ue4-general

[normal burrow]

Is that not okay?

[gleaming lotus]

Nope, I need the trace on the right to be fitted to the shape like the one on the left

[normal burrow]

Then you wouldn’t use actor bounds

[gleaming lotus]

What would be your suggestion for an alternative?

[normal burrow]

See if the static mesh on the static mesh component has a bounds variable on it

That will get you an unrotated box

[gleaming lotus]

This is what we've got in that department

[normal burrow]

Okay and world z is still the desired sweeping direction?

[gleaming lotus]

It doesn't have to sweep in z direction nope

[thick rover]

Hello, who knows if it is possible to make such a system in ue4. The character has a camera, and when he pressed a key, this camera took a picture of the object it was aiming at? And who knows, maybe there are some lessons on this topic. I searched and did not find it. I'm sorry I don't know English very well.

[normal burrow]

Well you’ll have to decide how it sweeps but you’ll want to get the component transform off the component, transform location against the Get Bounds origin pin and that will be the end that you’ll put into the box trace. Break the transform structure apart then additionally and plug the rotation into rotation and multiply scale against extent then plug it into half size

[patent cobalt]

You are looking for the Scene Capture 2D component

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/Reflections/1_7/

[tepid vector]

How do I increase the tire friction? When I turn at high speeds, the entire car does 360s and drifts out of control

[patent cobalt]

Which vehicle? PhysX or Chaos?

[tepid vector]

Chaos

[patent cobalt]

You need to increase the lateral friction multiplier inside the wheel BP

And if it rolls too much lower the center of mass

[tepid vector]

what do I click from here?

[patent cobalt]

The wheel BP are separate

Check in the setup of the vehicle movement component

They are referenced there

[tepid vector]

i dont understand...

[patent cobalt]

You should watch my tutorial on Chaos vehicles

[tepid vector]

send

[plush yew]

I need you guys to channel some autistic energy for me

[patent cobalt]

https://youtu.be/GcsVkmlpVTw

[tepid vector]

what time do u talk about friction

cause ive watched ur vid

[patent cobalt]

When I setup the wheel BP. It’s in it.

[plush yew]

I like the idea of my scenery in game to be rural japan, japan is the most peaceful country but crowded and busy and that ruins it aesthetic wise for me, I need something in the background of my map but I dont want it to ruin the flatty vibe it has going already

What can I put out there to make it feel like more is going on but not make it less flat or minimally flat

[patent cobalt]

At 13:42 you see the lateral friction force multiplier

[tepid vector]

kk

[patent cobalt]

@tepid vector

[kindred depot]

Is there anyone way to change the skel and mesh of a control rig, and how to do so if you can

[plush yew]

well I think birds fly very differently to planes though

the problem is i cant really get any references for what im making

except birds in real life

[tepid vector]

u showed nothing...

[patent cobalt]

Well birds are more advanced than airplanes but the principles are the same

[patent cobalt]

I am pointing you to the setting you need to tweak

[normal burrow]

https://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/drageq.html

[patent cobalt]

Called Lateral Friction Force Multiplier

[tepid vector]

?

this is UE5

[plush yew]

this is sort of what im going for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISE3Wz35GY

but I know this isnt done with physics

[patent cobalt]

It’s the same vehicle code

[kindred depot]

download the ark dev kit and see how they did it lol

[tepid vector]

thats the right pannel though

[plush yew]

I was gonna start with the hang glider example

because it is a nice base

[normal burrow]

https://wright.nasa.gov/podcast/Podcast_Forces_Drag.m4v

[patent cobalt]

It’s in the wheel BP under Details like shown in the video.

[plush yew]

pretty much all of the flying examples feel like ur just floating on a X Y Z plane

[tepid vector]

can u send a SS with it highlited?

[tepid vector]

OH

do I need to increase it?

[patent cobalt]

Yes

[tepid vector]

and for both front and back?

[patent cobalt]

Only rear first

[tepid vector]

kk

[normal burrow]

Lol

[patent cobalt]

Because your vehicle seems to be oversteering

[tepid vector]

i put it at 6 for rear and its barley truning

lemme change

[patent cobalt]

6 it’s a lot

[tepid vector]

what is good?

cause even 4 is a lot

[patent cobalt]

Try 2.5

Or 3

[tepid vector]

2.5 works

what will happend if I put 2.5 for front as well?

[patent cobalt]

Try it

Traces act on the channels or objects you tell them to detect

[tepid vector]

ig ill only change back cause front at 2.5 with back 2.5 = drift

[patent cobalt]

Then check if your actors are blocking the visibility channel

@rare sparrow

ByChannel should also work, I am sure there is reason if it doesn’t seem to work

Do you have debug on?

Weird

Can you show some code?

[split jasper]

BTW is there a better way to organize input bindings? This shit is getting unsustainable and I'm not even half done

[dawn grove]

how do I uncap fps?

it's at 120 right now

[split jasper]

haha it's like two full screen lengths already and getting worse

Project settings

[dawn grove]

i was looking for it in there but couldn't find it

do you know where it is?

[patent cobalt]

t.maxfps = 0

[split jasper]

Is there any way to add subcategories to them? I'd love to separate menu bindings from in game bindings, for example

[dawn grove]

999 worked

[split jasper]

COMPLETELY unrelated question: Do people not use UMG?
Everything else I do in unreal, it feels so well-supported, both in terms of the engine functionality and the community around it. But whenever I have a UMG issue, it's like... crickets. And when I do find the solution, it really feels like I'm reinventing basic functionality to make it work

[thick herald]

People use UMG.

[grim ore]

some people use other solutions like coherent, just depends on your goals and experience

[split jasper]

What's Coherent?

[grim ore]

https://coherent-labs.com/

[split jasper]

They're just running a fuckin HTML5 page for the UI within UE? That's actually brilliant

[bright sigil]

I was expecting it

[split jasper]

I mean, shit, I'd way rather be working in like React than UMG anyways. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to look into this more

[grim ore]

theres are other options than coherent, thats just he one I see fairly often in credits

Noesis is another one

[bright sigil]

None is also an option and instead keep all interface within the 3d world

[split jasper]

Howso?

[bright sigil]

Look at Astroneer

Its one method

[late quartz]

is it possible to remove the 'hovered' and 'pressed' events from button in the interface?

[grim ore]

the look or just the actual clicking? and interface as in the editor or UMG widgets?

[bright sigil]

Yeah you can override the events to do nothing

[dawn grove]

is it possible to optimize ue5 to run at ~360 fps?

im talking about a small room, almost empty

[bright sigil]

Sounds more reliant on the hw that runs it

[late quartz]

is that im already changing the color of the button through the blueprint and i didnt want the events of the button itself to interfere with that

[bright sigil]

Its a bit more convient to use the built in brush definitions for hovered and such, and you could have your bp talk to that

[patent cobalt]

Why would you need that? Not the gaming thread in general but the physics yes.

[late quartz]

hmm makes sense, i had an idea to change all the brush colors using the bp too, i think it would solve

[bright sigil]

It would be through accessing the brush which is a bit confusing but cleaner overall

[tepid vector]

when I search engine audio in UE4 i see this

but this when i search engine in UE5

is it called something else in UE5

[grim ore]

my guess is you are seeing the physx vehicle in UE4 and the Chaos vechile in UE5

[tepid vector]

what is this called in UE5

I cant find any tutorial on how to add engine sounds in UE5

[vestal turret]

Does anyone have this issue with ALS 4.0 and Physical Object ?

[grim ore]

@tepid vectorits still in progress, and it looks like those components dont exist

I also dont see those in my stock UE4 engine, maybe that is another plugin?

[vestal turret]

Do you mean MetaSound ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3230-FwCts0

[grim ore]

yes @tepid vector it looks like those are part of the advanced vehicle sytem and not the included UE4 system

[patent cobalt]

These are definitely not standard vehicle components

@tepid vector for a simple vehicle engine sound you can check the advanced vehicle template which ships with Unreal

[tepid vector]

this is not for vehicle engine...

this completley different

[tepid vector]

i did and i put it in

i have sound now

[patent cobalt]

Good

[tepid vector]

but only for when car moved

moves*

I want a sound for when the car is idle as well

[patent cobalt]

The engine sound is usually based on engine RPM

I have another tutorial showing how to get the engine RPM for a Chaos vehicle

With that you can make your sound play based on the engine RPM

[tepid vector]

send

pls

[patent cobalt]

https://youtu.be/XjscC9oDeDc

[oak shale]

Hi I was wondering how to create grid based building systems like in TerraTech, Avorion, Epyrion, Space Engineers, Crossout etc. (NOT Minecraft) where you can build your stations/cars/spaceships etc. Grid based and it holds together and can move around seperate from other grids. My questions are: How do I achive making this grids? Is there any special expression I should search for tutorials?

