ue4-general

[sage bane]

I got them

I clicked on tthe physics one

[bright sigil]

the alpha works like a mask - black for A, white for B

[bright sigil]

but does the skeleton asset have all the bones?

[sage bane]

Uh

Not sure

[flat axle]

got it! thanks @bright sigil !

[sage bane]

Lemme do something

It has,yeah

Is it the naming?

[prime willow]

ive noticced my outfit and groom just merges through my characters mesh

when i use multi convex physics

[bright sigil]

so then there are no missing bones?

[prime willow]

but it doesnt when i use basic shape any idea why this is the case?

[sage bane]

There are missing physics thingy

[bright sigil]

as i said, it does not generate all and you may not need all. you can make colliders and edit here

you can see more of the skeleton by changing the Options settings at the top

what you are looking at are the colliders and the bone name is used for them to identify which they were created from

[sage bane]

Hmm

So what do i need?

I mean which ones

[lucid gorge]

Not many great examples of loading stream levels from c++ out there, are there?

[bright sigil]

which colliders? of a custom rig you made? that you have control over editing?

[sage bane]

?

[twin galleon]

Does anyone have advice on how to prevent this in my character creation menu? Basically whenever the user resizes the window it shows too much of the scene, especially if the window is is a strange size. Constraining the camera aspect ratio doesn't seem to help either.

I'm a C dev by trade, Unreal is a hobby, so not used to all this ui stuff yet.

[sage bane]

How do i edit the colliders

[bright sigil]

select one

[sage bane]

Then?

[bright sigil]

move or scale or rotate

[sage bane]

Sorry im new to ue4

The same as editing like adding objects right?

[bright sigil]

yeah

[sage bane]

Alr then

[bright sigil]

anchors

[sage bane]

After that its basicaly a successful import riht?

[bright sigil]

i guess so

[flat axle]

How do I set one of the textures of a material inside of a blueprint?

[prime willow]

;-;

[bright sigil]

you convert it to a parameter so it can be accessed as a param to be set

[twin galleon]

The thing is though it's not just UMG, I'm spawning/removing characters in the scene which is essentially two planes, one with a background image material on it.

[bright sigil]

havent forgotton about you, just not sure what your asking or i dont know 😛

[prime willow]

xD

[twin galleon]

So if the window resizes it shows what's outside the plane, and if I constrain the camera aspect ratio it just shows black bars around everything instead of scaling

[prime willow]

im trying to use non capsule shaped physics setups via single or multi convex in the physics asset but my groom and clothing jsut melts through the entire body

unless i use the basic balloon shaped capsules

[bright sigil]

not sure then, usually when i resize it just crops while adjusting ui

[flat axle]

convert as an object refrence?

[bright sigil]

i would imagine those kind of sims play with simple shapes and not mesh colliders then

[prime willow]

o.o

convexes are colliders?

[bright sigil]

sounded like you were using custom colliders no?

[prime willow]

no the unreal engine built in one

https://gyazo.com/69bdb3d44a252e55e3b1f1861fa72bbc

this

[bright sigil]

setup a dynamic material instance in your bp then access that DMI to set the texture parameter. I think doing it those way will also mean you need a texture object plugged into the texture sampler

[bright sigil]

i think single convext hull is the same as custom mesh data

[prime willow]

oh

[bright sigil]

could be wrong, havent done that much with cloth sim

[prime willow]

i see

[bright sigil]

i remember working with simple capsules and how restrictive the entire system is

[prime willow]

well if the balloon shapes arent perfectly placed

if i make it much smaller to fit

[bright sigil]

yeah, thats the annoyance of it

[prime willow]

will i have issues with physics?

because this is why i wanted to use convex lol

[bright sigil]

i dont know

the cloth sim is limited in general, the type of sim should not be full body or things like shirts

its more like for hanging things - capes, partial skirts, etc

[prime willow]

hmm

what about grooms?

[bright sigil]

never used them before

[prime willow]

ah

[sage bane]

Tyx @Conrad#3555

[bright sigil]

uh, sure thing

[cobalt nimbus]

So I have a multiplayer lobby set up and working but was thinking of having a 3D widget in the world that would display the widget and update as players joined. I did some looking around but wasn't able to find much. Anyone have a direction? Or tutorial?

[zealous portal]

Hi

Any suggestions for tutorials for a person just getting into game development in ue4

[bright sigil]

channel pins

[zealous portal]

wdym

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/f8d3f3251c6a5f4c35daaccf3566b174 Thats what he means

[zealous portal]

oh thx

[prime willow]

[zealous portal]

and one more question

should i learn blueprints first or c++ first

[prime willow]

if you never wrote code before

do blueprints

[zealous portal]

i have learnt python

[prime willow]

than lean into C++

oh

than C++

lol

[zealous portal]

ok thx

[bright sigil]

i always say - that is up to you

[prime willow]

but you might end up using both tbh

[zealous portal]

how tho

[bright sigil]

both will be a learning deal and you will no doubt use both

[prime willow]

^

[plush yew]

How do I play Unreal C++? I have only C++ knowledge.

Need only C++ knowledge?

[bright sigil]

no thanks?

[lilac ginkgo]

Hi Everyone, I am hoping someone can help me with a problem I am having. I am working on a Zombie Survival game using Modern RPG and have implemented the Ultimate Hit Reaction Component (using the built in Zombie) I have everything working EXCEPT I can't get the Zombie to deal damage to the player. Modern RPG uses an Actor Component to store Character health. I am having a hell of a time trying to get the Zombie to kill the player. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[twin galleon]

It turns out this was only a problem in the new editor window (pie). Doesn't happen on standalone.

[bright sigil]

aha

[twin galleon]

I almost hate it how often as a dev I bang my head against something for hours and it turns out to be stupid simple

It's actually never the hard mathy/logic stuff

Then again I mostly work on stuff with no UI and I'm not a game dev, so I'm out of my element without a terminal window

[bright sigil]

lol

[prime willow]

is there a way to change my capsule shapes without it always scaling in all 3 directions at the same time?

[tight citrus]

Does anyone have a fix for drop down menus instantly disappearing or going black? (I don't want to do driver rollback or registry stuff)

[bright sigil]

i dunno, i thought you could do it per handle

[bright sigil]

verify engine? i dunno

[lilac ginkgo]

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157/~/after-updating-to-nvidia-game-ready-driver-461.09-or-newer%2C-some-desktop-apps I had the same issues. This worked for me

[tight citrus]

I'd rather not do registry stuff. Just my preference

[lilac ginkgo]

Then I'd say rolling back the driver will be your best option

[lilac ginkgo]

Sorry missed the registry bit in your original post

[tight citrus]

Its ok, I might just do the registry file as rolling back drivers is also not really an option as I want those for some of the games I play as well

as long as you can revert the edit back it should be fine

[lilac ginkgo]

Was a pretty simple edit from memory

[zealous portal]

Any good C++ tutorials for beginners

[bleak zodiac]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/ProgrammingWithCPP/CPPTutorials/

[zealous portal]

tysm

[rough birch]

in your gamemode, you can bind to the OnPostLogin event and do what you need to do with the widget

[cobalt nimbus]

I do that with the widget the gets added to the view port but I can't figure out how to access that same widget but it's in the level

[tall sorrel]

How can I make landscape puddles stand out more, I have normals flattened where they are at, I have them looking like water, I have wind ripples in them and rain drops, but they still look sorta flat.

I was thinking about turning displacement and tessellation on because flattened displacement and bormals would look really good with that, but it kills performance, so idk

[bright sigil]

puddles are going to look flat though, they are pools of water

[tall sorrel]

yea I know, but I mean the ground, like a transition from flat to flat doesn't look very good, I'm thinking about adding very slight displacement and tessellation that falls off like not even half a foot away just so when you are very close or standing in a puddle it looks better

my foliage will cover the transition line, so by literally not even a half a foot, I basically mean you almost have to look straight down to see it, idk i'll have to play around with it

[bright sigil]

i think it would look fine with bumpy normal textures around it to contrast, care to share a screen shot?

