ue4-general

[shrewd pulsar]

if i set it to anything lower then 10k it will point to world center

[oak patio]

Try world location not relative

[drowsy snow]

Can't recommend you any, because I have my own workflow that actually works without any plugins, and I can't make tutorial videos.

[oak patio]

So plug the result of get world location into start

[shrewd pulsar]

ok

he targets the world center once changed.

[pallid olive]

hi guys im verry new into game creating. i wounder if i want to make 2d background is this best done in Ps and import it into ue editor?

[shrewd pulsar]

anyone know a good youtube video for creating forward vectors at a certain distance

iv been at this for a few days now lol

[honest vale]

what's Hub for UE5 runtime traces (i.e. -tracehost=<host>) and tools like Unreal Insights?

[drowsy snow]

If you're going to paint the 2D backgrounds by hand, that has to be done externally (there is ILIAD plugin for in editor painting)

Otherwise you can either prerender the backgrounds in Unreal or just render it in real time, as 3D scene with limited 2D camera movement

[pallid olive]

thanks alot for your suggestion ill take a look into Iliad plugin

[quiet island]

Good evening everyone I am seeking for some help (if anyone would be able to help me understand something).

I have a mainmenu that im opening before im loading the maingame map. When I normally first load the maingame map the topdown character template works perfectly fine and lets the player move.

But when I make a mainmenu with a button that has open level on click it somehow is not activating that movement option for the topdown character

[rich reef]

Is there any way that I can hot reload a game on android?

Say that I want to move something 5 meters in my level, do I have to recompile the game and restart it on my android device to see those changes (on the android device)?

[rich reef]

Or is the idea that I should be doing 90% of the gameplay testing on my pc? Because having to wait a minute and a half to se your changes on the phone is not gonna work.

I do have a drawing tablet, but it requires use of a pen for it to register touch so most ideal would be if I could just play directly on the phone

This is how long it takes to recompile and restart (am I doing anything wrong?) https://youtu.be/eBiRrv6DtxA

Its an i9-12900K, 32 gb of ram so I was hoping it would be a little faster.

[grim ore]

no real hot reload on mobile, but launching on device should just do an incremental update

[rich reef]

Okay, can you have a look at the video? Later in in the video I show a second launch, its taking A LOT of time.

[grim ore]

you should be able to do most of your testing in editor using the mobile preview, you can simulate touch with mouse

check your output log while its deploying , see what it shows

it looks like a large part of that is removing the old app from the device and pushing the files over to the device

so device related

[grim violet]

Anyone familiar with perception neuron? I am trying to use the corrective t pose on a metahuman and every time i try importing it crashes

also weird part is it technically already did import correctly it just doesn't show in the content browser ): in file explorer it shows up as a uasset but not in UE5's content browser

[plush yew]

is it possible to make material instances cycleble (not in game but in the editor viewport)
where i can just click left n right and change out texture object instances

i know u can set it up for in game but itd be nice to be able to do this in the viewport

[full matrix]

!stream

[sullen quarry]

probably an overasked question but how can i reduce the compilation time. it literally took me 2 minutes to add a new class. and like 15 for a small change. i can't really get any better components for my pc because well im 15 and kinda broke so...

[grim ore]

dont use C++ is probably the quickest way

otherwise, small changes shouldnt only compile the changed parts of your project so 15 minutes seems a bit long

[sullen quarry]

true, but im trying to follow tutorials and learn ue4 c++...but that is true

[sullen quarry]

maybe its cos im using 4.23?

do newer versions get quicker compile times?

[grim ore]

they can. 5.0 has better live reload as well

[sullen quarry]

ok, will try some of the newer ones then, it seems 4.23 is just being annoying at the moment

[dusk nebula]

How would you handle perks that are assigned and then checked under various conditions? There's no way that using a bool or int and then checking every variable is optimal

[soft skiff]

Hey, can anyone help me with a very quick question. When making assets (in Max, Maya, whatever), do I need geometry on both sides of the assets to block any lighting I do in engine?

[dense knoll]

Theres some assets in my project that wont show up in editor

these are from 4.27

How do i get the editor to recognize the assets?

it is able to read some of them but not all

[muted plume]

Is there a way to cast your character BP to an actor component?

[dense knoll]

they arent redirectors

but am i just screwed here?

[quiet island]

Well look at that! I understood what you meant and figured to solve it haha. Your the best

[soft skiff]

Hey, can anyone help me with a very quick question. When making assets (in Max, Maya, whatever), do I need geometry on both sides of the assets to block any lighting I do in engine?

[sullen quarry]

i used unrealvs quick build and my compile is taking over 3 minutes

[thick herald]

Yeah light can leak through

[soft skiff]

Thanks. Just use a shell modifier I guess, or make a weird shaped plane that covers the back?

[thick herald]

Depends really. I mean you could design your meshes to take into account your actual level design and only make the ones you need to with extra 'sides' or use exisiting SM to block light.

[soft skiff]

Sorry, what do you mean by SM?

[thick herald]

Static Mesh

[soft skiff]

Thanks, appreciate the help

Alright, I'll keep that in mind.

[cunning zinc]

Hello! I input 8 live video feed.
Need to display that in a material, I've tested between

• 8 texture sampler
• 1 UMG rendertarget to 1 texture sampler in the material (using an hidden widget component)
  Did anyone of you think about using 1 method or another beeing better ?

[plush yew]

Hey guys everytime I try to open a map or set a new default map my unreal engine 4 starts non responding and it won't work?

[misty laurel]

sup anyone know how to change shadow warrior 3s weapon fov ...its horrible...i know there was a fov changer for blair witch ...which was also a UE4 game

or is it a simple command in .ini

[kind dew]

right click the node and refresh. It means that that surface type enum was changed so the switch node on it needs to be updated

[misty laurel]

what?

SW2 had a weapon fov change ability but that was hogs own in house engine tho

wonder how to do it in UE4 SW3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Az1TBwQ1s

like this

[fierce tulip]

this isnt a discord for random unreal engine game questions, this is a discord for game developers using unreal engine.

[misty laurel]

well best place to ask imo

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

[misty laurel]

due to ...experienced devs

[drowsy snow]

But we are not part of Flying Wild Hog dev teams.

[fierce tulip]

we cant be sure, that all depends on how those devs did it.
Probably in engine.ini but heck, they could have ripped it out, replaced it, or called it differently.

[drowsy snow]

Also in UE4, independent weapon FOV depends on the first person weapon material (WPO w/ Panini) and per project game user settings.

So it's not shared on ALL UE4 projects.

[misty laurel]

so no solution ?

if anyone could give it a look would be much appreciated

was also wondering if possible to disable health / item drops from enemys and disable glow on interactive objects

[drowsy snow]

This ain't the right place for game support, chief.

[fierce tulip]

^

[misty laurel]

sorry ...im just looking for some help here , sorry

[drowsy snow]

Tried refreshing the offending node?

[fierce tulip]

@misty laurel try to find a community in relation to Shadow Warrior 3, im sure they can tell you about fov, and perhaps even modding. but its really weally far away from the scope of this server.

[void linden]

Is 35k vertices for a single object too much for mobile games

By single object i mean the car the player is going to drive

[fierce tulip]

depends on a lot of variables. if you can get lower, go lower. in the end use the profiler and see if the car fits in the budget.

[void linden]

So basically i have to playtest it to see if it lags or not?

Thanks for the tip 👍

[drowsy snow]

Did you mean tris/faces? Vertices alone doesn't affect much when it comes to performance, but even the low poly models can hog the framerate down if you have sloppy materials.

And yeah, if in doubt, use stat unitgraph

[void linden]

Ok thanks

So materials and textures play a big role in performance too?

[fierce tulip]

everything has a role, everything has a budget. (so: yes)

[void linden]

Thanks for the help! First time making a game on my own so needed some help

[fierce tulip]

good luck :)

[rotund scroll]

people too

[tacit junco]

What do you guys think I should learn unreal 4 or 5?

[drowsy snow]

UE4.

At least until UE5 fully released.

[tacit junco]

I wanna use 5 cuz of Nanite and cuz quixel is much easier to use

[drowsy snow]

Unless you're a filmmaker, you don't have real reason to use virtualised geometry just to get started.

[tacit junco]

would porting a game from 4 to the fully released unreal 5 be an issue?

