ue4-general

[autumn flame]

UE4 crashing is tradition

[mortal canopy]

i am glad to join 🙏

[autumn flame]

Mine sometimes crashes when just opening the project

[shut flax]

Does epic games provide voice chat and anti cheat?

I’ve seen it a lot tbh

[exotic root]

provide is a strong word

[autumn flame]

EOS supports it iirc

[exotic root]

Unreal does an awful lot of things if you can figure them out

That is a blessing and a curse

[autumn flame]

Lots of things are locked behind C++ and not exposed

[exotic root]

because things that seem intuitive aren't because you're supposed to do them the unreal way

[mortal canopy]

i've spent the past.... week debugging my leap motion tracking in UE4

i refuse to continue modeling my character until i see it all works

the unreal way

[exotic root]

"Hi, I'd like to make a loop that has a 5 second delay in it"
"No. Screw you."
"wat"
"you heard me."

[autumn flame]

How dare you use a delay

[mortal canopy]

disgusting

[autumn flame]

That's what timers are for

[exotic root]

well those don't work in loops either

so jokes on you

XD

[mortal canopy]

[autumn flame]

Timer is your loop

With delay

🧑‍🏭

[exotic root]

Timers are black magic

[autumn flame]

That's why we put everything on event tick

[mortal canopy]

i had to restart my computer after unreal crashed and subsequently refused to load most of my mesh

as in i was met with eyeballs and a jaw

[exotic root]

https://tenor.com/T5O9.gif

[mortal canopy]

10/10

[autumn flame]

Be sure to smash your keyboard in anger and switch to Unity

[mortal canopy]

i'm switching FROM unity

[exotic root]

https://tenor.com/1o1z.gif

Also, leapmotion is awesome. I've been using XSens myself for a virtual production class

[mortal canopy]

i wish i could afford xsens stuff! maybe down the line

for now though leap motion works great for sure

just setting it up in UE4 has been an experience

[exotic root]

I'm trying to convince my girlfriend to vtube through UE, but she's locked into Vroid and some other stuff using Unity

[mortal canopy]

at first my hands were clipping somewhere under the floor, now i got it to track ok but working on matching the rest of the arm to the hands

yeah i'm... that's what i'm switching from

vroid and unity

[exotic root]

It's cursed

I tried to help her with it

[mortal canopy]

making my own model in blender and struggling in UE4 but it's worth it

[exotic root]

it's so cursed

Anyhow, I should probably get around to sleeping. Got things to do and I am very west coast XD

o/ toodles

[mortal canopy]

my main issue with the leap motion so far is that it seems like there's no easy way to actually get the hands to align with the UE4 axes

see you!!!

i actually messaged ultraleap* and they were great about it but the bottom line is "git gud" so that's what i'm doing now i guess

[shut flax]

If you run a popular FPS game like apex how many servers do you need lol

Let’s say if I made a FPS game and it blew up in popularity do I need a lot of servers to be able to run the game servers

[mortal canopy]

regardless of popularity you'd need a server per service region to get started

[autumn flame]

I think their servers are most likely on request startup

The instances ofc

[oak patio]

If you havent even touched gamedev yet I wouldnt think about multiplayer

Stick to single player for a good while until you understand things

[bleak zodiac]

yes, even i still with single player

[hexed heron]

Hello guys I am new here and came with my problems

[autumn flame]

Don't we all

[hexed heron]

I cant solve this problem,walls look brighter and darker

[faint bone]

what are you trying to do?

is problem in lights or in skylight or in mesh?

[mortal canopy]

ok i've been staring at my project too long

i'll go do something else LOL

suddenly it's 3pm

[hexed heron]

When I look at a spot, the lighting should stay the same and stable. But as I move the camera, the lights seem to increase and decrease whereas they should not. Why are they looking different as the camera moves around

[ember cypress]

Looks like camera exposure, from what I can tell with that video.

[tribal trail]

I'm working on a joint project. When I double click the project file (created in UE5 EA2 and I am using UE5 EA2) it opens fine. When I try to open via browser, it asks me to convert it. Any idea what's going on?

[primal tendon]

How to integrate UDS to Brushify Landscape material?

It uses RVT

[trim mantle]

You don’t

You need to make your own functions

(I assume you mean ultra dynamic sky)

[primal tendon]

yes

[wild aspen]

what's the appropriate channel for a question about including UE in a company's pipeline?

[trim mantle]

RVT updates very rarely

So that is why dynamic effects do not work well with it

What you need to do is apply the weather effects after the RVT sample

And if you do not know how to make materials that may be difficult for you

[trim mantle]

I guess this one?

[wild aspen]

nice

prepare for the papyrus

😅

I was asked in my company to include UE in their existing working pipeline. Note that I'm the only developer, they're all artists (I tried proposing git for versioning but sad lone programmer noises), and the company works on digital effects for cinema, not videogames.
If possible I would like some feedback.

In their existing workflow, each project has an assets directory, with the following structure:
project_root/assets/asset_name/publish/variant/version/[files]
where "version" is just "v1, v2, v3", and "variant" are subfolders for stuff like differently textured fishes when the asset is a fish specie. There can be any amount of layers of variants. Other folders inside asset_name are used for maya, nuke, and other software.

Instead of opening projects by hand, they use rez to setup the environment, and a custom made small UI interface that lets the user select a project and which software to open it with. I have to add unreal in there.
Once a program is started, they added custom plugins where the user can insert an asset with a sequence of dropdowns that starts from asset name, variant, and then version.

I can't turn project_root in an unreal project, it would be a mess.
They also want machines to work directly on the files in the server, no local copies allowed (all that without actual versioning, can you imagine?)
I also need to let them use multiuser, which we've tested, doesn't like being launched on the exact same project in the same disk location. It needs two separate copies of the project.

From now on when i say project I mean the company project folder, when I'm talking about UE projects i'll specify.

So I was considering doing the following:

For project creation and opening:
When a project requires UE, make an UE project inside the project's root directory.
The ssoftware launching tool will require if you're opening the project to work alone/as multiuser server, or as a multiuser client.
If alone or multiuser server, it will open unreal on the project inside the company servers.
If multiuser client, it will create (if not already existing) a local copy of the project from the server. Somehow the local copy will have a flag so that should unreal be manually launched on that project, it will issue a warning popup message.

For assets importing:
Add an editor UI utility with the dropdowns to select assets like they do in other software.
When an asset is selected, if not already imported, replicate its folder structure from project_root/assets to project_root/UE/content/assets.
Since only published stuff is used, I'd skip the publish subfolder inside UE.
Every time an UE project is opened, automatically reimport all the uassets inside content/assets, so they get eventual changes that have been done to the source file.

Before proceding I would like some feedback or suggestions, thanks.

[trim mantle]

Why would you use git for video games?

Use tortoise SVN

[peak bloom]

when i go into 'lit' mode my computer starts hissing.... is this normal? for some reason i'm convinced it's due to my massive emission on light materials.

[trim mantle]

That means your PC is in Pain

Probably your GPU

[trim mantle]

Also your problem seems way too specific for anyone to give advance without previous focus on such a feature

[wild aspen]

git, svn, they refuse. Subfolders with v1 v2 v3 is the only option lol

[peak bloom]

😭

[wild aspen]

might be coil whine, search for it on duckduckgo. It's not necessarily a sign that something's wrong

some GPUs have loud coil whine, others don't

[peak bloom]

ah, ty could be!

it doesn't feel like it's struggling, but the noise concerns me slightly.

[trim mantle]

I would check the temps to be sure

[peak bloom]

and i feel like i'm not optimising my levels well. xD i have one big massive level with everything in it.

[peak bloom]

how do i do that?

[trim mantle]

Ain’t that just a big waste of space?

[wild aspen]

librehardwaremonitor, hwinfo, or similar software

[peak bloom]

and a single light has a massive emission material as well as about 5 actual lights surrounding it so i think that might be screwing it up.

[peak bloom]

ah thank you!

[wild aspen]

indeed the state of their servers is... let's not talk about it lol it's a mess

[mortal canopy]

took a break, now back to fighting hand tracking

[fleet sparrow]

where to ask question about vector math

[shell surge]

Guys, what are the most important pc specs for working with unreal and 3D?

also for a widescreen monitor, is more resolution or more refresh rate better

[oak patio]

RAM is a big one for ue4

[shell surge]

32gb is good?

