ue4-general

[red condor]

Are you doing everything, like modelling the meshes etc?

[lucid trout]

Mostly design and programming, nowhere near skilled enough with making meshes yet

[plush yew]

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

[red condor]

Nice, I was going to say you might be trying to do too much for one person

[red condor]

Have you looked at animation blueprints?

[lucid trout]

I feel like I still am

[plush yew]

yeah

[lucid trout]

since I've got test weapons and test AI implemented, but they're still very basic

[plush yew]

i have one working but i cant seem to get the 3 jumping anims to play

[plush yew]

Your answer lies in animation blendspace.

ive got a walking one, how would i do jumping one?

[plush yew]

Sorry, but could you explain more in detail about your situation?

[plush yew]

I am literally in the same boat as you. I just finished my university and I have some university projects and currently working on a FPS game. But the scope is definitely doable but what i am going through is wondering if all of this effort is really worth it or not?

i have 3 animations, jumpStart, falling, and jumpLand and i want the jumpStart anim to play when i jump and i want the jumpLand anim to play when i land, whether falling or jumping, with falling anim to play in between

Like what am I going to do with this project?

[plush yew]

Yea, you are going to need an animation blend space that changes its animation depending on the velocity or the speed of falling

how would i make it

Sorry not the speed of falling that's a wrong thing to take

[red condor]

Of course, it is still a lot to do for sure. I've given up on a bunch of projects in the past. I tell myself that if I'm learning things each time, it'll help with the next (and it does, for sure). Not saying you should give up btw!

[plush yew]

What you need is a variable to detect how far off the player is "off the ground" and depending on that change the animation using animation blendspace

[plush yew]

You can do this using "Line trace" node in blueprints

could you show an example?

[plush yew]

Let me try to find a tutorial for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph2ExmC1LA0

[plush yew]

Try this and let me know if this worked for you?

Hi, have any of you encountered the problem of running your own android game? The game is packed, installed on tel
, the obb file put in the correct folder. And there is such a message. In the previous version, the game runs normally on the phone after being packed. The difference is that in the new version the sound was added to the game and in the old version it is not.

also i have a mana system set up so whenever i do an attack it uses x amount of mana, and i have a progress bar bound to that variable, but it doesnt seem to be taking away the mana even though i have a set mana node in the attack function

[plush yew]

Is that binded to the progress bar?

yeah

[plush yew]

I dont make android games, so I cant help you there

[plush yew]

Could you share your blueprints. It would be really hard for me to figure out where the problem lies.

The place where you are setting your mana

and then the bind action to the progress bar

this is the binding

and the place setting the mana:

First tip: Never use integer for any progress bar.

Even while calculating in your players blueprint. I would suggest you change the variable type to float.

[red condor]

I checked and Half-Life 2 was worked on by 82 people, not including voice actors. So don't feel bad about feeling like you're doing a lot. It might be a good idea to think about your goals and any ways you can simplify the project. And it's definitely worth watching some videos on developing good practices to stay motivated through large projects. (Having people play and give feedback, setting clear milestones, etc etc)

[plush yew]

Second tip: Try to use even dispatchers rather than binding because in my opinion you only want to update the mana when the player attacks and not on every single frame.

[plush yew]

Now regarding your problem everything seems to be fine.

Im not sure why its not working

[plush yew]

what is a dispatcher

[plush yew]

Could you use a "Print String" node here to debug whether it is actually reducing or not?

ok

its not reducing and randomly increases

[sick patio]

QUESTION: ue5 is set to be released in full already?

[plush yew]

An event dispatcher dispatches an event. So for example, if an action has occurred the event will dispatch that this "action" has occurred. So any event listeners interested in that dispatcher will execute the event

[plush yew]

This means you are constantly increasing your mana somewhere without having a clamp

im still confused

[plush yew]

yeah fixed that

Could you share the part where you are increasing your mana?

[plush yew]

Does it work now?

nope for some reason

[plush yew]

Learn about event dispatcher in unreal engine. It will optimize your game heavily.

[autumn flame]

hi ...
i want to make softbody leather sofa that interact with character ...
what is the best suggestion?
thanks.

[plush yew]

What does the print string node display now?

im going to try turn it into float

[plush yew]

Use a collision box to detect whether the player overlaps. If it does, interact with the couch

[plush yew]

That may/may not solve your problem. But yea give it a shot.

[plush yew]

I would like to see the part where you are increasing your mana

as im dividing by 100 so it wouldnt divide

[plush yew]

Even after you changed it to float?

no when it was an integer it wouldnt be able to be divided by 100

would it

[plush yew]

Can you print string whether you are getting the value of mana or not?

if its 1

[autumn flame]

ok ... but i'm new to UE physics ...
what is your suggestion ...
nvidia physx? chaos? special plugin? what?
this is for animation ... not game ...

[plush yew]

itd be 0.01

[plush yew]

It still should but it will round it down

yeah

so itd be 0

That is probably whats happening

[plush yew]

Exactly

That's why always use floats if you intend to use that variable for a progress bar.

yeah it works now

Sweet

[plush yew]

Ooh. I cant help you there. You might want to ask that on the animation channel under content creation?

[plush yew]

Let me know if the jump animation is fixed for you

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QF9bx0m9I
Try this

[plush yew]

doesnt seem to work

the animation plays too late

hey I have been working on a game and am wondering how I would go about a boss smashing pillars to pieces, if I could have help it would be appreciated

[oak patio]

Look into ue4 destruction

You can trigger a mesh to split into pieces and collapse an some kind of trigger

Id start there

[plush yew]

okay i have been doing that, I will continue

thanks

guys, is any one of you have been trying to do some batch render with unreal? or MovieRenderQueue in a blueprint?

[plush yew]

uhh for some reason if i sprint and jump he gets stuck in the jump animation

[plush yew]

Why not? What's happening? Can you run me through?

it works i changed the land animation to not loop

[plush yew]

Lol

The small mistakes

Does it work now as you intended?

but for some reason if you sprint then jump the character gets stuck in the jump loop animation

[plush yew]

Can I see your blendspace?

[plush yew]

Do you have a variable that detects whether the player is currently jumping or not?

How is your blendspace deciding the current state?

thats what the video said

What happens if you remove the falling animation?

For now?

For testing purposes

Does it work then?

[autumn flame]

Redundant btw

[plush yew]

Why are you explicity setting this to true?

[autumn flame]

You plug Bool directly and use Not

[plush yew]

oh i didnt attatch the names

[plush yew]

Yea, that's what I was wondering

[plush yew]

because i want the animation to play if is falling is true

[autumn flame]

If you want to enter when True, you plug directly
If you want to enter when False, you use Not then plug

[plush yew]

Yes this^^

[plush yew]

but if its false, the not would make it true

[autumn flame]

Exactly

[tardy hedge]

anyone have any insight on how to develop a rts tech tree. Games like warcraft must have some kind of math equation related to its build times and unit power

[plush yew]

Which means if the player is not falling (in your case) it will transition to jump end. If it is falling then it will not transition.

It will keep playing the loop

Which is what is probably happening since you are explicitly setting it to false.

Right. I don't why I assumed it was explicitly setting it..

ok

[plush yew]

ok

[plush yew]

Could you try directly inserting the pins instead of checking them?

yeah

Like this ^^

Let me know if that works

it is exactly the same

im not sure. It should work..

Can you double check your loop animation options?

wait no its happening everywhere

theyre not loopin

wdym its happening everywhere?

its happening even though im not sprinting

[plush yew]

but then this happens

Can I see your transition state condition between Jump end to Idle/walk

it seems to be working now

i changed the animation and didnt change the time remaining

what did you change?

[bronze oyster]

Does anyone know what these suffixes are

[plush yew]

Ooooh

[plush yew]

Texture with normal, roughness, and metallic all combined into one texture using different RGB values

that represent different stuff

[plush yew]

Does it work now?

yeah

Sweet

[bronze oyster]

And how do I do that?

[plush yew]

Do what?

That's the texture.
So for example R channel would represent roughness, G would probably represent metallic, B would represent the normals. They are all compressed into 1 and you can use this texture as a setting for any material.

