ue4-general

[exotic sinew]

this has a lot of space too

it had 950gb of space

i have 790gb left

[fierce tulip]

may I point to #hardware :p

[bright sigil]

I think half of that will be taken up by your OS at some point

[exotic sinew]

ye

i dont mind it

[bright sigil]

Sorry Luos, we did get off track

[fierce tulip]

no worries

[exotic sinew]

srry

[exotic sinew]

shall i speedrun to ban?

[fierce tulip]

rather not, hehe

[exotic sinew]

lol

[bright sigil]

Anyways, hope you can get some nice grass going

[fierce tulip]

im already at my banning quotum today, and I prefer it if people are nice to eachother :)

[exotic sinew]

ye idk if i did it right cuz last time i did my plane wasent good and was flickering when going close to it or it was to high off the ground

[bright sigil]

Picture would help. But maybe also ask in #graphics

[exotic sinew]

ye

[dry wharf]

how can i add character customization to my game?

[grim ore]

#graphics - Meshes, materials, lighting, etc.

@dry wharf100's of ways, all depends on what you are doing and want.

material instances and parameters to change textures, modular skeletal mesh to change out parts

[merry pilot]

Im working on this level. After deleting all the lights, directional light, skylight and everything else, and after building lighting, the map is still lit, im not sure why its doing this.

[bright sigil]

Are you viewing in unlit mode? Did you turn off precomputed light and then build?

[merry pilot]

Im viewing in lit mode, how do i turn off precomputed lighting @bright sigil

[bright sigil]

World settings > lightmass

[dull flower]

How do you see what is taking up what % of rendering time

[bright sigil]

Very bottom checkbox - force no precomputed

That will dump your 500 lightmaps when you build again, or should

[merry pilot]

ok thanks, ill see if that works

[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 said 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)
bit of a stupid question tho. im just confused since unreal docs doesnt cover this

[grim ore]

if the item is not in the level by default, where is the item?

[rigid bridge]

vibing

it gets spawned in when i pull it from inventory

[grim ore]

so you use the spawn actor from class node?

[rigid bridge]

ya

[grim ore]

that node has a return pin which is the spawned actor

you would save a reference to that to use it later, so if you have a variable just set it to that return value

[rigid bridge]

wouldnt it be a purple return value

so the class of the item

[grim ore]

purple is class, blue is object. Your spawning an object into the world so it would be blue and it would be a reference to that spawned actor in the world

[rigid bridge]

yes but mine is returning a class ref not an object

[grim ore]

is it?

i mean... if your using the spawn actor node its returning an object

maybe show your code

[grim ore]

and yes, there are no easily findable docs on this (there is but the project s broken) , this is a good video to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE

thats not spawning the object tho

your trying to talk to the item that is spawned right?

[rigid bridge]

yes i want its bp

cuz it has an event i need

[grim ore]

so where is the code that spawns in the item then?

maybe we are missing something in the middle of this. Your trying to communicate with an actual object in the world right?

[rigid bridge]

bruh

im so dumb

i already

set a variable for it

[grim ore]

yep you did lol

[rigid bridge]

thx matthew

[grim ore]

🙂

[twin beacon]

Hey MathewW, thanks for the tutorials

[dull flower]

How do you change the resolution of the game? Can you not do that in UE unless you build it? Or is there a setting to change it somewhere

[rigid bridge]

oh shit thats u

thx for teaching me unreal man

[twin beacon]

Yeah, really good resource when you need to see an example to go along with the documentation for certain functions

[unborn stone]

Hi, im currently working on my horror game and im working on the animations but i cant seep to get it to play the crouch walking/idle animation. can anyone help please?

[grim ore]

when you are looking at that screen and check the Active Value in the preview editor in the bottom right, what does it do?

[unborn stone]

Which one sorry?

[grim ore]

the one that says Active Value, its the one you are using in your blueprint above

[unborn stone]

still hasnt worked for me

[grim ore]

what happens when you check the box?

[unborn stone]

i have checked it but it didnt change anything, most of the scripts are done its just when i go to crouch it doesnt crouch

i think ive already said that sorry

[grim ore]

the check should change it between the two, does the preview look different? it should show its running from the top

[unborn stone]

yeah its showing the crouching

[grim ore]

the animation in the top left, or just the code itself?

[unborn stone]

the animation

[grim ore]

ok so then this part of the code is good. If you check and uncheck that box and the code in the top left "looks right" then the issue is not here

if that is the case, then your not setting your "Active Value" boolean correctly.

[unborn stone]

ok its constantly crouching

[grim ore]

where are you changing the "Active Value" boolean in your character? and how is this animation blueprint detecting the change?

[unborn stone]

hmm i forgot where i put that one second

that should be easier to read

[grim ore]

so no where in that first code is it doing it

your setting "Is Crouching" not "Active Value"

you need to change your check for the Blend to use Is Crouching

[unborn stone]

how do i do that?

[runic fern]

hi guys how can i make the widget block the linetrace

prevent the line trace go through it

as i remember something was channel of widget but i forgot how

[grim ore]

@unborn stone your blueptrint that has the "Active Value" boolean, the red node, going into the blend pose by bool. delete that, then drag in the Is Crouching from the bottom left and replace it

[unborn stone]

for this script?

[unborn stone]

nevermind its this script

[marble leaf]

anyone have advice on how to build a better dynamic third person camera? i'd like for mine to be less jerky when an object comes between the player and camera

[unborn stone]

thanks

[dense tartan]

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

[marble leaf]

also just wanna say Hi Mathew, love your tutorials. they've helped me a lot

sorry meant to say i'm trying to build a better camera system, not a better character

[unborn stone]

ah it works thank you so much for your help Mathew 😃

quick question how do I disable that 🙂

[grim ore]

disable what?

[runic fern]

go to Capsule look for " Hidden In Game " Tick that box

[unborn stone]

thank you

[runic fern]

Someone ?

[runic fern]

Welcome

[unborn stone]

wait its still showing

[grim ore]

when is it showing? in game or in the editor?

[potent bridge]

OK, weird thing here. Not sure if this is an issue with my model or my lighting.

[runic fern]

Tick it

You can see the Yellow Small Curved arrow click it will reset default value which is " Hidden "

[unborn stone]

ah yeah im being stupid

thanks

[unborn stone]

i got a yt video i used for line tracing if you want to look

[runic fern]

I'm using Mouse Trace so if i'm over widget it will keep tracing behind the Widget

[unborn stone]

oh ok

sorry i cant help 🙂

[runic fern]

no worry thanks

[grim ore]

which node are you using for the mouse trace?

and is this widget in the world or normal UI in the viewport?

[runic fern]

Hello MathewW this is my ultimate trace macro

and its Viewport widget

im using Trace when i click so when i click on widget its tracing behind the widget

[grim ore]

well thats just getting the mouse position, how are you tracing for hits?

[runic fern]

Normal Linetrace

[grim ore]

yep that happens in the world, its going to ignore the ui

[runic fern]

Can i block the visiblity channel on widget ?

[grim ore]

your trying to get the widget to not allow the mouse click to go to other places right?

[runic fern]

yes right

Because its switiching to other actor when i click on something on widget

[violet goblet]

heya, is there a way to move a projectile along to the center of the camera?
what i got is that:
https://i.gyazo.com/2ea6bee35cbff807328194a7b5de15f6.gif

[grim ore]

then you need to handle the widget letting stuff go to other things

you can override the way the mouse handles input on it, such as the mouse down like you can see here

[violet goblet]

i actually dont know how i can change the direction/rotation for the bullet/laser

[grim ore]

by default it bubbles up to other actors, if you do this and set it to handled then it stops here

[runic fern]

thanks mathew i will try it

[grim ore]

you probably need to override the double click as well since this just handles single click

[runic fern]

Yes im using Hold to Select now but i will try double click

[opaque seal]

sombody can help me , i have problem with packaging my game

[grim ore]

@violet goblet whats the issue?

[violet goblet]

in words "my bullet does not travel along the camera center" 😄

[grim ore]

@opaque sealit tells you the issue, you cant use Switch in the folder name ( it is now allowed ) and i tells you the ones to change

[violet goblet]

but i think i found something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVY6Nv4hY5k

[opaque seal]

ok bro tnx

[grim ore]

@violet gobletif that spawn point is not centered in the camera.... then yes, if this is third person, then yes your going to have to math it out to get it to hit the target

[violet goblet]

oh...cant i actually place the arrow centered to the cam?

[grim ore]

you can, you dont have it centered right now

and then if you do the camera location is somewhere else since your third person

the question is what are you trying to do?

do you want it to go from the player to wherever the camera is looking?

