4.14 Released!

[anonymous_user_c94f194d]

@savagebeasty;625401

Is it just me or has no one mentioned the new auto LOD feature?

I brought the Instalod plugin a while back and never really got round to trying it out properly so I can’t fairly compare the two. All I can say is personally for me is the greatest feature added in for ages. Lods are my bugbear but now with a click of a button it just created the LOD’s and the results were actually usuable

Great stuff

New auto lod system is fantastic. We completely abandoned hand made lods. Greatest feature is that lightmaps are now butter smooths between lod changes. It’s still not perfect thought. I had to make some tools to change pixel error per model based on model size. Now you can’t have settings that work for smaller and larger models at same time. It’s based on pixel error and bigger models cover more pixels. So lod on big models are pushed way too far. It’s also sometimes remove all triangles from some elements but does not actually remove that element and cause warnings on map check. Sometimes it’s also swap to wrong materials.
But I managed to convert over 500 old models to new system using mainly automated tools.
For some scenes I have seen over 40% polygon reduction without any visual difference. And baselines was that most materials had LOD’s. Those just weren’t setuped perfeclty.

Edit: Only thing that is missing is Skeletal mesh reduction support.

[SRombauts]

Did you tried using the specialized LOD categories like ‘Small props’ and ‘Large props’?
No way to customize those to your needs ?

[anonymous_user_213579db]

“World Outliner
New: Added the ability to collapse and expand folders in the World Outliner.”

Where is it? I think is VERY useful, but I can’t it.

[anonymous_user_2a99da8f]

I tried to use feature, but i can’t click “true” box check !
I also tried to rewrite DefaultEngine.ini but after reloading project, it was false again… what is wrong?

[Akuma990]

It is only me or 4.14 have a decent frame lost?
The same scene in 4.13 renderd frame in 10ms, and in 4.14 it is now 13ms…

[Nerdsbeware (Snacky Otter Studios)]

@Kalle-H;625313

Forward can be bit faster and also support MSAA. If you don’t need most of the screenspace features and can’t use TXAA then it might be better choise.

Thanks! I appreciate it

[Nerdsbeware (Snacky Otter Studios)]

@Name368;625473

I tried to use feature, but i can’t click “true” box check !
I also tried to rewrite DefaultEngine.ini but after reloading project, it was false again… what is wrong?

http://i.imgur.com/IAWKZu5.jpg

Apparently only works in source code builds right now. Doesn’t work on the launcher version of the engine.

[anonymous_user_c94f194d]

@Akuma990;625480

It is only me or 4.14 have a decent frame lost?
The same scene in 4.13 renderd frame in 10ms, and in 4.14 it is now 13ms…

In the POM thread there is mention about bug that causing material compiler not to reusing nodes like it worked before. There is fix already made that is coming to 4.14.1.

[unit23]

Did something change in regards to how text and string variables are displayed on user widgets, via blueprints?

Update Okay seems to be a Gamespark issue, but not entirely sure.

[_neo]

We are unable to package our project with 4.14.
Any ideas what’s going on?

