ue4-general

[plush yew]

i cant find triangle shapes

[prime willow]

Sorry ive been dumb busy so i havent had time to assist people here as often as id like ^^

Are you using grooms?

if so check the sub setting under stretch and such

theres one for controlling how much it floops and another for gravity etc

also remember if your groom is made properly hairs can glitch against one another

[prime willow]

What do you mean by triangle shapes

[plush yew]

literal triangle geometry

[prime willow]

in engine or?

[plush yew]

like, a 3 sided shape

[prime willow]

i believe its in exmaple content

[plush yew]

yes ofc in engine

[prime willow]

depending on your project setup

but you can easily import them into the engine from blender

it should be under geometry

or meshes

[drowsy snow]

I don't understand what's your question to begin with.

[prime willow]

if you cant locate it unde rsuch youre going to need to install a pack with it or import it from another engine

he wants a triangle

[prime willow]

check pms pls

https://tenor.com/view/girl-please-beg-anime-gif-12802079

[manic urchin]

evening guys, i want to ask about why i can play with thirdperson character on the right project but cant do that on the left project?

[prime willow]

i may of really fluffed up lol

do you have two projects opened at once?

[manic urchin]

yeah

i was comparing it

[prime willow]

are their button inputs mapped to your systems via project settings?

are you sing keyboard or controller

[manic urchin]

keyboard

[prime willow]

if the buttons are mapped properly

press play and test the inputs

[manic urchin]

im prety sure i dont do anything with mapping button for the right one but i can see the character when i click play

but i cant see the character in the left one

[prime willow]

check the blueprint responible for the characters systems

and see if any input based events are setup

as well as the key bindings found under project settings than input

you may lack the proper inputs or not have them at all

esepcially if you didnt make that project yourself

[plush yew]

could you link me a drive with some of the shapes that unreal doesnt have?

[prime willow]

blender comes with a plentiful amount

[manic urchin]

i make both of them, w8 ill check it

[exotic thicket]

Why don't you just make a triangle in Blender? It's not hard and it's a useful skill to have even if it's just basic shapes

[plush yew]

that also works

i dont understand why unreal doesnt have triangles by default

[drowsy snow]

Nobody else did.
A single triangle plane is so dead simple to make in any DCC tool, even as convoluted as Metasequoia.

I could make one in no time as a 7 y.o. child in 3ds max. It's that easy.

[prime willow]

cant he just glue together 3 flat planes

than merge the mesh xD

technically 4

[plush yew]

its all about simplicity that makes your engine standout

[prime willow]

it takes pprobably 40 seconds

to make and import to unreal tbh

[plush yew]

meh, if it needs to be like that then so be it

[fierce tulip]

39 seconds of which is 3dsmax starting up :p

[prime willow]

o.o

my blender opens in 2 seconds lol

oh

wait

LUOS!

[fierce tulip]

?

[prime willow]

So long term not short term

would it be better to use the daz script or fbx renamer to turn my daz models into mnneuqins

or is that a bad move a year or three down the line

[fierce tulip]

iunno

[prime willow]

im having rotation issues/bone name issues and the easy way out seems to be to use the script that changes daz to be exactly like mannequin

well not exactly but itll change the similair bones to be akin to mannequin ._.

[fierce tulip]

that one only caused other issues for me.

[prime willow]

oh

[fierce tulip]

i just use daz as is to import stuff

[prime willow]

So changing its bone names is a bad deal regardless ._.

https://tenor.com/view/asobi-asobase-anime-hanako-honda-angry-mad-gif-15753583

[fierce tulip]

if you retarget it should work. though there are always cases where it can mess up

[prime willow]

yeah its moreso blueprint setups that dont seem to want to play nice due to bone names .-.

like some systems from ALS or intregrated marketplace assets etc

well that's fine more importantly did you try the rotation fix setting that they have and does it work ?

@fierce tulip https://davidvodhanel.com/daz-to-unreal-fix-bone-rotations-option/ This

wait what?

you mean sendtoue?

Even with the default daz bone name it just worked?

yeah i have that part

through the panes window

yup yup

did the ragdoll work as intended?

i know mine had face melting and ragdoll flooping issues

hmmmm

[plush yew]

how can i import blender shapes in unreal?

[neon bough]

export them as fbx and import them in unreal

[plush yew]

ah right

[neon bough]

there's tons of tutorials about it including the export settings for blender

[fierce tulip]

this breaks any animation made in daz sadly, and I (sadly) will need those unless I find an animator willing to work for free for the time being <_<

[manic urchin]

lmao i just realize theres no skeletal mesh on my character, thanks m8

[prime willow]

its the least i can do ❤️

[prime willow]

I wish my animation skills were good enough to sell id help for free to be honest ;>_>

though its good to know that i shouldnt be touching that function which gave me so much headache

[neon bough]

hm, my rig looks like the later one, and my animations come in fine

but i'm using blender inbetween daz and unreal

[left arrow]

Hey I need help. My Blender model has wrong face orientation in UE4. When I look at my model in Blender everything looks good...

In Blender

[fierce tulip]

it looks good, but looks at all the times people have problems with it you'll need to flip them anyways.

justblenderthings

[left arrow]

Thanks!

[drowsy snow]

It's generally a good practice to enable backface culling in Blender.

[neon bough]

did you apply scale before exporting it? @left arrow

i think this happens when the object has negative scale

or your export settings are not optimal

never had facing problems with blender => unreal

[prime willow]

you ever combine code

trying to make something simple allegedly

and create a new mechanic so foreign and jank you dont know if you should save it and coin it something or completely kill it with fire >_>

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-its-all-coming-together-gif-15058130

I have done it

i think

i have found the settings to use raytraced shadows and gi with pretty much 0 noise

and very little fps impact

[steady bramble]

Thx

[pliant junco]

love the poster on the left

[plush yew]

"A"

https://tenor.com/view/ah-gif-19065243

[prime willow]

<@&213101288538374145> ^

https://tenor.com/view/lalaine-dawn-lalaine-dawn-tv-lalaine-just-this-this-gif-17195611

[drowsy snow]

It's one of those gullible person who fall for free nitro scam.

[prime willow]

Yup

[peak sorrel]

Lol

[rocky radish]

<@&213101288538374145>

[peak sorrel]

So if you guys were making an fps like r6 or CSGO, what would you consider a mvp prototype?

Would it just be a solid vertical slice of gameplay?

[prime willow]

make titanfall 3

titanfall was soo good

i intantly bought titanfall 2

no regrets

and i sincerely dislike fps

but id instantly buy and play a titfanfall 3 for hours on end

[haughty zephyr]

hey, i have a lot of experience with C++ and a bit of experience with game engines - where should i start if i wanna become good at unreal?

[prime willow]

learn at unreal

the aluncher page

[peak sorrel]

Chill snowie

[prime willow]

want link

[peak sorrel]

You typing up a storm

[prime willow]

sorry

[rocky radish]

don't send 100 messages at once

[peak sorrel]

I saw what you talking about though, the parkour blueprints were legit

[prime willow]

i get bit messy after 48+ hours of no sleep sorry

[peak sorrel]

Sleeeep

[rocky radish]

i would recommend first learning the basic of blueprints, there's a lot of resources where you can get started on the launcher and on the documentation pages

[prime willow]

but game design ;-;

[peak sorrel]

I plan on making a scifi shooter kinda like titanfall but a lil different

I just don’t want to be too derivative

[prime willow]

well his is a good base and the entire project is just there if youre interested xD

[peak sorrel]

Yes I will run through the tutorial and take his blueprints and try to convert to C++

[prime willow]

granted titanfall 3 is a beyond solid base for an fps, let alone if you add your own twist to it or build from there and tis not that complicated of an FPS game

[manic urchin]

isn't it easier to use bp?

[prime willow]

yes and no

[peak sorrel]

Initially

[manic urchin]

what is the minus of using bp?

[peak sorrel]

But I was under the impression you want to keep blueprint slimmer for replication

[rocky radish]

blueprints should be used along with c++ imo

[prime willow]

Blueprints has a learning curve just like C+ but both have their places in unreal tho you can make a game with either or and or a mix of both

[drowsy snow]

BP can too high level for some scripting needs, and tanks performance easier.

[prime willow]

ill make some high level jiggle physics that takes extreme scripting

than re compile it to C++ and cheat the system

[manic urchin]

damn bro, ill waitin for that

[manic urchin]

hmmmm i see

[peak sorrel]

I was under the impression anything that was gonna be replicated should be converted to C++

[drowsy snow]

Kawaii Physics exists.

[prime willow]

do i want to google that?

[peak sorrel]

Other than gamemode stuff

[drowsy snow]

It could lighten the netcode, if done properly.

