ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

What are you talking about? Mine works as usual, still able to install vanilla 4.27.

And no, there's no conspiratorial shady things going on. Might be specifically YOUR installation of the launcher acting up.

[bleak vessel]

lol, I never thought about it being conspiratorial

let me show you

that's all I got in this page, the rest is just news articles

[drowsy snow]

Duh.

[drowsy snow]

It's in "Library".

[past plume]

Does anyone know how to turn off a mesh but still keep it in the level?

[bleak vessel]

ah! you got it thanks!

yeah I'm a n00b 😅

[drowsy snow]

How about just hiding it?

[past plume]

Are you talking about this?

I'm wanting to hide it in the editor and in game but keep it there for later use

[past plume]

hiding it only works in editor, not in game too

[drowsy snow]

No. This, in the Details panel.

[past plume]

Ahhhhhh very nice thank you

[latent pivot]

sup. say i have a list of levels i want to use as like, a playlist so that when players beat one level they can go to the next. how can i store the assortment of levels? i can manually set up each level to go to the next using different game modes, but i rather some kind of asset that has a list of levels. is there any way of doing this?

[drowsy snow]

Sublevels.

[latent pivot]

that's not necessarily what i want but ok, i can guess that can work

like, i want the entire level to tear down and set up again. like, if you're loading the level

but ok i guess i'll try that

[sick escarp]

My AV is unironically blocking Build.bat

[midnight bolt]

how can i disable xbox 360 gamepad in the editor?

[drowsy snow]

Physically yank it out from your computer.
I don't see the reason why you would disable the gamepad in the editor, unless your controller is faulty and cause the editor viewport to fly out of control.

[midnight bolt]

well that's a very ignorant take on it, and completely obsolete answer.i obviously asked, because there is a benefit to just focus gamepad input on other application, rather than responding to two at the same time.

open your mind.

[thorn lichen]

Is there a way in UE4 to normalize lightmap UV's? I'm getting weird lighting between these modular floor meshes because the lightmaps aren't consistent.

[drowsy snow]

Open your google then. There could be some hacky Windows level workarounds for it.

Or, you know, just minimise the frickin editor while you use the gamepad on other app. Problem solved.

[midnight bolt]

no need to be clowning. you are not contirbuting at all

[drowsy snow]

I can understand if minimising the editor is a chore, but okay fine.

[hardy pendant]

Greetings fellas, I may need some help with one thing I'm working on.

I've made one material in UE5 which has emmissive on it

and this happens

is this renderer bug or material isn't set up properly?

[drowsy snow]

Are you talking about the ghostly lines, or something else?

[hardy pendant]

yeah

[drowsy snow]

That's just the lens flare.

[hardy pendant]

no it's looks like it's smudged

I've turned off lens and same thing

[drowsy snow]

Huh, probably Lumen reflections.

[hardy pendant]

I'm newbie to Unreal Engine at all (except UE2 that I used for Postal 2 years ago)

So how can I quickly disable the Lumen?

[drowsy snow]

Either use UE4, or disable it in Project Settings.

[hardy pendant]

okay

still same

I've switched to Screen Space

no bueno

turned it off, same

[plush yew]

Restart your Unreal Enginr

[plush yew]

hey guys

does anyone here use Plastic SCM with unreal?

[plush yew]

wats that?

[drowsy snow]

#source-control

[errant blade]

Does one still need to build ue4 from source to export dedicated servers?

or is that outdated info?

[unkempt raft]

yo guys

ive decided i want to start my game dev journey

and so

i wanna know how should i start it off

I see alot of people use blueprints but i wanna do c++ and blueprint mix so should i learn ue4 blueprints first?

[plush yew]

hello

[bleak zodiac]

@unkempt raft
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/blueprints---essential-concepts

[humble bay]

hello

Anyone know how to disable post process in Unreal without having to completely delete it from scene?

[plush yew]

could someone help me with something should be simple

[drowsy snow]

https://www.dontasktoask.com/

[bitter iris]

hi guys, how would I randomise the material on say "TShirt Mesh" i have here.Basically want the characters to spawn with different materials at spawn so its not all the same

[plush yew]

I sent my code in the bp channel

what I mean is is there a simple way to make a train system like gta I would like to know sorry for asking incorrectly

[finite wren]

Does Unreal have an animation editor, where you can keyframe?

[plush yew]

I used a timeline so I do not know sorry

[winter rain]

Yes it does

[plush yew]

oh are you asking me I apologize lol

[finite wren]

@winter rain is it the sequencer?

[winter rain]

Yeah this part of an animation blueprint

Click a bone, press S to add to sequencer, move the bone, click Key at the top to add a keyframe etc

[finite wren]

ok thanks

[pure galleon]

hey guys, my vr game launched in desktop mode which definitely not what i wanted

how do i fix this? sorry this is my first time package game for htc vive

[plush yew]

maybe project settings

[torn ember]

any way to easily lock z root movement?
or shift it
guess i'll have to learn animating sooner or later 😉
how much does motion capture gear go for nowadays?

[pure galleon]

yeah but my friend said he opens the file n the first map he sees is a default blue sky wif stars n mountain something like that

im very confused now

[mental shale]

lol I dont get this

wouldnt the technical artists have an easier time??

(idk what exactly a tech artist really does in this context)

arent technical artists the ones who usually retopologize for artists??

[drowsy snow]

Expect price range of $20K for mocap suit

Personally I prefer animating by hand, because I'm aiming for more stylised anims, not necessarily realistic.

[plush yew]

you do not even need mocap stuff these days

just buy this

you only need one anim

for each thing you do..

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/strider-animation-warping

This removes the traditional 8 way direction, to one animation only.

[faint bone]

good morning, can i add array in a map in ue4 bp?

[plush yew]

yay 2 hours and i figured it out 😄

MFer has ear hands LOL

[hidden dew]

Hi all,
I've got a sphere imported from Blender with some basic materials on it to show some tiles with different colours. Their positions were defined in Blender for the example in the pic.

I want to be able to change the colours of those hexagonal tiles individually on the fly, but I don't know what basics I should be looking into. Should I do something like switch tiles between one of 5 different materials? Or more like have 1 material and a way to make it different colours in different places... if that's even a thing.

So my question is: What kind of technique should I be learning about, in order to be able to change colours of individual tiles?

(Added info: -- over 1000 tiles -- can access the polys defining each one if that's worth anything -- I might not care if the tile is perfectly covered or not, if that's worth anything too)

[plush yew]

Yes you would need more than one material to do that

each spot you want to rematerialize, you need a material for

you want to do it in game? or in the editor?

[hidden dew]

in game

[plush yew]

you can create a custom event and cast to chage the material on the object

in the bp of your character

I would suggest using maybe a line trace by channel

[hidden dew]

You said each spot would need a material... so, like 1000 materials (since there are 1000ish tiles)?
Or is it viable to have say the 5 different colours I want, and be able to set any tiles to 1 of the 5 materials whenever

[plush yew]

thats up to you lol

[hidden dew]

Is that an approach that isn't entirely terrible?

[plush yew]

i mean you can do a switch on physical surface too when the line trace hits the tile and changes the color.

but the engine only comes with like 80 on default

[hidden dew]

Oh, but the whole thing is 1 surface

[plush yew]

you got a lot of options 🙂

Physical materal can be applied to a collision,

[hidden dew]

Hmm, getting a bit over my head hehe

[plush yew]

you can make a collision for each spot and it would switch it

lol

[hidden dew]

I understand line traces and such, but not sure why you're suggesting them

If it's relevant, I can already indentify any tile I want to change

[plush yew]

you left click, you want the color to change

[hidden dew]

ahh

yeah yeah, ok

right

[plush yew]

xD

MANY easier ways to do this, i was thinking replication

work time 😦 I hate night shifts

[hidden dew]

ok, stuff for me to think about, ty

So I think excel was suggesting something like, line trace, then upon detecting a hit, something has to know which polys need a material change/update.

Then, make that change/update

That is doable. I'm curious about whether that's considered a good practice for my intent.

[drowsy snow]

And what exactly is your intention with the ball? Are some shader work is not going to cut it?

[hidden dew]

Ultimately I want to be able to flip any tile's/tiles' colour/colours as much as desired. Say when a little guy runs across them, or some other game logic happens.

You said shader work, but I'm not sure what to look into learning about.