Packaging fails for windows in 4.14

LogCook:Display: Cooking /Game/Maps/L_Ranch_TH -> O:/Projects/pcthunder2305/Thunder2305/Saved/Cooked/WindowsNoEditor/Thunder2305/Content/Maps/L_Ranch_TH.umap
 LogWindows:Error: begin: stack for UAT
 LogWindows:Error: === Critical error: ===
 LogWindows:Error: 
 LogWindows:Error: Fatal error!
 LogWindows:Error: 
 LogWindows:Error: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000818
 LogWindows:Error: 
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Engine.dll!operator<<() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\components\staticmeshcomponent.cpp:2477]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Engine.dll!operator<<() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\core\public\containers\array.h:1123]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UStaticMeshComponent::Serialize() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\components\staticmeshcomponent.cpp:271]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!FArchiveSaveTagExports::ProcessTaggedObjects() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\savepackage.cpp:994]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!FPackageExportTagger::TagPackageExports() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\savepackage.cpp:3201]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UPackage::Save() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\savepackage.cpp:3784]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UEditorEngine::Save() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\editorengine.cpp:3966]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UCookOnTheFlyServer::SaveCookedPackage() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\cookontheflyserver.cpp:2962]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UCookOnTheFlyServer::TickCookOnTheSide() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\cookontheflyserver.cpp:2166]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UCookCommandlet::NewCook() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\commandlets\cookcommandlet.cpp:1553]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UCookCommandlet::() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\commandlets\cookcommandlet.cpp:850]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Cmd.exe!FEngineLoop::PreInit() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:1843]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Cmd.exe!GuardedMain() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launch.cpp:113]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Cmd.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:126]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Cmd.exe!WinMain() [d:\build\++ue4+release-4.14+compile\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:202]
 LogWindows:Error: UE4Editor-Cmd.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() [f:\dd\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:264]
 LogWindows:Error: .DLL
 LogWindows:Error: ntdll.dll
 LogWindows:Error: ntdll.dll
 LogWindows:Error: 
 LogWindows:Error: end: stack for UAT
 Took 210.1086506s to run UE4Editor-Cmd.exe, ExitCode=3

Could be caused by: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blame/release/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/Components/StaticMeshComponent.cpp#L2477

[BrUnO_XaVIeR]

@Ellis;624237

Please follow the guide to report any potential bugs. Einen Fehler melden - Unreal Engine

Thanks

issue has been reported several times before for earlier engine versions; It didn’t happen for 4.10 up to 4.13 on me… but now in 4.14 if I call MyCharacter->Serialize(MyFArchive) then I simply get only in 4.14:

Assertion failed: TCString<TCharType>::Strlen(InName)<=NAME_SIZE [File:D:\Build\++UE4+Release-4.14+Compile\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\UObject\UnrealNames.cpp] [Line: 582] 

The same happens if I call Serialize in Components and in HUD class; but it doesn’t happen for other Actor classes so something have changed and I don’t understand what it is.

[Mitch_Mitchell]

/fires 21 guns in the air and sounds the trumpets in honour of .

[Willard720]

@CriErr;625134

Guys, i failed to find maps and sets

Data Structures (Maps and Sets) - Blueprint - Epic Developer Community Forums

nvm, found it.

btw, i think epic should state the state of the feature more clearly on the stream, not how awesome the feature is and what it does, but actual description from editor.

http://puu.sh/sm86U.png

Me too. It irks me how they didn’t tell any means of actually using these features.

[alonezhby]

@Willard720:
Did you add TMap item successfully? I create a TMap varialable, when I pressed “+” button will cause UE editor crash…

[anonymous_user_48f2118e]

@alonezhby;626189

@Willard720:
Did you add TMap item successfully? I create a TMap varialable, when I pressed “+” button will cause UE editor crash…

I think that’s what the “non-functional” verbage means.

[Tim_Hobson]

@alonezhby;626189

@Willard720:
Did you add TMap item successfully? I create a TMap varialable, when I pressed “+” button will cause UE editor crash…

Not all features are announced for reason. Especially experimental features. Feel free to use the feature and report issues but know that things will change and you’ll not have the smoothest time, like with crashes.

[Arkiras]

I feel like I’m getting extremely poor results out of Contact Shadows, the cast shadows don’t appear to be correctly placed and change/shift based on how the camera is oriented. Is what I should be expecting?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27624662/contactshadows.jpg

[Vahid]

Hello guys,
Is there any support for VR mixed reality + third controller for VIVE in 4.14?

Epic Games Details Unreal Engine 4 Mixed Reality Support

[CriErr]

@;626411

Not all features are announced for reason. Especially experimental features. Feel free to use the feature and report issues but know that things will change and you’ll not have the smoothest time, like with crashes.

My context menu for TMap is completely empy, so from my point of view its not a feature, if you cant do anything with it.

[Hevedy]

@;625182

Very cool update. What about Geometry 2.0 ? The card was archived on . I expected to have it in release.

You said it “archived” not done, don’t expect it before 2017 or 2018