ue4-general

[prime willow]

would i need to create a bind for each mesh when using that particular reforged groom

or will i be ok with just attaching it and it automatically binds and adjusts based on morph targets?

[trim mesa]

ok! thanks

[stable path]

Who is lahey, can you point to their channel, if they have one

[stray drift]

Sorry mate had a silly autocorrect incident, meant Laley - https://youtube.com/c/RyanLaley

[sour tide]

Just finished MathewW's MVP Intro series. Even though some things are out of date now (it's 5 years old) I must say I really feel better equipped now than I did at the end of the last intro series I found 👍

[wary dove]

guys.how can i import collision in UE5 from blender ?

[clever axle]

Hi guys!

Every time I want to open a level in my editor, it crashes:
Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Editor/UnrealEd/Private/EditorServer.cpp] [Line: 2021] World Memory Leaks: 6 leaks objects and packages. See The output above.

how can I fix this?

[neon bough]

well...

how should we know without the output above

[fresh escarp]

Does anyone knows how I create moderation system for my game in unreal engine 4

[clever axle]

@neon bough there is no output above (except login id and epic account id)

I'm pretty sure it has to do with the sub leveling

I have a master level that has all the other levels as a sub level and when I try to load one of the sub levels, the editor crashes

[lusty vigil]

Does anyone know how in the ONline Learning Resource Exploring Level Design for Game Development under "Setting Up a Gym Map and Editor Settings" this guy set up his keybinds? he shows I (to show only selected) and O (to show mesh edges) but he seems to be toggle these on and off. i can use CTRL+Z to undo the "show only selected" but it does not work on the Show Mesh Edges flag 😦

well wait. O seems to be a toggle now. strange

[plush yew]

Is unreal engine 5 good

and is it better than 4

[stray drift]

UE5 bad, and UE2 was the peak. I remember being 5. Never used UE then, but being 5 was nice.

UE5 isn't too different to 4 tbh, but EA is more unstable currently

[plush yew]

lol

thanks

[solid cloak]

.

I am having difficulty getting my fog of war to work with my character, it works fine as you can see but when i attach it to my character (I must be doing it wrong) it does not update

If anyone knows why the fog of war is not updating your help would be appreciated

[drowsy snow]

Please don't crosspost questions around without redirected, to not confuse other people.

[kindred depot]

just got out of work, ill send you a message when i wake up

[plush yew]

what nodes should i look for to set navmesh path find in sequential order?

i mean, i click on 50,70,5, character gets its path to there and if i click somewhere else when it is moving, the next path will start from the destination that it is trying to reach, after character gets there

i am aware that you can check if player got in position with this

but idk how can i store it infinitely

edit: i think this can helps : https://couchlearn.com/how-to-use-loops-and-arrays-unreal-engine-4/

[solid cloak]

100% wont do it again just learned about that rule

[thorn river]

question, is it better performance wise to create a widget at the start of the game in game mode or game state and then have it display when needed instead of creating widget and destroying it each time the player acccesses the intended menu?

[plush yew]

how complex is the widget?

if you will destroy every time, you need to save and load stats if there is any

Btw I am just starting with unreal engine I have worked with Unity in the past do you guys know good long useful tutorial

[plush yew]

there is pinned messages

[plush yew]

thanks

[kindred depot]

#cpp message

[plush yew]

Bruh I am not that dumb

but thanks anyway

[drowsy snow]

Protip: forgot what you know that are specific to Unity. Defenestrate them.

[kindred depot]

never called you dumb.

lol

[plush yew]

ok

[kindred depot]

I dont know c++ only Bp

🧔🏽

[plush yew]

No just the basic tutorial

[plush yew]

4

[placid halo]

Hi! Sorry if I'm interrupting anything, but I need to get something done ASAP (deadline is due today), and I can't find the solution. I have to animate a little scene with the mannequin picking up a glass of water from a table. I need to know how can the glass be attached to his hand, only within a specific frame range. I tried using sockets, and it kinda worked, but as far as I know sockets can't just be turned off and on. I'm a complete beginner in UE and desperate for help. Please DM me.

[drowsy snow]

In many cases, there's barely any direct parallel of how Unity doing things against how Unreal doing things

[plush yew]

F

[sour tide]

whoops

wrong person >>

[drowsy snow]

Speaking as animator, you should do the glass as skelmesh, and in your DCC tool, use constraint to animate the glass around.

Example, in GTA V, glasses just happen to animate together with whoever it's supposed to be held by.

[sour tide]

I finished Mathew Wadstein's MVP Intro series of videos today, I found it quite useful to get a good idea of how to actually start to use all the major parts. Some bits like interface layouts are out of date but there wasn't anything I couldn't figure out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApEtWpAialg&list=PLSlkDq2rO1t7eEyfF8eiTsGGGtFOBz1vb

[drowsy snow]

If the holding glass animation isn't interactive, in a sense that the glass had to be held in many ways, you can get away with the glass being a skelmesh and constraints made in your DCC tool.

[placid halo]

Oh... Thank you so much. Didn't think of that.

[kindred depot]

If you ever see him here, message him in here. he is @ MathewW . He is always willing to help you out, when he is around. I dont tag people when they are not here xD

Ohh i thought you where asking for help from his stuff.

disregard ^ xD

[sour tide]

haha no I don't have anything that I particularly need urgent help on at the moment.... but I have identified a list of things as long as my arm that I need to know

watch one video and learn half of one thing and discover three more things

[kindred depot]

The man knows more about unreal engine than epic games does.

[stable path]

Welcome to the club 😄

[drowsy snow]

Except that he's one of the tutors in Unreal Online Learning, at least for the basics courses

He still occasionally ask around in other channels BTW

[sour tide]

That's even worse, that would mean that the knowledge base of epic is bigger than itself

[fierce tulip]

error, loop detected

[kindred depot]

lol

https://tenor.com/view/do-something-comeon-stickman-bored-gif-22722853

Compile >_<

[drowsy snow]

Speaking of which, UDN Knowledge Base has been surfaced on public. I say it's a treasure cove.

[kindred depot]

id Tech 3 is a early build of unreal engine right?

I was thinking of looking over old source codes. EDIT: Quake III Arena engine,yupp

[patent cobalt]

Legit or dark web?

[sour tide]

White Ninja... that's an old webcomic.
Apparently the webcomic finished in 2012.
Then it got recreated as an animated webseries in 2015.
Both the original site and the webseries site appear to be completely gone.

[drowsy snow]

Legit.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/docs

[kindred depot]

I know i should post this in source, but i mean its not hurting anyone here. Does anyone know why this is going hella slow and only using like 1 core of my cpu? im tyring to go to bed. lol

[drowsy snow]

No frickin way

[kindred depot]

Wait you did not know that?

[drowsy snow]

Modules are more bottlenecked on storage I/O more than CPU.

[patent cobalt]

Hadn’t noticed that, thanks for the tip!

[kindred depot]

Ahhh alright, ill wait for these to be done then sleep then 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Considering UE1 never open sourced (maybe Tim lost the source code), I didn't know that.

[kindred depot]

Call of duty one and 2 editor maybe?

[drowsy snow]

IW engine did started off as id Tech 3 fork, yes.

[kindred depot]

crazy how they own the rights with out paying for it now.

[drowsy snow]

Carmack's era of id was more lenient than current id.

[cloud mountain]

Has anyone had this problem? He didn't find any file in the directory . I'm use visual studio 2019

[kindred depot]

are you making a folder called invalid output?

[drowsy snow]

For one thing, Carmack open sourced first 4 major versions of id Tech, Valve's GoldSrc engine is a fork of id Tech 2 (and Source is a fork of GoldSrc), IW engine is a fork of id Tech 3.

[kindred depot]

Oh i know bud 🙂 I forgot id tech was IW engine.

[cloud mountain]

no, I downloaded the project from git and just created the visual studio files

[drowsy snow]

The other way around lol

[kindred depot]

Yeah.. sleep time hahah

[drowsy snow]

I don't know Russian (aside from stereotypical memes) so I'm not sure what's the error

[opal cedar]

Graphics card?

[drowsy snow]

Might help if the error message is in English

[cloud mountain]

it says here: cannot find the file specified

[plush yew]

Does anyone know if theres any online documentation detailing the command line options for the Bink 2 encoder that now ships with UE?

[drowsy snow]

Not much, I say. Bink 2 wasn't even that open before Epic acquire RAD Tools. The documentations had to catch up I presume

[kindred depot]

@drowsy snow

if you did not know this 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/007_Legends

[drowsy snow]

Already know it lol

[kindred depot]

lol

[drowsy snow]

I'm kinda sucker with the game engine topic

[kindred depot]

007 = cod engine.

