ue4-general

[grim ore]

honestly it might be better to ask in the discord for that plugin also, but without any other errors not much else to suggest

[placid folio]

Do I need to specify the plugin folder location somewhere?

[grim ore]

shouldnt have to, its an engine plugin so it should package it as aprt of the product

oh wait

you said launch, what are you trying to do?

im 99% guessing Launch is not what you're trying to do

[placid folio]

test the game multiplayer with steam, editor seemed to be getting in the way of openning the steam api, so was going to launch it stand alone without editor to test it.

[grim ore]

so play -> standalone or Launch. Launch is probably not what you expect it to be

it sounds like you actually want to package the game to a normal build and run that

[placid folio]

no I'm using launch. and thats when I get the error the game using play runs fine other than I'm having issues with steam.

Sorry I'm new.

[grim ore]

yeah Launch is primarily for mobile devices, that would be the issue. you can't really "launch" on windows

if you are trying to make it represent what it would be like running it without the editor then you want to try and play -> standalone or more than likely package the project and run it from there like a normal program

[placid folio]

oh, thats good to know, I thought that launch was the be all do all

[timid spade]

is there any way to get all of these checkboxes and put them into an array

without have to manually drag each one onto the event graph and manually input it

[small jay]

Does anyone know why my Building Lighting is greyed out (4.27) and how to fix it? I'm not playing in editor, Static lighting is not disabled, and Shader is not below Shader Model 5.

[weary basalt]

When using the Find In Blueprints dialogue, how do you restrict the search to only return exact results?

If i search "Add" it will return all results that contain that string.

How do i restrict it to only return results that are exactly that string with no additional characters?

[flint crescent]

make them all a child of something then use the "get all children"

[shrewd pulsar]

hello i was wondering if anyone could help me. it wont let me play as my third person character. itll spawn me where my camera is and under play button its greyed out. but yet when i place a network spawn it will place me down but not use my Animation BP. i went into the third person game mode and made sure third person charecter was selected

i can also screen share in VC

can i change default player start ?

[small pewter]

Does anyone know why I succeed making my material align perfectly on 1x1x1 cube but when I scale it to 1x5x1 it doesn't align perfectly anymore ?

[little oyster]

Is there anyway to specify a specific player's UniqueID while testing via PIE? i.e. hardcode a SteamID during PIE

[distant totem]

You would do +Add

TextCmpExact (Pre-Unary)

+

Modifies a text value so that it will perform an "exact" text comparison.

+Blast
+"Blast"```

[weary basalt]

Thanks

[modest cloud]

This might be a noob question, but I've been painting some foliage onto my landscape and it looks great until the camera zooms back and then a lot of the foliage seems to disappear or the shadows go away. I have all the LODs set to 0. Does anyone have any ideas?

[shadow estuary]

i wanna check where something is spawning when i click, so i paused so i can frame through and see the projectile fire, but i cant put in input when paused

is there a way around this or should i just put projectile speed 0 to test

[shrewd pulsar]

How would i set this to cast to multiple players in the game ? iv been trying diffrent things but im getting errors

i cant cast to third person charecter. i think it would only go to me and not another player

unless cast to third person will work for multiplayer ?

[autumn flame]

Any player that is Third Person

[small pewter]

Anyone know how to automate the creation of materials being all of them instances of a base material and also the naming should be the same as the texture itself + M in the front of it (that's my convention to name materials) ?

[severe hound]

Any advice on storing references to a bunch of actors in gamestate? Let's say there are 10 different actor types and each actor type has 10 each, would be 100 actors in total and 10 get all actors of class calls, would it better to grab the gamestate in each actor and add itself there or would it better on beginplay to just add it in a memory ref?

[solemn marten]

hello there, how can I delete the part in parenthesis in my build

[shadow estuary]

i added ads by making the camera lerp between two points and it works great, but now i cant look up

any tips

hahaha

[exotic rover]

hey is the default networking good enough for an MMO made with unreal engine 4?

or is there a plugin or somethin' i'm unaware of

[night bridge]

this one is pretty well made and easy to implement: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/advanced-sessions-plugin/30020

[bleak garden]

hi

[storm parcel]

Hi, I want to create a button, when its clicked it should show 3 more buttons below it, and when it's clicked again it should hide them. How do I go about doing this? My first idea is, the main button will have an OnClicked event that will create another widget that contains those 3 buttons but I feel like there's a better way for this.

[flint crescent]

Set visibility?

[storm parcel]

Super new to unreal, thank you I will look into that

[flint crescent]

👍

[ionic bridge]

anyone got a topdown bp for a normal casting? ie. Press 1, then right click, then cast skill. I don't want to just right click and it activate i want the sequence. ie kinda like how moba's work.

[young stream]

press 1 --> create the preview decal and keep updating its position relative to mouse and defined location and rotation constraints based on the spell ->-> right click --> do the spell and destroy decal. Those are the steps, I don't have a BP to show you but try extrapolating on them. And maybe https://blueprintue.com/ has something relevant

[worn pecan]

so is it possible to play an animation when a npc starts moving

[bleak garden]

yes

[worn pecan]

alright

how

@bleak garden

[bleak garden]

i dont know

but it's possible

[worn pecan]

...

well can someone help

i gotta get this finished bye tmr

[plush yew]

Why convert mouse location to world space gives false output?

anyone know why this happens on projct load??

i am new to UE4 and this both nonplusses me and makes me want not to deal with it

i verified the engine too

[worn pecan]

@here

plsss

help

[storm parcel]

I want to call an EventDispatcher when a UI button is clicked, then it will bind in an Actor's blueprint and do actions. All the tutorials I'm seeing are about creating the EventDispatcher in the player character and then getting its reference etc. but I can't find anything on how to do what I need to. Any help?

[plush yew]

hold up. turns out cleaning my project and rebuilding it fixed the problem.

[plush yew]

and now its crashed and wont load my project agian. what gives?

i understand midnight is not the best time to be askingn for help... heh

[strong ocean]

are you writing c++

[plush yew]

yup

[strong ocean]

sometimes mine will get in a wonk state when my build will compile in VS but the hot reload crashes in the engine

perhaps a runtime error but not a comp time error

what's the stack trace?

[plush yew]

EpicAccountId:

Assertion failed: CollisionComponent != nullptr [File:C:\Users\Chipps\Documents\Unreal Projects\FPExperiment\Source\FPExperiment\FPProjectile.cpp] [Line: 23]

UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_FPExperiment_0002!AFPProjectile::AFPProjectile() [C:\Users\Chipps\Documents\Unreal Projects\FPExperiment\Source\FPExperiment\FPProjectile.cpp:23]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor_Projects
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll

[strong ocean]

Assertion failed: CollisionComponent != nullptr [File:C:\Users\Chipps\Documents\Unreal Projects\FPExperiment\Source\FPExperiment\FPProjectile.cpp] [Line: 23]

looks like a runtime error

[plush yew]

yea i get it. but wtf lol. game code shouldnt be running while editing... right?

[strong ocean]

Yeah I don't know how the hot reload works but it almost looks like it does try to run it

Cause the same stuff happens to me sometimes

[plush yew]

hapens to me alot

[strong ocean]

LOL the first time I just rebooted my comp and thought it was a weird file state

but then I realized my code was just spaghetti

[plush yew]

lmao

UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_FPExperiment_0002!AFPProjectile::AFPProjectile() [C:\Users\Chipps\Documents\Unreal Projects\FPExperiment\Source\FPExperiment\FPProjectile.cpp:23]
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_HotReload
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll \

might be something to that thing

[dusk nebula]

anything I can do to be able to open links to the old UE answers page when I find them? https://answers.unrealengine.com/storage/temp/235065-setbycaller01.jpg

[modest trench]

unless it got archived by googled or something you might be better off just asking again

I can't find the image file

[shadow estuary]

you can try the archive.org or whatever

[dusk nebula]

couldn't find it

[night oar]

Hi everyone so I have a question I want the show the names and health of two player on the Hud in online multiplayer but can find when and where to call the player state so I can replicate that data for every client connected

[blissful trail]

so im trying to get a first person vaulting system working in ue4 but i cant seam to get it working at all i tried following a tutorial for a 3rd person vaulting system but it didnt work at all :<

[grim violet]

I have a metahuman with roughness and metallic texture maps, and those maps aren't showing in render, how do I fix this?

In viewport the metahuman shows with the metallic and roughness correct, its just render output that it doesn't show those maps.

[shadow estuary]

when making ads for a game, is it better to move the camera to the sight, or move the gun towards the camera

or a bit of both

[storm parcel]

I'm a newbie so take my opinion with a bit of salt, but I think if you move only the gun towards the camera there will be no "zoom in" effect. So it completely depends on your game and/or the gun in question, if you want the ADS to have a zoom in effect then move the camera towards the gun.

[lunar turret]

I have very low disk space, and Unreal Engine takes about 120 GB, so I decided to store it on an external drive. Do you guys think it makes it slower?

It takes ages to start, I think I know why

[storm parcel]

Generally, all external drives are going to be slower than internal ones. There certainly are exceptions, but the difference between USB 2.0 and SATA is considerable. If the external is SSD and internal is HDD then it may not actually be a bad idea. But again, it completely depends on the specs of both drives.

