ue4-general

[oak patio]

you just draw a png of clothes and it wraps em onto a model

yeah from what ive seen

[ashen sky]

the whole model has a open animation too

[oak patio]

does marvellous designer do anything with armor or just clothing

true, ig its one of those things that will become clearer when i decide to tackle basic character modelling

rn the one thing i suck at is organic modelling

im very much a hard surface person

true but unfortunately the style my friend and i do when going for games is low poly cause we like it

which means we have to make them lol

its just a lot less hassle and money than trying to make photorealistic graphics

we may tackle it someday but for now we are happy with the art style

[ashen sky]

jesus christ this is gonna take me a whole day

😭

even then i dont know if its a good idea to give up on a completed model with separate layers already on it then make a entirely new one for no good reason

[oak patio]

if ti has separate layers than you good

as long as there is an inside to the microwave its fine

[ashen sky]

yeah but i dont know what to do even after. i was just linked a playlist but not the right videos

[ashen sky]

there is

[oak patio]

but you will know what to do after learning blender

[ashen sky]

still gonna also need to learn how to make food work

when touching the plate the microwave has

or circle

you know

i can just link the model.

[oak patio]

theres not gonna be "how to make a microwave for a vr game", you need to learn the blender basics, then figure out how to do what you need to do

and the only way to learn blender is to model in it

[ashen sky]

wait wait model what inside the model? i just want it to be empty like how it is

since i am looking once again as of now sketchfab is just trying to piss me off

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/microwave-game-assets-744df1efa10d4638bc2802f9f27ce704

(no this is not the model. this is a game ready model unlike mine)

[oak patio]

im saying, if you want to learn blender you have to model things in blender

and it seems like you need tolearn blender to achieve what you want to do

[ashen sky]

yeahhhh

but i dont think i need the whole playlist

only select videos for what i need

[oak patio]

you need to learn the interface of blender

so go look that up

it would be useful to learn how to model in it to

[ashen sky]

alright, thanks!

[oak patio]

so what you do is you learn blender basics > make the microwave door, plate and body separate > learn how to make vr door interactions and add it to the door > when you put food in the microwave and close the door, make the plate spin

yeah compositing and rendering will be pointless

[ashen sky]

i cant straight out the box add that i dont think

ill need to do that in unreal somehow right

[oak patio]

what do you mean

whihc part of that

[ashen sky]

all games i seen they let you grab models

you cant normally interact with them

[oak patio]

you do the first 2 in blender, then the rest is unreal engine

[ashen sky]

only objects

[ashen sky]

ahhh so what was that then..

ill need to write down some notes

[oak patio]

cause you need the first few things to be separated so you can recombine them in a blueprint

[ashen sky]

clicks back on my blender tab

what else?

[oak patio]

cause otherwise youd grab the whole microwave

so once the entire door are separated, as well as the plate and rest of it

you can take them as 3 separate meshes

then recombine them in a bp, give vr physics to the door, with the help of a tutorial, and then make the plate spin when food is in there

and a light turn on or smthn

[ashen sky]

ill honest to god just pay you 5 us $ through cash app if you do it for me and point me to what i need to set up after.

[oak patio]

you mean model a microwave that you can set up or add vr interactions

[ashen sky]

yes.

[oak patio]

it would really be better if you tried to learn yourself

if you wanna make games you gonna have to learn the tools

[ashen sky]

i want to make one singular game

thats it

i dont even need to do anything else as of now after i complete it

but add physics to certain items

get a working chrome web browser or use edge web view to make a tv in the game that allows you to use your controller to point at it and control it

yada yada here i found the model too

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/microwave-1e0d027371c8434ea2a336540c787772

[oak patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XyIYRW_2xk&t=45s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XyIYRW_2xk&t=45s

After 10 seconds of googling there are 2 videos that will help you on your journey

im not going to make your game for you, that would defeat the point in learning the tools

plus i have a project i am working on currently

[ashen sky]

i is also trying to make a game while broke

so theres that..

i may be the first person to use the word rage uninstall at this point

i am seeing that now

[oak patio]

yeah gamedev is a never ending cycle of learning

sure you figure a lot out on your own eventually

but you never stop learning

and having to ask for help

which is great if you have the patience for it

but even the simple things take time

[ashen sky]

no. its the problem of needing to learn two separate apps to do something simple

thats the one skill i do not have

[oak patio]

but what you are asking to do isnt simple

vr isnt simple

[ashen sky]

unreal is simple

or atleast more simple then unity

[oak patio]

unreal is definitely not simple

it only looks more simple than unity cause it has the cool visual things and more built in stuff

but the matter of fact is

any form of game dev is not simple

unless its like scratch

or smthn like that

[ashen sky]

or gamemaker

i was gonna go that route but i need a artist

[oak patio]

now even with plugins, cause there is an experimental one that gives you a web browser in ui, but you would still need to ifnd a way to interact with it in vr

and i wouldnt even call gamemaker simple

gamedev is only as simple as you make it

a clicker game with 1 feature could be fairly simple in any engine, but a vr game in any engine will pose it's challenges

and if you dont want to learn how to overcome them, then gamedev isnt for you

[drowsy snow]

Could be Temporal AA in action

[worldly spear]

I turned it on but still getting the same thing. Anything else i need to turn on?

[drowsy snow]

Why not go for non VR games?

[ashen sky]

I don't have a idea for one

And the game I was planning on making would take a experienced game 9 hours

Or less

It's the most basic game to put together

[drowsy snow]

Plenty of ideas if you know where to look from.

[ashen sky]

Errr.. the only other game I can think of involves grappling hooks

[oak patio]

you say its the most basic game to put together, but you want in game browser implementation

if this is your first project start simpler

[oak patio]

those things are so fun to play with

i like seeing the wackiest idea i get

[ashen sky]

Horrible consumer game idea

[oak patio]

i dunno a game about printing donuts to level up, but you keep levelling down cause your partner keeps eating them sounds like one of those silly games that could do well because of how absurd it is

you also dont need to make games for the consumer, you can just make them for fun, game jams are also a really good way to develop something if you have no ideas

forces you to think outside of the box

[heavy pivot]

Ok this may be a stupid question but is GAS something that should be used or is writing your own setup better. Unreal documentation on it is limited and seems like it could become a pain to manage as an RPG grows

[drowsy snow]

The gameplay could be as simple as a clicker "game", or even as complex as resource management game

[oak patio]

indeed

[ashen sky]

Once you understand game dev as a whole and the combination of modeling

[oak patio]

no one said you have to understand that to make a game jam game

[ashen sky]

Errr while I thought the game was gonna be 3d

[oak patio]

but the chances are, fi you want to release a product, you will have to learn more than one software

game jams can be 2d or 3d

[drowsy snow]

Depends. GAS is pretty difficult to wrap your head around, but it is pretty elegant that it allows for modular abilities

[oak patio]

its whatever you want to make as long as it fits the rules

most jams you get given a theme, and you just have to make something that fits it

[drowsy snow]

Game jams can be asset flips
Just don't make it low effort.

[heavy pivot]

Well we are trying to decide on using GAS or making our own Ability system

[ashen sky]

Yeah true

[oak patio]

meanwhile if you want to release a product, you probably dont want it to be an asset flip

[heavy pivot]

for context we are making a Creative Sandbox MMORPG

[still basin]

Hey where's the right room to ask a question about performance profiling and optimization?

The code in question relates to graphics/rendering (FRDGBuilder#execute)

[drowsy snow]

Also find relaxed game jams where there's no prize at stake and don't have small time frame.

Don't get into more competitive game jams if you're just getting started.

[ashen sky]

Errr I'm done thinking about making the game since modeling is a must now.. I'm simply considering just playtesting games others made for now

[drowsy snow]

Modelling isn't a must.

[ashen sky]

Yeahhh

[oak patio]

the firs tproject i ever did for game dev was a game jam, we had a small one in our class where we got given cards, I had to make a game where you had limited lives and it was set inside a computer, that was a fun project,

[ashen sky]

Editing the model is

[drowsy snow]

But you seem to make it from scratch anyway, so yeah

[oak patio]

if you dont want to use blender, then sure making THAT game may not be right, but that doesnt mean you don't have to make a game

[ashen sky]

It's still the problem of not having an idea for one

[oak patio]

again idea generators are pretty good

[drowsy snow]

Scaling down the scope happens to even the best of us.

[oak patio]

can get some fun stuff

[ashen sky]

I mainly just turn memes or something odd that happens during a discord group call into an idea

The microwave game was just gonna be Netflix and chill

[oak patio]

i mean yeah thats up to you, if you wanna learn gamedev but dont have ideas, game idea generators are pretty great, so are game jams, but if you dont wanna learn gamedev, then thats your choice

[heavy pivot]

Do you know anything about the GAS Companion plugin on the marketplace. Is it worth it or is it better to do it by hand.,

[ashen sky]

I do. I want to be able to think of a game and make atleast one once a year

Like such devs that made tabg if you heard of that

[oak patio]

yeah i heard of tabg

[drowsy snow]

If you don't have investor pressure, then jump ship.

[drowsy snow]

Then take another idea, and do a simpler gameplay.
The challenge would be not to use VR at all.\

[ashen sky]

But the whole project was gonna be simple cause it's vr

[drowsy snow]

VR is not as simple as non-VR.

[ashen sky]

The game wasn't meant for desktop since it'll be much more boring

[drowsy snow]

I don't dependant on marketplace plugin, so no idea.

[oak patio]

but if you want to learn gamedev, and dont want to commit to a full game, then come up with a system, like a target range and do it with prototype assets, which will give you much needed experience

[drowsy snow]

Wrong.

Not to mention some people who have health issues with VR.

[oak patio]

a little off topic here but is there any way to set a start time for audio in an audio component, i cant seem to find a node for it

[ashen sky]

That's why you make a desktop mode for something

[drowsy snow]

I don't think Sound Cue have it, though I had hazy memory someone asking the same on #audio

[drowsy snow]

Fine, your idealism, not mine. You seem to be privileged enough to have VR equipment as well, so I'm not going to contest it.

