ue4-general

[tiny zodiac]

I really dont know what to do now. Do i have to change my whole project 😦

[fierce tulip]

learn how to use the profiler, find out where the bottleneck is, research that bottleneck, and find out how you can optimize it.

[tiny zodiac]

ok find bottleneck and profiler. thats what i will study 🧐 🙏

[oblique whale]

Yo, could anyone give me some critisim on a video i made?!

[tiny zodiac]

i can but im no expert 🙂

[oblique whale]

lemme dm you

[obtuse crystal]

@bright sigil

how many years do you use unreal engine

?

[bright sigil]

since UDK, but i also used Unity for a large chunk of time

[obtuse crystal]

what is UDK

[bright sigil]

lol it goes Unreal Engine 1, Unreal Engine 2, Unreal Engine 3, UDK, Unreal Engine 4 and now we have ue5

unreal dev kit

basically unreal engine 3

[obtuse crystal]

wow

[bright sigil]

so maybe 15 years ago, but i also used Unity for like 6 years

[obtuse crystal]

how can i learn ue4
is udemy better than youtube?

[obtuse crystal]

wow thats cool

[bright sigil]

i dunno

i learned udk when there werent really tuts

so it was the hard way as the only way

[obtuse crystal]

where are u from

[bright sigil]

merica

[obtuse crystal]

my english is not very good

[bright sigil]

coulda fooled me

[obtuse crystal]

good but not very good

how

what?

[bright sigil]

lol nvm, i didnt notice any english problems is all

[obtuse crystal]

wow thanks

[bright sigil]

just find tutorials you like, watch them, its all preference

[bright sigil]

ill try not to use slang as much knowing that

[obtuse crystal]

do you earn mony from game dev?

[bright sigil]

yes?

its been my career for the last 15 years or so

[obtuse crystal]

i am just a kid i learned unity for 1 year and then i wanna switch to unreal engine

im 14 years old

[bright sigil]

ah ok

seem to have a few of those around here

[obtuse crystal]

yes

Do you have a game with over 100k downloads?

[bright sigil]

well i started as a 3d artist, so engine was less important, i learned udk and unity for awhile

[obtuse crystal]

or maybe 10k

[bright sigil]

mobile yes, lol

[obtuse crystal]

wow

[rose sleet]

what game?

[bright sigil]

but i worked at a company for that

Max Axe

[rose sleet]

not on ios aha

[bright sigil]

lol yeah...

[obtuse crystal]

ios expensive

[rose sleet]

true

[bright sigil]

ive always had an android phone tho so we eventually did both

100 bucks a year for ios?

[obtuse crystal]

really expensive

[bright sigil]

lol 100?

i guess at a company, thats not a big deal

[rose sleet]

dont you need to pay £100 to put your game up on steam?

[bright sigil]

yea, but if you make 1000 back in revenue you get the 100 back

[obtuse crystal]

in america economy is good but im living in turkey and my coutry is not rich :(

[rose sleet]

yeah my game wont make 1 aha

[bright sigil]

ah gotcha

[obtuse crystal]

100 dolars is alot of mony in here

[rose sleet]

also does that include purchases of the game or just in game purchases?

[bright sigil]

we might need to move over to #career-chat there are some great people who frequent that channel who can also offer insight

[split jasper]

I mean if you've got a game that's otherwise ready to go, I'm sure you could find a publisher happy to front the money

[bright sigil]

im not sure

[indigo falcon]

can anybody please help me with this

[split jasper]

#packaging

[indigo falcon]

yes i already know its not accepting names

but how do i whitelist them

u tried everything its killing me

[gloomy sierra]

Hi there. Starting my UE journey. I'm in UE5 and downloaded some project files associated with a tutorial on UE's site. The project will open but will be blank (nothing in the world outliner). I am able to find content in the content drawer. I have tried opening the project in UE4.27 and UE4.20 (which the project was created in). The results are the same. I feel like I am missing some obvious step. Any guidance is appreciated! Thanks

[grim ore]

@indigo falconwhat did you try to do to fix it? your supposed to rename the folders

@gloomy sierraif you can see the content, like models and textures and such, chances are its just not opening any map by default. the output log would have errors. For the most part you wnt to open a project in the correct version, or a later one, and it should work

without any more info on the project that is failing, or screenshots, theres not much else to suggest

[indigo falcon]

@grim ore can i whitelist them and only folder or files aswell?

[gloomy sierra]

Thank you for the reply. I'm going to take a look at the output log

[grim ore]

you shouldnt try and whitelist them, you should fix the folders. If you insist on trying to whitelist them then its the folder

[obtuse crystal]

is udemy better than youtube?
do you need a udemy course to learn unreal engine4 ?
how did you learn?

[grim ore]

use the learning courses that epic gives you for free, read the pinned messages in here

[plush yew]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to unreal and am trying to see how ActorComponents work. I'm creating a pawn and creating a custom AIController for it and in the AIController constructor I have

AMyAIController::AMyAIController()
{
    if (!HasAuthority())
        return;

    component = CreateDefaultSubobject<UMyActorComponent>("MyComponent");
}

And for the ActorComponent I have

void UMyActorComponent::TickComponent(float DeltaTime, ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction* ThisTickFunction)
{
    Super::TickComponent(DeltaTime, TickType, ThisTickFunction);

    UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("[%s] TickComponent from ActorComponent"), *GetOuter()->GetName());
}

I would expect to see just MyAIController being printed in the log but it's also printing the pawn name? Is GetOuter() changing between the AIController and the pawn?

This is what the log looks like
https://i.imgur.com/3ileL8T.png

[errant cedar]

This is a total noob question but I'm confused. My 3rd person starter maps all have input in game. When I launch that 3rd person map from a menu, my game doesn't have input

[tight crystal]

hey

anyone want to make a game

or need help with one

[obtuse crystal]

did you learn from there?

[grim ore]

@obtuse crystalno, I learned by doing but I've been doing it for decades. for starting out those pinned messages are good.

[shell surge]

hey guys, does anyone have an idea why my camera goes under my mesh when i click play ?

it should be behind the mesh, but it goes under it when there is a landscape

[tight crystal]

unpaid its just for fun

[nimble ibex]

ummm i gues help?

as you see

my model

i cant

describe it

[tight crystal]

i found a game i want to add new anim/map and fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SFu3uoFQIM&t=40s

[shell surge]

any ideas what is wrong with the camera?

[tight crystal]

tf😂

n

o

oops

[keen charm]

Do you guys use UE. Blender or ZBrush for your projects?
I know it depends a lot on what you're doing, the requirements and pro's and con's of each and that sometimes they're used together??

[obsidian nimbus]

i use UE

pro ... its not used for sculpting

[north bane]

Anyone know if there's a clever way to have spline hair's transmission be occluded by the mesh its attached to? My hair grooms look super with backlight

[formal pecan]

anybody know how to get this size box and this huge icon out of the way? This just started showing for me and I have no clue what I did to turn it on

[gloomy sierra]

I believe you are correct about the map not opening by default. I searched for the missing file in the downloaded project files. Didn't find anything. There isn't even a 'Map' folder. I did find a .umap that when opened in the content drawer brought the project alive. I pointed DefaultEngine.ini to that .umap file and now it opens on load. Should I assume that the downloaded project files were erroneous or incomplete? Is my solution an acceptable one? I don't want to develop bad habits. Thanks again

[vagrant hornet]

Any good in depth documentation on how to use the new water plugin?

I’ve watched Unreal’s deep dive and release video but they didn’t really explain how it worked

[vapid rune]

How do I fix this landscape to make it smooth ( Yes I tryed Smooth tool but it does'nt work )

[drowsy snow]

I use Blender and UE on almost daily basis

[pale token]

Im really sorry, I need some help over in #cinematics , it's kinda a desperate rush 😭

[tiny valley]

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[drowsy snow]

Someone had his phone in his trousers pocket

[dawn gull]

Are there issues with the "Get Data Table Row" node after initial runtime? It works in construction script when the level loads up but when I spawn in an actor the construction script doesnt work and I've traced it down to that node

[drowsy snow]

Try doing it in BeginPlay instead

[dawn gull]

I already have, it has the same behavior

[daring cedar]

I have a card scanner model and want it to play widget when I overlap the 3d card with it. How do I do it?

[dawn gull]

This is my code, it outputs Row Not Found for the second circumstance where I spawn it in at runtime

[dawn gull]

Box Collision?

[daring cedar]

What command should I use? Actor Begin Overlap > ???

[dawn gull]

Yeah, begin overlap and then check what actor it is and see if it's your card

[rose sleet]

Hey so in my game i have a cupboard where you can open the draws and inside one of the draws there is a key, How do i make it so when the character open the draw the key is still in the draw and not floating where i placed it

[distant totem]

Press G to toggle it on and off, Press T to toggle selecting through transparent things like windows and particle effects (like that box)

[distant siren]

why would my character's face change if I apply the mannequin skeleton?

