ue4-general

[fierce tulip]

win11 or 10?

win11 has a bleepton of issues with ue and nvidia drivers as well

[grim violet]

11

Yeah lol

Updating GeForce drivers rn

Oh my god I updated drivers and now my screen went black

AHhhh

[grim ore]

@lethal lightyes, because epic wants those free things given only to licensed users and if you give them out (redistribute them) they cant guarantee the people you give them to have the rights to use them.

[grim violet]

My screen is back thank GOD

[median wigeon]

Anyone here work with the Volumetric Cloud painting BP provided in the volumetrics plugin? I've noticed there is no built in 'save' function for them (the render targets painted are erased after closing the editor). My temporary work around is converting the render targets to a static texture and linking them back into the volumetric cloud material, but it's not ideal and does not allow for further edits. Anyone know of any solution for saving the painting work done within the BP_PaintClouds? Another solution I guess could be converting static textures back to a render target, but no idea if that's achievable or how to go about doing that.

[lethal light]

I got it, thanks

[granite spire]

I BELIEVE I FOUND A SOLUTION!!!

My monitor was running at 60hz in windows instead of 145hz/165hz, i swapped it and everything appears to have lasted hours.

@Ray.#0396

Oh he left

[queen pagoda]

yo heyo

i got an issue

with packaging

anyone here who knows some stuff bout packaging

?

[grim ore]

someone might

I dont know

maybe in #packaging

maybe somewhere else

I dunno

[autumn pivot]

if its that problem that i had, its a different thing and you will not get rid of it by changing monitor hz. for me it was a nvidia thing that i need to change in the regedit: Here are the details and the fix: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157

[granite spire]

If it gives me trouble ill check it out

[granite spire]

My problem just randomly happens but ill check it out

[scarlet turret]

I'm importing a mesh from Blender which has multiple parts parented to the main body. The animations are keyframes not bones, and when I import them into UE4 the mesh imports as one object but it gives me an animation sequence for each keyframe...

Is there any way to import it so that it doesn't have its own animation sequence for each keyframe?

Nvm, found the answer, you just have to export your FBX in Blender, but go into the "Bake Animation" tab of the exporter, and uncheck NLA Strip and All Actions

[inland hollow]

But how do you create it?

[autumn pivot]

yes that happend to me to, sometimes after 10min sometimes after 1h, and then i need to restart ue. But that regedit thing helped me. hope it helps you too

[wet schooner]

I feel like i'm falling in the trap of using assets, I can't decide on a visual style properly. I'm trying a ultra soft ghibli esque style but its not really working out amazing 🤔 I need to do a style i can work on faster but I don't know how to make a cohesive visual style tbh lol

using a tree asset i had I changed it to become more ghibli esque and I did figure out how to get really soft leaves but I feel like it isn't working out and I need to work on a more doable style lol

Tough to pick a style to kinda go for

I've been playing kirby maybe I should get inspired by nintendo, they are working in a 3d space after all

it may be easier if you can divide roles well, the hard part is organizing

Oh yeah botw is nice

I wonder if I could pull that off

the characters have like this.. cel shading going on

I'll have to keep botw in mind as a reference before i give up

since botw kinda has similar softness going on

[granite spire]

Make a gdd, make your mechanics then decide to art for if you mechanics are good then you wont be just another asset flip

[thorn river]

quick question, if i have hard references in a data table are they actually loaded into memory? same way things get loaded in if i have a hard reference inside a blueprint

[wet schooner]

Yeah I'm jumping the gun a bit

I may not end up using assets at all

because it may look like a mish mash of stuff

[drowsy snow]

You have to use assets, otherwise your game is basically nothing

Though I know you're referring to marketplace assets lol

[wet schooner]

Yeah haha

I will rely on some form of assets like sounds and music

but I could create my own models and materials

Well I always was

But I may make all of them instead of some

[oak patio]

you just add a function

[drowsy snow]

Not sure what "custom class with arguments" even supposed to be 🤔

But it seems like you're looking for leveraging Gameplay Ability System

I don't get it

[rotund scroll]

it is never easier to work with others

[drowsy snow]

Because "class with arguments" isn't a thing

[inland hollow]

Of type?

[oak patio]

just a function

just create a function in powerupmanager

[drowsy snow]

#ue4-general message

[oak patio]

you need to initially set it up in c++ but then you can work in bp

[drowsy snow]

No, it's extendable to BP

[oak patio]

then learn it

[inland hollow]

Thanks then :)

[drowsy snow]

C++ is good

[jolly rampart]

i need help with collision (new btw)

[oak patio]

help how exactly

[jolly rampart]

i have one bullet and i need it to collide with the player and enemy

but not walls

[oak patio]

set up a collision channel

make it respond to pawn but not worldstatic or smthn

[jolly rampart]

when it collides with the player it bounces off

and i just need it to like

not do that but also register it as collision

yk?

[drowsy snow]

So it's projectile, not hitscan? 🤔

[oak patio]

not at all

i dont get that

so you dont want it to bounce

[jolly rampart]

sorry i suck at explaining

[oak patio]

disable bouncing in projectile movement

[jolly rampart]

yes

[drowsy snow]

Check if it overlaps player -> Destroy projectile -> Apply damage to player

[jolly rampart]

k

[jolly rampart]

ok so now if it hits the player it freezes

but imma just

destroy it when it collides with the player

[oak patio]

youll need to set it to overlap

[jolly rampart]

instead of block or whatever it is?

[oak patio]

yeah

[jolly rampart]

so smt like this

k it doesnt stop the player now (which is good)

but

when i hit an enemy it does nothing

because the enemy dies on collision

idk how to explain it

[grim ore]

you can change it to work on overlap with the enemy instead of on hit, or make a new object channel for the enemy so it can collide with them but not the player

[jolly rampart]

how do i make a new object channel? because that would be the best thing to do

[drowsy snow]

Make one in Project Settings

[jolly rampart]

oh okay

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/Collision/HowTo/AddCustomCollisionType/

lots of info in the documentation for some reason, its like they want you to use it

[jolly rampart]

k i did that but

its not showing up in the collision

[grim ore]

close the blueprint if it was open and open it again

[full skiff]

hey, I;'m trying to make something move to a location, but move slowly? I've got SetActorLocation, but I can't work out how to make it move smoothly instead of just teleporting, could anyone give me a hand please? Google doesn't really seem to be helping

[grim ore]

lerp, interpolate, timeline, move over time,

[jolly rampart]

🤦

right

im dumb

sorry

ok

[full skiff]

thanks!

soryr forgot to disable tagging

[quick trellis]

Is it possible to create your own "starter content" if you use the same setup for a lot of projects?
Rn i just migrate the same 3 things each time i make a new project

[harsh rapids]

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

[oak patio]

try a different format

mkvs dont embed in discord

[harsh rapids]

ok

[drowsy snow]

Also pls don't crosspost

[neon bough]

fix what?

[harsh rapids]

its been posted in animations. sorry for cross posting

[burnt pendant]

Hey guys, I've been trying to re-import an asset for hours but no luck.

-Can't right click on asset and reimport, its grayed out.
-If I click on the "reimport base mesh" in the mesh editor, I get the error bellow. It wont even let me chose a path.

Anyone knows what might be going on ? I feel like I am overlooking something simple.

[tender pecan]

Maybe try first select all assets ( of that SM ) in the scene, and replace with a placeholder blueprint
then delete the asset, reimport from scratch, then replace placeholder with original
hopefully you not referencing the SM everywhere in blueprints?

[warm sinew]

I need severe help

[light thunder]

Where is the Water Plugin? I thought they finally included it in the editor, you just had to enable it?

[dark depot]

it is in the editor you just enable it

[light thunder]

in 4.26.4?

[quaint kiln]

Hi, I just retargeted the default 3rd person animations to this model of a human and then this happened. Can anyone help me fix it please? 4.27 btw

[scarlet turret]

I posted this question a while ago but just re-asking now to see if there's anybody online who can help...

