blueprint

[lusty hedge]

Im not understanding

[versed sun]

Get Player Controller gives you the base class, but if you made a Widget and saved a Ref in BP_FirstPerstonPlayerController you need to cast to it

[lusty hedge]

i've tried that

but i cant find the variable

WAIT

[versed sun]

did you save and compile

[lusty hedge]

yes

i thought it was because WBP was private

but still doesnt work

[umbral maple]

@rugged wigeon I cant get it to work, it only somewhat works when I use the get actor of class

[versed sun]

Show where you add the widget

[lusty hedge]

okay so unchecking context sensative is taking me somewhere

which doesnt make sense because it is relevant to this context

sooo maybe that was it. ill report back in a sec

[versed sun]

oh

you are getting player controller

[lofty rapids]

it looks like you actually put the variable in bp first person character

[lusty hedge]

the variable is made storing Main_WBP

[versed sun]

thats character

[lusty hedge]

yes

so if i reference the player i thought i could access its variables

[versed sun]

nope

[faint pasture]

What are you actually trying to do?

[lusty hedge]

Wait...

[faint pasture]

Where does that widget live and what's it's main point of contact? Is it in the UI or floating in 3d like a health bar?

[lusty hedge]

Get Player Character

Not Get Player Controller

[versed sun]

just get the Character

[lusty hedge]

ahhhhhh

[faint pasture]

That's gross tho

[lusty hedge]

using the wrong one

[lusty hedge]

I am trying to edit a variable inside of the Main_WBP from another blueprint

[faint pasture]

No i mean more generally

[umbral maple]

How do I change this general reference to a specific one? It that even the right question?

[faint pasture]

you want a widget that shows X when Y happens?

[lusty hedge]

i want to set a variable from another script.

[faint pasture]

"I want to change the health of the player's pawn when a widget is clicked" something like that. What are you trying to do?

[faint pasture]

I'm guessing this is to show the time remaining on a build RTS style?

[versed sun]

Will give you a list of them

For Each Loop thru them to look for the ones you want and do whatever

[lusty hedge]

Thanks guys. it was simply a difference of changing Get Player Controller, to Get Player Character

works now

[umbral maple]

@faint pasture Yes, each building once built should show a timer count down to spawn a unit. The code itself works, but the progress bar shows the same on all buildings

[faint pasture]

Is the widget inside a widget component on the building actor?

[umbral maple]

Yes?

[faint pasture]

Yup so I'm not sure if it's possible to get from the widget to its owning component and then to the actor, but you can pass the widget a reference to the actor (self) from the actor

just make a variable on the widget MyBuilding of whatever your base type is for buildings, and set that from the actor on begin play or construction script

then the widget always knows what building it cares about

like that

now the widget knows what building to care about and can just get whatever it wants from it

[umbral maple]

The ref says none

[faint pasture]

show your code

show how you're setting the ref

[faint pasture]

Try begin play, construction script might be too early, dunno

[umbral maple]

I think that did it, got to eat dinner real quick before diving in, but it looks good so far. Thank you, thank you, I cant thank you enough

https://tenor.com/view/cant-thankyou-enough-gif-25170543

[ocean pier]

anyone know of a node to disable a actor? or to turn off a collision?

[ocean pier]

oh ok thanks

do you know why it won't let me conect the pins?

[versed sun]

you need the whole Actor

BP Checkpoints

[spice viper]

"Checkpoint Trigger" is a Static Mesh Component. likely BP Checkpoints is the actor you want to pass in

[ocean pier]

oh ok thanks

[zealous moth]

what are good ways to make blood splatters that stay somewhere permanently?

• decals
• meshes
• niagara
  what else?

[spark steppe]

runtime vertexpainting

[mossy vessel]

How do I get this node to look like the bottom one

with a target?

[spice viper]

Easiest way is to add a cast node with the type of the class that has that variable, drag off the output to set swordref, then delete your cast if you don't need it

[mossy vessel]

Thank you sir

[copper tree]

Is there a better way to get the children of a Vertical Scrollbox widget? Trying to use an int as the index to select which List Item should be highlighted:

This setup is giving me an issue where I can't highlight past the second List Item. But I've confirmed that the index I'm passing in is greater than that

[versed sun]

is there a Get Children for the Scroll box?

