ue4-general

[jovial perch]

hope it works, with the half GB gpu i only get like 20 fps😄

oh and if it matters, im changing the gpu unreal uses with windows graphics settings

ok it finished reinstalling

tyyyy

it worked :)

[drowsy snow]

Nice 👌

[jovial perch]

im getting it from windows update

[fallow pulsar]

how do I go about modding UE 4 games, do I just load the pkg files in the editor?

[oblique whale]

Yo guys, when i try and package my game it says not enough disk space available and stuff... even tho i have 1tb available

ive been trynna fix this for almost a week now

its so dumb

i cant package my game. so it would be really awesome if someone took the time to help me :D

[drowsy snow]

The game itself has to have official modding kit supplied through the game itself or through Epic.
Otherwise it's the underground route of modding, and is not supported by this server.

[oblique whale]

someone pls

the drive where my project is has around 500 gb of free space, the drive im exporting to has 1000gb

its so weird

this is what it says exactly

F

the letter is F

[drowsy snow]

insert completely unoriginal pay respect joke here

[oblique whale]

yup

ye lmao

been trynna fix this for like a week now

i just wanna export my game so badly

[drowsy snow]

Is this a procedural mesh?

[golden niche]

I am having issues with unreal, my windows keep turning black after a while, a restart fixes this issue

[fossil nexus]

No. Its a static mesh

[oblique whale]

ye it has 200 lol

gb

...

[drowsy snow]

Are you using NVIDIA GPU?

[golden niche]

yes

[oblique whale]

brtuh34eufb

im so desperate aaa

[drowsy snow]

#ue4-general message
#ue4-general message

[oblique whale]

i do

already checked that

lmao bro i dont evne know

even*

its just so stupid

[golden niche]

but its a year old issue, when will this be fixed?

[drowsy snow]

Ask Jensen Huang and his leather jacket lmao

[golden niche]

smh....

[drowsy snow]

For comparison, AMD doesn't exhibit that kind of issue with UE4, even with latest drivers.

[oblique whale]

NO?

oops caps

[golden niche]

weird thing that happened tho
unreal used to boot up in 10 seconds
after formatting my pc, it doubled o.o

[oblique whale]

im using 4.27.2

[turbid wigeon]

Is Windows 11 ready for primetime for unreal engine ?
Just had the notification update

[drowsy snow]

In most part it's indifferent from UE in W10.

Aside from SM6 DX12 Ultimate, which is only a thing in Windows 11 and seem to be supported by UE5

[oblique whale]

Yo lorash, could you maybe try and help me with something?

[turbid wigeon]

thanks guys

guess i'll give it a shot

hope i won't spend my day handling broken dependencies

[pearl minnow]

anyone got any anecdotes about using embedded browser for a UI in UE4? I'm currently making a UI with widgets, but im a web dev by profession. If i could use html/css/js for a UI that'd be great but my concern is that maybe these plugins like BLUI are less stable than widgets

[drowsy snow]

Security concerns is one that came into mind. You'd have to have the browser widget to not access the internet at all costs.

In practical use case, even bigger studios roll with Slate/UMG.

[pearl minnow]

why would the browser making http requests be a security issue ( over a request made from a blueprint for example )

[drowsy snow]

Unlike having the UI as Slate/UMG, one could hijack the embedded browser, and if that thing can connect to the internet, get ready to fight against potential malicious code pandemic.

That security concern alone makes me really against game UI made in embedded browser.

[pearl minnow]

oh i suppose i see what ya mean. I guess it'd be up to me to program to a specific interface within my blueprints so that there's only a limited number of things people could trigger

can people practically access the dev tools / browser location / URL bar in the embedded browser?

[drowsy snow]

Not by layman person, all by themselves, but it allows for malware disguised as mods.

Sure, you can argue that's a worst case scenario, but personally I'd rather getting paranoid and have my players actually secure from embedded browser exploits, especially in single player game.

Not to mention CEF included in UE is outdated by large margin compared to upstream CEF.

[pearl minnow]

Thanks @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Alternatively if you want to have web dev coding goodness, you can look into/make some kind of solutions where HTML/CSS/XML translated into Slate.

Case in point, Source engine's Panorama uses web dev syntaxing for its XML file
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dota_2_Workshop_Tools/Panorama

[next badger]

Is there a way to pause/cancel shaders compilation? This is so frustrating.

I need to migrate some assets and ue4 basically stuck. I don't need the shaders to be compiled.

[plush yew]

Anybody have a good tutorial on How to activate a blueprint trough sequencer?

[brittle plume]

Hi, i have a problem with an Android App... When I open it, he show this.

[plush yew]

Is there a way to set Proxy Server for Requests in the Config?

[pearl minnow]

@plush yew for me its a funny perspective because the browser for me is the default environment 😄

"you opened the devtools, changed the url.. so what" 😄

if you turn on your computer.. you might get hacked! 😅

im in UMG world for now though, seeing if i can make friends with it. Any idea how i can set a sub-widget as "clickable"? or treat it like a button?

im solving the issue of rounded corner buttons, by just making one "button" widget that i can re-use. I seem to remember you can set elements to clickable but cant find it

[drowsy snow]

Well, you can change the button image for each state.

[oblique whale]

Does anyone know why it says i dont have enough disk space when i package my game even tho i have 1tb of free space lol?

i pretty much cant package my gamer

game*

been trynna fix this for almost a week now, with no succes...

[pearl minnow]

ah "event dispatcher" for the sub widget i found it 😄

you on the right drive?

[oblique whale]

wdym

yes im exporting to the drive with 1tb

[pearl minnow]

does your pc have more than 1 drive? is unreal running on the same drive?

im not implying it needs to be just asking questions 😄

[oblique whale]

unreal is running on the drive with 1tb and thats also where im exporting too. My project file is on a drive with around 500gb of free space and my last drive has 250gb of free space

[pearl minnow]

ok interesting! did you recently add a plugin with 2 tb of megascans or something? 😄

[oblique whale]

no i didnt lmao

[shell surge]

Hey guys. I have modeled a lamborghini and I want to use the car in a game that will be published. How can I avoid getting sued or something? Do I just need to remove the logos? Is it a problem if the car still looks the same, but has no logos? Or I should make it look different

[bright sigil]

No need to crosspost. While you wait, maybe look up some legal info on the matter

[shell surge]

I'm not sure what the right channel for this is

[bright sigil]

Well i agree that here is better than graphics

[oblique whale]

yo you still there?

[pearl minnow]

@oblique whale hi dude beyond that point nothing i can recommend, just the basic sanity test stuff. Do you know how big your game should be?

[oblique whale]

what do you mean by game, like my project? or the exported .exe?

[pearl minnow]

whatever you're trying to package yeh

[oblique whale]

so my project file, or the .exe?

[pearl minnow]

what are you trying to build? 😄

a game engine or a game or an sln thing

[oblique whale]

my project?

dude im so sorry im actually so confused

lemme

explain again

so

[pearl minnow]

you click file -> package project -> windows or something right?

[oblique whale]

yes

[pearl minnow]

ok so how big should the resulting artifact of that operation be? have you ever packaged the game before? how big was it before?

[oblique whale]

hm

i dont quite remember

but maybe like

not more than 20gb thats for sure

it was prob like 8

idk

[pearl minnow]

did a lot change between then and now?

[oblique whale]

okay so, i used to be able to export the game without these errors, then i just did some more to my game and then i couldnt export it, then i actually fixed it by changing some packaging projects settings or something like that, and then later on the same day it just stopped working again, and now it keeps happening

so from what ive seen it doesnt seem like to be a me problem or me changing something in the project to make it not work

[pearl minnow]

for somebody to help you fix it you'd need to fill in all the details

what did you change, how exactly did you fix it etc.

im not an unreal guy really so i can't do much more

in order to fix it the first time you must have had more information

[oblique whale]

i didnt

i was getting the same erros as i get now

[pearl minnow]

and you say you fixed it, how?