Yeah meeee as well xD

[plush yew]

damn thats unfortunate, theres only a couple options I can't seem to figure out, as seen in image 1 (left is Bink 1 encoding settings, right is Bink 2 that I got to work thanks to @hollow palm), those being the deblocking options, VAQ options & slices options, might be a bit naughty and see if something like Ghidra can help with this

[pure void]

Could someone help me where I can find documentation on this?

Or what terms to look for

[drowsy snow]

Whoa, that's illegal I'm afraid

Don't reverse engineer it, lest you don't want yourself in legal trouble

[plush yew]

Don't have any other options unfortunately

[drowsy snow]

Consider snail e-mail RAD Tools through their mail support instead

[plush yew]

I did a while back on a different issue, when I was trying to acquire a license for the Bink 2 encoder/decoding suite and that was back in March, still haven't got a response back unfortunately so I don't think snail mail will be much luck

[drowsy snow]

I'm a modder myself, but I definitely don't want to risk myself in that kind of legal trouble

[kindred depot]

Email us to get an evaluation SDK. and still nothing thats crazy

[drowsy snow]

Admittedly they're not that responsive when it comes to individual mails.

[plush yew]

Fair enough I won't say anything else on the topic, but if I find out anything I'll post it here

[fluid hatch]

hello

[drowsy snow]

Business e-mail address (custom domains) might pique their interest as opposed to someone using gmail.com domain.

[kindred depot]

I have not opened bink and smasher sense bf1942 xD chaging the into and background video

[real heath]

Camera view frustum? Projection matrix? Near and far clip plane? What specifically are you after

[stray drift]

Buzzword soup. Doesn't help with the girls, but does help with the investors 😎

[pure void]

I'm trying to find out how the cursor can be used in unreal and this image struck me as being important in that understanding

So I wanted to read up upon it but don't know what to Google for

So I'll check out those terms

Thank you

[real heath]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/ProjectWorldtoScreen/

Something like that?

There's a deproject or something too

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/DeprojectScreentoWorld/

[pure void]

That should get me started thanks

[drowsy snow]

No wonder I'm single :(

Guess you can't impress girls with how stand out your Unreal Engine game is

[stray drift]

The secret to landing a gf is never telling them of your hobbies, and pretending you like dogs, avocadoes, and the beach. Some girls may be into the same things, but a relationship can only have one loser. It is known.

[drowsy snow]

I don't like pretending tho

[worn flame]

sombebody can help me, i installed a solid Disk a SSD but my project o horror engine dont open and still freeze like that, a bro in spanish told me that i must wait hours cause the project must be rebuild it? thank you so much

[drowsy snow]

Well, I guess game tech isn't as impressive as other art form.

[drowsy snow]

Depends on how you move it.

[real heath]

Is it just stuck at the splash screen? Look in task manager, you probably have a whole bunch of shader compile workers running. It'll need to finish before your project opens.

[worn flame]

the project is in the old disk and i installed a new SSD Disk yesterday but why this cant open normal? and it is freeze

[rancid jay]

how do you edit a data curve table? And i cannot find a way to see where the original source too. Unlike the one with simple UStruct in BP

[real heath]

Unreal stores a whole bunch of data called the derived data cache in a few locations. If you are running a new windows install it'll need to rebuild those.

[worn flame]

the program made a copy of the proyect in the unreal program folder but nothing all day yesterday and dont open xd

[real heath]

The giveaway is usually shader compile worker processes in task manager

[stray drift]

It's been about 60 seconds bruh. Grab a drink of water 🤯

[drowsy snow]

Look at your GameMode.

[opal cedar]

Oh ok, it's in the world settings

Sorry that question was quite dumb

[warped parrot]

hey guys. does anyone know how i can change the rotation point of an object in unreal engine 4? im trying to make a chest open that i made for a uni project but i want the lid to rotate at the box. so it looks like its opening on hinges

this is how it rotates currently

[neon bough]

either reimport with correct pivot, or wrap the mesh with a scene component, and rotate the scene component

[warped parrot]

well. i figured how to do it in game editor

dont know how to do it in blueprint mode lmao

[patent cobalt]

As long as the actor is in the level you can edit its pivot

[neon bough]

i thought thats temporary?

do they just move it within the scene component, too?

[patent cobalt]

Well yes but for some applications it is enough. I would prefer the scene component technique anyway

Or fixing it in DCC

[warped parrot]

this is what i get in bp mode

but i need to move it here in bp

[neon bough]

now add a scene component to your blueprint, and move the mesh into the scene component

then move the pivot of the scene component to the edge of your box, and then move the mesh within the scene component above the box

[patent cobalt]

So it was a BP in the end 😜

[neon bough]

now if you rotate the scene component instead of the mesh, you should get the desired result

[warped parrot]

um

[civic vapor]

Does anyone know what was the last version where procedural foliage was available? Edit: nevermind, 4.22 has it

[neon bough]

yea the last one, under utility

[drowsy snow]

I personally would do the chest as a skelmesh 🤔

[neon bough]

dont listen to him ^ 😛

or rather... what's the benefit of a skeletal mesh?

[drowsy snow]

Easier way to open it

[neon bough]

not really

[drowsy snow]

Also it's not like you NEED to have the character stand inside it.

[neon bough]

you need an additional animation and/or animation bp

for a box

[drowsy snow]

It's a chest, but okay

[warped parrot]

YES

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/box-ibood-gif-19172372

[warped parrot]

IT WORKS

[neon bough]

it's a box

[warped parrot]

also i have to use blueprints for my uni assignment

[drowsy snow]

Oh okay, thought it was more free project

As in no restriction to improve

[warped parrot]

nah we have to use blueprints

i just hate that we arent marked more on the asset

i worked hard on it

also thank you for the help it rotates perfectly now

just gotta change the scale and mess with the trigger boundary

[neon bough]

what are you studying?

[warped parrot]

computer science for video games

[neon bough]

which semester?

[warped parrot]

so i learn game dev as well as computer science and maths

[warped parrot]

first year

this is my 2nd project

my first was to make a 2d game using sfml and c++. thats due in febuary but this is due in 5 days

we only get 3 weeks for this project lmao

and that includes learning it

[neon bough]

wew

and they drop you right into 3ds max and ue4, or was there any pre teaching?

[warped parrot]

very uneven project timelines

[warped parrot]

nope. those 3 blue weeks are all we got taught

6 lessons in total

and thats the timeline for the project

tbh tho the teacher is very good. she recorded in depth videos for the basics

[plush yew]

Outside nuking DDC, is there any command lines for forcing recompile of an entire project on launch? I want to do a comparison between a couple of CPUs for project load times.

[warped parrot]

think they average at 20-30 minutes each

along with a word document

[neon bough]

ah, so you got access to the tutorials in case you missed something or have to lookup again, neat

[potent pendant]

Hey what would be the best way to create car window materials? So it both reflects and tints properly. I tried using Automotive Materials pack but it ended up looking like this. I used different mesh for interior and exterior parts of the windshield as the directions stated here https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/EpicGamesContent/AutomotiveMaterialPack/

[warped parrot]

yeah it really helps being able to look back at the work

[neon bough]

alright, good luck

[warped parrot]

cheers my guy. now that the chest is done tho its almost done. just gotta model a key and import it

[neon bough]

@potent pendant is the interior of the vehicle modeled?

[potent pendant]

Yeah let me show you how it looks without windows

[neon bough]

are you sure you picked the correct master material for the glass?

your current looks like you have orange peel effect on it

[potent pendant]

I think so, this is how it looks without windows

[neon bough]

glass usually has "perfect" reflections, only distorted by the curvature

[potent pendant]

The back window part is not important since it's basically going to be a black mirror, essentially

Well not important yet, once I get the front windows to look proper

[neon bough]

i would double check the material you used

as said, the reflection looks to distorted, and it looks like its fully opaque

[potent pendant]

I'll recheck. But it's not fully opaque, here it is from another angle

[neon bough]

ah, ok

it doesn't look too bad on the 2nd screenshot

your lighting setup is probably just not doing well with it

could be more translucent anyhow 😄

[potent pendant]

Seems like I'm using the correct material instances, I think. The exterior part has this in it

And the interior part has this in it

[real heath]

In your project settings change the g buffer format to high precision normals to smooth out the reflection. And check your sphere reflection capture placement to solve the fact it’s reflecting itself

Or possibly the refraction is cranked too high

The mesh also has a setting for high precision normal if it’s a static mesh

[neon bough]

refraction looks ok, otherwise the 2nd screenshot would show more "zoom" of the interior, or not?

