ue4-general

[plush yew]

at least rice and beans in the mini pressure cooker

all i wanted for some time, was to have the mindset of living of a bike and mountaineering

[untold summit]

thats what i am here for man, why is the chat so toxic all of a sudden.

[plush yew]

then i realized that my solo style would kill me at some near or distant future

[untold summit]

its a disease, its called toxic positivity and i couldnt be more happy about it.

[reef lotus]

I do agree, it's important to know which ideas are worth putting effort into and which are not

[reef lotus]

this is what you don't understand. we're not being toxic, we're giving you legit advice but it doesn't go along with your idea of just willpowering success

you can't willpower success really

[plush yew]

because the withdraw of such a great enthusiasm MAY be hard on you

[reef lotus]

it has to be a combination of correct ideas and effort

[untold summit]

but i can willpower results, which is what i am doing.

[reef lotus]

yes that is generally the idea I was trying to say

[untold summit]

again, if people do make it then id be happy, either i make it or someone else does, i dont care.

[plush yew]

there is a word in Portuguese that is used when you have big confidence and certain on your ideas; it translate to arrogance in English but is not in a uneducated feeling it has

[reef lotus]

the thing is zinox many people think like you, that they will create this game and everyone will love it but then reality hits them hard when they realize how much work it is

[plush yew]

it it basically a way to let someone being called arrogant but have the duality of interpreting it as a good sign or as a bad one

no it is not

prepotência

is the word

but it just do not translate

[untold summit]

i know it will make me bleed, not my first time, not the last one either, i will break and tear, burnout and probably lose a few hairs.

[reef lotus]

interesting if I break down the parts of the word it means "pre-potential"

[plush yew]

i am yet to hear someone using in a positive context, it happened once

[untold summit]

its how it is, putting my soul into everything i do is in my nature.

[reef lotus]

I understand this fearless attitude but I'm saying that you might do well to temper it

[plush yew]

and do you think you have the soul that everyone will like?

dripping blood out of your gut does not mean much in today standards

[reef lotus]

it does seem to have a manic nature

[plush yew]

@untold summit just take it as a point of view, a negative one, and work with it

do not fight as you are not the first one with THE IDEA

[reef lotus]

once again, we're not trying to shit on you, we're trying to tell you what we think is the best mindset you should have to make sure you are productive and reasonable

[plush yew]

go watch some GDC videos and you will hear everyone starting with "I thought I had the best idea ..."

[untold summit]

its a tool to be used.

[drowsy snow]

Anyways.

m_SimpleVolumetricClouds is harder to reproduce than I thought.
The whole color spreading throughout still doesn't make sense to me

[plush yew]

uhhh, you follow these guidelines! https://github.com/Allar/ue5-style-guide

[reef lotus]

honestly tho, i'd take his exuberance over being passive and giving up tho

[untold summit]

of course some people wont like it, thats a given, but from seeing my edit, i can tell that the majority of people like the ideas i have.

[reef lotus]

my 1 bit of advice is don't be afraid to ask people for help with technical problems as well

[drowsy snow]

What? That's how the material named out of the box, in EngineSky.
I have my own naming conventions, though mainly from commonly accepted one.

[plush yew]

i had some dumb ones like: bot_Iko_material_mouth_opening

[untold summit]

thats what i am here for! 😄

[plush yew]

then evoluted to iko_mouthOpening

then i added the T_

without uppercase as i waste a shift press

[drowsy snow]

And I still found conflicting prefixes and suffixes over that guide.

[plush yew]

I swallowed it nicely, as game dev. was my first contact with code and i had doubts about how to organize folders etc.

plus the entry tutorials on unreal learn are awesome, btw

[untold summit]

the edit was made for the same reason, it didnt exist even tho i think it should have, this is no different

[plush yew]

doc my progress was fun but so inefficient

i really need to release the next gta fruit collector

[reef lotus]

to give my honest opinion, if it took you 6 months to edit that, I can't imagine how long it would take you to make a game. This is why I said don't be afraid to ask for help

[untold summit]

you edit aswell?

[reef lotus]

yes I have in the past and recently had to for my trailer for my game

[untold summit]

curious, wanna see it 😄

[reef lotus]

i linked it earlier i will find it again

https://youtu.be/fMfLoTnTKIw

this took me 2 days, tbf it's very short

and i didn't do that much work on it

as hips said earlier, i think it's best to work smart, not hard, if it took 6 months to edit that video, perhaps you weren't working in an effecient way

[untold summit]

two days seems long for that vid imo.

[reef lotus]

i mean you took 6 months for a video with changing health bars

[untold summit]

true, i was doing it for the first time, had to troubleshoot alot of stuff.

[untold summit]

i challenge you then mate, top my time, i would enjoy watching more quality hp content, theres literally no high quality out there.

realisticly its more 3-4 due to burnouts, but yea.

[drowsy snow]

Check for the codes to see if they lost the UPROPERTY flags, and try recompiling.

[untold summit]

unlike the edit i did, from my learning time to how long it takes to implement each feature, yes i did.

no way, i just jumped into it head first, i just worked till it was done, i was proud of it.

[drowsy snow]

Well, you said you're rolling back the commits, right? Maybe some changes got carried away.

[reef lotus]

what we're saying is that is not the best way to do things. If you had a more tempered attitude you could see alternative soltuions but you seem to have blinders on in a way

yes

thats true

[drowsy snow]

Either way, restore the UPROPERTY flags manually, compile, and if it works, commit it again.
This really going without full context on the commit itself.

[reef lotus]

perhaps I made that assumption

[untold summit]

Those two months taught me more than if i went about doing it effectively.

so i dont mind

[drowsy snow]

Again, not knowing the full context on the commit itself.
Might be unstaged changes lost from the undo commit, might be the offending commit itself.

[untold summit]

i always learn through brute force and hitting brick walls.

[plush yew]

sorry I had to

[odd wyvern]

looks like it might be unstaged changes, though I have no idea how they weren't staged and committed, going to see if that's the issue.

[reef lotus]

i read his whole book

[reef lotus]

you have to be in the right place mentally to understand his ideas.

[plush yew]

if i read philosophy, i would go mad

[reef lotus]

well yeah that's basically me

[plush yew]

i remember ticking with Nietzsche in my 18 and going a path that made me regret some bits of today

[reef lotus]

nietzsche is pretty hardcore

schopenhaur is even more nuts

[plush yew]

oh gosh, i felled in love with the concept of being a uberman

[reef lotus]

yessss

[untold summit]

btw

[reef lotus]

even when your ankle is broken?

[untold summit]

even while burning out, i was still thinking of the edit, how to improve it, thats how i got out of that state.

itll work out 😄

[reef lotus]

bruh

[untold summit]

it will eventually, if it takes longer then so be it.

