blueprint

[versed sun]

I would divide by 45 to give 8 outcomes

[patent gull]

replaced the branches

😂

idk man

[ancient dome]

the booleans need to be as the index

values as the options

I suggest dividing it

instead of this approach tho

as others have suggested

do exactly this maybe

[dark drum]

It's rotator math. It gives me nightmares lol.

I'm going to assume the spring arm is set to use the control rotation. While your character/horse doesn't. You need to get the horses forward vector, get x vector and then see if the control rotation exceeds this +- your bounds. If so, snap to the closest bound.

[patent gull]

but i can only put one bool into index

[ancient dome]

that's what I mean

I hate thinking about this

it always messes with my brain\

anything related with translating math into space

vectors and rotations give me the ick

[patent gull]

but it begins with the start already how tf do i get camera

where do you get camera from

[ancient dome]

maybe it's time for some basic unreal engine tutorials

[jolly cipher]

Hello!

Does anyone know where I can find some information about animation blueprint templates?

Searcing on youtube but surprised theres not a single video that covers this. I have an asset on the market that is based on a animation blueprint template and trying to figure how to implement my own state machines around it.

Would love to learn more about it.

[versed sun]

Its what i had on my code for somehting i use

[ancient dome]

you have a lot of questions, about a lot of very basic things

[patent gull]

and i have a basic question noone can answer me

[ancient dome]

Everybody can answer it, nobody is willing to spoon feed the entire code to you

[patent gull]

there must be a easy fix where i dont have to rewrite the whole code just because there is no white node for the add function

[ancient dome]

the answer to your question still stands, you use a select node, with the boolean as the index and then set the variable

[ancient dome]

it's called a set

get the variable, add to it, call set

[patent gull]

its no variable tho its the x and sometimes the y part of a vector

[ancient dome]

it's the same principle

right click split

make vector is not needed, u can also just split on the set

[crystal crown]

Which is less worse than the other? Variable linking straight to bp_character or casting?

[ancient dome]

neither

[crystal crown]

can i avoid both? not really right?

[ancient dome]

you can avoid both with an interface

but question is, why worry

if it's loaded into memory anyways most likely

[crystal crown]

mm yeah. i guess a vehicle & a character having a link is unavoidable

[ancient dome]

I mean, they don't need to reference eachother

they can use an interface

but it's overcomplication if you know it's always going to be a character using it

[crystal crown]

i'm using an interface but still some casting

[ancient dome]

at that point why use an interface if you cast in the end

it's a choose one situation

spare yourself the hassle of setting up an interface if you plan to cast anyways

[crystal crown]

but if i don't cast it wouln't always be loaded tho. that's the only plus

[ancient dome]

bs, it will be loaded anyways 99% of the time

like what, is ur car gonna get interacted with without any character present on the map?

[crystal crown]

why is epic not casting constantly then?

[ancient dome]

hard references can be bad

it depends on the use case

but a car that only a player can interact with

it's most likely fine to cast

plus they cast constantly

so idk where that comes from

[thin panther]

and hard references are never bad if you use proper base classes. the most you're loading is kilobytes

at that point who cares

hard refs are bad when those hard refs have dependencies on assets

because then they get loaded

[ancient dome]

example of a bad hard reference, an entire datatable of images

[crystal crown]

so i'll just set my character to my bp_character in the interface and call it a day? so i don't have to constantly add cast nodes

[ancient dome]

so you load idk, 3 gigs into memory at once, because before that the images were not loaded

[thin panther]

why

interfaces are only ever for class agnostic behaviour

you know your character will be loaded, and will always be a character

so just cast to it

you're actually making things worse with an interface

[ancient dome]

I mean, maybe he has an interact system based on an interface

[thin panther]

plus having a hard ref in an interface defeats the whole purpose of the interface

[ancient dome]

so he just sends the message to the actor in view

and the actor handles the logic

I think that is probably what he means

generalize the interface as just sending self as an actor in the message and cast in the actual car is my opinion in this case

[crystal crown]

ye my interaction is in the interface

[crystal crown]

okay thanks

[patent gull]

its working now, thanks man

[pulsar geode]

I have a sphere trace setup during a notify state in an animation montage to deal damage.
How do I prevent this damage from being dealt multiple times if it connects?

[ancient dome]

either do once, or keep track of all the things already hit and check against the array

depends what you meant with the question

[pulsar geode]

What can I clarify?

[ancient dome]

what multiple times means

do u mean only the first hit should be affected

or each enemy once

[pulsar geode]

Only the first hit.

[ancient dome]

let me clarify, only the first enemy hit being dealt damage and nothing else

or each enemy only taking damage once

[pulsar geode]

It is a melee attack, I want it to deal damage on the first hit and not again during the notify state. It will only ever deal damage to the player, so just on the very first hit, no need to look at multiple enemies.

[ancient dome]

you can do that with a do once

and each time the player attacks u execute the reset

in a notify state I don't think u even need to reset

but unsure on that

[pulsar geode]

How would you use the "do once" in the notify state, as it is still hitting multiple times even with a "do once".

[ancient dome]

a simple boolean would work too

[ancient dome]

that sounds impossible

[pulsar geode]

I tried this but in a notify state I can't set variables.

[ancient dome]

works just fine

[pulsar geode]

So it checks the boolean (lets call it damageDealt) before dealing damage, if damageDealt is false it Applies Damage then sets damageDealt to true, preventing further damage. How do you set it back to false once the animation is finished?

[ancient dome]

fair, you can just handle it on the character instead

I have it like that with AGR

just calls these events and I can handle it on the character instead of inside the notify state

that way I can have variables

example

[pulsar geode]

Man, that lost me. I'll have to look into what those are.

Thanks for the help though.

[ancient dome]

I mean

you create your own events

and just call them from the notify state

on received notify begin, you'd get your character and call "begin attack" or similar

which resets all variables

[sand slate]

Hello helping heroes, I have some levels, and I store the record completion times in a struct. I have much more levels, is this the best way to do it? or is there a easier way because I have much more levels?

[ancient dome]

on tick you'd check for hits, once a hit occurs you again call an event on the character that you made

like "On hit" or so

which then sets variables, deals damage bla bla

so that event would have the do once / boolean

[ancient dome]

use a map variable

confusing in this context

but just like a "Mapname" to Time map

something like this

that would allow you to easily work with it

[hexed solstice]

Hey anyone know how to copy events or rather call a reference to them in a different event graph?

I need to use event tick twice for the same blueprint. (I know there is a sequence node I want to known if theirs other ways of doing it also though)

[ancient dome]

sequence or just call other events

think about it

you double the event

who gets to go first?

how is that determined?

bla bla bla

why bother when you can just make separate events on your own

[hexed solstice]

Fair nuff yeah I was trying to see if there is another way to arrange that at least without using the sequence node 👍

But yeah that makes sense it probably would cause an error now that I am thinking about it, tru tru

[pulsar geode]

Got it sorted. I used the basic montage notify and a tick loop within the class itself rather than within the notify state.

Thanks for the help!

[granite summit]

rehashing this question

[ancient dome]

what does it do instead

[granite summit]

launches me in the same direction as the other side (back into the wall) despite being the negative right vector * -1 * 1500

[ancient dome]

it's probably not -1 that you're after

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-get-left-vector/451448/3

but that is an area I am always unsure with

imo -1 should do it

[dark drum]

Instead of negate vector just multiply by a negative number.

[granite summit]

i used negate vector

[granite summit]

that didnt work either

[ancient dome]

it should just be multiplication times -1

if unsure, just draw debug arrows

that way you can verify

flip it, then choose that as the start point

then add like 500 to it

and use that as the end

and you will see how the vector goes

I see it

he never adds anything

just multiplies

it has no right to work

@granite summit

[neon gull]

how do i get all components of a static mesh?

