ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

That explains. Because SceneTexture colour returns float4

[potent bridge]

alpha...

right

[drowsy snow]

You can add component mask before the SceneTexture and only use the R, G, and B channels.

[potent bridge]

for depth or input0?

[drowsy snow]

PostProcessInput0, since you use the Color output

[potent bridge]

So does that mean I can't have alpha on any objects with this effect then?

[drowsy snow]

That question is irrelevant, because translucent meshes don't contribute to scene depth.

[drowsy snow]

Not the UV.

[potent bridge]

I'm doing something wrong aren't I?

[drowsy snow]

After the Color output, then ComponentMask, before going to the Lerp node

[potent bridge]

I see

scenedepth is a float4 though, so thats giving me an error when I put into the alpha part of lerp

[drowsy snow]

You used the Color output, which is the same exact issue.
But you can desaturate it.

[potent bridge]

aight, time to test

Whatever that created.

[drowsy snow]

Nice! You faked a Nanite debug view

[fierce tulip]

hehehe

[potent bridge]

unfortunately not what I was going for but thats kind of cool nonetheless

So if I try by this method, what errors am I actually getting?

Because how I understand it, I'm comparing my scene depth to 0.5

[drowsy snow]

Still the same vector conversion issue, but at least Lerp is more straightforward.

[potent bridge]

yeah unfortunately lerp didn't get the effect I was going for though

I don't know why, since you said the idea is it lerps the two textures

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/929799807067893800/930933999684190258/unknown.png?width=1202&height=676 This is without any of the additional stuff.

Just only want the effect appearing further away

Skybox does this

so its definitely detecting the parts further away

[drowsy snow]

Weren't you said you have to divide the Scenedepth?

[potent bridge]

I did, by 2000 initially

still don't get this weird rainbow thing going on though

[drowsy snow]

There's no division here

And then you would have to clamp it.

[potent bridge]

Fixed that, that second image I just sent is with the division

didn't clamp though... good point

[drowsy snow]

Try clamping the scene depth. I suspect the fake Nanite debug view effect is caused by the alpha going past 1

[potent bridge]

well, need to wait for this compilation to finish

That works perfectly! Thanks for all your help

[drowsy snow]

Show the screenshot 👀

[potent bridge]

sure thing, let me set up a scene

[worn copper]

Anyone know how to implement Google Facebook Login using Firebase Plugin in UE?

[potent bridge]

@drowsy snow Obviously will look better with proper environment details and stuff

[unborn nimbus]

Anyone run into this bug where the UE4 editor won't let you take a thumbnail screenshot of a blueprint?

[drowsy snow]

That looks cool 👀
Though I personally felt conflicted to do the same thing on my own project, as I don't want to use post process material at all cost as to not lose vanilla cinematic post effects

[potent bridge]

This is personally just me playing about

I'm not an artist at all so I'm not ever going to make this look amazing xD

[drowsy snow]

My project is anime style, and kinda want to have those more realistic but painterly environments without losing close up details and cinematic post effects
Would be great to do it without tampering megascans textures one by one.

[potent bridge]

I see. I mean, I tried to do this because I've been playing Tales of Arise recently. (Which happens to be made in Unreal Engine)

The player character isn't a post process fyi.

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, I'm sure Bamco used shading model for characters in Scarlet Nexus and Idolmaster Starlit Season, similar to what I did here

(also screw Discord's false positive NSFW detection)

[abstract gulch]

Hi everyone, i searching for a rigged tank sample made with 3dsmax for unreal engine, where can i find samples like that ?

[kindred field]

I have created a maze with a Heightmap but when I put the texture on the floor it looks good but on the walls it stretches, how can I solve it?

[drowsy snow]

Vigilante on Marketplace had some free military vehicles.

[drowsy snow]

Try looking up for triplanar projection (I'm afraid it's heavy on performance tho)

[kindred field]

That's what i tried but it doesn't work

[abstract eagle]

has any small groups gotten Multiuser editing to work?

[hallow swallow]

Yo guys i want to start a new project/game , I need some people they have some experience with unreal

Let me know if you interested 😉 and I give you more details what kind of game

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions on how to post "job" vacancy in #volunteer-projects

[hallow swallow]

not work i dont have acces to do that

[drowsy snow]

Read #instructions please.

[hallow swallow]

i read and i send message to bot nothing happend

[drowsy snow]

Nothing happened at all, or you have warning from Clyde bot?

[prime willow]

in discord's defense characters that beautiful are not safe for work, they might instill benevolence in the mind of young workforce abled unsuspecting viewers

[pseudo belfry]

Does anyone know how I would go about making a PostProcess pixelate effect that only affects a mesh that I want to look pixelated.

[prime willow]

try checking the meshes personal psot process effect array

[pseudo belfry]

where would I find that ?

[prime willow]

mesh details probably

[pseudo belfry]

There is nothing.

[prime willow]

hmmmmmmmm

[hallow swallow]

i make it already in the #volunteer-projects

[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 🙂

Another question : What's difficult / What do you need to consider when you try to create a game with alot of players like 60 players to 100 players ?

[timid meteor]

help

exactly 13 houres and few minuts ive trying to instal that stipud source code

if it was me i fired it all up and put it in the trash

how can i even make a stupid online game if i cant do this a second time ?

help please

[drowsy snow]

Gaining player base, cost to run dedicated servers, setting up security, stopping cheats, taking action on griefing, keeping up content, being reasonable with monetisation, etc.

[drowsy snow]

Why not use the one from the launcher?

[timid meteor]

i want it to be online on a dedicated server using the esrpg from ue4 marketplace

my download is already over 400 gig today for only trying to do github source thingy

had every tutorial there is on yt and every documentation i can imagen

[drowsy snow]

Why am I expecting other reasons lmao

Then don't do dedicated server.

[timid meteor]

they made it easyer for us

no i want that

[drowsy snow]

Make it more traditional LAN party/peer to peer instead
Save you the hassle of getting dedicated servers

[small pewter]

But in terms of technical aspect, do you have to do stuff to optimize your game alot otherwise it won't run 60 players or the engine can handle that for you (at least 90% of it) ? And also do you need to do C++ or it's possible to make a 64 to 100 players with only blueprints ?

[timid meteor]

my pc crashed this is a new computer so i need to redo it again i aint gone trow my files away xD

nah i know what i want :p

its like hey i am making a sandwish but i dont have a sandwish so i should use only butter xD

[sinful adder]

Hey can i get help on implementing Root Motion to my character i keep using tutorials but there all from UE4 and I'm using UE5 so none of them work or there different.

[timid meteor]

can you help m e?

[rough birch]

things worked well after a fresh compile last night. I wake up and open the editor and I'm getting an error saying something about failing to load Outer resources and only 3 of my cpp files are showing up now. Any clues as to what in tarnation is happening?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, don't do dedicated servers.

[drowsy snow]

wdym none of them works? None has changed when it comes to animation basics

[sinful adder]

I tried doing a bunch of them but most of them don't let me do it I do the processes how there shown but it come up messed up

[small pewter]

@drowsy snow And for my second question ?
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 🙂

[strong schooner]

Hi. What are the pros and cons between using hitboxes vs bone hits? Thank you

[potent bridge]

Ok, more material stuff.
So... how would I get my characters light color to actually change? this uses an emissive texture for the cel-shader effect so normal light doesn't affect it. Going to send material graph

[thorny plaza]

can I assign materials to certain sections of an object in UE like I can in blender?

e.g. I can select section of mesh i want to add a material too and then i can just click assign

[twin prism]

theres no class called envqueryitemtype_actorbase
how do i get this

[mellow turret]

How do I destroy a niagara particle system object?

[limber mesa]

hello I have a part of a mesh and its colliding with foliage I tried shutting foliage collision off but wont work. could anyone advise?

[bitter iris]

what causes dark patches like this? im using dynamic lighting

[rough birch]

I think if you build your lighting it should let your character pick up the emissive light

dynamic objects use the indirect lighting cache to figure out what color it should be lit as but lightmass needs to have built it first

[potent bridge]

Uhm. by emissive light do you mean the light I placed down or my character? because of the cel shading I have to use emissive

[gleaming pumice]

Is there a reason I cannot migrate one blueprint to another project in the same version? One project is built with EpicMarketplace source, another one is Github source... When I try to import it doesn't see anything in the directory where I know the blueprint exists

[potent bridge]

Tell you what I'll give it a go but I don't think this is going to work

[last dune]

hi, i’m searching for job 😄

[potent bridge]

#salary-jobs #freelance-jobs @last dune

[plucky bobcat]

https://imgur.com/gallery/52oOvfY
I think what’s going on here is the boats collision and the structures placed on boat are colliding with each other causing issues but not entirely certain. Any ideas on where I should I should start poking around to resolve this?

[late stump]

How can I set multiple base color textures on ONE material for ONE mesh wich has its UV coords offseted to multiple maps, i am tring to use R G masks to select the different uv maps, but it always select multiples. ( trying to get something like this : https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/combining-multiple-textures-onto-a-single-object/115303/3 ) but with 12 textures. Unfortunately the screenshots are really blurry and lack explanations.

[last dune]

thanks 🙂

[verbal swallow]

I have a question regarding Gameplay tags. Could I get some insight on what a "Tag Source" is supposed to be, and why one would utilize it? I couldn't find anything about it in the documentation...

