blueprint

[gentle urchin]

An element is a value at an index

Element can be a singular int

Or it can be a massive struct of hundred values

[plain cobalt]

I get it now

[gentle urchin]

Internally the array knows the size of the element

[plain cobalt]

Thanks for teaching me the tongue

[gentle urchin]

And index is just the offset memory location

[graceful holly]

i need a little help with some math i can't get my head aroud. I am making a system where i check with a ui image if the player is on that part of the screen. if it triggers i do X. to make so i use the "is point in box" node. but for some reason i cant get it to work, the debug prints tell me that the player and the image are in 2 completely different places. The alignment of the image widget is 0.5 0.5 so it's origin is at the center of it. I have no idea what's going wrong

[gentle urchin]

So to fetch the memory area with the actual element it just does Index *SizeOf(Element)

[versed sun]

This is an Array, Each Page is a Element, the order is the Index

[gentle urchin]

I probably just add confusion 😂

[plain cobalt]

Nah you actually dont

I get all the logic but the lingo isnt there yet

[gentle urchin]

Its less messy if you play around with some array of another type

any other type really

[plain cobalt]

Yeh ive used float arrays and structs a great deal already

[gentle urchin]

Right

[plain cobalt]

just using int array now cause its important i find out which element of an existing array to use for another calculation

[gentle urchin]

Yeah I get that^^

[plain cobalt]

so i think im set now with the example Ryck provided :D

Oh but for final clarification, should I initialize a "temp max list" array in order to reflect the amount of elements in the list im comparing it to? or does that happen automatically during the add node here

[gentle urchin]

If its a local variable its by default empty when you enter the function

[plain cobalt]

Yeh alright but the temp max list array in this function would only have two elements right?

[versed sun]

It add elements as needed, how ever many matching Max Values there are will be the number of elements in the Return array

[plain cobalt]

But lets say there are two matching max values, will the index numbers then be 0 and 1? Or will they match the index numbers from the Array you pulled the max values from?

[versed sun]

Array in {2,4,5,1,1,1,5}
Indexes are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6
Max Value is 5
As it loops, it grabs index 2 and 6 (Because their Element is 5)
It adds to Temp Array the 2 (Index0) and 6(Index1)
The return array has 2 elements(2 and 6), 2 index(0 and 1)

Again, super hard explaining an array of index refs 😛

[steady night]

haha

i dont get it why do ppl spam nude stuff in 2023

like ppl dont know where to get it ?

[red berry]

Why does "GetComponentsByClass" give me null? It never returns anything. If I have an Actor, and create an ActorComponent for it in blueprint (not in editor), and I try to retrive that component using the method above, it doesn't work

[versed sun]

Show how you are useing it

[lunar sleet]

Create how? Show code

[red berry]

I cant show it its complicated. Even if I showed it, it would be hard to understand

[frosty heron]

adding actor component isn't complicated?

[lunar sleet]

Then we can’t really help lol

[red berry]

I have an ItemActor. Some of them I will create "AC_Storage" for it, some don't have it. I will create that component in the blueprint (BeginPlay) if the DataAsset says it has an inventory.
But if I get that same actor, and try to call "GetComponentsByClass", given type "AC_Storage", it will give me null.
If I prevent adding AC_Storage to the ItemActor, and call "GetComponentsByClass", it works fine, it gives me an empty array.

[lunar sleet]

Still haven’t rly answered the question of how you’re “creating” this component

[red berry]

I create the component via "AddComponentByClass" in the BeginPlay. Target is self (ItemActor), class is "AC_Storage"

[versed sun]

Are you adding the component on begin plan and immediately checking for it ?

[worthy tendon]

why use GetComponentsByClass? you can add a variable to your blueprint, store a reference of that component in the variable and access it directly.

[versed sun]

might have to wait a tick

[lunar sleet]

Yeah you’re already doing that

[red berry]

The component is added in begin play, but I have to manually pick up an item with a keybind to try and add it to my inventory. By then it takes a few seconds

[red berry]

I might try this solution since I can't even use GetComponentsByClass

[lunar sleet]

You said the ref is saved when added, why not just check if your var is not empty (isValid)

[red berry]

Ironically, isValid is the first thing I tried, and it still fails. Doesn't work with null values somehow. My code runs fine without errors, but it runs as if the variable is null, when I know its not null. And if I close the game, it gives me errors, saying that GetComponentsByClass is null.
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_Array_Get_Item". Node: Print String Graph: TryAddItem Function: Try Add Item Blueprint: AC_StorageHandler

[lunar sleet]

Huh

IsValid is the whole point of checking if null or not, it’ll never throw that error. You’re doing something wrong and we can’t see your code

[red berry]

Well the matter of fact is, GetComponentsByClass is returning null when it shouldn't. The code that follows can't work or breaks because of that

[versed sun]

do you only have one ? can you Get Component (singular) ?

But , when you spawn it , just save the ref

[rancid moat]

how do I rotate an item around a specified axis? It's seems trivial tho Relative and World rotation both absolutly don't do that

[red berry]

I have one, I tried using the singular version, but it doesn't imply it will allow childs/subclass of that class.

[worthy tendon]

did my solution work?

[red berry]

Haven't tried it yet but will try it tomorrow since im about to go to bed. I hope it works

[gentle urchin]

By using get component you can avoid hard referencing the actor that holds it entirely

Which is normally a good

Avoid hard coupling

[lunar sleet]

Wut?

[worthy tendon]

GC is smart enough to recognize that if the owner get's destroyed, sub objects can also be destroyed.

[lunar sleet]

Get component by class + isValid checks if it’s on the actor, afaik.

[wild ginkgo]

Hey guys, I did this tutorial to animate mesh along spline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAay5SGeN80
It all works, except for when i animate keyframes of the blueprint position and the animation won't show in sequencer

[gentle urchin]

Bps arent smart enough to avoid loading the classes you cast to

And the tying of classes together still happens , even if the object were gced

[red berry]

@worthy tendon I'm not getting errors with your solution, so its working, thanks! Its so dumb that I have to save an array of Components, instead of iterating them from the Actors. I still got other bugs to solve

[gentle urchin]

Youd want your systems to work with as little specification as you need to avoid relying on stuff you may or may not have later on

If you accept generic actor, it will work on any actor having this componemt

Compared to just the one type you cast to

[worthy tendon]

Yes. that is right but if that class is not large it really doesn't matter.

[gentle urchin]

Tying classes together always matter..

[red berry]

Actually, Kazem I went back on your solution. I finally figured out the bug as to why GetComponentsByClass wasn't working. I was iterating from an Actor Set which I turned into an array. For some reason, I'd always get no components when calling that method.
I turned the set into an array, and GetComponentsByClass actually works now. For some reason using a set of Actors, or getting an array from that set, removes the ActorComponents from its copy? The original would still have it, I'd imagine.
Sets don't place nicely I think. In the future if I want a "set" of unique entries, no duplicates, then I'll just stick to an array, and use AddUnique instead.
Thanks everyone for the help!

[gentle urchin]

Another thing to keep in mind is that get componets .. iterates a very small list of components and has no significant cost at all

~~Only possible issue this way is if you have multiple matching components ~~

[worthy tendon]

it does. I agree with you, but it really depends on the project. im still not sure why GetComponents didn't work for tacticaljr.

[lunar sleet]

Realistically, the cost of built-in functions is not gonna be an issue for most of the people here

[red berry]

Yeah you don't want to use a variable to hold components, since then you'll have to always update that variable, and if its outdated, things will go wrong. I think its better to always get components via GetComponentsByClass

[red berry]

It didn't work for me because I was iterating through a Set of Actors. Somehow the set didn't include the components. But when I changed it to an array, it worked

[gentle urchin]

As long as you know theres only one comp, its totally fine

If theres several you'd need some additional logic

[gentle urchin]

This doesnt sound like the actual reason

But if it works 🥳

[dark drum]

Strange, I often use sets and use the 'GetComponentByClass' when I convert to an array without any issues.

[manic hamlet]

Hey guys,
question related to SaveGames:
I do have a Zone(ill call it "BuildingZone") that when you enter you can build buildings (Like a farm, a blacksmith, a windmill etc) this data obviously needs to be saved so the BuildingZone has a variable with the SaveGame-Object I made. (Name of the Building, Vector for the position, Inventory for the building etc)

Once a building is placed I go to the BuildingZone and get the SaveGame variable and get the structArray inside of it and add a new one to it.

Now when I interact with the building I need to access(and ultimatively change) those variables inside of it. how would I go about this so that the building knows, for example, that it is index 4 in the StructArray(Within the SaveGame) to change its variables?

[plush hornet]

Hi all hope your well🤗 Really basic question, how would I get an Ai charecter to move to a specific location? The picture is my setup and the actor isnt moving at all. Any helps appreciated. Thanks

[dark drum]

Do you have a nav mesh in your level?

[plush hornet]

Yes cos I have some AI actors randomly walking around

[dark drum]

Is the destination reachable on the nav mesh?

[plush hornet]

Yes I checked by placing a secondary actor where i wanted it to move to

[lunar sleet]

Try onPossess

You might not have an AICon yet on BeginPlay

[dark drum]

I would have a function on the save game object for updating the relevant building data. It can just loop through each building in the array and set the corresponding array index with the data it gets.

