ue4-general

[zinc flume]

Phisics too

Like realistic shooting, animations and stuff

Where can we start learning from

[calm widget]

Your best bet is quixel megascans if you want realistic graphics. Other than that making games takes time and can be quite hard depending on what you want to do.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/GettingStarted/

Good place to start

[zinc flume]

Alr

[pine siren]

Can ExponentialHeightFog be configured to work in a different direction than Z?

[calm widget]

Not sure this is the right way to go about things. But cant really get that working

[plush yew]

hey any reason this object is still visible after turning off all light sources?

[copper holly]

Anyone know where this "Level Streaming Volume Previs" button on the perspective viewport toolbar is I can't seem to find it

[plush yew]

these are my settings

[copper holly]

Is your object emitting in material/texture?

[calm widget]

Maybe it's emissive material?

[plush yew]

its not 😛

[copper holly]

Baked lighting?

NavMesh?

ugh UVmesh i mean

[plush yew]

its just a blank scene with a point light in a closed off room

[pine siren]

Probably not, no. Your problem is likely somewhere else. You can't extract information that doesn't exist in your given data. If your rotation for some reason goes from 0-180-0 without flipping the sign then you don't have enough information to turn it into 360. I haven't messed around with rotations so I don't know, but maybe ActorRotation isn't the one you want? Or maybe you're doing something to it somewhere that flips it from negative to positive? idk

[plush yew]

hm

its reflecting the stuff outside

thats the skybox

and texture

🤔

I did have 2 errors importing the model tho

zero binormals and degenarate tangent bases

[calm widget]

Hmm yeah, i figured out i was using absolute value when printing it. so it goes -180 - 180. Figured i could use the map range to just get it between -180-0 to be 180-360 in that case

[plush yew]

@calm widgetfound the issue, SphereReflectionCapture

Has there been any knew updates in UE4? I haven't been doing much in it for almost a year so I was just wondering cause I want to try and get back into it, ha been using Java and godot for games because unreal was getting a little common

[calm widget]

Well there's UE5

[pine siren]

Oh right. Well then I guess you could just use modulo. Dunno what it's really called or if there's a node for it in BP. Something that lets you do rotation % 360

[calm widget]

Oh? I'll check it out it's probably more elegant than my solution. This is what i did

[plush yew]

Ha I know about ue5 haha I meant has anything changw with eu4 like new bp to use or some what better ui etc

Maybe some new landscape default tools

Bugs is a big one, anything fixed there

[pine siren]

Yikes.
Yeah, I mean, mathematically,

   0 % 360 = 0
 180 % 360 = 180
-180 % 360 = 180
-179 % 360 = 181
 -90 % 360 = 270
  -1 % 360 = 359```
if that fits your offset tho, I didn't really check. But you'll probably figure out:)

I guess it should fit, since your numbers matched at 0-180.

@calm widget So try something like this

[calm widget]

Thanks i'll check it out. Haha that would save me from having to look at that mess i made

[calm widget]

I'm not sure if that did anything at all. I think i'm confused

[pine siren]

well, you gotta use the output of that node and put it into your RInterp somehow.
But keep in mind that even though it may work, this doesn't feel like the correct approach. The problem may lie elsewhere, as it sounds weird to me that ActorRotation and ControlRotation (both FRotator?) are outputting different ranges. But again, I haven't really worked a lot with it..

[calm widget]

Yeah, what got me most confused was that setting actor rotation to lets say 260(because lets say that's what the control rotation float was at the time) somehow made it set the actor rotation to 100. Which would be the correct value for the actors rotation to be in that different range. I have no idea how that works but setting the actor rot to control rot apparently works by doing it that way. I guess that's the natural way of how they work. Probably if you set 180 + some value out of that range it just goes to the other end + that value

[pine siren]

yea it's a conversion, you can't give it back to the actor without converting it back first. You never mentioned setting actor rotation.
Am too tired for math right now so going to bed, but I'm sure you'll figure it out, or that someone else can help you:)

[calm widget]

Yeah, good night man. Thanks for helping me out though. Gave me some insight

[worldly spear]

where is Get AIControl in Unreal 4.27? Im trying to connect my Event BeginPlay to it

[grim ore]

should still be there, it's a pure node so its not an event you hook up to another event node with the white wire

[acoustic plover]

Which channel should I ask about the Rendering Dependency Graph (RDG) in? I feel like #cpp, #engine-source and #plugin-dev all apply.

[worldly spear]

so im trying to create a sim where the character runs to an object based on aicontroller and it looks like this:

i dont know how to get these connections

[grim ore]

right click anywhere in the graph and do the get ai controller

[worldly spear]

okay done

[grim ore]

the rest should work as expected

[worldly spear]

ahh so i dont need the event begin play at all?

[grim ore]

you do, do you not have one?

[worldly spear]

i do but i cant connect it to anything or rather i dont know what to connect it to

[grim ore]

well in that video its connected to a delay node

then your get ai controller, then a cast, then the set target location

[worldly spear]

right but i cant connect the delay node to the get AI controller

[grim ore]

you can go delay, then cast, then set target

correct, you dont need to anymore, you would go right to the cast

[worldly spear]

thank you sir

[marsh sparrow]

HI. Is there a channel specific to game distribution? I have a question about steam.

[ruby wyvern]

Is there a way to actually make new objects go into the current outliner folder?

I create a folder and it's selected, but when I create a new object it just... goes into the main folder instead

[versed star]

So I have a top down shooter I'm trying to make, and I'm trying to implement a dual gun aiming system. The idea I had is that when you right click the aiming reticle splits in two, and an invisible line is drawn down the screen from where the character is facing to the edge, then any cursor movement is reflected on the opposite side of the line until you stop dual firing. Basically I want to know how I could draw a line from my character to the side of the screen they're facing, and make that line turn around with the character when they move. Then get the cursor position relative to that line. Idk if it's even really possible but it sounds doable.

[fierce tulip]

#packaging

[dusk nebula]

It's difficult to tell exactly what you're asking, but if it's a set distance in front of the character, you'd use the forward vector of the control rotation to produce an end point "x" distance away. Then you line trace between the two points

Most of your solutions for whatever the problem may be are going to involve screen positions and basic vector math. Line traces are almost free to run, so that's definitely a key component of something like that

I've never done a top-down, but I assume that there's some way to get the mouse position in relation to the character's position pretty easily

[dreamy zenith]

where's a good place to learn how to make a strategy game similar to becastled or diplomacy is not a option?

[dusk nebula]

Did you check youtube for tutorials?

Part of the thing about UE or content creation in general is the reality that you're going to want to do something unique, and there won't be a set of tutorials specifically catered to your goals, unless it is an unoriginal idea. You can find a lot of basic conceptual stuff, but a lot of it will just have to be figured out

[dreamy zenith]

I see

Thanks for the input

[dusk nebula]

As you look into it, you're gonna find a lot of the basic stuff, be it rts controls, or a city builder system, but the really definitive things will have to be self-made in most cases

That's not to say that you shouldn't use tutorials, especially not when starting out, but learning the methods rather than copying the outcome is the best way to be able to develop ideas independently

[dreamy zenith]

completely agree

[dusk nebula]

That, and a lot of the more complex tutorials, especially the ones that are specific like "modular skill tree system" are just poorly made, whether it's through bad implementation or lack of explanation

[pine remnant]

how do i use brush editins to flatten a cube, can i post the tutorial im using?

[vocal sorrel]

Hey guys, I am using an imported tile landscape and it doesnt line up on the Z value correctly. How can I change it so it is higher up in my world?

[thin carbon]

anyone know of a good multiplayer video for creating a scoreboard for kills

[tropic magnet]

What are generally the most demanding things you could make? So far I've noticed the multiple point lights slow down the game quite a lot

[thin tendon]

@vocal sorrel In select mode you can just click on the landscape and move it using the transform tool or the transform section in the details window.

[waxen tundra]

Hi guys 👋🏻, I’m having issues installing ue 5 on my Mac, the button for the download simply wouldn’t show up, do someone have the same problem?

Does anybody have any suggestions?

[iron wadi]

Can I disable "Load the Most Recently Loaded Project at Startup" in some ini file?
The map is crashing my editor on startup

[modest trench]

DefaultEngine.ini default maps

[plush yew]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/nmocas/cant_seem_to_install_unreal_the_install_engine/ look at the replies, if what they say doesn't work then it may not be compatible or something else is wrong

[astral verge]

Hello Guys , In the collab viewer template anyone knows to to change the viewer menu UI ? because I can't find the Widget in the blueprints

[real gust]

Can someone please help me make a soft reference to a door blueprint in another level within the same project?

I create new variable, I’ve tried actor soft reference, it doesn’t show my door blueprint, I can’t figure it out, there’s only one tutorial and it’s of a skeletal mesh.

[mossy temple]

Hello, do you know what's the best online course or book, free or paid for learning UE4?

[tropic magnet]

so I've sent a link to download and play my game in my discord, but later realised that it looks a lot like a classic discord scam lol

what's the best way to upload it so everyone knows for sure it's not a scam?

[tame marsh]

Make an itch.io page?

[tropic magnet]

thanks, I did

[drowsy snow]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[vast willow]

hey guys i want to create a blocking volume with the feature that when a player get close to it, it sho a hologram blocking thing like AC games when you get close to the edge of the city or something
anyone have an idea how to do that ?

i did thought of a regular box model with blocking collision and making that kind of material for it

[tender fiber]

Can't open Unreal engine editor both 4.27 & 5 but it shows in the task manager

[tame marsh]

suonds like a good approach

[plush yew]

Help pls, projectile through walls even with collision active

[quiet island]

hi guys, I am trying to import a sketchup environment into unreal engine does anyone know if this is possible ?

[pearl minnow]

i just realised EVERYTHING in my homescreen is off by x=8, Y=33... you can see where the keyboard is now after being correctly positioned. Is there a way i can move everything by that certain amount to get everything back into the correct position? 🥺

[quiet island]

Im wondering if its possible to build an environment of our actual home area that I got in sketchup

[drowsy snow]

#aec-visualization
(Though the channel isn't crowded)

[astral verge]

Anyone has experience in creating digital twins in unreal engine ?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, through genetical cloning

[wanton violet]

I was uploading my game in Play Store today...but in Play console it says only app bundles less than 150 mb are allowed. My app size is 400mb. Does any one know any solution?...is there any way I can reduce my app size...or how to upload apk and obb files seperate?

[astral verge]

Sorry can you explain more ? , If I have sensor data and apis and I want to link it with an airport model of example , how do I start

[spice ruin]

A common trick is to only ship the required data on the store and have all of your other assets download once the app is installed

[drowsy snow]

Sample the cell of the airport and make the clone

Honestly I'm not sure what "digital twin" really means.

