ue4-general

[clever marsh]

then click on heightmap file, and select your file

[tranquil apex]

its fbx i cant import it..

[quick heath]

why does paragon characters have this texture issue in clothing

[clever marsh]

then idk, Idk how to use fbx heightmaps

[clever marsh]

is it still compiling shaders?

[tranquil apex]

don't i have to convert it somehow?

[quick heath]

u might need png heightmaps

[quick heath]

no

its same with other paragon characters too

[tranquil apex]

how can i make my fbx to png heightmap?

[clever marsh]

have you tried reimporting it

[quick heath]

yes

[quick heath]

how did you get that fbx?

[clever marsh]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/materials-not-loading-paragon-assets/433012

try this'

[quick heath]

theres no solution there

[clever marsh]

yes there is

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/materials-not-loading-paragon-assets/433012/4

[tranquil apex]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/naruto-3d-map-8b9856cf34364c7488361aac83c67273

[clever marsh]

that isnt a heightmap

that is literally a physical map

like a 3d asset

[quick heath]

yes exactly , you can use it as an asset not as a landmass

[clever marsh]

yeah

[tranquil apex]

too bad, i can't make this to a heigtmap?

convert or smt

[clever marsh]

not how it works

heightmap looks like this

[quick heath]

even if i do that, materials still wont load

[clever marsh]

then idk

[clever marsh]

are the textures assigned?

[quick heath]

yes

[clever marsh]

dang then yeah idk

[tranquil apex]

sadly

[quick heath]

Np, ill try look up smthing

thanks mate

[timid umbra]

Why would the play button be greyed out and un-usable?

[gaunt spoke]

I wanna know this too

[balmy marsh]

Anyone use substance painter + blender to make UE assets? Got a question

[real heath]

I think you just create a Content Plugin.

[heady dirge]

If it's a blueprint library that you want to use the bps later yeah content plugin does the job but in terms of creating like nodes and other stuff idk I think that's CPP only

And tagged the wrong person sry boris

[real heath]

Can't you just create a Blueprint Function Library?

[heady dirge]

😂

[real heath]

ahh no probs

you confused me hahaha

[heady dirge]

Not tried it tbh cuz I always had problems creating new plugins in BP mode

.

I wish they would add that in so you could make new tabs or editor plugins with just nodes but I also get why they wouldn't since it would add more nodes and much more complexity

[drowsy snow]

Create a content only plugin and put your BPs in the plugin folder

[real heath]

that's a pain even in c++, i think a fair bit of work is needed to get it to the level to make it easy to create those in BP

[drowsy snow]

I mean, if Editor Utility BPs aren't enough, well

[heady dirge]

No we said that we get the point for awnsering it 😂

[lost fractal]

that looks like a spooky ghost image D:

[agile heart]

Anyone know why my project is acting up? I loaded it fine before. Fast and easy. Now I loaded it back up and when I click on the level to load it up it says 100% forever. And takes up like 7 gbs of space and never loads

[drowsy snow]

Just the plugin folder

But selling BP-only plugin is rather pointless IMO

[earnest drift]

how do i create splash screen (intro screen) before my game starts in unreal engine 4.16.3

[drowsy snow]

Because marketplace plugins have to contain C++ code. If it's just BP code then it falls under asset pack.

[drowsy snow]

Why 4.16.3?

You can change the splash screen or startup movies in project settings.

[earnest drift]

4.16.3 because i am following a youtube tutorial and it's easier for me to use the same version he is using

[drowsy snow]

Not a good reason, but eh, you do you.

[earnest drift]

ok 🤷‍♂️

thanks tho @drowsy snow

[obtuse kindle]

Hello, Does anyone know how to or have any good recommendation for camera tutorials that show how to make an in- game camera follow an object that isn't controlled directly by the player?

[novel narwhal]

Does anyone know how to have an object orbit around another, then have that set orbit end when interacted with (Pushed, grabbed etc)?

[novel narwhal]

Ive got a physics constraint so a sphere can orbit another sphere.

problem is it keeps rotating and thats messing with the physics, making it speed up and whatnot

if I lock the rotation it refuses to move at all now

how do I fix it?

If I only lock some of the rotations it still spins and causes issues

if I lock the others it refuses to move at all

[stone edge]

its so risky doing anything in ue4 lately for some reason... anything can crash or freeze the program

https://tenor.com/view/tired-exhausted-friday-feels-gif-15060878

i had to remove quixel bridge plugin and delete megascans library because i started getting black material bug at home now too, worked fine after reinstalling then my UE crashed, restarted, now all MS materials are black again

[karmic jacinth]

What is this light and how do i dim it down?

[stone edge]

increase the roughness on your ground material

[wild breach]

The Unreal project I am on is using static mesh terrain.
Does the editor have an object-painting feature to quickly lay down detail objects on a static mesh, in the way you can paint landscape objects on regular terrain?

[cosmic cove]

Just started a new ue4 fps project. And I'm pumped.

https://tenor.com/view/wrestler-woo-stoked-crazy-excited-gif-4961243

[devout mason]

Is it possible to export video files with "Movie Render Queue"? Or only images

[native badger]

Hi ! I'm quite new to unreal, sorry if that question is dumb.
i'm trying to make a simple "goalkeeper". When the player shoots a ball towards the goal, i want the goalkeeper to intercept the ball by changing his location and going in it's path. I'm kinda stuck on what directions i should take. Could anyone give me ideas ?
This is what i imagine :

Thanks !

Sorry if its not the right channel

[tough stream]

I would get a reference to the ball, then using Find Look At Rotation of your keeper's location and your ball's location you could use the Z (yaw) from that to alter the location's X or Y (depending on what plane you're using) of the goalkeeper on tick or in a timeline.

[native badger]

So like, lets say the rotation of the keeper is 30 to look at the ball, i'd move the keeper's location so that the rotation is 0 ?

[tough stream]

yeah

[native badger]

Yeah, that could definitely work. I'll try that rn. Thanks for the idea

[tough stream]

good luck 👍

[native badger]

thanks for the reply 👍

[errant blade]

what in the world is going on

i cant find a solution anywhere

I get this when cooking

ue4.27

[earnest drift]

nah, it's probably just your pc can't run it

i dont have any problems with ue4

[earnest drift]

yeah same

[drowsy snow]

<@&213101288538374145> crosspost

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: FrustumVirtual#1613 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[alpine sleet]

Can someone tell me how to fix my UE4? It starts flickering sometimes and menus disappear too when I click them, like for example if I right click something the menu appears and suddenly disappears

Also my SteamVR opens automatically for no reason when I launch UE4

[dire crescent]

Is there anyway to "copy to clipboard" in blueprints?

[sand whale]

Hi

[oak patio]

Nvidia card?

[alpine sleet]

RTX 3060

[oak patio]

See pins for flickering fix

The steamvr thing is a bug and i dont remember the fix tnh

[alpine sleet]

Damn

[oak patio]

thats not reeealy ue4 related

[earnest drift]

ok i am sorry

[true ridge]

Is there any way to turn a static mesh into a blocking volume?

[rain badger]

Has anyone here used clevercloud before?

[tacit wagon]

Hi guys!
I have a problem... After building the game, my sequences with Time Dilation track go crazy! All sequences with it do not have time dilation. What am I doing wrong? Everything worked fine in the editor. Please help me 😦

[sacred bough]

Did this actually work for u though? Didnt work for me. I only flicker in UE4, UE5 the issue seems fixed.

[neon bough]

i never tested it, but i know that it works for some people

i'm not in the group of affected users

[sacred bough]

Ah ok

Really annoying bug lol

Happens randomly and often, cant use any kind of right click menu or normal menu haha so dumb

[static meadow]

Hello my friends i tryed migrate my project from ue4 to ue5 fixed the plugin problem that wouldnt let project open and now it just crashes whenever i try to play in editor anybody might know how to fix it?

[ashen delta]

@autumn flame & @real heath or anyone.. I had this issue just over a week ago after a Windows 11 update. UE4 2.27.2 just crashes trying to open up any and ALL of my projects. I was prompted to do the latest Windows update last night and so I backed up EVERYTHING. Anyway., this morning, after the nights update, I've tried to open up my projects and they are all crashing again! How is Windows 11 corrupting all my projects!! Last time it corrupted a single image that caused the project to crash but it also removed my NPCS, some not all, materials from some props.. the river system was also gone and so much more. Is anyone else reporting this issue with Windows 11 updates and is there anything I can do to stop these crashes.. I can't afford to spend another 10 days fixing all this missing and corrupt files after every Windows update. Clearly UE4.27 and Windows 11 are not compatible. Please advise.

@modern root has anyone reported Windows 11 updates corrupting ALL Ue4.27 projects? This happened about 10 days ago with the last update. Had to update again last night and AGAIN I can't open up any of my projects, It just crashes. I spent the last 10 days fixing all the issues before.

Please help

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000002000000001

UE4Editor_Engine!UTexture2D::GetAssetRegistryTags() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Texture2D.cpp:401]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!UObject::GetAssetRegistryTags() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\Obj.cpp:1894]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!FAssetData::FAssetData() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\AssetRegistry\AssetData.cpp:105]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowserAssetDataSource!UContentBrowserAssetDataSource::OnAssetLoaded() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Plugins\Editor\ContentBrowser\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Source\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Private\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource.cpp:1556]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowserAssetDataSource!TBaseUObjectMethodDelegateInstance<0,UContentBrowserAssetDataSource,void __cdecl(UObject *),FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy>::ExecuteIfSafe() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Delegates\DelegateInstancesImpl.h:611]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!EndLoad() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:1788]

UE4Editor_CoreUObject!<lambda_fc6dac93f63b3d981a3bc8e7f817eeef>::operator()() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:1268]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!LoadPackageInternal() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:1374]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!LoadPackage() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:1469]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!ResolveName() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:791]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!StaticLoadObjectInternal() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:853]
UE4Editor_CoreUObject!StaticLoadObject() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\UObjectGlobals.cpp:928]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowserAssetDataSource!ContentBrowserAssetData::EditOrPreviewAssetFileItems() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Plugins\Editor\ContentBrowser\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Source\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Private\ContentBrowserAssetDataCore.cpp:287]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowserAssetDataSource!ContentBrowserAssetData::EditOrPreviewItems() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Plugins\Editor\ContentBrowser\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Source\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Private\ContentBrowserAssetDataCore.cpp:318]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowserAssetDataSource!UContentBrowserAssetDataSource::BulkEditItems() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Plugins\Editor\ContentBrowser\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Source\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource\Private\ContentBrowserAssetDataSource.cpp:1030]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!SContentBrowser::OnItemsActivated() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\ContentBrowser\Private\SContentBrowser.cpp:2281]

UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!TBaseSPMethodDelegateInstance<0,SContentBrowser,0,void __cdecl(TArrayView<FContentBrowserItem const ,int>,enum EAssetTypeActivationMethod::Type),FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy>::Execute() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Delegates\DelegateInstancesImpl.h:290]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!SAssetView::OnListMouseButtonDoubleClick() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\ContentBrowser\Private\SAssetView.cpp:3548]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!TBaseSPMethodDelegateInstance<0,SAssetView,0,void __cdecl(TSharedPtr<FAssetViewItem,0>),FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy>::ExecuteIfSafe() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Delegates\DelegateInstancesImpl.h:307]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!TDelegate<void __cdecl(TSharedPtr<FAssetViewItem,0>),FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy>::ExecuteIfBound<void,0>() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Delegates\DelegateSignatureImpl.inl:599]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!SListView<TSharedPtr<FAssetViewItem,0> >::Private_OnItemDoubleClicked() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Public\Widgets\Views\SListView.h:1074]
UE4Editor_ContentBrowser!STableRow<TSharedPtr<FAssetViewItem,0> >::OnMouseButtonDoubleClick() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Public\Widgets\Views\STableRow.h:461]
UE4Editor_Slate!FEventRouter::Route<FReply,FEventRouter::FBubblePolicy,FPointerEvent,<lambda_2b5148752c2a272000c47b69ff14a42e> >() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Private\Framework\Application\SlateApplication.cpp:378]
UE4Editor_Slate!FSlateApplication::RoutePointerDoubleClickEvent() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Private\Framework\Application\SlateApplication.cpp:5297]

UE4Editor_Slate!FSlateApplication::ProcessMouseButtonDoubleClickEvent() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Private\Framework\Application\SlateApplication.cpp:5284]
UE4Editor_Slate!FSlateApplication::OnMouseDoubleClick() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Private\Framework\Application\SlateApplication.cpp:5247]
UE4Editor_ApplicationCore!FWindowsApplication::ProcessDeferredMessage() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ApplicationCore\Private\Windows\WindowsApplication.cpp:2209]
UE4Editor_ApplicationCore!FWindowsApplication::DeferMessage() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ApplicationCore\Private\Windows\WindowsApplication.cpp:2698]
UE4Editor_ApplicationCore!FWindowsApplication::ProcessMessage() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ApplicationCore\Private\Windows\WindowsApplication.cpp:1881]
UE4Editor_ApplicationCore!FWindowsApplication::AppWndProc() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ApplicationCore\Private\Windows\WindowsApplication.cpp:905]

user32
user32
UE4Editor_ApplicationCore!FWindowsPlatformApplicationMisc::PumpMessages() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\ApplicationCore\Private\Windows\WindowsPlatformApplicationMisc.cpp:125]
UE4Editor!FEngineLoop::Tick() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:4850]
UE4Editor!GuardedMain() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Launch.cpp:178]
UE4Editor!GuardedMainWrapper() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:137]
UE4Editor!LaunchWindowsStartup() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:273]
UE4Editor!WinMain() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:320]
UE4Editor!__scrt_common_main_seh() [d:\agent_work\5\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]
kernel32
ntdll

[chilly geyser]

Is it not possible to have AI use AnimNotifies? I have a replicated animation system but it wont work for AI?

[fierce tulip]

while I understand the frustration, using pastebin to not fill the whole channel with crash-errors would be appreciated.

and if its this severe, better post it on the forums, so people working at epic have eyes on it as well.

[real heath]

Also don't tag people cos they helped you out a few days ago. Either you aren't closing your project properly and it's not saving everything correctly or you have memory/RAM problems in your computer. It's not windows 11 corrupting those files.

If you are backing up to an external HDD, make sure you eject it, don't just pull the USB cord

better yet, use version control as myself and someone else said the other day

[ashen delta]

My backups are crashing. none of them will open up.

[chilly geyser]

delete your Saved, Intermediate, Script, *DataCache, and Binaries folders

[ashen delta]

thank you for your reply.

[novel narwhal]

I cant get a specific actor to trigger an overlap/actor hit event thing

Ive checked the 'generates overlap events' box

and it still isnt doing it

what could I be doing wrong?

[novel narwhal]

okay now the actor destroys itself as soon as the game starts

and not when its actually overlapping

Im so incredibly stumped

[ashen delta]

Hi Boris, I only reached out to you both as you did help me out with this issue where's I hadn't had any reply from anywhere else. I have 32GB of DDR5. I don't unplug my external HDD. I save and close my projects like I have always done. Its Windows 11. Its the only thing that links the same issue I'm getting this morning and on the 5th. On both those occasions I had done a windows update on closing windows for the day. I don't know how many projects you have on your launcher but I have loads going back to 4.24 and NONE of them can open. They are all crashing again on launch. I'm currently following the steps you both advised before. I can't be the only one reporting this issue..

[novel narwhal]

Ok so now Ive just found out its not destroying itself

its just vanishing because it feels like it I guess

why is UE4 such a buggy piece of crap for me

[drowsy snow]

Is verifying/reinstalling the engine not an option?

Assuming that error happens just trying to launch the editor without any project

[ashen delta]

I've verified the engines. and have just deleted the DerivedDataCache but have a different error this time...

Assertion failed: CookedMesh != 0 [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/PhysicsEngine/PhysXSupport.cpp] [Line: 563]

[ashen delta]

I just thought I'd try opening it and creating a new project but UE4 just crashes so its not my projects

[drowsy snow]

Try complete reinstall of the engine. That means getting rid of current engine installations and download the engine all over again.

[ashen delta]

thank you for your reply's. I'll do that now.

UE5 opens up but I haven't moved any of my projects over to this yet.. just interesting to know it hasn't affected this..

[ashen delta]

I've just finished reinstalling 4.27 and tried to launch it, here is the crash, any ideas?
Assertion failed: CookedMesh != 0 [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/PhysicsEngine/PhysXSupport.cpp] [Line: 563]

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kernel32
ntdll

ah.. all my icons have gone.. looks like I'll have to download that again hmm

[spice ruin]

Install the debug symbols.

[ashen delta]

yep.. lost them when I uninstalled it. Sorry

[spice ruin]

Are you opening a blank project?

[ashen delta]

yes

[spice ruin]

Weird that that'd cause a physx crash.

[ashen delta]

trying to create a new project. Can't use UE4 after Windows 11 update

[drowsy snow]

When was the last W11 update? Last month?

I think I had restart-obligatory update for W11 last month, none of my Unreal Editor stuff break

[ashen delta]

I did one last night when I shut my PC down. I also had an update earlier this month and the following day, just like today I couldn't open up any of my projects...

I've reinstalled and its crashing... I'm just installing the symbols

these two have messed things up... no idea how and why it would affect ue4?!

Just to clear things up a bit. My project crashed on the first attempt to open. I tried again without doing anything and it opened. Went to open the project level and then it crashed again. Tried to open it again and it continued to crash and now it wont open UE4 at all. Only files I've changed was deleting the DerivedDataCache and this has created the last error message.

[ashen delta]

Assertion failed: CookedMesh != 0 [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/PhysicsEngine/PhysXSupport.cpp] [Line: 563]

[spice ruin]

Weird.

[ashen delta]

do you have any idea what the crash report is trying to say?

this report was created by trying to create a new project. It just crashes after pressing launch.

[spice ruin]

It's reading a cooked mesh. The mesh is null.

So it failed to read.

[drowsy snow]

Even after complete reinstall of the engine?

[ashen delta]

I don't understand that. I tried to verify and that didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled UE4 and then installed the symbols.. other than deleting the DerivedDataCache I've done nothing else. It come up with the above error @drowsy snow

[spice ruin]

When you created your project, what settings did you use?

[ashen delta]

I can't create a project. Or open up existing ones.

I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Windows 11 game mode...

[drowsy snow]

Try rollback the W11 update I guess

[ashen delta]

I've noticed that the newly installed UE4.27 is creating a DerivedDataCache in drive D. I had moved it to there before as it was filling up my C drive. I didn't expect it to still be doing that. Thought it'd go back into app data folder and so on. I guess the uninstall hasn't uninstalled everything. It's kept the old setting.

[solemn spade]

So I am trying to create a coin doubler. However it is doubling my total coins instead of the coins I collect. Could someone help please.

[raw oak]

I mean you're using x2

[drowsy snow]

Gah, I can't read anything from display photo

[ashen delta]

Sorry to ask but I couldn't find a clear answer with a Google search. Is UE4 a .NET Framework 3.5 app?

[drowsy snow]

It's rather .NET Framework 4.6

Don't worry, .NET version numbering can be confusing quick.

[ashen delta]

thank you, was seeing what the known issues of the update had. It appears a second uninstall and total deletion of Unreal Engine with the launcher and UE5 and then reinstall has done the trick. Nothing to do with my projects. It appears Windows 11 updates upset something somewhere. I guess I'll be back here again after the next update but I'll make sure not to tag anyone in it. Thanks again for your help. take care

[stable needle]

Does anyone know why this bug was never fixed? Am I missing some obvious workaround, or is the only solution to change collision settings at BeginPlay?
https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-85449

[astral heart]

how can i unloack my viewport not sure what i did to do this

[fierce tulip]

or drag another menu/viewport, should also solve it.

[sand whale]

Is there a way to turn off baked lighting? I’d like to add new items without having to wait for the lighting to bake again

[quartz ore]

As far as I know, that would require basically everything to be movable lighting which isn't advisable. You don't really have to bake that often, though, preview lighting does the job, right?

[sand whale]

Well whenever I add anything it bakes the lighting in and I don’t have a great pc so it takes a while I was just wondering if there’s like a dynamic lighting or something like unity has

[quartz ore]

What, you mean it bakes the lighting of its own accord whenever you drop something into the world?

Dynamic lights will be more expensive and make the engine run slower, that's definitely not what you want haha

[sand whale]

Yeah like if I put a cube in it pops up in the corner with a prompt saying something along the lines of baking lighting(40) and the texture is nonexistent until it is done

Maybe it’s because I switched to the forward renderer? That’s the only major setting I’ve changed

[quartz ore]

Possibly? I've never used forward rendering before. Are you sure it's not compiling shaders?

[sand whale]

Oh yeah

It’s compiling shaders

Is there a way for it to not take ages every time I try to put anything in my project or is my pc just hot garbage

[quartz ore]

That's not due to lighting, it has to do with materials. Basically, the engine is taking time to ensure the materials are displayed correctly. So you might want to look into optimizing your materials. That said, you can get a nice performance boost with toolbar > settings > scalability settings > Low.

[sand whale]

Oh okay I’ll try that

Thanks!

[potent belfry]

Guys, it might be dumb question, don't mind me but I literally don't know. Why is it impossible to move Volumetric Clouds along Z-axe? 😅

[muted iron]

Anyone know of any online libraries of animated pngs/gifs that can be used in unreal? Im looking for a simple 2d animated steam to use in a kitchen scene. Thanks!

[smoky hull]

How do you add public buttons?

NVM got it

[fallow jackal]

is 4.27 the last version of UE4 ever?

[raw oak]

Yeah, I doubt epic would continue development of an older engine

[dire sentinel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/864511860651851806/976204343348961320/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/864511860651851806/976204393370243113/unknown.png
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/864511860651851806/976204800037367929/unknown.png
anyone know why when I play the game plays from network player start instead where my character is? I was attempting to switch from third person to first person project by adding in first person template and deleting my third person character controller.
followed this tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEad8JFNetk

[tight crystal]

is there a way to swap the third person character with a static mesh?and if so how

[warm valve]

You will find a static mesh component in the component tab @tight crystal

[tight crystal]

i know but i cant delete the third person character

[warm valve]

can you send me a screenshot of the component tab and also static mesh property

Does anyone know how to get a proper pivot point when importing stuff in ue?

[tight crystal]

from blender?

