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@neighborlee

LOL smiles, yes one would think so, trick of fate maybe- had to move from wa state area we were in as house given to city after owner died( small city needed room for cars etal), moved further west ,not a good area as we later found out( high rent tho!) as car attempt at breakin & my trek 4300 stolen inside alleged ‘secure’ bldg-SO—moved back to hometown area, but could not get desired place( missouri valley iowa), so took omaha location, then moved once (6mo’s later) once something opened in movalley…MUCH safer than omaha ( omaha is cool if you live in ‘ok’ area) , just the way we want it. Shout out to Omaha,they have nearly THE best zoo- kown nationally if not internationally. Didn’t want to paint unfair picture;) I was born btw in Council Bluffs,Iowa.

So, ya WHEW ! Glad you had time,hope your move went well or is going well, and ya HUGE project,almost too much for solo, but I"m stay way out of trouble LOL!

Hey wow that sounds like it has been quite an adventure. Yeah annoying it can be hard to tell sometimes whether a neighborhood is good or not.

The moving is done currently, but I noticed a lot of cracks and holes etc so I’m closing those all up now. Anyway almost everyone here is at retirement age, I think I’m the youngest person here, so I doubt there will be much stealing going on haha. If it does happen it would be funny to watch.

[Phanom_Games]

The only change with 4.23 is changing the version numbers right? Epic’s really dropping the ball on this one.

[neighborlee]

I can’t install it yet as LE Exteded addon isn’t ready ,yet again for new engine release ( and I doubt I’ve used it yet so ya,) , but here is info :

Unreal Engine 4.23 Release Notes

[Phanom_Games]

I meant for this plugins 4.23 compatible version.

I’m already using UE 4.23 and the new exponential height fog.

[neighborlee]

@Phanom_Games

I meant for this plugins 4.23 compatible version.

I’m already using UE 4.23 and the new exponential height fog.

Sorry about that, and YES THIS–its a constant reminder, if you use this plugin ,just expect a big wait, while others are enjoying new release…never seen an explanation, you’d think at least as user of their profitable engine, we’d deserve that much ?

Ya again, lighting is tough, to get realism not toy landscapes ,but I’ve gotten something decent so crossing fingers I can build on that, so whats new with expp height fog,more realistic,further affects in distance or such ?

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@Phanom_Games

The only change with 4.23 is changing the version numbers right? Epic’s really dropping the ball on this one.

Yeah but it still requires the plugins to be compiled (for all operating systems) which takes time. Just one plugin isn’t too bad, but a lot of them, that will take days or even more.

@neighborlee

I can’t install it yet as LE Exteded addon isn’t ready ,yet again for new engine release ( and I doubt I’ve used it yet so ya,) , but here is info :

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/…_23/index.html

​​​​​​You could use the source version of the plugin. The tutorial/tips on how to do that can be found on the marketplace plugin in the description.

@neighborlee

Sorry about that, and YES THIS–its a constant reminder, if you use this plugin ,just expect a big wait, while others are enjoying new release…never seen an explanation, you’d think at least as user of their profitable engine, we’d deserve that much ?

Ya again, lighting is tough, to get realism not toy landscapes ,but I’ve gotten something decent so crossing fingers I can build on that, so whats new with expp height fog,more realistic,further affects in distance or such ?

Yeah it would be great if people could convince Epic that plugin developers should get access to a new engine version a week ahead of time, to update their plugins and to send/process the updates etc, so that when users get the engine update, they won’t have to wait for plugin updates anymore.

[Gliptal]

Ah I see what you mean. Hmm if I got time I might add it, but I’m very busy currently, it’s not going to happen in the next couple of months. You could also try adding it yourself (it’s mostly just copy pasting work, nothing too hard) and then make a pull request on code…com, that would be the fastest by far. If you’re interested in that, I’ll give you a quick explanation of where in the code to look and what should be done.

Hey, apologies for not answering sooner but I’ve been a bit busy as well lately. I ended up writing a small plugin to handle endianess upstream on my stack.

I’ll take a look and see if I have time to modify your plugina and make a pull request!

[motorsep]

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Apparently Quit Game BP node doesn’t work on Android in shipping builds. Is there any way you could add a BP node to LE Extended Standard Library that would quit shipping build app on Android ?

