cinematics

[burnt valley]

maybe double check the alpha. maybe the render is not black, its just premuliplied with a black alpha

[royal snow]

thats a frame of it

is literally nothing 😄

[burnt valley]

thats your image. its 9mb. the alpha channel is black, so most viewers will premultiply it , because the think it shouldnt be visible

[royal snow]

oh wow, how did you find out?

[burnt valley]

i just used a proper image viewer. in my case RV, but djv should also work

[royal snow]

wow learnt something new today!

But the alpha channel shouldn't be black theoretically

[burnt valley]

no, it should be white (solid)

[royal snow]

I mean I can probably tell ffmpeg to ignore the alpha channel when doing the video

[burnt valley]

exactly.
ue4 or 5 ? there is a flag to disable alpha for pngs

[royal snow]

ue4.27

@burnt valley From debugging, I found out that disabling a sharpen PP material we use will cause it to work

The PP material doesn't have any opacity outputs though

[burnt valley]

ah, that makes sense.
also have a look here:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/movie-render-queue-png-export-always-transparent/512343

[royal snow]

yea I've read that, even tried PropagateAlpha but it didn't do anything

[tight stone]

@burnt valley @royal snow It's a bug where you have PP mateirals with "Output Alpha" set to FALSE that it defaults to fully transparent instead of fully opaque. You can enable "Outputs Alpha" and feed the scene alpha through (or 1 or 0 I don't remember which)

The "Accumulator Includes Alpha" is only relevant if you have > 1 TS/SS, so it doesn't work in the 'base' case

[burnt valley]

awesome, thanks for the explanation. wasn't aware of this bug

[tight stone]

Yeah it's been there for a while apparently

(I thought it was new in UE5 but it's in 427 as you noted)

[deep jetty]

Is there any way to modify an object's pivot point/origin in sequencer?

[royal snow]

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. Works like a charm now!

Another question, is there a reason the engine warm up frame count can be found under Anti-Aliasing?

I don't need extra antialiasing in the export but I need warm up frames so can I just use the warm up count and turn off the AA there?

[tight stone]

The default 1/1 for ts/ss won't do anything

[tight stone]

No but you can parent it to a dummy cube that you set to invisible

[deep jetty]

Awesome lil workaround, thanks!

[tight stone]

The default settings when you add a new setting to the UI are what it uses internally, even if you didn't add the setting. So the AA setting is always applied but the default values (1 spatial, 1 temporal, no override AA checkbox etc) are applied if you don't add the setting, so adding it and not changing it means no difference than default

[deep jetty]

Can sequences be configured to work on a local transform basis? And assign actors (the specific instance) through, say, a blueprint variable? I'm making a bit of gameplay animation using sequencer and trying to make it replicatable...

[tight stone]

Yes, look up relative level sequence and actor rebinding

[deep jetty]

Great! Thanks!

[umbral harness]

hello ppl 🙂 I've been using UE mostly for cinematics, so my usual process is getting animations, adding the character to sequencer, assigning animations, editing with control rig, etc ... so, never really used much of animBPs. But I have a specific situation where I'd like to do some stuff to a character (gun IK specifically). Is it possible to set it up on an animBP, in a way that it just takes whatever animation is in sequencer, does the gun IK, and outputs the modified pose? thank you

[severe grail]

Yes, in AnimBPs you have the notion of "Slots" where a slot is just a place you can feed an animation. There's a default slot in all anim bps and this is what sequencer will play animations on normally however you can define multiple slots and set your animations in sequencer to play on specific slots. Right clicking an animation track in sequencer lets you define the slot it plays on. For example you could set it up where you had two animation tracks on your character, one driving the face of your character and one driving the body. In your case it would just be Slot -> IK -> Output Pose

see the following docs page for more specific info: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/animation-slots-in-unreal-engine/

Oh and one little gotcha is you can only play on one slot per group at the same time, so if you wanted to drive two or more slots at the same time they need to be in different slot groups

[umbral harness]

damn! thank you! since this is just a simple gun IK thing, I can basically just start the animgraph with default slot and it's done 😅 of course I could complicate and get some vars in order to be able to position the left hand, but, it works well enough out of the bat! again, thank you so much! I know this is basic stuff, but ... to me, it's all new 😅