[trim mantle]

Nah, Color space

If you are looking at performance you can always emulate higher resolution

And refresh rate only gives you more visible FPS, and you can have the counter for that, no need to eye ball it

So just get a monitor that has at least IPS

[trim mantle]

Should be enough, but remember RAM speed is also important

[queen pagoda]

hello Guys, i am struggeling with the unreal Engine, cuz very new to this programm. I have a question. I have a button, which opens a trapdoor in my level. The moment, this button is pressed, the engine shall swap the Camera from third person, to a static cam in the Room, and after 3 seconds it should switch back... any Help anyone? :'c

[trim mantle]

Set View Target with Blend

That’s it

That’s the node

[queen pagoda]

doesnt work

trying it since 4 hours

just dont get to anything with this node editor

[trim mantle]

It works, you probably just did something wrong

[queen pagoda]

ofc ofc

but i have no clue what

literally 0

[trim mantle]

Send a screen shot of the node you use to switch from 3rd person to static first

Then another that node to be precise

But I assumed that was obvious

[queen pagoda]

gimme one moment, i try to reconstruct what i just deleted

so that should switch to the static cam in the room, but it just buggs the camera into the player, after interacting with the button#

[trim mantle]

Do a print string after the node

[queen pagoda]

yeah it shall swap the camera within 1 frame so yeah instant

[trim mantle]

What I wonder, is why do you do it in level blueprint

And not inside the trap door

[queen pagoda]

cuz the trapdoor gets rotated

and the camera would rotate with it

[trim mantle]

Just use scene components

[queen pagoda]

use what?

[trim mantle]

Add a scene component and have the visual part of your trap connected to it, then have the camera be connected to the root

And rotate the added scene component and not the entire actor

If you do anything like that in level BP there is 0 chance you could reuse that trap later on

Think about everything as if you were to use it again somewhere else

[merry pilot]

Anyone here use the Antize menu system?

[queen pagoda]

i have no idea how this shall work

i am glad, that the opening works after i constructed it with 107 tutorials xD

[trim mantle]

107 tutorials and you use make rotator instead of lerp for such application

[queen pagoda]

i am a maximum noob in ue4

thaught lerp is only for position changing

[trim mantle]

If you used lerp instead you could easily adjust how much you rotate

[queen pagoda]

not for rotation

[trim mantle]

Nah, lerp is for lerping 2 values from A to B

Location
Rotation
Float
etc

[queen pagoda]

any ideas how i can go on from here?

[trim mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

Imagine if you had 100 traps

[queen pagoda]

🤷‍♂️ i am lost in ue

[trim mantle]

Would that work?

[queen pagoda]

i will only have that one

[trim mantle]

Still, if you were to add something else
With similar functionality, you wouldn't be able to solve it that way

DO NOT USE LEVEL BP FOR THAT

[royal magnet]

hi everyone, I need your help with a basic issue, when I go away this volumetric clouds which I created with plugin disappears, not sure what's the reason is, I need to make a 10 sec long cinematic with a nice lighting going in the clouds and then going up and seeing them in distance but this issue prevents me from seeing them in distance, just clips them

Ps. Also does anyone has a suggestion on how to do this in UE5, I could really use some detailed explanation

[trim mantle]

Did you try increasing draw distance?

[royal magnet]

Not sure how to do that for this one

Where can I find the right setting and increase that because scene doesnt have anything just the basic empty level with no culling

[exotic radish]

question about rider. how do I change default autogeneration code style from snake_case to PascalCase? I accidentally pressed something somewhere and now all variables generated in snake_case

[rotund crow]

Question: Are the BlenderTools for Unreal still available?

[supple shale]

Has anyone else had a problem with lights not working in 4.27? For whatever reason when I place spot, point or rect lights, nothing is lit up by them.

[mental solar]

how do I create a C++ class in ue5?

[grim ore]

tools menu

[mental solar]

Thanks a lot Sir

[red condor]

They are still on the git 👍

[rotund crow]

but the page cant be found, i have tried several times

[red condor]

is your account linked?

[rotund crow]

yes

[red condor]

the page is working here, just downloaded the zip

https://github.com/EpicGames/BlenderTools

if unreal don't show on your git profile under Organizations your account is unlinked somehow, or you're logged into a different account maybe?

[rotund crow]

still failing, even tried unlinking and linking git again

[mental solar]

How do I place an static mesh (or actor) on XYZ with adjustable rotation from C++ code?

[red condor]

when you click the link I put above, do you get a page not found?

[rotund crow]

yes

[red condor]

no idea what's happening there - last commit to tools was 22 days ago so I think they're still supposed to be public. Doesn't seem like github is having issues right now but maybe try again tomorrow?

[rotund crow]

just managed thanks, I guess they had revoked my membership so I had to rejoin

[red condor]

aha nice! Glad you got it sorted 👍

[rotund crow]

its showing blender 2.93, has anyone tried it on blender 3.1?

[red condor]

it works on 3.0 definitely

for my use at least

i'll check 3.1 now since i upgraded today

[red condor]

yep it works 👍

[mental solar]

pls

[red condor]

when you say 'place' are you trying to spawn an actor with a transform? I haven't watched it but this video may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yftOwWp48A if not try searching youtube for unreal c++ spawn actor

[rotund crow]

mine is saying Activate

[mental solar]

I think so, thank you

[red condor]

I'm still on an old version of tools, 1.8.4. But i'd be surprised if this works and the new one doesn't

[red condor]

have you set up your unreal project btw? python, remote execute

[coral egret]

Hello, so I am totally new to UE4 and I am trying to create an equation for a minigame I am trying to create. The game is basically A (a random weapon from 1-9) + B (9 different crystals with the value range 1-9) = 10 . You are presented with a random weapon/number and then you choose the right crystal to try to get the equation to get the result = 10. Anyone able to spoon feed me in this task? 🙂

[rotund crow]

I managed thanks a lot

[red condor]

np have fun 👍

[clear estuary]

you saw nothing geoff XD

[red condor]

I'll get you started 😁 A simple way to do this would be to create a 'crystal' actor blueprint. This would have a mesh/sprite and a public integer variable. You'd place ten of these into your level (you need to decide how they are chosen - clicking on them? walking into them?). Then you can set that variable and the mesh/sprite for each of them.

Offering a random weapon should be easy enough, Random Integer will help

Since you're brand new let me recommend a great beginners tutorial series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTwxuahe5B4

[coral egret]

Right now I am in a widget.

[red condor]

If you were walking into a crystal to choose it, you'd use an overlap event (covered in that series)

[coral egret]

This is the idea as a sketch...

The weapon to the left is a random number 1-9 in this caes 8. The crystals have a value 1-9 starting at the top left 1,2,3 middle 4,5,6 and the bottom 7,8,9.

[red condor]

nice, I see what you're going for. Are you imagining a 2d (sprite) or 3d presentation?

[coral egret]

Then press the craft button, checks the equation if its right or wrong. The wepon gets regenerated with a random value.

2D for now

Got until Sunday to deliver 😄

This is what Im trying out, but Im lost here...

[red condor]

Sunday should be plenty of time if you're willing to watch some tutorials where needed 👍

You'll want to look at Paper2d

[coral egret]

Paper2d?

[red condor]

yep, that's how unreal handles sprites

[coral egret]

Im not used to the terminology

Im just starting UE

[red condor]

That's fair enough, terminology is all I'm really giving you

based on this you'll hopefully at least know what to search for 😁

[coral egret]

A Sprite in Paper 2D is a Texture Mapped Planar Mesh and associated Material that can be rendered in the world, created entirely within Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). In simpler terms, it's a quick and easy way to draw 2D images in UE4.

Got this from google 😄

This is my layout in the designer for now.

[grim ore]

yep you can just use the UMG (UI) system for this as well

look into a basic tutorial on that. easiest way might be each button has a value assigned to it (1-9) and when you press each one you just start keeping track until you finish

I mean if this is just a pure test or prototype you can easily just brute force it, each button is unique so each one can have a unique event that fires that adds to your total value

[coral egret]

Thats what I hope I have done 😄

[grim ore]

its probably a 20 minute task for an experienced UE4 dev to give you an idea of the work needed

[red condor]

The blueprint you posted looks off to me btw, what exactly should be happening from left to right?

[coral egret]

Its probably off... I was following my tutors example... He would make a widget and it has to be off since its not working as I want it to...

In my head I have X the random weapon + Y my crystals = 10

[red condor]

regarding logic, when getting started, always do one little bit at a time and then check it works (using a print string if it helps)

[coral egret]

To get the X I need to create a random value between 1-9 and have this printed to screeen

in the equation

[grim ore]

yep. random generated number to get the value for the weapon (which becomes your base number)

then you let them press a button, and that buttons value gets added to the base number

[coral egret]

and then have Y pressed by the player and then check if the equation equals 10 by pressing the button "Craft weapon"

[grim ore]

then you press the button and if that base number is now 10, you get a win and if not you do whatever

[coral egret]

So how would you guys set this up?

[grim ore]

just like I wrote 😉

lol

[red condor]

xD

[coral egret]

If true bingo if false start over...

[grim ore]

if that is what you want yep

[coral egret]

That is what I want and need LOL

[grim ore]

the right way is each crystal button just stores a public variable and you set it, or it auto generates it, then you have 1 button event. the dirty way is each button is it's own even that adds its value

[coral egret]

I just tried to set up the buttons like this...

Have no ide if its the right way... Just followed my tutors suggestion...

Many ways to Rome I guess...

[red condor]

there's rarely one right way to do anything

lots of wrong ways though haha

[coral egret]

For sure!!! 😄

Most are!

