ue4-general

[fallow jackal]

if i draw a square it only selects the visible actors, i want the hidden behind it too

[shadow ravine]

Use the World Outliner panel and select through them there

[fallow jackal]

but there's too many actors, is there a way to draw a square around my house from bird view and select all objects?

[fallow jackal]

sorry not what i meant, i mean, when you press CTRL + ALT to draw a square, it only selects visible objects, but not the objects inside the house and the walls on the other side, i want to select the whole house

[shadow ravine]

That should work then, you haven't got any of them in groups or anything like that have you?

[fallow jackal]

i dont have groups its all seperate actors

[shadow ravine]

Maybe try doing it in wireframe

[fallow jackal]

i want to select all objects in the square like x ray, not just visible objects

[shadow ravine]

I don't know how you'd go about selecting them if their not visible in the viewport. Your only option I can think of is using the Outliner

[stable needle]

I think he means "visible" as in "not occluded by other objects". And as far as I know, there unfortunately isn't any way to do that

It's something I need constantly as well, no idea why that feature doesn't exist.

[fallow jackal]

yes i cant select obstructed objects with the square draw select

[stable needle]

Your best bet is to try and keep an organized outliner so you can easily select the objects from there. It's not always possible, but it's the only method I'm aware of

[plush yew]

Click here

Shift and drag mouse

[fallow jackal]

thanks bro

[neon grove]

does using more mesh sections increase draw calls?

[plush yew]

its funny i knew exactly what you meant xD I had that issue too before

[finite wren]

How do I get overlap events when my Pawn collider touches a "Block All" collider?

Ok i figured that out

I needed to set "generate overlap events" on the cube

But now it just overlaps and doesn't block

hmm maybe I need to set the cube to "Block all" and use "hit" event instead

Yeah I got it

Ignore all ^^

[plush yew]

lol

game dev in a nutshell

[finite wren]

lmao

rubbing ducking is super effective

[runic scarab]

hey, is there an youtube channel like Brackeys but for unreal engine?

i wanna try UE but i never used it and i never used C++ xD

[prime willow]

as weird as it sounds is it possible to have 8 way animation

with standard blendspaces

but than put in a new animation for blending between: left and right or up & Down for eexample

so itll follow standard blend but than use a completely different animation between 2 particular animations

as the transitional animation between the 2 particular ones inteded o-o

[drowsy snow]

Not YouTube channel, but the official Unreal Online Learning courses is a good learning resources, and it's just as good as that. See pinned message for the link.

[runic scarab]

i will check that thank you

[drowsy snow]

I don't see how anim BP can't handle 2 blend spaces at once.

[plush yew]

Is there any tutorial out there that will properly show me how to update weapon idle pose on weapon pick up.

I grab AK on ground has that pose

i grab M4 it has that pose.

[prime willow]

its more for aesthetic reasons

if i build something where animaton flow from blendspace to blendspace

or better yet animations in the current blendspace warp through each other or some other means

id prefer if i could have a custom transiton and se tit between two problematic animations

[plush yew]

yuck i will never use a blendspace again

[prime willow]

for smoothe blending

no no use it

[plush yew]

Naw, i use strider for that.

[prime willow]

just know that some blends will make the characters limbs mix with other limbs

oh

wait wait

strider lets you blend between 2 animations?

[plush yew]

strider removes the use of blend poses.

Yupp

[prime willow]

blendspaces? or blendposes

[plush yew]

blendspaces.

oops

lol

[prime willow]

do you have animation layering you can use that to change your idle pose without extreme setup when equipping or deequipping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-C9VcNyKw&t=122s

[plush yew]

nope

[prime willow]

^ you dont need to make new states

simply apply new layers onto your states

and jerryrig your strider into that

[plush yew]

was trying to do it with a enum

and failed.

the gun activates the enum value on overlap (weapon pick up off ground)

but its not working 😦

and strider is only for 3P

not using it for FP anims LOL

I might just do Weapon has tag

on tag, play animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhd-qnyIJhw&ab_channel=AngeIV

here we go!

[dawn gull]

Whats the best way to get the player's rotation? Currently I'm using this but IDK if it's really working

[harsh shell]

Does unreal support 2d?

[rotund scroll]

all of that running on gamethread 👀

[plush yew]

what do you mean?

[dawn gull]

Technically, it's very hacky and not very good though

[plush yew]

could tag liek that cause performance issues?

[rotund scroll]

whole point behind doing things in the animBP is to be able to use the anim thread for animations

by requesting variables outside of the scope of animBP you lose that

[plush yew]

I am using the ANIM BP just for 3rd person animation. the player only needs to see montages like reload shoot. etc, so there really is no point of making a whole bp for it

i dont like this system tho

its kind of yuck

[rotund scroll]

generally it's worth it because there is no other place to do it properly anyway. you're going to bloat another class/BP inadvertently with animation logic where it doesn't belong

and you're not future proofing yourself

in case you get more animations in the future

[plush yew]

My game will never have more than reload, inspect, shoot, idle, move lol

[rotund scroll]

I've heard that before

[plush yew]

im making a counterstike like game.

you cant do things like that in here lol.

[rotund scroll]

it's your choice, but it's worth taking into account that it's easy to shortcut the process early on only to find out that later implementations are going to be very difficult due to choices made early on

[plush yew]

Well how would i set this system up.

The first one is a knife pose. ( Random sequences) Goes into a play pose by int, in is called in the character bp.

the second is the Assault rifles.

When Picking a gun off the ground.

i want it to play the correct corresponding weapon pose.

[rotund scroll]

the setup looks correct enough. you'd probably want a delegate to be called, that is bound in the animBP

and yields a state change for animations somewhere

[plush yew]

hmm

I got to be doing something wrong then to be nulling it out to only play the AK idling

I would call the weapon pose enum value inside the weapon base bp correct?

[harsh shell]

Would it be possible to do something like roblox? with unreal engine or would i need a custom everything

[plush yew]

and set the enum values to the weapons accordingly?

[rotund scroll]

no. the weapon is only responsible for itself. the weapon doesn't know how the player needs to animate to hold it

[plush yew]

but the values need to be known tho

because each weapon is a child.

[rotund scroll]

that's where you need indirection

any time you obtain a weapon (pick up, spawn etc.), that is the player character picking up that weapon. the player character can then fire a delegate that can be bound in various places, telling exactly what kind of weapon it picked up

[plush yew]

deff dont have it set up like that LOL

I have the player calling to these events tho

[rotund scroll]

the weapon should only know what happens when it fires, which model it needs to use, and any such other options (e.g. alternate fire, fire modes, ammo type and amount stored in weapon)

[plush yew]

Thats why i have a 3rd person weapon and first person weapon

one store that data

the other is just the weapon

[rotund scroll]

I don't know what "4rd" person means

do you mean third person?

[plush yew]

keyboard is broke, spilled my beer earler.

[rotund scroll]

if that's the case, those should still be the same weapon

[plush yew]

Cant i just set it up the way i set up weapon socketing?

[rotund scroll]

you can set it up however you want

[rotund scroll]

I'm just telling you some good practices to keep in mind

[plush yew]

i know 🙂

[rotund scroll]

all of this is just so you don't end up having to undo a lot of work later on because you shortcut your design process now

but it's up to you if you want to restructure, no skin off of my back either way

[fallow jackal]

does unreal engine have something like the fungus plugin for unity?

[regal mulch]

If at all on the Marketplace

[fallow jackal]

any good recommendations? i searched for storytelling / dialogue but no good picks

[regal mulch]

Nothing from my side. Not the genre I work with usually

I just know that UE4 has nothing build in for that

(judging by watching the feature video of fungus)

[narrow igloo]

for storytelling / dialogue i would suggest looking into either the Flow Graph Plugin, or the dlg plugin

https://github.com/MothCocoon/FlowGraph

https://gitlab.com/NotYetGames/DlgSystem

[rare axle]

Anybody know which import setting might be generating / setting random material ids for my FBX imports?

Unreal seems to be taking random faces and converting them to different material IDs for some reason. They're split specifically in Max like I always split them. This has never been problematic before for me 🤔

[plush yew]

get play length then.

[rare axle]

Any ideas for seemingly randomizing material IDs guys?

[plush yew]

random integer in range?