[cobalt nimbus]

can anyone recommend a decent offline keyword or short phrase Speech recognition plugin. I know Unity has one .

[cloud aurora]

Anyone have a guide for giving your character a body? I wanna be able to see my arms etc holding a gun that I can then shoot from

[flint dagger]

That's a hella complicated question. What tends to work is basically masking between your 12 textures and using one of your UV maps as an "ID" on a color map. The position of the UV on a channel is used to pick which texture to use. But already looking at this, there seems like a million different ways that would be better to handle this. Maybe CustomPrimitiveData would be useful here to switch between textures. https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/CustomPrimitiveData/

That said. I wouldn't bother. Just make instances with different textures and use them where needed. If you've 12 Texture Samples, chances are there are a better way of doing it. It's better to parameterize the Base Color texture and create instances and use them where you need. Then trying to have a "God" material cover everything and all possible textures. (E.g: changing one texture sample in a Material Instance, than having 12 texture samples in one material).

[flint dagger]

Only if each part of the mesh is assigned a different material in blender before exporting to UE4. They will appear as Material IDs or "slots" in UE4.
(Image is a random google example, each "element" is a separate slot when you assign different materials to an FBX from Blender.)

[flint dagger]

In your material turn the color (selected node) into a Scalar Parameter (right click and convert). And in Blueprint you create a Material Instance on your character, and then you can use "Set Scalar Parameter Value" node to set the material color. Use the same color for your light. You want to set both from blueprint.
Here's a video on the general idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVKVXjaT6QM

[soft tree]

Do you mean you want to see their torso/feet?
Because the FPS template already has hands/gun that you can see and shoot from

I've found the easiest way is to give your two meshes.
One that's just arms, and one that's the entire body

on the body hide the head, and place the camera there

[vivid scaffold]

anybody know how to paint foliage on a static mesh?

[uncut crow]

sorry for the not so clear image , but can someone help me with this problem , ive searched online but havent found a clear solution to this

My landscape's light changed colour to an orange tint after building lighting and all these errors showed up

[bright sigil]

https://snippingtools.com/snip-and-sketch-windows-10/

[uncut crow]

this error also didnt appear b4 i changed the sky sphere

[bright sigil]

so you had this foliage in for awhile and had baked light before but the sky sphere has affected your light builds?

[uncut crow]

yep

[bright sigil]

well, i think the messages are basically saying that instanced meshes cant use the same lightmap or that it wont work correctly. I think thats where HISMCs come in, so lightmaps/baked lighting uniquely, but im not certain. Is it possible to not bake the foliage?

[uncut crow]

well , i needed to bake lighting , was following a tutorial

[uncut crow]

wait , can u bake lighting without affecting the foliage ?

[bright sigil]

well its that you bake lighting on static objects

i dont really bake much, i tend to work with realtime

but the errors seem to suggest that lightmaps dont comply with instanced meshes

or else maybe the lightmap res is too high

[uncut crow]

so wt should i change / remove ?

[bright sigil]

i dont really know, as i said i dont do much baking... im just going off the errors which seem to concern over lightmaps and instances meshes

i guess the tutorial gets around this somehow

[uncut crow]

okay

[bright sigil]

one of the errors refers to unique lightmaps per LODs

while another error refers to resolution

[uncut crow]

yea

[bright sigil]

and i remember reading about ism and hism differences where hism work with LODs, how exactly, i dont recall

[uncut crow]

its only been a few days , so the terminology is also confusing lol but tnx

[bright sigil]

lol yeah i dont really know them that much, i researched them awhile ago so my memory is hazy

[rocky epoch]

I believe ISM does not have LODs, but HISM has, although calculated not by instance but by cluster.

[bright sigil]

#ue4-general message - but i didn't know it clustered them.

[rocky epoch]

I just experienced that when I used hism for tons of small objects

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/037/829/915/large/robert-haab-lod.jpg?1621431294&dl=1

The clusters are funky sometimes

[bright sigil]

whoa yeah they are, nifty though

[rocky epoch]

Its logic is quite funky

Although I can’t tell what could be the original problem

[uncut crow]

can i dm u the details ?

[sterile sun]

how to access answerhub?

for how long it will not be accesible?

[plush yew]

the default clipping plane is pretty high
is there any disadvantage setting it veeeeery low?

[rocky epoch]

Honestly I am not really experienced with static lights and hism

[uncut crow]

okay tnx

[drowsy snow]

Won't be accessible forever in the future.

[mint zodiac]

Hey guys, i have no idea what im doing, could someone help? Im a complete beginner

[bleak zodiac]

? can be more specific?

[mint zodiac]

I realized that what I wanted to do is much too complicated for my skill level, I'm gonna hit the basics more, but thank you

[rancid lynx]

How do i add a static mesh to the game during gameplay WITHOUT an actor? I know how to add one to a blueprint and add actor. and i know how to use the editor to add a static mesh. i can add a static mesh component to an actor. no problem. easy. i can add 50 static meshes to the level in the editor WITHOUT an actor. but how do i add only a static mesh to the level during gameplay without an actor?

[twin beacon]

@rancid lynx https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/Actors/StaticMeshActor/

[main cobalt]

Hi all, is it possible to adjust the first point of a spline without moving the entire spline?

Aha you can, just a bit fiddly

[left arrow]

Hey guys I need some help. I made a short sequencer camera animation to film my 3D environment for my portfolio. My problem is when I hit the Play button in UE4 and then start my sequencer camera animation, the camera doesnt move. When I dont hit the Play Button it works perfect but I got some light animation etc that why I need to record the video in Game mode :/

[drowsy snow]

If I get this right, you're trying to live link camera anim?

[dire parcel]

Highly recommend the unreal learning hub if your completely new , boosted my knowledge and it’s free 😅

[drowsy snow]

And yet people still recommend Udemy over UOE smh

[dire parcel]

It’s crazy because everything is literally there for free lmaoo I was one of those people about to buy a course glad I didn’t

Literally everything is there for you to apply the knowledge to different projects

And it’s FREE

[left arrow]

Im not completely new in UE4 im just not used to render videos and make animations in it. I just want that my camera sequencer animations plays in Game Mode so I can render it out with all my light animation. But in Game Mode my camera animation is not working

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried using Sequence Exporter (or Movie Render Queue)?

There's also a chance you haven't properly set up the Camera Cut track

[dense root]

Hello
Is there a way to create a c++ multicast-delegate/event in a character bp **class ** and subscribe to the event **directly ** in the anim bp?

[clever bone]

can I update my landscape heightfield in editor, or do I need to start from scratch?

[drowsy snow]

You can sculpt it and/or reimport heightmap texture

[clever bone]

gotcha, thanks man 🙂

[sharp nebula]

Good day everyone, I hope im in the right channel.

I have a small question to ask. For a schoolproject we have to make a small prototype of a concept-idea that we thought off, however, I do not know how to start out. I wondered if someone could help me out pointing me in the right direction/point me to some documentation after explaining my issue? Maybe either in DMs or wherever.

[fallow jackal]

How to group objects and collapse/hide them in the world outliner?

[fleet copper]

Can I Use Assets From The Unreal marketplace When I Publish My Game?

[fierce tulip]

of course. just remember that any content from the marketplace provided by epic (and quixel) themselves can only be used in unreal engine.

i'd suggest to read the marketplace EULA

[manic dew]

does any1 know y when i sculpt the terrain i get these really dark shadows

[stray drift]

Not the same thing at all, Udemy has some quality end to end courses, which is nice when you don't know much at all. Learning Hub is good if you want to learn something specific, and it happens to be covered there.

The one downside is that most courses are paid of course, but for lots of people it would be a tiny cost for a significant head start in progress and learning.

[fleet copper]

so no issues i can use it right?

[autumn flame]

Yes, in Unreal Engine

[twin beacon]

How does this node work internally? Does it establish a reference at all? I'm looking to avoid references if possible due to performance if anyone knows please DM me

[autumn flame]

Doubt since the reference one is a soft reference anyways

Would make no sense for that to preload the entire map in memory

[main oak]

Anyone know how to make a decal box draw its wireframe during runtime?

Hard to debug without seeing it

[bleak zodiac]

earn badge alreeady? 🙂

[marble leaf]

Looking for advice on how to make it so a player cannot abuse a wall jump to infinitely scale a wall. Right now I have it set up so player can do a little jump after wall jumping so they can figure out their landing but it's too easy to just jump back against the wall and then continue to scale upwards

I hope I'm posting in the right spot!

[drowsy snow]

Stamina system.

[marble leaf]

Stamina seems like a good idea! I'm wondering if there is a way to make it so I can tag the actor/object that I just wall jumped off of and set a cool down timer ?

[smoky timber]

Hello there guys, need a bit of help with playing video in a widget. I set up a widget and the bp in the graph:

[twin beacon]

@marble leaf try with boolean a: HasJumpedFromWall?

[smoky timber]

and this part that spawns the video. Everything works, but I get no sound when it plays. Any ideas?

[marble leaf]

Is there a way to make it object specific though? I'd like for the player to still be able to jump off of other walls though like in Mario

Such as if there are two walls right next to each other I'd like for the player to still be able to jump back and forth between them

so maybe just a way to tag the last wall jumped on?

