junior phoenix Mar 6, 2018, 9:47 PM

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I said periodically because I don't know how often I should. Is the release branch updated at the same time as the launcher version? I already do a lot of work with unreal via the launcher. I like the launcher because it automatically notifies me to update. When you say to test in a separate branch, do you mean creating your own branch of the engine rather than just cloning epic's version? I was under the impression that I should just pull from epic's release branch

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In case it isn't obvious, I'm a bit of a git noob

gloomy hamlet Mar 6, 2018, 9:50 PM

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If you intend only to clone the release branch as is, what is your reason for wanting to use a source build at all?

junior phoenix Mar 6, 2018, 9:50 PM

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As I understand it, dedicated servers can only be built using source

gloomy hamlet Mar 6, 2018, 9:51 PM

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Okay. Yeah if that's your only purpose, then it's fine to just clone release. You can just pull updates whenever you have a need to.

junior phoenix Mar 6, 2018, 9:52 PM

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Is the typical workflow to have a version of the engine for each project, or to have one version for multiple projects(like the launcher)?

gloomy hamlet Mar 6, 2018, 9:54 PM

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I don't know what's typical, it would depend on studio. But I would say, just use one unless you have a specific need to modify the engine in a particular way for a certain projects.

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Having said that, it would be quite normal to have different projects tracking different release versions of the engine.

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For example, a project approaching release is not going to be using as recent an engine version as another in the prototyping stage.

junior phoenix Mar 6, 2018, 9:56 PM

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Right, that makes sense

sick pivot Mar 7, 2018, 3:21 AM

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Looking to consult with someone on very specific portion of the game engine - NetDriver + IOnlineSessionInterface. Namely - we are looking to pull off a host migration system in our game.... this looks to be pretty deep into the actual engine functionality with the NetDriver and a few other components..... which limits my exposure to said topic.

This is a paid consultation - please message me with any questions directly. I hate to advertise in this channel singularly - but i dont want/need the countless banter from individuals not even established/familiar with Game Engine coding/source.

hollow kernel Mar 7, 2018, 9:04 AM

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<source/git newb here> is it possible to diff a source fork on git? I'd like to see changes made to this specific fork of 4.18: https://github.com/marynate/UnrealEngine/tree/4.18-release-toon

Using other custom shader resources, I assume only 9 files were modified, but I'd like to make sure if possible.

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Oops. Found it. Diff = Compare in git

elder falcon Mar 7, 2018, 8:50 PM

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anyone tested vs 15.6 yet?

gloomy hamlet Mar 7, 2018, 9:54 PM

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Installed today. No issues so far, but that's compiling project only. Not tried to build engine.

elder falcon Mar 7, 2018, 10:11 PM

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just installed it aswell and rebuilt engine, all seems to work

hollow kernel Mar 8, 2018, 2:11 AM

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When creating new material pins, how should I go about generating a new FGuid?

"MaterialShared.cpp"
Add(FGuid(0x0AC97EC3, 0xE3D047BA, 0xB610167D, 0xC4D919FF), TEXT...

Can I just slap in 4 random 4byte hexs so long as they aren't already being used?

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I couldn't find much info on how the existing ones were generated.

radiant hazel Mar 8, 2018, 2:37 AM

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@hollow kernel they are GUID's

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They are generated like any other GUIDs

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I think Visual Studio even has a macro for "generate guid"

hollow kernel Mar 8, 2018, 2:39 AM

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Sorry, I'm not familiar with how other GUIDs are generated.
Thanks! I'll look into the VS macro.

I take it it's not a good idea to make one manually? heh

radiant hazel Mar 8, 2018, 2:40 AM

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No, don't make one manually

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It won't be a big deal, a GUID is almost like a random string of numbers, the chances of something breaking are astronomically low

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But

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There is a specific algorithm that ensures that there will pretty much be no collisions between GUIDs and decreases those chances even beyond just a random string

hollow kernel Mar 8, 2018, 2:41 AM

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Got it. Thanks a lot for the info! I'll definitely go the VS macro route.

radiant hazel Mar 8, 2018, 2:42 AM

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@hollow kernel a properly generated guid is guranteed to not collide in the future, nobody will come up with the same string etc

valid surge Mar 8, 2018, 6:32 PM

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has anyone managed to build unreal tournament from source?
when i run setup.bat i get the following error

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looking at the files on the github the redist files are not even on there

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so i copied them in manually from my engine folder and then setup.bat runs and installs the prereq but it doesnt install any of the files i need in order to generate the project files to build the project

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inner burrow Mar 8, 2018, 11:09 PM

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anyone know how to fix this i downloaded a project off Redist but the project was made using a different version of unreal engine but it wont rebuild

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do i have to compile it using visual c++?

spice shadow Mar 8, 2018, 11:27 PM

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yes

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that's what i would normally do if i get that error

small cobalt Mar 8, 2018, 11:31 PM

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@inner burrow You would need the same engine version.

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If it is an Source Build, you need to rebuild it from its custom source as the message suggests

inner burrow Mar 8, 2018, 11:34 PM

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what program do u use to rebuild off the custom source?

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why isnt the 4.18 version on there?

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the project needs to be a UE4 version 4.18 but im using 4.18.3

shrewd thorn Mar 9, 2018, 6:51 PM

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4.18.x is guaranteed to be compatible with 4.18, and includes critical bug fixes, you always want to use the latest point release

grim halo Mar 10, 2018, 8:11 AM

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I made an engine mod for 4.18 and merged it with release

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no I want to merge it with 4.19, but for some reason release has about 500 commits that 4.19 doesn't have ( my mod only added something like 10 )

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so I can't just merge it

gloomy hamlet Mar 10, 2018, 8:16 AM

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Have you tried merging your modified 4.18 branch into 4.19 instead?

grim halo Mar 10, 2018, 11:06 AM

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the problem is i merged by change directly in release, which corresponded to 4.18 at the time

clear nacelle Mar 10, 2018, 12:17 PM

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ive never edited the source before so im not sure what needs to be done to apply changes to my project

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all i did was change the initialization value of InactivePlayerStateLifeSpan

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do i just need to rebuild this particular file or the entire engine?

gloomy hamlet Mar 10, 2018, 12:49 PM

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You need a source engine installation. Then you just rebuild it and it will determine which files need recompiling.

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@grim halo You could use git cherry-pick to apply the commits you made previously onto the 4.19 branch.

clear nacelle Mar 10, 2018, 12:56 PM

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cool thanks, just wanted to make sure i wouldnt have to wait 30+ minutes like the first build

gloomy hamlet Mar 10, 2018, 1:06 PM

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You shouldn't. But sometimes you do anyway, UBT is hit and miss.

grim halo Mar 10, 2018, 7:59 PM

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this is weird

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git cherry pick detects a lot of "both modified" files even though upstream didn't modify most of them

elder falcon Mar 10, 2018, 10:35 PM

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pretty sure all files were updated for 4.19 since the copyright year changed

wet vector Mar 10, 2018, 11:14 PM

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I never worked with UE4 Source Code , But i've looked into CryEngine 5 Source code (I am building it rn) ,

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And it is Modular

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With multiple projects set up for each seperate module

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Does UE4 Do the same ?

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(CE5 currently has 73 Projects )

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The reason i am asking is that , As far as i know / seen , It makes it faster to work with , You modify something , You only have to compile that (There are exceptions of course

elder falcon Mar 10, 2018, 11:21 PM

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unreal is also split in many modules, ubt automatically takes care of only building what's necessary

wet vector Mar 10, 2018, 11:21 PM

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Multiple Projects ?

elder falcon Mar 10, 2018, 11:21 PM

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however there are so many cross-includes between modules that it rebuilds the whole engine very often

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all the modules are just added to one project, since ubt takes care of the building and the vs solution is just for you to look at the code

wet vector Mar 10, 2018, 11:24 PM

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I've looked more into the way CE does it , There are lots of modules , They get built seperatly , You ONLY have to build a single project in case of non large modification , Other then that , You have to build The Project + CrySystem (Which takes care of connecting all the seperate projects together (Projects get built into DLLs)

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I which that EPIC would take a more modular approach

elder falcon Mar 10, 2018, 11:25 PM

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unreal has them less nicely separated

wet vector Mar 10, 2018, 11:26 PM

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It would really boost their productivity

elder falcon Mar 10, 2018, 11:26 PM

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changing headers anywhere likely results in full rebuild unless it's some side module like paper2d

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changing a cpp file works as expected though

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it would actually not boost their productivity much

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their solution is to throw infinite processing power at it with incredibuild

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only we get the problems

stable hemlock Mar 11, 2018, 7:54 PM

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hi all

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I'm currently in the process of getting UE4 to run on FreeBSD (as a fun project and to see how far I could get)

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but I've hit two main roadblocks it seems: Physx and FBX library

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of PhysX I know I should be able to get the source on Github, but I can't seem to get through the Nvidia process; I request access, but I never get an e-mail

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does anyone know what to do to get access?

wraith crystal Mar 11, 2018, 8:44 PM

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is there a way to detect whether a computer has an integrated GPU?
the engine currently thinks Intel == integrated

from WindowsD3D11Device.cpp:

    // Simple heuristic but without profiling it's hard to do better
    const bool bIsIntegrated = bIsIntel;

signal leaf Mar 11, 2018, 9:23 PM

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When using the engine from source for a dedicated server. When do you have to rebuild Development Server? Should you use Build or Rebuild when doing that?

signal leaf Mar 11, 2018, 10:40 PM

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Also, does anyone know what this warning/error is for. Its showing up when running the dedicated server with -log flag:

[2018.03.11-22.38.00:824][366]LogScript: Warning: Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetPlayerCameraManager_ReturnValue

obtuse axle Mar 11, 2018, 10:46 PM

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Well, it tells you what occurred—you tried to access a value which was null from a "Get Player Camera Manager" node.

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There's not much more we can extrapolate from that one message, however

signal leaf Mar 11, 2018, 10:49 PM

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Maybe this can help @obtuse axle
This is how I am making the text box over a players head turn towards the camera

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I am assuming the warning is hinting at a different or better way of doing this?

obtuse axle Mar 11, 2018, 10:52 PM

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Did you mean to send a picture?

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Either way, this is probably more of a #blueprint question

signal leaf Mar 11, 2018, 10:52 PM

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Oh ye

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@obtuse axle Thanks, I'll ask over there.

clear nacelle Mar 12, 2018, 2:14 AM

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where could i go about implementing code in the source to always make the game start on the primary monitor?

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theres an engine bug that makes it always start on the left monitor and id like to make it stop doing that

obtuse axle Mar 12, 2018, 2:17 AM

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The fix is implemented on promoted and staging-4.19, if you'd like to use those

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The fix is buried in a 700,000 line commit, however, so there's really not much way of knowing what the fix itself is :/

clear nacelle Mar 12, 2018, 2:19 AM

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guess ill try to search for it

obtuse axle Mar 12, 2018, 2:19 AM

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Here's the issue: https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-54135

clear nacelle Mar 12, 2018, 2:20 AM

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how could i add that code to the engine if i find it? my game is entirely blueprint except for the code required to make a dedicated server work but im running on a source built 4.18

obtuse axle Mar 12, 2018, 2:20 AM

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It says it has a target fix of 4.20, but the commit is merged into staging-4.19, so I think it should be in 4.19

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You would need to checkout the staging-4.19 or promoted branch then rebuild.

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The project being BP-only doesn't really have any significance

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Be aware, however, you wouldn't only be adding that code

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Like I said, there really isn't a way to cherry pick that fix only, as Epic squashes everything into massive commits

clear nacelle Mar 12, 2018, 2:22 AM

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are there any built in c++ functions that can switch the display?

obtuse axle Mar 12, 2018, 2:22 AM

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No idea.

sharp axle Mar 12, 2018, 2:29 AM

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i'm guessing the swap chain setup chooses the monitor to use? I could be mistaken but seems like something the engine init would have to set (or just leave default so windows choose primary)

wraith crystal Mar 12, 2018, 1:20 PM

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noob question here: I've just switched to a source build of UE4 4.18, but had formerly been using binary builds for my game. the game's been in constant development since 4.15, always on binary version of the engine. How do I now switch the game over to the source-built 4.18, so that VS starts that version of the engine up as opposed to the binary build?

