work with, and difficult to customise in its current state.
Also while the water line camera effect looks nice, it falls apart in screen percentage != 100%

[drowsy snow]

Works for any map. It'll be apparent upon saving.

[cedar wave]

Ah-ha - I didn't have the levels window shown

Cheers!

[tiny trout]

Anyone here knows how to integrate Lua into project for modding capabability after packaging the game? (I dont wanna use public ones)

[cedar wave]

Is UIWS that one that Epic was giving out for free a few months back?

[drowsy snow]

Not after packaging.

[tiny trout]

I mean, before packaging... for the game to be as sandbox to be extended via scripting later on

[drowsy snow]

Also there is a dedicated plugin for that - it's what I use to add Lua stuff.
https://github.com/rdeioris/LuaMachine

LuaMachine doesn't expose all UE4 functions on its own.

[tiny trout]

Expose via blueprints or C++?

Can you explain more into it? I have never done this integration part

[drowsy snow]

You have to define your own custom Lua functions - LuaMachine can do from both.

[tiny trout]

Makes sense. Problem comes on integration since i never did do that 🤔

I dont wanna use Lua Machine ofc, want to have my own control over everything

If a startup direction is clear to me i can follow and go over and replicate for other UE - > Lua sync

[drowsy snow]

As stated in readme file:

Contrary to the other Unreal Engine 4 Lua plugins, this one does not try to automatically expose the Unreal Engine 4 api, but completely hides it giving to the user/scripter only the features the developer decided to include (via Blueprints or C++).

[tiny trout]

I know

By "have my own control" i mean to make and define all those myself

i just need the way to startup this since idk where to

Just forget Lua machine exists, 😛 i am excluding that case and asking for the headover

[neon hatch]

Is there any way to control the texture res of every mesh on a map simultaneously or do I really need to limit them one by one?

[drowsy snow]

Forget about UE4 C++ specifics in making your own implementation if you don't know how to do it in vanilla C++ yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l5HdmPoynw

[alpine furnace]

Are there any tutorials or stuff out there about how Divinity got their Environmental Effects working? Like specifically the different types of surfaces and how they can be of dynamic sizes. For example, the pool of oil but also the fact that it can an arbitrary size and shape of a pool of oil?

[devout ravine]

quick question! thanks in advance if anyone answers 🙂

What is the work flow for modeling and texturing modular walls with interior and exteriors? would like to build some buildings that you can walk into...

do you texture each side with its corresponding texture ?

do you just make sperate interior and exterior walls and individually texture them?

if anyone knows of a tutorial or resource that explains this process please point me in that direction

Thanks again!

[icy hearth]

I have an problem, while working on unreal it close and appwr this log, Log file open, 10/05/21 21:56:03
LogWindows: Failed to load 'aqProf.dll' (GetLastError=193)
LogWindows: Failed to load 'VtuneApi.dll' (GetLastError=193)
LogWindows: Failed to load 'VtuneApi32e.dll' (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File 'VtuneApi32e.dll' does not exist
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.

[lusty pumice]

having a problem where indirect lighting intensity in post process doesn't work when I hit play or render a sequence. I really like the look in the viewport but when I hit play its as I set it back to from 4.0 to 0.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221799195806400512/895046917136998470/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221799195806400512/895047207126982746/unknown.png

doesn't look the same really bummed out. Is there a way to fix this?

[iron elbow]

Have you done an override for the auto exposure that comes by default in UE?

[lusty pumice]

haven't messed with the exposure I think, the game settings are on

you mean changing min and max brightness to 1 maybe?

[iron elbow]

Maybe you're seeing auto exposure in the viewport and something else in the render?

[lusty pumice]

I dont know I think exposure doesn't change much its just indirect lighting's intensity not rendering for me

I can try to set another color maybe for it and see how that works

[iron elbow]

True - now that I looked at the screen grabs more, I see what you mean. Exposure is not the issue.

[lusty pumice]

yeah it just doesnt render

this is with red color but when I hit play again same problem

[ornate forge]

Couldn't find parent type for 'VengerPlayerCameraShake' named 'UCameraShake' in current module (Package: /Script/Venger) or any other module parsed so far.

I got this upgrading from 4.25 to 4.27, does anyone know the fix?

PhysX is deprecated now, huh

[cedar wave]

Turns out - physics is hard

[iron elbow]

Question about using iPad as a virtual camera in UE4. 🎥

I've followed tutorials and come this far - when I move my iPad then in the Unreal window it registers as camera movement. Great!
The problem is that I can't see anything on my iPad screen - only color bars and 'No signal' or sometimes a frozen frame from the game.

The iPad only shows video from Unreal when I don’t use it as a camera and just hit Play in Unreal. So it does broadcast. But I’d like it to do both - function as a camera and broadcast the result on the iPad screen.

[lusty pumice]

@iron elbow Solved my problem, had to do with sphere reflection capture which I have "hidden in game" for some reason

apparently when I delete my sphere reflection capture the global illuminaiton indirect lighting in post processing doesn't work

[iron elbow]

Oh, I forgot - I’m using Unreal Remote 2. I couldn’t get Live Link VCAM to even recognize my PC (made a Firewall exception and everything).

[ornate forge]

I figured this out, the class is now called UMatineeCameraShake for some reason

Also it's in own module now too

[plush yew]

hey all

about the recent leaks that gta will be on epic game store....

am i the only one that finds it wierd that gta game made using unreal ?

[grim ore]

try in #lounge , this is not for the store or games

and also not the correct discord

[pearl mantle]

Hi all! Is there anyone from Epic around? My name is Gabriela and I am working in Wellington City Council building a digital twin of the city in Unreal Engine. We could really use some guidance around data ingestion and web deployment (pixel streaming?). We tried using the contact form on the website but we haven't heard back yet. I'm happy to post in a different channel if this is not the right one...

[fierce tulip]

there are, but unless they really want to, they dont interact much with the community.
generally if you really need guidance from epic games people you'll need to go trough the official channels.

[dusk nebula]

How does the engine decide what player start to use? Like, where is the logic for that stored that I can access?

[warped trout]

yo

i recently found out about the environment creation tools in unreal engine and was looking for recommendations for some environment art youtubers who focus on environment art in unreal

[digital anchor]

AGamemodeBase::ChoosePlayerStart

[winter blaze]

Hello, I moved my Unreal Engine to my external drive (Mac). Now my launcher is saying Unreal Engine is not installed. How do I fix that?

[plush yew]

I wanna apply an impulse to my character but when I turn on simulate physics it freezes my character

so I cant turn on simulate physics

how else can I apply an impulse like effect without impulse

since impulse only works with simulate physics enabled

[muted abyss]

Hi, I've been using BSP brushes to create early blockout designs in my first level, and it was working fine for the first couple of months. But since two weeks ago, interacting with any brush objects (e.g. copypasting, deleting, stretching) makes UE4 crash. Interacting with static meshes and other non-BSP objects is fine, but as I'm not a modeller I'm finding BSP so useful at this stage and don't want to stop using it. The programmers on my team are also unsure of why this crash happens, and it also happens on their computers. I've tried everything I found on google (which wasn't much). Anyone able to help?

[drowsy snow]

Sort of deprecated. They didn't update it to use PhysX 4 (though TBF PhysX 4 is largely focused on robotics). But at the same time they underestimate the plans for Chaos physics, it's still not production ready in UE5 EA.

PhysX isn't that bad IMO, but shall you want some greener pastures, maybe paying up for Havok is a good investment.

[plush yew]

How do you make the shadows blend out a bit more

like the right side fades out ok but still cuts at uvs

left side is totally cut though

and it happens after i bake with directional lights>

whats the option

[granite zealot]

UE4 crashes with this error
LogWindows: Failed to load 'aqProf.dll' (GetLastError=193)
LogWindows: Failed to load 'VtuneApi.dll' (GetLastError=193)
LogWindows: Failed to load 'VtuneApi32e.dll' (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File 'VtuneApi32e.dll' does not exist
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.
LogInit: Display: Running engine for game: MyProject
LogPlatformFile: Not using cached read wrapper
LogTaskGraph: Started task graph with 5 named threads and 20 total threads with 3 sets of task threads.
LogStats: Stats thread started at 0.226834

is there a way how to fix that ?

that issue happens every 10 min

[rugged harbor]

Are you able to find those .dll files by searching in Windows Explorer?

[granite zealot]

yea i found files there C:\Windows\System32@rugged harbor

thats what appear in the unrealengine log after crash
exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006

[split jungle]

I really messed up my project and I need some assistance on restoring it.
Everything worked well, until I decided to add cpp and GAS into my project.
Since then I couldn't package my game anymore.
After that I wanted to get rid of the cpp and GAS from my project (for now), so I used my file explorer and deleted all visual studio or GAS files I could find.
Since then I can't open my Project anymore. I even restored the deleted files from my Recycle Bin, but I keep getting this message:

If I do that, I get this:

I tried deleting binaries, saved, intermediate and build and rebuilding - didnt work
I tried building the project from visual studio - that gives me 39 errors, most being about undefined GAS types:

Is there any fix for me? or did I just lose Months of working on this project?