[shadow ravine]

So I'm trying to create a blend from two different rotations of my actor, normally I'd use animations for this but the project has a deadline and as been built using BPs for most of the animations. Does anyone know of an simple method to blend from one rotation to another over x time in blueprints?

[drowsy snow]

Timelines.

[shadow ravine]

Oh of course!! It's too early for me 😂

[calm crow]

Hi, how would i import custom merged proxy actor in ue4 to display instead of a group of actor based on distance ?

[ember cypress]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/sketchup-to-unreal-fundamentals Totally doable. The back half of this course should have everything you need.

[ember cypress]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/welcome-to-unreal-engine As @drowsy snow said, the learning portal has a ton of content for getting started with UE. I would recommend having a look at this learning path~

[plush yew]

I need someone smart to lay this out for me, imagine this you use a external program like world machine to create your maps for generating terrain
you get it in game and you arent happy with it, you then go back to world machine and edit the terrain a bit
can you bring the updated terrain in without breaking anything?

or is it good practice to delete the landscape and re generate it

[modest trench]

I believe you can just import from file again?

[modest trench]

https://youtu.be/TBwp5xFaSbc?t=136

Not 100% sure you can do it consecutively

[plush yew]

thanks

[uncut forum]

a little question here: does UE uses relative or full path with project files?
I need to sync a game project in two different computers in two different locations, so I was wondering if project has to be in the same path in both computers or it doesn't matter, because UE uses the path starting from project main folder.
Thank you

[modest trench]

relative from what to the project files?

[uncut forum]

from where there's the .uproject file

[modest trench]

definitely keep those folders/files in the same relative places to each other

but the entire project folder can be anywhere

the engine is can be anywhere too, it's just a GUID to the registry list of engines

[uncut forum]

yeap, that's for sure

[modest trench]

how are you syncing these?

[uncut forum]

eh eh, working on something atm, didn't see if there's something free for that

[modest trench]

I mean, just git + gitlfs should be good enough

that's the "default" free option in my mind

some crazy people even use onedrive somehow

[oak patio]

If I wanted to create a custom folder, for music, where would /Game/Music evaluate to in a packaged and non packaged build

[uncut forum]

is git limited in gb?!?!

[modest trench]

it has to be hosted somewhere to get sent over the network

it could be one of the two computers if you set it up

okay, what did I miss?

I've been awake too long

[uncut forum]

I thought git was only for coding, so it's very light to host a project like that, because it's just text, not a huge (but wonderful) ue project folder

[modest trench]

git is a version control program, you are thinking of github

[uncut forum]

ooohhhh

yes! I need to sleep as well @_@

[modest trench]

shit, could tortoise SVN do this?

uuuh

oh, nevermind

[uncut forum]

so I could be the server, then I need to send my global dynamic IP to the other one, so he can sync to my computer....

why?

ah, ok

[modest trench]

in the non-hosted git setup do you only send commit changes over the network? how do you clone?

perhaps my definition of "hosted" is wrong

don't do that to him lol

he's gonna get fleeced

are you serious? that must be one monster email chain

wait, really?

wtf, maybe that's a thing then

I have never googled azure devops faster in my life

usually azure is very expensive

[cedar wave]

Yes. Unlimited for 5 people. Then you start paying on the 6th person. I currently have multiple projects on it, with the biggest being 30 GB.

[modest trench]

nice

[uncut forum]

versioning is beyond my needs, despite being very important in a project

[cedar wave]

And unlike P4, you only pay for that 6th person, not all 6.

[modest trench]

yeah, unless you plan on stopping this project now versioning is kind of a "must have"

even if you are just messing around

[uncut forum]

I will see that

[oak patio]

Imagine corrupting something without source control

Ouch

[uncut forum]

sure, I know

I mean, I understand

but I have to see if something free is available

[oak patio]

Yup i learnt that lesson

[modest trench]

it is free!

you aren't buying anything

[uncut forum]

https://tenor.com/view/shameless-attention-yes-sir-soldier-army-gif-10238483

[modest trench]

so, how does he get the repo to the other machine?

[uncut forum]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-it-that-right-there-you-said-it-youre-right-you-got-it-gif-17668393

[modest trench]

sure, an initial external hdd might be smart

but what about the ensuing changes?

[uncut forum]

cough cough... internet... cough cough...

[modest trench]

is there some way to directly just send commits to the other pc?

I've honestly only used hosted and local-only repos

oh, yeah

I guess the networking fun part is up to him then (getting the machines to see each other)

I suppose it isn't "hosted" in a sense as much as just a network share at that point

[drowsy snow]

The only thing that paid from git is hosting the repo, and you can cut the middleman by setting up your own git server.

[modest trench]

here we go again

hosting the repo on an online cloud service like github or gitlab to be specific

[drowsy snow]

The Git system itself is free.
Unlike Perforce, which is only free (under terms) for 5 or less people

[modest trench]

oh, so there isn't an origin?

huh, til

[drowsy snow]

I tried Perforce once and it feel like they're watching how I'm using it, even though it's only myself.

[modest trench]

I mean, yeah but between two machines in this case

[drowsy snow]

Maybe it'll be a necessity once I had a full time studio

[modest trench]

of course if it's just seeing a folder in the local network I guess it will just go

okay, let me be specific and say what you were mentioning before ~wasnt~ a fileshare but just a network url to the other machine's repo? edit: already answered thanks

[drowsy snow]

I think in theory one could have a Linux host serving as the git server, and Windows KVM cloning from it

[uncut forum]

anyway, it's just a silly videogame demo between two guys, I mean, I know (a bit) of what are you talking about, but versioning is too much, especially because I won't touch/modify things on his part of the project, which is the main project, I will only upload my assets in my separate folder and download his changes on the game

[drowsy snow]

Still, source control is going to ease both of your lives by a huge margin

[modest trench]

oh, just trying to think of how thinkinmonkey would set this git repo up just over the network without actual hosting (and not a windows shared folder)

[modest trench]

just being able to see wtf the other guy changed in a commit is going to be a helping hand honestly

[drowsy snow]

Using Google Drive or regular cloud storage service or networked folder to exchange project files is just asking for trouble.

[modest trench]

yeah, sorry. I'll look into it on my own time later

thanks for the explanation anyways

[uncut forum]

yeap, thanks, I'll take in consideration what all of you said till now

[modest trench]

oh lol, you just ssh to the other machine

$ git pull username@host:path/to/repository.git master

done

github desktop client protects me from this dark knowledge

I am safe in my giant "commit" button cocoon

yeah I had to switch to gitextensions

I still use it for one-click clones from github

that's it

are we going to enter yet another eternal programming tools conflict?

[uncut forum]

^__^"

hoping not

[modest trench]

seems like I named my azure cloud something before

alright, sorry for the offtopic

back to actual #ue4-general

[acoustic idol]

Hi all. I hope someone can help me out here? I nowhere else can find the info that I need anymore. I want to load and run an external map/level package from within the main game program on a multiplayer server. Much like the Unreal1 game servers back then handled the map/level selection during game play. And so that, without repackaging and redistributing the whole game again, I can add a new level to a game by ONLY packaging that level separately and load/run it from the main game file. I believe that even the UE 3.15 version of UnrealTournament can do this from within their HUB's. But I lost all info on that and cannot find it anymore

[red condor]

I have an editor utility blueprint that errors if I run it on too many actors because it thinks its in an infinite loop - can I somehow disable the check for this particular blueprint?

[hybrid mortar]

any suggestions on how i could simulate vehicle movement on the server and then replicate it to all clients?

[broken heath]

Whats the shortcut for duplicating in scene beside copy pasting

[red condor]

thank you, that's a general setting right? I was hoping that it might be possible to override the limit just for this blueprint, since I'd never want to run close to that many iterations in game.

I do wonder if this could use less iterations though?

a loop within a loop should be avoided where possible, I'm sure 😅

I'm running this on thousands of actors, by the way

(or rather trying to)

but only as a one-off editor action, not in game of course

To save people deciphering the blueprint, I'm storing an array of assets, then looping through the selected actors. Within that loop I'm looping through the stored array to check their label against the asset names. When a match is found, the mesh is set. Can this be done without so many iterations?

[earnest pawn]

does anyone know some good courses to learn about maths for games?

[thick herald]

That BP has given me a headache 😄

[red condor]

oh, is it saying its reached an infinite loop while trying to run the loop just once?

I assumed it was because I'm running it on so many actors at the same time, like the accumulated iterations for all the times its being run was over 1m. (it seems to work when i just run it on less assets)

if it's possibly just referring to one 'run' of the blueprint function I'll investigate more thoroughly 👍

(in this case i'm assigning 8 assets to around 3,800 actors btw)

[scenic bolt]

Hello guys. Does it make sense in the context of optimizing the game level to move reflection capture actors on a sublevels?

idk which chat is better for this type of questions, so sorry if it's wrong place

[remote flame]

Anyone has problems with ue4 launching, showing in processes but the editor is not opening? As in, the engine spins up but nothing shows up. No errors nothing

[red condor]

@plush yew I've worked it out, I think. It works for up to 459 actors, regardless of which are selected, then throws the error. I didn't realise that the asset folder check was recursive, around 600 assets are being checked against and so there are actually over 2,000,000 expected total loops when running on 3,600 actors. By increasing the limit in the project settings I can process all of the actors, it just chugs for a while. So based on this I think I can conclude that the infinite loop error is just happening because of how many actors I have selected and how many assets are being looped, and not because of an error in my logic. Please tell me if you think I'm talking rubbish though 😁 Eventually there will be far more actors and assets, and it may be that I just have to do it in chunks, but the less chunks the better for me. Do you think it's possible to achieve that logic with just one loop somehow? Or am I already using the least amount of iterations possible to do this?

[brisk galleon]

hey, does anybody know is it possible to save/export the green navmesh as out as a static mesh?
it does build a simple mesh but is there any way to access it..

[red condor]

I don't know any c++ sadly, maybe I could learn enough to do just that though. So do you think my loop within a loop is as optimal (in terms of iterations) as blueprint logic gets?

I think I might have miscommunicated, I just meant are both loops necessary in my blueprint above, or could the second loop somehow be avoided. I can't think of a way, but this is the first editor utility I've made and my unreal knowledge in general is pretty limited. If it could I'd be running up far less iterations overall so I just thought it was worth asking.

[faint mesa]

Hey all, I am attempting to build a crowd simulation in UE based on this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAAzbv3-aqo

When following along i notice a couple things. First thing is that the behavior tree done in the tutorial (left) is numbered different from what I tried to do (right), despite following the same procedure. Anyone happen to know why that is the case?