[warm valve]

maya

[tight crystal]

ooo idk if from blender click the mesh and do ctrl a with it selected and click all

[warm valve]

nah man not like that

When you import something in unreal engine

it screws up the pivot point

let it be any software

. It will use the world origin (0,0,0) for it’s pivot

[small pewter]

Is there a way to convert a game made in unreal to be playable into a webbrowser ? I want to publish it on itch.io and let it be playable directly on itch.io website

Please ping me if any answer 🙂

[spice ruin]

No.

[ruby bridge]

Question: I have finished adjusting the light and shadow of a level, I copy this level, and then open this new level, its light and shadow are different. The performance is as follows: the backlight side is very dark, and the shadow is also very dark. What is the reason for this and how to solve it?

[spice ruin]

Did you rebuild the lighting?

[drowsy snow]

No.

[ruby bridge]

yes but still like this

[chilly geyser]

Hey weird question but can AI use Anim Notifies to for example set a Boolean variable in the owning Actor (AI character)? I can’t seem to make it work for AI, but it works and replicates for players.

[forest light]

hello, is it possible to add different collision response to different parts of static mesh (foliage) by material or something? like leaves should overlap traces so ai can have blocked view partially but trunk should have block, same shooting should be blocked on trunk but overlapped on leaves

[sand whale]

hi, I'm extremely new to unreal and I've imported a model I made in blender into my project, and I'm assuming it created a collider for it, but when I try to place my character on the model, the character slides off of it diagonally like that's how the collider was generated. I have a couple predictions as to why this is happening but I was just wondering how I can edit the collider if there's an easy way to do that?

[empty umbra]

hum, I don't know if it's that, honestly I'm new to UE too, but you can adjust your mesh axis X, Y and Z

[cyan yacht]

Random question, is there any way to make a web build with 4.27? Everything I'm seeing is that it ended with 4.24. Is this true or is there a way around that? I appreciate all the help

[oak patio]

You can make custom collisions in blender by blockung out yiur collisions and calling them UCX_[WhateverUrMeshNameIs]_XX

Where XX is the number of the collision

And replace the brackets with the name of ur mesh

[sand whale]

Wait you can make colliders in blender?

I didn’t know that I’ll try it thanks!

[gloomy gull]

Would anyone say that Jetbrains Rider is worth it?

I've been using Visual Assist for a while but those loading times are insane

[real heath]

I just migrated to rider this month. I tried it Early in the early access program and was unimpressed. Tried it again last month, and fell in love. Ditched vax within a day

[gloomy gull]

Ooh I used it in early access and I was also pretty unimpressed. Thank you for your input!

[real heath]

Yeah I didn't get the fuss during early access

It now checks references in blueprints, auto manages core redirects

Its intellisense is good and fast

It's much better

[gloomy gull]

Oh dang that sounds great

Yeah back in the beginning stages it was pretty slow and hard to navigate

[real heath]

At it's worst, it's no slower than vax and vs. but most of the time it's much faster

[gloomy gull]

👍

VaX always used up 100% of my CPU for hours at a time

For each project I opened

[real heath]

It's a little over the top with recommending changes for const correctness, but it mostly gets it right

[gloomy gull]

Oh yeah I also remember it kept saying I had errors that I didn't haha

[real heath]

Yeah naa indexing is done in what feels like 2 minutes, but I haven't timed it

If it's still indexing after then, it's not in the way anyway

[gloomy gull]

Awesome! Thank you 🙂

[glad knot]

hey is there a chat for help with the engine?

[real heath]

That's a little vague. In general you can ask here or #ue5-general , if it's a bit more specific you might be redirected to the appropriate area

At which point just copy your message there and delete the original

[glad knot]

otay! So quick thing here, I created a pawn and enabled input on it, but it's still not receiving any input. any advice?

this is what I did to enable input

block input is also turned off in the details menu

[real heath]

Is it being possessed by the player controller?

[glad knot]

not sure how to tell

[real heath]

Possess is either a function on the pawn or controller, can't remember, but either way you call it and pass the other object

The controller needs to possess the pawn you intend to control

[glad knot]

mhmm

[real heath]

You can either do it through blueprints or auto possess property on the pawn in the world browser details

[gloomy gull]

@glad knot You can set that up in your GameMode

[gloomy gull]

And also here

[glad knot]

So this was done in the first person character controller template. the key inputs are mainly for debugging the animations, is there a better way to achieve what I am trying to do?

Happy Wednesday by the way! :)

[gloomy gull]

I'm still a little unclear about the issue, mind elaborating?

[glad knot]

for sure. I tried turning on auto possess player, but that moves my camera directly into the pawn. I still want to control the first person character, but when I hit a key, the pawn I'm working on should do something

does that clear it up? sorry I'm bad at explaining

[gloomy gull]

Ah yes, I've had this issue before

The camera is detaching from the character

[glad knot]

yep!

[gloomy gull]

Is your character being spawned from a player start or is it just dragged in?

Try playing the game and clicking F8, then navigate to the character and go the camera and reattach the coordinates

That's a temporary solution

[glad knot]

I spawn there 🤷

[gloomy gull]

I'm pretty sure spawning the player from a playerstart is the way to go tho

Yeah try using the PlayerStart

[glad knot]

oh! okay

[gloomy gull]

and set the character in the GameMode (it should be set already if ur using the template)

[glad knot]

so I added a player start and my camera still goes inside the pawn

ill look at the gamemode

[gloomy gull]

Did you delete the FirstPersonCharacter?

If you didn't it'll keep auto possessing it

[glad knot]

I didn't my bad

[gloomy gull]

Everyone makes mistakes! That's how you learn

[glad knot]

no dice though! :O

I deleted the firstpersoncharacter and the camera continues to go into the pawn

[gloomy gull]

Oh man!

Try doing the f8 dark magic

[glad knot]

wat is dat

[glad knot]

oh this?

[gloomy gull]

Yup

[candid lion]

Hi. I've read that ActorComponent comes with a pretty heavy overhead so I used to stay away from it.
For a multiplayer game I'd like some actors (possibly up to a hundred rendered) to be Interactable or/and Destructible. Some edge cases may prevent me from going for two interfaces, so I'm considering adding these as two components. Would only be <5 methods / properties.
How "bad" are actor components compared to interface? Like cpu/ram/network wise?

[real heath]

that depends. but interfaces and components don't really solve the same problems

interface guarantees an API available on a class. Component will add functionality or behaviour

an interface doesn't provide any functionality itself

When you say actor component, do you mean a child actor, or component added to an actor?

i feel you may have heard info about child actor components and have extrapolated that to mean all components

[candid lion]

Really interesting answer! Indeed there's a good chance I've misunderstood some of it.
I actually need the most basic component I can attach to an actor since I only need to have a few properties and methods. No mesh, nothing fancy. My objects are created based on an items datatable so components d be great (I think) since I can attach it to a spawned object depending on item properties. I'm just worried it could impact performance negatively

[real heath]

Actor components are lighter than scene components. Everything has some overhead ofcourse, but that doesn't mean it's significant. If it's not ticking and not affecting object bounds I doubt it would have any measurable impact even on 100 actors

[candid lion]

Thank you, let's work on implementation and profiling then 🙂

[dense axle]

I have an issue in unreal I was hoping someone could help me with

I have created a plexus effect in niagara and it looks fine in the default view, but when I go into cinematic mode the effect gets distorted

default view

cinematic view

I imagine the issue is due to the particles going back and forth at a very fast speed, but I don't know how to disable this cinematic effect

[drowsy snow]

I recall there's an option to disable motion blur on per particle basis, though I might misremember it

[dense axle]

I will see if I can find that

it was very simple

[dense axle]

thanks

😽

I needed to check the motion blur, and set it to zero

I could make a post prossesing volume to have it only effect the plexus effects

[manic urchin]

evening guys, i would like to ask, wich one is better step? make a main menu first or character selection first?

[drowsy snow]

Not that one, but okay

[drowsy snow]

I'd start with main menu first

[manic urchin]

ahhh okay, anyway do you have a good tutorials video for that and for character selection? my bookmarked video already privated by the owner

[drowsy snow]

No, typically I don't recommend much YT tutorials, and at its core, main menu is a bunch of buttons

[echo star]

can anybody help me please? I've got no option to Launch game when right clicking Uprojects, I'm trying to use the UnrealVersionSelector to verify the install folder but it's saying the folder has no engine installation?
I'm having really odd issues with my build that no-one else is having with the build also

[manic urchin]

then where i can learn about menu and character selections?

[drowsy snow]

Verify the engine installation or do a complete reinstall

[drowsy snow]

If you're able to make pause menu, you can easily improvise it for both.

[echo star]

verified it but still no launch or change version option so got to reinstall I guess

[manic urchin]

what is that? like when u press esc?

[devout mason]

Does anybody have a fix for Depth of Field and Glass Material in Unreal Engine 4? It doesn't seem to work at all...

[drowsy snow]

Make sure the material is not Render After DOF

[devout mason]

It's turned of :/

Also "Output Velocity" does seem to make it a bit better, but it's still kinda broken

Could it be that the "Automotive Materials" are setup kinda shit?

[ashen delta]

same solution to translucent materials like water.

[devout mason]

My problem is not the material not getting blurred - it's actually the material being more blurry than the rest on the focus plane 😄

[real heath]

William faucher did a video on something with foliage having poor dof

Something to do with upsampling

https://youtu.be/osHpBZ47ZfU

[devout mason]

Oh I know that video yeah. That's pretty good in order to have good DOF for cinematics. But the issue I am having revolves around translucent materials

[real heath]

Ahh. I haven't watched it recently, thought it was around translucent materials and foliage. Sorry then no other suggestion

[devout mason]

I think it's about weird compression artifacts in low quality DoF - but thanks anyways!

[strong stump]

Hi sorry to interrupt - can someone pleeease help me. I've been trying to put a an opacity gradient on a sphere but I'm completely new to unreal and can't get it to work. Here's a pick of what I mean in cinema 4d. Radial gradient has got me the closest but it's still a weird shaped gradient

[drowsy snow]

So basically forming hemisphere?

[strong stump]

yeah, that fades into transparent

I have some assets I made in c4d that are spherical but I only want the top visible in my final outcome

[drowsy snow]

Have you looked into object space linear gradients?

[strong stump]

I don't think so

I just tried it and it looks like its working, thank you SO MUCH

0.5

lol wrong screen ignore that

[midnight estuary]

Does anybody have a decent 3-point VR full body IK system? It's for free roaming VR, so no locomotion tricks

[drowsy snow]

i recall Power IK have that kind of thing (though you need to have 4.26 installed as it's not updated to 4.27)

Otherwise you could setup some Control Rig to have your own three point full body IK

[midnight estuary]

Yeah, I found some of that, but 4.27 is a pretty important update for VR. I thought of porting it to Control Rig

[midnight estuary]

yeah that's what I was thinking

[drowsy snow]

Yes, in UE5 the full body IK node is functional, but the full body IK node in 4.27 is crap (i think it's the same as the one present in 4.26)

[autumn latch]

dust, water, etc. for rutting and wheel. do you know of any particles

[drowsy snow]

Don't crosspost btw

[fierce tulip]

^

[worthy plaza]

Hello, anyone know a tutorial/course (free) for FPS replicated? tried to google it but either is TPS or dead series

[drowsy snow]

Well, you could look at ShooterGame example and dissect on the workings of it. It's kind of similar to Unreal Tournament (rest in fortnite).
Though majority of the code is C++ so it may take a while to study if you're not used to it

[quaint halo]

Looking for game testers for Our upcoming Open World Third Person Action RPG, please message me outside of this chat

[narrow badger]

Not sure if this is the right channel but how do i fix this problem. Whenever i start my game editor/packaged i need to click always once to get my mouse in there

[hollow cairn]

I am trying to put a packaged game on github but it's too big, what do I do?

