ue4-general

[hidden bloom]

so can never get really close shots like face in the cliff climbing ones

85% loaded

so not bad abt 3 mins so far

[autumn flame]

Better than doing one by one

The pain

[hidden bloom]

well at least i just had to click one button convery to 2d texture if it is virtual

[neon magnet]

Does the r.streaming.poolsize cvar matter for when a game is packaged? Or is it only useful for editor performance?

[hidden bloom]

Im not sure as I dont do games so havent packed anything

off top my head I would assume it sets the testure pool for the project so would matter but since I havent done it before I could be totally wrong

[rose prawn]

Hi Guys 🙂 I worked with C#, Javascript and a bit of Python for about 6 years and now I want to make a game. The game will be a 3D shooter with hundreds of enemies in a single frame. I have 0 experience with game dev, beside some 2D fun. I'm unsure if I should go with Unity or Unreal. I really like out the box graphics in UE5 and I've read on internet that Unreal has many more built in systems like movement, destruction, particle and physics systems which I think will save me a lot of time, but I'm not sure I have time to learn C++, can I use Python? Also I was told that Unity performance wise is worse but is easier to start with than Unreal. What should I do?

[fair field]

I can't for the life of me find documentation around creating splines, adding spline points, and manipulation in the editor - can someone point me where I can learn to be not so dumb?

[winter stream]

is it a good idea making a game launcher using unreal engine or should i just use some c++ gui for that ?

[tall sorrel]

whats the best way to activate a lerp for all the material instances in the level for when it is raining?

like obviously you can do it 1 by 1, but there has to be a way to just have a overall lerp or something, but idk

[drowsy snow]

You can just use Core and Slate module, but it's best to just make a simple C++ GUI app instead.

[modest trench]

some web framework would probably be the most simple to get going

[bright sigil]

material param collection

[keen charm]

Does DDR5 work better for UE5 / other Softwares for creating stuff? 🤔

[shell juniper]

I attached my grabbed object to a spring arm endpoint with a collision check enabled.

[fiery sluice]

Hello guys, stuck with my inventory, here is a video of what happened https://youtu.be/zeVEIf9hnDM

Please Help

[severe robin]

Does Unreal have a feature similar to unity "progressive" lightmapper, which automatically async lightmaps surfaces on the viewport frustum first before the rest of the scene?

[fierce agate]

Hey guys, why if i save my game and load it again, the textures don’t save?
I mean my mesh became texture less

[blissful trail]

me and a friend are trying to optimize our game we are managing to get 300+ fps on a 3070 is this good

[rocky epoch]

Green is usually a good sign, but shader complexity tool/instruction count is far from precise (more about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0QASid1v8w).

But you always have to check the precise results on the target hardware. If the target is with a 3070 that 300fps is more than good.
Honestly I have no idea what is the performance difference between a 3070 and for example a RX580 that I have. You can make guesses how it would run on a weaker GPU, but you will only know when you try it on one.

But at that point you are probably good to go, and should not sweat on optimisation a lot.

I can recommend that video about optimisation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRaeiVAM4LI

[drowsy snow]

It would be more conclusive if you test it on lower end hardware, probably equivalent to base PS4.

[whole hazel]

hey guys, when downloading assets using Quixel Bridge and you import them, there's no collision at all, the character moves as if they are invisible walls/assets
do I have to open each one of these assets and add a collision to each one of them and re-import them or there's an easier way because that would take so much time with over 200 assets..
I know for each object, UE5 allows you to change the collision but even when I use 'Default' or 'BlockAll', nothing happens, character still goes inside the assets..
thanks in advance for the help

[whole hazel]

never mind, it got fixed after a restart, using details level BlockAll collision

[pure sorrel]

How could i start make a mmorpg in unreal

[wheat hare]

terrain

[drowsy snow]

You don't.

[neon bough]

open unreal, create a bunch of characters, create some gamelogic, make a map, done

[wheat hare]

yeah first step is the map

and then I guess characters

just like English class you've got plot, setting, and characters lol

to make your story

[drowsy snow]

Okay, that wasn't conclusive enough.

Prepare yourself the following:

• millions and millions of dollars for servers (including maintenance) and dev team cost
• content plan
• monetisation scheme

[oak patio]

Ah the age old how to make mmorpg

[wheat hare]

so make a map and give itt a time period and put some people in there
get to know the people and see what they do

[drowsy snow]

Not even map's going anywhere without the first thing I mentioned above.

[wheat hare]

the money?

unreal engine is free

[oak patio]

Server costs arent, and fir mmos they get expensive

Yoy akso aint gonna dev it solo

[wheat hare]

so
the question was how to start it

[drowsy snow]

The engine is free, but the assets anr servers aren't 🙂

[oak patio]

You dint is the answer

[wheat hare]

you don't need $10000000 to learn blender and unreal and make a mmo

[drowsy snow]

I'm sorry, but I'm just being realistic

[wheat hare]

assets are free

[oak patio]

Any mmo you make for free, solo, even pretending you could afford the server is doomed to fail

[wheat hare]

u make them
in blender, maya...

[wheat hare]

but in the end you'd know how to do it?

what's the problem?

[oak patio]

Because its a pointless excercise

[wheat hare]

if you can't make a AAA game, don't even open the editor?

haha

see you guys later

[oak patio]

Not what we are saying, if you wouldnt know where to start making an mmo, you arent experienced ebough to make one

[drowsy snow]

Nope. Not before everyone calling you asset flipper 😉

And that is a derogatory term you don't want yourself sticking with

[pure sorrel]

and if would keep it offline?

[oak patio]

Its still a massove project to tackle

Reign in scope a bit

[drowsy snow]

But you need significant amount of your lifespan to finish it yourself.

[wheat hare]

AAA studios buy assets, my guy
not sure which one of you folks knows less about this

[pure sorrel]

simple third persoon shooter more realistic?>

[drowsy snow]

Both, but use BP if you're just getting started.

[oak patio]

Way more realistic

[drowsy snow]

Not even fucking close.

AAA studios who use UE4 also use BPs in any shape or form.

[oak patio]

C++ can be great for backend like saving, blueprints can be great for making gameplay elements from what i understand

Isnt something like half of fortbite bps

You can also make custom blueprint nodes with c++

[drowsy snow]

In reality, simply put, it's more of a balancing act.

Depends on what the WAD actually is, but for ease of packaging, stick with Unreal's "asset factory".

[oak patio]

I have a love hate with c++

[drowsy snow]

WAD format isn't limited to just classic Doom lumps

[oak patio]

On the one hand its a good language, on the other hand i hate pointers

Idk why i do i just do

And i have to work with sqlite for uni which has a hell of a lot if pointers

[drowsy snow]

Unreal already has PAK that took care of that, but should you make id Tech 1 reimplementation in UE4, then go 2 it.

Finally got to use that TNT Evilution level name in a convo, hell yeah

[oak patio]

No, pointers are satan spawn

Making me type the stupid little asterisk

Smh

[drowsy snow]

If pointers are cube spawners, what's the Icon of Sin?

[oak patio]

Don't confuse me with your words magic person

Anyone know where i can heist a quadro rtx 8000 from

My lighting builds take forever

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[oak patio]

I mean you coukd do either ig

Id opt for dping them in ue though

[tall sorrel]

Damn, just realized I was over optimizing. I am making my survival game (first actual release) on less than target hardware, and I had everything hella optimized with trees being like 400 tris at lod 0 (its a massive forest), and I just put all my foliage and trees and stuff on my landscape material to procedurally spawn, and I was still pumping almost 200 fps on less than target, so I amped some stuff up to make it a bit better, and I’m still getting like 170

[timid meteor]

hiii, im trying to hilight the texture but im having a hard time can i get some tips for this ?

[drowsy snow]

But not really in the sense of Doom Builder where you draw BSP linedefs and make sectors, it's more of placing stuff around to assemble a level.

That being said, there is a BSP brush feature in UE, but I won't recommend using it to make final level, but use it for blocking out maps instead.

[oak patio]

Ive just realised my level design process is scuffed

[oak patio]

#graphics might be your best bet for that one

[pure sorrel]

how do i remove the shadows from the content create

[sick patio]

can someone help me with this error. this is from a marketplace asset i just put in my project. and when i went to their demo map it won't load with this error.

[drowsy snow]

Well #level-design would told me it's scuffed as hell as I make up the levels on the spot as I go along.

[oak patio]

Mines pretty much the same, sometimes i draw out a design, but i dont even block out, just buikd it oiece by piece as i make the static meshes lmao

[sick patio]

mine is from "basic car pack" if that helps

someone?

[timid meteor]

ty

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/anyone-here-tumbleweed-john-travolta-pulp-fiction-where-are-you-gif-22041899

[pure sorrel]

why in unreal is z upwards?

?

[sick patio]

because they hate cartesian

what do i win?

[drowsy snow]

Because Z is always upwards.