Secondly, the tutorial sets up the event graph to have an Input with a grid icon instead of a pill (left). I find myself (right) only able to get the grid if I switch to array but doing so prevents me from connecting the SetTargetLocation to Set Value as Vector.

[red condor]

Thank you, and also sorry, I think I understand what you meant now. My approach is perhaps 'optimal' for what it is, but a programmer could have a much better solution. I really appreciate all the advice on this. I might well end up learning a little c++ later, but I'll make sure the rest of my process works and see how far this gets me for now. Thanks again 👍

you can make nodes?!! woah

no it wasn't

sorry xD

[cedar wave]

BP nodes are just calling backing C++ functions.

[red condor]

I was blown away by editor utility blueprints

I am easily impressed I guess, but I didn't realise that c++ could hook into bp like that

[cedar wave]

I'd say it's more BP hooking into C++

[red condor]

That's awesome. Unreal is really amazing, I find it so much more intuitive and flexible than engines I've used before. Appreciate the primer 👍 I 'wrote' (cobbled together from examples) my first python script yesterday actually so I should take a closer look :)

oh sweet, yeah I could maybe try replicating some simpler stuff in my project first, get a feeling for it while knowing what results to expect

never heard of it, taking a look now 😁

nice, GAS (smirk) sounds perfect for one of my too many 'make it later' ideas

I'm definitely more of a designer, but I can see now how a bit of c++ could be really helpful. I thought it had to be the whole game, and always imagined sitting down with a huge slightly out of date book lol.

I'm curious, would/could c++ be used for bridges/pipelines? Like bringing stuff in from external applications. Is that stuff even handled in Unreal or is there always some kind of go between application?

[cedar wave]

With a ridiculous learning curve to boot!

[atomic arch]

hi everyone need help switching between widgets. I used the remove from paretn and create widget methos but it wont work any ideas

[red condor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huXXgzPZ7WA

there you go 😁

(if that's not what you mean, describe what you do mean in more detail and post a screenshot of your current attempt)

[atomic arch]

that is the method I used originally. but after switching back and forth between widgets it begins to impact fps heavily. I want to switch between widgets with the same effect the video has but minus the frame rate drop

[red condor]

are you saying its smooth the first few times and then gets choppy?

[atomic arch]

the only issue I have with using the widget switcher is that it may over complicate my code as i have over 5 widget each with its own semi complex code

[atomic arch]

yes , the more i switch back and form through widgets the more choppy the fps gets

[red condor]

you should post your blueprint, it sounds like something is being created over and over instead of being reused maybe but it's hard to say

[atomic arch]

thats the code for switching between widgets

[red condor]

how about the code for clicking on buttons?

[atomic arch]

its just an on clicked event

[red condor]

yes, but what's in it? 🙃 I have to go, but I don't know much about widgets anyway. If you show us all the logic, including the on clicked event, I suspect the problem will be obvious

[atomic arch]

anyone else got any solutions ?

[red condor]

is this the set up from that video? the one that gets choppy after a while? I haven't watched the whole thing but it looks pretty different

[atomic arch]

this is basically the set up the only difference is the function

and inside the function is the code from the video so yeh

[rain ingot]

accidently deleted the tab with the contents, what is it called in window tab to bring it back?

its called content browser nvm

[cold otter]

Hi All, I would be interested to know more about some UE4 console commands like by example exposure and how to manipulate it.
And I don't know if I am posting in the good channel.

[bleak zodiac]

#editor-scripting

[cold otter]

Thank you

[rain ingot]

does anyone know whats up with my viewport? I can't click anything and there's this white box in it

how do I disable whatever I enabled

[rocky epoch]

try to move a window or tab somewhere

sometimes the ui stuck like that

[bronze saddle]

I need help with filters
How I filter folders, instead of specific words

For example, if folder is named Stats but the file is called Modifier, I want to filter the folder and have those files as results as well, so I highlight the path name too, instead of the file

[rain ingot]

that fixed it

thanks

[rocky epoch]

cheers :)

[bronze saddle]

Please DM me if anyone knows how to do this

[brisk obsidian]

You can just do Path=YourPathName i.e. in your case you can just do Path=Stats There's docs on all the things you can do in the search here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Basics/ContentBrowser/AdvancedSearchSyntax/

[atomic arch]

sorry to bother anyone got any solutions for this

[atomic arch]

from looking online i think the issue is that its created i remove from parent and it gets recreated to open it again, hense the frame dips but i cant find a method to show and hide widgets

i tried this but for some reason it wasnt working

[hollow cairn]

is there a good way to select alot of surfaces together?

like in maya you can doubleclick the one next to the one you chose, and it will select every surface in the line

ah never mind, it's shift+B

[surreal eagle]

Use blender 😂

Or shift click or something

[hollow cairn]

also, I made this curved wall using subtracting geometry, can I turn it into its own actor so I can reuse it properly?

[robust marten]

How do you prevent a checkbox from being unchecked OR how can you make it so that one set of checkboxes MUST be checked? I start the game off with male checked but I can uncheck it. Even when I set the checkbox state to Checked when it's checked, that doesn't work.

Thank you

[unborn bolt]

Can we get a channel for shaders / materials, or does that already exist (Can't seem to find it)?
I know we have a channel for Graphics but it's a very overarching title that covers a whole lot of stuff.

Cool, thanks for the information! 🙂

[modern sinew]

How do I change the name of my project? The one that shows up on the windows? I thought it was the one in Project Settings but it's not

[hollow cairn]

how do this?

[broken heath]

How to generally get highest framerate , and lowest ghosting … even if the price is the quality

[modern tree]

Quick question, after importing different projects and assets should I split them into corresponding folders (meshes, blueprints, and such) or is it fine for them to be in the folder they came in and put them in a big 'Imported' folder until I actually need them?

I'm asking since I just started cleaning up my project and reorganizing, but moving items is terribly slow even with unused assets, so I'm unsure what'd be the best organization atm

[drowsy snow]

Use FXAA (or MSAA if you use forward rendering)

[broken heath]

Tbh its for mobile and im not concerned about resolution, or quality… just the speed and i cant find the optimal settings for speed

And i dont know whats forward rendering

😇

Will try fxaa thanks

[drowsy snow]

Well, if it's mobile, chances are you're already in forward rendering

[broken heath]

Is there a non AA option? Which would be even faster

[drowsy snow]

r.PostProcessAAQuality 0

Project Settings should have option to disable it completely

[broken heath]

Alright , so u advice MSAA for mobile

What about resolutions i dont find it in project setting

[lunar kiln]

i want to dampen controller pitch/yaw input based on how different my camera's world rotation is from my head socket's world rotation. any math wizards know what nodes i'd use to compare those rotators and scale my axis value based on the differential?

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions on how to post to job board channels

[fierce tulip]

@shadow osprey please follow the #rules and do not post job offers besides in the job channels. as @drowsy snow said, read the #instructions

def. read the rules, because looking at your log, you are breaking quite a few of them.

[mental shale]

yo, what channels should we ask about unreal crashes in?

[modest trench]

This one is fine

Make sure you have debug symbols

[mental shale]

ah, okay.

[mental shale]

(I think I have them?)

[grim ore]

you do not

[mental shale]

ah

[grim ore]

there would be actual information in that crash

[mental shale]

I can get them from the visual studio installer, right?

[grim ore]

is that engine version a source build or a launcher build?

[mental shale]

(im not too sure what that is, but I havent compiled the engine if that's what you mean)

[modest trench]

You need to click the little arrow beside you engine version in the launcher

[mental shale]

ah

[grim ore]

then you install the symbols from the launcher ^^

[modest trench]

Options > check debug symbols

It's a fairly big download too

[mental shale]

aah, nope I dont

lemme do that

(will my project be okay if Im working on this on perforce?)

(like, will everyone else need to install the debug symbols too if I do?)

[grim ore]

they are part of the engine, so no

[mental shale]

is that the same with plugins?

[grim ore]

depends on the plugin

[mental shale]

ah

[modest trench]

Depends if they are engine plugins or installed to the project's plugin folder

[mental shale]

ah

I didnt know there was a difference

[modest trench]

which plugins are enabled is determined by the .uproject just to be clear

Mist people disable VR stuff and other misc stuff that epic leaves on

[mental shale]

yea

[still island]

Has any one dealt with serializing objects placed in a level with a member that is of type FGameplayTagQuery? When the default object is edited the placed instance does not have its FGameplayTagQuery member updated. This seems like a bug in delta serialization - it does not behave like any other UStruct/UClass members.

[modest trench]

Weird... How is the query defined?

[still island]

Not sure what you mean? Its a member in my UActorComponent in c++ and then setting the default query using BP.
So when I update the BP default values, the instances placed in the level still have the stale old values with the yellow revert arrow, indicating the instance made overriding changes.

[sleek spear]

i need some help with combining two textures that are made with render targets 2d. i want to have one texture filling the top half of the rendered texture and the other one the bottom half and then im going to write those textures to disk. can someone help? i know this makes little sense, i can give more info

[mental shale]

ok, now i've got it!

(i havent done anything in cpp for this project btw)

It just crashed again, it listed the same statements as the screenshot again

it seems to only occur if I interact with my enemy character

[grim ore]

what engine version?

one of the components is being destroyed and unregistered at the same time it looks like, so an actor component on that enemy if that enemy is causing it.

so maybe look at the logic on that character to see what happens when it is destroyed. Or try making a duplicate and test with it with some of the components removed

[arctic pier]

Hey

Im a hobbyist dev so im not working on any real projects but i would like to work on a project with a friend on mine for multi user editing. any leads?

[oak patio]

if you wanna edit in real time, then unreal has something built in but it needs a LAN connection. other than that you should be looking at various source control options

[mental shale]

ah I see! I'll try that

[mental shale]

and 4.26.2 btw

(I just looked, I'm guessing this is probably the culprit)

ill try only using one of those execs to destroy

[arctic pier]

Thank you

[mental shale]

ey! seems to be working for now, no crashes after some testing. thanks!
(btw, I assume if I really wanted to use all those execs, some IsValids would probably help)

[plush yew]

could someone smart crack this mystery for me and possibly help others in the right direction

many games are being praised for this https://www.pcgamesn.com/icarus/nvidia-rtxgi-infinite-scrolling-volumes

yet when you search the rtxgi documentation

and the unreal engine docs

no such thing exists

[velvet magnet]

It's available as a separate plugin

[plush yew]

is it just a term they are using or is infinite scrolling volumes an actual thing with raytracing in unreal

@velvet magnet this requires the rtxgi plugin

[velvet magnet]

also, this is nvidia technology

[plush yew]

yep

[velvet magnet]

oh

[plush yew]

were all on the same page lol

i am asking if this is a made up term to promote this game or if this is the name of a feature that exists with the plugin for unreal engine

[velvet magnet]

If I had to guess

it just looks like it's new to rtxgi

so new that it hasn't been implemented in the plugin yet and is only available from nvidia

but I wouldn't know for sure

oh wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUmBS3ucIs

[wild hemlock]

is there a way to view what a camera sees in a blueprint viewport?

trying to adjust the position of hands in a FPS character

[feral patio]

Is there a UE4 series that teaches quick tutorials? I'm in dire need for small wins rn.