[rugged harbor]

I don’t think all is lost. But it probably would be wise next time to use some form of version control. 😏

[split jungle]

Well I did, but I can't seem to find out how to restore anything

I used perforce

[rugged harbor]

Hmm. I probably should get more familiar with perforce. Perhaps another can help there. With git, it’s just git reset --hard, which will revert all changes.

[digital anchor]

compile and check the output log (not error window), only the first error matters, everything else can be just a side effect
it looks like missed an includes or dependencies, is GasAttributeSet your file or engine's?
anyway if you cant get to fix the compile errors yourself try asking in cpp channel with the error from output log + your file code

also to disable the plugin you have to edit the uproject file, dont delete files randomly

you can also restore everything to a certain changelist that you know that works on perforce

[midnight bolt]

https://twitter.com/joewintergreen/status/1441011925119209477 can someone guide me how to install/compile this version of UE5? the one on epic store doesn't have this functionality

Joe Wintergreen (@joewintergreen)

It was super easy to hollow this little house out https://t.co/4Azr1uiteK

▶ Play video

Twitter · Sep 23, 2021, 12:09 PM

[digital anchor]

its basically this: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/ProgrammingWithCPP/DownloadingSourceCode/

just make sure to get ue5-main as mentioned in the post

[void sierra]

Is there a way in UE4 to have an invisible cube block the light from a specific light source, and not block the light on all the other light sources?

[split jungle]

This is my output message:

"GasAttributeSet" is part of the engine

[digital anchor]

hm... im kinda confused, you have engine files inside your project folder?

[split jungle]

To be honest im not 100% sure, sorry I am new to anything cpp/visual studio. Thats why I decided to "remove" gas and cpp from my project for now too

[digital anchor]

ah, well, that file appears to be something you have on your project source code, so its trying to compile it

i dont know exactly whats it, so idk if you can delete

i rcommend checking on your perforce, if you have unsubmitted files after a working version you probably dont need them

i have to go now, good night

[split jungle]

thanks, I will look in cpp for help and see what I can do with perforce

[wary fern]

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a quick tip. If you are having a problem with the latest nvidia drivers and Unreal Editor's UI keeps disappearing/flickering. turn off anti-aliasing for it in Nvidia Control panel. Fixed my issue.

nvm, no it didn't..

[drowsy snow]

Downgrading the driver solves the issue for more people, and already in pinned messages.

[winter blaze]

I lost my event graph tab in my blue print

how do I get it back?

[drowsy snow]

Open it again in My Blueprint tab.
Event Graph itself is part of AActor class and is impossible to delete by accident.

[heady quartz]

Double click here

[prime willow]

can i bother you for a sec

no wall of text

just silly question

[drowsy snow]

Currently dating with Niagara and Grid2D, but sure :3

[prime willow]

oh this can wait o.o

Im suppose to be nappig anyways sorry didnt mean to distract you from work

[drowsy snow]

Well, I'm currently watching some tutorials, so not much pressure going on

[prime willow]

ah

okie to make it super quick!

If iwanted to take certain systems from ALSV4
and jerryrig it into my own setup

like their trigger button over the shoulder aimiing for example

would that be a nightmare to accomplish

or their camera system for example

[wraith kindle]

WIN 11 causing problems with any Programms? UE4 VS or else?

[prime willow]

not sure i havent upgraded

[drowsy snow]

Not really a nightmare to accomplish, but due to the lack of fully fledged docs on it, might be easy to get lost in the process.

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

[prime willow]

so i just have to have big brain to steal the code properly and implement it into my own setup

xD

[wraith kindle]

is it better than 10?

performance wise?

[prime willow]

i dont trust win upgrades

they always break PC's in the first year

and it becomes a reoccuring issue

for nearly 2 years at times until they get it right

[wraith kindle]

me neither thats why im asking but it looks clean asf

[prime willow]

i have a rule of typically never being first or last in line to ride the train

[wraith kindle]

win 8 was a nightmare felt like having an xbox bruv

[prime willow]

lol yup

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, once you know your way around ALS, it's pretty much smooth sailing on it. I'd argue even more easier than ALS V3.

[prime willow]

well i dont plan on using als

but tearing its limbs off and gluing them to my setup

_>

[drowsy snow]

Pretty much the same to me.

[prime willow]

daz requires too many hassles to put into als

[wraith kindle]

well then you just should add a camera movement when the right m button is pressed that it moves to xyz locaation you want

[prime willow]

so id rather do it the other way around if possible

[wraith kindle]

i dont use daz but it should be working

[drowsy snow]

Daz rigs are weirder than you might think

[wraith kindle]

theres import options

[prime willow]

^

[wraith kindle]

to rig it to the ue4 skeleton

[prime willow]

daz rigs

weird

[wraith kindle]

than it should work

[prime willow]

they have bones like mannequin

but have a bunch of twists and face rig

different names too

so alot of complications when trying to work them like normal mannequin stuff

[wraith kindle]

i know still

just watch a video on yt

[drowsy snow]

Not as straightforward as other rig, not even close to Mixamo's weird rig.

[prime willow]

i can re rig them to have mannequin bone setup

[drowsy snow]

Or even MMD standard rig.

[wraith kindle]

someone did it with a cc3 character and it worked same as that

[prime willow]

it breaks their bend control morphs

[neon bough]

specially for mixamo some solution exists which makes it 1:1 mannequin compatible

[prime willow]

someone recently made a work around for mixamo animations on daz

so thats nice x3

tho you can technically just retarget from mannequin to daz anyways

[drowsy snow]

The only lacking bones from Mixamo rig is the root bone and some twist bones. Everything else is similar to Manny standard, even the hierarchy

[wraith kindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ezPyfha1Q&t=723s

go ahead with this tuto

[prime willow]

ive already used it

[wraith kindle]

itll work trust me

[prime willow]

daz face glitches violently

on animations

his face becomes pudding xD

[prime willow]

wait did you do this with Daz and it worked out fine?

[wraith kindle]

i had the same issue with that the eyes teeth glitched through mouth it works

just follow and try to learn from it

[prime willow]

did you ever solve the face become pudding issue?

[drowsy snow]

watches from anime models workflow

[prime willow]

or hip gitter

[wraith kindle]

dont use daz but itle work

trust

[prime willow]

I already did it

it worked

jsut gave pudding face and hip gitter

[drowsy snow]

Source: trust me bro energy here.

[prime willow]

broken rag doll too

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/fail-fall-no-trust-lesson-gif-5578096

[prime willow]

Ben is smort

be careful

this one might change the gaming industry

[drowsy snow]

Snowie (and in some extent, I) did several testing with Daz model. It just got weird behaviours when soft retargeted from Manny rig and ALS.

[neon bough]

you created a bone mapping?

[prime willow]

weird behaviors?

i did

[wraith kindle]

go use root anims if you dont want to learn then

[neon bough]

you changed the retargeting options for the bones?

[prime willow]

because of such now i can animate my models toes

[drowsy snow]

How even root anims even related to this?

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/chilindrinas-feet-gif-14875774

these will sell me 20 copies

[neon bough]

is that your game?

[prime willow]

not yet

~>

[wraith kindle]

uh no

[prime willow]

but i did some tests

[neon bough]

thats from the bump/normal map tutorial thing, right?

[wraith kindle]

pervo game coming soon

[neon bough]

i bet i've seen that somewhere

[prime willow]

and i could replicate that type of toe movement

[drowsy snow]

Seems like it to me.

[neon bough]

we've all seen some weird things 😄

[prime willow]

Borderline Hentai Action RPG fighter

with characters just as pretty as 90's marvel comics were

[wraith kindle]

with pus... morphs init

[prime willow]

and the type of violence youd get from playing devil may cry 3

no

bad

Snow is pure

[drowsy snow]

Wrinkle maps are quite difficult thing to tackle, especially in real time.
The foot fetish might lure more people into it 😏

[prime willow]

No prons in the game

tho

idk how ill get skin wrinkle

on feet

[neon bough]

so you blueball your customers

not neat

[prime willow]

;-;

yes

just like every cartoon and comic/manga in the 90's

yusuke level violence

[prime willow]

with extra pretty characters

[wraith kindle]

https://streamable.com/cnt8z9

thats what im working on anyway

[prime willow]

i dont know how you can go wrong with that

[wraith kindle]

need to go

[drowsy snow]

This kinda looks like Alan Wake map somehow

[prime willow]

blah

need to work but tired

[wraith kindle]

just to test out stuff like rain snow and weather effects

anyways see you guys

[prime willow]

be safe o/

[neon bough]

says the one on the watchlist

[prime willow]

This chimera would never do something like that >3>

@drowsy snow What would i do

to setup automatic backups?

source control right

[drowsy snow]

Source Control, and branching if necessary.