[plush yew]

hey fellas

im noob
tryna pick up UE4 for now

initially i did the 4.27 but i wanna run the hohurofcode asset
and i get this
i already installed 4.26
but i need help to get this up and running
any suggestions would be appreciated
thank you

[bright sigil]

well did you? 🙃

[plush yew]

yes

[bright sigil]

you've tried the launch button?

[plush yew]

yes i ve played with it a bit already

but im trynna open this specific asset

[bright sigil]

asset?

[bright sigil]

you dont open assets

oh the project

[plush yew]

oh ya that then

[bright sigil]

did you move it?

[plush yew]

move what to where

i created the project i just cant open it im assuming based off the error message its trynna run it via 4.27 but that particular project is only compatible with 4.26

[bright sigil]

it should open regardless or tell you that it is of a different version, but do you have 4.26 installed? i assume so

[plush yew]

yep i installed it

[bright sigil]

alright so launch it from that button

[plush yew]

oOOOh okay got it
i guess i was just following the tutorial and it told me to double click the project
but i see it now

[bright sigil]

yeah, you did it all right, but i guess something bugged

[bright sigil]

my guess is something with the uproject file since thats the pointer for it

but Launch will open the editor then you can choose project

i guess its a workaround

[plush yew]

nice

yeah

it works

[bright sigil]

unless you know where the uproject is, you can see if it launches from that

[plush yew]

thank you for that Conrad
or should i say
comrade

[bright sigil]

sure thing

[bleak zodiac]

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

[plush yew]

yepyep! gna run thru those too, thank you!

[tall sorrel]

yea in a bit, got some work I gotta do on something else

[tiny valley]

I made my gamestate with all map variables and everything runs fine, except im getting red errors saying tmaps are not replicatible, should I worry or is maps fine

[bright sigil]

are you doing mp?

[tiny valley]

yes

[bright sigil]

sounds like a problem

[tiny valley]

im mapping the player ids to structs I can reference them fine just get errors that are null I assume

[bright sigil]

but i guess if you're not replicating - maybe its okay if its server only stuff

[tiny valley]

yeah im storing my combat stats serverside only since the server does the battle calc

[bright sigil]

red errors usually important though lol

[tiny valley]

Also is there an upper limit on how many structs I store on the server I have some heavy structs im storing in arrays on the server, is this a problem

[bright sigil]

you asked in mp channel?

[tiny valley]

not yet Ill repost

[spark hollow]

I accidently opened an editor mode I've never used before. How do I leave it?

[bright sigil]

check the top left - it says Right

[spark hollow]

Ah..... whoops

Thank you!

[tall sorrel]

@bright sigil here it is, I haven't optimized it for the landscape yet, so puddles stretch farther than the player can even see.

edit: this is obviously just a test level

[plush yew]

heyo

so i was playing around

but i clicked some keys by accidenty

and all my light actors dissapeared

how do i undo that

ctrl Z doesnt work

the light actors still have effect but i cant see where they're placed and mess with them

[high lotus]

I want to bind some actions to CAPSLOCK (sorry, caps 😉 ), but I'd like to prevent it from being enabled, just act as a normal, standard key. Is it possible in UE?

[plush yew]

wait yeah

i cant play my character why is that

[plush yew]

i cant play the game idk why

[tall sorrel]

it would help if you send a screenshot of where the problem is actually occurring in your previous screenshot

lighting has nothing to do with being able to play or not

[plush yew]

yeah idk i like literally
clicked some random hotkeys something along the lines of alt, z, control, or something else

the problem is when i click "play" i usually can go into the character and move around
but right now i cant

for reference
this is the honor of code project

i just closed to project and unsaved most but

now im back to this

lost all my mess around terrain work but idc

but the lights stayed

and the only error message i got

was literally something about lights

what i realize is theres an X on one of the lights

[tall sorrel]

thats because you have too many dynamic lights overlapping each other, and thats giving a warning that there could be performance issues

not sure the amount

but your route issue is your error is complaining about not having initialization when you try to access it.

so somewhere maybe in the gamemode on that level you somehow removed a reference, if it uses a gamemode, which im not sure if that would effect it, but just having an error and not knowing where it is at or what it looks like, all that can really be explained is what that error means

[bleak zodiac]

don't have any spotlight near each other, or they won't able to bake the lightmaps even stationary, put them distance

[plush yew]

mmm i see okay good tips with the lighting stuff
but yeah
ima assume whatever it is i clicked, i deleted or changed something important accidentally

so ima nuke this project and start from scratch

its just teaching me basics like mesh and actors etc so its no biggy

[tall sorrel]

you dont have to you can click the error and it will take you to where it is if it is a blueprint

[plush yew]

clicking it but nothings happening

[tall sorrel]

there should be a link at the end of the error

like right after where you cut the image off at

[tall sorrel]

check to see if you have a value set in the gamemode on the level

should be in world settings

should be the default pawn class

[tall sorrel]

you can also click the very far right link and it will highlight what node is having the error, so that can also tell you what value it is being passed and what not

[plush yew]

does this mean i deleted my pawn accidentally

since its not in the world outliner

[main pewter]

can sb tell me how I can blend/animate material change eg. if you have a car and change material (not parameters) it should look like an animation from front to rear from old color to new one. it's not only a few material so a master material with some mask and a bunch of instances would not really work.

[tall sorrel]

i'm pretty sure it doesn't require it to be in the world (outliner), but try that just in case, idk how that project is setup

never used it before

[tall sorrel]

you looking for lerp?

[plush yew]

try what exactly? sry
not sure

like drag a pawn in?
if the case is i deleted the pawn then its clip

[main pewter]

yea but lerp what? I would need to lerp a complete material with another one. not only texture/color etc

[tall sorrel]

material functions

[main pewter]

hm thats. a point. so a mat. func. can output a complete material...that could work - thanks 😉
still - hoped there is something builtin like setMaterialWithBlend 🙂

[tall sorrel]

yea also with a material function you'll have to mask to use it with a lerp, but there are blend material functions you can use that do different things, I just wasn't sure your exact situation, and didn't know if you had heard of a lerp, and I am pretty sure the blends can take in full materials, but they also add a lot more calls

[main pewter]

I'll look into it. maybe also an automated baking material to texture and then using this to lerp. I'll see - thank you all!

[plush yew]

ima just nuke haha
thank you again appreciate it

btw , in the tutorial, the dude can use the button "N" when selecting an actor or whatever, and it'd be placed down to the floor quickly. that button doesnt seem to work im assuming its cuz it was an older version of unreal or something. anyone know what button that might be ?

[sterile sun]

i am not able to find one blueprint feature COLLAB VIEWER in this list in UE 4.27

how to get that

[tardy skiff]

Hi all. Can anyone please help with a landscape albedo texture to apply correctly ?

[plush yew]

hi guys

I am trying to install unreal 4.26.2 from source
and it gives me an error

anyone can help me out

[polar sorrel]

guys what is this thing ?

how do i get it again

never mind its a scale rotator

[main pewter]

I guess you need to use COLLAB VIEWER template. create a new project with the template and migrate things over you need

[native drift]

I have hundreds of doors and windows assets for my building and I'm placing them all by hand. Is there an easier way? I have been alt tabbing back and forth to blender to get the coordinates of each door and typing in the exact xyz coordinates. For common areas I can duplicate and use delta transform but if there's an easier way to snap assets to static mesh vertices or something that I'm missing that would be amazing.