[red condor]

never just hope something will work - just do a little bit, test it

you need feedback from the game so you know the bit you just did is working, otherwise you'll work on a bunch of stuff and not know where the problem is

does that make sense?

[coral egret]

Yes and thats where I am now

I m pressing buttons and its not doing what I want it to do hence my presence here!

Would you use a random int ranged for the weapon value?

[grim ore]

thats the basics, just button 1 is coded but you do the same for buttons 2-9 (this is the lazy way)

[red condor]

-types 20% of solution, sees mathew has already implemented it- xD

[grim ore]

in theory this hits your goal

[coral egret]

Woa! Thats it?!

[grim ore]

random # is generated, you store that value for later use. Button 1-9 is pressed, a value is added to the stored value. You press craft button, it checks to see if this stored value is 10 and if it is, you do something and if not you start over

theres more code that should be done for sanity checks and safety and blah blah proper coding

but this is the general idea

[coral egret]

Nice so addin the 8 other buttons and that should do the trick! 😄

How would allocate the code into the designer?

[grim ore]

which code?

[coral egret]

The Widget Blueprint you just created, how do I have this so it works in the Designer?

If that makes sence?

[grim ore]

it doesnt, but thats because you didnt really learn about how the systems work

I set up the buttons in the designer for the visual part, then in the event graph I set up events to run code when you press them

[coral egret]

Ah so you did go from design to code route

[grim ore]

thats how it works yep

[coral egret]

Ahh sorry for my noobism

[grim ore]

each button has events that they can do, so I would click on the button in the graph part and then add the click event

and repeat 9 times because... bad programming lol

[coral egret]

hehe will set it up

Be back in a few... THANX GUYS!!!

[red condor]

thank Mathew, my advice turned out to be largely irrelevant - but if you decide to make a 3d game or a more complex 2d one later, what I wrote could be helpful 👍

[grim ore]

yeah I think this is just a test or sample, most of my advice is ugly but functional lol

[coral egret]

First bump... what kind of set is used in the start over event and in the button clicked?

[surreal hull]

Hey everyone, sorry if this is a common question but what's your opinion on using UE4 on a macbook pro 2021? I've been searching online and have gotten some mixed answers.

[coral egret]

Just have in mind that Apple and Epic arent the best of friends...

[drowsy snow]

You'll get better mileage with Windows PC, but M1 chip support is still preliminary as of 4.27.

[surreal hull]

I have a windows pc I can use but it has definitely seen better days and is really slow, is it still a safer bet?

[drowsy snow]

M1 chip isn't the same as x86 that Unreal Editor expects.

[drowsy snow]

Preferrably if you can upgrade the hardware

[surreal hull]

Alright then, thanks 🙂
Support on this server is always great

[drowsy snow]

Also it has nothing to do with Apple v. Epic feud. The court has sided with the latter from Apple banning Unreal Engine completely

[coral egret]

@grim ore what type of "SET" do you use in your example? Cant seem to find it... Im on 4.27 could that be the case?

[grim ore]

no, i just dragged the variable into the graph and chose set

its setting an integer variable I created to hold the value

[coral egret]

Hmmm mine is different to yours...

[grim ore]

Weaopn Value is an integer variable I created in the blueprint

[coral egret]

When I drag out from Return Value and above Add pin and write SET i cant seem to find the same as yours

Is this correct?

No worries @grim ore I found it 😄

[harsh ocean]

I dont know where to ask this but my lightmass keeps crashing

[grim ore]

When you drag in the variable from the left it should ask you if you want to set it or get it

[frozen pond]

Hi, if i want to make shooter i should make it on line trace for bullets or just simulate bullet?

[drowsy snow]

That's up to you to decide.

[coral egret]

How would you guys get the random number displayed on screen?

[nova briar]

in 54.8 years it will be the year 2077

[chrome bronze]

Cyberpunk?

[drowsy snow]

Oh no

Anyway

[drowsy snow]

Depends on how you're showing it to begin with. Are you using widgets? Or just print string debugging?

[coral egret]

Widgets

Im trying to achieve the random generated number to show on screen for the player to see as text.

Text in an equation.

[loud kestrel]

Hi, a newbie here,

I was trying t setup buoyancy in UE4, but its always sinking, I tried looking at lots of tutorials , researching on google , nothing helped so far,

Can Some one help me with this please

[mystic arch]

What does your BP hierarchy look like?

[loud kestrel]

I just added water from the water plugin

and tested with this Example

[mystic arch]

Okay good. You have the buoyancy component.

Looking this over.

[loud kestrel]

and its not even floating

[rain ingot]

anyway to fix this? / get back my stuff before the crash

[mystic arch]

Why do you have 6 pontoons?

4 would be a good starting amount to test and debug.

[loud kestrel]

Yeah, I changed it and tested,

[mystic arch]

Okay. UE4's built in buoyancy component is needlessly complex imo. However I've come across some tutorials since they added it. Here's one I can recommend.
https://youtu.be/l2SY_K1ZhJs

And this one

https://youtu.be/cOLxTBe5MaY

Look those two over and let me know if they help.

[loud kestrel]

Sure

on it

Thanks

[mystic arch]

If not then I'll try to help troubleshoot further. And my pleasure! I've been dealing with water and buoyancy a lot lately for my naval game.

[drowsy snow]

Manually restore the files from Autosave folder.

[mystic arch]

So I've had my fair share of headaches. xD

[loud kestrel]

Really, thats so awesome , is it out yet?

[mystic arch]

Heck no! It's still in like Pre-Alpha stages. Ha ha ha. I wish though, I have a lot planned in the long term

[loud kestrel]

Awesome, good luck with it

[rain ingot]

Where do I go after this?

[grim ore]

find the file you want to restore, where is it at in your project?

that Game folder is the same as your Content folder in your project

[rain ingot]

where do I find the file?

[grim ore]

well... where was it in your project?

[rain ingot]

sorry kinda new, what do you mean by where is it in my project?

[grim ore]

wasn't it in here? like the error says

[rain ingot]

is it not just loading up the entire unreal project?

oh

I see

[grim ore]

Autosaves are individual files, not the entire project

[rain ingot]

ok I see it now

[grim ore]

you will have to copy it to where it was, in the original folder. then remove the _Auto part

[rain ingot]

k thx

[rain ingot]

quick questions, for the most recent save is it based off the time or number?

waity

[grim ore]

its probably wraps around, and erases older ones. I would assume the date

[rain ingot]

oh ok

[grim ore]

at the worst you can try one, if it doesnt work try another

but date makes more sense than number

[rain ingot]

ok I switched out the files, now I just open the project through unreal as usual?

[grim ore]

yep

[mystic arch]

For anyone who may have the same issue as @loud kestrel, the current UE4 stock buoyancy example and component are bugged. Out of the box the cube does not float.

[tidal jewel]

Does unreal support .ani and .cur for custom hardware cursors?

Edited: Yes it does.

[scenic owl]

Will we have unreal 4.28?

[drowsy snow]

But for cross platform, it's best to use .PNG

[drowsy snow]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/master

[drowsy snow]

ue4-master branch has been largely stagnant, and it's mainly brought over to 4.27-chaos, so no.

But ue4-master branch has 4.28 version number, and master branches always 1 version ahead of more stable branches.

[scenic owl]

:oo

so 4.27.2 is the last version for UE4? :oo

also thanks for the info :DD

[drowsy snow]

Even then 4.27-plus doesn't have much difference compared to 4.27 release branch

[scenic owl]

good to know, because I have my game in 4.26 but not sure if I should update or no, but since it's gonna be the last, then I guess I will update my game

:oo

[drowsy snow]

If you really want to pretend, you can modify the engine source's version file to 4.28.0

[scenic owl]

na I don't want to pretend XD

but I want to know which version I should settle in XD

hahaha XDD

because my game got modding

[drowsy snow]

Depends on what your project needs

[scenic owl]

so in future I believe I can't update the version because it will cause level mods to break

[drowsy snow]

My project still relies on having 4.x being the ground truth, thus sticking with 4.27

[scenic owl]

well, I just use the normal way, just put the level in your game as .umap then load it

but if it's different version, it can't load it

even if you're in UE4 Editor

for some reason it didn't work with me

I updated from 4.24 to 4.25 back then and it didn't work

it did, it said that it got different codes n blabla that it's can't run xD

codes for baking

[drowsy snow]

So basically you're going the ARK route of modding?

ARK has modified UE4 Editor for modding (which is based on 4.5)

[scenic owl]

ARK route?

[scenic owl]

na I didn't modify

but in the update itself, when I upgraded from 4.24 to 4.25

it told me that

I modified nothing in the engine

that's why I want to know if I should settle with 4.27.2 or wait if there's a new version

because updating the engine for me is hell since I use the source code, it takes me around 3 to 4 days to finish updating

[drowsy snow]

Personally I'd prefer sticking to one version throughout the lifespan of the project. It's not advisable to upgrade the engine every so often.

