ue4-general

[modest trench]

never seen a helpful troubleshooter in my life

[modest trench]

nothing weird on https://status.epicgames.com/ yet...

good luck figuring this out man

[chilly gale]

Thanks for the reply

[crimson depot]

Which Nvida drivers should I use Studio drivers or Game Ready for UE?

[neon bough]

game ready

[shut nova]

???

[modest trench]

screen space reflections need something to be on the screen to reflect

it do be that way

[bleak ridge]

What do you guys think about Digital Foundry's recent allegations that the stutters in most UE4 games are caused by shader compilation? Bogus? Real?

[scarlet turret]

Oh I'd forgotten to mention that I'd actually managed to fix it, my Skylight was on Moveable and I had to put it on Static and bake it for the reflections to work

[grim ore]

shader compiling is not exclusive to Unreal Engine, but yes it could be causing the issue or it could not be causing the issue

[hearty tinsel]

anyone know if its possible to have a camera in sequencer track a armature bone for a sequencer shot?
The lookat tracking settings that exist on a camera has a 'Actor to Track' parameter but that only tracks the origin of the armature/static mesh which isnt what im after

[lavish garden]

none of the unreal made tutorials for landmass blueprint brushes are up to date with the actual functionality of the tool in 4.27

[neon bough]

doesn't shader compilation happen on first launch?

and it stores them in some cache

[rain ingot]

I can't remember if I chose C++ or Blueprint when making my project

how can I check?

nvm

[tall sorrel]

Anyone know if ue5 is / will be sli bridge-able? Would be really cool to be able to take advantage of that finally.

[fallen sphinx]

Hey Guys, I have build a Fortnite like wall building system in UE4 C++, problem is I can build wall over another wall, so I made an array to store the locations of walls, but I have multiple wall types like a wall, a ramp and a slab and all three can be spawned at the same location any idea how we can do it using a TMap, TMultiMap or any other stuff

[neon bough]

iirc you can use tmap with tarray value in c++

so you could have an tmap<location, tarray<elements>>

otherwise i would probably go for an bitmask or struct with bools, whatever you prefer

also depending on how much stuff you think there will be build, you may nest the data more to decrease lookup time

[fallen sphinx]

okay thanks dude

[supple crag]

I got a quick question. I have a ue4 c++ project. I have live coding enabled and was working on my c++ classes yesterday and used the DebugGameEditor to test all my changes. Everything worked and I added 3 UFUNCTIONs. I was able to call those in my blueprint as well. Today i started up the ueproject. Like, just starting ue4 without using the DebugGameEditor from VS. Now it says my class that uses these 3 UFUNCTIONs cant be compiled. It's like those 3 UFUNCTIONs dont exist. It still works when i open VS and use the DebugGameEditor. Anyone knows what causes this? I would love to be able to just start up UE4 and just do some blueprint stuff without always having to open up VS if possible...

[drifting elbow]

does derived data cache in a cloud make sense?

[neon bough]

depends on how many workplaces share it, how much data you would have to sync, how fast the workplaces are connected to the cloud storage and how fast they could calculate the data on their own

[tame marsh]

In the FindSessions node (https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Online/Session/FindSessions/), is UseLAN exclusive or inclusive?
As in, when activated, will it only look in the LAN and not on the internet?

[drifting elbow]

makes sense, of course, but in your experience? (We're talking about German internet speeds if that matters)

and we are like 5-10 people

[neon bough]

german internetspeeds can be any from 6mbit to glasfiber

[drifting elbow]

it can technically even be from less, but I'd say, 50 down, at least?

[neon bough]

so 50mbit is top speed? then i probably wouldn't even consider cloud ddc

[drifting elbow]

50 is minimum. would it make more sense with 100mbit?

[neon bough]

i don't have any practical experience, and as said it depends on how much of DDC data is generated

[drifting elbow]

isn't ddc data generated for shaders, for example?

[tame marsh]

Are we talking about Shared DDC?

[neon bough]

i can't really give you advice on a specific scenario

[drifting elbow]

yeah

[neon bough]

shaders, textures, and probably more stuff

[drifting elbow]

ok 🙂

[neon bough]

my DDC right now is >50GB, now vdsl50 is 10mbits upload, which is roughly 1mb/sec, so a full upload would take 14 hours

sure you don't do a full upload all the time, but an engine version change will probably force it

[tame marsh]

From reading the documentation, the SharedDDC seems to be designed more for local internal networks

[neon bough]

while my system is busy for max. 1 hour with shader rebuilds on a new engine version

[neon bough]

yea makes more sense, or if all workplaces have glass fiber connection

[drifting elbow]

that's what I also thought, but I see some native aws support for shared DDC

[tame marsh]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DerivedDataCache/#q:whatisthes3ddc?

[neon bough]

well this is epic/fortnite, they have probably budget for good connections for their workplaces at home

[drifting elbow]

yeah, makes sense

on that page Fragrag posted, I see the option to create a DDC pack. Nobody says how to apply them, though

[neon bough]

and fortnite is probably a big project with a ton of assets which generate DDC data, so it makes more sense to avoid the workload for every client

[tame marsh]

The DDC pack is apparently Project based, https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DerivedDataCache/

That does seem interesting as we have experienced significant start-up times when transferrign prjoects

[drifting elbow]

yeah, I believe it can be a huge benefit if you transfer the project to a new remote device, for example

[proper stump]

hey, trying to setup rider on ue5, it isnt appearing as one of the ide options... any idea how to add it?

[neon bough]

is rider source code access plugin enabled?

in unreal

[proper stump]

no. installing now 😦

my mistake, it is enabled

still not in the list of IDEs

[teal badger]

Let me know if this belongs in a different channel, but
Are there any good guides on how to integrate projects? Imagine I got a project from the marketplace with a functionality I want and I want to integrate it into my own project. Or that I have to redownload the latest version of the project (also from the marketplace) that I'm using as a base for mine.

[regal mulch]

Does anyone know the JSON Format for CurveTable imports?

[
  {
    "Name": "SomeValue",
    ???
  }
]

It usually maps Float to Float, so in the Spreadsheet it just has a Header Row with Levels and the Row for "SomeValue" has the matching values below the header.

Just not sure how the JSON is supposed to look like

[hot beacon]

anyone have any good tutorials on fast movement sorta like karlson or ultrakill i have been trying to make it for a while now but all i could make was wallrunning

[regal mulch]

Ah, it's apparently

[
  {
    "Name": "SomeValue",
    "0": 5,
    "1": 10
  }
]

Don't know who came up with that instead of an Array of Objects with Key and Value >.>

[worn copper]

I want to create 80x80Km Landscape map around 40% Water Map What is the Best method to achieve and for Optimization?
is this possible?

[autumn flame]

UE5 with LWC and World Partition is a must if map is so big

[worn copper]

what is LWC?
but can we do 80x80Km in Single Level Map? using World Partition

[autumn flame]

Fancy naming for a Double

And yeah, iirc WP is more procedural in the creation of partitions, it's done on a large single map

You can change the number of tiles in real time too

Not like the old World Comp

[worn copper]

Do we need to use Single Terrain Height Map. or
we have to do it in part like 8x8km Height map per partition

[autumn flame]

Single

No need for sublevels

If using WP

[worn copper]

okk got it thanks

[autumn flame]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/WorldFeatures/WorldPartition/

[worn copper]

so I have to create 80,000px x 80,000px heightmap
Means 1meter per Quad...

[autumn flame]

If you don't need that amount of precision you can always have a lower res and scale it up to match that size

Like a 20x20km scaled 4 times

[worn copper]

yah i will try scalling also. 40x40 double

[autumn flame]

Yeah

You can lower till it looks acceptable

[unique kraken]

havent been active for a while, do we have new infos on the ue5 release?

[worn copper]

but i think my PC will blast while generating 3D heightmap using 80,000px heightmap.
i will try with maintaining safe distance...

[thick herald]

Spring. That's the latest

[unique kraken]

hmm i see thx

[tame marsh]

Of which year?

[autumn flame]

The year the world ends, yet again

[tame marsh]

2012?

[thick herald]

1000

[unique kraken]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-gif-13250124

[thick herald]

It was mentioned in the stream chat last week. So I'm guessing this year.

[green light]

is there a way to incorporate some files used with C++ to work with my Blueprint project? it is a widget and a .csv file, paid for it to be made some reason C++ was used and I have No clue about it or how to get it to work now

is to me? if so is there a sorcerer available to help?

I added the files into project person was helping but nothing ever worked

I understand that, he was the coder and even with him helping me me sending screenshots never was able to get it working or the file imported

ok I so I just need to figure out how to incorporate, i have posted locally for like 2 - 3 weeks and not one person in town has responded to my post asking if they know C++ and UE4, I live in FL lots of old people here 🙂 guess not many are into gaming or programming 🙂

[hybrid brook]

Anyone know a way in Unreal Engine to make screen-edge motion blur?
As in: blur the edges of the screen when character moves. Must work in VR.