Just don't blame me nor CuppaTea if you're still stuck on the damn microwave and made no progress because your lack of knowledge.

[oak patio]

cause im trying to make an in game radio system and everything is going just fine, except for it to persist through levels i need to set a custom start time on begin play

and that aint seeming to be anywhere

[drowsy snow]

But here's one last hurrah.
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

[ashen sky]

Many people have already sent that too me already

[oak patio]

then maybe you need to look at it

and possibly the basics of blender too, cause by the sounds of things, you need to split the model into separate pieces, so you can have the door work independently of the rest of the microwave
however, you do not seem to want to do that, plus vr is a big challenge to tackle

so my advice is, jump ship. for now at least

can always revisit it later

why is someone popping up and then disappearing again

is it just my discord thats broke

[ashen sky]

Errr alright thanks for the advice

[ashen sky]

Sending fake scams

[oak patio]

oh its a raid

makes sense

[digital bolt]

no

[drowsy snow]

Someone keep sending and deleting immediately it seems

[ashen sky]

Ahh

[digital bolt]

if i type in the gameidea command it deletes after

my bad

[oak patio]

ah thats what it was lmao

thought my discord was buggin

[drowsy snow]

DM @buoyant granite for the command.

[digital bolt]

ohh dm

i thought it was in public

[oak patio]

you know what i am not going to die on this hill of persistent radio, it shall just restart between levels

no biggie

also, if i want to use relative paths in unreal, will using /Music/ just default to using the ExecutableDirectory/Music

or is there some sort of formatting i need for it like visual studio

i have too many flashbacks to linker settings so i wanna make sure before i attempt it

[drowsy snow]

Not sure, I have yet to attempt to do it, but IIRC if you want to get to the Content folder, start the path with /Game

[oak patio]

nah I dont want the content folder, basically i have an in game radio, but im adding support fro custom songs, so imma have a folder called music you drag your own mp3s in and have them play in game, but it seems like /Game is what i will need to use, and then just create the directory if it doesn't exist

figured out the rest of it, just don't know how ue4 handles relative pathing

[tardy hedge]

initial es

[fossil nexus]

It seems there is no brush for a plane? Is there any reason for this? Should i make a very thin cube to simulate a plane or there's something im missing?

[oak patio]

If anyone is wondering, you cannot use relative paths, especially with File SDK plugin, but there are nodes to convert project directory to absolute paths, so thats fine

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow Game design exhausting x-x

and it never ends lol

also hi hi has big missed you

Things have been hectic so sorry for just poofing

[drowsy snow]

BSP brushes has no plane preset, but you can make one from cube and deleting all other 5 faces.

[drowsy snow]

Hi~
I know, things getting more hectic nowadays 😖

[prime willow]

yes yes so darn hectic im all over the place but im learning so much and making alot of structrual progress

x-x

[nimble rock]

uhhhh

so this grid just randomly showed up and now I cant move my view at all

rebooting ue4 seemed to work

still not sure why it did that though

[silk torrent]

I am running two standalone instances of my game from the editor. When the game is not in focus the FPS goes to 10. Is there a way to disable this?

It's a lot like the "less cpu in background" for the editor except for the game itself

[fleet sparrow]

How to fix this unreal editor flickering

[drowsy snow]

See pinned message for NVIDIA flickering issue.

[sharp crest]

happy birthday @maiden swift

[sharp crest]

lol

[maiden swift]

Thank you. 🎂

[digital egret]

so, I'm she/her I won't pay it for Switzerland

the same in the US, iff u say that you're a girl

no traction fee

I'm a girl

I letteraly want to do it

as an explode

what the heck is being done with olympics

a guy, changened a gender now he is a female

wtf\

no u just a guy switching

wtf

[cedar wave]

This is super off topic about Unreal

[digital egret]

agree

[sharp crest]

lol

[digital egret]

I was touching it in a glance

[rain badger]

Anyone? Really hoping to have this fixed before tomorrow. I need to show a prototype

[blissful trail]

ok so im trying to do a line trace in multiplayer
but for some reason i cannot get player 2's camera pitch
i can get player 1's camera pitch

[drowsy snow]

Uhhh what

[drowsy snow]

#multiplayer might know about it, seem to be replication issue

[sharp crest]

best advise I coudl give u is move to unity, nobody uses ue for mobile games 🤷‍♂️

but google it if u haven't already.

[drowsy snow]

Except PUBG Mobile, Fortnite, FF7 First Soldier, and many others.

[drowsy snow]

#mobile

[sharp crest]

yes except those

[plush yew]

does unreal engine have these settings like unity does

it appears before you enter the game

[drowsy snow]

No. But you can make the settings within the game.

[plush yew]

mhm thanks man

[tall sorrel]

anyone have experience using any of the brushify packs?
I'm making a survival game, and I thought megascans were gonna be the holy grail (for me) foliage (mainly grass) wise, but I find it difficult to find some good ones that blend together nicely.

Then I discovered the brushify packs and have been watching videos on it, and it seems pretty cool, they come with foliage that blends together nicely, and terrain sculpt patterns for easy mountains here and there, (there's more to them, I know, like landscape materials and all that, but I am mainly after the brushes, cause I have none, and the foliage)

However, I was just wanting to know if they are well worth or not. There may be a time where I will use 100% of the packs contents, so I don't really want judgements based on me only using 2 items, I just want to know if they are truely worth the 40 bucks

[plush yew]

for now i already have set up graphics settings so i will do that next time

[drowsy snow]

Though you can code yourself a launcher GUI app to modify user settings before running the game.

[plush yew]

yup

[minor forum]

Is there a way to edit/setup the default camera view when you load a map or end the play while in the editor? Can I bind it to for example a camera actor? or just set a default view in any way?

Just to make it a little more convenient.

[flint dagger]

I want to die.

[bright sigil]

dye*

an incurable craving i hear

also a topic perfect for #lounge

[vagrant grail]

Hey I am brand new to unreal engine and c++. I have a fair bit of experience using Godot and have been programming for 5 years already. Given this info can anyone recommend a suitable tutorial that gets me stuck right into the basics of unreal? Cheers

[modest trench]

check the second pinned message

[vagrant grail]

thank you

[hot beacon]

im trying to spawn an actor but it just isnt working

it works with every other actor

just not this one

wait

i think i know why

but dont know how to fix

so the actor is a security camera

so it is possessable

and i have sorta set it up like a player bp

so i cant use spawn actor from class

so

how do i get around this

[fair herald]

@hot beacon in your Game Mode or Player Controller unpossesses the current player and possesses the security camera.

[hot beacon]

ik how to posses but i just want to spawn not to possess

[fair herald]

you can just simply possess the player(it need to be a pawn or character class) after spawning it.

@hot beacon

@hot beacon let me know if it worked or not.

[hot beacon]

ill give it test

wja

wait

how

i just want to spawn a object

not something to control

i dont want to control it

the thing is its not spawning

i can spawn the other pawn

but its just this

[hot beacon]

nothing seems to be working

[fair herald]

@hot beacon okay, my bad,
if it's an object class(directly inherited from Object class) you have to use construct object from class node.

[hot beacon]

what do i even use for the outer

[hot beacon]

@fair herald

i just want to spawn this

just at a position

like spawning a enemy or a npc

[fair herald]

@hot beacon what is the parent class?

[hot beacon]

pawn

but i can spawn another pawn one

it is just this camerabp

that doesnt work

i just remade the camera but on another bp ill try spawning this one

i just duped the pawn class that does worked

and turned it into another cam

[fair herald]

can you add another component and try to spawn again( make sure it's spawning but not visiable)

[hot beacon]

it is not appearing in the world outliner

[fair herald]

can you show the spawning code.

[hot beacon]

lmao i just realised it says selected machine machine

well that "machine machine" is camera

"cam"

it works if i plug in ghost (just sorta a outline of the camera i use it like a placement thingy so you can see where you are placing the camera)

the ghost one is just duplicated camera but with out the camera component and spring arm

like i even did ctrl c ctrl v

so i dont know why i can spawn that but cant spawn cam

so uhh

i just

like

fixed it

[hot beacon]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[worthy estuary]

Guys i need some help when i made a multiplayer thing i can only control 1 player i tried it with another computer and tested it also 1 player only can control the charecter can anyone help plz?

[spark lion]

shouldn't it be forward vector?

and then get actor rotation and + a direction to it on a key press?

where it faces when nothing is pressed?

it should face up as it is on your code

to make it face down you just *-120

i would get up vector and rotate it then

i think there's even a rotate vector node for that too

if you want to translate axis then just add it to actor location

it gives you XYZ position of character

add to Y +120 and -120 for left and right

and to Z for up and down

it might not work correctly in world space tho

but it will in local

for world space you need rotation in the math, or so i think

[regal narwhal]

if this is a splitscreen multiplayer, u need to add in project settings more inputs and build one more charachter bp similar to the first one just with the new inputs

[lyric arch]

Bonjour

Y’a t’il un français ?

[lyric arch]

Oui

[wild aspen]

So, I want to create a water system (not just material).
I figured I'd need:
Dynamically moving high quality area for the water surface
For the high quality area water surface waves + physics simulation
Generate a texture with one channel as water heightmap and 3 channels as current frame force fields
Water material that uses information from that texture in the high detail area, and simpler vertex shader generated waves outside of it

What is the "conventional" way to go for the water surface physics sim? Like UE's built-in, WaterlinePRO, or even just this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_qC788PPfI
I was thinking about running a 2D water simulation in OpenCL, using collision events to send "input" to it, is that the right approach? If so, how do I turn the computation result from texture memory in OpenCL to something an Unreal Engine material can read?
Or am I going the wrong path?

