ue4-general

[oak patio]

without a good portfolio you're just a cv and a cover letter

in a sea of other cv's and portfolios

[real heath]

Do you have previous assignments or something you can cobble together into a portfolio and talk about what each demonstrated?

[plush yew]

I have a few environments made in unity

one is an interior house and other is a terrain

and 1 game I made in unreal

[real heath]

Surely you can leverage some of that to demonstrate a broader knowledge, experience with other engines, blah blah blah.

[oak patio]

rip if your company is in this discord btw

[real heath]

in some of the captions and blurbs around your images talk about the challenges with adapting to the new engine, what you learned

[timber yacht]

Hello

what does LogTemp mean?

when your trying to display something in the output log

[real heath]

You log under categories, so you can filter error messages

[timber yacht]

oh ok

[real heath]

LogTemp is a catchall for when you haven't setup a suitable category yet, and just need to bash something out

[timber yacht]

oh I see

[fallow hornet]

Anyone have an idea why dlss would suddenly stop working?

[flat turret]

what's the difference between Hierarchical Instanced static mesh vs Instanced static mesh?

[unique kraken]

Didn't check that yet

[tender pecan]

HISM is more reliable when it comes to per instance LOD and culling. and is used widely for procedural foliage placement. It also yields better performance with large amounts of instances, specially if you disable them being able to be selected in the editor ( if adding instances using an editor tool for example )

[floral cliff]

Just in case... your gpu is rtx, right ?

[azure reef]

Hi guys! When using AR after a few seconds the app crashes and I see this warnings.

OpenXR plugin is installed though

[polar sorrel]

guys random question, if you do answer please tag me, why did you choose Unreal Engine 4 over other engines, I myself have to work in it because of University, but i'm slowly moving to unity seems like, whats making you stay with UE4 ? Pros and cons if you have the time

[oak patio]

pros: free for the month assets on the store, less installing tons of packages, faster prototyping, access to source code, easier UI, lots of cool new innovations in new engines

cons: sometimes random crashes, useless crash messages without the 20smthn GB debug symbols, large engine size, poor documentation

[drowsy snow]

Pros

• Great graphics out of the box
• Blueprints! (way more robust than Bolt)
• Material graph similar to BPs, allows for creating cool materials without much HLSL knowledge
• Built in tools that in Unity you would have to get it from Asset Store
• Built in optimisation tools
• Robust animation system
• CONTROL RIG!!
• Engine source code available at no extra cost
• Freebies every month
• Dark mode built in since 2014
• Robust networking
• No tiering - Everyone got the same access to the engine and its source code

Cons:

• C++ can be scary for Unity C# dwellers because it require closing the editor to compile properly.
• You have to defenestrate pretty much anything you know about Unity
• Making custom lower level shaders can be tougher than it should be
• Lackustre documentations

[oak patio]

FWIW unity also has a node based material graph fyi

honestly there the biggest one for me is the dark mode lmaoo

[drowsy snow]

Imagine having Dark mode only for Tier 1 sub until user pressure/hacks

Oh yeah, tiers

[polar sorrel]

I was thinking of doing a pixel gqme in Ue4, and I'm a newbie, so I don't think there are a lot of tutorials for that, and it seems like for pixel games unity is better

[drowsy snow]

Yes(n't)
You can still use UE4 for pixel 2D game, but things might be a bit overkill (e.g. the app size)

And I think if you're using UE4 for pixel type game, might as well go for 2.5D

[polar sorrel]

But yet again, not enough documentation online for that

[drowsy snow]

There's still Godot for more lightweight 2D games, so yeah

[polar sorrel]

You think godot is better than unity?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, because Godot is free open source

[polar sorrel]

Sorry but what does that mean

[oak patio]

you get the code of the engine

and you dont have to pay

unity you have to pay past a certain earnings threshhold, godot you dont

and you get the engine code with godot

[polar sorrel]

oooh thank you i get it now

[fresh pulsar]

Okay so I'm using like vinterp to and stuff I just I have a problem, my enemies are straight up clipping through walls, not sure how to deal with that

also they slow down the closer they get to the player which I don't like

is there like an alternative way to track the player and move towards them within a certain range maybe?

as opposed to checking 2d vectors and then using vinterp

[spice ruin]

A navmesh?

[fresh pulsar]

That seems like a lot more work than it's worth, surely there would be something way simpler

or maybe idk a way this could work without the enemies clipping through the wall collision

[spice ruin]

Well, it's the simple way to not have to implement navigation yourself...

[fresh pulsar]

I just dunno why they're clipping

it's stressing me out

[spice ruin]

Or you could do a capsule trace from your enemy to your character, if it fints a blocking hit, don't move towards the player.

[fresh pulsar]

Also for some reason vector2d is completely ignoring like up and down distance

[spice ruin]

And this is probably because you divide the distance by a set amount (enemy-to-player / 100 say) instead, you should do enemy-to-player.normalise * speed / delta time

Well vector2d only has 2 dimensions, it's right there in the name.

(though the d here stands for double)

[fresh pulsar]

@spice ruin this is the exact code

[fresh pulsar]

Which should be like, left/right, and up/down right?

[spice ruin]

No, I believe that node would be left/right and forward/backward.

[fresh pulsar]

That's... weird is there a way I can force it to be up/down and left/right? it's sorta what I need for a 2d game

[spice ruin]

Just do 3d instead of 2d...

[fresh pulsar]

oh and also.. need to fix the collision still on top of that

[fresh pulsar]

okay

[spice ruin]

If it's 2d, the depth will be the same anyway

As in, if your game is 2d, everything is probably on the same vertical plane.

[fresh pulsar]

Yeah

So that's one problem down one to go @spice ruin

[spice ruin]

🙂

[fresh pulsar]

Well it would be but now my dev time for the day is over... crap

thanks anyway

[fresh pulsar]

big thanks

[spice ruin]

No worries.

[gusty ruin]

Have a question, like if i cooked a material asset in 4.26 , is it possible to use it directly in a shipping project built with 4.27 ? Any ideas will be appreciate.

[gilded mason]

Heya, looking for some help with post processing and just trying to figure out where to start - it's kind of a lidar/scan lines effect (ref attached)

[real heath]

Maybe try starting with clamping scene depth, a bit like celshading? Interesting effect idea thiugh

[gilded mason]

oooh good shout!

• googles clamping scene depth *

😄

[real heath]

Look into cell shading. That clamps color. Same idea but clamp scene depth

It'll be a start, but won't be exactly what you are after

[gilded mason]

I've been researching it for a while - at one point i was even converting the 3d objects into LCD and feeding it through the built in plugin

boy, did that go wrong hah

[real heath]

If it absolutely has to be a post process effect, you could try reprojecting a screen coord back to world space and then running something like triplanar mapping of a grid texture

Might be expensive though

[gilded mason]

ooh i remember reading something about that - yeah might've been the weight of it that put me off

but i've decided to do everything to make it work first and THEN optimize

[real heath]

You could make it a material function and add it to your master materials. Then turn it on and off with a material parameter collection

Rather than post process

I dunno. A million ways to start tackling it.

But each has limits and cost

I wonder if you could do something with the scene distance field

[gilded mason]

all brilliant shouts - I owe you a beer already 🙂

[real heath]

Lol all good

[gilded mason]

ooh looking into it that might be good

i wonder if that + some post processing would work

[scarlet folio]

What type of admob ads are working in UE4 without plugins?!

[shell harbor]

ok, not gonna be useful what I am gonna say
BUT MAN, that looks amazing!

[gilded mason]

Right?! It's from a guy called ryoichi kurokawa. I found the actual post processing effects he used, albeit for after effects :/

[shell harbor]

hmmm
now I want to know how to make it as well 😂

[thin tendon]

Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the available console commands?

[cinder cargo]

how can i look at all content at the same time

[ashen delta]

I can't open up any of my projects! over £40,000 worth of commissions I can't access. It crashes on loading up! PLEASE HELP
Unhandled Exception: 0xe06d7363

KERNELBASE
VCRUNTIME140
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

[fierce tulip]

without installing the symbols, that crash error is useless.

also, version control

[ashen delta]

I did a windows update yesterday and updated the plugin pro instance. I then wen to open the project I was working on the day before and it crashed on booting up. I then tried other projects. same issue but those other projects are on 4.26 & 4.27

[ashen delta]

I'll install them now.

[fierce tulip]

good, now wait (or find) someone who can help you go trough those errors. if it was something basic I could point the issue out, but this is beyond my knowhow

[ashen delta]

ok thank you.

Unhandled Exception: 0xe06d7363

KERNELBASE
VCRUNTIME140
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!FPngImageWrapper::user_error_fn() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ImageWrapper\Private\Formats\PngImageWrapper.cpp:516]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:86]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_chunk_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:206]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_chunk_benign_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:236]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_crc_finish() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngrutil.c:239]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_handle_IHDR() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngrutil.c:564]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_read_info() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngread.c:295]

UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!FPngImageWrapper::LoadPNGHeader() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ImageWrapper\Private\Formats\PngImageWrapper.cpp:438]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!FPngImageWrapper::SetCompressed() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ImageWrapper\Private\Formats\PngImageWrapper.cpp:211]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureSource::GetMipData() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Texture.cpp:1180]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureSourceData::GetSourceMips() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TextureDerivedDataTask.cpp:206]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureSourceData::GetAsyncSourceMips() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TextureDerivedDataTask.cpp:229]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureCacheDerivedDataWorker::DoWork() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TextureDerivedDataTask.cpp:572]
UE4Editor_Engine!FAsyncTask<FTextureCacheDerivedDataWorker>::DoWork() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\AsyncWork.h:272]
UE4Editor_Engine!FAsyncTask<FTextureCacheDerivedDataWorker>::DoThreadedWork() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\AsyncWork.h:296]
UE4Editor_Core!FQueuedThread::Run() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\HAL\ThreadingBase.cpp:996]
UE4Editor_Core!FRunnableThreadWin::Run() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:86]

does anyone here have any idea why I'm getting this?! I can't open up any of my projects!!! PLEASE HELP

[plush yew]

Have you looked into Niagara? If you're gonna create VJ material i guess performance wouldn't matter that much and i trieda while back in niagara to achieve kinda of a wireframe effects but with points from the geo of a mesh

[gilded mason]

i did look into it but it felt that for a whole environment the performance was gonna be abysmal so it meant chopping stuff up...

[plush yew]

yeah for sure would do it in parts. Also dont know what you want to animate etc. there is a video i saw a long time ago with a breakdown of lidar visuals, ill try to find it.

[gilded mason]

pretty much the whole environment, hence the good people talking about post processing over anything else

[plush yew]

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

[gilded mason]

god i love this stuff so much

[plush yew]

okay well just trynna help

[gilded mason]

thank you regardless, I will crack it for all our sakes!

