ue4-general

[dusk nebula]

you should continue to debug your events then

it's likely that you're having multiple problems at once, so just work to narrow it down

[plush yew]

set it to that but doesnt trigger at all

wait

door just doesnt close

[dusk nebula]

on the mesh components of the door actor you should set them to "world dynamic"

[plush yew]

so the door or the trigger volume?

[dusk nebula]

that drop-down is where you select what the object is considered, and in the collision responses, you set what the collision box does in response to those

you do not want any of the meshes to trigger an overlap, so you would set them to not be pawns, if they're set that way currently

[plush yew]

right now it only triggers once but the door still doesnt close

[dusk nebula]

what exactly is not working?

does the event for that fire?

[plush yew]

oh im stupid i had the location to go to set wrong for when i removed the timelines to make it clearer

[dusk nebula]

hint: just use one timeline and play it backwards if the door should close

[plush yew]

okay

[dusk nebula]

currently, you may notice that if the timeline is halfway open and overlap ends, it snaps to the end point and then plays backwards

[plush yew]

yeh

[plush yew]

but it works otherise

[dusk nebula]

something like that

[plush yew]

thanks it works now 🙂

[dusk nebula]

no problem

[harsh ocean]

So i'm not sure where to put this but, whenever I build my lighting it says "Lightmass crashed" The message log is here: https://pastebin.com/fV70wJLx Any help is much appreciated.

[maiden sundial]

How can i let the epic launcher know the new location of the engine ?
I've moved it to a different disk

[dusk nebula]

I'll look one sec

you may be required to have the engine in the same directory as the launcher, but otherwise could you try to install the engine to the location that it's already present in? I'd almost imagine that it would just verify the files

[plush yew]

yo I need a bit of help

when I opened my project, my map is just not loading in

that eye thing is closed and I cant view it

and it just doesnt load in

[dusk nebula]

are you opening the correct map on launch? check project settings

[plush yew]

Like I have my main menu as a separate level

when I pressed play it just opened a black view

and the map cant be opened

[maiden sundial]

I always had it in a different directory than the launcher.

Trying to install it in the directory where the engine is atm doesn't seem to work as i'm getting the message that the directory needs to be empty

[dusk nebula]

if it's not too inconvenient, just back up your project files (just in case) and then reinstall the engine where you want it

[dusk nebula]

it won't open in the viewport, or when you press play?

[plush yew]

The main menu level shows

[maiden sundial]

It sadly is too inconvenient as i need debug symbols and co which quickly lead to an ~100gb installation 😅

[plush yew]

but I cant get the MAIN LEVEL itself to open

Just looks like that

and the eye on/off thing doesnt work

no freakin idea what is this about

[dusk nebula]

what's in your world outliner? seems like it's an empty level lol

[dusk nebula]

I'd just google around for it, I have no idea

[plush yew]

yeah it wasnt the last time i used ue

[dusk nebula]

are you opening the correct level?

[plush yew]

yeah

like ive been working on this project for a few weeks and it has always worked very well

now out of nowhere its almost like the level is deleted

[neon grove]

when packaging a project the default quality settings are set to high
is there a way to change that?

[plush yew]

anyone know a fix?

happens every time i either load map

or set new default map

[forest patrol]

I have a problem importing models, i copy uasset file and paste it into my project but it doenst show up in unreal engine, does anyone know why?

[remote jasper]

Even though my material is a basic one, the texture doesnt appear on the landscape, i also get these black spheres so no preview of the texture on other material functions.
Is this because my pc is garbage?

[karmic merlin]

Hello, for some reason my ACharacter-based AI Actor (it's AI Сontroller was written on C++) doesnt play running animation when executing MoveTo() from Behavior Tree. But he still changes the direction he faces. Does anybody know what might be a problem?

[dusk nebula]

do you have a state machine set up to use a blend space in your animation BP?

the rotation is set by the controller, while the animation will be played by the anim BP

[fading sand]

Don't know if this is the right spot for this question, when trying to post to the UE forum answer hub I keep getting a "You are not permitted to view the requested resource" and it wont post my question. Has anyone had this issue before and knows of a fix?

[plush yew]

Is the Skylight in Unreal Engine 4.27 broken or am I not using it right
I have a sun-movable
a sky atmosphere-movable
a skylight-movable set to realtime capture
a ddgi volume with 128x128x128 probe count
however when I fly into a room that has no doors or windows it is lit up entirely by the skylight

turning off GI doesnt affect it either

[faint meadow]

Unfortunately dynamic lighting that’s not ray traced or lumen doesn’t give great results in ue4

Unless u were to shrink the skylight itself and place it inside of the room, as it essential acts a reflection capture

[drowsy snow]

Mix it with LPV.

I know, it's deprecated, but still functional for the entire UE4 versions.

[toxic lily]

does anyone know if there is a way to "lock" a bone in place in an animation?

[ember igloo]

Guys does anyone have a tutorial anything which could help
I want to make star citizen aspect game
Like planet creations, space with interior and fly and space travel if anyone have any source which could help me plz let know@

[exotic thicket]

You're unlikely to find a tutorial which covers all of those things.. your best bet is to start learning smaller parts and then figure out how to put it all together. In general, making a game like Star Citizen is very ambitious even if you know UE fairly well

[ember igloo]

Thank you for the honesty

[hidden tendon]

Guys I have a simple ue5 scene with a metahuman and a few lights but I keep getting DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG since updating to preview 1. I have the latest drivers for my 2080 SUPER. Any ideas? Thanks!

[hidden tendon]

This is in the log when my UE5 preview 1 project crashes my gpu, if anyone would be kind enough to take a look

[wild hemlock]

how do you correctly export from blender to unreal?

changing the fbx settings axis doesnt seem to make a difference

[shut thorn]

Are you talking about making the collision correct?

If so I think I know the exact problem:
UE4 (by default) generates a really simple, really well-optimized collision shape for your mesh that unfortunately doesn't work in every scenario. This can be overridden to be whatever shape you want.
In blender, you can make a separate object and name it the same thing as the mesh you want to export, but with "UCX_" at the beginning without quotation marks. Make that into the collision shape you want. In your case, you make your shape just by duplicating your existing mesh, (and doing the renaming step) because I'd assume you want the collision shape to be identical to the mesh. Make sure they overlap and are in the same spot.

Then, select your collision shape and your mesh at the same time and export to fbx. If this is done correctly, your mesh in UE4 will have the collision you specified, rather than the default approximate shape.

@wild hemlock

If this doesn't work, just ask for help :)

[wild hemlock]

thats really clever! thank you

theres another issue though

i cant change the axis of the exported object for some reason

notice how in game the X axis is sideways rather than forward

[shut thorn]

Thanks!
I haven’t tried changing the axis before, so maybe just rotate your meshes 90 degrees to the correct way and hit CTRL+A and select apply rotation (or just rotate both the collision and mesh in edit mode.)

It’s kind of a hacky solution though..

[wild hemlock]

this doesnt seem to work

the collision on the exported meshes are still the same

haha there was an edge case i thought i ran into - the names cannot be sufixed with _1 because it serves as a different function for ucx

but renaming it to another name still doesnt solve the problem

[shut thorn]

hmmm

lemme double check how i did this

[wild hemlock]

neither does this

heres the blender file if you're curious

[shut thorn]

thanks

I'll see if I can replicate the issue

Ok, I have another solution that's a bit simpler

[wild hemlock]

did you run into the same issue when exporting as well?

[shut thorn]

I did

Select this option in your static mesh window in UE4, it'll make the complex collision the default

and by complex collision I mean using the exact shape of the mesh as it's own collision shape
I would recommend against this in most cases, but your mesh isn't particularly high-poly so I don't think it'd be too taxing

[wild hemlock]

aye

i wonder how that will play well with chaos though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdwM_nE4dv0

heres a potential idea - maybe we could separate the faces of the object into

Bottom
UCX_Bottom_1
UCX_Bottom_2
...

[shut thorn]

oh god..
that sounds like a nightmare for yourself to export all that .__.

