ue4-general

[wary wave]

yeah, the problem is that the UE process is apparently not being assigned a valid GPU device when you're trying to start it up

I'm not familiar enough with Macs to answer that, but it's a common issue in Windows that Windows will start to assign the integrated device rather than the dedicated one - someone in #macos might know more

[drowsy snow]

Since you're using Apple devices for development, yeah, #macos might have better answer

Macs are weird kind of PCs anyway.

[wary wave]

more stigma, I suspect

Apple had along run of pushing fairly poor hardware for a heavily inflated cost

but they're a lot better with that these days

they used to charge $150 just to buy a completely pointless "adapter" to allow the system to support two HDDs

essentially soldered two connectors for a custom PCB where you'd normally see a cable

I mocked that one relentlessly 😂

[light thunder]

Wait - which leads to more locking up and hitching? Higher numbers or lower

[plush yew]

That happens

[stark raptor]

hi guys i have a question, how do i create a locked door and to unlock it you have to insert a pin?

[plush yew]

One way:
Create an unlockable door
Create a Boolean: HasPin
If the player gets the pin, set the Boolean HasPin to true
Set up a branch node in the BP of the door so that it only unlocks when the Boolean is true

If you mean enter Pin as in: opens up an UI element in which Pin is entered, you need to change some steps.

Interacting with the door would add a Widget to the viewport from which you enter the pin, and then check if the pin is correct if it is you call the unlock door function.

[stark raptor]

I am creating a guessing game and to access the next room you have to put the code that you find by answering the questions that the terminal asks you ... I am a beginner .. I would like to use cpp and no bp

can you find a tutorial? or can you show me how to do it in a video please?

[plush yew]

Look it up on google by looking it up one part at a time, like: UE4 cpp open door.

[stark raptor]

I found a very interesting assets in the epic marketplace ..

[dry wedge]

Guys how to make the master pose component work with the main invisible mesh ?

I have tried to use Set visibility and also Hidden in Game and the animation doesn't work

[light thunder]

Does anyone have a better explanation of these than the docs?

[drowsy snow]

Seems to be higher number, but my tests would be inconclusive.

[light thunder]

Meaning you couldn't find a difference because it wouldn't hitch one way or another on your build?

Do I want to use "Use Full Time LImit"

[native wharf]

Anyone have any ideas on this?

[dry wedge]

Work fine

[drowsy snow]

It was low spec, so the tests was rather inconclusive, even though stat unitgraph do show the spikes.

[noble apex]

Can anybody help a newbie with this?

I'm on a Mac, and trying to switch from Xcode to VSCode (which many sources say is a better UE4 experience).

But I'm getting the above, and VSCode thinks every line of my file (including comments and blank lines) is incorrect. 😐

[night gust]

Hello Everyone i am trying to do a game-like/logistic loading simulation can someone help me on my project with codings am i in the right discord?

[plush yew]

Aren't you supposed to give meaning to that code in the header? If you didn't im not sure the code your using will have any function because it's not really being called apon also did you set up your inputs?

[drowsy snow]

Not really.

If anything, it's either VS IDE or the new Jetbrains Rider for UE (for Windows; the latter might be available for mac, but not sure)

IMO VSCode is more inline (no pun intended) with the likes of Atom, Sublime, Notepad++, and other programming oriented text editors

[cloud stone]

So I'm having some trouble linking CLion with Unreal. When I open up the CLion editor I get hit with this and I'm not too sure what the issue is.

[drowsy snow]

Looks like your Intellisense (or whatever the equivalent in CLion for code diagnose and suggestion is) is the one to blame.

[ancient lotus]

does anyone have any ideas as to whats going on here when i import animations? i have two identical skeletons and meshes. when i import animations from one .blend file it works with only one of those skeletons and breaks the mesh of the other one. if i retarget it though it works just fine
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/importing-animation-from-separate-blend-file-breaks-mesh-importing-to-a-skeleton-imported-from-that-blend-file-and-then-retargeting-fixes-it/255184

[cloud stone]

I see, do you have any experience with CLion that may be able to resolve this?

[light thunder]

so just set it really high, package, and then set it low if it doesn't fix it? my instincts are telling me that setting a high limit gives the engine more time to load it asynchronously - which will make it take LONGER to load but will result in a more smoother experience - is this the correct way to understand it

[drowsy snow]

No. I solely use Visual Studio.

[drowsy snow]

Well, doesn't hurt to try, right. But do let me know about the results.

[winter gale]

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1447551451568304130

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

In #UnrealEngine 5, Epic rewrote the details panel which now includes buttons to filter by separate category. A great UX if you ask me :)

#UnrealEngine5 #UnrealFeatures #UE5 #UETips

Twitter · Oct 11, 2021, 1:15 PM

[fierce tulip]

be awesome if we could save presets for the detail panel :)

[novel rose]

hullo, i'm trying to fine-tweak something very small, and the orange outlines around the selected object really obstruct me. Is there a way to toggle that off momentarily?

[inland jewel]

Anyone free to help me out figure out what's going on here? i've got it all setup with everything but when i hit play it just sits above the ground floating and has 0 movement

So when i use print string it appears like the throttle and turn inputs are being inputted continuously without any actual input

but that still doesnt explain why the vehicle floats and doesnt move at all

[grim ore]

Axis Inputs are polled per frame yes

[inland jewel]

so any idea how to troubleshoot?

[hoary warren]

Hi all, I am having a secondary UV map issue in 4.18. My models use to have a generated secondary UV for lightmapping, but I decided to make proper ones, but unreal keeps sowing the generated ones for some reason even though the model has custom secondary UVs. I have tried re importing the model, resetting the import data with no luck. TIA

[grim ore]

@inland jewelunhook the float from the inputaxis forward and put a 1 in the Set Throttle Input so its always down. Then when you play, see if it moves. If it doesnt then its not your input but your setup on the vehicle

@hoary warrenwhen you import, tell it not to generate the lightmap UV. even if it does it should be adding them not replacing your exported ones.

since that only shows 2, perhaps your not outputting 2?

or maybe your just showing your 1 and not your 2 in the preview?

[noble apex]

Yes the code works fine. It's only VSCode that is confused about it. Apparently it can't locate "stdlib.h" but I'm not sure how to help it do so.

[light thunder]

HOW IN GOD'S NAME is one supposed to actually navigate UnrealInsights - WHY does it keep snapping back when I try to pan and why do the docs mention nothing, nor the livestream

[grim ore]

There is an inside unreal on it, have you checked it out?

[light thunder]

he doesn't have the problem

[neon magnet]

Q: how do I stop a mesh's collision when it is set to not be visible in the world?

Basically, my original level has doors. After making a blueprint, I have to use each of these meshes' locations by copying and pasting them for the blueprint. But since the blueprint uses an instance of the mesh, it seems disabling collision for the invisible mesh will disable for the blueprint version too

[inland jewel]

yeah it didnt work. Is there anything in particular i should be looking at on the car setup?

[grim ore]

@neon magnetyou might want to show how you are doing this, changing one instance should only change itself

@inland jewelall I can think is to check out the built in templates for vehicle and see how they are set up

[neon magnet]

as in, double clicking the mesh, opening the editor window and disabling collision there ... that would disable for any instance right

[grim ore]

@neon magnetif you are editing the source item, it would change the defaults for all instances yes

[hoary warren]

I have tried re importing them with generate UVs unchecked and it still shows the generated one when I check the UV 2

[grim ore]

any changes to any instances would keep their changes

[neon magnet]

so I should just disable from the details panel

yea seems like it. Thanks.

[inland jewel]

@grim ore changing the wheels to kinematic wouldnt affect movement right? That's all i changed on the vehicle setup

[grim ore]

if this is how to disable collision in a BP after changing the visibility? you would set its collision settings the same way you change visibility. If this is design time, then yes change it on the instance in the world @neon magnet

[inland jewel]

nah, i just changed it back and it didnt make a difference

[light thunder]

When I do what he does in insights, it doesn't so what it does in this game

[light wigeon]

Hey

[grim ore]

@inland jewelis your vehicle set up properly? it looks weird but I can only see the rear

[light wigeon]

Is there an available replicated multiplayer fps game tutorial for unreal engine 4 ?

[grim ore]

@light thunderso all you can see is that one screen?

[light thunder]

I can't seem to navigate it to zoom in like he does

it's mainly for game thread/async stuff because I'm getting hitching when using level streaming and no one has been able to fix it for me, so I'm trying to learn by myself for the millionth time

for example, why is the track centered into NEGATIVE TIME

[neon magnet]

I just have two doors in the same spot now. One is the original mesh as part of the datasmith import (static mesh) and the other is the blueprint, which has a static mesh component and uses an instance of this mesh. So there are two instances in the same spot, one is just a mesh, the other is part of a BP. So I just don't want to delete the original mesh, which acts as a reference for me to use its location. If I delete the door and later on something happens, I don't want to lose that door's original location as part of the import. Changing any of the transform values in the editor break the datasmith link, so even if I reimport the entire level, the mesh will update, but its position will remain as it were in the editor, rather than its original one from the 3d program, which is both a good thing and a bad thing depending on the situation. In my case it would be bad.

[plush yew]

its that time of year again, ive never lived in new york with a PC so idk the precautions to take. Im on a pretty high floor I know my apartment is gonna get cold in the winter

Do people normally cover up their pcs? is that normal

ik you dont want a pc to get too cold

but say 40 degrees is that too cold to keep a pc overnight

[noble apex]

No. PCs love it cool. Don't cover it up.

[inland jewel]

it was a model i downloaded from UE. The only thing i've changed from this was the collision bone and changed the wheels to kinematic. And yeah you saw the back cause of where the camera is

[neon magnet]

it's the moisture you just want to be careful of. Cold is good as long as it's not ice cold where it'll become moisture as aforementioned

for the most part you should have no problem

[plush yew]

idk it sounds to me like condensation would be a thing in my case, my pc is one of those maxq chips made to throttle at 100c, so say i power on my pc from 40 degrees to 260 in the span of 5mins

i feel like even low moisture in my apt that would cause sweating

[light thunder]

@grim ore can you at least tell me why I'm getting hitches in level streaming when I have these settings and:
1 -I'm not using Block on load
2 - am streaming levels
3 - using packaged build

[plush yew]

thats a good idea

ill order some space blankets

[neon magnet]

ok you gotta stick to metric units 😄

[light thunder]

I can find no explanation of these settings, Component Registration Granularity - not even in the docs, where the shitty documentation would *" **Component Registration Granularity controls the Granularity of Component Registration" ***

[plush yew]

idk what 40 degrees is in celcius lol

[light thunder]

like 15

[neon magnet]

I live in a place with loads of moisture, heck it's been raining like nuts just now, but it's fine, I haven't had any worry for my system

[plush yew]

ameriunits is all i know

[neon magnet]

switch now to the SI units and forever be happy

[grim ore]

@light thunderyour trace seems weird, is it really hours long?

