ue4-general

[unique kraken]

https://gyazo.com/80884fcfbb4515ff691d2704b9cf6b78

i kinda get there, though im moving sides not corners

[coarse wind]

it seems that your internet connection is not great, or somehow in the Epic launcher it's just very slow. have you tried restating your computer?

[idle mantle]

a friend told me that c++ in UE was not programming but rather scripting

in unity c# is programming, is that true?

because UE force him to work in certain ways, (he don't code like he want like in Unity he is more free, less contraints)

(im not a programmer)

[drowsy snow]

If he wants lower level, you should suggest him work with Assembly

[idle mantle]

ahaha ok don't joke too much I believed you im not a programmer lol

[plain anvil]

i did restart my computer, but this works for me idk y. At first, i thought maybe it happend because of slow internet connection, it's raining here. Then i remember a trick that i've tried in the past, it's similar problem, i try downloading using wifi teathering from my phone, then after 100mb downloaded, i switch over to wifi router, it's downloading now

[drowsy snow]

If you want to bypass the launcher, you can build from source code, cloned from GitHub, but depending on your CPU and disk drive I/O speed, it can take from few dozen minutes up to a day. And just the source build alone can take up to 150 GB (which is expected for big software source build - Android source build reportedly go up to 100 GB)

[idle mantle]

my friend told me that but not with blueprint but coding

[drowsy snow]

And I know some purists are allergic to visual scripting languages, because it's more of cable management than typing constantly

[idle mantle]

it's more difficult to read your code after a while maybe, more spagettis

[drowsy snow]

UE5's still uses C++11/14 right?

And UE4's still sticking with 14?

no big deal, just a bit curious about it

[toxic hound]

hi, pls i'm a bit confused with UE4, can you pls give me a push

?

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/landscape-essential-concepts

[toxic hound]

I have a custom landscape which imported and wanted to use

[rough siren]

Guys please help!!
Is something wrong with the charecter mesh?
It works fine with normal aninations, but with physics enabled!!!

[timber trellis]

has anyone tried a UE5 game/demo on GTX1650 here?

Fortnite on UE5 reportedly runs well

but how will other UE5 games fare?

digression: will NIS ever come to optimus devices (laptop)

[timber trellis]

runs how well? as in "doesn't crash" or "60fps"?

I saw the valley of ancients demo (on youtube, someone else's benchmark) and that ran horrible

what does lumen do

ok like that

can you turn off lumen

on any scene

I mean a compiled scene

oh i'm a consumer

oh

[next tangle]

gives here german developers? 🙂

[rose tiger]

does someone know where to find some physics assets for motorcycle and car?

[proven lake]

Guys can anyone please tell mw how can I create a header file in unreal

[next tangle]

Höh

File

And create

[lofty parrot]

Has someone idea, why when i import the models into hammuer like in this vid in 5:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfcbBReyHQ&t=755s always crashes ? any ideas ? where i should delete this files because ive imported it some times so my memory is acctually dead (ive imported it to my d drive i saw that my c drive has less memory . Please help !

[kindred depot]

hammuer is not a supported plugin by the marketplace. You are migrating assets from one game engine to another which is illegal if used in a redistributed game. We can not help you with this plugin in this discord sorry bud 🙂

[lime sail]

Guys I have the opportunity to buy an RTX 3080 ti or a 3090 video card, I would like to know what you advise me and which one to go for. I have seen comparisons of the two and the 3080 ti, it is very on par with the 3090, the only difference I see is the 24Gb of the 3090. Which one do you recommend buying?

[kindred depot]

If it is a 16 gig 3080 buy it.

if its the 8 - 12 gig, then its not worth it compared to the 3090.. The 3090 is literally doubling your vram making game dev an easy workflow (depending on your cpu as well)

[lime sail]

I was thinking of a 12gb 3080 ti, but if a 24gb 3090 is better I'll go for that one. I just want to buy something that works for me for Unreal Engine 4 focused on Architecture. And do not spend money unnecessarily.

[distant siren]

I have done all the block volumes on the island, the only problem when I drive my vehicle the vehicle is damaged because it collides with it .. solution?

[kindred depot]

If you are going to be using a LOT of high quality textures 4k, 8k, 16k 3090 would be recommended.

[kindred depot]

You wont find this any where. Either use free animations or paid.

[whole turtle]

hey everyone! Are there any sort of known issues/incompatibilities between the Landmass and Layers system for Landscapes with the LOD Distribution settings? I'm resampling my terrain to higher resolution and then applying stronger LOD settings but the terrain freaks out, the areas closer to the camera simply shoot to the 'sky' in height and severely glitching out. any suggestions on what could be the issue?

[drowsy snow]

No, you're not going to be a pro ||with just one tutorial||

Deal with it.

Doesn't even matter.

Ssshh...

One tutorial ALONE isn't going to cut it.

Still one tutorial.

I don't care if you disagree. Those 50 eps is still part of one tutorial.

I'm not mean, just saying the truth with the learning process.

[drowsy snow]

At current state, Landmass seem to hate every other world building feature.

[drowsy snow]

Make an exception with the blocking volume with collision channels.

[kindred depot]

I watched one tutorial 40 times over xD

[distant siren]

and with that exception, will I then have the vehicle that ends up in the water?

[latent sonnet]

I’ve been working on this rail grinding system from a bunch of stuff I found online. It works but it could be better, does anyone have any suggestions? https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1YplujlfiM5JXD2_TwHa4q4ecjsqFYeTZ?usp=sharing

[kindred depot]

It would help if debug was off

lol

[latent sonnet]

How would that change anything?

[drowsy snow]

At least with the custom collision channels, you can have it ignore damage event for that one channel used by the invisible walls.

[kindred depot]

We cant see a thing in the video. Except the debug circle..

[bold gulch]

Anyone got any clue why bridge isnt updating???

[latent sonnet]

Sorry I’ll try to re-record it a bit later. But do you have any suggestions on what I can improve?

[drowsy snow]

I have no clue why it's called "Early Access" and not stable, proper 5.0.0. Who knows.

[bold gulch]

Idk..

im getting really pissed

i just wnana work on my scene

[kindred depot]

I just made the switch from 4 months of dev on EA to 5.0.

[bold gulch]

😔

I wanna add megascans now

[drowsy snow]

It's not like Quixel Bridge is integrated into UE5 anyway.

Or is it?

[bold gulch]

it is

😭

[drowsy snow]

And there's your path to Megascans.

[bold gulch]

doesnt work

it takes me to megascans

which requires a plugin update

which doesnt work

[drowsy snow]

Might as well ask it in #ue5-general

[bold gulch]

true eyah

[drowsy snow]

Other channels outside UE5 Early Access category are still pretty much using UE4 in mind

[kindred depot]

dont update.. its simple.

[grave pollen]

u can literally use megascans with either ue4 or ue5 right now

nanite is ue5 only ofcourse

[lucid jetty]

Greetings ya all.

My project got no problem working with some gamepads

but people stating playstation ones are etc not working

How do you guys take care of "not all gamepads are working" issue in general?

Thanks in advance!

[whole turtle]

I'm not sure that's a problem you can solve with the engine/game...that's a deal taht has to do with the drivers and the OS, if I'm not wrong

I think on windows only a couple specific brands work properly, unless the user uses some sort of emulator

[lucid jetty]

I see...

Gotcha. ^-^

It's just that I am making a fighting game and people got.. TONS of gamepad types xD

I slightly felt down when someone said "his controller is not responding".

while another is "its all well"

and then someone said his controller only working when another one is not plıugged in

I am like

"oh dear"

[whole turtle]

yeah, it's a mess honestly, but I'd fault it on the deals between apple/microsoft and certain interface accessories manufactures

[lucid jetty]

yup

I also checked RawInput Plugin and its a mess..

[kindred depot]

this is why they introduced enhanced input in 4.27 - 5.0

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Input/EnhancedInput/#:~:text= The Enhanced Input system has four main,from the user's devices. An Input... More

[whole turtle]

it's dumb that these types of things aren't just open standards that are done to work as plug&play regardless, this day and age...

ohh I wasn't aware of that! Epic to the resque again heh? xD

[lucid jetty]

O_O !

[kindred depot]

You can do a LOT with this.

but be warned, lots of crashing as well.

[whole turtle]

yeah, I bet this is another tool to be 'released' with ue5? or at least some sort of more stable version

[kindred depot]

yupp

I use it for my controls

never checked 😄

awsome! give it a go then!

[whole turtle]

daamn UE5's release will be an atomic bomb within the computer graphis realm, and it's not just the core project, it's all the extra amazing quality of life tools they've been working on to be coupled with that release

yeah, but I'm referring to a more stable thing

not weird, they've said that since ue4.26 the focus is ue5, with some cross-updates for testing etc

[kindred depot]

if ANYONE HERE is trying to introduce enhanced input into you game PLEASE look at Windwalker echo and see how it is used before you try it out. The blueprint is in here, working.