My UE4 project is now running at 60-80 FPS. Without even moving, rotating the camera, or even being in Play, the game has little FPS drops every few seconds. The drops only last for about half a second, but it's very annoying as it goes all the way down to 1 FPS. I'm not really sure which specs to add, but I will say my CPU is an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core and my GPU is a Nvidia GTX 1060 GB

Please let me know if you know a possible fix, thanks! 🙂

[dusk nebula]

Does that happen in a new project, or only the one you have currently?

[scarlet turret]

It's only the one I have atm, it continues into UE5 as well

[dusk nebula]

Also, what may be happening at that interval?

[scarlet turret]

Nothing really, I'm not even moving, it just decides to spike

[dusk nebula]

Without more elaboration or research into what's happening when these drops happen, you probably won't be able to figure it out

[scarlet turret]

I did hear from Miamoto to check the Unit Graph but even they couldn't really tell what's wrong...

[dusk nebula]

Is it a regular interval or was that a rough estimate for how often it lags?

[scarlet turret]

I think it's somewhat regular... it seems to be every 5-7 seconds usually

[dusk nebula]

It sounds like you need to keep looking into what's causing it, even if that means disconnecting one section of your code at a time

[scarlet turret]

I believe I've done that before, along with hiding every element in my level, I'm absolutely confused :\

[grim violet]

how do i fix the textures on my map? everything turned to this all of a sudden

[dusk nebula]

Build lighting?

[grim violet]

tried that

did not help ):

[dusk nebula]

Ah

That's the extent of my graphics knowledge

[grim violet]

big mood

[scarlet turret]

Did you turn down the engine scalability?

[dusk nebula]

Well, isolating things is going to work, even if it's tedious. Make a new level and see if it still happens

[grim violet]

no it is at cinematic

[scarlet turret]

Alright lol, I'll go through again and report back to you if I notice a change

[scarlet turret]

Interesting, and you made no changes to the material?

[grim violet]

not at all

only thing I did was play the game and saw that happen

[scarlet turret]

How interesting... for some reason I believe that happened to me at some point as well but I don't remember what I did to fix it...

[grim violet]

maybe i need to retart

s

[scarlet turret]

Sure try that

[grim violet]

wow.. that was it..

[scarlet turret]

How odd lol, not sure what happened

[scarlet turret]

Tried turning off everything, even the level itself lol, still getting FPS drops

It does also affect new levels, I'd made a new level a while ago

[dusk nebula]

Well if it happens in a level with no actors in it, it might be something in the game mode or player controller

[scarlet turret]

Well I'd tried hiding both and none of those changed the FPS :\

It's the strangest thing, this is the only project I get the issue with

[dusk nebula]

Well hiding something in a level doesn't prevent it from existing iirc

Just make a level with nothing in it to test

[scarlet turret]

Yup I did just a moment ago, it still has the issue

[dusk nebula]

Okay, so what would you be running that might be so expensive?

[scarlet turret]

I'm not quite sure... my textures are for the most part low quality plus I have LODs for everything...

My other level has screen space reflections but that's a different level, plus I was having the FPS drops before I added those anyways

[dusk nebula]

It probably isn't related to graphics, because it would just lag all the time if it was

[scarlet turret]

That's true, could it be RAM?

[dusk nebula]

What's your memory usage look like?

[scarlet turret]

That atm

The orange is UE4

[dusk nebula]

Yeah that may be it

Play in editor while you have your performance tab open to see if it lines up with a usage peak

[grim violet]

Live Link keeps disconnecting from my iPhone ever 3 seconds, could there be some solution for this?

[scarlet turret]

Maybe but it just seems odd that it'd be such specific lag spikes in a game with pretty average FPS...

Oh sure one sec

My GPU does go up to 100%, my Memory goes up to about 90%, but they don't go up when the FPS spikes

It seems entirely random

And it happens in the editor too when I'm not playing*

[dusk nebula]

So the editor itself lags, but only in that project?

[scarlet turret]

Yup

That's a good point, I'm not sure if a packaged version of the game would actually lag or not

[grim violet]

is there a live link channel

[lime musk]

whats the most stable and least buggy version of ue4

im on 4.25 and its so buggy for me

[dark depot]

yes just enable the water plugin then you can add it make sure your landscape is using landscape layers you can add them add landscape brushes if i remember in that version or add them directly ala river/ocean/lake

[light thunder]

Is there a project/content browser command that tells it to compile every shader? (instead of opening up the demo maps, for example)

[light thunder]

The plugin is not listed in 4.26

When I go to the plugins, (installed or built-in) I do not see Water

[dark depot]

did you download it from git or from the launcher it should be there

[icy mulch]

Does anyone know how to make the camera shake when the ai is chasing you

[light thunder]

launcher, i haven't done a custom engine before

[oak patio]

what bugs are you experiencing, and are you a nvidia user

[mint umbra]

Hey guys, is it possible make a landscape spline register linetraces? I need to play a water sound FX when walking in my river, but finding it a struggle - the material underneath the river is used elsewhere on the map, and I'd hope not to make another material function just to accommodate the sound FX. I'll do it if I end up having to though 😅

[kindred depot]

In blender my skeletal mesh is at 0,0,0 but when importing to unreal engine it gets a random import location, does aynone know why?

[plush yew]

I was in the ball preset and I tried to give the ball hair, but I don't want the hair to roll with the ball, i want it to stay upright at all times. I tried to do that using blueprints and it makes it jump from the balls rotation to upright again, so it looks really jumpy/jittery

[drowsy snow]

You could fake the whole marble setup instead, by improvising from the third person template

[plush yew]

is there a way to make it still roll based on the ground it's on?

without the hair rolling

[kindred depot]

what ue version?

[plush yew]

4.27

[kindred depot]

I dont know if this works with ue 4.27

https://github.com/pafuhana1213/KawaiiPhysics

[meager tiger]

how would i make this work worth multiple static meshes using an array

basically i would have loop through each object get their location and rotation and also moving each one

[dusk nebula]

Is this not something a "For each Loop" could do for you?

I'm either misunderstanding the question or that macro matches your use case almost exactly

[meager tiger]

im trying to make this current set up work with multiple cubes, currently one cube simulates and then repositions back to its starting location and rotation

the problem is the complexity of for looping for each location cube component and rotation and also trying to make the move

[dusk nebula]

I'm not really familiar with the "Move Component To" node, but does it change when you adjust the parameters on it?

[meager tiger]

it should look something like this i think lol

[dusk nebula]

I don't think it should tbh

You're using that array of world locations in a way that would cause it to set each cube's location to each of those locations

[meager tiger]

i think i see what you mean, the move component does allow multiple loops going through it

[dusk nebula]

I recommend making a function with a local variable that's equal to the transform of the cube, and all that you should have to input is the reference to the object itself

This is the level BP, right?

[meager tiger]

no its in an actor

[dusk nebula]

The cubes are components or something, I guess

It doesn't actually change a lot tbh

[meager tiger]

yeah

[dusk nebula]

So you should create a function that does one instance of what you're trying to accomplish with the cubes, and then you can worry about looping that

[meager tiger]

here's a video what I'm attempting but on larger scale

okie

[dusk nebula]

I do want to emphasize that you should use a local variable in the function, rather than a regular variable in the main BP, because local variables are instantiated, and therefore won't have conflicting values

[meager tiger]

sorry im kinda dumb lol what would that look like?

[dusk nebula]

So inside the function, you can right click and it will say "create local variable". A local variable is, like it sounds, specifically tied to that function. It resets to the default value every time the function is called (not relevant in this case) and is instantiated, meaning that 3 of the same function can run at once and their variables will not conflict

(not up to 3 or anything, that's just an example

[meager tiger]

could i just interpolate set world position?

[dusk nebula]

Yeah, I don't see why not

[meager tiger]

instead of dealing with move component

[dusk nebula]

I can't remember if there's a way other than a time line, and timelines don't work inside of functions

[spice ruin]

This is what's called scope. When a variable enters scope it is created. When it leaves scope it is destroyed.

[dusk nebula]

Thanks, I didn't actually know what it was called. I only know that it's the same thing difference as declaring a variable in a function vs in the main part of a C++ file

[spice ruin]

You can even imagine it like a sniper scope, only the things visible in the scope are relevant.

If you can't see them, they don't exist!

