blueprint

[pulsar pulsar]

but i'm still confused as to why i should do this when using Add just adds a Unknown Class item into the array anyway?

[frosty heron]

You can use set array element

If going by this route

[pulsar pulsar]

oh

[frosty heron]

Make sure to fix this

Set array element after the is not valid check

[pulsar pulsar]

yea

[frosty heron]

Preferably create a function that return valid slot index

You can always call it when you need a check

[pulsar pulsar]

nvm

dont mind that lol

[gentle urchin]

None of those were involved 😅

[frosty heron]

😭

[gentle urchin]

I simply applied an offset to all widgets

Proof of concept so all widgets were always updated etc

[frosty heron]

Can I do offset on the main canvas panel then?

[gentle urchin]

So in the main canvas i started with a local offset 0 0,0.0

Yes

[frosty heron]

🤗

[gentle urchin]

Then i just lerped this offset towards a target offset

When a node got clicked it reported back its position

And set that as a new target relative offset

[frosty heron]

👍👍👍👍tysm I will try that later

[pulsar pulsar]

it worked

it doesn't give me unknown class anymore either

[wild crater]

Yes?

[dark drum]

I would imagine you'd set the widget location within the canvas. Using the interp node, you can get it to move to a desired location smoothly. It's been a while but I did something where you have a container that is larger than it's view window (clipping) where clicking and holding the mouse button allowed you to move it around. You can do something similar with moving the whole container. It would just be getting the screen position of a node and moving the container it's in until it gets to a desired location.

[wooden leaf]

Anyone knows how to call this set hidden in game when OnActorBeginOverlap begins?

[frosty heron]

Yeah I didn't realised that it's only a matter of offsetting the cp. My problem atm is I have multiple canvas panel, and they vary in size. Will see what happend when I get the chance to touch it 🫡

[frosty heron]

What do you want to hide?

You need to get a ref of the actor to call the relevant function

[wooden leaf]

its not about what i want to hide i want to call it from other bluprint

[frosty heron]

The function is nested inside actor class so you need to get an actor or it's children to call the function

You can also right click on empty space and turn off context sensitive and drop the function but it would be a waste of time since you need an actor as the target anyway

See your example? Text message is an actor type, that's why it have access to set hidden in game node

Are you perhaps trying to execute a custom function or event from another bp? Assuming you don't explain what you want correctly

Yea I think that's what u want

Beside set actor hidden in game. Create a custom event. Right click create custom even. Name it hideTextMessage or w.e name that make sense

[frosty heron]

Read what I wrote about custom event

[wooden leaf]

this?

[frosty heron]

Yup

Now on your overlap make sure u cast to the bp that have say message

From there you can pull the function from the blue pin

I believed it's not bp player but bp red character npc

If this msg function is shared with every other character , then move it to your base class and cast to your base class

[wooden leaf]

so this?

[frosty heron]

Say message is in bo red character npc not bp red King so no

U need to connect other actor to the object cast

[wooden leaf]

oh yeah sorry

[frosty heron]

Make sure u connect the target from what u cast too

[wooden leaf]

switched them up

[frosty heron]

So as bp red character npc blue pin. Drag it and type say msg

Ye I knew this would happend

Read what I said above

[wooden leaf]

what about the object in first cast?

[frosty heron]

It's a type check. What are u checking in this case?

It's either the other actor or the overlapped actor

Try the other actor , connect it to the object

Basically it's saying. When object overlap and the other actor is bp redking, run function say message in bp red king

[wooden leaf]

neither one worked and witht this cast nodes behinde dont work

should it be in sequence then?

[frosty heron]

Sequence has nothing to do

Do a print string for a start on other actor and overlapped actor

Also try to make sure that the object is not already overlapped in editor

Because if that's the case they have to get out first then go in

It's on BEGIN overlap

[wooden leaf]

it only says 1

[frosty heron]

Connect other actor and overlapped actor to the print string

[wooden leaf]

??

this?

[frosty heron]

You should watch blueprint communication by unreal, this will save you hours

Do another print string for other actor

Then play the game and overlap with the box

[frosty heron]

Bp player 0 is not bp red King. So the cast will fail

Who's meant to run say message? If it's bp red King, why are u using your player to overlap with the box?

If the function is meant for your bp player, move the entire say msg logic to bp player.

Then cast to bp player on overlap and call say msg

[wooden leaf]

so when i overlap witht the box red King say mesage

[frosty heron]

Well then you need to get reference to red King somehow

Watch blueprint communication video

If you don't know how to get reference to bp red King, then you should watch the video I suggested

One way to do it is to create a blueprint manager that tracks the enemies and player

Then from any bp I can just get the manager and get the enemy

But helping you with that will be a hand holding session for hours if you haven't understand the basic so I suggest to watch the video

[wooden leaf]

so there is no other way to solve my problem?

[frosty heron]

There are plenty of way I just describe one of the way

It's actually quiet basic

[wooden leaf]

so i need to do it with bluprint manager?

[frosty heron]

Watch the video I suggested , hopefully it will give you enlignment

Manager is just an actor u place in the world

Just a term that is used because it's purpose is to track gameplay objects in the world

It should be where you hold spawning logic too

So whenever you spawn an enemy you can store its reference for any blueprint to access

#blueprint message

[wooden leaf]

alr ill watch that video btw i have one small problem too but if you know how to work with widgets?

[frosty heron]

Just ask, I don't know what your problem is. I prob know 6% of what's inside unreal

Btw bp red King is placed in the world?

[wooden leaf]

yes

[wooden leaf]

so i have binded my text and made it so i can change it based on instance and just put simple border that is resizing due to text size but when i have longer text this happends and i cant put it into many rows

[dark drum]

Do you have wrap enabled on the text box?

[frosty heron]

So I'm gonna give u idea but not gonna walk you through it. My train nearly arrived at its destination and I got readings to do.

1. Create a blueprint actor, call it bp manager.
2. Place bp manager in the world where bp red King reside.
3. In your bp manager create a variable called Redking of type bp red King. In the detail panel of the variable make it instance editable and expose on spawn.
   4.Go to the level, select the bp manager you have in the scene. Look for bp red King, select the drop down or use the eye dropper tool to pick the bp red King.
4. In the bp where you do the overlap. Go to event begin play , get actor of class (bp manager) and promote it to variable. Name it bp manager.
5. In the same bp where you do the overlap. Go to your overlap event. Cast other actor to bp player. On succsedd find empty space, right click and type get bp manager. Then drag the blueprint from bp manager and type get red King.
   From the red King you get, drag the blue pin again and type say message to get the function

[wooden leaf]

not sure what that is

[frosty heron]

In your text box detail, look for wrap. I think you have to check the auto wrap tick box. This will place a new line for the text when it reached certain treshold

Warp*

Or wrap dunnoe

[frosty heron]

Yea tick auto wrap text

Then maybe you need to adjust wrap text at

Type something to test

[wooden leaf]

but do you know how to set when text is long that its always centered

[frosty heron]

Justification

[wooden leaf]

it didnt help

[frosty heron]

I don't c any different

[wooden leaf]

longer text are offseted

[frosty heron]

Well I'm out of time gl, read what I said about creating an object to track gameplay element

[wooden leaf]

okay

[timid widget]

I've got a problem if someone doesn't mind being nice enough to help me
My RTS camera was working fine yesterday and moving left/right/up/down and today I am being bombed with errors around the "Set target Arm length"
Image
The camera now moves either northwest and down
Not left or right whatsoever
Feel free to ask if you need the camera moving left nodes 🙂

[manic vessel]

Got an arrow thats attached to a weapon. Im trying to read the position of the hand along the local arrow direction But its only working when the gun faces world X .

[dark drum]

Well considering your issue you've described is to do with how it moves, showing the movement stuff would be a good idea.

