ue4-general

[fierce tulip]

I had to unwrap a multi-million polygon mountain range by hand in 3dsmax 5

after that you get a decent idea on how to unwrap stuff

[tender mountain]

Woah!!! That would have been crazy

[fierce tulip]

took me almost a month, and had quite some RSI-like pain afterwards <_<

not worth it

[drowsy snow]

And I was just started using 3ds Max 6, making asteroid rock go booooooom

That was mid 2000s when I was a little boy.

[tender mountain]

Woah!!! That's even more impressive!

[fierce tulip]

this is a good other example I did back in the day
https://i.imgur.com/x35CrnB.jpg
all by hand XD

[lavish shoal]

does anyone here know how to have a set strength for a physics handle? like, make it weaker for heavier objects

sorry to butt in

[tender mountain]

So 3DS 5 was like 20 years ago?

[fierce tulip]

close to

[drowsy snow]

Maybe get the mass and adjust the impulse? Though mass value in Unreal doesn't make much sense...

[lavish shoal]

thank you for a answer, im really new to ue4, ive only been programming my sandbox rpg for about 6 months

[tender mountain]

That's mad! I was screwing around with like 200 polygons back then LOL

[drowsy snow]

So it's like a Gmod clone?

[lavish shoal]

its more like fallout new vegas mixed with kenshi

its gonna be post apocalyptic with soulslike combat and a bunch of variable endings based on where you side

im learning how to use mixamo for animations now, we dont have a fulltime animator but i know how to use blender so i could figure it out

[drowsy snow]

Well, just be careful when using Mixamo, due to its rig incompatibilities with UE4 standard.

[lavish shoal]

the way i do it is I get the base animations i want, then blend them in ue4 using a blendspace2d and input vectors

[modest trench]

You can animate in engine as well with control rig and sequencer

[lavish shoal]

i was thinking of using a kinect and special software to do full body tracking, it doesnt have to be that accurate since im doing a low poly ps1 type game

[drowsy snow]

Granted, it could be worse...
cough MMD standard

[drowsy snow]

This

Though be warned that it may crash for a prolonged time (at least in 4.27, it still does on me)

[modest trench]

Works on my machine 😎

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, when it works, it gets overpowered.

[lavish shoal]

i'll look up how to do that, i like animating using blender due to having reference images

[modest trench]

Didn't test on 27 though

[drowsy snow]

Animating in Blender isn't bad, though I recommend animating with Mr Mannequin Tools to use the UE standard skeleton and avoiding the frustratingly unmaintained POS that is Rigify.

[modest trench]

You could probably import reference images to UE as well but it would probably be less convenient than blender

[drowsy snow]

It could work, still, with Editor Utility Widget showing the reference image that matches the Sequencer.

[lavish shoal]

i use rigify for everything, i make the player models using a wireframe and the skin modifier.

can i upload a picture of my model in this server?

[drowsy snow]

As long as you don't break any NDA (and safe for work), sure.

[lavish shoal]

its gonna take a minute to do so, i have to install 4.2.7 on my laptop

can i show you a shotgun i made?

i was trying to base it off of goldeneye 64's gun models

[drowsy snow]

Right, should you want more authentic look, I recommend this plugin
https://github.com/DaveFace/UnrealRetroShaders

I used this in my supposedly game jam project that fell through due to constant power failure, also sporting PS1 style graphics (akin to Vagrant Story)

[lavish shoal]

does it simulate floating point accuracy?

[modest trench]

Sheesh, do you need stuff to jitter around?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, floating point inaccuracy (or lack of FPU) included.

[modest trench]

Interesting

Does it just world position offset?

[lavish shoal]

ok, perfect. im a fan of that look. im basing the game's graphics after a combo of goldeneye 007 and tony hawk's pro skater

[drowsy snow]

Among other UV level tricks, IIRC

The edge vertex wobble might be WPO as well

[lavish shoal]

thats cool, im really happy and i plan on releasing the demo level of my game in december, its called saxturai

[drowsy snow]

Saxturai? Does it have jazz music? XD

[placid dragon]

This server is absolutely massive

[lavish shoal]

honestly, my old teammate came up with the name and i really dont know what else to call it

[drowsy snow]

Well, Sax -> Saxophone = Jazz

Probably the RPG set in some urban environment

[placid dragon]

Quick question, is it possible to program an emulator within the engine

[drowsy snow]

Yes, if you know C++.

[placid dragon]

👍

[lavish shoal]

it takes place 300 years in the future, basically the really rich people took all the fuel and left on generational spaceships, when you start the game earth has desended into tribalism and the rich people come back to take over what's your ancestor's land.

[placid dragon]

Do you think the engine could handle a ps3 emulator for android?

[drowsy snow]

So it's like Horizon Zero Dawn and a bit of Policenauts thrown in.

[lavish shoal]

i'm thinking there's some the outer worlds in there too

[drowsy snow]

Not even close. PS3 emulators still require high PC specs.

[placid dragon]

If it even works at all

[drowsy snow]

If it's along the line of retro console and arcade (preferrably before 3D), then it's doable in a puny average smartphone

[drowsy snow]

Haven't played Outer Worlds yet.

[placid dragon]

The graphics quality is at ps3 level however

So its only software limitation

[lavish shoal]

basically, the outer worlds is indentured servitude under capitalism, and we're gonna make everything operated by paid workers under the bad guys in my game, but they get brainwashed into never wanting to leave the company

[drowsy snow]

The problem is that you don't even need UE to serve as the emulator frontend - it's too bloated for that IMO. Retroarch do this kind of hard work, and I'm certain RPCS3 has libretro port anyway.

[placid dragon]

Rpcs3 cant even run gran turismo 5

But if there is a will there is a way

Ill look into making one from scratch

[drowsy snow]

And that way is contribute to RPCS3.

[drowsy snow]

Interesting 👀

[placid dragon]

I forgot, its open source right?

[drowsy snow]

Yep. Just give the project your helping hand.

[lavish shoal]

basically im going the programming in the project with my bf, and i have two of my other friends doing the story and worldbuilding and such.

[drowsy snow]

BTW what art style you're looking to achieve?

[lavish shoal]

oen sec, i think i might have footage of the game but idk

[drowsy snow]

Not necessarily the rendering style, but the artwork style in general.

[lavish shoal]

im opening the project now, itll be a minute

[drowsy snow]

While we're at it, you should redirect the showcase to #work-in-progress channel.

[hollow yoke]

I want to be able to send a dialogue system's data to the game mode so it can handle UI, choices, etc. I expect to use it across multiple game modes, though, so I'd like for the system to do stuff without worrying about which game mode is currently being used. Are components attached to a game mode the best approach for that?

Because I cannot find anything on the notion of using components with game mode

[drowsy snow]

If it's a single player game, Game Mode doesn't do anything special and you could go wild with it, but I won't put that kind of stuff to Game Mode.

I'd rather have it on a persistent object / singleton that handle quest logics.

[tender mountain]

Well VS just crashed at about 50% done 😦

[drowsy snow]

While I'm at it, I recommend this plugin that can do just that
https://github.com/MothCocoon/FlowGraph
https://youtu.be/BAqhccgKx_k

(The creator was part of Witcher 3 quest development)

[tender mountain]

I'm about to quit the idea of multiplayer and just make my game single player

[drowsy snow]

Singleplayer games are much easier to make. You don't have to worry about client-server and network replication crap.

[tender mountain]

Problem is it's an Esports game. LOL Single player Esports game?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, with bots.

And I play CS(GO) with bots more than actually in matchmaking.

[tender mountain]

That utterly destroys the entire core of my game concept

[hollow yoke]

I'm actually using Logic Driver Pro, in fact, lmao

[tender mountain]

Man maybe the crash was just a freak glitch. Maybe it will work now. Hope so

[plush yew]

Is it as good as others say?

Morning hoodie o/

[tender mountain]

Maybe I can make people compile their own servers? 😄

[drowsy snow]

Good evening to you. :3

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/shinya-shinyahiragi-wave-anime-wave-gif-21786124

[drowsy snow]

I mean, you could make people run their own community servers.

[plush yew]

I fixed pc btw

So I can get back to work

[hollow yoke]

It is pretty damn cool so far, it's documented pretty well too

[tender mountain]

Another crash

[plush yew]

thats good to know o.o

[drowsy snow]

Though I prefer to stick with the free stuff :P

[hollow yoke]

Any suggestions on how to do a singleton/persistent object, then?