[manic urchin]

idk about that, im new in ue4 :u

[prime willow]

than start with the learn tab on the aluncher

or the basic tutorials on youtube by unreal engine

[manic urchin]

yeah, im finished a few tutorial

[prime willow]

hell you could start with the unreal engine in progrma tutorial

[drowsy snow]

https://github.com/TheHoodieGuy02/KawaiiPhysics

(I'm currently doing some bugfixes on my fork of the plugin)

[prime willow]

yeah my pc exploded so i need to setup your fork again ._.

[manic urchin]

i was looking at ue c++ but i think the c++ is a bit dofferent than what i have in school

[manic urchin]

u made that?

[drowsy snow]

Eh, not much, save for some macros and stuff.

[prime willow]

i havent touched C++ since i used to hack sites and programs as a teenage chimera

so i cannot help you at all with that stuff im beyond rusty at java scripts and xhtml etc

._.

[drowsy snow]

No, I just forked it to get some bugfixes on my own in it.

[peak sorrel]

😂

[manic urchin]

i havent touched c++ since last semester, im barely pass that class lmao

[drowsy snow]

There's some compilation warning in 4.27, and I haven't yet to get time dilation working with it.

[manic urchin]

ohhhh okay

[prime willow]

thats big oof dont be dumb like me

make sure to freshen up the languages you learn or you get forgettful and rusty

[drowsy snow]

I learned C++ on my own, mainly because of modding as a kid.

[manic urchin]

unfortunately i think im more dumb

[drowsy snow]

I'm still 22 years old, so still quite youngin'

[prime willow]

you cant be stupider than me i can barely remember div style based scripts or how to make text bold xD

[manic urchin]

damn, skyrim?

[prime willow]

i look at coding language and go ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nope

[manic urchin]

ayyy lmao 😂

[manic urchin]

u sure? html is friendly :u

[drowsy snow]

Doom.

[manic urchin]

i mean just html without php etc

[prime willow]

i honestly tried unreal because they said you dont have to code and i dont wanna remember how to code i get way too into it and yeah..

[manic urchin]

sameeeee lol

[prime willow]

but hear i am doing the same thing with blueprints so i guess that went right out the window

im approaching 49+ hours and Yuki wants me to get into bed ;-;

[manic urchin]

yuki who?

[prime willow]

My floofy doggo

hes best boi

[manic urchin]

ohhhh i thought it was ur anime pillow XD

[prime willow]

hes literally my body pillow on some nights

^

my floofy boi

[manic urchin]

ayyyy best boi doggo

[prime willow]

hes good boi and gets upsset when i dont go to bed on time xD

[drowsy snow]

Better move the convo to #lounge lads and lasses.

[prime willow]

oops yeah sorry sorry

[peak sorrel]

So for a titanfall spiritual successor, what would you guys think parkour looks like?

[manic urchin]

hahahaha

[prime willow]

zip line

wall run

air dash

boost for classes

[manic urchin]

wall run is a must

[prime willow]

dodge

like actual action like dodging

or thrusters in 8 ways idk

adds more S4 league vibes

to the gameplay

[peak sorrel]

S4 league?

[prime willow]

i mean really S4 league x Titanfall would be a master piece in itself

oh

[peak sorrel]

Wazzat

[prime willow]

its areally old PC game

godlike at its time

[manic urchin]

u gonna make that game?

[prime willow]

is was pretty much anime Gunzhybrid

[peak sorrel]

It’s the plan

[manic urchin]

alone?

[prime willow]

but more melee focused and movbility focused

[peak sorrel]

Just a hobby

Gonna work on an mvp for now

[manic urchin]

good luck, hobby dont need deadline tho

[prime willow]

oh definitely going to need cool assassinations

[peak sorrel]

At this rate respawn never gonna make a sequel so I got all the time in the world

[prime willow]

if you can get level destrcution definitely do that

tho its messy to use unreals solution

[peak sorrel]

See I hate animations

[manic urchin]

chaos system

[prime willow]

everyone does

[peak sorrel]

Like in cod I think it breaks immersion when you get locked into an action

[prime willow]

no one wants to make animations everyone wants triple A animations

[peak sorrel]

No I dont like the way it locks you in place for most games

[rocky radish]

chaos is really broken in its current state

[prime willow]

its the animation paradox xD

[peak sorrel]

I got no problem with making them

[prime willow]

well you can make it so animations dont lock you in place

[peak sorrel]

Add a cancel

[prime willow]

my sprinting to jump is fluent and pretty much instant

[manic urchin]

too bad, i saw that things can makes a good destruction

[prime willow]

you keep momentum and flow

im trying the same for all of my movement

[peak sorrel]

I dont think I’ve seen a game where you cancel an assassination

[drowsy snow]

Also the new Control Rig and Full Body IK are thing

[prime willow]

halo reach

[peak sorrel]

That would be funny actually

[prime willow]

tho techncially its when youre killed during assassination

[prime willow]

wait how do i do full body IK's

[drowsy snow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8eqaFG7lZQ

[manic urchin]

u need da special suit right?

[prime willow]

._.

[drowsy snow]

lmao no

[prime willow]

can i do that in 4.6

or is it a 4.7 and up

[peak sorrel]

Not for control rig

For the suit

[manic urchin]

ohhh i thought it was something like movement base on real ppl wearing suit

[peak sorrel]

Pretty sure its just an animation creator suite

[manic urchin]

i see

[prime willow]

it seems like i have to use control rig for full body IKs ;-;

[drowsy snow]

It's 4.27, but IIRC 4.26 has it.

[prime willow]

do i need control rig for it tho? >_>

[drowsy snow]

It's an animation system, not a creator suite.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/ControlRig

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/akame-crying-akame-cry-akame-cry-anime-gif-21400744

[drowsy snow]

It's very OP once you harness its potentials.

[prime willow]

daz and control rig have restraining order lmao

okie nap time yuki keeps pawing ;-;

[manic urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/isla-plastic-memories-anime-anime-girl-ok-gif-16102764

[peak sorrel]

Potato potato

I wanna work with niagara today I think

Maybe replicated niagara 😎

Maybe get some cute bullet tracers n shit

[peak sorrel]

Whats the definition of full body IK

Because I know what IK is

For like limb placement on walls and items

But what makes it full body?

[drowsy snow]

FBIK isn't limited to one bone chain, and can be propagated to the entire skeleton. Hence, full body.

[peak sorrel]

When would this come into effect?

Im trying not to be obtuse here

But I’ve only ever seen stuff like feet placement on stairs or a hand on a wall to make a character look more grounded

[vocal flume]

I’ve been wondering how to do UI particle trail animations. I’ve seen in many mobile games where score flies to the top and adds to the overall score and there is a particle trail when the score flies up. How can I do this in UE4?

[drowsy snow]

I was wondering how my anime materials have abnormal shadows all this time. Turns out I was using VertexNormalWS as opposed to a solid blue colour. Now things looked better already,
Still not happy with the outline, tho.

[peak sorrel]

I’ll just look into the UE dragon full body IK thing after class and see what they got cookin up

[drowsy snow]

Basically any full body adjustments, offering more flexible interaction with various mesh sizes.

[peak sorrel]

They got a niagara UI plugin you can use

https://github.com/SourySK/NiagaraUIRenderer

[vocal flume]

@peak sorrel Thanks!!

[manic urchin]

ayyy thats ur own model?

[peak sorrel]

So something like ALS?

[drowsy snow]

No, that's Mirai Komachi / Bandai Namco's model. I used it to test the materials.
(along with some Idolmaster models that I have for R&D purposes)

[manic urchin]

its free?

[drowsy snow]

https://www.miraikomachi.com/download
It's primarily offered for fanmade content or R&D purposes.

[manic urchin]

hooo thanks

[drowsy snow]

There's no native Unreal Engine version, though, but you could convert the Blender version to Unreal with FBX.

[manic urchin]

noted, thanks for the lot of help today XD

[white ridge]

Hi! Mb does anyone know how to change the shader compilation folder? I changed this in preferences, but shaders always compile on C drive

[drowsy snow]

Change the derived data cache path in the engine's BaseEngine.ini config file.
It's under [InstalledDerivedDataBackendGraph] section

[elder locust]

hello, can i ask ue4 related questions here?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[elder locust]

can anyone please help me, why is 0351 showing here? I am creating a practice level for my game so i dont wanna display best score in that level, i have dettached the nodes as i had made a duplicate of the orginal but somehow it still showing. Please help me, thank you in advance

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried setting the visibility of the high score text widget(s)?

[gilded hatch]

Has anyone encountered and found a resolution for. "Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Windows/D3D11RHI/Private/D3D11Util.cpp] [Line: 198] Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0020 - 'INTERNAL_ERROR')"?

[drowsy snow]

That has something to do with your GPU.

[gilded hatch]

I am running a gtx 3090 FE with a complete wipe of all drivers and a clean reinstall.