[dusk nebula]

That's the same as saying it's only while an instance of the function is running, right?

[spice ruin]

Correct

[dusk nebula]

Technically, local variables are read and placed into RAM when the function is accessed, rather than when the entire BP is, like with regular variables

Very slightly more efficient, I guess

[plush yew]

hmmm dont you love it when unreal crashes and it just deletes a bunch of random shit for no reason?

[dusk nebula]

How often to you save all? If you've only saved some of your BPs it would definitely cause this

Ngl, I've had no issues losing progress because I save all whenever I compile out of habit

[plush yew]

yea I should turn that option on again lol

good point

[final patio]

is that possible change virtual Highfield mesh on runtime? I need snow trails. I am using unreal engine 5. I find some ways but all of them for ue4. Any advice ?

[upbeat turret]

Haven’t looked into it, but people have done it

https://youtu.be/FW4twCpIL6w

[drowsy snow]

Sheesh, I thought it's an open source plugin

Kinda hate it when paid closed source product use "Open" prefix, as it's more synonymous with FOSS

[bronze goblet]

Q: How to export Cine Camera Actor that was attached to rail rig as USD or FBX but with right animation coming from rail rig? (I tried baking keys and exporting fbx, didn't located where its supposed to be)

[blissful trail]

is there a cleaner way to do someting like this ?

[onyx sparrow]

hey guys, is agora better or vivox for unity voice chats?

[queen tiger]

Depends what outputs you plan to use

[storm parcel]

Hi, I'm trying the Unreal's Collab Viewer Template, as it is out of the box. How do I find the IP of my computer so that my client device can connect to it? (over another wifi network)

[mild raptor]

can anyone help me

?

[neon bough]

not unless you write down your problem

[mild raptor]

basically im trying to get an object to play a sound when i like click t

it*

[drowsy snow]

Play Sound 2D or Play Sound At Location or Spawn Sound Attached

Pick your poison.

[mild raptor]

do i make a blueprint for the actual object

or do i put an audio volume around the object

[ocean pumice]

will reimport just reimport the original static meshes without all the tweaking i've done ?

thanks

[mild raptor]

how do i do that

:/

sorry im new

[stiff bane]

not 100% but i think it does if you updated the file, make a backup and just test it out:)

[golden niche]

Ue5 release date announcement April 5? 👀

[keen tangle]

hey has anyone run into a weird thing where if you hit F for focus on the character it zooms out? I have a blueprint character that I have made, and every time I hit F on it, it zooms out. When I have a static mesh it doesn't zoom but actually focuses on the character

[fossil nexus]

Im making a topdown game with different characters that i can control and move.
I move them with click, and they go to the direction.
But if a select another character the previous character never completes her move.
She stops the movement. And sometimes the second character i select, even goes to the destiny itself.
So how should i solve this?
Im using Simple Move to Location.
Should i use Ai Move To instead? And make all characters AI ?

[keen tangle]

fixed the problem reducing the bounding scale

[winter gazelle]

Most rts games use the LMB to select and the RMB to issue move commands. If you issue a move command to two characters, they should both attempt to reach the destination. So either you need to fix how you are selecting characters, how you are maintaining a selection group, how you are issuing move commands, or how the character performs the move.

[fossil nexus]

So all those characters in rts are Ai controllers right?

Because if you possess a character you can no longer move the other as Simple move actor

[winter gazelle]

You aren't possessing ai. You are getting references to them with your selection method, and supplying a position vector you want them to move to.

You as the player, possess the player overhead camera. That player has input actions like selecting units under mouse cursor or band box. And then move to location found under the cursor

Ai units should have an ai controller instead of a player controller

Swap the "Simple Move To Actor" node with "Simple Move To Location" node.

Get the location of the terrain under the mouse cursor when issuing a move. Call the simple move to function from your array containing your selected group of characters in a loop. Supply the ai controllers and the location

[fossil nexus]

ups, thats actually what i have. "Simple Move To Location"

It asks for a controller. So the controller cant be me. Because i will change characters (units)

[fossil nexus]

Exactly. I see now.

[winter gazelle]

Player controller and ai controller are subclasses of controller

[fossil nexus]

So they all need an Ai controller. It cant be the player controller

I can use player controller to take over cameras only. right?

[winter gazelle]

Player controller can possess any actor, pawn, character

[golden niche]

for some reason it wont let me install 4.27.2

gets stuck on "please wait"

[winter gazelle]

If you have multiple cameras, you would need to have a way of passing references to the camera actors to the player controller, and swap to them via player input.

[winter gazelle]

Completely quit out of epic games client, update it, try installing other versions of ue4, restart pc. Reinstall the client, check disk space, check network connection

[fossil nexus]

This seems like its going to work. Its moving the unit that i dont have selected. So this is good.

I have this in my player controller. All i need is a new argument in the Move Actor custom event with the unit to move

But it works only if its unpossessed

[winter gazelle]

Do all characters move by selecting them then moving them?

I think im confused on the design a little

[scarlet turret]

Should your landscape material have normals, or is that too intensive?

[winter gazelle]

If you want your landscape to have better lighting/shadows. Then probably

[scarlet turret]

Hmm... is there a texture LOD system for landscapes then?

[winter gazelle]

Im not a texture artist or ue4 environmental artust. So i cant give you an answer.

[scarlet turret]

No problem lol, I'll have to see if I can find something about it online

[blissful trail]

how would i make a word goto a new line if it is too long ?

[winter gazelle]

Okay. Im assuming when you select and move a character, the camera follows that character. So you want to make a different player actor that is the top dowm camera and the player controller possess that. Do not use possession when selecting characters. Instead attach or move the player camera to the mewly selected actor.

[blissful trail]

heres the problem basically you can see the word description doesn't fit so id like it to go down a line

[winter gazelle]

Reduce the width of your textbox?

[blissful trail]

did but for some reason that happens

[mortal cedar]

Is there a way to get unreal to highlight spelling and syntax errors? It would be useful for subtitles and stuff

[winter gazelle]

Are you using the multiline textbox?

[blissful trail]

no just a text

[winter gazelle]

That might be your problem

[blissful trail]

i see

[winter gazelle]

You could just write your scripts in a word processor with spellchrck. Then copy and paste into ue4.

[modest trench]

yeah, having your dialogue exist in an outside text format is pretty common

for localization etc

[scarlet turret]

How many prims should you have loaded at once maximum?

stat.Unit is showing me I have around less than 4.5k

[winter gazelle]

Dont know what prims are, but Probably depends on your hardware target. You can load as much as you want on a beefy machine.

[mortal cedar]

that makes sense. And is there any way to implement closed captions? or should it all just be dialogue assets

[scarlet turret]

Well I'm running off of a GTX 1060, I'm just not entirely sure what the "average" prims would be recommended...

Like how it's recommended to have around 30,000 polygons on a bigger character model in AAA games

[winter gazelle]

Again. All depends on your art quality target, performance target, and file size target. You can always take your high poly meshes and reduce poly count til it works, and let the textures do the rest of the visual work/trickery.

You can also just dump polys into your scene til your gpu cant handle it

But im also not a artist. So again. I could be totally wrong LOL

[scarlet turret]

Lol Ig, my hardware's kinda old and ofc the pandemic hit and prices rose right when I was about to get a new card t-t

I'll keep testing though, I think it's mostly textures that eat up my RAM

[light thunder]

Just doublechecking - upgrading engine version only really changes the source files, like the uproject file right?
NEW

[winter gazelle]

The gtx 1060 is the must common gpu on steam hardware survey i think. If you want a new gpu, and are in usa , id recommend rtx 3050 or amd 6600. Prices for some of those cards are reasonable now

[scarlet turret]

I was thinking so too, I may get a 2080 though since that's a bit more in my price range, thanks for the suggestion! 🙂

[winter gazelle]

Upgrading engines does not modify your projects source files. Upgrading minor versions is usually bug fixes. Upgrading major versions involves migrating the project to a new release version of the engine source. Your project may break in migrating to the new major version due to major changes in the engine source. Especially if you used something that got deprecated in the new major version.

[obsidian crane]

is there a way to turn or view port culling ?