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/windwalker-echo-01

[whole turtle]

at some point there were more of those tools avilable in 4.26 or 4.27 than in ue5, I think they've just used those last 2versions to test things out in the wild before ue5

oh nice!

[lucid jetty]

I appreciate the information. I am just curious how this input system recognizes a value from "any gamepad connected".

Raw input does it (in a really bad and non consistent way) but I wonder how this new one do it 🤔

[kindred depot]

You set the values yourself for what it is right inside the input. Deadzones... etc.

[ruby quarry]

Is there any way to set things so that when I'm moving around in the viewport editing things, holding shift makes my camera move faster rather than stop dead?

[whole turtle]

Shift is for precise movement

you can control speed on the top right of the viewport, as well as a multiplyer with scrolling the mouse

[lucid jetty]

Yeah but apologizes if the question is silly but I understand we can set all input properties now. But how do we assign a PS Controller button to a specific button we set up?

[ruby quarry]

Holding Shift completely stops my movement. Doesn't slow it down. Just stops it dead. And I don't want to have to keep changing the slider for different camera speeds all day long. Nearly every game I've played in the last 20 years uses shift to let me move faster, that's what I want.

[kindred depot]

Your question is something I can not answer my friend, I am building a PC shooter that will not support gamepads. So i have not set up game pads. I know you can tho, i seen some videos and tuts on how to do this tho.

[plush yew]

Is this the official Unreal Engine discord server?

[drowsy snow]

No, it's a community run server

[ruby quarry]

It's as official as it gets. But it isn't run by them...

[plush yew]

Do you know how can I find original?

[lucid jetty]

Thank you for your time and info. One last question. Does the Windwalker Demo actually DOES what I am asking it to do? Have you ever checked its input properties? ^-^

[ruby quarry]

There isn't one. This is where they would send if you ask them

[drowsy snow]

There's none.

[kindred depot]

Yes Ill SS for you 😄

[plush yew]

interesting

I mean unity has one

[drowsy snow]

While some Epic employee do hang around here, by no means official support is guaranteed.

[drowsy snow]

It's the same exact story there.

And yes, I do spy on the neighbour's lair.

[plush yew]

XD

[ruby quarry]

No point in Unreal making their own when a perfectly good, highly popular one, already exists.

[plush yew]

is it a pain to make multiplayer in unreal?

[lucid jetty]

My man I really appreciate your time. ❤️

[split jasper]

It's a pain to make shit work on the internet, full stop lol

[drowsy snow]

Depends on your game requirement.

[plush yew]

it's 2d

what info you need?

[split jasper]

Wait are you talking online MP or local?

[plush yew]

What is MP?

and yes I'm talking about online

[drowsy snow]

Multiplayer

Also #multiplayer channel

[plush yew]

ah

ok guys, me and colleague here just came upon one very interesting question we can't quite answer: why should we pack UV's? one theory i've heard was that it was good for game optimization, but let's take this projected asset for example - even if UV's are outside of bounds, they will still tile into one and the same trimsheet which is 2048x2048, so it's not like as if texture will increase in size, so why packing is a thing? unreal specific answer would be appreciated.

[drowsy snow]

In Unreal, having the island too far from the center could cause messy texture mapping.

[plush yew]

it looks perfect in unreal. tested packed VS unpacked, no difference in light or anything else.

only one difference i've found is object size increases from 14.6kb to 14.7kb when unpacked.

[drowsy snow]

For larger vertices faces like that, it might not be an issue, but it's going to be more apparent with more dense islands.

[fierce tulip]

the further away from 0-1. the bigger errors due to floating point precision will appear.

[plush yew]

i see, interesting. I've been packing UV's for a while and never stopped to think why. so packing whenever's possible is still the way to go.

[fierce tulip]

pack where needed, dont pack where needed.

[whole turtle]

You're right, it's used to stop to avoid changing the camera angle while using the editor. The tools are quite intuitive, you set the general value (4 to five if you're working with landscape/terrain scales, 3 to 4 if you're working with meshes - houses, big rocks, etc), 2 to 3 if you're working on details - sheet of paper or coup of coffe on top of a table). Within that you just scroll the mouse up or down as a multiplier within the range. That's how it is as far as I know, and unless I'm missing something major, that's what you get, but you can always build your own tools. UE is source available.

[primal lagoon]

someone can help me in project

dm me

i need a little throw thats all

[drowsy snow]

https://www.dontasktoask.com/

[primal lagoon]

someone can

im doing an anime game

i need bblueprints

or code

[plush yew]

Holy visual studio got more thic

[primal lagoon]

i nned a little only

[primal lagoon]

i request aprooval fro xbox delevop por nintendo]

[plush yew]

Uh pls improve your English

[primal lagoon]

im requesting approval to xbox

or the other

so i need the blueprints for a boss

and changing area

and text

i have more problems with canging area and gameover retrurning menu

im not hiring it s only a little help

im stuck

sm me

dm me

[neon bough]

you won't get help like this

[primal lagoon]

im stuck.......

i have all the models all

[neon bough]

describe your problem or keep trying to find someone who likes to offer personal coaching for free

[primal lagoon]

my problem is i cannot link a menu to game

telporting

and showing numbers

i have project uplaoded

i have link

and displaying a custom text

i ts not much

im stuck with optimiztion

well i upload in contract

how i teleport a charchter to other map

other scene and link it

[plush yew]

He means he cannot connect something XD idk

[runic fern]

Does anyone know why Wheeled Vehicle 4W Component Steering just first 4 Wheels ?

if i have more than 12 wheels how can i steer them 😄

[wary wave]

...what do you think "4W" stands for?

[runic fern]

4Wheels But i changed it to 12 Wheels xD

// Initialize WheelSetups array with 12 wheels
    WheelSetups.SetNum(12);

It Was 4W

[fading wolf]

Anyone got a tutorial on how to update player stats? like hp mana etc? atm ive been trying to use structures and using Set members in ST but it's not really working as intended and I'm stumped

I think I was using a component initially but it was failing to update the stats.
If not using structs how else would you store the stats of an item or class?
I don't know any c++ so thats not really a direction
thanks for the reply 🙂

[maiden swift]

At least Set Members lets you control the pins now. It was way worse to work with before that.

Now you can just check the parameters you want to modify and those will be the only pins.

[fading wolf]

for exmaple this is what I have, but it doesnt seem to grabs the stats/data from the structure at all

Or it is but the data is not actually there

... im confused, how am I supposed to grab the stats from something then?

I'm really not that experienced with UE4, the only things I know are from tutorials so I zero idea how to implement what youre suggesting

[verbal ridge]

qustion for some one. anyuone knows what grasshopper is for rhino`?

[fading wolf]

OOhhh I think i get what youre saying.
so I actually do have a component for my stats already

and that structure inside that

i didnt realise that's what I was doing. I just no idea how get the stat information

cause it's hard to google what I want and hard to explain as well 😅

so if I have my main/starting stats in my component how am I supposed to grab 'new'/pre-existing stats ?

Oh so all my stats need to be their own variable in my component?

oh I see and then have a bunch of functions for each class so then when activated it just Sets all the stats to what I want?

https://tenor.com/view/confused-confusion-cat-white-cat-im-confusion-gif-16828447

okay im watching this nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbwEMnSrgWY

ah okay, im reading this then https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/Editor/Modes/Defaults/DefaultsTab/

[kindred depot]

Watch them all! lay in bed before you sleep DREAM ABOUT THEM LOL

nothing puts me to sleep better than matt xD

[fading wolf]

okay well Im not 100% sure what changed but now it works correctly, thank you

Yep! its now correctly updating my widget (which gets the stats live)

one thing I dont understand is why everything keeps resetting to 0

[atomic moon]

has anyone ever encountered an error like this?

This is for a development packaged build. It causes a crash whenever I close the build.

On other computers it crashes on startup.

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff

[plush yew]

Can someone tell me how to make a particle system to stop constant particle generating, rather create some?

I've been analysing two particle systems (one which has it, one which not) but couldn't find any differences that would make that happen

[bright sigil]

so just a short burst of particles?

[plush yew]

I guess yeah, in the meantime I found this:

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/842919/how-to-disable-particle-loops.html

[bright sigil]

yep, you gotit

[brazen coyote]

can somebody help me when i make a new project in ue5 with ray tracing enabled this pops up

right away

i have a rtx 3070 and its just a default blank project

it crashes right away

when i show my gpu usage in task manager everything seems normal its super cool and is only using about 5% power when it crashes

[warm tulip]

how do i save something in my level as a reusable asset 🥺

nvm i got it

[unborn nimbus]

When I save my map. Does anyone know what "Processing Exports" means? It takes up to 40 seconds on my machine to do this stage.

