Hey everybody, I am working on a really big scene. I just used 3ds to pull out stems for a real basic tree. So, i export those trees into an FBX file and imported into Unreal engine 4 and they are in my content browser in a folder I named FBX. Just so I know where everything I import is.
Anyway, when I drag the trees in they lay where I place them but I can’t move them or scale them. I can only rotate them. When I switch to the rotate tool I can see the rotate gizmo so I can rotate them. When I select move or scale I can’t see them or change them. I can adjust the move, rotate, scale in the dialog box on the right but that sucks.
Does anybody know how to fix this?
It may be related to snapping. Go to Quick Settings and disable actor and vertex snapping options if they are enabled and see if it helps.
Also press W/E/R (shortcuts for moving,scaling, rotating) and then see if it probably works. Make sure that you have saved the meshes before you place them into the level.
Hello,
Just to clarify, the gizmos for translate and scale are not appearing for you when you change modes? Are shaders still compiling? Does this happen for just the one kind of mesh? Can you Post a screenshot of the object selected without the gizmos?
Thank you!
I have moved this to an answer so that the issue can be closed for tracking until additional information is given.
##If you accidentally turned them off
You may have turned the gizmos off by accident. If that’s the case, Hourences, on the forums, suggests:
- Top menu bar - Quick Settings- Show Transform Widget.
- Failing that, reset the viewport settings - Viewport - Show - Use Defaults.
- Following that, reset all settings. Delete the Saved folder in your project folder, and start the editor again.
Mobile preview render mode
From your description (only rotation gizmo appears) I believe it’s a bug. If you’re using the editor with render level set to one of the mobile preview modes and MobileHDR off, the move and scale gizmos disappear.
There’s also a discussion on the issue here. Epic added it to the issues list here, but that’s only related to this one, it’s not THIS exact issue.
I am experiencing this same bug in 4.16.2 and have done nothing mobile related. Other team members who load the same map do not experience it. Here are some screenshots, the move and scale gizmos are being obscured by the selected object, the rotate gizmo appears normally. If I get any closer to the object the gizmos are occluded entirely as their size is tied to the screen area.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as it is seriously impacting my ability to work. Using ctrl-click / numeric input is a far less efficient workaround.
Got exacly the same issue. Rotate gizmo works as expected, but scale and transform don’t display.
Turns out deleting /Saved directory fixed the issue. But I’d really like to know what’s causing it for future reference.
Thank you!
Thanks! i will try this
I have the solution.
Probably in your DefaultEngine.ini, you have “r.compileshadersfordevelopment” set to 0.
Setting it to 1 resolve the problem.
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.compileshadersfordevelopment=1
… I tried all solutions above, also “r.compileshadersfordevelopment=1” in DefaultEngine.ini … but no luck …
…sounds like a bug …
Try press 0 (zero)
I encountered the same problem, and your answer successfully helped me solve this problem. I spent three hours before that. thank you so much!!!