[violet goblet]

when i "shoot" the bullet it actually should travel from the player mesh, along to the "center" of the cam (but in world position)
i actually dont know if i use the correct words... sorry ^^

like, recreating a third person shooter

[grim ore]

well most of them fake it

but you need to do some math then and figure out the start point, the end point, then the rotation to rotate the item

the end point will be difficult(ish) as its based on whats in the way

also in that gif, your character is WAY farther away than a normal third person over the shoulder would be

[violet goblet]

yes that is by purpose

thanks for the little hints 👍

[grim ore]

there is a find look at rotation node that you can use that takes in two locations that you can use for a rotation, start with your player and find the end point then use that node. To find the end point you might trace from your camera forward and whatever it hits is your end point. this will atleast let it end where you might expect it to go

[potent bridge]

So, heres another issue I have. on my character hair, it seems to become fuzzy when I move around, anyone know whats up with that?

[grim ore]

motion blur, taa, both?

i would guess taa more than anything else if is thin

[potent bridge]

motion blur probably. need to disable that

don't know how though

[grim ore]

project settings , type in motion blur, uncheck

or use a post process volume

[potent bridge]

Yeah that works. Wonder if I can make it work for a specific object though

[grim ore]

sortof, I know you can modify things to not be affected but i dont know how specific you can make it

[potent bridge]

also, one more question because I'm an idiot who doesn't remember the basics for some reason. I know how to change the gamemode to change the player character but how do I make it so the spawn position changes when I put down that actor bp?

[grim ore]

? the player start actor is used when you want a default pawn to spawn in, otherwise you can put in your specific actor and force it to be possessed

[potent bridge]

Now I'm even more confused. Basically in the thirdpersonexample the character is placed directly into the scene and I can control that.

Thing is I want to change that actor.

[grim ore]

yes, its set to auto possess

[potent bridge]

I see

[grim ore]

its an option on the actor.

so you can either delete it, put in your actor, and set it to auto possess

[potent bridge]

Ohhh Auto recieve input

🤦

[grim ore]

or you can delete it, add in a player start, and let the game mode handle it

[potent bridge]

How did I forget about that...

[grim ore]

auto possess is not the same as auto input

[potent bridge]

either way it still worked 🤷

[exotic sinew]

bruh my pc messed up fr

it cant run UE good but rl on max yes

its on max grphics tho

[plush yew]

How can i import an animation and level into another project, from an old project

[trim haven]

Excuse me, new here. Which sub should i go to concerning skeleton issues with blender models?

[exotic sinew]

i should prob go

[trim haven]

I appreciate it, ill pop over there. I'm using the unreal skeleton into blender, weighting, then going back to unreal and somehow its not jibbing. ill head over there thank you!

[neon grove]

how can i change the scaling of foliage that has already been painted?

[trim haven]

they are not

[candid stream]

Hello, I played a game, which is made with Unreal Engine (Sea of Thieves) and they connected XBox to the Game.

Is there something like a "XBox Plugin" or anything else, which allows me to get sth like the XBox Player Tag in Unreal Engine?

okay thanks. I just want to do some basic stuff like getting the Gamertag and some other things

[violet goblet]

uhm..in blueprint...what is that "dot" called? so we can have better visualization?

[potent bridge]

reroute node?

[violet goblet]

yeas...that was it called 😄 thanks

[drowsy snow]

Reroute node.

Double click on a path to create one.

[violet goblet]

HA! genius 😄 thanks folks

[rocky epoch]

you even can make things like that with the reroute node

[plush yew]

guys, I accidently hid the "Details" tab when an actor is selected... how do I put it back? lol

[bright sigil]

Press f4

[plush yew]

🤔 🤔 🤔

[bright sigil]

Or restore it from window menu, but f4 is better

Yeah i know how it sounds

[plush yew]

ahahah

[drowsy snow]

F4 got a bad rep for exit troll lmao

[violet goblet]

recently i asked something about "shooting" along the center of the cam to the hit-result of world location --> the result:
https://i.gyazo.com/2a947e0e81cb074a4dc8456288042176.gif

[bright sigil]

How abouy ctrl+w to duplicate? 😆

[violet goblet]

it got an "error" in the Blueprin, when i aim to the sky it wont "hit" anything so i cant calculate the rotation of the bullet

[plush yew]

f4 does nothing to me, trying to find the option on the window menu

[bright sigil]

Really? It should pop up the details window for the thing you have selected

[drowsy snow]

Window -> Details

[bright sigil]

Maybe its still there but hiding amongst tabs

[drowsy snow]

Unless they somehow change it in #ue5-general

[plush yew]

Nice

ty 🙂

[dull flower]

Ugggh I tried switching to forward rendering to maybe try and get some slightly better performance and after waiting around an hour for the shaders to compile I load into the editor and it crashes after a couple of seconds saying the d3d service was lost then after loading back in again it has to compile over 10,000 shaders... Again

I think I'm sticking with godot for now lmao

[drowsy snow]

If you want to get slightly better performance on deferred, do the elimination process through stat gpu and check for shader complexity.

But I guess it doesn't matter since you're already opening Godot editor by now, oh well.

[dull flower]

Well I don't have it open right now :p

[olive orchid]

TIA

[icy axle]

Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right channel but I'll ask here. Does anyone know of any tutorial to create artificial intelligence for dinosaurs?

[zenith wadi]

Yo, i've installed LFS for github, so that I can store larger files and push them to github repository, but it won't work

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/932740820078059530/932776156917272617/unknown.png

What steps do I have to take? The tutorial in the official wiki seems confusing, and it's not for me

I have github pro

[split jasper]

I mean, first figure out how to create artificial intelligence for just... NPCs. The fact that they're dinosaurs doesn't really affect the AI much

Also #gameplay-ai

[knotty stump]

Any cues on the best place to get high resolution realworld height map?

[thorn hazel]

I have a question. I am placing a static object along each of the segments of a cable component. (which I am able to do so far). Next I want the static objects thus placed, to move relatively to the cable component when I move it. This is the node setup I have so far (its pretty basic). However for some reason only the last object placed is moving relatively to the update location of cable component.

I'm using UE5

[drowsy snow]

#source-control

[icy axle]

Okay

[pliant igloo]

Hello everyone, I want to change my viewport and camera 1080x1920 for mobile, widgets as well. However I could not figure out how, anyone have any idea ?

[drowsy snow]

Pick the mobile display from the upper right viewport buttons.
I forgot which one tho

[pliant igloo]

Yes this helps

however in game it is look like this

[drowsy snow]

Play in new window, not in the same viewport.

[pliant igloo]

it is doing the same thing

I also change the design screen size nothing changed @drowsy snow

[olive orchid]

Hi, I’ve been learning & building a map in UE4.27 & after moving some landscape, I wanted to move the mannequin to a better location , but it keep opening up another window with the mannequin. Anybody know how to stop that, so I can move it around the map?. All the other things I can move.

It wasn’t doing this before & idk why it started

[cobalt nimbus]

im getting an error about not kicking off the swarm and it says to compile the Unreal lightmass. how do i do that when I used the launcher to get the engine?

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried verifying the engine installation?
Also do you happen to have third party antivirus installed?

[drowsy snow]

WDYM by "another window"?

[olive orchid]

When I click on the mannequin instead of just highlighting it & showing the vector arrows a separate window opens up on top of the default viewport.. idk what else to call it.. Not sure what it’s for but it shows the mannequin from the TP camera view

[drowsy snow]

Actually nevermind, I get it.

[drowsy snow]

In Editor Preferences, under Level Editor - Viewports - Look and Feel, find for Preview Selected Cameras and disable it.

[olive orchid]

Ok, I’ll look into that.. I was thinking maybe it’s happening cuz I started a TP game mode, instead of the default.. Thanks

[cobalt nimbus]

I tried verifying and reinstalled the engine. no third party antivirus

[cobalt nimbus]

Is there a file i probably need to delete in my project? since i uninstalled UE4 and Reinstalled it

[pliant igloo]

My lights are not showing up on the mobile preview anyone have any idea ?

[marble leaf]

anyone have any idea for why my character would be walking at a slight angle after i moved the camera boom to the side a bit?

my movement input is not dependent on my camera angle

or at least i don't think so (using un altered movement input for third person character

[ornate ice]

Hey can anyone give me a hand, I'm trying to make a projectile hit a wall (Regular Cube from the Basic Actors) but it just passes through the begin overlap component doesn't detect it

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong

[cloud latch]

I'd like to be able to make multiple build variants of my Unreal project, but, ideally, without having to make a branch for each one. I see I could use gameplay modules for splitting out logic into various modules, so some aren't used. This also appears like I could deal with plugins that are only required for some variants by only linking in those modules build.cs, but I can't really find anything about what I'd do as far as defining the configuration for the variants etc and hooking it up to the build system. To give a better idea, I want to make a version designed for streaming (i.e. twitch integration with audience participation) where there'd be new gamemodes etc that wouldn't go in the standard client etc etc. Anyone happen to know what terms I should be searching? Not having any luck narrowing this down past where I've gotten. I see the configuration files include launch settings for modules, but it doesn't appear like there's anything that facilitates variants, just multiple platforms.

