ue4-general

[grim ore]

perhaps. But you might be stuck unless you can verify something on your account to get it corrected, which is why they point to a past purchase or some other unique ID only you should have history of. Being a MP seller you might have more luck if you can ID your sales or your product(s)

[loud garnet]

Fingers crossed

[kind dew]

is there any info on when martketplace assetswill be supported in ue5

[grim ore]

when UE5 is released?

[fierce tulip]

when ue5 gets released :p

[kind dew]

is there any info on when ue5 will be released

lol

[fierce tulip]

besides a few dedicated sellers that are allowed to test during EA, we cant update packs to ue5 yet.

[grim ore]

UE5 is supposed to release this year

[cedar wave]

I can assure you that it will release sometime after today.

[drowsy snow]

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

Also protip: Forget everything specific to Unity when using Unreal Engine.

[drowsy snow]

Heard they delayed it to spring this year :thinking:

[grim ore]

as far as I know it was early 2022 and still early 2022. who knows when that is besides 2022 lol

oh maybe they forgot a word in there, its possible

we can hope its in the near future based on github tho. lots of stuff getting bows put on it and we have that neato new project

[silk lintel]

Hello. I'm trying to do something I initially thought was simple, but I'm having trouble. I want to have full, automatic first-person rotation without needing to click or hold lmb to capture. At the same time, I also want full interaction with UI (hovering over and clicking buttons). The more I look into this, the more tricky it seems. I think I might have to make an input manager, but I'm not really sure how to do this.

[grim ore]

what is first person rotation?

[silk lintel]

Btw I know it's weird and kind of an edge-case, but it's for a diegetic game idea.

[silk lintel]

Just access to my mouse input

mouse x and y

[grim ore]

well you say full automatic, does that mean movement happens without user input?

[silk lintel]

No. So the closest I've been able to get is that you can interact with on-screen UI, but you have to click and hold in the game area to capture in the player and look around. I want to have the mouse input move the cursor on screen (which is interacting with ui) and affect player rotation at the same time, without needing to click.

Does that make sense?

[drowsy snow]

As in point and click games?

[silk lintel]

I suppose. I don't really play that genre, are there often point-and-click games where mouse input interacts with ui and also controls camera rotation?

I think the fact that the mouse input is needed for two different actors is the issue

[drowsy snow]

I'm not playing much of the genre either, but I can picture how one can have the camera centers to the object and zooms in to it

[tawdry python]

@drowsy snow this is the error I was having btw #ue4-general message

I didn't get it today I think

it might have been related to how many windows of unreal I had open

how many BPs

[grim ore]

@silk lintelso the game needs input for the mouse to be read, the UI needs input in order for the UI to take input. Your issue is going to be how do you handle mouse rotating the character and your mouse cursor moving on the screen at the same time?

[tawdry python]

btw I'm a fan of your videos @grim ore

[silk lintel]

same

[grim ore]

you can do what you want, but your going to end up rotating the mouse to move the player and the mouse ends up moving around the screen at the same time

[silk lintel]

that's exactly what I want

I know it's kind of a weird thing to do, but that's what I want to do

[bronze vault]

I don't think I ever ran into this issue. What are you doing when your camera "locks"? Is the whole editor locking up? Are you using Sequencer? Mouse or Keyboard need to charge?

[humble zenith]

Often, it's just making a change in the World Outliner or adding assets. The whole viewport disabled my WASD function unless if I hold Right Mouse Button (which sometimes doesn't work either)

My Keyboard/Mouse are wired,

This is all I'm doing right now, and it's locked unless I hold RMB

[silk lintel]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the first part, I'm not sure what to do. As I said, I think I might have to make an input manager but I really don't know how to do that in unreal and I haven't found any tutorials on that.

[bronze vault]

I think that's normal, at least that is how I have always done it.

[silk lintel]

yeah, that's how it is for me

[humble zenith]

Odd, whenever the program starts I can just casually use WASD until a certain point

[silk lintel]

maybe you were accidentally in play mode and you didn't have a pawn selected in your gamemode so it used the spectator? idk, that's the only thing I can think of

[bronze vault]

interesting. I don't get that at all.

[humble zenith]

Ehh, I don't know I'm just gonna live with it I guess 😦

[pearl sonnet]

any way to get the scalability selector back?
i'm stuck on 'epic' mode and my GPU does not like it lol

[humble zenith]

Click settings,

[silk lintel]

settings > engine scalability

[pearl sonnet]

thanks i'll try find it

i assumed Project settings but no luck

[silk lintel]

no, the settings button all the way on the right on that same header

[bronze vault]

I cant check, but i think they moved it to the top right

[pearl sonnet]

ah there we go, thanks guys

[silk lintel]

np

[sharp crest]

@drowsy snow @dull hatch https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/UnrealEngineForUnityDevs/

[silk lintel]

curse you, hot reload

[drowsy snow]

This is misleading at best for those who don't know jackshit about Hot Reload setbacks

[sharp crest]

tbh the hot reload is the buggiest shit in this engine

[drowsy snow]

But to be fair, that is relevant when it was the year 2014-2015, back when Unity still reign supreme in indie space

[nimble rock]

hello :D

[untold cipher]

Does anyone know why my main map isn't loading in my packaged game through the open level by name bp node? The map is included in the project settings>packaging>list of maps to include in a packaged build. The level opens fine in editor, but doesn't in the packaged game. Also, if I use console commands, I can open the map, so it's not an issue of it not being cooked

[upbeat tendon]

Data table question, I have some text, character descriptions etc, is it sensible to store that info in a Data table?

I am using a headless cms and can load the data from there

[silk lintel]

@grim ore (I hope you don't mind me @ing you) This is what I want, except without the need to hold down the mouse button to rotate. I want the mouse input to be absorbed and used by the player controller, but at the same time I want the mouse to be visible and interacting with UI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0T-pjzyvs&t=929s 12:40

[kindred crag]

Does anyone know how to import a .r16/.r34 files to UE4? Or does UE4 straight up not support them? IIRC UDK did

[drowsy snow]

.r34 might be too juicy for UE4 to handle, but it can take r.16 for landscape heightmap.

[haughty slate]

The content tab in my blueprint editor has vanished and I cannot select it from the window dropdown list. The internet tells me a "open blueprint in full editor" button should solve it but I can't see it. I know where it is usually when opening the level blueprint, but it isn't showing itself here. Help please?

I had just reparented a blueprint. I backed up a copy of it first because it warned of data loss, presumably for that blueprint alone. But this has affected other blueprints too. Surely the data loss didn't mean for the project at large?

[devout whale]

Any Visual studio code users using cpp to write their code? is it worth using it over visual studio?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on which one you have comfort the most, but I personally stick with VS2022.

[devout whale]

yes thank you, same here i use vs2022 too. just got intrigued since lots of people use it on YouTube.

[cobalt nimbus]

So i've found myself into a problem and basically i need multiple "cameras" that each do a post process and display it on that cameras screen.( IR camera, Thermal Camera) when i use the capture component 2D i get a huge drop in fps. I was thinking of maybe capturing my main camera or some how sending a post process component to a render texture. im not sure how to do it.

[real patrol]

where is are the editor's folder colors stored?

[drowsy snow]

I believe it's in the Saved -> Config folder

Maybe PerUserProjectSettings.ini

[silk lintel]

I figured out a workaround for my input issue. I still can't figure out how to have UI-interactive mouse input while absorbing mouse input in the pawn, but I used GetMousePosition() from player controller and made my camera rotation based on distance from screen center, kind of like a controller. I think it works for the game I'm making, but I still would've liked to solve the issue instead of bypassing it.

I changed my mind, I don't like it lol

[surreal prism]

I have this really weird issue, I'm trying to use this asset in my level.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/photoreal-background-mountains
They are just a few static meshes that you drop around your landscape.
The problem is as soon as I drop those SM in the world when I start the game the camera goes crazy, the standard 3rd person camera moves like inside the character, and I can't move it anymore.
This is weird as fuck, why would it cause this behavior?

