blueprint

[hoary junco]

the issue you run into with that and the reason this is likely breaking is becuase of how if statements work, I used to have a similar if statement to what you have controlling my door opening and it would always break when trying to close the door but the moment I swapped it out it worked fine

as in the if statement works fine when going down the true path but just breaks going down the false path because if statements in blueprints don't seem to have the same else functionality that they do in C++

[steady night]

yeah so i swaped it to a flip flop same issue tho

[hoary junco]

honestly you might need to split the camera and the character rotation into 2 separate blueprints

[steady night]

hmmm

[hoary junco]

oh wait, I think I know what the issue might be..

so the logic here is you have this variable which is camera offset and a second variable which is how far the camera moves right?

[steady night]

yeah

[hoary junco]

well what it's doing is get current offset, set it to range over the time, then set new offset

so the math is

to keep this simple offset is 0 and range is 100

over 0.8 seconds change from 0 to 100 then set offset to 100

then in reverse it's saying change offset from 100 to 100 then set offset to 0
because the reversed version of the animation doesn't mess with the camera size range variable

[steady night]

hmm

[hoary junco]

in other words you have to have a variable for the start position of the spring arm, a variable for the end position, and then a variable for where it exists currently and use the LERP to bounce the current position between the start and end

[steady night]

oh revese goes b to a

not a to b again right

[hoary junco]

exactly

[steady night]

ahhh

[hoary junco]

the thing is though there is already a function for what you're trying to do that you're doing the hard way

which is set actor relative transform

[steady night]

hmm

[hoary junco]

in that instance what you would do is have the B in the LERP be your range value and A be 0 then have the target be the spring arm and in that case it will transform the position of the spring arm by the range value on the appropriate trigger

or you can just do relative location too that could work

[steady night]

yeah

i mean i suppose i could do that

however

a "noobie" hardcoding workaround

or wait

[hoary junco]

the problem you find with those workarounds is they tend to break

[steady night]

yeah

dont even need to set them liek that

i just preset the value and it works ..

[hoary junco]

so.. the issue you run into there is activation order... essentially the camera would move before the timeline begins wouldn't it?

I mean if that works it works I suppose XD

anyway back to trying to make my double door work...

[steady night]

haha tyeah ty for help

[hoary junco]

I have to say this has been pretty helpful to me too, I literally started UE5 a week ago having had 0 development experience outside a few years in a QA job for bossa studios and the fact I'm able to comprehend any of this is astounding to me

[steady night]

it works for the camera the character rotation dosent tho -.-

hehe

nice work

keep at it its a good sign

[hoary junco]

so what's the character doing now?

I'm guessing you want the character to start rotating the moment that the camera starts moving rather than pausing?

[steady night]

yeah oh was my bad the timeline was 0.8 but the character uses the 0,4 node value so the reverse way the first 0,.4 sec did nothing

so fixed now 🙂

[hoary junco]

nice

I was about to say yeah don't forget it's B-A on the way back

[steady night]

yeah exactly

[hoary junco]

goood luck on your project!

so I got them both to rotate just not quite in the way I hoped for XD

😮 I did it

[mental trellis]

I thought this was gonna be some sort of secret sliding door for a moment.

[hoary junco]

I have those in the level but nah this one is meant to open like a normal double door

funny thing is I'm following a tutorial on how to do C++ in UE5 and like the absolute autist I am I can't just do what the tutorial is doing, I have to go on a 5 hour tangent figuring out ways how to do things that the tutorial creator doesn't do

[mental trellis]

That's good. You're learning more.

[hoary junco]

also @steady night what did you use to record what was happening on your screen for that first video you sent?

[steady night]

gyazo

www.gyazo.conm

[hoary junco]

does it cost anything?

[steady night]

nope

free

[frosty heron]

Just use geforce experience

[dusty crane]

im trying to make a grabbing component using a physics handler but it wont pick up the actor until i physically touch the actor with my player pawn, does anyone know why my actor might preform this way and possible solutions

[lime basin]

idk in blueprint but in code usually there is a parameter call raycast radius or length you can increase that to get more range

[thin cradle]

hey, anyone ever had issues with blueprints not recompiling on other ppl's machines after pulling changes?
4 times now this happened seemingly at random:
Person A modifies blueprints
Person A pushes blueprint changes on perforce
Person B, with unreal closed, pulls changes
Person B tries game, blueprint does not behave as it should (no compile error on launch or anything)
Person B goes into blueprint, changes absolutely nothing, just presses compile manually
Person B tries game again, blueprint works as expected

[hoary junco]

you have to have the grabbing component be a bit away from the character model/camera because usually code like that reequires an actor overlap

[mental trellis]

The last step of loading the editor is "compiling blueprints" pretty much.

So it should be recompiling them.

[thin cradle]

it's not doing it as I explained

and there's no error as far as I can find

[mental trellis]

Have you checked the entire console log?

[thin cradle]

but multiple times now ppl have pulled blueprint changes, and the blueprints still didn't behave as they should until manual compile

it's thousands of lines so no, I typed "compil" in the search bar

now we just had someone say that after they closed and reopened the project they had to recompile the same blueprints again

so unreal isn't detecting outdated blueprint compilations and isn't saving manual ones unless we actually edit the blueprint itself

https://i.imgur.com/haIdVkV.png I did find this

after restarting (the blueprints causing problems still need recompiling btw)

[mental trellis]

Have you tried updating from within the editor?

I know, not a solution, but yeah.

[thin cradle]

as in going into the blueprint and pressing compile?

[hoary junco]

so, is there a way when opening a door to have an animation continue from a current location instead of resetting then animating?

[thin cradle]

that works but doesn't always save and that's gonna be a lot of blueprints eventually

to recompile manually regularly

[hoary junco]

so I have a partially opened door in a level, and I want it to continue opening to full then close/open fully as normal but it currently teleports to closed THEN opens fully and.. it's something I see in a lot of games and it's not entirely a negative I just feel it looks a bit goofy so wouldn't mind a way to fix it if possible

[thin cradle]

only way you can really do that is either not actually use an animation and instead handle the motion from code, or prevent the animation from switching until it's over

might be able to have just 1 open animation and switch the direction it plays depending on if it should open or close too

[hoary junco]

yeah that feels a bit beyond me at current so.. I'll come back to it later

honestly idk why I'm putting so much extra effort into polishing this, it's not even going to become an actual game it's just a test project to go along with a tutorial 😅

the OCD in me is strong

[mental trellis]

I mean pulling from SC inside the editor.

[raven fox]

Play standalone mode dosent spawn character i only able to control camera and if chose multiplayer unreal engine crash error all of this happen after i apply first tutorial anim blend what should i do?

I undone my actions but it still continues

[thin cradle]

you can do that? isn't that gonna cause crashes most of the time

especially since we have cpp in our project too

[mental trellis]

It's not the best idea.

It won't cause a crash, though, unless you update bp structs or something.

[thin cradle]

I'd rather avoid this and ideally find a proper fix instead

[mental trellis]

Are you using perforce?

[thin cradle]

yes

[mental trellis]

It might be that they're read only (due to perforce) so it's not even checking.

[thin cradle]

that seems like it should be an awfully common problem that there would be a documented solution to

[mental trellis]

It does seem likely.

[surreal carbon]

Hi I'm having this issue where i setting the points on a spline to display a path for the player to take to get to a location but whenever im getting the spline points it also connects to a random point separate from the path and im not sure why

[high ocean]

I'm having a weird issue that frankly makes no sense: I have an actor spawning around 5k hisms from about 12 hism components. I'm moving this whole thing with the player on tick. In ue4 i have no problems at all, 60+ fps smooth, no drops, all good. In ue5, this particular actor throws up the game thread in the 50ms range - WTF?!

[versed sun]

Not sure if it helps, but I noticed that if I have a graph open and visible with A LOT of nodes on it , my FPS tanks
But , if the graph isnt on screen , it runs smooth

[high ocean]

@surreal carbonMaybe you are basically adding a world 000 to the i0 of your spline, because you're only adding spline points. Is your spline component (that you're adding points to) nested inside the actor that's traveling around? meaning, is the spline's first point always the actor's location? if not, then there's you problem, if the first spline point is in world 000. Just insert your pathfinding actor's location at index0 and make sure the spline starts where your actor is and not at world origin.

@versed sunyea, thanks. That's normal, it's not that. Besides, That's usually more impactful towards the render thread iirc. This is absurd from ~16ms to 50+

[thin cradle]

new development : the blueprints are only outdated in their behaviour on one specific map

the same blueprints work fine on other maps without recompiling

[versed sun]

maybe different/transparent materials?
Press F5 while playing to see if you have bad textures

[high ocean]

Thanks man, this problem isn't caused by the render thread. It's the cpu thread, transparent mats have nothing to do with it 🙂

[versed sun]

ok, last thing i can think of, since you are you updating the transform on tick, are you only Marking Render State Dirty on the last instance?