My advice is, give the external a shot. If the speeds are workable for you, then great. If not, may be move it on the internal. (Assuming the speed is bottlenecked by the drives and none of your other hardware)

[shadow estuary]

yeah i figured that was what i was doing so far

just wasnt sure

[lunar turret]

They're all workable but it takes ages to start

[shadow estuary]

also im rendering my ADS with a little render target camera, its working great

but

i wanna draw a red dot on top of it

is there a way to do that

[lunar turret]

I've compiled UE4, now I want to configure it for Qt Creator. I have set everything up correctly, and I hit build. Is it supposed to take a long time?

[stone badger]

is there a console command to show my location in-game?

like a transform or something of the playercontroller or controlled pawn?

[plush yew]

guys if i wanted to create room, let's say tavern which is in different states different times player enters - npc's in different locations, different lights are lit or not, items have changed place, etc - i know one way would be to fake it by having actually different levels load with differently setup versions of said room - but would that be the proper way of doing it? are there any alternatives to that approach?

is there a feature that saves different room states in one level that i'm not aware of?

How do you get this player camera view and ability to control it? I guess adding camera and placing that in front of player. And you control him with usual buttons.

yeah but imagine - let's say there would be 10 states, in each state there might be around 100 items changed, items moved around, npc placements, lights - doing all of that each time by the code back and forth is 10x100 details coded, so is it really the best way to do it?

[small jay]

Does anyone know why my Building Lighting is greyed out (4.27) and how to fix it? I'm not playing in editor, Static lighting is not disabled, and Shader is not below Shader Model 5.

[plush yew]

i'm making immersive sim so most likely NPC's will take care of themselves in a way that they will have different routes and at around night they go to tavern and pick a free place to sit. u mean that?

yeah true

so UE5 has something good for managing that?

i mean what it does exactly 😄

i don't understand, can u elaborate more about what u mean in "loading and unloading" stuff.

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/WorldFeatures/WorldPartition/DataLayers/

knock yourself out

although this begs the question: do you need world partition for data layers?

alright, thanks

[plush yew]

wait i can do this in unreal 4 aswell no? separate actors onto different level stream.

[modest trench]

you could use levels to store actor hierarchies in a sense I think

yeah that sounds like hell to manage

[plush yew]

i mean i know of that technique already, i mentioned it in the post but i was kinda interested if there was something better than that, something that just saves state of the level.

like one click and boom it screenshots all the data from the level instead of me manually having to separate, store and load them - all the locations, all the settings and can be loaded whenever u want.

that's a good point. although sadly i can't think of making anything smarter which doesn't require me splitting thousands of objects into different levels by hand.

i did tons of skyrim research - they did it all by hand but then again they had hundreds of people 😄

i have small imsim like worlds per master level

like in deus ex

deus ex is imsim o.O

no lol - imsim means - immersive sim game genre 😄

does it mean something else aswell?

tf it's cool and all but why would i be having tavern for it 😄

yeah

yeah i guess manual it is ☠️

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: LookiSVK#0567 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[quaint stirrup]

we are all friends here are we not

[storm parcel]

I'm trying to implement a simple EventDispatcher. When a UI button is clicked, it calls the Dispatcher and an Actor blueprint Binds to that event and should print a test string to make sure its working. But the error I keep getting is "Access none" due to the default value of "Interactable Reference" variable being blank

this is the variable's object type

BP_Interactable1 is the Blueprint that's supposed to print the test string

This is BP_Interactable1

Can someone please take a look and help?

The exact error is:

[tawdry mica]

Hi there, am wondering if someone is able to help with a small problem - I followed a flight tutorial, the function works, however it doesn't show the blend animation 1d that I set, instead it shows the running animation while holding forward when flying - anyone know a simple solution for this? Many Thanks

[dim seal]

How can I reorder rows in a data table? It only says either "Move to the Top" or "Move to the Bottom"
Weird! 😦

[native nimbus]

Hey guys we've noticed that some of our project's features run more unstable on UE 4.27.2 (Media Framework to be specific) and would like to Rollback to 4.27.1. Is this possible without a custom build? Many thanks.

[drowsy snow]

No.

[native nimbus]

Damn...

[tawdry mica]

hold and drag?

[dim seal]

My bad! There's a drag icon on left of each row

Thanks

[tawdry mica]

🙂

[tawdry mica]

Anyone have a solution for this?

[drowsy snow]

Might be wrong transition rules.

[tawdry mica]

hmm,, how would i check this?

[drowsy snow]

Is there a check for a boolean (something like Is Flying) for the transition rule from Idle/Run to IceTravelPose_Blend?

[autumn flame]

does new Raytraced Translucency on 4.27 and latest 5.0 just works with RTX graphics or working with any type of gpus?

[tawdry mica]

yeah

here

[novel rose]

Is there a way to use the HDRI Backdrop's lightning, but hide the background image in the viewport?

[teal pawn]

Can someone please let me know why i keep getting this when i try to log in into Epic Games Launcher?

[oak patio]

Have you set that variable to anything, you have said its an abject reference, but have you said which object specifically

[storm parcel]

Thanks for the reply, this is the object type. (BP_Interactable1 is a blueprint actor where I am Binding the event)

[oak patio]

Yes but are you setting the variable

[storm parcel]

(I'm very new sorry if this isn't what you asked)

[oak patio]

You have created it

But are you giving it a value

[plush yew]

whenever my camera is directly behing my character, my character cant be seen, how do i make it so you can "see through" my character?

[storm parcel]

How do I do that? Sorry, newbie here
When I go to default values it doesn't allow me to assign anything

[plush yew]

sorry, the way i said that wasnt really clear

[oak patio]

Yeah you cant assign default values, you need to find a way to tell it which reference to call it on

You can direvtly set variables in blueprints

How many interactables do you have in the world

[storm parcel]

I have 1, because I was just testing, its a learning project I can make as many as needed.

I just gave it a cube component and dragged it into the world

[oak patio]

So if you only have one, when you construct the widget, you can GetActorOfClass then set the variable to its output, however that isnt a great solution and wouldnt work with more than one

[storm parcel]

Thank you for the solution. I do need to figure out how to make it work with more than one in actual projects in the future

[oak patio]

Yeah your specific implementation wouldnt really work with larger amounts as how do you tell it which one you want to effect with the button, again you could do things like get all actors of class then sort by distance, but thats very computationally expensive

[storm parcel]

I see, I can't find any other implementation. This is the one I followed through tutorials and Unreal documentation 🤔

[oak patio]

Typically i have my interactions set up with a heirarchy, where i have a blank class with the logic, and then childreb of that class with models and stuff, which makes it easy to do a cast with things like linetraces

You can also use interfaces, but i havent used those so im not yout guy for that one

[storm parcel]

Basically what I need to achieve is click on a UI button and then the camera should zoom onto the "interactable" (hotspot),
but im going step by step so currently I'm working on how to make the button widget blueprint talk to the interactable and trying to print a line that says it worked after I press the button, once I know I have made the connection with the interactable I will put in the hotspot stuff

[plush yew]

but i hope someoneknows what i mean because i cant really explain

[oak patio]

You see thats good, but if you have say 3 interacrables around you, how would you know which you want to zoom onto

[storm parcel]

do you want to do something like the 2000 Spider-Man game where the player gets semi transparent if he is too close to the wall behind him so camera pushes forward

[storm parcel]

That's true I didn't think of it, thanks

[oak patio]

You could have a system where itfilters all of them by distance, or you could have a system like city builders where you click the object, then pass that objects reference to the widget, then zoom in on it

[storm parcel]

Thanks so much for the answer, I will look into these options!

I appreciate it

[plush yew]

yes that is a good idea

it wasnt what i wanted but it sounds good

[oak patio]

You would need to be smart about the first way though, as it could be very computationally expensive if done improperly

[storm parcel]

Yeah I would probably learn the second way

[plush yew]

so how would you do that

[storm parcel]

I think you can set up a logic where if the camera arm shrinks more than a certain limit then it makes your player semi transparent?

or take player's location and camera's location and calculate the distance between them to determine it

[plush yew]

i have no idea what that means

[grim violet]

Hey can anyone help? I have a metahuman and I am trying to use the control rig to pose it inside of the level sequence, and when I do this then try to use Live Link for the facial pose/animation, it only tracks the head rotation and no longer outputs the face. (Face_AnimBP works just fine)

Is there something I have to do to save the control rig pose to allow Live Link face tracking to output correctly again?

[drowsy snow]

Sky Light.

[trim belfry]

Does the water stuff in ue4 support submerged buildings/rooms? Like if I put an enclosed room in water, will it have water in it?

[oak patio]

All water is is a plane with a post process material when you go under it

[drowsy snow]

Yes. It isn't a physically simulated mass of water.

[plush yew]

how do you make a barrier for your game like so you cant get out of the map

[oak patio]

Could always just drag out a boz collision and set it to block all

[thick herald]

or use blocking volumes...

[lunar turret]

Hey

I'm trying to setup Qt C for UE4

I've done everything, generated my project

Now my project is opened

[drowsy snow]

What? How Qt even got there?

[lunar turret]

Qt Creator

It's an IDE

[drowsy snow]

Making custom launcher?

[lunar turret]

Uh?

[drowsy snow]

Isn't Qt a GUI framework?

[lunar turret]

That's why I said Qt Creator

Qt Creator is an IDE

[plush yew]

Is a level designer responsible for making cutscenes for the game?

[lunar turret]

Qt is a framework

[drowsy snow]

What the fuck, that's new.

[drowsy snow]

No.

[lunar turret]

So I've been trying to set it up for UE4, I've generated my project, changed build release/debug options aswell as the run ones, but it won't start UE4...

[plush yew]

So, who is responsible for making cutscenes for the game?

In unreal engine?

What do you call that role?