(Also take pride in your nodes and keep them tidy. 😉 )

[timid widget]

Sure I'll have them up soon thank you

[dark drum]

I don't understand what your trying to do. Can you explain it differently?

[manic vessel]

I have a object in world space that I need to track the position of Along this arrows forwards vector. But its only working correctly when The gun is facing the world x vector?

[dark drum]

I'm still not sure what you mean. It might help if you provide more context to what your trying to do.

Why do you have 4 different functions? You should be able to do this with just one function. Also how are these functions called?

[edgy ingot]

Whats the goal there? You just want to slide the gun slide?

Just do local offsets

[tight pollen]

hi

For example after hover widget with InvalidationBox, i need set Can Cache again?

[manic vessel]

Yes , I have this working but I only want to read the hand object in the direction of the arrow not the gun as guns could be facing any vector , this seems to be affected by world space at the moment and only works when the gun points in World direction X

[edgy ingot]

If the aim is to slide the slider. The slider so be child of the gun. You wouldnt even need to know about the hand

It will slide as intended regardless of the gun or hand angle

[tight pollen]

" invalidate layout and volatility" how it works?

[true zealot]

Am I supposed to actually see this watched value somewhere?

[gentle urchin]

in the watch window

[true zealot]

Where is that located or how do I open it?

[gentle urchin]

trying to find it

cleverly hidden again

[versed sun]

this watch window ?

[true zealot]

I can't find it either... I guess I think I see in the documentation where it's supposed to be but it looks like that's on UE4 and it seems almost missing in UE5

[gentle urchin]

in the bp class

BlueprintDEbugger

im now watching the return of this function

[true zealot]

it's literally right here

[gentle urchin]

yeah but im used to clean watchlists x)

[true zealot]

is this supposed to update in real time? I feel like mine is frozen... or my code is broken elsewhere 😱

[gentle urchin]

i would think broken

but i cant say for sure 😄

[true zealot]

it updates here when actively debugging, but not in that actual watch list

[gentle urchin]

same here

That's messed up x)

[true zealot]

I guess this is better than nothing though... and at least I know I'm not completely insane!

so ty 😄

[gentle urchin]

but wth... watch window that's not updated

now thats unusefull

[ancient dome]

Hey, any ideas of a good way to draw decals from sword slashes? I'd like to adjust the length based on how far the sword contacted another player. Obvious problems are just sheer inaccuracy. Because my traces have gaps and I am thinking whether there is a better way, since for example swords could contact which would throw it off (starts hitting the other player in the arm, collides with the sword which throws it off and makes the decal too long). Obviously I could solve this issue no problemo, but I am thinking there might be a better approach based on math rather than checking previous actor against current actor and impact points?

[neon pebble]

hey i got a slight issue and im struggling to figure it out so basically i have my game controlled from a UI (i know the game controller exists but i chose to have it go through the UI for ease of use) pretty much i have a event where if the player overlaps it will increment a variable in this Widget by 1 however im struggling to cast to this UI because of the Object wildcard i havent really casted to a UI before i did try and get widgets from class but it wouldnt let me put it in the wildcard object area

[untold oak]

Does anyone know if it's possible to change FoliageType properties through blueprint?

[versed sun]

Found widgets> Get 0

[neon pebble]

ah thanks

got another problem ive had for quite a while (sorry about the quality) i only get the error during play but not during compiling its basically there to remove a Ui from a vehicle and add another one on

[gentle urchin]

Validate the element before accessing it

Its invalid.

[neon pebble]

how would i go about that

[versed sun]

Pull off the blue Get pin, type is valis, use the ? one

[versed sun]

yup, now , if its Valid , then remove old one and make new one
If not valid, don't remove old one (because it doesn't exist) , and create new one

[neon pebble]

did i make a mistake putting the pin in remove from parent?

cause it caused a error without

[versed sun]

Connect Not Valid to Create Widget

The next step is removing the Get widgets of class
On return value of Create Widget , Promote to Variable

[dark drum]

Don't store values in a widget that isn't widget specific. When the widget gets destroyed the value (and any modifications) will disappear with it.

[neon pebble]

the widget shouldnt be getting destroyed

the widget basically controls a timer that ends the game

[versed sun]

Remove the Get Widgets of Class, Get node, and Is Valid
Drag in a Get node for the Widget Ref you just made
Right click the Get node , and Convert to Validate Get

Plug the Get node back in the same way the Is Valid node is

[dark drum]

Well if your removing from parent and creating a new one the old one will eventually get garbage collected. (destroyed) What you've described is bad practice and will result in issues. Widgets should get its data from a more stable source. The player controller could be a good place to put some of the logic you've described.

The widget should bind the the variable in the player controller to update what it displays within the widget.

[neon pebble]

the old UI im removing is not connected to the timer at all

[dark drum]

It's still not a good place to put it. In the game mode or game state would be a more appropriate place.

[neon pebble]

I am contemplating moving it there its just this project im editing isnt my own exactly

[pulsar pulsar]

Hopefully this makes some form of sense but I have a InventorySlot widget, InventoryGrid widget and Inventory Main widget. The Main widget creates the Grid widget and then fills the grid with the Slot widget(s), based on how many inventory slots are defined in the inventory component. I then have the ItemBase class which contains information that are instance editable, used for the child objects etc. Such as the icon, display name, description and max stack size etc. I want to be able to display the icon assigned to the child derived from itembase in my inventoryslot widget once the item has been added to the inventory. I'm not quite sure on how I should attack this 🤔 I've been trying a few things for a while now without much success, any pointers are greatly appreciated

[dark drum]

The way I do mine is pass the whole inventory to the inventory grid for it to use when creating the grid of slots. This way you can pass information about the item to the slot as it's being created. If there's no item in a slot it's creating, it can just create a blank/empty slot. If your using uobjects for your items, you could also potentially have the slot bind to events on the item if the quantity updates.

[pulsar pulsar]

Hmm, so you just send the whole array downstream basically, making it accessable for the slot widget? sort of. I'm just focusing on getting the icon working for now and I'll worry about the rest later haha, one thing at a time 🫡 😅

[dark drum]

Well the slot would only get the information about the relevant item. The item should have information about the icon or some identifier the slot can use to get it.

[pulsar pulsar]

actually, I'm beginning to think i'm more confused on how its all supposed to be connected 😂

[opal apex]

help- i dont understand why this happens (the arm is supposed to bend more, and the shoulders and body are supposed to move more 'together'?

full body ik

[pulsar pulsar]

So this is basically what you do, when you mean you pass it down to the grid?

[dark drum]

I would ask the clever folk in #animation

[dark drum]

Along those lines.

[pulsar pulsar]

fair enough, I might have an idea then.

[pulsar pulsar]

My only issue being that getting the array that way is returning an empty array 🤔 and i'm not sure why

[dark drum]

You'd have to show how you're doing it.

[pulsar pulsar]

Third image is inside the inventory component. The array is ReSized on Construct and then added item gets set to element

[dark drum]

It looks like you loop through your whole inventory for every slot and create multiple slots.

[pulsar pulsar]

Am I? Was pretty sure I was just doing it for index 0-35, with the first forloop

[dark drum]

Yea your for loop into your for each loop. The only check for creating a widget is if the object is valid.

[pulsar pulsar]

Yea I mean I'm creating the whole inventory, and then if the inventory doesn't have a valid object, thenc reate a slot with no icon (or base icon, which is empty) bt if it is valid then grab the icon assigned in the object

oh yea

now i get it

lol

im dumb

yea, idk I was having a brainfart there. I'm not sure what I should check for then 😮

[dark drum]

You probably need to just get from the array as opposed to looping through them. If it's a valid index, use the item data, if not create a blank slot.

[dark drum]

I set my slot widget to have a function it used to initialize. It has an item uobject as an input. If it's not valid then the slot sorts it out. The inventory grid just handles creating the slot and passing the item obj ref (if there is one).