[plush yew]

where should I build my portfolio

wix or wordpress

[foggy orbit]

Hi, Any idea, I have no more reflections in my VR preview or in game) but everything's ok in the editor (it was working fine yesterday)

[oak patio]

i like artstation personally

now for a portfolio, wordpress is harder to learn, but gives you more autonomy, wix is easier to use, but locks you into using wix

[plush yew]

I think ill just use wix

[plush yew]

Im still curious tho about what kind of elements you are trying to create the effect on. Is is Geometry you build inside UE? or is it 3D models then re-lit inside UE?

[foggy orbit]

pfffff what a moron, just forgot to rebuild reflections captures.... Time to take a break 😫

[autumn flame]

Check where you are using the ImageWrapper module in your project

[gilded mason]

3D models build inside ue. Just please do not assume i know what i am doing 😂

[drowsy snow]

#packaging

[median ferry]

Sorry my bad

[polar sorrel]

hello guys i dont know if this is fully relatable with ue4 but, the unreal engine is eating me a lot of space from the drive C, like when i open it and work in it from 20 gb free in the C drive i go down to 2 or smth like that (even if the project and all the epic store related stuff are located in the D driver) , and so i want to expand the free space that my C drive has, I know that you can take space from other drivers, but if my C driver is an SSd and my D driver is a HDD can i still do this ? extend memory from D to C ?

[tacit flare]

What is a pawn class?

[plush yew]

I just coded a cooldown animation timer all by myself with no outside help

💪

[tacit flare]

I’m trying to add movement input in an event graph and its shouting at me that self is not a pawn and target must have a connection

Whys something as simple as wasd movement so difficult to setup

[drowsy snow]

Pawn is an Actor that you control

[tacit flare]

How do I make a model I imported an actor?

[drowsy snow]

How long have you been using Unreal Engine?

[tacit flare]

Not long

[drowsy snow]

I'd recommend taking the time to learn the engine basics, tutorials are in the pinned messages of this channel.

[tacit flare]

I dont really have the time for this project but I can check them out later

[drowsy snow]

Because that is one of the basics that has been repeatedly explained over time.

[tacit flare]

Which tutorial then?

I tried using one online but I ran into issues

I couldnt even run it to begin with because of the pawn error

[drowsy snow]

Particularly Your First Hour in UE4 course
#ue4-general message

[sage coral]

I have a physics object that simulates physics for example its an arm but when my thirdperspn character stands on top of it they both spin/fly crazy until landing when it shouldn't be going airborne.

[drowsy snow]

That's one of the most common game physics jank. Is your game a platformer?

Consider faking the weight physics whenever possible

[tacit flare]

How do I get movement working with a static mesh

The tutorials are using a character

[cedar wave]

https://bfy.tw/T1I4

[tacit flare]

…

[sage coral]

@drowsy snow Its like viscera clean up detail

[tacit flare]

I appreciate the help but just telling me to google stuff isn’t going to help, I’ve already tried a ton which is why I’m asking here

[cedar wave]

You need to learn how to google in gamedev. No one is going to sit there and spoonfeed you answers. If you've done you're research and still don't understand a concept, people are more willing to help. Because it shows that you've actually put forth effort. I'm not saying this to be mean or rude or anything of the sort, it's the reality.

[cedar wave]

What have you tried? Where is your code

What doesn't work?

Have you set up input?

Are you trying to hardcode W specifically?

[tacit flare]

I setup input

[cedar wave]

Are you getting any errors? Are you using the right player controller? Are you trying to move a possessed pawn? Are you trying to move a component? Are you using the right GameMode?

Saying "it doesn't work" is not helpful to anyone.

[tacit flare]

Im getting pawn error because its a static mesh but I have no clue how to move a static mesh, google is showing stuff like using timelines and such and I’m confused and lost

[cedar wave]

What error?

Show the error

Show the class that you're using

[tacit flare]

Parent class is Static Mesh Actor

[cedar wave]

Show the entire screen

Because all I'm going to tell you is what that says

[tacit flare]

I deleted most of the stuff because it wasnt working but this is the error

[cedar wave]

You're not possessing the actor, and you can't, because it is not a pawn; as it tells you

[tacit flare]

how do I possess the actor? thats all I need to know

[cedar wave]

Make the actor of type Pawn

If the parent class is a static mesh actor, it is not a pawn

[tacit flare]

Google didnt really show any results when I tried googling how to turn a static mesh into an actor

I know its the issue but I dont know how to fix it

[cedar wave]

Google how to change the parent class in Blueprint

[muted iron]

I am working on an unreal scene and lighting it and using the built in GPU lightmass tool, which works great. But the moment I add a foliage actor and try and build the lighting, unreal crashes. Any ideas? Ive tried using the foliage tool to place just 1 piece of grass, or just white boxes, dosnt seem to matter. Its the foliage actor itself it seems to be the issue

[tacit flare]

That… broke it oh well

[cedar wave]

Once you turn it into a pawn, your controller can now possess it. So you'll need to set that up.

You can do this through some gameplay scripting, or you can set it as the default pawn in your gamemode and let UE handle it.

If you're trying to move it without possessing it - that is a different thing. You'd need a reference to it and then add a world offset to it. In the simple way that is.

[zealous juniper]

how can i make a scene look unlit once packaged? I tried some stuff and nothing really worked.
tried using console command, which doesn't work when I package it. tried setting material to unlit, but the colors are not properly defined and appears to have a tint to it. not sure what to do.

[cedar wave]

@tacit flare My overall advice would be to forego w/e you're doing and follow along an actual tutorial series. Start from scratch/basics. There are people out there who do some questionable things, but at your stage, I'd say it doesn't really matter. What matters more is learning the basics.

[tacit flare]

Where do I get the set default pawn class?

[tacit flare]

I mean I plan to watch tutorials to get the basics down but I dont really have the time right now for this project

[cedar wave]

In the GameMode.

[cedar wave]

If you don't have the time for the project, why are you working on the project?

[tacit flare]

Because its an assignment

They didnt teach unreal engine despite so unfortunately I have to figure things out on my own

[cedar wave]

Sounds like you're going to have to make time for the project then.

[tacit flare]

Well I’m trying right now

I set the default pawn class as the blueprint is that right?

[lapis ore]

Can I bake out a material that is using a World Aligned Texture? I tried and failed....

[cedar wave]

In your game mode, you set it as w/e pawn you want to control initially

[tacit flare]

I did

I set it in the default pawn class section

[cedar wave]

Now, when you press play, the player controller that gets created will automatically posses that pawn.

[tacit flare]

It doesnt

[cedar wave]

If you don't have a camera set up - you won't be able to see it really.

[tacit flare]

Its just using a 2dsidescrollercharacter

Despite it not being the default pawn anymore

[cedar wave]

The smaller your screenshots, the less information that exists in them; thus the less useful they are.

[cedar wave]

Need to make sure that it is using the right game mode and all that stuff. I don't have the time to dig into it further (have some work shenanigans to handle), but if you're still stuck in a few hours, ping me.

[tacit flare]

Alright

Im not sure what the right game mode would be since I chose 2d since its suppose to be a side camera

But I’ll try looking

[cinder cargo]

hey how do i get the all assets option?

it would say it like right here

[tribal oak]

Hello, I'm profilling occlusion to optimize it (because Oculus Quest hardware), I noticed that the landscape seems to occlude itself

why is that?

its like occluding subpart of itself

[rain harness]

Sup guys
I need to make an API inside Unreal. This App need to have a mechanic to the user add some furniture assets to it outside the UE editor, he needs to do it in the API itself. Anyone has a clue on how to do it?

[drowsy snow]

So basically runtime mesh importer?

[rain harness]

exactly. For an architecture company. They want me to make this API (something like fallout4 building system) but only with furnitures so they can make room plans to their clients. But they want to be able to add furniture assets by themselfs inside the api

[drowsy snow]

You can look into Assimp library (yes, it's the actual name) that allows you to import meshes in runtime. There's also UE4 implementation of it somewhere on GitHub.

Of course you'd have to have something to remember the path next time the "scene" is loaded, not to mention handling the materials, but I'll leave it to you.

[rain harness]

I'll take a look on that
thanks a lot!

[ashen delta]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I can't open the project. I can't open other projects either. If I could open it I'd see what the ImageWrapper is. Any suggestions without being able to open it?

[drowsy snow]

Have you tried reinstalling the engine?

AFAIK only the editor's Slate UI that directly uses PNG image files for the elements

[autumn flame]

You could try verifying the installation too

[drowsy snow]

I don't think verifying the installation tries to match the checksums of the engine files

[autumn flame]

Worth a try, saw this issue being fixed by verifying, guess if not then directly reinstall indeed

[ashen delta]

I've verified both 2.26 & 2.27...

[ashen delta]

I'll also try this. Thanks

[proud abyss]

hey, ive just noticed i have a ~4gb update available for version 4.27, is it something i should do or would that just mean its going to update to ue5? which i already have installed

have some games i make stuff for that requires 4.27 so want to have them both available

[trim pike]

hello

my directional light shadows are way too soft

and it seems changing the settings wont reduce the softness enough

is there a way to get really solid shadows?

[tender peak]

I just loaded up my project and everything is super screwed up
Everything is semi translucent or doesnt show up at all
New actors dont show at all
Loading different or new maps doesnt help
somebody save me from this mind melting hell

[tacit flare]

@cedar wave still stuck

[cinder cargo]

hey how do i get the all assets option??

[untold plank]

Need help

My first person character only shows up in the world outliner when I start the game

It's prob because it's in a different level but I want that level to be the default one, I made it the default one in project settings but it still does it

[dapper hatch]

Any Maya guru here? 😃

[red wigeon]

Hello can any one please help me to solve this on google play console.

I cant seem to find anything on how to integrate play game services sdk on to my game project.

[thin tendon]

I have a question about the HLOD system. When I was reading the documentation it says that it combines static meshes in a scene. Does it work on blueprinted static meshes? Like for example if I have a blueprint for a house (combining several static meshes to create a house). Will the HLOD system work on my houses and house pieces ?

Ohh and what about instanced foliage meshes?

[valid inlet]

Is it even worth making a ai behaviour tree and all that instead of a simple chase and attack code if I'm making a simple game with only one enemy type and no verticality or complex level geometry?