[drowsy snow]

It's expected to be forward compatible when it's fully released, yes.

For now, things seem to be still rough around the edges even in 5.0 Preview 1.

[tacit junco]

Ok thanks!

[grim violet]

can anyone help? i have this fbx file that i need to import to correct a pose and for some reason ue5 just crashes when i import

[drowsy snow]

#ue5-general

[grim ore]

you have to read the crash log

or give more info

[dire fjord]

Does 1 unreal unit really equal 1 cm? We currently have some real world VR set up in a 9 meter x9 meter room. When you start in one corner, but the time you reach the opposite (9 meters away), we've only gone 8 meters in the real world.

[grim ore]

it should be yes, but there is a scale you can adjust that might make it feel more accurate https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/XRDevelopment/VR/VRBestPractices/

[grim violet]

Is it possible to copy an edited MH from project to project in UE4?

I.e.) I want to copy this MH and move it to another UE4 project, is that possible? I tried before and couldnt find the BPs

[drowsy snow]

Yes, use the Migrate feature - it'll copy related/referenced assets along.

[grim violet]

OH

🙏

I will try that thx

Is it possible to migrate from UE5 to UE4?

[drowsy snow]

No.

[grim violet]

😭

Appreciate the help thx

[drowsy snow]

Good thing I still do main work in UE4 😎

[grim violet]

I was dumb and started learning via UE5

Now my projects I worked on are now being converted.. by me redoing them

[dire fjord]

World to meters seems to be set at 100, which is the default. That means 1 unit should equal 1 cm right?

[grim violet]

Anyone know if its possible to add emission to a groom asset's material? Trying to make eyebrows and eyelashes glow

[grim ore]

yes, it should be the 1uu:1cm like you expect, it's just it appears it's not or something doesnt match. You could try adjusting that value and see if you can make it feel right.

[dire fjord]

Hmmm okay. We are also noticing that the farther we go from the starting point the more our physical position and virtual position become out of sync. But as we return to the origin we synchronize again. I wonder if that might be connected to this issue.

We calibrate and synchronize the 9x9 m virtual and real spaces around the green circle. As we walk around to the red circle we suddenly find ourselves 40-50 cm out of sync, but as we come back to the green circle we are in sync again.

[grim ore]

yeah it might be some form of drift, but that distance shouldnt be math related so its got to be something else

[plush yew]

I wanna access a sweep when setting actor location of a pawn. But it seems like my pawn doesnt have collision and i dont know how to enable them, because the pawns shape isnt the sceen root.
Can someone help me with this problem?

[grim ore]

what is the root?

[plush yew]

DefaultSceneRoot of a pawn

[grim ore]

you can replace it with your static mesh then if that is your goal, or another collision item like a capsule or cube

unless you need a scene component to be your root for some reason

[plush yew]

I dont think that i need this root, but how to replace it ?

[grim ore]

drag your new root on to it and it will do it/ask you to do it

[plush yew]

Ohh 😄

Thanks

This also helped me to get access to sweep now!! Ty alot

[dire fjord]

If you have any thoughts that would be great. I've been banging my head against that for a couple weeks. Settings wise it seems fine, and our virtual and real world seem to be in sync in terms of position and rotation. As we're 50 cm off... Maybe I could try a world scale of 5% difference and see if that makes up for the drift. The quest 2 tracking seems fine so I've no idea why this is drifting

[plush yew]

I got a question that sounds pretty simple but its not
Say I take one of those free unreal engine assets they want you to pay for later and then use the math from them

all of the nodes i use exist within unreal engiine itself and is not part of an asset
all of the textures i use are of my own
if all I did was copy the numbers (not copy paste but literally just look at their math and be like ah this float goes into this thingy and use this number for subsurface color etc
Can I then say that this asset I make is clear of any copyright issues
https://files.catbox.moe/b8izjg.mp4

I used the math from the metahuman shaders

but nothing in the asset is actually coming from a metahuman asset

is this legal?

[grim ore]

what are you using the math for?

just a little confused on the part about "free asset that I pay for later"

[plush yew]

ok lets take that out of the equation
say i make a blueprint, and it is all nodes contained in unreal nothing custom i imported, i then sell it on marketplace
legally someone can just make their own using the same values and then not owe me anything right?

[grim ore]

yes, unless they took it from you. even copying is still copying. proving that is an entirely other thing. again still confused on the pay later part

as metahuman is free for use in unreal engine

[plush yew]

neat i wasnt worried about using the metahumans but copyrighted content in general that is free of use for learning, did not know metahumans were free to use in unreal regardless of publishing as long as its in unreal thats neat

[grim ore]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman-creator MetaHuman Creator is free to use in your Unreal Engine projects. This means that MetaHuman assets must be rendered with Unreal Engine.

any all of epic assets they provide for learning/training should be free to use in your projects as long as they are used in unreal engine

[plush yew]

yep as i said
did not know

thanks

[grim ore]

it should say on the asset itself for the learning stuff

[plush yew]

good youtube channel btw

im pretty sure i used one of your videos when i was stuck on materials

lol

[dire fjord]

one of his videos? I have most of his videos burned into my brain 😉

[plush yew]

that reminds me

should I turn mipmaps off all textures i want to look more gooder

even with virtual texture streaming on

Is it somehow possible to have an object receiving Event Hit on player but still be able to go thru them?

[grim ore]

mipmaps are a memory thing, you want them on unless its like maybe for a cinematic or something. in general you want them as a 4k texture taking up 10 pixels on your screen is silly

@plush yewthe object react to hitting the player but doesnt stop and goes thru them? not really, you would use an overlap instead of a hit

[plush yew]

thanks

and virtual texture tile size should be 128 for 4k right

https://youtu.be/t-eG2TDU048

he leaves his at 128

but my tiles in blender were made at 4096

[grim ore]

shrug no idea, #graphics or #level-design might have more info. I can't art lol

heck the official docs have more info than I do heh

and that doesn't really look urgent

[plush yew]

Okay thanks

But i wonder how i specify this, like how to set only players to not collide with a specific object :/

Ah nvm i just found it

[plush yew]

does anyone know why this is not working for a button click to work in my actor blueprint? They person on this question shows the same way and says it works with others saying so also.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/calling-event-in-level-blueprint-from-widget/331690/3

[autumn flame]

Cause the Widget may not exist at that point

Really suggest Binding where the Widget is created

[plush yew]

I would, but I cannot find any docs on how to bind to the widget graph, and still get the output on my actor blueprint.

[autumn flame]

Totally possible, just don't do what you are doing rn

[plush yew]

ok, otherwise I could just do it the other way around and it would be easier if there is a doc on how to push an event from my actor (key pressed action) to the widget.

[autumn flame]

Multiple ways, depends on where you create the widget and what exactly you wanna do

[plush yew]

I got it working, I have the same idea I posted, just had to do it in the widget like you suggested and it works like a charm. Thank you

[wild hemlock]

is Chaos not included in the 4.27 distributed in the epic games launcher?

must it be compiled from source?

cant find the Fracture mode

oh its 4.27 schaos

can you open a packaged UE5 project in UE4?

[plush yew]

quick question while its dead in here, what does this power x2 node even do
all i know is it fixes my textures from opengl applications

Im glad it helps but i want to know what its doing, i searched for the documentation on it and found nothin

[flint crescent]

its squares the number. like 2squared = 4 3squared = 9. So it'll just be amplify the value for each RGB

[plush yew]

thanks

is there a way to have unreal engine node links straight

instead of curved

[plush yew]

i am attempting to follow this guide to make a grid material in the insurgency sandstorm editor but the engine is 4.25 which does not have the "step" node. What is the "step" node, what does it do, and how could I recreate it? I found an answer on the forums using custom node, but some one claimed custom nodes are not recommended. Thank you.

https://www.techarthub.com/making-a-procedural-grid-material-in-unreal-engine-4/

[plush yew]

in the latest versions of unreal engine 4 and 5 what did they change the name of TCNormal map compression to

it is no longer in the compression dropdown in either engine for me

oh

just found out the seams wont be fixed by this option anymore

apparently it is a bug in unreal engine when you have support skin cache enabled

it was already reported a bug, more than 2 years ago. So hopefully its almost time they fix it

[modest folio]

As part of a visualisation I am working on in UE5 I would like to hide certain mesh objects based on a setting that I will have the user change in a typical pause menu. I dragged these meshes directly into my scene but suspect that if I want to be able to hide them that I may need to create an actor blueprint and stick them all in there? Is that the best approach or is there a more appropriate way of doing that? Because I am using Lumen for lighting there shouldn't be any lighting issues to resolve when objects are removed that will impact on shadows etc. I am very new to this so I don't know how to do it exactly, but if I am on the right track at least I can read up more in that direction. If anyone is aware of a tutorial that might shine more light on this please share if you can. Thanks!