[drowsy snow]

英語は話せますか？

Or running compute shaders through Unreal's abstraction layer

[kindred depot]

Does anyone else have an issue with Quixel bridge after logging in? The client resets from where you where looking. Also the load times worsen when clicking on an asset or material?

[drowsy snow]

Quixel Bridge has always weird UX.

[kindred depot]

Meh. They need a better coder.

[wild aspen]

uhm i've way more experience with opengl-cuda, never used compute shaders 😅

in fact I already have done a 2d water sim in cuda

what about memory management?

time to dig in some docs, thanks

can you suggest any tutorial to get started quickly?

i mean with UE compute shaders in general

not water specifically

although I noticed most UE tutorials seem more oriented towards designers than programmers

uhm ok thanks

[small pewter]

Simple question : Do Epic Games organize Bootcamps to teach students or other people Unreal Engine for like 1,2 or 3 months ?
Please ping me if any answer 🙂

[thick herald]

They do run courses, usually a few days for most subjects

But since the pandemic.. no

[small pewter]

Could you link me to where we can sign up for that kind of courses please?

[thick herald]

Don't think there is such a place

[small pewter]

huh ? 🤔 Like they do run courses but we can't sign up ? Like I'm not talking about them making youtube tutorials but more of going maybe to their office and be teached by experts there

[thick herald]

They send out emails and such when courses are available to sign up for. or at least used to before Covid.

[small pewter]

but how do you make sure you get one of those emails ?

[thick herald]

Just by them having your email address, but like I said with Covid still running rampant I doubt there will be courses any time soon, but you never know.

[small pewter]

Yeah I understand that, I wlll check after covid

but I think those kind emails are sent to spam list

[scenic veldt]

Can I ask on this chat how I should make one "simple" thing on ue?

[wicked sparrow]

I've just had these debug previews come up out of nowhere. Guessing I hit a keybind for it. Any idea how I can disable it again?

[wild aspen]

don't ask to ask, just ask xD

[scenic veldt]

I thought this was the wrong chat honestly haha

Has anyone played vampire survivors? It's a topdown game with an... I think, infinite scrolling map. You can go all the way to the right and it would never end, for example.
What would be a non-GPUdestructive way of reproducing something like that on UE? (also topdown)
I can give more info if needed, thanks

[wild aspen]

what do you mean by non gpu destructive?

i'm watching a vid, it doesnt seem gpu intensive at all

[finite crag]

Just limit your rendering distance lol

[scenic veldt]

I would think that an """"infinite""" map would make the game lag like crazy if I ever decide to walk right for 20 minutes, no?
What I'm saying is, what if I wanted to make something like that on a more intensive project? Rendering distance like @finite crag suggests?

[wild aspen]

#1 you won't have an "infinite" map anytime soon, until we figure a way to have infinite ram in our computers. You can procedurally create more of the map as the player progresses, and forget (or save to file) what was left behind
#2 you never draw anything that is completely outside of the screen (with some exceptions which don't apply here), so the gpu doesn't really care either

[oak patio]

not only that but past a certain point "infinite" maps have to end, cause wacky things start happening because of floating point precision

its quite fun to see how render engines break down at extreme distance

[wild aspen]

#3 a 2d sprite game like that, if done with an ad-hoc engine, can do some pretty fancy optimizations. For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if all those zombies were drawn with a single draw call, instead of a draw call each

[wild aspen]

well that's easily solved with chunks. When you're X far from the origin, you invert a coordinate and enter the next chunk and go towards the origin again. See how games like Star Made or Elite Dangerous handle their huge galaxies

[oak patio]

yeah true, world origin shifting combats that

i still like it tho

[scenic veldt]

Thats actually quite interesting

Okay I guess I can make that work pretty easily
Sorry for these kind of question but I started recently with actual engine programming

[wild aspen]

you mean you're writing all from scratch?

[worthy estuary]

How can i replicate a whole animation blueprints and how can i replicate the weapon here?

[wild aspen]

i see nothing in the rules against suggesting channels that are related to the current discussion

but whatever let's gatekeep

[kindred depot]

Does anyone know this? I am unable to get the height texture from megascans plugin. When using bridge, which texture do i turn into the height?

Thanks bud, I thought that was it

[zenith void]

Hi everyone!! Im new in ue4, i began the ue4 course in the official website and is ok but it seems a bit old at least on the engine versions. Is that the best place to learn from the start? Or there are any other suggestions? Any advise would be appreciated, Thanks!

[scenic veldt]

Yes and no, I can program better than I can use the engine
But I'm trying to learn UE so yea

[wild aspen]

then you're not starting engine programming 😅

you're starting to use an existing engine

[worthy estuary]

.

[heavy pivot]

So after digging for over a week there does not seem to be way to get tessellation back in any fashion on procedural meshes and materials.

Nanite doesn't work with proc meshes, Virtual Textures and Virtual Heightfields do not work on proc meshes and lastly POM does not work either on proc meshes, it does but it messes up the materials when applied so they do not align to the UVs and Normals properly that we have in our proc mesh code that we already knows works fine when just generating it without worrying about any form of tessellation.
So unless someone knows an actual way that will work with PROCEDURAL MESHES to get depth applied to materials then I have to say UE5 just shot themselves in the foot and we will be rolling back to UE4.

[edgy anchor]

Hello everyone,

I got an issue with UE4.27, I changed my computer last week and it run on raid. All my program in windows run well without a glitch... but If I open a new project or my actual project it crash on compiling shaders

Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/ShaderCompiler/ShaderCompiler.cpp] [Line: 924] ShaderCompileWorker crashed! Fatal error!

always crash

I uninstall UE4 et re-install it... same thing

I did a global testmemory.... no memory problem.

my HD is maybe too fast ? it's 13gig/sec

[carmine stone]

Hello again after a long break, I'm going to ask a question but I'm not sure if it's the right category.

[edgy anchor]

I enable r.ShaderDevelopmentMode=1 and it crash again with a different message

[civic flame]

Hi I'm super new to UE4 we have to make a game for class, and I was wondering if anyone could help me with branching dialogue that changes depending on user input?

Or have some tips that could help me get started

[wild aspen]

how do I recover the original state of an engine plugin if i made the error of modifying some of its files?

[fading lake]

it wont change the behavior of the plugin if you did not compile it

[wild aspen]

i deleted the ocean body material😅

[fading lake]

ohhhh, you mean thooose files 😆

[wild aspen]

yeah

[fading lake]

I immediately assumed code files

so this solution would probably work out best

[hollow cairn]

yo anyone know how to have one character take input from two controllers?

[late kraken]

Hello! When I select to have my project packaged, will that automatically rebuild the lighting where needed on all my included levels?

[civic vapor]

Quick question, has anyone received the Blueprint Ninja Challenge reward yet? It was expected to ship at January but mine hasn't arrived yet...

[shrewd pulsar]

hello. i was wondering where i could go to find someone to help me learn UE4. im wanting to develop games mainly for my own Personal Use. i was looking at a few games id like to recreate but in my own style. Iv been watching allot of youtube videos on how to do things and i have created Hight maps/ Zombie AI's / Setup animations / But i followed a tutorial and i cannot recreate it without re watching the video. im wanting to learn and be questioned and helped out. i dont have money to pay for a teacher. im in a bad spot right now. just trying to learn somthing new and maybe one day release a game thats actually worthy of playing.

[finite grove]

So like, what kind of a unit of measurement is a Quad?
I ask because i’m trying yo make a map, but maps are generated in quads(might as well me shmeckles or some other nonsense word) rather than Feet, meters, yards, miles, or Kilometers.

How big is a Quad?

[sharp crest]

can't u learn on youtube?

there r great tutorials on yt

I don't get the issue

what r u not understanding

just ask specific questions here

no one is gonna personal tutor u for free

[shrewd pulsar]

i have watched many of tutorials i made the zombie AI but i have issues taking in all the info i guess. to remake it from scratch off the top of my head even after watching the video 2-3 times i cannot do it. I dont know how to Make Blueprints on my own. i have allot of assets from the unreal store. some of my buddys bought me some to help me out. allot of them i dont know how to transfer into my project. or they end up breaking when i try to add a Custom Mesh/ Animations. they stop working due to BP Errors. i looked through every blueprint but it all seems ok. i cannot find youtube videos on how to fix it. this is when asking someone would be amazing. I havent found anyone willing to help yet though. its mainly the odd issue i have that puts a halt to everything.

[sharp crest]

bro just ask here

and think about small stuff that u want to make and try to make them on ur own without a tutorial, and try to google answers for specific stuff that u don't know how to do, best way to learn (at least for me). and if u can't find an answer online u can ask here

[finite grove]

If you’re looking for a tutor/teacher, check out Fiverr.com.
Theres people there that will teach you/help you make your game for an hourly rate.

[shrewd pulsar]

i dont wana make an amazing top of the line game. mainly just small games that id enjoy playing. its going to take me about 4 years before i feel comfortable letting others play it.

ill check fiverr out for sure. last quote i got from someone they said it would cost around $800 to teach me how to build my 1st game and for him helping me

[ashen sky]

good morning unreal crew

[sharp crest]

gm

[finite grove]

Sup?

[ashen sky]

hiyo

[finite grove]

That dude must have been a clown cause thats funny stuff.
Like i said, i’ve looked into getting help with things on there before and the prices i’ve seen were like 40$ an hour for them to live chat with you and walk you through things.

[fossil nexus]

I created a Box Brush. Then went on Brush Editing and deleted the side faces of the cube. Now everytime i create a new cube, it creates without these side faces.

How can i reset my box brush to the original cube ?

[tardy hedge]

for refernce how many variable should I optimally be replicated, in terms of one string array with a len 7 string how many indexes would be the max recomended to replicate

[grave nebula]

That is ridiculously low quote for the scope, so likely the freelancer has very tangential knowledge and experience.

[wraith cosmos]

Hello, someone here can help me in a doubt with Blender ... ?

[fossil nexus]

I created a brush and delete the top face to make something like an open basket. Then i applied its materials to its sides. But im not being able to apply the material to its inside surfaces. How do i do this?

