ue4-general

[raven estuary]

Can you set up unreal to save a like "workspace" or something so that when i open unreal it sets up on both my monitors

[bright sigil]

not sure about the monitor part, but you can definitely save the layout

[vivid scaffold]

does anybody know how i can paint foliage onto a static mesh

its on in the filter but i still dont see any brush to paint

[coarse wind]

👋🏽 Hello everyone, hope 2022 is great for you.
My project crashed, and when I opened it again, it displayed this error ^
the objects are in the scene, but not really. you can see them in the outliner but only there. How can I fix this?

[hybrid owl]

hello folks, total noob here. how do I change camera in the viewport? ie switching between cinecamera and firstpersoncamera. thanks!

[drowsy snow]

Pilot the camera. (Right click -> Pilot Actor)

[plush yew]

hi !

every 5 seconds mine editor stuggers even in a blanco map with only 1 floor

can i get some help solving this please? 🙂

[raven estuary]

Me and my friend want to start a game together where would i go to figure out how to do that cause Im sure that just sending random thigns back and forth isnt the best way to do it

[regal igloo]

Hello i am having some problem with megascan materials when i check enable displacement on megascan plugin the material that i import from megascan bridge becomes a checkered material when i apply it to any model. Any one knows how i can solve this?

I am new and trying to learn unreal for archviz

[sterile sun]

after migrating project to other unreal project , my blueprint not working properly. some of the variables are missing and its throwing compile time error. kindly guide

i saw someone already answered it on answerHub but currently it is not accessible

[sterile sun]

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[trim glacier]

Hey, I have updated a UE4.26 project to UE4.27.2 and in the editor it looks all fine but in a packed build it's now all extremely shiny.

Anyone know this issue and a fix for it?

Here is how it looks in editor and in 4.26

[stray drift]

Hand material looks like wonky metallic setting

[trim glacier]

but it's fine in editor and in 4.26 and no changes where made

[winged lava]

Hi there! Basically I don't know what node to use. Let me explain. I am using an Event tick with a branch and a boolean to check whether or not an enemy has been killed and if it has to load a different level. I am doing the coding inside of the level blueprint. Now my problem is my boolean for the monster killed needs something plugged into target. WHAT do I use please? Is like "Get character pawn or something"? THX

Thx for the reply. I plan on having like 20 monsters per level and you have to kill all the monsters to proceed to the next level. ANy ideas how this can be done m8?

HOW? I don't get it

how would I program that

@plush yew Hi m8! Can u tell what node references a npc pawn for the target. Because this I understand? thx Lorash! 🙂

[cinder bloom]

İs there anyone know replicated ? pls help

[winged lava]

@plush yew Hi Lorash! Can u plz tell if it's not too much trouble what node I need for the target when referencing an NPC?

[cinder bloom]

@plush yew i did thanks

[oblique whale]

why cant i move when im really far away from the center of the world (0, 0, 0)?

im pretty sure i have to re position the world origin but idk like how to do that..

i did try and enable world compsition

and then also rebasing

didnt change anything

wait

i can convert my probject to ue5=

?

oh

so igotta wait for it to get relaesed?

bruh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mm2SDSV48 you sure you cant convert it lol?

@plush yew

[primal crag]

guys i cant seem to find skysphere in my actors list any solution?

[winged lava]

Can someone plz tell if it's not too much trouble what node I need for the target when referencing an NPC?

[winged lava]

My NPC is called ss1 but nothing comes up in search when I type get ss1 😦

oh okay

care to enlighten me m8

do I need a cast to character?

[primal crag]

@plush yew yes thats the problem , i cant seem to add it , because its not coming up in the search , nor is it there in the list

[winged lava]

@plush yew Aw come on m8 I ain't got time tbh to watch a two hour video. All I wanna know is the target for ss1

I know you're saying itself but what would that be?

ss1 is the npc name

is it the node get player pawn would that work

I am just looking for one easy method

can i use "Get Pawn"?

[primal crag]

I am working in meerkat demo scene by weta , is there possiblity they have deleted it for this project

I have no idea at this point then , i have tried everything , its available in every other poject of mine , it just doesnt work in this

[oblique whale]

i just did that, and now i only have my folders everything else is gone

[winged lava]

I have 10 different types of monsters in an FPS game and I want to be able to trigger the next level when they are all dead. How would I do this plz? Explain it to me as if I'm STOOPID. THX

[oblique whale]

wdym

EA = early acces?

[wild aspen]

We have some serious performance issues here, we can't figure out. From time to time, without fixed frequency, the gpu usage suddenly drops down, the clock drops down, and unreal gets to unusable levels of lag. Over time, this behaviour lasts longer and longer. The minimum clock drop you see in librehardwaremonitor doesn't last for the whole duration, it's almost instantaneous. During all the lagging phase, the GPU clock is still between 1800 and 1900MHz. In the graph in red is temperature, in green is usage, in yellow is vram.

Any other GPU-intensive application we tried with 96-99% GPU usage leads to temperatures stabilizing at 78° with clock stabilizing at 1800 and keeping high framerate. Unreal has a totally different behaviour.

Cpu usage and temperatures are always low, so they're likely unrelated.

Is this a known unreal issue? Is there something in the settings that make unreal artificially throttle down for saving on power consumption or stuff like that? I've no idea where to look for the cause of such terrible in-editor performance drops.

We have relatively slow ram with high cl (2666mhz cl19 in one machine, 2933mhz cl21 in another) and I would understand that causing drops when new objects are added on the scene and similar operations. However the drops happen seemingly randomly even if all you've done in the last 10 minutes was holding right click and rotating the camera at semi-constant speed (tested)

It's not a case of

[winged lava]

I have 10 different types of monsters in an FPS game and I want to be able to trigger the next level when they are all dead. How would I do this plz? Explain it to me as if I'm STOOPID. THX

[oblique whale]

Yes im using early access... but it isnt fully released right?

bruh

so theres no way

i can fix that gravity thingy

bro im so new to unreal engine, what is a test level lmao

isnt there just "levels"

how would i create a test level

but how would that fix the issue

like

cuz i would still need my planet

????

"not an issue"

[sick patio]

I'm sorry can someone help me with this error? I downlaoded this marketplace asset and got this error when i put it in my project

[oblique whale]

hm i see

ye but the problem is

ok

[sick patio]

am i in the wrong room?

i should go there?

[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.
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 -

[trim glacier]

Still having the issue that 4.27.2 is just all over shiny no matter what I do. In editor i's all fine but in a packed build it looks like above. Already tested several compression methods and uncompressed but it never changes

[hot thistle]

@trim glacier
Since its not packaging correctly there might be a flaw in the texture reference, I'm guessing metallic? This shouldn't happen so its weird, can you show an image of the material for the hand?

[hazy tundra]

I have a crash when changing the default RHI to dx12, does anyone know why this happens?

This is the error

Exception thrown at 0x00007FFA81994F69 in UE4Editor.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: _com_error at memory location 0x0000005ABBAFCD20.
Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/RHI/Private/PipelineStateCache.cpp] [Line: 139] 
Shader compilation failures are Fatal.

[hazy tundra]

1050ti and 27.21.14.5671

Unfortunately no :/

We have used dx11 so far, and wanted to switch to dx12

Not sure if additional work is needed

We changed the default RHI through project settings

Also it's not happening on all PCs, but all of them have the same specs

Which is kinda weird

[trim glacier]

it's basically applied to each material but yeah give me a second

[trim glacier]

This is how it this material looks, nothing special. But I also noticed that even just Images used in UMG looks like having more contrast

I first tought it's something with the new Oodle compression in 4.27 but after disabling it, still no change

[sand plinth]

Hey folks, in materials, what is occlusion?

[hot thistle]

@trim glacier Hmm, that is strange indeed - do you use a master material for the materials affected?

@sand plinth
Ambient Occlusion is a texture applied to corners, creeks ect, easily to explain as ''faking'' shadows closest to the model.

[sand plinth]

ah thanks

[trim glacier]

I use several different master materials. and even materials witout master materials and just a 3Vector as color and no other setup are way to shiny

[kind zephyr]

Hi there! Is it dangerous to reorder variables and put them into categories?
I suspect that it was the reason of a total mess in a previous project.

[hot thistle]

To my experience, no that has never happened to me

[hot thistle]

But not in 4.26?

[trim glacier]

exactly

[trim glacier]

the entire game is unchanged, just switched from UE 4.26 to 4.27 both source builds

[hot thistle]

Are you using combined textures? Like a roughness, metallic, ao - I've had issues with the RMAO textures being way to shiny sometimes

[trim glacier]

Yes I use them a lot but again, the arms don't use them

It just does not make much sense at all other then UE 4.27.2 is somewhat broken

[plush yew]

Hey, I have a question not sure if anyone has had this problem but I am working for a studio and it currently is using an older version of Unreal Engine (4.19.2) and recently there has been an unexpected issue where as soon as someone loads into the match their game would just close out. In the windows event viewer it just shows up as an unknown crash. But UE does not produce a crash report at all. This happens to very few people and now I have a theory it might be ties into newer hardware? Like ddr5 ram and the newer Intel could technology. Does anyone have any information in this regard?