I'm pretty sure it's not the programmer and, if not level designer then who?

[drowsy snow]

Then it's not supported by UE then

[fierce tulip]

animator/cinemator

[drowsy snow]

Directors, animators, cinematographers.

[plush yew]

So, I am looking for an unreal engine animator

[lunar turret]

??

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/BeginnerLinuxDeveloper/SettingUpQtCreator/

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[plush yew]

So, the unreal engine animator is also responsible for character animations, recoil animations, etc.?

[drowsy snow]

UE is a bit too VS centric.

[drowsy snow]

And tbh idgaf about Linux, so #linux

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[plush yew]

Thank you so much for answering my questions!

[drowsy snow]

But to be fair, level designers are sliiiightly responsible for the prop placements but then again it's not their main concern.

[sharp crest]

linux is for nerds who like to waste their time

that personality fits more for unity users tbh

[plush yew]

Aren't they also responsible for environment optimizations?

[drowsy snow]

Linux is good for stuff like servers, but it's a massive exercise in futility for UE development.

[plush yew]

Such as taking care of maximum texture resolution and handling the LODs?

[sharp crest]

servers ofc yes but not for actual usage

[drowsy snow]

That's more of technical artists' role.

[sharp crest]

depends on how indie your team is

[plush yew]

Hold up...
So what does a level designer do? Just put things together?

[sharp crest]

I know it's crazy but, they design the level

[plush yew]

So level designer are basically a rip-off

Nice

[drowsy snow]

Fuck no.

[sharp crest]

[drowsy snow]

They design the level but they'd also think about the gameplay side of things.

[plush yew]

Well from what I understand, they are just putting the integrated models together?

[plush yew]

Ooh. Like what?

[drowsy snow]

As a mapper, I'm offended by that statement.

[plush yew]

My apologies. But I am trying to understand what exactly does a level designer do apart from stitching the level?

Which I can also do?

Does a level designer create UI?

[drowsy snow]

Put models together without some thought, and you get yourself a shit gameplay.

Designing levels have to think about the gameplay in mind, how it going to flow throughout the game.

[plush yew]

9 peeps

[plush yew]

So, if that is already thought and figured out then the level designer is not needed right?

[sharp crest]

seriously, wouldn't worry too much about the labeling.. just think what you need to get done for the game and then find someone who can do it...

[plush yew]

If the entire floor plan is already made and cutscene points are already decided in the GDD

[sharp crest]

sounds like you are really losing yourself on trying to define it, but it's not as complicated as u r making it sound

[plush yew]

Yea, from this discussion I need a technical artist and also a cinemator and an animator to help me create cutscenes and trailer for the game

[drowsy snow]

I just can't assume good faith with that kind of sentence.
Screw you.

[sharp crest]

lol ppl get triggered here so easily sometimes

[plush yew]

Why are you getting offended?

[sharp crest]

I'm so hungry

[plush yew]

Spaghetti and meatballs

[sharp crest]

the pizza is on it's way and I'm dying here waiting for it to come,..

[plush yew]

Pineapple pizza?

[sharp crest]

no..

[plush yew]

Thank the lords.

You will be surprised how many people like pineapple pizza here

[sharp crest]

😅

[lunar turret]

Wait you edited I don't care to idgaf lol

[lunar turret]

And then this

You need to chill

[drowsy snow]

I had a love hate relationship with Linux, so I don't really give a frick. #linux folks may know something about Qt C thingie.

[lunar turret]

Barely condescending

I get that you don't like Linux and I'm fine with it but if someone on Linux asks for help be respectful please

[drowsy snow]

Again, #linux channel for things specific to UE development on Linux. Majority of people on other less platform specific channel still use Windows. You might get some concrete answers there, as Linux users could hang around there.

[lunar turret]

No need to repeat yourself, I got it

But consider what I said

[plush yew]

You know what's funny. Came here for advice and got blocked in less than 2 minutes in this server. That's a guiness world record right there!

[lunar turret]

It's the programmer community

Two types

[drowsy snow]

I apologise, but please don't crap talk on mappers again.

[plush yew]

I was not trying to crap talk. I was just trying to understand their roles and responsibilites.

[plush yew]

Yea, my apologies too for offending you.

[light thunder]

What file do I need to copy over to make sure that my collections from my content browser are on another computer?

[drowsy snow]

The Collections folders? I don't think it goes to Saved folder.

[plush yew]

What I do is I create a new project on the ssd or hard drive that I will take to another computer and then just migrate the content folder into the new project using unreal engine itself.

[drowsy snow]

Collections folder normally got excluded by .gitignore tho

[drowsy snow]

Collections don't get migrated over with Migrate feature.

At least AFAIK - it surely just copying over referenced assets.

[plush yew]

LMAO

[fringe pivot]

Does anyone have experience with the "Merge Actors" tool?
I successfully used it in the past but now everything is greyed out and it says "insufficient mesh components found"

[thick herald]

How many mesh components are there?

[drowsy snow]

You might selecting an actor with no mesh component. Merging actors are just putting together meshes into one actor.

[fringe pivot]

2

[plush yew]

Oh. I thought everything could be migrated.

[fringe pivot]

I'm selecting 2 static meshes, I'm sure this worked in the past

[drowsy snow]

Tried deselecting and attempting to merge again?

[fringe pivot]

Same result I'm afraid

[drowsy snow]

Maybe magic bullet of restarting?

[fringe pivot]

oh nvm, got it

meshes must be dropped in the world first 🤦‍♂️

[ionic bridge]

okay how do i get this "set"

the check range is just a float

[maiden shadow]

Is there a way to build the engine, game and lightmass on a non-Mac machine for macOS? Or we're able to use only hackintoshes for that?

[plush yew]

If you are trying to get Ortho Width then try dragging a pin from Scene Capture Component 2D and then search for "Get Ortho Width"

[vagrant atlas]

How can I check if an actor is movable or not and how can I check it's weight? I have a line trace by channel, and I want to pick up an actor if it is movable and if it's under a mass threshold. I have a cast to actor but I don't know where to go from there.

[maiden shadow]

Does UE have any way of mimicking/replicating Unity scene view with the ability to see the game with all the gismos, editable actor details and controls at least similar to what Unity does?
I'm new to UE and I really miss that ability to have a scene view while the game is running.

[drowsy snow]

I think there's a get mobility enum you can use, and you can get the mass (which be warned, the mass numbers don't make much sense in kg)

[plush yew]

When you find it, let me know too please!

[drowsy snow]

Eject (F8)?

[ionic bridge]

dragging pin?

[plush yew]

You see the blue node "Scene Capture Component 2D". Drag a pin from that node to any empty space and search for "Get Ortho Width"

[maiden shadow]

It's oddly limited and doesn't let me edit any of the active actors. Also I can't find a way to force level or actor loading (like I can do with invisible/inactive actors/game objects in Unity scene view).

[plush yew]

Click on the blue circle on that node and drag it at any empty position, just like how you did it for "Set"

[ionic bridge]

Thank you so much

[plush yew]

Glad to be of help

[drowsy snow]

I'm convinced that you can edit variables marked as editable when the game is running. Also the actor has to be movable for you to be able to move it around.

[maiden shadow]

The community here is fantastic. Do you need donations to keep the Discord running or something? It's so helpful.

[drowsy snow]

The server's boost is already way up, so yeah.

[maiden shadow]

Who owns "Slackers"? They ask for those ever or...?

[maiden shadow]

So I have the game running, I eject from pawn and I can move around, but for example, I can't move my level mesh - it refuses to move. I move it, but it moves only my gizmo and my object is still stuck in the place. In Unity I can do everything as I'm in the editor. Here it seems like actors are kinda locked...
I change mobility from static to movable, but it still refuses to move. I only got a small orange circle mark on it in the actor list.
Oh I think something is odd. Making it movable is required, but also, moving with mouse doesn't work. I need to type in new position manually. Why is that so?

question: how do I bring in light/anim gizmo icons in this F8 mode?

[arctic plover]

I installed a pack of icons, greyscale images with an alpha channel (basically a white icon with no background). Is there a way to make the thumbnails in the UE editors not use "white" as the background for assets with transparency to see them better when browsing?

[drowsy snow]

No.
Unfortunately you'd have to go with the asset names.

[fierce tulip]

be nice if they at the very least provided a big atlas showing each icon for easy pickings :p

[arctic plover]

Well yes, they actually did but this will still be a hindrance in my UI creation process 😏

[fierce tulip]

agreed, hehe

[maiden shadow]

It seems that displaying volume boxes is ON during "F8" mode (game running, but ejecteed), but I still don't see them.

[novel rose]

I'm not seeing any Channels field inside the Details panel of the Skylight. Is it possible to light link a Skylight to specific objects only?

[arctic plover]

Oh hey, it actually works by setting the texture group to "UI"

Now the assets are shown like this:

Which is perfect 😉

[fierce tulip]

ahhh, yea. Mike just mentioned that and was about to tell you XD

[lunar turret]

How do I check if my project is in Cpp or Blueprint?

[fierce tulip]

does it have code in it? then cpp, if it doesnt have code in it. blueprint.
In the end it doesnt matter

[lunar turret]

I have a Cpp classes folder

So I guess it's Cpp?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, it is a C++ project.

[lunar turret]

I'd like to create my character and its movement from scratch

Should I choose actor or pawn?

[drowsy snow]

Pawn.

Pawns are actors that can be possessed.

