Questions tagged [unreal-4]
Unreal Engine 4 is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms.
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Unreal engine Packaging error for android ETC2
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): BUILD FAILED in 35s
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC2)): ERROR: /bin/sh failed with args -c '"/Users/arunkarthik/Documents/Unreal Projects/MyProject3/...
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UE4 Cannot find moved files causing a crash when opening a level
Moved blueprints cannot be find in new location, Unreal Engine still searching them in old folder. This cause the editor to crash when trying to open a specific level.
The log error is the following:
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Unreal Engine 4: The Motion axises values is always zero
I'm trying to add aiming by gyroscope to my game.
In the controller's module I parsed gyro/accel data and get the processed axis values, that I send into engine:
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How to create good scratched film effect in UE4?
I am messing with 8mm old film effect post process for a while in unreal engine 4. I have set up the material, but the effect just looks so wrong. I have heard you can make scratched film effect with ...
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Easy code to make object raise when collecting item? (new coder)
Trying to make the statue (queen) in the background raise from the ground when an item is collected (which currently just gets destroyed to show that) and having issues with timelines and assigning ...
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Blueprint can't pull a function from a Widget
I am working on a project and I am stumped on something and it is taking me to long to fix this issue.
As seen above I am this is where I am, what I need to do is set up a widget text that changes by ...
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How to snap a point to the height of the navmesh surface?
I'm making generator for EQS and need to put points on navmeshes located on different heights, one above other. So, my idea is to make raycast vertically and find intersection points with navmeshes. ...
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ACharacter falls instead of landing back at its starting point when jumping at the edge of a ledge
I’m using ACharacter class for a 2D platformer game in Unreal 4.26.
When the pawn (the main character) starts to jump from a the very edge of a ledge, it’s not able to land in the same position. ...
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How to take opacity animation from Blender into Unreal blueprints?
Like the GIF above, I made Skeleton Anim and Material Opacity Anim in the DCC tool. However, FBX file format doesn't support opacity anim, so I have the task of rebuilding opacity anim in the UE.
To ...
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Can You Create a Map that is 1:1 Scale with the United States in UE4 & UE5 [duplicate]
Is it theoretically possible to create a Fortnite graphic quality map in UE4 or UE5 that is 1:1 scale with the United States and be able to have 330 million people all online in that map at once ...
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Unreal Engine 4.26: How to serialize and load the array of custom UObjects (TArray<UObject*>) in C++?
I have a UProperty in struct which is a TArray<UCoverInfo*> where UCoverInfo is inherited from UObject:
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Rendering 3D items in a GUI in Unreal Engine
I have various buildable 3D items in my game like so:
These are just a few, but there will eventually be hundreds of them. The models of each of these items are displayed to the user as part of a ...
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Give an opaque color to inner base of otherwise transparent cube?
This is my first time using a material in Unreal Engine. I am trying to create a transparent cube except for the inner face of the base, which I would like to be opaque white, like in this drawing:
I ...
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Tweak brightness of widget in UE4
I would like to make an interactable monitor in Unreal Engine 4.26. I am using the default material for widgets as you can see in the image below:
The texture I would like to show is:
When I drive ...
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How to change uwidget alignment on/after construction?
Have no idea how to align/realign uwidgets via c++.
I have a following widget structure: UButton->UOverlay->UImage.
Have to make UOverlay to HFill and VFill the UButton
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UWidget::SynchronizeProperties() is not being called on in editor property change
I have to change the children list every time the enum variable property is changed from widget editor.
None of the functions I've tried so far seem to have worked (virtual void OnEndEditByDesigner(); ...
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Audio class values don't load on event begin play
I'm trying to have it so all of the audio values (that are stored in an array in a savegame) load on event begin play in my first-person character blueprint but it doesn't load. It already works as ...
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How can I set the Actor Label when a new Actor is created?
I'm creating a new type inheriting from AActor in c++. (Unreal 4.26)
In the PostActorCreated() function I call ...
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Unreal Engine - Looping Procedural Mesh Terrain
We are building a procedural voxel terrain based game and have been doing really well. However we have hit a challenge that we have half the solution for. We need to figure out how to loop the terrain ...
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Nav Mesh Bounds Volume on Z axis
I've just started to learn Unreal Engine 4.26.2 developing an Arkanoid clone. But, I have a problem with the monsters: I don't know if I can use the Nav Mesh Bounds Volume with them, because they fly (...
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3D projection, Similar to SceneCapture2D
I would appreciate some help, I was wondering if it was possible in UE4 to do a "3D projection" of a scene, Similar to what SceneCapture2D does, but the viewer can see a 3D scene (with a ...
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MMORPG UE4 Tooling
I'm building an mmorpg using UE4 on the client side with a custom server solution.
My target is to build server only data in UE4 editor.
Define spawn points
Define spawn areas
etc
I've struggled a ...
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Trying To Restart My Shooting Arrow With Overlap
I am trying to restart my shooting arrow if the arrow hits the roof but the bool is not changing [and giving a] cast failed [error]
this is my shooter character shooting arrow
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How can I bind fields of USTRUCT with text fields in widget UMG?