[wooden wagon]

i made a simple sanity system with box collision: If i go into the collision a timer goes down slowly but how can i make it that events (for example an enemy spawns) happen based on my sanity height?

[versed sun]

Random Bool with Weight might be helpful

[wooden wagon]

yeah but i want to make each event in a separate bp.

[pulsar pulsar]

ahh, I think I see what you're saying

[wooden wagon]

i am not sure if casting is the best thing to make it work good

[wooden wagon]

and i want the system to choose 1 of all custom events based on my current sanity and on my posistion (where is the nearest event point)

[versed sun]

Something like this
Sanity is 0 to 1
the closer to 1, the more chance of true

[versed sun]

ok

[dark drum]

Have a timer that checks the sanity level, if it's below a threshold, call a function.

[wooden wagon]

<@&213101288538374145>

[gentle urchin]

Event driven is usually more sensible

OnSanityChanged delegate if external actors were in the need to know

[wooden wagon]

So if i want the system to choose one of my events i need to make an array i guess

[pulsar pulsar]

So something kinda like this?

[wooden wagon]

every event = seperate bp

[dark drum]

That would depend. If the sanity updates frequently, having a slower timer can be better.

I would update sanity every second and then have another timer that's every 5-10 seconds.

Event driven is good for values that don't update frequently.

[wooden wagon]

live saver

[versed sun]

What you are looking for?

[gentle urchin]

Then you have a disconnect between current sanity and the function execution

[dark drum]

A long those line, although you will get some index out of bounds errors.

[wooden wagon]

now i need to add another random integer node that says: Should i play this event (random yes or no bool)

[dark drum]

Not really, the longer timer would use the current sanity when it's called to do its checks.

[wooden wagon]

i want to make the whole system random. So you can't see the Connection and make Premonitions

[gentle urchin]

And check failed by margin at the start, and suddenly player gains the entire timer -time of free movement before next timer execute

So a fixed length corridor would sometimes trigger, and sometimes not depending on the value you had when you entered..

[pulsar pulsar]

Ah fair, Getting the empty array shizzle again for some reason with the passed on Array reference though.

[wooden wagon]

does anyone got a yt tutorial for a photo camera system. I actually couldn't find something and don't really know how to make the system make pictures and save them

[gentle urchin]

Rendertarget - save to texture?

[wooden wagon]

there are way to many nodes in ue. needs a lot of time to learn every one xd

[gentle urchin]

Along those lines if memory dont fail me^^

[gentle urchin]

Try searching with few keyword(s) without context

It will tell you the context it requires below the node title

[frosty heron]

@gentle urchin what about repnotify for single player 🤔

[gentle urchin]

For what ? The value change?

[frosty heron]

Yeah

On value change call event or function

[gentle urchin]

Theres also the new field notify

[frosty heron]

Hmm but then we can't subscribe to it from other bp nvm

[lunar sleet]

You’d have to ask #umg

[gentle urchin]

But field notify?

Does that work 🤔

[frosty heron]

I never heard of field notify

Gonna look into that

[gentle urchin]

Its the weird new icon on the variable in the var overview

You can then listen for changes

[frosty heron]

👀

[spring kite]

When I tried to rotate my character with Transform Modify Bone in AnimBP at root bone, its only getting initial rotation. When I increase rotation degree in runtime it doesn't effect. Any idea?

[gentle urchin]

#animation i guess ?

[pulsar pulsar]

I dont understand, how can an array have an object set to an element, like i can see its there using breakpoints, and then in the next check with a breakpoint the object is not there anymore? 🤔

[remote meteor]

field notify is a MVVM thing

[pulsar pulsar]

is it because I destroy the world actor once it's been "added" to the inventory array? 🤔

well I did some reading and I now realize by doing what i'm doing, i'm only referencing the object in the world, so once i destroy it, its gone from the world and the array. So I'm guessing a class array might be the way instead

[gentle urchin]

Mvvm?

[remote meteor]

Model view view model
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/umg-viewmodel/

supposed to be the future framework for managing game to widget communication

[formal flicker]

hey guys is this the chat to ask if i have questions?

[atomic coral]

how can I use in a way that it doesn't trigger with stuff that has a certain tag?

[remote meteor]

before you do anything with the event firing, from the Other Actor, you can check for tags before proceeding

[atomic coral]

oh I see, thanks

[formal flicker]

hey guys, so i have been trying to make a quest mission, where if the player gets 5 boxes in the specific area, an action happens, and when trying to make so that if the boxes collision touch the area collision, it gets counted until a number and if the number is 5, something happens

[lunar sleet]

Is there a question ?

[formal flicker]

oh yeah

how do i make do that

as the picture are just a try of mine

[lunar sleet]

Prly easiest to increment an int every time a box begins overlapping with the area. Check that int on tick or on a timer and when >= 5, do whatever you want

[formal flicker]

im having trouble at the foor each loop

[lofty rapids]

well for one thing your not incrementing boxCount

for instance if box count is zero, it will always be false

because 0 + 1 != 3

[formal flicker]

and how should i do it then?

set the box count automatically to 1?

[lofty rapids]

well your getting all actos of class, but not the overlapping ones

[formal flicker]

and how would i get the overlapping ones?

[lofty rapids]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Collision/GetOverlappingActors/

or you could use https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Collision/IsOverlappingActor/ in the foreach

but you probably want to make sure it's the type your looking for as well

it would be more efficient to just loop through the overlapping and find the ones you want, than cycle through all the actors of class, especially if there is a lot

[formal flicker]

so i would get getoverlappingactors and increment the box count to 1 everytime

and set it to 1 from the beginning

[lofty rapids]

you could, but this would only count any overlapping actors, you may want to cast to what your looking for before you increment

so you know it's the type you want

unless it doesn't matter, and if 5 are overlapping of any actor

[loud cipher]

Is it bad to set a material to apply on a mesh inside actor in construction script, or is beginplay fine. Which would be more efficient in performance

[oblique frigate]

How to get access to this node from actor?

[winged zephyr]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/882967566807597110/1163156397685473430/image.png?ex=653e8ccf&is=652c17cf&hm=66e9489a34efdafaee35ecc0c8a213f8daf3cf04528cfada5927f82d152f73c4&

Why does my blueprint return false here?

[atomic coral]

with this set up, how can I check if my capsule component is colliding with stuff in the level?

[lofty rapids]

is that the value pre divide ?

[winged zephyr]

No that is the return value

[formal flicker]

here

[lofty rapids]

you proably don't want to check all overlapping of other actor

just drag in the box, and check all that's overlapping that

[lofty rapids]

weird because this works fine

[winged zephyr]

Does it matter if it is executed in a while loop?

[formal flicker]

wdym? sorry for not understanding

[gentle urchin]

Dont trust the watches

Print 🙂

[supple dome]

the bp debugger isnt always accurate

[lofty rapids]

you cast to other, then check overlapping actors of the one that's overllaping back on the event

so your checking the actors that overlap, what is overlapping your box

[winged zephyr]

Here is a more full look of the code, if it returns true it should break the loop but isntead it returns an infinite loop.

[formal flicker]

so i cast to icebox from the specific area, and i check overlapping actors in icebox?

[lofty rapids]

you want to get all the overlapping of the box

[formal flicker]

yes

[lofty rapids]

because you want that 5 is overlapping the box

[formal flicker]

yes 5 actors (icebox) overlap the box

[lofty rapids]

you have a reference to box on the left ?

plug that into get overlapping actors

so your checking on that box, not the other actor

the other actor, is the one that overlapped the box

loop through all those overlapping character, cast in the loop body and add if it succeeds

[edgy ingot]

Yeah it will give infinite loop error when not used properly. Personally i have 0 while loop all the years i use unreal. I simply have no use case for it

When a loop goes for X time, (i think its 1000) by default. Can be changed in project or editor setting. It will throw infinite loop error

[winged zephyr]

Yea just removed the while loop and made a loop myself, it is a bit odd though since it just works the same...