[oblique whale]

hangon

i changed some settings in the "packaging" section (dont remember what exactly, but wasnt something i hadnt touched before) and also something in the "compatible devices" or something like that.

i think thats what i changed

and then it worked

then i worked on my game for a bit and tried exporting it again

and then it failed again

@pearl minnow

[oblique whale]

when i say work on my game im p sure i didnt change any project settings whatsoever.

[pearl minnow]

interesting

so we're talking about size, actual / perceived lack of space.. it could be resolved by changing number of compatible devices, maybe changing that flags other dependencies to be included with the packaged game. You could also do some snooping around in the latest project that was generated ( the one that failed ). Maybe you'll find a folder some enormous blobs/files that you don't need

im a believer of "delete everything, restart everything" as well, i'd give that a shot. delete all previous build attempts, artifacts, generated files, restart your pc, try again

try to work out if it really is using that much drive space or there's something else going wrong, like write permissions.

i often can't write files if those folders are open in a different program

ask your question again in a while also, and maybe somebody who knows what they're talking about will answer next time 😄

[oblique whale]

I have already deleted, the previous builds, and stuff like that, and restarted my pc, and where you said "changing the number of compatible devices" i only have windows 64bit selected.

[pearl minnow]

run the packaging process again and look at the generated files when it fails ( if they're not automatically deleted )

if there's some enormous file you can google it

[oblique whale]

hmm okay

[jovial perch]

why do i have these shadows on my terrain?

[oblique whale]

im really new to unreal engine, but have you tried building your lights?

[jovial perch]

imma try

[pearl minnow]

which shadows

[jovial perch]

those square things

[oblique whale]

i think hes talking about those weird shapes on the sand thats darker

[pearl minnow]

that's the nature of the terrain i think

[jovial perch]

they only show up when the sun is in that position

[pearl minnow]

you can maybe google "soften terrain unreal"

[jovial perch]

ok

[pearl minnow]

you would see the same thing in real life if the world was made of squares and the sun at that angle

[proven aspen]

I don't suppose there's a toolbar menu or something to restart the editor?
I've been doing File -> Recent Projects -> ThisProject to compensate

[oblique whale]

you can try to use the landscape tool and go to sculpt then go to "smooth"

[pearl minnow]

its why games are usually full of props and crap to distract you from the fact you're looking at triangles

[oblique whale]

@jovial perch

[jovial perch]

yeah but the terrain isnt made out of squares

[jovial perch]

alr

[pearl minnow]

also consider increasing the resolution of the terrain

[jovial perch]

how?

[oblique whale]

i dont think that would help byt you could use like paint.net or photoshop to downscale it

[pearl minnow]

the more geometrically complex the surface the less clunky the shadows will be

oh i get your point @oblique whale but i dunno i think the sand is tiling ok

i think its geometric simplicity combined with metallic material and shallow light is the issue

could be wrong though, no idea 😄

[bright sigil]

might want to check wireframe view

[lyric lintel]

Hi, anyone knows where to download the ANSEL plugin for UE5?
Thanks

[jovial perch]

alr so i deleted that terrain (it was a test terrain) and made one with the resolution to max, im getting these now

[oblique whale]

have you builed your lights?

[jovial perch]

how do you do that

this is with all the lights off

, its a new, fresh terrain

[oblique whale]

just google how to build lights in unreal engine

[jovial perch]

i did use the same material and layer info tho

[oblique whale]

Yo @pearl minnow

[jovial perch]

k

[oblique whale]

i figured something out

something

very weir

weird*

[pearl minnow]

build -> lighting only @jovial perch

[jovial perch]

ok

[pearl minnow]

@oblique whale preemptive 🤯

[oblique whale]

i just looked at the last 5 packages (all of them failed), but the weird thing is that they all have literally almost this exact file size

something is making it stop there

thats odd

[errant cedar]

Does anyone know a good way to add a save game object to an array/vector?

[pearl minnow]

oh nice

[errant cedar]

I essentially would like a list of saved game objects in an array.

[pearl minnow]

array of type save game -> add (save game)

is it more complex than that?

[pearl minnow]

do you get logs to see exactly which file it was touching / building when it failed?

i'd maybe also google something like "unreal max build size / too big" stuff like that

@errant cedar

[oblique whale]

already tried that

[oblique whale]

lemme check

[pearl minnow]

maybe also your drive is corrupted 💀

[oblique whale]

ive tried all my 3 diffrent drvies

• it used to work

so dw its not

[errant cedar]

@pearl minnow I had no idea that was a thing

I'll continue to look into it

Thank you!

[pearl minnow]

yw 😄

[oblique whale]

these are the exact errors i get

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogFileManager: Error: Error writing to file: E:\Unreal Engine Projects\PlanetColony 4.27\Saved\StagedBuilds\WindowsNoEditor\PlanetColony\Content\Paks\PlanetColony-WindowsNoEditor.pak (There is not enough space on the disk.)

[pearl minnow]

ill be back later dude

[oblique whale]

okay

have fun!

[plush yew]

Is there people there with access to UDN or even Epic Staff ? I wanted to know if it’s absolutely needed to work on a big game (so with a team) or for a company to have access to it ?

[drowsy wigeon]

Hey, I want to make some tunnel system. I have tunnel mesh, but on intersection, of course, tunnel meshes enters each other. I need to hide parts of each tunnel mesh, which enters the other tunnel mesh, to create nice sealed space inside. What should I look for? Procedural mesh and create new mesh with merged parts? Seems too complicated, since it will generate lot of meshes for each intersection. I found some youtube videos on Material Cutoff Effects (like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzkNgzWK9w ) - is this what I want? Is it correct way to procedurally generate tunnel intersections and get rid of common parts?

[jovial perch]

BRUH IT CRASHED AT 99%

[lyric lintel]

ANSEL plugin for UE5 source anyone knows the download location? Thanks

[winter rain]

Does this make any sense? I'm grabbing a text array from a widget and then trying to set it to a variable in the current widget. I can see through debug that the array I'm grabbing has values in it, however it's just not setting the current widget's array. Anybody know why that might be?

[twilit hill]

oh hell yeah, "ListStreamingTextures" crashes ue5 no matter what 🤣

[bright sigil]

it says "no debug data" are you watching this widget/owner (set at the top)

[winter rain]

Figured it out. Thank you for the help

[daring cedar]

how can I make web browser widget only plays when a mesh collides with a collision box?

[jovial perch]

thx @oblique whale , @pearl minnow , it worked :)

[daring cedar]

I'm trying this but it's not working (on the mesh with the collision box)

[pearl minnow]

your logic is wrong @daring cedar

its almost what you want i think

[pearl minnow]

start on collision -> stop on end of collision, is that what you mean?

[daring cedar]

just start on collision

[pearl minnow]

delete the flip flop

[bright sigil]

i think ive seen this tutorial setup before... it's not good practice, but from the last person i helped with this, the issue is in collision setup of the trigger itself - double check the video setup

[pearl minnow]

and you can create an extra variable like "browser widget active" and check if it is already true, so you don't create the widget more than one time

@oblique whale any progress ? 😄

[fluid lance]

is there any advantage to having the engine's DDC on a SSD?

My SSD is getting kinda filled with DDC

[bright sigil]

there's an advantage to having most software on an SSD

[fluid lance]

@bright sigilthat I can relate to 🙂 UE projects too. However - is that so for the DDC? 😄

[bright sigil]

DDC stands for? do you mean DCC?

[fluid lance]

DerrivedDataCache 🙂

[bright sigil]

ohhh

[fierce matrix]

Looking to hire a dev. For an unreal project to build a city world. Will need someone who is fast and quick turnaround, anyone available?