The main thing I'm cautious of is that there are 1000 different tiles, so I'm sure there's a terrible way to do it, and a not-terrible way to do it

So I'm wondering what I could look into learning for the not-terrible way of changing the colours of 1000 different tiles separately (between only 5 different colours total)

[wary wave]

Lots of wonky advice above. If it's just colour you're changing, all you need is one material with five instances, one for each colour

you can create instances at run time if you wanted to, and there's not really any limit other than sanity on how many you can create at run time

the harder part is working out which tile you are working with from game logic, and how you do that is going to really depend on your intent

[drowsy snow]

Maybe some render targets? Though I'm not sure how it's going to work with a sphere.

[wary wave]

I can't see why you'd want render targets for any part of this

[hidden dew]

@drowsy snow
Yeah, I'm learning that a sphere certainly does make life harder.

@wary wave
Five instances sounds like a good thing.
When you say "Which tile you're working with", do you mean hard for the system to figure out where it's meant to be rendering the changed colour? Or hard for me to be able to define it?

For learning's sake I can click a tile with the mouse and know which faces on the sphere make up that tile. But I'm not sure where I take things from there. Would I be thinking along the lines of:
a) Literally a different material slot for every tile (hence questioning sanity hehe) (defined in Blender)
b) in Unreal, give every one of those slots 1 of the 5 instances
?

[wary wave]

your best bet would be for each tile to be a unique mesh if you're exporting from Blender, but I expect that a lot of the tiles aren't geometricly unique, so coming up with a way to use the same asset multiple times is going to be more sound

line tracing to determine which is under the mouse cursor is valid for the purposes of determining which you're working with

you may actually find it better to ditch Blender and generate the geometry inside Unreal itself

but obviously there's a lot of work involved there

[hidden dew]

Yeah, picking a tile isn't a problem. I can already do it with a trace or simply a command, they're already sorted out

But by that I mean, the polygons are known, which may or may not be of much use.

Interesting that separate meshes could be a viable thing. I would've thought the other way on that, but obviously I'm only getting to grips with this stuff.
It's an icosahedron so I think that means... sections that are repeated ... 60 (?) times?

[wary wave]

yeah, that's quite a lot - if the sphere is the entire 'game' it's probably just fine

[hidden dew]

ok

yeah it would be the heavy majority of it

[wary wave]

if your icosahedron gets bigger (more tiles), then not having a unique asset per tile will probably become a priority

but for now each tile can merrily be it's own actor / have it's own static mesh

and from there the act of changing the material in slot 0 is just trivial

[hidden dew]

not having a unique asset per tile -- is that why you suggested considering generating the geometry in Unreal instead?

[wary wave]

it's one reason yeah, you'd have an easier time managing and duplicating the tiles

[hidden dew]

And yep, so ok the multiple-meshes approach is one thing I can get my head around. Progress.

right

[wary wave]

but also it would scale, once you have an algorithm that works, increasing or decreasing the number of tiles in your icosahedron becomes as easy as changing an integer in the BP that generates it

[hidden dew]

Right

And just confirm this for me... 1000 separate simple meshes all using the same material aren't making a significant problem in terms of materials/rendering, right?

Like, the number of meshes adds some work for sure, but sharing 1 material over all of them isn't a big deal from there, no?

[wary wave]

1000 is a lot - that they're all using the same material is a good thing, rather than a bad one

[hidden dew]

right, cool

ty

[wary wave]

I would almost certainly look into using Instanced Static Meshes in a single blueprint if you're going to have as many as 1000 tiles

there will be a lot of manual management, but you'll go from around 2000+ draw calls for the sphere, down to maybe less than 100

and that will have a big impact

[broken spire]

How does one make a collider mesh?

In unity there's mesh renderers and then you can apply a collider mesh component and use that custom mesh. In unreal I can't find a tutorial on how to specify which mesh i want to use as a collider

[feral sierra]

you double click on your mesh, and then you can generate an automatic collider (not advised) or import yours

[broken spire]

So I've done that...

I have a collider set for the floor as "Use Complex Collision As Simple" and the character controller keeps getting stuck on an edge that's completely flat.

he gets stuck on the seam of the edge

[feral sierra]

show me your mesh, you probably didn't divided your collider

if your mesh has a concave shape, you have to make slice of it in order to only have convex shapes

[feral sierra]

otherwise Unreal will "fill the gap" and make collider on void

can you click on collision?

come to PM

[broken spire]

Sure

[plush yew]

Hello, I imported weapon skeletal mesh and now my skeleton dont play animations ? how ?

[hidden dew]

@wary wave
I'm reading that when using Instanced Static Meshes, you can't change the material between different instances of the same mesh. So I can't think of how ISMs can help significantly.
Hmm... unless I basically have 5 copies of each base static mesh, and rendering the ISMs is about saying which 1 of the 5 base SMs to render an instance of... for every tile.

(5 because 5 different possible materials)

[wary wave]

you write code to create and remove instances as necessary

you'd need one ISM component for each tile with a given mesh and material

you can create and destroy these ISM components at run time as you require them

this is valuable because if you have 300 identical tiles, you can effectively batch and render them as if it were a single tile

recent versions of UE4 are supposed to be able to automatically handle instancing so that you don't need to care about it, but I'm not sure it's reliable enough in this case

[hidden dew]

Yup, but if those 300 tiles could be using 1 of 5 different materials, I can't batch all 300, but I CAN think in terms of having 5 batches - 1 batch per material on identically-shaped tiles.

That sound on the money?

[wary wave]

that's correct yes

you'd end up with 5 batches, one for each combination of that tile + different material

[hidden dew]

yup

[fiery basalt]

why can't I install unreal engine?

its unclickable

[hidden dew]

@wary wave
(Feel free to pass if this is taking too much of your time)

From what I've learnt in the last hour it sounds like ISMs are pretty much the way I should go, unless I do decide to try to plough through over 1000 draw calls every frame.

But there's another approach I've been thinking about, made possible because I don't actually care if the tiles change colour perfectly within the lines. I could accept instead just coloured circles on the sphere's surface, overlapping each other at times, no big deal.

So Material Parameters are a thing I could maybe try. I was thinking of that because I once managed to move a circle of changing appearance around a sphere, using a material with a material parameter, that basically did something like "if you're X close to this paramater position Y, render a different thing".

To extend this thinking to a sphere with 1000 tiles on it, ie., 1000 positions that would each need to know "which of the 5 colours to render near this position", I guess it would mean needing to update the material with enough data each frame to represent 5 states of 1000 points.

Does that kind of thinking sound feasible? Sending about 3Kb of data to the shader via one/many material parameters? Does it sound sane? Unsupported maybe?

[real heath]

sounds like the job of a render target. can you pack that data into a texture?

[hidden dew]

I imagine I could learn to

Can you chuck a small texture down to the shader each frame?

[real heath]

sure, you just update the one texture

same way render targets work

look at how people draw trails in snow etc, except you'd be encoding data into the texture, rather than using it like a heightmap

[hidden dew]

I've messed with that kind of thing once, so I have a vague recollection of what you're describing, but it was only once

Yeah

That's what I was doing in said messing around

ok

So a possible approach

[real heath]

possibly more efficient than sending in 1000 variables into the material, but i don't know, never messed with anything of that scale

[hidden dew]

eh, even setting up 1000 variable would be a PITA

[real heath]

you could script that, but yeah, i agree

maintenance nightmare

[tall tide]

Hello, I am trying to make a glass jug that contains water and you can pour it to other containers. How would one go about doing this? I am a beginner with unreal so I have no clue what I am doing... If anyone has any ideas on how to do this or can point me to the right direction it would be great! Thanks!

[wicked sparrow]

Depends if you want to show it pouring, or just removing/adding water. Every actor that can be filled would have a current volume and maximum volume value, and it's simply the case of subtracting X 'volume' per tick from the jug, and adding that same volume to the other container. You can then figure out how full the containers are by using current and max volume, map this to 0-1 and drive an animation, or a blendshape, or something of the water surface moving up/down.

[tall tide]

I will give it a go then. Thank you very much!!!

[outer minnow]

Hello, anyone updated to win 11 here? any insight on performance side?

[fiery basalt]

do I need to learn java to use unreal? I know python and JS but I didn't start java

[outer minnow]

no

[fiery basalt]

ah, good to know

is java used at all though?

[outer minnow]

not in ue as far as I know

[fiery basalt]

really??

so no coding in unreal engine at ALL

[grizzled axle]

there is c++ and blueprints for coding and python for scripting editor

[fiery basalt]

so im gonna need to learn c++ if I want to make complex games right?

