ue4-general

[hoary seal]

What do u guys think about that widget for interact..? my first widget

[drowsy snow]

Isn't there an option to change blend space's playback rate in anim graph?

[calm widget]

Possibly. I'm quite new to these animation blueprints not sure what the best way to go about it is. Care to elaborate a bit?

[shadow estuary]

having an issue where decal im trying to spawn isnt on top of the ground, any tips

[dusk nebula]

What's the best way to display multiple cameras on the same screen?

[tall crypt]

total noob here... I was asked today by a client to make an unreal project, I have no idea where to start, where is the best place inside this Discord to get started or to see about getting one on one tutoring?

[rain lantern]

I recommend checking out https://learn.unrealengine.com/

[shadow estuary]

anyone have a good way to just slap an emmisive material on a mesh and make it go around the outlines of the mesh

[real heath]

You can use a fresnel node, potentially with a clamp

[shadow estuary]

i did get the material working ok

but when i add it to the mesh

it doesnt show

[real heath]

It's quite faint. Is your main scene too bright and over powering it? Try turning off some lights in your scene or bumping the emmissive strength way up to test

[shadow estuary]

Do I need to map it to the mesh somehow

I'll try that

i dont think the material knows to go on the outline of the obj

i think thats the issue

maybe i need to do it with post processing

[real heath]

How does it look on the mesh?

It should only show the outline, it won't show the original mesh AND the outline

[plush yew]

So I get that its a lot of math and involves scripting but Unity has a easy solution for this while im not aware unreal engine having. Do I really need multiple skeletons to have a character creation blueprint or can unreal somehow interpret where my morph is moving and allow the bones to follow https://streamable.com/ibvi12

i wont call this a limitation but it certainly feels like one lol

i know this is high level game dev stuff and why most games only let you move the bones around rather than switching blend shapes for most things but surely this has gotten easier over the years right?

then again Autodesk Maya is still duplicating rigs just to switch between blend shapes in 2022 so maybe this is it lmao

[polar sorrel]

hi guys, quick question, any good sites or channels to learn ue4 blueprinting from ?

[shadow estuary]

It shows nothing I think because I had to add a 3rd material slot and it doesn't know what to do with it

[real heath]

Oh, yeah that comes down to uv mapping. You can probably do what you want in your base material

Just take those nodes and add them to your original material

[rain ingot]

Can I follow an Unreal Engine 4 course using Unreal engine 5?

like say I want to learn unreal engine 5 but there aren't that many good courses out there since its relatively new, and I have no experience with UE4 either, Can I follow a UE4 course on UE5 or would it be completely different, I am familiar with C++

[shadow estuary]

I could but I wanna be able to turn it on and off based on wether a unit in the game is selected, and I was hoping to make it generic so I can just slap it on any mesh

That helped me tho I think imma have to use postfix or soemthing

[real heath]

You can add a scalar parameter as a multiplier and when you spawn the unit create a new material instance dynamic, and then on selection change that paramter

That's probably the better way as less shaders and less drawcalls are required

[shadow estuary]

Hmmmmm okay I'll look into it, tyvm

[indigo steeple]

Will it affect a games loading time if I was to sort all of the ammo and weapons and wearables into their own folders for each individual item? Like in my Inventory folder where I keep my Item Database and Structure BP's, if I did a Weapons/Ammo folder and then a Ammo folder in that one and then a folder for each ammo itself. My need to sort stuff sometimes gets annoying and I don't want that to heavily affect my project. lol

[frigid thicket]

Is there an optimization channel that's better to post to? If not I had a question about the stats you get from running the stat scenerendering commmand.

As you can see there is significantly more draw calls for Deferred Shading Scene Renderer but I can't find out what this means online

It's more confusing to me since I'm currently using forward shading

[versed wing]

So I’m trying to create animations for different characters that have the same UE mannequin rig, (running, attacking etc) is it possible for them to have separate animations even if they have the same rig. I’ve tried changing the Animations for one character but then they just apply to the other characters as well…How do I separate the animations?

[calm widget]

Probably create or duplicate the animation blueprint so you can swap them out for each character.

[narrow mauve]

I'm reminded why I prefer c++...

[proven aspen]

simply collapse it into a function

[narrow mauve]

HAHAHAH RIGHT

[oak patio]

I definitely feel like there is no way, that has to be like that

[narrow mauve]

oh for sure

there's definitely a better way

Ive only been at this a couple years

I'm shit at it still

I usually do this in c++ but I got lazy and started all this in blueprints and now Im regretting it

lol

[dapper oak]

i tried doing that too and now im converting everything

yaaaay

[narrow mauve]

I feel like the irony is that blueprints starts to become a convoluted mess

once you get too deep

[oak patio]

blueprints is nice and clean and easy until it isnt

[narrow mauve]

^

[dapper oak]

basically

you start prototyping stuff and its all going well until you run into one thing that only works in c++ so then youre stuck

[jolly rampart]

how do i make enemy ai rotate smoothly? i looked it up and the option isnt there... help?

[oak patio]

lerp it, however,if you decide to learn behaviour trees, they have smooth rotation for looking at a target

if you are just doing it in bp

lerp from rotation A to rotation B

using a timeline

[rain ingot]

does UE4 and UE5 vfx/particle system work relatively the same?

or does UE5 have new things added/changed things

[plush yew]

is it better to animate in Blender then export it to ue4? i want to animate cinematic animations first before game design

or do i animate in ue4?

[oak patio]

Cinematic sequences are probably best in ue4, but things like weapon and character animation are best in blender

[tall crypt]

where do I change the pan function... currently when I click the wheel and drag right, the scene goes left and when I drag down, it goes up?

when I add a plane how can I dimensionally tell it what size to be? I see the scale and location (xyz) inputs, but there isn't anything for specific size?

[raw beacon]

Awesome, thank you! I will try that out 😄

[remote badge]

What would be the reason for my character's skeletal mesh having incorrect scaling vs just adding the skeletal mesh to the world?

[tall crypt]

how do you get that "dude" model into your scene so I can scale the size of my area?

NM, I got it

[raw beacon]

hey, about combining rotations, I now have my UE open, but cannot find any combine rotation nodes. I've seen other people have it in their context menus, so i'm not sure why i'm missing it 😦

[remote badge]

combine rotator.

[raw beacon]

I dont have a combine rotator showing in control rig

I see a combinerotators in animBP

[small pewter]

Hey, I have a general question : Imagine a game like Fall Guys, instead of having each minigame being on its own level, will it be possible (I think it's possible but the question is more like in terms of optimization) to have all the minigames on the same level (in different area of the level) to prevent people from having loading times ? Like I would like to not have loading times and at the same time I don't want my game to be laggy, so is it possible ? Maybe by spawning and despawning the minigames assets when not needed ?

Please ping me if any answer 🙂

[devout gorge]

Hello. Is there a way to render out an image sequence from the level sequencer while the level is running/playing? the reason is there are some actor animations that can't be placed in the level sequencer, but I want to capture their animations in the render. thanks

[plush yew]

is there a good channel to discuss character creation systems? I have been creating a tool runtime tool for daz and reallusion users, what it does so far is detect your library, pull in clothing hair morphs and auto populates a in game ui you can customize your characters with, converts hair cards to particles and a lot more features ima leave so this doesnt become a wall of text

the hurdle ive reached is morphs bones do not follow the morph vertex positions, this is normal they never were meant to do that anyway

however in some games they do so you can apply morphs that affect the characters height and such

[valid depot]

Best bet would be to use Take Recorder, which will let you record the actor animations that are happening in Play Mode. After you finish recording you can then load it up in Sequencer and do the Image Sequence render from there

[plush yew]

i noticed there is a function called get skeleton ref pose
does this mean i can have multiple skeletons and my character bp can update its skeleton bone x,y,z on the fly?

i know this is over most peoples heads and a lot of games dont include this feature because of how complex it is but if anyone understood what im talking about please share your expertise

[devout gorge]

Thank you! I'll give that a shot.

[storm parcel]

When using Set View Target With Blend, there are black borders during the transition. How do I fix that?