I have USTRUCT object. Its fields are filled in c++ code from a JSON object and I need to bind its fields with the content of text fields in a widget. So the flow of my program should be like this:
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Create and configure new Niagara Emitters from C++
I’m trying to create a magic system that lets the player add spells and modifiers to a spell stack and combine them following a set of rules, creating new spells in the process (that maybe can be ...
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Low FPS in Unreal engine, but GPU usage is low as well
I am running an Unreal Engine 4 project which has many high quality assets. My computer is fairly strong:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 SSD: Lexar 500GB
NM610 M.2 NVMe SSD
RAM: 2 ...
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UE4 Best way to store the winner of a multiplayer game?
Ok I have a Game Mode, and a Game State, the game mode counts player kills and when a player reaches 10, the game mode enters the end state. It stores the winner on the game state, which the clients ...
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How to create a modular environment that doesn't repeat itself?
I am creating a modular environment for a game so I have walls repeating quite often. What I want to achieve is to have the same walls with a different look, even though they are the same mesh sharing ...
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Save current pose snapshot of a skeletal mesh as a new animation sequence asset from blueprint
What I'm trying to do is create a Blueprint Utility tool that lets me create an Animation Sequence asset to save the current Pose Snapshot of a skeletal mesh.
I see there's Create Asset node from ...
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Can I call event from itself
I need to change Game Phases during Game Round. The problem is phases haven't same time duration.
So as far as I see, there could be timers by event, but I can't change time interval for them. As ...
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Unreal Engine - Materials Import as Gray
I imported the .fbx files from here: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/industrial/other/big-warehouse-pack
into an Unreal Engine 4.27 project. All the meshes load in properly, but the materials are ...
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Getting cameras from World (Unreal Engine) to set up a static camera only game
I'm afraid I have another Unreal related question. I'm trying to use ACharacter for my characters but the game uses ONLY static cameras (ie. they shouldn't even ...
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Unreal How to Feed Images into Open CV Lens Distortion Calibrator
I'm currently trying to use the OpenCV Lens Distortion plugin that comes installed by default with the Virtual Production example in Unreal 4.27 to try and create a camera undistortion texture for my ...
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Add some randomness to the velocity when a ball bounces using UProjectiile Movement Component
I've just started to learn Unreal Engine 4.26.2 with C++.
I’m developing a clone of Arkanoid and I’m using UProjectile Movement Component to move the ball.
When the ball hit something it always ...
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how to download owned assets from unreal engine marketplace on linux?
From any browser, after you own an asset, clicking on download does nothing.
To me, as many suggest, installing windows is not ok, but that is just my opinion.
Is there any alternative that could let ...
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How to access a Material Editor node from a script?
Is it possible to access a node from the Material Editor from a C++ script?
I'd like to be able to change the value of 'Mulitply' from a script.
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Texture "Mapping" (Using just part of a texture sheet on a object face)? Unreal Engine
I've created a Playing_Card class which is of course for card games such as Blackjack.
The class works fine, except until now I have not used graphics.
I have now ...
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How to properly assigned PlayerState variable from Game Mode?
I am currently trying to assign Player Index to my PlayerStates and I have made it through GameMode like below from PostLogin. This is the relevant part:
My problem right now is the server actually ...
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Ue5 AI MoveTo does not work
I have been having problems working with AI MoveTo and created a very basic version in the hopes of finding the problem:
As you may see, I have one single character with the default skeletal mesh and ...
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UVs Distored When Importing Mesh?
The first image shown below is of part of my mesh in Blender, and the second is of that same part of the mesh in UE4. For whatever reason, the UVs are distorted and glitchy once imported into UE4. I'...
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Make character fall straight down on a collision
I'm building a game where I need my character to fall straight down when an overlap (collision) event occurs while jumping.
Depending on the angle my character gets deflected, I want it to fall ...
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Unreal 4 - Static mesh has strange, glitchy shadows?
The first image below shows my mesh in Blender with the Blender lighting, and the second image from inside UE4 has this weird shading on it. Is there any way to help it look like the first image? I've ...
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Unreal 4 source control not sharing some things with team members
I am working on an unreal blueprint project with another programmer and we are using a gitlab remote repo to store our work. Previously we have been able to push and share our work and see each others ...
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Game Mode: call StartPlay when second map is loaded
I've just started to learn Unreal Engine 4.26.2 and C++.
I have two maps: one used only to show the main menu, and another one to play the game (Pong clone).
On my GameMode, which inherits from Game ...
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Why instantiated Static Mesh gets scaled in Unreal Engine 4? [closed]
Building a project in Unreal Engine 4.26 while trying to increase performance of the videogame I ended up using instances of static meshes where possible. This generated an issue:
My instantiated ...
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Is it possible to automate the export of videos from Unreal Engine so that assets are swapped out dynamically?
Let's say I have an unreal project that features a character in an environment. I want to use Unreal to cycle through characters and environments and create a number of videos. Let's say for instance ...
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UE4 - Make AI move up and down?
I have this AI character that flys around on the x and y axis in random directions, but is it possible to make the character move up and down randomly? I tried movement input with a lerp and delay but ...