blueprint

[oak fable]

fk i had to delete the old break and make new one why i dont know but seems to work

[jolly cipher]

ANyone have any insights?

[lofty rapids]

your using the wrong foreach, that's why it's error probably

[oak fable]

i fixed all of them thanks buddy
but now i have another error

i dont know what to connect to it as it has nothing from the begging not connect

[lofty rapids]

what does it say when you hover over error

[oak fable]

the error message its there

[lofty rapids]

ya it says font 0 is invalid ?

[lofty rapids]

hmm, how is your structure look ?

[lofty rapids]

I never used an enum, i have no idea about that, but 0 as byte should be ok seems to work without error

[oak fable]

its okay thanks alot for your help will keep trying with it

[lofty rapids]

i'm still learning and am new to unreal i'll get to it eventually when i need it

[oak fable]

i believe it this switch on enum issue

he read both foots as new enumerator 0

and i can't find that switch on enum when i search on it

[lunar sleet]

Idk how to explain this to you further. You can increase it by any amount you want, I just gave you an example, didn’t say copy it verbatim

[lofty rapids]

switch on (name of your enum)

[oak fable]

finally no errors here
thanks alot
now lets fix the animation blueprint

[spring rain]

I'm using the default third person template. I'm trying to add a Hit animation that does damage when a person presses a button.

1. I created a new Input Action(IA_Hit)
2. I updated the IMC_Default to use IA_Hit
3. I now when into my Character Blueprint's event graph and added EnhancedInputAction IA_Hit But I'm not sure what to do here and how to hook it up to my Animation Blueprint?

[faint pasture]

Add the stuff you want to happen when you press the hit button

Presumably play an animation/montage)

[spring rain]

You're saying to just play an animation directly in the Character Blueprint? @faint pasture

As opposed to using the Animation Blueprint?

I created a Play Animation node on my triggered and now my character won't return to the idle animation set in my animation blueprint

[whole timber]

Anyone know of good tutorials, that guide you through making abilities without coding i.e. mostly using BP's? I just wanna play around in a 3rd person template.

Or is there a better channel to post the question in

[lofty rapids]

sis you play animation or montage ?

i would try montage

i had a problem with the animations on hit reaction as well, i noticed some games just leave them out and have particle effects or something

also someone mentioned to me about blending animations, i tried it didn't work

[spring rain]

Okay good to know. I'll try a montage!

[mellow folio]

You're on the right track

Data driven would be something like a data table which is a giant list of structs, and your game objects look up their properties on the data table

The alternative to that would be object driven, where each object has the values plugged into it before the game starts, which sounds a lot worse, but can actually be better

But in regards to taking damage, you almost definitely wouldn't want your health variable to be inside of a struct that would be annoying. The purpose of a struct would be to load or pass information in chunks

[tawdry surge]

@whole timber Bp is still coding. There are plugins on the marketplace to eliminate most of the c++ but it doesn't require much to begin with

[narrow surge]

how do i get a reference to a Behavior Tree Task Blueprint?

neither google, people in call, and chatbots seem to have 0 info on how I can successfully compile this "is task executing node"

[mellow folio]

Dispatches would be more convenient for you but interfaces work just fine as well both approaches are acceptable

[sick fable]

Hey can someone help Me I am trying to get the variable zippolit

into a different blueprint

but I am not sure how to properly cast it

I want when the Zippoislit

I can then light the campfire

[lofty rapids]

probably reverse sequence one and two or put them on the same execution after the first true

[sick fable]

Ok thanks

reversing it fixed it

thx

[feral parrot]

Does anyone know how to make the camera rotating only in Z axis when I get close to a collision? Now it zooms in to the character when I'm close to a wall. In my game I can freely rotate the camera in Yaw direction only, and when I get close I want the camera to change its position that I kinda look from the top

[frigid swallow]

How would I change the character’s animation/movement using blueprints? For example, when the player character is holding a gun, instead of running like normal, the arm that’s holding the gun stays still?

[rain magnet]

i imported a pile of texture images, and in the process, unreal decided to group/pack/etc.. them in groups (presumably according to filename) such that i have 1 texture with around 10 source images. how do i access these images from this single texture in my material blueprint?

yeah wtf, when importing a single image, unreal decides to go hunting in the same directory and automatically pulls other images around it with similar filenames

does this obnoxious behavior have a name so i can go turn it off?

[lofty rapids]

maybe #ue5-general

[rain magnet]

i fixed it by moving the image into its own directory and then dragging it into unreal from there (to hide the other images from unreal's grabby behavior)

[sonic crest]

He looks so sad

[fleet lichen]

Anyone know why it dosn't work?
The healt float is set to 10

[lofty rapids]

is the cast failing ?

[fleet lichen]

yep...

[sonic crest]

Try get player character

[thin panther]

the best way to map your health onto a progress bar btw is to do current health / max health

[fleet lichen]

THANKS, idk why its work but it dose

[thin panther]

that will always map it to a 0 - 1 range

[fleet lichen]

oooh, am just learning UE so am just trying bunch of stuffs

thx for the advice

[thin panther]

you likely didnt set the owning controller when spawning the widget

[fleet lichen]

Well, spawning the widget look like this.

What difference is between Get Player Controller and Get Player Pawn?

[thin panther]

well one returns the player controller, the thing that routes input and possesses a player pawn

[fleet lichen]

oh

[fleet lichen]

Sorry that I am bothering, but i still cant figure our how to do this.

[thin panther]

I'm assuming you have a max health value too?

Somewhere

Otherwise you wouldn't know the maximum to heal to etc.

[fleet lichen]

i have a calmp set to 100 and branch

[thin panther]

Well you need a max health value. So make one real quick. Then you can replace the 100 with it

And then in your progress bar just set its output in the bind to health / max health

[fleet lichen]

so just create structure with curret healt and max health

[thin panther]

No struct needed

I didn't say struct

[fleet lichen]

Woudln't structure work better?

[wicked marten]

sorry to disturb,, is it possible to make a append ui on UMG

that you can add pin in game?

like a expandable item box.

and i can write on it

[fleet lichen]

OK, AM OFFICIALLY DUMB. I didnt realize that Health/MaxHealth meant to DIVIDE

[thin panther]

Ah we've all been there :P

[fleet lichen]

but yee, thank it's work now

[thin panther]

Np

[tall lion]

Not sure if this is a basic solution, but anyone here know how to get a gamepad to use On Click events for the UMG? I have my controller joystick axis moving the mouse, but I need to have the Gamepad Face Bottom to click a button. If there is a way, can someone guide me please?

[loud tree]

Has anyone here used the pelengami dash vfx pack and found a good solution for clipping through walls

[real field]

So, when i know i need to use a PlayerController and when to use the input setup on the player bp ?

[radiant cape]

controllers sit above pawns, just imagine if a pawn didn't have a brain, like a zombie... it can still be damaged and die, but it won't do anything because the controller (brain) isnt doing anything... the brain can be you the player pressing buttons or an ai behaviour tree

stats like health keep on pawn

[whole timber]

To begin coding?

[real field]

so unless i have different pawns controlled by one player, is good to put it on the player controller
I ask that bc most of the tutorials follow the Unreal Template, where they but it on the Pawn BP not the controller, and i saw some people saying that was a bad practice from unreal

[crimson saddle]

I am struggling with another dumb math problem...
I am trying to set the extents of a box to a size in multiples of 100 units, but I can't figure out what the math needs to be. I am very tired

[radiant cape]

blueprint's can get messy quickly, it's good to keep things like spawning huds in the HUD class, brains in the controllers, attributes in the pawns...
if you start doing multiplayer or split screen you'll need to do it this way as well...
if you want to use pawn possession nodes you'll want the inputs to follow the controller into any pawns it may possess...
you miss out on being able to child your players pawn class for your npc's to build off of and will be forced to write code twice

i'm new game to programming, so there's probably tonnes of other reasons, those are just some i've run into

[remote meteor]

100 units in all axis? or just X and Y?

[crimson saddle]

just x and y

[remote meteor]

and z is always 100?

[crimson saddle]

I think I needed to do R*50+50 to offset my box by the first 100 units of size

[remote meteor]

or you can always make sure your radius has a minimum of 1

[rapid helm]

hey y'all rn i'm having trouble finding nodes that basically makes an actor look at where the cursor is pointing at, but the only solution i could find on google is just get hit result under cursor by channel (which will reset the actor's rotation if you look at the sky) so i was wondering is there any other way to do it?

[lunar sleet]

Why would it reset the rotation?

[rapid helm]

Hold on lemme show you what i meant

[lunar sleet]

This is top down I imagine?

[rapid helm]

For get hit result under cursor by channel, yes it's (better) for top down

https://gyazo.com/35d69a3e2b7efed682f03ca74a45f96f

But i'm using the third person template

[lunar sleet]

Why

[rapid helm]

Because i'm not making a top down game?

[lunar sleet]

Then why do you need it to look at the cursor itself

[rapid helm]

i'm trying to make the arrow look at where the cursor is pointing at cuz it's supposed to shoot something out of there

[foggy escarp]

This is relatively straightforward.
you first need to use a linetrace from the cameras forward vector to get the look at hit location. Then use the node get unit direction from the player's head to the initial hit location.

this would basically be the setup for thirdperson aiming. It allows the aiming to still point realistically.

[rapid helm]

Wonderful, thanks dude

[foggy escarp]

I just realized you mean the cursor position not the camera forward vector. But the concept is the same. Instead, you would use the node: "GetHitResultUnderCursor" via the player controller.

[rapid helm]

Ah oops sorry if my explanation wasn't clear enough

[velvet turret]

But the damn black background is still there..

[sour cliff]

I have a post process inside my blueprint and i want to control its bloom based on a variable , how to do such thing? It cant find bloom node for the bloom settings out of it

[fiery swan]

Hm, so anybody any insights on issues with world partitioning and attached actors - or more specifically "Attach Actor to Component" not working at all neither in construct nor begin play?
Since converting our map to use world partitioning (we used file per actor from the start) all attached actors that are attached this way stopped actually being attached to their parent actors.
Also tried shoving in a delay to see if its a loading order issue, which it doesnt seen to be.