[plush yew]

ok this seems to sort of work

TArray<FVector> MyOffsets;
TArray<FName> MyBoneNames;

FReferenceSkeleton NewSkeletonRef;
FReferenceSkeleton RefSkeleton = MeshCmp->SkeletalMesh->Skeleton->GetReferenceSkeleton();
TArray<FMeshBoneInfo> SkelRefBonesInfo = RefSkeleton.GetRefBoneInfo();
FReferenceSkeletonModifier SkeletonModifier(NewSkeletonRef, MeshCmp->SkeletalMesh->Skeleton);
TArray<FTransform> BonesRestBonesTr = RefSkeleton.GetRefBonePose();
for (int j = 0; j < MyOffsets.Num(); j++)
{
FTransform boneTransform;
int32 SkeletonIndex = RefSkeleton.FindBoneIndex(MyBoneNames[j]);

if (SkeletonIndex >= 0)
{
    // get rest bone for this bone
    FTransform boneRestTr = BonesRestBonesTr[SkeletonIndex];
    boneTransform.SetLocation(boneRestTr.GetLocation() + (MyOffsets[j] * Value));
    boneTransform.SetRotation(boneRestTr.GetRotation());

    // update pose transform
    FMeshBoneInfo boneInfo;
    boneInfo.ExportName = SkelRefBonesInfo[SkeletonIndex].ExportName;
    boneInfo.Name = SkelRefBonesInfo[SkeletonIndex].Name;
    boneInfo.ParentIndex = SkelRefBonesInfo[SkeletonIndex].ParentIndex;
    SkeletonModifier.Add(boneInfo, boneTransform);
}

}

if there are any game devs here or just hobbiest with a deep understanding of unreal engine could you give me some pointers on making bones update with morph positions

basically what im trying to create is a skeleton that morphs with the characters blendshapes

but this is very poorly documented in unreal engines faq and not used on many games because of this

im very new to C+ so if this can also be done with blueprints id like to do that

and i realze this is actual game dev territory and i wont find much solution in a hobbist space but im hoping someone smarter than me will see it and be like "ah u dum dum this is all u had to do"

[plush yew]

I'm trying to import an .uasset from an unpacked game that is on version 4.24, I tried to open in in 4.27.1 but it didn't see it - is there any reason why?

I'm trying to download the right version now from github

[reef turtle]

Hello. Need a bit of help in unreal. I have a flickering light setup for police lights in my scene. I need to offset the lights so that red and blue lights are not flickering together. I am using a time node and some some sine function. Just need to find a way to offset one. Here is a screenshot of my material setup. Thanks you for the help.

[remote badge]

add pi/2 after the multiply on either but not both

[reef turtle]

Thank you for the help. Noob alert ! How to add the expression. Which node should I use?

[brisk obsidian]

About to head off for the evening so can't go too in depth but a couple of comments to hopefully get you started:

• You're passing in NewSkeletonRef to your ReferenceSkeletonModifier but you never assign it anything so there's no reference skeleton to modify.
• You're making a copy when you assign GetReferenceSkeleton you'd either need to make your variable a reference or you'd need to assign the modified RefSkeleton to your mesh at the end with SetRefSkeleton
• Even if you did make it a reference you're modifying the ReferenceSkeleton on the Skeleton asset, this won't affect your mesh as the SkeletalMesh contains its own RefSkeleton. You probably want MeshCmp->SkeletalMesh->GetReferenceSkeleton()
• You're calling Add on the modifier which is used for adding new bones however it looks like you're modifying an existing bone so you probably want to use UpdateRefPoseTransform instead
• If you are indeed adding new bones then you need to ensure they have a unique bone name
• The Modifier only applies when it is destroyed so you'll want to wrap the modification in a scope using { } and then only use the new reference skeleton outside the scope at the end

[reef turtle]

Thank you so much

[hoary seal]

Since the preview update its been giving me this every time I play

any way to fix?

[neon bough]

because rotators aren't really used in control rig, you have to work with quaternions

so quat1 * quat2 is the combination of both

[shadow estuary]

trying to put a decal on the floor where cursor is but its not showing up, i think its UNDER the floor

any tips?

[trim trail]

is there a way to install ue4 without epic launcher and without compiling source from github?

[plush yew]

https://prnt.sc/1eIuofu9sTgd

this will speed up, right?

It's taking like half a century

(building ue4 from source code)

[oblique tangle]

hi all! i've got an issue with widget edges that's doing my head in, and was wondering if it could be fixed in engine
pretty much, the widget edges don't have AA being applied to them (makes sense), but it's resulting in really jagged edges, is there any fix to this?

probably can't see it in the image unless it's opened up

[sharp crest]

Maybe change the texture settings

Of that img

[sharp crest]

No way to speed it up

[oak patio]

I mean a nice juicy 64 core threadripper might, but its a tad extreme

[shadow estuary]

when i put the decal draw on character it works

but on controller it doesnt work

i am using it to spawn a decal at mouse position because a player has many characters

is there a better way?

maybe put it in a ui widget or something?

[tall crypt]

can someone explain to me why I even though I saved this project (see image) and it even shows this image on the project thumbnail... but when I open the project it's just the default Unreal scene?

[rigid spruce]

change your Editor Start Level to your new Map inside the project settings

[tall crypt]

where in Project settings do I find this?

okay, i found it, but I don't understand what or why it is saving "versions" and then not loading them?

[shadow estuary]

you can have many maps in unreal, hows it supposed to know which one you want loaded by default if you dont tell it

[urban flower]

yo thanks alot

[timber patio]

has anybody met the problem that every time when I reboot my computer (at home), then compile my project , will takes about 180 - 200 seconds to compile , but after that , I edit some file and rebuild , the compile time get back to normal (about 10-30 seconds) , the same project on other computer , also just takes 10-30 seconds to compile , so weired

plus , I do not edit engine source code

[timid meteor]

yes

i cant manupulate mine meshes anymore

help pls

in an instant my pivot point disipeared

its back

lol

didnt do anything

[small ridge]

how can I clamp the falling velocity of a character? using the character movement component

[urban flower]

are many models on the quixel website free?

[timber patio]

I'm not sure. Compter at my home is powerful than other , the main difference is CPU , at my home is AMD CPU , others are Intel

RAM at my home is 32G , the other two is 16GB, all of them are both SSD

the weired thing is reboot computer at home , then the first compile time takes so long

if rebooting emptires cache , why the other computer rebooting , compile time at the first time is same as other time ?

thank you , I got it. May the reason which cause this problem is I changed derived data cache file to HDD (at my home) , but other computer remains at SSD

[timber patio]

yes , I checkd the config file , no infuluence , problem not solve 😢

[urban flower]

im so glad that many pixel bridge models are all free, i can now finish my project lmao

[drowsy snow]

Just make sure you don't leech them for making final renders with other renderers.

Them megascans are all free only for UE users.

[sullen cloud]

i reduced all my textues in editor. So will they be reduced in the Sphipped package too? Or is another step needed?

[drowsy snow]

Why not do it on per platform basis?

[urban flower]

yea i only use ue

[sullen cloud]

i dont get i thre, it says max lod and says 16500

what am i missing?

[drowsy snow]

Window -> Developer Tools -> Device Profiles

[sullen cloud]

yes

[drowsy snow]

Then adjust the Max LOD Settings on each texture groups in a platform config

[sullen cloud]

i dont have texture groups`

i check

its evrywher 16000 something

i just want all are 2k

i changed alreaeydy all with the max texture size

but the GPU impact is 8 Gigs memory on packaged

[drowsy snow]

I sure bloody check them. The categories are your texture group size, and they're not read-only

[drowsy snow]

Want some reassurance? Here's me editing the value of the Max LOD Size, no photoshop or image doctoring.

[sullen cloud]

oh so jsut put there the wished max texture value?? @drowsy snow

yes seems like it ok i try this thanks a lot

[calm widget]

That's not the pivot point though. That's the translation gizmo, which appears on the pivot/object origin. Either way you press G, hides/shows scene icons, grid and such.

[urban flower]

for some reason i deleted a landscape and made a new one but now ue became really laggy

[calm widget]

Not a lot to go on

[real bolt]

Hello, how would i reference a slider from blueprint utility widget ? I am able to cast it but i dont know what object does it wants as an input

[drowsy snow]

Why not the other way around?

[rotund scroll]

the object you want to cast

[drowsy snow]

The problem is that Editor Utility BPs are basically Editor objects, and could be irrelevant in packaging. It should be ed-util widgets referencing to some actor in the map, not some actor referencing ed-util BP

[sullen cloud]

sorry one more question. Which ways except reducing texturesize can reduce the memoryusage of a GPU? still have 6GB usage

[warm canyon]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/UnrealInsights/Overview/

[drowsy snow]

Isn't Unreal Insight CPU centric?

[rocky epoch]

Reusing textures can save a lot. Also optimising them to use the correct size (not using a big texture on a small object, but that is about reducing texsize).
Mixed channel textures maybe?

[sick patio]

dumb question: there's no such thing as one box trigger to open up all the sliding doors, individually? or do i have to make 12 box triggers and 24 on overlap bp?

or should i just put "use other door" on all the other doors and just allow 1 sliding doors to open LOL

[grim shadow]

Hey, anyone know how to make an burger making system? Like, you need to place bread first, then something and then something to make it work

[opaque yew]

word it properly, compile the idea and then ask again

[kindred depot]

Is there a way to bulk edit collisions? like remove all from every selected ass4et placed?

