ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

You should have multiple reflection captures spaced out across.

[shut nova]

How many for the lake specifically?

[drowsy snow]

Up to you to try. I have no idea on your level's layout.

[glass rapids]

hi, I have a quick question. Is there an advanced sessions steam release for 4.27.2?

nvm, I think I found it.

[shut nova]

I’m not using static lighting in my scene because it was affecting my foliage

And how do I access scene capture tools to bake the cube map?

Here’s a better video of the problem I’m having… it starts at 8 seconds. The reflection gets WAY to white and bright when I look from that angle.

[shut nova]

Should they be overlapping?

[drowsy snow]

Overlapping is fine

As everyone said since like yesterday, it's SSR being SSR.

You have the advantage of it being not an open world, so use reflection captures

[shut nova]

Did I apply them wrong?

If I can’t get SSR to look relatively nice I’ll try that baking my cube map and using that trick

[grim violet]

How do I edit the existing character movement component in Visual Studio? It is locked when I try to edit it

do i need to create a new c++ class

i've never used c++ only blueprints, not sure how to start lol

[drowsy snow]

either:
a. Create one from scratch in C++
b. Inherit from CMC class
c. build the engine from source, if you want to modify built in CMC once and for all

[grim violet]

Ohhhh

Is there no template c++ class for character movement

[grim violet]

Would this be what I do to create it from scratch?

[drowsy snow]

No.

You're looking for Actor Component

[grim ore]

character != character movement component

[grim violet]

gotcha

confusing so many terms

[shut nova]

Or was it not supposed to fix the white area

[drowsy snow]

Have you built them all?

[drowsy snow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LightingAndShadows/ReflectionEnvironment/

[shut nova]

Yep

[grim violet]

Why is the overlap detecting the middle of the desk when I have the collision set to complex?
(ignore the wonky physics) https://gyazo.com/fa3b9bb6b499a3e1cc227b47105a1640

[grim ore]

that video doesnt really show anything useful?

what overlap?

[grim violet]

oh i see it cropped it

my bad

sorry there are debug strings

[grim ore]

welp we dont see any code so whats supposed to be happening?

[grim violet]

I am trying to set the physics to blend with animation on beginOverlap and to stop simulating physics on endOverlap

[jolly rampart]

why is the cube just not here? i cant reference it anywhere (im new btw)

[grim violet]

sorry it is a mess

[grim ore]

is your item set to use complex collision as simple?

[grim violet]

Yes

[jolly rampart]

i cant even make a cube in the components tab

[distant quiver]

Does the gamemode initialize before the actors in the game or alongside them

[grim ore]

@jolly rampartdid you edit anything before this? like say the cube in another project

[jolly rampart]

no not really i dont think

[drowsy snow]

Verify the engine installation or reinstall it

[grim ore]

^^

[grim violet]

Yea seems like asset got deleted somehow

[jolly rampart]

ok

[grim violet]

I've had that happen b4 and verifying solved for me

[jolly rampart]

how do i verify?

[jolly rampart]

wait i think i see the issue

[jolly rampart]

can i do that with the engine open?

[grim violet]

No

[grim ore]

definitely weird @grim violet , perhaps try doing your test in another scene to eliminate other collisions

[jolly rampart]

oh shoot ok

[grim violet]

Good idea, thank you

I will let you know if that does anyhting lol

[jolly rampart]

oh i just needed to restart the engine

okay

ty guys

[grim violet]

The thirdperson example works with it. Perhaps it is because I am using live link to power the character movement? I don't think I did that right.

[drowsy snow]

That reminds me
In conclusion, his setup is using mocap to control gameplay

[grim violet]

Trying to use pelvis motion as input.

[drowsy snow]

So not to bake animations, or non-gameplay live capture

But to drive gameplay out of it.

[grim violet]

Yes

It seems that is the only way to prevent collisions on animations

Or live animations anyways

[drowsy snow]

I still don't know why he's reluctant to put proper motion controls into the mix, but I'm not the one to judge.

[grim violet]

Since live link technically never finishes animation, I can't just enable collisions and it works lol

My end goal

Is just to have it where the live character can't walk through the desk

or the chair lol

But apparently that is impossible

[drowsy snow]

Put a real desk in your real life stage lmao

[grim violet]

LMFAOO

I wish it was that easy

[drowsy snow]

Just put a desk in your mocap room, easy peasy lemon squeezy

[grim violet]

it just doesn't look right when you try to have the positioning exact to mocap, it still falls through in many instances

[shut nova]

I think I’m just going to wait until lumen works with what I’m doing. I’ll work on other games aspects until 5.1 comes around.

[drowsy snow]

Driving gameplay is not what mocap is meant to be used for, but you do you.

[grim violet]

I've tried using a basic desk IRL and mapping the scale of the UE desk to it, but like I said you can still see the hands going through it, I would have to hold my hands weirdly above the real life desk to make it not look so wack, and it still even looks weird after all that

No I understand that

I just want to make the collisions look real, not like my character is a ghost and can just walk through everything

Maybe if I add specific collision spheres to the hands, etc it would work? Idk

Seems like the problem is with the capsule component

[drowsy snow]

As I repeatedly say, mocap is meant to make animations, not to drive gameplay out of.

[grim violet]

Mhm

[drowsy snow]

Consider that I don't do mocap at all, but at least I know what to expect from mocaps

[grim violet]

Ok

I completely know what to expect my dude

I am trying to do something new lol

Something that makes it easier to do editing for those animations.

if you try mocap you will understand how time consuming it is to make the hands and feet match correctly to surfaces 😭

[drowsy snow]

If you want easier time with props, might as well put real blockout props in your real life mocap room.

[grim violet]

Trackers r expensive

[drowsy snow]

Blockout props do not need trackers, but whatever floats your ideal boat.

[grim violet]

Oh wait what

imma look this up

[grim violet]

can you give an example of what a blockout prop is

If it helps me I will scrap my idea of input, I genuinely do not care about being right I just want this to work

Spent almost a week on this lol, don't really mind what the solution is as long as it doesn't mean me buying $10k worth trackers

[jolly rampart]

new question, why does my game look so jittery?

[drowsy snow]

Just put together anything that roughly resemble the scene. Can be as simple as literal blocks put together

[grim violet]

O

[drowsy snow]

why is that so hard lmao

[grim ore]

@jolly rampartits the code you are using to slow down time

[jolly rampart]

what about it?

[grim ore]

you asked why its jittery, its because your slowing down time

[jolly rampart]

so the reason why it is jittery is because of something i cant control (besides removing the slow down thing)?

[grim ore]

how are the items being moved?

[jolly rampart]

just physics simulation

also when i move my mouse while its slowed the camera jitters too

oh

so should i move to another version?

[swift sundial]

That environment looks sick

[rotund mulch]

is there anyone experienced with materials/foliage in unreal engine? Im trying to use megascans foliage and materials but i dont really know what im doing haha

[jolly rampart]

can i just remove the motion blur?

i dont know how to though lmao

it just is created with it

[drowsy snow]

r.MotionBlur.Amount 0

[grim violet]

its from the marketplace! thx tho i thought it was epic too

[jolly rampart]

there is no post process volume

oH

[drowsy snow]

Or just disable it outright in Project Settings

[jolly rampart]

that would be ideal

[swift sundial]

Ohh still nice tho

[jolly rampart]

no idea how to do that

really im not good with this engine

[swift sundial]

Does anybody know the art that disables rendering from launch

[jolly rampart]

sorry for me being difficult

[swift sundial]

So now window pops up at all

Sth with rhi no rendering irrc

[drowsy snow]

wdym?
So you just want to use Core/Slate modules?

[swift sundial]

Yeah

[jolly rampart]

wait im actually so confused what

[swift sundial]

Like just a command line window

[swift sundial]

With no ui

Just the log

Yk

[jolly rampart]

i turned it off in project settings and i made a motion blur post process volume with it turned off

[drowsy snow]

Make a new empty console project in Visual Studio

Then do your cout shenanigans

[jolly rampart]

i did that and it didnt work

[jolly rampart]

^

I FIXED IT

nvm

ty guys

[drowsy snow]

OH RIGHT
That's the per object motion blur

[swift sundial]

Nah like I already have the compiled game

[jolly rampart]

THATS WHAT I FIXED

lmfao

[swift sundial]

And I have a pak that does all the stuff it needs

Like it hosts a server

And all I want is to disable rendering

So I just have the console

And don’t waste performance on the rendering

[drowsy snow]

So it's not a game you make?

[swift sundial]

I saw somebody do it but I’ve no idea what the arg was

[swift sundial]

My friends one

[drowsy snow]

Then that's up to their editor project.

[swift sundial]

Yh but he like got it once

And forgot the arg

[minor grove]

Is there any literature online on providing a mission editor or scripting environment for players, similar to the editor in ArmA or DCS/IL2?