[wild hemlock]

haha of course

[shut thorn]

I'm gonna see if there's a way to get this fixed for you

because I don't get why it isn't working lol

[wild hemlock]

i wonder if the issue is with my objects

i'm new to blender and this is literally the result of the first 3 hours

so i think i might have messed up the vertices / uvmap or something

(also really new to unreal :D)

[shut thorn]

Oh, you accidentally duplicated the object in edit mode for the collision, then duplicated it in object mode to correct yourself

but right clicking to cancel duplicating an object doesn't delete the dupe, it just puts it in the same place
its confusing ik lol

[wild hemlock]

yikes i've been using escape thinking it would cancel

[shut thorn]

oop

you want me to fix that for you? I think I have an efficient way to do it

[wild hemlock]

how did you find that out btw

[wild hemlock]

would be appreciated! but i would also love to learn how you solve it

[shut thorn]

I used the L key while hovering over a face (it selects the entire shape it's a part of)

I'm just selecting all of the objects that are not collision related, going into edit mode and hitting P
it gives me a menu to seperate faces and stuff into new objects, so i just select "By Loose Parts"

it'll make every part that's not attached to another part its own object

then I just delete any duplicates

and then repeat that process for the collision shapes

(you can edit multiple objects at once by the way)

[wild hemlock]

what do you expect to see when doing this? selecting L when hovering over a face while in edit mode just selects all the faces that belong to the object

[shut thorn]

Sorry, I should've clarified lol
you can move the object out of the way and see there's an identical one you created on accident

but it's in the exact same spot so you had no way of knowing

I'm gonna fix this for you and send the blender file back here

they should probably make ESC actually cancel it lol

[wild hemlock]

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/87489/cleaning-unwanted-overlapping-duplicate-meshes

seems like there are ways to check the vertices of the object for duplicates with a simple python script

[shut thorn]

oh nice, good find!

oh wait, I think I have an even better solution for this situation

[safe kayak]

does anyone know some overview guide about where to put what kind of logic? some kind of best practice guide about ue thats aimed to people that already know stuff about c++ and programming in general? would favor something written, with diagrams and stuff. 🙂

can also be stuff to pay for

[shut thorn]

I just selected all of the mesh objects, went into edit mode and hit M and selected "merge by distance"

[shut thorn]

I'm not sure, I'm not an expert in C++
do you mean organizing your code?

I'm sure there's some kind of resource out there for that though

[wild hemlock]

ahhh! thats really clever

[shut thorn]

thx

[wild hemlock]

comparing vertex distances haha

[shut thorn]

do the same for the collision ones too

[wild hemlock]

ooh blender has batch rename built in with ctrl f2

[shut thorn]

I've used blender since I was 11 years old and I honestly didn't know that .__.

[safe kayak]

yeah.. i am trying to understand whats the best practices for differend kind of logic... where to put what functionality. preventing me from laying out tripwires for myself in the longrun

[wild hemlock]

i have the advantage of fresh eyes - i should share what bewilders me hahaha

[shut thorn]

lol ye

[wild hemlock]

actually its super cool that you can use python to script stuff in blender

must resist the temptation for now though xD

[shut thorn]

you'll probably find people who know more about this than I in the #cpp channel, I wish you luck!

[wild hemlock]

literally just spent 4 days in a cave writing my own markdown parser using parser combinators in python to generate anki flashcards

dangerous yak to shave xD

[safe kayak]

ok... will try... still thank you for your time 🙂

[shut thorn]

No problem!

@wild hemlock have this

just make sure to set this as such

[wild hemlock]

thank you so much!

hmm do you think having the origin of the objects at 0,0 could be a potential issue?

[shut thorn]

I don't think..?

also you're welcome :)

[wild hemlock]

yup wasnt

wow

splitting faces actually solves the collision problem

[wild hemlock]

based on this video

[shut thorn]

Alright that works I guess lol

[wild hemlock]

haha just messing around.

i'm curious to see what are the implications of this in chaos

i've been having a ton of issues trying to get collisions to work correctly in Chaos

[shut thorn]

You mean chaos engine physics?

[wild hemlock]

yeah destructible environments

[shut thorn]

Oh that, I have no idea LOL

[wild hemlock]

i learned blender just because the meshes generated by unreal engine's modellign tools cannot work well

ive been pulling my hair out

this was a really bad choice for a beginner project

lol

i thought my experience in ios and web dev might have carried over somewhat

nope. game dev is a different beast 😛

[shut thorn]

Yeah..

It’s hard but very rewarding in the end imo

[wild hemlock]

maybe not financially haha

[shut thorn]

True

Depends ofc lol

[bleak zodiac]

i avoid complex collision , instead i make custom collision in 3d application

[wild hemlock]

how do you use custom collisions for shapes like this

must you cut it into two? i.e. a square and a triangle or

(blender)

if i just export it as a face solidified with 1 cm - this is the result

[hidden tendon]

That's such simple geometry that you could just use complex collisions.

or just import the mesh itself as custom collision. No need to simplify something like that

[wild hemlock]

you mean using this?

or duplicating the same mesh to serve as the collision
e.g. Curved and UCX_Curved

[wild hemlock]

we tried this earlier on and it didn't work out - i had to split the faces into different objects and solidify them in order for the collisions to be exported

[raw beacon]

Does anyone know how to access animBP from sequencer when the recorded subject is a BP character?

[bleak zodiac]

you can use UCX_ if you want, i use it often, you can also use complex as simplified or even add box as simplified colision

[plush yew]

Does anyone know why I am getting a warning from this? I am adding a ui widget to my character, but with this it keeps telling me a warning right when the game starts saying ;
The widget 'MainUI_C' was already added to the screen.

[severe crater]

I have a BP that inherits from a c++ actor class, and on every engine restart I get the following error:

Blueprint could not be loaded because it derives from an invalid class. Check to make sure the parent class for this blueprint hasn't been removed! Do you want to continue (it can crash the editor)?
I can copy my code from the header and if needed cpp into here, but I'm just wondering if anyone has found a quick fix. Following solutions from forums still didn't get me anywhere, and so I'm asking here since I don't know how to fix it. Going back to the forums bit, I've tried renaming the c++ class and creating a new c++ class and just pasting all my code into there with no luck.

Can anyone help me?

Edit: Somehow re-pasting code into a new c++ class a 2nd time fixed it.
For some reason, the new class only works if it has a different name to the original one (I know you can't name a class as the name of another existing one, so what I mean is DON'T rename it to that original class name at least from what I've experienced).

[fallen marten]

Have you regenerated project files?

When you add a new class you should regenerate to make sure it registers

[warm hound]

Is anyone here familiar with C++ programming that could help me do a program?

[severe crater]

maybe go to #cpp for that

[warm hound]

Okay, thank you!

[severe crater]

also just worth noting this is a UE discord and vanilla c++ varies an insane amount from UE c++ and the same is true with nearly all game engine integrations with languages compared to those original languages, especially if the program you have mentioned isn't some kind of engine or a graphics project. So I'm not too sure this discord would be your best bet, but hey, I don't know maybe

an example for c++ would be STL since you literally do not use it in unreal and it's usually a huge part of programming in vanilla c++

[warm hound]

I understand. Thank you for explaining.

[fading tartan]

yo

do you guys know how I can view my vertex count in ue5

[spark mason]

is there anyway to make this yellow line bigger? as in scale it?

[inland hollow]

how do i color a shape

anyone?

[fading tartan]

material?

[inland hollow]

where do i find this

[drowsy snow]

[context needed]

[inland hollow]

shape
fill the shape with a color

understandable?

[drowsy snow]

Understandable, only if it's MS Paint.

As for Unreal Engine, nope. "Shape" is way too abstract/broad.

[inland hollow]

a shape, like a cone

@drowsy snow this.

[drowsy snow]

So it's Basic meshes
I use UE4, so I don't know they changed it to Shapes

Anyway, materials. That's how you change the visual appearance.

[inland hollow]

again, where is "materials"?

[drowsy snow]

How long have you used Unreal Engine?

[inland hollow]

1 hour

[proper scarab]

Why is my material so black?

[faint bone]

You under level to fight this boss. I suggest following a tutorial and level up your basics.

[faint bone]

Check unreal online learning or unreal sensie on YouTube.