[ashen delta]

Can someone please help? Can you please tell me what this is?! I can't open up my £20,000 project! client is needing an update! I can't open it! I don't understand this error... There is nothing I can find on Google! Unhandled Exception: 0xe06d7363

KERNELBASE
VCRUNTIME140
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!FPngImageWrapper::user_error_fn() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ImageWrapper\Private\Formats\PngImageWrapper.cpp:516]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:86]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_chunk_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:206]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_chunk_benign_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:236]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_crc_finish() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngrutil.c:239]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_handle_IHDR() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngrutil.c:564]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_read_info() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngread.c:295]

UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!FPngImageWrapper::LoadPNGHeader() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ImageWrapper\Private\Formats\PngImageWrapper.cpp:438]
UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!FPngImageWrapper::SetCompressed() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ImageWrapper\Private\Formats\PngImageWrapper.cpp:211]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureSource::GetMipData() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Texture.cpp:1180]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureSourceData::GetSourceMips() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TextureDerivedDataTask.cpp:206]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureSourceData::GetAsyncSourceMips() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TextureDerivedDataTask.cpp:229]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTextureCacheDerivedDataWorker::DoWork() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TextureDerivedDataTask.cpp:572]
UE4Editor_Engine!FAsyncTask<FTextureCacheDerivedDataWorker>::DoWork() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\AsyncWork.h:272]
UE4Editor_Engine!FAsyncTask<FTextureCacheDerivedDataWorker>::DoThreadedWork() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\AsyncWork.h:296]
UE4Editor_Core!FQueuedThread::Run() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\HAL\ThreadingBase.cpp:996]
UE4Editor_Core!FRunnableThreadWin::Run() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:86]

[stone stump]

hey guys is there a way to make post process not affect a particular mesh?

[ashen delta]

is this line having an issue somewhere in my "D:" drive? my project is not and has not been in my D drive. Its in my documents folder in C drive... Is the project trying to access something from the wrong drive? Would updating the pro instance plugin cause this?? PLEASE HELP

[real heath]

Mask it with custom depth might work

[real heath]

Looks like a texture is corrupt. What's immediately before that callstack in the log?

Something is happening in the DDC looks like. Maybe delete your DDC and open it again. I've very occasionally had a corruption in the DDC

[ashen delta]

thank you for your reply,.. sorry but what is a DDC?

[real heath]

derived data cache, it's the actual runtime data built from your source meshes and textures etc. Editor builds it on demand or on import

It'll either be in your project directory in a folder called LocalDerivedDataCache or DerivedDataCache, or in the user folder here...

C:\Users<YOUR USER>\AppData\Local\UnrealEngine\Common\DerivedDataCache

[ashen delta]

ah, yes. thanks. This is a list of things I've tried but haven't worked:
I’ve deleted the cache folders. Didn’t work
I created a new project and copied all the content from the old project into the new one. Didn’t work (Project opens but the project level crashes with the above error when I try to load it)
I’ve verified my UE4 installations. Didn’t work
Updated to the latest graphics drivers. Didn’t work
I undated windows. Didn’t work
Other older projects are both in UE4.26 & UE4.27 neither open after the plugin update. (pro instance)

[real heath]

ok, so whats immediately before the callstack in the log?

[ashen delta]

Unhandled Exception: 0xe06d7363

??

[real heath]

yeah, above that

not just the crash window, in the actual log file

[ashen delta]

oh ok

I'm just doing a reinstall... I thought the details before were just my UE4 id...

[ashen delta]

where would I find this log file?

[real heath]

Project/Saved/Logs/

and the one with the most recent modified time

[real heath]

open the most recent one in a text editor, like notepad

and right near the bottom you'll see that call stack, and copy and paste 10-20 lines above that

[ashen delta]

[2022.05.04-10.57.17:156][ 0]LogAudio: Display: Audio Device unregistered from world 'None'.
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:160][ 0]LogUObjectHash: Compacting FUObjectHashTables data took 0.72ms
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:701][ 0]LogOutputDevice: Warning:

Script Stack (0 frames):

[2022.05.04-10.57.17:701][ 0]LogWindows: Windows GetLastError: The operation completed successfully. (0)
[2022.05.04-10.57.18:480][ 0]LogWindows: Error: === Critical error: ===
[2022.05.04-10.57.18:480][ 0]LogWindows: Error:
[2022.05.04-10.57.18:480][ 0]LogWindows: Error: Assertion failed: Tag.Size == Loaded [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/Class.cpp] [Line: 1499]
[2022.05.04-10.57.18:480][ 0]LogWindows: Error:
[2022.05.04-10.57.18:480][ 0]LogWindows: Error:
[2022.05.04-10.57.18:480][ 0]LogWindows: Error:

[real heath]

[2022.05.04-10.57.17:149][  0]Cmd: MAP LOAD FILE="../../../../../../Users/rober/OneDrive/Documents/VH/Clients/Caerleon/UE4/CaerleonExplorer 4.27/Content/VirtualHistories/Maps/Caerleon.umap" TEMPLATE=0 SHOWPROGRESS=1 FEATURELEVEL=3
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:149][  0]LightingResults: New page: Lighting Build
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:150][  0]LogWorld: UWorld::CleanupWorld for Untitled, bSessionEnded=true, bCleanupResources=true
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:150][  0]LogSlate: InvalidateAllWidgets triggered.  All widgets were invalidated
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:150][  0]MapCheck: New page: Map Check
[2022.05.04-10.57.17:150][  0]LightingResults: New page: Lighting Build

looking at that, i'd guess maybe the lightmaps are corrupt?

[real heath]

before you do my next idea, make sure you have a backup of your project as-is

you can find your map file under the Content folder in your project. Next to your map file should be an identically named file with _BuiltData or something in the name

try moving that out and opening again

if that works, just rebuild lighting

if that doesn't work, i'm out of easy ideas

[ashen delta]

I have no lights other than sun light... I don't build lighting in this project. All dynamic..

[real heath]

Do you see a BuiltData file?

[ashen delta]

just looking

that's my persistent level.

[real heath]

rename that, or move it to another folder

[ashen delta]

ok. just finishing the re-install

thanks for your support

[real heath]

ok, well i'm stepping away for a while. If that doesn't work, heres some next steps

1. Move that file back
2. Open your project but DON'T open that map. If it's your start up map you can remove the line "EditorStartupMap" from your DefaultEngine.ini
3. Create a new map and load all your sublevels into that. If one crashes, you've narrowed it down to that map, or an asset used in that map
4. Create a new map and start adding one of each asset to it, if one crashes, it's that asset.

[ashen delta]

ok

[real heath]

lemme know how it works out, good luck!

[ashen delta]

cheers, and thanks again

[cedar wave]

@tacit flare I just got home. Have you been able to figure it out?

[tacit flare]

I got it

[toxic lily]

question, pardon the messy code, im trying to set up a system where a single AI blueprint has different weapon types store, and depending on the weapon type, he will fire a different projectile based on that weapon. cant seem to get it down, any ideas on how?

[solemn sundial]

Hum any game developer welling to work until the game gets released then gets payed

https://tenor.com/view/why-gif-23768806

Have a great idea

[glacial needle]

Anyone know why my boat keeps flipping over at 180 with the buoyancy feature in the water plugin? could it be an issue with the plugin in 4.27?

[oak patio]

Everyone says that, post to the job boards with a little more info

[solemn sundial]

Job board ?

[real heath]

#instructions

[ashen delta]

I changed the "EditorStartupMap" and the project opens!! I loaded up the sub levels and most open without crashing. The one that don't are the main, persistent level, Caerleon, Fortress, Buildings & Docks (levels) the other load up fine...

[ashen delta]

what all of the levels have in common is that I use the pro instance plugin in those.... I did update the plugin just yesterday.. what I don't understand is that it looks like its looking in drive D... am I reading this correctly?? my project is in drive C and has always been there..

[ashen delta]

is that right??

[autumn flame]

Perhaps your Engine installation is in the D drive

[ashen delta]

nope.. just done a fresh install too

[autumn flame]

If you remove the plugin, do the maps open?

[ashen delta]

what does this mean?? UE4Editor_ImageWrapper!png_error() [D:\Dev-Enterprise\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\libPNG\libPNG-1.5.2\pngerror.c:86]

[ashen delta]

I've unticked it and when I click on those levels to open.. it crashes with the same error..

[real heath]

I think those paths are more likely referenckng the source files when it was built. Unless those directories match your install location

[autumn flame]

i think D:\ is just the initial build path for the source

Yeh

[real heath]

Those paths don't mean much

The crash indicates maybe a bad texture

I don't know what proinstance is or how it may factor in

You know what 2 maps may have problems

Start placing your assets into a new level and see if it crashes

If it does, that asset may be bad

Narrow it down

[ashen delta]

ok... but I was told to download the icons so that the crash report made sense to everyone I shared it with on here... 30GB+ of additional files and still nothing makes sense 😦

[real heath]

Yeah the symbols help, because it gives function names

Rather than just memory locations

Those function names indicate it's decoding a PNG file from the derived data cache

[autumn flame]

And if you have a IDE you can always catch the assertion

See what's in memory and such

[ashen delta]

this is the project... its HUGE... those sublevels took months to build... I don't know what to do.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rup0O4u--e8

[real heath]

Well you could keep narrowing it down like I said

[autumn flame]

If you value your project so much you should source control it in the first place

For this exact reason

[ashen delta]

so the project is lost..

[real heath]

@ashen delta go back to my message about derived data cache. Make sure you deleted the right folder

[autumn flame]

Not lost, but would have been way easier to just revert to a working state, lol

And god forbid if let's say your disk breaks
No backup

Lost forever

[ashen delta]

none of them work since I updated the plugin... none of my projects open!! I have copies

[autumn flame]

Of course

[real heath]

I've told you what to do. The error is loading an image from your derived data cache. Delete your cache, and keep loading smaller and smaller parts of your project until you narrow down the bad asset(s). You indicated 2 sub maps that crash, the assets are used in those maps

[ashen delta]

to confirm the location of this projects derived data cache is that in the project settings or editor pref?

[real heath]

Unless you want to throw on a debugger and learn that, narrowing it down is the only way

[autumn flame]

It could be in your project or appdata based on your storage settings for them

[real heath]

Editor I believe, and you can check the common locations I posted

[autumn flame]

And yeh, Engine has it too

[ashen delta]

thanks, I'll try it again.

[real heath]

In future, it'd be advisable to backup your engine and plugin versions with your project to make returning to it easier. And version ontrol is king, but is not a backup replacement

[autumn flame]

Azure is nice to store your entire project actually

No real size limit, just gotta pay if more than 5 users using it

[ashen delta]

right.. deleted

I think this is the same crash...

[autumn flame]

So then narrow down what causes the crash

[ashen delta]

yeah it is..

[autumn flame]

If it's not a big map you can even use the reference viewer to see what's in the map

[ashen delta]

its huge... crazy big.

[autumn flame]

And this happened only after updating the plugin?

Try enabling it and placing a instance of the plugin, save and try to load the map

[ashen delta]

there is 17 lines in that crash.. does it mean 17 items have issues?

[autumn flame]

it's the stack trace

so no

Just shortly gives a wider perspective on how you reached the exception

[ashen delta]

ok, thanks

@real heath @autumn flame oh... just remembered. The day before I was using bulk edit property matrix and reducing loads of image files using the Maximum Texture Size... Can using the property matrix cause this kind of crash??