[dry wharf]

can someone help

[neon bough]

most likely not without an log

[dry wharf]

where can i see log

[neon bough]

in your project directory under Saved/Logs/Projectname.log or something

[dry wharf]

here is the log

[winged lava]

Hey there! Can anyone plz help me with my basic problem? My HUD overlaps my main menu and and I don't know how to solve it. I've tried Z Order but nothing changes. The menu is a level with a menu add to view port under level blueprint. THX

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the overlapping HUD from the menu screen plz? THX! a lot 🙂

Honestly I am pulling my hair out trying to solve such a basic problem

Plz help me I feel like such a n00b asking but my project has come grinding to a halt! 😦

[dense tartan]

Hi. i'm looking to emulate the look of a real vintage camera lens with unreal engine. A slight overall image distortion, sharp in the middle but blurry on the edges. Any way i can achieve this ? Thanks

[winged lava]

It's okay I SOLVED it!

[native drift]

I would like to do something similar. I think you're looking for a post process material...I asked this in the #graphics channel this weekend for something similar...

[hollow girder]

I recently made some stylized grass, would anyone be able to point me in the direction for making a radius based 2d fire? Much like a pyro attack from Genshin Impact?

[smoky timber]

Hey there devs!

[drowsy snow]

As in fire propagation or what?

[hollow girder]

No I don't want it to spread if that is what you mean

I am trying to make a laser attack that will "light" the grass around it on fire

[dense tartan]

Thanks. I was more thinking of something that truly emulates the lens distortion and blur, instead of a post process filter

[strong schooner]

hi. for FPS melee trace, which one do you prefer a line trace, sphere trace in front of the player, a box/capsule trace or socket trace molded to the weapon and follows the movement? Of course a notify is sent within the actual range of the attack. Thank you

[vale ridge]

Hi. I got unreal engine 4.27.2 today and I am trying to follow a tutorial on youtube. I accidentally hit the close button on a window at the left side of my screen that allows me to place geometry and actors, but I don't know how to get it back. How do I get it back? The screenshot attatched with this message is taken from my pov in the editor

This is a screenshot of the menu thing I accidentally closed

[candid crest]

Go to window, Load layout and load the default

Any reason why this shouldn't be working?

Ignore the mapping name, im just testing

[vale ridge]

I have it now. Thank you very much for your help :)

[candid crest]

All good man

[native drift]

Yeah that's beyond me...

[pine siren]

Is there an "equivalent" to BeginPlay that I can use which will run in editor (not play-in-editor, but if I want something to happen when something is dragged into the editor)?

[wild aspen]

Is there a way to get better fps in the editor? My gpu and cpu usage is 7% and 17% respectively. I assume it caps that to save resources. Instead i would like it to pump more fps out in the viewport. I'm having an awful 8-20 fps.
There's no single cpu core reaching 100% usage, i really can't see any hardware bottleneck here

[amber solar]

Hello! So I want to add mega scans to my scene, and I am using the Bridge plugin but its super laggy and buggy it isn't working to well. I installed the Bridge app through the exe that I found online, and I installed a bunch of assets. How can I import these assets, preferably automatically.

Please ping me if you respond!

[neon wedge]

I watched tutorial and person said "I'm going to do sometime i've been advicesed not to do: Use tick function"
Using using tick really that bad?

[stray drift]

There's no way around it sometimes, EG timelines and all. It's there for a reason, use it when you need to, avoid it when there's another, more efficient way to do it

[vocal flume]

I'm using a cel shader I got from the marketplace to get outlines around my objects. I added a custom stencil value filter to the material so that only objects with custom stencil value - 5 will be outlined. This is working correctly. However, the objects that are affected by the post process material are drawn over other objects like a transclucent silhoutte. In the picture, tree is affected by the post process material (custom stencil 5) and the cube is not. Tree is drawn on cube anyway.. 😦 Any idea how to fix this?

[quick shadow]

Not really an unreal question but can someone tell me if changes to .gitignore should take effect as soon as it is saved? Or does it need to be added/committed/pushed first?

[stray drift]

gitignore won't apply to already committed files, for one. It should work from the start though, IIRC

[quick shadow]

Ok. It's being a butt. I have an uncommitted file and I add the file path literally to my gitignore and it's still showing as an uncommitted file

[stray drift]

Path relative to the gitignore file?

[quick shadow]

Yeah

[stray drift]

Drop this in #source-control maybe

[quick shadow]

Oh, good call. Didn't know that channel existed

[plush yew]

Are here epic mods

[astral verge]

Hello guys ,
I want to apply datasmith runtime to one of my projects
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Importing/Datasmith/Overview/UsingDatasmithAtRuntime/
anyone know which blueprint I should work on with this documentation ?

[stray drift]

The mods here are pretty epic tbf

[hot thistle]

Hi, I'm currently doing research on the new USD format from Pixar as we're trying out a new modular work structure for 3D models and environments.
(For those interested in the USD format: https://docs.unrealengine.com/.../WorkingWithCo.../USDinUE4/)
Now, I've got a working local nucleus server and importing and changing the models seems to work fine enough with the Stage Actor, a bit clunky at times, but that is expected to improve once the system is out of beta.
I'm just interested since this is fairly new, has anyone else here transferred to the USD structure? I would love to hear your experiences and thoughts of it after testing it out for a while. Pros / cons?
Professional or private, I'd like to start a conversation around this newcomer in 3D technology!
Thanks!

[tame marsh]

Can you check what caps FPS in UE4? My session seems capped at 45FPS

Does monitor refresh rate influence it?

Can I adjust that in Project Settings?

[flat axle]

On material instance I don't have any parameters that will let me change. I was following a tutorial on dynamic materials but I don't have the options hes does.

[tame marsh]

Right click the node and click Convert To Parameter?

[flat axle]

ty @tame marsh XD

[tame marsh]

You're welcome!

[dense tartan]

found an ARRI plugin but it's not out yet. Talked to the dev and he told he's making a deal with epic to include it in UE5 release... good stuff

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d8y4Jx

[tame marsh]

Looks pretty cool but isn't that a rather unfair set of comparison images? The camera movement and framing are different

[vivid scaffold]

hey guys can foliage painting be used on a regular mesh?

i have this mesh i made with displacement and i wanna paint some grass on it

[dense tartan]

does it really matter ? if this comes as a free plugin it's awesome

[tame marsh]

Just saying, makes it hard to compare more subtle effects like distortion

[grim ore]

@vivid scaffoldif you want to paint foliage on a static mesh, and it has collision to paint against, then yes you can do that.

[drowsy snow]

I don't even know what's the deal with supposedly """real""" lens distortion against doing the same thing through post process shaders.

Is it just the matter of using a full screen texture to control the distortion shader intensity, as opposed to procedural vignette mask?

[sterile sun]

thank you but i wanted to try other way

add collab template in exisiting project

[drowsy snow]

Create a new project and migrate the content to your current project. Delete the former when you're done. Voila.

[sterile sun]

yes but main question remains unaswered

why collab template option is not appearing here

in add new content window

[drowsy snow]

Because the template is not a content pack.

Answered.

[sterile sun]

ok but i thought it is default option available in "add feature or cotent pack"

i can see same in 4.26 but not in 4.27

m i missing anything

kindly guide

[drowsy snow]

Longer bloody answer:

Collab Template is a late addition to the template list, but the Add New Feature feature was remnant from the ye olde versions.

[sterile sun]

oh now better clarity

thank you so much 🙂

[flat axle]

how do i get material instance dynamic as an option

[grim ore]

it looks like your talking to the material instance already

[flat axle]

Hey I think im actually trying to follow your Tut on YT lol

How would I fix it?

[grim ore]

are you trying to change it on a landscape, or just a normal mesh? if so it's basically changed to do it for you

[flat axle]

normal static mesh

[grim ore]

you dont need to make an instance, just change the parameter or you can change it directly on the mesh like this

this is the way with an instance you create, but you dont need todo the create instance anymore. If you have the instance reference, which you might above, just set the parameter value on it as you can see at the end

[flat axle]

oh cool! i didnt know you could do that

[jaunty cedar]

is there any documentation on the pak file structure?

