ue4-general

[azure topaz]

i dont want exactly their professions cuz its copyright, but just sort of professions system

but something stylized

[prime willow]

well you can do sort of full on or even far and beyond with the asset ^
also you cannot get legally suited and lose in court for game mechanics

thats not really possible for so many cases and laws in place

you could make mario and call him bario and rip all of mario and legally sell your game with no issue besides threats from nintendo xD

[azure topaz]

;d

[prime willow]

the asset doesnt cover hyper realistic stuff

its just the base core functions

like the jump system not necesassily the animations or style or length etc or special effects if that makes sense

now thats my advice take it with a grain of salt* but i sincerely have no idea what unreal calls player classes xD

its honestly a setup of a bunch of enums and connecting blueprints establishing what functions go to what setup based on what the enum names are called etc etc and can be as complex or simple as you make it to be via stats special passives skills you cna even adjust animations based on whats called via class names

[next badger]

Hello, is there a guide how to bake Static lighting for streamed levels?

I need to know how lightmaps attached to levels and how they are loaded.

[plush yew]

does anyone know why walk is not being pushed when i hold Shift?

[devout grove]

wow

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1YBv2mWll0

[next badger]

@plush yewhave you set the key for the Walk action?

[plush yew]

Yeah i set it up for shift

[next badger]

@plush yewalso, your close condition is always true

[devout grove]

i dont think you meant that message for me

lol

[next badger]

I've noticed, my bad

[devout grove]

how do i learn using ue4? like knowing what every button means cuz im so confused rn

[prime willow]

in engine theres a tiny beeping green button

[plush yew]

lol i did true as a joke and turned its condition to true

[prime willow]

its at the top right corner

[plush yew]

but still dont work

[prime willow]

press that and a tutorial will start teaching you about unreal engines systems and buttons

[prime willow]

Whats the issue?

in simple terms

[next badger]

@plush yewstill closed by default

[plush yew]

Holding Shift, will not walk the character, well stop the character because i have it hard set to 0

[devout grove]

Thank you

[next badger]

@plush yewput a breakpoint on gate

[prime willow]

❤️

[plush yew]

you know what i should just do the sprinting tutorial

and make it walk

instead.

[prime willow]

hm

I would possibly go with that

try one under matt aspland

he has good tutorials for animation blueprinting

[plush yew]

its not even animation blending, I have strider for that

lol

[prime willow]

xD

[plush yew]

i just cant walk when holding shift.

IF anyone where wants an amazing plugin for animation blending i suggest strider, Its absolutely amazing.

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

[prime willow]

is it better than dragon ik?

and is it blueprint based or C++

O>

[plush yew]

100% better than anything you can find

[prime willow]

;-;

[plush yew]

yeah blueprint

[prime willow]

oh

will

buy

wait

custom skeletons too?

[plush yew]

Anything

[prime willow]

multiplayer replicated?

[plush yew]

Yupp

[prime willow]

oh

son of a father

[plush yew]

here ill show you

[prime willow]

buying now

xD

[plush yew]

@prime willow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKl5MuQT34

zero blendspaces.

[prime willow]

ok

thats insane

its animation blueprints and blend smootheness

without that or the hassle of animation blueprint

weird question

does strider cover IKs as well?

if so fluff ...

big needs

[plush yew]

i just use leg ik

idk

but it works with walking up stairs and such

[prime willow]

wait so it doesnt necessarily cover iks?

but you can setup your own?

[plush yew]

Yeah

[prime willow]

ok

than you can definitely use both xD

[plush yew]

I was going to buy moveit, but this is better

[prime willow]

will be picking up both

i was thinking of moveit lol

but strider sounds sexer ;-;

[plush yew]

moveit is broken.

strider is the way to go

lol

dont click that anyone

deceptive site, might contain a virus or browser exploit

[neon bough]

without nanite, is it cheaper to render a 32k tri plane with vertex colors for puddles or use a plain 2 tri plane and some 4k texture to fill in the puddles?

[plush yew]

sorry to ask here not sure its its okay, but I clicked something and I can no longer see the camera in the viewport, google didnt bring a result so I didnt word it correctly.

[neon bough]

did you uncheck "visible" in the camera details?

in the panel on the bottom right

[plush yew]

nope, I cant see the player start or skylight like before though

[neon bough]

oh

[plush yew]

just learning some hotkeys and I must've pressed one I dont know

[neon bough]

Show => Advanced => billboard sprites

on the top left of your screenshot^

[plush yew]

nope, I had game view on, but it was in the show tab!

thanks there was about 100 + buttons in there, a lot to learn here

[plush yew]

anyone have ideas for my game? it will be a melee type game, singleplayer to start with then mutliplayer later on

also I need beta testers

[vague lake]

Hi guys! i need to add pedestrian to my game (can be low poly), do you recommend on any pack? i search the marketplace and didn't see something nice, and also can i get a tip about a npc system so they can walk around the city ?

ThANKS

[marble portal]

WTA guys, why i cant get this TV screen reflections on the glasses?

it shows blank screen on the glasses, but i did have the plane with emissive material

[neon bough]

did you check your reflection sphere/cube?

also is that a texture or a world space widget on the screen?

[marble portal]

I do have reflection sphere in front of the glasses

[neon bough]

does it cover the glasses and the screen?

[marble portal]

yess

tried this one also not workking lol

[neon bough]

yea that would be wrong i guess

[marble portal]

is it because of single sided plane?

[neon bough]

no, they both seem to face each other so it should work

there are also some options in actor/mesh or material for visibility in reflection captures, currently cant look into the engine

but maybe you find something there

[marble portal]

This is before i bake the lighting

the reflections works well

so that means, something off with my baked stuff

sorry I'm still noob, and thanks for advice Ben!!

[neon bough]

the reflection still looks somewhat weird imho

maybe because of the refraction of the glass

also your UV lightmap seems to be distorted

[snow acorn]

hi

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/checking-radar-no-one-cares-radar-no-one-cares-who-cares-checking-the-radar-gif-16149872

[autumn flame]

🤣

[exotic thicket]

@snow acorn if you want to be a recognized company you could start by learning to read the rules when joining discord servers :p

[neon bough]

even bad publicity is publicity 😛

[exotic thicket]

Probably not unless your marketing is aimed at 13 year olds

[neon bough]

well, if someone in gamedev mentions their tiktok profile...

[autumn flame]

Even 13 year olds have more decency

[neon bough]

no one said that he's >13

[autumn flame]

Call of Gruty, back to the 80's

Had a look at the profile, I'm done

Probs a botted account for views and all that

[solemn goblet]

Hello I'm wondering if you edit a .cpp file for lets say Apex Plugin in the engine source files what else is needed for it to properly take effect in game?

[neon bough]

recompiling the plugin

[solemn goblet]

Ok an how do I recompile the plugin exactly if you don't mind

there's an ApexDestruction.uplugin file

however it will not let me generate visual studio on it

Do I need to build the apexdestruction.dll?

[neon bough]

i don't know anything windows specific

[solemn goblet]

Damn ok thx anyway

[plush yew]

why am i getting stuck on stairs, sorry for long video it was for my friend

[snow acorn]

@last dune

[prime willow]

Would strider work for blending completely different animations together

like running into jump

or running into attack or dodge?

[plush yew]

thats blend pose by int, and changing montages from default to your custom one like upper body

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: lordmanto#5072 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[drifting iron]

looks cool so far

can anyone help me understand why my mesh strethes in animation?

[plush imp]

Hello folks! I have a quick question regarding TWeakObjPtr in UE4... We have two classes say A and B. A has a c++ pointer to a UObject and class B saves a TWeakObjPtr of the pointer owned by A.. Due to some reason the weak object pointer in B is invalidated. I checked that the original pointer in class A isn't changed and is valid but still the TWeakObjectPtr in class B is invalidated. Does anyone know what might cause a weak object pointer to get invalidated even though the original pointer is the same?

[dawn gull]

What'd the guy do?