[plush yew]

yeah, that is the mentality

but do not charge yourself badly, as it probably will feel like, sometime

0. the worst case is a unexperienced solo dev. planning a deadline

[reef lotus]

i just feel like having a blinded attitude of positivity is a bad way to do things, it will make certain bad things that could happen invisible to you. maybe i'm just damaged tho lol

[plush yew]

i had a friend that always ranted good vibes people

i loved him

[reef lotus]

i think it depends on if you're trying to accomplish something specific or not

if you're just chilling with friiends, hell yeah good vibes

but if you're trying to get something done, good vibes won't neccecarily get everything done

but ya know i could be wrong as well

[plush yew]

human psychology is complex

may it work for some, may not for Y

actually i identify as Zinox

[reef lotus]

yes i agree

[plush yew]

my dream is finish my game, release it as freeware or open-source and ask for donations

people rant about my idea

but otherwise i will move my shit to an office and just forget this as full time bit

[untold summit]

😏

[reef lotus]

i'm not that noble, my game took so long, i need money lol

[plush yew]

i can get dirt cheap

[reef lotus]

yes money will help my game get bigger too

[plush yew]

i remember some months period where i eat soybeans and multi vitamin while bicyle couriering for getting money for a trip

not ideal in long term

but it was fun

https://tenor.com/view/riding-a-bike-viralhog-tiny-bike-cycling-bike-tricks-gif-17521550

[reef lotus]

i agree so many people told me to go f2p, but it just doesn;t make sense it will die without gaurenteed money

[plush yew]

i hope people like my pace, adjusted over the years, but do not expect big releases everytime

if it is to work like a horse following the demand of society, i will be work on food chain production

[reef lotus]

yes i plan to go f2p later

but to start it needs some garuneteed income in my opinion

[plush yew]

oh no! enough of gambling mechanics

[reef lotus]

yes, but my game wouldn't really have DLC, definitely will be cosmetics, but I want to see that the game has a leg to stand on 1st

you know what i mean?

[plush yew]

league of legends is a mild good example of free-to-play

[reef lotus]

like right now I'm not that good at art

so i want to get some income to hire an artist to redo everything

it's not mible luckly

[plush yew]

takes too long to get newer champions

they have bricks of money but still do not have a balanced system and they release champions every once in a while

[reef lotus]

want mine? lol

[plush yew]

Dota 2 is a fantastic example

[reef lotus]

lol stfu hips

XD

[plush yew]

do you have a root bone?

[reef lotus]

he was making a reference to something else

doesn't have to do with you

honestly if u wanted, i could send my rig, as an example or if u wanted u could just use it

it has basic animations like idle, run sprint cycles in all directions

and jump etc

[plush yew]

https://www.mixamo.com/ does it helps?

[reef lotus]

i went through the same process a few years ago, if u want to save some time, you can use mine I set it up to be usuable across multiple projects

[plush yew]

here * https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&type=Motion%2CMotionPack

[reef lotus]

eh mixamo is bad practice in my opinion

it has so many limitations

[plush yew]

my characters have 3 bones and one of it is a root

[drowsy snow]

For one thing, the rig is terrible.

[reef lotus]

lol, i mean it works

[reef lotus]

is it perfect? no probably not, is it terrible, no definitely not

[plush yew]

well people from up above did not recommended, I thought it was fine but never used

but you can create a free account, as far as I know

[untold summit]

That's why attempting to make it good enough before doing funding is important.

[drowsy snow]

It's free, no need to be Adobe's tier 3 sub

[reef lotus]

it does what it's supposed to do so idk i guess if you're an expert you could consider it terrible by some measures but if it does what it's designed to do, how can it be terrible?

[drowsy snow]

It's good for prototyping, I give them that.

[plush yew]

adobe < GNU

[reef lotus]

it's very basic i will agree

[drowsy snow]

Screw GPL in particular

[untold summit]

If what you already have is good, it's bound to get results, trying to use money as a means to make it good is bad strategy.

[reef lotus]

even this rig that @plush yew seems more advanced than mine actually

[reef lotus]

depends on what it is

[plush yew]

why?

[reef lotus]

i mean the one i use works

you could take it and export it as fbx

[drowsy snow]

I prefer more permissive MIT, zlib, or BSD licence.

[reef lotus]

into unreal and it will work

[untold summit]

You won't get crowdfunded with a text block :D

[reef lotus]

@plush yew

[drowsy snow]

GPL is like a midas touch, except everything it touches has to be open source.

[reef lotus]

yes if anything you can just use it as an example

[drowsy snow]

GPL conflicts with Unreal Engine licencing clause, which means any Unreal project is prohibited to be licensed under GPL.

[reef lotus]

i mean it does happen

[plush yew]

and you can make them go better in sales than other more capable products

i got fascinated by marketing in college

then i quit

[plush yew]

it feels fair, no?

[drowsy snow]

I thought not.

[untold summit]

God that fucking guy pisses me off, such a good game and he dudhshshehahsh

[drowsy snow]

cough Yandere Simulator

[plush yew]

i think it is, is big stuff to let someone just take it and make money

[reef lotus]

wth is this anime shit

[drowsy snow]

I think I figured out why my clouds colour looked so unbalanced. Seems like the extinction value affected by the shadow maps.

[reef lotus]

so pretty

yes you can use that however you want to

idk if it will fit tho

and if you changed the skeleton, it would mess up the animations

if you're ok with that tho, you could just edit the skeleton to fit your model, then redo the animations

[plush yew]

yeah im very confused again, because i think i got it to work because i selected replace skeletal mesh with the UE4 one

[reef lotus]

oh yours is working now?

[drowsy snow]

Well, could be prettier if I'm able to figure out how to balance the colour throughout.
The built in material is just so hard to reverse engineer. I can't make sense where the balanced extinction came from.

[plush yew]

no yours but also not like i see in tutorials

I wanted to show you but UE4 crashed

I'm gonna talk a walk

[reef lotus]

oof

[untold summit]

Be more specific please.

[reef lotus]

fair enough. enjoy it

[reef lotus]

what needs to be more specific? if you have money you can hire someone who knows what they're doing to do whatever you want them to

I'm not saying money will fix everything

but it can help a lot

[plush yew]

¬(o_o)¬ § 'moneeey'

oh yeh, under the industry that makes more money than films

game dev. is pure money rolling in and out

billionaire stuff

[reef lotus]

well capitalism does suck in some ways

[plush yew]

indie people investing 10,000 euros in stuff

[untold summit]

Were talking money here, those experts obviously do what makes the most amount of money, but this would inherently mean restrictions on the game, strictly talking about financial experts here, i dont need to be an expert to know that some things inside the game are simply not time efficient.

[reef lotus]

don't hire a CEO, hire a programmer

or artist

if u hire a ceo, he will try to make the most money

if u hire a programmer or an arist, they will work on the game itself

i'm not saying you need to do those things

[untold summit]

Which is what I'll do, i value the game over efficiently making cash.

[reef lotus]

but having money can help you finish whatever you product you want to make

[plush yew]

i think if you are proposing love under bricky conditions and then chat about money with the same ferocity, and you are a indie, there is something wrong

we should do GPL stuff

[reef lotus]

are you talking to me lutriq or zinox?

[plush yew]

raise hand etc.

zinox

and you why not

[reef lotus]

lol

[plush yew]

make your game open-source

please

[reef lotus]

why?

[plush yew]

just pricking

[reef lotus]

oh i see lol

honestly if I felt my game could be succesful with it, I would make it open source f2p

[plush yew]

idk how a open-source game can work out

[reef lotus]

well idk yeah whatever

[plush yew]

anyone can join in

[reef lotus]

people have asked me to make the code publically available

[plush yew]

feels strange

[reef lotus]

yeah

[plush yew]

i do not think this is a problem

i mean, just do not expect big money

[exotic thicket]

usually opensource software is monetized through support contracts or business specific development of new features and such... hard to say how that would work in games

[plush yew]

there is some open-source games that are floating around

factorio i think it is a recent one

[exotic thicket]

I don't think it's opensource

[reef lotus]

i mean it's doable just like a software would be, but probably harder to monetize i would think

[exotic thicket]

yeah, you could open the base game and then develop additional content/features which are available via payment - so the base game is kinda like a demo in a sense

[reef lotus]

roblox XD

[plush yew]

just opening the source does not make much sense

[reef lotus]

roblox is actually probably a perfect example of that

didn't they just release the API?