[young stream]

if it's in a pause menu it's less of a problem to do something like 'get all actors of class' or 'get all actors with tag'. But if you need it at runtime or need to ensure there's no hitch, using an interface and making actor BPs from the static meshes would indeed be much better.

If you aren't using nanite you could also experiment with a material collection parameter that sets the object's (masked) material to 0 opacity. Depending on how many objects you need to query/affect it might work better, not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_hLUkm7v44

Here's a handy vid from Mr Wadstein on interfaces. I'm sure he also has one on material collection parameters and the get all actors nodes. His vids are super helpful

[primal tendon]

So I'm using Weapon factory and MoCap Rifle Pack animations, when moving in any direction the left hand is moving away from the gun, how do I snap it?

[plush yew]

This is a 2K picture, and it only shows 64X64 resolution

[young stream]

is your character rigged to the epic skeleton with the right ik bones?

[primal tendon]

I think so...

[young stream]

your texture group/mip settings would be incorrect. Check which texture group it's in, lod bias, and the downscale settings

[plush yew]

Thank you~

[young stream]

sounds to me like it's due to hand IK either not being set up or not working in the animbp. I don't know about those assets, but if they work together in the previews or whatever with the epic skeleton, chances are your skele doesn't have hand ik set up properly, or you need to change bone names etc in the animbp setup

[upper quartz]

hi guys, i have crash problem about pracache on IOS.

[primal tendon]

I have only set the gun to the socket named ik_hand_gunSocket
What else should I do? Also yes I did notice it now, it's not only left hand but also the right hand that goes a bit off when running forward.

Hmm, it seems I don't know properly about IK, so which is best tutorial for 2 hand gun IK?

[soft rampart]

Hi, movable lights in my scene doesn't seem to cast light at all in gamemode. its completely dark. I'm relatively new to Unreal, can't seem to find a solution other than changing all my lights from movable to static and then baking.

[faint bone]

Can anyone help me how i can make a AI movement bp without using navmesh or behaviour tree. any tutorial will be helpful.

[drowsy snow]

The navmesh is used for pathfinding. It's not related to behaviour trees.

But whatever. You could theoretically jerry rig a VInterp To for the location and RInterp To for the rotation, on tick, and adjust the target based on conditional branches.

Maybe add line traces forward to determine the collisions.

[modest trench]

why are you so averse to using the AI stuff? not fitting your usecase?

flying pawns?

[faint bone]

yep

i'm making board game but don't want to use navmesh, as i want the to follow a specific path.

[modest trench]

this is a longshot but I think you might enjoy this unity C# programming series on how to make a hex based boardgame https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/hex-map/

basically you need to make a system that can evaluate the "cost" of moving from cell to cell in your game board

[drowsy snow]

Also the suggestion above is pretty much improvising different codes. Not recommended if you have no prior working knowledge on C# or Unity

[modest trench]

and yeah, this is going to be weird to apply to UE if you don't really understand either

just the first thing that came to my mind

if it's just a grid google says to throw Dijkstra's algorithm at it

[faint bone]

well i can try to understand. thanks for help.

[oak patio]

You can still use navmesh and apecific path

You can make a navmesh and have it follow a set of points you lay out

[modest trench]

could we get more info on what the board looks like?

[drowsy snow]

Redirect the answers to #blueprint guys

It is getting confusing

Prime example of why crossposting without redirect is frowned upon by the #rules

[plush yew]

There is a question that has puzzled me for a long time. The problem of stickers will be displayed as long as there is light, and it will disappear when there is no light. Who can answer my question?

[drowsy snow]

Try asking on #graphics

[plush yew]

Thank you~

[violet marsh]

Do I understand correctly, that if I use marketplace plugin that generates some content (blueprint logic, etc.), then project with this generated content (even without the plugin included) cannot be shared publicly (to not violate EULA) ? (eg. public git repo)

[drowsy snow]

Usually generated contents aren't entirely procedural (in a sense that it's putting premade meshes together as opossed to procedurally making mesh out of thin air), so no.

[modest folio]

Thank you very much, I will have a look at that.

[violet marsh]

thank you, it not procedural content, therefore its not possible as I thought, then if I wanted to share the project with someone (e.g. some contributor), if the project contains some plugins (even paid) and its generated content, can I share the project with such person, as long as they are Engine Licencee? (that is my current understanding of EULA)

[drowsy snow]

Paid plugin would require you to have each contributors pay their own licence for it.

[drowsy snow]

IMO your safest bet would be to have open source plugins or ones that you make yourself in house.

[wild fjord]

Hey guys, sorry to bother but is there a way for a smooth third person camera to a sidescroller one? not just activate i would love it with a blend and also it messes up if i activate the sidecam because it always rotates with the boom before its even activated.

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried enabling the movement lag on the spring arm component?

[wild fjord]

yes its already enabled

[violet marsh]

I see, so my last question, if there was non-procedural content generated by paid plugin in the project (but not plugin itself), the contributor still needs the own plugin too, I assume? (I mean - if the generated content is treated same as the plugin itself under EULA?)

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[violet marsh]

Thank you for all your answers, it helped me a lot, it seem I will really need to opt for the open source plugins for this project as you suggested

[median sandal]

Can someone confirm that the blue channel in an ARD map is displacement?

[drifting elbow]

hello all, can I somehow manually spawn the Auto Import dialogue?

[thick herald]

Depends how it was packed. Usually the letters denote the channels usage. Red- AO, Green-Roughness, Blue- Displacement; in your example. Maybe.

As in the order of the letters

[median sandal]

yeah, probably, it was packed using bridge

but idk how bridge packs textures

[sturdy trench]

Plugins not listed in my friends machine. I guess there was a checkbox to make them listed but I forgot. Anyone knows where was that?

That was it, thanks

[wild hemlock]

this must be really stupid but

how do you correctly import a screenshot as a material?

i'm trying to create a simple plane to use as reference for level design

the image isn't scaling correctly even with the same width and depth when i use it as a material

using the new modeling tool fwiw

is there something i'm missing? >_< its a super simple task

[spice ruin]

Have you tried just using the plane static mesh that comes with the engine?

[wild hemlock]

lol that works

curious why the modeling one didnt though

[spice ruin]

Magic

[remote jasper]

Can someone help with a small problem i have?
I created a dirt layer blueprint and after i was done with what needed to be inside i duplicated it 3 more times for grass rock and snow to put them all in the landscape master material, when i create a master material instance and open the instance only the first layer connected in layer blend is shown in the parameters, the other 3 are missing.
All layers have different naming as individuals and different names in the "group name"...so...what i have done wrong?

[pallid talon]

Question - When painting trees via foliage, the trees randomly rotate. Looks great. But when zooming out and the billboard texture of the trees start, the tree instantly rotates to forward face with the billboard. How do I fix this?

[plush yew]

Trying to find this option

How do I enable error coloring so that I can visualize?

[spice ruin]

Isn't it in the viewport dropdown menus somewhere?

The one Lit, Unlit, etc is in.

[spice ruin]

I doubt it's the landscape options.

[plush yew]

Hmm, so where could I enable error coloring?

[spice ruin]

It might be talking about the static mesh UVs which you can see in the sm editor?

Shrug

[plush yew]

This is what it says: LightingResults: SM_Scifi_Wall_03_OuterCorner Lightmap UV are overlapping by 24.1%. Please adjust content - Enable Error Coloring to visualize.

[plush yew]

So I have to edit the SM itself?

Dang

Yea, I don't think I am going to do that

[plush yew]

Its a checkbox that I ticked

I dont see any different on my viewport?

do I need to build lighting again?

[pallid talon]

Probably. I don't personally use it.

[plush yew]

alr building it again and let's see how it goes

[spice ruin]

Ah ha!