I would love to hear some ideas

[silk lintel]

I'm not familiar with the asset, but it's possible the mesh has a collider on it and you're spawning inside said collider

[kind dew]

wellllllllllll shit is it not possible to down grade from ue5 to ue4? Tried copying the project and rightclick-> switch unreal engine versionto 4.27 but all my BPs are gone

[silk lintel]

just get a time machine and impress upon your past self the importance of using source control

[surreal prism]

But the meshes are surrounding the landscape, the character spawn just in the middle.

[kind dew]

dammmmmmm im really bout a create a perforce server for every little test project aren't I

[silk lintel]

lmao

[drowsy snow]

No.

[kind dew]

i understand the maps not transferring over but i was surprised the blueprint .uassets aren't able to downgrade

[silk lintel]

As I said, I'm not familiar with the asset. You're saying if you delete the mesh you spawn in fine and you have no issues with the camera, but everything goes crazy when you have them in the level? Collision is the only thing I can think of. Try setting collision to no collision and/or removing collision in the mesh editor, if applicable.

[drowsy snow]

Also UE5 Early Access builds (which is most likely what you're using) are not forward compatible with 4.27

UE5 Early Access is based on 4.26, and it's already hugely outdated compared to the 5.0 branch on GitHub.

[kind dew]

ah okay good to know. I'm assuming switching to 4.26 wouldn't work either

[worldly spear]

how do i import my object so its pivot point stays where its supposed to?

[drowsy snow]

What DCC tool are you using?

[worldly spear]

Maya

[drowsy snow]

I mainly use Blender, but maybe center the object to 0,0,0 before exporting.

[dull hatch]

Thanks for the tip! I was under the impression I wouldn't use much of Unity knowledge. However, I have come to learn from several articles that learning different Engines is a good way at developing the skill of adapting to different engines since some if not most dev studios use proprietary engines.

[silk lintel]

I could be wrong, but I think when you import a mesh the pivot is based on world origin rather than mesh pivot. I've noticed that importing from blender, at least.

[worldly spear]

thats fair, but that defeats the purpose of the object animating the way it should

[silk lintel]

I will say I know nothing about animation, so take that with a grain of salt. Could be different for animations.

[worldly spear]

I read online that you can just: You just have to either use "Import Into Level" from the file menu or UNCHECK the "Transform Vertex to Absolute" checkbox in the import window.

but i dont see that in the import options anywhere

i tried importing to level and its still wonky

[drowsy snow]

Well, many propietary in-house AAA engines were closer to Unreal's more than Unity's, as most of them were developed with C++, and many Unreal developers I've seen landed jobs on studios using in-house engines

[dull hatch]

Oh interesting! I listened to a podcast of a guy stating that the particular proprietary engine they use was based off Unreal. However, I didn't consider that would be the most likely scenario. I originally started with Unity because of an idea I had for a 2d game and after research suggested Unity to the better option.

Nevertheless, if I'm looking to join a studio It would be of my benefit to be more diverse.

Hmm, would you suggest to learn C++ as best I can vs Blueprints?

[drowsy snow]

It is in your best interest to learn both.

In Unreal, BP and C++ go hand in hand (but BP is on top of C++)

[worthy drum]

I seem to take that unity users who compare it to unreal are the type who never worked on any structure except base games their entire life.

Most of them even say themselves that unity is meant for lower things than unreal.

Going as far as to state that "nobody cares about ultra realism"

I don't exactly see unity being used by traditional japanese companies who have been developing games for years

Or ever seen a unity game become the spotlight for more than a few months

[drowsy snow]

Except I know Bandai Namco used Unity to develop mobile games.

But I guess the notion "mobile games don't count at all" applies here

As horrible as gachas are, mobile games are still video games, as much as people hate to admit it.

[sharp crest]

I'm bored

my project is packaging

what shoudl we do

I don't even know why I packagd

I have a habit to package so often for no reason

ooofz

[valid sparrow]

been getting some trouble with a model I am attempting to use. I have it as a static addon for a weapon. The textures and mesh look alright so why is it that the item it is connected to not loading in game? Also it is from sketchfab if that might be a indicator as this is the second one from there that is doing this.

[sharp crest]

did u try dragging it to the level and it won't show?

I don't get it

[valid sparrow]

I happens when the weapon is equipped so spawned in, sorry abit confused myself.

[sharp crest]

did u check if the actor even spawned?

just debug it bro

we can't debug it for u

u can press f8 and look for the actor in the world outliner

if it's there then click the component mesh and see why it's not showing

etc

[plain crypt]

My "if" node requires my multiply output be a float, how can I convert it to a float?

[valid sparrow]

Have tried numerous times to debug, the mesh seems to be the thing breaking it. I am more wondering if this has happen to anyone else? Also this is the error it comes with. But when checked it should be fine, it is only with sketchfab meshes.

[sharp crest]

it's literally a vector bro

oh wait

I'm confused too

but I don't think they have this float/int thing in material

[sharp crest]

ue4 has no bugs bro

you are getting a runtime blueprint error, not a mesh error, so it's not related to the actual model

[sharp crest]

can u show the error u r getting

[valid sparrow]

hmm odd since if the mesh is removed from the main item it spawns and functions perfectly fine. Eh may go wing it and hope for the best then.

[sharp crest]

did u try round node?

[spark cobalt]

Hello all! Me and some friends are looking for game jams, preferably large-ish ones and preferably judged ones to participate in! Does anyone know of any cool jams like that? I already know the Github Game Off and the Global Game Jam!

[sharp crest]

u can try selecting any different mesh liek an editor cube or something

[plain crypt]

I used a mask node and it worked

I'm trying to get the screenspace of the object

[sharp crest]

okay nice

[plain crypt]

Didn't know it was a vector

[sharp crest]

I don't think it's a vector

lol

maybe mask rounds it too

🤷‍♂️

maybe it was Idk

oh this seems to be a vector yea

[plain crypt]

This node is confusing the hell out of me

[sharp crest]

which one

there r 2

assumign u r not confused with the number nodes

lol

[plain crypt]

The input is the first value to be compared, then the nodes params are the second value, what are the other slots for?

[sharp crest]

it's for what to output depending on if A or B are equal or more than the other etc

the last 3 are what to output depending on the first 2

[plain crypt]

what's the b slot for?

[sharp crest]

it's to compare A against it

you can also just hook an input into this

[plain crypt]

Gotcha, that makes sense

[sharp crest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRACLJlm9UQ

[plain crypt]

So the "a > b" slot and the "a < b" slot are questions?

supplying a one is yes, and a zero no?

[sharp crest]

sorry I'm done with material math check the video

[plain crypt]

100%

Thanks for your time

[kind hazel]

help i have no idea what this is

[sharp crest]

math kills my brain 😭

[sharp crest]

this is literally a 27 seconds video showing you using the editor

so you'd have to be a bit more specific than that lol

[bright sigil]

Its hot

[sharp crest]

lol

I'd say that's the most accurate answer I could give

👍

[kind hazel]

the editer has a glith

[sharp crest]

okay tell us about the glitch then

but tbh

ue4 has no glitches

unless you ever tried editing a blueprint struct...

but we don't talk about bruno.. or that..

[kind hazel]

what? wtf it does not show up in a video

[sharp crest]

lmfao

maybe ur monitor is broken

thbrow a rock at it try to see if it fixes the issue

[kind hazel]

I don't know but the menu was flickering when I tried to open it and I couldn't see it

[sharp crest]

which menu?

[kind hazel]

The menu that comes up when you try to right click on something it just flickers and then sometimes it doesn't even show up at all

[sharp crest]

omg I once had the worst flickering issue with the ue4 menus

I don't think it was these menustho

Idk

[kind hazel]

It happens like every 15 minutes after opening the editor

[sharp crest]

r u using a nvidia card?