[pure sorrel]

in unity it is forward

[drowsy snow]

sigh Unity

[sick patio]

we don't mention that word round these parts

https://tenor.com/view/south-park-funny-we-dont-take-your-type-gif-14806320

[drowsy snow]

Absolute heresy!!

[oak patio]

Idk the actual reason but i think of it is x and y are already used on graphs ti repesebt coordinates so if you add an extra axis you only got z left

Or i dont think about it, that also helps

[drowsy snow]

The thing is that Y-up is mainly make sense on 2D graph.

And guess what Unity excels on.

[oak patio]

Ive gotta use unity for a uni project at the end of my secend semester, and i reallly dont wanna

[sick patio]

can someone help me with this error. this is from a marketplace asset i just put in my project. and when i went to their demo map it won't load with this error.

@drowsy snow

[grand lava]

That's not what cartesian means …

[oak patio]

Thats why ive akways said, if i wanna nake 2d games, ill switch to unity, but 3d games ue wins

[drowsy snow]

Are they going to nullify the grade if you're using anything but Unity?

[oak patio]

Nah its that good gun from destiny

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/joke-jk-penguin-laugh-its-was-a-joke-gif-14574338

[oak patio]

Yup lmao its a group project

[drowsy snow]

Right click -> refresh node

[sick patio]

that disconnected from the thing below

[drowsy snow]

I can't help but imagining neer do well school gang use Unreal Engine for uni project and obliterates everyone else using Unity at the campus

[oak patio]

We did have a smaller project that used unreal but that was more to learn 3DS MAX

our main projects are doing everything by hand cause woo computer science

this year its SFML for 2D, next year its DirectX for 3D

all great fun

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/mad-upset-ugly-cry-crying-gif-14754689

so no help for me?

[oak patio]

I think you can fix it by going into project settings and changing SurfaceType1 to 'Soft'

not sure tho

that should give you the node back on the switch statement

[grand lava]

Make sure you have the appropriate physical surface declared in your project settings.

[sick patio]

under input?

[oak patio]

just search for surface

and change SurfaceType1 to Soft

It's under Engine - Physics

[sick patio]

uh but what about that connection?

[oak patio]

refresh the node it should be back

[sick patio]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH it put a thingy on the thingy now

[oak patio]

there ya goo

[sick patio]

you kids are smrat

https://tenor.com/view/you-is-kind-you-is-smart-you-is-important-the-help-gif-23612550

ok now how do i get in the car?

it has the animation

and a blue print

[oak patio]

it also seems like you need to set up keybinds for some input events

[sick patio]

I have a thought

step back

[oak patio]

stepping back

[sick patio]

all of this is IN the project with the cars, in THAT project settings?

[oak patio]

should be

[sick patio]

IT IS.... can i join the smart people table now?

[oak patio]

plenty of spare seats

come on up

[sick patio]

uh wait

these key things are the same as the other key things

can C be used for .... two things?

can i say "upon overlap use C"

[oak patio]

i mean ig technically you could but i dont see why you would

[sick patio]

but i can't use C to crouch

[oak patio]

that makes sense

[sick patio]

y'all gone make me think

[oak patio]

you don't tend to crouch in cars, so id say the crouch was a default one that wasn't deleted

no in terms of what youd use

[sick patio]

wait, i can use ctrl to crouch

[oak patio]

it would just go off of what you are currently possessing

[sick patio]

hold on i'm using ma brain

[oak patio]

if your player goes in the car, and you unpossess it and possess the vehicle. then it will respond to vehicle controls, vice versa

[sick patio]

WHO NEEDS CARS ANYWAY? WHO NEEDS TO DRIVE? just put the player inside the building and forget CARS... have me thinking and wasting time.

[oak patio]

exactly

why drive when you can teleport

[sick patio]

see the storm, and then play the walking dead music..... BOOM you're in the building

[oak patio]

(unless you are making a racing game, in which case driving is important)

[sick patio]

you... no trying to make sense over there at the smart kids table

[oak patio]

:(

[sick patio]

ok delete the cars

and the

advanced locomotion

doors automatically open

time to learn custscenes

no scratch taht

too much trouble

[oak patio]

cutscenes arent that bad

[sick patio]

package it and ship it to steam. they'll buy it

[oak patio]

lmao

[sick patio]

early EARLY access

$40

i'll make millions

oh and put a anime waifu on the cover?

[oak patio]

i feel like you're just gabe newell in disguise

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/pc-master-race-gaming-the-feels-gtx1080-gif-7941212

you'll never get 3 out of me

@oak patio @grand lava thank you for your helps

[oak patio]

no problem

[grand lava]

No problem.

Try #lumen.

Should be a more appropriate place to ask.

[tawdry sedge]

Thanks! didnt saw that

[sick patio]

QUESTION: I am a big big fan of Hogan's Heroes the tv show. an ongoing premise is that london tells them to do something, and Hogan and his band of merry men have to come up with a way to do it. i.e. an open ended QUEST. Is there any game that gives players a bunch of good logical mechanics and provide open ended "non-linear" quests? I just need an example. instead of collect 3 rats.

[pure dagger]

I'm looking for any translation/changing language tutorial. I would like to make a database with dialogs, names etc and change them if different language is set.

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines/Localization/LocalizationTools

[winter stream]

where could i find this in unreal engine 5

[pure sorrel]

why i dont see edit layer in my unreal

[pure sorrel]

I think in setting

[winter stream]

i have found it on Tools>Debug

[dim merlin]

My packaged game startsup as windowed, not fullscreen. anyone knows how to fix that? Im on 4.27

[autumn flame]

In the Config folder of your Project
Create DefaultGameUserSettings.ini

Put this inside

[/Script/Engine.GameUserSettings]
FullscreenMode=0
Version=5

0 is FS, 1 is WFS, 2 is W

[golden niche]

I have been trying to follow the official tutorials for IK, and this happens, does it have to do with the way my bones are set up?

[plush yew]

why i have feeling that almost everyone is looking for programmers and only few people for designers

[crimson comet]

Hello, does anyone know if Epic Megagrants are still available? I saw somewhere that by early 2020 they had already given out half of the total so just wondering if it’s too late now

[fierce tulip]

you can still apply

[next swift]

This question is for anyone experienced with importing from blender to unreal:
Say I have a rigged character with bones or drivers that control not just movement but deformation, like a muscle deformation sim:
https://youtu.be/H4jKJMiTxvM
Or
https://youtu.be/2vJqAxPly3o

Would this import to Unreal without issue? Or Halfway, but some fixing is needed, or just completely broken?
I've also seen a jiggle rig that had similar complexity: https://youtu.be/X26xROC9wao
Sorry, I don't know the best terminology or phrasing for the question, this is more "I'm a beginner and I saw some cool stuff, is it even possible to get these into Unreal?" That's typically how I find my next area of study.

[plush yew]

Why do my particles play in the opposite direction when I add them to my maps ._.

Nvm I’m dumb

[tired abyss]

Do you know the name for that Ue5 game thats in production that is mecha's with borderline anime girls? i forget its name

driving me mad

[forest light]

hello guys, are there some unreal engine reverse engineers that can test out security of my game?

not sure where exactly should I post this question

[orchid bobcat]

y

[sick patio]

QUESTION: you know how at air shows and football games , the air force has like 6 planes fly over in formation. How would i do that in the game? Niagara or something?

is this the wrong discord for this question?

[daring cedar]

Anyone knows why when I launch my project to VR it crashes the program?

[leaden leaf]

hey guys, not sure if it's the right place to ask this but in my game, I want to move my scene aside when a Widgets appears : I already have a Inventory widget, which takes something like 40% of the screen. When I show him, I want to move all my scene so my Inventory appears on the left half, and my scene on the right half. Any idea how to achieve this ? Are there better solutions ?

[sick patio]

QUESTION: you know how at air shows and football games , the air force has like 6 planes fly over in formation. How would i do that in the game? Niagara or something? @drowsy snow

[tall sorrel]

yo anyone know if there is a way to procedurally generate foliage blueprint actors in landscape material, rather than static meshes, currently I am using the grass node, but the meshes that spawned aren't individual instances, and I want to add functionality to the foliage that does spawn

[sharp crest]

@grave aspen happy birthday

[sharp crest]

you'd want to replace the instances with actors when the player interacts with them.

do it with code/bps

[tall sorrel]

but their not individual instances

like I select a tree and it selects the landscape

[sharp crest]

sounsd like something you'd just have a skeletal mesh with animations and a blueprint timelines moving it around in the formation u want. or maybe a cinematic doing it Idk.
many ways this can be done dpeending on how u want exactl.y.

[sharp crest]

you have to do this in-game..

go on google u will see

google ue4 tree intercation or something

[sharp crest]

security in terms of what? what r u trying to protect?..

[tall sorrel]

yea I know tree interaction, ur missing what I am saying, is there a way to make the landscape grass node automatically make individual instances, whether I am in play mode or not it selects the entire landscape when selecting a tree

[sharp crest]

did you check the IK example in the UE5 demo they releasd with the robots #unreal-news

[sick patio]

IF spacebar is jump.... in a car handbrake can't be spacebar too?