[edgy ingot]

Whats stopping you? You can just get the pp volume, get its bloom setting and set it

I would just create a custom bp actor that has a pp volume

[frank viper]

Hi quick 911 question 🙂
I have one Savegame object and I am saving two different material slots out.
Problem is one material slot is over writing the other one.
So which ever material is written out last over writes the first one.
I cant seem to write it twice once to one material slot and then to another.
Both my material slot names are different and are correct.

My save game txt file looks like this:
BoolProperty

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#“ tüž‘CšÊz"x%òF /Game/Materials/WQStation/M_Stationlight_3_Inst.M_Stationlight_3_Inst  6_Part_3_chosen_saved
BoolProperty

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So when I load this saved version back into the game, both material slots are filled with one material

Do I have to create a 2nd savegame object?

Or is there a way to seperate the two material slots?

[sour cliff]

Blueprint , i want to do it as a blueprint based on variable instead of selecting the pp itself

[edgy ingot]

Yeah then you can do as i say. Create a custom bp with a pp volume. In your custom bp you can have variable that drives the bloom. So it would be float

[sour cliff]

Thats my question, how do i drive the bloom , whats the node

[frosty heron]

You just need to access the pp and do a set member in the pp setting

[sour cliff]

I tried get setting > set setting , no bloom in search or as a member

[frosty heron]

Show where you get stuck. A picture will give more chance for you to get help

Show a picture on how you try to access the pp setting, and show the pp setting you are trying to change

[frank viper]

To answer my own question YES you just create another savegame object to separate information written out. Problem solved 🙂

[frosty heron]

2 savegame objects for something like that feel terrible imo

What's stopping you from using 1 save game object

Might as well just create another variable for the other material instead doing the whole savegame object

[frank viper]

Thanks, I will look into that.
I found a way that works at least 🙂

I have 2 different variables.

[steady night]

het guys i have an image where the edges is transparent

im using it as a UI image

but when displayed on the UI there transparent part is gone

its fully visible

how do i make it show the "transparecny"

like this is how its shown in the ui

[raw orbit]

if i want my grid slot panel to be of particular proportions based on a FVector2D how do i calculate the rows?

i can calculate columns with % but im not sure what to use for rows

tried this with x being 10 and y being y

i get a checker board effect

[dawn gazelle]

Loop within a loop is probably easiest.
First loop Set last index to: X-1
Second loop Set last index to: Y-1
Connect the first For Loop's Loop Body to the input of the second For Loop.
Connect your widget creation to the second For Loop's Loop Body.
Connect Your "In Row" on the "Add Child to Grid" to the Index of the first For Loop.
Connect your "In Column" on the "Add Child to Grid" to the Index of the second For loop.

So if you have X = 5 and Y = 3 You'd end up with 5 rows of 3 columns.

[raw orbit]

right yeah, i asked openai and it gave me a similar answer. i used this method before in another project too and then forgot all about it

[raw orbit]

how did it take me so long

[gentle urchin]

Division for row, modulo for columns

Index % RowLength = ColumnIndex
Index / RowLength = RowIndex

[raw orbit]

yeh ive done that too but it doesnt offer the same amount of control over how many rows you want

unless i was doing it wrong

[real garnet]

Hello everyone, I am trying to do root motion movement, but the screen is flickering on the client, can you help me?

[high ocean]

Any idea on how to approach generalizing this?
Context: I will have an "infinite" number of npcs that should use this code - montages are exposed as vars, they will be retrieved from DT. The problem here is I could have any number of notifies and adding n pins to the switch isn't the best idea. Any idea on how to better pass functionality no matter what the montage notify name is?

[echo storm]

What is the best way to create functionality for children of Button Blueprints? I have a parent class, "BP_Button" and want to create children of that class with different functionalities but what is the best way to continue the code after the button press? Do I just create an event in the parent class that I listen to in the child Blueprints or should I use an interface for it or how else could I do that?

[high ocean]

EventDispatcher that sends over either the button's ref (I'd recommend that so you can pack it up with whatever data you require), or a "tag" or something. Then you can use that wherever you like to listen to the button being pressed while also always knowing exactly which one was pressed.

[spice shell]

Hey folks, has anyone set up an Analytics solution using a blueprint-only project?

[tawdry surge]

@high ocean iirc common conversation buttons already do that as part of the on clicked dispatcher

[high ocean]

idk what you mean by "common conversation buttons", maybe a UE5 thing I haven't yet picked up on yet

[tawdry surge]

Sorry meant Common ui* plugin is the next step up from basic umg. Similar to how enhance input is then next step above the legacy input

[north lynx]

Hi guys!
I have a question, has anyone here idea, why my code can't handle the cast to 3rd person character node?
Like, the code going well to string "1"

I have no idea why this code don't work properly

[brisk badger]

probably an issue with your object ref, how are you setting it

[faint pasture]

Do you know what casting is?

Your cast there is just checking if ObjectREF is a BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

If it isn't, it'll fail

[north lynx]

So how to setup it?
I need to take the variable from third person and set it here, for third person character blueprint to know, that the variable changed

[faint pasture]

What class is this code in?

[north lynx]

Actor

Blueprint Class Actor, more specificly

[frosty heron]

Print string on cast failed. Then check if there is error in your output log

[north lynx]

Yeah, there is error, but still, idk how to fix that

[frosty heron]

Check your object ref variable type

You can probably use actor for the variable type

On cast failed print string the value of object ref

Casting is a type check

[north lynx]

I heard somewhere that creating variable that's type is object will always work with casts

And most of the times it worked, but not today

[random solar]

I also have a casting issue for some reason
My object reference is wrong as a user widget object reference (I know that much) but I didn't create an individual reference for the widget to be created and I used another blueprint to host all widgets on one blueprint and those blueprints are created with the picture on the right so I'm not sure how to get the correct reference

I'm also able to jump in a call since no one has been able to help me with this issue yet

[random solar]

You might be looking for Get Player Pawn

[north lynx]

And what can I do with that?

[random solar]

Pin it into the object pin

[north lynx]

Yeah! It worked
Idk what's the differance, but it worked
Thanks 🧡

[random solar]

You're grabbing the exact instance of the possessed character you need and there is a reference to it through that

[thin panther]

while this is a bandaid fix to your problem, watch the blueprint communication video pinnedd here. You have a fundamental lack of understanding on how a cast works and what a reference is.

You first solution was not working because your Object REF waas unset

this means the while it was a type able to be casted, it did not have any reference contained within it

[random solar]

True

[random solar]

You want to create a reference like I have in my second picture

Ironic that I can help with others casting issues and not my own 🥲

[thin panther]

You can think of the Object REF var like a box, that only allows certain things in it.

You said "Make me a box that only allows Objects in", but didn't put anything in that box.
What a cast does is check if the thing in the box is of a more specific type. If it is, it gives you a reference of that type. I.e. is this object in the box a food item, if it is let me eat it.

What happened with you, since the variable was empty, is the cast looked inside the box, found nothing, so failed.

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-back-away-never-here-you-dont-see-me-gif-18121192

@frosty heron ^

[frosty heron]

Internet caught up and I realised I don't add to anything 🤣

[gentle urchin]

Box-> cast to see if the objects fits a narrower, more specific box 😎

[random solar]

Anyone can help with my issue? haha

[frosty heron]

What's Ur issue? If cast failed just print the value of the variable

[floral stump]

what is alternative of Engine Rotation Speed in chaos vehicle component?

[random solar]

Well the thing is, the widget exists and displays in game. Does this mean that a reference has been made? If so then I don't know where it is

[thin panther]

If you need the widget ref like you say, get the reference of that other blueprint, (it should be the HUD that controls it if you've followed good practice), then get the ref from there

then from the parent widget, you can access the refs to child widgets

[random solar]

So hud that controls it is in playercontroller. That's where the second picture in my op is hosted. This is what my layout looks like in MainHUD, you're saying I can still get the children from here?

[thin panther]

yes

with the ref to MainHUD you can get a ref to Stamina and Fatigue

personally, I would make a function on mainhud that does what ever in stamina and fatigue so you don't mess around with ref hell

Just MainHUD->MyAmazingFuncThatModifiesStaminaAndFatigue()

[north lynx]

How can I add physics to my Actor? So the actor will fall on ground when I start the game?

[random solar]

Did not know I could control children from a host BP. Thanks for that!

Although it does still fail to cast 😦

[thin panther]

show the updated code, im not surprised your intial exmaple fails

all you should need, is no cast really, and just get teh mainhud ref from the controller

[thin panther]

(I would consider handling your player facing ui in the HUD class btw)

is that screenshot in your player controller?

because you have 2 different variables there
the one in your player controller is called PlayerHUDref not PlayerHUDRef

[random solar]

Damn, literal naming convention hell

[frosty heron]

Casting a type to it self?

[random solar]

Nah this is hosted in top down character

[frosty heron]

That's what the note is saying I bet

[frosty heron]

You are most likely casting a bp main HUD type to bp main hud

So it's useless casting

Yeah read what it says

[random solar]

Hmm, so how do I get a reference to my stam bar then?

[frosty heron]

By getting your stamina bar

Finish blueprint live communication video pinned in the channel if you havent

Gives u a good start

The ammount of time you spend figuring out why things don't work probably more than the hour needed to understand how to cast and how to get reference from the video

[thin panther]

I told you, get the reference to your hud from the player controller

then from there you can access the child widgets

a cast is unneeded if the var type is "MainHUD"

might want to do a validity check beforehand

or even better rather than messing with the child widget, just makea function in MainHUD that does what you need

also like i said

[random solar]

Will do after this final thing is done

[lunar mulch]

I made an event that starts an Animation everytime the character fell from a certain Height. But for some reason, whenever i fall off a height that starts the event, after that, every time i jump and lands it also performs the animation. It's like it's still thinking its falling from the minimum specified height i set, eventho it isnt.

[faint pasture]

show code

[lunar mulch]

What could be causing the "Height-check" not to reset every time i enter the falling state?

