ue4-general

[bright sigil]

still gotta nudge you towards the hide/show method, it seems so much better, less error prone, but by all means learn!

[manic owl]

yes conrad im going to switch my method entirely after this

i just want to understand why i cant do it this way

[bright sigil]

great, but i dont mind having you check this out, its also pretty cool

[manic owl]

because if i dont im just going to run into this problem again with future blueprints

[stable path]

As Conrad said this already,
When picking up th orb, you're only destroying the component
But when spawning the orb again, you're spawning a whole new actor
So, you're most likely ending up with two actors. The first one having destroyed component and second one, the new orb

[manic owl]

OH

see thats what i was looking for

[stable path]

It might also be messing with the collision

[manic owl]

that makes complete sense

[bright sigil]

yeah, i wanted you to come to this conclusion, although yes, i did sort of say it, the click is the important bit but i also am considering this: if you spawn a new one, shouldn't that function like the previous anyways?

[manic owl]

im convinced that it should still be possible (thought inefficient as ive learned) to destroy the whole actor and replace the whole actor (or destroy and replace the component within the one actor)

how could that be achieved? @stable path

[inland pine]

wait why is this rendering in as black when it has a texture (also i have rebuilt the lighting)

[bright sigil]

for starters, instead of destroying the component, just call destroy actor - make sure you destroy last

[loud berry]

Did u apply the texture in the material of the object?

[manic owl]

when i call for the destroy actor node it doesnt allow me to destroy the orb because the orb is considered a component

[bright sigil]

is this something you've modelled and imported?

[manic owl]

so i have to use destroy compoonent

[inland pine]

no

[stable path]

@manic owl if you want to destroy the whole actor, you'll have to spawn a new orb first and then destroy the previous orb

[oblique flame]

Can someone help me sort out this error, im trying to make my game MP and im getting this one error,

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetPlayerController_ReturnValue". Blueprint:  BP_GameInstance Function:  Update Game State Graph:  UpdateGameState Node:  Cast To BP_HUD_Parent

Been at this for hours trying to simply get the hud working for the client.

[stable path]

Use the destroy actor node instead of destroy component

[manic owl]

Thanks ill see if i can make that happen

[bright sigil]

i believe i said this?

[stable path]

@bright sigil yeah

[bright sigil]

it's your avatar, somehow he listens to it more

[stable path]

Well, Omni man does look menacing

And commanding

[bright sigil]

haven't the faintest idea, everything is dim though, but it doesn't look like lighting, what does unlit mode look like?

[bright sigil]

yeah, something out of venture bros

[loud berry]

What does ur material node look like? And nothing else in ur scene has much light either try bumping up the brightness

[bright sigil]

damn that is weird, i aint got much, and when i aint got much, restarting the editor is all i can think of

[manic owl]

i cant because the orb is an actor component not an actor so it wont let me reference the orb that way

[loud berry]

I think it's a lighting issue caused by the material having a lower value in the reflection map/specular node [i think its specular]

[bright sigil]

Hyphen, you dont need to plug anything into it all this bp code is on the sphere right?

[stable path]

@manic owl you must have a blueprint where you've attached your actor component, right?

[bright sigil]

is scale negative?

[bright sigil]

still thinking on your issue, a bit harder, #blueprint or #multiplayer might be better, ill guess that you cant access player because game instance initializes before the player does, just a guess

[loud berry]

Google says somethings scale is set to 0 on an axis. Change it to like 0.1 or something

[stray ingot]

hey guys, im new to UE4, and i just try watching videos but nothing seems to help me learn how to make games or code at all. Any ideas on others ways?

[drowsy snow]

Take Unreal Online Learning courses.
Link is in the pinned messages.

[stray ingot]

dope g thanks

[ivory hearth]

Guys. Sorry for bothering. I was just looking for an answer regarding a question related to publishing a free game.
I do not plan to monitize it in any way.
Is it necessary that I inform epic game about this release or I can just post it without informing.. I am planning to put the mini game in playstore.
Could you please help me.

[loud berry]

Patience and time. If unreal is the engine you chose you'll have to mess around a while before you understand. If you want to learn to code try code academy or something similar

[inland pine]

I fixed the problem

it was that the cube was to thin

[drowsy snow]

Just publish it right away.

[stray ingot]

age req at all?

[inland pine]

fixed

[drowsy snow]

You'd only have to consult to Epic if you somehow made almost 1 million USD from your game sales alone.

[ivory hearth]

I read somewhere that threre was some sheet like this was there.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/release

Don't know if it is only for paid

[loud berry]

Rock on 🤘

[drowsy snow]

If you're required to contact Epic regardless, there won't be a lot of UE games on itch.io

[ivory hearth]

Thats also true

Am just so paranoid about these legal stuff..most of the times they are very very confusing

[bright sigil]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/publishing

[oblique tangle]

hi all, sorry for the random message but im running into this painful camera push bug and i cant remember how you can fix it, ive tried adjusting the near clipping plane to a smaller value but it hasn't helped, any response would be greatly appreciated, cheers! https://i.gyazo.com/c2be59464552a614c807f6add1a42443.mp4

[ebon stirrup]

thats is from the camera boom (spring arm )

maybe you can try unticking the do collision test of the spring arm

[oblique tangle]

ah yep, worked perfectly, thanks a bunch man @ebon stirrup

[ebon stirrup]

😋 welcs bro

[hidden bloom]

Ok now I am pissed. I made a new part no material on it like I have always done before and then did my uvs now trying to put a material on it in unreal and it isnt letting me. im doing the same as I always had before so there must be a stupid setting somewhere I dont know about blocking textureing

[bright sigil]

bro, that's the static mesh slot

[hidden bloom]

well it slid when I was trying to hit the prt scn button but same thing in material slot

[native raven]

I'm really new to Unreal Engine 4 and every time I import my character into it, it always splits it into pieces. How do I fix this?

[hidden bloom]

@native raven on import theres an option for single mesh might have to open some dropdowns to see it

also if you select everything at once and drag it in it will place everything properly but you then would have to select them and group them

[native raven]

I'm either blind or there is no option for me

[tender pecan]

I think Combine is only available for Static meshes, Skeletal mesh dont have that option. But also I see each mesh is coming in with their own skeleton.
Did you skin all your meshes in your DCC to the same skeleton?

From the docs.

[sullen forge]

Asking here cause wasn't sure where else
Is it illegal to take a system that is implemented in a game engine like nanite or IDTech's megatexture thing and implement in another

[tender pecan]

It is not illegal at all.

No idea about IDTech, you would have to consult their EULA

[stray ingot]

thanks again, just finished my first part of a course and its alot easier since it quizzes you on it.

[surreal eagle]

can someone tel me what i'm diong

contact me in here

to see the worst code ever

[drowsy snow]

<@&213101288538374145> Judgement on invitation links?

[surreal eagle]

do you really need to wase their time on this

really?

[drowsy snow]

If you do your own clean room reverse engineering, then it's legal (as long as it's not patented). Clean room engineering is basically you look at other's implementation on something, study with what you can get, and make your own spin on it.

Copying parts of the copyrighted code however is illegal, and doesn't substitute (clean room) reverse engineering.

[tender pecan]

Copying code is not illegal, that is bullshit. It is stated in the EULA you may do so. You are then subject to the Unreal EULA. 🙂

[drowsy snow]

I mean, it's not entirely illegal, but for oversimplification sake, let's just say it's illegal.

But tbh it's my bad for oversimplicating, should've been pedantic on writing it.

[tender pecan]

I see the point yes. I mean there are actually many grey areas here, need to check on precedent but distributing for sale yes. defo illegal and they will persue, but copying nah. You should be ok.

[surreal eagle]

illegal?

laughs in stealing blueprints from random russian links

[tender pecan]

The Google and Apple cases are making it very difficult to find cases. urgh.

Go look here and decide for yourself. Or get your lawyer to splain it. 🙂
https://casetext.com/search?q=Epic Games&PHONE_NUMBER_GROUP=P&sort=relevance&p=1&type=case

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: dr.supervillain#0176 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[tender pecan]

Now, if you were to copy UDK (UE3 source code, that would be a different story,. as that is protected by Law as code containing Trade Secrets and IP )
Epic are still battling cases to this day with licensees of the UDK regarding copying code. That is 100% illegal. And is stated as such when you sign the contracts. But UE4 is a different story.

It is a little difficult to determine cases for precedent without access, but it does not seem like UE4 users are getting sued left right and center for copying code.
And that makes sense looking at the EULA. Once you copy UE4 code, that product becomes governed by the UE4 EULA. How would this impact that products existing EULA?
Those are questions you should ask you legal rep. If you are just a dude copying stuff for making a game, and not for the purpose of selling in part or whole as a 'game engine' then you are golden.
Once you hit 1MIllion, pay the piper. 🙂

[runic fern]

Goodmorning , Goodafternoon , Goodevening

[drowsy snow]

If I had the choice, I'd prefer doing clean room reverse engineering to avoid the royalty impact and other potential copyright infringement cases.