I am trying to use git lfs but it still says its more than 100mb so i can't?

[flint dagger]

Why would you want a packaged game on GitHub?

GitHub is for code. Put it on Google Drive, Dropbox or host it.

[flint dagger]

Can we get a rule about DMing? XD

Weekly posts from Slackers roll over into my DMs without anyone asking. It's super weird and intrusive.

[little rock]

you can uncheck this

[flint dagger]

Thank you.

[little rock]

you are welcome

[foggy shuttle]

hello, does anyone knows if BC7 is rendered slower ? I prefer to have a BC7 texture that is 1k/1k compared to a BC1 2k/2k . I get better results in some cases and it's half the size (1.33 mb vs 2.66 for BC1). But I'm not sure if it's actually rendered slower because of decompression.

[vocal sorrel]

Does anyone know of a good print string to text file marketplace plugin? Basically trying to have only my print strings outputted to a nice readable document

[fierce tulip]

we already have a rule about this, in case someone colds dm you and you are bothered by it, let us know and we'll strike, or in bad cases ban.

[plush yew]

I have a crazy idea for a game

idk how to share it

might need a team or something to make it

[oak patio]

share it by describing your idea

if you need a team then try to gather one

[drowsy snow]

Use releases.
Individual file is limited to 2 GB but you can upload as many as you want.

[plush yew]

ok let me describe you with 2 phrases

actually ima dm you

[drowsy snow]

Is it really NDA?

[plush yew]

naa

[drowsy snow]

Sounds like Lost

[plush yew]

lol

[drowsy snow]

Hah, deleted the message

[plush yew]

yes it sounds like Lost , but this will obviously be a different story

and feel

[drowsy snow]

It's not completely original so I don't think you need to NDA that high level of idea

Also Far Cry

Fine, I respect your NDA then

[plush yew]

😂

[thin tendon]

In the world outliner window. Stuff is always opened like this by default. Or when I select an actor it will open them. How do I make it so that they are closed by default instead of open? Its really annoying constantly scrolling through sooo much content to find stuff.

[lethal root]

Hi, could anyone give me a hand here? when i save a cache pose here it doesn't seem to work, like it didn't exist, it only work when i connect it directly to the outpot pose, wich isn't the point :c

[tribal turret]

I'm trying to make my on screen enemy health bar widgets (set to screen space) occluded by the world environment so you can NOT see the floating widgets behind walls/objects if they are hidden from view. Quick tips?

[surreal eagle]

is it possible to have a mesh use multiple physics assets as set by blueprints

[wild hawk]

Hi, i have a dump question but cant find the answer. Is it possible to get custom depth stencil buffer from sceen capture cube.😭

[radiant river]

Nothing fancy but I made this and am proud of it :)

Basically, interactive items that act as "clues". If you interact with it, it'll hide it and add the clue to your Journal.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/856070489638174730/976749048558133328/UE4Editor_v333Y0zuFw.gif

[spark lion]

I've a problem with 4.26. There's a level that has sky atmosphere that goes black any time something is on the camera way, even small things like haracter head or a tree branch. I dont have that issue on any other levels in the game and cant figgure out why this happening

same effect happens if i tunr sky atmosphere invisible, so it's culling i suppose

anyone had such a problem?

[fresh pulsar]

In severe need of help

Idk how to make something go in the same speed but in any direction with the projectile component because all I can find is setting velocity

And idk how to math an angle vector into the velocity to get it to move at a certain angle

[spark lion]

get vector lengh and multiply by direction?

vector length * normalized vector should work

[fresh pulsar]

Oh it turns out I have rotations as a float @spark lion

Although it's rotating in 3d space for some reason regardless of how I set it up

Which is not good

[drowsy snow]

Hide the widget entirely when the enemy is partially obscured.

[drowsy snow]

Don't even think about having the health bar partially obscured by world geometry, that's just bad UI.

[devout mason]

What was the command line thingy for RTXGI and reflection roughness?

[proven mauve]

Hello, I think there is not any support channel for this topic, so I will ask here:

Does anyone know whether Plugins can easily be localized using the Localization Dashboard?

Like I would wish that all of my localization files are located and managed within the plugin. So target should be defined in the ini of the plugin, and the contents of the localization gather should also be placed in the plugin.

I know it works if you copy/paste the loc files out of your uproject into the plugin, but that's seriously inconvenient.

[thin tendon]

@tribal turret You could use a recently rendered node on your actor to set the visibility of the widget using a binding.

[drowsy snow]

Or a non-replicated per player camera box trace to call the events of showing/hiding the widget

[devout mason]

Hm, maybe a better question: How do I get the jitter / grain out of Ray Tracing Reflections?

[night oar]

Guys need some help Well the issue is that the GetWorld()->GetTimerManager() is Returning an exception where as GetWorldTimerManager() undefined i can find a way to add a delay timer can anyone help

[bleak spade]

Is there a way to view the polycount of a metahuman? (different LODs)

[idle needle]

Hey there! I'm having an issue with Unreal Insights. At the moment I got no response 😦 Any idea? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-insights-not-displaying-any-track/558647

[spark lion]

1 axis? I cant see how it works from what you say . You can always change it too

[noble ember]

can you make a lerp node "adjustable" in the instance?

[fresh pulsar]

all 3 axes are part of the rotation pin

although for some reason regardless of which ones I connect and which I don't it still doesn't rotate properly

[plush yew]

Hi! Does anyone know why my geometry looks stripy and weird like this? How can I get rid of it? Thanks!

[noble ember]

maybe check model smooth or UV's?

[spice ruin]

It does have a sort of cool balsa wood effect from a distance, though

[noble ember]

perfect for whittling! 😆

[plush yew]

Thanks! How do I check model smooth?:))))

[noble ember]

sorry not sure how to do that in unreal...if possible take fbx into modeling program and smooth from there/resave fbx/reimport

[tribal turret]

It’s actually not for the enemy health bar, that was just to explain what I need in terms that make sense. Regardless of UI aesthetics, doing this mechanically would solve my issue

[normal breach]

hey y'all, I got this weird error message popping up when I try to build navmeshes via commandlet:

   Error: === Critical error: ===

   Error:

   Error: Assertion failed: (!ModuleInfo->bWasUnloadedAtShutdown) [File:D:/projects/epic/4.25_OculusVR_deploy/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Private/Modules/ModuleManager.cpp] [Line: 416]

   Error: Attempted to load module 'HTTP' that was already unloaded at shutdown.  FModuleManager::LoadModule() was called to load a module that was previously loaded, and was unloaded at shutdown time.  If this assert goes off, your trying to load a module during the shutdown phase that was already cleaned up.  The easiest way to fix this is to change your code to query for an already-loaded module instead of trying to load it directly.

   Error:

   Error:

   Error:  0x00007ffd0aa54fd9 KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction 

   Error:  0x00007ffcb71dd0b6 UE4Editor-Core.dll!ReportAssert() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsPlatformCrashContext.cpp:1644]

   Error:  0x00007ffcb71e1138 UE4Editor-Core.dll!FWindowsErrorOutputDevice::Serialize() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsErrorOutputDevice.cpp:78]

   Error:  0x00007ffcb6f0180d UE4Editor-Core.dll!FOutputDevice::LogfImpl() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Misc\OutputDevice.cpp:61]

   Error:  0x00007ffcb6e55dd5 UE4Editor-Core.dll!AssertFailedImplV() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Misc\AssertionMacros.cpp:104]```

   Error:  0x00007ffcb7510c39 UE4Editor-Core.dll!DispatchCheckVerify<void,<lambda_08b4ad1f13adb916940565d64cbba9e8> >() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Misc\AssertionMacros.h:164]

   Error:  0x00007ffcb6f603f8 UE4Editor-Core.dll!FModuleManager::LoadModuleWithFailureReason() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Modules\ModuleManager.cpp:416]

   Error:  0x00007ffcb6f5fc79 UE4Editor-Core.dll!FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Modules\ModuleManager.cpp:359]

   Error:  0x00007ffc98dd506c UE4Editor-HTTP.dll!FHttpModule::Get() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Online\HTTP\Private\HttpModule.cpp:208]

   Error:  0x00007ffc98dcc71d UE4Editor-HTTP.dll!FCurlHttpRequest::CancelRequest() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Online\HTTP\Private\Curl\CurlHttp.cpp:1095]

   Error:  0x00007ffc93a3bfd9 UE4Editor-SNDBSController.dll!FSNDBSAPIManager::ResetServerData() 

   Error:  0x00007ffc93a4cd85 UE4Editor-SNDBSController.dll!FSNDBSAPIManager::StopServer() 

   Error:  0x00007ffc93a4c0c3 UE4Editor-SNDBSController.dll!FSNDBSControllerModule::ShutdownModule() 

   Error:  0x00007ffcb6f78c25 UE4Editor-Core.dll!FModuleManager::UnloadModulesAtShutdown() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Modules\ModuleManager.cpp:731]

   Error:  0x00007ff713d50546 UE4Editor.exe!FEngineLoop::Exit() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:4299]```

   Error:  0x00007ff713d51093 UE4Editor.exe!GuardedMain() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Launch.cpp:192]

   Error:  0x00007ff713d510ea UE4Editor.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:137]

   Error:  0x00007ff713d5410d UE4Editor.exe!LaunchWindowsStartup() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:273]

   Error:  0x00007ff713d654b4 UE4Editor.exe!WinMain() [D:\projects\epic\4.25_OculusVR_deploy\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:320]

   Error:  0x00007ff713d68046 UE4Editor.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() [d:\a01\_work\2\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]

   Error:  0x00007ffd0c4f7034 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction 

   Error:  0x00007ffd0d202651 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction ```
It only happens on my build-monkey, not on my own pc, does anyone know what it could be?

I also get this warning right before

  [2022.05.19-15.09.58:391][  0]LogHttp: Display: Http module shutting down, but needs to wait on 3 outstanding Http requests:
17:09:58
  [2022.05.19-15.09.58:391][  0]LogHttp: Display:   verb=[POST] url=[http://localhost:54152/projects/0/jobs] refs=[1] status=Processing
17:09:58
  [2022.05.19-15.09.58:391][  0]LogHttp: Display:   verb=[GET] url=[http://localhost:54152/projects/0/events/0..] refs=[1] status=Processing
17:09:58
  [2022.05.19-15.09.58:391][  0]LogHttp: Display:   verb=[GET] url=[http://localhost:54159/projects/0/events/0..] refs=[2] status=Processing

[spice ruin]

I'd say that whatever those 3 requests are, you need to stop that happening.

[normal breach]

I wish I knew what that was :S

[spice ruin]

Good question indeed.

Google it!