[drowsy snow]

Okay, so, few things:

1. Use UE4 in the meantime. You don't need UE5's fancy features just to get started. If you don't know what you're doing, you have hard time improvising tutorials.
2. Take beginner courses from Unreal Online Learning. Preferrably, first hour course.
   https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-4

[inland hollow]

so no one can tell how to use and find "materials"?

this look like oop mapping

lol

[drowsy snow]

Bruh, get used to the engine's interface first

[faint bone]

Right click anyone in folder, from options create material, modify it and apply on mesh.

Still you need to follow a tutorial boss fight to go into open world of unreal.

🙃

[drowsy snow]

But fine, I guess you want no bullshit tossed around, so here's straight to the chase.

https://youtu.be/Yb4uu2NEC0E

[inland hollow]

ok

[stoic eagle]

I have used a video(mp4) as a material (on a TV static mesh). when i play on the viewport it works fine but when I package it(for quest2) it is not working

[drowsy snow]

<@&213101288538374145> crosspost to multiple channels

[river crypt]

Haya folks, could anyone be so kind to help me with this issue

for some reason it keeps duplicating the instanced foilage

every single time I enter playmode

[modest trench]

is their location not keyed?

if the sequence doesn't cause the player to respawn they won't move to the new playerstart

you would need to call "restart player" in a bp to do that

not sure what cutscene best practices are for smoothly moving the player though, this might be messy

I don't see why you can't just call something that sets their location to the next position at the end

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/HowTo/TracksEvent/

worth a shot

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DevelopmentSetup/CodingStandard/#useofstandardlibraries?

I mean, the only thing on here I have seen used often are atomics

maybe more in the future?

TEnableIf is an abomination lol

is this really better? thank god

trying to understand linetrace code with TEnableIf was breaking my brain

[plush yew]

pretty basic question but bringing it up in here in case someone else was aware of this feature
most game engines have a sort of skinning system so when you deform a body the bones align with it
by default bones will not move with morph targets in unreal, in certain it is capable because Unity and so many other software has had this feature for a decade now, just curious how to enable it

for the more advanced of you
how to turn on vertex skinning for morph targets
and does it involve dual quatranic skinning or can i achieve this without dual quatranics

is there anyway to work on the same ue4 project with someone else without using lan?

[drowsy snow]

#source-control

[plush yew]

@plush yewI want to believe but I seriously doubt this

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/calling-skeletalmeshcomponent-setrefposeoverride-on-identical-instance-of-a-skeletal-mesh-produces-stretched-and-incorrect-bind-pose-on-target/469055

from what it looks like unreal engine lacks this sort of skinning capability

im just waiting (and hoping that) somebody proves me wrong

its even more apparent that the metahumans do not support blendshapes on the body

as they wouldnt include this type of skinning in their own product i seriously doubt it can be done in unreal without huge workarounds

[neon bough]

the forum link you posted is completely irrelevant to the question you asked!?

[drowsy snow]

There's no such thing as "dual quatranics"

[plush yew]

yeah

[neon bough]

what even is a quatranic?

[plush yew]

quaternion

english is second language

lmao

[drowsy snow]

Quaternion != Quatranics

[plush yew]

ep

yes

lol

ebic reddit moment

[drowsy snow]

No, Unreal Engine doesn't have dual quaternion skinning, out of the box.

That's what twist bones are for.

[plush yew]

yes but twist bones do not function for what i am doing nor does what im doing have to do with bone rot

[neon bough]

he removed the twist bones from his DAZ rig 😄

[plush yew]

rotating the bones isnt something i want and neither is animating them

@neon bough if you didnt know when changing ref poses and morph targets you dont want to rotate any bones

this is more of a limitation of unreal not supporting vertex skinning

[drowsy snow]

Ouch xD

[neon bough]

whatever

[plush yew]

as dual quartinos are not the only method to achieve this

[drowsy snow]

You can programmatically rotate twist bones using Control Rig setup, but I digress, and that seem to be exactly what you want to avoid anyway.

[plush yew]

yeah

i dont want to move any bones manually

i dont want a solution involving movement of bones

i want skinning lol

[neon bough]

didn't the whole question begin with "i want my morphs to affect bones?"

[plush yew]

as movement of bones or set bone loc get bone loc programmic methods wont be used in the end product im building

so basically im inquiring of unreals methods of vertex skinning also called vertex pinning

thanks for the suggestions so far any input related to the question is helpful

[neon bough]

ok, let me tell you something

morphs happen on the GPU

[plush yew]

ben u wanna go to social lounge

lol

[neon bough]

so the cpu is most likely not even aware of all data

[plush yew]

ok but im not using a gpu

lmao

[neon bough]

yea you make a text game with daz characters

[plush yew]

🤔

[neon bough]

which only uses terminal output

[plush yew]

sure

thanks for the input

note

[neon bough]

rig is data thats available to the CPU

vertex offset for morphs is calculated on GPU

what you want (affecting bones with morphs) isn't even possible

[drowsy snow]

If you're super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super super picky about getting Dual Quaternion...

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/dual-quaternion-support/144831/15

Note that this is a custom engine build, so you have to build it yourself or cherry pick the commit to 4.27

[plush yew]

OH SHID

thanks

didnt know this was a thing ill start making a build now

[drowsy snow]

I don't want to test that fork nor cherrypicking the commits myself, so all yours to try.

[plush yew]

oh no

https://github.com/AlienRenders/UnrealEngine/tree/4.26-mod

well nobody can test it now

lol

sadly was taken down

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue4-on-github

[neon bough]

while just using DAZ rig would make it way easier i guess...

[plush yew]

I would never use the daz rig lol

horrible for animation

[neon bough]

xD

[drowsy snow]

Consider that I wrote "super" many times before "picky"

[neon bough]

it's not horrible for animation

your animation workflow seems horrible

[drowsy snow]

This tbh

[plush yew]

thats your opinion and i have never posted an animation here

[drowsy snow]

I've been animating with Auto Rig Pro and Mr Mannequin template with no issue whatsoever, in Blender.

Also made my own Control Rig setup for machinima projects, automated twist bone rotation included.

[exotic thicket]

Looked at that Dual Quaternion thread out of curiosity as I had never heard of that... and people are saying Daz is the "state of the art" when it comes to characters? Really?

All the Daz stuff I've seen look so fucking uncanny valley it's not even funny lol

[neon bough]

that was before metahuman

[red condor]

there's quite a range of Daz assets made by different people. Some are pretty realistic, some miss the mark, some are intentionally stylised

[drowsy snow]

I'd prefer iClone Character Creator (or MetaHuman) over Daz

[red condor]

Also getting a good render in Daz is a whole other issue, which can lead to the characters looking a lot worse

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention I've seen horror stories from people trying to retarget Daz rigs to UE4

[red condor]

ha yeah, plus converting the materials

[neon bough]

isn't it for everyone who tries?

[drowsy snow]

I don't know, I don't use Daz

[neon bough]

and yea, you can end up in uncanny valley pretty easy

but that's more a problem of the artist rather than the character

[plush yew]

@drowsy snowprefering either is silly in a way

daz isnt really anything more than a store, for example the last project i was a part of used the daz store to purchase hdris

there is a good amount of people who do 3d print model work that use daz as a base mesh

and there are more realistic daz characters than metahumans

as metahumans more realistic than daz

[neon bough]

both true

[plush yew]

big trues

personally i find daz a starting point

[drowsy snow]

But it's way off of twist bone problematica

[fleet marten]

I've been trying to get a Daz character to work in UE5 for a week now and I just want to give up. been a nightmare

[neon bough]

indeed

[drowsy snow]

If you want to, you could rerig it with Auto Rig Pro in Blender

ARP can make UE4 compliant rig

[neon bough]

then we see you again in half a year wishing your twist bones back

[fleet marten]

@drowsy snow Thanks for the suggestion. Just the other day I finally got the DAZ to blender bridge thinking that ultimately the only way I'd be able to get it to work would be to send it to Blender first before unreal

[drowsy snow]

Except ARP has twist bone

Fuck, I rerig my VRoid model with ARP because the vanilla VRoid rig lacks twist bones, and it's shit when I try to backhand pose it.