[drowsy snow]

Looks like bad weighting to me.

[drifting iron]

thank you for responding. can i add weight maps in unreal?

[drowsy snow]

No, you have to fix them in your DCC tool of choice.

[drifting iron]

thanks!

[umbral idol]

Hello everyone! Does anybody know why my dash distance changes between the viewport mode and the build of the prototype I'm making?

[inland gyro]

Does anyone have a free project that makes the advanced combat system merge with the advanced combat system?

"ALV v4+DCS"

[cloud pagoda]

Hi does anyone know how to do a sliding texture/panning? I'll share details and screenshots in DMs. Any help is appreciated!

[tawdry moth]

how rig character using unreal skeleton?

[drowsy snow]

No need for DMing, but Panner node connected to your Texture Sampler's UV input is one way to do it.

[cloud pagoda]

Idk how to explain it though I'd have to show you, the mesh is a UFO and I want the beam underneath to have emissive rays sliding on the mesh. I got an emissive map on it from substance

[drifting iron]

sounds like a cool concept

[drowsy snow]

I think you need Light Function material for that sliding ray thing.

[cloud pagoda]

Would you mind if I sent you screenshots in DM?

Or I guess I could send it here too but I don't wanna flood chat

[drowsy snow]

Just sent it in this server, no need for DMs.

[cloud pagoda]

Alright

So this is the beam, very basic mesh

And it has an emissive map applied on it

And I made this mask which idk if that's how you'd do what I'm trying to accomplish

But what I want is for the beam mesh to be invisible but for these 3 lines to slide on the mesh so it's basically just 3 rays sliding on that beam

[cloud pagoda]

You see what I mean?

[plush yew]

your gonna have to lerp the 2 textures and then on the beammy things you want to move use a panner in the UV slot

[cloud pagoda]

How do I do that? Sorry I'm not familiar

[plush yew]

wel my unreal isnt open right now ._.

[waxen raven]

I dunno if lerp but panned and uv definitely. I thought masks allowed over the top like a decal? Been a whule.

While*

[cloud pagoda]

Idk how to do that

[waxen raven]

On your material you'll have to make the nodes.

[cloud pagoda]

Sorry I'm really new to this

Ok, so which nodes do I add

[plush yew]

im making an app in unreal engine, how would i stream a video to all users with the app from a computer

[waxen raven]

Probably as he said panner plugged into UV coords on a texture node.

Server doing it and the replicate it down I'd assume. But pretty vague question overall.

[zinc shore]

why dose my sound randomly pause when shooting this automatic gun like in the editor it docent do this

[waxen raven]

I'd assume you could just tell each to load from a site but there is a chance that could cause all sorts of issues.

[waxen raven]

Base color presumably.

You need something to move the US

[plush yew]

i dont want to make it too long or it wont get an answer

[cloud pagoda]

So I create a pannar node? And when you say plugged into UV coords what does that mean

[waxen raven]

So at the top left there is a uv node plugin.

Anything altering that will change where the UVs sit, which us roughly how the computer knows what to display where on the texture.

Iirc panner flips through them but been a while.

[plush yew]

Texture sample of the 3 beams , UV slot on the left

if i ask in a more detailed way if you answer?

[waxen raven]

You could even play with sliding values to get a feel.

Just create it and plug it into uv for the texture plugged into base, should show up more then.

[plush yew]

Im sorry you should ask in #cpp

[waxen raven]

Maybe lol, never replicated videos down but done replication and videos separately.

[cloud pagoda]

Is this what you mean by texture sample of the 3 beams

[cloud pagoda]

^

[waxen raven]

I'd think if it happens on the server and everyone was looking at the same thing it'd auto happen. Not entirely sure.

He means the uv thing at the top left of the texture box. It's a node.

[cloud pagoda]

I'm in the texture box but idk what uv thing you're referring to

[cloud pagoda]

Oh ok thanks

[waxen raven]

My hero XD.

[cloud pagoda]

So I'll connect a panner to that, and then where do I put the mask?

[waxen raven]

Oh this might be more annoying.

[plush yew]

Well that wasnt my suggestion

[waxen raven]

I'm at work so I can't help with that much.

He suggesting lerping (which is a blend in effect) you'd have to mix the base with the beams, with one being driven by the panner.

[cloud pagoda]

The panner just makes it slide, right?

[waxen raven]

Yeah it should.

[cloud pagoda]

Nvm I had an idea but it won't work, I need a way to make the mesh invisible except for the 3 beams that are sliding

[waxen raven]

His method is probably easier.

Set the alpha to 0 for the part you don't want visible.

[cloud pagoda]

I want the mesh itself to be invisible

And then the 3 beams slide along the face

[zinc shore]

so i have a automatic weapon that plays a sound everytime i shoot but for some reason it randomly pauses why is that

[coarse apex]

would it be smart to do my first person animations & character animations with control rig or should I learn how to animate in blender? (this would be for a cinematic)

[cloud pagoda]

Rip..

[plush yew]

You will need to look into using alpha channels and the opacity node

First off set the defaults from opaque to translucent in the material

[cloud pagoda]

Where would that be

[plush yew]

click on it

[cloud pagoda]

Nvm I found it in blend mode

[plush yew]

that should reveal opacity

[cloud pagoda]

I set it to translucent

Yea opacity is on now

The input I mean

[plush yew]

well

[plush yew]

drag off your rgb node

type desaturate

or whatever

then plug it in opacity

BUT not into basecolor

[cloud pagoda]

How do I delete the connection between color map and base color

Sorry I'm really bad at this lol

[plush yew]

huh

[fierce tulip]

alt-click on it

[cloud pagoda]

Isn't that what you wanted me to do

[cloud pagoda]

That worked thanks

[plush yew]

seperate

[cloud pagoda]

Gotcha

[plush yew]

oh and the panner needs a few other things i think

hold on maybe i can find a document

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/HowTo/AnimatingUVCoords/

[cloud pagoda]

Hmm but where do I plug in the rays mask so that only those lines show and not the entire mesh has the emissive

[plush yew]

not sure why you need so many textures but instead of using RGB lots of people just plug what they would there into emissive

base color

[cloud pagoda]

So I just plug the mask into emissive?

This is the mask idk if I did it properly but I basically want those yellow lines to be the emissive sliding on the mesh

[cloud pagoda]

And the black part would be invisible

[plush yew]

delete all your things except beams

[cloud pagoda]

Everything including all the maps and panar and desaturation?

[plush yew]

no keep everything i said

[cloud pagoda]

Also I haven't imported the beams into Unreal yet

[plush yew]

oh thats why

Lol

just replace that texture with the beams

[cloud pagoda]

So basically the emissive map is yellow

Replace the emissive map with the beams mask?

[plush yew]

That texture with ALL the nodes, panner and desaturate, the TExtrure Sample

Put your beams in there

Delete the rest

[cloud pagoda]

That texture, you mean the emissive map, right?

[plush yew]

Sure

[cloud pagoda]

Sorry I know I'm really bad at this

I added the beams and put it in emissive

[cloud pagoda]

And removed the rest

Oh

[plush yew]

then delete the base color line

then plug that RGB into emmisive

[plush yew]

delete base color line

too

[plush yew]

tweak the desaturation

other wise youll need a new texture

[plush yew]

A

[cloud pagoda]

What needs to be replaced?

[plush yew]

turn A up maybe idk

Or use that

[cloud pagoda]

Is my mask made properly though?

[plush yew]

no not yet

[cloud pagoda]

I'll replace mine with the one you just sent, and I'll turn A up

[plush yew]

well just try first, if not delete it and just plug that into the opacity

then look over this https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/HowTo/AnimatingUVCoords/

[plush yew]

idk if ul be able to see anything with panner plugged in without the right nodes

ok ill just open unreal this is getting unreal

[cloud pagoda]

I see multiply, textcord and time nodes on the link you sent, maybe I'll need those too

But the hard part is getting the mask to work

[plush yew]

well you just dont know what your doing is the problem

[cloud pagoda]

Tysm for helping btw sorry for taking up your time

[plush yew]

gimme a few minutes

[cloud pagoda]

I really don't lol

[winter rain]

According to tutorials, for a basic landscape material, you add in all of the materials you want to paint your landscape with. Is this the correct way to do it? So if I want to paint my landscape, say, 15 different materials over my whole map, do I have all 15 of those materials in the material editor for the one landscape material? (let me know if that didn't make sense)

[plush yew]

then click panner node and set speed Y

[sleek spear]

ok so, twinmotion will become paid software at some point?