[plush yew]

Yay i got it, i was calling it wrong. thanks for telling me it would not be in the gun data, really stupid of me to think that

[untold summit]

eyo

how do i add the the box for the blueprints?

the white box around everything

please? 😦

[plush yew]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Comments/

[untold summit]

yeah i skipped to basic shit

my bad

[plush yew]

all good 🙂

[untold summit]

thanks my guy

also

i am almost done with the camera

my god

what an ightmare that was

from the day we chatted about it

i studdied it for two days straight without sleeping

[plush yew]

lol

[untold summit]

yea

my dumbass braintakes awhile to undersstand shit

[plush yew]

I have been doing this for 2 years

and i am STILL learning.

[untold summit]

gonna post it here when its done

probs in like a few mins 😄

[plush yew]

post in #work-in-progress

[untold summit]

its done tho

just gonna post a gif of it working 😄

[plush yew]

how do i remove that bullet on the left to not appear?

[rotund scroll]

where is it coming from

[plush yew]

i need help rigging from blender to unreal

[plush yew]

IBFPS

[rotund scroll]

I don't know what that is

[plush yew]

can anyone help

[plush yew]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/animated-fps-starter-kit

[rotund scroll]

I mean where do you spawn it

[plush yew]

oh

[rotund scroll]

or is it part of some preconfigured weapon

[plush yew]

its part of the skel mesh

[rotund scroll]

surely not

perhaps part of the actor

but not the mesh

[plush yew]

should i just create a clear material and cover it up that way?

[rotund scroll]

does it have an actor?

what is it? is it a mesh component?

[plush yew]

its a skel mesh component.

[rotund scroll]

and if so, and if it's preconfigured, is it even a problem in game?

[plush yew]

its part of it

yeah because its not in the chamber, its on the left

lol

[rotund scroll]

does it look like that in game

[plush yew]

yeah

[rotund scroll]

it's not being shot out by animation or what have you?

[rotund scroll]

as in, the casing

yeah but that's still the editor

[plush yew]

when rigging it to the arms

[rotund scroll]

check if it's actually a problem when you run the game

[plush yew]

its still there.

[rotund scroll]

yeah but not while you're wielding it

[plush yew]

hold on let me make the bp

[rotund scroll]

anyway if it's a problem in game, and it came preconfigured, I'd send a message to whomever the creator is of that plugin and tell them

[untold summit]

YAAAAY

[tribal leaf]

Third Person to First Person....Nice!

[untold summit]

this was such a nightmare dude!

[plush yew]

can nobody help me

[plush yew]

thing about that is the head mesh

[untold summit]

and its not even done yet..

[plush yew]

i need help rigging in blender to ue4

[tribal leaf]

@untold summit Are you changing the FOV when you go to first-person?

[dim oriole]

Is there a way to remove autosave notification (without removing the autosave function). I see there is a timer on how long it lasts, but it tends to get stuck while minimized.

[finite plover]

What is this box and how do I get rid of it

[untold summit]

nope nope.

[modest trench]

UI bug. Drag another tab (like the details panel) over it

The lines are for rearranging the UI layout

[finite plover]

Thanks

[plush yew]

sorry had to drive soem where yeah its still there

[rotund scroll]

did you configure the weapon itself? change it from the base in any way? or did it come like that?

[plush yew]

yeah it came that way

oh well 😦 guess ill mask it to be invisible .

[rotund scroll]

write the creator and explain the issue

[untold summit]

i am actually working on a better camera system rn

it might work much better..

[prime willow]

same lol

https://tenor.com/view/fist-bump-boom-pound-it-secret-hand-shake-deal-gif-10320174

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/sword-art-online-unamused-anime-ona2000-tea-gif-13266445

[deep stump]

What build of UE5 source is the best? I keep getting errors when I build lol

[neon bough]

one that builds

i'm using ue5-main and it builds fine 4/5 times

[deep stump]

bruh xD

[deep stump]

I built ue4 perfectly fine but i can't figure out how to fix these

[neon bough]

idk, isn't there a setup and generateProjectFiles for windows?

that should download all the third party dependencies

[deep stump]

Yeah, i did that

[deep stump]

any suggestions? lol

[neon bough]

no

try a commit before they updated that particular thing

or exclude the plugin from the build process (not sure how that's done tho)

[deep stump]

Gotcha

Thanks

[tender mountain]

Hey anyone know why the godrays on my character are coming through this wall in my landscape with my Exponential Height Fog?

It also doesn't cast godrays off my static mesh rocks.

So I set the directional inscattering to 1000000 and get my static mesh godrays but the character still has godrays in the shadows

[serene sorrel]

Can UE5 do world origin shifting with proper physics support?

or does it support doubles yet

[midnight chasm]

Super nub question, but I have been looking for a while and cannot find the answer. How do I subtract a shape from another shape? For example a box from a bigger box.

[tender mountain]

I believe you need a plugin or 2.

[tender mountain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxQa2Him3x0

[solid anchor]

Hi guys! First time asking anything here but I hope someone can help me with this! I'm currently trying to attach my character to a spline while keeping all of the Character Movement Component functionality of its "Flying" mode. But I want the character to use the center of the spline as a loose center point. But the tricky thing is keeping all flying movement and cameras to act the same while attached to the spline. Currently when I attach I lose all of that movement and camera stuff and I was forced to script my own movement fresh again. Which I have already done but I'd like to keep everything consistent with the way it feels without being attached to a spline. I think its much smoother. I thought about maybe just getting a reference to the path follower I'm using as soon as it starts and using that to determine my character's position but I'd have to do stuff with ticks and I wanna stay away from that. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated! Basically my life would be so much easier if I can just say "move the character relative to the center of the spline and use its forward vector" and keep all other movement and camera stuff alone.

[past eagle]

So, I'm having a few troubles with my Twin-stick shooter game.

1. When I display the Main menu, I can also see the HUD for the main game underneath it. How might I make it so the HUD only shows up in the game?
2. When I hit Play, the controls stop working, but they work fine in-editor.

If anybody knows how to solve these things (or needs more information), please let me know! Thanks :)

[tribal leaf]

1. Can't you hide the HUD for the main game when you are showing the menu?

[tribal leaf]

2. What do you mean the controls stop working when you hit play? Are you saying you have controls that work when you are NOT in Play mode?

[past eagle]

If I can, I have no clue how 😅 I'm very new to all of this

[past eagle]

I'll hit the play button on my menu, and it sends me to the game level. But I can't move the character or anything. But if I simulate the game in the editor, the controls work fine (WASD and such)

[tribal leaf]

The widgets have a visibility setting. You can set it to "hidden" or "visible". There are other settings too.

[past eagle]

Oh, I didn't know that, neat. Is there a way I can hide the HUD while in the menu?

[tribal leaf]

If you have a reference to the HUD you need to hide, sure..

[past eagle]

Hm... I think I do. I'll take a look. Thanks!

[zinc shore]

how would i go about having game settings variables that persist across every level and can be access by any actor

like godot has auto load scripts which are scrips that are always running and can be access by anything so dose UE have something like this

[tribal leaf]

You need to use a GameInstance

[prime willow]

could having country sized map if nothing outside of a state in size is used for gameplay hurt performance?

[tribal leaf]

Create a new Blueprint class or C++ class and make the parent GameInstance

[prime willow]

even tho close to none of it is used until updates hurt performance?

[zinc shore]

so is UEs gameinstance kinda like godots autoload scripts

[tribal leaf]

Add all the variables to your GameInstance class.. Then in your blueprint, use the GetGameInstance node. You'll have to cast it to your custom class.. Then you'll have access to your variables.

[clever harbor]

yo guys, can i remove this yellow border around in this editor scene ?

[zinc shore]

can you also save a game instance values so when you reopen the game they are still there

[zinc shore]

hit escape

[tribal leaf]

Yes but you'll need to use a Save Game object

You'll pretty much need to do the same thing - set the variables that you need to save. You'll need to transfer the GameInstance variables to it.

[clever harbor]

Damn so simple thanks bro😆

[hollow moat]

wtf is wrong with me I'm reading unity navmesh docs wondering why I can't find anything

😂

[zinc shore]

bruh moment

[celest hull]

I am about to compile the engine on Linux. I do not quite understand which folders I can delete of the original source after the build so i can save space. Is there a list posted somewhere I could see?

[prime willow]

ok

so ray tracing

I know when it first came out everyone said you cant make games with it too heavy on performance

so now that its been ten thousand years

how are those rules holding up?