[neon bough]

ok, wasn't aware of that

[plush yew]

I use dazs girl 8 mesh for most of the cartoon style characters I post on renderosity and turbosquid

[neon bough]

but "mannequin compatible" ringed my alarm bells

[plush yew]

but then I use gen8.1 as a base for all the 3dprint models I post

so its very versitile

there are lots of good options to use as a launchpad for whatever you're making

@fleet martenDaz to blender bridge is horrible,

please consider looking at diffamorphic, its been around much longer and functions much better

[drowsy snow]

Well, you can add extra step to rerig the model with bespoke Auto Rig Pro before sending it to Unreal

[plush yew]

diffamorphic not only converts the mesh 1:1 but translates the iray materials into blenders cycles

and diffamorphic has options for automatically converting to mhx and rigify

[drowsy snow]

And materials are irrelevant in this talk.

[neon bough]

which then translate to basic color shaders in unreal 😄

[fleet marten]

Oh dang that would be good

[plush yew]

@neon boughthat is because they arent baked but this isnt the case with diffamorphic

it can merge materials and bake them

[neon bough]

well, if you want that

[drowsy snow]

Spoiler alert

||Materials in Blender won't survive into UE4||

[plush yew]

not true at all

you bake them

then they look the same

[neon bough]

why would you do that

[plush yew]

same with vray corona redshift etc

[drowsy snow]

Disagree.

[plush yew]

🤦‍♂️

[fleet marten]

I already was looking at a video the other day of someone saying that they preferred daz importer over the bridge and now that I Googled diffeomorphic, I see that is just the daz importer I saw mentioned lol

[neon bough]

first of all, blender texture baking isn't exactly what i would call great

[plush yew]

dont use blenders texture baking

its awful

[drowsy snow]

Let's just say materials in Blender is largely irrelevant when imported as FBX to UE4

And I know what's going on because I've been doing this for 4 fucking years now

[plush yew]

Ok but most of the pbr materials ive released for unreal engine and unity were baked inside of blender

[drowsy snow]

Though if you know what you're doing, you can improvise materials in Blender into a UE4 material graph.

[plush yew]

also this is why nvidia has made their own branch of blender, so that you dont need fbx

it also has options to convert the cycles material graphs into mdl

[drowsy snow]

I'm Team Red.

[neon bough]

they don't care probably

[plush yew]

but at the end of the day if you bake your materials specifically for unreal engine you wont have discrpeincies in the way they look

and material baking is simple

idk why some people find it so hard

[neon bough]

ok hear me out, how about you make materials in unreal and call it a day?

[drowsy snow]

I'm just tempted to call it agree to disagree, I'm so bloody tired right now

[plush yew]

because unreal engines material system isnt as powerful

[neon bough]

xD

so what does your magic nvidia branch do? compile the materials to shaders?

[plush yew]

yeah

the documentation on nvidias blender page says it is better to bake the materials so that they look identical
but there is a tickbox for convert cycles shader graph to mdl

keep in mind this means when you import the usd into unreal it will not be an autodesk mdl material and cant be further edited with cycles

its a one way trip

so its smarter to bake it

[drowsy snow]

Basically the same thing that I can do with vanilla Blender 3.0 and big brain improvisation on UE material graph?

Yeah right.

[neon bough]

probably

but you can still make changes

well you can also change shader code, but...

[drowsy snow]

Also Quixel Mixer exist (at least for environment)

[neon bough]

what does metahuman use?

the useless unreal material graph system? :>

which isn't powerful enough

as we just learned

[drowsy snow]

Black magick

[neon bough]

jokes on you, theres a black magic plugin in unreal

but for capture cards 😄

[drowsy snow]

Lmao

I used Blackmagic stuff for VP before.

I should redo experimentations with HD Final Fantasy models but using materials based on the MetaHuman (and supposedly useless Unreal's material graph)

[haughty dock]

can someone tell me how to get the mouse values

like if the player look up and down and right and left

[karmic merlin]

Yes, sorry for not answering. I did my work on blueprints first and it worked fine. Now on C++ it doesn't

[neon bough]

you add axis events in your project settings => input

then you can get axis input events from the mouse

on the event graph of your player controller (or character or camera)

[haughty dock]

this?

[neon bough]

yes

[haughty dock]

ohh okay thank you very much

it worked

[haughty dock]

also btw is there a way i can disable keyboard input and mouse input separately?

[neon bough]

not that i'm aware of, but that is something that you could implement on your own (once you are more familiar with the engine)

[haughty dock]

ohh okay

[plush yew]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/926732569167401000/949685811895480450/unknown.png

https://tenor.com/view/gabriel-dropout-anime-happy-gif-8661798

dark nodes and electronic nodes is the best marketplace addons

[plush yew]

can someone help me for some reason im getting random spots of light in my scene and i dont know how to fix it

[karmic merlin]

I figured out the problem, it was failed casting

[plush yew]

its fine after lighting build but then i play the level and they appear again

[violet yoke]

How do I make this kind of graphics?

[haughty dock]

can someone help me?

[drowsy snow]

Make the material Unlit

(If you want to make it just respond to directional lights)

[violet yoke]

Wdym respond to directional lights?

[mystic grail]

Does anyone know if there is a benchmark for unreal engine shader compilation on CPU?

I am curious to see how my 24 core ryzen compares in a standard test to other CPU's when compiling shader in UE

[plush yew]

why does my camera actor fall into ground when I export video? if I play it in level sequence it's fine

[drowsy snow]

The way cel shading is constructed really depends on how you want it to be responsive to light sources.

If it's only needed to respond to directional light, make the material Unlit, and fake the shading based on the directional light's direction/forward vector.

I could rewrite by hand what I already wrote in #graphics on this subject, but I'm too tired to do so lol

[violet yoke]

Oh alright xd

Thank you

[dense knoll]

Quick Question regarding UE source: Is it allowed to make a private fork that only you can access?

[drowsy snow]

As long as you're an Unreal licensee, yes.

[dense knoll]

kk

[plush yew]

anyone know why this is happening?

[lean adder]

Hello so my engine has been crashing when i press "Play" and i really dont know what causes it it worked fine few days ago but now everytime i click on "Play" it just instant crashes. Any ideas?

[severe hound]

does anyone know how to deep dive into whats causing blueprint time to be high like 200 call counts? from when you do stat game

[kindred depot]

is there any way to prevent this on rounded objects when modeling something round? i dont want to keep smoothing things and making the poly count on every model over 4 - 8 m....

[red condor]

'smooth shading'

if using blender to model, you'd right click your object and select 'Shade Smooth'

[kindred depot]

I used 3ds max ill import to blender

[red condor]

I'm sure you can do it in 3ds max

its basic 3d functionality

I just use blender, so used that example :)

[kindred depot]

With they have the smooth button, but it increases the poly count if oyu smooth it with the shader.

[red condor]

that sounds similar to the subdiv modifier in Blender

[kindred depot]

what it does

[red condor]

Yeah, that's subdividing

well, if you can't do it in 3ds then yep use blender 👍 (but I bet you can)

[plush yew]

my game is making weird spots of light all around for no reason

[kindred depot]

i got blender open where is this button you speak of? i hate blender lol

[red condor]

right click on your mesh

[red condor]

and select Shade Smooth

[neon bough]

anyone played around with Apple LiveLink and DAZ characters?
wonder what's the best approach to apply the data, custom morphs or controlling the face bones!?

[kindred depot]

might of done the trick, ill export thanks 🙂

[kindred depot]

sounds like bleeding light, baked or lumen?

[plush yew]

its ue4

[kindred depot]

thank you @red condor , This really saved me more than you think. i got to do this with 20 models i made now lol

[red condor]

no problem! have fun haha :)

(is it maybe the relax modifier in 3ds?)

just going off this page https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/smoothing-mesh-without-adding-polygons/td-p/4181645

[kindred depot]

You know what, i tried it and it does nothing. Ill just continue with this method of madness, if it works it works. dont bother me one bit! Thanks for taking your time to look for it tho

[plush yew]

anyone know a fix?

[kindred depot]

Wait a long time and see if it loads.

if not, then your pc either is weak, or the map has an error.

[plush yew]

how do i fix it then?

bleeding light

[red condor]

lighting in ue4 is a pain

does your mesh overlap?

[kindred depot]

I mean you can always made a "fake" all black wall behind what ever you are doing.

[red condor]

I believe if meshes overlap it can help avoid leaks. There are quite a lot of youtube videos about lighting issues in ue4. Personally I gave up trying to get perfect results a while back

[plush yew]

I mean it worked multiple times before and my pc is fairly good it just doesn't work now

[kindred depot]

are you using megascans textures?

