ue4-general

[open spear]

yea its the valley project

[grim ore]

oh valley of the ancients is evil

how much system memory do you have?

[open spear]

hmm, 32 gigs, usage goes to 16gigs at the max

[grim ore]

yeah should be fine. Chances are its just an unstable video card being pushed, UE does that on DX12

[kindred depot]

does anyone see anything wrong with this? I can not get my bullet tracers to show....

[grim ore]

like I said I had one project fail on me when my card was not getting enough juice when I was undervolting it. UE really pushes a card and driver to the limits and points out unstableness

[open spear]

hmm, ok I am trying underclocking stuff slowly

[stray drift]

@grim ore pretty sure it's just the project being wacky, I have the exact same issue with that project only. Cyberpunk, Doom Eternal, etc etc everything is fine

[kindred depot]

this is why i upgraded to a 16 gig 6900 xt. no issues sense i bought it.

[rose pine]

My screen stays like this when installing bridge. how can i fix ue4

[stray drift]

Have you run the Valley project?

[kindred depot]

120 fps on default

[grim ore]

@kindred depottheres no real code there to evaluate. when you say show, what do you mean. spawn? be visible? etc.

[kindred depot]

Hold on ill show you

[open spear]

wah, 120fps i get barely 70fps on 720p

[stray drift]

Win 11?

[kindred depot]

there should be no issues...

[bright sigil]

niiiiiiice

[kindred depot]

i tried offline, and online nothing works for the tracers.

[bright sigil]

you know.... it would be easier to know why the hell im looking at this 😆

[kindred depot]

Bullet tracers xD

spawning a bullet projectile

[bright sigil]

great job 💯

[kindred depot]

I added a collision inside the project settings just for it as well.

well shit, if its a 100% job why dont it work LOL

[bright sigil]

oh it doesnt work?

coulda fooled me 😉

[kindred depot]

All the visuals fx work, muzzle flash, sound, but the dang tracers wont freaking spawn.

its driving me nuts

[bright sigil]

the tracers? no way, ah man, wth

what is this line tracers?

[kindred depot]

Yeah line t by c

[bright sigil]

you got em plugged in right?

[kindred depot]

ofc lol

[bright sigil]

but they dont show up?

[kindred depot]

the first line you see was a test that sayys actual bullet xD

[bright sigil]

🦑 where? (there's no squint icon)

[grim ore]

so the issue is the item is not spawning, or you cant see it, or its getting destroyed on spawn, or ?

[kindred depot]

I dont see it hold on ill do a quick video

[grim ore]

do you know how to debug?

plus this looks like its multiplayer which makes it worse

but if this "tracer" (I assume you mean BP_Bullet) is supposed to spawn and do something on the client you should be able to breakpoint on that node and step to the next one to make sure it spawned

[kindred depot]

Yeahh its MP

replicating everything first.

[bright sigil]

so there's suppose to be a green line coming out right?

[kindred depot]

turned off debugging

to try and see the bullet

lol

[bright sigil]

turned off debugging?

like developer things?

[open spear]

reduced clocks by 250mhz and the project gave the same error on launch, didnt even start loading textures

[kindred depot]

screw it buying a projectile plugin

_<

ill thry this easy ballistics first but it has not collat dmg and its all c++

[bright sigil]

glad i could help 🤓

[kindred depot]

haha

when all else fails, look to the marketplace for help.

ill redo this one more time. ill let you guys know the outcome

[bright sigil]

I. Can't. Wait.

[open spear]

woah

wuts happening

[grim ore]

well again, did you try breakpoints and debugging

verify it actually spawns, etc.

[bright sigil]

no i think its line traces, though Atomik said "tracers"

[grim ore]

by tracers they mean the physical representation of the bullet, the "tracer" look of them when firing

[bright sigil]

yeah i figured too, but at the same time it didnt sound like it

[open spear]

reduced core clocks and ue5 isnt even lunching the game, all loadings have become slow? reverted the clocks but everything is slooooowww suddenly

Hmmm let's see now

[kindred depot]

im not replicating cosmetics lol its ran client side but the fpp is not seeing the tracers

the tpp has its own cosmetics

fpp arms and tpp body

[bright sigil]

its taken awhile, but i finally understand what your are having trouble with

[kindred depot]

Ohh you thought i was talking about debugging the line trace channel lol

[bright sigil]

not quite, i just had no idea what you were talking about at all 🌈

[kindred depot]

hahah

i know im crazy talk.

all good tho 😄

https://tenor.com/view/painting-bob-ross-gif-5675661

lol I set up a very unique system.

you have the first person gun that hold first person data and the third person gun that holds all the data(bullet ammount etc)

new projectile. does this look right?

[stray drift]

First and Third person guns 😅 The naming needs work at least

[kindred depot]

i forgot to plug in the location

got it

LOL

meh i dont like tracers.

do many games use them? i dont remember

[stray drift]

Overwatch does for sure, so too might Overwatch 2. Haven't looked at the roster changes.

[grim ore]

depends on the goals of the tracers, in multiplayer games they help to locate the person firing

I would also think if this is a VFX, you should try using a VFX and not an actual object

[kindred depot]

I am spawning a static mesh and destroying it

your right

but it works, i use a particle system as well.

[grim ore]

but if the goal is for this to be for multiplayer and for people to see them then it has to be on all clients within range as well

[kindred depot]

makes more sense when seen written down.

[astral dust]

hey guys, im facing a small bug. I save the map but it still asks me to save it.
The contents of it are saved though, but still need to resolve this issue

[ivory lake]

Can anyone help me with this ? I can't find the other tab in a newly created niagara emitter. It should be something like in the 2nd image.

[kindred depot]

unreal slackers on laucher!

[bright sigil]

that explains some things..... 😒

[rancid lagoon]

how do i make unreal generate a number between 1-12 then if it is a 1 then it spawns a chacter, if it is a 2 then it spawns a room, etc....

[kindred depot]

do a random float in range

[bright sigil]

random integer in range and a switch on int

[kindred depot]

😮

[rancid lagoon]

how do i make an event happen on the specific integer

[bright sigil]

you can do a select instead of a switch if you know how to use it 🙂

[bright sigil]

that depends on how you want it to happen

[rancid lagoon]

i just want it to spawn a next room. so the player hits the next button, then it generates a number (lets say 5) then on 5 it spawns a dungeon.

[rancid lagoon]

how would i do that

[bright sigil]

i dont understand

[kindred depot]

he wants it to spawn a random room depending on the integer in range

[rancid lagoon]

yes. exactly

the room i have is a blueprint, if that helps

[bright sigil]

yeah, but i still dont know how you want to have it happen

i get you want it, but when? how?

like on begin play?

a trigger?

after killing an enemy?

[rancid lagoon]

after the player passes through a collision

[kindred depot]

overlapping?

you might want to take a look into bp triggering

if player collides with a trigger volume... etc.

[rancid lagoon]

ok, but my main question is how to get an event triggered when it generates an integer within 1-12

[kindred depot]

on overlap you might need to add a delay, with triggering the area will be generated in range.

we cant help you all to much, you supplied us with information, we gave you the most basic answers.

maybe some SS's

[bright sigil]

you will have to figure out the transform on your own

you may also need to destroy or disable the collider once it fires

[rancid lagoon]

ok, thank you! that actaully helps

[rancid lagoon]

GOT it to work!!! thank you soo much!

[mint sequoia]

One thing "Rider for Unreal" shows us is that it is possible to add .uproject affiliated commands without entering them into the registry (which UE4 overwrites constantly), anyone know how to do this?

The two commands above this are my own C# application that UE4 keeps overwriting (I use "Repair" to get them back). If I could find out what Rider for Unreal is doing I could finally not have to deal with this.

I posted on StackOverflow but years ago I did the same for the same reason asking if there was a way to do this without the registry, and no one gave a solution

[stray drift]

@mint sequoia could you make a throwaway local git repo, add everything before creating the action, then create the action and see what files have what changes based on the diff?

Oh you mean for Windows actions, not in-IDE actions within Rider, nvm 😐

[mint sequoia]

I want to know how Rider for Unreal is inserting the "Edit with Rider for Unreal Engine" context menu command without using the registry

[stray drift]

Are you sure it's not editing the registry?