[twin beacon]

could try with collision detection OR set the variable within your walls. If your character has jumped on one wall, let it switch a boolean. There might be inbuilt functionality for it already but I don't know them

[dry wharf]

how can i stop my camera from clipping into walls like this

[smoky timber]

Anyone?

[twin beacon]

Is there a way to create a custom event that activates whenever a variable changes? Without ticks

[marble leaf]

or Event Dispatchers

you could bind the variable change to an event

[twin beacon]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. When the variable changes, I want it to trigger an event but idk how

[marble leaf]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/EventDispatcher/

I think this might help

If it's all within the same blueprint you can just "Bind Event"

[twin beacon]

thx will look at it

[cloud aurora]

i am having this error and cannot open my game, i tried to add a 3rd person controller into my game and it happened

it says it cannot be compiled and has to be done manually

[drowsy snow]

is it a C++ project?

[cloud aurora]

blueprints and because i wanted to try figure out how to have a visible body i added the 3rd person controller from epic and then went to open my project and have that error

[warm salmon]

just click yes it wud be good

[cloud aurora]

when i click yes

[drowsy snow]

If your project is BP only and have no C++ code whatsoever (excluding plugins), then you're SOL
Otherwise open the solution (.sln) file with Visual Studio and build the project from there.

[warm salmon]

did u try deleting the binaries folder and do it?

[cloud aurora]

where would that be? i manually deleted the 3rd person folder that got added

[pine siren]

Is there a way to force GarbageCollection in the editor? A button or something?

[warm salmon]

it shud be in ur project folder

[cloud aurora]

doesnt look like i have it, is there a way i can copy the blueprints and worlds that i saved into another project? that would get everything back i think would just have to set up the key binds

[broken sphinx]

Does anyone knows if its possible to prevent landscape grass to clear and rebuild when changing a lighting scenario dynamically in game?

[tight jacinth]

Hi guys, not sure where to place this but what is the standard practice to handle context based input? For example: Let mouse click normally selects the unit under the mouse cursor, but when an ability is active it casts that ability instead. I can't seem to find much info on that use case online
Edit: nevermind, I see enhanced input is the way to go

[humble moon]

hey, so my UE4 is crashing when I changed from Steam to EOS (epic online services) when I changed my DefaultEngine.ini I attached my error and my .ini

[OnlineSubsystem]
DefaultPlatformService=EOSPlus
NativePlatformService=Steam
bHasVoiceEnabled=true

[OnlineSubsystemEOS]
bEnabled=true

[/Script/Engine.GameEngine]
+NetDriverDefinitions=(DefName="GameNetDriver",DriverClassName="OnlineSubsystemEOS.NetDriverEOS",DriverClassNameFallback="OnlineSubsystemUtils.IpNetDriver")

[/Script/OnlineSubsystemEOS.NetDriverEOS]
bIsUsingP2PSockets=true

[/Script/OnlineSubsystemUtils.OnlineEngineInterfaceImpl]
+CompatibleUniqueNetIdTypes=EOS
+CompatibleUniqueNetIdTypes=EOSPlus

Assertion failed: Module [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Private/Modules/ModuleManager.cpp] [Line: 359] OnlineSubsystemSteam

UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_OnlineSubsystemEOSPlus
UE4Editor_OnlineSubsystemEOSPlus
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_OnlineSubsystem
UE4Editor_OnlineSubsystem
UE4Editor_OnlineSubsystem
UE4Editor_OnlineSubsystem
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll```

[hazy jungle]

Hi, My landscape grass culls out in chunks, I want it to fade out smoother. does anyone know what could cause this issue? (I have dithered LOD transitions checked in the material).

[tight crest]

Does anyone know if Visual Studio 2022 is compatible with UE 4.26? (pls ping me)

[dense tartan]

Hi there. Can anyone tell me why my green screen characters are lit like that, and how to fix this ? i'm trying to learn how to integrate video into UE. thanks

i also want to add shadows.... beginner here

[drowsy snow]

Most likely no.

[drowsy snow]

Reduce the FG plate material's specular value.

[tight crest]

Oof - I saw it was supported for UE5 and hoped it was also good for UE4

[humble moon]

anyone?

[drowsy snow]

You may able to get somewhere with 4.27 & VS2022 tho

[tight crest]

Idk if we're ready to upgrade to 4.27, but its good to know that it might be compatible!

[dense tartan]

thanks will do

[dense tartan]

FG = final gather ?

[drowsy snow]

Foreground
I'm talking about the media plate

[dense tartan]

ok thank you

[brazen torrent]

realist car paint in ue5

realist car paint in ue5

[tight crest]

how long have you been using them together?

[drowsy snow]

It compiles fine, though I should warn about .NET Framework versions interfering Installed Build compile process with VS2022

[dense tartan]

i set specular value to 0 and i get this. While the blacks are restored, the overall colors don't match the scene... any way to fix this ?

[tight crest]

yikes, sounds like it isn't production stable

[dense tartan]

i just want a bit of light from the scene on them to "grade" them "naturally"

[drowsy snow]

I had to change the versions from 4.5 to 4.5.2 on all engine C# projects that have it.

[drowsy snow]

Well, that's on your real life lighting to match.

[tight crest]

I've got a team of 7 devs, probably shouldn't switch one dev station to VS 2022 without switching all of them

[drowsy snow]

I remember lighting was a huge issue because the company I used to work with don't prepare the scene lighting in advance when shooting the film plate.

[dense tartan]

thank you. isn't there a middle ground ? between ambient light killing colors or having zero ambient light ?

for sure lights need to match but i want a little bit of lumen on the characters

[drowsy snow]

Normal maps to control the lighting is one way to go, but it's impossible to do with live video plate.

[dense tartan]

allright thanks

[sinful adder]

Hey can someone help me out with this problem its with root motion

Its with root motion so I have all the animations working in the blend space and i got the animation BP working and i activated root motion for all the animations and i didn't check (in place) in Mixamo but its still not working

the animation plays when i press the button but i dont actually move

and i cant find the reason for it

[cloud aurora]

i made a bullet that can shoot, when it hits a wall it bouces away and does not destroy, when it hits an object same thing, when i place one down and run into it it destroys me. anyone know a fix?

[midnight vector]

Hey guys, just a quick question regarding UE4 that doesn't seem like it'd fit anywhere else. When renaming a large folder of assets, is there any way to automatically move to the next file instead of having to scroll back to your position and hit F2 again? TAB does not work.

[wild aspen]

is there any way to define structs globally in a custom material node so that I can access the types and methods in other custom nodes?

[crisp summit]

Hello US. I am trying to figure if I can get a recommendation on an asset or template that have pre-built quest systems / inventory. Is there such a thing in the market?

[humble moon]

can someone help please

[soft tree]

last months free content had RPG inventory for free

[cloud aurora]

not my image but with this gun how would i implement it into my game and have character hold it, in what way would it effect my code (i have code to shoot line tracers would i keep this on my character or switch it to my gun?) ty

[sharp crest]

is there a way to get a reference to the level blueprint?

if I want to call a function from it for exmaple

nevermind Ig not

[rotund scroll]

there's no reason to set things up like this

[dry wharf]

does someone have retargeted animations godd

its just because i only want to use als 8 way direction but i cant figure out how i will do that

[frozen pond]

compiling ue4 from source is allways like that?

i should get more cores then

[plush yew]

This engine is bugged

[frozen pond]

still won't run 😦

[plush yew]

Lol

[frozen pond]

rebuilded engine and project and still error

[thin path]

Where can i find the backup folder?

[plush yew]

In the backup folder 📁

I think it's in save

Something like that

[thin path]

;-;

i've looked everywhere can't find it

[plush yew]

Weird you should have a save folder somewhere

[thin path]

ah

i am not looking in the right folder

[plush yew]

In your project folder

[thin path]

ye i was in the epic games folder

how do i load a backup?

[plush yew]

I would just copy paste the files and replace

[thin path]

ok

why do all my saves/backups date from 6 hours ago

even tho i saved my project in between?

nm

[grim ore]

backups are not from when you saved, they are from when the engine saved while you were not saving

[thin path]

idk how but it switched my project to its copy this afternoon

[plush yew]

Oh is that the Real MathewW ? :0

I'm a fan

[proud hedge]

When my object is behind smoke, it will not affected by Depth of field. the mesh (in this case the robot) has sharp edges. is there a option that this does not happen and the robot will affected by dof?

[thin path]

Ty for that tutorial from 2016 on tracking player score xD

[cedar wave]

In like 5-6 years, people are just going to be like, "Yeah, I learned gamedev thanks to @grim ore". And then he'll become a household name.

[plush yew]

unreal documentation is so unhelpful those kind of tutorials are a must

"tomatoes"

[neat ether]

I'm trying to render a level sequence as a video, and the video starts out with some particle effects playing that aren't supposed to play until towards the end of the animation, I've triple checked the keyframes...
what can I do to fix this issue?

[weary willow]

Hey everyone! I was looking for some ideas for a starting point within UE4 on how to remake the gravity rush mechanic of flying and floating around! Any Ideas on a decent approach? 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoWxb5dN8UM&ab_channel=RansomSlayerSeraph

I was thinking of using a mixture of lowering gravity on a character and force pushes based on direction of character

[sinful adder]

Hey if anyone nows how to set up root motion for crouching could you help me out I already set up the movement with root motion but i got no clue how to set up crouching and jumping with root motion.