[grizzled axle]

yes, but you can get very far with blueprints alone. depends how complex we talking about

[fiery basalt]

I'll just take a c++ course

honestly as long as its not java Im happy

[fierce tulip]

not really unreal-related but amd is bottlenecked, and generally you'd want stability when game-deving, so I would not suggest using an OS that is pretty much a beta.

[outer minnow]

thanks, then I will remain on win 10 until UE need win 11 to work

[fierce tulip]

if you wanna live on the edge, can always use that (and ue5 ea for good measure XD)

[drowsy snow]

Not much stuff changed under the hood anyway.

[split imp]

hey recently switched over from unity is there a way to make the editor camera a faster cause it feels like im going in slow motion when trying to be productive lmao

nvm

[fierce tulip]

there is camera speed top right of the viewport

[drowsy snow]

Aside from centered taskbar and stuff, you aren't missing out much

[split imp]

worked ut out

[split imp]

thx

[drowsy snow]

Though I personally used Windows 11 because I'm living in the edge.

[fierce tulip]

lol

you live in anisotropy

[outer minnow]

I see, thanks guy

[split imp]

MMMM gota love it when ureal crashes and nothing saved

[languid topaz]

Does anyone knows why timelines works different from editor to build even restricting ticks?

[warm horizon]

anyone use va-rest? Or know a better solution? I’m trying to auth login users via va rest to my Wordpress site to then get some info to pass to the game. I had tried web browser in a umg widget but when I click the pop up to auth it just loses focus to the main game so figured I could use a rest api auth in Wordpress to grab user info and pass back into game but my auth needs username and password in the body. Works with postman but through va rest it’s a pain to get the body values set. Thanks in advance. Dm or ping me if u answer please I have discord muted

[twin stump]

Does somebody know why all my actors in my content browser are being imported at 1% scale? Been searching for an answer for hours and I've come across nothing.

[exotic thicket]

because you're exporting the fbx files at the wrong scale or your import scale is wrong

if you're using blender you may want to look at one of the UE export plugins for it

[drowsy snow]

I definitely should wrote a pinnable message about solving Blender scaling without plugins in #graphics.

Lots of people haven't aware with the scaling issue.

[harsh tiger]

I'm using an oculus quest 2. I have a plugin to play videos stored on the headsets local storage. Playing the videos works, however the FPS drops to around 20fps with a really high GPU and Draw MS. Any ideas on how to improve this?

[thin knoll]

Hi I wan't to sell a Plugin on Unreal asset store but I also wan't to make courses that may use the plugin. Does Unreal marketplace allow reedemtion codes for Assets?

[drowsy snow]

#fab

[thin knoll]

Ok thanks

[split imp]

any1 know some free cabin assets lmao

im to broke and idk how to use blender

or even just a house

[neon bough]

i want to use different biomes in a landscape, actually 3 material blends, is that somehow possible on one landscape or do i need 3 of them?

[manic urchin]

@drowsy snow u know how to solve my problem in blueprint channel?

[prime aspen]

Anyone know the best way to replicate a particle system on a dedi server? 🤔

[real moth]

anyone know why my character is always rotated 90 degrees out?

[prime aspen]

The model?

[exotic thicket]

the mesh is probably just pointing in the wrong direction, rotate the component and that'll likely to fix it

[prime aspen]

^

Usually spawns at wrong angle

[honest vale]

yeah, for some reason the default character faces +Y

instead of +X like everything else

[prime aspen]

Anyone know how to make a spawned actor only visible to owner and vice versa on spawn? Blueprint of it doesnt seem to be working :c

[real moth]

okay so just change that?

sorry to interupt ur question

[manic urchin]

anyone have a recommended good video of how to learn blueprint? because following tutorial of "how to" alone is like driving without understanding a fuction of a car XD

[exotic thicket]

check the unreal learning portal perhaps

[prime aspen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1iWAxoSWLg&ab_channel=DevAddict I like this youtuber he seems very good at what he does

[manic urchin]

u mean like this one?

[manic urchin]

woah, okay i'll try that

[real moth]

okay so just change that?

[prime aspen]

yep

[rare axle]

Anybody know why my root bone might be rotating between blendspaces? I haven't moved it at all in 3DS Max, but UE4 is yanking my character into a weird rotation when blending

[real moth]

ty

[rare axle]

https://gyazo.com/6a9eca26b0b8d7dfb7f370036873ca6c

The blend between walk and run is fine, but between walk and idle it spins like crazy. Both animations have the same root bone which is un-touched at 0,0,0 in Max..

[cyan bronze]

Is it ok to have player model that has 715 000 triangles and 425 000 Vertices

Is it a lot?

First person game

[fierce tulip]

a player model that you wont see?
you can, but it is rather pointless.

[cyan bronze]

I will make it so that the body is shown and meaby in the future there will be some cinematics idk

[midnight robin]

Hello!

I need character for my ue4 game

Can I use meta humans

I mean

[fierce tulip]

LOD's

[midnight robin]

Should I?

[cyan bronze]

Yea i know

[plush yew]

Is there any way to hear the sound from server and client for testing?

Lets say client one shots bullet but you can not hear bullet on client 0 (server) because the window is not active.

[plush yew]

is this muzzle flash to large?

[plush yew]

depends on game style and environment

it looks kinda cartoon like

making a cs/valorant modernday clone

yeah too big

i figured

or you could try to make it more bland

transparent

is there a way to promote it to a variable and make the size smaller?

True!

not good with niagra..

idk

tried niagara, but couldn't get it working

thats how you do niagra right there

lol

and you can't change size of the element?

wtf

exactly.. ill figure this out i guess, i always do! lol

export it to blender

then export again

and import

lol

or does it not work like that

[broken socket]

So i am trying to make a landscape with an auto material thing and the landscape is pitch black

im using a material instance as the matarial

the material i got from an asset pack

[plush yew]

So by default

that should be a remove procedural generation i believe

you need to change it to grass or something

You using brushify?

[broken socket]

no but ive tried using brushify and the same thing happend. Im using the stylized forest pack that comes with an auto material

[plush yew]

Hold on i know how to fix this i just have not done landscape in along time lol

Open layer information i think

you need to apply a layer

[broken socket]

oh yeah its fixed now, i fddled around in the layers and it works

thanks

[plush yew]

npnp

[fiery basalt]

I just need a simple basic runner-style 2d character

why is it difficult to find that

[broken socket]

lern pixel art

[plush yew]

LOL FIRST TIME WORKING WITH CAMERA SHAKE

lmfao

Don't know where to ask
I'm trying to import an FBX rigged mesh just like every other and this is the first time I see this

nvm I accidentally ticked the "export only active collection" in blener
(sigh)

Jesus

lol

anyway, fast question

how can i make text appear on the wall?

like it's slowly being written as you spend time in level

or just in general - you load a level and text is just being written

[manic urchin]

damn my csgo flashback, looks like lot of recoil XD

[plush yew]

LMFAO

i died laughing from this. It should of not been that funny. I might keep it like this tbh xD

[manic urchin]

u mean something like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPB5H11wHxo

[manic urchin]

good luck

[plush yew]

why you say good luck? I guess i wont give players PTSD then

[plush yew]

not really, more like a horror type of vibe - like there's a dark room and suddenly a bright text appears or starts writing by itself on a mirror

probably could create animation and then make it appear with a trigger box or smth

[real moth]

im not sure why i am getting this error can anyone help me please (this is the tower class)

this is the arrow class

[plush yew]

Try promoting the return value to a variable?

or creating a interface with the value in arrow?

[grim ore]

you have not compiled the Arrow blueprint is why @real moth

also, if you set the variable to expose on spawn you can set it when you spawn it (no need for the extra setter node after spawning)

[plush yew]

Smart man, i never noticed that

lol

[manic urchin]

its just a joke, i dont have a real ptsd, its like nostalgic vibes lol XD

[primal lagoon]

HOW I CAN UNJOIN THE GROUP

[plush yew]

oh nvm

[primal lagoon]

im stuck

[grim ore]

how did you group them together?

[primal lagoon]

how i can unjoin

[grim ore]

how did you join them?

[primal lagoon]

how i can exit this group

[grim ore]

.....