[hot thistle]

hmm, i would then try to turn off any plugins you use one by one, as they may interfere with something in 4.27
Or migrate it all to a fresh project

[hot thistle]

I've read from Epic that problems can persist from hardware/graphics recently in versions below 4.20 or 4.21

Tho I'm not sure if that is relevant to a already published game

But all tech evolve and I'm certain 4.19 had its mistakes when it comes to future optimizations

[pine siren]

Does anyone know the specific lifecycle of an actor when you grab it, drag it over the editor, then drop it into the editor?
I'm experiencing some weird double-instancing with a custom object, and I can't figure out what's happening. Seems like the object that is dragged is a different object than is placed when dropped, but that the deconstructor is never called for the first object..

[digital anchor]

It calls postcreateactor twice, one for the preview actor and one for the real actor

[plush yew]

Yeah, well the reason I was thinking that might be the issue is because one of our QA members just got new hardware and now has the issue of the game just closing out. But for majority of our community there is no issues, I am going to cross reference all the people having the crash. But I fear that it means the only solution is going to be porting the project forward to a newer version of UE.

[digital anchor]

check for ClassDefaultObject and transient flags

[pine siren]

Interesting.. Is there anyway to hijack this? I don't fully understand the switch between preview and placement.. By printing out the memory address I can see that these are two different instances of the class, and that the preview isn't actually deconstructed. But it doesn't exist in the outliner, so I can't access it.
Is it the same instance, just moved, hence the new address? It can't be, because all the proper inits are running in the second instance..

I am confused..

[digital anchor]

it literally spawns two actors

but one is transient

[hot thistle]

Yea, but to be fair - if your game is still active that is not a bad idea either way

[plush yew]

Well it is a old project in a reboot phase and we are working on integrating it into blockchain. It seems like the only solution might be to upgrade the unreal engine version used.

[hot thistle]

I see, I wish you good luck on the update! It can be tedious, lets hope it goes smoothly!

[plush yew]

Majority of the project is Blueprints and a few plug-ins, looks like they support up to 4.27 so other than some code update my theory is it should be fairly contained.

[tiny zodiac]

Im making a game where many characters need to jump through platforms. But they often collide with each other and fall because of that.
So i was wondering if i can disable the collision between a character and only 1 specific pawn?
In the collision options when i set it to custom i can only ignore to all pawns? 😦
I need to disable it for all pawns of a specific type only.

[lilac sail]

Hey sorry to ask but I NEED to know I am switching my main OS to Arch Linux and will be virtualizing Windows from then on because windows is so so unstable and keeps braking, Will there be any issues with the Unreal Engine?

[hot thistle]

You can try to make a new collision type?

[tiny zodiac]

thank you. is that possible in blueprints?

i can make custom collision. but new collision type?

[hot thistle]

In your project settings you should be able to create a new collision object type

[rustic root]

If I right click and delete this folder, is it just deleting the link to it within my project or will it actually delete the folder from my pc?

[tiny zodiac]

thanks you @hot thistle i found it. and this video is explains it very well too, just in case others are reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZGwbf_lsQ

[viral lotus]

Hi, I'm trying to post a question on the UE forum - but it keeps demanding I add a version tag.. I am trying, cant figure out how

[hot thistle]

Glad you solved it

[viral lotus]

Where does tag go, and how do you format it? I'm posting to UE5 early access

[frozen whale]

How can I hide a model for the local player camera but show it for other players?

a playermodel

[tiny zodiac]

Hi. I want to include this video in my game that is about Squid Games, in a big screen TV in the middle of the level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtPb4NMkT-s
Do you think there is a copyright issue? My game is an amateur project.
And that music is from squid games too. So its a copyright of a copyright? 😆

[frozen whale]

you should ask the producers of that video if you can include it and since it's a cover it's not copyrighted.

You can email them at: [e-mail]

[tiny zodiac]

Thank you @frozen whale

[frozen whale]

Keep in mind this is not really legal advice but it's always nice to contact them about it before including it

[tiny zodiac]

i think it will look really cool 😺

[tall sorrel]

whats the best way to go about making a loading screen?
Should I load the level then on begin play add the widget?
I watched a tutorial and the guy applied the loading screen before even actually loading the next level, and that just seems dumb since it literally does nothing, so I stopped watching.

edit: im alos level streaming

[trim glacier]

Depends on what you want and how you want to do it.
You can add a loading screen widget to the viewport before loading the level. The last thing on screen will be frozen on there until the level is loaded and instantly removed.

I do it a bit more complex. I create a generic loading screen before loading the map, but mine is mostly empty and is using sublevels. Then in the Level Blueprint I create a new detailed loadingscreen which is animated while the sublevels stream in in the background

[dry wharf]

Hello, i watched this video
and made everything as he said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVh1-4zmy4

how can i replicate
so that the other person in server sees turning

[tiny zodiac]

@hot thistle I could not make it work so far. Im a bit confused 😦
What am i doing wrong?

Just in case if someone else can help me. Im trying to make characters of the same type as my Character not to collide with myself. But other characters should collide...

[trim glacier]

Did you create new collision profiles?

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can fix my mouse not showing up on my main menu?

All of the things I see involve making a new gamemode

I don't want to do that

[dry wharf]

you have to set show mouse cursor

[trim glacier]

get player controler -> ShowMouseCursor

[tiny zodiac]

yes but i dont understand what difference will it make. I cant find where can i make it not collide with specific character types?
In this case i just need it to not collapse with characters of the same type as myself

[hot thistle]

Make a new one in the Object Channel, then you can an own collison for the ''enemies''
They block each other, but ignore the pawn collision type (which I guess your character is using)

[frozen whale]

Thanks

[hot thistle]

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

[frozen whale]

Something like this?

[trim glacier]

yes

@hot thistle Worked trough everything and disabled all custom plugins, game is still shiny as hell. Feels like the Engine has some critical issues

[dry wharf]

Hello, i watched this video
and made everything as he said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVh1-4zmy4

how can i replicate
so that the other person in server sees turning

[hot thistle]

Really strange.. the only times i've had issues with the package being different than the engine version its because of SaveGame - but I don't suppose you're using any form of local saving in the game?

could be worth trying to copy Saved from the engine version into the Package

If not, I'd just migrate over to a fresh project to compare

[trim glacier]

I can try and delete them, but still if this would be the issue, it's not acceptable. The game is out for nearly a year and it's getting new updates

[hot thistle]

Yea I get that.. is 4.27 essential for the update in the game?

[tiny zodiac]

@hot thistle I read the link. But im still confused. I dont know how and where can i specify that the character should not block other characters of a specific type

I created a new object channel called DontBlockAI. But there isnt much in it.

[trim glacier]

More or less, as 4.26 has very wonky PS5 support which will not pass certfication

[trim glacier]

once you have the profiles, you need to go and open each character blueprint and assign the collisioncapsule the one or the other profile

[hot thistle]

You have to go into each character you want to edit, select custom collisions and set up the proper reactions

[hot thistle]

Then I would file a report to Epic as this should not happen at all

[tiny zodiac]

Ok. Im there but i dont see anything where i can change to specify that it should not block BP_HanaAI

maybe its something simple but i cant see it

[hot thistle]

Can you see your new collision channel?

[tiny zodiac]

Yes i see. But that is not in any way connecting to BP_HanaAI

I mean where is it saying that it wont collide with a specific character?

sorry for being annoying 😦

[hot thistle]

You're not annoying, dont worry we've all been there 🙂

@tiny zodiac
I would change the name of your new channel to - AI or Hana, something relevant to what that object is.
Go to your main Character (not AI)
Then select the Capsule Component (or whatever is controlling your collision)
Under the Collision info to the right select Custom as your Collision Preset, change the Object type to Pawn (unless it already is)

Your character is now of the object type Pawn, that means everything that can Block the Pawn will collide with it.

In Collision Responses find your new object type (BlockAI or whatever you called it) on the list and check it as Ignore.

Your character will now ignore the type BlockAI (or whatever you called it)

Let me know when you've done this 🙂

[trim glacier]

Yeah guess reporting it is worthless. Epic has never reacted or responed to anything for the last 10 years

[hot thistle]

I guess that is true yea, but maybe try the forums - developers often respond there

[narrow haven]

Hi all, any FPrimaryAssetID users here? Did you guys notice slowdowns/lag when you click in the editor on an exposed FPrimaryAssetID field to show the dropdown of all the possible options? I noticed after some point in my project, after having a few (less than 20) PrimaryAssets that clicking on the dropdown takes at least 500-700ms to show up. Not sure if other people have this issue or just me.

[tiny zodiac]

I think i get it now. Thanks so much

[hot thistle]

Cool the only thing you need to do after the above is changing the collision type of your AI to your new Collision Channel, thereby - the character will ignore AI collisions

(same way you changed to Pawn object type in the character)

[cosmic axle]

Hey! So, my character is kinda of "sliding" after I release the input, and I remember there's a setting to disable that, but I can't remember the name. Can anyone help me with that?