[modest trench]

what does apply mean in this context?

[tepid haven]

Can someone give me a explanation of the purpose of a loading screen? I assume it's so the player doesn't see the laggyness of the level loading but I guess where I get lost is how/why do people manage that? I feel like I just load my level using the load level node and it takes a few seconds I just don't see the point I guess but I really want to understand. Sorta has been something I've always questioned but never understood

[dawn gull]

Depends on the game and what it does but yeah it's mainly loading things into RAM and loading actors into the scene, the CPU can't do all of that at once so it does it one by one and freezes the character while it does that so stuff isnt messed up, but in my game with procedural stuff while the loading screen is up chunks are loading in and it's finding the planet to land on

[drowsy snow]

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

[regal narwhal]

Hello. How can an actor draw a line with movement?

[cedar wave]

Build a bigger level, it'll take way longer.

[ashen zodiac]

Hello to everyone

i'd have a question .i'm pretty new to UE. so I'm was just looking around some textures, trying out different materials in UE, i've found that most of the textures i downloaded/tried out, the have a "height" texture also.. first i thought it's for the roughness.. where on earth do i connect the height texture in UE ?

[tepid haven]

So is there node's or something that tell you what has been loaded so that you know if it's finished, you get what I mean?

[drowsy snow]

You don't, actually.
Raster renderers like Unreal can't make up true displacement like true path traced rendering would. Often times using displacement map on World Position Offset is useless, especially if the geometry itself doesn't support the shape of the displacement.

[tepid haven]

Or a way to make the game load everything before spawning the player controller, I just don't know how to get that separation I guess

[drowsy snow]

If you use Level Streaming / Async Level Load, yes.
The limitation is that you can't have dynamic loading screens when changing persistent levels.

[ashen zodiac]

so, it means it's enough if i tweak the lerp on roughness, it would make the same effect.. well i'll just discard the height textures for now. Thanks a bunch

[dawn gull]

Yeah, and if you were to try and get a number for predicting how far along in loading something is it would be pretty hard because it depends on your optimization and the player's hardware
But if just loading in a new level is taking so long you need a progress bar maybe that's a signal you need to improve some stuff

[drowsy snow]

And that's when you need to dive deep into the code (C++)

Or using evil sub level per actor type hack.

[dawn gull]

Yep

[drowsy snow]

There's not a whole lot you can do with just BP when it comes to loading screen.
But FWIW there's not many games do progress bar loading nowadays

Often times it's as simple as something is animating to let the player know the game is currently loading, and not crashing.

[tepid haven]

Ima research it a little more but your saying I can use level streaming/async open level to be able to know when the level has finished loading at least so in the time in-between I can have a loading screen up so the player doesn't see anything? Does it also help with performance that the game isn't rendering anything while loading the level because the loading screen is up?

[drowsy snow]

Performance wise, it's not automatic, but you can have the async load not rendering the loaded sublevel until finish.

[dawn gull]

If you just want a screen in between levels you can use this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3FHJ8WA-MA
Doesn't have animations or the percentages though

[drowsy snow]

Using level streaming is kind of faking the loading screen, as, again, you can't change persistent level if you want to have animated loading screen. That could work for linear games, as you know what your persistent level expects to load which sublevel, but for open world level where World Composition do the level streaming, it's not a feasible solution.

[true ridge]

What would be a good way to dictate what a weapon or armor piece does to a modular character mesh? I have an inventory struct that stores all the relevant stats/prices/item stacking info already. When it comes time to actually put a weapon mesh in the player's hand, with extra VFX/danglies attached to it, what would be a good way to store that info?

I was thinking of using actor BPs that have everything attached to a root component. I could store a reference to the actor class within the data table for inventory items and spawn the actor at runtime when the player goes to equip an item. Though, I'm just not sure of any pitfalls with that method.

[wild dagger]

Someone that could explain the first 2 lines StreamingTexturePool and TextureMemoryPool, are these 2 separate pools or is it the same pool? And is the 1000mb memory that is actually allocated to each currently in use, meaning the total memory used during that screenshot is aproximately 2228Mbs?

[soft fiber]

Ran into an issue importing a mesh into UE4. The hair cap is poking through the bandanna in UE4 even though they are both painted to the max? Any chance there is an import setting I was supposed to click?

[hot maple]

Is it safe to delete assets from the content folder outside of the editor? Everytime I try to delete a certain folder it crashes the editor once it hits 100%, and doesn't delete anything ;-;

[drowsy snow]

Don't delete them outside the editor unless it's a last resort

[hot maple]

[woven granite]

I haven't had many issues adding and deleting stuff from outside but I always close the editor before I do it

[hot maple]

I just deleted the wrong folder fml. bouta just do it outside editor

[thick loom]

Is your project in source control?

[hot maple]

The folder I deleted wasn't 😭

This is the error popping up in my ide everytime it crashes from trying to delete the folder i've been trying to delete https://pastebin.com/XTTvk0HL

That's the end of the log in Rider

there is nothing past that.

The editor crashed. It shutdown.

I had the debugger attached at first but it would keep stopping at one line. It wouldn't continue.

Well i got the folder deleted. I went through and deleted everything inside all the subfolders manually 😅

[dire parcel]

hey don’t wanna spam the wrong channel

what would be the appropriate channel to ask about “placing weapon more on hand for FPS project”

For instance here’s a picture

[dire parcel]

Thanks I’ll try there

[marble leaf]

Hey everyone, wondering how I would go about making it so there is always a shadow below my third person character when they are jumping

any links to resources or advice would be welcome!

[cloud aurora]

yo what collision type should i have for dropped ammo? i have tried a bunch and i t either has my player step over it (therefore he cant pick it up) or it falls through the floor pls lmk

[timid spade]

how do i get an animnotify to fire something inside another blueprint

this doesnt work

ive tried casting but cant decide what to set object to

[ruby quarry]

Hey all, I've developed a couple of issues with Unreal that I'm hoping someone might have solutions for.

1. When I right click to move around my scene, if I'm not already moving the mouse, all that happens is I end up selecting whatever object my mouse is over and I can't move around at all until I let go and try again. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries before I get it right.

2. After a while of working my menus stop working properly. When I click one, it just flashes for a moment and then goes away. When this happens, hotkeys also stop working.

If anyone has a solution to either problem, I'd be super grateful. Thank you.

[timid spade]

basically, a bullet casing is spawned in when the bolt animation starts and i want it to detach and then launch off when a different notify occurs, however nothing is working for me

[hot maple]

Pretty sure the answer is going to be no but, you can't downgrade your unreal projects to a older version, can you? And you definitely can't go from UE5 to UE4, correct?

And I imagine there'd be issues in just migrating/moving assets from newer->older.

[ruby quarry]

I wouldn't expect it to go well but I've never tried. A big question is, why would you want to?

[hot maple]

Well my ue5 project is having some pretty serious issues at the moment that I haven't had much luck in fixing. So I'm just basically getting a contingency plan in place in case I need to go back. I'd rather stay in ue5 honestly, but just wanna prepare for a worst case scenario

As for the issue, the short of it is here: #ue5-general message

The long part of it is discussed throughout the cpp channel but I'm stumped for the night on it

[ruby quarry]

Hmmm, I've got nothing for you. Sorry. Hopefully someone else can help.

[severe solstice]

is there any trees in bridge? cant seem to find any

[plush yew]

there's megascan tree's in marketplace for free

[clever marsh]

yo so this is just a general ue question but I am on ue5. I have an AI, and when i run towards the AI, once i get to him, the camera jumps and clips into the ai, sorry if I explained that badly but when my character is against the ai, the camera jumps and I can see inside the ai

[peak pendant]

Difference between Unreal Engine NDisplay vs Disguise

[orchid lodge]

Anyone know why my lighting is so blocky

I looked online and it says it has something to do with my lightmass but ive played with a ton of settings and nothing rly changes

Nvm I always figure it out just after posting here, Just set it to move

[restive summit]

Is anyone here particularly good at reading crash dump files? I am currently having an issue with my shipping builds. What is happening is I can Play the shipping build 1 time, as soon as I exit and go back in its an immediate crash and just says "Fatal Error". I do not have this issue at all when I am launching the game using "right click on Uproject > Launch Game" I also do not have any errors in the editor either in my output log when doing the same repro steps.