[cloud pagoda]

Wait but your yellow map isn't a texture sample

Do I need to convert mine

[plush yew]

brought some new tutorial which will be perfectly useful for survival games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlINRLac97Y&t=23s

[plush yew]

That Yellow is a Vector3 node

[waxen raven]

Any free Sauron models can't be used in a commercial game etc. But sans that just searching that up will likely pull up fan tribute stuff.

[cloud pagoda]

VectorParameter?

[plush yew]

3

no not a parametere

constant

[cloud pagoda]

And apply the emissive map on it?

[plush yew]

do exactly like i did x_x and add speed Y to panner

[cloud pagoda]

When I add the vector3 it's just a black square that's why

Hold on let me send a screenshot

Everything else I did the same tho

[plush yew]

double click it

[cloud pagoda]

Oh ok

[cerulean geyser]

dumb question. how to i do begin component overlap with a specific component of my hero character(like its capusle?) right now its overlapping with other components that are too big in the character

[crimson fog]

does anyone know why despite having lots of lighting, my ceiling is pitch black? been trying to fix this for a while

[waxen raven]

There is a free dissolve and appearance effect right now

[cloud pagoda]

You legend, tysm and I'm so sorry for taking up your time

[waxen raven]

That would show you how to do the beams with a mask.

I'm guessing l lights are pointing down?

All*

[crimson fog]

yep

[waxen raven]

Then odds are none of the lights are bouncing directly onto the roof. Does it show right with a light pointed at it?

[cloud pagoda]

Enjoy the rest of your night :)

[waxen raven]

They use some cheap computations on lighting because it's very expensive to do it right (though ue5 might automatically with nanite)

[crimson fog]

i guess if I point a lot of lights at the ceiling it would look normal yeah

but then it also looks unnatural ofc D:

[waxen raven]

Yeah it would, but that's where static and baked lighting etc come in.

I don't remember the exact settings or I'd help, but look up those or light reflections in ue4.

You'll probably find this happened to plenty of people, another option is to change the lights so they scope back lightly.

The lights themselves have directional (cones usually)

But you can make them spherical or even just wide enough to back shadow a hair.

[crimson fog]

alright, I'll try that. thanks a lot mate 😄

[waxen raven]

That's cheating, I like it though I'd be curious the cost.

Also spot light versus point etc will change that some. I think point is default.

[plush yew]

Im not sure what a Mask is even for really.. lol

I use them only for gradiant

and not even unreal

[waxen raven]

Not entirely sure myself but I'm guessing this will fill it in. https://youtu.be/xRxkcFOhNrc

Love his channel for learning anything Unreal.

It's funny I've used them in Blender and Unreal, but I assume it's just a cover over UVs.

[west junco]

not sure exactly if this is the right place to ask, but can someone here who has a windows PC play and offer feedback on a game i'm making

[waxen raven]

Probably a simple lerp itself.

It's as good of a place as any, but you might want to tell us more and link it.

I think linking is fine if in a non commercial, been a while since I read the rules.

[west junco]

it's a 3D platformer, i'm aiming to make something cartoony and lighthearted in nature, but with the fun of something like crash bandicoot

[waxen raven]

Been buried in a multiplayer inventory for a month, almost forgot this place existed lol.

Sounds good, first prototype running huh?

[west junco]

yeah, i've done about 4 other prototypes with just my friends, and they've all said it's really good, i just wanna make sure of that before i crack down and get into the nitty gritty of it

i've published one other game, and it didn't do super well, but i'm hoping to turn that around with this project

plus i'm only 14 so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[waxen raven]

Don't be surprised, it takes time to build up, and more time to get noticed.

[west junco]

true, i don't expect to become the biggest hit ever, i do it for the fun of making things, and when i put something out, i put it out to allow others to see what i've made and take appreciation in my work

game dev is a lot like art, except every art form rolled up into one big thing

[west junco]

anyways if anyone is interested, please shoot me a dm to let me know, all feedback is INCREDIBLY appreciated

[real heath]

check your skylight, uncheck the option of "bottom is solid color"

[crimson fog]

it is

i managed to fix it by copying another scene's (not mine) lighting tho

[neon bough]

increasing indirect lighting intensity may fix it

or just place a few point lights below to lighten up the area

[rough crest]

How to solve new paper2d sprites not rendering in packaged builds but only in the Editor?

[plush yew]

does pixel streaming allow you to stream a video from one cumputer to many other ones?

very urgent if someone could help me

or is there another way to stream video to other devises

[crimson fog]

another lighting issue, anyone knows what the issue is with the weird lighting in the corner of the ceiling and the wall (on both sides in this pic)

there's no gaps, yet there's still a random stray of light

[peak oxide]

Any tricks to speed up fbx imports with animated objects with bones? I've got long animated sequences which resample the bones on export and take a long time to import, then goes through a 'compressing animation' step.
I believe it is ~~building collision and ~~lod edited: 'Building skeletal mesh LOD' data which I don't think I need if that helps. Thanks.

I don't mind having a less optimal project, as there is not a whole lot to it anyway.

FYI - it's a big long train, animating along a terrain for a looong time.

[drowsy snow]

I thought not. Anims generally don't get processed LODs upon import, and "building collision" is plain BS, as collisions depend on physics assets.

If it's compressing anims, it is, so if you don't want to wait, it's better to just either split the animation, or program the train chugging along the spline path.

[peak oxide]

I'm running a test import now to get the right terminology:
Importing FBX mesh, Building skeletal mesh LOD, Loading Package.
It's the 'Building skeletal mesh LOD' step that I'll look into skipping or having prepared primitives already created for it... If possible!

[tacit onyx]

Err.. Trying to download a fix after an engine verification and I'm just getting this thing.

Their server status is fine. Clearly my net is fine since I'm both typing here and just downloaded 30+gigs. So.. wut?

[grizzled remnant]

Lol looks like a older version of epics launcher

[tacit onyx]

Err.. Is there some secret society I need to join to get the new version of the launcher? Because auto updates are on. Restarting it five times hasn't prompted an update?

[stable path]

I think there's a Check Update option in settings

You might wanna check that

[lone spear]

have anyone used The Water plugin in UE4.26? The scene of wave never changes when i adjusting the "Wave Attenuation Water Depth" by using blueprint. However, the buoyancy changes correctly. What happened?

[stable path]

Although, I just wanna say, The Launchers sucks 😔

[tacit onyx]

For the launcher? There's nothing about updating in settings besides the auto update.

[grizzled remnant]

Huh auto update broke gonna guess because it's using a different appid or different app label
Well not really broke just because request to launcher-public-service API is asking for an older manifest due to above

Yeah don't think old launcher versions play nice with new unreal engine versions

[tacit onyx]

Well. Reinstallation did no good. Same version, same icon, same problem.

[static crystal]

@tacit onyx It happened to me while updating my engine version and the launcher crashed. Had to remove the complete engine and reinstall.

While I'm here. Is anybody having troubles with the Steamworks API and 4.27.0? Leaderboards completely stopped working overnight.

Without pushing out an update.

[grizzled remnant]

Did you reinstall the thing that triggered this error ig plugin or unreal engine or like the launcher?

[tacit onyx]

It was a fresh engine version. Just downloaded and started crashing when hovering over the scalability selection dropdown. So I tried verifying engine.

[static crystal]

Oh I thought you were talking about reinstalling the launcher.