[drowsy snow]

Underground modder, I presume?

[jaunty cedar]

No, just a guy with a really niche need to quickly and automatically re-version several thousand files several times, and while one decent solution is to use unreal pak to extract it into a temporary folder and then use the desired version of unreal's unreal pak to re-pak everything in that temporary folder, I was wondering if I could graft parts of the header from a newer file onto an older file

[flat axle]

can you auto search the Static Mesh for element index(s) of the source material instead of having to specify which one it is?

[grim ore]

I beleive that is what the first one does, atleast that is what it says. It should search all materials and indexes and set the parameters with that name. I have never tried it on multi material objects tho so...

so yes, the mannequin has 2 materials on the body (boldy and chest logo), both using the same material setup technically but 2 different id's. Changing the "BodyColor" parameter changes both the chest (ID1) and the body (ID0) on that skeletal mesh so yes it should search over all materials on the mesh and change the parameter that you specify

yep and I double checked, I set up a unique material for the chest logo with its own parameter name and setting that parameter on the mesh changed just that parameter on the mesh which was on material ID1

[flat axle]

Cool Thanks again! @grim ore

[runic fern]

Why i have this error when try to save ..
I added a macro from macro library

[sand plinth]

what is the problem here?

o man, none of the assets are saving now, why?

[void siren]

Hello. Does anyone know how to have a decal appear in Sequencer? I want to put a blood splatter on a wall but I want to time it to appear after a character action. Any ideas?

I want this decal to appear at a certain time.

Is there anyway to do that? Do I need to put this actor into sequencer?

[sand plinth]

no

oh wait, my bad. They are open in the background wtf

[grim ore]

@tribal nimbus go to #instructions and post in the appropriate channel

[tribal nimbus]

problem is no one ever looks there

[grim ore]

shrug that's where its supposed to go so we dont get flooded in here with posts that people dont want to see in here

[fierce tulip]

not true, people use it regularly and either find people for their project, or het hired to work on a project.
if nobody is replying its either because it sounds fishy, lacks information, poorly written, or incentive. (or just bad luck)

also #rules

[idle dragon]

Anyone know how to SHOW spline points in runtime?

I know it's a command line function but I've looked everywhere and cant find it

[worn flame]

Do you know any video tutto or channel to make system fire like RE 7 Village o Far Cry ?

[fierce tulip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuANN6dPgtQ

[flat axle]

heppened when i tried to add a new texture

[bright sigil]

multiple editors open?

[flat axle]

figured it out, was a bad export from gimp, yeah im on a multi editor session but not using perforce

[opaque seal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/728552296908193843/930149198828032110/unknown.png
hello guys this is my problem when i tried to get a light build, can somebody help me

[severe crater]

So I have a player blueprint (BP_Player) with a camera component that is in the world settings as the default pawn class, yet whenever I run the game the camera in the it get its position set to 0, 0, 0 in world space and doesn't move along with the parent it's assigned to.

So the camera component just stays at 0, 0, 0, yet the player's controls work fine (movement, mouse movement) and so does everything else, except the camera is "locked" at that position.
Can anyone help me?
I can send screenshots if it would help.

[oblique whale]

Yo does aynone know why gravity is so messed up when you really far away from like the center of the world (0, 0, 0) ?

like i cant walk with my charwecter

because gravity is so messed up

[narrow igloo]

Float imprecision. In ue4 the standard solution is world rebasing. In ue5 the problem has been virtually fixed due to using doubles instead of floats.

[oblique whale]

wdym world rebasing?

sorry im really new to unreal engine

been using it for like 2 days lol

[narrow igloo]

Google for "unreal world origin rebasing"

[oblique whale]

oh

ik what you meam

but

wait lemme show you something

[severe crater]

yep since to have problems with imprecision you have to be REALLY far away

[oblique whale]

uh

lemme check'

48207216.0

-36778940.0

16556470.0

xyz

[severe crater]

yeah that might have something to do with it

[oblique whale]

LOL

yes

lmao

so

i want gravity to work at both of these places so like if i re position the world orgin to the spaceship that will just make it so gravity wont work properly on the planet right?

[daring cedar]

Why does my player start says bad size? I bought this environment asset so not sure if something is on the way but it doesn't look like it? It's empty space

[oblique whale]

ye

oh no

i think it is

ye ik

ik how to fix that

dw

but

[oblique whale]

so

can you amnswer this

also sorry for my bad spelling i type a little to fast

[oblique whale]

@plush yew

[narrow igloo]

Typically you would origin shift periodically. So shift when you are on the ship and also when on the planet

[oblique whale]

aaa

sorry

hm

[viral veldt]

Is there a way to set the Editor Viewport to a specific size?

[oblique whale]

would you be able to move the world orgin depending on whrre your charecter is?

that seems possible

i think

@plush yew ping

with some blueprint stuff idk

say something

instead of reacting with emojis lol

[oblique whale]

uh

thats a very weird way of saying no

okay

[daring cedar]

What do I need to check? I don't see collision box on walls or floor

[severe crater]

btw does anyone have any solutions to this?
I've tried searching for it but couldn't find anything relating to the problem I'm having

[severe crater]

^

[daring cedar]

Is there a way to fix it without rebuilding?

[severe crater]

set your collision to non convex (advanced) and ensure that your colliders are properly set up

[merry pilot]

I keep getting this error, does anyone know what it means?

[severe crater]

yep, thanks for mentioning that

[flat axle]

does anyone know how to combine these two? I can only get one or the other to work whichever is ran first

[steel bramble]

It seems you dont have enough memory

[oblique whale]

Yo, i cant seem to find anything useful when i search up ue4 world orgin rebasing...

i tried doign some nodes

this is def all wrong lmao

i dont really know what im doing...

[light thunder]

They say you don't need 64 gb of ram - I'm glad I made the upgrade -

[rotund scroll]

UE's law: editor will expand to use the memory resources available

[flat axle]

How do I refer to image and swap it out without changing color

[neon dust]

woa

[merry pilot]

I have 16 GB, is there any settings i could possibly mess with to fix this?

[steel bramble]

I think it should be automatical...

[steep bobcat]

Hey guys, I just started using Rider with Unreal and I have some trouble using the debugger efficiently. As of now I have to rebuild and restart the game editor each time I make a change and want to place a breakpoint on some new code. For obvious reasons, this fucking sucks and slows me down. In Unity I was used to having the engine and the IDE open at the same time and when I made changes, Unity reloaded the code no problem and I could place a breakpoint on the new chunk of code and happily continue working/debugging. Is there anything like that for Unreal or do I have to seriously rebuild and restart the whole damn debugging editor instance each time I make a change?

[olive orchid]

UE4 keeps crashing on me.. idk if it’s assets or background programs running or what.. I’ve done a few things to address & I just re-installed the program, so hopefully that helps but please help, I can’t get in 15 mins before it crashes..

[frozen pond]

Hi, any idea how to fix that issue?

https://youtu.be/PFcv5v0_tiY

Problem is only visible on client that moves, on other clients is perfectly fine

[reef lotus]

does anyone have advice on how to make a packaged project less susceptible to manipulation/tampering/hacking? Some butthead is pirating/cracked my game and managed to bypass some systems I have in place to stop people from pirating it

[covert haven]

never tried it, but maybe you could reattach the debugger after hot reload / recompilation with live coding?

[plush yew]

hi

i cant open command thingy

in ue4

[thick herald]

I'm of the stance that if someone pirates something, they were never going to be a customer anyway.

[plush yew]

~this when i do shift that

what do i do ?

[thick herald]

Have a sandwich

[plush yew]

lol xD

so anyone knows a legit answer?

its to change my texture streaming pool

[split jasper]

Any decent guides anywhere on how to do performance profiling in UE4?