[autumn flame]

I did that too and never had a problem

[dusky sparrow]

Any common reason why I might get 3fps average in editor? I was just making some widget yesterday and suddenly started getting incredibly low frame rates specifically on unreal (version 4.26.2). Checking task manager its got normal usage on everything and my other projects run normally. I doubt its the widget I was making since its the entire project that is affected, not even at runtime; if I'm just trying to view a testmap or an empty level I get 3fps. Moving the camera does not work cause of it and doing anything else is quite painful.

Just wanna make sure there isn't something I can try before I'm forced to revert to a previous version source control and lose my changes?

(Solved. The widget I was adjusting was video settings page and apparently just connecting up some nodes set max fps to 3 even though I wasn't messing around with that at all lmao)

[ashen delta]

but before the end of the day everything was working fine.. saved and closed it for the day.. following morning I did the plugin update and then all my projects wouldn't open..

[real heath]

Well it might have corrupted one of those textures. It shouldn't, but things happen, and considering the stack trace indicates a texture loading issue, yeah I'd guess it's one of those

[autumn flame]

Never know indeed, lol

[real heath]

So, keep narrowing it down by loading assets

[vernal ermine]

Greetings. I'm thinking of staying on UE4 4.27.2 until I finish my game, as I don't want to deal with synchronizing stuff, and the maintenance cost of new updates. Am I missing much in not upgrading to UE5 now? Thank you

[drowsy snow]

No, you're not missing much, apart from the new rendering features and new crashes

[true ridge]

There's no reason to upgrade unless you specifically need a new feature in UE5 itself or a plugin you're using gets depreciated and has some critical fix in the UE5 version.

[vernal ermine]

thank you

[night oar]

Hi, Guys. Need some help creating a plugin for ue4 the main thing I want is that my plugin variables are present as nodes in the editor any guide on how I can do that..

[thin tendon]

So I have this issue. Just wondering if anyone else has encountered it. When I turn the scalability settings down for visual effect quality. My character starts acting weird. Like it keeps getting stuck on a collision thats not there. Or pushed around by something thats not there. Or stuck inside something thats not there.

[drowsy snow]

Scalability shouldn't affect collision... Have you checked the collision view?

[thin tendon]

Yeah I did. I don't know what the issue is. There are no collisions showing. But it behaves like a collision in that it blocks my player.

[fresh pulsar]

Okay I'm back here again to fix broken collision

Flying enemy drone is clipping through walls (2d)

They move by calculating the distance vector checking its within a certain range and then vinterping to the player

The collision on the walls is just default pretty much nothing special being done on them

[gray kindle]

Hey, i tried to look about it online but there was not a lot of information about this specific problem, so:

is the "canvasdrawtile" strictly UI problem, or can something else impact it this much? it literally eats more gpu ms than the rest of the game combined 😄

by something else i mean stuff like RVT or rendertargets

[drowsy snow]

Canvas Draw Tile is render target's.

Slate uses different canvas, which isn't as taxing as render target canvases.

[gray kindle]

thats good to know, thank you!

[tranquil imp]

Hello everyone, does the Multi-view enabled on the mobile VR side conflict with the screenshot command "HighResShot 1" and SceneCaptureComponent2D.

[foggy orbit]

Hi, I am encoutering 5 errors (all linked to megascan plugin) when cooking that prevents cooked version to be succesful : UATHelper: Cooking (Windows (64-bit)): LogInit: Display: LogPackageName: Error: DoesPackageExist: DoesPackageExist FAILED: '/MegascansPlugin/MSPresets/MSTextures/noise_mask' is not a standard unreal filename or a long path name. Reason: Path does not start with a valid root. Path must begin with: '/Engine/', '/Game/', '/Paper2D/', '/OpenColorIO/', '/Geomet
ryMode/', '/MeshEditor/', '/SpeedTreeImporter/', '/DatasmithContent/', '/DataprepEditor/', '/StaticMeshEditorExtension/', '/ChaosClothEditor/', '/ChaosNiagara/', '/ChaosSolverPlugin/', '/GeometryProcessing/', '/GeometryCollectionPlugin/', '/Niagara/', '/MotoSynth/', '/PythonScriptPlugin/', '/AnimationSharing/', '/MagicLeap/', '/MagicLeapPassableWorld/', '/Me
diaCompositing/', '/MovieRenderPipeline/', '/SequencerScripting/', '/EditorTests/', '/AudioSynesthesia/', '/Takes/', '/OpenXREyeTracker/', '/OpenXR/', '/OpenXRHandTracking/', '/PostSplashScreen/', '/SunPosition/', '/Synthesis/', '/OculusAudio/', '/OculusVR/', '/SteamVR/', '/Engine/DataprepCore/Transient/', '/Config/', '/Script/', '/Extra/', '/Memory/', or '/
Temp/'

I tested in a previous version of my project and I do not have these errors. Due to the work already been done in the new version, I need to solve these errors to keep going but do not know where to start . If any of you can help ...

The megascan errors might be due to the fact that I had to rebuild my PC and forgot to reinstall bridge and the plugins in UE 4.27 maybe ?

Also, After cleaning a project, and fixing redirectors (which generally is not an exact science... ) Do u think it would do any good to migrate to a blank project ?

[spice ruin]

It looks like the megascans plugin isn't being linked to your project.

Have you tried adding it to your uproject file?

Or build.cs maybe

[foggy orbit]

Well it's not in the working project either... What's about build.cs ?

[spice ruin]

blueprint project or c++?

[foggy orbit]

How do I check this (I am not on the darkside of the code 😉 )

[spice ruin]

Team project?

You didn't start it?

[foggy orbit]

I did start it but I have a pretty basic comprehension of code. Using blueprints generally without problems since it's not too difficult. It might be due to a cleaning I've done to the project though since it works in a 4 month old backup

[spice ruin]

You'd know if you'd started a c++ project.

[foggy orbit]

I know 😉 I can assure you I did not 😄 (even though I wish I could)

well... Migrated the bugged project to a blank project... ANd it's working again...

[scarlet anvil]

Hey friends i am getting error saying cook failed while packaging unreal project for VR oculus quest 2 . Can you guys suggest me what should I do 😟

[spice ruin]

I suggest you read all the other errors.

[quick heath]

my post process volume dosent follow the spline

how do i add [post process to entire river

** river flows down the mountain

[fiery flax]

does anyone know why the navmesh generates a little bit hovering in the air? not on the ground for some reason?

[foggy orbit]

@spice ruin https://help.quixel.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4687886615709-when-I-export-from-bridge-it-tells-me-that-Plugin-is-not-installed-but-it-is?sort_by=votes Finally solved the problem (apart migrating to a blank project) and was due to the megascan installation bug explained in the link...

[spice ruin]

Ah ha.

[foggy orbit]

The path error was pretty logical 😉

[fallow elk]

<@&213101288538374145> sorry for the ping guys, just wanting to see who's online and available. I'm dealing with a problematic member and I'm hoping I can elaborate in a DM?

[fierce tulip]

sup?

[fallow elk]

how's it goin man. mind if I DM you the details?

[fierce tulip]

sure

[fallow elk]

cheers man.

[fiery flax]

then why do i get spawned in the air and fall back down, every time i teleport around? with the default vr template project teleportation

[errant gorge]

hi guys, is there any way to take screenshot with path like this? ** HighResShot filename="../test.png"**
i would like to put screenshot one folder before the current path

[fiery flax]

The teleportation works on brushes but for some reason it puts me in the air when i teleport on models, is there a way to fix that easily?

[tacit flare]

how come nothing happens?

it doesnt even get input

Im trying to change its rotation by pressing A

[autumn flame]

Are you possessing it?

[tacit flare]

Uh

This is on the blueprint

But its a child of another object

[autumn flame]

Unless you possess it, it won't receive inputs unless you specifically tell it to start listening for your inputs

[tacit flare]

Oh

So I need to put it on the default actor?

[cedar wave]

Input from the user gets processed through your player controller. If that doesn't handle it, w/e the player controller is possessing will then receive the input.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Input/

If you scroll down to the InputComponent part, it explains the processing order.

[clever axle]

hey guys! anyone know how to rotate a directional light by blueprint?
When I do it, it doesn't update

https://i.imgur.com/MnQGJ4x.png this for example always gives the same readings

[quartz ore]

Is the light set to movable?

[clever axle]

@quartz ore yes

@quartz ore I'm using DirectionalLight, SkyAtmosphere and SkyLight. It seems like some of that overwrites the rotation or something like that

[quartz ore]

Is your skylight movable as well? Those two work in tandem.

[clever axle]

yes. both are movable

[quartz ore]

The only other thing I can think of is that the directional light and the sky sphere also work together, so maybe the sky sphere would need to be rotated as well? Unfortunately, I've never attempted this before.

[clever axle]

well, I don't know.. In the editor, I only have to rotate the directionallight but doing it via blueprint doesn't do anything

[glacial needle]

Hey guys, can anyone help me with this issue, for months I haven't been able to get the pontoons on the buoyancy component to keep any item upright, they only go sideways and upside down.

[opaque oriole]

Hey, does anyone know how can I get mouse position in a VR spectator window? I would like to add UI widget to it, but it seems it does not behave like normal viewport 🤔

[quartz ore]

is this within the level BP?

[clever axle]

@quartz ore yes

[quartz ore]

Have you tried having an actor that contains the directional light and doing it through that actor BP? I'm not sure if that would make a difference but I'm spitballin' here.

[clever axle]

@quartz ore I'll try that

@quartz ore damn, dude! that worked! thanks so much! :D

[quartz ore]

Ah glad to hear it! Must have been something in the level logic, glad I could be of help! 👍

[glacial needle]

Hey guys, can anyone help me with this issue, for months I haven't been able to get the pontoons on the buoyancy component to keep any item upright, they only go sideways and upside down.

[bitter citrus]

Hi everyone, is there a way to make cloth physics on mobile?

[untold plank]

yo help

How do I put textures with the mesh

like

I have a structure that requires a mesh but I want the material to go on the mesh too

the mesh and material comes seperate

Is there a way I can make a mesh that has the material with it

nvm I found out how to put the material with it

but if I wanted to resize it, how would I do that without actually resizing the mesh

so like every time I put that mesh in, it would be the size I set it to

[ashen delta]

@real heath & @autumn flame I found the issue! Took so many hours but I found it! This one file caused the project to crash! I'll need to go through everything on my other projects. These also crash on booting up.
Could you kindly advise on what solution would be best for "source control". I've not used this for UE4 before and would like to know what you guys use so that I can protect my projects in the future from these kind of errors. Thanks again, for both your help and patience, it saved my project!

[autumn flame]

Look into Microsoft Azure

[ashen delta]

free for one user, you said, is that right?

[autumn flame]

Only pay if more than 5 users

So free up to 5

[ashen delta]

Brilliant! Its just me so awesome!

Thanks you!