[tawdry python]

is there a way to fix the rotation of a skeletal mesh when you don't have the source mesh?

the issue is that it's messing up with my component rotation now the roll is the pitch and the pitch is the roll

yeah but you can't change it for characters no?

I think I'll save the original rotation and apply it every time I want to change the rotation of the mesh

I could change the rotation from import settings but it's kinda sad that you can't reimport a mesh without exporting it

but since rotating a mesh seems to kinda be the golden standard I can't assume other meshes won't be rotated too

yeah 😆

[tall crypt]

I have two of the "third person characters" in my scene... is there a way to look through their "eyes"?

[rotund scroll]

add another camera component, use the SetViewTargetWithBlend node

[sick patio]

@plush yew can you answer my question?

[tall crypt]

@rotund scroll I see where I can add a camera with the Cinematic "placed" menu... is there another menu option that gives that option you mentioned?

[sick patio]

look up "true first person"

[tall crypt]

sorry, I only started using this yesterday

@sick patio thanks, watching now

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/approve-wink-smile-idris-elba-thumbs-up-gif-16830506

[rotund scroll]

oh this is inside the character actor itself

[sick patio]

yes

ok ok ok, i answered his question, now balance it out and answer mine?

[rotund scroll]

I think if they're new they won't be able to answer your question

[rose tiger]

how do i make specifi collisions for a mesch for ue4 on blender?

[sick patio]

no, you are not new, no?

that's a blender question

i mean, i know the answer, but i'm lawful good. i must adhere to strictly unreal engine questions here

@plush yew is there a such thing as one box trigger to open up all the sliding doors, individually? or do i have to make 12 box triggers and 24 on-overlap bp?

#blueprint

is that a node?

[oak patio]

Couldnt you make 1 general box trigger, than on overlap with the player, cast to you door_master, using an actor refernece you set in the world, then off of the cast, dk a general open function

Thats how i di triggers ans buttons, make a general event in a master class, then cast to it, using an object reference i set in the editor

[sick patio]

oh so the player is ... wait

[oak patio]

If you wanted multiple doors to be opened by 1 trigger, make an array of references, and for each

[sick patio]

i don't want all the sliding doors to the supermarket to open, just the two he's trying to go through... right?

[oak patio]

I can give an example in about an hour, but im in class rn lmao

[oak patio]

Yeah

[sick patio]

oh my, i can wait

[oak patio]

I can show you in an hour, but it would look a bit sus if i open ue4 when im meant to be doing c++ in class lol

[sick patio]

you can DM me in an hour. i am in no rush. i work for myself

[oak patio]

Cool cool, ill probs @ yoh in this channel cause its there for other peolle as well then

[sick patio]

ah excellent

[oak patio]

Unless anyone else takes the wheel before then

Dumber version: get all memory addresses currently active in the OS and try them all for a door pointer

[sick patio]

woah, that sounds like programming, we don't take kindly to no programming round here

[oak patio]

👀

[sick patio]

an array of doors? wait... i have sliding doors, regular doors, and turnstiles. are you saying i can array all of them, in one array?

[oak patio]

It can

But your smart version si basically what i said

You just have an array of doors to open, then add object references to it in viewport

Then on overlap, loop through that array, using those doors to cast to a master class, and call 'open'

Then you just specialise open for each child

Works for buttons too

Bonus points if you just have general interactables, cause then you can use the same trigger for doors, windows, traps etx.

[sick patio]

all of these "doors"

[oak patio]

True

But its not like the cast is that bad

They look nice

Its not spaghetti

How dare you

[sick patio]

yeah my purpose is NOT to have 100 blueprints just on doors

[oak patio]

Adding none doors wouldnt do anything anyway cause the cast would fail so no biggie

[sick patio]

this would be #4 too?

[oak patio]

Those precious 2 seconds

But ueah just make a master class like lorash said

Then an array of it

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/tennis-watching-gif-5864947

i'm lost on you two

or you two are losing me

ok so i need to learn about arrays, transforms, parents,

SIDE NOTE: one guy said make a camera ... thing to slide open the door, with keyframes

is he for more movie making?

and he did collision, not trigger box

[oak patio]

They probs meant a timelien

Trigger box and box collision are basically the same

[sick patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhOJpUQX3f4

@oak patio i thought you were in school? did @plush yew distract you?

[oak patio]

Potentially

But my project is nearly done for the semester anyway so no biggie

[kindred depot]

this is where i learned how to do this 😛

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/modular-self-storage

[sick patio]

he's using matinee legacy?

is it just ANOTHER way to do it?

i had never seen that done before, until today

oh

[slender egret]

My lighting always does that for a bit too! Sticks at 0 then moves on surely but slowly

[sick patio]

ok so then the question is, is there a reason to use squencer for this?

yes

sequencer is artist friendly?

[slender egret]

holy nice landscapes batman

theres some really great free water packs on the epic marketplace

[oak patio]

A timeline may be nicer as everything is in one place but thats just personal preference

[sick patio]

wait, i have a ... tangential question. i notice that ... artists? ... do time lapse environment videos, and they do stuff like place road, sidewalk, side post, electric post, power lines, all 100 times, each by hand, and i'm like... do they not know about splines? ... and is that because i'm learning blueprint from mathy people, instead of artsy people?

[oak patio]

The only thing splines are good for is fences, change my mind

[slender egret]

@twilit hill heres the water from the Water Materials Pack

[sick patio]

so cuppatea and lorash are mathy people

[oak patio]

Maths was my favourite subject

[sick patio]

splines are good for literally making a whole tunnel environment portions, and portion of road with sidewalk stuff and then varying all of that, to create a totally non tiled environment

[haughty hound]

Hello, if i drag & drop an extra pawn (the same im controlling), is there a way ingame to unpossess current and possess the new one?

[oak patio]

But domt get me wrong, i am doinf more than my fair share of graphic design and modelling

[slender egret]

Im pretty sure just a basic possess function

[oak patio]

If thwyre the same why would you do that

[oak patio]

Splines are also quite expensive iirc

[sick patio]

oh?

[haughty hound]

coz im checking data displayed in the console mode

[oak patio]

Ah, yeah if you have a reference to it you can just possess the secind

[sick patio]

@plush yew so just do the mathy way, not the sequencer way?

[slender egret]

Did you know Aragorn was originally cast to be Nicolas Cage

[sick patio]

thank you

[oak patio]

Both are valid, its preference

Wrong reply but eh

[haughty hound]

is there a shortcut to switch possession?

[kindred depot]

that door is well worth 10 dollars ngl

[sick patio]

wait, i thought it was a tutorial

[slender egret]

You can set shortcuts

[kindred depot]

LOL

nope.

[sick patio]

awww

[kindred depot]

its a paid asset that has exactly what you where saying

[sick patio]

oh you copied the guy?

[slender egret]

bind it to a key, like 1, 2, E, whatever and it should be able to quickly possess between the two

[sick patio]

i mean learned from him

it

[slender egret]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/HowTo/PossessPawns/

[kindred depot]

Yeah, i learned how the animation blueprint and blueprint was done with that door just from that asset.

[haughty hound]

thx

[sick patio]

I was trying to make an endless runner, and a guy made one, and I think he made a 3 node spline, with buildings and FENCES and streets and obstacles, with splines

he didn't explain how, so I gave up

[mental helm]

Making systems with splines isn't too bad, a lot of getting the length, looping placement of assets, figuring out if you want them just placed or deformed, adding start/end pieces, etc

[oak patio]

I think the only time i used splines was to make a wooden palisade

[mental helm]

I've used them for hand rails, skating rails, roads, background neighborhoods, etc

You can always convert them into static assets if they start taking a long time to generate or modify

[sick patio]

but could you, do like that guy did and make a road, with sidewalk, with lampost, with mailbox, with wall, with building, and vary it all, at each iterration of the spline (if i'm making any sense)

[mental helm]

Yup. I often use the input splines to generate the spline that actually deforms meshes, or have a road spline that generates a sidewalk spline you can then tweak, with driveway splines going to houses

[kindred depot]

I really wish this guy sold or released this asset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Jdoka6Bok&ab_channel=CromlechStudio

[oak patio]

Is it possible to make a spline that can detect crossroads and stuff, and then fill a closed loop with sidewalk

Never really dine them that much outside of the basics, cause I did want to use a spline for my roads, but my issue is the sidewalk wouldnt line up

[kindred depot]

i just use modular snap system to line up sidewalks with world offset mats

ez pz.

[sick patio]

ok speaking of animations, could I set and in game, clock (tracking the literal time of day, in the game) and have stuff automatically... lights go out at 10pm, and come on at 8am? doors open and lock, same time, etc?