I was able to get LDP on sale, fortunately, I didn't know about FlowGraph lmao

[drowsy snow]

Perhaps going with C++, or taking advantage of GameInstance to store variables/flags.

GameInstance is created upon starting the game application, survives through map change, and destroyed upon quit.

[tender mountain]

That sucks. Maybe I can make a listen server into a dedicated server by removing all the lighting?

[drowsy snow]

I also used GameInstance to serve as memory for save/load functionality.

[vapid cradle]

Hello, whats the best way to learn to work with unreal?

[hollow yoke]

I'll probably go with GameInstance then

[tender mountain]

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

[vapid cradle]

Thanks Mate

[tender mountain]

You can also watch all the Unreal videos on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUBobmJyzsJ6Ll7UbfhI4iwQ

[vapid cradle]

thanks i appreciate

[tender mountain]

I watched about 30% of them, on 2X speed

Some aren't relevant to what you need.

[vapid cradle]

Which would u say arent?

[tender mountain]

Others are like 2 minutes long

Just go through and watch any that you don't know about, or that are something you need to learn

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[vapid cradle]

Thx mate i appreciate it

[tender mountain]

Alan Willard
Wes Bunn
Zak Parrish.
Those guys are my fav

Zak is cool LOL

[drowsy snow]

Can't post that link often enough
Always learnt something new with the official courses.

[vapid cradle]

Thx mate

[tender mountain]

Well time to go

L8rs

[thorny pewter]

can any one help me with this error ? trying to fix it 5 days already or smth 😦

i get it when i package anything for android

i reinstalled windows 5 times already or smth and watched lots of videos but none fixed my error 😦

or can any one tell me what other thing i need to install beside unreal engine ? and i will reinstall windows again

[drowsy snow]

Try asking on #mobile

[thorny pewter]

oh thx sry if im in wrong place 🙂 will go there

[drowsy snow]

The channel is dedicated for mobile porting, so they should know better about it.

[still atlas]

anyone have any idea what might cause a character's velocity to get messed up if it touches another moving actor while jumping? i still can't figure out if this is a physics issue or something wrong with my actor/mesh or what

[nocturne tangle]

mmmh

Im having a rather odd issue

I cant seem to duplicate an animation track in the sequencer

when I hit ctrl-d the animation track just disappears

nvm

[dusty cypress]

Man i love the engine, i wish some day a random mysterious person will drop a high end dev pc with atleast one rtx3090 at my door without a reason, so I can start real time rendering stuff

[vapid cradle]

xD i wish same xD

[dusty cypress]

😄

[vapid cradle]

but yeah first need to learn all things with unreal 😁

[dusty cypress]

true, i guess we will never stop learning lol

[vapid cradle]

the thing is im completely new to it all

[nocturne tangle]

mmh

how come it says its been saved yesterday

when I just saved it just now lol

[dusty cypress]

well dont give up, the beginning is the hardest time, but after some months u can do so much stuff alreday (in case u dont stop learning)

[vapid cradle]

what was ur first porjekt?

projekt*

[dusty cypress]

a level

[dusty cypress]

the .umap? well i guess it had no need to change itself, just open with a text editor and u will see there is not much info inside which could change on a save

it will change for example if u activate plugins for the project

[nocturne tangle]

ahh

well whats also weird is that im not getting auto save confirmation messages

and i just crashed 5 minutes ago...

[vapid cradle]

if i start on unreal can i just make a phone game too with it?

[velvet haven]

Hi so I’m wanting to buy these character models on unreal engine but it doesn’t show if I put steam vr support on but I thought that wouldn’t matter since you have to code it to your wanted movements if it was in vr can anyone please help me out don’t really wanna risk buying if it doesn’t work for vr

[drowsy snow]

Yes.
There's already quite a few Unreal Engine 4 mobile games out there, including Fortnite.

[vapid cradle]

But is it good to start with smth like that or is it better to start with an pc game?

[dusty cypress]

but i would start with a pc game so u can easier learn basic stuff like packaging

[vapid cradle]

packaging?

[drowsy snow]

PC game first, so you don't have to worry about mobile limitations yet.

[dusty cypress]

have u checked if autosave is on Editor Preferences / General / Loading & Saving

[vapid cradle]

Whats that 😅

[dusty cypress]

yes, simple that means compiling the game and packaging it together so u can give it to a friend (without him having to install the Editor)

[vapid cradle]

ohhh

and on pc i dont have to do that?

rn im just looking at the finished templates unreal gives me to get an idea how i do what and what type of game i wanna make

[dusty cypress]

sure u have to do that on every platform, but as TheHoodieGuy_CtrlRig already mentioned there is a lot more to think of when you release a game for mobile, so that would be a harder way to start

[warm hornet]

I need to install Unreal at a location where I will not have internet. Is this even possible? Is it possible to simply copy an existing Windows install from my Programs folder? Or are there other dependencies needed?

[drowsy snow]

You could copy the entire engine folder, and run UE4Editor.exe (or UnrealEditor.exe for UE5)

[dusty cypress]

yes, with the source code it should work without a problem, with the normal Engine Version it will be harder, check out here: https://chowdera.com/2020/12/20201222144933175o.html

[vapid cradle]

How do i delete a project?

nvm got it

So on blender i can make designs for a game right? Do i need to look on aynthing special?

[exotic thicket]

the UE plugin for it is helpful but not required

[dusty cypress]

yes

or import it as fbx into the engine

there are some good tutorials on yt

[vapid cradle]

How can i make smth like light?

[dusty cypress]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LightingAndShadows/

i would suggest u to do a tutorial, which covers all the basics

[drowsy snow]

Not meant to be rude, but I think you should take the time to check out on the course I linked above (or in the pinned message)

[vapid cradle]

ok thx

[drowsy snow]

Look for the basics on working with the editor and how to put things in the map.

[nocturne tangle]

@dusty cypress

[brittle plume]

Hey folks I made a listen server, now I would like to know the procedure to enter from distant computers... between me and me it works, via IP

[dusty cypress]

its enabled for 1 minute. If it doesnt autosave then there has probably nothing changed

[nocturne tangle]

ahhhhhhhhhh

[lusty jungle]

Hey everyone! Absolutely new to unreal engine so i joined this to learn!
Hope ya'll are having a good day 😄

[dusty cypress]

listen server, what u want is probably a dedicated server: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Networking/HowTo/DedicatedServers/

[dusty cypress]

welcome

[lusty jungle]

Thanks! 😄

[brittle plume]

I know what I want and the dedicated servers are external and paid for, unless I have to open the ports of my modem, so I was thinking something with Hamachi or other software

[dusty cypress]

well setting up a server at home is harder with port forwarding and some provider even block that, but it could be easier with private VPNs like hamachi, only every client has to install it.

[pure sorrel]

Whats is some process programmers go through to inplement a game mechanic.

[brittle plume]

I know it's not a problem, but now I'm trying with a person who has hamachi and is inside my network ... but it doesn't work.

[dusty cypress]

have u searched google already for it

[cyan jolt]

Hi guys! I have a little issue with the new ChaosCacheManager, maybe it's a general issue, I'm not sure... I try to drag and drop a component to the "component ref" in the ChaosCacheManager:

This also does not work for me in UE4 so I think it's a general issue... please help?

[nocturne tangle]

weird

i did changes

still no message

[drowsy snow]

Try asking in #legacy-physics, someone might use Chaos in there.

To be fair, Chaos is still not production ready at the moment.

[cyan jolt]

Thanks for the reply, I think it's a more general issue I have, because I don't know how to drag and drop a component to the parent actor without changing the detail tab. There is no lock symbol for this... did anyone tried this before?

[split delta]

@plush yew Would you be able to add me or open your DM? You’ve messaged me and it won’t let me message you back 😅

[cyan jolt]

Somehow the UE team managed to drag and drop this in the "ValleyOfTheAcient" and I like to know how... maybe this is just too simple so I can't figure it out 😉

[nocturne tangle]

@dusty cypress

fkkkk

[dusty cypress]

@nocturne tanglewdym

[nocturne tangle]

last save was 2 hours ago

even tho auto save settings were on....

but i remember i clicked postponed once to the auto save message

oh wait

tf

the mesage just appeared

😕

[dusty cypress]

dont just wait for the autosave, if u did something important u can just do a CTRL+Shift+S which is the same as if u click the Save all Button in the Content Browser

Also u see what changes are to the previous version which is sometimes useful

[normal forge]

Is there channel on this server where I can see things made by comminity? (Show of your stuff)

[fierce tulip]

#work-in-progress and #released mainly.