[copper tree]

That's what the Get Child At node is doing. The Inventory var is a reference to my Scroll Box widget

[copper tree]

Nevermind, the int I was passing wasn't what I thought. This is why you never drink and code

[fringe junco]

hmm so if you set the Mouse Input show cursor to true, it wont allow you to use the Mouse XY 2d value without clicking a mouse button. has anyone found a work around to this?

ah so you have to set input mode to game only (atleast in my case)

[ocean pier]

Anyone know why I would be getting this error with my code? Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property BP_Checkpoints". Node: Set Actor Enable Collision Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Lap Counter Blueprint: BP_LapCounter

[floral egret]

Hello friends, i'm trying to limit in a radius how far my camera springarm can go from the yaw of my tank turret and the pitch of my tank barrel, i've tried many solutions but none work i would REALLY like some help thankyou

[wintry meteor]

hallo, may i ask how do i access image so i can change it globally? i got widget for image and variable for it. for textrender seems works well but for image idk how to make it work

it should look like this that actor same but different variable

i just cant make it for image only

[harsh wasp]

drag off the image ref and SetBrushFromTexture and put in the image you want to change

[harsh wasp]

arm length doesn't work for you ?

[wintry meteor]

like this?

but still same no changeable in level

[zealous moth]

How would you pick a random texture out of 40 different choices using soft references?

[mental trellis]

Array + random?

[wintry meteor]

from here how do i change brush from that widget?

sorry if i ask to much

[zealous moth]

I was thinking that too

[harsh wasp]

you have this on constructionScript, so it will change immediately to that texture you applied, if you want to change it after some time / interaction with something, put it into a function and call that function when you need it

[wintry meteor]

my plan was able to change image in level editor on same actor. not in game

[frigid jetty]

Is there a better way to do jumping where it will stop jumping when the player comes in contact with the ground or something? It's setup to run a jump animation with PaperZD right now. This is working but jumping up onto a ledge doesn't look right because the animation continues after landing for a moment and I haven't tested it but I know if there is a long fall for the character it will continue mid fall.

I'm pretty new and still learning how blueprints and UE5 sort of work.

Or maybe I should find a way to merge this into my movement input

[finite hearth]

Does "Stop Movement" end the "Move to Location or Actor" async task, or do I need to specifically close that?

[frigid jetty]

Oh I need to use state machine

[kind estuary]

This TMap stores my units (Allies) and their corresponding enemies they are fighting.
So when allies start dying, the TMap becomes full of "Nones".
So i created this function to clean it from "Nones"

Is this okay?

this is happening in more places. the arrays just get filled with "Nones" when the units die

[high path]

What happends with the enemy when an ally dies?

[lunar sleet]

Why not just remove them from the Tmap on death?

[kind estuary]

He lives

[kind estuary]

thats what i thought i was doing

but somewhere in the spaghetti they are not being removed

so maybe this could be a good work around

[frigid jetty]

Nice I have jump working correctly with movement

[kind estuary]

instead of trying to find the needle in the haystack

[wanton prism]

How would i make a blueprint to check for if the player is under anything to see if they can uncrouch?

[dire frost]

Do a line/capsule trace above the player?

[wanton prism]

ok

[wanton prism]

how would i do that?

ive been trying ethier i am too tired or dumb

[kind estuary]

there are just too many places where the unit is being destroyed

im going to clean the array every like 60s

seems better

[distant hollow]

If I have a widget component attached to an Actor, is it possible to drag the widget around?

[thick wraith]

Quick question guys.
I am shifting to UE from Unity. I am trying to make as many projects as possible.

I am somewhat good with C++ and was wondering to make things run in UE do i need to make sure every class (except for those that can be marked as my personal classes that don't use UE code but randome utils i create) Do they need to be made into a BP_Class to make sure they run with unreal ?

also, what is the difference between the Public and private folder of UE?
doe the public imply that it can be used cross project ? like static libs that can work with every project and private means it can only be used within the scope of this project (like this project file)

[thin panther]

Generally you want to subclass everything that requires an asset. Things like components can be c++ only if they don't require assets.

Never reference an asset directly with c++

The public and private idiom is just defining your API.

Public is the stuff you want to export, and make public to other modules.