[autumn flame]

BC is Base Color aka Albedo aka Diffuse (the actual color of something)
N is Normal Map (fake texture details)
E is Emissive (fake texture light)
P seems some sort of compacted Mask? (could be used for MSR or / and Opacity)

[bronze oyster]

Thank you

[bronze oyster]

If it has all that, does that mean it is PBR?

[plush yew]

Guys, i'm trying to batch render the same sequence multiple time. But each time with a variation (Sphere with shader A, then Sphere with shader B, then etc..)
do you know how i can do with with a blueprint?
i was looking at https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/HighQualityMediaExport/RuntimeBuilds/

but it's kind of obscure
Movie Render Queue in Runtime Builds
How to use Movie Render Queue in a distributed build to create movies on end-users' devices

do you have any idea? any one tried it before?

[autumn flame]

Yeah, if it is actually all that I described, indeed

[rapid lark]

how do I go from this to the other gismos

[ebon steeple]

why is the mesh i add to the Actor always offset like this? i checked both the blender file and the fbx file in unreal, neither of them have a offset like that

[finite mica]

Or spacebar

[neon bough]

i've got an editor utility actor with a child actor which spawns actors in it's construction script. Now when i move that actor it keeps spawning more and more instances (as the construction script runs again) but doesn't delete the old ones, is that intended behavior?

[rapid lark]

so does

texture streaming pool over budget affect anything

and rebuild lighting etcv

[neon bough]

yes

[rapid lark]

what does it do

[neon bough]

first will fallback to lower resolution textures for your viewport

second affects lighting, so if that message shows up the viewport doesn't represent the actual final result

[rapid lark]

ok sounds good

so it doesnt effect final game

[neon bough]

yea

[rapid lark]

ok bet tysm

[rapid lark]

I also dont know the answer to your question but I hope someone else does ^^^

[neon bough]

depending on how much VRAM your GPU has you can use r.streaming.poolsize 4096 to set the pool to 4GB for example

that will allow the editor to use more GPU memory for textures

[rapid lark]

uh i think i have a 2070 16gb

idk if thats right in terms of ram but my GPU is a 2070

[neon bough]

i don't think that a 16GB version exists

might be 8GB

[rapid lark]

yeah might be

probably actually

I have 64 gb for ram though but im p sure that doesnt effect the gpu ram

[neon bough]

that doesn't affect streaming pool

well actually it may, but it's not considered when unreal determines how much GPU Memory will be used for texture streaming

but if you run out of videomemory it may fall back to host memory (which is slower)

[vagrant atlas]

If I have a button that is activated by a cube (I have that part), and I want to change a variable in a separate door actor, how can I cast to it? either from the door to cast to the button, or from the button to cast to the door. In the "Cast to" block I need to put an object as an input, but I don't know what to put there

[neon bough]

you need a reference

in your button bp create a variable which has the type of your door, then click the eye next to it so that it's exposed

now in the viewport you can change that variable (there's a dropper gauge next to it, click that and select the door)

now you have a reference of the door saved on the button, so when the button get's pressed it can tell the door to open/close

[burnt ether]

Guys i have a general question :o
What's your way of handling your game's settings?
Do you do it all in Blueprint?
Do you create a GameUserSettings Subclass?
Or is there anything I don't know of? :D

I'm looking for a neat way of doing that and no matter what I try it always feels really hacky

[vagrant atlas]

a primitive component variable, or actor? I'll try both

[oak patio]

You need to make sure the mesh is at the origin (0,0,0) as that is how unreal makes a pivot point

[neon bough]

you can set it to the BP of your door

that way you also don't need to cast

[ebon steeple]

thanks!

[vagrant atlas]

@neon bough well, I used a cast, but it still worked. It's not a big project, so performance doesn't really concern me here

[oak patio]

You can make an actor object reference, click the eye icon, then in the viewport, set it to the door, cast to the door with that variable then change the variable

Which i now realise is exactly what ben said (sorry)

But that should work if yiu do it correctly

I really need to scroll up more lmao

[kindred depot]

make a back up first, try creating a new blank c++ class and it will rebuild the binary's. make sure hot reload is off and live coding is on.

[neon bough]

well... do it right from the start before you manifest those practices

[vagrant atlas]

I have a problem, where when the DoorOpen bool is negative (at the start of the scene) the timeline is at the start (where it should be), when DoorOpen is positive, the timeline plays (how it should be) and it updates the location of the Door, but when DoorOpen is negative again, the Door doesn't move.

[kindred depot]

If you want you might get more help from #packaging . delete your main message if what i said does not help and re post it there.

[kindred depot]

Did you try making a custom event for client and server instead of using an event tick?

[autumn flame]

Don't do it on tick :ccc

[vagrant atlas]

client and server?

it acts weird only if I set Play from start or Reverse from end

[kindred depot]

Your replicating your targets location assuming this is ran on server

[autumn flame]

Pretty sure Relative is set as Replicated out of the box

[kindred depot]

Ohhh

wow

[vagrant atlas]

It doesn't run on a server, just my project on a laptop

[kindred depot]

yeah you need to do the good old custom event then 😉

make it a multicast

pure

[autumn flame]

I feel like it's a singleplayer project :p

[twin prism]

yea created a new c++ class and didnt work, Ill go post there

ty thou

[vagrant atlas]

it is, just a puzzle game

[kindred depot]

ahh sorry thinking to heavy.

[vagrant atlas]

somewhat like portal

[autumn flame]

How are you changing Door Open?

[vagrant atlas]

I have a cast from a button.
@.Ben told me how to do it

[kindred depot]

good ole freebee for you btw 😉 if this works with 4.26 https://github.com/FreetimeStudio/PortalPlugin

[vagrant atlas]

I don't want portals

I meant the puzzles are like the ones from portal, not the mechanics

[kindred depot]

Ohh gotchya.

[autumn flame]

Well, in that case you can play the timeline after setting DoorOpen with a Custom Event

Cause when DoorOpen changes is when you want to play it

[kindred depot]

Remove event tick, right click type custom event.

[vagrant atlas]

yes

[kindred depot]

even tho the game is single player, in theory do you have to select client on single player games?

i always did lol

[autumn flame]

Not Replicated

[kindred depot]

makes sense. idk why i do this then

[autumn flame]

Owning Client is used if it's run on server to well, run something on the client instead

For example if I wanna run something from the GameMode OnPostLogin in my PlayerController and have it run on the Client version of it, I call the function on the PC as Owning Client

[kindred depot]

Yeah i get that. I just taught myself wrong then.

[autumn flame]

Pretty sure RPC stuff makes no difference in a Singleplayer scenario

You can have stuff anywhere and not respect the architecture

For example a Widget could spawn something directly

Would never happen in a Multiplayer game

Not that it's right, but would work

[vagrant atlas]

@kindred depot I never understood how custom events work

[autumn flame]

You can call it from a Cast in another class or from inside the class itself

And will run the code

[kindred depot]

Think of a custom event like a activation. I would say execution, but that's different in a way.

[autumn flame]

You can either use for organization or calling a function from somewhere else or both

[kindred depot]

to make this work you need to activate this line of code.

[autumn flame]

So in your case you could make a CustomEvent called OpenDoor

When you press the Button, from the Cast it sets DoorOpen and after that calls OpenDoor

[kindred depot]

This is when unreal engine becomes overwhelming 🙂

you'll figure it out tho!

It becomes fluent after a few try's (wow i hate auto correct)

[autumn flame]

Or you could just use a FlipFlop to avoid bools in case you are using the Bool only to decide if the door is open or not and they all start in the same state :p

Oh yeh, i mean instead of directly setting it yourself everytime, would look cleaner :D

I remember spamming the button of a door, too entertaining for what it was

[shell surge]

Hello people . I need to finish a project in the next hours and im facing a very strange issue. Those are patches from the dmx system that I have animated. And they work fine. But when I close the project and open it again, they are gone from the sequencer with all the keyframes!? Even after saving everything. Any ideas what is going on ?