[unique kraken]

anyone know why the duplicate of the default skeletal mesh is like.. empty?https://gyazo.com/60e0bceb5c0e8b1a479732a7254ed3a7

[tepid rock]

Would anyone be able to tell me if it's legal to package UE4 starter contents into a distributed experiences? Does it fall under the same sort of license agreement with the engine itself?

[proper stump]

I have a Cube static mesh, I want to create a blueprint that arranges a few cubes into a pyramid (or a different shape) - I want all the StaticMeshCompoents to be nested together in the BP - What type of container should I use to parent all the meshes?

[drifting geode]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/starter-content-legal-limitation/391948

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/can-i-use-starter-content-for-commercial-games/319512

maybe this helps?

[tepid rock]

thank you so much!

[oak patio]

Doesnt really matter, maybe a blank scene component

[gray anchor]

Can someone answer some basic questions for me?

[oak patio]

That way you can move the empty and move all of the cubes at once, or move all individual cubes

[oak patio]

Dont ask to ask, just ask the question

[plain berry]

Hello, I really need your help, I'm making a map 20 by 20 kilometers in size, using the World composition system, I also use the World creator program for the height map. So, when I transfer two height maps, each of which is 10 kilometers, I have two maps, but they are separated from each other, and I cannot paint or change them at the same time, how to combine them into one map of 20 by 20 kilometers?

[gray anchor]

In Unreal, I can simply click play and a grey doll drops into the game that I can control. How can I do the same in Unity?

[oak patio]

This isnt a unity discord

This is an unreal discors

But in short you would need to make the system yourself for spawning a controllable characyer

[oak patio]

For 20km x 20km you would need 4 heightmals of 10 x 10

[plain berry]

Yes, but in the World Creator program I can create a maximum of 10 by 10 kilometers. Example: I created two heightmaps in World Creator, each 10 by 10 kilometers, and imported them as defined heightmaps. But I can't change them or color them together

[oak patio]

True

[plain berry]

Has anyone made big cards? like 40 by 40 kilometers?

[thick herald]

Looks like you didn't import them correctly, judging by the seams. Applying a landscape material to the different maps is no different from doing it to one, something has either gone wrong, or you've done/not done something to cause that

[plain berry]

Yes, they are not even here, this is an example of the fact that if you import two height maps, then it becomes impossible to change them at the same time, as if I were using the standard add tool in UE4

did no one in this chat make a big map?

[drowsy snow]

No

Also use UE5 if you want to make the universe

Well, the universe spanning in X and Y

I don't think World Partition support Z elevation

[plain berry]

Is it possible to make a big map in UE5? It's just that my computer freezes.

[drowsy snow]

Yes. The 64-bit double floating point is your limit

[oak patio]

Unfortunately you wont find much support on how to make really large worlds, as it isnt the greatest idea to try that as an indie dev

[drowsy snow]

Except take it with a grain of salt. I heard some major issues with Large World Coordinates a while ago

[drowsy snow]

Imagine indie dev making Elite clone with no funding

Ah hah hah hah hah hah

[oak patio]

Its all cool, starting work ob my 100km² mmorpg tonight

Releasing q4 2022

[drowsy snow]

Including traversable persistent planets? 😏

[oak patio]

Its gonna be like world of warcraft but with guns and vehicles and infinite procedural quests

Of course

Fully simulated reaslitic destruction anywhere in the world

[grave osprey]

i have a question. when i simulate physics (skeletal mesh). 2nd part are sinking to bottom despite both having a collision box. when i change the collision to kinematic. the 2nd part sink below. but it can collide the first part

[drowsy snow]

Complete with sparse quality playable content?

[grave osprey]

basically there is 2 skeletal. 1st and 2nd. when i set collision. (default) the 2nd part pass through the 1st part but didnt sunk to floor. but when i set 2nd part to kinematics. the 2nd part will collide to 1st part but sunk to ground.

cant find tutorial on u tube to fix this

[oak patio]

Its like youve done this before!

I shall also run a kickstarter that will raise $1,000,000 and then i shall disappear from the internet

[grave osprey]

nvm i just need constraint

[tame marsh]

Hey, I'm using the AdvancedSessions plug-in. I've noticed that my hosting and joining sessions worked when I'm not logged into Steam, but it doesn't when I am logged
Any pointers where I should look? I'm currently starting instances of my project via the command line

[rustic panther]

rip :(

is it really gone or moved?

[drowsy snow]

DevAddict is rebranded.

[rustic panther]

you mean VitD?

[silver magnet]

hey what is this scatter option in the new blend material of ue5 ? of megascan

[silver magnet]

oh its used on the alpha color

isnt there a note that explain it? because it seems to be very new

[silent oxide]

How do I access variables and functions of another actor class? How to cast?

[unique kraken]

you dont cast to, you "take from" thats how i remember it

[merry swallow]

hey everybody! I’m new to Unreal Engine 4, what is in your opinion the BEST learning path/courses I can follow online? Best if they are free 😄
Thanks!!

[silent oxide]

So I got a turretclass and a tank class, I want the variable in turret class in tank class, How do I access it?

[unique kraken]

honestly its been a while for me too

but lets see

what sort of turret

ontop of the tank?

[silent oxide]

No the enemy turret

[unique kraken]

ah so damage?

[silent oxide]

I actually want its FireRange

[unique kraken]

you want the fire range of the enemy turret on the tank?

[silent oxide]

yeah

[unique kraken]

u need some way of detecting it

so i guess when the turret aims at the tank

meaning a traced line

a interface might also be a soltuion

its all a bit fuzzy been like a bunch of month for me

[silent oxide]

I mean I just want the variable. I'm trying to implement a thing which regenerates the tank's health when not in range of the enemy turrets after a few seconds.

[silent oxide]

ohh ok

[unique kraken]

oh

hm

best for that would probably have like a collision sphere around it

and when the turret leaves it

[silent oxide]

ohh, right. That's an idea. cool, thanks

[unique kraken]

https://gyazo.com/d5919ad6b9e0e73bae76ee3afe8e0772

sort of like that

@silent oxide this is the arm /ur tank i guess

and then from that cast, you can "get" whatever is inside it

though if i remember right you have to make the variables... puplic?

[silent oxide]

Yeah, i've made them public

[unique kraken]

yea then just make a collision sphere around the turret serving as range

in its bp

and then you need to check inside of the tank if its overlapping with that sphere

probably better then passing through a variable wich needs to run each tick

[silent oxide]

ok thanks

[oak patio]

You dont have to make them public, from a cast you can get any variable from that cast

[midnight crescent]

Can anyone reccomend a guide on Blender to Unreal workflow? I have Send to Unreal plugin installed and working but when I send things over they don't have any of the colors I've drawn on them (even though I've UV unwrapped them) I think I'm missing something with saving the textures or making baking or something. I'm looking for a good start to finish guide in video or written format

[ornate night]

So ive got an array exposed to the editor details panel, I can add another element but is there really no way to delete one? https://gyazo.com/d96ca668ac43c83e625ae84e94a419dd

That removes all of them

I only want to remove one

[ornate night]

Epic did a series of videos a while back that might be useful. You can also check the repo for more info and issues. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/download-our-new-blender-addons

Thanks

[midnight crescent]

@it thanks!

[merry swallow]

hey everybody! I’m new to Unreal Engine 4, what is in your opinion the BEST learning path/courses I can follow online? Best if they are free 😄
Thanks a lot!!

[atomic arch]

trying to call and event on a widget from an actor but nothing seems to happen.

[oak patio]

You havent hooked a target into the first one

[atomic arch]

the target is meant to be self

[final moth]

did I miss something

[thick herald]

No

[final moth]

I want to try UE5 but UE5 tab is missing

[thick herald]

Library, and install as usual

[atomic arch]

i wasnt very specific its the bottom code linked to the widget ref

[final moth]

it is not offering UE5

[grim ore]

scroll up

or show us your list

[grim ore]

click the + to add a new engine.

and... add a new engine

[hot cave]

how to move already installed engine to a new directory i tried but its not showing up in the epic launcher

[final moth]

I did it adds 4.25

[grim ore]

and click the drop down list that shows 4.25

and what does it show?

[final moth]

ok, I found it. Very clear UX 😄

[grim ore]

@hot caveits a process. move it to a new location, remove it from the launcher if it exists, tell it to install to the new directory you want it in, pause it, copy/move your good engine install from the folder it was in to the new folder (the one you just made), resume the install and let it find your moved files

[final moth]

thanks @grim ore

[atomic arch]

any ideas?

[grim ore]

press F9 to add a breakpoint on the function that is not working, and when it breaks mouse over the variable going into it and see if its valid

[atomic arch]

the function that isnt working is the update, update is a custom event owned by the widget and im trying to call it from the actor but when call nothing happens

[grim ore]

yes.. soo... what about what I suggested to do?

verify that your Widget Ref is valid and the correct widget

blueprint debugging , you can watch the entire process and see where it is going wrong

like this

[atomic arch]

I've already done this and everything is successful

but it just doesnt seem to work

[grim ore]

so the debug shows the correct widget? when you step into the update it shows the correct string being updated?

