ue4-general

[autumn grail]

I need help , whatever i try to select in viewport only this shit of InstanceFoliage is selected

Does someone know this issue?

It dosen't appear in the outliner so i can't delete it

[plush yew]

@grim ore Do you know why its so much easier to delete folders from my project from my windows explorer then actually deleteing them in the editor? Does it matter?

[drowsy snow]

It actually matters, because some assets outside of it might still have reference to anything inside it.

Only delete from File Explorer as a last resort / know full well what you're doing.

[plush yew]

I was just looking at the assests

[plush yew]

i know i really shouldnt be modeling with the unreal modeling tools but

why is this gap here

its just two faces

they are connected at the edge

[drowsy snow]

Also check for Contact Shadows settings.

[knotty heron]

Can you enable rootmotion from animation blueprints?

I wanna use rootmotion as movement without montages

[fringe rivet]

How do I move down the level deletion zone?

[knotty heron]

kill z in world settings

[fringe rivet]

Oh, I just found that lol

Thanks

Hm,

I’m changing the value, is it supposed to move that grid down too, or no?

[grim ore]

there is no visual representation of the killz

[loud berry]

Thanks to everyone who weighted in, but I did it!

[rancid lagoon]

is it possible to assign multiple textures to a blender model? i want to have a roof a different materail than a wall

pls help!!

[warm hornet]

Can any landscape experts explain why a default Static Mesh Foliage Type is missing the entire Procedural subsection? Should be between ‘Placement’ and ‘Instance Settings’

[manic pecan]

Does anyone know if a knowledge of cpp is required to develop for PS4 or PS5?

[mellow turret]

can I cook the game through teh project launcher if I don't have a source code build of UE4?

these logs are a bit scary

[drowsy snow]

Yes, because not only you do need to build the engine from source code and put in PS4 build dependencies (which only authorised developers can get hold of them), you also need lower level profiling and whatnot.

In short, don't develop for consoles if you don't know cpp, or hire a studio to port your UE4 game to consoles.

[drowsy snow]

That being said though, you can still develop on PC, use gamepad at all times for testing, and still making things to be console friendly in mind.

[desert verge]

Anyone here use ultra dynamic sky/weather?

[drowsy snow]

Not me, I coded my own weather system.

[desert verge]

is it open source?

[drowsy snow]

What, my own weather system?

[desert verge]

yup lol

😄

[drowsy snow]

Well, no.

At least, not yet. I've yet to make decision on making it open source, as it's still tied to my game project's other codes. Might releasing it as a FOS plugin in the near future, but don't hold your breath on it.

[neon hatch]

Is there some kind of automap function for levels so I can print something out to show an artist for them to draw an in-universe map?

[indigo cradle]

How do I create underwater fog that is separate from sky fog? Exponential Heightfog can be only one in the scene

[plush yew]

ocean disappearing when approaching in viewport and in simulation? odd one

[plush yew]

when I make a emissive static the light doesnt seem to each very far no matter how much i increase the intensity of the light value in emissive in the material

if i scale it big it works

but if the object is small it only reaches so far

is there a way to manually make the light radius bigger

[plush yew]

modern art

[wispy heart]

Hey guys just wanted to find out, after I create a hill on a terrain using the sculpting tools, is there a way for me to obtain the displacement between the top of the hill and the basic ground floor? Like is there a way for me to obtain the numerical distance between the 2 surfaces?

[tender mountain]

Hey Peeps

Epic Online Services. Is that just interface tools for servers? Or is it server access?

[loud berry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0EgoD-4YQ

couldn't find the page in the video on the official site, it lists the services in that video

(i also didn't look very hard 😅 )

[tender mountain]

I just watched all the vids and is says nothing about "You now have a server at Epic Games" or "You now have a server on your computer." Or "You now have everything you need to upload to your server host"

Point being, I just need to know, "Will I have to pay for the server (or use my own computer) and set that up to run a game or store data? Or does epic games store all the data and host games on their own server Epic Games server?"

I believe they don't do any server work for the devs. Where the devs need to get their own servers up and running and then just use the EOS on those servers.

[manic pecan]

@drowsy snow Thanks for the info. I was hoping it was more like NVIDIA where there’s a special ue4 branch with NVIDIA’s sdk integrated into it already

[drowsy snow]

TL;DW: Epic Online Services still requires you to have your own dedicated servers.

[runic fern]

Goodday guys ...
Is it possible to share Computer Desktop in scene ?

Realtime

[loud berry]

yeah... general rule of thumb... if it's not mentioned, it's not included. 🤷‍♀️

[tough pagoda]

How can I implement creep like Zerg's creep?

Exists ways for this?

[plush yew]

hey I am spawning static mesh block and want to assign them an index

so I can detect which cube is been clicked

how can I do that

is there a help channel?

if so could someone please link it

[tough pagoda]

#blueprint #cpp

[plush yew]

are those good places to ask about an issue with lighting?

[tough pagoda]

Look at channels.

[normal wasp]

Hi everyone, i have a little problem on my app, when i package the project and launch it with the commandline -nohmd, the app become extremely laggy.. someone already have this issue ? (-nohmd is to launch the app without any VR plugins)

[plush yew]

ive been making grass with polygons and vray materials in 3dsmax, how would I convert them to foliage so i can paint them

or if theyre already in unreal engine can i convert them there

[thick herald]

are they static meshes?

if so that's all you need

[plush yew]

so do i just drop the static meshes into foliage paint

[plush yew]

very specific request but is there a way i can get inputs from gpio pins?

[sinful willow]

Hi, is their any possible way of actually downgrading a project?

[plush yew]

help

lol

how to remove foliage from a road

im using erase in paint

so many questions so little responses

but i feel like there is some way to use an object to sort of boolean it

ikr at this hour to be expected

anyone know a secret to removing foliage with objects

does anyone know how i can make a variable change bassed on raspberry pi gpio pins

[plush yew]

Not sure if theres a boolean for it but just convert to mesh, export to blender and delete them by hand 🙂

good idea thanks

[honest vale]

@plush yew are you using landscape grass?

or painted foliage?

[burnt tinsel]

hi

im using actoronclicked for my player actor

but its not working

i want it so when I click myself it prints a string

but it doesnt work

[lucid pumice]

Hi guys, am new here (have only worked with Unity so far), although I am not a programmer, but PM, game designer. My question is about our next project and whether, if you use Unreal, you could really get by with just Blueprint(s)? I figured I'd post this in this channel and not there because it's really asking in general. Can you get through a project with them, or does experience tell you that there comes a point where you can't do it without C++? Thanks in advance.

[floral lion]

Can the same Shared DDC be used for multiple projects or does it may cause cache conflicts?

[floral lion]

Yes you can do BP only projects, KINE for example was one - really depends on your needs and project size.

Some things are easier to implement in C++ though

i.e. some internal (non-exposed stuff)
MovementComponents I would do in C++, Sorting and the like is advised to do in C++ (any heavy array work basically)

[drowsy snow]

Using both BP and C++ is better.

BP is higher level, has more reliable asset loading, and has fast iteration times, but it hits performance quicker if you have hundreds of ticking BP, and the nodes aren't as low level.

C++ is lower level, can make functions for BPs, and can be tightly optimised. But it also has slower iteration time, because you have to close the editor if you make layout/header changes (Hot reload is a failure, and Live Coding only support cpp changes), prone to crash and weird errors, and less reliable in asset loading.

Ultimately you want C++ compliment what BP has to offer, and translate necessary BP graphs to C++ code, shall you need the performance gain.

[floral lion]

Also https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/UnrealEngineForUnityDevs/ goes into detail about that, I would say you can start with BP first get to know it as both complement each other like HoodieGuy said

But also switching right in front of a project might be doomed from the beginning, would advise doing an internal RnD first with the team and see if it really fits, get the first dust off and have a minor idea for everyone. Maybe do a week jam or smth 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Do YOU know about C++ programming?

[wispy heart]

Anyone with an answer for this? 😫

[drowsy snow]

No.

[plush yew]

not at all im pretty good at blueprints though

[floral lion]

You can read from the height map but it takes some effort 🙂

[wispy heart]

Tell me how or show me where I can learn

[drowsy snow]

BP can't go lower level than that, so you have to make C++ code, with BP callable functions, to interface with your external device.

[floral lion]

Google: heightmap terrain read height ue4

[wispy heart]

I googled something closer to that and got the same results with a bunch of YouTube videos

Guess I'll go through each and every one of em

[shell wadi]

Is there a specific channel for asking questions?

[dark depot]

this is a good one if you cant find a section that covers what your asking about

[shell wadi]

Okay, so im trying to build some buildings and have googled and scoured youtube, but can't find anywhere that talks about, hiding repetition in "walls, and floors" while using megascan textures, i know how to do it fairly masterfully for my terrain at this point, but trying to apply that same tactic to walls, is failing. 😛

[dark depot]

i personally would reccomend a few options sometimes you just need a different material but something that can help is something as simple as using vertex blending and blend between more then one wall type ie one that has more dirt and clean . from there its about adding decals and meshes to break up patterns the sample content has a fun "macro contrast" in some of the materials where it blends in a texture at a large scale so it repeats differently then the texture and you get fun contrast all goood things to look into

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LevelEditor/Modes/MeshPaintMode/VertexColor/MaterialSetup/2Way/ blend example

[shell wadi]

thank you so much, i'll give that video a watch, and hopefully finally figure this problem out, ;p nothing says shobby work like a single wall tile with the same green smear 9 times.

[dark depot]

sometimes you might need to edit stuff out of textures to if its too much

good luck

[tranquil roost]

Hello. I'm experiencing some lag at specific areas in my scene. Trying to disable objects one at the time, but still can't figure out what's wrong. What are your methods in these situations?