[ancient dome]

flip and then add an amount

don't multiply

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-launch-a-character-in-a-direction-relative-to-them/429505

[dark drum]

So if the wall is on the left side you would launch in the right vector direction. (Right direction * strength) if the wall is on the right then it would be right vector * -strength. If this doesn't work it's most likely the branches you use to determine the left or right side.

[mighty frigate]

wanted to organize Manager BPs that are instantiated in custom GameMode class, instead of putting that code directly in the Event Graph of the GameMode.
But these Manager BPs i have currently as inheriting from UObject. I previously had them inheriting from AActor but they need no transforms etc it seems overkill.
so i switched to UObject. But how do I "spawn" these UObject inherited BPs in the GameMode? i only see SpawnActor

[ancient dome]

yeah, patty is right

[dark drum]

I think there's a get children node that works on actors.

[ancient dome]

multiplication is probably good

it achieves it in the end

I am brainfarting

[dark drum]

Construct object.

[astral estuary]

is there a way to print a tab in a print to string node? 🤔 \t doesn't work 🤔

[dark drum]

As far as I know print string is single line only.

[ancient dome]

just use print text

you can even format it

print string is quick and dirty, text is nice

[dark drum]

I didn't even know print text was a thing lol. Learn something new every day.

[astral estuary]

text can do tabs? 👀

we take those

text has the "format text" node too, waaaay better than append

[granite summit]

ok

[regal oriole]

Hey guys, noob here

why can`t I split the event tick to feed both branches?

[versed sun]

Hold "S" and click on graph for a Sequence

[thin panther]

Why not just use input events though...

[ancient dome]

probably because searching for them is a pain in the ass

[regal oriole]

thank you!

[regal oriole]

it worked

[thin panther]

Input events, not keyboard events

[ancient dome]

scroll for eternity

oh well

[regal oriole]

actually this is another question

[ancient dome]

if they're learning the basics

maybe just starting out like that is fine lol

since enhanced input is sooo user friendly especially for new people :)

[thin panther]

It is, that's why they gave you sample templates with it set up :P

[regal oriole]

in Unity, (old input system) we have GetKeyDown and GetKey that can be used to read inputs
In Unreal I am trying to understand how it works.
First I noticed that we have an Enable Input that can be called and why do I need it when I can read directly as I have done above?

[thin panther]

You don't want to do input like that in unreal

You want to use enhanced input

[regal oriole]

hmm cool... why?

[thin panther]

Well checking on tick has the downside of checking on tick, rather than the input system which is platform agnostic input messages.

Enable input is also a cheap workaround when you should be receiving input in the player controller and routing it where it needs to go

An added bonus with enhanced input is checking if a key was pressed, held, released, modified, etc. Is done for you. And you get the bonus that you can remap your controls in settings

And that's basically free accessibility

[ancient dome]

a downside is modifier keys

since with enhanced input, they removed easy access to those

but that's more about the previous input system we had

[regal oriole]

oh hold on, there is a lot of new terms here.
enhanced input is a new kind of system that Unreal is providing to solve inputs?

[thin panther]

Yes

[ancient dome]

yeah, it's introduced since 5.0 or so

[regal oriole]

okay

[thin panther]

It's the unreal engine 5 successor to the legacy input system that was in the project settinfs

[regal oriole]

okay, now I have a lot of questions

reading input directly inside an Actor class is a bad practice? inputs should always be read inside the Player Controller?

[ancient dome]

no

it's not bad practice

I mean, reading inputs directly inside a character class

for example movement, you would do that in the character

UI stuff, you might move to the player controller and so on

[thin panther]

Input should be handled in the player controller or character yes, having random world actors handle input is bad practice

[regal oriole]

hmm seems like reading inputs inside the Player Controller and sending them to the character is a good organized way of solving

now the other question is

[ancient dome]

no it is not

[regal oriole]

oh

[ancient dome]

just read them directly in the character

instead of going a roundabout way

the character needs to be possessed to read inputs

which unreal handles for you automatically anyways in the gamemode

[regal oriole]

perfect, this is the point I was heading into

in case of a multiplayer game

when I read the inputs inside the character, how do I bind the player inputs to the character?

[ancient dome]

possess it

[regal oriole]

interesting

[ancient dome]

in my case

I spawn the characters

take the player array and make them possess the characters

out of the box, it will automatically find a playerspawn and spawn the selected character in the gamemode and possess it

[regal oriole]

a list of characters full of capabilities that can be possessed by Players and AI
you pick one available and possess, binding a player to a character

[ancient dome]

yes

[regal oriole]

perfect

[ancient dome]

you can have it be possessed by ai by default

the moment you possess it with a player it kicks the ai out

[regal oriole]

if tha Player Controller is not reading input but the Character, what kind of code do we put inside the Player Controller?

[ancient dome]

the player controller always reads inputs

as long as they're enabled

you can have both the character and the player controller receive inputs at the same time

that way you can have movement in the character and UI in the controller for example

[regal oriole]

got it

if I want to open a chest in my game for example, instead of reading input "E" in the blueprint or C++, I do program it inside the Character to project a ray, get the object, check if is an Interacteble Interface or something and then call the interaction. I suppose

[ancient dome]

yes

[regal oriole]

and now about this nem enhanced input, what it enabled that is better than the normal input ?

[ancient dome]

well, in reality, you get press, hold and release out of the box

in all honesty, it is a controversial system

since it is simply not ready, somewhat poorly written as well

but it's what we got now

the other one is deprecated

it's not really nice to work with

[regal oriole]

okay, thank you for sharing all

this is enough for me to proceed

[mighty frigate]

does one of the default sample projects include level switching?

like with sublevels and a preferred architecture for what should control what and in what way for the Blueprints
i see lots of tutorials on level switching but they seem to just address it in isolation and not in a more complex context.

im mostly concerned about proper design architecture and not the ins and outs of the connections per se

[ancient dome]

still stuck, confused

wish it'd just be a a simple solution to this

[glossy crest]

Is there anyway to covert a Vector to a Int or Float or Byte ??

[ancient dome]

that goes against mathematics

why would u want to do that

[glossy crest]

im trying to use a branch statment that says if this objects scale = 0 then deactive this niagra system

im kinda new to blueprints so not the best

[ancient dome]

split it and check if any of the values are 0

right click on the vector pin to split

[glossy crest]

like this?

[ancient dome]

that's setting them

and adding

[ancient dome]

there is a screenshot right here

[glossy crest]

where would i split from?

[ancient dome]

wherever you want to check for it?

how would I know

[glossy crest]

im unsure where

wait i got it

i think

[ancient dome]

matrix?

[glossy crest]

mb wrong thing

[ancient dome]

right click

split

[ancient dome]

u need to hit the yellow part

the connection part

[glossy crest]

still nothing

unless u mean like this?

[ancient dome]

I'm a bit flabbergasted

try to copy paste that get node

that doesn't give you the option

it's probably because it is connected to things

[glossy crest]

here we go

[ancient dome]

yeah, that was it

weird it doesn't give u a greyed out option when it is still connected

swear it does that

[glossy crest]

yeah is strange

[ancient dome]

and then you would do an OR

and connect them all up

and into the branch it goes

[glossy crest]

.

like this?

[ancient dome]

yup

as long as that scale value actually gets updated

and reaches 0

this will work

you might want to check for <= 0 instead

if it keeps going into the negatives and might skip 0

[glossy crest]

it wont go neg

[opaque acorn]

#sequencer message
BP could be related with this anyone could help??