[kind hazel]

yes wait let me guess graphics card update

[sharp crest]

I will send u a fix

let me find it

@kind hazel https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157
download this

I think u might have to restart ur pc to make it work

it once fixed a flickering issue I had with the editor

don't think it was quite like urs but maybe itll solve it

[kind hazel]

OK I'll try it thank you so much man it's nice to have people ask questions

[sharp crest]

but if it doesn't work you are on your own

[kind hazel]

ok

[pearl sonnet]

i narrowed down that the largest impact of the 'Scalability' option is 'Effects'
can someone tell me where i can actually configure the 'effects' that are applied?

[sharp crest]

maybe post process

but there is like a thing

to check the rendering optimization

I forget how to bring that up

watch htis

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

[pearl sonnet]

maybe that will shed some light

[tender pecan]

Scalibility setting for Effects largely control particles and their associated biases, for that you should look into what optimizations you can do on each of your particles effects, check ensure minimize overdraw, check shader complexity, gpu load from spawned gpu particles, ensure LOD all that kind of stuff.

[pearl sonnet]

my level is very empty, a hand full of cubes with a basic white material,
a floor which is just a stretched cube with a simple material
and a relatively low quality character XD

[sharp crest]

in that case I wouldn't worry about optimizations, lol

[tender pecan]

🤣

[plain crypt]

How can i get what the camera can see in materials?

Sorry i'm fairly new

[pearl sonnet]

lol got it

switching Lumen off and now its very fast 😮

Project Settings -> Engine -> Rendering

[coarse vine]

hello guys can i ask something?

so me n my friends are making a racing game and we decided to go over to ue5 thus we setup one of the tracks in ue5 wp i painted some trees in background i marked em as a single foliage instance and it kept giving warnings so i decided to remove the instances but i cant find where they are so as u see in above pic the instance is still being told but i cant find it

[shell ibex]

how to put the 6 tga file cubemap in the good sens

i tried 2 solution but its never the good sens

for the skybox

[sharp crest]

it's in the post process too

[shell ibex]

i tried this but its dont work

[sharp crest]

not sure what the issue is but I can tell you that you should probably not be using ue5 to make a game yet

does anyone know how much 1 kilometer is in UE4 units? (answer: 1000)

[coarse vine]

ue4 vehicle system isnt working anymore so had to switch and this game wont be out anytime soon

[sharp crest]

ue4 vehicle system works great tbh

[coarse vine]

it was glitching out for us continuously

[sharp crest]

even if it was, I doubt UE5 fixed any of that

[coarse vine]

ue5 choas is slightly unstable

[sharp crest]

chaos is unrelated to vehicle tho

[coarse vine]

it is the new system in ue5

for all physics stuff

even vehicles

[neat thunder]

guys you don't have any experience?

[sharp crest]

I really doubt this is for vehicles

[sharp crest]

your issue isn't clear. make a vid or reexplain or both

[drowsy snow]

That's kind of insulting way to put it...

[coarse vine]

u need more research then

[sharp crest]

lol

[neat thunder]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/326577/collision-of-attached-actor-does-not-work-correctl.html

Same issue

[sharp crest]

if it's the same issue, how come you can't use that same solution? lol

[tribal leaf]

I was about to type the same thing 🙂

[sharp crest]

😅

[coarse vine]

i have both versions of our project but ue4 version is bugged in vehicles that is and it also lacks key features that ue5 system comes with out of the box

if i recall correctly my team mates wre complaining that wheeled vehicle bp wasnt working at all properly with cars thus we decided to upgrade

[shell juniper]

So I have a physics handle, but whenever I grab objects with it, it clips through walls, and spins freely no matter how much dampening I put on it. Any solutions? Please ping me if so.

[coarse vine]

dug up the errors that we had in ue4 version of the project

[verbal jasper]

has anyone had a bug where, when you open a contextual menu (right click menu, file/edit/help...), it instantly closes ?

thanks !

[shell ibex]

why i cant make spawn node in blueprint editor with keyboard please

[dusk nebula]

I'm wondering if there's an existing way to convert an integer into the literal word form of it in a string

[shell ibex]

please

[dusk nebula]

? Like you're not able to use your keyboard to put the node in your BP, or a keyboard event isn't triggering the node that's already there?

[knotty summit]

Hey people. I have an 3d inventory system and I'm using instance mesh component for hover effects. Each time the cursor hovers a new inventory actor, I spawn Instance Static Mesh Component in that actor. When it's unhovered, I destroy the component. But I noticed that each spawned component has a bigger value in here, even though I destroy it. Should I worry about it? I'm mostly worrying that destroying/spawning might cause more harm then benefits.

[shell ibex]

idk in the setting i bind the keys

for the blueprint editor

for spawn specific node

and its dont work

ooohhh ok its work its because of my keyboard

software racist against french keyboard i forget that

[coarse vine]

anyone even looked at this?

[terse ice]

Shared DDC question.. I know different engine versions cannot read each other's derived data, but does that mean I should create totally separate folders for each engine version? The engine could easily keep different engine versions of DDC data apart within the shared DDC itself.

I'll check the source code if there are no ready answers, but I prefer being laay-zaay

[knotty fern]

can i make online multiplayers game and port to website and let them play on website?

[drowsy snow]

Not in native HTML5, no.
You'd have to setup Pixel Streaming, which is basically setting up your "cloud gaming" solution.

[south shore]

Can anyone point me to a resource describing how to use SSBO's in unreal, can't find anything in the documentation..

[drowsy snow]

Low level graphics API stuff is already taken care of Unreal's RHI abstraction layer, and now there's also Rendering Dependency Graph.

So if you want to write compute shaders, you'd really have to go through RDG

[south shore]

Thanks, I'll look into that. I'm really new to Unreal so I'm not that familiar with what level of control I have access to. E.g. can I force a rendering shader to use data stored in a gpu buffer (switching read/write buffers for rendering/compute) ?

If you don't know and that I should figure it out myself is an acceptable answer..

[tardy skiff]

hi all. anyone knows if it is possible to give height to a snow material for example ? like to have thickness without extra geometry (like solidify in blender mesh) ?

[kindred depot]

simple tut on this, not best practice tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNJUTz2L-U&ab_channel=MarvelMaster

[tardy skiff]

what would be best practice ? i am interesting for stylized

ty for the link too

[kindred depot]

Best would be buying infinity weather 😛 (but its 120 usd)

[tardy skiff]

eh i think it is difficult to make ti work for stylized too

ill check the tut anyways ty

[kindred depot]

naw not really

I seen people do this with stylescape

[tardy skiff]

one more thing please: i am using landmass brushes

bp

[kindred depot]

and?

[tardy skiff]

and i have an issue i do not know how to solve maybe cause of my resolution but i tried different ways and still doenst work

[kindred depot]

100% a resolution issue.

[tardy skiff]

ok sho i should try resampel then ?

[kindred depot]

Save a copy of your game first, or use source control

then try to do all of that

[tardy skiff]

i did

i am playing on a different level

with settings

so i have my initial level untouched

my problem is that on resample, i loose all the layers

while in specifications it doesnt say that

so ill have to do them again it seems 😦 did you expeerienced same or didnt play with it ?

ill try a resample again

and see if at least this triangle problem dissapear

what is trange is that they say u can use brushes on different landscapes or so i read ...

and it seems u cannot just port a brush on another landscape

[shell ibex]

please what is the name

of this

this node

please

[real heath]

Scalar parameter

[shell ibex]

thank you

[real heath]

No problem

[tardy skiff]

even with x2 resolution i see the square has same size

it is just making the new landscape bigger

this would be the new one

and this si the old one

i can do whatever here and the square is not smalller

hence me thinking is not resolution but is something with the material or settings

[kindred depot]

I dont use landscapes 🙂 i make meshes and paint them. and build on top to them (nanite landscaping lol)

[tardy skiff]

please bare with me a moment more

i am just looking to be like stylized and low poliish

can i do same technique ?

[kindred depot]

as mine? naw this requires 3rd party tools.

[tardy skiff]

but i knwo how to work with blender

[kindred depot]

but whats the issue with your landscape tho?

[tardy skiff]

i just suck on doing a terrain

in unreal

[kindred depot]

is the height of your landscape the problem? if the resolution higher than the og heightmap?