[plush yew]

You probably have cast shadows set on something

[toxic night]

is it possible to build a project with a live link? like for instance making it so that the live link face works or a motion capture suit input

[vale silo]

I am running UE 4.27 built from source and when I tried enabling Mesh Editor Plugin (the one that comes with UE4), I got this:

WTH...

[still bough]

it's what it says, you need to build those plugins

re-generate your project files, if you haven't already, open the solution in your IDE, and build

[drowsy snow]

Inb4 too much work

[hollow cairn]

I have some questions about modelling, where can I ask?

[vale silo]

I mean, that's how I built engine to begin with. There is no other way to go about building engine. There is no HairStrands plugin, nor ModelingOperators plugin.

[still bough]

when you build project files, only enabled plugins are included

so if you enable new ones, that weren't enabled by default, you have to compile them

[plush yew]

if you're too lazy to make a candle material and you already have a character in your scene you can repurpose skin if it has sub surf

https://streamable.com/hzbl8x

idk how helpful this is halfway a meme but idk it might not be a placeholder might just keep it

ill be the guy with furniture made out of skin

[drowsy snow]

If it concerns about modelling in general, then OpenVFX discord server (Blender) or those specialised on your DCC tool.

If it concerns bringing meshes to Unreal Engine, then #graphics

[neon magnet]

Why does the car keep coming in weird ways like this?

If I enable transform vertex absolute, then it's fine, but then I lose the pivot point of the hood

actually, I lose the pivot point anyway, every single time

only way to keep the hood pivot is if I use bake pivot, but then the hood is then on the side /facepalm

[autumn flame]

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[grim ore]

nice! I always wanted 3 free months of dLscord nitro

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: SpyCatLord#0587 was banned.

[harsh tiger]

Any idea why my GPU is at 80ms when my scene contains 4 actors. VR pawn, widget menu, screen actor and PPV. Zero static meshes or lighting besides the inverted sphere where the 360 videos are displayed

[neon magnet]

So I've got things sorted. I can open and close. But only once. I can't seem to open it again. What am I missing?

[plush yew]

@humble ivy

[harsh tiger]

The set in the bottom right isn't connected to anything

[neon magnet]

It was connected to Finished pin before, but then it wouldn't allow me to close the hood once it was open.

What should I connect that set to?

[sharp crest]

guys

I think the game might have just crashed

just a hunch

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/476532966642941973/896081978116440164/Screenshot_29.png

just thought I'd let u all know

[dusky sparrow]

This is a bit of a weird and specific question 😅 but every 2.07 seconds (exactly) my fps drops massively by as much as 100 fps. Doesn't matter if I am in game or just in editor, happens the same. Doesn't matter what level or what project.... I'm not using anything too hardware intensive. Has happened after multiple restarts. There isn't any specific reason why this might be happening right?

[dusk nebula]

am I doing something wrong? it seems like my line traces are off-center every time

[dusky sparrow]

off centre as in your crosshair in the firstperson template?

[neon magnet]

I've done this, and now I can open/close indefinitely, however, something isn't quite right. It takes an extra button press to get the whole thing restarted. So something is setting "too late"

[dusk nebula]

yeah, the crosshair is in the middle of the screen, but the line trace happens slightly upwards and to the left

[dusky sparrow]

Use this:

This is because the first person template crosshair is not in the centre of the screen

it's slightly off-set

[dusk nebula]

screen x and y divided by 2

[dusky sparrow]

yes

just try it

[dusk nebula]

right so if the crosshair isn't centered, that's obviously an issue, so I'm asking how that can be

does it not center the texture or something?

[dusky sparrow]

its because the width and height is 16

so half of 16 is 8, offset your shot by 8 units

the centre of the crosshair will be in the middle, so at 8

[dusk nebula]

I'd rather just fix the reticle in that case

[dusky sparrow]

then do -8

[dusky sparrow]

Gonna be the last time I bump this, cause man it definitely sucks not being able to use UE at all.... any ideas?

[fierce tulip]

bumping is not really appreciated, but I'd check the profiler and see if that shows an indication on why it happens.
If there is nothing there, something else (drivers for example) might be stalling cpu or gpu.

[dusky sparrow]

Ah, sorry about that. I'll have to check all my drivers. Thanks for the help

[true geode]

Any good method of getting the height of an object that you are in collision with?

[dusk nebula]

so I overrode FindPlayerStart in my game mode and am calling the node when my player tries to respawn, but it's not firing the last node, which I've put a break on, when there is an enemy with line of sight

this function that I got from the documentation doesn't seem to get called every time the character respawns

[thorn topaz]

Anyone know of any issues with 4.26 and the DirectX device failing to initialize without any logs?

[vocal flume]

Hi all!! I’m trying to package my game for iOS on a Mac mini. Im getting an error message saying legacy build will be deprecated and I can change this in file > workspace settings. I tried the same in Xcode and changed it to new build system in Xcode but unreal keeps building the project with the damn legacy build system. Where can I override this setting in unreal?

[acoustic tangle]

I have this issue where my player start is at world space (0, 0, 0), but when i start the game, my pawn spawns at (X=210.000000,Y=160.000000,Z=190.149994). Any idea what i messed up?

[autumn latch]

can someone help me pls about this problem, I want the beginning of both texts to be from that red line.

So the i want beginnings of the text be equal.

[plush yew]

Textiles are sh!t

Lol

[grizzled axle]

does anyone have any idea, how do I correctly enable v-sync in packaged build? I have made GameUserSettings.ini in my projects Config folder, but it doesn't seem to apply. I can get it enabled if I exec console command in GameInstance, but I would prefer ini file

[rotund scroll]

substring, if you're using blueprints

[frozen pond]

can you scale spline mesh at point ?

[plush yew]

are there any plans to improve raytracing or is it depricated literally not just for UE5

[summer zealot]

I need an advice. So client wants me to give him source files of the project. Well I'm ok that they make changes for particular project in future, but I don't want them fully reverse engineer project. Any good tips on that?

[true geode]

get a lawyer and draw up an agreement contract

[plush yew]

Just write it in a really annoying way 😛

I have no idea though id like to know if thats all you can do ^

[austere whale]

Does anyone have any reccomendations on UE4 freelancers with 5+ years of experience and a heavy back handed knowledge on the PhysX engine? Struggling to find someone who is really good with Unreal physics.

[austere whale]

oo u gota cute profile picture

[plush yew]

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-upRHmxbapWQ/W2xgytrsIPI/AAAAAAAAEq0/CrLG-TZUcPkY1lf48Bt2NCk84S-RGBhzgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Saya-new1.gif

[prime willow]

@plush yew

Please

Pelase tell me

[plush yew]

saya3d is unironically the very first thing i saw where i decided I wanted to make 3d stuff

[prime willow]

your game will have characters this pretty

[plush yew]

no

well

maybe

[prime willow]

;-;

Pls

[plush yew]

aesthetic yes

realistic no

[prime willow]

Ill gib you money

[plush yew]

i have settled on a pixar art style

[prime willow]

all of the moneys

;-; its ok

[plush yew]

you can customize them

[prime willow]

i shall carry the torch for you

[plush yew]

im making hundreds of morph targets so you can probably make them realistic

[prime willow]

nope

realisitic

doesnt matter

[plush yew]

the end goal is make them more customizable than metahuman
goal acheived

jk

[prime willow]

the art style does

if you cna make the characters semi realisitic

the actual grahpics wont matter most people will be satisifed

@plush yew semi realisitc art

[plush yew]

well

actually maybe you can give some input on where i should middle it

you will be able to make both toon and realistic characters

but i need a middle ground you tell me which one you like best cant post them here because of the obvious

[prime willow]

o.o

[austere whale]

sonehati polygon's work has a nice in between toon realism look thats what my oc is incarnated from @plush yew

it follows all the tropes of anime style waifus. baby face, flat cheeks, oversized head compared to body, big ole eyes, but what makes it really standout is that its anime style EXCEPT she has an actual nose

cus usually its that lil button or little etch for the nose

in anime

[plush yew]

Im about to "stylize" my characters too

_>

[coarse turtle]

Anybody knows how to remove one of them? Not uninstall, since they link to the same folder. https://gyazo.com/b655dc7456c998b1c5f67f3eea27e7d4

[vocal flume]

Hi all!! I’m trying to package my game for iOS on a Mac mini. Im getting an error message saying legacy build will be deprecated and I can change this in file > workspace settings. I tried the same in Xcode and changed it to new build system in Xcode but unreal keeps building the project with the damn legacy build system. Where can I override this setting in unreal?

[tranquil rose]

a speech synthesizer for a live broadcast of an avatar? I'm waiting for recommendations

[runic fern]

hello guys why the player freezing when traveling to another map ?

[winter hollow]

Maybe someone can point me in the right direction here --- I want to start working on a movement system similar to that in Death Stranding. Movement based on weight in inventory, terrain obstacles, etc. -- Not the whole balancing and falling over part, just like the movement in that game)

What are some resources I need to start digging into that will point me in the right way?

I'm thinking I might need to do some procedural anim instead of root or basic

[dusk nebula]

Hi, I followed this guide to create a respawn system, but I notice that the end node (step 16, but replaced with the player start select node) does not cause a break when I press F9 on it and then trigger a respawn. Presumably, the event isn't firing at all https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/HowTo/RespawnPlayer/

I'm actually trying to create a system to select a player start, and in my troubleshooting I found that the final node in the sequence I linked doesn't stop when a player respawns, yet they still respawn normally

[void sierra]

Does Unreal have an profiler tool similar to what Unity has?

[desert verge]

What resolution do you use when exporting surface materials from quixel?

should I stick with 4k?

[grim ore]

@void sierrait certainly has something when you google ue4 profiler https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/Profiler/

[drowsy snow]

Oh yes, Unreal has a LOT of optimisation tools.

[drowsy snow]

Add subsurface scattering, and then we talk.