[golden niche]

I'm checking it out right now

[sharp crest]

it is literally in the same place lol

[pure dagger]

How can i set camera view as a picture in menu?

[sick patio]

or inside a car you change pawns and can therefore have the same keyboard control?

[sharp crest]

it can be... make sure the input node in the player doesn't consume it and doesn't override it

[sharp crest]

u can..

[sharp crest]

nope

oh if u want just for map editing

u can do it

go to foliage mode and then select instance mode

if u just want to move an instance or delete an instance

[sharp crest]

what

[pure dagger]

I would like to place a camera on map and set view as a background in main menu

[tall sorrel]

im not using foliage mode lmao

[sick patio]

so in project setttings: jump = spacebar handbrake = spacebar and in blue print put 3rd person character spacebar input, car character spacebar input?

[tall sorrel]

thats way too much time on a massive map

[sharp crest]

in the camera actor settings in the world you can set the player to auto posses that camera when the game starts.

@tall sorrel I can't help you if you won't fully explain what I need to do so

[tall sorrel]

I said how do you get using the GRASS node in a landscape material spawn individual instances instead of being a part of the landscape lmao, theres not much more to explain

[sharp crest]

no in the character u need an actioninput jump and in the car u need the actioninput handbrake

[sick patio]

that's what i meant

https://tenor.com/view/idiot-elmo-im-stupid-shrug-im-an-idiot-gif-16140879

[sharp crest]

which grass node? the one that uses landscape grass assets? not possible

[sick patio]

moderators

[sharp crest]

ye

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: robwild#0026 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[sharp crest]

should work then 👍

[sick patio]

thanks. i'm trying to mingle car markeplace asset, into my rpg project

[sharp crest]

cool

[sick patio]

I assume now i copy the pawn from the car project also?

or would that come over in the migration

[sharp crest]

when u migrate u will see a list of assets that will transfer

[pure dagger]

How can i disable camera rotating?

[sharp crest]

in the blueprint there is logic for that

for the camera rotating) so just disable it..

[sick patio]

tried to copy the 3rd person cahracter "hint" blueprint over to my project 3rd person and got this

[sharp crest]

go to that 'RotateText' function and right click and copy

then go to the new blueprint and right click anywhere and paste

and it should paste that function with all the logic to ur new bp

[sick patio]

i was trying to paste this, that's what gave me the error

or do you mean the function itself

sorry, i didn't read

[sharp crest]

yes it's a bit weird I'm not sure why it won't just copy paste the entire function when copying the function node

[shell surge]

Hey guys, do you know any good tutorials or resources about building a concert stage in ue4? With all effects, flashing lights etc

[sharp crest]

I'd google that but sounds too specific.. so try googling each piece individually..

[sick patio]

I created and tried to paste this, but i don't see this variable in the original project

[hollow cairn]

how is the animationblueprint connected to the character?

I have some new characters and wanna give them their own animation blueprint but I can't see where the default thirdpersoncharacter is connected to its animationblueprint...

[oak patio]

That variable is actually just a reference ti the text component

See how there is a text render component ij the secind image, that isnt in the first

[sharp crest]

in the skeletal mesh component there is an anim bp variable

[sharp nebula]

yo quick question, how can I reduce the intensity of the white skylight that can be seen under the map?

I do not know which settings effects it's intensity, but it's not "Light Source"

[sick patio]

I tried to copy the 2nd blueprint into my project

[hollow cairn]

ah i see, thank you

[sharp crest]

maybe atmosphere fog or experimetnal fog

or sky light or directional light

or skybox or sky atmosphere

[manic pond]

Hi I am having trouble installing unreal engine, the epic installer ends and says it ended prematurely

[sick patio]

oh it's some sort of component?

[oak patio]

Gimme a few mins and ill highlight it for ya

[sick patio]

i think i fixed it

i added a text render component

[oak patio]

Yeah that will work

[sick patio]

do i need to do more?

[oak patio]

Thats what you needed to do

If you look at what the node was, you were setting a scene component to hidden, of type text render, but you hadnt copied over the text render component

Now you have so it works

[sick patio]

this is a bunch of trouble

if you were my teacher would you advise against putting this in my project as a noob?

[oak patio]

Putting what in

[regal narwhal]

Hello. I have a video, which should play on a plane in loop. I created the mediaplayer, selected the video there and dragged in on the plane. When opening the mediaplayer, clicking twice the video, then i see it on the plane, but when i close it, it just black, and need to open the mediaplayer again.

[sick patio]

this car stuff

[oak patio]

I mean it depends how new you are, would i advise it to someone who has only just downloaded unreal, probably not

If you are somewhat used ti the engine, then id say go for it, it may be a bit of a learning curve but you may learn a lot

It also depends if the car and vehicle is premade which it seems like it is

I would advise against it if it is an assignment related thing tho, as it could take too long

If you're just trying to learn I don't see why not, although depending on how new you are you may wanna make something simpler

[sick patio]

im am learning a lot just fixing these mistakes

[golden niche]

I get this weird thing

[sharp crest]

Idk never tried custom IK.

Anyone knows if there is a way to make Visual Studio build go faster? I'm compiling 5.0

[neon hatch]

Is it possible to have a 'universal rig/skeleton'? So each time I import a new custom model, they can just use that instead of having to create a full rig for each new character? They all follow the same body structure/height/etc. and everything, they're just very low poly like so:

[sharp crest]

when u import u can choose if to use an existing skeleton.

[sharp shadow]

Is is it possible to search Output Log without actually filtering lines? I am looking for search which works just like normal search in web browser.

[sharp crest]

the output log prints to a file in UrProject/Saved/Logs/

so just open that file in whatever txt program u want

[sharp shadow]

yes, I know but I am looking for in editor option

[sharp crest]

maybe look on the marketplac

[plush yew]

what is the shortcut to enter in "fly" mode inside PIE?

i mean, the one that you have when no character is selected on GameMode

answer: F8

[drowsy snow]

Change the primary and secondary axis

[golden niche]

oof thanks

[forest light]

crackers are already trying to crack my game, they got around drm bypass (the easy thing) but now I would like to know how difficult is to actually breach real drm I made

[golden niche]

Im using simple IK, how can I set the position in real time?

[thick herald]

If massive companies can't prevent hacking, nothing can 🙂

[golden niche]

stacko bot example uses FBIK (that I dont have)

[forest light]

yeah but that is not a reason to distract myself from testing protection of my game

[sick patio]

@drowsy snow using name brand stuff opens me up to lawsuit? like energizer batteries etc

[drowsy snow]

If I were you, I wouldn't really bother with the pirates, unless somehow your player base is > 50% pirating the game

Which is only possible if someone hate you so much and arranging a protest.

[drowsy snow]

Yes, that's trademark law.

[forest light]

please lets not talk about off-topic of if pirating is useful or if drm is worth it or any other off-topic things unrelated to testing security

that is coversation for another day

[sick patio]

this is fine though? https://p.turbosquid.com/ts-thumb/QI/3951yT/gv/battery4/jpg/1622549511/1920x1080/fit_q99/660ca2197d369d26703314ebb1e8573185c1d0ad/battery4.jpg

[drowsy snow]

Well, nowadays anti-piracy is often not really worth the hard effort, but fine, I'll shut myself up.

[sharp crest]

I wouldn't worry too much about this, from what I know it really doesn't have much of an effect on sales.

[drowsy snow]

That's fine.

[forest light]

same as stated to hoodie guy, lets not get distracted by off topic related to cracking or fighting pirates. there is whole lot more to talk about for that, but lets leave to another day and focus on theme of "testing" securty

[drowsy snow]

Then might as well not discussing it here at all.

For all I care, your precious DRM could be a trade secret no one else should publicly adopt, and you might able to reverse it yourself with Ghidra and keep the loophole going.

[forest light]

Im not exactly sure where to ask about it in this server, but there are lots of people for sure who know this stuff

[neon hatch]

I think they are just trying to tell you in a nice way that testing protection is not optimal use of your time as crack is inevitable regardless of game scope, size or dev unfortunately

[drowsy snow]

And for all I know warez groups sure ain't hanging out here.

[forest light]

yes I do understand that. Thats why I would rater pay somebody to do it, than spend time of my own when I can develop the game . would be nice to have somebody pointing out mistakes

[neon hatch]

100% safe to use in current state as it is just a battery with no discernible label. If you were to write ENERGIZER however the issues surface

[drowsy snow]

What is your game in development? If not, what studio are you working for?

[golden niche]

why do I not find the FBIK node?

[drowsy snow]

Full body IK is a plugin (AFAIK still is in UE5)

[sick patio]

I just want the player to RECOGNIZE that this ... is battery ... is a flashlight .... is a manila folder ... is a hotdog etc.