[cobalt nimbus]

How do I get to the UE4 solution if i downloaded from the launcher?

[rancid lynx]

I want to save 10 instances on an instancedStaticMeshComponent. with the SaveGame and Loadgame nodes ( i know how to save and load ). do I have to manually Get , save and load each transform of each instance ? or is there a way to save the instancedStaticMeshComponent and its instances data as one reference ? I tried to Save and Load the ISMComponent itself, but it didnt populate any instances on load. I have done it manually before, saving each transform in an array. but surely the ISMC holds all the data and can be stored without manually extracting and inserting every transform on a save and load.

Is it possible to Save the InstancedStaticMeshComponent with Savegame and loadgame ? or do I manually have to grab all the transforms and save and load those ?

[cloud aurora]

yo i am trying to import this and it is telling me it is installed on my engine already, if so how do i add it?

[soft tree]

it's telling you that it's installed in all compatible engines. This could also be the default error if there are no compatible engines installed
Are you sure the plugin is compatible for the engine version you are truing to use?

[boreal hornet]

why is the sun bleeding through my objects

[drowsy snow]

Adjust the contact shadows on the directional light.

[boreal hornet]

how, i am new lol

[dull flower]

Sooooo is there a way to disable shader permutations until you actually might need it like when you do a final build of the game

[drowsy snow]

No.

[dull flower]

Hm ok well how would one go about limiting them as much as possible then, is there some setting in the material for it

Cause obviously I don't need like 100 different versions of a shader that all have to be compiled separately if I'm only going to use it in a specific place or circumstance 😐

[drowsy snow]

For starters, materials won't be compiled in editor unless you open it or have a visible mesh using it.

[dull flower]

You say that but I changed the resolution scale in the project settings and it recompiled 364 shaders which in UE terms seems like not that much but still :p

[cloud aurora]

today i managed to add a double damage "perk" aswell as overflow pretty proud about it, think im gonna limit my time to 2 hours a day because the others i have spent 10 and only had about 2 hours of productivity then i would waste the other 8

[plush yew]

I posted in ue5 because i believe it is only a ue5 issue but maybe its an issue with with both, anyone know why this simple material is throwing me all these errors

[bright sigil]

never used the node, is it ouputing a scalar?

[plush yew]

oh thats weird lol

[bright sigil]

or is it that beige/brown node?

[plush yew]

so

i recompiled it

and it fixed all the errors

but the material is still blank

so it fixed the errors but not the material lmao

[bright sigil]

i redact my thumbs up

[plush yew]

lol

[bright sigil]

well then i guess i return to the notion of not using the node before

[plush yew]

idk how it works tbh

its from ultra dynamic sky

[bright sigil]

well i hope they have documentation 😄

[prime willow]

any idea why morphs applied do this https://gyazo.com/42f5ba9844d198e0345a0def2469448b

but only morphs that change the bodies shape to make her smaller

if you guys cant help could you at least point me in the right directioni cant seem to find a proper answer for this

[bright sigil]

as lost as you are, nice hair though

[prime willow]

thank ❤️

[drowsy snow]

Is it just my view, or is it really that some newcomers to the engine felt disdain for taking Unreal Online Learning courses or general tutorials/courses for that matter?

I feel like some of them just want tutorials very specific to their dream game's specifications, not the general courses that applicable to pretty much any kind of games.

[bright sigil]

i think thats impatience mixed with the expectation that everything is instance nowadays

[prime willow]

well yes

When i first started unreal i completely skipped any tuorials or classes outside of what i wanted to make

learned really fast how stupid that is

its like trying to drive a car but you cant even walk

because youre still crawling

or like those gamers who wanna do "cool combos" but dont even learn the tutorial and button layout Zzzz

[dull flower]

Well I've been looking for some UE4 tutorials but more specifically I've been looking for stuff where people start from a blank template and actually write the underlying systems for stuff like character controllers and materials and what not to see how things should actually be done in the engine but haven't come up with much in that regard so far...

[drowsy snow]

I've seen some instance of it happening in this server over past few months.

"It's my first day with UE, and I want to make a bloody MMORPG, and I want a tutorial that specifically covers on making MMORPGs from start to finish!"

[prime willow]

my main issue with the tutorials isnt that they werent built for my game but that i didnt want to sit on youtube and copying each step they do for 1 hour to 4

i just wanted to start hitting buttons and learn why the heck the button does what it does

like when you read documentation their not walking you through a clear system but just showing you its name term and what it does

[bright sigil]

i dont think anyone wants to be told they have to spend a long time, like a few years, to learn something before they can do the thing they want - then again, its games we're talking about, not science or engineering

[prime willow]

yeah exactly

[dull flower]

Godot is way better in that regard imo, the docs have a tutorial that goes step by step through making a basic game from a blank starting project

[prime willow]

people kept telling me not to make my game for the next 5+ years

just learn unreal until than

[bright sigil]

i was also born with my unreal engine knowledge, so i never had to learn anything, i just was already good 😆

[prime willow]

and that was just silly to me and still feels silly

[dull flower]

It shows you how to do movement, spawning of objects, scoring etc

[prime willow]

i know the merits of a trillion test bites before the real thing but i just wanted to make something than fine tune it for 5 years, not not make the game and than make it on year 6 until year 10

thats like a decade to finally make a game xD

[bright sigil]

its because a new one pops up everyday, and they're awful - therefore, how hard could it be?

i think regardless of the engine or whatever, its the scope of someone's idea

[prime willow]

and i guess i wouldnt mind 10 years to make a game but ive seen solo devs make solid games in a few years for sizeable scope and such

so i guess im a little unpatient too lol

[bright sigil]

to learn how to make a game, you should find something fun with a minimal amount of systems, rather than needing all of them before it gets good

[prime willow]

granted ive done the tutorials and lessons in the tabs and downloaded their market stuff

that too conrad

i just wanted to make this part oof my game and expand on it for a while

https://tenor.com/view/sasuke-naruto-fighting-gif-14042942

[drowsy snow]

Well, for comparison sake, Square took 10+ single player installments from Final Fantasy alone, and almost 15 years to finally do MMORPG.

[prime willow]

i know i know

but i dont even wanna make an mmorpg yet

i just wanna make phantasy star 1 but with decent pvp combat

or naruto clash of ninja 1 even lol

but with online pvp

and hopefully not playstation 1 grahpics lmao

[bright sigil]

i doubt most ~~people ~~newbies could recreate the early era games, though there is a lot to learn by doing so

[prime willow]

yup yup

i just wanna make a fighting game like pretty much anything before 2015

[grizzled oasis]

My UI looks like this

[prime willow]

if possible add some pve stuff and cool movement

[bright sigil]

yeah but thats still the issue, scope

[grizzled oasis]

how can i make like this

[drowsy snow]

Newbies could but felt disdain from "boring old games"

[bright sigil]

however, im not aware of what you've made prior

[prime willow]

my scope is insanely huuuuuuge but ive cut it down violently

it was 1000+ pages of finely tuned documented stuff to make one by one

[drowsy snow]

Buy a bigger monitor.

[prime willow]

but when making it piece by piece i realized even if i could make it because bik brain

[bright sigil]

im not sure whats really different.... more folders? select an object to have it show up in the details

[prime willow]

i wont be done for an actual decade

[bright sigil]

or yeah, that

[grizzled oasis]

i dont remember how i reduce size last time

[grizzled oasis]

.

[prime willow]

so ive scalled it back to pretty much any arena fighter from any era, with a lobby like phantasy star online 1

eeverything else will be added on from there if i have time

[bright sigil]

so its the size of the icons then? you know that wasnt clear to me

[grizzled oasis]

not icon whole resolution i think

[bright sigil]

i would stick with a mentality of getting the fighting working, then ship it

[prime willow]

thats the goal

[grizzled oasis]

icon reduce size hide text

[bright sigil]

M.V.P.

[prime willow]

however

if i finish my game before the timeline of when i want to release

imma feature creep the floss out of it

xD

[bright sigil]

yea... if 🙂

[prime willow]

thats the key word loool

[drowsy snow]

Seems like editor DPI 🤔

[bright sigil]

there's a comic out there where two game devs are talking about being ahead of schedule... and that's the punchline

[prime willow]

[drowsy snow]

Okay, so that is actually your Windows's DPI settings.

The taskbar texts seem to be larger than Segoe UI at 9pt

[prime willow]

oh

hoodie

any idea how to fix my issue

[prime willow]

^

[grizzled oasis]

i tried dpi to low it increase more size

is there setting where i can put value to change dpi

[prime willow]

i was told it might be a dual quadtrici skinning issue D:

[drowsy snow]

Why is it becoming spaghett lol

[prime willow]

idk

its like the skeleton doesnt change

but the meshes body does

and the animation is following the skeelton instead of the body

C:

[drowsy snow]

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5990-change-dpi-scaling-level-displays-windows-10-a.html

[drowsy snow]

Oh yeah...
Scale down the entire skelmesh instead.