[bright sigil]

Thats because its not double sided. You need to model the outside and the inside of an object. Unreal isnt really for modeling though.

[drowsy snow]

I actually doubt editing BSP brushes can override default shapes.

[scenic veldt]

Hi, I'm trying to improve my first project and I would need some help on camera and map movement.

Let me explain. Do you know the game Vampire Survivors? It's a topdown game where you kill stuff. The important feature I'm trying to work on is the, let's call it, "infinite" map scrolling (..?).

You start the game in a square of the map; when you start moving towards a direction, the maps keeps going and seems to keep going indefinitely. You can also go back and get the items you left behind so the map doesn't get deleted behind the player.

How can I make something like that in a (basically) new UE4 project? Ask me if I havent made myself clear enough, please. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it.

[drowsy snow]

At the expense of static / baked lighting (this concept requires dynamic lighting), instead of moving the player in world space, you make the world move to the player, essentially faking the translation from one point to another.

UE4 has World Origin Rebasing that allows for this, which was intended for super large environment without multiplayer concerns and floating point errors. The idea is to shift everything to the centre if player is within a distance away from the centre, eliminating floating point errors.

But since you mentioned "infinite", which is procedurally generate the chunks on the fly, you'd have to do the rebasing yourself, as World Origin Rebasing isn't really viable for procedurally generated map. I haven't tried it myself, because I don't make roguelikes.

[merry sapphire]

Does anyone have any good resources to start learning C++ for UE4? If possible, I'd like to stay away from vague video tutorials but I'm all ears if you think one is worth watching. Thanks 🙂

[drowsy snow]

C++ Tutorials

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/converting-blueprints-to-c
Converting Blueprints to C++

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6485d5Zoc_k

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list

Many more in #cpp's pinned messages.

[merry sapphire]

@drowsy snow Thank you!

[fossil nexus]

thats what i need to know thank you

[split jasper]

What's the "right" way to add a decal to a mesh if it's just always going to be there? Like I don't need to spawn it in or remove it separately, it's just functionally part of the object. Can I add it to the material? The static mesh? Or do I need to add it in a blueprint?

[real heath]

A quad isn't a unit of measurement. A quad is usually used when refering to surface topology in a modelling program. Tri = triangle, quad = 4 sided polygon, ngon = 5 or more sides. Most real time engines only deal with Tris, it's best to deal with Tris and quads in modelling programs, and as part of exporting from the program the model is triangulated, so each surface is converted entirely to Tris

In terms of terrain, that's just a technical detail of the landscape system. Checkout recommended landscape sizes here https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/Landscape/TechnicalGuide/

[covert ivy]

I'd like the exact same shader : https://gyazo.com/868976588c5460c0618d7f77a92b76f1

But the guy did this in Blender... Will I have the same thing in UE if I bake the textures ?

And what do you think about the skin texture ? Is it stylized ? toon/cel-shading ? semi-realistic maybe ? The general style is kinda anime but this texture skin looks kinda "Pixar-ish" to me... I love this balance between toon and realism ! 😃

[flat snow]

Me and my friend wanna use multi user editing, but we're not on the same internet. We've tried Hamachi but it works on his side, however mine is stuck on "Searching For Multi-User Servers"

He can create sessions

I can't

because mine is stuck, like stated above

[scenic veldt]

I appreciate the detailed reply!
So, World Origin Rebasing would need a pre generate world that moves to the player, if I understand correctly

Any way to then generate the world while the player is moving, while also (rendering distance?) hiding the other unseen parts of the map? I'm still talking topdown view, I would guess that makes it easier

[drowsy snow]

That's entirely on you 😉
Teleport the generated world every few meters or when player's leaving from certain sector.

[sly kernel]

Hi guys! I had some questions about using unreal engine for my university final year individual project. I have to submit my PDD tomorrow but ive been really debating what my project will be about, and finally I think im happy to go forward with making a game with Unreal Engine based around the theme of BPD and raising awareness for it. That being said; I have no prior experience with UE and i was wondering if anyone could give me an insight into how difficult it might be for someone to get into it based on their personal experience. I understand C++ is involved in optimising and adding specific features etc for my gameplay which is fine and I know there's plenty of helpful tutorials online but could I get a laymans term explanations for how different 'scenes' and levels might work in terms of transitioning between them and I was planning on having the game have multiple POV formats (in the sense that one level could be 2D, the next 3D the next an overhead type thing, similar to It Takes Two (brilliant game btw)), apologies for the essay but any responses to even just select parts of it would be really useful, thank you for reading!

[ashen sky]

Errrr

Even if I can't finish the microwave part. I should still just put the project files in here once I do other stuff

Tat is what I'll do

[drowsy snow]

Just use stove lmao

[ashen sky]

Ahh. That's an actually good idea lul

But now I can't try the idea of making it so you can put a phone in the microwave..

A very funny joke

[proven aspen]

Is anyone getting that "menus turning black" thing again in UE? I hadn't seen it in at least a year and now it's back every 30 minutes or so. Already installed the nvidia studio driver instead of game ready

[sick patio]

So i've been busting my brain, and busting my back, trying to make ... from scratch, this, and just discovered, it's already made

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/first-person-story-adventure-template

there's no reason for me to do it from scratch?

or would that be an "asset flip"?

that whole don't try and reinvent the wheel

[proven aspen]

It's a good learning experience? That's always how I trick myself into reinventing the wheel 🙂

[sick patio]

ok ok ok, i keep hearing... not from you guys, the words "it's an asset flip" in the most condescending way. But I shouldn't feel ashamed of using a template, correct?

I'm a noob, so I just want to have the correct "attitude" towards work

[bright sigil]

you'd be learning it instead of making each piece, so either you're learning this some way. Some people have preferences on how systems get created. Often because there is more to the game's design that just this feature. Some would prefer to have all features working together, developing each in tandem somewhat. If this has everything you want and are fine with using it (modifications if needed) then go for it. I assume you'll art it up anyways.

[sick patio]

when i tried to migrate this to my project, it broke, the asset

like completely

I gave up and deleted the folder out of my project

[bright sigil]

kinda sounds like mp content... although you did buy it so...

[sick patio]

it's free

i just considered the time it would take me to "fix" it, would probably equal me actually redoing the entire asset, from scratch, which I was already making in my project

[bright sigil]

hmm says, 44.99

you can always study how they did it for your own needs though

i studied the action rpg sample project for lots of things

[sick patio]

um dumb question: if i want to use both Advanced Locomotion System AND First Person Story Adventure... do I make a 3rd project and migrate them to it, OR do i open one and migrate the other to it?

[kindred depot]

Is there a download all button on megascans? I want all the decals.

[drowsy snow]

No.

[drowsy snow]

Best to migrate it, but ALS is not an easy system to merge with.

[kindred depot]

That makes me sad. lol Oh well i mean i can highlight like 50 of them before it breaks

[sick patio]

the second part of that was, do i migrate ALS to a 3rd project or open first person story adventure and import it there?

[bright sigil]

they are all templates, so make a project from one and bring in the other

[drowsy snow]

Depends on what you find least nerve wracking of them all.
If you have downloaded them once and the copy of your project broke, you can always delete it and create new project again, as long as you don't clear the vault cache.

[sick patio]

checking

sooooooooooo you... wait, i'm going to try and fix this

ok

how do i "merge" the "true first person" into the 3rd person bp? or do i just delete the 3rd person bp altogether?

I think i'm making this all too complicated

[bright sigil]

both of them have to be brought into a project?

[kindred depot]

You cant just slap two things together like that, you have to edit the blueprint to work as one.

[sick patio]

if i'm understanding correctly, ALS presents ik, the character animation, and apparently AI. so... I should be able to migrate THAT into the first person story adventure... which has all the drawer opening. light switches.. etc. and not really doesn't deal with character animations

[bright sigil]

the first hurdle

[sick patio]

well migrating the story template to the 3rd person, which I thought would work, didn't

[olive orchid]

Would it reduce stress on the my rig & project/engine, if I created a structure & converted it into a single asset, in one project, then exported to another project that I’m actually using it for?.. I forget the term for the process, but is it the same amount of work on the processor, or is one way better than the other? (I think that made sense)

For reference, I’m building a castle & it will require a lot of geometry assets & to move it I had to lock them all together(which is great for this purpose), but is it helping with how hard my PC Is working?

[kindred depot]

nanite it.

[olive orchid]

Ok, I’ll figure out what that is & try it.. is that gonna be better for the system?

*when I say “figure out”.. I have read a few thing a abt it but have t tried it yet..

[kindred depot]

My level has over 600 million triangle's. Yet i still have over 100 fps.

[olive orchid]

Nice.. does this work for megascan assets as well?..

[kindred depot]

exactly why i have so many LOL

Indeed 🙂 I use all of there assets. Free, is free. and amazing.

[olive orchid]

Yea, they’re amazing.. lol.. thanks for this info

I’ll start naniting immediately

[kindred depot]

nanite is a crazy leap in engineering. I just can not believe i can have such high quality and higher framers with little to no effort.

[olive orchid]

I’m just starting in this, but yea, UE seems to have some cool shit..

[carmine shell]

Hey guys. I wanted to have a button prompt on ingame interactable objects (Video for reference - https://youtu.be/aLg98S4sxsE?t=188)
I am able to do show the button prompt on screen with widgets. I want it to be on the ingame object itself (like a door or something that needs to be picked).
Can anybody point me to the right direction?

[drowsy snow]

Show what you already have at the moment.

[sick patio]

for something like the first person story template, i literally just change our the door mesh, cups, flashlight, keys. and keep it moving?

i.e. plug n play

[bright sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-mechanic-car-i-dont-know-what-im-doing-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing-gif-22759303

[neon bough]

me every time looking at engine code to get something to work^

[carmine shell]

Hmm, So as of right now I have just created a BP for a door that essentially opens and closes at the press of a button.
Along with that, I have an idea that I want to try out to achieve what I asked here in this forum.
My idea is that I'll add a png image to the door BP and simply allign the normals of my character and the png so they both will be facing each other at all times. But I was thinking if there is a more robust solution to this.