[real heath]

Yeah it feels more like a bad cubemap to me, but hard to know without seeing it myself

Actually the more I look, I think it is the refraction

[vocal flume]

I have this setup to disable input. Im doing this from a BP and it does not work. In @grim ore 's video it works.. I even tried disconnecting the player controller input so it'll block all player controllers but it doesn't work..

[potent pendant]

In the project setting the g buffer format is already high precision. How would you suggest to change the sphere reflection capture placement?

I also think the refraction is too high but hmmn

[plush yew]

Does anyone know a good unreal engine c++ coding tutorial that does not include visual scripting

[real heath]

Check normal settings on mesh if you are still seeing that wavy reflection. The setting may only exist on static meshes, don’t know about skeletal meshes. For refecltion capture placement, for now just move it really far away or up the sky distance setting so it doesn’t capture the vehicle. If you are still seeing the car in the glass I’d say it’s refraction

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/661716/normal-smoothing-issue-at-high-polycounts.html

[thick loom]

There are a few tutorials in the pins at #cpp. You'll be disappointed with UE if you try to do everything without blueprints. Content is designed to be accessed through blueprints, not c++. (File paths in particular get nasty in c++)

[plush yew]

Doing it without blueprints is better for me because hard means fun (:

[warm spruce]

Hi I have a question how do I message in unpaid gigs?

@upper heart

[vocal flume]

I have this setup to disable input. Im doing this from a BP and it does not work. In @grim ore 's video it works.. I even tried disconnecting the player controller input so it'll block all player controllers but it doesn't work..
@vocal flume anyone?

[thick loom]

I didn't say anything about difficulty. It's tedious and time consuming to work without blueprints in certain circumstances. If you are looking for a challenge, your time is better spent looking at more advanced systems. The gameplay ability system is a great example of c++ and BP working together. (You need to make hundreds of primarily data BP to use GAS, but your team can't effectively use GAS without at least one C++ engineer)

[gleaming pumice]

@warm spruce on the left theres Job Board, find Manny Bot in there DM him

[warm spruce]

Thank you

[drowsy snow]

Your ego won't do you any good. You'll going to use BPs in any shape or form, in Unreal Engine. Some things are ACTUALLY easier to do in BP than in C++, like asset loading.

[gleaming pumice]

He gives you the option for unpaid, its option 3 when you post a job

[plush yew]

then I am not going to use Unreal engine

but thanks for the advice

[drowsy snow]

Loading assets in Unreal C++ is fucking painful - expect a lot of crashes doing so if the reference is inaccurate by the slightest.

[thick loom]

Then when you move a few filles around... Good bye project

[plush yew]

F

[drowsy snow]

No one's stopping you from leaving Unreal Engine 🙂

[plush yew]

why dont I make my own game engine

[thick loom]

Any modern engine worth using is going to rely on some sort of graphical layer to manage content

[drowsy snow]

Don't ask me lmao

If you have the expertise, then do it.

[gleaming pumice]

Something about reinventing the wheel?

[plush yew]

ok.

[gleaming pumice]

Its sounds like you want to learn C++ more than learn Unreal?

[plush yew]

BTW the best IDE is pen and paper

[gleaming pumice]

Idk, I just jumped in here

[plush yew]

yes

[thick loom]

Unreal engine isn't for you. It uses a highly customized version of c++ that doesn't work outside unreal engine.

[gleaming pumice]

I've read that unreal shouldn't be used to learn C++, but better to learn C++ outside and bring that knowledge to unreal

FWIW, I do not use C++ in unreal

[plush yew]

that is really unfortunate

[thick loom]

Unreal engine isn't about teaching anyone c++. It's about empowering TEAMS of people to effectively do their jobs.

[drowsy snow]

Not that customised but it does have a lot of macros and whatnot

[thick loom]

You got me there, I didn't describe that well

[plush yew]

I have never said that I want to learn c++ trough Unreal

[drowsy snow]

@plush yew I recommend you, no, beg you, to read this.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/docs?topic=265080

[plush yew]

ok

[gleaming pumice]

What's your goal @plush yew

[plush yew]

me and some of my friends were planing on making a game

[thick loom]

When you've worked on enough projects as a C++ engineer you'll appreciate a content driven pipeline. It keeps the less technical people out of the way so you can focus on your job. And less technical people prefer it because they don't have to wait on the C++ engineer so they can do theirs.

[drowsy snow]

I beg him to read through the article and properly understand it, please don't distrub him from reading it.

Give time to understand it very thoroughly.

[gleaming pumice]

@plush yew I got into Unreal recently too... I wanted to use a scripting language to write it. I'm a former web dev, with game ideas (like you). I wanted to built it in C++ too because I thought it would be better.

Do whatever you want, but I promise you prototyping your game with blueprints is way faster. Learning Blueprints wound up being fun for me, and I quickly got a protoype of my game underway

I'm going to read that article too

[plush yew]

I wanted to switch from Unity to Unreal because unreal had better graphics (most people say) I am still the same programmer as the day I started programmming

[plush yew]

I read some of it

[drowsy snow]

Here's my tip: You can achieve similar graphics fidelity in Unity. It's going to be harder, but it's feasible.

[plush yew]

I see

[drowsy snow]

If you don't like using UE because "hurr durr cable management sucks" from BP, then by all means, don't use the engine.

[plush yew]

what if I make my own game engine

[potent pendant]

Ok I moved the sphere reflection capture way out in the sky and I also set the windshield mesh to have the "Use High Precision Tangent Basis" setting enabled and I applied the changes. No effect I think, still refracts or reflects weird like in this picture. I'm also open to recreating a whole new material for this purpose if I knew the best way to do it. What other type of normal settings would you suggest? This is how the mesh edit build settings looks like now in the second picture.

[gleaming pumice]

@plush yew Go ahead~

[drowsy snow]

I don't care, but if you made it and it works for you, then good for you.

Nobody stopping you from making your own engine, apart from yourself.

[plush yew]

😄

[warped parrot]

hey hey. so im trying to turn my proximity based chest animation into a player input based one. ive mapped E to be the interaction key. but i dont know how i can make it trigger when the player pressed E in t the proximity box. anyone know a good tutorial i can look at?

[plush yew]

k.

[drowsy snow]

Are you using static sphere reflection capture for dynamic objects?

[drowsy snow]

Look up BP Interfaces and tuts on interactables.

[gleaming pumice]

@warped parrot So right now, it looks like the animation triggers when the player triggers the overlap

[warped parrot]

yeah. i want it to open when the player presses E. but it also needs to be within the box trigger

[gleaming pumice]

@warped parrot on the E keydown, you need to check if its overlapping your id trigger (I think), look for a node called isOverlappingActor

So E button -> branch (with is overlapping to get your boolean)

[warped parrot]

like this?

[gleaming pumice]

yes, but for other, do get the player

Right? You want to see if the player is overlapping the idtrigger?

[warped parrot]

i dont think i got the right one for player

[warped parrot]

yeah i tried it. animation doesnt play when i press E next to the chest

[gleaming pumice]

Hmm

[glad loom]

Any idea why?

[warped parrot]

uh oh

i broke it

[glad loom]

Oh, thanks

[warped parrot]

nevermind. just extreme lag

[gleaming pumice]

haha

Did the animation work on keydown or no?

[warped parrot]

nah. i set to both pressed and released too

[drowsy snow]

I guess attaching it to camera?

[gleaming pumice]

Is your triggerbox where you want it?

[gleaming pumice]

Ok, and the variable is referencing that box?

in the target of isOverlapping?

Another thing you could try -- is in the overlapp event (like in your first screenshot) you set a boolean to true, and end overlap you set it to false, then in the branch just check that boolean

[warped parrot]

yeah its refrencing lid trigger

[potent pendant]

I don't know much about this. Can you be more specific? But I noticed that when I changed the material's Fresnel Edge Adjust parameter and the Fresnel Power parameter, the reflections warped in a different direction, not sure if that matters - still reflects or refracts weird though

[gleaming pumice]

@warped parrot Try the boolean method... also use print strings on the BeginOverLap to make sure that is firing

[drowsy snow]

Probably your mesh smoothing or normals? I never had that kind of defective reflection before

[warped parrot]

tried something myself. this returns false

dumb brain = true

[gleaming pumice]

no worries, take the E key out of the branch

on the overlap just have it be this (getting screenshot)

[ocean canyon]

how do you get an element from a TArray with an index?

[stray drift]

Get?

[gleaming pumice]

that actor is your lid

[ocean canyon]

yea

in c++

[warped parrot]

so wait what is set for my scenario?