[nocturne tangle]

anybody know how i can loop this

both characters and animations have root bones

[flat jacinth]

I’m making titanfall 3 on a budget cause respawn won’t lol

[vapid cradle]

xD

[dusty cypress]

I'm making Halo Infinite because my Windows 7 cant run it.

[toxic lily]

does anyone know what causes this? when i assign this mesh the UE4 skeleton which i made sure is lined up and correctly named and has all the proper bones and bone placement, the character doesn't adhere to it as it should,

shows fine in the viewer

[dusty cypress]

i guess on the top image an animation/pose is active and below its just the bind pose of the mesh itself

[toxic lily]

yep, i see it

man i have no idea what is causing that

[dusty cypress]

what happens if u open the animation directly with the mesh as preview

is the mesh correctly animated

[toxic lily]

issue seems to be when i assigned it the ue4 skeleton

the skeleton i made with it seems to retarget just fine to the animations

[dusty cypress]

is it build on the ue4 skeleton

if it comes with an own skeleton u need to retarget

[toxic lily]

alright hang on

i did retarget but ill try again, might have missed something

[dusty cypress]

did u also retargeted the animations

[hidden oxide]

Hey uh, so I updated to Windows 11 and now the Megascans plugin isn't detected anymore. Quixel bridge thinks it's still installed, and I can't tell it that it's not (I deleted the plugin).

[dusty cypress]

good point @toxic lily this is how i have set it

[toxic lily]

thats how i got it set up as well

[dusty cypress]

have u retargeted the animations aswell

[toxic lily]

i did, however taht causes a seperate issue, when i retarget the blendspaces and such, in game it appears skewed

like this

dont know if it helps but using the TPTR marketplace asset

which has its own blend spaes and such set up

[woven elk]

Noob question. Can UE4 be render as good looking as UE5 Lumen? The global illumination and real reflection?

[cyan jolt]

Hi, I solved my problem, I looked at the copy paste text from the example scene, rewrote it for my scene and it worked! 🙂

[woven widget]

When I sculpt my landscape it freezes about 5 min per click. I've tried unclicking Generate Mesh Distance Fields and Generate Landscape Real-Time GI Data. Also turned off Draw Nav Mesh Edges and Nav Mesh Auto Generation. I've been looking everywhere online and was wondering if anyone knows how to fix it?

[rancid lagoon]

might just be your computer. idk try restarting????

[cerulean geyser]

I've set up my skeletal mesh and actor bp to be replicated, but the ragdoll still isn't being replicated in multiplayer (basically the BP is just that a ragdoll). Any ideas what I'm missing?

[wintry hemlock]

Hello all. I'm having issues getting "AI MoveTo" to work but "Simple Move to Location" works fine. I want to access an event after movement, which Simple does not have. I would prefer to use AI MoveTo but it isn't working for me after many tries. Nav mesh is there when I press P. Here is image of my nodes. For output i'm seeing "Execute - Success" but no movement. Any ideas???

[trim mantle]

Does you pawn have AI controller assigned?

[wintry hemlock]

I'm getting location from "Break Hit Result" node which worked fine for Simple Move to Locaation

And yes it has an AI controller

I have tried both the default and using my own

I should mention it is a character and not a pawn

[trim mantle]

Are the characters spawned or placed in level?

[wintry hemlock]

I have tried both and changed "Auto Possess AI" to "Placed in World or Spawned"

[grim ore]

have you verified your destination is a valid location to move to?

[wintry hemlock]

Well it works for Simple Move to Location. How do you suggest to validate?

I actually followed your tutorial for this haha

[grim ore]

print out the location that you pass in to see if its good, or drop a cube in the world or something else that you know is a good spot to get to and go to that as the target actor

[wintry hemlock]

Ok so try target actor instead of location? just for testing?

I'll let you know

[grim ore]

yeah but your code seems fine, as long as this is in your AI pawn

[wintry hemlock]

It is, but i should mention it is a character class. Does that matter?

[grim ore]

characters are pawns, so they are fine

[wintry hemlock]

Cool

[ocean mauve]

For some reason, the UI keeps disappearing, it makes no sense (sorry for shitty recording, if I record with OBS it appears while in my screen it doesn't) any fix or something? Or am I just fucked?

[grim ore]

the default third person works out of the box with your code, just the AI Move To and the default classes, so yours should be good

[wintry hemlock]

Haha I tried that while following your tutorial..no luck in that project either

I'm in Unreal 5 as well

[grim ore]

check the pinned messages and look for the nvidia flickering @ocean mauve

[ocean mauve]

thank you <3

[wintry hemlock]

@grim ore I haven't done move to actor yet because I'm still figuring out how to reference the cube from the player controller easily. However, I noticed when I place that the nav mesh disappears around it. Could this be happening to placed characters and they are stuck on an island?

They didn't move to target cube either...

[grim ore]

welp 5 shouldnt be the issue, new TPP template in 5, copied the TPP character and its begin play is just AI move to 0,0,0 and it worked fine after I added a nav mesh

it could be but you would see the island around them when you place them

[wintry hemlock]

Ok interesting I will try anther sample project. Ok yea possible I see that when placed but not when spawned.

[grim ore]

and the fact that the simple move works means your nav mesh should be good

is this an issue with a spawned one or a placed one?

[wintry hemlock]

Right that makes sense

Both

[grim ore]

yep but the fact simple works...

my only thought was it cant get to that location you are passing in, perhaps passing in a bad location, but if you swap for a simple move in that same code and it works... 😦

[wintry hemlock]

Yea i thought it could be a bad location too. I even tried adjusting the vector z up and down a bit. The location is the hit target on the floor from click. It works for Simple as we said but not for AI MoveTo at the moment.

[grim ore]

yep heres my code in the template and it works for whichever I have plugged in

and the only thing I can think of regarding the sudden success is normally when it cant find a location or it immediately finds one and its there, but that cant be the case if simple move moves it

[drowsy snow]

Yes. SSGI and Light Propagation Volume.

[dense knoll]

UE4 isnt allowing me to create any C++ classes

[smoky hull]

why is the performance worse in 4.26?

[grim ore]

@dense knollhit it? we cant give any suggestions we dont know what error you are getting

[dense knoll]

nvm

just needed to manually add it

[smoky hull]

ive read this

[dense knoll]

If the "New C++ class" Option does not show up in the add/import button then just go to file and create new C++ Class

[smoky hull]

so bizarre

[dense knoll]

that fixs this

[grim ore]

yes it was a change recently, you can only add C++ in the C++ portion of the content browser now, or in the top menus

[potent bridge]

So I'm having an issue here, I'm trying to use an animation montage for one of my attacks, but it seems to completely ignore the animation root motion. (Even though I have it ticked.) Anyone know what might be up with that?

(No, I have not fixed this 2 minutes after posting this time, been at it for a while.)

fixed it, but danm that took some tinkering with the animation itself.

[carmine portal]

what's better (performance wise) for something that constantly checks for interactables? a multi sphere trace on tick or a capsule collision component?

[modest trench]

almost certainly trace on tick

[carmine portal]

good to know, thank you

[woven widget]

I figured it out. If you ever run into the same issue here is a link to the solution: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/4-25-landscape-scultping-is-broken/145099/2

[rancid lagoon]

good to know

[wintry temple]

I have a problem with the flat base for floor check. It's not working, when the character is crouch-jumping onto something. Is that normal?

[placid dragon]

@coral shoal nice pic dude

[split delta]

How can I make my BP project a C++ project?

[wary wave]

add a C++ class from the editor file menu

[radiant fable]

if i create a scene component blueprint how do i drag and drop it into my level?