Pin me

[dry wharf]

how do you do it with different animations like walking left and right and backwards????? I am trying to and i cant

[dry wharf]

??

[sinful adder]

with root motion?????

[potent bridge]

So I have a question, with shaders. How would I make it so only objects with "custom depth pass" have the shader effect applied?

[drowsy snow]

https://www.tomlooman.com/the-many-uses-of-custom-depth-in-unreal-4/

[latent sonnet]

Help...?

It doesn't build so idk what to do

[lament path]

I have a question

i used this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MA9_U3XRZs

to create a basic online multiplayer game with the third person template

however i then tried to make it so that players could play a punch animation and spawn in a hitbox that ragdolls other players

and pretty much none of it is replicated no matter what i do

does anyone have any tutorials or resources that could help with this?

[soft tree]

how are you playing the animation? is it a montage? or in the anim bp?

[lament path]

montage

i assume that that some issue replicating?

also its not tied to the hitbox spawning

[soft tree]

Anim BP needs a default slot for replicating the montage, and the montage needs to be replicated as well when it's called

I believe you can just play the montage, and fire off a RPC that plays it to everyone else

though it may need to be multicast

[lament path]

i think i know how to do RPCs

you run an event with "run on server"

that then runs an event with multicast

right?

[soft tree]

sure, that should work just fine

[lament path]

nice

i'll try that

then get back to you on the other parts

thanks a ton

[soft tree]

np

[lament path]

lol while i was going to try the animation stuff i realized that i set the death event to not replicate

which explains a lot

it still doesnt work perfectly but you now die on both screens

so thats a step forward

im gonna do the animation fix now

worked great

thanks

also

im starting to notice that seems like every event i thought i had set to run on server or multicast is set to not replicated now

and when i fix it everything works as intended

so either im extremely forgetful or some bug was preventing me from setting them last time

[plucky bobcat]

Has anyone had any success with placing structures onto objects that can later move? Example a campfire onto a raft that you can sail around. I’m having a couple issues with it atm

[true ridge]

Is there a setting somewhere to make child components respect the physicsassets of their parents? Trying to make modular danglies not fall into the body they're attached to.

[cloud aurora]

i am doing my characters skeleton and i cant find the parameters tab/section how do i fix this?

[proud hedge]

everytime I use particles i run into the problem that everything behind the particles (in this case smoke) will get sharp edges. How can I avoid that?

On the bottom you can see it produces that sharp edges along the terrain

[cloud aurora]

in the image i am looking at for reference there is a parameter box in the bottom right above the timeline buttons but mine does not have one

[wild aspen]

what's the proper channel for questions about materials and shaders?

[plush yew]

is this going to cause any sort of problem or performance impact? These meshes are left blank on purpose and are removed when the game starts if they aren't being used

[winter marsh]

is there anywhere anyone can suggest where people share pics of various different blueprint functions theyve created

[wanton crescent]

Hello, is there a function that all (Editor, client, server etc.) crashes go through?

[rancid lynx]

how do I destroy a staticMesh with a line trace ? the Hello Print node fires. the line trace hits the static mesh in the level.

why doesnt this work ?

why doesnt the destroy component work ? Ive tried it with and without the cast

[wanton crescent]

try running it on the server

[uncut crow]

Can someone help , to solve this error , i cant seem to find a fix

[surreal eagle]

prerender it

[uncut crow]

k will try

[surreal eagle]

👍

[median remnant]

Guys, how fix this light leak?

[mint zodiac]

Hey guys, I have a question. Does it matter what license I have if I would like to send a test level to a friend for them to test? How can I tell what license I have?

[bright sigil]

the ceiling is one sided yeah?

[bright sigil]

license for unreal?

[mint zodiac]

Yes

[bright sigil]

sounds fine to send a test level to your buddy, you're not really putting it out to sell or anything

[median remnant]

one side but i enable double side in mesh setting

[mint zodiac]

Okay, am I able to just download the game to my hard drive, then upload it somewhere?

[bright sigil]

i guess its not working 😛 you cant model it with some thickness?

[mint zodiac]

Because I think I accidentally chose the publishing license, and I'm not a game developer, and I don't think I will be for a very long time.

[bright sigil]

where did you choose this?

[mint zodiac]

On the website

[median remnant]

okay

[bright sigil]

sounds like its for learning 🙂

[mint zodiac]

Yeah, everything I'm doing currently is just learning

[bright sigil]

yeah dont worry, the main deal is when you start selling it

pretty sure the download buttons are the same thing

[mint zodiac]

Okay, and is it just going to make a DOT exe file on my hard drive that I can send to someone, or how does that work, never done it before

[bright sigil]

it will, but you need to build that

[mint zodiac]

Yes, I will do all the steps I have too

Also, I was reading on the website that excluding editor content but it could have a negative impact on glitches in the game, how much do I need to be worried about that?

[rancid lynx]

How do I destroy a static mesh with a line trace ? Its not working. Ive tried casting to static mesh, static mesh component, and withOUT casting. none work.

[bright sigil]

i dont think you're doing that

[bright sigil]

check the tool tip for DestroyComponent - can only be called by the owner bp

[mint zodiac]

Oh, I read on the website whenever you build the game, that's one of the options to lower the file size

[bright sigil]

ah i think i understand. yes, default builds are rather large because there is a lot of stuff that gets packaged even if you dont use it

editor content sounds rather vague though, are you sure those words were used?

[bright sigil]

ah, i see, so you're looking at build optimization. Well its a question to you then 🙂 are you using engine content?

and a way to find out is to try it 😛 but maybe first try building

[mint zodiac]

I have no clue honestly, I downloaded unreal like 4 days ago

[bright sigil]

an example, if you placed lights, they have a light icon - that's an image so it has to live somewhere to be shown; that's an asset that belongs to the editor, you see?

they wont be visible in the game though, so there's not need to keep the light icon, just for development

so there's a bunch of things like that - materials, meshes, images, etc

like i said, there's only one way to find out

[mint zodiac]

I see, so if I use any content that comes default with the editor, such as the default mannequin, that would be editer content?

[bright sigil]

not quite, pretty sure these are all assets that live in a folder called Engine Content

[mint zodiac]

So is it only the content that you can see in the editor, for whenever you play test the game you can't see them?

[bright sigil]

its stuff made for the editor 😛 to help you develop your game - tool visuals, debug stuff, that kind of thing

like move scale and rotate, there are editor assets for them

i doubt you used any engine content unless you can recall specifically diving into the engine content folder

[mint zodiac]

I'm pretty sure I don't have anything like that, all I have used are blueprints and cubes that have already been scaled

[bright sigil]

but just trying making a build first, sometimes you get errors so its best to test without all the other stuff

[mint zodiac]

Alright, I will be testing it, thank you for your help

[bright sigil]

once you build successfully, each time after is super quick, so test building first, then explore those settings later

if it fails then you'll know you need it 🙂

[mint zodiac]

Thank you very much! Your help is very much appreciated

[rancid lynx]

I placed these static meshes in the level editor. they are not actors. they are only static meshes. How can I remove that grey sphere during gameplay ?

[bright sigil]

is it not part of the tent model? do you know how it got there?

[rancid lynx]

I know how to make blueprint actors and do all of that but

[bright sigil]

or do you want it there, but hidden during gameplay?

[rancid lynx]

This is just a mesh in the level.

i want to hit it with a trace, then remove it from the level.

i know how to do it using blueprint actors. but the tent isnt an actor

[bright sigil]

probably better to make it an actor

[rancid lynx]

its just a map level

correct. except that mygame is a building game, and i will be using 10,000 meshes

10k meshes is no problem. but 10k actors is a framerate thing

I jus twant to spawn 10 static meshes and destroy them . surely thats possible.

im searching through Level blueprint options now.

[bright sigil]

yeah its possible, maybe there's a way to tag it or seomthing

[rancid lynx]

its gotta be possible to destroy a level mesh. surely that happens. hehe.

[bright sigil]

yes you can, i just mean i think that it would be rather generic

you could destroy the tent just the same as the sphere or anything other static mesh

the line trace you have would check for WorldStatic objects and then from there you can check if the hit result is a static mesh object

static mesh are considered actors, so you could tag them to help filter

[rancid lynx]

thats what i tried. no luck yet.

ill keep checking and testing. thank ya

[bright sigil]

the meshes have collision right? 🙃

[rancid lynx]

hehe, collisions are ok : ) I didnt know StaticMeshACTOR was an option.

i tried casting to stat mesh, stat mesh comp, but i think stat mesh Actor is working now. thanks !

X_x took me like 10 hours to learn

[plush yew]

can you draw map layout in unreal from top down view? like place boxes and meshes etc

or I should use blender for that

[bright sigil]

could use a render target if you dont mind it being low res

[plush yew]

what's a render target

[bright sigil]

sorry, scene capture

[plush yew]

nah, you can place boxes here

nice

scene capture looks weird lol

[bright sigil]

lol

[plush yew]

it's like a mirror on wall

lol

[bright sigil]

uh.... hrm, might need to set it up differently i think

[plush yew]

i mean it has nothing to do with building

😄

[bright sigil]

its been awhile since i did this, but in the past, i made a top down map using a dedicated capture camera placed way above the player set to ortho, and used a scene capture that updated from umg

[plush yew]

sounds complicated, ill just use top down view to place basic boxes and then edit them

[bright sigil]

lol if that works for you

i read "draw" "map" and "view" maybe you're doing something else

[plush yew]

i mean I just wanna use top down to place elements

map itself is 3d

like in architecture

when you paint a design plan

i wanna make a cod map lol

[sterile jolt]

how can I change the material of morph target?