[haughty dock]

is there i can show cursor and hide cursor without changing gamemodes

like for opening menus and stuff

[clever marsh]

@haughty dock yes just get player controller then connect it to set mouse cursor

for example

[haughty dock]

ohhh

yeah

thank you so much

also when i export a project i can't export for windows(i am on mac btw)

i can only export for mac

[bright sigil]

oof

maybe #packaging or #macos can help

[clever marsh]

yeah I have no idea lmao

[haughty dock]

ohh

ok

[smoky hull]

i need advice

i am developing a simulator game and im thinking about making my own engine (already far with the rendering engine)

Now, UE isnt really modding friendly but thats really important for simulators…

can someone help me?

its not too late to change engine

[drowsy snow]

If you got that far with your own engine, might as well work on it if you can 🤷

[drowsy snow]

And while UE isn't that mod friendly, you can, at least, reach out Epic for licensing the editor as a modding kit

[smoky hull]

I really want to go for my own engine but i am aware that i might never finish it nor my game

its a hard decision and im kinda dissatisfied with UE honestly

Id rather have a simple engine thats made for a single direction

And i think UE isnt the best choice for simulators in general. I would definitely make a GTA with it though

[drowsy snow]

UE has saw use case of simulations and serious games tho

[flint dagger]

Sounds like you've made your decision, friend.

You can either modify Unreal to your needs and strip it down, add what you need and build on it. Or do your own.

But honestly, that in itself is kind of a massive effort too. It's engineering.

[grave pollen]

from what I've seen so far the UE4 water system works in tandem with a landscape. If my map has no landscape can I even use the water system? Am I better off just grabbing a store asset with water?

[bright sigil]

do you need to use the water system?

is it just water off in the distance?

[grave pollen]

players will be standing in it, like a small river

I suppose I can just add a plane w/ water material the camera will be far enough away its closer to top down than third person

[bright sigil]

the water system has physics to it and some shaders so its rather expensive

[storm wigeon]

When creating an emissive with more then one color on the same poly, How do you stop the white from washing out the rest of the color or blacks ?

[grave pollen]

gotchya ya im just using a plane for now w/ water material it looks fine tbh lol

wont be any underwater or ocean-type stuff anyways so its fine

[drowsy snow]

Either actually reduce the emissive level, or increase the bloom threshold

[rancid lynx]

is it possible to have two different material INSTANCES on two different meshes stored inside the same InstancedStaticMeshComponant ? surely its not right ? i just want to make sure.

[rancid lynx]

You should be able to open the image in microsoft paint or what not and manually shift that white, background color to something say 5x (.2?)less. which would mean the emission gets applied much less, in otherwords, lower the Red Green Blue channels on that white background down much further to a .5 grey or something. Im really not sure. thats just my guess. Im not sure but I imagine pure black cant emissive, and grey only emisses half as much as white. Im really not sure.

[karmic radish]

Hey everyone. I've got an issue with a fresh project (FPS template) that started with UE5. I've created a few projects and each of them seems to be missing IDLE animation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/s94fwl/does_anyone_else_have_a_broken_template_for_fpp/htkmw7r/?context=3

[native goblet]

guys, ive been looking answer for how to put our UE scene into ledwall? do i need to render it first or just leave it on viewport?

[mellow flame]

do you know why sometimes i get this kind of warnings in the log? what is this? this is the first time i notice this in almost 2 years

[topaz adder]

You could look in #virtual-production also ndisplay is a good search term to start off on. You could also pre-render your scene, or just play it in standalone and place your viewport on the LED screen. It really depends on what you're trying to achieve

[topaz adder]

Most probably unreal is trying to send usage statistics to their server and it has no connection

[rose sleet]

how do i check what requirements your pc needs for my game?

[dire zodiac]

Very stupid question

how can i create a c++ class in unreal5

i cant find the button

and im going crazy

[drowsy snow]

Should be on File -> New C++ class

[dire zodiac]

yeah

should be, but its not there 😢

[fiery sluice]

Hi Guys

[abstract marsh]

Oof

Hi

[whole abyss]

I'm wondering, does anyone know a good approach to do crawling/being prone

with a character controller, or maybe a custom one

All i can find, use the built in character controller, modified so the height of the capsule is really small, but with that half of the characters body would still be able to clip through walls

[native goblet]

ok, i will try read more about ndisplay. thankyou!

[rough knoll]

is there a way to check if a character is inside of a navmesh?

maybe collision but im not sure

[drowsy snow]

Try adding another collision for the horizontal orientation

[whole abyss]

on top of the character controller? Or with a completely custom one

last time i tried, i had a lot of trouble modifying the char controller

[drowsy snow]

Just in your Character class, not Player Controller.

[rough knoll]

figured this out.. my only issue is that despite calling StopMovementImmediately on every tick the character can still move... albeit only slightly

i could use disable movement, but then they'd never be able to get back in

[fathom bone]

Compiling shaders are too slow than usual. I Tried to comple 120 shaders and that took 1h, 120 shaders before was just 3-4 minutes or even 1 minute sometimes.

[arctic plover]

I have to use distance field meshes for certain effects now. How is the performance impact and is there some general advice you could give me before I start with that? So far I avoided using them.

[low geyser]

[random summit]

how do I move something in here like the mesh up in the hierarchy? I'd expect if i dragged it over "Content" it would move it to there but it doesnt

[vale root]

I'm trying to create a new project though it can't get pass 39% and uses 100% of my cpu

[low geyser]

thats neat

[vale root]

apparently it only happens when creating a VR project

[muted karma]

is being a game dev worth it?

[covert haven]

it's compiling shaders, might take up to a couple of hours if your cpu is a potato chip

[low geyser]

u gotta have the brain of a zombie

[random summit]

awesome, exactly what i needed thanks

[muted karma]

what you mean by that lol

[low geyser]

ikr what does he mean by that

[vale root]

I'm aware of that though I find it odd since it only happens on VR projects, literally anything else loads up in a minute or so

[covert haven]

Probably the rendering settings are different so that the shaders miss the DDC

[vale root]

I've looked into it and apparently it's an issue that shipped with the 4.24 version, haven't found any way to fix it though

[rain badger]

HELP! I accidentally closed the bar along the top of the page (just under 'file, edit, etc..) How do I bring it back??

[bleak zodiac]

Window > Toolbar

[glass jasper]

Is there a way to make the default First and Third person player movements more smooth? Sort of adding an artificial "ease" to the start, stop, and pan?

[wide quarry]

how can i disable the light comming from hdr backdrop ?

i just want the visual

[cobalt nimbus]

im trying to do a IR camera and Thermal camera but all the tutorials i see do this to the entire screen. I want just a screen. I have a IR one set up using a Render Target. I can't seem to figure it out for thermal. can anyone help?

[royal dragon]

Is there a tool which would bulk insert a material function into multiple materials?

[calm geyser]

What's the download size for Unreal Engine 4.27.2?

[gloomy sierra]

I believe it will depend on your install options. Mine sits at ~45gb

[thick herald]

disabling everything that isn't PC related, you'll be looking at around 18GB

Assuming you are not talking about the source version

[calm geyser]

yup, thanks for help dude : D

[calm geyser]

Thanks : )

[fierce tulip]

sadly, no.

[plush yew]

dumb question, if I use unreal engine from source, do all members of my team have to use the same unreal engine source or could they use it from the epic games one?
and if I don't have the source folder in my C drive (SSD) does unreal engine run slower?

[grim ore]

@plush yewif you are building on the same branch or tag they should be compatible. and the source folder is only for building, once you build you can put the build version anywhere. Wherever it's running from will determine the speed, so yeah mechanical will be slower

[faint delta]

Hey all, any body have any experience with creating assets with Python in the editor? Currently, I'm trying to automate taking folder full of Texture2D assets and use them to generate PaperSprites with them. All is well, except that if the sprites already exist (but I want to replace them), the editor will prompt me if I want to replace the old sprite or make the new one unique. It does this for every sprite, and at volume, my project will have hundreds. so clicking "Yes" on each dialog box for each newly generated sprite is just a no go. Any suggestions?

[grim ore]

can you check to see if they exist? and if so delete them before importing that replacement?

[faint delta]

yeah but they are being used downstream, so I need to actually replacement

[marble leaf]

Is there a way to mask out a single color in an image texture?

[thick herald]

There are chromakey material functions, no idea if they will do what you need though.

[dreamy zenith]

im trying to make a projectile that chains to enemies after initial hit, any tips?

[obsidian nimbus]

prolly do some bigger collision capsule, and get overlapping actors to get all close enemies

[dreamy zenith]

i'll try that

[obsidian nimbus]

than mayB do some rico or something so the chain makes some sense

[dreamy zenith]

rico?

[obsidian nimbus]

a bullet bounce

[dreamy zenith]

oh ok

[obsidian nimbus]

dunno what kind of projectile it is, could cluster or something'

[dreamy zenith]

thanks for the help

[obsidian nimbus]

just sending it to the next target is not gunna be verry bullet like4

so after the 1st hit what is the logic that makes it chain, is it magnetic... heat seeking or something else

[slender ravine]

does someone knows the best tutorial where i can learn ue4

[dreamy zenith]

electric, like chain lignting

[obsidian nimbus]

so get all overlap enemies... get 3 closest enemies go there from there do it again with less range and less damage... something like that

[faint delta]

found it lmao, its under unreal.EditorAssetLibrary.consolidate_assets incase anybody needs it

[worthy estuary]

Hey Guys I need some help i want to make if the player loses the same level restarts but i don't know how so can anyone help plz?

