ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

Shit outta luck.

If you don't have the specific needs, just go download the vanilla launcher builds.

[plush yew]

when you bake lighting is it suppose to create builddata for each level or just the lighting?

[hoary rock]

Damn, alright. The vanilla launcher can not run on my computer because the epic games launcher shows down everything

[drowsy snow]

Wdym "shows down everything"?

[hoary rock]

When I launch the epic games launcher, my entire pc lags out. It becomes unresponsive and the apps run like ass until I close out of it

[drowsy snow]

Even if you're not installing in the launcher?

[thick loom]

Must not have a great pc...

Though the launcher is pretty bad

It's compiling the engine that does my computer in

Can't even listen to music. RIP

[drowsy snow]

I'm not trying to poor shame anyone, because I'm still expecting the launcher to run just fine even with that specification

[thick loom]

Does it continue to do this when the launcher is idle?

Switching tabs or w/e in the launcher does seem to be excessively costly, but it doesn't seem to do much when left sitting

At least on my computer

[hoary rock]

It is a laptop. I don't expect it to run 120 FPS at 4K. But it ran fine before at 50 frames per second, but now it is not even functioning

[hoary rock]

Yes

[thick loom]

ouch. I feel your pain

VS intellisense says "no pc work for you"

[hoary rock]

Which is weird. I had a couple of games that could absolutely NOT run in my system at all, but since I upgraded to windows 11, some games ran smooth as butter, but some others struggled

[plush yew]

when you bake lighting is it suppose to create builddata for each level or just the lighting?

[drowsy snow]

Welp, sounds like the launcher somehow acting up in your system.

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[marble mist]

where can I get animations for a knife? I don't like the mixamo ones

[hoary rock]

Yup, I'm considering to just fresh install my PC

And try it again

[drowsy snow]

You make one from scratch

[drowsy snow]

Good luck, buddy.

[thick loom]

That's what this guy does

[marble mist]

iI don't know xd

[thick loom]

As a mere mortal I bought some from the marketplace

[hoary rock]

Thanks man, while I'm at it; should I go back to windows 10? Or stay at 11?

[thick loom]

I've been too terrified to test Win 11 myself, so I can't say

[hoary rock]

I only mainly upgraded for the UI, I'd admit, I think it's clean as hell

[plush yew]

so only light data?

[thick loom]

Don't tempt me. I haven't looked because I need to be focused on dev, not upgrading my pc

[drowsy snow]

You should stay on Windows 10 if that works out.

Win 11 somehow works fine on me.

[hoary rock]

Got it, I'll try a fresh install of win 10

[thick loom]

Long shot, but you might try updating your graphics drivers fist

*first

Mine were causing really weird glitches in UE4 per one of the pins on this board

[hoary rock]

https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537714

[drowsy snow]

I don't think Intel GPU drivers really that matters

[hoary rock]

It's worth a shot

[grave pollen]

anyone have any ideas on rotating my char to the direction im moving? Ive tried everything... orient rotation to movement is on, I've tried this rotate char macro but doesnt do anything. Seems simple enough but I just cant figure this one out. I went to a basic third party template evrything is the exact same. When I do WASD it moves correctly but not on simple ai move to

[thick loom]

macks didn't specify if the laptop had a GPU or not, I assumed since he's doing game dev work it would have SOMETHING other than an integrated GPU

[grave pollen]

tried this rotation macro as well to no avail

theoretically should grab the target which I know exists via print string and then rotate my char towards their location

[hoary rock]

Nope. Interegrated

*integrated

[thorn river]

was it game instance or game mode that was consistent between maps and levels instead of being 'remade' each time you load a new level

instance probably right

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it's GameInstance

[thorn river]

thanks

[sharp shadow]

It seems UDN Knowledge base is now public

https://forums.unrealengine.com/tag/kb

[plush yew]

bro wtf???

[drowsy snow]

Your meshes have bad UV map for the lightmap.

[turbid wigeon]

Anyone watching Game Award?

[drowsy snow]

I would, but that's on #lounge

[bright sigil]

that you hoped code pasted from elsewhere would work for your needs by expanding it?

[drowsy snow]

I can't compile that in Visual C++, any ideas?

[bright sigil]

did i read your confession? yes

[drowsy snow]

Did it compile? no.

Okay just kidding

[bright sigil]

thats not really what i gleaned but okay, whats the big deal? are you specifically trying to be a programmer?

i guess since 2019 you've been copy + pasting code from Dani's tutorial for an FPS and haven't gotten anywhere... not a lot of examples to understand that this is been ongoing

so?

[drowsy snow]

And you learn absolutely nothing?

[bright sigil]

i mean... is it obvious to state why..

[drowsy snow]

Here's a tip: break your copy pasted code.

No, really. Break your code, and try improvise things up.
Copy pasting is fine, as long as you can see how it were built. In the hopes that you learn something along the way.

[bright sigil]

sounds like programming isnt for you

[drowsy snow]

Anyway, you can continue talk about this over on #lounge as this is more general (life) thing

[signal crater]

Hello, if i have an object with a function inside of it and i constructed 10 of the same object, will i have 10 of the same functions?

Or the functions arent actually stored in the object?, cause i want put the some functions in it that are only used for that object and want to construct alot of these objects

[bright sigil]

each object has that function...

[signal crater]

yes, but when you construct lets say 100 of the same object, will you have 100 functions on desk/memory?

[bright sigil]

not really

each of them have the same function, they're recognized as duplicated

the only overhead is the performance of the function and how many times it is called

[signal crater]

so you'll have one, but will execute for the object you want right(With target pin)?

[plush yew]

bruh

[bright sigil]

yes, you tell which objects to call the function

[signal crater]

Great

[plush yew]

@bright sigil you know how I can fix this?

[bright sigil]

that's something the internet can answer

[drowsy snow]

Do you make the meshes by yourself?

[plush yew]

No

[raw beacon]

Hello! I'm having issues applying force/torque to a physics asset. Within my BP, I have simulate physics on, but am getting an error saying I need to have 'Simulate Physics' on if I want to use force/torque

is the matrix demo going to be a PC release?

blast

sweet, cant wait to see some peoples gameplay recordings!

@latent iron nope! last console I had was a 360. Then VR came around, then I went the PC route XD

[dense knoll]

Ok this happens any time i play in editor with a camera

Thats set to auto posses

[drowsy wigeon]

Is possible to deform mash along the spline, if it does not have vertices in-between? Let's say I have 1 meter long rail, which is really from 1 meter long faces - not subdivided to 4x0.25 meter faces. Can it still be bend around the spline? Or spline component can bend only at vertices? Because now, I create rails from points like 20 meters away (not too much curvature, it has realistic train rail curvature), so that 1 meter long rail god stretched between spline points, but does not bend. It makes a jagged edge at the spline point between rail meshes. What can I do to have smoothly bended rail?

[dusk nebula]

How do I migrate my project files from one drive to another?

Better yet, I need to move everything, including the epic launcher and the engine to a new drive

[drowsy snow]

Just copy the folders.

[dusk nebula]

Okay, but do I have to reinstall the engine or something or can I move it?