[random solar]

This seems like the best practice, will do this quickly

[lunar mulch]

sorry for the mess

[faint pasture]

You probably never reset those bools

[lunar mulch]

Hmm, is there way i could easily reset those?

[frigid swallow]

How would I change the character’s animation/movement using blueprints? For example, when the player character is holding a gun, instead of running like normal, the arm that’s holding the gun stays still?

[lunar mulch]

You should have a look at Animation Blueprint section for that most likely

[lunar mulch]

Looked on around on the web a little, cant find much on "Resetting a Boolean" what other terminology could i best use to find some learning material on the subject so i can figure this issue out?

[versed sun]

set it to false(Or whatever default state it is)

[lunar mulch]

Im not sure i entirely follow, i have set the Landing to false after the animation is played. Is this what you mean|?

if i lower the delay on the check speed, it seems to be less of an issue. Would this be a performance issue down the line? (having the delay set to 0.01 for example)

[manic vessel]

Im lerp transforming an actor to a an actors component location then setting a constraint, But When My actor is moving its causing the constraint to not sit at the correct position , whats the best method to solve this?

[random solar]

I've put the whole function into the MainHud blueprint, Where would you recommend that I call it? It needs to be after the rest of the functions from the TopDownCharacter blueprint

[thin panther]

whereever you were going to do the thing with the stamina bar

[ebon olive]

hi guys. Sorry but i need help abit for understanding, so in this blueprint, when i activate my anim sequence "Throw", my set "Is attacking" is true but if i didnt use it, my set "is attacking" is false? sorry im kinda dumb but please help to understand. did i get it right? 😅

[random solar]

That would be in TopDownCharacter, Here's hoping I don't get a cast issue again

[thin panther]

you shouldnt need to cast

you have a reference in the player controller, it would be non sensical if it wasnt already a MainHUD type

[random solar]

You want me to call it in the player controller instead?

[faint pasture]

Does Unity have some sort of newbie bugbear like Unreal does with tick and cast?

If I go to a Unity server what's the thing that all the beginners are hung up on?

[random solar]

I don't remember having issues with Unity since there was descriptive documentation everywhere and almost a tutorial for anything you wanted to do

[ebon olive]

player controller. the new version

its complicated and its buggy at times

[green mortar]

Hi folk, I am having some troubles with blueprint structs

I am trying to update a variable inside a struct, but it doesn't update it

so I basically have a Effects Struct and Effect Struct, Effects Struct has a list of Effect with their names. I want to update those structs variables inside a foreach loop, but the way I am trying (which you can see from the image) doesnt work

[thin panther]

No.
You said you had a reference in the player controller to the main hud. You showed it.
You're gonna need it to call that function you made, so, where you were doing the failing cast, replace it with getting the hud ref from the player controller, and calling the function you made with that ref

[green mortar]

I am open to any suggestion or recommendations

I made these structs for the purpose of regeneration/effects over time in a kind of generic way

for example currently I am using it for Stamina and Health regeneration, I just push an Effect named staminaRegen by 5 amount of ticks and 1 power to the list, and it just regenerates 1 stamina for 5 seconds

BUT the problem is, it doesnt reduce the ticks

so it goes forever

[sly pike]

Hello guys! Need some help, a VFX partner wants to have almost all objects in the scene static, but we need to adjust the orientation and position of all objects when the scene loads just once... Have any sense to change from movable to static during runtime? Is that even possible?

[honest ember]

Hi guys. How could I spawn the same component from a blueprint multiple times?

[barren dove]

it really depends on what you are doing, the way I did mob spawns was spawn an actor which had a construction event on spawn that creates the mobs and then destroy the actor after spawning them

[honest ember]

I have a plane with a texture on it and I would want to spawn 2 or 3 of them in the same area (not position ) to create the effect of distant rain

[barren dove]

Anyways, I also had a question!
I was looking for a way of doing a handful of timer events in a logical way that isn't going to be real bogged down, I came across this: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/executing-every-second/18789
I'm a little confused because they didnt show an example.

I'm thinking that on game tic he's counting up an integer (from lets say 0 to 10000) , when it reaches 10,000 reset it back to zero, then any other event that runs on a timer looks at that and says "okay every int1000, this event fires) or whatever, does that sound right?

[tawdry surge]

Looping timeline with event tracks

[barren dove]

oh I gotcha, sorry I'm not at a pc with unreal on it.

The way I would do it would be
-spawn your "master rain" actor
-construction event that takes the actors current location, applies a transform, then spawns a plane with the rain element on it
-repeat a number of times depending on the effect you're looking for

[dark drum]

is there any reason you can't just use timers?

[barren dove]

As far as I understand, if you use a loop with delays, it waits until the loop is completed to go to next tic, i'm just trying to build this right the first time because more or less everything will feed off of these timers and I dont want to rebuild the whole system if I implement it wrong

[dark drum]

If you start a timer on a loop, it doesn't stall the tick until it's finished. Timers use UE's built in timer system for calling an event/function x amount of time later.

[honest ember]

yeah right now I have a simple SetWorldLocationAndRotation which works fine but now I can't figure out how to repeat it with slightly different values

I was thinking maybe of a sequence?

[barren dove]

There's a "random integer" node you can use
just take that, multiply it by like .1 and then add it to the first location, boom, new coordinates right near the original 🙂

you can even retain the original Z so the rainclouds are all at the same height if you like

[honest ember]

this is the current set up I have (second ss is the relocate node)

[barren dove]

Yeah I can try it that way, I read that using those timers on a loop may be iffy but maybe thats only if its firing very quickly, I can have a ton of objects reference the same event so they aren't all running individual timers

[random solar]

That is true, for some reason I'm not able to get the reference seen from playercontroller to TopDownCharacter

[barren dove]

there's a bunch of ways of doing it, my way was just how I would 🙂 are you going to be spawning rainclouds by input or always at that one location?

[dark drum]

I'm not sure why starting a timer on a loop would be iffy. It's not something I've heard in the years I've used UE. What are you wanting to use timers for?

[honest ember]

the way I thought about it is to be yes at that one location

[barren dove]

oh in that case you could just cut and paste your spawn event stuff a couple times and modify the location, its kind of a chunky way of oding it though

[unreal wind]

Hi guys, i need some help with a project that i'm doing, i'm doing a building project but its an augmented reality project, i've used the handheld base and it's working, but i want to create an bp to make a light switcher, like turn the HDR off and turn the lights of the building on

Idk if this is too hard, but i would like some tips or a tutorial that i can follow to create this

i was trying to recreate the buttons with a event function but i honestly don't know what i'm doing

[green mortar]

so I found a solution, I realzied that I have to set the variables through a fresh struct variable, then assign it to the map I am using

[barren dove]

well as an example, right now I have a 1000x1000 grid where I spawn tiles and designed a system where it despawns and spawns tiles based on where the camera is so it isn't rendering a million grid actors all the time.

now next step is mob spawns, example: if I have 1000 mobs on fire, I dont really want 1000 timers running, I feel like I could set a world timer to fire every second and apply fire damage to everyone with the "on fire" flag in one pass
More or less I'm just trying to build each system so that I'm not limited by scale if possible, lol

[random solar]

I got it to work doing this, unfortunately the functionality isn't working so back to drawing board

[thin panther]

your issue lies in the reduce stamina bar size

[random solar]

What I did was move the whole function over to MainHUD so what I'm going to do now is only have this part in the mainhud area and the rest of the system back to topdowncharacter

[lofty rapids]

well your missing the execution

[random solar]

I probably should have print screened before I took it apart

[dark drum]

Yea, you could just have a manager of sorts that has a function that's called every x amount of time and does something.

Definitely better than having a timer for each NPC.

[random solar]

Ah well it works now, But it absolutely demoloshes the bar in a split second haha

[barren dove]

lol
you'll have to manage how often you call to it 🙂

[random solar]

True, its definitley down to mechanics of the system over the functionality now

[barren dove]

Yeah I've played way too many games where the whole thing breaks down when things get active, I'm just trying to have a solid foundation because I'm "sure" i'm going to be dumb stuff later

another question, is there a better way of doing projectiles than checking for overlap events? I was thinking since each mob will be roughly cylinderical I could just check x/y distance instead and that may be more lightweight

[tawdry surge]

Collision detection is pretty optimized. You're not gonna beat it in Bp

[desert quarry]

Is there any way of modifying the editor so I can press a button on the controller and start running my game and also focus into the game?

[lunar sleet]

Are you gonna code using a controller ? 😀

[slender torrent]

Hello everyone, I am a beginner in UE5 and I am asking for some help.
I need to when looking at a mesh to highlight it and when looking somewhere else to stop highlighting it. I achieved this using this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLgy-evbEw.
Now what I need is to create a widget and only show when I left click on highlighted mesh and stop showing it when I click somewhere else in the scene. I would be thankful for any suggestions about any tutorial, or any other suggestion from someone that can help. Thanks in advance.

[lofty rapids]

you have used widget before ?

[slender torrent]

Yes I am actually creating one, what I need the most is the code how to make it show up when clicking on the mesh.

[lofty rapids]

you want the reference to the widget, then "add to viewport" i believe

to remove it i think it's, "remove from parent"

[lofty rapids]

you want to "click" on it with the mouse ?

[sick fable]

Does someone know a more efficient way to check a variable from another blueprint which isn't the character

I want the zippo lit variable from another blueprint

without casting to it

[slender torrent]

That's right

[sick fable]

Also I can get an error when the bp_zippo doesn't exist yet and I am trying to get the variable

[trim matrix]

Help please im going to die

im so confusef

[lofty rapids]

yikes

you'll most likely make it

[sick fable]

yo bro can you help me

[lofty rapids]

your trying to get the variable of another bp ?

[sick fable]

yes

[lofty rapids]

maybe get actor of class

ig not

lol

[sick fable]

lol

[thin panther]

if this object isnt guaranteed to be valid, just is valid it.