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@motorsep

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Apparently Quit Game BP node doesn’t work on Android in shipping builds. Is there any way you could add a BP node to LE Extended Standard Library that would quit shipping build app on Android ?

Hi, yeah I know, the quit game function/blueprint doesn’t work on some platforms. In my demo game, I only show the Quit Game button on the desktop platforms, and I hide it on all the other platforms (so mobile, console and html5 currently).

You could try using the Crash blueprint if you really want to be able to exit the game, but I’m not sure if that’s wise, since I think the user will see an error message then which may look kinda weird.

Either way I hope that helped.

[motorsep]

You could try using the Crash blueprint if you really want to be able to exit the game, but I’m not sure if that’s wise, since I think the user will see an error message then which may look kinda weird.

Right, and that’s what I don’t want to do and that’s why I asked if you can add proper Quit Game node to LE Extended library

So I am guessing it’s a “no” ?

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@motorsep

Right, and that’s what I don’t want to do and that’s why I asked if you can add proper Quit Game node to LE Extended library

So I am guessing it’s a “no” ?

As far as I know there’s only 1 way to close the game, and that blueprint is using that.

I think they purposefully limited / made it impossible to close the game on mobile/console, since it wouldn’t make sense on those platforms, since those platforms have their own way of closing apps/games.

How come you wamt this functionality on mobile though? The user can close the app/game themselves?

[motorsep]

How come you wamt this functionality on mobile though? The user can close the app/game themselves?

It’s one of the certification requirements for Oculus Go/Quest. When you quit your game, it has to shut down, as it does on PC. Since Go/Quest run Android, I guess Oculus expects devs to use standard means to shut down the app. UE4 used to do that up to 4.19 and after 4.19 Quit Game stopped working on Android (and since it doesn’t work on Android in 4.23 either, I don’t think they will be fixing it).

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@motorsep

It’s one of the certification requirements for Oculus Go/Quest. When you quit your game, it has to shut down, as it does on PC. Since Go/Quest run Android, I guess Oculus expects devs to use standard means to shut down the app. UE4 used to do that up to 4.19 and after 4.19 Quit Game stopped working on Android (and since it doesn’t work on Android in 4.23 either, I don’t think they will be fixing it).

Aaaah I see, weird. Did you post this on the UE4 Answerhub yet? It seems quite vital to get this to work then, otherwise you can’t even publish/sell your game?

[motorsep]

Aaaah I see, weird. Did you post this on the UE4 Answerhub yet? It seems quite vital to get this to work then, otherwise you can’t even publish/sell your game?

I submitted it as bug report, but haven’t heard back.

[Daniel_Scholz]

How can I use windows aliases in the File Manager? The “Get Directories”-node give null result with %APPDATA% or %USERPROFILE%

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@motorsep

I submitted it as bug report, but haven’t heard back.

Ah that’s annoying. Not sure what else could be done. Maybe someone else has had this problem as well? Since everyone making mobile oculus games with the UE4 has this problem right?

@Daniel_Scholz

How can I use windows aliases in the File Manager? The “Get Directories”-node give null result with %APPDATA% or %USERPROFILE%

I don’t think aliases are supported. All the file browsing functionality is handled by UE4’s internal code, if you want windows aliases supported, you should ask Epic about it (like through the UE4 Answerhub).

[motorsep]

Ah that’s annoying. Not sure what else could be done. Maybe someone else has had this problem as well? Since everyone making mobile oculus games with the UE4 has this problem right?

Some folks had a C++ “hack” adding a custom Quit node for Android. I am not sure how to implement that since I don’t C++

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@motorsep

Some folks had a C++ “hack” adding a custom Quit node for Android. I am not sure how to implement that since I don’t C++

Weird, did they show any code? Could you link the page where you found the discussion on?

[Daniel_Scholz]

I don’t think aliases are supported. All the file browsing functionality is handled by UE4’s internal code, if you want windows aliases supported, you should ask Epic about it (like through the UE4 Answerhub).

I’m sure aliases was supported in last time with the file manager. I though it’s only a bug or problem with the new version of the le file manager.
Very strange!

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@Daniel_Scholz

I’m sure aliases was supported in last time with the file manager. I though it’s only a bug or problem with the new version of the le file manager.
Very strange!

Ooh it did? Weird it stopped working, since the code for 4.22 and 4.23 is the same. Maybe something in the engine changed in 4.23 causing it to not work anymore.