[bright sigil]

#instructions

[bright sigil]

i often delete that folder, not sure if you need to keep it as it is

[fierce matrix]

I don't have access to #hire-a-freelancer #freelance-jobs

[bright sigil]

you haven't read the instructions first then

[fluid lance]

well... 😐 I don't really wanna wait for 24k shaders to compile across 2 major projects - not to mention the smaller ones

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions please.

[bright sigil]

yeah, i understand that...

[fluid lance]

But I would just move the damned thing over to the HDD

and wait ONCE for everything to compile again

its almost 100 gb 😐

[bright sigil]

id think its better to keep it on ssd since it has to read (write as well i think)?

i guess you can try and see though :/

[fluid lance]

fair enough, my suspicion too 🙂 thanks!

[fluid lance]

Nah, having shaders compile even slower won't do 😄

[fierce matrix]

Thanks for the info, sorry on phone hard to see things at times

[limber mesa]

What's a good way to share a game, Dropbox, drive or ?

[drowsy snow]

itch.io

[limber mesa]

Does it have to be a zip file

Itch.io?

@drowsy snow no publishing fee?

Like steam

[drowsy snow]

No.

[limber mesa]

Ok

[fierce matrix]

I tried messeging Manny $job but don't accept messege?

[drowsy snow]

Make sure you don't block DMs.

[limber mesa]

@drowsy snow is there a way to give out free keys for the game?

[loud ember]

hi i was wondering if there was a way to change the size of a projectile at the push of a button during its life

[fluid lance]

@loud emberOfc there is

@loud ember [OnBtnPress] get projectile -> set transform (scale,rotation) 🤷‍♂️

[loud ember]

oh thx but i figured it out

this is what i came up with

i plan on only having one of this specific projectile on the screen at any given time so it works well enough

[bright sigil]

as the engine indicates, there is no need to cast

[loud ember]

o

[bright sigil]

its a note not an error though 🙂

[loud ember]

i fixed it 🙂

thx

[pearl minnow]

shoot the line trace from the camera @twilit fossil not from the 3d model's head. the model is not in the center of the screen

do you know what i mean?

[jovial perch]

what visual studio components do i need

[pearl minnow]

oh.. then... it works already i think 😄

try to think of it like a triangle

[jovial perch]

only these 2?

i only want to build my game

[pearl minnow]

@jovial perch looks good. you can always add other packages later

[jovial perch]

i dont want to code in c++

alr

dang it takes more space than the whole engine

[limber mesa]

@drowsy snow just upload the exe?

[pearl minnow]

@limber mesa zip first i guess

[limber mesa]

for itch?

[pearl minnow]

yes

[limber mesa]

hmm

[pearl minnow]

shoot laser from camera, get location of first collision, make model look at that location @twilit fossil

[limber mesa]

rlly

first time doing it

thankyou

[pearl minnow]

yeh no reason not to zip a huge file 😄 good luck

[limber mesa]

@pearl minnow so in the upload box upload the zip

[pearl minnow]

you can see my game here on itch for example, its also zipped https://the-embassy.itch.io/keyball

[pearl minnow]

yes. it can take quite a long time

[limber mesa]

file->package project->zipupproject

correct?

[pearl minnow]

the "packaged project" is your game, and you wanna zip that to reduce its size a little bit.

upload the zip

[limber mesa]

wdym? Im asking if thats how you do it in ue4

would that be how to do it?

[pearl minnow]

stop over thinking it

answer is yes 😄 just try it

[limber mesa]

i am because i have never done this before

pardon me

[pearl minnow]

go go go

😄

[bright sigil]

Nice plug 😜

[pearl minnow]

let us know if it doesnt work

[limber mesa]

just nervous that it wont work

[pearl minnow]

lol its a shitty old demo at this point

[jovial perch]

wait wait what is he trying to do

[pearl minnow]

if it doesnt work you ask for help and try again

[limber mesa]

@pearl minnow your game looks cool

btw how to view zipfolders

[pearl minnow]

😡 google

right click 😄

[jovial perch]

if you have winrar just double click it

[limber mesa]

i dont

[jovial perch]

you should be able to see the files inside it

[jovial perch]

get winrar then

[bright sigil]

Right click > send to > compressed zip

[jovial perch]

yea or that

[bright sigil]

I advocate 7zip

[jovial perch]

i have both winrar and 7zip for some reason

[bright sigil]

You probably sought out 7zip while winrar sought you out

[limber mesa]

so i have a file and it has the windows no editor in it which contains everything

should i zip the file that has the windows no editor in it

or the windows no editor

Im over complicating this my apologies

[bright sigil]

Not sure for uploading to itch, but you need everyrhing in that build folder

Use is a strong word here

[jovial perch]

wait i thought everyone uses it

[limber mesa]

@plush yew bcdboot? hmm

interesting

[jovial perch]

i have both

[drowsy snow]

Nobody buys WinRAR CDs.

Except tech youtubers

[jovial perch]

its free

[drowsy snow]

Yes but actually no

I'm counting on no because of that fucking nag popup

[jovial perch]

yeah true but other than that its free

[limber mesa]

sso i zipped the file but it says 0 bytes

[drowsy snow]

7zip is a godsend in comparison

[limber mesa]

i think it was the wrong file

[jovial perch]

infinite trial :)

yeah you got a point

[limber mesa]

yea nvm i need more space

[jovial perch]

but on the other side, i only use it to zip and unzip

never used it for anything else

(like zip file viewing)

[drowsy snow]

Then may I recommend you 7zip. It's compatible with .rar archives and more that WinRAR doesn't support.

[bright sigil]

and .7z are usually smaller in compression size than .zip

[drowsy snow]

Also parted 7z archive is a thing

[bright sigil]

its like the VLC of compression software - its free, opens ~~all ~~most other compression files, makes its own better version, etc

[jovial perch]

everyone is talking about zipping while im installing all the SDKs for building my game😃

[drowsy snow]

Coolio.

[unique wraith]

anyone getting "D3D device lost"
I FIXED IT (Or at least improved it) by reinstalling windows completely. I was also on an unactivated windows so I purchased that as well but I don't think that paying for the full activation did anything.

[limber mesa]

How to get around the space issue on itch.io? or how to share it privately to someone? attach it within an email?

[unique wraith]

@lean oracle hope this helps

it does sound that was but it's a firmware/OS issue from what I've found

[drowsy snow]

Believe it or not, you can link to external cloud storage in your itch.io page

[unique wraith]

I updated all drivers, tried new and old, game drivers and studio drivers, even upgraded to a 3060Ti and still didn't help

[limber mesa]

@plush yew itch says thay only accept 1GB ask if more space is needed. i believe it is about 10-20 gb

[unique wraith]

but windows install actually made a big difference, I haven't crashed yet

[limber mesa]

how so?

[jovial perch]

OH NO

[drowsy snow]

Last time an AMD user had trouble here, it actually solved by clean installing latest driver.

[drowsy snow]

Dwarf numbers lmao

[jovial perch]

it just went up to 3000

[jovial perch]

for my 2GB vram graphics card its too much i promise

[drowsy snow]

I believe it's someone else

[drowsy snow]

Compiling shaders ||has almost nothing to do with GPU||

[jovial perch]

oh

ram?

[drowsy snow]

It's your CPU doing all the hard work of compiling shaders.

[jovial perch]

i also have a bad cpu

lol

i use a laptop

[drowsy snow]

Life hack: Go to Task Manager, increase the priority for all ShaderCompileWorker to High, and get yourself hydrated.

[jovial perch]

it gave me a bluescreen for a second and came back to life like nothing happened-

[jovial perch]

alr

[limber mesa]

@plush yew nvm its 4GB

im going to try to reduce it

[drowsy snow]

Don't get too aggresive with the compression, else the extraction time would take way too long.