[severe grail]

Yep! In fact I seem to remember if you don't connect anything to your input it'll just get the default slot's value automatically, but I'd probably still recommend adding a default slot node to make it clear what's happening

It honestly wouldn't be that complicated to add variables if you did go that route. Just making a variable in your graph and ticking "expose to cinematics" in the variable properties will make it so you can add it as a track in sequencer and key it as needed. This can be really handy for IK as you can control how strong your IK is as you go or apply offsets when needed

[umbral harness]

(btw, I normally do gun IK directly using the control rig ... but this is not for me, it's for someone who doesn't have a "standard" skeleton that has an existing control rig, etc)

[viral copper]

Is there a way to warm up Movie Render Queue? Each time I start a render my cables jump around like crazy until they normalize after about 80 frames...

and I just want one picture

[umbral harness]

try adding Anti-aliasing settings and defining render/engine warm up

[viral copper]

I've turned on Render Warm Up Frames and Render Warm Up Count to 80

but still

The cables are really wiggly before they stabilize

[umbral harness]

I think in your case you should ddo engine warm up, cos it's physics related 🙂

[viral copper]

ok, i'll try that

What about the tick box?

[umbral harness]

render warm up is more if you want the GI to stabilize

[viral copper]

understand

thanks

[umbral harness]

(posting this from memory, not testing anything, so 😅 )

[viral copper]

i'll try

oh yeah, engine warm up makes the frames render very quickly with cables stabilizing

After 40 frames almost good already

[umbral harness]

there ya go, give it a good chunk of engine warm up, and physics should stabilize 😉

[viral copper]

Thanks so much! 😄

[umbral harness]

np 👍

cool cranes btw 😄

[viral copper]

Thanks! 🙂 project under NDA unfortunately

Can't show more yet.. 😄

[umbral harness]

sure, I understand 🙂 the small sample already looks cool 👍

[viral copper]

First time rendering in unreal 5, was used to 4 and the whole Lumen stuff is new

[umbral harness]

yep 🙂 make sure to keep in mindd it's very distance restricted

also if you have an rtx card, make sure to make lumen operate fully hardware

[deep jetty]

Not really sure where I shoudl be asking this... Is there any way to clear or disable ALL messqges/tabs + + while in Play Standalone mode...? Trying to do 10 secs of screen capture WITHOUT anything else on the screen...

[umbral harness]

have you tried DISABLEALLSCREENMESSAGES ?

[deep jetty]

Yup. But doesn't seem to affect Play Standalone when entered in editor... How do I open output log in standalon, do you know?

[umbral harness]

there's a shortcut key for opening up the console ... you need to check it on your settings

by default, I think it's that one

also @deep jetty https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/not-able-to-open-console-in-standalone-game/345416/2

[deep jetty]

Worked! Thanks a bunch, man! Quite the struggle for such a lottle thing. Would it be controversial to say this should be a bit easier to toggle?

[umbral harness]

heh glad it worked 🙂 well, lots of things "should" be easier, mostly dependent on everyone's priorities I guess 😅

[deep jetty]

True! Just thinking, with the amout of people using UE for architectural + visualizations etc, wanting mockups within minutes... But I'm not complaning! Thanks again!

[umbral harness]

I agree with you 🙂

[edgy robin]

Hello, ticking the "hide hud" box in a level sequence doesn't work for me. Am I missing something?

[subtle mural]

is it possible to render an image from a sub frame? In the shot the frame I want to render as an image lands on an actual frame but in the master sequence it's partway through a frame

[little dirge]

Hello, Ghostbusters HQ, (Fan Boy Project) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_Mwl8axhc

[river elm]

I’m trying to render out something only one frame as a screenshot in preview everything looks fine, path tracing and in realtime

But in render the glass material (its a transparent bowl with stuff inside it) becomes soo blurry that it ruins everything fully

Any fix? I disabled blurbset camera shutter to open idk what else to do

[tight stone]

This only works if you use the old c++ based hud class on player controllers, not random widgets added via AddToViewport

[tight stone]

No, mrq always rounds down to the nearest whole frame at master level

[subtle mural]

yeah, I just ended up making a new take and playing with the timings, thanks tho

[vocal frost]

I have a level sequence which animates a skeletal mesh control rig. I'm playing the sequence on the server and clients (via a multicast event). The sequence players on all clients, but the skeletal mesh only animates on the server...any ideas?

