ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

I thought not.
Unlit view doesn't matter tho

YouTube is a mixbag, lots of shit tutorials with shit delivery on YT these days (not going to name them here, but I know which ones). Don't get me wrong, there are still good tuts on YT, but unless you know what you're doing, consider using Unreal Online Learning.
Udemy... I don't think it's worth the price when Unreal Online Learning is good learning resource for free.

[plush yew]

^ UE5 documentation has been pretty meh though in general, hope it comes out soon enough, and hope they don't remove bump maps lol

[cerulean sandal]

No Distance Field Shadows

Distance Field Shadows

[plush yew]

Every Quixel material is just terribad now without bamp maps

You don't even get the bump map texture anymore

[drowsy snow]

I guess the logic is why you have bump maps when you have Nanite.

[plush yew]

Yeah, but Nanite ATM is worse performance in many cases than no Nanite

[drowsy snow]

Same goes for UE4 docs IMO

[pallid olive]

thx for reply

[plush yew]

Yeah, but why model when I can use textures?

They don't really replace each other

If I can just take a blank cube, make it a wall, slap some textures onto it (+ bump map), I'm set

Why would I go and decide to get the same, or worse performance, by making a wall model from scratch with all it's complexities?

Including doing the texturing myself

[cerulean sandal]

i disabled LPVs, and now the draw is 0.05ms but the GPU time is still basically the same

[plush yew]

Reminds me of "The Backrooms"

[cerulean sandal]

thats because the game is based on those xD

[drowsy snow]

I don't use df shadows, though I think you'd might as well make it toggle-able.

[plush yew]

Oh lmfao

Nice

[cerulean sandal]

yeah, ill do that. but i get worse performance without so idrk what to do

the game didnt run this bad before and i didnt change anything really

it just decided to die

[drowsy snow]

I'm suspecting the hardware, but software side, try setting the Shadows quality to High for your development purposes.

[pallid olive]

quick question its a nooby one; if you have a mobile game and you have the main menu, and click PvP 1vs1 and brings you into the gamesession is this a child level class in unreal Project? curious how it works

[cerulean sandal]

you mean you suspect my hardware is dying?

[drowsy snow]

Probably.

[cerulean sandal]

that would be a problem

[bright sigil]

pretty sure gamesession, for multiplayer connection, is just a latent call that tries to connect to the server while in the level its called in.

[drowsy snow]

If it affects other game, then it would be hardware issue.

[cerulean sandal]

i ran an old build of the game to test and nope, this one runs like it always ran.

[pallid olive]

conrad how far are you with your project or how many have you done just curious

[bright sigil]

with multiplayer, i've not done much, i did a research paper on recreating dark souls multiplayer model, so in that situation there was no need to have a separate level

[pallid olive]

not bad, its great to learn and hear from others

[bright sigil]

ive not done mobile, so it could be different, but id say i got familiar enough with the multiplayer tools unreal has, at least for pc

[pallid olive]

dark souls is mmo or rpg

[bright sigil]

and i did test my mockup through steam subsystems, so again, maybe there are differences - but the question was about the gamesession being a child level class, and i may misunderstand, but only one level is present at a given time. by default unreal provides separate level maps like entry for the purposes of loading

i suppose it's both, but in my mockup it was merely to test the invasion aspect, so i did not use a dedicated server but instead the player as the server with others connecting to it

i was able to get 3 others connecting to the same client server, in other test cases, some users would connect to others (ie invasion) - the way it works in dark souls is by invading another without a choice, just simply executing the action, so you enter into someone else's game session

in this way, by initiating the "invade", the player searches for viable clients to connect with, randomly with level balancing, and the invader ofc looks of a certain way while they are the "invader"

[pallid olive]

that is pretty good game idea. just learning the basics, cant understand all what you said

[bright sigil]

hahaha, sorry, wasn't sure, sounded like you had most of the network stuff setup

and even if your not familiar with dark souls, its not far off from connecting via a lobby

[pallid olive]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/index.html ill just dig into this materie for now :p

[bright sigil]

most of the material about learning unreal's networking came from eXi's network compenium, it's a dense read

[bright sigil]

😆 let me re read what you said then

[bright sigil]

so let me see if i understand what you're asking before i jump the gun this time. You want to know what happens when you click a button for pvp and it brings you to some kind of game session page?

[north pewter]

Anyone know how the hell to find the playercontroller blueprint? When I click the magnifier icon nothing happens

[drowsy snow]

The default PlayerController is a C++ class.

Consider making your own PlayerController BP.

[potent goblet]

Something amusing I'm thinking about: has anyone ever tried to make a game that uses the DefaultPawn as the main player?

[potent aurora]

good friends from the content creator community

I need help with a game

I want to link that game that I made in unreal 4.26 and link it with brockchain

anyone know how?

[potent goblet]

I'd guess file reading

No idea how exactly you would package both things though

Why do you even want to?

It really depends on what and where the information is

[potent aurora]

I work for a company and they asked me that

I did the level and everything but I have never worked with that system

[potent goblet]

You need to ask them more information. Blockchain might not be what's best.

You need to know the goal, and then consider the solution

[potent aurora]

They sent me this

[potent goblet]

..What did they send?

You mean you are trying to fix their broken implementation?

[potent aurora]

my boss sent me those videos

I think that's what he wants to do with the game that I made

in itself it is not a game

is a technical demo of what the game will be

[drowsy snow]

Good grief, those thumbnails scare me, ngl.

[sage coral]

so after doing some research I think I found what my issue is its not that my collisions for the mesh are not working its the fact that my simulation normals are insanely high in the sky and scaled so I have no idea now I get those to reg size @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

What was the context again? I can't remember,

[sage coral]

Cloth phys issues not colliding with the character mesh

thouse are the simulation normals all the way in the sky

the mesh is at the bottom of the screen

all its collision data is way up in the sky insted of on the mesh so its not going to collide with the character mesh cause it cant reach it

I tried using the apply transform scale in blender but that only seemed to make it worse

[drowsy snow]

TL;DW please.

[hollow moat]

Help meeeee

My Blueprint (Select top left) and the components (bottom right) are not attached for some reason? What am I doing wrong?

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow I just read something that epic made an addon for exporting from blender to unreal 4 I will attempt this and see if that fixes the scale issue

[drowsy snow]

I'd rather set the unit scaling to 0.01.

[sage coral]

I learned that could be a potential fix aswell I will be trying both

[bright sigil]

did you accidentally move the components? check each one's transforms

[sage coral]

wait duh I dont know why i didnt try and export it as in 0.01

@drowsy snow

[potent aurora]

someone to instruct me in what to ask?

[drowsy snow]

Here. This is my "new normal" for Blender to UE4 workflow. Unit scaling adjusted, clipping planes adjusted.

It's what served me for the past 2 so years.

[bright sigil]

not a clue mate, i dont blockchain, no idea what the goal is, only thing i can think of is have your boss clean his freakin monitor

[hollow moat]

In the viewport view it's centered

[sage coral]

should I save this as my new start up file @drowsy snow I mainly work in blender and ue4

[bright sigil]

not the bp, but the one in the level

[drowsy snow]

Yes, you should set it as the new startup file.

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow Thank you 🙂

[drowsy snow]

It's basically the default startup file adjusted for UE4 things (particularly scaling)

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow Just from already using your new start up file I see where my issue was the scaling for my original file was WAAAAAY to small this is why everything was screwing up thank you once again 🙂

[hollow moat]

No I just placed it 😦

Do I need to call SphereComponent->SetupAttachment(this); ?

[bright sigil]

you're doing cpp? not sure on that end. Looking at the bp setup, i dont see those other components like the audio

[hollow moat]

It's fixed now 🙂 I forgot to attach them 😛

[bright sigil]

great!

[edgy sand]

Hi! I see the name "Kismet" here and there, I think it's the name of a few libraries in UE, but why Kismet? Is that an abbreviation for something? The name of the original developer of Unreal Engine? A reference to anything else?

[bright sigil]

kismet means fate, in the day's of UDK that's what the visual scripting was called

kismet2 is Epics new and improved Blueprint system

[edgy sand]

Ah, okay, I found that kismet was fate in muslim belief, but I thought I was on a wrong track. Thanks, now I also know why some stuff is marked as k2 👍

[drowsy snow]

I'm a Muslim myself, but legit never heard the word "kismet" outside of UE.
Or maybe I did, but not the "anglicised" version of the word.

[bright sigil]

yep, artifacts of the early phases of ue4

[edgy sand]

Well, it's the arabic version, in the german wikipedia of fate it's written as "qisma(t)"

[drowsy snow]

Ah, I think it's deriving from "qasim".
TBH I'm suck at knowing anglicised Arabic terms lol

[cinder mica]

Hello guys, im making a basic FPS to teach myself some game design. I want the full body visible to the player, what is the best way to implement the camera on the blueprint? I have it orientated and attached to the spine socket. But when i run forward the body mesh clips in and out with the running animation. I cant really move it much further forward because the weapon becomes too far out of view

[drowsy snow]

Your best bet would be to start from third person BP and then implement the first person camera.