[prime willow]

what

can a morph do that?

its still broken

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

I'm talking about scaling down the skelmesh component, and you would have morph target to accomodate some body parts for the scaling (e.g. head size)

[prime willow]

o.o

[bright sigil]

on the topic of scope.... what's the point of morph targets for your game?

[drowsy snow]

||character customisation||

[prime willow]

^

player exprression in gameplay and visuals is important to me :3

[grizzled oasis]

oooh forget window dpi , thanks

[prime willow]

scald the mesh its just as broken at the similiar size for the morph

[bright sigil]

what if a told you it wasnt... 😏

[drowsy snow]

Well, I had my Idolmaster machinima project various character height, and all I did was scaling down the skelmesh component for short characters.

[bright sigil]

smart assy-ness aside, with all this trouble, just make each character model yourself 😛

its not like they take up much memory

[prime willow]

sculpt anatomy perfect humans and a billion variations

[bright sigil]

gunna doubt a billion is even worth it for any fighting game

people like it for unique character designs, i.e. personality and attitude

[prime willow]

i know ive had this conversation

[bright sigil]

a short or taller version of the same things aint that engaging

[prime willow]

with 6 professionals

they said your idea is horse radish

make street fgihter 7

and i disagree and will not xD

[bright sigil]

so maybe scrap the morph target idea

[drowsy snow]

Customisable clothes are difficult to get right, let alone customisable body a la Saints Row

[prime willow]

nope

need

;-;

[drowsy snow]

Or MMORPGs for that matter

[prime willow]

it integral to core gameplay design and such

and if game works

[bright sigil]

i doubt it

[prime willow]

i can build onto it as intended

without character customization i might as well make a completely different game

same for the style of movement lol

which i have successfuly done!

[bright sigil]

then i ask: aside from character customization, what else is there to do for your game?

[drowsy snow]

I don't want to be judgemental, but what was the last fighting game that has customisable character?

Jump Force story mode?

[prime willow]

no jump force bad game

good idea

awful implementation

[prime willow]

if i have to cut out things i cant do its more or less akin to dragon ball xenoverse

maybe minus the pve missions and such

[bright sigil]

oof....

[prime willow]

but if i can get it all setup proper by launch moreso like dragon ball xenoverse

or shinobi striker

my goal atm is movement, combat, character setup; and we'll go from there

movement is near done just need to finish zip lining which i cant start into basic combat works

[bright sigil]

maybe come back to morph targets later then

its not a good use of time to spend on the same feature with no progress

[prime willow]

yeah i know but everytime i realize the mesh has that issue with morphs i tinker and look a bit further to what can be done

than walk away again xD

so youre right unfortunatelyyyyy

[bright sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/goat-gloat-funny-animals-gif-13702224

[rough knoll]

why won't my actor generate overlap events with static meshes, and only other actors

[bright sigil]

i would guess collision channels?

[rough knoll]

i don't see why that would be an issue. Doesn't work if i have block all dynamic on the static mesh, or overlap all dynamic

my projectile actor is obviously on overlap all dynamic

dunno if it has something to do w/ the fact that it's a projectile

[dull flower]

How do you set up a render texture? I want to render my game at a specific resolution without it being effected by the window size and without AA so I figure a render texture would be the best for that

[bright sigil]

well you should understand that the short sentence of the issue you described is not much to go off of... the fact that its a projectile (using projectile movement component?) changes what I would assume

[rough knoll]

it is projectile movement component

[bright sigil]

great, please explain as much as you can about the issue

[rough knoll]

well, i spawn the actor when a button is pressed. it's supposed to travel until it overlaps with something, and when it overlaps it'll trigger an event. The issue is is that no static mesh will trigger it, and only other actors do

it can overlap with itself, and it can overlap with a character actor. It will not overlap with an editor cube mesh for example

[bright sigil]

im not completely certain, but i think both entities need to have overlap events enabled, are they?

[rough knoll]

ye

[prime willow]

❤️

[bright sigil]

hmm, not sure then, im checking my setup and i have my projectile with overlap as well as my static meshes, all works

[clear badger]

pain

[bright sigil]

thats not that bad 😉 it shouldnt take long

[clear badger]

this is happening after waiting for about 13000 shaders to compile, 13000 compiled at 45% and started loading up the project, and now this.

[bright sigil]

that is pretty bad... loading lots of stuff?

[clear badger]

yup, a 40 grid city to be precise

look what they did to my boy

[bright sigil]

its not often that all the P's get used 🙂 sounds like there are lots of materials

this city from marketplace?

[clear badger]

no, actually I made a city in Blender with the help of a plugin called SceneCity. When I placed it yesterday, and applied materials and all that stuff, ue4 didn't give any major performance issues, but today its not favouring me, thanks to my old friend ShaderCompiler

[bright sigil]

oh... hmm, so it was brought in and didnt compile but now it is? was there a lot of materials that came in? Because it sounds like each one is a material with whatever funky stuff. I tend to make my materials within unreal and not import them because I usually make a master and then instance out from there, plus materials dont always import 1 to 1

[clear badger]

It compiled it faster yesterday, but after closing the project and opening it again today, its taking more time and resources, it could be related to me cleaning the temp files on my PC.

[haughty dock]

which one do i need to use if i wanna use the material that i made in blender

[bright sigil]

as i was telling Windows2K6, materials from other software may not always come in correctly

[haughty dock]

ohh but which one do i use to at least import the material and texture

[bright sigil]

i think the default is Local which should work fine, if not i would guess All Assets

[haughty dock]

i tried All Assets and it didn't i ma try Local

thanks

[bright sigil]

hope it works lol

I always set it to Do Not Search

[haughty dock]

Ohh

idk how to make materials in unreal so yeah

nope it doesn't

[bright sigil]

right click and there is a Material choice, but from there you might need to watch some stuff on how to hook up textures or whatever you're trying to do

[bright sigil]

that's kinda weird, are you sure you're exporting from whatever software to include materials? I guess fbx would by default

[haughty dock]

yes i am exporting it as fbx from blender

[bright sigil]

what about material Import Method?

[haughty dock]

how's that

[bright sigil]

i think you need this

[haughty dock]

Ohh

ok

lema try it out

thanks again

[bright sigil]

create new material should bring in the materials hence it searches from the local folder, but as i said, might not be the exact same material setup, hope it is though

[haughty dock]

Ohh ok

thank you very much

[haughty dock]

It worked! not the exact same but i can deal with it.

[bright sigil]

awesome, yeah, most likely will need to remake whatever fancy math that your other software is doing or to whatever ability you can

[haughty dock]

yeah

[bright sigil]

well there's a material kickstart in the pinned channel, otherwise, the internet 😛

[dull flower]

So I guess in UE you really want to avoid using separate materials for things and should prefer to use texture atlases/mega textures/etc for everything since it cuts down on compile times from having less materials meaning less shaders? I mean aside form the obvious advantages of less draw calls from having less materials which applies to any engine

[haughty dock]

💀

[bright sigil]

materials and material instances have the same overhead, they're not too different, just convenience of not remaking the same kind of material setup

textures are the drawcalls regardless

but if you make a master, you can import models and set the material import method to derive from your master which hopefully streamlines some of the importing - mainly its just the textures being plugged in for you

if you use atlases then you do get less draw calls, but only if you have multiple assets using the same atlas, however it's harder to tile atlases

[dull flower]

Hm ok I was thinking I was going to use a vertex color texture blending shader to texture my levels efficiently lol

[bright sigil]

for example, you could have 5 material instances that all reference the same textures but are modified in scale and color or some other params

those textures are loaded once, but they will give some different appearances pretty cheaply

[bright sigil]

you could, but vertex colors are kind of a pain to manage - you can paint in engine which is nice, but it's per asset in the level (although i think you can save them to the asset, but it would be the same for each at that point)

i think another user on here also had some issues with retaining the same vertex colors when the LODed their models since that does change vertex order/count

go with macro masks instead

you could even channel pack them, and that way you can reuse them for other materials and/or looks since they are usually abstract grunges

some of the start content materials do this if you're curious 🙂

[neon bough]

also i think nanite doesn't support vertex colors (yet?)

[bright sigil]

honestly, i thought nanite meshes were all vertex color

[neon bough]

yea i was wrong

[bright sigil]

oh is it vc?

i only watched the launch video way back when ue5 was announced, thats what i recall

that's pretty dope for zbrush workflow 🙂

but now Maxon owns Zbrush.... 😢

[haughty dock]

how do i remove this from the light source

[bright sigil]

build your lighting

[haughty dock]

this?