[grizzled remnant]

It's the launcher that's got problems

I already said

you might have reinstalled using an older .msi file

[tacit onyx]

Not sure how I'd have managed that unless the one on Epic's download site is old.

[grizzled remnant]

grab latest link here: https://launcher-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com/launcher/api/installer/download/EpicGamesLauncherInstaller.msi

[grizzled remnant]

Nope wrong just get latest from link above this reply

@tacit onyx did you download it and install it?

[cyan bronze]

Is the FPS higher when you pack the game up or is it about the same as in the editor play mode

[exotic thicket]

Standalone game is higher FPS, usually even if you launch it from editor using the standalone game option

A packaged build using the Shipping configuration also gets more optimizations so it can get some speedup from that as well

[honest rover]

Is there any special way to import assets into a project without copying it to the project folder?

Needing to store a copy of the same megascan model for each project seems storage inefficient

[exotic thicket]

via the add/import button

I'm not 100% sure whether the original content just gets copied into the uasset file which gets generated though, but at least it avoids having both the source + uasset

(although personally I find having the source in the project dir is useful because you can easily find the right file for it and modify and/or reimport)

[plush yew]

does anyone know why this is not replicating? character is moving all crazy on client and on server he moves just fine

[cyan bronze]

By the "Standalone game" do you mean the icon next to the play button. I have pressed it but it just freezes the UE. Once i waited 10 minutes and it didnt do anything. How long am i supposed to wait there? Or should it be instant?

[exotic thicket]

If you press the little down arrow next to Play it should have an option called "standalone game"

[cyan bronze]

Ok im not home atm ill check it later but thank you

[honest rover]

Thanks, this doesn't create a copy, just a uasset file that links to the location of the actual file 👍 .
When importing Megascans assets, it does copy them to the Game/Content/ so I'll ask about that in another channel

[plush yew]

Custom Movement components can be a bitch to deal with, lucky this engine makes it easy to replicate LOL

lmfao so ghetto but works

[neon magnet]

guys any idea what's going on here? I keep trying to create a new folder/move things to a new folder, but instead it makes this "hidden" folder and I can do nothing with it. Clicking the eye does nothing, it stays like this. I restarted the editor/engine too.

[plush yew]

Its because its rendering nothing in the folder. drag something in there.

Rename it

use for somehitng

drag those trigger volumes in there rename

lol

[neon magnet]

@plush yew yea but I can't drag what I actually want to put into it

as in, I can drag something closeby

because unreal's editor is stupid and doesn't allow scroll+drag so i can only drag whatever is in physical view

and I can't move what I actually want to move into it because it's not appearing in the context menu for Move To

like this has never happened before

I had to make a folder within the folder for it to appear in the move to list. Like what the ...

[lilac barn]

water Is being missed out while taking a panoramic screen shot any solution to this ?

[vestal anchor]

Is there a way to make variables hide/show if another variable is set to something? For example an enum with "Weapon" selected would show weapon settings and if you changed it to "Attachment" it would show attachment settings. Don't think it's possible in blueprints but is it possible in C++?

[sweet jacinth]

hello friends, I wanted to add plants to all green areas of my map with the lanscape layers type, but it only adds some places on the map that I tilted with a brush, and other areas remain empty.

[green canopy]

Isn't it because you have a space between words? (just an idea)

[neon magnet]

I thought that might be it, but the rest of the folders have spaces too and they were fine. Also if I make a new folder but not name it, unreal by default puts the space in too

[green canopy]

Hmm

That's quite interesting

[drowsy snow]

File a bug report to Epic about it.

[devout grove]

what is real time raytracing?

[plush yew]

What is real time?

What is Ray tracing?

[devout grove]

idk

[plush yew]

you dont know what real time means?

[devout grove]

well its probably at the moment things?

[plush yew]

ayyeee

instant.

[devout grove]

but i have no idea about raytracing

[exotic thicket]

Raytracing is what the RTX cards are all about

[plush yew]

Its like your reflection on glass, water.

etc

[exotic thicket]

High quality but potentially slow light rendering

[devout grove]

ooooh

ty

[exotic thicket]

The reason it makes a distinction to real time is that traditionally raytracing has been so expensive to perform that it was only done for pre-rendered video sequences

[plush yew]

Thats what my Radeon 6900 xt is for 😉

[drowsy snow]

Basically tracing lights to camera, but in real time.

[untold summit]

I love Tobias, shits too good.

[plush yew]

Help i cant find where i was

lol imagine

[drowsy snow]

Imagine this, but less light rays being traced and still mixed with rasterisation, in (almost) playable framerate that privileged few can enjoy.

https://youtu.be/frLwRLS_ZR0

[plush yew]

Can anyone help wwith this

My character is turning in place with his feet, and the upper body is moving corectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI3Uma-JFiM&ab

[drowsy snow]

Realtime raytracing is still a new paradigm, and would took a decade or so to be accessible.

Let alone realtime path tracing where everything is raytraced, no rasterisation tricks.

[lilac barn]

Ok I will,

[drowsy snow]

Don't expect them to immediately fix it though. They got a lot to work on for upcoming 5.0 (and possibly 4.28) already. Also considering that there's not much people used panoramic capture feature.

[lilac barn]

I am trying to find a way around but I have tried 2 possible ways to capture panoramic screen shots, In both of them water is not comming up

I am tryig to use Nvidia Ansel Plugin Now but the Main folder is Not showing up on my PC

[drowsy snow]

Consider this:
The built in water plugin is still experimental, far from production ready.

[lilac barn]

Is there a way I can Make ocean Without using Unreal Plugin

?

Unreal Plugin Water

[drowsy snow]

Quite a few of them, google it and you may found one.

[stable path]

That's Art 🎨

[lilac barn]

Ok let me check and thanks for taking a look on the issue and guiding me

[icy plaza]

Hello! I got a question, not sure if someone knows this. I googled my ass off to find it but couldn't find it. Basically I got this HDA, with some instancing in it. I replace the instances for the game models I want inside of UE4. This all works great. I baked it to foliage so I have individual control over each object. This all works great and well, but the problem is that they don't have collision. I do know how to apply collision onto objects, but it doesn't seem to work if the hda it's meshes are baked to a foliage. Does someone know how this works?

[untold summit]

😏

[last topaz]

Hey all, i'm running into this weird view based issue where depending on the angle i view the assets it gets this weird bright outline. This doesn't even happen everywhere in the scene which is extra confusing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hl2bKaWBYeUzFwWBtInQOZ2o21ZTYq7G/view?usp=sharing

Heres a video showing it

[dusty solar]

Hello everyone, I’m getting a message in my message log when I try building light, the build stays at 0%.
The message is “Instanced meshes don’t yet support unique static lighting for each LOD. Lighting on LOD 1+ maybe incorrect unless lightmap UVs are the same for all LODs” can somebody please tell me how to resolve this issue.

[last topaz]

seems like my bug magically fixed itself..

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_0EwmKj2w&ab_channel=MarkLuttrell

[twin stump]

Is anyone proficient in blueprint actor arrays here? I'm having a rather complicated issue that's best explained in a VC.

[bitter iris]

for character how would i randomise the material of a skeletal mesh in the character bp

[devout edge]

for multiplayer alone do you guys think c++ is easier than BP?

[thick herald]

Depends. If you know cpp then probably. If not, then no 😄 cpp is definitely much more performant and you can only do certain things in cpp which makes the game run significantly better.

[bitter iris]

just use bp an nativize

😄

[vestal anchor]

Nativization is being removed in UE5, and last time I checked nativization was not working for anyone with large projects

[exotic thicket]

Really, guy goes from delay spaghetti into timer spaghetti? Is this really the method that people think you should be using?