[raw beacon]

Hey guys, i'm having a problem Animating with enums not working in sequencer

I am wanting to animate in sequencer switching between various enum states.

I have an enum state within my main BP with 2 different animation states.
My animBP is casting to that BP and grabbing that enum value, and changing animations within the animBP based on what that enum value is set to.

After recording in take recorder, I can see the keyframes made within sequencer using enums. However.. adjusting them in any way, or adding new keyframes changes nothing. I'm not sure what needs to be done to have sequencer accurately change/update the keyframes of the enum value thats hooked up to my BP/animBP.

If you want a better idea of what i'm looking for, I posted this question with a video on reddit HERE

[ebon dagger]

Can someone help me walk through, at a high level, the implementation of a basic melee attack sequence from a player controlled character in a 3rd person game?

to be specific about what I'm talking about. Standard fare 3 hit melee combo -
press the attack button and the player controlled avatar swings their left fist, press again and the character swings their right fist, press again and, I guess, the player does a double fist captain kirk
is this kind of thing generally controlled mostly through animation states?

like, roughly,

1. input from player triggers an event
2. event causes avatar to transition into attacking animation
3. the animation has some kind of "hitboxes" (some basic polygons) which are collision event triggers. those hitboxes are somehow attached to the player animation so they move with the punch animation
4. further input from the player is put through some logic to determine if it is within some window to continue the animation sequence
   4a) if so, another event occurs and some flag is set to true which will be checked when the current punch animation ends that signals it to continue to the next animation state
   4b) if not, the punch animation ends and the avatar returns to some other animation state -- and I guess the hitboxes are removed somehow?

does that sound broadly correct?

[grim ore]

that sounds about right, there are infinite ways to do it but that one sounds doable

there are some melee tutorials on YouTube, and there is an action RPG learning project from epic that has melee attacks

[ebon dagger]

ah, interesting, perhaps ill check that learning project out

[ebon dagger]

there are infinite ways, but I think generally game development has patterns that are useful to learn, like the token system for AI combat

[soft thicket]

Does anyone have any idea what this phenomenon is? Depending on where the camera looks, my fog seems to disappear?

[quiet island]

Is it hard to add collission to foliage?

[grim ore]

no, no if you use the foliage tool

[torn mural]

Hi All, I have a few clients looking for Unreal Engine Developers. If you are looking for a job kindly send a resume to [e-mail]. Please use the subject heading "Unreal Engine Application". I will send the descriptions over with my response. Must be in Canada and employable in Canada as well. Looking for intermediate to senior developers with strong C++.

[grim ore]

#instructions , there is a channel for that

[quiet island]

Trying to avoid this haha

[grim ore]

if you are using foliage tool and the mesh has collision,it should work

[plush yew]

Collision or clipping issue

Just google it and you will get the solution. Pretty common fix

[quiet island]

I have them all on blockall but doesnt seem the foliage picks up on it (but does when I do the mesh directly)

[plush yew]

Interesting...

[grim ore]

what is set to block all?

[quiet island]

to clarify, I tested it. Only happens with the foliage. The mesh itself works fine when I place it directly

[plush yew]

Select custom and then block all

and try again?

[grim ore]

nope

block all is fine

you need to set the collision in the foliage as well

[plush yew]

I know

It does say "Use complex collision"

[plush yew]

Under collision comple

[grim ore]

did you set the foliage to have collision?

[quiet island]

hmm let me check

we have a solution! haha

[chrome beacon]

Hello everybody. I got my newest laptop back, where I had 4.25 and I had to move my SSD D drive into it from the old one where I had 4.26, 4.27, 5EA and 5P1. Now... the whole thing is quite bizarre because now... the launcher obviously sees all the assets I got, it has them all listed, but they need all to be re-downloaded. The fact is I have them already in the SSD I moved into the computer... what am I supposed to do? I mean... if I change the VaultCache location... they get all erased and re-downloaded or simply recognizes them and does nothing? I'm afraid of being forced to re-download them all after deleting them and that scares the hell outta me. What would you do and suggest?

[quiet island]

I think this is it

[plush yew]

Congratz

[chrome beacon]

PS I have to redownload the engines as well, I guess

[grim ore]

@chrome beacon delete them off the drive and redownload them

yep its just easier to do that then to try workarounds to get it to find the older stuff. Your projects are fine, they are self contained.

[chrome beacon]

no other way, right? this kills me...

[grim ore]

your vault cache can be moved over, it will check on startup and before you download again

there are other ways, they just suck to do

[chrome beacon]

it's too much stuff to download it all again... I need to find the way to avoid that else is gonna take me days

[grim ore]

start installing the engine again in a new folder, pause it in the middle of it, close the launcher. move the files from the completed engine into that folder. go back into the launcher and have it resume/verify, hope it works.

[chrome beacon]

the engine is not a problem, I prefer a fresh installation for them... I just want to save the VaultCache and the plugins contents

[analog vale]

Anyone know if the modeling tools editor is just for windows? Or can you use it on macOS aswell?

[grim ore]

vault cache shouldnt be an issue, just copy it over to the new vault cachedirectory

[quiet island]

Believe it or not, now its stuck in the tree xD

[plush yew]

Beautiful!

[toxic lily]

is there a way to lock a bone in place in an animation? getting weird rotating with this anim on the spine 00

[plush yew]

What if you increased the distance between the foliages?

What could be happening is their collision would be tooo close for the player to be able to move after.

[chrome beacon]

So I should install the engines, then redirect the VaultCache to a new empty directory, close the launcher, manually move the assets into the new directory I created and boom... that's done?

[grim ore]

assuming its not already in a blank directory yes

you can move the vault cache over before installing engines as well

[chrome beacon]

can you remind me where the marketplace directory is located!?

[maiden sundial]

Is it possible to properly design some kind of sky system in a Blueprint ?
The reason why i ask is bcuz i'm getting pretty different results when i compare the look in the blueprint itself and when i place the blueprint into the world

[grim ore]

@chrome beaconit should be the vaultcache folder in the same folder your launcher is installed in

[plush yew]

Which channel would be best to post a tutorial video? I think this one will really benefit and improve game development for UE4/UE5 projects.

[grim ore]

maybe #released ?

[dusk snow]

I am using VR Expansion plug-in and to pull back the bolt on a weapon it has to be a separate mesh but basically every weapon asset has the bolt on the weapon skeletal mesh.

Is there any way to split them apart?

[chrome beacon]

I found it but was in the Plugin folder in the same directory of the engine installation

[grim ore]

oh, yeah engine plugins would go in there

[shell ibex]

I have created 2 blueprint widget class and I would like one to be a parent of the other but it does not appear here, why please?

Noob question sorry

[plush yew]

Right click on the BP and select "Create instance" from content browser

Create child BP class

[shell ibex]

thank you

[plush yew]

Welcome

[shell ibex]

but sorry that was widget blueprint

idk if its same problem

[grim ore]

what are the parent classes for the blueprints you want to use?

[shell ibex]

a new blueprint widget

[grim ore]

class is in the top right when you open them, or when you mouse over them

[plush yew]

Thank you.

I posted there.

Every Unreal Engine developer who uses Blueprints ought to watch that video. They can benefit from it.

[shell ibex]

i just deleted and started again creating new ones and it it appeared this time idk why but tysm

[quiet island]

not so beautiful that it totally got stuck in the tree Im trying to avoid that at all causes!

but beautiful that it has collission!

its really hard to reproduce seemed to be like a 1/10000 kind of misclick kind of scenarios. I guess those are the hardest to solve arent they

[trim pike]

How many scene capture 2ds should you have in one level? I heard too many is not good but for the thing I want to do I will need quite alot

They all should be a pretty low resolution

[grim ore]

the limit is performance, you are going to have to test

its basically another camera

[trim pike]

Hm okay

[grim ore]

I mean 10 captures capturing a scene with 1 cube and nothing else is not the same as 10 captures capturing a sprawling vista with foliage and particles

so....

[trim pike]

Ah okay

In my case I'm going to be capturing multiple versions of a post process material and combining all of them in one material

Nothing else

[prime willow]

so

whats the unreal engine term for over the shoulder aiming?

[fierce tulip]

just regular 3rd person?