[ancient dome]

Got it, for anybody in the future, this is how to rotate around 2 relative components, in my case control rotation and the camera rotation in relation to that (the blue nodes are quaternions)

ripped straight out of the playercameramanager limitviewrotations and scenecomponent add relative rotation, if anybody needs source reference

since this is control rotation for me, and it goes 0-360, if you use something that goes from -180 to 180 use a clamp axis node beforehand to convert it to 0-360

[loud tree]

Anyone know why a player character spawns in random directions when it's spawn transform is set to the player start?

[dawn gazelle]

I believe control rotation of the controller possessing it can impact the orientation.

[loud tree]

Currently I have it setting the rotation of the controller which spawns first to the rotation of the player start, then I orient the pawn rotation to it on it's spawn.

[verbal igloo]

Hey guys, so, I'm making a dialog system, and I want that when you start the conversation, your camera slowly rotates facing the npc character, but I have no idea what function I should use to do that, I'm using the default first person character from the template and the npc blueprint should move the player's camera or player itself to rotate it in the right way

I tried a lot of stuff, nothing worked properly

[dawn gazelle]

Pretty sure you can do this by adding a camera to your NPC and position it where you want the camera to be when the player is talking to them. When you start the conversation you can use the "Set View Target with Blend" node which can automatically transition the camera for you from your current view target camera (The one on your character). When finished, you set the view target back to your character using the same node.

@verbal igloo

Alternatively, I believe you could define a location/rotation on the NPC via a SceneComponent as where you want your camera to be, and you'd also need to define the camera location similarly on your character. When you start the conversaion, you'd need to finterpto your camera location/rotation to the NPC's scene component world location/rotation and back again to your character when finished.

[upper badger]

I have a thing in my character BP that changes the camera boom's length when a button is triggered. Now I want to animate it such that the camera moves smoothly from one boom length to another. How can I do this? Should it be in the ABP or in the BP itself?

[dawn gazelle]

Use whatever event to set a "Target Boom Length" variable.
Event Tick > Finterpto your "Current Boom Length" to the "Target Boom Length"

[upper badger]

I feel like I'm missing something...

[dawn gazelle]

You need to keep a separate variable for the target arm length that's not associated to the Camera Boom. This is the one you change on the input event.
The "Current" value of the FinterpTo needs to be the current value of the camera boom's target arm length.
The "Target" needs to be the variable that you created.
You would then Set the Target Arm Length of the Camera Boom to the return value from the FinterpTo

[flat summit]

why can he do that but i cant

[frosty heron]

Game mode is not of type character

The variable points multi exist within your bo character class but you are trying to plugin game mode as the target

[flat summit]

ahh

yea make sense i guess

so how can i do that then?

[frosty heron]

You get a ref of your bp runner character

[flat summit]

how do i do that? im new on this sorry

[upper badger]

Like this? The transition still isn't smooth, it looks the same as without the FInterpTo (Boom Length here is the target length, 300)

[dawn gazelle]

Set Boom Length on the inputs.
"Current" on the FinterpTo needs to be reading "Target Arm Length" from the Camera boom.
On Event tick Set Target Arm Length on the Camera Boom to the return value of the FinterpTo

[dawn gazelle]

If you're doing the same as this other person, you would've created a "Points Multi" variable in the Game Mode. If you did that, you would need to drag off from the "As BP Runner Game Mode" pin on the cast node and then type "Points Multi" and it should give you the correct connection.

[flat summit]

the variable i have created is in bp_runnercharacter, and is an integer, is that the same?

ima create one of those in the gamemode anyway but

well i just tried that but it didnt work

[upper badger]

ohhh, ok now I got it! I also missed the interp speed, it was way too high. Thanks a lot :)

[verbal igloo]

yeah but I can't rotate just the camera for some reason, probably because it's attached to the player, and the camera needs to rotate and focus on the npc slowly

not just attach to it

anyone knows how can I rotate the camera in a cinematic way using lerp?

do I have to deattach it from the player?

[flat summit]

I GOT IT

thank you datura!

[radiant bear]

i think everything looks fine but when i run and stop the the character is stuck at a run pose

[surreal peak]

The StopDistance looks fishy

Is that a relative location or world? Cause if World, then you are just getting the distance from 0,0,0 to that point. You'd need to subtract your character location from it first

[radiant bear]

idk how this node calculates it it's from locomotion animation library plugin

let me see if i can peak c++ for that node

FVector UAnimCharacterMovementLibrary::PredictGroundMovementStopLocation(const FVector& Velocity, 
    bool bUseSeparateBrakingFriction, float BrakingFriction, float GroundFriction, float BrakingFrictionFactor, float BrakingDecelerationWalking)
{
    FVector PredictedStopLocation = FVector::ZeroVector;

    float ActualBrakingFriction = (bUseSeparateBrakingFriction ? BrakingFriction : GroundFriction);
    const float FrictionFactor = FMath::Max(0.f, BrakingFrictionFactor);
    ActualBrakingFriction = FMath::Max(0.f, ActualBrakingFriction * FrictionFactor);
    float BrakingDeceleration = FMath::Max(0.f, BrakingDecelerationWalking);

    const FVector Velocity2D = Velocity * FVector(1.f, 1.f, 0.f);
    FVector VelocityDir2D;
    float Speed2D;
    Velocity2D.ToDirectionAndLength(VelocityDir2D, Speed2D);

    const float Divisor = ActualBrakingFriction * Speed2D + BrakingDeceleration;
    if (Divisor > 0.f)
    {
        const float TimeToStop = Speed2D / Divisor;
        PredictedStopLocation = Velocity2D * TimeToStop + 0.5f * ((-ActualBrakingFriction) * Velocity2D - BrakingDeceleration * VelocityDir2D) * TimeToStop * TimeToStop;
    }

    return PredictedStopLocation;
}

[surreal peak]

Hm okay, might be just the Velocity length then sort of

😅 was worth a shot

[radiant bear]

yea

i'm only getting the length

atm the animation is not playing

it's just stuck on previous anim pose

i think it's something to with the animation but if i can log messages from anim states

how do i check if the return value is null in bp?

[pallid nest]

Good morning guys, I am creating this function to grab items pressing E and also adding a PhysicConstraint in the capsule component. My item has simulate physic activate and with a mass of 30kg it fly away when I press E, any ideas what could be wrong with the physics please ?

[trim matrix]

30 kg donut

[tribal gazelle]

How can I get the max screen resolution of a player?

[dawn gazelle]

#blueprint message
There technically is no max.

There is a node for getting supported full screen resolutions.

[mossy vessel]

so I have an actor and trying to trigger a linetracebychannel on the actor in the anim state noftfiy but its not working. However when I put the code in the character it works.... the code meaning the line tracebychannel code

is the the wrong way to cast an actor

on the animnotify?

[tribal gazelle]

I mean max screen resolution for the player's PC. Not possible?

[dawn gazelle]

If you're running windowed, you can set the resolution larger than any single monitor resolution.

Full screen is different in that it will need to run on a single monitor.

So you can get the full screen supported resolutions, and loop through them to find the largest of the available resolutions.

[pallid nest]

haha if I do normal weight it fly away sooooo hard (characrer is very little :p)

[desert flame]

Ive got these cube actors that just move side to side. When i drag them in, press play, it works. But if i spawn them. They stand idley still, despite the fact print string says its going through the move forward code fine.

[hushed topaz]

Is your project networked? if so, you need to read up on how replication works, make sure the actor is set to replicate

[desert flame]

Its not a multiplayer game

[hushed topaz]

When do you guys use Sets over Arrays? For me, I find the only useful thing about sets is the uniqueness of elements, but then you can just force arrays to be unique with 'addunique' node

[hushed topaz]

Then you need to provide a lot more information on how you've set your cubes to move. 'Print String says its going through the code' isn't enough to validate your code is good enough / working as intended

Best practice when asking questions which can be complicated is to print-snip a snippet of the code that's relevant to your question

[desert flame]

It says it goes through this fine, but it just doesnt move.