[inland jewel]

32 is 0 in celcius

[plush yew]

i unironically use a football field as a unit of measurement in my unreal projects

[light thunder]

it's 2 minutes

[neon magnet]

truly degenerate

[light thunder]

i started the packaged build with the -loadtimetrace and that was it

[plush yew]

one time i was having a friend pick up break fluid for me and we used mcdonald cups as a unit of mesurment

[light thunder]

ran it for 2 minutes then exited, then I loaded up the analysis

[grim ore]

@light thunderif you zoom all the way out with the mouse wheel, then try and zoom in on one of your points does it go in? it seems to work as expected here on .27

[light thunder]

clearly this is a conspiracy to try to stop me from saving the world

but they will not succeed, I will find a way to stop these hitches in my level streaming

[grim ore]

@inland jewelwhen you imported the car, did you import it as a skeletal mesh?

@light thunderyeah your trace is weird, maybe try what he shows in the video with the standalone mode and tracing from that. Your trace seems.. odd

[light thunder]

Using 4.25, which I don't think is deprecated (or at least most of it) -

[inland jewel]

sure did

[neon magnet]

ok I've noticed something wonky. I have these dual/split doors (one opens to the right, the other to the left). I placed the right one first and now I've moved on to place the left one. So I alt dragged to create a copy of the original blueprint in the scene. I changed the mesh to the opposite type (I've setup the construction script for that). But wherever I click it always chooses this new door rather than the old door.

[grim ore]

@inland jewel The physics asset that was generated is bad, you need to fix it https://i.gyazo.com/71ed8185aeb9e0624c07d6201719a871.gif

open the physics asset and delete all the bodies in the top left, then with BOX as the primitive type in the bottom right generate all bodies. Then select the 4 tires and change it from BOX to SPHERE and generate all bodies again

the one that was imported is using capsules

you can see the incorrect setup when playing compared to the sedan template

and here is the correct setup comparision

[neon magnet]

I tried duplicating the original BP in the content browser and placing that in the world for the left door. The line trace is still only capturing this left door and ignoring the right. What's going on?

[grim ore]

it seems like your adding extra "stuff" in order to do this. This "door" should be 1 blueprint that handles itself

as for it hitting one and not the other, turn on the debug trace option in the line trace in the blueprint and see what it is hitting or not hitting when you use it

[neon magnet]

what do you mean?

I just turned on debug for the right door and it is activating

[grim ore]

so you see the little square where it hits the right door?

[neon magnet]

yea, but after enabling debug for the left door, it now ignores the right door like before

[grim ore]

and I mean it sounds like you have 2 blueprints, one for each "door"? if so you should have 1 blueprint that handles the logic for this "door" setup

the line trace code is in the player isnt it?

[neon magnet]

I did the separates because I wasn't sure if it was a alt+drag copy issue or not. The BP does handle different types of doors so I can use one BP for any door

[neon magnet]

in the door 😛

[grim ore]

thats weird.... so the door traces out for what?

[grim ore]

oh... so the door is doing the cast for the player if they use the mouse.. thats different

[neon magnet]

yep

[cyan bronze]

How do i get the under water post processing to a bigger area. Atm its just the inside box of the WaterBodyOcean which you can see in the middle and it is underground and on a specific thin height area

[neon magnet]

so what do you suspect is going on? It's almost like there's priority?

[grim ore]

@neon magnetwell my only thought then is did you rename the blueprint? or is it literally 2 copies (instances) of the same blueprint in the world

[neon magnet]

well I copied it, but I renamed too

[inland jewel]

bahaha i thought i did that already. Guess it didn't work properly. So that would explain the float because of collision i take it. But now it's not moving forward
https://gyazo.com/ece681e2482902899f7ac7f6a9e031db

[neon magnet]

I don't think it would be possible to have the same named thing anyway?

[grim ore]

@neon magnetrenamed it in the content browser, or in the level (the instance) ?

[neon magnet]

two completely separate BPs, but copies in terms of logic

[grim ore]

@inland jewelall I did was duplicate the default sedan, replaced the mesh in the duplicate, fixed up the names for the bones for the wheels, then fixed the physics asset and it worked

@neon magnetso those are just the instances in the world, what does it look like in the content browser?

[neon magnet]

same as in the world; different names

[grim ore]

so then that is why its failing

you need to update the code in the one that is failing this cast

also...

[neon magnet]

the looking at boolean?

[grim ore]

this is why you dont do what you are doing

if your blueprint is "Door_Left_Towards_BP" and your code inside is telling it to "Cast to Door_Right_Towards_BP" then............

[neon magnet]

oh yeah d'oh!

but hold on

the first time I put the left door in an instance of the same blueprint

i.e. I just replaced the mesh

so why was it still locking onto only the 2nd instance of the BP and not the original instance?

[grim ore]

that I dont know, you would have to test and find out. but this code above will fail if its in the left door

its also again very weird, normally any action would be in the player and then the door would just do its stuff. you wouldnt need to cast or do anything odd like this

[neon magnet]

I replaced the cast and no change

should I put the looking at section of the code in the player bp then?

[grim ore]

I cant really say, I dont know how your code is structured. Generally from what I have seen any generic action would be in the player or the controller. you can then act on that action by talking to whatever you want and letting it do its thing. Any special checks, like I guess facing, could be part of your initial action or the thing doing the check. in this case you want the door to open if you are facing it and when they let go of the button it closes?

oh no I guess it just does nothing if you let go

was reading the facing left/right as open/close not left door and right door

[neon magnet]

it's just an amnesia style door, where I click and drag to rotate the door

so I need to check if I'm holding the LMB and looking at the door, which will then enable tick to take the turn rate

[grim ore]

well your only checking for the facing once arent you?

[neon magnet]

pardon?

unsure what you meant :p

[grim ore]

I might be reading the code wrong, but you press the button once and it sets it as pressed, then does the trace if you are looking at it, then opens the door?

[neon magnet]

yup

[grim ore]

so if you do that, then immediately look away while holding the button what happens?

[neon magnet]

if I'm holding the button and look away, it will keep adding the rotation value to the door

until I depress the button

so holding the button is what captures the door

[grim ore]

ok yeah thats what I thought, I thought it was more of a you open and close it manually not automatically

[neon magnet]

it is manual :p

[grim ore]

as in if you press the button then move the mouse in a direction it opens it, or if you move it the other way it closes it

[grim ore]

then yes what I said above seems normal. Interact event on player/controller, it does the trace out and uses a blueprint interface on whatever it hits to interact with.

[neon magnet]

but why is the trace failing on the door on the right? I expect if I have a third door, it will fail on the previous two as well

[grim ore]

that I cant really tell, have to start debugging. use some print strings to see what is getting that trace. which blueprint is being called

[raven narwhal]

Hello. Maybe someone can help with this - When I am in editor in viewport, I see almost 2x less draw calls and higher FPS compared to Play Mode.
When I press Play, my draw calls just double. Is it normal? Maybe UE itself initialize something?
Or can it be my player or UMG hud? How Can I debug it? Is there any way to somehow list draw calls?
Thank you

[neon magnet]

just did it before I read this msg. Like "left door hit" or "right door hit". It only hits the door I compile last

it's only printing the string of the BP I am compiling last.

So if I make a change in the original BP for the door on the right, compile it, then it will always hit the right door. If I change something and compile the door on the left, it's going to only hit the left door.

by 'something' I mean like unpin/repin the print screen, so not an actual change

just for compiling

[grim ore]

you should be using a print string and printing out self to see which BP is calling what

[neon magnet]

how do I print out self?

this?

it's the same as the print strings I had before

[grim ore]

yeah. so if it shows the hit cube on the left one, it says the same as if it hits the right one?

[neon magnet]

basically what's happening is this

let's say these are the two doors from our POV: A | B

if I compile A last, then if I click on B, it's not printing anything from B and it's not activating A.

vice versa

[neon magnet]

no if I hit the right one, no name is coming up

it's like it's dead

but if I recompile door B, it's gonna hit it and ignore A lol

is it possible it's because of the booleans that are the same name in both blueprints?

isHoldingLMB and isLookingAtDoor

[grim ore]

the blueprints are different in the content browser, so the variables are unique to each

so something else is weird. Honestly restart the editor and see if it does it again

otherwise did you duplicate the blueprint or make a child?

[neon magnet]

just duplicate. No child

[grim ore]

yep they should be unique then. Heres an example of what I just whipped up using one blueprint for the door https://i.gyazo.com/ad9fc407c131d4858c0a094c08dcd439.gif

[neon magnet]

so no duplicate?

[grim ore]

duplicate is fine, thats making it unique

[neon magnet]

but then why was it not working when I was using the same bp and just instancing and changing the mesh?

[grim ore]

parent/child could cause changes like you are seeing

[neon magnet]

yea so I have uniques and it's still like this 😦

[grim ore]

are you sure both of those meshes, since they are different, have collision enabled?

[neon magnet]

yup

do you think we could do a screenshare?