[twilit ridge]

I've given my actor a staticmeshcomponent and given it a mesh. When I put the blueprint in my scene, the mesh is rotated incorrectly and I can't change the rotation in the blueprints. Is this a feature of static mesh components or do I need to enable rotation in the editor from code somehow?

[plush yew]

uproperty(blueprintreadwrite)

i think

@twilit ridge

[twilit ridge]

I had it set to EditAnywhere

[plush yew]

Are you remembering to compile and save after adjusting the rotation?

[twilit ridge]

I am, yes

I don't even have the option for rotating in the blueprint editor

[twilit ridge]

The transform only has scale

Yes I have been saving and compiling

[drowsy snow]

It's because you're selecting Root Component. Root component uses the actor's transform itself.

You could add a dummy scene component as a root and put your thing as a child of the root component

[glacial needle]

Does anyone know why my animation montages are not retargetting properly? as when it is in blueprints and the animation montage is supposed to happen, nothing happens but it looks fine in the editor

[mint umbra]

Hey guys, so I was wondering if there's a way to prevent a collision sphere from hitting you if you're inside a building? Currently Im spawning collisions spheres which deal damage once a missile hits the ground. Realized that the players are gonna need the ability to take cover from this barrage 😆 https://gyazo.com/d4ea98442c90ca5986cd8e5da4b19f1a

[glass tapir]

Any chance it’s possible to effectively draw a line from the explosion to the player, and check for collision on that line? Then you would be able to say that if it collided with a wall or something, then nullify damage to player or something like that?

[grim violet]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/Animation/ Where can I import this to my project or download it? I don't see it in the Add/Import content page

[modest trench]

this is in the learn section of the unreal launcher

it is a separate project

[grim violet]

OH

Thank you

[modest trench]

don't worry, it's kinda buried in there these days

[grim violet]

I just needed to see the examples and nowhere on the doc page did it tell me where to download 🤣

There are ALOT of examples wow

[modest trench]

go to the folder with all the levels in it to find the animation stuff

[quick sedge]

is it possible to play a specific level on play in editor? If editing Game but you can only test your game from main menu etc

[quick sedge]

If you have a UObject created with Construct Object from class in an array, the only way to get it GCd is to remove it from the array and make sure there are no refs to it stored on anything correct?

[warped hornet]

Wtf help

I click dropdown but it flashes black

Y do dis ue4

[drowsy snow]

NVIDIA user?

[winter stream]

what is this why are there black dots moving

[quick sedge]

i lost the reg key to change to fix it

i restarted ue like 60 times before i finally caved and went looking

[fading magnet]

Anyone know how to find an invisible mesh in your level? I made something invisible and now I cannot select it and I have too many items in my "World Outline" list to go through it. Is there a "make all invisible" visible mode?

[dusk nebula]

why not look through your world outliner for objects that are hidden? or search for the object by its name? You can also make folders/categories within the world outliner to make things easier to parse through

[neon bough]

select all actors in world outliner, rightclick on one and go to visibility settings

that should allow you to make everything visible

[fading magnet]

Thank you, I guess it will just take some time going through all of them

I realize organization in the future will help a lot.

Turns out it was actually the collision of a certain object being way off

[neon bough]

why go through all of them? you can just select everything

[mental dome]

Hey im trying to build the source version of ue4 but it keeps "running out of heap space"

[warped hornet]

Yes

Bcuz intel > amd

[mortal canopy]

it's been a while since i wrote anything in here but before i ask, would a question related to hair grooms go in #graphics ?

either way i'm having some issues getting the hair to actually sit on the char's head lol even with binding

[gloomy fiber]

hey all

engine not responding when trying to build large navmesh, its been at it for over an hour, should I close it and try again ?

[primal tendon]

Yeah there is, multiplayer integration can be done with same difficulty in either codes, converting blueprint to c++ is present but often advised against using it since the code could end up being bloated with unnecessary code

[sick slate]

Anyone knows why i cant paint foliage on my static meshes? When i use the fill option eveything is fine, but when i try to paint on my static mesh i can't (Static meshes is checked).

[drowsy snow]

Except when people has less issues with AMD these days, and your issues are DEFINITELY because of NVIDIA.

[drowsy snow]

I just hope he's not taking UserBenchmark as gospel

[mint umbra]

Hmm, I will try that! Thanks 😁 Maybe I couldhave the sphere overlap ensure that Im only trying to do this toward overlapped players.

[plush yew]

hello guys

can we make effects like blast, fire, shooting, etc... in after effects and export to unreal?

if yes how to do that

[drowsy snow]

No.

Houdini or Blender is more suitable for the job

[summer geode]

Urgh, finally managed to work out how to use lnav last week to view the logs from our UE4-based game client and node.js-based game server all nicely interleaved using timestamps and updating live etc. Was looking forward to using this newfound power to untangle a gnarly bug that's broken our async multiplayer recently... Then the clocks changed over the weekend (it's now UTC+1 in London) and it turns out that while the server logs show the correct local time, UE4 doesn't bother and seems to be stuck on UTC +0... great!

[summer geode]

Ah, looks like there's a command line option -LOCALLOGTIMES which fixes it though...

[rustic vapor]

So I tried importing a fluid simulation from blender to unreal engine but it gets some weird cubic topology bug. Even after subdividing the mesh in blender it looks completely the same

[keen hinge]

Can I migrate code from a project using an older UE-version somehow, if I don't have that version installed? And will it cause the same issues as if I just copy/paste (BP reparent not possible and crash, data tables lost)?

[scarlet turret]

My mesh's reflections seem to go gray when I turn Nanite on...

The first image is without Nanite, the second is with

[short mesa]

Is there a way to flush references to an asset in the editor without having to restart the whole editor/project? :/

[oblique pelican]

what version of UE4 is recommended?

as in 4.25, 4.27 etc

[last topaz]

Hi, having more than one lighting sub-level loaded seems to cause this skylight error, even though there is only one skylight in the scene. Seems like as soon as you load in more than level with a skylight it doesnt properly unload the other skylights even after hiding the levels.

[drowsy snow]

4.26
Unless you want Oodle & Bink, then 4.27

[azure reef]

Hi guys! I'm a bit confused of this nested json!
I'm using VaRest and I want to get all identifiers from here https://api.elrond.com/accounts/erd17x84s53883pnfwx74lnr56dg2fkxg2mk8dcgsv3aywx70emcmf7sftt97k/nfts?size=100&collections=BDGA-a05446
But I always get "No field with name identifier of type Array

[oblique pelican]

oodle and bink?

[azure reef]

If I have a simple {"Identifier":"Name"} it's working

[drowsy snow]

Oodle = "new" built in compression algo
Bink = cross platform media playback

[oblique pelican]

oh ok 4.26 it is then cheers

[stable remnant]

I don't understand how unreal is getting something so simple as keyboard input wrong, any other layout like azerty is scuffed

[drowsy snow]

Most of the changes in 4.27 are on Virtual Production stuff, and some refactor on the engine that makes backporting both tech too hard

[stable remnant]

they never heard of scancodes or what

[drowsy snow]

If only Oodle and Bink being free retroactively apply to 4.26, I'd gladly stay on 4.26

[oblique pelican]

anyone know why I can't see the line trace for this?

[neon bough]

do you trace away from the camera? try to unpossess with F8 and see if it shows you some traces around the camera

most likely you either trace straight forward from the camera, or in the wrong direction

[pine siren]

Is it possible to add random foliage on a mesh in runtime without having to line trace where it should spawn? Like populate all faces of a cube with grass by just passing the mesh of the cube?

[neon bough]

iirc thats a material feature

maybe also this https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/OpenWorldTools/ProceduralFoliage/QuickStart/

[clever niche]

any idea why the editor is eating up 100% of my gpu just by being open?

[neon bough]

have you set an fps limiter?

[clever niche]

i believe so?

just tried t.MaxFPS 60 in the console

[pine siren]

if you press ctrl+r in the viewport you turn off realtime render, maybe that'll help.

(or press the menu-button top left inside the viewport and untick "Realtime")

[clever niche]

that's made it a little better

just didn't think a blank map with realtime on would use up 100% of a 3070

[pine siren]

This doesn't seem to be in runtime, they click "simulate" before playing.
What do you mean by "material feature"?

[neon bough]

isn't simulate kinda like hitting play? but without possesion and probably some events not firing

[fresh brook]

Hey everyone I am trying to build the game so I have an exe file which I can run. But when I execute the cook or build not even sure how to call it 🙂 I get a cook error but I can't seem to find a answer about what I should do on google. Can anyone help ?