[high ocean]

But I'm not manipulating instance transforms on tick, I'm updating the actor's location. The hisms stay where they are in their local space.

[versed sun]

hmmph

[high ocean]

unless... ue5 handles each hism instance as they would indeed change their transforms every time the parent does (which would be retarded since their relative transforms never change) but idk...

[versed sun]

are moving around a buildable vehicle with many parts or something ?

[high ocean]

I'm moving a whole procedural city underneath a track 🤣
It's fine, I've fixed it. UE apparently decided to reset my HISM collision settings to defaults so all buildings had collision. It's fine now 😄 Thanks for the help anyways m8 😄

[versed sun]

np

[neat stream]

https://clipchamp.com/watch/3xT2NPEaHFT

I'm making a fake exterior based on a cam in world... trying to tweak I have some parallax issues, any ideas.?

Also Screen Aligned UVs is ticked

[versed sun]

Looks like left/right is good , but up/down look wonky
can you change this 1.2 float into a vec (1.2 , 1.2, 1.2) and tweak each value ?

[neat stream]

Well I think the pitch is particularly wonky

This divider is not that useful

I could try to add some z offset based on distance …

It’s just that the screen aligned UVs in material is doing magic stuff that I can’t really control

[versed sun]

is your screen cap saving a rectangle shape? , looks like the aspect ratio is off

but , its not streched

[gentle flare]

Aight. So, I'm working on a star map for my space game, and I need some advice about data structures in blueprint:

I'm using a blueprint with a spine to do the nebula, I just spawn boxes along it and put a volumetric material on them

[untold cave]

how to modify hud

[gentle flare]

but for that spline on the left I wanna use it to "mark" stars to have planets on them...
I.e. just draw out a spline to draw a trade route for want of a better name...

RIGHT. spline on the right

ah, wait, I got it 🙂

spawn boxes like my nebula, but snap them to the nearest star

good talk, ta!

[surreal carbon]

thanks that seemed to work

[ruby apex]

Hi, I want my character pivot to be feet, how to move this collider?

I move character position by spline which lays on the floor so it would be much more convenient for it to be in the feet

[wild crater]

I have a data asset class. The goal is to define an asset with very simple and accessible input but to be able to get different data out of it with functions. To make this translation, I want to use some variables that I'd rather not expose to the derived data assets. Setting it to private and read-only doesn't prevent assets from modifying this piece of data. Is there a way to realize this? Or should this global data be stored elsewhere? (I can't get the game instance from a data asset for instance, so outside of a data table there's no super easy way it seems)

[ruby apex]

(I can just calculate height and make some kind of getter into my character but thats dumb)

[silent drift]

I'm trying to save a variable to my save game from a another object trigger, but I can't manage to do this. I fail on the casting since I don't know how to set the object. Anyone knows how to?

[minor wolf]

is there a way to get all data assets of a specific type? im not using primary data assets, just normie ones

[frosty heron]

You can't move the collider and you don't.
Offset the character mesh instead

[frosty heron]

casting is just a type check. You need an actual reference to your savegameobject

[silent drift]

Yeah, I just don't know how to grab the refernce. 🙂 That was my issue

[frosty heron]

You should create and load the savegameobejct in gameinstance

so to access it from practically anywhere, you just go

GetGameInstance-> GetSaveGameObject

[silent drift]

Oh, so I store the actual game-object in the instance?

Because now I do like this to solve it.

Which I was literally just thinking seems bad. 😄

But I'm just learning, so any tips to make it better I would love to hear it.

[frosty heron]

what logic is this? doesn't seems right

in here you should just be grabbing the SaveGameObject from the game instance then set what ever you need to set

[silent drift]

To re-save the data with new data.

Will re-do this!

So basically having a varaible like this?

[frosty heron]

Your LoadGameFromSlot should happend only once

if you have LoadGameFromSlot everywhere in the code, I don't think you are doing it right. You will get different ref everytime you load

Have a variable of your SaveGameObject Type. Call it SaveGameObject in game instance

when you load or create Savegame, you set the variable SaveGameObject to the return value from create/load

[silent drift]

Thank you! Will change to that.

@frosty heron Sorry for poking again, but this is more correct then for the creation right? (When the player chooses a slot to play from)

[frosty heron]

You shouldn't need to get GameInstance here as you are already in GameInstance

also when creating new Save you should check if there is an existing Save for that particular slot

[silent drift]

Sorry! This is just the "create" function inside of the slots blueprint.

[frosty heron]

Do a Does SaveGameExist? If True : Do your override logic
If false you can continue creating the savegame object

[silent drift]

It's inside the "save-slots UI widget".

So it's inside that widget and not the game instance.

[frosty heron]

Right but I would have a CreateSaveGame function in the game Instsance

not in the widget

The widget can just call SaveGameSlot (pass that specific slot name as parametre) if a save game of that slot don't exist

What you have might work but I keep it encapsulated
My GameInstance have the following function.
Create Save Game
Load Save Game
Override SaveGame
Delete SaveGAme

[silent drift]

Oh, so I would just have functions inside of the game instance and call those instead of creating it here, and then I could maybe add a "UpdateSaveGame" and such all in the game instance?

[frosty heron]

Not sure what UpdateSaveGame does
I just need those function I listed mainly in main menu

Once u load and open map, you don't need to touch them anymore

You will be loading and playing Slot1 for example

So in game instance your savegameobject will refer to Slot1 when you play the game from Slot1

anytime you need to do any changes you go
GetGameInstance->GetSaveGameObject (This SaveGameObejct Ref points at Slot1) -> Set Hp to X
Reach checkpoint -> SaveGameToSlot

[silent drift]

Thanks!

That sounds way more logical!

I think I understood it (and update save game, would be what I belive you call "SaveGameToSlot". 🙂

[frosty heron]

It takes a while to fully garsp but once you understand it, would be a breeze for you

took a while for me because I am not bright but I can save/load easily now

[silent drift]

Haha, I'm not either, especially when it comes to coding. 😄 But I will get there! Thanks for all the help and answers.

[frosty heron]

Your savefile will not be written unless you call the SaveGameToSlot function

So you can get the savegameobject and change the player health

That data will sit somewhere else

only when u call savegameto slot will the changes reflect to the .sav file

[silent drift]

Yeah!

[remote meteor]

PSA, there is also LoadOrCreateSaveGameForLocalPlayer() functions now

😉

[frosty heron]

Is that for Network Multiplayer?

[silent drift]

What is the difference for those?

It is a SP game

[remote meteor]

not much for simpler environments, could do everything it does yourself too.

LocalPlayerSaveGame extended normal USaveGame functionality to include more stuff like controller association, pre/post save events, initialize events, reset to default events, and small versioning support.

also supports more platform data for consoles

[frosty heron]

😔 my brain melts

[remote meteor]

read more @ SaveGame.h 😆

when game gets more complex, its a good start to know what kind of structure the save game should have

specially for versioning

[silent drift]

I guess I should look into that.

[remote meteor]

when you are free 😅 i suppose..

[silent drift]

Wow, it looks like I don't need to do several steps I do right now if I switch to that.

I liteally just started with the save-game, so I'm not far with it yet and could do the switch without really losing time

It even does the load OR create... 🤯

[remote meteor]

that is the simple part 😆

will really need to read into its c++ implementation to see how it would fit your use cases

[silent drift]

Yeah, but since I'm not further yet I need to learn which ever path I take from here. 😄

[remote meteor]

its more templated than USaveGame, thats about it

[silent drift]

Got it. My game is quite simple, so I won't need to save a lot of data anyway (Time played, time per level, if the level is finished and such things, but currently not insane amounts of stuff)

[remote meteor]

more and more new stuff

Gameplay Targeting System is another one i want to jump into, very useful when most game is about tracing actors and filtering for target selection
the target selection/filtering method can be made into a presets then can be used anywhere, its modular too 😆

[silent drift]

Unreal is inanse. 😄

(Like I have said before, coming from Unity). They give you so much good stuff compared to Unity (the difference between a company actually publishing games with their Engine VS just selling the Engine I guiess). 😄

[remote meteor]

the only caveats is, one man probably can never grasp everything

itss tooo muchhh

a blessing and a curse at the same time

[silent drift]

So it would be more like this?

And inside of the matching functionj I would actuallz assign the object?

[remote meteor]

that function as the name implies, tries to load a save game for the given player controller and slot name

[silent drift]

Yeah, so the local player controller will always be 0 since its a SP game.

[remote meteor]

if the save game doesnt exists, it will create one and returns it to the delegate function

[silent drift]

👍

Okay, so sounds like how I thought it would be. 🙂 And if exists it will jhust load it?

[remote meteor]

so the result is, nomatter what, you will get a save game object, its either loaded or created if doesnt exists

then you fill in the data you want, then save it again

here is what i recommend, have all the savegame object related stuff in game instance, and always keep them one copy in your game instance

you usually only need to load game on startup, then subsequent are only saves

[silent drift]

👍 Thanks!