[obsidian nimbus]

or mayB have some metal poles around the level go there and get anything on the way there

this would count as custom gameplay mechanic cuz u have to account for where the poles might be

or metal conductors or something

current takes the most easy path, not the shortest

[sick patio]

#graphics

sorry

wait, why does it disappear?

[obsidian nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/joker-its-gone-tada-gif-15960040

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/liam-neeson-i-will-find-you-taken-gif-5593626

DUMB QUESTION: has anyone done the 50 part tutorial series by Ben Cloward on JUST materials?

please?

[obsidian nimbus]

no, but i know what a panner is

[sick patio]

#sigh i don't even know what that is yet

It's just that he puts a material function ... wait for it ... in a material function .... not done yet .... in a material function... and doesn't explain the nodes

[obsidian nimbus]

guess what

[sick patio]

what?

[obsidian nimbus]

there are nodes in the function aswell 🙂

[sick patio]

get out of town

really?

[obsidian nimbus]

some of those nodes might also be functions

[sick patio]

I was about to say

[obsidian nimbus]

and guess what

[sick patio]

what?

[obsidian nimbus]

there is more stuff inside there

[sick patio]

he literally pulled a ... OH BY THE WAY... this node here .... IS A MATERIAL FUNCTION

[obsidian nimbus]

the unreal docs on materials are not too bad

[sick patio]

well the real problem is, ignoring that he doesn't go over the nodes, i can't see the nodes. i only have a 1440p monitor

[obsidian nimbus]

i have 1440. never had that problem

[rough knoll]

for maps, i can find a value from the key. can i find a key from a value?

i.e. if 20 corresponds to 2, can i find the key 2 using the value of 20

or would i have to for each through each and every key to see if the value matches

[grim ore]

not directly as there can be duplicates, you can get all values which should output an array then do a contains/find on that array

[dreamy zenith]

how does one make so you can make a actor bounce to a set location

[vagrant hornet]

How to reset plugins to default?

[teal tulip]

it's there a way to scale a group of meshes a a single element ?

[dreamy zenith]

yes

you can cast to the mesh and apply the scale

[plush yew]

how to make it so when the player walks or runs the camera moves too

yeah

yeah didnt know how its called

so how to do that

[grim ore]

you can google for it, there are some tutorials. there is something built in for shake for the camera

[plush yew]

thx

also how do i scale an object without the texture getting bigger

[cedar wave]

@grim ore Would you mind if I poke you for a design question? Or would you prefer not?

[shell surge]

hey guys, im using the timeline to make a door open, but how can I make it rotate on 2 axis at the same time?

I hope i made sense lol

[rocky epoch]

you mean that?

[shell surge]

uhm if that will make the object rotate on 2 axis at the same time

I have a lamborghini door that i want to open not only by the side, but to go up and side like real lambo opens doors

[rocky epoch]

you can add new track and it can output different values

ah, I see

yeah, probably that would work, you have the track for one axis, and an other for the other axis

they probably need different numbers, maybe different curve also

[whole hazel]

hello everyone, I'm new here, decided to search for UE community discord server since I need some assistance and I'm not getting much answers from another discord (at all actually), here's my question (I'll just copy pasta),
can someone give me a hand with UE5, I'm stuck and my mind is blocked, basically I have a gem that's an FX, it doesn't have a blueprint and I want to attach one to it,
I want that gem to have a box collision so when the character interacts with it thanks to the box collision, there is a certain functionality that runs from the blueprint..
sadly I'm unable to figure out how to do that, shall I make a blueprint with just a box collision and in the event graph do all the functionality and then place the FX (niagara system item) plus that blueprint I just made with the box collision and the functionality in order to execute on character interaction? or is there an easier way where I could place the whole object inside the game that looks like the FX but also has BP attached to it, it would just speed up the process of the game I'm working on, thanks in advance for your assistance ❤️

[shell surge]

yeah that worked

thanks

[rocky epoch]

great, cheers :)

[whole hazel]

also sorry if I didn't use the correction section, wasn't sure if I should ask here or in #blueprint

alright, I made a new BP, regarding the NiagaraSystem component, do I do it from the "add button" on left side panel because it says "Niagara Particle System"?
also, how do I link that FX I want specifically to the blueprint? thanks a lot for the help!

EDIT: NVM, GOT IT!

@ebon linden thanks a lot

I think I got it

I'm so happy right now 😄

[clever marsh]

I wanna set up a system where after a wave of enemies are killed, it spawns a new wave, how would I do that?

I already have the first wave set up btw, when the game starts, it waits 10 seconds then spawns the enemies but I really just wanna know how to do a function after all the enemies are killed

[weak shuttle]

Any tips on applying for the unreal engine grant? A working game demo that looks good and fully-fleshed out be best? Containing gameplay? As an individual is it unlikely I'd be accepted?

[prime willow]

what do i do if my assets arent updating

in my launcher

i even reinstalled my launcher and no fix

[merry stone]

does anyone know whats happening here?

[drowsy snow]

What do you mean not updating in the launcher?

[prime willow]

the asset mmkers are saying their assets are updated

and people are using those updated assets

but i dont see the orange dot that lets me update my assets

and idk why the heck thats the case

ive noticed it with a ton of assets :/

my rpg stuff, combat stuff, and a few more

[versed star]

Do you guys have any tips for making enemy combat more engaging? I currently just have enemies that just tail the player and either stop a short distance away or get in their face to melee.

[weak shuttle]

You could try looking at how SM64 enemy AI works as they have some pretty basic approaches. I believe 007 also has it's AI decomped too. You might glean some ideas from that.

[versed star]

Hm ok sounds good I'll check that out

[drowsy snow]

I had this issue before, but it went away after few restarts, kinda random tbh

[merry stone]

when I package my game it says package complete but no folder appears in the directory

[drowsy snow]

Also look into the classic Doom AI for even simpler approach to AI.
https://youtu.be/f3O9P9x1eCE

Honestly I never directly looked much on Nintendo games for reference lol

[prime willow]

so just open and close my launcher over and over

or restart my pc over nad over

[drowsy snow]

Well, doesn't hurt trying the magic bullet.

The launcher do have some kind of dementia at times

[prime willow]

the magic bullet?

o-o

[bright sigil]

like when you realize a serious error before it does

[prime willow]

maybe its because i have too many assets?

[bright sigil]

then it crashes

[prime willow]

;-;

[drowsy snow]

Unlikely. I have amassed several dozen assets over the years from the monthly free assets

[humble salmon]

@plush yew thats the old GDD, i never updated it. Dont be so quick to bloody block man xD

[drowsy snow]

Vertical slice of your game, basically.

[deep arrow]

Ayoo wassup

Any unreal engine artist/programmer looking for a job ?

[humble salmon]

Vyan depends what it is

[drowsy snow]

And no, Epic Mega Grants don't discriminate individuals over team/companies

[deep arrow]

Can i share a pic on this channel ?

[humble salmon]

no, DM me

[deep arrow]

Sure

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions on how to post to job boards channels 🙂

[calm pollen]

this might be a stupid question but how would I make an infinite falling type game?

kinda like a 2d endless runner but vertical falling instead of horizontal running

[drowsy snow]

By faking it: move the platforms upwards, generate new one from the bottom and destroy it when it reaches certain distance.

[bright sigil]

i actually made one last year

[calm pollen]

ahh so make the character never actually midair

[calm pollen]

could you explain how the infinite generating kinda worked? I have made several horizontal infinite runners but not a vertical

[drowsy snow]

Randomly spawn new platforms within a fixed Z axis.

[calm pollen]

would it be possible to just use the same platform for the whole gameplay till the player "dies"*

[drowsy snow]

Yes, at least you can have a seed system for the randomiser

[bright sigil]

The player looks like they fall but its just an anim. I had inputs for up/down and right/left movement. I have 4 colliders outside the camera bounds that would destroy actors when they reached them. The obstacles move up or whatever direction (i had all 4 directions), pretty standard interp movement.

[calm pollen]

yeah my plan was to have obstacles that slow and speed up the player, so obv now they would just change the speed of the invisible platforms

then have randomized locations of the spawn points for the items/obstacles/etc

thanks so much guys i appreciate it 🙂

[split jasper]

What the heck does this mean in Replace References? Why doesn't Consolidate Assets become clickable when I select it? I'm just trying to replace one Physical Material with another

[bright sigil]

i did this stuff too, I would randomly spawn enemies along the axis, the clouds slow down the player. The only thing that blocks the player is the hot air balloon, everything else are overlaps

[split jasper]

Apparently it doesn't like that the phys mat I'm trying to replace this with has a different parent class, even though they are both physical materials

[prime willow]

is there a chance the assets are auto updating? @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

No, you'd have to manually update it, or remove the asset's vault cache

[prime willow]

if i remove the vault cache

would the assets be lost forever

or need updating/downloading

[prime willow]

^

[drowsy snow]

You'd have to redownload it.