[umbral harness]

I have no idea of the reason that might be happening ... but an idea would be, bake the control rig animation into an animation sequence 🙂 then just mute the control rig and add the baked animation. Hopefully that will solve it (if the problem is using the CR on server/client anyways 😅 )

[vocal frost]

I guess i just like to be able to easily update the control rig if i want to (if i decide to change the animation)....but "create linked animation sequence" should work for that right?

[umbral harness]

well, if that will create a new sequence with the control rig in it, and if the problem is on the control rig (which I don't know if it is) you'll only be shifting th eproblem around 😅 but, this is all guesswork. My suggestion was just eliminating one variable (the control rig) from the equation

I understand th eneed to update the rig afterwards, that's why I suggested you to mute it, not get rid of it. If you need to do any changes, just delete the baked animation, un mute th erig, do the changes, and bake again

again, if the problem resides on the control rig

[vocal frost]

Yeah it works ok when baking the animation; the trouble now is i already had an animation layer (eye blinks), so i've got to figure out how to blend the control rig animation with the existing animation (currently the eye blink animation is doing totally body override on top of the control rig animation)

[umbral harness]

yeah, I understand that problem, seen it being asked here and there, unfortunately I don't know the solution for it. I'll probably bump into it myself one of these days, but I haven't yet 😅

[lyric salmon]

Hello! I am new to the cinematics space and I was wondering what it would take to make a transition from one scene to another.

For example: you have a rain forest and a snowy biome on two different scenes. Whats the most optimal way to go from one of those scenes to another without any lag or major performance drawbacks AND how would you implement the transition? The style of transition isnt super important I just want to understand the mechanic

if anyone has a solution pls tag me

[solemn gull]

how do i make the DOF stronger

also how do i take still image renders

i use high reolution screenshot to do it

[tight stone]

Looks like a rendering bug maybe with DoF? I'd use the ShowFlag.<foo> 0 system to turn off various things until it goes away to isolate what it is. When you say "screen size", you mean r.screenpercentage right? Can always just render out at twice the resolution and resize in post

[tight stone]

It follows the same model as physical cameras so you can look up how it works with real cameras.

[tight stone]

Make a level sequence that's 1 frame long with your camera and a camera cut track

[solemn gull]

is this a bad way to do it?

[solemn gull]

it renders in low quality

pixelated too

this is the old workflow

[tight stone]

Are you using MRQ or are you using the legacy sequence renderer

[solemn gull]

this

[tight stone]

The default settings should give you AA on the first frame. If you want "real" anti-aliasing you can add the "Anti Aliasing" setting to the config and override AA to none in the dialog and then use 9 spatial samples.

[solemn gull]

what does spatial sample do

[tight stone]

jitters the camera like TAA, except it renders the whole scene for each jitter instead of using a "history" like TAA does

So you don't get the ghosting associated with TAA

[solemn gull]

also why

this doesnt mean the render right?

[tight stone]

Because the accumulation of multiple temporal/spatial samples is done on the CPU and it's not worth the performance cost to re-upload the resulting image to the GPU for the preview window

So it only shows you the latest sample rendered.

[solemn gull]

oh ok

idk it still looks weird

[tight stone]

Doesn't really look like you're getting AA at all.

[neat venture]

I'm not sure how to ask this question, but is there a way to have two world spaces? I want to have my game play happening in the foreground but a cinematic happening in the background. Where I'm lost is how to have the camera move while keeping the gameplay in front

Tetris effect does this very well, but I for the life of me can't understand how they do it

[tight stone]

Can you post a video of the example you're thinking about?

[quick portal]

The most ideal anti aliasing would be to render it in higher resolution without AA, but scale it down to desired resolution.
Basically supersampling

[short nexus]

Hi all, I'm rendering some sequences in UE5 and our hero level actor BP (a car) cannot have the "Run Construction Script In Sequencer" (in Class Settings) enabled, otherwise it completely breaks baked animation sequences from being run on the car.

However I have some quality-of-life features I've added to the construction script (bools that turn headlights on and off etc). Is there anyway to implement these features without doing them on the Construction Script? Does BeginPlay run when using Movie Render Queue?