[neon hatch]

I don't know how else to tell you friend, there is no currently existing protection that is infallible and likely will never be

[golden niche]

I am in ue5

[drowsy snow]

Yes, without the label, that's clearly a battery

If the model creator permits, you can modify the textures and use made up brands

[forest light]

please guys, I specifically mentioned to not talk about off-topic

[neon hatch]

This is achievable without labels, you could use the models as they come or make up your own in-universe brand names (like ENERGETIX or something. As long as you check to clarify that the name you use is not a real pre-existing brand)

[pliant rose]

Cyber was assembled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KkIyX-7bgY

[drowsy snow]

Something like "Supershell"

[drowsy snow]

What is this?

Are you asking question?

[forest light]

Its by Devolution (studio) and I currently own it. Most of the stuff + all code is by myself

[sick patio]

this might be a dumb question, but turbosquid has tornadoes you can download? what would i do with them? or how

[neon hatch]

Your question was "how difficult is it to breach my custom DRM?" which we can't know without, well... trying. I'm just informing you that no amount of money you dump into protection will guarantee it.

[forest light]

Im not interested in changing protection, just dump money to somebody who understands reverse engineering and can tell me obvious flaws and if it has any

[neon hatch]

Ohh I see, I misunderstood

In that case I would say you may find better luck in some kind of programming or modding Discord rather than UE4

[gaunt abyss]

I mean is asking for someone to reverse engineer your game on topic with this channel?

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-talk-about-me-selfish-arrogant-me-myself-and-i-talk-about-me-gif-15499716

[forest light]

I mentioned at the beginning that I'm not sure where exactly I asked so I put it in general ue channel if there is better place for it, let me know

[drowsy snow]

I'm not inclined to think it's worth my time to just boot up Ghidra and reverse engineer your little DRM, and simply put, you're in the wrong forum.

[sick patio]

ok so about my question

lol

hoodieguy you confuse me with that avatar

[drowsy snow]

How? lol

[sick patio]

so about downloading tornadoes from turbosquid. would it just be a weird static 3d mesh?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

If you want to make "living" tornado, best do it with particle system like Niagara

[forest light]

I'm not asking anyone to do anything for free. Even pointing out there is ghidra is useful info for me. also someone might know that its super easy to decompile and look at blueprints in game and see connections maybe obviously people do drm. also just matter of fact, im owner of main pirate thread and sometimes release public builds and tons of other info related to "is it worth fighting pirates" so thats why I want to avoid all conversation related to anything else than testing protection sry if I sound rude, I just wanted to get to the point

[drowsy snow]

Also wind physics, but that's another can of worm

[sick patio]

wait, i made wind before, for a flag

[drowsy snow]

Good luck, because tornados succ

[sick patio]

i can't quite remember, but all i did was something like wind in blueprint

[drowsy snow]

And succ wind is not a built in thing in UE4

[sick patio]

and i could make it more forecful or not

wait what does succ stand for

[drowsy snow]

spoonerism of "suck"

[sick patio]

niagara is the only game in town for tornado?

[drowsy snow]

Cascade can do it as well

[gaunt abyss]

If anywhere at all it should probably be posted as a job offer on the job boards (debating if I should even allow this convo to continue)

In short there is no unbreakable DRM, if someone wants to break through it they will, DRM will only piss off legit players

[sick patio]

i thought cascade was deprecated

which one should i learn. i have limited brain space

[drowsy snow]

Sort of, but Niagara's more expandable and robust than Cascade.

Still, the choice are there

[neon hatch]

This my spirit animal tbh

[sick patio]

lol

so def uh niagara

see ^

reaching my brain limit in this conversation

[neon hatch]

Niagara is the new standard afaik

[sick patio]

ok so let me give you a scenario and is this doable in niagara

[neon hatch]

The answer is yes.

[drowsy snow]

@fierce tulip Cascade or Niagara? Help him decide :3

[cedar wave]

Niagara

[sick patio]

great weather... clouds roll in, clouds get dark, storm happens, tornado happens

that's niagara or blueprint

[neon hatch]

Niagara would be used to handle any particle effects. The rest I am not sure

Probably a little of both tbh

There are some weather systems (possibly a free one iirc) on UE marketplace if you'd like to research for some examples

[fierce tulip]

niagara

[sick patio]

that @fierce tulip guy never answered

i'm alway slate

late

[forest light]

I understand debating piracy is unpleasant, and taboo topic, however I just wanted to get more info about it before posting job offer without research, and since game is made in unreal, lots of people here can have experience of their games being decompiled, hacked, cracked all sorts of stuff.
I was also worried about debate turning into "do not put drm in you game and your problem solved"

[fierce tulip]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHjQE2fLIZu97z7Iwf-PjV2e1Y4_k2GKL

^ niagara starting tuts.

[sick patio]

I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT

i swear youtube hates only me

[fierce tulip]

slaps ponkkis

[sick patio]

i spent a day searching for niagara introduction

um Luos can i ask you about my question about that scenario: great weather... clouds roll in, clouds get dark, storm happens, tornado happens
that's niagara or blueprint

[fierce tulip]

both

[sick patio]

and the free weather markeplace thing i got... the tutorial is in chinese 😦 i mean.... i can't get any worse bad luck

[neon hatch]

So basically what I said

[sick patio]

is that a cloud?

[drowsy snow]

Yes

[neon hatch]

No, it's my original K-Pop idol

[drowsy snow]

Well, he's teached by Honey Bee folks

[sick patio]

now of course, the follow up question is

[neon hatch]

Sad there was never a Bee costume 😪

[sick patio]

where o where do i learn to blueprint weather changing from good to horrible and spawning particle tornadoes and lightning?

[drowsy snow]

In my case, I just went my own, based on what I learned from partially reverse engineering GTA V

[sick patio]

i've thought about and tried to reverse engineer gta V but... I have limited brain storage

as I told you

and i've always wanted to know, when cloud dressed up as a girl, did the owner of the district really think he was a girl? when he invited cloud to his room?

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-gif-24108774

[drowsy snow]

He's a pretty boy tho 😉

[sick patio]

https://assets.rpgsite.net/images/images/000/086/457/original/final_fantasy_vii_remaike_cloud_dresses.png

[fierce tulip]

quite #lounge - ey talk

[sick patio]

i blame dax

but seriously

Luos where do i learn about the blueprinting weather epic stuff

[fierce tulip]

iunno, I dont really do blueprints. im sure you can find weather system tutorials and such

[sick patio]

i only get houdini or 3dsmax

thank you, sorry

[bleak zodiac]

i would look at unreal online learning

[drowsy snow]

inb4 "does it have tornadoes?"

[thick herald]

but does it??

[drowsy snow]

cue vsauce theme

[plush yew]

Hey guys would someone help me with his speed

This is just too powerful :P I couldn't fix it somehow

[sharp crest]

Anyone knows if there is a way to make Visual Studio build go faster? I'm building 5.0 in VS 2022

Like allocating more processing power to it or something

[thick herald]

Sure, get a better cpu 😄

[fossil nexus]

How do i join 2 procedural meshes into one at run time?

Is this possible?

[wind hearth]

Might be what you're looking for:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/

[fossil nexus]

Its a bit confusing. Its the FSkeletalMeshMerge?

But that doesnt apply to procedural meshes? Or does it?

[loud ember]

is there a way to change these settings mid game with blueprints?

or maybe should i have 2 collision components and set collision enabled and disabled depending on which one i want to use while the game is running

[tall sorrel]

is there a way to see your total polys / tri count?

[bright sigil]

make your own collision presets to change between

[loud ember]

ok thanks for giving me a direction 🙂

will try both of these

[bright sigil]

collision preset, collision enabled, and object type can all be changed (there are functions for them) but as for the response channels, use presets

[wind hearth]

Yeah, are you just trying merge two mesh geometries without anything else?

[fossil nexus]

Im creating 2 cubes at run time, with procedural mesh. Then i need to join these 2 cubes into 1 procedural mesh.

I will need to do this multiple times

[wind hearth]

You can use CopyProceduralMeshFromStaticComponent and copy both cubes to a new procedural mesh

[plush yew]

Hey all, I want this event to play after I press a button in oculus touch is this the right way to do it?

[fossil nexus]

I didnt know i could do that. So you can just plug to procedural meshes there and makes 1? ok

[sterile pumice]

Did you ever find a solution to this?

[sharp crest]

this looks like something related to touch input (mobile etc)
for oculus touch you'd probably want to setup an inputaction for that oculus input or whatever and then execute whatever u want only once whenever that input triggers.

never tried oculus tho

[plush yew]

Oki I will try that thank you :P

[rancid lynx]

I have a strange obscure bug with blueprints. EVERY time i EDIT ANY Value inside the blueprint, the "Viewport" display of the scene shifts. for example. if i change a boolean from true to false, or rename a component, any edit, the DISPLAY in the viewport shifts. moving the view of the 3d scene by like 500 cm. it only happens with this single blueprint, none of the others act like this. wtf is up ?