[hot thistle]

Does it have gravity enabled?

[cosmic axle]

The movement component has the gravity at 0

Is that the problem?

[midnight root]

why does launcher, tho ticked to do it, not rememberr login ?

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how i can move a widget element with the mouse without clicking it

so it has kinda a 3D effect

[granite geyser]

hi, anyone knows why raytraced reflections fade in the distance and how to fix this? (the cube is 8000m)

[hot thistle]

Without gravity there is no friction, which means no gravity stops the movement

[cosmic axle]

Makes sense, but even with gravity enabled my character still slides. I am using a tilemap, can it have something to do with the problem?

[hot thistle]

No it shouldnt, how are you adding movement?

[cosmic axle]

Thru C++, AddMovementInput(GetActorRightVector() * AxisValue)

[hot thistle]

So you're not using the movement component?

[cosmic axle]

I am, but I am inheriting the character with the movement component from the C++. Sorry if something does not make sense here, I'm rather new

[tiny zodiac]

I tried everything. And so far they still collide 😦

@hot thistle pls help me

[hot thistle]

How does you main characters collision look like?

[tiny zodiac]

all characters are colliding

even if i set to overlap

the only way i made it to work is by setting pawn and then overlap

but then it will overlap all characters

my main character is supposed to block the AI. But the AI character is not supposed to block their own characters between themselves

because that is causing all sorts of problems

you see they are blocking each other

and sometimes its causing them to fall below 😦

[vocal flume]

Hi Guys! Im making my own skybox.. Everything is working except there is a big seam running down the skybox where the edges are.. Any idea how to fix this?

[hot thistle]

When you have the Preset to ''Custom'' in the characters you're overriding the settings in your new Collider - try changing from ''Custom'' to HumanCharacter and DisableHanaAI

[proud hedge]

exported a video in ue4 through the sequencer. why has the file a size of 240gb? its just a 2 minute video. 4k@60fps

[plush yew]

Hey guys, I want to make a mechanic in which the player cannot return to the way he came from. For example if he walked a patch then he cannot go back from that same path. Does anyone know any kind of tutorial that could help me. I tried googling the term but couldn't find anything.

[granite geyser]

i think it would be better to use movie render queue for rendering and render to image sequence, not video. then you can render the image sequence in after effects or other software where you can choose the video format and codec 😄

[proud hedge]

I also want that way, but because it is a university project it has to be a video sequence which should come directly out of the engine 😛 It is one of the rule from our prof 😦

[granite geyser]

try "use compression" in the settings

[tiny zodiac]

Herman: When you have the Preset to ''Custom'' in the characters you're overriding the settings in your new Collider - try changing from ''Custom'' to HumanCharacter and DisableHanaAI

@hot thistle I did that just now, and it didnt change. The AI characters although having a very thin collision capsule collapse mid air and tend to fall very easily :(. Whereas if i make them overlap all pawns they jump smoothly and never fall. But then if they overlap all pawns i cant use my human character to punch/push the AI characters. So sad this isnt working.

[prime willow]

can you setup

clothing with different bones that are identical to the base bones youll use dynamic pose with?

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow hey so what about if you wanna add cosmetics to your Vroid? I know you can use either Unity or Blender, but people on the Vroid discord say Unity is easier

[drowsy snow]

Who tf said Unity is easier lmao

VRM stuff was mostly used by Unity users, of course there goes the bias

[drowsy snow]

Not sure if I can understand your question

[prime willow]

im saying

can i use different mesh bones

if its just a clone

for dynamic posing

or doe sit have the be the exact bones the mesh is using to also make the clothiing move

[drowsy snow]

Can you DM me the link to the server? I'm going to clear the fricking air lmao

[drowsy snow]

Not sure how you set it up, but Copy Pose From Mesh works if more than one skelmeshes share the same skeleton

[cedar wave]

HoodieGuy fightin' the good fight ✊

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Engine represent

[prime willow]

what if they dont share the same skeleton by name

but its legitimately the same skeleton from bone hierachy and stuff

[tall sorrel]

how do I fix the streaking?
I already applied 2d texture settings, and it looks fine in the content browser and when I open it, but I drag it into a material and it looks like this

[drowsy snow]

So it's the same skeleton asset or not?

[prime willow]

same skeleton asset just different name because merging it causes issues ;-;

[drowsy snow]

This is good sign, believe it or not.

[tall sorrel]

How?

this is the texture opened

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow if i use kawaii physics

and i apply a morph target to my mesh

will the clothing stretch to fit the mesh
or do i need to paint it still?

[nocturne bough]

Hi everyone, can anyone tell me why Engine.build.cs (and Launch.build.cs) have HeadMountedDisplay reference hardcoded?
I keep seeing my builds compiling Advertising, EyeTracker, tons of VR/AR stuff that isn't loaded by plugins, now I learned that is all refs from Engine main modules, I saw it on UE4.23.1 and UE5EA sources.
== from Engine.build.cs ==
"HeadMountedDisplay",
"EyeTracker",
"MRMesh",
"Advertising",
"MovieSceneCapture",
"AutomationWorker",
"MovieSceneCapture",

[drowsy snow]

The bleeding colours you see in mat graph is a good sign, because your texture won't exhibit a classic issue with transparency.

[azure reef]

Hi guys. It's possible to save png images so it ca be layered after that in Photoshop for example?

Right now if I save using HighResScreenshot tool It looks like this.

[tall sorrel]

oh yea I see now lmao

just plugged alpha in and its fine on the interface material

I was screwing with mip stuff and everything, which didn't do show any sign of fixing it (everything was changed back to what it was before as I went)
thnx

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow what term am i missing

to figure out how to make clothing bend to character morphs :C

[drowsy snow]

The problem is you don't give enough context to the skelmeshes in question (screenshots would help here)

[prime willow]

oh

what part is confusing

also ill post screenshots

[sterile sun]

after migrating scene from other project scene is lookng too bright

may i know reason? and how to fix this?

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow https://gyazo.com/ce36bae0a44a71a9f8dd7d2f2a0285ab

this

the clothing dont bend with the character's bodily changes

and if i apply morphs it merges through it

how would i setup clothing sims or physics

but so if the body's morphs change the clothing change with it

would kawaii physics for this?

actually lemme send a pm for the example

[pearl sonnet]

how would i go about offsetting the roll (i guess) to make sure it keeps "level" according to the rest of the world

essentially the effect i'm looking for is to pivot the actor around it's center based on the mouse x, y axis input
but because i was experiencing a "gimbal lock" the above approach was suggested
i just notice that it gets kinda odd in where the actor appears sort of rolled

[sterile sun]

in post process volum right?

i tried but nothing changed

[pearl sonnet]

lol, done

though still "gimbal lock" at 90/-90 degrees pitch

essentially now i cant flip it over beyond straight up/down

[languid storm]

Hello guys. I have Imported FBX model in UE4 from Blender. All textures looks excellent in Blender (pic 1), but when I create materials with this textures (diffuse, normal map and specular map) in UE, the material looks kinda weird on my mesh (pic 2), distorted or so. Material quality level is set on epic (pic 3). What I am doing wrong? I'm new in Unreal. Thanks.

[drowsy snow]

Adjust both the Specular and Roughness .

[languid storm]

What exactly I need to adjust?

sorry for silly questions, but I am really newbie

[prime willow]

how does one make the clothing collide with the body

my clothing merges through the body

[rough finch]

Is anyone aware of any tools or anything to create 3D environments in UE4 from tiles instead of meshes like in this video? The video is using a program called Crocotile. I'm willing to just use the program but I was hoping to get similar functionality out of UE4 itself isntead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91yBN2OAd5k&t=241s

[polar remnant]

u know how presing end snaps it to he floor, is there a way to do that but for the side of the wall

[soft tree]

there is vertex snapping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raoeVwv9Q_k

probably not exactly what you're looking for

🤷‍♂️

[nocturne bough]

I saw this done recently in "Blueprint For Artists" : https://youtu.be/c6Hc_RBA7ww?t=1255

[narrow igloo]

🤔 I know that hand. . .

[tardy skiff]

Hi all. Can anyone help me refference 2 parameters form the water actor ?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Plugins/Water/UWaterMeshComponent/

i need to reffrence 2 variables form the mesh

and i dont know how with BP

i want to get the margin of the water tiling

[tardy skiff]

in order to get refference in a material node to some variables i need to expose them in a separate BP ?

becasue i am trying to get those values data in a material

[prime willow]

Any idea why groom doesnt work with multi convex physics and only capsule

and who and or what would i need to go do to make that somehow happen?

[final mountain]

hey, I need help with this can anyone help me?

[drowsy snow]

Don't bother trying to be accurate down to the milimeters.

