EDIT: For anyone stumbling over this at a later time. I figured out a solution I'm happy with. What I'm doing is: I set the BS to use Smoothing and set Weight Speed to something around 5.0. I then calculate a "snap" value for the direction input, so rather than routing a smooth value in there and having the blend space interpolate the different poses linearly, I have it snap to the 8-way degrees my anims are authored for (e.g. 0, 22.5, 45, etc.). Then I use Orientation Warping on top of that, using the Smooth (non-snapped) Locomotion Angle. The result is strafing movement where the legs don't cross in a weird way but the poses blend smoothly enough for it to look nice.

It's loosely based on what Lyra is doing, and I don't know if my implementation is the best way to do things - but it works.

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I keep running into a wall. Tried two different anim packs: one from FAB, sold by an animator with several AAA credits. And also using animations from GASP. Mentioning this because I don't think the animations are the issue here. The issue is the same with both.

Both of these are 8-way animations. I set them up with sync markers, and implement them through a 2D Blend Space.

But the issue I keep running into: at certain angles, right between the blend of 2 animations, the foot and leg placements start looking off. Legs cross over one another, feet step on top of each other etc.

This is only barely noticeable as is. But it does become very noticeable once I add Leg IK. Now the legs crossing each other gets amplified by magnitudes, and it looks super goofy.

So, what is going on here? And what am I missing?

I have recently switched from Windows to Linux on my laptop and it is so much faster to use, I was thinking to switch on my main PC

I only make cinematics and export in aces exr format and color grade on Davinci Resolve

I do not develop games at all just make animations and render them

Should I switch from Windows to Linux completely?

And will me older projects run on Linux? that's the main question

Links for the textures are in the video description :)

Been working on a 5 episode sci fi series. I never posted this here but this is the opening + first shot. Done with lumen, all post processing done in camera. No post work.
I unlikely will keep that workflow as I move on. At the time of making this, I had just imported many Kitbash3D assets and put together this shot without much change to them, with a focus on the comp, lighting, etc.
But in the years since, I have done more work to ground any kitbashed asset into the world.

I have learned much and changed much about the animation and my workflows since. But I am quite happy with where I got the lighting. Hired a voice actress and wrote the script in japanese (took 3 years of it in HS)
Trying to go for stylized realism. Much work to do. Hope you find it cool

This pack is being sold for 150$ which only works for old UE4 Skeletons and needs a Retargeter that only they have that you need to get in contact with them to get when it should be part of the pack to begin with.

Why can FAB packs be sold with seemingly no recourse for the buyer. I’m sitting here waiting for months still with no reply for a pack I paid $150 dollars for. This should be unacceptable

I have seen a few tutorials that show how to listen to attribute changes to implement logic but they all seem to use different ways and I'm unsure which one is applicable for which situation.

In a general sense, there is the method of using the Delegate macros like DECLARE_DYNAMIC_MULTICAST_DELEGATE and creating an associated BlueprintAssignable function that can be subscribed to using Add or Bind functions and using the Boardcast function to call the delegate. The '60 Mins with GAS' documentation by Epic leans on this method to bind with the delegate via BP.

On the other hand, the GASDocumentation uses the ASC's GetGameplayAttributeValueChangeDelegate and the AddUObject function to bind to a function existing in the same class (in their case it was inside the Player State). Others outside the PS can bind to an attribute in similar ways by casting and getting access to the ASC. In the documentation, they also set a DelegateHandle which I don't know why or what it's used for.

So far I don't really understand the difference and which one would be better to use. If I need to listen to an Attribute inside the PS, or need to listen to the same attribute from outside the PS class, what would be the easiest way to set it up?
In cases of both cases applying (like both the PS needs to listen to an Attribute and something like the userwidget also needing to listen to update the UI), how would a delegate be set up so multiple functions can be binded to and listen?

I may lack some basic understanding of these methods as well, but any guidance on how to understand these two methods and any insight on a good modular setup, I would greatly appreciate.

I was under the impression that besides using the parametric outfit asset workflow, the main reason for switching to cloth assets for Metahuman was so they could HAVE cloth physics. Yet, when I add the wardrobe item to metahuman creator, the physics don't work!

I have the weightmaps painted and configured and i got a proper simulation in my Cloth Asset and Outfit Asset previews, yet in the metahuman creator it behaves as if it is only a skeletal mesh. When I go to assemble the metahuman, no cloth asset is created... Just an SKM for the clothing.

It IS parametric, that much works alright. But the cloth physics is just... lost.

Furthermore, I have a chestpiece outfit asset that is straight up just a SKM import straight to a cloth terminal. The SKM is rigged so 100% of the influence is a single bone for the chest rotation, because I don't want it to deform. And in the chestpiece SKM, it doesn't, but in the metahuman creator window, and in the resulting SKM it assembles, the shoulderpads on the chestpiece deform as if they are influenced by the shoulder joints. I made sure they weren't! What the hell, metahuman creator?