[sick fable]

I did but is valid before it but still got the error

[thin panther]

though you have slightly larger issues if you're always casting to an invalid class

[sick fable]

I put it inbetween cast to bp firstperson and cast to bp zippo

[thin panther]

show

[sick fable]

ok

[thin panther]

oh wait nvm, it checks out why thats happening

[thin panther]

if your is valid fails, you continue on to the next sequence where you access the var anyway

this shouldn't be a sequence

[sick fable]

ah

but also Is there a more effiecent way to get the variable than casting

[lunar sleet]

So… did you die or are you going to ask your question

[sick fable]

i forget h

[trim matrix]

I JUST FIGURED OUT THE AWNSER i'm crying rn

[thin panther]

if the class can be invalid casting to a base class that has the variables but no assets is a decent way.
The other way you could avoid these hard ref issues is an interface but I don't reccomend it personally

[sick fable]

no more error so thats good

[thin panther]

there is still something wrong though

when that cast fails, a bp zippo is permanently in memory, meshes, textures, and all

you want to avoid this, as it can easily blow up the memory needs of your game

[thin panther]

so make a base class, which only has the variables, no asset refs or anything

[graceful holly]

can someone help understand how to perform a line trace from the mouse position? this doesn't work i think i'm missiong some math, i'm not hitting the red cube currently

[unreal wind]

i'm doing this blueprint to try a light switcher in my a.r project, idk what i'm doing wrong, i want to turn off the skylight hdr map with a button, can anybody help?

[thin panther]

tbh you can remove that sequence and is valid most likely

[sick fable]

is there any chance you can guide me along because I am not too sure how

[gentle urchin]

Its a long road

[lunar sleet]

lol I mean all of it is wrong

[gentle urchin]

Few hours usually

Theres a 2 hour vid about it

Bp comms

[thin panther]

only at a high level. it is just making an actor class that is a bp zippo without the assets. then your bp zippo inherits from the base

[lunar sleet]

You’re binding an onClicked event to on vis changed for starters @unreal wind

[gentle urchin]

Inheritance is a keyword

But general bp communication aswell

[thin panther]

it just ensures that when that cast fails, the only thing being loaded is a few kilobytes of variables, and not megabytes of textures

[sick fable]

ok

[wooden wagon]

Any idea how i can make an event that only happens if i look away from 1 object: For example i want to spawn 1 enemy or move 1 enemy if i look away and don't look at it?

[lunar sleet]

A dot product

[sick fable]

so the one with no asset inherits from the one with or other way round

[thin panther]

other way around

[wooden wagon]

what do you mean?

[lunar sleet]

Use the DOT product

[wooden wagon]

oh ok

thx

[ebon olive]

hi guys. Sorry but i need help abit for understanding, so in this blueprint, when i activate my anim sequence "Throw", my set "Is attacking" is true but if i didnt use it, my set "is attacking" is false? sorry im kinda dumb but please help to understand. did i get it right? 😅

[lunar sleet]

Worth googling but basically it helps you check if the direction you’re facing is the same or opposite of the one the other actor is facing, from which you can infer when you’re facing away, tho you might need to add a check to make sure you’re not looking at its back

[sick fable]

my bp zippo already has a parent

does this matter

[wooden wagon]

what about the "ConvertWorldLocationToScreenLocation" Function

by ue

[graceful holly]

thanks, realized now

[lunar sleet]

Not sure if that would work with this but maybe

[lofty rapids]

theres a couple ways to do it, but that seemed to me the simplest and works, not sure if there is any quirks about but it works

[graceful holly]

still doen't work for me, but i understand now that some math was missing

[desert quarry]

Its just something I wouldlike to stream line. So many clicks to start testing.

[manic hamlet]

Is there a way to get the "RowName" from a DataTable ?

[mental trellis]

Do you want the row name of a specific row? Or the row that is associated with a specific name?

[manic hamlet]

my brain cant comprehend, sec 😄

maybe me explaining the issue makes it more obvious 😄

[lunar sleet]

You might be able to change the shortcut in editor settings not sure

Alt+P is default

[desert quarry]

Oh, I might look at that.

Alt-P, click on window and then pick up controller. 😦

[lunar sleet]

Shouldn’t need to click on it

[desert quarry]

I'll try it in a moment.

[lunar sleet]

Set input to game mode only , immediately followed by game mode and UI if you’re having window out of focus issue

[manic hamlet]

I got a data table based on a struct.

Now i get multiple rows via a name (GetDataTableRowNAME)
This gives me an array of said struct.

Now I save this struct to a save game.

Now I change,lets say the icon, in the data table according to the 2nd item in the data table. If I load the savegame it still has the old icon for it, so I somehow need the RowName now of object 2 to update this data

hope this makes sense 😄

I need "this name" (red underlining)

my idea would be to add RowNameName (as a string to the struct)or something like it and just copy paste it each time,but that seems stupid 😄

[lunar sleet]

I don’t think you can update DTs at runtime, but I could be wrong. As for editing struct, you’ll need to use cpp, bp structs are not reliable

[manic hamlet]

I am not trying to update DTs at runtime

I am trying to "update" the struct in the savegame with the new data from the Data Table

and i cant do that if the struct "Farm" for example knows its own RowName

It would work for most building in my screenshot,but at CowHerder - Cow Herder we would have an issue.

I am basically just asking... if i do this:
does the OUTROW have a variable that I am not aware of that says "Chicken Coop"(its ROW NAME)?

[lunar sleet]

Not sure, why don’t you break it and find out

[mental trellis]

I think a better question is, why are you even saving this data in a save game?

[manic hamlet]

ive done that, and it doesnt have that, it only has the variables i defined in the struct 🙂 thats why im asking if theres a variable im not aware of 🙂

[mental trellis]

Why do you have 2 sources for data where one is authoritative and one isn't?

[manic hamlet]

cause each building has variables that change during gameplay?!

[lunar sleet]

I don’t think the engine would hide any variable from you 😀

[gentle urchin]

Sounds a bit atrange ill admit

[manic hamlet]

hey you never know 😄

[mental trellis]

I don't mean all teh values. You have a name that relates to an icon. You don't need to save this icon because when you load it, you want to reset that icon to a new value anyway. So the question becomes, why are you even saving the icon?

[gentle urchin]

I mixed 3 or 4 dts to make this as fluid as possible

So a building only has a base row ref and an integer for its upgraded stage

[remote meteor]

i suppose he is looking to saving runtime data related to a building

[manic hamlet]

the DT has info like whats the name of the building, what is its 3d Model, whats the icon of it etc.
the SaveGame has that PLUS variables that change->like an inventory

[gentle urchin]

Yes

[thin panther]

them models better be soft refs

[gentle urchin]

I got that

[remote meteor]

having a map or array to with the row name as keys should be enough

you dont need to save the whole row struct 🤔

[manic hamlet]

and thats what I am asking for 😄

[gentle urchin]

Like

A building changing texture

From what?

An upgrade right?

[thin panther]

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[remote meteor]

if that struct is a FBuilding i probably would make a FBuildingSaveData with a few array or maps that saves the state of the building

[gentle urchin]

So upgrades should be its own table

With a new mesh, texture, and production values or whatever

[manic hamlet]

i said icon, not texture

[gentle urchin]

Its the same woll

[manic hamlet]

you click in a building menu the icon of the building.

[gentle urchin]

So why would an icon change ?

Is it not from upgrades?

[manic hamlet]

and right now I have PLACEHOLDER icon...... now lets say my graphics guy comes and replaces this... this means i have to delete the entire savegame

[manic hamlet]

thats what i am doing, but i need the RowName

[gentle urchin]

Your setup should be fixed ..

Dt row is static data

[manic hamlet]

i know

[gentle urchin]

You should have a ref to the row for static data, and icon swaps would never be an issue

It would always read the latest and greatest

[manic hamlet]

that "ref" would be RowName

thats why i am asking if i can get that

id take the ID of the row too if possible

[gentle urchin]

Data table row handle

Is the easiest imo

[mental trellis]

Don't save the 3d model and icon and all that into your save game...

Only save the dynamic stuff.

[lunar sleet]

Yeah like if you change the icon in editor, it’ll change when you run the game anyway no?

[random solar]

I guess I'm back to answering questions again, What could be the reason why the function at the end is triggered instantly instead of waiting for the condition in the branch to be met first?

[gentle urchin]

Not if they save the struct and not the dt row...

[lunar sleet]

?

[manic hamlet]

that 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Then the save will have whatever was there at the time of saving

[lofty rapids]

not really possible as the flow of execution is left to right

[lunar sleet]

You shouldn’t be saving stuff that the players can’t change imo

[gentle urchin]

Thats what we're all kinda saying

[mental trellis]

You should look up database normalisation and apply it to your data structures.

[manic hamlet]

yoyo we got there 😄

[lunar sleet]

Eyyy

[gentle urchin]

And what they really are asking

[thin panther]

however that will evaluate nearly instantaneously, so it's likely youre incrementing very quickly

[gentle urchin]

For my setup? 😂 some days discord chats are a mess

[mental trellis]

Oh, sorry. I responded to the wrong person!

I meant TUG there.

[random solar]

That's what I figured, except the function is executing on start. I've looked all around my blueprints to see if there is an extra call but nothing

[gentle urchin]

No probs , i got that ^^

[manic hamlet]

Okay, so we found out im doing it wrong fundamentally, back to the basic question 😄

[manic hamlet]

how do i get that one?

[manic hamlet]

ye i assumed as much 😄

[lofty rapids]

what is the value of total stamina consumed ? default

or maybe you change it for some reason

[manic hamlet]

Basically when I do a :

I need the RowName as variable now

[random solar]

0, It also requires moving for a few seconds to get it to 25 too

[manic hamlet]

so that i can save that into the save game and next time the game loads it loads it from that

[mental trellis]

You should have 2 lists. 1) static data that doesn't change. This is loaded from your libraries/code/whatever. It is identified by a name "Farm" or whatever. 2) Dynamic user data that is dependent on your game/player/whatever. In that, you might have an array of owned buildings, in which there might be the name "Farm" along with other dynamic data, like if they gave it a custom name or colour.

[remote meteor]

are you currently hard selecting the rows for each of the building?

[mental trellis]

And that name "Farm" links the 2 lists.

