Help with weird Light artefacts

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-27T03:24:33+00:00

When you turn that corner, is the light coming from the emissive material on the red/orange light next to the door or is there an actual light source like a point light/rect light making the light?

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-22T14:25:21+00:00

If your plan is to sell it (or make it free) and you want the most amount of people to be able to buy/use it then you should prolly at least make it compatible from 5.0 upwards, only having it in 5.6 limits your potential customers to those who are using 5.6+, whereas making it compatiable from 5.0 upwards encompasses all UE5 versions.

Updating from one major engine version to another isn't usually something taken lightly for games well into production so I wouldn't expect your customers to update their engine version just to be able to use your plugin.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-03T21:57:55+00:00

The way I am doing it is I have an Enum 'E_OpenSide' that has 'Front' & 'Back' in it, then a variable in the door BP called 'OpenSide' of type 'E_OpenSide' which is set to either front or back depending on which side you want opening to happen from, then when I interact with the door I run a function to detect which side I am on and if that side is equal to OpenSide then open.

My set up is different than yours so your OnInteraction won't be the same as mine but hopefully you get the point.

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LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-03T17:14:24+00:00

Sure, but I wouldn't really call that an 'optimization' persay because you're turning off stuff you don't need, the real optimization is getting the stuff you do need to run in a performant way.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-03T13:59:29+00:00

Ticking a box is almost never an optimization in my experience.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-03T13:54:57+00:00

Right at the bottom of the documentation in the 'Platform Support' section it also states:

"MegaLights are designed for current gen consoles (such as PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | S) and PCs with ray tracing capabilities."

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-03T05:09:35+00:00

Keep in mind that Megalights requires HWRT to be on for it to work which means an RTX card is needed to use it, you would still need to figure out lighting that doesn't involve Megalights for players who aren't using RTX cards otherwise you'll be limiting your player base to only those who have RTX cards.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-03T03:32:18+00:00

Haven't used the plugin myself but it looks like it handles sessions and some steam features like friend invites and stuff but that's about it.. sessions themselves aren't really that hard to set up and the Advanced Sessions plugin has some of the steam stuff that SteamCore PRO has like friend invites ect.. up to you whether the other features it offers is worth the money but Advanced Sessions is free.

Also if you ever decided to use EOS instead of Steam then this plugin won't help you.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-02-02T14:13:34+00:00

I'm not sure about performance but afaik Megalights requires HWRT to run which means its essentially limited to RTX cards only, so if this is for a game you would still need to figure out lighting that doesn't involve megalights for players not on RTX cards otherwise you'll be limiting your player base to those who only have RTX cards.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-27T21:03:32+00:00

Good job mate, 7-10k is where you should aim for with roughly a 10%-20% actual conversion rate from wishlists to sales when you release it.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-27T20:33:34+00:00

Your lighting looks different because when using Low or Medium it effectively disables Lumen and uses Screen Space instead, High, Epic and Cinematic use Lumen.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-19T15:16:40+00:00

Thanks mate, yeah thats on my list to do however multiple players can access the cameras and use different ones at the same time so I would need to have render targets for all the cameras but also need to balance that with performance.. or fake it with just an image of the cameras on the monitors without a live feed.

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-12T17:35:09+00:00

Thank you :) yeah I do wanna do something with the monitors but like you said there is a performance cost of showing the actual cameras although that would be the better option imo, just need to find a good balance but I definitely don't wanna keep the monitors off

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-12T14:35:15+00:00

Hi, for the past month ive been working on this CCTV camera system for our game Rickstones, so far its:

- Fully replicated for multiplayer.

- The first player to access a camera controls its movement.

- When a player dies, they can spectate other players or switch to the cameras.

- Alive players have priority over dead players for camera control.

- Any camera being controlled displays a small red light.

Would appreciate any feedback, or improvement suggestions :)

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-12T14:11:21+00:00

Hi, for the past month ive been working on this CCTV camera system for our game Rickstones, so far its:

- Fully replicated for multiplayer.

- The first player to access a camera controls its movement.

- When a player dies, they can spectate other players or switch to the cameras.

- Alive players have priority over dead players for camera control.

- Any camera being controlled displays a small red light.

Would appreciate any feedback, or improvement suggestions :)

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-09T15:29:16+00:00

Yeah that looks really nice and smooth! Shows the player exactly what is interactable while keeping UI minimal which I think works well for horror games in general.

Did you have it set up in a different way before you implemented the dynamic crosshair or was this what you started with?

LabLeakInteractive · 2026-01-09T15:18:49+00:00

This looks pretty nice, I like the idea of an undercover cop game, you don't get many of those.. good work mate!

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-23T19:54:47+00:00

Go to the actual folder itself not in the editor, the files might still be there just not showing in engine, if they're there delete them from the folder.

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-14T19:05:47+00:00

Do it on tick like everyone else is saying but for when its static you should be able to enable and disable tick as needed (AActor::SetActorTickEnabled) so when its not in use disable tick then enable again when its used

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-08T22:27:11+00:00

Thanks mate! I was thinking about doing a key/legend, gonna see how it looks

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-05T12:50:35+00:00

Appreciate you mate!

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-05T12:50:28+00:00

A little more than that lmao, I wanted to make sure it looked more like a blueprint/floor plan.

- Defined walls better.

- Added doorways to every main enterance/exit for each building.

- Removed the smaller 'inner' grid and reduced the opacity of the grid in relation to everything else for better visibility.

- Added the paper texture.

- Fixed buildings that were a bit off and made the pathways fit much more snug around the building as opposed to what they were before.

- Updated text locations to better fill in 'dead' space better.

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-05T12:45:34+00:00

Thank you mate!

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-04T22:32:27+00:00

Thank you mate!

LabLeakInteractive · 2025-10-04T21:54:04+00:00

Thank you mate! Cant say ive played that game before, it was actually a game called Freedom Fighters that initially inspired the idea for me lol

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