Can i still put ray tracing in my game and have 60fps or will it still kill performance?

granted this would be a game with 1024 texture sizes not 2k or 4k

@drowsy snow ^ if you know the answer pls let me know :3

[amber mantle]

I cant install unreal engine from the epic game launcher because of daily data limit
So is there any link to download unreal engine from the browser?
Please ping me when someone responds

[amber mantle]

Not as source code

[faint meadow]

Would anyone know why my characters appear as if they’re lit in a dark room? Cast shadows are on and everything

[untold summit]

eyo, back, i tried improving the camera but ive run into a different issue now, it just freezes when i pres the switch button, any ideas what that might be causing?

alright i figured that part out, but now it doesnt return to the original camera

which in this case is from FPP to TPP

nevermind, after the hellish training i put myself through, i can troubleshoot now....i feel awful still.

still thinking of the fighting system, how ill add depth and proper 1 to 1 collision, ill also have to add a proper TRUE first person.

[past pilot]

So I have a question about C++/Blueprints and components. I have a character that will have its "systems" divided into components. So Inventory, Vitals, Stats, etc. So I created all of those components in c++. The question I have is attaching these components to the Character. If i'm using both c++ and Blueprints should I attach those components in c++ or in Blueprint? The reason I ask is because as far as I can tell, if I attach the c++ components in c++ I don't think it will use any part of the BP versions of those components. On the other side, it is harder to interact with the BP versions through c++ than it is the c++ versions isn't it?

[tribal leaf]

When you say components, do you mean structures?

[past pilot]

Actor Components

I want them "reusable" so an inventory component could be on a player, enemy or even just a chest and work the same way for example.

[tribal leaf]

Understood but what are you going to store in the inventory? Some variables, right?

[past pilot]

The inventory component has an array of structs, correct.

[tribal leaf]

I think it's easier just to create a custom structure and then add that to your actor.

But to answer your question, I'd probably add a component in C++

That way, you have the flexibility to use it in C++ and Blueprint. Although, in your use case, I wouldn't use components at all.

Then you could use the struct in other places too...like when you start to save and load your game..

[past pilot]

I am using components because it is dividing the code out to be easier to work on, It will be reusable on multiple actors by just attaching it and it caries its own logic around with it.

[tribal leaf]

I get it...but for inventory?

[past pilot]

Its a multiplayer game, so all the logic for the inventory is in its component. Including all the server/auth stuff

[tribal leaf]

cool..makes sense

[untold summit]

btw, ill be tackling true first person soon, any tips before i go in head first?

[past pilot]

The problem im having is if i attach it in c++, then i think im stuck with that version. I cant replace it with the BP child version

@untold summit what you mean "True First PErson"

[untold summit]

no behind the scenes magic, no shortcuts, true first person with proper model turning.

think mirrors edge but with more detail.

[past pilot]

Lost me. I use a third person character. I attach the camera to a socket and hide the head bone on the local mesh. Does everything a third person mesh does that you set up while keeping it first person

[untold summit]

maybe this makes more sense.

[spare kernel]

eww

get rid of those arms 😛

that is not true FPS

[untold summit]

yea....

[spare kernel]

thing is you need animations adapted also

to handle the weirdness

[untold summit]

this aint from me, i just tried finding a reference.

[spare kernel]

like the way guns are held etc

[untold summit]

i am just starting with it.

not to metion its not gonna be a gun in my case.

its gonna be a sword.

[past pilot]

i just ditched the first person side of thing completely and do everything as a third person but with the camera attached to a skeleton socket that puts it in first person position

[untold summit]

i feel like there will be problems with that down the line.

for me

[past pilot]

how so?

[untold summit]

because the battle system will involve a vr stick with mouse controls, the camera will be locked while youre in fight mode.

instead youll be swinging the sword or chanting a spell or prepping to shot a bow.

well

just the sword for now.

wanna make a demo worth a crap

not to metion, collisions!

god

i have no idea how to go about doing those yet.

https://tenor.com/view/daffy-duck-what-do-i-do-stressed-computer-homework-gif-6206634

as said before, anything that could help is appreciated.

[past pilot]

This is what mine looks like... dunno why it couldnt be used in vr

[untold summit]

not really vr, just the vr stick, but i am pretty sure there will be some hickups with collisions if i did it your way, i cant say for sure, i first need to see how it will go.

[warm hawk]

Is there a place for talking about making builds for consoles?

[untold summit]

also, look at your character, how it moves, this is why i need true first person*, you are moving and your legs arent.

not true vre

omg

true first person

msorry

[past pilot]

@untold summit my legs certainly are moving lol

[untold summit]

when you rotate your legs are not moving.

[past pilot]

oh, that is something you can do, i just havent done it

There is lots of tutorials on how to control rotation with animations

[untold summit]

point being, i dont wanna do it this way because i have a very strong intution of it bitting me in the ass later on.

[past pilot]

I did the head rotation but i will eventually make it so you only turn when walking or when you excede the head rotation and you will step turn

I have no idea how you are going to do first person with all the legs and stuff without using basically a full body mesh

Which is what the thrid person template is

[untold summit]

i might have to resort to it, but my idea is to add arms that work the same way as those in skyrim.

for the time being!

[past pilot]

Good luck to you sir. I hope you figure it out or someone else has a better idea.

[untold summit]

Thanks, ill do what i can.

[untold summit]

oh before i forget, the arms will start working after you change from third person to first person.

https://imgur.com/1APCDr2

hoping i can figure it out before end of the year.

i wanna release a working demo at latest in the first half of the next year.

my inspiration comes from that dude who made lost soul aside.

[hollow moat]

Please someone tell me there is a way to disable/change the c++ hot-reload sound?

[modest trench]

http://hotreloadsucks.com/

never use it

if you are doing anything C++ related build from the IDE

(but yeah man that sound is loud)

you can actually edit the sound file in the engine but it's not useful anyways

[hollow moat]

It's given me a headache lmao

[teal charm]

does anybody know why it happens when i eject from the possessed pawn i can not turn the camera anymore? just move around, but when I simulate i can.

[grand rune]

ok so I'm working on an widget blueprint and I want to make it so that when a horizontal box overlaps with a picture I want to move the alignment to a desired direction in real time and then if the horizontal box isn't overlapping with it, it goes back to its default position. how would I go about doing that?

[dim garden]

Hello friends, I want to destroy the niagara effect when there is a place it touches or not. I've used almost every possible knot, but I don't like it. Do you know of a solid way to do this?

[wicked canyon]

heyo, I'm trying to make a landscape layer blend but I'm having trouble getting it to work. is this the right kind of place to go looking for help?

[idle jewel]

Is there a setting or way to change the main camera instead of my players camera i want to have a separate camera or do i have to change this in blueprints

[tender pecan]

try #graphics maybe

[tender pecan]

yes there are a few ways. add a camera to the scene (editor or runtime)
use SetViewTargetwithBlend to blend between cameras using blueprint or c++.

[wicked canyon]

ty

[daring schooner]

does anyone know of any good tutorials on 3d melee combat? specifically in my case stuff like dark souls, ie with hitboxes attached to different body parts, syncing hit detection with attack animations, etc
not necessarily something I can just copy and paste, but at least something that'll point me toward good techniques and unreal functionalities

[serene sorrel]

@daring schooner that is easy maybe just search better

you can detect what parts of a skeleton you interact with , its simple

[daring schooner]

how

[spark heath]

Hello everybody
I want
open another app And want to open the specified page Transfer parameters how can I do this in unreal
Can anyone help me

[exotic thicket]

This depends 100% on what application you're trying to open

And it may not even be possible

[spark heath]

This is Android Is there no other way

[drowsy snow]

Android doesn't encourage multitasking as much as desktop OSes do.

[spark heath]

android It seems possible

but I don't know how to do it in unreal

[shadow ravine]

I've been writing native android apps for years but mainly using VS as my editor, what exactly are you attempting to achieve?

[spark heath]

I want to open another app with one app and pass data

@shadow ravineI try

with the native android piugin it can open app but can not pass data

[shadow ravine]

Okay what Libraries are you using?

[spark heath]

I use this plug @shadow ravine it seem Java

[shadow ravine]

Hmm, okay I'm not 100% sure which libraries are included in that plugin as I don't really use unreal for android apps yet. But you'll want to looking for Intents

This is the documentation: https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send

Try using a two-sided material

[spark heath]

@shadow ravineokay thank you brother

[drowsy snow]

How about flipping the normals of your mesh in your DCC tool?

[plush yew]

What is my DCC tool, sorry, i tried finding flipping normals on import

[drowsy snow]

Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Zbrush, Metasequoia, or whatever else you're using to make the mesh.

[plush yew]

I see, i wil ltry that thank you

[plush yew]

Yes, perfect thank you. I used Bezier on towards the wrong side of the plane.