Though in my case I had to move to 4.27 because I had problems backporting Oodle to 4.26, and RAD Tools doesn't seem to retroactively apply to prior versions of UE4 anyway.

Even bigger UE4 projects stick to one UE4 version they settled with

[scenic owl]

yea exactly my thought, I don't want to keep upgrading, but since I didn't release yet, I keep upgrading from time to time, but after release, I don't think I will ever upgrade it

[drowsy snow]

I didn't even talk about post release.

Unless your game is Fortnite.

[scenic owl]

hahaha XDDD

why not upgrade before release?

it never caused me any problems

I started my game in 4.19

[drowsy snow]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake, for instance, is 4.18

[scenic owl]

ye but it doesn't hurt to upgrade, it rarely causes errors XD

and they usually are very easy to fix

only major problem I had was in 4.23

in 4.23, the game used to crash alot for no reason

[drowsy snow]

Because upgrading the engine to new version took a lot of time, from cherry picking the commits, to making sure plugin still works on newer versions.

I used a custom 4.27, not the vanilla ones from the launcher.

[hushed thorn]

hey guys, im having this issue with Gothic Knight asset cloak getting clipped like this 😦

[drowsy snow]

Upgrading to newer version rebuilds the entire thing, so unless I have hair splitting reasons, I'd prefer sticking to one version.

[hushed thorn]

but just on some anims, if someone could help this poor noob

[scenic owl]

ah makes sense, well, for me I don't use plugins other than steam advanced session, and I have the vanilla source code, I only use the source code because my game needs Dedicated Server

[drowsy snow]

I have no idea how the asset was set up.

[scenic owl]

same, can't help without having more info about it XD

[hushed thorn]

works just fine but clothing tool has like, 3 layers xD

tried to paint it but it wouldnt work

[drowsy snow]

Wasn't Gothic Knight one of those free for the month assets?

[hushed thorn]

yep!

[strange canyon]

can someone help me get unreal engine set up? i am pretty much just downloading it for infinity blade... i heard from someone that i can get it on there, is that true?

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, it's one of those assets that I'm never going to use, so no idea how it set up.

[drowsy snow]

The game itself? No.
But Epic dumped most of the assets in UE Marketplace, for UE developers to repurpose for prototyping.

[strange canyon]

so is there any way i can play the game?

[drowsy snow]

Not that I know of. It's an old iOS game, and at this point might've been delisted from the app store.

[strange canyon]

it is 😦 and i really want to play it. i played it years ago, but i want to play again

[drowsy snow]

Tough luck. At least you have Fortni...

Wait, nevermind

[strange canyon]

fortnite is 👎

[drowsy snow]

To each their own.

[oak patio]

Fortnite was a fun concept but the 9 year olds that insta build skyscrapers makes it hard for me to keep up lol

I just wanna shoot things not build a city ;-;

Unreal tournament was ace

[drowsy snow]

For the entire time I play Fortnite, I never build lmao
Just lurking through other's constructions

[oak geyser]

Hi

What’s this

[oak patio]

it seems like theyre gonna promote your asset pack

or if you mean literally i think its an email

so yeah it seems they pick asset packs every so often to feature

you get a nice "showcase" tag as well

[ebon marlin]

Why does calling UserGameSettings->ResetSettings actually changes the 'applied' settings instead of the (seemingly) intended behavior of just assigning the applied settings back to the current settings?

This seems to be happening to resolution related settings in Editor/Standalone/Packaged Development builds..

An example of this is setting the window mode to Fullscreen, applying the settings, then calling reset settings, and it goes back to Fullscreen Borderless

[surreal eagle]

How do I have a skybox, but have fully static lighting

[frosty onyx]

Hey there folks!

Does anyone knows how to select main GPU for UE? I have GTX and RTX installed in my setup but it seems like UE is using the GTX GPU....

[sand ginkgo]

Almost embarrassed to post this WIP but I’m “tearing my hair out” over this groom issue in UE with Metahuman. I’ve tried googling and YouTube and every tip that has been recommended there and it’s still giving very sparse hair on the sides. Anyone encountered this and fixed it before? I’ve set LOD to 0 for the groom hair and removed all lights except the directional sunlight which is alI could find recommended…

Using a Quest 2 and iPhone for the live mocap. Still need to build a control rig to prevent the unnatural shoulder rotation…

[lost fractal]

If I recall right, you need to actually run a command through the console, or add a line to your Engine.ini. i dont recall it off the top of my head but i could take a look in a sec

[frosty onyx]

Thanks buddy! No idea how to do it....

[lost fractal]

ah yeah okay, so it is "r.GraphicsAdapter"

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-choose-graphics-adaptor-on-startup/332277/2

you can read about more details here, so i hope its what you need and helps!

Also, not sure if this is the right channel for it, but figured i'd ask here in case anyone happens to know. I started up UE4 today and noticed that there is a duplicate version of my project selectable, but seems to be a save from the past and the directory for it is "//localhost/E$/". Never seen this before so I was wondering if this is some sort of cloud backup or something? Its not really an issue, im just curious thats all since ive never seen this before until today and dont recall enabling any new settings

[frosty onyx]

Hey there! Wow! Gonna take a look buddy! Thanks for the efford!

[lost fractal]

sure no prob!

[cloud meadow]

Might be a dumb question but is there any way to update a child blueprint actor based on changes made to a parent? Say I scaled a static mesh component in the parent, is there a way to apply this to all children?

[prime willow]

so i have a weird question

whats the best way to have transforming weapons

[sand ginkgo]

Any leads on a more helpful UE discord ?

[prime willow]

https://tenor.com/view/xenoblade-xenoblade-x-skell-transform-car-gif-18972659

if yo uwanted to setup a weapon like this

where it changs betwen one form or the other

would you use morphs animations and mesh switch or something else entirely?

[cloud meadow]

I've gotten plenty of assistance from this discord. What's your issue with it?

[lost fractal]

Honestly i'd answer all the recent questions here if I knew the solutions for em, but sadly I do not

[sand ginkgo]

Generally no one replies in my experience and when I tag a few folks that did discuss the same topic in past I get reprimanded so .. yea not been a great support resource. Hope to be proved wrong!

[edgy lark]

Never would have expected Xenoblade here of all places

But anyway. There are a few ways to do it The old high moon transformers game had staggered mesh swapping where when swapping both would be on screen to make the transition smoother but eventually remove the old form.

It could also be in one object like your gif above and everything is in one place and variables/animbp are setup to account for both modes

[lost fractal]

changing such a thing as scale and stuff should actually apply to children by default if im not mistaken, unless im misunderstanding the question heh

only reason it wouldnt is if the nodes werent properly being told to take info from the parent, or if the children had their own settings overriding the parent settings

I forgot the proper term for it but basically you gotta make sure the child blueprints have their event nodes like this

https://gyazo.com/d6dbbdc8f1271db0ba2e00088726cf22

which you can do by right clicking the node and selecting "add call to parent function", and also do the same for Construction Script too if need be. if you already knew this information then sorry, haha.. otherwise, that should do the trick. many of my blueprints are based on master blueprints and so I use childs fairly often (I use it for stuff like characters, guns, projectiles, etc)

[cloud meadow]

Ah, okay. Yeah I just wanted to change some Static Mesh's scale in the Viewport and have it apply to the child, that didn't seem to work from what I saw

But I didn't re-open the editor or anything after doing the changes

[lost fractal]

it also depends if you wanted the changes to be seen on the editor viewport itself, or if you wanted them to be applied in-game

and also if the scaling settings are being added within the blueprint itself or not

cause if you change something's scale on the viewport directly then yeah that wouldnt change any childs im afraid

not sure what you're trying to do exactly, but if you did want that to scale together you'd have to attach the objects using the World Outliner, i think

[fast orchid]

Anyone else had issues with flickering morph targets? I read that importing the .fbx with "Imported normals" instead of "Compute normals" can fix it, and that did seem to help. But now instead of always flickering, the morph target seems to flicker but only on certain values. Is this just a known bug that needs a fix or is there a solution?

[cloud meadow]

Basically I made a door BP inside of the first person shooter template and did all the logic from past memory and found out the character is too large for the door frame. So by scaling up the door parent I can now get through it but any children aren't updated

[lost fractal]

ah okay I see now

yeah then if you wanted that to apply to all doors you'd need to make sure that the scaling change is done inside the BP directly, which would then update all of them

and, on the viewport, to also make sure the scaling is reset to defaults if any changes were made to them (so that they can get the new default info from the BP instead). this is usually indicated by that arrow icon next to settings whenever something has been changed from its default, and sometimes that may cause it to ignore new changes to BP settings. has happened to me before at least

and if that still doesnt work, then theres always the old fashioned way by copy/pasting to all of them manually lol... which you can do by right clicking the scale setting and selecting copy and then you can right click scale of other stuff and press paste which'll automatically fill in all the slots without you having to click every single box (you can do the same for its coordinates too, in case you didnt know!). better than nothing at least

[plush yew]

so im exporting my blender model into unreal with an animation, how long does it take?

last time i did this it took 2 whole days and it was still exporting to unreal so i canceled the export but now i changed a few things and fixed the bones a bit more

and so how long does it usually take?