[atomic arch]

when i check its the correct widget but the call event doesnt actually do anything

[grim ore]

so when you are debugging and step into update, what does it do/show?

[atomic arch]

the widget I call with the update event

this is the error message

[oak patio]

Then your issue is on the update function

[grim ore]

welp I tried, you arent doing what I suggested. That error would be 100% evident to the cause if you debug

[oak patio]

Indeed it would lmao

[atomic arch]

i have used a break point went through the code and i see no errors, i havent really debugged before with this method but i see no error and when using break points and moving along the code there is no visible issues

[grim ore]

when you get to that point in your code it should show the error

[oak patio]

There is an error, with whatever var is called typing test ref

[grim ore]

and if you are debugging.... then you can see the error when it happens

[oak patio]

The power of listening

[grim ore]

how about you show the update code, we can point the error out to you

[atomic arch]

the issue doesnt happen if i use event tick instead of a custom event to call the update

[oak patio]

Show the update function

[oak patio]

If you want help dont avoif our every attempt to help

Thats why, you are usung preconstruct to get the ref

[atomic arch]

im not avoiding i did all you said

[golden wadi]

hey guys, does anyone knows how to fix this weird light error? the rest of the scene is working just fine

[oak patio]

It seems you are trying to use the update l function before you have run whatever is in pre construct

[earnest badger]

anyone know where i can find or buy a complex world aligned master material, can't seem to find any good master materials for world aligned textures anywhere

[oak patio]

Difference between typing tester and typing test

[atomic arch]

the typing tester is the actor the update is on the widget

[oak patio]

Just poorly named functions

[atomic arch]

how? i understand it it not that confusing

[oak patio]

Theyre very similar making then easy to confused

But also try the suggestion i posted, where you stop calling update before the widget is cinstructed

[atomic arch]

theres only one called update and it just calls a custom event

[oak patio]

No i mean typing tester and typing test

Similar functions

But lets not argue the semantics

[atomic arch]

im doing that now, but why would it work with event tick and not with the custom event

[oak patio]

It probably doesnt

[mental dome]

ive accidentally detached the viewport from the middle section of the editor, how do i reattach it?

[oak patio]

Unless your tick for somethink kicks in after the widget is constructed

Also geberal rule of thumb, dint try to fix things by randomly attatching to event tick

[ebon linden]

@atomic arch What you can do is have a reference variable to TypingTester in TypingTest and expose it on spawn. Might fix the Accessed None

[oak patio]

Yup, way better way of doing it

[ebon linden]

You can then set it when creating the TypingTest widget

I guess you already have TypingTesterRef, so just expose that

[oak patio]

Then you can be rid of the evil getallactorsofclass

[sly kernel]

hi guys, is there an appropriate channel for someone looking to hire a game developer?

[oak patio]

Look at #instructions to see how to post to the job board

[sly kernel]

thank you!

[oak patio]

No problem!

[atomic arch]

ive exposed on spawn in the widget and set the reference in the actor. but im just getting errors checking why now tho

[oak patio]

And shiw errors

We dint know whats wrong without the error

[grim ore]

the error is above, his reference he is setting on pre construct is invalid and that makes 100% sense

[atomic arch]

first one is the actor and second is widget

[grim ore]

your are not guaranteed any order on create

those are also 2 different blueprints right?

[atomic arch]

i was trying to sort it myself hence why I didnt send the error

[oak patio]

So it seems you are still calling the update before construction

[oak patio]

Then dont ask for help if youre tryina sort it yourself

[atomic arch]

we already changed the pre construct

[grim ore]

i your breakpoint is hit, mouse over the Typing Tester Ref and see what it says?

[atomic arch]

if you read the message i say that errors have appeared but im trying to fix it

[atomic arch]

the ref is valid and is the typing tester object reference

[oak patio]

So thats an issue in your binding on the text

GetText0 is the defaukt name for a text bind

Go into the binding function

Explains the amount of errors too, since it runs every tick

[grim ore]

oy... your binding, its not the update

[oak patio]

Looks like youve got some unnecessary code

I mean if you have a manual update you shouldnt need a binding

[atomic arch]

the typing test ref is not set in the binding but is in the code

[oak patio]

Just directly set the text field of component

With the chosen string

Get rid of the binding all together

[grim ore]

remove the binding and recompile

from the text widget in the graph

[atomic arch]

thats after i did it

nvm i see what it was there. there was a binding that had not text to be set

[oak patio]

Why event tick

[green light]

see lots of people getting help here never even got a response back from some.

[oak patio]

You had the perfect update finction set up

You pick your text, and then uodate the text

Why do you then throw in a random event tic

[grim ore]

I want to see you mouse over the Typing Tester Ref and show me how its valid, you keep saying it is but that error LITERALLY says its not

[oak patio]

Dont complain about not getting an answer when you dont follow either suggestion given

[fading tartan]

I am getting blurry meshes

When I go to mesh preview it's fixed

And I also have fxaa on

what could be the problem

And another problem is this

how am I supposed to un-overlap them

[oak patio]

you need to fix your lightmaps first and foremost

create new lightmaps

[fading tartan]

how do I do that?

[oak patio]

plenty of guides online

bit too lengthy to go into here

[fading tartan]

ok

i have them all set to 1

I also tried to give them a higher resolution eg. 64 --> 128

[oak patio]

that means nothign without knowing what your uvs look like

and that wont fix anything if its a bad unwrap

[fading tartan]

this is one of my uv's

arguably the worst one lol

[oak patio]

thats likely gonna be your lightmap, but the spacing is waaay too large

[fading tartan]

should I stick them all together?

[oak patio]

no but you can make the spacign less

and research into what makes a good lightmap like i said

[dawn gull]

Is there a way to get random numbers from a seed so I can get the same random numbers later? I know you're able to do this with the default random function in C#

[fading tartan]

ok

its just that I am trying to make a marketplace pack and I am getting into 1000 errors lol

much more complicated than I thought it would be

[oak patio]

random int/float from stream

[dawn gull]

Ah, ok. Thanks!

[frozen pond]

hi, any recomendaction for good animations pack? Looking for something that contain a lot of them

[dawn gull]

Is there a way to have a min for the random int from stream?

[stark ledge]

Range has min/max params

[dawn gull]

Yeah I was using that before but I need the functionality of the stream

Nvm, found this

[feral badge]

Hi, Im quite new to Unreal Engine. I want to Record Player actions and ingame audio using Take Recorder. Is that possible.? if yes how?

[mint umbra]

Hey guys, Im trying to make a new C++ Class (as shown here at 2:49): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4gQSXALyHU&list=PLL0cLF8gjBpqCe9pzVWyW9Jk2lY4qioFr&index=2), but I cant make a C++ class. Why is that? I have Visual Studio 2017 installed and updated.

[rain ingot]

how does this work, if I press w and the axis value is 1 for moveforward axis binding, why is the animation speed able to reach 350?

[rain ingot]

go to File > New c++ class

you cant do it like that anymore

[mint umbra]

Oh thanks a lot! I thought I had to build a C++ project or something 😆 Cheers!

[lapis ore]

I'm trying to troubleshoot some flickering that only happens in a cooked build. Is there any alternative to tweaking my material, cooking the game locally, over and over?

[hasty wharf]

If I want to setup a game about safely disarming a weapon. Requires the player to click specific item in order. Should I use animation to move the piece once it’s been selected

Then once the weapon is fully disarmed they can click the pieces in reverse order to put it back together

[drowsy snow]

So kinda like World of Guns Disassembly?

[hasty wharf]

Yes

Exact idea. I’ll be using blueprints.

[dire lantern]

Hey guys hope you’re doing fine! I just released my latest short film entirely made in UE4 with motion capture! Hope you like it! - https://youtu.be/iyxZSPHBJpw

[drowsy snow]

Depends on the moving parts, but most of them aren't flexible, so you can use static meshes. But having all of them as one skelmesh with many disassembly anims might be easier to program, as you only concerned on playing the right anim in certain order.

[drowsy snow]

Cool, but post it on #released instead please

[hasty wharf]

Exactly. Yes I have every single piece as a sm

[undone orbit]

What should my settings be for non-color textures? Leave them in sRGB or linear? Or data?

[drowsy snow]

Linear might save some disk space and memory for greyscale

[undone orbit]

I pack them in AORM format so no need for grayscale yet

but the UE material editor scares me

[warped hornet]

Hi all 🙂

Hope ever1 a happy day

[lime ermine]

I'm trying to migrate assets from one project to another and it's saying I ran out of video memory and crashing, any ideas?

