ue4-general

[faint delta]

and C# in general lmao

I've been writing C++ professionally for 2 years and still loath it hahahaha

but when I started doing game dev stuff in Unity, I quickly fell in love with C# and that's what I miss the most hahaha

[restive cipher]

Not sure if this is the right place but, i followed this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY1jnFvHgbE tutorial and for some reason my ai does not move at all and in the behaviour tree the sequence fails when it gets to the 'move to' part. Any ideas?

ive been trying to figure it out for the past 2 days but cant find dany solution

[plush yew]

Hey how do get the live link add to for blender to ue4 add on?

[regal ferry]

anyone know how I can view system overview, on my other pc Its out by default but i cant seem to find it on my second pc

[plush yew]

i need to sign in to github

but i keep getting the 404 error messege

[burnt dew]

a pic please

[plush yew]

i saw a tutorial vid and it tells me to connect my ue4 account with github but i already did and im still getting this message

[burnt dew]

go to epicgames.com

or the web epic store

[bright sigil]

looks like you havent fully connected to the github. double check the instructions, your missing a step

[burnt dew]

then hover over signed in epic account -> ACCOUNT -> CONNECTIONS -> Accounts -> GitHub

[plush yew]

But im already connected

and its still showing me the 404

[bright sigil]

you got the email too?

the one that says you've been added?

not the invite

[burnt dew]

is there a invite on the homepage of your user like on mine

[plush yew]

i think i got it?

is this it?

[bright sigil]

i think so

that is one of the repos

[burnt dew]

let me get a screenshooter and i will send a pic of what will be added to your account

[plush yew]

im trying to find the add on that will allow me to move blender models/accent's to ue4

[bright sigil]

send2ue?

[plush yew]

wait i think i found it

[bright sigil]

maybe check here first https://epicgames.github.io/BlenderTools/

[plush yew]

YES

I GOT IT!

thanks for helping me!

[bright sigil]

sweet

[burnt dew]

no problem

[wise trail]

Does unreal have SSRTGI?

I know we have RTGI at least its a recently addition to market or are they the same thing?

[drowsy snow]

SSGI in UE4 doesn't need RT.

[wise trail]

Oh okay

Just saw in the nvidia update they mentioned SSRTGI was wondering if its something coming in the future or if its even important for us.

[bleak zodiac]

you means on liveyoutube or other?

[drowsy snow]

I was thinking of SSRTGI akin to ReShade's.

But then UE5 Lumen has more aggresive SSGI anyway, probably comparable to SSRTGI

[dire parcel]

yes

moving onto animation kickstart now

[neon magnet]

hey guys, uber n00b question, how do I build the engine? As in, I've downloaded the NV RTX branch of the engine. Inside there are some .bat files like Setup.bat. Do I launch those? What do I load into VS? etc.

[bleak zodiac]

good job, if interested try get the blueprint ninja or journeymen if still available 🙂

[dire parcel]

what do you mean??

Ohh for a blue print course I get that achievement

The blueprint ninja?

[bleak zodiac]

you have already? okay good then

[dire parcel]

no no, not yet

I’m starting the animation kickstart next

And then the blueprint

[bleak zodiac]

okay, many people's actually wanted that award, but never get, i doing the unreal online tutorial, but they sent the badge to me anyway lol

[dire parcel]

My goal for later on today is to get either one

The animation videos are 34 minutes for the first one

I’m on a grind

[bleak zodiac]

good, i now on real time compositingbasics and blueprints and gameplay

[dire parcel]

Update me tomorrow on progress

[timid meteor]

hi !

im getting some problems changing

at lod0 the screen size i cant change

does anyone knows why that comes?

auto compute lod distances i had to disclik it xD

[plain valve]

Hey guys, is it possible to model an entire house with the yard and overall scene in UE? or i have to use blender to export models? thanks

[neon magnet]

You could but it would be pretty basic and dare I say harder than if you used a dedicated content creator like blender, max, etc.

and BSP isn't the most efficient way to make models for production anyway.

[plain valve]

whats the best way?

im new

[neon magnet]

using a program like blender

3ds max

maya

anything that can export in fbx or obj

[plain valve]

Is it possible to create a whole scene using blender instead of exporting the model to ue and then i have to add textures and fill the scene in ue?

[neon magnet]

Yes you can create an entire scene and then export it but you will likely have to apply materials in UE because of how materials are setup in UE. There are some ways to also automate this but I didn't bother with that

This is completely made in 3ds max and all I did in UE was apply textures (trees are also done in UE)

[plain valve]

@plush yew @neon magnet thanks ill use this workflow

[neon magnet]

@plain valve Look into "Datasmith" plugin. That is way better than the standard FBX if you want to make large scenes like mine and import into UE.

Otherwise for smaller things which you want to assemble later on, then individual FBX imports into UE is the way to go

[plain valve]

ok that would make it much easier

[neon magnet]

For me, I knew the layout and everything from the start, so I made the whole thing and exported from max using Datasmith and imported into UE using Datasmith

[plain valve]

i want to use blender solely for modeling houses exterior and interior

[neon magnet]

Yea so if you know how it should be from the start (blueprints and stuff) then just make everything and use Datasmith for export/import.

Keep in mind to keep your units in blender to centimetres. It's good to keep a box the size of the UE character around 180cm tall for a reference in blender

[plain valve]

You are correct, some blender content creator showed that its better to import accurate human figure to build the model on the size refernce which is around 175-180cm

BlenderGuru i think

[smoky timber]

Hey there guys! Anyone here has a few minutes of time for lighting and build 2 - 3 questions?

[lucid grove]

Heya. Just noticed that when i add root motion checkbox on animation it not always propagate to anim montage based on this animation. Is this intended behaviour or i need to update montage somehow?

[smoky timber]

Sure thing.

1. If you have a game set in interior space - closed spaces like rooms, hangars etc. Any tips on how much should I add into the Lightmass settins (world settings)? Like Static Lighting Levels, number of indirect lighting bounces etc.
2. My game is made using level streaming - one level is one room, second room is another level and they are all sublevels of Persistent. Where should I put my Lightmap Importance Volume since I need to build them one by one?

[worn bluff]

I’m kinda sad, every time I think about making an mmo or look up can I make one it’s always shot down by the fact that it’s super expensive to make one and that I shouldn’t… I just really wanna make one because I’m too broke to buy other games and games now doesn’t scratch the itch I have yeah I know it’s ambitious, but dam is it really not worth at least trying to make one?

[worn robin]

You can just start to make MO.
If you get many players, scale it up.

[worn bluff]

That’s true what’s your opinion on VR tho because that’s the main platform I wanted to build it on, do you think the current VR market would be interested in something like a VRMMORPG? I personally think the mmo genre is stagnant there’s only like 5 games worth playing now a days I think virtual reality would be so amazing for something like a VRMMO where you can be directly inside of the world you’re playing, I mean this is just sorta my magnum opus dream I realistically shouldn’t try and make an mmo at this time when I’m barely a student learning code.

But I just believe the mmo genre is doomed and shit now and the only way it can be saved is with new emerging technologies like virtual reality and no company now is willing to take a risk and make one even tho they realistically could, but if I were to try and make an mmo I honestly think it would be in Unreal engine 5 when it’s viable to use it with VR, but if I were to scale it down I can try to make on an existing platform like roblox where I wouldn’t have to worry about server hosting and whatnot.

I just think there’s so much potential with VR… and I hope one day it’s possible for smaller people to make games like these using Unreal’s tech because it seems like AAA level games are completely doable with this tech what do you guys think do you think smaller teams or even individuals could make AAA level content using unreal engine?

[dense tartan]

Hi. Can a material function have more than one single output ? thanks

[toxic hound]

if I understand correctly, in virtual production, the main characters are isolated, stripped their background then placed into a UE environment, subjected to the light and camera of that environment, am I correct ?

[worn robin]

yes it can have more than one.

[dense tartan]

figured it out thanks

[ruby quarry]

When I select an object in the viewport, how can I quickly go to it in the outliner? Even though I'm keeping fairly organized, I keep having to scroll around and dig through folders.

[plush yew]

My world outliner keeps expanding all my assets, how can i make folders and create some oversight inside it?

if i try to put everything into 1 actor it still keeps expaning them all as soon as i try to do something

yeah right? i am so used to every other program out there, that if you collapse it you have some space to view other stuff. but inside ue4 i just have to keep scrolling forever

Doesnt make sense, that would require me to fly in the game to the other side of the map to find a light i want to adjust

😦

its escpsially bad with Datasmith imported C4D scens

[worn robin]

I'm sorry but I think VR MMO is too ambitious. XD
I'd start to make small VR games, and get people and money first.

As a side note, I dont think UE5 is a good option if you wanna make a VR game (Nanite and Lumen don't work on VR.)
I'd go with UE4 or Unity for VR production.

[worn bluff]

Could they ever work for VR tho? I was saying this in terms of future things not now obviously

[worn robin]

In Siggraph 2021, as long as I remember a lumen Dev said they have no plan to support VR in the near future.

[dusty hornet]

@neon magnetare the buildings mostly one mesh?

[worn bluff]

That’s unfortunate, but it’s okay thank you for your time 🙏

[neon magnet]

They were separate or the same as in max (i.e. datasmith basically replicates your hierarchy as-is when brought into unreal). So if they were separate when exporting they'll be separate when importing and unified if the opposite. For me this was good because I had to make changes throughout, going back and forth as I lacked accurate blueprints and had to reconstruct buildings from memory, pictures, etc. At the end, I just selected whatever I needed and merged them in unreal to make one mesh.

So, during export, I had ended up merging at least the main walls as one

[plush yew]

@neon magnetif you use omniverse with 3dsmax you can livelink 3dsmax to unreal engine allowing you to do all the material work in max, it even allows you to create new objects within max and you can see them appear and change as you edit your mesh and materials in max reflected in unreal engine, its really great

[neon magnet]

I think I read/heard about it but my experience with Omniverse was pretty terrible, it wouldn't install properly, it wouldn't give any messages for debug/errors at all so I had no idea what the deal with it was, when I tried to uninstall it, it wouldn't uninstall properly and leave a service running that had no links in the registry or anything lol so it was a total headache and I blasted it from my system in anger heh. But this was sometime back I dunno how much they've improved. If the docs are any better for me to install it properly then sure I'll give it a shot. However at the same time, running max and unreal simultaneously means my 10 GB video memory runs out within minutes so it would probably not be useful for anything less than a 3090 or for projects in their infancy.