[runic fern]

mate i used spline for cable spawn yesterday but i want to spawn it on wall and ceiling ..
also i want to spawn corners when i change it from X to Z its stretching the mesh instead of spawning new one

[drowsy snow]

I think procedural mesh could do the rigid stuff.

Please see #instructions on how to post on #hire-a-freelancer. Thank you for understanding.

[runic fern]

its just cable cylinder should i do it rigid ?

I was trying to spawn new mesh when the X changes to Z but its spawning weird shape

[drowsy snow]

Make sure you don't block incoming server DMs.

[runic fern]

Manny cant answer you like this its a bot

you have to follow the instruction he will post your offer in channels

[drowsy snow]

Follow the #instructions closely. Works just fine in my end.

[runic fern]

This is the shape im getting when i change the direction

[drowsy snow]

Wait, you said you want to make walls?

[runic fern]

no not walls .. Cables spawns on walls

and ceilings

[runic fern]

xD

[drowsy snow]

スペイン語は話せません。
I don't speak Spanish.

[drowsy snow]

I think there was a new plugin specifically for cables on walls on Marketplace, forgot what it's called

[runic fern]

Cable Component ?

[drowsy snow]

No, a marketplace plugin

[runic fern]

oh

[drowsy snow]

https://youtu.be/aeEuTu9BY7c

[runic fern]

nice

its working ingame also i think

[lone talon]

i want cook for windows server after delete some folder, but still editor try to cook deleted files and BPs , anyone can help ?

[tender pecan]

what is 'some folder' kind of more or less specifically?

[lone talon]

folders which I do not those , previous version of heroes , something like this ,but i deleted manually in wnidows explorer

[tender pecan]

And then are you using iterative build? or full rebuild?

[lone talon]

full rebuild and compile

[marble mist]

where can I get guns models?

[modest trench]

https://orbital-market.com/ is a convenient way to search the Unreal engine marketplace if that helps

[tender pecan]

Ok, then you probably did not delete what you thought you did. 🙂
You want to be sure?
Close Editor.
Delete Output packaged folder [ where ever you build to ], Binaries, Saved, Intermediate and Build [if it exists]
Reopen Editor or Just rebuild via cmd line or what ever you use.
If it is still in your package, then it is still in your project somewhere. ( find it with CTL+P )

[marble mist]

But i dont have money xd

[modest trench]

filter by free

[drowsy snow]

Hard to get free one yknow, man's gotta eat.

Though there is few free weapon pack on MP

[lone talon]

thanks , i will do

[ebon stirrup]

hey i know a free pack

there are 3 guns pack that i know all are free

[sour tide]

Is it actually crazy to try to learn how to make games by starting with UE4? I suspect I'm jumping in at the deep end, but I also kind of hate using tools when I can see their limitations.

[drowsy snow]

Nope. You're not crazy for that.

[marble mist]

I know

[drowsy snow]

But you want the model of real firearms, I presume?

[drowsy snow]

Or just because the last supported version is 4.21?
You can force import it to newer engine versions, and it's just a bunch of simple assets, should be no problem importing them.

[ebon stirrup]

i do tht all the time
works 100% fine

[hasty anchor]

I do this , its not showing anything related in ctl+p and yea , same stage again 😦

[tender pecan]

"same stage" can you provide some info?
I mean it cant make stuff up and it wont take from your recycle bin, so it is in your project guaranteed, somewhere. give some info, what is it exactly you are seeing, that you think should not be there friend?

[lone talon]

still not work , i have errors when cook and deleted files try too cook 🙁

[drowsy snow]

I would try migrate the files into a new project and copy the config files, and try build from there.

[tender pecan]

Cool, at least you are making progress. 😆 Share your errors and lets see whats going on , I mean I cant help you via telepathy

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: leo-senpai#3324 was banned.

[hasty anchor]

so basically I delete some file from file explorer , some stuff deprecated

now while cooking engine says it couldnt find that "X" file for same "X" File

why async load code asks for something deleted....

[drowsy snow]

Tried wiping Binaries, Build, Intermediate, Saved folders?

[hasty anchor]

yes all of them

anything I can possibly delete it

[tender pecan]

It is possible they were referenced by other assets, and you jsut broke those references by deleting them from file explorer.

you should really only do that if you really know what you are doing, else jsut use the delete asset in engine, it will resolve that for you

[hasty anchor]

I dont think its a case because its running in editor

[tender pecan]

yeah, but for some reason, asset are marked for packaging, that want those you deleted

[hasty anchor]

sometimes it dosent delete and that is why .... 😦

[tender pecan]

a ha. we get closer to the real issue 😆

[drowsy snow]

Oh right, the references usually won't get invalidated until you try to load it.
But shouldn't packaging constitute loading the asset?

[hasty anchor]

I mean it says delete it but there is files inside that

[drowsy snow]

Try fixing up redirectors.

Right click on any folder -> Fix Up Redirectors

[hasty anchor]

yea done many times

Im start to thinking about lumberyard =)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[tender pecan]

It looks like animation lost references to asets. So it was def not cleanly removed 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Lumberyard's dead lmao
It's either CryEngine or O3DE.

[hasty anchor]

so any solution? 😦

[tender pecan]

I see Epic's Rogue being referenced in there.

Probably a sequence was not cleanly removed

[hasty anchor]

want me to share my screen?

[tender pecan]

yes, I think do what Lorash suggested. Delete via editor rather. if you get errors there, post them here again.

[hasty anchor]

Ah I hope I have that option, have issues with plastic right now also

[hasty anchor]

So I guess I RIP yea?

:))

[plush yew]

rest in palace

[hasty anchor]

😐

[tender pecan]

you can restore those assets from the marketplace, the same way you got them 😆

[hasty anchor]

ty guys , I will try to build up from what I have left

[hasty anchor]

lol
check this out

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

[plush yew]

are paragón asset good?

[hasty anchor]

somehow conditiones of my partner force me to dont use VC , and yea Im universally ***up

[tender pecan]

anyyard really

[hasty anchor]

I should just change my partner I guess

:))

[drowsy snow]

They worth 12 million USD, so make that what you will

[plush yew]

Recommend some good quality assets

[drowsy snow]

Still nothing compared to Blender's Default Cube

[plush yew]

a,x,enter

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, tried to speedrun deleting default cube, shy of 2 second.

Still a few time loss here and there

[plush yew]

why do not delete it once and then modify the default file?

i am not playing a game with you

checkmate

[drowsy snow]

Because it's boring.

[drowsy snow]

Besides, default cube is the only legal subject for actual domestic violence 😈

[plush yew]

i do not get the reference

but if you are talking about virtual domestic violence, i would suggest to stop

violence is bad even on the bit word

[fierce tulip]

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

[sour tide]

I just installed the editor, baby steps. Why is every tutorial except the first one green-ticked? Do they actually exist? If I hover over them, it says the category is completed, though I never did them, and nothing happens if I click on them.

(note: the first one does work and I actually did that one)

(....I think. I did SOMETHING that pointed out the main parts of the interface, in turn)

[drowsy snow]

Eh, those tutorials are, while pretty direct, are not as comprehensive as the Unreal Online Learning course on getting start.

Also it was from early early UE4 versions.

[sour tide]

So, they're like... stubs of what was? Curious that the buttons would be there but not seem to do anything

I'll ignore them then

[drowsy snow]

Things definitely changed a lot from 4.1, so yeah

[sour tide]

all right, sounds good

I actually already had the first hour thing opened in one of my many tabs but then this one popped up in the actual editor, so I started chasing that one

[faint bone]

when i cast to item actor, what should be object for it?

[obsidian nimbus]

base actor

if you have an AActor ref it can cast to a character cuz its also an AActor

you sorta say.. use this aactor as an Acharacter and if its not a char the cast wil fail

[tender pecan]

Yeah, so any object, of which the parent type [ or parent's parent, etc.. ] is an AActor ( c++ ), or Actor ( Blueprint )

[faint bone]

well its confusing. but sol i found is create a variable, refrence it to actor class im casting and use it as object. 😛 and it doesn't work. :<

[obsidian nimbus]

if you have a trigger box BP, with a box collision with an on overlap event

it wil give u a ref of the overlapping actor

AActor has a lot of code like... set transform and set visible stuff like that

your char BP has all the code from AActor but also code from the char, if you want to use that code you cast to it

[faint bone]

yeah thats where the problem, when i cast to a actor, i don't know object for it.

