ue4-general

[brittle plume]

I open it, after a few minutes it wants the authorization of an Administrator, and when I click "Yes" it closes ... I don't know if a message appears because it disappears just when I forget to have started it 😂 🥲 😅

Now I start it and check it

Checking dependencies...

let's wait

[grim ore]

yep it should check, generate git hooks, then try and install the pre reqs

[brittle plume]

Ok, before requesting authorization this appears:

Checking dependencies...
Registering git hooks...
Installing prerequisites...

When I click, nothing else comes up

[grim ore]

yep then that means it thinks it has all the files

so my only other thought is the clone failed, which branch did you clone?

[brittle plume]

EpicGames/UnrealEngine

[grim ore]

it should have a branch tho, thats the repo. like release, or main, or 4.27, etc. you should get the version you need

release should be default and should be 4.27 but.... its github desktop its shite software

[brittle plume]

is it a problem if i don't have UnrealEngine 4.27?

[brittle plume]

But why didn't Unreal act like Unity? They complicated my existence 😂

[grim ore]

it looks like at the top of github desktop it should have a current branch setting

[brittle plume]

Branch?

[grim ore]

below that, what does it look like with the repo opened. on the main screen

[brittle plume]

emh.... i don't have it

[grim ore]

once you clicked clone it should have added more to your screen

[brittle plume]

I clicked Add an Existing Reposity

[brittle plume]

I cloned it from another PC, here I just transferred the folder

[grim ore]

so you cloned it before? if you add then thats fine it should show up if you cloned before

[grim ore]

you might have had an issue copying files 😦

you can download just the .zip file from github and copy that file over instead of cloning and copying

you can copy just the .zip and decompress it into your drive and then run setup and generate, that should atleast ensure your files are good on that machine

[brittle plume]

Can I do this without blowing my PC? Because this is not written in the Epic Games tutorial, and most of all ... WHY I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING! 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[grim ore]

well why do you need to do this?

[echo star]

You can just download from the installer if you don't need the source build for stuff like dedicated servers etc

[grim ore]

^^^ thats why I am curious

[brittle plume]

I mean I have to do it because I need the build for a dedicated server ... I say, Unity installs the build from Unity Hub and it weighs only 600MB ... Here I have to download 20GB

[echo star]

Unity is much lighter weight and relies on Visual Studios libraries as its IDE whereas UE has a lot more going on behind the scenes to allow Blueprints to function

[grim ore]

ah, yeah if you need dedicated then yes you need it

its work, its game dev. sometimes its not fun 😦

[brittle plume]

(Unity)

[echo star]

Ain't that the truth 😦

[grim ore]

the only weird thing you did was copy the files from one machine to another so I think that caused it. either make cloning work on that machine, or try moving just the zip

[brittle plume]

Ok, so I go to GitHub (browser) and download the .zip

(not from GitHub Desktop)
okay anyway?

[grim ore]

yep if you download that its basically the same as getting the files from cloning. the .zip will have all the files you need

[brittle plume]

Can I download it directly from EpicGames / UnrealEngine or do I have to do the Folk?

[grim ore]

you get release when you get it from there, that should be 4.27.2 if that is the version you need to build a dedicated engine for

if not grab the specific branch or tag for your version you need

[brittle plume]

Oh so I can't use Unreal Engine 4.26 anymore but I have to download 2.27?

[grim ore]

I would recommend getting the exact version you need

you can, choose that branch

[brittle plume]

oh ok perfect

[brittle plume]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine ?

[grim ore]

click the buttons i showed

[brittle plume]

yes, but is this the right directory?

[grim ore]

that is the main repo for UE yes

[brittle plume]

What differentiates 4.26 from 4.26-chaos?

[grim ore]

do you need chaos? if you dont then...

lol

[echo star]

sorry to interrupt, totally unrelated but I've just realized who you are and want to thank you for your videos, they've been such an amazing resource for me over the years! You've been a great help in me being able to work in the games industry so truly thank you 🙂

[brittle plume]

Ok! thanks for everything, I greet you!

[grim ore]

you should be able to just extract/uncompress it to your E drive and it will go into UnrealEngine-4.26. I would rename the folder to whatever you want like UE4 or UnrealEngine or something smaller without the -4.26 part before doing setup and generate. it should work.... I've done that a hundred times and.. it should work lol

[plush yew]

help

like to sell my computer guess shes turning into my wife xD

[sterile lichen]

stop using \ as it creates an escape sequence for command line continuation

[muted kestrel]

can some one help me make a good ammo system with this fire system

[limber tiger]

What is the proper channel to ask material questions in for unreal engine 5?

[ashen delta]

I still have this issue and its driving me mad and now Substance Painter freezes with the latest update. This post is about a year old.. which are the most recent and stable drivers for the 3090. At the moment UE4 doesn't work with my card and perhaps they should stop promoting NVIDIA until their software works with it, not blaming UE4 I know its my card. Please help I'm loosing my mind.

[split jasper]

Anyone have any ideas why Simulate Physics is locked and not editable on this bp?

I promise I'm not simulating anything

[cursive turtle]

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[split jasper]

I really try to keep it in the right channel but in this case I don't even know wtf is going on. Is it a physics issue? A BP thing? Something because of my animation? Who can say, not me that's for sure

[cursive turtle]

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[split jasper]

FIGURED IT OUT kinda mostly!

I still dont know how it happened but if you ever see "Simulate Physics" grayed out, that means your physics asset has become unassociated from your skeletal mesh

[cursive turtle]

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[drowsy snow]

I'm not awake 24/7, and I'm not sorry for that, at all.

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

But I doubt it's really UE5 specific, so #graphics then

[cursive turtle]

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[grim ore]

it depends on the time, and the day, and the question, and the channel, and the inclination of the people in the channel... so.... pretty much normal for any public forum lol

like if someone was to ask right now "why do my shaders compile slowly" I would be like "uninstall incredibuild" and bam 100% answer rate right now!

but if someone was "my engine keeps crashing with TDR delay timeout" we would all shrug our shoulders and tell them its a nvidia thing and not UE4 and now our help rate is 50%

so then we get sad it dropped so much and we leave the channel and now no one is here to answer questions

[wild aspen]

sorry I'm asking here cause it seems like people don't tend to look at the umg channel much: #umg message

[faint meadow]

I want to use the developer folder to experiment with a new AI system. If I end up wanted to use the AI system I create, can I simply drag the folder that contains it into my main project files?

I dont want to clutter my main project files

[polar oriole]

Are there any good plugins for creating mountains and hills?

[thick herald]

There a few alpha stamp packs that you can use with the sculpt tool.

[faint meadow]

where did my developers folder go???

wtf

[plush yew]

Maybe restart the engine if you haven’t already?

That is proper weird

[faint meadow]

It came back and deleted shit in side of it

Lol

Wasn’t much in there but that’s scary

[polar oriole]

Dumb question, but is ue5 stable?

[bleak zodiac]

is early access at moment, mostly are used for either prototype or testing out stuffs

[polar oriole]

Ok thank you

[split jasper]

Okay bringing it here since I'm 100% striking out everywhere

How do I change the pose for a Physics Asset?

[rotund scroll]

simulate?

[split jasper]

Simulate does this

when it's SUPPOSED to be posed like this

[rotund scroll]

retry until you get the right pose? 🙂

[split jasper]

That's the problem, simulating snaps it back to the reference pose every single time

it's always the same

[rotund scroll]

you can save pose while simulating I think?

something like that

[split jasper]

I can create a Pose asset from it, but here's the problem: I already have. The "correct" pose above, that's FROM a Pose asset.

But it does me no good because simulating snaps it back to the reference pose, so my pose is useless

[rotund scroll]

I dont have the editor open but worst case I can give you an answer over the weekend

[split jasper]

To put it another way, what I'm going for: bodies in space

what I'm getting: Mr Fisticuffs

[drowsy snow]

So, zero gravity?

I suppose you could set the rotation limit on the joints

[split jasper]

honestly with the joints locked it's prefect, just the right amount of flex. The pose is the only issue

[drowsy snow]

Physical anims, I guess

[split jasper]

What do you mean?

[drowsy turtle]

how can I use my entire PC to compile UE4? Like, VS2019 barely uses any resources so it's taking forever

[bright sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tDjbFXeOo have you?

[drowsy snow]

If you're compiling modules, most of the bottleneck goes to your storage medium, not the CPU.

[drowsy turtle]

huh, I am compiling the engine though

[drowsy snow]

Still the same.

[drowsy turtle]

so literally no way to speed the process up?

[drowsy snow]

I've compiled the engine many times already.

[drowsy snow]

Aside from compiling in an SSD, no.

[drowsy turtle]

shit, I can't compile it on my SSD, because I don't have enough storage on it

well, guess I have to buy a new SSD

[drowsy snow]

It really comes down to the modules that has bottleneck on the storage more. The rest of the parts (third party C/C++ codes, ISPC, libs, dlls) goes more to CPU (and RAM) as you would expect

[drowsy snow]

That being said though, one other way to speed up is to delete plugins that you're not going to use in your project(s)

For example, my own fork of 4.27 removed anything Virtual Production, Enterprise, and XR stuff. Cutting down the actions from 4727 down to around 3500.

