blueprint

[whole ivy]

thanks, i am sure there will be a time i will remember and make use of that .. for now i can finally sleep in peace 😌

[weary flame]

Is there anyway to get the cursor widget in the software cursor? I want it to do some stuff based on events in the game world.

[lunar sleet]

wdym get it?

what cursor widget

i'm confused 😄

[weary flame]

A reference to it so I can activate a custom event I made in the widget.

You can set in the software cursor box the default cursors to use a specific widget. I'd like to get a reference to those custom widgets to activate events inside of them.,

[lunar sleet]

Idk if it's possible to get it from there, maybe through cpp, but you prly shouldn't anyway, rather just get a ref to the widget how you normally would

[weary flame]

" just get a ref to the widget how you normally would" How? I usually get the HUD from the game state and all of the widgets I use are usually referenced there.

[kind estuary]

I use a lot of Random, randbool and FMath::FRandRange in my code.
A friend of mine told me this will be a mess when doing the multiplayer part, because what is random in one machine, will be different in the other.
So he said that a deterministic algorithm is better.
Should i implement this already, or is all this random stuff okay somehow?

[lunar sleet]

exactly

tho you can get the HUD from the player controller too

[weary flame]

Yeah but these aren't there.

[lunar sleet]

you can create refs to them in the HUD iirc

they're still widget bps

might need to actually use Create Widget somewhere tho, not certain

[lunar sleet]

yeah, I think they use something from the hardware from what someone's explained to me. but if 2 players get 2 different results...that is the point of randomness no? You don't really want to be able to predict the algorithm especially when it comes to multiplayer, I imagine?

[weary flame]

Well get all widgets does work. Was just curios if there was another method.

[lunar sleet]

I haven't tried it with software cursors yet but you could try this in your HUD

[weary flame]

That would be still be a different widget, you are creating a different widget object of the same class. That create widget function is probably being done in C++ somewhere in the cursor related classes.

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, that’s what I’m worried about too

I guess short answer to your initial question is likely not without cpp

Other than that get all widgets ofc

[fading otter]

is it possible to listen for console commands and then parse & execute from there?

[kind estuary]

well in my case. i think the randomness must be deterministic.
The reason is this:
So lets say you have some birds in the sky. And you move them around randomly, using checkpoints. Since they are just birds in the sky and have no impact on gameplay, no collision.
Then they can totally be random in the way they move.
But lets say instead you have a cluster of fish, they move mostly together, but have some randomization. However these fish collide and fight against other fish.
Then then their randomness must be deterministic, meaning its still random, and looks natural, but it happens the same way in all machines.
Edit:
And you might say, why not just replicate the movement. Well since its just an effect that makes the cluster of fish look like they are moving in a random natural way, replicating it is not necessary and i think expensive.

[weary flame]

I'll just go with get all. Shouldn't be costly for widget. Thx for your help.

[lunar sleet]

Seems like you should be replicating those variables then, which is something #multiplayer can help with

[kind estuary]

oh damn

i thought i was in #multiplayer

what do i do

remove my comments?

[lunar sleet]

Nah, you can just ask the question again. I’d just add that it seems you wouldn’t need deterministic randomness but just to do it once on the server (which would likely help prevent cheating) and just replicate that across all clients. But ik little of multiplayer

[kind estuary]

okay thanks

[trim matrix]

hey all so i have a player selection widget pages set up, and im trying to figure out how to set it up with actually spawning in the selected character, so when the user clicks play on the blue character they will spawn in the level as the blue one, i currently have the purple monster on default so all i need now is the blue character to spawn in when the player chooses it

any useful resources or pointers would help ammensly!

[true igloo]

The AddAudioComponent node is not available in a UObject derived Blueprint. Is there a way to get it to be added? would i just need an include in the .h file?

[trim matrix]

i doubt it

u might wanna ask this in #cpp , i'm sure ppl there would know for sure

[true igloo]

Well if there a way in BP

I guess is the question.

[trim matrix]

why do u need it to be a object?

[true igloo]

Its a UObject class, Its not an Actor. Its a manager that is already coded, but I didn't realize I couldn't extend it to include audio features, I guess I can remedy that in cpp but since i'm doing audio in BP, I figured it'd be nice to solve it in BP

[trim matrix]

or better yet, why do u need to add the audio comp to the obj?

[true igloo]

Its a Dialogue Manager, So voice recording could be managed directly in the class, at least ofr now until I get a full featured audio layer that it will just call from, so its not imperative, but would save some time in the interim.

[trim matrix]

u might wanna add audio comp to the owner yea

[primal schooner]

(sigh) still dealing with this issue. Maybe its a race condition i dunno. But what is the correct terminology when talking about the thing that triggers an event and the thing that handles it? For example here:

The OnHealthChanged_Event. I've just been calling them "the blue one" and "the red one" because they're both named exactly the same. Both are called "events" and its super confusing lol. Qt has the concept of "Signals" and "Slots" which makes it easier. But yeah, what are these haha

[lofty rapids]

do you have multiple levels ?

[tribal gazelle]

Can anyone please help me with this error? I am trying to spawn weapon actors in a foreach loop. Is that error because the array is empty/spawning empty class?

Oh sorry you're in another conversation

Ahh is valid node fixes it.

[elfin hazel]

It looked like it was the reference target you were setting the properties of that was null, rather than the spawned actor. And if this happens in a for loop of an array that is empty, then this simply won't execute and shouldn't give a warning.

[lofty rapids]

you can use the game instance to save your choice

[trim matrix]

1 main menu level and then the level itself where the player is in

im just not sure how to create the blueprint for the character select

[primal schooner]

Alright I'm starting to feel like this problem I'm having is similar to what happens when you have code generation issues and your code is literally just executing random instructions. Is something like this possible for blueprint? Everytime I close UE and reopen it, I'm getting completely different behavior in this blueprint

like right now, this makes no sense:
100 / 100 is not 0, but that's what is in the Value pin right now

[dawn gazelle]

Is the default parameter of the material 0?

Not only this, but you're stopping the execution at this node, so it hasn't had a chance to evaluate its inputs.

[primal schooner]

what do you mean by evaluate its inputs? Isn't breakpointing at the node the entire point of being able to view the value of input pins in real time? Do you have to execute the next node to see what was passed into the last one?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, you usually do

So hit next and hover over previous

[primal schooner]

oh wow.. okay that's good to know. So if there's not a next node what do you usually do?

[lunar sleet]

If you don’t have another node put a print string or whatever

[gusty shuttle]

Question: Data Tables, is there another way to pass info to them? Goal is to set up a trigger volume, inside has a public data table variable so I can easily select which data table to use for that volume.
My Actor which calls the widget passes that data table get through to the widget, yet within the widget, I can't pass that info through. Any ideas?

[primal schooner]

okay

[lunar sleet]

You don’t pass data to them. They’re readonly afaik

Didn’t we have this convo? 😀

[gusty shuttle]

Understood. Thanks! Its a bit of a bummer. I'll make a work around

If we did it was YEARS ago haha

[lunar sleet]

I may have answered that question for someone else

[gusty shuttle]

I was making a 2D game back in like 2018

[lunar sleet]

You can only put stuff in them before runtime from what I know

[gusty shuttle]

Indeed. I'll find a way, notes are easy to do

Thanks for taking the time to answer again haha

[compact vapor]

My function has a float input, is there a way to check whether or not the function was given an actual value via the float input upon function call?
(TLDR, how to tell if function call input is blank) ?

[warped saddle]

is this node supposed get the current time in a sequence and then after sequence finishes it comes back and loops it?

[urban zealot]

Hi Guys hows it going i was making a VR fps in UE5 5.1 and was having some issues with AI detecting my VR pawn, has anyone encountered this issue by any chance? i couldnt find much about it online

and im having tons of issues with it, if anyone knows how to fix it i would really appreciate it thanks 😄

[dawn gazelle]

You can pass variables by reference but there's no means to validate whether a valid input was provided within the function, but it can give you an error if you place the node without having an input connected to it.

You also need to be careful using this as you may set values back to the actual reference variable which may not necessarily be the behaviour you want.

[primal schooner]

Alright I think my HealthWidget text initialization plight has to do with initialization order in general.

When I add that delay, it works perfectly. I'm assuming because the rest of this blueprint continues on the next event loop or something to that effect

But that sucks to have to do that, I'd rather just understand why my widget doesn't exist yet in the EventConstruct event. Is there a safer hook where I can be sure that the widget whose text I'm trying to change actually exists?

That's the layout.. does a root widget not initialize its children until later or something?

[sleek elbow]

how to fix the flickering issue

[loud tree]

What I do is

Isvalid node > true > code
False>delay until next tick> loop

Sorry didn't realize that autocorrected to invalid

[compact vapor]

any resources on displaying graphs / curves in 3d space?
hoping to see x and y values change at runtime but in a way that I could visualize

[fiery moon]

looks like z fighting, so overlapping meshes, don't overlap them? =p

[primal schooner]

(sigh) yeah.. I really don't like that though. You shouldn't have to arbitrarily delay your init code until the next tick. I think I'm getting closer to figuring it out. I have a branch node that's failing which is why my SetText isn't getting called. But its failing because this is returning 0

So.. maybe there's something besides GetCachedGeometry that I can call

[loud tree]

Even if you don't delay it try the isvalid. It often will clear some errors up

[primal schooner]

okay

[frosty heron]

clearing doesn't mean fixing tho, you shouldn't access something that you have not initialised yet.
So for example if I try to access my inventory but the item is not added yet, I will get the error. Adding is valid check here will just prevent accessing the item but that doesn't fix the issue with the fact that I tried to access it
when it's not initialised. So I end up with no warning but bugged inventory

I think it's okay if you are trying to access something on tick event

but outside of that, you want to at least print string on Not valid

[loud tree]

I forgot to add that. But I know the isvalid isn't a magic tool to make it work, but if it is an initialization priority/timing issue it will definitely be shown at that point because it will fail. or if it's just being unreal it'll pass it through as intended.