[ancient lotus]

question, any reason why a chaos actor using a transluent material such as glass causes this result? its discolored. the left is one that is not fractured by chaos, this only occurs once fracturing has been applied

[burnt ether]

Hey everyone :o not sure which channel to take...
I'm currently doing a model that has a cape with hood and I want it to be somewhat animated :o What's a good way of doing that? ^-^ Cloth sim ?

[unborn nimbus]

this is a pretty good video explaining that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0mfXq93bU

[unborn nimbus]

#ue4-general message

[bright sigil]

#legacy-physics for more help

[bright sigil]

My guess is exporting the lightmaps from swarm to unreal, its a guess tho

[bright sigil]

I dont know chaos too well, but is the left glass just a plane? As in 1 sided? Have you tried your glass shader on other objects - such as a cube?

[ancient lotus]

neither are planes, and yes the glass shader looks correct on others, looks correct on the same mesh, once its fractured it changes to the above

[bright sigil]

Dang not sure then. Maybe some checkbox in the material? Not sure if there is a chaos specific one but i know there ones for like sk and sm and stuff

[eternal lotus]

unreal has crashed on me several times in the last few minutes while working on an animation in the sequencer... is there something I can do about that? or should I just save often and keep hacking away

[normal burrow]

Are you using RVT?

[plush yew]

I've got a question and hi guys. New to the discord but yeah. I love how flawless Unreal Engine 5 is but why does it load so slow when i download unreal engine 4.27.3 etc? Also, do i need to download all of them? or just the most recent and UE5?

[bright sigil]

just whichever engine version you'd like to use afaik

[rain sequoia]

is this an okay channel to ask about savegame issues?

[bright sigil]

yeah sure

[plush yew]

If i use UE5, i see some things don't work.

why is UE 4 slower than UE5?

i have a 3060Ti i7 etc. thought it'd be faster

sorry what i mean is UE4 loading is slower than UE5. when i launch UE4, it compiles the shaders and it took almost an hour but UE5 pops up right away

[rain sequoia]

Okay, tried to get all my functions in a single image. When I load from save, i get an error saying that the item in the array is None. I am using the same save method as every other variable in my savegame. I am getting a ref to a saver subclass, setting a variable in it, and saving that to slot.

I have about 20 other variables that are loadable from savegame, except this 'new saved boats'

i tried using just an actor array, and this specific actor type array

i tried loading manually wayyyyy after event begin play finished

i tried to set the array to a single actor (get first actor) and save/load that way

all of them tell me the object is in there, (array length = 1) but then its like a ghost nothing else in there

oh, i also tried to load the savegame as a variable on the BP, then access that BP way after initializtion to see if it was a competing timing issue. The same thing happens. the variable on the BP has a length 1 but thats it no other info in there

This is a super simple thing but I am very stumped. Been trying to get it to work for 3ish hours

i have confirmed that the saving works because I check the savegame variable after putting it into the savegame, and it tells me true that it saved. I have it saving boat every 1sec

i am availbe for voice if anyone wants to help tackle this

[rain sequoia]

If I save the array to the slot, then immediately after load from the slot and print the information, it works

but for some reason it wont remember after closing application and restarting it

[unborn nimbus]

nope, I disabled RVT as someone suggested it might have bean the cause. It still slow to save with RVT on/off 😦

I figured it out though.. apparently one of my blueprints was causing the slowness

[normal burrow]

Was it something with constructor script?

[unborn nimbus]

havent figured it out yet.. im still looking at my blueprint.. ill let you know what caused it

[rain sequoia]

I created a brand new savegame object, new savegame slot with just boats, and it still doesnt load anything from that slot. it says it has a length of 1 but its just None wtf

saveboats function is on a timer, every 1second

i spawn a boat, wait for a few seconds close game

this is the EBP on the character:

[plush yew]

is it ok if my project stuck at 45% - compiling shades, I mean is it suppose to take a long time?
it's a 2d project

[rain sequoia]

it would appear that if I manually place in the boats as opposed to spawn them in while the game is running, they are saved properly. not sure why that is

[trim mesa]

hi

i was creating a door, when we have key, then only the door will open

but it needs matinee

animation

and its not available in cinematics

[real heath]

Matinee has been replaced by sequencer

[trim mesa]

but i am following a guys tutorial, and he's using matinee, and there are many different things in level sequencer

like theres a thing he's doing in matinee

and its not in level sequencer

[real heath]

Is it an old tutorial?

[trim mesa]

ya

[runic fern]

Tutorial old or he is using old version

[real heath]

Matinee was hidden in 4.24, and they intended to remove completely in 4.25

[trim mesa]

idk, maybe old version, he is Dev Addict

[real heath]

Look for a newer tutorial

[trim mesa]

so can i do the same thing with level sequencer

[runic fern]

You are watching 2018 tutorial i think

[trim mesa]

as what he is doing in matinee?

[runic fern]

Yes

[real heath]

Yep. Sequencer does everything matinee did and more. And more reliably

[trim mesa]

ok, let me see

[trim mesa]

17 bro

[trim mesa]

how can i add a empty group

in level sequencer?

as its availble in matinee

not in sequencer

[trim mesa]

hey, can you respond to my question

[real heath]

I think you misunderstood. Sequencer is different, but it can be used to do the same things. Buttons and actions are in different spots. It works a bit differently. Following an old tutorial will be hard unless you already know sequencer and can adapt the tutorial yourself.

Unreal online learning has some great courses on sequencer

Or Look for a tutorial on using sequencer for doors

[trim mesa]

ok

thanks

[halcyon anvil]

Hi guys，is there any way to fix the UI anti_aliasing, I found even the high quality imagine to create UI ,It's still like that

[real heath]

Make sure your textures are power of 2, (128, 256, 512, 1024 etc). I don't know if power of 2 texture sizes are needed for UI, but it scales better for me when I still respect that rule.

and set the texture group to UI

[halcyon anvil]

Okay,man.Really thanks ,I will try.Peace✌️

[real heath]

https://benui.ca/unreal/ui-texture-size/ this seems to be a decent reference on the settings

[halcyon anvil]

Got it,Man.Really thanks👍

[distant siren]

all volume blocks are set to invisible wall, but my vehicle crashes into them and gets damaged..what am I wrong?

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/Collision/HowTo/AddCustomCollisionType

[raw harbor]

Hi, im currently attempting to make a car sim game that is open world, im seriously struggling with rigging cars from blender to unreal engine, i watched all videos that are related to this on youtube and stilll cant do it, if anyone is willing to help please message me, thank you

[raw harbor]

Sorry for being the stupid one but I’m new to 3d and ue, Could you please maybe tell me how to do it or send me a video?

[wary wave]

unless you're using UE5, that comment would be totally useless to you

[raw harbor]

I’m using ue4 rn

[wary wave]

I assumed as much, hehe

[drowsy snow]

In most part, it's about binary weighting rigid parts that are moveable (e.g. doors, windshields, car hood)

[raw harbor]

well, i dont need any of this, all i need is a moving car with a body

i have veichle variaty pack which comes with pre working cars, i want to maybe replace the body of it with another body i downloaded, idk if that is possible or not

problem is with blender when i try to rig, is i cant find a good car, some come with wheels i cant show each one seperatly, others are placed in werid places, etc

[drowsy snow]

That's more of the problem with the mesh you downloaded, not Blender's.

[raw harbor]

well, there isnt a good free on that exists

one*

[drowsy snow]

Ah, yeah, of course "good" and "free" is mutually exclusive in most cases. Modelling cars are hard.

[raw harbor]

yeah i get it not to expect good things with "free" stuff, but as a statup and new to all of this, i dont want to pay money for something i wont be able to use properly

[drowsy snow]

You could hire someone who model cars and specify that it's for game use, but oh well.

[coarse wind]

Hey, I have a question about exporting in SpeedTree to Unreal Engine. I know it's for UE4 only for the moment, but Can I export it as a FBX file and not with the plugin? will it work that way? (with animation)

[raw harbor]

How do i move the project files from doccuments to somewhere else?

[drowsy snow]

Just move the project's folder.

[raw harbor]

oh 😐 well ok ty

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, no joke, it's that simple. Once it's done, simply open up the .uproject file in the new location.

Unreal should remember the project again, along with its new location.

[raw harbor]

ty

is there a way to add somewhat realstic car sounds?

is there a video ?

[forest tree]

I just want you to know, that you are, in fact, a fabulous individual for adding the solution to your question. Solved my problem, much appreciated 👏

[fringe jacinth]

hi guys

I have a question

how can I save my game's variables local on computer

so when I close the game it don't reset

[serene nimbus]

hello

Is there any free assets about 3D models with the complete rigged movements?

[drowsy snow]

Mixamo, if you can bear the unorthodox rig. It's pretty much abandoned by Adobe.

MetaHuman, can only be used for Unreal Engine prods, but it's fully rigged, have compatibility with UE Mannequin.

The Unreal Marketplace might have few free or cheapo ones.

[serene nimbus]

Oh, is metahuman is ready 3D assets?

Where can i find it?