[dawn gazelle]

I generally only use sets when I need to use the set functions to compare against other sets, like Union, Difference, Intersection. Basically converting arrays to sets then doing the comparisons.

@hushed topaz

[desert flame]

It works fine when you press play, but if you spawn one in midgame they just dont move.

[hushed topaz]

That's a good shout actually, didnt know they had that functionality

[hushed topaz]

Not sure, Ive only used movement input for player controlled actors.

If you are spawning one you need to check what controller is possessing it. Not sure if you need to get into AI and add a simple Behaviour Tree for 'MoveTo' tasks.

Adding movement input only routes to the controller class (maybe playercontroller) and asks it to tell the CMC (Character Movement Component) to move it

Depending on your use case, you may be better off forcing actor movement

[desert flame]

But shouldnt it spawn with the same controller as if i were to drag one into the scene then press play?

I tried ticking force before, didnt change anythin

[dawn gazelle]

There is a setting on pawns:

[desert flame]

Yep! That was it. I remembered doing something like that similar years ago but couldnt remember what it was called. Thanks!

[hushed topaz]

No. Very likely you are possessing it with your default playercontroller class. Check the setting Datura snipped.

[carmine jackal]

Hi all! Total beginner. I'm trying to mess with blueprints and just trying to understand stuff. Why is it that I can use Event ActorBeginCursorOver from an Actor blueprint, but not an ActorComponent blueprint? Am I misunderstanding the purpose of ActorComponent? I essentially just want to make an ActorComponent that I can add to any actor to have that specific behavior (in this case, I just want to print a debug string on hover). If I'm misunderstanding, what should I be using to achieve a similar behavior? Thanks!

[spiral kite]

how can I fix it

Preview written on all the walls

[dawn gazelle]

Because an Actor Component isn't the same thing as an Actor. What you can do is get the owner of the component (which will be an actor) and bind to the ActorBeginCurosrOver event dispatcher, and then you'll be able to access when the actor is moused over from within your component.

[spark steppe]

build the static lighting

main menu => build => build lighting only

the preview text is to inform you that the light may not represent the final result

[dawn gazelle]

It'd look something like this - which if the actor has this component, will print the actor's name as it appears in the outliner when the mouse gets hovered over the actor.

[carmine jackal]

Thank you! That worked! I had to fumble around with the event binding (had no idea what it was) but it still wouldn't work. Your screenshot helped (Had to start from Event Begin Play). Thanks so much! That opens up a lot for me to continue with 😄

[trim matrix]

how do i see the current speed of my character? i want to see if my walk/run toggle thing is working properly

[frosty heron]

If you are using character movement component. Get the comp->get velocity

[hybrid hare]

hi, I'm using a add controller yaw imput associated to a button allowing a utrun by 45 degrees angles but i's like the rotation to be slower

[mossy vessel]

Is it better to go with singlelintraceby channel for sword collosion or just use collision spheres ?

[hybrid hare]

What can I use to slow down rotation / yaw ?

[spark steppe]

change the rotation rate in the character movement component

or interpolate to your target manually

[hybrid hare]

@spark steppe ok, i'll try. The first solution would work with this ?

[versed sun]

Can you hide unused pins ?

[fallen glade]

SHould unit vector ever give me this return? I was under the impression that unit vector means a value of 1 always? something I'm not understanding here

lenght is 1, shouldn't this be -0.5,0.5,0 though?

[gentle urchin]

.707 is correct

https://chortle.ccsu.edu/vectorlessons/vch09/vch09_6.html

[versed sun]

It is a vector 1 unit away from 0,0, or a point on a circle
yours is on a 45°, so it would look like this
the red arrow is up .707 and over .707

[modern radish]

is there a "reverse sequence" node in blueprints? to avoid this kind of thing?
something that takes a bunch of execs as input, outputs a single exec

[versed sun]

thats it

[dreamy mountain]

what would i set as the object for this blueprint? ive tried googline like blueprint communication but cant find anything of use
the first photo is the collectible, the second one is the like target goal blueprint

[paper gate]

this happening when i set brush from texture

[heady crypt]

You need to have an object of ScoreCompletion somewhere to parse an object and attempt to cast to it, what is ScoreCompletion though? tally? gameoverscore?

If it's a PlayerScore you could store it in your PlayerState, then get player state->get ScoreCompletion, and if it's ScoreCompletion you won't need to do a cast, just do a IsValid?

your PlayerState will need a cast to your custom PlayerState though

[dreamy mountain]

scorecompletion is a blueprint which will, at the minute, make a health bar appear when the totalscore variable hits 5 but when i actually get it to show, itll show an indicator that all the collectibles in the level are collected

[heady crypt]

right, it's a 3 🌟 candy crush tester ?

you'll have to attach it to an actor/object, since it's a Score thing, you should probably put it on PlayerState if you want it to store and be used in different levels

if it's completely temporary and has no purpose after you click [Next]/[Main Menu] you could just make one on your Character, and call it locally

[versed sun]

@dreamy mountain

[heady crypt]

aw

score 0 == false and 1+ is true

no fair Ryck

[versed sun]

anything Not 0 == true

[dreamy mountain]

ive just put it into the collectible and called it, and it works

[heady crypt]

why your lines so nice

[dreamy mountain]

also, what would i need to do to make a ui element appear on screen on play? one that doesnt let the player move or anything

[heady crypt]

make a hud that covers the screen +5% or so, with a button to collapse it when you want them to go, but change the Input to GameMode

[versed sun]

Electric nodes plugin

[heady crypt]

drat

[distant hollow]

Try Select

[dreamy mountain]

ive got a basic menu, i just dont know what to from the actual blueprint side of stuff

[barren drum]

Hello, if I create a c++ UObject class and add that as a c++ blueprint variable to an actor. Why can't I edit the properties?

UENUM()
enum class NpcFriendlyType : uint8
{
    Visitor     UMETA(DisplayName = "Visitor"),
    DeskClerk   UMETA(DisplayName = "DeskClerk"),
    Nurse       UMETA(DisplayName = "Nurse"),
    Doctor      UMETA(DisplayName = "Doctor"),
};

UCLASS(BlueprintType)
class HOSPITAL_API UNpcFriendlyStatus : public UObject
{
    GENERATED_BODY()
    
public:    
    UNpcFriendlyStatus();

    UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite)
    NpcFriendlyType NpcType = NpcFriendlyType::Visitor;

NpcType here is visible but I can't edit it in the editor. (it's grayed out)

[heady crypt]

throw this after you add to viewport

and make sure you have something that's covering the entire screen behind your buttons that is set to visible, it can be 100% transparent or high transparent so players can see behind it but know it's obscuring their screen to block inputs

border/image

if you search for visi, and visibillity is not set to visible, you won't block click/mouse inputs

[dreamy mountain]

ill add an image behind it

what do i put into the player controller?

[heady crypt]

get player controller

[dreamy mountain]

sorry for asking a lot of questions

still very very new to blue[pritns and unreal lol

[dawn gazelle]

UENUM(BlueprintType) and change UPROPERTY(VIsibleAnywhere) to UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)

[dreamy mountain]

i got it lol, needed to get player state

[heady crypt]

are you doing UI in PlayerState instead of PlayerController ?

[dreamy mountain]

bp_firstpersongamemode

is that wrong?

[heady crypt]

you're doing it in GameMode ?

[dreamy mountain]

yes

is that wrong?