I didn't think migrating assets took video memory

[inland hollow]

I am trying to make a power up boost , (basically an actor/object you walk over to get a boost for limited time), so this booster is supposed to give projectile speed, now i set both projectile speed (initial speed and max speed) together to 8500 , which supposed to be fast, the problem is, i implemented that in projectile blueprint, so: 1) when you walk over the object, nothing happens
2) when you shoot the booster/object it get activated, but in fact, projectile speed does not change

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/244242213138071552/958146935930355752/unknown.png

[oak patio]

it would help if you showed us the powerup code

and that setup is really scuffed

you basically want to make a setup where you change a variable, then set a timer for the powerup to finish, on finish set the variable back, but you also need some way to set that variable as the projectile speed for every projectile you spawn

[fathom basin]

So I have a multiplayer project and the clients pawn is a defaultpawn (and the servers). The server can move and it replicates and the client sees it but the client cannot move.

[oak patio]

so whatever shoots the projectiles, have that modify it's speed

[oak patio]

try #multiplayer

[inland hollow]

What is a power up code?

[oak patio]

the code you wrote for the powerups

[inland hollow]

No code, all blueprints, btw I made a power for character speed the same way and it worked

[oak patio]

blueprints is code

[inland hollow]

This time I am doing it for projectile speed

Ok one sec, I think i got what you meant

[inland hollow]

i am late i was charging laptop,

is this clear?

this is for the power up actor/object ^

[oak patio]

ok ye so that cast will fail

[inland hollow]

why is that?

[oak patio]

currently when you overlap the powerup, you tell the game to interpret you as a projectile, then modify a value

character!= projectile

[inland hollow]

ok

[oak patio]

a cast converts a general type to a specific object

so you need to set spawn parameters of your projectile

[inland hollow]

btw, it is cast to character projectile

[oak patio]

I still wouldnt reccomend the way you have it set up though, its unclean

[oak patio]

that doesnt matter

you cannot convert a character ref to a projectile, so it fails

[inland hollow]

so what i should do exactly ?

and can you specify where?

[plush yew]

Hi. I am a beginner. I want to realize my first project and ship it to some platforms, mainly Android and iOS. It will be a variation of Sudoku. Is the unreal engine suitable for this project or not? Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong channel.

[oak patio]

im coming up with a short solution, your best bet would be to have a powerup BP, and some kind of powerup manager that can control talking to the character, or whatever else

so in my example, when i pickup a powerup, I call a begin powerup function, that passes projectile speed into the spawning of any projectiles, then after 10 seconds is up, I clear my changes

[chrome socket]

i got a question. how would you go about switching the visibility of vertical/horizontal boxes or different parts of widgets/ui? (For example, buttons changing the things in the widgets in setting menus of video games) like switching between a audio and video settings of a settings menu

i can really use some help with this

[chrome socket]

that looks epic

[shut nova]

Someone please tell me what is wrong with the water, when I look down the specular goes crazy

[inland hollow]

is there any tutorial on that

[oak patio]

nope

you picked an awkward thing to make a powerup for as a beginner

im putting together something right now, ill just be a minute

[shut nova]

Thanks man

[chrome socket]

np

i got a question. how would you go about switching the visibility of vertical/horizontal boxes or different parts of widgets/ui? (For example, buttons changing the things in the widgets in setting menus of video games) like switching between a audio and video settings of a settings menu

ive been struggling with this all night.

[inland hollow]

thanks, i appreciate it

[chrome socket]

nvm i fixed it

[oak patio]

sp the way i solved this problem

i have 2 BP's, one called powerup, and one called powerup manager

powerup has a variable of type powerup manager, that is set to an instance of powerup manager in the level.
when the player overlaps the powerup, it uses that reference to call a function inside of powerup manager called Begin Powerup

begin powerup just casts to the player and sets a variable called projectile speed multiplier inside the player, to whatever multiplier you want, e,g. 2x speed and then sets a timer for 10 seconds,

at the end of the 10 seconds it calls a function called End Powerup, which just sets the multiplier back to 1

a new variable is created inside of the projectile called multiplier, the expose on spawn box is ticked, allowing me to pass the variable inside the player into a newly spawned projectile

this multiplier variable takes the current velocity and multiplies it by 2, and reapplies it

pretty long winded but makes things nice and neat, and the use of the powerup manager makes adding new powerups easy

[inland hollow]

I will assume this is complete solution

[oak patio]

yes

and it works, as i have tested it

[inland hollow]

How did you make projectile speed btw, because there is initial and max speed for projectile

Like 2 inputs

[oak patio]

thats the velocity * multiplier bit

thats the speed

bottom pic

[inland hollow]

Damn, smort, thank you

Appreciate it again.

[oak patio]

remember to expose the variable on spawn so you can set it in the character

no problem

then if you wanna make new powerups you can just add new functions to the manager

one that controls speed etc

then its all in one easy to edit place

and you also avoid weird tick workarounds

[rocky hound]

I accidentally did an infinite recursion call

is terminating the editor from task manager safe?

by safe I mean not corrupt my project

[modest trench]

unless that process was saving assets I think you should be fine

but as always, version control is king

[rocky hound]

I wasn't saving

thanks

[lime ermine]

how do I migrate assets in UE5 without crashing?

[inland hollow]

i could not find "On Component Begin Overlap(Box)" btw

[oak patio]

you need to add a box collider to whatever the powerup is

that way when you overlap it you pick it up

[inland hollow]

like this

[oak patio]

think of it as having your mesh represent the pickup, and then you have a trigger that activates too

[oak patio]

no

add it as a component

the same way you would add a static mesh or smthn similar

[inland hollow]

ok

what next

this basically it

added on component tab

got it

[high mountain]

Hello everyone, I ran into a problem: all notifications (implemented via C ++ if it matters) don't work in one animation. In other animations same notifications work properly. The animation itself is successfully launched through AnimBP, played until the right moment, what could be the problem?

[raven estuary]

Is there anywhere to learn to from first steps to completed game most tend to stop pretty early

[lunar kiln]

i'm using a modular mesh, setting master pose component, and everything works; though, when i crouch, my feet disappear. any idea what could be causing this? when crouchwalking diagonally they flicker in and out. they dont appear to be clipping, and they line up with the bottom of my capsule component. the mesh itself just seems to flicker.

[dusk nebula]

Are you 100% they aren't clipping a bit? That sort of sounds like the case

[grim violet]

Why does this happen?

playerStart

[grim ore]

collision

so its either in the ground, or its in a collision volume, or its colliding with something else

[grim violet]

Ohhhhh

makes sense

the floor is a collision

[fallen ingot]

Hey guys, I'm an Unreal beginner following a tutorial that is using the modeling tool in UE5. In the tutorial they are using the LoopIns tool inside PolyModel, but in my Unreal I don't have that tool. Anyone has any idea why? I have the other 6 tools in PolyModel

[grim ore]

I am assuming that is an edge loop? its under poly edit now if so

[sterile oyster]

heya, im currently trying to make sense on Pawn and Controller relationships

[fallen ingot]

thats exactly it, thank you so much!

[sterile oyster]

what are the best practices on, say, making a first person shoooter? Tutorials says to implement input in Pawn (in this case, Character)

[grim ore]

you can do input in pawn, you can do it in controller, you could do it in level (dont... please dont...)

multi and single might do it different, so your goals for the project should help you figure out what to do

[dusk nebula]

A lot of it comes down to preference and convenience. You could put input in the controller, because you may want to have different pawns, or you could still put input in the pawn that the other pawns all inherit from

[grim ore]

"best" practice seems to be in the controller since that is where input is passed to first

[glass tapir]

I just started learning how to code in c++, is this a good community for asking coding related questions? Or is there a better discord server for c++ related unreal questions?

[grim ore]

if its general CPP, another server. if its unreal specific CPP, #cpp

[sterile oyster]

i guess for a singleplayer experience, handling input in pawn is not bad

i plan to have enemies as well though

[grim ore]

as you start making the game you will adjust it as needed

its normal, just get it working and go from there

[cedar wave]

Generally speaking, keep input focused on the player controller/pawn. Use pawn-specific input on pawns, and pawn-agnostic input on the controller. Just general advice

[grim ore]

^^

[grim violet]

i forgot how to do this

how do you auto generate the physics body like this

i know when I did it, it was a simple button i just hate that i forgot it lol

I know its not good for performance at all but its not gonna be used in production

nvm

[karmic moss]

Hi! I have a problem with my character linked from iClone7 to UE 24. All the lighting and colors become ugly.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? 🥲 Would really appreciate it! I am new to this and I am trying to make a movie through UE.

[hard escarp]

Is there any kind of way I can start to learn about how to quantify the performance improvement from a change? Say I reduced the complexity of a function on tick. Is there a way to compare the two functions to work out how much more performant one is over the other? Or is it just run test and see result changes?

[neon bough]

what kind of light did you use? is the background just a backdrop?! or is that a actual 3D level?

[warm canyon]

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

[karmic moss]

It's an actual 3D level from the marketplace. 🙂

[neon bough]

ok, well i agree that the char looks awful, but i have no idea if it's better to start tweaking it in CC or in unreal

how does it look in CC with a brighter light source?

[karmic moss]

Thank you @neon bough ! I will look into it after work 🙂 Appreciate it

[muted plume]

Distance fields are broken in different worlds and I'm not entirely sure what is making them work in certain worlds compared to others. Anyone have any ideas?