[remote badge]

you can parent the camera to a socket and move the socket while the game is playing

so is it possible to blend two layers by alpha? Material blend works fine but I need to use the grass output node which only considers actual layers

[plush yew]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/bv1dou/objects_only_smoothly_push_my_character_when/

This seems like an absurdly common issue but I can't find a solution and neither could this guy or the thread he references

[remote badge]

The answer is in the reply.

[plush yew]

Force a small movement on my character? Or dig around in c++? I'm in UE5 prerelease I'd rather not mess with c++ rn

surely there's a boolean or something.

I also can't force movement in this project it just won't work in certain contexts

[storm parcel]

Hi, please help:
When a user opens my app.exe I want it to check if their computer has DirectX installed, and if it's not then it should go ahead and install it and then launch the app.

How can I do this?

[modest trench]

package with the prereq installer

[late rover]

Hello
Is it possible to use path tracing only during rendering and not in real time?

UE4

[storm parcel]

thank you please tell me how to do so

[modest trench]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-prerequisite-in-packaged-game/419744

[storm parcel]

thanks

[plush yew]

Does unreal engine autodetect and flip OpenGL normals?

most of the maps I use are opengl and they all import and work fine

but back in 2018 they didnt

is this a new thing or did i get lucky

[acoustic vault]

Hope this isn't a wasteful post, but.. Epic Games are vague and their website doesn't make sense, and I've tried to spend an hour figuring this out. How do I DL UE5, and what can it do? Right now I'm using an engine called idtech5 for my first 3d game, and it has no documentation and support, but I've still been able to figure it out over a couple years. That being said, I don't mind if there is little resources or a high learning curve... but can I make an original map that I can walk around in with original assets? I've tried to dl ue5 early access or preview but it redirects me to 4.27.. Do I need 4.27 as a base?

[modest trench]

you have to use the epic games launcher to download different versions

you can absolutely make your own maps with your own assets

4.27 is more stable as it's a released version so we direct most people to try that out first

[acoustic vault]

Will they be relevant moving forward? My friend said I should learn 4, and that what you create in 5 early access may not work in the future.. but why not just start on 5 now if it can make levels, and stay ahead of the curve?

Ah

Let me see if I can find it on the Epic Launcher, but all I could find was a yellow DL button for 4.27, brb

[modest trench]

click the plus to add a new version

[acoustic vault]

Alright

Oh

[acoustic vault]

I don't have that option in epic launcher, or atleast I can't find it. Do I need unreal 4? I haven't dled anything, but just want the newest version of UE5 to make a level with

[modest trench]

when a new grey-out engine appears can you click this thing?

[acoustic vault]

This is what I have, I've tried all the sections. That's why I'm wondering if I need a version of 4 as a base:

[modest trench]

try "Library"

[acoustic vault]

Alright

[modest trench]

I should have screencapped the whole window, my bad

[acoustic vault]

I figured it out

Interesting how hidden it is

When I clicked on the plus of the currently dling 4.27, it added another box, then I could modify it

Strange

Thanks for your help

I'm dling 5.0 preview 1

[modest trench]

it should be preview 2 unless something weird happened

[acoustic vault]

Ah yes, preview 2

Cool

So there is something beyond early access

Also

[modest trench]

just keep in mind that while Ue5 is not a huge departure from 4 you might see somethings are moved around

[acoustic vault]

I've never used 4

[modest trench]

so the UI might be confusing if you are following a ue4 tutorial

[acoustic vault]

I'm coming here from idtech engines

But yeah

I'll see if I can substitute them

[modest trench]

95% of features will work the same though

[acoustic vault]

Any idtech engine has less community support, so this should be a walk in the park

Cool

I'll use 4 tutorials and modify them

Going to redo a level from duke nukem 3d as practice

Take care

[tiny kernel]

Zurich are you experienced or new to unreal engine?

[acoustic vault]

Completely new

[tiny kernel]

Welcome

[acoustic vault]

I've used Game Maker and Idtech engines

[tiny kernel]

Nice

Ue is easy

[modest trench]

you should get acclimated pretty fast if you are familiar with something else

[acoustic vault]

But Idtech is getting old, and I want my new game to be up to date and using new tech

Seems ue5 is the newest out there

And industry standard

Yeah, same plant, different environment

Or opposite

But yeah

Ue5 is interesting

I'd like to see if it can compare to the dark lighting or shadows

I'll have to see if there are filters or post processing

The UE5 videos are nice, but the lighting and shadows seems a bit bland

Anyways

Dling 5 now

Gnight

[acoustic vault]

Thanks for the welcome

[storm parcel]

Hi, I made a simple batch file to execute Unreal's prereq exe for first time install, and then the user can proceed to open app.exe to play the game.

What I want to do is make a batch file that checks if the user has DirectX installed already, if yes then run app.exe // if no then run prereq exe and then run app.exe

any help?

[modest trench]

afaik most prereqs installers do that as is?

I'm not sure about unreal's though

[storm parcel]

i tried, it gives a variety of different outputs on different machines. Some get DLL error, some get option to install the runtime.
Manually running the prereq exe fixes all this and installs everything

But my boss has told me I need to do what I have written above, in a single batch file

has asked me to find out if its possible actually and if yes then do it

but they'd really prefer to make that happen for reasons that are too long to explain

[rain ingot]

quick question, so I can run Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends and etc at 60-80 fps. Does that mean I can import something of that quality into unreal engine and it'll also run perfectly fine? or does unreal engine take up a lot more of your computer

[drowsy snow]

Depends on your project.

[modest trench]

generally development stuff will be heavier than the shipping build of that product

[drowsy snow]

If in doubt, always pull out the stats and profilers.

[storm parcel]

it does not directly mean that, however it doesn't mean yes or no.
It depends on your project's optimization. Someone can make a simple game but horribly optimize it and it might run shit compared to a slightly more complex but well optimized game. R6 Siege is built on some engine called Anchor or whatever and it will have different performance compared to Unreal but the final performance of 2 games depends on a lot more than that.

Your question has a lot of unanswered variables so its not possible to draw a direct conclusion. hope it helps.

[rain ingot]

ye

thx

[acoustic vault]

45 minutes later and Unreal 5 Preview 2 still says 'Please Wait'

Any idea how to get the download to work?

[opaque bone]

Hey guys I have a problem with my landscape in Unreal engine 4, is there a particular channel for such questions?

[wild hemlock]

does anyone know how to create sockets in blender for import into unreal skeletal meshes?

literally willing to pay for help.

can't figure this out for the life of me >_<

[oak patio]

It depends on the problem really

[opaque bone]

I used blueprint mode to create mountains in my scene, but when I tried to add a new component to the landscape all off a sudden they went flat

the settings stayed the same and they are still there but they dissapeared in the scene

[oak patio]

Look at the documentation on it, its smthn like an empty object that you rename to SCK_Meshname but not exactly sure

[wild hemlock]

that only works for static meshes

[oak patio]

Why not just add them in the editor, as it seems they rely on bones

[wild hemlock]

aye that seems to be the workaround the posts on the forum are using since blender has no concept of sockets

the problem i'm running into is the transform of my bones are incorrect for some reason

i'm using mr mannequin to create the rig, then simply extruded a bone from the hand

when i export the bone

into unreal, the transform is whack

[jagged cliff]

Hey! So I'm using the UnrealEngine VR Template to make a really easy room in VR. And everything seems to be working fine inside Unreal when I play it there on my Quest 2. But when I build the game and play it on my computer my eyes are floor level. Like I'm really short. tracking work fine in the Quest 2 connected to the Computer on other VR programs. I'm using Unreal Version 4.27.2. can anyone help me? 🙂

[true island]

Hello Guys! Can I get some help how can I resolve this error?

[oak patio]

Not sure how to help with this, sorry

[storm parcel]

Hi, is the following possible?

1. When a user opens my unreal app.exe for the first time on their computer, it should install the prereq.exe first then open app.exe
2. If its not their second time, it should directly open app.exe

Any solution is welcome (project settings, batch file, etc)

[drowsy snow]

So you think the bone is positioned the wrong way?

Or is it just wrong rotation?

[drowsy snow]

No, but if you distribute it through Steam or Epic, it usually automate prerequisite installs.

[storm parcel]

thank you, we cannot distribute it through anyone as its a client-specific app and only they will get it

[drowsy snow]

You could make your own installer to have it installs the prerequisites first before copying the rest of the stuff

[storm parcel]

Thanks, any terms I could google to learn to make my own installer?

[drowsy snow]

You can just use NSIS or InnoSetup to quickly put together an installer.

[storm parcel]

Thanks!

[burnt quest]

[Advice needed on choosing engine]

I plan to make top-down space shooter like Galaga with 3d character.

I have heard that UE is not good on dealing with 2D. For my plan, I will create space shooter with 2d axis but with 3d characters.

In this situation, using UE is good choice?

[drowsy snow]

Depends on which engine you're most comfortable with (and to some extent your target platform)
UE's 2D tools are not exactly elegant, but making 2.5D / 3D game is what UE excels on.

[azure nimbus]

Any reason doing the command PlayersOnly stops my game input?

[burnt quest]

Great. As I am about to start new, I don't have comfortable engine yet (But comfortable with csharp and cpp both also).

So, game with 3d graphic but with 2d axis seems ok to UE right? (As it is not complete 2D)

[drowsy snow]

Yes, and it could be doable with just BPs
||That is until you're getting into bullet hell territory, C++ is going to be required for more performance||

[burnt quest]

Oh, it is great point. As my game will use so so so many bullets, I will find information about it.

Thanks for letting me catch it!

[storm parcel]

anyone know how to use InnoSetup to run Unreal prereq exe during its setup and then finish setup after prereq is finished

[stark stratus]

Hey everyone, i have a question: when i alt + drag to copy a datasmith imported actor it only copys the root actor. not the whole thing any idea why?