[plush yew]

Can you set up the particles to overlap and rotate or is it just like forward only

[plush yew]

Oh i think im required to use a mesh but feel free to correct me

[dusk nebula]

Pretty sure particles are a sprite, so they always face the player, but you might be able to render them in world space like you can do with widgets

[muted imp]

anyone know why my edited animation doesn't update in sequencer?

[prime willow]

oh

[tired reef]

https://youtu.be/CsWCniL8ALo

How to fix this?

[dusk nebula]

Do you mean that the gun's off center or that it's janking out when you shoot?

[prime willow]

does anyone know whats the standard lmit or cost for having morphs

on the model

or mesh

and how or what you would do to have that limit go into 1000 or more?

without performance costs

severe ones at least

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow >O>

if you have any ideas on if it is possible or how please poke me ❤️

[verbal shell]

(Sorry if this is a dumb question) When you download assets from megascan does it take up space on your hard drive?

[prime willow]

yes

[rancid lagoon]

is there a program that will refine my mesh? its a photogrammetry model and its kinda messy. is there a way to make it more clean without having to do it manually? this is kinda time senstive! any help would be apricated
Please!!!!

[desert verge]

I'm using github to clone a project but the assets aren't downloading

how can i fix this?

hmm maybe git lfs?

".uasset" already supported

[somber prawn]

Does anyone know the reason why Unreal names assets with a double name "Game/Package/my_material.my_material" ? Just curious

[drowsy snow]

Split them across skelmeshes.

[drowsy snow]

Use GitHub Desktop.

For some bizarre reasons, GitHub's ZIP downloads have tendency to prematurely cut off the ZIP file and refuses to redownload it as a whole.

[drowsy snow]

https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes

[desert verge]

I was using git through the command line. Even tried git lfs clone X

[plush yew]

Why are my animations like this?

If I move the mesh's parts then it's fine but when the animations are playing it's all skinny

[drowsy snow]

Most of the open Unreal git projects don't use LFS 🤔

[rancid lagoon]

thanks man

really helps

[prime willow]

what if i put the load of the mesh on a server for example?

;-;

idk

[drowsy snow]

That's practically the same as cloud gaming.

[prime willow]

._.

well i cant seem to figure out how to have alot of customization options without fluffing someones ram during runtime

its either figure something out or mass cut of content..

idk like maybe make morphs you pick stay on a mesh thats auto created, than its seperate from the meesh you play for

like a child mesh with only your baked meshes lol

as the rest of the meshes cease to exist lol

[drowsy snow]

Compromises have to be made.

Alternatively, using mod support, though at the risk for a lot of rules violations, and clogging load times from downloading assets. Lot of custom CSGO/Gmod servers are guilty of this.

[prime willow]

o.o

what about what i mentioned above is that somehow possible?

and compromises on game quality suck

[drowsy snow]

Well, the problem with that later would be syncing the models across clients. It's far easier on the network to just download the morph targets and enum vars than downloading an entire model. It moved the load to netcodes, which is far more brittle.

Besides, not everything has to be customisable. Final Fantasy XIV doesn't go that far in terms of customisation.

[prime willow]

true ._.

i mean

every muscle is customziable

200+ face shapes for each piece of face

over 600+ body morphs for every limb

;O;

like actually every literal muscle group

big sads

[drowsy snow]

It's not necessary for every muscle part to be customisable. People won't mind if it can only go as far as overall body muscle in one slider.

[prime willow]

i have overall too

;-;

[drowsy snow]

Welp, consider removing the individual muscle morph targets.

In general, most character customisation in games comes down to these following:

• Body height (usually around 40cm margin; actor scale + one body MT)
• Body weight (from skinny to chubby, one MT)
• Body muscle (one MT)
• Body age (one MT + material scalar param)
• Breasts size (one MT)
• Waist size (one MT)
• Hips size (one MT)
• Facial features:
  • Jaw shape (slider, one or more MTs)
  • Ear shape (sliders, multiple MTs)
  • Nose shape (enum/sliders, multiple MTs for each nose shape)
  • Eye shape (sliders, multiple MTs)
  • Iris colour (enum/RGB slider, material param)
  • Eyebrow shape (enum, mesh switch, following one face MT)
  • Eyebrow position (slider, one MT)
  • Mouth shape (sliders, multiple MTs)
• Head hairs and facial hairs (enum, mesh switch)

[prime willow]

o.o

yeah i have those

i can do that

just feels bad you know

[drowsy snow]

That level of customisation, for at least 24 morph targets and skeleton level curves to control the material params

[prime willow]

true

;-;

oki

ill see what can be done

and cut out as much as i can

[wispy heart]

So I went through some of the content there and there was a video where the guy explains how distance works in Unreal Engine. (1px = 1 meter) but after checking the output logs whilst importing a height map I still can't figure out where the values are calculated so that I can get those same values to use in my algorithm.

Hey guys just wanted to find out, after I create a hill on a terrain using the sculpting tools, is there a way for me to obtain the displacement between the top of the hill and the basic ground floor? Like is there a way for me to obtain the numerical distance between the 2 surfaces? @anyone else who can answer this please

[dusk nebula]

Matt W's mvpfps if you're completely new, and then just try to find a guide that's okay. I was watching another random one that was okay for like 5 videos and then it dropped off a cliff because the guy obviously didn't know the engine well enough to fix simple errors without some obscene workaround. Honestly, I came up with something that's technically playable within 2 weeks just by grinding through it one concept at a time. The next thing I'm missing is non-randomized respawns, though, and it seems like nobody who makes tutorials even considers the concept

I'm just kinda figuring it out from this point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Arena shooters are intentionally straightforward

Small map, well-partitioned gameplay, small sandboxes

The arena shooter genre got saturated a decade ago in the same way that BR games have been recently because there's seemingly not a lot of development needed to have a working product

Obviously design/maintenance is something major, but "arena shooter" is a format because it just works

[drowsy snow]

Or alternatively, build upon the Shooter Game template. It's almost all C++ though.

Then explain this.

[plush yew]

hello guys I have problem with my project

it crashes

the person who I am working with
he sent me the plugincs
I extract the files and put them in the plugin folder

[drowsy snow]

Something to do with Substance's plugins.

[plush yew]

idk what

I have the files

I put them in the plugins folder

in the plugins folder

anyone know a good site for getting game name ideas?

[pine vessel]

I have a few models in my scene and some of them are appearing colored like this, as red (when I check Lightmap density), what could be the issue here is it a problem with my UV?

[radiant fable]

is there a way to make an action mapping global
i'm on foot, i have a vehicle i want to press an enter key to switch possession to get in that vehicle
i want to make portable pawns/characters that don't require node entanglements with eachother or the level blueprint

[strong schooner]

Hi. will 4.27.1 come out this month or next month? Thank you

[brittle plume]

I set a BP animation to the pieces of my metahumans, the problem is that when I walk, then the Walk animation starts, the animation does not sync so you see the metahumans break
Even when I stand still, so the animation goes into IDLE, you see the pieces hitting each other, but you see less

[tough pagoda]

It's pretty terrible, when I want to save material, it's beginning shader compiling.

How to turn off this shit?

My habit kills me, help.

[short obsidian]

what is easier to work on : FPS Horror Game, ARPG or Turn-Based Combat game similar to Divinity, XCOM2

[neon hatch]

What kind of lighting technique is this? https://youtu.be/WTRmZ6aFEWM?t=790

[drowsy snow]

Strategy games would be the most difficult.

[drowsy snow]

Input mappings are ALWAYS GLOBAL. The events can be called by any actors, and one action can correspond to multiple keys + modifiers, and vice versa.

Also, avoid using level BP to make your code more reusable.

[short obsidian]

so from those 3 genres i should start with FPS horror then

[drowsy snow]

Why? Are you waiting for certain hotfixes?

[drowsy snow]

FPS would be easy, but horror would require more delicate set pieces, and balancing act of defenselessness and fun. It's easy for horror set pieces to get cringe.

[drowsy snow]

#metahumans

[short obsidian]

oh yeah i know about that. I was just thinking of what genre that i like would be the easiest to get started with. Really wanted to make ARPG but that's just insane amount of work, since you not only have Third Person perspective but advanced Animations, Combat , Skills etc

[brittle plume]

I already did it 2 hours ago, but I did it here too so maybe even someone who is passing through and knows how to fix it can write to me

[short obsidian]

thanks for the info

[glacial pecan]

Events like these can't be overridden by child classes?

[exotic thicket]

afaik they aren't really events similar to how things like BeginPlay and such are

it's binding an event to a dispatcher on the component

Although I'd imagine you should be able to do the same in a child class and then call the parent from it if one exists

Yeah sounds like the way to do it is to create a custom event and call that from the event, then you can override the custom event in child bp's

[glacial pecan]

Ahh, too bad. Thanks for the info! The simplest solution for me seems to just make a new base class...

Man... my number of "base classes" is growing large 🙈

[royal magnet]

Hi everyone, I am making an endless runner demo and I have a blueprint with many objects( buildings, small props, road) and it keeps spawning as the player moves along the road, and removes the tile behind. Classic way. My problem is, whenever player overlaps the box( spawns the new tile and kills the old ones) fps takes a huge hit for a second only. Is there anyway to improve this performance hit, I know object pooling is the common way to handle this but this is a small demo and I need to deliver it soon, can anyone give me any suggestion for improving the performance.

[odd harness]

can i add specific functionality to some foliage types?

[wispy heart]

What kind of functionality?

[odd harness]

collision detection etc. basically like an average blueprint

[wispy heart]

That can be done through the mesh I think

Play around with the mesh properties and see if you can come up with something you like

[royal magnet]

Anyone can help me with this?

[loud berry]

I just started blender, no knowledge but the problem I'm having might help you as well. Lemme post

can anyone tell/show me how to reduce the amount of triangles/faces I have in my object? I watched some videos and followed them but my triangles still sit at around 96k. I've also tried getting rid of edge loops but it completely disfigures my model and practically makes it unusable.