[tardy skiff]

no no , the pb are those triangles

that bad transition

[kindred depot]

Is it an imported heightmap?

or sculpted

[tardy skiff]

it is landscape + BP brushes landmass

with layers

and the one i use is material one

that gives iregularities

[kindred depot]

I have no idea my friend what the issue could be. How to fix your issue tho, start google searching issues like what you are having. export and reimport your heightmap.

https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/landscape-heightmap-guide.php

look up guides on the material issue.

[tardy skiff]

there is no height map

i only use landscape unreal + brushes blueprint

but i have this issue

[kindred depot]

If you are using a landscape, it is a heightmap. that's how its made.

[tardy skiff]

internal

indeed

i shoudl export it and see it

you are right

[kindred depot]

When generating a landscape you are creating a heightmap. lol

[tardy skiff]

yes u are right

[kindred depot]

i know 🙂

[tardy skiff]

just didnt think to export to see it

i can ssee it with advanced mes though and see the triangles

i am thinking more and more to go your way

and do height map in external programs

and import it

and just paint on it

and sculpt when needed

[kindred depot]

a very simple heightmap maker let me find it

[tardy skiff]

i know them

dont worry

can do in mixer too

blender . world generator

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but again, you have to talk with RDG to store and get hold of texture buffer reference.

[tardy skiff]

just i thought and hope i can use unreal power

[static lily]

882858115236761620

[kindred depot]

https://www.worldpainter.net/

use the minecraft one

works well.

only works for heightmap tho

[tardy skiff]

wel i like th e idea of building inside unreal

for procedurality

[kindred depot]

i forgot where i seen the tutorial but it gives you real world edits too and not blocky.

[plush yew]

!stream

[tardy skiff]

ty man

[thick herald]

!no stream for you

[tardy skiff]

if i am not able to solve this is unreal ill go to other tools

[kindred depot]

IMO start fresh, watch some youtube videos on how to accomplish a good terrain. Joe garth had a bunch

[tardy skiff]

i did a bunch a bit

[kindred depot]

does anyone have this issue with advanced coping as well? I have been siting here for 30 minutes.....It's been just hanging there at 100%

[tardy skiff]

oh wow

[thick herald]

How much are you trying to copy?

[kindred depot]

3.5 gb but it never takes this long.

and its still responding

My pc should be able to do this in like 1 minute. lol

[thick herald]

maybe it's just have a bad day

[kindred depot]

you might be right

am i the only one who like a very clean content folder?

[thick herald]

Nope.

[kindred depot]

I cant stand when stuff is everywhere or all in the base Content folder. lol

[thick herald]

I generally have a project that I put all my assets into, then move them in that project before attempting to migrate to the project I need them in.

That way I have an existing folder hierarchy to use.

[kindred depot]

Content\ _Assets\Maps\Assets\Meshes

how i do mine

stuff like that

so we are the same 🙂

[thick herald]

can't have too many assets 😄

[ebon geode]

Oh hell... This reminds me of downloading the infiltrator demo multiple times because I just need 1 mesh or 1 texture or something 😅 😅

[kindred depot]

I had to do it this way. The map folder has all the maping stuff like a post process folder, sounds, materials, decals, vfx. and inside the the _assets folder is Characters, Maps, Mainmenu, Core logic

this is truth

I just want to be able to find something than searching in 900 areas of my content folder lol

[thick herald]

filters are a thing ya know 😄

[kindred depot]

I know they are 🙂 hah

I am assuming this advanced copy is dead.

[thick herald]

I'm assuming you fixed all your redirects first? That's the only thing I can think of that might be confusing it

[kindred depot]

Well, i do the advanced migrate in a separate project, do the fix ups, let the shaders compile create the folders and drag and drop. but i have no idea. I guess ill give it another 30.

LOL

The only reason i do it; to remove it from content folder

I'll wait then. i forgot most of these mats are 4k

[tawdry python]

lhlkqhflsdkh

I have automatic swap size and it was up to 40gb before the crash (but I still have 4GB empty)

and as always it happens while I'm doing nothing special, I only had a couple bps open, I had just made an enum and was looking at some animations

I also had a map loaded with like 3 textured skeletal mesh assets and literally no textured static mesh

[kindred depot]

4 gigs of video memory is not going to get you far in game dev.

I think he thinks it stacks. Ram and gpu lol

VRAM and RAM are not one of the same.

[tawdry python]

ah yes, rude comments, you're so helpful

I know it doesn't stack

as I said my RAM has 40GB of swap and 4 more that was unused

I know 16GB is shit but I can't get more atm

[kindred depot]

What I am saying that crash is from your Vram. which is 4 gigs. not 40.

[tawdry python]

and as you can see in my screen VRAM usage is at 50%

[kindred depot]

Yes this happens

It maxed out when loading what ever you loaded and overloaded it.

[tawdry python]

that crash isn't always from VRAM usage

I didn't load anything

again if you read the messages instead of trying to play smart while being rude

you'd have known

unreal falls back to RAM when it's out of VRAM which it wasn't

so it's a bug from having a hard time handling high ram usage? @plush yew

well I guess probably not really a bug

[fierce tulip]

can we all just calm down and respond in a more professional manner. thanks.

[tawdry python]

I already maxed out this laptop, god I hate laptops so much

but then there's also no way to get desktop parts

ah life

it also seems to only be happening when I have rider open

I assume it's probably because rider uses a ton of ram

yeah it's sitting at 3.5gb according to the task manager

[kindred depot]

The only solution i can think of is increasing page file or using virtual ram ( IF you can not upgrade)

[tawdry python]

back to what I initially said, I had 40GB of pagefile used and still 4GB free

it also resizes automatically

and the crash happened when I switched back to a window that was already open (the anim one)

I'm really confused why it'd need more than 4GB of VRAM or RAM to show something already loaded

[kindred depot]

Question tho, is your cpu a gpu+cpu combo? and you have a gpu as well in your laptop?

You are running 2 gpus, according to task mgr

[tawdry python]

it's a gtx 1650 (mobile) (that's also on task manager :p)

[kindred depot]

You should try to force it to the GPU and not having the cpu using both combos

[tawdry python]

that's how it is now, I think igpu is only handling the window rendering

[kindred depot]

Ahh alright

[tawdry python]

I can't disable the igpu as my laptop's screen is only connected to it

(same for any port of the laptop)

[gilded patrol]

How can i learn unreal Engine

[frank belfry]

Can anyone explain why my sprites look like this??

[tawdry python]

welp I guess I'll cry

yeah that's what I've been doing but I'm working on AI right now which means I need both open

I think I should also consider closing my 1412312312 browser tabs

that's the thing I wasn't on the map, there were at the very max 2 textured static mesh materials

maybe I should just run unreal in potato mode with my igpu

2 fps 480p

[finite bear]

Noob here. can you use a auto material and procedural foliage spawner at the same time? Since the auto material is one layer i cannot seem to assign certain foliage to my layers. Not sure if there is a way around this. Thanks

[devout mason]

Does anyone here know why RTXGI stops working above a certain amount of Lux for the DirectionalLight/Sun? Really struggeling here..

[waxen crypt]

Hello guys
i've been using Blueprint Nativization for ue4 but i was looking at ue5 recently and just discovered that its under the things that will be depreciated so i was wondering is it for UE5EA or UE5 in general?
cuz when i did my research some said its UE5EA and others said it will be in UE5
if anyone knows hmu and thanks

[cedar wave]

Nativization is going the way of the dodo.

[waxen crypt]

yeah guessed so but i still wonder why tho?

[knotty fern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDkjb4X6IUA how about this video? sir.

[plain crypt]

I have a bunch of grass in my scene, and for the lowest lod i have is two planes with an alpha map on them.. is this the best way to go about that?

[plush yew]

Is anyone familiar with plastic scm? I have a few question :P

[neon bough]

that was removed in 4.25 or something

like the whole OpenGL support was removed in 4.26(?) so i guess thats a dead end with recent engine versions

not to mention that there's no real benefit of running a browser app instead of a "dedicated" one (at least for games)

[knotty fern]

if i would like to make online multiplayer game and play on web. Do you know about method?