I believe Datasmith also had a livelink feature but they have scrapped it from current versions (haven't checked in a few months so this may have changed once more)

[plush yew]

datasmith can be good for instancing but is very limited

omniverse is great cause whatever you create in maya or 3dsmax you can see it in unreal engine as you edit

ive heard a lot of people have issues setting it up, its true it is not simple software and typically reserved for big studios before it came to the public, but if you have the know how its hard to beat it

[neon magnet]

@plush yew if you can dm me a short run down on how to set it up right I'm all in 😄

[plush yew]

sure

[rocky epoch]

A quick pro-tip:

After you made tons of folders you will realise unreal is such a nice boy and will open every single of them by default, in case if you missed the scrolling.

But if you shift+click on the little arrow of a folder, it will close all of them and it will be clean.

[rigid yacht]

Hello is there a help section

[rocky epoch]

that server is kind of a help section

[rigid yacht]

This one?

[rocky epoch]

I mean all of the channels are "help" channels just for different topics. That is a general one, so shoot :)

And if your question is a specific one, it maybe better to ask in its specific channel, so it won't lost in the noise.

[rigid yacht]

Thanks - I messed with the skeleton of a bp ai (dumb) it was in a modkit)and now none of the animations will play only t pose. I’m not that experienced.

I hope that fits?

[fossil basalt]

quick math Q ... if an area is say 30km squared ... how do I work out the X & Y (assuming it's a square and not a rectangle)?

[rocky epoch]

if it is square then X = sqrt(area), if I understand it right

[fossil basalt]

yeah, I can work it out in reverse

like 10x10 = 100km2

but I am struggling the other way, lol

[rocky epoch]

there is the square root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root, that is the opposite of the power of 2

[fossil basalt]

sweet

proving I have not been to school for a few decades 😛

[rocky epoch]

if you search for sqrt in BP or material you should find it

[fossil basalt]

it's been y6ears since I needed such info, lol

nice, thanks

[rocky epoch]

no worries, game dev is great for to realise how little we paid attention in school or how long it was:D

[rocky epoch]

yeah totally fits, but I would recommend #animation for that. You will get answer quickly probably

[rigid yacht]

Ok big thanks

[rocky epoch]

unfortunately not my area, so I have no idea :)

[fossil basalt]

LMFAO

[plush yew]

Nice thanks a much

[humble sentinel]

So, I wanna mess around with an Unreal Engine 5 game (Security Breach) by flying around the map, spawning in random shit
I'm just wondering how that could be possible

I already tried Universal UE4 Unlocker but the game just crashes randomly while it's open

And I've seen several YouTubers having access to the dev console in Security Breach but I can't actually find a way to access the dev console for any UE5 game

Oop nvm, all i had to do was run the game in fullscreen borderless

None of the console commands work tho :<

With UUE4 Unlocker

[neon bough]

anyone got an idea why i can't set this static mesh component to static? the parents are all static

[sinful adder]

Can anyone help me out adding dynamic combat sistem to the ALS V4

i have been trying to find videos but or they don't explain and they just do it or there just showing off what they have done if someone can help me out that would be great

[rotund yew]

is this the correct naming conventiopns for widgets?

[frozen pond]

Hi, how to do map change on dedicated server? Only for 1 player, not so you can move between them

[neon bough]

ironically i can change the mobility when inheriting the blueprint class -.-

what kind of nonsense is that?

[sleek mirage]

https://youtu.be/MCjg2vfbMYA yo what do you think of this

[dim saddle]

Can somebody help me figure out how to install 4.15, i want to open another game file?

I know, but when i open 4.15.3 and get the 4.15 uproject, it says it was made on a different version

Which clearly doesn't show anymore 4.15

Alright, give me a moment

[frozen pond]

As i understand ATM: for each map in my game, i should have separate dedicated server running ?

yeah just like mmo type

so maybe i should just make big map?

more leraning that doing something that be game ready project

so maybe gigantic map with travel waypoints and zone themes like snow desert etc, but still one map /

[sleek mirage]

the player can change this one
in game

[dim saddle]

Nvm, everything works

[sleek mirage]

im just a programmer lmao

this isnt art
its just squares from umg and text

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas, I have root motion enabled and character doesnt actually move its capsule. Is that animation problem? I bought it years ago and just noticed it.

[sleek mirage]

im just a programmer, this isnt even a game

its just a test

why tf do i make art for a test

[lucid grove]

I know, but ingame it doesn't move capsule

No difference with on and off.

He still moves from side to side

Thats what i thought

Thanks!

[dense tartan]

Hi. How can I « grade » a material ? Is there a lift gamma gain hidden somewhere ?

[lucid grove]

I have another one, that comes from it. Right now im trying to perfect face animation with eyes following other character. I have two meshes - eyes and focus point.
If animation have correct root motion - eyes tracking focus point as they should, but without it - it seems like it thinking that character not moving its head or something.

Is that correct behaviour?

[shell surge]

Guys, i'm importing a rigged car with bones and 4 wheels and 1 body, but in the physics tab I get all as 1 single mesh? How can I get the wheels as separate meshes so I can have collision on them ? Please help

[lucid grove]

Uh, materials?

Oh, sorry, wrong reply section. Its about root motion ofc.

[still atlas]

hi, i'm trying to move a navmesh around and it seems to only work properly when i call NavigationRebuild through an exec command afterwards.. which works.. but after it's done it says that the command wasn't recognized. is there something i'm missing or doing wrong here?

i'm not clear on the significance of it saying it doesn't recognize the command afterwards. just not sure if i'm missing a step

[dense tartan]

Thanks

[karmic cloud]

Project organisation question:

My projects are often loaded with lots of things while I try and experiment with content at early stages, but often I don't use a lot of this content by the late stages of the project. The projects end up being 100s of GBs in size but probably only need be half that if all the unused content was removed.

Is there anyway to collect all of the actually used assets, textures, etc in the project and delete the rest of the unused content once a project is finished?
Blender has a similar feature called "pack all into .blend" and Adobe Premiere has a feature called "Project Manager" that allows you you disregard any footage you're not actually using.

Is there anything like this in UE4/5?

Here are screenshots of the features in those programs if it makes it any clearer.https://imgur.com/a/ONOvpkq

[lucid grove]

There is two ways:

1. You can migrate maps you using to fresh project and Unreal will only copy assets related to this map (not only meshes, but everything that related)
2. When you build your project select maps you need and compiler will do the rest.

For example my dirty project was 150gb, migrated - 39, builded - 11gb.

[opaque plover]

When you do a template project they ask between best quality or best performance. What things are actually changed by this?

[lucid grove]

Don't remember exact numbers, but its all about graphic settings. Reflection size and etc.

You can find most of them in rendering section.

[opaque plover]

OK, I'll just go compare some fresh projects on those settings. Thanks!

[gray narwhal]

Hey all. Anyone know in an AnimBP AnimGraph or Event Graph how to get the list and values of all the morph target values that FaceLiveLinkAr brings in. I'm basicaly trying to break out all the values of morph targets comming in

[plush yew]

https://blueprintue.com/

anything similar to this, but with just specific blueprint collections?

[drowsy turtle]

weapon clipping issue solved successfully

[shell surge]

what channel can i get help with physics?

[drowsy turtle]

you can get help here

[shell surge]

so when I simulate my car, my wheels just collapse under it ? and if i play it in the game, they don't collapse, but sink a bit in the ground

can you help me about this ?

[plain valve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOPdOHWqWY Can someone explain why many people complain about making huge worlds, and this dude made one in an hour with realistic terrain shape which is the North America

[sinful burrow]

hi. In ue4.27.2, when I open the engine scalability settings or anywhere for changing scalability settings, the engine crashes

[peak pendant]

Need Unreal nDisplay tutorial for LED with NCam. please help

[warm prism]

Because making it work for Multiplayer is another thing

[plain valve]

I thought its better to make large worlds for multiplayer since you seperate the players in far distances which will not allow any server problems because everyone is scattered far way?

[ruby quarry]

Why does my undo history get wiped out when I save!? How do I get that to NOT happen?

[warm prism]

Well you need world origin shifting which is not a standard feature. Maybe that has changed with UE5

[split jasper]

When using stat unit does Frame contain GPU, or do I have two problems?

[shell surge]

anyone know why wheels under the car are collapsing when simulating? What am I missing

[warm prism]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/807733033700294688/931955119765979196/Uhhhhhwhy.png Anyone knows why this is happening when i attach this static mesh to socket? Is it a Blender issue?

[plain valve]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/1325c95bf60546738a5bb21e2262914d?sessionInvalidated=true @plush yew what about this?

its in the comments, someone posted it saying you don't need to recreate a whole sphere planet, when you have a plugin to do it for you and with textures too

and clouds

and oceans

[timid meteor]

any ideas how this can be ?

[lucid grove]

Is this foliage?

[timid meteor]

items i spawn with a key

its to see the invisible thing im walking on

[lucid grove]

Show with this

[split jasper]

Is there a better channel than this to ask about Unreal Insights and other profiling / perf stuff?

[lucid grove]

In my experience unreal forums best place for that complex questions.

[split jasper]

Haha I promise they are dumbshit basic questions like "hey the guide says Insights should be preinstalled but it isn't 😔 "

[lucid grove]

its mostly about time. You can try both ways: post in forums and try luck here from time to time.

[timid meteor]

ow the sculp thing is here a little bit off to

i check

indeed

i wish mister gadget was here

whats the blue thing called again to do painting and foliage?

cant find the words haha

i restart the editor

i deleted the level bounds and restartet the editor

solved

[shell surge]

anyone familiar with physics?

[split jasper]

#legacy-physics

[open eagle]

is there a way to have a plugin detect when a project is being packaged

ik it's a weird request but I can't find any info on this

I'm thinking there must be some undocumented under-the-hood garbage I don't know about

[lucid grove]

How can i find look at rotation from forward vector?

[late kraken]

Hello! I'm getting an error when I try to start my packaged game - I've been able to package and play my game successfully before but not I'm getting "cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows" - any suggestions?