At the very least you have less modules to compile.

[rose sleet]

Hey this is probably a stupid question but i hope it's possible. I have made a game using unreal and i would like to add it to my ps4 and play it on there. Is there a way i can save the game on a USB and then download the game on my ps4?

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/jackie-chan-funny-get-high-coub-gif-8727123

[stray drift]

VS 2022 is a decent bit faster at compiling, like 20% as per a forum thread

[drowsy turtle]

Well, GenerateProjectFiles.bat said I need VS 2017 or VS 2019. It didn't even detect VS 2022

[stray drift]

Sony are draconian with their processes (https://thetechietrickle.com/how-to-get-ps5-dev-kit-and-quick-recap-on-it/)

Xbox will send you a free kit, and to keep IIRC

[drowsy turtle]

nope, that's 4.27

[stray drift]

You can open the generated project in VS 2022, and it offers to update it. Wouldn't recommend doing so if you don't know what you're doing though

[dense knoll]

UE consistantly crashes whenever closing a tab in editor

[rancid lynx]

how terrible is setting a variable every single frame ? Ram doesnt wear out the same was that SSD cards do right ? updating a variable every frame is basically free right ? no prolem ? if done properlly, thats what gpus and cpus do right ? math and updates.

i just want to save the scale of a mesh every single frame lol X_x. thats not a terrible dangerous idea right ? I imagine "memory leak" or "no problem" as probably answers. and im not sure which it is. Im guessing No problem.

[stray drift]

right ? 🐣

Memory leaks are unfreed memory. A variable being assigned to would be a variable clearly in use still, so a completely different thing

RAM, SSDs, and HDDs are different things. RAM is volatile for example. You still do have bandwidth concerns, but assigning to a book would be the least of your concerns normally 🤷

[rancid lynx]

thanks. i imagined saving a variable every frame is pretty standard stuff. but then i started second guessing.

[stray drift]

Oh it's not a bool, but whatever. The engine and physics ticks keep track of thousands of things in an empty scene.

You're always better off just benchmarking things as well, of course. Keep in mind BP is inefficient in PIE, and much better fully compiled and built.

[rancid lynx]

im not making new variables every frame, just overwritting old data.

thanks

[stray drift]

It's not something you should be doing unnecessarily, but there's lots of cases where you need to, so whatever

[rancid lynx]

thats kind of what i thought also.

[stray drift]

Yup, so memory leaks would be EG keeping track of the variable by adding to an array that you only ever get the last (and latest) item of, now that would be a stupid idea. I should try it to see what happens.

You can't really cause a significant memory leak by a single variable, it needs to be hundreds or thousands of MB to be noticeable, while a float is what, 32 bits?

[neon bough]

is there anything wrong about putting post process component on a player rather than span it across the whole level? (e.g.: for stuff like outlines)

[timid spade]

hi

i have a timer set to 0 start delay

yet i have to hold my mouse for about 100-200 milliseconds before it actually activates the function its bound to

is this supposed to happen?

i was using a work around by running the function first before starting the timer however i cant figure out a way to not let the user spam mouse1 and use the function with no delay

[sterile sun]

any pointers would be appreciated

[tall sorrel]

Thoughts?

you can adjust the amount of puddles, wind speed, how much rain hits them, the size of the rain drops and I have another material function I am working on that will make rain drops roll down the side of the object if a puddle is touching the edge. (this works with landscapes, and any object, although I haven't tested it on a complex objects that could have overhangs, but stuff like benches, trash cans, tables, cars, and any of the thousands of other types of basic objects it works great on)

edit: its also modeled after the rain that is free for the month, but its hella unoptimized on landscapes, so I just created my own.

I just have everything on the default value of 1, in the video

[sterile sun]

what is this node use for?

[bright sigil]

convert int to a string

[sterile sun]

ok

👍

[idle mantle]

Is there voxel format import for UE? Only found paid vdb so far which i guess would probably best format

Only found a paid plugin? Any luck?

[snow rivet]

The feature should be there already in UE4

[tall sorrel]

lmao XD

I just spent like 30 minutes trying to figure out hwy quixel wouldn't export

and....

you have to click export

[grave tangle]

somme one have tutorial to create and add a facial morph target anim in epic skeleton ?

[plush yew]

is there any reason why my live footage in ue4 only captures the first frame and then stops?

[hidden bloom]

Fully Imported Unreal 4.26 Size 20km x 20 km Took 4 days as theres a bug to get passed but finally figured it out

[dire cairn]

I've missed free bundles from last month for Unreal Engine 4, were they any good?

[unkempt wave]

Can I replace the Asset reference without destroying the asset that the reference has been taken?

[plush yew]

not really

[dire cairn]

Yeah, from what I've seen I also missed one from November, there were some good bundles

Shiet

[plush yew]

Is there a way to hide the white balls from my scene?

[drowsy snow]

Give it some anti-fungus medicine

Just kidding, those are usually actor billboards, only visible in editor

[rotund scroll]

you can replace the default root scene component with a new SceneComponent and they'll disappear

[plush yew]

yeah, in the preview render they dont show up, it's only that the model i made is so tiny the balls completly obscure the model whn im a bit zoomed out.

[plush yew]

Thank you i will look into that

[neon bough]

or press G in viewport

or disable billboard rendering in the show menue which is on top of viewport

[weak coral]

https://youtu.be/newvwEEzUZQ

I am starting can u help me 🥲

[drowsy snow]

See pinned message of this channel 😉

[weak coral]

Thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[brittle plume]

I finished the GitHub Unreal Engine setup, but when I click GenerateProjectFIle.bat it gives this error:

Setting up Unreal Engine 4 project files ...
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Visual Studio \ 2019 \ Community \ MSBuild \ Current \ Bin \ Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targe
ts (1217,5): error MSB3644: Reference assemblies for .NETFramework, Version = v4.6.2 were not found. For res
To solve the problem, install Developer Pack (SDK / Targeting Pack) for this version of the framework or repurpose the ap
plication. You can download the .NET Framework Developer Pack at https://aka.ms/msbuild/developerpacks [E:
\ UnrealEngine-4.26 \ Engine \ Source \ Programs \ UnrealBuildTool \ UnrealBuildTool.csproj]

GenerateProjectFiles ERROR: UnrealBuildTool failed to compile.

[slow sentinel]

hello everyone! Anybody can help me?
i have this problem, and i dont understand how i can fix it

[drowsy snow]

Have you install "Desktop development with .NET" component?

[drowsy snow]

Android?

[slow sentinel]

yes

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[slow sentinel]

thanks

[cinder knot]

hey so errr

is there an array node to randomize animations?

as a reason for me to not use the animBP

because im not a game dev 😦

[drowsy snow]

VS 2019, right? It should be included in the .NET configuration

Try looking for .NET Framework 4.6.2 in Individual components

[drowsy snow]

You don't need to be a gamedev to use animBP.

Anyway, what kind of animations are you talking about? Montages/sequences? States?

[cinder knot]

yes but im too lazy to learn it rn

[cinder knot]

a montage

basically

i got this 5 recoil animations i thought it be easier to do in unreal

since..... niagara

i want it to play the event and randomize that 5 recoil animation

while also blend it together

basically no snapping

its pretty ambitious since i got no experience with animBP and very very little experience with a blueprint

[brittle plume]

I did it all, and it worked ... Now I have opened my .sln project and created MyProjectServer.Target.cs
with this code:

// Copyright Epic Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

using UnrealBuildTool;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class GreenPollyServerTarget : TargetRules // Change this line according to the name of your project
{
    public GreenPollyServerTarget (TargetInfo Target) : base (Target) // Change this line according to the name of your project
    {
        Type = TargetType.Server;
        DefaultBuildSettings = BuildSettingsVersion.V2;
        ExtraModuleNames.Add ("GreenPolly"); // Change this line according to the name of your project
    }
}

|| GreenPolly would be the name, don't judge XD ||

But Visual Studio gives this error:

Server targets are not currently supported from this engine distribution.

MSB3073 exit from command "E: \ UE_4.26 \ Engine \ Build \ BatchFiles \ Build.bat GreenPollyServer Win64 Development -Project =" E: \ Coding \ UE-soft \ GreenPolly \ GreenPolly.uproject "-WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" with code 6.

[drowsy snow]

I don't know anything about building for dedicaticated server.

[brittle plume]

Am I writing to #multiplayer or #online-subsystems?

[cinder knot]

i guess its better in either of those 2

[drowsy snow]

Crosspost without prior redirecting is prohibited.

[drowsy snow]

#multiplayer maybe.

[plush yew]

Is it possible to to run physics simulation for clothes/hair through the mesh geometry instead of its physics asset which isn't precise? Or is there a way to use complex shape as a physics asset instead of primitives? Performance doesn't matter as I only need this for rendering.

[drowsy snow]

Not with the realtime cloth sim.

You have to do it externally.

[haughty dock]

ok so can anyone tell me how to move the vertex of a mesh in blender

[primal tendon]

So I wanted shooter character animations, is there any other place except mixamo to get it, even paid I could check...