[plush yew]

bump

[drowsy snow]

You can just move it, and run the UE4Editor.exe

[plush yew]

Did you have any luck with getting the tool (located at "/Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/Bink") working? I personally haven't been able to get it working and can't seem to find anyone else who's had any luck with it

[hollow palm]

I did find it

Depends on what you mean by working

cause I did manage to make a bk2 Video that plays

[plush yew]

I mean able to process/convert videos to the .bk2 format with it

[hollow palm]

I'll need to check for you once I wake up cause I live in Poland and it's like 3AM for me rn

So I'm off PC

[plush yew]

ah shit my bad, its only 10am here in perth

[hollow palm]

Ye np

I'll tag you when I wake up

[plush yew]

cheers mate really appreciate it ❤️

[dense belfry]

need some help

[sour tide]

well you ain't gonna receive any until you ask a question

[wintry rampart]

Not sure where the right place for this would be so I'll ask here, but how can I record (ie. export a .mp4 or whatever) a scene from a separate static camera while a player in VR is controlling a character? I need the player do be playing in editor and see through their camera but record them doing something from a separate camera, if that makes sense

[drowsy snow]

I don't think you can export video outside of sequencer without some C++ modifications

[wintry rampart]

I just did a quick google and there is something called the movie render queue which I think makes it possible (I suppose it would be an image sequence but that's fine)

I just need to know if I can record from a camera while a player is playing from a second camera

The player would be interacting with the world, so I think I need to somehow record player actions in sequencer or something

[drowsy snow]

Movie Render Queue Runtime only works with premade sequencers, not something made in runtime, like replay demo recordings

I myself still question its use tbh

[midnight cloak]

Somebody know why my shadow are wierd ?

this is my skylight and i build lightning

[plush yew]

anybody know why my checkpoint wont work

[wintry rampart]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/HowTo/SequenceRecorder/ do you thinking I could just record the player and the objects they’re interacting with this method?

Then replay it from a different camera’s point of view?

[drowsy snow]

Sequencer tools are editor only, so no

[wintry rampart]

Man, maybe I’m trying to do something that doesn’t make sense but it seems like it would be possible

[bleak zodiac]

i used to edit my video is premier then i switch to AE

[unborn patrol]

I have a project I've been working on for 8 months in 4.26. Tried to make a duplicate of my project and load it to 4.27. Project had errors and would not export out to windows or mobile anymore. Tried the UE4 method of converting 4.26 project to 4.27 which unreal claims cannot be undone. That method it has errors too. Characters NPC's would stop moving appropriately and random little errors all over. HUD errors, little things like running and jumping at the same time ceased to work. Does anybody know of a good method of switching their project from 4.26 to 4.27?

[bright sigil]

for any "upgrading" of version, this is expected. Go through every bp or cpp and see what the errors are

[unborn patrol]

@bright sigil Holly molly. 😦 That could take a month.

[bright sigil]

stick with 4.26 then

[smoky whale]

https://youtu.be/WU0gvPcc3jQ

jesus christ they went crazy thius time wtfff

[unborn patrol]

Unfortunately it's a mobile game. 4.27 is supposed to have as epic games put it, "he Mobile Deferred Renderer's performance and stability are significantly improved, and it runs on a wider range of Android devices." Amongst other benefits. I could see myself spending a month doing this only to find out ue5 is released and works even better for mobile.

[bright sigil]

i understand the hard decision

[drowsy snow]

Believe it or not, we talked about this in #lounge

[unborn patrol]

@bright sigil These problems don't persist when you copy a project to a new computer either do they? If you keep the same version?

[bright sigil]

i would hope not

[drowsy snow]

If it's the same version, it shouldn't be an issue.

[unborn patrol]

OKay so it's just when you move up a version it's normal for things to break. 😦

[drowsy snow]

But then again, BP side, there's not much change from 4.26 to 4.27
My C++ project upgraded from (custom) 4.26 to (custom) 4.27 just fine

(aside from pretty minor compile errors, can be resolved with fixing includes)

[unborn patrol]

The hard part is i am getting no errors anywhere.

[bright sigil]

open up some bp that seems like its a problem

maybe it will make it apparent

by how you describe there to be all sorts of errors, i would start looking at all the areas

[plush yew]

can you somehow use materials that are meant for 4.25 in 4.27?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/royal-materials-vintage-deco/questions?sessionInvalidated=true

this pack

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

Materials haven't change much from 4.25 to 4.27

[plush yew]

alright

cute

[unborn patrol]

What engine version are you guys using on your projects currently?

[bright sigil]

4.26 :p

[drowsy snow]

modified 4.27

[unborn patrol]

oh modified 4.27. Fancy!

[unique kraken]

hm, ue4 has by default max texture samples of 13, right?
does this mean i can use max 13 texture sample NODES, (13 times the same texture and full?)
or does this mean i can use max 13 different TEXTURES, (could use the same texture 100 times)?

[ebon palm]

im making a multiplayer game but i use a get player controller so where can i change it for

[bright sigil]

i believe there is a way to get 16 samplers

possibly up to 64

[unique kraken]

my point rly isnt to use more, i want to understand how it is interpreted

depending on that i rewrite my shader

[bright sigil]

textures - the image files - get loaded into memory, so if multiple materials use the same texture, it aint as bad as each being unique

[drowsy snow]

It's 16 unique sampled, and you can increase the limit with shared samplers.

Though applying the same sampler node on different attribute pass could increase the sampler count

[unique kraken]

i mean inside the same material.
lets say, i use the same image to drive two different things inside one material.
two nodes, same texture, different uv inside same material

[drowsy snow]

For brevity sake, 16 unique sampler.

[bright sigil]

using a texture param establishes it as the same (like a defined variable) if you change the UVs of one of the two same texture assets, there will be an increase in cost

[unique kraken]

thats pretty unclear awnser hm

i mean i appreachiat it but hm

[drowsy snow]

Then ask it on #graphics. Stranger or Deathrey can give more satisfactory answer there.

[unique kraken]

if the epic launcher wouldnt load for hours i would test it.

thx anyway

[bright sigil]

just launch the uproject

[unique kraken]

yeaa but so many folders

[bright sigil]

lazy, got it

[drowsy snow]

At least Windows allows you to pin folders into Quick Access

[unique kraken]

i havent slept in like 30h, even that is to much rn

but at the same time i cant sleep until i got a awnser

currently rewriting my cel shader setup

[drowsy snow]

🙊

[thick loom]

Working when severely sleep deprived is usually counter productive

[unique kraken]

https://tenor.com/view/tomoko-watamote-losing-it-going-insane-toilet-paper-gif-8680844

[thick loom]

You'll likely redo everything you did during the sleep deprivation

[unique kraken]

yeee but like. 7 am, what else to do

[drowsy snow]

Legit, I worked on the custom post process, kept failing when I'm sleep deprived

The eureka moment comes when I'm not sleepy

[thick loom]

Subconscious is a powerful co-processor for programmers

Generally kicks in when relaxed (IE in the shower)

Or rather, feeds you what its processed

But it really doesn't work when you are sleep deprived

Sorry random tangent to "eureka moment"

[unique kraken]

alright, what does this tell me

i guess im fine then?

https://tenor.com/view/hibiki-horoshos-best-horosho-anime-gif-5252189

[drowsy snow]

Easy peasy lemon squeezy
Haphazardly using Texture Sampler to control UV Mapping of another Texture Sampler

[unique kraken]

i mean

it proofs i can use more then 16 sampler nodes

[drowsy snow]

There's a reason I put bold when I wrote unique

[unique kraken]

if they are hte same texture, all i needed to know, i guess

[drowsy snow]

As in different textures.

[unique kraken]

ye but there were some contridictions

[unique kraken]

^^

but its fine, I GUESS

[drowsy snow]

Same texture, "different" node = one sampler

If you want to try it out, be my bloody guest.