[kindred depot]

yupp.

hard to accomplish tho

ultra dynamic sky can do this

but not the clock system but you can get the time of day with uds and make the asset work with the time of day coming from uds

[sick patio]

so something like this... but stuff IN the world does all that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3xBtPIVWEs

uds?

[kindred depot]

paid asset.

[sick patio]

oh ultra dynamic sky... got it

[oak patio]

I just need to make a system where it can detect closed loops and fill with sidewalk, and detect intersections and choose the right mesh

Not even sure if its possible

I suppose i could just pain a sidewalk onto a land scape and that would solve it

[full knoll]

Hey peeps, where is the best place to find experienced animators?

[oak patio]

Probably somewhere like Dice, but for a real answer we have job board channels, read #instructions to get startd

[kindred depot]

why not just use a spline as the mesh and put the curbs in yourself?

[oak patio]

Cause im not sure how i would line up the square mesh with a curved road

And ideally it would be automated cause it would save me a lot of time in future projects

[kindred depot]

do the best you can, then like i said use a material that is world aligned so you can overlap the meshes with out them having a seizure.

then you just right click convert to static mesh

[oak patio]

Again

[kindred depot]

the curved yes

[oak patio]

I dint know the best way

[kindred depot]

this was my downfall as well on my first sidewalks, lesson learned 🙂

[oak patio]

How would that work kn somethinf like cornerw though, where the sidewalk would stick through the road mesh

Would i have a road with side walk attached, then fill in manually

Then have my material world alligned so no z fighting madness

[kindred depot]

you make REALLY TINY squares to cover it up and i use a rounded mesh that came from block out pack. That was it does not poke out.

[oak patio]

Cause otherwise it woukd be a procedural mesh is the only way i coukd see that working

[kindred depot]

or old school bsp

[oak patio]

Or iw there any point in the sidewalk mesh, wheb i coukd just flatten a landscape to the curb level, and then paint the material on

Cause there will be a landscale too

Just road on top

[kindred depot]

your game 🙂 your ideas!

try and see if you like the way it looks

[oak patio]

Alrighty theb

I need to look into world alligned materials, havent done anythinf with mats other than copy an outline mat, and the standard base colour, roughness, normal

I cannot type on phone i stg

[kindred depot]

they fix that stupid overlapping issue

should be done with ue by default... tbh

[oak patio]

Now that sounds wonderful

[kindred depot]

you know when you put a same materialled mesh on a mesh and it glitches?

yeah fixes that

[oak patio]

Yeah z fighting

Oooh

I want to get a waveform from the ingame music and use it as displacement to deform the sidewalk

Reactive side walk

[kindred depot]

sounds cool af

[oak patio]

Absolutely useless, but would be funny

[kindred depot]

i mean, everything is worth doing. might be useless but if you wanted to see it happen and want to make it a reality do it lol

[oak patio]

I may one day when i dont have any serious things going on, but with uni deadlines coming up and a steam release i need to work on, my time is stretched thin

[pallid talon]

In the new UE5 Preview 1, there is no longer an option in the Project Settings for "Extend default luminance range in Auto Exposure settings". Which means high lux values will always get blown out. What is the fix for this now?

[wispy heart]

Hey guys quick question, if I wanted to get the name of the texture that has been used on a tile in a terrain of unreal engine, how could I do that?

[tender ember]

Hello I was wondering what program do you people use for terrain creation? are there any good free ones? or maybe you use 3D software like Blender, Max or C4D

[wispy heart]

No no that's how you would do it within Unreal Engine itself, but I want to do it through the code in visual studio.

Do I access the current landscape instance and search it to obtain the texture names?

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure this is #cpp territory question

[wispy heart]

I shall move my question there then, thanks!

[red condor]

I'm having an issue where after respawning my third person character the character's camera sometimes starts jerking around. It happens consistently, on the third respawn and then every 4th respawn after that. I'm destroying the last character before possessing the new one. Any ideas what could be causing this?

[oak patio]

You can do good terrain in ue4, alternatives could be the voxel plugin, or tools like world creator that can generate heightmaps for terrain

[tender ember]

by good terrain you mean hand scultping with ue tools?

[oak patio]

Yeah you can definitely get good results from that

[tender ember]

I found tutorials on height maps but all of them require a lot of steps and further photoshop/other editor work. and for example in blender it's just one click

[red condor]

blender has the ANT landscape generator addon

(free)

[oak patio]

There are heightmap generators, you can paint your own heightmap, or learning the sculpting tools can be good

[tender ember]

yeah but when I bring it in UE it's going to be a mesh and not a landscape mesh right?

[kindred depot]

i used to use this to make terrains in ue xD https://www.worldpainter.net/

[oak patio]

You make the terrain in ue4

You just supply a heightmap

[red condor]

you'd want to convert it to a heightmap - I haven't got that far yet

but it should be doable since it follows heightmap conventions

[tender ember]

oh yeah you're right I'm gonna look into that

yeah heightmaps are so fun to work with

[red condor]

I do like the sculpting in UE4, it all depends how much landscape you need

A small level would be fun to sculpt, a giant world would be long-winded

[kindred depot]

voxel plugin is the most amazing tool to sculpt with lol

[red condor]

i need to take a look at that one

[earnest gyro]

Is it good to go through all of the unreal online tutorials or are there some that are more important then others?

[kindred depot]

worth every penny.

[tender ember]

I'm just starting out in UE as an environment artist so I wanna know all the tools available. as well as landscape creation. so before I start learning auto-landscape materials and RVTs I need to understand how to create a high quality landscape mesh first:)

[tender ember]

idk I'm watching everything that is relevant to what I do

[earnest gyro]

ok thats what I thought I should do but wasnt sure ty

[tender ember]

for example I'm not a gamer I use UE for cinematic purposes so I don't watch tutorials for game creation etc.

[earnest gyro]

right

[drowsy snow]

Choose the one that suit best to your needs.

Though they have yet to make courses on Niagara (or maybe my search results were spotty)

[sick patio]

QUESTION: in an adventure ... with slight rpg elements. where you play a character... wake up, get out of bed, get dressed (fairly instantly) grab toast, walk out the door, get in the car and head to work: what is a good setting, for real life time to game time, where you can do that morning sequence to go to work for an in game hour, and get to work, and not be like sims ... where the guy sits down and 30 minutes just passed by.

[kindred depot]

is there a way to increase the scale of the map, with out adjusting the characters height or the objects height? every time i move scale up, it unlocks from a position that its located in

[sick patio]

landscape mode?

[kindred depot]

I have no landscape, its all static mesh.

all statics lol

[sick patio]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-above-my-pay-grade-more-than-i-expect-too-much-pay-grade-beck-bennett-gif-15835979

[drowsy snow]

What's the question? I don't see question marks.

[red condor]

I think the question is about time scale

[sick patio]

in game time, vs real time... what's a happy medium?

not rushed, but not an actual hour to hour

[red condor]

(sorry that shouldn't have been a reply, bad at discord xD)

[red condor]

It should relate to the size of your game world

[sick patio]

right now my sun is running a marathon across the sky

[drowsy snow]

If you want to make time based mobile game, use real time.

[sick patio]

well right now, my game world... or this level, is the default landscap size, which is 8x8... ? pretty big?

[red condor]

rethinking my reply, it depends on more factors really

[kindred depot]

To fix my issue, group everything. then use scale gizmo.

[red condor]

like what the player is waiting for to happen, how much it should feel like a 'wait'

[sick patio]

well i don't want the player to get out of bed, grab toast and the it be already noon

[drowsy snow]

8km x 8km is already big by open world game standard.

[tender ember]

I found this
https://youtu.be/dUEPieo26nk

[red condor]

it will depend on the types of actions, the feel of the game, whether its realistic or cartoony, etc

[tender ember]

super easy

[red condor]

Maybe the easiest is to try it in real time first and then see if it feels fun

If it feels like a drag, speed it up

[sick patio]

i'm thinking Heavy rain... almost exactly that feel,

i think heavy rain day and night was static to the scene, no?

[red condor]

yep

[drowsy snow]

It is static.

[sick patio]

so maybe skip the dynamic day/night?

[drowsy snow]

So basically you don't have to worry much about constantly changing day night cycle.

Just set the sun rotation after certain quests.

[sick patio]

oh i wanted the world to be alive.... shops to close, street lamps to come on... at dusk or whatever, so the player got the idea of the passage of time

[red condor]

aha

[sick patio]

and the streets to empty

[red condor]

so it's open world?

[sick patio]

to create ... a sense of forboding

not ... really open world.... wait... a lil bit?

[drowsy snow]

The one game that's came to mind is Mafia 2

[sick patio]

with boundaries?

ah yes mafia

[drowsy snow]

It's an open world game with fixed times

[red condor]

Can you pass time?

by resting, like skyrim?