[plush hornet]

How would I set this up? Im still in my learning phase😵‍💫

[manic hamlet]

"On the save game object"->BuildingZone where the SG-Object is on i assume?

oh wait no, you mean this:

[steady night]

Hey

the "target [Self]

i want - 200

[steady night]

tips on how

[manic hamlet]

u screwed my post up haha 😄 nice to see you still workin btw 🙂

[steady night]

hehe

ofc

this is my life now 0)

[manic hamlet]

but how does this function know wich is the right index of the building it got data from?

[manic hamlet]

this

ffs

[steady night]

y=

[manic hamlet]

now the copy paste worked 😄

[steady night]

¨ha

well thats what i did before but that dont work

that just reduces the distance between the targets

i want the self "starting" point to start 200 units away from the self

[frosty heron]

do u guys emulate lag when doing multiplayer

it's not multiplayer proof until you add some lag

[steady night]

@manic hamlet the right one is what im aftert

[frosty heron]

as in if lag compensation is not done, then some function can be useless

[steady night]

doing 200- from that node give pic 1 result

[manic hamlet]

#multiplayer

[frosty heron]

I mean Im asking both of u since u guys do multiplayer in bp

[steady night]

my force is to weak for that answer atm

need to grow with the mp force abit more

[manic hamlet]

as i dont do competitive stuff my answer is NO as idc if something is slightly delayed etc 🙂

[frosty heron]

it's got nothing to do with competitive stuff

[steady night]

same kinda

mine is turn based

[frosty heron]

try to add 50 ms at least

[manic hamlet]

it does 🙂 Idc if the arrow hit the player /enemy 100%(on client side), i only care what my server says ^^

[frosty heron]

yeah not even about that

[manic hamlet]

no clue about this btw 😦

[frosty heron]

u guys should introduce some lag even if it's tiny bit

ask in #multiplayer , just trying to save you guys some hours

[dark drum]

If you have the list of actors, you would just use the loop index as you loop through it.

[steady night]

Cold Summer how would we add some lag ?

[manic hamlet]

once my prototype is done ill consider that advice,thx 🙂

[frosty heron]

Net emulation, wait

[frosty heron]

that's the thing tho, if you are developing MP game without lag you are doing it wrong imo

[steady night]

ah

[frosty heron]

you will find a lot of stuff that was working in a lag free world suddely don't work

[plush hornet]

Any help for this please?🙏

[frosty heron]

like movement being jittery and stuff

straight up unplayable

[steady night]

hmm so should u add it to the server only or all ?

what a good like default setting ?

[manic hamlet]

Hm, okay. I have added an Integer to the BuildingStruct and one on the building and just compare those two for now. eventhough it wasnt your answer, it was inspired by yours,so thanks 😄

[frosty heron]

150 afaik

but that's too much even for real world

good value for test however

[steady night]

should the target be server only or all *

[frosty heron]

listen server have 0 lag anyway

actually Im not sure, ask in MP

[steady night]

hm ok ill do it

[manic hamlet]

ye thanks, fine with me 😄 ive got so many things to worry about,lag is my last concern for now, im 10month into unreal so i got loads of months ahead of me ^^

[frosty heron]

it's not about lag in a sense of delay. When things are not predicted even sprinting will look jitter and unplayable with 5ms added

well it's really up to you if you want to do it or not, but I would at least ask the wise ppl in #multiplayer if you should add lag or not when developing mp game

[plain cobalt]

Took a break and came back to reading it; I completely get it now lol. Was kinda hard to wrap my head around, thanks for sticking with me 🫶

[gentle urchin]

Lag is less of an issue in turn based

Most is state replication and thus can be done on clients without much worry about being remotely in sync

Games like Civilization can be played over e-mail

[frosty heron]

Agree with turn based being an easier mode in mp, but take stuff like character rotating or throwing an axe, wouldn't you need to interpolate for the clients, movement wise

in a lag free world you wouldn't need to

but when testing in packaged mode suddently they jitter and stuff

[gentle urchin]

The lerp would be local

[frosty heron]

Yeah

[gentle urchin]

The server only sends the delta

[frosty heron]

how would one know when to interp when they are in a lag free world tho. Would be nice to emulate real situation to at least see the problem imo
but yeah maybe it's not needed and im wrong. Haven't actually done much any mp to preach

[gentle urchin]

You recieve the delta package, apply it locally

This ofc assumes local gamestate is equal to the one of the server

Which can be a bit dangerous if its competitive, so one can take measures to avoid any... fixing.. of local data

Think of it like chess

[ancient basalt]

hello, i would like to ask for help, So the problem is that:
There is an weaponComponent blueprint and in that i have one bullet hit location variable(Vector) and i pased that variable using interface and cast to an human ai controller blueprint for use. But in human ai controller i am getting 0, 0, 0 for x, y and z but it print the location/reads the data in variable in weaponComponent properly.

So if anyone knows the solution for above, Pls help me!

[coarse agate]

Is it possible to build in delays (e.g. 200ms)?

[frosty heron]

give context?

[coarse agate]

like do something wait 200ms then do smth else

[frosty heron]

Delay?

[coarse agate]

yes

[frosty heron]

i mean use the delay node

[spiral kite]

I want to make skill for one of The players in my game. He must see other players trough walls. How can I do it

[frosty heron]

First find a way to see through walls

i would imagine post process and stencil would be involved

the rest is just applying the ability to toggle the see through

[lunar sleet]

Try not to double ping. There’s an event onPossess you can call from the AI controller and check if the controlled pawn is the one you want before running the command on it. You can always add like a 1 second delay on your pawn’s begin play before calling the move, to see if that’s what the problem is. Otherwise, double check your pawn’s default settings to make sure the AICon is auto-possessing it right , and if all else fails there’s Visual Logger. There’s an #gameplay-ai channel btw

[plush hornet]

Thanks. This is the part I dont understand. Below is my set up for my other AI to move around randomly and it works perfectly. Why would it be more complex to move the actor to a specific location? Surely the principle for it would be the same?

[echo storm]

When should I use a function and when should I use a custom event?

[frosty heron]

You should use function if you keep doing the same thing multiple times

when chosing between custom event or function. Consider if you have output. Custom event can't have output

Function on other hand can't have latent action. Eg. Timeline

that's pretty much it imo, kinda easy to know which one to use

[echo storm]

Oh okay thank you

[gentle urchin]

Personally i prefer functions over events even without returns

Hate cluttering the event graph 😄

And im not a fan of collapses

[frosty heron]

Me: (silently) hide my collapsed nodes

[gentle urchin]

Good thing Im not gonna chevk your code 😂

[frosty heron]

I don't think you want to, even I get lost once I left the project for a week

I'm like the only one that "codes' in the team. Had to scream in caps and red color to my self just to remind me on how to not f up

[lunar sleet]

Oof why would you put AIMoveTo on Tick?

Go to #gameplay-ai and watch the 3rd pinned video

You need to learn BTs

[plush hornet]

It will move to the location, pause and then walk around a bit more

It serves its purpose

[lunar sleet]

lol

[plush hornet]

Its just for background ambience

[lunar sleet]

You have a delay on tick

[plush hornet]

It works the way i want it to i dont see what the problem is

No need to be patronising

[frosty heron]

that's not how it work if I can give my 2cent

[lunar sleet]

I wasn’t trying to be patronizing, trying to teach you how to do things properly, but it seems like you’re not interested, so that’s fine

[plush hornet]

I'm not making an enemy btw

Just a random NPC

I already know how to set up movement for AI

[frosty heron]

Putting delay on ticks doesn't work the way you think it does

[frosty heron]

I do be suprised if this work

[plush hornet]

I can send a video if you dont believe me. Practically all the youtube videos teach you to do it this way

[frosty heron]

Most youtube videos don't really teach anything proper and can be harmful in many case. That's just my personal opinion and I am not patronizing or trying to be suprieor. I consider my self bottom feeder beginner

To make NPC that move around every X seconds, I would use BT

and there is no use to tell the A.I to move every frame.

Simply feed the A.I Target location when the timer is up

[gentle urchin]

Damn. I just let myself forget lol

Then i improve on getting into a project again

[frosty heron]

at least you don't have fish brain, I forget things rather quickly

Btw anyone have artifact when scaling up? I am setting my skeletal mesh component back to 1,1,1 but there is this one frame where the skeletal mesh appear taller

Don't know what else I could try

[plush hornet]

Thats what I was trying to avoid, but I guess Im gonna have to go down that route. Weirdly enough the Random movement works fine but the move to specific location doesnt work at all

[frosty heron]

Ensure the location is reachable I suppose, you can also break the movement result and print the fail condition

I hard coded Specific location in the past, it work just fine on my end

[lunar sleet]

🤔 maybe try smoothing it out instead? It’s too choppy like that anyways

But nice art

[frosty heron]

like interp?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah

[frosty heron]

Will try that, thank you 🙇‍♂️

[remote meteor]

now hear me out that you can make an interp component for size and rotation and then everything else can set the desired rotation/scale to the component and the component will interp to it

[lilac storm]

hey there is there a way to put kind of a notifys in timelines ? i got 3 sec curve and when it reachec 2.2 secs i want want my player to play some animation , how can i achieve this ?

[remote meteor]

timeline has a thing call Event curve (or something similar i forgot the name)

you can add that there, in the selection list where you usually will create float/color curve

[lilac storm]

got it thanks a lot

[frosty heron]

I saw someone using it a while ago

like custom exec pin

@lunar sleet Interp removes the artifact 👍

[lunar sleet]

Nice!

[subtle wyvern]

How can I do so that if a line trace hits the first person character that it actually recognizes the it? The first person character doesn't really have a mesh so I don't know how to do it...