I can press F to "Recenter" onto the scene, it only pushes the scene a little offscreen, but why the hell does this happen ?

oh, it appears my scenes root is not at 0 0 0 , and any edit moves the camera to 0 0 0 . a construction edit moves it down in the neg Z.

i just noticed the default floor grid is a bit above my mesh. so llame X_x. cant be avoided without a few minutes of brain focus. sorry spam nm

[manic ibex]

i have kind of a weird question

i'm kind of new to unreal engine and I've been trying to map my inputs to other buttons but I feel like i messed something up and i don't know how to restore the default inputs

how do you do that

[drowsy snow]

Are you changing them in Project Settings?

[manic ibex]

i did

and i dont know how to change them back

[drowsy snow]

What template are you using?

[manic ibex]

3rd person

[bright sigil]

Make yourself another third person project and see whats different.

[manic ibex]

ok so now i think it has to do with the camera controls because my problem was for some reason the camera won't look left or right but would look up and down

[drowsy snow]

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

Try clearing your browser data.

Might be defect cookies or VPN doing its job a little too well

[soft fiber]

Is anyone else having issues with Visual Studio locking up?

YouTube

[shell ibex]

sorry im noob but

why model become blurred

with bad texture

whet i quit edit mod

the edit mode ctrl+e

on the model

same for plant ect

[soft fiber]

Did you use solidify modifier?

[shell ibex]

i use the software since 2 days

and i never dev nothing of my life so idk what it is

[soft fiber]

Where did the model come from?

[shell ibex]

its normal again when i open the edit mode

you see

so i dont think its related to the origin of the model

its same for the plant model of the ue shop

its probably a basic that i dont know

[shell ibex]

please help me

[soft fiber]

I'm not sure what's wrong there...

[shell ibex]

you think its a bug

an error

[soft fiber]

No... I doubt it.

[shell ibex]

can you give me a solution

i try it

please

im very noob

and my english suck

@soft fiber

[soft fiber]

Did that model come with any animations? Try playing an animation and see if it works.

[shell ibex]

look this plant

from the ue shop

same thing when i close the edit mode

someone explain to me please

[soft fiber]

What version of UE?

[shell ibex]

the last

[soft fiber]

4.27 or 5?

[shell ibex]

wait i verify

idk where to watch XD but in my memory its 4.27

its ue4 im sure

[soft fiber]

ok

Does the UE Mannequin work for you?

[shell ibex]

the default caracter?

[soft fiber]

yes

[shell ibex]

yes i can use it

all its normal outside that

[soft fiber]

Maybe there something wrong with those assets, maybe you video drivers need updating, maybe your computer doesn't support something... its hard to say for me.

Try hoodyguy

[manic ibex]

oh yeah one more question

I get this error message when I try to compile

i'm not sure why it's missing. What am I doing wrong?

[shell ibex]

@shell ibex please help me for my question

@manic ibex *

please

[manic ibex]

i'm new as hell lmao

[shell ibex]

same

[manic ibex]

i have literally just been watching this dude on youtube and trying to absorb all of this info but i know damn well i can't make this game alone

[shell ibex]

what type of game you want make

[manic ibex]

3d platformer

specifically one like mario odyssey/64/banjo kazooie etc

[shell ibex]

you can do it

[manic ibex]

i just don't know how to 3d model

i think i can program well enough

[shell ibex]

personnly its like two day i use ue

but i found a solution for use the steam model of gmod

on ue

[manic ibex]

literally same

[shell ibex]

lik this

[manic ibex]

i tried to use unity and i was like this shit is for mobile games

oh dang

thats suck

*sick

[shell ibex]

its ez

to do it

[manic ibex]

wait that's gmod?

[shell ibex]

its a cod4 model

from gmod addons

and i putted it in unreal

[manic ibex]

it looks super complicated but i'm sure it's really just piecing a lot of stuff together

i'm trying to learn blender too because i don't want to reuse too many assets

[shell ibex]

good luck for your game

your game is possible

my game idea is impossible

[manic ibex]

cmon dude

what are you trying to make

[shell ibex]

XD

its complicated

to explain

and sorry for my english

i want make a shooting educative game

[shell ibex]

with an algorithm of spaced repetition

[split jasper]

Character probably

that's because a .h file is the Header file (or whatever). You're looking for a Character.cpp

C++ is fuckin stupid you gotta declare your methods and implement them in separate files like that

[astral belfry]

I am new to gamedev, Can someone explain me the difference between FloatingPawnMovement and PawnMovementComponent? I tried using latter and kept getting error

[manic ibex]

i think i have a similar problem but i'm not sure what to do

[split jasper]

Also hold up if you want to edit what it does, don't fuck with the Character.cpp code, just override the function in your BP

[manic ibex]

can someone help me with mine

[shell ibex]

@lunar ibex @lunar ibex please help

[split jasper]

Tried to look at your screenshot but it was like too small to read

Lets see that and the input axis definition

[rapid frigate]

I am profiling game in my android device and after changing dynamic light to stationary and setting skylight as moveable, the frames started to drop drastically. I am not able to understand what does RHIT thread and it's sub node translucent means. There is a glass shader that is translucent.

Any help is appreciated.

[manic ibex]

sorry that took a while

[split jasper]

Your axis is named TurnRate not Turn I think?

[scenic lance]

ok so im trying to load a map i made in world machine into unreal for use as the main level, i spent a LOT of time on the map and just curious the best way to load an R32 file type into unreal

google is little to no help

[manic ibex]

oh my fucking god

of course lol

ty

[bright sigil]

RHIThread, or RHI Thread is the render thread - based on what hardware is run, so the createshaderboundstate is the engine's attempt to gather and draw meshes (including their materials). So you may want to check how performant your glass material is and if it's using checkboxes for mobile use.

[rapid frigate]

Okay so in shader complexity view mode it is not so complex the dark green area.

And are you talking about the checkbox of *Mobile Separate Translucency *

[bright sigil]

ive not worked in mobile, i just know there are checkboxes for it

there's 365 calls, they may not all be related to this glass

unless this is the only translucent

but if there are that many calls, i would wonder why

[rapid frigate]

Okay no issues thanks let me check it and build it.

[shell ibex]

Why i cant open the ue4 console

when i click on the good key

[cloud aurora]

Try closing it on task manager maybe 🤔

[shell ibex]

?

how its supposed to worl

work*

i talk about the ue4 console

in ue4

I tried restarting same thing.

i still havent seen this console appear

ok if you have the same probleme the console work if you click on play

[neon bough]

there's an extra tab in the windows menue of unreal to show the console

i think windows => developers => console

[bright sigil]

ill guess you've come from Unity and want the Output Log

[shell ibex]

thank you, i cant find it.. but it doesnt matter Il open it as i said

does anyone know how to cut an actor in 2

[sage perch]

Hi all.. Does anyone have tried ImagePlate plugin in unreal 4.27.2.? I have set it up, but in sequencer when I the image plate with my background image sequence it stays back in the thumbnails. Anyone done anything with this plugin? wonder if its broken.

[tiny grove]

IDK where to ask this so I`m asking here,
How do I post a Job posting (I have to recruit someone)

[drowsy snow]

#instructions 🙂

[pine siren]

In the level editor, what is the difference between dragging an actor to a certain location using the 3D gizmo vs manually entering the location in the details pane? I'm seeing very different behaviour. I can see that PostEditChangeProperty is called when entering the location, but I experience differences without overriding it. What else happens when manually entering a location, and can I override it in my actor code?

[sharp crest]

what?

I don't get what you mean

screenshots/video would help

oh

I get whtat u mean

3D gizmo vs manually entering the location in the details pane

the first doesn't reconstruct the actor

the second does reconstruct the actor, from my experience it's just buggy asf and you should expect it to bug out if ur bp is complex

but anyways it's just editor tools it doesn't rly matter much.

[pine siren]

Except when you're trying to make editor tools.. 🥲

You're right, OnConstruct is called when entering location. This is a bigger difference than I would expect. Guess I'll deep-dive into the lifecycle of construction to find out why the second OnConstruct is different from the initial OnConstruct.. Thanks!

[arctic sundial]

hey all, sorry to be asking for relatively simple help. Still learning here aha

I'm currently using a BP of different static meshes which produces a lab bottle filled with a dynamic liquid. I can pick up and place down the item without fault, but the rotation doesn't work. In the BP inspector, selecting the static mesh for the bottles - there is no rotate value in the transform section. There is only scale. Any idea's why or how? Can't see any where else in the BP where the rotation is fixed or this option should be removed

[grave fjord]

I am working on a free modular lowpoly asset. It works fine in blender. But once I use it in unreal, I see some "light seams", so it appears to be separate pieces.
However, this issue is not apparent in an asset pack that I've bought.

This is a 4 pieces carpet. As you can see, you can't tell it's 4 pieces.

[grave fjord]

Also, you should know that this issue happens after baking.

[grave fjord]

this one is from a paid asset.

[worn copper]

Do anyone knows how to Allow People to Make Custom Levels for Steam Game.
Just like Human Fall Flat

[tiny grove]

I am unable to post jobs

[drowsy snow]

What's the response from Manny?