[heady crypt]

It's unconventional

you can do it anywhere if you want to call all the right places to force connections

[dreamy mountain]

wheres the best place to do it

[heady crypt]

but PlayerController is the place it's usually done

[dreamy mountain]

or most ideal

[heady crypt]

since it's the Input hub

There is a HUD class you can use from the PlayerController, but that's when you make your own HUD object and PlayerController objects

[dreamy mountain]

ok

[remote meteor]

i usually let HUD to handle all UI

since it acts as a hub to manage all the viewport elements

[heady crypt]

that's what I've been doing since 5.2, using HUD class

ThirdPerson template uses Character lol

[modern radish]

not exactly what I wnated.. just like a node to merge a bunch of Execs

[pallid nest]

Hi guys, I am using a BP called Good Sky that I really like it. I am trying to be able to change its properties through BP, is there any action that makes this function? the only one I found is add child actor and I don't really know how to use/dont think it could be used for this purpose.

[dawn gazelle]

That's basically just a reroute node or conneting all the pins into one exec.

[remote meteor]

to keep things simple 😅

[heady crypt]

Just make a Macro with out pins and act like it's fancy

[modern radish]

I see yes, it works I know. I was just wondering if there was a proper node

[dreamy mountain]

how would i make a cursor be visible?

[heady crypt]

input mode UI

since you don't want them clicking on the game

I think it disables key/controller inputs iirc

oh, show cursor sorry

[remote meteor]

PlayerController->bShouldShowCursor

[heady crypt]

^

[dreamy mountain]

Ok

so ive made the variable, set the default value to true and it doesnt show, do i need to reference it anywhere?

[heady crypt]

made?

did you make bShouldShowCursor?

[dreamy mountain]

thats showmousecursor or shouldshowcursor, thats where i got confused

sorted now tho, thanks

i cant find the event for when the button is clicked, like, i searched click, clicked, press, pressed, etc, nothing shows that would be of use

[heady crypt]

in your Widget, touch the button, all it's events are there for you to add what you want

[dawn gazelle]

Widget buttons won't show those events unless the button is marked as a variable up at the top right for some reason.

[heady crypt]

in case you don't know this is graph view

[dreamy mountain]

ah ok

[heady crypt]

button should default variable though

[dawn gazelle]

Doesn't do it in mine for some reason (5.2.1) seen others struggling to find the events too and that was the cause.

[heady crypt]

weird

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah earlier versions I know it always had them there.

[heady crypt]

working fine in 5.3.1

are animation layers fixed yet though

[river wigeon]

why does this blueprint function library always go trough the return node, although i have a branch inside?

even if its true it returns

[dreamy mountain]

ok so i tried doing a thing, tried removing a widget, ive got the blueprint in mainmenu_widget but it doesnt remove the button and the title

[versed sun]

On the outside of a function , the return Exec will always fire

[river wigeon]

but i dont wanna use a function inside, i want to call this on every actor

[dawn gazelle]

Functions don't just stand around waiting forever. Once there is nothing left to execute, they're done.

[heady crypt]

w/e widget has the things you want to hide, you have to store it not just add it to the viewport, so you can call it later to go away/show, if you have the [continue] button in the widget, make the root of it a variable too, so you can grab it to Set Visibility(Collapsed)

[versed sun]

you can Drag the a line from to red Return Value pin to the purple Return Node text
that will add a bool pin on the outside of your function that you can Branch off of

[crystal crown]

Hey. Don't know where to ask this but what alternative can i use for use controller rotation? If i use it root motion won't rotate my character properly

[heady crypt]

if your animation is using root motion and it breaks your capsule you might have an #animation problem you need resolved

[crystal crown]

Well i've been scratching my head for 8 hours to figure out why my root motion only moves the translation. Now i released control rotation yaw and it rotates properly too. So animation should be all good

So now i have to change my controls to rotate the character with the camera, something instead of controller rotation

[heady crypt]

your animation isn't rotating the character?

it's rotating the mesh?

[crystal crown]

it wasn't if i was using controller rotation. it was only moving character translation

[dreamy mountain]

im confused lol

[heady crypt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8beK9FMe0

[dreamy mountain]

i want both the title and button to go away and fuck off, would remove widget not do that?

[crystal crown]

the root motion yes. but now i'm losing the control for the character to follow camera rotation, when not playing animation

[versed sun]

you have to enable bCanfuckoff

[heady crypt]

lol

Ryck

[mental trellis]

Why do these look like 90s web buttons? 😦

[heady crypt]

I didn't make it

[mental trellis]

It's more rhetorical!

[heady crypt]

but it's fast cause it's Gorka

gotta be bright and flashy for the kiddos ?

[barren drum]

Thanks for the help! 🙂

[crystal crown]

Figured it out. Just had to use a bool before & after montage

[heady crypt]

bUseContRot = false and bUseContRot = true before and after?

[crystal crown]

yes

[heady crypt]

just sounds like your anima BP is wrong

[crystal crown]

in which way?

[heady crypt]

you should haven't to turn useContRota on/off, just cause of an animation

but #animation would be able to diagnose your issue better

[violet plank]

Hi guys, I am developing right now with small team game which is based of world of warcraft arena gameplay. Problem is I can't set collision from unique ability to hit ONLY the target I am selecting

Do you have any idea how can I do it cause there will be few enemies and few allies in game and I don't want to allow to intercept abilities sent in one enemy by another(talking about projectiles)?

[lofty rapids]

the power always goes through, i don't think you can "stop" it

in general with programming functions usually return something in every path, even if it's undefined

[stone pelican]

How can I make an editable textbox trigger a boolean if a certain word is input?

[versed sun]

use ===

[gentle urchin]

Compare the word

[dawn gazelle]

Change collision so it overlaps. Set target actor as a property within the projectile and when an overlap occurs, check if Other Actor == Target Actor, and then you can destroy and apply the damage to the target.

[violet plank]

Can you give me some documentation about this one?

[merry ridge]

hey there, I'm completely stuck getting the default character to move. The character takes input (at least it prints the correct values) and I can move the camera but the character won't move at all. Would anyone be able to quickly hop into a voice channel with me to help me out?

[stone pelican]

Is this alright so far? I don't know what to put for the B option in the ===. I only started yesterday

[lofty rapids]

probably make literal, and check against the text you want to match

as far as the cast goes, you'll have to figure out how to get the rifle, maybe with a variable you saved a reference

[lofty rapids]

is your camera in the character ?

[merry ridge]

yeah it's all part of one actor

[lofty rapids]

when you move, how do you do that ?

[merry ridge]

I just restarted the engine and now am getting error's from the animation blueprint 😬

[merry ridge]

I use the add movement input function

or node i guess

[lofty rapids]

you set your character as default pawn in override ?

because floating around the camera is the default

[dawn gazelle]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/collision-filtering

[merry ridge]

in the game mode you mean? I see the character and it rotates as desired

[violet plank]

Thanks

[lofty rapids]

and your movement inputs are firing ?

[merry ridge]

yeah

[lofty rapids]

hmm, if it's set to default pawn class in the override it should be working

but you could also show the movement code to see if someone sees a problem

[merry ridge]

I copied the movement from the default third person bp

[lofty rapids]

well if your movement isn't working, it's probably not possessed

or your inputs are f'd but you said they are firing

[golden gull]

Guys I have this interaction blueprint code in my TopDownController which basically allows me to invoke interact on interactable objects. One such object is a door and it just changes rotation on it to mimic opening and closing it. For some reason it doesn't work, when I run up to it and stand in its box collision and click e, nothing happens. Any ideas?

[sleek elbow]

can anyone suggest me any channel for blueprints

[lofty rapids]

did you copy the part on begin play where it add context ?

[lofty rapids]

#blueprint

[stone pelican]

I'm so confused. How can I change the variable of a different blueprint?