[drowsy snow]

Right here.
https://metahuman.unrealengine.com/

[serene nimbus]

Okay, i will check it, thank you so much for your help!

[plush yew]

Is there an overall opacity setting for a Particle System?

[serene nimbus]

which one is unreal engine 5 use?

[drowsy snow]

There's no specialised FBX for UE. Mixamo already have long removed support for UE4.

However, UE4 can accept almost any kind of FBX

Which is why I specifically warn you about the unorthodox rig

[serene nimbus]

Alright!

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoGdTouVeRs&ab_channel=CARD00R

I followed this tutorial and had no issues with mixamo anims

very easy

[lunar depot]

does anyone know what gpu scene means in unreal engine ?? are all the meshes stored in gpu and drawn with one draw call??
and is frustum culling being done on gpu using gpu scene ??

[stiff star]

Hey people, I'm searching for a gift for a friend of mine that's studying unreal engine, I thought I might get him a book on it, Is there a generally considered defacto 'must have' book on the subject that might work?

Thanks kindly.

[drowsy snow]

Due to faster evolving and broader nature of Unreal Engine, there's not really a book recommendation that's specifically on it. But you can gift him books about C++ programming, as it can be applicable when dealing with C++ programming in Unreal Engine.

[stiff star]

I see, I had my eye on this one which seemed to hit the mark, any thoughts?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B089M2H7J1/ref=crt_ewc_title_dp_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Fair comment, perhaps better to stick to one of the C++ books then

[drowsy snow]

Basically don't stick with just Unreal Engine stuff.

Meanwhile UE gets updated every few months or so, and certain major 4.x versions had some major changes to its C++ API.

[stiff star]

I think he's mainly been learning based on the nodes system so far, so something lasting as a reference guide would be good

[drowsy snow]

If you really keen with UE specific, for whatever reason, this link is one of the good gift:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

Otherwise, more general C++ books are the way to go.

[stiff star]

Appreciate the input chaps 👍 I think I'll go with one of the C++ books for him, many thanks!

[spiral sleet]

beginner here, i have already compiled ue5 and started a blank project and start compile from command line , why is it again compiling 1197 files taking time for banlk project

nvm command line i've put projectName instead of projectNameEditor

[coarse wind]

I have a problem with the opacity of the leaves for ivy object 🤔 Top left - the resault in UE, underneath it is the materiel. in the right side, is the material in 3dsMax ( I tried to make it the simplest )
Can anyone help ?

[fierce tulip]

can you just show a close-up image of the material?

[coarse wind]

yeah sure

[fierce tulip]

@coarse wind that material is a mess, why are you using refraction on a leaf?
unhook that.

your material should be 2 sided foliage + masked, not translucent.

no need for that desaturation node after that mask texture, i would just invert it in photoshop or whatever, but if you dont wanna, just grab the red output and put it (after the one-minus) into opacity mask.

[coarse wind]

yeah that's makes sense, I imported it fom 3dsmax via Datasmith and that's what happened

[coarse wind]

Is it better now? still learning the shading in UE

[fierce tulip]

set the blending mode to masked

details panel bottom left

[coarse wind]

I get the "ThinTranslucent materials must be translucent." error

[fierce tulip]

dont use thin translucent.

[coarse wind]

and if I delete all the Thin Translucent nodes, I says "ThinTranslucent materials requires the use of ThinTranslucentMaterial output node"

[fierce tulip]

leaves are never translucent minus a handful of very odd plants

https://i.gyazo.com/17f44b20cbf878a166245c3bb83be2ba.png

[coarse wind]

Thanks! I don't get the errors now, but the leafs are still not masked though

sorry for all the questions btw 🙏🏽

[fierce tulip]

np, re-read what I said before :)
dont use the opacity input, but the opacity mask one

[coarse wind]

oh I fixed it !

[coarse wind]

yeah, that's what I did

thank you man! saved me here

[fierce tulip]

np, I would def spend some time with the material editor if I where you, just to get the basic hang of it.
the documents have a material compendium that explains most of what you can do.

even after many years, I till fall back to it from time to time.

[coarse wind]

yeah, I know only the basics of the basics now, I'm on it

[fierce tulip]

take your time, rome wasnt build in a day either :)

[coarse wind]

Definitely, too bad I don't have endless time to study in the studio 🥲

[icy plaza]

Hey guys, I got this weird problem. Last week my audio worked perfectly fine. I could play the editor and the audio would just do it's thing. Now all of a sudden ue4 decided to not give me any more audio. Does someone have any clue what could have gone wrong. The whole project doesn't give audio anymore. A new project does give audio so it's something in the project. But I have no clue what that could be

So if someone knows this issue can you please give me a hand?

[kindred depot]

check out your projects audio settings

and if you want real time audio, click settings at the top and check the real time sound volume. change from off to something more.

[drowsy snow]

Before removing from parent, create the second widget and add it to viewport beforehand

[bleak zodiac]

i agree with Yoeri here, i'm still searching ureal online learning for stuff on material editor

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, that's not how you do it. I mean you do the setup in the first widget, not the second widget.

Alright, so here's my workflow (action RPG but still have some shooty bang bang)

• Main HUD widgets (character stats, command menu, crosshairs) are made out of multiple widget BPs, contained in one widget BP.

• To call the pause menu, I create the pause menu widget, add it to viewport, and then remove the main HUD widget from parent.

• To go back to the game, I create the main HUD widget again from pause menu, add it to viewport, and then remove the pause menu widget from parent.

The former.

[vagrant atlas]

The first one out of two ptions

the latter is the second option

[drowsy snow]

*latter

I have a custom event for "On Menu Exit", basically creating the main HUD widget back before removing from parent.

You can easily create one in the widget's BP, and execute the event when "Continue" is pressed or pressing the back button

[bleak zodiac]

i would go to mathew wadstein at unreal online learning, there have tutorial on making really basic UMG widgets

[charred blade]

with a top down project how can I cull everything outside the camera, The camera looks straight down so ideally absolutely decimating everything outside this view would be ideal

[drowsy snow]

The engine already doing the View Frustum Culling for you, by default.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/VisibilityCulling/

Also Brush Wireframe view ignores this culling, so it's not entirely representative of the scene, and the reason why in some cases Brush Wireframe view is actually heavier than Lit view

[sudden cosmos]

hello, can anyone explain to me what whitelisting or blacklisting of INI files do? I am getting this warning, but not sure what the suggested actions would result into (searching the webs did not lead to any good info):
WARNING: The config file 'YourApp/Config/YourConfig.ini' will be staged, but is not whitelisted or blacklisted. Add +WhitelistConfigFiles=YourApp/Config/YourConfig.ini or +BlacklistConfigFiles=YourApp/Config/YourConfig.ini to the [Staging] section of DefaultGame.ini

[west junco]

just kind of a general game dev question, but why after 3 months of working on my game, does it feel as if i haven’t made much progress, like looking back at the first build vs where i am now, there’s a huge difference, but it just feels like i should be further along

[vagrant atlas]

Your first project you worked on for a long time?

[west junco]

no, i’ve been in game dev for a long while even tho im pretty young, and i’ve published a game of my own before

[plush yew]

Hello, I have problem.. when I crouch there are 2 characters 🙂 So I see now.. there are always 2 chars in one.. eather if I sprint or do other anims

[vagrant atlas]

@west junco Do you have ideas for what you want to add? Or do you sometimes come up with ideas for your game (like in bed, or on a walk)?

[west junco]

i do, and usually what i do is a write them down in the notes app on my phone to look at later, most of the ideas are pretty ambitious though, especially for a solo dev

[thorny juniper]

Hey can anyone help me out, I have a Damage Received system, and I want the player to only receive 70% of the damage he's supposed to take rather than 100%, I tried it like this but did not work. I suck at math - The regular dmg taken system is just without the *0.7

[vagrant atlas]

@west junco Well, one way to manage ambitious ideas is to make a to-do list with them. When you get time for the game, instead of going directly to work on the game, look at your ideas, sort them to what fit best, and, for each idea, make a to do list.

[neon bough]

you want to multiply what you substract from the player health before by 0.7

currently you are subtracting the full damage, and also take down another 30% from the players health

this will be a wild game if you struggle with this 😄

[distant flower]

hey have a question

im trying to play some UE4 games and it always shows me this messege --> LowLevelFatalError [File: Unknown] [Line: 198]
Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006 - 'HUNG')

so how can i fix this

[kindred depot]

Most people solve this by upgrading there gpu.

[distant flower]

yeah too poor for that

[kindred depot]

The i would suggest taking your textures and making them worse quality.

[distant flower]

and how can i do that

[kindred depot]

D3D device being lost, means you might be hitting your gpus cap for vram causing a crash.

lets start with this,

[kindred depot]

what is your GPU?

[distant flower]

its an old Hd 5450

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, that won't be able to go far.

[kindred depot]

ooofff.