[split jasper]

#packaging

[pure void]

The Unreal Insights tool ships with Unreal Engine, located in the Engine/Binaries/Win64 directory.

Should be there

[split jasper]

OH SNAP I was looking in Engine/Programs where there is ALSO a directory for it

Aw shit I gotta package my game to use this dont I

I have been... avoiding that.

[pure void]

Not per se, but for full detail and precision yes

[split jasper]

Wait so it can work when running in editor? I honestly dont NEED full detail, I'm looking for the mountains not the molehills in terms of perf

[pure void]

Yes

I dont remember how exactly but Ive done it

and it will only be GPU or CPU i forgot which

[split jasper]

I obvs haven't done unreal optimization before, but I've done optimization passes for other software and in my experience, the biggest performance losses in any unanalyzed projects are just a small handful of truly boneheaded mistakes someone made without realizing

Oh rad that might be the move

[pure void]

Ah yes

And then the log will be in your saved fiels

[next swift]

So one of the examples someone gave me for using a source build would be for individual bone damage. Like leg or arms.
It was that adding tags in source would be more efficient, as the alternative would be building an individual damage system for each character, even if they were just copies.
I more recently saw a video showing how to add gameplay tags in-editor. Are these the same kind of tags, or different?
Is a source build still the best way to implement limb damage?

[frozen pond]

So i have player character controlled by AI, and AI mobs, how do i stop mob AI from entering safe zones, but still by walkable by player AI ?

[robust marten]

How is it possible to get the components to be ABOVE the Actor info(Capsule, Mesh, etc)? I have seen it before but I don't know how to do it

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/yuuji-rage-anime-gif-23656080
so sort of stupid questition

if i wanted to make a moment in gameplay like this ^

cant you do so with niagara effects for the black body shader

and niagara again for the waves of energy

[frozen pond]

you need le postprocessorr

[prime willow]

than slap on a spinning camera and call it a day

post processing?

[frozen pond]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHxG3PyHPQ

that would work for color

[prime willow]

no no not the entire picture but the parts where his body which would be colored and have sun being blacked out

[frozen pond]

but for other stuff like shading you need postprocesor

[prime willow]

wouldnt you be painting on him somehow?

[frozen pond]

you need postprocesor + custom render depth

[prime willow]

oh

[frozen pond]

so you will set mesh to custom render depth and postprocesor will apply effect on it

[prime willow]

o-o

[frozen pond]

second way would be making separate material for that

and just swaping material in runtime

[prime willow]

ah i see

so many wways up the mountain

[split jasper]

I like that analogy

[prime willow]

❤️

[split jasper]

Because they're all hard work 🙂

[prime willow]

i feel hard work does more than build character but something you can truely call your own

[neon bough]

anyone got an idea why i can't set this static mesh component to static? the parents are all static
the weird thing is, that when i inherit the class, i can change mobility on the specific component

[prime willow]

the wine you share is the result of the seeds you sow~

[prime willow]

is this a marketplace* component or basic imported mesh?

[neon bough]

plain stupid default mesh component

[prime willow]

i know how condesending but bare with me * it might sound but does the documentation cover any of that?

[neon bough]

but actually it doesn't even matter what kind of component, even for a scene component i can't change it

[prime willow]

yabai

[neon bough]

where would i start reading?

[prime willow]

whats the exact name of this thing giving you trouble

[neon bough]

component mobility

[prime willow]

ill take a look

[prime willow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/PythonAPI/class/ComponentMobility.html#:~:text=ComponentMobility ¶ Bases%3A unreal.EnumBase Describes how,often this component is allowed to move. is this one

there's a few mobility components

[neon bough]

yes, but usually you see all three modes in the details, not just one like in my screenshot

and i want to know why that is

specifically because when i make a child class of that BP, i can set all three modes

same component but inherited in the child

[prime willow]

that is a little weird..

[split jasper]

@neon bough lets see the component tree as well?

[prime willow]

^

[split jasper]

Also I've thought a lot about this in regards to games being an "asset flip" because, being honest, I'm flippin' a lot of assets and I don't want to come off that way. But I think what rubs players wrong is when they get the impression that something is only an asset flip, that it isn't bringing any unique ideas or especially any real effort to the table of its own

[split jasper]

Players don't know what's from the Marketplace, they can just sense when things are low-effort

[neon bough]

the parent's are all static

and here's the child bp

same component, different mobility settings...

[split jasper]

I notice its parent, named StaticMesh, has an "Edit in Blueprint" button. I think this is UE5 or something so I'm not certain what that means, but is it possible that its parent isn't actually a Static Mesh but is actually a BP with some complexity to it?

[neon bough]

that just opens the BP from which the component was inherited

[abstract gulch]

Hi guys, i finished my first work for unreal engine but i dont know about costing. Is someone knows cost of configuring a tank in 3dsmax for unreal engine ?

[prime willow]

You're completely right an asset flip is near soulless and people can taste, smell, and feel effort when they play a game even when it isnt an asset flip; and i truely believe thats why asset flips hurt so much because not only arre their lacking in anything distinct that perserves and conveys the artist's ambitions, desires, experience and the voyage really in what you call playing a game but worst so, most assets are made with little care and near contempt their not built with the desire to make something truely astonishing more times than not, so just cramming them together can feel hollow in many ways

[neon bough]

there are free tank assets on epic marketplace

just go with one of them

[abstract gulch]

there is no all of tank models

[prime willow]

Believe it or not, im using assets myself from the marketplace but only to save time with mechanics and systems id build myself, so i can move past the foundational part and start tempering the systems to bleed the ideals of how i wish my game to look feel and sound; and how the players can express themselves in just that

a perfect example is pokemon blue/red & gold/silver compared to the now sun/moon and sword/shield, tho sword is far less of an asset flip than pokemon gold/silver, they feel leagues apart in quality because iwata went through painstaking measure to make everything in blue feel new unique and completely revamped in pokemon gold/silver

@split jasper just keep that in mind when forging your game day by day, as long as you can make the systems or assets youre using bend into your ideal image of the game youre trying to make you'd be no different than any other blockbuster release

[soft tree]

I feel like I have to restart Rider every coupe of minutes because it loses any sense of what's going on.
It constantly has background processes like these, but it doesn't actually seem to do anything
All intellisense and syntax highlighting breaks, and I can't build the project

[neon bough]

just add glitter to everything for your personal touch

[soft tree]

anyone have a fix? I've tried deleting the solution & intermediate folder, as well as the .idea folder

[prime willow]

if pretty will buy is my motto for games regardless of art style

[prime willow]

no clue i have no idea what those are

try googling some of the terms used in those systems

[soft tree]

then why respond?

[prime willow]

to give you hope!

[soft tree]

lmao, thanks

[prime willow]

[soft tree]

[prime willow]

nevah give up

[daring cedar]

How would you go about creating a background for a level? I want to show a city landscape in far distance from player position. Do I import image or import 3d models and place them far away?

[prime willow]

you can do both

just make sure to place them carefully around the edge of the map so it creates the illusion of infinity beyond the border

[prime willow]

dont watch the full video this part is where he covers how to do background landscapes https://youtu.be/_a6kcSP8R1Y?t=11830

[sharp crest]

How to fix game won't fully close if I close the window and I have a media player playing? (process is still running)

[feral sierra]

Hi, anyone knows if it's possible to rotate a BP child component from his own origin point instead of parent?

[neon grove]

Hi, how can i make discord show the packaged game when playing it?

with a ue4 build

thanks

[split jasper]

Hey so stat unit says my GPU is frames are taking 35ms, but profileGPU says they're taking like 6ms? Am I missing anything obvious?

So I need to package my game first and run it standalone without the editor?

Or shit I just realized that Run Standalone exists

haha and I'm getting a comfy 55-60 FPS in it 🙂

...But no audio.

WHY WOULD THIS DEFAULT TO ON lol

[hollow lake]

Hi, so I'm new to git and I'm using it at source control. I made a repository that's my unreal project so my brother can get updates straight to his project but I'm having an issue where I don't know how to link his unreal to the repository

[autumn flame]

#source-control

[vestal cairn]

Does anybody know how to open .uptnl files?

[opaque plover]

What's the usual collision preset to use if I want to block hit trace (using it to "interact") but not collide with the player? Both the linetrace and the preset are configurable so there are multiple ways to do it, don't know which is the best.

[vestal cairn]

Here's the thing, I wanna deal with it myself😉

[drowsy snow]

Underground modder, huh.

[vestal cairn]

I'm not ripping assets, I wanna see what caused a glitch in the game.

wut

[drowsy snow]

Is that only shipping?

[drowsy snow]

You heard him right.
Package your game in DebugGame (or Development if you don't build UE from source code)

[vestal cairn]

Give me a sec

Here's the glitch
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/466987786839392257/930431567447334952/M45A1.mp4

It's a problem with the texture maps that I'd like to recreate

The only way to see what's going on is by accessing these .uptnl files. Since I want to recreate this effect on my skins for this game.

They won't provide them and the glitch will go unresolved for months (it already has). Anyways, I also wanna get files from the previous version of the game to re-create some content they've since cancelled. Why is this such a big problem to you?

[autumn flame]

Cause it's not legal?

[vestal cairn]

What's not legal? Looking at cancelled skins with a private mutator?

[drowsy snow]

Asking for ripping assets is frowned upon in this server

[fierce tulip]

^

its part of piracy

[drowsy snow]

And I can understand the reason, in respect to all legitimate UE developers in here. Even as someone who doing reverse engineering for R&D purposes.

[vestal cairn]

Well, I've provided the context for why I wanna do this. Not sure what's wrong with it. I'm not trying to steal anything, all I do for this game is skinning and I want to see the unreleased content both to satisfy my curiosity and to learn a couple new techniques.

[autumn flame]

Ok, then do it yourself, doubt anyone will help with that

[vestal cairn]

There's a reason I came here for help:/

[drowsy snow]

Well, I'm afraid it goes down to "do your own research".

[autumn flame]

There's articles and stuff to reverse engineer for educational reasons

[vestal cairn]

I've asked in a couple, even in the dedicated modding server for Insurgency Sandstorm and got no answers.
I just genuinely do not understand the problem here. Yeah, ripping assets can be bad, but what I'm trying to do isn't unethical in any way.
Anyways, you do you. Would you mind linking some modding servers?