[normal breach]

:V

[spice ruin]

Looks at channel and facepalms

[normal breach]

mate, I still do appreciate the effort! at least you are taking care to answer. Thank you for that. 🙂

[spice ruin]

Np

I was referring to what I wrote, not you, there, btw 🙂

[normal breach]

yeah, I guessed

wtf

I opened the editor on the monkey, tried a manual run, closed it, reverted everything, then launched the build procedure again... and no error

[cloud pagoda]

Hello, is anyone good with RVTs and could please help me fix an issue I really don't understand how to fix? I have a landscape and painted on it using the landscape brush and the RVT material. I have RVT color and height assigned to the landscape but only height works. The paint doesn't reflect on RVTs (it stays a black square) so RVT colors don't work and apply to other meshes. Any help would be appreciated if anyone's familiar with virtual textures

[plush yew]

https://files.catbox.moe/14ngsf.mp4 whats going on with my normal maps, they arent flipped and it seems fine with one directional light but they start to look weird with more than two lights, is this a game engine limitation or something im not aware of. the problem is most noticeable just before the wrist and on the clothes

[plush yew]

how can the order of blueprints execution be changed?

[cyan cargo]

How can you check when a sequence has finished playing? I have tried binding an event to OnStop and OnFinish but no luck?

I don't use bound events often but does it need to be on tick or just called once to bind?

[merry plaza]

Is anyone aware of any fix for objects lagging/freezing with high velocity?
with CCD on ofc because without that it'll just clip through everything, I'm forced to use it.
on the other hand, it looks really ugly 😬

[woeful haven]

guys I'm trying to build a app for my garage, i can't find a way to save clients credentials like car make ect for further use down the road. how do i go about saving the credentials, and find them later when i need them?

[raw oak]

Did you set up the rvt volumes?

[limpid forge]

Can I talk here to help me with a problem I have?

[raw oak]

What's the problem?

Might be a better channel for it depending on the issue

[limpid forge]

Might be a better channel for it depending on the issue

When exporting my game I get an error, which is the following

I deleted that folder and it doesn't fix it.

[raw oak]

Package issues are normally hard to pin point the problem. I wish I could be more help with that.

[limpid forge]

do not worry thanks

[fierce tulip]

#packaging

[cloud pagoda]

Yes I followed every step

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong

[fallow jackal]

do unused assets from the content browser but not added into any level use hard disk space when game is published?

[raw oak]

It's been awhile, but I believe there is something in the project settings that needs enabled as well. Have you done that?

[cloud pagoda]

Yes

Unless I have to enable that for every map?

Rvts were working on a map and i duplicated it

[raw oak]

No. Would you mind showing me screenshots of your landscape rvt section and the volumes themselves real quick?

[cloud pagoda]

Sure. Want me to DM you or send here?

[raw oak]

You can send them here

[cloud pagoda]

Alright let me open UE real quick

So what exactly do you want me to screenshot?

Sorry I'm relatively new to rvts. What are the volumes

[raw oak]

The rvt section of the landscape where you assign the textures and the same for the rvt volumes

[cloud pagoda]

And when you say landscape RVT you just wanna see the viewport?

Oh so like the paint menu?

[raw oak]

No I mean the details section of the landscape

[cloud pagoda]

Where the rvts are assigned?

[raw oak]

Yes

[cloud pagoda]

Gotcha

[raw oak]

And the virtual texture volumes you'll need two one for height and one for the other one and you'll need to set them to scale to the landscape and assign the textures there as well

[plush yew]

I have not enough information to continue my UE4 project and not enough information to continue my C++ command line program 😦

[oak patio]

If you ask some questions you may get some answers

[drowsy snow]

Okay.

[oak patio]

The information will be there

[raw oak]

Sweet okay can you show me the virtual texture volumes as well?

[cloud pagoda]

So their area of effect in the viewport?

[raw oak]

No, the details section of the volumes as well.

[woeful haven]

guys can't find info on building apps [not games] with unreal, some told me its possible, but it seems that no one have the info out there, is it really possible?

[raw oak]

I'm assuming you also have one for height as well?

[cloud pagoda]

Yep, but I don't have any height data on my landscape

When I do paint some height this one does work though

Only color doesn't

I can show you height too if you want

[raw oak]

No from what it looks like I believed you'd se that one up correctly as well...

That's odd. Are you certain the volumes are aligning with the landscape? If you said it works in another level, then the material is set up fine. I'm not too sure what else needs changed. I havent done rvts in a while.

[cloud pagoda]

Would I be able to screenshare somehow? They are aligned but I had to manually move them because when I set bounds it didn't snap to the entire landscape

Basically what happened was that

I set everything up on a map and it worked but then I thought the landscape and everything else was way too small for the scene I'm doing so I duplicated the map and deleted the landscape then created a bigger one and applied everything back to the new landscape

[raw oak]

I'm not too sure. My best bet from here would be trying to reset the position and scale of the landscape and volumes. Then re snapping the volumes back to the landscape using set bounds and trying again. I can't think of much else to try here. Everything seems correct.

[cloud pagoda]

Is it normal that their pivot isn't centered

The volumes

[raw oak]

I believe so. Like I said it's been awhile, but I remember having issues with them as well

As long ad the x, z, and y is covering the landscape, it should be working

[cloud pagoda]

And does their height matter

[raw oak]

The height should cover the landscape. So make sure it's a little bit bigger

[cloud pagoda]

Wth it just worked now because I unchecked snap to landscape

Idk how that makes any sense but thanks for all your help and taking the time haha

[raw oak]

Lmao np that's odd

[cloud pagoda]

As long as it works I guess, I swear some things cannot be explained lmao

[raw oak]

I normally don't select that, but it doesn't make sense why it wouldnt work

[astral walrus]

does uninstalling unreal engine delete projects? I just want to install unreal engine again to my ssd

[oak patio]

dont crosspost please

[astral walrus]

my bad

[main berry]

New unreal engine user here. Is it possible to add one map to another?

[plush yew]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-combine-2-levels/288948

[main berry]

@plush yew Thank you. That worked beautifully.

[drowsy snow]

Look into sublevels.
Do note that you can't have nested sublevels.

[plush yew]

Hi does any body know how to make multiple Patches that are based on the previews version. So for example 1.0.0 is the base version and 1.0.1 is the first patch and than 1.0.2 based on 1.0.1 as the second patch?

[austere forum]

what does all this mean?

[plush yew]

URGENT HELP
we are having issues doing the build of our game
Its only building the lighting !!!!!!!!!!!!!
URGENT HELP

[thin tendon]

@austere forum A user interface canvas item caused the error. Need to check your user interfaces and widgets.

[austere forum]

thanks!

[granite lion]

A bug dating back to 2014

[spice ruin]

I mean, the workaround is surely to normalise your rotation.

[granite lion]

How do you do that? Can you show me please? 🙂

[spice ruin]

MyNewRotation = GetRotation() + MyRotationDelta;

Check each axis for being < 180 or > 180

SetRotation(MyNewRotation);

Pitch is probably limited some other way if it's limiting to +/- 67

Probably to stop gimbal locks

And by check, I mean, if rotation < 180, add 360 to it.

And minus 360 if it's over 180.

[split valley]

I enabled "Use Complex Collision as Simple" on my Pawn and now none of its colliders are getting Overlap events. How do I fix it?

[granite lion]

thanks. I think we have a similar sol

[spice ruin]

I mean that isn't checking the rotation at all, so it's skipping that step, but sure.

[limpid forge]

Hello, does anyone know why it does not appear to select the sky? It is that I want to eliminate the one that comes by default to add another

I mean it doesn't show up Sky Sphere

[limpid forge]

😦

[thin tendon]

even if it doesn't appear in your outliner. You should be able to click on it in the viewport. To remove it and then just drag a new one in

[woeful wadi]

hey i have a quick question

I'm working on a networked game and I'm trying to get crouching to work, but when i hit my crouch key the other player crouches instead of me

I'm very new to UE4 and Replication so I'm not really sure where I went wrong

[plush yew]

You probably not checking weather you have control over the character in question or not

[woeful wadi]

i tried checking it in both spots but im not really sure where i need to put it

this is with no checks

top is in an animation blueprint and bottom is the player blueprint

[plush yew]

Hmmm I don't know enough about unreal to say what's going on but I can say that this sounds like a network issue if they the same blueprints on both

Have you thought about how this is going to work over the network at all?? I'm just curious. Networking is a kind of another ball game. You going to think about how things are going to appear on the other clients and how they're going to be controlled and all that stuff

I'm currently doing some stuff with unity in multiplayer

[woeful wadi]

yeah i do networking in godot

replication is just different

[modest trench]

Get player character is getting a local player character

It's not the current player character of this particular call

So player character 0 is not what you want here

[plush yew]

how can i parent physics objects

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/simulate-physics-breaks-parenting/91296

[tribal turret]

looking for some help. I have an actorBP with 2 collisions (2 components) on it. A small Box collision that triggers an event (BLUE) and a larger Sphere collision that toggles the actorBP visibility when the player is close enough and hides the ActorBP when the player leaves the sphere. I'm using many instances of the actorBP, so I have the visibility toggle toggle set up on the actorBP and the Event trigger on the Level Blueprint. But I want to trigger the event from the level blueprint only when the player crosses the box(BLUE) collision. Currently, the event and visibility toggle are happending at the same time because the Level blueprint is set of OnActorBeginOverlap, which doesn't specifically call for the small BOX overlap. Tips on calling the component overlap from the ActorBP in the level BP?

[dry marlin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r9kiJHh3H4

[eternal orchid]

any idea how to upgrade UE4.25 PAK to UE4.27 PAK. Because when we tried to open the old PAK in newer version of app, it doesn't respond properly

[real heath]

You can use unrealpak.exe on the commandline to extract and recreate the pak file. It's included with unreal

But my guess is at that point cooked uassets will cause more problems than the pakfile itself

But, give it a try, see how you go

[versed lion]

How can I fix the rotation of the mesh? it doesn't rotate according to the editor live preview. It only moves around X|Y|Z and scales by X|Y|Z but isn't rotating along the axis, any advice?

[woeful wadi]

What do I put instead?

[fresh pulsar]

Okay so I'm back again for help with making projectiles rotate properly in 2d

[fresh pulsar]

hello? lul

[drowsy snow]

Do you have the backup of your project files?

[drowsy snow]

Not packaged PAK file, but uncooked project files you can conveniently open in the editor.
Do you have any backups of those?

[timber scroll]

HTF do i change the maximum zoom level on orthographic views?

super frustrating 😦

[summer marsh]

Hi everyone! I am new to this channel. can anyone please guide me is this is the right place to post my problems regarding game development in unreal?

[drowsy snow]

Yes, if you're using UE4.
Otherwise if you're using UE5, #ue5-general

[summer marsh]

yes on ue4.

[unborn hound]

hey, how are you?
I'm having a problem where the stationary lights are performing really badly, even worse than the same lights but movables, in both, editor and build
Has this happened to anyone? In theory, moving lights are the least performant.

[quartz ore]

Are those stationary lights overlapping? If they are, they should have red a 'X' on them.

[unborn hound]

thanks for reply,! no, no overlapping stationary lights

[quartz ore]

Hmm. If they aren't overlapping and your lighting is built I'm not sure why this would occur. I'm not really familiar with the profile tools and how to use them, but are you using one to determine this performance difference?

[unborn hound]

The performance difference is noticeable even without the use of profiling tools, around 40 fps difference due to increased GPU frame time.
I'm also not familiar with using the profiling tool for this kind of thing, but I'll try to get some more information with it.

