ue4-general

[plush yew]

anyone know a good tutorial on how to make a moveable hud? I want players to be able to move the HUD anywhere or put there own hud style in there

[drowsy snow]

As in FF14?

[plush yew]

ff14?

whats that

ohhh final fantasy

Last one i played was like 7 on ps1 with 4 discs lol

[dusk nebula]

Could I get some help with this? I can't get it to only fire once instead of continuously

current

[plush yew]

Moveable HUD/UI?

Dead space?

[plush yew]

Yeah

like being able to grab the minimap and drag to the other side

any good plugins or bps out there on the marketplace?

Wouldnt really know without trying it

Doubt youd find a bullet with that

[hidden dew]

Hi all. Does anyone know what changed about ProceduralMeshComponent in UE 4.25?

I ask because of this:

UProceduralMeshComponent (API docs link) is historically how one would do such a thing in Unreal Engine. As of UE4.25, it is now also possible to “build” and update a UStaticMesh at Runtime, which can then be used in UStaticMeshComponent/Actor.

• http://www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/2020/10/23/runtime-mesh-generation-in-ue426

I haven't used PMC, but I thought building and updating static meshes at runtime was already what it did

[plush yew]

Oh shit your right i watched the end, I could add that in the menu to change the user UI

thank you 🙂

[limpid aspen]

Hey, im very confused, could someone tell me where I can watch the Fortnitemares? Ive read all sorts of pages and nowhere does it actually say where I can watch them. It says "To watch any of the Shortnitemares films, select the “Shortnitemares” playlist and head into the Shortnitemares Theater" But where is this theater?
No links for anything.

[plush yew]

Wrong discord? This is for unreal engine dev.

[limpid aspen]

Yeah, this is epic games and Unreal Engine. The shorts are made with UE5.

NM
Its in Fortnite game

[drowsy snow]

Just because this is Unreal Engine dev server, doesn't mean everyone here have extensive knowledge with Fortnite.

[obsidian nimbus]

they do have some cool cinematics, mayB i should go watch em later 🙂

i really liked the stopmotion Xmas one

and that scooby doo kinda cartoon

[runic fern]

Hey Guys I want to make Customizable Mission system realtime spawn and despawn
Any idea where to start

[plush yew]

Would it make more sense to put the player UI in the player controller or create a custom HUD blueprint? Anyone have expertise with this? Replication? Just wondering, i dont wanna be screwed in the longrun

I dont want crosshairs to be Client only

but hmm

i forgot about that

good call 🙂

[exotic thicket]

why would a crosshair not be client-only? 🤔

[modest trench]

I think they misunderstand what you mean

where players are looking is of course a replicated thing

[plush yew]

I want spectators to be able to see the custom crosshair, or UI they make. My game will be 100% customizable for these things.

[exotic thicket]

Right, the crosshair would still be technically clientside though

You would just replicate the settings that control what the crosshair looks like so the client can then display it correctly

[drowsy snow]

Just take the crosshair's enum from the settings.

[plush yew]

ohhh thats an interesting approch

[drowsy snow]

Or any other kind of value you use for it

[plush yew]

never done player UI before LOL

im sick of looking at nothing on my screen

just a gun with hands, so basic

[drowsy snow]

Same goes for any other customisation options you have in your game - no need to replicate the entire thing as is, just replicate the settings.

[runic fern]

I was watching a video in youtube i saw this ...
What is this tree ??

[drowsy snow]

Seems like custom tree graph for mission system.

You could build one in C++.

[runic fern]

Oh nice

[plush yew]

This is a system

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/logic-driver-state-machine-blueprint-editor

[uneven cargo]

Anyone knows how to have more control over normal camera DOF? I have a camera with a low FOV and want the foreground to be blurred, but no matter what settings I change I can't get more than a tiny amount of blurring

[drowsy snow]

I kept seeing this everywhere lmao

[plush yew]

me too thats why i knew what that was

lol

[drowsy snow]

TBH I prefer my own solution: Flow Graph + Lua scripting

[plush yew]

Actually its impended for any type of game... i might have to buy this when i have my paycheck.

[drowsy snow]

I mainly just trying to avoid dependencies with marketplace plugin due to terrible EULA loophole.

Thus, I resort to free open source stuff.

[plush yew]

I mean, i ended up buying this because i was lazy with anims too lol

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

[exotic thicket]

terrible EULA loophole.
What's this? 🤔

[plush yew]

yeah

indulge me

[drowsy snow]

I had a lengthy rant about it on #fab a few days ago.

[plush yew]

You buy it, it's yours. only usable in unreal engine. you can sell with that product your purchased, with out penalty.

i thought that's how the system worked

[drowsy snow]

Except that with Code Plugins, licences for it are only applicable on per individual basis, not per project or per seat.

Simply put, this is a huge problem for more serious uses.

[plush yew]

Oh i knew that

[exotic thicket]

Well that's extremely confusing if you aren't allowed to share paid plugins between members working on that project...

[plush yew]

Each person has to buy the plugin to be used per computer.

[drowsy snow]

No, per person, with their personal Epic Games account.

[plush yew]

I mean, for now you can share with your team. When it comes to release and you make $ just buy it.

[exotic thicket]

What even is the point of sharing plugin files if you need to buy licenses for it, doesn't that basically mean "you might as well not share the plugin files"

lol

[drowsy snow]

It's not per seat, so if the person left the team, they bring the plugin licence with them, and new team members had to buy it for themselves, otherwise they can't work on the project.

[drowsy snow]

It's the reason why Code Plugins are installed to vanilla engine installations, not on project level.

[plush yew]

ummm

you know you can add a plugin folder into your project

and drag the plugin into there?

thats what it looks liek for me.

[drowsy snow]

If you say, "fuck the EULA", then do that.

[exotic thicket]

It seems epic's own FAQ contradicts on it because it says you can just login to EGL as the user who bought the plugin and download it...

they really need to clarify these points

[plush yew]

i dont like having pljugins in the main dir tbh

i always put them into the plugin folder, plus i am using ue5.

[exotic thicket]

You are allowed to put code plugins into the project. There's nothing in the EULA that says you can't

[plush yew]

thats what i thought lol

[drowsy snow]

But then it would constitute as hijacking, because the accounts are under individual ownership, not the company's.

Though now that I think about it, one way to exploit this would be to provide Epic account per seat.

[plush yew]

I own all the products i have in there.

[exotic thicket]

@drowsy snow yeah it says you can do that here which is very confusing hence why they should really clarify these points https://marketplacehelp.epicgames.com/s/article/How-do-I-share-Marketplace-products-with-my-project-team?language=en_US

the other page there says that you can't do it

[plush yew]

lol

This is why people steal stuff.

I never noticed this issue before xD

[exotic thicket]

I submitted a support case from the menu to get clarification

[plush yew]

What i hate more is the refund policy.

200 dollar plugin/content does not work with the version of ue you want?

your screwed! enjoy!

[exotic thicket]

To be fair it states quite clearly which versions of the engine they work with on the store page

[plush yew]

CMD As Admin "cd C:\Program Files\Epic Games\ UE VERSION HERE ( NO SPACES) \Engine\Build\BatchFiles"
RunUAT.bat BuildPlugin -plugin="C:\Users\ USERNAME \Desktop\AGRPRO\AGRPRO.uplugin" -Package="C:\Users\ USERNAME \Desktop\ARG"

i mean you can do this

but you get the idea lol

[drowsy snow]

The problem would be if the creator does not enable the flag for newer versions, and your project moved to a newer version.