[grim ore]

I cant do screenshare

[neon magnet]

I mean my screen will be shared

[grim ore]

make a new level, drop the door that doesnt work into it, and hit play and see what happens

[neon magnet]

so you can see or direct me

[grim ore]

verify the door actually works in isolation, otherwise maybe consider redoing the interaction system to be more robust. Having to cast isnt the best

[neon magnet]

How did you implement yours just now/

[grim ore]

This is the players code

this is the door

and the blueprint interface being used is just the two blank functions, nothing special about them

the player shoots out, if it hits something it checks to see if it implements the blueprint interface for interactable, and if it does it saves a reference to the item and then tells that items to call its interact with function

when the player releases the button it tells that saved object to call its stop interact withs function (note this should clear that saved reference as well in proper code)

the door gets interacted with and flips its IsOpening boolean then plays the timeline forward or backwards depending on if its opening or not. the door opening is a lerp over time from the timeline. the stop interacts with just stops the timeline

[neon magnet]

I see. I'll try it out. Do you think you could also, if you have time later today, try out my implementation? That screenshot is all the code there is so it shouldn't be a problem and you can investigate better if it's repeating on your end

[slender ravine]

How can i create an system where players can equip/unequip the items they earned? ( an locker like in fortnite or other games )

[grim ore]

your code looks fine, the only things I can think of that are unique on your side is the collision for each item and following the code (might check out blueprint debugging and breakpoints, it could solve the issue quickly)

@slender ravinethat is a very broad question, you would set up your items then store them somewhere and let you player choose from those items. We have no idea where you are at in that process

[inland jewel]

@grim ore yeah idk man. I deleted it all. Re added it, duplicated it, added mesh, changed the bones to spheres for the wheels, added bone names to the wheels and ticked disable steering for the rears (tried it without these as well). Re-did the axis inputs and it's still just shite'ing itself. Only thing i can think of is maybe the bones names on the wheels aren't linked to the physical asset??
https://gyazo.com/7b87eaf99486238714a6943cba1a669c

[neon magnet]

Even with the breakpoint, it's not so informative but maybe because I'm noob, because it's just showing me what I already know that the BP that was compiled last, is the one that is being entered and hit and the other is being ignored.

the question is why is it being ignored, there's nothing obvious to suggest why one should take precedent over the other just because of compilation order

[grim ore]

@inland jewelhave you tried making this work in the vehicle template using that as your base?

@neon magnetmove them apart or try them in a new level seperated so you can see if they are actually doing this or if its something in that level

hmm

ok so

I think that might be the issue now that you mention it

[inland jewel]

Wdym mate?

[grim ore]

@inland jewel make a new project using the vehicle template

[inland jewel]

Oh ok

I will give that a try

[grim ore]

@neon magnetyou have the same input event in 2 places...

I didnt think about that until now

and i bet its set to consume input (click on the event in the blueprint editor and check the details panel)

again this is why... input in one place heh

[neon magnet]

What do you suggest I do? I actually thought for a moment earlier that what if one BP is capturing the controller but I don't even know if I'm saying that right

[grim ore]

its not one capturing the controller, you have two things both listening for the SAME input

so its random which one gets the actual event to happen

which is why one randomly doesnt do anything, it never hears the input (the other BP consumed it)

so.. you can do it right with 1 input event per action like in the player, or click on those events in the blueprint an uncheck consume input

Click on the InputAction DragDoor and uncheck it there in both blueprints

[neon magnet]

I've actually reverted to using just one BP instead of two separate ones

[grim ore]

then one should hear it, do the event and fail if its not facing the player, then the other should run it

its still going to be the same problem if two things in the world are listening for the same thing

you still have 2 instances in the world

[neon magnet]

I've done this

but no change in behaviour 😦

[grim ore]

that is on both of them?

[neon magnet]

sorry I was in the wrong BP

but now

guess what 😂

[grim ore]

both should be opening

[neon magnet]

BOTH doors are moving in sync

one is opening the other is closing at the same time

lol

[grim ore]

yep. your firing off both of them

[neon magnet]

but ... why? Shouldn't it just activate the one the line trace hits?

why is it activating the door that it's not hitting?

I'm clicking on the door on the right, and it's moving both ...

and before I disabled the consume input things, it was activating the left door even though I'm looking at and clicking on the right door

[grim ore]

maybe your line trace is going thru both of them

[neon magnet]

seems ok

[grim ore]

thats the thing, your "i pushed a button" event didnt care what door you were near, setting up the item to listen to input meant it was listening from anywhere

[neon magnet]

okay I see

so the solution is to move this into the player bp

[plush plinth]

guys i need help with something

so i am working on a true fps project and just trying to make everything animation wise procedural

i have procedural aimoffset, procedural ads

and i want to try to make procedural recoil, but i cant wrap my head around the logic it needs

oh sorry i think i posted it into the wrong channel

[shadow ravine]

I'm trying to make my camera circle round one of my characters in a cinematic scene using a level sequencer with my cinematic cameras. I'm using 8 frames each at 45 degrees between each other creating my circular camera movement around. My problem is the transitions between the camera transform frames makes it look very octagon shaped camera movement so its slightly ridged. Do I simply need to make more transformed camera frames at a smaller angle to create the smoother circle movement, or is there a simple way to do this that I'm just not aware of?

So I just made a quick example of what I'm trying to do with paint. So character is the orange, camera is the blue, white is where my path ideally should be and the red is the key frames and how it's moving at the moment. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate the help. 🙏

[grim ore]

@neon magnetok so that was a cluster truck of fun to figure out but I did lol. So you had a few issues, the first being consume input causing it to randomly not trigger one one of them. once you enabled that, both doors would trigger because of course they would. You were not actually checking to see if it was the specific door being hit by the trace, just that it was A door by using the cast. Changing your cast into a == against self and the hit actor takes care of that issue. I also had the ignore self not unchecked which caused me issues since your doing it backwards but it looks like you had that part right

so long story short..... dont do it this way

@shadow ravineit looks like you answered the question, its similar to a hexagon being a "circle" but looking very flat. You want a circle rotation but your giving it too few points to make a circle

hell a square is a circle... just not very circly

[shadow ravine]

Okay great, I didn't want to go in and create a done of additional frames/angles if there was some kind of circle rail of some sort that just made things easier. Thanks for the confirmation 😂

[grim ore]

there are curves, and you can always use an empty parent then rotate the parent which then rotates the camera around itself

[cloud latch]

Does anyone happen to know of a good tool to format ini files so that they're in a good state for version control, diff tools etc? i.e. alphabetize the section and then entries within them?

[shadow ravine]

How can I get curves as when editing my frames I can see some are curved and others are straight?

[grim ore]

the curve editor at the top, or right click a keyframe in the curve editor and change its type

this is an example of that other method, the camera in the sequencer is actually a blueprint with just a scene component and the camera attached to it. you rotate the blueprint root in the sequencer which rotates the camera around that point

https://i.gyazo.com/1ff79cb3146b46793df7972ec43a8d9f.gif

[honest nexus]

anyway to clamp hundreds of images easily?

[grim ore]

clamp?

[honest nexus]

yeah

[inland jewel]

@grim ore well dude... im stumped. Couldn't open it as a new project. Tried opening it with the vehicle default project type and still can't get it to work

[honest nexus]

like tiling method

[grim ore]

check out the property matrix

@inland jewel=( I can say I made a new vehicle project in .27, imported the car as a skeletal mesh, fixed the physics asset, duplicated the sedan BP, replaced the mesh, updated the 4 wheels to have the correct skeletal names, and then replaced the sedan in the demo map with my duplicated one and it worked

[inland jewel]

do you think it's cause im using 5 right now?

i've been playing around with ue5 trying to learn it

[grim ore]

well there is no vehicle template in 5EA so yeah that could be an issue

[honest nexus]

tysm

[inland jewel]

time to go back to 4.27

for what i'm doing i dont need 5 anyway. Was just trying to get ahead of the curve for when it's fully released

[grim ore]

5 uses chaos vehicles so its not a 1:1 compatible

chances are it needs more setup

nope I got it to work the same way in 5EA, I just had to fix the physics body for the body, it was too low and in the ground

https://i.gyazo.com/8bd464d21a8653d4ed158140c3f63637.gif

[inland jewel]

What physics did you change to get it to work?

[grim ore]

the only physics I changed was to the physics asset for the vehicle, I deleted all the bodies that were auto created and created the new ones I mentioned before. spheres for the wheels and box for the body. I just had to move the body up a bit after creating it

[rotund scroll]

is there a way to bind hotkeys to custom events? ...particularly inside utility blueprints?

[dapper hatch]

Hello. Can anyone give some good example or suggestion? I have an interactive project, when when person presses big button unreal scene is triggered. They want to get some kind of statistic how many people used button per hour/per day

Any good way I could get that info out of umreal in text or csv?

[distant totem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdmztawRLo

[dusk nebula]

I can't find any tutorial for a melee attack that doesn't try to create an entire system for a melee-based game

[drowsy snow]

Can't you just improvise them to fit your needs? 🤔

[rotund scroll]

raytrace and handle all logic inside the weapon/character? idk

[dusk nebula]

I'm not gonna import all of paragon's animations just to get one of them lol

I'll just do a line trace then, wasn't sure if there was a better way

[neon bough]

do i need a separate nav mesh or something for actors with a lower step height?

my normal nav mesh is adjusted for human size, but now i want an animal with 1/9 of the step height to navigate on it and it runs against stairs and such -.-

guess it might be that GetRandomReachablePointInRadius doesn't take any reference of the actor

[pliant topaz]

Guys can i make game without any coding just blueprint?

[fierce tulip]

yes

[prime willow]

so much game design

the deeper you get the more complex and condeluded it becomessssssssss

[sweet axle]

Where can i share a link to pluralsights free week promo?

[neon bough]

uhm, could someone enlighten me how to use the GetRandomReachablePointInRadius node with custom nav settings?

[fierce tulip]

@sweet axle depending on what it is, released perhaps.

[sweet axle]

They giving a free week at pluralsight and i just activated it and there are quite a few course for unreal, including Patrick Haslow Intro to ai and behaviour states which i think is quite valuable. One week to complete a course for free and i was able to download the excercice files so i thought about sharing it here for everyone

[fierce tulip]

yea, you can post it in released :)

[sweet axle]

Awesome

[burnt tinsel]

help

how do i round the corners of background blur

i want to make like a glass ui where the behind of the ui is blurred

but the background blur is only rectangular

[rancid lagoon]

my character keeps falling thru my mesh and i cant fix it

plz help me

[rancid lagoon]

you might need to scroll out.

[fierce tulip]

your video has OBS on top <_<

[rancid lagoon]

srry here it is

[fierce tulip]

<_< it stutters so hard you cant see anything.
anyways, double check if your meshes actually have collision.

[drowsy snow]

Blueprint is technically coding.

[rancid lagoon]

they do. i even added my own but it just dones work

[pliant topaz]

Okey

[radiant fable]

anyone know how i get rid of stuttering at high speed & glitches at high distance from world 0,0,0?
https://streamable.com/g0gwg4 1:30

[autumn flame]

Welcome to Physics Float Precision!

Look into World Origin Rebasing

[merry stump]

GIB

ME

HELP

[plush yew]

Hi

Im just starting to get into ue4 and i have no idea how it works i needa watch videos

I barely knew how to use unity either

The most functioning game I’ve made is a ue4 template ☠️

I know nothing about how coding or game making works i just have a cool idea i wanna put into action which i know wont work well so i have to start small

[sick cave]

Stephen Ulibarri has some good courses on Udemy that cover coding in C++

[merry stump]

How 2 fix

[plush yew]

Hey does anyone know what channel can i find people showcasing games, im imterested

[autumn flame]

No, that's not how Casting works at all

[late wyvern]

hey guys im new and have a few questions(btw im german) i wanted to ask how yall make models, with which program or can i do this in the unreal engine and which unreal engine should i learn 4.27 or 5.0?