[remote meteor]

so something like
GameMode Starts -> GameMode ask GameInstance for SaveGameObject for certain player -> GameInstance LoadOrCreates it -> Cache it as a variable so you can get them without load from disk again -> When GameMode ask to save, ask GameInstance for proper SaveGameObject -> Fills it -> GameInstance SaveObjectToSlot

[silent drift]

👍 Thank you both for all the help! This is a huge help

[subtle glade]

ill go for that

[silent drift]

@remote meteor I have one issue that I can't seem to solve. When it delegates it, it does it to the "normal" LocalSavePlayerNormalObject, and not to my created class that I added at the top. Am I doing something wrong?

And if I try to change it I get an error.

Should I do a cast?

Actually when getting the name it seems to give me the right name? I'm confused. But when I try to click on the slot several times, it seems to create aa new one each time, rather than telling me it already exists.

[modest crystal]

I may be stupid but I cannot for the life of me find this block

I have multiple trigger boxes in my level but all I can find is cast to triggerbox and cast to triggerbox (class)

[remote meteor]

select those trigger box in the level first, then only do those

[remote meteor]

you may want to reparent your savegame to the LocalPlayerSaveGame instead, you can do that in class settings

[modest crystal]

yeah but how

I can't figure out how to edit the blueprints for the instances

also why is this sequence not working

it's in my level's blueprint editor

[remote meteor]

like go to your level editor

highlight those trigger box first

then go into level blueprint

then rightclick

[modest crystal]

got it thanks

also fixed the second one

I j put it on the player blueprint

[remote meteor]

LoadOrCreate doesnt actually save into the slot when creating, you would have to save it yourself afterwards

[silent drift]

I did save it, but will triple check this.

[ruby apex]

Thanks, I've figured out its a root component, inherited from cpp so there is no way

[frosty heron]

Yup, you can't delete any inherited component. The character in Unreal comes with it and anyway CMC is designed to be used with the capsule component.
So if you are using CMC and character, you have to live with the capsule component

[ruby apex]

Yeah I see

Sadly they decided the center is at the tummy which is straight bad

Is there any convenient way of disabling character physics during some time? My character is falling when some root motion animation is playing, I just need input+physics+collision to be disabled

[modest crystal]

why does this not work in the level blueprint editor?

it doesn't pull up the widget at all is the issue

[lunar sleet]

Are your casts failing ?

And also that’s not how you use overlap + you shouldn’t be doing this in the level bp

[frosty heron]

I never charted the physic territory but can't physich be toggled at will?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah you can turn off simulate physics anytime

[frosty heron]

before you are playing your anim montage, disable physich

[ruby apex]

You cant
There is a Character->DisableComponentsSimulatePhysics() but no enable alternative

[lunar sleet]

lol, are you in cpp or in blueprint ?

[ruby apex]

cpp

oh wrong channel

My bad

[frosty heron]

GetCapsuleComponent()->SetSimulatePhysics(true);

You don't use this?

[lunar sleet]

Then #cpp but just fyi it’s called Set Simulate Physics, and it’s a bool like Cold has shown

[frosty heron]

not my territory tho

i can only think of using it for ragdoll

[cursive ermine]

Hello everyone,
I have a question.. I don't know why but my "Is valid" node is causing errors. I already tried the function and also this one with a Bool as an output but its causing an error regardless.
The "Depending On" Variable is a Actor Ref that is editable and visible for everyone.

And I know for sure (by troubleshooting for a while) that exact this "Is Valid" is causing trouble

Does anyone have an Idea what I could try?

I am trying to achieve that the blueprint asks if the Variable is empty or not and outputing the result as Bool or Execut

[frosty heron]

It's not your IsValid node causing the trouble
At the time you are accessing CurrentUsedPath it is not valid

it does not point to any object in the world. It points at nothing

[cursive ermine]

Ohh..

[frosty heron]

You need to set CurrentUsedPath, what ever it is. Make the variable point at your target instance

[cursive ermine]

Well.. my bad maybe I should read more carefully what the error says haha. Thank you! that fixed my problem

[modest crystal]

how do I do it in the character bp while not having it go to every trigger box then

I've only been able to get those event boxes in the level bp

[lofty rapids]

do the overlapping of the character, and cast to what is overlapping from other actor ?

[modest monolith]

Let's say I have different interaction actors that trigger widgets. Is there a way to delete the previous dialogue widget when I trigger a new one to not make them overlap?

[lofty rapids]

you should be using one widget

and just change the text

[modest monolith]

how do I change the text?

[lofty rapids]

you get the reference, and do set text

[modest monolith]

So I gotta create the widget at the beginning of the level and change text?

[lofty rapids]

you can create it anywhere, i prefer the HUD

[modest monolith]

what about if I want to make the text disappear after 4 sec

[lofty rapids]

well start with just setting the text

then worry about making it disappear after some time

[modest crystal]

wym by this

[modest monolith]

how lol

[lofty rapids]

what is currentplayerbot ?

[modest monolith]

I have the widget. shall I create it on begin play?

[modest crystal]

the player actor

[lofty rapids]

so inside that, do when it overlaps

[modest crystal]

yeah I have

and it worked

the issue is I have mutliple triggerboxes that I want to do multiple things

and I can't

[lofty rapids]

i mean you can create it anywhere, beginplay on the character is fine ig

[lofty rapids]

create it and promote to variable so you have a reference to it

[modest crystal]

cause it always calls the same thing even if they're different instances

the only way I can call the seperate instances is in the level bp editor

[modest monolith]

shall I add to viewport

[lofty rapids]

i would wait untill you want to display it to add to viewport, or you could add to viewport and set text to empty

as the default

[modest monolith]

how to I set text?

[lofty rapids]

make sure yout text box has is variable checked

[modest monolith]

This?

[lofty rapids]

this

[lofty rapids]

there ya go, so it should be displayed i would use a "test" to make sure

[modest monolith]

doesn't work

[lofty rapids]

you wrote "test" ? because you set it to blank

[modest monolith]

Yes sir

[lofty rapids]

is that code even running ? try a print string before the create

[modest monolith]

It's the begin play of level blueprint XD

(because this is the only level that will contain dialogue)

[frosty heron]

Just do it, it's called debugging

[lofty rapids]

ya you don't want to use level blueprint, i'm not even sure how to cast to it if you can at all

[frosty heron]

well you can't communicate back to level blueprint in BP

Tldr: don't use it

[modest monolith]

uhm

[frosty heron]

if you see Unreal Documentation using it, it's because they are very very old. Level blueprint is a deprecated feature. Has it's uses but very limited.
You deffinitly don't want to create your Widget there

[modest monolith]

not even in character blueprint works

[frosty heron]

there is more chance to get help if you followed a reply with screen shoot

there are things that needs to be checked. Make sure your code ran, make sure the widget is added to viewport, make sure the text is visible

[modest monolith]

🫂

[frosty heron]

For now, print string after you create widget. See if you get a msg

[modest monolith]

working

[frosty heron]

Hardcode the text you want to edit right now. Write some gibbrish

if you don't see it, then it might be set to be invisible or it doesn't occupy a space in the screen (watch where you place your anchor)

[modest monolith]

Anchor is fine because if I do it my way by just creating the widget it works

[lofty rapids]

it shouldn't matter if you just create, or promote to variable

should still add to viewport

[modest monolith]

Ok I found the problem

was adding to viewport in zorder 0

so behind my cinematic black strips

[lofty rapids]

now just set the text the same way except this time you don't have to create

just get the two refrences and set text

[modest monolith]

Is this the best way?

So if I interact with something else it will set the new text without overlapping isn't it

[lofty rapids]

you could even just add an input

thats the text

[modest monolith]

Wow this is a super clean way. Dialogues are way easier now. I used to create 3000 widgets and it was a nightmare. You're a legend sir

[modest monolith]

What do you mean

[lofty rapids]

so you have a custom event that displays a specific text, you can add an input to that event, so when you call it you send the text you want

and it should work np

i would probably make it a function or event that just displays whatever text you want, and do the branch logic outside so you can have multiple different things

[modest monolith]

But you can't use delay in functions

[lofty rapids]

right so event

either way it's easier with inputs so you don't have to create a ton of events either

[modest monolith]

Isn't it good the way I did? After all they're just small texts when interacting with objects

I'm just wondering if this could create bugs

or it's clean

[lofty rapids]

its fine i'm just saying usability is a bit low, you got to keep creating events

because you coded the text in the event

where if you pass the text, you can re use the event

and not have to create a ton of them

[frosty heron]

3000 widgets? the f

Subtitle only need 1 widget

after all you can't have 2 text at the same time?

if there is another one called, just replace the text of w/e being used

[modest monolith]

Thanks for your timing

[frosty heron]

For cinematic, I just call event notify. It will take parametre of Text and Duration

[modest monolith]

It's fine. Considering I was doing way worse before. I'm more than satisfied even because I didn't understand what you mean lol

[frosty heron]

and display it to the widget with respective life time

[modest monolith]

I have two black cubes up and down in a widget

What about if I create a macro that does this where I just have to input the text

[frosty heron]

For my purpose, i want 2 Inputs
Life time of the text and the text it self

I can show what I do for my cinematic subtitle, sec

[modest monolith]

Here we go. I found the first problem. If I interact with somehting else and pops up another text. the delay of the previous one will make it disappear

[remote meteor]

ideally i would let the widget to have its own timer for removing texts, so you could spam it, and the widget will handle with a timer

or use a retriggable delay

[north lynx]

Hello!
I'm currently having some problems with this code.
I want to do smth if the random number is 20 or less (20% chance)
But for some reason it happens completely randomly according to the string
Anyone know how to fix that?