[limber mesa]

ok

well im sure if i reduce it from 4 to 1 it souldnt be that slow

[drowsy snow]

Well, I get Unreal Editor compressed from around 7 GB down to 1.5 GB

[jovial perch]

what

[drowsy snow]

That's with super aggresive 7z compression, because I had to put the stripped build to the release page of my fork

[jovial perch]

pagefile?

[drowsy snow]

If you're in 4.27, you can take advantage of Oodle.

[jovial perch]

whats that

[limber mesa]

sadly im in 4.26

[drowsy snow]

*download more RAM

[drowsy snow]

Then you're stuck with the old compression method.
I don't think Epic Games Tools can hand away Oodle for free for 4.26 users

[molten prairie]

why is my physics constraint freezing when I hold it still and un freezing when I let it go?

[drowsy snow]

Also it's not as simple as porting the plugin - I tried.

[jovial perch]

so 1. it is on

2. i have 8 gb ram

3. its not hte first time im building it

[drowsy snow]

5. Close any backround app you don't use right now

[jovial perch]

yea i had steam, google, epic game s open

ik, i have a laptop

[bright sigil]

i think tech support

[drowsy snow]

To stop poorshaming, I can confirm that building is possible in 8 GB of RAM

[limber mesa]

crap

[jovial perch]

lol

[drowsy snow]

Fuck poorshaming

[neon bough]

fuck poopshaming

[jovial perch]

yes

[bright sigil]

second, i have a low end rig that has 8gb at 1k rpm that builds just fine

[jovial perch]

i agree

[bright sigil]

fuck wafflestomping

[jovial perch]

sorry, rotations per minute?

[bright sigil]

lol, whatever its called

1k speed lol

[drowsy snow]

Those should be fine, but you should still free up some RAM real estate.

[limber mesa]

question i have a file that contains the windows no editor file. which one to zip

[bright sigil]

the WHOLE thing

[drowsy snow]

Anything in WindowsNoEditor

Might consider bundling some redist stuff as well

[limber mesa]

so if i compress the file that contains everything i should be good

[bright sigil]

WindowsNoeditor folder should have Engine, FileOpenOrder, YourGameFolder, YourGame.exe, Manifest.txt

key word - folder

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but .pak is already have compression, so you're not gaining much

[limber mesa]

yes thats what i meant my apologies

[drowsy snow]

So don't go nuts with the zip compression

[limber mesa]

ok

if i send the file in here could anyone open it up for me

just to make sure I didnt mess it up

[drowsy snow]

Well, you can just unpack it yourself.

[limber mesa]

so its 2.3 gb now

[bright sigil]

the number of times ive gotten zip files with zipped files within them....

[drowsy snow]

That's a bomb

Well, not really a bomb, because it's not as ludicrous as 42.zip

[limber mesa]

so 2.3gb is that ok to attach to an email?

😦

[bright sigil]

i think 25mb is a common email limit - any bigger needs cloud storage + link

[limber mesa]

So how would i be able to share it with someone?

google drive

?

[bright sigil]

then share link

[limber mesa]

link to?

[drowsy snow]

Google drive

Or any other cloud storage that don't impose premium paywall bullshit or having the download page ridden with ads

[limber mesa]

Ok

[bright sigil]

you can generate a share link once you upload

[limber mesa]

ok

[jovial perch]

are you sure its from my memory

i always have more that half gb free

and btw this is the bottom of the error

[bright sigil]

but what's the first error?

[bright sigil]

well it does say it ran out of memory

[jovial perch]

is there anything i could do?

[raw harbor]

Painting or sculping in a hidden layer is not allowed.

[bright sigil]

Makoto's catch phrase is: Download More Ram

[raw harbor]

how do i fix this

[bright sigil]

keyword: catch phrase

[jovial perch]

i would, but again i have a laptop

and i cant get more ram

[raw harbor]

how big is the file

[jovial perch]

i have 512 GB ssd

alr

but if i do that

can i revert it

ah alr

wait

reboot or restart

or is it the same thing

ok

wait

so if i set pagefile to like 30 gb

how many gb ram am i gonna get

nice

oh

tbh i rather send the project to a friend and they could build it for me

or just not build it till i get good pc

[neon bough]

Type mismatch in color_5_093D0EBADA954AB5B1F6A2AE44B7F6EF of CustomMaterialPresetStruct - Previous (StructProperty) Current(MapProperty) for package: FMemoryReader

anyone got an idea what it's trying to tell me?

thanks for the emotional support

i don't know where the error happens, thats why i would like to know what i should look for 😄

[bright sigil]

i think that's giving you the UUID of that color param

[neon bough]

is it possible that it reads a struct from somewhere which has a new structure now?

[jovial perch]

but i dont really see why it would give that error, i thought it would just build slower, im guessing theres a timeout thats giving that error. cant unreal just build it slower using less ram?

maybe its stupid, idk im tired

[neon bough]

e.g. an old save, as i'm loading presets from "savegames"

[bright sigil]

RAM is "on the fly" memory, its running out of that, it wont use storage memory

[jovial perch]

igh

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/feel-me-think-about-it-meme-gif-7715402

you don't need swap/pagefile if you have enough memory

xD

memory is the only thing i own, damn that was deep

i think chrome put java from it's throne

[jovial perch]

whats the best gpu and cpu, ram for a pc to work good in unreal ( i wanna make a big project)

ok

[neon bough]

3090FE, fastest Threadripper, all the RAM you can put in it

[cosmic gull]

Hi, can someone please give me a link to a tutorial or a documentation of sorts about how to set up a crash raporter for a game? I cant seem to find any documentation about this and when I try to search for a video on youtube I only find random fortnite crash fix videos

[jovial perch]

also affordable for a 17 year old

[neon bough]

depends on the 17yo

do you work or rely on pocket money?

[plush yew]

Is the unreal engine learning website slow as hell for anyone else today?

[jovial perch]

yes

1. i asked there, 2. in between

[jovial perch]

but ive been saving for some years

[plush yew]

It’s ridiculous how slow it is

[jovial perch]

it is

[cosmic gull]

Man it feels bad when you try to search for someting, for the last 30 minutes and someone else finds it in <1 minute, I guess I wasnt worthy enough to find it or something...

[molten delta]

Hi, is there a section to ask question related to Quixel Megascans?

[odd wyvern]

Hey guys. Does somebody by any chance know what the input section is when running a "stat unit" command on console?

Can't find any documentation on that

[modern root]

It's input latency, you typically adjust it with
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/LowLatencyFrameSyncing/

that is, if it's way higher then the other stats

[modern root]

Please don't cross post like that @manic jasper

[manic jasper]

Jack can you help?

[sharp crest]

anyone using ue5 for big production projects yet?
for a big project, lots of blueprints, constant packaging?
is it working fine for that? should I move my project to ue5 yet?

[versed star]

Ok I have a list of enemies for my top down shooter:

1. A melee guy that rushes and when he's low health he deals less dmg but attacks and runs faster
2. A ranged gun unit, when low health they run away further back and start firing slower to balance how they're harder to finish off now
3. A rocket launcher unit who fires slowly but deals a ton of dmg, when low health he rushes in to use a very slow but high dmg melee
4. small bois who rush really fast and explode on death but have a very small health pool
   Ones I haven't finished implementing yet:
5. A stationary turret with short range but a really high DPS
6. A floating unit who gives sheilds and halves that damage of your rocket explosions
7. A slow tank with high health, it's main attack is a nerfed version of the stationary turrent and it sometimes shoots rockets shells.

Does that sound like a good enemy roster or can anyone give me some suggestions for more units?

[neon bough]

8. a enemy who rushes at you and hugs you, which heals you

[versed star]

Perfect

[hollow epoch]

Hey all. I had a question about filtering by selection. Is there a way I can set my drag select in the viewport to only select static meshes?

[fervent stag]

Hello, anyone familiar with Perforce P4 collaboration software. I had to do a rebuild and I seem to have forgotten some foundational stuff when it comes to permissions

bah, I did look but must over missed it. Thanks!