[plush yew]

Hi guys Im new to Unreal Engine. I am following a tutorial on udemy but I got stuck when the speaker puts spotlight.. his spotlight has cone mine doesnt. how to open it?

Thanks in advance!

speaker puts spotlight?

OH instructor, puts the spotlight.

[drowsy snow]

Click on the spotlight actor.

[plush yew]

yes sir

[plush yew]

I am clicking it now sir. but theres no cone

I am using UE 4.27

click the right side details

no cone like this?

the cone is the Attention radius.

in the right side in details.

[plush yew]

I see thanks sir

but theres no transform cone

or what do you call it

are you following it exactly?

is he doing static or movable lighitng?

rewatch it 🙂

I mean this one sir

the bones thing

mine doesnt have it

inter core angle, and outer core angle

I see sir

but how to show it?

mine doesnt have bones

[drowsy snow]

I'm not sure if this matters.

[plush yew]

it does not

Pirate

scroll to the top of details of the light

screen shot

here sir

I wanted to show the white lines

hmm weird, file save all, restart editor?

Okay I will sir

a second

I just tried this with 4.25,6,7 and 5 no issues lol

[drowsy snow]

Try this

On the Viewport's top buttons: Show -> Advanced -> Light Radius

See if it's enabled or not.

[plush yew]

Okay sir

Oh

yeah that could fix it

he has his scalability to nothing lol

[drowsy snow]

Safe to say he might accidentally pressed Alt+R, which is the hotkey

[lean widget]

Is there any dropdown for selecting values? cant find its name

[drowsy snow]

Combo box?

[plush yew]

okaaaay I cant find Show -> advanced sir

haha

sorry Im really noob

just got started this today

show at top

WOW

that fixed it

[lean widget]

awesome thank you

[plush yew]

another problem sir

the transform icons are missing

no arrows

hoodie is more of a level designer i take it 😉

Thanks so much sirs!

click the cross

at the top

[drowsy snow]

Show -> Gizmos (I think)

[plush yew]

which sir?

[drowsy snow]

I forgot which one, but you know what, try Use Defaults

[plush yew]

I see I see

[drowsy snow]

Or maybe just cycle through the transform mode to try summon the gizmo.

[plush yew]

Okay sir thanks

Adding a second camera on the top of a character to summon on a minimap, could cause FPS issue in the end, right?

[drowsy snow]

No, the one that could cause performance drop would be scene capture components.

[plush yew]

Ahh alright 🙂 ill follow this guide then, thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQgmt20knLo

player no see, for camera and removing icon too.

[drowsy snow]

Isn't he used scene capture?

[plush yew]

thats what he is using

[drowsy snow]

Looks like scene capture to me.

[plush yew]

Yupp i figured that would be bad

double rendering everything twice.

[modest trench]

that's definitely a scene capture on a springarm lol

[plush yew]

Screen capture component

yupp....

[drowsy snow]

Scene capture would be the worst way to do minimaps.

[modest trench]

he has a much longer version that makes a much cheaper minimap https://youtu.be/Z6qzaT4ZOh0

[plush yew]

i just started watching that 🙂

damn so in some games, the FPS drop is not coming from the actually game level, its coming from the way it is set up.

never thought about that before.

What IF you do a scene capture component, ignore the world and paste a image in the sky no one can see? other than the minimap.

[drowsy snow]

Practically the same FPS drop, and might as well do the 2D UMG way, by using XY coordinates scaled to the minimap.

[plush yew]

alright, ill have to look into this. I don't like to do wrong practices.

[tawdry wren]

Anyone else had an issue while building the client and getting this?

Failed to find streaming level package file: /Game/MyLevel/Generated_/WPRT_MyLevel_MainGrid_Cell_l0_X6_yDLO. This streaming levele may not load or save properly

Only happens when packaging the game my initial level opens, but when i use OpenLevel it does not fully load the level. The level will load but all the streaming instances will not load, so the entire map is basically empty.

[obsidian nimbus]

you have an include maps in package

you need to select all lvls you use

[tawdry wren]

I did that @obsidian nimbus

[plush yew]

for some reasons I just pressed G and the arrows came back

thanks guys!

[obsidian nimbus]

ahh ok, I never done much with stream levels

[vocal edge]

hello guys

i have a problem with a widget

cand someone help me for a second?

[plush yew]

Holy moly. SceneCaptureComponent2D really adds quite the lag LOL bye to that.

[drowsy snow]

It's kinda unfortunate that Unreal Engine's Scene Capture isn't cheap, unlike other engines that did the same but lighter on performance.

[plush yew]

Yeah, nothing you can really do to fix it either.

on to learning UMG 😛

[steady bramble]

Hi, I have two identical levels, but one of them is darker. (I just duplicated the map)
What could be the problem?
Hi, I have two identical levels, but one of them is darker.

[real heath]

Try rebuilding lighting

[drowsy snow]

Try adding lightmass importance volumes and rebuild the lighting.

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of which, I've been thinking of doing split screen cutscenes, kinda like telephone scenes in anime and movies. Maybe I could disable the main viewport entirely and substitute it with two split scene captures.

[plush yew]

that sounds like a LOT of work

lol

[lean widget]

Does anyone know how to add Event BeginPlay on graph? for some reason its not here by default

[drowsy snow]

Right click (add node) -> find "Event BeginPlay"

[lean widget]

here?

[drowsy snow]

Oh, it's a widget BP.

Yeah, practically Construct is BeginPlay for widget. It got executed as soon as it spawned in game.

[lean widget]

I have to create new widget or i can do it in my main widget?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on what you're trying to do here.

[lean widget]

i can find only these

[plush yew]

why are you trying to put a begin play in a ui? that makes no sense.

[lean widget]

i want it on graph

[plush yew]

what is graph?

[untold summit]

hello, i need help with creating a completly new battle system.

[plush yew]

create a custom event, and cast the custom event to where you want it to be?

[untold summit]

the basic idea is pulling VR controls and porting them over to mouse.

[loud meadow]

Guys how to do more than object need to be collected than go to a place to finnish the game

[ruby folio]

Does anyone know if it is possible yet to import tiled landscapes into UE5?

[drowsy snow]

I know it's possible in UE4 with World Composition, though #ue5-general might know better about World Partition in this regard.

[ruby folio]

Cheers

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow i found what i am looking for but this is a lot of work.. lol

https://lightmesh3d.com/ue4minimap/

[acoustic wraith]

Is there a recommended way to run ads on Windows and Quest2?

[turbid wasp]

ive painted this but why is it so linear?

its like a bunch of squares

i want it to be smooth

[plush yew]

change the size of brush

and also smooth it

[turbid wasp]

ok thanks!

wait

bigger brush?

and how do I smooth it?

[plush yew]

i mean smaller

[turbid wasp]

oh

okay

[plush yew]

and edit small details

for smooth

press on sculpt and there's smooth brush

[turbid wasp]

okay!

thanks =)

[plush yew]

good luck, just play around till you get it right 😁

[turbid wasp]

hm

:D

the smooth brush doesnt do anything lol 🤔

as soon as i make it to "smooth" it stops working

oh

wait

[plush yew]

zoom in

[turbid wasp]

lmao

[plush yew]

change size

etc

[turbid wasp]

when i press smooth it cant paint anymore but it can delete what ive painted

ohhh

I get it now

[plush yew]

it should just smooth everything lol

make it even

[turbid wasp]

yeah!

i realized that

thanks a lot

[celest creek]

Hey people - does anyone know how to mask off a specific UV quadrant on a UDIM UV set?

So let's say I want 1002 to be fully white but the rest fully black?

[plush yew]

anyone know why this node can not be connected? It should work 100%..