[neon bough]

no

unless you want to settle with an years old engine

the real question is why you would want to do that in the first place

the whole HTML5 thing is nice if you are a company which wants to sell cars online and provide an online 3D configurator

but not for games

[devout mason]

@neon bough That's exactly what I've been looking for, but then we settled to not do the configurator in UE

[neon bough]

really depends on the requirements, i did something similar just with Three.JS 😄

[knotty fern]

i want to have my game. i have idea to make fun game and i would like people play my game on website. don't want them to download to their computer. but i don't know hot to do it.

[devout mason]

Meaning you think not using UE for the online configurator was the right idea? 😛

@knotty fern for your purpose you should probably stick to Unity or PlayCanvas to be honest

[neon bough]

my project wasn't serious and more hobby but you can do a lot with Three.js already, and UE adds it's own "overhead"

which could potentially frustrate customers (when the loading times are too long)

[devout mason]

yea absolutely

needs to run on shit hardware too haha

would you be able to make a web configurator?

[neon bough]

well hardware requirements are another thing, i think unreal isn't thaaat bad in those terms, but haven't really compared to other solutions

[devout mason]

i mean UE is pretty scalable yeah.. i got a whole store and warehouse environment running natively on Quest 2 and the performance is so good lol

[neon bough]

that really depends on the requirements and what is involved (e.g. what 3D data is available, general feature requirements, etc.)

and i'm not aware of all the solutions out there, uni cough ty also has some web packaging stuff for example

[devout mason]

Baaasically every part is available as .fbx 🙂

If you're looking for work you can DM me - that Three.js stuff looks pretty sweet bh

*tbh

[neon bough]

it also runs pretty decent on mobile devices, i tested that ~2014 with a nexus android tablet and it was usable, and my car model wasn't even really optimized for that purpose

[devout mason]

Yeah, i mean the Quest 2 is essentially just a shitty phone isn't it? 😛

[neon bough]

yea, but on recent devices it would probably run waaay better

[devout mason]

@neon bough just slid into your DMs

[idle garden]

Any news about the swag bag, from the Blueprint Ninja Challenge?

[meager frigate]

anyone know of a good way to mirror animations besides the unreal marketplace?

[flat axle]

How do I combine these instead of override?

[meager frigate]

And i only have blender

[stone sandal]

Did they kill the answerhub?

everything seems to redirect to the new forum. So years of documentation are gone now or what?

[neat thunder]

because the Solution It's not Solution. it's just discussed about Engine Limitations .

I Uploading Video and I Showing My Problem .

as you see trash bin Collision presets is Block All.

But When I Attaching the trash bin to My Character Collision ( trash bin Collision ) is Not Working.

[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 ...

[tardy skiff]

can the river direction be reversed in the water system ?

[plush yew]

what is the pc specs recommended for unreal 4 to run with its full functionality

[tardy hedge]

if only the server can add items to the inventory why does the inventory itself have to be replicated

[cedar wave]

So the player knows what they have in their inventory.

[tardy hedge]

server adds item and widget get created showing the new item. i move the widget around to various windows . The server does not have to be aware what window the widget is in it just needs to add item to widget

[sudden timber]

Happy to be pointed in the right direction, but is there a "complete" guide on how to setup the best collab environment for unreal dev?

[sinful tendon]

is it just me or do particles kill gameplay in ue4???
I wend from 200fps to 5fps adding fire to a scene.

[whole hazel]

yesterday I asked a question about me screwing up my project, clicking play literally doesn't play first person but gives me free camera roaming, what did I do to mess that up and how can I fix it? 😭

[thick herald]

Check your project settings - maps and modes. It should be set to first person if that's the template you are using

[whole hazel]

doing that right now

[thick herald]

@sudden timber Look into source control

[whole hazel]

@thick herald

it's FirstPersonGameMode but it still gives me camera free roaming 😦

fixed it by clicking this little icon somehow

it literally let me play as a 1st person character again, thanks again for the effort ❤️

how can I check what's causing FPS/performance drop

like which resource is killing the whole game performance

is it from the Lit menu?

[grizzled sonnet]

how do i install ue5 not the early acess but the ue5 from source code?

[thick herald]

Invoke Cthulhu

[grizzled sonnet]

ok thx

[whole hazel]

is that a general setting I'm supposed to find somewhere?

@plush yew you're amazing, thank you, now if I only had the knowledge to figure out what all these commands say as the given information haha, it'll take a while I guess

definitely the CPU, I recently got the RTX 3090 but what bothers me which I commented yesterday, if I get constant FPS drops from 60 to 40 with cinematic graphics, that means a low-end PC will be never able to enjoy the amazing graphics I've added/made :/

I just want to optimize the game so it doesn't lag even on a low-end budget PC

I guess it's time to get rid of 4K assets and replace them with 512 one or one below 2K

[cedar wave]

That's why games offer graphical options.

[whole hazel]

that's correct but sadly I'm not that good with UE5 and those graphical options you have in the developer mode is for the dev only, not users

[snow lance]

Hi does anyone know why my waterfall falls slowly from the top of my cliff when i capture the sequence 🥸

Using a particle I made 😐

[whole hazel]

I'm not an expert, still pretty new myself but I believe you can control animations from the details panel, no?

[snow lance]

Thanx george . I did control it but still when i capture the scene it falls slowyyyyy from the top

[whole hazel]

no idea mate, you're better off waiting for someone experienced to help you, sorry :c

[light condor]

That meme 😂

[whole hazel]

@plush yew could you add me as a friend please? I tried DMing you and adding you as a friend but it's your privacy settings that prevent me to :c

[brittle plume]

Hi, How to package my game for HTML5?
Sincerely, I await replies.

[whole hazel]

can you even do that? package a game to HTML5?

[whole hazel]

look what I found

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/rgdc0q/can_i_package_game_for_html5_using_unreal_5/

[light condor]

There's a lot of stuff online about that topic https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unreal+html+5

[brittle plume]

a...

In other words, do I have to go to the Stone Age version to pack a game?

[brittle plume]

Yes, I asked here why I can't spend my life reading 30% of the internet 😂

[whole hazel]

got you, I dm'd you firstly with apology for the disturbance in DM and secondly since you helped me, I wanted to ask you if it's possible to change the draw distance in a project so the game can render not everything at once (which causes massive FPS performance issue) but only very few meters for example and the more you walk, the more it renders, thank you

[pastel aurora]

Hey does anyone know from where can I download free animated things, like: birds flying, functional water from fountain and such… any website that offers free animated things that i can import to my UE proj without the marketplace? Thanks everyone for help

[thick herald]

what does that do?

get rotation x vector perhaps

the power of google 😄

Mathews videos are the first results I see, so figured it might be the right one

[pure dagger]

Can you recomend any program for story/plot decisions? Something to make a tree of connections.

[pure dagger]

Is that works with ue5?

[peak falcon]

any thoughts on where I could ask questions about working with FBX files?

[fossil nexus]

How do i keep the texture from squeezzing and keep its scale?
I built a blueprint with a rectangular cube in it. Then i made a material of stars.
Then in the events, when i make it scale down, the stars squeeze instead of keeping its size.
Is it possible to scale down the cube and its texture remains intact? Like cutting the texture.
In the image you see 6 stars in the side, and 2 stars at the top. When scaling down i want to the cube to remain only with 3 stars on the side and 1 star on the top. How can i do this? So basically i want the texture to be cropped as i reduce the size of the cube.

[thick herald]

look in to World Aligned Textures.

[grave pollen]

something called Canvas Draw Tile is too high when I did a profile test on my game, what does this come from? I tried hiding the meshes in my game but it didnt do anything

cant find much on it in google, its averaging 20 ms lol big problem

[peak falcon]

does anyone know if there's any community anywhere that could talk about how ue imports fbx files?

like a mailing list or something

I'm trying to discard three of four meshes in an FBX file

I can't get it to work through blender

I can't get the autodesk python sdk to work

i don't even really want to use blender!

but is that the route to go?