[raw mica]

hey everyone, I was wondering if someone knew and had a pic of the code for displaying a widget on the screen when in a box collision then when the key on the keyboard is pressed that shows up on the screen another widget shows up with another button to press, plz help I've been trying to do this for 3 days and I just can't find a way, its going to be like a code you have to put in but each number is a different widget.

[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?

[drowsy snow]

Ideally you want to use interfaces or event dispatchers with that, because you're going to do the check for the player character in the actor that has the box collision, and then only bind the event when the player overlaps with the collision. This is because we can't do input events on non player actors without some jerry rig setup.

[drowsy snow]

Just lerp the RT with the reticule texture in your material and call it a day.

[ionic bridge]

I have a weird question... In top down template you can change the view distance. but it pins the distance from thecamera, so the upper corners the actor will disappear but lets say I want them to disappear from the sides too but since they are closer to the camera they wont.... Is there a way to change where that render distance center point is? like can i have things render from the character center point and not from the camera?

idk if that makes any sense but oh well lol

[shadow estuary]

Not sure what you mean, the RT is generating 1 material which is the scopes view, and i have a seperate material for the scope reticule

[drowsy snow]

Why do you need separate material for the scope reticule?

[crimson wraith]

I want to learn more and play around with more in depth features of the engine. However I'm only running a 1660ti Mobile and 64gb ram. It has worked okay until recently, I'm having major FPS and stuttering issues in the game I'm making. Anyone have any ideas on what settings within the engine or nvidia settings that could aid in helping me get by with the 1660ti mobile, until I can one day afford a better computer?

[shadow estuary]

I dont know how to add it to the first material, to like stack materials

thats where im a bit confues

confused

[drowsy snow]

It confuse me more that you need to have separate material for the reticule texture, as opposed to a simple overlay texture.

[shadow estuary]

Well i could do that as well, just not sure how

i have the texture i simply do not know how to put it on top of a dynamically generated material

[drowsy snow]

Make sure UE is using high performance profile (it's common for laptops to assign apps to fallback to high battery profile and use Intel iGPU), and if it only happens to your particular project, use stat unitgraph to determine offending thread.

[shadow estuary]

thanks for the term overlay texure, with this i was able to realize i can just pass the reticule texture in as a param and add it to the camera feed

[ionic bridge]

Question. Is there a way to change render distance in a TopDown Template. to focus an area like inside the blue circle. and unrender or undraw actors outside the circle?
Yes i tried a fog of war but 1 tutorial only has a LoS aspect and the other it seem i have to follow the RTS guide from earlier than the fog of war, and others it just don't seem right.

[grim ore]

I dont know if its the right answer, but you could look into use a sphere mask around your player and have it only show whats in the mask. An issue I could see is that all materials might need to take this into account

[timid merlin]

where do I even start on fixing this

[ionic bridge]

I could try that. Have any example how to do that?

[hard escarp]

When you're running in Play as Client mode with two clients what information is displayed in World Outliner in terms of actors spawned? Is it the server?

[sharp crest]

Hello, has anyone had an issue where Delta Seconds (or World Delta Seconds) gives a much lower output (/5) when in a packaged game or when playing standalone? (While in editor it gives a much higher output)
Sounds like I'm doing something wrong.. But I'm really not. Not sure what's going on.

[autumn flame]

Well, it depends on the frame rate, so may just be different frame rates

[sharp crest]

actually I just tested and it is because of the fps. but I don't get why.. isn't this node supposed to make it so the fps doesn't matter?....

[autumn flame]

Yeah and it makes it so by returning the time between the previous frame and the current frame

So the returned value is that which depending on FPS is different

[sharp crest]

this is how I'm using it.. why is it not working?

[autumn flame]

What's not working?

[sharp crest]

well it becomes faster/slower depending on the fps

[autumn flame]

Well, guess it makes sense, you are constantly adding a force which would be different based on FPS

[sharp crest]

but it's not supposed to be different cuz I'm multplying it by the delta seconds?

[autumn flame]

Oh, try using AddImpulse instead

Of AddForce

[icy linden]

im having issues with box brushes disappearing once playing in standalone mode, what am i doing wrong? how can i make the box brushes appear in standalone? any help is much appreciated

[autumn flame]

I think AddForce was designed to not be used with Frame logic while AddImpulse was

[sharp crest]

but it says

shoudl be called every frame

:/

oh.

nevermind

AddImpulse will apply the force vector without adjusting for frames per second (fps).

so I need to not scale it if I use add force

lol

[autumn flame]

Magic™️

[sharp crest]

I get it

thanks for ur help

[icy linden]

does anyone know whats going on here?

[grim ore]

and what happens when you try it not in standalone?

[icy linden]

the box brushes are there whilst playing in selected viewport

in standalone, some box brushes either disappear or stay visible

[grim ore]

might want to test it with packaging and see if it's an actual issue

otherwise, brushes might have issues in general you should be converting them to static meshes or replacing them with meshes to see if that is the issue

[icy linden]

alright i will try packaging and see if the issue is still there

[tight crystal]

im trying to make a system were u press a key and u sit and every second u gain more stam then if u were standing but i cant use another event tick so it only gives + 10 stam instead of + 10 stam every 1 sec

i need to add a event tick but im all ready using one is there something i can use in place of the event tick

[hoary seal]

How can I raise my river level..? moving the Z up for the objects does nothing

[tight crystal]

idk i have the same problem in my game

[drowsy snow]

Have you included Engine in your project's Build.cs file?
It should be there by default

[grim ore]

@tight crystalyou can use a timer, but why cant you just use the event tick? (you shouldnt, but you cant)

[tight crystal]

im using a delay but im not sure how i can stop it on released

i cant use a branch and set the condition to released

[grim ore]

You don't want to use a delay you want to use a timer for what you are trying to do

[tight crystal]

ok

[grim ore]

It's not updated? It has bugs due to early access? Uhm... Why doesn't it work, what have you tried or tested?

[tight crystal]

ty it worked

[digital mist]

Hiii

[sharp crest]

there is a node called sequence.

[jolly rampart]

help??

theres like a 10% chance when i kill an enemy it crashes

[proven aspen]

capsule seems to float a few cm off the floor. Is that just a thing with CharacterMovement?

^Capsule is a little hard to see, but the capsule bottom is perfectly aligned to the mesh's feet

[austere kelp]

is there a help channel?

[summer quest]

is that a cat holding a gun

[autumn flame]

Yeah, just move the mesh down till it matches

It's just the capsule collision

Even if in this case it's weird, Capsule should be closer to terrain iirc

[proven aspen]

It's a squirrel, in fact

https://twitter.com/QuiteDan/status/1493063388858966016?s=20&t=OmliMuUhwxlmgSXo8dobKg

Dan DeEntremont (@QuiteDan)

#Blender3d #ScreenshotSunday
Still need to add some finger/toe articulation :) https://t.co/V9aZSTKOQM

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Twitter · Feb 14, 2022, 3:23 AM

[summer quest]

no way

[livid fern]

is there a channel for asking questions about textures?

[autumn flame]

#graphics ?

[livid fern]

thanks!

[gilded birch]

so i got UE5 installed, and it wants MSVC2019, is there a way to make it work with MSVC2022 ?

[digital mist]

Why is squirrel holding gun 😂

Everywhere I possibly can I’ve changed the GameMode settings so Default Pawn Class is None, yet a duplicate of my character always spawns when I press play. Any ideas?

[spring pelican]

I have an object where the collision is set to overlap all

and it does something on begin overlap

but it is only being triggered if the player runs into it

[stray dust]

Hello, I am new to unreal and I have a problem can someone help me

[spring pelican]

whats the problem?

[stray dust]

am I allowed to send a video of the problem?

[spring pelican]

idk

i dont see why not

[drowsy snow]

Might as well just state it right away while posting the video for context

[stray dust]

It says that i need to save "Skeleton UE4_Mannequinn_Skeleton" however I am lost because I try and save it and the problem persists

https://youtu.be/W-kP7hrJF9M

[spring pelican]

I have an actor that has begin overlap, that only triggers when something runs into it, But I want to to trigger if it hits something

[stray dust]

any thoughts?

nevermind

I figured it out

my bad

still learning

[hidden dew]

Hi all. Would anyone have any idea about this ProceduralMeshComponent / DetailsCustomizations.dll issue I'm having?