[bitter pulsar]

Hi, is there a way to stop light from coming through my floor, walls, ceiling, since they are flat planes?

[torn junco]

My initial idea on that would be to take whatever material you use on those planes and set it to "two sided" so it renders both sides of the plane, then make sure your lights have "cast shadows" enabled

--

I'm thinking on getting some 3d assets for my game since we're short in the modelling department, what I'm wondering is if there's any "over used" packs that's I should steer away from. I want it to be very clear to players that this isn't some slapped together overnight thing

[cobalt torrent]

Check the normals of the meshes with blender? 😉

[bitter pulsar]

the normals are fine

when I built the lighting and made sure two sided lighting was off it improved, but it's still not perfect

[hot beacon]

anyone have any good tutorials on fast movement sorta like karlson or ultrakill i have been trying to make it for a while now but all i could make was wallrunning

[neon bough]

sounds more like you don't want it to appear like what it is...

[woven ingot]

Is there a way to blend animations within an anim montage. Or blend diferrent sections within same montage?

[drowsy snow]

Don't crosspost plz

[torn junco]

Not at all, I'm very satisfied with it's current appearance, however, it's far from finished, and I realize that I will likely need to purchase some assets. I was basically just wondering what the most common store/repetitive assets are so I know to refrain from using those

[drowsy snow]

Anything is overused if you don't give it enough transformative work

[torn junco]

I guess that is a good point, anything on the store has to have been used in hundreds if not thousands of projects already

[neon bough]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-evil-one-billion-mike-meyers-austin-powers-hehe-gif-11108917

also highly depends on the genre

and game style

[torn junco]

@neon bough Mostly would be looking into things like signs (obviously would make a custom texture for these), various city props like street lights, bus stops, building decor, ect.

[drowsy snow]

I think the more obvious telltale signs of asset flip is to just using the sample demo map

Which is fine for quick screenshot tests

[mental tartan]

Hey guys, I've got a question regarding the **"Run Construction Script in Sequencer" **option and exporting via the Movie Render Queue.

It seems like animating a variable works fine, when playing my sequence in Sequencer and viewing the results in the editor, however, as soon as I render out via the Movie Render Queue, the animation is gone/frozen.

I'm not the only one who's got this problem:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/blueprint-construction-script-animation-doesnt-work-when-i-play-game/217953

I'm just kind of refusing to believe that there isn't a workaround, as this defeats the "Run Construction Script..." option in the first place and makes the use of Blueprint rigs for linear animation a no-show.

Any ideas anyone? That'd be much appreciated 🙂

[neon bough]

well signs are pretty universal

if you talk about traffic/warning signs

[torn junco]

Oh yeah for sure. I'm not worried about being perceived as an asset flip. I'm more so just worried about the credibility of the time and work invest in the game, ideally I'd like the game to not look like someone made it in their basement lol

[torn junco]

Yes, but I'm also thinking of ones like in the soul city pack

I really like these but Im worried that making my own texture won't really be a big enough change from what people are used to seeing

[drowsy snow]

Well, there's nothing inherently wrong with looking like someone made it in his/her basement or bedroom...

[neon bough]

"if they notice you did a bad job at distracting them" - chris murphy

[torn junco]

I guess you have a point there, I don't mean to sound pretentious, my bad lol

[torn junco]

This!

Well, so far what I've drawn from this conversation is that nothing is ever "off limits" so long as it's used in an original and creative way :)

[neon bough]

yea

a 3rd party asset used well is better than a homebrew used bad

[torn junco]

Thanks for the reassurance

[oak patio]

All you have to look at is phasmophobia, all of the ghosts there are asset store models, and well used ones at that. Yet no one cares cause its a good game

[neon bough]

the worst part about 3rd party assets is that most of them seem like they've been done in some basement 😄

awful poly count, tons of materials/drawcalls, not very modular

often you have to invest more time to fix them than making your own from scratch

[torn junco]

Depending on the asset's that can be very true, other times though they can be a lifesaver.

[high mountain]

Sorry for annoying, but can it be caused by frame rate and tiny duration of animation?

[tawny shard]

Comrades, how enable ReSharper to work with Engine plugins, anyone know?

[tawny shard]

I have enabled this, but nothing changed

can't use format style, nor anything else

Refactor menu section just inactive

[tawny shard]

Okay, i find problem. I was copy-past my plugin. Only my plugin don't recognised by ReSharper. Any other works fine

Is there any solution to fix this, except to re-write from scratch?

[neon bough]

can't you just use it as project plugin?

[tawny shard]

i can't. It's one of rule to use it on Engine level

plugin not big, i will just re-write it while i can. Thought i do interest in the way, can it be fixed without re-write

[neon bough]

rewrite sounds like a fishy workaround

can't you explicitly browse to the path of the plugin and force the IDE to refresh it?

[tawny shard]

That's what id like to know

[neon bough]

i dont know resharper, so i dont know either

only know that rider gives that option

[tawny shard]

can u show what that option is?

[neon bough]

are you opening the IDE on a specific project? and is your plugin enabled for that project?

[tawny shard]

Yap, working project

oh wait

it's just there, but not enabled in settings

🤔 but that a bit stupid behaviour

if "enable" option interact resharper work

[neon bough]

well, maybe it only indexes stuff which is used, which would make sense

thats how it looks in rider if something isn't indexed

[tawny shard]

why thought u don't know ReSharper. It comes out-of-box with Rider

[neon bough]

i dont know how thats integrated in other IDEs

that's why i said i have no idea how it would work for you

i haven't used VS(Code) etc.

[tawny shard]

i got it

[neon bough]

guess it was the disabled plugin?

[tawny shard]

Nah, it seems there is version conflict

as i remember i wrote it on 4.27.1 version

[neon bough]

ok, that should be easy fix in the uplugin file

[tawny shard]

but engine version now is 4.27.2

Will try it, thx for help

uplugin doesn't seems to have version

unless

[neon bough]

🤷 look at other engine plugins and compare to yours

[tawny shard]

fixed

It appears i need just delete build and intermediate folders

and everything seems to work now

[inland hollow]

what is begin powerup about

what data type it is?

[distant sorrel]

Multiple touch input documentation link please

[oblique tangle]

hey all! bit random, but could i get some insight into what looks off with this? I've been trying to incorporate a manhole skating mechanic, but turning/the whole feel of it doesn't sit right with me, something feels off with it but I can't put my finger on it - I think it might have to do with how the player turns, but I would love a second opinion, thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biKrh17fgR4

[neon bough]

looks good to me

add some spark particles and call it a day

only thing that looks wrong is that tilt close to the end, where the manhole cover goes into the ground

and if you want to add some more feel to it, attach spider strings to the manhole which give the visual impression that it adds to the steering

may also slow it down faster so that the player has to use strings on street/buildings to keep velocity

[mortal quarry]

Hi all, I need some help with this Timeline - On first run, it runs the way it should, on second run, it runs at around 3x the speed it should. If I set it to "Play from Start" like all the other timelines in my blueprint (which work on second run), then it doesnt even run the first time.

Anyone have any ideas? =/

First Run vs Second Run

What the Timeline looks like

[upbeat spoke]

can I set visibility for an animation in unreal?

essentially i imported 72 frames but only want the last 20 visible

[neon bough]

nvm, even the first run looks weird

may be because you use world delta seconds

[distant sorrel]

I cant able to do two touch at a time in ue4 after export to android

[neon bough]

@distant sorrel i would advice to ask that in #mobile

as it's a pretty specific problem

[distant sorrel]

Okk

[green light]

how do you I get 1st person exported into blender and make a rig, I tried ARP but it makes bones that are not needed

[astral verge]

Hey guys , anyone know useful tutorials to visualize data like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKnsd-ss0gc

[drowsy snow]

Should not that big of a deal.

You can use full body rig and just animate the arms, and it'll be fine.

[green light]

i exported it last night it imported I deleted the rig and tried using ARP but no neck or other so I left them at root in center at bottom, when I set shoulders and wrists the rig did not work with the hands and it had all the bones i didn't need but where would I place the ones that don't have bones

[astral verge]

Can we do UMGs and link it to Google sheets or excel sheet for getting the data ?

is it possible with blueprints as well ?

[mortal quarry]

Sorry for the noob question, which node should I be using instead? Thanks

[neon bough]

why did you add the delta time in the first place?

[mortal quarry]

Without it the animations were playing faster and moving further when the project was built, ran fine in editor, but completely broke when tried it standalone.

[neon bough]

that sounds weird

what you are doing by multiplying by delta time is kind of randomizing the result

it will never reach alpha 1, and most likely often not come even close to 1

[drowsy snow]

Probably (not)
C++ is more surefire way of fetching external data in runtime

[neon bough]

is there any collision on the mesh which could have altered the result?