[cinder mica]

I sort of tried that

[edgy sand]

Oh, normally I think this is done by only having the visible parts of the character. in this case he wouldn't really have a head, because you can't really see your head

[drowsy snow]

To add this, usually third person and first person animations are not the same.

[cinder mica]

Ohhh, so the full mesh is hidden to its own player?

and everyone else see's the 3rd person mesh?

[edgy sand]

Apart from that you would normally set the near clipping pane to define how close you will be to an object, before it clips. So I'd probably increase the near pane a little bit.

[drowsy snow]

Yes, that's how FPS games did it.

Also saving some rendering budget by just having the arms.

[cinder mica]

Damn i need to really go back and fucking sort this shit out then

[edgy sand]

Yes, normally in Shooters you only see your weapon, but when someone else sees you in multiplayer then a whole player mesh is rendered

[cinder mica]

I almost feel like it fucks you up trying to use the starter projects, you dont learn everything you need to

[edgy sand]

also in MMORPGS you don't suddenly disappear, when you go in 1st person mode^^

[cinder mica]

hmmm

Does anyone have some good tutorials?

All the ones i find use the 3rd person mesh

[edgy sand]

A REALLY good tutorial I followed is on Udemy the C++ Unreal Engine Course by a guy called Stephen, but it doesn't really teach you that

Here's how a mesh looks like that's used in 1st person^^

[drowsy snow]

Well, you could use third person mesh. Just that the client player have different animation than the spectated third person animations.

You know GTA 5, right?

[cinder mica]

Jeeze i feel even more in the dark now lol

I know what you mean

Sucks i deleted all that FPS mesh and arms out

I need to go back and start fresh probably

[drowsy snow]

In GTA 5, player model is indifferent in third person or first person. It's just that the animation set is different for each perspective.
That's why you cannot change camera in Rockstar Editor if you use FP camera at all, because first person animation looked weird in third person.

[cinder mica]

But how does the player see his own feet if using FPS Arms?

Ohhhh i see

[dense wren]

Guys need help, i wanna set a widget in portrait mode but it dont let me. Here a pic

Its grey

[edgy sand]

Screen Size -> Phone?

But really, I don't know why, maybe it needs a fixed size to do that.

[dense wren]

Thanks, worked.

[plush yew]

hey guys, just wondering - i have a decal on the ground and whenever my vehicle drives over the decal, the decal is applied on top of my vehicle - how do i prevent this from happening?

[autumn flame]

Receive Decals off on your vehicle mesh

[neon magnet]

Is there a way to only select a volume's faces when in geometry mode? E.g. I'm editing the post process volume shape but if it's smaller than a mesh then the mesh is clickable and I can't get to the face of the volume until I resize it to be larger than the mesh

e.g. here it's going to select the wall jutting out instead of the ppv face

[plush yew]

@autumn flame thank you so much!

[dense wren]

Im trying to add an image but it diaplaya with a white background instead of tranaparent

[drowsy snow]

That's a fake transparency lmao

[dense wren]

How do i unfake it?

Got it from google

[autumn flame]

Downloading it directly from the source instead of save as from google could be an idea

But if you like playing russian roulette...

[dense wren]

Okay im sorry that i didnt spawn knowing

[neon magnet]

if you have gimp/photoshop just use the marquee and other selection tools to select what you need/don't need and delete the other

or erase

[dense wren]

Thanks will do

[neon magnet]

these types of images usually end up like this because the actual image has transparency, but the one you see in google results is a snapshot of the image whilst it's showing its transparent checkerboard background, which means it ends up without transparency, so you'll need to get to the actual source page to get it.

[dense wren]

Ohh okay i didnt know that.

[drowsy snow]

Or it could be one of those website "gatekeeping" from freeloaders by the fake transparency.

[neon magnet]

yeah that too

But at least the checkerboard makes it easier to know what is meant to be transparent. But it does mean you need to be extra careful when removing that part because depending on your selection tool's tolerance, it may select what is visible enough but zooming in you'll notice smaller pieces of the background still visible and missing detection. So just be careful.

You can also always try to reverse google search using the same image. You can drag and drop the downloaded one or use the "view similar" button google offers or use a browser extension that you can right click search image in google or something and you may end up with either higher resolution versions or the actual transparent one. More of than not, most of these gatekeeping sites have just taken a free image and put it behind their paywall

[drowsy snow]

Also using google image is rather vague when it comes to use licence. One could get into legal scrutiny just by snatching an image out of Google Image search results.

[neon magnet]

is there a way to see stuff in mirrors when a light is in the scene? I tried all the flag checkboxes but none of them show anything

planar reflection^

[plush yew]

i am creating new landscape, but when I add material it's all black.. using autoland example project materials

[drowsy snow]

Planar reflection should work even with a light present.

[plush yew]

never thought it would be so hard to create landscape lol

the mixing and blending of layers part is brutal

[drowsy snow]

Have you applied layer info to each layers?

[plush yew]

no

[drowsy snow]

That explains the all black problem.

[plush yew]

which files do i need to open and what kind of info to put it?

looks wrong lol

[drowsy snow]

That's in the Landscape panel, right?
Open the combobox menu for each, and you have the option to create a Layer Info asset.

[plush yew]

yeah

damn

it worked 😄

thx

can i switch materials and add the ones from megascans?

without crashing the whole thing and not re-editing everything

[drowsy snow]

You could just swap the textures in your texture sampler node.

[plush yew]

ok

[solid anchor]

Are there any good youtuber's to check out similar to gamedev unlocked or thomas brush sort of content but geared more toward UE4 developers?

[neon magnet]

yea seems there is a certain combination of flags that need to be enabled at the same time to get it working properly. I had disabled too many in the thirstttttttt for optimisation

[neon magnet]

quite a few, depends if you're looking for C++ or blueprints-only?

[bright sigil]

I like Ryan Laley, he's been making some great vids

[drowsy snow]

Mathew Wadstein's definitely come to mind
https://www.youtube.com/c/MathewWadsteinTutorials

[neon magnet]

there's Mark Aspland, Ryan Laley, our own Mathew Wadstein

[drowsy snow]

(he's in this server btw)

Ben Cloward for material/shader stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/user/bcloward

[solid anchor]

awesome! thanks! are there any that talk about marketing your game etc?

[drowsy snow]

Well, no. It's not specific to UE4.

[solid anchor]

ah ok, still really helpful!

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow so IM not 100% sure how but with some brute force and the help of the send to ue4 addon plus your new blender start up its working 😄

[neon magnet]

@solid anchor just look at CyberPunk 2077 and do the exact opposite 😄

[drowsy snow]

Nice.

[drowsy snow]

B-but you're not getting simp'd by journos if you do the opposite :<

[neon magnet]

oh and EA. Don't ever do what EA does. Never. Ever. Ever. Ever.

[drowsy snow]

I never forgive them for killing PopCap Games.

[plush yew]

Is there a way to make the play button from the sequencer appear in my viewport preview?

I remember it being there and its gone.

[drowsy snow]

PopCap was my game dev hero 😦

[neon magnet]

"I am OzymandEAus, look at my work at destroying great studios and despair".

[solid anchor]

I dont think so

[neon magnet]

Westwood ...

[plush yew]

Thanks @drowsy snow !!!

[nimble moat]

For some reason, changing shadow quality from low to medium (0 to 1) my fps goes from 300fps to 30, what can I use to track down whats happening?

[solid anchor]

oh right

[plush yew]

Hey guys! Can anyone recommend the minimum amount of spell cast time time for a multiplayer game? So higher ping players could also react...

[drowsy snow]

Shadowmapping is generally one of the more expensive part of realtime rendering.

Though I don't know what lighting method you're using.

[drowsy snow]

That's something #multiplayer would know

[nimble moat]

just standard non RTX static point lights (4), anything I can use/play with to try and optimize a little bit

[drowsy snow]

Oh, I don't know anything about RTX specific stuff (besides, I'm Red team), but perhaps other shadow casting lights?

[nimble moat]

Oh sorry i meant RTX is not turned on

[neon magnet]

leather jackets ruffle

[nimble moat]

Ive just deleted all the lights and gunna rebuild lighting see if thats an issue because I remember yesterday I deleted all the lighting and nothing changed

[drowsy snow]

Hoho! Not even Jensen Huang's leather jacket can defeat me.

[nimble moat]

Hmm, I just deleted all the lighting and same thing (can i send pics here?)

[neon magnet]

HoodieGuy used Hoodie against Jacket! It was very effective.

[neon magnet]

if it's not lights then maybe it's planar reflections? Those eat fps like monsters

[nimble moat]

Holy, ive fixed my issue i think. There was a random rogue point light trapped between floors

[plush yew]

Is that Toto Wolf? kkkk

[neon magnet]

😄

[rose bone]

Hello
Have some stupid question, but I already tried everything from google.
I haven't "Create new C++ class" option in RMB menu and Add/Import button. As I say .sln is created and VS project files generated.
Can you please help?

[neon magnet]

what about File menu?

[autumn flame]

Try from the File dropdown

[neon magnet]

file > create new C++ class

[rose bone]

Yes. It there. But it too uncomfortable

[autumn flame]

Is your peoject BP?