[plush yew]

that's what I'm doing 😄

[bright sigil]

you want the player to place things?

or you just want to place things as a fun way to build your map?

bah, im going to bed so i wont be able to answer anyways

[plush yew]

just place things

as a way to design map

[primal tendon]

Do you guys ever face this problem of not able to right click inside unreal engine, or more like any popup's or dropdown menus just doesn't work after using unreal engine for some time. When I right click the menu shows up and immediately disappears.

[drowsy snow]

Then make a Doom map

[bright sigil]

i means its a 3d level....

if you dont care about that, then yeah, use top view

[plush yew]

it works so yeah

[bright sigil]

nope, not sure what your're talking about

[drowsy snow]

In my spare spare time, I'm making Doom maps, and partially I'd use it for reference to build dungeons in UE

[plush yew]

I'm mostly making mirror type maps

[bleak zodiac]

i finished Doom Eternal, thank to that game it help me to cure insomnia XD

[plush yew]

but want to make something original

[drowsy snow]

Nah, I go boomer with classic Doom 2

[plush yew]

i remember valve hammer editor lol

never got into it

opened it up and it was a nightmare lol

[drowsy snow]

Ultimate Doom Builder is much easier

Partly because how simple Doom is by today's standard

[plush yew]

can you transfer maps to unreal?

[bright sigil]

oh i think i get it... i suppose you could draw out the map to design it, seems rather faster, but you may not get scale right, so maybe draw over a screen shot of initial work

[drowsy snow]

From Doom? No, but I do have a working reference from Doom maps

[plush yew]

yeah, just using it in a way to make map look proportional

[bleak zodiac]

i only remember play on window 95, that all

[drowsy snow]

Can't tell you how I used to dabble with Doom source ports for a decade now lol

[plush yew]

hand drawing misses the geometry at times

im more painter than a drawer lol

[bright sigil]

Buy grid paper

Or else just keep building it in ue and accept that the best way is to just get faater

[bleak zodiac]

did anyone get ninja blueprint or journeyman badge from the challenge?

even if didn't take part?

[pine wedge]

good morning

[fallen sphinx]

Hey guys I have a spine mesh and I want the whole mesh to have a single material, as I add more spline points the material also adds on. Is their a way to get a single material along the whole spline mesh.

[glacial pecan]

man, I still don't know how to create a socket in Unreal... I see the term used all the time, I just haven't come across it in the UI yet, which I find strange...

[trim pike]

Is it possible to have one scene capture render to 2 render targets?

[still schooner]

how can i use physical constraint as engine?

just want it to rotate

[somber stump]

Hi guys, got a really tight deadline coming up and I'm fresh out of ideas. Tried solving this problem for about two weeks now but I really need help. I have a VR game with 6 levels and I need a simple loading screen between them to display in my VR headset. I'm using a valve index and oculus quest 2. I've tried many solutions but even the official documentation on XR splash screens is causing the loading screen to just lock up and it doesn't even display the texture I gave it.

Can anyone help please?

I'm not using level streaming right now, I did try this but I still got the same problems

I'm using blueprint only

[frosty reef]

In Substance Painter there is the option to switch padding to UV Space Neighbor. Is it possible to do the same in UE4?

[main cobalt]

Hi all, I'm trying to find out if there's a way to create custom local "vault packs" for internal assets, to make them easier to add to different projects

The most recent mentions I've found are from 2015-2016, does anyone know if there has been work done in this area to make this easier? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/custom-made-vault-packs/21286

[pine siren]

Is there no way of being notified immediately when an actor has been removed from a level in the editor?

[trim mantle]

Couldn't you try Editor Utility Subsystems?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/ScriptingAndAutomation/Blueprints/

[floral aspen]

When trying to package for quest2 I get this messege "LogPlayLevel: Error: ERROR: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'D:\Unreal\VidenDjurs\VidenDjurs\Binaries\Android\VidenDjurs.target'. Check that this target has been built."

[candid root]

Does anyone know if theres a way when searching in a folder in the content browser to make it ignore sub folders and only show files in the folder you have selected?

[fierce tulip]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/ContentBrowser/AdvancedSearchSyntax/

you can use the path as part of the search query

[steep steeple]

Was 4.26 river water not working with heightmaps fixed in 4.27? It said so on the release notes but I'm still having no luck with it

[somber stump]

Turns out, is this specific instance, the delay note suddenly turns into 2.0 = 2 minutes when used for delaying loading screens. Odd... I thought my game was locking up on a black screen

node*

[violet yoke]

Is there a way to collab with someone in UE without using LAN?

[sage bane]

Excuse me

Can someone help me with materials?

The yellow stuff should be emmisive

This is how the material setup looks like

Sorry,new to unreal

Nvm

[steep steeple]

why does adding a simple 4.26 water river do this

This is completely unusable

mental

[autumn flame]

Welcome to UE Water

[lone burrow]

Hi, I can't use high res screenshoot. Thee tool don't recognize the project renaming. How can I fix it?

It says can't found the file path

[dawn flint]

how can i move a project from version 2.7 to 2.6

[fierce tulip]

@dawn flint you cant.

[strong schooner]

How do we prevent bumping far off or even flying when an AI is attacking? Initially I thought it was just due to my physical animations, reducing capsule radius but the moment made it default and just let several AIs attack me on melee I still have the problem. This usually happens when I am jumping around while AIs are attacking me. Thank you
**I saw some articles saying "Can Character Step Up On" and set it to yes. I guess it working as if ever i keep jumping instead of flying out, i can just step on the AIs and I am above them, much better than bouncing out.

[fossil basalt]

Hey guys, what's the difference between On Clicked & On Pressed?

[dawn flint]

@fierce tulipso do i have to redo the whole project and blueprints and everything ?

[fierce tulip]

some stuff might work, but there is no backwards compatibility, so anything that breaks need to be redone.

[dawn flint]

im doing this because i need to import characters from vroid software and its plugin have only 4.26 in it and im at 4.27

[fierce tulip]

cant you just import them to a .26 project, then migrate to .27?

[dawn flint]

idk how to migrate

[ripe barn]

I have a question about building up a virtual studio. What program should i use before importing it to unreal engine? Should i be building it in cinema4d or is there something else?

[ruby crystal]

does anyone know how you can export fibermesh hair from zbrush with the textures and import into unreal engine?

[ebon halo]

https://streamable.com/7lue23

my car won't go forward strangely how do i fix this

[dawn flint]

i tried importing q character from blender but when i try to change it in unreal it looks invisible what did i do wrong

[amber shuttle]

maybe its inside out

[grim shadow]

Why its doing like that

[dry wharf]

how can i make it go from where i marked to the other place i marked without breaking the connection?

thank you

[grim shadow]

Ok, but still it doesn't set whole world

[sinful adder]

Can anyone help me set up Jumping and Crouching with root motion I already have al direction movement the way I want it but I cant find a video on how to do it with only root motion and I got no idea how to do it by myself

[cloud aurora]

i want my character to face his arms in the direction i look in however this does not happen, when i run it works, when i jump it works but when i move my camera left and right etc his body still faces forwards, pls help

[plush yew]

is anyone familiar with aces workflow in unreal? If yes could you explain it to me? I dunno if im doing it right, I've baiscally converted all of my textures into acescg color space and now when I'm trying to export with mrq colors are not matching the viewport (i've setup the color output that converts the profiles as the same way as the viewport)

[brazen torrent]

how to add vehcile in ue4

[dry wharf]

how can i fix my movement looking like this

[torpid valve]

does anyone know how to make an interactive curtain? I mean to have a collision with the character

I've been trying to make one for a long time but I cant

[turbid hollow]

Im trying to compile my project to HTML5. The only catch is that im on linux...The HTML5 option just won't show up. I searched up on google but didn't find something useful. Im currently using UE 4.27.2 build of linux. Anyone who can help?

[dry wharf]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/HTML5/GettingStarted/

[dry wharf]

above

[turbid hollow]

I saw that

Epic's Github repository all of the needed Emscripten and Python files for HTML5 development will be included. This means that you can start creating HTML5 projects without having to perform any additional setup

but the option is still not there

should i install or build something seperately?

[autumn elbow]

@torpid valve https://youtu.be/OzONCchHSSU

[rancid lynx]

is it oossible to destroy an instanced static mesh with an OnOverlap collision? or only with line traces? i cant seem to get the element, index array number with an overlap. only a trace.

[dry wharf]

i dont know bro, i dont make html5 games sorry

[turbid hollow]

it's ok

i hope someone else is able to help me

Thanks anyway!

[torpid valve]

Thank you bro!

[next badger]

What are the purple arrows in reference viewer?

[narrow igloo]

Soft references, usually. You can turn them on and off with the dialogue in the top left

[dry wharf]

how can i integrate als in my project?