[mortal quarry]

Oh 🙃 I had thought it had something to do with the tick rate or fps being interpreted instead of real seconds, so I tried to get it to work as real seconds. Using the delta seconds node seemed to work, this is the only timeline that doesn't want to work a second time, I've got like 15 in this project, all set up the same and all working, lol

[neon bough]

e.g.: mesh moves into the collision of something else and that way it gets bumped above or beneath the target location

i would get rid of that delta time multiplication, that's not a good workaround

[mortal quarry]

There are collisions on it, I'll try removing them (added them to try get them to kill particles, but having issues with that too)

[neon bough]

also, why isn't it stuck on the top location after the first run? it should

and a 2nd run should do nothing from the current logic

or does something else reset the position to the original value?

[mortal cedar]

anyone else getting an issue where over half the time you click an external link on the epic marketplace it doesn't open properly? Just gives you a blank page

happens on every browser

you can see when it says "redirect notice" its working and when its a url its a blank page

its been like this for weeks now

same issue on my phone on mobile internet too

[dusky hedge]

hi, so as i understand, the more "moving" elements a mesh has, the more drawcalls it will be?
For example a door object consists of 3 parts, and i need all the parts to move to the sides (like a 3-slices pizza), so I need each part separate? This is extremely ineffecient and I see drawcalls for simple things being an overkill. Any ideas? The door cant be deformed, all I want is to move each part on its own to the sides.

[mortal cedar]

its annoying enough that you have to click "Continue to external website" as if we've never been on the internet lol

[neon bough]

the more different materials you use

if you have a door with 2 handles, and they all use the same material it should be one drawcall

[dusky hedge]

even if its separate objects?

[neon bough]

yes

[dusky hedge]

cool, thanks a lot

[fierce tulip]

no?

[neon bough]

not?

i thought they get clustered

[fierce tulip]

unless its nanite, if you have two meshes with the same material = 2 drawcalls

[neon bough]

ok sorry

[dusky hedge]

np, thx anyways

yeah I cant see animations being efficient any time soon, so animations are basically very expensive, the more "parts" the mesh has in this case

except characters, because it can be 1 mesh with armature = deform, but a door doesnt need deform^^

[neon bough]

are you 100% sure?

[fierce tulip]

101%

[neon bough]

because they mention draw call merging here https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Rendering/MeshDrawingPipeline/

where same shaders get merged

[fierce tulip]

there is some hlod-ing and stuff going on in the background, but that is after the mesh creation, and not always the case.

[dusky hedge]

i think the meshes needs to have same vert count

[neon bough]

Since FMeshDrawCommands capture all of the state a draw needs just above the RHI level, we can easily compare them for compatibility with draw call merging. The only form of draw call merging currently implemented is based around the D3D11 feature set, which enables merging of draw calls which have identical shader bindings into an instanced draw.

but it's not clear to me if that merge happens on scene or mesh level

[dusky hedge]

uhhh shape keys do the job

"apparently"

[summer plume]

Hello, if I drag a blueprint from my content browser into a scene multiple times, does that always create instances? I previously thought that I had to use alt + drag to create an instance from an already placed actor. Which also made me think that if I just duplicated or copy pasted placed actors, that those aren't instances and would end up being more performance heavy. Could someone clarify that for me please? 😅

Hmm, I might be using the word instances wrong here. Maybe what I'm thinking of is called a reference to an actor?

[mental dome]

Hey i accidentally detached the viewport from the central part of the editor window

how do i reattach it?

[oak patio]

Anytime you spawn an actor whether its from bp, dragginf an instance, alt drag, copy paste, ctrl w, theyre all instamces

[shut nova]

Go to window, then add it back

[mental dome]

Wait yeah i figured it out

[shut nova]

Can someone please look at this and tell me whats causing this water issue. It looks like a specular issue when I look down but I’m not sure

[mental dome]

the problem was that it was detached from the rest of the editor not really that it was gone

[summer plume]

Awesome, thank you!

[shut nova]

Oh

[summer plume]

Do you mean the reflections? I think it's called screen space reflections, basically you only get reflections from objects that are on your screen. The moment the mountain leaves your screen, the reflection is also gone.

[shut nova]

Yeah all the reflections go away and it becomes white

[shut nova]

So just disable screen space reflections?

[autumn flame]

That's what SSR does

[summer plume]

I wish it was that easy 😄

[autumn flame]

You could add a Reflection Capture

[shut nova]

I have one

I’m not sure why it isn’t helping

[autumn flame]

Is it physically covering the entire water body?

[summer plume]

I've only dealt with this in indoor locations, no clue how to do that for large outdoor environments.

[shut nova]

I’m pretty sure I’ll have to double check though

[summer plume]

Honestly, in most scenarios I don't think it's a big deal. Most often than not your player will be looking forward anyways rather than down

It's just a glaring issue for us developers because we pay attention to stuff like that.

And then it's hard to unsee it 😄

[shut nova]

I’ve never seen that happen in a game before, even if the player somehow never looks down I’m gonna try and remove it if possible

[summer plume]

Did you actively go out to look for it tho?

[shut nova]

No, I was looking down to see the murkiness of the water

[autumn flame]

Just RayTrace™️ ©️®️ it all

[shut nova]

Was thinking about that

My foliage looks terrible in ray tracing though

[autumn flame]

Nah, don't do it, was a joke

[grim ore]

yeah it's a common thing you just might not actually notice it when playing a real game, Far Cry 6 has it for example https://youtu.be/AqBxE10Z4qY

[autumn flame]

Time to add planar reflection everywhere and tank the performance

[summer plume]

Could be wrong, but don't most games use screen space reflections?

[shut nova]

That didn’t help lmao I already tried

[drowsy snow]

I already said yesterday, it's just SSR being SSR

[shut nova]

I added a planar like you said and it didn’t really help for some reason

[shut nova]

Maybe, but not to the extent of seeing an only white lake when you look down

[summer plume]

Well, usually if you look down you look for something in the water, rather than looking at reflections

[shut nova]

When I look down there are no reflections nor can you see through the water

[summer plume]

If you point it out to someone, I'm sure they'd notice it, but if they just casually play it's not something that gets noticed that easily.

[autumn flame]

Most of the times it may not be worth the performance loss tbh

Unless you really really want that reflection that way

[summer plume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66uCdz04uk

Even cyberpunk has noticable ssr if you look for it.

[vocal cloud]

hi, im new to ue4, is there any ways to make my first person chracter uncrouch?

it seems to stuck at sprint and crouch even tho i binded release to walk speed and uncrouch

[drowsy snow]

Show code

[knotty token]

Does anyone know how to fix this? shadows only cast on one side of the grass and Disappears on the other

[grim ore]

@vocal cloud20 seems very low for the default walk speed when not sprinting

[oak patio]

Yeah default is 600 iirc

[vocal cloud]

im setting 20 to test that will my character stop sprinting or not

[neon bough]

there's a shadow from the other side

it's just not that much noticeable

which may be the perspective and where the light comes from

[true spindle]

Anyone understand why im getting weird shadows on her from a spotlight?

while we are on the topic of shadows 😄

[knotty token]

it only casts on the the facing side of the sun, when I set it to night time the mesh lighting stays bright

[shut nova]

Pretty noticeable

Compared to this

And that’s just from slightly looking down

And you’re sure that’s a screen space reflection issue?

[grim ore]

I think the issue is the water is becoming unusable when SSR is not being shown, if that could get fixed then the issue would be a non issue?

[drowsy snow]

Inb4 it's an open world with dynamic day night cycle

Or the ability to go to the other planet

[tame marsh]

Dunno who I was discussing about DerivedDataCache yesterday, but I just tried making a DDC pak from a project and apparently it starts building it from scratch rather than using already compiled data

[final moth]

why does render cue create some strange frames between camera cuts which seem like fast camera movements and how to avoid it?

it doesn't show when I preview the sequence in the editor, neither when I turn on game sim. But somehow, when I render it, it adds these frames

I am not sure what should I do with these extra frames?

[distant sorrel]

Cant do two touch at same time in android

[final moth]

and then, there is this. This is not the same as in editor. The first image is like it shows in editor, the second one is rendered one. No idea why would that material on the rendered image look non transparent

is there some limitation I am not aware about? how come it shows in the editor, and it is not able to render the same thing?

ok, the exr is fucked up. I have put the white image under the footage, and it showed up like it suppose to. But for some strange reason, the exr file adds this transparency. I don't know is this a known bug or what

I probably just have to disable alpha

[shut nova]

I can

I’ll test it without a mountain, I don’t think the landscape is causing it.

[shut nova]

So whats the alternative?

Will it cause a visible fps difference? And is it the only alternative?

Besides ray tracing of course.

[undone orbit]

is it possible to spawn in multiples of this node and then use a single layer blend for landscape instead of many layer blends for every layer and one final node? the latter gets very messy

[unique kraken]

do i get this right?
the curve atlas simply is a texture wich automatically gets baked and thats it?