[unique kraken]

yes^^ this is what i assumed. but are there any other reasons it wouldnt be the same sample anymore, like uv or whatever.

just needed to be sure, you told me the same thing, i did the laziest test possible, all seems good

[trim mesa]

hi, i was creating a snowfall effect, (particle effect)

and i set my location to 10000, as i created a landscape which is really big

i followed a tutorial and he was working on a small area, and he applied the max and min area to 2000 and -2000

[unique kraken]

^^ bad idea in my oppinion

[trim mesa]

but in my case, as the landscape is really big, it covers a small area

[unique kraken]

so you do trickery

[drowsy snow]

Set it to smaller size, and make the emitter follow active camera

[trim mesa]

but, when i write 10000, theres less snow

in the area

[drowsy snow]

You don't need the snow to be that distant

[unique kraken]

only let it snow in front of your camera, and scale the ones further from the camera smaler

[trim mesa]

because it covers the whole landscape, and theres very less snow

what should i do

[unique kraken]

^^

[trim mesa]

to get more snow in the wide area

[trim mesa]

didnt get you

[drowsy snow]

Don't cover the entire landscape, just cover few metres from the camera.

[unique kraken]

its trickery, you dont let the whole world snow

you only let it snow in front of your camera

[drowsy snow]

It's not like the snow particles actually snow the surface, so don't bother doing across for the entire landscape

[trim mesa]

then if the player will get out the camera?

they will see no snow

[unique kraken]

hes still in the camera

there is always a camera

[drowsy snow]

They won't get out of the camera.

[unique kraken]

how do you see anything without a camera?

[trim mesa]

ah man this is confusing, camera like what?

[drowsy snow]

I said follow the active camera, not the character.

[trim mesa]

wait, explain in easy words, what i have to do

[unique kraken]

instead of camera you can also think of "current active view"

[trim mesa]

cant understand like that

[drowsy snow]

Camera as in what the player literally see in the game

[unique kraken]

let it always snow in front of your view

[trim mesa]

ok, i get it, but what should i do now

[unique kraken]

let it only snow in front of your view

<,<

[drowsy snow]

Attach the emitter on active camera. You'd have to do this by code though

[trim mesa]

i mean i havent set a player yet

[unique kraken]

bin the particle system to this "current view" wich is always some sort of camera

[trim mesa]

only screen

so no camera there yet

[trim mesa]

coding, biggest problem, can anyone help me with the blueprints for the same?

[unique kraken]

hm you will need bp you are controlling

so you can bind it to that

[trim mesa]

yes, so you mean first i should add a player, then camera, then attach the snow particles with the camera, and no need to set the distance of the snow, am i right?

[drowsy snow]

On your BP, containing the particle emitter, set the location on active camera every time. Doesn't even have to be replicated for multiplayer.

[unique kraken]

essentially

[trim mesa]

ok, so let me add a bp first

bp is player right?

[drowsy snow]

BP is actor, anything you can spawn/place on the map

[trim mesa]

ok

[drowsy snow]

(well, BP can also UObject, but for simplicity sake)

[unique kraken]

it depends

do u want a character?

[trim mesa]

i will dm you for further question with this situation

thanks

[drowsy snow]

Don't DM me. Just ask over on #blueprint

I'm working on C++ stuff and can't have editor open for demo anyway

[trim mesa]

yes

Santa, but cant find a asset for the same

free asset with animation

[trim mesa]

ok, i will ping you in the server if i need any help, and that other guy too

thanks

[sour tide]

I have this one floor in my level that keeps on making itself invisible. Is there some setting for that somewhere that I've accidentally turned on?

I can of course just make it visible again but I have to keep doing it

OK, there is a "hide selected actors at startup" thing in the rightclick menu under Visibility. Dunno how I managed to hit that.

[main pewter]

Hi. I'm using in a bluetility a Take High Res Screenshot which gives a Automation Editor Task Object Reference. How can I wait for this task to finish before going on with my scripting?

[plush yew]

is it possible to create repetitive uv tiles in blender?

like for Unreal Engine if you want to be able to edit a mesh at runtime and not have the uv stretch

[unique kraken]

@plush yewelaborate

[main pewter]

have you tried Object Radius node in materials? there you can addopt to object scaling to avoid stretching - if this is what you're looking for

[sour tide]

Why are landscape section sizes n^2-1? Like, why the -1?

[fossil basalt]

hey guys, is this the correct way to increment an index?

whatever I am missing, the number will not go up

[plush yew]

how do i put the text above the blur?

because the text is blured too

[drowsy snow]

UMG? Try crank up the Z order.

[plush yew]

for what?

for the background blur?

[drowsy snow]

The text widget.

[plush yew]

ok

i set it to 3 and it's not working

[fossil basalt]

Am I asking in the wrong place?

[plush yew]

maybe #blueprint

[fossil basalt]

thanks

[bright sigil]

pretty sure umg is based on draw order. whatever is at the top is drawn first, rather than last

[plush yew]

oh

[plush yew]

i tried but it's still not working

[stiff bane]

maybe move the layer above the blur layer?

[stiff bane]

set it to like 1000

[bright sigil]

what is is suppose to look like?

[neon bough]

where does the blur come from? (you may want something like a background/overlay which is wrapped with blur and in that the text)

[pearl minnow]

is this data structure possible in unreal?? :/

colors: {
  keyboardName1: {
    color: vector3,
    emitter: vector3,
    labelTransform: transform
  },
  keyboardName2: {
    color: vector3,
    emitter: vector3,
    labelTransform: transform
  }
}```

right now i have all my color/emitter vars as separate vars and then i use an ugly switch to grab the right variables for each keyboard
it would be nicer to do colors -> get(selectedKeyboard) -> color

[neon bough]

you would make some struct for the data

color: vector3,
emitter: vector3,
labelTransform: transform

and put that in a map, with name as key and the struct as your value

[pearl minnow]

thats achievable in BP right?

[neon bough]

yes

[pearl minnow]

ok thank you ben ill try it out

[prime willow]

@neon bough how do i flip anim notify

@drowsy snow ;-; ^

i cant seem to figure out how to flip the anim notify in reverse

[drowsy snow]

Play Rate -1 maybe?

[rough knoll]

is there a way to make the navmesh fill these gaps?

the pawn can in fact travel through them (capsule is small enough) but the navmesh won't go to that space

[prime willow]

nope lol

he moves it to the point he wants and it just fips in reverse

nvm

figured it out

[drowsy snow]

How?

[prime willow]

just move it towards the end of the track bar

and it flips in reverse

[drowsy snow]

That's in the preview, innit?

[rough knoll]

got it

[drowsy snow]

#packaging

[wet scaffold]

alright sorry about that

its just that nobody said anything so i though i was on the wrong one

[rapid sleet]

I am new to unreal got some free assets but for some reason when I start the game I don't become the charecter

[drowsy snow]

Check the game mode.
Also if you're new to Unreal, best to start from the official courses:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[rapid sleet]

Ok thx it now works

[plush yew]

Hello my trees are below the land how can I make them be above the land

[neon bough]

alternative: move everything else down

but there's also a setting in the foliage brush to check against landscape collision, most likely that's what you are looking for

[drowsy snow]

The trees are not happy enough I guess

[plush yew]

you mean this

[plush yew]

Rough nights

[neon bough]

not sure, haven't used 4.2x for a while

[plush yew]

Do you still need to build from source in order to setup a dedicated server?

[drowsy snow]

You're in 4.11?