[thin panther]

thats why then. you're asking if 25 is greater than stamina consumed. if stamina consumed is 0, then yes, 25 is greater than 0

[lofty rapids]

do you want you value >= 25, or 25 >= value

i think you have it flipped

[remote meteor]

if you make it a variable, and store it on the building, then when you save, you can know the row handle

[manic hamlet]

"it"?

[lunar sleet]

She, the variable

[random solar]

Ohh yeah, I need to switch the pins. Dohh!

[remote meteor]

[random solar]

Yeah thanks for help haha

[manic hamlet]

but thats the question, i dont get it as a variabale in the first place 😄

[thin panther]

np :D

[manic hamlet]

I need the RowName as variable,no?

to use it in here:

[remote meteor]

a DataTableRowHandle consist of the Data Table reference and a Row Name, so instead of hard selecting on the bp, you can make it into a variable

when its time to save, you can use this variable as the "identifier"

[random solar]

Mechanic works as intended now, Now I will spend hours and hours in the tutorial section to never leave again! I've reached a milestone in development, Next part of development involves using character physics so will probably go to c++ for that one

[manic hamlet]

Lets go through this step by step:
I do the screenshot above
Then I have a struct
now i save this struct
now i load the savegame
The Input Pin of "RowName" in "GetDataTableRowNAME" needs a variable now

.....one sec, i think thats the answer from @remote meteor that he just posted... the DataTableRowName

brb testing... this is new to me(the handle thing) but from what i can see its the variable im looking for

[random solar]

Unless blueprints would be better for physics based coding?

Haven't done the research yet eitherway, will probably do so over next few days

[remote meteor]

sometimes im confuse about the phrase "physics code", are we talking about simulating physics or..? 😅

[manic hamlet]

this would mean each building gets this variable(preferably from the parent) correct? and all the children just have the value "RowName" changed in it? e.g. the 3D Model of a farm gets a RowHandle with Farm, the Carpenter gets Carpenter etc.... I think this is it 😄

[gentle urchin]

New var of type data table row handle

Selected in the building defaults

[random solar]

In this case, I aim to do weapon handling with the mouse axis. A bit like Mount and Blade but more directions, will be the toughest thing to do so far so I'm going to do as much research as I can to avoid missing basics as I have done so for many months

[gentle urchin]

Added and implemented in your bp_master_building, parent of all buildings

[manic hamlet]

yes yes yes,this is it 😄
thank you !!!

[remote meteor]

so, an aim offset for upper half body kinda? 3rd person movement, similar on how fortnite is?

[random solar]

Ahh, melee weapons I mean

[spiral kite]

I want to destroy actor_BP from thirdpersoncharacter event graph

how can I it

[manic hamlet]

@gentle urchin@mental trellis@lunar sleet@remote meteor Thanks to you all 🙂 we figured it out, now i gotta fix a lot but thats fine 😄 The "DataTableRowHandle" is the variable I was looking for and didnt know how to describe 😄

[remote meteor]

fortnite does have melee weapons, and the way of handling this doesnt have much of a difference between a sword or a gun

[random solar]

I meant flicking your mouse in a certain direction will cause the melee weapon to go in that direction too

[barren dove]

new question
Does it make sense to create an array inside of each projectile, then add the actor to the array on overlap, and check against array on overlap event to verify that each actor is only hit once by each projectile rather than every tic they overlap?

[spiral kite]

I want to destroy gun part when this triggered

[dark drum]

If you only want a projectile to cause damage to a specific actor once, yea, it would make sense.

[remote meteor]

actually, if its a projectile based, please do, when anything moves, the overlaps and hit can fire very quickly

[barren dove]

Yeah, I'm looking into how overlap events work to see if I should reduce the scope before checking or anything

I figured its better to put as much into the projectile as possible because there will be a lot less of them than actors... probably XD

[remote meteor]

depends on how the projectile behaves

does it bounce? pierces? destroy on projectile stop?

[barren dove]

Yeah, all sorts of stuff like that will be added later
Right now I'm just looking into handling 1000+ actors and shooting them as effeciently as possible

[lofty rapids]

maybe set a reference, then destroy actor

[pallid minnow]

how do you fix the issue with when using mouse to control the characters camera, after like 10 seconds or so the mouse no longer controlls it and you have to re click on the screen?

controls*

[lunar sleet]

Are you changing input to game mode or something?

[pallid minnow]

yes, i have just two inputs put in and this is the blueprints

[lunar sleet]

Set input to game mode only is a node, I’m asking if you’re using that anywhere

[pallid minnow]

do i need enhanced inputs for even something this simple?

yeah i tried that

and than changed it back since it didnt work

[lunar sleet]

That could cause your window to lose focus is what I meant

Tho generally only when you start the game

[pallid minnow]

you mean "set input mode to game only" right? thats what i tried a few mins ago

i can try again and show if need be

[lunar sleet]

well no, if that’s not it it’s something else

[pallid minnow]

yeah i always have that which is fine where you have to click the screen to use inputs but after like 30 seconds or a random amount of time it doesnt register inputs and i have to reclick the screen

[lunar sleet]

I would make sure you didn’t accidentally put it somewhere else as well

[pallid minnow]

i dont, this is just a test world so its very limited. Its only on the left/right camera view i can still use movement and stuff when it happens and i dont have to reclick the screen sorry, instead i just have to move my finger off the left to right on my mouse and do it again

maybe change the mouse sensitivity?

[lunar sleet]

Doubt that’ll do anything but 🤷‍♂️

[pallid minnow]

same idk

[stuck sentinel]

please help

these two are not working

its just resolution settings why is it not working

its very simple

[lofty rapids]

are the button clicks working ?

the events are firing ?

[stuck sentinel]

i click and nothing happens

im not sure if anything happens but i cant see it happening

i tried standalone game but i still cant see a change

is there any mistake though in the code?

[lofty rapids]

put a print string right out of the event on clicked, see if one fires

just try one

maybe for some reason it's not clicking

[keen hedge]

Is there a way to get a Select node to stop throwing errors when encountering null references on the branch that DOESN'T get executed? Other than switching to Branch

[remote meteor]

select node WILL execute both paths regardless

switching to branch is your only option

[unreal wind]

Hi guys, still trying to make this work, i want to create a bp where i can turn the skylight off and then turn all the rec lights on

can someone pleeease help me

[lofty rapids]

for one thing your exec pin isn't plugged in

[frosty heron]

Watch blueprint live communication video by epic. It will help you understand

[keen hedge]

😦

[unreal wind]

where it should be plugged?

[lofty rapids]

there is no execution going into that cast node, the white lines

[keen hedge]

And there's no way to make a local macro or collapse the node graph and add an exec node to its input/output? Oh a collapsed graph can have exec nodes, nice

[frosty heron]

It will not work in pie iirc. I'm not sure about stand alone. Best to check in packaged mode. If that still fail, check your screen mode (windowed, fullscreen, etc)

[thin panther]

follow the advice given by Cold Summer, even with connecting it, this will never compile nor work

[unreal wind]

i just started watching

[lofty rapids]

read the errors/warnings

[frosty heron]

I would try to help when I can but when I see things are thrown randomly like that, I felt like some helpful videos are due lol

[thin panther]

absolutely

[light glen]

hello, i am trying to

const FGameplayTag Tag = FGameplayTag::RequestGameplayTag(Attribute.Attribute);

how can i do this in blueprint 🙂 thank you (i searched and failed)

[lunar sleet]

You’re trying to add a new gameplay tag ?

[opal pulsar]

hey guys, its me again
ive set up a way to move an object in the same direction as the player's velocity, but what im looking to do is more as to move it like you were pushing on a specific part of it, meaning to also include rotation
this might be difficult to explain, but if any of you would have any ideas or input to give me id appreciate it

[light glen]

i already have the tag

its basically a currency.gold currency.silver etc

[lofty rapids]

RequestGamePlayTag <-- i'm guessing your getting a tag and trying to set it to variable tag ?

what is Attribute.Attribute ?

[light glen]

its an FName

if i don't have that tag, then it will return null

well none

[lofty rapids]

do you just want to check for that tag, or you want some value in return if it finds it ?

not sure it's helpfull but there is this

[light glen]

so i've saved the tag by converting it to an fname, now i want to turn it back into a tag

i was doing it via that c++ code

[surreal peak]

I don't think that exists in BPs

You might just want to expose a static function for it

[light glen]

ah thanks

[summer lily]

Hey i seem to be running into a issue with player controller animations, i set up my blendspace with 8 way directional movement, and sprint, and the input are working and the animation i choose seem to all have root motion on, but for some reason when i walk the seem to still snap back to like some origin every few seconds

[winged pier]

Unrelated to your issue: You probably shouldnt cast on Update Animation, it calls every frame just so you know

[gentle urchin]

If its always in memory, its practically free

[summer lily]

what event would you reccommend? @winged pier

[winged pier]

I mean there's still no need though, you can cache it in a variable on begin play

[gentle urchin]

True that

[winged pier]

Begin play

[dawn gazelle]

In animation blueprint it's Initialize or something like that?

[echo salmon]

Any idea why in WidgetBlueprint i cant see the button click events on details panel ?

[winged pier]

Youre in the designer tab, you need to go to the graph tab. Click the checkbox at the top of the details first, and make the button a variable

[echo salmon]

@winged pier ty so much

[north lynx]

Hi

[sonic meadow]

Using the VR template UE5; I was trying to follow this today, but for some reason I am not successful, perhaps I am not doing the target point right in my project
Can someone please help me on who to add in the menu, a specific button where we click and teleport to a specific location?

[lunar sleet]

#umg for widgets

[north lynx]

Can anyone explain to me, why I can't find the "ThrowObjREF" from spawn actor?

[lunar sleet]

Cause it’s a static mesh?