I'm literally just starting from the point of "oh hmm I'm not getting the FPS I should be"

[reef lotus]

yeah i understand that, also i take it as a compliment that some people thought it was worth pirating, but also it's annoying.

[bright sigil]

you didnt change the binding did you?

[thick herald]

I get ya man, is time spent antipirating worth it? Your time is money, and probably more valuable spent doing something productive 🙂 If the massive studios consistently fail to make any real difference to pirates, what's a bloke to to? 😄

[plush yew]

no its my keyboard i have to put that binding 2 times before it works

lots of people have that problem

[bright sigil]

its probably there on the first press, just hidden at the very bottom

[plush yew]

bud no good tutorial how to fix it

i try

got it !

[plush yew]

i just pressed some words and found it thanks

[bright sigil]

its at the very bottom first, then expanded on second

[plush yew]

this right ?

[bright sigil]

so your play window might be covered by taskbar or seomthing

oh, i was assuming you were PIE when accessing console

[plush yew]

ow xD

dont think thats not the console xD

is there another option?

[bright sigil]

i thot it was the same button for editor console, should show in viewport no?

maybe Shift+`?

check keybindings i guess

[split jasper]

All I have to do is press ` and I get this

[bright sigil]

cool

[plush yew]

got it

windows--->>developer tools -->> output log and done

[bright sigil]

lol OUTPUT LOG

i honestly thought thats what you meant originally, not console

we aint in Unity

[plush yew]

this aint unity xD

[split jasper]

What he's saying is the Output Log and the Console are two different things 🙂

[bright sigil]

the outrage

[plush yew]

lol

aaaah xD

bud here you can do commands to

solved my texture streaming with it xD

[bright sigil]

you have a point

[merry pilot]

Its a decent size, there was only like 200 things that needed built, and it had the same issue, but theres a lot now because i was working on it

[plush yew]

xD

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow I had installed unreal 4.27.1
and the same error appeared

[ivory mortar]

Hey folks, quick question. Has anyone had any issues loading assets in UE4 and attaching those assets to a Character BP? I've loaded some weapons assets that I am attaching to a character BP, but for some reason when I do it the orientation of the weapons are all kinds of messed up.

[drowsy snow]

Are you using Blender?

[ivory mortar]

I got the assets from the marketplace

So I am not sure

It happened with multiple assets too

[sharp crest]

anyone knows what this error means? (game closes, this appears in the log)

=== Critical error: ===
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000860

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can fix my game not connecting to steam? I'm using spacewar (480)
error in the log: LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Failed to initialize game server with Steam!

I heard it was just borked in 4.27

[plush yew]

Is it good to study Unreal Engine 5? I am a complete beginner who can't even handle Unreal 4 yet.

[frozen whale]

If I were you, start with 4

imo it runs way worse than 4

[plush yew]

Is it slower?

[frozen whale]

or my computer just sucks I don't know

[pine siren]

Any clever ideas on how the fuck this happened?

[drowsy snow]

If you're not a filmmaker, stick with UE4.

[frozen whale]

that's just a git moment

[drowsy snow]

What the fuck has happened exactly?

[frozen whale]

I have a project over git

oh wait

it's the engine

[plush yew]

Any reason?

[drowsy snow]

You don't need UE5 exclusive new features like Lumen and Nanite just to get started

[pine siren]

Unreal Engine's .git folder has killed my computer

[drowsy snow]

Oh.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc

Probably Git's junk blobs stacking up too much, could be cleaned up easily with one Git command line.

[plush yew]

Where should I go to learn Unreal C++ coding? The official website is difficult.

[grim ore]

do you know C++?

[pine siren]

The weird part is that I'm not even using this version. I completely forgot I cloned it two years ago, haven't touched it since. Git must've been confused. Deleted the entire 812GB folder. Yummy.

[drowsy snow]

You ruined the Git binding and won't be able to push any change to your own fork, but oh well 🤷‍♀️

[drowsy snow]

Do you have experience and know about general C++?

[plush yew]

yes

[drowsy snow]

Alright, then master your way through BPs first, then come back with doing Unreal's C++.
BP and C++ have lots of things in common, even though BP is on top of C++.

[plush yew]

The en4 api can be seen to some extent, but how to harmonize the blueprint.;;

[drowsy snow]

If you know your way around general C++ and Blueprints, chances are you can get up to speed of C++ the way Unreal 4 did it

[plush yew]

Okay. Are you saying you should try BP first?>

[distant siren]

something strange happens, when I export the game there are several levels, only in one level the commands do not match, but inside unreal it works, how is this possible?

[pine siren]

It was a clean clone from two years ago, no change. Super weird gif behavior. Maybe related to sourcetree, which I used back then.. oh well, water under the git 🤷‍♂️

[flat axle]

How do I set an image instead of a color with this without changing color?

I have it set to "Image" what would I have to do next?

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow I'm currently taking a course in Unreal Engine, and it seems to be written basically like programming in Blueprints, but is it C++ to make additional things that aren't in Blueprints?

[dry wharf]

can someone help when i click left shift my game just restarts
how can i change that

[dawn nebula]

any advice for a smooth camera when crouching?

[soft tree]

all your blueprints compile to some form of a less than ideally optimized C++
you can get around that by programming in C++ to begin with
very few things are not accessible by blueprints

[neon wedge]

Are they any bluerpint/level builders?

[plush yew]

Ah, the blueprint is converted to C++. Then all C++ is also possible.

[soft tree]

yes, but usually impractical

[safe rose]

Quickest way to intentionally cause a crash in a packaged build?

[soft tree]

you normally want to handle UI and animations, timelines, anim state machines, behaviour trees, etc in blueprints rather than cpp

[plush yew]

Why is it inefficient?

[soft tree]

it's best when you can combine c++ and blueprints
make functions and classes in c++ , and then use them in blueprints for fast prototyping

it's tough to do. people on here have tried to do that all in cpp, and then fail and never return. they get burnt out.

hold on. i have the perfect video

[soft tree]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZftEVDuCE&t=2446s

it's a long video, but it will answer all your questions about blueprints, cpp, performance, optimization, working with them together, use cases, etc

[plush yew]

Ah, that's right, but I hate blueprints. So should I go to Unity Engine?

[fervent raptor]

Someone know how to fix this issue?

[drowsy snow]

If you hate Visual Scripting in general, make your own engine.

[soft tree]

if you want to use unity then go for it. you can do anything in cpp that you can do in blueprints. but sometimes requires more work is all

[drowsy snow]

Unity even has Bolt.

[soft tree]

keep in mind that unity also has native visual scripting for animation graphs, bahaviour trees, and a few others

[drowsy snow]

100% C++ in Unreal is nigh impossible.
Mark my words.

[soft tree]

you normally won't get away from it.

literally everyone I've seen here try that has failed.

same for unity

[drowsy snow]

Even AAA studios using UE4 also uses BPs even if it's just 10%

[soft tree]

The consensus I gather is it starts much higher, then reduces as BP prototypes are ported to cpp.
It's just so damn efficient to prototype in BP

[drowsy snow]

Even then one does simply have Blueprint Callable C++ functions to make BP superpower.

[torpid wagon]

Hey guys ! I have a very specific (paid) request, but i dont really know if the "job board" is the place for it.
I have a websocket receiving packets from a overlay twitch extension, and I need someone capable of connecting it to UE
There is Ping/Pong involved
It also gives me the Twitch User ID of who clicked on the overlay (need a way to translate it to a username with twitch API)
That's why i need somebody who has both UE and websocket knowledge.
Do you think i should still post it to "job board ?" Even if it's a one-time job ?

[soft tree]

there's a job board specifically for this

#freelance-jobs

[torpid wagon]

I read a bit of this one, i felt like it's minimum 3 month contracts

but wtv, i'll post it

thx

[soft tree]

there are as short as 1 day contracts in there. look at the most recent messages

[torpid wagon]

okay 🙂

[plush yew]

In the end, some of the bp is converted to C++, but some of it has to be converted to bp.