[neon bough]

4.20

rc 69

formerly known as 5.1

[plush yew]

im in 4.27

[drowsy snow]

I'm in modified 4.27

[plush yew]

4.27.1

[drowsy snow]

If it weren't for Oodle and Bink, I would've stayed on 4.26

Attempting to backport them led to code change snowballing. So I give up and just jump to 4.27

[plush yew]

I'm trying to change the setting of the landscape but nothing

I thought the the first one was going to help but nope

[neon bough]

not there

it's somewhere in the foliage brush settings

[plush yew]

I use the collission there but nothing

[plush yew]

guys what would be the optimal way of importing this counter to engine?! should i make this as one object with prealigned items on the counter with all UV's on 4K texture map or should i import each object separately and assemble it in the game engine with each item having 512 texture map?

[fierce tulip]

i'd pick the latter, mainly so if you have to place it multiple times you can rearrange the items on the counter.
if its a one-time off item, i'd pick the one map, but no need for it to be a 4k texture me thinks.

[drowsy snow]

2K texture map is still enough, and you might want to give them detail texturing if you want to

[jolly mason]

man... nested structs are a nightmare for data storage

[drowsy snow]

I don't think it would be messy if building the struct in C++

[ebon linden]

How does supporting gamepad and kb&m input work? Do you use IsGamepadKey to set a bool (e.g. bGamepadInput) and then use that bool to check how to handle things? For example, for my auto targeting system I have functionality for mouse input and gamepad input separated. Would I just use the bool to change which functionality should be used?

[drowsy snow]

Input mapping.

[thorn river]

question, is it less expensive to store a blue hard reference to a specific object over a class(purple) reference

in a blueprint

oh. well, what if i want to load in a component and show 'info' about it through a widget for example

[drowsy snow]

It CAN be done.

[pearl minnow]

how would you get the current number of players waiting in a lobby if you were using Advanced Steam Sessions plugin? I'm currently doing this but it feels very dumb

[drowsy snow]

BTW to anyone using water plugin, my bug report on the water line effect finally get through the issue tracker.
https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-136830

[pearl minnow]

( i save the server settings just before i use the Create Advanced Session node in the game instance for future reference because i dont know how to inspect the session otherwise )

[drowsy snow]

Consolidate the targetting into a function

[dull girder]

does unreal engine source has the plugin that we get prebuilt in the epic games binary build?

[neon bough]

yes (at least most of them, actually i'm not sure if there are some binary only plugins)

[drowsy snow]

Yes, all of them.

[dull girder]

ook

[drowsy snow]

If there are, it won't be out of the box (e.g. Megascans plugin, Marketplace plugin)

[dull girder]

and how can i get the assets of epic games marketplace in that?

[opal cedar]

Ummmm

Anyone knows how to bake stuff in Unreal? Got some questions

[dull girder]

?

[opal cedar]

Got a problem with basic mesh light bake over here

[dull girder]

can I see ur graphics settings?

[fringe finch]

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible an interaction between livelink and pixel streaming?

[drowsy snow]

Most likely not

[sick patio]

@drowsy snow can i post my blueprint now? for my stamina/sprint thing?

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/h7jkj832/

but i want the character to stop 100% for a couple of seconds

when he runs out of stamina from sprinting

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Vo!d#9741 received strike 2. As a result, they were muted for 1 hour.

[drowsy snow]

I did redirect him from #graphics 🤔 🤔

[robust marten]

How do you save Actors when they're offloaded from World Composition? There is no blueprint nodes relating to World Composition.

[sick patio]

woah, that wasn't because of my question was it?

[drowsy snow]

Still on the topic of quests?

[robust marten]

That was just one example, I want to figure out how to save actors and their variables and whatnot before they're offloaded but there is literally no documentation or tutorials or anything anywhere that answers this.

[neon bough]

is there no event for that?

[robust marten]

Nope, nothing at all relating to offloading/loading from world composition at all

[drowsy snow]

World composition automate streaming by distance, so no BP events. There might be some C++ functions, but I don't recall they're well documented.

Though I guess the "naïve" approach will be to do something on actor destroy, e.g. saving its properties or outright serialise it.

And I still don't like how hacky it is to implement verticality as world composition only concerns about horizontal positions 😤

[silver crest]

Anyone able to help with this crash? i.e where to even start looking for this array?
Assertion failed: (Index >= 0) & (Index < ArrayNum) [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers/Array.h] [Line: 707] Array index out of bounds: -1 from an array of size 530

It isnt any gamestate/mode or level BP as far as I can work out

[hidden oxide]

Does the Megascans plugin not work with 4.27?

[drowsy snow]

Works just fine in 4.27

[hidden oxide]

I get this message

[drowsy snow]

Try reinstalling from Bridge

[brittle sail]

Ehm it's prob a very obvious problem (I am very new to ue4 and I would like to utilize its rendering capabilities), but I'm not really sure how to approach it because nothing I've found worked.

Basically I want to export a model from blender to ue4 (fbx), but it's pretty complex and there is a ton of bones that are parented via bone parenting and not weight painting (it's a robot after all). But also there are cables that I manually weight painted, that work in blender perfectly but are completely offset in ue4.

Not to mention that the animations are completely screwed somehow and I have no idea why

[hidden oxide]

I did that

[brittle sail]

for reference that's how it's supposed to look like (if anybody got any idea how to fix this, please ping me)

[lost yarrow]

anyone explain why im failing to compile this? says its read only when its not... and yes i have clicked the button

[hidden oxide]

I accidentally installed it for 4.26, that was why lol

Thank for the help

[patent cobalt]

9 out of 10 you didn't apply all rotations/scale in Blender before exporting or there is scaling issue with your imported model

[brittle sail]

alr lemme try that

[plush yew]

im having a big issue

As soon as I open my projet it just crashes

I reinstalled

disabled anti-virus

and still it just keeps crashing

[brittle sail]

oof you were right, it was causing a lot of issues. thanks

[drowsy snow]

check the crash log

[whole solar]

Guys what blue prints do i need to make my chracter faster? im using ue5 btw

[drowsy snow]

Set the Max Walk Speed in your Character Movement Component

[jolly jungle]

Rtx 3000 or Rx 6000 for unreal engine 4 or 5

Which is better

[drowsy snow]

The one that you can afford while allowing yourself to eat for the next weeks.

[grim ore]

get whatever you can afford

[jolly jungle]

I'm not building anything ATM, I'm just curious, if I could get either, which should I get

[grim ore]

the best you can afford, 3090ti if money is no issue

both will work fine for UE, whatever you need will depend on your goals. Whatever you can afford to meet those goals will depend on your wallet

[warped osprey]

This maybe way over board. I have to try. Some time ago I watch a video on landscapes for the unreal engine. It's just I thought I saved the linked and didn't. The video user the Grass Landscapes Vol 1 for the tutorial. Does anyone know what video tutorial it is and do you have a link for that video.

[whole solar]

wheres the character movement componant?

[grim ore]

in the Character!

[drowsy snow]

If it's just making games, even the 2060 Super is more than enough.

[grim ore]

yep still rocking a 2060 mobile in my laptop and its good enough for most work. I complain more about CPU speed than GPU at this point lol

[proven lake]

@drowsy snow @grim ore I found a way to reference an actors component, thought you guys might like it also

[grim ore]

can you do that in the blueprint, not in the world?

[proven lake]

I am not going to use blueprint in the near future so I cant answer this properly but to BLUEPRINTREADWRITE access will do the trick here

[grim ore]

shrug

[whole solar]

hows when i press a certain key like shift how can i make a certain affect happns?