[raven estuary]

This is probably a common question right now but im getting into unreal with the long term goal of doing cinematics/short films is it better to just dive into unreal 5 or go with 4 till 5 is fully released

[serene sorrel]

5

most important thing for cinematics is lighting, and ue4 sucks at it so

dont even bother

[raven estuary]

That makes sense

I didnt know how big of a difference it was

[last topaz]

Hello, I'm trying to combine static and dynamic lighting in a studio building with a lot of big windows. Basically I want the interior baked, while the exterior stays fully dynamic but I can't seem to figure out how to do this properly.

If I bake with the default movable lighting/skylight nothing really happens, if I set them to static it bakes but the exterior is completely blown out and super bright.

Can't really do sub levels because the exterior is always visible from inside.

[raven estuary]

This may be wrong but the guy just went over it in a tutorial i just watched but you want all the lights youre going to bake to be static then build then make the ones you want dynamic?

Oh wait idk cause you have to turn off lumen

[last topaz]

I already tried turning the lights movable after baking but everything is still super bright outside

[sharp willow]

Hey there - Bit of an odd question:

I have hundreds of actors in my content folder. Is there a way I can query/filter by object type?

My end goal is to have a list of blueprints, each of which have at least one component with my specified object type e.g. WorldStatic

[trim mantle]

Hi,
Did anyone get email from Epic Regarding the BP Ninja challenge?

Good

That means I ain't the only one xD

[plush yew]

can anyone help me if you are bored? I am trying to find a l96 AWP sniper rigged, with arms on the marketplace and cant find nothing 😦 I do not care if its in bundle pack, and it can not be low poly

[prime willow]

check artstation

also rigging it yourself would make your life easier if you want specific weaponry

[plush yew]

i dont have a green screen, the proper body suit or a 3d printer

[plain ferry]

Hello,
What would be the best way to have a first person character's orientation always follow the VR HMD/camera orientation? As the camera is a child of the player, if I just replicate the camera movement to the player, the view rotates by twice the amount, and using ResetOrientationAndPosition after it locks the view in place. Is there any obvious way to do this?

[fallow jackal]

is it possible to change my 4.27 project to 4.26? theres an asset that only goes up to 4.26 i want to import

[plush yew]

clikc show all projects

select version

@fallow jackal

[broken spire]

you can make it smaller by finding the mesh and resizing it

[fallow jackal]

sorry i mean its a plugin not from the market place, it says its for 4.26, but can my project be downgraded or something to make it work?

[plush yew]

Okay

[plush yew]

Ill guide you thru this

Take the plugin, put it on the desktop

[broken spire]

@plush yew more specifically select view options, select show engine content, search cinecam and modify the scale of the camera

[plush yew]

create a new folder called it new

open CMD as admin

cd C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UEVERSION HERE\Engine\Build\BatchFiles

RunUAT.bat BuildPlugin -plugin="C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\PLUGINNAME\PLUGINNAME.uplugin" -Package="C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\NEW"

should build the plugin to that version

[fallow jackal]

this is a command too?

[plush yew]

Here

watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HHJ6AYnwFw&ab_channel=PixelProf

its vice versa.

[fallow jackal]

thanks ill check it out

[broken spire]

How do you restrict a procedural foliage volume from spawning rocks on a slope?

or a voliage type

ohhh I found it, it's

[broken spire]

how do you reduce the number of similar actors generate on the procedural foilage spawner?

okay now it is stuck spawning only one mesh :/

[prime willow]

So

Ray tracing in your game and performance

Is it still a FPS tanker or has it become more moderately usable at 60fps on standard machines?

[shadow ravine]

I'm trying to get one of the lights setup with emissive light as it doesn't have it. I've got it set up to emit but it emit on the entire material not just one the white area of the texture. Anyone know where I'm going wrong?

[fierce tulip]

you need a mask texture to mask out the bits you dont want to have emissive

[vital mountain]

Guys i grab the 4.27-release from github

And when i launch it says 4.27.2

What is happening?

[broken spire]

can you use two procedural foliage volumes? Like one for rocks and one for other stuff?

[worthy plaza]

Can't save my files because of landscape material, idk what to do.. they don't give any reason expect ".uasset failed to save" N.B this is not a new asset, i've been using this material since the start of this project

[grim ore]

@vital mountainthere is no 4.27-release tag that I can see, did you get the .0 or the .1 or did you get the 4.27 branch?

[steady tree]

Is there a way to capture a screenshot at a specific time, kinda like a daily review automation? ( 2AM Morning Screenshots ) I might have a solution for when the Game would run all the time, but not sure how to go about it in editor only.

[steady tree]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines/ScriptingAndAutomation/Blueprints/StartupObjects/ Ahh I might have sth

[mellow turret]

I have a Skeleton, all of our Skeletal Meshes use this Skeleton, we've been making sockets on the Skeleton and that's where the weapons go, however if two skeletal meshes use the same weapon, the weapon can't use the same socket for both since the skeletal meshes are different, I was wondering how people handled this kind of issue

[prime willow]

@grim ore if you'll have me there's a question i'd wish to run by you, Over the two summers of this venture, ive accululated a lot of code and components that have cluttered and made a dense mess of my blueprint setups, however i heard from another that you can segment blueprints and connect them like legos or yugioh card decks to one another if that makes any sense?

Percisely what terms would i need to refer to; to learn how to bridge entire blueprints onto each other in which ever way a player designs from a gamers point of view via their input whilst reducing massive sized single blueprints?

[prime willow]

Virtual bones and Iks

itll fix sharing animattions and functions between different sizes shapes and skeleton meshes

just takes a lot of setup in advance

[mellow turret]

is there a resource I could read/watch about that?

what are "lks"?

[misty lynx]

does anyone know if one can generate PSO on Windows? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/PSOCaching/ and all other sources do this on mobile only and when i build with -logPSO nothing gets generated in my build

[prime willow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCosEReF9J8
I apologize for the delay i was retrieving the tutorial

[mellow turret]

thanks this sounds like it will save us a lot of time

[prime willow]

definitely~

I cannot vouch for the method as i have not attempte dit myself but ive heard nothing but good things from it

[native swift]

Does anyone know why this is happening?? when I use a spot or point light there are these weird shadows on the walls, but if i use a directional light they are not there. This is after the build

and this is before

[patent apex]

hello, when i fire a weapon i spawn a projectile (using collision handling to always spawn) and sometimes i fire it while clipping the enemy. The problem with that is that spawns the projectile at 0,0,0 of the world, is there a way to make it retain the original location? thanks

[plush yew]

is there always easier to make this not like this?

to much going on

lol

[exotic thicket]

Without knowing what on earth that does it's pretty hard to say

[plush yew]

updates the socket when weapon is picked off basic on overlapping collision

[exotic thicket]

Yeah but like what do those individual branches do

[plush yew]

oh

[exotic thicket]

Uhh

Well I think you could move the set node in front of the switch

since you seem to be directly setting the same value into that as goes into the switch

If you change your socket names to match the name of the enum value, then you can just convert the enum into a string and use that as the socket name

[plush yew]

the second one is to make sure its hitting the correct socket

just incase

[exotic thicket]

alternatively if all of them are called WeaponName_Socket, you could just replace the word Socket from the stringified enum name, and append _Socket

[plush yew]

idk i guess ill keep it like this to prevent fing it up

oh

intresting

[clever chasm]

Hey all, anyone know why my instanced meshes/procedurally generated foliage doesn't show up in any collision visibility viewmodes? I've made sure that block all is enabled in the mesh and foliage, it has a simple blocking volume, and it definitely works (i.e. stops a test character) it just doesn't show up using any of the 'show collision pawn/visibility/etc.' commands. Is there anything else that would let me visualize it? Many thanks.

[devout mason]

Does anyone here have experience with Quest 2 and Mobile HDR?

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvLUa4GYU74&ab_channel=UE4Architecture

what you need for archiviz like this? just high quality models and a lot of light work?

i mean using only unreal engine assets, like get some full house and create something new

[devout mason]

Basically yes, but you need some lightning knowhow and also don't forget a good HRDI

[plush yew]

hrdi?

oh

i can just use photos i photographed myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHoEmaXntbI&ab_channel=ArchitecturalVisualization

this looks fairly simple, but effective

[devout mason]

Depends on the camera and settings you used and you need to make it into a HDRI. A simple photo won't work.

[devout whale]

Does anyone know how to fix this bug. I've made a completely new project, and I am using choas vehicle.

When I add impulse to the car it does jump, but sometimes stops mid air and slowly jitters down.

I've attached a clip if it helps.