[drowsy snow]

"Too uncomfortable"

[thick herald]

The pain is real

[rose bone]

Nope. C++

[drowsy snow]

I mean, it's not like one would create C++ class as often as making BP/assets, but eh, it's just me.

[autumn flame]

I would let my IDE create the C++ anyways

[rose bone]

Ok please let me try to explain. Im taking the course BP to C++ from unreal online learning. And in that video it works properly. So whats wrong?
https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3441566/module/6707858

[drowsy snow]

If you use Rider, then yea.

[autumn flame]

Probs got too used to Rider :p

[drowsy snow]

Well, what's wrong?

[rose bone]

As I mentioned beforer I haven't "Create New C++ Class" in context menu

[drowsy snow]

File -> Create New C++ class

Problem solved.

[autumn flame]

Just bind it to a key at this point

¯_(ツ)_/¯

If clicking File is too much

[drowsy snow]

The reason why they got rid of it from Add Content menu is likely just because C++ classes don't end up in Content folder, so it's not worth putting it there.

[drowsy snow]

Overengineer it and make a macro button 😎

[autumn flame]

Give it the ALT+F4 binding

[rose bone]

Is this a new versions feature? Cause in video its all ok

[drowsy snow]

It's always in File menu since at least 4.10, heck, maybe even 4.0.

File -> Create New C++ Class

That's the solution. Problem solved, case closed.

[rose bone]

Thanks

[rancid lynx]

If I want to "push around" NPC Characters arms and legs, what do i need to learn in UE4 ? I know how to rigg and animate bones in blender for ue4 characters, but i dont know how to go about physically interacting with characters using animations like walk. I guess some kind of blend ?

for example, in VR, push a stick against a zombies arm, and move the arm, while the zombie is trying to keep its arm forward.

ill search ue4 animation blending in youtube. maybe thats it. ive no idea

[drowsy snow]

Sounds like a job for IK (inverse kinematics) to me.

[thick herald]

or physical animations

[cursive fractal]

so uh, i need some troubleshooting help

i imported ivy from quixel bridge

and it's pivot is off

it's supposed to lay flat

any fixes?

[rancid lynx]

Physical animation, ill search about that, thank you. but.. what specifically should i search for other than 'physical animation

hot sauce and tacos. thanks. this might be it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xnx9L6DgfE

[bright sigil]

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tDjbFXeOo

[hollow stream]

Idk where to go from here to be able to call the damage to the box I am using to change color once it is damaged

[cerulean hamlet]

<@&213101288538374145> It cool if i get the VC streaming channel manually assigned for me? new here and had a hard time troubleshooting for someone since i couldn't share my screen.

[spare kernel]

You need to be a member for a week, we can not change that.

[weary basalt]

You have already asked 2 Moderators privately this question, you do not need to spam us with this question.

[cerulean hamlet]

alright. i read tried searching through the server and i saw a message that said that the mods have DMs turned off, so sorry for the multiple points of contact. my bad there

[drowsy snow]

Also you could use the text channel, describe the issue, and provide screenshots/screen recording.

[weary basalt]

You also have the option of using a private DM call to Stream. We will not change our policy to suit specific users.

[maiden swift]

Indeed. We don't make exceptions for individuals. If anything, we would change the policy for everyone.

[cerulean hamlet]

mkay. not trying to step on toes so no worries, just didn't know if there was malleability with the role perms since there wasn't mention of it in the rules

[drowsy snow]

Also worth mentioning that voice channels in this server are stagnant most of the time. I don't think you could get assistance as quick as in the text channels without consenting someone else to look on it.

[cerulean hamlet]

i was helping out someone else in this situation which is why i asked. wanted to be able to provide my help without sequestering us from the rest of the VC since they could help

it's sorted now though so nw

[storm venture]

Anyone know of any ue4 devs who make short and fun videos like Sebastian Lague?

[noble imp]

anyone here know how to fix the "game wont start: returned 2" crash for UE4 games? Ive already tried deleting my intermediate saved and config files to no avail

[upper pumice]

Hi all 🙂
Running through the Components and Collision C++ tutorial, and all was going fairly smooth until I had to add the line:

virtual UPawnMovementComponent* GetMovementComponent() const override;

Now when I compile, im getting 'unresolved external symbol'. I cant see what im doing different to the tutorial, anyone have an idea?

[weary basalt]

@upper pumice You most likely didnt create the implementation for that function in the .cpp file.

You declared that the function exists in the .h but then havent defined its usage in the .cpp

[upper pumice]

Ahhhh yep that makes absolute sense. Was trying to tiptoe through haha, but needed to complete that whole chunk

absolute legend

[plush yew]

Does anyone uses Windows Server as their primary development environment for Unreal/other C++?

[balmy yoke]

Hi all! Is there a section for super noob questions to be asked? >_<

[drowsy snow]

Just ask away.

[balmy yoke]

I am BRAND new to unreal, but I have been using maya for animation, modeling, texturing for over a decade...

I am porting a map (trying to anyway) from CS to Pavlov VR, and there are a few planes that dont seem to match up for some reason. I was hoping to just grab a vert and move it to line it up myself, but I cant figure out how for the life of me, and I feel preeeetty dumb

[drowsy snow]

I'm not that well versed with Source engine stuff, could be just bad BSP conversion, so might better to ask about it in Source modding forums to resolve the issue with exported Source maps.

[balmy yoke]

ok! I may try that, is there a way to convert this plane to something that IS editable? I mean... polygons are polygons right?

[drowsy snow]

Eh, I found that kind of issue is fairly common with reverse engineered assets. I've been into modding for years, and know that kind of stuff could happen.

[balmy yoke]

Lame! ok! thanks so much for your help!

[drowsy snow]

The issue wasn't remotely Unreal Engine related to boot, but oh well.

[coarse apex]

sorry for a possible dumb question but how would I rotate a set of keyframes ranging at a distance of 89 - 92 (constantly changing) and just add 90 to all of them but keeping there differences if that makes sense. I could do it with an actors but it would be very weird and look bad

[lament creek]

i want to make an online game where people can host there own servers. just like minecraft java edition

how can i do this? and will the servers be vulnerable to hacking?

[autumn flame]

Compile source code for Dedicated Servers

[west junco]

does anyone here with a windows machine think they could playtest a very early version of a 3D platformer game?

i'm mainly trying to make the movement feel nice and stuff before i crack down too hard on much else

although there are some graphics and audio things in it that i'd like some feedback on as well if possible

[chilly gale]

Does the glTF format plugin import or just export please?

[drowsy snow]

Just import.

[chilly gale]

@drowsy snow Thank you

[drowsy snow]

Are you main on Linux?

[west junco]

mainly on windows, i can package to other platforms if needed though

[chilly gale]

Windoz

I just got a file off Poly Haven to test

[drowsy snow]

Okay, just strange that you have to specify Windows PC, because there's not much people here main on Linux.

[west junco]

ah, i just say windows because it's what i have packaged

[chilly gale]

Does it drag and drop like other files?

it comes down as rock_moss_set_01_4k.gltf.zip

[dire parcel]

would this cause me any problems? i am previewing the animation

[winter rain]

Has anybody come across this error when loading a level?

[bright sigil]

yes i think it would, unless you want them floating

[dire parcel]

how can i fix this?

i imported the animation from mixamo

[bright sigil]

sorry no, never worked with landscape proxies (is this a ue5 thing?)

[bright sigil]

ah that sucks, yeah im not entirely sure. my answer would be to fix it in 3d software

maybe you can search in the asset details for the import settings, there should something that can offset the position

[dire parcel]

tbh, it is probably the model i am using

i got it from sketchfab

[winter rain]

Nah UE4

[bright sigil]

well, shows how little i work with landscapes

[dire parcel]

so maybe i should try another model because i did not have the problem last time

[bright sigil]

ah, if that's the route then sure enough, my mind is drawing a blank, but there is a way to change the transform values in the import settings though

[frank pike]

What system do you guys recommend to sync updated ue builds between members of our dev team?

[bright sigil]

unreal has perforce and you can also use git, i think there is a third

[dire parcel]

these are my import settings

whoops replied to the wrong message, sorry about that

[stable path]

Try changing the import transform

[bright sigil]

oh, you dont need to reimport it, the earlier picture you posted where you are viewing the animation, you can find the import settings there

[stable path]

Although I would recommend fixing it in your animation itself

[bright sigil]

its from mixamo, im assuming that's not a comfort though i agree

[dire parcel]

never knew that lmao i been deleting it and reimporting it thanks for that tip

[stable path]

I've used anims from Mixamo but I've never had this issue

Maybe you can try opening it in Blender and see if the character is still floating there?