[dreamy zenith]

So how much will bought assets affect the game?

As in what are the cons for putting assets not made by me in the game

[stray ruin]

@carmine shell there is a widget component you can add to bp for what you want

[rugged garnet]

Starting my Journey. Wish me patience

[wispy heart]

Hi all, if I want to ask a question about Unreal Engines code, should I post it here? Or in one of the channels in the programming section?

[karmic radish]

Hey, does anyone have any good , free C++ IDE for MacOS? Working with Xcode drives me crazy

[carmine shell]

Let me check it out. Thanks

[coarse wind]

Hey, I would love to get some help if possible 🙏🏽
I need to add another language to Unreal. how can I do that?

[carmine shell]

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

[real mantle]

Hi there, is there any built in function to rotate an object around and axis? I don't mean rotate/move, but "spin" around a rotation axis

[past basin]

there is rotating movement component.

[real mantle]

this would be not for moving an object around though, I basically want to be able to rotate a "planet" from one point of the surface to another in the shorter arc (let's say I want to put some country in a world on Up direction at a given time)

[broken shadow]

If I read you right, SetActorRotation is the function you're looking for.

Use RInterpToConstant to make the object smoothly rotate to its destination

Wait

NVM

Sorry, didn't catch the last part of your statement

[past basin]

rotating movement component does not move the actor. It just spins it

[real mantle]

hi thanks anyways, no worries

Because my way of thinking it was if I can get the normal from the center to both "countries" (surface points) and have teh cross product of them, that would be a rotation axis, so if I can rotate around that that should do it?

[broken shadow]

Do you mean make something spin like... this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqPI5nKKGlY

[real mantle]

yeah but that's always rotating around the vertical axis

I'll make it more graphic

let's say I want to "jump" from face 24 to 5, so 5 is now at the top

[broken shadow]

OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ok

[real mantle]

the whole thing rotates to put 5 on top

[past basin]

If I understand correctly, you are making some kind of chapter select menu. And you want the planet to rotate to make the selected chapter in the center of the screen

[broken shadow]

That still sounds like you're setting rotation but it's in a more complex form, where all 3 axes (Roll, Pitch, and Yaw) are in play.

Somehting you could possibly do is have a hidden cube/sphere on top of each number. When you need 24/20/6/5 to face the camera, have the dice(?) rotate until the invisible cube/sphere is perfectly aligned with the camera. Or achieves a desired offset.

Not that you'd be specifically working with/against "Control" Rotation, I've been saying camera for the sake of convenience

[real mantle]

right, yeah sadly I can't really do that, because the selected face needs to be aligned with the world horizontal plane

I managed to do it with some maths but it's not using the shortest arc, let me put a video

[broken shadow]

It almost sounds like you're kind of "locked in" with how the dice is oriented

Maybe having the controller/camera move to match the number would be an option

[past basin]

games usually move the camera not the planet in cases like this

[real mantle]

https://gyazo.com/cc53a69447c614b71ab54604b1c539df

pretty sure you can do it with some Maths, Unity have teh rotatearound function for transforms

sadly there is no source code visible in Unity lol

the way I thought it was I know both normals of origin and target faces, so I get the cross product and that gives me the rotation axis I need

so I only need to spin the object around that axis

the problem is that I don't know the Maths, that's why I wanted to check if Unreal had a funcion for it similar to unity's (I looked around before asking!)

the way I reached this bad solution was by moving an axis around likes this
https://gyazo.com/ceecfc9236e97147b09b8f1564353850

and then applying the inverse to the Actor, but.. yeah that doesn't take into account shorter arc and other rotation axises

hi, no, I got the angle already, for the rotation around the axis

for making the transform spin around an arbitrary axis that pass through it

[tulip shadow]

Hello to everyone

So I joined this server recently in the hopes to learn about UE because I've developed this interest in game design and everything related to it

So firstly, I wanted to know how to begin with Unreal Engine and where to learn everything

And secondly, how long does it take to become comfortable with everything to the point I could make a whole working game. Just an approximation

Oh perfect

I'll have a look into the pinned messages for sure

[real mantle]

I think that really depends on many factors, your experience as developer, with other engines, what kind of whole working game you want to do, etc. If you are experienced you will find yourself comfortable soon, and if you are not too, but there will be nice concepts you'll be learning on the way (like for any game actually :D )

[tulip shadow]

But any advice personally on how to go about this if I have zero experience with these things

[tulip shadow]

Alright thanks for the help

[real mantle]

I'd start with smaller projects, or prototypes of your ideas if they are big before jumping into a big thing. It may take months or years, it really depends on different factors, but the best advice I received was to enjoy the journey

And here I am after 20 years making games (and still failing to know some basic Maths XD)

[tulip shadow]

Absolutely man

[scenic veldt]

I'm trying to make a map that generates itself the moment I move towards a direction. That's because I need a big map and I don't want to just make an enormous floor beforehand.

I set it up topdown, put down a floor tile and added a collision box on the very right end and added a "on component begin overlap" to spawn a floor tile on collision with the box

The problem is the game is not spawning floor tiles for some reason, is there any more efficient way to make that initial idea? Maybe removing older tiles when they get far enough away from the player?

[tulip shadow]

Honestly I'm not even in it to make money. There's just something about having an idea and seeing it come to life

[scenic veldt]

Thanks a lot for any help

[tulip shadow]

Also is learning coding and programming essential to actually be able to use the engine or create what you want

[scenic veldt]

Everything seems to be correct
Character is a pawn and the box has a overlaponlyPawn

I'm probably missing something onto the floor tile spawn--- I just started learning, I probably screwed somewhere there

[real mantle]

you can definitely pool the tiles instead of deleting them and adding others, as long as they are the same of course.
The spawning issue seems to be a different thing, but I think your approach is not incorrect. However I think more than spawning the tiles you probably want to spawn whole sectors, kind of how World Compositor tool does it

[tulip shadow]

So if I wanna create my own character that moves how I want it to move, blueprint is where I can sort that stuff out?

And do I need to learn C++?

Alright perfect

and lastly, can I design my character (complete appearance) on UE or do I need an external software for that

So what's the best software I could use for that?

I have Blender but I need to learn that as well

How much are we talking?

[real mantle]

here in NZ Maya is around 1500 usd /year

[tulip shadow]

That's only for basic level designing?

Sorry I meant basic animation

I'm really a rookie in this space so could you explain what an indie license is\

[scenic veldt]

Any help on that last part? Don't want to take all of your time but I would be curious on that

[tulip shadow]

Alright I'll look those up for sure.

[real mantle]

no worries mate, what part of that you mean?

[tulip shadow]

Well thanks @plush yew @real mantle
Your help has been legendary

I will learn from the resources provided and hopefully share some stuff here that I create

and if there's anything I need help with along the way I'll let you guys know

[scenic veldt]

"However I think more than spawning the tiles you probably want to spawn whole sectors, kind of how World Compositor tool does it"

[real mantle]

ah right, I don't know if you mean tiles as just floor tiles, or tiles as whole sections. Your probably want to create whole sections (like rooms, or a big portion of floor with many tiles) instead of individual small tiles, if that's what you meant, I may be getting it wrong.

But even if it's something simple like a side scroll runner, pooling in some way the objects instead of just spawning them is not a bad idea

that's probably not the case if it's a huge world and you are spawning huge sectors, in that case it makes sense to just load asynchronously the new sector in the background (and that's what some systems for world composition do, but that's mostly for big open worlds)

[real mantle]

for anyone interested in how to solve the question I had about spinning around an axis ->

https://gyazo.com/6e89f0b562ce9f7e9ca0c1aa9256521d

the solution I found was to use UKismetMathLibrary::RotateAngleAxis( which rotates a vector around an axis (like an orbital movement). This wasn't want I wanted, but I ended up just doing that and making the Actor I want to rotate look at that object that does the actual rotation

[scenic veldt]

Okay, I managed to make the sections spawn on collision
Now my only problem would be removing far enough away sections that I don't need anymore... I don't now how to approach that problem

[real mantle]

I found a better solution, in case someone is interested. I still need to add some smoothing so it's not that linear, but this is the way I solved it ->

what line is that?

the one that uses the kismet function?

thet kismet function returns a rotator

ah you mean to make what the function does inside

well, that's better yeah

didn't notice it, thanks!

const FQuat Rot = FQuat(RotationAxis, FMath::DegreesToRadians(RotationSpeed * GetWorld()->DeltaTimeSeconds));

I'm still getting used to having the whole source available, I'm loving that

[outer lynx]

can anyone link me some documentation on how i can get a smooth crouch animation in fp. I got the crouch function to work but its like the head of my chracter just teleports 30cm down when i press left ctrl. Thanks!

[scenic veldt]

Would a simple Destroy Actor work?
I'm guessing I need to get my player location, calculate distance from first tile made and Destroy actor, right?

[finite grove]

I know, the fact that a Quad isn’t a unit of measurement was the problem.
When you try to generate a map it wants you to decide its size in Quads, but quads aren’t a measurement, so i had no idea what 50x50 Quads would be… it would be like someone telling you to measure put a length of rope in Smeckles. The first thing you would ask is “WFT is a smeckles? How long is one?”

I needed some kind of real world measurement to compare a quad to.
I gound out later that on a scale of 1.0(as in a mannequin that is 1.0 scale is about 6ft or 182cm tall) a quad is 1 meter.

Now i can make a proper game map because in the world of cartography a quad is a meaningless gobbidy-goop none sense word, but a meter is a real unit of measurement.

[plush yew]

how to change the mouse cursor again without the event? i need to change it in a different event graph

[finite grove]

Did you not read what i said? You’re just repeating what i said.