[fossil nexus]

Which one is more compatible / optimized for Unreal Engine. 3ds Max or Blender?

im more inclined to work with 3dsmax but i see so many people recommending blender

[hollow epoch]

These days I'd say you'd be better off using Blender. Industry wise, I think more studios use Maya though.

[wet flax]

Plugin 'UnrealEnginePython' failed to load because module 'PythonConsole' could not be found. Please ensure the plugin is properly installed, otherwise consider disabling the plugin for this project.

I tried everything online

[proven aspen]

Eh little of both, maybe leaning harder toward max.

Blender surprised me by being capable of exporting splines as alembic grooms whereas max wouldn't.

Anything from Autodesk is probably going to be more "on top" of FBX features (although max, it seems, less so than maya). I was disappointed to find that animated custom properties weren't supported in Blender, despite having a "custom properties" checkbox in their export. Unless something changed since last year, the devs said they didn't intent to implement it.

I don't really like using 3rd party tools when I can avoid them, but blender almost always seems to have add-ons to fix little annoyances

Another plus for blender is the ability to paint PBR materials. If you were working in max, you'd have to use another software for material painting, like substance. Max sort of has a viewport painter, but it's a hundred years old.

[proven aspen]

That being said they are both completely capable of the typical things you'd want in unreal (modelling, skeletal meshes, morphs, and such)

[rancid lynx]

I added 10 instances to this instancestaticmesh component. How do I do a ForLoop for each of the instances ? is this the correct way ?

I added 10 instances to this instancestaticmesh component. How do I do a ForLoop for each of the instances ? is this the correct way ? I cant get a loop node to attach to the ISMC reference (from picture 2). I haave to "get count" then "loop that". will that work ?

I want to save this data in a savefile.

hmm I think I figured it out. pulling off of the index pin gives access to the transform X_x

[worldly spear]

anyone know any good resource for creating crowd effects? I want to create something like this:

[rancid lynx]

those are most likely "InstancedStaticMeshComponents"

each unique mesh requires 1 component, then you add "instances" for each mesh to want to appear in game. First you set the mesh, then you add instances.

youtube ue4 ISMC instancedStaticMeshComponents.

instance means copy.

[worldly spear]

thank you Rob ill look into that! 👐

[tardy hedge]

Is there a way to have a macro library for both actors and widgets

[worldly spear]

Do you know if these can have walk, run, attack animations and if they work with physics?

[worldly ether]

hi

does anyone know how to convert .max files to fbx? my file is 1,3gb

[autumn flame]

https://youtu.be/CqXKSyAPWZY

[neon bough]

export to FBX from 3DS Max?

[worldly spear]

You need Max

[worldly ether]

ok

[worldly spear]

Thank you so much! I love this! but im stuck at the part where he created a function that does a bunch of different things. I dont know how to create this function:

[autumn flame]

It's just a Niagara Function

[worldly spear]

im very new to Unreal 😅

[manic jasper]

Hey quick question, I made a door that open and closes and is functional yet when closed I can walk straight through. I have collisions set to Block All any theories as to what may be the problem?

[worldly spear]

how do i make this so i can use it as a function in the scratch pad?

[autumn flame]

Right click on Content Browser -> FX -> Niagara Function Script

[worldly spear]

thank you!

[autumn flame]

Does it actually have a collision? Check in the Static Mesh Viewer

[manic jasper]

What am I looking for exactly 😅 I'm pretty new

Under collision and what

part

[autumn flame]

Double click the Door Static Mesh, it will open a Viewer

[manic jasper]

I see it in the viewport

[autumn flame]

Collision -> Simple Collision

[manic jasper]

and have searched up collisions

under deatals

[autumn flame]

It's one of the buttons in the nav bar at the top

Collision, when you click it a Dropdown will show

Check Simple Collision

if no lines show around the door, means you have no collision setup

[manic jasper]

I have UE5 😅

[autumn flame]

Should still work (i think?)

[manic jasper]

I just don't know where button would be located

[autumn flame]

Just UI probs looks different

[manic jasper]

exactly

Yeah

[autumn flame]

Send a screen if you're not sure

[autumn flame]

Open the actual Mesh

Not the BP

[manic jasper]

ah ok

it says none

for simple collision

[autumn flame]

Try this

Click Collision at the top left on the bar

Add Box Simplified Collision

[manic jasper]

this is under the static mesh correct

[autumn flame]

Ye

[manic jasper]

added

[autumn flame]

If you see green lines

[manic jasper]

save and try

[autumn flame]

Means you have collision

[manic jasper]

yep

i do

Perect

works now thanks

[worldly spear]

how do you import a Niagara Function into the Scratch pad?

[autumn flame]

Probs just search the Function name? Didn't do too much with Niagara myself

[worldly spear]

tried it, didnt work 😦

im not sure how that dude does what he does. its truly magic lol

[trail wedge]

when I type !stream in the Mannybot, it says I can just go to the voice channel I want and start streaming, but when I go to any of the voice channels, I can't stream or share my screen. How do I fix this?

[autumn flame]

Are you in a Module?

[worldly spear]

What's a module? Here's a screenshot:

[autumn flame]

Go into the Niagara Function Script

Change Library Visibility from Unexposed to Exposed

Should show

[worldly spear]

you're a god

ty!

now i just need to figure out how he made the animation state, IF and Animation Frame Rate node. Cant find those but ill keep digging. Thanks again!

[winter stream]

how could i add asset to a project that doesn't show up

[drifting rain]

When you make an array of skeletal meshes or any materials for a character creation system, that should be stored in the character blueprint?

[bright sigil]

it could be stored in the same bp as where they are generated.... is there another place you are thinking?

[winter stream]

[winter stream]

or how can i add a downloaded project to my projects

[modest trench]

opening it first should associate it

otherwise just use a dummy project and copy the asset over, sheesh

[winter stream]

it haven't Unfortunately but i will copy the downloaded project content to another project from my empty projects

[drifting rain]

Not really, but in that case doesn't that mean they are generated in the character bp where the master pose component is and the skeletal meshes are, I hope I am understanding you correctly. Or really doesn't matter? Like I hope this isn't a stupid question I could put that 'logic' in the player controller or a widget for example?

[bright sigil]

sounds like a preference, so i was asking since it didn't sound like the entire question. Where it's used makes the most sense, but i guess some other factors could determine how else it could be handled - still within the class, but by struct or DT or something

[rancid lynx]

I added 10 instances inside this ISMC IstnancedStaticMeshComponent, how do I target say, the 4th element index, to edit it. transform, location, etc etc, I know how to "get instance count" and i know how to line trace and hit an instance and get the hit index, but i DONT Know how to use the Blueprint editor to target any specific instance and manipulate that. ""How do I target the 5th instance of an ISMC so that I can translate it ? there are no "get a copy

[true goblet]

Hey guys, can someone help direct me to where I can find info on how to fix this? I'm a very green beginner but I've made TONS of learning progress keeping up with both the unreal learnings and innovating on those ideas in my own project, and I'd hate for it to go all the way down the drain.

[bright sigil]

uh, well i mean the engine crashed

that dialogue wont do anything about that

[modest trench]

no debug symbols so you won't see wtf is actually happening

[bright sigil]

ill get that somtimes if i undo too fast

[true goblet]

Just not sure what to do. I don't remember doing anything out of the ordinary last time I worked on my project (earlier today). Can't seem to get it open now.

[modest trench]

might clear out intermediate/saved/binaries

[finite wren]

Where do I find the "User Complex Collision as Simple"

[modest trench]

the settings of the static mesh asset itself

[finite wren]

@modest trench it's not there either

[bright sigil]

not fluent on UE5 ui, looks like the bp, not the static mesh editor

[finite wren]

Oh I get it

yeah thanks

It's like, I found it before, I just forgot

[bright sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/dashup-shame-shame-shame-got-gif-17952543

[worldly spear]

Anyone here know how to make a IF condition node in the Niagara Function Script?

