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Thank you!

Updated the description, thanks for reminding me! Someone else had asked and I forgot to update the description right away. th-cam.com/video/4NnA_SFyjmw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=awbvsR9xWCFVQrH6 by @DevGods

@@nancedevdiaries I appreciate it

Hah, no way!! I was going to post this video in the replies, I still should I think. Also thanks, I'll check that out! I haven't looked into packed actors yet, do you have any advice? :)

@@nancedevdiaries Well one thing i noticed about hlods ... its been a while but at the time CPD didnt work with simplified mesh, but CPD does work with approximate. Right now im just running tests with this and will soon check to make sure level instances work with HLODs... because unfortunately if u are not using world partition i have not been able to make them work correctly. The main level that houses the level instances cannot build hlods for those sub level instances that are dragged in... and if you build them on their own in their own level it often says it needs to rebuild them in the main level even though you cant build them in the main level.. This also leads to lots of bugs like long lag spikes every 20 seconds (no idea why) .. literally like clock work. Had to cancel using HLODs for that reason until i figured a way to make them work with level instances. Hopefully going through the world partiion system will make it all work... but again havent tried yet.

ooh interesting! That should be very useful, I'm not familiar with smart objects to be honest, more to learn, thanks for sharing :). I just got 5.5 yesterday, will wait for the next patch to fully integrate into my project but it's nice to snoop in the meantime

@@nancedevdiaries until 5.6? That’s half a year..any reasons why?

@@davy4842 oh no definitely not 5.6 haha. just the first patch, 5.5.1, just in case there's something that needs to be fixed that was missed. Just a precaution

Maybe not, curious how that process goes, one less step is nicer :).

Thanks! Me too! I've been looking into tree imposters, but have a missing link : - Have nanite trees - HLOD layer for foliage set to disallow Nanite for generated HLOD - Where can we setup the imposters (since Nanite doesn't show LODs or I may be mistaken)? I even found an interesting article from 2018 about octahedral imposter trees that looked promising at shaderbits.com/blog/octahedral-impostors I feel like 6 years later the tech should be there. Maybe we watched the same video about trees and imposters at th-cam.com/video/eoxYceDfKEM/w-d-xo.html, too bad the section about tree imposters was so short! Will share if I do end up finding out, and please share here if you do too :)

No problem! I think I ran into similar issue with holes or jagged edges on the proxy landscape squares. I couldn't remember exactly how I fixed it but I found this forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-stop-holes-in-landscape-with-hlods-and-world-partition/1604383. You could try enabling nanite skirts. Here's the documentation and what you may need is under "Nanite Skirts" at dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/using-nanite-with-landscapes-in-unreal-engine Hopefully that's it!

Thanks and glad that was helpful! Non-humanoid characters are hard to rig 😅

@@nancedevdiaries I've definitely been feeling that haha. I've had a little rigging experience here and there over the years, but I'm definitely no rigger. But I needed a quick way to animate some characters in UE5 for a project deadline so here we are 😂

As far as I know, it's allowed "You may feel free to use any of these systems or elements in your own games" at dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/sample-game-projects-for-unreal-engine. You have to comply with Unreal Engine End User License Agreement (EULA) at www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal and www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/content. The relevant parts I found in the EULA are: "“Examples” means the code, artwork, or other content made available by us in the Samples and Templates folders in the install directory. "b. Distributing Examples" You may Distribute Examples (including as modified by you) in Source Code or object code to any third party." It's hard to find the correlation between commercial use and distribution, I'm not well versed in lawyer talk :D. But I've seen games or commercial projects that are based off Lyra. As much as I can find online the only things you may not do are: - Sell the assets by themselves (seems ok if they're part of a asset pack or project but not the main focus) - Use the assets in an engine other than Unreal Engine I'd love to also have a definitive answer to this question online and/or from an unreal rep but I trust the samples are fair use with the info I found online. So anyone don't hesitate to share if you find more concrete info. Thanks for the question!