[frosty heron]

When the collision happends (eg hits the capsule component) it will return the actor of the component it collide with

look for hitactor when you break the hit result

[lunar sleet]

Drag from that hit actor and cast to your FP char bp. If cast succeeds, it means it hit the correct class

[subtle wyvern]

So, I tried that but even though that it does hit the first person character it doesn't seem to work. I enabled simulation generates hit events on the capsule component too

[oak fable]

any clue why im getting this error

[frank sundial]

Does anybody know how I would make a makeshift grapple hook? My idea is send a rope object where you are pointing. Then pull the player into that rope against the wall or whatever the player grappled too but idk how to do that

[frosty heron]

yeah, your character reference is not set

or there is attempt to access it when it's not set

I suggest doing it on blueprint init instead of begin play

[oak fable]

hmm okay one sec

[oak fable]

same thing

fixed it

needed to use the get owning actor

[frosty heron]

check the trace channel and check the collision settings of the component you are trying to hit

[subtle wyvern]

Did that, and it all looks good to me

[lunar sleet]

What’s telling you it hit? I don’t see any red squares

Did your cast succeed ?

[gusty dragon]

hey guys what does this mean? iv never had this message before - https://gyazo.com/e2c2e82f6d04a936c6c5979be02c2b9d

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like an out of date pin

[hollow cove]

if im making a game that's pretty much identical in single player and multiplayer, does it make sense to only allow client/server play rather than client/server and standalone?

[gusty dragon]

I complied and the message went away so strange

[gentle urchin]

Not sure what this means really

Server is listenserver?

[jagged parrot]

How would I communicate between a User Interface and the Level Blueprint? I tried using a BPI, but the level blueprint never seemed to recieve the call

[hollow cove]

well theres a bunch of logic that changes if you're in standalone vs client/server. im thinking itll simplify a lot if even in single player there's a server open

the server is hosted by the client. idk if im under a misunderstanding in how unreal works.

[lunar sleet]

Better not to use level bp

[jagged parrot]

I don't know where else to use tbh

[lunar sleet]

What are you doing ?

[jagged parrot]

I need a button on the user interface to interact with the world itself; Setting water height, etc

[lunar sleet]

Oh

Can you access those from game mode or GI?

[jagged parrot]

Unfortunately not; the gamemode and playercharacter are both C++ Classes, not BPs

[lunar sleet]

Like… you made your own cpp extensions not blueprint editable or wdym

[jagged parrot]

I'm doing this for a school project; I had to use one of their templates, the gamemode and character are both C++ classes, everything else is BP

Its really annoying, because so many of my issues would be gone if gamemode was a BP class

[lunar sleet]

Fair enough

[hollow cove]

i guess another way to say this, is there any major drawbacks to always creating a session, even in single player mode

[meager spade]

Are you allowed to create c++ base class for the widget?

[fringe junco]

I have a function here that takes a hit result, and then returns the result

the problem is that the function is returning false, while also returning the name of the object i want in this following code

[jagged parrot]

I believe C++ is encourages / preferred; however I am woefully unprepared for C++ over BP dev haha!

[lunar sleet]

Don’t use == for this

[fringe junco]

ah, what would you use then?

[lunar sleet]

Cast to the right bp

[faint pasture]

Make a custom actor called EnvironmentActor and put all the environment stuff there.
I put my sun, sky, skylight, fog, water, post process volume, everything inside an EnvironmentActor

Press button -> get actor of class EnvironmentActor -> do the thing

you can of course cache a ref to it at startup but it makes zero difference for something like this

[meager spade]

Yeah Adriels solution is way simpler

[hollow cove]

is chat gpt right on this one

[jagged parrot]

So basically move this (+Additional missing code for the UI-World interaction) into an "EnviromentActor"

[faint pasture]

You don't need to cast, you'd just get actor of class YourEnvironmentActor then you'll be able to do whatever with it

[meager spade]

I'm clueless when it comes to multiplayer & replication but IMO. If the session means you need an internet connection I would presonally be against it

[faint pasture]

level BP is a bit of a trap, nobody really uses it

[jagged parrot]

I can see why

[plush hornet]

Thanks👍 I think i discovered the issue. On the ground the actor moves fine, but it doesnt move if it is even slightly in the air. Is there a different Nav mesh/setting for an actor to move throught the air?

[jagged parrot]

If I'm using a seperate actor over LevelBP, how would I handle the on actor overlap collisions?

[plush hornet]

through

[hollow cove]

you'd think if you make a lan session this wouldn't be true

[sand slate]

Hey, I have a question (maybe a stupid one). To what blueprint should I load my savegames in my main menu for ui. So i can see in what level the player is.

[faint pasture]

same way.
Overlap -> get actor of class -> tell it something

[frosty heron]

I know nothing about Flying movement for A.I. probably ask #gameplay-ai guys, they would have more clue

[faint pasture]

There is no flying nav mesh / volume I don't think

[lunar sleet]

There is not

[plush hornet]

will do👍

[lunar sleet]

You need to have the capsule on the ground at the very least

[faint pasture]

how flying is this thing? Like flying units in Starcraft or actually flying in 3d?

[frosty heron]

you might have to write your own Logic/solution but I don't know much to comment

[dark drum]

It'll be referring to having the server run locally and the player connects to it. Minecraft for example does it. From a development perspective, if it works in multiplayer, it'll work in singleplayer as its just a server behind the scenes.

[lunar sleet]

My hacky af solution was to change the relative location of the unit mesh but not saying you should do that 😅

[plush hornet]

Just a random flying NPC just moving from one location to another nothing special

[lunar sleet]

You can always use move directly toward

That doesn’t use the navmesh

[faint pasture]

What if something is in the way?

[dark drum]

Insert explosion

[lunar sleet]

Then you are f-ed 😀

[lunar sleet]

That’s why I faked mine with the relative location 😅

[jagged parrot]

Done this so far! I don't think it works though 😦

That scream is concerning x_x

[frosty heron]

well I just don;t like the use of Get Actor of class

[lunar sleet]

More of a gasp

[frosty heron]

some people are okay with it, but I rather avoid it alltogether

[jagged parrot]

I've never attempted to do a collision without directly referencing it so

[lunar sleet]

As long as you’ll never have more than one of those

[frosty heron]

Yeah but the moment you want to expand, you will have to go back to the code

have it too many and you might go through many bps

nightmare scenario for me

[lunar sleet]

That node will just pick the first one it gets hehe

[jagged parrot]

Yeah, there are a few. I'm basically making a rising-water system

How would I get it to reference a specific one?

[frosty heron]

Don't like being tied to a promise that I can only have one of the object in the world

[frosty heron]

Then get actor of class will 100% won't work in your case

as it will get random water from the world

[faint pasture]

wtf are you actually trying to do here.
What BP is this code in?

[trim matrix]

That seems like an expensive way to do it. One way I would do it is on begin play I would have those things sat there and then call what you have after begin play as a function from the other node without having to get all actors of class.

[frosty heron]

Expensive is kinda irreleavant probably wont cost u a frame imo

[lunar sleet]

You could do get actors of class and for each loop but uh, it’s not that much better

[jagged parrot]

EnviromentActor

You wanted me to do the collision by getting the actors right'?

[faint pasture]

Why would environment actor have a collision?

[jagged parrot]

It doesn't, which is why i was asking why i was moving it into the enviro actor xD

[jagged parrot]

.

[faint pasture]

IN SOME TRIGGER:
Overlap -> get environmentactor -> tell it to do somethin

IN YOUR UI:
Button Press -> get environmentactor -> tell it to do something

ENVIRONMENTACTOR:
Got told to do something -> do the thing (raise water or whatever)

[jagged parrot]

LMFAO

I'll give that a shot xD

[faint pasture]

telling it to do something would be a custom event

[jagged parrot]

HOWEVER; I need to reference specific actors in the level

[faint pasture]

that's fine, the environment actor can do that

it's the orchestrator

it's the thing you tell stuff to, and it directs the water and sun and weather and whatever else

I would have it actually contain the water but that's up to you

[vernal snow]

Hello there, looking for some help if anyone can give it:

So, Got a Player character with a Actor component.
Got some Enums that sets weapon range and with that sets a weapon damage.

But got some error code when doing some debugging stuff.

Image 1: The code.
Image 2: The cube that is taking Damage from the Player.
Image 3: The Actor Component Code that is called when the player presses Left Mouse Button.
Image 4: the event being called.

For image 3, the last branch, i found that when it is false - for debugging purposes - it does call the string, but gives the error.
On True, nothing works.

[jagged parrot]

Will I be casting to get the enviro actor?

[faint pasture]

Do you know what casting is?

[jagged parrot]

vaguely. I know its not for communication

[lunar sleet]

Casting doesn’t get stuff, it checks if a ref you gave it is the right bp and lets you access it

It is for communication

[faint pasture]

You won't have to cast because you'll already know it's an environmentactor

[jagged parrot]

However; every time i've tried to use a BPI its calls are never recieved

[faint pasture]

you cast to go from general to specific

If you have an actor, and want to do environmentactor stuff, you'd cast

[jagged parrot]

How do I get the enviro actor from the UI?

[lunar sleet]

Interfaces are a bit different

[faint pasture]

Get actor of class

I've only said it like 12 times

You say "hey i want to get a ref to an actor in the world of class EnvironmentActor"
and it looks around and gives you one if one of those exists.

get ALL actors of class will give you all of them, not just the first one it finds, but you shouldn't have multiple environment actors anyway

and if you didnt put one in your level it won't give you one as there's nothing to give

[frosty heron]

Damage victim is not set (Null pointer) hence the error

[jagged parrot]

The get actor of class is actually so useful, I didnt even consider it

[lunar sleet]

Does get actor let you immediately access the bp’s innards then?