[distant flower]

so basically i cant dot nothing to fix ti

ti*

it*]

oh

[kindred depot]

You COULD always take the egine and degrade down the Direct x version

but i do not think it supports below 11?

[distant flower]

yeah the think is idk how to do all of that

[drowsy snow]

Except buying a better hardware, yeah.
However, I have experience lesser D3D Device Crashing with Intel CPU from 2015 onwards.

Chances are the game you're trying to play is already in DX11

[distant flower]

i would if i knew how to do that

[drowsy snow]

If you have it on Steam, you can add command line -dx11 in the launch options

Though again, most UE4 games that don't tout on raytracing is most likely already using DX11

[distant flower]

and how can i do that

[kindred depot]

i thought this was a UE engine project related issue 😆

[drowsy snow]

I'm feeling generous right now tbh

[kindred depot]

Let me dust off steam

[distant flower]

sooo how can i add that command exaclty

[kindred depot]

right click on game

[distant flower]

oh that

[drowsy snow]

Right click on the game and choose Properties

(and yes, I have three copies of GTA V 😛 but I digress)

[distant flower]

i have 1 and i only play offline

anyways im re-installing the game bc i got mad gimmie 3 mins and ill update u

[drowsy snow]

Twice?

How's your current BP setup?

I think you should do it elsewhere, like in Player Controller. That's a bad idea to do in level BP.

I think I spotted it

Do it before you pause the game.

I mean, do the removing before Set Game Paused

Yeah, seem to be invalid reference.

[distant flower]

yeah so nothing changed

[harsh citrus]

Hello, I am using the twin stick default project I can't seem to find how to stop the camera from following the ship

[distant flower]

but some games like Rocket league work normaly

[drowsy snow]

Rocket League is a UE3 game.

[distant flower]

oh

yeah but know UE5 or not yet

[kindred depot]

xD

imagine trying to fix a code from ue3 to 5.

[distant flower]

guess i cant do nothing to fix

[drowsy snow]

Not to be confused with Fortnite.

[distant flower]

nah idk nothing about that game

but rocket league plans to change on UE5

[drowsy snow]

You're not mixing up with the spinoff, right?

[distant flower]

Idk

[stuck quarry]

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to add the current levelname to a screenshot (via pressing F9 in a level), so the output file has the level name baked in

[safe osprey]

I have these .tbmat materials, is there any way to import them into UE?

[drowsy snow]

Most likely no. Marmoset's and Unreal's material system has different working.

[forest bramble]

what do you guys consider as best beginner tutorial for unreal on youtube for someone that has never touched the software?

[trim mesa]

hi

[safe osprey]

ok thanks

[trim mesa]

so i was creating a door

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[drowsy snow]

I can't recommend YouTube tutorials as there are a lot of quack tutorial series (like Devsquad's), so Unreal Online Learning is your safer bet.

[trim mesa]

and whenever we have a key with us, we enter the door, but its still entering the door when we dont have key (Game Actor), i mean its not playing the animation when we dont have the key, but still we can pass through it

i have even set my collision to block all

any solution to it

[forest bramble]

for me i find it easier to learn when im following like a brackey's tutorial

[trim mesa]

@drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

There's not much reliable stuff when it comes to UE, so
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[drowsy snow]

The official courses are more curated than YT tutorials, so go with the official ones - it has a lot of courses for beginner
Also:
#ue4-general message

[forest bramble]

oh ok thank you so much

[raw harbor]

any idea where i can get the 3 engine sounds i need for custom car sounds?

videos on youtube arent best, they are on camera and now raw

[drowsy snow]

https://www.google.com/

[raw harbor]

do i go maybe in a game and record?

[raw harbor]

yeah no sht, i cant find any

[drowsy snow]

I won't risk any copyright issues if I were you.

[raw harbor]

if you know a site tell me, bec i cant find any

[neon bough]

he already mentioned an endless source of informations

[raw harbor]

i said i cant find any on google

thats why im asking for a specific source

[neon bough]

it's weird because i can find some on google

[kindred depot]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-whaaat-say-what-gif-23900517

[neon bough]

do you live in a country which censores royalty free stuff?

[kindred depot]

typed in google engine sound download

found endless amounts.

[drowsy snow]

I was going to suggest to synthesise it with a car sound (and make use of UE4's granular synth), but his startup seem to require utmost realism

Oh well

[raw harbor]

yeah but i want the real sounds, how it actually sounds

[neon bough]

buy a car and record some

[drowsy snow]

Make your own recording of your car (or your relatives).

[kindred depot]

Then you wont be able to find anything for free.

[raw harbor]

where the hell am i gonna get a mclaren

[neon bough]

mercedes

[raw harbor]

lmao

[kindred depot]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/assets?count=20&keywords=car engine&sortBy=currentPrice&sortDir=ASC&start=0

5 bucks for some decent ones.

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: Karnazz#3356 was banned.

[fierce tulip]

https://giphy.com/gifs/latenightseth-lol-seth-meyers-lnsm-KctrWMQ7u9D2du0YmD

[drowsy snow]

By contacting McLaren directly.
"Oy mate, gimme some McLaren sound of yours"

In most cases, racing games with RL car manufacturers were brought on board to lend the cars for recording and some performance benchmarks

If you're going for gratis resources, don't expect that amount of accuracy.

[raw harbor]

ever since i joined cant find someone giving me something usefull honeslly

jus tell me you dont know any specific sites man

[cedar wave]

They're giving you solutions.

A lot of stuff in gamedev is just smoke & mirrors

[drowsy snow]

With the public free resources, defenestrate your expectation of utmost accuracy.

[raw harbor]

idk what half of this sentenace means but ok

[drowsy snow]

You gotta live with the inaccuracies, or just synthesise the sound from unrelated cars.

[drowsy snow]

TL;DR: Don't expect accurate sound from free public resources.

[raw harbor]

well atleast smth clos

close*

[drowsy snow]

And don't steal sounds from other games either.

[raw harbor]

i want atleast smth close that fills the gap, i cant put a normal sounding car sound on a mclaren, is there something else i can use?

[fierce tulip]

doubt you have the rights to use a mclaren car.
generally use placeholders and move on with your work until its time to replace them because your proof of concept is worth it to spend more time on --until that moment-- futile details like the perfect sound.

[drowsy snow]

In other words: lower your expectations in the meantime, and get the damn system working first. Can save you a lot of time later on, as opposed to waiting for money to bribe or direct sponsor from McLaren directly

I'm sorry if that's not what you want to read, but that's just how it goes with interactive media development.

[raw harbor]

its fine, atleast i manged to get a car working in ue4, it was a struggle for me

i found a video that helps, idk if i can send links or not

the idea is to get sounds from dyno test, and he show me where to slice audio

[lunar depot]

does anyone know what gpu scene means in unreal engine ?? are all the meshes stored in gpu and drawn with one draw call??
and is frustum culling being done on gpu using gpu scene ??

[drowsy snow]

Also you should look into UE4's granular synth, used properly could help alleviate the car engine sound design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOKRfNGlx0

[robust marten]

Why is my interior so dark? It's really bright outside and I turned on Global Illumination?

[drowsy snow]

Are you using realtime raytracing?

[robust marten]

No

[drowsy snow]

Okay, easier for me to give some help then.

[drowsy snow]

Assuming it's open world, by the clock widget, do you use the new Sky Atmosphere component? (4.24+)

[robust marten]

Yes, I am on 4.26

[raw harbor]

does someone know how to modify the car speed, i changed max rpm to 7500, gear max ration to 7, and torqu i made it very high but still its not fast enough any idea?

[robust marten]

Check the Movement Component and check the Max Walk Speed there?

[drowsy snow]

Coolio. If you have Sky Atmo, you can have the sky light to use real time capture to help with GI a bit.

[drowsy snow]

#legacy-physics

[raw harbor]

its a car, idk if its there

[raw harbor]

sorry

[robust marten]

It does already use real time capture

Could it have to do with Auto Exposure settings? It seems to work for Interiors in the day time but then Nights are as bright as day time

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, that might be the issue. The default auto exposure value is very extreme.

[robust marten]

Yeah but if I change the Minimum Exposure to be brighter, then night times are too bright

[drowsy snow]

And that leaves us with your room. TBH your room don't really have much way for light to enter. I know it's still possible for inside a house to be very dark with just small window and nothing else.

Otherwise you could get some mileage with faking some GI with time based light probes.

[robust marten]

My room IRL only has 1 small window and in the day time it lights up the entire room lol

[robust marten]

I really thought about that but wanted to save on the performance and work xD

[drowsy snow]

Non shadow casting lights are pretty cheap. The heavier part is mainly on shadow casting.

[robust marten]

Thanks for the help, I'll have to just keep adjusting Auto Exposure and the brightness/darkness of the day/night cycle to find a balance I suppose

[limber junco]

Hey guys! I tried making a listview for a dialogue system, but after connecting it to the entry widget class the listview gets a black background. How do I remove it so only the text remains? (I'm using blueprints, not c++)(UE5)

[plush yew]

is it possible to create a camera directly where you are in the viewport. That is takes your place so to say?