[obsidian nimbus]

you can set transform of the char w/o knowing its a char cuz u know its an AActor

[tender pecan]

"a variable, refrence it to actor class im casting" -> what is your variable type as defined in your blueprint, and what method are you calling that requires an actor? screen shot if you not sure

[faint bone]

its same im casting to.

[obsidian nimbus]

if u have a ref you dont need to cast

[faint bone]

ref not working.

i created it myself, so i can't acess them.

[tender pecan]

Also, what variable type is this:

And where are you setting the value for that variable

[faint bone]

its actor class im casting to.

[obsidian nimbus]

the cast says NOTE

[tender pecan]

Yep., it is just saying no need to cast to same type.

So the variable is null

[faint bone]

so at end, what is the object here?

when casting to another actor, which object to use?

[tender pecan]

I see. Tell me, why do you think you need to cast? you can get the same functions from just your variable pin? ( it is the same object type 🙂 )

Cast wont fix it if its null. 🙂

[obsidian nimbus]

if you do a spawn actor from class and set that as the ref it wont be null

[stone stump]

hey guys is there any tutorial where they show how to create a stylized ice master material in UE5

?

[obsidian nimbus]

not sure if thats what u want tho

[stone stump]

tried didnt find anything good

any documentation

[obsidian nimbus]

https://www.artstation.com/search?sort_by=relevance&query=stylized ice

[faint bone]

thanks, looks like it working.

but i made variable in that actor also public and now it works.

[modest trench]

https://80.lv/articles/developing-artistic-ice-in-unreal-engine-4/

although sadly the download links are down

[primal tendon]

Is it possible to modify how a blueprint actor I place scales? I want it so that when I scale it, it should replicate the an component in the blueprint in the direction X,Y,Z....

[primal tendon]

I'm trying to use water-materials
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/water-materials

The problem is I need to separate those into different planes and put them side by side to make it look like one big ocean
And I have a 4k x 4k Sanhok (PUBG) heightmap I got from some random github.

For reference I have put 1 big plane covering the whole place but that's how I want the water to be.
I don't know exactly how much should each plane be of size but I only know that I need to have multiple of them placed side by side to overall form that big of ocean and it's too much manual work.

[tender pecan]

The water materials use vertex animation via UV's to perform the waves, so if you break up into grids/tiles, your planes wont align as the vertices deform to create waves.
Meaning you will see massive holes and tearing in the sea and your ocean plane will look like poo

So even if you get it tiled, those materials dont support offset onto a grid like you want. unless you material wizard you better off using a large plane and playing with the UV scale

[sinful grail]

Hey guys! Im a beginner with UE and i could use a little help if you dont mind 🙂 Im playing around with a Blueprint atm, that scatters Houses random in an Area. My problem is, that many Houses clip into each other or overlap with parts of other. Does someone know a simple way, so they dont get too close too each other, but not too far apart aswell?
That would help me alot! Thanks in advance 🙂

[digital anchor]

search for something called Poisson disc sampling

the algo contains a minimum distance apart from density

[native raven]

I'm not sure, how can I fix?

[tender pecan]

Ensure your meshes inside your FBX are all skinned to the same skeleton. There should only be one skeleton with one root, and many meshes skinned to it.
Then export FBX and import with default options.

[native raven]

Thanks

[rigid yarrow]

hey i just went though the terms and conditions but i have some specific questions to ask, is there anyway i can do this ? someone that knows the terms and conditions very well

[fierce tulip]

best to just ask the question, worst case we'd tell you to contact legal.

[rigid yarrow]

well its more of a question for adults so ..

well i have this question thats probs very noob like, are you allow to release a game with content from blender ?

[fierce tulip]

hehe, dm me in that case. I might be able to tell.

oh that

of course

[rigid yarrow]

will do thanks

[digital anchor]

i thought this was going on a completely opposite way

[fierce tulip]

same

[rigid yarrow]

it is lmao im going to dm him

[tender pecan]

what just happened?

[loud berry]

so... games like stardew where it's a platformer but... not really. it's 2d topdown... does unreal still support the kind of movement and interaction youd see in a 2d game like stardew?

what's a good starting point? i'm making a 1 room stardew valley topdown 2d game

it's not really stardew but for lack of a better term it's a topdown 2d game that is not just a linear run, jump, etc.

flat 2d preferably

okay is there much info here? i youtubed 2d unreal and it just brought up side scroller stuff. Should i use a different engine for this?

im more worried about support, or rather information available i know unreal is kind of overkill for 2d stuff because it's mainly a 3d engine

that's what i thought but upon the youtube search it dawned on me that maybe there's not a lot of people using 2d craft because there are other engines specifically made and optimized for more support and information about 2d game creation

[rigid yarrow]

i get you 🙂

[loud berry]

nono ill back up

optimization is a technical term, i mean workflow related and beginner friendly. basically "you're a new dev and you can jump right into this with plenty of tutorials"

[rigid yarrow]

Have you found RPG Maker ? . thats kinda 2D.

[loud berry]

i have but the problem is money @rigid yarrow

it's not exactly that kind of game. the kind of game im wanting to make is like zelda, or harvest moon, or stardew valley but essentially - room simulator; which is intentional and very core to the game. you're meant to be stuck inside.

there's no combat

[azure topaz]

what does mean hovered and unhovered for the UE4?

[loud berry]

um... it's meant to be a first finished project of mine that's where im coming from

[azure topaz]

thats hovered or unhovered?

?

that is hovered or it is unhovered?

and this with the mouse is for what?

[loud berry]

it's for checks i'd imagine.

if mouse IsHovered = true & keyPressed (left mouse button) then 'do something'

[azure topaz]

and its the opposed for the unhovered, right?

i mean

if mouse isunhovered= false & key pressed( LMB) then do nothing

am i right?

[loud berry]

so... given the nature of hovered/unhovered functions it runs every frame. the game engine checks to make sure the cursor or the mouse is hovered on a particular element every frame if it's true then u can set it to interact or do something. if not then it does nothing.

yes

[azure topaz]

ok

[loud berry]

❤️

[azure topaz]

thanks alot for thelp ❤️

[loud berry]

ofc

ofc = of course

[azure topaz]

i know what ofc means ^^

[loud berry]

haha ok not sure between language barriers c:

[azure topaz]

i send you a friend request,

[loud berry]

accepted!

thanks for the friend request 😄 i don't know a lot but I will help where i can

[plush yew]

#ue5-general

can i generate a pathfind with a mesh?

godot had this option of exporting a mesh as a navigation path but i could not find any related to ue on the internet

[loud berry]

are you talking about AI npc stuff?

[plush yew]

yeah

actually, i will use for my characters movement

[loud berry]

there is definitely a robust AI pathfinding system for unreal gimme a min to find some resources

[plush yew]

oh do not bother

i was just looking for a way to get the pathfinding already baked into a custom mesh

[loud berry]

that might be your answer, baking but lemme research anyway

[loud berry]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/NavMesh/

perhaps relevant

sub links:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/NavMesh/1_1/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/NavMesh/1_2/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/NavMesh/1_3/

[plush yew]

you remove the embed by clicking on the X top-right

but i already went through this docs

i had some problem by generating the navmesh very close to obstacles, which sometimes just make pathfind do not work

and idk, just being able to duplicate my world mesh and transforming it into a navmesh out of the box feels easier than tweaking parameters in the settings

as i am not using the landscape editor but a low-poly terrain made on blender

[stable path]

@plush yew try this
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/navmesh-based-on-custom-shape/156385

[plush yew]

oh that is better

[stable path]

What is the better way to make modular characters?

I tried the simple way of creating a base body mesh and just putting clothes meshes on top of it
But the two meshes clip through each other

And skin shows through the clothes

What approach would you recommend?

[thick herald]

Have a look at Master Pose Component, that might be what you are looking for.

[plush yew]

how can i fix my unreal engine crash!?

[stable path]

@thick herald yeah.
But I'm asking about the graphical aspect of it.
Like the skin clipping through clothes

[plush yew]

shouldn't 'is overlapping actor' target ' motioncontrollerpawn ( VR ) basically act as a condition!?

[pastel aurora]

Help noob: any idea why the VR pawn slides/drifts and not moving regularly?, i think it has to do with the vr not being character what can i do?

[plush yew]

anyone?

[plush yew]

im also a noob 😁

nvm found a way

[thorny pewter]

any one knows if performance is affected by number of levels ? for example if i will have 10 levels or 100.000 will it make performance difference except using a lot more hard drive space ?

[stiff bane]

dont think so since a map that is not currently in use does absolutely nothing but sitting on the disk

[thorny pewter]

is there any way to find out if its really not affect anything ? i dont want to learn that hard or terrible way 🙂 in terrible i mean after building game and in hard i mean actually creating 100k levels 🙂

[stiff bane]

cant give you a answer to that

[thorny pewter]

thx it seems it should not affect performance for me too but could not find much info in google too 😦

thx any way

[stiff bane]

your welcome

[thorny pewter]

will ask again later when more ppl will be here

[dense knoll]

how can i interp this? Its only one value but for a normal interp i need two

[grave pollen]

@grim ore

ty so much! Life saver.

bom bom bom bom bom bom bom ... tomatos?