[merry stump]

tell meh how 2 fix

[autumn flame]

Learn how it works

[weary basalt]

#released #work-in-progress

[late wyvern]

you mean me?

[autumn flame]

No

[late wyvern]

ok

[weary basalt]

You should try asking in #graphics some external programs like Blender, Maya or 3DSMax are used by people who want to make Models for games.

[plush yew]

Thanks

[late wyvern]

Thanks, and which engine should i learn 4.27 or 5.0

[weary basalt]

Might be a good idea to move into UE5 at this point.

[autumn flame]

5.0 may randomly break in weird ways iirc, it's EA

[weary basalt]

If you are new.

Though starting in UE4 might be a smoother experience.

[late wyvern]

ok thanks

what is the different between ue5 and ue4.27

[vocal flume]

I’m trying to build a iPhone home screen like menu for my game. Listview doesn’t wrap and displays all icons in one line. What else can I use for this?

[autumn flame]

Lumen, Nanite, Metasounds (?)

UI, uuh, some other things

Not missing on too much

And the bundled bugs with 5, part of the deal

[late wyvern]

ok

[neon magnet]

You meam you've replicated it/solved on your end? After my last msg I was moving some of the code to the player but didn't finish because I just got too sleepy and took a nap ... and woke up too early now but whaddya gonna do lol.

Of course very grateful to your help thus far.

[cerulean geyser]

hi guys..is there any way to give a time offset to my interptomovement across different blueprints, and a way to stop them until further notice(like pause) ?

[rancid lagoon]

yeah

ypu could use a wait node

[neon magnet]

@grim ore oh also, you're doing a line trace by channel while I'm doing trace for objects. Is that having an effect?

[radiant fable]

bom bom bom bom bom tomatoes

[neon magnet]

@grim ore omg I think these two things have solved it. You were right about the == but I also needed to set the looking boolean to false from the false branch and now it's hitting the correct object

[void palm]

how can i make 2 cameras ignore a mesh?

it works in one project but not in another

more specifically

how to make a scene capture component ignore a mesh

[neon magnet]

@grim ore Ok here's another cluster truck of a question 😄 Is it possible to have, or rather, what do you think I can do, to keep the direction of mouse movement corresponding to door movement, consistent?

At present I have a boolean "opens to right?" which I'm using to either subtract from the mouse's horizontal movement, or add to it. Depending on which it is, it will make the door swing towards me either by moving the mouse to the left, or to the right. So if I'm outside, the right door is opening as your eyes would have it, moving the mouse to the right to open and to the left to close. But if I go inside and switch my POV, then it's messed up again and I have to move the mouse to the right again to open the door, which is swinging to the LEFT now, which is what I tried to solve with the boolean when I was outside facing the door.

So I'm thinking, should there be some check like a collision box to determine which side I'm on and flip the subtract or add so that the direction of moving the mouse corresponds to the orientation of the door?

Or should there be something else, like freezing the camera, so that it doesn't allow the change in direction to make the brain couple the direction of movement to the direction of looking, if that makes sense

[cerulean geyser]

i ended up using disabling tick and then wait nodes, but thanks! 🙂

anyone knows why i cant set actor location for any actor that is using ragdoll? every time i set ragdoll physics it doesnt work (even if i set the flag teleport to be on)

[light thunder]

How can an object exist still, (even after a good amount of time has passed) if the level that is in, is unloaded?

[fair herald]

Does anyone know how I can implement oddle with ue4.26?

or is it possible to implement oddle with UE4.26

[alpine token]

need some help I don't understood why when I create a new project unreal keep failed then I cannot find this path too :

Failed to load /Game/Hollywood_Vol3/Materials/Instances/MI_Production_Light_01a_EMM.MI_Production_Light_01a_EMM Referenced by Cylinder

[neon magnet]

Ok so here's what I've done and now the direction of mouse corresponds to direction of door. Pls grade me senpai! 😄

Unfortunately I'm not sure how to freeze the camera the way it is in amnesia, so I'm not really sure how to do that. Any suggestions? I don't really need it but ... more knowledge!

[glacial pecan]

wtf... components can't have construction scripts?

guess it's not a super big loss, since construction scripts aren't executed in streaming levels anyway in 4.27...

[sweet galleon]

How to draw a background image behind the 3D scene?

Need to use RDG/RHI ?

[plush yew]

Im making a free to play game with no liscensing, does this mean I can use a characters likeness from another video game?

[wary wave]

Absolutely not

[neon magnet]

I have a simple volume to play/stop some ambient music. But today I noticed that sometimes it doesn't seem to trigger. Which is really weird because it never happened before and I haven't touched anything, so very strange

[plush yew]

How do you save your scene ... lets say you spawn things in game and you want them to save

im adding components and they dont even show up but id like them too if possible... i mean its cool if they dont

[stiff bane]

pu some ? is valid nodes in and check if the objects are always valid

[plush yew]

There has to be a better way to do this for level designing purposes

[neon magnet]

where should i put them - before the cast?

[stiff bane]

doesnt really matter since its all executed

in one time

[warm marlin]

I don't understand the point of blackboard having values, if i can actually add them to things like services and such.

Do i create a function, but then how do i get the blackboard values into the fuction?

[wary wave]

Blackboard values are accessible from pretty much anywhere inside a graph, and there are ways to grab / set values in the blackboard. You'll probably have more luck with a response in #gameplay-ai

[plush yew]

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/google-has-filed-a-lawsuit-against-epic-games-for-using-its-own-payment-mechanism-in-fortnite.html

popcorn time

[neon bough]

smart move after the law already decided for epic

and i hope they'll do again 😄

[honest vale]

why isn't the disappearing context menu bug fixed yet -_-

[keen zodiac]

why does ue keep destroying every fbx file i try to import

why cant it just import it as one objext 😢

[neon magnet]

what should I plug into the input object pin on the is valid?

[spice iron]

Can you Publish a game at age 14

[neon bough]

because FBX files can include multiple objects and you have to merge them in your 3D application if you want them to be one (or use unreals mesh merger)

[stiff bane]

The blue things

And use a print node to print out if the object is valid or not

[neon magnet]

I have an audio volume for the tunnel and then coming out next to the hole is a trigger box for a sound that plays just once. I was destroying it after playing. But I think it was weird because I did not plug in the trigger box into the destroy node

so does that mean that before, without the reference plugged in, it was destroying the entire blueprint?

[stiff bane]

Not sure, I would expect a error but it might also just did nothing

[ebon kelp]

Hey guys, got a question. When I click on "convert actors to static mesh" it breaks the model, anyone knows how to fix this? (the model is made up from 2 different models and also from 3 sphere's from unreal it self)

[floral moat]

how get correct material stats if i write only in RVT?

@ebon kelp use mergeactors

[thorn atlas]

Hello, can K2_AttachToActor replication from server to client?

[ebon kelp]

Thanks!

[subtle owl]

(my notebook is not good enough to run unreal4, so I am not able to extract)

[tame marsh]

Is there a way to disable StaticMeshDistanceFields generation in one of the engine.ini files?

I can't find the corretc entry

[cyan bronze]

How do you guys make materials into texture samples. I have sand material imported from Quixel which i want to use with landscape layer materials

Do you just make it somehow in gimp or smth?

[coarse turtle]

Do you know if you have to config anything to use the Oodle compression in ue4.27 beside the plugin?

[bleak lark]

Any idea what is causing this weirdly lit up section in my procedural foliage? It moves around when I move. Using UE5.

[plush yew]

srry guys my metahuman has ALS

https://streamable.com/fxzo1s

[iron frigate]

guys! im in hell. my project all of a sudden wont open anymore!!!

anyone can help??

my project crashed and from then it loads till 45 and then crashes

so i cant open

[thick herald]

In Windows, go to your project find the autosaves, copy the last autosave of your map file and paste it into where your project map is making sure to remove the extra bak text on the back-up. Rename your existing map file by adding _old just in case though.

[noble ridge]

i am unable to install UE4

[plush yew]

https://streamable.com/sdhw3z I got ALS working with the metahoomans

[iron frigate]

@thick herald hey moa thanks but what do you mean with "remove the extra bak text on the back-uå" ?

@thick herald im getting this in my crash reporter: UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_HairStrandsCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_HairStrandsCore
UE4Editor_HairStrandsCore
UE4Editor_HairStrandsCore
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll

with this on top: Assertion failed: Shader.IsValid() [File:D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Public\GlobalShader.h] [Line: 168] Failed to find shader type FClearReplacementCS_Buffer_Float4_Bounds in Platform PCD3D_SM5

it happened after I tried sequence recorder

[drowsy snow]

Do your own dilligence.

<@&213101288538374145> - asking for asset ripping

[fierce tulip]

i'll let jan handle it?

[ashen brook]

you take it 🙂

not all at once!

mod swarm

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Otpisvam#0918 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[honest vale]

not the bees

[fierce tulip]

doh

unstrike!

ffs, thanks tab

sorry obt!

[drowsy snow]

In your project directory, under Saved → Autosaves, there are bunch of autosave files. You can recover them manually by omitting "_Auto#" suffixes and copy to the Content directory where it belongs.

For some reason, retrieving autosaves can only be done automatically if you have source control integration enabled.

[iron frigate]

oh okay

I actually tried now to remove my firstpersonBP out of the content folder and it loads again

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: AbacateAbacatoso#5593 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[drowsy snow]

Looking at the error, it seems shader related. Can you load Manny's skelmesh at all?

[iron frigate]

Manny?

[drowsy snow]

Fancy way of saying The 2nd Issue of the Unreal Engine's default Mannequin, also known as default mannequin.

FP template only has the arm from it.

[fierce tulip]

all other moderators going

https://giphy.com/gifs/hehehe-hehehehe-9MFsKQ8A6HCN2

[iron frigate]

@drowsy snow well everything worked till now i guess?

only thing I did different was to add a onkeypress small thingy in character blueprint and then do a sequence recorder

after the sequence recorder it crashed and kept me out ...

but youre right the log says smth different... i wonder

[drowsy snow]

I think there is a strange bug where some materials can somehow crash in DirectX 12, but not in DX11.

[iron frigate]

aha

and is this smth I can do anything about?