[plush yew]

it should, at least, conflux with it

but then you can make player create assets without open-sourcing

who knows, that art paid with bitcoin is raising

maybe i will have some kids to model my low poly trees after i take a big slice of the market

with my gta fruit collector

[exotic thicket]

lol

[plush yew]

why only one is laughing

i typed a joke

[reef lotus]

i was dming someone else

JHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[plush yew]

oh thanks

my ego is such a balloon

[reef lotus]

🎈

POP

[plush yew]

i float

[reef lotus]

anyways i should actually get some work donme

[plush yew]

yeah me too

[reef lotus]

cya around good chat everyone

[plush yew]

i feel like behind the racers that started this morning and did not used discord

at least i am mildly happy

[reef lotus]

it's only 7 am for me here

[plush yew]

9:52

[reef lotus]

ah east coast?

[plush yew]

i did not slept so i will take a break

[reef lotus]

or wait is that am or pm?

[plush yew]

idk about timelines

AM

south america

[reef lotus]

ah i see nice

[drowsy snow]

And... eureka.

Multi scattering is the key, and I found it.

[reef lotus]

frames are good?

[drowsy snow]

Frame times aren't bad, just shy of 1ms in low end GPU, from 0.8 or something

I'm sure base PS4 would still able to blitz through it in 60 FPS.

[reef lotus]

that's good

would u sell the code for it ever?

or whatever you would call it i guess don't know if code is the right word

people have asked me to add a weather system to my game

i would want something light, no plugins

or at least other weather types i should say

not neccecairly changing weather system

[drowsy snow]

Reducing the view sample count bring it back down to 0.8 ms.
I'll make a free write up about it, somewhere in Medium or maybe ArtStation, the foundations for high performance volumetric clouds.

[reef lotus]

nice i'll have to check it out

[untold summit]

Dont get me wrong, i love getting paid(auto correct said laid) just as much as the next guy, but if what i do for that money is less that solid id rather do it over before accepting the pay.

Especially something that represents my passion and everything i stand for.

If the exchange is mutual i agree.

Equal exchange my bad

Wait i think that was misinterpreted :D

I mean, i wanna get paid for the enjoyment factor of my game, not the salepitch or nice banners or fake ads

[last topaz]

Hello, does anyone have the issue in 4.27 that grass won't spawn on the landscape?

Seems to happen almost exclusively in this version.

I tried grass.flushcache/PIE

It worked a few times early on when i was building the scene but now its broken :/

[blissful wharf]

what stat command do i have to call to see vertex/triangle draw count in play mode?

[reef lotus]

I don't like it that much either, but since I am releasing a game soon, I basically have to also be a salesman

[drowsy snow]

stat scenerendering I think

[untold summit]

it is possible, simply by allowing demo play, this gives an impression towards the game, if the customer values the product he will purchase it.

[exotic thicket]

There is some kind of a weird assumption with a lot of folks that marketing and sales pitches are bad

Nothing wrong with those if you're not misrepresenting your product

[untold summit]

if done right yes, but have you noticed the FUCKING AMOUNT OF FAKE ADS?

holy shit

[exotic thicket]

Well yeah such is the world, not everyone has enough morals lol

[untold summit]

i like to call it basic human etiquette.

[exotic thicket]

if calling people who make fake ads lacking in basic human etiquette is condescending then so be it - doesn't make it any less of a valid point

[drowsy snow]

I think it's safe to say mobile games are less likely to be held accountable as there's no money loss on consumer side when they didn't get what it advertised.

[exotic thicket]

well if you think lying is acceptable then ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not sure what the point you're making is then if you're not suggesting that fake ads are ok and not bad

an ad which misrepresents the product

for example an ad which suggests a product has a feature which it does not have

[drowsy snow]

For a minute, I thought this is fucking #lounge as opposed to Unreal Engine related channel, but who am I to boss around.

[exotic thicket]

depends on how accurate it is to actual gameplay, and whether the ad suggests it is actual gameplay footage

if it looks significantly different than actual gameplay, and it doesn't state so, then it's once again misrepresenting the product

How am I supposed to know?

Honestly I don't know why I need to define the word "fake" to you when it's pretty obvious what it means when someone says "fake ad" and "misrepresentation"

Then we clearly don't disagree

[neon bough]

now kiss

same for browser games

yea

[exotic thicket]

Well you already said that my example would be illegal in most countries, so you clearly agree that it's morally questionable to lie, therefore fake ads are bad

There's no further argument here

:P

[neon bough]

boobs

[drowsy snow]

That's basically every Chinese anime mobage ever.

[untold summit]

i despise those the most.

[neon bough]

literary, or the sites that use that tactic?

[untold summit]

in most games its a cock tease

[drowsy snow]

looks at my big boobs female protagonists
😂

[untold summit]

and yes i mean in games

[reef lotus]

such a lively debate in this channel oh boy

[drowsy snow]

(well, it's B87, so relatively big, but not gigantic)

[neon bough]

we may move to lounge?!

[reef lotus]

sounds very debate lordy if u ask me kekw

[untold summit]

dodging>parrying

https://tenor.com/view/dark-souls-roll-confuse-gif-11695636

[reef lotus]

this isnt an issue with games this is people. going with the lowest common denominator is used by many businesses

[untold summit]

i see this as an issue because its there for the looks, if it had an actual purpose id say it deserves a green light.

heh

this brings back the shitty memories of CB2077, they added a dick for both genders just for the sake of having it, IF you could at least get more romancing options as the oposite gender itd at least be a little more reasonable.

https://tenor.com/view/leave-groupchat-where-funny-johnnydep-gif-9554949

[drowsy snow]

Redirect to #lounge ? Euughh, nasty.

Or so they thought, it seem.

[untold summit]

ive thought about what makes a game fun to play, conclusion was purpose, purpose, giving the player purpose, i need to remind myself of that everyday now, fun while doing what comes natural.

giving a reason to the player without forcing it, that is the ideal state.

no idea what i am trying to say

but i think it might lead to something interesting.

[drowsy snow]

Then what's the purpose of speedrunning, or getting a high score that's never going to be published?

[untold summit]

clicking the stuff to hear the pop sounds that sound satisfying.

[untold summit]

self satisfaction, the ultimate purpose.

[drowsy snow]

The same can't be said with Bejeweled (ignoring that piece of shit Bejeweled Stars)

(It's a shame that PopCap practically dies in the hand of EA, and I still mourning on it, but I digress)

[untold summit]

i believe it is more than that.

[plush yew]

@reef lotus Sorry to bother again. But do i Select a skeleton in the import options?

[reef lotus]

no do not select a skeleton

[drowsy snow]

Well, PopCap's games used to have a personal attachment to me. It's what led me into modding, and eventually game dev.

[reef lotus]

it should work like that I believe

[plush yew]

Okay thank you

[untold summit]

its quite difficult to think rn ngl.

i am so past bedtime.

[reef lotus]

if that doesn't work, it could be your export settings from blender

[drowsy snow]

Doom is the second place in my modding history.

[untold summit]

yea, usual routine

nothing new

the irony btw 😄

i am so dead tired.

[drowsy snow]

Screw EA in particular, for killing my childhood game dev hero.

[untold summit]

Yea....

[prime willow]

i dont know what the debate was about

but if it involves sexy characters

pls include them

if people get mad

at an orge option

for people who hate pretty so viciously

[untold summit]

sometimes when i am in this state things pop into my head, then i sleep on them and analyze them afterwards.