[harsh tiger]

Hi everyone, in my game the player can earn points. How would I go about having an online data base where all the points earned get added together and displayed on the data base server for statistics?

Could the plugin VaREST do this?

[spare kernel]

anyone have any insight into this ? LogD3D11RHI: Error: Direct3DDevice->CreateUnorderedAccessView(Texture->GetResource(),&UAVDesc,(ID3D11UnorderedAccessView**)UnorderedAccessView.GetInitReference()) failed at C:/UnrealEngine_427/Engine/Source/Runtime/Windows/D3D11RHI/Private/D3D11UAV.cpp:116 with error E_INVALIDARG

[thorny schooner]

Any reason anyone can think of that my char would just freeze up out in the world when running ?

its almost like the look of when your char gets -z and auto dies

[harsh tiger]

Could that be something as simple as a online google excel sheet and just changing a value there? I'm extremely out of my depth with this stuff

[random island]

Hi, is anyone familiar with the collab viewer template?

[safe osprey]

What would a W texture map be, its like black green and red colors?

[bright sigil]

pic?

[velvet haven]

someone knows about it? i also get this random issue with NVIDIA GPU (no issue with AMD)

[azure topaz]

um i have a general question

does someone know ,if i install windows 11, does i have to install all the games and apps again?

[drowsy snow]

No, if your stuff is not on C: drive.

[bright sigil]

honestly not sure, i have all my games on a different harddrive so installing a new os just needs the pointers. it can make the registry pretty dirty, but most games nowadays are steam or epic or some platform which handles the look up - haven't had problems when i installed new stuff

[drowsy snow]

Or if you're upgrading from Windows 10 to 11, not clean install, everything should be seamless.

[azure topaz]

seamless?

[bright sigil]

lol wait, i didn't mean that reaction

[harsh tiger]

It's not a game that will be released to the public. It's select businesses only

[bright sigil]

yeah, the upgrade doesn wipe it clean, it just... upgrades >.>

[drowsy snow]

By seamless, I mean all of your installed programs and user data should remain, as upgrading only touching Windows folder.

[azure topaz]

ah ok

[harsh tiger]

How could they screw up? I just want the amount of points they've earned in a session to be added to a data base. So say 5 sessions with 10 points each would display as 50 in the data base

[drowsy snow]

Lmao, was kinda shocked, "what the f||uck|| is wrong with that"

[bright sigil]

they look so similar and one's above another 😖

yes i believe that's part of their education background

[drowsy snow]

Also don't trust the player when it comes to client-server. Else they'll found a way to abuse the reward system.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: mdrena#3736 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[harsh tiger]

I can see how they could abuse it on a PC. But how would they do it on a quest 2 running in standalone mode?

[autumn flame]

Corporate always finds a way

[drowsy snow]

Hah, I won't think Quest 2 is secure enough to stop people from tampering.

[regal mulch]

Given how much stuff is sideloaded onto that device already :P

[plush yew]

what's causing this?

too many same light sources?

[harsh tiger]

Could it be auto exposure on the PPV?

[plush yew]

when I remove some it somehow is ok

[bright sigil]

if the culprit resides with your exp fog, and seeing there is a specular in the water, id say it is influence from lighting. ppv is one place, the light itself is another, id imagine it rather finicky regardless

[plush yew]

auto exposure was turned off, when I turn it to manual everything is pitch black

i made base with default settings

then i added this one

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fog-gradients

only two things from it - SKY and SUN

[dense knoll]

when on vulkan sky materials spaz out like this

[plush yew]

that gave me an idea 😄

what is it, looks simple

[drowsy snow]

Heard TrueSky had issues with Vulkan in UE4 🤔

Though that's from a long while ago, not sure if they resolved it by this point or not.

[dense knoll]

yea

Its not just truesky stuff tho

its also any material with with "Is Sky" set to true

[plush yew]

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property None_ExecuteUbergraph_river_scene2_RefProperty". Blueprint: river_scene2 Function: Execute Ubergraph River Scene 2 Graph: EventGraph Node: AddActorLocalRotation

im getting this error suddenly

[plush yew]

yeah, item was missing in the map

[still reef]

I think its too many lightsources together?

I usually get like an X icon or something indicating too many light sources together

[velvet haven]

maybe try to disable screen space global illumination

[plush yew]

looks like this, i want to keep that fog and vibe over all of the map

when you move it just changes in weird way

global illumination is off

i guess i will just redo it all over again and try to match the vibe

[grave pollen]

thoughts on upping my character movement speed to 1000? My speed just feels slow at the regular ~600 for sprint, Im just not sure if there are ramifications since this is a multiplayer game, will it have any detrimental effect on the server due to moving too fast or is that not even a consideration?

[thick herald]

Depends on how you are handling movement. If done properly it's not a problem, how else would vehicles move about 😉 10 meters per second though, is pretty fast so it will affect your game design. You'll have to take that in to consideration while designing levels.

[grave pollen]

good point

[north bane]

Having an issue with spline hair where it does this when a light passes it on the opposite side. The mesh it attaches to does not seem to occlude the light, so it's just giving full transmission. Any clue what might be causing that and how to potentially fix it?

[real heath]

Reminds me of an old anecdote that floats around. Play testers kept on reporting slow movement but the character was so fast it was breaking level designs and was set to an insane speed. The solution ended up being lower the camera height so things moved by the camera quicker.

I don’t know specifically your design or game feel, but after a certain speed it may be worth exploring other changes to improve perception of movement

[dire parcel]

hey everyone, so i have a request.. what is your favorite third person shooter with really good shooting mechanics? i want this third person project i am working on to feel really good, I want the shooting to really feel like you are demolishing your enemy, anything can help thanks ❤️

[grave pollen]

its funny I was just thinking about moving the camera lower for another reason, but might solve 2 birds with 1 stone or whatever the saying is

[dawn gull]

If I have a value in between a min and a max how could I convert it to a value I can use for a progress bar?

Thanks!

[plush yew]

tried to add tree in foliage and it got stuck at 70%

how long it will take to load it?

[bright sigil]

beefy tree? lots of polys? 4k textures? multiple mats?

[plush yew]

from open world demo

hilltree_02

[bright sigil]

😂 itll be awhile

[plush yew]

30 mins lol?

[winter bluff]

probably dumb question but what to do when metahumans have weird shadows?

[bright sigil]

i think that's the shadow slope bias or shadow bias of the light, should still be evident in lighting only preview mode

[neon grove]

where are action mappings saved?

[bright sigil]

Project Settings > Inputs

[neon grove]

i know but is there a file for it?

[bright sigil]

ohh, yeah, check your ~~engine ~~ config folder

[neon grove]

engine folder? isnt it saved in the project folder?

[bright sigil]

sorry, wrong folder, config folder - defaultInput.ini

[neon grove]

thank you

[winter bluff]

I tried to play around with bias settings in the directional light (only light source used). But it did not change anything. Any idea which setting I could try to adjust?

[bright sigil]

not sure really, the bits on the neck look like shadow bias banding while the low res chunkiness is lighting quality, but there's a lot of factors there, would need to search the internet/check the docs

[muted arrow]

Any suggestions on folder rename? I did in content browser F2/rename. However, it doesn't do it cleanly. Yes, I did fix up folder redirections multiple times. Is it better to do a migrate instead, does that allow you to migrate without the top folder or does it preserve it?

[paper cobalt]

what do you mean it doesnt do it cleanly? rename the founder?
not sure i understand

[muted arrow]

I select a folder and rename it and it creates the new folder with all the assets under it. But the previous folder and subfolders are still there and is not cleaned up?

[paper cobalt]

i actually just did that. it does infact do that

so if i remember correctly, it is easier to replicate and rename the contents

rather than go and edit existing content.

not sure how accurate that is :/

there was a tool on the free collection dealing with asset cleanup
maybe that will help

[muted arrow]

okay, I will check that out then.

[paper cobalt]

trying to get a link for ya

derp moment cannot find the share link

[muted arrow]

okay, I will take a look at it.

Thank you

[paper cobalt]

absolutely

[plush yew]

took 40 mins to load, added tree's and when I build lights it just crashes..

[sour tide]

I think I have to say, while I appreciate the recommendations to watch the Kickstart videos, I'm getting approximately nothing out of them. I learn from worked examples

A 50-node flowchart of the blueprinting system doesn't equip me with anything I can use

[drowsy snow]

For some, it takes rinse and repeat.