[primal schooner]

Hmm is there any node that's closer to an if statement than Branch?

[dawn gazelle]

Branch is an if statement.

[primal schooner]

eh.. kinda. In an if statement you can still execute code outside of it after the if statement

[dawn gazelle]

Connect a sequence node before the branch

[primal schooner]

ahhh perfect!! thanks 🙂

[teal nexus]

kinda works, but not really :/

for some reason, if I feed it all 3 values - new location is always in a different place than before. Say first I give it -10 forward, 0 right and -5 up. It ends up way the hell down on Up axis, definitely more than -5 units. Then I give it all the same, but +10 up. It ends up almost at the same location on Up axis, but a way back on Forward axis. It makes no sense to me :/

what am I doing wrong?

[ashen compass]

https://imgur.com/a/gPidpwS

I'm having an issue with the Cable component when attaching it to a projectile and a VR motion controller where it seems to phase phase between my hand and a position not far away, creating the not-ideal effect visible in the GIF above. Anyone have a clue why it might be doing this? I confirmed it's not the speed of the projectile causing this

I'm unsure if I'm doing something wrong or if the Cable component just isn't built for motion controls

[remote meteor]

if you want to offset relative to the actor rotation, you can use this

[topaz turret]

Is there some way to use instant velocity in a project instead of the default ramping?

[remote meteor]

for the character movement?

if its for CMC, set the Max acceleration to a very high number

[shrewd ridge]

Hello all, would like to ask a question about actor visibility in VR. I am building a VR environment for research which I am utilizing the Quest Pro eye-tracker in PCVR mode.
I am wondering if it is possible to create a gaze mark (or raycast) that is visible only in the preview screen but not in VR. Which the observer can see where the player is looking at but the player can't so it is not going to interfere them.

[frosty heron]

Wdym by observer and player

R we talking about multiplayer?

[shrewd ridge]

The idea is that the player (participant) will be in VR scene and the observer (researcher) and in real time see what the participant is looking at in the scene.

[frosty heron]

If this is multiplayer and running on different instance then you can easily just render in the machine that you want to do the trace

You have to define player and observer

R they the same machine?

Same instance?

[shrewd ridge]

It will be single player running on the same machine,

[frosty heron]

K well that's a bit more complicated then

[shrewd ridge]

The observer will be seeing the exact same scene as the player just plus the gaze spot.

[frosty heron]

So you mean in the vr display, u can see the debug but in the monitor where people can watch the person playing the game, they can't see the draw debug?

[shrewd ridge]

So the player who wears the headset cannot see the raycast/gaze dot, others who look at the preview screen (PC monitor) in engine can see it.

[wheat flame]

so i tried it, i even put the boosts on 0 and air control itself on 0.000001 and still the same but when i put it on 0 it disables my movement, but ill come back to it in a few hours probably

[shrewd ridge]

If put it into drawing it will look like this, the player sees the normal scene, when the scene is mirrored (the screen that appears when hitting "play this level in VR") on the PC, there is an additional overlay showing the gaze spot which is captured by the eye-tracker. I already figured out how to fetch real-time data from the Quest Pro eye-tracking in the engine, just wondering if there is a way to have something only visible in Preview window. Similar to printing text to the screen but can only see on preview window not in VR headset.
And to add I am not planning to package the game, when doing research I will always run it from the engine.

[shrewd ridge]

This is the current blueprint, My goal is to have the Line Trace By Channel only visible in the preview screen but not in VR screen. Can ignore the Make Array, Add LSL Outlet, and Push Sample Stream, they are for research purpose (streaming data another app)

[frosty heron]

Im not sure if it's possible if Observer just watch a mirror displayed of the player screen

after all it's the same thing they seeing

it would be doable if the game is multiplayer and observer is just another player that is not using the vr

also probably possible if it's a split screen

and Monitor display the other player perspective

if it's not something you gonna ship, probably just live with it and don't worry about it?

[shrewd ridge]

Hmm, I am wondering if it is possible to add another camera that attaches to the VR camera which moves with it.

[frosty heron]

I don't see why not, just spawn a camera actor and attach it to the VR transform

[shrewd ridge]

Its more for research purpose, I am doing like academia research (sort of)

Which is why I have this uncommon need 🫤

[frosty heron]

I assumed the observer and the player is the same player anyway, so I don't know what else you can do

there is only owner can see check box you can tick but you will need another player

Like a split screen local multiplayer maybe

and might not work for debug, but you can fake it with a laser sfx that is only visible to the owner

[shrewd ridge]

A scenario is that there will be a player playing the game, and a bunch of researchers in the room looking at the screen and say "hey, he (the player) is looking at XYZ now". For instance the player might be asked to search for an object in the scene and the researcher would like to observe in real time whether the player even noticed the object in the scene (did the player's gaze land on the target object?)

[frosty heron]

yeah but the thing is the pc doesn't recognise "researcher". It only play as the player and mirror the display of the player to the monitor

only attempt I can think of is to run a Local Multiplayer split screen because each player have their own Render

[modern radish]

@trim matrix and @lunar sleet I found out why, it's so stupid. I was testing mobile features, toggling this off gets me mouse position on tick

[shrewd ridge]

Got it, hope it is not too computational intensive.

[frosty heron]

probably is :S, you do be rendering twice but maybe other people have different idea

[shrewd ridge]

Or maybe I can try to live stream the video out from UE? In which I can do the overlay and playback in real time in a media player so the researcher will be watching the media player instead of the UE preview screen. I hope there is a way to stream the preview/VR screen out from UE.

[modern radish]

but now I have a problem, I used to have InputTouch working, but if I replace that with the Left Mouse Button, it doesn't work

[frosty heron]

I don't know, even if you can it's probably not bp territory

[steady night]

am i getting this right if "all in array is false" set full = not

right ?

[modern radish]

@steady night I don't think so, right now as soon as the first False shows up, it will break the loop

[steady night]

yeah exactly

then its not full

[modern radish]

it will set Full to Not regardless in your example.. either after breaking or after completing

[narrow wyvern]

Do you mean to set full equal to Not after the loop breaks?

[steady night]

yeah maybe more like this

[modern radish]

again, this will set to always Full after the loop is done

what I would do is check if true or false, and increment some integer

[steady night]

yeah

if not breake before

[modern radish]

yeah, does that work for you?

[steady night]

since this is a function i dont really need break since a return will stop the loop

idnno yet

[narrow wyvern]

Test it :D

[modern radish]

the break doesn't stop the Completed Exec to fire, in fact it will trigger it to fire before all elements were processed, but it will always run

[steady night]

no it wont

not in a function

any return node will stop the loop

[modern radish]

oh I didn't see the return node

makes sense

[steady night]

yeah ill test

yeah works

ezzypeezy

[narrow wyvern]

:)

[toxic drift]

I'm trying to implement a coyote jump, but any time I look online I see the way it's most commonly done is to reset a custom made variable for jump count back to 0, but the built in jump function in UE doesn't let you reset that as far as I can tell. Is there any other way to code a coyote jump with the built in jump function?

[supple dome]

Im pretty sure I reset the jump count in my game

Hm... just checked and its BlueprintReadOnly

[supple dome]

Ah, instead of resetting I increase the max count by 1 to allow another jump

[toxic drift]

Ohhhh clever! And then when landing you reset the number back to what it was before?

[supple dome]

ye in my case i just set back to 1

[toxic drift]

Thanks for the suggestion! I think this will work but is gonna require some different problem solving lol

[frosty heron]

Why an inventory size is represented as bool?

[steady night]

@frosty heron cuz thats the way the cookie crumbles

[frosty heron]

checking if an inventory is full or not can be returned as soon as you find am empty slot

[steady night]

https://tenor.com/view/elio-and-lea-gif-16841311517970792125

[frosty heron]

you dont need to loop everything

[steady night]

yeah well u can do it many ways i made it this way since i can manage it, and as always the next time it will be better >)

[frosty heron]

but going with your way anyway, why do you need if all false?

[steady night]

wdym if all false ?

if 1 false then = not full

[frosty heron]

this is not "Ifall in array is false" btw

the first time there is one false

it just break from the function and return false

[steady night]

y

exactly

as i said also

if 1 slot it open then its not full

[frosty heron]

To check if all is false

you check if there is a true one

when u do, get out from the function

becuase one true constitute as that not everything in the array is false

[steady night]

this is the current one

[frosty heron]

use break

[steady night]

no need

[frosty heron]

you can get out early

[steady night]

since its in a function

first return dose a breake

[frosty heron]

k

[steady night]

tbh wasent it u who tought me that -.-'

[frosty heron]

dont think so but what u have already work

[steady night]

yeah this works the same way withot the break

[cyan spire]

Hello, so basically solo dev as always. My next plan is to make a replicated Inventory/Item system with Skills/Crafting. And im not sure if i should use Systems from the Store (paid). The time i want to invest into this is 1 Month. Im just not sure if this is doable from scratch in that time period, or if its better to use a Store System which i would need to tweak afterwards. Im scared that tweaking will take the same time as doing it from scratch. Especially because i want complete custom Menus, im not going to use any Fonts/Designs/Shapes from those assets, i need to redo everything in terms of design. I need to change the layout. The only thing i need from this would be the system itself, so the logic behind it.

What do you recommend? This is just a very rough sketch of what i want to do : https://i.imgur.com/9nCgL4H.png , most stuff i found is rather a Fantasy/WoW/BDO like template.