The real solution would be to actually understand the order these things get initialized, and create appropriate event dispatchers so you can be notified when the stuff you want becomes available... or use an interface or something that gets called

I guess a timer is slightly less likely to break than the delay is but it's still pretty meh imo :P

[vestal anchor]

I really think he should have prefaced that this is basically only an issue with multiplayer. In my opinion you really shouldn't be using many delays, if any, in multiplayer scenarios anyways

[exotic thicket]

Yeah I mean he's right in that delays are problematic, and his proposed solution is better

But ideally you'd want to use what I described instead, since it bypasses the timing issues altogether, and in general is more robust

The downside is that it's more complicated to explain I guess so I suppose timers are easier for beginners :D

[vestal anchor]

Yeah and your solution should be faster, since you're not waiting for the delay to finish. Things then just happen when they happen

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: dragonsonix#0112 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[silk sleet]

I'm trying to build a legacy project on my mac and deploy it to my iPhone

what certs do I need for this?

Apple Developer? iOS Developer? Developer?

[drowsy snow]

#macos

[silk sleet]

will xpost ty

[drowsy snow]

No. Building with nativization is a nightmare to setup - some BP assets refuse to build with inclusive listing. I'd rather manually translate BP to C++ than nativizing them.

[young sapphire]

Hey, so when i rescale a objet it rescales to much at a time. How do i do it more precise?

[raw crag]

Anyone here good with version control?
I pulled changes from git hub b4 pushing my changes and its giving me an error about not being able to restore my stashed changes because they are on the same branch.
Do I just have to move them to another branch and then merge them?
I did alot of refactoring and I'll be mad if I gotta re do it for no reason.
None of the new changes should have anything to do with mine

[tame dust]

turn off scale snapping

[tough perch]

Hello, what could be best way to spawn minerals(rocks, trees) and enemies to openworld map? Im using random nav point but I dont want trees to spawn village but I dont want block navigation from village.

[young sapphire]

@tame dust Thx

[exotic thicket]

one way would be to use a nav query filter... you can mark areas where you don't want anything to spawn with specific nav areas, and then use a nav query filter which excludes this area when selecting locations to spawn at

[tough perch]

Thank you I will check that

[autumn latch]

how can i fix this problem

[stable path]

What's a strike?

Does it have any impacts other than getting muted? 🤔

[opaque eagle]

Hello everybody. I will be grateful for your help. Does anyone know if it is possible to add turbulence in the wind settings in the hair?

[drowsy snow]

Are these from Groom asset?

[opaque eagle]

Yes

[drowsy snow]

It's possible, but if the settings aren't there in vanilla builds, you'd need to either tinker more with existing params, or even try add one by modifying the engine source code.

[opaque eagle]

Ok, thanks for the answer. But where can I find information about how exactly to do this?

[drowsy snow]

The latter? I'm going to assume you know C++ programming - you'd have to take your time digging through thousands of engine code files, but you could narrow down to the engine's Groom plugin code, modify the wind force struct, and make the hairs respond to the new struct params.
Using GitHub search on the main UE repo sometimes help finding the stuff you need to look at.

If you're having problems getting your modification to work, you can ask around in #engine-source.

[runic fern]

LogCompile: Error: An explicit Category specifier is required for any property exposed to the editor or Blueprints in an Engine module

Guys Im getting an error like this when building a plugin

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"

#include "ConnectedPlayer.generated.h"

USTRUCT(BlueprintType)
struct FConnectedPlayer
{
    GENERATED_BODY()
public:
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadOnly)
    FString PlayerId;
};

ah really xD ok i will write it thanks

[robust marten]

Could anyone tell me why this event would spawn TWO of these actors instead of 1? I'm a bit lost. I assume it's running twice, once on the server and once for the muticast? Not sure though, still researching multiplayer

[drowsy snow]

Try doing the multicast directly.

[robust marten]

I did try that and it doesn't end up replicating to the other clients :/ It does only throw 1 bag then but wont show on other clients

[autumn flame]

Pretty sure if it's spawned on Server everyone knows about it, so you don't need to Multicast

Just Run On Server -> Spawn

[robust marten]

Tried that as well and it does spawn in the item, but anything else I attach after that doesn't run, for example, adding impulse to the bag in the same line of nodes does nothing unless set to multicast

Example

[autumn flame]

Does the server know of your actual Root Component Forward Vector?

[robust marten]

That's the players root component, which they are set to replicated, so it should know it, yes?

[autumn flame]

Just searched a lil bit, seems that Add Impulse needs to be Multicast indeed

You can Spawn it on Server then run a Multicast for Impulse I guess?

[robust marten]

So I tried this and got a few Access None errors about the Impulse node, did I not set this up correctly?

[autumn flame]

You're passing the Return Value directly from Run On Server to the Impulse node that is in a Multicast, you can create Input pins to pass stuff

[plush yew]

character is getting stuck in air after completing the jump cycle, any ideas?

[robust marten]

Still a bit new to multiplayer, but do you mean like this?

[plush yew]

you want the server to execute first.

example

and that code is actually making no sense

lol

[robust marten]

I'm confused because I do have the server part running first lol and wdym the code makes no sense? haha

[orchid gull]

Help, my graphic quality downgrades itself to low and I get super wacky shadow artifacts on 2 player split screen 😬

Is there something I have to set in my cameras or map or something?

[amber shuttle]

what

[orchid gull]

it was lumen

disabled lumen and it looks ok now 😄

[devout edge]

hey can anyone check for me if you can download visual studio right now? https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/pt-br/downloads/

i been trying for like 30 minutes

and the .exe page just doesnt load

idk if its my end or microsoft's

2022

the download website doesnt load for me

but every other one does

any ideas?

what do u mean?

community

just saw this

sorry i was sending the video

[drowsy snow]

You use Brave, right?
Aggresive Brave shield settings tend to fuck up many sites, like preventing legitimate downloads.

[devout edge]

tried on chrome / edge also didnt work @drowsy snow

i got it by using a vpn but now the download is stuck at 0 bytes

why does my pc has beef with microsoft??

lol

[drowsy snow]

Disable the VPN, the downloader might confused with the scrambled data.

[devout edge]

it was a chrome-only vpn

well brave but u get the point it was one of these extensions

[drowsy snow]

Brave's security measurement breaks more than helps nowadays, now switched to Firefox.

[plush yew]

well i created low gravity on accident

here this is for anyone

lol

[clever fjord]

mmh, yes

[zinc shore]

so i have this multicast function that only runs if its set to reliable if its not set then it only runs on the server why is that

[plush yew]

is doing this pointless? I was having an issue with a custom movement character code not replicating

[viscid star]

hi all, can anybody help me identify this node is? I'm trying to follow along a guide but I can't seem to figure it out 😦

Here's a link to the expanded img I took the screenshot from if it helps https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/016/821/566/large/james-emory-6.jpg?1553608248

[plush yew]

Oh i run it on the event begin play

lol

that was just an example of it

[drowsy snow]

It's just an input node for Material Functions.

[plush yew]

Hey guys I have a question. Is there such a thing in blueprint as branch only with a larger number of options? I do not know if I explained it well hahah

[grim ore]

or... or... branch into a branch into a branch into a branch into a branch wrapped in a macro!. no don't do this, ^^ is the right answer(s)

[young sapphire]

I have made this door, but there is no collision. Anyone knows why?

[grim ore]

if its the door from the starter content, it doesnt have collision

open the mesh and add simple box collision to fix it

[young sapphire]

@grim ore Still wont work

[umbral idol]

Does anyone know why how is possible that my dash ability distance changes from the simulation to the package?

It's like in the simulation the dash distance is 100 and when I package the game it goes to 1

The distance is set through a float

[humble sandal]

is there a way to make motion controllers work in the character blueprint setup? they seem to only be working in the pawn setup but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to move as a pawn

[plush yew]

is there a way to share an asset between multiple projects, so that if it is updated in one place the asset is updated in all projects?

[dawn gull]

Hey, I have quite an odd issue. When I package my project and I go into my UI when I press enter in a text box to finalize the text it does not do anything, but when I press play as standalone game the enter key works fine.

[umbral idol]

I'm kinda having a similar issue (see message before) but I can't find any solution

[dawn gull]

That isnt similar at all

by building do you mean packaging? because if so then it would be similar

[umbral idol]

Yeah, I meant that. I'll change "build" into "package"

[dawn gull]

have you tried making it 1000 to see if the dash goes up 10 fold?