[light thunder]

I thought none of your content folder was modified though - it might 'interpret' it differently but you could still open it up in a previous version, as long as you had the previous version uproject file (and any source files)

[scarlet turret]

@dusk nebula Sorry to mention you lol, but I just wanted to let you know that it was 100% the editor. I tested a build of the game, and it ran perfectly fine. 🙂

[thick loom]

Been a while since I've seen it, but I specifically remember seeing a dialog advising to upgrade only if you've made a backup of the project. This recommendation wouldn't be needed if the files remained unchanged. Also, there is no official way to downgrade a project once you've upgraded it.

Part of the upgrade process involves redirecting blueprint types that may now have conflicts with the new engine version. This part is largely manual and depends on if you have c++ code using deprecated classes, etc. General recommendation when upgrading a project (unreal engine or otherwise) is to do so only when source control is setup and on a computer that won't be a deal breaker if it ends up offline for a few hours.

[half drum]

Anyone have a fix for Speedtree not working in UE5? Turned off wind, but still so many problems

[ocean pumice]

i'm having trouble with trying to record the sequence

it doesnt work with movie render queue so im trying to record my screen but it's choptty as hell

[real heath]

That server change is evil

[desert verge]

nice april fools joke

[real heath]

I just spent a few mins trying to find the ping haha

[hidden oxide]

So many server I'm in are doing fake pings

Ain't gonna fall for another

[marsh swallow]

Wait... That is fake

[vital rain]

.....That is evil

[marsh swallow]

Wtf. That's extremely annoying. Not funny. Lol. I use pings as notifications for me throughout the day. Lol

[vital rain]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-spongebob-gif-6081957

[amber minnow]

lol I tried to find the ping to was about to leave the server to get rid of it

[manic pawn]

well fuck your ghost ping

[exotic matrix]

they got me i spent 5 min on this shit

[dull heart]

https://tenor.com/view/clap-friends-ross-geller-david-schwimmer-gif-16832429

[plush yew]

[icy ridge]

That's pretty good.

[covert phoenix]

trold

[icy ridge]

Got me super good.

[vague plume]

Ah... April fools

[dusky sparrow]

oh my fucking god

[candid pollen]

Props to the fool masters

[vague plume]

That good

[unreal widget]

Legit was scrolling through the chats wondering where the hell the ping was from and if Discord broke

[dusky sparrow]

actually genius tho

[unreal widget]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-ping-hello-there-obi-wan-kenobi-obi-wan-kenobi-gif-22867127

[fierce tulip]

i should clean this chat :p

[stable remnant]

we're soooo funny today arent we

[dull olive]

omg

[oblique pelican]

why is there a permanent 1 on there

[dull olive]

no way

[oblique pelican]

oh april fools, fuck you

[swift sundial]

Dude the icon

is so

[dull olive]

lol

[swift sundial]

unsatisfying

[spark mason]

goddamn i fell for it

[dull olive]

https://tenor.com/view/dissatisfaction-fuck-it-triple-h-angry-gif-14665832

good one

[stable remnant]

I recon it would help if there was a #general that is not at the bottom of the stack under a non obvious name 😛

[unreal widget]

My last two brain cells trying to figure out which chat its in

[spark mason]

gotta cope

[next echo]

😂

[dull olive]

I clicked mark as read 5 times reset discord and everything

[stable remnant]

learn what this button does

🙂

[dull olive]

cheers

[ashen sky]

Why

Why are people doing this to their server logo's

I just don't know why

[buoyant isle]

1 April one unread notif hein ? ahah

[stable remnant]

very creative and quirky

[hybrid mantle]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[stable relic]

Not funny though xD

[spark mason]

seems like we have a handful of april fooled people here

[fierce tulip]

https://giphy.com/gifs/guilty-innocent-xT1ksK7W5KS3e

[lethal bison]

Thanks! I was going nuts 😓

[carmine scroll]

Very rude peoples...

[deep vault]

Cant believe i fall for this
Well played sir

[tawny shard]

that was one good joke

nice one mods

[timber birch]

[buoyant isle]

Great sense of humour ahah

[plush yew]

it would have gotten me if I wasn’t on mobile ngl

[grave aspen]

yea, many use cases where it doesn't really work, but for a decent amount, it seems to be lol

[ebon marlin]

clicked mark as read like 7 times

[azure shore]

ahah funny server icon I thought someone was responding to my problem but they werent

[devout fog]

yeah good one.. got me

[whole hazel]

oh my god, I've been looking for 10 minutes to check who the hell tagged me, then I noticed the quality of the (1) tag and noticed it's attached to the image

well played

[grave aspen]

[snow berry]

dude they got me too

lmao

[mellow coyote]

Bruh.

[spare sun]

nice

[hazy lake]

Classic

[brave shard]

nice april fools guys gj

[viral carbon]

yeah hahahahaha just realised

[harsh tiger]

I've downloaded a plugin for 4.26. But I messed up, so I deleted it from the UE4.26 folder on my pc. But when I go to install the plugin from the marketplace. It no longer allows me to install it for the 4.26 version. Any idea how I can reinstall the plugin?

[cosmic sail]

gg...

[plush yew]

I honestly don't know why I'm still in this server. I switched over to unity

Ima leave

[blissful trail]

you guys are evil

[plush yew]

Stay fresh cheese bags

[azure shore]

the launcher must still think you have it downloaded, did you try uninstalling from there

[still cargo]

oh fuck it's the 1st of april

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[harsh tiger]

i didn't even know it was possible to uninstall a plugin from the launcher 😮

[azure shore]

lol that would be the proper way

I never really touch unreal related files outside of the launcher

[lethal bison]

yep any other way might leave residue

[azure shore]

nice

[steep thistle]

That's what I'm trying to figure out too

Something must be going on with Discord's notification system

[still cargo]

[lethal bison]

sure

[harsh tiger]

Where I would find this? Bare in mind this is a marketplace plugin and not built into the engine

[azure shore]

let me just check Ive not actually uh

[thorn vector]

knew it was fake i knew it

😦

[azure shore]

when you go to library and scroll down theres plugins and you can click the dropdown for remove local content, but the ones I have that are installed to engine dont seem to let me, idk about that

[harsh tiger]

found it, thank you mate

[azure shore]

nice, close enough lol

[quick sedge]

ill ask again in case anyone else knows today... is there a way to hook into the terrain spline API to get the nodes as points?

[jolly rampart]

LMAO

they got me

[raw rover]

they got evryone

[jolly rampart]

i was scrolling for like 10 mins straight

[raw rover]

https://tenor.com/view/mike-touhou-mike-fumofumo-custom-fumo-fumofumo-gif-21159928

[jolly rampart]

agreed

[quick sedge]

right click read doesnt work eh

oh

😄

i only got trololol'd for 5s so i dont feel so bad

everyone else must suffer tho

[azure shore]

best to find one of the other channels to post this in, questions dont often get answered here (ironic because I just did answer one)

[quick sedge]

yeh, toughy question... cant find a damn bit of info

might be a reddit post

[azure shore]

yeah its really frustrating when you have a problem that youd imagine must be really common but theres like nothing online about it

[plush bear]

Ah yes you guys are hilwti

Hilarious

[dense gorge]

ayooo happy april fools - i am LIVID

[plush bear]

Very funny

[dense gorge]

still have 2 notifications

[plush bear]

April fools, the one day where people that are extremely unfunny for 364 days get to feel like a fucking comedian

[grave aspen]

I AM HILARIOUS

[hollow stone]

Sheesh taht one got me

[thin python]

aww u feckers u put the logo with a ping

goddamit

[azure shore]

I didnt expect so many people to fall for it

[quick sedge]

the engine is really good... has everything, so i cant imagine they'd make a terrain spline tool without some exposed way to grab all the info to make pathfinding against it

[steep thistle]

Well to be fair I've been having issues with it all week so I wouldn't be surprised

[quick sedge]

unity was easy because the spline tool is just easy to iterate and then throw A* on it (free public github project)

[warm oriole]

That's pure evil thing to do

[snow saffron]

Hay is it possible to import entire folders full of assets?
i have them on another game and just want to import them at this one too?