[rich stream]

Ok, I finally got unreal engine running on my desktop and surprisingly it runs like butter. I seriously expected it to be a lot choppier and stuttery considering I have dog-crap internet and a gaming pc.

[bright sigil]

engine doesnt use internet

[finite wren]

What would be the issue with a gaming PC? It's basically the same requirements to play a game as to run a game engine.

[rich stream]

I was afraid the engine would require much more ram than I have. Also, the reason I was worried it would use internet connection was due to how much the epic launcher seemed to want to suck my internet down (as soon as I launched the engine it seemed to stop draining my connection).

[finite wren]

Lol yeah can't argue with that, launcher feels like malware for sure

[bright sigil]

if you prefer, you can launch your project from the .uproject file. skip the launcher, go straight for the editor

[rich stream]

Thank you. I prefer running most programs (or most non steam programs) from direct files since it usually doesn't screw with my computer nearly as much doing things that way. Again, thank you for the tip for running Unreal without the launcher.

[bright sigil]

yeah, same here, i do the same trick for steam as epic games to avoid having to open them, its annoying to get straddled by an internet splash screen just to play a game

[rich stream]

Steam usually isn't as bad as the epic launcher feels regarding internet drag, but it can definitely drag if my internet is slow enough that day.

[timid meteor]

4th day trying to instal a plugin into mine ue4 editor

can i finely get some help pls ? 🙂

i ment 3th*

i lost my game that i was going to publish 3 days ago guess i did something wrong i only needed to make the steam sesion happen and i was done

i cant make a game online without that

i cant start without i did that first

please help

[nimble warren]

Does anyone know how I can get the rotation of a face using a linetrace?

[timid meteor]

what do i do ?

its not a cpp thingy

[nimble warren]

The plugin might not be made for the version ur using

[timid meteor]

its from the Easy survival rpg template

[nimble warren]

What unreal engine version are you using

[timid meteor]

2.27

4.27*

[nimble warren]

were you installing a plugin before the project stopped working?

[timid meteor]

Pluings next to the content and config folder

wel first i installed it after my project was done and then the crash happened and i lost my project ( told my wifey wait 15 more minuts and im done and can start building for steam )

then i deleted every Visual studio thingy and reinstalled again guess my game went from 80+gig to les then 10 gig

then i make a c++ project there i can install the plugin,
cost me 3 days to do lots of different things

after the cpp project ( now) i can instal the advanced session plugin and it works,

but i have that other project ESRPG that is made and really expensive for me 320 euro, and i need it to work there but it just doesnt work

before i had all those problems i had more problems weeks past but never ever did it work

omg

it worked !

https://vreue4.com/advanced-sessions-binaries this solved everything !
dont open if you dont trust
it did everything for you the compiling ! :D\

[random summit]

is there any way to save vertex paint to the prefab in unreal? or do i have to do that in my modelling software?

[shadow violet]

Anybody had that bug in viewport? I have some strange grain.

[jovial perch]

GUYS GUYS @plush yew @bright sigil

i tries to build it one more time

and this time it worked

and i didnt change anything

[sterile lichen]

How do people usually localize assets?
If i have a data table with each row having texts, audio assets or textures to be localized
make localized data table asset or each specific asset containers or string table?

[silver badger]

Hello, how can I get rid of these lines on the border of the plates?

[jovial perch]

i mean

it took 1h

but hey

it works

[pearl minnow]

( just deleted all my comments - was trying to fix the wrong widget all along 🤯 )

[plush yew]

if i load a skeletal mesh with 300 animations, all of them will be loaded into memory or just when used?

can i load a skeleton without animations loaded in BP?

[grave nebula]

@worldly spearIf is gone from modern versions and is replaced by select

[clever flare]

hey, does anyone know if blueprint actor adds more computing power than just a static asset? given that it has an empty blueprint graph.

[jovial perch]

yea probably

not sure

[drowsy turtle]

I found out a game called Hatred and decided to watch the ending. These UE4 nodes just makes this funny, since they are on a powerplant TVs. I just find this very funny

[pure void]

You dont use blueprints in your powerplant?

[oblique whale]

How big should a project usually be?

[stiff bane]

pretty sure it does, use as much static meshes as you can

[stiff bane]

maybe our brains are just all blueprints

[clever flare]

ok, thanks

is there another easy way to combine objects during development? cause i've got objects where one part needs nanite and another part needs translucency and therefore needs to be multiple objects.

[rare steppe]

cant find the right chat for this sorry if its wrong but with burshes im trying to select things but half the time i cant actually select them and turn them yellow but keep on using a wierd other select thingey that turns the faces darker? i dont know how to select them normally and dont even know what the wierd darker select does

[timid meteor]

hi

how to solve this ? :p

[rare steppe]

whats the issue the shadow?

[plush yew]

How do i make scrolling text dissapear at a certain point? Like a Boole function in C4D would do, or a mask in after effects, is this possible in ue?

[timid meteor]

the land is glitching like hell when i put the water ocean into it

[rare steppe]

like is the texture missing or is that black bit the issue

[timid meteor]

its not that its only that, the holes and black is dancing around the map

[rare steppe]

it might be z fighting, 2 faces in the exact same place if you put one of the objects just offset it should stop

or you can cut the ocean to fit the land so none are overlapping

[safe meadow]

Hi, I'm doing some work with VaRest retrieveng some JSON. As far as I know I can't use VaRest in UMG widget, so I've place a blueprint in the level and I want to retrieve the data once the request is done, athoug I don't know how to do "async" calls from the widget. Any ideas?

[wraith osprey]

Anyone managed to deploy on Android using UE5 ? I probably messed something with some SDK path or something, having a certificate error when arriving at the gradle download to package the APK file. I added a certificate using keytool but still the same error 😦

[midnight glade]

Yo so, I'm modding a game by replacing uassets, model loads in fine but it is white/has missing textures on it. The texture works fine cuz if I only replace the texture files, it gets used by the original model in the game, what do I do?

Any ideas?

UE4.27 btw

[raw harbor]

Is 16gb enough ram or is it a dead end for me

[midnight glade]

Would be much appreciated if someone would help me btw

[cedar bane]

How are you exporting the model and what are you including in the mod pak

[edgy rover]

Hello, did you get the answer?

[midnight glade]

Not a mod Pak, I use blender to export it into a fbx, to then import it into UE4, I set up the materials with nodes, apply and save, then I cook the assets and uses them to replace the others

They aren't in .paks

It's just openly uassets

[cedar bane]

Oh so use pak file is off

Why are you setting up materials then?

[midnight glade]

I don't have to relink mats/textures to the model?

Once I import it into UE4?

The model I am replacing has materials that targets textures, it's just that they are all in a regular folder for the game, they aren't pakked

Which makes this easier

[cedar bane]

Well if you've exported with fmodel or umodel then refs should already be there

[midnight glade]

But my model for some reason shoes up as missing textures

[midnight glade]

Didnt

[cedar bane]

Oh yeah raw I forget

[midnight glade]

Yeah

[cedar bane]

Are you replacing the material

If you are you shouldn't

[midnight glade]

No, only the textures and the static mesh/model

[midnight glade]

It's odd cuz model loads in fine, it's just that textures doesn't want to apply to that specific model

But it's ok with applying to the original model

[cedar bane]

Ok how are you editing the model

Blender doesn't automatically support uassets

[midnight glade]

I do my edits in blender, export it as a fbx, import the fbx to UE4, cook the file

And then use it to replace

[cedar bane]

How do you get the uasset data into blender then

[midnight glade]

It's originally a smd file, a different file format in general

Nothing to do with UE4

That's my point, I'm trying to import and cook a brand new model that has not touched UE4 but that came from blender, to then use it as a uasset

[cedar bane]

Ah there's your problem then

[midnight glade]

It seems that my model when turned into a uasset, isn't grabbing textures

But works fine in the preview of UE4

Textures and all

[cedar bane]

Try exporting the original uasset file to psk with umodel and importing the smd into the scene. Merge with the original model, delete the original model in edit mode and assign the material to the mesh

Then all the references will be correct

[midnight glade]

I'll try it, thank you

A plan B if that doesn't work?