[plush yew]

Ok, thanks!

[devout mason]

Sure man 🙂 Just check out a lot of tutorials, UE4 is really easy to learn

[plush yew]

Where did my viewport stuff go on the left?

mindfart.

got it it was components.

[plush yew]

Yeah, I'm just looking for a quick way. Minimal time, basic assets and methods. Watching tutorials and making basic room for hours can be a nightmare 😂 Will share what I come up with later.

[velvet pawn]

I have a question on a lerp I'm going with a texture. I can't seem to find the issue or I'm not good at searching for the docs for it:

[restive mica]

Hello everyone, I ran into such a problem, maybe not a problem. The bottom line is that I bought an SSD, moved my project there, deleted the old cache. changed the path to the cache in the project. But the fact is that an unreal engine works stably without a cache. As if he already takes a ready-made cache somewhere and writes there. And I cannot find it. It's good? I work 24 hours, but nothing is written to the cache. It's just that before, during work, something was written to the cache. I hope I explained clearly, it's just not very good with English

[prime willow]

have you tried just a clean reinstallation of the engine

also back up your project prior since reinstalls arent tied to the project

[restive mica]

no, I just moved it from the disk, this is a building unreal engine

[umbral blaze]

Have you changed the location of the cache inside of unreal or in a text file? You should change the location in the settings of the engine.

[restive mica]

only text file

[restive mica]

and where exactly do you need to change the settings?

[noble barn]

Ok, I have the weirdest issue right now - I am just following a basic tutorial on Character Movement, but - hear me out - it only works fine for the duration I previously was tabbed out of the editor. When I tab back in, it works for a couple seconds and then the movement speed becomes super slow and almost laggy, as if it was trying to move against something at a very shallow angle (which it doesnt). I tried breakpoints in SlideAlongSurface and HandleImpact in C++, none of which fire.

Its an empty Character, derived from ACharacter, nothing changed at all. Moving on a Landscape. The "Flying" mode works fine, this only happens in the "Walking" mode

note, I usually do this in C++, but I had the same effect there and wanted to isolate the issue using a new ACharacter derived Blueprint

Any idea what that may be? It's literally an empty level with an empty ACharacter

[plush yew]

Why do sockets don't appear when choosing parent socket?

[drowsy valley]

Heyo, could somebody please help me understand the AddForceAtLocation function?

I am trying to apply a force at each of the 4 orange lines

But I am unsure if the functions inputs are local or worldspace

[noble barn]

Been almost 5 years I last worked with forces, but what do you not understand about it? @drowsy valley

ah

[drowsy valley]

Hmm, I'll send my code snippet

[noble barn]

I dont know for sure, but that should be easily testable. I'd guess it's worldspace

[drowsy valley]

  // 4 x Suspendors
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
        FCollisionQueryParams TraceParams(TEXT("LineOfSight_Trace"), false, this);
        FHitResult Hit(ForceInit);
        
         FVector startpos =  BoxCollider->GetComponentLocation() + offsets[i];
         FVector endpos =  BoxCollider->GetComponentLocation() + BoxCollider->GetUpVector() * -maxCompression  + offsets[i];
            
        if(GetWorld()->LineTraceSingleByChannel(Hit,startpos, endpos, ECollisionChannel::ECC_Visibility, TraceParams, FCollisionResponseParams::DefaultResponseParam))
        {
            compressionRate[i] = FVector::Dist(startpos, Hit.ImpactPoint);
            BoxCollider->AddForceAtLocation(-endpos * (UPhysicsSettings::Get()->DefaultGravityZ / (-0.5f)) * (maxCompression - compressionRate[i]), startpos);
            //Debug 
            GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 0.1f, FColor::Orange, FString::SanitizeFloat(compressionRate[i]));
        }
        else
            compressionRate[i] = maxCompression;
    }

I'll try and explain what I'm doing here 😅

So each of the orange lines is a Raycast (which I think in unreal should be done with the LineTraceSingleByChannel function) which seems to work fine

[noble barn]

looks like a vehicle suspension to me

[drowsy valley]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do here. I'm converting over from unity.

[noble barn]

I did just that years back, but yeah.. forgot most of it 😅

[drowsy valley]

    protected void Suspension()
    {
        // 4 x Suspendors
        for (int i = 0; i < suspendors.Length; i++)
        {
            if (Physics.Raycast(suspendors[i].position, suspendors[0].up * (-1), out hit, maxCompression))
            {
                compressionRate[i] = Vector3.Distance(suspendors[i].position, hit.point);
                thisRB.AddForceAtPosition(suspendors[i].up * (Physics.gravity.y / (-0.5f)) * (maxCompression - compressionRate[i]), suspendors[i].position, ForceMode.Force);
            }
            else
                compressionRate[i] = maxCompression;
        }
    }

This is the unity code by the way, it works fine

I'll send a short clip of what the code looks in action in unreal

[noble barn]

first of, you'd probably want to work with sockets, but thats probably not the issue

well, actually maybe it is

Is the BoxCollider a UBoxComponent?

[drowsy valley]

Yeah, it's a UBoxComponent

https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/pezagisire.cpp

here is the entire class

[noble barn]

You'd probably want to use an UStaticMeshComponent or SkeletalMeshComponent, whatever represents your car, and add sockets to it. Sockets are essentially just points on a mesh which you can address by name

so you'd add LeftFrontWheel, RightFrontWheel, etc, and just place them on the mesh itself

then, you can query their location, both in Local and World space

as I dont see you converting the offsets[] array values based on any rotation

[drowsy valley]

hmm, that's pretty much the way I've been doing this in unity

[noble barn]

the socket way or the way in the snippet?

dont know if sockets are a thing in unity, probably under a different name

[drowsy valley]

In unity I am simply using empty gameobjects that represent the raycast positons

but it sounds very similar to the sockets you described

[noble barn]

yeah, I believe the offsets-array is the issue. Or at least one issue

[drowsy valley]

Hmm, so if I'd want to stay with the offset arrays I'd probably have to apply the BoxColliders rotation?

[noble barn]

try this

 // instead of :FVector startpos =  BoxCollider->GetComponentLocation() + offsets[i];
FVector OffsetLocal = offsets[i];
FVector OffsetWorld = BoxCollider->GetComponentRotation().RotateVector(OffsetsLocal);
FVector startpos =  BoxCollider->GetComponentLocation() + OffsetWorld;

or something along those lines

[noble barn]

yeah

(edited snippet)

[drowsy valley]

makes sense considering the boxes component location is in worldspace

[noble barn]

see if that makes it work. But yeah, at some point you'd probably want to replace that Offsets array with sockets on a mesh. Then you'd do Mesh->GetSocketLocation("LeftFrontWheel") instead

(pseudo code)

also, you can debug traces easily, so you can see whether the go the right way

[drowsy valley]

Makes sense, thanks 👍

Sadly the rest still seems to be majorly flawed. I think I'll probably have to recode it from ground 0

ah dang, I have obs set to mkv

[noble barn]

looks fine to me

😄

(if its being sucked into a tornado right now)

[noble barn]

oh but I see, you already are debugging the traces

[plush yew]

I was able to compile this and the text doesnt display in playmode, been stuck on this for awhile now and no luck, am I missing something important?

[drowsy valley]

haha yeah. Just as a reference. this is what it is supposed to looks like

https://youtu.be/LG1CtlFRmpU

I think this is actually the tutorial I went off when I made the unity code

[drowsy valley]

Do you by any chance know how to properly rotate an object?

I've found the AddTorqueInDegrees function but in no way does it behave how I'd expect it to

BoxCollider->AddTorqueInDegrees(BoxCollider->GetUpVector() * CurrentVelocity.X * rotationSpeed);

This is what I've tried. Upwards vector of the Box Collider * magnitude

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow if youre free can you give me a pointe rin what i might be doing wrong

[plush yew]

@plush yew

1. Show all projects, select project, 2) Select version of asset, 3) Add to project.

i just migrated it

thx

lol

okay

i couldn't add it, it's create project only type

now we in the game lol 🙅‍♀️

is there any sortof article on how to bind a language to unreal engine

or a blog post

[plush yew]

You create the project, then just take the stuff from the content folder and drag to your project content folder.

[plush yew]

Yeah, that's what migrate does lol.

[plush yew]

no point in migrating things from content folder to content folder. just drag and drop. Now if you wanted to migrate something that you created sub folders into, thats when you do it.

oh ok, got it

🙂 just saying

migrating can fail, things not getting added

[regal mulch]

You mean localization?