[prime willow]

for backups and working on the project with multiple people at once

[neon bough]

source control != backup

[prime willow]

is source control also how you let more than 1 person work on it?

[drowsy snow]

Well yes but actually no, but also yes.

[wraith kindle]

only perforce really working tho

[neon bough]

source: trust me?

[drowsy snow]

I mean, one could make use of cloud repos like GitHub or Azure DevOps, both of which allows for private repos, and essentially use them as backups for the software dev projects.

[neon bough]

yea kinda, but with github you have a binary file quota, which is a problem with unreal projects

[covert haven]

git lfs on azure has like 300 gig limit I think
or maybe even is "unlimited"

[neon bough]

for free?

[covert haven]

yeah

[neon bough]

azure is microsoft cloud, right?

which is kinda dumb since MS owns github

[prime willow]

o.o

[covert haven]

I couldn't confirm it in the actual documentation, but that's what people were saying and I've never hit the cap myself

[prime willow]

so source control bad?

[drowsy snow]

No, that's not what we meant.

[prime willow]

oh

[neon bough]

source control is awesome

[prime willow]

im noob be gentle

[drowsy snow]

Source control is pretty much a must when it comes to software development and collaborative work.

[prime willow]

okie

ill set up source control and pay you 2 bubble gums and a strawberry or thhee to work for me

[drowsy snow]

The main issue is that the place where the repository is being stored.

[drowsy snow]

Mint ones please.

[prime willow]

okie~

[neon bough]

me too

[prime willow]

wait wot

are you guys serious xD

[neon bough]

well you cant expect much for 2 bubble gums, but we are in

[prime willow]

o-o

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[neon bough]

i'll paint you some wrinklemaps

with my feet

[prime willow]

okie lesssss go~

[drowsy snow]

And I'm gonna sprinkle some fluid with my Niagara Grid2D.

[prime willow]

oh

hoodie

get ninja fluid

its so pretty

im at a lost for words tbh

[drowsy snow]

Well, I'm using my own implementation :3

[prime willow]

glad i bought all three

wot

lemme see work when youre done!

i havent used it yet but its pretty to see their updates~

[neon bough]

are you talking about the niagara for umg plugin?

[prime willow]

maybe? o.o

[drowsy snow]

Niagara in general, not specific to UMG

[prime willow]

i was talking to a smort professional

and a few others including luos

and apparently having 2000 morphs is a bad idea ._.

[neon bough]

yes

[prime willow]

inch by inch

[neon bough]

but i have a solution for you

[prime willow]

my dreams of extreme player expression

[drowsy snow]

Also because 4.27 finally make Sim Stages built in, it's the right time to follow this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKgZrrBJ2w

[prime willow]

and combat

widdle away

wait what

[drowsy snow]

There's no way you'd reach that number anyway.

[prime willow]

;-;

[neon bough]

uhm... i think it's possible to reach that, is it necessary? no

[prime willow]

well i want smoothe gameplay with all of those options

enabled maybe

;-;

[drowsy snow]

Expressive facials can be achieved with way less than that.

[prime willow]

no i mean body shape and form

[neon bough]

there's only one bodyform

[drowsy snow]

Splitting the body and face is not a bad option.

[prime willow]

daz are 1 body models ;-;

[drowsy snow]

You could split them in Blender, but considering your scope, that's going to be a lot of repetitive work, where Python script just won't able to give some automated time saves.

[prime willow]

yeah...

[neon bough]

sure you can do that with python, there's vertex groups for everything on the models

[plush yew]

My company executive just woke from his nap

[neon bough]

cute cat

[prime willow]

thanks hes a good penguin

[drowsy snow]

He's a good ocelot.

[neon bough]

but he got an long face for an owl

[drowsy snow]

Anyways.

[prime willow]

and the teeth of a camel

i didnt notice my background

_>

[neon bough]

i did

https://tenor.com/view/naughty-kitten-cute-gif-18289977

[prime willow]

the models came that way D:

@drowsy snow is that kind of water possible

in unreal 4.26?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but Sim Stages (which is required for that) wasn't built into Niagara in 4.26, until 4.27 merged it with main Niagara plugin.

[prime willow]

so upgrade or rest in pickles?

[drowsy snow]

Upgrade to 4.27.

Asher does mention about fetching one from master branch, but by now it might've been removed because 4.27 made it built in.

Also 4.27 has huge C++ API changes here and there - so much so that I gave up backporting Oodle to 4.26 and just move on with 4.27.

[prime willow]

what if i have a bunch of 4.26 assets i want to use or am using

just move anyways?

[drowsy snow]

Should be carried over to 4.27 just fine.

[prime willow]

ah oki

[honest vale]

is upgrading from 4.27 to 5 possible nowadays?

[neon bough]

to ue5-main yes

don't know about EA2

[prime willow]

can i just move my project to 4.26

or do i have to mass migrate

[neon bough]

what version are you on?

[prime willow]

4.26

[neon bough]

what?

you meant 4.27?

[prime willow]

4.26.2

oh

im stupid

yes

to 4.27

[neon bough]

you can convert in place, but backup before is adviced

i had little to no things to change

[prime willow]

okie

[drowsy snow]

Early access is based on 4.26, not forwarded from 4.27

[prime willow]

well tomorrow is going to suck

[neon bough]

yea, wasnt sure if there was any newer EA version which is closer to main

[prime willow]

i have to tear ALS open and somehow glue its functions to mine x-x

[neon bough]

its easier to rip off everything from ALS which you don't need 😄

[prime willow]

well tbh

[neon bough]

start with the camera stuff, get rid of mantle if you dont need it, and so on...

[prime willow]

i just want als's shoulder aim and camera system

[honest vale]

use the C++ version of ALS

[neon bough]

oh well

[prime willow]

its camera is so pretty and smoothe and feels good

[neon bough]

why the camera system? That's nothing you couldn't do yourself?!

[honest vale]

I found the C++ version much easier to integrate with

[prime willow]

and the over the back 8 way aiming

well i wanna build upon the als's

i like how it smoothe it feels

and the hold trigger to move in 8 ways

oh

and the animation overlay

thats about it tbh

[honest vale]

so pretty much everything it has 😄

[prime willow]

lol yup

i like that i can just layer feminiate and macho or whatever else animations on top of a normal animations

and it just mixes them together O:

if it works as i think it does I can make 108 or so animations instead of the whooping 1864+ i have to for super smootheness ;-;

[neon bough]

you have "fun" times ahead

[prime willow]

yup ._.

time for naps

[drowsy snow]

Well, I had to go deep with the ALS modification, so not yet C++ to sped up iteration.

[honest vale]

I also found the C++ version much easier to modify

[drowsy snow]

Still find it confusing tbh, and not to mention C++ iteration is slower on my end, so go safer route first before finalising it.

[honest vale]

the thing is that if you marry yourself with the BP version it is practically impossible to switch to the C++ version afterwards

for example there is no way to migrate the BP enumerations to C++ enums

[drowsy snow]

Well, I'd take faster iteration times over slower times if the modification isn't final enough. There's some issue with using it with my custom model that I have yet to do rigorous testing and solve them out.

[neon bough]

isn't the animation graph still pretty much the same with the c++ version?

except for different data types maybe

[drowsy snow]

Kinda, but my own issues goes beyond the anim graph for now, and I'm still stabbing in the dark in this regard.

Also consider that compiling C++ code has to be done with editor closed.

Thus my complain about slower iteration times before finalising the changes.

[neon bough]

i'm at a point where i digged so much through ALS that i should maybe just make my own xD

but i can relate to the BP > c++ for project specific adaption

[brittle plume]

Is Wrong?

[wraith kindle]

if its not working get the player controller in ther as reference

[brittle plume]

?

[wraith kindle]

call vc in dms

[brittle plume]

Oh i created my PlayerController...

[wraith kindle]

ill help you

[brittle plume]

ok?

[wraith kindle]

yea

[pure yacht]

i have a question regarding Blueprint Ninja challenge
i previously competed one of this course
will i still get the reward and badge if i start all this course again from October 13

[stone edge]

Is there a way to remove built lighting data from the scene? I can't position my directional light because the shadows are fixed now

[upbeat hemlock]

I have problem with check code.The condition is always False.what can i do?

[tiny trout]

@drowsy snow @plush yew
btw these default files from UE side got something to do?

[dire parcel]

i accidently clicked Shift + 5 and now I can't rescale or rotate my cube, how can I fix that?

[winter blaze]

How do I rotate again

[dire parcel]

control + a

[plush yew]

hello guys did anyone worked with AWS GameLift in ue_4.27 with a team of 10 people?
with any version control like git
if anyone did then please help me how to setup
like that

[winter blaze]

Is there a shortcut key for compile?

I may have selected for mobile, anyone knows how to change that back to pc

[mellow portal]

hi! im new to this server and unreal/c++, im trying to follow this tutorial but failing .. can someone pls help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmQJxgo0ELI&ab_channel=BeeSanz

[drowsy snow]

Not sure about it. Check the code yourself while you're at it.