[quartz ore]

Yea, I'd recommend running your game with and without those lights using a profiler and seeing what's going on, there may be some other process happening that you wouldn't normally see. Obviously something is wrong lol.

[merry plaza]

Is anyone aware of any fix for objects lagging/freezing with high velocity?
with CCD on ofc because without that it'll just clip through everything, I'm forced to use it.
on the other hand, it looks really ugly 🥲

This was an issue in Fortnite too, epic fixed it

but it is still in an issue in all of my ue projects

[drowsy snow]

PhysX?

[merry plaza]

Hmm?

[drowsy snow]

Are you using PhysX or Chaos?

[merry plaza]

PhysX

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure Epic fixed it with Chaos, but that's only getting more usable in UE5...

[merry plaza]

Oh alright, guess I can't do anything for now

Sometimes the freezing is horrible with ccd, I wonder if it has something to do with my my cpu.

[timid umbra]

spooky amogus

[merry plaza]

😂 👌

[fierce tulip]

@untold plank please read the #rules :)

[untold plank]

sorry lmfao

[lucid egret]

I watched a tutorial where this guy had these options in the material instance editor view. However when I open it there isn't anything like that

this is my view:

Both screenshots are from UE 4.21 by the way

[versed lion]

@lucid egret can you send the tutorial?

By the way it looks you need to promote your stuff into parameters

[lucid egret]

It's for modding a game, so it might be confusing without any context

[versed lion]

umm you wanna go to the nodes

right click and press convert to parameters

after you did at every node, click apply

go to the material instance

and it should update

[modest trench]

I need to directly edit a BP without loading the editor. Possible or what?

I swore you could edit their files directly somehow

[lucid egret]

Thank you so much! Now it works.

[versed lion]

the files are .uasset don't think you can edit them without ue4 or maybe you can using c++ but i don't know anything about that related

[versed lion]

np 🙂

[eternal orchid]

Yes I have, but there is 20,000+ PAK files. (Loading depends on user choice) That's why finding some alternative to upgrade the PAK instead of rebuild all again.

[oak patio]

Is there any reason you are upgrading, for a project as far through as this it makes more sense to stay in the current version imo

[gray matrix]

in UE4 is there a way to bake only AO? I am using the GPU lightmass but need the precomputed AO which it does not support

[sharp brook]

Hello everyone can someone guide me to a channel where i can ask some questions about game optimization?

[fierce tulip]

since all channels are question-based ones, pick the one related to the thing you want to optimize/tried optimizing

[sharp brook]

hmm im trying to optimize movement of multiple actors (a lot of actors)

[drowsy snow]

Are you referring to the rarely used "Ambient Occlusion" attribute in the material?

[gray matrix]

yes

but gpu lightmass doesnt support it

[cloud pagoda]

Hello, I had a quick question about packaging. When I package my project, the game has a lot of low res textures for assets that are far away from the playable character. It is a 2D stage so not everything is at the same spot but its split into layers in the world. Is there a setting to still render those out at regular resolution? Like increase the render distance

[drowsy snow]

Disable mip-mapping on the texture group.

[cloud pagoda]

What/Where is that? I've never heard of it sorry I'm relatively new

[fierce tulip]

you can also set the mip-bias of a texture yourself.

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/038/529/725/large/alessia-giammarino-m-mipmap.jpg?1623336911

this setup is for when you get further away/closer to the object, else you can forego the lerp and use a static value. all depends on needs

but yea, if you are never getting close, disabling mipmapping also works.
(in the texture settings window, just double click on a texture in the content browser)

[cloud pagoda]

Yeah I never get close. It's 2D so that layer is closer to the camera than the playable layer

[fierce tulip]

in that case you could decide to disable mipmaps

[cloud pagoda]

I have 1 material that has a lot of instances. Can I just disable it on the material itself?

And it'll disable for all the instances

[fierce tulip]

you could, but 1. make sure you profile to find out of it actually helps performance, and 2. it will still load the mipmaps, resulting in using more memory

[desert swan]

Does anyone know how to make a C++ function accesible in the Anim Graph too? I've got "UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)" on it and it works in the Anim BP in the Event Graph but is there a way to make it visible to call in the Anim Graph too?

[cloud pagoda]

Alright, well if I do it for individual material instances you said it was somewhere in settings?

I shall never find out. Great Mystery

[drowsy snow]

Pls don't crosspost unless you're redirected

[desert swan]

oh i'm sorry, i thought that it was better suited there 😅

didn't know that channel exists and i found out seconds after posting it here too

[drowsy snow]

<rant>
I have been confused many times over people crossposting and answering to crossposted questions
</rant>

[fierce tulip]

material wise, you'd have to set up the texture sample and a variable, kinda like the image I showed you.
If you dont know how, You'll have to go trough the official documentation about material texture samples.

[cloud pagoda]

If the asset that's blurry in game has 4 maps connected to it in the material, I have to disable bitmap on the individual texture maps?

And all 4 maps or just basecolor

[fierce tulip]

select the texture files you want to disable mips from (yes, not only the albedo) and rightclick > asset actions > batch edit. in this menu you can set a variety of settings for all the selected assets at once.

[cloud pagoda]

Ok I'll try that thanks

[lilac apex]

When packaging a windows build for steam upload, it works on my machine but on other machines gives the following error.

• Why would a packaged build require the uproject file?
• And if it's required, why does the packaging not put the uproject file along with the built package?
• If it's not required, has anyone come across this error and knows a solution?

There are quite a few posts on forums about this, however it seems that there no real solution to this problem. Also, most posts are about deploying to Android and not Windows.

[real heath]

Sounds like you've missed a file during upload or it's corrupt somehow. The uproject gets thrown in your pak file automatically

And yes it's required. But most people never see it as they don't inspect the pak file

[lilac apex]

thanks, you're right - the Paks folder was empty

I'll try another packaged build to see what happened

[earnest drift]

hey, can someone help me add an obj file format gun into unreal engine?

pls

i can't find any obj file format gun

[glacial arch]

Hey guys, does getting the bounding box of an actor apply the rotation of the actor to the box?

or are the bounds always aligned with the global axis?

[spice ruin]

Which function are you calling?

[glacial arch]

GetActorBounds()

[hot anchor]

<@&213101288538374145> Looks like @strange parrot was hacked

just got that dm

[glacial arch]

oh lord I thought this was the cpp chat my bad

lemme take my business down there lol

[lime gull]

I cant quite think of the word but theres a way I can take a string and split it up right? Like if I have something like
AttackBuff[50] I can get the numerical value separately from the rest of the string

I feel like theres a node for that but I dont remember it
( I think I can use the Splite node if I do AttackBuff|50 )

[spice ruin]

I believe that sums up the local bounds of all its components. Beware, rotated and scaled components will fuck you.

[vapid hornet]

I have a mesh with its regular texture and an emission texture, how can I apply both?

nevermind, it was automatically done when i imported it

[fiery nexus]

I am new to Unreal Engine, I have tried googling it, but am unsure how to find the best solution for this.

The goal is to spawn multiple different static meshes, but to make sure they are instanced to help with performance. They positions will be generated at runtime, so I can't pre-define locations. Is there an easy way to make an actor contain all models as assets, but not in the scene so that I can place them and instance them during runtime?

[eternal orchid]

Because 4.25 doesn't support XCode 13. 😅 Now in 4.27, we able to build in XCode 13, but the PAKs are not compatible.

[blissful trail]

how would i possibly get this to work in multiplayer

he no move in multiplayer
https://gyazo.com/ed29d69a54a6756c39e4b588db49c55c

[drowsy snow]

Ah, mac things

[glacial arch]

That's called Replication, look it up. Fairly painless in Unreal

[blissful trail]

ok so it seams when loading from a different level the ai stops working

[fresh pulsar]

in desperate need of help lol, this is supposed to be a perfect circle, I can't get it to work properly

[summer marsh]

Hi Guys. I am new to unreal working on project game vr experience. when I move project from one pc to other and click on vr preview button everything falls down dont know what the issue. everything goes smooth in original pc file.

[fresh pulsar]

Halp meh

[drowsy snow]

[context needed]

[summer marsh]

its a vr game experience an actor walk around in environment pick the weapons and fight with other actor everything works perfectly but when I moved whole project from one pc to other and click on vr preview button it not work perfectly. all the scene goes down feel like over camera moving in up side.

[drowsy snow]

Sorry, not you.
I have no experience on XR stuff

[fresh pulsar]

plox

desperate

[fierce tulip]

we cant help you because the information you gave is very very limited.
also, please refrain from going "pl0x" and "desperate" to bump a question. Generally its better to explain what you have tried in the meantime.

[summer bear]

Hey, for me the content browser is showing all the files in my current directory, and all the files in subdirectories, but not the actual folders. I found the option: content browser → View Options → Show Folders, and it was already checked. I unchecked, rechecked it, nothing. Restarting the engine seems to fix it but it will randomly come back, any permanent solutions?

[fierce tulip]

did you enable filters or write in the search box?

[summer bear]

no filters on

[fierce tulip]

could you send a screenshot of the content browser when the issue happens

[frail nimbus]

One of our team members has a late model Apple Macbook and can't launch our UE4 *4.27 project without getting an error of a need to build / compile manually. We've enabled Mac in the project settings but it makes no diff. Anyone out there have experience with this and a solution?

[summer bear]

sorry for the late reply, i can't send it right now as the issue is like i said on my previous comment fixed after a restart, if it ever happens again (which it probably will) i'll be sure to send you one

[fierce tulip]

aaight

[versed lion]

Hey guys, every time that i try to open ue4 it crashes and gives me this message:

Assertion failed: NumBytes == Strings.Num() [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Private/UObject/UnrealNames.cpp] [Line: 3336]

UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_AssetRegistry
UE4Editor_AssetRegistry
UE4Editor_Core
UE4Editor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

what can i do to fix it?

[real heath]

Download engine symbols, and also don't just read the crash window, read the log and see what was happening before that crash

[versed lion]

Thanks

[cerulean oriole]

Hello,
I tried to build a demo(including very very small size of cloth simulation) and played in oculus quest2(stand alone),
but cloth simulation did not work, actually it showed just a mesh without any cloth simulation.
However, Played Correctly in Unreal Editor's VR Mode.
So I was wondering if I did wrong with the unreal engine setting for oculus quest,
Are there some specific unreal settings that I should do for using cloth simulation? How should I do for it?
Thanks for advices, have a nice day

[versed lion]

Still doesn't bootup @real heath
I captured whats happening right before the crash it seems its crashing cause of S_LightPointMove.uasset, a different error appears in the crash message tho

[real heath]

It won't help booting up, but the symbols will make that crashdump actually useful

Right, that's a good start. Move that uasset out and see if it boots up

[blissful trail]

so ive been having this issue for a while now

[versed lion]

Its doesn't exist in the project files

[real heath]

Ok, so what's the crashdump say now you have the symbols? And what's immediately before that in the log?