I would start googling for that +ue4

Or do you mean a programming language 🧐

[plush yew]

programming language

[small burrow]

Is there a particular or a short list of most common english naming conventions used by teams working with UE?

E.g.

Skeletal Mesh = SK_Bob
Material = M_Bob
Texture (Diffuse/Albedo) = T_Bob)D
...

That is what I used for my example... okay... if anyone else knows of a common one they have used with a team, please share

[plush yew]

how do you change color of that couch or texture?

[small burrow]

I would use photoshop

[plush yew]

i got paint only lol

[small burrow]

look up open source alternatives to photoshop, if you can't get photoshop, or any other paid for apps

[rare axle]

I should be able to disable the Quixel Bridge plugin and keep all models and textures downloaded from Quixel right?

Having issues packaging a project with Bridge enabled, but as soon as I disable it, it seems to unlink/remove textures 🤔

[plush yew]

thanks

[plush yew]

yeah, got gimp

[drowsy snow]

Sorry, I just woke up 🥱

[plush yew]

looks pretty complicated to me tho @plush yew https://github.com/rdeioris/LuaMachine/blob/master/Source/LuaMachine/Private/LuaBlueprintFunctionLibrary.cpp

[drowsy snow]

Not really, I've been using that for a while, pretty easy to get lua functions going.

[plush yew]

that texture is in uasset format 🤔

[prime willow]

it ok i dont want to pester you right after you wake up

[drowsy snow]

Can't you export it to TGA file?

[plush yew]

yeah, just found it thx

[plush yew]

i mean the code

[wary knot]

Not sure if this is the correct section and might be a very broad question! but does anyone have any guidance or links how to set up my fully low poly textured model into Unreal so its game ready ?....

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it is pretty easy, on par with other Lua implementations in C++ language.

[plush yew]

but look at the link

the cpp file

[drowsy snow]

Basically every other C++ in Lua tutorial is applicable to the plugin.

I don't need to open the link, already used it myself.

[plush yew]

what the heck is it al for

what is that file foing

oh

[prime willow]

hmmm

[plush yew]

its all the blueprint wrappers

i get it now

[drowsy snow]

https://youtu.be/4l5HdmPoynw

[wary knot]

or anyone recommend what channel I can ask this question

[plush yew]

imagine doing all that by hand

[rare axle]

Anybody? Tips packaging with Quixel Bridge plugin? It won't package with it, and without it, all my textures get removed

[drowsy snow]

I wouldn't use Megascans materials as is, and create my own "übershaders" so to speak.

As far as megascans goes, there's not much going on compared to other PBR materials, so you can just whip up simple material with texture sampler params in it, make a dozen of instances of it, and run away with it.

[low ether]

is this normal? i just have a sky sphere and we're rendering 1.5million triangles??

[rare axle]

@drowsy snow So the only solution is to make my own materials instead?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, that's the safest and arguably the most obvious one.

[rare axle]

Damn, that's a fair bit of legwork it seems... If I duplicate the megascans included one and use that instead will it do the same thing and just disappear when Bridge gets disabled?

Doesn't it kind of defeat the point of using Megascans at all? Do I have to also duplicate all textures that it adds?

[low ether]

im floating under the map so nothing should be hidden

[drowsy snow]

As far as texture goes, no, but I'd recommend to rearrange them to yout project's file management standards.

[prime willow]

I broke everything :3

[drowsy snow]

That's something an engineer would say

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-nervous-真っ青-緊張-gif-7302799

every fix made things worst

However i think i know what my issue is

my assets use very different variables and systems for the same things

so its segmented and buggy

ive been at this since 7am..

blah time for a break

[fallow jackal]

can someone explain what is controlrig? "Control Rig is a node-based rigging system, designed to provide riggers and animators with tools to create flexible, dynamic, and procedural characters with artist-friendly interfaces" I just dont understand what this means

[prime willow]

exoskeleton

on top of your mesh

that acts like its extra set of bones

for all rigging stuff

but you can customize it

[drowsy snow]

Simply put, Control Rig is another set of controls for your rig.

[fallow jackal]

but shouldnt the rig and animations be made in something like blender?

[prime willow]

now you can do both

[drowsy snow]

However, Control Rig can't do much in constraints as much as Blender did, in terms of creating animations.

[prime willow]

well buh bye guys good luck o your projects ❤️

[fallow jackal]

when would this make sense? i dont see when or why this would be useful

[drowsy snow]

It honestly sucks for making FP animations from scratch.

[plush yew]

thats why i buy em

lol

[drowsy snow]

Let's say, you want to have IK system across your character, adapting to the environment. Control Rig can do most of the calculations for you, along with the body adapting to the IK, so you'd only need to modify the control locations.

You could do the same in just anim BP, but the setup can be more complicated.

[drowsy snow]

I make em from scratch lmao
I watched too much Hyper and Sully

[fallow jackal]

i see thank you

[plush yew]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/NodeReference/SkeletalControls/CCDIK/

tahts much better 😉

[drowsy snow]

Also Control Rig's RigVM is much lighter on performance than anim BP.

[plush yew]

When things do not match up, i just key it in the sequence lol

[drowsy snow]

Spoiler alert: ||he dabbled with hand IK not long ago.||

[plush yew]

So sense i set up my gun blueprint system, I could sell it on the marketplace, as is?

not going to but just asking

No no just use the guns as example for the video, and say guns not included lol

show a tut on how to set it up

bam.

[drowsy snow]

Well, you should provide the example mesh and use them as is in your demo project/videos. Best not to misled your customers.

[plush yew]

true

i just painted my green screen today

waiting on the 3d printer

[plush yew]

guys im looking for feedback here.

is the gun to big on the screen?

is it to close?

[fierce tulip]

^

[plush yew]

idk, looks fine, first one might be a bit too big

wow i did not even think of this, lmfao

is there a way to adjust the FOV on an animation sequence?

and then default back to what you have after that animation is completed aka, swaping weapons

exactly what ill do, thank you 🙂

[plush yew]

I got a simpler solution after the game gets the socket of the gun, it updated the FOV

[hollow moat]

I'm really struggling with my level design

I just can't get any buildings to look right

The proportions are always wrong

[inland lintel]

Shaun, always have some sort of human like block around to check proportion. At the least a 180cm tall rectangle, a capsule or a sphere

[plush yew]

i use google earth for this lol make sure you have a player pawn in level to see the height

[plush yew]

how can i rig from blender to ue4

someone help

plz

ive been ignored

autorigpro

oh ue has it for free now?

Auto rig pro has always been the go too

[mint sequoia]

I'm making a shortcut that should open the project with DebugGameEditor instead of DevelopmentEditor but it just errors. This is the shortcut "Z:\Epic Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-Win64-DebugGame.exe" VaultItProj.uproject and error is attached (ignore the first ., thats an old screenshot with a typo). Any advice?

I could do it with a .bat easily enough but a shortcut should be able to and feels more elegant

[gilded hatch]

A question for anyone who might be able to help.

That is a solid rock material but when i have the normal maps enabled it creates those spots where the rock texture is missing.

you move farther away and it is a solid rock texture

the closer you move the more and more broke up it looks like this.

Any explanation of what is causing this would be appreciated!

[neon bough]

you could use a animation curve to drive the FOV from the sequencer

[vocal flume]

Hi All! I need to plug a node into the alpha in the lerp node to make it go from 0 to 1 and 1 to 0 (keep looping).. I'm not good at maths.. I feel like there is some mathematical node that'll solve the issue.. (This is possible with Material Instances but they are not an option in my case)

[neon bough]

current time % 1

[vocal flume]

Figured it out. Time > Frac > linear sine > Alpha. That worked!!!

[plush yew]

if i wanted to change the position of the arms in the camera space what would i cast too?

got it

just add a +

[winter rain]

Should my 'landscape material' have within it every material I plan on painting the landscape with? (10+)

[drowsy snow]

You can do that, by using Shared Samplers.

Posting no context shit on the server, I'm this close to summon the mods, but I've seen worse.

[gritty halo]

wait you cant?

[drowsy snow]

Also @gritty halo stop responding to him.

[gritty halo]

why?

he black listed?

no wonder

[drowsy snow]

🤦‍♂️

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: ChickenNuggetMan#9993 was banned.