[ebon stirrup]

f7

[drowsy snow]

Change the active mode to Select (Shift+1)

[winter blaze]

thanks heaps!!

oh it was on desktop

so why do I have transparent joystick controls on my screen?

when i run it?

[drowsy snow]

Try checking on this

[sweet axle]

I've been having an issue with the epic launcher the last few days. If i'm working with vs and then compile then open the editor and test to check the code is working evrything is fine. But when i close the editor the epic launcher loads but takes ages before i can select anything in the launcher. I usually go work on my code again and when i want to test then the launcher is ready but if i'm going between the 2 alot i have to constantly wait for the launcher before i can open the editor. Does anyone have any idea as to why this could be happening. It wasnt like this before. It feels like the launcher is hanging.

Cpp is better on performance in most cases. But no matter what you do you will end up using bp since bp is integrated into everything in the engine. No matter what you do bp will be used somewhere. Combining cpp and bp together properly can help to keep both sides performant and compliment eachother. You dont have to, but once you understand how to use both you would see the advantages and then you would want to.

I'd say most definitely.

I believe there are some that are just bp but in general it both ever since bp came into existence and i guess in the future bp may get all the functionality of cpp, for eg, gas needs cpp to work properly but in the future maybe not.

I see bp as user friendly cpp. But not all of cpp has been converted to user friendly bp yet. lol

[wintry flower]

Hey folks, I'm trying to set up pixel streaming but I can't get the unreal engine to connect to the signalling server. There's supposed to be a "Streamer connected: ::1" message in the server's output, but it's not there. Can anyone help me out with this?

(I have set up the launch parameters which point the engine to the server, so that shouldn't be an issue)

[stone edge]

Still bit unclear for me; can I import assets from other projects by dragging and dropping the files into my content browser instead or do I always have to run the (freshly downloaded) project, wait for it to compile, then use the migrate prompt?

[wary wave]

use migrate

[stone edge]

okay, will do, thanks

[shadow ravine]

Anyone know how I can resolve this. It's saying I have a binding on one of my text blocks, but there is literally nothing on any of them?

I've got an older version of my game as a back up but I will loose a big chunk of work. Be great if someone knew what this might be 🙏

[zealous magnet]

Try deleting the text block and adding it again?

Also might be a good point to get you into version control? :P

[shadow ravine]

Absolute hero! Thanks man that's resolved it. I knew it'd be something simple like that 🙌 😂

[hollow magnet]

what do you think about unreal engine?

[mental helm]

It good

[drowsy snow]

Best game engine ever.

[winter gale]

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-successful-game-engine

[clever harbor]

Yo guys, how to remove "new plugins are available" when open a project ? It's really annoying 😒

[drowsy snow]

Press "Dismiss".

[clever harbor]

I know but it always show up when I open my project

[fathom rampart]

How do i force my Viewport show me the exposure camera/postproc renders with?

So annoying

Not only autoexposure AKA eye adaptation is on by default but you cant even see how it looks before you render frames

[drowsy snow]

Set it to Manual in your post FX volume settings, or change the view mode to Unlit.

[fathom rampart]

Manual renders black frames

Yet in vewport everything looks fine

[drowsy snow]

Change the ISO value to >100. ISO 100 is low exposure (so does real life camera)

"One game", as in a packaged game?

[fathom rampart]

Thank you so much

[drowsy snow]

You mean a project?

Assuming that's what you mean, you coould make an actor with just a Post Process component, and copy the values from the scene's post FX volume to the actor's post FX component.

In many cases, those are simple enough to copy over, but you might want to watch out for any post FX material that is used by it.

Oh, that's the post FX material then.

Just migrate it to your project and apply it to your post FX volume/camera.

[drowsy snow]

Did the person I replied to got banned?

[thick herald]

Maybe they just evaporated

[drowsy snow]

Thanos snapped into oblivion.

[sturdy smelt]

Hey guys is there an Way to Scale an particle Effect entirely?. not only the Emitter one, like i have an Fire and i want to scale it down, it scales each Sprite Sheet down... seperatley and not the Whole Particle Effect

[drowsy snow]

Niagara or Cascade?

[sturdy smelt]

Niagara

[thick herald]

#visual-fx might know 🙂

[sturdy smelt]

no its cascade but thats so strange

[drowsy snow]

You said it was Niagara a minute ago.

[sturdy smelt]

Cuz its UE5, i was thinking of that, but its the Normal one

[vagrant hornet]

How to make a rotation bp node interpolation bezier instead of linear

Like smoothes into the rotation

[drowsy snow]

Timeline node.

[mint umbra]

Hey guys. Trying out RVT's on my landscape & meshes, and I'm getting a strange result. Anyone familiar with what this could be caused by? https://gyazo.com/0760a8b978610e69eaaab682c2f52ace

Essentially the textures of the landscape are flicking, and the texture blending of the mesh & landscape looks strange, and also the mesh seems to make the frames drop a lot by enabling RVT - something amiss somewhere I guess :/

[stone edge]

Hey, how to utilize GPU lightmass building properly? Using it with full bake and production quality light I don't seem to get skylight (static) light at all unlike I get with CPU lightmass build

[drowsy snow]

Make sure your GPU is capable of realtime raytracing (at the moment, only RTX cards can do this)

[stone edge]

yes it is rtx 3070

[zealous magnet]

am I stupid or is scaling billboards broken in 4.26

[runic fern]

Hello Guys Is it possible to get User IP ?

[sweet axle]

I'm only a 1 year old unreal user and so far the only tutorials i saw using visual code were on gamedev,tv channel and those courses were outdated. Everything else is visual studio

I'm actually not so sure. just last night i created a blueprint project and then activated a plugin and then created a blueprint class based on the c++ class. Then i realized i'd opened a bp project so i decided to do an extra check. I dragged and dropped the original c++ class character into the level and right clicked in outliner, opened visual studio. There was no source folder though so i dont know. Would probably have to create a source folder to be able to create something in c++ to use but i think i would've been able to edit the class i had opened. Adding to existing c++ is possible but adding new c++ probably not. I dont know.

Would be safer to open c++ project i guess cos its the same just with access to new c++. But like i say, i'm still a noob so someone that knows probably is laughing at what i said. lol

[next badger]

Any ideas WHA is happening?

It's a preview icon

[chilly sun]

no but thats too cool.. lol

maybe surfaces got the same values?

[next badger]

the material ther is not animated, just in case

the mesh there has no z fighting etc

it's only on preview

It looks like MIP issue...but only in previe icon

[chilly sun]

you know in 3d apps when you put 2 things ontop eachother
fx 2 boxes, slide 1 to the side a tiny bit, and the boxes overlap. The surfaces start to do a jittery stuttering, kinda like with ur icon

Low tier guess.

[next badger]

yes, it's called Z-Fighting...

[sweet axle]

slect view options and uncheck real-time thumbnails and see if that gets you what you want.

[chilly sun]

o, right, then u on top of that, dang, funky error thing tho

[sweet axle]

it is actually, you'd want that for an icon ingame. :p

[chilly sun]

cast error to implement on purpose

take that error I win

[sweet axle]

its not a bug, its a feature. hahaha

[next badger]

i know how to implement that in game (the icon issue)..if anyone needs that

[sweet axle]

Now everyones like, do i want to add a bug as a feature. hahaha

[next badger]

ok...it's gone after restart of the editor...false alarm

[golden niche]

I have some questions regarding the blueprint ninja challenge

I have logged in to the learning portal before and done some courses (none listed in the blog post) am I still elegible for the prize?

[next badger]

@golden nichei don't think there are any reasons to not to try, the courses are quite good, and you'll get the knowledge anyway (if you already know it all you can just click through all the quiz)

[golden niche]

okay

I registered

[grim ore]

I beleive you need to do those exact courses for the prize, thats what it says atleast

the point is to learn those 3 to become a niiiinja

[golden niche]

TOMATOES?

[next badger]

make sure you typed in this challenge the same Email as you used for Learning portal

[golden niche]

yes I made sure to do exactly that

[sharp crest]

I fucking hate the unreal website and launcher

It's so fucking slow

And it always logs me out

Every fucking time I have to open the website or launcher I think to myself

fuck g0onna have to spend literally full minutes logging into my account again

and then loading the pages I want

and it all takes fucking forever

why wont they fix it

[next badger]

@sharp cresthave you tried to log via google or other 3rd party?

[sharp crest]

literally everybody I talk to hate it

@next badger I aalways login with google thats the fastest way but it's still so fucking slow I swaer

I can't handle it

I dont understand why they wont fix it

I hate it so uch

[next badger]

have not logged me out for a while now...few months i think

[sharp crest]

just loaded google
Took less than 1 second

loading a marketplace page

10+ seconds

???

and let's not even talk about the logging in

that's like 10 different pages

and each one takes 100 secnd to load

[next badger]

google does not have any images by default iirc

[sharp crest]

it's rly not the point

a fwe weeks ago I purchased a game on the epic store website

and it took literally minutes to load after I paid

so much that I had to open another page and pay again there and at least it didnt charge me twice

but holy shit I dont understand why they wont fix it

[sharp crest]

it's like why would anybody use this fucking website

[sharp crest]

what internet r u on?