[lunar turret]

scary

[eager yoke]

hii, i have a problem with a post process material, when i try to use the material become grey, idk why

[drowsy snow]

#graphics

[cosmic terrace]

Hey guys, its a bit of a stupid question but I cant get around it. If I select multiple actors with different locations in editor and want to move them all by 10 units in any axis, how would I do it ? I cant type +10 to "multiple values". This is about the editor and mass moving actors/components not bp logics. Thanks !

[viral carbon]

drag them in translate mode, if there is the three axis arrows that appear

.

[cosmic terrace]

Its very laggy for the amount of actors I have selected and I know exactly how much units I would like to move them by

[drowsy snow]

You might have to resort to making a quick and simple editor utility widget BP - get selected actors in level editor and add world location by 10

[thick loom]

I wonder if anyone has made a plugin to do this

[cosmic terrace]

@drowsy snow I thought about this but im really not experienced in utilities. These id like to move are actually components of a blueprint. Do you know how that would work ?

[thick loom]

I too have wanted to be able to move multiple things by precise amounts by typing a number

Like you can do in Blender

[drowsy wigeon]

Can someone pls tell me what I am doing wrong? Trying to set world aligned texture to tunnel walls and at some places, I got this weird stretching. 😦

[drowsy snow]

Still pretty much the same thing, with added step of looping through components.

[cosmic terrace]

Mmh ive tried that quickly but out of luck. Are you sure it would work with assets and not actors ?

@drowsy snow

[viral carbon]

set grid size on the translate mode to 10 units?

[drowsy snow]

As in assets in the content browser?

[cosmic terrace]

Yea its a blueprint and Id like to offset all of his components

[cosmic terrace]

the 10 units was an exemple, and since its very laggy its kinda hard to know if I snapped it correctly anyway. I was looking for an elegant way of doing this

[hidden wren]

hey guys, i'm literally just starting to use unreal engine, not even a week ago. i was wondering if i should, first, learn C++ or Blueprint for better effectiveness in the long run?

[drowsy snow]

Not even a week, so BP first.

Get accustomed to the engine's way of doing things.

[hidden wren]

ah, ok, thank you.

[mortal cedar]

I saw this comment on reddit. Is the robo recall project available to download? I cant find it

[grim ore]

it's now located in the store itself on the launcher @mortal cedar

[prisma palm]

Question: Is it possible to rotate the orthogonal viewport? If I'm in Top-down view, can I rotate that view so that I'm top-down but the viewport is rotated 25 or so degrees? A level I'm working on has a specific chunk that's laid out more or less isometrically and it's kind of melting my brain to line up volumes with all the lines slanted.

[young sparrow]

Property matrix

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/ToolsAndEditors/PropertyMatrix/

Should be able to adjust it in a spreadsheet format

[kindred depot]

this is not how you approach this method. let me find the video for you

[drowsy wigeon]

@kindred depot Thx, I will appreciate it. I saw some videos and this is what I got ... it looks fine on some meshes, not this one though

[kindred depot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ncmcmarRI&ab_channel=RoryTownsend

some master materials on assets come with this as well 😉 I will forever use this.

you can overlap meshes with out the material having a seizure. Everything becomes one.

[drowsy wigeon]

@kindred depot Yeah, that is what I wanted to use. Honestly, I did not yet use UV unwrap for my meshes, because so far I prefered to use common materials (like colored plastic, metal, concrete) and just world align them on my meshes. Not sure if this is good approach, but I like it, since now I can easily modify base baterials without redoing my meshes easily.

[thick loom]

This looks very useful. Thanks for sharing!

[kindred depot]

Well you can just make this into a material function as well on your master material so not everything will be macro'd. I have this, and POM and lots others added to my master mat.

just use it as a make material attributes.

and use a on off switcher 😉

[drowsy wigeon]

@kindred depot I just checked that video and that guy did literally the same as me in chart above. So what's wrong?

The only difference is, he used Vector3 for TextureSize and I used float - which does not matter, since 100 float gets converted to 100,100,100 anyway (he just have option to use different tile size for different axis)

[kindred depot]

give me a minute, i need to compile 25k shaders to load my project. ill post what i did.

[drowsy wigeon]

OK 😄

I am worried it is somehow tied to a mesh, because when I make giant plane next to it, it does NOT have this issue. But it is weird, since it does not use any mesh data, so bad UV or normal on mesh shouldn't matter

[kindred depot]

has nothing to do with mesh, unless the mesh has like stripe pines going down the side.

a macro'd texture will macro no matter the object.

[drowsy wigeon]

no, that side which got stretched is pretty big flat face

[kindred depot]

like i said it should not matter xD

[drowsy wigeon]

that's what I think as well. But yet, there is some issue I can't find 😄

[kindred depot]

I used a different approach to do this i think, that is the wrong video.

once this loads..

[hardy rock]

Does anyone use Rust Lang instead of Unreal Engine C++ ?

[finite mica]

Is there a way for multiple people to work on the same unreal project at the same time?

[young sparrow]

You're probably looking for Amethyst for a rust Lang game engine, not sure if there's a rust lang plug in for UE?

[kindred depot]

@drowsy wigeon try using a 3vector on the texture size

[young sparrow]

Glad to help! I only just learned about it the other night while listening to an unreal stream

[hardy rock]

Oh, I didn't know...

thx

Is it meaningless to use Rust?

[grim ore]

Is it meaningful to use Rust?

[hardy rock]

It may be a silly idea, but I wanted to start Rust and Unreal at the same time.

[grim ore]

yes, it is silly

[hardy rock]

I see. I'm sorry if I made you feel bad.

[viral veldt]

What's the difference between Launch and Play Standalone on the same PC?

[keen pecan]

I been working with Blender but what's a better 3d modeling/texturing program for building unreal engine 5 assets...so high poly/nanite

[thick herald]

Zbrush

[keen pecan]

Moa. Thanks I was looking at zbrush or 3d coat..but was just trying to get a feel with what people use for aaa type assets. I like to use displacements with sculping in blender a lot I just feel its so limited.

[river crypt]

haya guys quick question regarding foliage painting, for some reason when I select my foilage and try to paint it, it does not show the usual circle in fact nothing comes up and Im unable to place any trees. Does anyone know what the issue might be? Should be something simple

I did enable landmass plugin as well if that might be an issue

[keen pecan]

EmpHyper did you make sure your foliage pieces were check marked?

[river crypt]

as in the selector area?

yes

I have two trees enabled there

[keen pecan]

Ok I was thinking it was not selected or something simple.

[river crypt]

are there any other settings that might cause this issue?

[grim ore]

@viral veldtLaunch is mainly used for mobile or connected devices, you really dont want to use Launch unless you know what you are doing. Launch is for advanced use

if you dont see the brush for painting, there is no collision for it to paint on @river crypt

[obsidian nimbus]

@keen pecan on artstation they often mention what software they used

its more of a time spend than tools used kinda game tho

[keen pecan]

@obsidian nimbus Umm ill have to check out artstation. Also looking for courses to take but most ue5 courses I've seen aren't that great right now.

[obsidian nimbus]

if u browse channels and not main page u dont need a login

Zbrush is prolly king in high poly sculpt... but if you want to do a bunch of other stuff u might want to do it all in blender for consistency

[grim ore]

well UE5 is not out yet so that might be a cause for them not being great

[keen pecan]

@grim ore Ya I understand that, just difficult when you are trying to learn the program is all.

@obsidian nimbus Ya I only needed blender for game models but its just showing how limited its been lately for what I need it for. Ill check out zbrush and that artstation place. Thanks.

[obsidian nimbus]

limited how?

can handle fairly high poly sculpts no prob

[alpine mural]

HI me not demonstrations my windows

pls relog rulus server

help

[lapis ore]

I've got actors with huge scale values in a level. I need to get 1,1,1 scale values on them so that I can run RBD VAT simulations on them. I remember there used to be a way to do that in Maya. How can I "hide" the scale transforms on these actors?

[river crypt]

Hm thats weird the landscape does have collision tho

[lapis ore]

I did it with Merge Actors

[keen pecan]

@obsidian nimbus Ya I guess blender does have the potential. I am more into environmental art and making buildings and hard surfaced items I just wanted more details. Maybe I need to do more sculpting tutorials for blender..but I'm aiming for the chips in the bricks and the texture displacement sculps and such. If you have any advice on where to start with blender for that direction Id be grateful tho.

[obsidian nimbus]

you can use a texture as a brush

just watch some recent sculpting tuts, every1 has his own style and methods

[prime willow]

when i try to paint my landmass using the sculpt brush itll crash my game out of no where under the: " GPU & D3D Device removed Crash"

[coral wigeon]

anyone know how to set the memory limit for the UnrealBuiltTool?

[keen pecan]

@obsidian nimbus Thanks ya ill do some more tutorials into sculpting..I always worry that since I'm doing it on a mouse it wont look that decent. And no I didn't know you could use a texture as a brush. I have done so many blender courses and haven't seen anything like this yet.

[dense knoll]

Is there a way to change UE's default package tag to a custom string?

[obsidian nimbus]

yea u might want a pad to sculpt with

[grim violet]

Hey does anyone know how to use Live Link? I am trying to use it on my metahuman after I posed it using the control rig and now the face no longer moves. The head moves, but not the face

[shadow estuary]

i am using scene capture 2d + render target to generate a dynamic material for a scope, i want to add an aiming reticule on top but idk if you can create dynamic layered materials or what, any tips for this?

[small pewter]

Is it possible to have a material exposed on spawn but when you click on the dropdown list it only shows some materials instead of all materials (like maybe only materials from a folder in the Content) ?