[arctic horizon]

This is a server primarily for game developers and while modding is imo a very important part of the community at large, the gamedev scene largely frowns upon ripping assets and what's related to it.

[drowsy snow]

Though I'd inclined to think doing reverse engineering on your own, then reporting about the technique you found from the game in question and apply them to your own game you're making is a better act in comparison.

[vestal cairn]

Yeah alright, I just fail to understand the reasoning. Some people here clearly know how to resolve the problem but won't help me because it's 'ripping assets.' And while I do understand that ripping assets can be bad and done with ill intent. What I'm doing doesn't harm anybody.

[autumn flame]

™️

[vestal cairn]

Here's the thing. I'm completely inexperienced with UE. I'm not a dev nor a modder in any capacity. All I ever did development-wise with UE was make custom skins for a single game. I could read the source code, but not only would I waste a ton of time, I also most likely would not find the answer I'm looking for. That's the reason I came to a place like this for help. So yeah, Cheers.

[gaunt abyss]

No one here will tell you how to rip assets and it is against our #rules as well (piracy)

[autumn flame]

So you're asking for a simple way to reverse engineer stuff...

Lemme just hand you my super secret reverse engineer everything .exe (joke)

[tender socket]

is there any way to sync a github repo/vscode workspace to unreal engine?

[drowsy snow]

.gitignore also blacklist project files, so that's up to the dev to generate from the .uproject

[dense knoll]

How do you get Ragdolls to float in physics volumes?

[pearl sonnet]

anyone know a good (asset) pack to whip up a basic shooter
preferably one that works for a noob like me with the mannequin

so just the animations i guess that will work with the mannequin skeleton/slots

for a "shooter" engine originally i'm having an incredibly hard time to make the most basic of one

[exotic sinew]

Hey im new to unreal engine but i need a little help, when i place a plane peice it flickers with the Grass

[pearl sonnet]

that's not grass that's two of the thinnest surfaces close to eachother

[exotic sinew]

oh

i didnt know

[drowsy snow]

This might be what you're looking for
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/low-poly-fps-pack

[pearl sonnet]

thanks @drowsy snow will check it out rn

[drowsy snow]

Azure DevOps has some free LFS storage I think

[pearl sonnet]

95 bucks, ah well, probably a good deal if it finally gets me going

[exotic sinew]

Anyone know how to make grass?

[pearl sonnet]

youtube for like: unreal foliage tutorial

or something like that

[marsh nebula]

I have a problem

I need animations for a character I made in metahuman, but I can't seem to get it into mixamo

does anyone know a viable solution??

I tried downloading some sort of mixamo converter thing but it didnt work since the website was down and retargeting things seems super complicates so I'm jsut wondering if there's an easier way to do it since I'm new to ue4

[pearl sonnet]

woah the demo for that pack is brilliant lmao
@marsh nebula yea i know man, keep running into the same problems
if i was younger and had more time i'd spend the time getting familiar with blender or something and get into a workflow that works rather than mixing and matching but that boat has sailed
just an old programmer, can't make my own models

[exotic sinew]

Why does the metal look like wood

[marsh nebula]

I know blender

I'm okay at modelling and texturing stuff

It's just the animations that I suck at

[bleak zodiac]

are you mean fooliage?

[tiny valley]

Hey im trying to import some aliend fonts here https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=701 except the fonts show a boxed A symbol or is not operational, how can I get these to work correctly

[native bough]

Hi... Can any body tell me where are these editing tools in ue 4. 27

[brisk pollen]

is there an easy way to add a static mesh for an actor that is only visible during edit time -- not during play?

like a preview mesh?

[minor vessel]

newbie question but I bought a ue environment from cg trader and was wondering how I import into ue?

[bright sigil]

you could try using construction script, its for edit time stuff, though i rarely use it

[bright sigil]

might need to look at videos of how to import content to help you figure that out

[bright sigil]

i assume you mean the Modes, they moved to the top bar

[night warren]

Hey

Can someone tell me how to remove this sort of light reflection?

As you can see on the wall

[bright sigil]

the right side wall?

you played with roughness?

[night warren]

Mhm

[night warren]

...Nope

I'm sorta new to this

Where am i able to edit roughness?

[bright sigil]

its a property of the material

[night warren]

I can't find it in it's details area

[tiny valley]

How canafklaw;lfa

[bright sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx0BlzGkahw spend some time to learn them, i think this video will explain some things that will answer some other questions you might have as well

[bright sigil]

with thetultyl:yut

[twin prism]

how do i make this circular?
like
make it fade at the edges
its a landscape brush

[trim pike]

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

[bright sigil]

if its not the falloff type of the brush, you probably need to make a custom one that has falloff

[twin prism]

unfortunate oof

[ruby quarry]

Would a lighting question go under Graphics or Level Design?

[drowsy snow]

#graphics

[ruby quarry]

thx

[plush yew]

I hate to say it but temporal AA isnt enough for what i'm trying to do, is there a better method of antialiasing in unreal engine, i dont care how cost heavy it is. https://streamable.com/17yoep

[warm stirrup]

So I moved over some folders in WIN Explorer I shouldn't have (I know not the best method but I had a LOT of stuff to move) and now the engine cannot find a few references. Is there a way to tell UE where it is so it can reconnect? I already told it to fix the redirectors which helped on most things but I have a few stragglers.

yes I say "some stragglers" but thankfully the ones that are enmass I'd only just downloiaded so just gonna delete those and do it properly next time 🙂

[dire parcel]

@bleak zodiac just finished the animation kickstart

i think i might have the most trouble with animation

i sat through out the whole 34 minute video paying attention

and still, feel very confused on setting up the base animation and stuff

[bleak zodiac]

congratulation, i still doing the blueprins and gameplay 😄

[dire parcel]

how has it been going with your learning?

i felt like i did gain a lot new info

and got a good understanding of the basic tools and everything

just animation is really slowing me down

[bleak zodiac]

congratulation, hm i'm doing 4 tutorials at same time 😄
maybe i will finish one first XD

[west warren]

Hi I'm trying to make my character smaller but it clip throw my gun, can anyone help me?

[pure acorn]

So, I've tried to learn python before but never got past the very basics, mainly because I get bored of it. That's why I feel like I should try to start with what I actually want to do, which is game development. I looked at Godot, but as it uses a specific language only made for it, I don't think I'm going to. So, I'm thinking unreal with the steep learning curve of C++.

I'm just going to ask, is it worth it? I'm willing to put in the time to learn C++ from the ground up. I have a book called C++ Primer for that

[bright sigil]

i think learning cpp would be worthwhile, sounds like you want to venture down the programmer path

[pure acorn]

Yeah, I'm planning on it

Can you make simple 2d games with unreal engine?

Ik it's primarily for 3d, but once I can, I'd like to start off simple

[bright sigil]

it has 2d tools, but ive not used them

i guess i started by making some 2d games, but i was always wanting to make 3d games so i just committed to that

[simple spruce]

If your looking to do 2d games and want to get into coding, try Unity. Its much easier to learn compared to Unreals daunting learning curve.

[pure acorn]

Nah I just want to do it to get started so I don't screw with my brain too much

Also, isn't unity just copying and pasting other people's work from an asset store and calling it your own?

No offense to unity

[simple spruce]

I learned Unreal first because you can do little to make things look good. I like environment and landscape design so if you're into that Unreal is great for it.

Almost all coding is somewhat coding and pasting. That being your own stuff or others from stackoverflow lmao

[pure acorn]

I'm just going to make my own language and game engine from assembly

[simple spruce]

oh god hahaha

[pure acorn]

Should be easy enough right?

Most advanced code I've ever written let me input 2 numbers to add together

That was in python

Like a year ago

[simple spruce]

The cool thing with Unreal is you can use blueprints which is kinda coding? You can make a lot of stuff without much code know how

[bright sigil]

a buddy of mine made their own engine, had 3d and lighting and could play what was built. the only bad part was navigating the view, but it was otherwise a barebones unreal/unity

[simple spruce]

And for more advanced users you use visual studios to make advanced stuff and efficient code

[pure acorn]

Basically scratch on very extreme steroids right?

[bright sigil]

its possible, but im pretty sure they're a smartie

[simple spruce]

@pure acorn Are you just downloading unreal to learn to code or to make games

[pure acorn]

I'm planning on using a book called C++ primer to learn to code, and then once I have an alright grasp I'll start with Unreal

[simple spruce]

I think you can learn them side by side, Unreal isnt all just coding. Getting use to the UI is a learning curve in itself

You're also gonna need to install an IDE if you wanna code for Unreal. I use visual studio, idk if thats the best or if there one built in that I missed

[pure acorn]

Yeah, I know that, but I'd like to get a grasp on C++ outside of just game development too

[simple spruce]

Its a good language to know

[pure acorn]

I already got vscode

[simple spruce]

Go for it then

plus there are a ton of people to ask questions in this server, everyone helps everyone

[pure acorn]

What's the difference between visual studio and visual studio code. Apparently they're two different things

Looks like visual studio is only for C++

[simple spruce]

Visual studio is an IDE and visual studio code is an editor

Visual studio is mostly used for C# and C++

vsCode is just a text editor, which can be used for any code I think

[drowsy snow]

And for shits and giggle, you may feel inclined to edit your project code via MS-DOS text editor emulated in DOSBox for no real reason

You mean Joel Yliluoma's That Editor?

[tiny valley]

hey does ue4 supprt an insert key

Insert does not work inside the editable text widget

[drowsy snow]

Insert mode doesn't work on many text input forms for that matter

[neon magnet]

anybody used rtxgi yet?

[small ridge]

Can you map sprites to integers? I'm trying and i can't

i need to achieve this

[timid meteor]

Question

Question

• i want under the water plane to put the grass away.

How ?

Thanks

maybe some kill zone trick but i dont know how

[timid meteor]

its hard to understand can you please give me an example ? xD

then i can do beneath that that the ground change to ground or something 😮 that wil be much better

thanks ! gone try that

okay

[tiny valley]

anyway to get the position of a text in viewport, specifically from an editable text box, the font im using has non uniform spacing

[timid meteor]

okay, thank you for your time you learnt me something new today 🙂

[opaque plover]

I'm trying to add a Collision Box that should only respond to queries. No actual physics collisions. I set these settings (in an attempt to first disable all physics collision), but the player still is blocked by it:
How the hell does any physics happen with those settings? They're all at No Collision!