[acoustic wraith]

What is "InTransform"'s type? @plush yew

[void sierra]

How do I change the target directory for the built lighting?

All files get built in my C drive but I want them in my E drive

[plush yew]

i tried to promote it to value and try to ghetto rig it thats what that is lol

[acoustic wraith]

They aren't matching structs.

If you google "SetRenderTransform UWidget", it shows that it is a FWidgetTransform

If you search for "FWidgetTransform" on the GitHub repo you can see what its members are, but it's a blueprinttype so you should be able to just split the struct in your blueprint anyway

A widget transform takes a Translation, Scale, Shear, and Angle according to the source file

Right click on the struct pin and choose "split struct pin"

[plush yew]

thanks

such simple things.

cause the most head aches.

lol

[turbid wasp]

can someone explain why its so linear?

its like im in minecraft. lol

[acoustic wraith]

Low resolution relative to the size of the landscape

[turbid wasp]

do you know how to fix that?

[acoustic wraith]

I believe you have to recreate the landscape with a finer scale

I don't know much about landscapes

[turbid wasp]

smaller?

[acoustic wraith]

Not necessarily; when you are creating a landscape, and it shows the dot matrix (for lack of a better name), mess with the settings until the dots are sufficiently close together

It'll probably take some experimenting until you find what works for you

[turbid wasp]

ah okay

[hidden dew]