[tiny grove]

what is the command/

?

[ebon geode]

It seems like the static mesh is the root component of your actor. You should create a scene component and make that the root component if you want to have the local transforms :)

[ebon geode]

Seems like the light maps might be flawed or the light map resolution is not high enough :)

[grave fjord]

lightmaps? You mean my UV for building light?

[ebon geode]

Yes. Have you created them in Blender? Else unreal will auto create them on import

[grave fjord]

I have not........

I have only created a single UV for the texture

is that enough? or should I create a second one?

and also, how would I tell unreal to use the 2nd UV to bake light onto?

[ebon geode]

Okay, in the static mesh editor you can show the UVs. Check UV channel 0 (it's yours for textures) and UV channel 1 is the light map generated by unreal. If this does look good, you can increase the light map resolution

[grave fjord]

that's UV0

[ebon geode]

And UV1? :)

[grave fjord]

The UV1 looks a bit stretched horizontally.

[ebon geode]

And what is your light map resolution in the details panel?

You can increase that and see if it works

It's usually 64,128,256,512...

[grave fjord]

wait will see

Should I hit "override"?

[grave fjord]

it's not checked by default

[ebon geode]

Yes you can override it

[grave fjord]

will try something first. Saw a written guide online with some settings.

baking now is like 20x slower lol

[ebon geode]

If you have a 64x64 pixel light map that is used to store the light information it can happen that some texels with light info are used for different faces that are close to each other.

[grave fjord]

Wait, I am sorry, but how do I tell unreal to use a 64 or a 128 pixel map? is it the same as the "overridden light" above?

[grave fjord]

also, can you elaborate on this point?

[ebon geode]

Yep. Doubling the resolution is quadrupling the baking time per mesh @_@ there is probably a good tutorial how to create perfect light maps for unreal

[grave fjord]

I just want something to be clear,
What is the real fix for this issue? because in the paid asset I have with the carpet, baking is really fast and it looks flawless. Is it because they've created a perfect lightmap?

[grave fjord]

perfect UV lightmap

[ebon geode]

Probably. You can create a light map with the right margins so that it looks great on different resolutions of the light map.

[ashen sky]

Anyone in here know how to make a game cross play between two different types of devices?

[ebon geode]

https://youtu.be/qZA_otJyZ1A

[grave fjord]

Thanks

I appreciate all the help btw

I am now trying 256px maps

hopefully it works

As I said, I want to create a modular asset pack (free to use)
That is why it's important to make it perfect and easy to use on the user's end. I don't want the user to keep playing with light masses and pixel settings. In the paid asset, I did not have to and it turned out to be perfect. And I am planning to make something similar. My asset is lowpoly, so I doubt it'll be difficult to pull it off.

[ebon geode]

You can use a checker texture in Blender and make your light map fit to a 64x64 texture for example. For squares it should be pretty easy to archive a good result so I wonder why unreal auto generator struggles with that ^^

[grave fjord]

How should the light map look like?

[fierce tulip]

the flat sides shouldnt be taking up this much space, and assuming its all hard edges, each surface should be separate.

[grave fjord]

it's looking like this because it was initially a cube. I will remake most of the assets and try all your advice.

[fierce tulip]

it might have been a cube initially, but you should fix that before moving it into ue.

[plush yew]

Hey,

i would change the caching paths due to my drives mostly full, by default the unreal engine 4.27 uses C:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Local but if my drive is full i have no way to change it, is there a way to change that path?

Same as in support ticket to Unreal Portal hope i can get an answere

[grave fjord]

Yes, thanks for reminding me. Will delete all faces but the top one.

[fierce tulip]

then how'd you prevent lighting coming in from the bottom? (or side)

[fierce tulip]

if you dont mine recaching, you could first empty out the cache files and then move it.

[grave fjord]

This is my first time making a modular asset, so I am not sure what you mean. Also, this is a street piece, why would there be light from below?

[fierce tulip]

light bounces. if unreal finds a spot or misses a plane, the lighting can pass trough.

[grave fjord]

What if the asset is gonna be covered by another asset? like, the street is gonna have sidewalks on the sides.

[fierce tulip]

one way to find out, make them, and hope for the best :)

[grave fjord]

Well, thank god it's lowpoly so I can iterate fast 😄

[hot thistle]

https://streamable.com/6cunja
Hi, has anyone ever had issues with the NavMesh moving during gameplay?
In this example you see my platform with AI moving as normal, but only when I enter Play close to the NavMesh.
As you can see, when I move further away from the NavMesh and enter Play, the NavMesh randomly teleports its information underneath the level - causing the AI to not recieve the information.
Now, I am using Cesium here which I know is part of the problem, I guess it has some issues rebuilding the NavMesh since Cesium is continuosly streaming in geometry.
Does anyone have a tip to how I can solve this?

[plush yew]

in the startup it says full drive with these caches i always deletet but nope

[grave fjord]

it has worked after deleting all faces but the top one.

[grave fjord]

of course, it did not "magically" work. It's probably because of the new UV.

UV0

[ashen sky]

Errr

Quick question anyone can answer

[grave fjord]

UV1
Slightly smaller than UV0
will study both

[ashen sky]

Can a player spawn under those tiles when loading up a blank map

Yeah squares on the ground

Floating in air..

Very thin

[fierce tulip]

its smaller because --depending on lightmap size-- it needs exact empty space around each uv-shell to avoid lighting bleed in lightmaps.

[short cipher]

I purchased a cover animation from the asset store, but I can't use it.
I'm using "Enable Root Motion", but the mesh leaves the capsule.
In the sample Mannequin, when "Enable Root Motion" is normally turned on, it animates inside the capsule, but it doesn't work at all when using another bone. In addition, this bone also uses Mannequin. Is there a possible cause?

I think something is wrong with the animation BP, but I don't know the exact cause.

[ashen sky]

Lul

I wonder if the whole community just throws questions around in the discord

[fierce tulip]

its a question-based discord channel, so thats normal.

[ashen sky]

Ahh. Thought that would be support

[fierce tulip]

nah, every channel is for questions. thats why we divided it in such a way that most topics have their own channel :)

though, we also have job-searching/hire channels, and some showcase ones.

[ashen sky]

Will use them if I get better at unreal

[grave fjord]

Oh, then that's definitely why I had issues.
Is that on the UV0 or UV1 though? The small empty space I mean.
Because if you're referring to UV1, then why was it not working here with the old UV1?

[ashen sky]

I definitely need to make income.

[grave fjord]

I also had some empty space on my UV1 (but not that much on my UV0

[fierce tulip]

because hard edges need to be split, else the edge of one surface will bleed its light onto the one next to it

[drowsy snow]

Is the animation itself actually have root motion, or have extract root motion is enabled in the sequence asset?

[grave fjord]

Aaaah

not so much empty space on the old UV0 map

I get it now.......

[fierce tulip]

uv0 can be mirrored, overlapping, out of 0-1, and all kinds of messed up and its fine, as long as the texture on the mesh looks good

[grave fjord]

When you say "split", you mean splitting the UV island?

[fierce tulip]

yup

[ashen sky]

Hey also? What's the difference between unreal engine 4 and 5

All I'm seeing is performance

And graphics

[fierce tulip]

a lot is the same, a lot is different.

[drowsy snow]

UE5 is currently unstable but has fancy new features and GUI

[ashen sky]

Anything important to note

[ashen sky]

Ahh

[grave fjord]

ah ok
I appreciate your patience lol
thanks
@fierce tulip
@ebon geode

[drowsy snow]

Other than that it's pretty much the same as UE4

[ashen sky]

Alright I'm on my way to somehow get opengl running with a vr game

[drowsy snow]

Is not like how UE4 is so different compared to ye olde days of UDK

[short cipher]

The original animation contains Root. Also, it looks fine in the editor, so there may be a problem with AnimBP.

[ashen sky]

has no clue what udk is

[drowsy snow]

UDK is basically public version of UE3

[modest trench]

Indie available version of ue3

[ashen sky]

Ahh. Didn't unreal tournament use that?

I never played it

But didn't it

[drowsy snow]

I'm suspecting the slot then, if this is played as a montage 🤔

(for some reason Discord mobile can't load any videos)

[ashen sky]

(reinstall it)

[drowsy snow]

Nah, I'll go back to my Konpyuutaa

[ashen sky]

Still sucks that discord uses electron

[ashen sky]

Ahh alright

[short cipher]

Not played as a montage. When COVER's BOOL is turned on, I set AnimBP to use cover motion. A working sample was also used this way. However, I am in trouble because the new mesh that should have been directly retargeted does not work properly.

[short cipher]

It was solved when I restarted the PC. thanks so much.
あと日本人ですか？

[ashen sky]

...

[drowsy snow]

Whaat, that's weird how restarting the PC solved it, guess the magic bullet doing it's thing.
いいえ、でも日本語は勉強中です
(still had to memorise the kanji tho, but I'll get there eventually 😅 )

[ashen sky]

Did he just talk in c-

Damn I can only speak one language...