[sour tide]

Showing me the blueprint system won't help me actually get to a point where I can use it unless there's actually... some kind of material teaching me how to use it. Like, there are nodes, with little coloured symbols on the sides, but what do these symbols and colours mean?

That's rhetorical, I'll get to that eventually, when I actually find material that introduces concepts in a digestible order for me

[tidal jewel]

Is there a button for restoring previous session windows after the initial prompt fades?

[sour tide]

BEcause it feels like I spent an hour learning simply that,
"blueprints are a powerful and visual way to solve problems and implement functionality that are normally otherwise tackled by coding"
"it's functional and event-driven"
"it's threaded through just about everything"
and "it supports inheritance and robust debugging tools"

[sour tide]

(OK, the "kickstart" videos are not for me, but the "exploring" courses look much more promising from the content list)

[bright sigil]

those are helpful to know, but it sounds like those wont retain with your current knowledge of the toolset. sometimes programmers from other languages watch these videos, it helps them. Implementing coded logic has no "starting place" as you've discovered. I'm sorry it took this long to come to it, but yet, best is to always get in there - hands on first, visit theory after, though not everyone is like that and not everyone is "starting" at the same level

[sour tide]

That's the issue though, I feel like the videos didn't help me get to anything where I understand the hands-on part and the theory that it did cover was too broad, too high-level. I feel like an intro course should open with like... taking one of the premade projects and adding on to it in a dozen places to turn it into a playable microgame. A sort of Hello World of game creation

[bright sigil]

there you go, you know what to look for now. videos aren't so catered unless you get paid courses (and even then). But give yourself a little project and learn from relevant videos

thats kinda what college is for, that's personalized

[upper pumice]

Hey all 🙂
So very simple scenario: actor is getting pushed around the scene. The actor is a bp i made from a C++ actor class, consists of a scene root and a cube. Cube is simulating physics.

Im trying to get the position.Z of the cube, but I can only find the position of the root actor. However, when im knocking the cube around, the cube is the thing moving, not the actor. Can anyone let me know how to get the cube/physics pos in C++?

[bright sigil]

i know how, but not in cpp. high level, if you store the cube component mesh as a reference, get it's Z

[upper pumice]

Right, so i do have a reference to it as a UStaticMeshComponent, but im not seeing a GetPosition-ish sort of method in there. Maybe i should cast it to a scene component...

[bright sigil]

again, not knowing cpp, its something like GetWorldTransform

#cpp channel can help more honestly

[stable path]

@upper pumice try get location

[bright sigil]

duh yeah, unreal likes location not position as far as terminology is concerned

[upper pumice]

You're on the money @stable path, I saw it just as I finished typing the cast haha. I'll get a hang of these terms eventually haha

Thanks for the help all

[sour tide]

MAN, I need a second monitor for this

a website on one half the screen leaves very little room for the editor

and tabbing between is.... less than productive. Memory issues. (ADHD.)

[thick loom]

Welcome to dev life!

[warm salmon]

Thats me

[thick loom]

2nd monitor more than doubles productivity

I use an ultrawide main, landscape monitor on left (for BP, etc), and a portrait on right for discord and webpages

[warm salmon]

I use a laptop single screen *prefessional

[thick loom]

They aren't great, but there are portable USB monitors available

They are kind of like a tablet

[drowsy snow]

Also I think you can get a simple 1080p60 monitor for $100, brand new.

[warm salmon]

I think this shud be in #hardware right?

[bright sigil]

I use a mirror as my second monitor

[drowsy snow]

Reflecting to your self, looking at that face.

[bright sigil]

it reminds me to get to work, like someone is watching me and i dont want to slack off anymore

[drowsy snow]

I would be just depressed.

[bright sigil]

i drew Groucho glasses on it with sharpie

[warm salmon]

Lol

[drowsy snow]

Good luck filtering from videos using shitty BP practices.

[sour tide]

Maybe there should be a video explaining the difference between good and bad BP practices

[bright sigil]

its called epic live training

the vods are on yt so its not exclusively live

[thick loom]

It's really difficult to make money on youtube. Conversely, it's really easy to make good money if you are a skilled dev (BP or C++), therefore a lot of the good devs don't bother teaching on youtube.

Epic live training and conferences are a bit of an exception

[sour tide]

Yeah, but since Epic's business model is literally to have everyone using UE and then take a cut of the royalties from successful projects, it only makes sense that they should clearly signpost the least onerous material to learn from

[bright sigil]

you can make 1 million in gross sales before they take a measly 5%

[thick loom]

I think they expect more money from the AAA licenses

Than the indie developers

They did the move to 1mil sales to attract more indie devs

[drowsy snow]

Compare that from Valve, who expect more money from indies.

[sour tide]

....yes? I'm not complaining about that cut at all. I'm saying that the activity of doing this by trying to find tutorial material involves a lot of wasted time and energy

[bright sigil]

after, what, 2-3 years? the engine went from subscription to free

[sour tide]

I, personally, cannot absorb material unless I can see the relevance or at least have something to practice it on

Learn by doing and all that

But the videos that seem to get actively pushed on the learning page are uh... bloated with indigestible and frankly irrelevant material to someone that doesn't have a functional grounding in actually using the tools

[bright sigil]

i guess you'll just have to do some digging

[sour tide]

Way ahhead of you. I'm getting a lot out of this tutorial on how to make a rotating banana

[drowsy snow]

I personally learnt through YouTube videos (it was 2016, and Unreal Online Learning wasn't a thing so I don't have much choice), and a LOT of self experimentations.

[bright sigil]

and i learned UDK before yt was a thing. That's right, i was reading books! We're talking thick, outdated user guides

[drowsy snow]

Books are shit 😛

Nah, kidding.

[bright sigil]

i understand the frustration, but ya gotta dig

[drowsy snow]

I'm a bookworm myself, but I don't have any gamedev books (I'm not in the US or Europe)

[bright sigil]

they might get outdated, but they teach a lot of great concepts

[drowsy snow]

So online resources is the only thing I got. No books.

Wish I could have, but even as a teenager I couldn't import shit from overseas..

[bright sigil]

you may actually find some great information in scholarly articles

and maybe there are pdfs floating around out there...

[hot beacon]

Any one know of a good tutorial for Procedural Animations

[drowsy snow]

"Procedural anims" is a super broad thing.

[sour tide]

Maybe they mean something specific or are looking for any entry to the subject?

[neon grove]

how can i clear the references to deleted assets?

because i deleted a folder that i wasnt using but for some reason im still getting warning that those assets couldnt be loaded but none of the current BPs reference those assets

[bright sigil]

hate when i get this too. to be safe, fix up redirectors on the folder in question. I will try to delete a few times, fix redirects, then save all. If it stays after a few attempts, I just delete it via file explorer

you can tell if they were removed by checking their file sizes

should be 0kb

[neon grove]

i did fix redirectors and all but its still referencing

[bright sigil]

like i said, i try deleting them a few times before doing it through file explorer

its murky waters though

[neon grove]

what if i already deleted them through explorer?

[bright sigil]

but they still show up in engine?

[neon grove]

is there a way to just delete any leftover references?

[bright sigil]

close the engine

double check the file explorer

then re-open the engine

[neon grove]

u mean restart editor?

[bright sigil]

before opening it again, you need to see if the folders/files didn't popup again

[neon grove]

they dont pop up when starting the project

but they appear as warnings when packaging the project

[bright sigil]

sooo then?

oh

try a resave all on the root content folder

it may take some time for it, so let it do its thing

[neon grove]

ok im resaving

[native raven]

Every time I add this to the skeleton socket it always makes it huge, any idea why?

[bright sigil]

not a clue, try #animation

[hot beacon]

big bone

sometimes (well for me) the size of bones is really big so if i parent something to a bone it will mess up the scaling

[neon grove]

resaving ate all my 24 gb ram

should i resave each folder is that possible?

[bright sigil]

sorry

yeah, i didn't realize you would have a big project. try a resave on the folder that you think the missing files are causing the error of

[native raven]

Ooooh yeah, the parent was massive until I scaled it down

[bright sigil]

glad it was that simple! could you delete the post in animation please 🙂

damn that was fast! 😛

[native raven]

Read your mind man

It

It's not solved, but I found the issue

[bright sigil]

keep us posted then

[native raven]

[hot beacon]

pog

[paper crest]

what can interrupt montage? just other montage, right?

[bright sigil]

iirc, you just call stop montage and dont plug any montage into it, read the tooltip to double check

[paper crest]

it just, something keep interrupting the montage

[bright sigil]

oh, thats tougher to say without know if you have possible events or functions that can affect it

[paper crest]

just a sphere trace with bool condition to run the montage

the montage only run once, but it keep interrupted by something

😆

[bright sigil]

does the line trace happen multiple times to where it may call the montage again? at what point in the montage is it interrupted? you may want to use the Find in Blueprints and search for Montage to see if there may be other affectors

[paper crest]

the bool keep the montage to be called only once

the line trace do happen multiple times tho

[bright sigil]

mhm 😏

[paper crest]

right?

hahahah

maybe i just should use animation state xD

[bright sigil]

if it works for your needs...