[prime willow]

im just trying to get them to collide lol

let alone get accurate

2 weeks no dice lots of fun >:3

[drowsy snow]

Well, you could have the capsule bodies approximately cover the body mesh.
If in doubt, you can look into MetaHumans for reference.

[prime willow]

well that doesnt seem to be working much at all :C

and idk why its not colliding with the body

especially if i use multiconvex settings for physics

[final mountain]

hey

[drowsy snow]

No, because you crossposted like a bad boy.

[final mountain]

sorry but I'm trying to fix this error from last 2 days

[fierce tulip]

#rules are rules though.

[plain raft]

hello, how can i disable the camera movement on the (Z) side in third person character ??

[drowsy snow]

As in making the camera dead straight?

[plain raft]

so that I can only move on the X and Y side

you know ?

maybe somehow disable rotation on the Z side

[tiny grove]

may be delete some stuff?

what could it be.........?

[final mountain]

not working

[tiny grove]

did you try resetting lightning?

[final mountain]

yes

[drowsy snow]

So it's like Wolfenstein 3D / Doom without freelook?

Because the spring arm don't roll.

[tiny grove]

what the heck😂😂

[final mountain]

Please, I am stuck here for like 2 days, I could really use some help

[plain raft]

OK guys i have it

[plain raft]

but thank you for your help

[plain raft]

.

[near mountain]

do bones require constraints in order to show up in a physics model?

because i have a few bones that refuse to show up when generating bodies, selecting size of 0 or all

[rare steppe]

hey guys I discovered the rotate around axis node

spppiinnnnnn

[tiny grove]

Maybe some one could I guess

[tiny grove]

cool

[bright sigil]

you should work for VLC

[rare steppe]

the 3d cone model market must be very large these days

[pearl sonnet]

i would not mind a slice from that monopoly

there's few who own production of mundane things

but they're everywhere

[robust marten]

How can I possess another character without destroying the player character? I have a bike and want the player control it. I attach them to it and then possess the vehicle(character) but then I get UI errors, such as the player health missing because I now possess the vehicle instead of the player.

[tiny grove]

unposes previous and then poses on new (on event)

there is a nodein character movement

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know why Min Desired width is not working?

[warm hornet]

Unreal light baking issue. On a large mesh I processed in Houdini to create texture atlas then imported as FBX in Unreal.
In Unreal placed in level, set mobility to Static, but after a light bake none of my light maps are showing up.
Could this have something to do with the Source And Destination Lightmap Indexes in the Static Mesh Editor? Right now they are 0 and 1 respectively.

If not what else could be the cause?

[desert widget]

Hello, does anyone have any experience with perforce set up?

[frozen pond]

hi, does anyone here run ue4 on radeon cards?

Any problems/

[small creek]

Hello everyone. I’m painting foliage around my world. I’m not making this for a game just to showcase some assets I’m making. This terrain will just be a backdrop for a small scene I will put together and then render out some nice stills. Can anyone tell me how I can fix the trees that are in the distance? or at least tell me what is wrong with the trees. I have been playing with LOD settings for the individual tree assets and the culling values in the foliage editor but I still can't get the desired result. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[bright sigil]

no problems

[bright sigil]

#source-control ?

[desert widget]

sry, missed the channel

[prime willow]

@bright sigil can you do a good point in right direction

I want my clothing to stretch to my meshes morph changes

touche >_>

[bright sigil]

i almost pointed left

[prime willow]

xD

[bright sigil]

but i've never worked with morphs

[prime willow]

o-o

i swear we had this discussion

like 2 days ago

[bright sigil]

we did

[prime willow]

im so sorry ._.

[bright sigil]

and i expressed the same thing lol

[prime willow]

ive been running through the internet

for 2 weeks

lol

[bright sigil]

all good

[drowsy snow]

I did DM you about it not too long ago lol

[prime willow]

im so sorry super tired and stupid

oh god

wadsgfh

youre right hoodie!

[bright sigil]

glad i could help

[prime willow]

yess ❤️

bik thx

[prime willow]

i member you said sync morphs but what about for clothing sim

would it be better to use kawaiiphysics or paint sim

[thick loom]

What are Kawaii physics?

[prime willow]

o.o

[thick loom]

I know what Kawaii means, just haven't seen it in context of physics

[prime willow]

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

kawaii physics

[thick loom]

Oh that is cool physics for the... non-rigid parts

Thanks for clarifying! I might have use for this in the not-too-distant future

[strong temple]

hi?

[tawdry python]

I keep getting out of VRAM crashes but I'm not doing anything funky that would warrant it, is there an issue with my GPU driver or something? this is the crash report

Log          None                 RHI resource memory (not tracked by our allocator)
Log          None                                0  -  Pixel buffer memory - STAT_PixelBufferMemory - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                          6422208  -  Structured buffer memory - STAT_StructuredBufferMemory - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                         63493998  -  Vertex buffer memory - STAT_VertexBufferMemory - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                         72036432  -  Index buffer memory - STAT_IndexBufferMemory - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                          4739456  -  Uniform buffer memory - STAT_UniformBufferMemory - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                         82378380  -  Texture memory Cube - STAT_TextureMemoryCube - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                         19382348  -  Texture memory 3D - STAT_TextureMemory3D - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                        859597418  -  Texture memory 2D - STAT_TextureMemory2D - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                          2228160  -  Render target memory Cube - STAT_RenderTargetMemoryCube - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                         48454220  -  Render target memory 3D - STAT_RenderTargetMemory3D - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                       2082852745  -  Render target memory 2D - STAT_RenderTargetMemory2D - STATGROUP_RHI - STATCAT_Advanced
Log          None                 3091.417MB total```

[light lagoon]

Does anyone know if there's any timeline for text-based .uassets? Rather than the binary ones we have now.

[drowsy snow]

Wasn't all .uasset binary files? Or am I missing one asset type?

[tall sorrel]

pretty successful morning

the ground looks bad because I changed my landscape material in my actual levels and just didn't change the dirt material that I had on the floor in this test enviroment, so unreal is having a seizure about it

edit: and those numbers are food and water, they slowly drain, and tomorrow gonna start that system and add more items and get them functional

[flat axle]

How do I prevent camera aspect ratio constraint when adding a widget to viewport?

[wide oasis]

Hi, I'm starting with Unreal Engine 4.27.1, and I have a game idea in mind, but it's quite complicated for me to make it rn. Does anyone have any courses that are not way too boring? so that I can start learning...

[flat axle]

What courses have you tried that you found boring?

[wide oasis]

I mean I looked up for some tutorials on YouTube and most of them are +20 minutes videos for something that can be explained in 6 mins...

lol

[flat axle]

I've taken some paid courses on https://www.udemy.com/ the method I used to help with stuff that takes along time is increase the speed to 1.5x or 2x speed

[drowsy snow]

You could've same some dime and take this instead.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[kindred depot]

Udemy takes like 80% while the creator gets like 20%, don't pay those asshats.

[fossil basalt]

hey guys, any idea where downloaded plugins are installed? I need to tweak one for use in ue5

[wide oasis]

Alright, thank you guys, I wasn't going to pay anyway because unfortunately there are no ways to purchase things from the internet in my country... x)

[drowsy snow]

Engine\Plugins\Marketplace

[fossil basalt]

ta

[small creek]

I agree and they are often more expensive than going to the tutorial creators direct

[kindred depot]

If the creator has a teachable, buy from there.

They actually pay them 🙂 lol

example https://devaddict.teachable.com/

[frail glen]

Any resources on how to get started with unreal engine

I hear visual programming is better than text

So

Here i am

[drowsy snow]

#ue4-general message

[wide oasis]

same question as mine lols the answer is above

[drowsy snow]

No.

[frail glen]

What

[drowsy snow]

It's a balancing act.

[frail glen]

So its hard?

[kindred depot]

Learning from unreal engine teachings compared to bad practices is always better 😉

[drowsy snow]

Depends on what your project really needs. 100% BP is possible, but your project can have some C++ shall the need arise.

[kindred depot]

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/Unreal+Online+Learning?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

Assets for courses. If you want to browse them.

[small creek]

If anyone gets a chance I'm very interested to see if you got a solution to the problem I posted at 21:07?

[flat axle]

create link to it

[wide oasis]

not gonna scroll back to find it lmao

[fierce tulip]

time on discord is local, so who knows where it is XD

[small creek]

#ue4-general message

[small creek]

haha

[wide oasis]

I created this 3D model 2 days ago, not sure if this is the right place to showcase it but here you go 🤷‍♂️

[flat axle]

not sure what you're trying to do with the trees exactly, but I'm not very good with lighting XD someone else may be able to help you if you describe what you're tying to do better.

[drowsy snow]

VRoid w/ custom textures? 🤔

[fierce tulip]

@wide oasis #work-in-progress

[wide oasis]

yep

[drowsy snow]

Knew it lmao

[wide oasis]

lmao

[drowsy snow]

Put it in Unreal, then we talk.