[bright sigil]

yep, click the arrow for specific options

[haughty dock]

ohh ok

thank youu

[candid stream]

I downloaded and installed it, but i don't know where i have to sign an NDA with Microsoft

[sick patio]

where is this in the engine? this png i downloaded from google looks awful and it shows the sprite next to it, and it shows it moving.

[bright sigil]

yo, whats shakin Skakaama. also wut? that's a texture that comes with unreal?

its a sprite sheet btw, you've used them before?

[sick patio]

yes, according to a tutorial it's already in the engine and he didn't say how to get it

[drowsy snow]

Starter Content.

[bright sigil]

what a bastard

[sick patio]

i made one before, but this is supposed to be already in the engine, but his png i downloaded shows it moving left and right as it goes to the next sprite

[bright sigil]

shows it moving? in editor right?

[bright sigil]

@sick patio also

[sick patio]

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE @drowsy snow

now that is perfect

i feel dumb

why wouldn't it pop up when i did a search

i feel stupiderer ever day

i searched for explosion

[bright sigil]

sounds like you're learning

[sick patio]

domo arigato gozai masu Makoto sama

lol

sounds like i'm banging my head on the wall?

[bright sigil]

bang louder, i cant hear it yet

[sick patio]

i did a sprite sheet? of blood splattering from a person

looked awful LOL

[bright sigil]

sounds tough

[sick patio]

conrad where are your tutorials? i know you're an excellent teacher

[bright sigil]

behind a paywall called college

eventually ill make some though, just no time

[sick patio]

sheeeeeeeesh i have to go to MIT to get learnin from you? omg

[bright sigil]

ill add myself to the growing list of yt devs who show you bad practices and shortcut hacks for the sake of making a game 😈

maybe ill wear a leather jack and have heavy shades to show how baddass i am

[bright sigil]

I wish, im not that smart

[sick patio]

if they would just get it out of their head that they need to make a "youtube" video "for the views" and instead actually teach, everything would be great. if everyone was like that Mat guy

[fringe rivet]

Hello, friends.

[bright sigil]

Howdy, stranger.

[sick patio]

ok back to my sprite mega FX stuff (that's a technical term)

[bright sigil]

i just like to help but also keep enough distance that i can absolve any responsibility, there's somethin freeing about it

[fringe rivet]

You are my friend.

My best friend.

Conrad is my comrade.

[bright sigil]

yeah... blood spray? with a sprite sheet? why? i mean, why not particles?

[bright sigil]

hah! oh, im rofl, thats a good one, so original 😛

[fringe rivet]

I may not be original, but I am also not aboriginal.

[sick patio]

no no i'm doing the explosion. the blood spray was before. and it felt to the ground and created ... what's the DEXTER term for it... blood "splatter"

[bright sigil]

both of you got my smart ass going and now this channel has become lounge

[sick patio]

no i'm leaving

[bright sigil]

oh like a blood splot on the ground

[sick patio]

yes

[bright sigil]

i was thinking of spray i guess

[sick patio]

and it disappeared after awhile

[bright sigil]

so the explosion

[sick patio]

it wasn't bad, i guess

[bright sigil]

pretty sure we've given them laptops at least

[bright sigil]

great, glad we sorted that

[fringe rivet]

I need help.

[sick patio]

ttfn

[fringe rivet]

I do not know how to integrate C++ into my project.

[bright sigil]

until the next time, where nothing will be accomplished either

[bright sigil]

neither do i, never touched cpp

[fringe rivet]

What I mean by this is that I have knowledge of C++ but have zero idea how to make a cube spin using said knowledge.

[fringe rivet]

Come talk to me when you have reached your full potential.

[bright sigil]

leaves

[drowsy snow]

Just add a new C++ class from the editor. Make sure to disable automatic Hot Reload first.

If what you need is a spinning cube on tick, make an Actor class.

[fringe rivet]

If you could write out the code needed to do something as basic as making a cube spin using a rotating movement component, I may be able to use this knowledge for more.

(I don’t actually need a cube to spin)

[drowsy snow]

RMC huh 🤔
Never really dealt with it in C++, and I doubt the marble example has C++ version

[drowsy snow]

I don't know much about URotatingMovementComponent implementation in C++ (I mainly deal with CMC), so #cpp is your better bet

Also some links
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/GameFramework/URotatingMovementComponent/
https://unrealcpp.com/rotating-actor/

[fringe rivet]

Thank you.

[dull flower]

Don't forget to keep reminding everyone about how your game is the 69420th most wishlidted game on steam 😏

[fiery sluice]

Lol

[plush yew]

any idea as to why having even just 1 camera in a scene lowers my fps dramatically

[dull flower]

That's why I'm trying to figure out how to set up a render texture for my camera so I can run the game at a low resolution in fullscreen so I can maybe get at least somewhat decent FPS since my laptop has a crap gpu (it's in intel uhd so yeah... 😐 )

[primal tendon]

is there any alternative to Open World Demo Collection?

[sick patio]

conrad you have any tips on how to stay focused for hours and hours?

[bright sigil]

keep your window full screen, only music

wear good headphones if there are people around

otherwise, plan out the work to be done for those hours

[sick patio]

set a goal each time?

[bright sigil]

I dont really mean to have a strict time plan. Just think about the work you are going to be doing and set an amount of time it should be done in. Its okay if you go over, but its about setting a time to finish it, its good practice but its a bit hard to explain why.

[sick patio]

Thank you Conrad you are much appreciated.

[rose sleet]

Has anyone used Horror Engine?

[sick patio]

I fired it up and went through it's tutorial

started making an environment with it

a level I mean

[bleak zodiac]

just keep making things

[sick patio]

I have to stay away from going : OH SQUIRREL

https://tenor.com/view/squirrel-huh-what-up-dog-gif-18781858

[rocky epoch]

Pomodoro technique works for some people : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

[sick patio]

I've heard of this before. thank you

[rocky epoch]

But that heavily depends on the person and the project.
It is great for many, smaller tasks, but maybe not for longer stuffs, where we can lost our flow because of that short pause.

[strong schooner]

It's nice binge watching Mathew Wadstein's Unreal Playlist (>600 videos) haha. Even if most videos are more than 3-5 years. The different category really helps, he is a great teacher.

[rocky epoch]

But worth to try, I did it for a while and for my work it worked, but I am not sure I would use it myself for coding.

[sick patio]

about 25 minutes is my max anyway. this gives me something to look forward to go to on the break, and something to look forward to coming off the break.

[rose sleet]

To make my own game from it do i need to like add a map and create it from there?

[rocky epoch]

Then there is a good chance that would work for you.

There are many apps for that fortunately.

[sick patio]

yes you make, probably as many levels as you need for the game, and he gives you not only level design stuff, but props and blueprinted props, like doors and items you pick up and inspect and levers

[drowsy snow]

Quixel Megascans.

Check your e-mail for invite confirmation from GitHub

[lusty kite]

Is someone willing to teach me how to make a game for mobile?

At least the basics of it

[hollow briar]

did some issues with download servers? im need to download debug symbols and there no connections -_-

[timid meteor]

hi i bought a packet and want to change the colors in another program and put it back in to the editor, can i get some help with that or tips ?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on the material and texture.

[haughty hound]

Hi, do u guys know if a game purchased in the epic launcher can be intalled on multiple computers?

[drowsy snow]

...what's the relation with Unreal Engine development?

[haughty hound]

No, i apologize if this is not an appropiate channel to ask this, i thought maybe i could ask this here😞

[drowsy snow]

Nah, this is mainly for dealing with UE4, and with Epic Launcher, specifically on the Unreal Engine hub side of things.

[haughty hound]

Ok

[night oar]

Hi guys need some help we the case is this that a user can upload an avatar image for his profile at run time I cant find any method to help me with this in blueprints any one has a clue on how to do this

[dull flower]

Bruh I compiled the blank project template as a standalone game to see what that process is like and it crapped out a 103MB exe file and a 70MB .pak file in the "content" folder??? Where did all that come from

I certainly didn't have 70mb of stuff in the project since i chose to not even add starter assets to it so idk that stuff came from 😂 Unless it's engine related assets I guess

[warm salmon]

hey guys i wanna start game development in unreal engine ....... how do u guys think i shud start out?

[fierce tulip]

@warm salmon hey hey! check the pinned messages in this channel for some getting started content.

[warm salmon]

sure lemme check

[dull flower]

So when you change something in your game do you have to rebuild the whole thing

Or is it like a normal c++ project

Where only the changed stuff gets recompiled

[drowsy snow]

Exclude editor content in the project settings

[drowsy snow]

Only the changed stuff gets recompiled, starting from the topmost in the class hierarchy

[warm salmon]

so u say i learn from learn.unrealengine.com?

[drowsy snow]

Correct.

And what's not to pass? Free quality courses for UE at your disposal, not to mention cool badges.