[frosty heron]

#multiplayer

[steady night]

from a newbie as myself im currently working on my own inventory/sys from what ive found is buying systems from store is good and all but you learn 0 and you have to spend the same amount of time adjusting and understanding the system if u wanna customize it.. so id say do it yourself@cyan spire

[cyan spire]

Thank you thats good advice.

[toxic drift]

That's actually good advice I never would have thought of, thank you

[steady night]

Are u being ironic ?

[toxic drift]

no not at all

Sorry if it came off that way

I'm still new so this is all veyr good info for me

[frosty heron]

For me personally, trying to do something my self from scratch, it was a disaster

I looked into other people system

and see them do better and end up piggy backing from it

now I started a new project, I am gonna make my own but with what i've gathered in the past

[toxic drift]

Yeah everyone learns differently. Some need to build things themselves from scratch, some need someone else's system to pick apart and figure out how it works and learn that way, whatever works best for you

[sweet silo]

how can i restrict this to when the player is interacting with this bp ?

thankns

[steady night]

Well im my case i learn by doing it myself first time will be shit either way but each time u do it will get better n betterr

[frosty heron]

Simple way is to do a branch after the pressed

[sweet silo]

ok thanks yeah i was thinking about this but it didn't seem very clean

[dark drum]

I'm not sure of the best place to ask this so if it's not here, point me in the right direction. 🙂

I'm adding some DOF to my player characters camera but this results in the items the player is holding to (as you would imagine) be blurred out due to the DOF. Does anyone have any idea how I could go about making it so the held items aren't blurred by the DOF by the player characters camera PP?

[frosty heron]

better to look at how others done it if you can tbh. Unless you are einsten, look at how it's done by the more experienced people

[toxic drift]

I'm still new to this. Any sites or sources where I can comb through other people's work easily to look at their BP? I only just found BluePrintUE today but I imagine there's other resources

[frosty heron]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/

@toxic drift Once you are comfortable around bp you can look at Unreal example.
They should show decent or good practices
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/content-cat/assets/onlinelearning?count=20&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

following tutorial from youtube is not recommended. Some are good but most tutorials do more harm than good

[teal nexus]

It's for a component, but I assume it's the same (just get component's transforms instead) ?

[toxic drift]

I'm definitely comfortable with BP in the sense it's not intimidating. It's just at this point I need to learn the absurd amount of functions in an efficient manner . Which is hard since some of the documentation doesn't explain how they work any more than mousing over it in engine says, and some functionality should obviously be learned before others since it's like a tiered hierarchy of functioning

[tribal otter]

I have an auction house - where all data comes in as structs in the end and put into a list view. Whats the best way to filter (search) this list view? ( have thousands of items at the time ).

My current approach is to have a prebuilt map of entries (integer - string) and search all strings if they contains these characters -> save the IDs to an array -> reinitialize the listview based on a boolean if the array contains the item id ( which is one of the struct variable ) and if yes add to a new list view. Same with item type id with a second map ( can be search for item name, item type etc. ), but there must be a better way.

[frosty heron]

Just prune them everytime you enter a text

Store the filtered element in array

then display from that array

[tribal otter]

The auction data is from a database, so it changes - i kinda need to refresh it every time, so i cant really store the elements.

[frosty heron]

Everytime you refresh, apply the filter

[tribal otter]

I think that is what im doing, but thats cool than im doing it the correct way probably.

I was wondering if there is any built in function or better way to filter out without using 3-4 arrays.

[frosty heron]

You can break them down into functions if you have multiple filters

Filter By name
Filter by Id
Filter by Something

Why do you need 3 - 4 arrays?

Get Array Data -> Filter by name, add to array of int index

Display Data using the array of index

sound very straight forward.
The only downside is maybe working with thousands of data. I personally never venture there

because if your way of refreshing is by deleting the whole list and updating them with a new widget per list. Then you may have hiccup

like your game thread blocked for a few mili second

[tribal otter]

I will test the exact performance, hopefully it will be fast enough 🙂 Thanks for the suggestion.

[silent drift]

Morning! I have a question, I'm trying to make a checkpoint system, and I have my character re-spawn at the correct location and everything. But for some reason when I restart, my camera goes into the characters head rather than using my attached camera, that I have on my Character BP. Does anyone know why this could be? I tried googling, and I tried looking at tutorials, buuuutttt for some reason this seems to nly affect me. 😦

I'm using the AdvancedSideScroller camera which is a "child actor" of my character, since I assume that miught be the reason

[echo storm]

How can I play an animation from a character blueprint? I already have a default slot in the anim blueprint I just don’t know how to play the animation

[frosty heron]

If you want to play specific animation with anim instance, you need to add montage slot in your Anim instance class and use Play Montage node in your bp

[echo storm]

Oh okay thank you

[echo storm]

How can I get an AI to walk a certain distance behind the AI character?

Like as in I want the AI to turn around and walk a small distance

But how do I get the location behind the AI character?

[lunar sleet]

Dot product

[echo storm]

Doesn’t that just give me the direction though? As in -1 for backwards but then how do I make it walk? Sorry I’m not that clever with vectors

[versed sun]

Character's Forward Vector * -500 would be 500 units behind

[frosty heron]

you can use the dor product to determine if the player is behind the A.I or not

and for the location you can do what @versed sun said

[versed sun]

well, + Character Location

[echo storm]

Won’t multiplying the vector with -500 not cause all three values (X, Y and Z) to be multiplied by -500?

Oh wait it’s just the forward vector though right

[echo storm]

Ohh that makes sense now, thank you!

[fervent kelp]

Hi guys, "onConstraintBroken" event for physic constraint component working properly? (UE5.1) Has anyone tested it recently?

[fervent kelp]

on here seems not working properly or i don't get the logic.

[gritty bobcat]

In unreal 5.3 (a project updated from 5.2) i am getting no "OnBeginCursorOver" without mouse down. When i hold mouse button down, it works, so the collisions are set correctly. This worked fine in 5.2, and just upgrading the project to 5.3 breaks something and i have no clue what. Could someone please point me to a solutuion?
There is not widget or anything else blocking the trace, so i am at complete loss here. please help

[clear sierra]

what works and what not ?

[lunar sleet]

So it only works if you’re holding mouse button down?

[gritty bobcat]

yep

[lunar sleet]

We’ve seen this issue yesterday

Are you using that silly use touch as mouse setting?

[gritty bobcat]

hm, should not? lemme check

[lunar sleet]

Well that seems to be the root cause of many issues haha

[gritty bobcat]

this is in my player controller

so probo not

[lunar sleet]

That’s not the setting

It’s in project settings or smtg

[gritty bobcat]

hm, lemme check a bit more

i fucking love you!

[lunar sleet]

#blueprint message

[gritty bobcat]

thank you senpai for the guidance

[lunar sleet]

Thank @modern radish it only took him like 12h to find it lol

[gritty bobcat]

for anyone looking for same problem, this is the problematic check i had to turn off to make it work
in editor preferences.

and thank you @Neblina, your suffering is not forgotten! 😄

[modern radish]

LOL that's crazy, someone else with the same problem

[lunar sleet]

Hehe, told you I’ve seen it before

Now I actually know what the fix is

[surreal phoenix]

I think this question is across UE, but if i have an event being triggered on a timeline (either Widget Animation or Sequencer), how can i get the time from the timeline that it was triggered from, as an input passed to the event?

[gentle urchin]

Dont think you can

But you can grab the anim ref and get current time if im not mistaken

[grim sand]

Quick question; Lets say I have actors in my scene (say they are harvestable trees). If these bp's merely exist, and do nothing on tick, and only execute functionality when interacted with. Do they take up any hardware resources? Or are they just dormant and take up resources on only the render thread?

[clear sierra]

they will take only memory and GPU resources. no cpu

maybe some cpu for delegates

physics should not be a case if actor is not simulating right ?

[lilac storm]

Hey devs i am stuck with my problem for almost couple days , my player has an ability to Push back other AI's and code for pushing is attached , pretty simple one , but for some resons Ai are not getting pushed , instead they are kind of jumping in place or somethig like it shown in the video , Please please please is anyone knows how to fix it ?

[clear sierra]

Colliding goes both ways ? i though only actor which is moving will do these queries ?

[gritty bobcat]

could this be happening because of friction? try to add small vector value in Z, to see if it helps. ah, i see u already do that. then i'd perhaps add small delay between stop motion and push

[lilac storm]

did't help((

[clear sierra]

i see

[gritty bobcat]

hm, i am using basically what u have, and no issues. except Zoverride is off

[clear sierra]

try z to be negative or 0 maybe

[gritty bobcat]

is it possible the value is too small? try to use some larger ones to see if it does difference

[lilac storm]

didn;t help

[lilac storm]

tried with millions before ehhee

[gritty bobcat]

hm, damn. in the video enemy moves a bit, but it is not enough. what if u test only Z value. i had a problem where vector was oriented to push actor away but in downward direction. it was bcoz my char was larger than enemy, so, from center of my char to center of the enemy, the line was heading down. other than that, i have no clue

[manic vessel]

Stuggeling to get the Player Character from the held weapon that SENT THE DAMAGE EVENT .

[lunar sleet]

GetPlayerCharacter

[trim matrix]

You are damaging the weapon or the player?

[lilac storm]

Thank you will try !!

[surreal phoenix]

Ah yes you can, thank you, but the issue is i want the time when im scrubbing the timeline in the editor, not while its playing, so the time i'm getting is always 0.0

[lunar sleet]

What’s this for exactly ?