[prime willow]

but dont make everyone play for a character that looks like it got taken to a back alley and beaten with an ugly stick

[untold summit]

its not about that

[drowsy snow]

Yes. Nala is one of my sexiest protagonist.

[prime willow]

o-o yes hoodie

make sure to give her dah "goood" outfits~

granted im going to up my sexualization in my game

[untold summit]

...

.........

[prime willow]

apparently im no where close to my level of pretty that i wanted

[drowsy snow]

Also some real-time (fake) physics.

[prime willow]

i guess thats my fault for never really doing anything lewd in my life xD

yes yes

make sure to add tummy wiggle too

thigh wiggle

and the basic wiggles :3

dont discriminate either make the dudes hot as fluff :33333333333

[untold summit]

i kinda hesitate on making those sexual characters, because of the rpg element id have to add "other" features aswell.

[prime willow]

no no

[untold summit]

id have to, my brain is forcing me 😄

[prime willow]

sexy doesnt mean putting the train entering a subway part

[drowsy snow]

Well, I won't include the muscular jiggle, it's already complex as it is with the hairs.

[prime willow]

it jsut means that the characters look so good you think there no way you could land a perosn like that in real life ever

[untold summit]

i lucid dream during sleep, i am very familiar with the process, being heavily sleep deprived actually helps with entering rem faster.

not healthy, not saying that.

[drowsy snow]

One could add a lewd speedrun category where the goal is to go glitchless without any armour whatsoever.

[prime willow]

and for people who have legitimate fear or panic attacks at seeing pretty things you can add the standard triple A beaten with an ugly stick varianation :3

[exotic thicket]

well unless you're making a fantasy harem game I'm not sure having all characters look boy band perfect makes a whole lotta sense

[prime willow]

pfft

sexy isnt just boy band

my lord and savior juggernaut is no where near pretty band boy

[exotic thicket]

it's just an example :p

[prime willow]

but you bet your manhood hes sexy asf

[untold summit]

its not passing on sleep, its just one of those days, so i might aswell make it worth it.

[drowsy snow]

Well, I do have a lot of hot dude references from Idolmaster Side M

[prime willow]

you mean to tell me this guy isnt sexy in comparsion to noodle arm boys

https://tenor.com/view/flex-im-strong-jawsh-thin-man-muscles-gif-17294601

[untold summit]

i can sleep-in i have no issues with that, ill just sleep longer.

[exotic thicket]

I'm not gonna judge anyone's tastes in juggernauts or noodle arm boys for that matter ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[drowsy snow]

Which, honestly, as @exotic thicket said, referencing Im@s side M for the dudes design could make them look like boy band...

[prime willow]

sexy comes in all shapes and forms people just conflate sexy with looking like a prison toy if you end up there or balloon boob inflated woman

[untold summit]

not to metion, in days like these its hard to fall asleep because i am very inspired.

ill let it race and ill utilize it after i wake up.

[prime willow]

monke will do what monke does and excuse it with jank rationlity

[drowsy snow]

But at the same time my game's design kinda revolves around making fun of anime stereotypes, so I think it's justified enough. :3

[prime willow]

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

[prime willow]

im going for something combat wise between early naruto episodes with characters that look like early 80's 90's marvel comics

[untold summit]

no man, you dont get it, days like these is where i am at my most creative.

[prime willow]

than put it to work :3

no time like the morrow

[drowsy snow]

I don't know, maybe the fact that I never read marvel comics, but I relate to contemporary anime characters more.

[untold summit]

not that either, its ideas floating inside my head, which ill work on once i am rational again.

[prime willow]

well did you ever watch yu yu hakusho my actual literal daddy

https://tenor.com/view/yusuke-urameshi-yusuke-ghost-fighter-did-you-feel-firm-it-looks-like-gif-16570439

[drowsy snow]

I watched it a while ago, though memory's been real hazy on that one.

[untold summit]

those ideas would never exist if i was sleeping right now.

[prime willow]

did you ever watch early naruto before the orochimaru vs hokage episodes

[untold summit]

those only came about because i am here right now.

[prime willow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMKml4lefOc im making something akin to this

combat wise

very good video thoroughly explians how to make something amazing and instantly fluff it harder than conceivable

[untold summit]

if that means i get to make the game better then so be it, i can relax when i cant move a muscle as an old fart, hopefully ill die in my glory days.

[drowsy snow]

I guess it would work for stuff like open world but don't have post-credit free roaming.

[prime willow]

post credit free roaming?

If you lend them a hand and they refuse leave them to their own devices~

oh hoodie!

[drowsy snow]

I think it's similar to how FF15 made a point of no return, and the only way to free roam is to go back in time or start a new game +

[prime willow]

important uquestion

[untold summit]

to me it is, i dont see how its not worth it, the video turned out great and was sucessful.

[prime willow]

its sort of silly but i need to know before i go too far lol

ill pm you

[prime willow]

also idk i just kind of want my game world to be akin to old zelda games on the nes

with dungeons scattered around

open world

with villages and monsters all around

[untold summit]

what are you trying to get at here, ive done the best i could at the time.

[prime willow]

with the short main storyline happening around the map overall to give you an overview of the world youre in before letting you go to freely play and do what you want until yure done with story regardless of whic hangle you take it or go for glory with ranking

@drowsy snow ^

[drowsy snow]

Sure thing.

[untold summit]

okay dude, now thats just dissing, if it is indeed that simple then surely you could show me that? saying its simple means you have past experiences of some sort, otherwise theres no way to validate that its simple.

explain what isnt 😄

i can actually

listen§

being up late like i am right now indeed makes the game better in the long run, due to the things i come up in this state.

[reef lotus]

dude i didn't want to chime in, but you are 3 weeks in you have no idea what the road hold for you

like no offense but how do you know what makes the game better in the long run?

you're 3 weeks in

tbh i feel like you're in a manic episode

you could row harder than anyone else ever could, but if you're not rowing in the right direction, it's useless

[untold summit]

some days its much harder to make content than others, if i dont make the most out of the days where i am totally on fire then its a waste, that leads to burnout sometimes.

[exotic thicket]

the key to success is to learn to be productive every day

[reef lotus]

i understand harvesting bursts of inspiration, but i just feel like you're way ahead of yourself

like you need to take things slowly

[exotic thicket]

there's some kind of a myth that productivity / motivation / creativity is something you have on some days and you don't on other days

when in actuality you can practice it

[reef lotus]

some would say that's the difference between motivation and discipline

[exotic thicket]

perhaps

[untold summit]

you couldnt motivate me to watch paint dry even if you held a gun to my head.

[exotic thicket]

yeah pick the most extreme example :D

[untold summit]

i am an extremist, cant expect anything else lmao.

[exotic thicket]

I kinda understand where you're coming from

[untold summit]

101% or 0%

[exotic thicket]

I used to stay up late a lot and I'd often feel quite creative at night

but I get good ideas while in the shower or while taking walks, I don't need to stay up night and feel shit later for it

[reef lotus]

zinox i would admire your balls to the wall attitude if you had some discretion to compliment it.

[drowsy snow]

So, should the clouds be generated from a 2D fluid sim? I'm still conflicted about this tbh.
The idea would be 2D fluid sim for ambient, world scale wind, combined with localised 3D fluid sim for wind near the player.

[reef lotus]

like look right, let's take a game for example really any

that's competitive

if u just spam attacks and say "I GO 100% ALWAYS"

you will get killed so much

in LoL for example

[untold summit]

this is relative, i can go 100% all the time while sitting behind my minions in league lmao.

thinking of ways to get their asses.