[grim ore]

ue4 grid system?

there is also a 2d grid helper node

[oak shale]

looked at procedural mesh first as someone mentioned that but trying to find the best method which combined into one once built

[tepid vector]

@patent cobalt howd u enable this

[oak shale]

so build with grid based on a moving object

thats my main goal

[dawn gull]

How can I toggle a spot light programmatically?

[grim ore]

set intensity to 0? set the actor to disabled? set the visibility to disabled?

[dawn gull]

Thank you!

[patent cobalt]

Are you following my tut?

[tepid vector]

yup

[patent cobalt]

It’s all shown in it. How to get those values.

[dawn grove]

can someone help me with making my game run at ~360 fps?

i need it for a project

[tepid vector]

im not moving but RPM is 1200

[patent cobalt]

The tuning of Chaos vehicles isn’t straightforward. Check your gear ratios.

Better if you copy some settings from my previous tutorial or from the advanced vehicle template.

[tepid vector]

is PhysX easier???

I do not understand this...

😢

😭

[patent cobalt]

Vehicle physics is complicated so don’t feel bad.

You don’t necessarily have to use physics though. Depending on which game you want to make there are alternatives.

[tepid vector]

I want to make a drifitng game

something life Forza Horizon, beamNG or asseta corsa

[patent cobalt]

Ok then you really need to learn vehicle physics

These are three of my favorite games so I know them pretty well

[tepid vector]

is there a series of tutirals where it goes from A => Z about how to create a car (sounds, physciscs everything included)

[patent cobalt]

Yes but in Russian

[tepid vector]

ill take that

pro gonna use sibtitles

[patent cobalt]

Ivan has English subs in general

[tepid vector]

do you know a lot about this stuff?

[patent cobalt]

I am making tutorials on vehicle physics so I may know a bit

[worthy estuary]

HI I have a problem i made a simple movement code that make the player move but when i press the key W it goes backward and S goes forward and D goes left and a goes right so can anyone help me plz?

[tepid vector]

@patent cobalt could u send the Russian vid series?

[late quartz]

is there any way to remove this gradient effect from button?

[patent cobalt]

Had to search for it

https://youtube.com/channel/UC2iKJPXiC7vFyBsynfd_XNg

Enjoy!

[worthy estuary]

can anyone help please?

[patent cobalt]

Don’t use the controller rotation but directly the actor forward and right vectors.

The forward axis is the red one

Right axis is the green one

Check inside the actor blueprint

Make sure the front of the actor is oriented along the red X axis

[worthy estuary]

Thanks

[tepid vector]

UE4...

[patent cobalt]

Doesn’t matter, the way he does it works also in UE5

[tepid vector]

he uses chaos?

[patent cobalt]

If you want the foundation for a raycast vehicle in UE5 watch my latest hover vehicle tut

He doesn’t use Chaos Vehicles. He builds the physics from scratch as we all do. 😉

[tepid vector]

what is raycast vehicle? is this one?

[patent cobalt]

A raycast vehicle is a vehicle where the suspension force is calculated by firing one ray per wheel and calculating the distance from the ground, from which you calculate the spring and the damper force.

[tepid vector]

ok can u send ur tut?

[patent cobalt]

The link to my channel is in my profile

[tepid vector]

oh thats ur YT

mb

[tepid vector]

?

[patent cobalt]

Ivan also shows multi-raycast

I believe I have invented it though 😉

[tepid vector]

@patent cobalt is the ss i sent the right tut?

[patent cobalt]

That’s not a tut, just a show off

Look for Hover Vehicle 2022

[tepid vector]

from 2 weeks ago?

[patent cobalt]

Yes

You can learn how to make a raycast suspension system from that one. From there to a car is just adding a visual wheel.

[tepid vector]

ok

[tepid vector]

was that model made in blender?

[patent cobalt]

For the hover vehicle? Yes

[tepid vector]

and when I add wheels, do I add them in blender? and then rig them in blender

or make it in UE5

[patent cobalt]

Make it in Blender

[tepid vector]

aight

[patent cobalt]

If you want to learn to animate a car check my tut on the kinematic vehicle

The one with a kind of F1 car

[tepid vector]

ik how to animate in blender

but I just want car

[patent cobalt]

Yes but you don’t animate the car in Blender, you animate it in Unreal using an Animation Blueprint

I strongly suggest you to take some of the intro courses on learn.unrealengine.com

I think your development will speed up after that

[tepid vector]

@patent cobalt is this it? or do i need to add the bones facing postive Y

or are bones only neccesarry for Chaos plugin

[patent cobalt]

@tepid vectorbones are necessary if you want to animate your vehicle regardless

[tepid vector]

ok

[patent cobalt]

I am signing off for today, have fun learning!

By the way the best channel to ask about vehicles is #legacy-physics

[vestal turret]

Is there a way to turn OFF the "Climbable" trace for an object ? I want to avoid my character to climb it

you mean Actor to Ignore ?

[bright sigil]

i think you want to specify, on the object that can be climbed, to ignore it's Trace Channel

[vestal turret]

Ok, it works at the TraceByChannel using "Actors to Ignore", but I feel it will make more sense to be in the collision setting of the actor itself. I try to "Can Character Step up On" == "No" but no effect. Any other suggestion or I should stay with the "Actor To Ignore" solution ?

OMG, feel so dump!! was right into my face! I guess need to take a break 😆 thanks !

[tepid vector]

@patent cobalt in ur tut, u show how to add the car as the static mesh, but when I try, it does not show me my car

even though my car is there

oh ok

So do I add it like this?

or like this

[normal burrow]

I think you just choose to import it as static mesh on the import window

[burnt tinsel]

do i still need to build from source if i want to build dedicated server in ue 4.27?

[plush yew]

I just updated my unreal engine to 4.27.2 and I can't open any projects or even open the project launcher without it crashing... I get this... Anyone know what to do?

[real heath]

In the epic launcher hit the dropdown in the engine and hit verify

[plush yew]

Hey guys, I'm new to unreal, is it a good idea to learn v4 or v5

[plush yew]

Ok, I just tried that, now I'm trying to re-install the entire engine 🤞

[plush yew]

UE5 imo

[bright sigil]

probably 4, i hear ue5 has some bugs

[plush yew]

is ue5 similar to ue4 just UI changes?

[bright sigil]

well there's nanite and lumen...

[plush yew]

except that

[bright sigil]

cant really think of any

[plush yew]

so ue5 just adds ui changes as well as nanite and lumen?

alright, thank you!

[rocky radish]

yes, but it's not recommended to use it in early access

[plush yew]

right, so I'll use ue4

thank you

[bright sigil]

you could always upgrade later 🙂 either way, there will be errors 💩

[smoky kettle]

im new to the dc is this a good common place to start talking?

[bright sigil]

depends 😏

[restive fulcrum]

I know the sound system was overhauled, and native chaos support I think

[bright sigil]

oh and i think i heard recently that its a different physics system (havok?)

not sure how accurate that is though, dont use ue5 and only overhead this

[restive fulcrum]

Yeah me neither, planning to make the switch when the full release comes, is that still supposed to be in the next couple months?

[smoky kettle]

this is probably reallly common but i try and try to get srated on unreal but w everytime i start it doesnt feel like i leanr anyhthing how did you start or anybody else here?

[bright sigil]

I'm planning when i finish this game 😜 so maybe a another year

[bright sigil]

im sure plenty can lend you advice

[fierce tulip]

@smoky kettle check the pinned messages in this channel for getting started content.

[bright sigil]

ive said this many times, your not the first to feel this way, i guess i should starting writing this in a notepad for others - but start small with a project idea

from there it is problem solving and learning

[restive fulcrum]

Just put time in and don’t give up. Look lots of things up try to build something, supplement any knowledge with Google and YouTube

[bright sigil]

dont expect homeruns anytime soon and be happy with what you make; dont compare

[bleak zodiac]

unreal online learning is also fine

[cedar bolt]

Anyone know how to export rigid bodys from houdini to ue5

[bright sigil]

be sure to also read the #more-resources and #rules

[wheat tundra]

anyone has game ideas

im out of ideas but i want to create something

[smoky kettle]

thank you everyonr for the advice

ill try and follow all of it

[nova kernel]

What does Epic/Unreal call their more devout community folks collectively? Is there a special term they tend to call everyone as a whole? (Or is it just Customers?)

[little quail]

Well?

[fierce tulip]

just community/friends.
costumers is more for those who pay a license fee.