[cedar wave]

Lorash is the biggest fan of Blender. Absolutely loves it. 🤣

[peak falcon]

following the "export from blender to ue4" guides i find on the web, i always lose my skeleton..

so i'd be reeally up for an alternative

[cedar wave]

I haven't really had any issues with the fbx export process from Blender -> UE luckily

[peak falcon]

ok .. just to confirm i guess, ue4 can not handle discarding meshes?!

like i definitely have to get rid of these in something before I import

[cedar wave]

Oh, I mean at all. Has seemed to work fine for my team thus far.

We use it for skeletal stuff as well.

I wish

[peak falcon]

is there a better format to import from?

[cedar wave]

If the industry could just leave fbx behind, that'd be great.

[fossil nexus]

@thick herald Thank you. I looked into it, it solved the issue but created another.
Now when i scale down the rectangle the stars are cropped which is what i wanted.
But when my rectangle moves around, the texture is also moving. How can i solve this one?

[kindred rampart]

Hey how would I go about hiding a texture on a model, but only if the camera is looking at it?

The idea I'm working on is multiplayer, so it needs to not change the look for the other players

Wait I think I figured it out

Do it like a flashlight

[peak falcon]

a good first step is figuring out what object you're looking at, then getting the material

so what's the ideal way to package a model with several LOD meshes? a different .fbx for each mesh?

[plush yew]

If I am just beginning making games should I start with unity or unreal?

[autumn latch]

I know the blueprint, are there any resources you recommend to start learning c++? have a nice day.

[plush yew]

Ok thanks

How did you start learning how to use unreal?

Ok I will look into it

should I start with blueprints?

Ok thanks

[autumn latch]

Oh thank u

yes I realized that :) I will learn by doing after I get the basics.

[thick herald]

Just the one.

[cedar wave]

Perfection

[gray tundra]

Hello. Quick question about view options.

Is there a way to view static mesh collision in a blueprint editor's viewport?

Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers.

[sterile lichen]

there is a collision debugger, but you can simply visualize it with shape components or smth else

[plush yew]

is there a way to view old threads from the answerhub? I found a thread I want to read cached on google but it just loads to the new forums

[severe hound]

anyone know why decals would render for one developer on one machine and not for another developer? friend put decals in a level but for me they are just the bright green

[sterile lichen]

better re-ask the question. more efficient 😄

[amber shuttle]

check if you have all the files

[covert ivy]

https://gyazo.com/d5b5a2bfc0dd67759017093808b56728

Do the assets come from a marketplace's pack ? What is your impression ? It's so beautiful... 😍

[plush yew]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/873272/player-camera-ignore-base-rotation.html how to view

[sterile lichen]

there is (Cached) button to browse cached page. can read answers or just ask in #blueprint

[fossil meteor]

I need help for my game, LOTS OF HELP, please contact md/dm

[thick herald]

@plush yew there is an issue with the AH, Epic are aware and trying to fix

[plush yew]

there was no cached option on the google page for it but i think i know what youer talkinga bout. it doesnt always give that option on google to view cached though ]:

[fervent lichen]

Just getting started with UE4, why does it take soo long to compile? Takes like ten times longer than Unity. Is there a solution to this?

[thick herald]

@fervent lichen download the Epic Games Launcher, and use that to install Unreal.

[fervent lichen]

I'm working in UE4 right now lol. When I click compile from the UE4 editor on a fairly empty project it takes like 10-20 seconds.

I'll look into this, I have no idea what epic builds are

Yes I've done that, I'm working from UE4, a version I installed from the launcher

[drowsy snow]

Hot Reload??

[drowsy snow]

I can assume it's hugely outdated.

[fervent lichen]

Ah thanks, I'll enable Live Coding then. If the article is correct and can cause data corruption, strange that there's no warning about it in the editor.

[drowsy snow]

Also defenestrate anything you know specific on Unity.

Welcome to C++.

[fervent lichen]

haha cant wait to uncover what other quirks there are 🤪

Yeah i realise there's a lot to relearn. I know the basics of C++, just not in the UE4 environment

Kind of wished game objects had constructors and destructors, would be a bit cleaner code imo

AH nice thanks for the link. ive been using this tutorial to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsNW4FPHuZE

That link seems to have to do with blueprints though, im trying to learn everything via C++

[drowsy snow]

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

[drowsy snow]

Protip:

You have to do BP in any shape or form

[fervent lichen]

Yeah I realised that you use BP to interact with the scene environment

[fervent lichen]

Thanks for the link!

[drowsy snow]

I know, I know, it's not as Hackerman-y as typing typed code 24/7, but in Unreal Engine, BP and C++ go hand in hand, and AAA studios who use UE use BP in their projects

[fervent lichen]

UE4 gets a bad rep for not having a lot video tutorials or expansive documentation, but I feel like that is not the case at all

Hm yeah but thats the case with unity tutorials as well.

Ill keep that in mind though

Thanks for the help

[broken shadow]

Personal experience is that the official documentation is still very underwhelming.

Community documentation helps fill in the gaps, but I also very quickly figured out what to search for.

If "knowing what to search for" doesn't click for you quickly, I could see how someone would just get lost with Unreal.

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Online Learning is the better way.

Heck, I still learn new things from UOL

[fervent lichen]

Im assuming UOL is the learn.unrealengine.com link i received earlier?

Yep exactly

[potent bridge]

Does anyone know why my text wont align to center here? It's in a horizontal box mind you

[drowsy snow]

Correct.

[potent bridge]

And using fill does this weird thing

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Online Learning, it's free, actually curated, and also have tutors who are expert in their fields

[drowsy snow]

#umg

[fading tartan]

Guys, I am trying to create a character that can swing from building to building like in the spiderman games, but instead of using a rope or a web I want to make the character stretch his arm towards the building

[cedar wave]

Too bad the course browser is super bad

[fading tartan]

Sort of like this

[iron field]

Reminds me of prototype

[fading tartan]

How should I go about it?

[fading tartan]

Kinda what I want to achieve lol

Like a spiderman x mr fantastic character

[drowsy snow]

It can be as simple as transforming bone to a world position in animBP.

[fading tartan]

I am kinda new to UE, could you please explain how it would work?

[tiny valley]

left clicking with mouse causes left shift to release prematurely any fix

[fading tartan]

Currently I am thinking that I can stretch a bone from a character but it will loom janky

[drowsy snow]

Animation Kickstart course
https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537714

[fading tartan]

Oh, thx

[potent bridge]

Hate to ask, but I really do need help with #umg

[quartz owl]

What are the benefits of ue compared to unity

[iron field]

From what I've seen there are more UE jobs

[drowsy snow]

Cool graphics out of the box
Optimisation tools out of the box, no marketplace dependant
Blueprints and C++
Free Quixel Megascans assets
Niagara effects
Battle tested with Fortnite
Depending on where you live, getting proficient at Unreal can land you on more jobs

Just to name a few.

[vital fox]

Why does UE hang and even sometimes crash when you try and delete from your content browser folders? I tried to delete something I had literally just made and I know it wasn't referenced anywhere but the editor crashed...

[drowsy snow]

Unity kids: "B-b-but, Ziva Dynamics"

[drowsy snow]

What's the crash reporter says about it?

[vital fox]

It didn't. The editor just hard crashed and went away

Seems like UE is very slow in general when you try to delete anything. Make's me think twice about trying to clean up messy folders because it takes forever.

[quartz owl]

lol

UE people and Unity people would fight for days

people in unity discord says the opposite

[iron field]

I've never tried unity properly

but UE feels really intuitive

I didn't get that when I tried unity

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas, is there a way to use sequencer with local camera coordinates? Im trying to make finisher camera, but sequencer only gives me world coordinates.

[ashen sky]

If I could code. I'd be using unity as of now

[lone ferry]

Hello!

I'm new on Unreal Engine, I just got a great idea but I don't know how to do that

I'm pretty sure that could work in the world of videogames

[iron field]

@ashen sky how ome?

[ashen sky]

Hmmm?