[reef lotus]

ok but I'm just not sure that you're thinking about this game development in the same way

[drowsy snow]

...I think I should've asked that on #graphics.

Continue your fun, lads.

[untold summit]

sorry man, imma stop soon 😄

[reef lotus]

lol yeah this chat has been kinda odd for the past few hours

[drowsy snow]

No, no, no. I don't mean to interrupt, I don't have the privilege.

[reef lotus]

im putting off doing translations

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow sorry about the delay

i went to draw a quick sketch to show you

[untold summit]

its uh..like silent rage i guess? you can still have your blood boiling even while keeping calm and collected.

[reef lotus]

i mean that's kind of opposite things isn't it?

like idk if u really can

anyways i've tried to express how I think this temperment is not best long term, but you will do what you want.

i'm gonna hide discord for no more distractions

[untold summit]

gl mate.

i am trying to keep it in check with the features, keeping it small, with a somewhat complex system.

again, the edit worked out great.

i am disregarding health here, i am talking about the video itself.

those two months wouldnt have changed how the video looks, i would simply end it sooner, MAYBE i could have saved time, but who cares?

editting is a hobby, i never said i do it as a job.

[plush yew]

Hello, sorry to interrupt. But is there a way to make a MediaTexture play a video while i play back my sequence in the Sequencer? It only plays when i Simulate/Play the game. But im trying to make a video.

[untold summit]

yea i am not following, i cared for the edit, i simply valued making it more over being efficient.

[drowsy snow]

Well, I won't interrupt their fun. Can you ask somewhere else, maybe in #cinematics ?

[untold summit]

youre talking about achieving more in a shorter amount of time by making a plan, i like to wing it.

[exotic thicket]

winging it works for some things but if you ever start a longer project it kinda stops working :)

[untold summit]

yea i noticed that, i did make bullets points, it got metioned looooong ago in this post.

-fluid movement
-free-style FPP/TPP battle system
-collisions
-physics
-1v1duel
-sound effects
-Proper mesh for both actors

[drowsy snow]

Petition to temporarily rename #ue4-general channel to #hips-vs-zinox-fight-club
I pity those who deterred from asking questions due to this whole shebang

I've seen a few of "new" names typing, but seem to shelved their question.

[exotic thicket]

maybe find the proper channel for your question
I wonder which part of the current conversation on this channel actually has anything to do with the topic of this channel

[drowsy snow]

Don't worry, m'lord. I comply to you by writing about this on #server-feedback

[exotic thicket]

#lounge is the general channel here

this is general Unreal Engine related conversations

[drowsy snow]

Even though we legitimately had #lounge for general channel, but I digress.

[untold summit]

i can still care for my product while having fun with it, inefficient work flow doesnt directly relate to a bad product, it simply means the product may take longer to achieve the same result as if done in an effective and pre planned manner.

[drowsy snow]

It's no use, sadly.

I think I see 4 or so people got deterred from asking UE related question.

[exotic thicket]

Tbh I really don't know what point hips is trying to make at this point other than mocking Zinox :P

[untold summit]

which is fine, ill make my shit and then prove him wrong anyway.

not that proving achieves anything, but its whats gonna happen.

[drowsy snow]

We're just a disturbance to them at this point.
I'm honestly this close to summon the mods to break the ice.

[untold summit]

great!

yknow what is shitty tho? it feels like league, if you do good nobody says anything, but if you fuck up, oooh boy-

[exotic thicket]

what was the video you were talking about anyway? did you post it somewhere

[untold summit]

yea i did

hold on

[untold summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAHYK0oIl1g&t=18s

[exotic thicket]

it is very dragonball lol

[untold summit]

yeaaa 😄

[untold summit]

reason why this exists? because the next best thing is made in notepad or somethin.

[drowsy snow]

What's with this video in particular that spawn such a fustercluck?

ELIB (explain like I'm boomer)

[untold summit]

apparently its very basic.

[untold summit]

i also dont wanna argue anymore so yea.

[drowsy snow]

@plush yew Honest: which part of the video do you found so offensive?

[untold summit]

dude stop, go to lounge.

[drowsy snow]

You both attacking me in union, so mission accomplished.
Now I say "going back to the usual programme".

[untold summit]

https://tenor.com/view/nah-im-good-sip-beer-passive-aggressive-actually-mad-im-not-mad-gif-14517395

[prime willow]

if any bik brain people are free to join me in feedback and support id appreciate the help dismantling two functions from each other ❤️

[untold summit]

yoo where is that? my blind ass doesnt see anything.

[untold summit]

that sounds useful.

[prime willow]

o.o

feedback and support

its a voice chat channel

im trying to pull my vertical wall run from my ledge grab and mantle

[drowsy snow]

I'm blitzing there.
(just hope that I could stream anything from your screen...)

[prime willow]

since they use seperate vectors

what?

oh hi

@drowsy snow if youre willing to help i can move to vc louge

ill most likely type on discord or my notepad on screen

im dumb

i meant feedback and support channel

[drowsy snow]

Be right there, one minute

[tribal marsh]

is there an accepted truncation of "transform" btw

like loc, rot

[grim ore]

transform

[tribal marsh]

it's you

your videos are really helpful

[hollow cairn]

I'm making a feature where you swap characters at the push of a button and I want the previous character to disappear when you press the button, how do I do this?

i tried destroy actor but i get errors when trying to switch back

it says actor is pending kill when I try to spawn it

[grim ore]

any reason to destroy it if you plan on controlling it again? why not hide it

[tame marsh]

What's the best way to import a rigid body animation?

[whole solar]

btw how do i make something bigger in unreal engine

like my model

[grim ore]

scale it in the outside program is the correct way, change the scale on import is the next way, change the scale of the item inside of a blueprint or the instance of it in the world would be the last way

[whole solar]

i downloaded fro ma website doe?

[grim ore]

the original model, or a .uasset?

[slow leaf]

Is it possible to use a real world stereo camera to triangulate distance using ue4?

[drowsy snow]

Do you want it to be permanently bigger, or temporarily bigger?

[whole solar]

like big of a house

i wanna make a house

big as it

[drowsy snow]

Do you make it in Blender?

[whole solar]

i downloaded from a website

[drowsy snow]

Welp.
Try making it big in Blender. Google is your friend.

[whole solar]

alr ty

[hollow cairn]

how do I hide it without the hitbox still being there?

i mean the collider

[grim ore]

hide the actor to hide the actors visibility, then set the collision to no collision for any colliders

reverse it when you want to reverse it

or alternately move it far far away or to some hidden spot

[hollow cairn]

ah

how do I unhide it?

[grim ore]

the opposite of hiding it

[cedar wave]

Just enable the things you disabled, or move it back to where it was

[hollow cairn]

show? 😳

[grim ore]

how do you want to hide it now?

[hollow cairn]

i will do this I guess

[grim ore]

yes, so what nodes will you use to hide it

[drowsy snow]

cue the Jeopardy theme

[verbal plaza]

Why is this Car Drifting instead of turning and how do I fix it
you have no control it is very slippery one you get fast

[hollow cairn]

set player hidden in game?

[hollow moat]

Does unreal engine have sub-materials?

To prevent duplication of material nodes

[hidden dew]

Wait... @grim ore you're the guy that does those WTF videos?? Nice!

[rotund scroll]

no offense but I doubt anyone is going to download your files

[drowsy snow]

You mean Material Instances?