[grim ore]

just shift?

[whole solar]

no like

when i press shift

i want like to turn invs for example

how do i do that

[grim ore]

so when you just press shift?

[bright sigil]

project settings > Inputs

[whole solar]

yeah

[bright sigil]

you assign whatever key and there are checkboxes for shift, ctrl, alt

[whole solar]

i made the mesh

[grim ore]

then yes, add it as an input

then use that input event to do whatever

[whole solar]

like this?

[bright sigil]

oh wait, sorry, this sounds like you want to custom the engine.

[whole solar]

lmao

[grim ore]

Its in project settings -> input

[sick patio]

@grim ore I did my stamina system, but i want the character to stop for 2 seconds, (perfoming a bending over and gasping animation) before he can take even one step.... how do i do that?

[bright sigil]

you are familiar with montages and slots?

[sick patio]

no,

[bright sigil]

ah well, that's how i would do it

[plush yew]

does anyone know how I check which levels I want to build

[grim ore]

the eaisiest way is when they have no stamina, take away input from the character so they cant move, play the animation, wait, then give it back and go back to normal animation

[plush yew]

I just see lighting and build

[grim ore]

its not the best, but its easiest

[sick patio]

what's the node for takeaway input?

this is what i have https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/h7jkj832/

[bright sigil]

you do a branch check for the specific condition to allow input

[bright sigil]

branch with IsExhausted, but at the beginning of the move inputs

[grim ore]

there is a disable movement node

unless you want to just disable all input

[plush yew]

Conrad

sup dude

[bright sigil]

hey, sorry i dont work with many levels, im not even sure what these words are

[plush yew]

ah

cause you know when you build lighting you just go to build lighting only

[bright sigil]

maybe #level-design knows. i again, i got one scene for my game, i dont do level streaming or any actual hand placement

[grim ore]

@plush yewbuild will build loaded levels

[bright sigil]

i dont even build lighting >.<

[plush yew]

ya I just click on build

and it started building it but only level01

and then nothing happened

when it finished

[grim ore]

do you have something that should be building in that level?

im not seeing a lighting needs to be build message, so im guessing theres nothing new that needs to be built

[bright sigil]

i think lighting is to be built for multiple levels

[whole turtle]

hey everyone! sorry if I'm interrupting, does anyone have issues with the scale of Landmass terrain Blueprint based spline brushes? I'm getting huuuge shapes and IDK why, this makes it hard to control/edit, etc, since it's not even aligned with the spline how much larger the shape gets. Any suggestions?

so, apparently, when importing heightmaps for terrain, the scale has to be set to 100 for some reason, and that's probably what's scaling the brush? Any suggestions on how to solve this?

[delicate tiger]

Hi all, I can't seem to choose EnviroBoxSharp or EnviroBox as my HDRI Backdrop mesh - only EnviroDome appears as an option, aside from my own custom meshes. Any ideas?

[bright sigil]

like they dont show up?

[delicate tiger]

Also, is there any way I can create a material that reflects my actors in the scene, but nothing else? As a sort of reflection catcher.

@bright sigil Nope

[bright sigil]

and you have the engine and other show content checkboxes?

this?

[delicate tiger]

Yep

No show

If I knew where the EnviroDome was stored I'd search there, but I can't narrow down the directory

[bright sigil]

it occurs to me that this is custom content

[grim ore]

are you sure you did the show correctly? they are in the plugin folder as per the docs

you can also navigate to that folder using the find in content browser icon

just for reference from the Docs

[unborn patrol]

Weirdest things moved a project from 4.26 to 4.27. I cannot for the life of me get any print string or action using the F key if i hold Shift at the same time now. If i release shift then hit F it will print a screen. Perhaps there is some hidden weird Shift+F key binding hidden somewhere. HOw would I find this binding. It's not on the projects settings/input screen.

[unkempt bolt]

I was wondering if anyone could help me understand how to set a trigger to change my gamemode from run around 3d world to combat statci in place ( turn based) im lost

[proper fable]

Hi

someone have an idea or a easy tutorial to make easily a macro variation in a landscape

cuz I saw different tutorials but any of them can help me

[grim ore]

why can't they help you

[proper fable]

Unreal Sensei one of the best it didn't work

because I followed step by step

and it didn't work

😭

:l

beautiful tiling

[grim ore]

I dont think any of those material nodes have changed recently, it should work. perhaps you missed a step

or your values dont match

that looks like just a normal tiled texture, no scaling or variation at all

[proper fable]

This that was showed by Sensei Unreal channel didn't work

[proper fable]

that's the point haha

I want to break tiling

[bright sigil]

that works for the base color.....

[proper fable]

Let me show you that it doesn't make any change

connected

without connection

Only change the rotation 😩

I tried to fix this for days

[grim ore]

when you plug the texture directly into the base color, without your top code, what does it look like?

I am assuming different, the code is working find you are just expecting no tiling

and unless your texture is designed to fit the entire landscape... thats not gonna happen

[proper fable]

yes... the second option

let me show you everything

[grim ore]

is your texture designed to fit the landscape without tiling?

[proper fable]

the texture is from Bridge

So yes, it has tiling option

but what I want to do is mix that texture with others

[grim ore]

if your wanting less tiling, you need to change your texture coordinate tiling

with 1 tiling

[proper fable]

And How could I do that?

I don't have too much time in this, sorry.

[grim ore]

with 0.05 tiling

you adjust the tiling on your texture coordinate node (you can also just use 1 for all UV inputs

[proper fable]

Could you send me a ss of your texture connections

In this case it'd be landscape coords, right?

[grim ore]

its basically what you have just using 1 texture and adjusting the texture coord node

click on your red TexCoord[0] nodes and change their tiling

[proper fable]

this?

[grim ore]

your texture right now is meant to fit in a certain size, your landscape is much much much larger. If you change your tiling to a smaller number than 1, it will make your texture "larger". if you make it larger than 1, it will make your texture "smaller"

yes, chage all of those, they all need to match if you want it to be uniform

I just used one to make it easier

#graphics would have more info on how to do this better, your macro variation is working fine your tiling is just not appropriate for your landscape

[proper fable]

Ok, give me a second

I'll try to do what you said me

this is an alpha texture?

because I'm using this and it doesn't look like an alpha

[bright sigil]

they are grayscale masks

they are used with the lerp to define which texture goes where and that breaks up the pattern

[grim ore]

also most games have this issue, you just dont notice it because you are close to the ground and you have clutter in the way like grass and buildings to hide it

your looking at a blank field from far up

[proper fable]

Well...

It's not working... 😦

[grim ore]

like look here

this grass is the same texture, and tiling you just dont notice is because of how the level is designed and you are rarely this far away

[proper fable]

what WRONG with my blueprints

😭 hjaha

[grim ore]

just to note, if you chane the uv coords of say the base color you need to do it for the other textures for it as well like the normal

else... its gonna look weird

[proper fable]

let me see your blueprint haha

[grim ore]

also 0.7 isnt exactly much of a change

[dusk nebula]

What's the correct way to handle a call for something that has one of multiple functionalities assigned to it? somewhat like how abilities are handled in Pokemon, where there are like 40 different abilities that might activate on entrance

[grim ore]

and I pasted my exact blueprint I used

[proper fable]

ok

[bright sigil]

i needed the power node, but you may not

using two normals btw, but the color variation is from the base color * macro variation

[proper fable]

why did you do that red?

[bright sigil]

its getting the red channel

its not red

[proper fable]

oh haha

It's not working

I'm going to do the same like you @bright sigil

perhaps works

[desert verge]

So are they releasing the Matrix demo as a UE5 project?