[autumn flame]

https://dev.azure.com/

[rugged harbor]

I recall seeing a class that provided saving assets as plain text (XML or JSON, one of those). Is there a setting or command line argument to enable this?

[plush yew]

anybody here good in houdini?

need urgent help

dm me

[blazing hatch]

Hello all, I'm in need of some help currently with my ue4 (version 4.27) project and my AI made in behaviour trees. Currently I have it so it finds the player's location and then travels to it, but the AI won't persistently follow the player so if the player moves whilst the ai is traveling to the players found location then they wont travel to the players new location and instead will wait until they have stopped moving and will then will find the players location

many thanks

im following Ryan Laley's tutorial for reference (https://youtu.be/o0pD0gYBV5I)

[fiery flax]

Help! This is a disaster!

So I put some models from Blender into Unreal, and everything is great, but then I realized their collisions are giant capsules, which is devastating. How do I give them proper collision, preferably easily all at once, because there's a lot of them? They're all static

[thin tendon]

@fiery flax There are a few options I know of. You can create the collision for each object in blender by naming the object UCX_<object name>. You can create the simplified mesh for each one in Unreal window by adding spheres boxes etc until you get the shape of each one. In unreal under collision you could Auto convex for a very rough collision. Or you could set them under the settings yo use complex instead of simplified collision. But I don't think there is a way you can do multiple meshes at once. I am pretty sure its a one by one thing.

[hasty epoch]

Hi. My Media Texture is not working. Is the way how can fix it?

[thin tendon]

@blazing hatch From a quick glance. It looks to be intentional design when he made the tutorial. If you want to to move directly to the player. Instead of storing a location. Then moving. And repeating. You need to store a value for the actor. And move to the actor (not a stored location).

[blazing hatch]

ahh ok, thankyou so much for the response. I really appreciate it 🙂

[tiny arch]

just wondering do behaviour tree's work even if you arent using a character blueprint? I started doing my own character using c++ and was wondering how a custom pawn could be included in the behaviour tree stuff if possible

[amber delta]

Hello Everyone, i've got some problem with my lighting can someone help me maybe ?

shadow doesn't work as intended with object once a make a lighting build

[quartz ore]

#graphics might be better for this, but it looks like you might want to increase the lightmap resolution on the meshes with poor shadow quality in your scene.

[amber delta]

Thank you that was it

[thin tendon]

Ok so yesterday I posted that I had an issue. Where if I turned my effects setting down. My player would be blocked by invisible physics that wouldn't be shown by the engine. Using the various show commands.

I just discovered. This issue only happens outside of the world bounds ( the yellow box in the level map window, the one that shows all your sub levels).

If I am inside the world bounds. Everything is fine. The second I am outside of it broken and can't move.

[tacit flare]

How to put a niagara emitter into a scene?

It says to drag into view port

But wont let me

[drowsy snow]

Put it in a Niagara System.

[real heath]

Just remember, source control helps track changes and revert them, but it IS NOT a backup replacement. You should still backup to an external HDD regularly, and especially when you put down the project for a while

But glad you sorted it

[drowsy snow]

Static mesh or skeletal mesh?

[drowsy snow]

You mention "giant capsules" which is physics asset, so I assume it's a skelmesh.
Make sure your Blender scene has unit scaling set to 0.01, and compensate everything in the scene to the new scale (usually by scaling things up x100 from dead centre). Don't forget to apply scales before animating and exporting.

[thin tendon]

When using world origin rebasing. How can I get the original origin of 0,0,0. I have save and load functions. Of my player etc. But I don't wish to use the new origin. I wan't so get the coordinates relative to the original 0,0,0 origin.

[steel frost]

hey, not sure where else to ask this but i was hoping someone could help identify a crash error for some unreal engine games on my pc, they appear to be consistent with games that are running updated builds of unreal engine 4, like deep rock galactic, ready or not and fortnite, and i cant quite figure out what it is

i get crashes on startup that displays "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000138" for directx 12, but for directx 11 it says 0x0000000000000038. ive picked up this might be a ram problem?

[drowsy snow]

Consider installing debug symbols so the error message is less vague than that.

[steel frost]

do i need the actual engine editor to be able to do that

[drowsy snow]

No, you can install it via the launcher. It'll take up significant amount of disk space tho

[steel frost]

alright, im not too versed in engine stuff but how will this work with launching games via steam?

[drowsy snow]

Oh, I thought you're working with the Unreal Editor.

[steel frost]

yeah, i apologize if this is not the right place to ask about it but ive looked around and found this place to be best with helping with these crashes in terms of what these errors actually mean

[drowsy snow]

Unfortunately we only deal with developers using the Unreal Editor, not particularly running UE4 games as it can vary by game.

[steel frost]

thats alright, thanks anyways

[surreal eagle]

i got rtx working in my game

if you want to know how dm me

[wispy hollow]

would someone be willing to help me figure out how to take my rokoko mocap data and put it on another character
ive tried like every tutorial i can find nothings working

[lone socket]

Anyone know how to unlight multiple materials all at once? I have loaded a bunch of textured meshes from photogrammetry into a scene with cesium providing 3D terrain. The photogrammetry textured meshes are lit from the real sun, and looks washed out when the rest of the level is lit. But the cesium scene needs to be lit underneath. I know you can turn lighting off at the material level, but I have over 2,000 materials for just this one photogrammetry scene. Am I able to batch turn of lighting in all selected materials?

[thin tendon]

Does anyone know where I can find a guide or some documentation on world origin shifting? I need help figuring co-ordinates out for my save and load functions. I need to be able to get coordinates relative to the original origin not the new world origin once its shifted.

I have done a lot of googling and can't find anything helpful

[dark briar]

I'm not sure what to google, when i import this mesh, the adjustment point is way off, how do i fix this?

or what do i google*

[drowsy snow]

Pivot point.
If you're using Blender, center the object to the scene first before exporting (though not sure if there's any option to remedy that without having to center the object)

[dark briar]

thank you!!

[buoyant granite]

:no_entry_sign: ERROR#1167 was banned.

[glad breach]

Hi all! Any idea what might be causing this? My png exports from the sequencer come out with full black alpha channels, that is completely transparent. however when i pull into after effects and increase the alpha, the color data is all there. Any idea how to fix this? I'm in 4.27.2 on a mac mini m1.

[stone stump]

Hey guys is there a way to animate a static mesh to go around in circles like a AI in a game

[drowsy snow]

Move the static mesh component location by code.

[stone stump]

is there a tutorial that helps?

[plush yew]

split gates

[ornate leaf]

is there a way to rebuild navigation / navmesh based on a keyboard shortcut ? as opposed to the automatic update.

I couldn't find the command or even a button to rebuild the navmesh manually.

I found an old "solution" on the UE forum to just move the navmesh volume up into the sky and move it back down when you want to rebuild the navmesh 😆

[dire kernel]

Brothers, how to add ambient occlusion to renderings？？？

[candid imp]

Hi! I'm trying to capture the depth of a landscape in UE to a render target texture, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Any ideas?

[oblique tangle]

Hi all, just need some opinions on this! If Spidey was skating down an asphalt street on a manhole cover, would it make more sense for sparks to ricochet off the manhole like this, or for the actual ground to be ripped up? Thanks https://i.gyazo.com/d8ce7c71b6329ac6b4fa372519f2047f.mp4

[real heath]

Bit of both? Sparks should come up, and the ground should be damaged but not ripped up that heavily. More like heavy scratching

Needs the sparks for the spectacle though

[fierce tulip]

@oblique tangle generally we use #work-in-progress for these kind of more opinion-question-based things.

[clever axle]

hey guys.. anyone know where I can get colored dummy materials like this? http://amplify.pt/MiscWikiImages/AmplifyAnimationPack/bp_3.jpg

[exotic elbow]

Hello. What is the persistent level and why is it called persistent?

Thanks

How can I create one? I'm newbie.

[clever axle]

@plush yew cool, thanks

[exotic elbow]

Thanks. I'm not asking to have only one. I'm asking how to create a persistent level. One refers to persistent level. By the way, I don't understand: can't not.

OK. Thank you.

[fleet sparrow]

Transition from one animation state to another animation state after some time inside AnimBP ?

ok solved it !

[honest ivy]

Hey anyone know why my animbp works without physics simulating but not with it ticked?

[clever marsh]

how do i run a branch to ask if a controller is connected?

[rich kayak]

which kind of branch is that? Bcz you can use "Is controlled pawn " or AI as well. But it will request a actor. You can know if a joystick is connected?

[clever marsh]

yeah like whether or not a joystick is connected

like an xbox or ps4 controller

[rich kayak]

C++ or blueprint?

[clever marsh]

blueprint

[rich kayak]

may not be the best solution but there is "Is Input Key Down"

you can check for either for keyboard related (any key) or joystick

[clever marsh]

I’m using that to check if it’s down

so basically

i need to throw a right or a left hook in my game

so i run that, but if the controller isn’t connected, the keyboard inputs don’t work

there are two keys for each hook on keyboard, but on controller, it depends on what shoulder you’re pressing

[rich kayak]

Then you will need to handle it on c++, I think there is no solution for it on this way on blueprints

or you would need to have lot branches with this "IsInputKeyDown"

[clever marsh]

dang i hate c++

[rich kayak]

feel you mate. But sometimes are necessary.

[drowsy snow]

Do you have the input action mapping set up to use both keyboard keys and gamepad shoulder button?

[clever marsh]

no, but i have no idea how to do that, so i’m just using is input down

[drowsy snow]

Project Settings -> Input

[clever marsh]

the left hook input is J and the B button

[drowsy snow]

Define the action mapping there, and then call the matching input action event in your BP. Can take both keyboard and gamepads.

[clever marsh]

the right hook input is K and the B button

when you press the b button it needs to check which shoulder you have pressed

[clever marsh]

I already know how to do thag lol that’s not what i’m asking

[drowsy snow]

Though if you want it to be hardcoded, and potentially make your scripting difficult, then it's up to you.
¯_(ツ)_/¯

[clever marsh]

?

actually if i just set up a separate input for the b button and then when that is run, run two branches on if the shoulder button is pressed and play the punch event based on those branches thag might work

gonna test that when i get hom

[oak patio]

i feel bad for if they decide to make controller mappings in settings

[ancient lotus]

any ideas?
https://gyazo.com/05b42ff4d60278b6977532d5032f9636

tried setting

[/Script/BuildSettings.BuildSettings]
DefaultEditorTarget=Client

[drowsy snow]

Maybe related to the Target.cs file

[ancient lotus]

not sure, nothing out of the ordinary there and the build settings are set in it

[ancient lotus]

fixed, somehow had a few other files get put in the source folder so you were right, didnt try looking outside of my IDE in that folder for it

[toxic lily]

is thee a way to enable / disable physics or collisions of a child actor through a blueprint without editing the actual parent or child actor BPs

example, i have a weapon the player and enemy can use, i want to set it to have no collision until dropped by the enemy

[oak patio]

set collision and simulate physics node

[toxic lily]

ive tried but doesn't seem to be compatible

unless im missing some extra step

[oak patio]

thats because child actor components dont have collision

1. dont use them

2. you need to set the collision on the actual thing that has it

[toxic lily]

so there is no way the player and enemy AI can use the same item? ( in terms of class)

[oak patio]

yes

spawn it and attach it

child actor components arent great

[subtle iron]

did you ever find a solution for the package remain 1 issue?