[unborn dew]

is there a tut on making bones in yrneal engine blueprints i cant find any 😦

[neon bough]

you can't @unborn dew

[peak falcon]

i know this is super delayed, but very strongly consider keeping all of your logs everywhere in UTC +0.. you can always apply timezones later, but like you're seeing it's a pain in the ass to go back and sync them up, and the bugs get worse

eg, what happens when you run game servers in more than one timezone also D:

[summer geode]

Oh yeah, totally makes sense to do that in production, in fact the server logs probably shouldn't have ever switched over to summer time now I think about it... probably worth fixing that at some point. It helps to have everything synched up to my local machine's time for this specific kind of dev/debugging stack/workflow though

[unborn dew]

😦

well im stuck on something aswell

[peak falcon]

you need to look at the log file it's linking you to

[grim ore]

@fresh brookthat error is the error that something broke, above that it says 2 things broke, find those 2 things in the log.

also more than 50 warnings 😦

[unborn dew]

why is it like this

and not like this?

[grim ore]

shift-f1 to eject from the viewport, then click the eject button on the top to eject from the character. then zoom out and look

what does it look like in game

[unborn dew]

u sure its shidt f1

[neon bough]

try F8

[grim ore]

I am sure its shift-f1 to unlock the mouse from the viewport, yes

[unborn dew]

nvm sorry

this is what it looks like after shift f1

[grim ore]

welp now you see the problem

are you doing anything to the weapon in your blueprint?

[unborn dew]

yes

when i look down it goes down aswel

[grim ore]

welp you can see the issue, now you have to check your code and see what you are doing wrong. we dont know what you are doing so doubt we can help

[unborn dew]

below the light grey is what im doing to the gun

above it is how i look up

[grim ore]

any reason you are moving it other than just attaching it to the camera or the model? letting the gun follow the model or the camera

[unborn dew]

thats probably smarter to attach to attach to the cammera

it works fine now thank you

[fossil bough]

i want to ask can we create custom character animation?

[grim ore]

sure if you know how

[fossil bough]

object animation such as car animation?

[kindred viper]

Hey all. Got this error whilst trying to compile a fresh engine build. >D:\UnrealEngine\427\Engine\Source\Runtime\JsonUtilities\Public\JsonObjectWrapper.h(10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'JsonObjectWrapper.generated.h': No such file or directory
Anyone had this issue?

[rain knot]

Hi guys, I'm a seasoned game dev with years of exp with Unity...need guidance on whether there's something I can quickly use to build a turn based multiplayer

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Online/TurnBased/

Is this any good? I barely see any documentation on this

[kindred viper]

maybe on the marketplace. I know there is a turn based game project but not sure if its multiplayer

[rain knot]

I'm not interested in using anything from the asset store

[kindred viper]

why?

[fossil bough]

object animation such as car animation

can we do it//

[rain knot]

I have a poor opinion of assets in general for this sort of stuff. Art is fine.
Just understanding their source code slows me down imo

I'm trying to check if TurnBased makes sense, but I see no documentation or videos on it

[kindred viper]

fair enough. I have to agree that not every asset on the marketplace has impressed me either tbh. Often they aren't very extensible unless you rip it apart so much you may as well make something fresh. But sometimes there is gold out there

[grim ore]

@fossil boughyes, you can create any animation if you have the skills

[kindred viper]

making a turn based game shouldn't be hard anyhow. It's only an event driven game anyway. Just depends how complex you want to go

the multiplayer side dictates you would have to code it up a specific way, but aside from that, it's logically a procedural flow

[rain knot]

Sorry I'm back

So @kindred viper roll my own then looks like?

[kindred viper]

Personally I'd check out what was available, see how it works, then roll my own. But if you are confident with an event based system it's not difficult to figure out if you have your gameplay idea done already

[rain knot]

But why event based system? can I not just disable inputs when it's not a client's turn?

So not event based system per se, just disable inputs on repnotify when turns change

[kindred viper]

you can do that too but consider the logic of a turn based system. It's a lot of waiting for things to happen to cycle into the next phase. Which is usually done with events. Input is neither here nor there

[rain knot]

Although I'm seeing event driven being thrown around everywhere for this, so I'm curious now

[kind dew]

So I have a character whose movement is behaving weirdly and it's all because I am setting the scale of a no-collision static mesh component attached to the character.

by weirdly i mean if i press jump, the character will jump to the right. If I press run forward, the character will run diagonally forward and right. If I change the size of the root capsule component, this will increase/decrease the severity of the problem depending on how I change it.

anyone know why that could be happening? I've never seen that before

[kindred viper]

a character movement component relies on the capsule for movement. So if anything changes it, the movement component will act funny

[clever niche]

is the marketplace borked?

[kind dew]

okay that makes sense, but why would setting the scale of a child static mesh component at runtime with no collision affect the capsule component

[clever niche]

anything i click opens a web browser

[kindred viper]

@kind dew not sure. sounds like it shouldn't but I'd have to see the setup

[kind dew]

its actually verrry simple, i'll show a gif for ya

here's my setup. The body is the component I'm setting the scale of. It's the simple sphere.

take note of that capsule component setup

so here's a gif of him moving around

https://gyazo.com/42adfc02fcc088fec870f9f6281e6152

thats literally just me using arrow keys and Jump. (For jump Im using the default Jump function in the character blueprint)

[kindred viper]

it might be that the capsule is scaled down to a sphere so it's physics collision is rolling it causing the movement component to calculate wrong. I'm pretty sure it works on the understanding that you would be using a capsule shape, ie. head/tail + body length

[kind dew]

hmm okay well let me show you what happens when it is a normal capsule component like this

[kindred viper]

it will probably roll and bump right? Unless its statically moved

how are you controlling it exactly?

[kind dew]

no theres no physics

[kindred viper]

ah

[kind dew]

im just setting the scale on the mesh to make it grow and shrink when we runs

pseudo animation

[kindred viper]

yeah figured that. Which still begs the question, why does it affect the collision 😄

[kind dew]

so with that "normal" capsule set up. the run is fine, but the jump is still weird:
p https://gyazo.com/edfa083ab24df9745c7829381b795fd2?token=00c383b0d1edd40238c0fd1882257680

[kindred viper]

yeah thats odd. What if your jump logic like?

*is

[kind dew]

im just using the standard jump function of a character

[kindred viper]

hmm couldn't really say then. Looks like it's skewing the vector somehow. But scaling a subcomponent mesh with no collision shouldn't do that at all unless the animation is root motion based I guess.

or non root motion based. I get them mixed up sometimes

[kind dew]

right but there's no actual animation

the animation is the scale being adjusted

just fyi

but yea idk so weird

[kindred viper]

oh yeah. Perhaps its better to have the animation then. Not that it solves this issue, but it might workaround it

[kind dew]

ah haha yea see that's the problem if i could animate i would its much easier for me to just scale the ball to different sizes haha

just a dumb programmer

[kindred viper]

well a simple animation would only do the same thing, but be handled with the animBP instead of scaling the mesh using world scaling

[kind dew]

right but i still have to make those animations in blender/maya/whatever

[kindred viper]

10 minute job tho. another 5 for the animbp. I know you are just a coder but even a coder needs supplementary skills. I know, I had to learn all the extra stuff too :p

[grim ore]

does it still do it if you dont animate, might want to check that first

[kind dew]

good idea. just tried and yea it the problem goes away if i dont mess with the scale

[kindred viper]

you know what I wish would go away?
When I have a Chaos engine build. I make a new project, add a cpp to the project, and then it won't compile, so I goto Visual Studio to compile it and the goddamn thing compiles the entire engine again.

I've spent all day making engine builds because of it

this means I have to work at the weekend to make up the time. Which utterly sucks because I have personal projects to do 😦

[kind dew]

god i know the C++ side of things after using blueprints only for a year was soooo daunting. like "oh just ignore the intelisense errors it might work, unless of course the intelisense error isn't fake, then don't ignore it!". switched to rider and it's mmmuch better

[cedar wave]

Please let the people in #cpp know this. They definitely need the affirmation. 😈

[kindred viper]

wanna know something sick? I don't use intellisense, nor do I use VAX or Rider. I just free code with my eyes :p

[cedar wave]

Godly

[kind dew]

haha its crazy! I was like there's 0 chance professional companies are using vs and just ignoring intelisense errors over the the whole project and what not. My code file was red and green like a damn christmas tree with intellisense errors and all the C++ people are like oh yea just ignore it. im like wtf

[kindred viper]

I actually got an invite to Github Copilot today so I might not have to code ever again if the machine learning works on unreal c++ :p

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, just ignore it

But!

VS2022 saw improvement in Intellisense part, it complain less compared to VS2019 days

[kind dew]

psh im ever using vs again rider till i die

[kindred viper]

im still on vs2019. I like pain

[kind dew]

too much pain

[drowsy snow]

Granted, I'm just a poor boy

Cost of Rider subscription could cost me some food and saving.

[cedar wave]

Trial of Rider is free.