Completely new UE project (4.27.2). I made a C++ Actor, and added only this code to it:
(.h)

#include "ProceduralMeshComponent.h"
...

private:    
    UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere)  class UProceduralMeshComponent* SurfaceProcMeshComponent;

and:
(.cpp)

ATester::ATester()
{
    SurfaceProcMeshComponent = CreateDefaultSubobject<UProceduralMeshComponent>(TEXT("Surface Proc. Mesh Component"));
    SetRootComponent(SurfaceProcMeshComponent);    

    ...

PMC plugin has been enabled and added to the build.cs file.

I can place this actor in the scene and move it around with the transform widget. But if I change its location via the Details panel, in any way whatsoever, even pressing the little yellow reset arrow, the editor crashes.

This occurs also in another project that's further along, where other PMC stuff does actually work and the mesh can change shape and wotnot. Things work, but editing its transform via the Details panel is a crash.

Crash log starts like:

Fatal error!
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000148
0x000007fe944cfdca UE4Editor-DetailCustomizations.dll!UnknownFunction []
...
0x000007feace2be52 UE4Editor-Slate.dll!UnknownFunction []

[drowsy snow]

Have you installed debugging symbols?

[hidden dew]

No

Not so up to speed with that stuff, but worth a try?

I was surprised to realise today that this has actually been in my project for months. Just I've never actually had to manually edit its position.

[drowsy snow]

Definitely required. The engine needs debugging symbols for the crash callstack to be more understandable, especially when you're working with C++ code.

[hidden dew]

Ok, I'll let that install and see if that helps me figure it out

Worst case scenario (which I've only realised while typing the above), I think I can just live with it

But it would still be nice to know why editor buttons have become crash buttons

[white tendon]

hello everyone, for a couple of days i have been checking out the Action RPG sample game from the learn tab. Is a there a way of merging that with ALS v4.Any insights on how to go about this will highly be appreciated😃

[weak cradle]

Im using a section of that sample game, something to do with the UI i dont remember precisely, but the majority of it is just getting the right components and adding it to your player

In your case since it would be such a big thing, you would probably have to also add the sockets to your als skeleton that are on the sample's skeleton

On top of that you'd have to replace certain variables that cast to the arpg character to your als character

Have you searched for any documentation for als Integration?I think that pack had some, but im not sure

[white tendon]

i have managed to merge it partially but ALS has so many animation layers cant seem to figure out where to place my idle weapon animations

[weak cradle]

What i would do is make new overlay states, then switch the states based on use

Just youtube how to make new als overlay states, there's many great vids

[urban flower]

does anyone know were i can get a free palm tree model for ue4?

[plush yew]

https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/plant/other/palm-tree-fce3bf47-964b-4d12-9680-7e3c5f8dd417

how do i make an event trigger without box trigger or whatever

Depends what your situation is.
For example, if you want to open a door without using a trigger. Another alternative could be to use LineTrace and the distance. So, if the player is looking at the door and the distance is small then open the door.

mk

how can i make a trigger using blueprints

like

when a specified amount of time passes

[white tendon]

thank you i will definitly check em out

[plush yew]

what's mk?

[plush yew]

When a specified amount of time passes you dispatch an event and then any custom action that is interested to listen to that event, will execute the action. Check out event dispatchers.

thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QF9bx0m9I

thank you dude

needed this

[plush yew]

Glad to be of help

[urban flower]

pog thanks

[plush yew]

does anyone know why when i try to open up unreal engine 5 early access it crashes and doesnt even let me create a project/open a project

also i have a huge open world which is just a landscape and foliage, how do i make unreal engine only render the place the player is as its having a huge performancer impact on the editor and the game

[drowsy snow]

Return to 4.27 or build 5.0 branch from source code.

[plush yew]

i did return to 4.27 but i was wondering if there was a reason why it was happening

[drowsy snow]

Because UE5 Early Access is unstable, maybe? I don't know why they label it Early Access.

[plush yew]

does anyone know how i can improve performance?

[woven star]

heyo guys, just started a course about unreal engine 5 and was wondering if all the info I learn there can be applied to ue4 , ofc except lumen and nanite, or?

[honest vale]

UE already does culling automatically

it'll render landscape components that you can see only

[plush yew]

the level is so laggy tho and when you play you can see everything rn#

so im having to use the starter level unreal engine provides to test in

[plush yew]

What are your texture resolutions? Are they too high?

idk im using megascans

You probably need to play around with LOD

LODs.

also i have a problem of when i look down and jump, i can see the mouth (im making a first person camera and idk how to rotate the head with the camera)

[plush yew]

Go through this and try to follow through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRaeiVAM4LI&t=540s

thanks

[plush yew]

If you are making first person you dont need the head. Unless you have some reflective surfaces like a mirror then you might need it.

yeah i want the player to see the body and there will be mirrors eventually. also im using paragon assets so i cant just remove the head

[plush yew]

Lift the camera up a little bit and forward (away from the head) a little bit and see if that solves your problem. At this point you need to play around with the camera.

i kinda want the head to move with the camera, but idk how id do this

Alternatively, if the player is falling then hide the body

[plush yew]

Do you want something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVh1-4zmy4 ?

is there a way to make the head bone rotate with the camera, so if the camera is loking down then the head looks down

[plush yew]

I have not done that personally. So, you might need to find a tutorial

okay

But yes, there is a way to do that

Most likely you will have to duplicate the head

and place it back onto the mesh

and use that as a socket

to make it look around

how do i get fps to show from console

whats the command

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-GWV9gZ2Zo

[plush yew]

Idk the command but there is a down arrow on the top left of your viewport screen and you can check the "Show FPS" option.

ah thank you

Welx

im getting 4 fps

in my level

That's not good

because if you are getting 4fps on your viewport that means when you package it, you could expect around 20fps

What GPU do you have?

umm idk its quite bad tho

[plush yew]

Try going through environment optimization tutorial I sent

i am

how do i find out what my gpu is

[plush yew]

If your GPU is bad then you might want to test it on a different device with better GPU

i dont have another device

im looking into getting a better gpu

[plush yew]

Use task manager

Under performance

in my device settings it says i have a AMD Radeon 5700 series, but i think its by somethng beginning with S

in task manager i dont have gpu

[plush yew]

5700 series is a good GPU. I dont know when you bought it

[plush yew]

i think its a brand that used that base gpu idk

[plush yew]

Ok thats weird

ik my friend asked to see and i didnt have one

Its supposed to show what GPU you have

So you are running your UE on CPU

which means your CPU and GPU is shared

I think that explains why you are getting 4fps

wait so u saying even though i have a gpu in my pc its not runing on it

[plush yew]

Are you entirely sure you have a GPU?

yeah when i got my pc i put a gpu into it

do me a favor

so i definitely installed one myself

open your cmd

and type "wmic path win32_VideoController get name"

Your directory should be C:\Windows\system32

I have 2 GPUs

So you do have a GPU

i do

ig its not running on it thouhh

but for some reason its not showing on the task manager

[plush yew]

Prob something went wrong in your installation

Did you install its drivers?

idk

think so, how do i check

If you had NVIDIA I would told you

but I dont know how to check for AMD

you will have to google that

and then install and update your graphics drivers

i dont think i do coz one day i logged onto my pc and it said "amd driver not found" or something like that i might have to instal the drivers

[plush yew]

Yea, your graphics drivers are missing.

Install and update them and then restart you device.

Then check again

but when i right click on desktop i can do this

which should be right?

Open that

Does it give you an option to update or install drivers?

"check for driver updates"

Yep

it opens in internet explorrer

First of all why is internet explorer your default browser?

Ooh I cringed so hard... Try using microsoft edge atleast

[plush yew]

i dont think it should be

how do i change that

Under settings

ah got it

Anyways you need to figure out how you can install the latest drivers and then update them

[drowsy snow]

Internet Explorer should be banned
Not even Merrywearther's moefication change the fact

[plush yew]

it isnt set to internet explorer

[plush yew]

They the script is hardcoded to open internet explorer.