[merry ridge]

yeah it's weird, maybe my actor is fucked... After restarting the engine the character mesh is empty in the details panel

[lofty rapids]

oh no, what version ?

[merry ridge]

5.3

[lofty rapids]

is your details panel empty ?

[merry ridge]

there's no onbeginplay in the third person character bp 🤔

[merry ridge]

yeah

[lofty rapids]

i'm pretty sure there is, where it adds the mapping context

[merry ridge]

i'll quickly redo the actor maybe it fixes stuff

[lofty rapids]

if you didn't add this part, it won't work

you need to select the mapping context to use for enhanced input

but you said the inputs are firing, so i'm guessing it's in there

[merry ridge]

hmm okay so i rebuilt the thing and now it takes input at least

as in it moves

[frosty heron]

Get a reference to the instance u r trying to change

[merry ridge]

without the context tho 😄

[stone pelican]

How can I do that again

[lofty rapids]

did you just use action mapping ?

[golden gull]

It looks like everything is correct what I did but it just doesn't work, the door implements the interface and everything but when it makes the check if door implements the interface it doesn't trigger :/

[frosty heron]

By getting ref, there are many ways to do it, how you get it, depends on case basis.

Eg when overlapping, or passing down ref to an actor etc etc.

Watch blueprint live communication pinned in this channel if you struggle with referencing

[merry ridge]

if by that you mean just getting the input events that i set up in the project input settings then yes

[lofty rapids]

ya, not enhanced input, so you don't need the context

[violet plank]

I try to print overlapped element, but it shows nothing

[merry ridge]

alright thanks 😄 Now I have a bunch of other stuff to figure out but I'll try to resolve that on my own first

[frosty heron]

Then it overlap nothing. Check your collision channel and setting

To begin with I don't see any collision for the actor

Add collision component like a box or w.e

[violet plank]

Collision settings

[frosty heron]

Your ability projectile don't seems to have any collision

[violet plank]

ability root have collision

[frosty heron]

Well I don't know that

If u don't get overlap event it doesn't collife

Type show collision in pie

And check if there is an actual collision for the projectile

[late hemlock]

Hi is there any one could help me about online replication on my project? i am having a problem with spawning a inventory actor out of the inventory in client it spawns but i doesnt show up on server but in server it works well i couldnt figure it out for like 6 hours :/

[violet plank]

What? Sorry I haven't understood this one. I am new to ue5(working for two weeks)

[frosty heron]

Show the collision for your projectile

Visually

[frosty heron]

Most of the spawn should be done on server side , don't multicast

[late hemlock]

yeah but it doesnt work when i make it in only server also

[frosty heron]

U only spawn on client for things that u want only the client to see. Eg cosmetic or ui sound

[violet plank]

I am idiot, now it shows everything

It was unchecked XD

[frosty heron]

Well I'm not saying that's Ur entire problem but your spawning already a red flag

[late hemlock]

then where should i spawn it like maybe player controller?

[frosty heron]

Works now?

[violet plank]

Yeah

[frosty heron]

Where you call it doesn't matter functionality wise. But when it comes to rpc, you can only invoke rpc from objects you owned. Eg player controller or player pawn. #multiplayer for more direction

[golden gull]

Why does this not work in topdowncontroller but works in topdowncharacter class?

[versed sun]

A controller doesn't "Overlap" Anything

[lofty rapids]

because the target is self on get overlapping actors

[versed sun]

plug Get Player Character in the Target of Get Overlapped actors

[violet plank]

In the end I made it something like this

[golden gull]

Ah thanks guys! Another question, this piece of code belongs more in the controller class and not character class right?

[violet plank]

Cause I have already event on hit and applying damage to character

[dawn gazelle]

If you want this code to be independent from the character the player is controlling, sure.

[tight pollen]

hi, I would like to create tables, what is the best way?

[versed sun]

Data or Dinning ?

[fast compass]

My events in my animation play 4 times everytime the occur - i tried both Play Sound and a custom notify that simply prints a string, and both seem to play 4 times.

What could cause this? Can it my my animation blueprint somehow, or the locomotion? When i preview the animation, it seems fine and does not seem to fire multiple times.

[lofty rapids]

the notify is firing four times ?

so the animation is running four times ?

or you have four triggers

?

it's always good to post some code as well, probably where it fires 4 times, and how you call it

[fast compass]

So i was trying to implement Play Sound for the footstep during the walk animation, right now I only have one notify in that animation clip - and that specific notify seems to fire 4 times

I'll send a screenshot, give me a second

This is how my notify is setup

[distant hollow]

Could have either been in a loop, or you have four copies of the blueprint doing that

Show us the blueprint where it calls the animation.

[fast compass]

The walk animation is part of a blend space, inside the walk state.

Here is the blend space for walk

Is it possible that the transition towards the Walk state is somehow called multiple times so there are multiple instances of that state running each frame?

[fast compass]

I think I've found the issue.. I am using the same ABP for different parts of the characters body, so no wonder this behaviour occurs. Thanks.

[distant hollow]

Yep so it’s the multiple copies of the blueprint

[fast compass]

Yeah, makes total sense in hindsight. 🙂

[distant hollow]

Pass it on, we all learn from mistakes. It happened to me before, that’s how I know. 🙂

[fast compass]

Yeah very true. Switched over from Unity to Unreal amidst all the chaos that happened in September, so these things tend to happen quite a bit atm

[idle pelican]

Yo folks! Im struggling a little bit with camera blending and possessing different pawns. For example I have 2 pawns: A and B. I want to blend from A to B, wait 2 secs, and come back to B (A->B->A). As you can see on the video, the second blend is not smooth (camera "jumps" at the end). Do you know how can I fix that? I prepared the most basic setup to repro this issue. I was playing around with "Lock outgoing" but it doesn't help at all.

[versed sun]

Is your input still moving the pawns? try Unpossess>ViewBlend>Delay1>ViewBlend>Delay2>Possess

[wooden wagon]

I am trying to make a pickup system with BP Interfaces but i don't know why it doesn't work. The first image is the linetracing function that i made in the character bp and the second image was made in my PickUp Base BP. Someone knows what i missed?

[idle pelican]

Unpossess completely brokes blending from A->B. I added "StopMovementImmedately" and "DisapleInput" when overlapping but it doesnt work as well. Still have jump on the end,

[versed sun]

hmm, what if you unhook after 2nd Set View Blend ?

[lofty rapids]

is the branch going to false ? are you getting a blocking hit ?

[idle pelican]

What do you mean by unhook? If you mean blend without possesion, it works

[versed sun]

the white Exec lines

[idle pelican]

I did it and jump is not noticeable at all now. So basically "jump" is connected directly with repossesion A pawn

[wooden wagon]

If i press F (my keybind) there should a message pop up (Successful) but it doesn't

[lofty rapids]

the first thing i would check is the line trace, make sure your getting a blocking hit

and you can even draw debug to check where it's going

[wooden wagon]

the linetrace is not working either

don't know why

[lofty rapids]

so the first interact function isn't firing the line trace ? when do you try to run it ?

[wooden wagon]

you can see it in the second image

right after i press F it should fire

[lofty rapids]

so put a print string on that triggered

[wooden wagon]

already did

that works

the key is not the problem

[lofty rapids]

and a print string comming out o interact ?

[wooden wagon]

yep

also works

[lofty rapids]

what is interact trace length ?

set to

[wooden wagon]

i am an idiot

thanks

it was on 0

xd

[modern radish]

can I generate random integers within specified range using strings as a seed? Needs to be deterministic

I'm trying Random Stream but it only accepts Integer seed

[dawn gazelle]

You can use that to convert your string to an int then create your stream from the int.

[modern radish]

But my strings are composed of letters, will this work?