I mean right now I have my project running again, but without my firstpersonBP

which is rather annyoing

[drowsy snow]

Happens to me sometimes, and switching to DirectX 11 solved it.

If you set "Enable Raytracing" when creating the project, or enabling it in Project Settings, it will default to DX12, regardless of whether your GPU actually has the capabilities or not.

[iron frigate]

hmm but isnt it odd that it only complains about it now?

ive been working on this project the last 3 months

[drowsy snow]

Which is why I said "strange bug", because in my case, flushing the Derived Data Cache (where all compiled shaders reside) doesn't seem to help, so long as the editor is using DX12.

I've been defaulted to DX11 ever since, and it's not a big deal since I don't really use DX12 exclusive stuff anyway.

[iron frigate]

hmm okay

[iron frigate]

thanks a lot @drowsy snow I will try going back to DX11 and see what happens

[median wigeon]

@fierce tulip

[fierce tulip]

Strike @median wigeon for off-topic Bot Ross

:p

[median wigeon]

😄

[maiden sundial]

Not sure if i'm misunderstanding this Open in external editor area, but does that mean i could somehow link Blender here ?
So that i open the selected animation directly in blender ?

[drowsy snow]

Unfortunately, no.

[maiden sundial]

Kinda thought so, would've been too cool xD

[rare axle]

Anybody know why interior scenes [using ray tracing] look so much better using rect lights in windows, and why one skylight / attempting to go for physically accurate lighting can't produce enough indirect/bounce lighting in my scenes? Even the template UE4 apartment scene uses rect lights in each window.

It looks great for the specific lighting setup, but I can't help but feel like it's just not a very accurate way of doing things if you wanted a realistic lighting setup, like with a day/night cycle for example. 🤔

It's not just the indirect lighting I guess, using one 'sun' light just doesn't look as good for some reason.

[drowsy snow]

The option is only reserved for certain asset types (I think Texture2D is one of them)

Not even Maya use that option - it uses Live Link plugins AFAIK (I'm not a Maya user tho)

[noble ridge]

?

[rotund scroll]

does anyone have the link for bug reporting handy?

[drowsy snow]

Ignoring raytracing, that's one way you can fake dynamic interior GI. The other one being Lightmass Portals, but that's for static lighting.

Going into raytracing, having full physically accurate lighting in real time is hell. Consider using the path tracer instead, which is not realtime, but building up rays in static shots over time.

[rare axle]

@drowsy snow I've been banging my head against a wall trying to pull still images with fully dynamic lighting and GI from Unreal for a while now. I usually end up with some amounts of noise or issues.

I've discovered 4.27's path tracer recently and pray that it'll solve my issues, because I've always had to find significant compromises.

Do you know if it works well with the Movie Render Queue for pulling stills?

Just FYI I'm using a machine with a 3090 for this project, it should be able to handle a lot of what I throw at it. I've just really been struggling to find the best fully dynamic solution

[drowsy snow]

Don't ask me on that - ray tracing is far down in my priority barrel 😛

I don't have a RTX GPU so I don't bothered to do raytracing myself and read on the settings for them lol. Just a potato doing full raster.

[rare axle]

Fair enough. Just seems no matter what I do I end up with some amount of fuzzy shadows, blurry objects, even with high samples in the render queue, and UE5 is nowhere near production ready for Viz.

Reflections/Shadows are just bad by comparison and translucency isn't even supported yet to my knowledge.

.
Believe me I've tried a lot with this project, if the path tracer can solve it I'll be dancing, haha.

[drowsy snow]

Actually raytraced translucency got revamped in UE4.27. At least according to William Faucher who used UE for high end expensive cine shots

[rare axle]

Yeah that stuff is great in 4.27, I meant with UE5. Thought that maybe Lumen or their new screen space GI would solve my problems but sadly no, it just kills a lot of my nice visual effects from UE4.

Seems;
UE5 = clean renders with bad visual effects
UE4 = Fuzzy bad GI renders with good visual effects

[drowsy snow]

UE5 isn't finished yet, after all. So that's that.

[iron frigate]

@drowsy snow hmm actually I can see that I allready have Dx11 as my default RHI

[drowsy snow]

I don't blame anyone for mistook the Early Access version as production ready and get false first impressions. It has been hyped (arguably overhyped) by many parties, dismissing the real bugs and merits that have yet to be ironed out for the full release next year.

[novel rose]

Did anyone get access to this Challenge? I missed the deadline by an hour and have tried to email support for help but no reply thus far? 🙃

[rare axle]

@drowsy snow Yeah I know, I didn't bank everything on it, I just thought it could be a solution but it wasn't. Am now back to UE4, was running 4.26, now upgraded to 4.27 today, as I said, will check if Path Tracer works out for me. Do reaaaallly hope so.

I only need stills / renders from this.

[iron frigate]

@drowsy snow this shading thing in the log could it be that it has somthing to do with my texture streaming pool exceeds a limit?

I get this little red line saying that it goes over a limit of xx miB budget

[drowsy snow]

The crash shouldn't happen, as DX11 is more stable.

Though you should try bring in the FP template again at this point - go to "Add Feature or Content Pack".

[drowsy snow]

No, that shouldn't cause crash on most occasions. What it does is kept some textures to its lower mip counterpart.

[iron frigate]

well I tried bringing in the old one whiklst having the editor running and it works. but when i close it odwn and try opening it up it crashes again

[drowsy snow]

Also, consider checking out William Faucher's YT channel - his videos are catered towards using UE for high end cinematic, non-game production purposes. I personally don't follow his tutorials, because I'm in the exact opposite of the spectrum - low-end friendly game production.
https://youtube.com/c/WilliamFaucher

[quiet crag]

Hey guys I got a log cabin made up of 1600 parts within a hierarchy of 20 groups. When I bring it into UE4 as an fbx it comes in all 1600 different parts. the question is how can I bring it in as one asset with access to all its subgroups and individual pieces as I still want to animate things like windows and door etc? Thanks!

[drowsy snow]

In the import options, before you click on Import, expand Mesh section, and enable Combine Meshes. That'll make the meshes imported as a single static mesh, but not per groups (assuming that's Blender equivalent of Collections).

Otherwise you have to combine all the static parts yourself in your DCC tools and export each of them as separate FBX files. As for the windows/doors, you could bring each parts as individual static meshes, but I would give them skeletal rig/armature and import them as skeletal meshes.

[grim ore]

@quiet cragyou can also look at using the import into level option under file but for something like this you probably want to use datasmith

[quiet crag]

ok cool I did have a feeling about making it a skeletal mesh, thanks @drowsy snow ands thanks @grim ore I will definitely look into datasmith!

[still atlas]

i've got a moving platform my character can go inside of, but when he jumps inside while moving, if he touches a ceiling/wall it seems like he loses his velocity and gets bounced backwards, anyone have any hints how i change that?

i can't figure out what to google for a fix, all the stuff i'm googling is leading to stuff like wall jumping tutorials

[drowsy snow]

Though from my (rather limited) testing, Datasmith doesn't play well in video game use context. It's fine for non game (optionally interactive) visualisation projects, though, since Datasmith was built for enterprise use in mind (used to be in a separate licence under Unreal Studio moniker)

[drowsy snow]

You mean, as in Castlevania's ceiling jump?

[still atlas]

i'm not actually trying to do any kind of special game mechanics with it, i just noticed that when i touch an inside wall of the platform while it's moving forward, it's like the player loses the velocity he got from the platform and he gets kicked backwards, but i guess more accurately he just stops and the platform keeps moving forward around him

i'm not understanding if it's a problem with the character movement, or the way i set up the platform, or both, it's just an actor with a static mesh that i'm moving by setting the location in tick

https://imgur.com/a/zJtspQq
i don't know if this helps my explanation any? it's basically bouncing him backwards whenever he touches anything while jumping

[rare axle]

Thanks, I have been following his stuff, but there are a few niche gaps that I need to fill with my project that he sadly doesn't cover.

@drowsy snow

Do you or does anybody else here know if Path Tracing supports subsurface translucency for things like blinds / curtains?

You can see it works with regular old lit Ray Tracing

But the path tracer doesn't seem to allow light through at all

[bleak lark]

Has anyone done water bodies (oceans,rivers,etc) in UE5? Having issues where I cannot even move it around or scale it, etc.

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[bleak lark]

Thanks

[stone edge]

project cant find Bridge plugin but still asks if I want to disable it to continue...??

i press yes and im stuck in loading at 95% forever it seems

[grim ore]

yoiu might need to enable/install the plugin then if the project uses it

otherwise, check your task manager to see if its compiling shaders (high CPU use)

[noble barn]

Okay, what's going on there? Is that normal, that the Material Stats are this high for a material that's as simple as it gets? I created this, as the Stats seemed high on another material that I optimized, to check. Any ideas?

We use Forward Shading, in case that has any relevance 🤷‍♂️

[fierce tulip]

forward shading does that.

[noble barn]

hm, so does this mean the Stats loose their value, or do I just need to re-think which values are good/bad?

[fierce tulip]

the latter

[noble barn]

figured. Just makes it hard, as rather complex materials are now pretty similar (numerically) to the simplest imaginable

[stone edge]

bridge should be installed and enabled

are plugins project specific

[fierce tulip]

@noble barn its best to write down the numbers for basic material, translucent, unlit, etc. so you have an estimate on how much they are so you can compare later on.
but yea, it'll take a while to get used to those numbers.

[noble barn]

Thanks @fierce tulip. Will do that.

[grim ore]

@stone edgesome plugins are project specific, some are engine specific

[true geode]

What might cause this?
I know my object is a little obsessively large, also when I attempt to spawn I get a black screen as if I am stuck into something but it doesn't seem as if I am..

Image of spawning

I tried generating a landscape and setting this to be larger than the object I am telling the map to spawn on and setting z to a larger range but it still seems this doesn't have any affect

[rare axle]

The translucency effect that I want in path tracing works in reflections, but not in the main scene... What gives?

[grim ore]

@true geodewell how are you spawning in?

[rare axle]

The reflection of it is exactly how I want it. If anybody who has used the UE4.27's path tracer to any significant extent please let me know

[true geode]

For now I am using the default first person character object, I basically selected everything except for my object I am putting the arena on and moved it right above it, even if I set it to off of the surface however it still gives this issue

[grim ore]

but how are you telling it to spawn your player? if you just dropped in a first person character its not going to use it

[true geode]

It appears that if I leave the arena where it is, I can spawn fine and play as the game should, however when i move it too far up or down this issue occurs

[grim ore]

its possible your spawn point is too far below and is getting auto killed with the kill z

or your just not spawning in as your player object due to it not being set to possess

[true geode]

Is there any way to override this or set it to a higher amount?