[modest monolith]

How

[remote meteor]

Random Bool with Weight

[modest monolith]

Isnt it the same since the other texts are triggered by different bps?

[remote meteor]

ofcourse the delay/timer has to be in the widget

[north lynx]

And how it works?

[remote meteor]

0.2 will be 20% chance of true

[frosty heron]

@modest monolith

[lofty rapids]

events can have inputs as well like a function kind of

[north lynx]

Okay, makes sense

[lofty rapids]

With the set text exec pin connected of course lol

[remote meteor]

to answer your quesiton, since random int is a pure node, every pins pulled from it will be a new execution of it.
since there are 2 lines from the node, the node is executed twice, hence you have a non-consistent result.
to avoid that, when using a pure node, cache its output value into a variable instead of pulling from it twice

[north lynx]

Okay, thank you 🧡

[modest monolith]

What about this

in my character blueprint

[lofty rapids]

makes sense

[modest monolith]

and then in the other blueprints I just trigger the even and text

but will the delay problem be fixed after?

I think something is missing

Now it's like this.. cleaner

[lofty rapids]

idk about the delay, i'm still learning

you forgot the branch

[modest monolith]

branch is fine

ah no it's not

llol

[lofty rapids]

are you calling itself ?

what is that all about ?

i feal like thats a problem

[modest monolith]

Ok fixed

So basically the problem is that if I change text and after 3 seconds delay I put the text back to empty

If I trigger another text the delay of the previous text will make the new text disappear in less than 3 sec

[lofty rapids]

makes sense too

i don't know much about delay, i know it can be a pain in the ass

[modest monolith]

Hhaha okay lemme see

maybe I can sort it out with booleans

[remote meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-anderson-johan-andersen-yugioh-yugioh-gx-gif-23545678

Hover the delay node and read, then read retriggerable delay

[modest monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/i-was-blind-now-i-can-see-marcus-white-lines-i-can-see-it-now-enlightened-gif-18645446

So it's fine like this

[autumn crane]

Recommend tutorials.. udemy.. etc. Or just hop in and get lost + look up as you go?

[lofty rapids]

i just found some stuff on youtube and went for it

[autumn crane]

The structure is nice of tutorials, but I also feel like its misleading. I did the unreal sensai free thing to get a brief overview

[remote meteor]

Maybe start by looking for small things you want to make

Can search from there

Start small, look for stuff that you think you can understand how it would work

[autumn crane]

Yeah. Been grinding at it. My current idea isnt working to well with Custom Stencil masks in a gray scale world lol. Since things render at different times. I am still getting small glitches in the color

[mental trellis]

Sows? Is he a cow? It's pronounced sews 😦

[lusty hedge]

If I cast to third person character. Is it a reference to the character instance in the game or just the class

[frosty heron]

kek

final boss will be a cow then

@modest monolith The retriggreable delay should be a parametre too if you want long text to survive longer

[autumn crane]

I know there is a multiplayer channel, anyone here every attempted a multiplayer game? Non dedicated server, just p2p connections.

[modest crystal]

how can I reference different instances of an object in an actor blueprint? I've only been able to do it in the level blueprint but then it doesn't work

in this case I have two trigger boxes that I want to have two different events, however both of them do the same thing

[modest monolith]

You mean the duration ?

[jolly cipher]

Hello!

Im wrapping my head around enhanced inputs, got everything setup and working.

I wanted to recreate the Crouch / Prone key mapping from Call of Duty.
If you tap crouch you crouch but if you hold the same button it prones, if sprinting then you slide or dive if button is held,

So far I got it working but I dont like that my slide animation starts and mid way my character dives because I held the crouch button,
Just creates this impossible move from going from sliding on your back to magically go flying mid air lol

Was trying to see if there would be a way to handle this via the enhanced inputs somehow,
For example when button is pressed wait to see if its held for minimum 0.4 secs or else execute just the tap action,
Fairly new to enhanced input and not seeing any examples online of what im trying to setup precisly.

Any idea how this could work?

[frosty heron]

If you are open to do it in cpp, there is physic sliding and crouching tutorial

[jolly cipher]

Yeah I have my Slide Physics setup. Its just that I created a crouch function and setup a manual timer to calculate the holding of the button.

GetWorld()->GetTimerManager().SetTimer(TimerHandle_EnterProne,

While it does work, pressing the button would trigger my slide action and then would execute my prone/dive action almost simutanously.

Basically just wondering if I could use the enhanced input to better manage this.

[flat coral]

Okay I know we hate the Level Blueprint. However, I need something which is responsible for knowing, for each level, when conditions are satisfied such that it's time to pop the level-end screen and move on to the next level. Those conditions are very different for different levels, sometimes it's finding a specific item or several, sometimes it's getting to a particular room, sometimes it's killing a boss enemy. Where should I put that logic and data, if not the level BP?

[frosty heron]

@jolly cipher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaw-ifiUok&ab_channel=delgoodie
Try this

[jolly cipher]

Exactly the system I am using XD

Im trying to tweak it to make it feel more like call of duty 😄

[frosty heron]

hmm me too but I don't apply slide

[frosty heron]

Game Mode, or an Actor Manager imo

[flat coral]

What's an actor manager?

[jolly cipher]

But just wondering, in the enhanced input, I see we have many trigger options.
Is it possible to know for example if a button was held or tapped?

[frosty heron]

just an actor you drop in the world whos job is to track and manage specific task you tell it to do which in this case can track, bos killed, room open. etc

[frosty heron]

ye possible, I don't know about enchanced input. There is a macro in Dynamic combat system that does that

@jolly cipher

[jolly cipher]

AH interessting, never messed with macros before but might have found another solution for tap and held actions via blueprints:

[frosty heron]

Yeah I reckon the new enhanced input should covered this

good find, im gonna save that lol

[brazen pulsar]

Probably an easy problem, I've got an open world level, and level transitions in front of buildings to other interior levels.
The problem is when the player exits a 'building level' they get put at the same start position each time. I'm just looking for a way to switch it from one to the other, have it so they start in front of the building they exited

[flat coral]

If I've got a data table row handle, how do I get the NEXT row?

I know I could get all row names, search that list for the row name I have, and check index N+1 on the array, but like... that can't possibly be the "right" way to do it, can it?

[nimble wasp]

Does an actor have an ai controller. I made an actor I need to move to another actor. Simple Move to Actor wants a controller.

[brazen pulsar]

nvm, I got it

[flat coral]

A pawn has a controller, which sounds like this should be. An actor is just anything that can be placed in a level. If it has an XYZ coord, it's an actor. Walls are actors.

[celest acorn]

first week using ue5 too

[undone thistle]

Hey, how do I add the values of a struct or datatable to the view port

Ive been seraching for hours but cant find how

[undone thistle]

in like a list manner

for example the names and picture of all npcs that are spawned

[celest acorn]

my map may be wrong through 3ds max, seeing as its black and i cant actually see any of my text on the map

[frosty heron]

With widgets

You can have a custom widget slot. Have the necessary variable in it like , text , image etc

Then make a master widget that have grid panel or a vertical box. Add your custom widget for each entry from the data table

[lime basin]

How to have Two bones Ik target socket everything is set up just not sure how to connected, socket is of weapon so Ik will posotion hand in corret place during animation.

[frosty heron]

If you are trying to do simple move on an a.i character. Make sure the a.i have valid ai controller

[modest crystal]

I have an input action to turn my character with 'a' negating the value of 'd', however whenver I have them both pressed the input of 'd' overrides 'a'. How do I get them to cancel out?

[brazen pulsar]

nope, was wrong. I've got the player start tags, and there's an options key in the 'open level' node, but they don't seem to affect each other. It just jumps to a random player start

[modest monolith]

How do I make my character return to Player Start?

I want him to return to player start after he goes to sleep

[lunar sleet]

I mean the easiest way is to copy the vector location of the player start into a set actor location vector and call it a day

[lusty hedge]

Google's bard AI

I'm transitioning to unreal from Unity and it can instantly make comparisons to help me understand

Far better than chat GPT for understanding blueprint

[modest monolith]

like this ?

it doesn't work.. the camera keeps looking at the bed instead of initial position

[lunar sleet]

… so it does work you’re talking about rotation now

Cache the initial rotation in a variable and feed that in

[vale pine]

I've got this array of transforms that are used as 3d Widgets. Is there a way to interactively duplicate them, in the same way you can duplicate actors with alt+drag?