[sick patio]

and technically it was open, but you HAD to get somewhere and do something

[red condor]

yeah, you'll need to adjust it probably as you make your quests

and based on how much you want the player to feel like they're rushing

[drowsy snow]

That's very similar to Mafia 2
The time passes based on the quest

[sick patio]

um i wanted everything to occur in one day... and 90% of the game to happen at night (because ... horror)

[red condor]

ah interesting!

in that case the time ratio will determine your workload

[drowsy snow]

I don't think open world format is necessary
But you can make the game trapped in constant night

Reminds me of the final sections of Final Fantasy 15
The game is night all the time until it's completed

[sick patio]

i might be .... biting off more than i can chew

https://tenor.com/view/they-bite-more-than-they-can-chew-william-newberry-smite-go-too-far-overdo-gif-17112194

[red condor]

well maybe haha

it's easy to do

if you know it takes place over a single day, at least you have a limitation there

[sick patio]

i might as well make skyrim horror?

lol

joke

[red condor]

if you make the time ratio x4, you need 6 hours worth of content for a playthorugh

haha

xD

[sick patio]

i'm setting the event tick... delta to... 4 and it's blazing across the sky at breakneck speed

[drowsy snow]

Look up gameplays on Final Fantasy 15, particularly after Altissia part. The entire world is trapped in constant night time, and gave the gloomy vibe throughout.

[sick patio]

or i'm not understanding

[drowsy snow]

That kind of vibe might be what you're looking for

[red condor]

I'm not referring to sun speed at all

but the sun moving at x4 speed shouldn't be that fast xD

[sick patio]

ok i'll look that up, never even seen 15

[red condor]

the sun moving x4 is still pretty dang slow

[drowsy snow]

Like holy shit the latter part felt kinda depressing to play in person

It's constant night time, monsters everywhere, the bros started to split apart, sacrifices are made...

[sick patio]

here's what I have and the night and day function are the same

so are you saying ... per quest... adjust ... the time maybe? like ... do quest ABC and by C it's midnight?

[drowsy snow]

If I get this right, you want the daytime section to be in a time limit?

[red condor]

I think the whole game is time limited

once the day is over, you're done

unless I'm misunderstanding

[drowsy snow]

That doesn't sound fun tbh

[sick patio]

oh no i'm not... trying to limit... I was trying to

uh

have the day proceed

[red condor]

ahh

[sick patio]

I think mafia proceeded with regular day/night no?

[red condor]

yeah ignore everything I said then xD

[drowsy snow]

Mafia has fixed time progressions.

[sick patio]

oh

[drowsy snow]

Basically time changes only when you complete the quests

[sick patio]

let me go look at mafia and taht ff 15 then and probably heavy rain again?

[red condor]

yep, if there's no actual timelimit, just move the sun after each quest

you have no choice, becasue you don't know how long the player will take

[sick patio]

wait... and the 2 males in that game where they break out of prison, by the end of the game it's dusk and night

that was fixed too?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[sick patio]

oh

[red condor]

time is an illusion

at least in games

and maybe in real life

[sick patio]

then day/night is really for open world, rpg adventure?

[red condor]

pretty much

[drowsy snow]

Yeah.

[red condor]

if you need it to get to night at a certain point in your story, you can't leave it up to chance

if the player waits til it gets light again, then progresses and its suddenly night, it would look weird

[sick patio]

so the game mode can just set the time to... afternoo... boom dusk ... boom night?

[red condor]

sure, or at key points throughout missions if they're longer

[sick patio]

ok

[red condor]

do this, it gets a bit darker

(gradually xD)

but not past the point where you want it to for where you are in the story

that's the complex option

[sick patio]

then i have to learn ... what ... time of day looks like. got it

[drowsy snow]

My preference in this scenario would be either:

1. constant day night cycle, but in key missions, freeze the time, and in the later parts, gradually become constant night (FF15 route)
2. fixed day night cycle, with progression based on linear quest completion (Mafia route)
3. Daytime serves as cutscene, the entire game is night time with no time progression.

I think those three are reasonably fun and plausible.

[red condor]

but it can still just be set over one day

with the light changing throughout

[sick patio]

now i'm remembering all the games that had day/night and it... it's all a light... vampire the maskquerade ... day and night ... was all forced. they weren't real days and i didn't really go to bed at night. somtimes the day lasted 20 minutes, sometimes 5

[red condor]

yup xD

video games

game dev has a lot of those realisation moments

you are pulling back the curtain xD

[sick patio]

ok guys thanks

[broken lily]

anyone know why I am getting shadows like that?

[red condor]

is the ground a landscape?

[jolly anvil]

UE5P- Anyone know how to get android to show up as a supported platform to configure for VR?

[broken lily]

No just a mesh

[red condor]

does it look the same if you set your light to movable?

[broken lily]

oh no

it looks normal

when I set it to movable

[red condor]

cool, so I might be wrong but I think this could be to do with your lightmap on the mesh

have you made a manual lightmap UV for it?

[broken lily]

the ground is just a plane

I have not imported any meshes

[red condor]

aha gotcha

so yeah its to do with scale I think

you could increase the lightmap resolution for the mesh

or use multiple smaller planes

or use a flat landscape

or use dynamic lighting

or import a properly lightmap-unwrapped mesh

[broken lily]

thx appreciate the help a lot. I will probably just use the landscape

[red condor]

I think that's what I'd do too 👍

and np! :)

[full knoll]

can a <@&213101288538374145> please message me i need some help,
Thank you in advance 😄

or admin either will be just as good 😄

[maiden swift]

Ping us if someone is violating the rules or you need us to pin a message or something like that. If you need help with Unreal, ask in one of the many channels we have.

[full knoll]

yeah i'm having problems trying to create a job post, and i need some help understanding how it works, Thank you for your fast response 😄

[maiden swift]

Please read the #instructions.

If you need further assistance, DM me so we can keep this channel clear for Unreal things.

[full knoll]

i did, i'm autistic and the description is vague

so I am asking if one of the staff can please help me

[maiden swift]

Like I said, send me a DM if the instructions aren't clear. 👍

[full knoll]

Thank you 😄

[drifting cloak]

howdy folks need some help will creating c++classes to link up arr to my unreal project.

I honestly have no idea how to do it, my experience with C++ is arduinos, and i was informed that such a process is complicated

feel free to ping me with responses

[tired abyss]

Does any of the infinite blade assets come with any animations? looking for some blocking stuff

[plush yew]

i was watching a tutorial on a sliding blueprints door but the tutorial used matinee acgors and i believe they were deprecated, so i was wondering what i shoild use instead and how id implement it

[drowsy snow]

Not the characters, I'm afraid.

[tired abyss]

rip, was looking for some melee swing blocking animations

"place holder"

i mean

not blocking as in blocking a projectile

lmao

[jolly anvil]

Do we know which sdk ue5p wants for Android Oculus?. Same q for visual studios.

[red condor]

A common approach is to use a timeline to update the door mesh world position (often using a spline for the travel path)

[remote badge]

https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=blocking&type=Motion%2CMotionPack

Quick rigging question, do these bones look fine? The animation is horrifically glitching out in UE

[red condor]

janked bones

[remote badge]

I'm using Send to UE plugin and I tested it on the default character rig, worked fine

I've also rigged a basic gun

This sk mesh freaks out though

So I should just start over and try again?

[red condor]

I had problems with Send to UE and skeletal meshes

but standard fbx export works fine

if you set the settings right

[tired abyss]

I do not see a root bone at 0,0,0

[remote badge]

I removed the root bone because I was getting an extra parent in the skeleton tree

[tired abyss]

thats for unity mostly

well most situations

but normally, a good practice for ue4 is to have a root bone at 0,0,0

as far as i remember

thats why mixamo stuff shatters in ue4 for retarget and other things

because theres no root

[red condor]

These are the blender fbx settings that work for me with blender/ue4, for skeletal meshes and animations

in case you want to try without Send to UE4

(note you can save as a preset once you've set them up)

[remote badge]

Ok I switched up the tree

no change

[remote badge]

If I send without the plugin, the animation is still messed up, but it also gets scaled down to a ridiculously tiny size

not the mesh, just when I apply an animation to it

[red condor]

your scene size needs to be adjusted

i think

[plush yew]

i dont know how id do that

[red condor]

i can't remember but i think it should be 0.01 (corrected) meters - whatever the Send to plugin sets it to by default

[remote badge]

this?

the dimensions are realistic, I've tried messing with different magnitudes and units but no luck

[red condor]

https://youtu.be/3NpM8v-ukEY

[remote badge]

It either makes the mesh huge/tiny, or the mesh is properly scaled and the animation becomes tiny

[plush yew]

ok thanks

[red condor]

yep, thats it.

if you have the sendtoUE enabled, the scene will be set up correctly and you can still use standard fbx export

that's my exact setup. It took me a while to get everything working

[remote badge]

it's just tiny all the time with 0.01 meters

[red condor]

are you using the fbx export settings I posted?

also is the character and armature's scale 1?