Also, what do u mean by merge with original model?

There's no skeleton, just a static mesh

[cedar bane]

I mean ctrl+j to join

[midnight glade]

And then by hand remove the original mesh?

I see

[cedar bane]

Well you can select the original mesh with a and deselect the other one then join so you can delete the selected old mesh

Make sure the new one joins with old one not the other way round so refs are correct

[midnight glade]

Yh

Man if this works

I am running outside naked

[cedar bane]

Do you have experience using the tools I mentioned?

[midnight glade]

yes

[cedar bane]

K just checking

[midnight glade]

real quick, when I want to join the meshes in the right order for this situation, I select the new one first, and then the one I want to replace?

[cedar bane]

Depends if you're using shift or ctrl

[midnight glade]

shift

[cedar bane]

I can't remember I just undo if I do the wrong order

[midnight glade]

alright

[midnight glade]

when I import the fbx file into UE4, do I Want to edit anything? Use specific settings?

or do I just save them, cook them and use the assets as they are?

[cedar bane]

Yes you'll need smoothing groups set the face (if you right clicked and shaded smooth)

You'll also need to shrink the model depending on your scene units

[midnight glade]

yeah thats fine, model will probably load in

but when it comes to textures

and also I didnt do anything with smoothing groups so

[cedar bane]

set it to face anyway

can't hurt

[midnight glade]

in the settings?

or once I have imported it

[cedar bane]

default is fine

[midnight glade]

shows up as white, this time though its blank white, before it was white with grey squares

[cedar bane]

that's fine

show the model in the editor

[midnight glade]

ingame

[cedar bane]

Are the materials in the proper path?

[midnight glade]

do you mean in the game files? If so, then yes

I replaced the right things

and in the things are all in the same folder

[cedar bane]

ok are the materials supposed to be

instanced

[midnight glade]

let me check with umodel rq

glasses are the original ones

oh wait

just realized it says null?

left (glasses) is the original model

right (gasmask) is what I am trying to import, note: I havent removed the glasses from the mesh, as I just want to test my way forward till I have a way of importing textures and adding them to models

[cedar bane]

that's odd

click on null to see if it leads anywher

[midnight glade]

cant click on it

[cedar bane]

or was M_SunGlasses_X_Lens the material that was exported

Make the materials materials instances (I'm assuming they are because they have a bunch of underscored)

[midnight glade]

alright, how do I do that?

do I have to make a new material instance in UE4?

[cedar bane]

no right click on the material and make it a material intance

then delete the original and rename the instance to the material's name

[midnight glade]

done

[cedar bane]

Perhaps the problem was that then rather than what I told you to do

[midnight glade]

well what do I do now?

[cedar bane]

Any way that should be ready to package

[midnight glade]

so, I dont attach any texture to the materials? Just let it be white?

[cedar bane]

No? You're not even supposed to replace the materials

[midnight glade]

yeah I didnt, only the model

[cedar bane]

The model just needs references to them

[midnight glade]

alright, let's give it a try

[cedar bane]

Yeah you're just dummying it so it doesn't matter it just needs to be a material instance of the same name

[midnight glade]

I see

Lets see if it works

[cedar bane]

Oh BTW do the game files have uexp files

[midnight glade]

yes

[cedar bane]

👍

[midnight glade]

cooking it rn, bout to replace

lets see

nope

[midnight glade]

still white

[cedar bane]

F

[midnight glade]

lol

[cedar bane]

Idk what else to say

[midnight glade]

well

[cedar bane]

Might think of something later

[midnight glade]

can I do this tho:

import a psk file into blender: export it as FBX: import it into unreal: Save and cook it: use that as a replacer?

a psk file that was made for unreal engine

[cedar bane]

🤷

I'll have to leave soon sorry

[midnight glade]

cuz you said that it needs to have a referance

yeah all good

thanks for the help though

if anyone else has any ideas let me know pls

[rancid lynx]

How do I STOP the character from INSTANTLY teleporting to the floor every time he walks down a step ? it looks rediuclous

How do I STOP the character from INSTANTLY teleporting to the floor every time he walks down a step ? it looks rediuclous

[oblique tangle]

hi all, could i get some quick opinions on this? im trying to set up a grab mechanic where the player can grab a skateable object from a distance, but i need some tips/opinions on how to get it to look more natural/nicer, any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers! https://i.gyazo.com/244cefbeb35288121490ef0ff0f70e1c.mp4

[misty wharf]

When it comes to saving and loading, do variables that are being saved/loaded have to be Uproperties? Some variables weren't loading properly before I marked them with UPROPERTY, and I just wanted to know if that was actually the issue, or if something else I did fixed it.

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: wizard#3746 was banned.

[midnight glade]

I figured out that if I import the original model that I want to replace as a psk file into blender, to then export it as FBX and cook it etc, once I use that as a replacer ingame I get the same problem, model loads, but no texture

so there is something in UE4 that I am not doing correctly before I cook it

[worldly spear]

How do you set up Select so it has the same condition?

Anyone know how i can add a condition to a select node in the Niagara Function Script?

[grave nebula]

@worldly spearpoke around with it, it is self explanatory

[worldly spear]

been trying cant seem to figure it out. Im seeing stars man

I create a select node, but i dont know how to add a condition with a float A and B

[tardy basin]

does anybody know

if theres a way

to make Air Control not just affect left and right

i need it to affect forward motion as well

[worldly spear]

Would this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASmpekXpk-8&ab_channel=TitanicGames

[tardy basin]

maybe, ill lyk

[tardy basin]

unfortunately no

but it may give me some ideas

[worldly spear]

aww sorry dude! good luck!

[tardy basin]

its so strange that Air Control only affects lateral motion

[tardy basin]

thanks

[worldly spear]

maybe its a directional node that needs to be attached?

[split jasper]

If you were going to model a small card, like a playing card, does UE have any tools for that or should I actually go into Blender a make a 2d model of a rectangle for it?

[grim ore]

there are modeling tools in 4.26 and later that can do that, or you can use the built in plane mesh and use it

[split jasper]

this plane mesh might be exactly what I want

Also how do I get at those 4.26 modeling tools? That's the version I'm on but I haven't seen them.

Any day I don't have to open up Blender is a good day

[tardy basin]

yup, i got it

anyone ping me if you have the same issue

[primal tendon]

where can I get rigged character with outfits, like knight armor, sword and stuff?

[bright sigil]

#fab

[open seal]

someone in here got some time for a noob, need to ask a question, please DM me

[safe meadow]

what is related to?

[open seal]

blueprints, easy lvl 😛

[cedar wave]

#blueprint

[tardy basin]

Quixel

[primal tendon]

You mean mixer?

[tardy basin]

yes

[undone charm]

this rock started glowing after droping a blood decal on top of it
how do i fix this?

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/ancient-aliens-gif-19210634

[tardy basin]

@Hallibell-Frostmane#2983 hey sorry discord is being completely broken right now

Not sure why

@gleaming hornet

Yo

@Hallibell-Frostmane#2983

[autumn latch]

how can i do my project name longer then 20 character?

[hushed cloud]

Is it possible to use BehaviourTree on simple actors (not pawns and without AIController)? For example use BT to make door that opens only if player have specific item (or something more complex)? It would be easier than writing code/BP for it or some sort of specific system to handle opening doors based on coditions.