[lost fractal]

Depends on the amount of animations I believe, but it definitely shouldnt take days. I had done that before and had to wait like 10 minutes or so in my case.

[drowsy snow]

30 seconds even on potato

[plush yew]

so its been an hour and its still exporting

the animation is like 5 seconds long

with 60fps

[peak cedar]

Hello all

I accidentally deleted my blueprint references for a skeletal mesh and animations s

What’s the best way ti add it back in? I can’t figure out how to refernce the blueprint, the entire blue print tab is gone

[dark rune]

what does it mean when one of them is highlighted like that

[drowsy snow]

The highlighted one is the default when you choose to launch engine from the launcher.

[dark rune]

oh ok cool
thanks

[rare skiff]

Guys, how can i build only the editor version on VS? i dont want to build the server nor the client version. And what is the difference between AdventureGame.Target and AventureGameEditor.Target?

[jaunty flower]

Anyone know how to fix this? I am using static meshes as the actual track surface. Modeled in Blender and sent to Unreal with the Pipeline plugin. The meshes are completely aligned in Blender. I use Complex Collision as Simple for the two meshes.I don't want to use splines because Blender gives better control

[blissful trail]

so this crashes the engine lol

[drowsy snow]

Not going to judge on the reasoning.

[regal mulch]

I mean, let's assume you are trying to do something meaningful here, what is the idea?

Do you just want to make sure your number never falls below 1?

[blissful trail]

got bored and i was wondering how high it can go xd

[drowsy snow]

If you're wondering, it's as high as single floating point precision allows.

[mortal canopy]

and thus begins another day of battling the unreal ultraleap plugin 👏

how are y'all doin

[drowsy snow]

Dealing with control rig again
Life of a technical animator

[mortal canopy]

let's go.........

[plush yew]

Hi guys. Just want to ask you why is this simple setup not working. Do I need to cast to something to alter exponential fog? It's not disappearing.

[fleet sparrow]

how to convert a vector location from world location to local coordinates with respect to an actor

[modest trench]

subtract the location of the actor?

also, local might be specific to a component so keep that in mind

[drowsy snow]

You want to set its Fog Density, not the Visibility.

[plush yew]

Thanks! Now working

[drowsy snow]

That's entirely up to you on how to store it.
EOS is not a dedicated server service.

[calm crow]

How would one make two for loop with delay ?

LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (0) (0)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (1) (1)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (1) (0)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (2) (0)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (3) (1)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (3) (0)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (4) (1)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (4) (0)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (5) (1)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (5) (2)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (5) (3)
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [test_fantastic_perspective_8] Loop (5) (4)

Only 12 looped (out of 16)

and with wrong index

[calm crow]

I might have found a solution using only one for loop

[reef lotus]

anyone have an ideas how to stop people from pirating steam games?

people are using the spacewar ID to play the game I made, I tried using a plugin to do ownership verification via steam, but it seems like the people who made the crack for the game can literally just tell it to bypass the ownership check

[exotic thicket]

Even draconian copy protection measures will not fully protect your game

Your efforts would be better spent on marketing so you can reach a wider audience

[reef lotus]

yeah that's what I thought a few months ago

but now the crack also avoids bans for the game

[exotic thicket]

Multiplayer bans or?

[reef lotus]

so there are people pirating the game, speedhacking online

yeah

and then they don't get banned

[exotic thicket]

I think for mp you should be able to verify account validity and such via steam

[reef lotus]

prob need a new ban system

I'm using AWS servers tho

not steam servers

[drowsy snow]

If your game is single player, don't think hard about it

[exotic thicket]

You need some way of identifying a unique user either way

[reef lotus]

it's multiplayer

I was using their steam ID

[burnt tinsel]

HELP

[reef lotus]

as an ID

[exotic thicket]

Steam would probably allow it in some fashion via their APIs, even if you're not using steam provided servers you can use it for identity as far as I know

[drowsy snow]

Then Steam verification should be sufficient. Cracking groups usually use their group name as the steam handle perceived by the game

[reef lotus]

i don't know what you're talking about

[reef lotus]

what do you mean by "steam verifaction" exactly?

[tender ember]

hello people:)
I'm learning UE and in one of the tutorials the tutor says that I need to know channel packing in order to continue this tutorial and in general if I wanna go far in this industry. is it something that is crucial or optional?

[reef lotus]

yeah that is a problem, but not a big one really right now

[drowsy snow]

I mean, checking if username is not equal to cracking group handles, check if the steam account is actually valid and have ownership to the game.

[reef lotus]

I already do that

the crackers literally just cut that code out of the game

they just go around it

[drowsy snow]

...are you doing that entirely in client?

[reef lotus]

well yes, I'm not sure how else to do it

[drowsy snow]

Bruh

[reef lotus]

if you know a way to do it please let me know

[exotic thicket]

I have absolutely no idea what channel packing means and I can use unreal just fine, so I guess it depends on what exactly the tutorial is about? :P

[drowsy snow]

That's like easy cybersecurity weak point right there

[drowsy snow]

Verifications should be done in server side. Don't trust the client lol

[reef lotus]

so how would Ido this?

[exotic thicket]

Yeah sounds like it

[reef lotus]

literally on a game server? @drowsy snow

the problem too is my servers aren't running the Steam SDK

[drowsy snow]

Yes. Do the authentication on the server.

[reef lotus]

how would I do this considering steam isn't used on my servers?

[tender ember]

I am an environment artist in Blender. and now I wanna use UE. so I'm kinda fine with the interface and stuff but still the texturing part and landscape creation is quite difficult especially those functions and auto-landscape materials

[exotic thicket]

Well I mean it doesn't sound like channel packing is a complicated concept so I'm not entirely sure what the thing is :)

[tender ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANAToqXy6A

I am trying to figure it out myself

[drowsy snow]

I'm not well served with Steam SDK (I'm not working on MP games), but if your game's account system directly links to Steam account (if your game has player sign up automatically first time), you can use it to authenticate the ownership.

The point is that don't trust authentication on client side.

[reef lotus]

ok but how can I do that not on clients?

[drowsy snow]

Again, I don't know much about server side Steam SDK specifics, but I'd say that's your job to research and put server side authentication.

[reef lotus]

alright thank you for the info

I'll see what I can do with it

[drowsy snow]

Forgot to mention this. For extra measure, you should also check for client's version. You don't want old versions with the vulnerability still roaming around in your server.

[reef lotus]

I already do that yeah

plus anyway with how AWS is setup they can't get access to the servers for old versions

[calm crow]

Anyone know how render high res screenshoot or another method of screenshoot but without black bar (i want to screenshoot the camera, not the viewport

[drowsy snow]

Put the camera into a Sequencer and export one frame out of it.

[brazen umbra]

can anyone know ,how to spawn a set like temple run

[calm crow]

no

it's blueprint triggered camera

(as i'm creating my own tiling system)

i already know fully how to use the mrq

tks, but that's not my goal

[rotund scroll]

I believe there is the HighResShot command

[calm crow]

@rotund scroll Yes, i use that, but even when i run game in another windows, it keep the resolution of the viewport, and make black bar in the output image

I'm curently trying to change resolution via blueprint but it does not work

[rotund scroll]

you can use a float parameter to size it up. I'm not sure what you mean by black bar, that could be a property of your game resolution not having the same aspect ratio as your screen resolution

[calm crow]

i have tried enrering the settings HighResShot 3840x2160 but i have black bar

where is that float operation ?

you mean HighResShot 2 ? for example ?

[rotund scroll]

yes

[fiery flax]

I downloaded some props from the marketplace, and when I drag them into my map, they have a default checkerboard texture for some reason? In the image they have a texture, and there's a texture asset too

How to fix this?

[calm crow]

yes, but it would still use a sort of viewport resolution

[rotund scroll]

again if your monitor resolution is not of the same aspect ratio, you will likely have a black bar

[calm crow]

i made a blueprint with a camera, that is auto-posess by player when the game start

and the resolution of my camera does not exist, but it's settings of fov/aspect ratio exist and that what might make blackbar

i want to have the screenshoot exactly the size of my camera (in aspect ratio)

and i don't want to modify my viewport size pixel by pixel until i have something that work

and i havn't found solution to change resolution of viewport via bluescreen yet...

[rotund scroll]

it's not pixel by pixel, it's aspect ratio

if your game viewport is 16:9 and your monitor is 16:10

that's black bar area

[calm crow]

no

my game viewport is whatever i change the viewport size

in the ue4 editor

but i want it to be my camera viewport when taking those screenshoot via blueprint

how would i do that ?