[plush yew]

Hello guys, I have little silly quesiton, can I delete the vault cache and will it ruin anything?

[cyan bronze]

Im learning landmass tool and in the pic

1. is done with painting the rock texture
2. Is grass which is the default landscape texture
3. Is supposed to be same as number 1. but instead it has combined the grass and that rock texture

How do i make it so that it overrides the grass with rock texture with the set up in the last pic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbj1qgPOl3E&ab_channel=UnrealEngine
Tutorial
(4.15 min) time

[loud berry]

is the second pic the BP for your rock texture?

[cyan bronze]

Second pic is material and it has all the textures and set up as the landscape material

not sure if its the right way to do the layer thing

[loud berry]

i believe the 3rd brush or w/e you're using is your blending material. so it's not just an abrupt end to the rock material

[loud berry]

if they're 3 separate materials you're using and that BP is for the rock material, I would just remove the grass and dirt texture. lemme watch the vid tho one sec

[cyan bronze]

In that video it didnt explain how did they set up the materials and layers and i got it from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0MN9xWr-iI&ab_channel=DevSquad

Its all 1 material with 3 different textures

[oblique drift]

can I create planets with world partition? like can it handle that kinda scale?

Is World Partition even necessary with Nanite?

[cyan bronze]

I cant do it with painting because if i move the mountain it doesnt move the paint

[loud berry]

im still watching it, and yeah that's how texture painting works. Imagine the texture like the skin, and ur mountains are like the skeleton

[marble mountain]

any courses for unreal engine ??

[loud berry]

based on the tutorial, you should just be able to select the material you want to paint with in the left-hand panel under target-layers

[loud berry]

are you using the paint, smooth, or flatten brush?

[cyan bronze]

im not painting it manually

[loud berry]

what do you mean by manually?

at the top middle of unreal you should see a paint brush, a smooth brush, and a flatten brush

[cyan bronze]

Yes i know but im not using that to paint anything when im applying it from the blueprint

[loud berry]

try the flatten brush

[cyan bronze]

Its not painting

[loud berry]

oh i see, try messing with the texture influence?

[cyan bronze]

Meaby i should just make it entirely different layer in whole and then use that. Like new to that "Edit layer" list

[loud berry]

im not sure, the first video relies on painting and since that's the material you're using I don't know how it works with the BP method

[little breach]

linux users what do you use? unreal engine installed under epic games launcher which itself runs on wine or compile the engine from source

[loud berry]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/BeginnerLinuxDeveloper/SettingUpAnUnrealWorkflow/

does that help?

[little breach]

no, I already completed these steps

when I run my project it needs a plugin

[cyan bronze]

1. is directly painted
2. Is done with help of the video. You can clearly see the grass

[little breach]

but when I let it install it, it just says that it failed

[loud berry]

do you have the error message?

[little breach]

no

but it was something like failed to find market place

I installed from aur eam

seems to not throw the error

but now it vanished, maybe it is downloaded in the background

[loud berry]

the error vanished?

[little breach]

kind of

now I only have my curson with that working thing

[plush yew]

i made this in unreal

omfg

[cyan bronze]

.mp4 not .mp3

[plush yew]

there’s no preview

[plush yew]

yeah

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gSK5vPA5t3HBkW7ejbCdmK3Sn2zibmxd/view?usp=drivesdk

here

[cyan bronze]

@loud berry Btw just letting you know that i had to make the grass Height Blend and that fixed it

[loud berry]

ohhhh okay i was thinking that it had to do with something in your height map but i didnt know enough about unreal to tell you how to adjust that

[dull egret]

Is it better to use a complex collision mesh or is it better to approximate this mesh by a lot of box colliders? And how does unreal handle collision? Is it automatically dividing all colliders into chunks and I dont have to worry about the number of colliders or do I have to implement an efficient system myself?

[peak bloom]

hey guys, i'm concerned my computer's going to conk out or something and want to back up my UE4 work.

can I do that just by copying the files to a harddrive or will that not save it properly?

[restive yarrow]

who's using UIWS out here?

[restive yarrow]

i didnt know this problem happens in Japan too

[rancid lagoon]

just installed cesium, but i cant figure out how to add my own city

im looking for san fran, but how do i add the photogrammetry?

[peak bloom]

what's cesium?

[rancid lagoon]

its a mapping system in unreal

can anyone help me??

[little breach]

I'm on linux, the project couldn't be built by the engine so I just done a "make". After that this error showed up

[rancid lagoon]

kinda on a time crunch......

[plush yew]

My keys bro

[plush yew]

I will install it and let you know

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?

The marketplace assest or the real thing

The marketplace tool is for 4.26 only

[plush yew]

?

You can just place the video and it should show without downloading

[restive yarrow]

who's using UIWS out here? its causing lag for me, and i wanna know how i can optimize it

[plush yew]

use osb to get your bounding box and add it to cords and import

easy pz

and the plugin https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-osm

[restive yarrow]

Does this export streets and the 3d buildings with it?

and for all countries?

[plush yew]

Well

I tried the local farm house down my street and it didnt have a model

😛

[restive yarrow]

but the street came?

[plush yew]

But most major cities will work

Yepp no textures on free version i guess

[restive yarrow]

tried a european city?

[plush yew]

Wait lemme try all the buttons really quickly

Its not very good but it works

this one is from paris

Dont think your allowed to use it for commercial purposes tho

Need a license for anything real

[restive yarrow]

ok not bad

[plush yew]

i dont usually use plugins but i might keep it for fun xD

[restive yarrow]

yea XD

do you know a way to optimize it??

no but without modifying the plugin, did you try optimizing?

[errant venture]

AndroidDeviceDetection```

anyone know what this means? i've tried rebuilding vscode

[restive yarrow]

it is broken af! i mean it looks good-ish but why cant we move it below the default 0 z axis? so weird

[little breach]

how am I supposed to disable -Werror on linux?

[restive yarrow]

problem is my landscape is below 0,0,0 its like 0,0,-134 or something

[little breach]

oh I didn't noticed

also I meant where should I put that since I can't find it

[restive yarrow]

i cant , it will require me to drag all the other grouped and ungrouped actors in my level too

[nocturne tangle]

hey guys when i delete the default stuff it leaves this kinda of permenant black shadow

how do i get rid of that

[radiant fable]

ty, i mean have an action mapping in an unpossessed vehicle's blueprint fire, even when i'm in possession of a first person character.
but i found a janky workaround. i stand inside of a collision sphere of the vehicle for 3s and then the vehicle takes player possession

[peak bloom]

have you rebuilt the lighting?

[plush yew]

build lighting

[nocturne tangle]

oh

sry im new to unreal

[plush yew]

hello guys

I have problem with my project

this appears when I open my project

how to fix it?

I tried to rename the folder to be with less symbols

[stone edge]

I'm looking for tutorials on materials (blending, layering etc), I tried watching the one on Artstation but at part 3 I just can't keep up with what I'm watching

[cursive sky]

Can someone help me with this problem I have. I have a main menu and when they player presses the corresponding button it runs open level by name then when they load into the level the only way to move the players camera is if the player holds down left or right click then move the mouse but I want it to be when they load into the level they can just move the mouse around to move the camera

[stone edge]

or unreal and quixel youtube videos, I can't handle the "this is just a very basic master material"

[radiant fable]

waterbody underwater post process bounding box doesn't seem to have settings i can access to change its xy size. anyone tackled this?

nvm, appears to be driven by the collision extents

[craggy sorrel]

Hello, does anyone know why my lighting is glitching ? The walls and floor are static meshes, but when I compile lighting it does this weird "tiling" effect. The materials are fine, I think the problem might be lightmass ?

[runic fern]

Hello Guys why player freezing when join session its not taking any inputs

[pallid carbon]

Does anyone know why my level keeps doing this? Im still pretty new to all this, and it does it no matter how high i put the player spawn

[high harbor]

Hello, is it possible to create a simple 2D game using UE ??

[plush yew]

ya but im sure other engines may have more tools for it

not like you cant do it in unreal but

[plush yew]

Your collision probably messed up

[high harbor]

Thank you very much 🙂

[pallid carbon]

Dont suppose you know how i'd fix it do you?

[plush yew]

well i can show you and you can fix it yourself

[pallid carbon]

That'd be great

[plush yew]

if you look closely you can see i havnt set my stairs up right

so one of your objects may have a huge ass colision

and it knocks you off

[radiant fable]

in the blueprint window we have the option to 'simulate'
but focusing the window and pressing input mappings or hotkeys doesn't work. is there a way to make them work

[pallid carbon]

Sadly, that's all foreign to me. Im very much a noob with all this and just starting out

[plush yew]

Click Show>Collision

Take a picture of your scene

[scarlet birch]

Anyone using VS2022 yet and if so how is it working out for them?

[plush yew]

You checked off collision?

[pallid carbon]

It's enabled

[scarlet birch]

You have collision on your skysphere or something else that is blocking the player from spawning

[plush yew]

Ya but we would be able to see the grid for every model

[scarlet birch]

you wouldn't see the skysphere's collision from that view

the player start says bad size because it's blocked

[plush yew]

That wasnt in the video xD

anyways you could do this for now until you figure it out could be your sky sphere

[late grotto]

Is there a good way to prevent overlapping foliage? Nearly every rock is overlapping with a tree

[cursive sky]

Can someone help me with this problem I have. I have a main menu and when they player presses the corresponding button it runs open level by name then when they load into the level the only way to move the players camera is if they play holds down left or right click then move the mouse because if not the mouse can move out of the window but I want it to be when they load into the level they can just move the mouse around to move the camera and the mouse stays in the window

[runic fern]

On Begin Player ->Get Player Controller -> Set Input Mode Game And UI

[cursive sky]

would i put that after the open level?

like this?

[runic fern]

You Can set it in Player Controller BP on Event Begin Play

its working for me in Player Controller BP

[cursive sky]

thanks it worked

[runic fern]

[glossy mica]

do trigger bxes work when placed inside actors?