[bright sigil]

i thought it was accessible already

thats just the game then?

[desert verge]

yeah only on PS5/Series X

Figured they'll release it as a UE5 project for sure

[bright sigil]

if its anything like previous tech demos, they're probably still cleaning it up and solving the hacks

good old E3 parameters

[proper fable]

It's working the color base!!

@grim ore I think you had the reason

[vagrant atlas]

I wrote this blueprint so that when I press RMB the mouse turns off so I can rotate the camera (I'm using the default pawn that you have when you make a blank project). But after I release RMB the mouse shows up, but the camera still rotates with the mouse and I don't know how to stop that.

[proper fable]

I couldn't see that because the terrain is pretty big

I copied this and it works

Thanks @bright sigil

Now I'll try to mix with the others textures

@bright sigil why did you use the red channel and connected with power?

Is the same like flatten normal

or what is the difference?

[bright sigil]

power is like a contrast

it was to make the mask more obvious

[proper fable]

oohh ok

thanks 🙂

[vague lake]

Hello Slackers ! how (or where) can i upload a UE4 interactive tour (for a gallery) to an online website ? so the user can play it ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtJ4HF5w68

somthing like this but online

[grim ore]

you could use webgl from an older version of UE4 (4.24), or use pixel streaming in a later version

[vague lake]

what you recommend ?

[grim ore]

look into both, both are plus and minus features

[eternal lotus]

when I clicked 'build lighting' many (but not all!) of my models, imported from Blender turned black. Anyone know what's going on here and/or how to resolve it?

[vague lake]

k thank you Mathew

[grim ore]

@eternal lotusmove one of them, do they get fixed? if so your lightmap UV's are probably bad for that mesh

[eternal lotus]

aha yep

no idea what lightmap uvs are lol.. but that's probably enough to google it

thanks

[vagrant atlas]

I need help with this...

[proper fable]

is there a connector which can rotate texture?

rotator?

[bright sigil]

rotator, yes?

wut?

[proper fable]

haha

because I can see the tailing yet

So I'd like to mix with other base color

rotated

like you did this

[bright sigil]

those are just two different normal

[proper fable]

You've connected two normal maps and after that you lerped it

oh ok

But there's a way to rotate the texture

[bright sigil]

there is

[proper fable]

and which is the name of it?

[bright sigil]

Rotator

lol

[proper fable]

but this has a time

and it create a bug

[bright sigil]

stick a number it, that fixes the time (freezes it)

whats the bug?

[proper fable]

there're a tons of lines

rotating

[bright sigil]

uhh, is that the texture repeating in a very tiny way?

[proper fable]

WHAT

[proper fable]

nono

oh yes

I forgot to connect the scale

but does the same

[bright sigil]

again, plug in a constant

[grim ore]

are you rotating everything or just one thing?

looks like just rotating one thing thats not scaled like the rest

[bright sigil]

ohh, hang on

[proper fable]

Sorry guys for being bother you

[bright sigil]

fair warning, should never rotate normals maps 🙂

[proper fable]

Ohh ok! thanks for the advicing

[bright sigil]

look closer at the rotator setup

#ue4-general message

[proper fable]

It'd look better if not were for that tiny squads/lines

[bright sigil]

quad lines are normals?

[proper fable]

?

[bright sigil]

right. that rotates the texture so it is of different angle, but you'll need the macro variation to drive the lerp alpha

[proper fable]

insted of multiply with the first color texture?

like this?

[bright sigil]

you could do that too, what that will do is darken the rotated one and not the non-rotated one

i think lerp would be enough

once again

[proper fable]

before I had this

this is better?

[bright sigil]

the lerp is going to blend both texture softly

half of a and half of b

then multiplied against the macro variation

[proper fable]

this doesn't make any effect

[bright sigil]

which produces dark splotches

[proper fable]

oh ok

I think I keep it easy

and I'm not going to complicate with rotator haha

because I can't make it worth

I'm spending more time and I don't get a better result

Anyways thanks a lot @bright sigil

I will try to mix that

maybe it'll remove tailing

[plush yew]

is unreal better than unity?

[proper fable]

What kind of question is that?

OF COURSE

[proper fable]

hahah ok I don't know @plush yew I think it depends

[bright sigil]

i change the color so hope its obvious

the blue is rotated one way while the gray is not rotated

[proper fable]

Nice blue military camouflage haha

HueShift what is its function?

[plush yew]

im gonna have fun with unreal this christmas break

no more teachers telling me what to do

[proper fable]

hahah

[plush yew]

it was so annoying

[bright sigil]

just to make it obvious how the macro works

[proper fable]

oh ok

Well i'm going to the same steps

just give me a minutes

thanks for doing that with the texture color hahaha

ok...

beautiful

I have no idea what just has happened

[sick patio]

uh conrad you said something to me, i didn't write it down

[bright sigil]

i didnt either

[sick patio]

LOl you... you're making me laugh. you said something and then matthew weidstein said something

montages and slots

MathewW — Today at 12:29 PM
the eaisiest way is when they have no stamina, take away input from the character so they cant move, play the animation, wait, then give it back and go back to normal animation

so i guess a montage is like a sequence? a movie?

[bright sigil]

no way, that happened today too!

[sick patio]

huh?

are you

poking fun at me?

[bright sigil]

wait... was that today?

[sick patio]

so it's layered animation

i can't help i'm a noob Conrad

[bright sigil]

lol holy shit, i thought this was last night

its been a hell of an hour

[sick patio]

it was literally 3 hours ago

[bright sigil]

wow

[sick patio]

you being serious?

[bright sigil]

no sarcasm

i am literally thinking back to yesterday

[sick patio]

QUESTION: is it a "bad" habit, that I watch a tutorial, don't understand something or it doesn't work, i then go watch a tutorial on that, BUT WAIT, i don't understand something that one, and i end up with 20 tabs

[bright sigil]

uhh

i dont know

[sick patio]

is that OCD and i should just keep trying the first one?

[bright sigil]

its not an unusual experience though

[bright sigil]

i also dont know, the first one could be bad or outdated

tutorials demonstrate a concept, but that does not mean its right. whats right is what aligns to the entire idea you want and a tutorial only shows a part - not how it integrates, not how to expand it, just the idea in a nutshell (even if rather large). I've watch and followed plenty of tutorials that allowed me the thing i wanted, but then had to reanalyze how it could be expanded or to tie it to other systems

this is why most devs will suggest to keep things simple, start small, copy the design of a game you are familiar with (a small and simple one), and focus on just the core

when i was younger, i was in some bands and one of the first things we did was learn cover songs. I learned songs on my own but we also learned to play them together. In this sense, it gives a comparison of skill - "look at how we play this song just like the original maker" - which is the same as saying "look at how I understand the systems at play for this game just as it was originally made"

[sick patio]

that has got to be the most encouraging thing, i've heard all year

[bright sigil]

im glad you took the time to read

[sick patio]

i be readin

[plush yew]

In what chat do you type if you need help with something in ue4?

[zinc cedar]

Hello can some one tell me why i can walk through assets from megascans ?

Does the format matter (obj/fbx ) ?

Ok thank you ^^

[karmic stag]

I'm running Unreal 4.27.2 on Ubuntu. I cloned the new repo for our project. It was built in UE 4.27.2 but when I try to open it, I get a message that it was built in a different engine version. I tried following the suggestion to copy the project and open that, for the sake of looking at it, but after doing that it says it can't be compiled because it would overwrite a bunch of engine files.