[prime willow]

okie than ill do that :3

[split jasper]

How do I make a new data asset class?

[prime willow]

so just delete my vault folder

than i find each asset 1 by 1

or will my account still have it in its list?

[drowsy snow]

Just the asset's folder, actually

[wheat tundra]

what is a good game platform where i can sell my game and it will automatically update it

[drowsy snow]

And no, wiping local vault cache won't wipe all the assets you've purchased and listed in the launcher

[drowsy snow]

Epic Games Store.

[wheat tundra]

i heard it's hard to get your game on it

[prime willow]

so i reset my cache folder

[split jasper]

Like... literally all of them I think?

[prime willow]

and now i lost my locale thingie

so im hoping this'll fix it :3

[split jasper]

I can't think of a game store platform that doesnt' have auto-updates

[wheat tundra]

where are they? (the platform)

i want to know so i can compare them

[drowsy snow]

Well, if your game is shit, then it's hard.

[split jasper]

What? I mean like, Steam, Epic Games Store, Origin, PSO, Xbox, they all have auto update

[idle bear]

How would one go about interfacing with a data rest API (GET request's maybe POST also using JSON) in UE via BPs?
or to use "FETCH"?

[prime willow]

he was really called oatman

[wheat tundra]

ok

[prime willow]

that better be a canon asf character in your game

or im going to be very upset @idle bear

[wheat tundra]

it's not shit but it's also not a AAA game

[prime willow]

never call your games crud :/

[drowsy snow]

Indies can go to EGS, as there are plenty of good indie games there.

[prime willow]

as long as youre adding value to the industry in any way done better or more uniquely than a publisher beforehand

[split jasper]

I'm mad curious about this too actually lemme know if you get an answer

[prime willow]

youre going gods work

[wheat tundra]

i don't think my game is good enough

[prime willow]

some of the best games to ever release used systems learned from other indie developers

dont worry about being the next not cyberpunk

just make something you could play for years over

[idle bear]

C++ library would probably be the answer, but I'm using BP's.
So hunting down the best option.

[prime willow]

as long as you enjoy your game people will adore it as you are your worst critic and making your game can kill the magic behind it, so if you love it most will be enthralled~

[wheat tundra]

I'm gonna make a story mode

[split jasper]

Look into this https://github.com/ufna/VaRest

[wheat tundra]

at first i wanted to make a multiplayer with a bunch of small game modes

but maybe I'll start with single player so i can learn some stuff

[drowsy snow]

Try make a pitch about your game, in very brief sentence

[wheat tundra]

you play with or against your friends online in a bunch of game modes

one game mode was supposed to be a tdm but you lose win points by pushing enemies off the map

etc

[drowsy snow]

So basically party game?

[wheat tundra]

but i don't think I know enough about unreal to do that yet

[wheat tundra]

yeah

i prefer to go single player first so i can be more comfortable with unreal

[weary ermine]

So having a little trouble with this. Trying to get an accurate travel time to an actor. Right now I am calculating it by taking the distance to target actor dividing it by the character movement max speed, but because I am not taking into account the acceleration the ai actor is arriving just a few beats too late. My timing window on this is pretty precise so any better solution would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[versed star]

Is there any reason why this isn't working when I try to attach a particle to a rocket?

[drowsy snow]

What makes your party game going to be fun?

As AI player is concerned, party games typically went with local MP first, then based on the established rules, make AI players out of them

[versed star]

Nevermind I figured it out. Made a really dumb mistake earlier .

[wheat tundra]

honestly i don't know, that's why I want to focused on making smaller single player games first

then when i feel ready I'll go multiplayer

but now there is another problem

what should I do for the single player

[drowsy snow]

Try joining for some relaxed game jams, or message @buoyant granite for !gameidea

[wheat tundra]

yo Manny gimme ideas

oh messaging him

Manny got some weird ideas

A game where you grow an airship on a farm. The twist: your sidekick is a monster who can't stop eating.

[tropic jasper]

Little issue, i have a cutscene im trying to play once the player hits the collsion, everything works, but the player or screen does not change into the cine camera to show what its playing. though it does start playing and flying through the map as it should but leaves the player idle at the ending

[drowsy snow]

Here's the one that make more sense
I'm thinking of survival top down twin stick shooter in the vein of Smash TV

Discord UI is weird.

[wheat tundra]

it is

[real patrol]

is it possible to make static meshes rotate-in-place inside the editor? ie, i'm not moving them, but they slowly rotate. I know they can move when the game is running

[plush yew]

Anyone know where I can get car file that can be used in unreal engine 4 ???

[sick patio]

is there a way to screencapture just the little preview window in the material blueprint?

[plush yew]

I am new to unreal engine

[sick patio]

free car?

[plush yew]

Yea

[sick patio]

sketchfab

[plush yew]

I need a car model

Ok

[sick patio]

be sure to give credit

[valid depot]

If you want a drivable one, Unreal Marketplace has this pack: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/bbcb90a03f844edbb20c8b89ee16ea32

Also CGTrader might have some good free ones

[sick patio]

well in that case, all the markeplaces have a free section

hell i get stuff off Russian sites LOL

https://tenor.com/view/vladimir-putin-wink-president-of-russia-gif-14869234

[plush yew]

Anyone know where I can get a r32 skyline model???

artstation has free stuff?

😼

[sick patio]

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=r32+skyline+model+car

yes artstation has free stuff

i'm the king of free

what the

you scoff at my freedom?

freeness

freeism

"3d mesh skyline r32"

[plush yew]

K

[sick patio]

HELP when i try to load up this pack, all i see are the street lamps, signs, and flags, no buildings https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/free-downtown-west-environment-collection-now-available

no trees, no streets, etc

in their example map

I mean

any ideas how I would fix it?

@bright sigil @drowsy snow @obsidian nimbus senpais, help?

[plush yew]

Which one I pick

[sick patio]

always obj or fbx

[plush yew]

Ok thanks you

[sick patio]

why am i answering questions? i'm a noob?

[plush yew]

What I do now

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/noob-i-am-noob-tanmay-bhat-funny-gif-17329066

[plush yew]

I have no clue what I am doing

[sick patio]

go to youtube, type up, how to transfer from sketchfab to unreal engine

BOOM

[plush yew]

K

[sick patio]

you are ruining my reputation for being a noob

[plush yew]

Sorry

[split jasper]

We're ALL noobs here.

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/coming-from-an-expert-expert-master-professional-skilled-gif-15274658

"intelligence is knowing what you don't know" amirite @split jasper

[tropic jasper]

Is there a way to mute level audio within a sequencer? or in level bp

[dapper oak]

is anyone able to help me. I am using sphere colliders with collision presets set to Overlap All and not simulating physics to pickup objects in vr. I used to be able to see them in the world when unticking hidden in world but since attaching them to an object that simulates physics to use physics constraints on hands they have vanished. They still act like they are in the proper location (minus a few quirks) but they have just disappeared. Any Ideas?

[rigid bridge]

when trying to open project i keep getting

error compiling project engine modules out of date

using a source build of 4.27

ive rebuilt the engine 3 times (it builds it but there are a few errors)

doesnt open my project

[sick patio]

Is there a way to: car drives in dirt / mud ... gradually gets dirty... to full on dirty?

[desert verge]

anyone use GitKraken pro?

[plush yew]

How do I add this

To my project

[desert verge]

read the wiki

on the github lol

[plush yew]

What

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/fall-double-dutch-fail-wrong-entry-gif-16527883

we're not sketchfab steve

[desert verge]

you prob have to extract it into the unreal engine plugin directory

[plush yew]

It tell me this

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/error-windows-windows-error-message-windows-application-error-gif-17157659

that's windows

[ionic pumice]

this looks like a group for memes

[desert verge]

yeah you're suppose to extract it into the plugin directory

[ionic pumice]

nices

[plush yew]

Ok

[desert verge]

depends on what engine you have downloaded

idk, i never used any custom plugins tbh

[ionic pumice]

I thought it was going to be a community to talk about UE but I can make friends here (?

[plush yew]

4.27.2

What I do now

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-mind-me-anthony-mackie-red-falcon-dont-pay-attention-to-me-im-not-important-gif-19648461

i'm a noob

[plush yew]

I know nothing

[desert verge]

wrong directory

[plush yew]

What

[desert verge]

the UE engine directory

not the project directory

[sick patio]

there's literally a youtube... wait, i told you to find it on youtube

what are you doing steve?