Then*

i just opened it in a differnet browser by copy pasting the link

What does it sayy?

Yea, I think you should download that

and install

okayt

that explains a lot

lots of high performance games always crash when i try play them

whys that

explain?

i dont understand

is that a sign my drivers are old then

[drowsy snow]

Newer one was Adrenaline, or was it something else?

[plush yew]

agh the unreal engine video said to launch the game instead of using viewport to get a better fps idea but my computer is dying rn from it

uhh idk

its a radeon 5700 series

um idk how do i check

could be tx

[drowsy snow]

Open up dxdiag or msinfo32

[plush yew]

?

in command prompt

[plush yew]

just redo the cmd that I said

[plush yew]

and send the gpu name in full once again..

[drowsy snow]

Windows + R
Type in dxdiag, and then inside the app look for GPU hardware name.

[plush yew]

AMD Radeon HD 5700 series

Yea

[plush yew]

so its HD

[drowsy snow]

Ah, figures.

[plush yew]

seeems so

thats why you have catalyst

[drowsy snow]

It was fairly ancient GPU still

[plush yew]

yeah im looking into gettingna good one but thye cost ab a few hundred for a decent one

what do you mean barely?

[plush yew]

My recommendation: Get a 1080

[drowsy snow]

You should be able to just use UE4 in DX11.

[plush yew]

Or if you are going for UE 5, go for a 2060 atleast

tbh i dont have money to spend on pc parts rn

[drowsy snow]

Spend them all

Nah, jk

[plush yew]

lol

[winter stream]

do i need to add a collision for every part for the character

[plush yew]

Make a game, make money and buy new parts. Rags to riches!

the game i want to make is very performance heavy

[plush yew]

I think you should change your scope

Your device wont be able to handle it.

[drowsy snow]

The answer is like often buy new one even if it mean not eating for a fortnite fortnight

[plush yew]

Depends...
On the different interactions of your player character...

[drowsy snow]

Either change the scope, or be nice with low spec gamers ;)

[plush yew]

ha

[plush yew]

Yea, go make a low-end game like wolfenstein or something

wolfenstein>

?*

you dont know wolfenstein?

one of the pioneers of gaming

check it out

[drowsy snow]

Everyone's mom knows it

[plush yew]

i dont know of it

[drowsy snow]

(Actually no, but it is an old game)

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8o0a5ntxfc

[drowsy snow]

Just dismiss it.

[plush yew]

I have an RTX 2060. I dont have to

[winter stream]

For a realistic game do i need to do that ?

[plush yew]

If you are talking about something like RDR2 then yes.

[winter stream]

by mistake I wanted to reply to JayDaRabbit

[winter stream]

Have you tried reducing the quality of the engine?

[plush yew]

lol

[vagrant atlas]

How can I fix this?

[winter stream]

what's this

[plush yew]

Can you give a different angle? Not sure what I'm looking at here...

[vagrant atlas]

the spline mesh?

[plush yew]

Prob a video of the entire mesh would help?

[vagrant atlas]

Do you mean an image with the spline?

[plush yew]

A wireframe or something

[plush yew]

Yea

ah i remember know

[drowsy snow]

But at the very least you can make boomer shooters like Half Life 2

[plush yew]

the gpu was a Sapphire AMD Radeon 5700 HD series

[plush yew]

what's half life

[drowsy snow]

Or simpler RPG like Octopath Traveller

[plush yew]

From the looks of it. What I think is happening is some vertices are overlapping. For example, the vertex that is supposed to be at the bottom is at the top and vice-versa. From the looks of it

[plush yew]

and, drum roll, i got it for £30

Can I see the wireframe?

[drowsy snow]

the time it takes for the concentration of that substance to fall to half of its initial value

[plush yew]

whats that

i meant the game

i only play Minecraft

forgive me

[drowsy snow]

Try Googling for it.

Not meant to be super snarky, but I'm not Google :)

[plush yew]

i wanna make an arpg, and i can do the coding / blueprints etc but the landscape and coming up with places to play in isnt my strongest point

[plush yew]

Trust me. Start with something small like a platformer first.

[drowsy snow]

Your reference would be the likes of Octopath Traveller or Trials of Mana.

[thick herald]

No, you have natural snark that emanates naturally 😄

[plush yew]

Or atleast a simple shooter like Wolfenstein

[drowsy snow]

And I only know JRPGs more lmao

[plush yew]

how would i do a 3d platformer

[plush yew]

jrpg?

[plush yew]

Or just remake wolfenstein?

[plush yew]

im kinda basing it off genshin impact

[drowsy snow]

Japanese RPG

[plush yew]

like i have attacks and damage systems in place but i cannot do the landscape for the life of me

[plush yew]

ah

[drowsy snow]

No Chinese RPG nonsense (and Genshin Impact is like my most hated game)

[plush yew]

oh

[plush yew]

What if, you don't make a landscape? Make a dungeon?

With low poly models?

[drowsy snow]

In the style of Vagrant Story maybe

[plush yew]

i REALLY dont know how to model at all and i dont have the money to pay someone to do it or pay for models

[plush yew]

Is that a game? Never heard of it

[drowsy snow]

Oh yes, a graphically impressive one for a PS1 game

[plush yew]

You don't need to. You can find free assets on the marketplace

on Epic Games Store

[plush yew]

Use any of these.. make something

[drowsy snow]

Try toning down the scope from open world game

[plush yew]

okay

[drowsy snow]

At the very least a linear RPG or a dungeon crawler.

[plush yew]

ok

[plush yew]

Gonna google it. This peeked my interest

[plush yew]

Thats how everyone starts

The first game that I am going to publish is going to be like that.

A simple FPS

ok

[thick herald]

@plush yew there are multiple free terrain generators out there, google will show you them.

[vagrant atlas]

I thing the vertices at the bottom are trying to stay at the bottom, and since the spline starts with a rotation value that the vertices follow, and when the spline goes up side down, the mesh is rotated in one spot so that the vertices are following the initial rotation of the spline

[plush yew]

Yea, I'm not sure how to fix that

[ember shadow]

hey all. is it possible to use a normal map AND a bump map in the material editor? i have both but not sure if i can use them at the same time?

how would i fix this

i was trying to multply the normalfromheightmap with the normal but then the normal map doesnt show

[drowsy snow]

Either you use normal map or normal map generated from heightmap.

[ember shadow]

so i cant use both?

[drowsy snow]

Heck, I'd say as far as heightmaps are useless except for landscape (which isn't saying much, as the vertices are 1m apart)

[ember shadow]

i got the height map from substance, but had already made a normal map in blender. so yeah thats why i have two

they show different things

[drowsy snow]

Best to just roll with normal map. If you have macro/large displacement, best bake it into the geometry before exporting.

Saves you a bit of shader instructions in the process too.

[ember shadow]

alright cheers :)

[ember shadow]

im dumb. u could export from substance so the height and normals are combined lol

idk if ive connected this right but

it works!

[ebon stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-panda-gif-24776030

[plush yew]

how would i make a blueprint script that changes between blueprints - i have 2 character blueprints and i want to be able to change between the two

[kindred depot]

Pro tip, if your using megascans and don't want the assets in the content directory. Move the megascans material or create your own and move it what ever folder you desire. click the 3 bars at the bottom right next to low, medium, high, and nanite and select that material you moved. This will make that material the default material with every asset you add to megascans. Now after adding the assets you can now just move them anywhere you want with out a hassle. Same thing for textures, decals. heck anything megascan

[thick herald]

I may be daft, but... eh? I'm not sure I understand the original issue you are 'solving'

[kindred depot]

Moving assets around breaks links for textures in materials 😛

idk.

i'm weird dont mind me.

[plush yew]

.

[pine remnant]

how do i add more materials to a mesh, add more then 1 element?

i want to use the template flooring and add the textures/materials to it

[plush yew]

ugh @plush yew guess what. my graphics card is too outdatedd to update the drivers, and thats why its not showing in task manager. also when i run the third person example map, the gpu load is 95% which explains why my massive map can hardly run

[serene pasture]

Hello everyone, I am not sure where to put this:
How can I easily copy the ID Name of the actor ? (When I do F2 it only shows the name). I have to manually add the "_2" each time (example in my picture)

[pine remnant]

how do i open 2 view ports at the smae time to work on 2 levels at once?