[fierce tulip]

ah yea, if not unreal, then not in #work-in-progress

[wide oasis]

Yeah it's easy to put it I already did it for another character I made previously

[small creek]

I'm just trying to get the trees in the background to look more like the trees in the foreground.

[wide oasis]

For some reasons I like the Subsurface option more than the Mtoon one

[drowsy snow]

Try custom shading model

[wide oasis]

Do you have any tutorial videos for that?

[drowsy snow]

Sadly no, custom shading model requires engine modifications.
The shading model list is hardcoded.

[wide oasis]

ohh

[drowsy snow]

Which I have the fork with it.

[kindred depot]

I have no idea how one project 2 source builds and one back up project takes up 1.5 tb..

time for appdata cleaning i guess

[wide oasis]

this is a grown up version of this character lol

[kindred depot]

https://github.com/pafuhana1213/KawaiiPhysics

You should look into this 😉 This is for clothing and hair btw.

[wide oasis]

alright thanks!!

[drowsy snow]

Shit, I have yet to solve the slomo issue with it, just don't have time to tamper with the C++ code 😰

[wide oasis]

good luck x)

[frozen whale]

does anyone know how to space this out more?

[kindred depot]

use a spacer?

[narrow igloo]

Or padding on the widget.

[frozen whale]

How does this look?

I can't make them smaller

but this kinda works

my Min Desired width is broken

[kindred depot]

looks basic lol

[split valley]

Is there a good example or primer or something about managing cameras? I'm not sure if I want my camera on my Pawn, my Controller, or to use a PlayerCameraManager...

[fossil basalt]

hmmm, I woke up today with a desire to make a tower defense game 😛

shame they're not very popular

[drowsy snow]

Not the controller, for sure.

[split valley]

What's wrong with putting it on the controller?

[keen verge]

I just imported a bank from blender into a new 3d scene into unreal but when I play the level the 3d character gets pulled to a certain location of the bank and can move out of it, I tried making it in a 1st person default project and encountered the same issue. Does anyone know a solution to this? Where I can freely move my Character?

[crimson basalt]

there hasn't been a real powerful shakeup in the genre for quite a while, but they are very comfy

[plush yew]

Hello everyone, thinking that with an i5 11400H 2.7Ghz I am comfortable with a blender, thank you ??

[drowsy snow]

何？

[flint verge]

does anyone know if there's a good place in this discord (or another) to ask questions related to the unreal python plugin and its functionality/documentation?

[keen verge]

I opened their blueprint and the collision was set to blockAll, do you think changing that to overlap all would solve the issue? thank you for responding btw

[flint verge]

Awesome, thanks

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

the width does nothing

[soft tree]

probably because the horizontal box is overriding the width

try this, change the 'Name' text to the Fill size property

and do the same with the players & ping

then play with the numbers of these.

I believe it's the ratio between them, at least that's how I treat them
So if you want the 'Players' to take up 1/3 of the space set it to 0.33

[plush yew]

So this is a weird mechanic, but I want my guy to squirt a stream of blood from his eyes

How would I go about doing that?

I can't seem to find a video tutorial for it

Like I guess I'd need Niagra for the blood texture, right?

[stray drift]

#visual-fx :)

[plush yew]

Ah

quelqun parle francais?

[spark gate]

With something like a car, should all the moving parts like doors, wheels, etc, be joined together with the unmoving parts in one mesh or do you just export all the meshes as separate files and put it together in unreal?

[karmic dagger]

When i try to build my project it says

Error LNK1181 cannot open input file 'G:\UnrealEngine-4.27-chaos\Engine\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\Core\UE4Editor-Core.lib'

someone knows how to fix it?

it is UE4.27 Chaos source

[coral wigeon]

yo what can i put as object when casting to a scene component?

[past pilot]

Anyone figure out how to make a character buoyant with the water plugin in 4.26? No matter what i try, The waves make it so you are under water or flying above the water while you swim

[cloud aurora]

Yo I’m tryna make my game and when my character crouches he won’t uncrouch?

[gray narwhal]

Hey all. Anyone know how to force the VR controlers to turn on and be available in a non VR game?

[timid spade]

does the finished arrow activate on both play and reverse or just play?

[cloud aurora]

Anyone know a good guide to get some good crouching? Or a guide on how to get arms and then have both the arms and gun to follow the direction you look in? Right now it’s a floating gun that only looks in one direction, my bullets themselves/ rays are in my looking direction however

[bright sigil]

both

[blissful trail]

yo how would i create a dodge system like this game ? https://youtu.be/kxdWSyoBcH0

[cloud meadow]

Could use some assistance with this one. This has happened with two of my C++ projects now. I imported the standard assets and wanted to delete them, so I notice that in the delete window it shows that I have memory references despite never doing anything with these assets.

I imported standard assets then realized I don't need them but it still showed this

When I click Force Delete, the engine crashes 100% of the time. I am unable to delete anything without a crash

Using 4.27 - any ideas? This happened in a different project when I tried to delete a Paragon character I imported.

Oh, seems that for large files / folders it's better to close the editor and delete from Windows explorer? Seems to have fixed my problem.

[timber flower]

You could delete content file in file explorer tho

[stray drift]

What's special about the dodge system?

[blissful trail]

i have no idea but my friend really wants me to try and make something similar

[stray drift]

I didn't even see one, but I was skimming it. Timestamp?

Usually you just disable can take damage and push the character for a bit, ez pz. Is there more to it?

[coarse wind]

🎇 Hey everyone, hope I'll find here someone who can help !
I'm a 3D architectural visualization artist, and I want to make short movies in UE5.
How should I start ? Do you know a good tutorial for cameras, keyframes, and so on?
I know UE well enough to skip everything not related to this. Thank you guys 🎇
(BTW, can't open the learning center. am I the only one?)

[blissful trail]

any ideas why this works in editor but not in standalone ?

[sterile sun]

Viewport (Widget) Toolbar Missing

how to get it back?

and for how long answerhub will not be accessible ?

[round light]

hey, anyone know how to reference a data table amounts in a widget? im not sure how to bind it, I believe im on track but cant figure it out still

[bright sigil]

dont do a bind, get the data table value and then set it as a variable which you feed into this binding. Binding update yet data tables are startic, so it's not a good idea to keep fetching the same value in a data table when you can set it once at the start of play

[round light]

i got the text working but not the integer

[round light]

hmm

i see what you mean

cause its static and not updating the integer

[bright sigil]

data tables are great to pull values from, but yeah, they never change, so dont fetch them in places that update regularly

[round light]

how can i get data table value?

[bright sigil]

you have the right node, just do it on construct or something

get row, break to struct, promote that output to variable, then the binding can reference it

unless you change that variable later, it's also not necessary to even use a binding

[bright sigil]

just make that text a variable and set it 🙂

[bright sigil]

sorry to confuse you, but i realize you can skip the binding

[round light]

no proble, i really appreciate the help

[torpid wagon]

Getting this when trying to package project

I feel i've setup everything it needs

[bright sigil]

so if ItemName is the name of the text element in umg, your good

[round light]

hmm

how do i set the text to the variable without binding

[bright sigil]

but im not sure what you plan to do after, looks like you may end up modifying these values

[round light]

the integer is the only one which changes

yeah its a inventory bulletin board that shows how much of a product you have in stock

[bright sigil]

inText is where you plug in your var

[round light]

im not seeing this

[bright sigil]

thats in the designer

select your text, its at the top

[round light]

and where is this in construct?

[ripe star]

Hi! I have seen a picture about 4.26 will have two road. One is 4.27,another is 5.0 Alpha, and finally both road will integrate to Unreal 5.0.
However I cannot find that picture now
May I ask where is the link of that picture of roadmap?~ Thank you !

[bright sigil]

Construct > get data table row > break struct > set vars > set Text referencing these vars

[round light]

would a tick be better to update the values?

[bright sigil]

i dont think so, these dont seem like values that update often

just based on event

[round light]

oh yeah you constantly buy more inventory

[bright sigil]

you could bind lol, but honestly its better to just set the value and then when the right event happens, it updates them

that way it can be made into a function and you can call it from wherever

[round light]

its also a 3d widget

[bright sigil]

could even make it so the function is generic enough that you can call the same function and feed it the variables to change for your store prices

[round light]

so its always up

so i think the construct would only play once

[bright sigil]

true, it would do it when the game starts

but it looks like you are changing only some of these values

that you are getting from your tabel

so, since those are stored as variables, you can access them and change them when you need to

then update the text, or just have that variable in the binding

lol, this started as not putting the data table fetch in binding, so thats the only bit id say you really shouldnt do

you can do your binding if its comfortable, but use the set vars from construct so you dont pull from the data table all the time

[round light]

im not quite understanding the set text way, it comes out blank, ive set it to binding but still the amount doesnt change

[bright sigil]

so you have the data table part, then the struct, so it might be the var - that's set from the struct and thats referenced in the binding, should be good, but ill double check myself

yeah it works, although i dont have the data table part, i am setting the same variable plugged into the binding function

[round light]

here ive bought the items to give me something in stock

but it still hasnt updated

[bright sigil]

what is your AmountInStock binding?