[quick portal]

MRQ exporting is running Play in Editor, so runtime code will run.

Though I think it can be a double edged sword, especially if you use anything that goes through multiple in-game frames to render out a frame.

[short nexus]

Thanks for that, wasn't sure. It's really just keying things on and off once at the beginning of the sequence (interiors need to have certain components turned on that can't be on in exterior shots etc)

[neat venture]

https://youtu.be/gdHQdQY9css @ 9:25

Couldn't share the link that just jumps at the right time. My fault on that

[tight stone]

MRQ is just PIE, so BeginPlay works as expected, as well as Tick

Oops, Makoto already said that

@neat venture Maybe parent the gameplay elements to the camera and move the camera around the world, or bring the gameplay closer/further? It's not great for performance (lots of parented objects) but might be okay as a prototype

[neat venture]

So I was considering the parenting to the camera but like you said it seems like it can get a bit messy over time. I tried moving the gameplay further and closer as well but it felt like it was way too much effort, so if figured I was going about things the wrong way. But it is starting to sound like those are my only options

I asked on here hoping there was a something I didn't understand that would make it as easy as checking a box lol 😅

[tight stone]

@neat venture You could try getting creative with scene capture components and using two different cameras - one to render the background (to a render target) and the other to render the gameplay (to the same render target) and then showing that render target on the UI as a HUD element

That'd at least let you control them separately, but scene capture components have their own struggles.

[neat venture]

Hmm that's interesting. I haven't looked into scene capture components at all.

I swear working on games can humble you very quickly lol

[quick portal]

Tetris Effect actually have one viewport

There's no screen capture for second viewport going on

[neat venture]

Really now?

[quick portal]

Yes.
Just notice in some scenes the background element clips through the playing board

[neat venture]

Yea you are right, I've seen that too

[unreal moat]

Hi all. I have a question regarding the Take Recorder, which seems to be a very under-documented feature. I'm trying to record the perspective of a thirdperson camera during a gameplay take, but can't seem to capture the camera translation. The camera view is recorded in it's static position behind the character and doesn't take into account any translation due to player input. Anyone get what I'm saying?

[tall steeple]

anyone here accepting animation commissions?

[tight stone]

<@&213101288538374145> ^

[open gyro]

@tall steeple Please read the #rules. Use the Job Board for soliciting paid help.

You can find how to use the Job Board by reading the #instructions channel.

[edgy robin]

I see, thank you

[hexed gazelle]

Hello, can I use the sequencer shortcuts without hovering over the actual sequencer? 3 seconds for each time I'm having to change windows at 400 times a day at least, and I'm wasting 20 minutes just moving a mouse 🙈

[pseudo light]

hi guys, my sequencer is grayed out for some reason

can someone please help!

okay nevermind, i got there in the end. I had to add a LevelSequenceActor first

okay nevermind, it doesnt work lol

[pseudo light]

yep this aint working

[tight stone]

Only a handful. The 's' key for keying works while the level viewport is focused.

[tight stone]

You need to open an a sequence asset, you can't open Sequencer without a specific level sequence ot show

[hexed gazelle]

Ah, that's so frustrating. It's really not animator friendly and I guess it never was meant to be. Thanks for the reply

[vital pasture]

Hello, i have no camera selected in my level and the debug focus plane is visible, is this normal? will this affect my renders? what is going on?

[vital pasture]

apparently it was a visual bug, i restarted the project and it went away.

[kindred loom]

I have added a CineCameraActor and snapped object to view but when attempting to change my perspective view to "placed cameras", the option doesn't appear. Any suggestions? I've tried looking it up but I just can't figure it out!

[tight stone]

Maybe just click the camera icon on the object once you add it to Sequencer?

[outer bluff]

hey we just finished up a project with this workflow and it all worked great through the sequencer especially turning levels off and on thanks so much for your help and guidance and response on this. I'd buy you lunch if I could 🙂

hey we just finished up a project with this workflow and it all worked great through the sequencer especially turning levels off and on thanks so much for your help and guidance and response on this. I'd buy you lunch if I could 🙂

[ember pilot]

anyone knows why are the textures blurred out in some parts

[unreal moat]

Looking for someone with a deep understanding of the Take Recorder and the way it records camera movements.