[grim ore]

in the world settings there is an option to change it

[true geode]

ahhh that worked

thanks man!

[neon magnet]

@grim ore I've noticed something where if the line trace is successful then I can go literally miles away and click and drag a door open lol. I thought it was going to detach from modifying a door's rotation if I depress the button?

[grim ore]

with your code your doors are listening for the input from ANYWHERE in your level, so yes if you push your key the doors will try and open from anywhere

so if your code never resets the booleans for facing the door and holding gthe button, its going to do that. you might not be resetting those properly

[neon magnet]

I think I solved it by putting the set enable tick at the end of the linetrace rather than before it

it doesn't seem to do the infinite distance rotation god mode anymore

since tick is handling the rotation maths

the more annoying thing though is the whole jerry rigged overlap thing I have going on to set booleans to determine which side of the door I am on

because if I miss the trigger box even by a little it doesn't have the booleans as they should and thus everything is a mess

until I position myself better in front of a door

and if I make the collisions any larger, they start interfering with eachother

[grim ore]

well most doors only open one way, so whats the issue?

its open or closed, unless you need it to be a swinging door

[neon magnet]

ok there are 4 doors in total in the location I'm at.
2 mesh (split doors) and behind them 2 solid (also split doors) if you remember from the vid/pics I had shared. Lemme know if you wanna see them again.

[grim ore]

yes but the split doors are either open or close and normally one direction

[neon magnet]

so let's say I'm outside and want to enter the building.

Right door swings outwards towards me and ends up at its final angle which is a bit to my right.
Mouse drag right -> opens this door swinging it to the right

but if I go inside

then the door is now supposed to be flipped because it will open outwards and to the left

hope that made sense

[grim ore]

it should be flipped and if you interact with it, the door should go back to being closed

your position shouldnt matter, its relative to the door itself when it does the rotation and that doesnt care about you

or is the issue you are not just clicking on it but doing something else to interact with it

[grim ore]

so you have to move the mouse to move the door?

[neon magnet]

yea

[grim ore]

your code before didnt show that, it was one and done

[neon magnet]

the code always had the drag in it

the white arrows show the places where you are taking mouse input and adding or subtracting

[grim ore]

weird, I never saw it. I saw the line trace and that triggered the tick which then just opened the door

[neon magnet]

the + or - determines whether it's the right direction or the left direction

[grim ore]

gotcha. well you might need to determine which way the mouse is moving then relatively

[neon magnet]

This is the total jank thing I did for flipping the mouse directions so that the mouse direction and the door direction match. I know, it's terrible

[grim ore]

there are YT videos out there on how to do the mouse drag for a door, it might have some info

[neon magnet]

I think I've seen all of them but they don't deal with something like I am where I have split doors and almost all of them have doors that open both ways rather than one-way which is more common for a framed door

[grim ore]

the both ways is dealt with my just clamping the min and max range

dont let it go past your limits

[neon magnet]

the holy grail would be if I can freeze the camera and then just have a relative thing like moving mouse up opens, down closes ... but that will still need flipping for the door depending on which perpsective I'm looking at it from (inside or outside)

so really the actual curiosity is whether there is a better way to determine which direction I'm looking at a door or not, at least something more reliable than the event overlap

[grim ore]

you can use the dot product to tell if your character is facing the same way as the doors facing direction

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/opening-doors-both-ways/88697/8

[neon magnet]

correct me if I'm wrong, does this mean using the player's absolute forward vector? Rather, subtracting distance between door and player and if it's less than the position then it's one direction and if it's more then it's another?

sorry for wording it like that i don't even fully get it and I gotta hit the sack too brain is melting

[plush yew]

You can do it like that

I use Get Look At Rotation for alot of stuff

then you just break and just use the Y or something...

[glossy mica]

How do you get the lines so straight?

[void palm]

is there an alternative to ReadPixels() in C++?

because while it does work it isn't fast

[rough ore]

hello I am using UE4 for a college class

[plush yew]

nice

[inner wren]

guys do you have also the problem with Epic games and unreal

its slow and crushes

[rough ore]

I am making a bullet hell game

er, level

[inner wren]

evan thoe I have good specifications

[rough ore]

the thing is idk how to set up the enemies' movement lol

[plush yew]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/ArtificialIntelligence/BehaviorTrees/

[ancient lotus]

what specs do you have and define slow

[inner wren]

i5 gtx 1660 8GB RAM

[rough ore]

So I can use a behavior tree to setup a path for the enemies?

[plush yew]

Ya but you could probably do what you want with a blueprint

just using Move To

[rough ore]

Current hope is that I have my enemies in waves

[plush yew]

Spawn 30 actors at the same time or on delay

[rough ore]

I want the waves to appear as they're killed

So, say, I spawn 4 enemies for wave 1
Once the four enemies are dead, five new enemies spawn

[plush yew]

use an Interger variable

[ancient lotus]

those are not very good specifications anymore. im assuming since you have 8gb of ram your on ddr3 which means an old cpu as well. open task manager and see how much of what is getting used out of your system

[inner wren]

i5 8gen

[rough ore]

Are there more... path-based movement systems instead of coordinates?

[ancient lotus]

then please get atleast 2 8gb sticks of ram or 2 16gb if you can afford it

[plush yew]

Nav Grid unless you write your own like A1 B3 C7

[inner wren]

jeez

[rough ore]

Uh huh, ok

[ancient lotus]

well you really want atleast 16gb

[inner wren]

its wierd how I have only 1 terrain in UE and the engine is slow

[ancient lotus]

did you crank down the editor settings at all?

[inner wren]

while in Unity I have a lot of textures and prefabs and its not slow

[inner wren]

I think not bcs I am new in UE I litteraly came to see if its better to make there a good fps lvl design

[void blade]

did the solar flare fry the quixel servers? can't download 3d assets here atm

[ancient lotus]

ah gotcha. yea try lowering the settings a bit. are you on ue4 or ue5?

[inner wren]

first I was on UE4.13.2 which was awful and I instaled UE5 which is kinda better but it started to be slow

[ancient lotus]

ue5 thats common

[inner wren]

evan thoe I have 1 first person and a terrain I exported from terresculptor

[ancient lotus]

top right go to settings->engine scalability settings and tweak

[inner wren]

but I have problems with adding water, I asked about that problem on reddit but noone answered

[inner wren]

thank you 😄

[ancient lotus]

have you tried just using 4.27 as well? remember ue5 is still not a full release

[inner wren]

I can't find it like I saw just 4.13 and ue5

oops lmao

[ancient lotus]

did you check the launcher lol

[inner wren]

I found it by accident now

is it better to use than ue5 and ue4.13

[ancient lotus]

if its just for visuals perhapse ue5 is your best bet atm unless you start running into some problems in which case id just go 4.27. you will probably be fine

[glossy mica]

How many cores then? If you have 6+ then thats a pretty good cpu

[glossy mica]

It also depends on the mhz of the ram.. 2x 8gb 3600 mhz will get you much farter than 2x 16 gb 2600 mhz

[glossy mica]

And why on ddr3? I have 8gb and unreal runs completely normal

[ancient lotus]

his i5 is most likely desktop so it has 6 cores, however more cores != better perf but thats not really his limitation. most people running ddr4 run 16+ gb kits as capacity increased from ddr3 to ddr4 so people running 2 4gb sticks of ddr4 is not nearly as common. alot of people were having issues with the ue5 editor and it running slow hence the settings shown above for him to turn down

[ancient lotus]

dont forget timings make a good difference as well

[rough ore]

Can I use relative coordinates in Move To Location or Actor?

To make a Pawn move, say, downwards to a certain point then stop?

[grim ore]

add the relative coordinates to the current coordinates = new coordinates?

[rough ore]

More, allowing myself to use the same blueprint in multiple spots so all versions of the same enemy function in the same way

since I want each copy of this enemy to move straight down and fire straight down

[grim ore]

should be no issue doing that

[rough ore]

er, down to a certain height

I think I can grab the pawn's x coordinate and plug it into the Move To, but idk how to grab the coordinate

GetActorLocation isn't seeming to work

[upper kraken]

Hey everyone, I have no idea where else to post this, I have a question about a Light Switch Animation
I modeled a lightswitch, and I was wondering, what would be a very efficient way if implementing it, to have a low performance hit / little draw calls?

Currently I have the Main Base of the Switch and the moving part separated as two static meshes (that share a material), so that I'd place both the base and the switch in the blueprint actor, and animate the Switch Mesh up or down. However, that would be two draw calls because two static meshes, right?
Alternatively I was thinking of just having a Skeletal Mesh, Animated in an On- and Off-State, however that would give me a totally unnecessary Skeleton + Physics Asset. Alternatively to that, I was thinking of using Morph Targets on these, but they seem rather cumbersome to do on static meshes.

How would you go about doing that if you wanted to have something light and clean?

[void palm]

is there a way to prevent a specific skeletal mesh from casting a shadow on a specific static mesh?

i can't find a way

[bleak lark]

Any idea how to use perinstancefadeamount node with megascans? This is how I am trying to use it for culling procedural foliage

[glossy mica]

How do i make floats used for inputs axis more smooth

Timeline with Lerp?

[glossy mica]

help

[plush yew]

how can i remove these artifacts? Getting them while rendering in raytracing

[nocturne tangle]

hey guys

anybody here familiar with mixamo?

what does the mirror option mean

[void palm]

click it and find out

it mirrors the animation

@glossy mica finterp to constant

@glossy mica https://i.imgur.com/e8PzTIC.png

[nocturne tangle]

mirror how

[plush yew]

I think it flips it

not sure though

[prime willow]

@grim ore Is it possible to flip the rotations or vertical to horizontal angles of a mesh socket

[hollow laurel]

any1 knows why the grass looks...a bit too sharp?

trying to follow a tutorial, i made sure the mesh normals were fixed before importing to unreal from blender, the one in the tutorial definetely looks a lot more smoother, already disabled cast shadows

[rotund scroll]

looks like each blade mesh is sharp... then as well they all point outward like a bouquet, which means the sharpness is much more visible on top

unless that's not what you meant

[regal totem]

hello everyone . does anyone know why the grass is way too above the landscape

[toxic owl]

Not sure what the technical term for this is, but does UE have some built in tools for handling text where the state of the text depends on some external variable? Like a block of text the player reads, where a keyword is replaced w/ some other value depending on game state? Or is that something you usually bolt on yourself with a table of keywords and find-replace logic?