[drowsy snow]

That's quite far of a necro lol

[oak patio]

i was expecting like 3 weeks ago

nope 2 whole years ago

i would have forgotten i even had the problem by then lmao

[clever marsh]

yo so I am running just a debug on character changing, and I need to replicate something, I have a replicated event at the start, where it picks a random character out of 8 for the character, but when it is replicated, it picks one of the 8 for each running client.

I explained that pretty badly but basically instead of picking one, and that being your character on both players screens, it picks one for the opposing player aswell.

idk if it is even possible to do that, and if its not its fine because im not using it in the final product, but if there is a simple way please lmk

[clever marsh]

dawg i found you on the ue4 forums youve been trying to solve this problem for a month 😭

[deft zealot]

random question? does anyone knock why the standard naming convention for structures is "F_"?

[drowsy snow]

Because in Unreal C++, F prefix for structs is a must.

[charred shadow]

looking for someone that will work for free on a simple game

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions on how to post to #volunteer-projects

[plush yew]

why does load async primary data asset not work?

I have some assets referenced in a uobject that are replicated to client, it doesnt replicate unless I fix up redirectors/resave or have a hard reference already elsewhere

[stone stump]

Hey guys my pc crashed and i cant open my file

please i need help weeks of work

Please help me with this

how can i revert?

what is version control?

you mean a extra saved version?

i dont know these terms iam new

i have a saved versio

@plush yew in the Project files where are the level Data at?

in the editor we saves Level right is there a file for that in content browser?

[drowsy snow]

.umap files

[stone stump]

where is it at?

[drowsy snow]

It's in the directory where you saved it yourself.

[modest trench]

fancy font

[frozen pond]

Hi, any idea how to make a knowledge system? I was thinking of making all entries in data table, and then adding it to array in player controller, then i would check that array against specific row ?

[candid imp]

Hi! I'm trying to make a somewhat realistic "light house beam" material for my lighthouse, and I managed to make something which sort of works, but the material is still not "fuzzy" enough around the edges, making the beam look way too sharp. I've tried adding Fresnel and depth fade but I can't figure out how they work, any help would be much appreciated!

*Nevermind I figured it out! 😉

Here's the fixed version, if anyone ever needs it;

[fierce tulip]

@candid imp you can just set it to unlit, as a lightbeam does not need to be lighted by external sources

[ebon linden]

When should I use an AnimNotify vs a SkeletonNotify? Is the difference that an anim notify is just more dynamic as you have access to the mesh component and animation as pins?

[green canopy]

Hi is there any good tutorial on procedural generation?

[warm valve]

Hi! I have a blueprint script which follows character from the camera as soon as it hits the collision box (Like in the resident evil games ) but when i start the game it doesn’t register collision . I have to get out of the collision box and get in back to trigger it.

How can I make it that as soon as i press PLAY this blueprint script triggers ( meaning as soon as i press play the view is my camera with the blueprint script where it follows the character)

[plush yew]

anybody here use artstation?

how do i rid of these logos?

[warm valve]

yea

[plush yew]

@warm valve

[warm valve]

where is the logo at?

[plush yew]

social media logos

[warm valve]

It's there so you can share your posts on other websites

[plush yew]

ya but its gonna be on my portfolio

[warm valve]

no one else can see it

[plush yew]

and recruiters can see them

[warm valve]

just you

don't worry

[warm valve]

ik i use artstation too

It's just a SHARE feature of artstation

[drowsy snow]

Shouldn't even a big deal
Also don't crosspost plz

[plush yew]

?

[fierce tulip]

#rules

[plush yew]

I posted it 10 hours ago nobody answered

[drowsy snow]

According to my chat log it's 30 minutes ago
Also again, those shouldn't be a huge dealbreaker. Pretend the social media buttons don't exist.

[plush yew]

what extension

[unique kraken]

okey boys, im ready to port my project to ue5, why does it still say early accsess 2 for me

nvm

[plush yew]

Should i buy prenium?

[drowsy snow]

Jeez, so much worry on something so benign and recruiters likely won't give a crap about

[plush yew]

I think you are misunderstanding those icons, they are to share a post on social media, they are not links to your personal social media channels.

[plush yew]

oh I know that

[lost fractal]

@drowsy snow Ive started doing tests for getting those Post Process edgelines to work. But they only work properly on other materials but not the one my Mio model uses... I can explain more in-depth in DMs if you have the time.

[thick herald]

Your chat time must be borked 😄

[drowsy snow]

Sure thing.

[lost fractal]

thank you

[open igloo]

Yo guys

[drowsy snow]

See #instructions on how to post to #volunteer-projects

[fierce tulip]

and read the #rules when you are new @open igloo

[open igloo]

Ok

[rocky coral]

Where do I go to ask questions

[fierce tulip]

almost all channels are question-focused ones, just pick the one you think fits best in relation to the question you have.

[rocky coral]

Oh okay ty

Im a blender dude coming into ue4 cause unreal engine looks awesome. And I want to know how to pose a character

I'm trying to make a scene and want to know how to pose

[drowsy snow]

Have you looked into Control Rig?

[rocky coral]

I've heard of it but I have not. What's that?

[drowsy snow]

Basically additional rig on top of existing skeleton that allows you to do tech anim things, and make animations right inside the editor.
See pinned message on #animation where I linked a getting started video on it

[carmine nimbus]

Hello guys, I want to do the final degree project in UE4 and my teacher gave me the idea to create a Tool that creates procedural roads with traffic signs and everything, how could I start with that? Is there any good tuts on it?

[rocky coral]

Thanks I'll definitely check it

[drowsy snow]

Start by looking into Spline Mesh components.
Do note however that it doesn't support branching by itself, so for intersections and roundabouts, you can put in premade meshes at the end of the spline.

[carmine nimbus]

Okay, thanks!

[rocky coral]

You know how in blender you can render a scene as a image any idea how to do that in ue4?

[drowsy snow]

Movie Render Queue
Don't use High Res Screenshot, as using higher resolution with it will break many effects

[rocky coral]

Okay I'll use movie render queue

What do you mean by a high resolution screenshot like literally just print screen?

[rocky coral]

Gotcha. Also is rtx default or is that enabled?

I got a bunch of assets and wanted to do stuff

Oh wow I didn't know that

Yeah I'll probably use movie render

Oh okay

[rocky coral]

What do you guys think of reallusion

[night iron]

Hey 👋 I'm very new to UE, i was hoping to make couple of camera animations.

I put Camera Rig Rail and Cine Camera Actor under it.
I created a LevelSequence and there i started to track the Rail.
There i'm animating the "Current Position on Rail" from 0 to 1.

With that, i put an extra cube which i animate in the map so i can visibly see that the sequence is running.

And when i'm trying to Render it via this icon ... i don't get the camera feed from Cine Camera Actor, but rather from some sort of a pawn??
Same happens in PIE / viewport.

Any clues how to set the Cine Camera Actor to render to screen? Any help much appreciated 👍

[plush yew]

Is there a way to only have a specific set of gameplay tags in a tag container? (in bp)

[polar turret]

I have click on my camera but in sockets parameters there's only None and SpringEndPoint please help me

[amber shuttle]

it has to be a child of the mesh if you want to put camera on it

[charred bramble]

Quick question:
Does anyone know the reason why we get FPS drop when having any active BP open while playing in PIE mode.
(It doesn't really bother me but I always wondered why.)

[warm valve]

Anybody?

[charred bramble]

Have you tried using "Event Begin Play" instead of a trigger box?

[warm valve]

I did it still doesn't work

[charred bramble]

Hmmm.. What if you implement this script in your character blueprint? (using "Event Begin Play")

[warm valve]

if i replace it with event begin play i can't put an object reference in the cast to character

wait idea

nope doesn't work

[charred bramble]

What if you make a custom event with inputs?
And just fire it from your character blueprint with "event begin play"

like so.

[warm valve]

Lemme try that

[charred bramble]

or maybe try to use Event Dispatchers? see if that works. (that fire from your character BP)

[warm valve]

Can you explain me how can i fire it from my character blueprint ? 😅 I am learning blueprints kinda newbie

added this

[charred bramble]

@warm valve No worries, I am no expert myself.
Question: Do you really need the casting in this occasion?
What if you just do it with "Event Begin Play" and on your Get Actor Location you can just drag and type "Get Player Pawn".
try and see if this works.

[split delta]

Why can't I DM the manny bot anymore?

It just says "Your message could not be delivered."

[warm valve]

Lemme give it a try

I did all this following a video tutorial and did few changes

LET"S GOOOOOOO IT WORKS

THANK YOU SOO MUCh

[split delta]

??

[warm valve]

Now i have to just add trigger overlap too for it to work when i get back to the room from the other room

[warm valve]

No idea

Maybe it's not made to dm?

yeah just write ! help he will dm you

with no gap

[split delta]

nope

[warm valve]

worked for me

[charred bramble]

I am happy it worked! 🙂

[faint cedar]

hey i was told to try and ask here. Im making a map for a game and today it just started crashing when i load in the level and i get this error anyone know what this could be?

[stray crystal]

Hey hi i am new to ue and i am learning blueprints how ever i am a bit confused can some one tell me any great tuturials?(are tuturials from 5 years ago still good to use?)thanks so much

[fierce tulip]

hey hey @stray crystal check the pinned messages in this channel, it has some good getting started links

[deft zealot]

What does it stand for tho

[drowsy snow]

Don't ask mkay

[rocky coral]

is movie render just sequencer now? i enabled the addon but dont see it in cinematic

[clever marsh]

dude i literally wanna die. I am trying to set up a blocking anim, and i have everything set up like normal but for some reason its not being replicated, I have everything replicated that I would normally need but something is stopping it from being replicated and i cannot find out why

[modest trench]

20+ years ago it meant float vector

Fvector!

Then things spiralled out of control

[deft zealot]

@modest trench Yeah I thought so but one of my devs got into a debate about it lol - He was saying well it can store more variables than floats so its confusing

So is your name FMegafunk because youre a structure too?

[honest ivy]

Is there a way to make a bone transform rotate in world space for Z but parent bone space for X and Y

[fiery harbor]

I was looking for if anyone ever talked about tick.AllowAsyncTickDispatch in this discord, and that is the only mention! is there any reason to not enable it? I see it improve my GT time by 2 %

[wispy hollow]

does anyone know what this means

[autumn flame]

Yes

To download debug symbols

[tulip obsidian]

Hi! What is a good channel to discuss procedural generation inside ue4?