I was getting that before and after the clean wipe

It's causing ue4 to crash Alot. :/

[grim ore]

a hang or lost is usually an issue with hardware like mentioned, even a wipe doesnt change the hardware. it could be running too much voltage thru it, or the card could be clocked too high

for exampe knocking down my voltage a bit and the clocks to basically "slow" it down fixed those issues for me when I had them

[gilded hatch]

Factory not OC

[grim ore]

its still overclocked (boosting)

and mine is a stock Nvidia 3080 that I had the issue with

[gilded hatch]

OK I will give that a try ty

[grim ore]

I used msi afterburner to lower the max clocks and it ended up fixed it, same with I lowered the voltage just a small amount. It feels silly but if your card is 99% stable it wont run into this issue with most games, UE4 just goes to the wall when using resources

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure something as strong as RTX 3090 barely have performance drop with toned down voltage and clock speed.

[grim ore]

^^^ yep plus it runs cooler with the lower voltage

[exotic thicket]

Frankly if my GPU with stock settings was crashing because of voltage issue I'd RMA it because that is not right...

[grim ore]

an RMA card will probably give the same issue, its annoying

[exotic thicket]

I don't know, it sounds like a hardware fault since a stock device definitely should not be failing because of something like that

[grim ore]

if its stable on 99% of uses and unstable on 1, its not really on the card but the software using it (UE4 does cause this issue is the issue)

[exotic thicket]

I guess it's possible, I'd definitely run some stress test tools to make sure

I've had faulty GPUs that would glitch out during a FurMark run but getting a replacement unit fixed it every time

[grim ore]

yep I had no issues for months but 1 project would cause the issues randomly and that was due to me having my voltage like 0.01mv too low

[gilded hatch]

Ue4 is the only thing that does it.... Even benchmarking tests don't push out this error lol

They run fully

[grim ore]

yep its super weird

it is a UE4 thing, but its a hardware thing so its annoying

[drowsy snow]

And I have yet to see someone reported hardware issues in UE4 with AMD cards in here.

[grim ore]

yep only seems to be an issue with the nvida ones

[mental helm]

👀 I remember 10 years ago, any time there was viewpoint artifacts or bugs on a game dev forum, the first question would be are they using an AMD GPU, and the answer was 99% of the time yes.

[drowsy snow]

How the turntables.

[mental helm]

Kinda reminds me of New World bricking 3090s, always weird when specific issues are a combo of hardware and software problems

[grim ore]

yeah that was a weird one

[drowsy snow]

See pinned message.

[real moth]

I currently have a scene (third person default) and I want the player to control the guy with the camera however when I hit play it creates a new third person character at my current position, anyone know how to help?

[grim ore]

click on the blueprint in the world you want to control. look for auto possess and change it to controller 0

[real moth]

lovely ty !

[sweet jacinth]

hello touch screen how do i get location of two fingers Finger location 1 finger location2 I always take the location of the last finger moving to two

[plush yew]

Afternoon all....

i wish epic would sort of the flicking bug

[proper sun]

So noobie question here. How do allow animation to occur in my character BP? Is it a setting? I added an animation BP and my character is still in the stiff pose.

[stone edge]

anyone know what this is called and how to stop it from happening?

happens in every light reflection now

[grim ore]

@proper sunyou would use an animation blueprint, or directly set the animation to play on the Skeletal Mesh

if you set up your animation blueprint, did you set your skeletal mesh to use it?

[proper sun]

I did. As ive always done. Which is why I am confused lol I did a fresh windows install so I thought maybe it was a setting I missed with my re-install.

Maybe there is something wrong my my animBP. Ill investigate.

[grim ore]

when you preview it, does it work?

[proper sun]

rofl. ERRORs in my animBP. Looks like I found the issue.

Sorry for the trouble. Thanks for the help 🙂

[tender ember]

Hello. I've been trying to download my metahuman but the downloading keeps freezing and in general it's extremely slow. I reinstalled bridge and it doesn't seem to help. does anyone know what the problem might be?

[drowsy snow]

#metahumans

[peak sorrel]

Chat slowed down a lil over lunch

[drowsy snow]

#released

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: GameDevAndCoding#7775 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[plush yew]

Guys, this is a tough one. I need to get Nreal Light AR/MR headsets, and i need to know if its possible to compile .APK's for android phone and run them through the headsets. The goal is to either see markers and 3D models on the ground, or atleast to see AR models through the glasses

The problem is i dont know if the Nreal Glasses can run unknown apps or not. And im thinking of buying them. I was suggested to get the developer kit

but i wouldnt need the developer kit, if i got the normal consumer version of the headsets

[drowsy snow]

#virtual-reality might know better about it.

[plush yew]

ill make a copy there too

[stone edge]

when I put path tracing on, my outside with skylight and sun light turn black

and also I'm not getting lighting needs to be rebuild messages anymore for some reason after building and moving objects

[grim ore]

I would assume the path tracer is realtime, so no you would not get that message

[stone edge]

oh i meant that one in lit mode

[dreamy cloak]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've been trying to extend the length of my dodges but when I edit the Animation and Enable Root Motion, it only applies the key frame I set instead of adding it to the length. If that makes sense? Any help is appreciated, have a great day!

[charred meadow]

Hey everyone. I'm learning Ue4 coming in from Unity and I am trying to wrap my head around the 3rd person character controller. If I delete the original character in the scene, then drag a its blueprint back in to make a new copy, then hit play, I will possess new character as expected, but the original also comes back and stands there. Why doesn't the original character stay deleted when I hit play?

[drowsy snow]

Sounds like you're possessing a new one spawned by the Game Mode per its default pawn class.

[charred meadow]

oh yeah you are right

[sick patio]

anyone want to help me fix all these errors? i'll show my screen, we'll talk, you'll feel tremendously proud you helped a noob

run time errors

[grim ore]

anyone in here can try and help, you just need to share the issues.

[plush yew]

Quick question. My Friend & I are working on the same project. When loading in the project on my PC it only uses 900MB of RAM. When loading the project on his PC, it uses 13 GB & crashes cause of a lack of memory. What would be the best solution for this problem? It somehow started happening last night, after adding a wind particle.

[grim ore]

was the project already loaded on yours and not on his?

[stone edge]

huh. seems like my weird noisy living pixels was due ray tracing, turned it off and everything looks smoother and peaceful now

[plush yew]

Project was loaded on both PCs before. I added an additional particle for wind ( by following a tutorial ) & saved it with Perforce. Then when he wanted to open it, he got a Memory error

my project takes 900MB to load

his takes 13 Gb

[grim ore]

my only thought is he is compiling shaders and thats causing the issue, he would have to see what is taking up his memory itself

theres also the log in the saved folder of the project

[sullen wraith]

what's the best way to contact epic? haven't had any response to my support. I changed my email like a year ago, and I have no clue what I changed it too... trying to login to my old dev account :\

i do have all the old receipts and stuff on the old email

[grim ore]

so this is account support?

[plush yew]

Can hhe stopt that process?

[grim ore]

if its compiling? no he needs to compile them to use the project

we dont know what changed when you added the wind particle, for all we know you changed renderer and now its trying to switch to DX12 with Raytracing

[drowsy snow]

Without the log, there's not much else to decipher.

[grim ore]

reading the log or checking task manager to see what is happening is the first start to figuring it out

[charred meadow]

In unity I like to implement character features as individual components for characters like a component for walking, a component for punching, a component for animating, a component for health, etc. Would the Ue4 version of that work by making "Actor Components" for each function of the character? Is this a good idea in Ue4?

[neon bough]

half of that isn't necessary because it's either covered by the base character class or the character movement component

and i think for stuff like punching people use Game Ability System(?)

but, beside of that, actor components are a way to add such features

[gentle carbon]

Hi im using unreal engine, whenever i enable an aimoffset type, the animation distorts.

does anyone know what it could be?

[charred meadow]

@neon bough What I am doing right now is I have this little red monster guy with this sphere around him. When another actor that inherits from "CharacterBase" enters the sphere, I want to be able to press E to jump on their head and control them like some kind of ratatouille mouse from hell. Does this sort of ability belong on an actor component or should it be part of that ability system you mentioned?

[neon bough]

i've never used game ability system 😄

i would put in the character

it sounds like a special feature of that specific character, so you could just put it just in its BP

components are more for stuff that could be used on different things/characters

stuff like inventories for example

[charred meadow]

Ok so I'm trying to figure out the terminology right now. Is this place where I have the ability in this screenshot the blueprint?

Actually scratch that. I found a blueprint overview to familiarize myself with that should answer my questions.

[rich geyser]

the engine keeps crashing whenever I try adding the starter content, im using v4.20 anyone know why?

I just noticed what was wrong

the drive is out of storage

I cleared up space and now the engine crashes

[neon bough]

why do you use 4.20?