[paper crest]

the thing is, its only 1 montage

ahhh heck, ill just try handling the interruption

thanks btw

[bright sigil]

well, with a bit more detail i might know whats going on. i can only vaguely say montages are good for one off animations

[thick loom]

Did you try using showdebug animation?

It will tell you the name of the montage that is currently running

showdebug animation

slomo 0.1

^ Those are the console commands I use when debugging my anims

[bright sigil]

writes down furiously

[thick loom]

If you are lazy, slomo .1 works too

slomo 1 to go back to regular speed

slomo 10 to go fast

After you've done showdebug animations once, later time you run PIE you can just use showdebug

showdebug animations has to be while PIE is running

[neon grove]

yeah its the project i used to learn with so i filed it mostly with lots of BPs and marketplace assets

it once got to 40 GB LOL

[bright sigil]

ah, the mp assets will do it

they may sometimes come in with their own errors too

[neon grove]

i mean it was 40 GB bc for some reason if u make rly bad ticking spaghetti blueprints all the warnings get stored in massive log files

but still it was 20 gb of content folder

[paper crest]

uh my eyes cant handle it anymore

prolly should get a drink xD

thanks for the tips, man.. ill try later

[neon grove]

had to delete a bunch of unused marketplace assets to reduce it to 5 gb

[bright sigil]

you can always delete the DerivedDataCache, Intermediate, Saved, and Script folders of your project to clean it. Launching the project will recreate these folders

essentially, you want to keep Config and Content and toss the rest (keep the .uproject obviously)

[neon grove]

yeah i was wondering why all the sudden my hard drive ran out of space and it turns out the logs folder was 30gb in size LOL

[bright sigil]

haha, its the autosaves that are the real mem sink

[neon grove]

yeah that too sometimes they take up to 5 gb

[bright sigil]

it literally makes copies

[neon grove]

anyways i already resaved all the folders time to try and package my game for the 50 time...

hopefully no errors this time

i think backup also takes up space

tho not that much

[bright sigil]

i backup by cleaning those previously mentioned folders, duplicate it and zip the old one

there is also perforce 😛

[neon grove]

when i backup i just copy the entire project to an external drive

[bright sigil]

i dont think i would suggest the same with a 40gb project

[neon grove]

if i mess up the current project i can always get it back

[bright sigil]

to trim space, delete those folders

[bright sigil]

yep, thats how to roll

[neon grove]

hopefully my 2 tb drive doesnt run out of space

[bright sigil]

it wil 😄

[neon grove]

ill prob delete those older 40 gb versions later

[regal mulch]

You should really just use #source-control

$5 Droplet with perforce and you are fine

[chilly geyser]

OK. Im pondering my orb, about making a multiplayer Wind System that uses Closed Spline Areas. How could I replicate some kind of 3D Perlin Noise field to make Moving Wind and some areas that are Windier? Vector or Noise Fields? A Replicated Texture??

Basically I could derive values from a 3d heightmap, that is moving within the Spline Area. Anybody got any ideas?

[neon grove]

YES THE PROJECT PACKAGED SUCCESFULLY!

after 50 tries

i rly should package more often to prevent so many errors

[sour tide]

well that's intimidating

[regal mulch]

Well it's a lot of like 5 min videos iirc

Talking about single nodes

So not everything is necessarily relevant to you :D

[azure nimbus]

Anyone know if it's possible to make the Splash Screen different sizes for different monitors currently im using a 4k splash screen, but on a 1080p monitor it just goes on both monitors.

[drowsy snow]

Doesn't look like mistake to me, but you have to either wrap the parent vertical box widget with Canvas Panel, or bring the bars into their own User Widget.

[plush yew]

10yr old me in blockbuster
"can we rent evangelion"
mom
"we have evangelion at home"

evangelion at home

so when is UE5 Verse?

[drowsy snow]

Wait until Fortnite get it first.

[plush yew]

good grief

[drowsy snow]

Good grief...

[drowsy snow]

I know what you typed before. You're asking if Verse is going to be any faster as Lua or other scripting language.
Look, the benchmarks doesn't even exist yet.

[plush yew]

[wanton rain]

I lost the project source and only have the packaged file. I unpacked the pak file with unreal engine default's unpacker, but instead of just one uasset I also have an uexp. Also, the uasset doesn't appear inside the engine and I can't access it. I just want my blueprints back. Is there a way to do that? Thanks

[drowsy snow]

You're pretty much SOL. Decompiling packaged Unreal app is not easy, for good reason.

[wanton rain]

yeah, figured is not easy, but thought I could somehow get the blueprints back, I don't care about the other assets because they were stock assets. I'm so mad at me that I didn't save a backup file on cloud.

[drowsy snow]

Now it's your wake up call to do backups and source control.

[wanton rain]

yeah, I lost about 10 hours of work, I just uploaded my other projects to github

thanks anyway

[plush yew]

[plush yew]

please share me this png

[knotty summit]

Do you guys get bad request error when opening documents of Unreal Engine?
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/%ROOT%/FStreamableManager/LoadSynchronous/1

[pearl minnow]

ooh verse looks cool, more functionalish

[modest trench]

More about the instant compiles and async stuff

[pearl minnow]

if somebody tells you that your UE5 game is running like a postcard on their computer, how do you start to debug / profile ? I used the mesh inspector, its all green on my side. Could it be the new lighting systems killing their machine or something?

[knotty summit]

Thanks, didn't even noticed it. I guess something is wrong when you access from Google

[drowsy snow]

Well, obviously UE5 being Early Access don't help you.
Then there's Lumen and Virtual Shadow Maps, which are still expensive as heck.

[pearl minnow]

@drowsy snow it could also be poor use of eventTick also right? I'm using that in a few places to lerp stuff

im animating 40 meshes up/down

[drowsy snow]

Handful of ticking BPs barely make a dent compared to the new rendering features.

Also heard that Chaos physics is enabled by default on UE5, and it's still broken.

[pearl minnow]

ill read about that then 😄 the physics in this game suck ATM the ball is really unpredictable but i think that's just me messing up the physics material

[modest trench]

Disable overlaps for those meshes unless required at least

[pearl minnow]

what are overlaps for, when meshes pass through each other right? in that case i wouldnt need them no

[plush yew]

wtf

[drowsy snow]

I dunno about you, but I don't see how this can't be done in UE4.

[plush yew]

I decided to use sketchfab exporter, and use some decorations from sketchfab, and I got this lol

what even is happening with it

[pearl minnow]

just for funs 😄 and to slowly learn new systems

[modest trench]

That's how a dog would wear pants

[plush yew]

lmao

yea, idk, I wanted to fix it, but I couldn't see anything wrong with it in Blender, and it wouldn't even let me reimport

[drowsy snow]

Well, I think now you know why people said to use UE4 in the meantime if you're getting started.

[modest trench]

You aren't using any new systems besides the rendering features enabled by default that are mostly just on/off

[drowsy snow]

Unpopular opinion, hot take:

New Unreal Engine 5 features are not necessary for new learners to get started.

[pearl minnow]

I'm working on a bunch of things in UE5 not just this

I appreciate you cautioning me

[modest trench]

Game features plugin?

[plush yew]

virtual shadow maps are broken, Lumen reflections for anything legitimate reflection related (like planar reflections) are broken, and nanite depends on VSM, so, don't use it unless you are using VSMs

UE5 is useless atm

just don't use it lol

nanite is fun for the first two seconds

UE5 is abandonable afterwards

the UI is cooler though

[modest trench]

5.0 has some very nice new plugins that they don't have docs for. All the newbies are just using EA2 though

[pearl minnow]

I had no issue running a virtual TV show for the last couple months with it and i really enjoy the lighting ( and UI 😄 )

[plush yew]

I still feel like there was a significant loss in terms of level design abilities by them having removed height maps from materials, but whatever

[drowsy snow]

Ugh, don't get why people liked more claustrophobic UI of UE5

[pearl minnow]

ive been running instance with dynamic lighting for 24 hours at a time with no issue

[plush yew]

oh, don't get me wrong, it is claustrophobic

at 1080p, I can't fucking see anything

[modest trench]

The button design is too flat and unreadable but the layout is better

[plush yew]

I just like how it looks just a bit less like we're still in the early 2000s

not exactly the layout or anything

[modest trench]

Early 2000s rendered 3d buttons rule... Zoomers be gone

[plush yew]

as I said, 1080p at 100% scaling, I can't see shit

[modest trench]

The skeleton editor is literally like random modern art pieces in ue5. Hard to understand

[drowsy snow]

Dunno, it's just me, but I found UE5 has a lot more unused space.