[mint sequoia]

Yes, because "Edit with Rider for Unreal Engine" or any substring does not exist in my registry

And if it did, they would have the same issue I have

UE4 launcher constantly deletes all .uproject associations and re-adds their defaults

Ah... it wasn't searching the entire registry after a few searches, I'm wrong, but also I see how they're doing it now 🙂 Nevermind

The problem is... they added it to EVERYTHING

That's their solution

[stray drift]

Dunno if the Rider plugin has anything to do with it as well, it might be hooking into the regenerate process for example to add its items on top

[mint sequoia]

Nope

[stray drift]

If it works... 🙈

[mint sequoia]

It just globally smacks it onto every single extension

That really got my hopes up

[stray drift]

I think that's configurable during install time. Might have ticked an option like "allow opening folders as Rider project", used to tick that with intelliJ a few years ago. It's either that or have to right click the specific file to open as project

[kindred depot]

hey move it guy

😛

[mint sequoia]

Instead it basically certifies the fact you cannot extend .uproject commands

[mint sequoia]

UE4 launcher removes all .uproject associations and re-adds defaults almost any time you interact with it in any way

It's... awful

That's why Rider registered with every extension

[kindred depot]

idk still waiting on a fps/tp locomotion from you..

[stray drift]

Maybe he's getting held up on that by Rider abusing Regedit, food for thought

[mint sequoia]

Nah Rider isn't doing anything wrong, Epic Launcher is

Or perhaps windows OS is

There's a design issue where everyone can point at the other guy

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas! I dont know at which point, but my pawn characters started to push each other when colliding. I have no collision other than collision but capsule.

[mint sequoia]

Is it a Pawn or a Character?

Character extends Pawn

Either way, if you only have collisions on the capsule, then whatever object type is assigned to that capsule, it's blocking

[lucid grove]

Player character pushes small pawns, pawns sometimes push character aswell

[kindred depot]

could be the physics asset collision

[lucid grove]

Yeah, they probably colliding and push each other

Sometimes even in air

[mint sequoia]

I wont be releasing any further plugins 🙂

[kindred depot]

aww 😦 well gg's you did amazing work my guy!

[mint sequoia]

Sounds like you need to spend time familiarizing with UE4 collision system. Even if you resolve this isolated case, you'll just have other issues since it's a system that is heavily used

[lucid grove]

Im sure i know lots about it

But never encountered this one particular

Google leads me to different aspects: from character velocity factor, to basic things

[mint sequoia]

The solution is "don't make the object type assigned to your pawn collider block the object type assigned to your character collider"

[kindred depot]

100% your collisions. mess around with them, if its not it, ctrl z then on to the next one.

[bright sigil]

weird, my pawns dont push or get pushed

[mint sequoia]

Or by saying "push" are you implying there is an impulse applied, and don't simply stop

It's confusing phrasing

Do you want them to block each other's movement?

[lucid grove]

I'll probably rephrase it differently. Usually the characters just got stuck in each other. And now they're pushing each other into the air.

[mint sequoia]

So this is a 'yes'?

[lucid grove]

No

[kindred depot]

collision with the capsule

[mint sequoia]

They walk through each other?

[lucid grove]

Ha-ha, no 🙂 Hold on, gonna show you.

[mint sequoia]

Describe what you want to happen and what does happen

[lucid grove]

This probably better way to explain the problem

The little bug is character

[kindred depot]

If anyone does not know who @mint sequoia is, He is the owner of Move it locomotion! check him out! amazing quality made by this guy right here 🙂 https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/moveit-locomotion-system

[mint sequoia]

Can you open the little bug's blueprint and show me the components (this window here)

[lucid grove]

All components (without capsule) have no collision

[mint sequoia]

Select Capsule Component and show me these settings

[mint sequoia]

So both the big and little character have those same settings?

None of them have any meshes set to simulate physics?

And don't do anything like that in construction script or begin play?

The character mesh, in particular

Because to me it looks like the little character's mesh is simulating physics and responding to the bigger character stepping on it which is causing it to fly off

[lucid grove]

Nope, i double checked it

[mint sequoia]

So every single thing except the root capsule is set to "no collision" ?

And nothing simulates physics?

Including character capsule?

And if you change Pawn channel to anything other than Block then nothing happens?

[lucid grove]

Nothing simulates physics, but mesh have collision

Just disabled it for test purposes.

Same result

[mint sequoia]

And this?

If you do that there's no collision?

[lucid grove]

Nope, just set it to no collision. Same result - my characters push other pawns.

I must say that other characters also can push my character.

[mint sequoia]

Right, so your collision profiles are setup wrong

If you changed it to not block pawns and it's still interacting with pawns then there's your issue

It means something on the little character is still colliding with the other character

And it's affecting the capsule

Which means either collision between capsules is still occurring, physics collisions are occurring on mesh (which is applied to capsule), or you have some form of triggered behaviour that adds an impulse

[lucid grove]

I dont have anything related to impulse in terms of blueprints or something. So the capsule itself cant give those results? I need to dig in mesh direction right? This happens with almost all my pawns.

[mint sequoia]

Your capsule or mesh is providing the result you're seeing

For one thing, record that video again with capsule showing

[mint sequoia]

OK so your capsules are clearly blocking each other and then a couple of seconds in there's a push

So disable collision on pawn vs pawn via capsule and see if that push still occurs

[lucid grove]

Ok thats ultra weird, im going through pawn, but still somehow push him away

Even harder now. I think we in right direction!

[mint sequoia]

Now disable collision on mesh

Try again

[lucid grove]

No capsule collision

Without character collision im going through. No pushing.

[mint sequoia]

You have mesh collision disabled and now it doesn't push?

Or it stopped pushing when you disabled capsule collision?

[lucid grove]

Without capsule collision - i can go through other pawn, but still push him away each 2-5 seconds. Without mesh collision and capsule collision - like a ghost.

[mint sequoia]

OK so your mesh is resulting in collision that is then applied, which suggests your mesh either simulates physics or is having an impulse applied

And your capsule is moving with whatever is happening

Which means that CMC is updating it

Look at these settings

[mint sequoia]

Since it scales push force, it explains also why the smaller character flies away

Try to disable "Enable Physics Interaction"

Then re-enable mesh collision

See if the push still occurs

[lucid grove]

Done. Still there.

[mint sequoia]

Which character did you disable mesh collision for, both?

[lucid grove]

Only the player one

[mint sequoia]

OK, so the non-player's capsule is colliding with the player's mesh

And the player's mesh is pushing them back

[lucid grove]

Probably

Enemy Capsule have this settings

Mesh this

Player capsule this settings

[mint sequoia]

...Well there's the problem then?

[lucid grove]

Push push push push (like a song ha)

[mint sequoia]

It does just seem like not understanding UE4's collision system

You're letting a skeletal mesh collide with a character capsule, that's going to result in exactly what you're seeing

I did ask you that ages ago in the conversation

[lucid grove]

But at this point mesh doesnt have any collision at all

[mint sequoia]

But you just said disabling mesh collision fixes it

[lucid grove]

Hold on, i might be lost you in translation

So basically - i need to disable mesh collision (if im not gonna use something like ragdoll at runtime) and use just a capsule collision.

[mint sequoia]

A character will not react predictably when it's capsule is colliding with an animated mesh

[lucid grove]

Got it.

Thanks a lot, really appreciate it

[rapid sleet]

quick question how to make the ocean bigger

[sour tide]

Couldn't remember how to make a blueprint implement an interface the "normal" way. Just dragged the interface onto the blueprint in the asset browser. That worked.

Genius.png

[bleak zodiac]

what you mean? the size?

[sour tide]

Wait, did it work? I think I might have gotten confused with an inputaction with the same name.

[tough apex]

Greeting. Does anyone have issues with missing smoothing when importing a character or asset?

[rapid sleet]

welp my island is very big so becuz of that you can see past the ocean

[drowsy snow]

I don't think you can change the water size at this state of things with it.

[bright sigil]

yeah that happens some times, you can change the normal setting to generate them otherwise its an export problem from your 3d software

[drowsy snow]

Considering that it rely on Landmass, and things has to be very, very specific with Landmass at this point

[tough apex]

Hopefully its not what's affecting my bone retargetting. I'm using Daz 3d and the skeleton gets all triangular pointy...