[half thorn]

not quite sure where this would go so i'll ask in here.
I'm playing around with some Material stuff for doing some calculations for Voxel Terrain on GPU and then getting that back into BPs by Rendering the material onto a Render Target. however it would seem that sometimes, in what appears to be a somewhat regular pattern, the Render Target has some stripe-y artifacts. here are two examples on how those artefacts look on the render targets

at first i thought it might be an issue in the material that im rendering to texture but no, thats just a simple noise thing with some minor math to remap the values. and it looks fine in the preview.
but as you can imagine those artefacts are rather unfavourable in a terrain generator 😅

oh yeah and with somewhat regular i mean that, as you can see in this top down view, there is a pattern. no clue where it could come from though

[mild ruin]

What u call this?

[ember igloo]

Guys any good for tech art tutorial for unreal engine

[neon bough]

gizmo

[glossy mica]

Does anybody know why models are always rotated when you import them? it never works when you have a root componement that is rotated in the wrong direction

while ue4 says the x actor is forward (based on it being called roll)

and then theres blender, which indicates thhat the Y axis is the Roll

Isnt X "pitch" not roll?

[drowsy snow]

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/952661474501111808?lang=en

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic)

Sorry y’all I was young and this coordinate system stuff was confusing https://t.co/S2tkQRfAHr

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[silk furnace]

anyone know if theres something like hammUEr but for unity games?

paid or free

i just really need something to port unity levels into ue4

[drowsy snow]

Rebuild the lighting.

[drowsy snow]

No.
Generally we don't support asset ripping in this server.

[silk furnace]

bruh

[silk furnace]

no there isnt one or no you dont support rpping?

[drowsy snow]

I do ripping on my own, for research purposes, but I won't tell you
¯_(ツ)_/¯

[silk furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/frodo-keep-your-secrets-alright-then-lotr-gif-12907121

back to ninja ripper

[mild ruin]

Thank you

[brazen crown]

What could cause this flickering in front of the ball?

it is a single SetActorLocation

GetOwner()->SetActorLocation(FVector(Cell->CenterLocation.X, Cell->CenterLocation.Y, ActorLocation.Z), false);

in this video it is on timer every 0.3s. I thought that maybe it is a sync problem - tried it on tick, but result is the same.

it was defaultMaterial ball initially, same result

tried removing cast shadows

[drowsy snow]

For good measure: do you have motion blur turned on?

[brazen crown]

oh, that's a good one

hell, seems like it was motion blur

[drowsy snow]

I suspect what's happening is that the motion blur confuses the teleport as super fast motion.

[brazen crown]

yeah

damn

@drowsy snow @ornate creek Thanks!

[drowsy snow]

https://tenor.com/view/makoto-ehehe-head-rub-makoto-kikuchi-confused-gif-17415330

Kinda wild guess but hey, it works.

Usually motion blur won't be an issue for Set Location teleports that are so far away.

[glossy mica]

Maybe something to do with sweep? i know you arent using blueprints but that could maybe do something

[drowsy snow]

I disagree. Motion blur can look nice in the right hands.

[brazen crown]

sweep passed as false. It was because of the default motion blur settings

[drowsy snow]

Hell Let Loose has some excellent per object motion blurs.

You can't change my mind.

And it's a UE4 game.

[brazen crown]

apparently, it didn't like grid-based location updates every 0.3s and was "smoothing" them

[glossy mica]

Ah

[void blade]

anyone ever encounter the editor crashing unless you right click on a map before loading it first? the crash log just ends after the map completes loading (no errors) 😆 wtf?

[drowsy snow]

Not even crash reporter say anything about it?

[plush yew]

hi

i cant seem to find the multiply vector by float

[drowsy snow]

search for vector * float

[drowsy snow]

Did they change the function names in UE5?

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSTkxNbvxLE im doing this im at 8:31

i dont know

i just want my dog to be on my side lol xD

[drowsy snow]

I don't know, I don't use UE5.

[plush yew]

ooow to bad

[plush yew]

Could just attach it to the same actor or something idk lots of ways to do it

i think its like this now

sry for same picture

i actually dont know how to animate 😄

[plush yew]

thanks

okaaay wel now i know how to make my own ai XD

better make it with behavior trees but this is fun

i love my wife so much that she is going to be the star of the show together with my dead dog named lana , think this wel be cool for her to play 😄

[drowsy snow]

Holy smokes, that's quite sentimental.
Hope the project made it through completion.

[plush yew]

yeah its kinda fun

[void blade]

it didn't show up on crash, do I need to enable it like here? https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/native/guides/ue4/
haven't used ue in a while but I remember seeing this window before without doing any of that

[glossy mica]

when coordinites are left handed does that mean x is forward or does that just mean that the Y is flipped?

[spare hornet]

hi everyone i would like to know if it is possible two use two expoonential heightfog ?? like use one for the left of my scene an the second for the left

[glossy mica]

this makes no sense, does unreal change the gizmo when importing from other programs to better fit the models or what? (the model isn't rotated)

[plush yew]

The gizmo is the world orgin of your modelling program

and the models will stay where they area

some people like to just export the entire scene and place everything at 0,0,0

[fierce tulip]

yuck, but yea some people do that.

[glossy mica]

it gets very hard to visualize rotation when using add local rotation if the models don't face Y

connecting the roll float into the Pitch float

[plush yew]

You could add it to an actor and track the transform to center it and have it applied on construct script but thats ALOT of work

[glossy mica]

i sometimes wonder why cordinites aren't just universal

[plush yew]

Hey

[neon bough]

you can switch the gizmo between world transform and local transform

[plush yew]

I’m new to UE4, does anyone have some tips? I want to do stylized environments for animated movies and games

[glossy mica]

yes but none of the nodes that are location and rotation based work on them without being tinkerered with

[plush yew]

Thats normal transform in modelling

probably anyways looks like it

[neon bough]

unreal has z axis upwards

so it might differ from your modeling program

[drowsy snow]

Even Tim Sweeney himself admitted it

[neon bough]

anyways, i think his system is the correct one for game dev

[glossy mica]

“Sorry y’all I was young and this coordinate system stuff was confusing” 😂

[glossy mica]

why?

[neon bough]

because if you look from above you get the same coord system like you have on maps

and it's just what anyone uses for real world applications

and it's just my opinion

[grim beacon]

How do i set actors to trace a certain ECC_GameTraceChannel ?

Im tracing for a gametracechannel in CPP but i cant find how to set the actors to be tracable to that channel

[grim juniper]

@gleaming narwhal Do you know if we can sign up for this if we've already completed some of the courses? If so do we need to unenroll from them first? https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/become-a-blueprint-master-by-taking-this-online-learning-challenge

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of swags, I wish the classic Unreal Engine swags are back on circulation.

I remember Epic Games Store back then used to sell Unreal Engine merch, before transformed into a game storefront.

[plush yew]

Hey, I didnt know what other channel to ask in but in here, I have a problem my normal's seem to be flipped, when I imported my character I made it had "invisible parts" but when I flipped the camera inside the character they show up, here are pictures for example.

I looked it up on google and no solution seemed to work so maybe you guys might know

here is original

[drowsy snow]

Make sure your materials have Two Sided disabled, and there's no "solidified" faces inside to begin with.

[plush yew]

ok ill try this right now

[plush yew]

Ohhh shoot it seems that when I enable two sided it then works

should I keep it enabled now?

[west junco]

yo, i'm using UE 4.27 and i had the same issue on 4.26 but sometimes sporadically the engine will go black and new windows like adding nodes disappear on opening, any idea what might be causing it? and possible solutions? the only solution i've found thus far is to close and reopen the engine

[plush yew]

happens to me as well, especially if I'm using ue for a long time I dont have a fix for it apart from Ctrl+Shift+S Then restart

[west junco]

aight, thanks, hopefully they patch it out in UE5, but who knows, it could very well be a graphics driver thing as well

[drowsy snow]

Not sure if you're flipping things around, but Two Sided materials rarely make performance hits.

[drowsy snow]

Sounds like NVIDIA driver oddities to me.

[plush yew]

Which channel is best to seek help with packaging?

[drowsy snow]

Conveniently: #packaging

[storm lake]

Hello, I deleted a plugin manually from the folder, so I could reinstall it

but now it says I can't install it because it's already installed in unreal engine

is there an easy fix for this?

[dusk nebula]

I followed the guide in the documentation to create a function that respawns players. Can anyone tell me why the stop I've placed only fires the first time a player respawns?

[rancid lagoon]

you have tlink o docs?

[plush yew]

is there a way to increase the sunscattering but only for reflections

[dusk nebula]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/HowTo/RespawnPlayer/

I followed it, except in my screenshot I made it so that it runs FindPlayerStart

unrelated and basic question, but is there a simple way to make a point light that changes color or blinks periodically?

[drowsy snow]

Yes. Just use Set Timer By Event in your light actor's BP.

[dim seal]

Hi, I want to show my Trello (website) board inside my game but the Epic's Web Browser plugin is too old to show it properly.
How can I show a HTML 5 supported website in my game?

[plush yew]

anyone know why my vray lights look like this after a datasmith import

looks like a police car lmao

I can fix them manually in unreal but i wanna know the cause so i can import fine in the future i just dont like using the unreal engine material editor

[drowsy snow]

Go to the engine source code (fork and clone it from GitHub), and update the Chromium Embeded Framework yourself.

It has been kept old because most games don't need actual web browsing needs and to prevent arbitrary code executions. It's either using the browser for displaying UIs, or using the platform's web browser (i.e. opening the OS's browser)

[dim seal]

Sadly I'm not good enough with C++ to modify engine code

[wispy ledge]

hi can anyone help me with this error:
Error: Texture format 'R32_UINT' not supported (sRGB=0).