[gleaming pumice]

Create a new boolean

call it overlap

just like above

and then on your E key, do a branch, check if that's true

[stray drift]

I'm assuming array notation isn't an option?

[ocean canyon]

im not sure what that is

sry im kinda new

[stray drift]

myArray[0] for the first item for example

[gleaming pumice]

@warped parrot this answer should solve your problem, take a look!

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/248335/view.html

[ocean canyon]

tysm, that seems to work

[stray drift]

All good! I'd check out a quick start guide for C++ to save yourself a bit of head scratching :) or even print out a reference sheet thing for quirky syntax

[ocean canyon]

alright, thanks!

ill look for one

[worn bison]

Hi everyone, I'm new here. Just wanted to say hello before asking any questions. I'm a hobbyist, been learning and making something with 4.27 since about October.

[drowsy snow]

If by displacing, you mean make things go bumpy even in the small details, then no, it's not possible in Unreal.

Megascans geometry are already have well defined geometries, enough to be helped by normal maps. If you want some extra depth, your better bet would be some parallax occlusion mapping, faking the depth.

If you want more micro detail, consider using Nanite (if you're in UE5)

It's easier to decimate polygons in raster render than to make geometries on the spot.

Path tracer renderers can do this no problem because they works in a sense that they project rays from camera and bounce around until it found a light source. Displacement maps can bend the way the rays bounce without increasing the poly count. Not so much with raster renderers.

[potent pendant]

I think it has something to do with the material but I don't know what because when I made my own test material with a high specular and low roughness value, the reflections looked fine. When I changed the IOR to 1 from 1.52 on this Automotive Material window material, the weird refraction goes away but then the reflections don't work anymore

Or maybe I'm using the material wrong or maybe there is something in my model but not sure what. It's imported from Blender - maybe wrong normal settings on the export?

[drowsy snow]

Can you show me the Reflection view mode? (Click on the button that says "Lit" and switch it to "Reflection") try putting a "generic" material on the window with that view mode.

[potent pendant]

Ok

I have a cliff next to it so I could see the reflections better

[potent pendant]

There

[drowsy snow]

Nevermind, the cubemap disorients me so much

But I don't see irregularities on the window, so the material's probably sus

[scenic fox]

How do i make my terrain a lot smaller in world machine? I don't want a huge map like all the tutorials do

[potent pendant]

I'm still open to ideas on how to create a working windshield material that both tints and reflects, tint I have though when I set the IOR to 1 but then I lose reflections

or two materials since I have both the interior and exterior parts of the window

[drowsy snow]

I think you could get away with simple glass material, doesn't have to be from the automotive pack.

Almost all cars universally used tempered glass, and not much usually happening there as far as materials goes.

[potent pendant]

This is how it looks like with IOR set to 1 - but no reflections although otherwise it looks fine regarding tint

[drowsy snow]

Not sure how the reflection work, might take a look on the starter content's glass sculpture material.

Also that's a Finnish police car, right?

[potent pendant]

Yeah it's a Finnish police car

If I set the IOR to something else than 1, I get reflections back but the refraction/reflection just looks weird. In this example it's 1.3

Starter content's glass material gets me the weird reflection/refraction problem again, but not as pronounced, only on the corners and edges. It also doesn't seem to let light pass through properly since it's not meant for raytracing, I think

[drowsy snow]

Ah, so you're using RT?

[potent pendant]

Yeah so the light works properly on the inside of the car, the window material was also for RT

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, sorry, I know nothing about RT specifics. I don't have RTX at hand, so...

[crimson quartz]

quick question: I was watching a tutorial about mesh vs bsp, the guy in the video pretty much suggested that the mesh is very cheap and that you can have millions of the same mesh and it won't cost anything. How is this possible? If I have a rock mesh and i use that same mesh to make the floors and mountains, houses, so basically billions of this same rock, it not stress the engine?

[drowsy snow]

Quick answer: Unreal Engine doesn't work the same way as Source engine did.

Also you don't need millions of rocks to build the mountains.

[crimson quartz]

thank you, for the answer, so I was just being extreme to ask the question. So is it true that the engine only loads the mesh once? So if I have millions of the same rock mesh, the engine will load the level instantly? it doesn't make sense to me. Thank you for any input.

[grim ore]

a short quick rough explanation is the mesh itself is only needed once as its basically copied for every other version and copies are super cheap

this is not the same as nanite which handle super high resolution meshes

[drowsy snow]

Nanite is another 🥫 of 🪱 lol

[grim ore]

I was hoping epic had an actual doc explaining this but... alas they do not

[exotic thicket]

is this a my summer car clone

[crimson quartz]

thanks mathew, so for my extreme example, if I use billions-trillions of the same small rock mesh to make a small rock universe, would this be feasible?

[drowsy snow]

Possible, but only feasible with Nanite/UE5, if the rocks are detailed on their own.

In UE4, you might not get far enough with LODs and instanced mesh

[grim ore]

theres realistic limits, memory and such, but actual # of things can be quite high

[potent pendant]

Nah it's not a game at all. I'm using it for a short film I'm creating. I want to have cg environments in it and I figured doing it in Unreal Engine with RTX would be a good idea

[exotic thicket]

Ah, sounds interesting, seeing random finnish stuff here always makes me wonder what it is for lol

[grim ore]

theres more to "just throw a bunch of crap at the screen" to make stuff work well. materials, manipulating the objects, target platform and play rate, stuff like that

[crimson quartz]

i see. thank you for your input

[kindred depot]

Do you have any knowledge on how to enable bCompilePhysX = true; in ue5?

[grim ore]

considering its going to get removed at some point, I dont see the reason for it 😦

as far as i know physx is going to be gone for 5.0

[kindred depot]

😦 the only plugin that supports line trace bullets with collateral damage (replicated) derives from it. Im trying my best here to enable it lol

[drowsy snow]

Chaos seem to be stable enough in The Matrix Awakens demo, in console no less. Though it looks kinda janky for vehicles

[grim ore]

nope, just deprecated in 5.0 I was wrong

[kindred depot]

updated visual studio, everything is compiling very slowly nnow... like im on a dell from 2006

[potent pendant]

Hmmn I have an idea on how to get the reflections on my final composite but it's a bit rough method. It would be to render the reflections separately and then composite it later on top of the windows but I don't want to do it this way

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[drowsy snow]

Visual Studio 2022 is now 64-bit, so it can go wilder than VS'19 in RAM usage.

[kindred depot]

i have been using 2022.

[grim ore]

when you updated VS, you didnt install incredibuild right?

[kindred depot]

i did.

that is the issue eh?

[grim ore]

did you pay for it?

[kindred depot]

naw i got a free trial for like 2 years

[grim ore]

unless you have a good reason to use it, it could be the issue. If it goes out of trial mode and your not paying it limits the # of threads that can be used when compiling

but theres also the fact that UE5 limits # of cores used when compiling based on free memory out of the box now

[kindred depot]

amazing.

lol

[drowsy snow]

I think Incredibuild is only useful for networked builds, or as I'd like to call it "compile farms"

[dense smelt]

Can i ask something after i installed a plugin in here and i dont know how to get rid of this

[grim ore]

what... is... this....

like... we see stuff on your screen but what do you mean by "this"

[drowsy snow]

What even...

[grim ore]

im guessing they want to know how to remove the light complexity visualization

[drowsy snow]

I just don't like looking through screen photos. It's hard to read anything on it

[kindred depot]

HOLY WAY FASTER

wow

thx

64 modules in 30 seconds

[grim ore]

inredibuild is a trap that so many people fall into 😦

[drowsy snow]

Like, they never officially state that Incredibuild only useful in very specific cases.

[kindred depot]

yeah ill never install it again. I really thought it was helping me

https://tenor.com/view/is-this-a-trap-futurama-fry-suspicion-squinting-gif-11798244

[keen charm]

Does anyone know a UE5 noob discord? where like total UE5 Noobs can gather so I'm not going to bother and waste people's time here? 🤔

[kindred depot]

your not wasting any of our time

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[grim ore]

dont be a ue5 noob, be a ue4 noob and learn ue4

[drowsy snow]

We volunteered to waste our times here :P

[keen charm]

because I generally like to ask a lot of small questions because I tend to zig zag from tutorials online - asking people - tutorials - asking... so on... 🤔

[drowsy snow]

Also yeah, start with UE4 first.

[keen charm]

Its due to my ADD superpower xD

[kindred depot]

mans going from a winter beater to a tesla lol

[keen charm]

btw is there any specific reason why people say go for UE4 instead of UE5? atleast as a first

for more compatible material to work with or?

[kindred depot]

no

[drowsy snow]

UE5 Early Access is not stable enough, and some bugs exclusive to UE5, you never know if it's the engine's fault or yours.