[plush yew]

Yeah

In the sand

[kindred depot]

Yeah

remove the pins on the materials

or world grid it out and open the level

[plush yew]

yeah

Thanks, I'll try ir

[red condor]

the geometry looks very simple, are we zoomed right in?

[kindred depot]

thats a loading screen i think

[red condor]

(assuming lighting is baked not dynamic) are lightmaps set up properly?

[plush yew]

yeah, but its just cubes

this is my level

[red condor]

it can be hard to get perfect lighting results on very simple geometry. Usually designers will use detail to hide imperfections, allow for better lightmapping etc

are you planning on this kind of minimal look for the game or are you testing things out?

[plush yew]

yeah its gonna be very minimal as a) im terrible at modelling and b) my graphics arent great

im going for a Portal style look

[red condor]

That's fair enough, I'm in the same boat xD Personally I go for more stylised approaches so I don't have to worry about this kind of stuff. Dynamic lighting can be more forgiving with some issues if youre happy with the quality of it.

Portals a pretty good example, if you look at the walls they're simple but they have little gaps and ridges in them where seams can be placed by the person making the models

this makes lighting artifacts less noticeable

[plush yew]

ah

[plush yew]

how do i check im not that expert with lighting

[kindred depot]

Hfill in ue5 is amazing.

[plush yew]

i just chuck a point light in a scene and call it a day

[kindred depot]

then tomorrow you will want to fix it again xD

[plush yew]

true

[red condor]

well if you're just stretching cubes and planes, it's guaranteed that there is no real lightmap for the engine to use when baking, where to calculate seams and stuff. I'm no expert either - I use cel shading and dynamic lighting and then I can use my own modular assets, it looks kinda cool and I never have to worry about all that realism nonsense xD

but if you want to learn there are plenty youtube vids

[plush yew]

ok

how do i make it dynamic?

[red condor]

you would set your lights to moveable

and be aware of the performance hit xD

[plush yew]

okay

[red condor]

if you have a lot of lights you will need to optimise

then you'll want to fiddle with shadow quality

[plush yew]

okay

how do i make an enclosed room lit without having a noticeable light source

[red condor]

try searching for 'ambient light'

[plush yew]

instead of point light?

[red condor]

its not a ue4 component, but the name of the effect you're trying to achieve

[plush yew]

ohhh

[red condor]

light without an obvious source

[plush yew]

okay

[red condor]

sorry my bad xD

[plush yew]

its ok

hmm cant find anything online

on ambient lighting

[strong obsidian]

hey
How can I set target for console command "ShowDebug" ?

[plush yew]

well at least im not getting bleeding light anymore

[red condor]

ah, I thought that would bring up some videos.. I'll take a look now

[plush yew]

i removed the sky outside since its not gonna be there that stopped the light blobs on the edges

[red condor]

I think the general approach for interior ambient lighting in ue4 is to use a few lights rather than just one, so the sources are less obvious. Would recommend watching interior lighting unreal vids on Youtube to see various methods of realistic interior lighting and find one that works for you. (or setting your game outside, with a single dynamic directional light for the sun - much easier xD)

[icy bolt]

Does anyone have free vr locomotion project link?

[plush yew]

hah thanks 🙂

[fierce tulip]

which one?

[icy bolt]

ue4

[plush yew]

yeah its tricky coz i want it to be unlit but lit at the same time which makes NO sense

like it looks like there is no light source but you can see everything

[red condor]

if you have enough evenly spaced point lights with the right settings that will be the effect. Don't know if that's the best way to do it, but I have seen it done like that in various dev videos

[plush yew]

okay

[red condor]

Wouldn't work with dynamic lighting though, the performance hit would be huge for a grid of lights in a large room. But for baking it would work.

[plush yew]

okay

[jovial urchin]

Any idea how to get a latlong view from the camera .
Like a camera which can render 180 fov

[plush yew]

i think i got it perfect

[raw beacon]

Anyone have experience with recording character blueprints in sequencer? I'm having a heck of a time trying to adjust animBP properties after a take has been recorded in sequencer

[rain ingot]

agh why is the texture editor so glitchy for me

turns my whole screen black

[gleaming lotus]

Is there any way to make these buoyancy points visible?
First thought was to draw debug points, but I can't grab the relative locations from the event graph. Any idea if there's some sort of buoyancy debug view? Google isn't saying much

[jovial urchin]

Any help on this will really help a lot to me

[surreal eagle]

Compiled build just says fatal error and crahses

[peak vigil]

Is it possible to save an actor and all his parameters in savegame and load it later on another level?

[idle stump]

I have this issue that's been driving me insane, hopefully someone can give me other ideas to diagnose it. I have 2 monitors which run through a DisplayPort adapter (like a 2 to 1, multi stream joiner), into a single DisplayPort on my gfx card. Very often when using Unreal (like at least 50% of the time) when I start playing in the editor both of my screens will go black. They never come back on until I unplug both cables from the adapter, and the adapter from my gfx card, and then plug it all back in - sometimes (maybe 15%) even then they do not come back on and my computer appears to crash and reboot itself. No blue screen, no error message. My graphics drivers are up to date. My theories are #1, the adapter is no good and #2, some driver issue, #3 maybe my system just can't handle Unreal on 2 monitors? They are 16:10 "1080p" monitors, nothing too fancy. It doesn't happen outside of Unreal, at least not that I can remember.

[wet briar]

If I have a blueprint derived from a c++ class, will modifying the class update the blueprint as well?

Or do I have to create a new blueprint derived from it every time I make a change?

[fringe pivot]

I have this weird issue, I created an scene for the main menu, a small landscape with the same auto material I use in the level which works totally fine there.
In the menu level the foliage takes like 10 seconds to render though.
Any idea why?

[grim violet]

How do I disable/enable these spotlight indicator lines?

So annoying idk how to word it to google

[red condor]

Show > Advanced > Light Radius

[stable remnant]

what are the implications of attaching objects to other objects?

[grim violet]

THANK U

[red condor]

they are parented to them, so if (for example) you move the parent the child will also move

[red condor]

no problem :)

[stable remnant]

does this mean the location will be relative to that parent?

[grim violet]

Been ultra confused on that for like 30 minutes lolol rlly appreciate it

[stable remnant]

I have a generation script spawning a lot of tiles and I'm trying to figure the best way of keeping it somewhat organised

Should I have it create a folder for them or something then?

or should I just learn to care less

[red condor]

If you have a component as the root, and the tiles are all children, you shouldn't have any issues as long as you don't move/rotate/scale the root component 👍 That sounds more advanced than anything I've attempted though 😅

[stable remnant]

and there wouldnt be any performance penalty to this?

I'm not planning to move any of these

[red condor]

I can't imagine why there would be, but I'm no expert there either. You can always profile to check the performance. I expect the main issue would be if you spawn a ton of tiles at once?

[stable remnant]

I have been dividing them into sections so I dont need to spawn & keep loaded a shitload at once, I'm hoping that'll do

[grim violet]

How do you stop a character from falling through a table? I.e.) I have an animation from mixamo of someone typing but when I use it, the persons hands fall through the table, how do I prevent that?

Is that what collisions are for?

(New to UE just trying to figure it out lol)

[red condor]

You're half right! Collision is used in games to stop characters going through things - however it doesn't affect animation data (which is why your character's arm might clip through a wall when playing a game even though they can't move through it).

The mixamo animation is probably expecting a table prop at a precise height

It is possible to edit animations in UE4, though it's easier to use 3d software to do it

Your easiest option is probably adjusting the table height though 👍

[grim violet]

Oh okay so I just have to make the prop fit?

I am planning on doing mocap soon, with a suit, so if I do an animation with a character holding a cup, how do I make them hold the cup?

Do I just have to animate the cup moving at the same path the character is moving?

[red condor]

That's right 👍 usually when there is contact with a surface in animation, that's just an illusion.

[grim violet]

Gotcha I thought so

Wish it was easier 😭 but that is okay

[red condor]

However, for the cup it's a little different

[grim violet]

Oh?