[remote badge]

Yea

If I multiply the scale by 100, it goes back to the original problem

Normal scale but anims are messed up still

[red condor]

don't multiply the scale, that will def mess it up

it needs to be scale 1

[drowsy snow]

Apply the scale.

[red condor]

yup

[drowsy snow]

with the animation already being done, I think it's too late. The unit scaling has to be set up as early as possible.

Once there's LocRot keyframe, it has to be redone.

[red condor]

yeah, all transforms should really be applied to make things not wonky

and that would mess up anims

[remote badge]

multiplied the scale by 100, then applied, but the animations are still tiny

also these aren't my animations, just from the starter content, they work fine on the default character

[drowsy snow]

So you're retargeting?

[remote badge]

I'm importing the sk mesh, then assigning the skeleton to the default characters

I make sure the naming and bone structure is in the same style

[drowsy snow]

And the skelmesh comes from Blender first?

[drowsy snow]

This is pretty much irrelevant to the case at hand

[remote badge]

yea I downloaded the rig from sketchfab, deleted unused bones and reassigned the vertices, then renamed the structure to match the humanoid convention

[drowsy snow]

Okay, so in Blender, adjust the unit scaling to 0.01 and scale (and apply!) everything up 100x. Export the skelmesh as FBX, bring in to Unreal, and then retarget the animations to that skemesh

[remote badge]

I did that, and then scaled up 100x + applied. I'm trying to just import the skeletal mesh and use it in place of the default sk mesh. I don't want to duplicate all my animations and anim bp with retargetting since I plan to expand those in the future

[loud pike]

Any idea why i cant see the static mesh in the Blueprint but i can see it in the scene ?

[red condor]

oh sorry

i misread xDD

are you zoomed in too close?

try zooming out with the scrollwheel

[loud pike]

i created the BP as a child from another BP

[red condor]

you might be inside the mesh

[jolly anvil]

Best istruction videos in any industry ever. a true educator

[loud pike]

i can see it in wireframe 😄

[amber shuttle]

press F

[red condor]

I know!!! Such a shame she stopped posting videos...

[loud pike]

Fixed it 😄

[amber shuttle]

easy 😄

[drowsy snow]

FWIW you might as well ditch Manny's skeleton and roll up with the custom skelmesh's skeleton, and use it as the new base skeleton

[red condor]

yeah my process above is for custom skeletons/animations btw

ymmv

[drowsy snow]

I think at one point she got recommended in one of the official UE Community Spotlight

[remote badge]

So here's the result of retargetting... I did one jogging animation to test and still no luck

[oak patio]

looks fine to me 👀

[plush yew]

how do i find how far an actor is off the ground?

[remote badge]

line trace

[red condor]

using a line trace

[plush yew]

how do i do that, im new to blueprints

[lucid grove]

Is there a way to set delay before transition in animation bp?

[plush yew]

wait nvm ive fixed it

[drowsy snow]

perfect.

[red condor]

not sure if that's possible in the animBP itself, but you could delay setting the variable that allows the animation to trigger?

perhaps using a 'delay' node

[drowsy snow]

imma sleep kthxbye

[lucid grove]

There is no nodes in transitions like in ordinary blueprints. The only way I can do it with external animnotifies.

[red condor]

I meant you could do it outside the animBP

it depends on how you have things setup

is there a bool variable that allows the transition to happen? Say that's set in the character - you could delay the bool being set

before it gets to the animBP

you could add another condition if needed to not mess up your existing logic, and delay that one instead

does that make sense?

[lucid grove]

Thats what im talking about - the only way to do that is ouside transition rules.

[red condor]

yep - that's why I'm suggesting to do it in, for example, the character blueprint

so if the transition rule is ExampleBool must be true

and that bool is based on a bool the character has

[plush yew]

can someone help

[red condor]

then when you want to change the value in the character blueprint, you just add a delay before you do

that way the animbp won't get notified until the delay is up

and your anim is delayed

[plush yew]

i followed a tutorial on a door opening/closing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NpM8v-ukEY) and when the door closes, it goes too high and idk how to fix it

[red condor]

can you post your blueprint?

[plush yew]

ok

[jovial quarry]

I recently made a few updates in BP to one of my characters in my game. PIE used to load in a seconds or less but now takes probably 15 seconds to load in but runs smoothly once it does. Any idea what I should look into to correct this issue? The items I added are simple nodes on the character objects I was already updating in my gameplayability.

[red condor]

this looks okay to me, are the curves set up properly in the timelines?

[plush yew]

idk

[red condor]

the float curve in the 'close' timeline needs to go down from 1 to 0

if its the same as the first timeline itll just go up again

o wait I'm wrong

because you're reversing it from the end

hmm

i did the tutorial a long time back unfortunately, but it worked

[jovial quarry]

Can you show me what's happening? You say it goes up too high, what does that look like?

[plush yew]

i did it a bit different

but its the same if u know what i mean

[red condor]

ah

[plush yew]

instead of putting a number in i got the location so its the same for all instances

basically instead of manually finding out the z value i just got it from the "getactorlocation" node

[remote badge]

yea all of them are skeleton and root/pelvis are animation scaled

[plush yew]

but i dont know what im doing wrong

[jovial quarry]

can you show me your timeline?

[jovial quarry]

It looks like you are just moving the door too far based on the size of your door.

[desert flare]

Hey, do anyone know about a good tutorial/guide for how to implement a moving vehicle with physics for unreal?

[plush yew]

what would i have to change

[red condor]

either the distance, or the door size :)

ideally you would have a precise mesh size and travel distance

[plush yew]

how would i change the distance

[jovial quarry]

Update the values on your timeline

[plush yew]

to..

[jovial quarry]

something less?

you'll have to play with it to see what it needs to be

[red condor]

make sure you understand the concept of the timeline, and the values it is affecting

[jovial quarry]

play with the values on your door Z axis and see what happens

[plush yew]

i changed the last frame to 0 and it went half way and still went too far at the end

[jovial quarry]

setup a little trigger or something and then set the values to different itnervals to see what happens so you have a good understanding of what's actually ahppening

Youb asically just copied code from a tutorial and are stuck at "why doesn't it work? I want X to happen."

instead of seeing it programmatically and fixing it

[red condor]

the question is how far do you expect the door to go? the engine can't guess, you have to tell it.

[plush yew]

what im confused about is why it goes extra far on the up and not down, even though i change the values?

[jovial quarry]

"too far" isn't a thing

it's going wherever you set it

[red condor]

one thing worth noting is the video is a simplified example

[jovial quarry]

you need to play with this to see what is actually happening

[plush yew]

going further up than down

[red condor]

you might find it convenient to use a spline like I mentioned before

[jovial quarry]

setup some way to change the values ingame

It probably isn't man. You just don't see it that way.

[red condor]

then your timeline can move the door along the spline and back, its easier to visualise the distance

[jovial quarry]

You are directly changing the actor's location. The engine isn't doing anything else or bumping it up or down more or less

[red condor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Pxh3Dzb9o&t=734s

this shows how to move something along a spline

if you combine the two videos, you can get something working just how you want it

[plush yew]

well i dont know what im doing different on the door closing than going up

[plush yew]

okay thanks 🙂

[red condor]

but you'll still need to set everything up correctly. The spline simplifies things visually

[jovial quarry]

You don't appear to be doing anything differently. But we can't see everything so we can't say what the deal is. If your door isn't lined up correctly or isn't the correct size to fit that opening, it may be giong just as far one way as the other but still looks funny. I would do what Geoff said as I don't think moving your actors around directly like that is probably the best way but honestly I haven't done much of that myself

[red condor]

I gotta go eats, good luck 👍

[tender ember]

I can't delete a folder it says failed to load assets and whn I open the lot it is empty

[jovial quarry]

I'd try restarting the editor.

[tender ember]

it's all bridge stuff I tried reinstalling the bridge but it keeps on downloading some parts of the stuff and disregarding others

I asked for help but they said to reinstall so I guess I'm gonna do that again

[tender ember]

thanks💛 I'll try that after I reinstall it

[tall crypt]

I downloaded the UE 4.27 from the site... but when I launch the epic gamer launcher it shows me UE 4.23.1 ?

[quasi lake]

hello!
can someone pls help me, i've disabled all print strings in my project somehow (probably accidentally pressing some kind of hotkey)

how can I turn them on back?

[plush yew]

for some reason the spline isnt working

[tender ember]

can't do it still:( does anyone know what this means?

