Local Multiplayer Custom Render depth

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

still frustrated over this…

I am even using this:

Mesh Outlines Without Post-Processing in Unreal Engine

which DOESNT use post process and STILL the player 0 doesnt show the outlines… It is almost like as if for every new player screen created UE shifts the depth render to that screen and doesnt process for the others…

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

Anybody have any idea? or do I abandon this?

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

@anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1

It’d be good to get more eyeballs on this, but some observations… I’m not sure a Custom Depth Outline system will work property in Split-Screen (online-multiplayer should work tho). Here’s why… When you set the Custom Depth on a mesh, its effectively a global change. Take 2 player-split-screen. If 2 players walk up to 2 different doors at the same time. What’s going to happen? I think the system will glitch, and there will be an outline on 2 different doors on all player screens at the same time. The reasoning is this. At that moment in time, the mesh on both doors is set to render Custom Depth, and there’s no way to finely tune that through different materials or blend weights.

On the other hand, if you duplicate the outline mesh (temporarily) that should work, as long as the mesh is set to only-owner-see and you’ve spawned that mesh via the character, or run Set-Owner on the mesh to ensure its owned by that actor. As regards getting Post-Processing working uniquely on each screen. The only way I know how to do that (and it works), is to set the Post-Process using the active Camera (Get-Active-Camera node) in each pane. But I didn’t see any of that kind of code in your BP setup, and I can’t see how playing around with Blend Weights or Stencil settings will change any of that.

I use PP in split-screen to control blur-speed FX on moving vehicles and it works using per camera PP. Whereas if you’re just using one global level-based PP and toggling that on / off effectively, and I can’t see how that’s going to work in Split-Screen. Again consider two players walking up to two different doors at the same time scenarios. The reason it should work ok in online-multiplayer though, is that you can make client-side (non-rpc) changes to a mesh, and that will only affect that one client visually.

Thanks, I am sold on doing the mesh duplication with owner set. I am still puzzled, however, over why the post process doesn’t work at all on all the player screens and on top of that the turning the pp process on off for each camera as u mention, it still doesn’t show on the correct player camera, sonly shows to the last created player screen in any of the aforementioned scenarios you mentioned works for you, but not for me… Maybe i ticked a check box on something that i shouldn’t have? I am going to start a new project to test n see maybe some setting was activated. ::shrug::

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

Since Player-0 is the default setup in Unreal, that’s where I’d look first. For example, do you have a Post-Process actor already in the Level / Map (search World Outliner). If so, it could be leading to some conflicts… The other possibility is, its an engine version bug. I’m still on 4.18 and don’t intend to upgrade until UE5 is stable (3 / 6 / 9 / 12 months from now as I already played the upgrade game from 4.3-4.18 :mad:)…

I am really starting to believe it is engine bug. Its built from source. Maybe build got corrupted? VS didnt give me errors on build tho…

Maybe I’ll downgrade =/

Where do i submit a bug?

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

Search Bug Submission Form. But let me warn you, it can be its own ‘testing’ experience](https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1849110-bug-submission-form-issues?p=1849191#post1849191). :mad:

HAH! I could only imagine

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

@UnrealEnterprise

Search Bug Submission Form. But let me warn you, it can be its own ‘testing’ experience](https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1849110-bug-submission-form-issues?p=1849191#post1849191). :mad:

https://epicsupport.force.com/unrealengine/resource/1521484574000/UnrealEngineHorizontalLight?isdtp=p1

Your Case has been Submitted.

Just submitted. Whew!

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

Search Bug Submission Form. But let me warn you, it can be its own ‘testing’ experience](https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1849110-bug-submission-form-issues?p=1849191#post1849191). :mad:

Looks like they know about it already =/

https://answers.unrealengine.com/que…litscreen.html

Its purposely TURNED OFF. ::shrug::

5 years later still no support?

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

No, that’s a different issue dude. Bloom was disabled using a hard-coded kill-switch. However, it may have been fixed since, as many of us including me lobbied for it. So overall outline does work in Split-Screen (I’m using it right now in 4.18). I’d download a binary build of the engine and re-try, as maybe the source you built from is the problem…

Okay. I will download another version. I am using 4.26 Source. I would think a newer version would be more stable, no?

Would I be able to pull all the files from the content folder over into that new project?

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

There’s no backwards compatibility, so you have to always go same or forwards.

Ok I will maybe try to rebuild engine, before i downgrade and have to restart again LOL

Thanks!

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

There’s no backwards compatibility, so you have to always go same or forwards.

WEIRD!! So there DEFINITELY is a bug in 4.26 Source with split screen and Render depth

I just installed 4.25 Binary and it works perfectly…

I am also doing a project settings comparison from 4.25 OOTB and the source build and i found in teh Source build I had ticked “Enable AlphaChannel Support in Post” Not sure if I ticked it or it came ticked, but that was the only change compared to the 4.25 binary. lets see if that was it. If not I am scrapping 4.26 and downgrading…

[SB1985]

@anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1

I just installed 4.25 Binary and it works perfectly…

Told you
btw before you downgrade might wanna wait for 4.26.1 chances are it will get fixed, if the change you made doesn’t do it already, consider a different solution for the outline effect.

[anonymous_user_af3bcfeb1 (anonymous_user_af3bcfeb)]

Told you
btw before you downgrade might wanna wait for 4.26.1 chances are it will get fixed, if the change you made doesn’t do it already, consider a different solution for the outline effect.

HAHAHA I know… I am just running out of hard drive space installing 3 versions of UE4 LOL

and i gotta port the whole project over somehow…