[red condor]

You would likely use a socket to attach the cup to the character's mesh, as you would with a sword for example

that way it'll move with the hand

[grim violet]

OH

Genius

[red condor]

You might also be interested in inverse kinematics - where the character's animation can dynamically respond to the environment - think modern games where the character touches walls that you move near, or where the curve of the feet matches the slope of the landscape

So there are quite a few options available :)

[grim violet]

I am assuming that's what IK meant

Lol thank you I am big noob but that makes a lot of sense

I will use learn.unrealengine for inverse kinematics I am sure that will be indefinitely useful

[red condor]

You're welcome, we all have to start somewhere :) I'm only mostly out of noob stage myself haha

[grim violet]

Appreciate the advice Geoff!

I started 2 weeks ago so YIKES a long ways to go

[red condor]

Follow tutorials, focus on the areas you're interested in and enjoy the journey 😁

[grim violet]

Yep!

Its a fun journey for sure

UE is top tier

Best community tbh everyone is helpful

[red condor]

It is crazy what we can do for free with UE (I first dabbled in gamedev in QuickBasic on a PC in the early 90s... things have changed), and yeah this discord is great! I only found it a week ago or so.

[grim violet]

I started in Unity maybe 4/5 years ago, but barely made anything because I was young and thought I couldn't comprehend game development lol

But now I am ready to tackle it because sooo much cool stuff can be made

The fact that hollywood is using UE is what made me get into it

[red condor]

True, it almost seems to be more focused on VFX stuff now than being a game engine haha

[grim violet]

I'm okay with that TBH it'll make more interactive movies

[red condor]

But it's great that it brings these amazing tools to so many people in different industries

[grim violet]

Right

[red condor]

True! 👍

[grim violet]

How do you disable these light icons?

[red condor]

'G' is a quick way to hide all widgety things

[grim violet]

Oh nice

Thx!

[plush yew]

Does anyone know why I am getting a warning from this? I am adding a ui widget to my character, but with this it keeps telling me a warning right when the game starts saying ;
The widget 'MainUI_C' was already added to the screen.

[red condor]

Any voxelplugin users here? I'm wondering if its worth trying out the free version and how limited it is

[rotund scroll]

probably worth just testing it out

the person who makes it is in this discord

[tight crystal]

will this run in ue4 and 5

in a game

[red condor]

do you mean is it low poly enough to use as a game model? If so - how many polys does it have, and what platforms are you targeting?

[tight crystal]

^

[tight crystal]

is it low poly enough and pc

[tight crystal]

i want to use it playable

i want to make it playable*

[red condor]

would this be the player character's mesh?

[tight crystal]

yeah

[red condor]

243k tris should be okay then, AAA games often have 1 million+ tris in a lead character. You wouldn't want everything to be this detailed though. Make sure to profile, and bear in mind performance on lower end PCs if that's a concern

[tight crystal]

ty and what if there were say 3 or more in one scene for online?

[rotund scroll]

try it

literally

all you have to do is try it

everyone does it

nobody will have a better understanding of whether it will run than you, when you try it

[oak patio]

I have never heard of a game using 1mil+ for 1 character

[red condor]

that -should- still be fine - but what else is going on in the scene? And what if one person has a crappy PC? etc. Basically there are lots of variables to think about for any given game. All you can do is profile your game - for the reasons above :)

[tight crystal]

i dont want to animate just for it to lag

[drowsy snow]

Try it

[oak patio]

the most i have seen is horizon zero dawn that used like 600k

[rotund scroll]

then put it in the game and see if it works without animations

besides that

animations are tied to the skeleton, not the polycount

so as long as the skeleton works for you, no issue

you can still reduce the count as you want

it'll make no difference other than you'll have to rerig it probably. but that's par for the course if you're animating anyway

[graceful forge]

250k tris for that seems excessive, even if it does run, it should really be optimized to a lower tri count

[drowsy snow]

Put the mesh in the map, complete with materials, test the frametime with increasing amount, that kind of shit

[tight crystal]

ok i will do that ty

[rotund scroll]

count is always holistic and screen based. you can have nigh infinite count if your shaders are low cost and your focus is somewhere where you are not having a million things in view

[rotund scroll]

literally this is all you need to do

[red condor]

For multiplayer, definitely optimize wherever you can. But tri counts aren't the concern they used to be.

[rotund scroll]

shader cost is much more prohibitive than tri count these days

in my personal project I have low cost shaders in exchange for high poly counts

and it makes almost 0 impact on framerate

[rain ingot]

where do I find free models for unreal engine?

[red condor]

there's lots of free content in the Marketplace (accessed from the Epic launcher)

[drowsy snow]

https://www.google.com

[rotund scroll]

the best answer

[rain ingot]

alright thanks

[rotund scroll]

also what happened to brother Hoodie?

I feel like that shouldve caught on

[remote jasper]

Is there somewhere else i can ask for help for problems im having with unreal other than here?

[drowsy snow]

Dunno, just felt off after a while

[drowsy snow]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/

Also le google search

[red condor]

Does voxelplugin free have procedural landscape generation, or is that just in the paid version?

[rotund scroll]

... sister Hoodie then?

still works

[drowsy snow]

If you prefer it that, I guess

[rain ingot]

ue stuff takes up so much memory

[rotund scroll]

uff check the website?

[rain ingot]

do people often use hard drives to store stuff?

[drowsy snow]

Some use solid state drive as well

[red condor]

I did, but I feel like I need to understand the plugin's terminology and how it works to understand the feature comparison :)

only the pro version includes 'voxel graphs' - but I don't know if that's the only way to spawn landscape dynamically. Just thought someone might have a quick yes/no for me.

[drowsy snow]

ue stuff takes up so much memory
It would be a big brain poggers moment if you actually use RAM as a storage (which live CD OSes do)

[rotund scroll]

custom plugins are going to have a user base much smaller than any default editor plugin. so consider that you may be on your own

[drowsy snow]

I know

[rain ingot]

I dont even got 16g of ram 😭

I got 8

[drowsy snow]

8 GB of RAM is passable

[rain ingot]

my laptop has 16g ram and better specs than my PC but it sounds like a vacuum cleaner when I try to use UE on it

😔

[drowsy snow]

Put a weird liquid cooling contraption in it

[rotund scroll]

laptops are always going to suffer compared to desktops

[drowsy snow]

If you're not a nomad, consider wasting more money converting the laptop into a fixed computer and buy a junk cheap netbook for nomaden typing needs

Because using laptops are more frowned upon, yay.

[hollow fossil]

Does anyone know why unreal is crashing when I load my tilled landscape says something about assertion failed size Y it only does this if edit layers are on when i import the tiles

[mental shale]

(i didnt know what other channel to put this is) Anyone know why moving this asset to another folder makes it un-savable?

[rain ingot]

Do you need a really good pc to run like detailed environments in unreal engine?

Can I make do with 8g ram, GTX 1660 and an AMD Ryzen 5

Been loading for a good 25 minutes

PC frozen and everything 😭

Is this normal

[mental shale]

if it's your first time running the engine, shaders usually take a while to compile

but your gpu is fine

16gb of ram would prolly be better

yea

(and idk which exact ryzen u have)

[rain ingot]

Ye ima need to get 16g

Is it possible to swap my laptop specs with my pc?

[mental shale]

you can still work with 16 tho

if you use ur pc I guess lol

[rain ingot]

Like taking my 16g ram and amd ryzen 7 from my laptop and putting it in my pc

[mental shale]

oh, nah

[gaunt abyss]

you can but it won't be comfortable at all

[mental shale]

laptop ram and cpus are completely different

usually

[rain ingot]

Oof

Might as well build a new pc

[mental shale]

well, Id just get some more ram first

ur specs seem fine other than that

how many sticks do you have in there already?

[rain ingot]

Lemme check

1

My case is pretty bad I think, it only allowed for two slots

[mental shale]

oh

[rain ingot]

Ima just get two 16gb

[mental shale]

yea

[rain ingot]

My pc is very dusty on the inside tho

Will that affect anything

[mental shale]

if yer really strapped for cash, you could get just one 16 stick for the time being and just ignore dual channel until you can get another (matching)

[rain ingot]

how do I select an entire object rather than the face

it just keeps selecting the face for me

I'm not in brush editing

[little edge]

Try selecting it in the world outliner

[surreal eagle]

Anyone know anything about building the game

I keep getting error code 6

[nimble bane]

Anyone know of an issue where clicks suddenly start to register twice in the editor?
This makes any popup menu disappear 1 frame after it opened. It makes the editor unusable and haven't found anything that works except from restarting UE4

This is on 4.27.2

Scrap that, I think the popup menus just close immediately after they open by themselves

Even on hover they close

[fringe pivot]

Nvidia GPU?