[autumn flame]

Yes, Migrate

[oak patio]

Iirc you can shit click, and drag them into the content browser

Then you just click import all

Unless theyre uassets

[snow saffron]

😅

[autumn flame]

Migrate then

[glacial arch]

hey fellas i remember there being an asset that could hold references to other assets - I remember it being handy to handle on the cpp side of things to get references to stuff. Could you remind me what that was again?

ah, data table i think

i used it for another thing. Thanks

[snow saffron]

how? ive just copied the content folder bc it was on another machine at school ^^

[shut nova]

Is there an easy fix to landscape painting in squares, without remaking it and changing the resolution?

[pallid talon]

Im trying to get a location on a spline that's closes to a vehicle. Is this a good way to go about it or does anyone have a better method I should try?

[autumn flame]

Sadly I think it needs to be on the same machine, it may work if the versions are EXACTLY the same, but not sure and I feel like stuff would break

[snow saffron]

oh rip :/
but why should they break? arent they just "simple" asset files

[autumn flame]

As long as they're assets with no references to eachother may be fine

[snow saffron]

hopefully

[shut nova]

Or does it have to do with having a weighted layer?

[snow saffron]

mhhh any way of getting rid of that?

[autumn flame]

You can't import them

They're .uassets

[snow saffron]

so how do i do it then? ^^

[autumn flame]

Migrate or pray that copy and paste works if the same exact version

Any from what you said, migration is not possible

[zinc bone]

All you have to do is notice that the badge is entirely contained within the server profile pic. That's very unusual for badges

[azure shore]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/464022007873536000/959456807846281307/image0.gif

[limpid yarrow]

https://tenor.com/view/christian-bale-gif-8781706

[plush yew]

does anyone know if the Maya live link for Unreal Engine 4/5 is just for skeletal meshes or can be anything?

[valid linden]

Sneaky April fool's server icon.

[mild phoenix]

Hi everyone who know how can I set pivot point correct in blender for using in unreal ?

For propelers I want pivot point in propelers location

[ripe apex]

Where can I get technical help with Unreal Engine 4 here?

[oak patio]

for that if you import as one object its all gonna be together, otherwise unreal takes world origin as a pivot, so you would need all the propellers at world origin or use some weird skeleton setup

[mild phoenix]

If I import it to unreal, only propeler pivot point will be correct?

[round spear]

I'm trying to record screen capture video from the players game and output it to a file that is viewable outside of the application. It would be nice if there is an option that includes audio, but if not we can look at alternate ways of fixing that. So far I have tried the replay recorder, which works well but does require an audio capture implementation (unfortunately this does not work for us as it output .replay files which can only be accessed within the application), I have also looked into using nvidia highlights, but we want a solution that can be done without using other programs, and highlights requires the geforce experience app to be downloaded. Anyways, thanks for reading this, if you have any suggestions for alternatives to try please let me know. Also this is for a pc application.

[oak patio]

so the drone pivot will be at world origin, but for that to work you would need each propeller to be at world origin and imported as a separate object

[mild phoenix]

Yeah I set rogin to geometry but Is there any way to have different pivot point in meshes?

[oak patio]

no

[mild phoenix]

In one fbx

Oh thanks

[oak patio]

they will all be relative to world origin

[mild phoenix]

Thanks😃

[upbeat rampart]

nice troll

nice troll

[steel leaf]

I was searching the @ everywhere... 😩

[upbeat rampart]

damn

they shuld allow everyone atleast today

[azure shore]

throwback to that one time someone did @ everyone I think by accident in either this server or another unreal server and it was an absolute mess for half an hour

[upbeat rampart]

damn there 18k people here

must be fun to do everyone

[naive dune]

Unreal 5.0 Production Ready 5th April

I would argue that 4th May would e a better date

So it's like 04/05

4 to 5

[cedar wave]

Why not ask the man himself? Are you going to reveal when UE5 is production ready @fierce tulip? (The price you pay for changing your name 😈)

[naive dune]

and also, May the fourth (force) be with u Star Wars day

[round spear]

so no ideas on the video capture screen recording?

[upbeat rampart]

nice try

[naive dune]

Oh wait, nvm forgot I wasn't using American dates

So 04/05 is correct

Pretty sure they did that on purpose

[minor grove]

I am sueing for damages with the server notifications's faux notification

[devout grove]

Haha good joke, server

[clear estuary]

i was like "who tagged me"

mods be like

[grave aspen]

[long stag]

half my discords have the stupid ping on them now and its so infuriating lol

[grave aspen]

sameeee

[long stag]

like it was funny when i saw the first one now theres like 15 and its just not funny at this point

[upbeat rampart]

tbh theyr pretty obvios trolls

when you actually get pinget the ping dot is out of the bounds

[balmy marsh]

Hey all we are hiring for a VR metaverse project in the #freelance-jobs section. Quite a big project, looking for any capable VR developers.

[fierce tulip]

SOON

[wispy wagon]

I hate you lol. I keeping checking why I still have red dot 🔴

[clear estuary]

[shadow orchid]

Is there any software (or in-engine) way to record video in the internal resolution? My screen is 1080p but I want to record 4k footage, so I was hoping I could render the game at 4k internally and record that somehow

[clear estuary]

interesting question, i'd like to know also

[fringe grail]

Hi Luos

[fierce tulip]

Hi

[fringe grail]

Fun fact its been at least 3? years since the last at everyone

[shadow orchid]

same, is it an april's fools thing

[grave aspen]

nah, we had one less than a year ago

[fringe grail]

Oh I missed that

[shadow orchid]

OH

I get it

[trim pike]

damn you unreal slackers

i thought my discord was broken, showing me a ping like that

then I realized its april first

[fair nest]

scripting the declaration of independence rn.

[minor grove]

Damages are increasing by the minute. I think it is nearing class-action lawsuit territory

[worthy estuary]

Guys

How to remove the black bars in a cine camera actor

[clear estuary]

doesn't seem to me like a cine camera issue, looks like the game is scaling down to fit a 16:9 aspect ratio no? due to windowed mode

[marsh swallow]

Wait when clicking on the damn server the ping goes away...

This is unreal

[weak shuttle]

Ah, april 1st, the day we find out which servers are administrated by children.

[grave aspen]

and which people had their funny bones surgically removed ^_^

[simple pecan]

Or people with a soul who want to make a little joke one time in a year

[minor grove]

I have the Alabama State Bar Association getting involved with the class action lawsuit
re: server icon notification april "fools"

[minor grove]

||this is a joke||

[grave aspen]

lol

the fact you felt the need to fine print the aspect that it's a joke was funnier than the joke XD

[minor grove]

haha I started having anxiety about it, thanks for the warm reception

[grave aspen]

lol with the few people's sour reaction to a server icon change and being quite nasty, i understand the anxiety of people reacting poorly to a joke lol

[small pewter]

Does anyone know why this rock collision isn't the same as what it visually look like please ? Like i can't go next to this rock, it stops me like 1 or 2 meters before reaching it (like there's an invisible sphere around it)

I tried to use this "Complex collision" thing and it didn't solve the issue

[gaunt abyss]

My god that's awful lol

[small pewter]

Where's that option please ?

I don't have the "Collision Complexity" property

got it

Perfect it works, thank you 🙂

Also another question : Is Quixel / Bridge available as a plugin directly in UE4 or only for UE5 ?

[marsh swallow]

Lmao people are actually being nasty ab it? Lol

I mean for me, I use discord in a business sense so it's kinda annoying, but it's also funny too.

[minor grove]

Exactly. Quantifiable damages. $$$$$

class 👏 action 👏 lawsuit

[marsh swallow]

Who ya gonna sue? Discord who maintains no liability or a non exist company? Hahaha

[minor grove]

I answer with but a pure and true "yes"

[strange tendon]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbsPD8cj8-m/

Instagram

[robust saddle]

Can anyone help me out answering below query:
I am using Openssl 1.1.1 version in unreal project, When i tried building the project in UE 4.6, I see Openssl 1.0.2 functions not found errors.

FYI, I tried building on UE 4.7, Everything is working fine without any compilation error.

Does UE4.6 doesn't support Openssl 1.1.1?