[bright sigil]

no clue how daz does it, but when you export, if there are options, change them

[tough apex]

Gotcha and thanks for the aid

Tis be the torture XD

[bright sigil]

whoa that looks likes something else is wrong

[tough apex]

I changed everything to skeleton from animation in the tree and that happens ;u; Been stuck on this for months

[bright sigil]

it looks like more geometry got created

can you edit models in daz? i.e. model?

[tough apex]

The model looks fine in Daz and the Mesh in unreal looks as intended. My only issue is when I retarget for pose. I think whats wrong is the pose itself but I'm unsure how to fix it

[indigo cradle]

Quick question, does anyone know how to make velvet type material in Unreal Engine?

[bright sigil]

anisotropy

[indigo cradle]

Interesting! I will test it

[bright sigil]

gl it can be tricky

[tough apex]

Looks fine when I reset the pose...

[bright sigil]

😱 oh wait, yeah it does

its like certain vertices get moved for some reason

[tough apex]

I removed hair and clothes. It isn't the default model from Daz but if I cant use a costum one, kinda defeats the purpose of making my own

Still cant figure what it be

[sour tide]

Why doesn't my sphere trace hit the bush?

It doesn't have collision, does it need that?

[bright sigil]

if it doesn't have collision, maybe its the floor, try a print string

[sour tide]

I'm already printing what it's hitting, and it's only hitting Landscape

[stray ruin]

you gotta add collision to bush

[bright sigil]

then i think you're good

ohhhh you want to have the bush as part of it

[sour tide]

Yeah I actually want to interact with bush

[rapid sleet]

nvm i got it thx

[bright sigil]

then yeah... #ue4-general message

[sour tide]

Welp I just crashed UE4 for the first time

[plush yew]

guys can someone drop me "send to unreal" plugin for blender?! i did all the connect epic account to github stuff, doesn't seem to be working, spend half hour trying to download the damn thing.

[sour tide]

hooray now I can make my bushes change colour randomly

except it feels bad, so, maybe I should rethink how aiming is going to work for this

[plush yew]

why on earth would u want to do that?! 😄

[sour tide]

Pure practice

[plush yew]

i went into far cry trippy gardening type of scenario

[sour tide]

and stuff like "plants with randomised colours" might come up again later if this project idea pans out. I'm going to have to look into procedural generation stuff

One of the fundamental game mechanics would be "walking up to strange plants and harvesting them" and having your body block your vision of the thing that you're trying to grab feels bad

[mint sequoia]

First of many

[stray drift]

How long have you been using UE4? I crash UE 5 EA probably 5 times an hour or so, but it starts up practically instantly so whatever. Is this not an uncommon experience?!

[mint sequoia]

Something to look forward to when you start modding engine and doing stuff Epic doesn't expect most users to

(This is satire, I drew that in photoshop)

[wary wave]

(this is not satire)

[mint sequoia]

I never said it wasn't reasonably true 😛

[sour tide]

Oh, not long at all. A few weeks in real time without much actual work done in it? Mostly following along with tutorials so far

actually, I did it trying to adjust a collision hitbox through just trying things which was maybe the most ambitious and self-directed action I'd attempted so far

[stray drift]

I'm pretty sure I got regular crashes day 0 🐣🐣

[sour tide]

So like 95% of the things I'd done in it were Incredibly Safe Activities

[mint sequoia]

I started in 2014 and crashes were normal, nowadays if you're just doing expected newbie stuff you will probably not get any

UE4 had a hobby and that hobby was crashing

[sour tide]

it was just UE4, adding simple collision to objects, and trying to modify that

[stray drift]

I'm just setting up anim BPs, retargeting anims etc and it's crash city. Less bad than Unity though

[sour tide]

yeah, but it's UE5 though

[stray drift]

Shiny UI > being productive 🤙

At this point I'm going for a Christmas holiday soon, and the full release might come January to February so dropping to 4.26 then going back up sounds like too much work to be worth it

May be wrong. I often am.

[raven estuary]

I just saw the game "Unpacking" whats that are style called is it still called pixel art it doesnt really seem like it

[stray drift]

Whew this one is a bit close to home 😅

Looks like pixel art to me, but pretty high res.

[raven estuary]

Why close to home? Id love to do like a render of my room in that sort of style but would have no clue where to start time to deep dive haha

I dont think that came out right lol

[stray drift]

https://store-images.s-microsoft.com/image/apps.40545.13636460453065260.ecf51b77-0a2c-413e-97f7-3aacd9282ab3.96273792-b24e-4772-a604-41c2ada2281f

Zoom into this one lots of levels

[clever axle]

hey guys!
How can I apply damage to a destructible mesh that is not based on force/impact? I want the actor to only take damage from bullets, not from physics

[stray drift]

For a fun one, Mortal Shell, also a UE game, did an 'indie' rendering mode.

They basically rendered normally, downscaled it to like 1/4th res, and displayed that without any smoothing etc. I guess that would get you close?

[raven estuary]

Ill look into that

That might work so make it with all real things and just drop the res down

[stray drift]

Helps if the scene is clean and not too detailed, and the lighting is simple as well, like cel shading would work well.

Also note the projection is isometric to make the lines crisp

[raven estuary]

Yeah this may end up being like a blender render i do if i just want to make my room but would be interesting to try in both im sure sure how to do isometric views in unreal but im sure i can figure it out

[regal mulch]

Pretty sure either the Mesh Asset or the Component has a setting to allow damage from physics, which you can disable. And the Component itself has an ApplyDamage function or so.

[prime willow]

so i have a super serious question

quality of code

if my code or function works exactly as intended gameplay wise and function wise

should i bother reworking the code to make it optimal or use less nodes for the same effect etc etc

i cant seem to find any good resources or answers on if how many nodes used or the way you setup your code matters if the end result is still the same

@grim ore @drowsy snow @neon bough or anyone else knowledgeable about the matter, if you can chime in id sincerely appreciate it as im trying to make a game for production and little things like this still goes over my head and i wonder if its important to take this into account early rather than after the game is nearly done being prototyped etc etc 😦

[neon bough]

hard to give an generic answer

[prime willow]

thats my literal problem xD

i have noticed though

that people who are really really good at unreal engine code in ways i didnt even know you can do, ive seen their blueprint setup and its parcular and interesting how they rig each piece or setup into each other and how long and short their systems may be

but its almost always from someone who has done like 5 - 10 years of unreal :C

considering i want to sell my game for actual cash i have concerns if code quality might cause issues down the line that i cant even conceive due to my limited experience of 3+ years..

[neon bough]

the most important part is that you understand your code 😄

[stark stratus]

Hey all, question; my project wont open anymore it crashed, this is the log

how would i go about to fix this?

open a backupa dn where are those?

this is the crash log

[dusky inlet]

You should be more concerned with code maintainability than with premature optimization. You want to write code that doesn't give you extra work every week. In these cases its worth it to future proof your systems

[grand lava]

@prime willow if your code works you should leave it as is, for the moment. Otherwise you'll find yourself reworking the same code over and over again, which can turn into a real motivational and or time sink. Try to finish with what you have, and if you decide you need to expand your code then you will probably have to rework it in some way or another. Optimization happens usually way later into development.

[dusky inlet]

Debug symbols are a must, we can't see the actual call stack that is causing the crash. If I had to guess naively it's some weirdly corrupted asset, since it's the asset data gatherer thread that causes the crash

[stark stratus]

would it fix it to open a autosave?

and could i just open a autosave?

[plush yew]

if you try to build UE5 with 3 Computers 😄

[dusky inlet]

Possible but I wouldn't bet on it. You can just try it out. Regardless I'd install debug symbols so you get a better idea of what's breaking

[plush yew]

https://i.imgur.com/VxzirjG.png

[prime willow]

ok thank hyou guys

i appreciate your inputs

ill take all of this into consideration ❤️

im currently building the systems with manipulations in mind from other functionality so its good to know im on the right track

[glass minnow]

Hello people, I have a question/decision on my mind and couldn't figure it?
I was creating a dog-like creature, based on Pawn class, with collision(let's say capsule) and skeletal mesh init, but at this case, collision components gravity doesn't work, if I enable simulate physics, gravity works but turns the character like a bouncing ball.
But if I do the same based on Character class, this behaviour doesn't happen and gravity works(simulate physics off), and this is the behaviour I want to achieve.
Then I compared two identical assets, Pawn and Character one, everything is exactly same except Character Movement component. So, here is the question(s).