[tight canopy]

So i have a procedral generation that goes infinitely works fine...., but the character after 1048534 x or y deletes its self

How would this be over come in a multiplayer setting

[shadow estuary]

probably, make sure you are only generating the environments players are near, when i did this for a minecraft clone, i had a chunk render distance, and would only generate and render those chunks when a player was within that distance

[tight canopy]

Yeah that's how it is currently!

It's just in general regardless of my enviroment the player controller deletes itself

Past a certain distance

[shadow estuary]

ah there is an actor net cull distance or something

where if the actor goes past that it gets deleted

maybe thats the cause?

there is also a max map size for unreal idk the number

but if you go past that actors auto delete

youd likely need to do level streaming or something to fix that, but i dont have exp there

[tight canopy]

I see apperently i'm supposed to rebase world position every so often when doing a project like this

[fossil nexus]

I have too many functions in my blueprint. Is there a way to organize this better? Something like when you put functions in a C++ structure or class function methods?

[bleak zodiac]

you can collapse into Function

[small jay]

So I didn't get an answer so I migrated the project to a new file. Worked fine, but now when I try to build lighting, it fails every time. The only error I get it that I need to rebuild lighting lol.

[fossil nexus]

What do you mean? Can i create a tab for different types of functions? Cant see how to do that

[tight canopy]

Is there any tutorials on how rebasing works? I see alot of videos showing it off

Also the version we are using is UE5 so i think that works in our favor hopefully

Oh yeah it's deprecated now right? Whats the altenrative to it

[night bridge]

new version is called World Partition

[bronze oyster]

Does anyone know what these suffixes are

[grim violet]

I am rendering out a custom pose and for some reason the camera cut is showing a different head position than viewport.

[elder badger]

Hey guys I have a sequencer question I recorder a car I rigged the game and recorded its data movements and made it an animation in the preview it looks great and worked properly but when I render it doesn't work it doesn't follow the animation only when I render

[rapid lark]

how do people in the industry collaborate with eachother, is it through the multi user editor

[bronze oyster]

Does anyone know what these suffixes are

[elder badger]

what are you trying to do

[bronze oyster]

Import them into blender for a material

[drowsy snow]

No. We use source control.

[grim ore]

@bronze oysterthe suffixes should match the item if you mouse over them. chances are T is Texture, MI is Material Instance. but it depends on the software you are using and it's standards if any

blah suffix, not prefix. its going to depend on who did it and for what software and when. N is usually Normal Map, BC is probably Base Color. Here are some examples, multiple letters normally refer to packed textures https://github.com/Allar/ue5-style-guide

[rapid lark]

what is that and also is there a video i can watch to get starte

d

[grim ore]

yes, Epic does.... https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/SourceControl and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faYmvw_Pd-A for starters

first two result from the google

also literally what you are asking about, collaboration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywu4l1RTFPU

[bronze oyster]

I refer to the letters at the end BC_N P_PX

[grim ore]

yes I replied with that

[grim ore]

here

the issue comes when people start packing textures and use whatever they feel like. normally its the RGB(A) order. honestly you have to either guess or the author tells you

[bronze oyster]

Ok

[grim ore]

if you are lucky it should match the nodes on the material when you open it up (like BC for Base Color and N for Normal) but P... and PX... it could be a color map or who knows 😦

[viscid ledge]

I have this widget component placed above the player's head. I want to reference custom functions declared in the included widget class. However, I cannot figure out which function I should use in the blueprint which allows me to get the widget class. Anyone have any ideas?

[grim ore]

get the widget component variable, its in your variable list. then get the user widget from it (this is the actual widget that it is holding), then cast it to your widgets class and then you have access to it like you want

[prime willow]

you ever discover

a tool that unreal created

and youre just bewildered

at how insanely amazing it is and accesible

[grim ore]

yep all the time lol

[prime willow]

i just discovered landmass

i didnt even know this could be done in game engines ._.

[quaint stirrup]

@prime willow

what is that like the terrain editor?

[grim ore]

yes but on steroids, you can do non destructive changes as well as program blueprints for modifying it

[quaint stirrup]

I need to learn blueprints

it seems like its going to take a while

[grim ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwJiN8LLnQI

[quaint stirrup]

matthew

would you like to be my friend 🙂

I believe that we are now friends

[olive orchid]

Is there a better way to scale textures that are on multiple surfaces? Every time I do, it scales EVERYTHING & ruins it depending on the sizes of the geometry..

Ok, thanks.. I’ll look in to that..

[prime willow]

exactly what lord matheww said

exactly that

[quaint stirrup]

yez

I am yet to make a terrain but it looks pretty fun in unreal engine

I can't wait to make some environments in it

[ember token]

You serious Qualcomm????

How to fix ue4.27 d3d12 error on Surface Pro X

[grim violet]

YIKES

[fickle bear]

material girl

[grave spruce]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp61Z9jOJk8 jp exclusive stream

[oblique tangle]

probably a really basic question, but is there anyway to push an animation back 'x' amount without needing to edit it's position in an animation software? i've got an animation but it's just off the capsule by a bit (around -40 units on the local y)
don't want to need to dynamically adjust it in the anim bp either as i need the anim for a blendspace

[stable path]

You can change the actors position when the animation starts and set it back to original pos when it ends
But its a hacky way of doing things and is not recommended

You're better of doing it from an animation software

[prime willow]

are you or anyone else free

i want to set my game/unreal engine to 1024 texture resolutions by default

instead of being able to touch or use 2k or 4k

how do i force my stuff down to 1024 :C

@drowsy snow ;-; send help

[stable path]

Do you mean setting the max texture size?
I don't know about a global setting unfortunately
But I believe, in the texture editor there is a setting for max size for that texture
So, you would have to set it on every texture one by one

[dark depot]

^select everything open bulk editor or import at the size you wantin the first place

[stable path]

This might be more useful
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Textures/SupportAndSettings/

[prime willow]

well

i can reimport my textures at 1024

my problem is my landmass plugin is doing everything at 4k

._.;

and i just want it to be 1024 no higher than that

i cant even clone the landmass rock maker because its saying its another 4k setup

https://tenor.com/view/mood-gif-14739124

[stable path]

maybe cause you have currently imported the textures at 4k?

[prime willow]

oh

wwaaaaaait

you may have a point!

im using an auto landscape add on for texturing my landscape

[prime willow]

you have big pp eneergy never change we sincerely appreciate you ❤️

https://gyazo.com/1da77f67e6b698ff16128135dc4a960c

you were right

theres the problem right there

[stable path]

So, reimport them?

[prime willow]

thats the goal ❤️

[prime willow]

ok so my landscape however is set at a static 4k

https://gyazo.com/2c67d4b8c317502913e7aa1a49a3d05f

Would using a runtime virtual volume be the possible option to force it to 1024

oh found fix

i jsut had to resample

[plush yew]

Dos anyone want to be friends

[grim violet]

Does anyone know how to turn off sky reflections? I am trying to do a render with roughness and metallic maps but the clouds are reflecting on the face making it look weird, is it possible to disable the clouds reflecting but keep the metallic and shiny effect?

I know its related to the sky light but I am a beginner in UE and confused lol

[regal narwhal]

Hello. In the last week one of my UE4 project started to lagg pretty hard. Is there any way to find the asset or reason behind this lagg?

on my laptop both, but on my much better PC lagging while playing the project. (a TPS template working without lag on my laptop too)

[drowsy snow]

You can set Max LOD Texture size on per platform basis.

[regal narwhal]

Yes. There is a pawn, the map (a building), the player and a widget with buttons, images, a lot of stuff with can navigate the pawn. I used this bps since the start so i don't know why is lagging in for days now.

[wet briar]

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[spice ruin]

I'd suggest reinstalling the launcher

[wet briar]

Tried that, didn't work

[spice ruin]

https://appuals.com/fix-error-0xc00007b-application-was-unable-to-start-correctly/ suggests google

[wet briar]

Yep, already tried everything on that page

[vagrant atlas]

how can I get the angle of the mouse to the center of the screen? I already have the x and y positions of the mouse, I just don't know how to do the math.

[drowsy snow]

Basically trigonometry using X and Y position, half coordinate, and pythagorean formula to calculate the length from the center

[modest trench]

https://www.omnicalculator.com/math/right-triangle-side-angle#how-to-find-the-angle-of-a-right-triangle

[plush yew]

why is this happening? when I press play it's a different lightning and color than editor mode

auto exposure is off

but in post process exposure is 10

nvm, it was real time capture 😄

[bleak zodiac]

#packaging

[ionic bridge]

After a while I finally did a fog of war by following this tutorial: https://hippowombat.medium.com/tutorial-line-of-sight-visualizer-for-unreal-engine-f32113b1f6f3

BUT i want to add a max view distance... with the attached screen shot you can see the red circle and the red X marking where I DO NOT want to be able to see. Meaning I want to be able to see only inside the radius.

Any suggestions?

[plush yew]

I am trying to figure out who is responsible for making a game trailer and how is it made? Is it the Unreal cinemator or animator who makes game trailers? I have been trying to YouTube how to make game trailers and all I get is "how to make a game trailer that is good" but not actually about creating the trailer or the steps involved.

[oak gate]

Hey Guys, I'm having a "polishing issue" where the character controller goes up/down too fast on the floor . Is there a settings I don't know about that could ease up that thing?

[plush yew]

I had that issue once. What I did was I changed the collision of the box and made it a ramp. Like how you double click on the box and then choose "convex" collision and then change the collision to mimic that of a ramp. That worked for my taste, but I do not know if that would work for your taste or not.