[rotund scroll]

this is hilarious

who's gonna do comic sans

[clear estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-nicolascage-gif-5781779

[undone orbit]

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

[slim zinc]

?

[thorn hazel]

just a joke/prank

[rugged harbor]

It sure got me! Couldn't for the life of me figure out where it was coming from XD

[worthy estuary]

then how do i change it?

[modern tree]

screeching

[worthy estuary]

i found also this

[leaden umbra]

[plush yew]

Fr

[ivory furnace]

Wait which one is the newer release, unreal engine early access 2 or unreal engine Preview 2

im asking because I see a second version of early access and I don't remember seeing that before

[fierce tulip]

preview 2

[ivory furnace]

Ah okay, thanks!

I saw your bio change so I thought there was a new update lol

[fierce tulip]

I'll point to the current date for that bio :p

[rotund scroll]

you have comic sans blueprints?

you're... not wrong

[jolly rampart]

dear god

kill it

[drowsy snow]

Perfect.

[jolly rampart]

i need help rq

[dusk nebula]

Need to see wingdings UE4

[jolly rampart]

i want to stop tracing an outline but idk how to

it stops tracing and going onto another object when you move ur cursor to it

but i dont know how to stop tracing when you back up from it

so it is tracing nothing

[drowsy snow]

Do it yourself
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/changing-the-editor-font-to-any-other-font/230877

[jolly rampart]

i have a range and radius variable

and followed this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxnv2ccklg

[ivory furnace]

Rooting for you

[flint pelican]

Question about the RayTracing in project settings in Render section, what is it for? a friend of mine said that without it we cant bake, and if we try to bake the game will be black. and now without it the engine is crashing all the time. is there any connection between the two?

[jolly rampart]

i want it to stop giving it the outline effect when i am far away

and i dont know how to do that

[rotund scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/perfection-michael-fassbender-perfectionist-perfect-gif-7910211

[azure coral]

good work server pic designer

had me fooled for a solid 5 mins

[minor grove]

A person you may or may not know, the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, is on the phone with me and will be joining the CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT seeking reparation of DAMAGES this has caused us

Secretary Antony Blinken (US SoS) will be holding a press conference in 15 minutes announcing this

[drowsy snow]

I'm a Far East inhabitant and I don't care
Least I get 2 days of April Fools

[drowsy snow]

Get distance between player camera and the item?

[jolly rampart]

i did that and now i have more issues...

#blueprint

[autumn latch]

i can't use editable text in 3d widget

[fleet jacinth]

@sullen kernel

[sullen kernel]

hello friends

can anyone send superior books about UE and game dev.

[drowsy snow]

No books specific to UE.

[fierce tulip]

books are outdated the moment they get released.

[fading tendon]

youtube tutorials are better

[drowsy snow]

Not really

[fading tendon]

at least the ones where they explain whats going on

or documentation, but that might be stale

[drowsy snow]

This is way better
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

And barely anyone know it existed

[fading tendon]

i didnt know

[sullen kernel]

thank u all

[fading tendon]

thank jensen :S

[drowsy snow]

I'm his leather jacket

[fading tendon]

oh.. then thanks mr leather jacket

[drowsy snow]

You thank Jensen for RTX

[mortal cedar]

I'm looking for an anim set I found ages ago. It had a really good summon the dead animation. I think it as a necromancer or something

I just looked through all 448 animations on the store and couldnt find it. So maybe it was taken down. or its part of a character asset

Wondering if anyone has come accross it

[whole plaza]

I keep seeing a mention flag for this server but I've checked all the channels. Nothing. Anyone else seeing this?

[drowsy snow]

I guess a bug with Discord API

[undone orbit]

How should terrain height maps be named for UE5?

[ember cypress]

To @drowsy snow point - if you're looking for recommendations on content - just look at our course catalog. Here's it filtered by just gamedev course: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses?tags=games

And if you are new and want to get started, we have a nice Learning Path you can start with. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/welcome-to-game-development

[mint umbra]

Hey guys, we're trying to use GitHub on our project (35GB project size), and when I try to commit it says "The following files are over 100MB. If you commit these files, you will no longer be able to commit this reposotory to GitHub." What can I do to prevent this? Will going to the Pro version solve this problem? Are the files commited limited by a size limit? What to do if a level is... say, 2GB?

[drowsy snow]

No, that's just GitHub push limitations. Larger individual file sizes require LFS to push.

If a level is 2GB and you're in 4.26 or newer, may I recommend you use One File Per Actor

#level-design message

OF/A is going to split the actors in a level into individual files, thus lighten the load for .umap files

[marsh swallow]

Wow!!!! Hey Tim! Can we get UDN access for free please???

[fierce tulip]

I got you fam.

[marsh swallow]

Yesss!!!!! Finally.

Thanks Tim! Glad you joined the server. I'm surprised noone else is messaging you. ;)

[fierce tulip]

I should buy discord

*nitro

[pallid talon]

You have "UE5.0 out now!" in your name. Is that for the preview or is it officially released now?

[fierce tulip]

reminder: check the current date.

[raw finch]

real tom sweony?

[fierce tulip]

I plead the fifth XD

[marsh swallow]

Lmfao

I checked the discord name before even saying anything. Hahah

[tender pecan]

and then you checked the calendar

[pallid talon]

@fierce tulip Any chance you could help me with getting into the UDN as well?

[marsh swallow]

I think Tim can just open UDN to all devs for free!

[modest trench]

This is udn now

[plush yew]

i literally spent 5 minutes to find the channel i was "pinged".

[pallid talon]

Yeah, but I often run into issues that are mostly overlooked or ignored on here. UDN, it's usually always answered.

[modest trench]

The difference: people are payed to answer your udn questions

We are just random dudes

[frozen pond]

how i could add/remove gameplay tag from component (agr item in my case) during runtime ?

[modest trench]

Agr item?

[fierce tulip]

Bit mean, @dusky hedge

[frozen pond]

AGR PRO item component, it uses standard gameplay tag variable type

[fierce tulip]

eye cancer is not really joking territory. /shrug

[pallid talon]

Man, it's so expensive to join the UDN.

But you're right Megafunk, here is a great free alternative....

[fierce tulip]

I do wish there was a mid-level thing between regular answerhub and UDN

[raw harbor]

Is there any good platform besides itchio to publish a game for free, my game isn’t one of those indie games like on itchio, it’s a “AAA” game, it doesn’t really belong on itchio where most games are 2d or not graphics focused, any tips?

[fierce tulip]

steam, gog, epic launcher.

[pallid talon]

That actually would be pretty awesome. Like a pricing for "Hobby" users.

[weak shuttle]

It's not funny when every server does it every year.

[buoyant granite]

:warning: Failed to send a DM. User will not be notified.

:triangular_flag_on_post: coffeediction#7809 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[raw harbor]

Those are paid, yes I understand I need to put money into my game, but are there any free ones? Or ones not costing 100 dollars (cheaper)

[drowsy snow]

Well, not really.

itch.io is the free one for indie publishing

There's also GameJolt, but let's not talk about it

[fierce tulip]

sadly I do not have the funding for it (looking at my current name, that sounds weird) but I was thinking about a website where people can post problems, or the need for certain engine additions/contributions and just like patreon or the like, people can donate money to see it fixed. then people can submit their solution which gets reviewed by a peer, and when its accepted, they get the money that was donated, while the submission is made publicly available.

[raw harbor]

Oh, your the hoddie guy, sup dude, anyways yeah Ik itchio is a choice but it’s not really ideal for a AAA wannabe game

[plush yew]

Publish it on steam, it costs a good amount but you have access to many features for your game

[drowsy snow]

Now make the connection with my April Fools Special™️ username

Nah, I've seen some high quality UE games posted there.

[raw harbor]

Rare tho

[weak shuttle]

This sounds really cool. But I've heard that some PRs sit for like two years (surely for legitimate reason in some situations).