[plush yew]

also for ue5 you said i had to at least have a 2060 but i dont have £300

[burnt ether]

So... I know how to create subobjects or components :o but how do I put them in a hierachy like with blueprints?

[drowsy snow]

Stick with UE4. I doubt you're a filmmaker and really have to rely on Nanite/Lumen

[strong fossil]

hey i have an annoying problem in UE 4.27 my gpu usage is always at 80-100% in the editor it goes to 70% in an empty level with nothing going on my gpu is1080 8gb also it has been tested on a rtx 3060ti and it hit 80%

[jolly rampart]

i added a better looking gun to the fps example but idk how to get the animation back

ask for any screenshots/videos

[drowsy snow]

Does it lag?

[strong fossil]

nope i get 120 fps

but 3060ti hitting 80% usage and a 1080 hitting 100% on empty level is not a good sign

[drowsy snow]

Then not much to worry about.

[strong fossil]

100% gpu usage when nothing is going on is something to worry about

[drowsy snow]

I'm inclined to think it's a good sign because it uses most of the GPU has to offer, and considering Unreal Engine is a video game engine.

It's a different story with offline renderers or DCC tools.

[strong fossil]

but on a 3060ti hitting 84% is very high and when a gpu gets to 100% it should lag i would think

[drowsy snow]

If it doesn't lag/occasionally stutter, and it's not overclocked, then I won't worry much about it.

[hidden dew]

I found the problem: Putting that full stop in the the component's name. "Surface Proc. Mesh Component" is what turns the buttons in the Details panel into "Crash now" buttons.

For some reason, the full stop in that string causes FindObject<USceneComponent>(EditedActor, *SceneComponentPath); to return null, which is what happens inside ComponentTransformDetails.cpp, triggered when you adjust the transform in the Details panel. Happens with static meshes too... me thinking it was just a procedural mesh was me red herring-ing.

[strong fossil]

@drowsy snow thanks

[clear estuary]

hey everyone - super quick question - is there a way to select all the points of a spline(bp) in one go?

ah, so if i click on the bp spline, select the spline in the components window, then selected points, i can do it from there

[drifting totem]

i need help. In unreal engine, you know how if you click your landscape, this thing opens that lets you scale it, change material, etc. it gone, how do i get it back

[urban flower]

how do i add a custom backround image?

[tired shadow]

I believe you closed it by mistake with the X

[drifting totem]

yes

but how do i get it back

nvm i did it, someone told me on reddit

[tired shadow]

Ok

[rapid lark]

hey i have problem where when i look at any lights i get light leaks

[carmine bloom]

oh many hopefully i can fix this...when i drag values (say transform) in the Details panel i dont see the viewport live update until i let go of mouse, but if i open New project, i see the live updates when dragging values...what happened?

[spice ruin]

Did you turn off real time on the viewport? (random guess)

[carmine bloom]

yeah its on, this problem happens in the viewport of actor blueprints

i can open the same untouched ThirdPersonBP in my project, and in a New project, and the New doesnt have the problem

i was wrong, that happens in the New project too, i guess you dont get the realtime updates like in a Level viewport

[acoustic escarp]

Hey guys I am looking to have a chat with more experienced Unreal Engine user, I would like to ask a few questions regarding the engine as I have a project and I feel like I am stuck without any progress and require some "push" off somebody to move forward. Can somebody tell me please, where should I look in order to solve my query? Thanks.

[spice ruin]

This discord server is full of said people. Just ask your questions!

[rugged torrent]

Hey guys, im super new to unreal engine
i just installed UE5 today, and I am working on a scene.

I have a problem though, My C Drive is filling up fast , it went from 55 to 42 in an hour.

I installed UE5 , Epic Games Launcher and also set the path to some of the "MegaScan" assets (?) to the D drive.
What is causing my C drive to fill up ?

[spice ruin]

Probably a download cache?

[rugged torrent]

why didnt it go away when i restarted ?

is it just windows 10 being windows 10 ?

could it be this is unrelated to me installing UE5 today

[glossy sage]

It is not in the RAM, it does not get flashed out. Open the epic game launcher, under unreal engine go to the library page and there you will see your vault (of contents you own). You will see how much space they take up and you can remove them

[jolly rampart]

help

[rugged torrent]

"total size of locally chached vault content "
its 0.0 B for me

[glossy sage]

Does it still grow as you work in it? Maybe it is you compiled shaders? I am just throwing ideas out there, I am also a rookie 🙂

[plush yew]

Hey guyz, i'm still a bit confused with importing alembic from houdini to uneal. to we need to scale Y -1, or rotate Y 90 degrees to match?

[mild agate]

could i get a pbit of help with compiling?

[zenith saddle]

Hi people i have been asking for this a while but no one answer it, i havea model that has a root bone but named as "origin" even thought i have rootmotion enabled it doesnt work, i suppose because of the name, can i change the name of the bone that simulates the root? I mean i dont want to change the name on the rig cause i have all the anims just retarget

[tame marsh]

Not sure if it still applies to UE5, but in UE4 there's a DerivedDataCache. This can get very large

[zenith saddle]

Yes inside appdata

[zenith saddle]

You still have it

[tame marsh]

It's specific for Blender plug-in AutoRigPro, but you might be able to gleam some info irt root motion and UE4: http://lucky3d.fr/auto-rig-pro/doc/ge_export_doc.html#root-motion

[zenith saddle]

Thanks but wasnt what i mean, i dont have problem on changing the name of the bone inside blender in this case, the problem comes that i want to change the name of the bone inside unreal or change the name of the bones that unreal uses to simulate the root motion

Cause if i change the bone name of the rig on blender and then import it, it detects as totally different skeleton so it doesnt let me swap the skeleton.

[clever timber]

Is there any good guide to setup rider for unreal engine? I seem to not get any code highlights , intellij ... and a lot of errors 🙂 and googling one at a time isnt really progressing well 😄

[plush yew]

It's not wise for you to continue with the current game you are making. Best if you stick to a low poly game.

[plush yew]

aight, got any ideas for one?

im going to keep the character bps ive got just change the game idea to be smaller scale

[plush yew]

What kind of games do you like developing?

idk this is my first big project

[plush yew]

Just make a map like portal.

Or make a moving maze?

Ideas are endless...

okay

thanks 🙂

A moving maze with enemies and puzzles. Dont need high graphics...

[plush yew]

Welcome!
A tip: As a solo developer always make small scopes that you can finish in 1 month and not more..

[plush yew]

okay

also how hard is AI to learn to create in ue4

like can i put learning it off or is it something that takes a while

[plush yew]

Depends on how Robust you want the AI to be.
You can easily create basic AIs. No sweat.

okay

[plush yew]

You definitely have to learn and it will definitely take time.

But first...
I think you should plan out your game.

[plush yew]

Cannot read anything..

[jolly rampart]

uhm

[plush yew]

Its crashing because Unreal engine is trying to read from an address that is not valid.

Are you coding in C++?

[jolly rampart]

blueprint

[plush yew]

So you are not using C++ anywhere? Hmm

Did you move any folders or.files manually?

And what are you trying to do that is giving you that error?

[jolly rampart]

when i shot an enemy my game crashed

[plush yew]

Damm you shot him that hard huh...

[jolly rampart]

LOL

i mean

i do have a shotgun

[plush yew]

Damn! That shotgun is so powerful that even Unreal Engine Died

Ima take notes.

[plush yew]

On a serious note...
Thats a starting point.

Check if any blueprint is trying to access a variable that doesnt exist?

In your AI class

[jolly rampart]

ok so

i went into the logs and i dont know what any of this means... help?

[shell surge]

Hello, how can I add a first person camera to a third person character when I don't have the manequinn ?

[plush yew]

Copy paste that error into google and see what it shows..

[plush yew]

Try to center the camera based on the capsule collision and then just life up the camera's height. Maybe that would work?

[plush yew]

Did the crash start to happen after you added some more functionality to the AI and started to playtest or it started to crash without you changing anything?