[round light]

the variable set from the constuct

[bright sigil]

sorry, whats the code look like

[round light]

i just selected that node let me create a binding itself

[bright sigil]

so that will grab that variable value

but now you need something which changes that value

[round light]

thats this

[bright sigil]

so if you purchase a soda, you would need to change the AmountInStock, ie the math

[bright sigil]

but this doesnt show the math 😛

[round light]

you can see the print strings increase from 30 to 35

ahh i see

hmm

[bright sigil]

so it should be Soda Single 35?

[round light]

yep

and if you buy again 40

then customers buy and it goes down

[bright sigil]

and that number is AmountInStock right?

[round light]

yeah

for that row

i assume i have to make a sequence and set variables for the other names and rows

i only have 5 or 6 items

on construct

and then reference them in binding

is my thinking at least

[bright sigil]

little confused here. this is SodaInStock, but the binding says AmountInStock

wrong binding?

[round light]

soda in stock is the text widget name

so its not just text block

[bright sigil]

yet this binding is SodaInStock Text 0

[round light]

soda in stock text is get the variable from the data row of single soda the amount in stock

the text node is jsut named soda in stock

[bright sigil]

i dont think thats going to change anything

it's about the binding

[bright sigil]

i think you need to change the binding so it references the function and not the variable

[blissful trail]

is there any way to make this not effected by fps

[round light]

ay carumba

[bright sigil]

lol you can try removing and remaking the binding

[torpid wagon]

How to delete imported content that I dont need in my project ?

[round light]

just tried and connected the soda amount instock to the return value and still nothing

[bright sigil]

i dont get how you get the print string with the number

the data table is setting it right?

[bright sigil]

this is from Construct right?

[round light]

this is what plays when i purchase an item in my computer widget

[bright sigil]

i have to squint a bit, but is there the AmountInStock variable being referenced here? it looks like you are updating the struct

[round light]

here is where its adding to the amount in stock

i think its my avaliable items then

[bright sigil]

well if the AmountInStock variable which belongs to the widget isn't referenced here, then its never being written to

seeing this, i think you could just get this struct which is being changed

lol, whatever you are changing and storing this value, that needs to be using in the binding OR you set the variable AmountInStock somewhere in this which would update it in the widget

you would need a reference to the widget for the latter

[round light]

set the amount in stock

making a variable now to reference it in the widget

[bright sigil]

wait, this is part of your widget?

[round light]

its a component

thats doing the updating of the amounts

[bright sigil]

i dont think works because this component needs to have a reference to the widget so it can set that widget's variable

[round light]

ohh i see so reference the widget in the component then

and set ITS variable for in stock

idk lol

[scenic charm]

hm

[round light]

im seeing another issue happen then when i want to get the amount of a different item

[bright sigil]

Yeah, it would would be better to make this a function so you dont have to make a redundant amount of code

My internet died though so i guess im going to bed

[round light]

i appreciate the advice

[scenic charm]

hi, I usually use unity but, fuk making a script for EVERY single item/action, currently I'm downloading ue5, any advice?

[bright sigil]

You probably want to use ue4

[scenic charm]

why

[round light]

id say more tutorials and resources for ue4 as ue5 is new

[bright sigil]

Oh... no reason...😏 maybe you want to use ue5 instead anyways

[scenic charm]

conflicting stories

[round light]

i havent used ue5 yet but im hesitant

[scenic charm]

should I go for it since I'm new to ue?

[bright sigil]

Maybe its past the tipping point where its okay to use it and not run into its unstable walls

[round light]

my thought too, i felt thered still be bugs

[scenic charm]

ion plan on making a game with big boy graphics

[bright sigil]

If ue5 gets too annoying to work with you can always bounce to ue4

[scenic charm]

like I said, I'm tired of making a script in unity for every action

[bright sigil]

Well you got cpp if you ever miss it

[scenic charm]

cpp?

[drowsy snow]

C++

[scenic charm]

ah

[bright sigil]

Chocolate pineapple pizza

[scenic charm]

man I can barely write in c#

I haven't even peeped into the c++ world

[trim pike]

Actually could you elaborate on this some more?

[scenic charm]

man I just went to the thing and pressed download latest

I'ma jus cancel that... and bam ue4 is downloading

[bright sigil]

Nice

Whats wrong with ue 5?

[scenic charm]

you scared me from it

[bright sigil]

You want nanite and lumen right?

[scenic charm]

dawg I ain't a nerd, emphasize please

those sound like lighting tools

[bright sigil]

One of them is

[scenic charm]

all I went is a neon sign typa look

[bright sigil]

Probably can do in ue4

[scenic charm]

like that, the same lighting colors and stuff

[bright sigil]

For sure. Import pictures like this no prob 👌

[scenic charm]

my bad

but yk what I mean

[bright sigil]

Yeah i do

It has emissive lighting

[scenic charm]

ue4 definitely should be able to do that right

[bright sigil]

Yeah, right? Its possible. Just need to learn how yeah?

[scenic charm]

calm down

[bright sigil]

Mesh, emissive, that part where it glows

[scenic charm]

I've never used ue

and your overhere being funny

[bright sigil]

Its kinda like Unity

[scenic charm]

unity is bad with lighting

[bright sigil]

Oh

I remember making good unity lighting

[scenic charm]

I changed the brightness by like 0.001 and the whole map went from pink to white

[bright sigil]

Sounds like a math problem

Im sure you can do that in unreal

[scenic charm]

I hope, if not then we doin it in the dark🐧

[bright sigil]

Thats the spirit

Hope it goes well

[scenic charm]

parkour games hit different when you can't see🫶

[bright sigil]

Yeah that was the hard part in dying light

[scenic charm]

it's weird to think Fortnite was made with ue

like it's very well optimized

look at Fortnite on switch, game of that size running at a playable quality on a tablet from 2003 is amazing

[brittle plume]

Is a meme?

[scenic charm]

don't know what that means but Italians are cute

[brittle plume]

HAHAHAHA

[scenic charm]

🐧

[brittle plume]

mh

...

[scenic charm]

have your engine walk

[drowsy snow]

Virgin AVG users
vs
Chad Windows 10's built in antivirus users

[scenic charm]

never heard of avg

[scenic charm]

vs Chad 100% Disk at random times

[brittle plume]

help

[drowsy snow]

Either uninstall your antivirus, or defenestrate your computer.

[wild aspen]

Is there a way to profile blueprints running in editir? There's sometging slowing everything down but i can't find it manually disconnecting every single node until i find the cause...

[brittle plume]

:(((

[drowsy snow]

You may get some mileage with Unreal Insights, but it can be daunting at first

[brittle plume]

Addio

Can I delete AVG that like this?

[wild aspen]

I understood it was for packaged programs, not for the engine editor 🤔

[brittle plume]

no

I think it is illegal to uninstall AVG

[wild aspen]

Wrong channel?
Btw no, never remove programs that way. Do a regular uninstall first, THEN remove eventual leftovers

[sterile sun]

can anyone guide me here

[drowsy snow]

AVG fucks with his UE

And not that easy, third party AVs tend to deliberately stubborn when it comes to its removal.

[wild aspen]

Well then https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/avg-remover/

Bleepingcomputer is quite trustworthy for such tools

[brittle plume]

Oh i done

but

[brittle plume]

this

[plush yew]

May i ask someone here regarding AR ue4, it was made with 4.26 and now in 4.27 some original functions are missing

i cant make my AR project work

[drowsy snow]

#virtual-reality

[cloud aurora]

Which guide

[plush yew]

Bruh

thats like... a patient with a broken leg walking into a cast making office, and being told to walk out to waiting room with no one in it

[drowsy snow]

Except that's a channel dedicated to XR, and people dealing with XR more would hang out there.

And no, your analogy is an Epic MegaFail.

[plush yew]

my brain rn is too preoccupied with understanding the f***ery behind 4.26 - 4.27 functions missing

[brazen torrent]

how to add vehicle physcis

[plush yew]

why are ppl with anime pfps always so unfriendly nvm dont actually care

[brazen torrent]

car speed

[drowsy snow]

I'm genuinely bored with that classic ad hominem.

[drowsy snow]

Look at the (advanced) vehicle template, it has car physics pretty much set up.

[brazen torrent]

But he is preimum

[drowsy snow]

No, it's not.

It's built in template.

[brazen torrent]

you send me link i am very thankful you

[drowsy snow]

No link required, all you need is to go to Add/Import in content browser, choose Add Feature on Content Pack, and then choose Vehicle Advanced

[brazen torrent]

Oh THanks

[plush yew]

This discord hasnt been helpful at all

server

since i joined

its like, theres no point to it

so im out.

[dusky inlet]

wonder how long he was on the server before leaving 🤔

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention pulling off that crappy ad hominem move...
But eh, no use to talk about it anymore.