Well - Early Access.

[sly kernel]

times are tough man

xD

[cedar wave]

Which you can keep re-upping

[drowsy snow]

I sure won't use it for just 30 days or so

But hey, if anyone wants me to starve for Rider, let me know.

[sly kernel]

bout to ask a potentially hella dumb question

whats the difference between unreal engine developer and blueprint developer

[kind dew]

lol no one wants that dude that doesnt mean i want to use it tho

[drowsy snow]

UE developer = people who develop UE
BP developer = people who develop BP

[sly kernel]

no way Keepo

xD but i meant, can a BP developer create a full game in unreal for example

or only just that aspect

[cedar wave]

Yes

[kind dew]

just a title they both coulllld mean the same thing but i blueprint developer is more specific so you'll know what you'll be doing. UE Developer could mean just someone who uses blueprints, it could mean a generalist, it could mean a c++ programmer, etc. Its a catchall i guess

[drowsy snow]

Yes, creating full game in BP only is possible.

[sly kernel]

ahhh got it, any of you guys here either of those?

• and willing to take on a project currently due in a month

[cedar wave]

Willing to pay*

[sly kernel]

ofcourse

[cedar wave]

Excellent #freelance-jobs

[sly kernel]

ive contact many people from the #hire-a-freelancer but availability or the requirements didnt meet their criteria

[cedar wave]

So post #freelance-jobs

[sly kernel]

oh i can

[drowsy snow]

#hire-a-freelancer is more of people putting themselves up for hire

#salary-jobs and #freelance-jobs are more of people who looking for workers to hire

[sly kernel]

ahhh i gotchu

thanks so much

[cedar wave]

If you have questions about what a channel is for - #more-resources

[drowsy snow]

#volunteer-projects is just for entertainment

[scarlet turret]

How many MB maximum should be dedicated to ambient sounds?

I have about 84.5 MB worth of nature ambience atm

[tough solar]

Are you sure you are not eligible for one of the cases where you can use Rider for free? ;)

[drowsy snow]

If that means only up to March, I don't know...

I'm sticking with VS2022 Community.

[tough solar]

There is a number of cases when you can get it for free as long as you meet the criteria (like if you are a student, of you contribute to OSS, or you are studying at some courses), list is pretty long.
or you can use EAP versions, they are free for anyone, but less stable

[kindred viper]

Can I use it for free out of pity for the fact I dont use intellsense or vax?

[drowsy snow]

Well, I'm not a student (can't afford the university lol), and I'm not that huge as an open source contributor. I'm just a third world country guy using what I have at hand.

My open source repos were mostly not that significant, dumpster of tools and scripts that barely anyone use

[half drum]

Any public information on when NVidia Ansel will work again on UE5 ?

[sly kernel]

phew, finally made the post

the bot for #freelance-jobs is really well put together

nice and simple

[plush yew]

Omg I'm so happy for some reason my add movement input wasn't working in PIE so I was doing a weird workaround with set velocity (in multiplayer) which was fine in PIE but lagged like hell in 'new window' mode, didn't think to swap back to add movement input for that mode to work

[fallow hornet]

Anyone know how to prevent UE from taking the file's name space when importing an fbx, I have my meshes named with SM_ in Maya and only want those names

[brisk bridge]

How can I record 360° video in UE?
I'm using now OFF WORLD plugin, but there is limitation for resolution (max. 4k). I need 6k.

[leaden flame]

hey how can I turn off the visible line that appears when doing line tracing?

[leaden flame]

oooooooooh

thanks man

🙏

[left zephyr]

I noticed there is a Common Conversation plugin in the plugin list in the engine. It's marked experimental. Does anyone know if there are docs for it anywhere?

[drowsy snow]

Probably something something UE5

Nobody seem to use it yet.

[spice burrow]

Most experimental plugins don't have documentation. Best solution is to read the C++ source, unfortunately.

[left zephyr]

Thanks. It looks like it uses the behavior tree code.

[quick sedge]

put myself in a weird spot with an Interact button and interface. I have a player and horse and when i hit interact i can get on and off the horse but if mounted, i need to be able to interact with a "drop off zone" but it doesnt run the input any longer. Do i need to abstract this higher to my controller or something?

[grim ore]

where is the interact code at?

[quick sedge]

on my Player

[grim ore]

it should still run the input then, or is your player not longer a player?

[quick sedge]

im possessing the horse but it's still in play

[grim ore]

then no, its no longer a player. its just an unpossessed pawn at that point

so yes, you would need to duplicate the code to your horse since its now your possessed pawn, or put it up higher like on the controller

[quick sedge]

should i be sending input TO the horse to control?

i guess i should look at a vehicle example closer.. thought i had done it correctly but this is a bit more complicated

[grim ore]

input goes controller -> controlled pawn basically. If you have more than one pawn and the controls are the same, it might be better on the controller

[quick sedge]

definitely not the same.. the horse is driven with much different code. i guess i just need the interact code itself put higher then as the player will never be "out of play" per se.. he's just going to be by himself, riding a horse, or riding in a wagon being pulled by a horse.

[unborn dew]

i cant get something to down somewhat slowish it goes down but sometimes it goes down once or sometimes it goes down instantly

i know why its happening just cant find a solution that works 😦

[regal mulch]

I'm confused a bit. You are in which Blueprint here?

[quick sedge]

more print debugs 😄

[regal mulch]

Usually there are two Actors involved in a hit. The one that the HitEvent calls in, and the "OtherActor" pin.
But you are using GetPlayerCharacter0, which would only make sense if either of the two is not that charater

[quick sedge]

seems he's attacking himself 😄

also might be starting the hit within itself?

[regal mulch]

Idk, just commenting on the thing I'm looking at

[quick sedge]

yep.. lol

[regal mulch]

Which already makes only little sense

[unborn dew]

so the blue print is in

then it goes to

[quick sedge]

how many tutorials you watched on this so far?

[unborn dew]

whats causeing it is the collision when i go inside it that happens

[regal mulch]

More questions

What is Damage

What is beanz

What is that freaking hit even calling in

Who is PlayerCharacter 0 of those two?

[quick sedge]

I think i watched around 80 hours of UE tutorials and bought Tom Looman's course and went through it all before joining this server.

[unborn dew]

trying to do as few possible because i learn better with peoplei can speak to and work better if i can try learn how to fix it

[regal mulch]

Yeah that's fine, but you gotta provide a lot of info when peeps should help you

It's otherwise really tricky to understand the bigger picture of what you are dealing with

[unborn dew]

its a cube that when u collide with it it damages the player (beanz)

[unborn dew]

the player

[quick sedge]

yea this needs a lot more info.. pictures of tabs tough to digest what the source is, is it a projectile.. is it calling collision more than once etc?

[unkempt finch]

im on my first lesson. 'project does not support atmospheric fog' but the lesson im doing uses it. Anyone know why ?

[unborn dew]

wdym

[unborn dew]

beanz

[quick sedge]

before destroy.. lot could be going wrong here

[regal mulch]

You implemented the Event Hit in some EventGraph

Which Blueprints EventGraph is that

[unborn dew]

is that bad

[quick sedge]

@regal mulch you're a mod for a reason, i wish you the best of luck with this patience test 😄

[unborn dew]

lol

[quick sedge]

at least watch like.. 5 minute projectile damage tut =x

[unborn dew]

i have dw

i have watched a decent amount of tut just trying do my own thing

[regal mulch]

https://medium.com/@lordned/unreal-engine-4-rendering-part-5-shader-permutations-2b975e503dd4

Check if this helps you

[quick sedge]

the code looks ok actually on further inspection.. so is it a Do Once you need on the damage impact maybe?

[regal mulch]

It talks about your error message

[unborn dew]

tried that but dont know where to do the restart thing

[regal mulch]

So, it can totally be that the HitEvent calls a few times

Cause collision can and will always be a bit janky

[quick sedge]

why do you need a reset on a projectile?

[regal mulch]

Well it's not a projectile. It's a cube you could run into

I assume the Cube does survive that

[quick sedge]

ah thats tough if its like a trap on the ground and you need some delay before it can damage the same player again

thats a gameplay decision

[regal mulch]

I would even recommend not using EventHit

But using Begin and EndOverlap

[unborn dew]

thats the problem i think but im not sure how to stop it calling so many times in as short period

[unborn dew]

ok

[quick sedge]

is it a collision or something you can walk into like eXi said?