[hollow moat]

I have some materials (grass, dirt, concrete) I'd like to use them all together on a landscape

@drowsy snow

[autumn flame]

LandscapeLayers

[distant totem]

When painting a landscape you blend multiple materials together yes, check out the landscape docs and some tutorials on landscape materials

[broken spire]

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reimport this mesh with collisions, I've renamed a copy of the mesh with UCX_meshname

It's still reading the collision from LOD_0 when I'm just using LOD_5

[dry birch]

its sad that ue4 does not support setting structures in blueprints

[sharp crest]

@maiden swiftno sale announcement?? there is a flash 50% sale on the marketplace https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/event-sale?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0
who else am I gonna depend on to send me sales if not this server??

[dry birch]

@sharp cresthelp

[sharp crest]

me

[dry birch]

yea

[sharp crest]

?? there are structures in blueprints

[broken spire]

my mesh collision is coming out like this :/

[sharp crest]

is this complex or simple collision?

[broken spire]

complex

[dry birch]

@sharp crest what i do now

[sharp crest]

the reasonable response to me asking you to detail your issue is not to dm and ping me, is to just reply to my message with your answer.

[dry birch]

@sharp crest ok

ue4 cant set strctures

[sharp crest]

??

details

[dry birch]

i send in dm

[sharp crest]

lmfao

blocked

[broken spire]

I've even tried setting simple concave colliders and still can walk through the mesh ingame

[sharp crest]

Idk I wouldn't relay on complex collision

specially not for this kind of mesh

[drowsy snow]

Try making a convex hull in Blender.

[sharp crest]

try to generate regular collision in ue4

worst case do custom collsion in another program

ye ^

[broken spire]

Honestly just trying to get any collision to work, and tried reimporting and it just made the mesh small :/ so

yeah using 3ds max and simply duplicating the mesh and renaming to UCX_

[dry birch]

help

[broken spire]

I can use blender too it doesn't matter I just want this to work

[plush yew]

Hello, I have a Sequence with a Curtains in it and a WindDirectionalSource, The curtains move to the wind in Simulation mode, but how do i activate them in the Sequencer?

[dry birch]

hi

[broken spire]

and nothing I do when I resize the mesh it's still importing as tiny

I even set up the units to different kinds and still nothing changes

[dry birch]

@plush yew help

[drowsy snow]

Please stop pinging random people to get their attention.

[plush yew]

I did not ping

Oh i see, sorry

[broken spire]

I scale up the mesh and still nothing changes :/ what is even happening

[plush yew]

What you need help with?

[hidden heron]

my unreal engine freezes when i try to launch the game

and it begins to draw a lot of power

[dry birch]

ue4 cant set up strcture

[candid imp]

Does anyone know why my river does this when I try to place it, and how I would go about fixing it?

[plush yew]

I don't know sorry, i am also a beginner

[plush yew]

push it into the ground?

lol

[broken spire]

These are my units setup when exporting

[candid imp]

Moving it in the Z-axis does not make a difference

[broken spire]

the first two windows are the units in the system itself, the second window is export

[candid imp]

It seems to be stuck at that particular elevation

[broken spire]

it might be a material issue? Where its rendering ontop of everything else?

[maiden swift]

I missed it this morning. They didn't publish a blog post — only a tweet, which I just saw a bit ago and retweeted on our Twitter account.

I'll post in #unreal-news momentarily.

[sharp crest]

yea it's so hard to notice when they are doing sales when they don't email

[candid imp]

This is the default UE water material, I have not touched it at all

[drowsy snow]

Well, the default built in water plugin is still broken, was not supposed to be used in production.

[dry birch]

nice

[broken spire]

So it doesn't physically move? Or it renders ontop of everything no matter which way you look? If it's the second, then try applying a random material on it (just a standard material)

[dry birch]

why?

[candid imp]

This is just testing, and not production. But I find it strange that it would be broken in a public release like this, especially since it worked when it was introduced and I tried it out a few months ago

[broken spire]

Anyways, all my other FBX files imported just fine, but when I go to changes a megascan file all hell breaks loose, any ideas anyone??

I can get colliders to work on my meshes too, but not these mega scans, and there's nothing wrong with them in 3ds max

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow I did it!

I tore vertical wall run from the ledge grab and mantle

however i have weird placement issues where sometimes ill warp into another area miles away xD

[broken spire]

I can infinitely scale the mesh and its still importing as tinsie weensie

[drowsy snow]

I'd sus on the collisions...

[prime willow]

happens regardless of platform

im think its due to my old wall run vectors staying in tact

[broken spire]

How do I get collision (I really don't gaf what type or how or what program) on my mesh that's generated through procedrual foliage volume

[maiden swift]

Why didn't they publish a blog post? I have no idea.

[dry birch]

they are bad

[maiden swift]

But it's up in #unreal-news now, and published to followers.

Along with a countdown so you know when it ends. 🙂

[drowsy snow]

I didn't see the vectors before 🤔

[prime willow]

i had the debug off

o-o

[broken spire]

ommmfg

[sharp crest]

;lol

[broken spire]

going to give this a quick test, but I still genuinely need help

with the units

if ya'll are ignoring me because I'm using 3ds max, like I said it doesn't matter I can use blender as well

[autumn flame]

Just search up the proper export options for UE4 or how to set them up for UE4, lol

[broken spire]

I did and that's why I'm here I've followed multiple tutorials

It's something that unreal is doing

[autumn flame]

It surely doesn't magically shrink by itself

[grim ore]

have you tried opening your exported fbx in another program to see what it looks like?

[broken spire]

well it surely doesn't grow either lmao nothing that I do changes

If I export an fbx in another program and it works, what problem does that solve? It just adds an extra step to my workflow

now it adds SEVERAL extra steps

[grim ore]

it lets you know your source fbx is valid, right now we dont know that it is

[broken spire]

sure, let me check

still imports as tiny

[grim ore]

which other program did you test it in?

[broken spire]

blender

[grim ore]

so in blender its the correct size?

[broken spire]

start

still imports as tiny

[grim ore]

not really what im asking. The exported fbx from max, when you import it into blender it looks fine? the size is correct in the viewport without any changes?

[broken spire]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be condescending, but when you scale up, should it not SCALE UP??

[grim ore]

inside of your DCC program or in size of UE4? in DCC sure but that doesnt mean its saved those values for the export.

[drowsy snow]

Gosh, I just love this custom lens flare, and how epic it looks with further tweaking.
Makes the vanilla lens flare looks meh in comparison XD

[neon bough]

you have to apply the scale

[grim ore]

inside of ue4, the scaling is on import

[neon bough]

only changing units does nothing without applying scale

[broken spire]

how do you apply the scale??

[neon bough]

SHIFT + A iirc

then select scale

[broken spire]

shit a is add

[neon bough]

CTRL + A

[earnest cedar]

Hey,
I got an issue with the Layered Materials in UE4.
How can I call/ get the alpha output of the “Blend Asset” in my master material? I want to multiply this alpha value with another mask?

[neon bough]

you can't from what i know

[broken spire]

WAIT

It scaled up!!

But why tf isn't it doing that in 3ds max you shouldn't have to apply any changes??

[grim ore]

sure you should

[neon bough]

may also depend on the fbx export settings

[broken spire]

I've never had to do any such thing doing this in unity

[autumn flame]

Out of curiosity, why do you need Megascans assets in 3DS Max?

[neon bough]

i think he wanted to make the collision hull there

[broken spire]

it's just what I use, I was applying UCX_ to a duplicated mesh

[earnest cedar]

O.k...so I have to use the old school break/make material way?

[neon bough]

yea thats what i did, maybe theres a blend material attribute node for opacity so you can get around the make material attribute stuff

[earnest cedar]

Will take a look. Actually I want to keep the layered material workflow. Thx

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow I figured it out

My wall run vectors merge with my ledge grab

if i cancel my wall run when ledge starts i should be fine :3333333

[hollow moat]

What would I use to show where a character spawns?