[cloud aurora]

For day 1 progress would you say having: a gun model that faces forward but doesn’t follow where I look, basic walking, can look around and cast rays that when shit at an enemy will make them fall from which bone has been shot, has audio when shooting, can jump (double jump and Ik how to “jet pack”), can run (with stamina), have a reticle and also can crouch (I broke it but I did have it at one point)

[drowsy snow]

For day one progress, I'd say getting the movement and rudimentary hitscan working.

The enemy doesn't even have to react or move around, just stand still, but disappear when shot

[cloud aurora]

The things I listed it what I’ve done so far but I ended up breaking the crouch so I can’t uncrouch anymore and then all of a sudden I had 2 stamina bars so today I’m gonna try fix them

[drowsy snow]

At least that's what Doom achieved within first few days of development

[brazen torrent]

Gear Switch Sound

[tall sorrel]

time to put in another good 6 hours of work with the illusion of 0% progress towards the final goal 🙂

[faint bone]

can someone suggest me how scale and orientation works in ue. like i always end with irregular sizes and when spawning it rotates in random direction. this roll, pitch and yaw is confusing. is there some standards to size and orientation so that it can become less confusing?

[drowsy snow]

UE still adhere to general 3D space transforms. The only minor difference is that X is considered forward, and 1 Unreal unit equates to centimeter, everything else is indifferent from others.

[rustic saddle]

https://www.raywenderlich.com/771-unreal-engine-4-tutorial-for-beginners-getting-started
this one

[hot thistle]

Those who has used Cesium;
I have 2 maps;
A map where Cesium is streaming
A map where I got a landscape and assets ect - -

I can run these two individually perfect, but when I use level streaming to show them at the same time the engine crashes?

[brazen torrent]

gear switch audio

[faint bone]

x is considered forward? its even more confusing. can you show me using a diagram or some reference? which side is forward here? for me anyside i look from is forward.

please considered me 5 year old dumb kid who has no knowledge of math or games.

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can make VOIP? I tried this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cndbrTOAQD4 but I can't hear my voice

[cloud aurora]

should i be using UE4 or UE5?

[frozen whale]

UE4

[coarse wind]

UE5

[frozen whale]

Can you explain why?

[coarse wind]

I'm not an expert, but I know that UE5 will be released in the coming months (or even before), it's not perfect yet but I don't think that learning UE4 and than translating to UE5 is worth the time. in UE5 the lighting system is way better, it can hold up objects with much more polygons, the UI is better, and much more

[thick herald]

Use 4.xx Currently 5 is a buggy mess. Even if you go down the source route you may find things unreliable.

You'll be able to move your projects to 5 once it goes live.

[faint bone]

Also what pc you have, if it is toaster like mine, then go 4.26 or soemthing nearby.

[wide swift]

which one is more better to use in level map simple collision or block volume ue4

[brittle plume]

Hello again! To show something in a GUI that is on a server, then basically read a URL and put it in the GUI, do I need a Plugin?

I try to explain it to you with an image

[fierce tulip]

four months.

[dusky inlet]

interesting. Oh well. Not my experience :)

[hollow girder]

Would it be possible to create something like the foliage tool in game for a fire attack? I am trying to figure out the best way to create something like a pyro attack in Genshin Impact.

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can use steam p2p in my project? this is my DefaultEngine.ini

[pearl minnow]

hi all, how do i get my 3d widgets to not be affected by post-processing or lighting or whatever is making their colours so dull?

these should be white and bright green for example

[worn copper]

I want to create Ingame Coin System to Unlock Inventory Item/Skins. To get player have to purchase coins with real mony. How can we do this. suggest any tutorial. Easiest method.

[pearl minnow]

@worn copper i would look at making data tables first. so you can make a text file (JSON format for example) where you can list all the different unlockables. that will be much more manageable in my opinion than managing all the different items in the unreal editor. you can then import that file into unreal as a "data table" and read from it to build your UIs and use it in your game logic etc.

[brittle plume]

How can I open the photo gallery on android?

[worn copper]

But how can user purchase coins by real money? Not getting complete

[pearl minnow]

that's like 10 different steps i guess

find some sort of payment provider like paypal or steam, make a UI in your app to show people products, when they click you call some HTTP webhook to trigger a payment, maybe in a browser, then you have to store somewhere the purchased thing in the user's steam profile or in a database online. That's a lot 😄

or find something like this that works https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/xsolla-payments-sdk?sessionInvalidated=true

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can make multiplayer work without port fowarding? i'm using steam but none of my friends can connect

[tiny valley]

Hey I want to cut a mesh into slice using the world position offset inputs, just evenly spaced horizontal slices, how may I achieve this

[worn copper]

I can make custom website for this. I'm just finding how to connect database with UE Blueprint.

[potent goblet]

Are you asking how to pull images from a URL?

[pearl minnow]

VaRest is a nice HTTP package for sending requests

[brittle plume]

No, I solved this by buying a Plugin, but now I don't know how to open the Android gallery

[worn copper]

okk Thanks! will look into it.

[pearl minnow]

If you make a custom website for sales then the that part of your question is not about unreal, but yeh to connect to any API you could try VaRest its pretty good. Try to work out what parts of your app are happening where, where's the UI, payment system, persistence layer. you could do it 20 different ways

[potent goblet]

I assume you mean this? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/open-the-android-photo-gallery-and-get-photo/42774

[brittle plume]

No I don't need it anymore, but I would like to know that Path is used for Android ... that is, if I have to open a file, there is no C:\LOL\Hi

What is used for Android?

[tardy skiff]

Hi all.. Any thought s of where do i get this in a landscape ?

[cedar wave]

Nanite is truly a marvel.

[tall sorrel]

is line tracing on tick do-able?
by do-able, is it ok, and the only math after it is checking to see if it hits a pickup

[small pewter]

Is it possible to create a struct and put a boolean in it and when it's checked it opens a submenu to be able to put values in it like for instance :

HealthRegeneration? : Boolean
  - Amount to regen : Float -- The submenu starts here and only shows if HealthRegeneration? is true
  - Instant regen : Boolean

Please ping me if any answer 🙂

[quartz sierra]

Is anyone else having problems with accessing official learning courses?

It says that "Unable to complete sign in, please try again" when I try to start a course

[grim ore]

it seems to be off and on, try again

also they are aware of it and looking into it 😦 @quartz sierra

[quartz sierra]

Thanks👍 Was thinking might be something wrong on my part

[grim ore]

never hurts to ask to make sure you aren't crazy 🙂

[teal jasper]

I'm having a problem importing an asset I made in blender to UE4, does anyone know which channel I should ask my question on?

[gleaming pumice]

Hey guys, not sure best channel to ask this -- I have been developing a game in 4.27, but need to drop down to 4.26.2 for dependency reasons.

Once I built my game with the older version, I am getting an error that my map can't be opened because it was saved with a newer version. The solutions I have found online require opening backups from the older version, but I don't have backups because I started at 4.27. Any ideas?

[fierce tulip]

not really, its already a wonder that you where able to get anything working in an earlier version because there is basically zero backwards compatibility

[gleaming pumice]

I'm sure there's a way...

[fierce tulip]

if the map is the only thing breaking, you might try to copy everything in it on .27, and see if it pastes in .26

but generally there is almost zero chance of anything working backwardsly

[grim ore]

It should be back up and working if you want to check again

[fierce tulip]

@teal jasper #graphics generally

[teal jasper]

thanks!

[drowsy snow]

Unfortunately this is just the setback from world space widgets.

[obsidian steppe]

I've got a bunch of files that all have the same set of prefixes, so when I'm looking for a file in my pile of tabs everything is identical. Anyone know a way to have the tabs show the ending of the filename instead of the beginning?

[somber stump]

Hi guys, awkward question I guess but I think it's level specific. I'm using the free Async loading plugin but I can't figure out how to make it view a loading screen inside my VR headset. What happens between loading levels is that the default steamVR loading screen appears instead. Anyone know how to make sure my loading screen appears inside my HMD please? Not sure if this is the right place to ask really

[sharp crest]

why am I suddenly packaging but I can't open the game now?
it says 'this game doesn't match your 64 bit pc'
it worked just yesterday...

I tried to package like 5 times

same error

why is it seem to packaging for 32bit or something?

this is what I'm pressing

[tall sorrel]

oh shit ur in here?
bro your tutorials were so helpful when I was starting out several months ago, thanks
if ur him lol

[neon bough]

yea, it's the guy from the tomato videos

[tall sorrel]

yea

[neon bough]

i still find them useful when i want to refresh knowledge on things

short and on point

[tall sorrel]

yea I still watch them as well, they are very helpful on like node specific things
edit: in his wtf series

[lucid plover]

Can anyone help me by sending a 4096x4096 blanc png to me? Dont have laptop with me

Just a black .png file

[frozen whale]

Does anyone know how I can make my background on the main menu move with the mouse

[sharp crest]

what?

just move the translation?

it's a variable

[frozen whale]

I mean

like in game

when you move the mouse it kinda moves the background image

[sharp crest]

'kinda'

[frozen whale]

well it does

[tall sorrel]

If you want to make it look like tarkov, you would probably need to make it on 3 separate canvases and then have those 3 nested in another canvas, then you can control each layer, and also have a master control (what the mouse would affect (I think)). Then you would just have to override the on mouse move function, loop through each canvas, and there is a map range node or something like that I believe you would have to use.

edit: or I wouldn't say "have" to

[frozen whale]

Thanks

[tall sorrel]

oh also, I found a forum post of this exact thing, and they basically suggested what I said, but the dude posted a pick of what he did

[frozen whale]

Could you send the post to me?