[plush yew]

Is there a way in UE4 to stop it from auto enabling certain plugins like the VR plugins when you create a new project? Everything I find online just tells you how to disable plugins from the plugin menu and not how to stop UE4 from making new projects with them already enabled

[oak patio]

Its a bug thats getting fixed in ue5 iirc

Well, has been fixed

[plush yew]

Ah ok thanks :)

[tame marsh]

In the meanwhile, you'll keep racking up those hours played on SteamVR

[cedar wave]

Turn the plugins off at the engine level instead of the project level. You need to go to your engine installation folder to do so.

[tropic magnet]

I dunno where to ask this, but how does ue4 work with blender? I've created some "stylized" weapon models and ended up with some .blend files. Do I export them? In what format?

[thick herald]

fbx or obj.

[shut nova]

I don’t think SSR is functioning correctly, I’ll try and scale the different settings. If that doesn’t work I’ll try planar again.

Would intensity or quality fix it?

[shut nova]

I don’t think it’s a single layer water material, and I’ve never seen a game where I slightly look down and see the full power of some discord light mode looking lake in my face.

And if it helps it’s also happening on the sides of my view when I look straight at the lake.

[mental dome]

Hey im trying to install the source build of UE4 (4.27) but the setup.bat is stuck on checking dependencies?

[shut nova]

Can I make that less intense?

Yeah I’ve never noticed that until I tried to find it.

@worldly trout but the water is still transparent even with the SSR issue. Mines not at all.

[shut nova]

@worldly trout Got it 👍, I’ll apply those and see what I get

[unborn dew]

is there a tut on making bones on characters because i have a character (a bean shaped thing) and want to make bones on it

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: danich'q#2622 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[timber dune]

Hi, I'm having an issue with scalability in unreal 4.27.2. When I click on the yellow scalability button the engine crashes.

[swift sundial]

does anybody know what the arg to disable rendering was called

the rhi disable render or no render idk

[plush yew]

Dumb question: is it possible to install Unreal Engine on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 (6gb, 128gb + sd card)? It would just be installing Linux or any support and installing UE, right?

no

[swift sundial]

no like

completly stop rendering

from launch

[unborn dew]

is there a tut on making bones on characters because i have a character (a bean shaped thing) and want to make bones on it

[plush yew]

and?

[oak patio]

Even if you could it wouldnt work well at all

You need ram and a decent cpu if you dint wanna spend hours doing stuff

[scarlet turret]

The Samsung S6 is around 340 USD, and you could probably get a cheaper laptop for around that price which could run UE4 without the extra hassle, but it still wouldn't run very well

[primal tendon]

where can I get UI elements/images for HUD?

[scarlet turret]

Do you mean like stock images?

[primal tendon]

Something like minimap border and stuff

kind of....

[scarlet turret]

You'd probably want to design those yourself, or you could check the Unreal Engine marketplace for templates

[mental dome]

The source version of UE4 wont build

Its all like the command xyz exited with code 999

[scarlet turret]

Do you have Avast installed on your computer?

[mental dome]

nope

[scarlet turret]

Hmm... I'm not entirely sure then, would you mind sending a screenshot of the error log?

[mental dome]

sure

[scarlet turret]

Perfect

[primal tendon]

thanks

[mental dome]

Its pretty much all this

[scarlet turret]

Very odd... I think your best bet is just making sure Visual Studio is updated, and maybe try restarting your computer?

[grim violet]

Hey does anyone know if it is possible to use Event ActorBeginOverlap or onComponentBeginOverlap to determine which bone is overlapping on the character mesh? I am trying to get the bone as name variable to use in another node

I tried that but it just says None

[mental dome]

I got it 👍

i had to change build.bat

[scarlet turret]

Awesome! 🙂

[grim violet]

Wait I think its because my desk and chair don't generate hit events

nvm that didn't fix it lol

How do I check that? I am noob to UE sorry

I probably don't have it set to block the trace channel considering I didn't even know what that was lol

I will look it up, thank you so much for the help!

[gaunt vine]

Hello UE Friends. . . I'm in UE2.72. . . Does anyone know what this li'l icon 'nugget of joy' on my imported asset, means ?!??
Thank you ahead of time.

[buoyant compass]

Any tips or resources that anyone suggests to help reduce the impact of streaming in a new level?

[dusk nebula]

Not 100% sure, but the answer is probably to use smaller sub-levels, or maybe it's a pre-baked thing that just takes more performance on PiE. I know that Ark streams in multiple levels that are more or less equivalent to an LoD, which is why you can see terrain from a distance, but the foliage, among other things, is on its own sub-level

[glass tapir]

Okay, I have a really stupid question

How does someone START learning coding in unreal?

[primal tendon]

You want to go the C++ way or Blueprint (Visual Coding) Way?

[glass tapir]

C++ because I don’t want to be limited later on

[primal tendon]

This was one of the best ever courses who ever I ask about C++ Unreal Engine
https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealcourse/

[glass tapir]

Okay, that looks interesting enough

I really hope it works

[primal tendon]

Also there's nothing like being limited in blueprints, the only thing about blueprints is that

Creating complex game mechanics with Blueprints can create a huge jumble of nodes and connecting wires if not careful.

[glass tapir]

Is there a way to do something like multiplayer or steam integration via blueprints?

Or converting the blueprint into the code version?

@primal tendon

[cloud pagoda]

Hello, does anyone have experience with lighting in Unreal? I'm trying to light up an area of my map in Unreal, while the sky light is dark but for some reason the lights only work in the viewport and not when I press Play. I tried using a spot light and an area light but neither of them show up when I play the game. Any help would be appreciated

[obtuse pebble]

I just started in Unreal, myself. I want to eventually learn Unreal's C++ API for some things... but from what I've seen of Blueprints... I know people who are making entire games in them, and they don't seem too limited; just takes some house cleaning to keep them neat and tidy.

[hidden oar]

Does anyone have any idea why my capsule component (character movement) seems to have no problem shoving around another object that is 50,000kg that is simulating physics? Seems like i'm missing some kind of friction component perhaps?

[glass tapir]

I am only just now starting to even think about opening unreal engine for the first time, but what do you mean?

Are you saying your player character has physics too? Because I’m pretty sure the player overrides anything else in physics

[hidden oar]

If I walk up to another object and bump into it, the other object goes flying, even though Ihave the weight of that object set to an enormous number.

[glass tapir]

You may have to have a static mesh or collision for the heavy item? Though, again, no idea

[hidden oar]

Yea, I do have a static mesh with collision, but i want it to be heavier... enough that I can't move it with my player.

not sure where I can change the "force" factor my player can generate

[grim ore]

@cloud pagodais that an orthographic camera?

[glass tapir]

You could take the physics off of it I guess, and then only make it a physics based object when not touching the player

[cloud pagoda]

Yeah it is

I started the project using the SideScroller blueprint

[grim ore]

lighting + deferred have issues with ortho cameras

[hidden oar]

Hmm, interesting, ok that's not a bad workaround I suppose.

[cloud pagoda]

Oh.. so there is no way for me to get lights to work?

[glass tapir]

Again, I’ve literally never opened this software, I’m talking out my butt, but I like the brainstorming

[grim ore]

there are workarounds, you can google ortho and ue4 and lighting and see what others have done

[hidden oar]

Lol, well, appreciate the thought either way

[cloud pagoda]

So apparently this has been an issue for 3+ years.. GG Epic. Thank you for the answer

[fierce tulip]

just get a camera with a very flat fov, problem solved.

[cloud pagoda]

I'm relatively new to unreal and am using the Sidescroller preset. Just to be sure, what value on the FOV slider would flatten it?

I'm changing the value but I can't get it to look flat

[hidden oar]

I figured it out (for anyone else). I had added a static mesh to my player and that static mesh had "block all dynamic" which basically gave it superpowers

[glass tapir]

Neato

So I helped None%

Lol

[grim violet]

I am so confused. I am trying get the bone name every time my character overlaps and somehow only the upperbody is overlapping????

This is how I am getting the bone name

And somehow it just shows from the head to the hands

[glass tapir]

Are the upper and lower half’s of the skeleton separate entities?

[grim violet]

No

[glass tapir]

Because in a first person shooter, only the head to hands even exist when the game is running

Or I may be way off

[grim violet]

I am using the 3rdPersonBP to base my character

Let me show you what I mean

https://gyazo.com/7d86d3f05fe84f0dfedb766687961db5

Legs are overlapping more than the upperbody which is also confusing

Upperbody shouldn't even be detected until he goes to the chair

[glass tapir]

Is it possible that the Lower body never stops overlapping?

[cedar wave]

Depends on the game. Some games still opt for true first person. Some do half. Some do floating arms.

[grim violet]

That is very possible

How do I stop that?

The floor causes overlapping even though its got no collision enabled

[glass tapir]

I have no idea, I haven’t started learning Unreal yet

[grim violet]

😭

[distant token]

Hello

[fierce tulip]

I dont have ue4 open atm, but when you disable ortho and tweak the fov, you should be able to get something kinda the same. ive used it before in a project.