[faint pasture]

Trigger:
Overlap -> cast otheractor to yourcharacterclass to check if it was one of those -> succeed -> get actor of class environmentactor -> call MakeWaterGoUp on it

UI:
Button press -> get actor of class environmentactor -> call MakeWaterGoUp on it

EnvironmentActor:
MakeWaterGoUp -> do the actual water going up logic

SomeOtherTrigger:
Overlap -> cast otheractor to yourcharacterclass to check if it was one of those -> succeed -> get actor of class environmentactor -> call MakeWaterGoDown on it

[jagged parrot]

There are multiple actors of "water". They will all rise in different stages

[faint pasture]

That's EnvironmentActor's problem to deal with,

it can do the orchestrating

[jagged parrot]

Its basically a series of inter-connected puzzle rooms that flood.

How would I specify which water to raise without the levelBP's specific actor references

[faint pasture]

You're putting the cart way ahead of the horse

How many waters are there that can raise independently?

[jagged parrot]

At the minute; 4

[faint pasture]

And on what condition do they raise?

[jagged parrot]

Bool: "Is Rising"

[faint pasture]

I mean what's the trigger

[gentle urchin]

Id have them subscribe to enviro manager, singular

[faint pasture]

What happens in the game to make them raise

[gentle urchin]

And provide all the fantastic controls in the manager

[jagged parrot]

Collision Box -> Collided=yes->Set Water rising for Water2[Persistent Level]

[faint pasture]

Then you probably don't want a global manager

just make a Trigger and Water actor

Trigger has a Water ref

[gentle urchin]

Oh wait. Yepp ignore me

[faint pasture]

you can set it in the level

each trigger tells its water to go up

or just make 1 actor which contains the trigger and the water

I'd probably do that tbh

[jagged parrot]

See, everything already works as I want it to; water will rise when you enter a space. I'm trying to make a checkpoint system, so I need the water to reset back to its original positions after an event is called

[faint pasture]

globally or per-space?

[frosty heron]

If you still use level blueprint, that;'s not the way

[jagged parrot]

Globally

[subtle wyvern]

Nope. It hits another object far away.

It goes right through the player

[lunar sleet]

Check your collision

[frosty heron]

then no collision happend, check your collision settings

[faint pasture]

You can do that with a 3rd actor class

[frosty heron]

you already said it looked correct, but I bet it's not

[vernal snow]

Oh thank you, donig a quick refit that did work!

By chance could you help me again, it seems the Damage INT - which is set on the weapon - doesnt change from the default value.
Which im a bit confused at since Change Weapon Range works, and changes the variables - so it is indeed called from what i know.
Apologies if its a bother, and if you need other images i can provide.

First image being Setting the weapon range.

Set weapon damage is the second image.

[faint pasture]

3 total actors
GoUpTrigger:
Overlap -> tell MyWaterActor to go up

GoDownTrigger:
Overlap -> get all actors of class WaterActor -> tell them to go down

WaterActor:
do the going up and down

[gentle urchin]

This seems very strange ill admit

[jagged parrot]

the "GoDownTrigger" would be the UI Button

[faint pasture]

you probably want a struct if there's some actual reason you're not just putting stats in the weapon class

[faint pasture]

same logic applies

get all actors of class water -> tell them go down

[gentle urchin]

Why not let the weapon itself define its damage and range values ?

[faint pasture]

to link a SPECIFIC trigger with a water, you'd just have a variable on the trigger MyWater and set it in the editor once the trigger and water are in the level

[vernal snow]

Apologies, i dont really understand that, is there a source for it?

[faint pasture]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Variables/Structs/

[subtle wyvern]

I have simulation generates hit events settings and for collision presets I tried block all and the default one for first person character. And that is for the capsule collision component.

[frosty heron]

You can do a print string after the set to see if it's actually being called.
I have to agree with others, these are strange setups. I would re-think the design choice before you go too deep with this

[frosty heron]

Eject from your character . Open console ~ , type Show Collision

[vernal snow]

Mainly due to being new to Enums BluePrints and just testing the waters, and believing this to be the fastest method to just test if it works.

[frosty heron]

if u are trying to check againts capsule component, select your actor -> select capsule component then show picture of it's collision setting.
Also show the trace channel

[vernal snow]

oh i see, the set up in itself is odd.
Well i'll see what other methods there are.

[frosty heron]

Shouldn't use ENUM to set damage, Enum is useful to describe state.

[gentle urchin]

Guess id still recommend (and argue) that a weapon handling its own logic, is both faster, better and more scalable

Char simply tells gun to start fire

Gun knows range and damage and spread and whatnot

[frosty heron]

you should have a weapon component that takes in all sort of weapon. Each weapon will have their own information including damage

[short ivy]

how do i cast to a pawn bp inside a anim bp?

[frosty heron]

Get Owner

[gentle urchin]

Why a component ?

[jagged parrot]

How would you do this; I presume the way i've done it is horiffically wrong haha

[frosty heron]

Nvm 😛

[gentle urchin]

Well guess it helps keeping the code reusable for other actors 🙂

So it actually makes sense

[frosty heron]

I piggy back Dynamic Combat System far too long, I don't even know anything about setting up my own Combat system

[short ivy]

this needs an actor target

[gentle urchin]

Try get pawn owner

[frosty heron]

Try get Pawn owner

[alpine monolith]

Greetings! I have a more of a "design" question. In my core functionality, player can construct buildings. When interacted, some buildings can offer crafting. I am using DataAssets for storing informations. For example, i have a BuildingDataAsset for every building type (with information like size, name, cost etc). I also have RecipeDataAsset for each recipe that can exist. I also have a ActorCraftingComponent that I attach to Buildings that offer crafting.

So, my question is: Where should I define which Recipes is the Building with Crafting system is using? Should it be a:

• Property array on the CraftingComponent? (Array of RecipeDataAssets)
• Make a UCraftingBuildingDataAsset and make the DataAsset from that class, wchich will have a bonus RecipeDataAssets property?
• ???

Ideally, I would like to define which recipes is the building using in the building data asset, but then again I dont want to have a property with recipes there for all buildings (which may not use crafting). My fear is - if I (for example, by mistake) delete the CraftingComponent from that building, all my defined Recipes for that building will be lost and I have to manually pick them again. What would be your approach?

[jagged parrot]

I actually changed it to a for each loop, and i think i got it!

[short ivy]

okay now the problem here is every 7 IS VALID comes one IS NOT VALID

[vernal snow]

So i suppose on that train of thought, how would you set the weapon in it self.

If it was done by a Weapon handling its own logic, since my current set up is:
1 = fist
2 = Pistol and so on so forth.
Would it be custom events that do a boolean instead?

Since i was imagining Enums would be used to state which or what weapon is selected.
Being a bit new im a bit unsure how to visualise what you mean at times, apologies for that.

[short ivy]

you can see the printed string at the top left

[frosty heron]

You just need to set it once

dont do it every frame

[short ivy]

but i need to check every frame for the variables

[frosty heron]

Yes but u dont need to set every frame

You set once, then you can just grab it on every frame

[short ivy]

this is not setting, it's getting. It is only set in initialize

[frosty heron]

oh right

2Am

[short ivy]

yea no worries fam

[frosty heron]

For a start debugging in anim bp is like... lots of issue afaik

[frank sundial]

Yo anyone know how to use the base 1st person movement and add a sliding feature to it? I cant find a good tutoiral for it for 1st person

[frosty heron]

Try to play in PIE

see if you get NO

[frosty heron]

it should be the same logic, 1st person or 3rd person. Most likely just doing stuff on the capsule component

[frank sundial]

OK ty

[short ivy]

the thing is one NO every 7 frames wouldn't be a problem really but the entire point of this anim bp is not working

Look. I have a vehicle which has a roof skeletal mesh component. This roof should close or open on button press. If it didn't finish yet but pressed again it just reverses at the point it was. How can i achieve that

[zealous moth]

is there a way to get the next row in a datatable?