[kindred depot]

If you do not understand the fundamental basics of UE4, then how are you going to survive in UE5.

[drowsy snow]

I'd argue it's more of stability problem

[keen charm]

alr, I'm getting 4.27.2

[unkempt bolt]

Does anyone have any idea what this is, it says float but idk how to add it

[drowsy snow]

Reroute Node.

[unkempt bolt]

thank you

[keen charm]

is there any shitposting section here?

[drowsy snow]

#lounge

[keen charm]

#lounge ? alr nice

[drowsy snow]

(why I cannot tag lounge from mobile 😭)

[potent pendant]

This window thing is turning out to be rather complicated, unless I do it like this (which is still complicated) render once normally without reflections, then render a version where the window is pure green, then render a version with reflections you want, then use the green render to matte out the version with reflections, and composite that back in

Or something like that

[drowsy snow]

Create Photoreal Car Linux when

[fleet mist]

Hewoooo

I kinda need sum advice

[drowsy snow]

Gotta love getting suffocated on those

[fleet mist]

Im planning on getting a new computer mainly for unreal engine but idk if i should go for desktop or laptop

[drowsy snow]

Depends on how nomad you are.

[fleet mist]

Nomad?

Like

[drowsy snow]

As in moving living places a lot, and/or with less stable electricity.
If you don't move around much, and/or having no issue with the electricity, go with desktop PCs.
Otherwise, laptops are okay, albeit more expensive for the same configuration.

[fleet mist]

My parents own a boat

And i might be there for like 3-6 months a year

And power there is like fine ig but its not great either

[pine mulch]

Does anyone know where to find info about using the unreal engine intro video for our games? I can't seem to find the link on their site anymore. We're supposed to get permission from epic before using it right?

[fleet mist]

Hmmmm what kinda laptop am i looking at in that case?

[keen charm]

Is it okay to have UE4 installed on a 2nd disk?

[drowsy snow]

Look for (actually) gaming laptops, and do research on the specifications. Development with Unreal Engine are demanding on RAM, GPU, and particularly CPU.

I have seen some sellers lying about "gaming" laptop when all it could play is a shitty footbal games.

[drowsy snow]

I have it on D: drive all the time.

[fleet mist]

Oooh alright thank u :DD

[keen charm]

D: ?

I got C: and E: <.<

[drowsy snow]

Having it on C: drive isn't a good idea

[keen charm]

is it possible to relocate the engine or atleast the projects?

[drowsy snow]

Whatever, just better not to store UE in OS drive.

[drowsy snow]

Just move the entire engine folders and the projects.

[keen charm]

I've got ~60gb left on C: <.<

I'm about to get a PC upgrade in a few months... idk when since I'm waiting on DDR5 news

[drowsy snow]

You might need some adjustment in the Launcher, but it's not necessary, as you can just launch the .uproject directly

[keen charm]

basicly totally new except keeping my 1080 Ti

[drowsy snow]

Unreal's derived data cache could take up more space, so definitely spare some real estate for it.

[drowsy snow]

No probsies!

I think there's hard limit on it 🤔

Not sure how many tho

Yeah.

Most likely performance and stability reasons.

[keen charm]

oh god! the horror!

the difference in the UE4 and UE5 <.<

[drowsy snow]

I'm sticking with UE4, thank you very much :P

[bright sigil]

unless im mistaken, Unreal projects defaults to your documents which is on C. There is a way to move the Documents folder, but it is done through windows. You can ofc just tell Unreal where you'd like your projects to be created from the start. It's a matter of preference. Not sure why you don't have a D drive (I'm sure its there....). Since UE4 engine and projects are storage hogs, it is best to put them on a different storage device, preferably ssd and ideally never something external (though laptops users may not have a choice).

[keen charm]

I got Engine in the C: and projects in E: now...

not sure what D: is... is it just E: but different name?

[drowsy snow]

Basically those are Windows's drive labelling system.

OS drive/partition always on C:

[keen charm]

I added some stuff to my project, do I need to reload it to see the asssets?

I should probs just look it up on YT 🤔

[drowsy snow]

If you mean putting .uasset files directly in Contents folder, it should immediately show up in Content Browser.

Also, why is the master branch in 4.28? Is it just to prevent people from porting assets made in master branch to the stable branches/builds?

[bright sigil]

uassets may not update in browser and a restart should refresh the engine to see them. This is not great though, it is better to migrate

[drowsy snow]

Or do we actually going to get 4.28? 😳

[kindred depot]

i dont see the point in all of this.

why continue to make newer versions when they have 5?

[drowsy snow]

Why Windows 10 is still supported when we have Windows 11?

[kindred depot]

thats not the same thing.

4.28 never existed.

and it does now

[bright sigil]

a new version doesn't necessarily mean new features

[plush yew]

why cant i stream in calls?

[drowsy snow]

Go check the master branch.
Specifically this file:
Engine/Source/Runtime/Launch/Resources/Version.h

[light thunder]

"zip up project" is still the correct way to begin working on another machine right? I want to start a new perforce server but not copy unessentials over, so I'll copy it over to a new machine and upload it there to the perforce depot fresh, does that make sense?

[keen charm]

epic games launcher crashing, gg x)

[drowsy snow]

Either you're new here (have to be at least 1 week before you're eligible for streaming) or you haven't DM @buoyant granite with !stream command.

[plush yew]

k

@buoyant granite !stream

[drowsy snow]

DM the bot.

[plush yew]

ok

[bright sigil]

lol

[prime willow]

take your time i also have a interesting deal to make with you if youd be willing, and i think youd benefit massively from it moreso than me lol

[drowsy snow]

Already put up suggestion about this on #server-feedback

[prime willow]

ill tell you about it in pm's mostly because you and me both use daz so lol why not xD

[kindred depot]

dmed u

[bright sigil]

sounds like a large task, i would think migrate is safest, though a full copy paste could also work, but does not address the clean up of "unessentials". That is just a matter of methodical cleaning

I usually duplicate my project, so thats what i would do if i wanted to clean things up (which I did a month ago, everything was migrated into a new folder and restructured for better organization before the big art push happened/happens)

[drowsy snow]

Not sure about perforce but at least with git you have .gitignore that exclude build files

[drowsy snow]

That's some lanky boi 🦖

[plush yew]

yes

its a ceolophysis

[drowsy snow]

But I gotta say
It's out of topic for this channel

#ue4-general isn't 100% general channel

[bright sigil]

one would argue this is not unreal related..... but this is why #work-in-progress exists

[light thunder]

It's literally a command in the Unreal menu - "Zip Up Project"

[bright sigil]

oh haha

i know what you are talking about, but never used it

[potent pendant]

Instructions there work pretty well!

I had this on my tab on a different computer but I guess I forgot about it. Seems a bit silly that you have to have so many layers to get windows to work properly, but I guess that's life, and it's not that difficult to model that anyway. Although now I pre-wonder how I do this method the fastest way if I have, let's say, 30 different cars

[lusty vigil]

is a material instance basicly the equivalent to a instanced mesh? like having a normal material on 1000 meshes beeing way worse than having a material instance on these 1000 meshes?

[fierce tulip]

same

an instance is just the same material (with or without additional values tweaked)

so no, its not equiv. of instances meshes

[sharp crest]

anybody knows why someone that's trying to play my game is getting this error on startup? he has a good pc

[drowsy snow]

If it blames D3D, usually it's DXGI_DEVICE_HUNG
Try running it in DX11

[sharp crest]

how do I run it in dx11?

and won't that like ruin the graphics or something?

[drowsy snow]

DX12 in UE is known for being a bit buggy.

Append -dx11 commandline arg in the game's executable.

[drowsy snow]

Unless you absolutely rely on raytracing, no, it won't.

[sharp crest]

okay thanks so much gonna try

[drowsy wigeon]

Can you have C++ code for Blueprint? I would like to create Blueprint which contains several meshes, which I like to position in Bluepritor editor, but want to make C++ construction script and tick to it. I did not find a way how to combine it.

At this point I need to create Meshes in c++ construction script and position everything manually

[sharp crest]

make a c++ class and then have a child blueprint from it

[west merlin]

Which channel would a lighting question fit best in?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[drowsy wigeon]

This is what I thought as the only option now, but it has 2 issues:
a) It seemed to me like ineffective way, because of extra inheritance layer
b) When Blueprint extend C++ classes, I can't access blueprint meshes in C++, because C++ is parent - so don't know about meshes 😦

[drowsy snow]

#graphics

[west merlin]

Thank you

[drowsy snow]

And yeah, BP is on top of C++.

[sharp crest]

just expose the mesh to the blueprint?