[grim violet]

Forums has no answers for me either

[glass tapir]

No cry, I’m literally here to learn

[grim violet]

No it's not at you m8

I have spent weeks on this crap

lol

[cloud pagoda]

I think I got it, I just had to pull the camera WAY back

[distant token]

Could I please have some help

[fierce tulip]

yup, waaaaay back

[grim violet]

Been trying to enable collisions on a Live Link character which as proved to be a royal pain in the 🍑

[glass tapir]

With what?

[cloud pagoda]

Thanks for helping me out!

[distant token]

Ue4 making 3d pvp shooter multiplayer

[fierce tulip]

good luck on the project!

[glass tapir]

I have a question

[cloud pagoda]

Thank you 😄

[grim violet]

Yes

[glass tapir]

WHY do you want it to print the names of the colliding bones?

[grim violet]

Well just to debug because I want to use the specific bone to activate physics on it only when it is colliding

So it prevents collision during animation

Since animation is not considered actual movement

Trying to assign the bone name to a var and set that var as the activate physics bone

[distant token]

How I do?

[glass tapir]

Could you do that with something like “if the animation finishes, check collision on this specific bone”?

Then if true, add collision?

[grim violet]

It is motion capture so the animation never finishes

[glass tapir]

Oh

[grim violet]

I know

[glass tapir]

Cool

[grim violet]

very specific

and annoying lol

[glass tapir]

Is it possible to “refresh” the collision check?

[grim violet]

That is a good question

I believe so

Let me see

There is something called CCD or continous collision detection I have enabled on everything

[glass tapir]

Then refresh every few seconds, and don’t check for collision with anything other than the chair?

[grim violet]

Hmm that is a good suggestion let me try it

[glass tapir]

I’m basically your rubber duck, lol

[grim violet]

Lol, not sure how to only check for collision on specific objects when I am doing the code inside of the characterBP but I will figure it out, thx for the advice

[glass tapir]

Maybe check for collision, if colliding, grab the object name it’s colliding with, and return that value?

[gilded lichen]

Hello, how can I make my boss follow the player as he is doing a root motion based animation?

[grim violet]

Ahhh yes

[glass tapir]

Is that sarcasm? Because I am just spouting crap and hoping some of it is real coding

[grim violet]

I will try that rn, had to restart UE

No it makes logic sense

I will put collision names into array, parse array for chair and desk and only show those bones detection names

[glass tapir]

What is Root motion?

[grim violet]

Root motion is the root bone moving during animation

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/RootMotion/

[glass tapir]

That’s not even English, lol

[grim violet]

LOL

[gilded lichen]

lol

[glass tapir]

I know you are just messing with me now

[gilded lichen]

I learnt about it today

[glass tapir]

I haven’t started learning yet

[grim violet]

You can make the boss into a pawn and copy the movement from the character https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xbq5BrvmgQ

[glass tapir]

But will today

[glass tapir]

Isn’t there some kind of “AI” you can give it, apply the movement to an object, and make that object the parent of the boss enemy?

[grim violet]

Use learn.unrealengine.com, really helpful stuff

That video shows exactly how to do it via an event to track the motion of the playercharacter and cast to the ai character

[glass tapir]

DM me that info please

[glass tapir]

@gilded lichen

[placid folio]

Is there a way to reset or edit the DefaultSceneRoot for BluePrints in UE4. I dragged something on to it in the editor and now all my DefaultSceneRoot are messed up and look like this.

[tawdry zephyr]

Hi, I have a question about resetting the level in between matches. I know there's this function here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Game/ResetLevel/
which resets all actors except the GM and Controllers. In my tiny game I'm making I have a bunch of blocks (think bomber man) that the players destroy (actual Destroy() ) during the match. So the way I see it I have at least two options: Placing the blocks at runtime or reloading the level (via ServerTravel e.g.). Or is there an easier way and maybe a way to reset the current level without forcing the players to open the current map anew?

I hope this makes sense 🙂

[grim violet]

You can drag a component on top of the root to replace it

Drag the static mesh over the top of the root and it will replace the root

[placid folio]

It inherent the issue

[grim violet]

Oh srry idk much about sceneroot besides that 😣

[glass tapir]

Someone who doesn’t know unreal yet here, but question for you

[placid folio]

yeah I wish that fixed it

It's a major disadvantage not being able to use thumbnails

[glass tapir]

Why do you delete the objects instead of just making them invisible and removing collision?

[tawdry zephyr]

Yeah, that would be one of the options. Is that something one would do? I mean, performance shouldn't be an issue in my case (grid of max. 13x13 blocks)

And in this case ResetLevel should suffice. Just wondering if this would be considered dirty or anything

I'm not exactly new, but new-ish and always curious about best practices

[lethal sparrow]

Hey! I know this may be a stupid question, but is the Unreal Engine Unlocker a virus or is it safe?

It unlocks the unreal engine console for any ue4 game

my bad

[glass tapir]

I’m so new that I haven’t opened unreal or coding software before

[lethal sparrow]

sounds like a virus?

[glass tapir]

So I’m not an authority

[lethal sparrow]

thanks

[glass tapir]

Different question, if you are using pointers or something like that to decide spawn location, wouldn’t that allow you to “redo” the spawn command across it after “resetting”?

[tawdry zephyr]

Yeah, no worries there 🙂 Thanks for your input anyway, I'm doing it via the hide and toggle off collision way now and see if I run into any issues.

I don't know what you mean by using pointers, but in case you're refering to placing the destructible blocks programmatically at the start of the match, rather than setting them beforehand in the editor there would be the advantage of placing them randomly I think, which is kinda cool

[plush yew]

Hey guys, any idea how to package your game as for distribution but with a command line that is saved with it? I want a command to go off and I can turn it on in engine but is there a way to package the game with that command active? thanks and hope I explained it well enough

[glass tapir]

Like using an empty object class to denote the xyz coordinates and then spawn based on which ones you want to activate

[grim ore]

you can call the same functions you used to spawn the first time when you reset

[glass tapir]

Then you can destroy whatever you want but the “pointers” are still there

[glass tapir]

I think they are saying that the only “function“ that is spawning them, is the fact that he placed the objects into the scene before running the game

So there isn’t a function to run again other than reloading the scene

[grim ore]

if you reload the map it would reload them in that case, otherwise yes using some form of manual spawning could be used to reset the map

any of those methods work and all are best practice depending on your game and goal 🙂

[glass tapir]

@tawdry zephyr ?

[tawdry zephyr]

Yeah, currently the spawning of the objects happens because I placed them in the level in the editor

[glass tapir]

And what is stopping you from just reloading the level?

[tawdry zephyr]

The game freezing up for a moment for all players which I didn't experience with ResetLevel()

[glass tapir]

Gotcha

[tawdry zephyr]

Although I'm sure there are ways to mask this

[glass tapir]

Well I hope my uninformed and probably crappy advice helps, lol

[tawdry zephyr]

For example transition maps, something I've read about called SeamlessTravel which sounds like it could be of use here

Sure! If nothing else it lead me to trying another approach

[grim ore]

if you use streaming levels you can unload and reload maps without any real delay, but nothing easier than an old fashion fade to black, reload, fade in

[tawdry zephyr]

And I think I'll go with "if it works and don't seem too hacky, I'll take it" rather than worrying too much about it being perfect

at least for now

[glass tapir]

I would love to see this game you are making!

[tawdry zephyr]

it's really nothing special, I'm still learning UE, and I thought the best compromise between a project only for practice and a finished game I like would be a classic like bomberman, due to it being kind of simple, fun (at least for me), playable in the LAN here and I can practice my modeling too due to not many models needed

[glass tapir]

I would love to see your models too

[tawdry zephyr]

I hope this doesn't count as spam, but if it does: sorry! 😞 But here's my player model. I usually build web APIs and stuff, not a professional artist 😄

[shut nova]

I used reflection captures and it didn’t do anything. Was I just supposed to put it in my scene and increase the influence radius?

[dusk portal]

How many bounces does the path tracer in ue?

And can I control the amount of bounces?

[shut nova]

@worldly trout I’ve decided at this point I don’t want to use SSR just because of the reflection quality you get when not having anything on screen. My game will have a heavy nature environment so ray tracing isn’t the best idea.

Is the water plugin for UE4 single layer? If not then should I just try planar because it seems to be my only option to get the results I want.

[drowsy snow]

Is your game an open world?

With dynamic day night cycle?

In open world games that I know, planar reflections were deployed at lower resolution, and it's way lower on lower scalability

But at this point I can safely think scalability is not in the agenda

[shut nova]

No it’s a pvp game but most maps are outside.

[drowsy snow]

Then consider using reflection cubemaps.

[shut nova]

How is that different from a reflection capture (I’m new to this) @drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Well, that's pretty much the same. Reflection captures aren't updated in realtime
What's the hold up from using it when your game isn't open world?

[shut nova]

It didn’t seem to fix anything when I used it

I’m assuming I used it wrong then. I just placed a reflection sphere and increased the influence around the lake completely

[drowsy snow]

What do you mean by that?

Oh... Yeah, that's wrong.