[umbral idol]

Mmmh, I could try it. Meaning that when I package the system does some kind of conversion?

[dawn gull]

No, just try to increase the dash value crazy high and see if it transfers, although weaker

[drowsy snow]

Yes, you could make it into a project plugin, and using source control, you can propagate the changes across any other clone of the repo that used by other projects.

If, for some reason, you want to avoid using source control trick, you can turn it into engine plugin - however, iterations can be super tricky, particularly if you have C++ code in it.

Also note that turning it into engine plugin means that sharing one or more project(s) that used it will be missing the plugin.

[umbral idol]

Thanks for the tip, I found a workaround! I tried different values and it seems that if I set the distance x10 is the same distance that there's in the simulation

[dawn gull]

cool

[dawn gull]

I've narrowed down the issue to my code that detects the commit method as Enter, it says false in the packaged project but true in the standalone debug, any better way to detect the commit method?

Always nice to hear someone making a project, but perhaps a more appropriate way to find members would be asking in the #volunteer-projects channel? Instructions at #instructions

[plush yew]

Oh I’m sorry I didn’t see that!

[dawn gull]

All good

[neon bough]

you could place it into a specific folder within your content directory and use a soft link to create a link to another project

but be aware that you shouldn't move the asset after that, as that could break references in the other projects

[dawn gull]

Wow, that is stupid. In editor the Commit Method text has a space, in the packaged version it does not have a space

[drowsy snow]

Symlink sounds to be more locked down than source control propagation trick if you put it that way.

[neon bough]

both solutions are ugly hacks 😄

[zinc shore]

so i have a component getting the aim rotation of its parent/the player actor but if i destroy the player and spawn a new one all the sudden i get none trying to read instigator

[neon bough]

why do you query instigator? or rather are you aware of what this is doing?

[dawn gull]

How can I detect if my project is packaged at runtime? Did a quick search and didn't see anything

[plush yew]

whats happening?

[zinc shore]

how can i have my gun in first person always point to the center of the screen

[plush yew]

open camera, look for setting use pawn rotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCXypuq4jk&ab_channel=CyberLOD

good example

[zinc shore]

that just sets the gun to the same rotation as the camera but to make the gun point to the center of the screen it has to be rotated a bit

[plush yew]

watch the video

[zinc shore]

what if im not using a animation rig to control the gun cuz in first person you just see the gun it has no arms or skeleton attached

[plush yew]

Oh

no idea then lol

thats not on my how to list

[dawn gull]

You could cast out like 1 unit forward from the camera then theres a node to get a rot that points towards a coordinates, plug those coords into the rot function and then plug that rot into the gun. That may work, too tired to get the exact name of the node just do some googling

[plush yew]

trying to understand how the anim graph works with montages from fp weapons to what a another person sees, is just freaking hard to understand lol

[zinc shore]

most of my weapons animation in first person is by interpolating

i use a spring arm to add a bit of rotation and location lag to make it feel like it sways

[plush yew]

am i doing this right anyone?

[wise mist]

player behind wall shows weapon.
fix for hide weapon without increasing wall thickness? UT4 editor. Thx all

[plush yew]

best thing you can do is have the gun auto point in another direction when you get to close to the wall.

there is some trickery you can do with materials to get the gun not to render when looking at a wall like that but its very complex.

your best option tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=iyG0u98N4u4&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=JohnDaniels

[reef mist]

Hey ya'll. All new projects I create have the 'Add/Import' button greyed out and I can't import any content:

Has anyone seen that or know how to fix it? I can't find any posts about that message.

[wintry solstice]

Try to choose a path first by clicking the folder icon next All Assets

[reef mist]

Ah that did it, thank you very much. I've never seen that happen before.

[barren oracle]

hi! im trying to do a grid for a turn based game, did you know some tutorial or documentation that can help me?

[vocal flume]

I want to add a lightning effect to my UI when user touches the button. I have a plug-in that renders Niagara particles as an UI element. I can also do this by creating a flip book.. which one of these two is cheaper?

[slate heart]

im trying to generate foliage procedurally but when i want to place it wont spawn...i know maybe im placing it over a wrong material but i really want to place the trees over the material im currently using....can anybody help?

[dapper oak]

is there any way to reorder action mappings and axis mappings in project settings or does it have to be done manually

[tender pecan]

you can edit the ini file I imagine and reopen the editor? although does the order matter? or just for organization?

[scarlet stump]

Does anyone know why all my materials and textures are missing from my pak file “chunk” when using PrimaryAssetLabels? The static meshes and levels come through just fine but materials and textures don't seem to get packaged correctly

[dapper oak]

Mainly just for organisation sense. Since I’m making a car game I wanna have left motion controls and right motion controls buttons and stuff seperate for each other. Thanks for the info!

[unkempt sedge]

Hi

[broken shadow]

Anyone here played with mounts in Guild Wars 2 or ARK? Or otherwise played a game where mounts/creature characters have vehicle-ish turning circles?

I've been trying to recreate that in UE4 to very little success and it partly feels like it's down to not knowing what terms to search for and implement.

[round axle]

Does anyone knows how localize a text paragraph? like for example theirs 2 different ability descriptions first one is "On cast , each hit will deal 500 damage and apply cooldown" and the second one is "ability will deal 400 damage to enemy in radius and apply cooldown reduction" so you see that "cooldown" and "damage" is repeated in those description. is their a way to parse out those stuff into string table or data table for localization?

[plush yew]

for some reason this works fine (it puts a cooldown inbetween shots for semi auto weapons) however as soon as i make the time a variable it just breaks and acts as if it wasnt there, any ideas on wtf to do?

[vital fox]

How's it going guys! New to the discord. I have a c++ question but before I post to the c++ channel I'm just curious do people prefer posting code blocks here or linking to paste bin or something?

[plush yew]

Guys i may need some help

im tearing my hair out since yesterday

the issue is building lighting, i cant build lighting, ... i keep getting the message:
Lighting build failed. Swarm failed to kick off, Compile build.

The large scene i currently have was duplicated from a previous project. The duplicated project had all its assets removed and replaced with new assets.

some of the lighting was baked, but then i wanted to rebuild the lighting for the entire scene

so i turned off precomputed lighting to clear all previous lightmass bakes

why?

because the lightmass baked when i was building the scene had splotches in it

so i wanted to redo it

... but then after trying to rebuild it, i ran into the error.

all baked light was removed, my scene is now dark, and i cant build lighting

in my persuit of trying to fix the issue, i found this :

https://zaggoth.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/swarm-failed-to-kick-off/

I deleted stuff in the cache and stuff in the appdata

then i discovered that this guy was using ue4 from the source code and hence, was using visual studio to "build" ue4 lightmass

something which i DONT have ?

so i dont know how to fix my issue

i am currently stuck, i dont know what to do to fix the damned swarm agent.
i cleared the cache
**i validated **

please help

in editor map check does not display any errors except " Maps need lighting rebuilt"

[shadow ravine]

So right clicking on the duration and promoting it to a variable doesn't work at all?

[plush yew]

nope

i make it a variable and set it to 5

so the same number as what i put in delay

and it just made it instant

as if its not even there

maybe verifying ue4 will fix my issue

v26.2

[plush yew]

test

[plush yew]

add to your weapon data structure, this is bad practice.

[stone stump]

Hey guys can someone guide me to a tutorial or documentation where i can create a stylized skybox?

[plush yew]

then you can customize it per weapon, in each blueprint by using an INT inside your weapon base blueprint, by adding the structure inside of the int.

[prime willow]

Im woke!

https://tenor.com/view/anime-dance-gojo-shoto-levi-gif-22491077

Time to game design~

[plush yew]

@plush yewthank you 🙂

[plush yew]

yupp i have been down that road in like 30 scraped projects. this is the best method. Any other way can cause issues with replication.