[worn robin]

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

[dry wharf]

advanced locomotion system

[worn robin]

Is that a plugin? If so, you need to put the plugin in the Plugins folder in your project.

[dry wharf]

no

its a project that has a crazy movement

when i say crazy i mean

very good

but i just wanna import the simple movement like crouch walk and sprint

and i dont know how 😦

[thick loom]

This is where you need to understand how to write the code / blueprint and merge the functionality yourself

GL. ALS is more than a little messy

[tiny zodiac]

How do i carry a parameter to a level?
I have 2 levels. Main Menu level, and ThirdPersonMapExample level.
When im in the Main Menu i can select single player or play vs cpu.
If i choose play vs cpu, i need the ThirdPersonMapExample to know that i chose that option so that it can load more enemies.

How do i make this happen?

How do i make the ThirdPersonMapExample know that i chose that specific option in the Main Menu?

[worn robin]

GameInstance is persistant through level transitions.

[sterile lichen]

yea, via something that persists, like game instance or GI subsystem

[tiny zodiac]

thank you. will study it right now 😺 🙏

[cloud aurora]

sorry for asking so many questions im new to unreal and wanna get rhings right and i know its good to but still. i was wondering if i delete my gun model from my fps controller (i am doing this because it is on the floor and wont move into my hands) and place it back in will it mess up the code at all? ty

[grave pollen]

been trying to figure out this walk stutter issue after respawn for a while now. walking is fine up until death, I respawn my char via server but when playing as client it stutters like this. If I play on listen server it works fine, no stutter at all even after respawn. It's not fps related - that's just my old laptop combined w/ recording. The movement is just simple move to which is replicated

I run this on client and server, but perhaps after teleporting to respawn they become out of sync. I printed strings on char location on server and client post-respawn and they both are the same, so I dont think its an issue of the server thinking the char is elsewhere. I figured it was an animbp issue perhaps not re-initializing after the initial char is destroyed but I'm unsure of how to tackle that, I tried setting speed manually in construction script w/ no luck

[alpine forge]

Hello!
I've been working on my game for a while and right now I have 3 major things I can't figure out.
I made an inventory system using Ryan Laley's tutorials and got it working, and I also did a shop using one of Ryan Laley's tutorials, now the issue here is that when I enter the Shop and exit it, I can no longer enter my Inventory, it just freezes my character and the mouse cursor is visible, as if it ignores the Widgets from being created, but this ONLY happens after I entered the shop and exited it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
This is stopping me from moving forward as it is a very game breaking bug.
Thanks!

[solid quest]

is there a way to know if a character has left navmesh area?

[grave pollen]

AI character or ur own character? If its AI it will stop moving, u can hit P and ur map will show nav mesh in editor mode. If ur in game to show nav mesh use console command (tilda key) Show Navigation

[solid quest]

own character

[grave pollen]

yeah just do this while ur in-game `Show Navigation

[tiny valley]

Hey im trying to create a excel like spreadsheet in ue4, I need the widget hitboxes so im spawning a widget for every cell. However the performance is terrible compared to google spreadsheets for example. Is there a marketplace product that can have a data table editor in game etc

[grave pollen]

@solid quest why would u need to know that? Ur character doesn't work based on nav mesh unless ur utilizing an AI controller for move to commands

[solid quest]

my AI character is supposed to follow the main character till it is in Navmesh Area

@grave pollen

[grave pollen]

I see. Well yeah that will happen automatically. Impossible for AI to move on non-nav mesh areas afaik so you will be able to tell just by moving around

[solid quest]

at that point I have to send the AI back to its original position

so there needs to be a trigger

[grave pollen]

Not sure how ur AI is following the char but if you're using something like the AI Move To node there's an 'on success' and 'on fail' - if it fails you can then run your code for returning to origin

[solid quest]

how would i retrieve if it failed?

i am a bit new with Unreal ugh

I am using MoveToActor

[grave pollen]

its built into the node. Look up AI Move To its a pretty nice node w/ an acceptance radius and lots built into it

yeah that is fine but I'd exchange that w/ ai move to OR move to location or actor node, they can do the same thing but offers easier solutions for what you're trying to do. Otherwise you'd have to do something ab it more complicated to figure out if it is still following the char.

you're also going to want an acceptance radius in general, which the movetoactor node doesn't offer. The problem being if you have obstacles or walls and theres no acceptance radius I'd imagine there will be unintended errors like the AI not being able to catch up and getting lost

[devout blaze]

How long should compiling shaders on first launch of Unreal Editor take? On macOS and it’s been going for ~15 minutes now. Does it normally take a while? Or has the process crashed?

[grave pollen]

a long long long time.

sounds normal to me

[devout blaze]

Cool. Just checking ☺️

[solid quest]

I have Perceptive model for that to see if something's is in sight?

[grave pollen]

if it crashes you will know, just give it time.

[devout blaze]

Insert xkcd meme

[solid quest]

you are suggesting me to use MoveTo instead of MoveToActor()

[grave pollen]

either one of these. Turn context sensitive off

[solid quest]

looks like even MoveToActor calls MoveTo(FAIMoveRequest)

[solid quest]

is that wrt to blueprints?

I am using cpp

[grave pollen]

ohhh idk then sry.

[solid quest]

😦

[grave pollen]

ur using entirely cpp? I'm not really a cpp expert but in my experience I'd say using both cpp and blueprints can be beneficial. Might make sense to start using both? Up to u obviously.

What I do know is a LOT of blueprints can be converted to CPP, so I'm sure there's a method to do the same thing in cpp, I just don't know off the top of my head

my problem with cpp is there's a lot less information/tutorials on it than blueprints. Normally you can just google BP related stuff but even basic cpp guides are hard to come by. I want to say Sneaky Kitty has some good guides out there

[prime pine]

Is there a blueprint function for creating a cube in the scene?

[next badger]

@tame zephyryou need to make an indexed material with all the numbers, look how debug material is made (debug scalar)
then you need to make a particle system that will read the value of the input and feed it to material...then just spawn a particle and set the parameter

well, it depends, if you want to bind it to view, then UMG is simpler

[solid quest]

I make cpp files and then turn them into Bps. That's what I have seen in tutorials

[grave pollen]

o.O

why

[next badger]

cause that's the only way ue4 works

all cpp except core logic should be turned in to BPs anyway...but you can migrate part of the code back to c++

[grave pollen]

why?

[next badger]

cause to access any logic in ue4 you have to link it to actor, and all actors are BPs

make it only in c++ will be hard

[grave pollen]

what

im confused lol

[next badger]

@tame zephyrin material, type debug

[neat ether]

I made a short sequence in Unreal of the mannequin walking around, everything looks fine, but in the exported the video the mannequin jitters, any help on fixing it?

[next badger]

it's a material function node

[grave pollen]

oh you just mean you're exposing your CPP code to blueprints right?

you're not just disregarding ur cpp and converting ur code solely into blueprints right? lol

[next badger]

i hope that's what @solid quest was talking about...

[grave pollen]

cpp is generally faster, so you should be converting as much BP to CPP as you can (assuming there's a purpose behind it) not vice versa. If you're just exposing your cpp so you can manipulate it using BP's thats a dif story

[solid quest]

yeah exposing them as BP

[grave pollen]

oh ok lol I gotchya. In that case you can just use the BP node AI Move To

[next badger]

"generally"

it definitely faster for ABP logic, as it runs on tick

[solid quest]

I'd like to stick to Cpp for finding the answer. Converting a BP to Cpp seems like something new to find, either I can find a way to know if MoveTo has faiiled

[next badger]

you will see the lightning bolt near c++ nodes

i think, one of the recent streams was about c++ for Blueprint coders

[grave pollen]

That's fine just realize the speed differential is usually so minor to the point where its negligible. Sometimes saving hours of research time to use a solution that simply works even if its not optimal is worth it. But yeah up to you good luck.

[solid quest]

my experience is more towards Cpp and gamedev. Haven't used Unreal much. So using BP is another task

thats why I am finding a way to do it through cpp

[next badger]

yep, ue4 c++ is not traditional c++...since those reflection macroses, garbage collection and bp exposure

[solid quest]

yeah, I have seen how they save people from leaking memory even when something is getting casted down

xD

[next badger]

oh, you also cant inherit from multiple classes

[solid quest]

but I can inherit from multiple interfaces?

[next badger]

you can implement multiple interfaces (or you want to merge interfaces in one?)

[solid quest]

yeah multiple interfaces are meant for that. You can inherit multiple in single class

[next badger]

yep

[solid quest]

the class has to inherit pure virtual functions

Character = Cast<AAICharacter>(OtherActor); this is just so lame

I have used Lumberyard as well. They have also blocked dynamic_cast for some reason

[potent bridge]

So either I don't know how this works, or just don't know what node I need to complete this material.
Does anyone know how?

[next badger]

i think you doing it wrong

[potent bridge]

nah I got the proper output now

[next badger]

an if you need to plug the attributes to output, ther's a checkbox that will convert it to one

[cloud aurora]

i am trying to import a pack and when i view it on the store it says install, i do and get this error

[proper stump]

I have a scene in blender, with 200 assets, is it possible to import that scene into unreal, where every asset keeps it's position?

it would be quite difficult reposition everything again in unreal :/

[fierce tulip]

#ue5-general

[cloud aurora]

is there a way with the "AnimStarterPack" for me to be able to have my character turn into the direction i am looking? i have managed to make my arms do that however my entire body stays looking forwards

[proper stump]

sounds like you need aim offset

[jaunty cedar]

oh thanks lol

[zinc willow]

sorry, not sure which channel to ask, but would anyone know how to set up a pixel stream with a Reactjs overlay?