• Can CharacterMovementComponent affect gravity/physics?
• If I want a non-humanoid character, should I still go for "Character" or "Pawn" with extras(which I want to know what are these extras)
• If I don't want to character being possessed by controller, but AI, is Pawn or Character better way to go?

[drowsy snow]

Character Movement Components has it's own physics.

I personally go with Character (applies to my dragon enemies as well), and add another collision capsule for horizontal collisions

Pawn can be possessed with both player controller and AI controller, and Character class is inherited from Pawn class. In Unreal, controllers are not limited to just the players.

[glass minnow]

thanks, I didn't know character movement component has it's own physics and actually Pawn was making sense for many, until now .d

[honest vale]

yea the CMC is pretty... complex with how it moves 😄

[next tangle]

Is this the best way? i want to aim at the weapon i work with c++... the character itself has a camera and every weapon has a camera... is that how you do it?

[honest vale]

probably no, most games have an animation that raises the gun so that it's in front of the existing camera

[drowsy snow]

No, and yeah, you would have to make the weapon itself rise to ADS position. You may notice some games have slightly misaligned sights under ADS view.

[next tangle]

Also i must get the player character the camera

And the weapon must in he place

I can create a socket on the weapon model I think

And set the camera

[drowsy snow]

Just animate the weapon, unless it's for a weapon showroom thing

[plush yew]

u can even scale up the gun for more dynamic aiming, there's lots of tricks that go with weapon aiming, FOV change of camera etc. etc.

u can even have second gun that replaces the hip gun in a split sec and is meant only to shoot from aimed down position since accuracy of hip fire vs aimed down fire is different.

[drowsy snow]

Also for exclusively third person games, for zooming in sniper rifles and alike, you can have modified version of the weapon with just the weapon stock and the scope

[next tangle]

It’s hard to make aim?

What do I have to do. I have the gun that you can see up there. Now I would like to add aim. What is the best way... to give a socket to the weapon model for the camera?

[drowsy snow]

You want ADS in a playable FPS, right? Not a weapon showroom system?

Make animations for the hip aim state and ADS state. You can use animBP and its state machine to switch around the anim state

[next tangle]

I will create a normal view and a weapon aim

Fps right

I work with c++ that the thing

[drowsy snow]

AnimBP would be easier to do, but eh, you do you.

[next tangle]

Ok

I quest in c++ channel I think

[drowsy snow]

If you want it that way, and it works for you, then good for you.

Using anim BP and anim states would be way easier and can yield better result, but hey, what do I know about your project needs.

[next tangle]

But I can mix bp and cpp

Yes but I love coding

It’s a character thing or weapon?

Charakter I think

[drowsy snow]

I think I need to stress out that animation blueprint is different than your typical UObject affairs.

[opal cedar]

Hmmmm

Where did the grass block man go

[drowsy snow]

AnimBPs are more specific to skeletons and animations, and not exactly the same as any other UObject based BP

[opal cedar]

@drowsy snow Just a quick question, do you know how to use Quixel Bridge?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but I'm using the standalone app, not the UE5 integrated one

[opal cedar]

Ah yes, thats the one

Do you know what to do when you can export since you've changed the location of the application (Such as blender)

[plush yew]

Guys isn't this the naming convention for custom collisions when importing to UE?

[drowsy snow]

Eh, never had port errors before 🤔

[opal cedar]

Emmm ok then

Thanks

[slim zinc]

Hey guys

What's the most developed non-C++ scripting langage plugin for UE?

Preferrably with C-like syntax

[exotic thicket]

The one I've seen mentioned most is the C# thing... but tbh you'd be better off just learning C++

[slim zinc]

There is a ton of things wrong with C++, so I'd rather not

Ideally I'd like to somehow integrate Beef into UE, since it's a lot less pain

[wary wave]

UE's C++ layer is perfectly fine to work with

[exotic thicket]

You're not going to have a better experience with any of the other bindings

they all bind on top of the C++ functionality

[wary wave]

I do nearly all of my scripting in BP because of its very tight binding to native code and other systems

[prime willow]

So you know that thing oler games do where pressing and holding jump makes you go from barely off the ground to max jump hieght

and letting go early makes you barely hop upwards

[exotic thicket]

Tbh I have had like zero issues with C++ in UE so don't really know what the "ton of things wrong with it" are :D

[prime willow]

can you do that with character movement?

[exotic thicket]

and I'm not really a pro C++ guy either

[prime willow]

or is that a system you gotta build

[slim zinc]

Yeah, but Beef still feels much better than all this C++ jank

[exotic thicket]

What's wrong with it anyway? Just curious really

[slim zinc]

Can't tell with 100% certainty, so you can call me ignorant, but so far it seems to be an overall dirty language with shitty debugability

[drowsy snow]

Lua.

[slim zinc]

It's been developed for many many decades, and there's a lot of deprecated features buried underneath, as well as just bad design choices

[exotic thicket]

I dunno, it's as debuggable as anything I've used

[drowsy snow]

I think CMC has "stop jumping" function 🤔

[slim zinc]

How do you usually manage memory with C++?

[exotic thicket]

Both Rider and Visual Studio have a good debugger which gives you breakpoints, ability to view variables, etc.

[prime willow]

not the stop jump function

but moreso when pressing jump you dont reach max height instantly

[exotic thicket]

UE has automatic memory management for C++ so you don't need to worry about that so much

[prime willow]

but when holding it to max height

when pressing youll just lift up somewhat

im thinking maybe impulse jumping idk x-x

[drowsy snow]

If you know how to integrate it with C++ programs, then you have a chance to integrate it in Unreal.

[slim zinc]

Automatic memory management? Do you mean garbage collection or some other approach?

[drowsy snow]

Garbage collection.

[slim zinc]

Ew

[exotic thicket]

I don't know the specific methodology they use, probably reference counting

[slim zinc]

I'd rather delete everything myself, tbh

[drowsy snow]

It sounds disgusting, I know, "garbage"
Bleurghhh

[drowsy snow]

Rather make your own engine I say.

[slim zinc]

I did that already

[exotic thicket]

Why do you want to use something like Lua or C++ if you want to manually manage memory?

[slim zinc]

Although it's not a complete engine by any means

[drowsy snow]

I mean, heck, if you want absolute control, go to ye olde Assembly x86. Shit gets real with it, including memory management (at least in DOS)

[slim zinc]

That's an overkill

I just don't like GC, that's all

[prime willow]

no no

take it a step backwarda nd be a real a man

build your pc from metal scraps

and lithim pieces

[drowsy snow]

Punch cards, am I right

[slim zinc]

So far my experience with GC in C# - is that it's something, that you have to dance around, in order to maintain high performance of your application

[prime willow]

file the cords as well

make sure each wire is hand crafted for true control

on output and voltage

[modest trench]

UE4 gc is a lot faster than the competition afaik

[exotic thicket]

I think how it's managed in UE is a bit different from C# because it's still C++. Basically it just removes the need to manually new and delete variables

[prime willow]

gotta get it just right amiRite

[slim zinc]

You have to constantly avoid instantiating classes, and instead try to use structs wherever possible

And yet structs are less capable

[prime willow]

my real question is

can you make an array

have the array check for a variable

[drowsy snow]

Kinda hate programming purists ngl

[prime willow]

than choose a different set of arrays based on the varable found

[exotic thicket]

Either way, all the languages that would bind onto UE would incur the same "features" or "limitations" of UE's C++

So if you want to be closest to the metal so to speak, using C++ would be the way to go

[prime willow]

kind of like branch but for multiple varaible and than itll flowto whatever array as intended

_>

[modest trench]

I've wasted a lot of time obsessed with memory management tricks that don't matter

[prime willow]

the best i thought of

was sequence into branches with the variable on each branch

[modest trench]

It's interesting but I would have been better off just making art

[drowsy snow]

"Blueprints? You want me to connect nodes? Disgusting! I want to get raw, type it down to the metal, baby!"

[slim zinc]

In Beef manual memory management has a very concise syntax by the way. Not sure if you care. But you can define a field with it's own destructor just by declaring MyClass fieldA = new .() ~ delete _;

[prime willow]

than i need a node that connect the array to the branch

[slim zinc]

And then when your class is deleted, that field will be deleted as well

[prime willow]

nontheless that weird stuff i wanna figure out later

[exotic thicket]

@slim zinc never even heard of that language until you mentioned it :)

[modest trench]

Beef lang looked great

[slim zinc]

Yup, it's not very well known

And is not the best fit for everyone

[drowsy snow]

Beef language looks confusing.