[edgy ingot]

Dont put delay in a loop too

[lofty rapids]

close but you want to drag array element into the object of the cast, and you want to drag box from the top left and plug that into the target of get overlapping actors

[edgy ingot]

Doesnt work like u think since loop happend in one frame

[lofty rapids]

in general when programming i avoid while

[edgy ingot]

While loop and other loop are very diff. While loop just keep looping until the condition is met

[winged zephyr]

Huh this is a loop and it just works though...

[gentle urchin]

The stuff after only happens once

[supple dome]

a while loop will keep looping in the same frame, a delay inside a while loop will never run

[winged zephyr]

Ah interesting

[formal flicker]

this one in target of overlapping actors?

it doesnt work

[lofty rapids]

hmm

it's not plugging in ?

[formal flicker]

yep

[lofty rapids]

it says it's incompatible ?

[lofty rapids]

hmm

that's a pain

[supple dome]

also this logic is tied to the framerate (so keep in mind weapons wont shoot more bullets than frames per second)
assuming same logic for your actual weapons, seems like this is just UI

[formal flicker]

nope

[lofty rapids]

well i'm all out of suggestions

overlapped component is probably the other one anyways

[edgy ingot]

From the box blue pin type get overlapping actors

U need different target

[lofty rapids]

there you go

[edgy ingot]

U trying to feed comp to an actor target

[lofty rapids]

makes sense

[edgy ingot]

Obviously not gonna work

[winged zephyr]

Just a showcase UI, I don't care about functionality in gameplay.

[formal flicker]

here it worked

[edgy ingot]

Yeah, notice the target?

[lofty rapids]

you probably want to set box count back to 0

i would also default it to 0

so you get the right count

[edgy ingot]

Whats this for anyway

[edgy ingot]

Why do u need loop

[formal flicker]

i want to gather all boxes in the area

and once they both are in, something to happen

[lofty rapids]

it worked ?

[formal flicker]

well it worked, but not the intended way

[lofty rapids]

well that's a fail then

[edgy ingot]

Dont seems to look ok to me

When overlap, cast overlap actor. If the cube then increment

When end overlap decrement

When boxcount greater than 2 then do something

[lofty rapids]

i'm guessing it didn't work the next time you overlapped ? because you don't reset the count

[edgy ingot]

He increment too much as well

Because of the for loop

[lofty rapids]

there is a cast though

[formal flicker]

so i think what happened is when i put a box into the respective area, it already does the thing and it doesnt wait for the other boxes as well

so it gives the wrong answer

[formal flicker]

yeah in the for each loop like u ve told me\

[edgy ingot]

Your for loop is fucking up the code

Imo

Dont need it

Imagine 2nd box getting overlap now you are looping twice

1st box loop once then you overlap 2nd box

So u increnent 3 times

When you should just incremenet twice

[lofty rapids]

hmm

[formal flicker]

damn

that makes sense

so how do i do it tho

[edgy ingot]

Look at the print string

[formal flicker]

if i remove the for loop

[edgy ingot]

Bye bye bye hello

Should be bye bye hello

#blueprint message

[formal flicker]

its meant to be hello 💀

[lofty rapids]

do like suggested and increment on overlap, decrement on end overlap

[steady night]

im displaying a Negative value

[dim ice]

Hello , i'm trying to make a top down camera like battlerite did , it means you can move freely your camera but your character always stay within the bounds of the field of view (he is always visible) . Any one has an idea of how i can do that ? i tried a lot of things but i've never been able to have a smooth camera. Can anyone help me please ?

[steady night]

how can i split or whatever so i dont get the -

since its not working

[lofty rapids]

abs

"absolute"

[steady night]

hm

[formal flicker]

like it supposed to check if the boxes are in the area and then print hello

[steady night]

oh ok

@lofty rapids ty

[formal flicker]

if every box is in the collision area, then an action happens

[edgy ingot]

Yes do you read tho?

Read what i said again

[lofty rapids]

^

just remember to cast so your only checking the ones you want

[edgy ingot]

U should see 2 bye then hello instead of 3 bye then hello.

I explained why u get 3 bye and thats because of the for loop

[stuck sentinel]

its not working

[formal flicker]

so here is what i tried

and i did it for end overlap too

[stuck sentinel]

someone help please its not opening the chest widget

[formal flicker]

so you said that the for loop doesnt make any sense there and when over lap i should cast to icebox, then increment and on overlap end i should do the oposite

[lofty rapids]

ches widget: default value: none

[edgy ingot]

Why the hell do you have input in chest

[heavy lion]

@stuck sentinel the chest shouldn't open on begin llay surely?? Also, you aren't telling it which player it should open for

[stuck sentinel]

bro i dont know im just starting

thats what this guy told me

[edgy ingot]

Its not gonna take input in actors u dont own

[heavy lion]

I'd look up some tutorials on YouTube @stuck sentinel

[stuck sentinel]

i did

[edgy ingot]

U enabled input?

[stuck sentinel]

i tried copying the inventory idea onto the chest hbut not working

[edgy ingot]

Print strinf then

[stuck sentinel]

yes

ok

[edgy ingot]

If u print strinf after f does it print

[stuck sentinel]

wdym

[edgy ingot]

K so what dont work?

[stuck sentinel]

its not setting to visible

it stays hidden even when i press f

[stuck sentinel]

where should i put this code then

[lofty rapids]

i c you updated the code, i looked at the old post

[edgy ingot]

The code for chest can be in the chest but its terrible idea to have inputs in actor thst you dont control

Can u disconnect everything then play the game

See if the widget is visible

[stuck sentinel]

i set the widget to hidden because when it was visible i started the game with chest opened

[edgy ingot]

So what happend now. Works or wat?

[formal flicker]

well something happens just not the way

[edgy ingot]

K so looks like u got it up side down

Look at your select node

[formal flicker]

i think i complicated this way too much, if the number of boxes inside the collision box is for example 3 something happens

[lofty rapids]

i mean the increment/decrement should work in theory

[edgy ingot]

Actually wait gonna think

[formal flicker]

and i thought of casting the boxes (icebox intitled) in the area (the collision box where the objects must be place for the action to happen)

so i get the boxes and for everytime they collision thingy touches the collision box of the area surface it adds up, and once its a specific number like 3,4,5 anything, something happens

[edgy ingot]

Have u decrement in end overlap?

[versed sun]

what does your code look like ?

[formal flicker]

yeah

keep in mind once the box touched the collion box( the surface it must land) it should not count again

[edgy ingot]

The select node is up side down. You also need to add to viewport snd remove respectively for it to work

[lofty rapids]

you just want to decrement in the end overlap, kind of no reason to check for 2 again if you do it on begin overlap

and it's messing up the logs

[edgy ingot]

U just decrement and do nothing else

[lofty rapids]

take out the branch and print strings, everything after the decrement not usefull

[edgy ingot]

Delete everything after decrement

Dont throw things randomly try to understand what you are doing node by node

[lofty rapids]

one thing is if you destroy it while it's inside, will it not end overlap ?

[edgy ingot]

I dunnoe

[lofty rapids]

i mean ig you would just decrement if you destroy if it didn't work

[edgy ingot]

Well the ice cube kinda have to broadcast upon being destroyed then. Check if its currently being overlapped by the player box

[edgy ingot]

If it is then decrement

Then u can destroy it

[lofty rapids]

is your default value set to 1 ? set it to zero

[edgy ingot]

What is the default vakue of box count?

[formal flicker]

its set to 0

thats what i was wondering

it should print bye then hello

[edgy ingot]

You mean bye bye then hello?