[neon bough]

that sounds like overcomplicating things

[hushed cloud]

I've seen a working game where BTs are used instead of scripting of any sort and it works well. In same time nobody said that pawn is supposed to move around.

[bright sigil]

i think you can do that sort of stuff - pretty sure its generic enough to work with as a decision systems (not just telling a pawn to move) but i've never done so. I think this has been asked before in #gameplay-ai that's where most BT questions happen

[bright sigil]

its a cautionary warning, not a strict rule - though i usually make my project less than 20 🙂 - you can name it however long when you package it

[neon bough]

for a door you will end up with more "BP" than a normal BP based solution

[autumn latch]

I get an error when I change the name of the folder after packaging.

[gleaming hornet]

?

[bright sigil]

should be a place to change the name of your project, not the folder, but the name of the project in project settings

[autumn latch]

yes i know about it but i am not talking about it.

i am tolking about this

[grim ore]

thats not a folder, thats a file in your unpackaged project

[bright sigil]

if you're changing the name of that uproject, delete your DerivedDataCache, Intermediate, and Saved - that's probably where the error is coming from

[rose sleet]

Why does my floor say Preview?

[cedar wave]

Build your lighting.

[rose sleet]

ahh

makes sense

do i have to rebuild my lighting at the end or can i do it throughout making my game?

[neon bough]

both

adding/moving items within the range of a lightsource will invalidate their lightbuild data and they will be rebuild on the next build

so the engine is aware of what needs to be rebuild, and tells you so

[rose sleet]

Alright, basically every time i move something that will interfere with the lightbuild data i need to rebuild it?

[neon bough]

yes

unless it's a dynamic/movable object (as their light/shadow gets calculated on runtime, which is more expensive)

[rose sleet]

Ah ok, thank you.

[jovial perch]

how do i add a moon to my day night cycle

[fervent kernel]

How do you save the default blueprint editor layout? Every time I open a blueprint the windows are in the wrong spot and if I rearrange them it just goes back to messed up when I open it again.

[vocal sorrel]

Hey guys, does anyone know why when im in editor none of my scene moves (clouds/rain/etc) but then when I move around in editor it starts moving again?

[undone charm]

how do i keyframe sunlight position?

[modest trench]

try rotating the main direct light

[undone charm]

what should i be tracking in sequencer?

[drowsy snow]

The transform of the directional light actor.

[undone charm]

just figured it out

im adding the keyframes trough the mobility tab, is that correct?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on how you're going to put the moon.

[drowsy snow]

Mobility tab?

[plush yew]

How can i make an object hide antoher object and be invisible?

[drowsy snow]

As in view culling, or what?

[plush yew]

yeah i have some objects that need to scroll up and then dissapear inside an invisible cube

a dissolve

[drowsy snow]

Sorry, I still don't get it.

[plush yew]

i found something

i had no idea how to call it

https://youtu.be/xRxkcFOhNrc?t=382

Wadstein has all the answers

[plush yew]

Can you bind that to an object? or is that for renders only

[autumn latch]

how can i detach alt+f4?

and what is different Quit and Baackground?

[ornate leaf]

I have an input related question. Does anyone know of a method for grabbing and associating proper controller index? Sometimes when controller gets disconnected and reconnected it must get a new ID or something in Windows that will make Unreal (or a built game) not recognize it as primary gamepad and requires a system reboot. I'd like to set up something thing that listens for a raw button press from all possible gamepads and then maps some controller index at runtime to avoid this. Just a bit ignorant as far as general plan on how to achieve this. I'm using regular input system at the moment but open to upgrading to enhanced input if it will help here. Really all I need is some high level guidance if this is possible and maybe what functions to look into. Thanks!

[shadow surge]

How do you guys handle revision control in Unreal? Is there a free option that works well?

[prime willow]

maybe a button input check

where you try to define what each player index is

based on a call and lsiten logic and than saving that reference to the input that occured when called for

[drowsy snow]

There are a lot of options in #source-control

[shadow surge]

@drowsy snow thanks bro

[radiant elm]

hey I've started my journey with unreal few days ago and I've got a problem. I made world in FPS template but now I want to play as a ThirdPerson are there any ways to play ThirdPerson in my world?

[ornate leaf]

Easiest path would be if you click the green Add Content button you should be able to import 3rd person template to your project. Then drop in the 3rd person character blueprint and set to Auto Possess player 0. Remove FPS character blueprint from scene or set it to not auto possess.

[ornate leaf]

Thanks I did some searching and didn't realize you can do runtime remapping even with blueprints and traditional input system. So should be easier than I thought (hopefully!)

[prime willow]

i hope so!

[buoyant rain]

I need help! Ue4 editor do not use %100 cpu and gpu and my fps is around 35. How can I make it use cpu and gpu more?

[errant cedar]

Hey folks, I have a quick problem. I can't figure out how to cancel this for loop. It loops through an array of 3 elements {0,1,2}. It outputs and everything, but it outputs 012012012012 on repeat. I want it to cancel after the first iteration. Is there a way to easily convert BPs to C++ classes? anyways, here's the BP

Sorry forgot to clarify, yes it is a simple text binding I created. I know why it's happening, but I don't know how to break out of the loop once the array length meets the index.

@plush yew

Yeah, but for learning purposes, I ultimately would like it to cancel the loop.

is there a way to convert a function to C++? If it was in code I could have it fixed lol

[worldly spear]

how do i make an output function that has floats like this?

or do i have to use a float to vector converter?

[errant cedar]

As I currently have it set up, it loops infinitely. I had it to where it was just printing the last element, but never all of the arrays combined into one string.

[dawn gull]

Is there anything similar to a blender Color Ramp in the material node editor?

I'm pretty sure UASSET files for models reference a material UASSET, so have you tried making it reference a material in the root of the content and then putting that material in too?

[midnight glade]

Well, I change the material references to the correct ones from the game itself, even with the original textures etc so that the model I am importing can target the textures, but it just shows up as white

[dawn gull]

Odd. I'm assuming this game doesn't have any official modding tools?

[midnight glade]

No

I have done this before, and it worked

just dont know what step I am missing

[dawn gull]

If there are any online guides look back and double check the steps, I don't mod much so I wouldn't be the best help in this circumstance.

[midnight glade]

Nah there isn't any

[dawn gull]

Dang, well I wish you luck

[midnight glade]

alright, thank you

Anyone else have any ideas?

[drowsy snow]

Well, for starters, this server don't support underground modding, so you're pretty much on your own.

[fierce tulip]

^

[opal ocean]

Quick Question, I'd like to use a dialogue plugin from marketplace, but I'm using 5.0 built from source. It only supports up to 4.27 and I dont see a download for source code. Is it possible to migrate it to my compiled engine?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, you can copy the plugin files into your 5.0, but I heard there's a slight differences in the build process

[opal ocean]

oh thats awesome news. Ok, I'll download it and give it a try. Thanks 🙂

[winter stream]

i'm working at a planet game but i have a problem because the planet is rounded i can't put things on it like that what should i do

[drowsy snow]

Fake it.

And don't expect much when using Unreal Engine 4, as you're bottlenecked to floating point imprecisions.

Even in the Ants To Outer Space presentation, the planet roundness is faked by shaders, and it's only focused on the topmost part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeNM9zBPLCA

Everything outside of the "hero" landscape are fake landscape static mesh curved with shaders.

[winter stream]

that means my planet shouldn't be rounded i should make it look rounded by shaders but isn't this more complicated?

[drowsy snow]

For comparison, No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous used their own in house engine to accomodate the space scale, and Star Citizen had to modify Lumberyard/CryEngine to support large world coordinates

[drowsy snow]

Fake it till you make it, yes.

With Unreal Engine 5, you might have some hope, as it supports large world coordinate, so the limit is larger than that of UE4's

[winter stream]

actually i'm using unreal engine 5 that's good news

[winter stream]

But I want the player to be allowed to spin the world could i do it with faking it ?