Yes, a Quad is not a unit of measurement(what i already said),

But when you try to make s map UE4 forces you to use them as a unit of measurement, So i needed a real world analog to compare a quad to. (The problem)

I found out after my first post(the one you responded to from yesterday) that a good way to set scale is to consider a mannequin of 1.0 scale to be 6ft tall.
On that scale 1 quad = 1 meter.(the answer)

[sharp crest]

?

[plush yew]

so basically

i have an event

where if you hover over an object it triggers

and i wanna change the cursof

mouse cursor

when it triggers

@sharp crest

[sharp crest]

the icon of the cursor?

use a select node based on a variable here

but it's rly basic stuff.

[plush yew]

yeah

ik that

ik its basic

im saying

i wanna change it when you hover over an object brah

using your cursor

[sharp crest]

what part do u not know how to do exactly

[plush yew]

so like

i dont know what blueprint to use

to change the cursor again

after you hover over an object

🤷

[sharp crest]

this draw hud executes every frame

just add functionality to there to choose a different icon if u r hovering an object

[plush yew]

i dont know how to work like

how to work with global variables or whatever you use

[sharp crest]

use get player character node

then from that use the cast node to ur player character

and then u can get any variable from ur player character

[plush yew]

thanks

[ebon dagger]

learn.unrealengine is claiming one of these answers is wrong but not telling me which -- anyone have any idea?

other answers for that second one

[cunning ginkgo]

Heyo! I want to spawn a Grid of Tiles, and I need to be able to change the individual color of these Tiles as well as figuring out when I'm clicking/pointing at a Tile with my mouse. Obviously the easy way would be to just create a Tile actor that I could then spawn in a loop inside the Grid actor, but that would lead to poor performances if I need a grid of like... idk, 40x40. That would be a lot of individual actors.
I've seen that there was a HierarchicalInstancedStaticMesh component that allowed to instanciate a large amount of static meshes while keeping good performances, but would this allow me to have the individual control that I mentioned before?

[mental bluff]

hey hey sooo where can i get this? 👀

this 2d eye shader

[kindred depot]

lol 800 gigs just of megascans assets, decals, and textures. what a solid 4 hours of adv copying.... finally everything is in a folder i want... but jeez this stuff takes a LOT of space. each texture is 500 megs, I hope this compresses better when i build, the final project.

[whole hazel]

can someone tell me why details panel of the world that shows everything like post process volume, all the layers has vanished, there is no search function nor the history of all components in the existing level?

this panel

[kindred depot]

Window at the top, details?

is one checked?

[coarse wind]

Hey. anyone here used Archviz Explorer by Karl Detroit?

[whole hazel]

yes it is

out of all 4, only Details 1 is checked

[kindred depot]

press f10

see if it comes up

[whole hazel]

nope

[kindred depot]

hmm

you removed it from the panel then

[whole hazel]

how can I add it back 😮

I don't recall removing it honestly

[kindred depot]

uncheck details one

add a new details 2 and drag and drop the panel

[whole hazel]

nope, still not showing up

gonna restart, see if that works

[kindred depot]

that would be the next step yeah

[whole hazel]

still not showing up, ffs

right, it was called World Outliner

checked the documentation, it's not Details, it's World Outliner window

[kindred depot]

Oops... my bad bud

I thought you where trying to look into the details xD

[whole hazel]

yeah, maybe I didn't explain it well 😄

[kindred depot]

All is working now?

[glossy mica]

um....

[lyric arch]

Bonjour

Est ce que quelqu’un serait intéressé par un projet de survie sur ue4

[frosty dune]

Hello

Which youtuber should I follow for ur4 tutorials

[stray briar]

i’m thinking about building a pc for game dev, i’m currently looking at just getting a single 2TB ssd for everything, but might I be better off with a 1TB ssd for my OS, and then another 1TB ssd for everything ue4 related?

thanks, sry diddnt realise there was channel

[frosty dune]

Thanks

[little seal]

daily reminder @plush yew

||<redacted>||

[calm pike]

Does anyone know what causes this behavior when binding OnBeginCursorOver to a Capsule Component? When the camera is level with the capsule, it works, but if the camera is above or below the capsule and tilted, it becomes less and less detected.

[vocal flume]

Hi guys! Can someone explain what "Compress without Alpha" option does in Texture settings? Do I have to select this for all images without any transparency?

[whole hazel]

hey peeps, how do you open two levels simultaneously if you want to copy content from a previous level of yours to a new one? (to speed up landscape/asset process)

[bright sigil]

I dont do this. But maybe you could open a second editor. Youd need to close one to save though.

[faint delta]

Hey all, having a weird bug where I have a sidewalk (just a square BSP brush) that my character cannot walk over the ledge of, but ONLY when I build the lightning for the level. If I move the brush's transform even just 1 unit, then it is fine. but then (not changing anything), when I build the lighting, I can't walk over it. This only happens with just that particular spot on the map. I've tried creating a new brush and putting it in the same spot, but no dice. There are no colliders or any other things in the way.

[whole hazel]

yeah I thought so, thanks, guess it's manual creation again

[kindred depot]

what kind of material would roof trim be made from? I cant find anything online about this lol

example

plaster?

[quiet herald]

Hello good Morning
Does anyone know of any tutorial where it is possible to control the handling of the hands from the blueprints?

[thick herald]

stone / concrete

[kindred depot]

thank you

[fossil nexus]

I'm trying to create a plane Brush similar to the plane static mesh.
But i cant seem to make it have the material on both side surfaces.
One side is always invisible. While the other side allows me to place a material.
How do i solve this problem?

[bright sigil]

BSP should always be water tight. They cause errors if they have open holes.

[fossil nexus]

Water tight? You mean closed? So i cant make a plane with brushes?

[neon bough]

that looks like aged galvanized steel to me

[kindred depot]

even a better answer. that seems like that could work for an industrial environment.

[pastel summit]

You should check material. There is an option "two sided material" at the left corner in material design window

[dense knoll]

my refraction seems to be broken

[glossy mica]

backface culling. also, how old is you verison of unreal??

[neon bough]

double sided geometry may also work if you don't want to edit all materials

as two sided rendering comes with a cost

[bright sigil]

Unreal is noy really for modeling. But if you must, convert the bsp to a static mesh. Double-sided materials can work (i dont know exactly what your working on) but its not somethimg i would suggest to solve the problem long term.

[fossil nexus]

4.27.2 . Will now study backface culling, never heard of it.

[fossil nexus]

That is only for the static mesh. Not the BSP right?

[neon bough]

no, thats a setting which has to be activated on the material

and then it will render on both sides, no matter what mesh you put it on

[fossil nexus]

Oh i see that worked. But what if i need the inside to be different than the outside?

[neon bough]

the easiest way is to have a mesh with 2 faces instead of one

[fossil nexus]

yup. in this case i should make 2 brush planes. or better said, 2 cubes with all faces except one cut put very close to each other

[bright sigil]

2 planes is just as good. Make your plane, duplicate and rotate it. Assign materials. Select both and convert to mesh, you should have 2 material slots.

As mentioned, modeling is better done elsewhere, like blender. Aside from learning the software, it allows creation of 3d assets with way more control than unreal.

[wheat escarp]

Hi Guys. I am new to unreal and i need some help. I want to use for a metahuman an preset animation for the body, buyed from epic and a live link for face and head rotation. The problem is that i cannot mix them together. What i can do, is just retarget the animation to body and use facial from live link, but without head rotation. Any idea how can i solve this?

[fossil nexus]

ok thank you.

[wheat escarp]

any help?

[neon bough]

you may want to read about how animation blueprints work

and blending different layers

[kindred depot]

what keybind shows how many polys are used in a level?

[muted seal]

help, im trying to install the valley of the ancient demo and i select my F drive but it keeps trying to install to my C drive

[red condor]

Hi all, is it possible to make a procedural foliage type have greater density at the center of its volume than at the edges? So the trees are denser at the center of a forest than at the outskirts. Thanks.

[solid tulip]

anyone know a bit about terrain in unreal? Im using the in engine terrain tool and my terrain is a bright white. Im kinda lost on what to do as the mats are fine and the lighting was corrected to see if maybe that was the issue

if a picture is needed to see what im dealing with i can send one

[solid tulip]

It is very possible but i have not yet worked on anything like that just yet. I know there is a video on it and if i find it i can link it to you.

[muted seal]

so how would i change that

[solid tulip]

and are you using the normal foliage too, or one made from blueprints?

[red condor]

That would be great! I tried to find a video but couldn't. For your terrain issue have you tried saving and reopening your level? I once had a landscape material issue that went away on reloading, could be worth a try. I'm using the Procedural Foliage Volume from the content browser (after enabling it in Editor Settings). No fancy set up, just a volume and a single foliage type at the moment.

[solid tulip]

hm... ok let try something because i would like to know this sincew ill be needing foliage later also

[red condor]

sweet, good luck 😄

[peak falcon]

yeah on a flat roof like that, the top of the wall would be a decorative row of bricks, or just concrete/cement

[solid tulip]

yeah restarting worked for like a sec, then it gradually got brighter then returned to the glow im trying to get rid of

[red condor]

auto-exposure?

[solid tulip]

didnt seem to do much

its gotta be the mats maybe?

[red condor]

is the material rough? try setting roughness to 1 to test

that should get rid of any glow from the light

[solid tulip]

omg

it was my skylight i think

my settings reverted to a presave for something else

[red condor]

ha nice :)

[solid tulip]

welp ill see if it works after rebuiling the lighting

ok its good

[red condor]

ah awesome glad you fixed it 👍 That kind of thing is a pain, too many possible solutions

one thing I often do is use dynamic lighting while I'm tweaking settings, so you can see the change instantly

then you know if you're putting something out of whack

[solid tulip]

yeah i did think about that at first

but i got a bit lazy and it ended up biting me later

[red condor]

story of my life xD

[solid tulip]

ok imma try and see if i can solve your issue real quick. gotta find some meshes tho

[red condor]

thanks! I'll check back in later to see how you got on :)

[solid tulip]

ok definatly

[whole hazel]

hey peeps, when the project you're working on is ready for production, if you used assets that were 2 GB big, does UE5 make any sort of compression or the project will be 2 GB only from the assets + additional space for the other things

[fierce tulip]

really depends on the kind of files, and how you packaged

[brisk galleon]

what am i understanding wrong.. rect light should have a direction, no?? it acts like a spotlight, whatever way i rotate it, evenly lighting in all directions..