It doesn’t say spawn mesh now 😀

[north lynx]

Yeah, but the tutorial that I'm currently watching do excacly this, and works perfectly

[lunar sleet]

I find that hard to believe but if you insist: if you’re watching a tutorial and it works for them but not for you, watch it again, you likely missed something

[north lynx]

3 times watched, so here I am

[lunar sleet]

Ah You’re trying to get the mesh from the actor, not spawn the mesh

That was confusing for a sec

[north lynx]

Yeah, something like that

I have a sphere that is my point where the "rock" must start the throw moment

[lunar sleet]

Your throw ref is in the Third Person Character bp

The former is a component on the latter, which is the actor

[north lynx]

Oh, maybe i understand, I must to check one thing

Yeah I get it
That's the problem with names, the tutorial same "sphere" is not the sphere I thought about, everything works just fine

[lunar sleet]

You’re trying to find the rock’s throw point on the flashlight as far as I can tell

Yeah, most tutorials are crap

Official learning portal or MatWadstein, maybe some Ryan Laley are solid, the rest is a throw of the dice

[north lynx]

Not all of them, but for begginers they can be confusing sometimes

[north lynx]

Ryan Laley, my mentor XD

Matt Aspland is good too

Anyways, thank you for your time and help 🧡

[tawdry raft]

Hello, I'm having an issue with trying to make a perform light attack blueprint within my player BP. It won't play any of the animation montages I have it set to. I'm new to using blueprints and have been following a tutorial, but somehow this won't work

[wispy pumice]

So Macros by default will only let you pass a copy of a variable? How did I never realize that before? Lol

I guess I'll have to make this a function then....I'm wondering if the same thing happens when you collapse a function into a Node? I'm wondering that because I've tried to do that in the past and remember sometimes having issues with it suddenly not working and not knowing why. I'm thinking it wasn't a bug as I thought at the time but simply that it was passing a copy of something I was trying to modify

[gentle urchin]

Isnt all bp refs just woodoo anyways

Bunch of copying going on no matter what?

[lofty rapids]

you have a default slot in your anim bp ?

or is it printing Attack Montage Not Valid ?

[north lynx]

Did anyone know how to properly save "Primitive Component" data into variable to set it outside the Blueprint?

[tawdry raft]

It's not printing that anymore after I selected my montages

[cunning vapor]

Is it possible to set a niagara decal through a damage_type?

[north lynx]

I need the primitive component class to use it for physics linear velocity BUT I want it to be a variable that can update itself, what Primitive Component to use it on

[wispy pumice]

Idk anymore lol. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. Because I need to modify some things and I want to make sure I am not just modifying copies.

[mental trellis]

References and Blueprints don't mix very well.

Just assume it's by value. Cry a little. And plan accordingly.

[surreal peak]

They got an answer in #cpp

[hasty shard]

I never understood how the input key system should help me with interact with my lanthern.

[lofty rapids]

"input key system" ?

[lunar sleet]

Do you mean #enhanced-input-system ?

[quaint nova]

Hey. I got this problem where the class reference array has to be connected into the blue array socket (marked with ERROR!), but I couldn't find any way to do it. I need the array to be an object reference for the next step which is "Find Nearest Actor". The reason why I couldn't just make the array an object reference from the beginning, was because I got "Editing this value in a Class Default Object not allowed"

[quaint nova]

Do you mean these? They fire code you set to come from the Exec pin when you press the key in the title of the block. This screenshot was taken inside the player controller.

[lunar sleet]

That system is deprecated

[quaint nova]

oh

lol

[lunar sleet]

It still works but should learn EIS asap

[quaint nova]

and EIS stands for...?

[blissful grail]

It's still fine to use for quick debugging stuff

#enhanced-input-system

[quaint nova]

oh

🤦‍♂️

[hasty shard]

No I mean, I have a Lanthern Actor BLurprint into my third character blueprint. I want to control it by the interaction key E, I set the input etc... but not able to control it

[lunar sleet]

The error kind of says it all

You can’t Set that Array and feed it nothing

[opal pulsar]

why is the PhysicsHandle's Set Target Rotation half worldspace and half localspace?
the Z is always the same and the object rotates fine, but the X and Y rotate along with the object
im losing my mind

[lunar sleet]

You could use get actors of class if you’re searching for a specific class to look at but I don’t usually recommend using that, might be fine for this case tho

[lofty rapids]

so you couldn't just get an array of actors that you can plug in ?

[quaint nova]

I can't create an array as an object reference because of "Editing this value in a Class Default Object not allowed", and all the array elements are grayed out

[lofty rapids]

you probably have to make the array

loop through the classes, get all actors of class, loop through, add to array ?

i would make a function

or ig you can just collapse it but i like functions

[ionic palm]

Does anybody have any idea why this isn't working correctly to reorient my wind vane to the wind direction?

Its never enormously wrong but it's never spot on either as the wind direction is clearly visible in the waves.

https://streamable.com/5hk7q6

[lofty rapids]

i didn't test it but something like this might work

[meager spade]

Why not just make an array of soft object pointers instead since that's most likely what he/she wants?

Sounds like he wants an array of already placed actor instances

[meager spade]

Did you figure it out on your own?

[radiant imp]

I'm trying to add a mapping context to several local players, it work's when I run this code from the pawn class:

But doesn't work when I run this from the player controller directly:

I get this error:

[meager spade]

@lofty rapids It didn't come out the way I meant to, no harm meant

[radiant imp]

How can I add the mapping context to the player controller instead of to the pawn?

[lofty rapids]

idk what soft object pointers are anyway, i'll have to look into it

[radiant imp]

I want to handle input from within the player controller and from within the pawn

[lofty rapids]

well i think they need specifically an array of actors to plug into a node

[radiant imp]

Is it not possible to add a mapping context to a player controller?

[meager spade]

Yeah hard to tell, I interpreted it as wanting to handpick items already placed in the level

[meager spade]

no idea

[desert juniper]

Like an unloaded pointer. Saves on memory from what I understand. If you want to use it later, you actually have to explicitly load the reference it’s pointing to

[lofty rapids]

the only problem is that doesn't plug into the find nearest actor node

[meager spade]

Sure it would, you just have to load them and then create the actor array

[desert juniper]

Make them derive from one class

Make one actor that’s of class A and then child B and child C derive from type A

[spark fjord]

i was setting up my wall jumping for my pretty standard third persona character and started with just touching the wall and sliding

but idk why but this does not work
do you know any reason why?

[desert juniper]

Then when you want to store a reference, you just specify that it has to be of type A. And then any object/class that is of type A or and child of A can be stored in that variable. Welcome to OOP

[meager spade]

It's totally fine to not be specific, you only need to be as specific as your needs. If you only care if it's an actor you can store it as one

[radiant imp]

Ok this is really weird:

Adding a delay unit next tick works, when adding a mapping context to a player controller

When using a pawn, it works immediatly :/

[manic adder]

can i expect a material containing a "per instance random" to vary if i create meshes with "add mesh component" or do i need to use "add instanced static mesh" for my meshes to be actual instances that can vary said property ?

[sick fable]

Can someone show me how to sync up a third person player model to a firstperson camera with the arms perfectly syncing up with camera movement without the camera being attached to the head? is this possible

I dont want that spine to move at all

Is this possible

[hasty shard]

you just remove the attach parent from your mesh

[sick fable]

ok but that doesn't sync the arms with the camera tho

like first person

[hasty shard]

you want to sync the camera with the head?

[sick fable]

no the arms

but when I look down my character does this

lol

[faint pasture]

What makes you so sure the waves immediatly respond to a change in wind direction?

[pallid minnow]

anyone know why this (negitiveSpeed) bool i have set up wont work? I've been trying to set the X vector to when it turns -1 it plays my backwards animation

[edgy axle]

forward vector returns the forward driection of the player, not the forward velocity

[hasty shard]

Any idea on how I can trigger something in another blueprint?

I mean, this lanthern is a blueprint outside of the third character, with his own code and we don't have it in the being, so that why it's outside. I will want to open and close the light, with F key. Input is already settup with the new system.

[edgy axle]

do Get Velocity, then get forward vector, then multiply them, and then check if its greater than something

[pallid minnow]

ahh i had that set up right above just didn't realize and bet bet let me try that

[flat raft]

GetChildActor on your BP_Lantern

[edgy axle]

I don't think you need the Get Unit Direction, just plug the velocity straight into the multiply

[meager spade]

Depends on how you wanna do it, you could have an event in the character called ToggleLantern or something that the lantern can listen to(makes the lantern toggling non public which is nice) or you can have the lantern have a public function for toggling it(anyone can toggle the lantern now)

[hasty shard]

Technically, don't matter because the game is single player 😛 but how I can access the function, it not reference

[hasty shard]

GetChildActor?

[meager spade]

The lantern itself has the code for toggling on and off the light right?

[pallid minnow]

i switched it now and got it to work bless

[edgy axle]

[hasty shard]

@meager spade yes

[meager spade]

Is it one event for off and one for on or is it the same with a bool or what are we dealing with?

[edgy axle]

actually, remove the break vector and just get the vector length instead, otherwise it'l only work when the player is facing a specific direction

[hasty shard]

I had a function, deleted since it isn't worked

[pallid minnow]

but isnt the X for moving backwards? because when i have the print string i face forward and move forward and it puts out 1 but when i face forward and move backwards it puts out -1

[flat raft]

drag BP_Lantern (ChildActor) into the Event Graph, Make a GetChildActor node, then Cast to BP_Lantern. This will give your access to the BP_Lantern functions

[edgy axle]

if you are facing the Y direction in world then your forward vector would be 0, 1, 0 instead of 1, 0, 0 when you are facing the X axis. So if you are facing the Y axis then the X float that you are getting would be 0 instead of the actual forward velocity

do you know how the forward vector works?

it pretty much gets the location of a point 1 unit in front of the player

so it's not always 1, 0, 0

[pallid minnow]

oh okay okay makes way more sense

[hasty shard]

@flat raft I heard about to cast is nnot really a good idea... better to use interface... no?

[lunar sleet]

You heard wrong

[meager spade]

Don't create a interface if you don't need it for multiple classes

Unecessary overhead imo

Only reason I would have an interface for a single class is if I really need it to be used from a base class

[hasty shard]

you mean, by acample, lot of item can be gatherable, now you use an interface

example

[meager spade]

Yes

[hasty shard]

or door etc

[meager spade]

Casting is mostly only bad when used as a crutch where another approach would have been simpler or when you do it a lot on tick

But it's not something you need to avoid at all costs

[hasty shard]

'BP Lantern' does not inherit from 'Scene Component' ( Cast To BP_Lantern would always fail).