[oak gate]

it's a heavy solution to put in place and I wanted to avoid that 🙂
In this zone, i've made it to mimic the levels in game with assets, so I could test it up 🙂

[plush yew]

Did you try increasing the step height of the character?

[plush yew]

Yea, for me luckily I found this issue early on before level designing

[oak gate]

yeah, it's actually because it's high that it does that 😄

[kindred depot]

You should do what i did as well. Make your own Post process blueprint and inside this pawn has different settings for it. I clamped the post process different for each level 😛

[jolly plank]

anyone know how to get instanced mesh to work on mobile?

[plush yew]

GUYS HELP I WANA USE RINTERP TO INSIDE A FUNCTION BUT I HAVE NO WAY TO GET DELTA TIME FROM IN THERE

[tender ember]

Hello I downloaded a texture from Quixel and it doesn't show the material it only has M instance. also I how do I remove it from my landscape so I have that checked pattern again?

[drowsy snow]

CAN YOU GET THE SAME DELTA TIME FLOAT YOU USED FOR RINTERP?

(seriously take off that caps lock)

[plush yew]

what do you mean?

I used event tick but i want to run it inside of a function where event tick cant be used

Basically my goal is a Turn_Right function that smoothly turns the camera 90 degress

Oh! Maybe i can have my level bp change a global variable?

[stable path]

I don't think you can smoothly run RInterp in a function, A function only runs once

[modest trench]

be careful with LevelBPs, most people avoid them in favor of manager actors etc they can actually move around and share between levels

[plush yew]

so you guys think it's not possible? Do i take the BoolCheckAThousandConditions path?

[thick herald]

Yup, all Bridge materials use a master Material and create instances based on that. Just click on the little arrow and pick a new material, Unreals default one is listed.

[tender ember]

oh ok, in my tutorial the guy has the same material but it is working and mine is just plain black

[stable path]

Maybe you can use a Timeline?
But you can't use a Timeline in a function either, you'll have to use an Event

[kindred depot]

This actually works for you guys? I have been trying to get this to work for a long time lol. I have been manually selecting my textures to my mats >_<

[plush yew]

This is what i got right now, but ill have to do the same for going back now

[plush yew]

oh ok

[drowsy snow]

Or macros

[thick herald]

Not sure what you mean, all I said was how to reset the material to something else?

[tender ember]

it is blank somehow but it used to be black idk why it didn't import it properly

[kindred depot]

Oh sorry man. In my mind it was importing from mega scans and you can select your own material for the textures to import with not the MS preset.

[thick herald]

😄

[plush yew]

Could you open the material shader?

[kindred depot]

Myb xD

[plush yew]

How do i make events?

[thick herald]

@tender ember Megascans do not have any landscape materials

[kindred depot]

right click type custom event

[thick herald]

They have textures you can add to one though

[stable path]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Events/Custom/

[plush yew]

Thank you

[tender ember]

this is not a landscape material it's just a simple texture I'm gonna use as one

[kindred depot]

I really with that feature worked with megascans, has anyone gotten it to work? You are able to import there textures to your master material but for some reason this out of the box has never actually worked.

[tender ember]

I guess I should connect them manually wdyt?

[plush yew]

Yep. Try connecting them and let's see what happens next?

[tender ember]

which ones should I connect?

[thick herald]

It should cover the entire landscape with that one material

[tender ember]

yeah that's the whole point as I said I'm watching a tutorial and do everything as the guy says but it doesn't seem to work:(

I know PBR workflow but idk unreal yet

[kindred depot]

https://www.unrealsensei.com/asset/autolandscape

there you go free, the free, free.

[plush yew]

Im not sure..

[tender ember]

too early for that yet I'm watching ben cloward

[thick herald]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/Landscape/TechnicalGuide/ and https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/ are good starting points or the official learning hub 🙂

[tender ember]

I watched sensei's videos but he doesn't explain every single node

thanks guys

[drowsy snow]

If you want every single node explanations, better check out Mathew Wadstein's channel.

The explanations were on per node basis.

[tender ember]

for example these ones I see for the first time in my life

[thick herald]

Those are material functions

[tender ember]

should I connect result to UV's or roation and which node or should I combine them somehow

[drowsy snow]

You can open them to see what it's doing

Double click on it and you'll be presented by the graph view that makes up the function

[tender ember]

yeah I tried to connect them but it gave me an error

[plush yew]

One last thing, how do i limit it to just turning 90 degrees and then stopping?

[drowsy snow]

I don't think you need RInterp To if you're going to use Timeline.

[tender ember]

my question is what should I do so my megascans texture works properly in UE coz I can't go on with the tutorial?

[plush yew]

Honestly, they should have come connected. Idk why they didnt come connected.

[plush yew]

huh, then what do i do?

[tender ember]

yeah me neither I used to import them and it was fine

[drowsy snow]

IMHO you should make your own materials for them megascans. It's what I did.

[tender ember]

maybe I should open UE5 coz Idk the interface of ue4 that well

[drowsy snow]

I have many hit or miss experiences with the importing process myself from Bridge.

[plush yew]

Could you double click on the material function and share it?

[tender ember]

sorry I don't understand what you mean. I'm watching beginner series on landscape and materials

[tender ember]

I have several which one? the tiling ones or adjustments?

[plush yew]

Let's start with the tiling one

[drowsy snow]

I mean making the materials from the ground up, using textures from megascans.

[plush yew]

The tiling one should connect to UV

[plush yew]

I second that.

[drowsy snow]

https://youtu.be/lngF4VVNER4

[tender ember]

lemme open up the function

[drowsy snow]

Old tut, but still relevant to this very day

[kindred depot]

I understand how things work, I rather just pay for them to work correctly from the marketplace lol

[plush yew]

Oooh seems like you have some missing functions that are not going into the adjustments

[tender ember]

I can create a material using those textures but I wanna this material to be exactly as in the video so I don't have other problems in the future

I'd just make a pbr set up with a texture coordinate node and tiled it up and that's all

[drowsy snow]

An issue too common for myself to experience with it lmao

[drowsy snow]

At best you're going to remake it anyway, because of leveraging landscape layers.

[plush yew]

Yea.. I can't help you there as well

[tender ember]

it's so hard to start do you guys know any free or paid courses on a detailed explanation of UE? I already watched everything by Unreal Sensei and that's not doing it for me rn I'll go back to them later for sure

[kindred depot]

What are you trying to accomplish.

[plush yew]

Seems like you are interested in material shading?

What do you exactly want to do with UE?

[tender ember]

I'm an environment artist I work in Blender

I wanna start using UE

[plush yew]

I recommend starting to learn how to blockout scenes

[kindred depot]

Yes we get that, but what kind of material are you trying to accomplish. like RVT, layering

[plush yew]

then creating terrains

[tender ember]

If it was up to me I'd never used nodes but it's something we have to do haha

[plush yew]

and then learning about environmental optimizations,

[plush yew]

It's actually fun once you understand it.

[drowsy snow]

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

[tender ember]

ok lemme actually show you my tutorial

[drowsy snow]

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

Reposted because nobody reads pinned message

[tender ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDoy-N1ODQ&list=PL78XDi0TS4lHwqv_PmXAdedT2SH1qeRqK&index=4

start at minute 10

[plush yew]

I dont recommend going this route personally....

Just learn what you want to learn from those above links...

Not all of the,

them*

[kindred depot]

I'm a simple man I use brushify and merged all my functions into it.

[tender ember]

isn't brushify super expensive?

[thick herald]

That tutorial is good, if it's not working for you, it means you've made a mistake.

[drowsy snow]

Yes, but some of them used to be free for a limited amount of time.

[kindred depot]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/brushify-shaders-pack

10 bucks.

[drowsy snow]

But that was way back when

[kindred depot]

lol

[thick herald]

Depends on what you call expensive. It's subjective.

[drowsy snow]

I personally think it's worth the time cost to make them from scratch, but it's just me.

[tender ember]

the thing is I've alreaady watched a lot of official and youtube beginner tutorials and they all talk about general things like interface etc. But I wanna get into world building. they show game buidling but I need cinematics. I don't need c++ stuff you know or blueprints although I'll def gonna learn blueprints later on

[drowsy snow]

I'm not sure if the links to the courses I posted above is invisible to you.

[tender ember]

I imported the texture and it looks black so idk how else should I do it

[drowsy snow]

The last one even mentions world building

[thick herald]

Agree that learning how to make your own from scratch ultimately gives you more knowledge and control.

[tender ember]

I'm looking into them thanks. the chat is so fast haha

[drowsy snow]

I personally hide it in DCC tool, which means the skin is part of the cloth mesh, but you can use masked opacity and hide the skins underneath according to texture.

The former is kind of tedious to make because you have to have the master nude body at all times, but more foolproof in code, while the latter is quicker to make but difficult to manage in code.

[tender ember]

I'm gonna start the world building one thanks

[thick herald]

In that material graph you showed - the output node to the far right. Click on it and look in the details panel, there will be a checkbox saying something like 'Use Material Attributes' uncheck that. Plug in all the textures into the new node that magically appeared, ignore the rest. That will now work as a very very basic material. Getting it to look good is your next mission 😉 😄

[bleak zodiac]

First hour in sequencer is also worth for cinematic

[tender ember]

I already have some fundamental knowledge from Sensei and Ben I just want more details and undertanding and not just copypasting the tutorials and pre-prepared autolandscape materials you know

ok thanks guys💛

[vagrant atlas]

Is there a way that if I subtract two numbers, the smaller number is always subtracted?