[dawn gazelle]

Eh.. That doesn't seem to do much of anything actually lol

[modern radish]

I need to somehow hash it, deterministically

[dawn gazelle]

Well, there's a plugin called Low Entry Extended Standard Library that gives you a few a node that'll let you convert the string to bytes. Those bytes could then be converted to an int32 which you can use to create your stream.

Otherwise, you'd have to to work with the string and manually convert each character to a value

[modern radish]

I have Low End. Which node you mean?

String to Bytes, perhaps

[dawn gazelle]

Actually I'm not too sure about that either... They all seem to want a specific encoding scheme

This one should do it I believe... It's encoding the string into UTF-8 by its description.

[modern radish]

what will taht give, Utf-8?

If I pipe something like AaCBbaB

[dawn gazelle]

Well, the bytes are just an intermediate state. It gives you an array of bytes which can be converted to an integer value.

[lofty rapids]

"Up to the first 4 bytes in the array will be used for the conversion."

[modern radish]

not reliable then, I should probably loop over them

[dawn gazelle]

Which is fine as int32 = 4 bytes.

So if you hash it, you can guarantee at least 4 bytes will be generated which can then be used to create the stream. So you'd still end up with 4.2 billion starting points for your stream.

[ebon olive]

How do i spawn on one by one (on loop) and on timer from here? 😦

[lofty rapids]

you want them to spawn one after another, but not all at once, at a spaced out time ?

one guess would be to put a delay based on the index * WaitAmount

probably not the best, i'm still new to unreal might be better solutions

[grim sand]

A little bit confused by this error message that pops up when using an interface event in the child of a parent that has the interface implemented:

Cannot override 'BPI_ContextualActions_C::Harvest' at Event Harvest which was declared in a parent with a different signature

[grim sand]

It seems to happen when I add an input variable to the interface event

[grim sand]

Ah I see. After adding the specific event to the parent blueprint, the error disappears. I am not entirely sure why (which scared me slightly), but for now I can continue on

[versed sun]

You can only add variables to interface nodes when you are in the interface itself
If you add variables in the implemented side , you're going to have a bad time.

[grim sand]

Oh yea for sure. I should have been more clear and say that I added the variable in the interface itself, not on the implementation side 😄

[tough badge]

so I have a question

[versed sun]

gotcha

[tough badge]

so I reparented my first person character bp by mistake and undoing broke a lot

one that I can't figure out is it made the entire thing invisible in editor does anyone know how to fix that?

[static charm]

it's invisible for me too because I can't see your screen

[tough badge]

truee lemme snap a pic

[grim sand]

Yea you are going to have to reparent it to something else, and then parent it back to the base parent whatever it was

[grim sand]

I checked, after parenting it back to something else, you have to reparent it to the "Character" class. That will fix it

This has been an issue since like UE4.8 from what I can remember 😅

[tough badge]

alright I'll try reparenting it agian

thanks for the help!!

[grim sand]

No worries 😄

[tough badge]

didn't seem to work unfortunately

I can get the model to show up in game but the movement is busted

[grim sand]

Yea you are going to have to reset your movement variables to whatever they were before. That stuff doesn't save when it breaks like this

[tough badge]

ah heck alrighty then

I'll do that then and report back in an hour

[grim sand]

Yea it sucks. Generally speaking this is the reason why we try to avoid CRTL+Z too many times in a row, or when going back to a previous parent 🙂

[tough badge]

well I know for the future now! Thanks again

[keen tinsel]

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weird question , im trying to load a random level by name , and then removing that level name from the index to avoid repetition , so when testing with print string only , everything works fine , but once i use the node "load level by name " , the remove index doesnt work , any fix or work around ?

[loud tree]

Dunno how you're doing it, but you could try running a check until the level is loaded, then remove the index on true

Otherwise maybe something like
Make an array for all the levels (Dunno if you can remove index from things like enums)

Shuffle array
Get index 0
-> set a text variable with it
Then remove the index, load level based on text variable

[dawn gazelle]

Anything after the "Load Level By Name" node can be thought to not happen.
The array itself would need to be contained on the Game Instance, and you'd have to promote the name to a variable and then remove it from the array, then use the variable to open the level.

[keen tinsel]

ill send u a pic

im removing the index before the level is loaded this way nothing is after the load level node , yet remove index still doesnt work for some reason

[grim sand]

What happens when you use Remove Item instead of Remove index?

[lofty rapids]

when are you calling the initial event ? what kind of bp is this ?

[versed sun]

Are you re- initinalize random level array the array before checking to see if Index got removed?

It might be removed , then you reset array

Unless you save the BG levels list somewhere...

[lofty rapids]

loading a level resets a lot of stuff

[versed sun]

everything but Game instance i think

[keen tinsel]

nothing ig

[keen tinsel]

call it in event begin play

[lofty rapids]

so it's probably loading the level, re running that event, and creating the array over again

[keen tinsel]

ignore the event on top , but at the bottom im trying to remove an index to avoid the level being loaded again

[lofty rapids]

you can create an array in the game instance

which you can alter and it will persist across levels

[keen tinsel]

so i should implement whats in the pic , in the game instance ?

makes sense , ill give it a try , thank u

[lofty rapids]

well just the array part

make the array in the instance

and call it / change it whenever you want

[keen tinsel]

aight , ill see how it goes

[versed sun]

custom event

[keen tinsel]

negative

using game instance gave the same results

[pure walrus]

can someone explain in comprehensive term what is 'exclusive time' in the profiler

ok i get it sorry

[lofty rapids]

well are you re initializing the array still ? or only when the game instance init ?

[keen tinsel]

im initializing the array in game instance and call it in begin play of the game mode

and establishing it in game instance

array initialization is in a custom event

[keen tinsel]

oh my bad champ , i completely forgot ur obviouse to use event init for the array , its working now , i deeply appreciate it

[gusty shuttle]

Anyone run into a problem where you use an interface, the message gets sent successfully yet variables don't change as they should?

The True and False get passed on via the interface successfully but the dang anim graph Get'r doesn't update. Any tips?

I'm using 5.3.1 since yesterday and it's just been a buggy mess ever since

[versed sun]

forgot it was animgraph

and you tried printing after you set it in pic 2 ?

[gusty shuttle]

Yes, the anim graph, where it receives the message, prints true and false as needed. It's the GET variable within the anim bp that's not actually updating. It's always false

I tried replacing it, tried a few things. It just seems like the engine is bugged (I've been using Unreal Engine since 4.6) Things are being strange, like groom assets aren't staying in place, I set a variable, compile and save and it forgets it.

And it crashes all the time now too

[gusty shuttle]

Well, almost 2 hours later update, I verified the files, restarted and it seemed to have "fixed" it.

[lofty rapids]

how did you make the timer ? maybe set a variable and after the amount of time you can set it back. So if you press it and that variable is set then it can be used.

[barren dove]

so dumb question
if I delete the print string, the entire thing only fires once then never again, any idea as to why? lol

[surreal peak]

@barren dove it's not set to looping, I don't see why it would fire multiple times in general

Or do you mean when triggering the set timer once more?

[barren dove]

not how it works, the timer is a delay circuit for me to set rate of fire within
if I delete the print string block, the timer will only fire once and then never again and I Have no idea how it would be effecting anything

one sec

[surreal peak]

It shouldn't affect it

[barren dove]

yet here is it doing exactly that

delete print string, compile, relaunch, machine guns no longer fire after the first shot

[surreal peak]

How is this all triggered?

I would suggest you breakpoint this stuff without the print string

You also don't have any errors after stopping to play or?

[barren dove]

the weapon ready toggle appears to stop working even though its nowhere in the path of that print string

[surreal peak]

Again, breakpoint it without the print string

And see where it stops

[dawn gazelle]

What is rate of fire set to?