[tall crypt]

NM, just figured it out... I have to get use to the way EU works

[plush yew]

hey does anyone know how do i fix this bug where it doesnt show my components

[jovial quarry]

You have to try to run down the issues and come back when you think you may have it narrowed down to more than "doesn't work". Most of doing this stuff is tracking down problems, not creating

[jovial quarry]

Can you click on the Graph and open it?

[plush yew]

it opens my blueprints but i need my character to show up there

should be like this

sometimes from time to time it just bugs out and i cant see my components in some bps

[jovial quarry]

I've never seen that. If you delete that actor and start over, does it still do that?

No idea

[plush yew]

if i delete and start over it works just fine

[jovial quarry]

I'd try reinstalilng the engine or something

not sure

[plush yew]

ye i'll probably do that, thank you anyways ^^

[sharp crest]

show pic?..

[plush yew]

@sharp crest

[sharp crest]

seriously just go to windows and the missing windows

reinstallnig imagine 😭

[plush yew]

yes i tried but there is not such a window for it

[sharp crest]

wdym???

[plush yew]

or i just cant find it

which would it be ?

[sharp crest]

it's literally these

[plush yew]

i cant find those in windows

[sharp crest]

also you can go to window and reset layout

[plush yew]

oh okay

[sharp crest]

here's mine.

try to enable all of those

[plush yew]

ye its that thank you

[sharp crest]

👍

[timid spade]

i use dual render scopes with rendertexture and scenecapturecomponent2d

how can i add the prism effect near the edges of the scope lens (rainbow effect) to my ue4 game scope

[fading hull]

for some reason when I load this asset into my map, the move thing(X, Y, Z) axis mover is far away from the object, is there a way to fix this?

[timid spade]

change origin

[fading hull]

What do you mean?

[timid spade]

are you using blender

or what r u using

[fading hull]

No, this is UE5

[timid spade]

yes

but

i meant for the model

how did you make it

[fading hull]

I didn't make the model, it's from a asset pack, I just wanted to make some maps

Soul City

[timid spade]

all models have origins

the origin is where the centre of the model is

youd need to put that model in blender or maya (for example) and move the origin to where youd like it to be

[fading hull]

Can I change that in Unreal Engine?

[timid spade]

otherwise youre stuck with that

not that i know of

pretty sure you cant

[amber shuttle]

yea you cant

[timid spade]

origin is part of the model

so youd need to edit that in modelling program

[grim ore]

you can change it using the new modeling tools

theres a dedicated pivot tool

[timid spade]

if anyone knows how to do this please lmk

[devout gorge]

Hey, does anyone know if it's possible to use udims with opacity mask? I keep getting this error just on a basic material when pluging in the opacity mask.

Thank you, hacky will work.

[amber shuttle]

i was just banned from gamedev discord for being straight

[tender ember]

What’s up with UE4 and Quixel Bridge Megascans? It doesn’t import half of the stuff I checked. Constant problems with it and I’m reinstalling it for the 3rd time now. Does anyone else have any problems exporting from it?

[timid spade]

whoever banned you is dumb

[sinful tendon]

Is there a tutorial on how to make a tower defense game or can someone tell me how to spawn an enemy and have it follow a waypoint system.

[amber shuttle]

i believe there are plenty?

[sinful tendon]

link me one

[tall crypt]

what causes there to be "light" on the inside along the edges of the wall and roof... the geo is overlapping?

[sinful tendon]

What's the best way to learn more about how to use blueprints. i bought books and watched tutorials but the resorses don't seem to be enough.

[austere whale]

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

does anyone know if they used

that like iphone ar scan

for the segments in this video like at 0:10

[red condor]

I'm having an issue where after respawning my third person character the character's camera sometimes starts jerking around. It happens consistently, on the third respawn and then every 4th respawn after that. I'm destroying the last character before possessing the new one. Any ideas what could be causing this?

[jolly rampart]

when i am making the enemy shoot missiles, how do i make it only collide with the player? ask for any screenshots if needed

[drowsy snow]

Check if player character overlaps with it, and only player character.

Of course if that's not putting into account blast damage or friendly fire on enemies.

[jolly rampart]

ill send a video

[jolly rampart]

sorry abt the music btw

[drowsy snow]

I can mute and replace it with jazz.

[drowsy snow]

What about the BP code you have right now? Also you don't seem to show the logic you have in action.

[timid spade]

watch ryan laley's ai tutorials

you need to set up your enemy to follow waypoints

regardless, its pretty easy to do (if you just need something simple)

i will dm the series to you

it helped me a lot

[timid spade]

also, use collision channels. project settings -> collision and in your character bp set the option in physics tab i believe its called collision type

you can make it so certain things wont collide with each other based on their channel

[jolly rampart]

OH

that is something that i was unaware of

[steep flax]

Hi, any one have any opinions about mixing low poly with a higher poly grapichs?

[jolly rampart]

itd probably be a little weird and unpolished

depending on how you execute it

[drowsy snow]

Highly depends on the game's art direction

[steep flax]

i like really new to creating games and i have been looking at "synty studios" low poly assetpacks and i really dont like how the ground and water look and was thinking of changing them to highher quality

[jolly rampart]

that could look messy

it all depends on how you execute it

that goes for anything though

[steep flax]

ok ok, i did also google that shading and lighting is a huge deal with low poly games so i guess that would probly help with the uglyness

i mean i cant seem to find any other asset packs that have a huge selection that are not low poly.... could just be that im new and dont really know how to or where to look

[drowsy snow]

Are you an NVIDIA user?

Bless the reds. See pinned message section.

[drowsy snow]

There are lots of those from stuff like iClone, Daz (though many had horror stories with the integration), our own MetaHuman Creator

[steep flax]

is there like a generall rule about buying or using free assets for the meaning of publishing the games like how do i know if they are free to use for anything? @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

It really depends on the licence, but stuff from Marketplace are generally okay to use.

[steep flax]

the unreal engine market place?

[oak patio]

generally if you want something super customised like you want, you will have to do it yourself, I don't reccomend mixing art styles as that looks messy

[merry bison]

In my endless runner game I'd like to continuously spawn a floor in front of and ahead of the player and destroy it once the player passes it. What's a good approach to achieve this?

In my mind I'm thinking of counting from the player's world location and add a number to that then spawn a floor there.. Is that a smart approach or is there a better way?

[drifting cloak]

anyone know of any tutorials that can help me with adding arr module to my ue4.25 project?

I understand that I need to use C++ in order to create an SDK for it. but I have little experience in such

[merry bison]

Tbh, I've thought of this too. Maybe like having a bunch of them "rotate".

I'll fiddle around with this approach I think.

Thanks

[drifting cloak]

Application Request routing

yeah, because i know it's complicated and people saying "it's complicated and hard" doesn't help me sovle it

i was shared a github page but that involved creating SDK from exsisting games and that's not what i need.

i need either a sdk specifically for arr module to mesh with 4.25
or a tutorial to help me create them (the latter would much be preferred)

[merry bison]

Question though, before I start changing my code. With the tiles moving, wouldn't my player actor also move with them, backwards?

[drifting cloak]

i have iis 7.0
from what i've been told is that i need to use C++ and vs to create my sdks for the project

oh, okay

that's what i was told.
My goal is to put in the arr module that unreal asks for when i try to open the project

[rare frost]

Hey! Can anyone think of why, in editor, using "Join Session" for the Client and "Create Session" for the Server would work fine. But creating a Listen Server via the command line, and a Client that joins the server by command line would create replication errors like "No owning connection for actor".

[drifting cloak]

wdym? as in the arr module is on github?

[rare frost]

Maybe it has something to do with using 127.0.0.1 instead of my computers local network IP. this is all LAN, btw.

[drifting cloak]

yeeeesh. yeah it seems that it's gonna be a lot of bs trying to find this.

i'll have to ask a few people ig

[slate vessel]

Can anyone tell me why the grass has this odd shadowing at its base? I don't think it used to do this either that or ive only just spotted it

[plush yew]

https://streamable.com/x6nev2 So Maya has always been the go to for rigging but i feel like if you have the willpower Blender actually blows it out of the water, its only been a few months and I cant imagine going back to maya for rigging or animating game characters

https://streamable.com/jq3lkn

I would like some advice however, about materials character customization blueprints and some things regarding the getskeletalrestpose component. I feel like if i could gather a handful of amatures we could make something gainful and legitamate

Yikes

no

daz to unreal bridge is super broken

diffamorphic allows you to get it into blender

then you can do the rest form there pretty easy

i delete the daz skeleton

and just use autorig pro

its pretty good

and then from there i add more drivers

like the base is good but then i add corrective morphs n stuff

[proven aspen]

I'm shocked at Blender's competence with linking scenes to a master rig. You can even add new constraints to controls. It's really impressive. Way better than I was able to do with max xrefs. I wish it was better about things like multi-selection, though. And they really need to move away from the "rig controls are bones" thing.