[primal lagoon]

no of here discord

[grim ore]

right click the icon on the left and leave server

[autumn flame]

Dafaq

[dusk nebula]

How can I set my inputs up so that the event will fire when some criteria are met, rather than having the input drop if the window is missed? In Destiny 2, you can swap weapons and hold the mouse button and it will fire as soon as the swap ends

[autumn flame]

Sounds like it's just a timer starting when the key is pressed tbh

[plush yew]

look up set timer by event

Someone needs to create a plugin called shortcut.

easy shortcut to a folder in your project.

ez $$

[dusk nebula]

I guess I'm not getting what the timer would do in this case. Is it supposed to loop over a short duration and check if the input is held?

[plush yew]

I got this far, what do i add here to connect these pins.

[dusk nebula]

You break your rotator or connect the gray pins directly

[plush yew]

nvm i split em

oops

lol

[dusk nebula]

It's just personal preference but I always use break nodes instead of just splitting the pin

[plush yew]

would that cause any issues with replication?

[dusk nebula]

Don't see why

There literally isn't a difference AFAIK aside from how the pins look

[plush yew]

i am only 2 years into dev. still a noob

lol

[dusk nebula]

Pretty sure blueprint emulates C++, so there might technically be some performance loss but it's immeasurable

It's like writing (2*6) instead of 12 in every math problem

[bold holly]

Does anyone know how to get a widget to only show on a specific level. For me its showing on every single level

nvm fixed

[plush yew]

lol i love how we all solve our own problems xD

[full sequoia]

What is the general workflow when it comes to managing UE4 projects? Do you save iterations of your project or just backup the project file often?

[digital anchor]

use #source-control software

[devout grove]

my first time launching a project...

will my pc crash?

[grim ore]

yes?

[devout grove]

i dont believe in my pc

[warm horizon]

it will crash many times over the 50 years it takes to make a pong replica dont worry its natural

[devout grove]

how do ppl make games if its crashing every pc lol

do u need nasa pc to use ue?

[warm horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-yoda-patience-sw3-gif-21070142

[devout grove]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-impossible-marvel-shocked-gif-15104180

[warm horizon]

ha

[devout grove]

the issue is my computer

[warm horizon]

sometimes its simple. dont do stupid things like circular dependancies. open ended while loops without ending them properly and not using stupid high poly things i guess. thats most of my crashing right there.

what u got as specs?

[devout grove]

the last time i used it (like half a year ago and now my windows got renewed) i got like 1 fps

[plush yew]

how many fps you had while making it?

[devout grove]

my screen moved for 0.5 seconds and then froze for 5

[plush yew]

i mean, if it can run well in build it should as a final project too

[warm horizon]

u mean when uplayed it?

[devout grove]

the thing is it ran like that in the place where it is only a small building done

i just opened first person building and i wasnt able to build cuz of fps

probably i have potato

im waiting for this to luanch for like 15 minutes already

i hope

[warm horizon]

rookie numbers huh? @plush yew

[drowsy snow]

Rookie numbers

[devout grove]

should i just go to sleep and hope this is loaded in the morning?

[warm horizon]

youl probably find gpu is bottleneck? unless mines broken........ always running 100% and browser or other things get chunky while im in editor

[drowsy snow]

You could increase ShaderCompileWorker.exe processes's priorities to high. That way it'll use more of your CPU and sped things up.

[warm horizon]

oh right yeah.

[devout grove]

im so trash at computer i dont udnerstand what you are talking, funny people

[drowsy snow]

Bruh. It's just as simple as going into Task Manager.

[devout grove]

im there rn

[warm horizon]

01101100 01101111 01101100

[devout grove]

im looking at my cpu and gpu

but i have no idea whats good and whats not, what numbers should be good and what are nto

when i turn on task manager its 11% and turns into 4 or smth

gpu

[devout grove]

is three a lot?

[drowsy snow]

This could help speed up the shader compilation process by a lot.

[devout grove]

when will i see progress?

or where SHOULD i see the progress

[warm horizon]

what hardware are you running?

[drowsy snow]

This is your progress.

[devout grove]

the only thing i know about my computer is... windows + intel

[autumn flame]

Starts a Fire(); Timer that loops the fire while you hold the key

So while you hold the key it will try to fire

[next badger]

I really advice against setting a High Priority to a shader compiler. First of all, it won't work for long, as it will restart the process quite often, second, it may hang whole OS, as generally it takes 99% of cpu.

[devout grove]

74% rn

[drowsy snow]

I'd argue it's good for large amount of shader counts. Also it's not really going to brick the entire OS, but it's a good time to drink some water and watch some YouTube videos on the phone.

I'm talking about starting from 500+ or so.

[next badger]

@drowsy snowi got myself a celeron NUC just for cases like this

[devout grove]

91%

96

[drowsy snow]

I didn't know your phone's CPU load is shared with your PC 🤔

Definitely taking notes.

It worked on me for months now, but I'm always the edgy oddball here, so... eh.

It's not my problem that your phone is tiny.

[plush yew]

any ideas whats happening here?

wow xbox recording sucks

Looking at an animation sequence, the animation works 100% when i create a montage, it "A poses"

any ideas why?

sequence

montage

[drowsy snow]

Maybe something to do with the montage slot?

The default slot should affect anything, so I'm not sure what else causing it to not appear on the persona viewport.

[plush yew]

im so lost with this lol

it makes zero sense

yeah just A poses everytime

[drowsy snow]

The montage itself is in A pose?

[plush yew]

Yeah

when i click it

All anims are A pose

[devout grove]

finally my project loaded after an hour

and its not 1fps

more like 20

[drowsy snow]

Next thing you could do is enabling Temporal Upsampling in the Project Settings, and lower the viewport's screen percentage

Also lowering the graphics scalability to lower value could help, save for Anti Aliasing (it should be on Epic to make TAA-Upsampling works)

[daring granite]

Hello everyone, tell me how to enable statistics for frames and objects in the upper right corner in the engine?

[drowsy snow]

It's in Editor Preferences.

[dusk nebula]

So if I'm using a data table for my weapon stats, should I still make a separate weapon actor? My original idea was just to switch through everything in the character BP

[dusk nebula]

Well yeah, I'm currently applying the data table to the character's weapon stats. I'm running into some issues between the client and server, though

[humble bay]

Sup yall. I'm trying to clear space on my C drive and was wondering if there's anything I can delete in the Epic Games folder that won't mess up Unreal itself. Anyone have an idea as to what I should delete?

[faint meadow]

So this is my GPU profiler on M1 Pro. Getting 5 FPS on marketplace warehouse asset. I see something about metal not supporting geometry shaders or something, is this why?

Is there an arm64 unreal engine?

[wary wave]

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100959/latest

short answer, no

but it can made to compile and support ARM devices with a little effort

[faint meadow]

Ah I see

Thanks

[drowsy snow]

#fab

[bleak copper]

Huh... basepass is where a deferred renderer draws triangles without lighting, just grabbing the information that will eventually be used for lighting (albedo, normal, metalic, etc.).

I would guess that you're running out of memory bandwidth... but that's a not-extremely-confident guess.

But it seems like your scene is particularly hitting limits around the rop/memory-ish area.

[split imp]

yo how do i use a image like a png,jpeg ect as a material

[bleak copper]

You can use them as a texture that you attach to a material in the material editor.

Do you have access to the image when you build your game? Or do you need to load it at runtime?

[split imp]

its already made into a material however no image shows

[bleak copper]

That's way too vague for me or possibly anyone else to troubleshoot.

[faint meadow]

Interesting maybe because I only got 16 gigs of ram unified

Which I’ll upgrade to the 32 when I get the M1 ‘ax

Max

[split imp]

im just trying to put a .png on a sphrere lmao i actually just dont know how to do it is what i mean

[bleak copper]

I strongly doubt that it's capacity. If it was discrete memory then I might say "Okay maybe you ran out of GPU RAM so it's ping-ponging with system RAM" but unified would be paging to disk and that just seems like it would crash.

It would probably be memory bandwidth... ... GPUs tend to have ridiculous bandwidth vs system RAM.

Look at things like triangle count, overlapping objects, etc.

Of course this comes from a person who has never touched an Apple GPU soooo.

There might be some "known issue" or something that just completely goes over my head.

But base pass is where deferred buffers are gathered from triangles... so yeah.