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UE4 already made me create a copy of the original project, but whenever I launch the source build it just terminates & has the binary version launch the game (after selecting it in the project browser)

rustic reef Mar 12, 2018, 2:03 PM

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right-click your .uproject and switch engine versions there and make it point to your source build

celest parrot Mar 12, 2018, 2:52 PM

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I moved my project folder into the root of my engine folder and VS detected it as a game. I tried to launch the project but encounter this problem:

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The shader cache file that I DO have is not for Windows, it is for a different platform

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How do I configure VS to look for the correct platform shader cache file?

elder falcon Mar 12, 2018, 4:07 PM

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@obtuse axle staging-4.19 is where fixes from the 4.19 branch are prepared for merging to master, it does not go in 4.19

celest parrot Mar 12, 2018, 4:37 PM

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Posted in #career-chat - looking for help with an engine source / VS problem. Will pay via PayPal for your help

wraith crystal Mar 12, 2018, 4:40 PM

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@rustic reef thanks so much

rustic reef Mar 12, 2018, 4:40 PM

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yw

elder falcon Mar 12, 2018, 4:51 PM

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@celest parrot did you maybe try to launch the wrong config? you should be using development editor

hallow pulsar Mar 12, 2018, 6:28 PM

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I'm trying to set up the HBAO+ branch from nvidia's github and I get this error when trying to generate the project files. I am using visual studio 2017

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celest parrot Mar 12, 2018, 7:18 PM

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from what I remember, you need VS 2013 AND a newer version @hallow pulsar

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Does anyone know if it's possible to link a project outside of the engine root (somewhere else in the drive) to my engine to then use the modules, plugins etc. included in the code?

hallow pulsar Mar 12, 2018, 7:46 PM

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I can't find a download for visual studio 2013 😦

stable hemlock Mar 12, 2018, 9:12 PM

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hi

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I'm still working on a FreeBSD port, which is going pretty well, with a few caveats

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one of them is that most applications (TestPAL, UnrealFrontend ...) work well, but when building UE4Editor I get a link error because there is no main method

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is there a difference between those applications and if so, where could I find it?

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thanks in advance

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never mind, Launch/Private/Linux/LaunchLinux.cpp which escaped my attention

hallow pulsar Mar 13, 2018, 12:42 AM

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So is building with VS 2013 the only way to build the HBAO+ branch

valid surge Mar 13, 2018, 6:50 AM

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anyone know how to fix this error

Error is "failed to open selected source code acessor Visual studios"

all of a sudden i am unable to create any new c++ projects. visual studio wont open and displays that error. i also cant open or edit any exisitng c++ class

is there some file path somewhere that tells the launcher where to find visual studio install ?? maybe this is set wrong

thanks

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hollow kernel Mar 13, 2018, 9:06 AM

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Edit: 4.18.3 Source
Sorry about this, but I did google around a bit in an attempt to fix it before coming here.
I'm getting these errors after making shader-related changes to the engine.

ERROR : UBT error : Failed to produce item: C:\Users\Hans\Downloads\UnrealEngine-shadingmodel_418\Engine\Binaries\Win64\BuildPatchTool-Win64-Development.exe

24>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets(44,5): error MSB3075: The command "....\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat BuildPatchTool Win64 Development -waitmutex" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.
24>Done building project "BuildPatchTool.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

All users have full read/write rights on the entire engine folder.

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Getting the same error before and after the latest VS 2017 update.

hollow kernel Mar 13, 2018, 9:24 AM

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code 5 in ShaderCacheTool.cpp, too.

hollow kernel Mar 13, 2018, 10:02 AM

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Maybe this is the thing I should've found. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/726010/418-will-not-build-from-source.html

Aside from launching VS with admin privs, anyone know of anything else I should do? I get this error when only VS is running; nothing else.

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:06 PM

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Can anyone help me with this? Trying to build my project files (new ue4 source, the "GenerateProjectFiles" batch file i need to execute

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\bin\Microsoft.CSharp.CurrentVersion.targets(
322,5): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0
\bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct,
 and that the file exists on disk. [W:\Unreal Engine\Versions\UE4.18\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuild
Tool.csproj]
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\bin\Microsoft.CSharp.CurrentVersion.targets(
322,5): error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0
\bin\Roslyn\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct,
 and that the file exists on disk. [W:\Unreal Engine\Versions\UE4.18\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuild
Tool.csproj]

GenerateProjectFiles ERROR: UnrealBuildTool failed to compile.

Press any key to continue . . .```

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:07 PM

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which packages did you install for vs 2017?

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:07 PM

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Game development for c++

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:08 PM

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to build the engine you should have

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c++ game dev

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c++ desktop dev

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.net desktop dev

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windows 8.1 sdk

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:08 PM

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i have the windows 10 SDK

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:09 PM

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it needs both the 10 and 8.1 sdks, but the 8.1 one is not included by default with those other packages so you need to manually check it

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:09 PM

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so i need to add ".NET desktop development" & "Desktop dev with C++"

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:10 PM

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win 8.1 sdk can be found in individual components near the bottom

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:10 PM

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i saw that

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i checked it aswell

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:11 PM

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theoretically it should work after you install those

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:11 PM

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alright

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:12 PM

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you also have to run setup.bat before generateprojectfiles.bat

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which downloads 4-5gb of stuff

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:12 PM

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i did that already

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/GettingStarted/DownloadingUnrealEngine

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Following that ^

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I use git bash and did a git clone of the repo,

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Already had vstudio installed from yesterday

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and then i did setup, then went to run projectfiles & got that error

elder falcon Mar 13, 2018, 5:14 PM

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I don't think they ever tell you what packages are required

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I figured out this combination by adding stuff until it worked, since then everyone seems to be able to build with it

stable hemlock Mar 13, 2018, 5:21 PM

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Why can't they just give a straight up list of components needed

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"Android development? Add blah blah blah"

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"Windows only? Game dev, .net, c++ and blah"

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ayy, it didnt throw an error

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Thanks @elder falcon

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 8:06 PM

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Does lowering the time where Garbage Collection purges, lower performance or increase performance?

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 8:13 PM

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Sort of a trick question?

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You shouldn't be changing it if you don't know why you'd change it.

shrewd thorn Mar 13, 2018, 8:44 PM

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Generally there's no need to change the frequency, but you can schedule one after particular events, like loading or unloading a bunch of assets

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 8:58 PM

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In blueprint whats the Function for forcing a purge?

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 9:23 PM

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I don't think there is one.

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Ostensibly, you could run the console command though via BP, I think?

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Gross, but feasible at least.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 9:52 PM

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DestroyActor ran around 80 times at any given moment. Then purging those references. Is this a common occurrence in video game development. Im building a game here and I have no concept of how an engine is being bottlenecked or anything other than just testing it over and over again. I don't have anyone's brain to pick other than this discord and obviously google but google is only going to help if I know the correct questions to ask.

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 9:54 PM

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Kind of confusing message, not sure what's rhetorical or not.

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If you're not seeing performance issues then... you're okay?

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 9:55 PM

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Yes but I dont want to build code only to find out much later than it wont work because of performance

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OK i got the question. Is Destroying an Actor intensive or could it be intensive in any way

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 9:55 PM

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You shouldn't be worried about the cost of destroying an actor, no.

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You should be worried if you make a 1000 objects in a frame and destroy 1000 objects too.

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And you'll know, because you'll hitch.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 9:56 PM

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Thank you. A value to my troubles lol thats all i need is values

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Now that 1000 is an exaggeration im assuming

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 9:57 PM

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As for not knowing if the path you're going down is going to end up bad... unfortunately here's not a lot you can do about that. Either you know, or you don't, from experience.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 9:57 PM

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Since it depends on whats in the actor

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 9:57 PM

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1000 is an arbitrary number I chose, but yeah. Point is, creating a lot of objects in one frame could cause a hitch.

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And you'll know. You'll feel it.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 9:58 PM

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Should I be building a game based on frames or time?

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Or does that depend on the game

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 9:58 PM

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It's not a bad idea to have a target framerate and setup a memory budget, but you may not really need to stress over that early on.

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Memory budget meaning keep track of how much memory is being used for what and track what your memory footprint looks like overtime to see if you're bursting at the seams and need to optimize something.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:01 PM

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Ya right now I just have code. My Friend is doing all the Art based work. We have a gold idea just I dont know enough about C++ and the actual engine itself. Hopes and Dreams right lol

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:04 PM

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I wouldn't stress about it too much then.

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You've got bigger obstacles than ending up with something that's difficult to cleanly optimize.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:05 PM

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Such as?

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:05 PM

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Not knowing enough C++, working on your first game, not having funding, not knowing UE4 very well.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:06 PM

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I have funding, Blueprint only project with help from a friend on the C++ side. First game is all trial and error. But the engine itself is hard cause i dont know anyone on the inside

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:06 PM

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Kind of like a first boyfriend/girlfriend, it's a learning experience but don't seriously think that it's going to last beyond that.

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If it does, great, but don't set your self up for disappointment and failure by overestimating your ability at something new and extremely complicated.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:07 PM

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No such thing as Disappointment or Failure

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:08 PM

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Where's Dustin Clingman when I need him?

strange urchin Mar 13, 2018, 10:08 PM

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Hello guys, i have a big problem in the engine :/
i try to found an answer but i found nothing in the engine

in this code from LightGridCommon.ush i've got this :

FLocalLightData GetLocalLightData(uint GridIndex, uint EyeIndex)
{
FLocalLightData Result;

if (EyeIndex == 0)
{
uint LocalLightIndex = CulledLightDataGrid[GridIndex];
uint LocalLightBaseIndex = LocalLightIndex * LOCAL_LIGHT_DATA_STRIDE;
Result.LightPositionAndInvRadius = asfloat(ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 0]);
Result.LightColorAndFalloffExponent = asfloat(ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 1]);
Result.LightDirection = asfloat(ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 2].xyz);
Result.ShadowMask = ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 2].w;
Result.SpotAngles = asfloat(ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 3].xyz);
Result.SourceRadiusPacked = ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 3].w;
Result.LightTangentAndSoftSourceRadius = asfloat(ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 4]);
}

...

return Result;
}

Where asfloat(ForwardLocalLightBuffer[LocalLightBaseIndex + 0]); get the value in the .cpp or .h ?
Link with BasePassRendering.h i guess
thank you very much !

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:09 PM

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@strange urchin Use ``` to create code blocks, like:

this
is
a
code
block```

strange urchin Mar 13, 2018, 10:09 PM

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Oh ok sorry :S

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:09 PM

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Who is Dustin Clingman? I dont get the reference

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:11 PM

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Dustin Clingman's an industry figure. Was a course director at Full Sail University, got the nickname "dream crusher", had a lecture that was basically about convincing you that your ideas are shit, your chances of making anything are shit, you're practically guaranteed to fail - but do it anyways, because you need to.

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By building experience and breaking yourself of naive, unwarranted optimism, you'll make better informed decisions, more pragmatically, and you're more likely to succeed.

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If you're all sunshine and rainbows, you don't have the sense to make the hard calls, cut the necessary corners, commit where you need to and abandon where you mustn't.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:14 PM

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Ya but we are talking about building a video game. Understanding people and Programming where we have all the information we could ever want. Why would I need to fail in order to succeed. I simply just look to other failures and learn from their mistakes.

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:15 PM

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That's just not how it works.

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You say we're talking about "building a videogame" like that's somehow simple or less serious than... something else?