[neon bough]

why do you swap the skeleton for your own?

DAZ rig is pretty neat for animation

specially if you have pretty much support for bones driving JCM shape keys

[plush yew]

My full steps is I add the daz character from daz to blender using diffamorphic addon, i create a udim material for the entire body/face/arms/legs so it can be colored n crud all at once in unreal, i then use my hair conversion script to generate alembic groom groups from the hair cards, i do the same for eyebrows and lashes and add them all to the same material group and then make an alpha for them to be customized later, i then use diffamorphic to add all the morphs i want from my daz library and then use gret addon to transfer the bone x,y,z to match the morph targets and create a seperate skeleton for every morph that affects height and then i export to unreal, in unreal inside my character animbp i make a getskeletalrestpose function for each morph changing height and scale so that it swaps to the skeleton that works with it in game. The process is much longer these are just the main steps i can ramble off the top and all of the addons are free, if you have trouble obtaining my hair converter i dont mind sharing it via dms. Also I do not use jcms because it is much better to properly weight paint the mesh than to make morphs for every little pose lol

daz is good, as a base. If you use daz as is youll get a crappy product i think it is a good library of resources to use as a base for creating stuff with

ill be making a full tutorial on all of this sometime soon

[neon bough]

proper weight painting doesn't replace JCMs

[plush yew]

and then a seperate tutorial on blendshapes and swapping skeletons in realtime since every triple a game with character customization does this yet nobody in the hobbyspace seems to know about it lol

proper weight painting doesnt replace jcms
then you need to better wieght paint lol

[neon bough]

no, you have to understand what JCMs are for

[plush yew]

most of the jcms i release for daz are made from exporting as fbx after painting and posing

lol

bro agree to disagree lol i dont like using jcms

[neon bough]

if you bend your arm, your biceps will "grow", how do you archive that with proper weight painting?

[magic field]

What are some good resources to learn Unreal Engine???

[plush yew]

ben if you really dont know the answer to that question you just asked please learn about weight painting, it will save you a lot of time not using jcms lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LoX3zXzWhY this video might help you

[neon bough]

guess i have to learn what weight painting is...

[plush yew]

mao

its well worth it weight painting lets you do a lot

[neon bough]

...

i would really like to see an example like this

[magic field]

What are some good resources to learn Unreal Engine???

[neon bough]

just admit that your "proper weight paint makes JCMs obsolete" statement was nonsens

instead of attacking me to learn proper weight painting

[magic field]

Thanks!

I want to do Virtual Production with the HTC Vives

[ember cypress]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/welcome-to-film-and-television

You could start with this learning path, then.

[magic field]

I appreciate it!

I'm not sure what constitutes a "Good" Developer but I would like to Focus my attention on the difficult stuff ya know?

At the height of difficulty I imagine c++ Programming and blue prints

I have experience in Audio Software like Logic Pro X and Ableton

[neon bough]

then unreal dmx stuff might be worth checking out

[magic field]

It really helped me to reverse engineer songs,, Seeing the song structure

[neon bough]

the 4 chords?

[slender egret]

Cant leave/unpossess vehicle? Any ideas?

[magic field]

So i hope to find environments that i can use as a template to learn and tweak

Are there any resources for free? 3d Models and 3d environments

[neon bough]

you can checkout https://www.twitch.tv/deadmau5/videos?filter=archives&sort=time the oberhasli things stuff is most of the time unreal/ableton related

[magic field]

Thanks Ben! I'll check it out.

[desert verge]

I'd like to make a game like Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, should I work on improving UI art?

[magic field]

Ideally I would find a decent environment and a 3d model that is already skeleton rigged.. Then control the model with HTC vive Trackers.

[oak patio]

how can we know that if we have no idea of your current skills

[magic field]

Not sure how much processing power i need..

[neon bough]

not much, check the free stuff on the unreal marketplace there may be some useful things

[desert verge]

Lol true, i'd know how to program everything from it since its a click based game

[magic field]

But it hope a GeForce RTX 3070 will suffice

[desert verge]

I'm just horrid at UI stuff

[neon bough]

it will, if you don't do crazy stuff xD

[magic field]

Crazy stuff doesn't even sound "crazy" compiling shaders and lighting??

The reason i got into Virtual Production.. He makes it seem feasible

One man, Mocap suit and iphone xr for facial mocap

[neon bough]

and maybe years of experience with stuff like that

[magic field]

I can wrap my head around the concept of 3d modeling and environment building

[marble coral]

Hey, any idea if I could put a question regarding some work with a ue4 mannequin in blender in this server?

[worldly spear]

anyone know why when i import an alembic to Unreal I get this weird ghosting issue at render time?

[desert verge]

I thought this was from Avatar

[magic field]

Lol some guy named Cory that is groundbreaking in Virtual Production

Matt Workman is another person that is highly regarded in the field

[desert verge]

there's another person here that's good

Worked on GOTG

[magic field]

I can imagine it's much more dificult to create a game that runs on Unreal Engine than using it for it's environment creation

What i really need to do is familiarized with the Menus and master the Key commands

[random forum]

Anyone ever get an issue where whenever they hit the "Browse to" button in an asset, it will REFUSE to send it to Content Browser file system, and instead open Content Browser 2..... not matter how many times you close the window!?

[calm widget]

Any easy way to add.. inertia? Not sure how straight forward that is so i'll just show you. But i want the character to not stop in his tracks when running into a slope.

[next sierra]

Hey yall. How do I fix the lighting in this area?

It should be dark except where the spotlight is pointing.

[tall crypt]

If I have this kit of lights in fbx, how hard is it in UE to add actual illumination to these models?

[drifting cloak]

can i get unreal to not check for a particular module?

I cannot find this arr module anywhere and want to jsut tell it not to check it.
if stuff breaks then i'll go back, i need this working

[plush yew]

Hi, is there any way to set fixed window ratio when resize window?

I'm packaging to Windows 10 but there was only enable/disable resize options, not resize with fixed ratio.

[silk sandal]

Does anyone here know how to do an in game screenshot function that doesnt use the command function so it can be done packaged?

[drowsy snow]

It's as easy as making a blueprint and putting together the mesh and a couple of light probes. Couple that with volumetric fog, it just works.

The point light serve as the emissive illumination, with small radius just illuminating the bulb area. Then the spot light is for the spot light.

[drowsy snow]

Why not let the player use the screenshotting tool provided by the OS?

[drowsy snow]

For reference, just the BP actor itself. The emissive light component is moved with relative position. I also make some quick light setter to unify the parameters across the light probes.

[tall crypt]

@drowsy snow i'm brand new to UE, I just youtube'd what you said above and I'm watching some tutorials, thank you for answering!

your diagram looks scary complicated...? is all that needed for one light?

[drowsy snow]

Nah, it's pretty simple, just to unify the settings for two of the light probes so that I don't have to go through the light component in the map for adjusting things. From the top:

1. Just toggling the shadow casting for the spot light, to save on performance

2. Set light intensity for the spot light and the emissive bulb light, with the latter 1/8 of the spot light's

3. Toggling volumetric light shaft of the spot light, to save on performance (used for lighting from the camera)

4. Set the light colour on both light probes at the same time

[rancid lagoon]

I am trying to make a multiplayer game, and am having trouble. How do i connect to a server that is not on my local machine? I am using AWS computer to host my server files, but when i type in hte IP adress of the the ASW computer, i cant connect. How do i fix that?

[drowsy snow]

#multiplayer

[tall crypt]

is there a trick to getting "Bridge" to show up in UE? I've installed it, opened it and UE, and closed and re-opened both of them... still no bridge?

[drowsy snow]

Are you in UE4 or UE5?

[tall crypt]

UE4... I didn't know UE5 was available?

4.27

[drowsy snow]

Close the editor, install the plugin via Quixel Bridge app, make sure it points to your engine's Plugins directory (e.g. D:\Unreal Engine\UE_4.27\Engine\Plugins), and then launch the editor again once it's done installing.

[tall crypt]

did all that, and bridge keeps giving me an error that says unreal isn'r runninf even though I have it open...?

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried installing it?
Also make sure it's installed to the right directory, and enabled in Plugins list

[hybrid sky]

how do i create a character "mesh" for a pawn where it's just a 2d image?

like (sorry for the horrible link idk examples ) this? https://youtu.be/VTtH9dVYOjw?t=65

2d pawn in 3d space

[dull dew]

can we shoot with raycasts in unreal?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, just do a linetrace forward.

[tall crypt]

@drowsy snow thanks... its working now!

[plush yew]

Hi, is there any way to set fixed window ratio when resize window?

I'm packaging to Windows 10 but there was only enable/disable resize options, not resize with fixed ratio.

[tall crypt]

can I create custom parameters for imported fbx models, that will only effect the models initially created orientation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sl0aFA7fE