And whn i select with all decendants it does work just wondering why it doenst when i select the root

[real heath]

Because the other actors aren't really "within" that actor, just attached. If you select all of them in the world outliner by holding shift and clicking, then alt dragging will duplicate all

[stark stratus]

ahyeah, wierd tho that they arent "connected" while it looks that way cause its made in c4d

its in the hieracy so there it moves with it

same goes for ue4 it moves but not copys hahae

[real heath]

It will move with it within the viewport, but won't duplicate

Yeah

[stark stratus]

seems strange haha but okay

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[real heath]

It's helpful to not think of it as ownership or containing, but just as an attachment

You are just pinning transforms

[stark stratus]

yeah thats a good one!

is there a way tho to make it that way so i copy the root and the rest copys with?

[real heath]

Only if you collapse all of those actors into one actor. If you represented that same hierarchy but with components in the actor, it would work as you expect

[stark stratus]

but that not the way to work commenlly?

[real heath]

There's also the concept of sub actors, which I think you can add as a component, but I haven't really touched that much

[real heath]

Depends on what you are doing, and the scale of it. If you are doing a car configurator, that will likely be all components. If you are doing a very detailed building or city, you probably want multiple actors for scene management.

Basically, it depends

[stark stratus]

Hm okay! cool thanks for anwsering!

[real heath]

No problem

[wild hemlock]

i think the rotation is wrong

[atomic arch]

So I've been using this method to switch between widgets and it works well but after a while of switching between widgets, the game fps takes a massive dip. Any ideas on a method that wouldn't affect the fps so majorly.

[drowsy snow]

That's axis complications for you.

[warped falcon]

Hi, new here. Which channel to talk about a UE4 editor bug that i'm experiencing?

[oak patio]

Use a widget switcher

In terms of fps drops, it doesnt look like you are ever destroying the old menus, but yeah, use a widget switcher

[atomic arch]

ok thankyou

[red condor]

I think this channel is fine for that

[drowsy snow]

Editor bug...

NVIDIA user?

[atomic arch]

So I tried using the widget switcher but it begins to over complicate the code any ideas on a solution to switch without having so much code. or at least a method to make the code a little less scrambled.

[drowsy snow]

You could have the child of the widget switcher to be their own user widgets, though depending on what you're doing, it can either make it easy or difficult for reading values from actor references

[warped falcon]

Yes, double click behaviour issues on menus and with right click on viewport, visual glitches when hovering over menus, my mouse is fine.. is this an nvidia issue?

[atomic arch]

the only thing the widget cast to are the keyboard bp actor in which it call an event from it, and also it cast to the game instance to get variables

[drowsy snow]

Yes. It's a common NVIDIA issue with Unreal Editor, so much so that pinned messages has some posts on it.

[warped falcon]

ok, thanks, will check pinned messages, is this problem fixed for people? it can be nvidia's driver issue i guess

[drowsy snow]

Blame Jensen Huang and his leather jacket.

AMD users have no such problem with Unreal Editor, even with latest drivers.

[warped falcon]

hmm...

[atomic arch]

how would I do that ? and is there a way to have other widget appear on a seperate widget like have a widget switcher on one widget and use it to switch the others.

[drowsy snow]

Make a new widget and move the contents and BPs there

[atomic arch]

ill try but the individual widgets have about 5 functions and 4 widgets each

[azure lance]

Hello

[wild hemlock]

is there a way to see from the perspective of a camera in a blue pritn editor?

i want to position my arms correctly but

i dont know how it looks like haha

[drowsy snow]

No, you really have to either move the viewport to the camera or adjust the transform in the main level viewport.

[tribal river]

Here something I can’t seem to wrap my head around, if the unreal character is 6ft tall and I make a 4by4 km landscape that is just 2.5 miles in a straight line….is this correct because that’s huge in unreal but that’s not so huge at the same time

[thick herald]

If you make your character 1 foot all and a landscape 4 by 4 km, it's still 2.5 miles... 😄

[wary sail]

hey super smart people

if you're so smart

[tribal river]

Yeah but how can 4km look so huge when it’s only 2.5 miles it takes an hour to get a cross the map just regular speed lol

[wary sail]

how do I easily lighten billboard sprites in a landscape?

[red condor]

average human walking speed is about 3 miles an hour

[wary sail]

no matter what I do the landscape is wayyy bright than the billboard sprites

no idea why the discrepancy, even with sky light

I guess because the sun is coming from overhead so it doesn't hit their front face?

[tribal river]

Have you gone into the post process and go to exposure and set the min and max to 1?

[wary sail]

nah that just overexposes the landscape

[tribal river]

It shouldn’t

[wary sail]

it's how the foliage billboards and being struck by the angle over overhead light

[tribal river]

It should actually dim everything

[wary sail]

aight let me try

[tribal river]

This hurts my head I suck at measuring

[drowsy snow]

It hurts even more because it's not metric

[tribal river]

It’s not?

[red condor]

i'm in the uk so everything is stupid here anyway

[drowsy snow]

Miles (±1.6km) isn't metric, so does inches (2.54 cm)

Though it could be worse cough freedom imperial units

[red condor]

yeah haha o god

a trip to the greengrocer here is a nightmare

[drowsy snow]

At least UE use metric by default despite being made in the US

IIRC Source unit is an inch

[red condor]

Am I correct that a higher resolution heightmap will give me a more accurate representation of the original geometry, but that only the resolution of the Landscape itself will affect performance in game?

[dusky gate]

please can someone help. I have an unreal project where I'm creating a building from models I've made in Maya and at home, I can open the unreal project all fine works perfectly but as soon as I put the project on my hard drive and take it into the university classroom I try and open it on the computers there and the project has turned itself into a text file I come home and its an unreal file but at uni, its a text file please could someone help I'm really confused.

[tribal river]

Probably not the right version?

[dusky gate]

there both un real engine 4 i think

[tribal river]

4.xx

[dusky gate]

???

[tribal river]

Well you need to know what version is at your school

[tribal river]

Most schools actually don’t have unreal installed so that’s probably the problem

[dusky gate]

they do have unreal

[tribal river]

Well if it’s the same version it should open up have you tried open with?

[tribal river]

So your saying because I’m a dumb American I can’t measure correctly lmao

[dusky gate]

next time i go in i'll check what version is on there computers

[drowsy snow]

No, but Imperial measurement is complicated.

I'm not going to attack your nationality

[oak patio]

A lot of large institutions dont install the software on every computer, but instead page it from a server, try launchung unreal then opening the uproject

@dusky gate

[dusky gate]

what do u mean by page it from the server

[red condor]

It means the software is stored on one machine, and accessed by the others. Launching Unreal and then opening the project from inside unreal will work, if the uni version is the same. If their version is newer you will have an option to make a copy of your project and upgrade it to the new version. If it is older however you will not be able to open your project, so hopefully they keep up with the new versions.

@dusky gate also to clarify your file didn't 'turn into a text file' - the computer probably just opens -any file- it doesn't recognise in notepad

Hope that makes sense 👍

[drowsy snow]

.uproject files are essentially JSON text files, and if the file association don't work even with Unreal installed, you can open UE4Editor.exe and look for the project file in the project selection window.

[dusky gate]

ok thanks this is really helpful

[unborn ingot]

okay I'm probably doing something dumb wrong but why is this cast failing?

[tame marsh]

Is there a way to start a project and ignore all plugins installed for the engine?

So just use the project's plugin folder?

[fierce tulip]

if you open the uproject in a text editor you can disable any active (used) plugin iirc.

[thick herald]

I'm still happy that VR is no longer default enabled. I'll still be happy about that in years to come.

[atomic arch]

used the collet garbage node in a widget to try void frame drops from creating widgets any idea what i could use instead to delete widgets

[oak patio]

You need to remove from parent, of you havent changed any nodes then you still arent removing created widgets

Use a widget switcher and then you dint need this mess

It is what it is made for

[tame marsh]

I guess I can do that and cross-reference to what's in the project's plug-in folder. I just had the issue where I sent a project over to a teammate and I thought I had ALL plugins included but there was still one being loaded at the engine-level

[unkempt stone]

Hihi, didn't really know where to send it but I have an suggestion for epic games launcher. I would love to see that we can also give our projects categories. At the moment its all piling up and I dont know what project to open sometimes 😅 (also a me problem but I think this would be a handy feature)

[tardy flower]

Anyone having issues with UE5 versions the last day or two? Me and my partner both use preview 2 but it claims things are different versions:
Please @tardy flower if you have a solution or idea

[remote badge]

uninstall the older version

[remote badge]

you literally print the debug string even if the cast is successful

[spark leaf]

Hi all, I've started experiencing some crashes with UE4 when running my project in StandAlone mode.... its not pretty much consistently happening everytime. It's generating some error logs/files, not entirely sure how to garner much information from that. The best I could find was searching the file for <IsCrashed>true</IsCrashed> - this found an entry in the log which stated the "Render Thread 1" has crashed. I have no idea why, or what's causing it.

Weirdly, it was killing the standalone version of the game, at the moment, the game runs, on the main menu UE4 throws the crashed window (options to report it etc), but the game will actually continue to run/play. When I close the game, UE4 has closed in the background.

I've run the project through a "Cook for Windows" and there are no errors reported. Noticed this happening as of yesterday after setting a custom mouse cursor in the project settings to use a UMG Widget, but I dont often run it in StandAlone mode, so could have been happening for a while. Using 4.26.2 (can't upgrade that as its for a uni project that has to be submitted using that version).

Anyone have any ideas? If I share the logs/files on here from the error report, would anyone be able/willing to take a look and shed some light on this for me please?

I should add... running the game in the Viewport, no issues at all... although there's an odd little delay at the beginning, and I'm wondering whether the same issue is occuring, but perhaps its getting caught by the editor somehow?

[rotund scroll]

could be some sort of assert or ensure failing

I'd try and add visual studio to the project and see if you can catch any info from behind the scenes

[drowsy snow]

If it's a C++ project, you can open the .sln file and try debugging Development or Shipping configuration (not to be confused with Development Editor)

[spark leaf]

I'm actually wondering if its related to graphics drivers at the moment... don't think its actually the game itself....

I recently updated the nvidia drivers to 511.79.. since doing so I get a lot of issues trying to launch Fortnite... eventually it will run, but crashes many times first... now UE4 is doing the same thing... in the list of dll's it shows in the initial crash window, the first is this:
nvwgf2umx

When I searched for that, lots of posts appear about updating graphics drivers etc....

The project itself is just showing UMG on the main menu, doesn't do anything clever at all etc...