[flat raft]

show ur graph

[lunar sleet]

Eh, event tick casting can be ok, depending on the situation, tho there’s often a better way

[meager spade]

Remove the get child component

[flat raft]

get child actor

[hasty shard]

that work!

A big thank you 🙂

[flat raft]

Also, casting is not bad. don't believe the youtubers lol

[dapper hazel]

hi, does anyone know why this isn't working? Sound goes off but the actor does not spawn (starts off not valid)

[pallid minnow]

i changed it out for length and i still must have something wrong

[meager spade]

I have no idea how Location->Transform default values work, is there a chance the actor is spawned with a scale of 0?

[dapper hazel]

nope, he doesn't spawn at all. even when i spawn him with a trigger and it Is Valid the Follow Player doesn't execute

[meager spade]

Also no idea if this matters but isn't there a specific spawn node for AI/character classes?

[meager spade]

Nvm I'm dumb, it shouldn't matter

[flat raft]

add a IsValid after the spawn and print something

[dapper hazel]

thanks man this helped 🙂 i got it

[gray lantern]

Any BP people know if there's a way in BP's to access and list ALL user parameters want to print them out an copy them setting up some automation stuff
can't seem to find any function for it though

[tropic trail]

I could use some help understanding chaos destruction. Currently I have a GeometryCollection object inside my enemy character blueprint; I enable physics on it as soon as bullets overlap with the bullet actor *(so it doesn't break on its own or fall from the actual mesh) * but I get some unintended behaviors.
For one, it seems random whether the bullet actually fragments the GeometryCollection or if it just makes it fall to the ground where it explodes on its own. The pieces on the floor are also unaffected by the bullets.
I also don't want it to fragment entirely on bullet hit, just chip some pieces away until it runs out of HP and then break entirely. What blueprint functions can I use to achieve more deliberate/intentional destruction?

All I've got so far

[flat raft]

@gray lantern https://youtu.be/2GptXWIgwqI?si=G3dSK-YNnw6ndCVR

[gray lantern]

I can't even figure it out in BP hahahahaha 😅

I don't even know how to set up C++ and Python

[hasty shard]

I don't know if any of you has occur this trouble?

Once I play the game, it's look weird

the original landscape is no more there... that what I don't understand

[knotty latch]

so I have events I'm registering. at first, I wanted to do them in level BP but I've decided to create a traditional actor BP_Actions and register all my events there so I can simply move that BP when I need it somewhere else and just change a few things around.

However, I have found now that even when I'm calling events from sequencer, the order of event registration on actors is not good and my desired events are not registered before they can be called. I should have known this would have been the case and at first my hunch was to register all events in the level blueprint as it is most likely the first one to be registered.

So basically I have 2 questions.

1. What's the best practice and where is the best place to register events happening in the scene (level BP, gamemode or actor BPs like I did). For example, I have a door that need to open on key press, then turn on monitors at a certain moment. I want to also trigger these from sequencer as well.

2. Is there a way to specify the order/priority of BP execution per actor if this is in fact one of the ways to do it?

[fast osprey]

Not really sure what u are doing but u could try a delay on your sequencer to allow your BPs to load?

[meager spade]

Answer for 2. You would have to create a Pre event and a regular/post event in order to achieve priority in a good way

Pre as in you just name it pre and call that before the other

[knotty latch]

that feels so bad though 🙂 I thought about it but being a programmer for a while that seems like a such a dirty way.

[knotty latch]

the issue is that it's not just sequencer, it's the other blueprint that has bindings to that event too.. so BP_Actions for example appears to be not registered before BP_Monitors .. BP_Actions has event dispatchers defined.. BP_Monitors has binds to react to event. So ensuring that BP_actions events are registered would have resolved the issue before BP_Monitors

[meager spade]

It's a tedious approach but what I've had to do in a lot of these casses is check if something exists/is ready to be used, otherwise subscribe to a delegate and wait. It makes you have a lot of events but at least it's stable and not reliant on delays

[knotty latch]

@meager spade any downsides just registering events in the level BP?

[tight pollen]

What should I watch out for when using DataAsset? and, to save this data and load it after restarting, do I need to create a SaveGameObject? does DataAsset save data itself?

[meager spade]

No idea, I have heard the level BP is bad to use but I've never personally touched it

[knotty latch]

Yeah, that's why I really went the actor BP route

[meager spade]

Depending on the chain of events and if you know c++ you could use AsyncTask to get some functionality to run a little later

[knotty latch]

this is really one level cinematic project.. so I don't think it will hurt if i just put stuff in BP Level and be done with it.. but it was a question for future projects really so I can understant event registration and propagation better

[meager spade]

I believe the reason you shouldn't use level BP is if the levels change or something like that

I have no idea since I've never used it personally

[knotty latch]

yup.. I read about that..

[tight pollen]

someone?

[knotty latch]

alright.. so no real proper way inside actors unless I subscribe to delegate and just wait for check if is valid then do something

[meager spade]

Not that I can think off, I would personally use a bunch of delegates but that because it's a design style that suits my project. Do w/e makes most sense for u

[meager spade]

Haven't used them

[mental trellis]

You shouldn't be using data assets as "save games" - you should use save games. If you edit the asset in the editor, just save the asset. Don't edit them at runtime.

[tight pollen]

but I can edit the DataAsset and then save the data from this DataAsset and when loading the data from SaveGameObject set it to the DataAsset? 😄

[mental trellis]

You... could. But why use a data asset for that purpose?

You could use it as the defaults, but not for live data.

[tight pollen]

I don't know, it seems simple to me, e.g. I have several widgets in which I need to get this variable, I can simply get all variables from DataAsset

easy to control

[frosty heron]

You can't point to an actor in bp as the bp doesn't know about the world in editor time.

Ask your self, what can it point to? The bp isn't tethered to any level, how can it pick an actor you place in w.e?

[knotty latch]

@meager spade just FYI.. for stuff we talked about you really don't even want to use Level BP because it's difficult to get the reference to it from any actor. Game Mode BP though would probably be a better place as it can be referenced from everywhere else for binds.

[meager spade]

Yeah, I used to use the GameState for a lot of misc stuff

[pseudo anchor]

hey guys the properties for my components for my actor just dissappeared suddenly
any ideas why

[nimble flower]

how would I make a checkpoint system that gets reset whenever I leave the level?

I wanna reload the level whenever I die (but spawning me at the current checkpoint), but when I leave the level entirely, none of that will be saved

[wild moat]

when i toggle my freelook, i'm noticing there's a jitter in the forward vector, like it's constantly trying to correct itself:

https://gyazo.com/7264a0c650ef36ad94c65af6f0890257

i have no idea what's causing this

[frosty heron]

Simply set the checkpoint back to the value you want before leaving the level

[limber parcel]

you can use the game instance to keep track of your checkpoint between level changes

and i think also game state?

[oak fable]

hey there
im trying to calculate the current character rotation and the direction
and check if the character rotation is more or less then 120 it should reduce the running speed
but in this code i made if i change the direction it goes back to running
any idea why is that ?

[nimble flower]

by "leaving the level" I mean pressing the 🟥 button

[frosty heron]

That's got no use in deployed version

If you want to debug just have some key that reset the checkpoint before you hit the stop button

[oak fable]

if any one have a better idea on how to achieve that please let me know

[nimble flower]

ig that works yeah, is there any way to see what the original, unsaved version would be btw?

[loud cipher]

Does anyone know how to create a replicated crouch system that smoothly sets the capsule height instead of snapping like the native crouch function does

When i use the inbuilt crouch function from character class, in first person it causes the camera to snap down to the new crouched height, i know you can fix it with camera lag but that affects other aspects of my camera controller for FPS

[wild moat]

alright getting somewhere, how do i make this rotate back after

https://gyazo.com/c081f5c199cadc65ba70c2902b0adb41\

rotating/leaning back only when there is velocity, otherwise it should return to it's upright position

currently it just continues to add rotation

[loud cipher]

Do a check if player is moving then just rinterp in reverse

Current is target

[wild moat]

now what

[loud cipher]

that looks weird lol

[frosty heron]

That shouldn't do anything?

[loud cipher]

Do that r interp where ever you are checking if player is not moving anymore

But i meant make the current be the saved result of your first rinterp

and the target be the resting rotation of the character

so that it interps from rotated to not rotated

[wild moat]

oh thanks! i'll try that

[oak fable]

hey there
im trying to calculate the current character rotation and the direction
and check if the character rotation is more or less then 120 it should reduce the running speed
but in this code i made if i change the direction it goes back to running
any idea why is that ?
if any one have a better idea on how to achieve that please let me know

[wild moat]

set this up, seems to work, but when i go backwards my character leans strangely:

https://gyazo.com/98c1a54976a92a43f09ffee41683ceca

https://gyazo.com/ab3dcc18d0650fc6411ce1bf6082bcc7
rotation is jumping between 180 and -180

[lusty hedge]

I have list of structs called item. is there a way i can have item display different info based on the Type

like I want Type: Food. and only food. to displaya
"calories" variable

[lunar sleet]

Try clamping

[wild moat]

i think that would stop the character from fully rotating 360

[lunar sleet]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Rotator/ClampAxis/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Rotator/NormalizeAxis/

Try one of those

[pine idol]

I have a Project that I use to develop shared assets for other projects, such as inventory, interaction components, notifications, etc. Any time I want to start a new project, I can just migrate the assets I want to use to the new project. How can I make changes to the original assets in the Shared Asset project, into other projects when I make updates to various resources? I already tried migrating. Said it was succesful, but I think it did nothing. lol

[oak fable]

can someone help me please
i need to calculate the character forward direction and the view direction and check if the character forward direction is 90 degree from the view direction then i can set a condition

[loud cipher]

is it possible to replicate a ragdoll so that both clients see the exact same ragdoll

and not a slightly varied version

[lunar sleet]

Use get forward vector and the DOT product

[oak fable]

I did that but not working

[lunar sleet]

which part

[lunar sleet]

#multiplayer can prly answer that

[oak fable]

All of it
It gives a value but when I try to check the character direction it does nothing

Like when I rotate to 90 degree
Nothing happens

[lunar sleet]

show code

[oak fable]

Im not on my PC now going to my collage
Also that was another one i made

[oak fable]

But here if i move the mouse the it won't work until I make it back to it's original direction

[lunar sleet]

Hard to tell so when you’re back home, show the code and ask the question in chat again, someone will be able to help

[oak fable]

Sure I will ❤️

[nimble flower]

how do I make a sphere sprite into an oval for the niagra burst?