[fervent lichen]

I'm looking to learn Unreal Engine and make a very small project, should I start with UE4 or UE5?

[ashen sky]

Ue4

Like me

[pulsar kite]

UE4, unreal 5 is still in beta

[short cipher]

I'm glad that there are many foreigners using Japanese names on this server. Japan is a wonderful country. Except that politicians are only f〇cking.
Let's work hard on each other's development

[drowsy snow]

Japanese, actually.

[ashen sky]

I wonder if I can import a unreal 4 project into 5

[ashen sky]

Ahh. Got it

[pulsar kite]

Wasn’t that going to be a whole feature

[fervent lichen]

Thanks for the help!

[pulsar kite]

like automated ue4 to ue5 transfer

[ashen sky]

Wait wait hold on

Who said you was gonna leave without adding me as a friend

[ashen sky]

Honestly don't know. Just came to create a game

[pulsar kite]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/MigrationGuide i think

[ashen sky]

Pog

Either odds

I'm sticking with unreal engine 4 for performance

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of mainline Idolmaster, so I gotta sport one of the idol's names 😆
よしゃ、 頑張って ください ね～

[ashen sky]

Is that a tilda in japense..

[short cipher]

what is a tilda ?

[ashen sky]

May of spelled it incorrectly. But ~

[drowsy snow]

He's referring to the ～ thing

It's a fairly common symbol in casual Japanese writings, meant to give some "flair" when closing sentences (like "ne~")

[ashen sky]

Ahh

So is it a word in japense or just there

derp

Ahhh. Just using this time to get assets from sketchfab lul

Heh... Why do I even think my game will do good

[timid meteor]

is there a faster way to remove my grass ?

i goooooottt lots of grass under water and i want it to be gone

or change my material under the water is better

[grave fjord]

Where to find this?

[grave fjord]

I've found it, nevermind

<@&213101288538374145>

He did it in every room

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: ATKrsh#5202 was banned.

[arctic sundial]

Ah I didn’t realise. I’ll see if that fixes it. Thank you 😊

[worn copper]

I want basic help. How to Allow character to move each other or physics simulation.
Just like we able to simulate physics with other objects.

I'm unable to simulate physics with Pawn Character. Also unable to step on each other.

[hoary coral]

Hello, I have a few saves of a project im working on and one of them (the main most recent one) crashes when I try to open it. Also, when i try and open the project im getting this first person templat - https://imgur.com/a/hXNyYXh, rather than any of the saves ive made (it used to open directly into one of the saves). The save that wont open and crashes is the heaviest of all them, but I dont see how it would struggle to suddenly not open, since ive not added anything to it and it had been opening fine before now. The only thing that I did that might have caused this was copy the whole project to a different drive, that is all. The coped file doesnt open the save that is causing issues and neither does the orginal - both just crash. Here is a crash files if anyone is able to make sense of what is happening.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cVTexYSZqOilCm7bZcYaBXa6EIj2gdOX?usp=sharing

any help would be appreciated

UE4.26.2

(tried posting in the unreal forum, but am getting this annoying message - https://imgur.com/a/0L366Kd)

[radiant elm]

Are there any tutorials how to add more animations and shooting to ThirdPerson game? Cuz I made nice map and now I want to add some animations but I cant see any well explained yt tutorials

[kindred depot]

How would I go about to making a random event of a train going by underneath the ground with sound and slight screenshake (no actual model just the 2 things)? I cant think right now... Have a sound follow a spline and make it play every 2 minutes randomly?

[frank belfry]

does anyone know why the sprites are so blurry? is there anyway to fix it?

[ebon geode]

Go to the texture and check the mipmaps. Change texture group to sharpen or no compression maybe ;)

[rare quail]

hi guys i wonder if its possible record Audio while recording and exporting sequence as a video?

at the same time

like a normal video 😄

[frank belfry]

when I try to change Mip Gen settings it says on No mipmaps

nvm had to set it to the power of 2, but not ken just gets split XD

[lunar gazelle]

Hi Guys, Anyone know why in the epic library every time I create a new project the project show up twice ? (the same apply on project created for UE 4.27)

when I right click > show in folder the one on left goes to the right location of the project, but the one on the right it open the explorer on this PC location, like if it doesn't found out anything relevant.
the uproject file is quite simple :

{
    "FileVersion": 3,
    "EngineAssociation": "5.0EA",
    "Category": "",
    "Description": ""
}

the project is created at a non default location and user/documents/unreal projects/ is a empty folder.

[whole hazel]

I recently upgraded to RTX 3090 GPU because of UE5, using 4K materials and assets causes my FPS to drop from constant 120 down to 40-100, I know that UE5 gives you settings to lower the graphics low/mid/high/epic/cinematic but yet, if my PC with that GPU cannot handle the textures, how would a low-end PC play the game then? I'm still pretty novice to the whole program, am I suppose to integrate some sort of quality options or when compiling the game for public deploy, does UE5 integrate those low/mid/high/epic/cinematic settings onto the game for the users to use and if not, how do I optimize my game so that even low-end computers can play without having any FPS issues?
Thanks in advance for the help and info, stay safe! ❤️

I see, so if on my high end PC it's running like that, it pretty much assures that people with low-end PC won't be able to run it

@plush yew is it possible to reduce the FOV when one individual is playing the game so it doesn't render everything at once, simply like Minecraft allows you to render the distance of textures for FPS performance, is there a tutorial on how to do that on UE5?

[grim ore]

cameras have FOV Angle values that can be changed, so yes?

[young fern]

guys when i have the steam sessions advanced plugin i did everything correctly but when i packaged it and send it to my friend, my server didnt display on his server list

[worn copper]

how to replicate movement "Blueprint Actor Sketal Mesh" multiplayer?

[whole hazel]

yeah I did but it didn't do much, apparently I've been using way too many 4K textures which is ruining the whole performance..

I feel like I screwed up my project, when I hit play, UE5 doesn't run like it once did as a first person character but it gives me free camera rotation as if I'm in editing mode

what did I do to mess it up like that? I feel like I've screwed up my whole project..

[hoary coral]

If one of my 'Saves' is corrupted is there a way to open an earlier auto-save, or something? Going to lose a bunch of work if not

[vocal flume]

I have a question about functions. There is a return node which feels like it does nothing. I can leave this not connected to anything and still the next node after the function will run. What is the point of this return node?

[radiant elm]

For example, when I move my Unreal Projects folder from the C drive to the E drive, will I still have all my projects okay? I'm afraid something might go wrong and all my projects will be deleted.

[grim ore]

you should have the return node connected, functions have an in and an out. Chances are the editor is just being nice to you, but you could lead to errors. The return node can have variables returned which is important. @vocal flume

@radiant elmprojects are self contained, so if you move the entire project folder it should be ok in another folder or drive

[radiant elm]

thx

[vocal flume]

@grim ore Thanks!

[copper kernel]

Hi there, I want to remove in engine cutscenes from a Unreal Game (for speedrunning purposes) has anyone hints on how to do that?

[grim ore]

upack the files, replace them with a compatible 0 length video, repack the files. How to do that? check with the authors of the game

[lucid egret]

Can anyone identify what window is this?

Alright thanks

[fickle talon]

anyone else using 4.27.2 experiencing frequent crashing?

[fossil nexus]

Im trying to move my character forward. Why this move forward does not work?

I tried plugging my mesh and my character capsule

[plush yew]

id love to help but I’m clueless af

[fossil nexus]

And thats in the TopDownGameMode right?

I mean to make it my default pawn?

[plush yew]

I have a combat system on my thirdplayercharacter but my AI won’t let me hit it 😡

I’ll try to get some images of the blueprint

one sec

[wheat hare]

An eternal struggle

[fossil nexus]

ok thank you

[wild thicket]

hello!

i have a question about UE4

[plush yew]

yall mind if I spam screenshots on some problems I’m struggling with

actually I’ll just stream it when I get home

:(

[wild thicket]

Im making a UE4 recreation of Rock N Rollercoaster Starring: Aerosmith. it needs to be first person, but you should be able to go through the queue and get on the ride. what template do i use? would it be first person, vehicle, or any other template?

[weary spoke]

Hey, was wondering if anyone could help. I'm super new to UE (clearly) and I was wondering if its possible to add a hole in my floor to create someone like this?

[plush yew]

nvm I’ll just say my problem. I made a combat system, which worked with my ai “impact and death system”. ive changed my character model to yin from the epic game store and recreated her combat system but now my AI remains still and won’t move.

old fighting system; https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784362856480636931/937762770093486170/DDE8D6A7-2291-4949-9FB8-94A2CE909F98.png

new fighting system; https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784362856480636931/937762962029039626/IMG_0522.png

AI blueprint(super scuffed); https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784362856480636931/937763119101542410/4C077591-E89B-436E-9DDC-F0136DD57431.png

[fossil nexus]

@plush yew I tried to make something similar to the first person character as you suggested, but when i start it doesnt move automatically

It does move when i click to move though

[wild thicket]

Im assuming first Person is Fine?