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You can learn from other's mistakes, sure, but only to an extent. You don't learn how to paint or how to do a martial art by just watching someone - you have to do it yourself too.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:17 PM

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Sure it is. Driving for instance. You cant learn how to feel how a car handles on a computer.

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Exactly....You are proving my point

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:18 PM

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... no? I'm not? My point was you can't be good at painting or martial arts because you watched someone else do it, you have to do it yourself.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:18 PM

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Video game code does exactly what I tell it to.

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:19 PM

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And?

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:19 PM

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Video game development is NOTHING like painting or martial arts

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:19 PM

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You're mistaken. You don't understand how you're mistaken because... you don't have the experience that would give you the insight to understand that.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:20 PM

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Thats fine. Ill go with it. Thanks for answering my questions.

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:20 PM

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Like any sufficiently complex and abstract skill and field of knowledge, there is a lot that you have to "feel" and intuit in ways that can't easily be put on paper or communicated to others.

torpid moth Mar 13, 2018, 10:20 PM

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Hello I have a problem. I changed the texture streaming pool on one of my levels to 2500, when I saved and restarted engine I coudnt get into the level. Everytime engine crashes

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:21 PM

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If it was as simple as "I know C++, therefore I'm a good engineer", then you'd have my job in no-time. There wouldn't be lead/senior engineers versus associate/junior engineers.

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@torpid moth You should always check your logs after a crash for additional information.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:22 PM

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OK you want to continue this. Your saying that I cant learn how to code from watching someone correct?

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:22 PM

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Sort of. I'm saying that observation is not a substitute for actual experience.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:23 PM

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What about someone with a Photographic or even Eidetic memory?

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:24 PM

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Either of those affects memory recall. That only impacts whether you can remember something you observed.

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But you don't observe a thought process or a physical sensation.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:24 PM

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The physical sensation of computer programming?

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:25 PM

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I was speaking broadly, about observation versus experience - obviously, it's less relevant with programming.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:25 PM

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Well this is a discussion on Programming

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:25 PM

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Actually, it's a discussion in #engine-source, which was never the right channel anyways.

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And it's about game dev, not just programming.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:25 PM

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exactly i tried to end the conversation

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:27 PM

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🤷 I'm not obligated to stop talking about a subject in a publically accessible Discord channel just because you didn't want to continue it - the discussion wasn't about anything specific to you or me at that point.

uncut pier Mar 13, 2018, 10:27 PM

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Thats fine. I dont mind personally.

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If you want to continue i would be more than welcome to PM you about it privatly

torpid tundra Mar 13, 2018, 10:28 PM

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Nah, I want to hear what Sion has to say.

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:28 PM

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I'd rather bring it to #ue4-general at this point, 'cause again, it's not really about anyone specifically, I'm just talking about the process of learning how to be a better game developer.

torpid tundra Mar 13, 2018, 10:28 PM

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People pay for advice this good.

gray glade Mar 13, 2018, 10:29 PM

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Will bring it to #ue4-general, so as not to clog #engine-source, for what it's worth.

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:16 AM

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Anyone know why my recently built UE4 from source gets stuck at Initializing.... 45%

gray glade Mar 14, 2018, 12:18 AM

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Run with -log, should at least help you see what it's doing.

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Worst case scenario, you actually attach the debugger, break, switch to the main thread, and see what's going on in the callstack.

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Possibly resuming and breaking again multiple times to see if it's going anywhere.

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:20 AM

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How would i launch a .uproject with -log

gray glade Mar 14, 2018, 12:23 AM

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You don't launch a .uproject, you launch the editor, passing the .uproject file as the first argument.

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You'd just be passing -log as well

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If you're launching from VS, you should install UnrealVS, located in Engine/Extras

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It will allow you to easily specify startup arguments when launching from VS.

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:28 AM

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[2018.03.14-00.25.58:313][  0]LogMeshMerging: No automatic mesh merging module available
[2018.03.14-00.25.58:313][  0]LogMeshMerging: No distributed automatic mesh merging module available
[2018.03.14-00.25.58:340][  0]LogStaticMesh: Building static mesh MatineeCam_SM...
[2018.03.14-00.25.58:474][  0]LogStaticMesh: Built static mesh [0.62s] /Engine/EditorMeshes/MatineeCam_SM.MatineeCam_SM
[2018.03.14-00.25.58:662][  0]LogMaterial: Missing cached shader map for material WorldGridMaterial, compiling. Is special engine material.

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That's what the editor is stuck at

gray glade Mar 14, 2018, 12:29 AM

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It's compiling shaders then.

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Just might be a while if it hasn't done them before.

hollow kernel Mar 14, 2018, 1:16 AM

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Sorry to cut in > Anyone know why I might be getting this?
...VCTargets\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets(49,5): error MSB3073...
"UnrealCEFSubProcess.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

I've been able to build 4.18 default source, so I take it everything in VS is set up correctly.
Can't get it to build after making changes to shader-related files

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 1:25 AM

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@gray glade Hey, left for dinner & came back to UE4 being loaded. Thanks

hollow kernel Mar 14, 2018, 3:33 AM

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Got past the above error by moving the entire Engine folder to the same folder as default launcher engine versions.

Still getting this though:

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MSB3075 - BuildPatchTool Win64 Development -waitmutex" exited with code 5. 'verify you have sufficient rights to run this command'

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(This is after making solutions open with VS with admin privs.)

hollow kernel Mar 14, 2018, 10:01 AM

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Me failing to enter in a case for the new pin property in Material.cpp's CompilePropertyEx function was the source of my problems. Sorry, didn't know it was a requirement.

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 11:42 AM

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@royal glacier Yeah we should

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 11:45 AM

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Just came back from the break

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fixing the last conflicts here (I hope it'll work out)

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and started the build

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I've got a meeting for the next hour or so, maybe less, will ping you when back and report if everything went smoothly

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 11:56 AM

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Wow you fixed the shader conflicts quickly

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 11:57 AM

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@royal glacier merging vxgi and vrworks is a) hardest combo as they both mess a lot with ue4 renderers internals b) pointless as you cant afford to run vxgi nor hbao+ on vr

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Also, vxgi only runs in deferred, so you still get AA issue on VR

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 11:58 AM

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@low dust https://lab.onebonsai.com/side-by-side-comparison-of-unreal-engine-lighting-and-nvidias-vxgi-real-time-global-illumination-4645cd0361a0

OneBonsai

Real Time Global Illumination in Virtual Reality – OneBonsai

We do a side by side comparison of Unreal’s lighting engine and Nvidia’s global illumination algorithm : VXGI.

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 11:58 AM

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I dunno I just dumb merged the branches ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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we already run in deferred by default, and for testing purposes FXAA is enough

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as for the performance issue we are NOT publishing anything, every demo we do is for internal use

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:00 PM

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Ah they used most powerful gpu on market

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So you target 1080ti only?

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:01 PM

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we're aiming for SLI or Titan V grade GPUs

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:02 PM

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Also, while realtime gi is cool, those comparison images on the article were total BS :D

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:02 PM

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right now we're using a single 1080 non TI, but we are looking into an upgrade soon (not until we get to know if NVidia will announce anything at the GTC

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:02 PM

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Ah, so it's not a game sold to players?

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Yeah I guess then you could do it

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:03 PM

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we're a building construction and engineering company, our players are multi million clients 😬

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:04 PM

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So, you used kdiff3 to solve the merge conflicts?

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:04 PM

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used the VS conflict solver

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went pretty smoothly

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:04 PM

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Ah, well, gl then :)

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:04 PM

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9 conflicts, mostly a bunch of missing stuff from a branch to another

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:04 PM

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9??

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:05 PM

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yeah 😐

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surprised me aswell

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:05 PM

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Wonder if VS conflict solver is more efficient :D

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:05 PM

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I surely did something wrong somewhere, or they cleaned up a lot of stuff

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yeah that too 😂

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oh well once its compiled we'll get an answer I guess

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:06 PM

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I got like hundreds of conflicts when I tried to merge it to my gameworks branch

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:06 PM

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🙈

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VS solver is shiet then

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:07 PM

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But it could have clashed with volumetric lighting as well now that I think about it

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:07 PM

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ah that's another branch right ?

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I only merged VXGI and VRWorks for starters

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:07 PM

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Most the conflicts are pretty easy.
It's super fucking tedious though

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:08 PM

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Yeah, I have 4.18.3 branch where I've merged nvidias blast, flex, flow, hbao+, volumetric lighting and vxgi

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:08 PM

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oh wait was it you who made that merged branch on the forums ?

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I remember seeing a thread about a multi Nvidia branch

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:09 PM

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Had hairworks there too but there were issue with packaged builds so I took it out

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:10 PM

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Uh WindyStrife made it, is that you ? 🤔

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:10 PM

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Well I'm one of many who have posted there, I only merged and manually upgraded few (flex, flow) there

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:10 PM

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aye

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:10 PM

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Do you have the source of your merge up

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:11 PM

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I'm 0lento on forums too

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:11 PM

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local merge only :[

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I basically got the repo from Nvidia Physx

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got both branches locally

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and merged them

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:12 PM

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I always use my own forked ue4 repo as base

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Add others forks and original epic one as remotes, fetch and them merge them on my own fork

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My UE4 git folder is like 100GB due to that when engine is built

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.git alone is like 25GB

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:15 PM

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yeah versionning takes so much space 😄

low dust Mar 14, 2018, 12:15 PM

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But I dont push all my branches back to public github

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Like, I have ones with newer PhysX but I cant share some of the files due to eula on regular nvidia repo

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 12:17 PM

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yeah

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woops

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got an error

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oshit

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nvm

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got a fuckload of errors

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rire_pleurs2

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all related to VXGI though

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meeting time brb

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:35 PM

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Just built VXGI alone.
First time building from source.
Way easier than I thought it'd be

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Will try to merge vrworks and vxgi tomorrow.
A lot of shader conflicts, but all seem easy to choose between

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 12:52 PM

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Nvm I'm busy tomorrow.
HMU if you get it working @royal glacier

royal glacier Mar 14, 2018, 1:08 PM

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@stable hemlock I'm C++ illiterate so I'll prbably just pass on VXGI + VRworks for now. Plus I'm tied to Unreal studio and UE4.19 sooo 😦

stable hemlock Mar 14, 2018, 1:17 PM

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👍

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 5:53 PM

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Hello, I've been building UE 4.18 from source, but there were a lot of dependencies to download

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would it be feasible to build UE 4.19 using the downloaded dependency folder of 4.18 ?

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 6:05 PM

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no

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but if you update to 4.19 in place it will be able to reuse all the dependencies that didn't change

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 8:35 PM

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is there a better way to update to 4.19 than creating a new branch off release and cherry picking the changes that are still relevant?

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:06 PM

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@elder falcon I need a 19gb folder to compile UE4, this cannot go on ....

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@elder falcon but thanks for the infos

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:07 PM

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sure it can, my unreal folder is 64GB

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needs big ssd :D

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:07 PM

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@elder falcon but how do you even update it without internet connection 😮

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sure

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:07 PM

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you need an internet connection to update it

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:08 PM

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and for me it's a problem

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:08 PM

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how else are you going to pull the changes from git?

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:08 PM

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because I have a computer that is never connected to the net

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so I use a portable hd to transfer a new UE4 build from time to time

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until now where it's becoming ridiculously huge

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:08 PM

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why is it not connected to the net

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:09 PM

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because i don't want anyone spying my games

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i know it may sound silly, no problems with that

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:10 PM

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all of those files are intermediates though

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the engine itself is only like 8GB

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:11 PM

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sure, 8gb is fine

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but it needs to download the huge dependency folder

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:13 PM

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right now my unreal folder is 10GB with nothing built

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since I'm moving over changes to 4.19

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:15 PM

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@elder falcon did you download all the deps ? 10gb sounds okay-ish

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:15 PM

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yeah

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:15 PM

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(facepalm) that is great, nevermind then

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:16 PM

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which was kind of a mistake since it's slowing down my git client on every commit

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:16 PM

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you mean you're commiting the deps ? 😮

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:16 PM

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nah, but it seems to be slightly slower with this many ignored files

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:17 PM

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oh right, the client has to check every file

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cannot you limit the client to some folders ?