[formal flicker]

no

just hello

if 2 ice boxes are in the area, print hello

[lofty rapids]

well it is bye then hello

looks legit

[edgy ingot]

Oh yeah

Bye then hello

Then it work as intended

1st box if overlap it pront bye

2nd box overlap it print hello because now there are 2 box overlapped

[edgy ingot]

Thats not how it work

[edgy ingot]

Yeah

That work just fine

[formal flicker]

it prints hello then bye at the first box

[lofty rapids]

well you have a log that says bye if not

[edgy ingot]

Yup thats how its meant to be

[lofty rapids]

well it prints bye, then hello right, the prints go up at the top

[edgy ingot]

It shouldnt just print hello

It prints hello when 2 of the box is inside

[lofty rapids]

the prints don't go top to bottom

it's bottom to top ig

[edgy ingot]

Whats there to not understand tho, the overlap happend to every cube

[formal flicker]

so when the first box enters the area, it prints hello bye, and when the second one enters it prints bye bye

[edgy ingot]

Hello bye is correct

[lofty rapids]

it shouldn't print both though on just a single one placed inside

it should be either or

[formal flicker]

thats what i mean

it should wait for both boxes to be inside then do an action

not do all actions from just one box

[edgy ingot]

Your boxes are right next to each other

[formal flicker]

yeah

[edgy ingot]

Instead printing hello, print the other actor

U prob hit them at the same time

Open console and type show collision

Anyway im gonna sleep gl

[formal flicker]

yeah guys thanks for everything anyway

i will try figure it out

later

[lofty rapids]

breaks are essential

[formal flicker]

i think i did it

[sick fable]

does anyone know why the try add item at the bottom is reading none on the target

when trying to get a function in another blueprint to run

dw I fixed it

[modest monolith]

I don't understand why when this even is triggered, the print string works but the door doesn't rotate

Even what happens after doesn't work

[lunar sleet]

Ugh, you’re using level blueprint

[modest monolith]

Yeah but it doesn't matter

[lofty rapids]

you put the print string after the destroy actor ?

shouldn't matter but it's worth a shot

[lofty rapids]

what is the doors rotation ?

[ionic palm]

Hi guys I have a basic attack combo system but I want to add sound effects attached to each specific attack animation. I am unsure how I can tie the audio clips to each animation

[versed sun]

I'm guessing Notify Name can be unique per animation/sound, right?

Names Plug nicely into a Data Table, Datatables can hold sound files

[lofty rapids]

i was gonna say anim notify

you can play the sound on the event

whenever you want in the animation

[ionic palm]

I've never used notify name before and databases but that sounds super useful, I will look into that at somepoint.

Anim notify I know how to do that will work nicely for now thanks! I should have thought of that tbh haha

[versed sun]

Or a Sound Select pluged into your Attack Count

[gentle urchin]

Basically a tmap of row name and struct vars

[modest monolith]

Thanks for help. I found out myself ❤️

[ionic palm]

https://streamable.com/zdz20o

This worked great thanks, I will use the same technique for adding weapon trails as well!

https://streamable.com/flhqf7

Added weapon trails as well I think that counts as the the third A at this point AAA game

[sick fable]

Does anyone know why when I scope out while shooting the animation jumps unsmoothly but when I aim in out while not shooting its smooth

I don't have a way to record it

but I guess its something to with animation blueprint]

[foggy whale]

Is there a way to look up a list of all compatible animation sequences for a given Mesh at runtime?

The Skeletal Mesh Asset is set at runtime when the actor is spawned.

[sick fable]

https://streamable.com/suo5q6

[simple falcon]

new here

Im spawning a sphere with spawn actor, but it just seems to disappear in a few seconds regardless of lifespan

https://gyazo.com/ed99d6028579de408fd21bf9419a7c08

I read somewhere that maybe its root is actually falling through the stage and hitting the killbox because it doesnt have collision, but i cant seem to figure out how to edit the root

[haughty seal]

does anyone know how to implement a camera system similar to this?, which basically auto aligns with the player's position but lagging back a bit, just need it so all camera movement is based on your movement input pretty much but i'm lost on that

[versed sun]

Isn't the camera lag built into the Spring Arm ?

[haughty seal]

Its not so much the camera lag, since you don't give any imput to the camera in Rayman 2 by default, it auto aligns depending on the player's direction, which is what i want

[versed sun]

Mess with these in your spring arm

I never messed with it , but it SOUNDS right

Oh yah , thats it

[zealous moth]

What you can do is have a camera locking system where the camera aims at your character at all times and restrict it to either a spline it can follow or a set of rules.

[simple falcon]

Is projectile movement component not supposed to have gravity enabled?

[zealous moth]

if you use a scene component as a root (something empty) you will mess up projectile motion. Use eitehr a static mesh or a collision sphere instead

[simple falcon]

Im using a static mesh with a projectile movement component attached

[zealous moth]

show hierarchy

[zealous moth]

there you go

the default scene root

remove that, make the sphere the actual root

[simple falcon]

just drag on top?

[zealous moth]

yup

[simple falcon]

oh

weird

can you explain why that worked

whats default scene root

[zealous moth]

the default scene root is not a real thing, it has no physics nor mass nor anything. Projectile motion cannot work with it

[simple falcon]

ohhh but the motion was attached to it

[zealous moth]

it's just used as a marker

[twilit lynx]

Anyone familiar with ALS that can help me make it so the character is always facing the cursor? Ol faithful on tick aint cutting it...

[zealous moth]

the motion component works with the root

if your root doesn't match, it cannot work

[simple falcon]

making the root fall off the map because it cant collide?

[zealous moth]

the root cannot use physics, so it won't fall, it will just do whatever

it's an incompatibility

avoid it in the future 😉

[zealous moth]

what is happening?

[versed sun]

And , dont you want Z for rotation ?

[simple falcon]

o7

[lofty rapids]

what is ALS ?

[zealous moth]

advanced locomotion system

one of the worst motion systems ever 😛

[twilit lynx]

but it was free 😭

[lofty rapids]

i can see your doing a line trace and trying to set the rotation from it ?

[zealous moth]

i'm joking, it's good as a plug and play but horrible to manipulate

[twilit lynx]

If you have better suggestions im open to it, this system is alot more than i bargained for

[zealous moth]

you wanna rotate using Z

[twilit lynx]

currently if i set the rotation to the Z it just spins out of control

[zealous moth]

as @versed sun said

oooo show a video

[twilit lynx]

kk gimme a sec

[formal narwhal]

I mean you'd probably only get performance issue if you push hundreds of enemies, that's why I wouldn't worry too much about it

[twilit lynx]

Dunno how to post it so it play in discord...

[formal narwhal]

moet mp4 zijn

[zealous moth]

hhahahahahahahahahahahaha

[twilit lynx]

😦

[formal narwhal]

😬

[zealous moth]

i think what happens is that you are not easing in/out and on tick it wants to get to the mouse because the camera moves

add a lerp of sorts to your rotation

[simple falcon]

alright, now that thats out of the way. Why is the sphere im spawning not interacting with my "Dummy" actor which has this blueprint

[formal narwhal]

@twilit lynx if youy are using obs you can enable auto redux and it will convert your video to mp4 automatically which discord supports

[zealous moth]

collisions are probably incompatible

[twilit lynx]

Ill try that, it isnt using the provided camera actor, just a spring arm and camera attached

[twilit lynx]

Dope, thanks

[simple falcon]

there are different types of collisions?

is there a documentation website i can reference, the unity one barely has any info at all

[zealous moth]

check your projectile collision presets

and then your other dummy

[zealous moth]

what can they hit and overlap

[simple falcon]

should be working no?

[zealous moth]

does it go through?

[simple falcon]

no, it bounces off

[zealous moth]

can they both simulate hit events?

and show dummy hierarchy as well

[simple falcon]

bingo

i thought it was on because if pc ran into the dummy the hit would trigger

but i guess it was off

[twilit lynx]

That was certainly the right direction, the character looks around properly but does not fully rotate around when the mouse passes behind him. Thanks for the direction though!