[plush yew]

ugh, blueprints are making me mad

I DONT KNOW AN OUNCE OF C++

but I shall good sir

I’ve only recently started to actually blueprint in UE4 cause of a college project

I didn’t learn anything due to lack of resources and assistance :(

and now I’m interested in it, I want to make a nuts game

[fresh oasis]

squirrel?

[plush yew]

im actually going to pull my hair out at this rate

the collision doesn’t work wtf

I should probably speak more formally on this server

[amber shuttle]

idk why the cast is failing

[strong fox]

I get 5 FPS in a empty scene in unreal 4.27 what the hell? the problem comes and goes and I can't figure out why, and it makes work impossible.

[peak bloom]

can you use the player camera in a level sequence? currently i have a sequence play but when it does it changes to the cinecamera which goes back to the player start.

[grim ore]

you can yes, you might need to do some blueprint code in the sequencer to change the active camera. Otherwise you should be able to reference the character if its already there and grab it

[peak bloom]

Ah, thank you very much Mathew! :)

I love your videos btw!

[olive orchid]

Hey guys, my character issue happened again & I have no idea what’s causing it.. When I go in the map to test it, he floats in the air while walking.. I fixed it once but I crashed before saving & now it’s back, so I lost a lot of work on top of my character walking on air.. any ideas of why this is happening?

[bronze vault]

Idk what your character issue is, but here are some guesses... Ground Collision in the wrong place? Animation is moving the character up? Characters isn't low enough in your BP?

[olive orchid]

I think u just gave me an idea.. everything is default but i did place some underwater mesh texture.. I think that’s what it is, cuz when I fixed it the first time I no longer had the underwater color & it was only surface.. Thanks for the inspiration, I’m gonna look into that..

[bold holly]

yo can anyone help me out with smth

[toxic axle]

Whenever I click play in mobile preview I get a black screen, anyone know why?

[shrewd quarry]

Looking to get into Player mechanics for an isometric rpg/moba style game, anyone have a good place to start for learning on how to understand blueprints (if that's enough)

Feel free to DM or @ me, thanks in advance!

[neat thunder]

Hi

how Can I Fix attached actor collision not working ?

When My Character Wants to Push Objects I Attaching Object to my Character but attached actor Collision Is Not Working ...

[bronze vault]

I just tested this in a new FPS template and got the same thing, after restarting the editor it started to work. My guess is, it needs to recompile all of the textures again?

[wild thicket]

when i right click to add to my event graph, it flashes... what did i do???

[plush yew]

guys I vow to make a cool shitty game 😡

now it’s time for you guys to watch my progress muhahaha

[wild thicket]

help

the code is consuming me

[bold holly]

Guys my unreal 5 is crashing everytime I try to import a large group of wav audio files.. Anyone know how to fix??

[true goblet]

Hey guys, anyone know of a way to fix this error? It's the first time i encounter it

[plush yew]

maybe try importing them one by one

[bold holly]

ye ill try that

[bronze vault]

You prolly tried this already, but I would restart the editor.

[plush yew]

^

[wild thicket]

fixed it!

im dumb is what the problem was

[radiant elm]

Is it normal that when I turn on medium shadows I'm losing about 90fps?

[wild thicket]

ended up being the right call

[plush yew]

how silly

😔

[fierce tulip]

yes, and no

[vocal flume]

Is there a way to do View Target with Blend within the same BP? I have a character with 2 cameras attached to it.. I want to blend smooth between these two cameras

[hollow magnet]

hi

Hello\

Hello World!

[plush yew]

hi there

[split jasper]

Is there a way to artificially lock framerate low, to test if you have any effects that are accidentally framerate-influenced when they shouldn't be?

Before I type that how do I undo it? Is "unlimited" a valid arg?

...Weird.

[bright sigil]

well

its 120 if you havent changed the defaults

[hollow magnet]

Hello baby

[plush yew]

hello there mister guacamole

[hollow magnet]

you goddamn right

No fun

[bronze vault]

Hmmm, I couldn't find a way to do it, you may need to have your second camera start in the same location and move it after you switch to it.

[thick herald]

You can lerp between the cameras, for a smooth transition. Mathew probably has a video on it 😄

[peak bloom]

How do they make the jumpscares in FNAF Security Breach?

Found a clip: (JUMPSCARE WARNING) https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMBnqynqQFP1tfOz_bY-WBh_aPSmq7e2J

Been trying to do it in sequencer all day but no luck putting it together with the game. I figure I need to do something different, like have a camera component attached to the enemy which then the PlayerCamera transfers over when the enemy touches the player.

Then the camera must somehow be animated, which I'm not sure how to do and every time I look it up it just points me to sequencer cinecameras, and, simultaneously, the enemy should play an animation which then cuts to the end screen.

[humble zenith]

Is there a channel dedicated to help here?
I'm having a really minor annoyance with saving my project...

[jovial perch]

how do i make a branch always check

[ashen sky]

this will be the most dumbest question i will ever ask

how do i stop a animation in place in unreal engine

for a model

[bronze vault]

I would say that all of Unreal Slackers is dedicated to people helping each other out. You can ask here, but you may have better luck in #blueprint or #cpp with your save issue.

[bright sigil]

Dedicated to? No. The channels are broken into topic specific areas for discussion.

[jovial perch]

how do i make a branch always check

[thick herald]

By connecting it to something? No need to repeat the question, you only asked 5 mins ago.

[jovial perch]

i ran out of exec outputs

[humble zenith]

All right, thanks guys! I figured it out, gracefully. It was in my Plugin settings, it was loading the default template when I was loading my project, instead of all my work.

[jovial perch]

and i used the event tick

for another thing

[thick herald]

Still not sure what the issue is, a screenshot might help

[humble zenith]

Does anyone ever experience their camera becoming locked? I can't pan around with WASD keys

[fossil nexus]

Should i publish my unreal game in itch.io using the html option? Most tutorials on youtube do it this way. But is html going to run properly an average unreal game ?

[thick herald]

Is there a reason you don't have it connected to the print$?

[jovial perch]

because its only happening once per day

its supposed to do that

but i want the branch to always check

wait wait

i think i found a way

[thick herald]

as ponkkis suggested, use a sequence node after the Event Tick, and you can have as many exec pins as you like.

[jovial perch]

alr

[fossil nexus]

ok thanks

[ashen sky]

har har huar har har

huar huar har har har

alright. time to fully uninstall unity off my desktop

[soft fiber]

How do you apply a texture to a side of bsp brush without repeating?

Figured it out.

[narrow condor]

Does unreal support higher resolution monitors(like QHD UHD and stuff) without so many problems now. I remember reading a very long thread about "HDPI" if i remember right and a lot of it took place over several years but it didn't seem like the HDPI problems were resolved. Worried rn cause I just bought 2560x1440 monitors.
Note: I'm not talking about the sketchy ways to support HDPI i read about like having to edit files or anything like that(but i also don't understand much so if thats the only way pls explain)

[fierce forge]

Hello, do somebody knows why is it "flickering" ?

[gaunt abyss]

I'm using a 2560x1440 monitor and I'm having no problems at all 🤷‍♂️

[narrow condor]

At all? The thread mentioned blurry or small text that may or may not be unusable, problems between windows enlarged text and the various windows/tabs of unreal not having larger text, etc.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: SmileHard#6505 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[narrow condor]

I just checked a screenshot I took and I see mentions of a setting called "Disable DPI Based Editor Viewport". Says it "will disable automatic adjusting and render at the full resolution of the viewport".

[dull hatch]

Hi Everyone,

I am an aspiring Narrative Designer; however, I also want to take my shot at learning some game engines as I imagine starting out, I would be more valuable knowing some programming and such.

With that being said, I have been hard at work with Unity and am now transition over to learn Unreal. What is the best place to find guidance whether a tutorial or article as to getting started with Unreal Engine?

[gaunt abyss]

First time hearing about those problems

[plush yew]

honestly youtube is what ive been using

guess im more of a visual learner

[gaunt abyss]

Haven't experienced any of them myself

[narrow condor]

Great to hear that! Thanks for the info!

[loud garnet]

Not sure if this is a good place to post or if anyone can help, but I have a question. I’m a publisher on the marketplace and my email that I originally signed up with is no longer working. So when I try to log in, the authentication can’t go through. I have tried contacting support to change emails, but all their security questions revolve me buying stuff or having my account connected to consoles. Which I have done neither. So I appear to be completely locked out of my account.

Is there another way to verify my account? Why does it have to revolve around me purchasing something?

[grim ore]

https://marketplacehelp.epicgames.com/s/?language=en_US

[humble zenith]

Just re-asking my question from earlier about the UE4 Editor camera getting locked; how do I unlock it? It's frustrating honestly, gotta restart the program almost every time I do something

[loud garnet]

@grim ore thank you. Maybe I was going through the wrong side of Epic.