[nova kernel]

there is no special term twisted with the engine or company name?

like for example, Amazon workers are Amazonians,

[fierce tulip]

not that I noticed at least.

[wheat tundra]

when unreal compile shaders it uses my cpu, is there a way to make it use my gpu?

[fierce tulip]

amazon workers are "slaves" XD

nope, cpu only

[wheat tundra]

aight

[nova kernel]

not all Amazon workers, I'm not a slave haha

[fierce tulip]

but no, generally they approach us more as fellow devs, iow, "friends" and such.

[nova kernel]

Okay, thanks, 🙂

[wheat tundra]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fps-multiplayer-template

If i buy this can I replace the subsystem? (because it uses steam)

and i wanted to use either null or EOS

because i don't want to post it on steam

[rancid lagoon]

i am trying to make a game that has features similar to Fortnite creative mode. it is where the player can make a world, where thye palce rooms down, place spwans for enimies, and play it with thier friends. how can i do this?

[drowsy snow]

Look up tutorials on in-game map editors

[stoic hawk]

Question: Why do meshes turned into blueprint classes turn black when I bake lights? Any help is MUCH appreciated! Thank you!

[bright sigil]

so they baked fine as meshes and then now they are turning black because they are a bp?

[kindred depot]

have you ever heard of this?

https://github.com/pafuhana1213/KawaiiPhysics

thought you would be interested 🙂

[grave pollen]

so i came across this in regards to my simple move to node and the movement issue "Simple Move to location is not multiplayer supported. Its only good for single player games. To do that in multiplayer you would need to come up with your own solution."

since its the only 'move to' node that doesnt require an AI controller and since I'm actually controlling the pawn and its not an AI wat do I do here. I obviously tried running on client and server but my char wont rotate to the direction, it only works flawlessly on listen server not dedicated server

[stoic hawk]

Yes, exactly

[bright sigil]

its not an area i work in too much, could be some setting changing from the bp. Black meshes, even after rebuilding lighting seems related to lightmap uvs or lightmap resolution, maybe different between the mesh and bp.

[devout edge]

Is there anyway i can create a mesh from vertices,surface,normals?

[bright sigil]

procedural mesh?

[stoic hawk]

Yeah I was thinking it might be the default lightmap resolution was different, but it’s set to 64.

[bright sigil]

you checked this and other lightmass settings on the bp?

[devout edge]

wouldn't that be a single bp for every single mesh?

[stoic hawk]

Yeah

[bright sigil]

what kind of mesh creation are you trying to accomplish?

[bright sigil]

ue 4?

[stoic hawk]

Yes, it’s UE4. I found this tutorial that seems like it should be the solution, but for some reason it doesn’t work for me. https://youtu.be/WYzTaX-rHdA

[bright sigil]

well i guess thats a fix for bsp to sm, but your doing sm to bp

[devout edge]

im trying to recreate a map i have everything i need but how to do that in unreal

creating a mesh that is

[bright sigil]

most likely modelling in some specific software like Blender

[drowsy snow]

Already used it for a while now lol

[kindred depot]

just found it, absolute shell shocker! This should come default with ue.

[drowsy snow]

In fact, I had cheeky contribution to the repo, I think it was resolving compiler error in 4.24

[kindred depot]

lol

[drowsy snow]

I'm looking on fixing issues with slo mo, as of now Kawaii Physics behave weirdly with slo mo

Probably make it less "frame rate dependant" and more on time dilation dependant

[kindred depot]

thats good to know

i cant wait to test it 😄

just watched the video on how to set it up

[trim mesa]

Hi, i was creating blueprint for minutes, and got this error

@drowsy snow

can you help me with this?

[bright sigil]

Get Game Mode into your Cast

[golden notch]

the Cast To SideScrollerGameMode needs an input on the object pin on the left

[worthy elbow]

Hello! any idea how to make a layer dominant than another layer when painting landscape?

So my whole land scape is grass layer then when I paint road layer I want to make it a pure road layer instead of blending grass layer and road layer creating a texture of two mixed layer.

I can't achieve a PURE Road layer unless I manually remove Grass layer

[bright sigil]

maybe the landscape material is not right, but the typical behavior allows other layers to paint over the base (base is grass?). The mix looks strange, thats for sure

[worthy elbow]

This is the material I'm using, am I doing it wrong?

[golden notch]

I'm a total scrub but looking at that seems like that material is designed to blend?

[worthy elbow]

Yeah the layer blend might be the problem, but how do I allow multiple material without using layer blend Dx

[bright sigil]

what are the settings on the LayerBlend node

[worthy elbow]

Might have something to do with blend mode? current settings is Opaque

[bright sigil]

not a clue, im checking my own landscape but this all looks the same as mine

[worthy elbow]

Thanks for doing that ! ❤️

[bright sigil]

This stuff right? I assume so otherwise how are you painting 😛 I am curious how you "erased" the base layer

[worthy elbow]

I hold shift then paint to erase layers

But the base material of my landscape seems to be just black

[bright sigil]

weird that you can paint to black, should only erase to base

[bright sigil]

those layers do say no weight-blend

[worthy elbow]

It turns black if I erase the Road layer and Grass layer

OHH

Thanks!

I turned off "No weight-blend"

[bright sigil]

hope thats the fix

[worthy elbow]

that fixed the problem

[bright sigil]

oh okay great!

[worthy elbow]

Thanksss!

[bright sigil]

anytime

except when im sleeping

[thorny pewter]

any one knows how to make 1 of some amount actors to spawn randomly on one level ? for example i have 10 bosses on level and i want to spawn only 1 of them how can i do that ?

[bright sigil]

so you wanna choose on of the ten?

[thorny pewter]

yes

probably with random number but yes i want to not spawn others

[worthy elbow]

Not sure if its the best way but
try Random integer in range then switch on int

[thorny pewter]

where to put that to affect actor spawn ?

i want exacly that but i could not find where to put that im really new in UE

[worthy elbow]

Like this but make it ten

[bright sigil]

try an array

[worthy elbow]

This more efficient

[thorny pewter]

should i put it in Event Graph or Construction script ? they dont need to be connected to something ?

[bright sigil]

they do

that's based on when you want them to spawn

such as, by trigger

or after using something

this is a snippet on how to spawn a class randomly from an array and then remove it so it doesnt spawn again

customize and integrate to your needs

[thorny pewter]

i want something on level load if its possible or something like that

[bright sigil]

for testing, use a print string

[worthy elbow]

Open level blueprint then "Event beginplay"

@bright sigil can I add you as a friend? ;-;

[bright sigil]

we've just met

you can always reach me here 🙂

[worthy elbow]

Okay npnp

[thorny pewter]

i did this in level blueprint Event Graph but when i press play both table and chair is spawning

even if i disconnect lines on switch on int or when i set random integer from 0 to 0

even if i put it in for xample RandomTable Event Graph and connect to Event BeginPlay with random integer it still always spawns

[proud patio]

Ello ello

i see

never fun ay

[bright sigil]

nothing happened...

[proud patio]

message is gone

least that happened

[bright sigil]

what message?

Ello Ello?

its still there 🙂

[proud patio]

no the spam message

[bright sigil]

spam? no spam here, no never

[proud patio]

hmm

[drowsy snow]

Unless you're one of those gullible Steam elitists, nothing to worry about.

[proud patio]

me?

[glossy lynx]

is there any attempts of turning UE4 into ECS architecture?

[idle phoenix]

Any one know how to rename the Single Property View in UMG?

[compact marsh]

underwater post processing effect doesn't work with custom water body. Is there any way to fix it?

Similar issue:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/new-4-26-water-questions/154680

[plush yew]

is this server active?

i just joined and i can't see anyone chatting anywhere

[bright sigil]

Im about to go to bed

Would say it is regularly active during my daytime

And maybe in a couple hours when the otherside of the world wakes up

[plush yew]

if i ask question how long usually will i get respond?

[bright sigil]

Minute to an hour to a day

[plush yew]

xD

[gaunt abyss]

If someone knows the answer probably within minutes

[bright sigil]

Theres a lot of channels too, some ppl hang around them

[plush yew]

oh ok

[bright sigil]

Yeah you can sorta see the activity just by scrolling ip in channels

[raven estuary]

Is quixel mixer just bad? Im new and it seems like everyone is using substance and no one is using mixer but obviously the price is a huge draw to mixer and the fact i go from blender to unreal it seems like a good texturing program is it worth just using substance?

This also ma not be the channel for this but it didnt seem to really fit in anywhere else

[drowsy snow]

Quixel Mixer is okay, but maybe not as intuitive to use as Substance or baking from Blender.