[rich geyser]

idk

[plush yew]

Hey guys do you know how

how to setup Multi User Editor over internet

[tropic iron]

Hello UE Community, I wanted to reach out for some help with Unreal Engine. For a while now I have been wanting to take my creativity to the next level. However If anyone can give me a helping hand with just getting started, and properly setting up UE to run at its optimal settings, etc.

[small spruce]

In this group who already release games now? My fav games is (It takes two) (Little nightmares 1 and 2) ( Detroit Human Become ) (Devil may cry) (Gris) (Old Man Journey) .Share your own game name or fav games.

[wooden apex]

hey so can i get some help?

[inland gyro]

If I compress this game and save it to an external hard drive is there any problem??

[patent cobalt]

Head to learn.unrealengine.com, you will find plenty of high quality free trainings to get you started. Select preferably those that have the word introduction in their title.

The online engine documentation is also a good source. If you get stuck you can always ask here.

[dusk nebula]

How do I make a projectile not roll as much when it lands on the ground?

[plush yew]

Can someone help me out i can not find where this is, How do i rotated the animation to face towards me, instead of being at a -90 degree angle. I know this is simple but cant find it lol

im here but elaborate?

there is transform, but that does nothing.

[tropic iron]

how can I import multiple assets from one level to another level ?

[fierce tulip]

same project?

[tropic iron]

correct

same project file

[fierce tulip]

select assets > ctrl +c in one map, ctrl + v in the other.

[tropic iron]

Ty!

[grim ore]

The import settings are for importing. You can change the rotation then import the mesh back in and it will update.

[plush yew]

naw this is all wrong information. I added a key interval, and rotated the animation with ease.

[grim ore]

It's not wrong information it's just a different way of doing it. Fixing the actual mesh before importing is the correct way of doing it

[plush yew]

not when they are paid for, the artist should have this game ready with it facing the correct direction out of the box lol its all good tho.

lmfao im glad its fixed tho.

[restive vapor]

cursor does not disappear when I click in the PIE mode. It selects one of the assests in the level and my input does not work either.

[cerulean geyser]

is there a way to "bake" all the stattic meshes geometry/collision of a level into a different level? because i kinda need the entire collision to be on the persistent level so i can unload and load other maps, and avoid having actors fall throught the world

[cedar wave]

Working on a modular weapon system and I'm kind of stuck on how to handle the animations. The idea is a Gunsmith system, similar to Ghost Recon. I already have a plan down, that seemingly works well enough, to handle the mesh and the data side. I'm not sure how to approach the animations however.

My problem surrounds, how to author them. If the weapon is to be modular, would the animations themselves be animated the same as usual? Just use one base mesh to get the basic hand motions down and then it really doesn't matter? Part of me feels like I might be overthinking this.

[peak sorrel]

you talking about hand positioning on the weapon?

Is there a reason you aren't using IK?

[cedar wave]

How would I go about modifying the animation depending on the weapon?

You grab a mag differently if it is a STANAG mag, versus a drum mag

So, have the base animation and then use IK to adjust it contextually? Is that what you're saying?

[plush yew]

I’m pretty new to ue4

How do I

Add a create a project into my actual project

[peak sorrel]

something like that, I'm not an expert. you could do a series of checks for things like that.

[dark briar]

whenever i edit my landscape i crash instantly but i always have this message showing up

[dusk nebula]

what GameMode function handles initially spawning a player? I need to run FindPlayerStart with a tag, and can't find what I need to override

[olive herald]

k

k

[solemn marten]

The source version that I just built it's not on the menu to switch unreal's version

[zinc anvil]

whats the attack called when both characters engage in a cutscene and they play an animation

Its like a root motion animation

and the background doesnt change

but both characters are playing a duo animated sequence

usually happens in anime games when someone lands a special attack

https://youtu.be/Hvd4XTPWCQk?t=341

this type of attack

[dusk nebula]

can someone tell me how I'm supposed to get a reference to this?

[mental perch]

If I have a Look-Forward Vector and a Look-Up Vector, How to Find this FRotator in UE4?

[sick patio]

ALRIGHT, I fixed 50 errors (by removing a stupid mistake) give me cookies. I'm feeling superior right now, as a super noob.

I literally gave up yesterday

[drowsy snow]

You could do that with Sequencer (and some trickeries)

[fleet raven]

Hello all. I have a question. I am a little desperate. I try to use the plugin Water body. but it deforms my landscape. However, when I deactivate affects landscape, the water also disappears. What am I doing wrong? I would be very grateful for help, I've been experimenting for 9h and I can't find a solution

[dusk nebula]

can somebody please tell me how to go from a Progress Bar Object Reference to a Progress Widget Style Object Reference?

[vocal plank]

I've asked in #animation a couple of times and haven't gotten a response for days 🤐 Hopefully someone here can direct me to the right way as i'm unable to find anything relevant to my problem. Might be my mistake.
I'd like to play a blend space as a montage. Is there a way to do something like this? Basically I have a various jump animations that I'd like to blend depending on the direction. I'm using a blend space right now but there doesn't seem to be a way to just reset the animations current time. Any suggestions for a solution? Using a a state machine with a timer will cause missing the jump animations occasionally

nevermind got it working 🥳

[stone edge]

I have fade in from black track in my sequence shots, now the problem is even when im not locked to my cinecamera, the default viewport inherits the blackness from the sequencer

[charred ibex]

i packaged my game and got an error like this, on same level every time when i go to load the next level SOMETIMES i get a ctd and error. where would i go to help research errors like this and what this means?

[plush yew]

why has this happened and how do i fix it

nothing coming up on my actor

[wispy needle]

What is the clipping setting in Unreal to prevent this when close to objects?

[vocal plank]

near & far z plane in editor or project settings

this

[wispy needle]

I set it to .01 and some other random values and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Does it only work for cameras?

[vocal plank]

answer hub / submit bug report to epic. It's probably caused by a component getting deleted twice for somereason. Are you sure your compontsn have different names?

[plush yew]

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

[drowsy snow]

Don't make the camera too close to the object. Zoom it by adjusting the field of view instead.

Real world cameras fail at that distance anyway so don't bother physically moving it too close to the object.

[fringe jacinth]

guys do u know why is this error for?

[patent cobalt]

@fringe jacinthdefinitely comes from the audio portion of the engine. For more details you should click on the link to the log directory and have a look at the files in there.

Basically a function is expecting its number of input frames to be a multiple of 4 but it received a different number.

[tender ember]

Hello my UE stuck at initializing 39%. I can't open a project and I also can't download metahuman. I asked support but they didn't help me. Does anyone have any ideas what is going on? I've been trying to do this for days now welp😢

[warm salmon]

reinstall UE4?

yep

[tender ember]

yeah I think I'm gonna try reinstalling it coz I haven't opened it in a long time. thanks🙂

[exotic thicket]

Look in task manager first and see if it's using a lot of CPU

It can sometimes look like it just froze doing nothing if it's compiling shaders, so if you see a decent chunk of CPU use, that's what's going on and you just have to wait... reinstall won't change it

[somber patio]

How would I go about adding a scene where an entity writes on the wall. Can I use some sort of animated decal? Is that even possible?

[sweet jacinth]

hello friends, is there a way to bring the jump by sliding up on the joystick?

[drowsy snow]

Why not use the input action event?

[sweet jacinth]

valid for joystick

[peak sorrel]

hello friends

[violet yoke]

How do I change the character I want to play with?

Cause Im in third person template and I imported a first person character

But at start I play as the default third person character

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Framework/GameMode/

[somber patio]

How can I hide a list of actors from the player? I want these actors to only be seen by the scene capture component and planar reflection

[wary wave]

there are flags like 'OnlyOwnerSee', but I suspect you can't actually do what you're trying to do

primitives either render locally, or they don't

you could try setting the components you want to render to OnlyOwnerSee and having it owned by the same actor that owns the Scene Capture, but that would not make it visible in planar reflections

[pure sorrel]

i checked for collision but see no code reference

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Collision/OnActorHit/

[orchid heart]

my AI stopped working when I selected a Game Instance Class

anyone knows why

[opaque seal]

hi everyone
my friend downloaded a tank asset from market place but asset not showing in the project
anyone knows why?

[pure sorrel]

you need to import it?

[opaque seal]

no he is downloaded from market place of epic games launcher

but

tank asset files in the ue4 empty

[pure sorrel]

you still need to import it

[opaque seal]

hmmm

ok

thank you bro

[pure sorrel]

left under gree button

and then import

asset

[opaque seal]

oh

ok

thank you

<3

[sick patio]

I packaged my game up, and now realize I don't have a command to get back to the main menu, if i die in the game

I should make an esc command right? How do i do this? (I'm new, so I don't know and the internet didn't cover this, for some reason)

[drowsy snow]

If you're packaging with Development configuration, open the command console and put it OpenMap <your level name>

[sick patio]

put it in the level blueprint?