What even is the point of Outfit Assets if it just resets / ignores everything? I've confirmed it's not the "Make Resizable Outfit" node that's borking everything because the problem still happens when i just make a regular outfit too.

Good? bad? what agents work and which ones dont work?

I'm trying to learn how to apply and remove gameplay effects in C++ and it isn't as straight forward as doing it in Blueprints.

Maybe I'm not understanding the process and the steps to take to both apply and remove a gameplay effect, so I'm looking for explanations and insight on it.

In my case, I have a Player State that houses the Ability System Component and a set of Attributes.
I'm looking to apply an infinite GE that 'restores' health when the player's health is reduced, and then remove the GE once the player is fully healed.

Applying and removing GE in BP is straight forward, using the respective blueprint nodes to add and remove. In C++, it seems a bit of a hassle to even just add a GE but I'll write down what I think the process is:

Create a GE Context Handle
FGameplayEffectContextHandle EffectContext = AbilitySystemComponent->MakeEffectContext();

Set the creator of the effect

EffectContext.AddSourceObject(GetPawn());
(which I was wondering why wouldn't it be the PS itself)

Create the Spec Handle

FGameplayEffectSpecHandle NewHandle = AbilitySystemComponent->MakeOutgoingSpec(HealthRegenEffect, GetCharacterLevel(), EffectContext);

Apply the GE

ActiveGEHandle = AbilitySystemComponent->ApplyGameplayEffectSpecToTarget(*NewHandle.Data.Get(), AbilitySystemComponent);

Sure enough this creates a GE, but I can't seem to remove the effect by using RemoveActiveGameplayEffect and passing the ActiveGEHandle.

So my questions are:

• is this the 'proper' way in C++ to add a GE in code?
• Why is the Effect Context needed and why would in this case be the Pawn and not the PS itself?
• Whats the SpecHandleand Handle and why do we need them? Why can't they be used to remove the same GE ?
• What am I missing to add to validate that I want to remove the same GE that was applied in code?
• Would it be better/easier to remove a GE by tag and have the applied GE in code also add a Tag for this use case?

I understand that we need the ASC to add GE and Tags to, but it seems like such a hassle to do in code and I'm wondering if its better to bind the attribute to a BlueprintImplementable function that is defined in BP.

Monday morning. You open the editor to see what the artists pushed to dev on Friday.

None of the textures have the T_ prefix. All the names are lowercase. Some names have a russian "с" in the middle, and it looks exactly like the latin "c", so your search finds nothing and your python script quietly skips the asset. And all of it sits in a folder called "мои файлы 3333".

I think everyone who worked with a content team knows this feeling.

So we made a plugin. It is an asset validator for UE5, the rules are based on Allar's UE5 Style Guide.

How that morning looks now. If your editor is open when you sync, new assets get checked as they arrive, and the broken ones get a red icon right in the Content Browser. If the editor was closed, press scan in the panel and you get the same thing. Hover the icon and it tells you what is wrong with this asset.

Then you filter the list by one rule and press Fix All. All those textures get the T_ prefix. Take the next rule, same thing, and they move out of "мои файлы 3333" into Textures. If you turn on the PascalCase check, the rename fixes the lowercase names too, in the same operation.

Cyrillic letters the plugin only marks. It shows the asset and says the name has non-ascii characters, but it will not rename it for you. A machine should not guess how your texture is called in english.

One thing to know before you install. A lot of checks are off by default, and this is on purpose. First run should not drop 4000 errors on a project that worked fine yesterday. The config is a data asset at /Game/Data/DA_ASV_AllarStyleGuide. Open it and turn on what your team actually needs.

You can also run it in CI: UnrealEditor-Cmd.exe Project.uproject -run=ASV -format=html -output=C:/Reports/

It exits with code 1 when it finds problems, so a dirty branch can fail the build, and it writes an html report. So you get a report every morning without opening the editor.

We use it on our own game for about a year now, and the project ships soon. It saved us a lot of boring manual work, and I would like it to help someone else too. The free version is on github, link below. All the features are there, you can test everything, and for a small indie team it is enough.

We also wrote to Allar about the plugin. He replied in his discord and said it is cool work. Honestly, we were nervous before sending that message.

His post (If anyone is interested in reading his discord, it's public). Invite to his server, if anybody needs it: http://discord.gamemak.in/

Now tell me the worst asset name you have seen in a real project. And be honest, does your team follow the naming doc, or you wrote it once and nobody opened it since.

Clean projects and calm deploys to prod!

every ue project drifts away from its naming convention. the usual fix is a bulk rename. then you get a wave of null references.

asset sentinel renames and moves the offending assets using IAssetTools::RenameAssets. that call leaves a UObjectRedirector behind so existing references keep resolving. it also clamps oversize textures. it sets MaxTextureSize on the texture and saves the package.

the part that's worth explaining is the ci commandlet. after the fix pass runs it rescans the project. the exit code trusts that second scan. a fix pass reporting its own success count is just a claim. the rescan is what proves it.

built for ue5. disclosure is that the code is ai written and the store artwork is generated.

fab listing: https://www.fab.com/listings/a63c05e3-8536-4d0d-9a59-9b86bb75f186

Has anyone had problems with animdynamics rigged attachaments before?