[neon bough]

it shouldn't light both sides

[brisk galleon]

how could i mess that light up then? just dragged it in and changed strenght and size

[neon bough]

is all the light in that scene casted just from that one rectlight?

[brisk galleon]

no weakers are behind the geo there u can see

and some baked light coming from outside

[neon bough]

ok, i was just curious about the bright spots, so they are all from the rectlight

[brisk galleon]

turned off view

[unborn vector]

Hello all! Perhaps such a question asked, perhaps not, have not seen the truth.

Now we have a problem: we need a server to which it will be possible to connect to the IP address in the anchor, so that all the files will be stored in a folder on the server. That is, we want to work with a friend in a two-man online relay, without LAN connection.

Question: Who already did this? If yes, how more convenient (Please advise), if not, then maybe someone knows, how will be more convenient to create a server from his comp, to synchronize the root folder and both could unload files to work in the anrile.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[neon bough]

that's indeed weird behavior

[brisk galleon]

didnt make this project myself so.. how can one fuckup rect lights in some project setting maybe?

[neon bough]

are you using lumen?

[brisk galleon]

thats global illumination? then no..

[neon bough]

ok, no idea honestly

[brisk galleon]

😵‍💫

[wicked frigate]

Hello guys...
I am trying to make a game like Europe Universal and my problem is in implementing map system of the game.
I want to be able to specify countries and states and draw a border around each of them.
Can someone help me or give me some keywords to find out how I should do this?

[brisk galleon]

not the side light is shot out from the emitter, i would think.. 😛

[wicked frigate]

I think It's more complex than that.
It's like a texture and applied to a plane material.
pls watch a short gameplay of that game to find out what I'm looking for

[fringe pivot]

Any idea what could be wrong with my navmesh?
Took 2 hours to build when it usually was a couple of minutes with similar landscapes.
And once built editor takes minutes to start or play.

I didn't modify any advanced setting, just dropped the component in the world and changed its size.

[tribal leaf]

You probably won't get much help with that response.

[tribal leaf]

It's still happening after you restarted the editor?

[fringe pivot]

Yeah it does, I implemented a different approach anyways.

[analog loom]

when i switch between my two computers, one on windows and one on osx

i keep getting an issue with rebuilding the project

"try rebuilding from source manually"

figured it out

just hard to find the damn build logs

lol

[haughty hound]

hello guys, not sure if this is the proper channel to ask this, do u know about some documentation/video/link that helps u to understand the display of unreal insights profiler? thanks in advance

[real dirge]

How come that still after I save everything safely, this shows up after I try to boot up my project again? It really scares me

[spice ruin]

Is there anything actually listed?

[autumn latch]

how can i cast to pawn or controller from player state?

okey i find "get owner" node

yes i can cast

i know not a pawn or controller

[red condor]

@solid tulip hey, did you get a chance to try the procedural foliage density falloff yet?

[terse citrus]

Hi there. I am currently working on my first Maya -> Unreal project and I have a camera that JUST WILL NOT export correctly. I've tried a few different methods and nothing will get my camera to where it needs to be. Does anybody have experience with this? Im will to share screen and share files if need be.

unfortunately not

[dim saddle]

Evening/night, wanted to ask real quick: can i delete the win64 folder 'cause i want to make a win32 type game

Even though my system has win64

And also third party

[analog loom]

must i do something special

to get child components to follow the rotation of the root?

[solid tulip]

The only thing i could see is to change it manually in the settings, there is a way to do it through blueprints but you have to make an actor and all that which is a lot of time. Imma try to see if i can make a simple version of it or see if i can somehow find a addon to use for modifying it. Also sorry for the late response i was doing an order for a customer for Mealworms lol.

[analog loom]

im changing the rotation of the actor with

        ship->SetActorRotation(UKismetMathLibrary::FindLookAtRotation(ship->GetActorLocation(), ship->GetActorLocation() + fwd));

and yeah the rotation of the root changes

but not for the static mesh child component

[wheat escarp]

Any idea how i can remove a metahuman material?

I cannot remove it. Is material instancer, or something like this

[red condor]

No worries! Yeah, I think I could knock it together with blueprint - I'm guessing performance would be a lot worse though? For a hacky workaround without blueprint/coding you can nest volumes inside blockers inside volumes, getting smaller, you might only need a few levels to get a reasonable smooth falloff if the overall density isn't too high. It's cumbersome though.

[wheat escarp]

Any help guys?

I am stuck with metahumans face material and i cannot delete/replace

[red condor]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/overwrite-metahuman-material-inside-ue/248900

is that the answer to the issue you're having?

[timid meteor]

LightingResults: Warning: InstancedFoliageActor_0 Instanced meshes don't yet support unique static lighting for each LOD. Lighting on LOD 1+ may be incorrect unless lightmap UVs are the same for all LODs.

Hi 🙂 what does this means ? and how can i fix this ?

[real dirge]

Is there anyway to make one of the nodes in a timeline to be an external variable?

[ashen sky]

i hope sending these project files does not show my account info some how..

there

the project files to a game i cannot finish

[prime willow]

@kindred depot Hey

im going to pm you really quick :3

[kindred depot]

ok 😛

[solid tulip]

yeah you would just make multiple instances in the actors. Ive done something similar with noise when creating a MC based level

[ashen sky]

anddd that was a link for me to get to the files i guess..

oh. cause i am signed in.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uffzalo8ir5u/Microwave

[brisk galleon]

another lighting question.
Ideas why emissive material refuses to do emissing on static meshes when baking light?
Material is default lit, mesh with material is ticked to emiss... what else?

[spark leaf]

Hi all, not sure if this is the best channel for my question, not entirely sure where it fits...

So, we have a first person shooter game, the player can pick up items - as in actually pick them up and they are then in the players hands. This is being achieved via the AttachComponentToComponent node. There are two main problems I am encountering...

1. When the object(s) are in the player's hands, they are closer to the camera and seem huge - but look the right size when on the floor/tables etc.
2. I'm adding sockets for the position of the hands to hold the items, but some objects are reused, like a jar for example, and scaled differently to create variation. This then messes up the grab position sockets.

I feel like I have perhaps approached this in the wrong way. Can anyone suggest how this might be better approached?

The only thought I have, which would provide any form of consistency would be to have two sets of meshes for each object... one is the "in-game" mesh, the one you see on the floor/tables, and then the other is the "being held" mesh, which is then scaled differently so that it doesn't look ridiculous in the player's hands.
I toyed with the idea of changing the scale of the held items, but this requires me to retain the original scale data so that I can scale it back again when dropped/thrown away.

Would really appreciate any thoughts/ideas - thanks in advance 🙂

[ancient lotus]

i would put a variable on the item itself for its held scale. when you pick the item up, if your the player holding said item then set its scale to equal its held scale (shrink it when holding it only for the person holding it), then when you drop it simply revert it back to a scale of 1 (or whatever teh default is)

[spark leaf]

Thanks for the reply Cody...

What about the other problem, of different scaled variations of the same mesh in the level, with regards to the grab positions? any thought on how I might be able to cater for that?

Ideally, I would prefer that our artist maybe made things like jar_small, jar_regular, jar_large - e.g. three specific variations, for which I could then set sockets on each one accordingly. But what's happening is they are all be adjusted in the actual level to look nice, but that causes problems like this.

Very happy to acknowledge I may be doing the grab position stuff wrong, but would then be seeking an alternative etc.

[ancient lotus]

you could do this via sockets if you dont want to animate. the easiest which i hate would be a separate socket for each one of these that your grabbing. the other route with sockets is to have a socket on the mesh (jar) and use that as its offset. so you attach the jar to your hands and apply the offset of the socket to it so it moves it to where you want it and you only need one socket on your characters hand for gripping. you could also consider the virtual bone route as well since (if i recall right) the control rig in unreal allows you to move and bake virtual bones as well into the animation so you could create a set of animations for each of these held items by only moving the virtual bone for the item to attach to.

[spark leaf]

Also, and this one is definitely on me... when I've used the AttachComponentToComponent, I've used the static mesh component of the "object" being picked up... but if I pick something up, un-posses, pause the game, and click on the object in the viewport... I can see this:
on the left is the actors transform... on the right, the book, is the object that is in the player's hand... feels a bit wrong to not be moving the actors transform too...

[spark leaf]

That's actually what we have... there's a joint/bone on the skeletal mesh for the arms... one in each hand.... and then for each object that I can pick up, I'm adding sockets... I then wire those two things together... using the AttachComponentToComponent node, but using those transform values from the sockets/joints etc...

the character's arms are animated.

I think the current approach, whilst fiddly, would work ok, if it wasn't for the different sized assets in the level, where their scales are tweaked etc..

[plush yew]

hello can someone help me with niagara please I posted my issue in the channel

thank you

[dense knoll]

Fatal error: [File:D:/UE_Edge/Engine/Source/Runtime/RenderCore/Private/RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 902]
Rendering thread exception:
Fatal error: [File:D:/UE_Edge/Engine/Source/Runtime/VulkanRHI/Private/VulkanMemory.cpp] [Line: 2122]
Out of memory on Vulkan; MemoryTypeIndex=0, AllocSize=1953.125MB

Decided to migrate to vulkan to improve performance but i just got this error when loading into a level

[tranquil falcon]

Is there a way to LINK mesh content/models into unreal and have them update when the file is replaced with a new version?

[bronze saddle]

What are these fancy things and what do they do?