[simple falcon]

Thanks btw!

[zealous moth]

np

[twilit lynx]

If you have any reccomendations for a locomotion system I'm happy to hear it as well before I get too deep into this

[zealous moth]

it depends

if you are mainly walking, use ALS

if you need to do darksouls stuff... it'll be hard to mix in and out

you may be better off doing it yourself

[twilit lynx]

Got it, I'll pebably look into other options if this isn't suited for combat stuff

[simple falcon]

Oh btw, is there a way to peak at the cpp code thats equivalent to the blueprint im making?

[lunar sleet]

You can Preview header iirc

[zealous moth]

last i checked it's the same with a tons of garbled mess that defines where the nodes re

are*

[torpid yacht]

Is Is Valid node expensive?can i use it on tick?

[versed sun]

I'll allow it

[simple falcon]

I wanted to just code with cpp right off the bat but the code they give is so complicated without any documentation (that I could find) to explain it

Unity was so straightforward

[torpid yacht]

Phew thx

[thin panther]

Have you learned c++ normally?

[simple falcon]

Yea

Although I haven't used cpp in any complicated way in abojt a year

[zealous moth]

if your variable already exists as an object, you can convert your "get" node into a "validated get" that saves you 15% on performance

[trim matrix]

does anyone have any good sources on implementing sound/music?

[zealous moth]

@simple falcon people will have my head however you will notice little to no difference with the majority of blueprints vs CPP

sure CPP is the most performant, but sometimes you barely get ahead in terms of performances vs effort

I'd recommend you use BP and where it lacks, transform that into CPP

[zealous moth]

what's your target? mobile or PC?

[trim matrix]

pc, im wanting to add it to my objects when they are hit

and im also wanting to add background music to my game as well

[zealous moth]

other than play sound at or play sound 2d, there isn't much else.
Play sound at is best used with Cues and temporal sounds whereas play sound 2d is best used for background music or jingles

there are a few videos on YT about how to make temporal cues

for instance, the sound will change depending on location and distance

[simple falcon]

That's what I read online but I like coding
I'll try to learn both as I go if at all possible

[trim matrix]

oooo that sounds cool, i will give them a snoop

[zealous moth]

@trim matrix just a heads up, a lot of music in the marketplace is very heavy. As in very very big files

there is a plugin that can use mp3s

you go from 50-200 mb files to 3 mb

so if file size becomes an issue, do that

i developed for android, and saving that space is huge

[trim matrix]

ah alright thank you zanet!

[grave relic]

So, I've brought this up before, but I'm still kinda stuck. I'm trying to turn the player into different things like boxes, cans, even lawnmowers. I've managed to resize that capsule collider to match these shapes, but I've run into a snag. Like in the pic, when the collider fits a square, it can sneak through a triangle hole. It shouldn't, especially when the square's edges are clearly touching. Basically, I just want the mesh collision to work right, so the player can't walk through places they shouldn't.

[trim matrix]

do you perhaps know of the plugin? is it this one?

[zealous moth]

i think so, sec

[potent coral]

Maybe you could get around this issue by creating 2 smaller box colliders on those 2 edges?

[zealous moth]

yes

[potent coral]

It's not really a fix, but it might yet work

[zealous moth]

i tried like 5 of them and this was the only one i liked personally

[zealous moth]

instead of shapes, use colliders to block and create your collision channels to match. Even if it could fit a triangle, you have a collider there that can block it if your shape is not triangle

[sand yacht]

Hey, how would I go about getting the volume of the mic of the player?

[grave relic]

Box colliders don't block the player from moving forward, so even if I add a collision and set it to block all. The player could still move it through the hole as the capsule collider is the main driver for blocking the player :/

[grave relic]

Colliders don't block the player from moving forward, so even if I add a collision and set it to block all. The player could still move it through the hole as the capsule collider is the main driver for blocking the player :/

[sand yacht]

I have a VOIP talker etc. setup however getting the volume of the talker always returns 0 unless I have OSS.VoiceLoopback set to true

[grave relic]

For example if you have something like this, then the cube would push other objects. But the player could still move the box into the wall, untill the capsule collider hit the wall, then it will stop. :/

[potent coral]

Hmm

I dunno the fix, but I truly feel how annoying this gotta be on the project 😅

[grave relic]

It is infuriating! I have one idea, which is using collisions to check if they overlap and if they overlap they stop the player's movement, but this feels like it needs to be super expensive. Since I have to check multiple times, and also make a system to differentiate between the player trying to run into a wall, or wanting to walk away from the wall. And then I'm planning to have hundreds of props, and making this for every prop will take ages. I can imagine making separate colliders for every prop, but then I need to figure out how to take the colliders from the prop and then add them to the player. If only mesh collision as in unity existed 😦

[mighty skiff]

I need help using BP but I feel like I need to show it so it's easier to understand

Is there a way you might be able to help with making a bullet kill the ai when I shoot it 🤔 I can send a link to my BP if so

[thin panther]

dont ping people randomly for help

[mighty skiff]

Above it shows everyone else seems to be using pings?

I checked before

[thin panther]

yes, but not to people completely unrelated to the issue

[edgy ingot]

U can use pings to people whom are currently engage with you imo

[mighty skiff]

They were talking about capsule collision which is what I'm using

Anyways do you maybe know how to fix this or know someone who does?

[thin panther]

that doesnt relate the issue to you

[mighty skiff]

Sorry to bother just trying to get some simple help

[edgy ingot]

I dunnoe about simple

If im gonna do something i will make sure to spend a lot of time on it

[mighty skiff]

Well can I send you the BP maybe?

[edgy ingot]

For a start you want to have stats first for your a.i.
You can use actor components for this.

When a bullet overlaps with your A.I . Reduce the hp based on the damage the player weapon dealt. If health is below 0 play dead animation etc

I can help look at bps, to debug simple nodes. I cant look at someone project and tell you how to make your system

[thin panther]

but yes, as to your problem, you would enable hit events on the bullet. when it hits something it applies damage.
on your enemy, you would implement event any damage, and then do whatever logic you want to do to "kill" it, i.e. destroy actor or disable capsule collision, unpossess it's ai controller, and ragdoll the mesh

[mighty skiff]

It uses this https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmK_wV7iuejNfmRZyJpOO8qSUX74MjtX7&si=gPjm87jQHXOgATHr but instead of a first person player for my character I'm using third person that's the only difference but I left the ai as is just set it up so it can follow and shoot

And here's my bp

[thin panther]

.

[mighty skiff]

I think I did that already but it doesn't work?

Then what did i do ??? I dunno if it's because I used a third person shooter template instead or not? But I purchased ai and followed everything so far

[thin panther]

you didnt do that

[edgy ingot]

Apply damage just send payload afaik. You need to catch the on take damage in the target bp

[thin panther]

in your bullet on event hit, apply damage to hit actor

then in your enemy implement event any damage, and run your "kill" logic

[lofty rapids]

your base damage is 0.0

is that supposed to be the amount ?

also your damage amount on report damage is 0.0

[mighty skiff]

Lol I didn't even see that right in front of me I feel so stupid but even when I made both of those 10 it still isn't working?

So idk?

[edgy ingot]

Read what cuppa said

[mighty skiff]

I did

[edgy ingot]

#blueprint message

[mighty skiff]

I used this to a t and it's supposed to be pretty much setup

[edgy ingot]

#blueprint message have you apply this?