[thick herald]

If all the materials you download from Megascans do that, it means something is wrong with the plugin [assuming you are using bridge]

[stable path]

Get the Absolute of the result

[vagrant atlas]

ok, thanks! :)

[tender ember]

it's def UE4 coz I've never had any problems with importing to UE5

[drowsy snow]

And it goes wrong like almost all the time lmao

[kindred depot]

To show off your Level, Would you rather have; a cinematic camera flying through out your whole entire level, or a post process mounted to the camera in the characters bp showing the beauty in a first person view.

[drowsy snow]

UE5 has built in Bridge, that's why.

That was not the case with UE4, which I still use to this very day.

(and maybe until I'm fully done with my current game project, all DLC finished, and what's left is Deluxe edition using UE5 feature set)

UE5 has more engine level integration into Bridge, compared to standalone Bridge route UE4 has to go through as a mere higher level plugin.

It's really a side product of Epic acquiring Quixel before UE5 become a real thing

[plush yew]

No idea how to do it, I always copy details from projects and just paste them but it does not allow to paste all the time. Have like 4 different levels with same scenery, trying out different lightning.

[tender ember]

yeah I kinda started learning UE not at the best time haha I learn both UE4 and UE5 coz there aren't much tuts on UE5 yet

[drowsy snow]

FWIW you should stick with UE4 in the meantime until UE5 is fully released. You can then continue where you left off.

[tender ember]

thank you 💛

[plush yew]

can someone help me - i have made an animation blueprint with animations from the paragon sample characters in the unreal marketplace, but the animations are really snappy and go to the next anim instantly like with walking. is there any solution to this?

[drowsy snow]

Can't recall exactly the name of the setting, but there's a setting to set the blend duration for a state transition

[plush yew]

ok

also i have 3 animations for jumping, the start, the looping middle and the end, how would i get them to play at the right time without having just a single animation for falling

[vagrant atlas]

I have a spring arm that holds objects, and when I play it rotates (opposite to the player). Is there something I can do?

[plush yew]

Hi everyone! hope you're having all a great weekend.. i'm looking for a tutorial on how to do a simple rigid body simulation with unreal? (the same way you could do it with houdini).. basically just want to have a static body animated and having simulation of rigid bodies

[ebon marlin]

So I recently switched from a 2560x1440 @144hz display to a 1920x1080 @60hz display and noticed that mouse inputs aren't registering, apparently this happens when I move my mouse too much to the right or left, even if the UE window is in focused, and even when it's in fullscreen mode. Did anyone experience the same thing? On 4.27 btw

[vagrant atlas]

Is it a problem with a HUD?

[ebon marlin]

Not HUD related afaik, just normal player controller inputs

[vagrant atlas]

Maybe the scene is still 2560x1440

[ebon marlin]

Click on your static mesh or primitive component and toggle 'simulate physics' in the details panel

[ebon marlin]

The viewport? It's certainly at 1080p

[plush yew]

thank you! trying it out!

[ebon marlin]

I think what's happening is for some reason UE is failing to glue my cursor the center of the window? And is instead just clamping my mouse to the window's regions

[vagrant atlas]

while playing do you play in selected view port or are you playing in new editor window

[ebon marlin]

Standalone window

[plush yew]

working like a charm! thank you!

[ebon marlin]

And it also happened in a packaged build, didn't happen in editor PIE

[vagrant atlas]

try to use the console to change the resolution the the one of the screen you use now

the problem might be that the game window is bigger than your screen, but mouse input only counts when it's on that screen

[ebon marlin]

Oh, I just tried r.SetRes 1920x1080f and it seemed to work, TIL hitting F11 doesn't actually put you in 'real' fullscreen
but r.SetRes 1920x1080w still had the problem

[ebon marlin]

Interesting, but odd that it happens, seems like something UE should fix

[vagrant atlas]

but it's also supposed to give you as much control as possible

[ebon marlin]

True

Thanks for the guidance 😍

[plush yew]

last one, how to adjust the static collider object i'm trying to make a sphere simulate inside a cube, but right now once i hit play, the sphere moves out of the cube

[ebon marlin]

Double click the static mesh asset you're using, it should open the static mesh editor

In it, click on the collision menu and check 'simple collision'

it should show you a bunch of green collision primitives, and you can add/remove/transform them to edit the colliders

(if thats what you meant)

you can make your cube/box hollow and stuff

otherwise the sphere popping out of a solid collider is expected behavior

[plush yew]

thank you! trying it out

[vagrant atlas]

Does anyone know what I can do about this?

[modest trench]

you could maybe lock the rotation on one axis

at least you can do that for physics objects

you just need to make it not follow the parent component's rotation

[vagrant atlas]

by locking, to you mean to set the rotation every tick? I've tried that, and it didn't work

[lunar turret]

How do I tell my gamemode to use an instance of a class as my character?

[plush yew]

how do I get mdl nodes to work in unreal or is that even a thing

[vagrant atlas]

@lunar turret Project settings > Maps & Modes > Default modes > Selected Gamemode >Default Pawn Class

[lunar turret]

This asks for a class not an instance

[plush yew]

i just really dont like unreal engines shader editor

[lunar turret]

Or an actor

[vagrant atlas]

then make a pawn or character how you want, and set it to be the default and make other pawns for the other instances

[lunar turret]

Set it to be default?

Default pawn class?

[vagrant atlas]

yes

[lunar turret]

I don't really get what you mean

I have my class written in Cpp

And I make it have a mesh in my actor details

But the mesh is just actor specific

Meaning that when my game starts I play as a pawn with no mesh

This is my issue

[vagrant atlas]

make a pawn as your player, and copy that pawn (so that you have two separate pawns in your files) and use them as the other instances

[lunar turret]

Oh so it can't be an instance?

It has to be another separate class?

[vagrant atlas]

well, I personally don't know a way to control a specific instance of a pawn

[lunar turret]

Alright thx

[vagrant atlas]

but having a separate one as the player might help with the blueprints so that not everything has a lot of them

[wet briar]

Alright so I tried to build UE4 from source from github, but for some reason when building it in VS, it said ran out of heap space

How do I fix that?

[drowsy snow]

Heap space... Maybe RAM issue?

[plush yew]

working great thank you!

[plush yew]

also, i have a fbx with many geometries inside.. is it possible to simulate physics for each individual geo inside? or should i rather import the fbx and untick 'combine mesh' ?

[drowsy snow]

Should be the latter.

[plush yew]

in the fbx mesh?

[wet briar]

Also another issue building the engine, Visual Studio gives me this when opening UE4.sln:

But on the download page there is no link for the 4.5 developer pack?

[drowsy snow]

As in importing without combining the mesh if you already have split meshes in it

[oak patio]

Try the reccomended option then

[ebon marlin]

maybe its a skeletal mesh?

[drowsy snow]

This alone worth #engine-source talk

[wet briar]

Ah didn't know that was a thing, thanks

[drowsy snow]

I won't recommend it. It breaks when you build it with 4.8

[oak patio]

Ah mb then

[drowsy snow]

I've been struggling with that issue for a week.

[oak patio]

That sounds painful

Is there any particular reason people build from source over the launcher, engine modding aside?

[drowsy snow]

Dedicated servers.

[oak patio]

Ah that makes sense

[drowsy snow]

That's like the most common reason people who asked about engine source

[modest trench]

A lot of my changes are just making stuff public

[drowsy snow]

Meanwhile me adding super epic anime shading model and super epic lens flares

[modest trench]

Yeah it's kinda rough going changing rendering in ue4

Definitely a weak aspect of it

[drowsy snow]

I admit Unity wins on this regard, is that you can use "light bending" HLSL codes without Plus tier to get the source code

[modest trench]

Years ago they changed the bloom calculation thingy and messed with many a project

[drowsy snow]

Was it 4.25?

Or maybe around 4.15

[modest trench]

I think it was around 15

[drowsy snow]

It was the point where they use ACES Filmic tonemapper

Then around 4.16 removes the legacy tonemapper entirely

[modest trench]

Omg, that too

[ebon marlin]

was the legacy tonemapper better?

[modest trench]

I prefer the new one

But it's a pretty big change visually

At least here I believe using your own should be possible

Or at least easier to mess with in source than other render features afaik

[ebon marlin]

ive been messing with capsule shadows' source code a bit

there are a lot of hardcoded values in the compute shader that should be CVars IMO

they really help fit capsule shadows to custom usage and also help with working around some limitations of the current configuration

[drowsy snow]

Prefer the new one as well tbh

[plush yew]

can you decrease light quality?

50 spotlights

but to light it all it takes like 200-300

and fps drops are huge

[drowsy snow]

You can fade out light in distance.

I think one video from UE YT channel on Fortnite talks about this

[plush yew]

ok

[drowsy snow]

https://youtu.be/vef_ZPLhjt8

[plush yew]

oh yeah

i remember this one

[drowsy snow]

Also with that kind of light setup, you may want to consider disabling shadow casting on them

[plush yew]

how about rect light?

it kinda lights up floor and ceiling nicely

[drowsy snow]

Still the same

Disabling shadow casting works on all type of light probes

Though interestingly there's no option to disable shadow casting on distance

[lunar turret]

How do I make a certain socket's arrows not rotated anymore again?

Like there

You can see the arrows are rotated a bit

How do I stop that?

[plush yew]

ok, thanks

[ebon marlin]

click on this button thingy, it should probably look like a cube woops

[drowsy snow]

I don't consider using them, the engine blacklisted any Intel GPU from using mesh DFs (atm it's obviously iGPU in Intel CPUs, but who knows if this includes future Intel dGPUs)

Just falls back to traditional shadowmaps.