[versed lion]

Crash Dump:
Assertion failed: NumBytes == Strings.Num() [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Private/UObject/UnrealNames.cpp] [Line: 3336]

UE4Editor_Core!AssertFailedImplV() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Misc\AssertionMacros.cpp:104]
UE4Editor_Core!FDebug::CheckVerifyFailedImpl() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Misc\AssertionMacros.cpp:461]
UE4Editor_Core!LoadSeparatedNameBatchInShardOrder() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\UObject\UnrealNames.cpp:3336]
UE4Editor_Core!FNameBatchLoader::Load() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\UObject\UnrealNames.cpp:3472]
UE4Editor_Core!LoadNameBatch() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\UObject\UnrealNames.cpp:3481]
UE4Editor_AssetRegistry!FAssetRegistryReader::FAssetRegistryReader() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\AssetRegistry\Private\AssetRegistryArchive.cpp:140]
UE4Editor_AssetRegistry!FAssetDataGatherer::Run() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\AssetRegistry\Private\AssetDataGatherer.cpp:524]
UE4Editor_Core!FRunnableThreadWin::Run() [D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:86]

before:
Loading package '/Engine/EditorResources/S_LevelSequence

Btw I moved the S_LightPointMove, it was on the engine not the project file,

Trying a different fix, will update

[blissful trail]

nvm i fixed it (for some reason of the structures was brokey)

[real heath]

Ok, try moving out that s_levelsequence

[versed lion]

in that case i will end up with engine empty of files

[real heath]

The crashdump unfortunately is just saying it's a problem loading an asset, but no more details

Is s_levelsewuence engine not project? Then try a verify on your engine

Can do it through the launcher

[versed lion]

trying to reinstall the engine

verifying didn't quite help

[real heath]

Give 10 lins above the crashdump

Not just 1 line

Need more context for these sorts of things

[versed lion]

that's all it gave me mate

[real heath]

Your log file consisted of that 1 line and the crashdump only?

[versed lion]

Yes it was something like 2 lines of consistent numbers which indicate user registry i think then that:
Assertion failed: NumBytes == Strings.Num() [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Private/UObject/UnrealNames.cpp] [Line: 3336]

afterwards the other lines

[versed lion]

Fixed

I fixed the issue by deleting this file:

@real heath Ty for all the assistance ❤️ much love and thanks

[narrow badger]

why my directional light seems extremely bright

Min and max brightness set to 1

[versed lion]

try playing out with the settings of the light and use post processing to adjust it as well

[narrow badger]

alright

[fresh pulsar]

Well, idk what you want me to show you to be honest this is kinda the problem

Don't want it to rotate like that, it's a 2d game

regardless of how I plug in the rotations it seems to always do this

[fresh pulsar]

also I mean I totally am cuz like I'm closing in at the end of a project and I need to get this to at least a prototype state before the end ofi t

[sacred moth]

Sorry if this question get asked to death before I'm new to using unreal. So I have this animation in Maya, but for whatever the reason when I import into unreal it would look off like picture( compare the same frame of the same animation). It seem one of the bone won't rotate/move to the correct position in unreal. Is there a way to correct this? 😰

[vocal flume]

Does anyone know where the icon information are saved? It’s not in the defaultengine.ini

Like the icons for iOS and android

[oak patio]

This still doesnt give much info, maybe show ehat you would like it to do, and what code you have

[real copper]

I believe its because youre missing a root bone in your skeleton

all unreal engine animations have a root bone that stays in the bottom centre of the animation

[fierce tulip]

but you arent telling us what you used to generate these spheres, iow: what are you using in unreal engine, what is your current setup, etc.
If I show an image of a tree and just go "this is wrong, please help" it would be anybody's guess on why im posting a tree, and why I think its wrong :p

[drowsy snow]

[context needed]

It can be anything really, mesh components, particles, etc.

Hence why we said your question lacking further context

[cyan rose]

Does anyone knows why I get this error when I try to open UE5?

[wicked jolt]

hello, is there a "help" chat ?

[sacred moth]

Here is my bone hierachy. Would the "Skeleton"root bone causes problem because it's actually a group in Maya?

[real copper]

does the skeleton bone move when your animation is playing?

[sacred moth]

I think it does because its under a controller...

[drowsy snow]

Pretty much every channel except #lounge, #work-in-progress, and #released are help channels

Don't crosspost though

[real copper]

in maya youll have to add a bone called 'root' above 'Skeleton' and set it to where skeleton currently is but through the entire animation

with a grain of salt though because i know nothing

[wicked jolt]

perfect thanks

so I will ask my question once the discussion here is over 🙂

[drowsy snow]

Just ask away

[wicked jolt]

okay

[sacred moth]

😭 Thank you so much, took me a while to figure it out which kind of root bone would work until I realize I have to switch from parent to parent constraint. But now it work perfectly. You're a life saver.

[wicked jolt]

I'm completely new to unreal engine, however I have a lot of experience with blender (so I'm familiar with 3D). I had a project to make a basic animation, which tells the story of a young man,... But when I discovered the possibilities to make a game on the web with the ev.io game, I thought that making my story in a kind of very simple narrative game (again I have some knowledge in 3D but not in game dev). Since my knowledge doesn't allow me to have this kind of info, I come here to ask you these questions:

• I saw that unreal includes an option to "unreal to html5" is this option good?
• Is "unreal to html5" a way to make scenarios/go from scene to scene and launch dialogues?
• if so, will this format be supported by most computers (I'm not talking about 2010 macs but a relatively new range)

thanks a lot to those who will take the trouble to answer me 🙂

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[real copper]

good to hear mate

[fresh pulsar]

I would like it to like stay a circle so like not rotatin weirdly

I'll show the code a bit later can't rn

[blissful trail]

so i made game but it brokey
would i be able to send the editor to someone to fix ?

[oak patio]

again whats rotating, why is it weird, wdym stay like a circle, when you look at a circle as its rotating, the shape defoms

[oak patio]

if you want to hire someone to fix ur game then look at #instructions

[oak patio]

unreal to html5 is no longer supported, if you wanna make web games i would honestly go for unity

unreal to html 5 was just a way to package games, it would be reliant on your actual code for switching scenes etc

[wicked jolt]

okay cool so unity is a better option. But can I too make scene transition with unity ?

[oak patio]

yes

[plush yew]

anyone know if I can run ue4 on a computer and keep my project on a fast usb-c external ssd? anyone tried it?

[sharp brook]

Hey everyone can someone tell me where i should put issues related to movement and its performance?

[static pasture]

Anyone know of a plugin or editor utility that automatically takes every blueprint actor in a project and lays them out into a neat grid in a level? (solved, figured out how to do it myself with a simple editor utility script)

Probably also static meshes

[oak patio]

you can but i wouldnt reccomend it

it will take forever to do stuff

usb is very slow comparatively

[autumn latch]

How can i download image to HDD or SSD

[uneven tundra]

When baking lights, what is the best way to light up a big room with tons of lights? I cant add an individual lamp for ever light right? That would make it like 100+ lights for one room.

I can do that?

https://i.imgur.com/LDM8bma.png

I didnt know it was an option, someone told me to get it lit with those bounces

[plush basin]

anyone know how to fix this i'm trying to make a dedicated server and when i build in development server this errors apper

[azure shore]

yeah basically go crazy with lights as much as you want as long as theres no shadows on them

[drowsy snow]

You have to build from source code to build dedicated server, not using vanilla launcher builds.

And by building from source code, I mean building the engine from the source code.

[autumn latch]

How to convert Texture 2D Dynamic to Texture 2D

[crisp warren]

Hey, I'm new to using unreal and I'm making a game with blueprints
How do I use delta Time in unreal(blueprint)? I've used event tick and realised its dependent on framerate which I don't want.

[drowsy snow]

The event tick has delta seconds input pin that gives the delta seconds OR use Get World Delta Seconds (which is affected by time dilation)

[crisp warren]

Does the event tick give the delta seconds which I can use? I think that's what is happening

[drowsy snow]

Yes.

[crisp warren]

Alright, thanks a lot

[fresh pulsar]

Why it's weird is cuz it's a 2d game so if its only rotating in a 2d plane the shape shouldn't deform like that but it does anyway regardless of what rotation settings I plug into it from the look at rotation between the player and the mouse cursor that I am getting

And said circle is rotating as is shown in the image I sent

[drowsy snow]

Is it a particle?

[glacial arch]

Hey guys, do you know if custom HLSL nodes in UE4's materials work when compiling for Android and iOS? It'd be surprising if not but better safe than sorry

[fresh pulsar]

Well it's just a regular blueprint that I'm spawning when the player presses a button

[drowsy snow]

Finally, a context
Show the mesh material.

Though I think the billboard effect would be way easier with particles

[fresh pulsar]

Well.. depending on the context idk if I'm really trying to create a particle, the thing is a bullet

[fresh pulsar]

kay 1 min

this is the code (atm I've broken the spawn rotation connections)

[drowsy snow]

Well, you could have a particle system with just 1 sprite renderer, and put it in a BP with proper collision

[fresh pulsar]

For the record, at the moment I'm using the projectile movement component, I'm just pre-rotating it so that "forward" for the projectile is in the right direction

with the connections connected, well, I can do that, goes in any direction as it should, only problem is it also tends to rotate in 3d space instead of just 2d, seemingly regardless of how I set up the rotation connections, which is odd

You would think only plugging the 2 axes of the 2d game into the spawn rotation wouldn't rotate it in a 3d way right? yet it does

@drowsy snow

very weird problem that I'm dealing with

this is such a weird and specific problem that I'm not sure I could find a tutorial or video that could help me

[coarse wind]

Hey people, I'd love to get helpful videos about the Unreal framework / Structs / DataTables / Enums

[real copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dCa-xSDiQ

the whole shabang

[coarse wind]

yeah I found that and I'll watch it soon thanks 😁 if someone have anything else let me know !

[cyan rose]

They there, I’m developing UI in UE and I don’t need the viewport. Is there a way to completely disable the viewport/rendering to save resources?

[high bolt]

Create a new level with nothing in it. Then open that level. Now work on your UI.

The level can be called MainMenu.

Or whatever.

[cyan rose]

It still will be a viewport running

[oak patio]

The cost is negligable

[cyan rose]

Ok. Thanks.

[coral saffron]

I have a problem with the mouse when packaging out to for Pixel Streaming. I can see the mouse, but it goes crazy when you you try and move through the browser client (jumps all over the screen).

Anyone experienced this? Fought with it for hours now, and can't see to find anything on the internet about it.

[solemn hedge]

Just wanted to share one weird trick that fixed my nvidia gpu crashes. If i underclock my gpu it happens a lot less. It seems to happen only in dx12 games, and very consistenly when it does it, so it's definitely some driver issue.

I also have not found a driver version that helps :/

[late badge]

Hi, I have a question!
I'm working on a game but I'm struggling allot (I'm very new to this).
I was trying to get grass into my game but I understand how to do this. I have a github where there is a pre-made grass texture and more, but i don't even know how to start.
Can someone help me?

Github: https://github.com/SamsonStarmerLee/UE4-Grass

[plush yew]

if you get the content examples project, theres some really good grass you can copy from there: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/content-examples?sessionInvalidated=true

Could anyone know why this cast is failing?

[spice ruin]

It's either null or not a player controller.

Add a breakpoint and see.

Also don't cross-post.

[plush yew]

sorry

Im trying to make a pack multiplayer replicated, but having a lot of issues

for instance, only the server plays animations

you cant see your own anims as a client

[plush yew]

this is what print string got:

[chilly glade]

hey all I'm working on a legacy project using v4.23.1. Are there any major differences / missing features that I should know about compared to 4.27?

[low vale]

im not sure if im posting in the right place
Hello, I am a noob-beginner in Unreal. It is my dream to make a fighting game. I have working with Nocte's fighting game template for awhile now. I can get my characters imported i need help fine tuning some things. If you could help me out please DM me, I can provide more details.