:triangular_flag_on_post: boywhogirl#4856 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[spare kernel]

Just did a little cleanup 🙂

[tender pecan]

yes. i mean. the material is kind of nothing more than a combination of "splat" maps in essence, that tells it where which layer gets painted.
the layers ( layerinfo ) themselves do not contain the textures, but the alpha maps/masks if you will, so yep. the landscape material defines the layers, and the layers ( in the material def ) contain the textures.

if you want 100 layers, your material would need 100 textures of some kind (they can be shared of course, and reused across layers for example )

[gritty halo]

uh

finally back

feel alive

how are guys doing

[drowsy snow]

Thanks a lot 😄

I'm kinda surprised there's a lack of documentation on the Beer shadow maps for volumetric clouds.
As if the m_SimpleVolumetricClouds take on it weren't complicated enough to comprehend.

[broken spire]

Would someone happen to have a good tutorial on procedural foliage volumes? No matter what I do I've followed a number of tutorials and the editor gets laggy, all the models have been heavily reduced in LODs (up to lod6). I'm just trying to evenly distribute rocks and large formations of rocks on the terrain.

[tender pecan]

I am nto sure a tutorial will help you debug your performance issue, do you knwo if your lag is CPU or GPU bound? Have you ran the profiler and checked what is the cause? maybe there is another issue and not just polycount

I just opened a project yesterday from the asset store and it made my editor crawl, turned out it was because RT was on. \0/

[broken spire]

ahh quality was set to cinematic, but lighting is on preview lol this could be it let me check

[misty lynx]

does anyone know if one can generate PSO on Windows? https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/PSOCaching/ and all other sources do this on mobile only and when i build with -logPSO nothing gets generated in my build

[wide valve]

huh, why, for me it works

[untold summit]

making some progress with the proper FPP..
https://imgur.com/oPZtuVH

It actually has some conflicts with the TPP to FPP so even if this looks basic it was difficult xd

[rain badger]

Hey, can anyone point me to a another source for this information from the documentation: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Buildasalibrary

[wide valve]

So my starwars game has the lightsaber ignition sound and the loop and the end sound, but how do i add extra like swing sounds? can i attach sound to animations or isnt that possible?

[steady tree]

@wide valve you can put notifiers inside the animation

[wide valve]

really oh

didnt knew that was possible lol

[steady tree]

np

Does someone have an Idea on how to automatically start this after booting the Project? Couldnt find a suitable thing in BP / Python API yet

[wide valve]

you mean starting a sequence?

i belive you can do that just in the project settings if i am not mistaken?

[steady tree]

rendering it, I found this, but my Issue is that I have to hit play in order for it to render

[wide valve]

ahhh

not sure how to help with that, sadly

[spark heath]

Does anyone know how to make UE4 Android App tune up another app and transfer the value

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[spark heath]

No one can answer😩

[mellow flame]

do you have any "dumb proof" resource to understand the best way the different classes in the engine, like gamemode, gamestate, playerstate, whatsoever?

[untold summit]

Hello again

i need some links to ue4 material concerning visible mesh damage, more specifically damage like a cut.

[spark heath]

Dissolved material？@untold summit

[untold summit]

like this, the red part is where he gets hit, basically chipping damage.

shit

sorry

[drowsy snow]

You might already saw this one
https://www.tomlooman.com/rendering-wounds-on-characters/

[untold summit]

eh no

[plush yew]

can you cut part of an asset in unreal engine? like the top of the asset in image

[untold summit]

thats not quite what i need

[drowsy snow]

You mean something like this?

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2010/gdc2010_vlachos_l4d2wounds.pdf

[untold summit]

yes...not quite as brutal 😄

hmph

not quite i guess

[drowsy snow]

Valve published a PDF about the tech in the link above. Should give it a read.

[untold summit]

more like a simple cut.

[modest trench]

Ooh

[drowsy snow]

Then this is more of what you're looking for, maybe swap the "decal" shape, combined with some particle effect. @untold summit

[untold summit]

but i guess simple texture damage would look horrible, okay ill look at the pdf.

[stiff bane]

maybe check this out https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-split-or-cut-a-static-mesh-in-half-inside-unreal/101891/2

[untold summit]

would this pdf allow me to put damage to any part of a mesh with a weapon?

[drowsy snow]

You mean Valve's PDF?

[untold summit]

i guess the right word is predetermined, for example, the cheap way is to make a body part with a value which needs to be hit and then gets destroyed the same way everytime, what i wanna do is slash the mesh and make a mark exactly where i hit it.

[spark heath]

SliceProceduralMesh I don't know if you can. You can try it

@untold summit

[drowsy snow]

Both of them seem to point to your direction, just the latter is applied in more brutal scenario (and also less brutal scenario in CSGO)

[plush yew]

thx, will check

[drowsy snow]

I'll left the actual implementation to yourself, though.

[untold summit]

thats fine 😄 i will do it somehow.

might be onto something here...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIdKxYYQBdw

[untold summit]

thanks.

[plush yew]

would be nice to have that gun as a tool to edit assets and then use them to create buildings 😄

[untold summit]

i love how i just gotta think up the most convoluted, most complicated, most annoying game demo ever.

[spare kernel]

@gritty halo Please use #lounge. What you posted earlier in 4 lines was not needed in this channel.

[gritty halo]

oh I thought this is general

srry

[broken spire]

Actually yeah it seems to be the amount of draw calls, I definitely need a tutorial or something that goes through it efficiently

[tender pecan]

perhaps there are just too many different varieties of meshes, I mean the tool will use instancing to batch similar meshes and materials, so it should be quite efficient at that
but if there are hundreds of different varieties and all are visible for yonkers it could be an issue

maybe try and cull your bushes, grass, shrubs, plants to be not visible after say a few thousand units, and let your trees become billboards after a few thousand more
generally trees you can leave visible for millions of units as you want them visible in the yonder ( as billboards or super low poly in the distance )

Yeah, this is also a good point, your RenderThread in profiler should contain this info (or use Unreal Insights )
But as a quick quick you can stat gpu and it should give ye something
if its shadows it very well should be at the top for example

[broken spire]

Yeah it is set to static, and it is all just rocks

[tender pecan]

😆 well that was unexpected

[broken spire]

x'D Yeah

[sweet jacinth]

hello friends, I added sprite paper 2d in my widget, when I send my project to the phone, the sprites disappear

[tender pecan]

Mebbe run a stat gpu and see. could still be shadows. But its unlikely its overdraw for example.

[steady tree]

Is there a way to start the ,,Game,, from Blueprints or using key combinations as input UE4 recognizes inside a BP

[broken spire]

Sorry how do I run a stat gpu??

it took me so long to google I just thought i would ask here

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/GPU/#livegpuprofiler

stat commands go in the console

[broken spire]

I know where they go they just don't tell you how to bring up the console

[modest trench]

oh, press the tilde key '`'

it's the key above the tab button on the top left

[broken spire]

ahhh yes should have honestly just guessed that lol

I went in and changed every model that had its collision set to 100 changed that to 200 so I guess it's running okay now?

[modest trench]

there are many ways to profile performance

[broken spire]

nvm I forgot to increase the volume back to the size of my map

[modest trench]

btw, when you are done with the stat overlay just type stat none

[broken spire]

thank you

so basepass is high and so is prepass

[modest trench]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ I have no clue about gpu perf stuff

[broken spire]

ohh okay i'll give that a try

[modest trench]

building lighting for a map that huge is going to hurt

worth a try I guess

[broken spire]

yeah thats what I'm saying like the rocks are pretty low like 100-300 in geometry

the larger features are above 1000

yeah exactly

materials are 2k I can try and limit those on the rocks to like 512

[tender pecan]

2K on those pebbles? 😆
That is gonna get mipped and instanced but still.

[hidden bloom]

Hey guys when I hit play to run my char around and get a view from his perspective, it takes me out in the sky somewhere and I cant move around or anything.

[modest trench]

change the auto possess settings of that character BP in the level

[hidden bloom]

?

dont understand new to all this

[misty lynx]

does changing graphics settings require a game restart in order to work?

[modest trench]

for simple stuff like that, no afaik

[modest trench]

the auto possess settings are a property of the character in the level

click on them and type in "possess" in the details search bar

[hidden bloom]

@modest trench I dont see an autoposess

[hidden bloom]

where are you typing that in in the details panel?

[modest trench]

right on top of the properties list

[hidden bloom]

ok i found it I was one search bar higher

[tender pecan]

also, you can run stat fps, stat unit, and stat unitgraph, and stat gpu, there does not seem to be a lot under the stat gpu, i was hoping for a bit more
include stat game too, and then you can play with your cull distance , I see those 2K pebbles are visible for yoinkers in the distance. 😆

[hidden bloom]

so do I change it to 1?