[raw harbor]

My game isn’t that worth it, I won’t get my 100 dollars back

[raw harbor]

Will anyone even buy it, it’s reasonably priced at 2-3 dollars and constantly updated for bigger map and new things, it’s just a bit saturated I don’t feel like it will go anywhere there

[drowsy snow]

But you still made bold claim about it being AAA quality

[plush yew]

when you think it isnt worth the 100 dollars then you should publish it on itch ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fierce tulip]

well, consider it mods/pull requests/plugins, not actually officially supported by epic, but more community run

[drowsy snow]

And I have yet to see screenshots of your game

[raw harbor]

Wait a bit on this so I don’t get Called out, sorry 😞

[fierce tulip]

iunno

[weak shuttle]

Perhaps one issue. Is you get 30 poorly implemented plugins all wanting 20 bucks for me to use, but won't work for my use-case, but worked for the original use-case. But I suppose that's just reality. (I'm thinking after the fact when the patreon-like coding is done)

[drowsy snow]

Except not many people want to build UE from source

[upbeat rampart]

Whats with gamejolt? I have an old acc there

[drowsy snow]

If there's any, they'd likely seeking for dedicated server build

[drowsy snow]

GameJolt is... well, a hell hole.

[upbeat rampart]

In what sense

And whos tim sweeny

[fierce tulip]

iunno

[upbeat rampart]

Are you some youtube famous guy

[raw harbor]

Why tho

[upbeat rampart]

With tutorials

[raw harbor]

He looks like so

[upbeat rampart]

Yeah he looks like a tutorial guy

[pallid talon]

Check your private message.

[drowsy snow]

I don't know how to explain it

[raw harbor]

Yeah with experience too

[drowsy snow]

GameJolt is problematic in many ways

[raw harbor]

A lot of

[weak shuttle]

Just out of curiosity (because I'm not here much). Does the actual Tim Sweeney ever chat here?

[raw harbor]

Hoodie anime guy, do you plan to switch to ue5

[pallid talon]

@fierce tulip Any chance you could get me on with UDN?

[fierce tulip]

he never joined this discord, unless he is on an alt

[raw harbor]

I just got an email from unreal about an event on April 5, what do you all think it is, it’s a surprise they said

Maybe the full release? 😳

[drowsy snow]

No

At least for my current game project

Though I will build UE5 for my machinima project, which is more experimental

[raw harbor]

I’m making my game on ue5, prolly a bad idea now agger what you said

[drowsy snow]

UE5's viability in low end hardware is still uncharted territory for me
And my game project needs to be working in low end hardware with consistent visuals, so I stick with 4.27

[raw harbor]

Oh

But for me is it not good!

?*

[drowsy snow]

Maybe I'll upgrade it to UE5 once I release it and make a "Deluxe" next gen upgrade for those who want it

[raw harbor]

What do you think is the event on April 5?

[upbeat rampart]

What do you conaider low end?

[dense orbit]

why do i have an unclearable notification in this discord -_-

[raw harbor]

-_-

[upbeat rampart]

Infected

[raw harbor]

Lmao

[upbeat rampart]

Happens

[drowsy snow]

Basically intel iGPUs and average third world student laptops

[fierce tulip]

lol, there it is. 10 bucks for me, and a ban for you

[drowsy snow]

Famous last words

[buoyant granite]

:warning: Failed to send a DM. User will not be notified.

:no_entry_sign: coffeediction#7809 was banned.

[fierce tulip]

XD

[upbeat rampart]

Lol really

[pearl umbra]

is this really Tim Sweeney? 😮

the real one?

[autumn flame]

Really Tim Sweeney indeed!

[upbeat rampart]

Im getting flashbacks when i see bans

Lol

[drowsy snow]

I know, very low bar, but I need my game to be accessible by larger part of my fellow countrymen

[upbeat rampart]

Never observed one on this end until now

[pearl umbra]

for real? because today is April 1 lol..but cool if true

[autumn flame]

For real!

[fierce tulip]

@plush yew someone not worth anybodies time.

[autumn flame]

Request UE5 Stable now

[pearl umbra]

I cant wait for The State of Unreal event!! 🥳

[drowsy snow]

Also I think at most $30 for a game is not that expensive for my local homies

[marsh swallow]

This is actually a great idea!!

[upbeat rampart]

If you can pull graphics like nfs2015 that run on some intel with integrated graphics then yiur good

[marsh swallow]

A bounty system so to speak

[upbeat rampart]

Ive run that game on such pc with just ssd upgrade

[sullen kernel]

tysm

[sullen kernel]

tysm

[upbeat rampart]

But i cant run properly a game like outward which hase alot uglyer graphics

Even on low

[drowsy snow]

I think if my game is made to be playable and consistent in low end hardware, then high framerate is easy clap for those who have higher end hardware. Win-win.

[upbeat rampart]

Show

What your game looks like

[drowsy snow]

I'll show you when the time is right

[upbeat rampart]

Spoken like a real jedi

[drowsy snow]

Well, I prefer the footage to speak for itself
Also not to mention it's pretty much one-man project for now

[upbeat rampart]

Can you take screen shot of something that doesnt reveal anything

You use light skin?

Guys

I think we got the alien

Call the area 51

[kind hazel]

Hay does anyone where i can find a tutorial series showing how to make a Call of Duty like gameplay system

[drowsy snow]

Well, I post some of my experimentation results in #work-in-progress

Mainly on VFX tho

[upbeat rampart]

Pin me i dont see any wip

[drowsy snow]

Just search my real username in that channel
Discord has some nice filter options

[lost fractal]

show me ur gaem!!1

[drowsy snow]

No game = hoax

[lost fractal]

D:

[upbeat rampart]

Ah

Animu

I dont think low end will manage these graphics

[drowsy snow]

Except I'm developing it in low end hardware :')

[still yacht]

Why do I keep getting notifications?

[upbeat rampart]

What parametwrs

[oak patio]

Wdym

[still yacht]

I mean I keep getting a red number saying I was pinged or atted or whatever they're calling it these days.

[fierce tulip]

where did Tim go?

[drowsy snow]

Aimed towards me?

[oak patio]

April fools!

[upbeat rampart]

Yes

[still yacht]

That doesn't even make any sense. That's not april fools.

[drowsy snow]

wdym by parameters?

[oak patio]

Well it is

[upbeat rampart]

Whats your pc stuff

[drowsy snow]

Laptop held together by metaphorical duct tape

[upbeat rampart]

Your avoidin the question

So its not low end

[drowsy snow]

I'd rather not getting too poor shamed here, but it is low end.

The dedicated GPU, which is low end Radeon HD (forgot the model number) kicked the bucket, so I only have intel iGPU to hold on

[upbeat rampart]

Your sayn nothing

I have ryzen 5 1600 nvudia 1030 ssd ram 16gb

Thats sayn simething

[drowsy snow]

And that's medium end in my book.

I had worse spec than that

[fierce tulip]

there are genres of games that actually have large communities that frown on developers that make games that do not run on their low end hardware.

[upbeat rampart]

My spec were worse. This is an upgraded

All parts are bought after

[dusty hornet]

Jesens jacket and Tims hoodie... what next?

[drowsy snow]

The past doesn't really count
And I refuse to talk further about it. I don't want someone to scream "bruh just upgrade lemao" because if I had the money to do so while still able to eat, I'd do that.

[dusty hornet]

Lisas stilettos?

[oak patio]

Why are you so invested in this, let it go, theres plenty of people with low end hardware

[fierce tulip]

that be cool, like tetris effects

[oak patio]

The conversation is clearly making one party uncomfortable

So drop it

[upbeat rampart]

I want to know on what machine does he run that game which wuld be impressive conaidering the graphics

If he insists then so be it

[oak patio]

Again it aint your business, you can get good graphics on low end hardware if you work hard on the optimsation

[dusty hornet]

low poly graphics

like Valheim

[upbeat rampart]

Your missing the point here but whatever if he dont wana say sure

In the past with my pcs original spec i culd barely run the engine with the chairs and table acene

[oak patio]

Same as my laptoo

Held on for nearly 10 years that thing did

[shut nova]

Does anyone know how to fix this material blending with this landscape material graph?