[rotund scroll]

yes so if it's not the same as your monitor, it will give you a black bar, because there is no information to fill in for the missing space

your camera viewport is the resolution of the window

the camera just presents what it can within the bounds of the window

[calm crow]

dude i don't have any monitor, i'm controling the workstation with full remote

[rotund scroll]

you still have a resolution for your screen

[calm crow]

i've setup parsec to have 3840x1547px

[rotund scroll]

that's probably why you have a black bar then

[calm crow]

so i can have both windows menu on the buttom (mine and the one of the remote workstation)

[calm crow]

can we go in share screen, it's not because of that

[rotund scroll]

I don't really have time for this

but I'm telling you

it's likely because of the aspect ratio

it wouldn't cost a lot to check this either

[calm crow]

here is for example me resizing the viewport screen on runtime, it just take the viewport into account when doing the highresscreenshoot

[rotund scroll]

yes but if you have a bigger viewport resolution than your aspect ratio it won't work

anyway that's my best guess

[calm crow]

the aspect ratio of the viewport windows yes

not of the computer resolution

[rotund scroll]

it's the mismatch between the two

[calm crow]

no

i've never had any screenshoot of 3840px

it's always the size of the screen....

[rotund scroll]

but is it the same as the aspect ratio?

[calm crow]

if i play in selected viewport, it will take the size of the part of the editor where it's the 3D view

[plush yew]

Ok so it's been like 6-7 hours and my fbx file is still exporting to unreal. Is that normal?

[calm crow]

if i play in new editor windows, it's whatever resolution it want

[calm crow]

no

[rotund scroll]

can you try with the same aspect ratio and see if it works?

instead of arguing about it?

[calm crow]

you mean changing the resolution of the computer ?

in nvidia control panel ?

but why...

[rotund scroll]

fit the gameviewport to have the same aspect ratio. you can do that in editor

in either case if you don't want to try the solution and just say "no" instead then I can't help you

good luck

[calm crow]

but how would i do that ?

[rotund scroll]

there's an advanced setting at the bottom of the play options

[calm crow]

with share x that allow you to make a rule in pixel of a region and changing it to perfect pixel ?

[rotund scroll]

that should lead you to page where you can set resolution

the important thing isn't the pixel perfect resolution, it's that the resolution has the same aspect ratio

[calm crow]

😮 oh ok, i wasn't aware of that

[rotund scroll]

you literally screenshotted it

[calm crow]

Oh, ok it's there

[calm crow]

where ?

[rotund scroll]

here

advanced settings

[calm crow]

yes, the advanced setting

but i wasn't aware of it's existance

or what it would do

like it could have been only for multiplayer stuff or things like that

there is so many sub menu, how would i know, it's not that intuitive

anyways, thank you ! it is what i needed !

[plush yew]

long story short, i am making a game similar to the shantae games and as such would like to keep my game E rated as they are as to not exclude anyone who may want to play my game and to avoid controversy, It wont use any characters from the game but feature a similar art style and mechanics. I am lost at how to translate this to 3d without losing what made the art style appealing in the first place. I feel like if i translated it into 3d with the style of clothing and proportions they have going on will land my game a teen rating by default, yet all their games are rated E.

could it be that the devs just get a pass somehow

or is it by being 2d it is less of an issue for Steam and Nintendo

totally lost on this one

[fiery flax]

Help!

Why are props' texture deleted when I place it into the map?

[plush yew]

does it matter if meshes have holes if they are under the landscape?

[drowsy snow]

Wasn't newer Shantae games got T rating? I might be misremembering.
Also Shantae's booby fanservice is fairly tame compared to more ecchi titles like Senran Kagura.

[drowsy snow]

You might haven't actually apply any material to the mesh.

Also materials from Megascans plugin can sometimes be defective.

[unique kraken]

working on some model setup rn, can anyone awnser me this question.

are materials post or pre anim data?

like, if i offset vertecies on a skeletal mesh, does that happen befor or after the animation data?

probably after, right?

[timid sand]

hey there, does anyone have a clue why my rvt blend works only with one landscape layer?

looks like this

so it blends sand instead of snow/mud

[rotund scroll]

just... cover them up?

[drowsy snow]

ESRB nowadays is pretty lenient
Consider that Night Trap get T rating in recent years.

[drowsy snow]

I believe it's after pose.
Most of my WPO setup works even with animations.

[unique kraken]

my worries are that scale would mess with it if ia use wpo

but yea, i think it should be fine

[iron wadi]

Hey I lost editor settings after getting BSOD, is there any way to recover it?

[drowsy snow]

I don't think so. It happens after extreme unhandled crashes.

[iron wadi]

doesn't it save the settings into a file? can I backup it for the future?

[surreal falcon]

I'm struggling to find out why the global illumination is not working, Lumen is activated with all recommended settings, but the object is not color bleeding on the floor / rest of the room

[drowsy snow]

#lumen

[surreal falcon]

thx

[pulsar ruin]

how i can package game more than 2gb with android packaging?

[drowsy snow]

Have the game download the data, as opposed to download all the stuff through Play Store.

[tender ember]

hello. what is this semi-transparent circle in the middle of my landscape?

[pulsar ruin]

And that of course via an external server?

[grim ore]

@tender emberprobably the reflection capture

[tender ember]

it's a default scene I didn't add one🤔

oh ok I saw it now. thank you

[vast pine]

I'm going to barf this idea here before my adhd makes it go away... be really cool if you could use your VR controller in the animation editor to grab your model and hand animate it lol. maybe you can do this and i just never looked.

[remote badge]

lads I spent 4 hours debugging yesterday to find a + sign that wasn't a *

[drowsy snow]

Probably recent Blender versions can do that.
Not sure about UE4's Control Rig tho

I don't have VR gear, so I have no saying on that matter, but I don't think it's out of possibility.

[timid meteor]

hi

how can i add foliage on an actor ? 🙂

[vast pine]

I've only seen personally, foliage added after the fact, painted on or the generators are allowing it to be painted onto static mesh and not just landscape.

[remote badge]

attach actor to actor

[timid meteor]

okaaaay

can i get an easy example of that pls ? 😄

[steep meadow]

yo im having this issue where the leaves on my trees get transparent when far away

anyone know how to fix this

[late forum]

I cannot figure out why I cannot paint foliage! 4.27, the foliage that is there is through the landscape material, but whenever I try to paint, the brush doesn't show up...I feel like I tried everything! If it matters, I do get a warning after building saying that the landscape streaming proxy "Static meh actor has NULL StaticMesh property" ....I just feel like there's no connection to the landscape? I am using world composition

@steep meadow Looks like a billboard LOD to me have you checked to see what your highest LOD looks like?

[clear estuary]

any of you lovely people here know how i can stop a timeline loop? via flow - i have it doing stuff, but want to stop it when a key is pressed

[drowsy snow]

Post it on #work-in-progress

[supple shale]

Will do. Sorry about that.

[plush yew]

hi i want my bots to overlap so i putted the collision on NoCollision and that did the job but i get this warning ... is set to physics but collision enabled is incopatible. how to fix this ?

they jus go from left to right on the x

[grim ore]

did you... google it?

[plush yew]

yes but cant find it

[grim ore]

the first link for me gives answers

[plush yew]

yes but they are not overlapping anymore if i do that

[grim ore]

you have physics enabled but you dont have anything that works with physics for the collision type, so change one of them

and what are they set to now?

[plush yew]

o wow

got it

i had simulate physics on

i turned it off and it works

thanks man

[drifting kayak]

UE4.26.2 - Any idea why on a fully dynamic lit environment, the word "Preview" still appears when running around in PIE? Ive "Forced no precomputed lighting" and rebuilt, and settings are all dynamic/stationary lights.

[drowsy snow]

Stray stationary lights, most likely.

[drifting kayak]

Thank you. Actually, I just set the lights to dynamic and the word preview goes away (as one would expect). I suppose my question has evolved... if my project settings are set to fully dynamic, is there any gain in setting a light to static or stationary? like any perf savings or is it ultimately still just going to be processed as a dynamic?

[drowsy snow]

Those are going to end up dynamic.

[drifting kayak]

Word, thnx~

[oak patio]

Anyone here launched a game on steam with achivements?

[thick herald]

Like "Congratulations! You have launched a game on Steam?" 😄

[vocal flume]

Are you guys using analytics within your games? Which service are you using?

[oak patio]

That would be nice😔

But nah i wanna know how easy it is to add steam achievements cause the dicumentation aint exactly clear

[exotic thicket]

I've thought about using google analytics since it would probably not be too hard to integrate but it's instant GDPR violation basically... unless you put in a lot of agreements

Tbh it wouldn't be hard to roll a custom solution which just collects the event name which would probably be fine with regards to personal info... but other things are more important to do lol

[timid meteor]

okay i got to many selected stuff to replace 🙂

is there an easy way ? problem is its all actors , and i need to change it to PackedLevelInstance ( another kinda actor ) how ? 🙂

[oak patio]

Right click, replace actor with

?

Not sure if it works on multiple tho

[trim mantle]

I worked on one, but long ago

[oak patio]

Do you know how easy they are to integrate?