Idk what u mean

[drowsy wigeon]

So what would be best way to make for example Train Bogie, when I want to combine wheel meshes and other bogie parts in blueprint and then in tick function of TrainBogie class rotate wheels and to other tick stuff for Bogie? At this point, I need to instantiate meshes in C++, which means I can easily place them by mouse (which I can do in blueprint)

[drowsy wigeon]

That is the other part - I want to expose blueprint mesh to c++, not vice versa

[drowsy snow]

If you want to feed anything to the C++ function from BP, the most you can do is to make the C++ function callable by BP.

[sharp crest]

ye that's not possible

[drowsy wigeon]

So how would you do it? OK let's say you want to make Car class, which in ticks take care about rotating wheels correctly - so you need some group actor with car chassis mesh, wheel mesh and possible door meshes etc. Of course you want to assemble car in editor, not by manually instantiation of meshes in C++. But you want to program car logic in C++. How to combine it?

Basically I need a way to assemble car from several meshes and then access those (sub)meshes in C++ logic

[drowsy snow]

Make a BP callable C++ function that can send the reference around.

[kindred depot]

can you do that with a bp function library?

[drowsy wigeon]

OK, that may work - but is it really the only and correct way? Seems to me like too much work for simple thing - and more memory heavy, to keep everything twice - references in blueprint and sending them to c++

[drowsy snow]

Just an object reference barely make a dent in memory, unless you're talking about ≤ 2 GB of RAM.

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but you'd have to do another referencing with that.

Barely make a dent in your memory, but might get BPs a little more noodle-y.

[drowsy wigeon]

OK, I was just making sure if I miss something or not. I thought there will be the way how to attach blueprint directly to class 1:1 and autoconnect class fields to submeshes 😦

[sharp crest]

this worked for him, thanks again,
do you know what's the usual way to deal with this issue? since it crashes at startup for a very small amount of people... should I just default to -dx11?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, you should default the graphics API to DX11.

The issues with DX12 in UE is already quite well known tbh. I know how it feels, DX12 is much much lower level than DX11.

[sharp crest]

alright found the project setting for it, thanks for the advise, kinda funny dx12 is the default lol

[drowsy snow]

They did improve the RHI for DX12 in UE5?

What about the crashes?

[autumn latch]

how do i connect it?

[drowsy snow]

Oh right, forgot about that lol
I'm getting a bit more tempted to jump to UE5 😅

They discontinued landscapes?

Hmm, maybe they resolve it in stable. I won't jump to 5.0 that immediate tbh

[autumn latch]

sorry for my bad english :) i dont understand the solve

[drowsy snow]

I prefer using PhysX in 4.27, as I don't intent my current project to upgrade to UE5.

[autumn latch]

can u share a image for this?

[drowsy snow]

What do you want to achieve?

[autumn latch]

but offset?

[autumn latch]

i want to offset and idle work same time

ow

i created a blendspace

for aim offset

my bad

[drowsy snow]

Maybe, but the free ones may not be good, or don't play well with UE4 cough Mixamo

[autumn latch]

thank u guys

I don't know why I created blendspace for offset :D

[drowsy snow]

There is Mixamo, anims are meh and the rig isn't compatible with UE4 standards, but for prototyping, it could work. Use at your own risk, because Adobe practically abandons it (along with Fuse)

Adobe removing Mixamo links here and there lmao
lest we not forget this

As if Unreal Engine 4 wasn't one of those "production game engines"
That is comedy

Granted, it was 2016, more indie devs with UE4 weren't as much as recent years, but yeah...

UE4 was only free for a year at that time

[kindred depot]

when advanced copying.... always waiting for that not responding lol

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-mr-burns-evil-laugh-evil-laugh-gif-4076853

[hollow moth]

then where do you think they get it from? sorry for asking i'm kinda new

[drowsy snow]

They get it from their animators.

hehehe

[kindred depot]

3d printed weapons and mocap suits.

[hollow moth]

lol

[kindred depot]

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/MoCap+Online?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

or

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/Kubold?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

[drowsy snow]

Btw you can wrap links around < and > to disable previews for the wrapped link

[kindred depot]

ahh

thats cool 🙂

ill remember that

[hollow moth]

Wow you guys are amazing. I'm also new to discord and i never knew here we can connect with like minded people

[kindred depot]

is ALS replicated out of the box?

[bright sigil]

we are nothing alike -.-

[hollow moth]

okay boomer

[drowsy snow]

ALS V4? No.

[bright sigil]

we are alike gasp

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, but everything is in C++, and might be intimidating to some people

[kindred depot]

is it derived from a character movement component?

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention BP ALS V4 is still difficult to follow along as is, even with huge refactor.

[drowsy snow]

No.

[kindred depot]

i might jist give it a shot in the dark

[drowsy snow]

ALS is itself a Character class and Anim BP

[kindred depot]

i mean its pretty simple if you understand the cache system

[drowsy snow]

Also ALS is heavily biped oriented, good luck applying the same on quadrupeds, like cats.

🐈

[kindred depot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT3YRRA1YA4&ab_channel=SirKaizoku

about to buy this

do a couple blend bones with my anims and keep the main loco

lol

[bright sigil]

anims are meh

and looks like quite a few

[kindred depot]

its not about the anims, i was going to replace them. I was talking about the anim graph code. Look how fluent it is. Go to 5:18 in the video

[delicate tiger]

UE4 crashed, and I skipped the autosave restore on restart - now there's a bunch of stuff missing from my scene even though I'd saved not 1 minute before the crash. What gives? Can I restore from autosave still?

[bright sigil]

not like restore works (does it?) autosave should work

[delicate tiger]

How do I open an autosave?

[bright sigil]

take what you need from the autosave folder and put into content (obvious replace the bad stuff) - I'd also suggest making a backup and backing up regularly

[delicate tiger]

Yeah I really should be running version control

I'll give that a go, thank-you

[bright sigil]

i tend not to for reasons, i make copies, takes 10 secs

[sterile fjord]

is it possible to make sprites with aseprite and if so how do i import them to unreal engine

[bright sigil]

much like you would any other sprite or texture, check out the docs!

[sterile fjord]

what docs?

[sick patio]

dumb question; does anim notify look completely differen in 4.27? I can't move forward in this tutorial i'm watching, because my screen is totally different, and the result of the anim notify i tried to do isn't getting the result the tutorial says should happen

Conrad good to see you

[bright sigil]

unreal docs?

[sterile fjord]

where can i find them?

[bright sigil]

the internet!

[sterile fjord]

whats the exact name?

[bright sigil]

Shakaama, my arch nemesis, I'm on 4.26 so i haven't a clue whats different

[sick patio]

starts to cry gently

should i regress to 4.26

[bright sigil]

its at this point im concerned as to how reliant you are in someone providing you with the aid of using the internet

[sterile fjord]

zamn

[bright sigil]

(your not my arch nemesis, just playing up the moment) I don't know, how about a pic of this new-fangled anim notify?

[sick patio]

HEY YOU CAN'T TAKE IT BACK... i was enjoying it

[drowsy snow]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ue4+documentations

[sick patio]

meanie

[high stone]

I'm trying to get my motherboard to recognize the M2 drive. What does activating RAID in bios do? Clearing room for UE5.

[bright sigil]

😆 yeah ill keep it, some people on here dont respond well to sarcasm and dry humor

[sick patio]

I think hoodieguy thinks i really am his/her/attackhelicotper's arch nemesis 😦

[drowsy snow]

RAID is basically chained hard drive configuration (IIRC)

[bright sigil]

consult your mobo book for the details

[bright sigil]

you're part apache helicopter?

[drowsy snow]

I thought my alias was obvious enough in the heli thing...

[high stone]

So RAID activation won't help it find M2?

[bright sigil]

honestly never used M2, always just been ssds (the normal, human kind) #hardware is a better place to figure this out

[sick patio]

after seeing a titktok of some "girl" saying her stuff changes by the hour, i'm all confused and just call people every name in the book to cover all my basesses

[high stone]

Gotcha.

[sick patio]

notice the anim notify doesn't have a bar anymore

[delicate tiger]

God UE4's autosave naming convention sucks. Every file has _Auto* appended, and the numbering goes 0, then 9, 8, 7... for some reason. Substance does it best where the latest is just the usual file name, and then every other is *_0 upwards.

I can't just drag and drop, makes the task super tedious.

[bright sigil]

uh

[bright sigil]

is it a lot of files needing to be renamed? i.e. to have a certain file name removed

[sick patio]

All the tutorials on YOUTUBE

[delicate tiger]

@bright sigil It's not many, but this late at night, it's enough

[drowsy snow]

Autosave actually works, only if your Unreal project have source control enabled.