[manic vessel]

NVM i sorted it. As the weapons creates a ref of the character that picked them Up so I just sent damage causer throught weapon to get the character ref and in to theat character cast 🙂

[trim matrix]

curious, was this even running?

[manic vessel]

yes

[trim matrix]

i'm assuming u were applying the damage to the player

[trim matrix]

welp, that seems stupid

on the engine part

[manic vessel]

Yes I already have all that working. Was just this for UMG text update

[surreal phoenix]

i have a widget that has an animated image sequence background and im trying to sync up widget animations with it (like, text that follows the animation), but the image sequence is controlled by the media player so i can visualise both at the same time (id have to go into the media player, scrub the timeline, and then go back to the widget, work out what frame im on, etc). I want to get the widget animation timeline to control the progress of the media player, so i can see both, so one way of doing that has been to create an event track (on repeat event), and have that trigger an event that 'Seeks' to the position on the media player i need. But i now need the actual time from the animation to seek to the correct place in the media player.

[lunar sleet]

Sounds tricky, not sure you have that functionality built-in, maybe through cpp

[zealous comet]

I have this BP component set to a character BP. i followed prismatica devs tutorial exactly. but when event begins play it auto enables physics and he falls onto the ground. when in prismatica devs tutorial his character ragdolls but their hips stay at the same point.

[lunar sleet]

Watch it again, you either missed a step or they skipped over one. If you still can’t figure it out, try #chaos-physics

I guess you already did. See #rules on cross-posting tho

[clear sierra]

maybe you have simulate physics enabled by default

[zealous comet]

its not i already checked that

[tight pollen]

hi

how can i remove outline in ComboBox?

is black

[clear sierra]

settings

[clear sierra]

not sure than, you need to debug

[grim sand]

Thanks for the extra info @clear sierra @toxic jay !

[lunar sleet]

Try #umg

[jolly granite]

Hey guys, after recompiling UE5.31 Source I lost all my input actions in BP. After reinserting and reloading project they disappear again. Enhanced Input System is activated btw. Someone got a clue for me?

[faint pasture]

CharacterLocation + SomeNegativeDistance x CharacterForwardVector

or you can use TransformLocation to transform -500, 0, 0 to make it return the spot 500 units behind the thing whos transform you use

[lunar sleet]

I’ve seen this before

Something to do with an update they made where the EIS is being called at the wrong time and it starts conflicting with things

I’ll see if I can find MatW’s post on it

[jolly granite]

TY in advance

Has it smothing to do with CommonUI loading phase?

[lunar sleet]

ha, I knew it was something to do with pre-Default

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue5-3-bug-enhanced-input-bindings-in-blueprints-dissappear-when-re-opening-the-project/1296888

[lunar sleet]

not with commonUI but with EIS' loading phase

[jolly granite]

ty 🙂

[lunar sleet]

Np

[gentle urchin]

Awesome, i moved it to c++ because of these issues 😂

[thin umbra]

Hello, can someone help me?
Why is it that when I create my widget and add it to my canvas panel as a child, the previous widget of the same class I had get replaced by this new one?

[lunar sleet]

Prly can’t have 2 of that same kind of widget component? Best to ask in #umg for this stuff

[thin umbra]

ah I didn't see that channel

how then do I add multiple widgets of the same kind into my canvas panel?

[frosty heron]

drag and drop

[dawn gazelle]

There is nothing that should prevent you from adding any number of any widgets to a canvas panel. If you're dragging and dropping them in, you need to make sure you're not necessarily dropping them on to something that can't take it as a child.

[thin umbra]

that's the easy way, I want to use the create widget node haha

[frosty heron]

Create widget -> Add child to canvas

ask in #umg next time

[thin umbra]

ok I will

[lunar sleet]

Yeah that’s what I meant mb 😅

[barren dove]

can you post the blueprint

[ashen tide]

if I do the exact same thing in the starter fps its working fine

[dawn gazelle]

You have two characters in the scene.

One is moving, the other isn't.

[ashen tide]

Oh

😄

[thin panther]

that'll do it

[ashen tide]

well, that was the issue! thank you very much !

[mild ibex]

bump 🙃

[barren dove]

good catch

[ashen tide]

What's the best way to create a timer to force the player to move ?
For example, if the velocity is at 0 for X seconde you get a damage or anything.
I am trying to use the delay function but the timer doesnt reset

[chrome kernel]

@thin panther I'm all ears^^

[thin panther]

so in the line trace the start and end points are locations. not a start location, and an end direction

so your start will be your location, and your end will be the direction * distance + location

[chrome kernel]

oh boy my old math teacher would kill me if he found this out lmao

yea ofc... tysm :)

[thin panther]

no problem!

[chrome kernel]

is there a bp equivalent to the IsA() function?

[keen widget]

can someone pls help me with regex?

[dawn gazelle]

What specifically?

[keen widget]

problem is this..
i need this text: "Base Atk: +23"
divide in to 2 groups: 1group = "Base Atk", 2group = "23"

[trim matrix]

What's the + for?

Prob wanna include it as well

U could just split it by ":"

[dawn gazelle]

First, do you have to have it in this format?
Having spaces is prone to errors. If your parsing some external source you have no control over, there's not much choice, but if you do, could you use a better format, like JSON?

[thin panther]

do you really need regex for that tho?
You can ust split before : and then split after + or -

[keen widget]

its hard to explain there is alot

its not all the problem

[keen widget]

sometimes text doesnt have ":" to use it as a split

[trim matrix]

what does it have then?

regex isn't magic, it can't just guess what u want to extract

[loud tree]

Gotta remember, people can only give help and suggestions relative to the information they have been provided.

[keen widget]

Stat name using 1 or 2 words.. like "AC" or "Armor Class" sometimes
and a value "+23" for example

[thin panther]

regex is pattern matching, but if you keep violating your pattern what is it going to match

as Datura said just use something like JSON

[trim matrix]

It doesn't use ":" in that case?

[keen widget]

sometimes it doesnt have ":"

[thin panther]

then you don't have a pattern to match do you

[trim matrix]

give some examples

[keen widget]

i tried to use something like this:
(\w+).? [\+\-]?(\d+)|(\w+-?\w+)?.? [\+\-]?(\d+)
and its working, but! for some reason it gives me not 1 and 2 group as i wanted but 3 and 4

[trim matrix]

uhh ohh

[dawn gazelle]

([A-Za-z0-9\d\s]+):\s?([+-]?)([\d]+)

[trim matrix]

they've said it sometimes can lack the ":"

🙃

[trim matrix]

of where it doesn't have ':' @keen widget

[keen widget]

and i dont need "+" as a capture group

[dawn gazelle]

([A-Za-z0-9\d\s]+):?\s?([+-]?)([\d]+)
You'd need to trim any whitespace on the first group...

so you don't care if the number is negative?

[keen widget]

only if capture group is negative like "-23"

[trim matrix]

@keen widget

I'm 70% sure this is doable with just split

[keen widget]

how to trim whitespace at the end of 1 group?

[keen widget]

it will work 70% of the time but some stats doesnt use ":" after stat name

[trim matrix]

and why is that?

[lunar sleet]

Shouldn’t you fix your design flaw by standardizing everything ?

[trim matrix]

design flaw

[dawn gazelle]

In blueprint...

And yeah, your data format should be consistent.

If you did JSON you could directly parse and not have to worry about regex yourself.

[keen widget]

u need to understand im making calculator for a dnd 3.5

its old system and stat blocks for monsters on the websites it is a mess

[thin panther]

unreal is a tad overkill for a calculator

[trim matrix]

nah

3D calculator supremacy

[lunar sleet]

If only there was a guy named JSON that invented a way to parse data from a website 🙃

[keen widget]

im making this:

[trim matrix]

ue is not the most ideal for that

[keen widget]

i want all varibles to set just after copy-paste monster from websites and 80% of them already do!

but i have problem with pairs words like "Armor Class" "Flat-Footed" "Base Atk"..

[barren dove]

Any thoughts on world wrapping?
My current theory is my tiles are a set size, and are stored in a map, so I can just approximate player location then multiply the spawning tiles by 10000 (or whatever) to get the new location, so I'm just spawning tiles in front and killing them behind the player, but moving all the actors to their new home might get heavy

[trim matrix]

tp the player?

[keen widget]

huh?

[barren dove]

maybe step one drop it into a spreadsheet and run a quick and easy vba script on it to parse everything down to a readable format

[magic gorge]

Im trying to make a golf like launch ball, the issue i have is that using set physics linear velocity, add impulse, add force doesnt rotate the ball any idea?

[lunar sleet]

Part-joke part solution

[keen widget]

quick and easy vba script ?

[dawn gazelle]

I was able to find a 3.5e XML document repository that includes all monsters in the monsters manual... Among a lot of other data from DnD...

[barren dove]

there's a separate add rotational component, so you'd add impulse then add torque, I forget the name of the node though)

[lunar sleet]

Imagine that 😀

[keen widget]

where

[dawn gazelle]

https://www.andargor.com/

[keen widget]

thank i will look in to it👍

[barren dove]

also one more note, add velocity doesn't take into account the mass of the object, it just sets its speed to whatever, so if you have different weight golfballs you dont want to use that

[trim matrix]

add impulse would

[magic gorge]

yeah i selected to avoid mass since i dont need it

still a lot of math for me to get from control rotation only the forward and then add the jump multiplier then find also the degrees of that, my brain is going BOOM hahahah

im not used to use vectors

[trim matrix]

u can get forward vector out of rot

[magic gorge]

that's what i do

[trim matrix]

cool

[magic gorge]

it works but the torque doesnt

with the same values

so i have to find a way to get the right degrees

[barren dove]

its a ball, attach a weightless collisionless mast to it so you can see the rotation :0

[magic gorge]

what you mean?

it has mass i just dont calculate it for the impulse

anyway found a solution 😛

[keen widget]

can you please tell me why this gives me Group 3 and Group 4.. wheres 1 and 2?