[true goblet]

Any mods online? Looks like that acc is compromised

<@&213101288538374145> possible compromised account above. Link was pasted in all channels while pinging everyone

Hopefully no one clicked xS

[timid meteor]

<@&213101288538374145> i dont like it to, a ip ban is normaly aplied

[timid meteor]

Ip ban is normaly aplied* sory i did <@&213101288538374145> didnt sleep xD haha

god.... sorrry

[fierce tulip]

stupid nitro spammers

[timid meteor]

yes i hate that very much

[timid meteor]

Now i want nitro but knowing i cant have it

Were can i put my Video of my game ? 😄

more to ask about how bad or good is this video in the eyes of the people

[narrow hornet]

So I have a character that Ive set animations up for just for walking and running and Idle but I want to change her mesh, how can I do this while keeping all the animations working? Not really sure where else to ask

[timid meteor]

yes but i mean in unreal slackers

funny answer though

thanks

[nimble ibex]

hey guys i have a little question

so i need to format my computer

[timid meteor]

oow 🙂

[nimble ibex]

and i will upload my project on my disk

[timid meteor]

thats kinda weird haha

[nimble ibex]

and will my project still work when i will import it back

hmm

can you help me with that?

any tip

yeah ty

[plush yew]

https://streamable.com/0xta7b I'm so happy I got into game design when this kind of voodo exists

[night warren]

I have an issue, Everytime i open up unreal engine and enter my level, all those levels in that project are like this

How do you fix this?

[smoky timber]

If you have an output reference to a None in the Reference Viewer, how do I unpin those since they are non-existant and prevent me from packaging?

[daring cedar]

How do I import dae assets to Unreal? I tried importing them to blender, maya, sketchup to convert and all failed

[night warren]

Please someone help

Does this mean my game is corrupt?

[dry crane]

Hey everyone. Recently I’ve developed an Andriod game using UE 4-27. The game has two levels, a main menu, an intro movie, an outro movie and I added a storyline to the game so that it makes sense to the users. Then i packaged it up and I’ve been trying to upload it to PlayStore for about a month now. While doing so, I came across many errors, most of which I solved on my own with the help of internet resources. But now, I’m stuck at an error which I don’t know how to fix. I searched everywhere but couldn’t find the solution. Can anyone here, help me about this? This is what the error loooks like:

In case the picture is not clearly visible enough, this is what it says:

You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle which has an activity, activity alias, service or broadcast receiver with intent filter, but without ‘android:exported’ property set. This file can’t be installed on Android 12 or higher. See: developer.android.com/about/versions/12/behavior-changes-12#exported

Please help me out guys. This is very important to me.

[autumn flame]

<@&213101288538374145>

Don't click the link, it's a scam

[night warren]

What link?

Oh

[night warren]

Listen i dont want to sound like im begging, Im just really desperate, Im nervous it may be corrupt so if anyone can help please

I cant select any actors and the map is gone

Its just the atmospheric color

Or idk

I tried searching online but no one had the same issue as i did

[clear estuary]

can anyone point me in the right direction for setting up a passenger/bus stop like system, like you'd drive up to a stop and there's people who board a bus/coach and sit down, then after a while, press the stop button and get off. ambitious but i'm curious. thanks 😄

[night warren]

I guess so

That's not the issue i dont think, I just entered another project and everything works fine

Im gonna see if copying all the content from the other to a different one will have any affect on the other one im using

Okay

It's working so far

So everything copied but

Alr yeah thats not an option

gonna have to fix the main one

[drifting rain]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/xhovercar vs https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/hover-controller which one is better if anyone has these assets

[shell surge]

hey guys, so I have a skeletal mesh with physics and everything, for for some reason it didn't import the smoothing groups

how can I replace just the mesh so i don't break the skeleton , physics etc?

blueprints

[random summit]

anyone know why I can't change these settings even though they're enabled?

[cloud torrent]

Hai is there some cool youtube guids on unreal engine that leans towards rpg games?

[thick herald]

Have you looked, yourself?

[dry wharf]

how can i disable the start game with running state on als

and instead start walking

how

i am noob sorry

i dont know how to do that

[cloud torrent]

@thick heraldyes and no i just wanna ask if there is someone good and easy too follow ya know? 😄

[thick herald]

the rpg genre covers a lot of things, you'd be better looking for specific things.

[shell surge]

guys, I imported an old mesh, but forgot to click import normals and tangents. Now Im trying to reimport it and click that option, but the window doesn't pop up, it direcrtly replaces the old mesh with the same setings! How can I get the window to show? :S

[dry wharf]

thank you very much!!!

[cloud torrent]

@thick heraldwell im new like i know nothing about this so i just wanna start somewhere

[thick herald]

Have a look at this guys work. It's not complicated and can be easily adapted. https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanLaley/playlists

[dry wharf]

and how can i use only first person camerA?

[violet goblet]

UE5 - Topdown --> Camera changed to Orthographic, and this is the result -->

https://i.gyazo.com/75b03f7e233ea66659e6e68c09d9cc61.gif

i actually dont know what this is causing?

[dry wharf]

i tried with a spring arm but when i flick it rotates 360 and i can see the character face

i wanted to lock it up

to a maximum rotation

how could i do that

[violet goblet]

@plush yew it is? i actually thought it is a bug in ue5, so i just create a ue4 topdown demo and change the cam too to ortho...i will give it a try and let you know 🙂

oh yes? 😄 cool, thanks alot!
ok so...this AO..can be disabled?

oh in ue4 it looks "normal", but i would prefer ue5, is that a project setting thing?

[dry wharf]

can someone help how can i lock a camera rotation

so i dont pass a max degrees

[clear estuary]

speaking of which, it's still 2022 right?

i mean, ue5's "release"

awesome, the only reason i've not moved over yet is the marketplace and that some devs that make stuff haven't moved over yet

can't wait

[eternal quest]

I need to make a replicating grid inventory. Is it better to use Uobjects with added replication for items (weapons, weapon parts) or actors?
Maybe there are some cons of using actors for possible 600-800 items that exist on level?

[drowsy snow]

Use narrow FOV as opposed to true ortographic.

And shall you want to port the code back, get ready for a lot of engine module exclusive to UE5.

To be fair, motion warping is basically moving root motion position.

[junior spoke]

I tried importing .fbx and .obj files for an ammo crate but when I import it this happens.

[frozen pond]

i have werid flickering and i can't add nodes until i restart editor

any idea?

thanks

[sacred sluice]

Hi all!
Really need some help.
After Project compil, the values of the variables that were in the last revision remain. If I transfer the project to another computer and compile there, the values of the variables will be new. Can you explain why this is the case? And how to fix it?

[trim glacier]

Im having issues with everything being extremely shiny in UE4.27 after updating from UE4.26

I made a full rebuild of the engine but still in a shipped game its broken, in editor it's fine. I tested every imaginable combinations of texture settings without any success

[dry wharf]

Is it possible to add character costumization to my game using metahumans ? I am in version 4.27

[mild phoenix]

Hi everyone! . Who can point me to right direction for weapon system. How can I make weapon system with more than 8 weapons like GTA games? Can someone advise me anything? Thanks anyway)

[light thunder]

Still downloading debug symbols...but in the meantime...

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000019c0e72a000
nvwgf2umx
d3d11
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_Core

Happens when I "end game" in the editor

what is most stable version for 4.26 for game ready?

[bright sigil]

i could offer an idea, though im sure there are others, it does depend a bit on your comfort with unreal and such, but anyways.... I like the idea of managing all stats of a weapon in a struct, im sure gameplay tags or data assets could be used as well, but if you go the struct route, you basically have a list of all its stats then you could just keep an array of these structs to manage the inventory since it's a list, then pull from those structs whatever data you need for the current weapon (ammo, damage, icons, single/semi/auto, etc)

[bright sigil]

for fbx, id guess its one of the checkbox settings - such as tangents and binormals, maybe smoothing - it does say you can use MikkTSpace instead, which you can change in the import settings of the mesh. If you havent' check the docs on the fbx static mesh pipeline to see what the recommended export settings are for fbx.

[potent pendant]

Hey! How do I make my emissive material only affect the bloom so it doesn't light its surroundings? Or limit it from affecting a mesh? The emissive material is on a moving object

[light thunder]

At least watch one of the "make your own inventory" system - you need to get comfortable with working with structures and data tables - the good news is, ones you understand the general principles, you can probably buy a cheap system already made on the marketplace, (or probably find a free one on Youtube, or MP) and then just modify the names/values as you need

[bright sigil]

it shouldnt because it is moving

[mild phoenix]

Yeah I have actually have a weapon system with data tables and structures. But its actually only with primary and secondary weapons. Thats why I wonder how its possible make it with 8weapons

[sterile lichen]

get engine symbols, get directx symbols. debug.

[light thunder]

watch a video on working with structures - make a structure of your own but DON'T do it for weapons

[potent pendant]

Well it is reflecting off of it. I use rtx and raytracing

[light thunder]

yeah, it told me some slate thing, I was just curious in case a recent driver update broke things

[bright sigil]

not sure what you mean by primary and secondary, as in primary like a pistol and secondary like a grenade? for more than one, you need to manage it with arrays

[sterile lichen]

show call stack, you should figure out the cause from it. if it is slate then could be some widgets or images not clearing nicely

[light thunder]

That's the difference isn't it, I thought 4.27 added global illumination real-time

[bright sigil]

ue5?

[potent pendant]

Ue 4.27

[sterile lichen]

right click on "external code" -> check "Always show external code"
is it a widget in UWidgetComponent?
you should be able to switch to SObjectWidget call stack entry and see what exact widget causes you troubles in locals/autos panel

[bright sigil]

i can only imagine being able to affect this from the Rendering settings of that mesh, for example, turn off Visible in Reflection Captures or Visible in Ray Tracing, among other settings

[potent pendant]

👍

[light thunder]

just kidding

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[runic fern]

hello guys ..
i have this function

i have different uniform lists i want to spawn the items procedurally but the rows and columns not going well

This is the division function of the rows

[trim pike]

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

[sterile lichen]

custom widgets? those need to be properly cleaned 🙂

[light thunder]

it's a blueprint project, and this is an marketplace plugin - it literally creates a second window and let's you display basically a widget (it behaves like a child of the widget BP, because it has access so all of those widget functions)

[knotty summit]

Is there a command for eject that I can trigger from game?