[steep meadow]

its not using billboards, its opacity masks on planes

[lofty solstice]

i cant export assets from bridge to unreal 4.27 because it says I need to go to export settings and install plugin, but im in export settings now and it says "installed"

anyone know what I could be doing wrong?

[timid meteor]

yes i tried first real carefully bud its the only way to do it 🙂

[severe hound]

Anyone know why new binds work on initial level I change them on but when i change levels it doesnt work? I have to go back to default controls in order for it to work (F is default and changing it to E works in first level but second level E won't work unless I rebind to F

[grim violet]

How do I save a camera rig rail? Every time I save the level + the sequence the camera location resets

[soft tree]

Is it possible your level blueprints are consuming the input event?

[severe hound]

Good point but I didn't do anything in level blueprints? could it be related to maybe a new controller being loaded in and I need to force key mapping build on controller load? it's weird because the settings are there

[forest cloak]

Hello how to incorporate Euphoria / Ragdoll within our project ?

[sharp flax]

Hello everyone! I have a Movie render question, what channel should I use to ask it?

[trim mantle]

Probably cinematics

[sharp flax]

thanks!

[late forum]

Those sound like billboards to me! Is your directional light dynamic? You may need to fiddle with your cascading shadow maps to get those trees to look right, or just turn their specular value to 0 at that LOD level

[bold wraith]

Guys how could I access this image to place it in the player UI?

[grim ore]

what is the return value of the take high res screenshot node?

[steep meadow]

i thought billboard were the ones that rotated to the camera

[late forum]

Well yeah the highest lod is usually a billboard is all I mean. It really looks like your shadows just don’t affect them at that LOD though but I can’t really be sure just looking at it…is your directional light dynamic?

[steep meadow]

ill have to check when im back at my pc

[late forum]

It looks like a csm problem if you want shadows on trees that far you’ll need to increase how many shadow maps your directional light cascades by

[placid folio]

Question: I have one planet which is a map, and I want to have it trade resources with another planet which is a map. Where do I put this information so it can process the trades even when the maps aren't' open?

Thats what I was thinking. Just want to make sure that makes sense before I put lots of stuff in there.

[soft tree]

Another option may be a database of some sort
Then the maps just look up data from the database

[placid folio]

Thank you, I'll think about doing that too. I'm new so going to learn game instance first and see how it goes. Thank you!!! You rock!

[shut flax]

What are some good names for a survival game?

[oak patio]

"My Survival Game"
"Geoff"

But it depends on the type

Whats your game about, whats the setting, whats the story

Yknow a name a survival game about being lost in space coukd be sometjing like

"Through the void"

But that wouldnt apply to your survival horror set in Bed Bath and Beyond

[shut flax]

Well the game is about a player who is stranded on a island and you gotta survive There's a whole story behind it but Still need to think about it

Guns etc
Multiplayer

[oak patio]

so a bit more info is necessary id say

why are you on the island
are the other people friendly, or is it like rust where everyone is an enemy
are ther other people/creatures on the island
does the island have soem sort of history, some dark secret?, some alien species?
is it some sort of combat trial? a n illegal gameshow?

you would be best deciding the name when you have a story

[shut flax]

I mean it's gonna be like rust

[oak patio]

cause that way you can stray away from generic names

you can post a request in the job board, look at #instructions

however you could also look at the pins of this channel, they have some useful links for learning

[shut flax]

Is Enigma good

lmao

[oak patio]

I feel a name like that, while good, doesn't really say much about the game

you look at other games, you have

dont starve - clues in the name
fallout - based on a nuclear apocalypse
terraria - derived from terra, meaning earth

wasnt looking at my steam library on my second monitor i promise

[shut flax]

lmao

[oak patio]

but your game should have some loose reference to your game i think, but that's my opinion

personally i judge a lot about a game from it's name, cause a good name can instantly give me an idea of what the game is going to be like
but i think a name also has to be memorable, but sensible, as a generic name instantly turns me away, whereas some hyper complex trying-to-sound-smarter-than-it-is name also does

you could go for something like "insura salvos", which literally means "island survival", but that puts you at risk of being one of those trying-to-sound-smarter-than-it-is games.
maybe just the salvos bit, but that could be confused with salvos, meaning a volley of missiles

names are a delicate balance

and this is why im trash at picking them

maybe even Insura, sounds kinda cool, has some hidden meaning

but take my names with a grain of salt

it takes me about a year to pick my new username

(although i personally do kinda like Insura)

but it does sound like it could get confused with an insurance company so i still dont know

[placid folio]

I got this setup, but I'm using Easy Multi Save to save my game data and it doesn't seem to save the game instance, I can't find a guide how to save my game instance data, any advice what I'm missing?

[crimson hornet]

Hello, I'm using an HDRI in Unreal Engine and I'm using these blueprints to do it. For some reason the Unreal Engine HDRI works fine with this blueprint but for any other HDRI that I import in, I get this error. Any help will be appreciated

[drowsy wigeon]

Is good idea to make unique bigger spaces, like for example train station, with all props in it as a blueprint, to move it around level as single thing? Or is there any downside to group related items into blueprint?

[shut flax]

Do you need to pay for easy anti cheat?

Like for you to install it for your game

[drowsy wigeon]

@shut flax I am quite sure you do. They have no gain from gamers, so their funding is from developers. See more here: https://www.easy.ac/licencing/

[shut flax]

Alright also #epic-online-services

Starting to learn everything one by one

[winter stream]

Is there a simple solution to the one side wall which I downloaded from quixel

[wheat tundra]

Would anybody happen to know how i can open up the animation sequence editor so that I can work with notifies? What I have is on top and what i need is on the bottom, thanks!

[uncut crow]

after using play animation function , animation blueprint of said character stops working , how to enable animation blueprint again ?

[wheat tundra]

im not quite sure what you are saying

[wheat tundra]

I think I figured it out, the video I was watching just had an outdated UI I believe but thank you for your response

that wasnt quite my issue, i wanted to use notifies and didnt realize how to use them with this ui but I figured out how

[uncut crow]

so after the attack animation runs , the jogging animation stops working althugh the enemy still chases me , how do i fix it ?

[winter stream]

Is there a simple solution to the one side wall which I downloaded from quixel

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried using Play Montage?

I think Play Animation overrides anim instance

[uncut crow]

here's the weird thing , i used play montage and used the slot thing to make it work as well , nd then the enemy never plays the montage ? although it executes

[drowsy snow]

Then likely you haven't assigned the correct slot in the montage, or your animBP didn't use the slot.

[uncut crow]

okayy , il check it out , nd come back

[rare thorn]

🤨 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/crash-test-dummy-rigged-804a2f9460b2494e9c776e125cbabeab

[surreal eagle]

emergency question

should parry deal damage

[uncut crow]

it should deal 0 damage or very little

[surreal eagle]

makes sense

[uncut crow]

i gotta tell u man , u were right , it was the wrong slot , its working fine noww

[cosmic flume]

what would a be a good channel to ask about control rig

im guessing animation or cinematics

[naive quarry]

Maybe stagger opponent or something

[surreal eagle]

gud iea

[crimson depot]

how do you automatically dock new windows

[fallow venture]

Say I have some assets that are commonly used in my many different projects, maybe a VR controller blueprint or a basic map etc. How do I maintain these assets elegantly? I think it's not a good idea to do asset migration from the original project every time. Can I do this like maybe host a my own marketplace vault?

[tame marsh]

I like to make a plugin for some of my common assets, blueprints and code

[fallow venture]

Is there some plugin management way? like npm, or custom package source in Unity?

[tame marsh]

Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but particularly for code, it makes it more portable between prjoects

Aside the marketplace, no not really yoou'll have to manage it yourself

[fallow venture]

so maybe I manually save my plugins in a folder on my NAS

[tame marsh]

Yep you can do that

The plugin approach is how I do it when we've got a bunch of test projects R&Ding and I need to transfer functionality to the main project and colleague

[fallow venture]

thanks bro 👍

[forest cloak]

Hello how to incorporate Euphoria / Ragdoll within our project ? Please

[cosmic flume]

Anyone have experience with quadripeds and control rig

[drowsy snow]

Euphoria is not even available for everyone else lol

[drowsy snow]

Git have submodules

[drowsy snow]

There is an option to use the main window for new editor tabs, in Editor Preferences. Forgot what it's called, but it is there

[plush yew]

how to fix this without editing size of meshes? when I'm jumping character goes through the ceiling and it show's whats outside of it. Also sometimes when I move you can see while holes, lines through the meshes, like in corners and so on.

[wild hemlock]

what should i be googling for in order to make hands that can cast spells in FPS?

[drowsy snow]

Not sure what's super extraordinary with it. Just an animation of hand casting spell and a particle effect.

[wild hemlock]

(also willing to purchase marketplace assets)

[crimson depot]

Yeah I can't remember either

[wild hemlock]

is the process of animating hands the exact same as animating a skeletal asset for things like running and jumping?

[drowsy snow]

The exact same process, just different poses, that's all.