[dawn gazelle]

Because you have that alternate comparison | It's not matching anything within the first two sets of ( ) but it is matching with the third and fourth set of ( )

[dry pecan]

can someone please tell me whats wrong with this? I have a feeling why but I just need to make sure, this is on a BeginEvent

[lunar sleet]

Well what does your feeling tell you?

[dry pecan]

its only happening the moment the game starts

[lunar sleet]

What is only happening then, what’s the issue you’re experiencing? Also note that you can promote that cast return value to a variable so you don’t have spaghetti strings crossing each other

[dawn gazelle]

([\w+\s\w+]|\w+):? (\d+)
this'll give the match in groups 1 and 2 with or without the :

[dry pecan]

my goal is to save the intigers Collectable count/Rare Collectable count into the integers of my save object integers Collectable and Rare Collectable

[lunar sleet]

So right now if works if you don’t yet have a save game ?

[dry pecan]

I'm basing this off my knowledge from the I Aim Trainer tutorial on the unreal site

[lunar sleet]

Ok. Let’s start over. You said you’re only doing this on begin play?

[ashen tide]

Morning everyone 🙂
How can I connect this transform to the location ?

[lunar sleet]

Set relative location instead ?

[dry pecan]

Yes, and I believe that's the problem

[lunar sleet]

Ok, so put it in your own custom event so you can call it when we you want

[dawn gazelle]

(\w+\s*\w+|\w+):?\s*(\d+)$

[ashen tide]

What I want is to add a transform to the location of the player and start the sound from there (behind him)

[lunar sleet]

Get the player’s fwd vector * by minus distance, add it to its location, use that resulting vector

[dry pecan]

Oh then I can just call it on my collectible objects and have it update with each increase?

[dawn gazelle]

Do a split on , first.

[lunar sleet]

Have it update whenever you want the game to save that variable, so yeah if you want to save it on each increase that’s fine

[keen widget]

cant understand what split exactly need to do

[dawn gazelle]

You have an array of values that are separated by a comma. Each can individually be checked with a regex to get the name and value.

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/panda-fml-so-done-ugh-no-thanks-gif-4564025

[magic gorge]

How is it possible that the tick set physics gets called even when not getting actually called? i dont get it... i tried putting a print too but gets called only when should, the code of that doesnt infact if i unlink that it works https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/zgg-fb7p/

[ashen tide]

working perfectly, amazing thank you 🙂

[keen widget]

that would be a good idea but sadly text formated in a way that after a value there can be ";" or "," nothing at all

[trim matrix]

add a breakpoint

on the node

[magic gorge]

i did

and doesnt get called until it should

[trim matrix]

so it's not it

[magic gorge]

but still seems to conflict with the upper set physics

if i remove only those 2 nodes it works tho

[trim matrix]

hold on let me pull up that code on my aNdroid device

[magic gorge]

cleaner https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/jew0yo5c/

[trim matrix]

can hardly navigate in the graph anyways on mobile

[magic gorge]

oh

[lunar sleet]

Reading blueprint UE on mobile discord is disgusting

I prefer screenshots

[trim matrix]

on discord?

it opens the link in the browser

[trim matrix]

at least on my end

[lunar sleet]

Ik but you have to hold and drag

It’s just ugh

[trim matrix]

screenshots look messed up for me, like the resolution

[lunar sleet]

You can double click lines to make redirect nodes btw @magic gorge helps organize stuff

[trim matrix]

i have to literally download them

[magic gorge]

yeah

[lunar sleet]

Oh weird

[magic gorge]

anyway the linear velocity works but the angular doesnt

[trim matrix]

android device

[magic gorge]

if i keep the under node

wait wait wait

im dumb af

i copied wrong node

its max

[lunar sleet]

Another satisfied customer

[magic gorge]

f me lol

[lunar sleet]

Next!

https://tenor.com/view/accomplished-job-done-smile-finished-gif-4934655

[magic gorge]

incredible i can find the solution for hard stuff but on stuff like this i always fall

[trim matrix]

ong

[dry pecan]

Odd, I tried that but it's not working

[lunar sleet]

It’s called the rubber duck effect

[frigid pecan]

Hi, I'm new to this group and self learning about Unreal. Does anyone know what Additive Identity Pose is? I can't find any documentation or much about this node online. Thanks.

[lunar sleet]

Well one issue I noticed in your code is if you don’t have a save yet, it’ll create the save but then nothing else will happen unless you execute that path again. Maybe that’s the issue? Show updated code and explain the issue

[lunar sleet]

Something to do with #animation

As in, best to ask in that channel 😀

[dry pecan]

this is my custom event

[lunar sleet]

Umm

[keen widget]

just look at this mess that im dealing with:
i need to auto-take AC, HP and other stats from this text
and its almost working, i can get 70% of stats i need
single words are ok to get "ac 20, hp 30" ✅
but words pairs does not "armor class 20, hit point 30"🚫

[lunar sleet]

Are you missing a branch perhaps?

Maybe a few other nodes

[dry pecan]

and this is the object thats using the cutsom event

[lunar sleet]

I don’t understand

[trim matrix]

Why are u loading the game

And then saving it

[lunar sleet]

You had some actual save game code and you took half of it and ran with it

[heady crypt]

it got snarky so he yeeted it

[trim matrix]

On the same event like that?

[outer forge]

If I call StopMovement, but then SimpleMoveToLocation, my character will stop for a bit even if they're called in the same frame... Is there a way around this?

[dry pecan]

ok its back to normal now

[lunar sleet]

#gameplay-ai for this

[frosty heron]

You shouldn't load and save in function like this

Create a seperate function to Load/Create the SaveGameobject and cache it

you will use that SaveGameObject reference for the rest of the game

[dry pecan]

how?, I'm just essentially doing what is show in the Unreal target practice tutorial, how would I do that?

[outer forge]

Thanks, I was looking for the right channel but didn't find anything that seemed reasonable. Are you sure #gameplay-ai is it, though? It's for a player controlled character

[frosty heron]

by doing what I suggested

Your collectablesave should be something like
GetGameInstance->GetMyScoreSaveGameObject->Set Score (Optionally can save if you like)

[dry pecan]

but isnt that what I'm doing essentially? Collectable is an intiger to store my collectable count

[frosty heron]

What you are doing here is Loading Game from slot, everytime you called collectable save (If the Slot exist)
You end up using different SaveGameObject each time

[lunar sleet]

Simple move to works with a player controller but still uses the nav mesh to path. Still technically related to #gameplay-ai and you’re much more likely to get the exact answer. Otherwise, I could speculate and say maybe you have use acceleration for paths on, or your char takes a tick to find the path - tho admittedly that’d be a bit weird

[frosty heron]

you need to point to the same SaveGameObject

hence the need to Load once and cache it

[outer forge]

Makes sense, thank you!! I'll look into that acceleration setting also, it probably is on indeed haha. Thanks!

[dry pecan]

get savescoregameobject? I thought you cant link get nodes?

[lunar sleet]

Heh?

[frosty heron]

I have no idea what you are talking about sorry

[dry pecan]

get nodes, like Get Instance or get player camera manager, those kind of nodes

[tribal blade]

hey, is there anything i can do with AI CMC's (networked) to reduce their character movement performance cost? (this is about 500 AI)
I don't need super accurate simulation

[frosty heron]

what about it?

[tribal blade]

I cannot afford to write my own movement, as this involves both ai and networking

[frosty heron]

who can?

i mean someone did

but the legwork is crazy

[tribal blade]

idk lol a lot people online just say make new cmc

[frosty heron]

Unreal already did thousands lines of code for us

I know one person that wrote his own movement comp, deldoogie

[dry pecan]

I thought they can't be linked in and out of each other can can only be used as a target refrence

[frosty heron]

he needed movement with 6dof so he wrote his own

[frosty heron]

I Don't know what you mean by linked in

[tribal blade]

well, i got no idea how to reduce that milliseconds count though, since the cmc ain't mine

[dry pecan]

like this

[tribal blade]

unreal doesn't seem to have a "less accurate but more performant" setting for it

[frosty heron]

Best to ask #multiplayer imo

[lunar sleet]

Sounds like a lot of dumb people lol

[tribal blade]

i'm currently only testing on singleplayer

'multiplayer' in my question is only for justifying non-variable tickrate

[lunar sleet]

That thing has 50k+ lines, unless you’ve been at this for years and years, you should prly not try to reinvent that wheel

[frosty heron]

afaik cmc is the 2nd most heaviest thing after the draw call

[tribal blade]

they probably mean that ai doesn't need something as heavy as cmc

[lunar sleet]

That would be incorrect

[molten swift]

pff could I get a little help I Have a pickup and drop script where I attach the thing I pickup to a component on my character and detach when I drop but after I drop the object it stops simulating physics.

[dry pecan]

like how Begin play is linked to Create Collection UI Widget, apologies I'm not sure what the actual term is called, thats just how I see it

[tribal blade]

well how am i supposed to do 500 ai now

[lunar sleet]

Nav agent radius settings, acceleration for paths, all in the CMC

[frosty heron]

What about that?

[lunar sleet]

With #mass

Or HISMs maybe if the use case allows

[frosty heron]

@dry pecan This is what I mean btw, they are not the same object

[trim matrix]

U mean like how the other nodes don't have the white pins?

[dry pecan]

thats what I mean by linked, like how Begin play is linked to Create UI Collection Widget, I thought you cant do that with two Get Nodes

[tribal blade]

ooo i'm too late for ECS i think

[lunar sleet]

ECS?