[feral sierra]

hi, I found this to apply a vertical linear gradient pointing to the top.
Problem is, I don't know how to add some control on the gradient with this method.
I played with the division and addition with no success

[plush yew]

hello guys I have problem with my project

this appears when I open my project
how to fix it?
I tried to rename the folder to be with less symbols

[drowsy snow]

This seems to be redirect issue 🤔

[plush yew]

wdym?

I wanted to move the cache from my main disck C to otehr

and I opened the BaseEnghine.ini file and edited the cache

but I think I cinfused something and that's why I can't start the project

and idk how to return it back and that's why I am looking for help

[drowsy snow]

Though general rule of thumb is to NOT install Unreal Engine in C: drive.

[plush yew]

what?

[neon bough]

or use the backup that you made before editing stuff

[fierce tulip]

or before editing stuff, back up :p

[runic fern]

Hello guys when im trying to join this session from android device its just find it on Local network how can i make it public ?

[serene drift]

Does anyone know how to lock UE gameplay to 60 fps? I'm working on a fighting game and am looking for a solution to have a consistent 60 fps as a base for my logic.

[autumn flame]

Don't base your game around FPS

[drowsy snow]

Don't even think about it until you have the gameplay logic in place.
Even then, Blueprints are quite easy on performance if not much is ticking at the same time, so 120 FPS is an easy target for side scroller fighting game.

Most of the performance cost would be from the visuals, so don't go too crazy with the visual effects and don't go too much with the scene details.

[serene drift]

thanks for your reply 🙂 the reason is not for performance, but because I want to use it to create consistent frame perfect gameplay. its for a tekken-like game (2p multiplayer), not a side-scroller. I tried limiting FPS using "Set Frame Rate Limit", but It's still going above or below that number frequently with not much in the scene at all yet.

[drowsy snow]

I'd say that's the bad approach.

[drowsy snow]

Give tolerance to those who can't get 60 FPS and give visual advantage to those who can get up to 120 FPS.

That being said, you could set tick interval in your BPs, to be exactly 0,016667 seconds.

[icy hearth]

hi guys, when i place Nav Mesh , it doesn't cover all the surface , how can i solve this problem

[drowsy snow]

That'll make the tick functions to be executed every 1/60th of a second.

[neon bough]

scale it up

[serene drift]

Thanks, I'll give that a try! Yeah, I don't want to lower the fps graphically, smoother is always nicer 🙂 I am just looking for a consistent number I can use to time attacks so that they consistently give the same results for combos and such. 60fps is the standard used in the genre.

[neon bough]

that's the wrong approach

use the delta time for stuff like that

[icy hearth]

@neon bough the Z scale?

[neon bough]

if it's within a second

@icy hearth oh theres a height difference, then you have to adjust the nav agent stats for the nav area

i was only paying attention on the area outside of the nav mesh

adjusting the nav agent radius and step height may "fix" it

but they have to be values that also work for your character

[neon bough]

doesn't help if you increase the stepheight for the nav agent when the character can't step up that high

[serene drift]

thanks Ben, I'll look into the delta time.

[neon bough]

also enable collision view in your view settings, to check if some things have too large colliders

[neon bough]

tick is still frame dependent

[serene drift]

yeah, the numbers coming from that aren't consistent enough

[hollow cairn]

can i edit the thirdpersoncharacter inside unreal editor?

like remove some bones and stuff?

[icy hearth]

@neon bough

[neon bough]

well collider on the bed and sideboard could be adjusted

and a smaller nav agent radius should also yield more nav able area

however, if your character/ai is too fat, it will get stuck 😛

[neon bough]

they are, you just interpret them wrong

https://drewcampbell92.medium.com/understanding-delta-time-b53bf4781a03#:~:text=Delta time%2C or also referred,drawn and the current frame.

[serene drift]

ooh, thanks, let me read that

great!

[icy hearth]

@neon bough love u

[neon bough]

but well, actually they aren't consistent, which is right, that's the reason you want to use delta time actually 😄

[serene drift]

I get it, thanks 🙂

[icy hearth]

@neon bough the problem was in the blooking volumes , i will try to adjust the collision , thx alot for ur help

[plush yew]

it is fixed, thank you

[frozen stratus]

中国朋友们好... I saw UE blueprint nodes being in Chinese on UE with Chinese interface and that seemed weird... I just want to know if anyone using UE seriously in China actually uses the Chinese language version, or Chinese on nodes? I can't imagine that sitting too well in complicated pipelines, and it's not like people would write C++ in Chinese either that the blueprints sort of "emulate"

[exotic thicket]

I think I've seen it from people posting screenshots from time to time, also maybe some in japanese... so I would assume people are using it

personally I just use everything in english even if my native language is available because I find most tech terminology clunky in my native language, plus the localizations are usually awful anyway (even in Windows 10 it's pretty bad in places)

but I can imagine it being helpful for someone who isn't fluent

[drowsy snow]

Even then, while the syntaxes, function/macro/var names are written in English, comments are still in Japanese (or native language).

Being an Indonesian myself, I could write stuff in my native language, since it uses latin characters. But it's just my habit that I ended up writing stuff in English, even in code comments.

Besides, writing stuff in English could save the hassle of collaboration issues, where one or more member(s) can only comprehend English text.

[exotic thicket]

Yeah in a team environment there are a lot of reasons to use english but I think the native language support can be useful for those who are beginners

[frozen stratus]

on VFX side I see Chinese using programs completely in English without them being able to speak single word... but that's maybe because there isn't localization available, or industry learned it before local versions and it would be too much hassle to relearn everything (even if it is in your own language)

[exotic thicket]

yeah I don't know if I'd even know all the weird finnish words for programming terminology :P

[frozen stratus]

so I can see someone in their bedroom who has no understanding of English whatsoever using the Chinese version, but hard to imagine in professional setting. This makes even screenshots hard to read when your "print string" says "打印...". It still found the node by English syntax but you don't see the node name in syntax you entered, not even when selecting from a list

on computers chinese is typed trough pinyin, which is latin alphabet presentation of how the characters are pronounced

so in that end Chinese also know all the Latin alphabet

[steady bramble]

Hi everyone
Is there way how to controll pawn or actor by sound?
I mean change vector by pitch. Thank you

[noble apex]

Hey all — I'm going through the "Unity to Unreal" course, and I've just learned about the .uasset files that UE creates for every imported asset...

but what was not explained is: does the .uasset contain the actual data of the imported object? Or is it just referencing the source file that lives elsewhere (possibly outside the project hierarchy)?

In Unity, there are .meta files for each imported file, which basically contain the import settings — but these have to live next to the source file; if you delete the source file, the .meta is automatically deleted.

So I'm not sure what to make of a directory full of .uasset files, with no source files in sight.

[drowsy snow]

.uasset can be (almost) anything, really. From textures, meshes, Blueprints, animations, materials, etc. etc.
It can also contain references to other Unreal assets within the project or the editor files.

[drowsy snow]

Unreal don't have such thing as .meta files. All import settings for importable assets and almost all of the metadata are stored right in the .uasset.

Much more elegant than having a separate .meta file.

Because .uasset files on their own can contain its own data and metadata, so to speak, that means you can delete the source files without affecting the .uasset files.

The only minor repercussion is that reimport will be disabled until you point it to a correct source file again.

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but only with audio components as part of the class, or created from Spawn Sound functions. You can't use fire and forget function such as Play Sound at Location.

[steady bramble]

I would like to control the transformation with sound.
For example, changing direction, in my case to control the height of a flying object.

[drowsy snow]

I already pointed out what to use for you to get started on your function.

[steady bramble]

Thank you

[hallow void]

Hey guys, I am here to ask a question about something that has been bothering me ever since I got my hands on UE: Is it just me or the movement of the default first person character feels janky or anyway out of place/unresponsive? Please tell me if it's just me or if it's actually like this, I googled it and people seem to be having the same issue on the 3rd person character, not the f1st person one, also, if it actually is this way, how could I fix it? thanks in advance

[icy hearth]

i have enabled the analog wheal , all my problem is that i cant use the mouse left button any more , before activating the joystick wheal it was working , is there something like priority or Z.order

[hallow void]

I have no idea on this one :/

[drowsy snow]

Define "feels janky".

[hallow void]

I can't say exactly, I myself never understood what was wrong, I just felt like it wasn't as smooth as I wanted it to be, specially comparing it gto other shooters like Quake or Unreal Tournament, in those games movement feels nice and smooth, while in mine it doesn't but I can't figure out why ._.

I made it feel smoother by adding a camera shake and camera tilting while strafing, but it still feels meh, that's why I think sometimes that it's just me

[drowsy snow]

Boomer shooter movement, huh.

[hallow void]

Yeah, I'm trying to make a boomer shooter XD

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Engine 4's default character movement component is fine for modern gameplay, but often not suited for boomer shooters.

And then there's this - implementation of Source movement behaviours into UE4, including bhop and surf quirks.
https://projectborealis.com/movement.html
Source Engine's default movement is still close to boomer shooter, so that should fit your needs.

[hallow void]

I am loving you right now

Thanks a lot

C++ huh? well, I'm trying to learn C++ so it could help me

[drowsy snow]

I personally don't use it (JRPG is not a good suit for boomer movement) but it seems to be shipped as a plugin.

[hallow void]

Plugin... hmm, I use UE5, I might have to find a way to make it work on UE5, if it doesn't

But I am confident I will find a way, I have found some ways so far to achieve what I needed to, this minor thing won't stop me

Thanks a lot 🙂

[noble apex]

OK thanks, that clears it up. Seems like in practice, we want to keep the source files in the project (and under version control) anyway, so the artists can update them as needed. But now at least I understand how it works!

[nocturne tangle]

Well I just used this script in Maya that created the root bone

Could be handy if anyone needs it

[sinful monolith]

Hello, I would like some help if people are able to.
I am doing Unreal Sensei's tutorial in Unreal 4 and it gets to a part where he has made the landscape layers already. When I put the first layer on, the material is glow in the dark green when in the video it's a lighter green just like grass. What can I do here to make the terrain look more normal?