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:17 PM

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dunno actually

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they've massively sped it up for the next version but it's not released yet

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:18 PM

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okies

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:18 PM

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I'm using https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

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doesn't help that they changed so much in the engine that every single change is hitting conflicts :v

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:18 PM

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you mean you can get the latest ue4 source updates directly ?

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or are you using git only for your game ?

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 9:19 PM

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yeah, that's the whole point of the engine being available as a git repo

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(you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot with that offline pc setup)

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 9:51 PM

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thanks for the opinion, i'll try to use a better method

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 10:04 PM

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4.19 build took 18 minutes :v

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keeps getting slower with every version..

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 10:10 PM

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yes but you can get instant code updates which can help a lot in case of engine bugs

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and 18minutes isn't too good indeed, but it makes time for a little walk/moment to try new code

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 10:11 PM

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I'm already using a crazy i7 7820X and it still takes forever :D

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 10:30 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/maVFXPG.png what's a SoA ?

Imgur

midnight river Mar 14, 2018, 10:37 PM

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Structure of arrays i guess, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOS_and_SOA

AOS and SOA

In computing, AoS and SoA refer to contrasting ways to arrange a sequence of records in memory, with regard to interleaving, and are of interest in SIMD programming.

twin nymph Mar 14, 2018, 11:07 PM

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yes it's the downside of UE4, it's totally worth it, but that's a lot of compiling, had no idea about what is an SOA either

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 11:08 PM

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appearantly they did massive refactoring on vertex buffers so now I first have to figure out how to get my project to compile again :D

silent thicket Mar 14, 2018, 11:13 PM

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Pillows no ones trying to spy on your game buddy

elder falcon Mar 14, 2018, 11:16 PM

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^

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:02 AM

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I'm having problems making a UE4 source build into a binary build via this "UE4 Binary Build Helper" tool (I know I suck for trying to use it - anyways).

here's the error:

ExceptionUtils.PrintExceptionInfo: ERROR: Command failed (Result:1): C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\bin\MSBuild.exe E:\Work\UE_Release\Engine\Source\Programs\IOS\iPhonePackager\iPhonePackager.csproj /property:Platform=AnyCPU /property:Configuration=Development

...

ExceptionUtils.PrintExceptionInfo: CommandFailedException: Command failed (Result:1): C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\bin\MSBuild.exe E:\Work\UE_Release\Engine\Source\Programs\IOS\iPhonePackager\iPhonePackager.csproj /property:Platform=AnyCPU

I'm running a build on "Host platform only", so it shouldn't even try & touch any iOS-related files I guess...

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:04 AM

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The hell is UE4 Binary Build Helper?

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Seems like a redundant tool that's already present in the editor?

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:05 AM

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some tool with a gui

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this is what it does:
Parsing command line: BuildGraph -target="Make Installed Build Win64" -script=Engine/Build/InstalledEngineBuild.xml -set:WithDDC=true -set:SignExecutables=false -set:EnableSymStore=false -set:HostPlatformOnly=true

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:05 AM

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There are GUI tools for this in the editor though.

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Basics/Projects/Packaging

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:08 AM

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I'm trying to make a binary build of the source-built engine itself

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I'm not trying to package a game

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looking at InstalledEngineBuild.xml, I see this:

        <Node Name="Build Tools CS">
            <Do If="'$(HostPlatform)' == 'Win64'">
etc. etc. etc.
                <!-- TODO: Change these projects so that they can be compiled on non-windows platforms (currently use WinForms) -->
                <CsCompile Project="Engine/Source/Programs/UnrealControls/UnrealControls.csproj" Configuration="Development" Platform="AnyCPU" Tag="#Build Tools CS" TagReferences="#Build Tools CS"/>
                <CsCompile Project="Engine/Source/Programs/IOS/iPhonePackager/iPhonePackager.csproj" Configuration="Development" Platform="AnyCPU" Arguments="/verbosity:minimal /target:Rebuild" Tag="#Build Tools CS" TagReferences="#Build Tools CS"/>

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so I guess it wants to build this iPhonePackager whenever target platform is win64

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and I assume I should be commenting those out since I don't need an iPhone packager

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:15 AM

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Oh, weird... okay.

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So, you, mean like building the engine the same way its distributed in built form via the launcher?

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:16 AM

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yes - to have a single (nightly) build that's distributable to the entire team

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:16 AM

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Hold on, might have something for that

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Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealGameSync\Deployment.txt

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See the Zipped Editor Builds section

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Might do you some good, as it's something that Epic uses internally and is maintained.

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If not the whole thing, then at least parts of that process/set of instructions could be of some use.

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:20 AM

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interesting

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:21 AM

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That is the mechanism Epic uses to build a redistributable binaries for developer use, put it on a network drive, and then allow UnrealGameSync to automatically download the binaries that match a given set of content-only changelists.

twin nymph Mar 15, 2018, 12:21 AM

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@silent thicket @elder falcon 😊

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:21 AM

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In other words, it's how Epic lets non-engineers sync changelists without having to build everything locally.

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UGS itself is what does the filtering though and recognizes that it shouldn't enumerate changelists after a code-changing changelist unless the specified network location has pre-built binaries for it.

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The instructions here are just how it builds and packages up those binaries to put them on a network location. If you're not using UGS, you may have to tweak this somewhat, but at the very least you'll have to fill in the gaps that UGS otherwise fills in itself.

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:24 AM

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I think I'm going to have to strip some parts out

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but this looks promising

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:24 AM

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Would not be surprised, yeah. I don't think what you want is exactly the same as what ~~UGS~~ "BuildForUGS" does, but it sounds similar.

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:24 AM

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let's call it the cheapo indie version of what Epic has :P

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:25 AM

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Note that you do have access to UGS.

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So if you use Perforce, you can just build UGS and configure it.

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Otherwise, no, you'll have to roll your own solution or even edit UGS to support other source control/versioning systems.

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 12:28 AM

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hey thanks, this doesn't look too bad at all

gray glade Mar 15, 2018, 12:40 AM

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👍

wraith crystal Mar 15, 2018, 1:41 AM

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f*ck me... took an hour to build but it worked. ended up using the build helper tool and removing most of what's ios / iphone-related from InstalledEngineBuild.xml

stable hemlock Mar 15, 2018, 2:33 AM

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Does anyone know if vrworks is better than the forward renderer?

low dust Mar 15, 2018, 3:40 AM

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you are comparing two totally different things

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or are you telling forward renderer doesn't work with vr works?

stable hemlock Mar 15, 2018, 4:19 AM

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@low dust Would both together give better performance then?>

royal glacier Mar 15, 2018, 9:30 AM

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LMS or MultiRes + Instanced stereo + forward should be a nice combo

low dust Mar 15, 2018, 10:37 AM

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you'd usually want to use forward even without perf benefits as it lets your do MSAA

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but some still stick with deferred as it gives you all unreals rendering feats

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forward is more limited on them

stable hemlock Mar 15, 2018, 5:29 PM

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Anyone know what this is in 4.19?

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I'm trying to figure out how I can do this

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Sion, do youn know?

stable hemlock Mar 16, 2018, 3:03 AM

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I thought Instanced stereo only worked in defferred. If I can get all my materials working in Forward that should be great!

hollow wadi Mar 16, 2018, 3:49 AM

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does anyone know if you can test against a specific objects distance field in a material?

celest parrot Mar 16, 2018, 4:58 AM

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PM me if you know your way around C++ function libraries in BP using an engine compiled from source

hollow wadi Mar 16, 2018, 6:14 AM

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how about i dont PM you and just say i know it here

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because like its a community and everyone benefits from the discussion

stable hemlock Mar 16, 2018, 8:25 AM

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My default 4.18 engine takes 70 minutes to build on a 6700k at 4.5Ghz and an SSD.
What are some options that I might not be using?

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Or is that normal

stable hemlock Mar 16, 2018, 10:16 AM

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Mine seems to use all 8. Sucks.
Might just have to get an i9

low dust Mar 16, 2018, 11:05 AM

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octobuild sped things up a little for me

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I spent week+ trying to get the 4.18 builds faster, tried also fastbuild

elder falcon Mar 16, 2018, 1:18 PM

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with i7 7820X and nvme ssd it takes 18 minutes

stable hemlock Mar 16, 2018, 3:24 PM

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Yeah I wanna buy a 7980xe
But Idk if it'll show real world differences in ue4

stable hemlock Mar 17, 2018, 2:13 AM

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the first time i built 4.19, i think it was something like 25 successes, 3 failures, but the log didn't show which projects failed

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so i rebuilt it again and then all were a success

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however, now i can't build a ue4 project through frontend

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there's this error that i don't exactly understand

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XGE is required... well the custom engine was built, so whatever this XGE is, it should be available

elder falcon Mar 17, 2018, 2:16 AM

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xge is the incredibuild manager thing

stable hemlock Mar 17, 2018, 2:17 AM

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huh. why is it trying to compile through XGE if i don't have it

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i suppose i could just explicitely turn it off

elder falcon Mar 17, 2018, 2:18 AM

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good question

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it's supposed to detect if you don't have it and compile locally instead

stable hemlock Mar 17, 2018, 2:19 AM

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hm.

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https://i.gyazo.com/32a42ae24274fd72884e0edf47ed3932.png

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and i explicitly put bUseXGEController = false; into both client and server targets

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didn't help...

elder falcon Mar 17, 2018, 2:20 AM

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this is about shader compiling though

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there's a config var somewhere to turn it on/off

stable hemlock Mar 17, 2018, 2:25 AM

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found it

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https://i.gyazo.com/7a0cf819e1e5ba019dfaafc0cbb7c09b.png

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but this is not normal... most people don't have incredibuild, why is it on by default?

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how do i disable it on the per project basis? would simply copying ConsoleVariables.ini into Project/Config work?

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setting this cvar in ConsoleVariables.ini fixes the problem, but i can't figure out how to set it on the per project basis

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it says ; Other way to set cvars: ; in engine ini files (e.g. BaseEngine.ini, DefaultEngine.ini) in the [SystemSettings] section ; from the in game console or in editor OutputLog ; Device Profiles ; Platform settings (editor UI)

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but putting [SystemSettings] r.XGEShaderCompile=0
into DefaultEngine.ini in project/config doesn't work

stable hemlock Mar 17, 2018, 3:50 AM

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reproduced this problem on a blank TPP project and reported the bug...

ashen badger Mar 19, 2018, 12:49 PM

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Hey, Does anyone bake lighting with UE4Editor-Cmd.exe? I'm having loads of issues where my project take ages at this stage or crashes. It just doesn't appear to be as solid as baking the lighting in the Editor (UE4Editor-Cmd.exe C:\temp\Ext\testProject.uproject -run=resavepackages -buildlighting -ProjectOnly -allowcommandletrendering Quality=Production -buildtexturestreaming -Map=BaseLevel.umap) this is the command I am running does anyone see any problems here?

gray crystal Mar 19, 2018, 4:28 PM

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alright, i give up
I got what is probably a simple problem, but i cannot figure out where to shoot the trouble.
a long time ago i rigged the console to print out a value on tick

by now i cannot remember where its coming from and i don't want it anymore
anyone know a way i can figure out where this is printing from?
i checked all of my blueprints (i think)

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📎 unknown.png

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oh, and i have multiple levels and its only happening on one level, so it doesn't seem to be from a common prefab/blueprint
it's almost impossible to use the console to for anything else because its printing 100.0 on tick
anyways, if you know the answer, please DM me, I'll probably be sleep by the time you reading this.

stable hemlock Mar 19, 2018, 11:06 PM

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so my project corrupted, is it possible for me to retrieve the game from the .pak file of my built demo?

sharp axle Mar 20, 2018, 7:35 AM

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@gray crystal I'd recommend putting a breakpoint in teh blueprint static library in C++ and see where it takes you

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somewhere it is doing the call to draw on screen with that text which you should be able to grab pretty quickly. I know the pain, random prints with no context except a float to string are horrible to find if you've forgotten them

gray crystal Mar 20, 2018, 7:36 AM

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okay ill see if i can figure that out, thank you much

sharp axle Mar 20, 2018, 7:39 AM

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checkout this guy

UKismetSystemLibrary::PrintString

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and this guy

UEngine::AddOnScreenDebugMessage

breakpoint in there should give you some nasty blueprint callstack but the function (or something) should give you the executor and either the function or the uber graph

whole zephyr Mar 21, 2018, 6:44 AM

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Does anyone know how to integrate Nvidia Hairworks with UE4 (Unreal 4.18)
(Note: Please don't provide me the general link for the hairworks, I want to integrate with 4.18 like I said above)

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:15 AM

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is there anyway to change output to jpg from highresshot?