[plush yew]

Did anyone watch the Lyra Walkthrough Q&A and get lost with the language? Developers talk in a way that I don't understand!

I'm watching it now and I'm lost 🙂

I imagine a game company in the lounge talking about the game they're working on... and talking so passionately

"what? I don't follow"

[plush yew]

"xyz... abc... yellow... omega... top down..."

[sand spear]

Hello guys.
Every time I run my level inside the editor freezes for a few seconds and then everything goes normal and this error is in the log...
This is happening just the first time I open the editor If I play multiple times I don't have that problem again, also there's no problem when I launch the standalone!

LogOutputDevice: Warning: Script Stack (0 frames):
LogStats: FPlatformStackWalk::StackWalkAndDump - 0.313 s
LogOutputDevice: Error: === Handled ensure: ===
LogOutputDevice: Error: Ensure condition failed: !(bDuplicateForPIE && DupObjectInfo.DuplicatedObject->HasAnyFlags(RF_Standalone)) [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/UObjectGlobals.cpp] [Line: 2147]
LogOutputDevice: Error: Stack:
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffca4dd7c59 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffca4cff6b7 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9f25f314 UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9cc8b2d4 UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9e61e2af UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9cc892ce UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9ccacd6f UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9cc8aedd UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9ccc8c42 UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []

LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9cccc1d1 UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9cccba98 UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9c728c38 UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffc9d0450e6 UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff70dfd9bc2 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff70dff117c UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff70dff125a UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff70e0052bd UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff70e007fea UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffcfad854e0 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffcfcbc485b ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
LogStats: SubmitErrorReport - 0.000 s
LogStats: SendNewReport - 0.598 s
LogStats: FDebug::EnsureFailed - 0.914 s
LogPlayLevel: PIE: StaticDuplicateObject took: (0.947153s)

[plush yew]

Hey, lets say you have a double barrel and want to eject the shells on reload, how do you do this? with an animation or physics or particle system?

[toxic hawk]

Not sure how to solve this but i noticed that when i slow down global time, my actor's timers are affected even though its custom time dilation supposdely sets it back to normal. this is affecting timers on my dash reset and i'm not sure what exactly to do

[jaunty matrix]

anyone know how to make lighting build shadows less dark

[sleek fable]

Hello guys I'm trying to create a landscape master material for my map but because of the 16 texture sample limit I'm having issues, is there anyway to optimize the material thx in advance

Each material function is like this

[split delta]

my friend said this looks a lot like the backrooms, thoughts? 🤣

[drowsy snow]

Make the texture samplers shared.

[drowsy snow]

#work-in-progress

[sleek fable]

Thx I'll look into it

@drowsy snow you mean the SamplerSource dropdown settings right

[drowsy snow]

Can't recall the exact name of the settings

[sleek fable]

@drowsy snow KK thx I already googled it, asked for just in case, u're awesome

[tawny shard]

I have strange behavior

i copied my source engine from AMD laptop to Intel

It's write "skipped", thought i rebuilded Engine from it's sln project

everything seems to work, but that red dot bother me

maybe i should clean entire solution and rebuild from scratch

[drowsy snow]

If Intellisense is able to pick up Unreal typenames and whatnot, you can ignore it

[tawny shard]

The mystery solved - that dot was from source control versions

that is enabled by default

and it picked up my credits from another program

[clever timber]

Hmm trying to find UE4 docs on the project settings -> input -> ensble gesture recognizer ? Does UE4 include a mobile inpute gesture recognizer since i can only find engine UInputSettings doc .. is there any more docs i can read up on it. Or is this setting only if i want to enable external plugins

Like dueing development?

During*

Like im thinking of Plastic but if its not just development im drawing blanks w/o example

[bitter citrus]

hi guys i'm trying to use chaos phisics on mobile.I already have one instance of ue 4.27 installed and running. Do i need to build another verison of the editor from source to make it work?

[cursive pecan]

Hi , does anyone know how to do a spherical navmesh? I cant find info anywhere

[devout mason]

Is there a way to compile a 4.27 project for Apple M1?

Thanks, just wrote there 🙂

[severe schooner]

hi, im making a level and i built it, but it made the engine really laggy because of the lights, is there a way to reverse what i did?

[uneven tundra]

When sharing scenes or things built inside unreal engine, what is the easiest way to share my scene? I.e, if I built a scene with a few asset and textures and want to deliver it to someone. Whats the best way to go about it.

[north bane]

Getting flickering on spotlights. Anyone know what might be up?

[fierce tulip]

if they are going to contribute to your work, version control. if they are just going to take a look at it and be done, just zip it up and send it.

[next carbon]

Does anybody know of any feature or plugin that would allow to hide or lock Materials or Material functions, so that you can't access or copy them? We work on very complex shader graphs that are for very specific edge cases outside of Game Development!

[raw oak]

Particle system

[plush yew]

How could I save string as .json file?

[rapid geyser]

Hey guys, build an ADS system
Looks fine in my demo project, but im trying to set it up in my current project but the gun mesh becomes partially invisible when i ADS.
In both screenshots the same Character Model, Weapon Model, and Camera System are used
In screenshot 1 the model becomes partially transparent, in** screenshot 2** it looks fine.
Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance🤝

[raw oak]

Set camera clip in project settings to a lower value and restart the engine

[rapid geyser]

@raw oak That did it! You saved me another 3-4 hours of knocking my head against the wall, thanks alot.

[lavish shoal]

is a radiant ai system practical like the one in oblivion?

i was gonna procedurally have my npcs go to their jobs, eat food ect

[grand epoch]

Hi! My game doesn't have a character to be controlled by the player. It will consist in a fixed camera and the player dropping objects in the map according to mouse clicks or touchs on the screen. I have a camera added to the map but when I hit play that camera view isn't being shown. How to set this static camera as the main camera?

[tender swallow]

Hello guys. I'm having a problem uploading mixer assets from bridge into UE4. Bridge states that export is successful and then UE4 immediately crashes? What's going on here?

[cloud pagoda]

Is there a way to do a high resolution video render in Unreal?

I want to render an asset in a similar manner to substance painter's built in render, but I need some of Unreals blueprints so I have to find a way to render in Unreal if that's possible

Also possibly a turntable

[fierce tulip]

@plush yew please be patient and read the #rules, asking in multiple channels/directing to others is frowned upon.

[plush yew]

sry

[neon bough]

realtime (scene capture) or like a movie (sequencer)?

[cloud pagoda]

Real time I think? I want to render a sequence of the asset rotating slowly and the grass around it that's being affected in real time by wind etc etc (from its blueprint)

As a way to showcase an asset

[real heath]

You can get real nice quality with movie render queue if you make the camera rotation in sequencer

Or you can just screen record with OBS

Movie render queue allows you to really dial up AA and motion blur quality though

But renders a fair bit slower than realtime if you dial it all up

But your grass and everything will movie correctly

@cloud pagoda

[cloud pagoda]

How would I do a movie render queue? Also I could rotate the objects instead of the camera, right?

Oh wait, I forget the background won't be a solid color

Actually, is there a way to make only a certain asset render and keep the background invisible? So that I'd comp in a solid color similarly to substance painter's built in render with solid color? Or add the solid color directly into Unreal

[real heath]

Yep. William Faucher has a tut on yt for layered render with MRQ I believe

[cloud pagoda]

I'll look that up, thank you

[toxic haven]

hello there! Not sure if this is the proper channel for my question, but here it is:
I have a button mashing mechanic that works great on a small, testing map. Once I open the big map with lots of actors and systems functioning, the button mashing sometimes fails to detect gamepad inputs. On keyboard it still works fine, but when using gamepad (Xbox controller), it becomes much more difficult since it detects between 50 and 75% of the button inputs. Any idea what could be causing that problem?

[junior siren]

I just installed ue4.27 and the background color is red

is that a glitch or what, i opened a copy of 4.25 project

and Render Target transparency doesnt work anymore

These errors are unrelated

Ive tried to change scene capture format and render target format, still no opacity

If packaged project will be the same ill go back to 4.25

[junior siren]

Red background gone but RT have no opacity

and procedural mesh collision doesnt work

oof

lmfao ive closed the engine and it crashed

i got broken engine ffff

[heady quartz]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/umg-anti-aliasing-issue/413150

[fresh pulsar]

Oh lord

I need to figure out >how to lock something a certain distance away from the player, >how to make it rotate based on the mouse position relative to the player, and >how to make it spawn another object based on a button input

how tf am I even supposed to begin doing that

(for context, 2d game)

[final bluff]

Hey guys i asked in the other chats for help but no one wasn't really be able to help me so i came here for you as my last resrot😔 how can i import these assets into my folder

[fallow jackal]

should you develop the map first or the characters first? (regarding size, because one will be larger or smaller and will require resize)

[final bluff]

Oh no bro it's for cinematic

[fallow jackal]

Cinematic? Im making a game

[final bluff]

I don't know.. guess i asumed this because you said "Should you develop the map..."

But now if i'm thinking about it it does not make sense so forgive me

[fresh pulsar]

this isn't.. working?

[rugged heath]

Hey, noob question here, is there a way to install a previous version of the engine, I am working on version 4.27 and I need to check some stuff with the 4.26 version, but I can't find other verions on the launcher or anywhere else, thank you in advance!🥲

Yes, but it only adds version 5

And the button turns gray

Oh I found it!!!!

Thank you

I'm actually noob, but I don't regret asking

[sacred bough]

U dont know if u dont ask! :)

[rocky coral]

true that

im also a noob so it is al good, im having fun learning about ue4 and finally using all the assets they gave lol

[arctic pebble]

Hello

[true ridge]

Are Timelines only usable in Actor BPs? I can't use one in a GameInstance or BPFunctionLibrary?

[lunar turret]

Hey, I've got a set of cubes (the grey "carpet") is just a set of 16*16 cubes, but it's not smooth. By that I mean that making the sphere roll on the carpet will make it bounce sometimes, because of the edges of the cubes ig

If you zoom in you can see the edges of the "cubes", it forms a grid

well sometimes my sphere bounce on those edges, whereas it's supposed to be smooth

Any idea on how to fix this?

[errant blade]

can anybody help me make sense of this?

that's the crash report. it works fine in the editor

[north pewter]

how do you select the mannequin in the editor to change material and stuff? all i have in my Outliner window is Player Start

like I need to be able to see it in the editor to make visual changes to the material

[charred bramble]

Just drag and drop your ThirdPersonCharacter (mannequin) from the Content Browser into the level. Delete the Player Start.

[cyan cargo]

Is there any reason my properly formatted video files won't play on my material on Android? plays fine in PIE with same render settings

[drowsy snow]

Define "properly formatted"

[cyan cargo]

MP4, H264

I even re-rendered it out to make sure

[drowsy snow]

Oh, I thought you're using Bink.