[robust marten]

Could be the Border settings if you're using it, or if it's a button background

[limber junco]

No, I tried fiddling with that already. I think it's from the listview itself. I found an old post on the forums(about 5 months) talking about this same problem but the only solution given is using c++. Whenever I try to add a c++ class to my project and recompile it, it doesn't open anymore for some reason so that's definitely not an option.

[drowsy snow]

I personally go with Vertical Box and procedurally filling it with button user widgets

[limber junco]

Seems like that might be the best solution until I find out a way to get rid of this background. Thank you!

[drowsy snow]

TBH I never used ListView widgets lol

[vocal sorrel]

Hey guys, does anyone know why my sequence plays when I simulate but when I play the scene it doesn't? In this case its just a basic camera moving from right to left

[plush yew]

Any way to disable groom collision? My groom asset is set to no collision, its parent also, still my hair makes collision effects with it why is that?

[kindred depot]

You could always call inside the characters blueprint the selected groom. Drag it in and set it to no collision on begin play

or it MIGHT be colliding with the player capsule.

[plush yew]

I don1t have player capsule, it collides with the skeletal mesh' physic asset

I need a way to disable that

[cedar wave]

I believe in one of the top left menus in the viewport, there is one called like "Create Camera" or somethin' like that

[plush yew]

and I don't use playmode

[cedar wave]

Create Camera from View is the actual name I believe.

[brittle tundra]

damn I reinstalled it... still no LLDBFRONTend

[cedar wave]

But yeah, it's in one of the dropdown menus in the top left. (Creating a camera based on your viewport)

[eternal lotus]

Hey I have some meshes I've imported from Blender... when I build lighting they turn black. I asked about this the other day and got this response:

your lightmap UV's are probably bad for that mesh

.... this feels right to me, but I can't figure out how to resolve the issue. I guess i'm googling the wrong thing. Anyone have any hints?

i've seen that page, but I'm not sure what to do with that information 🙈

[grim ore]

do you know what a UV is?

[eternal lotus]

yeah more or less, but it's a very rudimentary knowledge.

I suspect that the issue has to do with the way that I'm doing the UV/texturing in blender.... i'm doing what this guy does https://youtu.be/BlxiCd0Upg4?t=109

[grim ore]

double click your mesh inside of UE to open the static mesh editor, then on the top click on UV and how many does it show?

[eternal lotus]

2... I watched a video about this, and that guy had a bunch of UV data in the greyed out box in the lower-left, but mine has none.

I assume this is part of hte problem lol

[grim ore]

change to uv channel 1, what does it show?

[eternal lotus]

yeah 😬

[eternal lotus]

it shows nothing.. same as 0

[grim ore]

yep, you either have to stick with realtime lighting or generate a proper UV map in blender

and if doing the UV map in blender, thats a blender thing

[eternal lotus]

right on.. that's helpful

[grim ore]

you dont even need to worry about the lightmap part of this, this mesh is literally missing any UV mapping for texturing

so your going to want to look into unwrapping, or projection mapping, or any of the other ways to create a good UV map for texturing

[eternal lotus]

OK I think that gets me where I need to go. thanks

[grim ore]

I want to say you can do this in the new modeling tools as well (in UE) but, it would be smarter in blender lol

[kindred depot]

If you want to crash 20 times over

lol

[eternal lotus]

yeah I'm fine doing it in blender.. I actually think I know which steps I missed here.

it hasn't mattered too much until now since this is all super simple lowpoly stuff,

stick with realtime lighting
... this is a jam game and I'd like to get it out the door. is there a setting somewhere to tell UE I don't want to futz around with building lighting, or should I just never click that button

[grim ore]

change your lights to movable

[eternal lotus]

that was my guess... was kind of hoping there was a button I could click somewhere lol

[grim ore]

then you dont have static lighting

[eternal lotus]

cool

thank you all ❤️

[grim ore]

the modeling tools are not horrible BTW, this was that same rock using the auto UV Unwrap in UE

[tidal jewel]

So, this might be a stupid or overly vague question, and I'm not sure if another channel would be more appropriate, so feel free to direct me elsewhere is that's the case. I'm wondering about the impact of storing certain variables for each character in an open world game. For instance, if you were wanting to log a simple boolean dictating if character "X" has met characters "Y, Z, etc."). Currently, I've got it set up so that each character has an "InMemory" variable (of type Set) which holds characters they've interacted with. I can then check the set when an interaction arises and if the target character is in there, go down a different dialogue path. I'm wondering:

1. Would this kind of an approach have difficulties scaling up (e.g., would it be better from a memory standpoint to just associate a unique character ID in the form of a string and log that in a Set rather than the character as a whole, especially if I'm planning to save this information for characters that aren't loaded/on -screen)?

2. What kind of an impact would moving to a map rather than a set have (either using the character themselves or the unique character ID).

I know it's a bit difficult to say without me defining what "scaling up" is specifically referring to, or the amount of information held in each character, but I'm just trying to get a general perspective. Thanks!

[tardy parcel]

Hey there! Just wanted to ask, how do you restrict character movement to only the x and z axis? im quite new to unreal engine, so im just going off tutorials, and this one showed how to make character movement with paper 2d sprites, but I wanted to try and restrict the movement to a kind of grid. Any idea on how to do it?

[dusky inlet]

You can do some simple math to get an overview about memory requirements. How many characters do you suppose are going to be there, and how much information are you planning to store per character? I can see some data separation into different assets be of use. I.e. one asset that keeps track of all characters for a certain zone or level. Depending on needs you only need to keep that asset in memory at a time, or you can work on other memory assets only when it is needed

If you are thinking of 50 characters across the world with a couple kilobytes worth of memory each then there is no point thinking about it, the memory doesn't matter too much here. Unless you have to optimize for weak hardware with very low ram.

[tidal jewel]

Fair enough, and thanks for the response, you're right in that I should look into getting a sense of the size of information stored per character and then multiply that by the number that will be "in-play" in a given instance. Thanks!

[whole swift]

Wooooooo

I am new here

Can you tell me why you chose Unreal engine instead of Unity pls?

And is C++ harder than C#?

ping me pls if you answer

[kindred depot]

https://tenor.com/view/unreal-shader-confused-unreal4-unreal-engine-gif-15378565

[cedar wave]

Epic > Unity. Easy.

[fleet marten]

I'm so frustrated right now trying to get a simple platform to move. No matter what I try it doesn't spawn or move relative to where I personally dragged it in the world. Any tips on what I'm doing wrong

sorry for interrupting but after hours of just trying all these things, I've given up lol

"Set InitialBlockLocation was pruned because its Exec pin is not connected, the connected value is not available and will instead be read as default"
-- ^ I get this when I try to even drag the pin from the set initial location to the A value in the Lerp. Which I feel I shouldn't have to do regardless considering in the tutorial level it's taking its relative world position for the A value even when set to the default 0, 0, 0. I've just tried everything outside of manually typing in the coordinates for A, and nothing spawns it where it's placed

[tiny valley]

Are fornite walls square

[warm mortar]

does anyone have a Unreal Engine 2.5 SDK or source code?

[fleet marten]

@plush yew oh my gosh! Thank you so much for pointing that out. I knew it had to be something stupid simple I was missing

Yeah that warning and those set location nodes were just me trying to experiment to see what I could do to get it to grab the world relative location. Is there any easy way to change the actor class to add the root component now? Or do I need to recreate the blueprint from scratch

[proven aspen]

Just starting with C++ and it's kicking my butt compared to C#. But a lot of that is probably just growing pains.

[fleet marten]

Got it, thank you very much for the assistance! This little problem was driving me mad since last night, kinda put the rest of my learning on a frustrating hold lol

[gleaming lotus]

Any idea why this is happening with my landscape material? Just for this landscape grid its darker 🤔

[kindred depot]

not what i intended... but i mean if i set this up with physical materials, this could be golden! LOL (yes 2 bullets are flying >_< need to fix this )

[robust marten]

Is there a way to simulate physics in the editor for an object to precisely place it, similar to the Creation Kit? I want to place a bowl of apples the player can knock over and the bowl and apples have physics enabled but if I try to place them in manually they explode everywhere when the game begins lol

[round light]

anyone free to assist on a camera problem?
trying to switch between a number of cameras in my character bp

[kindred depot]

thats a LOT of camera 😮

[drowsy snow]

There's Physical Layout Tool on the marketplace that does exactly that.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/349bf2d4b1a945fa8f31db80fabf8058

[gleaming lotus]

enable physics on the actors, then 'simulate' from the editor window and they'll drop to the floor. then right click them and theres a 'freeze location' option or something

[kindred depot]

i had that for months, it precisely does that? i had no idea lol

[gleaming lotus]

cant remember exactly but I did it a couple months back in 4.26

[tardy hedge]

What are the dimensions of a fortnite block I thought they were square but they seem like rectangle

[thorn river]

if a static or skeletal mesh is 'hidden' does the gpu still render it or whatever? does it have less of an impact on performance basically

[digital anchor]

it does not render

no gpu cost

if you are talking about hidden in game or visible checkboxes

[thorn river]

hidden in game

im just thinking of using a phantom static mesh for collision

[bright sigil]

iirc, its still in memory but destroying an actor goes to garbage collection, so if you are destroying/spawning the same thing often, its better to hide it. Hiding an actor does not disable its collision either

if anyone knows a better solution, the one that I have read to do is make an invisible material

[thorn river]

oh? how is it superior to just hiding it in game?