[plush yew]

I did

And it toll me to to do that

And my computer crashed

[sick patio]

yes and

oh dear lord

[desert verge]

https://github.com/sketchfab/unreal-plugin

just read that

[sick patio]

steve you don't just go downloading strange plugins off the internet

yeah listen to Nyx

he/she/it/attack helicopter is give you wise advice

[plush yew]

I crashed my computer again

[sick patio]

Steve you need to run an antivirus scan, stat

[plush yew]

Yea

Why you call me Steve

[sick patio]

Steve is my generic name for anyone i don't know. Shaniqua is for my gossiping girls. pronouns are at least 5 so i cover most people. FUN FACT: steve is the person Jack septiceye called the guy in that video game, even made a song about him.

[plush yew]

Ok

[sick patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJPc49z57bU

Steve

[west junco]

that's actually really funny, props bro

[deep kraken]

when i duplicate an asset (animation sequence), changes to the duplicate are applied to the original as well. how do i make it a serparate copy of the original asset?

[thorn stream]

hi

just wanna ask something

can i learn to use unreal engine w/o any programming background?

[bright sigil]

Yes

Though it does help

[thorn stream]

u have any tips about ue4?

i got tired of gaming all the time and im still new to this

skl

[bright sigil]

Understand that there is a lot of problem solving

If you like intricate puzzles and math then you just need to dive in and when you get stuck start looking up what you think will help you get further

Watching some getting started vids will also help make the UI less confusing

[thorn stream]

thanks mn

can u recommend a good ytber or online tutor?

[neon bough]

https://www.youtube.com/c/MathewWadsteinTutorials/videos

[thorn stream]

thanks

[sick patio]

he's a god

how can you kill a god

what a grand and intoxicating innocence

[upper heart]

I have some particle systems that have a really short Max Desired Draw Distance and also a very short LOD 1 distance that has an LOD that spawns 0 particles and I'm still seeing a decent cost in Particle Compute Time when I profile for them. Does anyone know why that would be?

i.e. it has this cost somehow even though it's spawning 0 particles

Anyone know why that might be?

[bright sigil]

throwing my hat in ring... it still has to pool those resources though no? Or am i misunderstanding - even though its in game but not spawning it's still hitting performance?

[upper heart]

It's a pretty high cost for not spawning any particles tho

[bright sigil]

i dont profile much honestly... i take your word on that, im just guess though

[copper musk]

Hey guys! Wondering if someone might have a quick answer for me on something. I'm brand new to Unreal so I'm unsure if it's an obvious solution or not.

I'm trying to make a tree where the leaves do not cast shadows on themselves. The only way I've found to make this happen is by disabling cast shadows, but I still need it to cast shadows on everything else. Is there a better way than duplicating the leaves and having one hidden that casts shadows on other things, and one visible that doesn't cast shadows?

Couple of images to help show what I mean. Top is the effect I want, but bottom is what it looks like if I want it to cast shadows on other objects.

[south meteor]

Soooo question... I'm wanting to understand how I can implement the ASD or ASDR concept from Steve Swinks 'Game Feel' book - explained briefly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDElfx2qo_M&list=PL1rTcQ7xdL1m017DYpy1x54D0fdlu0IVR&t=391s

but when I search for things like 'unreal engine ASDR' only the metasound stuff comes up and nothing about how to do this with montages or inputs in ue4/5 -- is there another term to describe this in ue? -- I'm very new to all this

[copper musk]

Yeah! You can see I've got the shading working correctly after using that middle option, but it didn't seem to stop the leaf cards projecting shadows onto themselves. Is modifying the normals supposed to fix that too? The vertex normal direction in Unreal seems to line up as expected so that should rule out an export issue. I'm stumped 🤔

[bright sigil]

so wait, you did modify normals already?

[copper musk]

Yessir.

[bright sigil]

ah then i misunderstood

[copper musk]

I appreciate the response nonetheless! 🙏🏼

[young mirage]

unpopular opinion:
epic game launcher is quite intrusive, The ads don't go away until you click the tiny close box on them and the launcher starts every time you launch a engine or project

[drowsy snow]

There is an undocumented way to disable launcher autorun, at least in the engine source code.

[distant siren]

The game crashes out of unreal , what should I do?

[young mirage]

everytime?

[runic fern]

Hello guys Can someone help me with Fluid Naigara or Material please?

[distant siren]

no he does it sometimes and sometimes no not always in the same place

[vernal locust]

anyone know how to fix it?

[pale herald]

Guys help

How do I adjust the game exposure

[runic fern]

From Postprocess

[runic fern]

or Render settings -> Disable Auto Exposure if its automatically changes

[pale herald]

I’m using the auto game exposure now and when I set the time to night, the terrain is still bright af

😂

[pale herald]

I did use post process volume

[runic fern]

use one then xD

[pale herald]

So I tried to adjust the exposure compensation

But it’s either too bright at night or too dark at day time

[runic fern]

Change it from Bais

[pure void]

Is there a way to increase fps in editor play

I'm getting about 5 fps I'm editor and about 100fps in the same scene in packaged game 😫

[pale herald]

It looks like this in night time

[pure void]

I wanna be able to test it I don't need 100 fps just not 5

[pure void]

Did you change the skylight when you changed the sky

And directional light

[pale herald]

It’s normal if I turn off the game settings exposure but once I click play, the whole scene will just bright up

[pure void]

The background image has little effect on the actual lights in your scene

[pale herald]

U mean the sky sphere?

[pure void]

Yes

[pale herald]

It doesn’t change anything even if I turn off the sky sphere

[pure void]

Also in post process did you set a min and max brightness?

[pale herald]

I tried

[pale herald]

Yes I did

I just want it to be dark at night and bright at day.

[pure void]

Honestly I'd consider removing all lights and setting them up again if that's not too much of a hassle maybe you changed a weird setting

Its what I did when I had a similar problem

[pale herald]

😭

[pure void]

You followed the unreal documentation?

[pale herald]

What documentation?

[pure void]

On post processes and lights

[pale herald]

I didn’t read all the documentations

[pure void]

Well read up on all the things you are using and maybe there's a basic setting you didn't set up right

Lights are easy to screw up in my experience

Also it looks like maybe you have multiple sky lights?

And they're hidden in the word outlinet

[pale herald]

I only have one

[pure void]

But not hidden in vane

[limber badge]

which is the best way to export to unreal from substance painter? there is two packages, the unreal packed and ue4 packed sss, so idk which one to chose, or if there is any other better way to do this

[pure void]

Game

Hmmm yeah then I don't know man

Or multiple directional lights

Otherwise read documentation and try again

Cycle of gamedev

[pale herald]

Ok fine

Thx anyway

It has something to do with the sky light I guess

I tried to turn off the sky light, the scene is no longer bright at night time

But the shadow becomes unrealistic.

Nope, it’s probably the volumetric cloud😂

[bleak zodiac]

unreal online learning about lighting well help you 🙂

[plush yew]

Guys how to debug ram usage in unreal engine.My game is taking 500 ram as per above picture

[cyan grove]

Hey guys anyone wanna help working on game in paper?

[drowsy snow]

#instructions for posting on #volunteer-projects

[cyan grove]

Nah not worth posting there

[digital kayak]

guys

i deleted on see pawn bymistake

how do i add it back

[digital kayak]

nvm

i got it

[warm hornet]

Have been using precomputed lighting now for a couple years but there is still one thing that confuses me about the Skylight.
Whay after a light bake does the Skylight appearance change when you switch from Stationary to Movable?

[arctic sundial]

Hey all. Sorry I’m going to info dump as I’m very new to unreal and game design. Literally started a week ago.

I’m wanting to make an alchemy type game - think in terms of cooking simulator style mechanics. Being able to freely rotate bottles of liquid and have them pour into other containers.

Issue is I’m currently stuck finding the best, low performance cost way of doing this.

[arctic sundial]

I have assets which have a fillable material with a 0-1 range that move with gravity. There’s tonnes on the store front.

I am imaging making a BP where if the angle in the vertical surpasses say X degrees then the volume in the top container, liquid A, depreciates at Y rate.

This then activates some emitter, particle effect, masked bone etc that has a pouring effect directly down.

If above another container then the other container increases it’s volume by Y rate. If it’s not above a container then it paints a texture on the ground etc.

Also potential to get the colour of liquid A and if interacting with a container containing another liquid B, then you could change liquid B into liquid AB by mixing the colours - though this is a ways off.

Essentially I’m uncertain what terms or methods are best for the pouring animation and how to tell if it’s above another prop or not. Any suggestions?

[deep arrow]

@full cargo hello

[opaque cipher]

Anyone here have experience setting up Git LFS?

[drowsy snow]

#source-control

[opaque cipher]

Tried there already, twice in the last week or so with no luck

[drowsy snow]

If the question is "anyone here have experience...", well, you're not going to get answer.

[opaque cipher]

I'm looking for someone who knows what they're doing that may be able to walk me through it. Seems like a pretty apt inquiry.