[bleak zodiac]

las time i did cloth simulation was in maya, after that i let the TD do it

[drowsy snow]

Compare the forward vector, maybe?

[cinder knot]

right

[drowsy snow]

Blender have cloth sim, bake it and try to export the results as alembic data cache.

[cinder knot]

now, yo hood do you know an array node for animation?

just wonderin

[haughty dock]

Oh thanks

[drowsy snow]

What do you mean? Just make array of reference to anim montage

[cinder knot]

yeah ill try that

hopefully

google can get my answers too

[plush yew]

Hmm not sure if UE4 could handle that many bones and keyframes on a single mesh if I would bake the whole hair simulation from a 3d software into an fbx

[drowsy snow]

Just the cloth sim prebaked as alembic would barely make a dent.

[plush yew]

I did 😄

[drowsy snow]

Forget I said about hair

[plush yew]

It's ok

[drowsy snow]

Hairs are kind of a different beast, especially if you're using Groom asset.

[brittle plume]

I love those characters, he looks like the thin Michelin man, while the others look like the villain of Detective Conan when he was censored for not letting anyone know who he was XD

[plush yew]

yeah I already did an animation using groom and I had to give in much effort to keep the long hair strands awfully colliding into the character's body. I had to manually move the hair from the head when the camera was pointing to the characters back so it looks natural..

[drowsy snow]

It's just stock ALS mannequin, but okay

[brittle plume]

HAHAHA

[plush yew]

in this shot the head is basically located at the red circle, I moved the hair to the air so the strands don't go crazy

[lavish moth]

Hello guys, how do I connect my Unreal Engin game with Metamask?

[cinder knot]

ngl

i cant even understand how to use animBPs for some reason

welll.....

ill try

[exotic thicket]

There is a marketplace plugin to help you participate in NFT grift if you really want to

[lavish moth]

Can you tell me what it's called?

[exotic thicket]

search for "nft" it'll probably show up

forget what it was called, saw it the other day while browsing plugins

I should warn you that pretty much all NFT related gaming projects have been getting pretty negative reactions so unless you're targeting cryptobros with yours...

[lavish moth]

Thanks 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Can't see how timers won't fit the bill.

[tall sorrel]

Is it normal to say ||fuck|| about 3 days of work, because you found a way to do it that is better in the long run, and is a bit more optimized?

[drowsy snow]

Thank fuck for the discovery for a better way.

[dry wharf]

hello how can i make a certain ghost on my game do specific stuff like in phasmophobia

[drowsy snow]

Not specific enough (question's too broad), and imply nobody plays phasmophobia (I don't)

[merry gazelle]

I'm encountering a very strange counting issue inside a function, these variables are only used in this part of the function.

I'm counting "step count" up from "-1". Once it hits the "step limit" which is set to "10" I want the boolean to be set to "true".
The problem is the first step count doesn't go to "0" but rather "1", even stranger is everytime the boolean fires it's already "true"

[plush yew]

I'm aware udims are big boy stuff in any game engine but maybe one of you guys will understand how they work, why is it i can see the splits between my uv islands inside unreal engine after applying udim textures, textures look fine in painter, exported as ue4 packed, the packed texture has srgb turned off and i imported only the first 1001 file for each texture type

ive no idea what could even cause this and its only unreal engine this happens in

[drowsy snow]

Never even heard of UDIM before.

What the fuck is UDIM anyway?

[plush yew]

@drowsy snowudims are uv copies for non tiling textures, pretty much only used in film for most of the last decade but some newer video games use them, the idea is a texture that isnt tiled is at a fixed resolution like when you scale a texture smaller in substance painter and it gets blurry imagine a texture scaling but the uv not moving with it (sorry i dont have a better description) udims let you have multiple uv tiles so you can preserve texal desnity regardless of resolution

it can also make low quality textures look nicer

[drowsy snow]

So basically "out of bounds" UV islands, is that right?

[plush yew]

yeah

more uvs basically lol

[drowsy snow]

The way I see it, the issue is how far you can go out of bounds before floating point errors take place.

[plush yew]

you can use only 20 tiles in unreal engine

its wack

but blender can use up to 100

[drowsy snow]

What makes UDIM different than if I would do the same thing with just different material slots/elements and different UV map indices?

Saving texture sampler count?

[prime willow]

o.o

hi

[drowsy turtle]

my god. It's been like 3 hours and compiling is done in 378/4527. Compiling UE is pain

[drowsy snow]

Try 24 hours 😏

[plush yew]

rip

[drowsy turtle]

😳

[plush yew]

hi snowie

[drowsy turtle]

maybe if power wouldn't be that expensive here then I would let it compile over night

[prime willow]

if i use 4.27

how do i cheat and make my 4.26 addons and software convert to 4.26

o-o

[drowsy snow]

Oh yes, I wasted several days just to rebuild the engine several times to iron out nasty UBT & MSBuild errors

[prime willow]

i want to mvoe to 4.27 asap

[drowsy snow]

As in plugins from Marketplace?

[drowsy turtle]

please don't scare me

[prime willow]

but almost all of my assets i wanna use are not 4.27

yes

plugins and addons etc

[drowsy snow]

Unless you're trying to install from launcher, the plugins should just works in 4.27, and the assets will carried through just fine.

[prime willow]

like

super duper

garenteed?

i wont be fluffed sideways ;-;

[drowsy snow]

There might be some compile errors with macros and indirect includes, and some warnings about deprecated syntaxes (you can fix yourself), but other than that, it should just works.

My own project still had some 4.26 plugins and still works despite the engine keeps nagging me on startup

[cursive turtle]

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[drowsy snow]

Add Impulse?

[cursive turtle]

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[drowsy snow]

Get Forward Vector from your character's world rotation

[tall sorrel]

newbie question, but is displacement the height map?

[drowsy snow]

In 🩳, yes.

[cursive turtle]

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[tall sorrel]

ok good, because it looks like one, and the material I am using off of quixel doesn't have a height map on it

[drowsy snow]

Get Forward Vector. You just need to get the rotation for the forward vector, then multiply it by some float.

[drowsy snow]

Eh, displacement maps for detailing mesh is mostly irrelevant.

[prime willow]

no last known input than tie to to a forward vector than apply launch for controlled push and impulse if you want momentu based movement

[cursive turtle]

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[drowsy snow]

Yeah.
Though depending on your use of Control Rotation, it may go to less desired location

[cursive turtle]

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

[brittle plume]

We are in the same situation, I started it at 2 pm and it finished 10 minutes ago ...

[stray drift]

It's 2AM for me, so wow 12 hours is slow :p

[brittle plume]

But where do you live?

[stray drift]

Have you seen Stranger Things? I live in the monster land there - Upside Down 🪃🇦🇹

[brittle plume]

do you live in austria?

[brittle plume]

No, I haven't seen Stranger Things despite having Netflix

[stray drift]

Yeah but with kangaroos and boomerangs

[brittle plume]

Isn't that Australia?

[stray drift]

You can't spell Australia without all the letters from Austria 🤷

[brittle plume]

So, you live in Austria or Austra-lia?

[drowsy snow]

@stray drift Bail out, the joke didn't work

[stray drift]

I don't think Austria's 9 time zones away from you!

Australia though. Is hot.

[kindred depot]

audio seems like a pretty dead channel, does anyone have an idea on how to achieve this? I want to play this audio on the outside of areas and when the character is inside , he does not hear the wind sound. How would I made the box not play the same audio over and over again per sound put down? Is there some guide on how to do this? I am watching the video Ambient and Procedural sounds, but this seems to not cover this.

[brittle plume]

Saw a very old anime located in Sidney

[stray drift]

Metasounds, if UE5?

[kindred depot]

is that what meta sounds is?

[brittle plume]

A collision box that stops the sound of the wind when it begins? and who takes him back when he leaves the area?

[stray drift]

PS I just tried the Matrix experience and wow, it's skitz.

It's a very powerful procedural audio authoring tool, so it should be capable of that most probably, and a lot more

[kindred depot]

I'm just going to look at meta sounds seems like if that is the future of sound, might as well join the fun.

time to watch more guides >_<

[stray drift]

I'm wondering wtf the scene authoring thing was mentioned in the Matrix demo. It was like a rule based object placement? First I heard of if

[brittle plume]

you want to stop the sound when you enter a house, right?

[kindred depot]

Yeah stop the sound.

[drowsy snow]

I forgot the setup to achieve this, but IIRC I just let audio occlusion doing its thing

[kindred depot]

hmm interesting

[stray drift]

Or a level BP detecting collision events, or a sound player actor

I assumed more importance was on the audio not looping too obviously, but if not... 🤷

[drowsy snow]

Also not to mention performance could take a hit with stray audio playback, so...

[kindred depot]

seriously? sounds can impact that?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[astral iris]

hi - what thread is best to ask general questions?

[drowsy snow]

Which is why sound design is still a balancing act.