[drowsy snow]

I'm insisting on being not comfortable sharing my current "rig", but I can tell you some stats with my project getting more consistent look on lower settings:

• Characters are around 35K tris, including clothing
• Aggressive LOD-ing on environmental meshes
• Materials deploying lots of Scalability Switch (allowing for lower settings to fall back)
• Also lots of Scalability switches elsewhere
• Volumetric Clouds optimised further that it takes < 1ms even in my potato.
• All effects are not dependant on distance fields, using more of scene depth

[upbeat rampart]

I see

A general rule for optimisation i consider: store as much as possible in memory, reuse instead of create/destroy

35k seems ok

[bold herald]

100%. As a developer I use an older lower end machine to do testing and get testers with low end machine as well.. You should always test lower end machines. Alot of folks, are testing with high end machines and then wonder why when they release there games, folks are having performance issues. When I used to consult this is something I always would bring up to companies, smaller teams, etc. This is important.

[fierce tulip]

+1

[bleak zodiac]

Yoeri, like your "Normal" portrait 🙂

[upbeat rampart]

Lol

Thats real artsy

[fierce tulip]

thanks, its a bit rough around the edges, but as long as its not occluding my face, thats totally cool.

[kindred sapphire]

Can someone fix the server's profile picture? It's lowkey annoying

[fierce tulip]

few more hours.

[cedar wave]

https://tenor.com/bka0W.gif

[kindred sapphire]

Alright

[drowsy snow]

I made the material myself, but it's still the built-in volumetric clouds.
I just use Beer shadow maps and only single multi scatter

[bold herald]

sure. But its always good to have a low end machine I use a 15 year old quad core with an old 660 GPU. for testing low end devices I have about 6 other GPU's I toss in as well.. This is something I learned over a long career, mobile is much worse.. You will need people with devices to test....

its something that most people, can do. not hard to toss together an old machine with spare parts.

[drowsy snow]

Except not everyone is in first world country where such thing is abundant

[bold herald]

I been a contractor, and been able to do it over a period of time, ask friends for old spare parts. everyone has spare parts....

anyone with a computer, should have an old PC, and should be keeping them to part out, and if you aren't start doing it....

if you are new, start doing it.

I have 3 million dollars in medical bills .. Not kidding. .Far from rich. I use the brain GOD gave me.

[upbeat rampart]

I have 2 old pcs but i dont think theyll evwn run the windows let alone some game on it

[bold herald]

So instead throwing a fit about not having money, how about, you start saving PC parts and asking friends and folks around the net?

people use the indie excuse...

I understand.

[cedar wave]

Doesn't seem like it

[bold herald]

like I said start doing it.

people give excuses to much...

I don't have time, I dont have money.

[drowsy snow]

You're such insensitive.

[nocturne vine]

sounding kinda bootstrappy there Dark

[bold herald]

Make time.... and be smart about your time and situtation.

[upbeat rampart]

I get what u mean dark but not everyone is open to it

[bold herald]

I'm just blunt some of you are just used to being a victim..

and full of excuses.

someone new to the industry I can understand.

so that is why i said they can start now.

[nocturne vine]

"I'm just being blunt" is the mating cry of the Asshole

[waxen raven]

Then understand it's about the exception.

[cedar wave]

It actually, to me, sounds like you have a lot of trouble understanding.

[bold herald]

I forgot, SOME of the younger generation gets offended to easy my bad.

[upbeat rampart]

Im not in perfect situation either

[drowsy snow]

Press the button guys

[waxen raven]

True. But looking at the gamedev pop

[drowsy snow]

Do it

[waxen raven]

It's going to be considerably less common than average because of the first barrier to entry.

[upbeat rampart]

Im stressed becouae there are crazy people in the house and i dont have any income atm

Im not excusing anything

[nocturne vine]

oh neat i didn't know Discord had a block feature like that

[waxen raven]

Body parts are way easier >:)

[bold herald]

that is what folks have been doing from the dawn of time..... not hard to build a PC now a days.....

with spare parts...

[upbeat rampart]

It depends dark. Your a bit too enthusiastic

[waxen raven]

In the US and some places yes, though I remember the struggle.

[jolly rampart]

question about destructible meshes and stuff-
why is it when i shoot them or throw my gun at them, do they not break (but they are registered as dead), but when i run into them they break? im new btw

[bold herald]

in the US some of us have millions in medical bills...

[cedar wave]

Just need to go the parts Genie obviously.

[bold herald]

do we hear anyone whining about income?

[jolly rampart]

what do you need?

like

what parts

[upbeat rampart]

You guys litrly print money every day

[bold herald]

You guys what is you guys?

[waxen raven]

How is the player calling the destruction and how does that vary from the rest

[upbeat rampart]

In usa

[bold herald]

are you rejected medical caree?

in the US I was when I got cancer for 3 years....

[waxen raven]

Probably collision channels, maybe an on damage thing, hundreds of ways to do anything in code.

[bold herald]

so don't tell me,....

and use "YOU GUYS"

you have no idea what your talking about

[dusk nebula]

Lol

[upbeat rampart]

Lol the tables have turned

[bold herald]

but I don't whine about income.. I get up and do what I need to...

[nocturne vine]

yeah just like, ask your friends for some spare change to pay your medical billz

[waxen raven]

Alright guys, let's keep it civil, nobody can afford the gas to kick the others'...

[bold herald]

I didnt ask you to fix my medial bills

[jolly rampart]

that is in the projectile

[bold herald]

and whine about it...

I pick my self up every day and work hard.

[wooden bison]

Can streamed levels have their own baked lightning?

[upbeat rampart]

Just get a small loan of a million dollaz

[waxen raven]

Okay, that's calling but we don't know where from or to, that said, if that's the event on the destructible, you can check to see if it even registers the other hits with a print node

[dusk nebula]

@bold herald it's easy just join a pyramid scheme

[waxen raven]

Luck, and hard work. Lucky to be able to work hard and get out of the situation. We don't so it all alone.

[jolly rampart]

"that is in the projectile" -me 30 seconds ago

[bold herald]

your hear to troll, good luck with that.

[bold herald]

I have morals.

[waxen raven]

Then odds are the projectile doesn't know it hit, also testable, but I'd have looked between the ones we know are working first.

Since they can be used as a guide to getting the non functional running and why.

[jolly rampart]

can we just go in dms

[wooden bison]

Also if they can, what happens when i load multiple levels if each one has their own baked lightning

[dusk nebula]

Yeah because I was unironically telling somebody to fall for a scam to get out of a bad situation...

[bold herald]

nah they are hear to troll nothing more. clearly.

[dusk nebula]

hi pot im kettle

[waxen raven]

They see me trolling, they hating ;)

[bold herald]

lol:)

[waxen raven]

You can dm, not a problem though at work so on/off responses.

[wooden bison]

Any help?

[upbeat rampart]

I just like the million dollaz meme

[bold herald]

I block trolls, so not a big deal to me. ":) I rather help folks.

[dusty hornet]

What's going on?

what is the subject of discussion?

[upbeat rampart]

How to get a small loan of a million dolaz

[dusty hornet]

blockchain & NFT is a pyramid scheme

I have a 3080 & 5800x I'm good

flexxxxxx

[nocturne vine]

i sell NFTs and yes, this is 100% true

[bold herald]

I have a 3090, 3080, 4 900 series, and 660 series, i'm good too.:)

and 6 PC's

[cedar wave]

You ain't helpin' no one with your ridiculous viewpoint. You're just spittin' out ignorant statements whilst being completely clueless to individuals real world situations. It is not helpful to a single soul.

[bold herald]

i'm all set thanks though

[upbeat rampart]

How are you actually earning money

[waxen raven]

Pfft. Subsidiaries you mean.

That's a joke, just to be clear.

[upbeat rampart]

Are you also a part of them blockvhain bs

[waxen raven]

Oil had to come from somewhere.

[bold herald]

That is why, in the US we pay X100 more for medications and medical care. Same thing.

[dusty hornet]

"Cryptoland" 😆

[waxen raven]

They gave me canola, not real friends.

Real friends would sell oil in my private currency.

[grave aspen]

Oi, simmer down. Keep it civil or keep it quiet, your choice

[dusty hornet]

Mod has spoken.

[upbeat rampart]

Dark has gone dark

[fierce tulip]

the moment I step away from the computer for a second.

[grave aspen]

:: goes back to my hidey hole ::