[oak patio]

if you want to hire someone post to the job board read #instructions n

[stuck garnet]

Hi all, is it possible to paint and sculpt on tiled landscapes (using World Composition in 4.27)? When I enter Landscape Mode it says that the landscape actor is not loaded. Does anyone know what is causing this?

[low vale]

not looking to hire someone, just someone to tutor me. im working on the game myself but im having issues

[oak patio]

then youre looking to hire someone see above message

[low vale]

ok, posted in channel, thanks

[haughty hound]

Hi. Sometimes i do backups of projects (ctrl c ctrl v of the whole folder) then somethng goes wrong with the current one, when so i launch backup pie and what was wrong in the current shows in the pie backup, how can i fix that? How can i see pie backup as it was?

[oak patio]

dont crosspost

[cyan rose]

What is crosspost?

Some kind of new sport?

[fierce tulip]

@cyan rose please read the #rules as crossposting is frowned upon. thanks.

[twin prism]

Hi if anyone has Unreal Engine 4.27 or maybe even 4.26 can you go to C:\Program Files\UnrealEngine\UE_4.27\Engine\Build\BatchFiles and send me the RunUAT.bat file? Mine corrupted and I don't want to reinstall the whole engine.

[twin prism]

please someone here must have unreal engine 4

[fierce tulip]

if you open the launcher > unreal engine > library, you can see a tiny downwards arrow next to "launch" if you click on it you get a drop-down menu, and one of the options is "verify"
if you havent done any editor-modifications its a great way to retrieve deleted engine files. @twin prism

https://i.gyazo.com/539f60bcdfa77a7574eab297271826c0.gif

[plush yew]

canvas panel

[thin python]

Agreed

[autumn latch]

Keep pawn crouched when possessing

idk why this is happen

I use delay but it can't solve it completely

[twin prism]

thanks~!

[devout current]

Hello! I'm new. Where would be a good place to ask about entering/exiting vehicles?

[brisk pollen]

anybody have experience with EnhancedInputComponent? i have a Pressed input action that results in me pushing a new input mapping context. the new context has a different, higher priority Pressed input action on the same key. when i add the context, that input is immediately triggered in the new context as well -- a double trigger

the action is marked to consume the input but it doesn't prevent it from triggering in both contexts

it almost seems like adding a new input context resets the input state

[brisk pollen]

okay, this was fixed a few months ago on the ue5 branch 🙂 https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/35c3a22eccf5f15f351fd4f66e257c1e286b9971

[still breach]

Hey guys, can someone please help me understand why I'm experiencing very sharp textures on a map in one project and very nice and soft texture quality on the same map in a different project?

is there a setting variable I have enabled in one project that I dont in the other?

rough/sharp textures quality

soft texture quality:

[pallid olive]

hi got a question about players health. should this be a Bp component added to playercharacter or in gamemode? also for players level mostly increase in health should this be added in the component or added to gamemode or seperate component?

[covert kayak]

does anyone know how to reduce lag when a Big army of npcs are moving

[karmic jacinth]

anyone else have issues with small model objects missing faces on them when exporting them from blender to UE??

[ember geode]

How does unreal engine determine a random number? Like example does it use fan speed or voltage? I'm just curious on how it gets a random number.

[oak patio]

The same way in c++ i imagine, through random seed. I imagine without specifying a seed it uses the time as one, as is quite common for srand

[drowsy snow]

Personally I have it in a custom base actor class, so it can applied on anything

[granite lion]

How do you increase the distance before the shadow is downgraded to lower resolution?

[charred hemlock]

Hey guys, I'm looking recommendations on CD/CD tools for unreal projects. Is there a "standard solution" that most UE developers use?
I have a project that we use for developing an Unreal Plugin and would like to automate build processes as much as possible.

[eternal orchid]

4.25 can't build on XCode 13. 😅

[eternal orchid]

Thanks @real heath I'll give it a try using unrealpak.exe.

[buoyant musk]

Guys, can anyone help me with setting up bow and arrow system in my game pls... DM me

[neon laurel]

Right, told to ask here, sorry for bugging you

[drowsy snow]

Yeah whatever, I use Windows and Linux

[neon laurel]

How the hell do I move this stuff

to this stuff, sorry I posted it in the wrong chat

[drowsy snow]

What do you want to move? The physics body?
AFAIK there's no way to copy them across directly

[modest trench]

My first try would be to copy the graph nodes by selecting them all and copying

[neon laurel]

oh

fudge

[modest trench]

But it would probably be more simple to just remake them by hand one by one... 😦

[neon laurel]

So I can't just grab all the leg bits and push them into another?

[modest trench]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/PhysicsAssetEditor/HowTo/CreatePhysicsAsset/

and then
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/PhysicsAssetEditor/HowTo/EditPhATPhysicsBodies/

I believe you already have a physics body though

your job now is to hook it all up by just comparing the two

[neon laurel]

damn

[modest trench]

That's just what I would do though, I'm no expert

[drowsy snow]

I think you can copy the transforms, can't remember after I reworked my workflows

[modest trench]

My guess is you need to make the individual bodies yourself

It's pretty simple though, you should be able to get it going

Just make sure it lines up with wtf their setup is

naming conventions etc

[neon laurel]

fudge

I picked this unreal thing up about three, four hours ago

[drowsy snow]

Try 5+ years

[modest trench]

yeah unfortunately this is kinda tough to just jump in to

perhaps someone from the mwo community has some guides somewhere

er, mw5

you are gonna need to read some basic docs on how to set this up like I linked earlier

[drowsy snow]

Typically physics isn't the first thing one picked up when started with development

And I may be hypocrite because I was (and still is) a modder, but at least in many cases, physics are the least thing to worry about

[modest trench]

also shouldn't you be 6 years into unreal? did you take a quick Godot sabbatical?

in mechwarrior the mech hitbox is super important

[drowsy snow]

Nah, I'm not immediately jump into Unreal full time

[modest trench]

haha, same here

I've been looking at it since 2014 but only really got serious for 4 years randomly spread around

[drowsy snow]

I had a brief period of web dev hell

[modest trench]

;__;

[neon laurel]

So there's not even like an import button that I could use? Damn.

[drowsy snow]

That kinda makes me thinking, I would really have to supply customised version of UE4.27 to have proper modding support

Lua has the custom scripting covered, but not the custom assets

[modest trench]

Weeeell there was that one company'

https://www.crushdepthstudios.com/code-orchestra-blog/code-orchestra-overview-c-in-unreal-engine

[drowsy snow]

But at the same time I know underground modders will have to go through the exact same hoops to get the vanilla editor anyway

[modest trench]

FWIW I personally think a third party scripting lang tied to a 3rd party is 100% terrifying

if they uh, disappear your project is now dead

[drowsy snow]

I think I remember this server had drama with this 🤔

[modest trench]

I think they just posted in a random channel

[drowsy snow]

Was it #lounge? I remember participating in the convo

[modest trench]

something about promoting the plugin iirc, I dunno

still a very cool project though

I sure would enjoy not waiting around for C++

can I PM you something real quick? not help related

[drowsy snow]

Sure

[neon laurel]

right, I got an idea

what if I use C++ to copy/paste all the details bullshit from one to the other? Is that viable?

And what exactly do I need to do to not bug it out?

It looks viable, and I have used C++ for some robot legs not MW5

But I want to know - if I copy and paste all of this over, what happened? What do I copy paste?

Also I can’t get over some mod has a fucking only fans link lmao

@drowsy snow (sorry to ping you

[drowsy snow]

Probably not C++
I doubt the mod kit can be used to make new C++ class

[neon laurel]

fudge

[summer marsh]

Can anyone help me how to add wind effect in scene that effect these top clothes.

[thin tendon]

@summer marsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOq8OB_3AQ&t=362s&ab_channel=underscore

[atomic crypt]

Hi sorry to double post, anyone has some good starter guides on pixel streaming where the stream is per user rather than a bunch of users or is there another way to do this, like I understand streaming is a one to many operation but this user wants it to be per user per stream

[summer marsh]

not work for me. error while drag and drop cloth to new material.

[drowsy snow]

Pixel streaming is essentially cloud gaming but you provide your own servers

[atomic crypt]

Ah okay makes sense, but these people are using it for some sort of unique interaction system, like a car showroom or something, but they want it to be per user, which makes no sense to me

Like the user comes to the webpage, gets an interactive video, but they want this to be a single stream per user, and I'm a infra person but from what I gathered it's just a server that listens on a port, so I'm not sure how much can one server handle in terms of GPU and testing this out on my end is either expensive or not possible since I don't have a good enough GPU.

[fresh pulsar]

back again

a day later

still in need of help

[hasty crest]

Any idea what could this be or how to fix it? i cant open my project

[File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Private/Serialization/Archive.cpp] [Line: 724]
BulkData compressed header read error. This package may be corrupt!

[night oar]

Hi, Guys hope all of you are good. Well i wanted to ask is how can we make callback functions

[weary breach]

Hey everyone, can someone tell me if there is possibility to enable ncloth simulation on mobile in 4.27?

[worthy plaza]

hi, probably this is a stupid question but u can use the "Swat" character from mixamo for a commercial project?

[drowsy snow]

Highly doubt that will ever be supported for mobile

[spring totem]

How fix engine flickering, after ~15 all popups blinks and disappear

[real heath]

There's a fix in the pins for that on Nvidia GPUs

[small vault]

any reason why I'm not getting any buffer visualization output on anything but scenedepth? Is this a limitation of forward rendering?

[fierce tulip]

if I recall correctly, yes. but not 100% sure

[real heath]

It's the key difference between forward and deferred rendering. Deferred rendering renders to those buffers and then does a pass for lighting using those buffers. Forward shading does it all in one step. It's why lighting with tons of lights is so much cheaper in deferred shading

It's also the reason for the upfront cost of deferred shading. More memory and memory bandwidth required

[small vault]

Thank you for the explanation, I figured that was the case but was hoping for something 😉 Happy that it's cleared up anyway

[spring totem]

Where i can find that fix ?

[drowsy snow]

📌

[real heath]

Pinned messages at the top of the window

[spring totem]

Thanks

[fallow jackal]

how do you enable vsync for a project?

[real heath]

Console command r.vsync 1

[spring totem]

How get image of static mesh, like it displays in content browser ?

[fallow jackal]

how to apply game user settings for all levels before they are loaded?

[drowsy snow]

Uh... Game User Settings aren't bound to one level

[fallow jackal]

i want to set graphic settings and then have it on all levels

Where do i change the default game user settings?

[drowsy snow]

Game User Settings typically set by the .ini file, though doing things with GUS involves a lot of C++ so it's not super straightforward.

[fallow jackal]

How do i wait for everything to load before popping me in? the foliage appears a good second after i spawn

[thin tendon]

If you know the level you want to spawn in you preload it.

[drowsy snow]

Level streaming, or level travel (Open Level)?

[fallow jackal]

open

[drowsy snow]

You could cheat a bit by having a cross fade from solid colour after changing level (unless it's Half Life style of loading map)

[peak hare]

So I naively thought I could change camera setting boolean 'do collision test' in game, what is the correct way to do this? Doesn't seem to work as intended

[coral saffron]

Is there any documentation on Launch arguments for UE games? (Eg -vr etc)