[plush yew]

hello can someone tell me little info about event on mouse enter and leave? thanks in dvance

[honest vale]

boomer shooter
say wat 😄

damn zoomers... smh

[drowsy snow]

BOOMER SHOOTERS

[honest vale]

I guess I'm a boomer at 32 years old then 🤔

[rancid lagoon]

better texture???

[sinful monolith]

Yeah it turns out that the texture has broken I think and the grass that should be there is replaced with the default texture broken

[knotty wren]

Hello. when I open my UE4 project it says an unreal process has crahed: UE4-{My Project's name}
in which channel should i send the full crash report with more details?

[rancid lagoon]

you could send it here. there is no dedicated channel for that

whats your issue

[knotty wren]

(as i said) when i open my ue4 project, it says "An Unreal process has crashed: UE4-{My Project's name}
this is the crash report:

EpicAccountId:d2d04ec236ed4a318e3c02e36091ea35

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000375

UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_LesGo_2776!AFPS_Projectile::AFPS_Projectile() [E:\UE4_Projects\LesGo\Source\LesGo\FPS_Projectile.cpp:18]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll```

[rancid lagoon]

im not sure what your problem is exactly but if you install editor debug symbols (it's in engine installation options), it will decode code addresses to points to engine code.

[knotty wren]

ok thanks

[ornate forge]

Is it possible to enable Chaos vehicles in 4.27 without recompiling the engine?

[drowsy snow]

No, still requires different build configs in 4.27.

[ornate forge]

That's a shame

[drowsy snow]

Chaos physics is still not ready at its current state, even in 5.0, PhysX is still used by default.

[sterile lichen]

first download engine symbols.
second, stop hot reloading and read pins at #cpp

[ornate forge]

I only need it to prepare my vehicle for 5.0

PhysX isn't actually used in 5.0 by default, at least vehicles

Maybe I should just ditch vehicles in my game

Too much pain to port them to 5.0

[sterile lichen]

there is 4.27Chaos branch

in launcher too

with chaos being enabled by defualt

[ornate forge]

Oh yes, that's right

I should try that

[noble apex]

Can anyone recommend a FlappyBird-level (i.e. newbie) tutorial for UE4 based on C++ scripting?

My searching turned up a 3-part blueprints-only series, but I'm looking for something that approaches it with C++ code.

[plush yew]

hi

Hello, I need help with the installation process

Where or who can I ask?

[drowsy snow]

You can follow the BP tutorial and translate the BP nodes into C++ in (almost) real time.

[noble apex]

Haha.... you can do that... I doubt I can.

[plush yew]

Hello?

[drowsy snow]

BP nodes aren't that much different from C++, apart from some convenient Kismet functions and manual component initialisation and attaching, translating BP nodes to C++ can almost be done verbatim

[noble apex]

I believe you; it's just that I am at the "how do I create a C++ script" level.

I'll get there, I'm sure! But I need a bit of hand-holding at first.

I found this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNW4FPHuZE ....and while it's not Flappy Bird, it looks like it may be the introduction I need.

[plush yew]

...

Is there anyone from epic that can help?

[noble apex]

I'm sure there is, but this is not an Epic support server. This is a community server.

You should try contacting Epic customer support.

[plush yew]

Do you know the issue I'm having?

[drowsy snow]

https://www.dontasktoask.com

[brittle plume]

Android Build 🙄

[gleaming lotus]

Does anyone know the name of the general game-dev mechanic of having a progress bar which decrements to a certain position over time in a second bar?
Like when you're in a boss fight and the boss takes a hit, it shows how much damage has been done then slowly decreases the main bar to that position
Just wondering what the name is so I can google some stuff/explain it to my peers. Thanks!

[rotund scroll]

I'm looking for a way to get a widget to spawn across the editor viewport, but I can't seem to see anything exposed for that in blutilities?

[drowsy snow]

Health bar?

[gleaming lotus]

Yeah like a health bar but the trailing decrement that games sometimes have

Thanks, thats the term I was looking for 🙂

[cold phoenix]

I'm having a bizarre issue with my project. I have a level that will cause the engine to crash if I so much as right click on it. Has this ever happened to anyone before and is there any possibility of salvaging the level?

[orchid lodge]

Idk but it sounds a bit like a corruption

Trying too pull a file that dosent exist on right click.

[loud berry]

Can anyone tell me, in lamens terms, what tangents and bi-normals are when it comes to 3d models? I think I understand their effects on a physical level but having a hard time wrapping my brain around it fully so I can make better 3d models

[loud berry]

if unreal crashed there is most definitely a crash log, should be somewhere along these lines: c:\Program Files\Unreal Engine\4.0\Engine\Programs\CrashReportClient\Saved\

if you want to dm your crash report to me, i'll take a look and see if i can figure it out for you ❤️

[cold phoenix]

Thanks!

[fierce tulip]

the bi-normal is the cross-product of the normals and tangents.
they are basically the X/Y/Z coordinates of each vertex.
iirc UE4 only uses the normals and tangents, and does some math to generate bi-normals.
in most cases just knowing the normals is enough.

[warped trout]

i was looking through the megascan library and did not find any trees. i think im just doing it wrong because of over 15,000 assets theres got to be at least one tree right?

(talking about real trees not shrubs btw)

[fierce tulip]

no trees. since you cant really photoscan a tree accurately.

[warped trout]

oh thanks

[fierce tulip]

(would be awfully nice if they had trees though :p)

[warped trout]

imma have to find some bushes to cover up this dead space then XD

[fierce tulip]

there are quite a few free vegetation packs on the permanently free collection on the marketplace. some of them contain trees.

[orchid lodge]

🦍

[noble apex]

Ugh. Has anybody else run into something like this?

☝️ happens every time I try to launch Epic Games Launcher.

Even after a fresh reboot of my machine. 😦

[fierce tulip]

never seen that one before. tried reinstalling?

[noble apex]

I guess that's the next step. All the other suggestions I've found on the interwebs have made no difference.

[grizzled axle]

I still can't figure where to do "bUseVSync = true" in .ini files to make it apply on default. I have tried tweaking GameUserSettings.ini and making custom GameUserSettings class and put bUseVSync=true in constructor, but still, everytime I delete old GameUserSettings, bUseVSync=false is there

[dense robin]

hi.. hope someone can help.

I am having an issue where just one input key is not working sometimes..

For example the R key takes the player to the initial level (kind of a reset). it is running for me fine in my computer, but not on my clients computer, he says the letter R is not working, but everything else is.

what can cause some inputs not to work?

[plush yew]

you using a weird controller + character blueprint

[bitter valve]

Hello, just need some ideas on what I should do.

I am creating a menu where you will be able to purchase various things. Now I would like 4 variable related to each item: Name, price, quantity, and total.

In the menu you will be able to purchase these items, so the values of the quantity and total need to be changed. I have 2 options: Use a structure variable for each item which will be easier to bind the different values on the menu.
Or use a variable map that will be able to hold all the values of all the items but will be longer to code for the bindings. Is one better?

[shadow ravine]

I'm creating a cinematic for my game and ran into an issue. I've build a scene and set up my cameras and cutscenes fine while I've been previewing it in the editor, I've now gone to standalone and half of my landscape foliage in the scene isn't getting it's textures rendered. But works fine in the view port. Anyone know what might be the cause of this?

[grim ore]

open up the material you are using for that foliage and look at its usage. it might be on auto for example and not set up right. either force it to work with foliage or uncheck auto then recheck it and see if it works

[shadow ravine]

How can I force foliage, don't think it's here unless I'm missing a step

[grim ore]

yeah it looks set up, thats the instanced static meshes

when you say not rendered, is it not looking right or is it the checkerboard?

[shadow ravine]

So strange I unchecked Static lighting and it's resolved it

[shadow ravine]

Yeah I did

[grim ore]

yeah definitely weird but good if its working

[shadow ravine]

Yeah thanks for pointing me in the right direction tho 🙌

[bitter valve]

Is it better to use one Data Structure variable with every item that causes more work with binding to widget items, or multiple structure variables for each item?

[native wharf]

Hello, I was working on testing out GameFeatures, but when I created a blank one, and compiled my game, I am now missing many files in my packaged game.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happens? It goes back to including them when the game feature is removed btw

[cursive sky]

Im trying to have 2 sound classes control 1 sound cue so master volume slide and sound effects slider control the same sound. How can i do this when you can only have 1 class assigned to a sound cue

[rotund scroll]

so it seems that timers cannot be used in utility blueprints as they lack world context, which is necessary for all functionality in utility blueprints... can someone confirm?

this by extension would also be true for timers in any object class no?

[dense knoll]

particle system spawns WAY less particles while playing than in editor

and oddly this only affects certain cascade particles

[rancid lagoon]

does anyone why my character falls trough my mesh? i have collisions enabled on everything and rebuilt the collision multiple time for each one, but i cant seem to fix it

[void palm]

https://i.imgur.com/jhfEYRl.gifv

it is not a bug

it is a feature

[true geode]

That's a big ole planet man..
637000000 cm
5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg

[rancid lagoon]

bruh.......

[true geode]

The only issue I have at the moment is, when I try to spawn my character atop of it, it does the black screen / no movement as if I am in the mesh or something, I am assuming this also might be from heightmap or something though

[granite harbor]

hello, a quick question!

is it possible to use daz 3d renders on ue4 to continue the lighting with lumen?

[neon bough]

you could probably somehow export the whole scene and import it to unreal, but it requires a lot of afterwork to fix materials etc.

[granite harbor]

do you have any video that can help me understands better?

im just wanting to use lumen, no nanite hehe

[neon bough]

that would be hours of videos 😄 don't have any as there are a bunch of specific things

if you just want better lighting for still renders you may want to look into other renderers for DAZ tho

vray seems to support daz for example

and i'm pretty sure you can get good lighting out of DAZ, too

[high harbor]

Hello guys!