An empty actor?

[neon bough]

@earnest cedar there's at least MatLayerBlend_OverrideOpacity

so you break down your base material, add to it's opacity and use the blend function to override the final opacity for the output attributes

that way you don't have to wire up all material attributes

[grim ore]

@hollow moatif you just need something in the world to represent a transform then yes, an empty actor is just that

[neon bough]

or you make your own MatLayerBlend function based on that one

[hollow moat]

Thank you friend

[broken spire]

ommmmfg the mesh was broken, had to reset xforms in 3ds max, I feel so stupid! I forgot to collapse the stack on both meshs

It is ALWAYS something sooo simple

no amount of googling will ever solve that sort of thing lmao @grim ore @neon bough if you didn't suggest what you did I would be lost at sea, thank you guys so much

[naive mango]

Hey I am looking for some help but was trying to make it easy for anyone willing to. Here is a google doc I put together with my question and the corresponding code. Thank you to anyone that takes time to get back with me. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dc1GM5CELyLi2e2wHSKk2WGwCRaWVyxtAgZxXrwRj2U/edit?usp=sharing

[autumn flame]

You should make it accessible by link directly instead of access request

[naive mango]

link directly? never have heard that term before.

i will give it a google

[autumn flame]

Just the shareable link, there's an option for direct access for whoever has the link

[broken spire]

if its just code you could use a pastebin

[naive mango]

ohhhh

there you go. its open, sorry I have never done this before but I wanted to make it easy

[broken spire]

yeah pastebin for sure 😄

[autumn flame]

It's C++

[plush yew]

LOL I gave these guys 1 star on the marketplace. This is there response to help;

[naive mango]

that it is

[autumn flame]

It's not like this in the code, right? :p

[plush yew]

80 dollar 3d model xD, yupp refunded.

[naive mango]

No, I guess google changed the capitalization, I will fix it in the doc.

[neon bough]

was that the mansion asset?

[plush yew]

naw https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/precision-sniper-rifle/

look at my comment tho xD

[neon bough]

well, i can understand his response tho

he provides a lot of informations, and you just failed to implement the asset in your project

i wouldn't say that this is the sellers fault

[plush yew]

he is refusing to help

[neon bough]

he didn't sell you support wait, he did

[plush yew]

lol get over it bud

[neon bough]

For quick answer responses or help with product, please use email - write us to [e-mail]

[broken spire]

tbh that is a beautiful sniper rifle worth 100 bucks

[neon bough]

however, i don't know what you asked him

[drowsy snow]

Ah shit, here we go again (4K Definitive Edition)

[neon bough]

however, no one knows what your conversation went like, so hard to judge

[plush yew]

that was it

[autumn flame]

You may wanna post that in #cpp since it's related to that btw 😄

[drowsy snow]

Well, hate to say it, but that's mostly your job to figure it out.

[naive mango]

i will try, thank you for helping.

[plush yew]

_<

yeah

[broken spire]

You can just re-rig it easily

[neon bough]

yea, some people expect unreal training from asset sellers

i mean, some sellers provide such support, that goes way beyond the scope of their asset, but you can't expect that

[plush yew]

no discord, can you read little kid?

[autumn flame]

😬

[neon bough]

your review is just raging at the seller and not constructive critique

[obsidian nimbus]

you should both just block each other

fix that shit right here

if i was a mod id be hammer swinging allready

[neon bough]

honestly the quality of the asset looks top notch compared to other market place stuff

[drowsy snow]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

[neon bough]

good mesh topology, all necessary informations in the description

[autumn flame]

coughs

[plush yew]

that dont work either LOL You need to do this all yourself and keyframe it

[neon bough]

probably because you did something wrong

he even provides retarget instructions for rigs with separate twist bone 😄

[obsidian nimbus]

it also comes with hands and stuff, all looks grade A i cant say the price is too much with some other packs thats give way less value for the money

[neon bough]

look at the demo video, even the animations are perfect

i kinda want a sniper rifle in my game now

😄

[plush yew]

buy it 😉

[autumn flame]

Seems to consider each individual ammo from the magazine when checking, that's cool little detail

Looks like a weapon that would be easily passable in a game like Tarkov weapon realism wise

Gives those vibes with the anims too

[neon bough]

he came to rage, and now we all love it 😄

[grim ore]

Support is like the #1 reason I never made any assets or products that cost money, people can be.... a pain lol

[plush yew]

not raging kiddo. 80 bucks is money i wipe my ass with. Support on the other hand for then is non existent.

[neon bough]

because that seems to be an artist not a people person 😄

excel honest advice, revoke your review, excuse to the author and tell him that you will try to reimplement it again and if all fails you would take his offer of the refund

[obsidian nimbus]

i wouldnt even read support questions if i had that on the MP

its a gun and does gun things

⬆️ that would prolly be my entire description

[autumn flame]

"kiddo" 👀

[drowsy snow]

Incompetency in plain sight. Holy shit.

[cedar wave]

Seller: {what was posted above}
Lorash: "Fuck off"

[drowsy snow]

Gotta give props to them for this kind of no BS letter. Indirectly calling you abuser for actually abusing them.

[obsidian nimbus]

his response mentions blackmail....

[cedar wave]

Oh, my "seller" was in regards to how the seller responded

[autumn flame]

I will post your gun nudies for everyone to see

[obsidian nimbus]

thats illegal where im from

[plush yew]

Abused, after the fact of no support

[autumn flame]

Tbh blackmail was probs showing it to the Unreal Slackers community

[neon bough]

which is probably related to "not gonna change my 2 star review until..."

which is blackmail

[obsidian nimbus]

yes it is

[plush yew]

Can yall stop making fun of me now?

[obsidian nimbus]

change ur review to 5 stars

[drowsy snow]

I guess being man up and use it with your own anims is more expensive than $80

[autumn flame]

You came here to make fun of the creator

In that logic

[neon bough]

for $80 you get the LOD5 model from me 😄

without textures not to mention all the other stuff

[drowsy snow]

Whatever 😛

"Hey guys, look at me, attacking on seller that I thought half assed their services, because I can't properly use them. Cool, right?"

[autumn flame]

Hero 🤩

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: excel#3629 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[drowsy snow]

It's manual.

[prime willow]

wait

excel did something wrong

impossible xD

[drowsy snow]

He blackmailed an honest marketplace seller.

[prime willow]

oh

thats fucked up lmao

[gaunt abyss]

Generally bad attitude and calling people little kids for disagreeing with them plus the whole blackmail part

[drowsy snow]

Even more so that the blackmail stems from his incompetency.

[obsidian nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/gavel-case-dismissed-simpsons-gif-11209658

[prime willow]

double oof

@north rose bad boy

bad

i will definitely spank when you come back D:<

[gaunt abyss]

Main reason why I stopped doing marketplace stuff is because of people that expect me to write a game for them

[prime willow]

wait

[gaunt abyss]

Ok lets move on

[autumn flame]

They left i think

[drowsy snow]

Rage quitted.

[neon bough]

no he left the server, to come back tomorrow to ask new questions

[autumn flame]

With a different name

[neon bough]

possible

[gaunt abyss]

Lets change the topic pls

[prime willow]

im so confused :33333

[drowsy snow]

Also I have been confused whether to use my 2D fluid sim as the cloud mask, or use it as just flow map instead.
I dunno, I wanted to get the cool anime cloud vortex look

[prime willow]

well i stripped my wall run

and my mantle is even buggier

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

[neon bough]

why did i expect that?