[undone thistle]

Yeah but i cant find a video explaininh how to do this

[frosty heron]

You can try to do step by step as I describe it

Make a widget for your slot. Let it have text and image of the actor

Make a widget to display the list of the slots. Add a vertical box

Populate the vertical box with your widget slot based. Make sure to init the slot data right before adding them

[modest monolith]

Can't I just take player start rotation lol

[lunar sleet]

Should work too

[distant hollow]

I have two PlayerCharacters, CharA with a camera setting of Orthographic, and CharB with Perspective.
When I start the game, the camera angle is directly topdown, as intended.
However, when I switched characters, the view becomes a mishmash of purple and blue lines.
What is happening?

[modest monolith]

it doesn't work

[lunar sleet]

I see you’re getting actor of class player start but not using it

Why not just grab the xform from it directly if you’re going that route

[modest monolith]

the fkin code totally ignores whatever rotation I tell it to use

it doesn't work anyway

the rotation

I even made a blueprint with a billboarda and an arrow and doesn't work

[lunar sleet]

Maybe you’re rotating the wrong thing ? Try rotating the char’s camera instead

[pulsar vigil]

hey guys i need once again ur help, it worked before but now (few month later probably an update) i can't get "self" to work to set the variable of the bp

image 1 is the npc and image 2 is the player character it was an interaction wich require to set in the bp_npc himself as a variable redirected to the player

[zealous moth]

billboard rotation???

[modest monolith]

Nah I give up

i'm in burnout

fk this crap

[frosty heron]

Fix your error?

[modest monolith]

I'm fixing crap since this afternoon

[frosty heron]

If you can't withstand pain maybe take a break or do something else. Everyone have to go through debugging, especially when doing something new

[pulsar vigil]

the self node doesn't work anymore and i dont know why thats the error

[modest monolith]

Yeah that's what I'm going to do. Ima play a bit hehe

[frosty heron]

@pulsar vigil what self node? Which one are u talking about?

Self just refers to the blueprint it's in btw

You have error in your 2nd pic. That leads to compilation error. Fix it first

U are pulling a pointer that don't exist. See how it's greyed out

[pulsar vigil]

hmm i need to give u more detail,
the average npc target is in erro cause i dont set it on the bp_npc this error is in the player_bp, before i got this problem it was working perfectly cause i was setting the npc i want to interact with, with the self node but it doesn't plug in anymore and i dont understand why, cause i want to ref the bp himself

[frosty heron]

I don't know what works but I surely know the 2nd pic is fked. I'm surprised If u can hit play at all.

Why don't u f I x it first?

I don't think anything else matter when you can't compile Ur bp

[pulsar vigil]

im telling u i can't compile and play cause of the npc_bp the second bp cause the player bp try to get an actor variable not set up

if i dont resolve that i can't make it work

this is a related error this is not something else

[frosty heron]

You can't compile because u have average npc target which doesn't exist (greyed out) that's your problem

And on another unrelated matter since you insisted to keep going to Ur first pic

Self refer to the blueprint it's in

So if u are in bp character, self is bp character

If u can't plug self to something then that something is not the same variable type

[pulsar vigil]

yes but im using it in the npc bp bro

[frosty heron]

U make it really hard to help you 😔

I'm gonna go to sleep, gl. Hopefully someone can pick it up

[pulsar vigil]

no u did great i forgot to check something

sry bro thx for the help

[zealous moth]

@pulsar vigil in your second pic, you are trying to get a variable that is greyed out, this means you removed it from your original BP. that's the entire problem

[distant hollow]

Might anyone have any insights to this?

[frosty heron]

2nd pic , you are in wireframe mode

If that happens in pie, I have no clue how you got to that

[distant hollow]

What do I need to change?

[frosty heron]

Also isn't the orto view experimental?

[zealous moth]

typically it's a view

[distant hollow]

I did this:

[frosty heron]

2nd pic happend when you are in play in editor?

[zealous moth]

it is but it works and I managed to make it go from ortho to regular

[zealous moth]

cine camera?

is that the same camera type as player camera?

[distant hollow]

I think it wouldn't make a diff in this context, I tried both CineCamera and default camera

[minor wolf]

Bump

[zealous moth]

try both, regular and then try both ortho

[frosty heron]

No idea how u go to wire frame mode. Normally you have to press some number to change the view mode

[zealous moth]

yup ^

[lilac igloo]

Ah thank you. I didnt know you have to toggle to view the channel

[distant hollow]

Tried, no good

[distant hollow]

Yes, which is baffling me

[zealous moth]

you still get wireframe???

5.3?

[distant hollow]

I don't have any codes in the blueprint to get into wireframe

[distant hollow]

5.2

[frosty heron]

I don't have a clue 🤔

[distant hollow]

Sigh

[undone thistle]

Can you check your mp pleaaaaase

[pulsar vigil]

it work now indeed the self was not working cause it was a problem of typo i was trying to get the one with one letter less @zealous moth

[frosty heron]

Plugging self to something is a matter of compatible variable type. The name is not the reason why it can't be plugged

[lilac igloo]

I did consider this but this "length" for Ribbons as I found determined by lifetime as it "creates" or ribbons at the end the longer it lives. Faster velocities also increases the length but not what I want. Given my limted knowledge of niagara, would you know how to do this correctly?

[frosty heron]

Odd. Nothing in the camera detail panel that sets it to wire frame mode?

[distant hollow]

Nothing

[frosty heron]

@distant hollow https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/camera-actor-orthographic-projections-shows-only-in-wireframe-mode-bug/571509

Lots of ppl with same prob ? 🦦

[distant hollow]

Damn

[lunar sleet]

I’ve heard of this before yeah

[steady night]

hey

how would i make the emitter rotation face towards the impact point ?

[dawn gazelle]

Find Look At Rotation Start being the emitter location and the target being the impact point, and use the rotation into the rotation of the emitter?

[steady night]

okok

ty

@dawn gazelle how would start being the emitter location since im spawning it on impact point also :/ ? both being same ?

[dawn gazelle]

How can it face towards the point if it is at the point?

[steady night]

exactly

[dawn gazelle]

it can't.

[steady night]

exactly but isent that what you wrote ?

[dawn gazelle]

What I wrote isn't in the context of something being at the location you're trying to look at.

Mathematically being at the location means you can't look at the location as you are the location.

[frosty heron]

Never got the chance to play with decal but my brain tells me the logical thing to do would be to get the normal of the hit surface

[dawn gazelle]

There is an "impact normal" on hit results. That gives you directionality.

[steady night]

hm

[dawn gazelle]

I just can't remember what it is you need to do to get it to rotate to that normal 🤔

[frosty heron]

Rotatexvector? I dunnoe

[tall field]

Is there a way to get the updated location of a component? I have a component driven by an animation but it seems the location "sometimes" is set to the location at the start of the animation, and not where it is currently
https://gyazo.com/2a9630e48ff7cfae61048edfde3112ed

[nimble wasp]

Actor1 overlaps with 1stCollisionBP and spawns Actor2. When Actor1 overlaps 2ndCollisionBP, Actor1 is destroyed. But I want Actor2 to fire a function.

I know I can add an interface to Actor2 and access it from 2ndCollisionBP - but what if there are multiple spawned copies of Actor1 and multiple Actor2s?

[zealous moth]

where us the issue? looks fine to me

[tall field]

The issue is that the arrow will spawn at the location at the bottom

And not the top one where it's actually at

It's debug tracing at 2 places at different frames

[zealous moth]

You said:
Actor1 overlaps with 1stCollisionBP and spawns Actor2. When Actor1 overlaps 2ndCollisionBP, Actor1 is destroyed. But I want Actor2 to fire a function.
Make it
Actor1 overlaps with 1stCollisionBP and spawns Actor2. When Actor1 overlaps 2ndCollisionBP, Actor2 to fire a function. Then Actor1 is destroyed.

[nimble wasp]

I probably want to do this with an event dispatcher, right?

[versed sun]

does the unwanted location happen to be 0,0,0 ?

[zealous moth]

I am struggling to understand what that arrow scene component is. Can you debug the name of the component as well as its vector?

[tall field]

Happens to be at the first frame of the draw animation

[versed sun]

yes, what is the value? 0,0,0?

[tall field]

Arrow is a arrow component that is attached to the bone of the bow

[nimble wasp]

@zealous moth You are exactly right. How do I get Actor2 to fire that function when Actor1 overlaps it?

[versed sun]

get relative

[nimble wasp]

I'm trying to "get" Actor2 but failing.

[tall field]

-1238 607 64

[zealous moth]

the simplest is to cast to that actor overlapped and run the function then destroy actor

[nimble wasp]

Unfortunately, that actor (Actor2) doesn't overlap.