[tribal blade]

got lots of work done on this enemy already

[tribal blade]

the mass framework right

[dry pecan]

I'm sorry, I had no clue thats what you meant, my apologies

[frosty heron]

all good

[lunar sleet]

Oh, yeah idk enough about it, it’s still very new

[frosty heron]

Try to load the Score once and set the ScoreSaveGameObject

make a function in GameInstance

[kind matrix]

Is it possible to make a blueprint that automatically replaces all the static mesh components based on the name of the actor?
Say if an object called "tree" is imported then it's static mesh is automatically replaced with a different one.

Or whatever other utility to replace tons of objects imported from datasmith

[frosty heron]

you need presistence object to store the savegameobject

[lunar sleet]

I would recommend asking this stuff in #gameplay-ai tho @tribal blade . There are people there that have done such things. And if they say use something else instead of the CMC, at that point you can take their word for it because they’ve got years of xp

[frosty heron]

I don't know about datasmith, are you talking about runtime or editor time?

[trim matrix]

would there be anything wrong with creating it only when needed within a func?

[tribal blade]

alright thanks man

[kind matrix]

editor time ideally

[frosty heron]

Loading again will not point to the same savegameobject

[dry pecan]

not in my player controller? thats where my current count is and what will eb saved to in my save object

[frosty heron]

that will be false

[frosty heron]

SaveGameObject should be stored in GameInstance or any presistent object. Your controller gets destroyed on level transition, so you will lose the savegameobject reference

[dry pecan]

oh wait yes it is

[trim matrix]

but why even store the save game reference somewhere?

[kind matrix]

the datasmith part is irrelevant though, it's mostly about the replacing of static mesh based on actor name

[frosty heron]

Store the savegameobject in game instance
So if you want to set a value in savegameobject you can just do
GetGameInstance->GetMySaveGameObject-> SetScore to X

[molten swift]

Could Someone take a look at this?

[dry pecan]

oh, that may also be a reason, theres only a single save variable, Score

[trim matrix]

nvrmind i'm just being stupid 🙂

[frosty heron]

naw man

[trim matrix]

U need to wake it up

i think

the grabbed component

[frosty heron]

if that's what the tutorial do, I would be pretty concern. I'm not saying that's your current problem but it certainly looks like a problem to me when you load everytime you want to save something

[molten swift]

I'll try it out im new to unreal so hadnt thought about it

[trim matrix]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Physics/WakeRigidBody/

this should be the node

if i am not mistaken

[dry pecan]

yeah, I believe what I ended up causing was that I was trying to save multiple integers into a single integer withought realizing it

[frosty heron]

What you ended up doing was getting another instance of the savegameobject, this bug will be more apparent when you tried to save individual variable

[dry pecan]

yeah I made more this time, now each one saving a different thing

[molten swift]

Didnt seem to do the trick

[trim matrix]

there's still some code which u haven't shown

give me the zucc

[frosty heron]

Yeah you will be setting the score in different savegameobject each time

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/zuck-zucc-gif-18812571

[molten swift]

Theres the entire pickup, drop and interact code. The interact code shouldn't have anything to do with it

oops sorry im covering some stuff in the pickup code

there

[lunar sleet]

No cast eh? Living dangerously

Start attaching trees and cars 😀

Unless that’s filtered prior I can’t make out that struct

[trim matrix]

the interact and drop keys are not the same, right?

@molten swift

[molten swift]

they're not

[molten swift]

What do you mean

[frosty heron]

means, any actor can be picked up

[trim matrix]

but this shouldn't be the issue still

[dry pecan]

I made different ones this time, took a different approach but looks like it didn't work, these are what I'm refrencing in my GameInstance, the slot name score being refrenced

[molten swift]

It only calls pickup if the actor hit by the line trace has a specific interface implemented

[frosty heron]

Ohh ok, i only look at the last picture lol

[molten swift]

lol

[lunar sleet]

Not in the 3rd screenshot, but I haven’t checked if you’re filtering it before feeding it that struct, I see that you do that right after input

[dry pecan]

so I'm supposed to make this?

[frosty heron]

Create a SaveGameObject for your score

if you want to have seperate SaveGame file for the score alone

[dry pecan]

yes I already did that from the beginning

it shares 3 different variables to store

[molten swift]

Oh btw the object in this case bread wasnt getting picked up while physics was on earlier. I suspected the issue was that the attach actor to component node attaches the root, and a child was doing the physics I deleted the root making the bread the root so now the root does the physics and it worked, Could this have something to do with it?

[frosty heron]

Then in your game Instance, make a function called LoadScoreSaveGameObject

[trim matrix]

I'm unsure if this part will actually work...

[lunar sleet]

I don’t see where “hold refarance “ is being created, I imagine the rest of the code works, just not the physics tho?

[molten swift]

I tried it the other way aswell, before detach

[dry pecan]

alrighty now good

[trim matrix]

But I mean I am unsure if it will work with the cast

[molten swift]

physics work on the object before being picked up but not after being dropped, code works otherwise though

[trim matrix]

after detaching it

but idk

[lunar sleet]

Maybe. So we don’t keep speculating, try using a breakpoint and stepping through the code

[molten swift]

I couldnt connect it straight because it needed to be a primitive component referance

[frosty heron]

@dry pecan something like this

[lunar sleet]

Hover over the inputs and outputs to see what actually comes through^

[frosty heron]

When you want to save the target must be the ref we got from the load

[molten swift]

What do you mean😅

[dry pecan]

I'm assuming the set nodes are promoted variables?

[lunar sleet]

#blueprint message

[frosty heron]

MainMenu-> LoadScore-> Open Map
In your Level 1 -> Pickup a coin
Pickup a Coin -> Get Game instance -> Get ScoreSaveGameObject -> Set Score to Score + 1
IF you want to save at this point . GetGameInstance -> SaveScoreSaveGame

[lunar sleet]

Step through the code and observe the input pins, make sure the right components are coming through and everything ^

[dry pecan]

also in the GI?

[lunar sleet]

And if all that looks good then yeah maybe try with diff components. Beyond that, #chaos-physics might know the actual root issue @molten swift

[frosty heron]

This is in the GI yes

[molten swift]

alright ill see thanks

[dry pecan]

yeah I have a way to track the amount collected in the game before I did this , just trying to make it so that when I quit the game it still remembers how many I picked up

[frosty heron]

once you call save to slot it will save the savegameobject values to a .sav file

loading the game again will just read from there

[dry pecan]

but wait, how would I refrence the variable thats tracking my collection count and save it in my save object? its a variable in my Player Controller called collectable count which increase by 1 with each collectable found

[trim matrix]

delete it from p controller

and use the one from the game instance

reference

[frosty heron]

Or if you insist, then you just need to initialize the value.
After ScoreSaveGameObject loaded, call another function, set initial values

SetInitialvalues function will Set the player controller Score = ScoreSaveGameObject.Score

[trim matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/no-gif-18120019

[frosty heron]

But you will need this everytime you load a map, soo... I don't like it

[dry pecan]

I cant , its how my collectable works, its also how I have the amount I have displayed on the screen with my widget

[trim matrix]

also replace the var there

[dry pecan]

unless what If I put the function in my collectable object

[trim matrix]

with the one retrieved from the gi

[dry pecan]

which one, there are multiple

[frosty heron]

You can create the variable in Gi instead.
Sometime it;s valuable to test gameplay element in PiE.
If you get the value straight from the savegame object then you will have a problem testing in Pie

since you probably load the savegamefile in the main menu or previous map

Create a variable CollectibleCount in GameInstance

delete the one in your player controller

This is easier mode

[trim matrix]

but it would work if u ran it from main menu

[frosty heron]

saves u from loading at begin play/init

1. Create Var CollectibleCount in game Instance.
2. On LoadScoreSaveGameObject, after setting the ScoreSaveGameObject run another function call LoadScore
3. In LoadScore function you set CollectibleCount to ScoreSaveGameObject's CollectibleCount

[trim matrix]

I sometimes think bps are harder more tedious than cpp

[dry pecan]

well my save object has 3 different variable, High Score(has to do with the Score slot mentioned but we can ignore that) what really matters is the other 2: Collectable and rare collectable. and in my GI I have two variables named
Collec and RareCollec, each one that will store their respected variables, my goal is to essentially save my counts into the varibles in my save object, and the slots in my GI

[frosty heron]

my cpp is dog sh*t , I hvae to do things in bp then I can refactor by looking at bp

[trim matrix]

that's just planning stuff out i guess

[frosty heron]

what I suggest will do just that

[broken wadi]

I use blueprint most of the time and cpp when I have no other choice.

[frosty heron]

ngl tried to do 90% bp and 10% cpp

but i end up refactoring the whole thing atm

[trim matrix]

that's the way to go about it

But also for base classes

[dry pecan]

do the functions happen on their own all the time?

[trim matrix]

I'd rather use cpp

[broken wadi]

Some multiplayer stuff such as extending the default character movement component can only be done with cpp.

[dry pecan]

like do I need to assign the functions anywhere

[frosty heron]

cast without care

[frosty heron]

just finished with sprinting mechanic

not possible with bp

[broken wadi]

You did the whole custom move flags thing, right?

[frosty heron]

I mean, damn I can't even figure out the architecture. End up piggy backing from ttuorial

yup but there are like 8 bytes only? Only 3 left and I still want to have climbing, swim, etc

[trim matrix]

I might be not on the same page, but no, u don't need to assign functions

u create them

and run them

[broken wadi]

swim is already built in to the default cmc

[dry pecan]

where would I mention collectable in my functions? these are my save object variables

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message

[frosty heron]

The blueprint sprint mechanic from youtube are such a scam

rubber band no more now with 500 ms

[dry pecan]

so wait, Im essentially, copy paste my variables each time it happens in game?