Does someone know if Epic Games have any plans for further development of Paper2D for Unreal Engine? (2D gaming tools etc)

I'm new in game development, started with Unreal and I'm loving it, for 3D games. But for 2D games, I don't know what to do... if it's ok to focus on Paper2D and try to learn it or go for another engine.

Also, I would like your sincere opinion, it's good to learn two or more game engines or should I focus on only one? also, 3D / 2D game development, is it ok to try to learn both at the same time?

[glass grove]

@vague shale - Did you ever find a solution to your issue with "Could not find definition for module 'Launch'"? - you previously had this issue when trying to unzip a source build of the engine and open a test project.

[dense robin]

check for LODs on the particle systems.

[plush yew]

How do you recompile your entire project and find a error in one of your components without clicking through all them

I think i made a mistake migrating but its kinda hard finding the error...god damn useless ... i got it

[plush yew]

Well considering the new functions theyve added that lean towards easier game control... maybe? But ... if your not interested in 3d at all I WOULD probably try something else before learning unreal

[blazing dove]

I made a quick video showing off some of the new Remote API workflow with MIDI and the Monogram Creative Console.

https://youtu.be/a30fWyLeP98

[plush yew]

Hey, I’m super new to the engine so I’m sorry if this question is dumb (google didn’t help too much), but how do I tile a material in UE5?

[plush yew]

texcord node plugged into uv of texture sample

[red bison]

Can someone recommend a few resources, I have past experience with game making in unity but wanting to undertake a slightly bigger project and UE4 is perfect for that. So what I was wondering is what are a couple good resources for making a mmorpg type game, like a world creator capable of making planets, and something that can handle the elements of an mmo, items, mining, stats, pets ect. On Unity there were Gaia and Atavism for this n was just wondering if UE4 had similar. Thanks for reading 🙂

[neon magnet]

Any idea why my event doesn't fire? I'm trying to get off tick

[flat trail]

Hey, im having this really weird issue with migrating a level.
When using migrate on the level, it tries to take the whole damn project with it, without any reference to other than some sequences.
Now i checked those sequences, and when im trying to migrate them alone, they also take the WHOLE project with only reference to one cube in the level.
Anyone know what the issue is here? Engine bug??

[exotic thicket]

Your timer most likely isn't firing, or is getting cleared. Fwiw, if you want smooth movement, doing it on tick is entirely fine, and doing it on a timer will just make it choppy (eg. the movement updates only once per second if your timer ticks once per second)

[neon magnet]

but what happens when I have several doors? Wouldn't that destroy the system due to firing on tick?

[exotic thicket]

There's hundreds of things in most games that do things on tick

You can turn off ticking with Set Enable Actor Tick when you're not using it, that could be a good idea

Eg. only turn tick on when the player is interacting with the door, and then turn it off once done

[obsidian nimbus]

you do a cast on the door BP and do nothing with the cast

[exotic thicket]

I'm assuming that's just a typecheck which is a valid use for it

[neon magnet]

this sounds like a good thing, I was wondering if it were possible

[obsidian nimbus]

ahh yea

well if ur event doesnt fire use printstrings and see how far it makes it in

like does inputaction dragdoor fire, i have no idea

[neon magnet]

this print string is firing

so the event is firing, but nothing happens to the door so that's strange

[obsidian nimbus]

print the float and see if it changes

[neon magnet]

actually if i'm standing in front of the door, it doesn't print, if I move away, then it starts printing

strangeee

I just did this as well and none of these print when standing next to the door or clicking but moving away it keeps firing

[astral verge]

Hey guys , anyone know any good resources or tutorials to follow to create a virtual meeting room in UnrealEngine?

[obsidian nimbus]

doors and stuff are usually a good use of interfaces, that isnt the problem tho

[exotic thicket]

That's a very specific requirement. If you google for it and can't find anything, chances are a tutorial for that specififc thing does not exist

[obsidian nimbus]

its also not specific enough 😛

[glacial solar]

Hello guys, are there any best practices in terms of upgrading your engine version during development? Specifically I am asking for an uograde from 4.26 to 4.27

[regal path]

How to remove Fireflies on ray traced render I followed the documentation but I have remaining fireflies on my render ?

[dusk nebula]

the value of that health variable reads 65 when I hover over it. Can someone tell my why it's not mapping to ~1 instead of 0?

[tame marsh]

is there a rhyme or reason when UE4 regenerates static mesh LODs? Seems like every time I restart UE4 starts generating LODs for previously imported static meshes

[drowsy snow]

Make a copy of your project before switching engine version. (Should be prompted when you try to open it from the newer engine)

[neat pelican]

Hi I wanted to ask If Anyone could help me with a dash from double tapping a movement key for example double tap W you dash forwards

[neon bough]

use a gate on your input action (and close it with a timer)

[neon bough]

or store the time last time the player pressed w, and then compare it on the next keypress, if the delay was short enough do the dash action, otherwise the normal input action

[neon magnet]

@exotic thicket is it ok to have the enable disable tick like this?

[exotic thicket]

If it works the way you want, sure

[neat pelican]

ok ill try

[dusk nebula]

can anyone tell me why this outputs a zero instead of the Health value mapped? Health is greater than zero

[exotic thicket]

What is the value of Health?

[dusk nebula]

65 when it updates

[exotic thicket]

How did you determine it's returning 0?

[exotic thicket]

For 65 it probably should be giving like like a 1.x given those ranges

[dusk nebula]

also it shows 0 when I put a break

65 is pretty close to 2 3rds of 100 so it would be around 1

[exotic thicket]

Try also printing the health value when you're printing the output value, maybe health isn't actually what you think it is at that point

I don't really know how else it would return 0 tbh

[neon magnet]

it works but just wanting to know if it's done correctly since I'm beby in the BP world

[exotic thicket]

if it works it's usually correct lol

[dusk nebula]

I may have figured it out actually

[inland jewel]

Hey guys, does anyone have a blueprint / guide or tutorial I could follow for a forward moving camera (slider) that starts slow and gets faster and faster until the level is completed? Any info / resources would Help

[neon magnet]

I mean you know how sometimes things work but they're actually being bypassed or some funky overlooked stuff like that. To me it looks ok but another set of eyes usually picks something or the other out

[exotic thicket]

Sure :)

[neon magnet]

Thanks

has anyone tried the horror game engine that is free on the marketplace?

I was trying to find the player character in it but I can't find anything lol. I wanted to see how that smooth mouse motion was implemented

for looking around

[drowsy snow]

Not me, have no intention to make horror games.

I mean, one day I would, but it's in a vein of a boomer shooter.

[exotic thicket]

I took a glimpse at it to see if it had any interesting stuff for item handling but it didn't :P

[neon magnet]

@drowsy snow it's just the name of the project, I'm not making a horror game

[dusk nebula]

so on a timeline, will firing "set new time" also execute from that time, or do I need to fire "play" as well?

[drowsy snow]

Well, as for smooth (aka jerky) camera movement, maybe it's in the spring arm's rotation lag?

[exotic thicket]

You need to call play separately yes. A sequence node is what I usually use for calling them both

[neon magnet]

yea I just saw a tutorial that uses the spring arm, thanksss

[dusk nebula]

could somebody tell my why I can still see this health bar when it's set to "owner no see"?

it's just a widget that's supposed to not be visible to the local player

[pallid carbon]

Hey, can anyone tell me how to change the spawn height of my foliage? for some reason its spawning just slightly under my world

[neon bough]

there's an option for z-offset iirc

but it has to be set for each foliage type

[pallid carbon]

Is this the one? Can't i highlight them all and change them all at once

[neon bough]

yea, possible that you can highlight them all

[pallid carbon]

Okay, thanks

[neon magnet]

be warned though, everytime you undo, it will reset the height, but the height in the attributes will still be the same. The link breaks. So if you had 100 as the height, you resized it to 30 (say in the viewport), then did undo, it will reset to 100, but it will still say 30. It's really annoying lol but this is how i've found it to be like unless you use it differently

[pallid carbon]

Okay, thank you for the tip 🙂

[light thunder]

Could these current settings be the reason that my packaged build, despite using level streaming events, still experiences hitching?

[drowsy snow]

Try enabling Async Loading Thread.

[wary wave]

"locked out"? I'm not sure how you can be locked out?

there's nothing stopping you from opening a uproject

right, you have a hardware problem, not an Unreal problem

[light thunder]

If I use play in standalone does that give a decently accurate representation of how the streaming/unstreaming will behave? Versus doing a full package build

I know playing in the editor doesn't really do anything with it

[drowsy snow]

Should be tested in packaged build.

[wary wave]

if you have a functioning SM5 graphics card (I mean most are, so you should be fine), it isn't being used - but you'll need to work out why it isn't being used and that will be something to do with your specific setup

it could be driver issues, Windows assigning the incorrect GPU

[light thunder]

What about those frame time limits? I have no problem increasing the time allowed for the asynchronous loading / unloading to happen - is that what those settings mean?

[wary wave]

I mean you have a GPU, all machines have one, the question is which device it's using

integrated GPUs are still GPUs, but that's fine - I don't suppose you're trying to use a newer version of Unreal, or have had recent OS updates?

new versions of Unreal don't support iOS at all

[drowsy snow]

From my testing, that would be the max time it took in a ms and lock up some game thread.

Though be my guest for it - I'm not in front of my computer rn

[wary wave]

exactly what I said, the newest versions of the Unreal Engine do not support iOS

[drowsy snow]

Apple essentially banned Unreal Engine after the lawsuit.

[wary wave]

^ Epic has no developer accounts

[drowsy snow]

But Epic got their dev accounts for iOS retracted by Apple as a consequence, which means no iOS porting for UE.

[wary wave]

hmm, looks like 4.27 should still be able to run on iOS, at least it did on release time