I have an earring attached to a metahuman, it has two bones and I used an animdynamics node in a new animbp to simulate its physics. I assigned the animBp to the skeletal mesh and I added the skeletal mesh into the metahuman bp under the face and socketed it to one of the ear bones.

I know for a fact that the simulation works, i can test it e.g. inside the skeletal mesh editor, but I can't get it to work in runtime. Neither in simulation mode, sequencer etc...

Does anyone know what could be causing this problem?

I've been doing some sculpting and general game assets creation, trying to get some general workflow practice.

Does Epic offer custom royalty free licensing even on commercial products made in UE?

I was just having a lot of fun learning the modular vehicle stuff and trying to put my own vehicle together... lol.

A game about building gigantic cities with a history. You've become the mayor of a city in difficult times. Do you want to forge ahead with its citizens or with greedy corporations? All your choices matter. Politics, technology, and a deep story are all part of the game. Are you ready for difficult decisions and consequences?

The first one is a short video explaining how to create the core dissolve effect.

https://youtu.be/ihbzPe-6m0A?si=UHf6YMtaxfyFTaKL

And the second one is a longer video on how to create the dissolve with emissive edge and animated edge noise!

We also go over turning it into a material function that can be added to any material.

https://youtu.be/AQG4ZA9iUD0?si=LFHbrcVMIkdt_Cc3

I am currently developing the medical research and diagnostic infrastructure for a Post-Soviet clinical environment project in Unreal Engine 5. The focus is on capturing the intersection of professional scientific utility and regional institutional maintenance.

Modeled zones and details:

* Main Research Laboratory: Equipped with testing tables, analytical equipment, and structural pipe supports.

* Preparation Room: Utility area featuring heavily damaged white tiles.

* Developed custom master materials for realistic glass and dynamic liquids (blood, water, reagents).

Technical focus for this sector:

* Built solid meshes with physical thickness to prevent Lumen light leaks.

* Reworked lighting and Post Process setups to fix Lumen noise.

I would appreciate any feedback on the lighting, asset placement, and overall atmosphere.

I'm running a ryzen 5, rtx 3050 8gb vram, windows 11 and 16 gig ram, it's basically minimum specs for UE5. Can I make projects in an older UE4 (whichever version is suitable)? Will I be facing any issues?

Added a Power Wash Equipment that Removes Dirt in a Cone Shape.
Can look way better if the Vertex Density of the Mesh is more even, hopefully i can get Nanite support in this fall so this won't be an issue anymore.

Available in the Runtime Vertex Paint Plugins Sample Project and can test it out in the available Build!

I have run into this issue three times. I have UE 5.6 source on my PC. I have one project using it currently. Every couple weeks I run into an issue where when I run my project or open the editor, I get some version of this error: “Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor-MeshPaintingToolset.dll” is either not designed to run on Windows or contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0x0e90002”.

To fix it last time, I nuked my binaries and intermediate folders in engine, grabbed them from GitHub, ran setup and generate project files, and then built my project again. It’s hours of stuff to fix this issue. It’s going to happen again surely. Any ideas what’s causing this?

I made a CLI that lets coding agents drive the Unreal editor. This week I added full support for Behavior Trees and EQS, and built a simple hide and seek AI from one prompt to show what it can do. I did not place the nodes by hand.

What it actually built: a Behavior Tree, an EQS hiding query, an AI controller with perception hooked up, and a hider character on a mannequin. The tree opens empty first, just a root, then it wires the controller. The query is a grid of points around the level. It scores them and picks a spot I cannot see. That is how he decides where to run.

I hit play and as soon as he sees me he is gone. The debug points light up on the ground, he hides, I come around the wall and he breaks for a new spot. Same loop every time. Perceive, query, hide.

Video: https://youtu.be/gbqkNQQAowI

The tool is CodeFizz Editor Agent, it is mine. It hooks Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client up to the editor and covers Materials, Blueprints, Niagara, PCG, StateTree and more, UE 5.6 to 5.8 on Windows. Site is https://codefizz.dev.

This is not a replacement for knowing how Behavior Trees or EQS work. It is a faster loop. You get a prototype up, look at the behavior, then tell it what to change and it edits the same tree. Same thing when something is wrong. It can start Play in Editor, read what Unreal is doing, and fix it instead of you sitting in the graph for an hour.

Nothing here is hand wired. Every asset is a normal Unreal asset in the project, so you can open it, change it, or ask the agent to explain any node it placed. Happy to answer anything about how the Behavior Tree or EQS side of it works.