People: "You should use migrate to migrate assets in #unreal! It can help you create clean projects and-"
Unreal: "I don't migrate custom collision/trace values. Because fuck you. I don't migrate build settings. Because fuck you. And also, I randomly crash during migrations. Because fuck you."
Have these people... never tried doing the things they say to do? Or is there some trick to migrate the PROJECT part?
Like, can I clone a project and just leave all the assets behind?
Ugh, I finally decided to grab some #unreal assets from the shop (free ones) and I can't figure out how to put them in a project.
The only way it seems I can is to "create a project" based on those assets in the Epic Games Store Shopfront (unrealenginetab), then manually export every fuckin' asset to a format I can import somewhere else.
@Craigp Create the project, load it up, select all the assets you're interested in then right click -> migrate and pick your other project content folder
@DKesserich You don't need a separate developer settings class. CVars can be set directly from .in. The syntax is a little funky, but you should be able to find some examples in the engine installation
@SirLich yeah, I've tried without the settings class and the CVars still wouldn't load from ini. I've landed on manually setting their values after loading the config, but that's still not working consistently between the editor and a packaged build.
Does anyone know how to make jumping spider enemies in Unreal Engine? We have cobbled something together but it doesn't work as well as we'd like and wondering if anyone knows of a tutorial or has any advice. Thanks in advance!
Thanks to everyone who helped make the showcase / sale period a success, I really appreciate it. And new customers seem very happy so that's nice. ☺ #ue5#unrealengine
Well that's the, fourth?, complete source-control collapse I've navigated, so that's neat.
BTW, Perforce does NOT behave well when it runs out of space. It just stops. Literally. You can't even connect with the Administration interface to back out the changelist that ran you out of space. I fixed it with a reversion to backup + Reconcile Offline Work to pick up the lost work, and I think that's probably the cleanest option? Since you can likely assume the repo is corrupt if it train-wrecks into storage limits.
This will be of particular relevance to #Unreal#GameDev types, because yeeaaah sometimes a commit that you think is "well just a few asset packs and a small level chunk" randomly eats 8gb oops.
It took me absolutely ages to find the magic combination that let me ask #unreal :unreal: to find a bunch of blueprint assets defined in the project which derive from a certain base class. So many dead ends. So many weird ass things that result from how the asset system works, combined with the way BPs generate wrapper classes.
OK, so, my HLSL struct definition in #unreal works fine in the material custom HLSL node, but the Niagara custom HLSL node apparently... can't have functions in structs?
Well, I now have #unreal sampling a texture to get the Gerstner wave specs, similar to how Unreal does it. However, I'm not sure how to, uh... make a texture. In Unreal.
Basically, I can decode the wave data, but I can't ENCODE it.
This was inevitable given how widely Unreal is used in so much of video production. The good news is it only applies to companies with revenue above one million, so most creators can continue to rely on Unreal without paying up.
... there's some very interesting order of operations things going on with Unreal and I foolishly piped in a variable from a setter that had yet to be called, forcing it to get called at an erratic moment.
I made a tutorial on how to sync waves across clients in a multiplayer #unreal game! This is something I literally could not find a tutorial for, so this might be the only place to learn it.
... Unless you know a better way, in which case tell me.
@sinbad Honestly, the fact that hitting "compile" on an empty unreal project spits out ten errors makes me think I've done something very basic quite wrong.
@Craigp often getting the first build working takes longer, I’ve done this a lot and I still had basic errors like that just last week starting a new plugin. You just have to get the build.cs and target.cs right for what you’re using and it’s easier from there
I haven't completely given up, but my interest in Gameplay Abilities is much reduced. I don't need 99% of what it does, so I guess I could just make the 1% I need myself. In Blueprints.
@glassbottommeg I love this! First I've heard of the technique but it makes a lot of sense. (And it feels like the kind of tech speedrunners and other high level players love to take advantage of)
@tojiro It's EXTREMELY cool. My jaw hit the floor the first time @TheEnbyWitch told me about it all "no seriously, just reduce gravity when jump held down".
Me: "but don't you wanna like have jump down start a window that is extended by-"
Vivi: "No, seriously, super simple, literally just when button down, that's it"
You think it's too stupid to work, but then you implement it, and. It's perfect.
Looks like I'm going to have to* write another #unreal subsystem. I want to use Utility AI but I don't really like the existing options I've found so far. I want it to be fairly simple, but also be able to read gameplay tags and gameplay attributes easily for picking / ranking behaviours.
I don't know if I'll release it, but I'll start structuring it on the basis that I might. The big question is: what do I call it? I have to stick with "Steve's Blah" ofc, it's canon now 😅