[fleet raven]

I try it again: Hello all. I have a question. I am a little desperate. I try to use the plugin Water body. but it deforms my landscape. However, when I deactivate affects landscape, the water also disappears. What am I doing wrong? I would be very grateful for help, I've been experimenting for 9h and I can't find a solution

[worldly dagger]

Can anyone explain what does this error means and how to resolve it??

[modest trench]

you are trying to attach a non-moving (static) mesh to something else that is dynamic

[plush yew]

Any idea why --- when you spawn 2 players the view models look different from full screen, to a small window?

[neon cargo]

noob warning, can someone tell me how to remove this line after adding a water body?

[left ridge]

There used to be a website where one could post examples of blueprints, on a board that looks like what the blueprint editor in UE4 looks like - other people could then simply select all and copy the blueprints into their project - I can't seem to find that website though and have no idea what it was called...anybody know what I'm talking about?

[plush yew]

https://blueprintue.com/

[left ridge]

thank you very much 👍

[real heath]

Are you referring to the brightness difference or the fact you see less of the hands?

[plush yew]

less hands

[real heath]

If it’s the hands, unreal uses a horizontal fov

[plush yew]

this has something to do with the camera settings i take it?

[real heath]

When you change aspect ratio you crop more or less from the top and bottom

[plush yew]

found it 🙂

contain aspect ratio

LOL so simple.

[real heath]

Yep, you can fix the aspect ratio, or try and keep reasonable aspect ratios in mind when designing your content

[shadow ravine]

Having a weird issue when duplicating my AIs. As I want to create different types but when I do my duplicated one doesn't seem to be picking up my walk animation. Anyone know what might be causing this? https://youtu.be/dFFU-F4oCYk

[rancid lagoon]

when you duplicate it you need to create a new blendspace or whatever it called. the one you have in the og is made for that spefic blueprint. any duplicates breaks it

at least that is what i found out idk if its right

[plush yew]

dont dupe. drag and drop and click generate dependencies to copy.

then move to folder.

[shadow ravine]

This shouldn't be affecting it as they use the same skeleton so if I create a new blendspace it will just use the same skeleton anyway 🤷‍♂️

[vale grove]

When i use the rope i success to attach it to my character but when i swing fast it get offset and be front or back from my character

[shadow ravine]

What do you mean, if I drag and copy I don't get any options for generate dependencies

[plush yew]

advanced copy here

then generate dependencies

then fix up directories?

should work fine

[shadow ravine]

This is new to me, how do you perform an advanced copy

[plush yew]

drag and drop into a folder

Wait

dont do that

that will recreate all the anims and skel and everything

oops bad advice 😄

[shadow ravine]

Oh I see advanced copy, but I don't have the option to generate dependencies

[plush yew]

what are you trying to do?

create a second animbp?

[shadow ravine]

Yeah

With a new blendspace

[plush yew]

Right click on the actor and create a child blueprint of the actor.

you should of made a Base BP first

then created all the children to derive from it.

[shadow ravine]

Hero, that's resolved it

[plush yew]

😉

[worthy plaza]

you are free to use the megascan's asset or u've to pay something? for a game

[drowsy snow]

As long as the final render is with UE4, it's free.

[worthy plaza]

ue5 too?

[drowsy snow]

I forgot that UE5 existed, but should be exactly the same.

[worthy plaza]

Perfect, ty

[charred ibex]

ok thanks ill check it out!

[hidden dew]

Hi all,
When I click "Build Lighting Only", Unreal says "Exporting lighting data: 33% Done" and Swarm sits on Exporting Scene forever.
Would anyone know why?

I installed UE 4.27.1 (from launcher) only a couple of days ago, and this happens even with the demo 3rd person example.

Ie, it freezes Unreal so I have to force close.

[plush yew]

try going into swarm agent (task bar right), then cache (on top), validate and clean, see if that helps

[hidden dew]

ta

[plush yew]

IF not clean your swarm folder in appdata

[sick patio]

QUESTION: someone was trying to tell me, after packaging my game, I can make edits, and instead of repackaging, i can simply add stuff? how do i do this?

[plush yew]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Patching/GeneralPatching/HowToCreatePatch/

i believe thats the info you are looking for.

[sick patio]

me?

[plush yew]

you where looking on how to apply a patch to a game thats packed?

[sick patio]

yes thank you sir/maam/attackhelicopter

[hidden dew]

@plush yew
That gave me new errors, failed to kick off and such, so that's a good thing

I've seen such things while Googling so I can go from there, ty

[hazy horizon]

can those 3d widgets work in multiplayer properly? ive been trying for a while and any hover function seems messed up

[plush yew]

Does anyone know the Proper way of setting this up? I am trying to rotate the Hands to a different location when Rifle is picked up when the blendpose is being updated.

would i use a rotator or transform, and would i add that to my interface, or would i just call a reference to it

[sick patio]

my pause menu will pop up, if i click P in the middle of playing, but not when i die? when I die I still have no way to get back to the main menue when i die

so far I can only resume when i die

(I followed a tutorial)

[drowsy snow]

You should have a game over screen by now.

[blissful trail]

idk if im doing this right

essentially i need it to change the mesh but it doesn't work on servers

[cinder mica]

Guys is there a high poly of the UE mannequin around? I want to modify it and re-bake etc

Looked in all the usual places online but coming up with nothing

[tender ember]

Hello. My problem with not being able to launch a project persists. I reinstalled UE and it just stucks at random point. I've been trying to solve this issues for days please help

[grim ore]

that number never goes down (3526) ?

[tender ember]

now it's 3.136

[grim ore]

so....

how is this an unsolved problem?

[tender ember]

I'm sorry I'm a newbie. I used to open UE without any lags in the past and idk what is happening

[plush yew]

Still looking for help with this 😦 When updating my blend pose I want the arms for the gun to move far right, how would i accomplish this?

[drowsy snow]

Go take some coffee, or tea, or have a meal.

[grim ore]

your opening the meta humans project?

[tender ember]

also it is a blank project

but I will use it for mh yes

[drowsy snow]

Let the engine do its thing.

[grim ore]

did you enable ray tracing when you created the project?

[tender ember]

yes. also first time doing it

[grim ore]

then problem identified

now you wait

[drowsy snow]

Also it would help to increase ShaderCompileWorker process priorities via Task Manager. That'll make sure it uses all your CPU had to offer.

[tender ember]

I though it was a problem coz I had problem downloading my Metahuman. and it kept getting stuck at random points like 40% 11% now it's 70%.

thanks for the reassuring 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Your safer bet will be the Task Manager. If CPU usage is high while loading, from UE4Editor processes, it's most likely compiling shaders.

[sick patio]

I keep messing up packaging the game or making a zip file, to upload to IO. this time I uploaded the entire launcher. I followed the tutorial, which didn't see what to zip, so I zipped it myself and .... now everyone is an unreal engine game dev

HELP

[drowsy snow]

If it hard crashes, then CrashReportClient will show increased hardware usage before it pops up.

[sick patio]

hoodie help a brother out

[grim ore]

whats the actual issue? you package it then compress that folder

[drowsy snow]

Not clear enough for me.

[grim ore]

where is the disconnect

[sick patio]

so i go file ... zip.... and then windowsnoeditor?

[grim ore]

you can right click, send to, compressed zip folder

[sick patio]

oh

[grim ore]

and yes on the windows no editor folder which should contain the game

[sick patio]

I like turtles

[tender ember]

thank you so much dude🙂
I'm gonna wait

[sick patio]

didn't say anything funny

[peak sorrel]

What's the difference between launch actor and just applying impulse?

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/331883/difference-between-launch-character-add-impulse-an.html

nvm google solved it

thought it is a little inconvenient

because I need the initial force for wallrunning but now I know that when I convert my actor to a pawn it won't work and I will have to change it

[hidden dew]

Using UE4.27, creating a new project with the PuzzleExampleMap, when I select "Build Lighting Only" Swarm opens up and sits on Exporting Scene forever, while UE says "Exporting Lighting Data 33% done" but stay frozen that way.

Anyone know things I could try?

I've tried Cache->Clean and Cache->Validate in Swarm, and I tried wiping the SwarmCache folder contents in AppData. That did give me a change in the error, but it instructed me to compile Lightmass. Since I only use the launcher's install of UE4, I can't do that.

So I told it to verify the install instead. All that's done is taken me back to UE freezing on "33% done" again. And this time I can't change that.

[plush yew]

is there a way to fix dark spots while having high exposure

[drowsy snow]

Have you checked the hardware usage in Task Manager? Certain things might stalled the process, could be either UE or Swarm worked too hard at the moment.

[plush yew]

I want to keep my exposure high for my game

but it creates these weird shadows

[drowsy snow]

The GI, maybe? AFAIK Lumen's software RT uses mesh distance field, and skelmeshes can't have it.