I'm on the best internet on my country, it's like 100/mb which is like 10/mb actually

[next badger]

@sharp crest 100mbit twisted pair

[sharp crest]

and it loads so much slower than that

Idk it's just slow

they need to fix it

for me at least

.

[peak bloom]

anyone here played the joy of creation reborn? any clues on how they did the death animations/screens? like is that a video or does the camera zoom into the animatronics as an animation plays?
*just looking for a point in the right direction lol.

[next badger]

@peak bloomyou have better chances posting a video with timestamp...from yt

[peak bloom]

was just typing it in youtube as you said that! xD

Juspscare warning: https://youtu.be/wSgQGK7Camk?t=64

[next badger]

@peak bloomi suspect it's just takes over the camera control and plays the sequence, i.e. camera not controlled by the player input anymore, you can do that by a variety of ways, sequencer, timeline, ABP logic

[peak bloom]

Ah, that's good to know, thank you! :) I thought it might be something like that, currently I have it so that when my enemy comes close to the player it changes to a camera on the enemy who then does a punching animation towards the camera but it doesn't look nearly as good.

I'll look into the sequencer and see if that improves it. :)

[oblique sorrel]

I wonder what the size table is for those blueprint course contest shirts, I'd hate to pick an XL one, only to receive an American XL shirt that's more like XXXL where I live lol

[plush yew]

after about 3 weeks with the program i totally get why 3dsmax is the standard for unreal and game development in general. I think im straight up gonna uninstall Blender lol

[oblique sorrel]

<@&213101288538374145>

[plush yew]

LOL

[wraith kindle]

hey

oh yea guys dont click that its fake

[sweet axle]

https://gyazo.com/9b11d6939104dbc1192e22984ebb7811 you guys talking about this section?

[wraith kindle]

but how the fuck is it everywhere

i got a question

im making a mp game with upto 120 players right

i was checking groom but the vertices on this is crazy

is there a way on how to take on stuff?

[wraith kindle]

hacker haha

whut

[peak bloom]

Yeah, that's it

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Tbjbu2#0001 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[peak bloom]

It seems like something happens when the enemy collides with the player but I'm too new to know exactly what lol.

[plush yew]

how viable are the unreal engine modeling tools I keep getting the urge to use them and theyre fun but when i have to add materials to things the UVs are all messed

[sweet axle]

if you play it in slow motion it looks like its just some camera shake and fov settings and maybe even some speed variations in the enemy animation.

[sweet axle]

I was also thinking that the enemy hits the character and thats the camera movement.

They must be using triggers to activate a sequence of events, lerp the enenmy location to location for anim sequence and other stuff to get character to look back after first hit, thn second hit kills.

camera swerves one side then other then death

[peak bloom]

ah, thank you, that makes a lot of sense! :) i see what you mean. i'll look into it and see if i can try to recreate the same effect somewhat using this method.

the change from when the enemy is by him and the death animation is so sudden, yet smooth, it's so well done. XD

[sweet axle]

I looked at it a bit closer now. It actually looks like the enemy grabs you and brings you close to his face, does some shaking and screaming then his right arm swings back while his left holds you and then his right comes in for the final blow and bam its over. https://gyazo.com/dd1441b5811ba9362b83c22985cf7881

[sweet axle]

that pic is right before you die right arm back left arm holding

[peak bloom]

you know, I never really noticed before (or thought about rather) that the camera does seem to be attached to his hand, like he's holding it.

maybe if I created a bone socket, maybe a character could hold the camera if that's possible.

[sweet axle]

he is. he is holding the fps character by the head which is essentually the camera . 😛

[peak bloom]

XD

very true, but i didn't know that could happen :D

wait, so it's possible for an enemy to take control or grab or whatever the camera component of the player?

[sweet axle]

Its basically two animations playing. the character being held by the enemy and the enemy holding the character. Whoever made the game spent alot of time perfecting those animations.

[peak bloom]

the thing is is the animation seems to be able to play from any angle, like even if the player is looking at the enemy it'll still play it but from the front.

like at 1:04: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSgQGK7Camk&t=64s

so I wasn't sure if that could be done with animations in that way, so i'm very impressed with the designer!

[merry saddle]

Hello, I'm extremely new to game development in general, and have slowly been poking around UE4 in my free time. Is there any helpful tutorials that anyone would recommend for beginners?

[sweet axle]

I'm also just guessing. They could have done it completely different aswell.

[autumn grail]

Hello , i have setted world composition with two layers ( 1 layer per map per landscape) , the streaming distance of the layers are disabled , how can i control loading and unloading by blueprint? what are the nodes?

[sweet axle]

the unreal online learning is the best place to start. Plenty of online courses you can purchase but Unreal online learning is free and covers the basics of everything.

[merry saddle]

Alright, thank you!

[peak bloom]

Ah, yeah, it looks complicated but I think you're probably spot on with how they did it, it's just amazing to me that they did it so well. XD

[runic fern]

Hello Guys how can i make a public session anyone can find and join without using steam ??
im trying to use playfab but its need the Host IP for non dedicated sessions also i cant get the IP

[frozen pond]

any idea how is south park game builded ?

i mean graphic - its 3d/2d sprites?

[plush yew]

what can I change in my settings here or console settings to decrease noise besides going higher on the samples

i feel like im using pretty high settings already but its still so fuzzy :/

[glad lotus]

High folks, can anyone help me regarding lighting? I'm trying to make objects in the far distance less dark. Not sure how to go about it. Just using easysky here and some post processing, no auto exposure. The hot air ballon and the water tank to the far left are both really dark.

[plush yew]

@glad lotusyou can up each meshes diffuse intensity

in the shader paramaters

i would suggest making a master material and a extra material slot so you can apply it to lots of objects at once

and adjust as you go without having to reapply to all of them

[glad lotus]

thank you degenerate, not even heard of that before. Will have to look up some tutorials on how to do that.

[next badger]

@glad lotusif you'll add atmospherics like fog it'll be lighter, if you don't want that, make sure your ambient light is bright there, as you're looking at the shadowed side

[glad lotus]

thanks alexey, what do you mean by ambient light? I'm using easy sky which does have fog but i turned it down quite a bit.

[next badger]

@glad lotusskylight is ambient light

ambient = indirect

[glad lotus]

ah ok thanks. I will try increasing that. Issue i had initially was balancing that and the sunlight

thanks for your help

[next badger]

well, you have a balloon that is not lit (cause the sun is on the back), and you have no fog to overlay...this is why it's dark

naturally balloons are emissive

[autumn grail]

Am i right , we cannot have multiple landscapes on the same Ocean?

[next badger]

or yu may fake it as SSS

[woven elk]

Hi everybody. Noob question. What does Abs do?

[glad lotus]

There is fog in there though, maybe i'm using it wrong. Easysky's fog settings are quite strong out of the box so i always turn it way down which may be why i'm getting too darker scenes.

[next badger]

@woven elkit's a math operator, returns Absolute value (hover ctrl+alt)

[kind mulch]

Absolute returns the absolute value, meaning if you have -1 as input it will give you 1. If you give it 2 it will stay 2. It basically always returns a positive number.

[next badger]

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

do not confuse with mod...modulus is not modulo, this is why it's written as abs

[woven elk]

Thank you @kind mulch and @next badger

[plush yew]

why the heck

does sketchup take up to 30 minutes to create a 3dsmax file

i wish i could just import my sketchup scenes to unreal engine

[autumn grail]

I need some help to apply a round mask to my landscape to make it Round and not squared please.

what should i put to the UV input of the texture mask node

I just want to mask the corners of the landscape so its round

[plush yew]

I doubt this will happen with anyone else but I feel I have to warn others because wow what the actual F
For those that use sketchup for archviz or anything else in unreal engine be careful when exporting large sketchup files I mistankingly exported it to my desktop and it generated a few hundred thousand image files and it literally kept windows key and explorer from even opening, couldnt even get to the files to delete them

it was a mess lol

[neon bough]

how is the geometry when exporting from sketchup? I've imported once some file to blender and it was a total mess

[mental helm]

A mess

[stuck rivet]

hello what chat should i go to for questions about complex collision?

[neon bough]

this one works

[stuck rivet]

okay ill give it a shot thanks. I'm trying to create a mini golf game and importing meshes from blender and then putting there collision to use complex collision as simple works well to get the collision to fit the model exactly. however I can not seem to apply a physical material to the mesh. I am also having a problem with the ball passing through the mesh when hit at high speeds.