[regal mulch]

You can't really, without just filtering the Actor

[quick sedge]

if its just a volume vs an actual collidable object

def begin overlap vs collision

[unborn dew]

not into but on it like a real box not sure how to describe

[regal mulch]

The MovementComponent will try to walk into the Cube over and over again and small floating point issues might cause it to do that even though you are already against it

You would have more control by using Overlaps

You can save the Actor you overlapped into an Array

Check if the Actor is in the Array first

If it is, ignore it

If it's not, add it and damage it

[quick sedge]

yea and probably do some periodic damage while inside it

[regal mulch]

On EndOverlap, you can remove it again

That way it doesn't trigger more than once unless the Player moves away from it again, resetting itself

[quick sedge]

kinda reminds me of path of exile "collision" traps

esp those jank doorway spike traps

[unborn dew]

i want it to go down just not super fast

like every 0.5 secs

[quick sedge]

sounds like a struct of Actor/Enter time that you can iterate and mod math to do on an interval etc

[queen gulch]

quick question, my project crashed and when i try to reopen it it crashes on startup. Anyone know a quick fix? im just starting to use unreal

[quick sedge]

or if its just single player.. just cache the entry time

[unborn dew]

whats cache the entry time is it like puting it in a excel graph to store it somewhere bad example i know but is it sorta like that

[regal mulch]

Really depends on your Project, but you could cache the actor when you overlap, and start a Timer "SetTimerByEvent". That Event you bind to the Timer can cause damage to the cached Actor.

Timers can be set to loop

E.g. every 0.5 seconds

Cache as in save it to a variable

[unborn dew]

oh

ok

[quick sedge]

Is that preferable in Unreal? timers vs setting a currentTimer float and tick it down and if <= 0 call a function and reset it to the tick time?

[regal mulch]

Timestamps are useful in some areas, timers in others

[unborn dew]

i got like 10 mins before i got to get off so if i dont respond prob cause i got off

[regal mulch]

Here a looping timer makes more sense

no worries, i will head to bed soon anyway

[unborn dew]

do u know a tut on that thing so i can watch it tmr

[acoustic flame]

Is there a way to change the pivot location of a mesh? All tutorials I find shows how to change the pivot location for an specific actor already placed in the world

[jolly rampart]

fixed

[knotty token]

trying to add a line trace to a projectile, but it keeps doing this?, how do I make it a line instead of dots

shits impossible to see when its like that

[jolly rampart]

^

[regal mulch]

No sorry

[frozen pond]

Any1 got same error when entering ue4 forum ?

[quick sedge]

yeh

[fierce tulip]

yup

[jolly rampart]

how do i change rooms with blueprint?

i made a new room

and that

but idk how to switch

wait nvm

im dumb

[winter gazelle]

Your drawing a debug line with distance based on delta time in tick. The line will never be the same distance.

Use a line trace node and attach it to an action input and make end distance based on a scalar of the camera forward vector

[knotty token]

Im not doing it for it to be used in firing, its to debug bullet drop and velocity

[winter gazelle]

You shouldn't be using tick unless absolutely necessary. Also the line trace nodes and project arc node include debug and hit interaction. So you can set how long the debug is on screen.

If you want to fire off a line trace every tick. Make an event or function and call it on tick.

[quick sedge]

boo.. Actor Class Filter for Component Overlap Actors doesn't support interfaces?

i know there's Does Implement Interface but just trying to clean up

[glacial needle]

Does anyone know why my animation montages are not retargetting properly? as when it is in blueprints and the animation montage is supposed to happen, nothing happens but it looks fine in the editor

[green light]

some never answered, and others can't do

[warped hornet]

Id there a way to alter sprite flippbook animations as a character, when the character is performing a specific action?

And when i say alter, i mean increase or decrease the animation speed

[unique kraken]

ANY idea why this happens to all my characters?

they are properly exported with the root at 0,0,0

https://gyazo.com/371ada440265002605cf4cf9ce8bef70

i dont think its the capsule, could it potentially happen when retargeting?

[plush yew]

floating? could be that your characters relative z location to collision capsule is too high

[unique kraken]

nope checked those things already

most likely actually happend from retageting

(someone talked to me in prvt) animations seem to be the problem

[west junco]

🆘

idk what happened, but i was working in unreal, it crashed, and now i can't open the project without it crashing

i don't have a recent backup, is there anything i can do to not have to lose everything?

[unique kraken]

@west junco search the folder in wich u last worked

delete whatever asset u worked on last

maybe copy it befor to the desktop or so

[west junco]

alright, i'll give it a shot, i also am running a rebuild on it to see if it helps

and i just got it to open!!

thank you!!

[unique kraken]

how on gods earth did i get this connected

try to do something simular currently why the heck cant i connect it now?

[stable cypress]

Doing a little market research: Does a open world survival game (think NEO Scavenger) with turn based combat (similarish to xcom) seem appealing to anyone? And if so what mechanics or elements would you want to see?

[harsh rapids]

Does anyone here know how to fix a charecter that has all it's animation on. But when walking forwards is facing backwardsm

[spice ruin]

So basically early final fantasy games, but sci-fi, @stable cypress ?

[stable cypress]

@spice ruin Somewhat! The combat would be on a grid with movement playing a heavy role, kind of like Fire Emblem but most units are ranged

[drowsy snow]

Open world but turn based... Nope

[spice ruin]

Sounds a bit like a standard RPG game, really.

[stable cypress]

I've been told the most similar product out is Battle Brothers, so in that vein but with much quicker combat and more streamlined gameplay

[drowsy snow]

Turn based battle is not my forte

At least not without real time incentive like ATB

ATB patents have been expired anyway so feel free to put it in your game.

[spice ruin]

To be honest, it sounds like xcom but with bigger maps.

Somethng I would totally not be against!

[stable cypress]

Definitely would take a lot from xcom! I would hope to make it have some of the mechanics and feel of darkest dungeon (healing is difficult outside of towns and morale must be managed) Plus I think the combat system in DD is amazing

[spice ruin]

What would the camera system be like?

[drowsy snow]

I'm against pure turn based battle that has no realtime incentive, so if you want to win me, put something that has consequence if I don't do something in time.

[spice ruin]

I didn't like that about xcom, that it forced you to do tihngs in a certain time. The time limits weren't overly harsh, but it didn't let me play like I wanted.

Having combat rewards be based on time taken isn't bad, though.

Especially when every map had these time constraints.

[drowsy snow]

So X-COM has pseudo realtime battle?

[stable cypress]

Yeah having time based objectives can be fun occasionally, although I think Xcom 2 used them a bit too much

[spice ruin]

Every map had a "in x number of turns, the bomb will explode" "save the civilians before the monsters kill them" "in x turns, the exfil chopper leaves"

[drowsy snow]

That's something I'd like to take tbh

[spice ruin]

Yeah. I'm totally basing this off XCOM 2 rn

[stable cypress]

I think it makes a lot of fun situations for some missions but not as the main mechanic or else it feels very stressful all the time

[spice ruin]

XCOM 2 did feel very stressful.

[drowsy snow]

If there's no realtime incentives, then I'm out.
I'm all about making fast strats.

[spice ruin]

Especially as the main campaign had a constant time constraint

"In x turns, the big evil guy will finish his project and you all die"

[stable cypress]

For the main "campaign" element I think I would allow players to move at their own pace, moving through the increasingly difficult regions to reach the main goal and win the game

But individual missions might have time constraints as a challenge

[drowsy snow]

At the very least have the option to pause the time between turn when opening huge menus, like FF's ATB system

[stable cypress]

Haha definitely I hate it when games don't do that

[drowsy snow]

ATB is the reason I go through older FF games

It's like a balance of turn based, and realtime incentive

[stable cypress]

Another good example of a somewhat similar game combat wise would be Into the Breach with the interesting abilities and combos

[scarlet birch]

Anyone help me with a little trig? When a hit happens I have a unit vector represented by the green line that is moving towards the surface, the blue line would be perpendicular to the surface and I want a unit vector moving away from the surface represented by the red line such that the angle between the green line and the blue line is the same as the one between the blue and red lines. I'm only dealing with X and Z movement, Y is locked. It's been a decade since I took trig and this is taking me longer than it should to solve.

[spice ruin]

ATB?

[drowsy snow]

Active Time Battle

Basically you take turn when the time is up, but so does the enemy at independent pace

Taking turn will reset the timer

[spice ruin]

Ah, so you both make simultaneous turns and then at the end of the time, both are applied?

Oh independent. Hmm.

So it just limits how long each of your turns can take?

[drowsy snow]

Well, it's been staple since FF4

[spice ruin]

Ah. I never really played FF games that had that. I don't recall it on 10 and 11? I think those are the 2 I played.

I played 7 a very long time ago.

[stable cypress]

I think the star wars game with Revan had something similar

[drowsy snow]

10-1 uses pure turn based but with visible queue, so yeah

[spice ruin]

10 and 12 actually.

Loved the different combat systems in those.

15 was shit combat.

[drowsy snow]

12 is borderline realtime IMO

[spice ruin]

Yup.

That was the one you could set up little macros for autocombat, right?