Private is your internals and implementation

[thick wraith]

so, exactly as i thought here thanks a bunch, But still not clear on my first question.

so, say i created a BP_PlayerProvider

it is not a good idea to basically go

BP_PlayerProvider()
{
   _charectorMesh = new APlayerChirector(); 
} 

that is a bad idea you're saying ?

[thin panther]

That code, even as pseudocode doesn't make sense.

You wouldn't define a BP_ in cpp. You would not be able to set a mesh to an actor, and you cannot new actors like that, the engine will shout at you

[thick wraith]

like, you never construct a monobehivior in Unity you never construct anything that basically inherits from
UObject?

[thin panther]

What in saying is, always store an asset in a variable you set in editor. No constructor helpers or manually writing an asset path

[thin panther]

You do construct uobjects, but you need to use the unreal specific stuff.

It's always done through pointers, and using unreals functions, not the default c++ allocator

No malloc/new for reflected stuff, or reflected objects on the stack

[sonic pier]

I am trying to make a blueprint in my first person chararater that will set the visibility of the sprint bar depenending if the player is walking or sprinting but the script has generated an error

[thin panther]

NewVar is null. You need to set it to something

[sonic pier]

it's not

[thin panther]

That is indeed null

You have not put anything in there, you've just made it a type

[sonic pier]

ok sorry i am new

ohh ok

[thin panther]

You need to store an actual reference to that stamina bar in it.

Where you do that depends on the code, for instance, you could do it when you create the widget

[thick wraith]

Got it... dont use wierd initialization for stuff.

okay i am sorry i am going to be a bit more irksome.

so usually we save components and the tutorails i am using usually do

class A : AActor
{
  //Macro 
  UPROPERTY(BlueprintEditable, Catagory="something")
  Component* comp;
} 

A()
{
   comp = Cast<Compoent>(); // get componenet from the attaced or the world does not matter just assume that this can be begin play
}

now for safty in Cpp purposes i usually use uniquePtrs;

so I might be more used to

class A :AActor
{
   std::unique<Component*> comp;
}

to cashe say compoenets or stuff does unrial also do something similar ? what is the Best case practice ?

[empty marten]

Hey peeps,
I've got a data table question here, hoping someone can help. I imported a data table into UE5 with a structure setup and I wanted to add Image Object References to it so they can also be referenced. Whenever I add this variable type, they don't appear in the data table but variables like booleans and strings do. Is there something I am missing in regards to data table capabilities or am I doing something wrong? (black rectangle imported data, blue and red line I'm attempting to add manually).

[versed sun]

Try Texture 2D

Instead of Image

[empty marten]

Dafuq? Why does that work but not the image object reference?

[thin panther]

You would not use a stl pointer for a reflected type. Always the unreal one for storing those.

For that you would use a UPROPERTY on a raw pointers or a UPROPERTY on a TObjectPtr<>

There are other types, like StrongObjectPtr, WeakObjectPtr, SoftObjectPtr and that.

We should also move to #cpp

[versed sun]

An Image is a Ref to a Widget Item (that dosn't exist)
Texture 2D is a file on your computer

[thick wraith]

sorry yes

[empty marten]

Ah ok. Well thank you for helping. Much appreciated 🙂

[proven trench]

Hello, I need some help with file loading, using FinishRecordingOutput I save recording as Wav File, but can't figure out, how do I load it after it? The reason is I want to save it as files that can be loaded when game is launched again

[versed sun]

I never messed with saving sound waves, but can you make some empty Sound Waves and Overwrite them ?

[proven trench]

the thing is, I don't know how many recordings there would be, there can be 1, there can be 100

[dim agate]

Which version of UE are you using? I use the Enhanced Input system with the newest version of the engine.

[tight matrix]

Why wont it execute?

it shouldnt blink like that right?

[pallid nest]

hi, any ideas on this please? Can't figure it out why my disable input is not working :/

[forest seal]

Hi guys, My screen is flickering because this node returns false after server travel. Could travel be changing the local role?

[high ocean]

Any hakz/recommendations on accessing a blueprint function library from object types? I can see the cpp function libs, but the blueprint ones are packed with useful functions written throughout the project & now I need some of them in an object.

[mossy vessel]

does the p key work on navmesh debug cause I dont see the green debug colors?

unreal 5.3

[high ocean]

it should if you have a navmesh volume

& the focus is on the viewport ofc

[young meteor]

Hey folks.