I want to do that within editor, it's not for gameplay but if it's not an option I will stick with F8 hotkey I guess. Thanks!

[light thunder]

was there a update to nvidia drivers that broke something recently? editor crash - > UE4Editor-D3D11RHI.dll!FD3D11DynamicRHI::RHIUpdateTexture2D(FRHITexture2D * TextureRHI, unsigned int MipIndex, const FUpdateTextureRegion2D & UpdateRegion, unsigned int SourcePitch, const unsigned char * SourceData) Line 1910 C++

It happens when I end play - makes doing anything in the editor (iteration-wise) a real pain in the ass

[fierce tulip]

yea, latest drivers seem to fubar some stuff.

[light thunder]

thanks for confirming - right now it seems to be editor only - do you know of any editor specific "quit game" function, that will fire when you attempt to exit - I think this is related to some faulty GC but I don't want to mess with anything in the build itself

so I I can make some handling function fire when I quit the game in editor only, that might help me work around this

[fierce tulip]

no clue on my part :p

[dim saddle]

Chat, i have a question: if animating on unreal engine full resolution works greatly, does rendering take a bit some time?

[light thunder]

yes, you are better off rendering somewhere else -

I had to make a bunch of renderings from the engine and I ended up making the snapshot (where it renders out the actual frames) and then opening them in premiere and assembling the video there

[dim saddle]

But why couldn't you just make the animation in ue and when trying to before render, you could just go to windows settings and put on a lower resolution scale of screen and then render?

I mean all im saying is that: lowering the resolution scale a bit like to 1280x720 ( not in ue) can maybe make your render process faster.

[light thunder]

yes, that will help some

you'd be better of just playing the game itself and recording yoru screen

[mint stratus]

Heyo just curious how to move lets say a stationary light source to a selected object

Every time I google how to move something in UE4 it just tells me how to create character movement. . .

[light thunder]

generally, you need to learn the right terminology - then you can do google searches that get you what you want

in this case, the word is "spawn"

so if you googled "how to spawn a light to an object" but in unreal, an object is usually called an actor (or something like a component stuff like this

But if this stuff interests you, my advice would be spend twenty bucks and pick out a class on udemy or skillshare, or follow along one of the youtube series for building a game

[next badger]

@mint stratusi think you need to open the link and do all of the basics
https://learn.unrealengine.com/

[light thunder]

there's not a single person here who hasn't asked a thousand questions - the difference is that these tutorials will answer the questions you haven't even thought to ask yet

[urban plinth]

Hi guys! I'm new in UE4 game dev... I have a question:

Why there are more Blueprints videos on Youtube than C++?

[night warren]

Quick newbie question how do you get this in blueprints?

[urban plinth]

Does Big Companys use Blueprints or C++ only?

[night warren]

Wdym?

Blueprint videos as in tutorials?

[urban plinth]

Yes

[night warren]

Well i suppose that more developers just choose to upload them on that

[night warren]

Nvm figured it out

[rocky epoch]

BP has nicer learning curve than C++, so more people start to learn it and many of those people makes tutorials of BPs.
And because beginners starts with BP, it is better for the youtuber as well (more views).
I think that could be a reason.

[light thunder]

Also, someone using C++ can watch a BP video how to, and easily figure out how to do the same thing in C++

[rocky epoch]

Yeah, that is why I started to learn HLSL for example. So every single tutorial or solution for my problem is useful for me.
Not like I want to use HLSL for shaders, but want to learn to read it.

[lethal gale]

does anyone no how to use L3DT been tying to get my map all day just carnt seem to get my head around it an how big can maps be on ue4?

[nimble ibex]

Hey guys

Do you know how expensive are render targets

[rare pulsar]

Performance Question: How much Performance does a "Save from Slot" and "Load from Slot" use?

I currently made the game so that every time you finish a level an reach the goal point, it will save the GameInstance "Coins / Stars / Unlock next Level" => into a SaveGame. Only at the end of the level when you overlap the exit.

After that Point you will teleported to a Hubworld where it will load the Save Game Complete from all Levels. This will then show a Chapter Select Screen with all the achieved Stars and Coins for each individual Levels.

How much Performance or Load time does it use for Saving and Loading Slots? On my SSD i don't really see any lag or anything, but how is that on a HDD or an older PC? I am not sure how much "Resources" or "Power" it require to load a Savegame.

[plush yew]

is there a way to go back to old save files?

i meesed somthing up and i cant undo

[astral rapids]

how would i make a lerp start halfway through?

[narrow condor]

Why does my geometry have this weird line in between? I lowered the lightmap resolutions of both to "16" as well as all surrounding geometry and have "built" multiple times hoping it'd fix itself.

Edit: Both faces are "flat" like there both directly next to each other, there's no lip there.

[neon bough]

wrong normals or weird uv layout for lightmap

[narrow condor]

Now I've tried to adjust the size of this geometry and now it has two lines.

[narrow condor]

I'm very new to Unreal Engine and started about two days ago. What is "normals" and "UV layout"?

[neon bough]

https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/introduction-to-shading/shading-normals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping

[narrow condor]

I just saw this and I think it's what's being referred too?

[neon bough]

that's just the size of the texture to store light data

how the light data projects on the mesh depends on the uv layout

which you can usually see by enabling uv layer 1 in the static mesh editor (unless there's another index specified in the lightmap settings, which should be around where you found the lightmap resolution setting)

[narrow condor]

I don't see what your talking about, but I also don't know anything about a "static mesh editor" or "indexes". I did see what's in the image right above the previous "UV Scale". Below that I see some lightmass settings and above that I see geometry related settings.

[neon bough]

the "static mesh editor" opens when you doubleclick the mesh in the content browser (or on the details panel when you have the mesh selected)

can't explain everything in detail right now, maybe start with some tutorials instead of jumping all in the engine

https://learn.unrealengine.com/ has a bunch of stuff to pick from

[covert ivy]

Hello there ! Does the Xbox Series Elite controller work with UE ? Even the (additionnal) rear paddles ?

[autumn flame]

Very, handle them in C++ with Slate

[narrow condor]

Thank you so much for helping at all!

[cedar wave]

So - if +X is forward in UE, why is it expected to import skeletons with them facing +Y? Like, I know obviously you don't have to do it that way, but it definitely seems like you get less headache's with it facing +Y.

That doesn't really answer the question

This is entirely within the context of UE's system

Not converting from one system to another.

I feel like you're not understanding my question

+X is forward in UE. To rotate an object to face +Y, you rotate it 90 degrees, inside of UE.

You can model things with the expectation that +X is forward

So, when you import, things are facing the correct way.

However, seemingly, with skeletal meshes, instead of forward being +X, it seems to be expected that the should face +Y. So rotated at 90 degrees.

So, if you model everything with +X forward

For skeletal meshes, when you import them, you should add the 90 degree rotation, so they are facing +Y.

Just look at manny. Out of the box, he is facing +Y.

Both First person template & third person template - the character is already rotated 90 degrees

Like I said - I know that you don't have to follow this, but it certainly makes for less headaches if you do.

When you retarget an animation, +Y is what is facing forward (IE - you).

[sinful tendon]

How do i get this to stop? There aren't any VR Plugins enabled!

[narrow condor]

After many different tries and approaches to LOD, "Lightmaps"?, UV, and normals, I finally figured it out. Idk how or why but the geometry there was a completely different piece from the wall and for whatever reason its lightmap(which I found out how to view with "Alt+0") was a different size from the others around it, even though it and the surrounding geometry all had a lightmap resolution of 16. Again idk how or why this happened, but I fixed it by deleting the entire wall and then rebuilding it with one single box geometry that i extruded around the doorway. Hope this might help anyone else with the issue!

[thick loom]

In some circumstances I've seen UE automatically enables the VR plugins. There's probably a way to permanently fix it on my computer but I haven't taken the time to find it. For now I just disable the plugin on projects I'm working on.

[narrow condor]

No, I was using box geometry for all the walls and ceilings. I was following along with a tutorial on Udemy(by Christopher Murphy) and he'd only been using the box geometry. He didn't show how to make the doorway or the room behind it, so I challenged myself to do so with what knowledge I had.

I used the "Brush Editing" mode and the extrude tool to reshape and size the boxes

Previously, user "Ben"(I don't want to @ and annoy them) was helping and giving good advice; although I think his advice was for actors and not geometry because after some googling and research I found that I couldn't use LOD settings for geometry the way I could for Actors nor could I change any UV settings within the "static mesh editor"(which I'm assuming is because geometry is not static meshes?).

I think this is what your referring too, but no I didn't have this checked off.

I'll keep that in mind as I keep learning, I'm very new to all this. Thank you so much!

[deep basalt]

@hollow token hey, saw your posting in #volunteer-projects but you're not accepting PMs. Hit me up if you're still looking for developers.

[sinful tendon]

I disable all vr plugins but it still starts. I don't think there is anything i can do.

[zealous belfry]

Is there an X-ray mode in ue4 similar to what is available in blender? Lowered opacity for everything? wireframe is not really what I'm after

[rustic panther]

Anyone know what's up with this? I see no integration files for Unreal, just unity and mobile

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/unreal-engine-for-auto-with-mapbox

[balmy pier]

anyone know how to fix the error where an asset faisl to save?

this is the message i get "The asset '/Game/Props/AssaultRifle/Animations/A_W_AR_Reload' (A_W_AR_Reload.uasset) failed to save.

Cancel: Stop saving all assets and return to the editor.
Retry: Attempt to save the asset again.
Continue: Skip saving this asset only."

[distant totem]

make sure you don't have 2 editors open

is usually the culprit

[balmy pier]

i dont

i did before tho

should i restart my current editor

[bright sigil]

use more than one collision in your 3d software

unreal always converts colliders to convex

so if this mesh is called MyBoxMesh, you would make two colliders with the collision prefix and number them, so you would export:
MyBoxMesh
UCX_MyBoxMesh_1
UCX_MyBoxMesh_2

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but specifically for DualShock 4 and DualSense, you'd need the console SDK to have the engine interpret the motion control correctly in console.