I loved that system in Dragon Age, I think I used it in 12 too... Shrug

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, I like that one, the Gambit system.
Felt like you have control over the battle without necessarily issuing command to them every time

[spice ruin]

Yeah!

Setting up the perfect system was like a mini-game in itself.

[scarlet birch]

This does what I was looking for.

[drowsy snow]

So basically Breakout clone?

[fierce tulip]

yups

[scarlet birch]

yeah, basically just playing around with different ways to implement it. Reflection Vector was what I was looking for. I couldn't remember what it was called.

[slender egret]

Super nooby question: how do I close the GPU profiler brought up using the ` > stat gpu command?

[scarlet birch]

enter the command again

[slender egret]

Thanks a lot!

its the little things I get stuck on haha.

[glad temple]

Hi guys,

I'm new to both programming in UE4 and programming in general, but I'm teaching myself through a JRPG blueprint asset that I bought off the marketplace. I'm trying to add in a Type Advantage system like you'd see in the Pokemon games. I've made an enum that has the names of the types, and I have a struct that has 3 variables linked to the enum that lists your type, your type strength, and your type weakness. How should I go about implementing the settings for assigning those? I've tried setting variables for each type with its assigned values, but it doesn't work correctly as it ignores what I set and fills the 3 variables with the default value. I'm doing something wrong and I'm not sure where I should start on trying to get it to carry over each type's attributes.

If anybody has any advice or input, that'd be awesome. Thank you!

[scarlet birch]

You want to look at DataTables.

[glad temple]

Thank you so much! I've got the basic functionality working now.

[warped hornet]

WHY DOES THE ENGINE GO BLACK AND FLASH BLACK AND CANT USE DROP MENUS

pls sum1

tell me i not the only one 😭

[spice ruin]

Heard of it happening... update drivers?! 😦

[warped hornet]

Every driver is up to date 😊

[autumn flame]

Checked the pinned message of the channel if you have Nvidia?

[sinful jackal]

If you like horror games,
Check this game demo, and kindly give your opinion in the comment section, on the game itch.io page
https://nimbusgames.itch.io/malice

[modest trench]

#ue4-general message

try this out!

[bleak shadow]

Just hopped in to ask if anyone has a solution to UE4/UE5 not rendering properly. Issue seems to be drop down menus rendering as the top left corner of the main window. Also the screen is completely black when hovering certain menus, or when the window is maximized. This issue occurs on UE 4.26.2, 4.27.2, 5.0.0 so far (what I have tested). I have updated graphics drivers and windows to the latest and I have tried the (After updating to NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 461.09) fix. I am using a GTX 30 series GPU.

Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

quick update, 4.26.2 appears to work now apparently. The other two versions still no-go

[upbeat spoke]

Getting an error on migrate that says an object does not exist... anyone know how I can solve that?

[warped hornet]

Hi

I have a 2d character that is animated by a flipbook. Any way to speed up the flip book animation, or better yet, dictate the speed of the animation based on the speed the character travels over a surface?

[crisp bone]

Unreal Engine is such an advanced engine that sometimes you expect basic things to be supported, like for example to be able to import gifs from adobe after effects to UE4 directly, but nope gotta do a thousand workarounds in between 😂

[livid hazel]

Hey guys i got a beginner question that i cant figure out. Can someone tell my why i cant edit the values? Or how I can edit them?

its an actor with an attached static mesh

[warped hornet]

This place is rife with questions and sparse with answers 😭

[livid hazel]

isnt that every discord? haha

oh that was another question

[cloud grail]

It seems the internet is also that way when it comes to unreal... many questions online are dead ends

[warped hornet]

It sucks because im sure most questions are simple fixes

I demand an expert in here standby on call 24/7 to help us little peeple

[livid hazel]

its just sometimes hard to google for questions when you have no idea where to start

[warped hornet]

Did u try clicking the over ridden light box

[livid hazel]

yee sadly no luck but ill click more boxes now

[warped hornet]

Maybe try changing the block all dynamics

[rain knot]

can someone help me with a simple architectural decision?
my game has cards...each card represents a resource

should I just represent it as an int or should I make a full blown class?

I'll have to show some nice UI to the end user, with their respective cards. Does it make sense to make a Card object and then model that as List<Cards> under my player?

[warped hornet]

Full blown ofc

[rain knot]

interesting...so you don't suggest "checking" for which number the card represents and then doing something with that on the client??

That way I'm sending very little data over the network right?

[warped hornet]

Is this mobile game

[rain knot]

yea

[warped hornet]

I dont think a card game takes up too much internets

[bleak shadow]

I believe this is because it is selected in the scene, not in the content browser

[warped hornet]

@bleak shadow r u an expert pls help me toooooooo 😭

[rain knot]

how would i for eg: move card from one player to another?
I think it's...on server I only say "transfer Card of type X from Player A to player B" and on client I do everything else I guess

[warped hornet]

No idea. Probably something like getvectorfloatpawn and force the 3 axis into a boolean

Sry

Im bitter cuz i need help too 😭

[bleak shadow]

not an expert, but I might be able to help in a few minutes

[warped hornet]

Yayy 😊 my question is up a lil bit

[crisp bone]

If it's for 2D purposes, Yes, you're able to export your animation from after effects as GIF or PNG sequence (and then convert it to flipbook). But if it's for UI, you can only do it as GIF. And UE4 doesn't support GIF. So you'll have to install this plugin https://github.com/neil3d/UAnimatedTexture4

[bleak shadow]

I assume the animation only plays when the character is moving?

[warped hornet]

Yep

Thats what i want

There neednt be an idle animation, but the run animation should cycle faster the faster the character is moving

[dusk nebula]

I haven't added anything to this project since October and I forgot how bad it got as I got into it

that screenshot comes after a for each loop in a tick function, so it seems like I should address that next lol

[bleak shadow]

default 2d side scroller has something like this

in this case you can add a set paly rate option, we already have a node grabbing the velocity you we can use that. Velocity>playrate is way too fast so I just divide the velocity by 100(could be more, in my case) and pop it into playrate

[warped hornet]

Wow i will try that thx sooo much :3

Does that go in the input or the event graph

[bleak shadow]

yup no problem. The only issue with doing it that way means that it's based on movement speed of any kind, so in my case jumping make it look like the character is running really fast

[bleak shadow]

event graph

[warped hornet]

Sweet

Its ok bcuz its not a running character :3

[livid hazel]

Didnt work but thanks for the input. I will go to bed for now anyways!

[bleak shadow]

Ok, if you cant seem to get it ping me again tomorrow. I've had this issue before I'm just too tired to remember the fix

[grim violet]

big mood

[ocean pumice]

how bad does this looks to you in terms of performance ? like really bad or normal bad

knowing that the level is filled of chair 1 2 3 4 5 + bench 1 2 3 5

[tame marsh]

Inevitable

Performance wise I think it'll be detrimental if you have to do GetAllActorsOfClass but you shouldn't be doing that regardless

There's a feature in UE4 where you can merge all of those static mesh actors into a single StaticMesh asset but woe be upon you if someone down the line asks if you could remove a certain chair

[ocean pumice]

ok! thanks a lot by inevitable you mean terrible right ?

I need to get the best quality result and foliage does gets down the quality a bit (if i'm right? )

[tame marsh]

Inevitable as in levels will often reach that level of assets in it

Depends on the quality of your mesh

Uhmm

I think you should look into Instanced Static Meshes

That'll improve your performance if they're all identical

[drowsy snow]

Wasn't there an auto instancing feature?

[crisp bone]

how many are they? Maybe you can use instanced static meshes?

[ocean pumice]

ok thanks i also thought about Foliage what are the downsides?

[ocean pumice]

1000 maybe

[crisp bone]

and you're placing them manually?

i would use either foliage or instanced, because i can imagine it'd become a problem if they're all static meshes

[ocean pumice]

yes especially with the trees but i have this issue where they look bad if placed by folage

especially from distance

i'm sure it's because of LOD but i don't undersnta why the ones with foliage would disapear if the ones placed manually are still there if they have the same properties

the shadow especially seem tofade

[flint cypress]

Hi guys, I'm new to Unreal engine here and currently i face some problems in setting up UE4 live-broadcasting.
Every time when hitting the play button, the media player that connected to the camera (with person moving around green screen) and link to pc via camlink will disappeared. Not sure how the setup of the blueprint is...but I'll be glad if anybody can help this out. Thanks guys 😄

[tame marsh]

Once you press the Play button, you'll have to start the MediaPlayer again by going to its asset and press play

I'm sure you could script that it plays once you start runtime

[ocean pumice]

like this

[tame marsh]

There was a setting in the foliage for that, lemme check

[tame marsh]

In the InstanceSettings, you got some flags like Affect Dynamic Indirect, Affect Distance Field

Try playing a bit with those

[inland hollow]

I have a question, how did you create begin and end powerup, confused about it, also this is what i have rn

on powerup

[ocean pumice]

ok thanks ill check that !