[plush yew]

Huh

Try typing it in the upper left hand corner

if not then either your not using the right tool for what you want

[sharp crest]

I NEED SOMEONE TO MAKE A PLUGIN TO FIND ALL CONNECTED PRINT STRING NODES PLEASE

my game is filled with debug print logs everywhere, and only like 10% of them are connected, it would take forever to go over all to find the connected ones

[fierce tulip]

iirc there is a search function in blueprints showing nodes used.

used it once

[wary wave]

I always put bools in the game mode, so you can easily toggle whole sets of print strings on/off

[plush yew]

you atually have to click on the magnify glass

do timelines after a for each loop work? or am I being stupid?

[agile heart]

anyone know how to add a muzzle flash to this character? the gun doesn't have it's own blueprint and that confuses me

[plush yew]

just add a particle emitter to the firing animation

[prime willow]

can you make an instance of a skeleton mesh

the same way you make an instant of a material shader?

[plush yew]

you can have another mesh copy animation instance though a blueprint node but a temporary instance of a skeleton

[lusty jungle]

So im playing around with splines and a road generator tool, however whenever i paint a spline line once i let go off the mouse button the arrows for that line turn around? Super hard to explain, anyone knows what this could be about?

Basically it's like im not making a longer spline but its reconnecting with the beginning of it?

[burnt tinsel]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-make-scenecapture2d-not-show-clouds/255937

help please

[sick patio]

If I want a doorman to "see" the player and turn to him and wave, and say his name. I do that with AI or jus trigger boxes?

[plush yew]

you can do that with a blend space taking character height into the equation too

[dense knoll]

UE4 isnt showing my C++ classes

[zinc shore]

how can i get a characters velocity in e certain direction so if my player is moving sideways how can i get the velocity of its local side direction

[tender mountain]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Transformation/GetVelocity/

This maybe?

[zinc shore]

it gets the velocity but its global so if my charater is rotated 45 degrees and moves sideways it wont be the sideways velocity to the caharater

[tender mountain]

I think you have to De-rotate the velocity by the pawn's rotation. That's what forums seem to be saying. Could be wrong though

Can't find a BP example

[sick patio]

you talking to me?

[zinc shore]

ok looks like this is what i need https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/32333/view.html

yep the method used worked

[tender mountain]

Cool 😄

[zinc shore]

how could i go about tilting the camera based on how fast the player rotates like how it dose in quake

[tender mountain]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/29456/tilting-a-first-person-controlled-camera.html

Maybe that?

[plush yew]

Ya like if you get the capsule half height of an actor character which they all have you can add that to the verticle part of your blend space and then use whatever for the horizontal staring ( i would use get look at rotation )

[stark gyro]

hey guys im not sure where to ask this but i have a very basic plan for a game that im wanting to create. I am looking for 1 other person to help create it with me. preferablly someone with 3d experience but it doesnt really matter just shoot me a dm

[sharp crest]

ahh how where?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/Search/

cant find it here

maybe IsReference filter?

either I cant figure out how to use that or it's not it

[narrow loom]

hi

does anyone know a good flight system for iron man?
for my gaem

[tender mountain]

I saw this: https://youtu.be/A8gTWv3QjQ4

[storm portal]

since theres a ton of versions for unreal. is there any benefit on using 4.27 being new to this?

or should i use something like 4.25/26?

[tender mountain]

Benefit = being up to date on everything that's new. Not missing out on options. Downside may be some incompatibilities with older tutorials. I'm trying to use the latest at all times

[storm portal]

Yeah im following unrealsensei's beginner tutorial right now and missing some things but it dosnt seem like its that big of a deal right now

Any other resources you would recommend looking in to for someone starting out?

[tender mountain]

Question: Visual Studio, Startup Projects dropdown menu. Select Unreal Build Tool?

[tender mountain]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't really matter. You should select one project from the Solution Explorer.

[tender mountain]

So I could have GitDependancies selected next to "Win64" and it will still work?

[drowsy snow]

You don't even use the top bar, aside from setting the build config. You would build UE4 project in the Solution Explorer and right click on it.

[tender mountain]

I have anxiety LOL

Like "Oh God what if I screw something up? Should I check for the 10th time? Just click it. CLICK IT!!! But.... CLICK IT!!!"

Alright time to bite the bullet again. Hopefully it won't explode again. I think I'll shut down everything just in case. Discord and browser windows.

Cross my fingers.

Throw salt over my shoulder.

LOL

Alright last chance.

[dreamy sleet]

Hey what kind of game should I make

[plush yew]

Umm

Something worth your time

[stone edge]

I'm going through "Materials for design viz" course on Learning Portal and I can't get same results in creating material, and why are my textures red and instructor's white

when he selects the UE4 Logo texture it's sampler type is Color for him but I get linear color and when I try to change to Color I get error

[vapid cradle]

Who else is just a beginner and still completely confused, and doing the tutorials?

[stone edge]

yeah

lets just take it slow mate

[eager prairie]

Has anyone got the confirmation email for completing all of the courses in the ninja event? I've only got two so far but on the platform I have every badge.

[worthy bronze]

If anyone has experience, how hard is it to rename a project?

it's currently called OldGameName.uproject and I want to rename it to NewGameName.uproject

I've found an old tutorial but I don't think it's still up to date

and I don't know what gotchas to expect

[drowsy snow]

If it's a BP only project, it's as easy as renaming the .uproject file.

C++ project is a lot more involving.

[worthy bronze]

it is a C++ project I'm afraid

[drowsy snow]

https://unrealistic.dev/posts/rename-your-project-including-code

[worthy bronze]

Thanks, I'll use that and hope for the best. Worst case scenario, I still have git to cover me

[crystal echo]

I just started UE4, I only had some little experience on GoldSRC / Source with JACK and Hammer++, I feel really dumb

I read documentation but still feel really really bad :D. I guess I'll need to relearn a lot of stuff

[vapid cradle]

same as me

[crystal echo]

I'm not even able to cut a brush in two pieces

https://tenor.com/view/homer-brain-monkey-gif-11098413

[vapid cradle]

https://tenor.com/view/buzz-lightyear-no-sign-of-intelligent-life-dumb-toy-story-gif-11489315

[drowsy snow]

UE4 discourages using BSP brushes to make actual, final levels.

[crystal echo]

UE4 prefer stuff as Blender...?

Seems to be good advice: https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums/unreal-tournament-development/ut-development-level-design/learning-level-design/8604-how-to-clip-a-brush?p=176011#post176011

I guess that's what you were meaning @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Yes, static meshes are arguably more easy on performance than BSP brushes.

[crystal echo]

Why life is a painful journey of learning ?

[drowsy snow]

Source 1 engine was so ancient and not updated much since 2004, that BSP, counterintuitively, more performant than static meshes.

Last time Unreal get away with BSP is with UE2.

[vapid cradle]

What exaclty is BSP?

[crystal echo]

Yeah, sure. GoldSRC/Source are simplier (and so easier) on some things. But UE4 brings so much new and awesome stuff

the viewport allowing you to see your light in real time and such is nice for example.

[drowsy snow]

Binary Space Partitioning. Basically ye olde way of rendering level planes.

[vapid cradle]

thx

[drowsy snow]

Boomer shooter mappers are no stranger to whole BSP to build map, going as far back as Doom (1993) where the technique was first developed, out of necessity.

[crystal echo]

am I a boomer ? Damn

30 and already a boomer

[drowsy snow]

Back then 3D accelerators were rarity, and CPUs at the time are terrible for actually displaying polygonal 3D stuff for game purposes.

Thus, BSP was used to render 3D level geometries, which are faster to render on PC CPUs.

[crystal echo]

Stupid question then...

[drowsy snow]

I used to make (shitty) Doom maps as a kid, so it's kind of familiar to me lol.

[crystal echo]

If I want to cut a wall brush, in 3. In editing mod, what would be the best way to achieve it ? I only manage to rescale or move it around, but the few options below editing mode button allow me select, cut the geometry into two pieces (which doesn't seems to do what I want ?), create new geometry etc. I'm kind of very confuse.

Shoud I create a new brush according to the size I need ?

the link I posted below, I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do.

(I guess I've quickly reached the point where I don't understand how to do stuff and need to watch some videos)

[drowsy snow]

Is this even a thing?

[plush yew]

can i use ue4 to open an app?