[modest trench]

0

[hidden bloom]

its already at 0

[broken spire]

ahhh fair enough I could definitely cull those tiny rocks too

[modest trench]

is the play option default player start?

[modest trench]

if the pawn is there it should just uh, possess

are you actually playing and not just simulating?

[hidden bloom]

if I simulate it works as first person type thing

[modest trench]

is there a spectator pawn in the world stealing the possess? 🤔

oh well, I gotta go to bed

[hidden bloom]

not that I know of its just the mannikin

[tender pecan]

Alsop check if you have a secondary player start? maybe it is interfering?
you dont have a character up there in the air either?

[hidden bloom]

and me too almost 6 am here lol been up all night trying to fix this dayum thing

[tender pecan]

And your player start is not colliding with anything?

[hidden bloom]

nope just the third person and player start

Ill delete them and drop new ones in maybe will fix

[tender pecan]

And your game mode pawn is correctly set , you can try Current Camera Position, fly up a little and play from there see if you drop in

Try changing it to current camera pos and see what happens

Are there any errors in the log/console after you exit play, or begin play?

maybe you placed your player start within a physics box, or cilliding volume of some kind

it wont like that i can tell you

[hidden bloom]

nope and deleted the 3rd person mannikin and player start dropped in new player start and same thing this is how far away its putting me and i tried the camera thing above player start and it popped me here

[broken spire]

Sorry for all the questions today, but how do you cull something that is far away??

[hidden bloom]

anyways thanks for trying but it 6am here need to get to bed cant think straight lol vacation week so trying to get things acomplished

[tender pecan]

YOu are using procedural foliage right? If so you can set the cull distance in the tool itself under the different foliage types

[tender pecan]

all good. if all else fails, open a new default level,. and just press play, and see what happens

figure out if its your level or your character bp , or game mode for example. cheers. have a good one.

[broken spire]

Ohh I see its in the generic asset edit thing

How far is min/max??

[tender pecan]

so for large boulders/mountains I would go relatively far, maybe even a million or so
fo medium sized rocks I would say maybe 50000
fo scatter rocks, smaller rocks and pebbles, like 5000, mebbe even less

[broken spire]

right so min is how close I need to be? or minimum how far I need to be? It's so confusing lol

[tender pecan]

cull distance, uses almost like a band

so set min to culldistance - a few hundred units

example: min = 45000, max = 5000

it wil start culling from min distance

[broken spire]

so confusing lol

[tender pecan]

i know right

[broken spire]

when I hit enter it defaults max to 45000 xD

[tender pecan]

so make adjustment, then check your stats again

yeah, it depends on min, as max cant be < min

[broken spire]

okay so 5000 min and 45000 max?

[tender pecan]

but but as long as min < max, they can be as small or as large as you want

fo medium sized rocks I would say maybe 50000 (45000 min, 50000max)
fo scatter rocks, smaller rocks and pebbles, like 5000, mebbe even less  (4750 min, 5000 max) 

something like that

[broken spire]

Okay, so I've never understood units in unreal so that's mostly why I'm confused with these numbers lol

[tender pecan]

1 unreal unit = 1 cm

so they say, dont ask me

[broken spire]

ahhh okay

[tender pecan]

😆

i mean i havent measured

[broken spire]

yeah it's always been different

I would set something to 200 and it would be huge, then something else would need to be 20000 to be the same size lmao it's all over the place

just going to set everything thats not "huge" and go from there, but definitely saving these values you pasted to further iterate later today

[fierce tulip]

1 unreal unit = 1cm. correct

[daring cedar]

I'm trying to download free for the month archviz ui in marketplace but it says unavailable

[exotic thicket]

are you using a supported engine version? that might prevent it

[daring cedar]

yea mine is 4.27

[dire sentinel]

why doesn't my spline tool work?
i made it exactly the same as in the video but it just won't work
just sits there and doesn't follow the spline
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632335249954701313/907609513270599751/unknown.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLPTs2vGb08
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632335249954701313/907609662977875988/unknown.png

[light wigeon]

helloo

[broken spire]

okay now my collisions are all messed up my character walks through the mesh, trying to use complex collision but it just shows up as dots

you can kind of see them floating there

[wary ferry]

am i the only one having an issue with unreal 4.27 crashing when trying to delete a folder?

[tender pecan]

Definitely not.
I have constant crashes deleting folders in the content browser, after importing maps, I have to restart coz I know its gonna crash

[hollow moat]

My level has dissapeared

Is there anywhere I can try recover it?

[tender pecan]

uhm, your level contents, or your actual map file is no longer on disk/in the content browser?
I can help you find a map via the content browser, but if you deleted all content from a level, and hit save its perma gone

[hollow moat]

I saved my level, then closed the project, I started it up again today and it's not there anymore

[tender pecan]

the map file as in the file on disk/map is missing from content browser?

[hollow moat]

Yes it's completely gone lol

So weird

[tender pecan]

ok, try this

[warped tangle]

go to the top level of your content, and filter maps only. Make sure it's not just in the wrong place

[hollow moat]

Tried that

[tender pecan]

and make sure you are on the root folder

[hollow moat]

It's gone 😄

It's cool - only was an hours work, I can redo it

[tender pecan]

you sure you saved it b4 you closed the editor?

i have been using ue since 2015, and I have never had it delete a single asset that I can remember, shite, ir is it 2013?... i cant remember... lul

also check in explorer (whatever OS ) maybe the file got moved to somewhere outside the content folder accidentally, it happens

[rancid jay]

Anyone knows what can cause your animation skeletal bones change height location during animation being played?

[tender pecan]

you still not found any answers? root motion can do that, but just basically animation can do that too, sometimes if you get shitty animation, they also include translation on the bones, where usually you never want translation (except in the root if you use root motion for example)

[warped tangle]

You need to be more precise, is a single particular bone physically moving during the animation, or is the ENTIRE heirarchy moving at the begging and throughout the animation a certain amount

[rancid jay]

Entire hierarchy. The moment animation stops and goes back to the idle state, the whole hierarchy moves back to the same location at the beginning (the one has no animation played)

[warped tangle]

a video would help, but sounds like root motion

[rancid jay]

I checked whole anim editor, all is default 0,0,0 translation

My PC is too old to run anymore software after opening UE. UE is just too heavy already. Sad

[warped tangle]

where did you get this animation

[rancid jay]

I got it from the marketplace on sales long ago. So, i decided to learn about it but stuck for days

I did tried previously as well, but decided to stop since i am clueless. This time again, i re-try

[warped tangle]

without seeing a video it's hard to tell. If it's a simple issue of the animation being something like 20 units high, so it's popping up then down, you can always add an offset and re-import

[rancid jay]

Sorry. How to add an offset? Is it export out to Blender or something?

[warped tangle]

nah can be done in editor. I don't remember exactly where it is but it's in the anim asset window

you may not be able to reimport since it's a marketplace asset however, so you may need to export the animation, then re-import using that

[rancid jay]

Strange. Was sure i clicked every "Location" or "Translation" to test out. It does not seem to affect the skeletal's location during animation.

[warped tangle]

it's a hacky workaround but may work, just depends on what the issue actually is

You could also add an offset in an anim bp. There are a few ways to go about in-editor offsets

[amber shuttle]

😏

[rancid jay]

Will test it out and look at everything all over again. Thank you for trying to help.

[wary ferry]

oof ok

will handle with care i guess

no more hardcore moves for me xD

are you using git kraken by any chance? thats the only new thing that changed for me since moving to 4.27

[trim mantle]

Burn it

[lucid grove]

What could be the reason that Play Anim Montage not firing? It works only with some random chance. I just restarted scene 10 times and it fired only 3 times.

I mean its firing, character just doesnt play animation.

All input data is correct

Breakpoint telling all is fine

[trim mantle]

@lucid grove Anim Slots?

[lucid grove]

Sure, it wouldn't fire without it.

Its working in 3 starts of 10

Nothing else triggers montage

[trim mantle]

Maybe you have something else playing over it

[lucid grove]

Nothing that am aware of

[plush yew]

Can't get these stairs right, they are from Classical Mansion pack. Could it be that those are just bad assets and don't match? They are not used in demo project, so can't get example. Maybe there's a way to fix them manually? Tried changing size, but still nothing.

[neon bough]

have you tried rotating the rail?

that asset pack really reminds me of some tomb rider mansion

[hollow cairn]

uhm help?

it says those bones are missing but i didn't want them anyway, will thee other bones be present?

[plush yew]

yeah, kinda works, but looks messy

i wanna make spiral stairs going up to the sky in level, but you kinda need floor after stair ends