[crisp bone]

it has to do with culling distance i think in the foliage settings

[ocean pumice]

yes i looked at it but its set to 0 0

[ocean pumice]

instance you mean material instance ?

[tame marsh]

No, Foliage Instance settings

[ocean pumice]

ok !

@tame marsh

but now even when cast shadow is off i still have this weird pale veil covering the trees when going into the distance

[cerulean flare]

why ;-;

I set up Quixel like the guy on the video did

[tame marsh]

Have you built lighting?

[flint cypress]

Thanks Fragrag! I'll go and try out and see if this working.

[ocean pumice]

i found a solution ! i just chekecd all the boxxes

[woven ingot]

Hey guys. I want to retrieve data from database (mysql workbench or xampp) and display in unreal engine. I'll be glad if anybody can help with resources, threads any thing.Thanks in advance!

[cloud patrol]

Hey all, I'm using a VR controller that has a dragon mesh positioned under it. I'm trying to rotate the mesh downwards to dive, however because of the position of the pivot point for the mesh, it will rotate and the camera will be inside the mesh rather than above the shoulders as it should be. I think the best way to tackle this is to always have a set offset between the shoulder bone and the VR camera, but I don't know the best way to run this check.

Any help would be amazing

Ideal position:

[ocean pumice]

how are you supposed to properly delete an asset ??

if not by force delete ?

[cloud patrol]

Rotated mesh:

[rich reef]

What is the system that describes 3D rotations based on 2 euler angles called again? Using the rotation on Z as well as vertical angle

[rotund scroll]

2 euler angles?

I don't know any system that uses something like that

are you referring to how quaternions determine a correct angle?

[knotty token]

america, fuck yeah

[rich reef]

no, its commonly used in games to control camera angles for first or 3rd person

You rotate around Z from the object center & then rotate relative to the Z rotation you rotate on X or Y (but never both)

[rotund scroll]

well when you say "system" the only system I know of that is a way to measure out rotations different from euler angles are quaternions

[fresh pulsar]

Hey guys so I want to after a delay set the character's velocity to a certain amount but I cannot find a regular velocity node, just launch velocity and all that

Sort of losing my mind trying to do this

[rotund scroll]

it would be based on the character movement component

[rich reef]

This is what I was looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_coordinate_system

[fresh pulsar]

Is there a way I can gradate the velocity down to a certain amount instead of straight up cutting it off down to said amount

[rotund scroll]

celestial coordinate system 🤔

[fresh pulsar]

It feels jank rn

[rotund scroll]

never heard of people working with that in games

[rotund scroll]

you'll have to do it over time

so a timeline, a timer, on tick etc.

[fresh pulsar]

Is there a way I can loop a command that like reduces velocity to a certain amount over a certain amount of time, idk

Like idk loop 100 times something with a delay and change velocity command

[rotund scroll]

see above comment

[fresh pulsar]

Not sure how to do this at all

[fresh pulsar]

I can see what you're saying but I'm an unreal noob so I just have 0 clue what you're suggesting

[rotund scroll]

in that case I'd suggest googling it or looking up MathewW's videos on youtube

[fresh pulsar]

I tried watching tutorials earlier and it was just a nightmare experience so I've resorted to coming here

I'm seriously begging for help at this point lol my brain is melting out of my ears

[rotund scroll]

well you haven't tried anything I've said just yet

and really the best thing you can do for yourself is figure things out

I don't have time for a hand holding session

[fresh pulsar]

I have been trying some things but I can't quite figure it out

[rotund scroll]

.

[fresh pulsar]

I'll just wait for someone else then because my brain has just melted at this point

And tutorials have proven to just be useless to me all day

It's been an exercise in futility and mind bending confusion

[ocean pumice]

Any idea why i get this white veil over the treees while moving ?

tjhanks

[wet schooner]

my first assumption would be something relating to your fog

Like the lighting/shadows changing because of the distance making your fog more noticable

[ocean pumice]

yeah same 🙂 but i use ultradynamic sky i tried diisabling all the fog but i still get that

especially on the filiage

[wet schooner]

hmm odd

[ocean pumice]

yeah :/ i don't get it on the blank mountains though

so that must be related to foliage i guess

[wet schooner]

Yeah foliage is the worst, i've been dealing with it these last days and life is pain

[ocean pumice]

aha man you cant' imagine same her

omg

but a guy named @neon bough was of amazing help here :)*

shit sorry :///

[rotund scroll]

it might be the cubemap

but yeah also pinging people like that is against the rules

[ocean pumice]

really sorry i didn't know my bad

[rotund scroll]

I could have sworn it was under this before,

7. No spam. This includes phishing, scams, unsolicited Discord invites, unsolicited direct messages asking for help, cross-posting in multiple channels, and use of excessive mentions, emoji, or repeated messages.

[split tundra]

I've got a simple actor with a Static Mesh Component and a Box Collision to act as a trigger by performing some stuff on overlap, however something odd is going on: whenever a pawn's collision intersects the trigger's collision box on the edges, (which means the pawn is not totally inside the trigger box), OnComponentBeginOverlap and OnComponentEndOverlap keep on firing multiple times, why's that?

[rotund scroll]

multiple components on the actor overlapping?

[split tundra]

Already checked, that isn't the case

Uhm... it appears that this behaviour is somehow caused by the RunOnServer function that gets called on overlap

[rotund scroll]

#multiplayer

[split tundra]

By removing the pin on that function, collision works flawlessly

[timid sand]

hey there, I'm missing a "rename loaded asset" blueprint function for some reason. Did they remove it?

[rotund scroll]

seems to be only for editor assets. is the blueprint you're trying to make work an editor asset?

[timid sand]

Yep. Seems like a bug. It's 4.27.2.

[marble otter]

How do I making a constant input convert to a trigger?

So once the input comes in, it instantly disables after passing through.

[marble otter]

It is doing once, but it's constant, so the once is infinite

[oak patio]

Begin powerup is a function in powerup manager

You ise the reference to powerupmanager to call it

[marble otter]

rip overshadowed

lmfao

[marble otter]

Yes but it never turns off because the first input doesn't turn off/retrigger.

You press the button, which opens a gate. When the gate opens, it'll allow the player to do an action. This action is launch character. That needs to only trigger once. Currently it's constant and will continuously propel the player until they let go of the button.

Do once isn't even doing once lol

Let me try do N

Nope

[oak patio]

show the code

[marble otter]

So I figured it out.

For one, something's buggy about the start of the function. If I place Do Once inside the function, it could infinitely retrigger.

After putting it into the event graph, it worked properly

Ahhhh

I see

So Do Once doesn't work inside a function?

[timid sand]

not a bug! It just needs the EditorScriptingUtilities plugin to be enabled 🙂

[wet schooner]

Yeah functions can be tricky like that

personally I remember cheating

and making a bool called action bool

which I reset to false when you start a function

and can reuse for functions

although I didn't really use it for do once

but for something else

[rocky hound]

I was reading around some job descriptions to figure out what companies typically desire and I don't understand this part. What is meant by "unreal's internal systems and extending them" ?

[drowsy snow]

Basically knowing Unreal's inner workings and making stuff with it, from tools, gameplay code, and whatnot (and sometimes making custom engine modifications)

[rocky hound]

I wonder what are some use cases to modify the engine for?

I'm still a noob but I just can't fathom it xD
In my head unreal seems to be able to do everything (in theory)

[hazy lake]

That's why you're still a noob :P once your start doing serious development you'll start to notice some limitations and want to change the engine code

[drowsy snow]

Many, many use cases, but it's all about bending the engine to your project needs.

In my case, I modify the engine to have dedicated anime shading model and super epic lens flares

[rocky hound]

I see

I still have a lot to learn xD

thanks

[drowsy snow]

Also modifying the engine can help make your UE game more stand out than other UE games

[rocky hound]

how so? because of the custom shaders/processing?

or is there more to it?

[drowsy snow]

Well, in my case it's the custom visual effects. I had to modify the engine to get something that looked different than the vanilla bloom and lens flares, and implementing dynamic anime shading model.

But I'm sure other UE4 games needed to modify the engine to replace/modify things like the default gameplay related classes, the physics, the rendering, backporting new features to older versions of UE4, etc.

Also I think developing for consoles require building from the engine source code to get the SDK going

[rocky hound]

ahh thanks

[ocean pumice]

omg please help i've just rendered my scene and my foliage looks like this this is insane :/

why does it look black ?