[plush yew]

its not above middle school regulation for skirts so dont sperg over seeing some ankle lol i feel it coming

not u hoodie but u know

yeah i feel it is the fault of lumen

[hidden dew]

SwarmAgent says 1% CPU and 81MB of memory.

I don't really know what to look for, don't know anything about Swarm

[drowsy snow]

Though Lumen should've add SSGI into the mix, as it's supposed to be Lumen's last resort, but I guess the screen space information wasn't enough.

The old Light Propagation Volume actually able to remedy this to certain extent, with small scale for interiors.

[dapper hatch]

Anyone knows why in my packaged file I have these in my scene lol? I don't see it in my scene.

[drowsy snow]

Check your Game Mode's default pawn class. Might be the default spectator view's.

[hidden dew]

Is SwarmCoordinator.exe a thing that should be running when I build a project?

[drowsy snow]

Nah, UE4Editor knows what other app to run when building a project.

[hidden dew]

ok

I think I'll try a build from source. No idea what else to try

[plush yew]

am I using this right

i want to keep my roughness map but i dont want more roughness on it

so i used a subtract node

should i change the contrast of my roughness map or is this an alright way to go about it

[silk mural]

I have a general UX question, if you had a tool that would do something in unreal, would you as an user want it as a python file or a editor blueprint asset ? (Im working on a tool can be developed in both ways, just curious which one is more practical for the user)

[crimson axle]

I have a question about pak files that is not devops, so I'm not sure this is the correct place (general UE) to start asking.

My use case is that I want to be able to have users download temporary, data-only hierarchies of DLC. E.g., users download DLC, use it for an hour, and then unload it, possibly downloading a new DLC right after.

.pak files seem to be the closest thing, but this specific case wouldn't involve "patching" in the .exe sense. Are there any concepts or features I should be looking into here?

I'm basically looking for the closest thing to a Unity AssetBundle I think.

[drowsy snow]

Either way works, though even more advanced UnrealEd tool would be written in C++.

[candid arrow]

hey, i made a check point but it doesn't work whats the issue?

[grim ore]

you did it wrong?

[candid arrow]

i followed 2 tutorials and it didn't work

[dapper hatch]

I set game mod to non and its still there :/

[grim ore]

okdoke, we have no idea what you did or what is wrong so we really can't help

[dapper hatch]

Should I just make custom pawn?

[drowsy snow]

Or rather make a custom game mode and set the default pawn class.

[plush yew]

is this tacky

gta remaster was revealed to be on unreal engine

so im making enviorments i can mod into it

this one is for vice city to replace the house by the mall

i feel like snake skin makes sense for this theme but now i feel like i did something naughty

[grim ore]

@candid arrowso which of those 2 do not work? you need to start debugging. Does the checkpoint trigger? when it triggers does the cast work? once the cast works does it store a valid value to the variable? When the 2nd blueprint triggers, does the cast work? if so what value is it getting from the player

[candid arrow]

idk , im a beginner

[grim ore]

then you might want to watch the tutorials again and make sure yours looks like theirs, the same items in the same places with the same code

[drowsy snow]

Also look out for the Unreal Online Learning courses (see pinned message).

[grim ore]

off the top of my head, your glassinfinite blueprint looks like your level bp so that would never work, what actor is being overlapped in that case?

[naive oriole]

My dynamic material has a super low resolution, even though the parent material has a high resolution.

Running the game in the editor doesn't have this issue for some reason.

[naive oriole]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/Engine/UCanvas/DrawTile/ What are the "texel" units for U and V? I tried both from 0 to 1 and 0 to texture size and neither draws the full texture at full resolution.

[ruby robin]

Guys, does anybody if it is possible to get rendering data from a "stat startfile"/"stat stopfile" profile file?

[dapper hatch]

It fixed, thank you

[uneven cargo]

Is it possible to combine several actors into a single asset, like a prefab? All I find on the internet is merging static meshes (which is not what I want) or using child actor component, which seems to not be recommended.

[mental helm]

Blueprints!

[drowsy snow]

Combining actors containing their own logics? Probably, by attaching spawn actors on Construction Script.
There is Child Actor component, but it's nigh unusable, so let's pretend that didn't exists.

[uneven cargo]

@drowsy snow Exactly, but is it possible to have them also show up in a preview to place them correctly and such, or would I have to repeatedly start the game to see where the spawned actors end up and adjust accordingly?
@mental helm But blueprints are made of components and not other actors right?

[drowsy snow]

Do it in Construction Script, not on Event Graph/Event BeginPlay.

[grim ore]

what are these actors that you are trying to combine?

[turbid wasp]

i have a question.. what is global illumination?

[uneven cargo]

@drowsy snow Oh I haven't used the construction script so I assumed it would behave like BeginPlay at the start of the game, since the object isn't created until then. Do I understand you correctly that if placed in the construction script, you also see a preview in the viewport?
@grim ore In this specific case it's a character with a NinjaLive (the plugin) actor, which I can't add as a component to the character. (The plugin does have a component version as well, but it lacks some functionality that I need)

[drowsy snow]

Also known as bounce lighting.
Basically indirect lighting you get from lights bouncing around a surface.

[turbid wasp]

Oh!

thank you 🙂

[uneven cargo]

@drowsy snow So I looked into what you suggested and I don't think that's it. Seems like the construction script is run not only when the object is created, but also when it is transformed and who knows what else so it would be very inefficient (https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/spawn-actor-from-construction-script-loophole/20361). I found a plugin called Prefabricator that does more or less what I want, but is there really no way to do this natively? Seems like it would be a pretty common thing.

[drowsy snow]

I don't think it's that common, though granted I parted ways from Unity for a long time.

[grim ore]

components would probably be the way you would end up doing it, which is why they have a component, but the issue is that component isnt good enough for you 😦

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have problem with my inventory system I want to make exchange item system when you select an item and press button to exchange it with other item, it is kinda working but the problem is that it doesn't update the "thumnail " of the old item. idk how to fix it
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/wc17rfdr/
this is the link of my all bp
I will be more than happy if someone can help me
I am fighting with this problem for 2 weeks 😦

[uneven cargo]

More or less yeah xD I mean I already have the system working as it should, it's just that if I were to say make a new level it would be more convenient to just have one actor to drag into the scene than multiple ones. Anyway thanks @grim ore , @drowsy snow for your help, I might find some hacky workaround. Also your tutorials are great @grim ore 😉

[plush yew]

anyone have some hidden knowlage on unwrapping uvs on nanite stuff and is willing to share

when you unwrap a mesh over 100k polys either in 3dsmax maya or blender

your pc will take a loooong time with it

is there a way to unwrap high poly objects without super long delays or crashing

[mental helm]

My work flow has been make a mid poly model, either subdiv or a block out, do the high poly or sculpt, go back to the mid poly and UV it, subdivide it, and have it shrinkwrap to the high poly

[sage coral]

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction to get my hair physics to move all at once? Currently it works but all the hair strands move individually

And its not interacting with the collisions of the body for some reason other than thouse 2 issues the cloth sim works for the hair

[drowsy snow]

Hair strands, so Groom system?

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow used the curve method in blender and made the 3d model into a plane for performance

I alreasy have the 3d model itself but the cloth system is acting strangly with the hair model

[drowsy snow]

So basically hair cards.

[sage coral]

More or less

Rectangles in place of hair strands and slapping a 2d texture on top of them and them having it use ue4s cloth sim to sim the movement of the hair

[drowsy snow]

Try look into Paragon models for reference. I think they don't simulate it per hair card, but more of as a whole.

[gloomy cosmos]

hello

i want to let players pick up blocks and lock them in place

[tropic iron]

hey guys quick question, was having some issues with my texture streaming.

I have a 3080, Ryzen 7 5850, and 64gb ram.

5800x*

[drowsy snow]

r.Streaming.PoolSize x
with x being the max streaming pool size in MB.

[tropic iron]

what do you reccomend? 48000?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on your VRAM.

[gloomy cosmos]

is this possible

[tropic iron]

ahhh

ty! that worked

[grim ore]

@gloomy cosmosanything is possible sure

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow I think I found the issue I think its got somethin to do with me nit weight painting the hair to the head model.

[gloomy cosmos]

how would i do this'

[drowsy snow]

Do you know how to code gameplay in Blueprints?

[gloomy cosmos]

yea

[abstract scaffold]

Working on a topdown shooter. I have the camera boom angle at 80deg. instead of straight down. I'm spawning projectiles that move from my muzzle point to the cursor location. Problem is.. everything is slightly off (bullets landing higher than the cursor location on everything that isn't straight up or straight down). If i switch the boom to straight down (90 deg.) everything is PERFECT. I'm assuming there is some kind of mathematically offset I can do to account for the 10 degree camera tilt when calculating the projectile rotation, but i'm not really sure where to begin. Any ideas?