[kindred depot]

thank god i just nanited every single static mesh then lol

[drowsy snow]

Depends on what's the topic.
This channel is for general Unreal Engine 4 stuff

[kindred depot]

Im going to dive deeper into sounds then, I would not want that to happen.

yeah

[astral iris]

I'm having a problem that when I attempt to import .fbx files into unreal it causes my windows explorer to become unresponsive

[drowsy snow]

Aaron McLeran posted a lot about sound design on #audio, look up for his username there.

[kindred depot]

will do!

[astral iris]

only while using unreal, im wondering if it is something corrupt in my file

[drowsy snow]

That shouldn't happen, if you drag and drop from File Explorer, Unreal should let go of the former's hanging response.

But FWIW Windows's File Explorer exhibit this issue pretty often anyway

[astral iris]

yeah, i just recently upgraded my computer so I am surprised i'm having this issue

its only wrt to unreal, not photoshop or blender etc

i'm wondering if I shouldn't scrap everything and redownload unreal and start a new project

[drowsy snow]

Does Unreal actually crash or waiting for a dialogue box hidden somewhere?

[brittle plume]

I hate AVG

[astral iris]

unreal is fine, windows explorer is totally unresponsive

maybe its only a probelm with windows explorer but i only have to fight with it when i am using unreal

[stray drift]

Even our games are being quarantined now SMH

[astral iris]

for whatever reason

[drowsy snow]

This is hilarious lmao

[drowsy snow]

I'm blaming on your Windows installation then (and maybe your house's windows if the ventilation is bad)

[proud hedge]

Can I use the same light source (or heightfog) in multiple shots in the sequencer with different angles? If yes, how does it work so I do not screw up other shots I already created with that light/heightfog?

[drowsy snow]

AVG is a joke

[astral iris]

hmm

thank you for your time

[drowsy snow]

If you're in newer updates of Windows 10, just stick with the built in Windows Defender.

Windows Defender in recent years is ACTUALLY good and has incredibly low rate of false positives.

But the way it stalls file read until the scan finished can slow down the build times.

[small pewter]

Could someone tell me what scale should my Box Trigger be to fit perfectly a 100 by 100 by 100 Unreal Unit cube please ? It looks like the scale of the Box Trigger is weird.

Nevermind it's a 0.5 ratio

[rotund scroll]

you can use box extents to make it 100x100x100 exactly without using scale

[small pewter]

That's what I used but no it's not 100x100x100, I had to put it to 50x50x50

[rotund scroll]

well unless it's a child of something that's 2x scale

that doesn't make sense

[small pewter]

Because Unreal creates by default a 200x200x200 cube when you use the Geometry tool to create a cube, so I set it to 100,100,100 so half of the size maybe that's why

[rotund scroll]

unless the scale is 2.0 it wouldn't matter what size the cube is

[small pewter]

nope the scale is at 1,1,1

[drowsy snow]

Wasn't volume boxes from Place Actor hardcoded?

[small pewter]

What do you mean ?

[drowsy snow]

It's not the same as BSP brushes

[small pewter]

I used the Box Brush from the Geometry tab in the "Place Actors" panel

and converted that to a static mesh

[drowsy snow]

Whaaaat

How does that relate to Trigger Volume?

[small pewter]

oh you meant the trigger volume

I just added the Box Collision component to the default Scene Root and the scale of all of these are at 1,1,1

[bright sigil]

why the hell are you trying to affect scale? just use the extents

[rotund scroll]

maybe it's because the pivot is in the center

but no, that's still not right

[small pewter]

I don't affect scale, I used the extents and it's at 50,50,50 for a 100,100,100 cube and it doesn't make sense

[bright sigil]

because its midpoint

extent from middle

50 in each direction

[small pewter]

oh then it's normal

thank you

[late osprey]

Using unreal 4.27 to try and package my android game. Can anyone please tell me how to solve the error here? please?

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[sharp crest]

Anyone knows why someone is getting this error when trying to launch my game? The game process just opens for a few seconds and then closes. In the UE4 logs there is no error.

Faulting application name: SpaceVoxel.exe, version: 4.26.1.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.19041.789, time stamp: 0x2bd748bf
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x000000000007286e
Faulting process id: 0x27ec
Faulting application start time: 0x01d803ead1e16483
Faulting application path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Outerverse\SpaceVoxel\Binaries\Win64\SpaceVoxel.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll
Report Id: ee242efd-71d3-4992-9ca5-710a27f65338
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-01-07T17:20:11.2141541Z" />
    <EventRecordID>55697</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>imperiex</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>SpaceVoxel.exe</Data>
    <Data>4.26.1.0</Data>
    <Data>00000000</Data>
    <Data>ucrtbase.dll</Data>
    <Data>10.0.19041.789</Data>
    <Data>2bd748bf</Data>
    <Data>c0000409</Data>
    <Data>000000000007286e</Data>
    <Data>27ec</Data>
    <Data>01d803ead1e16483</Data>
    <Data>D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Outerverse\SpaceVoxel\Binaries\Win64\SpaceVoxel.exe</Data>
    <Data>C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll</Data>
    <Data>ee242efd-71d3-4992-9ca5-710a27f65338</Data>```

[stiff stratus]

I have encountered quite the issue, and I cannot seem to find an answer. I did a Google search for the error I am getting, and I have tried everything found (going back as far as six years of solutions). I am hoping someone here has encountered this issue before or knows more than I do. Here we go...

I have a project that I am preparing to package for a build to share with my team this weekend. One thing I always do before packaging is "Build Lighting". When I tried to build, I got the following error...

There are a number of suggested solutions, but none of them has provided resolution. I did find a thread from a few years ago that suggested reviewing the SwarmAgent messages, and I found this error there...

The path listed in the last line doesn't exist on my machine though (unless it is really hidden).

Does anyone here have any suggestions on how to resolve this? I am under the gun to finish this build today, so I am pleading for a quick response.

[tardy hedge]

I need to implement different logic per play start, how do I get which player start from player character

[drowsy turtle]

bruh, now it's been like 5 hours? 950/4527

I think I'm going to give up

[drowsy snow]

Well, either give up or leave it overnight.

[drowsy turtle]

then my only option is to give up.

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[drowsy turtle]

or I can either compile it on my SSD and then after it finishes I can move the files to HDD

ah yes, I'm big brain

[drowsy snow]

Well yes, but actually no.

[drowsy turtle]

what, why?

[drowsy snow]

From my experience, moving the engine folder can cause entire engine to rebuild, unless you make installed builds

[drowsy turtle]

meh, Imma try it anyway. If it won't work then I will just install it from EG launcher

[drowsy snow]

Are you trying to build for dedicated server?

[drowsy turtle]

no

for my workstation

[stiff stratus]

I am not sure what you are asking. Are you saying you don't want the player to start at the Player start actor?

[prime willow]

if i change my folde rnames in the file area instead of the engine itself

would it break the project xD

renaming in project takes forever

[drowsy snow]

Probably similar to how Doom has 4 different player starts.

[drowsy snow]

Oh yes, it would.

[prime willow]

than i wont

xD

[stiff stratus]

If you want to have multiple spawn points and have one chosen randomly, you can create an actor called "SpawnPoint" or something like that and then create an array of all the SpawnPoint actors and use a ForEach loop to select one randomly. There is also a "TargetPoint" actor built into Unreal that is perfect for this so you don't need to create your own actor.

[dry wharf]

can someone help

[stiff stratus]

Can you copy the full text of the error from the output log?

[dry wharf]

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): ERROR: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'C:\Users\diaci\Documents\Unreal Projects\Game1\Binaries\Win64\Game1.target'. Check that this target has been built.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): (see C:\Users\diaci\AppData\Roaming\Unreal Engine\AutomationTool\Logs\C+Program+Files+Epic+Games+UE_4.27\Log.txt for full exception trace)
PackagingResults: Error: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'C:\Users\diaci\Documents\Unreal Projects\Game1\Binaries\Win64\Game1.target'. Check that this target has been built.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=103 (Error_MissingExecutable)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults: Error: Missing UE4Game binary.You may have to build the UE4 project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline:UE4Game <Platform> <Configuration>
LogSlate: Window 'Message' being destroyed
Message dialog closed, result: Cancel, title: Message, text: Missing UE4Game binary.
You may have to build the UE4 project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline:
UE4Game <Platform> <Configuration>
LogSlate: Window 'Output Log' being destroyed
LogSlate: Window 'Output Log' being destroyed

[brittle plume]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221799385611239424/929089933237448794/unknown.png

[drowsy snow]

Do yourself a favour and uninstall that shit antivirus.

[brittle plume]

Trust me knowing me I would catch 1000 viruses

[drowsy snow]

Use the built in Windows Defender instead.

[split jasper]

You know Windows just comes with antivirus right? it's built in now

[drowsy snow]

It actually has low rate of false positive and good detection.

[split jasper]

The only reason it wasn't always just automatically a part of Windows was the MS consent decree but that expired

[hot ruin]

what is ur shitty anti virus

most anti virus's are only useful

when OFFLINE

otherwise they perform worse than defender

[drowsy snow]

Built in Windows Defender.

[hot ruin]

oh woops i thot u were the other guy

[drowsy snow]

He used AVG

[hot ruin]

THE TOOLBAR FUCKS?

SERIOUSLY?