[dire parcel]

im not that advanced i think

[bright sigil]

or from sketchfab, i was clear on exactly what is what, but its coming in offset

[stable path]

I'm guessing it's most likely the model itself

[dire parcel]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ps1-style-walter-white-0235c18fd3094d09a4131d153471e276

that is what i am thinking

this is the model

[stable path]

Cause afaik Mixamo does not offset any animstion

[dire parcel]

i also noticed when i put the model in mixamo the model is like halfway through the floor in the t pose

[stable path]

You should open the model in Blender
It's not advanced

Just see if the model has offset

[dire parcel]

alright i will try now

you are right

i will stop being a scaredy cat

[stable path]

Well, even if you mess up it won't affect the og model

Unless you overwrite it

[dire parcel]

so just open the fbx file in blender right

its the model, it doesn't even open up in blender

[stable path]

Did you import it

[dire parcel]

got it

[stable path]

Huh

That looks ok actually

Where you're previewing the animation
On the right up corner, see the mesh

Is it also floating there?

In ue

[dire parcel]

on here?

[stable path]

On the right corner

Currently it says Animation

[dire parcel]

ah i see, the mesh is sitting down on it fine

[stable path]

Well, then the issue is the animation

You'll have to modify your animation in Blender

[dire parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-tears-cat-point-gun-crying-cat-gif-17741904

take that back

do you have any other resources for free models?

[stable path]

I'm afraid that's the only way

[dire parcel]

because i just tried on my old model and it worked

but this one it doesn't

[stable path]

Nope, I don't know any, sorry

But a google search will definitely helo

[dire parcel]

its all good, maybe i should try meta humans and use it for mixamo and see if that works

[stable path]

Help

[dire parcel]

yup most deff

thanks for the help!

[upper pumice]

Hey all 🙂
Going through the FPS C++ tutorial in the docs. Up to implementing the character, have just finished adding the first person skeletal subobject.
As instructed, I call

FPSMesh->SetOnlyOwnerSee(true);
//Then i attach it to the camera, and disable its shadows, before calling this:
GetMesh()->SetOwnerNoSee(true);

Now, I can definitely still see the full body from the camera on the player. It says that if this happens, to restart the editor, however im still seeing it after that. Thoughts?

Full class if it helps anyone: https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/umagosacon.php

(on a sidenote, i hadnt realised hastebin got renamed)

[dusk nebula]

why does the edge of my landscape seem to move based on how close the camera is?

[upper stone]

I created a project using a first person template. Is there a way that I can create a VR pawn and export the project as a VR project?

[dire parcel]

anyone uses blender here?

[patent cobalt]

@upper stonethe first person template already contains a (minimal) VR implementation, so you can run it as VR (VR Preview) and it will work.

@dire parcelyes

[dire parcel]

I think i got it

i was having an issue where on mixamo i uploaded the obj file and it was really small

and on UE4 the models are really small

[upper stone]

Will i be able work export it to my oculus quest 2?

[patent cobalt]

@upper stoneyes, just launch to the device. You need to have the full Android stack installed for that to work though. The official documentation covers the setup.

[upper stone]

Very helpful to know, thank you! Would you be able to refer me to possibly any YouTube videos/tutorials over this? I’ve been researching and researching and haven’t been able to find much. Perhaps I’m using the wrong verbiage

[patent cobalt]

@upper stoneon YouTube search this "unreal engine oculus quest 2 development getting started"

https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unreal/unreal-quick-start-guide-quest/

@dire parcelUnreal uses cm as base unit of length, Blender is usually set to meters. You can set the world scale in Blender to 0.01 and it will match inside Unreal.

[dire parcel]

yup, got it. Thanks.

appreciate that a lot man.

https://tenor.com/view/epic-handshake-powerful-explosion-nuke-gif-13985253

need ya one more time @patent cobalt so i got the model in and the animations are working fine, and i downloaded the texture and it gave me a fbx file how do i apply the texture to the actual player?

before i usually got a png this time i didnt get that i got these

[patent cobalt]

@dire parcelthe texture should be included in a material and the material applied to the player

The two green assets looking like white spheres are your two materials for the player

You need to open them, drag in your texture and connect the texture to the base color input of the material node

[dire parcel]

okay so im opening them

but the actual texture i don't have?

i just have those when i downloaded the texture file

it just gave me these things

@patent cobalt

[patent cobalt]

@dire parcelI don't know where your textures could be. If they are not included in the FBX file maybe they come separately? Check the source you got the model from.

[dire parcel]

https://www.cgtrader.com/items/2584113/download-page

this is the source and where it says texture i downloaded it

and when i drag it into the engine only those files pop up but in blender it comes up

i might be messing up on my import settings i think ..

got it @patent cobalt made a mistake, was dragging the wrong file into the engine.

im all good now, thanks for the help again.

they are right there

[patent cobalt]

@dire parcelgreat! Indeed, you need to drag them inside the material

[dire parcel]

okay i got 2 textures, so i will have to open those other two green ones to the left

and then add them in

i see

[upper stone]

Thank you for your help! I've been trying to find an Unreal tutor to hire to help walk me through this type of stuff via zoom. YouTube is great but i really would like to be able to ask specific questions. I tried codementor, but didnt connect with anyone who I felt could help me with what i'm trying to do. Do you tutor or know of anyone? I would only need one or two sessions

[dire parcel]

try #hire-a-freelancer

[upper stone]

oh didnt even notice that! thank yoU!

[patent cobalt]

@upper stoneI do tutor 1:1 sometimes, the only problem is time.

[upper stone]

understood! would love to know your soonest availability and rate if there is a chance though. thank you!

[dire parcel]

@patent cobalt okay so i made a mistake 😅 a very rookie mistake

so in the screenshot i sent you, that was for a different model that i am not using.

this is the correct mesh, the only problem is I got 2 textures and this model only has 1 material slot

[stable path]

Yeah, you put those textures in a single material and apply that material to the mesh

[dire parcel]

alright cool, how do I complete that? Literally my last step and I can take a break for a while

[stable path]

It depends on what textures you have

There are a few ways textures are used
Diffuse / Base Color
Normal Maps
Roughness Maps
Opacity Maps
etc.

[stable path]

What are the names of your textures?

[dire parcel]

yeah imma have to fix it

[patent cobalt]

(sorry in a meeting, cannot answer rn)

[dire parcel]

all good marco.

they are helping me out rn

[dire parcel]

roughness and visor

so i don't have to delete the model and start all over again i can fix it in the engine ?

[stable path]

Are those the only two textures you got?

[dire parcel]

yup, just these two right here

it was in the texture folder that came with the model

[stable path]

You seem to be missing a texture

At least a Base Color map

The model looks OK in Blender, right?

[dire parcel]

Yeah

Blender it looks regular

Textures and everything

[stable path]

Well, Can you check what textures are applied in Blender?

Just select the character

Open the Materials Panel

[dire parcel]

Yup no problem got ya now

[stable path]

@dire parcel This Panel

[dire parcel]

i dont think i have it

[stable path]

Select the character first

The Body of the character

[stable path]

hmm

They aren't using Textures

It's just a plain color

[dire parcel]

i could just not use textures because it’s just a place holder until I get my actual model done

[stable path]

The thing is, we can see two different pieces here
The Body and the armour

Both have different colors applied to them

[dire parcel]

hmmm

I see what you mean

But they’re only showing one color on blender

https://tenor.com/view/calculating-puzzled-math-confused-confused-look-gif-14677181

[stable path]

No they're not

You have two different pieces of mesh

In the first pic you sent (the one you deleted now), you had only the underlying body selected

[dire parcel]

and in the new one I had both selected

[stable path]

Yes

You have two pieces, The Underlying Body and the armour on top of it

When you select the body, it shows the material which is applied on the body

When you select the armor, it shows one for the armor

[dire parcel]

yes I’m seeing what you mean now

[stable path]

You have two different materials

[stable path]

But as you said here, you only have 1 material slot

[dire parcel]

Yeah when I open my mesh

It only shows one

[stable path]

For getting two material slots, You'll need to export this mesh again afaik

[dire parcel]

Got it , I’ll try again tomorrow

It’s 4am right now

[warm salmon]

Are there textures in the material?

Igs

So go in the landscape mode

Paint mode

Then u will find layers

Click the + button beside the layers

Choose one of the options

And then it will apply

[feral sierra]

Should I always prefer a noise texture instead of Noise node in material editor for optimisation?

[warm salmon]

A snapshot of the material Might work

Can u send

?

In the layer blend y r both the layers named the same like layer none

[fierce tulip]

generally yes.
its fine for hero props, and the simplest settings are cheap-ish, but it wont mipmap and one could argue about AA-things

[feral sierra]

I see, thanks for your answer! yeah a low resolution texture should be cheaper than asking unreal to recalculate a noise

cool!

[fierce tulip]

@feral sierra small convo from last night:
#graphics message

[feral sierra]

excellent, that's the kind of read I was looking for, I appreciate the share

[plush yew]

This tutorial is about making a hologram effects. It's simple and easy but results in great effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3MUQYR7ok

[drowsy snow]

Aren't holos can be achieved with Dither TAA?

Though not ignoring MSAA that can't blur out dithered opacity, guess those have no other option.

[tacit onyx]

Has anyone in here used Prefabricator much? Wondering if it's possible to directly add more assets to a prefab without recreating it or creating a nested prefab.

[raven estuary]

Does anyone know of some good plug and play landscape materials i can buy from the store

[drowsy snow]

Brushify.