[warm salmon]

ah thx

[bleak zodiac]

better for go there, will give some idea on how to use editor and doing blueprints to make your own game, hope that help

[timid meteor]

like this 😄

it just doesnt change

[dull flower]

Hm so I read that the dev console isn't enabled in release builds by default but what if you're making something like a single player game and you're fine with people messing around in the console (especially if you want to allow mods and custom content) is there some way to enable it

Like in quake or half life for example

[drowsy snow]

Package it in Development configuration, but in long term, you'd better end up making your own console command interface.

[dull flower]

Yeah I would definitely not prefer to do that since it would probably be super unoptimized for one thing :p

[vocal herald]

How can I get a soft object reference for a Map(Level)? I can't set my variable type as a map

[dull flower]

(that being compile in dev mode)

[neon saffron]

nvm im dumb

[plush yew]

Is there a level reference type? If not can you not just set it as an object reference to the name of your map?

[vocal herald]

I wanna do it like in ue documentation

they have a target map variable

[lusty carbon]

Lost the viewmodes

[opaque seal]

I'm using fullscreen in my game, but when I change the graphics, it exits from fullscreen. help me
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/915658037384081438/932985497406541854/bandicam_2022-01-18_16-39-13-213.mp4

[drowsy snow]

Idents, and there's not much BtS on it, other than observing a lot of them for inspiration.

[plush yew]

Isn't and Ident just the logo?. I think it's Title Sequence now i did some more research. And there is definitly some theory behind it

I got it in aschool but i forgot so much

[lusty carbon]

HELP! Lost these flags

What's going on?

Thank you!!!

Thank god for discord, this is the kind of problems I can lose myself all day into

[autumn latch]

how can i fix world settings 1 maps need lighting rebuilt?

[tiny zodiac]

How do i rotate an arm using Two Bone IK? I rotate it but the hand stays pointing down. I need the arm and the hand to rotate upwards.

pls help

[ancient ivy]

if the issue is that the lighting for static objects is not built... build it! Go to the build tab on top and select lighting

[plush yew]

Can I still adjust my Project Name afterwards? This was the final test that worked after 8 hours of trying so i got a bit frustraded with the names

[primal tendon]

So supposedly you have multiple of same type animation how do you randomize it in animation bp? Like I have animation idle_1, idle_2 and idle_3, how to make it randomly chose any one everytime it goes to that state?

[ancient ivy]

have you checked the project settings?

[ancient ivy]

https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/ue4-renaming-your-project.php

[plush yew]

yeah its not in there

i found it, renaming the .uproject file and the .ini

[ancient ivy]

gonna have to do it by hand then

yup

[plush yew]

yeah thaks

[ancient ivy]

no problem

[tiny zodiac]

@ancient ivy can you help me pls?

[rough knoll]

i've spent a while trying to fix this bug and can't seem to do it... why is it when i change the mesh of the robe, the animations lag behind my character mesh?

you can see how they're out of sync, at the start they are in sync because nothing was changed

and you can see the issue after the first swap

no matter where i look i can't seem to find the problem... this also occurs if i hold down the move key when swapping between ability animations (animbp issue?)

[small pewter]

Is it possible to make a game with player hosting (games are hosted by players) but add cosmetics and those cosmetics are server sided so people can't cheat and have free cosmetics without paying them ?

on what ?

Like can you not do like an anti-cheat checking for the skin of the player when the game starts and compare it to his purchased skins and if he has one not being purchased he gets kicked of the game ?

[grim ore]

you can do whatever you want, the question is does this matter? cheaters gonna cheat, you won't stop them. is it worth your efforts to try and fight this game with them or make more content or work on the game more?

[small pewter]

True but I just wanted to see if it's possible

[grim ore]

sure its possible, its your game

[small pewter]

really ?

that's kinda weird

besides the game not being famous enough to get cheaters attention other than that I don't see why there are no cheaters on those games

[rough knoll]

this shit is hella annoying... i can't seem to find the problem. could it be an engine limitation or something?

[small pewter]

rocket league has the easy-anti cheat if I'm not mistaken

[rough knoll]

it does. i think most epic-owned games do

rocket league doesn't really need a cheat though

im not sure what you could cheat at

[small pewter]

they could cheat for the boosts

like boosts forever

[rough knoll]

i doubt it. that'd be server sided

[small pewter]

yeah that's server sided

[rough knoll]

partially fixed

i was able to fix the pictured bug by unchecking "reinit pose" on "set skeletal mesh"

[rough knoll]

completely fixed, had to turn on root motion for everything

awesome

[thorny river]

Hello

i have a problem with the water plugin

it's doesent do the island thing can someone help me pls

[rough knoll]

turn on edit layers

that issue is why i don't use the water plugin, i dislike it

[thorny river]

where can i do that ?

Okay okay

[rough knoll]

click on your landscape, in the details panel

[thorny river]

The bug is still there 😦

[rough knoll]

huh. just a second

i've had that problem before quite a while ago

[thorny river]

Okay okay

[ancient ivy]

i never used IK's, but i can check online if you prefer

[winged lava]

I have made a level select screen at the beginning of the my game yet wanted to know how I set it so once you've completed level it becomes inaccessible until the next time you start a whole new game? Would this be best done in the game instance? THX! 🙂

[rough knoll]

question.. is your landscape deforming?

[grim ore]

@winged lavaif it needs to persist between game sessions, as in you shut the game off and turn it back on, you need to store that info in the save game object

[thorny river]

nope

it's just a square

[rough knoll]

mk. i managed to get the landscape to deform still working on why the textures don't load

[winged lava]

@grim ore Thx 4 the reply Matthew. Sadly I don't know too much about that. Could you please point me to a tutorial on it. Thx!

[thorny river]

How did you managed to get it deforming ?

[rough knoll]

for that, go to your landscape manage tab and right click on layer, hover over add, then press water brush manager

the textures seem to load just fine for ocean, but not island.

[thorny river]

You khnow what

i'll just use the test map in the water content file

[unborn stone]

why dont i have this in my ue4

[light thunder]

That component shouldn't be visible. I've compiled the BP. After runtime, sure, anything could happen, but it shouldn't be visible now. Is the parent somehow overriding it, even in the editor?

I know you can propagate vis to children, but I didn't realize in editor...

[grim ore]

@unborn stonedid you add that animation notify to an animation that is used on the skeleton for that animation blueprint?

[light thunder]

Is there a trick to the 3D text in terms of visibility?

[unborn stone]

i added the animation notifies to the run and walk

[grim ore]

and the run and walk animations are used in that blueprint?

[twin beacon]

Hello, I was looking for a good website or program to manage project development and workflow in general. Any recommendations?

[light thunder]

Notion is fucking sick

seriously - so contextual, you can get a free credit for the other features (takes a few days)

I will say you will have to take a deep dive - it's not hard to use at all, but building it just to your liking - it's not made just to be game dev stuff

[twin beacon]

That sounds just what I was looking for, will take a look at it thanks!

[light thunder]

I should look into getting a notion sales thing or something, I recommend them all the time I ought to see a piece of that action 🙂

[twin beacon]

maybe you can work out a ref code / link. Win-Win situation for all parties

[light thunder]

oh shit they actually do - i was joking but sure, if it works for you

Frank Thomas is a youtuber, he does a bunch of setup stuff

[timid meteor]

iep !

euhm i decided to make my game free with micro transaction ❤️

only i think i am to dumb to do that

[bronze oyster]

Hey, have a query regarding exporting a project in Unreal Engine. I'm trying to integrate a game created within my existing Android app, so I don't want to export the Unreal game as APK, but I do want that projected to be exported so that I can use it as an external library in Android code. Is this possible, and if yes, how so?

[twin beacon]

If you manage to get a ref code, feel free to send it to me in a DM. I'll get feedback from our team and if we decide to use the tool, we'll use your code.

[marble leaf]

Can I get some advice on making it so my character walks forward in the direction that is relative to them instead of the camera? I'm using the third person character code but moving the spring arm to over the shoulder started causing me to walk sideways

[bright sigil]

so you dont want the player to move forward with W or Up while being steered with the mouse/camera?

[marble leaf]

I do want them to move forward when I press W but rn it moves slightly angled towards the crosshair

I don't see where the camera is being referenced in this code so it's making me confused why the camera position plays a part in the walking direction

[bright sigil]

i mean it shouldnt, buts it the controller that i assume is doing this

[grim ore]

if this is a character, there are controls built into it as a pawn to orient to the camera and rotation of the controller

like on the pawn itself

and then on the spring arm and camera

[marble leaf]

i see, thank you!

wait which one do i disable?

[grim ore]

Character movement has some as well, these are the big ones

[marble leaf]

oo i see

[grim ore]

you might have to experiment to figure out which ones you need to adjust

[marble leaf]

this has been infinitely helpful!

thanks for sending me in the right direction 🙂

[grim ore]

you want it to move forward regardless of the camera?