[slim zinc]

But I absolutely and utterly adore it

[modest trench]

Hope it gets used for something (not being sarcastic)

[slim zinc]

It's kinda like C# gone right

[drowsy snow]

Probably as good as brainfuck, the best of the best esolang ever

[slim zinc]

lmfao

[modest trench]

Beef is not a meme thing

[exotic thicket]

tbh C# is C# gone right imo :P you can't really pack everything into a single language I think so it's quite good for what it tries to achieve

[drowsy snow]

For Each?

[slim zinc]

Well, I mean, it's "gone right" for me

Everything I hated about C# is fixed here

[exotic thicket]

heh

[slim zinc]

Including things I didn't think about

[modest trench]

That one code plugin might let you create beeflang hooks

[drowsy snow]

Can you mod games made with Beef?

No, any application

[prime willow]

we can ignore that for now thats stuff i neeed to do months later from now for each race/species you can play for

[slim zinc]

Um, Beef is a programming language. So of course you can?..

[exotic thicket]

I've used so many languages that I generally don't have very strong opinions of any particular ones lol

I just use whatever I feel like using or whatever does the job I want with the least amount of friction :P

[drowsy snow]

As in making code AFTER the app is compiled.

[modest trench]

I think he means runtime instruction adding

[slim zinc]

Hot reloading?

[exotic thicket]

They all tend to suck in some way or another lol

[drowsy snow]

You know Lua?

[slim zinc]

Loading DLLs at runtime?

[prime willow]

my question that i need to learn is how do i make jump get full jump height on holding the axis or button but tapping it only bumps you slightly up based on how long its held until max jump height is done

[slim zinc]

Lua is a scripting language

It's not compiled

[prime willow]

my movement system is practically done aside from bug fixing alli need to do is that particular part :C

[drowsy snow]

Exactly. If Beef is a compiled language, then I couldn't care more about it.

[prime willow]

currently jump just reaches max height no matter what :/

[slim zinc]

菊地真, You maybe meant "less"?

[prime willow]

huh

[drowsy snow]

Whatever, I don't give a shit, that's what I'm trying to say

[prime willow]

sorry i havent slept in 2 days ish

;-;

sorry

[slim zinc]

Congratulations

[drowsy snow]

I'm not adding another programming language just because of programming purist ego. Runtime code execution matters more, because BPs and C++ are compiled, and modding is the only reason I add third programming language.

[slim zinc]

I wasn't really trying to get you on my side, was I?

[prime willow]

well at least youre not as stupid as me

im trying to use only one type of code for gameplay :3

either C++ or BLueprints

[drowsy snow]

Hard to please programming purists

Anyway, jumping

[prime willow]

o.o

[stable path]

I present to you,
Cow
https://esolangs.org/wiki/COW

[slim zinc]

Why call me purist though

[slim zinc]

Fun fact, Beef IDE installer looks like a cow

So this thematically fits

[drowsy snow]

I don't think CMC had the functionality to stop jump, so I'm guessing you have to rewrite a bit of the jump functionality

[prime willow]

ah

so having jump go as high as you hold would need rewriting

[drowsy snow]

CMC's jump is more like adding impulse, happens instanteneously

[prime willow]

oh..

so id have to add a range based on how long its held

so tapping would be short jumps and holding would be longer full jumps

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, so adding upward velocity based on how long the jump button is being held

[prime willow]

yush :3

[slim zinc]

Usually in games jump force isn't instantaneously applied though

[prime willow]

o-o

i wanna do something like mario 64

or most platformers

[slim zinc]

It is applied while button is being held, but this force exponentially fades the longer you hold it

[drowsy snow]

You could prototype the system with simple while loop

[prime willow]

where its a slight jump or longer higher jump but quite a nudge based on hold input

hmm

[stray drift]

@slim zinc have you seen AngelScript? Hazelight use it :)

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow im too tired to think proper

[slim zinc]

I've only heard of it, I think

[prime willow]

ill poke you in pms about this when i wake from nap

but im going to see if i can set some stuff up for you before i nap since im finally almost done xD

[stray drift]

But also might as well just wait for Verse.

[slim zinc]

Looks interesting, I like it

Thanks

And have you seen Wren?

[drowsy snow]

Except CMC's jump is instant, more towards adding impulse

[drowsy snow]

Shame that AngelScript is compiled and Hazelight's implementation don't seem to have JIT compiler. I don't want to have modders required to have the editor.

At the same time I'm kinda confused with grand planning the Lua functionality

[stray drift]

I think modding is a niche requirement though. Depending on a random Swedish studio's support would be my primary concern :)

[drowsy snow]

I value modding more than programming language bias, being a modder myself.

[slim zinc]

Use Wren for modding

It's much better than Lua, imo

It's syntax does look weird at times

But you get used to it

[stray drift]

@slim zinc you're against one GC implementation, not the concept itself. Reference counting ones are performance friendly and save a lot of stupid work when programming. Languages like Go also have much fewer concerns with GC due to different implementations

[stray drift]

Not sure what bias you are referring to, considering I'm not even pointing to a preference?

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/confusedanime-gif-18857176

nope nope time for topic change guys

[drowsy snow]

How dare you

lol jk

[prime willow]

i have done the thing D:<

its too late to go back

[slim zinc]

Perhaps

But I still like being able to explicitly delete stuff

[drowsy snow]

Well, guess we can just have quality time on ourselves then.

[slim zinc]

(In Beef it's not bothersome at all)

[prime willow]

yuh until i knock out :3

[stray drift]

It's not usually "able". You either have to do it all the time and blow up RAM, or don't do it.

[slim zinc]

Yup I know

[drowsy snow]

If you knocked out, I shall give you the Phoenix Down

[prime willow]

im really proud of my movement system so far

blah i need to play xiv adsfgfh

[slim zinc]

But managing memory is easy

[prime willow]

ive barely leveld my sage

[drowsy snow]

Same, but I haven't finished the base campaign lol
What world are you at?

[prime willow]

crystal

[stray drift]

No offence mate it just seems like you're here to preach about Beef. I stay away from niche stuff as much as possible, minimise friction to development as much as possible.

[stray drift]

Nice programming language too TBH, but prefer Julia and Nim

[drowsy snow]

Noted, see ya there, when I reinstall FF14 :3

[prime willow]

i prefer whatever makes my game faster >:3

[slim zinc]

As long as we talk about memory management, I'll be bringing up Beef as example 😉

[prime willow]

take your time im barely on gaming anymore since game design..

[drowsy snow]

Same

[prime willow]

;O;

[stray drift]

Doing things the most straightforward way is it then. Programming languages might make your code 20-50% faster, good algorithms and logic will make it orders of magnitude faster.

[slim zinc]

But yeah, I guess for now I'll just dive into UE by enduring C++

[prime willow]

i hope so :3

[drowsy snow]

If you plan to have some time do let me know okay :3

[prime willow]

will definitely do ❤️

[stray drift]

This is relevant lol

[slim zinc]

True

Monopoly is scary

[stray drift]

What monopoly are you talking about?

[modest trench]

The real rough part about ue++ are the compile times

If a scripting lang comes out I don't care if the syntax is emoji based

These compiles are killin me

[stray drift]

Yeah Verse, which is used by Fortnite ATM.

[modest trench]

I hope we get it soon

[stray drift]

Fortnite started using it what, a year ago? Skookum is usable in 4.23 or something... 🤷

[drowsy snow]

Can't said better

[stray drift]

It's just horrible UX to have to restart the editor in between recompiles, especially header changes. Even Unity is better than that

[drowsy snow]

I swear my gripe with Unreal C++ is slow compile time

At least I'm not disgusted with BP so iterations can still be fast

[modest trench]

Live coding in ue5 can leave it open even with header changes

[stray drift]

C++ is for concrete implementations though, so I'd imagine a lot of time you would be converting over someone's sketchy BP implementation.

[stray drift]

I thought it lead to corruptions and instability?

[drowsy snow]

Unity C# is high level right?

[slim zinc]

Doesn't EU have debug builds, that are quick to compile?