What window specifically do I need to be running that command from? After installing LFS it only brings up a window that says it's a CMD tool and must be run through cmd, but running it through cmd does nothing.

[dapper oak]

is there a way to make a component ignore the collisions of a specific component / actor or do i have to get creating on how I setup collision channels?

[robust needle]

После обновления лаунчера не могу создавать новый проект. Сразу загружается проект который был открыт до этого

After updating the launcher, I can not create a new project. Immediately loaded the project which was opened before

[drowsy snow]

If you opened an existing project

[mighty temple]

where can i post a question about a problem i have with cesium?

[merry gazelle]

I've run into some game math that goes beyond my thinking skills lol.

I want to translate a components X axis rotation (0 - 360) to a float 0.0 - 1.0.
Problem is the rotation goes up too 180 then reverses in minus digits back to 0.

Any ideas? Sorry if I didn't explain it very clearly ☺️

[drowsy snow]

If the problem is specific to Cesium, then not in here.

[serene pasture]

Hello everyone, not sure where I should post this but: I have an issue with big NavMesh, it takes a long time to start playing in the editor (>30sec) and it does not happen in then packaged game. Any ideas why this is happening?

[mighty temple]

and where then?

[drowsy snow]

When you converting the percentage float to rotation axis, subtract the result with 180.

This is the problem with Rotation struct, as to not keep the floating point number to go high, and then losing precision.

[merry gazelle]

thanks, I'll give it a go

[drowsy snow]

Or rather map the value from 0.0 to 0.5, to 0 to 180, and 0.5 to 1.0, to -180 to 0

[mighty temple]

in which channel can i post my question?

yeah i just need cesium to use the cities as a design for my game

[stray smelt]

yo what does DCC stand for? it refers to programs like 3ds max, maya etc

[drowsy snow]

Digital Content Creation

[mighty temple]

the only problem i have is that the imported osm buildings don't have textures

so, can you help me?

[drowsy snow]

In short, no.

Well, not everyone use Cesium, so who knows if there's Cesium specific issues.

[mighty temple]

i have absolutely no idea how these buildings were made. i've done everything there was in the beginners guide for cesium but no textures sadly

[plush yew]

is it normal for my mouse to move randomly during landscaping?

it's as if it "slides off"

it goes all over the place

sort of in a circular motion too

wait, not sort of

it traces a perfect wide-ass circle

is this how it's supposed to work or is it just me

[thick herald]

adjust your falloff 🙂

[fossil basalt]

hey guys, I have created a datatabe based on a structure ... how can I reference the table from another data table?

it doesn't give me the option to select rows in Colour S ... and when I type Colour_DT it does not show

[humble wagon]

Hello guys,I am new to Discord and I have a question,So for one of my personal project  in UE 4.26  (a temple interior)  I  used one skylight and a directional sun light and baked 4096 map to get the bounced lighting (I used highres map as its only  my personal work) But I was just wondering how does it work for real inside UE engine for an AAA game ,Like how how the areas divided for more than one lightmap, as in  a full game can't just have one lightmap of 4k  for sure! 
Say for example there are 3 temples in the full game. So how do we define 3 temples each one using their own unique lightmaps ?
A - whole game (3 temples) are using one 4k map
B- 3  different temples are saved as 3  separate levels in the the master project ,and each level  has its own unique lightmap (which is furthered optimized my lightmap importance Volume) .In unreal language the game  is having 3 different .umaps in \ABCproject\Content\Maps 
C- is there a way to us  Lightmap importance Volume to chunk the whole game into 3 different lightmaps? 
D- Some other way ?

[kindred depot]

I'm not understanding the question. Your question is "how the areas divided for more than one lightmap?" right?

[humble wagon]

yes,you have summarized it 🙂

[neon wedge]

how do i make mmorpg in unreal. i havnt' started programming yet /s

[thick herald]

1st - Get a large team with experience in cpp and unreal.
2nd - Get a loan that would make even Trump cry.
3rd- Spend a lot of time screaming.

[woven falcon]

is anybody familiar with this? Is it maybe a bug?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847253861403197471/934475462279847996/UE4Editor_LftTcFZOIy.mp4

all i'm doing is running an Animation Montage over my character blueprint

[lucid trout]

he do a slide

If I had to guess, it seems like the IK is going a lot slower than it reasonably should be

[molten prairie]

hey me an a friend are trying to use Git to make a game but we try to get each others things and pull them. but some how stuff gets deleted and it sucks. PLEASE HELP

[woven falcon]

i don't have any IK tho

[harsh tiger]

any idea why certain models using a texture atlas look perfect after building the lighting. but then when i package the project into a apk and play on quest 2. they are all black?

this is with models set to movable and not static

[woven falcon]

but when i sheathe it, which is just another montage - it works tho

they're just copied

[toxic falcon]

hi guys, idk if it's the right place for my question, but i'm wondering if anyone knows how to make a mesh with emissive material to cast lighting around it?
beacause my emissive material dosen't reflect light on the floor or any other meshes ! ( NB : it's a movable mesh)

and yeah my lighting is fully dynamic

[woven falcon]

a select?

can i select montages?

omg i can!

[fiery sluice]

Lmao, Your reaction is epic Joby

[fossil basalt]

is it possible to reference a data table from another data table?

[turbid hollow]

is there any way to reduce loading time on the linux editor?

[winged wharf]

Anyone know about UE and Quest high frame drops causing tearing. It suddenly appeared about 3 weeks ago and its driving me mad.

[neon bough]

patched glibc, look at the pinned posts in #linux

[drowsy turtle]

how to make a material not reflect sunlight?

[bright sigil]

turn off specular

[split jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/nosferatu-daylight-gif-12230312

[drowsy turtle]

lmfao

[drowsy turtle]

where is this option? I can't find it

[bright sigil]

you asked about turning this off for a material... so it would be in the material

[drowsy turtle]

yeah, but I can't find it

[bright sigil]

are you working with an instance?

[drowsy turtle]

uh no, a material

[bright sigil]

one of the outputs of a material is Specular

[drowsy turtle]

oh

alright, thanks

[knotty heron]

Whats the shortcut for showing ai navigation paths again?

[bright sigil]

navmesh?

[knotty heron]

Yes

[bright sigil]

while playing or in editor?

[knotty heron]

just editor

[bright sigil]

P

[knotty heron]

Oh then ig my path just doesnt work lol

thanks

[drowsy turtle]

I found it

already

[split jasper]

Is there a way to leave a comment or note in a content folder?

Say I wanted a little reminder of which of the doors to use where, and what the inheritance order is

[bright sigil]

parent class is displayed when you hover over one

it would probably be better to manage use/placement of assets elsewhere than to have notes for each one

reference viewer helps to show you this as well

[drowsy wigeon]

Hey, I am trying to build rivers in construction script (c++). When I use GetWorld()->SpawnActor(AWaterBodyRiver::StaticClass()... it spawns correct river actor and I can build the river spline, but it has default values - with no river materials etc, so it does not make river. However when I place Water Body River actor in editor, it already have set materials. How? Is there any way how I can make this work from C++? It seems Place Actor does not just create new Actor, but also fill some props from some template.

[lunar rover]

Does anyone know how I could generate a random int on a material instance? For example I'm trying to create a random flicker for my emission, I've got it to flicker on and off but it's constant, I want it randomised.

[bright sigil]

pure random can get a bit harsh or flashy, try a timeline to affect the flicker param and just give some up and down points. 3-5 seconds should be plenty.

[sharp temple]

Hey all, anyone here have experience working with geometry caches in the sequencer? Trying to bring over a clothing sim from Blender for a short film but can’t get it lined up with my skeletal mesh animation.

[acoustic breach]

Hey guys currently having my new pc built with a 3080ti , will I be fine running ue4 and ue5 at high settings or is the 3090 a significant upgrade due to the vram?

[bright sigil]

#hardware 🤓

[acoustic breach]

@bright sigil thanks I'll ask that

[plush yew]

Nice a Linux user I haven't tried it yet but if I do I will tell you.

[solar inlet]

hello guys, does anyone know where to begin with unreal engine and stuff?

i want to create my first game with no knowledge in coding

is there a youtube video for that?

[neon bough]

#linux is a thing, and there are plenty of linux users

[thick herald]

@solar inlet check pinned messages in this channel

[solar inlet]

Can you pin point the exact pinned message you want me to look at?

I have always wanted to code a game where it is peaceful sound and stuff

How many times should I rewatch the courses?

@plush yewthen after watching these courses then what course should i watch for game developing?

ok sure

btw what courses do you have?

since you said "try mine"

oh wait that was your courses

didnt see that

oh ok

i'll watch the courses

btw what games have you created?

[thick herald]

all of them

[solar inlet]

the games?

ok nvm i'll just watch the courses

[mighty frigate]

Could anyone recommend me a forum or discord server for Blender?