[marble leaf]

yup wanted to try that out

[solid quest]

Hi, How to sync a single blackboard with two behaviourtrees?

[grim ore]

@marble leafone easy way that might work, is to leave the properties alone and change the code to add the movement based on the actor itself, and not the controller (which is handling the camera)

[primal tendon]

Hey so for function names and variable names in blueprint do people use spaces in general?

[grim ore]

some people do, some people don't. Traditional programmers probably don't as they are not allowed in traditional programming languages.

[fossil basalt]

hey guys, what are derived blueprints?

[grim ore]

if you use PascalCase then it will convert it to using spaces whenever you use it in a graph

[primal tendon]

Yeah that's exactly what I think too (no spaces), it's just unreal default behavior, if I do promote to variable IsRunning from a different class becomes Is Running.

[grim ore]

is it doing that, or is it just changing the display of it due to PascalCasing

[grim ore]

gotcha, yeah promoting it probably keeps the display version of it

in the end I dont think it matters, I've seen epic content mix and matching

You do you, keep it consistent 🙂

[primal tendon]

Ok thank you

[grim ore]

hell I think a better question is, is it ok to use the other characters like ? in variable names... Epic does... heh

[twin beacon]

Since you're probably about to develop certain habits, I think it's good to stick to common programming practices in case you ever work with other people or on other software. (i.e. sticking to variable name conventions)
Edit: this might be useful to skim through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_convention_(programming)

[marble leaf]

I tried all of those camera rotation options and all of them were wonky in their own unique way lol- so this is the issue I'm having, character walks towards the center of the screen when I want the character to move forward in direction they are facing

[grim ore]

try the suggestion I pasted above, leave the character controls alone and change it to add input from the actors rotation and not the controller rotation

[marble leaf]

that sort of works but for left and right the controls get weird

it works well for the forward and back

would it be a different issue for the left and right movement? (A and D)

if I hold those rn my character walks in a circle

[unborn stone]

i fixed it

[marble leaf]

i'm thinking maybe my issue is rooted in poor camera understanding and not really knowing how a camera should work in third person platforming type of game that also has a crosshair

i really appreciate you helping 🙂

[sick patio]

OPINION QUESTION: horror should be 1st person or 3rd person?

[cedar wave]

Depends on the game. There is no hard set rule.

[unborn stone]

1st

[sick patio]

yeah i got pushback saying horror should only be 1st, for immersion?

[wind crow]

From where i can get 3d cars models for free?

[sick patio]

sketchfab

[wind crow]

have good cars?

and a lot

[sick patio]

yes

[wind crow]

a touareg 2020 is 129$ a good model

[sick patio]

you may need to adjust them for your game though, but that's literally just like a 30 minute process

[wind crow]

oh

[sick patio]

3rd person isn't "less immersive" than 1st?

wait, silent hill is 3rd person, right?

[cedar wave]

That's a weird reply to my comment. I said nothing about immersion

[sick patio]

no not you, but others told me don't do 3rd person because it's "not immersive"

i wasn't accusing you of anything 😦

[twin beacon]

how about first person and VR for full immersion? 🙂

[sick patio]

i was just thinking about that, but i don't have vr, i need that to make a vr?

[bright sigil]

the general trend of horror games has been 1st person, but it depends on the kind of horror. Camera becomes an element of its design. Horror game for most people translates to a walking sim + simple mechanics + creepy stuff. First person view removes a lot of art needs since the character can just be hands (and in some games its not even that)

ive not played them much, but the resident evil games use a 3rd person camera (specifically a close OTS camera) and I've seen this design for most of the series - done right, it can create the right kind of anxiety since there are places, like hallways, that limit how far back the camera can go, adding to the claustrophobic feeling (as well as camera obscura) - some people hate it, some people are fine with it, though there are other aspects of the game as well that add to tension. I am arguing that not all horror games are 1st person. It's about atmosphere and camera work.

[rose sleet]

Hello! Does anyone has any horror assets and props that they wouldn’t mind letting me use for my game?

[kindred depot]

does anyone know what kind of concrete is used underneath the linoleum inside scrappers?

[split jasper]

I'd look on the marketplace, I've seen a ton of free or very cheap horror asset packs on there

[rose sleet]

On epic games marketplace?

[split jasper]

Oh yeah man, if you're not using this pretty frequently you should be, there's like monthly deals and free content drops too https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/store

[rose sleet]

Ohhh ok, I’ll have a look. Thank you!

[simple python]

vr

[split jasper]

You can find good examples of horror games that are either way. I think more horror games are 1st person, but I mean, Dead Space was 3rd person, as is RE.

[rose sleet]

Along with this, i can't actually find any good free horror assets

Is there any materials or like house props that are free that i could use like paintings, signs, lights, chairs, radiators etc

[bright sigil]

i would argue that horror has to do with lighting more than specifically designed assets

in other words, the atmosphere you establish

[rose sleet]

Yeah i do agree with this but i would like to add the little props to make the rooms stand out

also the textures or materials i need for the walls etc

[bright sigil]

well, figure out what you're going to make, roughly, and find the bits and pieces out there

sorry that there isnt a pre-made package just for you

[rose sleet]

Yeah i get that

[open seal]

Hi guys, totally new here. Nice to meet you all. Quick question since tutorial says someting but its not working for me. How do I get an object that is hovering to snap to the ground?

[grim ore]

END key assuming there is collision below it and it has collision

[open seal]

Imma check that, thanks alot

thanks, the table was to close lol

[limber mesa]

What do you guys use to copyright your games?

[vocal flume]

Hi guys! I have an image that is a child of a button.. like Button --> canvas panel --> Image.. Im setting the opacity of the button background to 0.3 when disabled.. It is working correctly. However, the image inside the canvas panel looks grayed out on disabling the button. I dont want them to get grayed out. I want it to look transparent. Is there a way to adjust this?

[trail wedge]

How do I get permission to stream into the Unreal Hangout voice chat lounge? It says I don't have permission.

Just wondering how to stream my screen while working on something

[boreal bluff]

hey,
has anyone used rtx gi in unreal 4.27? I can't seem to get it to work.
I turned on raytracing in the project settings, turned on directx 12
put in the 2 commands in the prompt and added the ddgi volume, but it doesn't seem to work

[novel rover]

this error literally came out of no where
unhandled exception: exception_access_violation reading address 0x0000000000000008
I have no idea what's happening
i make new level new gamemode
it works
old level new gamemode it breaks
new level old game mode it breaks
new level, new gamemode, with the third person character
it breaks
and playing the game in the editor works fine
and this occurs when I open a new level
anyone know a fix?

ok
I'll get the editor symbols when I have the chance to

[soft tree]

do you have two instances of the editor open?

[subtle sequoia]

Hey All, I'm new to unreal and I'm having a issue with my level. I have 0 lights in it yet I'm getting this weird glow/bleed of light coming from the edges and corners of my walls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

[obtuse pivot]

what is a good way to learn unreal engine?

[drowsy snow]

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

[misty crescent]

Ya'll ever just

how dare you make a comment funnier than my post

[drowsy snow]

Oh no
Anyway

[hearty tinsel]

Got a question: I'm currently importing landscape data from a game that splits the landscape textures into tiles like this:

but the issue is is that the landscape has visible seems it caused by the default tiling mode being set to Wrap

is there a way to some how set all of these textures to use tiling method = 'Clamp'

and not by manually setting each one

[drowsy snow]

Select all texture asset -> right click -> Asset Action -> Bulk Edit Via Property Matrix

[daring cedar]

how do I import fbx model with its animation? When I import it doesn't import the animation with it

[hearty tinsel]

you son of a gun 💯

[drowsy snow]

Make sure the FBX actually has anims, and make sure it is a skeletal mesh with Import Animation in the import window enabled.

[daring cedar]

I imported it as skeletal mesh but why the animation asset is static?

I made the animation in maya but it doesn't move in unreal

[drowsy snow]

Probably somewhere in your export settings or whatever. I mainly use Blender.

[limber mesa]

question. trying to add a death widget. have everything set to go but its not reacting to input

could anyone advise

im sure its something basic that im missing out on

[novel rover]

no
I believe it started happening once we started using the hud bp
the one set in the gamemode bp

[novel rover]

make sure it was exported and imported properly
there are probably many tutorials out there regarding thus topic

[drowsy snow]

I already done thousands of export/import from Blender to UE4, and vice versa, but okay

I don't use Maya either

[daring cedar]

I followed a tutorial about export settings but for some reason it doesn't move in unreal

[novel rover]

oh my bad
wrong person
lmao

[novel rover]

when you imported the animation
did you have a skeleton for it to go with in the engine?

[daring cedar]

the model doesn't have a skeleton but I import it as skeletal mesh

Do I have to add a skeleton in maya?