[dry wharf]

hello how can i disable the third person camera in advanced locomotion system

[sleek mirage]

why is hovering / on hovered events not working while holding left click

[cloud aurora]

when i go to select my socket for my camera, the socket is not there despite me adding a socket to the head

[dense tartan]

Hi. is it possible to save a material node config as a template, to use it for other materials ?

something like a node configuration preset save / load ?

not sure if i'm clear

ok checking this out since i'm a noob

[pallid talon]

Is the "Importance Volume" still necessary for UE5 or is it a legacy option now?

[dense tartan]

figured it out, thank you

can i use a PNG with transparency as a texture ? Doesn't seem so

[tiny valley]

insert doesnt work in ue4 textbox, anyway to get the current index the cursor is atr

[bleak zodiac]

have you set blend mode to opacity mask?

[dense tartan]

thank you

[lusty scroll]

Any shot anyone knows how to fix a d3d error thats causing crashes instantly on repeat?

[cloud aurora]

when i try to do this i get the error:
how do i fix this?

[split jasper]

Is there any good reason why I can't copy / paste event dispatchers?

[cloud aurora]

how would i do that? i have the mesh in the same folder and it has a similar pose but when i highlight the 2 animation sequences i am wanting to use it only puts in the other mesh instead of both

[dry wharf]

can someone help me i just set up a blendspace with root motion and its not working i cant walk

[hoary holly]

youtube is the way

[harsh oak]

anybody ever had transparent tooltips in the editor? win11?

dropdown menues are black/transparent.. wow

[soft tree]

using Darker Nodes?

[harsh oak]

no, but I'll update graphicscard drivers

[soft tree]

any other editor theme plugins?

oof. good to know

feel like this should be bannable

[fierce tulip]

agreed :p

[harsh oak]

is my graphicscard dying? now I have white flashes when minimizing windows after the graphicscard update! 😄

[hoary holly]

could be corrupted driver

[soft tree]

maybe this? #ue4-general message

don't know if that's supposed to be for just the editor or all of windows, but it's in the pinned messages

[thick loom]

I think the latest nvidia driver regressed to the flicker issue

It went away when I updated a few weeks ago, but came back when I updated yesterday

[prime willow]

so if i wanted to have animations based on items physcially equipped to the mesh

like a kunai pouch lol

would i tie the animation to the skeletal mesh or the pouches placement

or use IK's or so to make sure its the proper animation o-o

[pure void]

For anyone doubting the power of nativization, or finds it scary; I just found the highest costing blueprints in my game, I put 4 BP classes on my nativazation list, and this is the improvement in performance. Took about 5 minutes. SO GET ON IT!

[thick loom]

FYI https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/nt6szz/blueprint_nativization_is_gone_for_ue5_should_we/

[lucid gorge]

anyone have any good examples of creating streaming levels "on the fly" in c?

[pure void]

Good thing Im using UE4

[thick loom]

Yeah just sharing in case it changes future plans

[pure void]

One of the comments is suggesting they might make a BP -> Unreals upcoming scripting language

would be interesting

[potent bridge]

So, kind of trying to think how to best approach this. Say I wanted a health bar for more than 1 playable character (and those characters can change). How would I implement that? Is it possible to add a widget to a widget ect.?

[pure void]

Spawning the projectiles for a bullet hell game

@plush yew

[thick loom]

You would be well served to move this part to a C++ pooling system

Or at the least a pooling system in general

[pure void]

Dont have time to learn C++ at the moment unfortunately

[thick loom]

There are probably some guides on BP pooling systems

Pooling systems were invented for the exact situation that is bullet hells hallmark

[pure void]

I am also moving the projectiles with manual calculations but I think thats not neccesary with the right components

[potent bridge]

is there a node in blueprints for adding a component at all?

Say I wanted to add this to my main UI.

[potent bridge]

during runtime

[pure void]

Sometimes I feel like I overengineer things lol

[thick loom]

I don't see any over engineering there. Just good sense.

It is more about the spawning itself

Spawning and destroying lots of actors can cause hitching

[pure void]

Its not an actual trace hit btw I did that manually too for some reason lol

But like you said

if it works it works

Ill look into pooling though

[thick loom]

I would cache the bullet direction. Assuming it is linear.

But the movement is less of a concern

Spawning takes up memory that isn't made available until a heavy process that follows the destroy

Pooling just means to create a bunch of bullets and reuse them

Instead of creating and destroying on demand

[pure void]

Makes sense to do it like that yeah

Task for tomorrow

[thick loom]

Don't feel bad if it takes a few days

[pure void]

Ive already been working on this combat system for like 2 weeks lol I dont mind a few extra days

Code is getting big but I try to keep chunks of code small

but then I forget where I put stuff hehe

(not actual code but BP)

[thick loom]

Looks like you are organizing your BP better than I do

By dividing it up

I usually get ball of spaghetti and say F this, going to C++

But that is more for the heavy math stuff that it turns to spaghetti

[pure void]

I find organizing my BP so relaxing

Its almost procrastination at some points

[thick loom]

I keep telling myself I should buy the bp organizing plugin

[pure void]

idk if I spelled that correctly

[thick loom]

I hate spending time lining up nodes

But I get so uncomfortable if they don't line up

[pure void]

But anyways today I was just messing around with optimization and the nativization just blew my mind

did more in 5 mins than I did in a whole day

[thick loom]

Yeah it is great when it works

[pure void]

do you use the shortcuts

[potent bridge]

So uhm.

[thick loom]

I only know about "Q"

I feel limited on organization compared to what is available in vector art tools

[pure void]

Shift A alligns the left sides of one or more node (Shift w up, shift d right, shift s down)

[pure void]

#umg

[thick loom]

Oh nice! Thanks for the tip

I didn't know that one

[pure void]

You can also horizontally or vertically allign the nodes

Its a 3 button combo but I just remapped them

I use it to align the input and output nodes on the same level before and after BPs, you get used to it

just automatic now

[fierce tulip]

we dont really allow mention of ripping (including content rippers) here.

[thick loom]

Roger roger. I'll delete my posts

[fierce tulip]

yea, looking at your history I guessed as much, but still.

[thick loom]

I'm doing procedural stuff rn. I'll put it in my backlog to look at that later.

I'll DM if /when I find anything interesting

[potent bridge]

Also, is there a way I can check if my character is currently possessed? I know an event exists but doesn't that only fire once?

[lucid gorge]

yea, call a priest

sorry

[potent bridge]

good joke actually hahaha

all good man

[pure void]

maybe get controller and check if valid

[potent bridge]

I'm not using C++.

As much as I'd love to learn it.

I'm going to bug one of the lecturers soon enough about it. Because I'd love to learn it.

[pure void]

you can do the same in blueprints

right?

oh I thought this was the wrong room but its not I guess, anyone know what this warning means?

[thorn violet]

Not 100%, Blueprints can do most things an amateur game developer would need, but if you wanna dive deeper into more custom classes and functionality, or maybe have an idea for an interesting game mechanic or feature thats never been thought of or used before, learning C++ will make complex functionality more accessible. with C++, your only limitation is your lacking knowledge of the language.

[cobalt nimbus]

I have a giant sphere on my blueprint tab... i can't figure out how to get rid of it

[thick loom]

and time. Time is always a limiting factor.

[thorn violet]

Well I think that applies to life itself, yeah? lol

[thick loom]

Yeah it just takes a lot of time to do the custom features no one has done

[thorn violet]

yes, it does... Plus you don't even know if it's really a good feature or not until after you've taken all the time to write it, and test it....

could all be a waste lol

[thick loom]

That's what makes it so stressful

I'm on about 4 months working on my game

[cobalt nimbus]

oh.. its gone after it crashed and restarted it. nvm lol

[thick loom]

Throwing away 2ish b/c the 1st draft of my mechanic didn't work

[thorn violet]

yea I'm barely getting started, I'm pretty new to it all. I have some exp with C++ console apps, but never unreal or game dev in general, so I'm honestly proudly anticipating the stressful challenge.

[thick loom]

Game dev is a lot different than console apps. It is good to challenge yourself and learn it though.

[thick loom]

That sphere is weird

Is your character super tiny?

Usually the default sphere is smaller

[lucid gorge]

its also more about learning the engine... you can be a c++ master, but still clueless

[thorn violet]

oh yes, I can already tell. Game dev however, is my ultimate goal and dream career, so I'll take whatever comes with it. lol

[thorn violet]

absolutely, almost a different language with all the preset classes and inheritances included in using the engine.

[lucid gorge]

i'm pretty good with c.... but there's a ton left for me to learn in the engine

digging its inheritance patterns tho

[thorn violet]

100%, I get this impression that once I've atleast gotten a basic understanding of the inheritances, they will bail me out of a lot of wasted time.

inheritances relevant to my game ofcourse, you would have to be on the good stuff to learn all of it. lol

[burnt dew]

is it usual for this time hang around here

[pure void]

Remember to always have other people test as well

Spending months on one project you sometimes don't see clearly anymore lol

[burnt dew]

also every thing else is unresponsive

[thick loom]

Good advise, definitely doing this. In my case it was a performance breakdown. The cheap PoC has proven to be very popular among friends.