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:17 AM

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... wot?

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What would be the point of taking a high resolution shot and then immediately compressing it to hell?

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:18 AM

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commandline "highresshot" gives out png, its a bottleneck to our simulator in ue4

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:18 AM

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You could just convert the produced image yourself and compress it to your liking.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:18 AM

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it seems as the engine is having a hard time taking the shot, it takes 2 pictures a minute

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:19 AM

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How would adding in additional processing by using a lossy compression on the raw data help optimize that?

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:20 AM

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maybe your right, but how can i write these screenshots faster?

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any idea?

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:20 AM

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I have no idea what your bottleneck is, I haven't profiled your code.

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highresshot isn't exactly an API for games to use

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:21 AM

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well, its not exactly an game

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its more become of a simulator

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:21 AM

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Same idea.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:22 AM

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true

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:22 AM

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It's not really an API at all, it's just a handy console command for taking higher resolution screenshots.

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Obviously, having the engine capture one of these images, then run lossless PNG compression over it, and save it to disk just so you can (assumedly?) load that image up, decompress the PNG compression, and display it, is a pretty wasteful thing to do.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:24 AM

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what would be an better alternative?

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:24 AM

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... not making a roundtrip through compression and hitting the disk?

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It's hard to hit a bottleneck any worse than IO. Seriously.

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If you want to hit a bottleneck, file IO is your trusted friend in royally destroying performance.

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And obviously copying the pixel data from the buffer to memory, compressing it, uncompressing it, and copying it back to another buffer is utterly pointless.

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You could always take a look at the source for how highresshot does what it does, and see what API it uses and leverage that, instead of highresshot itself.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:31 AM

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heres where i hit a stop, because my experience in c++ is not that high. Trying to look at the c++ in engine files, but right now its like greek to me

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:32 AM

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You really should have an engineer involved. As you might imagine, you're not going to optimize a technical bottleneck without having someone with the relevant technical knowledge to diagnose the bottleneck and optimize for whatever the particular problem is.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:33 AM

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well, they are 8k pictures, at a lower res they would go much faster ofc

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:34 AM

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If you don't need 8K res screenshots, then take lower res screenshots?

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:34 AM

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we need them at 8k really

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:34 AM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Basics/Screenshots

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Then we're back to getting an engineer.

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There is nothing you can realistically do to make taking 8K worth of pixels, copying them to memory, compressing them, writing them to disk, reading them from disk, uncompressing them, and copying them back to the GPU not be a non-real-time operation.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:37 AM

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im pausing the gaming and rendering tough, that helped a bit

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:37 AM

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You're still going to hitch dramatically.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:37 AM

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at the same time why is it reading it from the disk again?

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aint i just doing copying them to memory, compressing and writing?

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:38 AM

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I suggested you were using those screenshots in the game/project, you never responded otherwise, so I assumed you were.

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Are you not loading these images up for display within the engine?

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:39 AM

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no

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only writing

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:39 AM

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Fair enough.

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If you're only writing them, then I'm not sure there's much you can do about that.

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Not generally anyways. You really would need to have an engineer profile what exactly is taking so much time.

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Besides actually getting better hardware to minimize the overhead of file IO to disk, I'm not sure there's much to be done.

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Something like JPEG wouldn't do you any good, it's just a different and lossy compression compared to PNG. You'll write less to disk, ideally, which saves you some of that overhead, but you're loading more work on to the processor - it might be a net positive though. I don't think it'd be anything more than marginal though.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:43 AM

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using two nvidia geforce gtx 1080 ti

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okay okay

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:43 AM

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What's your framerate like outside of taking these 8K screenshots?

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:43 AM

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in editor for example

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?

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:44 AM

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Preferably not, the editor itself will obviously have its own overhead.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:44 AM

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hold on let me check

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around 30

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20

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gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:46 AM

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That's pretty bad. If the machine is struggling to render the scene in realtime at whatever resolution, rendering it at 4 times that resolution, compressing it, and writing it to disk is just not going to cut it.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:47 AM

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i thought so, let me profile the fps first then

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:47 AM

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It does mean that you can probably optimize your project and try to increase your framerate in general.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:48 AM

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well, we did something stupid in the start and used the kite assets

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:48 AM

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That is, at least, if the bottleneck in your framerate is GPU-related.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:48 AM

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which are a huge fps drop because of non optimized meshes

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atleast we noticed that

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we can change that tough

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:48 AM

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If it's CPU related, then it probably won't make highresshot any faster, since that should ostensibly be a very GPU-bound operation.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:49 AM

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whats the easiest way to difference between if its the cpu or gpu

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watching the performance hit in task manager?

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or using the cpu profiling?

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:50 AM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Performance/Profiler

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:50 AM

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im at that site now,

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gonna try cpu profiling first then

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ahh okay

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thats a diifferent one

gray glade Mar 21, 2018, 8:51 AM

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The distinction you're making isn't clear to me, but this will give you both the time spent by the CPU as well as the GPU.

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It will tell you what the CPU spent its time on and will give you limited information as to what the GPU spent time on.

solar sequoia Mar 21, 2018, 8:52 AM

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one problem i have is that the foliage is not visibile in editor but ingame, even tough i have gone advanced - foliage

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cant find folaige actor in outliner either

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had to reload the project

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thanks man ill try the profilin stuff

stable hemlock Mar 21, 2018, 2:02 PM

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does anyone know the story behind these lines in LinuxToolchain.cs (issue isn't public)

            Result += " -Wl,-rpath=${ORIGIN}/../../../Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/PhysX3/Linux/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu";```

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I'm having an issue on FreeBSD where the editor can't find the APEX Legacy module library, but the debug version works as expected
It looks like it's related to linking with --as-needed (filtering out libraries that aren't needed) and I'm sure this line will fix it somehow, but I don't like specifying rpaths lke that unless really needed

stable hemlock Mar 21, 2018, 3:08 PM

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in the meantime I can confirm that as soon as I removed --as-needed, the editor had no troubles finding the APEX Legacy module

still peak Mar 22, 2018, 5:46 AM

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What's the best way to update a source built version of Unreal?

stable hemlock Mar 22, 2018, 12:46 PM

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so im using git source with my custom shader model engine and i keep getting these everytime i open the project

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📎 unknown.png

gray glade Mar 22, 2018, 9:08 PM

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Should probably .gitignore some or all of those files.

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Definitely just some.

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DDC, Intermediate, and Saved should all be .gitignore'd

stable hemlock Mar 22, 2018, 10:47 PM

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@gray glade thank you but i got it sorted turns out its because i had a subfolder

lucid anchor Mar 23, 2018, 4:08 PM

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Do any of you guys have experience building the engine for google daydream development?

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I'm having a few problems I can't sort out

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Anyone ever had this happen to them?

📎 androiderror.jpg

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aaaaaaand i figured it out.

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nevermind

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in all things, listen to epic. don't listen to google.

stable hemlock Mar 24, 2018, 10:41 PM

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What would be the best way to share code (cpp files) between two platforms? Right now I have a Linux and a FreeBSD platform, but in many cases both are using the same code. In its current state this means duplication, but I'd like to reduce that (and thus reduce maintenance of my FreeBSD fork) to the bare minimum

old aspen Mar 25, 2018, 1:35 PM

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Hye Guys, I have been having a problem with building ue4.19 release from github

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Info: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/772254/ue419-build-always-giving-errors.html

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Is 4.19 in dev?

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what does merging release mean?

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https://gyazo.com/01970c80dea40f5a0c744492da3ba9ad

Gyazo

gloomy hamlet Mar 25, 2018, 2:02 PM

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Release branch should always be buildable. If you get errors then it's something to do with your environment.

old aspen Mar 25, 2018, 2:03 PM

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hm..

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@gloomy hamlet what did i do wrong?

gloomy hamlet Mar 25, 2018, 2:05 PM

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I have no idea, you haven't given much info. 😉

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Just pointing out that if you're using release branch, then you can be pretty sure there are no code problems on Epic's side.

old aspen Mar 25, 2018, 2:13 PM

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ok

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but what is merging release mean? @gloomy hamlet

gloomy hamlet Mar 25, 2018, 2:24 PM

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Nothing important, it's just the description of the last change made to that branch.

low dust Mar 25, 2018, 4:00 PM

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@old aspen did you follow the 1,2,3 step instructions?

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like you DID get the dependencies before generating project files?

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and you have visual studio 2015/2017 with c++ build tools on your system

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@old aspen well, according to your answerhub post you didn't get the depencies

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https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blob/release/README.md, see Getting up and running and part where you have to run setup.bat (if on windows)

stable hemlock Mar 25, 2018, 8:52 PM

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"Term Body","28.402 ms","99.9 %","0.000 ms","0.0 %","1.0",

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anyone know what "Term Body" means or is?

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It only occurs when updating instances on Instanced Static Mesh Components

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 *    Clean up the physics engine info for this instance.
 */
void FBodyInstance::TermBody()
{
    SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(STAT_TermBody);

#if WITH_PHYSX
    // Release sync actor
    TermBodyHelper(SceneIndexSync, RigidActorSync, this);
    // Release async actor
    TermBodyHelper(SceneIndexAsync, RigidActorAsync, this);

    // releasing BodyAggregate, it shouldn't contain RigidActor now, because it's released above
    if(BodyAggregate)
    {
        check(!BodyAggregate->getNbActors());
        BodyAggregate->release();
        BodyAggregate = NULL;
    }
#endif

    // @TODO UE4: Release spring body here

    CurrentSceneState = BodyInstanceSceneState::NotAdded;
    BodySetup = NULL;
    OwnerComponent = NULL;
    ExternalCollisionProfileBodySetup = nullptr;

    if (DOFConstraint)
    {
        DOFConstraint->TermConstraint();
        FConstraintInstance::Free(DOFConstraint);
            DOFConstraint = NULL;
    }
    
}```

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Something to do with BodyInstance.h and Physics

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is there a way to turn off physics on a component?

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Or just on an object in general

old aspen Mar 26, 2018, 7:48 AM

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ue419-build-always-giving-errors.html

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why is this happening?

onyx maple Mar 26, 2018, 8:16 AM

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@old aspen , if there's no "nldef.h" in your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\shared" folder, then you might need to download and install windows 8.1 sdk

old aspen Mar 26, 2018, 9:05 AM

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ohh ok

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@onyx maple thanks ill do that and get to you

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@onyx maple i have installed win 8.1 sdk

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i checked in the vs installer

stable hemlock Mar 26, 2018, 12:50 PM

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I'm sorry about asking this again, but it would really help me make my FreeBSD port better and improve the odds of getting it into the official tree
Is there a way to share CPP code between multiple platforms? I'd like to use most of the Linux code for my port as well (inheriting classes, including source, whatever works and is maintainable), but I'm stuck finding a good solution

gray glade Mar 26, 2018, 8:27 PM

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@stable hemlock I'm not that familiar with FreeBSD, but it'd involve a refactor to try to make a common core Linux and FreeBSD platforms.