Would anyone have any guesses as to why this:

``` just does nothing?

Stepping into it all I see is a called to Resize() in Array.h, and some string conversion function in GenericPlatformString.h. After this it simply moves on to the next line in my code as if this quit call never happened.

It's being called early in BeginPlay(), if that means anything.

[acoustic wraith]

There are other ways to quit the game, does it need to be done this way for your implementation?

[hidden dew]

Nope

Just one quick way I found

I've tried FGenericPlatformMisc::RequestExit(false); as well

Also acts as if it isn't there, but I haven't stepped into that yet

[acoustic wraith]

Mmm you asked the right random person. I ran into a similar issue before

[hidden dew]

woo

[acoustic wraith]

Is this running on Windows?

[hidden dew]

Yeah

[acoustic wraith]

You want to import the platform header file for Windows. Most platform-specific files aren't included in the online documentation.

Then the call is FWindowsPlatformMisc::RequestExist(false) or something like that.

[hidden dew]

ah

[acoustic wraith]

For multiple platforms, use #if statements to make the right call for the platform

[hidden dew]

ok, great and thanks

[regal mulch]

Since BP have a function to quit which should work on all platforms, you could just call that one. Probably part of the KismetFunctionLibrary or so

[fiery basalt]

I am very excited to finally make a proper game with a proper game engine but what is delaying the progress is the art. I cant make a good animation for my character. Dont get me wrong it is literally the simplest of characters but walk cycles are annoying and it has been 2 days since and I havent made much progress. Whats your advice on this

[acoustic wraith]

Don't focus on art until it's absolutely necessary. Focus on the gameplay

[drowsy snow]

Hire someone else who has the talent to create the art for you. Make sure you do your due diligence before hiring, though. Lots of charlatan artists out there.

Don't force yourself to be the jack of all trades if you can't.

[fluid mist]

Hi. I'd like to ask for help please also I'm not entirely sure where this question falls anyway I've been trying to figure out, what I can only describe as live in-game cinematic action.

You know, those in-game cinematic action sequences like Naughty Dog's.

[acoustic wraith]

What's your question?

[fluid mist]

That's my question, that's it called. That thing that Naughty Dog does especially the ones shown in Uncharted 4

[drowsy snow]

So... what's your problem with it?

[fluid mist]

https://youtu.be/2MEpYiS2aOI

I'm trying to figure out what it's called

So I can study it.

I've looked through documentation, YouTube, courses. Which leaves me here.

Still havem't figured out how its done

[drowsy snow]

Jonathan Cooper did a presentation about exactly this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hpk0l8-PAY

[fiery basalt]

The budget for this game is pretty much nonexistent. I have made a request in #volunteer-projects but idk where else to look

[drowsy snow]

Good thing my bookmark is full of anim references lol

[drowsy snow]

Don't hold your breath if you can't give paid incentive for asset productions. We largely treat #volunteer-projects for entertainment, not looking for actual gigs.

[fluid mist]

@drowsy snow thanks!

I'll go study it.

[fiery basalt]

😬

[fluid mist]

Hopefully, I can finally figure out how it's done.

[drowsy snow]

Good luck!
Once you get the gist of it, you can then look into Unreal's Sequencer feature.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/Overview/

[drowsy snow]

Sorry, but the ones that bring food into the table gets more priority than those that don't.

Even most FOSS projects are worked in spare time, unless they got massive amount of donations consistently (like Blender Foundation or large Linux companies)

That's not to say that rev share is totally impossible, it's just that your contributors won't dedicate much of their time for you. You don't provide warranty to them, so do they.

[lean widget]

am i able to make a mp3 to uasset ?

[drowsy snow]

No, but you shouldn't even worry about it, because audio files will get compressed on packaging.

[lean widget]

my mp3 looks like this

[fiery basalt]

But its a 16x16 pixel art i literally just need to move the legs 😭

[fluid mist]

Ssshhhh... this is so clear. Sshhh

Thanks again @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Converting it to WAV and importing it is more preferrable, especially for a click sound.
MP3 is terrible for more instantaneous sounds like that and generally not favoured by game makers.

Again, the WAV files will end up compressed in packaging anyway, while allowing for fast audio loading.

I think UE uses Vorbis for that, but I might be mistaken.

[hidden dew]

Hmm.. I wasn't actually getting a difference with using the Windows headers/calls.
What I did find though was that it was related to BeginPlay() after all. Both the approaches I tried did quit, but not until BeginPlay() had completed. My issue had been that I was getting other crashes inside BeginPlay(), after the quit calls, confusing things.

I've also found that ConsoleCommand("quit") gives me a closed PIE and return to the editor, and RequestExit(false) closes the whole editor. Either way, both after BeginPlay() has completed.

[drowsy snow]

I mean, if you want to, you could take some time to study from retro platformers, even as mundane as the original Super Mario Bros.

[drowsy snow]

SMB 1 could be a mundane example, and too obvious for that, but because at the time big N have yet to flip the hardware to everyone's advantage, they had to make it simple to fit the famicom's barebone specs.

[stuck chasm]

Would android multiplayer make quest 2 and mobile cross play? Or is there more to it ?

[acoustic wraith]

As long as it builds, there's no specific setup for crossplay

[drowsy snow]

The only thing that would stop crossplay is your own separation, or the platform's online infrastructure (and we know how Sony got backlash after Fortnite accidentally crossplay from PS4 and Epic saying how simple it was to do)

[acoustic wraith]

^ You'll probably have different PlayerControllers and Characters

You'll need to set the proper classes via the GameMode, when players connect.

[neon bough]

how do we still not have an control rig channel 😭

it's barely related to animation blueprints, so it's own channel would be justified

[drowsy snow]

I don't check on my usual channels all the time, so I can't be the sole "lecturer" if we have dedicated channel for it.

[neon bough]

well, i'm currently twisting, not only my, head around getting head rotation work within a limited range with DAZ rig -.-

i have some working implementations which split rotation into yaw/pitch, and it seems to work better than the aim node

[drowsy snow]

On top of that I don't use Daz (even though Snowie often gave me some clues about it, including its own merits)

[neon bough]

but it feels so complex and i feel like there must be an easier solution

@plush yew how did you solve it?

[prime willow]

Solve what?

[neon bough]

head rotation on daz rig in control rig

for things like lookAt

[prime willow]

yeah control rig and Daz

[neon bough]

did you use aim node, or some other solution?

[prime willow]

I have tried many things

[neon bough]

welcome to my world...

[prime willow]

nothing has solved my daz mesh from becoming a sphegetti monster

and if i use fix rotations before import they import as a spghetti monster ._.

[neon bough]

i'll get nightmares from that 180° yaw rotations and such 😄

[prime willow]

;-;

[neon bough]

oh that sounds like you failed even earlier

[prime willow]

yup

i mnaged to make everything work perfectly

until placed on the map

than he re-spghettis

all over again

control rig and daz isnt worth it

[neon bough]

it sure is

[prime willow]

i burnt over 4 months for no real usable progress

thats four months of mechanics and systems

[neon bough]

the problem is that you cant copy paste youtube solutions 😛

[prime willow]

and i work really really fast when i work lol

i can setup entire systems in 20 minutes

[stuck chasm]

Is there a specific channel for setting up android setup errors

[prime willow]

i still wreathe at the loss of time spent for control rig to still not work

.-.

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[stuck chasm]

ty

[prime willow]

@neon bough I have a suggestion but you may have to do things that are not okay ;>_>

[neon bough]

which is?

[prime willow]

well that depends on if you can find any working solutions for character creation 3 and control rig

I may have a bypass lmao

[ivory locust]

does anyone know how to export a tessellated mesh from ue4?

[neon bough]

thats the iclone software?

[prime willow]

reillusion so possibly

they also made iclones stuff

[neon bough]

yea, that's not gonna happen

[prime willow]

too expensive?

[neon bough]

it doesn't work flawless on windows "emulation"

and their software is clonky

[prime willow]

very clonky

but their bone setup to export might be good

o-o

for the control rig issue

[neon bough]

and i'm kinda worried that my next trouble would be animations if i work with an altered rig

[prime willow]

lol

yup

also you can use sendtoeu and blender to daz bridge

and have a working decent Daz animation setup

where you pull rig and mesh animate in blender instantly send to unreal all done in 5 minutes or les sper animation

[neon bough]

i'm using a blender plugin for the DAZ rig and stuff

[prime willow]

ah oki

[neon bough]

i guess my main problem with the Aim node in CR is that it applies roll to the head bone, which i don't want

[prime willow]

this is the best i can give you for your control rig issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiKSB19BFuk

and even than you have to follow the description instructions

and that might not fix it either

didnt for me ;-;

also my guess is try using a different bone for the head roll maybe?

[neon bough]

my rig works fine, it's just that particular problem with limiting the head rotation