(sorry i meant .exe file)

[honest vale]

why would you want to do that @plush yew?

and no, you can't

the operating system opens executables

[plush yew]

i want to have a 'main screen' like a desktop with icons that opens apps

[honest vale]

do that in UMG

[plush yew]

also i know i can do that by coding stuff but i dont want to learn how to ccode

[honest vale]

then you can't make a game if you don't want to learn how to code

[plush yew]

too late

blueprints are all you need

[honest vale]

blueprints = coding

it's just boxes and wires instead of text

[plush yew]

yeah but other coding languages dont have blueprints

yeah but its a very diffrent way

[honest vale]

either way you need to create the fake desktop with icons yourself somehow in game

one option is with UMG

[plush yew]

i might just make each software individually in ue and then find a way to string them together

or is there a way i can intergrate eg. netflix into code with just python

[fluid lance]

is there any console command to list (or check, or get) valid actors?

[drowsy snow]

<@&213101288538374145>

[honest vale]

lol

[drowsy snow]

You have a fancy dream, I give you that. But the naive unknowing gives you no advantages whatsoever.

First off, Python is too slow for game scripting. Unreal Engine only use Python for editor scripting, not for runtime purposes.

Second, to run another app from UE, you need to use a C++ function that has lower level access, including calling the OS to run another process. Blueprint can only go high level.

Third, since C++ is required for that kind of stuff, might as well configure your project build to just use Core and Slate modules. I'm sure you don't need any viewport capabilities. Or just go for pure C++ and Win32 API.

[plush yew]

probably just as naive but, c++? i heard that you can integrate c++ into ue

[drowsy snow]

Well, duh, Unreal Engine is built with C++ (pedantically there are C# bits, but it's just for .NET Framework and Build Tool stuff)

Google-fu'd, said it was last public in 2014

[stone edge]

anyone else get right click and drop down menu bug after awhile the editor is running

[drowsy snow]

Downgrade the driver, if you're using NVIDIA GPU.

[stiff gazelle]

Which unreal engine version Would you recommend to me 5/4.27/ 4.26 or 4.25

[drowsy snow]

4.27

[stone edge]

I cant get any blueprint stuff to work no matter how many times I watch the tutorial video and do it from scratch

[patent cobalt]

@stone edgewhich "stuff"?

[stiff gazelle]

Thanks for your Responses @plush yew and @drowsy snow
But Why exactly this version

[patent cobalt]

In general because it is the latest stable release. The others are old or not yet released.

[pure sorrel]

why this letters are white UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("This is an warning!"));

logtemp

and warnin

[stone edge]

This is Creating PBR Materials course on UE learning portal, section on dynamic material instances

The Object doesnt change color on click, but does change the texture on play

[patent cobalt]

@stone edgedo you know how to debug Blueprints?

[stone edge]

no idea

[patent cobalt]

ok, so if I look at your top screenshot

there are two events, the red nodes on the left

one is Begin Play, that event is triggered by the engine when you press the Play button in the editor and your game starts to play

the other one called ChangeColor_Event is triggered somewhere else

since that event controls the change in color, either it is not triggered, so it never executes or it does execute but there is something wrong either with the Color out of it or with the way you set the Color for the dynamic material instance

so step 1. you need to check that the ChangeColor_Event is actually being triggered

how do you do it? You place a Print String after it and write in it "ChangeColor_Event Triggered!"

if that event is actually triggered, that message will appear in the viewport in its top left angle

[stone edge]

yeah that works

[patent cobalt]

ok, so the ChangeColor_Event is being triggered, which means the problem is either with the Color or with the Set Vector Parameter Value

[stone edge]

ahh

[patent cobalt]

you can add another Print String to print the color

found the issue?

[stone edge]

Yeah, in the material instance itself was a switch for color which was not on

I didnt remember about it , and the instructor never referred to it again

[patent cobalt]

ok good, so that was the problem

but now you know a bit better how to debug the code logic

[stone edge]

thank you a ton sir

[patent cobalt]

you are welcome

I suggest you also take the basic course about Blueprints, which is also on learn.unrealengine.com

[pure sorrel]

Somebody know why iam nothing getting extra hightlight in the ide for specific words

the code executes but it still would be usefull

[patent cobalt]

@pure sorrelwhich IDE?

Visual Studio?

[pure sorrel]

visual studio 2019

[patent cobalt]

Visual Studio doesn't fully understand the Unreal reflection system, so sometimes parts of the code may look weird

Was it about the UE_LOG?

[pure sorrel]

yes

some words stay white

[patent cobalt]

screenshot?

This is how it looks for me

Keep in mind that if you are working on your own game module the syntax highlighting may look weird until you compile and UHT/UBT are run on your code.

[tender mountain]

With it being so much of a nightmare to create a dedicated server for a low requirement game, is it better to just run a listen server as a dedicated server instead? Players could run maybe 5 copies of the game without a performance hit so why use a dedicated server?

[patent cobalt]

@pure sorrelit may be that the source code scanner is still running in the background

Looks like this ^^^^ for me

@tender mountain a dedicated server is by definition a headless machine and has no client side running on it. A listen server is a combined server/client.

Which way to go depends on what you are trying to achieve. If it is just a proof of concept or a commercial application.

[tender mountain]

Yeah I'm just thinking, even if it's a commercial version. Say I use like Amazon Servers or whatever and chuck a listen server on there. Who's gonna know the difference? They still join it via an IP like a dedicated server.

[patent cobalt]

You will still have all the overhead of the client side and you will have to handle the fact that this client is a fake one

It doesn’t take much effort to compile a dedicated server, but up to you

[tender mountain]

It's just holding up my entire game development process. Compiling a server each time takes ages. I've lost a week of development time already because of it.

[vagrant charm]

Is there any way to add a custom viewing mode to the viewport e.g. suppose there wasn't already a grid option in the viewport - would there be a way to implement that myself and then add it the 'Show Flags' menu in a plugin?

I can't find anything by googling, but I'm not sure I'm typing the right thing in. I'd appreciate if someone could point me to some documentation.

[tender mountain]

Runtime or editor?

[vagrant charm]

Just the editor

[tender mountain]

You can create stuff for the editor. I remember seeing them do something like that. It was like a function for the editor where they then used it to make things. Like making a foliage brush. Or like a spline thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Jd3HhADCU

You can make plugins too

[vagrant charm]

Thanks, I'll take a look!

[tender mountain]

But they may be a bit overkill

[pure sorrel]

how do i change the ide again in unreal

[patent cobalt]

Editor preferences —> search for Source Code Editor

[tender mountain]

Man it's gonna take like days to compile my dedicated server when it comes to that time. Maybe I should do a listen server and then when it comes to shipping, convert it over to dedicated. That should be super easy right?

[pure sorrel]

changed my ide to rider

rider for unreal

[tender mountain]

Should I prototype with listen server and then when it comes to shipping, convert it over to dedicated? That should be super easy to convert right?

[pure sorrel]

c++ so syntax dirty

pointers i already get confused as f*ck

what does the %s in text("%s") means

[patent cobalt]

It’s a string placeholder. It will be replaced by the string variable which follows in the arguments. See the printf() syntax.

C++ is not the easiest language but it is extremely logical. Despite having been around for 35+ years is still going strong. I may be biased because I grew up with it. 😉

[prime willow]

that's exactly why i ask it would be a game changer :3

[tacit onyx]

Google is failing hard on me today. How do I add languages for preview in editor settings? Displays empty with nothing selectable.

[drowsy snow]

I can't even think of the purpose for instanced skelmesh assets...

[prime willow]

so i can have a absolute crud ton of morph options

but only deal with the loading of one mesh

which means 120fps easy >O>

[drowsy snow]

IIRC it was in the Localisation Dashboard.

[tacit onyx]

I have cultures added there. It's not showing up in the dropdowns though.

[drowsy snow]

You could make your skelmesh share the same morph target names, and if they're under the same skeleton, you should be able to control them in one anim BP / Control Rig asset.

[drowsy snow]

Not sure how I got mine working. Maybe restarting the editor?

[tacit onyx]

Have a few times.

[drowsy snow]

Had to check on my project later then, see what I did to make it work.

[tacit onyx]

I love how there's a doc on this. "Oh, and you can change the preview language here using this dropdown!"