[sharp crest]

THEY STOLE MY GAME IDEA

/F

there is a tutorial file

it's ok, I don't have anything else to do now that dani stole my game idea 😭

[split imp]

how do i make a object destroy after being shot

[dusk nebula]

Make a custom event that's called from the thing shooting it

[faint meadow]

I see, so the M1 Pro (what I have) has 200GB/s bandwidth, while the Max has double at 400GB/s. I plan on returning this and getting the max even if it doesn’t work with unreal I still need a laptop, so I’ll run some tests when I get it maybe that could help a lot

[plush yew]

hey guys

anybody know why my character isnt showing up
?

🤷‍♂️

[faint meadow]

U put in a player start?

[split imp]

yeah but what do i do with the custom event

[split imp]

?

[plush yew]

@faint meadow

if I put the character in the game and I press Play it just duplicates

if i dont have it in the game it will start it as the black guy but wont duplicate

[faint meadow]

If u want to use the pawn u set in the game mode you have to drag in a spawn point

[dusk nebula]

So you do a line trace, or an overlap, or whatever event should actually cause that character to die, and you use the "hit actor" pin as a reference. You cast that to the BP that you're trying to run an event on, call the event and your event just calls "destroy actor" in the BP of that actor/pawn/whatever it is

And then obviously you can just fill in the blanks to reduce health, check if it's 0, etc.

[sharp crest]

anyone wants to test my city builder game? dm me

[plush yew]

mmmh

[split imp]

i understand like 2 things of what the fuq u just said lmao

[narrow loom]

i have returned!

hi how can i make iron man’s repoulsers in ue4 with the unibeam?

[bleak vessel]

Does it have to go thru this step everytime I reopen a project / UE

or only if I don't save after it compiles the shaders?

[bleak copper]

Hmm... GeForce RTX 3060 has 360 GB/s of bandwidth... and I highly doubt that a reasonable scene would get 100 ms of latency on an RTX 3060 lol. Things to check would be the vertex counts of the meshes, and the materials used.

[split imp]

the enemy ai destroys it self when it runs into things and not just when i shoot it how do i fix that

[dusk nebula]

You're firing the event when it overlaps with anything

[split imp]

how do i change that

like what part is it

also how do i change it so rather when i press cntrl its when the enemy ai is in a certain radius from me

[tidal kernel]

I'm trying to find the source of this, I know they were doing an interactive unreal engine project with multiple projectors but I cannot find out who else has done it or the origin of it

[dusk nebula]

you make it check for an actor that matches the class you want it to

if you're stuck at this point you might consider just finding a starter tutorial

[fiery basalt]

how do I change the gravity of the player?

[real dirge]

Have a little question, would not having the skills to animate or model stop the production of making your dream game? xddd

[dusk nebula]

just gonna ask this again

[real dirge]

Isn't that kinda like a true or false thing?

[modest trench]

probably some simple input queue boolean

bWantsToFire = true when mouse is held or something

and then set to false either on mouse button release or when firing is supposed to stop

[fiery basalt]

how can I change game values like gravity, jump force etc in a 2d platformer

I tried to do this but it didn't change anything

[modest trench]

you need to call the execution pin on that "Set" function

[past plume]

Does anyone know how to add these nodes?

[modest trench]

that is the beginning and end of a blueprint macro

you could do that inline but they probably did that so they can "copy" those nodes without redoing them

try adding a new macro on the left under functions

[past plume]

Yeah they collapsed these nodes into one

Any idea about the "Set" node?

Nvm found it

[feral sierra]

I don't get why my LOD are not in the right order...
All was working fine with the other mesh, but this one, no matter the naming convention, the LOD are in a specific wrong number

[tawdry moth]

how to change character height? im trying to make a character creator in game where they could adjust height

[exotic thicket]

Easiest method is to just scale the skeletal mesh

[round trout]

I've been trying to install 4.26.2 and 4.27.1.

When I click install for both, nothing happens

Please ping me

[drowsy snow]

#released please.

[drowsy snow]

At what point does it do nothing?

[round trout]

When I click install in the Launcher

It doesn't install at all

[drowsy snow]

Tried restarting the launcher?

[round trout]

Yeah I did that. And restarted my computer as well @drowsy snow

[calm spoke]

ok does it installing stylescape are similiar to install quixel blueprints ?

[real moth]

I am using paragon minions, what is an additive animation?

[runic fern]

Hey Guys why the widget always return none when i play on Dedicated server

i set this on begin player -> Player Character BP

[crisp frost]

i new here

hi

[exotic thicket]

@runic fern widgets only run on clients. The little icon in the corner indicates this

[runic fern]

Yes i know that but its not accessed to the clients so how can i create it for each client ?

[exotic thicket]

create it in the client

the server doesn't need to do that

[runic fern]

Oh so the begin play create it on server right ?

[exotic thicket]

Begin Play is likely to run both on server and clients so if you want to create the widget there, you can check if you're running as the server or not

[runic fern]

Ok cool thanks bro

[chilly geyser]

Is neon/glowing UMG text possible?? Or even a close fake? maybe a Custom Font Material?

[real moth]

I am using paragon minions, what is an additive animation?
and how would I use one as they seem to mess things up the way I am doing it rn

[dusky bobcat]

Any idea why in a given level my custom Controller would be loading but not my custom Character? The custom GameModeBase is exactly the same as on the other levels.

[exotic thicket]

check your world settings has the right pawn

[dusky bobcat]

Hm, literally the only way its World Settings differ from those of a working level are in the Lightmass and LODSystem panels.

[elder locust]

I am making a surveillance camera system. Any idea how i could get the player detected once it is in the cameras vision?

[tender pecan]

You can look at the Blueprint content examples in the marketplace from Epic games, it actually includes a working detection camera with render targets and alarms and everything.

[modern blaze]

I'm trying to use vscode for unreal but whenever I open a C++ class in unreal, a ".workspace" file which is empty, the header file and the cpp file opens in vscode instead of the whole project folder. How should I setup for vscode?

[dusky bobcat]

Have you set Visual Studio Code as your Source Code Editor in the Editor Preferences? Keep in mind it's highly advised to use either Rider for Unreal Engine or Visual Studio with ReSharper or Visual Assist when working with Unreal.

[modern blaze]

I did set Visual Studio Code as my Source Code Editor but it doesn't work.

I just wanted to try using Visual Studio Code if possible because I've been using it for quite some time

[drowsy snow]

In terms of usability with UE, Visual Studio Code is minimal, bottom of the barrel. Either proper Visual Studio IDE suite or Rider for UE are more reliable.

[modern blaze]

Oh okay, thank you for the information! @drowsy snow

[turbid wasp]

Hey. Can someone help me? i've downloaded a forest path material that I wanna paint onto my world. But I can't get it to work. Can someone help me with this please? 🙂

[civic cobalt]

anyone else experienced this flickering issue with virtual texture? what is the cause for this madness? 4.27

[fiery basalt]

I am having difficulty making a running animation for a small pixel art character, this is what it looks like and I have no idea where to start

[drowsy snow]

Start by understanding 12 basic principles of animation.
https://youtu.be/uDqjIdI4bF4

[fiery basalt]

oh I remember that video

[blissful trail]

trying to get a multiplayer system but it no worky any ideas?

the port is forwarded also

[turbid wasp]

can someone help?

i wanna know how to paint my material onto the ground

[grim ore]

paint landscape or other meshes?

[runic fern]

Guys I have Missions Spawns inside Houses I want them to show to the player who close to this area ..

Im trying to set a box Collision and when player begin overlap adding the missions to the Widget but its just working with first Box

i want an idea 😦

Im trying something like this in PlayerCharacter its working with first Box im interacting with

[grim ore]

so you have a second box that is not working?

[runic fern]

Yes Mr MathewW

Also i see this system is very week and i can't think with something more efficient

[grim ore]

is the second box another class, or is it just a copy of the first one?

[runic fern]

just copy of same class but Mission ID Integer is different

because each house have its own ID

[grim ore]

so the blueprint name is the same, missionreaderbox?

[runic fern]

Yes i copied it from the scene

do i need to make children for each house ?

[grim ore]

no, i was just seeing if your casting was going wrong

so your character handles this code, not the boxes?