[plush yew]

so just to clarify you are saying i should make variables in a structure

then use interface function to bring them into weapon bp?

i am new to this lol

just add the structure into the gun bp

no int

thought i did it differently lol

When adding something to a structure

Save everything BEFORE YOU ADD TO IT!

close project

open project

open structure, add to your structure.

click save

and exit your project, and click dont save.

IF you do not do it this way, you will break your games code.

ok

[oak sedge]

Does anyone here know why some Unreal Engine 4 games have two EXE files? I bought a game from gog.com called "Vampyr". It includes the regular EXE file called "AVGame-Win64-Shipping.exe", and another one with a much smaller file-size called "Vampyr.exe".

If I double-click either one, the game will start normally. If I delete the one called "AVGame-Win64-Shipping.exe" and double-click "Vampyr.exe", the game won't start, but if I delete the file called "Vampyr.exe" and double-click the "AVGame-Win64-Shipping.exe" file, the game will still work normally, so what is the purpose of the "Vampyr.exe" file? Its size is 238 KB, while the other file's size is 63.7 MB.

I've noticed other UE4 games that have a tiny second EXE, while other UE4 games don't have it. What is its purpose? I'm just curious.

[sterile lichen]

one is launcher, second is actual game

[manic urchin]

guys, i wonder if this course is worth to buy or not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzYhP_JvPI

i need your oppinion

[exotic thicket]

there is a 30 day refund policy on that platform

so look at the materials and reviews, and if it looks like it would be what you want to learn, get it - you can always refund it if it turns out to be poor quality

[prime willow]

is the new nvdia update compatible with current 4.26 unreal engine

[manic urchin]

i mean yeah thats all i need, making a rpg game for my final project in school but is the price is worth? or maybe u guys have a better video like that but free or cheaper?

[plush yew]

if i delete this socket preview, why does this show up?

it should only remove preview.

[rotund scroll]

I would not personally pay for anything like that. less so for a school project. you're supposed to make your own reflections, not copy the work of others

[plush yew]

I took dev addicts course. he does not promote logical practice, its all beginner.

casting to character like 30 times in one bp LOL

why not create a function

this is not a c++ project, why si this coming up and how to remove it?

Hello. Can someone recommend me a good terrain builder for ue4 environments, that would help me build levels pretty fast (mostly woods, hills, etc)

[prime willow]

dont delete a socket preview

right click and pick a very particular one that removes the previews should be one of the last options

when right clicking a socket equipped item

[swift pagoda]

hey I'm wondering if anyone knows how to take a screen position and trigger UI under that location? Regular mouse clicks won't work with my project set up

[plush yew]

Yeah me broke shit.

lol

[prime willow]

good job microsoft U:<

[plush yew]

thats OKAY THO! i got a super high poly AK47 i have been dying to add anyways

[prime willow]

does newest nvdia update work with unreal

or massive damage?

oh pls do and share screenshots ❤️

[plush yew]

this is why i love amd 😉

love my bby

[prime willow]

im guessing massive damage

i have ryzen 9 3900x

and rtx 2080

but a bit concerned about taking new update..

[plush yew]

i needed the 16 gigs vram, it fixed all the crashing issues with ue5.

just update

and reroll the update

if it breaks anything

[prime willow]

ah okie

will do ❤️

also big proud of you excel

for sticking with game design in the last 6+ months

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-thinking-happy-gif-14914056

[plush yew]

lol

i have been doing it for like 15 straight months

Game dev is a LOT more fun than playing a game made by a coperation that gives zero shits about there community.

[untold summit]

Yea it is, the guy explains stuff in detail, unlike most tuts, he actually knows pacing and has understanding of the level that people are at when they watch this.

[unkempt sedge]

Hi

[plush yew]

I mean he explains it in a non professional way tho. Everything he does is not proper.

[untold summit]

okay, i missed where he does that?

[plush yew]

After working with the engine for months, watching his videos, there like basic blueprinting.

[untold summit]

thats what his videos are for, basic stuff.

[plush yew]

not adding stuff into ints, not creating funtions, sloppy coding.

Oh i know and i thank him for his videos, for when i was a beginner 🙂

[manic urchin]

so, its good for beginner or not?

[manic urchin]

well, i try to searching a good tutorial because my teacher is succ and now i have to make an actual rpg game that ready to export and played, i try to understand something, if i want to copy someone i just straight up to "how to" tutorial .-.)

[plush yew]

Yes!

you can learn a lot.

he explains in details what almost everyhting does

https://mocaponline.com/blogs/mocap-news/a-pose-or-t-pose-conversion-ue4-retarget-manager

found this the other day, really helpful.

[manic urchin]

hmmm okay, maybe ill buy it tmr

[prime willow]

thats what made me get into game design with nothing
but rage and spite to outclass them in their own industry
with none of their resources and hopefully run them out of their own business lmao

https://tenor.com/view/happy-smile-anime-boy-haru-yoshida-gif-17309899

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-hello-hey-there-yuuki-asuna-asuna-gif-16231339

[prime willow]

❤️

[plush yew]

lol finally compiled shaders, this is what happened when deleting preview mesh 😦

[prime willow]

you might want to use the cleaner asset for that

it promptly and properly removes and fixes and lets you move things

dont take my word for it but its apprently one of the most amazing gems found in the marketplace sprinkled around

granted someone needs to compile a list of gems since searching by rating is nonexistent atm :/

[plush yew]

i tried converting the plugin to ue4

ue5*

and nopeeee.

lol

[exotic thicket]

Gotta wonder how the cleaner plugin differs from UE's own ability to move assets :P

like how many different ways can you do that in lol

[plush yew]

thats like asking why they used to have the basic blueprint of the TP character with no stop jumping function

I cant find this informaiton online, does anyone know the poly count AAA games use on weapons?

looks so good, so idc.

[thick herald]

use https://orbital-market.com/ instead

[cinder lance]

I'm having an issue in 4.26 of the engine, where my landscape material isn't compiling shaders if i paint more than 3 layers. The output log says to many srvs, 65 with a max of 64. This was never an issue in 4.25, anyone know how I can fix this

[plush yew]

Call of duty be like 20 dollars please!

[drowsy snow]

Maybe you could make use of Take Recorder.

[plush yew]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/924620/index.html

Says he did it in his post.

[prime willow]

You're a national treasure ❤️

[plush yew]

how do i hide socket preview LOL

this is driving me nuts

OH

remove all attached assets

[sharp crest]

sojmeone needs to make a ue4 plugin that makes steam count the hours you are in the editor like you are playing the game

so it adds to your played hours

[terse zealot]

most devs would top the leaderboard 😉

[sharp crest]

exactly what I want

[plush yew]

Ohhh your trying to impuse as well

why dont you hit them with a object that is invisible and make them die to simulate ragdoll?

[ancient lotus]

dumb question, is there any logs that get stored anywhere for a packaged game? mine wont load and im trying to see the logs, ive set
bUseLoggingInShipping = true;
bOverrideBuildEnvironment = true;
in my target.cs but dont see anything

[exotic thicket]

@ancient lotus afaik if you packaged a "testing" build it's basically shipping+logs

[charred ibex]

is there a functional difference between unchecking "start with tick enable" and "PrimaryActorTick.bCanEverTick = true;" why would i do one or the other? anyone know?

trying to disable tick when i make new classes, not sure if the code in the c++ is necassary if i click the blueprint tick box...

[next badger]

Anyone familiar with Controller buttons UI setup? (in the project config)

[plush yew]

ummmmm....

[next badger]

Flammenwerfer 35

[plush yew]

LOL

[autumn flame]

Yes, bCanEverTick states if it can ever tick, lol, basically if set to false it will never tick no matter what

Start with tick enabled makes it still able to tick but you gotta enable it with Set Actor Tick Enabled when you want it to tick

First one doesn't register the tick

[spare pilot]

how to disable building static mesh render data in project or models, i when pull version models ue4 always buildin static mesh render data and i need this disable

[drowsy snow]

Delete all of your meshes. Then render data no more.