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Unfortunately, the best reference point is probably the way UE4 handles Xbox and Windows - pretty sure there are common shared code between both, due to sharing the same APIs.

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But, without a license for Xbox dev, you can't access that.

stable hemlock Mar 27, 2018, 12:33 AM

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@gray glade that's actually a good idea, if there are two platforms very close together it'll be those too
sadly I indeed don't have a license for Xbox dev
Linux & FreeBSD are quite closely related, and my FreeBSD port duplicated quite a lot of code (although also has quite a lot of subtle changes)

gray glade Mar 27, 2018, 12:34 AM

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Yeah, realistically it'll be an intrusive set of changes to tease apart the real common codebase in to not being platform-specific, but actually enabled only based on those two platforms.

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As you said, some things will operate mostly the same but with slight changes, which means rewriting that code to maximize reusability but allow customization.

stable hemlock Mar 27, 2018, 12:38 AM

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Would you happen to know how Xbox & Windows do share code technically? I guess that's not a secret part since it's not related to Xbox development.
Does Xbox use the Windows/ platform subdirectories of each module or does it have its own one? And if the former, does it also have an extra directory (which is currently my take on doing this for FreeBSD) for Xbox-only code?

gray glade Mar 27, 2018, 12:38 AM

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I don't know, no. You could probably just look at how the Windows platform is handled, honestly.

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Surely, you'll find stuff that's identified as being "MICROSOFT_PLATFORM" or some such.

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Probably some custom macros with conditional compilation.

stable hemlock Mar 27, 2018, 12:42 AM

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couldn't find something like that, it seems there are two defines: PLATFORM_WINDOWS & PLATFORM_XBOXONE but no general one

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for my port I did end up having a PLATFORM_LINUXLIKE (I hate the name, but couldn't come up with something better yet) to already share some code but I still need to prevent a completely different platform directory altogether

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would you happen to know where in the code that translation is made? I suppose in the build tool, but up to now this hasn't been clear to me
Basically I'd like to know where UnrealTargetPlatform.FreeBSD gets translated into FreeBSD. It can't be a direct String translation since there's differentation between Win32 & Win64 too, which both go to the Windows/ directory.

edgy hedge Mar 27, 2018, 12:43 PM

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do the guys at Epic Games use Visual Assist?

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The UE4 source code is so huge my Git crashed...

📎 unknown.png

edgy hedge Mar 27, 2018, 1:01 PM

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I'mma just download the zip...

mystic cave Mar 27, 2018, 1:53 PM

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yes

grim halo Mar 27, 2018, 2:51 PM

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is there a way to open an usf file as hsls in visual studio 2017?

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so that i can get syntax highlighting and stuff

stable hemlock Mar 27, 2018, 7:58 PM

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Is here anyone who has an idea how to solve an issue with ShooterGame, which segfaults when using MallocJemalloc, not when using MallocDebug?
and on top if that, this only happens when playing over network, doesn't happen when playing only against bots
I'm completely stuck on my FreeBSD port here, everything seems to be working, all demo's work except for this single case 😦

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so if there's someone out there who has an idea how to tackle this, please shout it out

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Clang's address-sanitizer might help, but I haven't managed setting it up with UE4 yet, valgrind segfaults and I'm left with only a debugger it seems

hollow hawk Mar 28, 2018, 1:46 AM

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For ue4 4.19 would i have to rebuild the engine if I change engine code specifically for the playerstate class. I tried building but it doesn't seem to show changes in editor

elder falcon Mar 28, 2018, 1:56 AM

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if you want to change how engine classes work, you need to build the engine from source

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why do you want to change the player state class though?

silent thicket Mar 28, 2018, 4:47 AM

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Visual Assist ftw, love that plugin

hidden hedge Mar 28, 2018, 6:20 AM

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@stable hemlock POSIX, UNIX-like? "linux-like" is a bit of a funny name if you're referring to a BSD port

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though in regards to that, i wonder if the mac and linux platform-specific code shares anything

stable hemlock Mar 28, 2018, 11:48 AM

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@hidden hedge yeah, the reason I used linux-like was that I had to replace many if PLATFORM_LINUX lines and people might wonder where these went
And the issue with both POSIX and UNIX (or UNIX-like) is that there are many more POSIX and/or Unix-based platforms (like Mac, IOS but also Android and possibly others)
I'm not sure about Mac & Linux, but I do suspect that they share a pretty good deal; at the very least things related to BSD sockets (networking)

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That other question, MallocJemalloc crashes when playing ShooterGame over network, doesn't crash with MallocDebug
Now apparently the same is true for MallocStomp, although I just realized that it might have to do with compiler optimizations

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But if there are any pointers on how to debug malloc issues, please share because I'm running out of options 😦

stable hemlock Mar 28, 2018, 12:09 PM

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nah, still fine with MallocDebug and optimizations

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so there's something wrong with my default (je)malloc implementation

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Are there any known bugs with the jemalloc allocator?

stable hemlock Mar 28, 2018, 12:38 PM

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a quick'n dirty ansi malloc also works without issues, that's interesting

final quarry Mar 28, 2018, 5:38 PM

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Anyone know why this command-line for BuildGraph isn't working correctly? It keeps trying to build non-host platform targets and failing

SET UAT=call C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\UE4\UnrealEngine\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\RunUAT.bat
SET SCRIPT="C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\UE4\UnrealEngine\Engine\Build\InstalledEngineBuild.xml"
SET TARGET="Make Installed Build Win64"

%UAT% BuildGraph -script=%SCRIPT% -target=%TARGET% -Set:HostPlatformOnly=true -Set:WithWin32=false

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specifically it gets to a point where it looks for IOSRuntimeSettings and fails, claiming its required by the target

austere bronze Mar 28, 2018, 8:01 PM

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do someone knows how to get the total VRam in the computer from somewhere ?

normal quiver Mar 28, 2018, 8:36 PM

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Amount?

whole mauve Mar 28, 2018, 8:47 PM

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not sure if this is the right channel... does UE4 have the concept of a spinlock, or some other thread lock that's super-cheap if it's not already locked?

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I have a time critical thread (custom audio processing) that I need to briefly lock at init/cleanup time, and I don't want to pay the ongoing cost of a mutex during gameplay, during which it'll never be contested

elder falcon Mar 28, 2018, 11:00 PM

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FRWLock, used with FRWScopeLock maybe?

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@whole mauve

whole mauve Mar 28, 2018, 11:01 PM

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@elder falcon that's exactly what I want

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beautiful thank you so much

slow crescent Mar 29, 2018, 7:27 AM

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Anyone know how to tell UnrealBuildTool that an external library (using PublicSystemIncludePaths) has changed its headers?

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According to the documentation such include paths are not checked when resolving header dependencies, which is what I want 99% of the time, but when they do in fact change I'd like to be able to signal this to UnrealBuildTool somehow. I get some really strange builds if I don't.

charred apex Mar 29, 2018, 1:27 PM

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heya, anyone here available to give me some advice ?

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about making a installed build for my existing C++ project on unreal

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I already can make an installed build of my from source engine, but i want to make an installed build of my game project as well

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so I can distribute it to Artists

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I miss the second step

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(my project is on switch so I had to build from source)

hollow timber Mar 29, 2018, 6:42 PM

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Hello ! Does anyone know how to fill the field PreviewGameLanguage ? It's empty for me... Can't find a way to do it for now... And no infos on answerhub neither forums...

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Okay found it, there was a problem with my ini file in DefaultGame.ini / [Internationalization] : the path to my localized folder was removed (weird). I Just removed this line and the culture display fine !

hollow timber Mar 29, 2018, 8:01 PM

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Yeah still the preview language for UMG is not working so there should be somewhere else to look...

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Oh it works ! I just lost like 20% of all my translations by magic ><

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thats why i didn't see it working on my main menu 😦

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Thats why its marked experimental I guess

final quarry Mar 29, 2018, 8:26 PM

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@charred apex I'm in a similar situation, fixed BuildGraph not building my installed editor by tweaking the AppleARKit plugins whitelisted platforms field, but I'm confused as to how to target a game project not UE4Game cleanly

charred apex Mar 29, 2018, 8:28 PM

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@final quarry yup ... confusing... no clue yet 😦

stable hemlock Mar 30, 2018, 1:34 AM

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is UnrealPlatformGroup.Unix actually used in code other than the public UE4? Enterprise-code, anything else etc?
I'm thinking of repurposing it for my FreeBSD port and using the Unix/ directory to contain code that is common to Linux and the BSD family

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and what's probably more important, if I were to make this change to move current Linux headers and code files into the Unix/ directory: could it actually make it through a pull request or would it be too big of a change to be admitted?

in short the idea is to have one group for the open source Unix-like families: Linux and the BSDs

thick storm Mar 30, 2018, 7:54 AM

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you should probabaly try talking about it with RCL

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he handling most of *nix stuff in engine

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in general big pull requests rarerly make it trough

stable hemlock Mar 30, 2018, 10:23 AM

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@thick storm I've sent RCL an e-mail about this. I think I can keep the size of the pull request acceptable if I split things up; it shouldn't be one of those all-or-nothing changes

last swallow Mar 30, 2018, 8:40 PM

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if i want to compile and be confident i am using a stable release, should i checkout the 4.19 branch or a release tag?

rain lake Mar 30, 2018, 9:24 PM

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someone explain this madness

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{
    UPackage* Package = GetOutermost();

    if (!Package->HasAnyPackageFlags(PKG_PlayInEditor))
    {
        // Return Map:/path/to/map
        return FPrimaryAssetId(UAssetManager::MapType, Package->GetFName());
    }

    return FPrimaryAssetId();
}```

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why does it return FPrimaryAssetId() if play in editor?

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...

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figured it out

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the package name in PIE is different

elder falcon Mar 31, 2018, 3:46 AM

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why would anyone be calling that on a PIE world though? 🤔

strange urchin Mar 31, 2018, 5:55 PM

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Hey guys, did you know if it's possible to connect Mac client ot a Window server ?
He told me that the client version of the mac is different

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Is it possible to avoid this : Client connecting with invalid version. LocalNetworkVersion: -222229966, RemoteNetworkVersion: 657890150

gloomy gulch Mar 31, 2018, 7:27 PM

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any idea how to build with clang5? I'm getting a lot of "specified path differs in case from file name on disk" coming from the engine sources. it worked well in 4.18 and clang 4.

stable hemlock Mar 31, 2018, 7:50 PM

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haven't had trouble building with clang 5 on BSD, I guess that's on an OS that doesn't care about case in file names?

gloomy gulch Mar 31, 2018, 8:15 PM

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yeah, I'm building on Windows

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it looks like the engine builds, but when I try to compile BP project (first person template), I'm getting all these errors

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and I'm already out of ideas how to fix it

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4>c:/Unreal/UE-4.19/Engine/Intermediate/Build/Linux/B4D820EA/UnrealFrontend/Development/Core/SharedPCH.Core.h(39,10): error : non-portable path to file '"c\Unreal\UE-4.19\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\CoreSharedPCH.h"'; specified path differs in case from file name on disk [-Werror,-Wnonportable-include-path]
4>c:/Unreal/UE-4.19/Engine/Intermediate/Build/Linux/B4D820EA/UnrealFrontend/Development/CoreUObject/SharedPCH.CoreUObject.h(38,10): error : non-portable path to file '"c\Unreal\UE-4.19\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Public\CoreUObjectSharedPCH.h"'; specified path differs in case from file name on disk [-Werror,-Wnonportable-include-path]
4>#include "c:\Unreal\UE-4.19\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Public\CoreUObjectSharedPCH.h"
4> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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📎 unknown.png

gloomy gulch Mar 31, 2018, 9:38 PM

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can anyone help?