[torpid wagon]

What "role" do you think i should "hire" for this kind of request ? Programmer only ?

[soft tree]

not converted to BP, you just expose cpp to blueprints

[drowsy snow]

Above, and no, BP runs in a VM, like most other scripting languages

[soft tree]

🤷‍♂️ networking/programmer maybe? they're not really strict there. just focus more on correctly dictating what you want done

[warm orbit]

Hey, what's up everyone. I'm just getting into Unreal and looking to learn the ropes.

[drowsy snow]

See pinned messages for beginner resources (except the NVIDIA stuff)

[plush yew]

So should I learn Blueprints first?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

Or make your own engine if you hate visual scripting as a whole.

[plush yew]

How can I build an engine?

[drowsy snow]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+to+make+a+game+engine+from+scratch

[neon wedge]

You have gotta be kidding me, someone suggested build an engine?

[flat axle]

I would stick to blueprints then transition into learning c++.

[drowsy snow]

Context: he despise visual scripting, for whatever reason, and many mainstream engine has it in one way or the other

I get that connecting cables isn't as cool as keyboard only full on Hackerman mode tho

Also I repeat, 100% C++ in Unreal is nigh impossible.

[plush yew]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dC-V-N3m0Go4deliWHPFwT

Wow

[raven estuary]

Is learning c++ necessary?

[drowsy snow]

Not obliged, but you'll going to need it as a gameplay programmer

[raven estuary]

Trying to become an indie game dev I've gotten miles more respect for actual indie game devs you have to learn so much to even get started

[drowsy snow]

Also Cherno's Hazel playlist is more of an adventure on making game engine as opposed to fully fledged tutorial

[soft tree]

if you have to ask this, you're not ready.

[drowsy snow]

Well, early on he kind of went with semi tutorial format, but nowadays it's more of a devlog

[drowsy snow]

Not ready to become this

[soft tree]

lol never seen that, but reminds me of the 90's hacker movie

[plush yew]

Can you recommend the engine name?

[drowsy snow]

Give Kung Fury a watch, it's basically 80s movie cliche fiesta, and I love it. It's free on YouTube btw

[drowsy snow]

Name it anything you want.

Or just base it from the game's title, like Unreal did back in 1996.

[thick loom]

If you absolutely despise visual scripting, you will get further with Unity than Unreal Engine. Example: Try setting the color of a cube exclusively from code in both engines.

But having a philosophy to stay only in code for a modern engine is kind of like trying to use a hammer to drive in a screw

There are lots of tools for the job, learn to use the correct one.

[drowsy snow]

But then Unity still have visual scripting for other necessary parts

[thick loom]

Visual scripting wasn't a core part of the engine when I used it ~3 years ago. It was more or less bolted on. Though I'm not talking about materials / shaders / w/e it was called.

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, Unity pre-2019.

[thick loom]

Which plugin did they buy and make part of the engine?

LOL

[plush yew]

I will make a good 3d engine that is easy to use, but the performance is not guaranteed.

[thick loom]

Yeah get back to me on that

[drowsy snow]

Until they realised how successful Unreal was with BP and started using Bolt as their BP

Guess that's your unintentional pun quota

[plush yew]

A self-adapting scripting language that will keep you entertained

[drowsy snow]

If performance is not guaranteed, I'd go with Unigine.

[thick loom]

Ah Bolt is the one they chose. Figures.

[drowsy snow]

And no, Unigine is its own thing, not an amalgamation of Unity and Unreal

[thick loom]

I have very negative opinions about their engineering teams. It is very telling that unity technology has never shipped a game with their engine.

[drowsy snow]

Last time they did it, it was 2005

Nowadays it's all just non-interactive demo, which Epic used to do it with UE4 and before, but ditched nowadays with UE5 and interactive tech demo.

[plush yew]

I don't have the confidence to make a good engine from scratch, but I will make an engine and grow it gradually.

[drowsy snow]

Even then Epic actively make games with their own engine.

[drowsy snow]

Less talking, more action.

Just start working on your own engine and don't spew any marketing blurb until you actually have it running.

[thick loom]

I feel like I'm building an engine with all the low level work I'm doing when trying to figure out how to do some procedural mesh generation.

[plush yew]

I know

[drowsy snow]

Just make sure not to stole code from other engine verbatim 😉

[plush yew]

don't worry ^^

[plush yew]

And it's a little rude to say this. I didn't mean to write.

[fervent raptor]

Someone can help me?

[split jasper]

The trouble is the hardest parts are first. Like you're going to spend months writing a ton of fucking linear algebra to make the parts of your engine that distort polygons from their absolute shape to their perspective shape for display

[simple python]

If I made changes to character BP's and changed their meshes can I just send those changed assets to a friend instead of sending the entire project?

[split jasper]

Like if you look at the work that Epic has done for us with this engine, 80% of it is just the nastiest fucking math you can imagine, and that's before you get to the real headaches like how you approach threading and memory management and the other nasty fucking CS problems you'll half to solve

[plush yew]

Need to solve a huge math formula?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, #source-control

[simple python]

Thanks. I know about source control but my friend won't use it.

[split jasper]

hot take, before you try make a game engine, you should know what a game engine does

[drowsy snow]

Then he won't go anywhere without it.

[simple python]

truth

[plush yew]

What kind of math do you usually have to solve?

[split jasper]

Hot take 2, the people who are most opposed to source control are the people who should most be forced to use it

[drowsy snow]

Basically any math John Carmack et al have solved.

[split jasper]

Linear algebra, multivariable calculus, plus a bunch of other shit I dont even know about

I only took like one or two 400-level math courses, so I doubt I'm qualified to make an engine myself

[drowsy snow]

Well, not force it, but source control is a necessity with collaborative effort, and his friend would either use it, or get out of the project.

[plush yew]

That's what I've heard, but I'm also suspicious of myself.

[drowsy snow]

Aha, the acceptance phase.

I know defenestrating typing only Hackerman ego is hard, but in Unreal, BP and C++ go hand in hand, and Unity would still have visual scripting for graphics related stuff. And I'm sure CryEngine also has visual scripting recently.

But eh, doesn't matter when you can write your own engine, right?

[split jasper]

Also like... if you wanna be a carpenter, but you dont wanna use hammers, you're either going to have to get over it, or you'll be constantly struggling to work around that preference

Like, these are the tools we've got to do the work. You don't have to LIKE them all, but you should recognize when something is the right tool for the job.

Everyone has some tools they like more than others.

Shit, every time i go into Blender I leave wanting to fistfight a fuckin fridge or something

[drowsy snow]

I do get the appeal of being constantly on the keyboard, especially with clicky mechanical keyboards sounds make you feel like doing something super important, even if typing gibberish

[digital mist]

Hiii

[flat axle]

Hello

[digital mist]

I’ve been trying to figure something out, that should be super easy lol

[flat axle]

Me too haha

what you trying to figure out?

[digital mist]

I have 2 characters in my level, and when I press play to test the game, I can’t figure out how to switch control from the default character, to mine

So I can test the other character

[flat axle]

sec i think i can actually help you with that unless someone beats me to it lol

change the default pawn class

[digital mist]

In the project settings right?

[flat axle]

well you can make a blueprint, and then have the project settings use the blueprint

for easy swaps

[digital mist]

Yea I just tried it and switching the default pawn class to the other character didn’t do anything, it still controls the default character for some reason

[flat axle]

you changed it in the project settings?

[digital mist]

Yea

Maps and modes

[flat axle]

whats your default game mode?

[digital mist]

Side scrolling, and yea the character I imported isn’t built for side scrolling so that could be an issue somewhere there

[flat axle]

when you open side scrolling is the pawn set to the one youre trying to use also?