[versed sun]

whatever the relative value is, see if that is the same every time, if so, do a == check and ignore if it is

or fix your animation

[zealous moth]

yeah thats a good fix for now

[kind estuary]

Im doing an endless runner, but instead of a character its kart. Can i still use a character, or it should be a vehicle

what does vehicle has that is different than a character?

[zealous moth]

use the character and just add your own meshes over it

vehicle is a headache not worth using

[kind estuary]

got it. thats what i found in my searches

so what is it used for?

[zealous moth]

unlike you need to simulate physics, suspension, actual vehicle (realistic) features, no

unless*

I made tons of pawns that are characters, made the mesh blank and added a mesh on top

it just works

[kind estuary]

well the car will have to explode sometimes, might upgrade to tank too?

[zealous moth]

sure, but do you need physics for it?

like complex physics

[steady night]

What do i need on a AI to make it be able top hear noise ?=

[kind estuary]

what do you mean by complex physics?

[steady night]

pawn sensing, and on player noise emitter

right ?=

[kind estuary]

like it will fall or something?

[zealous moth]

like, do you need a wheel to turn to change the wheel rotation of the front wheels, do you need a friction system to propulse the vehicle? do you need tire suspension?

if not, then you don't need the vehicle

[kind estuary]

ah i see

well i guess no

just need it to go forward and turn sideways

though it will go over ramps

[zealous moth]

exactly, most folks don't need this stuff

and you can do a single trace below to get the ramp angle and determine if it can decelerate and stuff

[kind estuary]

got it, thanks a lot

[tall field]

Turns out the server was never playing the montage and was always in idle. Is there a way to enable playing montages server side? Just checked and the play montage is definitely called server side but it seems the skeleton isn't moving at all despite it being called

[shrewd meadow]

is there a way to recover my blueprint that got corrupted because of saving during a crash

it's massive so recovering it is much much easier than recreating it

last autosave seems to be from ages ago so that doesnt cut it

[tall field]

Found out, “optimization” group and It’s called “Visibility based anim tick option”. Set to update frame and bones and it works server side now

[zealous moth]

is there a way to enable/disable tick if an actor is not on screen?

[sand slate]

Hey I have a question. I spawn a geometry collection with a pulse when something explodes. But the game lags littlebit when I spawn the pieces. Is there a way where I can make it less heavy?

[nimble wasp]

How would you get a Pawn to Move to Location? Add a movement component and an AI controller? The object I want to move is an orb, thus it doesn't touch the ground. I had it moving... but it floated off to 0,0,0 and I don't know why.

[subtle glade]

i believe there is a move to location node

does anyone know why this wouldnt work? for moving a character left to right

i casted player controller and used the right mapping context

debugging shows that it responds properly to input but it doesnt do any character movement

[nimble wasp]

Unfortunately, I tried the Move to location or actor. Because it is a pawn I can't use the character movement component.

[subtle glade]

i have the movement constrained also, so it shouldnt move on the y axis

[subtle glade]

not sure what to tell u there, im still new too, i would say just go ahead and add a character movement component if the pawn is going to move

[nimble wasp]

Better question - how do I add an AI Controller to a pawn?

Oh, it looks like I don't inside the BP. It's not a component.

[elder lodge]

have you tried scaling it all up?

Force tick?

theoretically also "World Direction" should always just be to the right; its the Action Value input as (-1,1) that changes whether a character moves right or left along that same world vector

[lusty hedge]

how do i get an object to receive information from a raycast

i want to press f on an object and run code in that object

[dawn gazelle]

Add a component or an interface to your actors that you want to respond to your input.
Input > Trace > Get Component from Hit Actor > Call Function On Component
or
Input > Trace > Get Hit Actor > Call Interface

[lusty hedge]

how do i get the hit actor. i keep using overlap events and its not detecting the line trace from the player

thats on the receiving object ^

[thin panther]

line traces won't

line traces give you the hit result on the line trace node

[lusty hedge]

but can another object recieve a line trace and say: "that came from the player"

[thin panther]

Yeah. You can just call something on that actor

[subtle glade]

what do you mean by that?

[elder lodge]

multiplying the input?

[lunar sleet]

You should be getting the hit actor from the line trace node, and if you want it to fire the object needs to be set to block whatever channel you’re tracing on

[subtle glade]

i can try that, what about the force tick what do u mean

[elder lodge]

under Break Hit you can find reerences to the originating actor

[elder lodge]

try the little force checkbox on movement input

[gentle parcel]

Hello old slackers. I'm working on a player's drone and made this section to adjust the 6Dof based flight preventing the drone's rotation on the Y axis, which was too strong and annoying.
I wonder if you guys think it's well put together as it is or I should clean it someway. Thanks in advance as always. Cheers!

[dawn gazelle]

The set actor transform at the end is effectively doing nothing as you're just using the actor's location & rotation anyway.

Unless you're caring about setting the scale, but I sort of doubt that.

[subtle glade]

did this and still no dice

is it because target is pawn?

[elder lodge]

Your world direction might not be right
depends on what a rotation of 0 means, i know you said you locked some axes?

[elder lodge]

nah, I think that's the basic way to move a pawn last I checked

[rustic mauve]

What's the difference between these two?
I set up a WheeledVehiclePawn, and it came with the VehicleMovementComponent. However, if I want to use the Set Max Engine Torque function, it specifically requires a ChaosWheeled component.
Both of them seem to have the same internals based on the Details, but is there another difference here?

[lunar sleet]

Prly one uses chaos physics the other one is legacy

[rustic mauve]

Very confusing, since VehicleMovementComponent also shows this.

[lunar sleet]

Idk, could be that one has extra stuff in it like GM and GM Base

[subtle glade]

heres my constraint,here's what the capsule looks like

pretty sure it's facing x

when i output the forward vector it gives 1,0,0

[elder lodge]

try eliminating all constraints and seeing if you can get it to move at all?

[subtle glade]

no dice

i did this to test if it would move at all

and it moves up properly but it also flips 10 degrees

[elder lodge]

is this a character from scratch? with the CMC?

[subtle glade]

when making a new blueprint i chose character

[elder lodge]

the character movement component is listed?

in the hierarchy?

[subtle glade]

idk how to make a neat text file with all the properties but here is most of them

should be default

i might just make a new blueprint and try again

okay so doing that worked

i'll never know what happened lol

the controls are inverted tho ill just flip the cam

[trim matrix]

Does vinterp work in multiplayer? A friend told me that its not replicated?

[dawn gazelle]

Vinterp is just a math function. It doesn't replicate anything on its own.

[trim matrix]

Ah so its the setactorlocation

i mean the question should have been...
is the CharacterMovement Component better for multiplayer replication

or i can make my game using setactorlocation and vinterps

[fathom vigil]

How can I edit the second jump height to have more velocity than the first? Do I have to make a double jump bp just for this?

[dawn gazelle]

CMC has client side prediction built into it which allows clients to manipulate their controlled character's location before sending those instructions to the server and the server then validates it and can correct the client location if the server disagrees with where the client should be.
It's not a requirement to use the CMC as you can make your own pawn and your own custom movement component for it, but you'll likely have to build similar systems to what the CMC has to facilitate smooth, responsive movement for the client while still maintaining server authoritative movement, if you care for such things.

[trim matrix]

ohh

i see so basically my game wont work multiplayer

because its full of vinterp -> setactorlocation

and i heard doing a custom CMC is a bit of a pain

[still socket]

Quick question, Did i write this wrong? i want to check if the overlapped object is The same as the selected one and then have it marked true or false. In a print screen it marks them as the same but the condition keeps coming back as false for some reason

[dawn gazelle]

Well, the built in CMC is about 13k lines long, if that says anything about what epic did to build theirs.

[dawn gazelle]

This won't work as what you're checking against is the asset known as Sky_Limit_BP where the "Other Actor" could potentially be an instance of a Sky_Limit_BP.
You can either cast Other Actor to Sky_Limit_BP or check if the class is ==

[neat grotto]

When i respawn the ai in my game they no longer move or shoot. am i missing something to make the ai start running its logic again?

[trim matrix]

sorry didnt get the tone. is 13k a lot in that context?

[frosty heron]

if you are doing your own custom cmc you might be sitting on your computer for years

[trim matrix]

so actors are never used vwhen the game is multiplayer

[dawn gazelle]

Sure they are.

[still socket]

Appreciate it

[frosty heron]

What is it that you need that CMC can't give you? A lot of brainy people 💩 on it for it's performance.
CMC is good for competitive shooter, it is designed with such in mind.

If you need something large scale, CMC is not the answer for you

[dawn gazelle]

What you do with your multiplayer is up to you. The Character Movement Component is just something that Epic has given with the engine and can be used by people as a starting point for client predictive movement, but that doesn't mean everything needs to have client predictive movement.