[dense knoll]

One is a curve, another is a data table of some kind

and one is a component

purple is curve, the blue one is the comp, an the green one is the data table

[bronze saddle]

what do curves do and why it's best for XPs?

[dense knoll]

^

[bronze saddle]

@plush yew Thank you

What do structs do and what they are used for?

What do I do here? All I see is something to do with variables.

Are structs used to store variables for things like attributes or target morphs?

Data table asked me for row type I gave uh SCharacter?

Are Data tables used for initial stats?

[fleet sparrow]

Curves vs Timeline? When to use?

[bronze saddle]

I need perhaps curves for XP

[fossil nexus]

Im using a lot of sprite characters in my project. I made them with transparent background.
I read that Alpha/transparency can impact performance significantly.
And I actually tested it and saw quad overdraw go to red if i overlap 4 of my characters.
Is there a way to make a 2d character without using alpha/transparency?

[plush yew]

how do games that run on unreal engine handle changing players leg or arm length, unreal engine doesnt have dual quatranic skinning, so i dont get how it would even be possible

is there an option in your skeleton to change the bone length with character morphs?

[drowsy snow]

If it's not a partial transparency, you can get away with masked opacity - it's pretty cheap.

Alternatively #paper-2d could be what you're looking for.

[wispy heart]

Anyone?

[fierce agate]

Guys why every time i reimport textures then i saved the game and came back, the textures won’t save

[coarse vine]

hey guys has anyone worked on a racing game b4 a simcade style game which has the functions and behaviors of how cars drive n behave in real life with a bit of new player friendliness? would like to know

[spiral flint]

Ya think I made him too big or nah

[coarse vine]

maybe he looks good this way?

to ne he does

[fierce agate]

Guys my unreal engine keeps crashing, i did the yotube tutorial but it won’t work, it just says epic games is currently running, i don’t know how to fix this

[tight crystal]

check task manager

[tight crystal]

how do i stop this

[fierce agate]

I already did it but it failed

Unreal engine still crashing

[tight crystal]

dam

[plush yew]

hey uh

does anyone know how to get UE to stop compiling the engine when you try to packaging files?

surely I probably don't need to package this many things when there's hardly anything in my project

I've been trying to see if it's a directory error since this wasn't a problem yesterday until I renamed the folder my github download was in

[timid meteor]

hi

thanks to this my ai steps away from me

is there a way to make it that this is green to ?>

[neon bough]

show a screen without the navmesh overlay

[ornate leaf]

Assuming that's within your navmesh volume, maybe there is some invisible trigger/collider there set to block the navmesh?

[neon bough]

it's hard to see the geometry

[timid meteor]

its everywere agros the whole map

[neon bough]

is the above screenshot showing the nav on top of the roof?

[timid meteor]

when im hovering over the ledge with 1 feet the zombie retires :p or when im on the thing were the smokes comes out

yes the left one

but its on every ledge

if the nav is everywere i can do what i want and then the funs begins that all i want xD

[fierce agate]

Guys, is unreal engine will crash if my free storage is small?

Or if my wifi is slow?

[meager lion]

Hey all, does anyone have any pointers or experience using a VR headset in UE as mocap? I'm essentially trying to use my headset's controllers (hands) to grab an object and use it as a weapon in a cinematic, so is it possible to keyframe the movements i make somehow?

similar to how half life alyx did it in the trailer

[bleak zodiac]

feel like Dying Light XD

[timid meteor]

it will if that nav mesh is working xD

hi everyone 🙂 My navmesh has multiple floors and when i go up on the stairs the ai will follow the closest pat on the x and y axis but not the z axis is there a bug fix for that ?

also

ue4 has the baddest nav mesh around i guess xD

when i go front they come back

[neon bough]

i think you should watch some tutorials on nav mesh and how it works

and maybe on AI behavior

[modest temple]

Hello there guys, I've started to play around with ue 4.27.2 a while ago, I now have a fairly simple project running online steam subsystem with advanced sessions. Everything works just fine, however there's one thing that bothers me. Whenever a session gets shown in the widget, it show 9,999 ping. Now I know I can simply remove that and go on , but its a bit frustrating! I've read tons of articles about this, questions posted on the forums but I still haven't found any workaround for this and I thought maybe someone here have the knowledge about this.😁

[autumn flame]

Or the ones you have the devkit for

[wheat hare]

Or the ones you ||hehe I'm not gonna tell||

[teal barn]

Hi 🙂 I’m very new to unreal and I’m looking for the right workflow to render out a stereoscopic 360^ Video of an animated Character.
What I have so far:
A Metahuman with mocap,
A room imported from 3Ds max, lightbaked with vray

But what’s next? I placed my metahuman and some „movable“ lights to get him in the right light.
So when I hit play my room looks nice, my char is good looking and animated.
How can I render a Videoclip out?
I found out about panoramic capture, but to render a longer sequence it takes ages….

Thx a lot for pointing me into the right direction 😊

[wheat hare]

U want to render from 3ds to stereoscopic 3d?

In 360 video?

Try the cg discord too if u don't get a response here

[teal barn]

@wheat hare thx 🙂

[cunning ginkgo]

Are there any fixes for the orthographic camera in UE? Or is there a way to make a very far away camera act like it's actually close, so that things like shadows, reflections, animations, etc. don't appear in low quality?

[dim merlin]

Hi, just a common question, but how would it be possible to create some kind of character system with clothes without duplicated meshes for each different character ?

Anyone knows how this works in e.g Grand Theft Auto 5 ?

[drowsy snow]

No.

Honestly that was one of the most blatant question on underground modding ever asked in this server, considering not only involving reverse engineering a console game, but also involved emulator.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Twilight Sparkle#4016 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[fierce tulip]

reading rules is hard.

[drowsy snow]

In GTA V, you have different set of meshes for the head, upper body, hands, lower body. Messing with SP mods in the game, and breaking the outfit switching, you can see how player models were constructed in the game.

So it's not much layering going on, in the sense that you have base nude model used as is, and put clothes on top of it.

Also using base nude model as is often exhibit clipping issue with the clothing, hence why often in games, developers remove the bare skins underneath the cloth that won't be visible.

[dim merlin]

@drowsy snow thanks yeah that makes it clear

[robust lichen]

Is it possible to change a camera's clipping values?

I wanna reduce the near value but apparently the option doesnt exist

[drowsy snow]

Try changing it in Project Settings. It defaults to 10 cm.

If you want "macro" shots, consider zooming in your camera and increase the aperture/f-stop instead to increase the depth of field.

[robust lichen]

Is there another way than just the project settings? that seems like it would affect every camera

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

Though it's weird that you want it on per camera, as near clip plane has so little significance when shooting on further subject.

[robust lichen]

rip...

[drowsy snow]

What's the context?

First person camera?

[robust lichen]

A helmet for first person

[drowsy snow]

Aha, figured.

Fake the helmet then.

[robust lichen]

Could do... i dunno why the near/far options wouldn't be built into the camera though

Apparently you cant modify the projection matrix as well 😦

[drowsy snow]

Well, it's pointless to be per camera.

Look closely on first person games that have the character wore helmet. When the helmet is out of view from above, developers swap it for a mesh that is not the full helmet mesh but resemble the visor, put slightly further from the head camera.

In short, first person helmets are fake.

You may think the character wore the helmet, because the fake mesh and hand animation maintain continuity from when the helmet is about to be worn, and when the visor mesh slides in. Thus, giving the impression that your character physically wearing the helmet.

[blissful trail]

ok so im trying to get my game to save the volume

the volume value does change in the save and it does say the save is successful
but when i try to load it the value is set back to default (i checked the cast is working)

[daring cedar]

Does anyone know why my VR project shows as blank black screen on my quest 2?

[stiff bane]

we need more info. can be anything

[drowsy snow]

Also #virtual-reality

[neon bough]

even GTA suffers from clipping on some cloth combinations

[fallow pulsar]

What rule did I even break

[tropic flint]

Anyone knows of a good way to convert .mmd models into .fbx ones? i use cat on blender but i dont really use blender that much and my model usually has something that doesnt work, particularly the clothing simulation collision capsules seem to get scaled wrong whatever i do and change, does anyone know anything that could be useful? thanks

[fallow pulsar]

asking how to mod a game

[drowsy snow]

#rules no.5

[fallow pulsar]

and how did I break it

I asked how to mod a game I owned

[neon bough]

4. Don't share private information without consent. This includes anything a person shares with you in confidence, such as in a private conversation, contract, or otherwise, that is not available to the public.

most likely this

[fallow pulsar]

didn't break that one either

[drowsy snow]

Asking about reverse engineering, which itself can be a pirated goods, something that you don't hold the IP or copyrighted material.

[neon bough]

yet you ask how to break a "contract"/EULA

[fierce tulip]

what makoto said.

[modern holly]

does anyone know how to have cascade emit a single front facing particle

with a material applied

[fallow pulsar]

so is using the UE editor

[modern holly]

thank you

[drowsy snow]

No. You use Unreal Editor under Unreal Engine EULA.

[fierce tulip]

@modern holly set spawn to 0, enable burst mode, set it to 1.
In required module set it to loop only once. if you want it to stay endlessly, set lifetime to 0.

[scenic moon]

Anyone knows why one of my teammates gets a windowed viewport even tho she is not using Standalone Game (but the windows does says Standalone game when launched) ? I have check and made sure it's on "Selected Viewport"

[neon bough]

but yea, the rules could point out the modding issue a bit further

[scenic moon]

but we can't seem to find the setting, already deleted Saved folder

but the issue still remains

[drowsy snow]

It disregards the preferred PIE mode?

[scenic moon]

yes, it kinda ignores it

but the title on the window is different if i actually launch standalone mode on the editor

also, she doesn't get the unposses button

so it;s not just her undocking the viewport

[modern holly]

@thank you, can tell me How to just keep my spiral and get rid of those other particles

[fierce tulip]

remove any other emitter in the viewer.