[runic fern]

Yes true

i've tried in the box it wasnot working

[grim ore]

it seems like the boxes should, and just tell the character when it happens

[runic fern]

i will try again

[grim ore]

the box has overlap and end overlap, when it overlaps it talks to the thing that overlapped with it and tells it to do something. your code is very similar to that already

if this works above, then that should work as well

assuming you can never overlap more than 1 at a time, it shouldnt be an issue

i think your above is broken due to the way you are binding events to the overlap and end overlap, its definitely not good. no reason to do that

[runic fern]

Yes its working the same in the box bp but the issue with Widget its setting the first box's mission but second its not showing
i think the Visibility broken i will check it

[narrow loom]

hi guys i have question

1. Would iron man run? I think just walk rihgt?

Continuting there

how to remove running from a unreal game? With custom animationss

[grim ore]

your running/walking is normally using a blend space and the max walk speed on the character. adjust them so it never "runs"

[narrow loom]

oh ok

[grim ore]

the default third person character can be used to look at how this is done

[narrow loom]

Then just dont add running anim right

[grim ore]

yes

[narrow loom]

Since your the only one responded to me in a while

can i. Ask another question

[grim ore]

you can always ask, anyone who can help tries to help

people do sleep from time to time lol

[narrow loom]

ok

i knoow

how can i add iron man’s repulsors as a system? R left shoot
F right shoot etc

https://tenor.com/view/tony-stark-kid-tony-stark-ironman-iron-kid-red-skull-gif-14148784

not exactly like this

Like a short one

[grim ore]

you can use niagara and a beam emitter for the effect, you can use the input system for the trigger

[narrow loom]

e
i dont know those
im still new

[grim ore]

yep, your going to have to look at the tutorials, documenation, or examples for them

epic has all of those

[narrow loom]

ok lemme search

https://youtu.be/QKFOH7vEGMM
this’ll work right?

[grim ore]

looks like it yep

[narrow loom]

oke

like how can i make it a cooldown thingie

[runic fern]

You can change the thickness and the Length

Mr Mathew

Its also not working 😄

[narrow loom]

is there a way to put it like 1 shot and then 1 second cooldown then again?

[runic fern]

the box 0 is overlapping but box 1 not even overlapping

[grim ore]

your going to have to start debugging to find out why. your code looks ok, i just dont know how you are using it and its working. IF your box is standalone and working then duplicating it in the world and changing the values should work on the copy

@narrow loom you can do anything you want yes

[runic fern]

Yes also i dont like the collision box idea i'm trying to find something modern 😄

[grim ore]

your blueprint for this box should be self contained, it should work on its own basically

and theres nothing wrong with collision boxes, its normal

drop the blueprint in the world, set up its box size and its values and its done

something overlaps it, it checks to see what it is and it then tells it what to do. end overlap does the same thing

you can then put them wherever you want them, set them up, and its done

[runic fern]

Yes i will check something is broken with the other one

[grim ore]

if you literally use the same blueprint, just drag them in and set them up, then if one works they all should work

[runic fern]

Yes literally same

[grim ore]

are you setting the variables in the blueprint itself, or are you setting them in the details panel using exposed/public variables?

[severe hound]

What is a good strategy to handle general objects that have physics enabled but it's a multiplayer game, clients tend to see objects differently compared to server since it's happening on client too? What's the best way to handle replication with physics objects that can be knocked around by a client character but the physics ends up being slightly different

[runic fern]

I'm setting from exposed variables

ah found it

[drowsy snow]

Only replicate objects that actually matters - e.g. pickups, objects that affect player navigation.
It's one of the reason why CSGO lacks many physical objects compared to it's older brother CS Source.

Also do sync every few tick or so.

[severe hound]

so like having a general physics object blueprint and just enable replication for the actor?

[severe hound]

Yeah I would be curious about a sync option, like keeping track of server/client physics enabled objects that end up being in different locations, coming back every 10 seconds and adjusting. Would be interested to see if others have done something like this

[grim ore]

i beleive this is one of the things that chaos is trying to correct with the current physx limitations

[severe hound]

Chaos is poorly documented and supported from what I've seen trying to go deep into it

[drowsy snow]

To begin with, Chaos isn't even production ready yet, even in UE5.

[severe hound]

To begin with, Chaos has been in the same state for about a year and none of the documentation has changed but a lot of the apis have. They also encourage people to experiment with it but it's completely broken, it's not even a beta

Try looking at implementing Chaos Cache Manager and doing anything with it and you'll see what I mean

[drowsy snow]

And you're saying what I said. I've been messing with Chaos in my side time since 4.23.

[obsidian nimbus]

best is to not do physics 😛

fake bounces and stuff like that

[severe hound]

What I'm saying is people are belittling how poor of a state Chaos is in, no one should ever touch or mention Chaos until they actually do more announcements

[drowsy snow]

I was as bamboozled as you did, judged by your wording, because I was expecting it to be at least usable by 4.24, and Epic's own words on it replacing PhysX in 5.0. I have no concern on multiplayer, sure, but I have my concern on the replication aspect for replay system.

[obsidian nimbus]

from my own tests it wasnt too bad, heared from others that its pretty bad

[runic fern]

MathewW the Issue with the Array in the 2nd Collision box its going empty to the widget

[severe hound]

When you were working on it, a lot of things were working... around 4.26 they actually removed things from their own tutorials because of stability issues and general bugs they were finding so they just stopped working on a lot of important aspects related to cache

[drowsy snow]

Performance wise, PhysX still rules, though the replication side can be a bit hacky.

[obsidian nimbus]

i mostlt tested some ragdoll stuff, nothing advanced

it seemed the constraints were holding a bit better on big forces

I just used the old eyeball test 😛

[grim ore]

@runic fernthen what is this sweep result that is checking for a box? where does that come from?

are you not already in the mission reader box blueprint for this code? if so you just get the Misson array from that blueprint not something else

[runic fern]

Because the box carrying the array of missions when its spawn thats why its coming empty with the 2nd one

I have to set the refernece array in other bp

[grim ore]

the code above, is it in the mission reader box blueprint?

[runic fern]

Yes true

[grim ore]

then you should be getting the local mission array variable and sending that, not getting the sweep result and casting it then getting it. you want the local mission array from that blueprint that is being used

[runic fern]

If i not using the sweep result all houses will show same missions because the array in the box reader box

[severe hound]

@grim ore hey I appreciate how active you are on here, do you know what the best way is to raise certain issues to unreal engine team for like community asked features? For example, Unity has an integration with windows speech to text but unreal engine doesn't a lot of indie horror games build with Unity because of that. I've emailed them multiple times and reached out on live streams but no one ever gives an actual answer it's sad lol, they said email community email and no one responds

[grim ore]

this box that is being overlapped should have a mission variable that is not the same as another box right?

@severe hound pretty much the forums for requesting features.

[severe hound]

but which forum for upvoting? the ones i looked at had no upvoting

[runic fern]

Its same thats why xD

[grim ore]

theres nothing really like that, no real way of voting for features anymore

[runic fern]

Sorry for that Mathew xD

[grim ore]

they plan on adding that support later

[runic fern]

Brain sometime broken crashing xD

[severe hound]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-lack-of-speech-to-text/246070 this is my post back in August lol

[drowsy snow]

Specifically with Windows Speech thingie, that's platform specific calls, so I doubt you'll get engine level integration from Epic.

Though there's always C++, and at least the engine code is available for all licencees, unlike Unity.

[severe hound]

Unreal engine does plenty of platform specific features lol. Yeah I love Unreal Engine over Unity I just hate this feature is so simple and missing for them to do

[grim ore]

the biggest thing with epic is they are a company, they are in a business and they make money. They have people who pay them to support their products and add features they need. This also includes internally for features like fortnite. Niche things like speech are not going to get much traction but that is why plugins exist and the entire source code is available

[severe hound]

There are C++ microsoft libraries, I think for Unity it was a little easier because they can write C# and the microsoft libraries for speech to text are better supported

[grim ore]

while it might seem simple and easy for them to do, if its not a cost benefit its not going to get approved

[severe hound]

yeah agreed but that's why if you're gonna have a community, you have to have a way to have a community upvoted features and build traction. Otherwise don't act like they care about the community requested features, you can see a lot of people ask for this in this discord

[grim ore]

they are transiioning to more community stuff, the changes to the forums and answerhub are showing that. stuff just takes time

we might get something like that in the future, but to be honest even if its community desired doesnt mean it makes sense in the long run

[severe hound]

I've literally been told to email their community email and never gotten an email 4 different occasions, they just don't care at this point

[grim ore]

they might, they might not. I can't answer for the community team itself.