I'm on UE 5.0 and nanite does not work with vertex painting. Is is possible in 5.3+?

[mossy vessel]

doesnt work

when I hit p

[high ocean]

@mossy vessel

It should. Clicking on the viewport to make sure you have focus on the viewport then "P" should toggle the navmesh if you have one. If it still doesn't work, check your editor preferences, maybe you changed/deleted your hotkeys @mossy vessel

[mossy vessel]

all it does

[mossy vessel]

ah works in another project

[topaz gazelle]

Do I need to put a return node for the FALSE case? Or will the function return false by default if the upper right return node isn't executed? This function directly precedes another function that takes the boolean as input.

[leaden pier]

Does anyone have any ideas why the enemy isn't chasing me as they should?
Did exactly what this video says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJuaB2V79mU&list=PLdFrqn4LoWReFRWbY06Gc4u4G1PQLYG_T&index=4&ab_channel=GorkaGames

[crystal crown]

Can i somehow equalize these numbers? The position min & max are relative to bone rotation of the mesh. The numbers are not same for the widget. This would make it more modular. I wouldn't have to customize the angle for every vehicle.

[faint pasture]

map range ?

[heady burrow]

is there a way to not need to cast my game instance to access it

like, telling my project to use my custom game instance so it doesnt bother me anymore 🙂

[faint pasture]

No matter what, Get Game Instance will return it as the base type

you can make a function that does the casting for you but there's no getting around casting.

of course you can save a ref as your specific type but that'll depend on how often you're doing it really

[crystal crown]

I don't quite understand. Even if this would work it's the same thing. Still have to put the numbers in

[faint pasture]

What do you have, and what do you want?

You have engine min and max and current rpm, and what else?

[random pulsar]

Has anyone of you made an android build setup for 4.27 i watched a lot of videos read the documentation and i couldnt set it up .I know this is not related to bp ,i wrote in mobile channel ,nobody answered.Maybe here are persons who know

[faint pasture]

Map Range:
CurrentRPM
MinRPM
MaxRPM
MinAngle
MaxAngle

[dark drum]

Not that I'm aware of. What are you're collectibles specifically? Do they do anything? Have physics etc...

[crystal crown]

no this doesn't work because widget space angles are different to bone rotation. I want to convert the bone space rotation to this widget angle. The position min & max is 25 & 207 but in widget angles it's -112 & 105 approximately

[faint pasture]

Then explain what you have, and what you want?

Why are bones involved here

[dark drum]

Are they the same static mesh? Or a small number of different mesh types?

[faint pasture]

instanced static mesh probably

[dark drum]

As Adriel mentioned, you would want to use an instance static mesh for all the collectables. When you hoover over one, you remove it from the instance component and spawn an actor in that handles the animation and logic.

[zenith pond]

Dunno if this is a silly way of doing this, but is there a way to setup a rolling array of stored float values let's just say from the last 5 seconds and then get the highest value wherever you need to reference it? Or is there a better approach

[dark drum]

To be fair though, you can normally get away with a 10's of thousands of actors before it starts to hit performance so you might not need to with a few hundred.

[crystal crown]

i'm not sure how to better explain this. The incoming floats do not equal the widget transform angle

[dark drum]

How do the values relate to the bone rotation?

[verbal wren]

I am having some trouble understanding how casting works for specific objects I think, I have a combination lock box mechanic I am trying to destroy the actor in the scene when it is unlocked. I am having trouble though, because when I am trying to cast to the WBP I don't have an object it would actually be linked to inside of the scene. it pretty much feels like I am setting this up in a very wrong way

[crystal crown]

i'm doing basically the same thing in the vehiclebp making a rotator for the rpm dial bone. The 0 rotation angle is different in the widget. that's probably why they are different

I think i need to import the widget needle image at the same angle to begin with

not sure how to reset the 0 in the widget

[dark drum]

So the min/max angle in the widget would be the same regardless of the vehicle but the min/max rotation on the bone could be different depending on the vehicle?

[crystal crown]

yea. I'm not gonna make a new widget for every vehicle

[rugged sonnet]

Why can't I find this node? "Get Actors from Layer"

[thin panther]

are you dragging off a reference to a Layers Subsystem

if not, it won't appear with context sensitive being checked

[dark drum]

Casting just converts a ref type from one to another.