[harsh tiger]

Does anyone happen to know the date that the marketplace sales are paid this month? Or is it just random?

[trim mantle]

Did NO ONE comment on Gawr Gura? xD

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-gif-19065243

"A"

[tropic iron]

another question. my spot light isnt emitting any light, and its red, what does that mean and how do i solve this?\

[grim ore]

a red X on it?

[tropic iron]

yes

[grim ore]

is it set to sationary for the mobility?

[tropic iron]

actually no there completely red

mmoveable

[grim ore]

oh super weird, movable shouldnt have that issue.

[tropic iron]

very

[grim ore]

usually that is only on stationary, it means too many lights are near eachother

[drowsy snow]

I actually don't like VTubers, so I don't comment on it.

Though it may be because of my general YT preferences (I prefer videos on applied science, game tech, and speedruns), and the fact that most of well known VTubers are 2D sprites aligned with facial trackers, don't appeal to me technologically.

I wanted to see one fully 3D VTuber, preferrably rendered with Unreal Engine, not limited to face tracking - aside from CodeMiko.

[tropic iron]

i fixed it haha! nothing was wrong just had to bring intensity up!

[trim mantle]

Guess what app am I doing for my GF

https://tenor.com/view/kappa-smile-gif-14040974

Full body tracking is a bish thou

The only solution to do that without suit for 1.5k is a 200$ kinnect

[neon bough]

intel realsense^

kinect is ded

nvm "In August 2021 Intel announced it is “winding down” its RealSense computer vision division to focus on its core businesses."

so ded, too 😄

[dusk nebula]

Just gonna brag for a minute and say that I got my parent/child blueprints for powerups working like exactly how I envisioned it working. Literally all I have to change are inherited variables for color, text etc, and add different effects to the events

[elder vortex]

Hey guys ,how can i make a hitlag like in fighting games via blueprints?

[plush yew]

grats dude

[plush yew]

Maybe post an example i have no idea what lag your talking about

[elder vortex]

like freeze game on few frames for impact

[grim ore]

you can change the time dilation to slow / pause the game

[plush yew]

https://youtu.be/imq8cvOBDqU?t=11

??

[elder vortex]

Yeah,it`s works fine in preview but works very slow in a builded project (here is the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT-zUvbH8IU&ab_channel=СИМОН )

[grim ore]

@elder vortexso the video was nice and all but its so long and we have no idea what we are supposed to be looking at. Depending on how you are doing your time dilation (if using tick for example) might be the problem

[blissful trail]

wow imagine sending a fake nitro link in the unreal slackers server

[grim ore]

its not a nitro link, its a bad naughty link

[blissful trail]

well obviously

:>

[elder vortex]

in first part of the video its a editor gameplay , after 0:50 is gameplay in builded project

[grim ore]

ok, so how are you turning down and back up the time dilation if that is what you are using?

[grim ore]

you should consider using a timeline rather than a delay node

or if you are going to use delays, set a custom time dilation inside of this blueprint so its not affected.

pretty much the answer is to make this item not affected by the global time dilation by settings its custom time dilation to the opposite of the global

[blissful trail]

ok so im having trouble making it change a mesh in multiplayer. basically it changes player 1's mesh but only for player 1 & player 2's mesh does not change at all any ideas ??

i did try adding 2 meshes and changing the visibility but that didn't work at all

[atomic knot]

hey would you guys recommend i use ue 4.27 atm or try to use ue5 even tho its really buggy

[blissful trail]

4.27

[grim ore]

add some print strings after the commands to see who is calling what

see if you can narrow down who is not calling it

[sharp shadow]

<@&213101288538374145> Does it make sense to share this in #unreal-news? It is basically like Featured free content which is there regularly announced but there are only 3 days to claim it. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/education-week-exclusive-download-your-free-marketplace-assets-until-november-1

[maiden swift]

Good catch. Sorry we missed that. Will be posted shortly.

[sharp shadow]

Thanks!

[loud berry]

is there a help channel here?

[grim ore]

every channel can be help if its appropriate

[loud berry]

alright big post incoming lol

hey guys feel kinda stupid here. But it takes a bit of explaining... so around 3-4 days ago I began modeling 3 separate planks that I would then use to create a produce box/crate with variation for wood. This is my third week in blender.

I got all the textures done, then proceeded to take all those wood planks (they were all modeled, uv map'd, and textured in the same file), soft-import them into my produce box mockup, assembled the produce crate. Am pretty happy with the final result.

My problem now is when I try to import it to unreal engine it has a whole sleu of models, textures, etc. When it should only have 3 models, plus the assembled produce box, and finally about 9-12 texture maps for each plank. But in unreal it ends up being about 70 or so.

How do I finish making this model a game ready asset?

[grim ore]

well I did say appropriate, this seems like less of a general question and maybe more like #graphics

[loud berry]

I also asked in the blender community as well but if u take a look at the blend file just let me know so i can start a thread or we can DM

it's not graphics related

[grim ore]

its not? "graphics - Meshes, materials, lighting, etc."

[loud berry]

no

[grim ore]

is not a mesh with materials...

[loud berry]

it's about importing all of those assets into unreal engine. there should only be like... maybe 20 some odd files, but theres around... 70 or so that get imported to unreal

[grim ore]

have you looked at the send to blender plugin? https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/download-our-new-blender-addons

[loud berry]

i have not but i just watched the vid and i don't think that's the issue. i believe the issue is how i assembled the model. Unreal is treating the blend model like it has 16 different models which is true but there's only 4 unique models that all have their own texture maps. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it and was hoping someone who has experience making game assets could help me figure it out

[indigo cradle]

Is there easy way to make foam appear only near shoreline? I am using Custom Water Body. The shoreline has custom rock meshes and such.

[loud berry]

this thread seems to go in-depth with the global distance field that you need to have enabled

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-4-26-ocean-foam/154699/6

[indigo cradle]

Thanks for this. It seems UE5 doesnt have separate setting for the global distance field.

[loud berry]

😫 oh nooooo it might of been moved to a different area, want me to dig for you?

[indigo cradle]

That's all good, but thanks. It seems this is very difficult. My assumption at this stage is that I need to get some blueprint going in order to get the foam right?

[loud berry]

yeah it definitely sounds procedural

[indigo cradle]

The demos make it look sooo easy. But there is no tutorial that would explain how to do this actually.

Even foam based on height of the waves doesnt seem to be something that can be done out of the box.

[loud berry]

is UE5 experimental at this point? Any particular reason you're using UE5? I'm just finding hardly anything on UE5 for what you're trying to do

[indigo cradle]

Yes UE5 is EA and not recommended for production.

If I downgradew to 4.27 do you think there is a chance that the water would work better?

[grim ore]

since water is a plugin I would be surprised if it worked better

[indigo cradle]

Good point

[grim ore]

an issue with some of these tools is they are easy if you know what you are doing, which is why those demos look so easy... but for the rest of us...

[indigo cradle]

Buying some kind of water from Marketplace might be the way to go

[fleet raven]

Hi, I have a question, if i have made a scene with some assets, and want to put them to another level.. how can i move them without merge. Cause if i merge the assets they are not editable

[drowsy snow]

Load it as sublevel in a persistent level.

[fleet raven]

Thank i will try 🙂

[zinc shore]

dose ue4 have double precision floats for large worlds

[drowsy snow]

No.

[zinc shore]

will UE5 have it

ive heard godot may have all its math and physics be 64bit in the next version so im wondering if UE will do the same

[copper wadi]

At the ultra high level, how would I do a global system? Imagine a game with multiple levels, but a consistent/persistent day/night cycle. Where does the day/night cycle live? I cant seem to figure out where I should be putting systems that run beyond the scope of a given level.

[drowsy snow]

Assuming it's an open world, the sky actor should be in the root persistent level, not in the sublevels.

[copper wadi]

ahh, right. so generally speaking you would have a persistent root level, then load and unload locations as sub levels? That makes sense. I think thats my solution.

[copper wadi]

Thank you

[prime willow]

Weird question but are any of you using Control Rig

with your Daz models?

[drowsy snow]

Well, you know the answer from me ;)

[dusk nebula]

Does anyone have a good visual representation of how the different parameters on "apply radial damage" work?

[grim juniper]

I believe the answer to this is yes. However, I don't think Early Access has it yet

[prime willow]

O> not fair mannequin cheats

[plush yew]

anyone know a tutorial on how to set up colleterial damage with line trace by channel?

[plush yew]

did not know that was a thing LOL i set up the whole system, and realized its not what i wanted.

thanks

np lol

outhits is an array ugh

more coding 😦

[prime willow]

can i bother you for actually 10 seconds?

https://tenor.com/view/shy-anime-embarassed-girl-gif-15974488

its control rig related

[rancid lagoon]

or anyone know of any good tutouralils on it?