[prime willow]

like neckupper

i know daz has silly names for their bones

i think iirc

upperneck is head 1 for daz

[neon bough]

head is head, it's pretty obvious 😄

[prime willow]

oh sorry im stupid and havent slept in 24+ hours xD

the only other person who may be able to guide you i know is @fierce tulip and he doesnt touch daz control rig iirc

[drowsy snow]

BTW I did some testing with MB-Lab models, and try to rerig it with Auto Rig Pro, and with the rig adhering more to UE mannequin standard, it works better with Control Rig. Though I have yet to solve twist bones problem.

Also yeah, it's practically throwing away the old, incompatible rig, and rerig the mesh, but from my experimentations, Auto Rig Pro did a good job at making auto weights with voxels.

[prime willow]

you can always cheat that process

and rrun a daz script

that completely tears out twist bones

and forces the model to become 1 and 1 with mannequin

[neon bough]

i think there's also a paid plugin for blender which pretty much makes anything UE mannequin compatible

not mr mannequin tools btw

[prime willow]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[neon bough]

nvm, auto rig pro is what i meant 😄

[prime willow]

im dumb and using daz as is from import

with daz bones

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, it's 30 bucks 😅

[prime willow]

and everything tells me to eject fast

and use mannequin bones ._.

@woeful hatch hush you U:<

[woeful hatch]

which one is it where you can place it its like a collision box and you can edit lighting? forgot name lol

[neon bough]

$40 on blendermarket

where did you get it for 30?

[drowsy snow]

Oh right, sorry, I forgot the price.

[neon bough]

post process volume?

[woeful hatch]

thanks!

just forgot it lol ofc it is

cheers again man

[prime willow]

Well Ben im sorry that i wasnt any help at all .-.

i qit the whole control rig thing

didnt seem worth the pain

like id waste away 6Plus months or more

and thats enough time to make your whole game mechanically

or at least the core aspect

[neon bough]

yea you did waste them because you did quit

[prime willow]

might as well come back to it later

[neon bough]

instead of learning from the fails 😄

[prime willow]

i just noticed that i keep getting stuck and have no idea or clue how to move forward

i feel like i should wait and work on other stuff

come back later when i msmarter wiser

and probably have a better understanding on unreal ;-;

its the same way with character creation tbh

i burnt nearly a year getting lost on that

sinc ei went to do that first before anything else

[drowsy snow]

NGL, my knowledge on Control Rig was culmination of months of trial and errors, and battle testing with machinima projects certainly help.

[prime willow]

i could maybe do it now lol but dang the time wasted super painful

anyways as ive clearly established im pretty useless in the control rig aspect and cant help you much at all in that area

[untold summit]

hello, i need some help, i wanna port vr to mouse controls, theres no yt video on this topic as far as i am aware.

[prime willow]

my only advice idk if its possible with control rig would be to setup an ignore function for twist bones if they get in the way maybe?

[drowsy snow]

#virtual-reality might know about it.

[prime willow]

worked for setting up iks

[neon bough]

ok, thanks tho

[drowsy snow]

You could override it with another CR node after the IK node.

[neon bough]

but honestly my advice is to try to understand what's going on

that helps in moving forward 😄

[prime willow]

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

i agree

do forgive me

[untold summit]

not many people there 😦

[neon bough]

probably the rig isn't the actual main problem but the fundamentals 😄

[prime willow]

im currently suffering through fixing my mantle system let alone aadding climbing and prince of persia floops

yup i still need to learn fundementals lol

[neon bough]

you must become one with the bone

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of moving forward, Control Rig executes in forward sequence, at least from Forward Solver, so overriding is possible.
RigVM is quite lightweight, so abuse it and find what works.

[neon bough]

and see how stuff gets messed up from the bone perspective 😄

[prime willow]

become the bone

https://tenor.com/view/adventure-time-tree-in-the-tree-part-of-the-tree-cute-gif-17500205

[untold summit]

also, i need to add weight to the items held in the vr hands, how would i go about doing that?

[drowsy snow]

I don't work on VR at all.

[untold summit]

okay, imagine its not vr, how would you add weight to a weapon?

[prime willow]

maybe add physics

[neon bough]

create a physics asset and define a weight

[prime willow]

than change its weight in mass or weight

[drowsy snow]

As in held on hand? Fake it with animations.

[untold summit]

ah, not fake :/

thats the oposite of what my intent is :/

i wanna add collision to the weapon.

[drowsy snow]

Well, you said implying it's not VR. In non VR, the mass rarely relevant.

Save for things like dropping weapons, which even then often not physically accurate.

[untold summit]

yea thats a problem, trying to make an accurate fighting game, the weight is usper important here.

well

just a system for now

[drowsy snow]

Again, I don't work on VR at all (blame my health condition for that), so you're asking to the wrong person.

Even if I had to, I could just outsource the job and let someone else do it.

[untold summit]

yeah, its such an issue making this, but its so worth it.

[prime willow]

i hope so

https://tenor.com/view/angry-pouting-anime-cute-gif-14890182

[untold summit]

very much, for this purpose i also need the weapon to have weight while colliding with another weapon.

[prime willow]

it better be sexy as fluff D:<

[neon bough]

well i think the full body ik solver is just trolling me

and not applying the limits corrects

[drowsy snow]

With some clever animation trick, one can make fighting sequences feel punchier than it should.

(and optionally some particle effects)

[untold summit]

i guess, but i wanna add diferent weights to different weapons.

[untold summit]

greatsword should easily overcome a onehand.

but be alot slower to swing.

[drowsy snow]

Fake it with arbitrary numbers, for all I know, J-RPG style.

[untold summit]

but the system i have in mind has a way to avoid getting hit even if the blades touch, by guiding the sword away from your body.

think for honor, but less gimmicky.

[drowsy snow]

Maybe artificially add latency / desync to the HMD movement on screen to signify the weight, based on arbitrary JRPG numbers, and make it unusable if the weapon's enum switch disable one handed support.

Theoretically.

[untold summit]

i would need to see how this looks.

[drowsy snow]

The thing is that VR controllers can't get heavier in real life, so you have to problem solve it on screen.

[untold summit]

yea, that is something i get.

[untold summit]

infact this is why i wanna make a mouse controller for it instead.

[drowsy snow]

Although the bulky headsets caused me to nearly pass out.

[neon bough]

i bet that would feel really weird in VR

[untold summit]

the thing is

i just want the vr controls

no vr headset

all normal on pc

just with vr controls.

[neon bough]

still your brain wants to see the movement to be somewhat what you tell your arm muscles

if you add artificial lag to it, you get into trouble

[drowsy snow]

FWIW, I see streamers playing that one VR game about sword battle, and the weight of the sword barely matters.

[neon bough]

yea probably for the reason that i said above

[hallow void]

Hey guys, quick question, just to make ideas clear for future development, If I wanted to implement into my games some bots that use the same type of character the player uses (for example to allow bot support in deathmatchor other multiplayer modes), can I just make an AI possess or use that specified character or should I make a separate pawn or actor and recreate something similar to the player character on the front end while on the back end is completely different?

Take something like Unreal Tournament for example, my question is if I can put in some ways an AI to control a character or I should make something dedicate,

[neon bough]

you use the same base character, and unless you do weird things they can be possessed by players and AI

[drowsy snow]

IIRC in the case of CSGO, the server would hijack quitting players's characters with bots to balance the round

[hallow void]

So if I built my character starting from the stock first person character BP it can be possessed by an AI, right?

[neon bough]

idk about the first person character because i never used it, but probably yes

[hallow void]

Good to know, this will make my life a lot easier, thanks!

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, basically having the AI controller as fallback.

If you don't mind looking at C++ code, Shooter Game template has what it takes for arena shooters.

[hallow void]

Great!

I am trying to learn C++ even though with school I am kinda stuck there, working majorly on UE5 and Blender rather than on C :/

[drowsy snow]

Also if you don't mind working with older UE4 versions, you can even dismantle the now abandoned Unreal Tournament 4 project source code (thanks Fortnite) and try reverse engineer it.

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealTournament

(if this gives you 404, you have to link your GitHub account with your Epic Games account with valid UE licence)

[hallow void]

Everything that can get me on the track of making a quality boomer shooter is welcome, thanks a lot!

[placid socket]

noob question, i have functions in my blueprint, one has a greenish F, and the others are blue/greyish, what's the difference? 😄

[drowsy snow]

Also, about boomer shooter, you can even grab this Source/old Quake like movement system, from Project Borealis.

https://github.com/ProjectBorealis/PBCharacterMovement

[hallow void]