As for Wiimote... Might as well forget about it. Most people use software that converts Wiimote motion as sets of actions, or in the case of emulators like Dolphin, come up with their own interpreter.

Though there's might be an option to use mobile gyroscope, and in homebrew fashion, interpret DS4/DS5 gyroscope as one.

[dire parcel]

Curious, if you wanted to find like a small studio / partner to join with to start learning and stuff is that a channel on here to ask questions like that for?

[shy plover]

hello

im trying to make a game using unreal anyone wanna help?

[bright sigil]

you could try the job channels, depending, sounds like #volunteer-projects or maybe #hire-a-freelancer

[dire parcel]

Got it thanks 🙏🏽

Didn’t wanna to spam the wrong channel

[bright sigil]

all good

[shy plover]

no one ok

[trim pike]

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

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions

[shy plover]

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$unpaid

!help $unpaid

[buoyant granite]

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[dense patio]

Anybody know if there is a way to find the amount of shadows in the world? For example, I wanted monsters to spawn in the dark shadow zones? I was thinking I would check the buffer for global illumination, or something else, but not sure if that is possible or even the best path

[gentle carbon]

Does anyone have experience in blueprints?

[bright sigil]

the idea sounds cool, but i dont know how it could be done :/

[dense patio]

yeah, thanks

ill let you know if I end up figuring it out. I am almost certain it can be done. There are a few game concepts I have seen where shadows have been used to determine damage or healing (sun hurts you). Just cant remember how they did it

[bright sigil]

i cant recall the discussion too well, but awhile ago there was some ideas about how thief did their light/dark detections and i think it wound be being something about checking the player's position against the lightmap value (again, this is for thief, your idea is a bit different)

[dense patio]

yeah

i mean the concept is the same. Find out how much light is or isnt there, then do an event

so I will see if there is something that mentions that.

[unique vessel]

does making a game in Unreal Engine need coding skill?

[dense patio]

not really, no

😛

[unique vessel]

I saw this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImuyHcpO2Hg
and I thought damn that looks fun, I gotta try making that

[bright sigil]

looks like a lot of art

[unique vessel]

always been a dream of mine to play as Albert Wesker just speedblitz through the mansion slaughtering all those zombies

🤔

if I ever want to switch to Publishing License, can I?

[dense patio]

Yes

[gentle carbon]

I have an issue, I'm using an attachment system for my game but the iron sights seem to be apart of the original mesh and as you can imagine, having the iron sights still on when the sight equips is just not the best thing.

Stuck right now 😩

[unique vessel]

if Im understanding this correctly, it means that I am required to have publishing license if I ever want to sell my game for profit

but what if I am distributing things for non-profit

[unique vessel]

just having creators license is fine?

English is not my first language 🤣

[bright sigil]

yeah, creators license lets you distribute free projects

[unique vessel]

cool 😄

[bright sigil]

if you ever decide to make that project cost something, you would be switching the license at that moment

[unique vessel]

noted

[vestal ferry]

hey, do you think having a big landscape shader that only supports ORM textures would be a dealbreaker for you ? it's for optimization reasons and is quite an advanced tool

instead of ORM or O,R,M individual channels

[tough perch]

Question: Is there anyway to make animations inside unreal engine 4? I have metahuman character and I want to make animations(reload, etc). Or should I export mannequin to blender and make animations?

[bright sigil]

i think its possible with control rig, but ive been making them in software by exporting as you said

[floral aspen]

I need some help, cant figure this out. I am getting this messege when trying to build for quest2.

LogPlayLevel: Error: ERROR: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'C:\Users\kugle\OneDrive\Desktop\Quest2Setup\Binaries\Android\Quest2Setup.target'. Check that this target has been built.

The Binaries folder does not exist at all.
Can anyone help please?

[rigid bridge]

how do i set an object reference to a bp. ive looked at unreal engine docs but all it says to do is expose it to spawn but i cant since it isnt in level by default.

( i want to be able to pull values from my BP into my Character bp but cant since it says its reading null becuz the object reference i made to the bp has no value)

[rocky epoch]

Do you want to make a marketplace asset, and that is why you ask?

[vestal ferry]

yes

i wanted to give choice as i always do, but implementing it will really bog down hte usability of the tool

for something that should be done in ORM ideally

[rocky epoch]

Personally I would not mind it, but I can understand it would bother someone.

Definitely give some instructions how can one create ORM mixed textures easily.

[vestal ferry]

yeah i plan on making a detailed documentation

[rocky epoch]

I am not really into that, but I think it is possible to make a tool or little plugin to create an ORM texture in the editor. As an extra feature.

[vestal ferry]

i will look into it but i don't think i'll include that sort of thing, it may require C++ and i stick to BP/Shading

[rocky epoch]

I think that could be done in editor utility widgets, but I can be wrong

but that would just a nice extra if you are targeting beginners as well

[vestal ferry]

yeah i'm doing what i can to make apowerful yet easy to understand landscale shading tool

as automated an AIO as possible

[cerulean peak]

Hello!

Im creating a small little indiegame in the 3D sidescroller preset. And I want to add a bow and arrow funcion, does anyone have an idea for how to create this? Or a video / guide i could look into? I have not found anything after a while of research. Thankful for advice! / Ed

[vestal ferry]

a small preview of what it can do after setting up the values 🙂

[rocky epoch]

nice one, that is a tough project :)
I understand the need for ORMs.

[vestal ferry]

thanks ! it still is lacking optimization but is supposed to be used for quickly texturing open worlds, etc with vegetation and all. I will look into techniques used for AAA games as well to help it run better

[rocky epoch]

as a reference I can recommend openland, I learned a ton from their assets

it is free to download from their github I believe

[vestal ferry]

I will take a look, thanks ! :)

[young mirage]

Is there a way to generate multiple pak files of roughly constant sizes when packing ?

instead of one huge pak file

[sterile lichen]

check cook/packaging settings. there is a pak size limit

[young mirage]

does that work even if I don't apply any chunk ID to assets?

[cerulean peak]

anyone who might have an idea for a solution to my issue? : 9

[sterile lichen]

i think so, didn't had chance to actually play with those settings much

there is autochunking and size limit

[timid meteor]

hi im trying to connect the selected node ( to the landscape

its only for painting and i dont want it to interphere with the logix

logic

[languid storm]

Hello guys. Sorry for this question again. 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.

[timid meteor]

got it

[prime seal]

Hi, sorry for noob question... Any recommendations or suggestions for learning materials for the engine to develop a top down rpg (diablo like)

[drowsy snow]

Not specific to top down RPG, but learning materials for the engine nonetheless
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[prime seal]

Thank you!

[vestal ferry]

so i did take a look at openland, it's the same basic idea but mine will have much more options and will be way less limiting, you'll be able to make whatever you want and won't be restricted to defined grass - rocks - snow masks

still there are some interesting things here and there, thanks again !

[rocky epoch]

cheers :)

It is always good idea to see an already established idea, and improving them. Those are great source to learn.
Good luck!

[severe hound]

I don't know what happened but a blueprint I have is crashing my project when i launch, i have the stacktrace but is there some folders I should be clearing in unreal engine source build or other areas to clear a corrupt blueprint? This blueprint compiled fine, but i relaunched project and now it wont ever launch because of this 1 BP. If I rename the blueprint to MyActor2 instead of MyActor everything loads up fine but now my references to MyActor are broken, my child classes are really messed up since now they parent for none. If I rename it back to MyActor it will crash again next load up or if I try to validate that file it just crashes. Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/UObjectHash.cpp] [Line: 1309] Internal Error: RemoveFromHash NumRemoved = 0 for BlueprintGeneratedClass is error that is thrown on startup

[flint dagger]

Duplicating the blueprint can help with Object Hashes. Package Manager rebuilds references and destroys any variables that may be behaving badly.

...Though that's a terrible fix in general, because you have to be sure that you don't destroy existing references. And you take the time to fix them up.

[dense tartan]

Hi. Any way to enhance the edges of this green screen material ?

picking a range of colors instead of a single specific green color ?

[severe hound]

i am using c++ project but mainly using blueprints, I didn't hot reload but I wonder if unreal engine did something like this while loading back up? I'm not really sure how to start a hot reload i never really use compile, at project level only in blueprints

[dreamy bone]

Hi all. Not sure where to ask this. But does anyone know if there is a method to send notifications to your phone when movie render queue finished rendering?

[severe hound]

lol i know what you're talking about I never do that

[light thunder]

Does Discord STILL not have search exclusions????

[severe hound]

It's really weird because I reverted to a past version already but it still breaks, it essentially does not like the reference to the name of this broken actor, the error seems to imply some hashtable unreal engine is maintaining of this actor is broken and I can't have this actor name anymore in my project

Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/UObjectHash.cpp] [Line: 1309] Internal Error: RemoveFromHash NumRemoved = 0

I couldn't really figure this out so assuming I just need to rename it i guess lol, just sucks cuz i gotta recreate my child actors

[gleaming hornet]

And thats why you use version control lmao

[severe hound]

i do lol, i just explained that didnt fix it, this is something different, because when i revert it still breaks, its like the name of the blueprint is corrupted in unreal engine

[gleaming hornet]

Names can get messed up

[severe hound]

it's most likely some cache issue but not really sure where this would be, already recompiled local source and unreal engine source

[gleaming hornet]

For example: naming a project "ProjectS" will cause the editor to fail while making the project

[severe hound]

This name was fine for about a year, so it's not like the name itself was bad

[gleaming hornet]

Oh

[severe hound]

yeah something really got fucked in ue for my pc

renaming it works anyway

but i just gotta fix all the references

[gleaming hornet]

F

[severe hound]

using interfaces for stuff like this has been helpful actually

dont have to fix as much

[flat parcel]

I have a question; if i'm making a scene with any kind of dynamic movable lighting (like a day-night cycle type of system), does it make any sense to bake AO maps for meshes?

or should you just let the engine handle AO at that point? I imagine using AO maps with dynamic lighting is gonna make it look unrealistic

[dusty gull]

Hi everyone! I made a basic material in quixel mixer and I want to cover an area with it but the moss on it makes it look extremely tiled, is there a solution to it? Or I just have to use decals on top of the cobblestones? Thanks!