[prime willow]

same

tbh

[neon bough]

have you considered using ALS?

[drowsy snow]

No note to backtrack with.

[prime willow]

I would of immediately did so

but ALs and daz 3d

are like wife beaters and wives who provoke the beater >_>

[neon bough]

bad example

[prime willow]

for a better example

using als with daz is more painful to get working than pulling nails with a fork

[drowsy snow]

Though at least old VRoid + custom rig plays well with ALS, I give em that 🥳

[neon bough]

with a fork you could probably pull a nail pretty well

did you mean spoon?

[prime willow]

i meant rusty nail

xD

the splittering kind

[drowsy snow]

Well, I did pull a rusty nail with a fork, just because I'm in rush and no hammer in sight.

[obsidian nimbus]

so not a human nail?

[prime willow]

iive never seen two assets violently fight each other at every input or change in my life

[neon bough]

that was my first thought, too

[prime willow]

like sweet jeez ._.

[neon bough]

but then i was like, holy cow no

[prime willow]

even with daz script everything breaks

[obsidian nimbus]

well it came after the wife beating stuff

[prime willow]

and becomes more broken xD

however if you guys find a solution let me know

[neon bough]

you have to find the solution

[prime willow]

id love to use half baked unfinished abandoned projects as my foundation lmao

[neon bough]

you should understand your movement system if you want to adapt it

[drowsy snow]

Had a good luck with Auto Rig Pro so far.

[prime willow]

im having an easier time tbh doing it from scratch ._.

[neon bough]

its a long painful process

like pulling a nail with a fork...

[drowsy snow]

Now it's a matter of getting the twist bone right in CR.

[prime willow]

i just want mirrors edge

in 3rd person

and than attacks from every mirrors egde movement position

not all that crazy to ask for :/

the linking attack to the movement types arent hard

but getting unbuggy working movement sweet father missing in my life iis it hard

[drowsy snow]

I think Overgrowth did it, and their anim system is somehow overly simple.

No keyframe tweening, nonetheless.

[prime willow]

hmm

do they explian how

sincerely tho having parkour mixed with gameplay shouldnt be like finding gold in a needle stack

[drowsy snow]

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

[prime willow]

ive watched that over 30 times ._.

[drowsy snow]

Though this might not practical with everything.

[prime willow]

yup

im pulling stuff from that tbh

i guess my real issue is no one explians what parkour properly should look or be setup like

and most builds on youtube are incompatible when using them together without breaking your legs to fit the mold ._.

ive got slide, crouch, jump, sprint, wall run > ledge and mantle however is making me want to drink die lol

[drowsy snow]

I'm not going to estimate how many work went through Assassin's Creed's parkour system (at least until Assassin's Creed Unreal Unity)

[prime willow]

yeah assassin creeds setup looks super clean and fluid

i can only imagine how terrible it was t make it work proper

they flow between several types of vaulting and climb/mantles and back into movement Zzz

tho through this sufferance im slowly getting it

[drowsy snow]

I'm still drooling over this "starburst" effect like whyyyyyy
It's just a bunch of circular streaks set as the dirt mask, but ugghh this looks so satisfying 🤤

[prime willow]

thats sexy

yesssss

[drowsy snow]

Now I have this wild idea to make it better, how about feeding Render Target as dirt mask? I'm still kinda afraid with its performance tho lol

[hollow moat]

Does unreal have a builtin game state manager?

Like a level state machine?

[drowsy snow]

Level blueprint, if that counts.
Though there's also Game Instance, that can be used to store vars across levels.

[smoky crane]

i am new to UE4 and just wondering is there a way to increase the fps on level editor since rn for me its capped at 60

[vocal sorrel]

Hey guys, is anyone familiar with stitching cameras together to get a wide view of something?

[grim ore]

@smoky craneyou can change it in the project settings, look for frame rate. Or in the console, using t.maxfps XXX where that is your new cap

normally its capped at 120 tho in the editor, perhaps you have something like gsync capping it

[smoky crane]

gotchu thanks i tried disabling vertical sync in nvidia setting maybe have to restart

[hollow moat]

How do I stop a blueprint execution?

I'm destroying an actor but it causes loads of errors, so I'm assuming I need to stop the blueprint execution first

[grim ore]

theres no real "stopping" it outside of stopping it's tick if you are using it. If its doing something, you can stop the something. If you are getting errors when destroying the actor, look at why you are getting the errors and fix that

if your getting errors because something is trying to talk to / work with / access the actor that is being destroyed, use something like an "Is Valid" check to make sure the item is not being destroyed before you do the talking to it.

[hollow moat]

Sounds good thanks 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Just don't make it too unpredictable, otherwise people will upset with it.
Not to mention speedrunners would go through a lot of reset and had to rely solely on luck. That would be fine, if we're talking about Minecraft random seed glitchless.

[hollow moat]

Can I query a pawn sensing component for if it senses anything?

Get all sensed pawns

[drowsy snow]

Simple RNG calculations ought to do the trick.

I mean, just a simple randomiser that yields a consistent amount of luck, and some rules to prevent back-to-backs, what have you.

[dry birch]

Error: CDO Constructor (turretexampleGameMode): Failed to find /Game/FirstPersonCPP/Blueprints/FirstPersonCharacter.FirstPersonCharacter_C any idea why this would appear

thanks

[broken spire]

Hmm I have a couple of volumes on my map, a procedural foliage volume and a streaming volume. They're interacting with the player shooting, is there anything I can do to fix this?

[hollow moat]

I'm getting these weird artifacts

[dawn gull]

How can I rotate an object towards coordinates inside of the actor that the object is in?

[dawn gull]

the colored things at the top of the wall?

[hollow moat]

Yes

Also I imported a character from mixamo and I can see their eyeballs through their face and their face looks really weird (inside out?)

[scarlet stump]

probably need to enable backfaces in the material

[hollow moat]

I'll give it a try

[hollow moat]

@plush yew that fixed it, thanks

[plush yew]

can you use mirror function to place assets somehow? like align them in perfect geometry and space/size between them

[obsidian nimbus]

there are editor utility blueprints

they do editor stuff

[plush yew]

ok thx

[verbal grove]

Anyone here do C4D RS to Unreal? (Except Winbush) 😉 Look for workflow tips on an inherited project.

[limber mesa]

how do you increase texture pool size limit

[brazen panther]

What about a ue4 game about nfts

[limber mesa]

Thanks @plush yew

[hollow moat]

How do I implement a child component even in c++?

[calm crow]

Hi, is it possible with decal to actor to make not sharp edge ?

[trim mantle]

You mean angle?

[calm crow]

I mean, my texture is a 1024x1024 texture but i want not all the decal to be rendered (only the center) and the edges blend in with the other decor

[calm crow]

Maybe it's called gradiant

[trim mantle]

Oh, so just add alpha channel to your decal texture

[calm crow]

yes, but it i need to paint the alpha in photoshop ? there isn't any option in decal actor or in material ?

[trim mantle]

You could do it with radial gradient

But it could be too uniform

Especially if your decal is irregular

[calm crow]

no, it'll be fine, thanks

i'll try with constant and a material instance to tweak position, radius, density and invert density

[hollow moat]

How can I scale a bone down in the skeletal mesh previewer?

It resets when I close the previewer

Do I need to scale it in an additive pose?

[calm crow]

it work perfectly, thanks mate !

[hollow moat]

Posing going well 😬

[limber mesa]

@plush yew I’m setting the pool size to values and it’s not working

The default was 1000