[bright sigil]

Substance is even more appetizing being under adobe and sold for cheap through cc

[drowsy snow]

Isn't it subscription?

[bright sigil]

Yeah

[raven estuary]

For me its even less appealing because its adobe i really hate adobe

[bright sigil]

Sorry, thats what i meant by sold cheap

[drowsy snow]

Perpetual licence might appeal more.

[bright sigil]

Yeah i hear ua

Ya*

But for texture authoring theres not a whole lot

[raven estuary]

Even if you get preputial its only for the year you buy it is my understanding you dont get updates

[bright sigil]

But ive also been using ps for 15 years, though adobe managed to make it worse over the recent years

[raven estuary]

Yeah thats what im seeing theres only like 3 products out there

[drowsy snow]

Anyway, Quixel Mixer.

Results can be okay, I used them few times, but I find myself rather baking textures from Blender more than doing it in Mixer.

[bright sigil]

Blender and paint.net maybe for free

Or GIMP

[drowsy snow]

lmao no

[raven estuary]

Sorry im still quite new whats the downside to to baking in blender vs in mixer

[bright sigil]

Lol yes

Though i never used it

[drowsy snow]

GIMP is just extra counter intuitive

[bright sigil]

Could also bake with xnormal like the old school days

[raven estuary]

Why would i use gimp vs an actual texturing software?

[bright sigil]

Lol 😄

[raven estuary]

Im so confused

[drowsy snow]

Intuitiveness.

Mixer is kind of more confusing to use, compared to baking in Blender.

[bright sigil]

Sounded like it was free only maybe there are better

[drowsy snow]

GIMP is a fuckin' joke.

[bright sigil]

I just love how quick gimp gets slammed

[drowsy snow]

But I guess blessing for Linuxians

[raven estuary]

But mixer is free too?

[drowsy snow]

Mixer is free, but it kinda tie in to Megascans a bit too much

Also Mixer is a Unity app, and what's more romantic than Unity and memory hog.

[raven estuary]

Whats wrong with it being super tied in to megascans. Sorry if these are dumb questions

[bright sigil]

Yeah i know nothing of quixel except megascans

[drowsy snow]

If you're going to use Megascans outside UE, you have to use the non-UE licence

[bright sigil]

And that it original started life as a ps plugin

Hey is ndo and ddo still a thing?

[raven estuary]

Ohhh thats fair i dont really plan to use it outside UE

[drowsy snow]

If you're going to use it in UE, then no additional charge for them. You can still make edits to them in sculpting software and alike tho

[raven estuary]

My planned workflow model hero object in blender texture in mixer then cinematic in unreal is my kinda planned workflow

[raven estuary]

Ok so i can still use it in blender i just cant like export it out as art from blender?

[drowsy snow]

You can't make final renders of them in Blender, under UE licence.

I know several Blender users leeching off of this licence.

[raven estuary]

Ok final render has to come from unreal thats fine

Is there a license to use the it in the final render say i wanted to do a portfolio piece of like a mech that was textured in mixer?

I can look that up you dont have to answer haha i can not be lazy and look that up myself

[drowsy snow]

If you don't use Megascans stuff in it, then Mixer is free for everyone.

[raven estuary]

Ohhhh ok so its purely if i use megascans within it?

[drowsy snow]

Yes

[raven estuary]

All the smart materials that are there are megascans yeah?

I guess are all the textures in the texture library megascans?

[sour tide]

So... timelines and curves.
Let's say that I have a timeline curve that represents an impulse. What if I want my output to be a sum of timelines all triggered at different times? I feel like... some event must cause the creation of a new timeline, which is then added to an array of timelines, which is then summed together to the output.

But that is starting to sound like the kind of thing that should probably be C++.

If what I was trying to model mapped to some kind of physical system, then using the physics engine instead would probably be easier.

[prime willow]

is there a way to make functions or types of functions that have 2 outward execution pins? @grim ore ;-;

https://gyazo.com/a4af5fd1a4ec197974fa5bc27aa79f9a

the end part

can i possibly create a dual outward pin as executions and or what type of system would i have to create to have a function with 2 of these?

[drifting elbow]

in blueprint? you can only control the number of executions using macros

eg, return a boolean value and, inside a macro, call the function and make a branch

in C++ you can use an enum as output, or write your own blueprint nodes entirely

[tiny valley]

In a blank scene turning on unlit mode gos from 300fps to 1000 fps. What is chewing through half my resources with nothing to render

[paper palm]

Guys I have a big problem where my computer lost power while it was asleep and SOMEHOW deleted an entire level. I looked in explorer and the .umap is still there and when opened in a text editor still has data, but it doesn't show up in the content browser. I think it might have gotten corrupted a bit so UE4 doesn't recognize or load it anymore. However, it appears the data is still there.

I'm wondering if there's a way to recover or splice the data back into a new level or something. I already checked Saved->Autosaves and it's not in there. I'm also dumb and only do backups on major changes and so this level had not been backed up yet but still had a TON of work put into it. Lesson learned. Is there any way to get this level back!?

EDIT: I figured this out! Yippee! in "%appdata%\Local\UnrealEngine[Version]\Saved\Autosaves\Game" I found it. I thought it would be in the autosaves folder of the actual engine itself but it was in appdata.

[neon bough]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/autolightmapuer anyone used this, or does know of some alternative?

also wonder how well it ports to UE5

also the reviews aren't very promising :/

[clever axle]

Hey guys!
I want to package my project. When I click on windows it opens https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Tutorial/Installation/InstallingVisualStudioTutorial.InstallingVisualStudioTutorial

I have Visual Studio installed. What do?

[sour tide]

This is from my Controller. It's attached to a Character Pawn (unmodified). I can confirm that this rotation, which the controller is applying to itself, is actually rotating the pawn

Does the pawn have something special in it to inherit rotation from the controller?

[pastel aurora]

Hey guys any idea on why my apk won’t start in full vr mode?
Although (Start in VR) is checked ☑️

[scenic fox]

Does anybody know how i can make aim down sights animation in a true first person style? Would i have to use IK and if so how it would be done in the anim graph?

[jolly mason]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-smart-simpsons-flames-gif-12447941

i did it

i turned this https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/546374393841057794/920272052433326080/unknown.png?width=1004&height=671

into this

[kindred depot]

I'm looking for a good strafe animation. does anyone know a pack that sells one that does not look... weird? Just purchased my 3rd anim pack looking for just strafing lol

[obsidian nimbus]

paragon characters

[kindred depot]

ill give it a look!

i tried the shooter kit but the spine is weird!

[obsidian nimbus]

shootergame also has strafe its a bit basic but allright

[kindred depot]

so just do any of these characters?

and it wsill have it?

[obsidian nimbus]

yea i think all chars have their own personal strafe

[kindred depot]

these are nice damn i wish i would of known about these before buying stuff...

thanks

[rain badger]

So... A bit of a frustrating speed bump lol. I followed a tutorial for making a cinematic camera movement which had me make a few changes to things like making a new camera (unnecessarily I think) And now for some reason all of my casts to the character are failing. BUT they only fail when previewing from another tab that opens a preview window. If I preview it from the main view port it works no problem.

I'm trying to go back through an older copy now to see if I can get it to work properly. Fingers crossed. I'm just super confused as to why my current copy works fine through the main viewport and isn't casting properly to the player character. Does anyone know why this is?

[patent cobalt]

You may have deleted the player pawn or character associated to your level and what you are seeing is the default one which the engine uses when there is nothing else available.

Difficult to tell from your description. Also by “preview” I guess you mean Play In Editor

[rain badger]

Hey, thanks for the reply.
🤦‍♂️ ... Oh man... I ended up deleting the PlayerStart. I have it set up where the players view is just the camera and does everything through that. So that still worked, just couldn't get anything that needed info from the character itself. But yeah, re-adding a player start worked.

And yeah, Play in Editor. I actually still don't understand why it worked on the main tab but not any other (if that makes sense, if not I can show with pictures what I mean by that)

[stable path]

Yes. If you look at the 'Class Defaults' on the Pawn, there are options for using Rotation of the controller
'Use Control Rotation Pitch' , Yaw, Roll

[tiny valley]

In a blank scene turning on unlit mode gos from 300fps to 1000 fps. What is chewing through half my resources with nothing to render

[drowsy snow]

Basically all the rendering features

[digital anchor]

the difference from 300 to 1000 fps is 0.2ms, i wouldnt call that 'chewing' your resources

[drowsy snow]

Unlit mode skips lighting, all post process, and several rendering passes

[drowsy snow]

The numbers are exponential, and I know how some people mistook the difference as if it's linear.