[frosty heron]

@frank sundial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaw-ifiUok&list=PLXJlkahwiwPmeABEhjwIALvxRSZkzoQpk&index=5&ab_channel=delgoodie
what I would look at for my need but might be overkill for you since it's done for multiplayer

[frosty heron]

Hacky way would be getting all row names from the data table. Then you will have the index >_>

[zealous moth]

yeah working with that

[frosty heron]

Nah that would still be an issue. Try not to look at what's printed in your anim BP.
Play in Editor then see if you actually get a NO

[short ivy]

yea that's what i checked. It gives one no every 7 frames there too

[frosty heron]

Check if you set it somewhere else in your anim bp.
Then try to have only one bp that use the anim instance in the world then try playing it in editor again

once it's set, it should never be invalid, unless the vehicle is destroyed or the ref was set to something else

[short ivy]

there is only one bp using that and it's not set somehwere else

[short ivy]

is there a way i can do this without anim bp? @frosty heron

[frosty heron]

well then I am out of idea, that never happend to me

[frosty heron]

Yeah

[faint pasture]

for each loop

you're just getting the first one there

[short ivy]

i would love to know that cause I literally don't need the anim bp for anything else really besides the basic set up for this vehicle

[faint pasture]

it's an array

[gentle urchin]

If youd have multiple weapons equipped at the same time id store them in an array and use an index to define which one to call the event of

All of them would have the same event "TryFire", which checks if the weapon got ammo in the mag, and whatever else that would block it from firing

If all checks pass -> FireWeapon

[frosty heron]

The way I would do it is to use montage and that require anim bp

[short ivy]

yea but how exactly

[frank sundial]

The main thing is the animations. Its 1st person with the default movement for the 1st person template so how would I add all those animations in?

animtations are my weakness

[frosty heron]

dont u already have the animation

[short ivy]

I do, yes

[frosty heron]

you will just play montage on button pressed

[short ivy]

and how to reverse

[frosty heron]

have another montage that play the anim in reverse

[short ivy]

also the roof should stay at the state after the animation was finished

[frosty heron]

and set the start position of the montage to the current playing montage

[short ivy]

so if i opened the roof it should stay open

not go back to it's default pose

[frank sundial]

ehh no

[frosty heron]

Wrong person sorry

[frank sundial]

oh mb

[frosty heron]

So you need 2 montages. The reverse montage would be the same anim but set the playrate to -1 that will play it in reverse

[frank sundial]

I was watching this one but it has the animations and evertthing in it so idk if it would effect anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unOExKGUMTw

[frosty heron]

animation is just cherry on top

it's something you can apply after you get the system working

unless you have collision in your skeletal mesh and there is something on the way

if you need prototype animation anyway just go to mixamo

[frank sundial]

Ok so this is what my nodes look like for it (not done yet had to go eat) but in the video he has all sorts of nodes for the animations. How would i avoid adding those until i get the system working?

or do i just not add them in

[frosty heron]

you can just follow the tutorial 100% though I have bad opinion on most youtube tutorials

[vernal snow]

Hm hm i see, thank you and to @frosty heron for the tips and advice.

I was intending to somewhat mimic Doom and imagined they werent seperate items - alongside wanting to test how Enums work while working on a project.

[frosty heron]

because the animation side (visually at least) is handled in anim bp

[frank sundial]

Ok

[frosty heron]

Enum is useful to describe state, but when it comes to weapon/items you want to work with data table, struct, etc.

[remote meteor]

i dont know if its just me, i rarely find use of enum these days, now that we have gameplaytag

[gentle urchin]

They probably are separate actors in doom aswell

Its a design that works pretty well imo.
Encapsulates logic into the owning classes

[frank sundial]

Ok so follow the tutorial but dont add anything with animations? Is that correct

[frosty heron]

I'm gameplaytag virgin 😭

[frosty heron]

That should be fine imo

[frank sundial]

ok

[gentle urchin]

Time to get gameplaytag laid

It's rough to begin with but then...

[frosty heron]

the actual sliding part prob just change the capsule height limit

and do some stuff to make the capsule slide along surface

[remote meteor]

when it gets loose

[versed sun]

If you loved C you'd do it

[frosty heron]

I shall follow the footstep of my lord and savior @remote meteor

[vernal snow]

I see i see, well i can give GameplayTag an attempt.
Thank you.

[remote meteor]

just another pleb struggling with creating a generic effect actor that i can use for both projectile and explosions

[lunar sleet]

You don’t need cpp for gameplay tags really

[gentle urchin]

I use tags for everything

My quest system

[lunar sleet]

Some for exposing the interface for AI but that’s it

[frosty heron]

I do start learning Data table and struct for weapons

[gentle urchin]

Has channels, which is just gameplaytags

[frosty heron]

imagine a system where you can just add weapon by adding a new row in data table

[gentle urchin]

So integrating other systems to it is super easy

[remote meteor]

the most i have used out of a gameplay tag is when im doing POI on a map

god damn it saves so much thinking

[vernal snow]

Is this the same system for GameplayTags? for clarifcation.
Or more so you mean Arrays and the sort - and i presume Struct is that link that was shared prior:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Variables/Structs/

[frosty heron]

I think he just meant that you can replace Enums with GameplayTags. When it comes to creating weapon system, you probably don't need either?

GameplayTags will be useful for abilities maybe, there must be ways you can utilize it , no comment on that part from me

[vernal snow]

Sorry i meant data table not arrays, i more so was asking about what you intended by:

I do start learning Data table and struct for weapons
imagine a system where you can just add weapon by adding a new row in data table

Since i'd say im a beginner coming from a more art point of view.

[gentle urchin]

Adding weapon as a row in a dt is limiting

Its far more flexible having it as a separate class, child of AWeapon

[remote meteor]

imagine a system where you can just add weapon by adding a new row in data table
i did achieve this in my first game, it works well if your weapons are kinda like the same weapon but with different parameters

having child classes will expand the flexiblity part alot

can do alot more custom stuff specific weapons

[frosty heron]

@vernal snow And then I discover better ways

[cunning vapor]

Trying to optimize my game with culling, my questions are:
Will culling effect multiplayer?
Will culling effect ai pathing / cull the enemy ai / enemy spawn points?

Are there any better ways of doing this?

[remote meteor]

change certain behavior, without needing to squeeze all of them in the base bp

[frosty heron]

listen to the wise people and do seperate classes

[remote meteor]

in the end i use both

😅

[frosty heron]

now I have to go in the corner, cry, then go back and re-think if I should re-do my system

[remote meteor]

depends on what kind of culling you are talking about? if your mesh is not like 10k units wide, they should be fine
on the render thread, it would calculate object based on their bound whether if they need to be rendered, and it only affects rendering, not game logics

[frosty heron]

Thank god I'm not touching the combat part yet. I just remember my old project using Dynamic combat system uses classes for weapon...

[gentle urchin]

Forge forward

Dont look back

[frosty heron]

Gonna look into that, it's nice cuz we can have our own custom logic one each weapon

[vernal snow]

I see, so similar to how i presume a Master Interact would work for child classes but changed for weapons

[faint pasture]

What's wrong with classes per weapon?

[gentle urchin]

Exactly, its awesome.

[frosty heron]

Nothing, I will do that. Just got a brain fart

[gentle urchin]

If you do it in a dt youd wanna provide a template actor the weapon type aswell

[cunning vapor]

Not 100% sure ; just going to watch some tuts to go over it to help the game's smoothness; if culling only affects rendering it'll probs help a lot.
Also thanks !

[gentle urchin]

So you get the flex... but then you end up separating parameters and classes for little reason

[faint pasture]

A nice simple system is a struct and class.
Struct is what's stored and provides the stats and some data

Weapon class is what interprets the data and is what is spawned in the world

[remote meteor]

is your game chugging hard? also try to not optimize blindly, profile your game and find out exactly what is taking a long time

#profiling message

[cunning vapor]

chugging; but not too hard yet; its more than it's quite a big map and if a players not going to the other side andy time soon i think culling it off would be good

[vernal snow]

Would you happen to know any videos that touch on this - not for weapons precisely but on the whole in general?

[cunning vapor]

that's great - will watch over the vide; thanks again bud

[faint pasture]

Not really, maybe anything that does items as structs

[vernal snow]

Alrighty, thanks anyway 🙂

[remote meteor]

those culling are done by default, for rendering it is
i have seen some practice like increasing tick intervals for actors that are far away from you, but personally i think thats a lot of work to do

[stiff holly]

Maybe a good inventory playlist?

After backreading I'm thinking of revamping my weapons system

[faint pasture]

I don't really do videos, just know the basics and it'll be fairly obvious

[remote meteor]

reminds me of back then when i start unreal, the first thing i did was indeed inventory system

[carmine bobcat]

hey adriel how is your car project going

[gentle urchin]

Same here. Worst one i ever did 😂

Some tutorial for unreal 4.7

[remote meteor]

somehow it lasted for the whole project until release

🤣

i started from 4.19 i think

[stiff holly]

Fair enough, I'm still grasping between best practices

[gentle urchin]

Weapon classes is the way to go then imo

[remote meteor]

refactoring my firearm system from delay based to timer based was also a thing

[gentle urchin]

Lyra probably does this ?

[stuck sentinel]

why is my flashlight not working

answer me please

[remote meteor]

uhh if we consider GA as weapon class yeah i suppose

[frosty heron]

Why do you connect is not valid?

[remote meteor]

the weapon system in lyra is waay too modular 😅

[gentle urchin]

What about the shooter sample

[stuck sentinel]

idk thats what i see people doing

[remote meteor]

now that i dont remember..

[frosty heron]

I doubt it

If the flashlight is not valid then you can't do anything to it

[frosty heron]

setting something on something that doesn't exist will result in nothing

[stuck sentinel]

this works completely fine

oh

now it works

tysm

you were right

[stuck sentinel]

but why does this work then

[remote meteor]

i knew it, widgets

[trim matrix]

does anyone know how i can add in these characters to replace third person default character?

[frosty heron]

That node is just saying if Inventory widget is not valid, Create one for me

[stuck sentinel]

do you have a better way to do the flashlight btw?

[gentle urchin]

Gamemode

[frosty heron]

While for your flashlight logic you went.
If my flashlight not valid, set flashlight intensity to X

[remote meteor]

something along the line of

if it already exists, use it instead of recreating it

[trim matrix]

alright will give that a snoop

[frosty heron]

depends on what you want to do and the scale. I will try to replace those flip flops with actual boolean

[remote meteor]

game mode changes a pawn class, however if you just have SKM, and need some animation, you might need to do a new ABP for that cute creature

[trim matrix]

which one would i switch it to? the top one? or default pawn?

oh its not showing.. D:

[jagged parrot]

Thank you for your earlier help; I've actually fully completed the checkpoint system by using the get all actors + for each loop combo, and it was super easy since, so thank you!