[drowsy snow]

I'm currently taking some nanomachines vaccines atm, so yeah...

[prime willow]

I dont follow o.o

are you in trouble?

[brazen jacinth]

Hi, I'm super new to Unreal and working on an environment school assignment. I'm curious the best way to go about making semi detailed land shapes as the sculpting tool seems a bit too blocky. Referencing this type of detail.

[prime willow]

pretend it s apicture youre painting and work with the tool to get your desire dlook

[drowsy snow]

Just taking a COVID vaccine.

[prime willow]

or buy a lanscape tool click 1 button and pretend you made a level creatively

oh

be careful

;-;

[brazen jacinth]

Like if I flattened the lower land that juts into the rock there, it'll cut below the higher side. The land doesn't really meet right to the rock on both sides.

[prime willow]

poke me when youre free and ill ask dah question

its relatively simple and silly but you have experience with control rig so id rathe rhave your assessment on this matter/trade off

[prime willow]

move the rock

and place it on the landscape

the order of level design dont take my word for it is

Landscape > skin the landscape > setup watter if any > whatever comes next > lighting > place objects on the landscape

[brazen jacinth]

ahh okie, thank you.

[prime willow]

trust me if you put stuff down than landscape you get nothing but issues and reworks to do

dont go crazy with lighting

[brazen jacinth]

We hardly touched Unreal/Unity as I'm studying Game Art and just barely into second year

[prime willow]

jsut the sky

moon sun etc

maybe skylights

[brazen jacinth]

gotcha gotcha

[prime willow]

or use something like dynamic weather / sky so you can drag and drop your entire sky setup

[brazen jacinth]

I assume those are on the marketplace? :o

[prime willow]

landscape paint floor slap on the sun add water idk what comes next than place objects than code the objects for interactions

and yes

to all of the steps

if you have money or am lazy or uncreative

if you have time and you want something really specific youre better making it the long hard way

xD

marketplace assets are hit or miss

[brazen jacinth]

loool yeah, welllll this environment is due on Friday sooo maybe I'll learn sometime later haha.

[prime willow]

they either get what you have in mind or dont have it at all and you sip some copium

the more creative you are the worst pre made assets are

[brazen jacinth]

oh yeah

[prime willow]

the less you care the easier game design becomes you can find assets for everything tho it may lack charm and inspirations and blah blah blah

honestly just pick what you can sacerfice and what you need to be on point and work with that

[prime willow]

lastly if youre going to dive into assets a good key to remember is higher reviews past 5 or 10 mean typically really really dumb good asset and look deeply before buying something youre intersted in

[bleak vessel]

UE newbie here... I have been watching a bunch of unreal tutorials and I notice a lot of them are about creating very low level functionality not directly related to gameplay... for instance.. how to do you setup a material so it can be tiled independently in the X and Y axis, how to you create parameter to offset materials and so on an so forth?

[prime willow]

there are an infinite amount of the same assets around lastly you have 14 days to return anything you dislike

so dont stubble your feet around if an asset sucks

quickly refund it

[brazen jacinth]

glad to know! thanks!

[prime willow]

oh and sales super important

some assets that go for 300+

can magically go down to 100

on sales which are bi monthly

[brazen jacinth]

oh jeez lol

[prime willow]

@brazen jacinth dungeon arcttech is 300+

and now its 150

until oct ends

[brazen jacinth]

oh god LOL

[prime willow]

and dungeon artiftech is amazing asf

another note

add stuff to wishlist

you want on sale

wait until a big one comes and snatch it :3

[brazen jacinth]

I did notice that!

[bleak vessel]

I kind of understand UE may not have those functionalities avaiable by default since it has no been targeted to indie devs in the past but... why can't I just download a blueprint collection from the market that will have all this low level funcionalty already setup for me... as oposed to re-creating all by myself from scratch?

[prime willow]

wishlist has 50 slots so pick the most expensive ones you want and stack them there

granted thats what you can do if you go down the asset flip route

[grim ore]

Was your question asking those questions? If so the unreal learn site has some material courses that cover those questions

[prime willow]

sorry sorry lastly one more important thing

unreal gives away hundreds of dollars of assets a month

its in their free section

[brazen jacinth]

no sorries!

[prime willow]

so and randomly theyll add more like they just did until oct ends

[bleak vessel]

Not really , I added the question later

[prime willow]

i just check weekly lol

[brazen jacinth]

also omg yeah I noticed that, and picked up all of them just seeing the usual prices. it's great to see.

[prime willow]

yes yes

i check on sundays and on the last and beginning of each month you never know when something you want exactly as is just goes on sale or is added for free :3

[grim ore]

There are free collections like mentioned as well as the learn content on the launcher with examples you can use that do stuff like this. Look at the content examples project.

[bleak vessel]

ah ok thank you

so there's a place where I can just copy a material that already has offset and tiling already setup as parameters for me?

[grim ore]

Sure

[bleak vessel]

ok, so I have to look around the examples and see where I can find it?

[grim ore]

Starting with the material samples would be a good start.

[bleak vessel]

got it thank you

This avatar kinda looks familiar to me

[sharp crest]

@maiden swift free stuff https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/assets?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0&tag=18226

first time I see on the marketplace before your announcement

[stone edge]

If I use a cubemap hdri in my skylight, actors like sky atmosphere and skysphere become redundant, right?

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have problem with my inventory system I want to make exchange item system when you select an item and press button to exchange it with other item, it is kinda working but the problem is that it doesn't update the "thumnail " of the old item. idk how to fix it
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/wc17rfdr/
this is the link of my all bp
I will be more than happy if someone can help me
I am fighting with this problem for 2 weeks 😦

How could I stop the blocks from going through the ground and other blocks when building? I use linetrace and set world location to determinate the location currently.

[brazen jacinth]

@prime willow I'm the big dumb, I misunderstood the landscape resize tool before so it was like trying to work with low poly. I just resampled it to 255x255 and can actually carve the creek in the shape I want without it being too blocky.

[prime willow]

yup

like i said take your time with the tool

and pretend youre painting a picture~

[brazen jacinth]

probably not the best for performance but we aren't making optimization, we're making something look pretty as our instructor said lol

yeah it's been enjoyable to tool around with!

[prime willow]

yush yush

if youre deticated enough you can make some pretty amazing fantasy like scenes

[brazen jacinth]

My fav

[prime willow]

you can even use meshes probably as giant floating islands

[brazen jacinth]

ooooh

[prime willow]

outside of the landscape bounds

https://tenor.com/view/one-piece-strong-world-beautiful-flying-islands-floating-islands-gif-20220984

[sharp crest]

lol

[knotty summit]

Do you guys use NVIDIA Studio drivers or Game drivers? Which one makes more sense for game development?

[sharp crest]

@knotty summit just download nvidia geforce experience or somethijng like that

and it will automatically install the best drivers

[knotty summit]

Yeah already installed, I'm just wondering if it makes difference. 🙂

[sharp crest]

probably not since I never heard of it

lol

[knotty summit]

I mistakenly downloaded it today, I somehow switched it before and forget it

I'll revert back to game drivers but that question came to my mind

[sharp shadow]

Was it decided to not post it? For me it does not matter but I can imagine many people missed it.

[south edge]

Hi, does anyone here have experience implementing a UE4 c++ leaderboard system with Playfab?

[turbid wasp]

I tried to download grass from the quixel library and it didn’t work. I got some file that looked weird and i couldn’t put it into unreal, does anyone know what happend?

[sleek lily]

hey guys, me and my team are taking part in the spooktober jam. We really need a 2d pixel artist rn. If interested, DM me.

[languid topaz]

Hi, my project runs perfectly in editor but in the build (0 errors) it crashes randomly when loading maps so often. Any tip?

[frozen stratus]

I have SceneCaptureComponent2D with TAA enabled. It works perfectly when I play in editor (PIE), but as "standalone game" or when I package the project and run it, the result is jagged edges as if TAA on SceneCapture hadn't been enabled. Something seems to be causing it to default to FXAA. Any idea how to make this work?

[trim mantle]

There could be a number of things so we can’t help

[languid topaz]

I on it, I disabled my save/load game features and it seems that don't crashes

nah, it keeps crashing

found this

[digital rover]

I created a vehicle but it doesn't interact properly with player and AI pawns. When a player runs into the vehicle, it sends it flying into the air or moves it sideways. I set the mass of the vehicle to 50,000 kg but it didn't have any effect on the physics interactions, it just slowed down the engine speed. I looked through the settings for vehicles and it doesn't look like there are any physics settings. How can I get the vehicle physics to act properly? I am going for something like the vehicles in gta 5 where they can push each other around but players have a minimal effect on vehicle movement.

and when we drive fast from road steps it will throw the vehicle into the sky like vehicle has no weight

anyone know solution for this?