[frosty heron]

Not sure what you mean, but you do need to Initialize each of the data if you want to store your data in GameInstance.

[broken wadi]

packet loss is still such a stinker tho, even with like a low value ~5% the game falls apart

[frosty heron]

GameInstance Score = ScoreSaveGameObject.Score
GameInstance Money = ScoreSaveGameObject.Money

etc

[broken wadi]

it works but it's so choppy when testing any packet loss

[vernal snow]

Hello everyone, i might be missing something simple or not understanding something but im here for a bit of help.

So:
I am using a Blue Print Interface that is called when a linetrace to the player is hit and this interface calls a series of events that should tick down a float.
Doing some testing - it doesnt work as i want.

The Blueprint actor that fires the linetrace is a Child actor of a Master BP that has all the references to the Player, it's components etc.

1st Image is the Master BP:
2nd Image is the Child actor BP:
3rd image is the component with the interface being called:
4th image is the Event Timer by Function:

I have two videos, small, one just showing it as it is seen in the images where if it collides with the player it prints a "hello" and constantly printing out the value i want changed.
The other one is where i removed the cancelling the Event Timer, which when the player isnt in sight the value decreases.

On another note i do hope the order images and videos is as i typed, i tried to do it in order.
Apologies for dumping on another conversation too.

[frosty heron]

Multiplayer is too hard for me. I am biting the bullet but always open to revert back to single player if I can't make it playable

[dry pecan]

wait, why cant I have my Game instance store 2 things at the same time? I made another batch of those functions but for my rare collectables

[frosty heron]

You can. wdym?

you can store hundreds if you like

it's 4 Am, but show your bp

i will be around for 5 more mins

[dry pecan]

for my GI?

[frosty heron]

Don't forget the slot name

Hmmm I think you are a little confused here

[dry pecan]

apologies

[frosty heron]

Why do you call it RareCollec?

Call it ScoreSaveSlot or something

[broken wadi]

I don't understand the problem. Where is the value 100 coming from in the first place?

[frosty heron]

ScoreSaveSlot is your ScoreSaveGameObject which contain variables such as collectible, scores, or anything else you need

[dry pecan]

because I'm tracking 2 different things, normal collectable objects, and my rare collectale objects

[frosty heron]

It seems to me your idea atm is to create a seperate SaveGameObject for each variable 😱

[frosty heron]

But they can be placed in the same SaveFile

I only have 2 Save Game Objects in my Game

One is for setting

The other is for the actual Game

[dry pecan]

but you've never mentioned any way to refence these in my BP's, thats why I'm confused

[frosty heron]

what is BPS_GameTrainerSave?

[vernal snow]

Problem is i want it decreased when it is in sight of the player - IE the float value to be decreased when the player is Hit.
The value comes from the Component that the Timer is in.
It's set to 100 as default.

The image attached is the function the Timer calls where it is decreased.

[frosty heron]

What's the parent

Show the base class on the top right

[dry pecan]

my save object thats already made

[frosty heron]

Ok in here you just create the variable

nothing else

I already told you about loading

[dry pecan]

yes, and you've never mentioend any way to refrence these in my GI, thats why I'm in an endless wave on confusuion

[frosty heron]

show me how you load

and the Initialize bp

[broken wadi]

If you run the game in PIE then look at the blueprints (select the instance) then see where the logic is flowing it should become obvious where the problem is because you can track what is firing and what isn't.

[dry pecan]

which one, My GI?

[frosty heron]

I think it will take forever to hold your hand, i will just create the example bp for you

[vernal snow]

well it is firing, thats the thing.
I did break points, its all true and passes the branch and we see in the videos that it does activate.

[dry pecan]

I'm so sorry

[vernal snow]

But its only decreasing when it doesnt hit the Player Pawn Ref, which i set it to the Player character.

I used the = Object ref for hit actor (from break hit result) to Player Ref.
I just dunno why it doesnt work realy

[lunar sleet]

Well for starters that’s not how you should get and set a reference and check if it’s a certain object

Will you have more than one TTPlayer pawn in your level?

And what is this TTPlayer, just a regular pawn?

[vernal snow]

It under the Character parent class.
So a character, there is only one to be in the level.

[lunar sleet]

Ok so if you want to find it with a line trace and check if it’s of a certain bp class, you can just drag from the other actor and cast to it

And if TTPlayer is a child of this Master class bp you shouldn’t have any need for a get actors of class

It inherits its components

[vernal snow]

the Actor doing the line trace is the child of the Master BP and has gotten the ref from the Master Class.

[lunar sleet]

But it doesn’t look like it is so idk why that’s on your begin play^

[lunar sleet]

Why does it need a ref ?

[vernal snow]

To clairfy we're on the same page:
Do you mean this one, why it needs the refs?

[lunar sleet]

I’m asking why your master bp class is getting some other actor’s components on its begin play

Like what’s the point of all of this 😀

[vernal snow]

Because of previous issues on other projects i'd assumed the components arent inherited when casting to another BP.

Well, its to simply decrease a value when the Child actor has a clear line of sight and hits the player with its line trace.

But - as it stands now it only does that when the player isnt hit.

[lunar sleet]

Ok, so you just want to run a line trace to something, and if that’s the right object, decrease a variable in… which object, the player or the hit object ?

[vernal snow]

The player, if it is Hit.

It's running a line trace to the player.
And its checking if that the hit actor Is the player.

[lunar sleet]

Ok

So on your AI or whatever, run a line trace, cast into the player bp, and change the variable

That’s it

[frosty heron]

@dry pecan

[vernal snow]

Yes, that is it.

thats what i got so far and it only does it when the player isnt hit.

[lunar sleet]

You don’t need get actors of class or random refs on begin play

[vernal snow]

Thats for the master BP though which i only brought into incase it was perhaits inheritance issues that was the cause of this.

[lunar sleet]

No, what you have so far is some == ref

delete all of that. Line trace, cast, change variable, all in the bp of the pawn that traces to the player. Then let us know if it still doesn’t change it

[dry pecan]

But wait after you quit the game will it still be the same count?

Oh wait it is, huh

[frosty heron]

@dry pecan

1. SaveGameObject
2. Game Instance Load Game Object Function
3. Game Instance Load Game Data Function
4. Game Instance Save Game Function

[frosty heron]

Yea, if stopping play in editor and coming back give u the right value then it's already working

guaranteed to work when you play game, quit, and come back

im gonna sleep, gl

[vernal snow]

I dont particulary understand as to why i need to delete them though since they are getting the values set for the Refs for other Bluprint Child to use.

But alright.
I've done what you said and it doesnt do a line trace to the Player anymore.
From what i can tell, it doesnt actualyl get past the Cast to.

[lunar sleet]

I would change that channel from camera to visibility

[frosty heron]

ooof I am missing some picture and already deleted

[lunar sleet]

Unless you have a specific reason not to use visibility

[frosty heron]

Wait i still have my game instance stuff

[lunar sleet]

Hehe I was gonna ask where #4 was 😀

[dry pecan]

yeah I sont see collectable used at all in GI

[lunar sleet]

And yeah, that means that you didn’t hit that object.

Sorry

[vernal snow]

But it didnt reach the line trace?

[lunar sleet]

I just looked at your screenshot

So

[lunar sleet]

After we fix this, you really need to watch blueprint comms videos pinned here

[frosty heron]

@dry pecan Game Instance Load Game Data function
and Game Instance SaveGame Data function

[lunar sleet]

Now, for the actual problem: remove the cast you have there and the ref you made

Drag from the line trace’s hit actor and cast. From the return value of the cast drag and SET your variable

I gave you the nodes in a certain order but I should’ve been more clear 😀

[dry pecan]

why is the slot named after an object?

[swift kiln]

Hey Im trying to do quick pause menu in game, but when player pressess esc, then esc once more, and then once more the pause menu won't load second time. Any suggestions?

[lunar sleet]

I think your main issue is you’re using some circular logic to get your end vector for the line trace. You’re basically telling the engine: find me this pawn in the level, get its location, then use that as a trace end, do a line trace and tell me if that’s the pawn

[dawn gazelle]

Rather than tracing on tick, could you not just use overlap events (Onoverlapbegin and onoverlapend) to trigger the drain on and off?

[vernal snow]

Okay, i did that.
I think, atleast.

But now we are back at sqaure one with the same results:

[lunar sleet]

With a line trace you prly want to instead get your own location, add some value to it that represents your range in the direction you want to check, and feed that into the end

[edgy ingot]

You can name it w.e you want. Just make sure to use the same name when loading or creating the slot

[lunar sleet]

The == hit actor is not necessary, you’ve just established that 😀

The cast checks if the hit actor is of that bp class and lets you access it

[vernal snow]

this is more so for testing purposes, instead of a final product

[swift kiln]

Alright so I kinda fixed it by adding flip flop, but when player clicks back to game button, there is short delay, when he can't pause the game again

[lunar sleet]

To clarify, line trace is kinda useless if you already know where the actor is. So if you don’t care about range, then yeah you can just get that ref another way and cast to run the function inside it

Whether that’s an overlap or get actor of class (less ideal)

[vernal snow]

Okay.

However, we still do not change the Value of the float, only when behind an object do we do that.

And the method i was using was making use of inheriting variables from a parent BP, so not to keep needing to make use of the cast to node.

If it makes it easier i could get in a VC and share screen?