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/f7fbe322088e34c3524c9d942c7eda37

this mechanic

i cant find anything about how to make it

so i know im searching the wrong terms

every third person game with guns have it
where you aim and bring up a aiming thing and the camera zooms a tiny bit closer

[wide wadi]

why are my reflections so low rez in the glass? I've got a chrome ball in the same room and the reflections look fine.

[prime willow]

im no good with materials so i cant help you there x-x

[pallid talon]

Reflection Capture Resolution in Project Settings.

The Gods were cruel to give you such a low reflection capture resolution. But you find, I am kind.

[wide wadi]

Thank you, that is a stupidly low starting number

Next question, why are the reflections so bright in comparison to looking at the room

[neat vessel]

This may be a random question, but I am a teenager who really wants to learn UE4, so I wanted to ask, how did you guys learn UE4(what would be the best way)

[thick herald]

If you check out pinned messages in this channel [ top right ] there are links to lots of ways to learn. Many youtubers have great content [ many also have poor or out dated stuff too ] Epic also has an online learning hub full of courses on lots of subjects- all free.

[neat vessel]

would you suggect using the documentation?

[thick herald]

of course, it can certainly help.

Start small, take simple steps and don't worry if things don't work out or seem too much at first. Everyone goes through that.

[plush yew]

Can someone "help" me? It's not really help, just support I guess. So I used Unreal Engine between 2019 and 2020, but then used Unity, and even then, I wasn't an expert at Unreal, but now I want to go back, and I do want to be an expert at it like you see these indie and triple a teams do, but I'm not an expert at it, even though I dedicated myself to it for like a day

anyone have any advice that might help me pick it back up faster?

[prime willow]

thx ill take a look if i can steal it from the als lol

hmm

[drowsy snow]

Throw away what you know specific to Unity.

[prime willow]

thats actually a good question

how plausible is it to tear code from als

i really want their animation overlay system

its like 90% of the reason why i wanted to touch als

[drowsy snow]

Plausible, but it's a chore if you don't know what you're doing

[prime willow]

so

easy if bik brain

painful is smol brain

https://tenor.com/view/love-blushing-breathing-heart-eyes-gif-15812547

cant wait

[neat vessel]

can I use python in UE

4

[pallid talon]

Yes, but for Editor changes, not runtime.

[lime musk]

is there a node to see if an actor has spawned in or is in the world

[drowsy snow]

Get (All) Actor(s) of Class

Don't execute it on tick!

[lime musk]

problem is

im calling a bool in another class on an event tick

and the class where the bool is located gets destroyed and spawned back in later on

but its on an event tick so it will keep trying to get the bool thus giving me an access none

ill try is valid

[plush yew]

Can someone tell me the simplest way of getting an 3dvector of a characters facing direction?

This doesnt give me the vertical direction sadly

I only have horizontal axis then

Or is it possible and my input is wrong?

I use the character object as input

[thick herald]

forward vector is x,y,z though, normalised.

[plush yew]

For some reason i only receive the horizontal (x.y) direction

[thick herald]

ah, yes Get Forward only gives x,y. Get Actor Forward Vector supplies all 3

[plush yew]

i use get actor forward vector

[thick herald]

There is another forward vector that gives rotation values but I'm not sure what axis it gives

[plush yew]

hmm

[thick herald]

Perhaps this might shed some light on it for you? https://youtu.be/M3wvhvrXrDI

[plush yew]

Im gonna look it up rl

rlq

Yeyy

It worked 😄

Ty so much

[thick herald]

🙂

[rigid bridge]

im getting this error outta nowhere

im not using up my video memory according to radeon

i have a 5700xt and im in a practically empty test level and it bugs out anyway

[plush yew]

Does somebody know stuff about replication? I have problems with getting everything replicated.

[muted imp]

when do u guys think ue5 will be shipped for launch and commercial use

[fierce tulip]

when its ready :)

[muted imp]

gee really? 😲

[fierce tulip]

yup :p

[muted imp]

bruh ig we will never know

in ue5 preview 1 i cant save any levels. it says connect to a source or something, maybe thats why its called preview

[fierce tulip]

there might be other reasons, but it also happens when you have the same project open twice.

[plush yew]

does anyone know how to add a material instance layer to a material?

[prime willow]

do we have a channel for network replication?

[grim ore]

#multiplayer ?

[prime willow]

youre the best ❤️

does the documentation cover the differences between client and listen server?

[grim ore]

it should cover the basics

[prime willow]

i just wanna know the distinct differences between the two xD

let me go check

[plush yew]

Im asking because im trying to make a material instance so i can add more details and scale the texture

[prime willow]

you mean a material instance?

[plush yew]

yes

[prime willow]

right click the main material and make a material instance?

isnt that what you need?

[plush yew]

i tried that and thats what you see

[prime willow]

oh

[plush yew]

in the picture

[prime willow]

um

[prime willow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/ko/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/MaterialLayers/#:~:text=The Material Attributes Layer expression is used to,the Background material layer or any additional layers.

[grim ore]

@plush yeware you trying to add "parameters" ?

[plush yew]

yes

[grim ore]

those would go in the material itself, the instance lets you change them

[plush yew]

yea i know, im trying to figure out how to create a material instance so i can scale my texture and add more details to it and more

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/HowTo/Making_Parameters/

you add parameters to the material, then use the instance to change them

you have a material instance, you dont have parameters

[plush yew]

ok thank you i'll take a look

[prime willow]

So i tried setting up a basic network replication

but only 1 player spawns

even tho im getting no other issues or errors

and apparently theres a network player start but idk where it is

https://gyazo.com/f817fb525e66bbea5a44865529a00b52

[bleak zodiac]

when did this happen? i managed to open levels not direct from epic games launcher but after launch UE5 preview 1

[muted imp]

It happened like 2 days ago. Are u able to save them?

[bleak zodiac]

yes, the levels are actually there even if they mention "is a uasset" or some stuff, i always launch any project direct from epic games launcher instead, so had to change some settings until i learn i had to open after launch UE5 preview 1 instead

[muted imp]

Ok

[dusk nebula]

are you launching the PIE with multiple viewports? doesn't seem like it

it's on the "Play" drop-down

[dusk nebula]

different player starts are actually sort of their own thing to figure out through a GameMode function override

[prime willow]

im not sure

one sec

i have play as listen server

[dusk nebula]

how many players?

[prime willow]

4

[dusk nebula]

hm

let me look at something then

[prime willow]

wait

should i launch with pie?

[dusk nebula]

yeah

[prime willow]

i use new editor window

[dusk nebula]

doesn't actually matter

[prime willow]

and all 3 screens appears in the center of map without a body

but only the first one spawns

i setup a game mode spawner

[dusk nebula]

that's not a player start issue iirc

[prime willow]

but idk if its working right

oh

[dusk nebula]

bypass whatever might control your spawns and see if it still does it on default

like just allow the gamemode to automatically choose the player start

[prime willow]

o.o

do i need to set this up?

[dusk nebula]

without getting too into the weeds, after a player logs in, the gamemode launches the function to choose a player start. If you haven't overridden that, it will either be random between all PlayerStart actors, or it just chooses the first one (can't remember which and it's not important really)

@prime willow in your gamemode BP, you should check to make sure that the highlighted function is not overridden. It should appear in the dropdown, unlike mine

that's kinda the first step because without that being set to default, the cause of your problem is inscrutable

[prime willow]

o.o

so

i have 2 functions

one to get the player array

https://gyazo.com/3c63af246b9fd926ef34470ae052d18c
https://gyazo.com/dbf90fec405e10d40974c98f916729ab

[dusk nebula]

I actually don't see this being necessary

[prime willow]

oh

x,.,x

[dusk nebula]

even if you only use one player start, it will kinda just spawn them by default

[prime willow]

i have 4 player starts

[dusk nebula]

pretty sure default functionality is that for each player it chooses one at random, and will reuse that one every time

also, are you starting your match in your game mode?

I realize that your issue is probably that your match status isn't being set, which disallows players from spawning

[prime willow]

my match?