[raven estuary]

I vaguely remember a good one that was like trails and the author had a whole pack but i cant find it for the life of me

[raven estuary]

This might be what im thinking of

Ahhhh yeah it totally is thank youi

[errant blade]

OK

I have a probably pretty odd and hard question

but if anybody has any ideas let me know

I'm modding a game where you can build vehicles out of individual lego-like bricks in ue4 4.26

I want to add dynamic buoyancy to it, but both UE4 water and Physical Water Surface seem to only work on actors that have a mesh as their root component

which this game's vehicles don't since they're built in-game

I dont need the buoyancy to follow the vehicle's shape. I'm fine with a rough flotation that is always the same regardless of the vehicle and doesnt account for individual bricks

but i cant figure out how to attach the buoyancy to the vehicles whatsoever

Any ideas?

[drowsy snow]

You may want to check out Ocean Project / Environment Project for reference. It has a dynamic buoyancy, and was built when 4.26's built in water stuff weren't a thing.

I'm not sure how it does that, been a long time since I looked at it.

[errant blade]

Oh I know about that thing. I used it once long ago when modding a previous version of the game and ditched it in favor of PWS (it was 4.21 engine version back then)

is there a 4.26 version of that project?

[raven estuary]

So i bought the brushify forest pack is there a way to make the render distance for things like grass and all that render farther.

In ue 5

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it was under new name, Environment Project

[errant blade]

I apologize for my absolute incompetence but i cant seem to be able to find my way around their github page

how do I download the right version of the dynamic buoyancy project?

[thorny pewter]

Hello again 🙂 when i play game which i made inside unreal engine its smooth and nice but when i package it and play normally my PC cant handle and it becomes not that smooth and good why there is that huge difference in performance ? i use UE 4 btw

[drowsy snow]

Try checking on stat console commands on the Development build.

[thorny pewter]

@drowsy snow im too new in UE where is that and what to look ? i have no idea 😦

@drowsy snow Thank you i found things now 🙂 hoping to fugure them out now THXXX 🙂

[ebon marlin]

Anyway to print fixed width strings in the world?

DrawDebugString is not fixed width by default

[edgy sand]

Hey. I create an Item UObject with a Name and a Description. Which string class should I use? I don't plan to localize my game, should I use FText anyway? Is FText the standard for user facing text?

[drowsy snow]

There's not much difference between FString and FText with your purpose, but for good measure, use FText.

[edgy sand]

Yes, I probably want to compare by string later, but that should be able with FText too I guess. I'll go with FText. I also found this question that seems quite old, but I guess the structures didn't change much in the last 7 years. Thank you!

[plush yew]

Hey, Not sure where this belongs but when I'm testing my VR game. the sound in the game is gone while wearing my headset. When i take it off the sound is back in the headset.
Normally the headset turns on sound and screens while headset worn on the head and when taken off it turns off the sound and screens... I just tested with another UE game and there it acts the same. But watching youtube in chrome gives audio output to the headset while i wear it and shuts off when i take it off...

So i'm hoping someone in here might have expireced something like that before and could help or maybe say if its a windows thing, ue or just oculus

[harsh tiger]

I've got a math question that I can't figure out. In my game I have 7 themes, 7 music and 6 locations. Of which you can select any combination. I want to know how many possibilities are possible. I done 7 x 7 x 6 and got 294. But I'm thinking that isn't right?

[lavish violet]

i need help with packing a game, im running into an error. which channel do i use?

[drowsy snow]

#packaging

[plush yew]

I might have failed math at preschool but it sounds right to me

[lavish violet]

thanks!

[harsh tiger]

I tried a combination calculator online but it only had an option for 2 numbers and not 3. I thought it would be higher than 294 tbh

Thanks!

[drowsy snow]

You could've just used built in calculators to get the results, the arithmetic is so simple. But oh well.

[harsh tiger]

This is what I done. But 294 just seems like a low number of possibilities. At least I know for definite now

[drowsy snow]

I know how it feels though, being overwhelmed by huge numbers coming out of cheating probabilities in recent days.

[harsh tiger]

???

[queen junco]

Hello

[rotund scroll]

7^7^6 is probably more like it

but that assumes every option with every option with every other option

[harsh tiger]

Yes this sounds more like it, I just don't know what that equals 😂

[rancid jay]

How to do that Array's "+" icon BP symbol thing in C++ ?

i googled and no answer

no idea what is it called

No, it has to do with the index? Element?

i just need 5 blank index filled

empty/blank

Append 5 times?

i just want those arrays have 5 empty slots

not adding anything yet

like in BP, you just press "+" icon

and it fills the 5 empty thing

uh i see. Thanks

[rotund scroll]

is that possible in BP?

[rancid jay]

you mean the "+" icon in BP to add empty slots in array? Yes, possible

[runic fern]

Hello Guys is it possible to make Start Location and Location for Static mesh ( Like Cable Component ) ?

[drowsy snow]

There is spline mesh component.

[vagrant thorn]

Hi people, first time here 👋

[runic fern]

Can i use it ingame

Hi @vagrant thorn

[drowsy snow]

Yes, you can.

[runic fern]

❤️

[vagrant thorn]

Instead of long intro, I think I'll skip right to my question... Is there a reason not to do simple architecture stuff 100% in unreal engine?

[daring cedar]

When I imported a City I modeled in Maya to Unreal It got separated. Is there a way to import a city without reassembling everything in Unreal?

[finite jasper]

i have a quick question about materials, if i wanted to animate a blood pool increasing in size, what would i do for it?

yeah i know that, but in the material editor, is there something similar to a panner node to where it would gradually increase the size of the decal?

or would i have to stick with a flipbook animation

ok

thank you

[tacit onyx]

Still wondering if anyone has any Prefabricator experience. I find it a little strange that I can't seem to add an object to a prefab. I'd really rather not delete an entire prefab and remake it every time just to add one thing. O.o

[pallid olive]

guys i have a question, i found a asset in the market store, which asks $250 it has 210 blueprint notes and 7 C++ notes is it worth to buy it or shall i try to do it myself. im verry noob btw

its for multiplayer gamesession, playersession

[neon bough]

depends on how valuable your time is, for $250 it better be good (which sadly not all market place assets are)

[midnight root]

Doing repair on 4.26.2 and for days now its got zero bandwidth, is this a known issue ? o_0

5 and 27 work fine

[neon bough]

#hire-a-freelancer

[pallid olive]

ben can i send u pm to show the asset i meant?

[neon bough]

no, because i can't estimate it's value, because i won't buy any assets >$50 xD

[midnight root]

Is 4.26 server turned off possibly with 4.27 release ?

[pallid olive]

is aws multiplayer best option for mobile games?

[midnight root]

others on forum are having that issue, since july

[latent timber]

i’m trying to get camera movement and i see in some tutorials there’s a time line like this bht idk how to get this

[bright sigil]

1. #hire-a-freelancer and 2. go look in #salary-jobs #freelance-jobs

[bright sigil]

that is sequencer and it is used to make "cinematic" type shots

[ripe wedge]

Hello everyone… first I’d like to apologize on how new I am at this system and trying to understand how everything works in the advanced loco motion system….
..
So I understand the menu on the right is called an overlay state. I would like to get rid of this and instead have a custom UI made by myself that appears in a weapon wheels styles such as the GTA series. I have looked around and I just can’t seem to find the right one is there any other video references that someone can send to me here? I looked at the inventory system here but I do not have certain plug-ins and wish to create from scratch. #help

[bright sigil]

Hi, keep searching, a good keyword is Radial Menu

[latent timber]

ohhh omg tysm

[ripe wedge]

I searched before I didn’t know if it’s Integrate-able with current system but I will try today

[bright sigil]

I've not used ALS, but knowing what you're trying to make can help understand what is already there. Be sure to make back ups!

[ripe wedge]

Thanks I’ll see what I can do good luck to you as well

[plush yew]

is 4.26.2 the latest unreal engine version of 4.26?

[bright sigil]

4.27.1?

[mortal cedar]

is there any way to easily check for updates/update plugins that are installed to the project (not the engine)?

[bright sigil]

yes, in the library of the epic games launcher

[plush yew]

Currently I use Lua Is C++ better than lua?

[mortal cedar]

it only shows plugins installed to engine, not projects. Unless theres somewhere I cant see

[bright sigil]

I recall a similar discussion from yesterday, that it depends on what's being done

[bright sigil]

ah my misunderstanding

[mortal cedar]

I'm trying to swap the plugins from engine to project in order make it easier for team members to have the same versions

[plush yew]

3D ( not high detail )

[mortal cedar]

but when theres an update, I wont know and I'll have to reinstall everything engine side and copy everything over again. and then uninstall them on the engine to prevent conflicts. Its kind of a faff

[bright sigil]

#cpp may have a better answer, I don't use either, sorry

[bright sigil]

that doesn't sound fun, and i don't really know, I suppose if you check the plugins for the project, you would know which to update. Sounds like not every team member has access to the same plugins either otherwise I would say have everyone just update their engine

[plush yew]

Maybe Unreal 5 verse relatively fast compared to C++?