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
nvwgf2umx
d3d11
d3d11
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
dxgi
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_D3D11RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_RHI
UE4Editor_SlateRHIRenderer
UE4Editor_SlateRHIRenderer
UE4Editor_SlateRHIRenderer
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_RenderCore
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

[drowsy snow]

Oh yeah, NVIDIA drivers are oddballs. See pinned message for some posts on that regard.

[spark leaf]

will take a look-see now...

[tame marsh]

Has this issue been fixed in the last NVidia drivers? #ue4-general message

[drowsy snow]

I won't be surprised if it wasn't.

(I'm team Red btw)

[spark leaf]

Yeah... that was resolved a while ago.... it was a p.i.t.a that one.... there is a setting you could turn off... I forget what it was called now... but that resolved it... or you could use the studio drivers...

I can't seem to find these pinned posts you mentioned @drowsy snow ?

[drowsy snow]

This might be related
#ue4-general message

[spark leaf]

I think I might have discovered why it seemingly only just started affecting my project....

...I updated the Play button on the UI yesterday, its using overlay, image, text and button widgets to create the actual button. I noticed that I had made the visual bigger, but not the button widget... when I changed that I noted that I had the Draw As set to "Image", so changed it to "None"... just changed that back to "Box" instead, and I get no more crashes....

...that would explain why its from the main menu,..

...and why it didn't start until yesterday...

might explain the access violation also..

hmm... utter red hearing... it just crashed again... f00k...

think I'll roll back the drivers and see if that helps.

[sly vine]

guys i want to ask something i hope you can help and answer me

i see in unreal doc intersting thinig that now the engine can read cooked assets

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/CookedContent/

i have a game made with ue4.17 and i want to put his assets in ue4.26 it does show the assets , but i can open them to read it , not edit , just to see and read them

cant , its crash the editor

[oak patio]

Why not port the uassets over from your 4.17 project

[sly vine]

its old project that i was lost and try to recover my blueprints

so i saw the engine can attach them but none of them cant be open as its crash

[oak patio]

The docs say there are issues with using that system for blueprints

[sly vine]

yes i see , maybe theay i will improve it in the feature

[hexed otter]

I am looking at what I need to do to create a harvesting/gathering system for a project I am working on.

One thing I'm trying to research is changing a static mesh to a movable/dynamic mesh that can be interacted with as the player approaches. Is this possible?

Is there a better way?

I plan to have a very large map, and as a multiplayer survival game, and would like most vegitation to be interactable.

I very much appreciate any thoughts/posts/links!

[eternal knoll]

ammm quick question how worried should i be if i cant use unreal blueprint editor in full screen and when i try to use right click it like passes through the window and shows the backround?

[grim ore]

restart the editor, try again

[eternal knoll]

i did that and it still hapends

[grim ore]

so what do you mean by full screen?

[eternal knoll]

like when you press the litle square for the window to fill the screen

[grim ore]

weird, it should default to full screen

seems like a pc issue and not the editor, it should default to full screen

[eternal knoll]

aha

guess my pc doesnt like it when it full screen

[atomic arch]

any place to post in progress projects ?

[oak patio]

#work-in-progress

[shut nova]

where do I plug-in my billboard material into my final LOD without changing all the LOD materials?

[upbeat spoke]

Is there an easy way to rename stuff in the world outliner?

[red condor]

i think F2 should work for a selected item

[upbeat spoke]

yea, that works great... hoping there's a way to rename in bulk

[drowsy snow]

You could make an Editor Utility Widget in BP

Though haven't checked if you can actually for each loop on assets in a folder.

[red condor]

not sure if there's a native way, it can be done by creating an editor utility blueprint (or in c++)

ninja'd

[red condor]

you can 👍

Get Assets By Path will array a specific folder, or work recursively

[shut nova]

So you make a 3rd element slot as the billboard mat first , and then apply that element 2 to the LOD?

[red condor]

btw @upbeat spoke its worth knowing that widgets aren't actually required to use editor utility blueprints, but if this is something you want to be able to reuse with different names/asset paths then the widget will mean you don't have to go editing the blueprint every time you want to change the path/name, instead you can create a simple interface in the widget to let you do that.

[upbeat spoke]

Thanks. What I'm really trying to do is get the wrold outliner labels to match the names of the assets (they were renamed)

[red condor]

yeah, you can do that. You'd loop through selected actors, get the mesh name, extract the part of the string you need if necessary, then rename the actor using that string

(if you have multiple actors using the same mesh you'd want to add in an increasing number, unless Unreal would just do that for you)

[zealous galleon]

can someone help me with something really simple?
it's a medkit similar to Duke Nukem 3D and other games
I just to find out how like
let's say the medkit have 100HP
player has 96

when the player uses it, his health gets adds to 100 and the medkit goes HP down to 96
I just can't figure out the math behind it
any help would be greatly appreciated

[drowsy snow]

Clamp.

[zealous galleon]

that's not what I'm looking for

[drowsy snow]

Oh shit, sorry, just reread your question. I play Doom more than Duke3D, forgive me.

[zealous galleon]

no worries

you played Blood?

Blood Fresh Supply

[drowsy snow]

TBH I never really play Build games 😂

[zealous galleon]

it's fine 😂

[drowsy snow]

My brain is too tired for math rn, maybe someome else will do the algo later lol

Sorry 😅

[zealous galleon]

hopefully, my brain is a bit fried as well

[zealous galleon]

no worries! 🍻

[thick herald]

[Health pack - [Player Max Health - Player Current health] ]

[rain ingot]

I want to make it so that when the player is not in sight the tanks won't rotate or shoot. Right now I'm just having it check if the tank is in the distance and if it is then it rotates to the pawn position and fires a projectile. How can I go about doing this?

[drowsy snow]

A simple line trace towards player should do.

[rain ingot]

alr I was thinking of that too but I was also thinking that I needed to get the region or something

but I can just have a line follow the tank every frame right

and if something is in the way then it wont do anything

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, it's pretty cheap.

If you want to micro optimise, you might want to not do the line trace if player's out of the turret's firing range/distance

[rain ingot]

alr ill do that

[winter stream]

for some reason the player can go through this wall specifically in the red square i think this is because of the negative static mesh scale is there a solution ?

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried viewing the collisions?

[calm widget]

I don't think this is very optimal. But i couldn't figure out a better way to do it. Pretty sure it lags because of the flip flop i have. Any suggestions?

Tried to make it clear to read

[winter stream]

Is this what you mean?

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[winter stream]

well what does this color mean?

[lilac owl]

I am having a few rigged models on blender. when i import them into unreal the model returns to its "normal" state without the edits i've made to the skeleton. I haven't really imported any FBXs with an armature before to be honest. can anyone clear things out please?

[drowsy snow]

Make an animation keyframe of it. Even with just 1 frame.

[haughty hound]

Hi. Do u guys use some Chrome extension to avoid getting interrupted in youtube when ur following a tutorial? Currently using uBlock Origin but i get interrupted too

[lilac owl]

on blender or unreal?

[drowsy snow]

#lounge

[drowsy snow]

Blender.

[lilac owl]

oookay i will try that and hope it will work out. Thank you in advance

[haughty hound]

ta

[lilac owl]

sorry for the ping but i made a simple keyframe with the location of the object on blender, i export it as an FBX and i am getting the same"problem" on UE

[drowsy snow]

Do you have the animation imported to UE?

[hushed stag]

hi, does anyone know how to specify console variables project-wide? I can specify them in DefaultDeviceProfiles.ini but then i need to add the variable to each existing device (Android, Windows, iOS, etc.).

[drowsy snow]

Also don't just right click on the skelmesh asset and click Reimport

[lilac owl]

hmm when i import it on UE i get 3 contents, the mesh the skeleton and the physics

i guess i need to check the import animation on the bottom

[rain ingot]

I'm having trouble with the collision channels, which one should I be using?

for it to hit all the objects in the world

[drowsy snow]

Visible

[spark leaf]

Hi all, wasn't entirely sure which channel this fitted best in...

I have added a custom mouse cursor via the project settings, setting the "Default" cursor to use a widget blueprint. Appears to be working - but...

Since adding it, and one other change (that I'm aware of), sometimes when you click a button it doesn't seem to fire... its triggering the different states like hover/unhover etc, and pressed appears to be triggering when I click on the button with a mouse, but it can take 4 or 5 attempts before a clicked is registered... I'm not entirely sure why this is...

Its only happening on one button, and this button also had another change made to it in the same period of time, I noticed that the actual Button widget was smaller than the actual image (horizontally), so I increased its width. In additon, the draw type was set to "image" from memory, and I set it to "box" like all of the others...

I'm having difficulties trying to establish why the "clicked" even isn't triggering but pressed is?

Diagnosing... I've removed the custom cursor and added PRINT nodes for the onClicked and onPressed events, both for the Play and Options buttons...

Options triggers Pressed and Clicked immediately afterwards, consistently, every time...
Play triggers Pressed consistently every time but Clicked seems to be utterly random... doesn't seem to be related to the position of the mouse over the button... or how many times it gets pressed..

[mental shale]

oh boy, anyone know why a project would start crashing like this on startup? Ive already tried reinstalling my graphics drivers

[drowsy snow]

Or rather, have you compiled C++ code without closing the editor?

[vernal dock]

does ue4 support xcode 13

[mental shale]

I dont think so, I only work in blueprints

it crashed before while working with a blueprint

[frozen zinc]

has anyone packed up games in snapcraft kind of packages?

[mental shale]

then when i tried restarting, it gave me this

[hidden oar]

Gut check.... Learning Unreal.

Using the "landscape grass type" for random tree placements.... Good idea? bad idea? Assuming keeping the density very low?

[drowsy snow]

#virtual-reality

[fast moon]

thanx

[drowsy snow]

I'm not really sure about performance, but I don't think it's a good idea, considering trees are large enough for more manual placement

[spark leaf]

#ue4-general message <- anyone? 😕

[thick herald]

landscape grass types won't have collision though at least I'm sure I read that somewhere, so your trees would be ghost trees 😄

[obtuse lotus]

Is there a command similar to Show Collision that shows physics assets while playing?

[hidden oar]

hmm, ok.

[hidden oar]

I'm building a flight sim style game, so manually plaing that many trees would be extremely tedious. It does seem to work pretty well with a density of like.. 0.05, but wondering if there are any other downfalls I should be aware of.

[drowsy snow]

Flight sim, so the ghost trees might be justified there 🤔

[hidden oar]

yea...

It actually looks surprisingly good

Just upped the ground fog to help hide the fade out

[drowsy snow]

Well, if it works then go for it.

[hidden oar]

eh, in game, not so great. Hmm... back to the drawing board

[shut nova]

I just did LOD auto and set it to 3 LODs. Should it show up then?