[worldly nimbus]

Is there a way to setup UE5 in CPP mode without VS2019?

I have VS2022 already and I want to use VSCode anyways

[mighty frigate]

yeah ill take a look around

Im in the VFX one but its straight dog

[worldly nimbus]

I have vs2022

I have

yup

it's whatever is on the epic games store

I just installed it

ok so what do I do instead then

wdym by vscode will crumble under unreal engine

resharper is paid and so is rider, what's visual assist?

why is rider even in development, isn't it going to be made obsolete by fleet

[unique girder]

https://tenor.com/view/lol-laughing-laugh-funny-happy-gif-16264351

[worldly nimbus]

? jetbrains seem pretty fucking all-in on fleet rn

[unique girder]

another VS Code enjoyer I see

[unique girder]

dosen't matter Rider isn't going anywhere; most of us don't want a beefed up notepad

[worldly nimbus]

I mean I'd use an intellij ide if there wasnt ten billion of them, and vscode has the nicest ui out of any programming toolkit period

[unique girder]

hard disagree

[worldly nimbus]

really?

vscode's UI is amazing

much better than regular VS

[unique girder]

nope

exactly wrong

[twilit hill]

what the hell? code UI is nothing but an empty shell compared to vs

[worldly nimbus]

B R U H are you trolling

[unique girder]

VS > VS Code in every facet

[unique girder]

are you?

[worldly nimbus]

nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[unique girder]

this is the stupidest take I've seen all day... and you can ask Lorash how this day's been in #cpp

[twilit hill]

yeah, its nice to have it as text editor on my linux systems, thats about it

[worldly nimbus]

yeah code isn't an ide

I agree with you

[unique girder]

well why compare it to an IDE then?

[worldly nimbus]

because they're used for the same thing

they just go about it differently

[unique girder]

no, one goes about it; the other gets half done and gives up

[worldly nimbus]

I think the best UI is Intellij IDEA + Material UI + Gruvbox dark hard

[unique girder]

ok Rider exists

[worldly nimbus]

yeah ill give rider a download

[unique girder]

don't bother I heard it's getting canceled for a notepad replacement

🙃

[worldly nimbus]

...

i just like vscode's ui its not that deep lmao

[unique girder]

UI is the least important part of an IDE anyway imo; ascetics are the lowest priority for getting stuff done

[worldly nimbus]

I mean I kind of agree, but sometimes in VS I just find my self lost in like 10 trillion different buttons, it's very cluttered. VSCode is much more set and forget, you change something once and then leave it, and there's not a button just sitting there that you dont need anymore.

also I'm fairly sure Fleet is supposed to be able to become a fully functioning IDE? I don't think it fits into the notepad++/vscode "half ide" category.

Correct me if im wrong there.

[unique girder]

Fleet is a VSCode competitor

[prime willow]

i have a sincere

legitimate question

for many obvious reasons perhaps

i want to have teenager characters and adult characters maybe elderly too

because badass old people in games is cool :3

however using youth morphs damage the animations badly

would it be best to bake the youth morphs into the mesh than just duplicate all of the clothing and such having child versions and adult versions

[valid pike]

https://twitter.com/swaglord__420/status/1377051721655066629?lang=en

robinkim.eth (🍸,🍸) (@swaglord__420)

the first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining.

he then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??

Retweets

5810

Likes

37007

Twitter · Mar 31, 2021, 12:14 AM

[prime willow]

@grim ore pls guide me in the right direction ^ if you can D:

[unique girder]

sounds like they don't take player concerns into account if somebody was pissed off enough to come do it for them and then leave

less than a year, but yeh old news

[solar inlet]

@plush yewyo im back

is there a course for a game itself?

I guess I'm worried that after finishing the courses then idk what to do when I make the game that I have always wanted

oh the core program?

oh I thought you were talking about the game engine called Core

yeah

I guess my first game would be like a shooter game

is there an unreal engine course on that?

Yeah i know what you mean

[valid pike]

A legend

[solar inlet]

you're talking about First person Shooter when you create a project

yeah

I wanted to create a game like this

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

fast paced wallrun and shooting

looks cool

I wish I knew how to create games

been a dream since i was 10

tru

[twilit hill]

that is until you reach the part with network replication and then go insane

[sick patio]

in this tutorial i'm watching, in the material preview, the guy has a light that shines on the example in the preview window. i don't have a light showing. just soft light. i can't see when he has the light shining on the stuff

anyone?

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-kuwtk-kim-kardashian-finger-gun-point-gif-19938127

[surreal eagle]

I'm doing something similar

I want to "send data to particular actor reference in world"

if it uses interfaces so be it

Just show me how

I'm begging you

[drowsy snow]

Try using animBP with Copy Pose From Mesh.

[prime willow]

wait that'll solve the mesh becoming crunched up due to youth morphs?

my idea as annoying as it is was the above ^ lol

i also heard dual quadtrici skinning is why im here at this point

idek how to properly apply that to my daz meshes x-x

[plush yew]

I tried setting it to anything from 0 to 1, but the only thing changing is the “intensity” of the terrain deformation

[keen haven]

Unhandled exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (5): Access is denied. Microsoft.MakeFile.targets(45, 5): [MSB3073] The command ""C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0EA\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat" FirstGameEditor Win64 Development -Project="C:\GameProjects\FirstGame\FirstGame.uproject" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" exited with code 6.

Happened all of a sudden, not a single manually made change

Just Generated and a class derived from AActor

Only in-IDE building... Compiling in UE works without a single problem

Tried deleting Inter/Binaries and then generating

Didn't help

Any possible ideas?

[dreamy zenith]

i have an issue where if a actor is found in a spawn collision it won't register the actor as in the collision

[plush yew]

Also

In my World Settings>Game settings I’ve set my game mode to third person game, yet when I press play I don’t actually get the 3rd person model with all its related things

The game mode in project settings is set to third person game too

And the pawn class is set correctly

I’m unsure of what to do

If I start a new project with 3rd person template it works

[dusk nebula]

You need to import some of the 3rd person template stuff to get the mesh and animations

And you should either use the 3rd person character that's already made, or you should add that skeletal mesh and second camera to your character

The game mode does not do what you seem to believe it does

[plush yew]

Mmh

Alright

I was following a tutorial and the guy just changed the game mode in his game settings and when he pressed play the 3rd person character just spawned

But I see that in the sample project UE provides their game mode is set to none too

So I guess that’s not the way to do it

[sudden zinc]

anyone know how to enable screen sharing in the discord?

[dusk nebula]

Like, how to turn screen share on?

[sudden zinc]

yeah im in VC but i can't screen share

[dusk nebula]

It's a permission that server owners can turn off. Your role might not be allowed to screen share for whatever reason

[sudden zinc]

I know you can't if you havn't been in the server for less than a week but I have been here for while. Should I ask a mod?

[dusk nebula]

If you want, I guess

[sudden zinc]

thanks bro, got it working

[fleet marten]

Hey this should be a quick fix I imagine. Idk what I did or mistakenly changed, but whenever I launch the engine from the EGS now it automatically opens up to a project. I'd like it to go back to how it was prior where it opened a project selection/creation screen first. Any help??

[plush yew]

when I turn around light disappears fades out and in, why it's not constant lightning all the time in the room?

or if I go into lights, they just fade out

using 0,2-0,5 intensity

higher intensity fixes it

how do you turn adaption and exposure off?

thx

[plush yew]

How did you guys get your start with UE? I’ve watched this 5 hours tutorial on YouTube but I still feel lost…
I think I will read a bit through the blueprint docs tomorrow and then try to start building something
What do you think?

[plush yew]

Ahahah

Fair fair

Gotta start somewhere tho

Oh

Nice I didn’t see them

Ty

[latent mango]

Does anyone know if I need a cable to test my vr game on an oculus quest 2?

Is there a way to test it with airlink or something wireless?

[nimble dome]

I've got a quick question. I have a platform that I am teleporting to different locations. However the player is getting teleported along with the platform which is not what I want to happen.

[rancid lynx]

is it better to use MACROS or FUNCTIONS ? I forget the differences

macros can contain delays, functions are probably gaurenteed to finish before proceeding and can not use delays. any other differences ?

[warm plume]

Hello guys! I am bit struggling for making good looking character skin... I want to make my character look good... Any tips

[rancid lynx]

of all my skills in building an entire VR game by myself. painting the texture is my lowest skill. Id imagine one of those monitors with a pen would make it very easy.

[warm plume]

I have already made texture I have character fully textured I just want it to look good when I import it to unreal

[rancid lynx]

what looks bad ? the lighting ? the skin is in the wrong place ? "Make it look good?? " it already looks perfect.

zero details. zero idea.

is it possible to make this automatically dissappear after a short while ? I can fix the error, I dont want to press the GD button each time.

[warm plume]

@rancid lynx the skin in lighting looks not so great it looks blant... Lifless plastic...