For example if you have a ref of type actor and you want to convert it to a specific type such as combo lock.

You need to understand how class hierachy works to fully understand what casting does.

[thin panther]

One thing someone pointed out to me, that I agree with, last time I called it a conversion, is that a "check" is more suitable
A conversion implies that any old reference could be converted into another, rather than what it actually does which is "check" if a ref is of a more specific type 🙂

[compact vapor]

Infinite loop for some reason.

anyone able to get any valuble info from this?

how in the world can an AI MoveTo be an infinite loop?

[dark drum]

Referring to casting as a check would probally make more sense.

[thin panther]

I'd never even thought of the implications of a conversion before it was pointed out :P

[dark drum]

How is Go to Destination called?

[rugged sonnet]

What do you mean? There should be a node called "Layer subsystem" right?

[compact vapor]

i dont get where this apparent loop is occuring

[thin panther]

Yeah, that is something you call on a reference to the layers subsystem. By default it won't appear unless you are dragging off the reference to a layers subsystem

[finite briar]

First picture is the level bp while the second is the timer widget. I want to stop adding delta seconds with the collision in the level bp happens. How do I achieve that?

[rugged sonnet]

And how do I drag a reference to the layers subsystem please?

[dark drum]

Well it's not always easy for a computer to know if calling a function will result in a infinite loop so it actually uses a counter that increases everytime something is looped in a given tick. When it reaches the limit it throws an error based on the last thing it tried to call. (something along those lines anyway)

It might just be that you have used over a million loops in a given tick which is why it's thrown the error. How many units are you trying to move at once? Also what is the loop doing after the AI has finished moving?

[thin panther]

you first get it's reference. If it isn't available via "Get Layers Subsystem" or something similar, then I don't know.
Though if you're using layers like that, I'd imagine you're using it's subsystem rather extensively too.

But what I do know, is you can't use that without the Layers Subsystem

That's what that Target is ... means

[compact vapor]

I have tested it with 9 units and over 20+
both throw the error

all units have a collision shpere.

When a unit reaches their desitination, get all units in the sphere who are in the same squad and have eacj of them them stop moving
(first squad member to reach destination tells squad to stop) is essentially what it does.

[compact vapor]

its any number of units it seems, let me try withj 1

[dark drum]

Ahh ok, in which case it then causes all the other squad members to finish their move to which then triggers the same logic getting them to then have all the members in the squad also stop (even though they already have). You'll need a check to stop the others members from triggering the same logic if they've been told to stop.

[crystal crown]

Do you know how to do this?

[dark drum]

I might if you answer the question. 😛

[compact vapor]

all units will technically stop their squad when they reach the destination, but since the first unit that reaches the destination stops the squad, the other members never run the code because they dont reach the end.

[crystal crown]

I said yes that's what i meant

[dark drum]

Ahh sorry, i missed your reply.

How do you define the min/max for the bone rotation?

[crystal crown]

Same way

I think it's different because if you look at my pictures the needles start of at different positions

can i set a new 0 angle for the needle in the widget?

i guess i would be doing the same thing as before then

[faint pasture]

Just do 2 map ranges

BoneAngle = MapRange(RPM, RPMMin, RPMMax, BoneMin, BoneMax)
WidgetAngle = MapRange(RPM, RPMMin, RPMMax, WidgetMin, WidgetMax)

[dark drum]

What Adriel said. Their both based of the RPM of which you normalize (i assume 0-1) so you can just use this value to termine the rotation and the angle using two map ranges.

[crystal crown]

lol guys just forget it. The result will be the same as i started of with. Setting my own min & max for the widget. the only way to make them the same is if the widget needle 0 was the same to begin with

[distant hollow]

It probably would, since destroyed actors would be pending kill for a short while?

Wait

Are you Binding a On Destroy, or perform a bind only when On Destroy?

[topaz gazelle]

I have no idea what's going on. The Is Valid? node is executing even though the IF statement beforehand is always firing TRUE. This function is only being called once, and it's being called by the Event On UnPossess node.

[distant hollow]

Then it shouldn’t be an issue, since the Bind happens before Destroy happens

[compact vapor]

I just tested it. it will not fail with one unit

If an AI reaches a destination, It will be fnie,
but if they are traveling to a destination and you set a new destination, it will fail once a unit reaches the new destination.