That means no soft shadows or any other feature using mesh DF on Intel GPU

Yeah, it was hardcoded to blacklist any GPU from Intel.
I'm too afraid to remove it lmao, felt like not worth rebuilding the engine with my less than thread ripping rig just to test it

[ebon marlin]

oof, I didnt know capsule shadows weren't supported on intel GPUs

[drowsy snow]

Capsule shadows actually supported on intel GPUs.

[ebon marlin]

but not distance field shadows?

[drowsy snow]

Capsule shadows don't share the same code as mesh DF

[ebon marlin]

What about indirect distance field shadows?

Because afaik all r.CapsuleShadowsX commands affect both, the engine handles them in the same files, etc

[drowsy snow]

From https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LightingAndShadows/MeshDistanceFields/

[drowsy snow]

Anything involves mesh DF data is blacklisted from intel GPUs.

[ebon marlin]

dang

[drowsy snow]

Which means no consistency from super epic niagara effects

[ebon marlin]

the gotchas list is getting bigger

[drowsy snow]

And I'm all craving for consistency and hardware agnostics

[ebon marlin]

does Lumen use distance fields? I forgot

[drowsy snow]

I still have faith on low spec gaming after all
But that doesn't ignore possibility with upcoming Intel's dedicated GPUs

[ebon marlin]

If it does, it's more likely epic are putting extra effort into working around that limitation

[drowsy snow]

Either that, or more likely Virtual Shadow Maps

[ebon marlin]

I don't think virtual shadow maps have to do with Lumen, VSMs are for direct lighting (afaik?)

what's a good site to check intel GPUs usage worldwide?

[drowsy snow]

I forgot the site, but I know Steam has the statistics for that

Though that's not putting into account regional factors.

[ebon marlin]

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

its not an awful situation, but not ideal either

I had no idea Nvidia was dominating AMD so hard

[drowsy snow]

NVIDIA's marketing is much more aggresive.

Also RTX.

Though maybe RX 6900 XT (nice) started to support HW accelerated RT

[vagrant atlas]

I have a problem where I have a box collision in an actor and it's collision settings are "overlap all" but (while in game) when I drop a cube on it it's not being detected

[rapid lark]

hey if theres anyone out there who is experienced in making Cyber punk themed cities I was just curious what plugins you think would help me

I'm new to UE so I don't have any plugins

[drowsy snow]

No plugins, just mostly on crafting the buildings and designing the city.

And maybe lots of emissive neon plaques, but that's doable with vanilla material system

[rapid lark]

thank you thank you so much

are there any keyboard shortcuts I should know for copy pasting

bc I tried copying a bunch of floors but I could only do one at a time

[drowsy snow]

Ctrl+W for duplicating stuff (which is basically just instant copy paste)

[rapid lark]

Thank you thank you

[plush yew]

can you sculpt landscape in different forms by using default unreal engine landscape?

like sculpt in a box into ground

[drowsy snow]

If you mean using alpha texture brushes, yes.

[plush yew]

yeah

[limber badge]

Sorry for this question. Whats deafult varibles in git.postbuffer and git.window memory

I broken something)))

[plush yew]

hi im making a massive open world map, how do i make it so it doesnt render buildings or foliage in the distance that you don't see because just with a landscape filled with foliage is having a huge performance impact

[drowsy snow]

Best you can do is isolate the interior from the outer world, and let view frustum culling do its job.

[plush yew]

i don't understand

becuase i solely have a landscape and foliage, it is a big world but its using a lot of processing power and is laggy

Question: what are the units of measure used for speed in UE?

I'm using 4.27

is it like m/s? pixels per seconds or something like that?

[raw harbor]

Is it ok to use a video intro saying “powered by ue) with the logo or is it not allowed?

[ebon steeple]

sorry for the ping, i misunderstood your question at first x) unity uses the metric system, so speed is measured in meters per second. more on that right here https://www.techarthub.com/scale-and-measurement-inside-unreal-engine-4/

since 1 cm is 1 unreal unit a speed of 600 (default afaik) equals 6 meters per second

[raw harbor]

This one https://youtu.be/YzQMIZ3Ui_Y

[plush yew]

If you have a publisher's license and when you export your package UE logo comes in the start by default.

During the intro

If that is what you were asking

[ebon steeple]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/branding you'll want to ask right here

[raw harbor]

How do I get a publisher license

[ebon steeple]

that website explains everything and gives you a link to approved UE4 logos to use

[plush yew]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download

[plush yew]

is it interpolation speed

or

[raw harbor]

What does it mean for free projects ❌

I can’t release a game that’s free or ami wrong?

[plush yew]

You can

But if your game is paid and your game ends up making more than USD 1M then 5% of that goes to UE as royalty.

[raw harbor]

Ah ok

But I still can’t find an answer if I can use the intro or not

[plush yew]

But you cannot publish a game using the creators license the last time I checked.

[drowsy snow]

wdym intro?

[raw harbor]

https://youtu.be/YzQMIZ3Ui_Y

Can I make a game displaying this in the startup

[plush yew]

Yes

[drowsy snow]

Oh, that.

You're not obliged to show it on startup. ||Unlike Unity||

You have to sign the trademark use agreement

[raw harbor]

But the splash screen is allowed? 🤨

[ebon steeple]

i wouldn't use a logo from a random youtube video in a game i want to publish. if you find that video on their website or official youtube channel however, the story changes.

[raw harbor]

I’m sorry if it’s stupid but is it paid?

[raw harbor]

I think He got jt from a video from us

Ue*

[drowsy snow]

If you haven't apply for it (which I'm certain is free) then not really.

[ebon steeple]

better look that up though, no way to make sure other than that.

[drowsy snow]

At the same time you're not pressured to put it ||like free tier of Unity lmao||

[raw harbor]

Yeah Ik but I’m just tryna make the intro good

But ig Il just use my own logo

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure you'll said the opposite thing when using ||Unity|| 😏

[raw harbor]

Ofc 😂

Unity intro is a meme at this point, if it’s there the game is bad

[drowsy snow]

More like centimeters in a frame.

[ebon steeple]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/branding bro follow this website and press the "here" link in the first paragraph. all those videos and logos are cleared by UE to be used by you, there's no need to go by some random youtube video and word-by-mouth on that 🙂

[red condor]

Hi all, if I want to make a super simple inventory system, just a list of item names and the amount of each that the player holds (i.e. keys = 2, coins = 5), what's the best data type/way to manage the logic side of this? I'd like to avoid using a separate variable for every item type, just to make it tidier when it comes to saving the game if possible. I'm using blueprint.

[raw harbor]

Thank you

[drowsy snow]

I'd go with enum of all items, and array of struct made of item enum and amount integer.

At least that's what I learned from JRPG save editors.

[red condor]

Thanks! I'll see if I can work out how to do that, I know what to search for now :)

I got as far as making an enum and then went uhhh....

[drowsy snow]

It might not be the most elegant way, but considering that it's unlikely for one to add an entirely custom items, it should do.

Of course it would be a different story if you allow mods making custom items, but in many cases it handled separately. But then it's a massive can of worm by itself.

[plush yew]

I used this for the inventory system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcTxSyk8Vks&t=180s

[red condor]

Ah yeah, I won't be doing anything like that - at least for now. I'm just trying to blueprint a prototype together, things can always be redone later if needed.

[red condor]

Thanks! I don't think I saw that one when I was looking. Seems like there's a lot of good 'complex' inventory system tutorials that go properly into the UI side of things too, but I just want to get basic logic working for now. I'll definitely check this one out if I get stuck though

[plush yew]

You can skip the UI part and jump directly to the logic.

[drowsy snow]

I can relate to this tbh.
It's easy for tuts on YT to overwhelm

[red condor]

Ah nice! A lot of tutorials skip back and forth, so I find myself skipping important steps. I'll take a closer look now

[plush yew]

any news about UE4 or UE5 being compiled for Mac M1?

[remote plover]

how can i make it so i can walk through an object but still check collision is there a collision preset

[raw harbor]

I’m not sure, but turn off the collision for the object and add a box to it, then code the overlap of the box collision to it, box doesn’t add a collision to your object

[red condor]

Alternatively use a custom collision preset (static mesh - settings - collision). The middle column is headed 'overlap', so you can set your mesh to overlap the player (or everything). This way you don't need to use a separate collision box, you can just create an overlap event for the mesh.

[glad coral]

Is this a known bug or do I need to enable something in Unreal for the Camera Shake Base blueprint class to show the "Camera Shake Pattern?" When I open the blueprint all I get is an instance option, no noise options. In 4.26...it works in 4.27.

[lucid trout]

I kind of don't want to work on my own game project anymore

[red condor]

Losing motivation is a common problem, unfortunately, and there can be many reasons for it. Is it a big project? How far in are you?

[lucid trout]

Fairly big, about the same scope as Half-Life 2.

three months in and I'm nowhere near happy with it

[red condor]

Solo?

[lucid trout]

Solo, unfortunately.

[red condor]

And is it your first game?

[lucid trout]

First solo game; I've worked on a few others like game mods and university projects

I'm pretty much doing all of it myself since it's still a solo project, figured I'd downscale the scope and just work on a prototype

[red condor]

I'm solo too, it's tough :) there are vids on Youtube about keeping motivation btw, ymmv on usefulness though of course

For me it's all about keeping it simple, so I feel like I'm moving forward (at least at the prototype stage)

Too complex and I lose motivation easily.