[faint pasture]

whichever one is the default player pawn

[gentle urchin]

Gotts be child of pawn class

[manic vessel]

not sure why but this select node just keeps picking RED

[gentle urchin]

Is yours child of pawn?

[faint pasture]

why did you chop off the one part of that window that says what is what

[trim matrix]

yea i cant find the character in the pawn selection

[faint pasture]

What is it's parent class?

Those are just meshes

you didn't make a character class

[remote meteor]

haven't*

[faint pasture]

you can just swap out the mesh in the default 3rd person character BP

[remote meteor]

😆

[trim matrix]

ohhh, i have never done this before with a new character imported

oh alright!

will give that a go

[faint pasture]

Start with just replacing the mesh in the BP you already have

or make a copy of it and swap the mesh

[trim matrix]

alright, now its in, now i gotta figure out how to have this monster moving lol

[faint pasture]

start by looking at the animation setup for the template character

[remote meteor]

if you want to use Manny/Quinn's animation, then you can look into retargeting

or if you have your own animation, then you have to look into creating the ABP for it, also can reference from ABP_Manny

ABP as in Animaton Blueprint

[trim matrix]

nope i dont have ny own animations, maya etc are too hard for me rn haha, willl focus on those later date

[remote meteor]

well you just shown your own animation though 😆

[trim matrix]

oh i thought you meant if i created my own

[faint pasture]

You want to make an AnimBP

Start with just a blend space from Idle to Run

[trim matrix]

alright!

is is any of these specificially?

[frosty heron]

@trim matrix Right click your cute monster skeletal mesh. Create Animation blueprint

[remote meteor]

or this!

[trim matrix]

oh okay thank you

im quiet new to this character setting up, so i have started with idle, is there any quick tips for me that can set me up? and do i need to do all these in one blueprint or in multiple? e.g: walk, run bps

[faint pasture]

One

[faint pasture]

Look at the default 3rd person anim bp

[trim matrix]

alright 🙂

[remote meteor]

now we use this

[trim matrix]

it looks like they use multiple

[trim matrix]

oh

oh nvm found the bp

[faint pasture]

Your first draft of the anim bp should just have a locomtion blend space feeding into the final pose

that blend space would blend from idle to run based on speed

[trim matrix]

oh golly is there any good videos on this? im a visual learner i struggle to learn off just words

videos - that you can recommend

[trim matrix]

oh i see what your saying

how do i get the locomtion?

[faint pasture]

uh

You'd make a locomotion blend space

Those are blend spaces

make one of those for your little dude

[trim matrix]

alright 🙂

thank you for taking the time to help me!

do i right click on the skeletal mesh again too?

nvm i figured it out

[trim matrix]

do i need to make a 1D or a normal blend space

[oak fable]

hey there im trying to blend the upper and the lower buddy
but its not blending and when the anim montage play the lower part isn't doing the movement and just plays the anim montage for all the buddy

[faint pasture]

layered blend per bone

you're telling it to play the montage over the entire body so that's what it's doing

[oak fable]

can you explain a bit please

[faint pasture]

you need the montage player to feed into a layered blend

so it can play only on upper body

[oak fable]

its on the spine not the pelvis

[faint pasture]

you'll want 2 montage players if you want full body montages

This overwrites everything

[oak fable]

so i change it to the spine ?

[faint pasture]

change what?

you need a blend AFTER the montage player

[oak fable]

oh wait

[trim matrix]

managed to make it, not sure where to go next

[faint pasture]

I only see one animation in that blend space

look at the example blend spaces

[oak fable]

yeb its working sorry that slot defualt shouldn't be there❤️

thanks for the help

[trim matrix]

arent these the animations?

[marsh oak]

Are there any good references on applying world coords to spline points?

[faint pasture]

Those are just the assets you have avalable for that skellington

drag idle and run into the blend space

[trim matrix]

alright

[faint pasture]

blend space blends between animations based on numbers

you want to blend from idle to run based on speed

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/Blendspaces/Overview/

[trim matrix]

alright

are those links still relevant if its a older version?

[faint pasture]

sure

[trim matrix]

im using 5.1

[faint pasture]

they didn't redo the entire engine, the concepts are the same

[trim matrix]

oh alright

how do i import this animation so i can test it?

[faint pasture]

wat

or do you mean put the blend space in your anim BP

Animations go in your BlendSpace1D which goes in your AnimBP

[trim matrix]

ohhhh and then how do i have them be working in game?

[faint pasture]

except yours will be a 1d one not a 2d one

have the example anim BP up for reference

[trim matrix]

alright

[faint pasture]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DST2bMbRxEQ

This looks like it goes over it ok

[trim matrix]

thank you!

[trim matrix]

hey @faint pasture i have successfullly added in my character etc from that tutorial, it is successfully able to be in idle, but when i move it doesnt run or anything it just stays in idle, not sure what i did wrong here

[fiery swallow]

show your code~

[trim matrix]

sure

[fiery swallow]

are you sure that cast is working and properly setting speed?

[trim matrix]

yea i figured the speed might of been a bit odd, i was just following the tutorial and they did 500 for the max

but the original default was 100

[fiery swallow]

you should try breakpointing that speed variable and see if it's properly being hit

[blissful grail]

Should get in the habit of doing print strings when casts fail as well. Just a tip.

Print out the value of the speed as well. I'd wager it isn't going to the value you think it is

[trim matrix]

breakpointing?

oh printing? yea i can do that

let me see

[lunar sleet]

Breakpoint = select node press F9

[trim matrix]

oh theres this error

i also changed the speed to 100

just now

[fossil crystal]

In the sample project CropOut. When you select a player and move the curser to move them, what is it called when it shows the visible pathfinding?

[trim matrix]

sorry i dont understand

this is my first time doing this importing, animation blueprinting for a new character

and this is also my second unreal engine game so im still learning

[lunar sleet]

I believe that was a question for the chat 🙂

[trim matrix]

oh sorry aha

[lunar sleet]

I don’t rmbr how they do that, tho I know what you mean did you look at the code ?

[fossil crystal]

yea its using niagara

just curious of what a good term to search youtube for so i can better learn about it

im guessing 'visual pathfinding'

[blissful grail]

It's probably just a trail to be honest

Haven't seen it though, so idk

[lunar sleet]

But why Google what it is when you have access to the bp?

[fossil crystal]

wish i could take a snagit but cant while playing in the engine lol

[fossil crystal]

im not finding it 100% just the animation portion

theres a boatload of BP to sort through, havnt found it yet

you're right thought i should just dig through the project

[lunar sleet]

The video shows where it’s being called

[fossil crystal]

hmm? ive only seen a 5 min video

ok guessing im missing a crucial piece

[lunar sleet]

Oh lol

Hang on

[lunar sleet]

https://youtu.be/EjPp5A43HQI?si=Lpyyda78lNJnsMGF

[fossil crystal]

that might be the video i was looking for haha

thank you

[lunar sleet]

Np, it doesn’t show everything in detail but should give you an idea of where to look

[lunar sleet]

Idk much about #animation but that crew can prly help

[trim matrix]

okay i figured it out haha

i was using the wrong character i had a duplicate

lol

thank you to those who helped ❤️

[fossil crystal]

yea definitely guided me in the right direction

they refer to it as 'line target pathfinding'

[lunar sleet]

I haven’t looked at how they’re actually doing it but now I’m curious lol

[modern frigate]

Hey guys, quick Q, I've seen some UE plugin for blueprints looking a lot more cleaner + the lines being a bit sharper around the nodes

Does anyone know the names of the plugin or something similar ?

[oak fable]

flat nodes

[modern frigate]

Amazing, thanks

[frosty heron]

Electric nodes?

I don't use it so I dunnoe

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/electronic-nodes

[modern frigate]

I'll try the free one and see if I need to spend 6 quid

[frosty heron]

You don't need to. I get by without using any of them

[faint pasture]

Looks cool, way less readable IMO

[steady night]

Hey Guys how dose "On notify Begin Work" ? how do iset it up

ive added notify´s in the annimation Called "Attack"

how do i do return when passing that notify

[frosty heron]

Wdym by return or passing notify?

[faint pasture]

print notify name on notify begin

idk if notifies have the concept of a duration but if they do that's how I'd expect them to work

[steady night]

yeah i just found that u can add a "montage Notify" on the Annimation

so scratch my question .p

[quick field]

Hoping someone can help with some array math, I have an array of 0-4 items (dynamic materials), and I want to tie the array to my pllayer's health (1-5) I can get the icons on the screen to disappear when decrementing, (health -1 =4, so based on current health i grab array item 4 and do the fade), but going back up it skips the next slot in the array. so if health is 1 +1 it grabs array item 2 instead of one. I can't wrap my head around it to think of maybe a better way or figure out the math

[frosty heron]

You can also create your own custom notify or notify states

[faint pasture]

You definitely need to explain the effect you want in a better way.
Health is X
You want array index to be X

From what it sounds like, you want CurrentArrayIndex to be HP - 1

since arrays start at 0

[quick field]

yeah, on the way down that works, but on the way up, if I increment health it goes health plus 1, so instead of grabbing the index item I just faded out, it grabs index +1 and fades that in. The effect is a health bar where there's blocks of health that disappear on hit, and when I heal, they reappear. And I'm doing it thru an array of dynamic materials in the HUD

[faint pasture]

why does it go to hp + 1?

what exactly are you trying to do

Your hp is 3, which array index should it choose? Is it always just one of them or does it depend on if you went UP to 3 or DOWN to 3?