[hoary seal]

Is there not an easy way to generate collisions for complicated meshes?

https://i.gyazo.com/2fb71f3ee6d778197638b6705ab9e5c1.mp4

[plush yew]

Double click on the mesh and on the top you should see collisions.

[hoary seal]

Yeah I did that, I did max hulls, max precision etc.

[plush yew]

Over there you should see an option to remove all collisions

And then add convex collision and then hit apply

[hoary seal]

Auto convex?

[plush yew]

Yup

[hoary seal]

what for settings?

https://i.gyazo.com/6861a192047da66dbaa89a6c414fc778.png

[plush yew]

Just hit apply and see if it works for you?

If it doesnt then remove all collisions again

And then redo the convex

Collision

Auto*

[hoary seal]

https://i.gyazo.com/d0ec2bc0f19705f3e7a77236852489c4.mp4

keeps doing the same thing no matter how many times its generated

[plush yew]

Can I see your collision?

[hoary seal]

like this would work if I didnt want it to be enterable..

[plush yew]

Yea I can tell this is not a modular house...

[hoary seal]

i mean it can be.

i just combined all the meshes that i didnt want to be movable

[plush yew]

Making it modular would make yoyr life a lot easier.

Your*

But as of now

Im not sure how to go about this..

[spice canopy]

@humble bison did you ever find out how to fix this? I have the same problem.

The R.txt invalid error when packaging for Android

[plush yew]

Try changing the collision complexity

[plush yew]

And then choose Use complex collision as simple..

See if that works..

[hoary seal]

i separated all the walls, railings, stairs etc into their own meshes and i got the main structure as its own, gonna try this way..

[plush yew]

In theory this should worka

[autumn flame]

i know this is noob question ...
but how can i re-arrange material editor nodes?

[hoary seal]

kinda annoying how its making a collision through the area of this mesh that is supposed to be a hole..

[plush yew]

Oh simple..
Remove collision and then add auto convex collision with default settings.

And then you might want to resize thaf mesh in case the player is too large to get through.

[plush yew]

What do you mean?

[stray dust]

i have a problem

my blueprints currently look like this

but im trying to get them to look like this

any ideas what i can do

[autumn flame]

this problem looks 👆

[plush yew]

Just drag the get rotation vector back

Or drag the calculate direction a bit forward

Or drag them upwards.
The point is drag them to different positions until you get your desired result.

[hoary seal]

I removed it then did auto convex with default

[ebon marlin]

any way to reload .usf compute shaders while the editor is running, like with live compile?

[plush yew]

Its still not going thru?

[urban flower]

Is it possible to make super realistic games in unreal engine that can actually have quests and stuff while looking super real?

[hoary seal]

apex legends, dying light, any modern game is in unreal

[urban flower]

Like something like this
https://youtu.be/HVJfJ010MQM

[hoary seal]

yep

[plush yew]

Try to play around with the hull count

[hoary seal]

I tried with max hull count

[urban flower]

Yo that's cool

[clear estuary]

is it me or is UE5's EA2 worldpartition causing corruptions in save files?

looks like if i rename the externalactors folder it loads (ignore me, it broke so much lol)

[glossy mica]

How are you guys doing?

[clear estuary]

upset, my project is corrupt XD

can't load any of the levels in world partition without it crashing that area

[ionic bridge]

Could someone help me out with sphere masking. Basically I want so AI or other players outside the sphere is not drawn/rendered. And once they enter the sphere you can see them. Any recomendations on how to do this?

Basically The fog of war videos i watched didn't help cause i either had to watch the parts before (20 of them that didnt have to do with the fog) or it didnt have a way to make a max radius from character.

So in my screenshot You can see AI still in the corner, which I do not want to see. I only want to see whats inside the brighter white area.

[kindred depot]

You know there is a thing called blocking volumes right?

PLace actor, blocking volume.

I use this everywhere.

[hoary seal]

What’s that do

Dm me I’m not home

[kindred depot]

You said you dont want someone to enter the house?

a blocking volume will make it not enterable. or if you wanted someone to enter the home and the collision is broken use complex as simple Or use blocking volumes as the collision

[glossy mica]

damn

did you not backup it?

[merry zephyr]

whenever i click install on bridge in epic launcher the launcher crashes any suggestions ?
bridge works fine with ue4

[vague thorn]

Does anyone know how to send a model from blender to unreal engine with all the shaders?

[foggy orbit]

Hi, i have a movable object (part of it is movable, drawer and Doors of à cupboard) next to a wall separating outside and inside. My light is baked fornthe scene but for movable object parts obviously. And... This movable asset next to the wall gets light from outside. IS there a way to deal with this issue without increasing Lightmap Volumetric Detail Cell, and this rendering Times and memory foorprint ?

[vague thorn]

wym? There has to be a way. Otherwise, how would anyone make assets with blender?

Then how do you do that?

Export the textures

[plush yew]

I export sketchfab props into my project and when i save and quit and then load the project later, all the props textures just disappear and the texture is now the default
its only the props i downloaded from sketchfab tho
does anyone know how to fix this?

[clear estuary]

i have an older copy, i should've mentioned it was ue5 - more of a testing bed for a small project of mine, but it took ages to figure out 😦

i installed something off the marketplace, and since then i've had nothing but crashes, even after removing the items

seems to have perma borked the project, and i can't tell how to fix it

even after i tried migrating also

[glossy mica]

That's a nightmare

[oak patio]

If you made a texture then you have to have the png for blender, unless your material was entirely procedural in which case there isnt a way

Yeah that too, but if its a procedural thinf that needs ti change, you just need to hope you can recreate it in unreal

[errant gorge]

Hi guys, i was wondering if is there a way to overwrite a private actor component (PathFollowingComponent) with another custom? it says that it's inaccessible, i'm using code not BP

[oak patio]

Sometimes when i make a materials with an image texture, it imports alright in the fbx

[vague thorn]

I have no experience in baking at all and tbh I have no idea what you mean

[vague thorn]

How to you make the material into an image texture?

[oak patio]

Your material will already have a texture you have made, unless it is sokid colour or in nodes

[drowsy snow]

In short, turn all the procedural PBR properties into textures

[spice ruin]

@errant gorge if you want to replace the component entirely and tis a default subobject of an actor, you can replace it in a subclass of that actor

[drowsy snow]

Because this is not possible, save for few basic algorithms you can improvise yourself.

[oak patio]

Material slots will carry over in fbx from blender, so you just need to import the texture you made and the fbx, or if your material is procedural, bake it into a texture

[vague thorn]

I used nothing but shaders to make a texture, but how do I make it into an image, if possible?

[errant gorge]

mmh actually the component is a subclass of PathFollowingComponent, so it's compatible, but that component itself is private

[drowsy snow]

https://www.google.com/search?q=blender+how+to+bake+material+to+texture

[rose sleet]

Hey, im making a horror game and i need a suggestion. It's where the character can walk into different apartment room. Should the character be able to turn on every light in the house (Or only some lights) or should the player only be allowed the light from the flashlight / lighter they have?

[placid folio]

When I'm using day/night cycle the night cycle shows direct light through my landscape on to my foliage, even thought the direct light is under the landscape. Any hints how to stop this? Using Goodsky for day/night cycle.

[drowsy snow]

Best would be balance of both.
You can look up the first Silent Hill trilogy for reference - it has good horror atmosphere and lighting sparse enough to give uneasy feeling.

[prime willow]

@drowsy snow so powerik or control rig

which one would be best lol

and can control rig be used as a ik procedural system to make animations more fluid o-o;

[remote badge]

Anyone know how to make controller pitch/yaw input relative to the controller rotation and not the world?

[ionic bridge]

So, if I wanted a sphere trace toggle visibility. I need to make a BP? and how would i add an actor like a player or an ai to said component so it knows to toggle off or on

[drowsy snow]

Well, considering PowerIK is sort of merged to Control Rig

[oak patio]

The actual actor you click on isnt the source of directional light

The Directional Light simulates light that is being emitted from a source that is infinitely far away.