[mighty skiff]

Yes

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxi3XRC_asHV8QzcTVmtUY1jhLjn0z_lM4?si=Lq3NJ_snEwBi7Il9

[edgy ingot]

Dont give me youtube link

[mighty skiff]

Watch that and you will understand

[edgy ingot]

I dont want to watch it

[mighty skiff]

It's a short clip

[edgy ingot]

Just show a picture

Of your bo

Bp

[mighty skiff]

I did

[edgy ingot]

I dont c this #blueprint message

[thin panther]

your picture of a bp doesnt show anywhere the other half of my message

you've sent damage from presumably a bullet

but never shown it being received

[mighty skiff]

The ai is supposed to be setup so that the person using it can follow the few short videos all under 3 minutes and after the first 2 videos it should work that's only 6 minutes of video - so I don't understand why you can't watch it

But anyways it's to much to explain and a simple BP won't do much to explain it enough so NVM I can see I'm just annoying people so I think I'll ask someone else

Thanks anyways

[thin panther]

it isn't. you just need to show us the ai

again you've only shown the application of damage

nowhere are you showing receiving it

[lofty rapids]

what does report damage event look like ?

[thin panther]

report damage event isn't necessary

you can just apply damage

[mighty skiff]

Exactly what I thought

But the video says to do it

[edgy ingot]

U r using a lot of imagination

[mighty skiff]

So I did and his worked but mine doesnt

[thin panther]

so show us your event any damage!

[mighty skiff]

In the video it doesn't show anything about that

[lofty rapids]

looks like they used a custom function though

[edgy ingot]

You need to CATCH the takedamage event in the enemy

[mighty skiff]

But you won't listen

[edgy ingot]

Dont care about the video

Youtube tutorials are garbage

[thin panther]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/AI/Perception/ReportDamageEvent/

its an ai perception thing

[thin panther]

apply damage does nothing without a recipient receive damage

[lofty rapids]

ahh i c

[thin panther]

if the thing in question doesn't know it wants to receive damage, nor how it should interpret it, how would it do anything

[lofty rapids]

there has got to be some code that checks the damage

at some point

to determine if dead or not, deal the actual damage

[edgy ingot]

Apply damage x ammount.

In the enemy bp, receive the event. Subtract incoming hp with damage .

Check if hp is below 0

Do the dead logic if hp equal or less than 0

[mighty skiff]

I don't know where to put that logic ,it should already be there according to the maker of the asset

Plz just someone when they actually have some time then help me by watching the video and then seeing if I missed something because I followed every thing I can think of and still can't figure out why mines different until then I don't know anything also it says apply bounds for ai on video 1 and I did that and I got it to shoot and even wander but on video 2 where it shows the way to use the damage it just shows some simple logic on the bullet and that's it nothing else and his works perfect so I assume that the ai is already set up ,where I don't know because the video doesn't show so if anyone can watch it and then look at my BP and help that would be great

[edgy ingot]

I give up. Good luck

Dont be soo hopeful on getting help tho, we literary tell you what you need to do

Literary everything already laid in silver plate. Cuppa even tell you where to place what

[mighty skiff]

I shouldn't need to place it ,if you watched the video you would know that

[thin panther]

i mean i guess if you're using report damage event that would come through on an OnTargetPerceptionUpdated. Where I guess you could switch on the tag. Sounds a lot less nice than just using an any damage, or other damage rolling system

[mighty skiff]

But again you wont

[mighty skiff]

I don't know what I'm doing that much I'm just trying to get help hands on but I now see this was a big mistake

Sorry for wasting everyone's time

[thin panther]

your mistake is believing in an extremely bad tutorial series over people that are trying to help you here

[edgy ingot]

If you refuse help then i dont know what to say.

[lofty rapids]

the videos are real fast and don't say much, but it's a plugin ?
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/shooter-simplified-ai?sessionInvalidated=true

[thin panther]

nowhere in that series does it show the ai implementing it's damage

[edgy ingot]

Apply damage is unreal damage system

I dont even use it

[mighty skiff]

I think ima just leave the server ive tried asking for help and yes it's a plugin ,all his videos worked perfect until the bullet logic and the comments are the same as my problem but I can't find solutions even when trying the solutions in comments so i don't knw

[thin panther]

i would honestly use a different asset

or follow a tutorial series on it

if the tutorial guide isn't working, you should ask the creator of it

[mighty skiff]

Again sorry for wasted time I'm out thanks acuppa tea I'll try that

[thin panther]

no apologies needed

it's the one thing i dislike about "plug and play" systems like this. they often have 0 documentation

but yes, try adjusting your damage number as suggested

oh that was deleted

outside of that, if you've followed it to a tee and it doesnt work, you'll have to contact the guy that made it.

[mighty skiff]

Can I maybe dm you later if I have some troubles I'll pay you if I need to if you just help a little I just want to understand the bullet logic better so I don't have to mess with that video ?

[thin panther]

ah no payment necessary.
no dms either I'm afraid, but you are welcome to ping me in this channel. There is no guarantee I can respond instantly but i will get around to it if no one else has

[mighty skiff]

Even just 10 minutes of help would be greatly appreciated but I would like to screenshare if possible to show the issue better

Say sometime tomorrow if I can't figure it out today

[thin panther]

my only wild guess I can take is that the ai from the plugin is using the apply damage to take damage, and the report damage event to find the damage causer.
my only guess is, is that compared to that tiny "tutorial", your damage number was significantly lower, so needs more hits to kill, or infinite hits if it's still 0

[thin panther]

unfortunately i don't do vc either, but again, more than willing to assist in this channel

[mighty skiff]

Well thankyou anyways I'll ask for help if I figure out a way to word it but I doubt I'm able to anytime soon

[lofty rapids]

did you try with 50 as the base damage ? see if it kills the guy in a few shots ?

that's the one thing you definately had different

[thin panther]

your base damage was 0, so it's never going to do anything :P

[mighty skiff]

Yes I tried that

[thin panther]

compared to the video which has it at 50

did you change the apply damage or the report damage event

[lofty rapids]

is the ball bouncing off the guy like in the video ?

[mighty skiff]

No?

That's my logic forst is blaster bullet second is my ai

Ai is big BP so it's not able to fit on one page good

[lofty rapids]

does it destroy the actor when you shoot it now that you added that ?

[mighty skiff]

No

Still does nothing

[lofty rapids]

so it's not regestering the overlap i'm guessing

put a print string just out of the event

see if it shows up

also make sure you have the right type of character

they probably pulled one from the plug in ?

[mighty skiff]

I'm using same one they did

Oh character

Yeah I mentioned earlier that instead of using the first person character shooter template I used a third person shooter advanced kit

And I did that and still nothing

I wish I could screenshare this, it gets frustrating over text

It's just very back and forth that's all

[lofty rapids]

It's hard to help for a plugin, it could be anything

[mighty skiff]

Yeah

[lofty rapids]

and especially with no docs

those short videos are not much help if you get stuck

[mighty skiff]

Is there a way I could maybe send the project and you could just take a look??? I'd be much appreciated thats the only way I know where I can show more so you can help better other than screensharing

[lofty rapids]

i would start with a print string out of that event

see if it's even firing

if it's not firing

then theres something wrong witht he collision on the bullet most likely

[mighty skiff]

Nothing is happening and the video chat below wasn't helpful either

[lofty rapids]

so it's not printing or bouncing off the character ?

it's probably the collision of your bullet not set right

[formal narwhal]

is there a way to call SlideAlongSurface in blueprint for floatingpawnmovement?

[mighty skiff]

Its not printing or bouncing off,

Tbh this is like the 3rd account ive used on unreal slackers and everytime i come here i dont really get help i just get suggetions ,I'm kinda done using unreal slackers maybe I'll go make a server that does screenshare help hands on as I'm learning so people that are starting out don't need to do this

Because honestly for a help server it's kinda sad

Thanks anyway to those that tried a lil tho

Not to mention that the owner uses bots to fill his server

Lol priceless

[lofty rapids]

hmm

define "help"

[mighty skiff]

Gladly

[formal narwhal]

what is unreal slackers?