[brittle plume]

😦

[hot ruin]

almost as bad as using mcafee

the only virus you have entrolol is avg do youserlf a favor and rmove it, ur pc will run faster and better

[drowsy snow]

No need to push that Caps Lock
But most other AVs are either quack or outright rogue

[hot ruin]

oh please

[dry wharf]

can someone please help

[hot ruin]

i dont push caps lock

this isnt a barfight

[brittle plume]

But I didn't download it! I use MalwareBytes

[hot ruin]

I HOLD SHIFT LIKE A MAN

[dry wharf]

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): ERROR: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'C:\Users\diaci\Documents\Unreal Projects\Game1\Binaries\Win64\Game1-Win64-Shipping.target'. Check that this target has been built.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): (see C:\Users\diaci\AppData\Roaming\Unreal Engine\AutomationTool\Logs\C+Program+Files+Epic+Games+UE_4.27\Log.txt for full exception trace)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=103 (Error_MissingExecutable)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults: Error: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'C:\Users\diaci\Documents\Unreal Projects\Game1\Binaries\Win64\Game1-Win64-Shipping.target'. Check that this target has been built.
PackagingResults: Error: Missing UE4Game binary.You may have to build the UE4 project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline:UE4Game <Platform> <Configuration>
LogSlate: Window 'Message' being destroyed
Message dialog closed, result: Ok, title: Message, text: Missing UE4Game binary.
You may have to build the UE4 project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline:
UE4Game <Platform> <Configuration>
LogSlate: Window 'Output Log' being destroyed
LogSlate: Window 'Output Log' being destroyed

[drowsy snow]

Also please change that username, it irritates me and possibly others when scrolling up

[hot ruin]

no

[brittle plume]

Should I do the same?

[hot ruin]

no

stand proud

[split jasper]

At least yours CONTAINS a fuckin word

[hot ruin]

mine contains a letter

i think

[fierce tulip]

im actually inclined to change both your names tbh

[hot ruin]

well ur a mod so if u want me to change my nick i can

just specify ur parameters

[split jasper]

honestly the length of the name bugs me more than the content of it

[fierce tulip]

i'd appreciate it, no parameters, but something readable would be appreciated :)

[hot ruin]

roger roger

[drowsy snow]

Are you using the launcher build of the editor?

[fierce tulip]

thanks!

[dry wharf]

i am using the launcher from epic

[drowsy snow]

Try verifying the installation

[hot ruin]

done

[dry wharf]

i am doing it now

[brittle plume]

Don't worry, I'm used to it, as long as it is written in large letters, my name cannot be written "entrolol"

[drowsy snow]

The problem with (what I would refer) bold, seemingly random esoteric symbols is that scrolling up through the messages can cause strain in the eye to some people.

And I'm saying that as someone who looks through a lot of code and compile logs.

[hot ruin]

lol

[hot ruin]

thats their fucking problem

[sharp crest]

Hey, anyone knows why someone is getting this error when trying to launch my game? The game process just opens for a few seconds and then closes. In the UE4 logs there is no error.
I think the key issue here is Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll, but they do have this file. We tried everything we found online but it still won't work for 2 people trying to play my game.

Faulting application name: SpaceVoxel.exe, version: 4.26.1.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.19041.789, time stamp: 0x2bd748bf
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x000000000007286e
Faulting process id: 0x27ec
Faulting application start time: 0x01d803ead1e16483
Faulting application path: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Outerverse\SpaceVoxel\Binaries\Win64\SpaceVoxel.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll
Report Id: ee242efd-71d3-4992-9ca5-710a27f65338
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-01-07T17:20:11.2141541Z" />
    <EventRecordID>55697</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>imperiex</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>SpaceVoxel.exe</Data>
    <Data>4.26.1.0</Data>
    <Data>00000000</Data>
    <Data>ucrtbase.dll</Data>
    <Data>10.0.19041.789</Data>
    <Data>2bd748bf</Data>
    <Data>c0000409</Data>
    <Data>000000000007286e</Data>
    <Data>27ec</Data>
    <Data>01d803ead1e16483</Data>
    <Data>D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Outerverse\SpaceVoxel\Binaries\Win64\SpaceVoxel.exe</Data>
    <Data>C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll</Data>
    <Data>ee242efd-71d3-4992-9ca5-710a27f65338</Data>```

[drowsy snow]

I already get that you're an egoistic asshole :)

[hot ruin]

fucking just change discord to suit your needs

better discord exists

[brittle plume]

Wouldn't you mind if someone said the same to you?

[sharp crest]

kinda against tos

[hot ruin]

the problem was eye strain yes? I get eye strain

i fixed it by changing discord

OFC not by any official TOS violation

(chrome themes exist)

[drowsy snow]

Better think for everyone else, dude. The world does not revolve around you.

[hot ruin]

honestly as long as you dont like screenshot it, and dont claim u are using it, (like me for example, I dont use it) its cool

[brittle plume]

I believe that the BetterDiscord problem becomes banned only when you use Plugins like FreeEmoji, which basically allows you to do things with a license that you don't have.

[hot ruin]

BD is against TOS, and discord will ban you for it

though you have to REALLY try

like its very dont ask dont tell

well yes, u have to find a theme that works for you, or make ur own, like i did

but chrome theme for me

[brittle plume]

Exactly, I say that whoever uses it is really banned ... But if you use BD only for the themes there is no problem (In my opinion)

[hot ruin]

yeah pretty much

just do not advert it , and be carefule where u screenshot it

[brittle plume]

I have only modified an already existing theme

[hot ruin]

I used a barebones template for my chrome theme

but i did most of the real featureset

myself

but seriously tho

if scrolling past names gives you eyestrain

maybe get that checked out

as the internet is full of that type of shit

and discord is not a work platform

[brittle plume]

To me who banned from a server just because I wrote in Italian: 👀

[hot ruin]

i know a guy who was banned from a music server

for writing italian

Let that sink in

music server

italian

music

italian

[brittle plume]

Let me know, NOW, I need it

[drowsy snow]

I know this is the internet, and you're not supposed to be a whiny bitch

But at least have some bloody respect to others, I scroll up to find questions and related post to answer.

[hot ruin]

idk the server, it was like a small one

[hot ruin]

again ,its the internet, whiny bitching is kind of standard

[brittle plume]

WELCOME TO THE INTERNET

[drowsy snow]

Even if I'm a bit assholistic elsewhere, at least I know the place and circumstances :)

And this is getting off tangent, no use for me to mess with a jerk.

[brittle plume]

I swear the Build Unreal Engine is still not working and now it gives me more problems than before ... I will be leaving Unreal Engine soon 🕷️

[drowsy snow]

Use the launcher build to get straight to the editor.

[brittle plume]

But if I use the ListenServer technique do I still need that build?

Most of all, why do I need an external build to do something normal?

[drowsy snow]

Probably, but I'd say you need to change your type of game so that it doesn't need a dedicated server.

[brittle plume]

It would be a meaningless game

[drowsy snow]

LAN party is still cool

Single player games are still cool

[brittle plume]

No, all SinglePlayer games if they do not have a team behind them are abandoned even before being downloaded

[drowsy snow]

Split screen multiplayer are still cool

[brittle plume]

Tell my only PC game that has nothing to do with Onlne stuff and ask me to make it multiplayer

[drowsy snow]

Wrong.

If you want some proof, just look for stellar game jam prods on itch.io. Or basically any successful single player indie games (that the devs aren't industry veteran)

[brittle plume]

I published the

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: ꙳𒈙𒈙𒈙𒈙𒈙𒈙𒈙𒈙#4438 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[fierce tulip]

can we please get back to this channel being a general discussion about unreal engine, and not anything else.

[sharp crest]

When I packaged the game on 'DebugGame' mode they were able to launch without this error.. Any ideas?

[drowsy snow]

#packaging might know something about it. It's difficult to pinpoint the error cause in shipping builds.

[sharp crest]

thanks gonna check there. but the build type the game crashes without an error is Development and Shipping, not only Shipping.

[wild aspen]

what is the intended way to store a key of a data table somwhere? For example I want to chose a data key's row based on a combobox. The combobox outputs a String, data table keys are Name

[bright sigil]

you cant write to data tables if thats what you're trying to do

[wild aspen]

no, I want an object to store the key of a data table row, and the user to be able to change it

[bright sigil]

key as in part of a map?

[wild aspen]

all inputs return strings, and casting a string to a name seems to not return true on equality

[wild aspen]

i'm assuming data tables are stored as maps

by key I mean the "row name"

[bright sigil]

uh, they're data tables 🙂 but you can get a row and then set that as a var which would be a struct

[finite jasper]

Hey, I have a quick question, does anybody here know how to make a decal increase slowly in size with a timer in the material editor? (blood pool, etc.)

[wild aspen]

you didn't get the question at all, but I solved it anways so thanks xD

[bright sigil]

lol sorry, was hard to know

[violet yoke]

Whats the shortcut to create a constant in material?