Because It's just a text animation

[torpid stone]

how can I install 4.27.1

[plush yew]

Why is Lumen not working? 🤔

it looks like the light is still static

even though I've set it to movable and set the PostPorcessor volume global illumination to lumen

[drowsy snow]

#lumen

[plush yew]

ah well

ty

[limber mesa]

could anyone help me out with a widget issue that im experiencing?

I try to click on a button attached to a widget and no response

when i clearly have logic there

[maiden flint]

Does anyone know how the engine handles instanced static mesh references? I've been searching around and I cannot find the answer. If I create an instanced static mesh of mesh A in blueprint A, and an instanced static mesh of mesh A in blueprint B, are these entirely separate instances that are drawn separately, or does the engine know these are instances of the same mesh and draw them at the same time?

[grim ore]

You don't you install 4.27.2. If you need that one specifically you will have to compile it from the source code

[torpid stone]

I do have compiled 4.27.1, now I'm running into trouble of compiling plugin 4.27 to 4.27.1. For example the DLSS from nvidia works for my epic 4.27.2 but not my 4.27.1. How do I compile plugins? I tried UAT cmd command but it's always failed. Sorry I'm new to UE

I do have VS2019 with all C++ installed

[novel rover]

Im not too sure

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000008

MPGame!FCompressedAnimSequence::SerializeCompressedData()
MPGame!UAnimSequence::Serialize()
MPGame!FAsyncPackage::EventDrivenSerializeExport()
MPGame!FAsyncPackage::ProcessImportsAndExports_Event()
MPGame!<lambda_80bc01979e59b0f40eccc8afa7a49fda>::operator()()
MPGame!FAsyncLoadingThread::ProcessAsyncLoading()
MPGame!FAsyncLoadingThread::TickAsyncThread()
MPGame!FAsyncLoadingThread::TickAsyncLoading()
MPGame!FAsyncLoadingThread::FlushLoading()
MPGame!FlushAsyncLoading()
MPGame!LoadPackageInternal()
MPGame!LoadPackage()
MPGame!UEngine::LoadMap()
MPGame!UEngine::Browse()
MPGame!UEngine::TickWorldTravel()
MPGame!UGameEngine::Tick()
MPGame!FEngineLoop::Tick()
MPGame!GuardedMain()
MPGame!GuardedMainWrapper()
MPGame!LaunchWindowsStartup()
MPGame!WinMain()
MPGame!__scrt_common_main_seh() [d:\a01_work\6\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]
kernel32
ntdll

This is everything that comes from the crash reporter

[shut nova]

I transferred my material from substance designer to unreal 4 as an SBR file but the tessellation and displacement isn’t showing up. How do I fix this?

[vale canopy]

can i get some help i have this .gitignore file
https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/UnrealEngine.gitignore

it get's rid of all Binaries and dll files but need it to ignore the one closed source dll from the DLSS plugin that i can't regenerate

this is the file nvngx_dlss.dll

[drowsy snow]

You should instruct your collaborators to install the plugin themselves from NVIDIA in their local repos.

[soft fiber]

Anyone here using Auto Rig Pro by chance?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, but this is UE channel, so no question exclusive to just Blender.

[shut nova]

Does anyone know the solution to this?

[soft fiber]

Hardly seems exclusive to Blender.

[drowsy snow]

https://www.dontasktoask.com

[torpid stone]

how can I compile DLSS plugin for a compiled 4.27.1 UE

got DLSS 4.27 from nvidia website, and I'm using UE github branch from oculus

[drowsy snow]

Compile through Visual Studio or Build.bat

[torpid stone]

I've tried and got build error

[sick patio]

QUESTION: is there a city pathing system where the NPCs can walk on the sidewalk and into buildings, but like 0.001% of the time, they might wander in front of a car and maybe either 1. get almost run over, but jump back 2. cause the driving NPCs to cause and accident 3. get run over, which then calls the police, and ambulance?

[torpid stone]

I did install all VS SDK

[soft fiber]

Your example makes no sense. The whole point of Auto Rig Pro is to get models into Unreal.

[drowsy snow]

That's not the whole point of ARP lmao
But I digress

[drowsy snow]

What's the error?

You said you use the engine compiled from source, so I can assume it's less to do with missing VS component

[torpid stone]

Took 30.0513931s to run UnrealBuildTool.exe, ExitCode=6
UnrealBuildTool failed. See log for more details. (C:\2022.01\UnrealEngine\Engine\Programs\AutomationTool\Saved\Logs\UBT-UE4Editor-Win64-Development.txt)
AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=6 (6)
BUILD FAILED

[drowsy snow]

AutomationTool

Are you making installed builds? 🤔

[torpid stone]

I used RunUAT.bat BuildPlugin -

[drowsy snow]

Okay, that error alone is not descriptive enough.

[torpid stone]

also tried putting it in Plugins folder of UE and of the project, also doesn't work

also I'm new to UE

[drowsy snow]

What's the error messages before it?

Heck, post the log file here if you can't spot one.

[torpid stone]

here you go

from what I understand, I downloaded DLSS from nvidia, it was for 4.27.0, and now I need to do something to make it work with 4.27.1. Apparently, when I followed nvidia manual and placed in it UE 4.27.2 comes with Epic launchers, everything work flawlessly, but when I do the same thing to my 4.27.1 project running on UE 4.27.1 github oculus version, it wont load

[drowsy snow]

What in the world is this? Unreal to Unity? 🤔 🤔 🤔

[torpid stone]

it's another plugin

[drowsy snow]

🤔

[torpid stone]

also failed that one

[drowsy snow]

The errors has nothing to do with the DLSS plugin

[torpid stone]

oh wait wrong log

a sec

[drowsy snow]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-ugh-seriously-kimi-no-nawa-anime-gif-17778269

[torpid stone]

yeah this one, but both same problem

I don't really know how to compile plugin separately

[sick patio]

Makoto sama can you answer my question?

[drowsy snow]

Remove that "Unreal to Unity" plugin.
Both UHT and UBT were complaining about it

Or if you insist on keeping it, edit the UPROPERTY on the offending headers to have category specifier, something like this

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "Some Variable")
float SomeVariable;

[drowsy snow]

What question?

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/titan-attack-on-titans-eren-yeager-eren-running-gif-14301773

QUESTION: is there a city pathing system where the NPCs can walk on the sidewalk and into buildings, but like 0.001% of the time, they might wander in front of a car and maybe either 1. get almost run over, but jump back 2. cause the driving NPCs to cause and accident 3. get run over, which then calls the police, and ambulance?

[dense wren]

hello would anyone give me a hand/push/set of tips and advises to create a template/structure on a game exactly like clash royale?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but either you wrote one, look for one on marketplace, or if you're using bleeding edge build from 5.0 branch, use the Mass AI framework

[sick patio]

um, i don't know what my google profile is or who they think I am, but i just got a page full of .gov links for mass ai framework?

[shut nova]

Can someone help me

[sick patio]

surely that's not what you were directing me to?

[drowsy snow]

Mass AI framework is fresh new UE5 feature (not present in Early Access builds), and no, Epic haven't wrote proper docs for it yet

[sick patio]

nothing in ue4?

surely there's a way

[drowsy snow]

Not a built in ready to use one, no.

[sick patio]

you said i can write one?

surely you don't mean code

because

i'm an artiste

me no code

me blueprint officionado

[drowsy snow]

You could still use the built in AI system to assemble some kind of duct taped crowd manager

[drowsy snow]

And that's why you'd hire a gameplay programmer.

[sick patio]

hiring people costs moneez

we talking fiverr?

[drowsy snow]

Getting some open world AI interaction with quality matching that of Rockstar Games is not an easy feat.

[dense wren]

hello would anyone give me a hand/push/set of tips and advises to create a template/structure on a game exactly like clash royale?

[drowsy snow]

No, not fiverr commission, but actually hiring an experienced developer

[sick patio]

let me push you over to unity first of all

[dense wren]

why?

[drowsy snow]

I don't play trash mobile games, so I have no idea.

[sick patio]

it's more suited for it

[dense wren]

why?

why is more suited for it?

[sick patio]

2d is its strength homie

[drowsy snow]

Except Battle Breakers is a UE4 game, and developed by Epic too.

[dense wren]

oh, problem is im more into blueprints

than coding

[sick patio]

experienced developer sounds like "taking out a mortgage" type of money

[dense wren]

are you sure i have nochance of making it in ue4?

[drowsy snow]

You have a chance making it in UE4, but your question has to be more descriptive than that.

[sick patio]

you can make it in ue4, but with a simple switch you would have a much easier time in unity, plus a billion people would help you

[drowsy snow]

I, for one, not playing Clash Royale, or casual mobile games for that matter.

[drowsy snow]

Kinda doubt it but whatever you said.