[wild hemlock]

where should i be looking for assets that does this - places like mixamo or directly on the UE marketplace?

most of what i've found so far focuses on TPS rather than fps

[drowsy snow]

Personally I'd make them from scratch

[wild hemlock]

3d modelling a hand from scratch? 😮

[drowsy snow]

Animate them from scratch, by hand

[wild hemlock]

should i be using IK to do this?

[drowsy snow]

You can just use FK controls, but IKs can speed things up a bit

[wild hemlock]

i'm super new to animating - should i attempt IK first or

also - should the animation be done in UE directly, or should i be using another tool for this then importing into UE?

[drowsy snow]

Personally I'd still prefer animating in Blender, but using Control Rig + Sequencer is fine (just more limited when it comes to constraints)

[wild hemlock]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/dragon-ik-animal-inverse-kinematics would this be helpful in what i'm trying to do?

[drowsy snow]

I don't know, I create my own Control Rig setup.

I don't depend much on marketplace plugins.

[surreal falcon]

if I was to make an underground world, how would I go about using a skydome and lighting?

[drowsy snow]

If it's completely underground, and not much outside world visible, skydome is not necessary.

[surreal falcon]

it should look like a simulation from the outside world

I was even thinking about just teleporting the player to an outside scene for this to make it easier

[coral verge]

Hello,
Does anyone have an old version of Quixel Bridge? I’ve downloaded the latest version and I can’t see an option to pause/resume downloading!

[crimson comet]

Hello, I’ve been making renders with Unreal for a few months and with every render, there’s always one or two frames that glitch out. This always happens no matter the render settings and format. Has anyone experienced this?

[drowsy snow]

You can start your sequencer events happening 1 frame later and have 1 sacrificial frame at the beginning.

[crimson comet]

It’s actually not the first frame that glitches. It’s always somewhere in the middle

[drowsy snow]

Oh, okay, usually that happens at the very first frame.

[plush yew]

fixed clipping out of ceiling, but when I turn around there's still white holes, lines glitch even though the walls have no holes in them for light to shine through

like this

[true quartz]

Would anyone kindly help me retarget APC animation from one skeleton to another

[plush yew]

thx, kinda worked, increased it to 5 from 1

also what's the name of setting in foliage for spawning different size tree's?

thx

[runic needle]

hello, I will tell you about a game idea that I want to make and I will ask if unreal engine is sufficient for this. First of all, I should mention that I am experienced in unreal engine, so I know how to do many things in my mind, but I don't know much about the game idea I will talk about.
The game I want to make is pretty similar to minecraft, but not made of blocks, at least not entirely if possible. In this game, the world will be randomly generated, there will be villages and cities, there will be randomly generated people and we will be able to have a dialogue with them. In short, I'm imagining a very procedural build that doesn't consist of blocks, I know it's not an easy idea. but do you think this makes sense in an unreal engine, I'm asking because randomly generated and non-blocky world shapes is a pretty extreme idea, what are your thoughts?

[autumn flame]

If you are experienced you should know if it's possible or not :p

It's really about how much time you wanna put into it, how heavily do you wanna modify the engine and how many people are you inclined to hire for such specialized systems?

[toxic pecan]

i'm new, should i try UE4 or 5?

[autumn flame]

UE4, wait for stable UE5

[toxic pecan]

any great turtorials/guides i should follow?

[stable remnant]

how come unreal gets scancode vs keycodes wrong

its a literal game engine and the default editor controls on azerty are piss

or at least the template i started out with is

[thick herald]

Check out pinned messages in this channel

[toxic pecan]

thx

[paper cradle]

where is help or support chat for asking question for ue 4.21

i am new here tho

nvm its this so i have few isssues with vehicle modding for a game ..one of the problem is my acceleration is being detected but vehicle still wont move forward i tried resizing wheels size and event graph but no works ...i hope people will help here ...and dont think i am being dumb or like anything .

[toxic pecan]

is there like an AZERTY layout?

[paper cradle]

I have no clue what's that and I am newbie in ue ..and am just following tutorials and learning so if u know what exactly i need to do would be greatly appreciated 🙏

[toxic pecan]

idk, i'm new as well

[toxic pecan]

arent your wheels sinking through the ground?

[paper cradle]

I tried taking it up ...with x,y,z axis and even resized vehicle

Still don't moves

Forward

This model was ported from blender as.fbx to ue4.21

[toxic pecan]

🤷‍♂️ , but i think people in here will be willing to help

[paper cradle]

I hope so ...cuz m dealing this from 1 week

🙏

[plush yew]

been messing around since im a complete beginner, but i made this, i think it looks cool, but is there any way to increase the poly count on the landscape? since some parts look very geometric

[topaz berry]

i seem to have lost my viewport

how do i get it back?

its just empty

and the construction script

and event script

[toxic pecan]

go to window top left

load layout

and then default editor layout

@topaz berry

[topaz berry]

oh okay

[plush yew]

can anyone help me on my question in #legacy-physics ? it is driving me crazy

[oak patio]

If you are asking if you need to anchor widgets then yes

[stable remnant]

does unreal have a "native" sphere object that changes the vertices based on the camera?

[manic jasper]

anyone mind helping me out in #blueprint

[red condor]

wdym "changes the vertices based on the camera?"

[stable remnant]

I added a huge static mesh with a sphere but its chonky from up close

basically hoping for some kind of primitive LOD & I also dont want to export & load a mesh with huge detail just to create a sphere

[red condor]

ah I understand

there is no such native component, however - are you a blender user?

[stable remnant]

I have installed blender after an unreal tutorial told me to create a hexagon in it 🙃

[red condor]

noice xD

well, in blender you can use 'smooth shading' to create the illusion of smoothness

[stable remnant]

I am thinking planet size sphere btw

[coral verge]

Finally, I have the previous version installed on my other computer. I have the installer too in case anyone need it!

[stable remnant]

should clarify this

with what i mean by "huge"

[red condor]

ohh realllly big :)

hm yeah forget what I said then

[coral verge]

happy to see it again lol

[red condor]

so are you going from space > planet?

[stable remnant]

i'm not really sure how much the space component will be used yet

but I do wanna walk around on it and eventually wrap around

[red condor]

gotcha, I've been trying to tackle world-wrapping myself

Once on the surface, you probably don't even want to be on a sphere literally

[stable remnant]

yeah that might be wiser but

less cool 😛

[red condor]

only less cool if you can actually tell xD of course you'd also need some clever transition fakery haha

[stable remnant]

<#cpp message> I have something like this right now but a bit more refined, trying to get a grid working on it

but I'm thinking it is a bit dumb to render actual tiles as surface rather than just rendering a surface

I'm not sure the flat from close up thing will work for me

[red condor]

based on my own research for world-wrapping the best approach is to fake it, and even that seems to be tricky to get right

hopefully your game is single player?

[stable remnant]

xd

[red condor]

uh oh xD

[drowsy snow]

Reaching into Elite clone eh

[red condor]

well, you want to build a spherical world map - so search google for that or unreal - create spherical planet to see how people are trying to do it, there is some discussion on the subject

[stable remnant]

Isnt elite mostly in space

I have been searching that, with slightly different search terms

was just wondering if there wasnt a simpler way since for now i am literally just looking for a sphere

[red condor]

there is definitely no out of the box spherical world functionality sadly

i think I saw a marketplace addon that does it

might have been this one: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/worldscape-pro-plugin-make-planet-and-infinite-world?sessionInvalidated=true

[stable remnant]

who charging 300€ for a plugin

lul

[red condor]

well, the price might be an indication of the work involved xD

you have to sacrifice quite a few things that ue4 gives you out of the box

like redesigning character movement and gravity

cuz gravity is only down by default

you can't use world comp, but you probably wouldn't anyway if you're doing multiplayer

[drowsy snow]

Hiring someone to do that would be way more expensive than 300 euros

[red condor]

oh god yes

[drowsy snow]

After all, making Elite clone is not an easy task, especially within UE4's confinement

I think Star Citizen has to modify Lumberyard so hard to support space travel and large world coordinate

[thick herald]

It took Frontier a couple of million, a little over 100 staff, a custom engine and 4 years to make Elite. 300 bucks is chump change by comparison

[red condor]

(of course you should only consider buying any asset at any price if it actually suits your game, or if you have the skills to rework it 😁)

[drowsy snow]

Not to mention Elite series is a culmination of development since 1984

Still amazing considering the specs of BBC Micro

[thick herald]

well, Elite Dangerous is the spiritual successor to others true. But other than that it's completely different code

The COBRA engine is nice n all but it's limited them a lot I think.

[red condor]

(by the way to anyone who saw my questions about the player flickering/jumping/skipping frames when new tiles were loaded in world comp, turns out it doesn't affect the built game, so slightly annoying for testing but effectively a non-issue)

[rose sleet]

Hey, i've gone full mind blank.. What's the shortcut to make 2 points of a blueprint code straight?

like to make them in line and straight with each other

[drowsy snow]

Q

[rose sleet]

Just Q?

I pressed q because i knew i had to press that but i forgot if it needed another button too