[barren dove]

900

[frosty wadi]

im triyng to buli am trying to package my project but keep getting this error Failed. Failed to delete staging directory

[barren dove]

okay for some reason the "60" in the division / rate of fire is reading as zero, even though its 60, if i replace it with an int that says 60, it works fine shrug

[static charm]

open task manager for windows and end any Unreal Engine processes. Usually this error means the game is still running even though it doesn't appear on screen.

[dim gust]

i need help, like im on this for 4 days

i need HEEEELP

I wanna be able to click on something on the screen with my mouse cursor

so i did that raycast

problem: Not working

[barren dove]

what are you doing here, multiplying anything by zero is zero

[versed sun]

aww

too slow 😦

[dim gust]

true enough, ive already changed that value thou

[static charm]

Do you see the line trace at all?

[dim gust]

NO!

[barren dove]

as a dumb suggestion
make a new topdown game tpye and steal the code from their mouseclick to move blueprint

iirc its not very complicated

[dim gust]

that wouldnt work i guess

because im trying to click on a world

thats constatly rotating

and i have a child for that world

in a certain country

thats where i wanna click

[barren dove]

yeah this is above my pay grade

[dim gust]

so the coordinates are always changing for my clicking position

[versed sun]

i dont like the Get World Rotation>Get Forward Vec

Try Camera>Get Actor Forward Vec

not sure if same thing

[dim gust]

will try sir

[versed sun]

Liter float should be like 10000

or more

[dim gust]

yeah i have that in mind

will try :3

[versed sun]

try Line trace by chanel, i like that one better

[dim gust]

i did that one

the problem was

it was colliding with something else

u see

my pawn is on a capsule

and we are looking throu a window

in space

and we see the world

[versed sun]

add pawn to Ignore list

[dim gust]

with the line trace by channel it was stopping

[versed sun]

anything that you are hitting that you dont want , ignote

OR, dont Start your trace untill outside the window

[dim gust]

we're never outside the window

imagine ur in a train

[barren dove]

you know its a lot easier to follow what you're saying when you dont break your thought into 20 lines

[dim gust]

and things are passing by outside

[versed sun]

ok

[dawn gazelle]

Why do a trace at all when you can do Get Hit Result Under Cursor?

[versed sun]

and you want to click on trees and cow as they pas by ?

[dim gust]

you can imagine that yes

xD

[versed sun]

wheres camera ? first person ?

[barren dove]

he could theoretically do a trace to the world then grab the nearest actor within a radius to that spot rather than having to snipe out a mesh with his mouse

[dim gust]

camera is on my pawn inside the "train"

is basically attached to my pawn

[versed sun]

can the camera move ?

[dim gust]

nop

[versed sun]

ahhh

it may be tracing

but you cant see it , because it is EXACTLY in your vision

can you try tracing , and jump out of game with.... f5? f8 ? one of those

[dim gust]

yeah i wouldnt say ur right

[versed sun]

but you have to be playing in Viewport

[dim gust]

because i already did F8

let me grab like

a video

1 sec

[versed sun]

ok, does Tick fire ?

kk

[dawn gazelle]

The trace as it is would be tracing from the camera's perspective forward, not from where the mouse is.

[versed sun]

Literal float is literaly 0

[dim gust]

i can change it, it wont change the outcome

i mean it changed

but

it doesnt pass to the world

watch this

LOOOOL

OK

ALSO

I THINK ITS BACKWARDS

x'D

just watch x'D

just dont be harsh with me, its my 1st unreal project for the university xD

we've been playing around with unity until now

glad to be on unreal finally

[versed sun]

so the camera's rotation's forward vector

ehh, im not harsh, iv wasted way more time on simpler things

[dim gust]

im not saying ur being harsh, im saying that im still a newb kinda xD

im good with 3d models but bps its my 1st time ^^

up until now it was always c#

and GDScript with Godot

[versed sun]

Try Camera>Get Actor Forward Vec

[dim gust]

yes sir

but should i delete any of the BPs?

like any link to the camera

[versed sun]

delete Get world Rotation

[dim gust]

and location stays correct?

[versed sun]

yes

[dim gust]

got it

[versed sun]

better ?

if that dosnt work, make your literal float -10000

[dim gust]

ohhhhh that seems like a nice cheat code

[static charm]

it's not backwards, it's instantly hitting the spaceship and registering the "cube/spaceship" as the hit object

the green line is after the hit

[dim gust]

it is backwards, the raycast should be FROM the ship TO the world

[static charm]

the line trace is starting from the spaceship and hitting the spaceship instantly, line traces do not stop

it turns green

[dim gust]

i see what u mean

so u say its hitting the spaceship and continuing

[versed sun]

(I'm color blind, didn't notice)

[dawn gazelle]

You can also tell that it can't be backwards because you aren't referencing the world anywhere. Only the camera.

[dim gust]

thats true

[static charm]

yes line traces always draw the entire length, it just shows the red square where you "hit" something and the green is after the place you hit the thing.

[dim gust]

but in the world it doesnt hit anything, i have to make so the line trace ignores the "spaceship" right?

[static charm]

yup!

[dim gust]

hmmmmm

is there any option for thaat? xD

like a class

or smth

or turn off collision

would that work?

[versed sun]

Actor to Ignore Array

[static charm]

yes you can add actors to the ignore array, or you can change the object type collision of the thing you want to hit, and then change the line trace to only hit that object type.

[dim gust]

Alright my boys! Will try it!

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-use-correctely-actors-ignores-from-line-trace/349043

would this still work?

sorry guys i still have to search on how to do "simple things"

xD

[versed sun]

do you want to hit anything inside the ship ?

[dim gust]

no

just the world

the world has a object children on a country

[versed sun]

ok, just start your trace outside the ship

[dim gust]

and i want to click on that object children

[dim gust]

cant do, the line trace is coming from the camera on my pawn, if i took em out of the ship we wouldnt see the ship

[versed sun]

the same way you calc the End point , do that for start , but literal float is maybe 2000

[radiant bear]

How can i check if there's a return value in thread safe function?

[dim gust]

do a breaking point

[mental trellis]

-ing

[dim gust]

or print it

[radiant bear]

i can't use print string inside thread safe function

[versed sun]

Is Valid

[radiant bear]

i'll try this

[radiant bear]

can't use this too

[dim gust]

yeah just click F9 in the thread

[radiant bear]

i did, break on bp should work like vs right?

stoping the game when the line is called

in this case the node

[dim gust]

yup

it will literally stop anything from the breaking point onwards

[radiant bear]

but nothing happened

the log string was printed

[dim gust]

if nothing happened try to do a breaking point in other place

[radiant bear]

let me try

[dim gust]

because theres obviously something wrong before that

thats basically troubleshooting ^^

[radiant bear]

this is another fun that's in sync with the one above nothing happens here too

and these are only places i can add break points

[dim gust]

did u try to "play the game" with the break points turned on?

[radiant bear]

yea

there's turn on and off fun?

[thick prairie]

Can i have any type of timer/timeline inside a function without calling custom events/functions from outside of the function?

[radiant bear]

me?

[static charm]

you said this was thread safe? If the blueprint is code running async/multi thread, then the default breakpoints won't work.

[radiant bear]

ohh

[dim gust]

he is a lot more knowledgebale than i am so he is right xD

[thick prairie]

I was asking my own question :d

[radiant bear]

can you tell me how i can add one then?

[dim gust]

take a ticket

[radiant bear]

or check if the the return value has a sequence in it

[dim gust]

I liked the other one

[static charm]

so this node doesn't work for you?

[radiant bear]

yeo

yep*

[static charm]

right click the return value, and break it

what options does that return?

[static charm]

(if any at all)