I hope there's a way I can turn my game developing experience into work hours for school... here in Italy there's the tradition of not letting students have a private life at all, so our dear dear government put a law that forces high school students to work 90 hours in 3 years otherwise you can't access university

Oh, you don't get any kind of money or experience from that work, you just work for free at McDonalds to have access to life

[drowsy snow]

Blue function: "normal" functions that you can execute on its own
Green function: "pure" functions that can't be executed on its own

[hallow void]

I did and I tried to install it in UE5, sadly I suck at coding so I couldn't get it working...

[placid socket]

thanks, that explains a lot, i will watch the video once again how to use it properly

[drowsy snow]

The problem with UE5 is that (from what I heard, I don't use UE5) the build process is slightly different from UE4's. Consider asking on #ue5-general about this, someone there might able to help about it.

[hallow void]

Green functions are used most of the times as references or target, most of them are Get functions that get a value or a game component (e.g. Get Player Controller) and can't be executed, while blue ones can be executed but they often (not always) rely on variables and those green functions

[hallow void]

Thanks, I will do later

[untold summit]

i believe it wont be much of an issue, just gotta try it to know for real tho.

[hallow void]

I am very interested in UE5, can't wait to see what its future holds, now I'm probably go back studying Kant (I allegedly detest him)

[untold summit]

its not the first game to do this, for honor also has physics that simulate weight.

[drowsy snow]

Does For Honor has motion controls?

[untold summit]

its about simulation weight, not about vr per say, what i wanna create has nothing to do with vr except for the Free movement you get from the controls.

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, this is definitely the animations that make it looks (and feels) punchy.

The simplest way to get it would be with some tweening.

[untold summit]

this aint what i meant, i just wanted to showcase that adding artifical weight doesnt add trouble when it comes to playing the game.

[drowsy snow]

I mean, if you really want to, you could just go with Wii route.

[untold summit]

what i wanna do is a sort of semi first person/third person fighting game where you get to freely control your chars blade or any weapon equipe currently.

[drowsy snow]

Motion controls w/ peripherals, but not VR display, that's basically Wii in a nutshell.

[obsidian nimbus]

well rift wont work w/o headset

quest neither

[untold summit]

my god

no headset

[obsidian nimbus]

wii is unsupported

[untold summit]

pc master race 😄

[drowsy snow]

Kinect is dead by now.

[untold summit]

forget wii, mouse it is.

its not really finding out a proper way to make it work, its about the how to add the controls rather than how to make it work gameplay wise.

[drowsy snow]

Though, you could add your own Wii controller support, if you want to, with some hacky C++ code, even though only retro enthusiasts, speedrunners, and grannies with the Wii mini still holding on the Wii remote.

[obsidian nimbus]

you could try use a phone as controller

[drowsy snow]

For gyro movement yes, but without spatial awareness.

[digital rover]

cant we edit/change distance of existing layer on world composition

[untold summit]

nah mate, i wanna make it mouse mainly, i need a demo most people can play, not some wii nonsense.

[drowsy snow]

No, you have to create a new one, set the distance value, and evacuate your sublevels.

[obsidian nimbus]

could get spatial awareness if u incorp the camera tracking

[digital rover]

cant we delete that layer?

[drowsy snow]

The old one will be automatically deleted if there's no sublevels upon reloading the persistent level.

[digital rover]

oh ok thank you

[untold summit]

is this towards me?

[drowsy snow]

Some mid to lower end Android phones don't have AR capabilities, and ironically Unreal works best with iPhone's AR capabilities.

Though to be fair the integration was started way before the Fortnite banning fiasco.

[obsidian nimbus]

yea its not perfect, but ppl often have one

more ppl own an iphone than quest

iphonme + pc that is

its also something a lot of ppl dont wunna bother with

phone +pc has a lot of potential for a sync multiplay, but phones comin in all shapes and sizes makes things a bit tricky

[dawn gull]

I'm trying to see if a hit actor is a specific class, I tried this and it doesnt work, what could I try?

I know its hitting because it could print the name of each actor fine

[drowsy snow]

Maybe try getting the class first?

[dawn gull]

That's what I originally had thought of before asking here but I didn't know how

[grim ore]

get the hit actor, get its class, compare class to class, profit?

[drowsy snow]

This is basically comparing the object reference, not necessarily the class.

[dawn gull]

Oh, like this?

[grim ore]

yes, that would compare the classes

[dawn gull]

ill try it out

[grim ore]

you can also cast and that would work as well

[drowsy snow]

Right, this can save some node real estate (and maybe a little more optimised)

[turbid wasp]

I made a landscape that I then deleted and made a new one. And when i was gonna add my material again so I could paint it onto the ground, it didn't work to press "ok". It worked before I deleted the terrain

It's what he's doing here
https://youtu.be/X0MN9xWr-iI?t=386

And I get the error message "Asset /Game/Landscape_sharedassets/Grass_LayerInfo already exists." When I press "ok"

[dawn gull]

Works great! Thank you!

[drowsy snow]

Sounds like you're trying to recreate the layer info.
Just so you know that Layer info assets are rather reusable, so you don't necessarily have to create one again if you already have one.

[turbid wasp]

but I didn't find the one i used to have when i was painting before I deleted the terrain

[grim ore]

hqve you tried to run a save all so it saves the temporary files

it also shows the folder its in, in that error

[turbid wasp]

i dont know how to run a save all

i just started with this a couple of days ago hehe

so im really new to it

[drowsy snow]

Ctrl+Shift+S

[turbid wasp]

okay great

im gonna start it up now again

[grim ore]

its also under the file menu at the top

[turbid wasp]

wait when i started it, the ground was black

hm

[drowsy snow]

I think it would be easier to just create another new project and nuke the old one.

[turbid wasp]

but - ive done that twice already lol

this should be fine

but

the only problem I have

is still the "ok" thing where i cant press ok

[drowsy snow]

Mark my words.
If you're still learning and things gone haywire, you can always create a new project.

[turbid wasp]

yeah yeah

[turbid wasp]

but is that the solution to this

[grim ore]

show the actual issue

[turbid wasp]

im a beginner sorry for that

dont know a lot about this..

[drowsy snow]

Choose a different folder.

[turbid wasp]

oh

okay cool

[grim ore]

or

dont create a new one, just use the old one

see the drop down next to each material on the left, those are the layers you have assigned. click on the none and choose the one you created before

your trying to create the layers again (which is fine), and then save them into the same folder as before (which is the error)

[turbid wasp]

oh

i did a misstake lol

i pressed control + z

and i did this

by accident

._.

im so bad at this lol

now its black again

[grim ore]

on the left you have the two round balls, each represents the material for the layer

next to them is the layer info, which is set to none

change them

[turbid wasp]

ohh

thanks!

can I change my fly speed?

I know I can

i've forgotten how

also, it's really hard to know how big I should make something. how can I know how big my path should be?

what if I make it too big

[grim ore]

use something for reference, drag in your character for example.

[turbid wasp]

how?

i can drag in a root or something but how do I drag in my character?

[grim ore]

you drag in your character. find it in the content browser and drag it into the scene

or you could drag in a cube and size it to your character

[boreal sun]

I have this ground wave projectile where I'm scaling a static mesh taurus in the xy direction. The only problem is that I want the width of the taurus to stay roughly the same for the whole duration. I can't seem to figure out how I would do this, does anyone have any ideas or solution?

not sure how I could scale the outside and inside diameter together

[turbid wasp]

i cant find it?

nvm

found it haha

[drowsy snow]

Theoretically you could manipulate the vertices by displacing it with World Position Offset input in the material, but I'll leave it to you on figuring out how to use the transforms in material.

[turbid wasp]

damn is it this big lol

good to know at least!

[plush yew]

anyone know where to get victorian style castle interior models? like walls and details

[drowsy snow]

Just know that even in theoretical level, the WPO method I propose is super hacky for what you're trying to achieve, due to how static mesh transformation works in all 3D CG tools that ever existed.
You might able to get away with particles instead, allowing you to retain the thiccness, or if particles dissatisfy you, you can last resort to SDF raymarcher algos.

[plush yew]

also for free

[drowsy snow]

The marketplace

[plush yew]

yeah

[drowsy snow]

If you want it for free, either: work with what you can get, even if it looks terrible; create it yourself in DCC tools of choice; or infringe some copyrights and screwing yourself up in the process.

Or gamble every month in Marketplace.

[plush yew]

well im mixing bridge assets

kinda works, but looks terrible

especially those details, like on ceiling, walls

[boreal sun]

Good ideas tyty, WPO method sounds hard as hell but I'll give it an honest try. Particles might work out too

[turbid wasp]

Hey, how do i change flying speed?

[drowsy snow]

As in the editor camera?

[turbid wasp]

yes

[drowsy snow]