[frosty heron]

there is also GMC which a lot of people praised in market place. Cost $350 in marketplace

[trim matrix]

absolutely performance, and i dont like how it seems all prefabricated

vinterps and rinterps + set actor transform feels better to me

[frosty heron]

Why do you want to interpolate?

I mean you can always do that in CMC

CMC allow you to enter new Physics state, you can do your own custom calculation there

[dawn gazelle]

Moving things around takes a lot more than just setting an actor location. Like, how do you determine if something is capable of jumping? If it can crouch? If it is allowed to fall of the ledge? How does it actually fall? Is it allowed to move through certain types of meshes or not, etc.

[trim matrix]

cmc as far as i know is more like: AddInputMovement

or like Send Actor here

dont remember exactly the node

[frosty heron]

I suggest reading the documentation, it's not for the faint heart

Also if you are doing Multiplayer, you have to use C++ for CMC

no way around it

Well there is, with GMC

$350 dollars is a bargain for the work it done for ya

You want to Interpolate rotation and location for Proxies

But for the local player, you want to apply things instantly

[trim matrix]

i see

though most of my games dont require jumping or crouching

[frosty heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urkLwpnAjO0&list=PLXJlkahwiwPmeABEhjwIALvxRSZkzoQpk&ab_channel=delgoodie

What you need to know in one video

[trim matrix]

i recently followed a tuts that had Character, and used AddInputMovement

So i changed it to Actor, and started vinterping

i dont know why feels better and like i have more control

[frosty heron]

If you are doing multiplayer you should get familiar with concepts like client prediction, server authoritive and correction

anyway watch the video, it has more info than what can be provided by a discord talk

[trim matrix]

so is it fine for my first games to just vinterp actors around and dont do any multiplayer

okay im watching

[frosty heron]

Don't know, I don't trust my self. I rather use what AAA devs do to make their game

btw for first game, doing multiplayer is insane, just saying. The level of complexity is tenfolds

[trim matrix]

but still is better to maybe get used to the CMC now

i though the CMC was actually easier...

like its premade

and when i saw in tutorials they were lerping and etc it always confused me

[frosty heron]

What is your end goal here?

[trim matrix]

but then i thought, hmm i can lerp stuff i dont need cmc

[frosty heron]

You can't make your movement smooth enough?

what about gravity?

break, friction?

jumping to air

etc

[trim matrix]

well break is easy

most of my games are 2d fake 3d

like its a 2d board and then i have stuff in 3d

nobody jumps

but thanks

[frosty heron]

gl

[solid fox]

Ive search the discord but I cant find it. Has anyone had any issues with Primary Asset Labels not applying chunk ids?
not applying at all! driving me mad

[trim matrix]

i watched the video

it seems in most cases the cmc is necessary

but for example look at this tut:

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

it doesnt use the cmc

thats how i move characters

[frosty heron]

everything depends™ on the project

you use what your project required you to use. I have no comment in the case of 2.5D. Never touch the water for that

[trim matrix]

ohh i just messed up

i imported the thirdpersoncharacter (c++) into my project, by pressing the button Add/Import

it was blank

now it doesnt open

i didnt compile. i first closed the editor

then compiled and doesnt compile

[frosty heron]

Read the error log

You have all the necessary files installed?

[trim matrix]

2> Creating library C:\Users\Dane\Documents\Unreal Projects\TeckionFighters\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\TeckionFighters\UE4Editor-TeckionFighters.suppressed.lib and object C:\Users\Dane\Documents\Unreal Projects\TeckionFighters\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\TeckionFighters\UE4Editor-TeckionFighters.suppressed.exp
2>TP_ThirdPersonCharacter.cpp.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: static void __cdecl UHeadMountedDisplayFunctionLibrary::ResetOrientationAndPosition(float,enum EOrientPositionSelector::Type)" (_imp?ResetOrientationAndPosition@UHeadMountedDisplayFunctionLibrary@@SAXMW4Type@EOrientPositionSelector@@@Z) referenced in function "protected: void __cdecl ATP_ThirdPersonCharacter::OnResetVR(void)" (?OnResetVR@ATP_ThirdPersonCharacter@@IEAAXXZ)
2>C:\Users\Dane\Documents\Unreal Projects\TeckionFighters\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor-TeckionFighters.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

[trim matrix]

thats it

[faint forge]

basic question:
I am spawning 2 players with characters in a map.
I want that one cube I already have in map follows* player 0 (follows NOT like AI, to have same location but with an offset)
and the other cube follows player 1

-I have an array of the player controllers, array position 0 is player 1 and position 1 is player 2, always.
I tried on tick from game mode, from the cubes adding a tag, ... nothing
I would like this set up to work in multiplayer

[trim matrix]

PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine", "InputCore", "HeadMountedDisplay"});

this solved it ufff

scary stuff

[frosty heron]

@trim matrix w/e you import depends on the HeadMountedDisplay module I suppose

none of my project includes that

[trim matrix]

yeah i wont do any headmounted stuff but thats what they ask for so

[vernal hemlock]

it never actually goes into the toggle settings timer function. anyone know why? it hits the node of set timer by event but never hits the first node inside toggle settings timer

[dawn gazelle]

Nothing wrong here with what you've shown.

Perhaps the timer is paused as you're pausing the game (basing this on the name of this widget)?

[vernal hemlock]

you are correct, thank you so much

[vernal hemlock]

any thoughts about a workaround? all i need to happen is the animation to finish playing before i remove the widget from the parent

[dawn gazelle]

There is this node, but it can't be triggered in a function, only an event.

[worn kestrel]

Hey there, i'm trying to make it so when "On Character Begin Overlap" is played it will continue to give points every second play until "On Actor End Overlap" is played. (I have heard of "set timer by event/function name" but not sure if this is where to implement it)
Right now it only gives me 1 the first time I enter and that's not optimal for what I have in mind. As you guys probably can figure out i'm kinda new to this so any help or redirection to a thread is helpful 😅 😄

[dawn gazelle]

This would be the place to do a set timer by event. Start the timer on the begin overlap, promote the return value of the timer to a variable.
Set the time for how often you want it to trigger its bound event.
On the event pin of the timer, drag off from it and create a custom event node. This will be the event that is triggered by the timer, so do your increment on this event.
Set the timer to looping.

On end overlap, do your cast and grab the timer variable you promoted, and call a "Clear Timer and Invalidate Handle" on it - this will end the timer for you.

This isn't a foolproof way, but it'll get it working.

[steady night]

hi, how would i "set socket rotation" of a bone inside a mesh ?

[worn kestrel]

Absolutely amazing explanation! Thank you alot! Im gonna try it out. Glad to hear I was on the right track just needed some help haha. But thank you again for taking the time

[dawn gazelle]

You wouldn't set it in blueprints. It's something that you define when you're adding the socket to the mesh and I think you can manipulate it within the animation graph/blueprint if needed (doesn't appear so... can only manipulate bones)

[steady night]

hm

[vernal hemlock]

🙏 you saved me so much time, thank you. that worked

[steady night]

@dawn gazelle done n done

Another Thing

im using Mobile input with virtual joystick

when im holding down a button on the Ui(touchscreen) then using the jooystick it get "unclicked" ?

anyone know how to prevent that ?

[magic crown]

How do I show shadows with Owner No See enabled? Trying to show the characters shadow for First person

[wary tinsel]

Hey guys I am creating a spline by automatically adding points on it. In the loop I am setting every points location, rotation and tangents and...I get weird numbers out of it (I am probably missing some math). Since I need specific values, setting the rotation BEFORE setting the tangents its resetting the point rotation and setting the rotation AFTER setting the tangents is making still weird numbers. I checked the method in c++ and of course tangents and rotations are related, quite obvious. Can someone tell me if there is a way to set this up properly?

[tame pecan]

hidden shadow I think its called

in the component

[bold phoenix]

Hi ! Is there a way to change the position of a widget inside a grid/stack box/wrap box at runtime using blueprint ? I want to set only the child position in the box ( or at least just one value, not column and row as this wouldn't adapt to the screen size )

Like we would do in the widget editor using those arrows

[versed sun]

Here is how you can move something in a Grid

not seeing a way in Stack or Wrap

[bold phoenix]

If I use this and then only set the collumn value, would the child widget adapt to the grid boundaries ?

[versed sun]

yes, and the Row would remain the same

[bold phoenix]

Okay I see, but then it would not automatically go the line bellow like it would in a wrap box

[versed sun]

nope

it would overlap whatever is in same cell

[bold phoenix]

Yeah that's not the best solution... But as you said I don't think there is a way to tchange the child position inside a wrap box

[versed sun]

a Wrap box dosnt have Rows or columns, more of an ordered list

[tardy prawn]

can anyone write me your default values of these fields:

[bold phoenix]

can this list be reordered though without unspawning child bellow ?

[versed sun]

you can have a Array of things you want in the wrap box, and Clear and re-add the children in a different order

[bold phoenix]

Yes that would work, but i guess it's not as efficient as the grid solution

Thanks for the hint !