I know the learning team takes feedback, but that doesnt help in this case lol

[severe hound]

yeah exactly that's the point lol, i just would just put more attention to the issues when community is trying to reach out and it seems super hit or miss

I just wouldn't tell people to email your community emails and then never respond, just say we are ignoring requests about windows text to speech for now

makes everyone's lives easier

[drowsy snow]

In Unreal's defence, C++ scripting in Unreal can go pretty low level (compared to Unity's higher level C#), even in project plugin capacity, so there's not much stopping you from writing your own plugin, and spread it (or sell it) to the world.

[severe hound]

You're missing the point completely m8 lol, the point is lack of communication response to the topic

[grim ore]

they are busy, they work, they might not have the time or desire to communicate

[severe hound]

It's also something that is not very easy to do without know the engine itself, I would love to work unreal engine to implement it

[grim ore]

it might not be best but it is what it is

[drowsy snow]

If they don't do it, someone else will.
That's kind of the thing.

[grim ore]

generally holes are filled if there is a need for it to be filled, if this hole is not filled yet the need it not there for someone to fill it

[drowsy snow]

And at least Epic opens up the source code for all licencees, not just limited to UDN people.

So one can bend the engine to fit their needs.

[severe hound]

There is a community need for sure, why let a competitor have an edge on you, that's not the right reason

[drowsy snow]

Though it's not guaranteed that custom UE4 modified by some devs is available for everyone else

[turbid wasp]

hm. Idk what you mean. I have lots of grass and wanna paint on a forest path of dirt

[severe hound]

Final thing hope everyone can do better is like don't brush aside community concerns, you won't develop a community if no one will listen to feedback.

[gilded hatch]

Good morning! I am having UE4 crash far too frequently. I have done a completely clean gpu software replacement, I have everything on current versions. I have tried lowering my clock speed/ voltage and am still getting the same error when it crashes. "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')" if anyone has seen this exact error or has further suggestions it would be appreciated!

[grim ore]

Device being lost generally means there's something weird with your hardware and unreal engine. Your card may be running to hot it may have too much voltage going through it and maybe overclocked

[gilded hatch]

I checked the temps they are fine as far as i have seen

[grim ore]

Since you've already tried lowering your clock speeds and voltage may be increasing your vaulted a little bit and lowering your clocks to get a more stable

[neon bough]

ah, they ported device lost from vulkan to directx now 😄

[grim ore]

It's usually not a temperature thing your card is just being pushed to its limits

[gilded hatch]

not sure how that could be just poking a material blueprint and not even doing a build.

[neon bough]

might be an edge case with your material if you can reproduce it on the same material

[gilded hatch]

it has been any material.

not just one

[neon bough]

what gpu are you using?

[gilded hatch]

rtx3090 FE

-.-

There is no one function that triggers it.

i can be hitting save, i can be adding a node, connecting a wire.

[neon bough]

have you tried an older gpu driver?

[gilded hatch]

Technically yes.

[neon bough]

which ue4 version is that btw? 4.27?

[gilded hatch]

Not sure how old i would needing to be going back.

[drowsy snow]

Try version 460 something

[gilded hatch]

Currently 4.25.4 but 4.27 does the exact same thing.

i have made projects in both just for testing from scratch.

[neon bough]

i would run some stresstest on the hardware to check if it runs fine

just to be sure that it's not system related

[gilded hatch]

no crashes running Heaven

[neon bough]

did you try hell?

[gilded hatch]

No...i am already there....

hense why i am asking for salvation from this issue. 🙂

I will look up 460 and give that a try, thanks HoodieGuy..

[neon bough]

as workaround you could try to set render pipeline to use vulkan

you just wont get raytracing

[gilded hatch]

Noted ty

At this point in the dev we are no where near thinking about RT but still useful to know for the future!

[neon bough]

does the same crash happen to other devs in your team?

[gilded hatch]

Nope! and there system doesn't have my specs either, so a bit irritating. they have been using ue4 as long as i have on this and they have crashed maybe 5 times total....I have that around one session depending on how long i am working.

[neon bough]

yea that sounds like something on your system is acting weird

[gilded hatch]

No game or other software is affected just ue4

yeah...

[neon bough]

either software or hardware

really would run something that stress tests cpu/memory/gpu

[gilded hatch]

5950x 16 core , 64 gb 3200mhz, m.2 hd.

Not running VR but everything else this thing doesnt bat an eyelash at lol.

Ok well thanks...i will poke around more.

[neon bough]

yea because most stuff won't even come close to put some real load on it 😄

[gilded hatch]

Right

and ue4 when it is crashing most often shouldnt be either.

again poking around a blue print on a material in a new project shouldnt do that either.

Something isnt playing nicely

[clear basin]

Hello everyone! Does anyone know how to update the UWebBrowser's chromium version?

[drowsy snow]

Go through the engine's source code and update the CEF codes.

[drowsy snow]

Also note that you actually need to build the engine source code yourself, which is obtained through the GitHub repo. Changing the code in vanilla launcher builds won't do anything.

[clear basin]

Okay thank you! Do you have any idea on the feasibility of creating a system to automatically update this if it becomes out of date?

[neon bough]

and prepare for some fun times 😄

[drowsy snow]

It's not feasible automatically, at all.

[neon bough]

@drowsy snow did you actually update the thing on your engine or is all of that just theory? because with such a large package as chromium is, i would expect a lot of troubleshooting the compile process

[drowsy snow]

It's engine level.
See Engine/Source/ThirdParty/CEF3

[neon bough]

?

[drowsy snow]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/4.27/Engine/Source/ThirdParty/CEF3

[neon bough]

yea but i would still expect a bunch of work to getting to latest chromium, or do i overrate it?

[frosty flower]

for the lovers of UE, enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HR8_sgJd9I

[plush yew]

lol damn they use a lot of niagra particle systems

[modest agate]

Hey, excuse me, I need help here

My weapon keeps disappearing after changing levels

How do I fix that?

[plush yew]

dunno, your not giving us much information

[modest agate]

Right, sorry

[plush yew]

are you casting to level blueprint?

[modest agate]

When I grab the wand its all good, but when I go to the box trigger, my character does travel to the other level but the wand is gone. Don't know if I have to do something here in the level blueprint, I tried to use instance level, but I got nothing.

[plush yew]

Sounds like the character is being reset once a new level opens.

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

[modest agate]

Okay, thank you!

[thick herald]

If your storing any data in your player character it will get reset when the player moves between different levels. You can store data inside something like Game Instance which doesn't get reset. 🙂

[plush yew]

was about to say that too

lol

GameInstance is a class that which state persists switching of levels

[modest agate]

All right, got it, thank you very much

[plush yew]

You are just storing the information in the wrong places, then you need to call that action 🙂

[plush yew]

This guy 😂

[charred ibex]

best place to learn concept between local and world offsets?

and the diff between offsets and transforms etc

[sharp shadow]

Think about it as world offset = move to global north/south/east/west/up/down. Local = move forward/backward... in direction of where the object is looking.

Offset is basically just adding some value to your current loc. So if you want to move character forward 5 meters, you add 5 meters local offset

Transform is describing position of your object. It contains its location, rotation and scale.

[celest creek]

Heya

[charred garden]

guys im trying to tweak caligula effect to improve its performance but its doesn't work apparently i changed all the sg to 0 and trying some rendering commands the sg did some performance improvements but r. commands did literally nothing

[celest creek]

How can I move a texture into the second UV quadrant? UDIMs aren't an option for me (they're buggy anyway in UE) so I'm just trying to put 1002 into the second UV quadrant manually, somehow?

[dusk nebula]

Is there a way to translate variables from a data table/spreadsheet to a BP other than assigning each at runtime?

[plain glacier]

Any way to get parent class on actor overlap?

[plush yew]

So do people use modular building sets not only for legos but for better occulsion culling?

[plain glacier]

I have two characters derived from one parent class but all it detects is the instances

[meager marlin]

@hollow tendon

[placid socket]

Somehow, when i drag a plane or a cube in my blueprint viewport, it wont show anything, the cylinder/spheres work just fine

someone knows how to fix this?

it shows the tool thingy with the red/green/blue arrow, but when i move it, i see just a little sphere, and not is there actually

[thick herald]

In that project or any other project did you make any alterations to the cube?

[placid socket]

not that i am aware off 😛

can i somehow reset it to defaults?

[thick herald]

sure, but first in the World Outliner click on the 'edit static mesh' bit on the Cube's line

In the view port of the cube, is there a cube?