[bright sigil]

hold down number 1-4 the click

[violet yoke]

thanks, I didnt know I have to click too

[split jasper]

I dunno shit about materials but you could also just put a new transform in with your scaling changes

[timid spade]

hi
i have a timer set to 0 start delay
yet i have to hold my mouse for about 100-200 milliseconds before it actually activates the function its bound to
is this supposed to happen?
i was using a work around by running the function first before starting the timer however i cant figure out a way to not let the user spam mouse1 and use the function with no delay

[finite jasper]

thank you

[vagrant hornet]

Using mainly megascans and an automaterial. Any way to imrprove the shader complexity / is it worth it for performance?

[bright sigil]

timers fire at the end of their time, not at the beginning

[muted hazel]

Yoo everyone:) Was just wondering if anyone could help me figure out if parallax occlusion is disabled / not working in UE5

Because no matter what I do it wont work :/

[rare steppe]

how do you box select things in viewoirt?

[bright sigil]

i think you hold ctrl+alt

[rare steppe]

thanks

yup thats it

[remote plover]

can i put 1 blue print class into another like spikes onto floor (viewport)?

[bright sigil]

i just answered this in bp, dont cross post #rules

[vagrant hornet]

more likely to be an issue with ue

very hard to diagnose from that though

[kindred depot]

pretty cool if you ask me 🙂 people make amazing things. https://offworld.live/download-center

[bright sigil]

new profile pic?

[kindred depot]

I was sick of the default one lol

[bright sigil]

i like the old one

gray

you dont see that often lol

[kindred depot]

grey with 2 dots centered

xD

[bright sigil]

so whats this link

?

[kindred depot]

A free, open-source plugin to share video to/from OBS Studio with zero latency, compression and CPU overhead.

[bright sigil]

but you can do unreal stuff?

wondering how good this might be for mocap work 😄

looks like there is a little frame chop from ue to yt

[kindred depot]

really?

thats a bummer :/

do you have good bitrate?

[bright sigil]

lol, check the last half of the first video

[kindred depot]

8,000 - 12,000 would be a solid number

Ohhh

yeah

i bet his bitrate is awful lol

[bright sigil]

its probably better now since it was a year ago

[quasi vigil]

Sorry bother but i am trying change some Material tint by using a widget. so far dident get it how to change tints to a colour i chose. =/ thank you

[drowsy turtle]

holy shit. Compiling on HDD after 2,5 hours - barely 500/4727 vs compiling on SSD after 2,5 hours - almost 2000/4727. I should've compile UE on ssd before

[silk cypress]

Hi All, Have a large game with around 5 GB or compressed content. I have started breaking apart the PAK file into multiple PAK files. I am wondering how to tell UE4 to hold off loading all but the first PAK file when the game starts to decrease execution time. Not seeing a ton of documentation and looking for a direction to head down.

Thanks!

[true ridge]

I'm trying to see my number of draw calls. I'm reading that "stat unit" should show it, but I see draw time rather than number of calls.

[obsidian horizon]

Hi, Im new to UE..I have a scene witch I did and accidently deleted the ground and cannot get it back, I was thinking I may want to change the landscape some..But how do I bring in a new ground to sculpt, and when sculpting will it damage and of my buildings in the scene?

[wild aspen]

when sculpting will it damage and of my buildings in the scene?
What do you mean by "damage"? It won't modify your buildings 3d models

[drowsy snow]

Happy waiting 😉

[drowsy turtle]

thanks

[drowsy snow]

Though you could stop the build process and continue where you left off on next attempt, if electricity bills overnight is a concern.

Unless you tamper with core headers or C# engine programmes, or getting unlucky with power outage, which in that case it'll trigger full rebuild.

[drowsy turtle]

oh thats great

[limber mesa]

Question is it a good idea to make a character health widget that toggles between hidden and shown only when the character is attacked. But it will show itself Permanently when the character’s health is lower than 75%

Or should it be less than 100%

[drowsy snow]

Depends on your game's genre.

[kindred iris]

^

[split jasper]

So I dunno what problem you're trying to solve, but it's worth saying at this point: I made my healthbar widget do this because playtesters were having trouble realizing that there WAS a healthbar at all. I thought having the widget pop up on damage and change color as well would make it more obvious, and it helped a little but honestly WAY less than I expected

Still ended up getting "oh, i have a health bar?!" reactions when I pointed it out to playtesters after the change

[limber mesa]

So just make it permanent? @split jasper

@drowsy snow like a wave based survival

[split jasper]

Well having it disappear did help a little. Also I like that when at full health the screen has one less widget on it, makes for a less cluttered experience

Like I said, it depends on the problem you're trying to solve

[limber mesa]

Not really a problem per say

Actually widget problem yea

[drowsy snow]

Days Gone have it all the time I think

[split jasper]

If you're looking for like a set of guidelines that tells you what the "right" way is, most of the time you're not going to find it

There are for sure popular, successful, AAA games which have done it either way

[limber mesa]

Ok

Thank you

[split jasper]

Just one of about ten thousand decisions you'll have to make get to make 🙂

[limber mesa]

Because I was thinking about that situation as well. Ohh I have health?!?

[regal narwhal]

Hello.
Can somehow import Robot arm with IK from Maya Mimic to Ue4?

[drowsy snow]

It seems that AnswerHub finally got its plug pulled, for real. Not just read only, but outright inaccessible with 504 error.

[split jasper]

THAT'S a shame, there's so much mostly incorrect info on there, Google takes you to it for like half the questions I have

[urban basin]

Could someone tell me where I get questions about the material from unreal?

[kindred iris]

Why not make a setting for it if you plan on adding an options menu

So players can toggle it

[split jasper]

Questions about Materials are in #graphics I think

[urban basin]

thanks

[lucid gorge]

GameMode is primarly on the server, and GameState client, right? or do i have that reversed?

[weary basalt]

GameMode is ONLY on the Server.

GameState existing on all machines, Client and Server.

[lucid gorge]

awesome, thanks! my quick googles wernt quite making that clear..... and then my mouse died, lol

[finite ocean]

Yo i need help i cant see the game thing and cant add nothing there is no tools

[astral rapids]

how would i make an outline material?

[neon bough]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVTcH6da32Y

[astral rapids]

is this possible without post processing?

[bright sigil]

yes, the classic trick is to duplicate the model, invert normals, and give it a material with color and wpo push

[neon bough]

or disable depth testing for it

however, i prefer the post process method, just changed my duplication stuff to use PP, much more convenient to integrate

[astral rapids]

post process doesn’t work in the game i’m making a mod for unfortunately

[forest bramble]

what software is best for game ui that looks like this

and this

[drowsy snow]

Inverted hull trick per mentioned, and the best part about it is that it won't disrupt the post process effect, so it works if you want to have contemporary cinematic anime look

[opal wharf]

I dont know why, but my tool bar

does not have a create button

[bright sigil]

probably any

[opal wharf]

and does not look like all the youtube tutorials

[bright sigil]

create?

import?

[opal wharf]

I dont have this

[bright sigil]

ohhhh ue5...

[opal wharf]

...

[bright sigil]

you can try #ue5-general

[old gulch]

Anyone know how to make a multiplayer garage system that can store cars. Like you walk up to a PED and a prop widget says “put away car” or pick car to pull out”.

[plush yew]

Anyone here use Mari or Substance designer and can tell me the secret ingerdiant to fingernails in pbr, i can render decent nails in cycles or vray but could never get them to look alright in a game engine, im using subsurface and have a thickness map applied and it looks fine when i render it with iray in substance but in pbr it looks like an old ps3 game

now that I think about it ive never seen a video game with decent fingernails

maybe theyre just hard to pull off

[bright sigil]

i wouldnt treat them as their separate material, most of the time fingernails get rendered as standard in games, they're rather minor unless you're making a hand sim i guess

[tiny zodiac]

Im spawning characters using the Spawn Actor. Then when i make them move using Ai Move To, they dont move :(. Only the characters created before the game starts are moving.
How do i make them move after i Spawn them in the game? Is there a different node for Spawning Characters? I cant find it?

I found it already. It's spawn from AI class

just so someone else is reading and wants to know

[signal crater]

Hello, is it possible to for the epic games launcher to detect a source build engine?

[drowsy snow]

No.

[signal crater]

oww, do i have to install the launcher engine to install plugins? for example i need to update Quixel Bridge

[plush yew]

I wish Epic would just add caustics already, the github build they have is so broken and caustics make such a huge difference in raytracing

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but integrated Quixel Bridge is not relevant in UE4.

[drowsy snow]

Blender only recently had true caustics.

[plush yew]

blender?

lol

[drowsy snow]

YES.

[signal crater]

yea im using ue5, and quixel bridge reports offline when i open it and it says an update is available thats why i asked that

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[plush yew]

dont be mini modding people to the right channels when u discussing blender in #ue4-general bucko

https://tenor.com/view/horny-bonk-gif-22415732

[drowsy snow]

Fuck you, it's just for a comparison point. True caustics still is in a pipe dream realm of rendering.

[plush yew]

bruh i made a joke and he actually got upset someone post this on reddit

[kindred venture]

I mainly use Adobe illustrator and occasionally Photoshop for things with more 3D elements and works great for me!