[formal narwhal]

oh nvm

[mighty skiff]

Offering ones service or resources which all you did was offer suggestion on what I should do

Lol

[lofty rapids]

well i like to help if i can

[mighty skiff]

Then offer hands on actual service or resource and you would be

[lofty rapids]

but it's part of the process

debugging

it's part of programming

[mighty skiff]

I'll even pay you in $$$ or resource in exchange

[mighty skiff]

I know this

I know basic blueprint

[lofty rapids]

the problem is you did different then the tutorial

so somethings wrong

and finding that problem is what i was getting at

to start, your bullet isn't triggering the event you are trying to use

[mighty skiff]

Then please help me to do it correctly ...

Is there a way to actually talk to you or at least screenshare so you can walk me though ehats wrong??? This way i can understand it and i can fix it better???

I Just don't understand the asset that well ,was trying to get some quick help so I don't have to spend yet another 8 day rabbit hole figuring it out like I have everything else so far , I bought that asset thinking it would be easy and little did I know one different engine version changes everything

[lofty rapids]

theres a difference between helping and doing it for you as well

[mighty skiff]

For the last time if you can read

I asked specifically for you to only walk me through what's wrong not do anything for me

I would like to simple understand what the bullet is doing

[lofty rapids]

i didn't know what was wrong, so you needed to figure that out

[mighty skiff]

So I can fix it

[mighty skiff]

If you read I said walk me through what's wrong which is why I asked for screenshare

Again

3rd time ice asked now

Do I need to reword it

I can pay 100$

For some simple help that's it

[frosty heron]

There is a channel for it

If you are serious about offering money

[mighty skiff]

That 10x what I was gonna pay at first cmon

Please yes

[mighty skiff]

Thank you send it I'm done here -tired of the same bs

[frosty heron]

U will get better chance advertising your request there

[mighty skiff]

I would love to know the name of a server that will actually teach me

[frosty heron]

#hire-a-freelancer

[mighty skiff]

Please

Thankyou

[frosty heron]

I didn't say server I said channel

#freelance-jobs

[formal narwhal]

You do realise for someone to walk you through something they would need to understand your project/code first and then identify what the problem is. This means that someone would be doing the work for you. Keep in mind that the majority of people are doing this in their free time.

[mighty skiff]

I got ahold of someone willing to teach me , I thank you for actually helping me to find quick help.

[formal narwhal]

You could have just asked "is there a channel where I can pay someone? " lol

[frosty heron]

I don't think I've given you help. Real help is learning the rope than paying for someone to do it imo because u will just come accross another problem

[mighty skiff]

No I found someone to teach me what don't you guys understand???

[frosty heron]

Plugins are okay for me just to look at. I used plugin for my combat but for my new project I am trying to replicate It from scratch

[mighty skiff]

I swear there's a real reading problem in this server ,even the server owner couldn't read his own rules lmao

It's fr though

[thin panther]

You haven't found a dedicated mentor for $100.
You've found someone that will help you use your asset pack

[frosty heron]

Paying 40 dollars an hour to help you around your plugin isn't learning but ok

[formal narwhal]

Does anyone know how I can get slidealongsurface for floating pawn movement? I basically need what character does without the character fluff.

[mighty skiff]

25$ an hour is what he agreed actually

[frosty heron]

U must be rich

[mighty skiff]

And sounds legit to me

I'm not rich I just actually work hard at real life

Lol

It's pretty normal

[frosty heron]

U should work as hard to learn unreal then

[mighty skiff]

I would if I didn't have a real life and real job lol

[frosty heron]

Well w.e works for you

[mighty skiff]

Just don't have time to learn blueprints 24/7 I learned alot though just not ai and bullets so far

[mighty skiff]

Indeed thanks

[frosty heron]

Blueprints are made for designer. If your end goal is to make proper working game, blueprint is very limited anyway

[mighty skiff]

Hope you all have a good time , and thanks everyone

Peace out

[formal narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/surfs-up-surfs-up-arnold-help-me-im-drowning-drowning-penguin-drowning-gif-14000353216823708434

[gritty plover]

What in the world happened here

[wicked marten]

same here

[jade mural]

Is there a way to get all material parameters from a material instance object reference.

[thin panther]

No. Not as far as I know

[jade mural]

k

[frosty heron]

You shouldn't need to tho?

[jade mural]

I really just need to see if a parameter exists

[jade mural]

Im modding a game where the materials have random names

[frosty heron]

Those parameter are pre compiled anyway. You should know if material have the parametre or not

Since they can't be changed on runtime

[jade mural]

how do I get the material from a material instance then

[wicked marten]

he Cold Summer

hey*

[frosty heron]

Hi

[wicked marten]

i got sick last 2 days

[frosty heron]

I remember Ur name

[wicked marten]

3 days

yeah

[frosty heron]

What happend

[wicked marten]

remember i went to sleep @ 5 am

[frosty heron]

That's me everyday

[wicked marten]

i woke up and i felt almost dead

but before that day i only half 1-2 hours sleep

tops

[frosty heron]

Not sure what u mean. Material instance is the one created at run time

Well I've stayed for 2 days straight I know what dying feel like

[wicked marten]

in more than a week

i slept more than 12 hours

i slept the sun rising and wake up with the people saying to me "Good evening"

damn i wanna continue my project

but my body cant

[jade mural]

The materials (i assume) are named this, or atleast that is what Get Object Name outputs

[frosty heron]

U can pick off to the last convo.

U didn't add anything to the vb box

See content? Its empty

Plug wbp list to it

[wicked marten]

i cant continue now ahhahaha

i wanna rest

[frosty heron]

K

[wicked marten]

i wish i could learn as fast as anyone could

[thin panther]

We don't help with unsupported modding unfortunately

[wicked marten]

last time i couldnt understand what im doing

[jade mural]

K

[frosty heron]

I know nothing about modding

[jade mural]

it just making a ue4 game but you have bairly anything of the acctual game

[thin panther]

It's unsupported modding

The tools and methods are vastly different

And not allowed to be discussed on this server

[jade mural]

K. Thanks for telling me

[thin panther]

Np

[oak fable]

any clue why is that error ?

[thin panther]

You're using a pure cast. You don't want to do that

A pure cast assumes success, but that can very well fail

So what's happening is you are accessing anything hit as if it's an enemy, and it won't be

[oak fable]

so i shouldn't have it as pure

[thin panther]

No

This way, if the cast fails, you don't try to proceed. If it succeeds, you know you have an enemy, and can safely access their member variables

[oak fable]

okay thanks

[zealous moth]

yeah to follow up, the only purecast that never fails is the game instance

[gritty plover]

Hey, sorry if this is a stupid question of has a simple solution that I'm overlooking. I have a blueprint that's supposed to spawn different props based on an exposed array that, well, determines which props are available to spawn. The variable is just an array of Booleans. What I need to do is randomly select from only the positive bools. So if 0 and 2 are positive, randomly select either 0 or 2. If all 3 are positive, randomly select 0, 1, or 2. And so on, and so on.

[verbal lotus]

you need to store the actual possible option in an integer array instead

[lofty rapids]

you can construct another array out of the positive values @gritty plover

then get random from that

[verbal lotus]

actually have a set of integers so you dont have repititions

actually dont sets are a pain

just an array would do. make sure to find before you add a value so you dont have multiples and you should be good

[lofty rapids]

what would be the difference between selecting between 1 and 2 what means "exposed" like exposed to other bp ?

[gritty plover]

Just exposed in the editor

[lofty rapids]

i mean thats an array ?

[gritty plover]

So I can just edit it in the level editor

Yeah

[lofty rapids]

of booleans

wdym by select a random of 1 & 2

they are both true

[gritty plover]

It's exposed so I can uncheck the ones I don't want

Per instance of the actor

[lofty rapids]

right but it's just an array of booleans

if your selecting all the positive ones, and getting a random one, you might as well just say positive

it's the same thing

[gritty plover]

No