Even in the doc, it's empty, set to none. 😄

[stark raptor]

hi guys, I wanted to make a phone app, which consists of crossover. there are three cars, you decide the starting order .. 1, 2, 3 click on start and the cars start; if the order is right the machines pass without problems, if the order is wrong the machines collide and restart the level .. do you have any idea which engine or what language I should use? and if you can give me a code example from which I can take inspiration

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow what should i do if trying to delete a group of folders which used to take a few moments

now takes nearly 10+ minutes and it just keeps stalling until crashed

granted my new SSd is twice as fast as the one in just installed

so it should technically be even faster than a few moments ._.

[drowsy snow]

Well, you could nuke the folders as a last resort.

[prime willow]

true

i tried uninstalling my security software

im hoping thatll make a huge change in how this is being handled

the thing is deleting 1 folder still takes a mere moment

but group deleting slows down and im concerned this could have further implecations

I think it was my security

[nocturne tangle]

anyone know how i can get rid of the camera preview

i know you can but everytime i click on the camera it comes back

[pallid carbon]

Hi guys, im wondering if you could help me. Myself and a friend are trying to create and edit a project at the same time. I've seen a lot about this multi user editing, however there's no really clear tutorial on how to set this up. I've read that i need to use git hub, and from what ive gathered of it, we both need to have a copy of the same project on each computer? If someone knows how to work this and could walk me through it, i'd really appreciate it 🙂

[eager prairie]

@ashen brook someone trying to scam

[wary wave]

<@&213101288538374145>

[tacit onyx]

@drowsy snow Never mind on the localization issue. Didn't realize I needed to compile them first before they would show there. Assumed I was missing a flag setting somewhere. Literally went and read source code to figure that out. Have to love Epic Docs.

[drowsy snow]

Use source control, thanks.

[pallid carbon]

Yea sadly that doesn't really help me at all

[wary wave]

I'm not sure GitHub has anything to do with multi-user editing at all?

GitHub is a site offering version control control repositories

[drowsy snow]

So contribution and collab work is now not a thing anymore in source control? Got it.

[wary wave]

multi-user editing is an editor feature

it is not related to version control

@pallid carbon: the official docs seem to have a pretty comprehensive guide?
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/MultiUserEditing/QuickStart/

[full estuary]

Hi 🙂 new here just getting in to Unreal Engine 5, quick question if that's ok, I am making my first scene, I used the 3rd person blueprint to start with, can someone point me to a tutorial or something to show me how to get the mannequin to walk rather than run when I press the play button to move around my scene? thanks for any help

[drowsy snow]

Reduce the max walking speed in yout third person BP.

[pallid carbon]

This is what i was looking at, and referring to with the git hub

[cedar wave]

for some reason
Because they're human?

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: Casually_worrying#5194 was banned.

[wary wave]

@pallid carbon - basically all you have to do is enable the plugin, make sure everyone has the same copy of the project (which is where version control would come in very useful, then follow the rest of the instructions

[cedar wave]

Uhhh - no, they're all volunteers.

[regal mulch]

For some reason??? Dude it's weekend. I have better things to do than banning bots. That goes for everyone here.

My goodness

[pallid carbon]

Yea, it's just the setting up the version control that's confusing me a little. It's all still very foreign to me

[full estuary]

that's where I am falling down I have no idea what to do when I open the BP

[wary wave]

setting up version control is a whole other thing - I would recommend Perforce personally, but other options are popular including SVN (with Tortoise) client, or Git

[cedar wave]

Please don't use UE5 if you don't know what you're doing in Unreal. UE4 is perfectly fine.

[wary wave]

#source-control folks in this channel can help you with source control questions

[cedar wave]

Concepts will transfer and you'll be able to follow tutorials more easily

[wary wave]

but source control is not strictly required for multi-user editing

[drowsy snow]

Start with the Class Defaults first, and search for Max Walk Speed.

I don't know if they change the damn var name in UE5, but it shouldn't.

[pallid carbon]

Right okay. So just to clarify, both parties need to have a copy of the same project, before they can start editing together. And after every session, it needs to be saved and the both parties need to make sure they have the same up to date copy of the project again?

[wary wave]

yup

[pallid carbon]

Okay, thank you. That's cleared it up a little bit for me 🙂

[wary wave]

I would still definitely set up source control - it's the only practical way of making sure everyone has their projects in synch and up to date

[pallid carbon]

Now time to figure out how to setup source control efficiently

[pure sorrel]

@patent cobalt my understanding between * pointers and ->pointers is that* is pointing towards variables within the class and the other one more globally outside of classes?

[full estuary]

The Course I am doing uses UE5, it doesn't tell you how to make it walk because it's not about animation and it's not a problem i just wondered if there was an easy way to stop the mannequin running cos I'd prefer it to walk

[drowsy snow]

@full estuary Have you looked for this?

[full estuary]

yeah when I type Max Walk speed there's nothing in the search, it's ok i didn't want to bother you guys just thought there might be an easy way but i will learn it later i guess

updating 4 to see if my project will open

[patent cobalt]

@pure sorrel pointer->member is short for (*pointer).member and it is used to access the members of the instance of the class the pointer points to

I suggest you get on YouTube and follow one of the many intros to C++ for Unreal Engine

[pure sorrel]

Actually iam right now

[drowsy snow]

I don't really mind you using UE5, you take your own risk. But few of us here and frankly many other tutorials out there still sticking with UE4 and there's yet to be a comprehensive list of more minor differences to UE5.

[plush yew]

walk speed would have to be pulled off your character movement component which is attached to a character actor

[full estuary]

as I said it's only because the course I bought specifically uses UE5 I will get to the animation part lol UE5 will probably be released by the time I get to Character animation, I understand UE5 is in development i come from the Blender Discords and am always telling people to stay away from Blender 3 and if the course wasn't UE5 specific i would have started with UE4

[drowsy snow]

Let me guess, Udemy?

[full estuary]

lol yes the Wild West Scene

[drowsy snow]

I already have suspicions on Udemy. They got bad rep lately, for rather questionable courses.

I think not even the official Unreal Online Learning courses (which is free) tackle UE5 stuff just yet.

Aside from that one course about migrating UE4 project to UE5, that's as far as UE5 course goes in the official one.

[full estuary]

as i say I'm just dipping my toe in to see how thing go and I've done a lot of Udemy Blender Courses over the years and learned a lot from them

[drowsy snow]

Also, check the pinned messages - I already post the link to the official Unreal Online Learning courses. It's free, and quite comprehensive. There's always something new to learn there.

[full estuary]

Thanks for your help 🙂 I shall look through them 🙂

[drowsy snow]

But then we have yet to make more comprehensive list of more minute changes in UE5, specifically on the editor's navigations, that newcomers having hard time to improvise from already established UE4 tuts.

[sinful grail]

Hey, im going to start working with Unreal more and more now (still at the very beginning), and wanted to ask if someone can recommend a good Tutorial for creating Landscapes in Unreal 4 ? I need to do a Landscape for an Arabian Oriental City, and would like to do at as good as possible 🙂 Any help is appreciated!
(I hope its ok to post this in here? :D)

[drowsy snow]

Try looking for a course in Unreal Online Learning (see pinned message for the link)

[sinful grail]

Oh Thanks! That looks really nice. I will give it a look!

[stone surge]

I typed a few zeroes too much

on light intensity

[plush yew]

add a planar reflection node

[stone surge]

its nice now

[drowsy snow]

This kinda reminds me of luxury bathroom decors in rich people convention centres.

Maybe you could improvise it as a prop in whatever other levels you're working on in the future. A happy accident, to say the least.

[potent bridge]

Right, so, what would be the logic to determine if the player is moving forward relative to the camera?

[stone surge]

dot product between player speed and camera look direction?

[potent bridge]

probably

@stone surge So I can get player speed but how do you get the cameras look direction?

[plush yew]

i think your looking for get forward vector

my unreal isnt open so i couldnt tell you really

[potent bridge]

seems to work out

[plush yew]

I also use get look at rotation for particles

then multiply -1

[potent bridge]

alright, I got it working.

[sweet kettle]

I'm new to this discord and have an issue cooking assets I'm hoping to get help with. What is the appropriate channel? It's textures I'm having issues with.

[drowsy snow]

Should be #packaging

[sweet kettle]

Thank you.

[pure sorrel]

'''union student* emp = NULL;''' why here the * is put behind student instead of infront when you maoe an pointer

[neon bough]

it's a unreal c++ thing to put them behind the datatype 😄

[patent cobalt]

@pure sorrel makes no difference to the compiler, you will see both. I prefer the form PointerClass* PointerVariable;

[pure sorrel]

Oke understand now *p = &value example

[patent cobalt]

Also Unreal style guides use the same.