[plush yew]

what is the cheapest method of tracing in ue4?

[drowsy snow]

Are you talking about ray tracing, or hitscans?

[modest trench]

I like the side trays for world settings etc

[plush yew]

any trace

boxes, spheres lines

[modest trench]

For collision? Linetrace I believe

[drowsy snow]

Ok, hitscans it is.
Linetrace is the cheaper of them, though others barely have negligible performance difference in practice.

[modest trench]

But unless you are going nuts I doubt it will show up in profiling under 100 per frame or whatever

[pearl minnow]

can i link my vid here with ue5 or is that spam

[plush yew]

ok because i see some forums and what not say its sphere

any ideas though? half of these imported stuff break completely when you bake lighting

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[pearl minnow]

ok it was pertaining to the performance of the lumen lighting system for you to see a thing

but np

[drowsy snow]

This channel is still mostly UE4.

[plush yew]

I think after my current project, I'm not touching UE5 until it's released

[drowsy snow]

I won't touch UE5 at all 😛

[plush yew]

my problem doesn't seem to be UE5 specific, so I'm asking about it here, also because there's conversation here typically lol

[plush yew]

oh, I probably will, I'd have to

[drowsy snow]

Lightmap issues, I think

[drowsy snow]

I have no obligation to, I'm still supporting low end hardware.

[modest trench]

I have no clue... Try to check their shadow maps on the mesh?

[plush yew]

yeah, but I don't even know how I'd fix it, I checked and UVs are there and look fine, I recalculated normals, no clue, didn't do anything

[modest trench]

I'm sure someone online has dealt with shadowmap export issues before

[plush yew]

I just googled about specifically sketchfab models having these issues, but got no usable hits

all I seen was some dude having set a scale parameter to -1

and then being surprised it broke

[plush yew]

how do I do that?

[pearl minnow]

ok well i posted it in #ue5-general - apart from minor flickering, its lumen running with dynamic lighting 24/7, mostly okay - i gotta be honest i really haven't noticed any issues with UE5 so far except not being able to migrate advancedSessions plugin 😛

[plush yew]

then put down a planar reflection in front of a metallic object lol

you will notice a major issue

look closely at shadows, and there, you will notice more issues, unless you know to play around with console commands anyway

[modest trench]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/50392/how-can-i-get-a-correct-shadowmap-on-a-static-mesh.html I cant test atm

The engine uses a separate uv channel for shadowmaps afaik

[plush yew]

wtf

4 part tutorial series

either way though, it shows changing a "lightmap coordinate index" option, but there's only "source" and "destination" indexes

I'll try playing with them though

[pearl minnow]

i gotta pattern question - i have an option in my game that switches the way a key responds when a user presses it. When changing this option, should i store it in game state and on every key press check the options from gamestate, AND / OR loop over every key to update the options in a local variable at the time when the options are set, so it doesnt have to look up gamestate every time.. OR store it in the keys parent that is listening for key events and pass in the options to child keys on every key press?

the options are changed via UI and you can see the two key behaviors on J and K

[marsh rose]

Guys do you know how I can remove games from my project library?
%localappdata%\UnrealEngine\x.x\Saved\Config\Windows\EditorSettings.ini
Seems not to exists 😦

[pearl minnow]

i know they all probably work but i wanna get some professional input 😄

[stiff bane]

hi guys, when i try to build my scene i get the message 'Failed to connect to Swarm' on the internet i cant find i working solution. anyone that can help?

[pearl minnow]

@plush yew great point ill think of it more like "keyboard class scope options" to future proof the code a bit

[stiff bane]

already tried that

its already bugging me for weeks now lol

@plush yewany idea?

[sturdy smelt]

Probably The Lightmaps UVS?

[hollow magnet]

sooo ue5 when

stable release

[ebon stirrup]

when we are dead

[raven estuary]

Do people use mixer much? It doesnt seem like theres much info out there about quixel mixer

Is there a reason for that is it bad?

[kindred talon]

Ey guys, can some1 help me bout, assigning the delay value to a variable? Because i want to display the value to the screen...

[stiff bane]

didnt they say begin 2022?

[stray drift]

Every indication is 2022, but there's already 5.1 in the works (ue5-main), so it would be funny if 5.2 started before 5.0 releases.

It gives me second hand stress, the amount of cherry picking and selective merges they just do on the regular.

[lusty carbon]

Anyone experienced with Reality Capture?

[plush yew]

Hello,

I have 1 UE4 Project and 1 UE5 Project, how can i put them together into 1 project? 🤔

[stray drift]

If UE4.26 or earlier, you are in luck. If not...

Easiest way would be to copy paste the contents over, no?

[plush yew]

I got it, i had to go into edito > select folder > Migrate > select destination.

I prepared the old ue4 project into a ue5 one, so now im merging the 5's

[plush yew]

yeah didnt know if that was possible, not that familiar withthe fodler structure etc. yet

[viral carbon]

Program files/ue4.27/engine/binaries/Linux folder takes up almost 4 gigabytes, but I will never use linux. Is it okay to delete?

[stray drift]

Don't delete it, untick Linux in your install

[viral carbon]

Okay

[plush yew]

Faucher had a video on this, but it's Cinematic related, might be useful tho https://youtu.be/uWOjyxjA5Gg?t=48

How would you approach movement in bloxorz? I want to recreate it but have no idea how

[viral carbon]

So it requires reinstalling?

[plush yew]

check my post ^

[stray drift]

No, you go in launcher, and get to the settings of the engine install that's listed. Remove all the platforms you don't need, and it does the rest for you.

[viral carbon]

Thanks very much guys

I don't have a hard drive so i only have 222GB

[plush yew]

You want to recreate the whole game or just want to move a block?

If you want to move the block check out the Player Movement Chapter in the Unreal Documentation.

If you wanna do the whole game, I suggest signing up for Unreal's Learning Portal it's free and they basically teach you all the basics really fast. https://learn.unrealengine.com

[stray drift]

Meanwhile I haven't setup a 1TB drive because I don't need it yet 😅
Win11 is not detecting my slow SSD, but I have 2TB NVMe that I may run out of soon-ish sooo, probably need to get into that soon haha

[plush yew]

how to change size of it? you can't just drag it, there's lots of blueprints but idk which one to edit

[plush yew]

just want the 1x2 cube movement. Does the documentation cover that?

fog is from this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0LAT8MpSo&t=696s&ab_channel=DigitalMind

[viral carbon]

First setup so you have instant 90° rotation, then add (time-based) linear interpolation

[plush yew]

can i find all that in the documentation?

in case i miss something

[viral carbon]

Look up interpolation in the documentation

[rough cloud]

Do you guys know what could be causing these issues?

It happens both in Ue4 and 5. I tried finding out if it was something wrong in blender but it didnt seem like it

[plush yew]

Somekind of Occlusion Culling it seems

oh wait i see now its one big mesh?

[rough cloud]

its different meshes

[candid shale]

Anyone here maybe have any experience with vehicles in UE4? Set up a vehicle according to the documentation, and it worked fine. Now I changed meshes, walked through all the steps again to make sure theyre correct (they are) and my vehicle just floats mid air. Anyone who has time to maybe go over all the necessities in a call? I'll offer some compensation for the time

[rough cloud]

increasing the bounds sorta fixes it

[plush yew]

@rough cloud does it also do that when you simulate?

[rough cloud]

hmm good ideia, ima try it out

one moment

[runic fern]

Hello Guys ..
I have 2 Different Actors ( Light lamp & Electric Switch ) Connected with Cable between them how can i get reference for the light to the Switch ?
Like each switch will get the reference of the light connected with through cable

[rough cloud]

Yes, it still happens

oh FOUND IT

if you increase the bound to lets say 1000, these things stops!

thank you very much

[humble salmon]

Hi, so i have a gridded inventory, like you have in unturned and tarkov, and im wondering how i would go about right-clicking an item in my inventory, for a second widget to appear, about the chosen item. And how i would make it different.

Lets say, i select an AK47, i should have the option to equip it. And now lets say, i select a can of beans, i should have the options to consume it.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

[severe hound]

Anyone know how to attach a static mesh object to another static mesh object? they are not actors or have scenes

[humble salmon]

static meshes no actors? thats out of my league xD

[severe hound]

ive done attachactor/attachcomponent before but its not working with a direct static mesh reference since it's expecting a scene object or actor object

[humble salmon]

can u not make it an empty/blank actor?

then give it a blank object

[severe hound]

yeah i am thinking of doing that lol, good idea

ill have to spawn an actor and give it the static mesh

[nocturne tangle]

hey guys

does anybody know how to make the capsule appear in the viewport?