[drowsy snow]

Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Illustrator, Inkscape (if you're a masochist)

[plush yew]

i replaced illustrator with polypaint

Paint if youre a sigma male

MSpaint

specifically on windows 95

[drowsy snow]

In the end, you'd still have to arrange the element in UMG, but at least with external tools you can make the textures for the borders, buttons, and stuff.

Though worth mentioning there's a plugin on Marketplace that allows for converting PSD into a UMG widget setup. I don't use photoshop for that, so I don't know how well it works.

Maybe enough to get the template in place right away without rearranging the elements from scratch?

[kindred venture]

My freind who uses it quite often says it works great

But if your making modern, sci fi or lowpoly ui like me Adobe Illustrator is definitely a great choice.

I just finished making this for my game studio with illustrator.

[tiny zodiac]

https://streamable.com/q7rvaw
Why is my character feet and shoes out of sync? And it fixes itself after jumping? Its so weird, what is happening?
Should i make character start the game by jumping? 😆

[bright sigil]

not sure how you've hooked em up, but yeah, you could actually just move them up a bit so they fall since that's part of the jump anim

[tiny zodiac]

and thats what i did 😆 they just start with a jump

[tall sorrel]

is displacement on the landscape cheaper on the system than placing rock meshes?

I assume it is, since the landscape probably lods it to flat when you are far away, but then you can't really have a cull on it, since it is a material that is part of the landscape, so idk

[bright sigil]

landscape has a "special" displacement, its meant to be performant as much as it can, you can still put meshes on it though

[tall sorrel]

oh so displacement is like hella cheap is what ur saying?

[bright sigil]

lol nope

just landscape

its a confusion with the term, landscape exhibits what we refer to as displacements, it does its own thing with lods and placed meshes

[tall sorrel]

oh, and I just realized I also mean displacement with tessellation, like where you can make a gravel material actually extrude the rocks

[bright sigil]

probably not a good idea to add to terrain

if you want more of that detail, supplement with placed rock meshes

[tall sorrel]

alright

just checking to see which way was better, cause I didn't know if tessellations was some magical thing or not lol

[bright sigil]

yeah, it isnt, it can make some nice high res looking stuff, but it was sort of a trendy thing but i dont think its going to be a direction for high res art in games - its rather clunky to setup, issues at seams always, shader setup/matching maps - i think nanite solves a lot of that, but its not all "game-ready"

tesselation doesnt change collision either afaik (like wpo) so if you do tessellation you end up with ground interesecting with player in cases

[tall sorrel]

doesn't nanite like render stuff in groups or something, and the groups grow and shrink the closer or farther away you are? I was watching videos about ue5, and a guy like put a ton of meshes with high polys and his fps was at like 5, then he enabled nanite on them, and he shot back up to like 90 or something

I haven't messed with ue5 at all though

[bright sigil]

yeah i dunno either

just hear that tesselation was never great and now its deprecated

[forest bramble]

oh sweet i have ai and ps but i don't know where to learn game ui can't seem to find anything do you have any idea where to start

[forest bramble]

yea i know but ones with textured background and a few effects you need photoshop

[bleak zodiac]

you means making umg widget? or game interface?

[forest bramble]

no just like for wireframing

stuff like this and rpg style stuff

[kindred venture]

Yeah photoshop is deffo more suitable then illustrator for this type of UI.

[forest bramble]

ill is good for icons and maybe stylizing text and ps to add the effects

i meant icons

[kindred venture]

That's how I go about with UI I need effects similar to the ones your sending. Prototyping with vectors make planning life in UI design much easier.

[kindred venture]

List of uses with illustrator is vast.

[forest bramble]

yea i know i have a graphic design background

[kindred venture]

ic ic nice!

[tall sorrel]

yo bro, does multiplying normals have a huge performance impact? I'm almost posotive it doesn't, because you don't add geometry, but it adds 3 instructions onto my material. I got the normals slightly multiplied with a vec 3, and it looks basically the same as the tessellation

except for when you look across it, it is still flat, but at any other angle it looks the same

[drowsy snow]

I personally copy other game's UI and keep iterating over it, mixing others in the process

[amber shuttle]

will the array with 100 variables load much faster than 100 booleans? im talking about save game system

or the difference is small

[drowsy snow]

Small enough you barely able to notice it

||if you're doing it in C++||

[amber shuttle]

bp

[regal narwhal]

Hy guys!
Is there any methods to import industrial robots from Maya Mimic to UE4 with IK and FK and with a rebuilded, simulated controller control the robot in UE?

[plush yew]

how to remove lens flare? im using kitbash project original file, I think the flare looks that way because buildings are empty and sun is just shining through them

[lusty lance]

hello all - not exactly Unreal related but has anyone here had experience with the nvidia shield? I'm mainly looking at it for 4K wireless gaming on the TV (very close to the PC across the room.) I originally had a steam link but I believe its capped at 1080 res. My only concern with this is any lag it may have streaming from the PC. Card wise I currently have an Nvidia 2080 Super but will probably upgrade to a 3xxx series at some point.

[drowsy snow]

Disable it in Project Settings.

[plush yew]

thx

[drowsy snow]

I can tell, because the one from Project Settings don't have the bokeh shape.

[vocal badger]

Hi everyone, I want to ask if there are good books about lighting and rendering for video games. Generic and/or specific for unreal

[drowsy snow]

GPU Gems. (Free, but kinda outdated)
GPU Zen (I think it was called GPU Pro before)

[vocal badger]

oh ty I'm gonna check it out

[lament lagoon]

hey 👋 is there a help channel for how to build your game?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but this question is way, way too broad.

For all I care, you would ask on how to build a clicker game with Unity.

[plush yew]

Wait is this the channel to have my game built for me 😩

[faint bone]

how many draw calls is bad or good for gaME?

[ancient ivy]

Depends

What are you targeting?

High end desktops and consoles?

[faint bone]

low end toasters.

[ancient ivy]

The least possible then

[plush yew]

Wait what if you were targeting high end or mod tier pcs?

[ancient ivy]

I mean

[faint bone]

but i made a simple level and added a ai enmy. draw calls are 30-40 and good. but i go near ai it goes to 80-100

[ancient ivy]

With that you could go a little bit higher

[plush yew]

What's the typical number for that?

1, 5, 11 lol

[faint bone]

i can't my toaster laptop will die of heart attack.

[ancient ivy]

Usually from 5 to 9 i guess

[faint bone]

that doesn't help.

[ancient ivy]

Still

Draw calls are relative per item

A mesh with 20 materials will generate 21 draw calls

So 4 to 8 mats per mesh look like a possible number

[faint bone]

ok.

[ancient ivy]

Still

Less materials and less meshes = less draw calls

[faint bone]

ok what if add a combat and some abilities?

[ancient ivy]

Draw calls are calls to the GPU to load a specific mesh or mat

I don't think adding animations will create more than the standard amount

[faint bone]

ok.

[ancient ivy]

Maybe adding UI changes it but I am not entirely sure

[faint bone]

what if i write a component based abilities or weapons. like to have a x ability, i simply add a component with that ability and call from it.

[ancient ivy]

Is it rendered?

[faint bone]

idk. i simply made it and put it in folder. does it get rendered?

[ancient ivy]

No

[faint bone]

but when i add to character it will render.

[ancient ivy]

Can I ask why you are so worried about draw calls?

[faint bone]

i have a toaster laptop and i don't wanna play with 5-6 fps.

[ancient ivy]

Draw calls are engine related

[faint bone]

so i was asking whats range of draw calls for high fps.

[ancient ivy]

You have to reduce the polys of models or load a different LOD

Or

Keeping textures at a power of 2

[faint bone]

ok

[ancient ivy]

Ex 1024x1024

[faint bone]

ok

[ancient ivy]

To reduce the polys of models i suggest either using a lod or going on blender and reducing them from there

[faint bone]

ok thanks.

[ancient ivy]

No problem, have a good one

[fierce tulip]

make your materials cost less instructions, dont use much translucency, and look into HLOD and such.

[plush yew]

What about morphs

Do they cause drawbacks for just existing in the mesh?

[fierce tulip]

morphs only work on skeletal meshes.
they do have some overhead, but looks at his character with 300+ morphs depending on your needs, nothing to worry about.

[half bolt]

!stream

manny !stream

[plush yew]

I would like to know why I have this problem knowing that when I but normal it does the same thank you

[half bolt]

help why is this so blank and stuff

[kindred depot]

Should i add ceiling lights, or keep the little Projector Lamps?

[small pewter]

I have a big problem : Yesterday everything worked perfectly but today I can't move my character, jump, look up and down for some reason, and I used print string to see if the inputs are detected and yes they do but the character doesn't do anything, anyone knows why please ? In the world settings everything is set like the GameMode and Player controller and the Pawn Class, but for some reason it doesn't work

Please ping me if any answer

problem solved, I had my Game State Class being Game State instead of Game State Base

[faint bone]

Guys what are standards while writing bp code and how to manage it so doesn't get messed up as I add more stuff?

[kindred depot]

comment everything.