[drowsy snow]

I think Intellisense see pointers in the right end.

[sick patio]

(send me to the right place to ask this) I'm making a horror game, and I want you to save some characters, by picking them up and carrying them. I can't even find an example of this animation, and someone tried right a bit of code, to even allow one pawn to carry another pawn, and it didn't work. Any ideas?

the code was on unreal stack exchange, and the answers didn't help the guy

[drowsy snow]

This channel could work.

Anyway, the theory is that you attach the survivor's skelmesh to the hero's skelmesh. If the survivor is Character and not just Actor with capsule collision (class wise), you would disable his/her character movement and collision, before attaching him/her to the hero Character, and play matching animation montages on both in sync.

[pure sorrel]

Now I kind of have a base understanding of pointers, arrow operater, struct, union.

[sick patio]

one of the unreal stack exchange people said something about disabling gravity on the victim?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, that'll make sure the victim won't fall through the ground.

[sick patio]

ok thank you . (lol now to put that in blueprint.... as the japanese say.... saaaaaaa)

[plush yew]

what lol

[honest sigil]

Hey, I've hit a bit of a snag when trying to rotate an actor that is using an aim offset. Currently I have it setup so that I have a an aim offset covering the entire 180 degree arc in front of the player, and when I notice the player aiming more than 90 degrees to either side, I rotate the actor 90 degrees in that direction. While this works great, there's a visual issue where the gun does not stay in the same location, it rotates with the actor and then gets interpolated back to the correct location, resulting in a little visual weirdness.

It's a top down project where the character aims towards the cursor.

[long nimbus]

Does anyone have TezFiles premium?

[next badger]

I need your wisdom UE brothers and sisters.
There is an annoying issue:
If some actors A were attached to another ones - B. And that B actor will be modified in a way the Root is replaced. Actor A will be detached from it in all the levels.
Any way to solve it?

[fiery granite]

does this engine work with grounded

[unique kraken]

hey guys, there recently was a lifestream with someguy showing stuff from his multiplyer game

i want to see that stream again but i cant find it

anyone got that stream somewhere?

[next badger]

@unique krakenEpic Games stream?

[unique kraken]

im pretty sure yes

[fiery granite]

so it does work right?

good

[unique kraken]

had it running in the background thinking ill come back to it later now i cant find it anymore

@fiery granite yes grounded uses ue4

if that is your question

[fiery granite]

I downloaded 4.27.1 in epic games

btw it's 13 or more giga-bytes, it's pretty scary

[next badger]

@fiery granite source build of ue4 is 100+

[fiery granite]

giga bytes?

I mean the engine 4.27.1

[next badger]

@unique kraken all the past streams are here: https://www.youtube.com/c/UnrealEngine

[unique kraken]

yea looking for it there

cant find it

wich is

uhm?! where did it go

[next badger]

hope it was not the GameJam stream =)))

[fiery granite]

does it work for multiplayer?

ue4 engine grounded

[unique kraken]

might have been?! idk. that guy was talking about sequencer, in a scifi setting with a giant humanoid

some of the info was valuable to me

@fiery granite ue4 can have multiplayer

[fiery granite]

good

[next badger]

@fiery granite why you keep asking about grounded?

[unique kraken]

^^

[fiery granite]

because I paly grounded lol

or what do you think

I don't know other games that work with ue4

only grounded

[next badger]

well, grounded does not have Mod Kit afaik.

[fiery granite]

I really only need it to make me not hungry and thirsty

so

yeah

Idrc about other stuff

[wary wave]

if it doesn't have a mod kit, you cannot easily mod it.

[fiery granite]

oh

sad

so how can I mod it?

I need to waste like 2 hr on it or something?

can't I just download it, install it to the engine and then use the cheats?

[wary wave]

no

tbh, I think at this point you are way, way out of your depth

[acoustic plover]

How can I change the black void/bottom half of the level to be the same color as the atmosphere?

[plush yew]

I am happy to announce I will be releasing my mdl importer for ue4.26>5 today

QUACK

[dawn gull]

how could I get a reference to a new line in a string? I'm trying to create a new line in a variable and then set it back into a multi-lined text box

[neon bough]

shift + enter?

[dawn gull]

Thank you!

Didn't think it would be that easy

[prime willow]

what would i do to make an animation

[vapid cradle]

Hey, just a question if i want to make something like a day-night cycle, is there any points in the Unreal Tutorial where this is spoken abt or how do i do that?

[prime willow]

stay in the phyiscal line up

with the actor capsule

my mantle climbs too high on use

[plush yew]

Hey would this be a good course to learn cpp and unreal? https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealcourse/

[full lodge]

Is Inverse Filmic Tonemapping exist in UE4?

[dusk crystal]

ayyo does anyone in here know anything ab character movement in unreal engine source?

[nocturne tangle]

guys

legit question

whats better

unity or unreal

?

[dusk crystal]

ue4

[fervent stag]

Hello, Using p4 for collaboration, we've begun experiencing these errors from UE 4.25. I'm followed the link and attempted what it said but the error still shows up. I'm not above thinking I misunderstood something on that link. Even so, the error is still happening and needs to be fixed. Can someone tell me exactly how to remove this error?

[late verge]

besides changing an exponential height fog’s inscattering color, is there anything else that influences the color of fog?

[patent cobalt]

@fervent stagit's not an error, just a recommendation. To enhance performance you can have a Shared Data Cache sitting on a network drive so everyone can use it in place of a local one.

[narrow mauve]

Where on bloody earth are the marketplace assets downloaded before they get added to a project

I was downloading this asset to take a look its over 12gb and decided nah so canceled it ..now its eaten up a bunch of space and idk where tf it is

[patent cobalt]

@narrow mauve typically in the Vault, which by default is here: C:/Program Files (x86)/Epic Games/Launcher/VaultCache/

Plugins are under the respective engine versions though. But at 12gb I doubt it is a plugin.

[narrow mauve]

ah ya there it is

[fervent stag]

@patent cobalt Thanks. How can I go about correcting the performance issue?

[patent cobalt]

@fervent stag all info here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DerivedDataCache/

Check under Shared DDC

[acoustic plover]

is there any way to permanently horizontally expand the "modes" dropdown? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LevelEditor/Modes/

[fervent stag]

thanks!

[plush yew]

anyone here understand what they're looking at and can explain to me why my opacity mask does not work

the nets appear opaque even when shading model is set to sub surface

and i have the opacity mask texture set to alpha as sampler type

idk if unreal does this different but this seems to make sense to me but its not working

[wary wave]

you have four channels plugged in for some reason

[plush yew]

setting it to transulscent works

but i lose the normal map

[acoustic plover]

are opacity masks greyscale?

then you should probably use one of the color channels, like R

[wary wave]

opacity masks should be single channel, yes

[warm hornet]

Hi guys. Having a problem getting InputAction Events from Keyboard to work.
I've defined 2 custom keyboard Action Mappings in my Project Settings. Option + E and Option + F.

And then in an Actor Blueprint EventGraph added a Input >ActionEvents > <My Custom Action Mapping> with a Print String (see attached)

But in PIE mode not getting any output.

Is there some other setting to get Keyboard input to work?

[pure sorrel]

Why I get this LogTemp: Warning: Sphere_2 location is: s LogTemp: Warning: Cube_5 location is: s

I do something wrong? const FString ObjectPosition = GetOwner() -> GetActorLocation().ToString();

[digital anchor]

and the log code?

[pure sorrel]

I shared above

[digital anchor]

where

[pure sorrel]

👆🏾

getting the name of the object

but doesnt print the location

[digital anchor]

ok but i asked to take a look at the log code

[pure sorrel]

i dont see anything weird in there

[digital anchor]

neither do i, as i cant see

[pure sorrel]

https://hatebin.com/qqgdkqipoh

you can take a look

you see anything weird?