[hidden cairn]

I just change my character pawn and its referred to by a load of my scripts - is there an easy way to remap the dependencies or whatever

[fleet wing]

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well.
Can someone help me with a thing I was looking for a while now, How to create a rail shooter game like The house of the dead in unreal engine?
Is there any tutorial on this topic? So, far I've found one for unity but I've been trying to find one for unreal engine.
Thank you 🙂

[wet schooner]

Hmm i'm not sure if there's a specific tutorial

What i can say however the first thing you should look up incase you haven't already is splines

because you're going to want to put your player camera on a spline

following the track/level

and you can put some crosshairs on your screen house of the dead

That should get you 30% there

enemies and events could spawn based on your player camera entering a zone with a box collision trigger

that's another 30% I imagine

[fleet wing]

So, you're saying it's basically similar as a First person shooter but the character moves itself and about the box collision trigger - I can use this to move the character in different locations without hitting any input key?

[wet schooner]

Yes but you may be able to keep it even simpler

[drowsy snow]

Basically point and click game but with time incentives.

[wet schooner]

it's been a while but house of the dead was just a crosshair right?

So you don't even need to worry about gun models and animations

[fleet wing]

only when you reload there's a quick animation

[wet schooner]

So you don't need a first person shooter character

ah yeah

[drowsy snow]

Nah, rail shooters are basically point and click games but with time limits and automated movements. That's the simplification, enough to get going

[wet schooner]

You can make the pawn follow the spline on it's own and set how long it will take or pause it during enemy encounters and when all enemies are dead it can resume etc

[drowsy snow]

It's even simpler than first person shooter

[wet schooner]

yep

[fleet wing]

about that, how do I write the code ( If last enemy dies > I move to next location )

[fleet wing]

I see

[drowsy snow]

Check if enemies in one encounter is zero

Basically you group it into bunch of encounters

[wet schooner]

There's many ways to do it, i'd try and create a enemy manager for each combat encounter basically, so you can add a variable of how many enemies you need to kill. Each time you kill a enemy it adds to the variable in your manager

[ocean pumice]

anyone ? sorry 🙂

[wet schooner]

#graphics may be able to help 😅 because i sure don't know

[ocean pumice]

ahah thanks this is pure nightmare omg

[fleet wing]

I see, I was thinking about coding within the enemy health bars like if last enemy health reached 0 > play death animation > I move but it seems more complex.
Your Idea sounds easier. Thank you very much.

[wet schooner]

hp 0 > play death animation > cast to event/combat scenario manager that someone has died

[twin beacon]

Hello, I'm having trouble removing an empty folder. Within the editor the folder appears to be empty but in the explorer it there remains a file with ".uasset" ending.

[wet schooner]

that's just how i'd do it

honestly there's many ways to do it

[fleet wing]

Yes, I have covered this encounter based tutorial inside this course
https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal-engine-the-ultimate-shooter-course/

[wet schooner]

that's what I enjoy about coding/blueprints not being stuck to one way

ahcool

[drowsy snow]

Right click the folder and fix up redirectors

[twin beacon]

I tried that, it didn't help

[drowsy snow]

I'd take udemy with a huge grain of salt...

[drowsy snow]

Save all.

[twin beacon]

Did that too, even closed + reopened the project. Same issue

[drowsy snow]

I don't know, just delete it directly in file explorer

[twin beacon]

pretty sure I didn't delete any references either so idk how that happened

[drowsy snow]

If all else fails, just brute force it

[wet schooner]

tbh I just use random youtube stuff 😂

best teacher that's free

a lot of cool people teaching

on youtube that is

[fleet wing]

@wet schooner @drowsy snow I was having a hard time, fully stressed out. I reached out for help and I got it here.
Thanks guys, your advice was really helpful.

[fleet wing]

Do you have any good recommendation?

[wet schooner]

i'm glad, I hope your project works out well

hmm maybe lemme check

[twin beacon]

deleting in explorer worked, hope it doesn't cause future issues

[wet schooner]

Alright so this is a easy to learn from one I used once I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V6D5WtemMI&t=333s&ab_channel=MattAspland

But if you want something a bit more official and indepth there is also a official unreal one it seems, but this one goes really indepth also showing you how to use meshes with splines for shapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0fH6O9jD8&ab_channel=UnrealEngine

matt aspland in general has some good ones that quickly show you a concept

[fleet wing]

noted!

[blissful trail]

hey anyone here good with advanced steam sessions??

[fleet wing]

Thanks for going extra miles for me 😉

[blissful trail]

cos i'm having trouble with creating the advanced session/joining the advanced session

oh

[wet schooner]

ah np np

happy to pass some resources along

[glacial needle]

Does anyone know why my animation montages are not retargetting properly? as when it is in blueprints and the animation montage is supposed to happen, nothing happens but it looks fine in the editor

[cedar wave]

Not retargetting or not playing? Massive difference.

[glacial needle]

@cedar wave not playing

[cedar wave]

Make sure your AnimBP has the correct slot in the output. If these words are odd to you - look up a tutorial. Most common reason people's montage doesn't play.

(Your montage also needs to be in the correct slot)

[glacial needle]

@cedar wave hmm that could be the problem, but I tried combining animBPs so I think that could be the problem, in terms of referencing slotgroups... I will keep playing around with it

[jolly rampart]

i need help really bad
i need to package it but

[glacial needle]

@cedar wave to specify, The animation is playing properly in a blueprint, but when playing the game and i am calling the anim montage to play, it doesnt work

[cedar wave]

My statement still stands.

[autumn flame]

That's the entire log, not just the packaging log...

But shortly

PackagingResults: Warning: Visual Studio 2019 is installed, but is missing the C++ toolchain. Please verify that the "VC++ 2019 toolset" component is selected in the Visual Studio 2019 installation options.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)):   ERROR: Visual Studio 2019 must be installed in order to build this target.

Literally tells you

[jolly rampart]

i already got it

though

i think i can fix it

[umbral compass]

I need help with the Epic Games Launcher itself. Where do I go for that?

It keeps going through a loop of;

Installing
Verifying
rinse repeat

Its been doing so for over 14 hours

[grim ore]

that would be the support email or forum more than likely.

[umbral compass]

About to head to work, going to try uninstalling it... removing all files from %localappdata% regarding it... then reinstalling and trying again. Read that did the trick for someone else.

Thanks for advice

[jolly rampart]

it is telling me i need to get visual studio 2019 but i already have it

[autumn flame]

It's not telling you to get Visual Studio

It's telling you to get the toolset

"Please verify that the "VC++ 2019 toolset" component is selected in the Visual Studio 2019 installation options."

[grim ore]

well it is telling them they need it installed, but its also telling them that.. its... doing both lol

but yes, the literal error telling you what to install might be a start 😉

[blazing notch]

how do i get the create an anim montage when right clicking on an animation ? whenever i right click on an animation i get these options and not the ones shown in the engine docs

[grim ore]

it looks like they are off your screen at the top

[blazing notch]

well if i shrink the editor window it still stays at the top of the screen. any idea on how to fix it ?

[grim ore]

it looks like thre is a scroll bar, have you tried scrolling up in that menu?

[blazing notch]

just tried the white bar on the right hand side has no scroll bar

it doesnt scroll up

[grim ore]

otherwise that resolution is super tiny for working in the engine, you could try using the widget reflector and scaling the entire editor if you cant change your windows resolution

[blazing notch]

oh. how do i do that ?

[grim violet]

it shows it flickering

every bubble flickers

[grim violet]

nvm

i think its a gpu problem

[lethal light]

hello, I have a little doubt, I was researching and I saw that I can use packages made by other people who distributed them for free/sold in the unreal store for my projects, I can sell the project with these packages but I can't sell the package itself , that's it?

[blazing notch]

@grim ore Thanks !

[grim ore]

@lethal lightitems sold in the epic games marketplace?

[lethal light]

yes

megascan for exemple

grass tree flowers...

[grim ore]

if its from the marketplace then yes, it should follow the marketplace license which allows you to use it in your project and release said project as a completed thing but not redistribute the items inside of it as is (no reselling, including them as the source assets, etc.)

[fierce tulip]

you cant sell the project, you can sell the cooked game.

[silver crest]

Is anyone able to point me in the direection of what this crash means? 🙂

Assertion failed: StreamingTextures.Num() == StreamingTextureGuids.Num() [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Level.cpp] [Line: 1894]

[lethal light]

in this case I could only sell if the game is completed or executable, but if it's the project that can still be modified by others I can't, right?

[grim ore]

if they have access to the source asset, the core file(s) that you purchased then no you cannot do that

[grim violet]

Anyone know how to prevent this from happening? Any popup in UE starts flickering after like an hour of work. Then I restart the editor and it’s fine for another hour. Is this a hardware related issue? Or something I can enable to fix it in the editor

[grim ore]

your cant basically buy something and give that something to someone else

[fierce tulip]

@grim violet update/change/revert (nividia?) drivers.

[grim violet]

Ahh thank you

[lethal light]

free same thing right?

[grim violet]

They’re updated but perhaps reinstalling is a solution