[compact vapor]

It seems like a aquad of units need to reach their destination before you set a new destination because if you interupt ehri current move, with a new destination, it will fail once they reach it.

[distant hollow]

Put another Print after the False in the first branch and see if you get both True and False printed

[rugged sonnet]

Just in case you want to know, I foud it, the Layer Subsystem is only in Editor Utility Blueprints - Actor Action Utility

[distant hollow]

If they are both triggered then means you are triggering this function twice somehow

[topaz gazelle]

Nothing prints when I run print string on the false case.

I put a print string before the function is called, and it's only printing once.

[distant hollow]

Then your IsValid is not being triggering since it comes after the False print and the False print did not print.

[topaz gazelle]

but it do though

[distant hollow]

Show your code with the False print

[topaz gazelle]

Let me rephrase. It's not printing when it's executing the False case, but it gives me this error instead.

[distant hollow]

Ah that’s different

Probably due to this:

I suggest you do a validation before running the first branch (edit: my mistake, I overlooked the message in full)

[shadow holly]

Hey not really sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know how I can widescreen displays to work properly in my game? They always cut off the parts of the screen and have really bad fov. I'm assuming I need to adjust something on my camera BP but I'm not sure what. Thanks

[topaz gazelle]

Both references are valid and what they're supposed to be, verified.

[distant hollow]

Oh hmm

[topaz gazelle]

Changing these pins didn't fix it.

[distant hollow]

Can you add a Print False behind the branch, before the IsValid?

[topaz gazelle]

Executing a print string on the False case does not return anything.

The error goes away when I disconnect the False pin though.

[distant hollow]

Pls show your code with the False print

[distant hollow]

So which print shows up? (the “server: true” is from somewhere else I presume, so let’s ignore that)

[topaz gazelle]

The server:true is relevant.

That's the print string from this function during PIE

[distant hollow]

Your Print is only True or False

It should not be appending “server” in front?

[distant hollow]

Disregard that first

On the points. can you extend them to print “True Route” and “False route” instead? Then see which one gets printed out

[topaz gazelle]

change the string from "true" to "true route"?

[distant hollow]

Yes and False to “False Route”

So that the message is clear

on which path it flowed through

[distant hollow]

Hmm ok

But false is not triggered hmmmm

And the error persist

This is indeed weird

[topaz gazelle]

Gonna try it on my laptop's engine.

[distant hollow]

I presume you are pretty positive that it is not a case where both prints are triggered? Try searching for “false route” in the output log?

[topaz gazelle]

wow

It's printing False route only when I close the editor

in the output log.

So the pawn is being UnPossessed when the PIE closes?

[distant hollow]

Ah

Seems like it

So it is not likely to occur in a completed build

This is why I said to use False Route instead of just False, so it’s easier for you to search in the output log

In any case to safeguard against the error you can always do another IsValid check on the OwningAIController before passing through

[topaz gazelle]

Thanks for the help.

Output log is clutch I didn't think to look there.

[distant hollow]

Maybe put two Booleans on the validity together and use a AND boolean to pass them

[distant hollow]

You’re welcome.

[distant hollow]

Yeah it’s pretty much overlooked

[distant hollow]

IsValid (boolean) on GetComponent>ReturnValue and OwningAI

Then connect both to AND boolean

So if either is invalid it will not pass the AND boolean check

[topaz gazelle]

I see what you mean.

I'm just trying to figure out why it's invalid in the first place.

[distant hollow]

Cleaner than running two IsValid branches

[distant hollow]

Probably due to kill on closing

It happens

[vast merlin]

can i so something about this?

[lunar sleet]

Restore the parent blueprint if you deleted it

[distant hollow]

Parent class blueprint missing

If you don’t need the parent class you can try reparenting it

[lunar sleet]

After you restored it

[vast merlin]

how DO i restore it

[lunar sleet]

Source control

If you don’t have it setup you’re pretty much f-ed and should do so before this happens again

Unless it’s sitting in your recycle bin which is unlikely, you’ll prly need to remake that whole bp from scratch now

[vast merlin]

💀

[lunar sleet]

Follow the pinned guide in #ue5-general on source/version control

It’ll prevent future disasters

[distant hollow]

Devil May Cry

[manic haven]

Potentially dumb BP question;

I'm trying to add a "water" layer to a landscape all in one material.