[lunar sleet]

I don’t rly do that and wouldn’t have time rn anyway, but I’ll try to make a mock up for you

[dry pecan]

I was just wondering since I dpn't see it in his variables in the GI

[swift kiln]

To be specific here, I have to press pause button twice, first time it just doesn't register

[edgy ingot]

@dry pecan #blueprint message

[dry pecan]

well the Intigers I mean

[edgy ingot]

#blueprint message

R u looking?

[lunar sleet]

And run the cancel off the Cast Failed. If your float still doesn’t change it properly once you’ve done this, then there’s something in your function on the player that’s wrong

[dry pecan]

I am, MySaveGame is a Save Game Variable, not a integer Variable

wait is the varible type the same as the save game object?

[edgy ingot]

Everything you need is in the picture. I cant dechiper what you have in your mind

Savegameobject is savegameobject

Mysavegame contain 2 int variables, score and collectibles

[dry pecan]

because what I'm trying to do is store everything in the Score Integer there as my slot name

[edgy ingot]

You can do thst and jve given you the bps. Theres nothing else i can do for you

[lunar sleet]

I’m so confused. Are you and @frosty heron working in shifts on this? 🤣

[edgy ingot]

Turned off pc and just checking on my mobile if he got it working

Oh well gonna sleep for real now. Nite nite

[lunar sleet]

Why are you 2 people tho lol

[vernal snow]

In order of being fired this is my Functions for the float change.
The event cancel is just a "Cancel and invalidate Timer by handle" so i havent included it.

From your mock up im not too sure as to how that does anything different - aside from mine being called from a Interface and using a seperate Ref for the component that holds the interface.

[edgy ingot]

I forgot my password and end up making new acc. got old one recovered after some time.

[edgy ingot]

Remove from parent doesnt make the widget ref null or invalid. Set your widget ref to none after remove from parent

N dont use flip flop

[lunar sleet]

I mean you’re adding a bunch of elements to this that just overcomplicate things. Like you’re using an interface call, to call an event, that calls a function with a very similar name, that calls a timer using set timer by function, bound to a function whose nomenclature includes the word “event”.

You’ve literally thrown everything and the kitchen sink into this when it should be a simple cast and function call

[swift kiln]

Why not flip flop tho?

[lunar sleet]

I think before you do anything else, you should take the time to watch that video on bp comms I mentioned, it’ll really help you

[lunar sleet]

Not reliable enough

[dawn gazelle]

If you're calling something to set a timer on tick, then that timer will never trigger <_<

[lunar sleet]

Shit that too lol, I got lost in the mess 😀

[vernal snow]

But it does get called though we saw that in the video.

[edgy ingot]

It shouldnt. Each time you run set timer that isnt triggered yet, it will restart the timer. I dont see any of your bp but what datura say is fact

[lunar sleet]

FlipFlop is very easy to break and should only be used for prototyping really

[swift kiln]

And specifically how to set widget ref to none?

[lunar sleet]

Set variable without plugging anything into it

Fricken chop liver over here lol

[rich pollen]

im trying to understand spline meshes now because i got my spline snake and the wiggly movement working, and i want to deform future parts of the snake to the spline, creating a continuous snake
im testing spline meshes out before i attempt to implement it into the project anyone know why the fuck the mesh is way off the spline in the world, when it isnt in the preview?
heres the construction, event, and additional function code for reference, and the preview in the bp

theres another issue here but im taking it one step at a time lol

[swift kiln]

Oh yeah I tried that but messed up something else, anyways its now working as it should, thanks

[rich pollen]

im using the basic cylinder shape

[vernal snow]

Right.
Okay, thank you that solved it.
I didnt realise that due to it being called every tick it wouldnt be given the chance to actually start doing the Timer hence my confusion as to it only starting when it stopped hitting the player.

Thank you too @lunar sleet.

[lunar sleet]

Watch that vid, I promise it’ll help a great deal

[dawn gazelle]

The "Hello" is being printed on the tick, not on the timer. Not sure about the other value being displayed as there are no other prints in you code that you've shown.
The value likely goes down because you've stopped calling the timer to start up.

[lunar sleet]

I’d wager it has something to do with you setting the spline mesh’s location both on construct and on begin play

Not sure why the duplication

[dry pecan]

wait, I need to have a delusion of mine cleansed, in my GI Object I have an intiger named Score, and the Slot I named Score, are they two completley different things?

[dawn gazelle]

Yes

[dry pecan]

Inhuman Screeching of me finally realizing that

[dawn gazelle]

Every blueprint is a template.
Any variables you define are then a part of that template. You can have the same variable name in multiple templates and they will not be associated.
Every instance of a blueprint that gets spawned can then have its own copy of those variables.

[dry pecan]

This was exactly why I was very lost

the exact reason I had a hard time following those easy to understand explenations

[lunar sleet]

Hehe, wait till you see how confusing it looks in cpp

[dawn gazelle]

If by slot you mean "Save Game Slot" that's what the actual name of the save game file will be called... So if you named it "Score" it would've actually created a file on your computer named "Score.sav" in your project's Save folder.

[dry pecan]

I want to cry, I put myself in a corner over a misunderstanding I caused to myself

[lunar sleet]

It helps to learn the basics of OOP

[snow gazelle]

Hello, I'm trying to make a flashlight, and currently I only have a spotlight connected to my character's head so that it wobbles in relation to the camera, but this way the spotlight doesn't go up or down, how can I make the light always point in the direction of the camera, but still having that wobble when I move?

[dry pecan]

how do you make a function work? do they need to be called first to actually run?

[dawn gazelle]

Yes

[lunar sleet]

Please don’t pull an Authaer ok ? 😀🙏

[dawn gazelle]

Eh?

[gentle urchin]

Is there no GM event called during Open Level?

[lunar sleet]

Quit the server, likely due to question burnout (that’s just my theory tho) 😀

[gentle urchin]

nothing triggers

[lunar sleet]

Wrong player ?

[gentle urchin]

singleplayer

[lunar sleet]

Where’s this code

[gentle urchin]

in GM

native BP events

[lunar sleet]

Correct GM in settings?

[gentle urchin]

yepp

[lunar sleet]

Why you need that stuff for single player tho?

[gentle urchin]

swapping spawned pawn

[dawn gazelle]

Oh geeze... I noticed he hadn't been around, didn't realize he's not in the listing anymore <_<

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, it’s sad

Hopefully he’ll be back some day

[rich pollen]

that did not fix it unfortunately

[lunar sleet]

Like, possession?

[gentle urchin]

Like spawn and possess

[dawn gazelle]

Wrong game mode for the game state?

[lunar sleet]

What didn’t? What steps did you take?

[gentle urchin]

erh, fm

You're right.

Neo was first right, sorry abotu that derp

forgot to swap GM in other levels

[dawn gazelle]

I only recognize it because I tripped over it a billion times when I was first messing with Unreal 😄

[lunar sleet]

Happens

[rich pollen]

disabled the on play event and not the construction and vice versa, still has the tube way off the spline in the game space

[lunar sleet]

So even without the timeline changes, your location changes from construction to runtime?

[rich pollen]

somehow yah

[lunar sleet]

🤔 collision issues?

[rich pollen]

feel like im going nuts

[gentle urchin]

x) i even checked Seamless travel just to be sure xD

[rich pollen]

might need to spend more time looking at tutorials on spline meshes to see if i made it too simple

[lunar sleet]

Or is it that local space world space change thing

[rich pollen]

everything in the bp referencing locations or sending locations is set to world space

wait

am i stupid

I AM

[lunar sleet]

Me thinks we need a rubber ducky emoji 😀

[dawn gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/noot-noot-meme-noot-noot-black-background-gif-26002556

(I know it's not a duck...)

[rich pollen]

jesus god that fixed that

sorry lol

[lunar sleet]

What did?

[dry pecan]

Also if I make a function in my GI but need to reference the function somewhere else, do I reference the object where said function is with it?

[rich pollen]

the tangent setting blocks for spline meshes use local not world space

i will need to watch more spline mesh videos regardless i think now

[dawn gazelle]

Yes. If the function exists in your game instance, you'd need a reference to your game instance (You can do Get Game Instance to do so) and then cast to your custom Game Instance Class that has the function, and then call the function.

[dry pecan]

So i make the function, put it in a custom class, , then reference and use

[dawn gazelle]

If you wanted to, you can create a "Blueprint Function Library" and you can create static functions in it that can be called from anywhere without needing a reference to any object.

[lunar sleet]

Does that have any perf considerations?

[dawn gazelle]

Not that I'm aware. The only thing is that they can't be called in things that don't have a world context.

(Confirmed!)

[lunar sleet]

Ah, fair enough

[dawn gazelle]

In C++ land you can declare your own static functions within a class.

[lunar sleet]

Does that make them global?

Like you can just call them from anywhere ?

[dawn gazelle]

Yep, but with no reference to an instance of course, so they have situational usage.

[lunar sleet]

Makes sense

[snow gazelle]

Hello, No one answered my question, so I'm asking again. I'm trying to make a flashlight, and currently I only have a spotlight connected to my character's head so that it wobbles in relation to the camera, but this way the spotlight doesn't go up or down, how can I make the light always point in the direction of the camera, but still having that wobble when I move?

[trim matrix]

u can set the flashlight rotation to Camera->ForwardVector->RotationFromXVector

that probably would give u the desired effect

@snow gazelle

[snow gazelle]

ok, i will try that

[spark steppe]

i think you could just copy the world rotation of the camera to the flashlight

[trim matrix]

it would not make it point exactly where u look at

[mild ibex]

did this channel get removed?

[snow gazelle]

how do i take the rotation from x vector and put it on the spotlight?

[mild ibex]

i have to search for in: blueprint once i leave it

[trim matrix]

u probably haven't selected programming in Channels & Roles

[mild ibex]

oh

mb