[bright sigil]

also dunno, don't use either 😛

[plush yew]

Yes c++ is best

[plush yew]

no I gotta do a test in 4.26

[bright sigil]

ah, sorry, now I understand what you're asking

[plush yew]

yeah I just wanna make sure its the latest version of 4.26

it been a while since I used unreal engine haha

[bright sigil]

I'm running 4.26.1 so that sounds like the latest

[plush yew]

thanks

yesn't like amn't lol :0

[drowsy snow]

Lua is meant to complement C++.

[plush yew]

is'nt lua basically c?

[drowsy snow]

Eh, oversimplication, but I'm inclined to think it's its own thing.

For one thing, no semi colons in lua.

[plush yew]

do arrays start in 1 in lua?

I think I remember that...

[drowsy snow]

You mean stack?

[plush yew]

no idea

it been like 8 years since I last used lua

[bright sigil]

lua. is. weird.

[plush yew]

all arrays can start at one if you want them to

😎

(I am joking btw)

[bright sigil]

who makes an array start at one? do people seriously start at 1 when they count?

pretty sure we all start at 0 we just don't acknowledge it

[plush yew]

0 can have value depending what math you are doing

because if you use a placeholder instead e.g. a letter, especially in theoretical math it can cause more migraine

it has no actualy value but can work better than a letter in math imo

[bright sigil]

like it had some kind of compensation wrapper for arrays?

[cerulean sandal]

so i tried building and
why does my whole game look like this? please help ;-;

[prime willow]

have you checked lighting

or post process effects

[cerulean sandal]

it works fine in the editor

[prime willow]

filters perhaps in the top corner?

[cerulean sandal]

i dont know

its the first time it happens

[prime willow]

if you have saved often

pull from a backup if youre lazy and dont wanna toruble shoot xD

[cerulean sandal]

i have not

i only noticed that builds now are incredibly fast

as its not building any of the shaders for some reason

[bright sigil]

what does your game look like from engine? ie not this yellow

[cerulean sandal]

alright wtf

i tested this like 1 second ago

and it was working fine

okay its back to normal

[cerulean sandal]

this is how that part of the game looks in PIE

[bright sigil]

looks nice, great job

[cerulean sandal]

thank you

[bright sigil]

and you said it works now? no more issue?

[cerulean sandal]

nah only in the editor

the build doesnt work

[bright sigil]

did it ever work?

[cerulean sandal]

it did

[bright sigil]

the first time? the first few times?

[cerulean sandal]

last time i tried to build was less than a week ago and it was working

[cerulean sandal]

always has worked

it broke just today

[bright sigil]

ah okay, makes sense why others are saying to revert or check the history

so somehow, you'll have to recall what's different from when you last build successfully

[drowsy snow]

Is the level loading?

[cerulean sandal]

i presume so, that yellow is the same yellow from the ceiling

but it looks like its getting 1 pixel and stretching it on all of the screen

[bright sigil]

does the outside void have the same yellow?

[feral sierra]

Hey, I read the link you shared with me about noise performance in UE.
There is something I didn't get, in the graph, all the different noise calculation are compared in performance with a simple noise texture

but why the noise texture has octaves? like the performance is raising with more octave

it's a texture right? not a calculation

[cerulean sandal]

no, outside is completely black

[bright sigil]

it is a calculation

[feral sierra]

I'm talking about "Regular Texture" in the graph

[bright sigil]

thanks for answering my questions, trying to understand where problems may lie

[feral sierra]

there is no regular texture option in the UE noise node

they must be mentioning a image right?

[bright sigil]

the Procedural Noise "texture" in the material editor is not a pixel-based texture inherently

[cerulean sandal]

im the one thanking you for trying to help me :P

[fierce tulip]

even an image needs to be calculated/maths applied.

[feral sierra]

through octaves too?

[cerulean sandal]

i found the problem

[feral sierra]

I understand but if "Regular Texture" refers to a calculation option, I don't know where is it in the node

[bright sigil]

ah great, what is it?

[feral sierra]

I think it's an image what it's mentioned

[cerulean sandal]

not sure how this happened

xD

sorry

[feral sierra]

at this point, a 3D fast gradient is almost as expensive as a noise image, so the difference looks anecdotal

[fierce tulip]

the regular texture is just that, a noise image texture. its not inside the noise node, as its just a texture sample.

[feral sierra]

as I thought, thanks

[fierce tulip]

and 3dfastimage is about as cheap (depending on additional instructions) but since its mathemathically generated, it can/will have issues with a variety of AA. if its noticeable you might wanna bake it down to a regular sample nonetheless. additionally, generally if your lead (tech) artist sees you use a noise node they'll make you wear a dunce hat for a day.

[feral sierra]

when you say break it down you mean bake it?

[fierce tulip]

i did write bake it right?

else my brain is coocoo

[feral sierra]

I think it's mine haha

I see, thank you that is very informative to me

well if it's as cheap as a regular sample, I don't see any reason to be forced to wear a dunce hat haha

[fierce tulip]

because a noise node math instructions work differently than those of a texture sample.

instruction count optimization is only half of the battle.

in some cases something with 100 instructions might in fact be cheaper to render than a 50 instruction one.

[feral sierra]

it makes sense, I see

[fierce tulip]

its a good indicator for sure, but if you delve deeper you'll come across such cases, especially when it comes to overdraw

[feral sierra]

true

thank you for sharing this, it was very interesting

[mellow turret]

how do I enable/disable motion blur?

I should have specified that I need to change it at runtime

[drowsy snow]

It's going to be either your post process component, Game User Settings, or a console command.

[bright sigil]

something like this is what i do

[mellow turret]

isn't there a console command to change the value in Project Settings -> rendering -> default settings?

[drowsy snow]

You said you want to change it in runtime, right? :/

[mellow turret]

yeah

[drowsy snow]

There's no command for the toggle per se, but set the cvar r.MotionBlur.Amount to 0

[mellow turret]

thanks that's what I needed

[hidden bloom]

hey guys having problem. I assigned multiple textures to an object made up of sub objects in max. I brought into unreal and it gave everything the same material. I clicked on the object and said 5 different materials in unreal but it still only wants to give everything the same material?
now I just slapped any ole material on in unreal trying to get it working. I know I can bring seperate and group them but I dont need all the extra pieces

[drowsy snow]

So apparently you can use emojis in BP comment lines

[spare kernel]

@ripe wedge Please do not cross post into multiple channels in the future, read the #rules please. Thanks.

[exotic thicket]

I wonder if you can use them in BP function names

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[exotic thicket]

What could possibly go wrong

:D

[drowsy snow]

😏

It does compile with no error. (emojis are mainly just another Unicode character after all)
Though not sure how it'll hold up in packaging.

[queen junco]

i love unreal engine 🙂

[fallow hornet]

anyone have a way to batch turn on the generate lightmaps checkbox?

[plush yew]

How could I run boolean operations on procedural mesh at runtime?

[fierce tulip]

wutwut

[fierce tulip]

you need to use a multisub material in 3dsmax. that way it gets exported properly.

[drowsy snow]

Hehehe

[drowsy snow]

Because it has simulated physics.

[thick loom]

Are you testing it in UE5?

[drowsy snow]

I afraid that's why, as you see, Chaos, which is UE5's new default physics system, is still broken

At times it's literally unusable.

If you're new to UE, might as well use UE4 in the meantime.

[thick loom]

I ended up moving to UE 4.27 for a lot of reasons

Paragon characters not working was originally one of them

[drowsy snow]

Same, though mainly I'm from 4.26 to 4.27
Attempting to backport Oodle stuff ended up snowballing compilation errors lol

[thick loom]

I really really wish I could use the new 5.0 UI, but 5.0 breaks too many things

[drowsy snow]

Also you don't need UE5's fancy new features to get started.

[drowsy snow]

Dunno, I felt UE5's UI felt claustrophobic to me at times

[thick loom]

Not directly

If you wrote C++ code you can copy that over

You can try copy and paste with blueprint between projects

There is a "Migrate" feature to move stuff between projects, but it is not compatible with moving backwards on version numbers

Copy + paste between projects doesn't always work, but when it does: party time

[drowsy snow]

UE5 Early Access can be reverted to 4.26, but not 4.27.

Dunno. I don't use UE5 myself.

hashtag #UE4Rulez

[plush yew]

can i make a button with blueprints to make the game uninstall from the OS?

[hidden bloom]

@fierce tulip I did it was in the screenshot and it came in as one and I went into unreal and set it to 5 like it should be

[drowsy snow]

No. You'd have to go through C++ for file I/O
Not to mention you could risk obliterating other user files.

[plush yew]

hehehe

better to not even try that as my first piece of c++

[drowsy snow]

Not even Doki Doki Literature Club gone that far for its meta stuff.

[fierce tulip]

you might need to double check the polygon ID's in case its not showing up as it should be.

[drowsy snow]

The most meta file I/O things DDLC done is just deleting its own .chr files and writing new files into the game directory.
Everything else is just reading system settings.

[plush yew]

this is mean that it can be done with c++ then?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.
C++ is pretty low level, even in Unreal's C++.