[cyan cargo]

I don't even know how to use Bink yet lol

[drowsy snow]

The converter tool is included in 4.27 onwards for free, it's designed to be cross platform video codec in-game.

[cyan cargo]

Is there a link or tutorial on the process of using it?

docs?

or is it automatic

[drowsy snow]

It's fairly simple to use, just put in a video file and convert it to Bink 2 format.
(Also make sure your UE project have Bink Media plugin enabled)

[cyan cargo]

ok thanks, I'll give it a go 😄

[night yew]

I have a time of day system set up with a bunch of timeline nodes. Most of them work as expected, but some of them that use the timeline value with "Set Scalar Parameter Value" are behaving really strangely. I have two of these setting variables for brightness, but they both ignore every keyframe in the timeline besides the first and last. None of my other timelines do this so it's very confusing. I've tried remaking the timelines and even remaking the blueprint but nothing seems to work.
I'm printing the value of the timeline and it's correct, but it's being ignored by the dynamic material instance. Other Scalar and Vector parameters are set correctly with the exact same timeline, except for two of them.

[clever marsh]

drag them into your content folder in the file explorer and that should work

[clever marsh]

just make a plane or landscape dont use those cubes

[cyan cargo]

Ok so I've got bink video files and it's not playign when running the game

ie. it's not showing on the material that has the rendered Bink texture in it

It seems to load the video and work while in Editor mode, but when simulating it dosn't work

[uneven tundra]

If I want to share a project with all content, textures models etc. Do I just zip the project folder? Will that include everything?

[drowsy snow]

What you need to include:

• the .uproject file
• Contents folder
• Config folder (if necessary)
• Plugins folder (if any)

Everything else can be skipped, but if your project have a Source folder, which contains C++ code of your project, consider using source control.

[proven mauve]

Hey all, I was hoping somebody here had some insight into using string table localization for a project that uses plugins.

Oh wow Lorash, new profi I didn't even notice that was you lmaoo

But yes, VCS is king. Use it.

[worthy plaza]

Hello, there is a safe way for move epic launcher from a drive to another drive? running out of space

[fossil light]

Hi guys i'm really new to UE and I'm having troubles packaging to android. I installed engine from source code ue 4.27 chaos, not sure it went all well, logs showed me no errors but i always recieve an error message coming from automation tools. That's the output:

Seems to me that Unreal is unable to locate sdks

btw found this possible solution: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-version-4-27-2-i-get-an-error-when-trying-to-package-any-project/270627/3
but i can't seem to find AutomationTool.cs i can't try to recompile

[fossil light]

Ok guys i managed to recompile automation tools

[lunar turret]

Well that's not really a solution then

[lunar turret]

I've got this issue, if anyone knows...

[bitter citrus]

Hi guys i get theese 2 errors while packaging. It seems the're due to chaos physics.
I'm currently using ue 4.27.2 and building for android (Quest 2) using packaging method astc.

[bitter citrus]

nice

I installed 4.27 chaos version from source code

So it should be ok

i got no errors while compiling the editor from ue4.snl file

okok, ty, i'm considering switching to ue5 for that

Btw i'm really new to Unreal, been working on Unity for a year and a half

ty for your help Lorash 😄

oh now i see

@plush yew can I send u friend request?

ok man 😢

[errant dagger]

hi, did you resolve it?

[tawny shard]

There is free asset/project in EGS "FactoryEnvironmentCollect". When i try to migrate it to another project, if i choose any folder in content, not root - all refferance broke

is there a way to migrate it to folder in content, not root

if i first migrate to root, and then try to move it to folder - it leaves "empty" folders in engine, but with some files explorer

and it's still ruin everything

how to do it?

let me try, thx

Thx, that helped

[karmic jacinth]

How do I get cut off Autosave? I tried doing it in the files in the engine settings but it automatically changes it back to true.

[lunar turret]

If anyone could help me with this... https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/umggde/floor_made_of_cubes_is_not_smooth_sphere_bounces/

I'd be thankful

[drowsy snow]

I suppose... you could make a box collision and dynamically adjust the transform to the size of the floor, but maybe that's not an option.

[proven mauve]

Hey, I'm struggling to understand the relationship between String Tables and Localization Dashboard. The docs say that string tables are just treated as a normal Localizable source. Does that mean that I should create my targets to only read from the content folder where my CSV is located?

Or do I need to make my target read from assets using the string table.

[lunar turret]

Thing is the cubes are supposed to be able to be broken at some point

[exotic elbow]

Hi! How can change the movement's speed of a pawn? This doesn't work: AddMovementInput(FRotationMatrix(control_rot).GetScaledAxis(EAxis::X), axis_value * m_free_movement_speed);

[drowsy snow]

You might looking for Character Movement Component's Max Walk Speed.

[exotic elbow]

The pawn uses UPawnMovementComponent.

Max Speed is 1200. I don't know why I have to look to Max Speed. It is not a character, it is a pawn, as I said in the question.

[proven mauve]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/localization-dashboard-gather-from-csv-file/461169

Anyone have a soluton here?

[mellow turret]

why does searching a plugin on the Epic Games Launcher opens my browser 🙃

[proven mauve]

What the heck is the point of LOCTABLE_FROMFILE_GAME if the Localization Dashboard can't even read the keys from the CSV file??

[hollow cairn]

what is the unit of measurement for velocity in unreal engine?

[proven mauve]

m/s

Meters Per Second

[hollow cairn]

u sure?

[proven mauve]

Pretty sure?

[hollow cairn]

that seems like its too fast

[drowsy snow]

It's (most likely) cm/s
Unreal unit equates to centimetre

[hollow cairn]

sounds more likely

[robust marten]

Is there a limit to how long a Datatable can be? Or can I really just have an infinite list?

[drowsy snow]

Likely unsigned 32-bit integer.

[tawny shard]

@plush yew sorry for ping. That seems to work with map from that project. When i save it to my game folder - and trying to rebuild - i got this

nah, opened the map from that project - and it looks like it

this is the one i saved from that project to my folder (they both in one project)

and trying to get something - i found this

[hollow basin]

Hi, is there anyone who know the way how to execute the ctrl + v to paste copied phrase in Pixel Streaming?

[vivid ether]

Anyone know how to get hit location from landscape ? work on every object beside landscapes

[pulsar nimbus]

Does anyone know how to get niagara sims to work properly with movie render queue exports? Been looking around online and a lot of people have said its a problem but not sure if there's a fix

[cyan cargo]

I'm using a ton of ribbon particles to create a laser beam and was wandering if it'd be cheaper resource wise to just have stretched out planes or stick with the ribbons?

It doesn't even need to be transparent

[grim tendon]

Has anyone ever had an issue where you can't call certain methods and functions from an anim BP? I'm trying to call a C++ function I have on my GameState subclass and its not showing up in the "Context Aware" search. When i try to just paste the node in I get Cannot use the editor function "HandleAnimationEvent" in this runtime Blueprint. Only for use in Editor Utility Blueprints and Blutilities. Does anyone know what can cause this?

i also tried just making a blueprint subclass with a new custom event and that isn't showing up in the context aware search either. am i missing something that you have to tick on to use functions in an anim BP?

lol nvm i figured it out 1 minute after i posted this. the problem was my class is in an "Editor" Plugin, it needed to be "Runtime"

[fierce tulip]

if they are straight or close to straight, stretched planes is the way to go.

[stark stratus]

Heya!

im getting this wierd thing on my grass

when i move the cam forward or backwards my grass seems to not catch any shadows no more

like there is a distance for the shadow to be shown or something

[cyan cargo]

Thanks, that's what I was guessing

[stark stratus]

i turned off all lod-ing

LIke this..

the line is also there in unlit mode

Ah got it

It was this command\

r.Raytracing.Geometry.InstancedStaticMeshes.Culling 0

[desert python]

hey guys, I'm trying to make a reusable blueprint component/interface that I can just attach to any actor and it will work - without having to recreate everything again, e.g.: just a simple sprint functionality (when holding down a button the character walks faster) how would you go about doing that? have you done it before?
It gets annoying having to recreate constantly and copypaste BP bode and fix stuff.... there has to be a better way but couldn't find anything specific online

[fierce tulip]

"child blueprints" come to mind

[desert python]

ok so like inheritance - could the child blueprint have multiple parents then or like in more standard programming: class inheriting from multiple interfaces?

[sick topaz]

hey guys!
I have a question, I dont understand why one part of this helmet (the mesh was divided in 3 parts) looks like that, I already checked the double sided option in the mesh and in the materials, but is still looking like that

[quartz ore]

What do you mean by 'Looks like that'?

[sick topaz]

half of it is black

it should look like the brighter side

[quartz ore]

Ah okay. Is it just the other side but mirrored over, or is its own mesh?

[sick topaz]

its onw mesh

[quartz ore]

You may want to check your modeling software and ensure that mesh's normals are correct. If it's using the same materials as the other side, but now they are black, I can't imagine it is a problem with your materials, but the mesh itself.

[sick topaz]

It was a bought mesh 🥲

[sick topaz]

Thanks for the help reeze!

[quartz ore]

Did you solve it?

[sick topaz]

no, i dont know how the mesh was made, bought it from turbosquid so i dont know whats wrong whit it 😦

[quartz ore]

Then don't thank me, I did nothing lol. If you double-click the mesh in the browser to open the mesh editor, does it look correct there?

[sick topaz]

you pointed out what was wrong, thats something 🙂

its looks.. weird

[quartz ore]

Oh....yea it's normals are fucked up lmao

[sick topaz]

the other side looks good

[quartz ore]

I'd go straight to the creator of the mesh if you can and tell them. That's not correct. I'm super sorry if you can't fix that yourself.

[sick topaz]

no idea how to do normals 😦

[quartz ore]

Do you have and modelling software? If you have Blender I can show you how to fix this really easily.

[sick topaz]

I have cinema 4d

[quartz ore]

I'd look for a tutorial like 'Cinema 4D flipped normals.' Open the helmet mesh in there, flip the normals around, export it, overwriting the old one, then right click the screwy asset's icon in UE and select 'reimport.'

[sick topaz]

thanks! wish me luck 😛

[quartz ore]

Let me know if you get it working!

[elfin rune]

Lately I've been trying to make a game in Ue4, but it runs like complete dogshit. It's painfully slow, and it's impossible to get any work done. I have a GTX 1050 Ti, equipped with an i7-7700HQ. Somebody please tell me how to fix this, whether the solution is to simply get a better PC, or optimize settings. And yes, I did change all of the graphics settings to the lowest possible.

[sick topaz]

I was not able to solve it. I opened the mesh in cinema, and flipped the normals (they were in the correct way, but I flipped them anyway to see something diferent happen), but it keeps looking the same

[rich bough]

Hello