[dense knoll]

Have you tried re-building the project?

not the entire thing

but just building

i got the same issue a lot of times, doing a normal build in VS seems to fix it

[karmic stag]

ok, I'll ask one of the devs to help me with that. I'm the artist and not really literate with these things.

[dense knoll]

kk

if you DO do it tho, make sure you dont Re-Build All

[plush yew]

How long does UE4 source build take to build in VS?

[kindred depot]

below 12 cores @ 4ghz about 1 - 3 hours

[prisma plank]

TAA not better FXAA. TAA better in anti-aliasing, but not in distance and handling information
comparison
1 TAA
2 FXAA

[zenith creek]

by default unreal TAA has low sharpening, increasing it leads to better results

[bright sigil]

i think 1 TAA looks better

[prisma plank]

)

hm.. but tsr yet not included in ue5 , right?

[sour tide]

I keep on getting an error in my game. It doesn't interfere with anything, but I would still like to know how to stop it

"Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to access Sparks via property Sparks, but Sparks is pending kill". Blueprint: BP_Door2 Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Door 2 Graph: EventGraph Node: DestroyComponent"

I have a spark emitter that's being destroyed on an event

It sounds like it's deleting it, and then it's trying to access the thing that it's already deleting?

[bright sigil]

Usually solved with an isValid check

[sour tide]

like, that's it

So.... an isvalid between the sparks and the destroycomponent?

[bright sigil]

No thats doing the destroy

[sour tide]

Where, then? I don't think I have anything else that's actually referencing the Sparks

[bright sigil]

Find references for it

[sour tide]

....maybe the trigger is firing more than once

somehow

[clever drift]

hello! anyone willing to help a newbie on unreal 4?

[bright sigil]

Im going off of the error message which says its in a function/in a graph

[sour tide]

Well. The bit of blueprint I just posted is the only blueprint that BP_Door2 has

Also, installing an isvalid in front of the destroycomponent does seem to have fixed it

[bright sigil]

Are deleting this object which owns the component at all?

[sour tide]

No. Only the sparks component when the door is activated

[bright sigil]

Is sparks a component of the bp it is being destroyed in?

[sour tide]

yes

[bright sigil]

Whats the rest of the bp?

[sour tide]

I'm working on Wadstein's MVP tutorial series

Door gets triggered, door stops sparking, door opens via rotation, removes collision on the door so that it doesn't obstruct the frame at all

[bright sigil]

Not sure at all. I guess its right, but it says actor component when its a particle system, maybe thats fine

Maybe the event is called more than once

[sour tide]

Summoning up all my programmer debugging skill

It's firing twice.

[bright sigil]

Well then

[sour tide]

This is the button. I tried making it delete the collider, but that just introduced a new instance of the same error (now on the collider box)

(the button slowly descends, then turns green and THEN opens the door)

I could make it set a little boolean, and then if that's been set don't run anything beyond? But before that I'm going to take a moment to subdivide this further to see what else is happening twice

....oh, what the heck

when I'm standing on it and it's descending downwards the begin overlap is triggering every frame

and the descend timeline apparently finishes twice

....it's triggering itself

I made it report what object is overlapping it

Yeah, I thought of the same thing

If I wanted a button that could be triggered by either the player, or enemies, or big prop blocks, what kind of structure would be right? Would all the other things need to be castable to the same blueprint? Poll the overlapping actor to see if they have some set quality like "CanPressButtons"?

Oh, or hand them to another function, CanPressButtons, that returns a boolean?

I think I like the last option. Because whether or not a class of thing can press a button is going to involve different logic according to what kind of thing it is. Player might be "always yes", enemies and blocks might have different lookups against size

Also, what's the difference between using Cast To Actor, vs. doing something like Get Player Actor and checking if it's == the overlapped actor?

They seem functionally equivalent here but is one of them preferable?

[sour tide]

New question. The tutorial (from 2016) goes over adding an event to the sequencer which causes a menu popup. It seems to be adding an event to the level. But, that doesn't work. Am I meant to be using the blueprints attached to the sequencer now?

[stray drift]

Doing so would make interfaces useless, and if you are looping over something, getting all those actors and checking against each would be painful, like you might have to in the enemy's case

[bright sigil]

this method is only checking if it is the specific actor

This is similar. It checks to see if the overlapping actor can be cast to the desired class, which then yields an output of that actor's properties

You can also check for a tag, which is very flexible as any actor can have tags (they have this feature inherently)

You may also check which class the actor comes from and see if it is the appropriate class

[sour tide]

Ah, OK. Also this is the first time I've heard about Interfaces. Are they C++ only?

[bright sigil]

nope

[sour tide]

Ah. The first documentation page I found on it was the programming-specific one

[stray drift]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Types/Interface/#:~:text=A Blueprint Interface is a,the Blueprints that added it.

[sour tide]

yeah, I already have that open

[bright sigil]

Might be better to understand the three common methods of bp communication, including interfaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE

[sour tide]

I did actually refilter the page list

sounds good

I am definitely shaky on that

[long flax]

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

[bright sigil]

well the video does well to describe that there is a degree of preference

[stray drift]

I'd rather direct them to some of the beginner BP stuff that cover BP and programming basics and foundations like interfaces too :)

It's weird the stuff you can miss when you're picking things up as you go

[sour tide]

I dunno, I think I have the really beginner-level stuff down. I understand making nodes, connecting them, execution order, branching, variables, functions, references to other actors and calling THEIR stuff....

[bright sigil]

i found that vid last year, but it was a great refresher

[midnight cloak]

Hi, how migrate a map into a new project

[bright sigil]

you tried Migrate?

[midnight cloak]

i want to migrate someting like that

but i don't know how open it

[bright sigil]

Migrate is a feature within the engine

[midnight cloak]

i have to open my 2 Uproject ?

[bright sigil]

you could if you want, maybe read up on Migrate

[midnight cloak]

ok last question , so i have to open a new project and migrate my stuff into ?

[bright sigil]

not performing migrate correctly can be detrimental to both projects, i suggest you read

[rapid sleet]

hello i am having a problem where i save the changes i made to the game but when i restart it all is gone

[oblique tangle]

hi all, sorry for the random message,
where would be the best place to go to get some help with some hlsl code issues i've got with an undeclared identifier? the code checks out, checked it multiple times, might just be blind tho haha

[cinder notch]

Anyone know how to make a vehicle move relative to another vehicle, instead of world space? Such as an aircraft carrier

[sour tide]

I literally only just saw that that video is 2.3 hours long

I think I will put that one off until tomorrow

[simple olive]

hi so probably a super noob question but I'm having a bit of an issue and cant seem to see what I did wrong considering I was following a general tutorial that so far had been going great. I have this set up but when I move away from the collision area that I set pressing the set interact button still manages to pop up the hello text

[autumn flame]

You using Controller instead of Character like before

[simple olive]

oh thanks so much

[rapid sleet]

what is going on

[bright sigil]

ui glitching out, UE thinks you want to place a window you were dragging into a region

[rapid sleet]

so how can i fix it

[wanton violet]

Hey guys I'm trying to export my game to android. Previously I am doing this it's work perfectly. But after I reinstall the ue4 it's not working to me. My project is successfully exporting. But when I trying to install my apk it's saying "app not installed" can you anybody help me to solve this problem

[bright sigil]

maybe..... restart engine, drag something there to update it, restore or reset layout, move this bugged window (outliner)

[bright sigil]

you transferred the apk onto your phone and then installed it?