[drowsy snow]

Impossible, if you use vanilla launcher build, the Crash Reporter should kick in

[ashen sky]

Wut

[iron field]

come*,

why would unity be better for a programmer?

[lone ferry]

If I explain my idea, that might be stolen

[drowsy snow]

Here's the thing:

It depends on your project specifications

[lone ferry]

Unity is mostly made for Phone games

[quartz owl]

unity is way more simplistic and easy to understand then ue

[lone ferry]

Unreal is better for network, for PC/Console

[ashen sky]

I don't know. I'm just saying that so unity has a chance in my eyes

Lol

[drowsy snow]

Plan the idea first. How the idea is translated into gameplay.

[quartz owl]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unity_games

[lone ferry]

I just got the idea

Making something like Minecraft Dungeons

[ashen sky]

Right off my tongue

[lone ferry]

But you can create your own world

People can join it or not

[ashen sky]

The 3 unreal games I know are

[drowsy snow]

Because no Blueprints, duh

(Even though Unity tries to fight Kismet with Bolt)

[lone ferry]

You can select anything you want, make survival/creative

[ashen sky]

A hat in time
FNAF security breach
Pubg

[iron field]

as a programmer I still like blueprints

[lone ferry]

It's like MC in Top-Down mode where you can do anything you want, host

[drowsy snow]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

[lone ferry]

If anyone knows Habbo game

[ashen sky]

Lol

[iron field]

You can use blueprints and rapidly prototype things, and you can extend blueprint functionality with C++

they work nicely together

[lone ferry]

Wanna do that in Minecraft mode, a bit different since of the property rights

[drowsy snow]

How long have you been using UE?

[lone ferry]

Honnestly, let me explain you

[iron field]

to me blueprints is still programming,

[lone ferry]

I made multiple attempts at the time I wanted to do some Battle Royale (made with a GT and a shitty processor), but I never had a GTX to run Unreal Engine

So concerning the experience, I don't have anything rn

I just got a GTX 970

Processor i5-6400 so I can start to work

[ashen sky]

I have a shit gpu and the unreal engine runs on it

Pog

[lone ferry]

In low details I suppose

it takes 3h to load something, it still works but it is really laggy

[drowsy snow]

Start with taking beginner courses on Unreal Online Learning
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

Your First Hour in Unreal Engine 4 https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3756115

Animation Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537714
Blueprint Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537777
Character Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537798
Engine Structure Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537730
Materials Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537805
Programming Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537752
Rendering Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537481
World Building Kickstart https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537476

[lone ferry]

Ah goddamn

[ashen sky]

Luk

The funny thing is

[lone ferry]

T-T

[ashen sky]

I'm starting unreal without a single tutorial

Besides blueprints

And soon to come. Physics

[drowsy snow]

I don't start with survival MMORPG, yes.

[ashen sky]

And interacting with stuff

[iron field]

There was a subsystem that was ideal for making rpg games

trying to remember it's name

[ashen sky]

Ahhh. Makes me think of certain devs

[ashen sky]

Game maker? Lul

[iron field]

it was made for fortnight

the rpg demo uses it

arpg demo

[drowsy snow]

Gameplay Ability System

The learning curve is quite steep tho

[iron field]

yeah that

I played around with that last year, requires C++ experience though

[drowsy snow]

It does require Unreal C++ knowledge, and I have yet to wrap my head around GAS

[severe hound]

Does packaging a game involve building th elighting or do you have to do this separately before you package?

[iron field]

once you have the basic C++ code setup though you can do a lot through the editor

[drowsy snow]

AFAIK, no, you have to build the lighting on all levels you need first before packaging

[severe hound]

damn thanks for that, so pretty much you have to build production lighting if u want before u package each level, nice to know thanks

[drowsy snow]

No!! Not the goddamn generalised courses!!

Even though it's free and the knowledge can be applied to any genre

[lone ferry]

Well, I'm French 🇫🇷

And generally those type of videos doesn't help me to understand

I learn but weirdly...

I learn by practicing, you can give me any video I won't remember anything

[drowsy snow]

I swear to God, I've seen so many people have some distastes on more generalised knowledge courses on gamedevs, and liking charlatan YouTubers trying to teach on making specific game genre instead, with questionable practices.

[iron field]

I don't think anyone can learn unreal ust by watching videos

you need to practice

[drowsy snow]

No.
Even myself also learn from lots of self experimenting

[iron field]

my current unreal project is a bit different to most, since it's not a game

I'm visualising a fluid simulation I've written

[lone ferry]

The worst point on making a Video game

is the assets

if you're not good at this, you'll either have to learn or pay a lot

If you don't have them, you don't have any view of the render or any inspiration

[iron field]

I made a game last year with no assets

all code

[lone ferry]

how you can do that 💀

personally I can't

[iron field]

shaders

[lone ferry]

yes but no

[iron field]

I didn't unreal, just C++ and OpenGL

[lone ferry]

I'm also thinking about making a mobile game

ah

[drowsy snow]

That's why marketplace exist, and there are many good free stuff in there

[lone ferry]

The main problems from mobile games:

• Control
• Performances

[lone ferry]

Well yes but it is difficult to do something with them

You get what I mean?

For example Paragon Assets, you'd like to use them in your game? That could look like a copy paste or a weird game, and later how you can add new characters if you don't have the knowledge?

[iron field]

quixel meegascan assets are good for games

[lone ferry]

All I know is Sketchfab

Alright, will check it

[iron field]

some basic blender skills can make a good game

[lone ferry]

Yeah

But when you're a poo at Blender 💀

[iron field]

you can make some great games with some really simple assets and creative shaders

[lone ferry]

My knowledge on making something is limited to Voxel type

and even...

I also planned to remaking some closed games, an example: Facebook games

But first you need knowledge, and some data from the game itself. And probably the right to use them

[iron field]

facebook basketball would be a pretty easy game to make

[lone ferry]

Ah, not talking about this type x)

Something a bit harder

Do you know those games: Car Town, Ravenwood Fair etc...

[iron field]

ahh never heard of those

[lone ferry]

Game like this

it was fire 🔥

There are tons of beautiful games closed from Facebook, used on Flash Player

So yeah, sometimes I get the motivation to remake/open it on a new version

Plants VS Zombies adventures 😄

that was fire too

Looks like an actual game

[keen haven]

The IDE that I was using [RIDER] Was (Apparently, not an expert) being denied the access to compile a project that I set up in ProjectFiles.... So the solution was to either Run the IDE as admin or Move the project into a diferent directory

[iron field]

does anyone know what the best way to render a bunch of particles from position data in unreal would be? I was thinking of either creating a custom shader like I have in OpenGL and using pointsprites, or using niagara

[ashen sky]

wait wait you say remake it!?

[lone ferry]

yes @ashen sky

There are so much users waiting for Facebook games remake

It can work pretty much, I know lot of games from there that closed and slapped my childhood

Firstly I need most of the assets that are hard to find

or swfs

Monsterworld was also one of my favorite games

that closed around 2012

Looks like a kid game

[dawn gull]

Can someone explain the "Key" output pin on timeline nodes and how you add them to a timeline node?

[ashen sky]

ooooh. will it be a exact copy orrr

[lone ferry]

It should

But first I need SWF/Assets

I can find solutions to work on it after I get those datas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPGoTkkihoQ&ab_channel=PVZ

[ashen sky]

ahh thank god. for a second there if you were gonna replace stuff i would be uninterested

[lone ferry]

That wasn't a bad game at all... It just didn't gave enough money to the guys

[lone ferry]

Do you know Empire & Allies?

Not the new one, the old that closed

[ashen sky]

nope

[lone ferry]

The game that closed on Facebook reopened

It was also one of the best ever seen on Facebook

Popular as CityVille

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4_Ngr0Ptk&ab_channel=IGN

[ashen sky]

ahh. i never played facebook games

[lone ferry]

You missed something then x)

[plush yew]

Is there a way to “embed” a post processing volume and particle into a mesh?