I've created the water material separately, but after some research, I have found I likely need it to be in a material function.

I've created the function, but I don't know how to get the "Single Layer Water Material, and the associated config settings on the base material node into the Landscape Material Blend.

The Material in the function isn't showing the color or the transparency because the "Set Material Attributes" node doesn't allow me to change any of the parameters, like making it "single layer water"

First pic is the Water material:

Second is the Function

Third is the Landscape Blend if it's helpful

If I'm going about this all wrong, that's fine too. I can work on another solution

[mild ibex]

What I'm trying to do here is find out when the bSelect variable is pressed by a user but I cant figure out how to properly get it without having to loop through everything. I was using a map variable beforehand but I need 3 different variables, one to present to the user, one for later use in the code that doesnt really need to be shown but needs to be attached to the variable shown to the user and then of course the bool for a user to select an option. I thought a struct with a string | string map would be better but again run into the same problem of not being able to simply check if this bool is toggled. And this is running on an event timer that checks every half second then invalidates itself once toggled on.

contain doesnt work since the string address isnt empty and is dynamic, on the struct at least

[dark drum]

When you say a user can I assume this is in multiplayer? Secondly are you wanting to know if any user has it pressed?

[mild ibex]

For now its still in testing, its a tool. So Whether it ends up in a widget or somewhere else it'll be user interactable. But I figured it out using a struct | bool map

oh mb, forgot to mention I figured it out

[dark drum]

Do you mind sharing your solution? Just curious what you ended up doing.

[mild ibex]

yea one sec

I create a timer with a handle initially at the start of the code and pause it since I know I need an Event timer down the line. Once I have built the struct with the information I need, I add it to a map with a bool value of false for each index of the map and then start the timer which then waits for a user input. Then the event is triggered every half second checking the map to see if the bool has been enabled, meaning a user wants to select that data, which then exits the loop invalidates the timer and stores the data that I need for me to do things with down the road.

And the variable that I need for use down the road doesnt need to be shown to the user, but needs to be attached to the variable that is shown, like a key value pair, and then of course be selected. There might be a better way to do this but from what I could do anything else results in an infinite loop because the code doesnt realize that I'm waiting on user input for X amount of time

[dark drum]

Can you give more context?

[remote meteor]

https://intaxwashere.github.io/blueprint-performance/#myth-4-prefer-interfaces-instead-of-casting

[earnest swan]

Hey Y'all, so I'm trying to setup a widget component that will get attached to my character upon getting hit, play a tiny animation and destroy itself. It works fine if one component triggers at a time, but if you take damage quickly it loses the ability to reference the component. I've tried to setup the animation and destruction within the widget itself, but the widget doesn't have authority to destroy the component. Only the owning actor can do so. Any advice?

[dark drum]

Does this actually work?

[earnest swan]

are you looking for a number?

[remote meteor]

actor reference and interface reference are still reference, all reference takes the same memory, which is 64byte in a 64-bit cpu
the only difference here is thie BP will not have a hard reference to the spawn points(but the spawn point already exists somewhere)

yes

so usually you reference the base class, that doesnt have these mesh set

[dark drum]

Cool, never new you could actually do this. The only difference I can see this making is regarding to memory and help prevent having a single actor load your entire project. If you're using proper hierachy it propally wouldn't make that much difference though.

[remote meteor]

technically its more memory? since you would need to have the interface class header exists in the memory

[dark drum]

Though, if all your spawn points are the same class, using a BPI to get it's transform would probally be worse.

[remote meteor]

but same applies with child class of a base class with the mesh set

so i think they are the same

[dark drum]

You could just store them in an actor ref and just get it's actor transform. Actor is always loaded anyway. Save the slight overhead of having a BPI.

Well a BPI is when you need the same function on multiple BP's that are unrelated. Something like interact for example. You might need it on NPC's, Items and other interactables so there's no single point you could add that function. A BPI allows them all to have the same function.

If all you need is the transform, even if they are all different, if they get spawned in the level, they can be stored in an Actor var as it's the only data you care about.

A lot of references I make tend to be Actor these days or a base class (with core functions/vars) that usually extend from actor or uobject.