[prime willow]

wait i dont think i have that node on my setup

[dusk nebula]

if you're interested, you can read about match statuses in the Game Mode docs

otherwise just start your match on BeginPlay and kinda forget about it

it has to be called from your game mode

[prime willow]

oh okie

lemme place that

[dusk nebula]

hint: that's what the gray text below the node name indicates

[prime willow]

i dont have a start match node

in my setup

o-o

[dusk nebula]

it's default functionality

this is in a GameMode BP

make sure you aren't using GameModeBase because it probably doesn't have that

[prime willow]

got it

oh

i was

lol

[dusk nebula]

yeah just reparent your existing BP

[prime willow]

wait

does the gamemode i made count as base?

[dusk nebula]

it's hierarchal so yes

do you need a rundown on inheritance?

[prime willow]

x-x

hmm

okie i plugged it in

[dusk nebula]

anything towards the bottom is also all of the things above it

square circle

[prime willow]

oooo

[dusk nebula]

so your GameMode is a GameModeBase, but a GameModeBase is not a GameMode

FYI the purpose of casting is to sort of "refine" a generic reference to one you can use in a specific context

[prime willow]

ah

i think i get it

https://gyazo.com/92a5015af9518c5eeefb9b4842eff443

would this count

[dusk nebula]

so if you make a function in your BPGameMode and need to call it from somewhere else, it may be necessary to use "GetGameMode" and then cast that GameMode reference to the BP class that contains the needed function

yeah so the BP you've made inherits from everything in the drawing above, including GameMode

that's why nodes that say "Target is Game Mode" work

[prime willow]

oooh

okie

so now the game mode needs a target

[dusk nebula]

self

[prime willow]

wouldnt this blueprint be the

i knew it >:3

[dusk nebula]

if it self-targets it's fine because it is the required class

[prime willow]

oh

didnt work

xD

[dusk nebula]

didn't fix your issue?

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/b0e9bacde222ae73197528d1b12b9dca

[dusk nebula]

that error means the node isn't placed in a blueprint of that class

double check what BP you're calling that in

[prime willow]

but this is the game mode blueprint

its parent class is gamemode base

[dusk nebula]

so if you look back at the paint drawing I did, your current BP is not a Game Mode

the naming they use makes it a bit confusing

[prime willow]

oh

i see what you mean

[dusk nebula]

"Game Mode Base" is like a bare-bones parent of "Game Mode"

you need Game Mode, so your BP's parent class should be that

[prime willow]

which would be the gamemodebase

right?

[dusk nebula]

no

so you're currently on the third step down and trying to call something from the fourth

your current Blueprint is not a Game Mode

[prime willow]

oooooooh

im callling this from gamemode

not the object or actor

i also setup the spawner in gamemode at the bottom

[dusk nebula]

so just to clarify

[prime willow]

o-o;

[dusk nebula]

the BP you're using is set as the level's game mode, but it is not of the "Game Mode" class

your BP is a "Game Mode Base" which doesn

[prime willow]

its the game mode i made

https://gyazo.com/7670385df928f8ae761b1d845daa71dd

the one at the top

[dusk nebula]

yes, that there is correct

[prime willow]

PHBasegame

[dusk nebula]

however,

[prime willow]

o-o

[dusk nebula]

your BP isn't a GameMode

it is a GameModeBase, which does not inherit from GameMode

you can't call functions that are made in GameMode, because your BP is not part of that class

go here and change your parent class to GameMode

[dusk nebula]

because currently it's GameModeBase and you need to move down a rung on the paint drawing

[prime willow]

this is the current one

^

okie lemme see what i can do

[dusk nebula]

yeah, so see where it says "Parent Class"?

that needs to change because it's not able to gather functionality from other children of GameModeBase

[prime willow]

okie

[dusk nebula]

this itself is confusing because all of the names are the same, but it's the same deal for Actor -> Pawn -> Character

if you made a BP based on "Pawn" it would not be able to call Character functions because it is not a Character, it is just a Pawn and Actor

[prime willow]

yeah its a little chunky x3

https://gyazo.com/7328074d173cb9083195fc7c5e787b9d

like that?

[dusk nebula]

there you go

[prime willow]

it worked

it connected to self

[dusk nebula]

does this clarify at all?

[prime willow]

kind of

im going to save this for reference

[dusk nebula]

formerly, your Blueprint was not related to "GameMode" at all, aside from inheriting from the same thing

[prime willow]

but the enxt step would be what in particular

after i set start match after my spawner

would i just be able to launch and be fine

[dusk nebula]

after changing your parent to GameMode, this is effectively how it works now

[dusk nebula]

maybe. try it

[prime willow]

that's good :3

[dusk nebula]

pretty sure it works by default

[prime willow]

same issue

no other players spawn

but the camera spawns maybe the camera in the same place for 3 places

[dusk nebula]

you should troubleshoot your match state

so on the GameMode's tick, you should get the match state and then print it to the screen

[prime willow]

o.o

[dusk nebula]

so it's going to constantly output what the match's current state is

[prime willow]

okie

[dusk nebula]

if it says "InProgress", then your issue is something else

[prime willow]

yes

it says in progress

[dusk nebula]

ok

you're using a regular player start, right?

[prime willow]

yes

i have tags on it

[dusk nebula]

like you've just dragged it out of the actor pallet on the left?

[prime willow]

in the network spawner

yes!

that :3

[dusk nebula]

I wouldn't bother with tags or anything for now

just leave the tags blank and disconnect whatever function is currently trying to find a playerstart

[prime willow]

okie

[dusk nebula]

the GameMode exists only for the server (Host player) and will find a playerstart for each player controller's pawn without requiring extra functionality or replication

[prime willow]

okie lemme try that way

[dusk nebula]

just to phrase it better: it doesn't need to replicate because it's the host, and the host will just tell the clients that they're where they are currently

[prime willow]

ok so i disabled the functions to find players

do i need to remove the player starts

i dont have the network player starts i see sometimes

[dusk nebula]

no, you should leave them

network player starts are just regular player starts lol

[prime willow]

oh okie x3

[dusk nebula]

there's only one actor type that's recognized by the GM's FindPlayerStart function

[plush yew]

does anyone know a doc that can show me how to scale my widgets in the ui for any screen size? I have it a perfect fit of two widgets at 1920x1080 but when I play in editor it does not fill the whole screen just about 3/4 of it and I want it to fit the whole thing.

[prime willow]

i removed the fuctions left the player starts

and now all 4 players dont spawn

[dusk nebula]

sounds like it's an aspect ratio issue

[prime willow]

i get the screen that forced them into the center of map but on all characters

[drowsy snow]

Look up widget anchors.

[prime willow]

also this https://gyazo.com/4c15fc433f30d9085fe3701bee65867a

[dusk nebula]

is your default player pawn set correctly? it's where you selected your game mode

[prime willow]

default player pawn?

you mean the um

this part

[dusk nebula]

it isn't

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/9891e40a243ddd4a34e20e5cd023a384

[dusk nebula]

yeah so Default Pawn Class has to be the class of the character you intend to use

because currently it's not spawning a pawn at all

[prime willow]

so i have a question about that

if you know anyhtingabout the direction i have to go into

I want to have multiple species with differing mechanics and or such based on the species picked, that get activated based on the species the player plays

think of something like an rpg

should i put all of that in a component for example

and than rig it into the third person bp

[dusk nebula]

there are multiple ways to go about it

[prime willow]

or have several childs of the 3rd person bp

my goal is sort of DBz xenoverse 2 or hantasy star online 1 kind of multiplayer rpg ish fighting game

[drifting valley]

Does anyone know where to change the settings for the 3rd person CameraActor that gets spawned when starting simulation? It's not using the settings from my defined CineCameraActor and my scene is getting washed out

[prime willow]

and i havent found which way would be best to go about that angle coding wise

[dusk nebula]

firstly I'd say to use children, yeah, because you can put everything common to each (health, functions etc) in the parent and then the children may use different default values or have explicitly different functionality

[prime willow]

so doing this via a component wouldnt be good?

i have a rpg set of components that atm handles most everything for the rpg stuff like hp and whatnot

[dusk nebula]

you could do a component, but with the amount of things you want to change per-character, it's not really the kind of thing to be contained in one component

a component would be fine to contain stats, yeah

[prime willow]

o.o

[dusk nebula]

so like the characters would have different meshes, right? that's a different component entirely, so you already can't contain all unique information in one custom component

not to say that you shouldn't, but imo it wouldn't help a huge amount

[prime willow]

yes different mshes

[dusk nebula]

so for variables you could just make a category in the parent character

[dusk nebula]

turn this on and it will allow you to see the variables stored in a BP's parent as one of its children

[prime willow]

i was thinking of making a core master character blueprint with components and than make children for each particular race or something idk lol

[drifting valley]

@prime willow do you know where to set the default CameraActor settings that is used by the Unreal 3rd Person template?