[woven marlin]

I'm still confused why all my animations can't be previewed inside UE4?

even if i zoom in

is it the size from blender animation?

[neon bough]

possible

[bright sigil]

because i cant set the visibility of a mesh off in the way i am using it

[woven marlin]

any way to fix that?

even on the skeleton it looks like this

[neon bough]

yes, export with correct scale, and check bone scale of your rig

[hot ruin]

Yall i got a questio

[neon bough]

should all be 1

[prime willow]

Ben

[hot ruin]

I wanna load a game into UE4 and MOOD it

[prime willow]

I wish to pester you for a moment

[hot ruin]

HOW DO

[prime willow]

@neon bough should i be concerned given this person user name ^

I have only seen bad things from usernames like this in any online setting granted id hope this isnt the case here..

@hot ruin Modding legal paid for games is not only sort of illegal but its banable in this discord last i checked to talk about it

however there are tools online for doing such

[hot ruin]

Square enix is friendly to modders

[prime willow]

google would help you better than we could without getting banned

wait

[wary wave]

there's nothing wrong with modding games, but people won't tell you how to reverse engineer things here

[prime willow]

are you trying to mod xiv?

@hot ruin ^

[wary wave]

if there's no official SDK, you won't get any help

[hot ruin]

i wanna mod VII R

like the remake

[prime willow]

oh

[hot ruin]

and fix that damn game

[prime willow]

i can guide you in the right direction

[hot ruin]

here i will tell you the end goal

[prime willow]

but youll have to promise me youll drop the conversation here

no

dont

pls

[hot ruin]

oh

ok

[prime willow]

im trying to help you not ge tbanned

xD

[woven marlin]

Ok but the scale is actually 1 for all

[hot ruin]

sure did not see anything in the rules bout it, appreciate the help navigating the unkonwn mate 🙂

[prime willow]

if you arent trying to be a nueiannce i dont mind pointing you in the right direction but yeah talking about moddiing company games here is banable lol

anyways lemme pm you

[drowsy snow]

Unit scaling is already on 0.01?

[woven marlin]

how do i check for that?

i think it is 0.01

[drowsy snow]

That long username makes scrolling fucking sucks.

[woven marlin]

ikr

[woven marlin]

oh damn

now just re-export?

or i have to re-animate everything

[bright sigil]

looking at it, i dont think it is, hiding seems better but i did not look at stats, just seeing an increase frames. I think im going to swap to hiding instead of invisible mesh 😆

[lament creek]

What the dog doin?

[noble marsh]

Hello, I am new to learning unreal and working with some code where I add UPROPERTY, but when I compile I get the error: "unterminated character constant" like it is expecting a semicolon but the UPROPERTY is not supposed to have a semicolon?

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow i have the serious questions
@neon bough if you know pls point me in the right direction

so i really really really have a distain for large empty games

i want bustling npcs cities monsters etc

i want the world to feel alive and systematic

is there a reason most modern games have empty asf maps with close to nothing happening besides core functions

when older games were filled to the brim with stuff just happening

is there some new limitation on how in depth your game world can be when building it or are they just lazy and dont care about creating a breathing living world that immerses the player in countless things possibly happening at once?

[thorn river]

@bright sigil oh thanks for testing it out lol

[bright sigil]

it wasnt a good test

[drowsy snow]

You have to scale everything up to 100x to compensate for the new unit scaling, so you might have to reanimate everything

[drowsy snow]

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, Category = "Weapon")
float WeaponRange = 1000.0f;

Not sure why you're not doing that.

Is your pattern a C# thing?

[noble marsh]

do you mean why there is not 1000.0f instead of 1000?

[drowsy snow]

Unpopular opinion: Ye olde games actually don't have much going on as far with the peds, except expectations back then weren't as high as today.

[prime willow]

pokemon blue had NPCs roaming around, cities in groups of items and other shaniagans just laid around

shining forces for the sega genesis had bustling villages randomly laid upon the map

gotcha force had multiple missions and other parts of the content that randomly pop up and around knowing you can only choose 1 of the many options before they poof for new stuff

[drowsy snow]

The whole pattern looks alien to me, at least not in C++ way.

[prime willow]

SAO hollow realization had npcs who randomly fight travel buy from shops and so much were recruitable and helped in random boss fights in every map of the game

im wondering why thats become replaced with empty maps with key main story pulls and maybe 2 side quests along the way

[drowsy snow]

That's still not much going on.
You know what people will compare against the most? GTA.

[prime willow]

i havent played gta ;-;

wait i played vice city about a decade or more ago

[drowsy snow]

GTA games, particularly GTA V, raise the bar for NPC interactions so high.

[prime willow]

would it be a good case study?

for world interactions

[noble marsh]

well there are many ways to do things in c++, the way i declared and initialized weaponRange is just one way, and putting f after a float is not necessary in c++. Either way of writing the code still gives the compiler error.

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, but it's easy to getting overwhelmed by it. And don't even attempt to cater to Rockstar fanboys who are doing the comparisons in bad will.

[prime willow]

i just want something like SAO hollow realizations, have you played it?

[drowsy snow]

Not yet.

[prime willow]

i just want something like that with a few more random player like enemies and npcs and random villages lmao

with maybe super nintendo zelda dungoens hidden around every now and than

[drowsy snow]

RPGs don't have much going on as far as NPC goes, so don't go nuts with it, as in trying to replicate GTA.

[prime willow]

so theres not really a limitation its just an absence of trying i suppose?

ill look into gta V and see how deep theirs goes xD

[drowsy snow]

Limitation of manpower and game design.

[prime willow]

o.o

ah okie!

makes sense~

probably time contraints too

since we dont work on a deadline but they do

[drowsy snow]

It's not like you can commit civilian crime in something like Final Fantasy

[prime willow]

yush

[noble marsh]

Thank you! 😀

[drowsy snow]

Does C# use apostrophe for anything text?

At least from what I can recall, camel Case and wrapping texts in apostrophe is C# Unity thing

[distant siren]

How do I have pickups not spawn on begin play if they have already been picked up by the player

[prime willow]

can running two projects at once cause issues?

[drowsy snow]

Other than aforementioned mental issues from juggling, no.

[prime willow]

o-o

this makes me content

blah i might build my second game at the same time than lmao

i always thought it would be problematic process or mechanically for two projects to play at once xD

idk maybe cause weird glitches

[drowsy snow]

I mean, having more than one project is affecting on resources more than technical side of things.
Especially if you're planning to run two MMO projects at the same time.

[prime willow]

no no im not even touching mmos at least until my first game is successful finaically

i heard its rabbit hole without good expereince

[drowsy snow]

Even with single player it's a daunting thing, thus my second game isn't even going anywhere from just being a draft

[prime willow]

im trying to make something more like pso1 from the dreamcast

[bright sigil]

you have two editors open, so performance may not be accurate

[prime willow]

where you can co-op online or offline by just plugging into another players game

idk what its called but i dont think i need deticated servers for it..

[prime willow]

no no thats fine i can always close one game to make sure performance isnt tanking because im dumb

[drowsy snow]

I really wanted to work on something more sci-fi, but I also really had to hold that urge

[prime willow]

im making something between sci fi and fantasy >:3

[drowsy snow]

Eh, it's not like having more than one instance of UnrealEd open is uncommon

[prime willow]

ogh

that reminds me!

Hoodie!

i have something to show you

i thought i did already lma

pls pls dont give up on your projects

from earlier conversations your game sounds super interesting ❤️

[woven marlin]

why there's a hole in ue4 meanwhile its not present in blender? (black is in-game)

[drowsy snow]

I'm all eyes. 👀

[prime willow]

already sent~

[autumn latch]

how can i make this trace can hit only to self?

trace or any can overlap collision

[prime willow]

well you could and i may be wrong but

you could make a trace channel

for the targets you want to only be selected

or use an existing one and than target only those specific parts on the channel type

using a sphere trace for channel instead of shpere trace for object

[bright sigil]

it should so long as the self actor is Pawn

[bright sigil]

doesnt make much sense to trace for self only though

[prime willow]

he could make a channel for particularly the one thing he wants to trace than use that in the slot

👀

[autumn latch]

first thanks to all

[prime willow]

❤️

[autumn latch]

slot?