I'm trying to record a third person take, but I can't get the recorder to capture player controller input on the spring arm, meaning if I rotate the camera around the character during a take the camera position doesn't get recorded. Is there a way to do this?

[barren lagoon]

ha, reading this made my day mate, glad i could help someone out. cheers 🍻

[deep jetty]

I've got a BP with rotating movement component in sequencer. How to get it to start/simulate during sequence playback?

[kindred loom]

Thanks, I forgot there is also a hot key to pilot the cinecam!

[tight stone]

Not sure if this was a question or not but in very recent versions of the engine Ctrl + L toggles looking through a camera I think?

[tight stone]

Glad you got something that worked out well for you! 👍

[tight stone]

Probably because the texture came from a photogrammetry scan and there's not actually anything on the source model mapped to those areas of the UV map, so the tool kind of just interpolates border colors (of UV shells) to cover the area, but it doesn't actually have any detail.

[tight stone]

Either just animate it by hand w/o component, or it'll only work in PIE/Render Time (which is just a PIE session) and not preview in the editor

[deep jetty]

Aha, I get it. Pity! Thanks for the help, though!

[lyric oak]

Hello everyone. Can someone tell me why I'm getting those ghost appearances of the model on the rendering? I'm doing a 360º turnaround, and this is showing in pretty much all the frames

[tight stone]

object is rotating too fast for pixel rejection heuristics to work well on them

For temporal based rendering features

[timid pawn]

Anyone know how I can let an NPC actor walk along a spline / pathway in the Sequencer only? I saw this in a tutorial, but person doesnt explain how to create this Path. Thanks! :D

[umbral harness]

animating only its root (position and rotation) is easy; add a camera rail, add it to sequencer, attach your character to the camera rail (might need to attach it to the camera head mount component, don't remember exactly), define the path using the camera rail, and finally keyframe animate the position in path parameter. This will not deal witth the character walking animation of course. But it might be a start 🙂

[deep jetty]

trying to add boxing gloves...To a character BP that is strictly for cinematics, with control rig. Sockets set up in skeleton, meshes added in BP viewport...Why don\t they follow in Sequencer? Any thoughts?

[frank sonnet]

are they parented to the body

[deep jetty]

In the BP you mean? If so, yes. As variable components, they also have tick boxes for "Expose to Cinematics", which I was wopndering about. However these boxes cannot be ticked...

[umbral harness]

have you tried not adding them to the BP, but adding them to the level as separate actors, adding them to sequencer, and attaching to the character's hands in sequencer?

[deep jetty]

Yes, I tried that first, actually. But perhaps not in exactly the right way. Attach to hand sockets? I couldn't find any way to do that...

[umbral harness]

in sequencer, select the right hand glove; add an attach track; select the character as parent; select the right hand bone ... done 🙂 you'll then need to go and zero out the transforms on the glove (depending on the attach settings, by default zero will become the attach parent, so they probably be out in space 😅 ) @deep jetty

[deep jetty]

Beautiful! Great, I'll try that! Gotta wrap up the previous anim, then I'll be testing it. Big thanks! I'll let you know how it worked out!

[main forge]

hi. how is it possible to control the aspect ratio on the cine camera, similarly to the default camera ?

[polar sundial]

Hello team. I need to do a large number of automated hi res pretty promo screenshots. It is a static scene.

Is there any benefit of using Sequencer over doing it in blueprints via the TakeHiResScreenshot node with a CineCameraActor plugged into it?

[glacial scarab]

Having a simple issue where a music sting isn't playing beyond the bounds of the sequence itself despite enabling Postroll and specifying the post roll frames. Am I missing something here?

[manic patio]

Hello,is there a way to add a new track to a sequencer?
or do i have to make a sequencer for each animation?

[main forge]

is it possible to run character animations in virwport without hitting play ?

[gentle lichen]

Hi there! Can you you guys advise me some video\tutorial how i can make location transition in cinematic?

[main forge]

what needs to go into sequencer to be able to scroll an animation file ?

[vast mesa]

Hi. Does anyone know how to add text to a sequencer animation? Trying to do a credits animation but can't figure out how to add text.