I have a physical material that makes the ball bounce more, on regular meshes that i use collision that i created and imported it works fine, but when switching to complex collision the ball does not bounce

[grim ore]

collision moving too fast, look at using CCD to try and combat that

[stuck rivet]

alright cool ill look into that thanks

[glacial pecan]

Five... years... for something basic as this... https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/reorder-variable-categories-in-class-defaults/66561

The more I use Unreal, the more it feels like swiss cheese... full of holes everywhere

Except, swiss cheese is usually quite mature, and Unreal, despite its age, doesn't feel like it (so I guess the likeness fails after all)! 😝

[plush yew]

is there a shaderlimit in unreal engine

or can I have as many as I want

or that my pc can handle

[stuck rivet]

@grim ore thank you that worked for the ball passing through meshes

[grim ore]

yay!

[lucid beacon]

Hey! Can I get some help?

when I run "SetupAndroid.bat" I get this error

[dense robin]

There is a sand clock appearing when swtiching levels in my game, is there a way to remove the icon?

[autumn grail]

I apply a mask to my landscape to make it round and got this fish

how can i align it

[autumn grail]

found

[agile viper]

In one of the unreal videos the presenter spawned the manikin on a grid in the whole world for size reference. it was visible without hitting play. How could I do this

[spiral roost]

hello!

can i design the game environment in ue4 only?

is their really need of blender/maya?

[drowsy snow]

Making the maps in UE4, yes, but you still need external DCC tools to create the meshes.

[distant totem]

you can create and draw meshes from scratch with the new modeling tools mode but you will have a much better time with blender + blender to unreal plugin

[drowsy snow]

Modelling tools in UE4 is still impractical, it's often not worth mentioning about it to beginners.

[lament ledge]

which one of these 2 should i use for playing montages

is there really any difference between them

[grim ore]

yes, one has return events and the other is more fire and forget

[mossy temple]

Hello everyone, I'm just new to UE. Can I know if UE code editor in VS has an automatic display of the code statements I'm typing (like components, functions, etc..)? Cause I'm trying to follow the code tutorial but while typing, I don't see any automatic response of VS for UE keywords.

[grim ore]

that would be intellisense, its wonky by default. there are addons/other programs to help with that

you could see what the author of your tutorial is using for his auto complete/intellisense

[lament ledge]

thanks

[left oxide]

Hi guys! Anyone have good Top Down View tutorial’s?

[drowsy snow]

There's no such thing as "Shipping Editor".

Look for how to make installed build of your engine source code, or use Unreal Binary Builder.

[tame comet]

Hi

where may i ask questions ? is here fine ?

I have to get a build ready for a client but UE4 is giving errors during packaging

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): ERROR: Unable to instantiate module 'UnrealEd': Unable to instantiate UnrealEd module for non-editor targets.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): (referenced via Target -> Semblance_V03.Build.cs -> UMGEditor.Build.cs -> Sequencer.Build.cs)
PackagingResults: Error: Unable to instantiate module 'UnrealEd': Unable to instantiate UnrealEd module for non-editor targets.

[broken stream]

Can some one help me on this ? its not following as the server only the client. When i do the animation. Thanks

[knotty summit]

If I copy unreal engine files to another harddrive can I run it after formatting my PC? Haven't tried that

[fierce forge]

hello, do somebody knows how i can fix this ?

[rugged harbor]

Assuming you are referring to the editor...

cd "C:\Program Files\Epic Games"

move UE_4.27 M:\UE4Editors\UE_4.27
rem "or just cut and paste the folder to your hard drive"

mklink /j UE_4.27 M:\UE4Editors\UE_4.27
rem "this is just if you want the launcher to know where it is"

[knotty summit]

Thanks!

This is what I’ve been looking for, it’s faster than downloading the engine thanks to my internet speed

[upper nexus]

I think this issue was caused by using Powershell Expand-Archive to extract UnrealEngine-4.27.0-release.zip leading to a mess of problems.

[sharp willow]

Is there any way to force an Unreal server to crash using a command from a client?

[dusk nebula]

I'm using FindPlayerStart but it doesn't seem to be randomizing. Anyone know what's up with that?

Like, all players spawn at one of two points, but each player will only respawn at their initial point

[sharp willow]

code snips or riot

[dusk nebula]

this is a copy of the documented tutorial for respawning. I also tried it using the "FindPlayerStart" node and "RestartPlayerAtPlayerStart" and it similarly did nothing

I also tried overriding the game mode function for this and just using a random array element, and that also didn't work

that's the other configuration that I tried

[sharp willow]

is your cast succeeding?

[lavish spruce]

Maybe try Get all Actors of Class, pick the spawns
Get the length of the array
Use random int and take the length of the array as max

[dusk nebula]

the cast is succeeding yeah because it's respawning them

this also doesn't seem to work

[sharp willow]

step through it and figure out why

[dusk nebula]

it's not running choose player start when the player respawns

am I missing something about how that works? or do I just need to call it?

[sharp willow]

how have you added this choose player start event function?

[sharp willow]

the code is potentially saving the player's first spawn and then not choosing it on subsequent spaws?

[dusk nebula]

it's not running at all when they respawn

so they only spawn on the initial spawn location, which is randomized

[sharp willow]

That's what I said

[dusk nebula]

then I was agreeing with you

[sharp willow]

then check if the code is saving the player's first spawn and using it on subsequent respawns instead of calling choose player start

[dusk nebula]

I know that it isn't calling choose player start because choose player start only fires initially

[sharp willow]

yes. find out the reason

[dusk nebula]

I'm asking if I was doing something wrong

apparently not?

[sharp willow]

the only way anyone can find out that answer is by first finding the reason it is not called the second time

[dusk nebula]

right so I was asking if I misunderstood how this function works. Is it intended only for the initial player start?

[sharp willow]

I don't know

[dusk nebula]

[sharp willow]

it's unlikely that anyone will know without looking at the code

[dusk nebula]

"the code" meaning the engine content? I literally just overrode this and it's part of every game mode BP

[sharp willow]

yep

[dusk nebula]

so, if someone knows about that blueprint, they might know how that works, sure

[lavish spruce]

Just throw in a few print strings and see when which part is being called
All part of the learning experience

[dusk nebula]

initial spawn

and then there is no break in every subsequent respawn because the function doesn't get called

This is part of the engine, yet I'm not seeing it in the documentation. Where can I find how this works?

[sharp willow]

engine code

[wary wave]

it's not engine code, it's game framework

it's easy enough to find, just open up the game mode classes

[sharp willow]

are you really saying that choose player start is not called from engine code?

[wary wave]

it's called from the game framework

[sharp willow]

which is... where?

what and where is this mystical game framework?

[wary wave]

just open up the GameMode class

[sharp willow]

the c++ class?

[wary wave]

yes

[sharp willow]

so..

the c++ class, in the engine code...?

[wary wave]

UE has a number of modules - not everything gets compiled into the engine binary

[dusk nebula]

so I can find guides referencing the thing I'm looking for and every multiplayer game has respawns, yet nobody has ever looked into how this works?

[wary wave]

lots of people know how it works

[dusk nebula]

cool, where are they?

[wary wave]

jfc, it's in the game mode class

in the game framework module 😂

[wary wave]

^

[sharp willow]

🤔

[wary wave]

also GameModeBase extends from that

[sharp willow]

a folder does not a module make

[wary wave]

it used to be a separate module, but you may be right here

[dusk nebula]

yeah so the module references the "restart at player start" node that I already use, but it doesn't say anything about this function I'm overriding. Is that called from the find player start node or something?

[sharp willow]

search the code base for calls to it

[dusk nebula]

so it's called by FindPlayerStart, then?

[sharp willow]

you have the tools to answer this

Ctrl + F

[dark depot]

not sure why you keep replying at all telling them to look at the code when clearly they are only using BP's. and @dusk nebula yes and its one yuo can override in gamemode you even had it on the list you posted

[dusk nebula]

I appreciate the response, thanks. I've already gone and overridden it, it's just I assumed that it got called by the regular restart node or something. Seems like I need to use FindPlayerStart for it to work in general

[dark depot]

most those funstions also have tooltips if it remember

yeah with the gamemode stuff basically once you start overriding it you have to call some stuff yourself

[dusk nebula]

I see, I'm basically just putting tutorials together at this point lol

as in combining tutorials I find to make what I want

and I'm new to unreal and only use BP so the responses saying that I should go through engine content are both meaningless and unhelpful

[wary wave]

unfortunately when you start digging into the details of a lot of things, you will end up in C++ at some point

[dark depot]

yeah its something a little less documented when using BP most tutorials dont reach into it and will have some hacky spawning outside of it

[dusk nebula]

I notice that most BP tutorials are kinda surface level

[dark depot]

basically what ambershee is saying though

[dusk nebula]

like I've gone through 2 or 3 different fps tutorials that only cover the same basic things like pawn movement and simply avoid anything I'd want to find

[wary wave]

IIRC there is documentation that goes over some of this stuff from a multiplayer perspective, but I recall it also being hard to follow

[dusk nebula]

I read through the one that's pinned in #multiplayer and it was reasonably easy to get through

[dark depot]

i imagine matthews WTF and HTF series has gone over the nodes or functions at some point you will just need to piece each one together

[dusk nebula]

yeah, I'm kinda at a point where I don't know what I don't know

[dark depot]

thats when you learn to research the engine yourself like ambershee was showing

[wary wave]

one trick you can use to follow the flow of things inside BP is to just override a load of related functions and add a Print

then in the log you can see what happens when

Stack Trace (Script Trace - I forget the name)? Can also be useful there

[dusk nebula]

I notice that the FindPlayerStart function isn't firing when the player respawns

I've put them together and it still doesn't stop once the player respawns

this one is only firing once for each character

[wary wave]

it may, by default, just be using the same player start as it did the first time

[dusk nebula]

do you happen to know how to make it randomize every time?