[quick shadow]

I want to set the resolution that is used when I hit Play in New Editor Window as well as the resolution for subsequent windows that get created for clients (first window is always big and client windows are always tiny). Where might I do that?

[rocky epoch]

I would make a mossless version, and the moss itself, and blend them together in the material either with heightlerp (if you have heightmap), or with a mask with a lerp, and give the mask some different UV, so it won't be noticeble.

Or if the mesh is kind of higher poly, then vertex painting can be a good solution as well (with tesselation maybe unless you are using ue5).

Decals are fine if you are using here and there, but it could lead performance problems if they are used everywhere.

For heightlerp and vertex painting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dghCetkArJI

[dusty gull]

Thanks!

I will look into it

I used a lor of decals and yes, I took a small performance hit, exploring other options

[rocky epoch]

if you do not have heightmap, you can use some noise mask instead of it, and lerp instead of heightlerp, but the process is similar. Although maybe you have to play with the noise mask (UV tiling, remaping its values, etc) or find a good one.

[woven zealot]

Has anybody ever encountered an issue where the engine crashes on boot with a stack trace that includes ASProxy?

this is happening to me every time I try to launch 4.27.2

4.25 works fine

very strange

already tried verifying my install from the epic games launcher, didn't help

[lucid grove]

Hey! I have a question about facial animations in the open world RPGs.

Right now i see two options.

Generated on the fly: I used Oculus Lipsync which generally gives an acceptable result for indie, but very average in all terms. Full auto.

Pregenerated Lipsync: like nVidia Omniverse - the result is excellent, but the size of the lipsink files turns out to be huge, to put it mildly + each animation has to be generated manually.

I was curious about what technologies are used in open world games with a lot of dialogues.

[proven lake]

Guys is there any way to raycast to infinity ?

[narrow igloo]

No. Because infinity doesn't exist. You can always raycast to float max though, I guess

[proven lake]

yeah, this is the MAX thing I am looking for, how do I feed this MAX in my program as TNumerics<float>::Max() not working

I also tried std::numeric_limits<float>::infinity() but no luck

[narrow igloo]

Well how are you trying to use it? Multiplying your trace vector by FLT_MAX should work.

Granted not sure if unreals collision will crap out if you try that tho

[proven lake]

rayOrigin + (FVector::DownVector * TNumerics<float>::Max()) ... This is what I tried

[proven lake]

If this is the case then I gues a fair amount of number should work, like 10000.f

[narrow igloo]

I haven't used TNumerics. Don't know if max is a function or not, but to avoid issues with unreals collision, just a million or whatever should work

[proven lake]

Got your point, will do this, Thanks for the help 😁

[west prairie]

hey, I have a questions about megascans. I'm following along with a tutorial and I downloaded a megascan from quixel bridge. My problem is the download goes to my UE folder, and i need it to be in my content folder. When I try to drag a drop the megascans library folder into my project it gives me these options. Does anyone have any idea on how I should approach this ? This is UE5

[dense knoll]

whats a good way to make a glowing outline mat for text

[compact holly]

In standalone using Stat GPU i am getting -50ms on Visibility Commands. What does this mean?

[dusty gull]

As far as I understood - dynamic shadows, but please correct me if I'm wrong

[stray tundra]

anyone use any analytics plugins for UE4? If so, which one?

[gray basalt]

Hi i 've made a build of my game and there is some graphic stuffs different from the editor (the hp bar stay visually at 100%, some widgets/images are not visible etc ..) Maybe i missed something with the build ?

[grim ore]

so whats the question?

[gray basalt]

Is there something specific to do with the build configuration that could be related to those problems ?

[grim ore]

probably not, its more than likely any code you used. Is this single or multiplayer?

[gray basalt]

Multiplayer, i've tested the map in the editor with 2 clients and a listen server

[grim ore]

and when running standalone your doing it with a listen as well I assume, running it with 2 or 3 clients

[sterile lichen]

what is the ASPRoxy?seem like a problem causer.

[gray basalt]

Yep 1 listen server and another client

I run the listen server from my IDE with the ?listen option, the other is just a client

But the logic seems to work, only graphic stuffs are missing

[grim ore]

its more than likely your networking code then based on the issues, networking in the editor is not the same as standalone

is it not working on the clients or on the listen server?

[gray basalt]

On the client

[grim ore]

have you tried running a client in standalone mode in the editor for testing?

[gray basalt]

Yep, with PIE and standalone in the editor, both works fine

[grim ore]

at this point your going to have to debug to figure out where the code is breaking. perhaps your doing something that is not supposed to work in a shipping build?

you should have a log, or can turn on logging on the packaged builds so you can look at them. it might lead to some errors

[gray basalt]

I built it in developpement mode with the project launcher, maybe i should try the shipping mode

I have logs with the dev mode yep

Well i will try to debug those invisible images then :p

[grim ore]

ui is client only so thats something to keep in mind when looking at what is going on

[gray basalt]

Yep i will check this way

Thanks for your time !

[grim ore]

I wish it was just a button to press and fix, I had a feeling it was MP based on the problems 😦 replication and events are a pain

[gray basalt]

Well good news is the logic works, i think it will be easier if i only failed with the ui :p

[calm pike]

Is there a way to like "refresh" an actor placed in the scene? I added a component to the owning class but it doesn't update automatically. I have to either replace the actor with its own class (which means I have to redo all the properties) or place a new one (still have to redo all properties).

Edit: I guess just reloading the level is the easiest way.

[woven zealot]

no clue :/

its something internal to the engine

[twin beacon]

Does anyone know of a server or channel mainly aimed for beginners? I would love to learn and practice together.

[scarlet bramble]

Hey guys. Very quick question If you don't mind

Can the CHAOS fractured meshes be destroyed or fade out after some time? I really need this to be despawned, but cannot find way

[split jasper]

If you're looking for people who are new to this and suck at it, it's like 95% of this server, me included

[twin beacon]

I was hoping to find a dedicated server / channel for that to not flood the main channels 🙂

[split jasper]

Honestly this server has enough channels that if you take a moment to make sure you're posting in the right one, no one will be bothered.

[twin beacon]

@plush yew I try to read #blueprint and #ue4-general regularly to see common issues and answers to that, it helped me quite a bit honestly.

[scarlet bramble]

Any1? Nothing in the documentation too

[bright sigil]

Ill take a stab. I dont think ive work with chaos before. Is it not possible to destroy the mesh itself?

[dull flower]

So I was wondering, is it possible to use VSCode with UE?

I have VS installed but need a lighter code editor that doesn't take up so much resources when both it and the UE editor are both open at once

[scarlet bramble]

Yes. That's one way of doing it. But it has this instant destruction instead of fading out :)

[thick loom]

You can make VS run lighter by disabling intellisense

But UE development is inherently taxing for your system

I didn't say it would be GOOD doing that

[bright sigil]

But you asked if they could be destroyed

[thick loom]

Chaos physics is in a really weird place right now. It doesn't do well with the removal of "particles" (Chaos physics name for simulated bodies). Case in point: Chaos destruction doesn't allow removing any of the fragments. They sorta sit around and kill performance. There is this "remove on sleep" setting, but it is really buggy.

I periodically check the latest commits on UE5 hoping to see work to improve this situation.

[obsidian steppe]

It seems like you can create BPs of functions that take references as inputs, but the BP shows it on the right side of the node.
Anyone familiar with this/have any idea how to pass values into these use these?

[bright sigil]

Right side? Those are outputs

[obsidian steppe]

Yeah, but the C++ class the BP is referencing has it as const TArray<T>& ParamName as an input, but the BP is showing it as an output. It's weird

[tall steppe]

Hello everyone. I am a unity developer, who is really interested in trying unreal. But I currently have trouble understanding where to start. Could anyone please suggest what I should watch or read to understand some basics of the engine? Websites, videos, or probably literature. The official docs seems good structured, but I have no idea where to find the most basic starter things. I'll appreciate if someone helps!

[bright sigil]

There are links in the pins of this channel

The mindset of Unity is different from Unreal though

So i think more of what will be the learning curve is in thinking how to architect

[tall steppe]

Yes, it surely is. I just mentioned it to add I do have experience with game engines.

[tall steppe]

Thank you!

[keen portal]

I tried compiling shaders on my computer but it's going so slow. It's taking about 2-4 hours to compile about 8K shaders

Any tips?

[exotic sinew]

anyone know how to make grass?

[tall steppe]

I surely will. Betas are not stable, so there's no point in starting with them

[keen portal]

Ok

[mellow turret]

anyone knows if using Continuous Collision Detection could cause performance issues?

[bright sigil]

It could

[bright sigil]

Yes. But there are videos that also show the entire process as well as picture tuts

[exotic sinew]

mm

[mellow turret]

and if instead of using CCD I made a few line traces on Tick() would that be better?

[bright sigil]

That im not sure of. But as Lorash says

[keen portal]

But, is that a little slow?

[exotic sinew]

unreal making my laptop hela slow

[bright sigil]

While you wait you can try looking up ways others have attempted to speed it up

[exotic sinew]

im not that rich dude

i work with what i have

im still thankfull i have this laptop

yes, how are you doing today?

np

[keen portal]

I was just downloading the learning kit games

[exotic sinew]

you should probably rest

random complaint lol

im not mad at it lol

[mellow turret]

I learnt UE4 with a 2011 cpu and 16gb of ram, it's rough but doable.

[keen portal]

Oh okay, that makes more sense. Thanks

[exotic sinew]

Rn my laptop have 8gb ram , Amd athlon silver 3050U with radeon graphics, kinda bad but its alr

[bright sigil]

I had a crap pc way back in the UDK days. 8gb ram... cant remember whatever else. But i had the engine and some other software open and it popped my psu.

[bright sigil]

That sounds rather slow, but ive been getting by with 8gb ram for awhile now

[exotic sinew]

ye, 8gb ram is ok its the cpu i dont like i perfer a Ryzen then any other tbh.

[bright sigil]

Not sure how much your laptop was but i paid about 900 for my pc and i dont have performance problems

[exotic sinew]

ik, i couldnt get better cuz i cant afford to buy an expensive one

[bright sigil]

Built it about 2 years ago now

[exotic sinew]

parents dont earn much and dont wanna waste their money on a laptop that they cant use

[bright sigil]

Understandable