[drowsy snow]

For comparison, the frame time curve from 0 FPS to 60 FPS

[fierce tulip]

^ makes it abundantly clear why some devs target 30 fps over 60

[drowsy snow]

And the difference between 300 to 1000 FPS

And for difference from 0 to 1000 FPS.

[tiny valley]

How can i mask a uv channel so I can pan seperately similarly to this https://youtu.be/e843VnBp_KE?t=477

Also how may I set up my project to emulate those settings evry bit of optimization helps, ie tuning off unused passes etc

[sly coyote]

This might seem kind of like a dumb question, but is there a way to merge a modular skeletal mesh into a single mesh, like from modular characters in marketplace. I want to design it and bake it out as a single mesh for an actor instead of having it in so many components.

Also i mean in editor time, im aware of the runtime merger. I was wondering if there was something that actually creates a new asset the way you can with static "merge mesh"

Ty ty, ill give it a try tonight and report back if it does what we think its supposed to 😊

[fierce tulip]

@sly coyote if you have some money to burn, there is a mesh-merge tool on the marketplace that can merge skelmeshes and their anims. (called MeshBake)

[sly coyote]

Ohhh that sounds even better... Was reading through the thread and was seeing that I was going to have issues to deal with with the above thing... But a new plugin is always welcome in my tool kit

[proper fable]

Someone knows if there's a node that allows me play a sound when I pass through a button in MainMenu?

here in this part

[drowsy snow]

1. Learn on how to make controllable vehicle pawns in UE4.
2. Learn on how to make custom vehicles for vehicle physics.
3. Learn on how to modify the vehicle physics for bikes
4. Learn on how to make modular vehicles.
5. Learn on how to make customisation system (almost the same with characters)
6. Learn on how to make responsive vehicle sounds with UE4's audio tools

[drowsy snow]

Event On Hovered?

[proper fable]

Yes

[sly coyote]

@fierce tulip thank you for the suggestion, after watching that guy's demo videos that is exactly what I'm trying to do

[thick herald]

Now you know what to search

[quaint fox]

Anyone else noticed if UE4.27.2 changed the default GPU preference to be integrated?

[drowsy snow]

That's up to your OS settings, might be applying UE4Editor.exe in power saving mode

[quaint fox]

Ah I don't mean editor but packaged build

My testers are claiming this new version prefers the integrated over dedicated

[drowsy snow]

Still your OS might not knowing if it's a game or not
I think usually on PCs, the video out is directly from dedicated GPU as opposed to going through the motherboard's video out (which in turn going through CPU first)

[azure wharf]

Maybe this is a too generic or stupid question. But how do you usually handle localization in project with large amounts of dialogues?
Basically in my previous projects, we were making a custom ID for every dialogue text and it was exported to excel by automation pipeline, which in turn was later imported back with translations based on the IDs. In the new project, people want to stop using custom IDs and just use the unreal generated ones.

What gets me worried about that, is that this gives a lot of room for mistakes, or rather mismatches between excel/engine, especially if it's edited by non-technical people that don't care about localization (unless I am not understanding something or overanylizing...):

1. Replacing current FText value with other text will leave the current ID, so new text has old translations. Can happen if they are copying name/text from GDD or somewhere else
2. Clearing the entire FText value resets the ID, so if you simply rewrite the text of fix spelling mistakes and you clear the entire box, the old translation is lost and not transferred, as it was assigned to old ID (unless it's saved somewhere else)

Any tips?

[clever axle]

Can someone tell me how source control is supposed to work?
I tried creating and checking in a new project. I set my git variables and hit submit. I'm getting this:

fatal: C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.27/Engine/Content: 'C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.27/Engine/Content' is outside repository at 'D:/games/Zero'

should I just use an external tool for this?

[wary wave]

you can't commit files that are outside of your repository directory to the depot

but also, you wouldn't be committing engine files anyway

[clever axle]

for sure. But why does Unreal suggest these files then?

[wary wave]

presumably because you modified them

[clever axle]

nah

completely fresh project with first person template and starter content

I think it's the starter vontent

[wary wave]

starter content in new projects gets installed to your own project directory, not the engine content directory

[clever axle]

true

then I don't know what this even is or why it wants to check them in

[grim ore]

did you initialize the directory correctly?

[clever axle]

I don't know what happened but it seems it aligned itself now as expected

I committed the Readme and the .uproject files and then tried it again

now it's not trying to commit engine content anymore

@grim ore not sure. I only hit connect to source control

[fleet marten]

Can someone help me figure out why I can't record the viewport when I 'play' the game with OBS? The screen just stays static once I hit play, then after hitting stop you can see it again. It seems like an HDCP thing I'd run into if I tried to record like netflix or something

Here's an example. You can see how the recorded screen just freezes when I click play, then resumes once I stop

[grim ore]

does your computer have more than 1 gpu?

[fleet marten]

No just the one, and no on-board graphics for the motherboard either

[drowsy snow]

I can't remember exactly which ones, but if I recall, there's few settings in regards to capturing game windows in OBS.

[fleet marten]

Oh that's a good idea actually, I am just using a default monitor capture. I'll try game capturing using the unreal editor as the source really quickly

🙂 worked instantly! Thank you!

[bitter bridge]

Hey guys, I desperately need help, Unreal Crashes practically at random 9 times out of 10 when I try to export the cinematics. :c

[drowsy snow]

Crash about being "out of video memory"? Or about D3D device crashing?

[bitter bridge]

In which channel can I ask for help?

D3D device crashing

I tried different solution, sometimes one render goes through but the next render just crashes, lol. It works at random, I tried with Raytracing on and off, I tried with really small resolutions

[drowsy snow]

Okay, you mentioned raytracing, so it has to be DX12's fault.

[bitter bridge]

I also tried with DX11

[drowsy snow]

DX11 lacks raytracing, but it's less prone to errors

[normal burrow]

By export cinematics do you mean rendering movies?

[bitter bridge]

I also set the TdrDelay in the registry editor to 60

[drowsy snow]

Unfortunately this does nothing, in the context of UE.

[bitter bridge]

It looks like totally random. I have 2 RTX2070

[bitter bridge]

Yepp

[drowsy snow]

If the GPU stalls, it stops doing anything further.

[normal burrow]

Are you rendering without compression?

[bitter bridge]

I'm rendering at 1440x1920

But tried at 480x640 as well

[normal burrow]

Your using compression?

Well would recommend without compression

If you have a lot of space

Then disconnect one of your gpus

[drowsy snow]

Isn't Unreal capable of SLI? At least few times Epic did tech demos (in particular UE3 Samaritan and UE4 Star Wars lift one), they used chained GPUs

[bitter bridge]

Those are not in SLI though

[normal burrow]

Even if it was it’s a thing I doubt gets tested

Id troubleshoot it still. Disconnect one

[bitter bridge]

I just disconnected one of the RTXs from the control panel

[normal burrow]

Still crashing?

[proper fable]

How can I fix this

I'm using water plugin

???

😦

[bitter bridge]

@normal burrow Oh gosh you single handedly solved my issue and saved my Unreal journey ❤

[normal burrow]

Hurray

[bitter bridge]

Thanks for all the feedback guys 🙏

[bitter bridge]

I still appreciate your help @normal burrow, but in the end it was totally random ahahahah, the rendering is not working again

It worked 2 times and now it just takes longer to crash

[normal burrow]

Odd

Try enabling and disabling again lol

[drowsy snow]

It would be funny if the issue boils down to newer driver versions.

[normal burrow]

I hear the latest nvidia drivers are ass yeah

[bitter bridge]

Switching from NVIDIA game ready to studio

[drowsy snow]

I don't think using studio drivers would help.

I'm sure downgrading the driver wasn't in your list of possible solutions.

[bitter bridge]

In fact it did not

[normal burrow]

The thing about rendering in sequencer is it doesn’t cull or LOD at all

So it could literally be running out of resources if you have tons and tons of light mapped Folliage or something

[bitter bridge]

I don't have foliage at all

[normal burrow]

Hm

Anything in event viewer?

[bitter bridge]

The scene is not optimized at all for sure, I downloaded Unreal only a couple of weeks ago

[normal burrow]

Do you start it up from visual studio?

Or otherwise have a debugger

[bitter bridge]

I went back to 30.0.14.9709 drivers, but nothing changed

Yeah I have the logs of the crash open on Visual Studio, but I don't understand 💩

I'm just going to screenrecord the viewport.

[bitter bridge]

Worked like a charm 😂

[normal burrow]

Yay

[compact cloud]

Hello, Im hoping this is easy. I have a plant on a rock that I want to have rotate (like its suspended in air). Id think I could group and animate the transform, but I cant. What is the easiest way to rotate 2 objects on one pivot?