[hidden oar]

I guess it will depend on the asset

[thick herald]

Try the procedural foliage volume, it's very powerful and can distribute foliage assets in a similar way to the landscape grass functions. Probably better really.

[hidden oar]

Hmm.... ok 🙂 Thank you! I'm guessing it works the same as the grass node (ie, can tie to a landscape layer)

[thick herald]

yup, it will also give you more control over placement.

[hidden oar]

Amazing, thanks so much for the help!

[thick herald]

I've used it for trees, grasses, rocks etc. It may take a bit of time to understand how it all works of course but it should help you get what you need.

[hidden oar]

Thanks! I'll try it now

[hearty verge]

I've played several indie/gamejam games made with UE4 and one thing that always seems to be the case is that they very often make the computer work very hard - even though it's low poly and lightweight in terms of diskspace.
Theres rarely any FPS issues or stuttering, the computer simply runs really hot or fans are working at high speed.
Any general tips to avoid this?

[thin tendon]

@hearty verge I found if you just optimise properly and turn the settings down you can get your games running extremely low end.

[flat pewter]

is there a channel for performance/unreal insights related topics?

[drowsy snow]

Lower down the scalability settings by console command or config files, and forgive the developers.

Game jams are made in a very short amount of time (from just a couple of days to a couple of weeks), and they have to have gameplay working within the small time frame. They won't have enough time to implement scalability settings or fully fledged options menu.

[lime gull]

Quick question, im making a turn based RPG and would like to have multiple enemies in the battle at some point. I would like to cast to the specific enemies hp, without having to cast to every enemy in the game
So how would I go about knowing which enemy to cast to ( No idea if that makes any sense )

[dire fjord]

Apparently some mod is going through mass archiving posts on the forums, because as we know, no one ever replies to a post a month after the last activity... 🤪

[drowsy snow]

Simply pick one enemy from the array of enemies in the current battle, and apply damage to it.

For quality of life, you could also do a check if the targeted enemy died and removed from the array before doing the attack, if yes, then pick another enemy in the array.

[lime gull]

Id also need to be able to get access to other stats ( like status effects, or buffs / debuffs )
Hence why Id need to get a reference to the variables inside the individual actors

[drowsy snow]

Same thing applies. Just get an enemy in the selected index and fetch the ailments it has.

Turn based could be easier as you don't have to worry much about getting/setting at all times.

Btw, you can make array out of almost anything, even object references.

[lime gull]

Im just having an issue with figuring out how to edit specific actor variables without casting to every enemy I made

For instance, id like enemies to have an HP stat, Attack, Defense, etc
When choosing an enemy to attack id like that specific character to reference those variables and edit them. Like if a character uses an attack that decreases defense, id like to get access to the HP and Defense stats

Not sure if im explaining this correctly at all

Like when I get the actor in the array, I cant just break the actor into the variables because different blueprints may have different variables to reference

[nimble crater]

Can someone point me in the direction on how to change the ID Name of an Actor to match the Display Name like this?

[plush yew]

whats the node to change the base color?

i dont know whats its called but basically i just want to change the cubes color

[muted plinth]

Hello community,

I wanted to reach out with a question/issue regarding baked lighting and level loading.

Currently I'm building a VR demo and having a hard time with lightmass importance volumes. When I load a baked SL the importance volumes seem to disappear.

Is there a way to keep them from disappearing so I don't have bake all my levels at the same time?

Any insight or help on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated.

[plush yew]

how come i cant post in #freelance-jobs or anything of that section here?

[tribal leaf]

Make all your characters derive from the same base class.

[lime gull]

Yea thats what I was thinking, I gotta figure out how to set that up. Never worked with it before

[tribal leaf]

That's how I have it in my game. I have a Base Class where I store a struct that has all of the stats, HP, MP, HPMAX, MPMAX, etc etc. Then, we you get the array of the Base Class, you can check all the variables no matter what kind of subclass it is.

[plush yew]

ahem

[tribal leaf]

It's pretty easy to set up. The reason why I used a struct is so I could save the character stats when I saved the game. I found it easier to just save the struct, which has all the variables in it..

[lime gull]

Thats exactly how I was thinking of doing it haha
When you set up subclasses did you create child actors from a main actor? Or how did you set that up?

[tribal leaf]

That's correct. The main actor doesn't really do much, though. For my "main" actor, which I call BaseBattleUnit, it is nothing but a holder of those variables and it has an actor attached to the RSocket and LSocket for the weapons/shields

It also has a skeletalMesh for the character, of course.

So after you create the child, you can just change the skeletalMesh

[lime gull]

Mines all in pixelart

So same principal just different form

[tribal leaf]

Right

[lime gull]

Do child classes not just automatically inherit the parents variables? ( Again, never worked with child actors so im not sure )

[tribal leaf]

That's correct

Well, it does more than that but that's one thing.

[lime gull]

Its weird cause in the child class I have set up the variables arent showing up, but I cant make a variable with the same name as one in the parent

And exposing on spawn and making it instance editable doesnt make it appear either

[rotund scroll]

no collision

and no reason, you don't gain anything

[hidden oar]

Makes sense... thanks for the reply

[tribal leaf]

The variables in the parent class should show up in the child class but you definitely can't create the same variable with the same name.

[lime gull]

Yea I can call on the parent class variable in the event graph ( And even change it independently from the parent class which is perfect ) But it doesnt show up in the variables list

Which I guess isnt all that bad cause I still have a reference to the parent variables

[hidden oar]

Does anyone know why this keeps happening when painting? It doesn't load... it just stays the alpha/hex pattern 😦

[tribal leaf]

Oh, I see... I don't think it would show up in the variable list. Think of if you created this in C++, you wouldn't see the parent variables in the .h file of the child class.

I think it's working as designed.

[rotund scroll]

too many texture samplers perhaps?

[lime gull]

Aah okay, thank you for the help though, I do believe thats exactly what I need

[hidden oar]

Just one texture sampler 😦

[rotund scroll]

dunno then, probably better to ask in #graphics

[hidden oar]

Thanks 🙂

[tribal leaf]

Great. Good Luck. Sounds like we are making a similar game. Let me know how you handle your AI. I use the Gambit system from FFXII.

• a modified version of it.

[lime gull]

Im probably just gonna do random integers that control everything
Pure RNG

[tribal leaf]

Nice

[plush yew]

in blender you have the color ramp to change the color, whats the node called in ue4?

[rotund scroll]

what's a color ramp?

[plush yew]

a node that lets you change the texture color

[rotund scroll]

hmm looking at it I don't think there is a direct equivalent

but a lerp node can do some of that

in combination with other nodes

[devout whale]

Hello, is there a channel where I can post a Google form link? It's for a school project and would help me alot for the information gathered.

[bleak zodiac]

#more-resources

[lavish smelt]

As someone just coming into unreal engine, should i learn on UE4 or download the UE5 and start with that?

[modest trench]

they are 95% the same except for some UI buttons got moved around/resized

it won't matter too much if you are just learning

most ue4 learning resources will apply to 5

normally we say start with 4 first just because it is more stable though

https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3756115

[winter zenith]

"UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): ERROR: (GAMENAMe) modifies the value of GlobalDefinitions. This is not allowed, as (GAMENAME) has build products in common with UE4Game.
Does anyone know why this is giving this error? Thanks

[modest trench]

you defined a global definition in one module and not the other

I assume

[grim violet]

Is it possible to see the time/duration of the current camera cut in sequencer?

All I can see is frames but I want to know how long my sequence is before I render it

[hybrid sorrel]

I'm using 5.0.0 Preview 2, I don't see the Fetch Class API Node. Anyone?

[hybrid sorrel]

Had to manually import the Plugin from Github.

[past pumice]

what are some good character creators. Ones that give a model with a skeletal mesh and all. Dont need to be high fidelity or anything

would be a big help

[fallen marten]

Does anyone have a good trick to delete an asset reference In the asset reference viewer? The link won't break, and hitting delete doesnt do shit

[fallen marten]

Try MakeHuman - it's free and open source

[rose sleet]

Hey quick question, I know you're able to add 2 different heightmaps into 1 level but im sure how to actually add the 2nd one. Does anyone else know?

[thick mist]

Has anyone tried Generate Optimized Blueprint Component Data option?

[hexed heron]

Hello guys Does ultra dynamic sky works good in UE5 ?

[astral phoenix]

Hello, im wondering if some1 can help me? Im trying to change the starter player model inside the ''TPS Multiplayer Pack'' to a different model, but im stuck in a T-Pose how can i fix that? i changed the animations inside the blueprint of the blendspace, but still nothing :/
please help 🙂

[pallid olive]

hi if i want to use gamelift from amezon do i need to do any code in Vs19?

[red condor]

did you click 'create' (i think that's the option) at the bottom of the landscape create panel? If you can still see the rough green wireframe then the first landscape hasn't been created yet, so going to landscape mode will just return to the creation. Once you've clicked that option you'll be able to add the second landscape

[rose sleet]

I’ve already made a landscape and I pressed imported the file for the height map because I already had one but I can’t seem to find how to add another one

[fresh pulsar]

Hey guys!

I'm using unreal for a 2d game project so I thought I'd come here to get advice along the way lol

It'll be my first time finishing a game project

[fierce tulip]

hello and good luck :)

[fresh pulsar]

Thanks I'll need it lol

Making an entire 2d platformer by the end of may

In UE4 at that

[fierce tulip]

plenty of 2d platformers being made in ue4, it just takes a little to get used to :)

[fresh pulsar]

Yeah, I do hear its one of the weaker parts of UE though

I'm used to just making basic 3d projects in UE

[fierce tulip]

the only thing weaker is the handholding.

[fresh pulsar]

Idk people tell me specialised 2D engines are usually a better pick

Even my game dev teacher

[fierce tulip]

because of more handholding :p

[fresh pulsar]

Hm

Okay

Wow all the moderators seem to work at actual game studios, dang

@fierce tulip have you worked anywhere cool?

[fierce tulip]

I only freelance, but https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,349688/
and those only mention finished games

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Raphael Hassell#8364 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[fresh pulsar]

Oooo cool

[red condor]

after creating the first landscape, in landscape mode, change from sculpt to manage tab and then click new

now you can import another heightmap 👍

[tender ember]

Hello I have a problem. My model looks white although the materials are fine. I asked quixel support and it didn't work. The model itself looks much better but it is still white. If my model looks white but the material looks fine what else can I do to fix it?