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/734911/mouse-based-parallax-menu.html

Found it

[plush yew]

does anyone have any idea how to get rid of this problem? 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Yadda yadda Gradle something something
Must be #mobile then

[plush yew]

@drowsy snow it's just the folder where the game should be saved.

[swift tartan]

Not sure if anyone would be able to help me --

I am trying to replicate a system sort of like this one from halo 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYatlEjW18

Basically, all I need is a NPC's model to change into an infected variant during gameplay, then take on a different behavior tree for AI.
Does anyone have suggestions or a tutorial I could be pointed to? Thanks!

[tardy skiff]

Hi all. besides migrate, is it possible to save a group of actors as an obecjt and then use them in another project ?

becasue merging them to a stati mesh allows me to modify materials but i dont know to unpack them

nor i find help

[flat axle]

It didnt use to be possible but im not sure about now maybe with some addons

[tardy skiff]

i found a export selcted

to fbx

this is the way ?

[flat axle]

pretty sure thats a permanent grouping but not 100

you can try and see if it works

[tardy skiff]

other idea i didnt dfind anyway searching

🙂

so if anyone can share other thingpls do

ty

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-know-the-way-mandalorian-this-is-the-way-do-you-know-de-wae-gif-19178626

[flat axle]

lol

you could try to migrate a level

[neon bough]

you can just copy over the uassets from one project to another

[flat axle]

that could maybe work?

[neon bough]

but keep the path structure, e.g. what was in Content/Animals/Cats has to be in the same path on the new project

[flat axle]

I think he wants a group thats placed already to stay a group migrate to another project and be able to move them around again

[neon bough]

ah ok

you can select a bunch of stuff and convert that selection to a blueprint

however, that will stay in the blueprint then

[flat axle]

yeah but then you can remove pieces from it anymore or make their own blueprints later

yep

what you said XD

[neon bough]

another option: create an empty level, add it as sublevel to your current level, duplicate your selection to the sublevel and migrate that level over

[flat axle]

thats what I thought of doing, wasnt sure it would work or not though

[neon bough]

that works

[flat axle]

anyone good with interfaces?

[tardy skiff]

the fbx is imported as a Bp with components

[neon bough]

what? no

[tardy skiff]

can the components form BP be moved in outliner ?

[neon bough]

no

[flat axle]

your best bet is to migrate the level

[tardy skiff]

i knwo that approach

but i want to save just this particular group of actors as a gorup to be able import it withotu this migration

migtration implies i need to be aware all the time in wich project i have created x thing

and for example i amp playing with a template from epic an did some sutff there

i want to be able to recallthose objects

and importing fbx does a bp

[flat axle]

so youre wanting to be able to drop it into multiple projects?

[tardy skiff]

yes

and also redo some stuff on the actors

i have lets say a base group of actors and i want to save this work

[flat axle]

not sure there is another way yet if there is and you find it let me know XD

[tardy skiff]

becasue in other projects i want to add other actors or remove or something

well fbx shoudl be the way

but importing drops them in a bp

and i am stuck to the bp then

[flat axle]

Does anyone know how to send input from a widget to another blueprint with an interface?

[tardy skiff]

found solution even if no one helps :))

for anyoen who didn know it works !!!

[potent bridge]

So, I am having a custom shader issue here.

Heres the code

float3 mean[4] = {
    {0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0},
};

float3 sigma[4] = {
    {0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0},
    {0, 0, 0},
};

float2 offsets[4] = {{-RADIUS, -RADIUS}, {-RADIUS, 0}, {0, -RADIUS}, {0, 0}}

float2 pos;
float3 col;

for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
    for(int j = 0; j <= RADIUS; j++)
    {
        for (int k = 0; k <= RADIUS; k++)
        {
            pos = float2(j, k) + offsets[i];
            float2 uvpos = UV + pos/VIEWSIZE
            col = SceneTextureLookup(uvpos, 14, false);

            mean[i] += col;
            sigma[i] += col * col;
        }
    }
}

float n = pow(RADIUS + 1, 2);

return mean[0] / n;

I get two errors.

1: syntax error: unexpected token float2
2: undecleared identifier pos

Anyone know what might be up with that?

also, thats a big code block. sorry about that.

[neon bough]

float2 offsets[4] = {{-RADIUS, -RADIUS}, {-RADIUS, 0}, {0, -RADIUS}, {0, 0}} you are missing this ;

probably

[potent bridge]

nice I missed a semi colon xD

[drowsy snow]

Aren't we all.

[potent bridge]

that fixed one of two, still have the unidentified issue, might be missing a colon there too

[neon bough]

i hope so

did you recompile?

pos wasn't defined before because of the semicolon, too

[drowsy snow]

float2 uvpos = UV + pos/VIEWSIZE also missing ;

[neon bough]

that's a new one 😄

[potent bridge]

yeah, works now

thanks for the help! and correcting my stupidity by not checking for semicolons yet again.

[neon bough]

doesn't your IDE scream at you for missing them?

[potent bridge]

First time doing shader programming, was kind of following a tutorial, so no, I probably don't have the IDE for shaders

[drowsy snow]

This is HLSL, so no.

[neon bough]

rider has HLSL support

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention VS doesn't have HLSL syntax highlighting

[neon bough]

maybe they have a plugin for that?

i dont know anything about VS and if there even are plugins for it

[plush yew]

Salutation a tous voila je me présente je m'appelle Christophe je réalise du montage vidéo 4K gratuit donnez ce que vous pouvez si besoin je peut faire en 2K et même 1080p mp de préférence je regarde les spam cordialement merci de rien

[drowsy snow]

There is, but doesn't support USF inheritance

[drowsy snow]

フランス語は話せないんだ, ムッシュ

[plush yew]

Lol

[ornate ice]

Is there any reason to make AI behaviour in BPs instead of BT?

[drowsy snow]

#gameplay-ai

[autumn latch]

How do I know if the player has changed the date?

[drowsy snow]

Compare it with a timestamp var storing the date in previous tick, and determine if the difference is large enough.

[ebon marlin]

I recently upgraded to a 3080 TI and noticed that after about 30 minutes the UE4 editor starts drawing incorrectly, with frequent black screens, see-through window backgrounds, flickering and invisible context menus, is this familiar to anyone? 🤔

[potent bridge]

Is there a way to get the distance to an object with shaders? (I only want this paint effect to show on distant objects)

[drowsy snow]

See pinned message.

It's actually a very common issue with newer NVIDIA drivers

[potent bridge]

I thought there was a node that gave a black/white response based on distance lol

[drowsy snow]

Scene Texture: Scene Depth

[potent bridge]

and I had to divide it by 2000. weird node

also, how does that If node actually work in shader graphs?

[autumn latch]

thx, do you have a video?

[potent bridge]

Thanks. So in my case. How would I set up the if node for my custom paint effect to only show on white areas? (further away)

[plush yew]

Guys how to get list of all ActorBlueprint by command like a "getall"

ping me

[drowsy snow]

For what?

[plush yew]

I need for command

function Controller Spawn(class<Controller> ControllerClass, class<Pawn> PawnClass, optional Vector SpawnLocation, optional Rotator SpawnRotation, optional ActorBlueprint Blueprint)

[drowsy snow]

That syntax....

JavaScript?

[plush yew]

UnrealScript

[drowsy snow]

So you're working with UDK?

[plush yew]

Yep

[potent bridge]

This doesn't quite work. Basically I'm trying to check if the scenedepth is higher than 0.5. if it is then use the post process. If not, use normal rendering.

Error: If Input A must be type float

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, sorry, this server was mostly for UE4+, which don't use UnrealScript, and nobody make UnrealScript UE4 plugin

[potent bridge]

TheHoodieGuy, sorry to bother you but would you know how to achieve what I'm trying to do?

[drowsy snow]

How about using Lerp node?

[potent bridge]

I know what the lerp node is, not sure where I'd use that in this case

[drowsy snow]

Basically blending from one texture to another.
Use the Scene Depth as the alpha.

[potent bridge]

I see

theres loads of lerp options here.

which one is it?

oh god that returns so many errors

[drowsy snow]

Kuwabara, Kuwabara

Wait, no

[potent bridge]

thats a custom node

[drowsy snow]

Is the custom node returning float3?

[potent bridge]

it returns col, which is a float3 yes

[sharp crest]

why do I get this error when trying to run my game...

it used to work I didn't change anything in the packaging esttings

I tried earlier with a full rebuild and it worked, but I don't wonna do a full rebuild every time..