[plush yew]

if done right, there is a 100% chance of not messing with other user files?

i would feel more comfortable activating the OS uninstalling software

anyway, just a curiosity

[thick loom]

No

You never know where the user will install the game

[drowsy snow]

If you want to be a bit meta about it, I'd prefer to make a spoof OS in UE4 for gameplay purposes.
Not to mention you can create a whole new layer of story with it, like in-universe e-mails or something.

[thick loom]

An innocent sounding uninstall script is to remove the game's folder and all sub folders

But what if the user installed the game to C:\Windows

Or Program Files

or w/e

[plush yew]

can rookies do that?

[thick loom]

Never underestimate the power of the universe in creating a bigger idiot

[plush yew]

i woud like to have a button to mess with the whole /etc folder for linux users too

[drowsy snow]

Making spoof OS inside UE?
It's easy with UMG work and some BP nodes.

[drowsy snow]

Again, make a spoof OS inside your game.

[plush yew]

hahaha no, i meant installing something in Windows folder

[drowsy snow]

Not only it'll be better for file security, it'll be better for your game, having deeper story.

[plush yew]

i tried once mess with a terminal system but i could not figure out how to detect commands with typed words

nah, if there is a chance to mess with other files does not worth it

[thick loom]

Recursive deleting is where it gets scary.

You could always have a file manifest and only delete specific files

But that gets complicated fast

Esp with "dynamically created" files like save files

[drowsy snow]

I'd rather not risk of the game turned into malware at all.

[plush yew]

i am working for a chinese company

...

[drowsy snow]

Just have a spoof OS, make the gameplay happen inside of it. Bonus two layer of story.

[thick loom]

Stake holders requesting the uninstall feature?

[drowsy snow]

Even then uninstaller software that were made from the installer exists not without a reason.

[thick loom]

Oh absolutely

[plush yew]

yeah... but it will not delete the mouse pointer recorder for getting telemetry

[thick loom]

As the engineer, I'd push back hard on an "uninstall" feature

it's a whole product by itself

[plush yew]

you gave me the idea of introducing the start screen for the first time and save selection

[thick loom]

I had to manage the install / uninstall process for the last product I worked on

There are open source products available for this

[drowsy snow]

If you want to have some idea, check out games like Superhot, Pony Island, Hypnospace Outlaw
Those games have their own spoof OS to tell the story in two layers, and have the one below break the meta without actually harming the users' real files.

[plush yew]

before playing: be sure you are running the software in a virtual sandbox

[narrow igloo]

Or you could go full ddlc mode and require players to delete game files to progress :)

[plush yew]

imagine having to deal with a hacker in-game to not steal your bank account

[thick loom]

What! That's crazy

I need to play this game

[drowsy snow]

Even then DDLC's meta is not that crazy.

[thick loom]

When I actually have time to play a game XD

[drowsy snow]

It's a fairly short visual novel, about 2 to 4 hours (at least the original version, not the Plus version)

And it's very graphic and involves several disturbing subject, so proceed with caution. Though the meta file I/O is not destructive.

[drowsy snow]

I'd rather reporting it to cybersecurity forums.
Invasive malware .exe games can go f||uck|| themselves.

[plush yew]

all i can think is the type and mouse pointer speed of someone who install games on c://windows

epic

[drowsy snow]

But yeah, spoof OS
Can be done in UE4 with UMG and Blueprints.

[remote sail]

is there a way render a billboard material behind a mesh?

[drowsy snow]

Aren't the default billboard material always adhere to depth?

[remote sail]

I'll look into that thanks

[drowsy snow]

Editor actor icons are billboard components, and they do got occluded.

Though Billboard components may cause slight TAA upsampling artifact

[hidden bloom]

@fierce tulip Not sure I am new to any kind of texturing so not even sure I did it right in max. like said can just bring individually and put different assets in different folders so easier to work but I am trying to learn how to do it more efficiently than 30 parts per asset in folders

[fierce tulip]

1. make a multisub material in max. (give each of the inputs a different color/texture)
2. apply correct ID's in edit mesh/edit poly mode to all the polygons.
3. export
4. import
5. ?????
6. profit :)

[hidden bloom]

Ok I had done that before but I used edit element because each element had its own material does it matter if I use edit element instead of edit poly

[fierce tulip]

in all my years I never used element, so cant say. I'd just do it in edit poly

[hidden bloom]

ok thanks ill do it that way and see how it works

[dawn gull]

Is there any way that i can move forward (relative to actor rotation and in 3d space) a specific amount of units?

[short vine]

hi bros somebody can explain in Horror Engine how can i rotate the paper not only with the mouse, i want rotate it with the gamepad right thumbstick too? thank you so much for the help bro.

[dawn gull]

Thank you!

Yeah, basically

[drowsy snow]

Pawn is the parent class of the Character.

Also in general Pawn is an actor that's possessable by a controller.

Character is inherited from Pawn.

Basically either Player or AI controller.

[hidden bloom]

Ok it seems so far at least in max to be assigning different materials (colormap placeholder materials) where before it didnt. the only difference this time is I am using poly selection instead of element selection. will take a while to select polys but will see when import later tonight

[daring cedar]

How do I fix the UV on top cube?

[drowsy snow]

Do you model it externally, or is it a BSP/geometry brush?

[daring cedar]

externally

[drowsy snow]

Then fix it externally, in whatever DCC tool you're using to make it.

[hidden bloom]

Yea looks like you adjusted it after uving it and it looks to need reuved

[drowsy snow]

Already answered on #cinematics . Please don't crosspost unless otherwise redirected.

[nocturne slate]

Not sure if this is where to put this but, I can no longer open my project.
I recently updated it to 4.27.0, and it worked for a while. But then after downloading the hotfix 4.27.1, the project crashes directly after the editor loads in.
I get this every time:
Assertion failed: !bShaderMapComplete [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/Materials/MaterialShared.cpp] [Line: 2584]
I tried downgrading back to 4.26, and while I could load the engine again properly, .uassets and .umaps aren't backwards compatible. I even found the exact piece of code the error is talking about, but I'm not sure If I can do anything with it.

[late verge]

how do i go about creating a level that just has a bunch of lights?

i'm working with sequencer at the moment, and i'd like to be able to group a bunch of lights together into a "level" and make use of the level visibility track on a per shot basis

[plush yew]

how can i light up elements outside?

[drowsy snow]

Wouldn't it be easier to just have an actor BP containing multiple light components?

[late verge]

if i were to use a BP wouldn't i need to position it in my level to the correct position, whereas with a level the lights are in the correct position as soon as the level is loaded up?

apologies, just trying to wrap my head around this

[drowsy snow]

Just make it spawnable in your Sequencer. That could make the lights actor only present in the shot.

Also you could set the transform in the very first frame,

[loud berry]

Hey guys, I'm a brand new game dev. I've been poking around with scripts in lua for a few years but would still consider myself a beginner as most of my coding experience has been script based mods for other games.

I would say I'm pretty well versed in textures as I've made some of my own for oblivion, skyrim, gmod, cs:go, and now blender and unreal. So maybe intermediate to advanced?

I've very little music experience.

I have a ton of digital art experience from twitch emotes, business logos, art studies, commissions, etc.

I also have about 4 weeks experience in 3d modeling but thats kind of irrelevant for this entire context.

I've been binge watching game dev vids on YouTube and I'm having a hard time determining if a project I have in mind is too large scope.

I want to make a 2d game. There will only be 3 levels. A bathroom, a work and kitchen area, and then a living/sleeping space.

The main mechanic of the game will be juggling and maintaining status bars through a series of actions. Music will be simple. Art will also be simple with around... I want to say 30-40 unique objects in total. No inventory system. A couple of HUDs to do certain actions like eat food, take a shower, work, etc.

With my experience as context do you think this project is way too complicated? I dont feel like it's too much and I'd be giving myself around 3-6 months to complete it

[rotund scroll]

triplanar mapping

[inland pine]

does anyone know how to make/find textures for my game

[bright sigil]

well, let's see, first off, great to hear about your experiences throughout the realm of digital art and games, the mod experience gives you a lot of experience in this. Maybe you feel new (sounds like this is your first self-driven project) but it also sounds like you're well versed in terms and concepts. The scope sounds like plenty, though it's always smart to consider what is the smallest, simplest, concise-est version of the full idea, because you'll want to build this first and make sure things feel good - given there is a 2d template, its a matter of getting things the way you'd like (movement, jump, add'tl mechanics). The juggling of status bars sounds like a complicated area compared to the rest, not a bad thing.

my advice on the approach is to get the template up and running, don't start making code/bp just yet, but see what is already there as each template has a lot from the start and most likely contains the features you would otherwise think need to be made from scratch. Plus there are features that may add to your idea which are already there to have fun with. Focus on one level and realize as much as you can with it, both gameplay and layout (don't spread thin for the sake of quantity). Finally, test how the game plays just as much as you work on it, make sure you build often (let's say at project milestones) and back up your project folder (the whole thing - especially when you finish large milestones). Versioning is your best tool, harddrive space will be used.

welcome to slackers, hope you get settled well. be sure to read #more-resources and always feel free to ask for help, PM me if it's important (that does not go for everyone), otherwise there's plenty of experienced, intelligible, and patience people here who share the same passion. Good Luck 🖖

[bright sigil]

textures.com is widely used

[loud berry]

Okay sweet, thank you so much for the feedback and approach tips. I know features should come last so I definitely want to establish the base first. And thank you for allowing me to message you!