Don't let any stray mesh asset escape, or there will be another render data.

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow How can i figure out how much the engine can handle mesh and morph target wise

or a mass of npc wise ;-;

[drowsy snow]

Well, the typical stat commands usually do the job well, but for even more detailed debug info, try injecting Unreal Insight to your game process.

[prime willow]

unreal insights?

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/UnrealInsights

[prime willow]

thank you ❤️

[drowsy snow]

No probsies ❤️

[vagrant hornet]

How can UE render out 60 frames in a second but something like blender takes minutes per render

Why is rendering a frame of a video game so much easier than an art scene

[tawny burrow]

Hi I have a question about UE4 versions. my friend is using 4.27.0 but when I try to install 4.27.0 - it shows up as PREVIEW build and "Chaos" version, is it the same thing, or there is a "pure" 4.27.0 version? I have never tried it personally

[plush yew]

How come the playrate does not speed up with this set up?

The reload anim

[devout mason]

Hey guys, quick question. So I'm baking light with GPU lightmass for Quest 2 Android. Suddenly I'm getting this error, just when it completes building the lights..

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x0000000000000000

UE4Editor_ImageCore
UE4Editor_ImageCore
UE4Editor_ImageCore
UE4Editor_ImageCore
UE4Editor_TextureCompressor
UE4Editor_TextureCompressor
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

[autumn flame]

Do you have Editor symbols?

[devout mason]

@autumn flame You're asking me right? Because I read that when googling.. But what is it actually?

[fierce tulip]

its a massive file you can install along your engine to give good details on why things are crashing

[devout mason]

Oh, how can I install that? I'm pretty sure I didn't select that anywere (also I'm not running a custom UE, just downloaded 4.26.2 from store)

[fierce tulip]

^

[fierce tulip]

i wasnt joking when I said massive file, hehe

[autumn flame]

Poor SSD feels it all

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow if i setup source control now

than do a bunch of blueprint stuff and whatnot

i can just roll back right without hard copying backups?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, you can rollback any unstaged changes before you make the commit.

[prime willow]

unstaged?

[drowsy snow]

Basically changes yet to be committed.

[prime willow]

like press save sort of commited

or close my project commited?

[plush yew]

when i package my app for windows, ... packaging is compiling around 7000 shaders which i think is not included in the level

[drowsy snow]

Because Blender has no concern to render things in playable framerate (anymore - they killed BGE for good because no one used it)

[plush yew]

are these shaders actually compiling with the app?

[prime willow]

check what folders youre including in packaging

[drowsy snow]

Exclude any editor content in the Project Settings.

[drowsy snow]

As in preparing them to be pushed to the repository.

[prime willow]

ah i see

makes sense

[devout mason]

Oooh okay, that IS a massive file 😄

[plush yew]

that is ticked?

[prime willow]

isn't your fork better than standard unreal engine >.>

[tawny burrow]

anyone got an idea? (he cannot verify the 4.27.0, it's grayed out)

[drowsy snow]

Well, tbh it's practically just UE4.27 w/ anime shading model, and minor changes to post processing code to get the cinematic lens flares.

[prime willow]

lol okie xD

[neon bough]

BGE was a mess 😄

[drowsy snow]

I may get around into improving the World Composition loading thing, but no promises :'3

[drowsy snow]

A stinking pile of mess.

[prime willow]

take your time im still working on base functions

whats bge? o-o

[drowsy snow]

Blender Game Engine.

[neon bough]

it felt more like something that makes interactive animations

[prime willow]

;-;

[neon bough]

which pretty much every game is, except for minecraft 😄

[prime willow]

im so confused :3

[drowsy snow]

And no one used it.

[drowsy snow]

tbf you don't miss out much. Blender themselves wanted everyone to forget about it lol

[prime willow]

oh i see o.o

[neon bough]

i made exactly one game with it

it was a clone of an game that i played on amiga, can't recall the name 😭

[drowsy snow]

Platformer? Zool immediately comes into mind here.

[neon bough]

i found it

skyroads

[crimson fog]

does anyone know how to put a precise position for this red line in the sequencer? like just put a value for it

[neon bough]

if you select the keyframe you can set the time on the top

otherwise, i think ctrl or shift enables snapping

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow Weird question

lets say i wanted to have entire dungeons like old school zelda games

where you enter a cave or revene

and the dungeon instantly loads

[devout mason]

So while I download Editor symbols, another question: Is it possible to display decals on native Quest 2 while having mobile HDR disabled?

[prime willow]

and than seemlessly exits

would i build the dungoen on the same map for example?

and have a checkpoint

where once past will cause the dungeon assets or systems to loadup like during the entry way

[neon bough]

sounds like something i would put in a sublevel

[prime willow]

and than upon finding the exit resume regular level stuff

wait what

sublevel?

[neon bough]

yes, just a separate level which sits in the persistent level

you can stream them in and out, or keep them loaded, whatever you like

[prime willow]

o.o is there a limit to how many you can setup?

[neon bough]

i hadn't hit it with ~30 yet 😄

[prime willow]

like can i have about for example

[drowsy snow]

Practically limited by world composition.

[prime willow]

25 dungeons >O>

world comosition?

but wait

would those sublevels be instead of the actual level?

[drowsy snow]

For all I care, I treat dungeons just like building interiors as sublevels.

[neon bough]

they are loaded in the main level

[prime willow]

oh

[neon bough]

so both actors/stuff exist

[prime willow]

ah so like a bridge between worlds

and world composition is the limit to them

and would this composition limit my dungeons and cut my maps grand designs in half or so because too many dungeons or is the limit seperate for both?

[drowsy snow]

In World Composition, you can have different layers with individual streaming distance. Give large numbers for exteriors, but smaller numbers for exteriors.

[prime willow]

o.o

[drowsy snow]

Safe to say the limit would be before floating point correction fails.

[neon bough]

what hoodie is trying to say, is that if you world is too large, stuff gets weird

[spiral marlin]

Q: I'm building an "OSC" receiver as blueprint. Is there any method of monitoring if I'm sending to it correctly, or that it's receiving anything at all? Perhaps a tutorial exists?

[neon bough]

but thats not related to sublevels, its rather how far you get away from 0,0,0

[prime willow]

so for noting
Load dungeons into sublevels
this is limited to world composition
based on length from 0,0,0
for seemless streaming and loading of exteriors and interiors

what if the entire dugneon was contained into small section like areas within the worlds entire map

[crimson fog]

tyty

[prime willow]

like an underground dungeon, in the main city based on the sewer systems and contained in that area and now outside the worlds actual world bounds or planes

[crimson fog]

I made an animation and looped it with blueprints, but it goes into tpose for a millisecond inbetween loops. does anyone know why/how?

[prime willow]

would stuff still get weird?

https://tenor.com/view/skull-map-reifel-gif-14899393

ike this red circle for example

on the map being the dungoen bounds

[drowsy snow]

Again, world distance from dead centre matters more than how much you have your dungeons in your map.

[prime willow]

so from center of the actual map not really mattering if its within the maps whole area?

[neon bough]

you wont hit the edge anyways if you don't start 😄

[prime willow]

o-o

[drowsy snow]

Yeah. That's why there's a "soft" limit on how large your world can be. 20 km x 20 km, to be exact.

[prime willow]

what if i have like 20 maps for example

does it calculate it

[drowsy snow]

There is World Origin Rebasing, where the world moves with the player, but this is nightmare for multiplayer replication.

[prime willow]

by stacking them straight in a line

dungeon by dungeon adding to the km limit?

[neon bough]

why would you do that?

you place the dungeon where it should be in the world, its just that it's data is within another level file

[prime willow]

im trying to understand how the compisition calculates length limtis lol

[neon bough]

which allows you to unload/load it when necessary

[prime willow]

not necessarily how ill stack the maps lol

[drowsy snow]

Example case would be FF14 and WoW - the world is so huge, it split into several standalone maps.

[prime willow]

yes

[spiral marlin]

Sorry to interrupt the convo