[bright sigil]

can you adjust that part of the mesh in the software it was made in?

[kindred depot]

Does anyone have any info on Blending an aimoffset?

I really dont wanna make like 12 of them

lol

[bright sigil]

blending how? interp or lerp no work?

[kindred depot]

interp or lerp in an aimgraph?

[compact cloud]

I brought the assets from megascan. I can combine mesh, but then I lose the blowing of the tree leaves. So Im trying to figure another way to have them move together

[hybrid zenith]

why is the model transparent in my render?

[bright sigil]

oh sorry, now i getcha, i dont think so since the anims are all unique

there are some from the anim start pack though

[bright sigil]

not sure why you lose the blowing effect, wouldnt that effect be based on material?

[kindred depot]

I got it tho, just duped the AO, and changed the additive layer. Bam way easier than making 12 of them.

[solar jay]

Hello everyone I am using ue5 and I blended the materials but the displacement option is missing. Is there anyway to enable it ?

[compact cloud]

Id think so, Im using the Wind actor in the scene. Not sure if that has something to do with it

[bright sigil]

hmm

[compact cloud]

so with the rock and plant (which wind actor is affecting), I select 'convert to static mesh'. This works well with controlling both, but i lose the wind blowing.

[bright sigil]

i think i undestand, and it sounds like it has to be separate to be affected then

and your trying to move part or all of the foliage mesh?

[compact cloud]

Right, seperately, the wind works. If the tree is on the floating rock, Id like it to move together. Ive seen some thing on blue print and parenting, but its a little complicated for my newbie mindset

[bright sigil]

ah ok, then i wont suggest it 😜

you could child it though

i think thats simply dragging it onto the parent in the outliner

[solar jay]

Cant you group or attach them together ? @compact cloud

[compact cloud]

Oh this worked! Dragging it to parent. and I can control one transform!

[compact cloud]

Grouping didnt work because in the sequencer, it doesnt give me the ability to control the transform. Parenting it did

[solar jay]

Im new to unreal ive been attaching things to 1 thing to move them with one move

[compact cloud]

How did you 'attach'?

[solar jay]

Like this ^

[bright sigil]

i think its an option from the right click menu

[solar jay]

if you right click on a object on the bottom there is a Attach to option

[compact cloud]

Ok i see it!

Oh that works well too!

[solar jay]

do you guys know how to enable displacement on blend materials ?

[bright sigil]

blend materials?

[solar jay]

I am watching this video I did everything as he did but its missing the displacement option
https://youtu.be/j_3_lYyydgA?t=332

its a way to paint different surfaces to a mesh like the landscape material

[drowsy snow]

"C++ or Blueprint?" Why not both C++ AND Blueprint? Unreal Engine works great when you combine the best of both worlds - the ease of iteration from BP, and the high performance of C++.
Having an ego over one or the other will do you no favour, because even in AAA capacity using Unreal Engine, Blueprints are involved in one way or the other.

Also for those afraid using Event Tick in BP, you can use them, but make sure not to abuse them. Use them with utmost care.

[solar jay]

I was wondering what you were typing haha

[bright sigil]

not sure, looks like ue5 as well, havent used it

[thick herald]

UE5 does not have displacement.

[eternal veldt]

hi guys, just joined here. I'm wondering if someone can direct me to a proper channel if this concern should not be here. I wanted to show my webcam video to other players in a multi-player game so that everyone can see my local webcam feed. I already tried opening a URL using a MediaPlayer object but it keeps on playing only local video of each player. I wanted to stream my webcam video to all players and probably attach it as a material in a cube mesh. I heard I should have a media server. Is this the way to go? Any free options for this? I was in the direction of using umediaserver (umediaserver.net) but it was limited and had to pay for the extended usage. **sorry to butt in...newbie..

[drowsy snow]

UE5 does not support tessellation, and you might as well use Nanite.

[solar jay]

so there is no way to displace surface in ue5 ?

[bright sigil]

ah he does say for ue4

[solar jay]

off topic but do any of you play destiny 2 ?

[drowsy snow]

No. Better use #nanite, and have the details already in geometry than making one on the spot.

[solar jay]

this is what i am trying to do

[thick herald]

Virtual Heightfield Mesh

[still atlas]

anyone know how to get the mouse position on the screen relative to the actual screen size in BP? for some reason neither Get Mouse Position On Viewport nor Get Mouse Position Scaled By DPI seem to work

when i go full screen with a resolution of 1920x1080, going all the way to the right gives me an X position of 2040 on the mouse

sorry, guess maybe this is the wrong channel for that

[rough ember]

someone knows why this error pop up everytime I open my project?, everything then works fine

[drowsy snow]

Once you're done with your blockouts, replace those with more proper static meshes, custom made and/or kitbashing with the megascans library

[autumn latch]

i am trying change movement mode to swimming but not working

[real moth]

how can I get this material more faded? Like, I've turned down the alpha on the material instance but it doesn't do anything here?

[neon bough]

the material has to be translucent, and it has to take the alpha channel of the color as opacity into account

[real moth]

thanks!

[urban dirge]

Hi all. When I put msaa with raytracing on, it crashes and stops starting with a constant error:
texcreate_uav is not allowed on msaa texture raytracingprimaryrays

What can it be? At the same time, if I change back to, say, txaa r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2 in the config, the project runs. When I change it back to msaa again, the problem repeats.

[urban dirge]

Forward Render is used. because the project is designed for vr. I only use ray tracing to quickly bake light.

[regal valve]

Hey there! I just came here! I plan to use Unreal Engine for a shot at making a racing game, once it gets out. I don’t know how to script, but it should be fine with blueprints. I found tutorials for a lot of things… But not about car decal managing! Anyone can help with resources regarding that?

[urban dirge]

The solution is simple. In general, if you make for VR (Forward Shading+MSAA gives an increase of about 22-45%) but want to quickly bake light on RTX, write in DefaultEngine.ini:
r.RayTracing.ForceAllRayTracingEffects=0

Otherwise it will crash with error "texcreate_uav is not allowed on msaa texture raytracingprimaryrays".

[trim pike]

ue4 has recently started to take a long time to start

im not sure why

im on version 4.25.3

what could I do to find out why this is?

right now it took almost 10 minutes to start

it used to be a few seconds

[grim ore]

check task manager, what percent is it using. did you install anything weird lately?

[plush yew]

hey

about the matrix demo ? is it downloadable ?

[bright sigil]

not sure if its out yet, but it will be at some point

[worn flame]

heys bros how can i do to get an key in a secondary level and the same key open a door but in the main level? thank you so much.

[pearl minnow]

i really love the lighting on the trees before building the light 😄 Is there some way to preserve the light on top the top of the trees? I have tried with/out lightmass importance volumes

[drowsy snow]

Make the trees moveable?

[pearl minnow]

after building light is dull like this 😦

[pearl minnow]

🤯 wat

oh does that just flag them as "dont bake your shitty lighting on me cuz i move"

[regal valve]

Excuse me, I’ve been asking about how to handle decal placing in car customization…

I’m a complete newbie, but that’s super obvious by now.

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[pearl minnow]

🤯 🤯 🤯 🤯

thanks so much @drowsy snow

[heavy flicker]

Anyone got any idea why RVT is flickering ?

[pearl minnow]

is it z-fighting or LOD-fighting or something?

[heavy flicker]

Its a landscape actor

[pearl minnow]

is there a single one? it looks like the material can't make its mind up - maybe check the LOD settings?

[heavy flicker]

aye, LOD settings havent been touched

[bright sigil]

its not that anyone is ignoring you, its most likely no one is on who knows the answer or its a loaded question

[pearl minnow]

is it on every single spot of the landscape? or one area? is it after zooming in? does it happen after restarting editor?

[heavy flicker]

its pretty much in random patches across the entire terrain. Happens even after a restart.

Sometimes it goes away but comes back

[pearl minnow]

in case you haven't already guessed i dont know much about UE, im just guessing 😄

could be a memory/cache issue then if its not constant

does it happen in a build of the game?

[thick herald]

Are you sampling just the landscape or other things as well?

[bright sigil]

maybe graphics driver? i never used RVT

[heavy flicker]

I dont know but im not intending to build the game. If I go in PIE its fine but this is intended for the marketplace.

[heavy flicker]

Well landscape plus mesh actor scattered via landscape grass output

but its only on the landscape the flickering

[heavy flicker]

na its been an issue I had for months.

cant seem to even find someone else online or forums with this issue

[pearl minnow]

im outa ideas sorry - would be interesting to see what happens on diff machines and in a build though, to see what factors affect it

increase.. max memory something in unreal?