[bright sigil]

well i didn't say features should come last, i think you'll want those in soon to make sure everything feels good, I just mean to pace yourself before diving into to all the ideas

[loud berry]

Oh okay, I just heard that tip from a dev on YouTube about the features. I want a few off the bat but I want to make sure everything else you mentioned is functioning correctly first so I don't confuse my workflow when I start coding or adding blueprints :)

[bright sigil]

from a blank canvas point-of-view, there is nothing made so the developer should start making it all. Unreal is not a blank canvas, there's quite a bit from the get go, why ignore it? that's all im trying to get at, it's advice though, nothing more

[loud berry]

Oh lol I'm not used to the idea of working in a game engine yet 😅 I gotcha now

[rotund scroll]

nah sounds fairly feasible, and it's good that you're thinking about scope first

[loud berry]

Sweet, thank you

[paper cobalt]

Ok ... i feel defeated at converting cascade to niagara to get raytraced particle reflections for this flame series. the dev has no intent at updating it and the conversion is kicking my butt.....

anyone have any suggestions for high quality fire that also works with reflection?

i may just have to generate a vdb but i wanted to use an asset

[loud berry]

Not sure if I'll be able to help but I do think I'll need an image example of what you mean when you talk about reflections

[paper cobalt]

one sec!

[bright sigil]

yeah lets see that fire!

[paper cobalt]

ok doing you one better. took a screenvideo and uploading to youtube.

idk what i did but i may be onto something......

[bright sigil]

you ever fix the lighting thing? sounds like you were on to something yesterday, also it looks like #graphics has calmed down, so maybe move over to there

[paper cobalt]

I have yes!

here is my final lighting

good enough for me and looks great when illuminated with the cascade particles

[loud berry]

Ping me when you've got the vid

[paper cobalt]

PING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0SrDN74ChM

[loud berry]

Also I need an example is this what ur going for or what u have?

[paper cobalt]

i was messing around with the materials and may have gotten something to work,,, i am investigating now

[loud berry]

Ah the material on the floor?

[bright sigil]

the lights spawning and flying up looks funny, haha funny. yeah! i was gunna ask, i think that's next too. hope it looks cool, im imagining some kind of dissolve mask/noise with a wpo for the shrivel << for the cashmoney

[loud berry]

It looks like only one part of the fire emitter is casting reflection but could be good enough to "fake" it

[paper cobalt]

YESSS like a burn effect??

[bright sigil]

you know it

[bright sigil]

yeah i thought that was oil on the ground or burn caused by the fire

[paper cobalt]

correct. i think i set those particles to be surface

im going to repeat that with the other cascade node materials and see if it works

[loud berry]

I haven't worked with emitters too much but maybe try increasing the scale of just emission part? It seems to be struggling to reach as far out as it would be irl

The lighting reflections anyway

[bright sigil]

hmmm, i see what you mean about getting this into Niagara though, they don't play well

yeah, so what is the plan with the fire, it'll build up or something?

[loud berry]

That does give me an idea if u want it to spread. You could scale both the fire and the emitter down initially and then when it starts spreading you could increase both the fire and the emitter scale to a certain point before telling it to multiply

[paper cobalt]

i was trying to work with the cascade to niagara conversion plugin but they dropped support (makes sense)
but felt defeated because it wasn;t working the way i expected it to and got frustrated lol

[paper cobalt]

that is a good idea!!

have you seen what the asset was intended to do? not sure if i linked the video here

https://vimeo.com/273949601

there may be hope

fluidninja live (i own) has what looks like a high quality fire particle

[loud berry]

Ohhh i see... hmm yeah im afraid I'm out of my depths when it comes to wind physics, particle generation, and explosions. The way im thinking it would work sounds, in my head, like it'd be very costly for several fire emitters

[paper cobalt]

i really only want the reflections at this point hahaha

im going to keep futzing around with the cascade particle materials hoping something works

and il switch to fluid ninja to attmept that

[loud berry]

Could u add some small almost star like particles to what you have already? Theyd be like small emitters but you could have them orbit the primary fire emitter. You seem to have some minimal reflections which might be enough

[paper cobalt]

that is potential

........do textures need to be set to a specific compression setting to work with raytracing?

[loud berry]

I wouldn't imagine so, whats the problem? @paper cobalt

[manic owl]

if someone could help me i would greatly appreciate it. i have an extremely basic script for picking up an orb, and then allowing a new one to spawn in its place after 3 seconds has elapsed. it will destroy the actor and a new one will spawn its its place, but then im not able to pick up the relpacement orb. please help

[loud berry]

Is orb at the end the same orb that spawns initially?

[manic owl]

it appears to be

i cant tell a difference from the world model

i only have one orb asset

[loud berry]

Change the material to something unique on the original and see if it's the same

[manic owl]

okay

same colors

im wondering if it being an actor component instead of an actor is the problem

[loud berry]

Um... well I just browsed real quick while I was waiting and...

[manic owl]

yeah?

[loud berry]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/97532/whats-the-best-way-to-respawn-a-pickup-in-blueprin.html

https://answers.unrealengine.com/storage/temp/15274-pickupspawner3.jpg

You can see at the end of all that there is a bool to determine if the item is spawned

[manic owl]

i noticed that

i also noticed the getworldlocation node which is way more conveinent idk how i didnt think to use that

my dumb self was hard coding coordinates

[loud berry]

We're all still learning something, I don't know how to do this with nodes but I have some practical scripting experience in lua. I do remember having to check if the item was spawned

[manic owl]

i guess im still not sure why my blueprint doesnt loop. I could just make a new blueprint that would work based on this information you gave me but it woudlnt answer my question. why doesnt my blueprint loop? im still really new to game dev so im trying to learn why my antics fail

thanks for helping me though motoko youre a legend i appreciate you

[loud berry]

It doesn't seem to contain any information for a false result... one sec.

[oblique flame]

Anyone here good at networking, i got a few errors trying to make my game Multiplayer.

[bright sigil]

im not quite following the logic here. afaic this wont loop. are you expecting the delay node to do this?

[manic owl]

im trying to pick up an orb (it gets destroyed) and then 3 seconds later another orb spawns in place of it and that works but what i cant do is pick up the second orb. after i pick up the first one it wont allow me to pick up the second @bright sigil

[bright sigil]

ah that is not going to be the spawn logic, that will be the orb then, what's that bp look like?

[manic owl]

well it may be hard for you to see but here is the whole bp for the orb

i circled the more relevant part of the bp

[stable path]

I think instead of destroying the component
It'd be better to just hide the mesh and turn it back on again

[manic owl]

mmm smart

however, id still like to know why this method doesnt work

because my dumb self still thinks this should work in theory

[bright sigil]

i think by hiding it, which also means turning off and on the collider check, would address it

[prime willow]

um

@manic owl where is the target referenced?

[manic owl]

conrad it doesnt delete the collider i checked

but smart suggestion

on destory component node

[bright sigil]

hiding won't, but i think you'll need to turn off and on the collider

[prime willow]

have you checked to make sure the sphere is refernced and saved in variable for the sphere?

[stable path]

@manic owl also which bp is this in the pic?
Is it the orb bp

[bright sigil]

ah this is a good point, you should set the output actor to OrbSphere

[manic owl]

@stable path yes its the orb bp

[bright sigil]

actually, thats still not going to fix it all

[prime willow]

he could also right in the orb a simple setup

[bright sigil]

what you spawn is a new actor and not a component

[prime willow]

where sphere is referenced

and saved as self

so when this function is called

itll check sphere

who is saved as the target

than the rest of the function should flow as intended

maybe

[manic owl]

see, i thought that was the problem but it doesnt allow you to spawn components

[bright sigil]

it would be AddStaticMeshComponent

[loud berry]

Also im back. Here is this:

https://youtu.be/dbLFHflVleg

Where instead of destroying it on button press u just replace that bit of code with the interact code u already have and I believe this also implements the destroy function

[stable path]

There is an add component node

[bright sigil]

but this whole thing is better as a hide and show method

deleting and spawning like this just clutters garbage collection. hiding/showing keeps its referencable

[manic owl]

okay hang on guys

youre awesome lemme try some stuff and ill get back to you

[bright sigil]

good luck

[loud berry]

I'm gonna but out tho I don't wanna confuse the poor person. Lol I hardly know what I'm doing with BP's

[prime willow]

we have expanded his mind~

mission accomplish guys

[loud berry]

I read that as "explained his mind" almost died 💀

[prime willow]

👀

[manic owl]

@stable path @bright sigil okay so neither the Add Static Mesh node nor the Add Component nodes allow me to use my orb as a target

the only one that does is the Spawn Actor node that im currently using

(to my knowledge)*

[bright sigil]

after the add static mesh component, use the output to set Orb Sphere