[wary wave]

not off the top of my head (we don't even use the game framework on this project), but I suspect overriding RestartPlayer is the way forwards

quick look at the code says RestartPlayer by default will call FindPlayerStart, so just overriding the latter should work

[dusk nebula]

so this is where I would randomize, now?

[wary wave]

yeah, just override FindPlayerStart and return the actor you want to use as the starting point

[dusk nebula]

oh, it works. cool

[wary wave]

the other stuff you've already created in your BP might get in the way

hehe

[dusk nebula]

thanks

I'll have to remember to try overriding functions like that

now I also have ChoosePlayerStart to do something like an initial spawn as well so that's cool

if I run a for each loop with break, and it breaks, will it fire the completed node?

[wary wave]

yes

[rare axle]

Anybody know if UE5's Lumen Global Illumination plays nice with Ray Traced Reflections and Translucency? I recall having issues when it first released so I stuck with UE4.26. Running into roadblocks now for a viz project using RT GI.

Wondering if UE5 will solve my woes

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[autumn grail]

My transform (scale rotate move) gizmo doesn't work anymore , i have tried to reinstall older drivers nothing changes

I CANNOT do anything

[drowsy snow]

Are you quitting from Cinematic Viewport?

[autumn grail]

You mean when the game was running?

[drowsy snow]

In editor.

[autumn grail]

No

I have followed the pin message for adding a register key to fix the Nvidia flickering

Since 3 month Nvidia drivers are just shit

Sometimes i can use gizmo at certain angles

have to change my POV 10 times to make the gizmo yellow

certain times the gizmo is just not responding

i'm completly crazy , i cannot produce because of a gizmo

also i can't select an object by clicking it

[marsh nacelle]

Hey, does anyone know of a way whether I can run a profiler in ue4 while playing in the engine to show my performance, to save it in a log, for example. to change things, to repeat the same thing and then to be able to compare to what extent this has changed in terms of performance?

[glacial solar]

Anyone knows what the attached warning means and how to get rid of this? 🙂 Happy for someone to help me!

[woven shell]

Hey there! Does anyone know a proper alternative to Substance Designer? I hate Adobes Subscription model and would rather pay something once.

[drowsy snow]

Disable viewport entirely should help.

[harsh tiger]

The above is running on a quest 2 in standalone mode

[drowsy snow]

That aside, have you tried switching to Forward Rendering?

[plush yew]

is there any videos on setting up easy anticheat as i been looking but cant find

[drowsy snow]

#virtual-reality might able to help more. I have no experience on VR.

[harsh tiger]

Thank you anyway mate 👍

[hollow magnet]

I just want to say thank you for the team that made this engine and you guys who help all these people with questions.
I am so blessed to have this tool

[drowsy snow]

Easy Anti Cheat is (probably) part of Epic Online Services. Look at the docs for that.

[plush yew]

ah

would it be hard tho

[fossil tartan]

hi guys i am working on a vr project for a internship, after messing trying to implement hand tracking now I cant get the hands to show. I am new to unreal and tried to search around for answers but nothing works

[plush yew]

yeh i aint see no docs for easy anticheat

im blind lol

[outer plover]

Anyone has any good documentations to better understand Animation Interfaces?

[lament ledge]

He doesn't make them in sequencer
Its a socket attached to the mesh that he animates

[marsh nacelle]

Anyone of You used the Unreal Engine "Water" Plugin ?

[dusky slate]

Networking Question:

Can anyone explain to me, how i can get the Health of another Player in my Lobby, and display his Health in my HUD (like in Left4Dead, CSGO etc.)? I can stream you my problem if you are willing to help me.

I dont understand how the GameState and Playerstate work in Multiplayer

[peak bloom]

like the same kind of sockets you use to put weapons in a characters hands? like he's putting the camera in it? or is that a different thing?

[lament ledge]

Yea exactly that

I'm not sure wether he uses a bone to animate the camera or timeliness tho

[lament ledge]

Yeah its confusing, sometimes works and sometimes doesn't

[ebon stirrup]

yes

quit nice

[ebon stirrup]

and true

[peak bloom]

ah that's good to know, thank you! :) i'll try it out with both maybe and see how it looks.

maybe i'll just ask the guy who made it. XDi wonder if he'd reply

[lament ledge]

He really likes answering questions

https://twitter.com/Nikson_Dev?t=MUb4-5X0KMtptEksEivU2g&s=09

Nikson (@Nikson_Dev)

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[shadow ravine]

Hey guys, I'm having some trouble simply trying to attach hair to my character. The hair is a static mesh inside of my Hair_Male_01 actor. I've created a variable reference to that actor then tried to attach them together but I don't think I've set this up correctly as I'm getting an error after running saying Access none trying to read property HairType. Anyone know where I might be going wrong here?

[peak bloom]

OOH, that's very cool, I'll try it and see what he says! :D I just joined his discord.

Though I'll check out his ask/fm page I guess that'd probably be better.

[lament ledge]

Yea

His discord is kinda shit
People there are dick heads most of the time

[peak bloom]

Ah, maybe I better leave it lol.

It's funny how discord servers seem to be like that a lot lol.

[mortal siren]

I have a model that I've imported which is 5 layers big.
It has two layers with textures.
When I import it to UE it's only has one material slot.
How can I create a material slot so that the textures apply to the right part of the model.
I don't need a step by step, but I don't know the words to google.
Can you help me?
The model on the left has the material i made dragged onto it, but it applies to the whole model.
I went into the pink model and used the + icon to add a material slot. But when I drag the materials onto those slots the most recent material just applies to the whole model.

[lament ledge]

Do u use blender

I think in the import menu of unreal

It has some options for this stuff

Try deleting it
Reimport it and play around with the settings

[mortal siren]

ok, thanks I'll give that a go.

I made this in Masterpiece Studio Creator and am still learning about the import process into UE

[deep ridge]

if you need snow deformation in the game? or mud?

https://youtu.be/uhTXRWewqbM

[mortal siren]

I can't see the options on import.
Do you think I have to go into Blender and setup some Material channels? Then will UE recognize these as material slots on import.

For Example if i made a treasure chest with these layers
Wood,
Metal
Rivets
Gold coins
and each of these was a separate layer with it's own textures.

Would UE import this as one object with 4 different material slots?

[stone edge]

Is luoshuang's gpulightmass more accurate than the native gpulightmass? I get absolute horrific results, light bleeds appearing in places where should be occlusion shadows

I'm following along "understanding global illumination for architectural visualization" course and use the course file, but I get nowhere near the results as the lecturer uses production quality shadows but it takes too long to CPU render high or production

I'm going to try updating my gpu drivers if that helps

[drowsy snow]

The Last Of Us 2 is a PS4 game with fake snow and mud deformation, and it uses Parallax Occlusion Mapping.

You can't just shoehorn DirectX tessellation elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/Zhaz-KFUij8 (3:49)

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[dry wedge]

Help me please

Animation playing on client and server at the same time

when i press to enter prone pose i see the 2 simultaneous client and server at the same time i have no idea how this can happen

[devout whale]

How hard is it to make minecraft generation into ue4? I've got a college project in a few weeks and was wondering how can this be done.

I've seen some videos from a few years ago. It's alright they use BP and cpp which I don't want.

Just a simple or decent way to make it. Also I've already tried the voxel plugin. Thats OK wish it had more though.

Please @ me if you reply since I'm a bit inactive

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried the paid version of Voxel Plugin? Safe to assume you're using the free trial version here.

Also, can you just go for gameplays that are easier to code? Not only you have to get 3D grid based cube spawning working, you also have to generate the entire world while also making sure the generated world makes sense to travel. That's not accounting for any NPCs and their behaviours, day night cycle and weather system, block behaviours, inventory system. I highly doubt you're able to get minecraft clone in less than 30 days.

If being procedural is a must, why not go for procedural Metroidvania/roguelike, or procedural arena shooter instead? At least those kind of games only require you to generate rooms and its item placement, set the NPC type to spawn, randomiser seed, and that's all there is to it.

[plush yew]

cant get my depth of field to work how id like...

[frigid bear]

heyo i need a bit of help so i have made a boss and made a startup animtion for but i want the boss to spawn when i go to its lair, i used spawn actor but then the boss doesn't run its behaviour tree at all please help...