[delicate tiger]

Yeah it's not set up, which is my bad

[bright sigil]

try to find and get a little program called AntRenamer, great for mass file things in windows

[sick patio]

so what do i do?

[plush yew]

Kekw

[delicate tiger]

There's some Windows official tool for that too. It's not so much the mass renaming, it's comparing the file changes, and then having to manually replace and rename the right one. Some files are up to date, some aren't.

[sick patio]

hoodieguy i assume then you are, indeed to be refered to his holiness attack helicopter prime?

[bright sigil]

well seeing has how it's Matthew... you could bug him, but i didnt suggest it

the notify section just moved though

[drowsy snow]

I'm not that kind of human, so safe to say, my alias don't lie
(Maybe not the Hoodie part, most of my old hoodies no longer fit lol)

[sick patio]

@grim ore hey CONRAD said bug you about the new anime notify

[drowsy snow]

I don't think he watches anime 🤔

[sick patio]

not to sound weird, but there was a whole pile of hoodies on sale at walgreens and i had no less than 5 women (#sigh so hard to be me sometimes) helping me find one that fits,.... and I was thinking of you LOL (what hoodie would show up that "guy")

[bright sigil]

right click in that row

[bright sigil]

really earning that nemesis title...

[grim ore]

the animation window was changed yes, but anim notifies are still there and work the sameish

epic happens to have a first hour with animation video.... just saying

[sick patio]

Here's the problem: the guy says add "end turn" at the end of the animation..... then go to event graph and search for end turn and an EVENT end turn should show up...................... ME: ... nope, doesn't show up

[bright sigil]

the guy..... is here

[sick patio]

no no another guy... way more snarky than the loveable @grim ore

[grim ore]

ah yeah that video is old, but the principal should still apply. what part are you stuck at?

[bright sigil]

looks like this part: #ue4-general message

[sour tide]

Making some basic BPs to play around with. Make this little button. Both the cubes have "step up" turned on, but the character still can't just run up the side. The steps look way too small for that to be a problem.

[sick patio]

See he says this https://youtu.be/v3W2ostR820?t=700

[grim ore]

yeah but end turn, is that supposed to be an animation or a notify

[bright sigil]

im not sure if step up actually works that way

[sour tide]

Maybe I should add another slightly larger collision around the base?

[sick patio]

i put the video right where he says it

[sour tide]

with sharp edges?

[grim ore]

well this "End Turn" is an event in the BP, it isnt part of the animation that I can tell

[bright sigil]

@sick patio so you did this?

[drowsy snow]

Try increasing the walkable angle in Character Movement Component (might want to do it only when you're near a button)

[sick patio]

but he does it as a notify

and he says it

am i hearing him wrong?

[grim ore]

oh wait, no its the notify... lol theres a BP event called the same thing

[sick patio]

or what am i doing wrong?

[grim ore]

did you add the End Turn notify?

[sick patio]

yes

i thought it did

I did

[grim ore]

ugh, that video had a bad cut as well, that doesnt help

[sick patio]

YES THANK YOU

[grim ore]

ok so it should show end turn in your animation then?

[sick patio]

I LEFT HIM A STERN COMMENT ABOUT HIS JUMP CUTS

lol

i'm so frustrated, you all don't know

[vocal loom]

What do you guys think?

[sick patio]

i'm... i have a dirty mind

[vocal loom]

It's wrinkled IK

[grim ore]

it should look like this if its working, what does yours look like ?

[sick patio]

i'm gonna keep quiet

waht the? how did you do that?

i just have a line at the very end of the animation, that I have paused and said go to end

that red line?

no?

[grim ore]

so you added a track, no problem there.

now you right click on that track where you want it and add notify, then name it

and it should show up in that spot

you can zoom out if you need to see the start and end of the track easier

[bright sigil]

like i said #ue4-general message

x marks the spot

[grim ore]

keep this in mind, since you will run into it... dont put notifies at the end of the animation, like literally dont put it at the last frame. Most of the time you blend one animation toa nother so its going to miss the notify since it never plays that part

[pure void]

Guys Im having a bunch of issues. I was using UE 4.2 and now went to 4.27, and started a new project, but my editor has been glitching out a lot.

[sick patio]

that looks great, too bad it's not white on a Black pullover

[drowsy snow]

I'm not a fan of text on sleeves, but eh, looks fine.

[pure void]

wait

ill make it a gif

[bright sigil]

sorry 4.2?

[sour tide]

The walkable angle already seemed generous in other places where I was like, able to stand off the edge of platforms. I added an extra staticmesh box around the bottom that isn't rendered. Works perfectly now

[sick patio]

I was going to ask, should i click a few frames back? you a mind reader aren't you.... you have powers we're not ready to believe

[sour tide]

step straight up

[pure void]

4.20 lol

woops

[drowsy snow]

I would make my own shirt that say "I still use Unreal Engine 4" 😛

[plush yew]

Lul

[bright sigil]

still a daunting jump

[plush yew]

Me too cause ue5 lags for me

[grim ore]

@pure voidcommon causes for that are bad nvidia drivers, and bad DPI scaling settings on the monitor

[sick patio]

uh mathew that was a question

do i pull the notify several frames before the end?

[plush yew]

I could make it not lagging by disabling every new technologies, but still had 10 fps less than in ue4 which is many for me

[grim ore]

you will have to figure that out based on testing, probably?

you might have no blending, you might have a ton. Test until it feels right basically

[sick patio]

thank you

[grim ore]

just was an FYI if your event is not triggering, it might be too close to the end or start to actually trigger due to blends

[sick patio]

I'm doing all of this blind, but i'll keep your advice in mind... going forward

[pure void]

Yeah whats happening is that when I wanna look up a node or component, the search bar starts flickering and I cant select anything

Im trying to figure out how to share a video of it

[sick patio]

speaking of testing............... i tried to put the animation, where the foot is PERFECTLY on the ground.... is that impossible to do? i redid it like 20 times

[grim ore]

There is a pinned message about flickering in this channel, check it out

[pure void]

Thanks

Where can I find pinned messages? I barely use Discord ^^'

[drowsy snow]

Until average student computers can run Lumen and Nanite in decent performance, I'd stay in UE4 for making games.

Though I do tempted to use UE5 to make tech demos

[pure void]

Found it

[drowsy snow]

At least in mobile it's in the right side bar

(sorry for the Japanese texts lol)

[grim ore]

this is the link in the pinned message, https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157 , there are more in there as well

[plush yew]

I thought the same

[pure void]

Thanks Ill see if that helps!

[plush yew]

I am making an MP game and not everyone has high tech pc.. like myself I still have a gtx750ti from 2015

Never used it out until now with ue5

[vocal loom]

What about this?

[sick patio]

you gotta be a really big fan or unreal for that

of*

[drowsy snow]

Looking good, but maybe use the newer logo 😂

Also apply those to the metahumans

[plush yew]

Rider paid advertiser has entered chat xd

[vocal loom]

I didn't make this lmao

This is the official unreal swag drop

This is last year's Christmas stuff so that's why

[drowsy snow]

The one from BP ninja?

Oh, I see.

[vocal loom]

Nope

[pure void]

My laptop crashed rip

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, the BP ninja one was supposed to be next month

I'M DROOLING FOR THIS SHIRT 🤤

[bright sigil]

crack open a cold one

[plush yew]

This could also go in blue print category hehe

[vocal loom]

Arguably my favorite shirt of all time

[drowsy snow]

I'm still mad they stopped selling the merchs

Guess I have to bootleg one myself

[vocal loom]

This was never sold officially AFAIK

Or it doesn't have the Dev Team thing on it

[drowsy snow]

I think they did sell it back when Epic Games store were still merch store.

[sick patio]

Unreal needs me to make their swag, i mean

people who don't even like me buys my gear

[drowsy snow]

They used to sell those

It was way back before EGS took over.

[sick patio]

EGS?

[drowsy snow]

Epic Games Store

[sick patio]

oh that

i knew that

was just testing

[drowsy snow]

Before games, it was Epic's merch store

[vocal loom]

This one is clean too

[sick patio]

CONRAD

lol

[drowsy snow]

And they used to sell that Unreal Engine est. 1995 one

[sick patio]

this is painful to watch

i need to get back to work anyway

[drowsy snow]

I don't know if BP ninja ones are going to be completely different...

[bright sigil]

notify us if you got it working

[sick patio]

why do i get the feeling, you're counting on me blowing up my computer, trying to get this to work?

[bright sigil]

uh.....