[prime willow]

not sure what youre asking about ryan

x-x

[dusk nebula]

you can get the default camera settings by creating a new camera component, or using the yellow arrow on each non-default parameter to revert it

otherwise just make a new 3rd person template and copy the settings

[dusk nebula]

if you give me a few minutes, I'll come back and show you how you can set up parent BPs effectively

[prime willow]

no no i can do that at another time

ive been working on my game since 5am yesterday

and need a nap

[drifting valley]

@dusk nebula I created a new camera component, it's not using those settings when I press "simulate"

[prime willow]

i just wanted to fix basic replication before i move forward but if you dont mind id like to add you so i can ask about replication stufff the next time youre around if we dont fix this todau

@dusk nebula it sort of worked!

i still get errors

but it replicated

my first replication~

https://tenor.com/view/blush-anime-embarrassed-gif-13768377

[plush yew]

Thanks I looked this up and it solved my issues, can't thank you enough

[dusk nebula]

replication becomes pretty easy once you get it down. It's just about knowing what has to be called where in order to avoid being corrected by the Authoritative host

[prime willow]

yeah!

i really like this

[dusk nebula]

I need more context, really. Is that the active camera on your actor?

[winter stream]

i want to get the email of the player or his unique id in order to know the player and get him from my database how can I do that ? ?

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/4c594258937ec2b809fd2a4360d4ff85 https://gyazo.com/b2ba2035368a0b8a55bc661fc9d6180f
this is all i have left error wise

[dusk nebula]

if it's on beginplay, there do exist some scenarios where one actor class will begin before another, because simultaneous computation technically isn't possible

PlayerController can't find PlayerState because the Controller starts existing before the Player State does, for example

[prime willow]

o-o

[dusk nebula]

the first thing to try is just going to be a delay of maybe .5 seconds, because if that fixes it, the issue was what's referred to as a "race condition" where things that need to start in a specific order don't happen as intended

[prime willow]

oooh

[dusk nebula]

one irritating part of multiplayer is dealing with the exampled issue at almost every step, and just getting used to testing for it first if there's an issue

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/1abcfd34fa01fa732202236beb607f74

[dusk nebula]

another example, when a player character begins play, I wanted it to find all other player characters and set their colors based on their team (it set them locally. not actually relevant in this example). What happens when the first character starts? It searches for all player characters, finds none because it's the first, and then exits. Only the final character to load in will actually do what it's supposed to without intervention

[prime willow]

this is what i get

should i put a delay on the character bp too?

[drifting valley]

@dusk nebula when I hit "simulate" it seems to be using a different camera then I set up and the settings are the defaults .. i want the settings to be something else.

[dusk nebula]

to test it, maybe

[prime willow]

okie~

[dusk nebula]

so how many cameras are on the actor?

[dusk nebula]

I'd start by clicking on the rightmost search icon to find exactly where you're missing a reference as it's being called

[prime willow]

its the get pawn

node

https://gyazo.com/ef6e6e5b9e8c6c7994d33bbfa919e059

[dusk nebula]

so you actually don't need to use a possess node

ever, really

[prime willow]

o-o;

[dusk nebula]

just in your pawn/character, set the controller class to be the controller that's used

[prime willow]

oh i see

[dusk nebula]

also, what you're trying to do here isn't valid because "Get Controlled Pawn" returns the pawn that is being controlled, but isn't that what you're trying to set?

another thing,

[prime willow]

crud

maybe

[dusk nebula]

on nodes like "Get Player Controller" or "Get Player Character", which take an integer index, there exists a multiplayer scenario where you accidentally get the wrong one

[drifting valley]

@dusk nebula You gave me a hint, I found it.. i had to open the BP_ThirdPersonCharacter blueprint and the camera is there in the viewport... i can change the settings there

[prime willow]

hmm

i used get player character

and the firs tset of errors dissappeared

i guess i was trying to make sure player one or two or three gets summoned than afterwards start playing

[dusk nebula]

you really don't need to

I'd say to bypass what you have currently and see if it works without it

[dusk nebula]

yeah, there you go. You have to change the instance of that component that's actually on the actor for it to change it for the actor

[dusk nebula]

possession is handled by a function within the GameMode, I'm pretty sure, and you usually don't need to mess with that too much because the default implementation just works

[prime willow]

ohhh

sorry im really tired

[dusk nebula]

all good

[prime willow]

so i apologize if im having toruble following along

[dusk nebula]

my advice for most common things in UE is to assume that they work, because a lot of them do

assigning player controllers and pawns is one of those things that it just kinda does

[prime willow]

so just using player controller and player character

will handle it naturally?

[dusk nebula]

pretty much

[prime willow]

oh oki

thats good x-x;

[dusk nebula]

the way it works is the controller class is defined in the level settings, as is the pawn

technically, the GameMode receives the controller and then assigns it a pawn based on the level defined class, but that Function can be overridden to accommodate a different system, if that's desired

[prime willow]

i see

and thats what the tutorials i was doing was teaching me

i think

[dusk nebula]

this function exists in the GameMode and just kinda says "use what the level says" by default

it basically turns into this if you override it, and all you do is fill out the middle

[prime willow]

okai

so

i have like 6 errors left lol

[dusk nebula]

what errors?

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/ea26d66bdab16ba7b975fdc059e280c9

[dusk nebula]

so for the first one, it's probably because you're trying to reference the player character before it exists, returning a value of "none"

again, it's a race condition, and you should put the node that's returning the error after a delay to test for that

some fraction of a second delay would be enough because you're only "missing" the window by a few frames, if even that much

in fact, all of your error-causing nodes may be having the same issue in different places

[prime willow]

sorry doggo needed a snack

i see

so find it

and than add a delay before the system starts

[dusk nebula]

to test it, yeah

having a bunch of random delays isn't good development practice, but it's helpful to narrow down errors

one thing to share: if you're trying to reference your controller from your character, but your controller does not exist when BeginPlay is called, try Event Possessed. That event will fire after your controller possesses the pawn, meaning the controller reference will never be invalid

[prime willow]

oooh

let me try that one

[prime willow]

wait would i use that node on the controller or character

[dusk nebula]

it's for when the character is possessed. It returns a reference to the controller that possesses it

[prime willow]

just wanted to make sure x3

[prime willow]

https://gyazo.com/e9b2ccae037af7d64d5a70f16df119b4

like this

o-o

[dusk nebula]

no

the red node fires when the character is possessed

you do not need to use the "Possess" node because it's already being possessed

at this point it's just an automatic thing that you don't have to worry about at all

[unborn ingot]

Hey guys, I was just checking in because I got a weird error that I remember getting before but I can't remember how I ended up fixing it. I'm trying to build the lighting in my map and keep getting this error:

"Assertion failed: LockStatus == LOCKSTATUS_Unlocked [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/Serialization/BulkData.cpp] [Line: 563]

UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll"

Anyone familiar with it?

[dapper oak]

is it worth it making a custom character controller or should i just leave it in the character?

[dusk nebula]

what, specifically, are you asking? The player controller is the player, and therefore must always exist. What functionality should be in the character vs the controller is somewhat up to you, though

[dapper oak]

I was more thinking like movement and input... but if it doesnt matter then i wont bother

[dusk nebula]

if there are multiple characters that should be controlled in the same way, put it in the controller

however, if you're making multiple characters you should make them children of the same parent, so it still doesn't matter because all children will inherit what's put in the parent

put movement on the character imo

[dapper oak]

understandable

thanks mate!

[dusk nebula]

np

[fast grail]

yo i got a question

if you buy assets from unreal marketplace, how do you download them to your PC after you bought them?