[prime willow]

so instead of using the node shperetraceforobject

use the one with channel at the end

than pick the trace you want to trace for

and in project setting sunder collsion you can make the trace for the thing you want to particularly trace for

[autumn latch]

like this channels

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/4310b28f1fa6c3249e3aeb72588515d4

https://gyazo.com/63cd9a466946690e49edce23444c1203

you can also edit presets below the channel area

so itll either ignore block or engage with traces

[autumn latch]

yes i can do this but that trace hit all blong trace channels

sorry for my bad english

[prime willow]

your picture uses a spheretraceforobject

the one in my picture is practically somewhat the same

[autumn latch]

yes i know i can change object to channel

[prime willow]

but it lets you choose channels

yush

[autumn latch]

but if i create a custom channel

for trace

[prime willow]

if you create a trace in the first picture attach said trace to what you want under collison presets or the object in particular

you can pick what has that new trace and what doesnt

and your trace by channel will tag anything with it on block or the other option

use ignore on things you dont want to be traced by your new trace channel

[autumn latch]

that way it will hit anything that is a channel block I created

[prime willow]

so you can single out the 1 thing you want traced or many

block will hit trace

ignore will bypass trace

so put ignore on anything you want ignored

[woven marlin]

is there any way to fix that?

[prime willow]

block on things that get or you want traced

for your new or existing channels

[autumn latch]

yes, this is a very good method, but again, it's not just a special method for self.

I'm doing this for a character and that character will be on the map more than once. That's why other characters will be hits for that trace.

[prime willow]

do you want traces for all of the actors

or just 1 of them

[autumn latch]

this

[prime willow]

will this actor be planted around the map over and over as children of the main actor?

[autumn latch]

i want to trace can hit self actor

[autumn latch]

yes

[prime willow]

you can duplicated the 1 actor call it a different name

like main actor

than change his presets

in the blueprint under collsion preset

and than have the copied spawns all share a different set of collisions

^ that to

[autumn latch]

like this?

i want this for ai :D

thanks again

to all

[slate vessel]

can anybody remember the command that controls the frame update frequency for volumetric effects? i know there is a trade off but for fast camera movement or object movement the artifacts are terrible when there's lots of volumetric fog

[plush yew]

Hello.when i click on my project .uproject file it is stuck at 75%.I opened it perfectly before.I compiled the project for dedicated server in vscode under config "development server win64".After that my project editor stuck at 75%.Here are the logs.

[drowsy snow]

There's 5.0.1 already??

[woven marlin]

Yeah but how🤨

[plush yew]

There is. You can download it from GitHub.

[drowsy snow]

I mean, ue5-master is already on 5.1.0, and 5.0.0 wasn't fully released yet, but having first hotfix version ahead of release already?

[dusty bison]

hey anybody know where this node is?

or did they change it?

[dense knoll]

Wondering how to enable raytracing... My gpu is a Radeon RX 5500 XT

[brazen elbow]

I think it's "QualifiedFrameTime To Seconds" now

[sinful tendon]

I want to make an endless trench terrain that only goes in one direction. what is the best way to do that. let me know if I need to be more descriptive. i can make rendering examples.

[light thunder]

wtf Epic

I think at one point I had that plugin as a project plugin but then moved it out to an engine plugin - how do I remove this 'required plugins"? 1>Creating makefile for MyProjectEditor (no existing makefile)
UnrealBuildTool : error : Unable to find plugin 'UnrealWebServer' (referenced via LiveSimulator.uproject). Install it and try again, or remove it from the required plugin list

[coarse gale]

Did I set something up wrong? Nothing happens when I left click. If I set it to "Event Tick" then it just does the rotation immediately and forever.

Setting it to any other input also doesn't work

[fleet marten]

I'm a huge noob, but I imagine you have to enable input on the actor first

In my tutorial level opening a door would act the same way you described if I had it set to event tick, then nothing would happen without it until I enabled input from the player controller like this

[trim mesa]

hi

i was creating a door, which will unlock when we have key

so animation and all is working fine

but the problem is that, even if we dont have the key, i can enter the door

i even set the collision to "block all"

still not working

any solution?

@drowsy snow

[trim mesa]

or if anybody else knows, so can reply witht he solution

[fleet marten]

when you're editing the prop itself make sure to add a collision from this tab at the top

[trim mesa]

let me check

[trim mesa]

from where should i add

[fleet marten]

you have to right click on your door prop in your content manager and edit it there, not from the blueprint of the door

like this

[trim mesa]

this

[fleet marten]

lemme open up ue4 to see what it looks like really quick

[trim mesa]

ok, and after that, it says "simple collision", and "complex collision", which one should i choose?

[fleet marten]

yeah it should still be up there in UE4. But use simple

complex is basically never used, a 10dop should be fine for the door

[trim mesa]

should i add 10dp, and choose simple?

[trim mesa]

y, z or which axis?

it says 3 axis

[fleet marten]

10DOP-X/Y most likely is the best for that. You can see an outline of what it will look like in the viewport there and see if it works for what you need. And I'm not a pro but from what I thought I learned complex is very harsh on performance usage and nearly never used

you can stack them, so in theory you could add a 10dop x and y and z, but in reality you only need one really

[trim mesa]

thanks, it helped

its working

[fleet marten]

No prob! Glad it worked 😄

[trim mesa]

what should i set the collision in blueprints?

lke "block all" or what

[trim mesa]

like here

[fleet marten]

To be honest I'm not quite entirely sure on how the blueprint of the objects collision works just yet. I have a door similar to yours and it's set to block all dynamic, but no matter what I've set it to it still takes the primary prop collision when I was experimenting

[trim mesa]

can you stay online for 10-15 mins, something unusual is happening with my door, i will just send you the video, can take upto 10 mins so pls cooperate

[coarse gale]

Thanks! The rotation works now, but it stops after I click once. I hold it down and nothing happens beyond the first click.

[trim mesa]

ok, so you too have set the collision on block all

[fleet marten]

@trim mesa I can try to help but I'm still learning UE myself so not sure how much benefit I can be for everything lol

And @coarse gale awesome! Glad at least the first part is resolved. And are you trying to have it be a repeating action with each click? Continue through holding it down? Or how exactly

[coarse gale]

So, I want it to spin as long as the left mouse button is held down. When I let go, I want it to stop

[trim mesa]

i am sending in 5 mins, then pls let me know what is happening

[worthy elbow]

Add +1 rotation per tick on mouse button hold then stop on mouse button release

[trim mesa]

ok

but still i am sending

maybe you know and you can help me

[fleet marten]

It doesn't hurt, I know I learn more by trying to understand other people's problems and solutions too

[coarse gale]

How do I do that? Very new to UE so I'm pretty clueless

[worthy elbow]

On mouse click, add value on actor rotation with "++" then clamp it to a certain point

[coarse gale]

I still don't understand

[worthy elbow]

I'm sorry if I can't be much help, I'm still at work but try checking this one out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7uf-wiU8o&t=364s

You can just then customize his blueprint to make it work like how you want to
replace the rotate actor with rotate but just add +int on certain direction

[coarse gale]

He didn't say anything about rotation in that video

[trim mesa]

@fleet marten

see, in this video, when i am through the door

[trim mesa]

i mean getting through the door is perfect

but the door acts unusual when i exit from it

it doesnt let me exit from the door

[trim mesa]

or if anybody can help me with this

so i will be glad

[bright sigil]

and this is being called from the actor right? or is it from the player?

[coarse gale]

The player I think? So, the player holds left click and the blades on the front of the weapon spin.

[trim mesa]

the video is a bit laggy

[trim mesa]

but @fleet marten or if anyone can help me with this

[bright sigil]

okay, should be fine then

[trim mesa]

can you help

[bright sigil]

whats the problem?

[trim mesa]

see this video

[trim mesa]

the problem is this

conrad

[bright sigil]

it has bad framerate, i dont understand

[trim mesa]

what can i do, just read the problem

maybe you can understand

[bright sigil]

im not sure what to read through up there, link?

[trim mesa]

the door, closes, and opens, and closes and opens when i try to exit from it, and it doesnt let me exit, its like in real ife the door is punching you on your face and not letting you exit

[trim mesa]

read from here

[coarse gale]

I don't understand what this is going to accomplish at all. I'm just confused by it

[trim mesa]

conrad

[bright sigil]

Left Click (as well as other inputs) do not fire constantly, just once. In order to know that it is held down, I'm suggesting a looping timer to fire constantly. When Left Click is released the timer is cleared. While the Timer is running, it calls the Custom Event: HeldDown which makes the object psin

[bright sigil]

let me see if i understand.... you have a door and the player can open it, but it does not close properly?

[fleet marten]

@trim mesa I'd make it so the door can only open once and stay open afterwards

I'm sure there's a better solution though lol

[trim mesa]

no

[bright sigil]

then please explain

[trim mesa]

ig

[fleet marten]

Make sure your timeline isn't looping for the door opening