Or something

[stray drift]

Hmm no, BP is still faster if you count that, and so was OG Skookum, and I'd imagine Verse in the future

[drowsy snow]

European Union might have one

[slim zinc]

lol

I don't even feel like fixing that typo

[drowsy snow]

Oh fuck, really?

[modest trench]

Yeahp

[drowsy snow]

Now the challenge is whether I can keep my words on staying in UE4

[modest trench]

It's still a full uht compile though so it doesn't feel much faster for me

[slim zinc]

How do BP nodes compare to, let's say, nodes in Blender?

Are they equally bothersome to use?

[stray drift]

Is the unit testing any better in 5?

[drowsy snow]

The last thing I want is some UE5 features hogging performance on lower end hardware

[slim zinc]

And also geometry

[drowsy snow]

I can drool over its animation feature

[stray drift]

It's similar UX I guess, but UE BP covers most scripting you could ever want.

[drowsy snow]

And metasound

OMG metasound

It's like my inner sound designer wet dream

[stray drift]

Sound scripting, AI scripting, material scripting, animation scripting....

[slim zinc]

Oh wow

[stray drift]

It feels pretty consistent still though, and some difference is expected when you're dealing with such disparate problem spaces.

[drowsy snow]

Don't get me started on anim BP

[stray drift]

Has anyone tried TDD for BP function libraries and the likes?

You need to drop a... test actor in? The fuck even

Not like strict TDD, but doing testing in conjunction with implementation

[modest trench]

They have test macro stuff setup for some plugins

[stray drift]

Most unit testing related stuff I found was in pipelines and merge checks and all, not really in Dev 🤔

[modest trench]

Do hard coded macro tests count as tdd?

[stray drift]

Nah I'm pretty loose with TDD, but intertwine the testing and implementation normally

Yeah and you end up with tests checking each function even exists, the shape or whatever of it...

So it's an integration of functional test. When/ how is it run?

[plush yew]

hi

u got 5yhalf ue4 expierience

and never ever did sound xD

i got the biggest audio pack from some resources 🙂

like i got everything even a chicken walk

what do i do ? what tutorial is the best ? and shal i make wind and forest stuff or what shall i do ?

dont wanna learn it the wrong way

ooww haha

if its not permitted i prefer this channel haha

you as a guy needs to do stuff

thats all

you got quests like kill that fox! hes killing my chickens ! reward you get a golden egg xD

something like that

[drowsy snow]

Notification sounds?

[plush yew]

that i need to learn to

wait i shopw

[drowsy snow]

I mean, your question sounds lot like a general sound design question, not something specific

[drowsy snow]

Hard to pinpoint what issue you're facing with it

[plush yew]

the question:

why cant i hear all the sounds ? 😄

are they glitching on eachother ?

this are the settings

[drowsy snow]

Are your WAV files in 16-bit?

[drowsy snow]

It has to be in 16-bit, otherwise it won't work

[plush yew]

this one

[drowsy snow]

I mean, the source files

[plush yew]

it works but not all the time even when its the same file

[drowsy snow]

I know that WAVs from several audio packs tend to have the highest quality possible, including using higher bits

Some sound packs that I use are in 24-bits, so I had to manually tweak them in Audacity

[plush yew]

sounds kinda painfull xD

got a wife who is talking 24/7 xD

dont know im up to the task haha xD

if*

[drowsy snow]

Guess I had the upper ground for being single :P

[plush yew]

hahaha 😄

[drowsy snow]

Another way to reassure myself being single isn't that bad.

[plush yew]

haha still something i got a hot choco with cream and a kiss , just like momy made it 😆 😋

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/millhouse-jugando-forever-alone-lonely-the-simpsons-gif-9323497

[smoky timber]

Heyy there peeps! Anyone have a little free time for an Unreal blueprint consultation? Got some issue that I can't get wrap my head around

[cinder knot]

Question: how do you make ground fogs?

i wanted my scene to have ground fogs and have no idea how to make em

[smoky timber]

Tweak the Exponential Height Fog settings is one way. If you want a more realistic fog, then go with particles and volumetric fog although it's more performance heavy

[cinder knot]

no i mean i want to add those smoke like kind of fogs

[smoky timber]

then definitely particles

[cinder knot]

i didnt add volumetric fog but i wanted those kinds too

do i like just need cloud textures or something?

[drowsy snow]

Particles, and you can use Exponential Height Fog to get the base volumetric dog

[cinder knot]

i did

[cinder knot]

does it? i tried using noise textures, it sucked

[smoky timber]

This is from my game and they're particles if you're referring to this one

[cinder knot]

oh yeah these ones

what kind of textures do you use?

so i can try to make my own

is it like clouds or what?

[smoky timber]

this is the material

[cinder knot]

whats the white texture?

[smoky timber]

ah it shows it wrong here

that white texture is this one that controls the alpha

[cinder knot]

ah alright

thanks

[smoky timber]

No problem!

p.s. I'll post my issue here in case someone knows

I have this AI I did and I want it to go and investigate when a physics object causes a sound. Here's my AI code for that. I added report noise to the physics object blueprint. But when I'm debugging, I found out it only moves to the cast and doesn't continue further. Any ideas?

[grim ore]

debug? print out the actor (the cast is failing, so what actual actor is there) or breakpoint on the cast to node and see what the pins are coming in from the perception updated event

[clever axle]

I tried the ApplyDamage node but it doesn't seem to do anything.
It's odd. Even when I disable physics, as soon as the actor comes into contact with a physics actor, it automatically enables physics

[cedar wave]

I feel like there is, and I have used it before, but is there a command to see what object is taking up the draw calls? Like, it explicitly says the BP's name? I have looked at SceneRender and RHI. Neither specifically pointed out the BP.

[clever axle]

Guys I have a problem with a destructible mesh. I have SimulatePhysics disabled on it but as soon as the actor comes in contact with a physics enabled actor, it automatically enables SimulatePhysics by itself

I don't want this actor to be destroyable by ricocheting other actors, only by my gun

This is all so odd. It seems impossible to have a destructible mesh that's only destroyable by gun

[fathom bone]

Hey.. can someone help me , please?
I finished my game and I wanted to try it on my phone. In package i selected full rebuild and then made the install APK. Nothing works. I mean on PC now i have a lot of bugs. They were working perfectly before and on phone those bugs are working ,but there are still some other bugs. I don't know how to fix this

[grim ore]

you identify the bugs and fix them, this is software dev 001

[plush yew]

questiom:

my player keeps spawning at no player start

like 1 houre walking from spawnppoint

make it 30

xD

min

[grim ore]

do you have a player start? if so do you have a default pawn in your game mode and is it the pawn you want? if so do you have any pawns already in the world set to auto possess?

[plush yew]

oh no xD

i saved and the problem came

[mossy kernel]

anyone know why my metahuman looks like a ghost?

[plush yew]

made a deer to go in my level at high speed without uising my slower characters, thats why i think

[plush yew]

i think i know the problem thanks matthew

my inventory system handels everything

😄 thats why

[cedar wave]

Your inventory system handles the spawning of your character?

[charred stirrup]

Hello. How i can avoid this type of error?