[dusk nebula]

open the epic launcher and add them to the project

[fast grail]

like to your pc

[dusk nebula]

yeah

one sec

[fast grail]

oh ok

ill have to download unreal engine

cause i dont have any projects

[dusk nebula]

they have to be added to a project to be downloaded, yeah

[fast grail]

damn ok

uhhh

pressing install engine doesnt seem to do anything

[dusk nebula]

not sure if you're using them outside of UE but the licensing agreement is for them to only be used in UE

[unborn ingot]

Try clicking the + next to engine versions

[dusk nebula]

check your downloads tab

[fast grail]

i want to modify it in blender to make holes in the walls

[dusk nebula]

but the end result is still something in the engine?

the point is that you don't take things from the marketplace to use elsewhere

[fast grail]

yeah ideally if i can get the file converted in blender

does unreal have its own file type?

[dusk nebula]

no idea

[fast grail]

im mainly interested bc the coding style seems easier

[dusk nebula]

whether you're doing that or not, the intent is that you don't import assets into something other than an engine project

[fast grail]

wait so you're not allowed to even modify it to use it in engine projects?

wait so i cant make destroyed variants of it

[dusk nebula]

you can modify stuff I'm pretty sure

[fast grail]

tf

oh ok

[dusk nebula]

it's just that Epic doesn't want you importing it directly into something like Blender

[fast grail]

ah

if its too difficult to port over ill check out unreal's procedural destruction stuff

cause it looked pretty interesting but i rather make my own manual destruction variants

[dusk nebula]

so under the assumption that you're not actually breaking that agreement, you have to add them to a project and then figure out the filetype. Blender might be able to open it

[ancient rock]

any ine tell me how i can import a complete enviormnt from maya to unreal

[fast grail]

alright thanks

[ancient rock]

unreal imports it into parts

i made a enviorment group into one piece and exprt fbx but in unreal it imports into parts

yeah i did export fbx but in unreal when i import it every thing comes in parts why i had to re join re arrange every thing

[fast grail]

god dammet

[bleak zodiac]

this would might help with your issue
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/build-a-detectives-office-game-environment?sessionInvalidated=true

[ancient rock]

thanks a billion

[ancient rock]

i saw it i dosnt help 😦

my question is

i made a full env in maya and export fbx now i want the same fbx group file in unreal

how to do that

i dont wana place every thing again i have like thousands of objects

[autumn elbow]

hiya! Can someone do me a favor, please? Can you create a Animation Curve Compression file, set it to UniformIndexable and save, and send it to me please? 4.27 please

[wet obsidian]

Hello guys! I have a question and i don't know if anyone could help me. I am working on an archviz project and i would like to create a cut rendering tool like this one in twinmotion? Does anyone know if is this possible and if there is any tutorial? Thanks for your time!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRY70FjstS8&list=WL&index=1

[regal mulch]

Hm, not really my area, but I would look into maybe a PostProcess Material

I know there are See Through things for Cameras in Top Down Games

So you character is not hidden behind buildings

Something similar should work here

[ancient rock]

how to lock mesh slection in unreal enigne

mesh wont be selected when ever drag selection any thing

[round light]

anyone able to help me?

am looking to launch an npc when my car ai collides with on via box collision

[drowsy snow]

Try enabling Simulate Physics before adding impulse.

[round light]

simulate physics of the npc?

[upper quartz]

hi guys, have anyway can change hard ref to soft ref ?

[distant acorn]

anyone got a tutorial on how to make a stylized waterfall

[wicked knot]

Either you can manually change the header file types to SoftObjectPtr and load/unload whenever needed or else you can use AssetManager & Data assets, about which you can learn in detain in the sample ActionRPG Project.

[round light]

thanks, i got it working with @drowsy snow 's pointers
working to make my zombie ai smarter in its BT now as currently they just immediately seek out the player

my current zombie ai BT

[next badger]

Is there a way to get all settings that were modified in the project? Like CVARs, Project settings etc?

I'm moving some assets between the projects and they do not look the same. So i'm trying to backtrack the settings that causing it.

[void linden]

why is unreal crashing when i add bodies to my wheels as single convex hull?

[void linden]

error says Body Setup with No Primitives!

what does that mean?

[clever bone]

importing my new heightmap back into ue5 makes the roads full under. Is there a way to pull the roads up or the landscape down?

[fair herald]

Does anyone know how I can run .bet file?

[prime willow]

@dusk nebula I figureed out why i was getting this glitch https://gyazo.com/75aa4459f924d8935a655d40115c1f28

This was for the second player

not the first one

[fathom minnow]

i have a question , im looking to produce a map similar to how valheim generates their procedural maps, what are some of the better programs to achieve this goal ( id like to have a procedurally generated level that hold references to a few different biomes, that have there own set of Materials,npcs,foliage, ect) thanks for any responses

[wet briar]

So, I'm trying to build an interaction manager in my game, and I was planning on making it so each interactable item had an Interact component, which is universal, then an individual component that varies for each item. For example, a Door could have an opening/closing c++ class/component, while a chest could display its inventory in another C++ class/component. So I was planning on both having an Interact component that called whatever class is required, would that be possible?
Essentially where I would just add the Interact component to whatever object, and it would take in another class which I specify per object

I come from Unity and essentially what I would do there is have it take in a component in the code, and in each instance of the interact component i would drag in a component into the field in the inspector

[dusk nebula]

Were you using the "Get Player Controller" node with an integer index or something? You should avoid that for MP

[elfin coyote]

How do i create or a run a dedicated server on unreal 5 build ?

do i need to build unreal from source?

[plush yew]

hey im having a little trouble can anyone help

im making a sliding door but the thing is the "door close" is never running and it constantly loops the "door open" timeline

let me get this straight

is there a single game out there

running raytracing Gi

that isnt rtxgi

cause even with a top of the line system raytracing gi is not a good time

but rtxgi looks identical and leaves me with 100fps+

and games like cyberpunk and metro and all games who have boasted about their raytracing are using rtxgi

im not mad
I just wish unreal had a plan for native raytracing in their engine

[dusk nebula]

Send a screenshot

[plush yew]

now its just not runnign the ComponentEndOverlap

[dusk nebula]

Again, send a screenshot

I can't figure what's being done wrong just by hearing what's supposed to happen

[plush yew]

sorry working on it

[dusk nebula]

try pressing F9 with the end overlap event highlighted to put a break on it

that way you can see if the event is not firing or if it's the set location node

[plush yew]

it runs as soon as i step in the box?

[dusk nebula]

end overlap does?

[plush yew]

yeah

[dusk nebula]

send a screenshot of your actor's components

[dusk nebula]

I use breakpoints almost constantly btw, because you can figure out exactly where things stop working, and it works for any BP node

[plush yew]

okay

[dusk nebula]

I was going to say that you may have anchored the box collision to the component you're moving, but that isn't the case here

[plush yew]

nah idk what is happening

[dusk nebula]

try removing the break point, and in your box collision component, set it to appear in-world so you can watch it move

just in case

[plush yew]

okay

im not moving the box component tho

[dusk nebula]

yeah but it's worth being able to see collision anyway

does overlap end immediately after it begins?

[dusk nebula]

place a breakpoint on both, press "resume" after the first one, and see if the second one happens immediately after resuming

[plush yew]

yeah it does

[dusk nebula]

I notice you're not filtering what delivers your overlap event

you should print a string using the return value from the overlapped actor

that way you know what is triggering it

[plush yew]

would that be overlapped component or other actor?

[dusk nebula]

it would be other actor

[plush yew]

okayt

it triggers itself

[dusk nebula]

so you should put some logic in to effectively only care if a character overlaps it

[plush yew]

okay

would it be player character?

[dusk nebula]

either do a not equal to self or cast the actor to a character and only execute if the cast passes

depends on what exactly should trigger it

if you want a lot of things to open doors, do a not equal

if you will only ever want the character to, cast to your character's class

another option is to look in your box collision's settings, because it's probably set to overlap with more things than you would want to. You could change it to only overlap pawns and ignore everything else

[plush yew]

where would that be

tags?

[dusk nebula]

in the viewport or actor component list, you select the component and there's a drop-down called "Collision"

tags are something different entirely

[plush yew]

ok

[dusk nebula]

mine looks different, but you should find this menu

[plush yew]

overlaponlypawn?

[dusk nebula]

I usually just use a custom profile and set exactly what I want

so you should ignore everything except for pawns, yeah

[plush yew]

um still doesnt work

[dusk nebula]

it's doing the same thing?

[plush yew]

yeah

i put a print string

and it triggers three times

[dusk nebula]

are the mesh components using the "Pawn" collision type?

[plush yew]

the door opens just doesnt close