There's a handy little blazing camera button in the top right of the viewport.

[turbid wasp]

cool

thanks

[plush yew]

does this look stupid?

Was talking about the hud

just spent like 6 hours trying to figure that all out

lol

i was going for the valorant look

[void sierra]

I'm getting this error when building. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

[plush yew]

you have a error in one of your blueprints

[turbid wasp]

hey

why doesnt my project show up

[turbid wasp]

looks great!

[void sierra]

oh ok, strange. Is there a way to know which one? Or am I going to have to go through every blueprint? It looks like that's the only information it gives me

[void sierra]

The thing is tho, it lets me play the game in the editor. Usually when there is a blueprint error, it does not let you play in the editor.

[warped crypt]

I seen to be unable to add an Interface to a certain BP - what might be the reason?

I go into Class Settings ,I press ADD and and find it - click it and nothing??

[turbid wasp]

Im trying to download a pack from epic marketplace but I cant search up my project :(

anyone knows why?

[dusk nebula]

If I get weird bugs like that or the one where nodes don't change I just reopen first thing and go from there

[untold summit]

eyo back

something simple now

animation for camera switching between first and third person.

[neon bough]

set view target with blend

[untold summit]

👌

[granite sparrow]

Anyone have a course they recommend for learning ue4 c++ for someone whos never done game development before

[untold summit]

i wish my camera actor appeared in my reference.

so i could actually do the damn thing.

[neon bough]

you need to reference the camera component

[untold summit]

it doesnt let me

[neon bough]

stop pinging me every 5 minutes ffs

[untold summit]

didnt mean to, my bad.

[neon bough]

which doesn't let you connect the reference?

target is player controller, new view target is actor which has a bound camera

[untold summit]

new target is camera actor yeah?

[neon bough]

new view target

yes

[untold summit]

because when i try to add it it doesnt show up in reference.

[drowsy snow]

See pinned messages.

[slow haven]

hello ppls im a project manager and a programmer we r working on a project we need 9 ppls i mean serious ppls who will continue with us we r a small team here is the roles i hope some of u will be interested

[tawdry pawn]

just wanna say to everyone Happy Halloween 🤡

[slow haven]

where ?? n thnk u

[frozen solstice]

Anyone seen an issue, in ue5 (or ue4 I guess), where breakpoints only want to trigger once? E.g. soon as I hit resume on a For Loop with an Array (that's full), only the first instance triggers the breakpoint. Resuming and I will never see that breakpoint again.

[slow haven]

i can t chat on job board

[steel lava]

Question! I need help with something but the best way I have to show what I need help with is through a short video clip I uploaded on to YouTube. It's a short unlisted clip that doesn't make me any money or anything and I'll be deleting the video after I get a response so it's not like I'm shilling my own stuff but it still feels like I am in a way? I just wanna know if it's alright.

[smoky thunder]

Good evening.
I just landed here, from planet Godot.

How are we all doing today?

[steel lava]

Heya! Doing well!

[slow haven]

srry for tha but where i can write the commands

[smoky thunder]

@steel lava If uploading it to youtube makes you unsure, cant you just list it as private and share the link to it?
Or do you need to show it to the big crowd ?

[steel lava]

It's unlisted which means that no one can see except for anyone who clicks the the link.

[smoky thunder]

Well what is the worry then? 🙂

[modest trench]

are you worried about making it public or worried about the channel rules?

[steel lava]

Worried about channel rules.

[modest trench]

I don't think posting a short problem video will be an issue

[steel lava]

Ah okay, thanks!

[smoky thunder]

Ahh i see.
I thought this was somehow youtube specific. haha
Sorry.

[steel lava]

Nah, it's fine! Thanks for trying to help!

Well here's my question basically.

https://youtu.be/SVCJmqE3xTQ

Okay, apparently the resolution is fucked.

[modest trench]

which pixel is your issue? lol

[steel lava]

Hold on, lemme try to re-render it and re-up the video and then I'll post a hopefully better link. lol

[modest trench]

I think I can understand a fair amount just from the audio

[steel lava]

Oh? That's nice at least. lol

[modest trench]

arrow component is mostly for just debug visualization btw

it's just so it's easy to see which way something faces (in the editor)

[steel lava]

Ohh, that makes sense.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean.

[modest trench]

https://youtu.be/EM_HYqQdToE

[steel lava]

Sweet, I'll check that out now!

Especially since I re-rendered and uploaded the video and it's still 240p so that's not helpful.

[pearl swallow]

Hi guys. I'm kinda noob here in case of making my own master shaders.
I wanted to ask: Is it legal to use some of the Unreal Tournament Master Material in my own project? I'll be using my own textures of course. No texture or mesh will be used from UT. Just the master material

[bronze vale]

Does anyone have experience on switch? I am trying to convert a ".SWITCH_AUDIO" file to .wav

I didn't see anything about it in pins

[smoky thunder]

Wait a sec, unreal does run on Linux right?

Why did i get a .msi file, when trying to grab the download?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but it took a lot of hoops to get there

[drowsy snow]

You have to build the engine from source code if you want to develop on Linux

[smoky thunder]

I should be fine with that.

Been doing that, a lot, with my Godot project.

[drowsy snow]

...are you trying to rip Nintendo Switch game assets?

[bronze vale]

Yes

I used Umodel

I took it right from the pak

[smoky thunder]

so @drowsy snow Do i need UE4 or is there also a version 5 out there.
Do they both build on Linux, in that case ?

[drowsy snow]

Per #rules no.5, no support for asset ripping in this server.
Contact the respective modding forums instead.

[bronze vale]

Omg

There are no forums

But ok

[drowsy snow]

I don't see why both won't build on Linux.

[smoky thunder]

Aighty, that will be tomorrows task then 🙂

[modest trench]

clang support is there but I don't know if it's super stable or not

[smoky thunder]

super stable is always relative 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Clang cross compile from Windows to Linux, right?

[bronze vale]

You say, "no support for asset ripping" but, what if I just need to know how to convert a UE file type

[drowsy snow]

converting Unreal assets from shipped games still constitutes asset ripping.

[bronze vale]

But what if it's from a mod

I literally cannot find anything on this filetype

Gg no re ig

[drowsy snow]

Can't you just make a recreation of the sound bite? Hassle free on your end if you don't know reverse engineering.

[bronze vale]

No, because I'd need to know exactly how many bits the original uses in little endian

[drowsy snow]

Considering you're talking about ripping UE4 game, it's always 16-bit.
Though from your wording, I'm going to assume you already have knowledge on reverse engineering.

[bronze vale]

No, I'm just an average intelligence 15 year old

I no longer need assistance for now

I shall sort this out

[smoky thunder]

Plot twist, Stabb is actually a spy.

[neon bough]

or just intelligent enough to see that this is going nowhere here 😄

[fresh shoal]

https://tenor.com/view/spy-tf2spy-worst-sus-anyone-gif-22434495

[hidden dew]

Why is the A == B input greyed out? (This is in a material)

[neon bough]

it's optional

hover over it and it'll tell you why

[drowsy snow]

Google-fu.

That's the secret sauce.

[modest trench]

learn.unrealengine.com

[drowsy snow]

(also a crap ton of trial and error)

[modest trench]

and reading engine source

there are also many weekly twitch streams they have done

you may find one covering a topic you care about

I don't know if that matters at all

[hidden dew]

oh, derp, ty

[modest trench]

probably just for their own usage metrics

[drowsy snow]

I highly doubt Epic will judge you for it, nor gaining any exclusive perks.

The official Unreal Engine channels.

It's always on Twitch, though sometimes they relay the stream to YouTube.

[modest trench]

for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE

I link this one a lot

[spare kernel]

then ask in #ue5-general then

that is what that channel is for

[hidden dew]

Question about basic material logic.
Contrived example: I have a parameter that will be a random number: 0, 1, 2, or 3.
I want to say "Render pink if it's 0, lime if it's 1, cyan if it's 2, and white if it's 3."

How can I do this?

Or not the full explanation, but what I should look at. The 'if' material node doesn't appear to be as robust as the usual kind of if statement.

[hot anchor]

anyone know where I should post link to my discord server? Its for anyone who is new or experienced game developer to ask me (developer of safezonevr on steam) about anything related to game development, show of their work etc

I cant find a channel to share it lol (:

[hidden dew]

Eyy I got it. I used a custom node with some basic logic. Don't know if it's the most optimal approach but it's simple and worked

Studying sucks but learning is fun

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Julie Ji#6624 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[hidden dew]

I'm looking for a guide on how to use a Render Target to act as an array of values. So I just want to dump values into it on the CPU side, to read from it in the Material.
But I can't find anything that really shows how to do this... The best I've seen uses a Canvas Render Target and a Static Texture... which seems more convoluted than it has to be. Anyone know a good guide or tips?

[vocal flume]