[quick field]

it depends on which way I'm going. Trying to get a code snippet to show, one sec, sorry

[faint pasture]

Then you need more array indices

show a video of what you actually want to have happen because this makes zero sense.

[quick field]

top left is the health bar and the numbers are the current health

[faint pasture]

yeah your math is borked

how does your HP work, just in numbers

you get hit, it goes down

how does it go back up?

[quick field]

right now I'm just doing key presses +1 and -1 , I think i got it solved though. I'm basing the going up or down on the modifier, and then branching, so if going up I think I just minus 1, but I don't think that'll work if the modifier is bigger than 1

[faint pasture]

Is the flashing on purpose?

[quick field]

yes and no I can fix that later, I got it to work with this, but if you have a better way i'm all ears

[faint pasture]

I mean it should just be as simple as foreaching over the array and setting the material based on if index < CurrentHP or not

Event UpdateHPView -> for each entry in HPBarsArray -> select material instance based on if Index < CurrentHP

literally like 5 nodes

[quick field]

i'll give it a shot

[faint pasture]

You can also have the concept of time since last hit so you can choose to flicker those empty bars based on if it's about to regen

Hit -> modify HP -> set bIsRegenning = false -> call UpdateHPView
on regen delay timer -> set bIsRegenning = true -> call UpdateHPView
On regen complete -> set bIsRegenning = false -> call UpdateHPView
BeginPlay -> call UpdateHPView

UpdateHPView -> for each entry, select material based on index, HP, and bIsRegenning

[quick field]

did I make it too complicated? lol

it works

[faint pasture]

yes

have fun

[steady night]

Anyone Got any tip on how to do a simple "make Terrain(trees etc) Transparent when obscuring cameraÄ

[faint pasture]

A million ways but I'd start by driving opacity by some function of 3d position and camera and character position

or you can do it in camera/clip space with depth and such

[fossil crystal]

i dont know much about the logic tree but id probably do something similar to if the camera is at 35 degree angle or greater then increase transparanecy on specific materials?

[steady night]

hmm

[faint pasture]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-hat-in-time-camera-dithering-object-fade-unreal-engine-4-tutorial/101909

[steady night]

ill look at it ty!

[trim matrix]

alright so this is my next one i require some pointers on, so basically i have the coin blueprint (answers) as a child of the equation blueprint, so the equation blueprint is a parent of both "answers" & "open-closed" blueprints. the open closed is the text render displayed as "locked" that i want to display as unlocked when the correct answer is hit, does anyone have any pointers on this? someone had previously mentioned get parent -> cast to the class -> trigger event but i am unsure on how to start it 🙂

[fossil crystal]

nice find saving that for later

[steady night]

also

added a Plugging tested it out then i removed the pluggin

i removed all visible nodes etc to it before

but now i cant build says its still here :/ ?

[fossil crystal]

im a noob but id probably have it check for an integer either 1 or 0 then branch out from there. no idea if that helps or not haha

[lunar sleet]

I’ve no idea what you’re trying to do tbh, but if you make a child bp of another bp, it inherits everything it has and at most you need a call to parent, not a cast

[trim matrix]

so in the end of this clip you can see the red door with the "locked" text, i want that text to be displayed as unlocked and the door to be green and be able to walk through it

[lunar sleet]

lol nice music. Yeah that makes sense, so are you trying to access the door bp ?

[fossil crystal]

target branch true false

[lunar sleet]

And is that text widget on the door ?

[fossil crystal]

im going to say your answer is in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29--ieorX7Q

replace key with correctAnswer

[trim matrix]

yea its a text render

[lunar sleet]

Are you going to have more than one door in your level?

[trim matrix]

only 1 per level, but yes technically more then one as theres this

[lunar sleet]

By level I mean your map btw

[trim matrix]

yep in this map theres multiple levels within it

[lunar sleet]

Do you just teleport the door to the next “level” each time ?

[trim matrix]

the equation blueprint when duplicated will create a completely different equation etc

[trim matrix]

no

you just walk through it over a bridge

[lunar sleet]

Ok so you’ll have more than one instance of this door I imagine

[trim matrix]

yea the open-close blueprint is inside the equation blueprint

its a child

[lunar sleet]

It’s not on the door?

[trim matrix]

im yet to figure out how to even add it in, i have been having issues with adding the actual red part to it

[lunar sleet]

🤔 you might be using inheritance instead of a function

[trim matrix]

im not sure, my class mate was helping to walk me through it but was alot to process so cant remember everything haha

[sonic crest]

this sets it as true??

my struct is in cpp

idk if I should do a cpp that can set this as true. because this way doesn't work, it remains as default + if I created a reference variable from the ref struct out, same thing

[cerulean cloud]

How would I go about making the camera rotate with an actor but still be able to free look?

I have an actor moving across a spline but when it turns the camera does not turn it.

I know I have to turn off "Use Pawn Control Rotation" to make it properly stick to the object but I want to let the player still have limited free look to say - the entire right of the object.

If anyone is familiar with the AC130 MW2 mission the camera is exactly like that.

[earnest swan]

Wow that is really easy!

[thin panther]

That Will be outputting a copy. You want to set the original back after

[modern frigate]

hey guys, I'm following some old tutorials on a melee combo system with queueing attacks - I'm assuming that this is much easier in the new Enhanced Input system, does anyone have a good tutorial for queueing inputs?

[sonic crest]

🤔

how can I set that member as true or change it's value?

without creating a copy

can you walk me through it?

[thin panther]

Everything in bp is a copy

[sonic crest]

oh man.

[thin panther]

Just gotta make a setter for that struct

[sonic crest]

alright, thanks

in cpp right?

[thin panther]

Yeah

[sonic crest]

thanks

[gritty plover]

Hey, is there any way to cast to a post-process volume and set its Post Process Materials on beginplay in the Level Blueprint?

[sonic crest]

it worked, thanks

[faint pasture]

Why do you need to cast?

[gritty plover]

I just need to change the material in the first index based on a variable. Any other methods for doing that are also very much welcome.

[red berry]

Is there no way to resize an array inside a struct? I try to use the resize node, but it does nothing. Some other person had the same problem https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/problem-resizing-an-array-within-a-struct/303488/2 and the only solution seems to be making a temp array, but surely there's another way? My attempts at making temp array won't even work.

I tried adding some empty elements in the struct's array, and it does nothing to resize it

If I print the length for each iteration, you'd think you'd get, 0,1,2,3, etc. I keep getting 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

[vast lion]

Is there a way to subtract rotators?

[versed sun]

Delta ?

[lunar sleet]

Is it a bp struct?

[red berry]

Yes

[lunar sleet]

They’re broken, especially when it comes to updating them live. Cpp structs might fix the issue

[red berry]

Thats dumb. I guess I'll be porting some of my code over to cpp

[short ivy]

why is this giving me "cast failed" when playing multiplayer? That's in the pawn bp

[lunar sleet]

The #multiplayer crew will pry know, that part of the engine is ruled by different laws 😀

[short ivy]

oh yea mb

[fringe junco]

is there a channel for the Environment Query System?

[lunar sleet]

#gameplay-ai you asked in the right place

[oak fable]

how can i disable the layered blend per bone when i perform attacks or anything else ?

[astral orchid]

You mean, like, with Animation Montages?

Because if so, I recommend you check out Unreal Tutorials and Blueprints of Paragon stuff

they perform attack animations on parts of the body, yet the lower half still performs the walking animation

[oak fable]

i have done this part to control lower and upper buddy
but the issue is when i do try to perform another anim montages like the attacking it stops the lower buddy for it so i need to find a way to disable the blending when i play them

im trying to do it this way and i know its not the best but works for now

[sonic kraken]

do any one one know how to solve jitter problem while moving it happens sometimes (jitter problem)

[fringe junco]

does anyone know how this "Find Local Navigation Grid Path" node is used?

[native ferry]

i don't know if it'll work but save the array to a new one using set by ref var and then when you finish doing your stuff with it use set members in struct

[red berry]

I've given up on trying it in blueprint altogether and now I'm trying to learn some cpp to port that portion of the code over

[vast lion]

Anyone else not having splines show up in 5.3?

Mine just straight up are invisible somehow...

[lusty hedge]

why does this tutorial say i need to promote the element

[dawn gazelle]

The issue is that the array is returned as a copy from the struct, not a reference, so trying to "Add" to the array or resize it, or any other manipulations doesn't work as it's a copy rather than a reference to the array that is stored in the structure. The only way around this through blueprints is to promote the array from the structure to a variable, make your manipulations to that variable, and then reinsert the array into the structure.

[dawn gazelle]

It's not necessary. If you were using the array element more than once, then you may want to store it in a local variable within a function just so you don't have to drag from the array element pin to a bunch of different places.

[lusty hedge]

so its strictly for organization of wires?

beacuase he does in fact use the array element more

im just wondering if its needed

[dawn gazelle]

I can't speak for why the tutorial may have got you to do it. All I can say is that it isn't required for you to promote an array element in a loop to a variable.

[lusty hedge]

But i believe you answered that so thank you

[lusty hedge]

he adds this after

but even if i didnt promote i could drag the pins and it would all be the same

?

[dawn gazelle]

Yep.