As in PoC I did USING BLUEPRINTS before the 2 months

I'm changing the technical design and will be trying again

[faint delta]

Does anyone have any suggestions for creating colliders in the editor? I want to create a Field of View collider for my enemies that I can set different parameters on regarding vision angle and distance. Based off of Sensor Toolkit Unity.

[thick loom]

UE4 has a perception system for AI vision and hearing

[abstract eagle]

Does anyone have any tips on creating a tree cutting system similar to that of The Forest using Chaos Destruction in UE5?

[faint delta]

Yeah, but its no where near close to the level of detail I need so I'm making my own system. I've already done it in Unity last year but have been converted to UE.

[balmy shell]

Hey, if we had a question about vector math and such, where would be the best place to ask?

[thick loom]

I think Chaos Destruction is in a state it would be too chaotic for tree cutting. At least I didn't have a lot of luck using it for my purposes (not tree cutting).

[rigid bridge]

hey this is a really basic question that im stuck on for no reason

how do i set that

its not a character bp

im referencing a diff bp

thats not in the scene

so how would i set its value

cuz rn im just accessing none

[thick loom]

Sorry I don't have any advice on that. There isn't really a field of view collider. You may have to do a series of sphere or ray traces.

[faint delta]

When I was using Unity, it was possible to generate a collider in editor. Thats all I'm looking to do

[outer solar]

I'm trying to get a full level from an Unreal Engine 4.21 game.
Are there any methods or programs to get whole levels from a game?

[faint delta]

Basically just creating a static mesh and using that as a collider

[thick loom]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Types/StaticMeshes/HowTo/SettingCollision/

There's also some options to use UCX (or some other name conventions) for meshes you make in blender

[obtuse siren]

Anyone who is interested I am making a zombie game with human and zombie AI
ive added both of them but now I might think of scenarios such as both AI fighting each other along with the player if anyone has any concepts or hints I would really appreciate it 🙂
its hard to think on how to implement this final feature but if I can it would make my game so much better!
any ai experts out there i would appreciate any ideas

[thick loom]

Not sure if it is exposed to blueprint, but UE4 has some native support for team IDs to do this

I haven't done it myself and don't recall the details I read

[obtuse siren]

yea i have vaguely heard of that too

i might try find a vid on it

[thick loom]

I'll see if I can find it in my notes

[obtuse siren]

if anyone else can help would appreciate it <£

[thick loom]

It's been several weeks since I looked at it

[obtuse siren]

oh yes please

thank you, any ideas whatsoever is a bonus

their isnt much material on this type of AI behaviour

that i have seen atleast

[thick loom]

Yeah the documentation on it is pretty limited

I recall you had to look at the source code and do c++ for most of it

Not sure if that is a non-starter for you

[bleak zodiac]

AI? you mean behaviour tree?

[obtuse siren]

yea i hardly use blueprint code mainly in UE4

[thick loom]

Looks like it is GenericTeamAgentInterface

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-use-the-ai-perception-teams/120837/9

[obtuse siren]

no no just more zombie, human, player teams basically

[thick loom]

you specify the team as a number between 0 and 255

[obtuse siren]

logically zombies should attack both human ai and player and human ai should attack zombie and player

[thick loom]

Then there is a place to setup how the different teams react to each other

IE team 0 is hostile to team 1 but neutral to team 1

Then the entities can poll those relationships

[obtuse siren]

okay... should i look at the documentation you sent 🙂

[thick loom]

Yeah

That is about as much as I found

[obtuse siren]

awesome thanks for your help! ile try use this as a starting point

[thick loom]

It looked to be adequate for my needs (when I'm ready for it)

[obtuse siren]

if you are able to eventually implement it or have any knowledge on it let me know would appreciate it 🙂

for now ile try work on it

[thick loom]

It'll likely be at least a month until I get there

I'm building a custom destruction system loosely similar to Chaos Destruction

[obtuse siren]

hopefully i wouldnt need your help by then haha

[thick loom]

IKR?

[obtuse siren]

that seems cool but complicated (never even heard of it lol)

[thick loom]

I don't think it is anymore complicated than it needs to be

The team relationship part will take a bit of work to understand

[obtuse siren]

yea, im super interested in learning AI - i feel like this concept is really interesting. Ive seen in various games such The Last of Us and it really creates awesome player scenarios

like you can throw a rock as a player and get both enemies to be drawn to it and kill each other

[thick loom]

I think you'll want to get into behavior trees if you haven't already

[obtuse siren]

oh yea ive been using them 🙂

[thick loom]

👍

[obtuse siren]

been learning the EQS system too, that stuff still confuses me but hopefully ile get there 🙂

anyways thanks for your help! ile add you as a friend and you can let me know if your done in a month on your progress 🙂

[marble leaf]

Hey everyone, anything I should know about copying/pasting landscapes between maps? I did it and now if I try to sculpt it at all in the new map it crashes Unreal 100% of the time.

[abstract eagle]

so any idea how I could create this effect in UE5 since Apex destruction is being removed?

[thick loom]

I haven't played the forest specifically

But it's just basic tree chopping right?

I mean you cut it with an axe and make it fall

The problem with both Apex and Chaos destruction is that the whole structure ends up getting obliterated

[abstract eagle]

it creates changes for each strike and then the tree falls

[thick loom]

Right. You cut out from where you hit, then the tree falls

[abstract eagle]

after that id like to cut the fallen tree into logs

yes

[thick loom]

What % of the time will players spend doing this?

If it's the whole game loop it might be worth doing procedural work to make it happen

[abstract eagle]

a decent amount since it will be a harvestable resource

[thick loom]

Otherwise you might just want to do canned states for now and come back to it when the rest of the game is done

I'm building a custom destruction system, but it is quite advanced. I'm really not sure how you would make it work for something like tree chopping.

Actually.... I did work on a game that had tree chopping.

I'm trying to remember how it worked

I think it was kind of like a pseudo voxel system

Where only certain portions of the tree were choppable

And those sections were separate mesh than the rest of the tree

So kind of like a 3x3x3 grid, and each hit would remove one element from the grid

If you got a whole "row" or "diagonol" the tree would fall

Maybe not a great system

Alternatively you could look into vert animation and make the tree bounce around when you hit it. Like they do with walls in Fortnite.

Throw up a bunch of particle junk and generic damage states

Maybe not satisfying answers, but a lot of video game dev is smoke and mirrors.

They recently added tree chopping to fortnite. You analyze how they did it.

My guess is a combination of vertex shaders (WPO in material) and tracking impact locations.

[abstract eagle]

so looks like I have a bit of work to do lol. I will definitely get on it and do some more research. I really hope I am able to do this

[thick loom]

Yeah dynamic modification of 3d models is pretty complicated

As I said, you'll probably want to fake it

For a long time, fortnite had trees that didn't fall over when destroyed

They only added that recently

[thick loom]

BTW, the reason I mention Fortnite specifically is because the makers of Fortnite also made UE and they have a lot of videos about how they made things work in Fortnite.

[faint delta]

I'm looking to generate the static mesh used for collisions in the editor so that the designers can tweak the geometry in-engine, not just import something. I want to use an equation to generate a mesh.

[thick loom]

You ok with using C++?

[faint delta]

yes and I've already written it in C# and GLSL

just need to know what class to use. cannot find mention of it f-ing anywhere

[thick loom]

Tell me about it

Been tearing my hair out with custom static mesh work for a few weeks

But I happen to have done some collision stuff recently

You are looking for UStaticMesh. It is the interior data to the static mesh component

Here is an example of box collision: ``` // Adding simple box collision
staticMesh->CreateBodySetup();

UBodySetup* body = staticMesh->GetBodySetup();
body->InvalidatePhysicsData();

FKBoxElem boxCollision;
boxCollision.Center = FVector::ZeroVector;
boxCollision.X = (float)boxSide * 2.f;
boxCollision.Y = (float)boxSide * 2.f;
boxCollision.Z = (float)boxSide * 2.f;
body->AggGeom.BoxElems.Add(boxCollision);```

[faint delta]

this is what the code looks like in Unity

[thick loom]

That last part AggGeom accepts a couple different collider shapes

Boxes, spheres, and convex hulls

You'll want convex hulls

Most likely

FKAggregateGeom.ConvexElem

Type is FKConvexElem

The above code shows how to invalidate and rebuild the collidors

[faint delta]

okay thats awesome, thanks very much. I will report back on how it goes

[thick loom]

Should be able to convert your code

👍

This stuff needs to be better documented

Static meshes are a major part of the game engine, but there isn't a lot of info on how to really work with them on the low level

Mostly about the high level tooling

[faint delta]

tell me about it. I wish Unreal copied more than the pricing model of Unity...... I can say a lot of stuff about Unity, but the docs are such a pleasure to thumb through

[thick loom]

Idk if I agree about the pricing model

[faint delta]

Unreal docs are an absolute joke imo

[thick loom]

A big part of their pricing model is requiring the usage of the Asset store

But I do miss the Unity docs

[faint delta]

well, I mean just in terms of making it accessible to indies

[thick loom]

Also MSDN for C#