[past pumice]

thanks so much for the recommendation. This was just what i needed

[plush yew]

Is Unreal 2D even a thing? I’ve never heard of it lol

[charred briar]

Anybody know how I set element 1 to None

I've tried clearing it and that just restores it to the UE4 chest logo

[fierce tulip]

need to create a mask material that is 100% masked out, and use that as a replacement.

[rotund scroll]

if you click on the drop down, there should be an option for Clear

[fierce tulip]

clear doesnt result in it not being visible though :p

[astral phoenix]

Can someone help me? Im trying to change the starter player model inside the ''TPS Multiplayer Pack'' to a different model, but im stuck in a T-Pose how can i fix that? i tried google and youtube nothing works :/

[rose sleet]

Ah ok, I’ll have a look soon. Thank you!

[exotic thicket]

Anyone know of a good method for enabling/disabling certain sets of actors from your level without having to actually delete them? Are sublevels good for this, since you can have them always loaded normally, and then set it to blueprint loaded if you want to turn the actors on that off?

[charred briar]

doesn't make in invisible though

[charred briar]

yea that's the problem

[fierce tulip]

hence me telling you how to do it

#ue4-general message

[charred briar]

Oh thanks didn't see that

theres no way to just remove the element all together?

[fierce tulip]

not unless you import it into your dcc and remove it.

[thick herald]

Might be an option in the thingy tools?

thingy isn't much help I know

[charred briar]

alr thanks

[thick herald]

modeling tools maybe - there are material options there

[fierce tulip]

not sure they allow you to edit skelmeshes

[thick herald]

ah, skelies - missed that.

[dapper orchid]

does anyone know why when i reload my project my BP with media players/ footage playing load as a solid white or black? its being really strange

[opal cedar]

Hmmm, I'm not sure but have you redirected the footages before from one folder to another? Things could go wrong during that process (To solve it, simply just fix up redirectors)

Thats all I can think of

[opal cedar]

but it doesnt have the import mesh option, does that matter?

Export the mesh in what way?

Cant export meshes other than fbx right?

Hmmmm, that might be the case

Thanks, I'll get right back to it

It appears I have un-parented some parts from that model, causing fbx errors

Thanks man! @plush yew

[hollow cairn]

hey, I made a static mesh from some geometry brush I had in the level but now it doesn't have collision?

[pine siren]

Should it matter where in a level a SkyLight is placed?

[red condor]

this is helpful: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-skylight-in-ue4/113646

(normally, it doesn't matter)

[red condor]

It is, look up Paper2d if you're interested in learning more

(unreal is definitely more geared towards 3d though)

[plush yew]

Alright cool! I’ll check this out sometime

[lapis ore]

I have a gun with a light that turns off/on when firing. I am seeing specular reflection, maybe lighting, leaking through a wall. What would cause that?

[red condor]

you should post a screenshot

[acoustic tangle]

If I wanted to add voice recognition to my project, what are my options and how complicated it could get?

[lapis ore]

It's work stuff, I don't want to risk getting in NDA trouble, sorry.

[red condor]

I understand 👍 If you don't get any answers maybe just quickly make the same setup with a light and a cube in a blank level/project so people can see what's happening, or to help you diagnose further

[lapis ore]

thanks, I will keep trouble-shooting

[astral phoenix]

Hey can some1 help me with this white screen? when i try to play my game in local, ''player 2'' get white screen but ''player 1'' is normal, how can i fix that? 🙂
https://gyazo.com/51333b430548386e35e50d6f0883d458

[heady quartz]

Does anyone know if it’s possible to create a similar system in unreal engine as the “lattice” modifier in blender?

[thick herald]

There is one in the modelling tools.

[heady quartz]

Does it work during runtime?

[runic grail]

I have a question,
why doesnt "advanced copy" with generate dependencies not copy over texture that the material uses if they are in the plugins folder

[drifting geode]

i am generating lights via construction script but those don't seem to be visible for light baking. is there anything i am missing?

[grave isle]

Looks like it’s to do with exposure compensation on your camera(s) - my guess is you’re applying the same automatic exposure adjustment to two scenes with very different luminance values. Try setting exposure to ‘manual’ on all of your cameras, and see if that helps you troubleshoot.

[thick herald]

nope, editor only.

[grave isle]

By default a light component in a construction script is ‘movable’. Is it possible they still are?

[rotund scroll]

if you want any kind of editor esque functionality during runtime you'd have to make it yourself

[drifting geode]

thx Alex, yeah made sure mobility is set to static. currently checking if there are any other settings which might need to be set, but I am wondering if this is a limitation of the engine. maybe the light baker only collects the actual present lights in the outliner..

[grave isle]

I don’t remember running into that as a limitation in the past, but I’m about to kick off a bake that has lights in a construction script, so I can check. Are you using CPU or GPU lightmass?

[drifting geode]

CPU lightmass

strangely the editor also does not tell me that lighing has to be rebuild when generating lights via construction script

[livid pecan]

Hi all, i'm stuck on a problem: i have a pawn with a static mesh component. clicking on it doesn't fire On Clicked events. Any clue what i should check? (collision boxes have been generated. i have another actor with a different mesh and it works. if i try to click on the actor, it actually click the actor behind, like it's invisible)

[grave isle]

I just made a fresh blueprint actor, added a point light component, set it to ‘static’, and dragged it into a new empty scene. Working as expected in 4.27.1 - I get the flag that the lighting needs to be rebuilt, and it builds as expected with CPU lightmass. For your sanity, might be worth duplicating that test, since it’ll only take a minute or so.

Is your construction script in a level set to ‘Blueprint’ or ‘always loaded’?

[drifting geode]

hmmm strange

just did that... where do I set the load option?

oh, seems like "manual attachment" enabled does something. checked it, and now I get the message that lighting needs to rebuild

[plush yew]

Hi anyone knows why in the retarget menu my character doesn't appear?

any lightning tricks for night scenes to make them look dark but at the same time bright? like applying overall layer to the whole scene and make it look alive (fixing pitch black places)

[drifting geode]

ok no it works exactly as you decribed... strange 🙂
but thanks a lot

[astral phoenix]

do u mean my player camera?

[glacial wyvern]

Does anyone remember this I think UE4 (possibly unity i cant remember) project where it was first person melee horde survival against hundereds or possibly thousands of enemies? I think I remember seeing it on youtube a couple times maybe 3 or 4 years back. I cant seem to find it now

[shadow osprey]

Does anyone know if you can make a DLL using Unreal Engine? Only information regarding DLL's that I see is importing them... Like for example, can I make a new Unreal Engine project, open up the project in Visual Studio, create a new DLL project, and somehow use Unreal Engine code inside of there (for example use FString and UE_LOG)?

@plush yew hmmm okay I'll look into it... If I was to make one of these "modules" would I then be able to load the resulting DLL through a non UE solution (such as C++ command prompt solution) and call the exported functions?

Thanks!

[brisk obsidian]

Assuming you're looking for making dlls that you can use outside of Unreal, there's bShouldCompileAsDLL which you can set in your target.cs. It's not particularly well documented but you can find an example of where I compile a subsection of unreal as a dll to create a plugin for MotionBuilder here: https://github.com/ue4plugins/MobuLiveLink/tree/master/Source

[shadow osprey]

Thanks, that's exactly what I want to do! I'm looking at that page... I don't see "bShouldCompileAsDLL" in the Target.cs files though @brisk obsidian

[brisk obsidian]

There's multiple target.cs in that project as we allow it compile for different versions of MotionBuilder. The 2017 one is the base one which contains that option: https://github.com/ue4plugins/MobuLiveLink/blob/master/Source/MobuLiveLinkPlugin2017.Target.cs

[shadow osprey]

Haha I guess I skipped that one on accident. Thanks, looking at it now!

[pine remnant]

is there anything that lets me buidl a 2d house on a flt land or a lv before i start tryign to use the unreal engine 4?

[oak patio]

What exactly are you wanting to do

You can do pretty much anything if you put the work in

[shadow osprey]

Hey @brisk obsidian I've been looking at the Git project you sent me and trying to setup a blank dll for starters, but running into two issues. The "RequiredProgramMainCPPInclude" file doesn't seem to be in the repo, what's in it?... and I can't seem to use "IMPLEMENT_APPLICATION" macro, I'm guessing because the "RequiredProgramMainCPPInclude.h" file imports it? In addition to the one line change in Target, this is what I have... https://puu.sh/IPv5W/11116bb748.png

[fallow hornet]

anyone know of a way to replace master materials with material instances

[brisk obsidian]

IMPLEMENT_APPLICATION is in ModuleManager.h and RequireProgramMainCPPInclude is part of the engine: Engine/Source/Runtime/Launch/Public/RequiredProgramMainCPPInclude.h

You can see the Runtime/Launch folder is added as part of the build.cs

You know RequiredProgramMainCPPInclude is a fun header when it includes a comment that starts with "this is highly sketchy"

[shadow osprey]

Thanks, I started to clue in with the ModuleManager part... but it still says IMPLEMENT_APPLICATION doesn't exist and that RequiredProgramMainCPP can't be opened.
https://puu.sh/IPvb8/3f640cd42e.png

ah Build.cs, will look there thanks

[brisk obsidian]

The full ModuleManager include is #include "Modules/ModuleManager.h"

[shadow osprey]

Yah neither thing works still, even after that change and adding the includes to build... hmmm

[harsh garden]

I created a test map that uses "FunctionalTestGameMode" as the overridden gamemode class. I have an automation test that opens this map and gets the world.

I've seen examples online where they are able to "exit" the map/world at the end of the test, but it doesn't seem to work for me because apparently there is no PlayerController in the world, so UGameplayStatics::GetPlayerController(World, 0)) returns null.

Does anyone know why that would be?

[crystal robin]

My favorite error : Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0020 - 'INTERNAL_ERROR')

[pliant kayak]

Hi, were would I ask questions about collision?

[spice ruin]

#legacy-physics maybe?

[pliant kayak]

ok, thank you!

[pine remnant]

i want a flat peice of land i can place tiles on to prototype a level

[shadow osprey]

@brisk obsidian so I got it down to having a bunch of errors, that I believe is from importing "RequiredProgramMainCPPInclude"... Is this needed for the DLL?

[sturdy trench]

Anyone knows if previous versions of engine folders used?

Can I remove everything except 4.27 and 5.0?

[pine siren]

It appears SkyLight doesn't support spherical worlds.. The SkyAtmosphere works so incredibly great for spherical worlds, wouldn't it make sense for the SkyLight to support it too, seeing as they're tightly connected? Is it a bug, or intended?

[sturdy trench]

Gotcha ,thankss

[red condor]

are you using an addon? I didn't think unreal did spherical worlds by default

[livid walrus]

Hey! Quick question