[sick patio]

oh no I divided by zero

[bright sigil]

shouldnt be that bad

as long as you dont divide

devide should be fine

[drowsy snow]

If the BP ninja pack don't include this one, I'll just bootleg it myself

[sick patio]

nope

doesn't turn at all

[sour tide]

ahahaha, the door has collision AND I can walk through it

am master game designer

[grim ore]

the door with the starter content doesnt have collision by default

its... annoying lol

[sour tide]

Yeah, I added that. I needed to add a collision that was tighter than a simple box

(I finished your intro MVP series yesterday)

[grim ore]

just set everything to complex collision and call it a day 🙂

[sour tide]

that sounds... like a trap

honestly box would be fine if I could just exclude the doorknobs

[kindred depot]

What is better. EOS, Steam, AWS?

about to buy one of the 3.

[sick patio]

@bright sigil it does not turn, at all

doesn't move the feet

[bright sigil]

what are we talking about?

[sick patio]

the entire anim notify was to make the character "move" smoothly left and right. mine just stands in idle and spins

no movement at all

[bright sigil]

sounds like more problems than the original question

[kindred depot]

your not setting this up correctly then. you need to call this from your move right

[bright sigil]

so lets piece this out

iirc, you wanted a notify event "End Turn" - as to what this means, i though it was ending the turn in a turn-based game. Then, something about foot on ground, now there's no movement, only turning

[sick patio]

started here

from idle to turn left

[kindred depot]

Like i said. IF you are not making a refence to the Moveright movement, your character wont know to do this action.

[sick patio]

and visa versa for right

moveright?

[bright sigil]

and, without much technical jargon, what is the entire feature that you are trying to create?

[kindred depot]

he is trying to do it when moving the camera tho.

[sick patio]

and here i call the end turn notify

[kindred depot]

ahh that tutorial

[sick patio]

which is what the tutorial said

@kindred depot please save me

[kindred depot]

did you follow the steps tho, he never says to add to the anim notify.

[sick patio]

yes i followed everything 20 times

[kindred depot]

when you press the booleon on the right side, is the character doing the action? (Turn Right/Left)

[ancient lotus]

alrighty so whats the secret to building the source engine 4.27 with chaos? following the guide here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/ChaosPhysics/ChaosDestruction/ChaosDestructionOverview/ leads to problems when launching the engine and seems related to setting the BuildEnvironment to Unique. when i leave it at Shared and change a project over to it it then complains about whats shown in this post. i tried the solution provided to no avail as it complains when recompiling about physx
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/920431/view.html

[sick patio]

like the other guy said, i'm not pressing "right" i'm simply moving the camera right

@plush yew

[kindred depot]

Yes i know.

oh

wait do you have your camera set up correctly?

[sick patio]

yes

which was the whole intention, at first, and then the tutorial goes off into this whole tangent

[kindred depot]

Im compiling my engine should be done in about 20

[bright sigil]

not to rain on the parade, but that end result is pretty jank, lots of camera jitter

[kindred depot]

that is why i said this tutorial lol

[sick patio]

oh you weren't talking to me?

[bright sigil]

to you and everyone one else on this topic, seeing the last bit of the video, its kind of...

[sick patio]

are you saying he's ... not the megazord of UE4?

[bright sigil]

I've never watched transformers

[sick patio]

lol

transformaers? lol

and the washington redskins play excellent basketball

they would win the world series this year

[bright sigil]

hey now, they're no longer the redskins

[sick patio]

oh yeah i forgot... and everyone upset at the new name too

#butthatsnoneofmybusiness

[bright sigil]

that's right, have some respect for the indigenous groups that we learned from and then imprisoned

[sick patio]

so am i doing something wrong, that my guy isn't moving?

[bright sigil]

i really dont know, apparently, but if you went over the video so thoroughly...

seems like like you got stuck on the notify

[sick patio]

don't get me started, the owner and one of the natives were best of friends, who was thrilled at the name ... #butthatsnoneofmybusiness

[bright sigil]

but after getting helped, i assumed you were able to make the notify event, link it as a skeleton anim notify, then call the event

[sick patio]

Another commenter said the same thing

he was spinning

the original poster didn't reply

[bright sigil]

i guess hes no megazoo then

[sick patio]

hmmm

[kindred depot]

seeing this image, look how many of the same cubemaps are in each windows.

xD meh

[bright sigil]

interior design be too same

[sour tide]

create new DynamicInteriorDesignMap

[kindred depot]

Switch on enum, use random int in range to choose many different types of cube maps.

[bright sigil]

i think the cars are using the same cubemap XD

[sour tide]

it takes three parameters, all 0-1. Grandma, Kitsch, and 80s

[bright sigil]

doesnt really seem noticeable though

[sour tide]

they also really shouldn't have put two identical cars next to each other like that, plus another one with just a different colour right behind

[kindred depot]

that is not that well of an image to show it but the 2 windows have the same exact interior. I bet if i went down the line i would find about 10 - 15 more

[bright sigil]

2 windows.. i mean i dont see it, looks different enough

[kindred depot]

BTW if you guys dont have this

you are missing out

https://github.com/Sythenz/UE4Minimal

ohh that is interesting. maybe a random mesh gen then? BP spawner.

[bright sigil]

such a small thing to obsess on when the cars are the real eyesore

[sick patio]

@bright sigil you've given up on me? i'm trying to still figure out how to get the animation to play

[bright sigil]

if it makes you feel better, i can take the hit

[sick patio]

huh?

[bright sigil]

nvm, im just not clear on everything you have - yes there is the video, but that's not what you have

[sick patio]

i've followed every word, to the letter even had it play on 0.25 speed for most of it

[bright sigil]

i see how he does it in the video, and if you do the same then no issue, but there was the interface problem and then i assume maybe other nuances are different between versions

[sick patio]

oh yeah

[bright sigil]

maybe its just slightly different now in how it should be done

[kindred depot]

i did it in ue5.1

should work fine same video

[sick patio]

i've read some recent comments that have corrected somethings

[kindred depot]

i did not like it tho.,

[bright sigil]

i dont see why not, though its vague so i can only give so much guidance

[sick patio]

there's much better engines for that, than ue. but i can't think of them off the top of my head. go on twitch and look

[bright sigil]

might just be a matter of problem solving or learning how to get the systems talking the way you want, agnostic of the video

[sick patio]

some things

@kindred depot can you give me a hint to what you ... had to adjust on the tutorial?

you said "oh that tutorial" as if the sight of the BP triggered something

[kindred depot]

nothing at all.

followed step by step.

[sick patio]

ok here's wehre i think the problem is

the anim notify

[kindred depot]

only difference i have

[sick patio]

I made it like this

yes?

[kindred depot]

I did not make it like this.

[sick patio]

i followed as closely as possible with my version

I think i need to go to animation for this question. right?

[kindred depot]

no you need to learn now to make an anim notify work lol

[sick patio]

I mean i need to learn everything

[plush yew]

is there any tuts on making 3rd person characters (which i want dinos)

[light thunder]

Take a course on blender would be my advise

[plush yew]

no like blue prints

ik how to model

[light thunder]

is it rigged?

[plush yew]

ye

[grim ore]

so what part of the "3rd person character" do you need to learn?

[plush yew]

nothin

[grim ore]

if its animated and a skeletal mesh, replace the third person template example

[plush yew]

ok ok ive done the model ik how to rig i just need to know the blue prints

[grim ore]

have you looked at the third person template?

[plush yew]

yea

im new to unreal

but ik the basics

[grim ore]

so you know the animation system?

[plush yew]

no

[grim ore]

it sounds less like blueprints and more like you need to learn the animation system (which has blueprinting involved)

and there are official tutorials on that on the unreal learn sight, as well as the docs

[plush yew]

i just wanna temp with out animation or model just a cube so i can get movement and camera done

[grim ore]

then just use the third person template

[plush yew]

oh

k

[grim ore]

I dont know if anyone saw this but, this is a dev at Epic on the animation team.

[sour tide]

That sounds useful but I wish I knew enough to take advantage of it

Like. I know what animations are and what inverse kinematics are. But I don't know how to do either, soooo

[limber mesa]

hello could anyone help me out with an issue that im having

[bright sigil]

in the future, it means less animation work done from scratch, especially when wanting to using different kinds of rigs (human, dinosaur, dog)

[sour tide]

Hmmm so I can use my dinosaur rig on a human model?

or rather dinosaur animations on a human model without the bones getting all messed up

[bright sigil]

i think its more that the way rigs are understood by the engine wont matter, IK will solve motion - though i could be embelishing the idea

[bright sigil]

well, given just this info, i'd say you need to rebuilt from the source code

[limber mesa]

oof thankyou

so i need github @bright sigil