[drowsy snow]

TIL building Unreal C++ stuff from command line is way faster than building it through VS/Rider
It's like astonishingly way faster

[grim ore]

@charred stirrupif there is a collision issue that will show up, so move it away from colliding objects/being inside objects

[charred stirrup]

Yes, thank you.

there is bad collision on the floor

[drowsy snow]

Lmao I just discovered it, noticed that build times somehow getting way slower than usual through VS

No, even in 8 GB of RAM I discovered it's not the bottleneck

I'm still using HDD so there's most of the bottleneck, but made worse with VS keep doing Intellisense (or whatever it is) in BG, and I didn't exclude Unreal folders from Windows Defender prior to this

[sharp crest]

someone is trying to play my game and when he launches it gives him a blackscreen and then closes, so he is not able to launch/play the game, anyone has any ideas?
the log doesn't show any error....

this is the last thing the log shows

[2021.12.16-16.35.13:683][ 0]LogRHI: Display: Opened pipeline cache after state change and enqueued 0 of 0 tasks for precompile.
[2021.12.16-16.35.13:683][ 0]LogRHI: Display: Failed to open default shader pipeline cache for SpaceVoxel using shader platform 0.
[2021.12.16-16.35.13:683][ 0]LogInit: Using OS detected language (pt-BR).
[2021.12.16-16.35.13:683][ 0]LogInit: Using OS detected locale (pt-BR).
[2021.12.16-16.35.13:683][ 0]LogTextLocalizationManager: No localization for 'pt-BR' exists, so 'en' will be used for the language.
[2021.12.16-16.35.13:683][ 0]LogTextLocalizationManager: No localization for 'pt-BR' exists, so 'en' will be used for the locale.
[2021.12.16-16.35.13:686][ 0]LogTextLocalizationManager: Compacting localization data took 0.85ms

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, Windows Defender (under Antimalware Service Executable) stalls the read process of files to scan it. It works for most general use case, but hampers with dev process

[solar jay]

quick question, does the performance matter if you are only making the scene for a video and not a game, because my scene is running at 20 fps

[sharp crest]

if u want more than 20fps in ur video then yes it matters

unless it's gonna work with the cinematic system I think those can record at any fps

maybe

not sure

[solar jay]

its for cinematic yes. so it doesnt matter what the fps is

[grim ore]

yep windows defender blows when compiling, its really rude

[sharp crest]

I haven't tried but I think I heard it's a thing. try google I guess see if u can do it.

[drowsy snow]

The renderer will run at fixed framerate when you render it through Sequence Exporter or Movie Render Queue

[solar jay]

i see

thank you

[drowsy snow]

Although at a consequence that audio export won't work, though this shouldn't matter as most machinima makers do the audio in separate realtime recording or doing it in post

[grim ore]

yeah if you watch task manager you can see windows defender scan service causing HDD issues when compiling. its super annoying

[kindred depot]

easy gun recoil in 3.2.1.

[solar jay]

if you were to get plants from the megascan, are they already animated ?

[zealous magnet]

How would you go for sound effects in a game? E.g. every lever makes a sound when interacting with it, would you have a audio component in every instance of the BP_Lever which plays that back, or have some sort of subsystem which loads the sound files once and then use PlaySoundEffectAtLocation to play it?

[zinc cedar]

hello is someone knowing wich type of texture that is ?

[kindred depot]

yupp pretty much the jist of it. On interaction, play sound 2d or sound at location

[drowsy snow]

Seems like channel packed texture. Looking at individual colour channels might give you better idea on what it is

[stray drift]

These are some wacky looking textures lol, what is it, a spaceship with a face? Casper the Friendly Ghost?

[tough apex]

Ya'll wanna see something cursed?

[stray drift]

I have a feeling I'm seeing it anyway

[tough apex]

Possibly but if you say no, I'll look the other way

[stray drift]

Nah surprise me mate

[solar jay]

is that a human face pano ?

[tough apex]

;u; Don't know how to fix it

[stray drift]

Maybe, I just split this image

[stray drift]

It does look like a face though yeah, maybe something like Roughness + AO + Spec?

[stray drift]

Nuke your project if the alternative is looking at that. Typophobia hazard

[tough apex]

I have to stare at it if I wanna find a fix...that thing of nightmares

[stray drift]

All the mesh faces look inside out, or something of that sort. Idk I'm not a 3D expert

Or sucked into a black hole, pick one

[quartz mural]

hey ! i was wondering if someone had experience with spawning meshes from an array on a spline?

[tough apex]

Looks more like the base mesh is standing still while the anim stretshes it out trying to make the animation happen

Its a lot worse when you hit play

[bright sigil]

turn off ferrofluid 😜

[tough apex]

How so?

[bright sigil]

its a joke, sorry

[tough apex]

Oh, I saw the light then back to the infinite holes on this mesh

[tough apex]

Thats basically what it looks like from the back when she runs

Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeetcj

[bright sigil]

yeah, i remember from last night (or 12ish hours ago) i never use daz though, but skinning seems like the main culprit

did you try moving joints around when it looked "good"?

[stray drift]

https://c.tenor.com/gYb2hI6t9dIAAAAM/fo-sho-snoop-dogg.gif

[tough apex]

I did not. I just went straight to switching the bones to skeleton. Pelvis on Animation scaling and Gen 8fem to animation. Oh and spine to animation. Both are in humanoid pose. When I get to retarget window, it won't let me modify pose to get it as close as posible which I'm guessing is where the issue lies

[torn blade]

is there a way to batch download a quixel collection? I'm tired of hitting download on 100+ assets

[bright sigil]

i just mean to select a bone and rotate it when it "looks good" to see its status before the retarget

[bright sigil]

how else will they track you?

[torn blade]

what

I'm trying to download all of these but I'm tired of pressing the little download option in the top right of each asset and was wondering if I could just batch download them

[proud hedge]

I want to use for each camera shot a different exponentialheightfog in the sequencer. How can I trigger visibility in the timeline for each heightfog?

[kindred depot]

look in marketplace the full set is in there but it is like 8 gigs

[grim ore]

@proud hedgethe height fog has a height fog component that you can turn the visibility on and off

[torn blade]

thanks

[kindred depot]

So i rewrote my bullet physics stuff it all works, but now the bullet is not getting the correct location and rotation of the socket used on the skeletal mesh.

What am I doing wrong with this?

[proud hedge]

you mean this?

I can not keyframe it

[bright sigil]

how about fog density?

[grim ore]

you add the exponential fog actor, then you add the exponential fog component, then you keyframe the hidden in game property

[bright sigil]

is it incorrect for both select vector results?

[proud hedge]

I have now keyframed the fogdensity when a new camera shot begins 😄

[bright sigil]

sooo..... good?

[grim ore]

but yeah the density works as well

[kindred depot]

Yes! i thought this was the proper way of doing this.

[bright sigil]

so its either 1500 units from location or at the socket location in world space based on some bool?

[kindred depot]

1500 units from the barrel i wanted it to start at that location , but as soon as the trigger is down the bullets are spawning facing the wrong direction and rotation.

[proud hedge]

when I keyframe visbility nothing happens lol
https://gyazo.com/8a557bf08182e667e09c7dc90b4be68f

[kindred depot]

Oh yeah ill just look at the FP templete.

lol

[proud hedge]

but at least density is working 🙂 ty!

[kindred depot]

i was never getting the rotation of the camera actor.

only the gun actor

[grim ore]

@proud hedgeyeah since its hidden in game it doesnt affect the preview, it would show up when playing. density might be smarter

[idle dragon]

I'm trying to override a C++ function of a component, but I want to do it inside the BP that holds the component. Is there a way to do this?
Appreciate any answers

[solar jay]

Im using ue5 and I am trying to animate the foliage but when I enabelgrasswind nothing happens, does anyone know how to fix it ?

[kindred depot]

SHE WORKS!!!

Got to love UE for example projects 😄

[bright sigil]

oh right, your doing fps

[kindred depot]

10 hours to write a stupid code for this, at least its working now 🙂 Im so excited.

[bright sigil]

you mean 10 hours of learning

[kindred depot]

I recompiled a plugin from ue 4.24 to 5 and it was a pain in the butt trying to understand C++

[bright sigil]

ah yes, i recall the waves of this turmoil rippled through many channels

[kindred depot]

https://tenor.com/view/kirito-sword-art-online-cover-eyes-anime-gif-17106396

[dusty river]

Hello I am new to the community. Most of my knowledge revolves around blender, but I am recently starting to make a come back into unreal after taking significant time away from my learning I was doing in order to make my own assets and such. I have a question about importing a character from blender to unreal and was wondering if there was anybody here who might be willing to try their hand at helping me solve a problem that has been causing me a headache for far longer than I would like?

is my outcome, and I wish I could tell you what the issue was exactly as I didnt write it down, but its something to the effect to the bone hierarchy is off and its and keeps wanting to regenerate a skeleton but always runs into errors, but ill try that

[kindred depot]

I can already tell this is either a skeleton issue, or blended weight issue.

https://blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro

only solution for everything.

[plush yew]

who did know this ? 😮

for all the devs good or bad, this is a screenshot you wanna see

i want to apologise for the 3 screenshots, i just want everyone to know this 🙂

[violet goblet]

was wondering about "directional light", why is the shadow so pixelated?
For "look dev" reasons i put my character (currently static mesh, because not rigged)
i know that for static meshes to improve the shadows via "lightmap resolution"
BUT "lightmap resolution" does not have effects on movable/skeletal meshes

is that correct?