[nimble bane]

Cool, yeah I'll try a different driver version

[fringe pivot]

Don't

This works

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157

It seems to work at least, I haven't noticed that issue again since I ran that registry key

[nimble bane]

Thanks, I'll see if I get the issue again

[rain ingot]

uhhhhhhhh

how do I fix this?

I think I pressed some keybind

[modest trench]

you pressed F on the skysphere*

click something else in the world outliner to focus on and press F

F moves you camera to view the selected thing's bounds

[rain ingot]

life saver

[winter stream]

what's is the problem with my landscape ?

[jolly crater]

L

[surreal eagle]

This makes no sense

Why

I want to cry

[rain ingot]

😭

my engine is running so slow

[modest trench]

could try switching the map loaded in editor config

might save it

[marble otter]

Hey, I got a newbie question over in #blueprint

Probably an easy fix I'm not able to conceptualize yet

[plush yew]

looking at using UE4 for CAD work and have my eyes on a workstation with a Quadro T1000, would that be good enough for real-time rendering in UE? or should I look at something else?

[eternal plinth]

why i can't install another version of unreal?

[kindred viper]

click the + sign above it where it says "Engine versions"

[plush yew]

it looks to be greyed out if im not mistaken

[eternal plinth]

its greyed out

[eternal plinth]

yes

[kindred viper]

hmm mine isn't thats odd

Has anyone tried the Advanced Vehicle project in 4.27.2? It doesn't seem to work. The back wheels sink into the ground and the controls don't do anything

ok just tried it in 4.26 and it works. So it's broken in 4.27

[haughty dock]

"UATHelper: Packaging (Mac): ERROR: Missing precompiled manifest for 'Launch'. This module was most likely not flagged for being included in a precompiled build - set 'PrecompileForTargets = PrecompileTargetsType.Any;' in Launch.build.cs to override.
PackagingResults: Error: Missing precompiled manifest for 'Launch'. This module was most likely not flagged for being included in a precompiled build - set 'PrecompileForTargets = PrecompileTargetsType.Any;' in Launch.build.cs to override."
can someone help me

[elfin coyote]

is there something like this green collider on unreal? it looks like a slice of a circle

[rotund scroll]

in terms of shape, no, but as a mathematical formula? yes

[elfin coyote]

How?

[elfin coyote]

Do u mean using a circle and checking angles?

[rotund scroll]

you can do it like that, but you can also entirely just do the math without any solids

[elfin coyote]

How do you do it with culling? (i think unreal uses some kind of BVH and i want this too)

[rotund scroll]

like visual culling from screenspace?

[elfin coyote]

not checking every object on scene

[rotund scroll]

I mean you'd have to access the renderer in cpp to handle it, but it's definitely within reason

[elfin coyote]

hmm, it will run server side

Do you think creating a mesh with a circle segment is a good idea?

[rotund scroll]

I think if you're wanting to have something that is optimized for culling you need to dive into cpp and do it mathwise

nothing else is going to be fast enough

that said, UE already handles culling and occlusion fairly well

[elfin coyote]

Are not overlap events fast enough?

[rotund scroll]

nah, nothing like that will be good enough. it would be very costly

so your performance would tank very quickly

[elfin coyote]

This is bad, i was relying on UE somehow using PhysX or something with broad phase collision detection for this tests ;/

[surreal eagle]

line trace+loop

[elfin coyote]

i think i will need too many lines to make it accurate ;/

[little breach]

how can I get a pawn to ignore collisions and keep walking through any obstacle?

[river bolt]

Hello there

I am looking for a remote job on unreal engine , can anybody help me where to find it ?

[little breach]

#hire-a-freelancer

[river bolt]

Thx \m/

[last cloak]

hey cuties

quick question

im actually gonna ask this elsewhere

[gusty hatch]

I want to use individual mesh collision for each of these scene components .. I am finding it difficult to achieve what seems like a simple task. These pieces are going to break off of the scene component which will change the collision shape. I don't want to make the collision the parent .. I made each part separate blueprints and tried to use them as child actors as well and this did not work. Any thoughts ?

[plush yew]

does anyone know why the gap between two static meshes with the same material and size is really obvious

[true quartz]

Hey guys how to i get rid of the tiling? the texture is pretty good so I want to use this but i want to get rid of this tiling

[surreal eagle]

ATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): F:\more ue4 shit\RampRagev2a\RampRagev2a\Intermediate\Plugins\NativizedAssets\Windows\Game\Source\NativizedAssets\Public\BP_LightStudio__pf1079297466.h(108): warning C4996: 'UAtmosphericFogComponent': Please use the SkyAtmosphere component instead. Please update your code to the new API before upgrading to the nex
t release, otherwise your project will no longer compile.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): [35/38] Module.NativizedAssets.11_of_16.cpp
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): [36/38] Module.NativizedAssets.8_of_16.cpp
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): Took 173.2238772s to run UnrealBuildTool.exe, ExitCode=6
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): UnrealBuildTool failed. See log for more details. (C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Roaming\Unreal Engine\AutomationTool\Logs\C+Program+Files+Epic+Games+UE_4.27\UBT-RampRagev2a-Win64-Shipping_2.txt)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=6 (6)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Error

what?

[surreal eagle]

google random texture direction

[true quartz]

Ah thanks, i have been googling changing texture size

[surreal eagle]

saw it on r/unrealengine

[plush yew]

how would i blend these meshes together?

[icy bolt]

can anyone tell me how to switch between widgets in UE 4.27 VR

[surreal eagle]

no

[icy bolt]

👏

[surreal eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/troll-troll-face-ragememe-rageface-trolling-gif-4929853

you might want to hide one and remoe the other

destroy/hide

[ebon stirrup]

you need to use remove from parent and add to view port

[icy bolt]

did this but the new widget shows to my full vr screen and i cant see any button

[ebon stirrup]

idk vr

[plush yew]

how do you increase animation length?

can't move the red line in editor

[soft osprey]

You should right click on the animation track and select append frames

[plush yew]

i entered frames

but it stops at the same location as it had

i have 34 frames, set them to 54

stops at 34

[soft osprey]

Can you make a gif or sth?!

[plush yew]

it's a walking animation in loop

walks, stops, repeats

i want to make it walk long distance

like increase it 3 times

[soft osprey]

Aha XD you just wanna loop it
You can use anim composites and if you want the character to actually move, you need to turn on "Root Motion" in animation's details panel

[ebon stirrup]

yeah root motion is the best

[plush yew]

yeah

rotor works

thanks

but

it will just walk forward without stopping?

[ebon stirrup]

yes

you can use a montage to add multiple animations

the 1st anim is walk

the 2nd is stop

[plush yew]

how do you add them?

in the same window?

[ebon stirrup]

first make a montage by right clicking an animation and go to create and there on the right bottom side you will get the animation browser ig

from there drag and drop

[plush yew]

ok

i enabled rotor motion

but it's not moving forward

[solid fox]

Hey guys I have a problem. I hope this is the right place to share.

[plush yew]

it just walks in place lol

[solid fox]

Hello! I have an object, that should animate (Animated through sequencer) when I press the keyboard(Project Setting Input) through the box trigger. It’s a “Gate”, and when I press a keyboard button, animation works and the gate goes from the raised position to down. My problem is that I can’t walk on it after the animation is complete. I can walk on it only from the sides, but this is not a solution. I noticed that there is like invisible barrier on the gates origin/pivot point on the bottom.

https://youtu.be/VbVtKys8GkQ

[ebon stirrup]

it should
but in the world it will move forward

[ebon stirrup]

looks like some sort of collision issue

[ebon stirrup]

you might have to make a bp

and then play montage (you have to make a montage for this )
or use an anim bp

make sure this is like this

[plush yew]

ok, thx

[ebon stirrup]

welcs

BTW if you an error feel free to ping me

[plush yew]

root motion section doesn't look like that for me

[ebon stirrup]

then ?