[jaunty pond]

Hello, does anyone how to make the player swim on the surface level. Currently my character can swim up and down, but when the character reaches the water surface it kinda bumps up and down.

[frank viper]

Hi everyone is there a "blueprint meter" or test one can do to see if a single blueprint is too big? (too many nodes on it).

[pine idol]

I doubt it. I've seen some pretty massive blueprints

[frank viper]

One of mine is getting pretty big and its starting to get sluggish but its still working great

[frosty heron]

Break it down to components

[pine idol]

Yeah, split it up.

[frank viper]

Its a save game BP

[frosty heron]

When you clump everything into one bp, it gets really hard to read

[frank viper]

No components

[pine idol]

Can still split it up

[frosty heron]

Savegame object?

Shouldn't even have any logic or bp in it?

[frank viper]

No I have save game object featured on it

But its a whole BP on its own

[pine idol]

There's one way you could split it up right there.

Make the Save/Load functionality on it's own BP.

[frank viper]

Its just saving out 6 different versions of the game

But there is a LOT its saving out

[pine idol]

Something like that I would certainly have in it's own BP.

[frank viper]

Yip

I have a save BP and load BP

Seperated

[pine idol]

Not sure of the reason for 6 versions, but yeah, start splitting it up. Especially functions that are used in other blueprints that you could transfer to a blueprint library or interface

[frank viper]

Aha

[pine idol]

Personally I'd keep the save and load in the same BP, but your situation may be easier to keep them seperate

[frank viper]

I was just thinking more than one save BP and then the execution just runs from the one over to the other

I guess I will just keep adding to the single save BP until it starts to break 🙂

[pine idol]

Function any repeated or reused code, keep functions small when possible, and start disecting a bit. It'll get there.

[frank viper]

Yip I have alreaady gutted 3rd of code

[pine idol]

See the way I do it, is I have a Manager for different systems, that is also responsible for save/load. So inventory has it's functions, plus save/load. Plants and characters have their own as well, etc.

[frank viper]

Its a build and customize game so everything the player chooses has to be saved into a version

[pine idol]

Then a Master Save/Load Manager that has all the others referenced, and it calls the different save and load functions as needed.

[frank viper]

Ok thanks for the input 🙂

[pine idol]

mhmmm. good luck

[frank viper]

I will see when it breaks then break it up.
So far so good.

Appreciate the input.

[crude pecan]

Scriptable tools can access current key press modifiers Shift, ALT and CTRL.
Unfortunately the ALT modifier is not really usable for click drag tools - since holding ALT with any click drag will automatically orbit the camera in the active viewport.
It would be nice instead if the click drag tool is active that the camera orbit feature is overridden. ALT is quite a useful modifier for tool shortkeys

[tropic bison]

Newbie question, how do you make the camera face X direction regardless of your character movement?

[faint pasture]

Just make the rotation not driven by movemebt

Then you can face it any direction you want however you want.

[tropic bison]

Ah I see, I think I found it, thanks

[marble tusk]

I had noticed this too, but supposedly there's a lot of people out there who use alt for camera navigation. #geometry-tools message

[rancid moat]

Anybody know if there's a shortcut for inserting a node through an already existing exec connection? I know of CTRL+clic for Left/Right connection, but anything that place it in between? Like, a reverse SHIFT+SUPPR

[marble tusk]

I don't know about a key for it, but if you drag off the previous node's exec pin and add a node it inserts it between them

[vapid patio]

I am sure this is a long asked question but does anyone know how to make a blueprint library such that both actors AND objects can access the functions???

The blueprint function library does not seem to work with objects. Even when I turn off context sensitivity

[narrow pendant]

I've got a (geometry) script that I run in my game to build a spline. It works, but in the worst case can take ~8ms to run, it's also a noticeable hit in a shipping build. I'd like to run this over multiple frames now since it's not super important that it finishes right away.

are there any general tips you can give for this? is there a built in way for splitting up computations of a single node over multiple frames?

[north lynx]

Did anyone know how to properly save "Primitive Component" data into variable to set it outside the Blueprint?
I need the primitive component class to use it for physics linear velocity BUT I want it to be a variable that can update itself, what Primitive Component to use

[keen hedge]

Is there a built-in way to get the widget component from a widget blueprint? I could always add it as a property, but I meant something like GetOwner to get an actor from actor component, but with widget blueprint instead

[dark drum]

Do anyone know how to get the player character to move to a location on the nav mesh? As they are player controlled, they don't have an AI controller. :/

I have some instances where when the player interacts with something I need them to move to a spot (mainly for the animation). I have something basic that pretty much moves them in a straight line (simulating player input) but causes issues when there's an obstacle.

[dark drum]

A primitive component is the base component for most of the things you add to a blueprint. (Scene, staticmesh, sphere collisions etc...) You just need to set the var to the primitive you want it to be. You'll most likely need to get it from another BP.

[dark drum]

Not that I'm aware of. It can be difficult to get a ref outside a widget unless it's passed the ref when it's created. (exposed on spawn)

What are you trying to do?

[steady night]

is there a way to only get a copy of variable ?

[north lynx]

Yeah, but for some reason that don't work
I created var "TargetItem" that is the "Primitive Component" type (that as far as I know, I must use to set up Physics Linear Velocity)

[dark drum]

You can't in blueprints alone. Function libraries require world context for the functions to work. As you can't get a ref to the world from a uobject, accessing them in BP is disabled. If you make the UObject as a C++ class, you can override the get world function (something like that) which can give you access to the function libraries. (and much more)

It's not something I've done myself but when I've looked at it in the passed, there are a few forum posts that go over how to do it.

[steady night]

i mean in this case each time i update i will increasse by itself also

[dark drum]

You've created an empty box labelled 'Primitive Component'. You need to actually set the var to place something inside the box. 😉

[north lynx]

I'm setting the var in another BP and try to communicate between them, so the var can be set

[dark drum]

And what is flashlight? is that a blueprint or a specific component inside it?

[north lynx]

Component

[dark drum]

how do you know it's not setting?

[dark drum]

Create a getter function that just returns the value. (pass by ref unticked) Im assuming you don't want direct access to the var.

[steady night]

hmm

[north lynx]

1st of all, errors
2nd - I see that the node doesn't work, the flashlight don't get the "boost" to the throw

[dark drum]

So does the set node ever get called?

[north lynx]

Yep, immediately after picking the item
Then the variables are used to throw the exact item

[steady night]

@dark drum

u mean like this ?

[dark drum]

I think your issue is the 'Destroy Actor' node you have. Destroying an actors destroys all it's components.

[north lynx]

But all other var are set before it, and other var works just fine after destroy

[dark drum]

Yes because they aren't referencing an objects in the world. When you set a ref to a primitive, your setting a pointer to it in the world. When you destroy the prim, it becomes null as the prim no longer exists.

[north lynx]

Maybe I don't understand and it shouldn't be Primitive Component?

[north lynx]

Oh, okay

Yeah, that's make sense, but causes a lot of problems for me now...

[dark drum]

In a way yea, it'll just give you the value, (with some modifications in this case).

[dark drum]

why are you destroying the actor?

[steady night]

yeah but since im getting the "heal max in the function if i run this twice it still will increase by itself

right

[north lynx]

When picking up the item, I don't want it in the world, so I destroy it after picking

Seems logic to me

[dark drum]

Yea that makes sense, why are you need to reference the flash light primitive?

[gentle urchin]

May i ask why theres two components?

[steady night]

@gentle urchin i just divided them easier to keep them seperated no reason really

[north lynx]

Long story short
I want to make the simplest eq system where you can pick one item, and throw it
But, I don't know a way, to check what item the player is picking without 78 boolans (overstatement)
So my idea was to after picking item, set all needed var and then make the code as universal as possible
I'm self-learning, and can't find any tutorial about that, so I'm struggling to do smth my way

[steady night]

yeah so this dont work its increassing by its itself

[north lynx]

That's the code so far

[dark drum]

In terms of throwing an item, when you spawn said item back into the world, you would get it's prim from the newly spawned actors and apply a force to that.

[north lynx]

If I managed to do the var settable, my code would be so much smaller that it can be

[dark drum]

What are you trying to do? Or what is the issue?

[steady night]

basicly strength,con gives max health

so im trying too add that to the max health value

[north lynx]

Yeah, but how can I get that from newly spawned actor?

Every time the actor has other names

Flashlight1, Flashlight2 and so

[dark drum]

On the spawned actor, you have the return value. That is the BP you've spawned into the world. Either you can create a base class that all items derive from which you can cast too to get the base mesh or you can use the 'get component by class' node and get the static mesh.

[north lynx]

And get something like static mesh, right?

[north lynx]

Still I can't tick it there

Ok I set it like that and it worked, idk what the heck I'm doing

[dark drum]

unhook the component class var and just select static mesh from the list. Unhook the return value, remove the cast and hook the return value directly into the set physics linear velocity.

[north lynx]

Like this, right?

[dark drum]

Yea. This will get the first static mesh it finds and apply velocity to it.

As any FYI, if your using physics, you should probably remove the scene component from the actor as this can cause issues. With your current setup, your static mesh will move inside the actor meaning it's root will stay where it is.

If you do this, you could probably just get the root component (which would then be your static mesh).

[north lynx]

Where should I remove the scene component?

[dark drum]

in your pickup bp (FlashlightBP)

[steady night]

any ideas :/ ?

[gentle urchin]

Id have rhem all in one comp for starters

[north lynx]

Like, I can't

[gentle urchin]

Especially considering how connected they are