[wanton violet]

@bright sigil yeah I am also doing this

[bright sigil]

what message are you getting when you try to install? it just ignores and says app not installed instead?

[wanton violet]

When I trying to install it's cancelled and say "app not installed"

[bright sigil]

and you have enough space and phone is developer enabled right?

[wanton violet]

I just trying default project and my phone extra 20gb space

[bright sigil]

did it ever ask to enable the installation of unknown apps?

or did you already allow this

[wanton violet]

Yeah I did all options in my phone
And my previous apk is still installing

But my new export apk not installed

[bright sigil]

ah ok, so then its an issue with the new one so it sounds like some build setting

[wanton violet]

Maybe I am reinstall my all SDK ndk JDK including unreal but did not find problem

[bleak zodiac]

try drag any panel into difference place

[bright sigil]

yeah, havent build in a long time, i cant remember if there were specific things to change about the build

[wanton violet]

And I already used api 28-32 but nothing get helpful

[bright sigil]

pak file, aab file, things like that

but im at a loss at this point

[wanton violet]

@bright sigil please trying remember I am trying more than 12 days

[bright sigil]

i assume you already went through the docs, so i really dont know

if i had this issue, i would be scouring the internet

could be a phone thing

try different settings

build with a pak

build without

try all setting to see it one clicks

uninstall the previous apk (if you dont mind risking not being able to install it again)

restart phone

sacrifice goat

package as different types - etc, astc, etc

i know one says "works on all" but thats a lie

[wanton violet]

I am already every single settings export but... But no one helped
And I trying deferent devices still not working

[bright sigil]

you said this is like a test? building a template project to phone or is it more?

[wanton violet]

I am having game project but I just trying the default project

[bright sigil]

and neither work?

[wanton violet]

No it's not working

[bright sigil]

well a default would have less going wrong, so maybe it is a phone thing

[wanton violet]

Ok thanks you so much for your valuable reply I check my project and settings again

[bright sigil]

maybe also delete the files generated from builds so its a clean empty folder

[wanton violet]

I will try thanks ✨🙂

[bright sigil]

best of luck

[wanton violet]

🌟

[trim mesa]

hi

i am following a game tutorial for desktop in ue4

but i want to create that same game in android

so if i choose android template, can i follow the guy's tutorial whose making that game in desktop

??

@snow crown

[snow crown]

please dont ping me for unreal help

[trim mesa]

sorry

but this is urgent

[trim mesa]

please tell me, if anything is irgent i just ping you, sorry will not do that

but rn pls help me

[snow crown]

ive never done anything with android before

i dont know

[trim mesa]

i am following a game tutorial for desktop in ue4

but i want to create that same game in android

so if i choose android template, can i follow the guy's tutorial whose making that game in desktop

??

anyone?? pls tell me its urgent

[trim mesa]

do you know anyone in the community who can urgently help me

[trim mesa]

with my this question

[pearl minnow]

how long is the tutorial?

[trim mesa]

what do you mean?

[pearl minnow]

how long is the video

[sour tide]

Like. How long would it actually take you, to just try it, and see if it works on android?

[trim mesa]

it has several parts

like 20-25

[pearl minnow]

if it is less than a couple hours just do it, then try to convert it / copy i into an android project

[trim mesa]

cant take the risk, thats why asking first

[trim mesa]

na, its not

long tutorial

[pearl minnow]

well your situation sound very implausible 😄 if you dont have time to try/fail you cant make a game

im sorry that you're on a bus that is about to explode

game dev takes months and years not minutes

[sour tide]

OK. Ignoring the impossible question, which is whether an unknown video is going to work for android, what does one generally need to know about building FOR android? I assume that it's just like... understanding hardware limitations? In terms of processing power, screen size, limitations in inputs?

The entire point of using a "universal" game engine is that you just change one thing and build for something else?

(Note: I know nothing)

Alternatively: if you actually have so little time that you have to immediately charge in and do something without room for experimentation... then it's useless even asking if the tutorial will work. You have to just go forward and pray that it will. Which sounds really dumb, but if things are actually that bad, you don't have a choice

[bright sigil]

some smart people

[drowsy snow]

Take the damn risk then

[trim mesa]

my old friend i was about to ping you, but i was not able to find your username

ok

[drowsy snow]

Good, don't ping me, because I don't work for mobile 🙂

[trim mesa]

ok sir!!

[drowsy snow]

Also please be patient next time. Your impatience make nuisance to others in this server.

Begging for "urgency" done you no favour.

[trim mesa]

lol

ok sir

[trim mesa]

ah tell me about yourself, have you created any projects

in ue?

[drowsy snow]

Many. Most of them unpublished or yet to be published, some of them were just for R&D, some of them are scraps.

[trim mesa]

published? where do u publish them?

[drowsy snow]

unpublished

[trim mesa]

no, i mean where will u publish them

because you are a desktop dev

so you cant on play store

so where will you?

@drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Epic Games Store, or itch.io (for lesser projects)

[trim mesa]

ok, name some of your projects

and describe them, i want to hear the projects you have made

@drowsy snow

[stray drift]

Not sure if awkward English or speedrunning a ban

[drowsy snow]

Fine...

Past Future, anime style isekai action role playing game (WIP, planned to be on EGS)
Xenoglossia, basically R&D testbed project (private)
Million Live Framework, a machinima project (open source)

Claustroclast, isometric game, supposedly for Epic MegaJam but shelved due to technical issues

[trim mesa]

these games on your own?

or help from yt

i mean followed a tutorial or something?

[drowsy snow]

4 years of experience, looking from various resources and doing my own research and experiments

[trim mesa]

ok, so when you thought to start with game dev, you chose unity or ue4 first?

[drowsy snow]

GameMaker 7, way back in 2009 (IIRC). I do modding beforehand

Are you done probing me? Good.

Should give you your own confidence by now.

[trim mesa]

actually i am really a newbie in ue4, and as you have 4 years experience, i wanna ask, first i should start with gamemaker, or ue4, and as there's also ue5 now, so should i learn ue4 or start with ue5, and any online resources or tutorials that you continued with for the same

thanks@drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Start with UE4.

[trim mesa]

ok, and resources for the same?

that you followed

actually you do one thing pls if you are free just dm me, and share your journey with me

will be so kind of you

it will just tell me which path i should follow first

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses
Back then this wasn't a thing, so you should take it.

[trim mesa]

ok

[trim mesa]

@drowsy snow

[autumn flame]

It's pretty rude pinging so much 👀

Anyways, this too

https://youtube.com/c/MathewWadsteinTutorials

[stray drift]

If you want to move to learn Mandarin so you can move to China, would you prepare by learning Japanese first? It does share grammatical concepts and characters after all.

Same thing with game dev, if you want to build a game with UE you just start with learning and building it, not learning three different engines so you're better prepared or whatever. People know other languages or engines because of their career/ personal history, not because it's the most efficient way to learn UE.

[trim mesa]

ok

[stray drift]

UE Learn is a good starting point for almost everything, but it's never in great depth. For beginners that's not a major concern, but you need further sources like Wadstein and Lahey, too.

[trim mesa]

thanks for motive words

[trim mesa]

ue4 or 5

??

[stray drift]

4, don't make the same mistake I'm making. Fight engine bugs and crashes when you're more experienced haha

[autumn flame]

Totally 4

Wait for stable 5

[prime willow]

@kindred depot so if youve messed enough with grooms please let me know im so confused

do grooms need to be binded to meshes nowadays

like if i use your method you showed me