I have a widget that executes and displays a game over screen with player score and coins and everything. It’s elaborate. Player score appears. Then total time passed appears and so on. Takes like 10-12 seconds to get through the whole thing. Now I want to include a skip button at the bottom that’ll skip all the animations and particle effects and displays everything at once. How to stop the execution if player wants to skip when half of the page is done?

[dusk nebula]

just remove the widget from the screen or destroy it?

[vocal flume]

I can’t remove it because the result screen is the same widget.

[dusk nebula]

then make it a separate widget

or set the container and all its children to hidden

[vocal flume]

Like I have a page that displays 1-100 one by one. When player presses skip I want to display all 100 numbers at once in the same page.

[dusk nebula]

keyframes maybe

I don't see why you couldn't skip to the end of the sequence somehow

[vocal flume]

Event Construct —> show text —> play animation —> 2 seconds delay —> show another text —> 1.5 seconds delay —> particle animation —> a second delay..

Im not sure how I can break execution when the player is at say.. 2nd animation..

[dusk nebula]

so when you move the slider to the end of the sequence, does that look how you want it to?

[vocal flume]

There is no slider.. it’s not a single animation

[drowsy snow]

You could convert it in place, or make installed builds of your custom UE.

[vocal flume]

created a project with the current 4.27.1 source build on pc and then tried to open the project running the same engine on mac, it says it's made with a different engine version and converting it could damage the project. does anyone know if there's a way around this?
@signal ember I did this recently. Moved project to mac. For your safety, backup the project folder and try opening it and convert it. Worst case you’ll have to rebuild with Xcode.

[dusk nebula]

any reason why a struct variable called from another BP would output the correct Data Table line the first time I call it but then the default after that?

[plush yew]

really enjoying the udim support in unreal engine

does anyone know if they will make it enabled by default

https://streamable.com/j3zjjs

[prime willow]

im awake!

https://tenor.com/view/crab-rave-mmd-v-tuber-alymew-alymew-dance-gif-22688312

[drowsy snow]

Hello!

Buy a new computer.

Kidding. Probably the automatic scalability kicks in and set things to low.

[void sierra]

Every time I try to build the lighting in unreal, it seems to be creating a folder called "SwarmCache" and storing a bunch of data in it. It's causing the build to fail because I don't have enough space on my c drive. How can I change the directory of the SwarmCache?

[plush yew]

how do i increase the taa

or should I use msaa

my blinds disappear with all the aliasing.

[prime willow]

❤️

[drowsy snow]

Ah, yes, blinds. Anti aliasing's nemesis.
The best way to remedy this is to get screen resolution above 100%, but it could hurt performance.
MSAA (AFAIK) only available on forward rendering.

You practically don't have much choice due to how 3D raster render works, not accounting for any form of AA.

[untold summit]

ello, i tried doing set view target with blend, but i really cant figure it out, i tried adding camera, that doesnt work, cameractor doesnt work either, the hell am i doing wrong.

[drowsy snow]

https://youtu.be/uW86ZGxesmc

[untold summit]

thats what i followed

[untold summit]

i cannot add cameractor.

[plush yew]

@drowsy snowthanks that fixed it

you and that other guy managed to help me fix both my export issues with blender and my anti aliasing

now everything is as it should be when it comes into unreal

[untold summit]

please help

[plush yew]

same

[untold summit]

at least it actually works now, but i still cant figure out the camera, it now directs to player cotroller which goes inside the body, which obviously sucks.

[dapper oak]

I've just loaded up this 4.27 project after a while and now my skysphere looks like this. Shaders have completely compiled. Any idea what is happening and how to fix?

[untold summit]

It just directs to player right now, i need it to direct to cameraactor, which i cannot add.

[drowsy snow]

Blend camera gone sexual 🤔

[untold summit]

i wanna cry dude, its so frustrating.

[plush yew]

morning coders 🙂

[dapper oak]

good evening

[plush yew]

lol i have been putting so many man hours into my game, i had a dream about blueprints.. kinda weird af

[dapper oak]

ive put my game off for 3 months yet complain about it not being finished

funny that

[plush yew]

truth i did that too i needed a break.

but then you forget what you did and have to restert 😦

[stable path]

I've had like 10 different projects like that

where I started, worked on it for a few months

Then gave up 😐

[dapper oak]

few months?

try like a week

yeah probably not

[stable path]

I mean, I knew that from the beginning

Yet, for some reason, I still wasted months on it

[plush yew]

I started getting into UE4 recently and I'm having some troubles. Is this the right channel to ask help at?

[untold summit]

i just need to add the camera actor for it to work 😦

[dapper oak]

indeed it is!

[plush yew]

add a .1 delay if yoour replicating, to the begining

[untold summit]

yeah but right now it doesnt even work properly it hovers to his ass instead of his face, i cant add the cameraactor, idk why, help.

[plush yew]

lol

i never dont 3p to 1 p

[untold summit]

i need it badly.

.

[plush yew]

i know dev squad had a video

lemme find it for ya

[untold summit]

i dont get a reference for the camera even when i have it selected.

[untold summit]

thanks for the effort either way.

[fast ginkgo]

Is there any way to reset the Static Mesh Editor layout? I moved the Socket Manager tab, and now the whole editor crashes every time I try to open any static mesh (no matter which project/mesh).

[plush yew]

Uhh.. what I want to do is for a text to appear when holding down H but it doesn't seem to work. Could someone help?

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maGGz2prwVY

best i can find lol

not a proper way of doing it tho

[fast ginkgo]

Found it in %HOME%\AppData\Local\UnrealEngine\4.27\Saved\Config\Windows. Weird bug.

[plush yew]

instead of doing it by tick why dont you create a custom event, then inside your player bp call the custom event to the button?

[plush yew]

That could work. Thanks

[plush yew]

i did all that dumb ui crap yesterday for 10 hours lol

I literally dont understand any of this ._.

you will get there 🙂

right click, create custom event

yeah then im stuck

Call it ButtonPressedX or what ever

then link it up, compile save

then inside your character BP

then call the custom event

[untold summit]

thats simple shite there mate, i NEED the animation you get while changing cameras, my game will involve it, if i had the system you sent here people would get dizzy by constantly changing camera.

[plush yew]

LMFAO thats the lazy dog way of doing it

you want an advanced tutorial ig ot you

[untold summit]

?

[plush yew]

your trying to fix the camera issue correct?

What is your issue?

You want an animation to play when changing from one camera to another?

[untold summit]

yea

[plush yew]

why not play montage then?

[untold summit]

like this here

[plush yew]

I'm no professor but can't you just move the camera for it to work?

[untold summit]

please enlighten me.

[honest vale]

set the location of the camera component

attach it to something

anything goes

[strong mesa]

good morning everyone, I have a collage project and for it i need to simulate a visualization of Sine and Digital signal going from point A to point B , and I'm really lost on what's the way to do it.. can someone help !

[regal mulch]

The Animation, or "Blend", will only work if you switch between two ViewTargets.
ViewTargets are ACTORS. CameraComponents on the same ACTOR won't give you that feature.
If you still need this, then you need to code it yourself. Either by manually interpolating the CameraComponent location/rotation via Timeline, or by making your own PlayerCameraManager component (settable in PlayerController) and by manually returning the POV (point of view) you need in the overridable functions it offers.

The CameraComponent, in terms of Location and Rotation, is only offering the OFFSET from the ViewTarget. The first active one that is found will be used. If none is there, it will use the Actors location itself.

Which is why you are at the location of the PlayerController by default if you have no possessed Pawn

[regal mulch]

That's a very specific issue. You'll need to provide a few steps yourself. What exactly are you struggling with?

[untold summit]

thanks for this

ill try to somehow do it..

god help me.

[strong mesa]

I have to actors ingame, actor A will send Info to B and vice versa...
I need to make a visual that looks like a Sine or a Digital signal that being sent from actor A position to actor B position

[regal mulch]

UE4 has SplineComponents

They offers a way to add/remove points and define in- and outgoing tangents

[turbid wasp]

Can someone help me? doesn't seem like my project shows up here.

[regal mulch]

What Engine Version is your project?

[turbid wasp]

how do I check?

[regal mulch]

You should know

You installed an Engine Version after all

[turbid wasp]

seems to be 4.27.1

[regal mulch]

Did you create the project on this PC or download it to it?

[turbid wasp]

I created it

[strong mesa]

okay so.. I should spawn a SplineComponent then add a point in to make it look like a sine wave

[regal mulch]

You can try clicking on the "Show all projects" at the top right.

[turbid wasp]

still doesnt show up

[regal mulch]

That's one option, yes. You can add the SplineComponent to one of the two actors, or make a 3rd one that both use.

[regal mulch]

Does the project show up in your normal library?

[turbid wasp]

do you mean the library where games are?

this library?

you probably mean the unreal engine library lol

yes

it does show up in the unreal engine library

[regal mulch]

With 4.27.1 as version?

Hm

[turbid wasp]

yeah

[regal mulch]

Not sure then, sorry

[turbid wasp]

:(