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it looks like I can build the engine just fine, but not the project 😡 My project is a default FPS template (blueprint).

stable hemlock Mar 31, 2018, 10:20 PM

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@gloomy gulch you're cross-compiling for Linux it seems; it might help, but I'm more or less guessing since I've never cross-compiled, that it's in your LINUX_MULTIARCH_ROOT
try with slashes instead of backslashes, it might help

gloomy gulch Mar 31, 2018, 10:24 PM

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ok, trying...

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the same set of errors

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"specified path differs in case from file name on disk [-Werror,-Wnonportable-include-path]"

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I checked, all file names have the same exact register

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#include "c:\Unreal\UE-4.19\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\EnginePrivatePCH.h"

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📎 unknown.png

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the same exact path

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this is where it complains that path is different, but I see it exactly the same........ any ideas?????

gloomy gulch Apr 1, 2018, 2:17 AM

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anyone?

stable hemlock Apr 1, 2018, 11:38 AM

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I suppose the Epic staff aren't really present until after the (Easter) weekend, they might have an idea

hollow agate Apr 1, 2018, 10:48 PM

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Anyone successfully integrated Amazon GameLift Server SDK into 4.19 ? I keep getting flumoxed by random errors with incredibly little info about them.

tiny oracle Apr 2, 2018, 12:25 PM

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Dont use latest engine ver for things its never 100% stable

gloomy gulch Apr 2, 2018, 11:19 PM

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any help?

full sleet Apr 3, 2018, 12:46 AM

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do you have source control? try wiping the intermediates

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let me look again

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what is line 39?

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@strange urchin you can connect from any platform to any platform. like pc to xbox to linux to ps4. legally you may be denied...

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but thats not the tech

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it has to be the same build

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 9:56 AM

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@hollow agate you need to post the errors

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also gamelift is a pretty expensive solution for game servers

strange urchin Apr 3, 2018, 10:42 AM

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@full sleet thank you for the info. I finaly achieve it ! And indeed My Android Players can see the Mac and PC client ^^

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:32 PM

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anyone know where unreal decides which display it wants to boot a packaged build up on to?

4.14 and prior always booted to the primary display correctly on windows machines but 4.18 just always boots to whatever "display 1" is instead of the primary display

full sleet Apr 3, 2018, 3:33 PM

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there's probably a function deep inside the engine that decides

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you'll have to trace the main loop

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 3:35 PM

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they fixed in 4.20, it's a bug in SWindow.cpp

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:35 PM

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do you have a link to the fix at all?

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 3:35 PM

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we merged it from perforce iirc, not sure the github merge

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        DisplayMetrics.PrimaryDisplayWorkAreaRect :
        DisplayMetrics.GetMonitorWorkAreaFromPoint(WindowPosition);```

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in SWindow::Construct

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:36 PM

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how do you even find those fixes? 😛

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 3:37 PM

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search PrimaryDisplayRect in SWindow::Construct

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and i didn't do the merge

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:37 PM

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no i meant through their git

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 3:37 PM

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we use perforce not git

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:37 PM

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ah

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 3:37 PM

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issues site shows the github/perforce CL numbers

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:38 PM

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got a link for the issues site?

hidden hedge Apr 3, 2018, 3:38 PM

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https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-54135

next anvil Apr 3, 2018, 3:38 PM

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ty

twin nymph Apr 4, 2018, 1:07 AM

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Hello, small problem compiling a project

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I'm migrating a project from 4.16 to 4.19

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and a file from the engine cannot compile

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" cannot open include file JsonObjectWrapper.generated.h" : No such file or directory

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i did include the "Json" module in the .cs files

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and I compiled the engine from source, should I recompile the engine again ?

twin nymph Apr 4, 2018, 12:50 PM

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fixed btw

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i just included different modules and changed some #includes

hollow timber Apr 5, 2018, 12:40 PM

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Hello ! I have different behaviors regarding inputs axis (mouse move mainly) between launch in editor and in packaged version... So the question is : are the inputs scaled by deltatime (or inversely scaled) somewhere ? I think it's due to difference in FPS ! In my code I multiply the axis by deltatime but maybe I don't need to ?

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Hmmm nevermind I don't need to multiply by deltatime that sounds stupid in fact 😄

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For my usage with the mouse

bleak fjord Apr 5, 2018, 6:14 PM

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hi everyone,have anyone an experience with mounting paks?

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and loading asset from there?

frank moth Apr 5, 2018, 7:16 PM

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any reason the source code isn't available on github?

severe kestrel Apr 5, 2018, 8:46 PM

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Hey, I have a problem (Can I ask here?)

elder falcon Apr 5, 2018, 8:55 PM

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can you? 🤔

severe kestrel Apr 5, 2018, 8:56 PM

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well, I will ask

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I created a Door, but I created the door in other level and when I place it in another level I can't interact with it. In the "original" level I can normaly interact but in the other level "the game one" I can't

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how can I fix this?

elder falcon Apr 5, 2018, 8:57 PM

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that has nothing to do with the engine source

severe kestrel Apr 5, 2018, 8:57 PM

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yeah, I noticed just now

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sorry

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😅

uncut pier Apr 6, 2018, 12:12 AM

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For a flicker effect. What is less taxing:
A. Light Function
B. Tick the hidden in game at random intervals

hollow kernel Apr 6, 2018, 2:20 AM

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Are destructible mesh chunk transforms not exposed to BP by default in 4.19?

small cobalt Apr 6, 2018, 2:26 AM

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@hollow kernel There is alot of things you cant do with DMs once they are fractured.

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At least not without implementing the features yourself.

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For example runtime collision for DMs cannot be modified at all.

hollow kernel Apr 6, 2018, 2:34 AM

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Thanks for the info @small cobalt
Most of the related info I could find was pretty dated. You saved me a lot of time looking around for a more current state of DM things.

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 8:35 PM

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Don't know what channel to put this in.
Has anyone gotten jenkins ci to build their ue4 project?
If I build in the editor it works instantly.
In jenkins, it takes forever and fails with an unknown cook error.

full sleet Apr 6, 2018, 9:15 PM

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I've used gocd, but post a log 😉

small cobalt Apr 6, 2018, 9:20 PM

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@stable hemlock I use Jenkins for Automation. It works perfectly. If you have an Unknown Cook error you most likely have an ERROR in your log somewhere. Search your log for the Error and then rectify it.

full sleet Apr 6, 2018, 9:21 PM

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Remember, ERRORS stop the build, warnings don't.

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 9:39 PM

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@small cobalt @full sleet I don't have a single error in any of my logs

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I just get Error: Cook failed. Then points me to the cook log.
In there, the only problem seems to be Warning: Incompatible or missing module: UE4Editor-<ProjectName>.dll
But I don't know how to fix that

small cobalt Apr 6, 2018, 9:42 PM

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You probably need to recompile.

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 9:46 PM

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The dll files are created, they just have four random numbers at the end.

small cobalt Apr 6, 2018, 9:48 PM

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Thats an hotreload .dll

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Dont use HR

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Recompile from VS mate.

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 9:49 PM

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I have the compiling done in Jenkins since it's off a github repo

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Here's the script I found online. I have no idea what I'm doing. :(

"E:/Program Files/EpicGames/UE_4.19/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.bat" BuildCookRun -rocket -compile -compileeditor -installed -nop4 -project="%WORKSPACE%/Decay.uproject" -cook -stage -archive -archivedirectory="%WORKSPACE%/temp/Development/x64" -package -clientconfig=Development -ue4exe=UE4Editor-Cmd.exe -clean -pak -prereqs -distribution -nodebuginfo -targetplatform=Win64 -build -utf8output

small cobalt Apr 6, 2018, 9:50 PM

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Delete the Binaries, Intermediate and Saved folders. Then run the script again

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You need to recompile and get rid of those HR binaries

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 9:51 PM

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Two scripts run before that one. Would they cause any issue?

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@small cobalt Very weird. Deleted all three and getting the same error

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It works completely fine if I build in the engine though

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I don't know what's wrong

full sleet Apr 6, 2018, 9:59 PM

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@stable hemlock that's a wrong packaging setup

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https://wiki.unrealengine.com/How_to_package_your_game_with_commands

How to package your game with commands

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 10:00 PM

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I tried that too

full sleet Apr 6, 2018, 10:01 PM

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what was the command?

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RunUAT BuildCookRun -project="full_project_path_and_project_name.uproject" -noP4 -platform=Win64 -clientconfig=Development -serverconfig=Development -cook -allmaps -build -stage -pak -archive -archivedirectory="Output Directory"

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 10:01 PM

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"E:/Program Files/EpicGames/UE_4.19/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.bat" BuildCookRun -project="%WORKSPACE%/Decay.uproject" -noP4 -platform=Win64 -clientconfig=Development -serverconfig=Development -cook -allmaps -build -stage -pak -archive -archivedirectory="%WORKSPACE%/temp/Development/x64"

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Trying it again

full sleet Apr 6, 2018, 10:04 PM

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-project="full_project_path_and_project_name.uproject" <- did you do this?

hollow scarab Apr 6, 2018, 10:04 PM

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@frank moth You need to associate your Github account with your epic games account. Log into epic games --> manage your profile --> Connected Accounts, scroll down --> Github

full sleet Apr 6, 2018, 10:04 PM

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nevermind that's just the basics

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what happens when you go in visual studio and build a windowsnoeditor?

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like without the editor

stable hemlock Apr 6, 2018, 10:06 PM

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With that script, I get the same error

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I could try windowsnoeditor, but should I expect a different result?

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The build succeeds. Cooking doesn't

final quarry Apr 6, 2018, 11:12 PM

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has anyone ran into this crash on 4.19? https://i.imgur.com/RjPNYSk.png

Imgur

full sleet Apr 7, 2018, 4:53 AM

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there's two worlds?

radiant hazel Apr 7, 2018, 5:02 AM

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@final quarry are you trying to destroy actors manually somehow and not doing it entirely correctly?

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It feels like in your case "this" is null

final quarry Apr 7, 2018, 5:03 AM

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I think it was caused by a timer not being clear'd in time, as it was a timer delegate calling the function

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I moved clearing all active timers on the character to BeginDestroy rather than Destroyed

radiant hazel Apr 7, 2018, 5:05 AM

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Can you put them into endplay?

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Or this is a timer that has to run during editor?

final quarry Apr 7, 2018, 5:08 AM

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I think EndPlay is called during the Destroyed event which might already be too late

radiant hazel Apr 7, 2018, 5:20 AM

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EndPlay is called before actor starts being deinitialized

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I'm not sure what's the exact timing, but I think it should be one of the first things to get calle

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d

regal thistle Apr 7, 2018, 3:16 PM

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If anybody is looking for something to fix in the source code, I found an article that surveys the code base and highlights some areas that could be refactored: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-improve-your-c-skills-from-awesome-projects-251b300ed5a1

Hacker Noon

How to Improve Your C++ Skills From Awesome Projects

The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. Although…

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(ctrl+f refactor)

high epoch Apr 8, 2018, 8:09 AM

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Should there be a #shader-development channel separated from #engine-source?

low dust Apr 8, 2018, 10:36 AM

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@high epoch #graphics and #visual-fx , depending on the shader purpose

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I don't think shaders should go to engine-source at all

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:14 AM

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Hey guys, I'm using jenkins to manage builds, so I'm building from command line.
Every time I build I get a compile error. Unknown compile error. Been debugging this for three days now. It gives no hits as to what's wrong. Even one a brand new project.

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:20 AM

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Does it work when you run it through the project launcher?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:20 AM

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Yes

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:20 AM

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Are you still stuck with the same error as yesterday?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:20 AM

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Same exact one

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:21 AM

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Is the editor closed when you run RunUAT.bat?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:21 AM

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No

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:21 AM

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Try it :)

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:21 AM

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Will do

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Same error. This is killing me

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Fresh project no plugins

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commands straight from the wiki

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:26 AM

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Can you try using the same command line the project launcher is using to build the project instead?