[digital anchor]

im confused, thats still not code, dont you have C++ code calling that log?

like a UE_LOG call

[pure sorrel]

void UWorldPosition::BeginPlay()
{
    Super::BeginPlay();

    // const FString Log = TEXT("Peter!");
    // const FString* LogText = &Log;

    const FString Name = GetOwner() -> GetName();

    const FString ObjectPosition = GetOwner() -> GetActorLocation().ToString();

    // UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("Hallo this is: %s"), **LogText);
    // UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("This is an name of an object: %s"), *Name);

    UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("%s location is: s%"), *Name, *ObjectPosition);

}```

oh i seeit already

reverse the format specifeir

[prime willow]

any idea where i may of gone wrong to make it so my mantle flies above the ground floor when in use as well as staying in said state

until i change input or forcefully leave states https://gyazo.com/1854aac55d32deddb6d41291addaaedd

[lusty jungle]

Hey everyone!
So this should be pretty simple but i've no idea about the correct syntax yet

Basically i want to check if a button is being pressed when my collision box is colliding with another actor, i do that using a branch right?
What would the target be?
The right node is "Is Input Key down" right?

Or how would i go about making that efficient and proper?

[prime willow]

maybe

[lusty jungle]

The other parts work fine, i just want to have a button press check before-hand

What would i put as target?

[prime willow]

is gamepad key pressed

than the following key?

[lusty jungle]

Well its for keyboard and i think i set that up right

[prime willow]

it should have a sort of red boolen

[lusty jungle]

but it wants a target

[prime willow]

well is key pressed might work too

[lusty jungle]

Whats that note called, key pressed?
Cause i cant find that

[plush yew]

RootMotion?? idk

[prime willow]

o.o

what does root motion do

[plush yew]

uhhhhh

[prime willow]

does it force the anim to play at the set place?

or does it make it move?

[plush yew]

yea root motion moves the root of your character

through an animation

[prime willow]

so if the animation moves so does the root

[plush yew]

if you werent using root motion and viewed your character

[prime willow]

what if the animation is planted?

[lusty jungle]

Well the target would be me but i can't put self as target for "Is input key down"
So what would i put there?

[plush yew]

he would travel outside his capsule

[prime willow]

oh

i see

yeah the capsule

it stays but the character moves elsewhere

[plush yew]

so its not root motion

[prime willow]

there should be a gamepad sort of key

than you can check for the direct input

i cant show you atm im importing an animation

but i will after it finishes

[lusty jungle]

Oh thats not the issue though, i know the function "Iskeypressed down"

but it doesnt seem to actually keep going with the next logic

so i set it up wrong

[prime willow]

wait

is there a reference

[prime willow]

used as a save for whatever variable youre recalling

[lusty jungle]

This is what i got

Yea

Key is the variable

and its set to H

[prime willow]

well its activating on overlap

from what i see

[lusty jungle]

How would i sequence it properly?

[prime willow]

i dont even know how to use sequence :3

[lusty jungle]

or well

How would i fix it? xD

[prime willow]

xD

um

what is suppose to happen upon the overlap

a dialog system right?

[lusty jungle]

Oh yeah

And it works fine just like that

[prime willow]

is the thing dialoged too

having a sort of mediator variable

[lusty jungle]

Yeah and apart from the branch to check if the key is pressed it works fine

[prime willow]

to make him know this controlling player

is causing the dialog

oh

than whats the issue?

[lusty jungle]

Im not sure it doesnt execute

[prime willow]

show blueprint

and whats the system failing to function

the dialog

the trigger of system

or?

[lusty jungle]

Well it doesnt show me any error messages, but just doesnt come through

[prime willow]

so the dialog doesnt start?

[lusty jungle]

yeah

[prime willow]

when overlapped

hmm

[lusty jungle]

Yeah well i wanted the overlap to lead into the branch

[prime willow]

wait

[lusty jungle]

So when im overlapping i need to press a key

[prime willow]

whats key?

[lusty jungle]

for the logic to continue

H

Its a variable

set to H

wait

[prime willow]

is key referenced in the setup for H

or just here

if so thats your disconnect

[lusty jungle]

Alright lemme try taht

[prime willow]

if H is the triggering Key

and key is the memory card reference to make it simple

[lusty jungle]

Still nothing

[prime willow]

show me the H setup

[lusty jungle]

Theres no setup now i just switched it to a simple key like this

[prime willow]

also use Gyazo

its a life saver for screenshots and gifs

[prime willow]

so

grab key variable

plug it into the key slot

after H

[lusty jungle]

thats what i did though, no?

Its what i had before

[prime willow]

oh

hmm

[lusty jungle]

It seems like were missing something super obvious here but i cant see it xD

[prime willow]

try this

[real dirge]

Would I be interrupting if I asked for help right now? xd

[prime willow]

use if valid

no youre ok

[lusty jungle]

No go ahead 😄

[prime willow]

ask for help

[lusty jungle]

if valid?

[prime willow]

ill assist or someone else will if icant help eventually if they can or want to

so

saladass

try

Input H > if Valid > plug in Key variable as condition leave the rest as follows

[real dirge]

I don't know if this uber confusing or anything but, I want to know how to get my project to run on a console, specifically the Xbox One

[prime willow]

so i think thats either design wise stuff or packaging im not a expert in that field

but we have a channel that may be useful for that

#packaging

they should know what you need for console releasing moreso than here

and its aturday

only the stupid

or deticated are online working on their projects

lol

wait

@lusty jungle none of those are the input setup

those are component overlap setups

[lusty jungle]

Yeah i just saw haha

[prime willow]

xD

[real dirge]

Ohh, thank you, I probably shouldn't bother with this right now anyways since I'm still in the prototype stage. It would just be really cool to see something I created running on console

[lusty jungle]

wait

mine arent?

[prime willow]

no

its the compoenent overlap one

[lusty jungle]

Okay lemme restart

What do i put then?

[prime willow]

try showing me where you have the button input blueprint setup

so

typically

[lusty jungle]

Yeah i deleted the branch part only have the normal logic now

wanna start over

[prime willow]

input of choice which is keyboard or mapped in project settings

than make a variable to reference what youve made or the function esstionally

setup function as normal

make sure to use made variable as save reference everything should connect when input occurs

[lusty jungle]

So i make a variable to press H? Or do i make it press my interact key?

[prime willow]

lemme see if i noted the proper setup for that

[lusty jungle]

WEll what do i start with though, do i set a branch after the on component begin overlap?

[prime willow]

ok cant find it

but

in simple words

think of the variable used for the dialog setup as the save point right

so if you do something like branch > into dialog variable > get component > etc etc etc

remember the dialog variable

so that when you start a function or setup you can do a is valid and check for the dialog variable

lemme see if i can write up a quick setup for what i mean

[lusty jungle]

yeah im having trouble understanding sadly

super new to unreal

like 3 days or so

[prime willow]

so ive been doing this for nearly 2 years

and im still severely confused

unreal is large complex but not the end of the world to manage and learn from

honestly start with learn unreal page on the launcher or check out their youtube channel tutorials or youtube tutorials start with the bread and butter of blueprints

[lusty jungle]

This is what i got atm

[prime willow]

i kid you not if youre confused now on this stuff youre going to go through hell once you start writing custom code for your actual game

[lusty jungle]

To me this logic seems perfect

but it just doesnt trigger

[prime willow]

but my unreal is up so lemme see if i can show you what i mean

[lusty jungle]

and yeah ikr this is torture sometimes xD

[prime willow]

granted pls pls pls

unreal is as painful as youre unwillingness to learn from 1+ tutorials

i kid you not

its like brick walling into a plate of glass and garlic

[lusty jungle]

yeah ive been consuming guides like crazy

[prime willow]

but a simple tutorial changes everything understanding wise

xD

ok lemme pull up some jank code

its not the best but gets the job done

so this right here is my weird start menu

you see that variable called spawned start menu

thats the technical save point

in gamer terms

which means before my button on the controller is called

itll check isvalid partically that spawned stmenu varable

if it is valid

[lusty jungle]

holy shit

[prime willow]

itll connect function to start menu

[lusty jungle]

Thatll all come before?

[prime willow]

than start menu flows as normal

yes

so

function needs a variable

that is its save point

this is super beginner stuff

that blueprint tutorials will teach

[lusty jungle]

But after the on component begin overlap still right?

[prime willow]

im dumb and skipped it

@grim ore thankfully this legend helped me out i learned and went to learn more tutorials

but yeah itll keep your input doer and system starter connected

if not it gets lost in a void

granted dont copy my code exactly