[regal totem]

oh i found out wyhy'

[rotund scroll]

there is the Format Text node if that's what you're after. but if you're thinking about an entire style formatting table, I think you'll need to make that yourself or look for plugins

[hollow laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT-QfuzoQEk&ab_channel=MarpetakDev

😩 following his tutorial (but on UE5) i made sure the normals were fixed

[still atlas]

asking again from earlier, but can anyone give me an idea why a character inside a moving box would get bounced back from jumping into a wall? i assume it's not actually "bouncing" him but just cancelling out the velocity he inherited from the initial jump, i just can't figure out what about the situation needs to be changed

[rotund scroll]

I don't think it's a question about the normals

but rather how the "bouquet" is formed

[hollow laurel]

alright i'll try remaking them

[light thunder]

HOW do I unload something as a process completely - I've got a plugin that the developer isn't responding to after a few weeks - it crashes the editor when I exit play - I'm trying to 'unload it' from memory so it stops doing whatever it is doing that crashes the editor when I exit play (the author doesn't have a "stop command" only start - I've unloaded the level that contains the actor with this plugin but that doesn't seem to work

[toxic lily]

anyone know where i can acess a 3rd person ue4 manneuin FBX? trying to rig my own model but cant find the mannequin model

[light thunder]

look up "Mr. Mannquin" for blender - it is a plugin, I think 5 bucks, but check his discord and they might send it to you for free

[still atlas]

pretty sure it's just a free project unless you want to donate

[light thunder]

I actually think that's WHY I donated - there was so much utility for it

[regal totem]

hey so idk why the leaves have this really dark shadow under them is there any way to make it less dark

[indigo cradle]

If I hide objects or lights in world outliner, why they switch back on again when I reload the scene? It is generally really bad idea to disable lights by hiding them in the outliner, because they will mess up the universe when reloading the scene.

[drowsy snow]

For lights, toggle Affects World to disable/enable it without deleting the actor/component.

For meshes, toggle either Visible (completely hides it) and/or Hidden in Game (hides in game view but not in editor view) to hide it.

[grand oyster]

how do i make it so my niagara particle system only activates when i press a key?

[toxic lily]

question for anyone whos used Uefy before

when i build the skeleton for a new rig i get this error

not sure what's causing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ad4v7x41RA&t=49s

following this tutorial, stuck around the 3 minute mark

[void palm]

@nocturne tangle like a mirror would

@nocturne tangle see it for yourself

[dusk nebula]

So if I want to make an interruptible delay, would it be best to use a timeline?

[light thunder]

So why is my render opacity keep getting reset to zero the minute I compile my widget??? /

Well this is infuriating (and it happens in game too)

well since it compiles blank I mean

[plush yew]

try changing the alpha idk

[toxic lily]

although its blender, i figure since im using Uefy maybe someone here might be able to help

having trouble getting the rig to attach to the mesh, anyone else had this issue before?

[plush yew]

rename it to something besides default

[fallen marten]

Does anyone here have experience with vehicles (utilising the vehicle component) and tearing pieces off them? My problem is that whenever I break a constraint on any bone, the intended part falls off, but the wheels do as well.. makes no sense unless I'm missing something. The skel goes root-body-various carparts. All wheels are attached to root. The only constraint being broken should be the one between the carparts and the body

[ancient lotus]

question, im working with instanced static meshes and im having an issue with GetInstancesOverlappingSphere where its not always getting my instance eventhough the center of my sphere covers that area and intersects with the instance (drawing a debug sphere to confirm). you can see the results in the image

int32 ABuilding::GetHitIndex(const FHitResult& HitResult)
{
    TArray<int32> HitIndexes = FoundationInstancedMesh->GetInstancesOverlappingSphere(HitResult.Location, 15.0f);
    DrawDebugSphere(GetWorld(), HitResult.Location, 5.0f, 10, FColor::Red);
 
    if (HitIndexes.Num())
    {
        return HitIndexes[0];
    }

    return -1;
}

[dreamy aspen]

Hey! Is there some place where i can check the patch notes for the 4.27.1 update?

[topaz jackal]

can you get in trouble for using the unreal skeleton animations in unity?

[neon bough]

guess so, specially epic marketplace content is usually flagged for being used only within unreal engine

[lethal root]

Does anyone know what is the best program or way to make height mapas for ue4? I just can’t find a proper way to do it .
I tried manually but it looks awful haha

[surreal eagle]

why do my leg bones interact with the arm bones and make everything jerk

[upper stone]

Can anyone recommend an Unreal tutor?

[ancient lotus]

me? what are you looking for
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYcDJPGvIUFxBTmXOZWFswQ

[upper stone]

I'm new to unreal (have some experience with Unity) and want to learn about using audio to trigger animations

[ancient lotus]

do you have an example? usually you play audio inside the animations themselves allowing you to time when they trigger perfectly

[surreal eagle]

ok i tested this in real life

and it seems the arm is hitting the leg

[upper stone]

Would it be possible to have the sky turn pink for instance when one song starts playing and then change to orange when a different song starts to play? I want to create an environment (sky, grass, etc.) that changes based off of what song is playing

[ancient lotus]

if your doing true first person i suggest splitting up the mesh and faking true first person so you would have 2 mesh components. i show an example here of how im doing it in my plugin at 9:07
https://youtu.be/qBpXmjgh0vM?t=547

[surreal eagle]

is it possible to jsut disable colision

[ancient lotus]

there is an audio component that you can setup that contains an OnAudioFinished delegate so when that fires you would do whatever you wish with your environment

[ancient lotus]

is your animation physics driven at all?

and can i see a screenshot of your character

[surreal eagle]

i just use animations for third person

it's the default 3rd perosn manequin lol

[ancient lotus]

im referring to the class

[surreal eagle]

animation sequence

[ancient lotus]

character class

[surreal eagle]

third person charachter

i just put the camera in the head really

[ancient lotus]

theres no other mesh component or anything that you added? because the animation shouldnt be causing that just because the arm goes into the leg (assuming thats what your referring to)

[upper stone]

I was hoping that it might be possible for the song data (maybe depending on beats per minute) to affect the scene environment. is that possible? I'll also def look into OnAudioFinished, but I'm so new to unreal that I'd like to hire a tutor for at least one session to walk me through some things

[surreal eagle]

wait i have a body colision capsule

i'll remove that and test

nope

still does it

[void palm]

https://i.imgur.com/nyibSso.png

i think he is dead

[ancient lotus]

this may give you an idea on some of the stuff you can do. theres stuff related to bpm and such as well
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/89169/view.html

[surreal eagle]

i found the issue

the default running animation sucks ass

it makes the whole body shake

[ancient lotus]

are you talking about the head bobbing and such when moving?

[surreal eagle]

nope

it's the legs

they look weird

[ancient lotus]

define weird

from the video their not moving at full speed probably either in the blend space

[surreal eagle]

they shake oddly

it makes the charachter bob when turning

it's so odd

here you go

i tried reducing the speed to fix the issue

no dice

right now it's playing sprint

[ancient lotus]

well it looks like you also only set it up for idle and moving forwards. if you want good movement you need to setup a full blend space with angles and everything and drive it to make it visually pleasing

[surreal eagle]

i have it riged up to play sprint at all times rn

just to fix the issue

[ancient lotus]

so you want the legs to move faster when moving?

[surreal eagle]

i want them to stop making everything shake

it seems the run animation rotates the hips from side to side

when i disable lower body it works great

BUT i still get isues when looking all the way down

i thinnk the mesh hits it'self

[plush yew]

hey, how do i use blueprints to execute a custom node that executes a c++ script?

pretty urgent so a response would be great

[drowsy snow]

Make the C++ UFUNCTION to be BlueprintCallable.

[worn phoenix]

i require some help setting up multi user editing with real time updates

[drowsy snow]

Don't bother. Use Source Control and external comms for coordination instead.

[worn phoenix]

@drowsy snow whats that

[neon magnet]

can any of the passionate mathematicians help me understand how to implement the logic of the dot product in the blueprint context

I mean I understand it but I'm in that middle area where I don't quite have my head wrapped fully around it

especially since we're dealing with vectors rather than a single scalar value

[plush yew]

yeeeeeah i have no clue how to do that, do you know a video that can help?

[drowsy snow]

Just type BlueprintCallable inside UFUNCTION. No need for a video for such simple thing.

UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
void SomeFunction();

Once that's done, your function should appear in the BP that's inherited from your C++ class.

[plush yew]

im trying to make it in blueprints

actually i can jut find one its good

[prime willow]

unreal engine is wild as heck

the more you dig into it

the deeper it gets

what a piece of software

@grim ore You were right, you can litterally do whatever you want

if youre brain is big enough to envision it as code or C++

[plush yew]

not me spending 5 days to make a terrible bow and arrow

[pure galleon]

Does anyone familiar with blender-Quixel-UE4 workflow?

[neon magnet]

my C++ professor once said (more than a decade ago) that it's like endurance, how long can you keep things sane as you go deeper and deeper into layers of complexity. Unfortunately when it comes to coding I'm pretty terrible even though I get the logic behind most of it. The actual implementation is where you need all your brainpower

of course, BPs have the extra constraint of you needing to know how the nodes work whereas in code you can kinda be pretty quick and dirty

bps force you to make more sense lol

[gaunt abyss]

@prime willow Start working with the engine source and digging through it and you'll start hating parts of the engine with passion 😅

[drowsy snow]

Oh yes 😏
You're going to have traumatic experience trying to make modifications to the engine source code @prime willow

[neon magnet]

wonder if anyone's compared Doom 3's engine and Unreal and described how they both are, as many have praised Doom 3's engine being very well written

I looked at it long time ago but back then I didn't have much of an idea anyway

[gaunt abyss]

Problem with UE is that there are layers and layers and layers.... Of legacy code stacked on top of each other

[neon magnet]

Fred unmasks Unreal to find Windows underneath the disguise

if I move the mouse up, that's a -ive direction and moving down is +ive, right?

ok so dot product for determining which side of the door I am is extreeeeemeeellllyyyy finnicky

so dot product only returns > 0 as long as you are FACING the object, right? So even if I'm behind the object, but FACING it, it will still give close to 1

but if I turn my back on it, then it'll be closer to -1

or lower than zero at least

so this means it's about my POV. Would swapping the inputs matter?