[digital mist]

The pawns just set to the default character. I basically just opened the basic side scroller mode with starter content and imported this Paragon character to try it out

[flat axle]

you should be able to open the default game mode and change the default pawn from there, im not 100% sure though XD

[digital mist]

Haha yea that’s what I thought, been trying to look it up for 2 hours and there’s nothing that explains switching between 2 characters in play test

Every time I try to do anything in Unreal I go, I’m gonna try this. And spend hours trying to figure it out and ending up finding nothing

[flat axle]

same thing for me, usually takes at least a day when i get stuck XD

[digital mist]

Switching the character u can test should be like, in tutorial #1 lol

[flat axle]

i did a paid tutorial on all of that through udemy

completed a few courses on there

[digital mist]

I’m in college and I’ve had one class on Unreal so far lol

[flat axle]

through college?

[digital mist]

Yep

[flat axle]

what all did you learn?

[digital mist]

Well we never had to work with 2 characters in one level before lol. We made one basic game in the semester. We learned just all the basic controls, basic blueprint stuff, making landscapes, buttons, AI, lighting, menu and HUD stuff

Most of the program so far has been modeling in Maya and learning how to make things

[flat axle]

Ah, yeah that first course i took coverd all but mya

[digital mist]

Yea this is my third year. First 3 years have been all pretty much Maya stuff, last semester was my first unreal class

[unkempt trellis]

Hi, does anyone know how I managed to break the lighting in my scene, it was fine before and now the shadows are very dark, unsure how I caused it, quite new to Unreal

[flat axle]

You could adjust attenuation and intensity

theres usually more people that are way more experienced than me to answer questions in here, sorry im not too helpful XD

[unkempt trellis]

I believe i'v tried that, thanks for trying tho

[digital mist]

Have u tried rebuilding the lighting?

Maybe at a better quality since it’s auto set to the lowest possible

[rotund scroll]

lightmass importance volume applied?

[frozen whale]

Anything?

[flat axle]

Not even close to having an idea on that one XD

[bright sigil]

what did it look like before, when it was fine?

[unkempt trellis]

This is the only screenshot I have, but you can kinda see how the shadows and general lighting/shading was a lot better

[unkempt trellis]

Tried that, doesn't seem to help

[bright sigil]

and you didnt delete anything thing? like skylights? or change lightmass light environment color?

[unkempt trellis]

I haven't applied one yet, I'll give that a go

Not that I'm aware of, all are still there

Another screenshot from a while ago when it was fine

[flat axle]

you can try to unclick casts shadows on skylight?
(build lighting after to see changes)

[bright sigil]

did you do what CE suggested?

[unkempt trellis]

I will try soon and get back to yous, shut it down because it was annoying me haha

[digital mist]

Anyone one else have any ideas for me, switching between what character is controlled when trying to play test?

[plush yew]

is there a way to name my materials in maya or blender so that unreal engine assigns the textures to the right slots

because sometimes it just guesses and roughness maps get plugged into metallic

[digital mist]

If u have it applied to a character or just a basic shape or something and import the asset, I’ve never had any issues with shaders and materials doing it that way

[flat axle]

@digital mist ill try to replicate here in a few mins to try to find a solution

[digital mist]

Yea maybe it’s just a glitch and I’d have to restart and make a whole new side scrolling project

[flat axle]

@digital mist i got it halfway working by just switching out the skeletal mesh

But, the animations you might have to program in

nvm

just set the animation class to whatever came with the paragon

and switch out the skeletal mesh

good to go

let me know if that fixes it or you need more help

If its not what your looking to do exactly let me know and ill try to help further

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow hey I noticed you mentioned using Vroid for your characters in UE4 and I was wondering do you have to rig them when importing them from blender into UE4?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, I have to rerig the VRoid models in Blender, primarily due to lack of twist bones.

[plush yew]

what do twist bones do again?

[drowsy snow]

Basically preserving volume when other bone is twisted

Without it, backhand poses cause shrinking mesh issues

[plush yew]

I see, so do you know any videos that can help me do this?

maybe any add-ons for blender too?

[drowsy snow]

As for addons, I use Auto Rig Pro.

[flat axle]

@digital mist https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/HowTo/PossessPawns/

[plush yew]

so do you just delete the bone rig that comes with the vroid and then replace it with the one you make using Auto Rig Pro?

[long schooner]

it might be stupid of me to ask, but can i use a spring arm to do a first person view?

[bright sigil]

how?

[long schooner]

how what

[bright sigil]

how would you use it?

[long schooner]

bring forth the spring arm on the X axis?

idk? im trying to learn

[bright sigil]

i mean, yeah go ahead, just not sure what you're trying to accomplish that spring arm does for you

[long schooner]

im trying to find cameraboom in the components since ive started from scratch watching a tutorial, only problem is the guy does it in 3rd and if i try to replace the spring arm, theres no option for said camera boom

[bright sigil]

you want to be able to look down and see your feet or something?

spring arm is camera boom

[long schooner]

hence why im simply asking "is it possible to use a spring arm for a fps"

[bright sigil]

they just renamed it

[long schooner]

ah gotcha

[long schooner]

simply a fps

im trying to do a roleplay game but in fps, fivem/gta style but fps only

[bright sigil]

dont think fps needs it

[mellow turret]

an animation montage that is interrupted will call the Interrupted delegate before playing the montage that interrupted it right?

[bright sigil]

spring arm is to put the camera behind the player, hence camera boom

[long schooner]

so if i just link a camera to the head socket, everything should be fine?

but then wouldnt half the face clip in the wall?

as well, it doesnt let me parent socket to the head because my mesh is inherited, is there a way to fix that

[bright sigil]

sounds like a different problem that springarm doesnt fix

[bright sigil]

fix which?

[long schooner]

the inherited part

[bright sigil]

springarm is not parented

[long schooner]

if i remove the spring arm

[bright sigil]

you can start from pawn instead of character

[long schooner]

the capsule?

[bright sigil]

inhereted is part of the class, so if you're making a character and it extends the character class, you have those

all that say inherited

means it comes from the parent class

[long schooner]

right

[bright sigil]

you're working from scratch though?

or want to?

as in not the template fps character?

[long schooner]

yes all scratch

[bright sigil]

i guess yeah, you should start from pawn

[long schooner]

only thing is, im not using a pawn

i did a character blueprint

nvm

i think i did it

[bright sigil]

character extends pawn, so you could start from pawn and have no inhereted stuff

[drowsy snow]

Yes, though I keep the bones for hairs and eyes, and merge them with the ARP made rig.

[blissful trail]

im having trouble with uncrouch (i can uncrouch through a wall)

[drowsy snow]

Uncrouch through ceilings?
Do an upward line trace to check for blocking collisions before uncrouching

[blissful trail]

the problem is the line trace moves when i crouch :<

[timid spade]

any suggestions on how to implement leaning?
ive tried going the timeline route but way too many problems with camera teleporting because the timeline is wrong, ive revised it many times and this is my final yet flawed creation

yes its a mess i know i didnt have the time to organize it

[drowsy snow]

wdym?
You could line trace upwards from the character center and get the collision check working

[blissful trail]

basically what im doing rn

i fixed the issue where it moves when you crouch

but like got more issues now :<

[timid spade]

i would break hit result and then use the location of my hit to set a limit to how high the character can go, if if the position of the player is under what it is standing up, then keep checking to see if it changes

[blissful trail]

the current problem is if i move in the right location i can still go up through walls

i think its because the line trace is smaller then the player capsule

[timid spade]

make sure the top of the player capsule doesnt reach the line trace

it can be right below it

just make sure it doesnt surpass the hit location

and the reason i said to keep checking because if it only checks once, it will just "half" uncrouch and stay at that position, which will not be fully standing up if you were underneath an object

[blissful trail]

idk how to explain the problem but its kinda like this

[timid spade]

pretty sure you can do multitrace so it checks the area around

im not too familiar with that

[plush yew]

K, thanks

[timid spade]

nvm i might be wrong about that

actually no

so basically

multispheretrace will run a sphere with a certain radius up a line and check for collision

you can also do multiboxtrace

same idea except its a certain dimension

[weak shuttle]

I like how UE be like "Everything is free, as long as you use UE" (Until you profit that is)
The stuff in quixel is pretty amazing.