[ancient ivy]

Try making your logic mostly left to right

And use reroute nodes a lot

Comment important nodes specifically

And all node groups

Use variables, so that you don't have to set values manually

Avoid spider nodes (nodes with a lot of output branches) using variables

[tall sorrel]

and get electronic nodes or whatever, it makes your execution lines and everything flow better

also, is there anywhere to get any royalty free high quality heightmap data for landscapes?

preferably small chunks so I can level stream them together

[ancient ivy]

Either make it on your own with some procedural from blender or create an height map from an image

They look something like this

Looks like a thunder

Maybe you can find a way to make procedural thunders in blender

Or ue4 idk

[thick herald]

I'm sure Google has plenty of suggestions.

[ancient ivy]

The process looks something like this

https://youtu.be/BXDSfrzR0zI

Maybe this will help

[light wigeon]

hi

I just created a first person project template. Im trying to move fp gun but its not moving

I tried everything

But its still cant move

[ancient ivy]

Is FP gun the default?

I don't remember, i don't use templates

But I think the gun should be in the player blueprint

[light wigeon]

Yes im in player blueprint

[light wigeon]

Yesd

[light wigeon]

Trying to move it in player blueprint

[distant siren]

if every now and then the random game crashes, what could it be?

[ancient ivy]

Memory leak or something

I don't think so

Or it could be some VRAM issue

[ancient ivy]

Ue version?

[haughty dock]

is it possible to play an animation faster using nodes?

if that made sense

[oblique whale]

Does anyone know why i get these messages in the "Message Log" "FlyingPawn_297.Plane mesh spaceship3 has to have 'Simulate Physics' enabled if you'd like to AddTorque."? (I do have physics enabled btw)

[haughty dock]

i am new to unreal engine sorry

[oblique whale]

same

[haughty dock]

you making a game with flying things?

[oblique whale]

Yes

[haughty dock]

nice

good luck

[oblique whale]

space ship

thanks

[haughty dock]

cooll

[haughty dock]

may be they mean in the mesh...like the physic thing? idk

[obsidian horizon]

hey Im trying to mesh paint have the textures all set up and the ground plane selected . Im in mesh paint but no brush shows up. It just wants to move the ground plane..Im using 4.26

[oblique whale]

hangon

lemme send an ss

[haughty dock]

there

if that helps

[oblique whale]

i have it enabled

[haughty dock]

first of all, damn your mesh is nice

[oblique whale]

Lmao

i didnt make it tho

i suck at modeling stuff

[haughty dock]

same here downloaded a free bundle 😭

[oblique whale]

ye i got mine from sketchfab

[haughty dock]

same i try to model as much as of the things i can but like guns and stuff i can't so i have to download it

[obsidian horizon]

have that selected

[haughty dock]

ohh nice i got mine from the epic marketplace

[oblique whale]

ah

[haughty dock]

put your cursor on the model? idk it works for me

[obsidian horizon]

done that

[haughty dock]

ohh

[obsidian horizon]

no brush is showing

it only wants to move the object

[fiery juniper]

Hey

[haughty dock]

cuz you don't have the model you want to paint selected?

[fiery juniper]

I need suggestions for a laptop that can run unreal engine 5

[haughty dock]

idk i am on ue4 and using a m1 macbook with 8gb of ram

[obsidian horizon]

I have the landscape selected

[haughty dock]

oh i tried it on mine and yeah i select the landscape and it just moves stuff

[fiery juniper]

Ok thanks

[haughty dock]

ye have no idea sorry

[oblique whale]

Yo @haughty dock, is there any other thing i can use than "Add Torque" for this since the message says it has something to do with that? "FlyingPawn_297.Plane mesh spaceship3 has to have 'Simulate Physics' enabled if you'd like to AddTorque."

ik your new to unreal but you might now idk

[obsidian horizon]

ok I did a test run on a new layer..it worked..I accidently erased the ground and tried to make a new one in the landscape mode but its not working when I do that

[tall sorrel]

Is there an effective way to cull a material?

I seen one guy say you can get camera position then do an if and then lerp the opacity, but that still uses the same amount of draw calls.

So, is there a way to basically completely turn a material off whenever the player is far away?

[haughty dock]

uhh sorry idrk i am making a fps game so..

yeah

[oblique whale]

Ye okay all good dw

[tall sorrel]

I’m trying to do this on a water shader, so water the player can’t even see 2km away won’t render

[haughty dock]

is yaw the same with torque?

[oblique whale]

wdym

sorry im really stupid lmao

[haughty dock]

no no don't tell yourself that

[haughty dock]

like yaw? like turn left and right thing

[oblique whale]

ye ik yaw means that but wdym "is yaw the same with tourque"?

[haughty dock]

i mean what if you use yaw instead of tourque

[oblique whale]

oh

i mean

would that work tho?

[haughty dock]

idk

lmaoo

[oblique whale]

also theres like 100 diffrent nodes with "yaw" in their name

D:

[haughty dock]

oof

[haughty dock]

is "Task Force Alpha" a good name

[oblique whale]

Its cool ig

[haughty dock]

ah ok

[obsidian horizon]

Hey thanks for the help earlier..But another question..can you edit the default ground and make it larger??

without it stretching textures

I tried ctrl-c/v and when applied the textures there was a seam that was visible

[steel bramble]

If you have the starter content in your project you can go to the ground_grass material and there you'll find a way to make it not stretch

sorry for my bad english

[obsidian horizon]

Im new to unreal..so you are talking greek

[steel bramble]

wait

[obsidian horizon]

I need to make the object larger, without duplicating it and having the textures not align

[steel bramble]

yes

i'm searching the material

[obsidian horizon]

I dont want to edit the material...I want to edit the object ground

[steel bramble]

but are you making it a landscape or what?

[obsidian horizon]

yes, its ground...so its a landscape..I need to have the default ground object larger, if I just scale it, then the textures are stretched, if I duplicate it then there is a seam

[steel bramble]

is your object a mesh?

[stray drift]

Sounds like you need a terrain

[obsidian horizon]

its the default ground

I created a terrain..right added it to the scene, then tried to mesh paint and it wouldnt work

[steel bramble]

ooh

[marsh swallow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOlIvq0Etg

[obsidian horizon]

watched that

but the mesh paint wouldnt work..no brush would show up

[steel bramble]

so you have something like this but with a cube scaled up right?

[obsidian horizon]

hold on..

[steel bramble]

and the texture stretches

[obsidian horizon]

this is what was going on

[turbid zodiac]

Hey guys, I'm a Unity user and considering trying out Unreal, however I'm wanting to know how seamless the transition would be (or wouldn't be) from user experience.

[obsidian horizon]

thats the custom terrain

[steel bramble]

go to the normal view and click on the object

you should find a parameter called materials

[obsidian horizon]

and....how do u go to the normal view

sorry like I said Im new

[finite ocean]

yo someone help this is all i see no tool nothing

[steel bramble]

click on modes and click select view or something like that

[vital ether]

I have weird thing going on in my Unreal. When I download and add something from bridge it comes without material and I'm not really how to fix that

[steel bramble]

Probably some driver bug

[marsh swallow]

yeah that looks like a cube, not a landscape terrain. 🙂

[obsidian horizon]

the material is applied....in general material..I cannot get the mesh paint to paint on the material

[marsh swallow]

this is a known issue. You should be able to find some things on google about how to fix it. I know we did

[obsidian horizon]

its a blend material..

[finite ocean]

nah i accedentaly closed all tabs and now i have nothing

[steel bramble]

actually you can't paint like that I think, you need to create multiple landscape layers

[stray drift]

Open a map manually

[obsidian horizon]

when Im in mesh paint ..no brushes appear

but in the default ground..brushes appear

soooo

[steel bramble]

could you go please to the normal view and send a picture of what you see on the cube details please?

[finite ocean]

how

[obsidian horizon]

yes let me start it up..I got flustered and shut it down..it should be this difficult

shouldnt

[steel bramble]

I know 😶 i'm also a little bit sad because Unreal is getting harder and harder to learn

[stray drift]

In your project files, double click your map

[obsidian horizon]

see thats the custom ground made in landscape..see how the material has seams

[finite ocean]

still dont know how

[steel bramble]

have you got the starter content enabled?

[obsidian horizon]

then when I try to do mesh paint ..no brushes show..

[obsidian horizon]

again..Im new...so....where would I see that?

[steel bramble]

Go to your Content Browser and click on add > feature or content pack > Starter Content

then you should be able to select the material called "M_Ground_Grass"

here

[obsidian horizon]

I have a custom_blended material that I made that Im using

do I need to do the default first then paint in the custome blended?

[steel bramble]

What do you mean by a blended material.. sorry?

[obsidian horizon]

its a blended materal of 3 different materials so I can paint in different channels..1 is mud, 1 is pavement, 1 is cracked pavement

[steel bramble]

ooh you mean that.. ok sorry

[obsidian horizon]

yea, so the mesh paint is not working on that terrain I created

[steel bramble]

if you go to the Landscape view you can go to the Paint panel and you should see that working

[obsidian horizon]

ok let me see

[steel bramble]

something like this

[obsidian horizon]

landscape mode just wanted to change the terrain

[steel bramble]

so you don't have this option there?