[placid socket]

no, there isnt

[thick herald]

Looks like someone has accidently deleted the cube from the blueprint. Close your project and go to the Launcher. Look at the engine you are using, and click the down arrow next to it, select 'verify'

That will reset your engine to default

[placid socket]

maybe that will explain it indeed :p

let me verify it! 😄

[placid socket]

yeah, its verifying now, but its not installed on my ssd

since its full 😦

[thick herald]

It's only checking files and will replace any that have altered, not redownloading the entire engine

[placid socket]

Ok, but somehow its still verifying 😉

i will let it finish and let you know when its done

[torn ember]

so does the engine cache ever clear out on its own

my only project on drive atm is like 5gb

[charred ibex]

thank yoiu!

[void sierra]

Does volumetric lightmapping work with stationary lights? I noticed that my movable actor is still lit up after turning off the light, which is not what I want.

[torn ember]

whats safe to delete in engine cache? XD

can delete?

[digital anchor]

yep

but parts of it are going to be regenerated when you open ue again

@torn ember

[torn ember]

ahh good

thats exactly what I wanted

cause most of that is dead data

and my ssd is small

ty

when you cant download new assets textures etc because the old assets you've already deleted still have data in the ue cache

[drowsy snow]

Stationary/static lights can't be altered in runtime. You'd have to use movable lights to alter its properties.

[placid socket]

@thick herald it worked ❤️

[void sierra]

yeah, Im using them right now to turn the lights off and on during runtime. They dont seem to work well with volumetric lightmapping tho

[jade surge]

My camera moves when I hold down right click, anyone know what option it is to turn that off?

[torn ember]

did you scale the mesh and not the capsule?

oh wait

nvm

glide not hover

change play rate / max numbers in the animation blendspace?

or did you want to scale the movement speed down?

[jade surge]

Fix was to Disable Input Axis Turn, and Input Axis Lookup

[prime glade]

Anyone ever built a WOW like boss encounter? I'm wondering what type of datastructure/system for choreographing timed ground effects or mechanics for the players to avoid

Was thinking I could do it via the sequencer, and have the sequencer trigger events

[dusk nebula]

Sequencer, level BP, enemy BP are all options. You probably want to fire it all either from the game mode or the enemy's AI, depending on how the events are triggered

[plush yew]

bit unrelated but

How are you supposed to prepare a model's UV map when you intend on using a seamless material on it?

I guesss you can just hit unwrap and import it ?

[spare kernel]

It's not dead, but you are asking in the wrong channels, and people who may know how to answer your question may not be online. Ask in #mobile and be patient. @plush yew

still android, you are asking to make an apk

[modest trench]

does this help? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Mobile/Android/GettingStarted/

there's a whole section for android dev https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Mobile/Android/

[tawdry wren]

Has anyone had an issue where when you package a project and open a level of choice, only bits and pieces of the level open? like alot of objects are missing

[blissful trail]

so ive been trying to make simple cross platform with windows & android and it kinda works.
android can host fine and pc can join it but when pc hosts android cannot connect

[dusk nebula]

Sounds like you should test if the problem is Android not being able to host or PC not being able to join

Or vice versa sorry

So android to android and pc to pc to see which, if any, causes issues

[blissful trail]

so basically ive done a few tests and it appears i can host on android without any problems but i am completly unable to connect
on pc i can both host & connect without any problems

[dusk nebula]

So android cannot connect?

[blissful trail]

not at all

[dusk nebula]

Host a session on Android and join it on Android to confirm

[blissful trail]

?

[dusk nebula]

Troubleshooting 101

If you're not sure if the issue is Android joining pc or Android joining altogether, eliminate pc from the test by using 2 androids

[blissful trail]

i only got 1 xd

[dusk nebula]

Bluestacks or something idk

[blissful trail]

oh yeah that could work

[dusk nebula]

Maybe someone would be willing to test it with you

[blissful trail]

i think i have an idea what the issue is

i think i haven't port forwarded ue4 on my pc

xd

nope damn thought that would be it but apparently not

i dont think bluestacks works on windows 11 rip

[torn ember]

you know what they say

every second windows version

skip

[blissful trail]

xd true

[faint meadow]

If u I use UE often can I get windows 11 or are there any known issues with 11

[drowsy snow]

There's practically no difference.

[faint meadow]

Gotcha thx

I figured it’s just reskinned

Not even worth it prolly I’m too lazy to install it lol

[drowsy snow]

Aside from pretty look, kernel version is still 10.0.x so Windows 10 SDK works per usual, and there's no huge changes to DirectX.

[fierce tulip]

amd is still bottlenecked in win11

[faint meadow]

Ah so like a little cleanup and ui change

So i could just upgrade like I would an update it’s not big enough where I should do a whole reinstall

When I went from 8 to 10 I did a fresh install cuz ocd lol

[drowsy snow]

And I argue this is on par with past Windows 10 update regressions

[faint meadow]

Intel and nvidia

For me at least

[fierce tulip]

in win 11 it is expected to be between 10 and 40% slower atm.

anyways my 2 cents is, for gamedev you want stability. we already have to deal with crashes of all sorts of software, I refuse to use take my chances with something that is still very much in beta.

win10 is annoying enough :p

[peak viper]

how do i fix my textures looking very low res in the editor?

[peak viper]

can i get help?

[vestal pagoda]

If anyone knows how to do a server in ue4 such that it can be communicated with by external clients pls dm

[last dune]

Hi, i having this problem compiling in vs2019

Can someone help me please

[grim ore]

the top error is normally due to a missing module reference in your build files

docs https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Runtime/HeadMountedDisplay/UHeadMountedDisplayFunctionLibra-/GetPositionalTra-/ says it uses the "HeadMountedDisplay" module so you have to make sure you have that

[blissful trail]

Dis bad or good for android

im averaging 60fps

[grim ore]

if its for mobile, probably overkill. most of the time 30fps is fine with 60fps as an option to use more battery/heat

[glad iris]

is it safe to delete DerivedDataCache folder? I moved it to another directory. What's is this folder?

[grim ore]

its a cache, it speeds up stuff. yes it will remake it

[west garden]

hellop,

does body ik and root motion mix well?

[finite wren]

Hey guys how do you copy key frames here

Or here I guess?

[full sequoia]

is there any way to export instanced foliage as an obj/fbx?

I've tried going to foliage mode > select all but when I click on "File", "Export Selected" is greyed out, which I'm assuming is because it's an instance

when I select the foliage in select mode it just exports the source meshes, so I just have a bunch of meshes clumped at world center

[tropic jasper]

Heyo, so before starting If you do have an answer can you @ me in case I go to sleep and miss it 🙂
So question. In games such as horror games or mind boggling games where you walk into a room and it’s rather empty or just a room you can’t do much in, you then turn around and the door is gone, you then turn around again and the room is different or maybe it’s a hallway now, I’m wondering how or if anyone can point me in the right direction of doing this? I’m assuming using raycast would be viable upon the cast hitting the first wall in the room which makes the door disappear ans then turning around and the rat cast hitting the new wall spawning the new room behind the player. Any suggestions would help :))

[prime willow]

my sloppy silly way to do it

would be when leaving close collision overlap

make everything behind change into something else

theres possible a way better way to do that so dont take my word for it lol

[finite wren]

what if the player walks backwards :0

[prime willow]

well you can apply a "do once" node

before any of that

so he can walk backwards a thousand times and have nothing else change

[finite wren]

No if you walk backwards through the collider you will see it change

[prime willow]

not if its do once iirc

[finite wren]

that makes no sense

[prime willow]

than again im still learning unreal so if am wrong im wrong

https://tenor.com/view/whatever-shrug-love-lucy-okay-idk-gif-16447471

[finite wren]

it's not an unreal thing it's a logic thing, sorry to be harsh

[prime willow]

no no youre fine words dont offend me

stupidity does xD

hence why i told him my sloppy way which better ways may exist for would be the above

[drowsy snow]

Raycast, and some sneaky level swap, or teleport into similar looking room in another place in the map if you don't want any potential hitch from async level streaming.

[modest trench]

Notably the teleport method is what the time travel level in Titanfall 2 used

[tiny skiff]

Hello everyone, I'm new to Unreal Engine and I need a bit of help, I want to connect 2 dots by drawing a line, how could I do that in UE? What do I need to know in order to do this

[plush yew]

big game devs be like, 40 dollars! plus 2,000 bonus points!! new skins!!!!