[plush yew]

in animation itself

[ebon stirrup]

oh thats in the animation bp

the ss i sent

[plush yew]

in montage there's no root motion

[ebon stirrup]

no need

[plush yew]

can't find root motion from everything

how do i make the gap unnoticeable

[ebon stirrup]

it is in the details panel

of anim bp

or in the anim preview editor

[waxen ibex]

the grasses are turning black

[plush yew]

yeah, found it

i made a new animation blueprint, selected character mesh, then dragged animation in, but character stays in t pose

damn

shouldn't be that hard 😂

[bleak zodiac]

okay now make montage of animation cycles 🙂

[ebon stirrup]

😂

[ebon stirrup]

thats the ez way

[quiet island]

My navmesh is huge but I cant seem to go any further then where I have placed the red line.

Anyone has a clue how this could occur?>

[bleak zodiac]

okay, here is better, Keyframe animation, no use of mixamo, apply 12 principles of animation

[plush yew]

i just need to make it move forward, slide

for cinematics

in cinematic editor you can move the mesh or character

so that could work for it

but won't help much in long run lol

[plush yew]

it stays as t pose in animation blueprint when I drag it

😤

[drowsy snow]

Keep it that to make your character assert dominance at all times

[quiet island]

Literally wont let me go any further then this and my navmesh is like miles away

[dapper oak]

is there a way to leave specific blueprint classes out of a packaged build because they are making the package fail even though I am not currently using those assets as I need to package to test something on a different platform before I can fix the issues that is causing them to throw an error!

[plush yew]

how do i make the transition between meshes not so sudden, theyre the same size and material but its really sudden

made movement in cinematics instead of in game, but now the camera is falling into ground when I export video

[analog vale]

Hey guys im on macOS and updated to Monetery 12.2.1 and unreal keeps crashing when opening a project....

does monterey not support it yet? Mac running on an intel

[icy bolt]

can anyone tell me how to switch between widgets in UE 4.27 VR

[red condor]

Is there a reason landscapes are created at z location 100 by default?

I'm moving it to 0 to make things easier, just want to check I'm not going to mess something up without realising.

[plush yew]

idk but i bet its easily configured and if not theres a way ot od it

[red condor]

Awesome, thanks for the advice 👍

[drowsy snow]

Also if you want to use landmass, either forgo World Composition, or Landmass.

Both are mutually exclusive

[red condor]

Thanks, I am doing world comp so landmass is out sadly :)

[gusty hatch]

I want to use individual mesh collision for each of these scene components .. I am finding it difficult to achieve what seems like a simple task. These pieces are going to break off of the scene component which will change the collision shape. I don't want to make the collision the parent .. I made each part separate blueprints and tried to use them as child actors as well and this did not work. Any thoughts ?

[red condor]

I would start by replacing the planes with flattened cubes - I don't think you'll get predictable collision from planes

Since each cube will have collision by default, if you destroy one/both of the wing cubes that should affect collision for the ship without you having to do anything else

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding the problem :)

[gusty hatch]

@red condor all good - thanks for trying. You can ignore the planes as this was just a demo to explain my issue. The problem is the Default Scene Root ignores all the static mesh components collision.

[red condor]

Still not sure I understand - I'd recommend posting in more detail what you're trying to do and what is happening (any relevant blueprint etc). I have to go eat but hopefully someone will jump in, if not I'll take a look later 👍

[gusty hatch]

adding 3 cubes to the default scene root and setting all their collision to block all - does not work.

If I make the first cube the default scene root - it now has collision and works as intended but the other 2 cubes do not.

How can you define the collision of the remaining cubes ?

[red condor]

A scene component won't affect collision at all, and setting a static mesh to block all definitely gives it collision. You need to explain what you mean when you say it 'does not work' 👍

What do you expect to happen, and what do you see happening?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, it's weird that "it doesn't work" when people kitbash static meshes with BPs for years

[waxen ibex]

my foliage is appearing weird

black

[waxen ibex]

its black in detail lighting only too

[gusty hatch]

I'm using a pawn with a floating movement component. On construct I use the node "add static mesh component" to add pieces to my actor. I would like these static mesh pieces to use their own collision but they are being ignored when it comes to world geometry as well as overlap events. Using the console I am able to show collision and see that it does exist.

[calm iris]

Hello, hope im asking in the right place! Im trying to make interactive overlays in OBS with the help from some plugins and was wondering if anyone knows a way to in real time pull information from a unreal engine 3 game (Realm royale). The information id like is damage taken/given, healing used etc so i could have that information trigger sources and scenes in OBS. Please feel free to delete my message if im in the wrong place.

[naive dune]

a bit of a noob question but how do you display the joints in Maya?

[chrome swallow]

Any one happen to know what may cause this odd shadowing effect all over my landscape and how I may solve it? It is designed by blending materials for the landscape but also the shadow is on the rocks and trees as well.

[bleak zodiac]

Show -> Joints

[naive dune]

found it thanks

Was looking at toolbar just now

[glacial otter]

Lol why is Logging/Printing to screen so slow? I was profiling my inventory sorting algorithm and it was taking ~20 ms to finish... I removed all my Logs and it went down to 1ms...

[red condor]

In the screenshots you posted above the mesh components already exist, you don't need a construction script to add them. If those screens aren't of your actual game object then they won't help to diagnose the problem. Maybe the issue is in the construction script itself? If you prototype this like in your screenshots above (but with cubes instead of planes), with no construction script, you'll see that collision works as expected. The problem is somewhere else. (In case you aren't aware you can just add any components you want to your pawn, you don't need to use a construction script unless your game requires it for some reason).

[wet stone]

hello guys, which canal is for questions about eu5?

[quiet island]

Hey @red condor, you helped me look into some other similar issue the other day but im also encountering it on another side of the map now.
Maybe you have any suggestion to this. ^^

[red condor]

#ue5-general

[wet stone]

tx u

[red condor]

Hi Jaimy!~~ Navmesh isn't actually required for player movement, it's normally used for AI. Even if you deleted the navmesh your character should still be able to walk around fine, so I don't think that's the issue.~~

If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say maybe that big mountain mesh doesn't have precise collision enabled and is blocking the character? Try visualising collision to see if that is the case

aha, I see! Apologies Jaimy 😁

[quiet island]

Thank you for the suggestion im going to check that out now

Could very well be the case haha that mesh is close there

This says it all 😄

[rare frost]

anyone know which is more stable as a packaged game, 4.27 or 4.26?

(or in your experience)

[chrome swallow]

Any one know something about RVT Cache and why it may turn the landscape reflective black?

[fierce tulip]

hard to say, really depends on features used/custom code/yada.

[runic fern]

Hi guys .. How can i Secure Standalone Project from being hacked its not a game .
I wont them to make a crack and copy the project ?

its for a company

[drowsy snow]

Make it always online.

[runic fern]

I was thinking about using Something like hash key checking if it same as the installed copy

through API

or TLS handshake

[drowsy snow]

Which is basically the same as online verification.

Make it account based as well, and rely on subscription.

[runic fern]

Account base

Single Sign in

[drowsy snow]

Also, by always online, I mean the application can't be used/started when it's offline.

[runic fern]

And what can i do about the updates if i want to Release updated do you have any idea ?

i was thinking to use Custom Launcher

and using server with chunk downloader i think

[drowsy snow]

Either charge the user money again, or just deliver them for free through the launcher, if the account (and subscription) is valid.

Do the whole verification server side. Pirates can only go so far client side.

[runic fern]

Nice

[drowsy snow]

And yeah, definitely prevent the pirates from tricking the client into returning self confirmation

Hence the "always online" concept.

[runic fern]

thank you for information 😄 ❤️

[green light]

i will need to learn this, if I ever learn UE4 correctly 🙂

[raw falcon]

Hallo, When I Create UnrealProject, 'vfx' name of folder is created automatically. and when I try to delete or change the folder name, when re-open the project, it created again... Could I know how to delete or change this?

[red condor]

I don't seem to have that folder in my 4.27 projects. Could it be that an extension you have installed is creating it?

[meager lion]

Hey guys bit of a noob here, but was wondering if there is something simple&similar to blenders hue/sat node in UE to use in a material instance

[drowsy snow]

What to learn?

[drowsy snow]

Are you building the engine from source code?