[humble salmon]

make a new actor, tie it with a static mesh, make the static mesh like 0.0001x0.0001x0.0001 so it cant be seen

then name it something

then tie your static meshes with that object

the capsule always appears in the viewport

[severe hound]

yeah I got it, I can actually do it in construction script and pass it as a variable

[humble salmon]

it may just be really big

thats even better wompa

[severe hound]

but thanks @humble salmon

[humble salmon]

NP

@nocturne tangle wait im confused what you mean

What is it your looking for?

the capsule collider? the capsule mesh?

[nocturne tangle]

ya well

whatever that is

[humble salmon]

that is already shown in the viewport

[nocturne tangle]

in play mode i mean

[humble salmon]

why do u want it in play mode?

there is no use for it in playmode

[nocturne tangle]

cause I gotta test something

[humble salmon]

can u say what ur testing, i may be able to find u a better solution

[nocturne tangle]

well I gotta do it exactly like that cause im following a tutorial

Im testing a jump animation

[humble salmon]

the tutorial doesnt show you how to put it in the game viewport?

[nocturne tangle]

nope

so stupid

[humble salmon]

ok

i have solution

from google

cant guarentee it will work

so imma check it first, then get back to u

@nocturne tangle got it

start your game

press the tild key above "tab"

then type "show collision"

and press enter

should work

it work @nocturne tangle ?

[nocturne tangle]

like the search thingy doesnt appear when I press the tild key

vm

nvm

[humble salmon]

ok

so ur sorted/

[nocturne tangle]

doesnt work actually

[humble salmon]

what>

it works fine for me

can u hop into a VC and screenshair?

share*

[nocturne tangle]

im too shy lol

[humble salmon]

join unreal hangout VC

u dont need to speak

just screenshare

[stable path]

Post a pic then 🤷‍♂️

[humble salmon]

this true

[nocturne tangle]

I cant share

[stable path]

@nocturne tangle Select your Capsule

Then look for Render Settings in the details panel

[humble salmon]

he's done that already i believe

[stable path]

Uncheck the 'Hide in Game' checkbox

[stable path]

Ah, i see

[humble salmon]

he got it working

he never pressed enter, he just clicked off it

so he's fine

man ive been here 5 mins, wanting my problem to be fixed, but ive fixed 2 peoples problems already xD

[nocturne tangle]

lolll

[nocturne tangle]

whats your problem

[humble salmon]

so i have a gridded inventory, like you have in unturned and tarkov, and im wondering how i would go about right-clicking an item in my inventory, for a second widget to appear, about the chosen item. And how i would make it different.

Lets say, i select an AK47, i should have the option to equip it. And now lets say, i select a can of beans, i should have the options to consume it.

i can right click the AK when its not in my inventory, but inside it doesnt work

[stable path]

Well, first, you'll need a widget for your inventory slot

[humble salmon]

done

[stable path]

A Custom widget which implements the 'OnMouseButtonDown' event

On receiving this event, you check whether the clicked button was the Left Mouse or Right Mouse

If it is Right Mouse, You spawn a new widget, The Menu Widget

You'll probably need different widgets for different types of Items

You decide which widget to spawn based on which type of Item was clicked

For e.g. You could have one type of widget for Guns

which has the equip option in it

and another type of widget for Consumables, which has the consume option

[humble salmon]

thanks, thats pointed me in a understandable direction, instead of being a headless chicken. xD

[gleaming lotus]

Any ideas why my thumbnails aren't updating in these BPs? They have meshes inside of all of them 🤔

[humble salmon]

not sure

[nocturne tangle]

is this a group project?

[humble salmon]

any of them parents/child classes?

[nocturne tangle]

reason why im asking is those red crosses are familiar

[gleaming lotus]

Yes those are for source control

[nocturne tangle]

eww

hate those

[humble salmon]

im never getting into source countrol

xD

imma just pay someone to do it xD

[nocturne tangle]

ya dont

lol

[gleaming lotus]

When you work in a big team you have to use SCM 😛

[nocturne tangle]

Is it Plastic SCM?

L0LLLLLLLLLL

[gleaming lotus]

We use Plastic, yeah

[humble salmon]

xD

[nocturne tangle]

the worst

[humble salmon]

atleast your friends dont use PHP

when doing stuff

[gleaming lotus]

I'm not sure this is the place to discuss source control, I'm just looking for help with my issue

[humble salmon]

ye, i dont know man

are any of them parent/child classes?

if so, the parent one needs to be updated, then all of them will update to the parent

Otherwise, id recommend saving then re-loading UE4

cus im not sure

[nocturne tangle]

I remember when things were fucking up

I removed the project from the cloud

then re-add it

[humble salmon]

i dont use cloud

messes up

then again, i have access to a 4TB server and a 256GB flash drive for all my backups xD

[nocturne tangle]

nice I have like 7TB

[runic fern]

My question float away

[stable path]

You can set the references in the editor

[runic fern]

The problem is its spawning in-game realtime xD

[gleaming lotus]

create a reference of the light in your light switch BP, set the reference to 'instance editable' and 'expose on spawn' when you place the light and the switch down, link em 😄

[runic fern]

the player can buy it from the ingame market and place them

[gleaming lotus]

I can't tell you exactly how to do it because I'm not sure how your system already works, but essentially you want to be using expose on spawn and link em that way

Or perhaps create a system for the player to link each light/switch together in game 🙂

[stable path]

You have a wire object that connects them right?

[runic fern]

Yes right

[stable path]

Maybe it can hold a reference to them

[runic fern]

I could but i thought if the player built the light before the switch xD

[runic fern]

And when its overlapping both objects will transfer between them ??

[stable path]

You could do it like,
When the player connects the wire to a Lamp, it catches a reference to that Lamp
Then when the player connects the wire to a Switch, it checks if it already has a Lamp reference,
If it does, it sets that references on the Switch

[runic fern]

Worked xD

[stable path]

It can work both ways

[runic fern]

sometimes the brain just stop thinking i was looking for an idea because i used get overlapping actors ( cable ) and got the overlapping actors inside the Cable and yea its long stroy

Thanks its working now

[gleaming lotus]

bumping my issue 🙂

[stable path]

Are these BPs children of something?

If yes, does the parent have an empty mesh?

[gleaming lotus]

Yes, and yes

Does it need to have a not-empty mesh for the children to have thumbnails?

[stable path]

Well, what happens if you actually assign a mesh on the parent?

[stable path]

I'm not sure really

But you could try it

Oh and Also,

You can try Capturing the Thumbnail

Right click on the assets, Click Asset Actions, and Capture Thumbnail

[gleaming lotus]

Wow, you're right

the parent mesh needs to not have an empty static mesh for it to work

Damn, TIL 😛 Thanks @stable path!

[humble salmon]

Man, my head about to expload xD

[prime willow]

your service is appreciated @stable path ❤️

[stable path]

Well, it seems more like a bug 🤷‍♂️

[gleaming lotus]

Capture thumbnail gets a dirty screenshot of the actor in world, doesn't seem like a worthwhile solution

I guess 😛

[stable path]

Thank you 😄

[humble salmon]

So...
i think its meant to look like this... i think...

but i dont know what to attatch it to

i can officially say that over 80% of my brain, has melted

[stable path]

You actually want to do this in the 'OnMouseButtonDown' event

On the Inventory Slot Widget

[humble salmon]

in all my widgets, the "onmousebuttondown" event doesnt exist

on "IsMouseButtonDown"

idk if thats the same thing

[stable path]

When you create a new function, there is an override button just to the left of it

In that list, there should be this event

[humble salmon]

wait, would this be the inventory widget sorry, or item widget

my head has melted

currently the last 20% is crumating. i cant stop it xD

[stable path]

The widget you want to click on

[humble salmon]

ok

[stable path]

It could be any one of them, depends on your choice

[humble salmon]

oh thats why i cant find it, its already being used xD

considering its already being used

i just use a sequence* ye?

[stable path]

You would want to make a Detect Drag on second pin

The first pin returns so the second pin will never execute

[humble salmon]

ok

still nothing.

[stable path]

Post a pic again?

[humble salmon]

GOT IT

but

i removed the branch, and the two green bits

but its only left-click

imma have to try to add the right-click method back

becuase that stopped it from working

this is currently where im at

just got to experiment now

man, you've got me hyped xD

spent too long on this

[stable path]

Drag off the Mouse Event pin and search for 'Get Effecting Key' or something like that

It should give you what button was pressed

[humble salmon]

i put on the unnatached bit

now both left and right mouse button works

[stable path]

That's why you should check which button is being pressed

This event is called when any button is pressed on the widget, whether that be left or right

It's upto you to filter out what you want

[humble salmon]

ye

just need to fit a branch in