[timid spade]

kinda like this

[timid spade]

yes thats how they can afford to develop such an amazing engine

cant be free for commerical use

its like licensing

[weak shuttle]

It is licensing.

[timid spade]

would u want someone to use a song you spent hours on for free and not get paid for it?

yeah ik

[weak shuttle]

As a composer and academic-level musician. No.

[timid spade]

same thing here

plus they spent millions

so like

[weak shuttle]

I think you're misinterpreting me though. I'm not complaining

[timid spade]

return on investment

yeah ik

[weak shuttle]

Like everything on Quixel is free if you're using UE

[timid spade]

im just saying

[weak shuttle]

That's f'ing awesome

[timid spade]

ohhh

my bad

it is very awesome

[weak shuttle]

Of course they make the money back.

So it's not "free"

[timid spade]

its not a paywall for people who want to experiment and potentially use it for a published game

[weak shuttle]

Essentially, it's the same type of "free" as Canada's healthcare system.

[timid spade]

thats payed for by taxes

im always paying for it

just no upfront cost

kinda like a subscription

either way, i think its fair

because you dont actually know if youre gonna use anything on quixel for your published product

but if u do

gotta pay

[weak shuttle]

Fair doesn't even describe it.

It's a lot more than fair

[timid spade]

its a good system

which is why websites who make you spend 5$ for sounds recorded with an android mic are dying

[weak shuttle]

Do they include sounds too?

[timid spade]

no idea i dont use it

but im just giving an example

as to why its not going anywhere

id rather have to pay for something when i actually use it commercially than pay for it first then expirement with it at home and might not even use it for anything

sound paywall turns me off

[weak shuttle]

Ya.

AVID needs to take a lesson from epic.

[timid spade]

paywall once i publish is ok

yeah they do

how good is unreal crack protection?

[weak shuttle]

Wat?

[timid spade]

i take

assets

from a game

and

steal them

[weak shuttle]

There is none?

[timid spade]

not actually doing it

just wondering how good it is for my own stuff

there is

[weak shuttle]

The protection is if they catch you, they could sue you for copyright abuse.

[timid spade]

pretty sure unreal uses paks

nobody cracking game files cares enough

[kindred depot]

Sorry to be the police but don't talk about cracking games here.

[timid spade]

im not

[weak shuttle]

I thought he was meaning to use UE assets in other engines or something.

[timid spade]

well if someone were to crack it then yea

i mean assets

[weak shuttle]

The flaw is the idea you need a computer algorithm to stop copyright abuse.

[timid spade]

cuz if their crack protection isnt good then ill use my own

i dont, but it helps

[weak shuttle]

As someone that decomps N64 games.

There's no point.

It just slows people down and that's it.

[timid spade]

n64 is old algorithm

yeah thats the point

[weak shuttle]

Actually, you could compress using TKMK00

It's an unknown compression format.

[timid spade]

dealing with less copyright lawsuits is easier than dealing with more

[weak shuttle]

What are you actually worried about? People stealing your game textures? Or your game code? The sounds?

[timid spade]

i dont really care tbh because i wont end up finishing my project for another year probably or more

but i was just curious

cuz if i do get to publishing i would be slightly worried about that

[weak shuttle]

If it was me, I probably wouldn't even bother. Especially if I was using free assets from quixel cause anyone can download them.

And there's much better programmers out there (than me)

[timid spade]

i plan on making my assets mostly on my own or hiring people if it gets to that point

if i need to buy one i will then it wont be a problem

[weak shuttle]

Even with asset encryption, people can rip assets straight out of memory.

I would say the main point of encryption is to prevent modding, really.

[timid spade]

yes that makes sense
regardless, still harder for little jimmy to do that

im not stopping all cracks

theyre bound to happen

[weak shuttle]

Solution: Put your own game on pirate bay

[timid spade]

yes ik the strat

make it super troll

[weak shuttle]

I actually bet UE's license wouldn't allow that.

[timid spade]

doubt

[weak shuttle]

Cause then how are they supposed to get their 5%.

[timid spade]

if its a bogus version of the game

itll probably make them realize that people who are trying to crack it are gonna be bamboozled

and flood the crack market with bogus

forcing people to buy real deal unless youre really determined

[weak shuttle]

That's probably the best encryption. Is to put random bullshit code snuck everywhere that does weird gameplay if it realizes it's cracked.

The issue, is that legitimate copies will trigger the crack prevention software.

[timid spade]

also, just make users connect to your servers (if its mp game)

nobodys gonna play online if they cant

[weak shuttle]

Yea, that's the best. But then you have to pay for servers.

[timid spade]

its annoying yeah but like

nobodys gonna play modern warfare or vanguard or cold war campaigns every day for hours

theyll just end up buying the game for multiplayer

[weak shuttle]

Also consider, all those games have hackers too.

[timid spade]

because activision wants money

they sue for publicity

not cause they care

[weak shuttle]

And most of them aren't being banned because hacking software constantly changes.

[timid spade]

thats not why

oh yea

that is why

u edited my bad

ricochet is also a joke

[weak shuttle]

Yea, my brain said one thing, my fingers wrote something else lol

[timid spade]

vanguard is doing it right

you can still esp

but aimbot is no go

they check for weird movements

esp only works certain distance

the only companies who care about their game is riot and ubisoft

theyve sued for the real deal

[weak shuttle]

Did they win?

[timid spade]

activision isnt winning engineowning

its not winnable

russia wont extort their citizens

and the 2 "german" guys are unidentifiable

so theyre probably also russian or they dont exist

and it doesnt matter anyways

its a publicity suit

riot games setlled for 2m$ with a val cheat i forget the name

ubisoft sued a few people and cnd'd a lot of people

for r6 cheats

[sharp nacelle]

Did blueprints cost someone at first?

[timid spade]

oh yeah i forgot to mention

some guy spent 10 minutes coding an anticheat on unreal that checks for weird movements and stuff just like val does

and what do u know

90% success rate

not hard to check for stuff like that

companies are just too greedy

[weak shuttle]

I personally don't believe it's that easy. Companies would have been doing that in 2010.

[timid spade]

i disagree,

[weak shuttle]

Or perhaps the code is reliant on engine features that didn't exist in 2010

[timid spade]

for example eft cheaters spend around 25-30$ per account code every time they buy a new account

someone who gets banned every week

thats 30$ a week from 1 guy

theres also a cheat which modifies game textures for tarkov

[weak shuttle]

I doubt those cheaters actually do that.

[timid spade]

could be patched with md5

you have no idea

i know people in the commnuity

some good friends who are making a bag

people spend hundreds

i dont use them myself

its boring and

i dont wanna be banned and have to deal with hwid bans

some people spend hundreds a month just trying to be better

its kinda sad tbh

i cant even blame developers at this point not because theyre making cheats but because people spend so much money on it to the point where you can get rich if you make enough sales

pretty fast too

[west merlin]

Has anyone hosted a dedicated steam server on a windows AWS server?

[timid spade]

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/lpu5hs/can_i_run_a_steam_game_server_in_aws/

[west merlin]

Thanks, looking to talk to someone who's actually done it though.

[timid spade]

my bad, just sent that in case u wanted to look at it

[west merlin]

I read through a bunch of posts on reddit and forums, and searched the Steam Advanced Sessions thread looking for specifics but no luck

Thank you 🙂

[timid spade]

what are you having trouble with exactly, setting it up or something else?

[west merlin]

Actually being able to join the AWS server, dedicated server works when hosted locally but can't access it when it's on the AWS box