[tardy prawn]

thanks !

[gentle parcel]

What do you mean? Might be actually interested, if I understood correctly. I felt I had no better solution than making that axis rotation completely null but there's a way to make it still scalable, let's say to give further controls in the flight like adding additional forces like space capsules do, I would do that instead.

[minor wolf]

what can cause this to happen? the asset exists in the path its trying to find it but .. it cant find it?

[lilac hill]

I am sometimes getting errors, after i close a run, with this branch node. Anything obvious causing the issue? I am fairly new

[versed sun]

if you didn't hit anything , the hit result would be NUL
Try before your branch, do another Branch for Blocking Hit

[lilac hill]

Aaah ofc, makes sense. Thanks!

[steady night]

How WOuld i Stop a Timeline if the target is Dead ?

or rather Dies While in timeline

so it stops'

[versed sun]

you can get the timeline ref and Stop it

[storm stream]

im lazy, sorry

[steady night]

11@versed suncool dident know that

[versed sun]

you can do all the actions to a timeline

[steady night]

ah coolio

then u might also know how to end a Montage prematurly ?

i mean i have a "take damage montage playing" and if i die while doing it i want it to do it instantly

but now it dose it after montage finnished

[versed sun]

pull off the Montage ref and look for similar

i haven't played with montages in years, but the idea should be similar

hmm, maybe not

[steady night]

dont know if that can be done

[versed sun]

i see an On Interrupted

but dunno

[trim matrix]

starting a new game project, a car that shoots.
should i use Third Person for this? Or should i go with vehicle?
This doesnt look very good.

[steady night]

@versed sunyeah but whats deciding when interrupted then :/ ?

[versed sun]

no clue about #animation

[steady night]

aye just found this tho

jupp seems to work

however have to tap it in individually lame if u have multiple but 😛

[storm stream]

Try connect mesh to "target"

Without this, blueprint doesnt know, on what mesh can execute anim montage

[barren tangle]

Hello

Is it possible to change the Update frequency of a Timeline??

[versed sun]

Set Play Rate

well, still once a tick, but you can change how fast it plays

[barren tangle]

i don't get it

you define it before the timeline loop

[versed sun]

My timeline is 1 sec
If i set the rate to 2, it will play twice as fast (.5 sec to finish)
if rate is .1, it will be 10 sec

not sure if you can set it to only Update every X time....

try this version of Play

[barren tangle]

ok so it's a Timeline Node use to affect the timeline

[frosty heron]

Wdym, you just set the play rate to change the speed of the timeline

[coarse grove]

Go to your anim bp and add a 'slot' to allow it to play montage

[thin panther]

I don't think they want to affect the speed of the timeline overall. They want to change how often the update execution pin fires, which you can't because it's every frame

[frosty heron]

Ahh ok, didn't know the context

There are tutorials all over for it but in short, you need to create anim slot in your anim bp for your character

[coarse grove]

Im not on pc, but i found a ss from web. You need it

[barren tangle]

thanks it works 🙂

i never notice that the timeline is added on the list of variable as "component"

[thin cradle]

so I just saw that the construction script of blueprint actors only ever runs in-editor if the blueprint was added to a level and not spawned at runtime
is there a way to force it to run at runtime too?

[coarse grove]

the upperbody is a name convention, you could use whatever name you wanted but for example if you want to play an animation only on upper part of character, but keep the lowerbody the same one, so you can slot that animation only on upperbody and you can keep "running" and "attacking" at same time, for example

[frosty heron]

You can create slots

Dynamic combat system have samples for this

[sour geyser]

Hi, I'm having a problem: my goal is to link the text to the button press. When you press the button once, it displays a text, when you press it a second time, it should display another text, etc.
I'm using an switch on int to manage the text display and my problem is that as soon as I press the button once, it displays the last text. I know I need to add something to detect the release of my button or something similar, but I don't know how to do it. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

[frosty heron]

@sour geyser I would recommend learning array. Once you can utilize it, you can just display in sequence from the first index

[sour geyser]

I'll try that thank you

[pearl niche]

Hey guys! How would I go about referencing the material of the hit actor in this case?

[bold phoenix]

Hi ! Is it not possible to set the value of a structure which is inside a structure ? In this case both my structures are declares in cpp. But when I trigger the function, it only prints 0 in the logs, meaning there is no element inside the array ...

[twin robin]

Have you double checked that the Test Scenes Data array actually contains some elements before adding?

[remote meteor]

because Find returns a copy, the changes was not propagated back into the Test Map

you would have to add it again to override it in bp, i dont think there is a Find that returns a reference in bp

[bold phoenix]

Yes it returns true out of the "Find" node

[bold phoenix]

alright, this makes sense

Is there a way to get the value by ref then, without using the find node

[remote meteor]

find returns a pointer in c++, you can update it straight without adding it back

[bold phoenix]

So in bp it returns a copy but in cpp it returns a pointer ?

[remote meteor]

yeah

because we dont have struct pointers in bp

[thin panther]

if it's not an object reference, it's a copy :P

in bp Everything Is A Copy™️

[remote meteor]

or rather we dont even have pointer in bp 🤔

[bold phoenix]

Okay thanks, and can I still add an element , or is it just editing the already existing array element

That's too bad, I would've assument that they would have ref, like they do for simple array

[remote meteor]

there is FindOrAdd if i remember, if you must have something

[bold phoenix]

Thanks ! I'll check this out more in details in the documentation

What about this node ? Anyone ever used it ?

[remote meteor]

that exist for most variable types, what is does is set the Target variable to input Value

[bold phoenix]

Okay, might be interesting but it won't make me escape cpp ...

[remote meteor]

you can just add it back to the map

😆

the bp way

[bold phoenix]

I feel that one day I might hate me for not doing the extra effort of using cpp 😅

[remote meteor]

nah its going to be fine

have a function, local variables, do the update and add there

[frosty heron]

I hate my self for not doing cpp earlier 😔

like 8 years late

[edgy ginkgo]

Okay so I have this actor begin overlap blueprint, for some reason it always returns string 3 regardless of the lane the player is in

the lanes are instance editable and are set properly in the level

okay so each player reads their initial locations it seems but refuses to update them afterwards

if you teleport the player into another location does it not trigger an overlap effect?

[lusty hedge]

here is a better explanation. not sure whats going on

[remote meteor]

you mean ScreenOutput is cleared?

[lusty hedge]

yes

it dissapears

i just found out it also dissapears when i click

[remote meteor]

do a switch on the commit method

[lusty hedge]

the input box and the buttons on my screen stay. but that input text box is gone

i think that helps

thanks!

[frosty heron]

That looks like nightmare to work with

[edgy ginkgo]

fixed it

made the octupus bigger

[frosty heron]

Not the way to go using bools like that

[edgy ginkgo]

basically since it wasn't detecting the collision when it changed I had it change the variable manually

[remote meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/nichijou-hakase-shinonome-shocked-anime-surprised-gif-21124329

[lusty hedge]

thanks @remote meteor

this makes more sense

[remote meteor]

What is that paint brush looking

[edgy ginkgo]

ah no worries It's a system I had to throw together I will do it with less bools on my revision pass

I just need a workign prototype basically

[remote meteor]

Still...

You need to know what is a select node

Shrink those into just 1

[edgy ginkgo]

got that too

also in paintbrush form

[remote meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-acchi-kocchi-depressed-soul-gif-17057671

[frosty heron]

What are you trying to do btw? Like gameplay wise

[edgy ginkgo]

me?

I am making a multiplayer competitive beat 'em up

[frosty heron]

Bruvv

Sorry if this sound rude, but it would be very not likely to do so with your current skill

and you are choosing one of the hardest genre for multiplayer

[thin panther]

competitve multiplayer and new to blueprints don't mix

[frosty heron]

I would think Beat em up even harder than competetive shooter

[edgy ginkgo]

I am pretty far along actually

[thin panther]

especially since competitive multiplayer games = dedicated servers = source build of unreal engine and c++ knowledge

[edgy ginkgo]

I have all the core beat em up gameplay done, I just was struggling with multiplayer implementation

[frosty heron]

Spoiler : You will need CPP for multiplayer

[edgy ginkgo]

oh it's offline

[frosty heron]

oh, local multiplayer

[edgy ginkgo]

yep! I realize my skill is not high enough for that yet

[thin panther]

ah then it's not competitive in the typical sense

[frosty heron]

that's not a networked game

[edgy ginkgo]

so that might be a future update

[thin panther]

it's more of what's referred to as party game/local coop :P

[edgy ginkgo]

It's competitive in the way mario party with mates is competitive

[thin panther]

it won't be, you can't update into networked multiplayer like that :P

well you can, but you rewrite the whole game essentially

[frosty heron]

Networked multiplayer designed differently

if u do it single player way, you can't convert it to multiplayer

but multiplayer can be played in single player

only goes one way

[edgy ginkgo]

It's not a priority is my point since I know I am not there