[heavy flicker]

I have a small suspicion RVT doesnt like using landscape grass meshes scattered as opposed to static mesh actors. But thats a wild guess

It even happens on assets using the procedural scatter volume

[pearl minnow]

i read that as "but that's a wild grass"

yeh no idea gl

[regal valve]

A loaded question? Pardon my ignorance, but what does that mean?

[pearl minnow]

if you can ask a specific question that's a good place to start @regal valve

[thick herald]

It may be a bug. I've saw people mention that when just sampling the landscape it's fine but if they sample anything else as well it bugs out.

[heavy flicker]

maybe but isnt the whole point of RVT that you sample the landscape to blend assets in?

[thick herald]

yup. That's why I said it may be a bug 🙂

[bright sigil]

one that needs a loaded answer; something large in scope or needs deeper understanding. I did not say you have asked a loaded question however

[grim ore]

@worn flameyou need to save somewhere that you picked it up. GameInstance stays around between levels, it might be a place to start

[thick herald]

well.. ya kinda did

its a loaded question
😄

[heavy flicker]

balls I was hoping someone knew an answer

[bright sigil]

was it? oh, didn't seem loaded, i just dont know about doing car decals

no really, i feel like an ass now, just trying to explain that no one is ignoring questions, i cant speak for everyone, but if i can provide an answer i will

[drowsy snow]

Typically that's doable with mesh decals. Though I'm not sure how to set that up properly

[thick herald]

I understood what you meant, but English can be a funny thing and often doesn't translate well via text 🙂

[bright sigil]

definitely not sarcasm either

all language is contradictory, so its no matta

[thick herald]

Lots of different countries etc English may not be their 1st language

[bright sigil]

its not like i read everything with the same degree of attention either 😂

[ruby sand]

Hi! I hope this tutorial is some help to you. I don’t know what DCC you are using, but this method can be applied to most DCCs

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

This is just a start.
On top of this you need a proper material setup which is in its core just a decal material, but there’s plenty of those tutorials online. I have no idea which of them suits best for your purposes.

[next tangle]

Do I need the source code to make a multiplayer game with unreal engine 5? And can i use epic online services

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[drowsy snow]

But I'd say at this point you're too early to concern about it

[next tangle]

okay but for ue4, the epic online services i need a source or?

[drowsy snow]

If you're on 4.27, EOS is built in.

[next tangle]

ok

[kindred depot]

if a skeleton does not have IK can you set up Virtual bones to simulate the same thing IK would?

[drowsy snow]

I don't think VB's are inherently necessary for IKs, particularly with Control Rigs.

[kindred depot]

i need to do it for the stride warping node

if you go to plugins type animation warping there is a plugin that gives this option, this requires a skel with IK set up on it.

[wheat tundra]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fps-multiplayer-template

would this be good to learn fps multiplayer

[orchid compass]

Hey i got a question

ok so basically i set a timer in milliseconds but when i play it goes down at same speed but like dont show every number for example 250 millisecond will just show 25 until it hits 100 milliseconds then itll be precise and show each one of them is there any way i can make them all precise

[grim ore]

@wheat tundrano, thats a template and unless you know what you are doing (your asking this question so we assume not) your not going to learn from a template

@orchid compasswhat do you mean show?

[orchid compass]

its like a countdown from 10 to 0

[wheat tundra]

i kind of know what im doing

[orchid compass]

precise till 2 number after ,

[grim ore]

yes but what do you mean show

[orchid compass]

it does not show the second number after ,

[grim ore]

@wheat tundrawell you can try, but its not going to teach you anything about multiplayer

[orchid compass]

like 9,82 seconds will only be shown 98

instead of 982

[grim ore]

are you using print string, are you using slate, a UMG widget? how are you showing this

[orchid compass]

UMG i think

[terse zealot]

The ShooterGame demo would be a valuable project to learn from.

[wheat tundra]

i already saw it

[orchid compass]

WBG

wigdget blue pritn

[grim ore]

ok , so are you using a text widget then? maybe show your code. chances are your conversion is truncating the number

[orchid compass]

i did the code with blueprints

kk wait

[potent bridge]

So, question with the flying movement type, how would I make it less floaty? I have a flying enemy I want to follow the player but it misses if I keep moving

[orchid compass]

timer is set to 1000

which should be 10 sec i think

[grim ore]

ok and your code to show the text?

[grim ore]

ok your to text is going to be causing the issue

[potent bridge]

also what have I done here xD

nvm

[kindred depot]

not really. This is a c++ project. this is only if you are doing a c++ game.

[orchid compass]

how so

[grim ore]

you want to try and convert your float to a usable number, there is a node for that (ToText), then you can use a format text to put that with your Time: similar to this

your to text has a drop down to set how many before the , and after the , numbers you want

then you can use a format text with something like "Time: {in}" and it would give you something like what I have

theres other ways using math, but this might be the easiest

[quartz sable]

Does anyone know of a good youtube series for learning how to make an FPS in Unreal? I'm a COMPLETE beginner and want to know how to take something you've made in blender and make that the arms, shoot projectiles, make enemies, etc... and I'm pretty lost.

[pallid talon]

Quick Source Control Question:
When checking out a C++ project to share, should I checkout the *.sln file as well? Or should each user have their own generated sln file?

[fervent stag]

Hello everyone, I'm running into an issue. We're running UE 4.25.4 and my engine just started crashing as it begins to open a project. I've run verify on my engine checked the integrity of my disk drive, performed a memory test, updated my nVidia software, I even pulled back all of my plugin's. No matter what I do the engine crashes. I've submitted the crash files to UE support a few days ago but so far have heard nothing. This is starting to get in the way of productivity. If reinstalling UE 4.25.4 to a different drive isn't helping, and its not, I'm at a loss to figure out what will.

Anyone has any ideas?

[terse zealot]

Occasionally, I have to nuke my Intermediate directory and generate, build. Usually happens after an engine upgrade or change. I'd suggest giving that a go 🤞

[pallid talon]

Also consider using source control. Easy to step back if a certain file was the cause of the crash.

[fervent stag]

Thanks, it can't hurt. Naturally I'll rename the folder and move it.

@pallid talon We do, Perforce, and unfortunately it hasn't helped. Weird.

[terse zealot]

Usually each have their own sln, since that's generated

[pallid talon]

Thank you, I was just considering it's probably not included in the source control. Thanks for confirming!

[terse zealot]

I double-checked to see if we check it in for our project and we don't 🙂

[grim ore]

@pallid talonue4 has a gitignore that you can use for reference, as well as git has a ue4 gitignore you can reference for what they think is needed

[pallid talon]

Oh ok. But you do check out the "Source" folder, is that accurate? Basically, Im planning to source control the folders...
Config
Content
Source
ProjectName.uproject

Is that accurate?

[wheat tundra]

is visual studio code 2022 supported in unreal?

[grim ore]

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/UnrealEngine.gitignore

[terse zealot]

I check out files under Source, yes. @grim ore had a great suggestion to use the .gitignore that's recommended. That should get you in a good starting position.

[grim ore]

@wheat tundrayes* depending on the version of UE4/5 and how much work you want to put into it. VS2022 came out after 4.27 but is fully supported in 5.0 current branch

[wheat tundra]

4.27

[grim ore]

you can make it work, but its not recommended

[wheat tundra]

okay I will stick with 2019

[grim ore]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/18x-faster-intellisense-for-unreal-engine-projects-in-visual-studio-2022/

[wheat tundra]

so what's your point?

should I use UE5 to be able to use it?

rn im just making small games to practice C++ so they won't get released

[grim ore]

if you read it, it shows you how to make 4.27 work with it

[wheat tundra]

I didn't see it

ty

[pallid talon]

If you want an awesome IDE for the Unreal Engine. Look into Jetbrains "Rider". It is build for UE4 and has amazing connections and tools. Intellisense works without issues, you can launch your game directly from the IDE, and if you have errors it really easy to identify why and how to fix it. Here's a link - https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/rider-unreal/

[potent bridge]

by the way, is it possible to get a PS5 controller working with UE4?

[wheat tundra]

is it free?

[pallid talon]

It's free for 30 days.

[wheat tundra]

dang I prefer to use a free for life kind of software

but ty for suggestion

[fervent stag]

unfortunately, removing the content of intermediate didn't help. I'm tempted to try to update to a newer engine but it may seriously piss off my BP'er

[pallid talon]

If you're serious about becoming a game developer, it's easily worth it.

[wheat tundra]

how much does it cost?

and is it a subscription?