[lusty hedge]

thanks a lot

when i Cast To x, am i simply holding a reference to x

[red berry]

@native ferry @Datura Thanks for the motivation. I think I managed to fix the bug. For some reason, the forEach loop gave me a copy of the object, and somehow I couldn't do any changes to it. My new way to do it is to just use a manual for loop, and get the struct I want to edit directly from that. The array of Structs.Get() is Get (a ref), so I could edit the Struct's array directly.
I tried porting this over to c++ but I learned you couldn't reference blueprints as types in C++. I'd have to port almost everything over to C++ and I don't like how slow it is to compile and prototype, so I'm glad I gave this blueprint another attempt.

So lesson learned: If you have a struct, with an array of object blueprints. If you want to iterate an array of that struct, to edit its array, you have to iterate using a for loop instead of for each loop. Using the returned value of the struct from ForEach won't work if you want to edit it. Especially the array. I couldn't resize the array, it wouldn't work. But if I used a forloop, and used Get (a ref), I can edit the struct's array directly and resize it.

[junior prairie]

For something like combat sliding, how do I lock the character to only moving forward while letting them rotate their camera?

[red berry]

I haven't gotten far enough in my game to add that, and I'm still new to UE5 too, but I'd imagine I'd do it similar to the jump functionality? I dont know if unreal has built in combat sliding, but I guess I would have a state and while youre in that state, you'd be locked in the animation and be forced to move some distance. Rotating camera shouldn't be any trouble since you can still do it, even while jumping. But if you can't, then you can toggle the camera on during the combat slide state.
This is just high level design. I don't know the actual implementation, e.g. if we use state trees, enums, etc.

[junior prairie]

yeah I'm just wondering if there's a blueprint node or something

[edgy axle]

it should do it anyway

just disable the movement input while sliding

what do you have for sliding right now?

[frosty heron]

<@&213101288538374145>

[junior prairie]

I guess with this current implementation it doesn't force the player to go forward anyway

it's kind of a hacky slide lol

[untold anchor]

why are you pinging us?

[foggy escarp]

a guy deleted his comment but was linking for nudes

[untold anchor]

oh i see, gotcha, yea, i think that got handled already

thanks ^_^

[edgy axle]

yeah its kinda not really sliding

if you wanted actual sliding then you should change the ground friction

then add like a force in the direction at the start of the slide

and then disbale movement input until the slide ends

[orchid spoke]

HELLO am new to unreal.. I'm trying to make this simple animation play whenever player presses left mouse button. As you can see it prints hello string fine, but doesnt play the animation and also doesn't print done to console to indicate it finished. I've tried both the character mesh and the first person mesh, as well as several different animations (one of which was specifically for first person as i thought maybe the issue was using third person animation on a first person model) but none of it fixed it. Very confused any help would be much appreciated 👍

[orchid spoke]

oh that's great :) I guess i can just google why there's this specific one.. It now prints ?done which is a step up.. Still doesn't actually play the animation tho :?

ya tried it with several animations.. weird how it doesn't play with any of them despite printing the string

[junior prairie]

in that case it's probably an issue with the animation and if it's referencing the correct skeleton

[orchid spoke]

does the model used for the animation (as in the one you can see in the preview) need to be the same as the target character model ?

[junior prairie]

right

[orchid spoke]

ok then the issue is clear thanks ^_^

[junior prairie]

np!

[orchid spoke]

goddamn that was not something that should have taken that long XD

[edgy ingot]

It has to use the same skeleton

Model can be diff as long as they share the same skeleton

[steady night]

Hi Guys Question

Im Trying to use the DetourCrowds systemn

https://gyazo.com/54d3084f52e863a4ffb28ead1de44d89

it works but the glitching part :/ idnnoany tips ?

[pulsar pulsar]

Does anyone know if its possible for lines drawn (Draw Line) to not be rendered always on top? The ZOrder here is 1 for the green rectangle and 0 for the one with grid and still the lines get rendered ontop 🤔

[limber citrus]

I have this custom scripted action function, what I am trying to do is, I want the scripted action to get the game mode associated with each map/level, but it keeps returning an empty string when I used the print display name, also the cast always fails cuz it's returning a null, does anyone have an idea what am I missing? or is there another way to get the game mode?

[stuck sentinel]

im going crazy

pleas help

i open the chest but then it doesnt close

[upper badger]

I'm trying to implement a basic pickup/drop system though the BP interface (see attached for BP, I hope it's readable + not too spaghetti) but when I pick up an item, my character movement goes out of control (see GIF - I can move normally, but when I pick it up, my character only moves backward, and moves faster than it should). I tried adding breakpoints in the movement nodes but I couldn't find the error (or any useful information, really). Not sure how else I can debug this. Help?

[red berry]

Why can't you get any variables or functions from GetComponentsByClass>Get? If I have a reference to an object, I should have access to ALL of its public variables. I don't care otherwise. But the blueprints is frustrating me and going against whats logical

[tame pecan]

what is the class of the reference coming out of get?

[red berry]

Disable physics and collisions of the item when you pickup the item. If the item has physics, then you'll have to re add its parent or back to itself after disabling

[tame pecan]

is it just a ActorComponent or ACStorage

[red berry]

The empty output pin if I hover is "AC_Storage Object reference".

[dark drum]

you most likely need to disable to collision on the actor you attach to the player. If you don't do this it'll be colliding with the players capsule which can cause weird movement issues.

[red berry]

@tame pecan I can access the class's functions and variables elsehwre in my code fine. its just if I'm trying to get it from this array like this, it doesn't work

[dark drum]

What is the component your getting? I would assume an actor component (inventory of sorts). Where are these nodes placed?

[red berry]

1 sec, ill try out something. I seem to have similar nodes that actually work but the one I posted doesn't work somehow. I'll try it out and if not, ill try to explain what I'm doing

My main problem isn't getting the actor component and trying (and failing) to call its function. It works fine under a loop, but not when I manually try to get index 0 and try to call the function from there.

This is just me trying to debug by printing values (not the best practise). My main problem is I'm trying to figure out why my Struct's array of ActorComponent references keeps getting reset to a size of 0 items. I know blueprints don't work well with nested arrays. I know that copying arrays or even trying to access them from loops will get a copy of array, instead of refs, so I've been trying to avoid using copy as much as possible, e.g. get (a copy). I try to use get (a ref) whenever possible.
But somehow, somewhere near the start of my code, even though I can successfully resize the Struct's array and give it multiple "null" entries, the moment I try to access that Struct's array again, all those entries are gone, and I'm just left with 1

[dawn gazelle]

The accessed nones are happening because you're trying to access the "Chest Widget" variable when it isn't valid meaning you're not setting anything into chest widget variable when you're creating it.

[dark drum]

I don't understand what your doing with the array when your resizing it. Can you show the node setup?

[dark drum]

You never set your 'ChestWidget' var to the widget you create meaning it will always be invalid. When you create the widget, just set the 'ChestWidget' to the return value on the create widget node.

[dark drum]

When is this being called? Is it called in the editor or runtime?

[upper badger]

On the actor attached to the player - i.e., the mesh that the player is picking up? I found a Set Simulate Physics, but I can't attach the item's mesh(?) to it, it says "Actor Object Reference is not compatible with Primitive Component Object Reference." (Screenshot is from the character BP). Or is this something I need to set in the BP of the item that I'm trying to pick up?

[dark drum]

So you don't set physics on the actor as a whole but the individual components. If it's a physics based actor, you should have the root component as a static mesh that has physics enabled. If you pull from the array element (which is of type actor) you should be able to get the root component and enable/disable physics on that.

[red berry]

1-2) I have my manual way of doing Struct>Array variable>Resize. It works fine. I have a 2x2 tile grid, which is considered as an empty 4 item array. Everything works up until this point.
3-not shown) I will pickup a backpack with this Storage component
4-not shown) I will try to pickup an item and try to add it to my inventory (actually it will go into the backpack which is attached to the player)
A) The first time we try to access the Struct>Array variable, after initialization. This time I try to print the values, to see if we get an empty 4 item array. But when I print, I only get a 1 item array for some reason.

Extra note: If I set the tile grid to a 0x0 (null), and I try to do a debug print, we get no values as we should. So if we start off with a 0x0 (0 items), and we try to access, we get a 0x0 (0 items). But if we start off with a 2x2 (4 items), we get a 1x1 (1 item).

[dark drum]

looking through what you've shared, I cant see the array resizing working properly. Normally, when you need to modify an array in a structure array, you normaly need to get the structure, make a copy, set structure element then add the modified structure back into the original array.

How do you populate the 'Items With AC Storage' var?

[red berry]

The array resize works fine. I print right after the resize node and it prints 4 times. My ItemsWithACStorage is basically tracking the backpack I've equipped so I can reference it (or multiple others). Its irrelevant and is so I can try to add an item in multiple backpacks (incase 1 is full). It works fine.
Its just that StorageTileParts.Get doesn't seem to copy the array properly for some reason. I'll try and debug print if it copied the columns and rows properly

[dark drum]

Never assume something is irrelevant. 😉 Just because something appears to work doesn't mean it's working as you want.

What type is 'ItemsWithACStorage'?

[upper badger]

I'm guessing my item actor should look like this, right?

[dark drum]

yea, if it's going to have physics.

[red berry]

ItemsWithACStorage is an array of actors of type BP_Item3D (my item prop Actor) that is a list I have to manually add to. Its basically items that have an inventory, e.g. backpacks. Weapons and other random items don't have inventories (AC_Storage), so they don't get added

[dark drum]

ok, how come 'StorageTileParts' is an array inside the 'AC Storage'? Can items have multiple inventories on them?

[upper badger]

yup, I want the physics. Now I need to use Get Root Component, and then Set Disable Collision? I'm getting this error.