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It should be one of the first lines in the log

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:32 AM

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@long junco I got the command. Should I run it off of RunUAT like normal?

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:32 AM

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Yep

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:39 AM

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Holy fuck nuggets that works. Still have to get my jenkins working, but a test in CMD works. Thanks @long junco!

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:41 AM

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No problem :) would have been surprised if that command didn't work, since you mentioned the project launcher worked... still wonder which parameter on your command line is causing the issue though

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:42 AM

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Here's the old command on top and the new one if you're bored. 😂
https://pastebin.com/HEZQGDrk

Pastebin

"E:/Program Files/EpicGames/UE_4.19/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT...

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Oops. Just ignore the archived directory too. Forgot to update that

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:43 AM

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Ah... you're missing some parameters in your previous one

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:44 AM

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Damn. Working off this guide: https://patricevignola.com/post/automation-jenkins-unreal#parameterize-your-build

Patrice Vignola - Automation With Unreal Engine And Jenkins-CI

Automation with Unreal Engine and Jenkins-CI

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But using git and winrar instead of p4 and 7z. Don't know what I'm doing. Just improvised 😂

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what

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the

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fuck

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Same error in jenkins

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:47 AM

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Right, you don't have to compile the .sln yourself, UAT will take care of that, saves you a step of generating a project and compiling that

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Is your workspace correct?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:48 AM

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🤦 I saved it with both commands

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:48 AM

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Ah, lol

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:48 AM

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Thanks for the info on compiling

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The timing is the only other issue

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:49 AM

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Timing?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:49 AM

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Just how long it takes

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:50 AM

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Jenkins has a timing plugin, can't recall the name though

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Each line in the console will then display the time stamp

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:50 AM

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I think I have ithttps://i.imgur.com/5oX3zS7.png

Imgur

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:50 AM

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Yep

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:51 AM

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Yay

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Same error

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Trying just copying and pasting into cmd

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See if it works

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Replaced %workspace% with exactly what it gives out

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Ok that's weird

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I get the error when I use the project it downloads from github. Don't get the issue in the project's actual location

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Trying the same command again but on the actual project

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Oh my god I think I know

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The default gitignore for unreal engine doesn't whitelist the plugins folder

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Or atleast blocks some files that keeps me from being able to compile off the github repo

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 11:58 AM

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Ah... so your plugins folder was missing?... That seems like a weird default to me...

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 11:58 AM

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Some binaries in it probably are

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Not the folder itself though

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I would think it'd be able to compile these itself, but I had issues in the past with compiling the project itself

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Some vdf and txt files were ignored. Hmmm

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Oh nice. Same error

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:04 PM

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You sure everything required is committed and nothing else? https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Basics/SourceControl/Perforce only the files marked in green need to be added (see the section above Adding files to perforce) the same applies to <project>\Plugins\ <plugin>

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:05 PM

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Looks like the gitignore github suggests for a ue4 project is the exact same as this https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/UnrealEngine.gitignore

GitHub

github/gitignore

A collection of useful .gitignore templates

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Oh

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Fuck I'm a dumbass

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I need to close discord when I'm this tired

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:06 PM

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lol, what's the issue? :P

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:06 PM

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Of course that's what github uses as default. It's from the github default repo

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I meant to link ue4's source gitignore

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Oh well

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I changed my gitignore to literally only accept the project, source, config, and plugins.....and nothing changed it github. I'm tearing my face apart

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Maybe it's a gitlfs setup issue

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:09 PM

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Forgot to push and remove the files you added before? or something like that? 😅

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:09 PM

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I wonder if I even have space

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Yeah

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I'm dying

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:13 PM

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Oh well, shit happens :P

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:13 PM

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I've probably put 80 hours into this issue

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Still not even a new error

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Well I just straight up copied files over myself instead of using git to see if that's the issue. Instead of crashing in 2 minutes it's been running for 5.
I'm getting close 🙏

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:21 PM

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Good

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:22 PM

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HOLY FUCK IT COOKED.
Now I have to find what's not going to github

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:26 PM

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👍

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:44 PM

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Ok wat

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It's my binaries folder

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It's not making the binaries correctly

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Here's the difference. The bottom one works. (Project) The top one doesn't. (Generated by the command line)

📎 7Mfh7pW.png

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:52 PM

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hmm

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:53 PM

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I copied every folder over except binaries and it still doesn't work. Copied these files and everything packaged perfectly.

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:54 PM

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Can you remove -nocompileeditor from the commandline arguments?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:54 PM

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Yeah

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Building

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Same error

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:57 PM

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Did it generate the UE4Editor-Decay.dll?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:57 PM

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Ahh no. Same binaries

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What RunUAT do you use? I have it linked to E:/Program Files/EpicGames/UE_4.19/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.bat

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:58 PM

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I use source build from GitHub myself

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 12:58 PM

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Yeah I'll have to when I use VRWorks

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 12:59 PM

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Let me see if a simple project still works from the Epic Launcher installed version :/

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:00 PM

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I renamed the binaries folder in my project. Trying the command on my project now

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:00 PM

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Can you also remove the -nocompile and change it to -compile, afaik that one is just for the UAT but lets just make sure

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:01 PM

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Sure thing

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Thanks again for the help

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Yeah get the error in my project. That's it. I'll try compile

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:01 PM

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No problem, pretty bored today

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:01 PM

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wait, how did I get those binaries in my project...building with visual studio?

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:02 PM

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Yeah, if you build Development Editor you get those binaries, but UAT should take care of that

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(as long as the params contains -build)

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:05 PM

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Hmm. I have an idea

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Now idea what I'm doing, but I have a good feeling. Running another build

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:08 PM

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Hmm... just looked in BuildProjectCommand.Automation.cs and contains this condition: if (Params.HasEditorTargets && (!Params.SkipBuildEditor) && !Automation.IsEngineInstalled() && (TargetMask & ProjectBuildTargets.Editor) == ProjectBuildTargets.Editor) so... doens't build the game editor code if it's an installed engine...

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:08 PM

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I'll use one of NVidia's forked engine's soon. Trying this...and it looks good so far

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:08 PM

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Yeah add the build of the .sln before the RunUAT

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:09 PM

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Ok..so I just generated the sln, now I'm forcing visual studio to build that for me

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:09 PM

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With target Developement Editor

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:09 PM

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Then I'm building the game

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We might have just said the same thing, but I'm not sure

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:09 PM

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Yeah

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:09 PM

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Just started doing this three days ago

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Aight cool

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Oh nice same error

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At least I have more binaries..... 😂

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Hmm they're temp

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:10 PM

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What params are you passing to MSBuild?

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:10 PM

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I think that's what it's called

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They have numbers in the file names

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:10 PM

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AH

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close the editor

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:10 PM

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UE4Editor-Decay-5772

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Ok

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Wait it's been closed

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Close all 4.19 editors?
Fuck it i'll try that too

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:11 PM

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Yes

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:11 PM

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Ok building again

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:11 PM

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If there are numbers in the file name it thinks it had to hot reload

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:11 PM

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Ahh that's why I got them in my project. I did a hot reload myself

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I think

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I did build and not rebuild

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:12 PM

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Don't rebuild, build is not the same as hot reload

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:12 PM

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Ok hmm

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On the bright side...I'm getting all these failures out of the way early 😂

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Fuck yes thank you

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Not temp dlls

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:12 PM

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Hot reload means recompile with the editor open, so you can test game code within the editor without closing it

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:12 PM

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Lets see if it works now

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Ahh ok

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Thanks

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I've worked in java for the past 7+ years. I haven't been able to wrap my head around C++ or anything like this yet lmfao

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:14 PM

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Lol, so far this has been pretty much Unreal specific though

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:14 PM

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Yeah that too. I've been in unreal for 4 years*. But it's been all blueprint

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Never packaged a project out of editor either until now

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You fucking magical man. Thank you

📎 dqDk9Bw.png

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Lmfao that shows the 1 build I did yesterday and said Fuck It. Not Today 😂

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:23 PM

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No problem :D

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 1:24 PM

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Oooook time to find out winrar's console commands 😂

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 1:25 PM

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Have fun :P no experience with those

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Shouldn't be that difficult I presume

stable hemlock Apr 8, 2018, 2:17 PM

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Yes! It's all done. Auto builds on commit and the rar file is made available on jenkins

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Damn. Thought that would take an hour to setup. Spent 50 on it. 😂

long junco Apr 8, 2018, 2:29 PM

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Good to know it works :)

drifting flower Apr 8, 2018, 4:40 PM

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hey all, I keep getting errors trying to build installed version of the 4.19 engine

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from the release branch

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and i keep getting this error from RUNUAT

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https://pastebin.com/djgvYfGT

Pastebin

ExceptionUtils.PrintExceptionInfo: ===============================...

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im calling the UAT from this command

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"%~dp0Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.bat" BuildGraph -target="Make Installed Build Win64" -script="%~dp0Engine/Build/InstalledEngineBuild.xml" -clean -set:HostPlatformOnly=true

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in a bat file

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it seems to be related to XGE, but even if i disable that, it still gives that error

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i am using the version of the InstalledEngineBuild.xml that the engine came with as well

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has anyone got this to work with VS 2017?

high epoch Apr 8, 2018, 5:02 PM

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@ebon junglento I was talking about a channel dedicated to discuss .usf and .ush shader files in the engine source code. In #graphics and #visual-fx people mainly interact with the material editor, they aren’t really graphics programming channels.

hollow kernel Apr 9, 2018, 9:25 AM

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Has anyone here used VSAid? http://www.brocksoft.co.uk/vsaid.php

BrockSoft VSAid (Visual Studio Aid) - A freeware Microsoft Visual ...

BrockSoft VSAid (Visual Studio Aid) is a freeware Microsoft Visual Studio extension that enhances and assists your devlopment experience.

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I'm looking for a cheaper alternative to VAX

elder falcon Apr 9, 2018, 10:20 AM

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don't, it's worth it

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working with unreal without va -> might aswell die

slender kestrel Apr 9, 2018, 10:35 AM

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Hi guys how can we change FOV of VR Camera in Engine Source Code
Checked out the source control code
void FSteamVRHMD::GetFieldOfView(float& OutHFOVInDegrees, float& OutVFOVInDegrees) const
{
OutHFOVInDegrees = 0.0f;
OutVFOVInDegrees = 0.0f;
}

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I tired checking out the source n find out this page
https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blob/release/Engine/Source/Runtime/HeadMountedDisplay/Private/DefaultXRCamera.cpp
void FDefaultXRCamera::OverrideFOV(float& InOutFOV)
{
// The default camera does not override the FOV
}
I am not sure what this function is for any idea what its purpose?

hidden hedge Apr 9, 2018, 1:50 PM

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you're potentially breaking your NDA with sony talking about psvr stuff here, you're best off using UDN for that kind of stuff

crystal valve Apr 9, 2018, 2:00 PM

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:/ ok, thanks for your advice.

low dust Apr 9, 2018, 5:27 PM

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@high epoch to be fair, there's only few people here who have ever opened usf files to modify them in the first place

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I agree that dedicated channel might be cool but I doubt there would be enough users for it

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but if you want to propose some #graphics-programming channel, better do it in #server-feedback, people responsible for the channels don't necessarily monitor this space

hollow kernel Apr 10, 2018, 1:29 AM

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Sorry, I should be directing this question to wholetomato customer support, but the response here is likely quicker...

When you buy a personal VAX license, does it just get bound to an account via email address? Couldnt find much info on it.

#engine-source

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ue4.19 SOURCE FROM GITHUB BUILD ERROR ^COMFIRMED
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/772254/ue419-build-always-giving-errors.html