So that whenever the mesh is spawned, the post processing volume and the particles are spawned alongside in the correct position

[ashen sky]

nahhhh. i would maybe use my real name at that time

[ashen sky]

hmmm...

i dont know

but i have been thinking if there even was a way to add a full on web browser to a vr unreal engine game

[twilit hill]

does anyone know a good ocean material for massive scales without visible tiling? ive tried about 5 now, all horrible, just need it for prototyping

[plush yew]

Maybe if I convert the static mesh into a blueprint? I think that I can add multiple components there and spawn them altogether

[ashen sky]

that should work! blueprint from what i know can do anything

[halcyon glen]

does any one know how to make a grappling hook that would pull an enemy or a diff actor

ive been trying for the last like week

and i can get it

[ashen sky]

i would always think you could find a random line and- yeah nevermind.

[grave pollen]

so it ended up being niagara emitters just absolutely destroying my performance. Are there any tuts on making Niagara more performant? At the point where Im just deleting them just 8 ongoing emitters accounted for about 10 FPS lol

[drowsy snow]

#niagara experts sure will know something about it

[lone ferry]

I got two SWFs

from a Facebook Game

But I don't know how to use that

[ashen sky]

errr anyone have experience in vr game making with unreal engine?

[steady spear]

anyone know how i can download unreal?

the yellow button dosent work

[ashen sky]

just install unity

[clever marsh]

go into library

[ashen sky]

may be hard for you to even use any engine

[drowsy snow]

Go to the Library tab, and install from there

[steady spear]

thx

[drowsy snow]

No need to be hostile

[ashen sky]

i had to press the unreal engine to do that

[ashen sky]

awwwww

[fierce tulip]

please dont curse, or go too offtopic in #ue4-general, use #lounge for the latter, and be kind to one and another in general.

[steady spear]

ill be back in 10 years

[drowsy snow]

SWF is a Shockwave Flash file format, you can only play it.

[steady spear]

u can play some swf games

[clever marsh]

thats okay lol only gonna take like 20-30m

[steady spear]

with just the swf

but sometimes the swf file has just the sprites

or some other stuff

[lone ferry]

Yeah ik

It doesn't contain any asset/data?

[steady spear]

the swf u got appears to only be an image

[lone ferry]

ah shit

I'd like to find datas of closed game

Tried Wayback Machine, and archives.org but nothing showed

[steady spear]

what game?

[lone ferry]

I also checked on github

Lot of them

Frontier Ville, Plants vs Zombies Adventure

Car Town, Zombie Lane

[drowsy snow]

If you're going to make money with it, that's a legal rabbit hole.

[lone ferry]

Monster World and others

[lone ferry]

Wdym

My priority is not about getting money

[drowsy snow]

Closed online game doesn't mean nobody holding its intellectual properties.

[ashen sky]

chill

[lone ferry]

That's why I already talked about rights

[drowsy snow]

no u

[ashen sky]

people like recreating stuff in new engines

[lone ferry]

Lot of games reopen without any problem

[ashen sky]

for free

[lone ferry]

Yeah

Exactly

Do you know Need for speed World ?

It reopened on something called: SoapBoxRace World

[drowsy snow]

I'm just being considerate, some companies are against fangames so hard.

[ashen sky]

https://tenor.com/view/sadgecry-sadge-cry-gif-18423674

[ashen sky]

only nintendo.

[lone ferry]

Do you know Empire & Allies?
It was remade called: Raise The Empires

[drowsy snow]

Especially if you use their copyrighted content

But who am I to say, just a stranger on the internet

[ashen sky]

arent we all

[steady spear]

unreal is cool and all

but is it good for starters?

like someone who dosent know how 2 code

[ashen sky]

it is good for starters

[steady spear]

bro what

[ashen sky]

i said its good for starters

[steady spear]

thats great

[ashen sky]

soooo

does anyone know how to make handles in unreal engine?

[lone ferry]

No sorry

[drowsy snow]

I'd say yes, especially with Blueprint giving more visual approach.

[steady spear]

hmm cool

[drowsy snow]

As in what?

[ashen sky]

a mircrowave handle

[drowsy snow]

Also see pinned messages of this channel for links to learning resources.

[drowsy snow]

How do you implement the microwave door?

[ashen sky]

idk. its just a premade model off sketchfab that has a opening animation

[drowsy snow]

Opening animation, so it has to be a skeletal mesh then

[ashen sky]

i believe it is. so yes

i can open unreal as of now and check

orrr. get you to give me directions

and finally be done with the hardest part of my game

[drowsy snow]

Can relate with how doors in general is the hardest part in gamedev.

[ashen sky]

well i have yet to see since the game is not based on what you may consider

[drowsy snow]

And yeah, it's basically door problem, but you don't enter it to go to another room

[ashen sky]

ahh

arent there premade doors though?

[covert ivy]

https://gyazo.com/d5b5a2bfc0dd67759017093808b56728

It's the exact same graphic style than Fortnite, isn't it ?

[ashen sky]

nahh. but i love how it looks

better not be zenith

[drowsy snow]

Yes, and I can think your microwave being one of them, with the hinge ready to be animated.

Since collisions don't seem to matter, you can use state machine and anim sequences to open/close the door, or use poseable mesh component (though super finicky to setup)

[ashen sky]

could you hop in a vc with me and guide me just in case..

[drowsy snow]

No, it's just stylised graphics

[drowsy snow]

No, I can't enter VC at this time

[ashen sky]

god damn it. what about friday. well 2 hours later on friday

[drowsy snow]

Depends on time zone, because I'm still off for work on fridays.

[ashen sky]

ahh. i am in eastern standard time

[drowsy snow]

Not actually on the eastern (positive GMT offset), right?

I'm not familiar with American time zones.

[ashen sky]

ahh. well so i dont have to say further more. i live in north Carolina

[drowsy snow]

That's way far from where I live then

[ashen sky]

yep lol

[covert ivy]

Mh, both look identical to me 😆 : https://img.20mn.fr/LFXhNsEPR7Ow9sJ3zVZrSg/830x532_fortnite-lance-sa-formule-payante.jpg https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/zenith-vrmmo-1.jpg

[ashen sky]

what game is the bottom photo.

[covert ivy]

Zenith. Isn't the game you've just said ? (I don't know this game ^^)

[ashen sky]

ahh. why yes

i know about it cause it was everything i dont want in a game

[drowsy snow]

Do you have problems on implementing it in your project?

[ashen sky]

or. the game i dont want

[covert ivy]

Hahaha

it's funny because I never liked this fortnitish graphics... But then I've just run into the video I showed you first (the gif) and I was like... OMG 😍

[drowsy snow]

Usually that style boils down to the textures and the mesh shape (modelling) more than technical side of things

[covert ivy]

so I don't know... It seems that we all are confusing these 3 graphics styles and yet, find the first gif I posted way more beautiful... Weird 🤔

[drowsy snow]

I don't.

[ashen sky]

same

i find zenith to be the best looking one

somehow

[covert ivy]

This artwork of Zenith is beautiful, though 🙂 : https://www.goha.ru/s/f/Be/l2/4kDFJJTYyv.jpg

[ashen sky]

not the game though

[covert ivy]

Yep, ingame, I can barely make the difference with Fortnite

[ashen sky]

i was talking about the gameplay

[covert ivy]

ah ok (I can't tell since I didn't play this game 🙂 )

This is an ingame video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMRnns1Qzjs Do you guys think it looks more than Fortnite or Zenith ? Or something other maybe ? 🤔

[ashen sky]

neither fortnite or zenith.

[covert ivy]

No, simply I liked theses videos and it inspired me

Actually, I really prefer this style than the Fortnite or Zenith style... Yet I can't make the difference... So weird... 😆

[ashen sky]

meh

i loved how the new matrix tech demo looked

[steady spear]

which one

[topaz ore]

Hi, I am using the third person template and I am creating a pause menu system but when I move by pressing more than one button the button that opens that pause menu does not work until only one button is held down. any solutions?

[ashen sky]

(include a video while we're here)

[lapis ore]

If I wanted to have a weapon leave a continuous mark everywhere it hits, what's the best way to do it?