[pallid talon]

I can't remember what I spent, I had a discount.

I also had early access.

It may still be early access available.

[wheat tundra]

nice

[pallid talon]

I'd recommend trying the 30 day trial, if you're not impressed, just install and go back to Visual Studio's nightmares 😄

[grim ore]

Rider is a subscription yes. with that said it seems to get high praises from anyone who actually uses it and time is money friend

[pallid talon]

Exactly.

[wheat tundra]

dang if it was a one time payment thing I would have got it

as I have no income subscriptions are kind of hard to pay

[grim ore]

there is but its no updates

you pay for 12 months, you get a license for that exact version on that date, and you can use it forever

[pallid talon]

Looking into my history, the subscription gets cheaper the more years you use it.

[grim ore]

kinda... sucks for something like this as constant engine updates might require updates to the IDE lol

[wheat tundra]

yeah

[grim ore]

yep its not horrible in the end, but VS community is free and "good enough" to learn with 🙂

theres also VAssistX as an alternative

[wheat tundra]

im only 15 and i have no job so I can really just buy things with one time payment

[pallid talon]

If you're just learning and not sure if you're going to do this as as career, just use VS. But if you get serious, Rider is the way to go.

[wheat tundra]

wait I saw it's free for students

I applied

[grim ore]

yep cant hurt 🙂

its how they get you addicted, the first taste is free

[wheat tundra]

I should normally stay in school for 6 more years

so by then if I really like it and I have a job

[prime willow]

first taste always free

refund for your deed to house no allowed

[wheat tundra]

im still gonna use it

it's free

the school is awesome to get free stuff

I also got adobe apps for free

just because I signed up for a photoshop class and dropped out

and they forgot to remove my access

[unique kraken]

hm anything to ue5 release? im just asking in context of the ue5 matrix demo

[drowsy snow]

Might still sometime next year.

[unique kraken]

hmm i see. just wondered if there were some new infos i missed

[sage bane]

can someone help me

which is the right channel to ask questions

[thick loom]

Depends on the question

[sage bane]

yeah uh

how do i delete objects

._.

i just started

i thought Unreal was easier than Unity and it probably is

[thick loom]

Unreal is more technically involved than Unity

[sage bane]

so how do i delete

[bright sigil]

select the object, press delete key on keyboard

[sage bane]

thanks

:)

[thick loom]

I think this will be helpful: https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3756115

There are a lot of good free courses in the pinned section of this channel

[sage bane]

i already have a course downloaded thank you tho

4

@thick loomi might have alot of questions so where is the appropriate channel for help

[thick loom]

Almost all the channels are for questions

[thick loom]

Most general questions are good here

[sage bane]

last time i got muted for asking a question ._.

how do i move objects tho,the axis thing isnt visible.Or is there a shortcut for move scale and rotate like in blender?

somehow this thing is uh...transparent

@thick loom....sorry for pinging

[bright sigil]

are you currently playing?

[sage bane]

no

you seem familiar

[bright sigil]

i answered this question

[sage bane]

no

i mean from another server

[thick loom]

I'm not sure why the widget would be hidden

[sage bane]

anyways tho...unreal kinda complicated

[bright sigil]

well, its not normal, thats for sure

[thick loom]

I spend more of my time in c++ with ue

[bright sigil]

can you open the scene again?

[sage bane]

i should probably just use this instead

[sage bane]

how

[bright sigil]

File > Open Level

[sage bane]

there it is

thanks

how do i duplicate lel

[bright sigil]

icons are good?

[sage bane]

yeah icons are good

[bright sigil]

File > Save Level As

[sage bane]

ok

[eternal veldt]

hi, anyone here was able to stream a player's webcam in a multi-player game where all players can see that webcam video of 1 player? need a guide...

[gaunt abyss]

Not true, 15 days ago you got striked not for asking a question but for posting the same question in multiple channels

[bleak zodiac]

are you in game mode?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, that's uh, going to have some privacy implications.

[eternal veldt]

yeah of course, the player can turn it on or off if he wants to. Its just an educational game where the teacher can broadcast his/her webcam video to all her students...

[drowsy snow]

I don't know much about online classrooms, but if you're going to use it in educational space, you might better have whatever classroom application they use to broadcast the webcam and have the teacher broadcast the app just like broadcasting a presentation.

[eternal veldt]

I just can't complete the puzzle where unreal will get a webcam feed to a media server, converts it into an rtmp/rtsp then feed that back to the game as a broadcasted video for everyone to see...

[sage bane]

oh riht

[eternal veldt]

yes we have those platforms already but web-based...i wanted to play the video in-game...

its like the multiplayer game allows players to enter classrooms inside a school. then each classroom has broadcasted videos from teachers working from home..

[drowsy snow]

That being said

Maybe you can exploit the virtual production side of things.

[eternal veldt]

hmmm.... what is virtual production...so sorry for my ignorance..

(also googling/youtubing virtual production in unreal) 🙂

[drowsy snow]

I know in VPs and composure projects you can have live video input as a texture

[eternal veldt]

yes i was able to add a MediaPlayer or Streaming Media texture already in my objects and can already play a local webcam...but in a multiplayer, playing a webcam from lets say player1, but it doesnt reflect on player 2's object with that texture, vice-versa... Then I entered an rtsp/rtmp URL source, it was able to broadcast that video to all players...

[little mantle]

Is there anyone around that has worked out the pixel streaming with 4.27? I'm trying to make a client walkthrough available for them to interact and I can't seem to get it to run outside of localhost. I set up the STUN server I think, but it seems it won't work

[eternal veldt]

Is there a plugin where unreal captures local webcam video, sends it to a media server, then responds with an RTMP/RTSP url, then i play that in the world as a texture?

[little mantle]

I'm new to the discord, sorry if my question is supposed to go in another channel

[unique kraken]

heya anyone can tell me if its possible to bake in ue4 respecting a uv.
im aware of the render target setup but it seems to simply bake to a plane.

[plush yew]

why would u bake in UE4, theoretically it's possible but... duh

[unique kraken]

bcs in the long run its easier

[plush yew]

no it's not, it's just stupid. sorry to tell u the harsh truth. it's like asking: hey guys, can i create music in photoshop?!

[unique kraken]

lets say for eyes for example

eeeh not rly

[plush yew]

just use blender or toolbag for bakes man.

[wicked portal]

can someone kinda tutor me

[plush yew]

there is plugins to bake in UE4 but it's very lame.

really time consuming.

[plush yew]

whatcha mean?

[unique kraken]

well im a experience blender user. i can bake easy. but since the material editor is literally the same to me, i would save myself exporting importing each time i make a new texture

[wicked portal]

like teach me the basics of unreal engine

[unique kraken]

not to mention i also plan changing to ue4 for texture painting

[plush yew]

basically u need to replicate blenders behaviour via unreal blueprints so, it's like reinventing bicycle and sure, if u're into that, it's totally possible.

[unique kraken]

i mean, the base baking isnt really hard to do

looked at the setups

but im wonder bcs id use a dummy mesh with multible uvs for extra control

[plush yew]

well can give u few pointers from where to start based on what u know, drop me a dm.

[unique kraken]

and then bake it down to the base uv and use it on a mesh with a single uv

[plush yew]

there's lots of crappy things happening with UE4 baking, like corners pixelating etc which wouldn't happen in toolbag, so they need resolutions.

it's not meant for baking out of the box.

[unique kraken]

hmmm

i see, i guess i just have to try it and see. hm

[bright sigil]

Check the pins

[unique kraken]

would be a giant timesaver in the long run argh

[bright sigil]

Xnormal is a stand alone baker for free

[unique kraken]

i dont have a problem baking my textures, not at all. but i want to optimize my workflow, and beeing able to do it in ue4 would be much faster for me

bcs if i now make some node setups in blender or ue4, is no difference to me

or texture painting

[bright sigil]

I would like to animate and rig in ue4

[unique kraken]

its just if i can bake it together

[unique kraken]

wich you can

and i will do too

[bright sigil]

No not like that a better way

[unique kraken]

u cant weight paint but ctrl rig is the best thing in existence?

[plush yew]

difference is crappy renderer for bakes though. blender is lighyears ahead of ue4 in terms of baking and toolbox is lightyears ahead of blender. i'm talking about little, millimeter mistakes of shadowmap and coordinate map calculations.

[bright sigil]

Ctrl rig is awful

[unique kraken]

oô

@plush yew i mainly just need to bake emmision maps

[drowsy snow]

I'm a fan of animating in engine with Control Rig and sequencer butt I hit its limits pretty quickly

[unique kraken]

no normals or anything