I'm trying to determine if I am facing a particular side of the door (overlaps are not playing nice)

so it's about whether I'm the A side of the door or the B side

[obsidian nimbus]

well i would do overlap or linetrace

[grizzled axle]

take dot from door's forward vector and (opener location - door location)

[neon magnet]

I have linetrace as well. With overlaps, it mostly works, but it's really easy to miss the overlaps because they are rotating with the door.

[neon magnet]

how do I do that when the input pins for dot are object references?

ok wait I need to reread what you wrote a few times

[grizzled axle]

use "vector dot"

if you have your doors forward axis setup the right way, then it's > 0 if you are front of the door and <0 if you are behind the door (aka other side), my doors always open away from player this way

[neon magnet]

@grizzled axle for me, I am trying to open the doors the way they're meant to open

so for instance the same two doors (both have hinges on the right) but one opens towards me and the other opens away from me, if I am standing outside

see dumb drawing

so imagine another pair of doors behind those^ but they open in the opposite directions (towards "inside")

is this making any sense 😄

[grizzled axle]

i'm not sure I understand correctly, but maybe you could have bool on the door, and if it's true, then just rotate it with opposite rotation than the other door?

[neon magnet]

that's how I had it setup before with overlaps

this jank

[grizzled axle]

or maybe you want something like "paired door" so its easier to rotate it correctly if it has 2 doors

[neon magnet]

is paired doors a structure in the engine?

[grizzled axle]

no I mean a new blueprint where you just have multiple door meshes, so you can easily rotate them the way you want at the same time

[neon magnet]

the goal is to keep the door movement and mouse movement aligned depending on which side of the door I am

So if I'm facing the outside-facing side of the door, then pushing the mouse up for example, should push the door. So even if the door is open, but I'm facing the exterior-facing side of the door, the push should still push the door. The overlap mostly works, but if I move slightly outside of the overlap, it flips and messes up and I need to get back into a pretty strict orientation to keep the booleans aligned

[grizzled axle]

oh I see, never did door like that 😬 so I guess you need to wait someone smarter to give ideas

[prime willow]

@gaunt abyss I'm still learning blueprints lmao you guys are scaring me xD

[neon magnet]

here you can see the directions are all flipped. I'm pushing the mouse which is doing the opposite. I can fix this now because I was just trying out the different dot product things we talked about

the real issue is those moments where the booleans get flipped

[neon magnet]

don't worry I'm in the same boat mostly, just have to get familiar and used to the weirdness of it all

[neon magnet]

In the beginning here when I turn around to turn that door by pulling the mouse, that was correct, but when I went to the other side of it, I still had to pull the mouse rather than push

[grizzled axle]

is your door mesh root component? maybe you should try use the meshes forward vector or rotation.vector, so it rotates with the door?

[neon magnet]

o let me see

doesn't seem to be working, same very small margins of the dot going from + to -, like even standing right next to it and slightly looking up is causing it to drop into - values

[grizzled axle]

hmm, if you take dot from door forward vector and position - position, looking up and down as player, should not have any effect, since it doesn't change the doors forward vector or actor positions

[neon magnet]

how can I show the overlap trigger volumes when playing?

[grizzled axle]

i think it's visible and/or hidden in game booleans

in the trigger volume

[neon magnet]

yea it was the hidden in game checkmark

[silent remnant]

the fact epic games uses helix crap for source control makes me question whats wrong with their head

their own company doesnt even know how to properly install their software

[worn phoenix]

whats a safe vpn for multi user editing

[lucid egret]

What channel can I seek help from for cloth physics?

[drowsy snow]

#legacy-physics could be a good place to ask.

[lucid egret]

ok. I asked there

[drowsy snow]

Don't use multi user editing. Use source control solutions like GitHub instead.

[regal mulch]

Gnah, striked in the mods channel. So for those of you who want more info on what happened in terms of moderation:
User Sdrawkcablla was striked by me for the use of profanity. It was their first trike and it mutes them for 10 minutes.
Thanks for reporting it.

[trim mantle]

Did anyone get the BP Ninja Email?

I emailed them 7 days ago to ask if my details were correct

Didn't hear since

Was afraid they removed me by accident xD

[golden niche]

Has the blueprint ninja challenge started yet?

[trim mantle]

I think not

And I almost started the courses xD

[golden niche]

Lol

Okay cuz I did not receive anything

Not even a confirmation email

[trim mantle]

Good

Means I am not the only one xd

[golden niche]

Lol

[icy plaza]

did someone ever ran into the problem where decals where facing a different side then the side you originally put it on? Like this: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/538398/normal-decals-showing-as-black-wrong-direction.html

[sage tree]

So Connecter now has import/export support for UE 4.26 and 4.27 and they are working on UE5, Connector is a digital asset management software (free) similar to Adobe Bridge but for 3d assets, can also do 2d, video, audio etc.
https://www.designconnected.com/connecter

I did some light testing for the 4.27 plugin last night and it works amazingly well! Im not affiliated, just like the product.

[trim mantle]

Did you try reverting the normals?

In the shader

[icy plaza]

no not yet. Because it happened very randomly without changing anything

[trim mantle]

Then just try it

[sage tree]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgN9jX_YvIE&t=1s

cant wait for UE5 support, till then Ill organize my assets through 4.27.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/4-27-1-hotfix-released/255492

this?

there are three entries about steam in the notes.

np

[eager prairie]

same here, i was scared to miss out the starting date lmao

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure worldwide shipping for the swag gift won't be a problem for Epic.

...right?

[golden niche]

Yep

If you are in a valid country, I see no reason they couldnt

[eager prairie]

yep

so the challenge starts at 10AM ET

which is basically in 2 hours

for me at least

[trim mantle]

Where did you get this info?

[trim mantle]

I mean. The curses are a total of 5h

[eager prairie]

https://epicgames.ent.box.com/s/gyrlfgi9s7hev2biwpoac41pd4gz16gf

[trim mantle]

And we have a lot of time xD

Also, thanks for the link, didn't think to post there

I also wonder if they will figure out to what country send the package xD

[eager prairie]

you signed up in their form, otherwise how would they know where to send it

[trim mantle]

I might have forgotten to add that xD

I signed the adress, without the country

[eager prairie]

oh lmao

good luck

[trim mantle]

But City + Zip-Code should be enough xD

[eager prairie]

i didnt even get a confirmation it was really weird

[drowsy snow]

PROTIP: Don't hold your breath if you're posting in a Discord channel, especially crowded one like this where many people are mostly working on their own stuff. Consider posting your job vacancies in other (more proper) job listing spaces like Indeed, Jobstreet, Workday, etc.

Also <@&213101288538374145>, judgement in regards to this, per rule #7?

[trim mantle]

What other country uses żźęółść xD

And I did try to contact epic

So maybe they shall respond one day xD

[light thunder]

Why would Epic put settings and have ZERO documentation on it? too bad no one actually knows what this stuff means and can explain the effects of an increase/decrease

[drowsy snow]

Waiting for 2 hours won't hurt lol

[drowsy snow]

About that...

[eager prairie]

I'll let you know if that thingy starts or if i get the email

[drowsy snow]

After further testing, turns out that larger numbers actually cause larger hitches - it clogged the game thread until the time limit expires.

5ms is less than 144 FPS frametime, and 15ms is less than 60 FPS frametime.

But it's fine if my explanation isn't to your satisfactory.

[trim mantle]

I wanted to confirm if I wrote my address correctly

And to clear up the country part

[trim mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/first-time-meme-movie-james-cameron-western-gif-17538858

[fierce tulip]

@wild bronze please be patient and, as Hoodie suggested, please do post on other boards as well :)

[shadow ravine]

I'm trying to animate my pistol when fired to move the slide bone on my gun to move when the weapon fired event is triggered. Anyone know a method of achieving this without having a pre-existing animation that already has this setup?

[glacial sparrow]

What would be the best practice to work with large world scales?
I'm creating some sort of racing game at fairly high speed, but my player just disappears when travelling too far
Should I scale everything down or is there a different solution?

[sly shadow]

I wanted to update to 4.27.1 but getting this error "IS-MF-01: File failed to relocate successfully"...Even tried with a fresh install,anybody with the same problem?

[runic fern]

Hello guys how can i make the advanced session joinable from anywhere without Steam ? ..
Im using Playfab to register and transfer session data and IP

[rocky crest]

Hello all! I am a total noob, and it might be a dumb question, but can I run UE on win 7 with a 2nd generation i5 CPU and with a geforce 750 ti? I just want to see how this UE works 🙂 I am not a game designer or programmer. Thx!

[shadow ravine]

You should be fine, as long as you aren't creating something that requires a large amount of power on you GPU/CPU

[rocky crest]

I just want to start to create a map. Or just to try it out. how it works

[shadow ravine]

Yeah you should be fine then

[rocky crest]

thx

Any idea how big is the file to download?

[glacial sparrow]

you can check when you install

58GB is my total for 2 versions

[shadow ravine]

Depends on version number and your target platform

[rocky crest]

I tried to click on it in the Epic Launcher, but nothing happens

PC

[shadow ravine]

Send a screenshot

[glacial sparrow]

when you hit install, it tells you how much it has to download

[drowsy snow]

UE4 would work fine, and that's a rough equivalent to a base PS4.

Though I'm not sure if 2nd gen i5 CPU going to suffer the experience down the road.

[rocky crest]

I needed to restart my PC because epic launcher gone wild

[drowsy snow]

Also using 64-bit OS is a MUST when it comes to using the editor and deploying the game, especially with more recent UE4 versions.

Though you might be fine running pre 4.15 versions in 32-bit OS.

[rocky crest]

I got win 7 64bit OS.

My pc sucks I know, but this is atm 🙂

[drowsy snow]

I won't judge, don't worry.

Just there might be some repercussions with older CPUs and newer UE versions, but it's not hurt to try.

[rocky crest]

Question: If I want to try to make a map, does UE contain items, like clothes, building archetypes from different eras during history? Or You need to make them for yourself?

[drowsy snow]

You have to either make them yourself and/or buy them from the marketplace.

[rocky crest]

Also my english is not top 😄

What marketplace?

[drowsy snow]

Shall you want to go for the former, consider making them with Blender - it's free and quite versatile for making models for UE.

[drowsy snow]

THE Unreal Marketplace. Hub to many kind of assets.

[rocky crest]

I still can`t install UE4

I mean UE probably 5

[drowsy snow]

Please screenshot/give clear description of the issue. Just stopping in that will get you nowhere.

[drowsy snow]

I won't bother using UE5 given your hardware...

The new stuff, specifically Lumen and Nanite, require newer hardware anyway, so you won't gain much.