[zinc cedar]

?

[sturdy trench]

Can 4.26 version of Unreal open 4.27 project?

.uassets seems to be missing in the editor

[kindred depot]

no

you can not down grade.

[violet goblet]

what the h. was that ^^

just a few seconds ago i got a random message from someone that i "won" ETH...
-.-

[sterile barn]

Anyone know of a way to make a CollisionBox affect navigation? Am I just missing it and it's super easy?

or the best way to temporarily block off navigation from a spot?

[grim ore]

there are nav modifiers that you would use for that, but unless you have your navigation mesh dynamic they wont update at runtime

[sterile barn]

Maybe setting it to block instead of overlap

it's dynamic

[grim ore]

then you can use a navigation modifier to block something

[sterile barn]

yeah nav modifier is what I'm looking for, haven't needed them before, TY!

[grim ore]

usually collision itself would as well if its on a blocking channel (like a mesh)

[pure void]

Im following a tutorial, and when they save a map they get 2 files, one with the map and the other one called built.data but I am not getting the built data saved just the map, is this normal?

[grim ore]

its normal

built data is not needed if you dont need it, if you did nothing that needed it then it wont make it

so navigation, building lighting, etc.

[pure void]

cheers

[sterile barn]

@grim ore EQS wasn't doing pathfinding checks, whoops!

[viral veldt]

Is there an easy way to export asset thumbnail to png or jpg?

[plush yew]

Is there a way to also import textures with the FBX? I am exporting a big model with many textures from Blender and I don't want to import them one by one. I am trying with embedding mode at export, still textures don't get imported in UE4. They are in .png format.

[grim ore]

no, you do not get to import the textures with fbx models

you might get what you want out of a proper datasmith setup but no normal FBX import is the mesh(es)/animations only

[plush yew]

Then why there is an option to tick called "Import textures" at the import settings?

[grim ore]

its also not textures that are part of the fbx, but aside it, and it has to be followed a certain way, and it only seems to work with certain DCC programs, and only some materials and nodes are supported, and...

so not embedded, might not work out of the box with blender, has to be certain material nodes only, has to be side by side with the fbx in the folder and named correctly, and UE will guess at the way the material should be hooked up

alternately you use plugins that help with this process, or datasmith which is designed for something like this (but might not work for what you want)

[plush yew]

That's very sad

in unity you can iirc

[drowsy snow]

Unity's material isn't that rich out of the box either

[plush yew]

I mean I would just need diffuse and that's all, why would that be so complicated to import automatically... nvm thanks

[drowsy snow]

Blame FBX for that

[grim ore]

its complicated because adobe

[drowsy snow]

To my knowledge, Unreal can search for relevant texture in vicinity that used by the FBX, but not something built into the file format.

[plush yew]

Speaking about that I keep questioning why fbx has become the "go to" for animated models... meh

[grim ore]

because adobe

its why gltf is trying to become the new replacement

[drowsy snow]

Wait, why Adobe got involved?

[grim ore]

fbx is adobe

[drowsy snow]

Isn't it Autodesk?

[grim ore]

wait, autodesk

[plush yew]

I have used gltf2 for a C++ project of mine. Really good format.

[grim ore]

sorry, same problem different company lol

both are a pain lol

I just assume adobe owns all the DCC stuff anyways now

[plush yew]

What about .dae?

Is that open?

[grim ore]

gltf is probably your best bet but honestly you just have to work around whatever softwares pipeline your using and for complicated stuff Datasmith is what UE uses

otherwise, its just grunt work

[plush yew]

oh it's from Collada just like .gltf

[grim ore]

i mean at the worst it cant be too many textures, and if it is... do you need that many unique textures?

[drowsy snow]

Never used .dae format before
Looks like gltf's sibling

[pseudo hawk]

quick question: Can UE run Windows 10 32-bit now?

[drowsy snow]

Also there is Blender plugin to export Datasmith

[plush yew]

The DAE format is based on the COLLADA (COLLAborative Design Activity) XML schema, which is now owned and developed by Autodesk.

kekw

[drowsy snow]

Editor is exclusively 64-bit
4.27 no longer support Windows 32-bit for packaged games

[pseudo hawk]

What about filmmaking, is that 64-bit too?

[drowsy snow]

Editor is exclusively 64-bit

Besides, pretty much anyone uses 64-bit Windows nowadays, including my mom's computer.

[pseudo hawk]

ok, upgrading then

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, do yourself a favour and install the 64-bit version. I think Windows licence is compatible for both bits.
Most CPUs nowadays are capable of x86-64

[grim ore]

they dont call out 64bit on the min spec on the specs page, are we sure it needs it? if so they need to update it (runtime for 32bit for sure was/is being removed)

[drowsy snow]

Well, I don't think UE4Editor.exe is also in Engine\Binaries\Win32

[grim ore]

well the build targets are all for x64 so that makes sense

just... curious

and not disagreeing, they call out 64bit on recommended just not min requirement so its odd

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, I guess they assume everyone going to use game engine always to have 64-bit OS

Yeah

Unity used to have 32-bit editor, I think, and that was a long time ago

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPYTaCcCNU&ab_channel=Markom3D

hmm but for this guy it works

he got his textures imported from fbx

I am trying the same way and nothing

[drowsy snow]

FWIW at this point you've been storing the textures in the same directory as the FBX, import them manually, and adjust the materials in Unreal accordingly.

[grim ore]

best part of going through the release notes is the use of 64bit an 64-bit is not consistent. also... old release notes are super nostalgic

[plush yew]

what is FWIW?

abbreviation. for what it's worth.

aight

I am not storing the textures in the same directory

maybe that is the issue

but I assumed embed will solve that

[grim ore]

embed will not

[rugged harbor]

Acronym: For What Its Worth

[grim ore]

it doesnt import the embeded textures it doesnt care about them

https://epicgames.github.io/BlenderTools/ might be something to consider at some point

[plush yew]

aight then I will just manually import them

[plush yew]

will note that thanks

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, it's just not worth poking for the automatic texture import to do some magick

Always has been
It's common for Google to mix results up

[plush yew]

can I use physics asset capsules to detect overlaps while not simulating physics?

[dusky inlet]

Hey guys
just a token of appreciation as I'm slightly drunk from the epic christmas party of my team watching our senior guy break his fake phonograph on zoom
I started out as a random guy learning from the community and now I'm working on improving life for Niagara users
Cheers and happy holidays ❤️

[fierce tulip]

hugs @dusky inlet

[weary basalt]

Merry Xmas to the Epic Team from the community 🙂 🎄

[pure void]

Happy holidays!

[thorn topaz]

Anyone use any Game Analytics that they would recommend?

[devout whale]

I've got a game idea but I'm not sure how to explain it and if it's even possible. However simply I want the player to be able to go to past and present. Or any way.

So if the player is standing on a bridge in the past, once they press or so the action the world changes and everything is in the future for example. And the bridge is destroyed.

So my question is that is it possible to have a system where you can activate an action and make the whole world change? Something like 2 worlds overlapping eachother and you can choose which to look at.

Thanks for reading it this far and please @ me if you reply. I'm inactive sometimes.

[thick herald]

Is it possible? Yes, absolutely. How simple to implement? No idea.

[stray drift]

Sounds like Gardens Between.

Also sounds like a lot of work

[fierce tulip]

@devout whale its def possible, but its def a lot of work with a lot of planning ahead of even beginning to implement it, and loads of trial and error.

[drowsy snow]

Also you'd need a lot of graphical wizardries to pull off convincing effect 🤭

Especially if the camera is a free rotating third person camera

[devout whale]

Yes thank you everyone, I was just wondering because it sounded like a cool idea to try one day 😀

Definitely will be hard thays for sure 😩

[drowsy snow]

Unity's Heretic short film did it when the MC pulled the coin

[kindred depot]

I actaully seen this on reddit

[drowsy snow]

I still have no idea how they do that

[brazen coyote]

hey does anybody know why my quixel says its in offline mode when i am clearly connected to the internet

i am perfectly online and cant seem to figure this out LOL

its in ue5

[fierce tulip]

servers are being bombarded with dl's due to all the epic free stuff prolly.

else, no clue

[brazen coyote]

hmmmm

so there is no work around i jyst have to wait to use the in engine thing?

ae*