Thank you!

I don't think so, since HLOD generation doesn't happen during runtime, and generating HLOD for an empty actor would not produce anything. I'd also like to find out more how to handle runtime spawned actors, specially if there's a lot and performance tanks. I'd think good LODs. Do share here if you find out :). On another note, level instances I'd be curious how HLODs work for those, haven't personally tested but I'd image they'd come with their own HLODs.

Could your actor have “Hidden in Game” checked? Or maybe it's streaming and not loaded and doesn't have HLODs?

Here's the updated 5.4 branch : github.com/NanceDevDiaries/ThumbnailToTextureTool/tree/5.4 I'm not sure what you mean by "level thumbnail captures" but it works with static meshes and blueprints. My older version works with most assets that have a thumbnail already but no options for background or transparency at github.com/NanceDevDiaries/ThumbnailToTextureTool/tree/1cc942cba4813c3e5726341e977177189b490fe1

yea same for me, an updated version would be lovely. :)

I was asking if it was able to turn the thumbnail captures of a .umap file, but now that I've tried it myself I see it can't sadly.

Thanks, happy to hear it's helpful! Interesting, could it be that your character has an item equipped on spawn and that's setting the linkedAnimLayer? Or in your ABP's AnimGraph in the LinkedAnimLayer node, in the details you might have set an "Instance Class".

​@@nancedevdiaries ​ Thanks, you're a star. It was the latter. I didn't realise I could get it to work without setting that. It's always the simple thing that go unnoticed and cause the head in brick wall scenario! Subbed to your Patreon :)

@@valmirius Awesome, glad that was it! Agreed on the brick wall scenario, happens a lot :D. Thanks for subbing :)

Good idea for a new tutorial, I'll make a note. In the meantime, you can add vfx and sfx as part of the swim montage as notifies :)

@@nancedevdiaries alright thanks just a tutorial in general about best practices for adding sounds and replicating and stuff would be amazing

I'll have to look into that, we could make use of the camera mode stack, so it takes care of blending in and out but I did make the camera mode in the volume separate. Good question, I sort of figured something related out with the rotation lag videos but I forget if it fixed the lerping between camera mode volumes that overlap.

@@nancedevdiaries It would be interesting to see how to do this. I understand how to do it in theory, but my knowledge of C++ is not enough.

Thanks Candace!! ❤️

Interesting! I wonder if it could be : - The ability's Net Execution Policy in the ability's class defaults is not set to 'Local Predicted' - Maybe the execution path doesn't lead to the Wait Target Data node on client, maybe there's a HasAuthority node on the way? I'd set breakpoints on the Client Ability and see what's going on. Good luck!

I totally relate with the brain being just tired after work, hard to feel creative even with a creative job after work to be honest! I was incredibly lucky to land a game job when there were not many options in my hometown but I've had to move since then to find jobs and get different experiences. That sounds exhausting, I'm impressed you have energy with the added responsibilities of being a parent to make games. I hope your passion project takes off too and you keep getting enjoyment out of it. Every little bit, every iteration pushes the project forward :). It feels amazing to see a game evolve, become itself, I've felt frustration how slow it was sometimes with a full time job. Saving and chipping away at my own project for years helped keep it alive and it's completely worth it.

Hi! I have a video that covers mana cost but not continuous cost at th-cam.com/video/bwg1yspDKg0/w-d-xo.html. On top of that video tutorial, to make a cost retrigger over time, you could commit the ability cost continuously with a timer (that's what I do for glide 'air' attribute personally) and end the ability if the cost fails. I honestly haven't found the "best" way to apply continuous cost, pleas share if you do :). Another way is that the ability with a cost itself triggers again and again like the Lyra fire ability but it might not fit for sprinting. That way the ability takes care of not starting if the cost check fails.

Thank you so much! Your channel and Patreon look awesome!

Thank you so much!