So it doesnt appear you can do what you want to

[placid folio]

If I put the direct light under the landscape shouldn't the light be blocked by the landscape?

[oak patio]

the direct light isnt the source of the light

it comes from infinitely far away

those two lights do exactly the same thing, as it only tells the light which way to point

[drowsy snow]

FWIW might as well leverage the new Sky Atmosphere.

[oak patio]

it seems good sky automatically has this feature

of automatic light dimming etc

[placid folio]

I'm very new, is there a guide for day/night with sky atmosphere?

I was trying to use this to fix good sky https://youtu.be/qXAA77OOm1Y

It does as you suggest and dims down at night

[oak patio]

The documentation does give some guides on how to do it

i reccomend reading it

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/FogEffects/SkyAtmosphere

https://youtu.be/oDQl9gw_fRM?t=119

[prime willow]

o-o

[sharp crest]

does anyone know where to find someone who can do FX

(paid)

I can never find anyone anywhere........

and nobody ever messages me about FX when I post in #freelance-jobs

[trim mountain]

Hey mates. Wondering if anyone knows a way to rotate a skylight by 90 degrees? So that horizon is vertical instead of horizontal?

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas, cant figure out why socket moves away in central aim offset, but working fine in top and bottom position.

In animation itself and aimoffset looks fine also

For some reason socket moves away from the hand bone

[oak patio]

you just gonna have to hope that someone replies to your offer. A bit more info about the gig and project may tempt people

[distant totem]

People will tell you to keep using the job board #instructions, idk what the frequency you can post the same listing for is, but probably not more then once every 72 hours or something like that. Also try reaching out to someone through through #hire-a-freelancer

[ionic bridge]

Would anyone have one have a better way to go about this... I'm trying to make a trace toggle visibility. Basically I want the AI/players inside the trace circle to be visible but once outside to be hidden.

[tribal leaf]

Have you tried Fiverr? It's hit or miss but sometimes you get something good.

[sharp crest]

never tried that platform and don't plan to... the way it works sounds like a scam and ur wording doesn't make it sound any better... prefer upwork if anything..

[tribal leaf]

Oh, ok - I thought you couldn't find anyone. Sounds like you don't have an issue.

[sharp crest]

well I do hbave an issue I can't find anoyne

lol

I didn't try on fiverr cuz it's not a good solution

I think

lol

Idk

[distant totem]

Fiverr is definitely not a scam, there are good people on there and fiverr has measures in place to ensure you are refunded completely in the event something goes bad with the contracted person, and in the event the work is not up to what you specified

[sharp crest]

😂

[sharp crest]

thx for the info 👍

[distant totem]

Check each profile carefully, just like you would if you were hiring someone. Hit and miss probably means don't expect more quality then what's on their profile. And yes, there are lots of people overcharging for simple things because the demand for those things from people not as tech savvy are high enough to charge those prices

[sharp crest]

I was just laughing at the general title not the price

lol

[oak patio]

Never had a problem with fiverr, but my suggestion is put more info in your offer, or learn the skills yourself

[sharp crest]

I might try it

this guy says he makes fx but he also says this lol

like how could u say u can make fx for both engines

sounds like he will do a terrible job in both in that case

[oak patio]

People can learn both things, there will be a lot of transferrable skills

But it also depends in your budget

[sharp crest]

there r like 3 ppl making ue4 fx on fiberr, suprized there were any tbh

[sharp crest]

is my budget for him to learn how to do the job

okay I'm going to sleep Iw ill look at this tomorrow 😂

[oak patio]

Your budget depends on the quality of skills you receive

[sharp crest]

not really

[oak patio]

If you only gonna pay like £5 for an effect, it probs wont be any good

[sharp crest]

if someone sends me his portfolio and then I negotitate down the price it doesn't mean the quaity will be lower than his portfolio stuff

if it does and he doesnt tell me then he is a scammer

lolz

[oak patio]

No but there is a pretty direct correlation

Higher skilked workers require more pay

That is a correlation

[sharp crest]

well ye but generally it's better to look at the portfolio than the price they are charging to see the quality

[oak patio]

Indeed, but it is also important to consider budget

I would also give it a bit of chance, you didnt give it an hour before you started giving up... it may take longer and multiple posts to find someone, in which time it may be easiet to learn

[ionic bridge]

Is there a way to condense a sphere trace by object, down so there is a single trace line horizontally

[oak patio]

Why not just do a line trace

[ionic bridge]

i need a circle around my character so

im in top down and im trying to basically draw a trace circle around me to toggle on/off visibility

[oak patio]

Ok so whats the line for?

[ionic bridge]

once an actor enters the circle they are visible, once they leave they are no longer visible

[oak patio]

That still doesnt explain why you need to condense a circle into a line

You could also just use sphere collision, and check overlapping actors

Checking overlapping actors is great as well as you can filter by class

[ionic bridge]

where do i apply this

in world select the bp sphere component or else where

[oak patio]

Add a sphere collision to character

Then however often you want

Check overlapping actors of the sphere

Filter by enemy

For each

Turn off visibility

Not sure the cost of getting overlapping actors on tick tho

[ionic bridge]

like this? the "visivilityToggle" (yes i miss spelt it lol) is the sphere bp.

im prob not doing it right.

[fossil nexus]

When my character is interacted with by another character i need it to slowly rotate in the direction of the character that is talking with her.
For now i can only rotate it suddenly using SetActorRelativeRotation.
This rotates it to the correct orientation, but it goes too fast.
How do i make this rotation happen slowly?

[oak patio]

You add the component, then in the bp, on Tick or on a timer, check for overlapping actors on that component, filter by whatever class you need, then loop through all the actors, and set visibility

Alternatively you could have a begin overlap event

So that everything that enters turns visibility on, then in end overlap turn everything off

That would probw be better actually

[oak patio]

Use a timeline and a lerp

#salary-jobs

.

[low geyser]

aaaaaaaaa

[plush yew]

Shouldn't a timeline node and set actor relative rotation be enough?

[oak patio]

You may have variable rotation, which a timeline wouldnt handle, so if instead you have a timeline from 0 to 1 over an amount of time, and use that in lerp from a rotation to b rotation, that will allow you to go between whatever rotations you want

[fossil nexus]

But i changed the rotation to be slow in the character movement. So this turning of the character must be somewhere? Or no?

[ionic bridge]

idk why im having such a hard time. idk if youd be willing to set this up? im a visual kind of learner lol.

or help step by step

[hoary seal]

Is there a way to set the relative Z location, but keep the X and Y as current? if I set the new Z, it works but it sets the x/y at 0

[grave pollen]

been stuck on this for a little while tried a bunhc of different things but I'm stuck, short of doing some math that I don't know how to do off the top of my head lol

trying to get the bullets to shoot at the exact location of the mouse

[hoary seal]

YOOO that is DOPE looking

[tough solar]

Few questions:

• what version of Rider are you trying to use?
• what's your UE version?
• what's your OS?

[grave pollen]

it basically boils down just to this

which seems pretty standard to me, just getting fwd position of char but my math skills arent strong enough to troubleshoot the obvious issue with the above vid. Lmk if any1 has any ideas thanks.

messed around with just trying to grab exact location of mouse in world space w/ no luck. oh wait

[plush yew]

Yea that's a much better way of doing it.

[grave pollen]

also the bullets are spawning exactly out of the gun muzzle socket as opposed to just a set position in front of the char. I removed any gun rotation though which in my mind should have resolved any issues w/ inaccuracies, but I must still be missing something.

[plush yew]

You can split the struct pin between X, Y, and Z and then just use for 'Z'.

[hoary seal]

hey @plush yew do you know why I can't get my window animation to work properly..? I tried just setting the relative position to the current z + 54 but then it sets the x and y to 0

yeah I tried that

so then I tried this, setting the x and y to the current x/y

which..kinda works..it makes it so it doesnt teleport to x 0 y z, but the z is increased by a lot for some reason.

[plush yew]

You are setting relative location

[hoary seal]

right

[plush yew]

Try world location?

[hoary seal]

well I need it to increase 54 from its current

[plush yew]

You need to get the current Z value

and then add the lerp rotation to the current 'Z' value