[plush yew]

hmm try setting the ai controller class in the defaults

[devout whale]

Totally understandable. The whole project is minecraft based. All I care about is the procedural world generation and a basic inventory system. Dont really want to pay for the assets since its only for college

[plush yew]

or set it to none and set it to boss_ai when you spawn

[frigid bear]

i mean if i dont spawn it and just leave it there before the game starts it works fine but its just hat i want it to spawn in game

[drowsy snow]

Is it mandated by your college that the project has to be minecraft?

If not, then you can shift to less difficult procedural roguelike/arena shooter.

[devout whale]

Yes. I wish it was just a normal game. Fps and stuff like that would be easier. But college is on another level

[peak bloom]

Hey it's you

[drowsy snow]

Yep 😎

[peak bloom]

Sorry was surprised lmao. Thanks for posting that video it was really interesting. :)

[drowsy snow]

Pardon my french but holy shit...

I don't really know how college works, but one cannot expect to make a functional minecraft clone in roughly a game jam time.

I don't know the rules either, so I'm not sure if I can suggest you to game the system by making roguelike dungeon crawler with Minecraft style asset.

[noble apex]

Hey guys — total noob here. Well, actually experienced Unity dev trying to move to UE4. Is there an equivalent of Unity's "Scene" view while the game is running? I.e., my game is running in the editor, and I can see some object in the World Outliner but it's not in the camera's view; is there any way I can get to it in the scene editor to see where it's hiding, and (if not asking too much) manipulate it there?

[devout whale]

Totally understandable. Thanks for your guys help. I'll talk with my college and see what I can do @drowsy snow

[grave pollen]

If u really wanna blow ur teachers mind make a new third person template, title it Minecraft, save it, package it, turn it in . When your teacher questions your ability tell her Bill gates dropped out of school

Win win scenario .

[drowsy snow]

You're looking for PIE (un)possessing - press F8 to get out of the play mode happening in the viewport.

[noble apex]

I see. What does PIE stand for?

[grim ore]

Play In Editor

[noble apex]

aha

OK, thanks guys!

[vocal herald]

is there a way to calculate how much of my object is occluded? For example I want to mask my object if 60% of it is occluded

[stuck linden]

Is there anyway i can open windows file browser from a blueprint?

[burnt ether]

Could someone give me a clue about what the LandscapeGizmoActiveActor is?
Is it safe to delete? Or does unreal need it for anything ?

[stone edge]

Hi, anyone know what's causing this and how to stop it

[dusk nebula]

I'm trying to make a system to select spawn points based on line of sight. Would it be better to run a bunch of checks for each spawn point as the player is trying to spawn, or should I try to make something in the player start BP? I could probably either use line traces or use collisions to change the tags on the player start's event graphs, right?

[woven elk]

Does anyone have any good hair shader tutorials?

[stuck nova]

Anyone know of an easy way o make it so one button being pressed sort of cancels out the inputs from other held buttons? for example imagine a redlight greenlight hold R for red, hold L for green but if they hold both they match both conditions

is there an easy way where its the most recent input that takes priority?

[honest vale]

causing what?

[stone edge]

that swirling

[hasty wharf]

anyone have issues with UE4 and the HTC vive controller not working?

buttons etc

[hollow frost]

Hi, I'm having trouble with some animations for my character's arms while they use the MP40 I gave them

How could I fix this?

Here are the errors

The character will not reload his weapon properly

He can aim and shoot just fine, but reloading stops the weapon from functioning

[autumn flame]

The error is self explanatory

GunAnimationBP has a null ref inside

[vast meteor]

is there a way to increase the mesh distance field culling distance?

[grand saddle]

Hi all, is there a way to get exact box transform of a decal at runtime? like UE4 editor shows it when I select it. See screenshot. The green is what I want, the red is what I get when I call GetComponentBounds of that decal.

[void sierra]

Has anybody else experienced this weird bug in Unreal where it moves a component for all of the instances of a blueprint to the origin of the level?

[sterile lichen]

does anyone know if anything similar to this is present in engine (toggling between pure/impure) modes on regular call nodes https://twitter.com/geordiemhall/status/1180799087618084864

Geordie Hall (@geordiemhall)

Also added something I've seen a few people asking for - the ability to call a pure function as if it's impure!

Super useful for times when you can't change the purity of an expensive function, but also don't want to pay the perf cost of multiple executions in new code. https://t.co/3pp6Zy11em

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[humble bay]

https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/221799478364078081/895760668391784479

Help please 🙂

[plush yew]

i cannot wrap my head around why the same scene in 3dsmax cannot even be rendered at 2fps in unreal engine

[pallid carbon]

hey guys, does anyone know how to remove this from my tool box? it prevents me from interacting with anything

[plush yew]

@pallid carbonthat looks to me like it thinks youre dragging and dropping it

try clicking it and dragging it to a new spot

[pallid carbon]

I tried, but still nothing 😦

A simple off and on again fixed it 🙂

[plush yew]

rip

I wish unreal had support for sketchup files without datasmith

does anyone know why the ocean body actor spawns in sometimes with a big square cut out where the landscape was? how can i avoid this? forgot what my solution was

[loud berry]

I also have a question. What is the difference between the Basic > Cube and the Geometry > Box ? and does it effect performance?

[plush yew]

id tell you but my pc is dying rn

Thats part of the level building geometry brush mode, so probably since it has added functionality

[high harbor]

Hello, someone have any idea why this is happening... ? this is looking ok at long distance but up close it's turning dark...

[plush yew]

@high harborthis is a ligthmap problem that idk how to fix but i do know how to prevent it per object

select the object having this issue

then in details

click on shadow indirect only

basically turn off self shadowing for the object

the proper fix is to play with your sun shadowing angle and lightmap resolutions but if you just want a quick fix this is a workaround

[high harbor]

I will check it, thank you very much @plush yew

[plush yew]

if youre in ue5 try changing to virtual shadowmaps

theyre pretty great

[high harbor]

Yes, i'm using UE5 i will have a look at it too 🙂

[loud berry]

new question. I made a sliding door model in blender and ported it to UE4, i want to make it automated. Right now I have the frame, the sliding doors, and a box trigger. Do I need to do anything with the sliding doors or can I do all of my code in the button trigger blueprint?

I want to use the transform method but I don't know how to reference the sliding door actors to do so.

[neon bough]

you should put the open/close logic on the door, and the button just triggers that logic

[plush yew]

You can referance all those objects through the level blueprints

[grim ore]

@loud berryBasic Cube is a static mesh actor with the Static Mesh of a cube assigned to it. Geometry Box is a BSP/Geometry Brush that is created in engine, it is not a mesh. Performance wise the Geometry brush is not as optimized as a Static Mesh and they are generally just used to mock up or block out a level and then replaced later with proper finished Static Meshes

[loud berry]

thank you!

[grim ore]

@loud berryand to answer the question for the door. look into using blueprints and blueprint communication, this is a standard technique with UE4 and something that you will have to pick up sooner than later

this is old, but still very valid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE

this is the docs, more updated with some examples https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/ActorCommunication/

[knotty heron]

Is it possible to softly change text color the higher a value gets?

[grim ore]

im sure it is, just depends on what softly means

[storm lake]

how do I change walkable floor angle on 3rd person character to more than 90?

[drowsy snow]

Wallrunning should be faked with animation work.

[storm lake]

I want the character to walk anywhere, on the ceilings and all that

[grim ore]

@storm lakecharacter movement component -> Walkable Floor Angle

[knotty heron]

I have a float as variable and i wouldn't wanna change the color every 0.1 step manually

[storm lake]

like a spider

[grim ore]

but yeah.. .your not going to get what you want just changing that like was mentioned

[storm lake]

it doesn't allow me to go past 90

[grim ore]

@knotty heronyou can use a timeline with a color output and set the color based on the input amount. Or you can use a lerp to lerp from one color to another based on a value

[storm lake]

so I can't walk up a wall and then walk on the ceiling with 360 wall angle?

[knotty heron]

Ohh i forgot about those thanks

[storm lake]

I would make the character aling with the ground

[grim ore]

@storm lake no you cannot, not without custom code

[storm lake]

what would happen if I did it this way? would it just not walk?

[drowsy snow]

Fake it with animation, local gravity, and camera code tricks.

[grim ore]

you cant buy that anymore @plush yew

and yeah fake it, make your character use floating movement component then just stick them X distance from the closest wall or floor lol

[drowsy snow]

If you want to, mess around in Watch Dogs spider minigames or Ghost in the Shell's PS1 game, closely observe how spider movement handled in those games.

[storm lake]

gits ps1 is exactly what I had in mind 😄 used to play that when I was young

[plush yew]

in unreal engine 5 raytracing global illumination and reflection both say depricated, does this mean for unreal engine 5 or does this mean depricated as a whole because i really hope they are still working on these two features

[drowsy snow]

Lumen will throw in hardware ray tracing if your GPU supports it.