Ooops lol

Yea it would lol

[remote meteor]

introducing async load

[dark drum]

At 10gb I would imagine async would just result in a half empty level for a little while lol. Atleast until it pops in.

[remote meteor]

atleast you wont have a choppy loading screen 😆

the sad part about "unreal tutorials" is

most of them doesnt really know what they should be talking

and just take points from other to make videos of their own

[dark drum]

My tutorials are pretty good. 😛 (not biased at all)

[hollow cove]

hey guys, i have a master projectile blueprint that handles all types of projectiles spawned. is it a bad idea to have it reference the main character blueprint?

[earnest swan]

it might be a good idea if you need to know who fired it

[dark drum]

That depends, why does it need to know about the main character?

[earnest swan]

that as well

[hollow cove]

i dont know much about memory usage but was thinking in terms of that, would that be bad if there are like 100s of projectiles flying around all referencing the character

[earnest swan]

you could pass a player ID if you just need to check who fired what, and if the rocket is the same as the person being hit

[dark drum]

If the main character is already loaded, it wouldn't make much of a difference if there's only one main character. (as in the player can't play as different characters). Why does it need to know about the main character?

[hollow cove]

ahh of course, that makes sense

[earnest swan]

I don't think you need to worry about it Olie, unless it becomes an issue

[hollow cove]

it may not need to reference the character but ill worry about that if it does become an issue

[earnest swan]

even the official GAS framework has abilities and effects where everything references each other, and you can trace back to who fired what event

[wanton prism]

ye
5.2

[wise widget]

hello, I wonder, is it possible to get an event when a user has changed usersettings (like visual effeects quality, or anything like that). I'd like to do some custom changes to the scene when the user switches between low, medium high and so on. I wonder if something exists in a blueprint.

I know I can get Game User settings, and get values in there, but it would be nice if I can subscribe to an event that runs whenefver something changes.

[remote meteor]

from the UGameUserSettings there is a event dispatcher you can bind, something along the lines of UINeedsUpdate, i dont remember exactly

[wise widget]

ah, I found

yes on ui needs update

that's exactly it.

Thanks

Appreciated!

[zealous moth]

is there a way to pick a color literally?

.

other than this

[earnest vigil]

any idea why I cant get this custom time dilation node? It was in a video where they were using UE4 and I am on UE5 but it seems odd that they would remove the actor reference

[rugged wigeon]

thats a variable

[earnest vigil]

this is what mine looks like btw

[rugged wigeon]

thats setting the bp's own "Custom Time Dilation"

[earnest vigil]

I know but I need the node that sets any actors custim time dilation

[rugged wigeon]

you need to get a reference to an object of that actor class and try to set that object's variable then

you get different nodes depending on what youre dragging out from. so if you have a refernce to a actor of whatever class this bp is from, it'll be able to set custom time dilation on an actor of that class

[earnest vigil]

ahhh

lemme try that thank you

[earnest vigil]

This worked thank you so much!

Now I know how that works for the future as well🙂

[celest tangle]

Is there a way to override the default lack of Generate Overlap Events for LandscapeStreamingProxy so i can have objects overlap my floor and not have to manually select each floor chunk & enable this option?
Also is this option too expensive to have enabled in general for the whole world's floors?

[calm cargo]

any way I can figure out if two primitive components are overlapping, inside my actor's construction script?

[steady night]

Hey advice: im rotating a "tire" with this , but it always starts from "A=0.0" how would i get the current roration

[jolly dirge]

so sorry if this isnt a help section, but im very new to coding and blueprint, can someone confirm to me wether i did the top part right? also id love to understand the benefits of doing it this way versus the bottom way, which is what a tutorial i followed showed.

[sand yacht]

the top part is better in my opinion

Unless you'd want something specific to happen if the player overheals for example, like a sound effect or add shield instead

But if you just want the health to cap at a certain value then using a clamp is perfectly fine

[jolly dirge]

ok perfect! do you know of any resources available that explain many of the nodes like this that a beginner might not think to use? im glad i did it right but if i really want to learn im going to have to start learning more of these nodes

really appreciate you bro, thank you

[sand yacht]

yeah I actually found a channel for this recently which I would have loved to have when I just started out, let me try to find it real quick

[jolly dirge]

awesome, if you cant post it here, my dms are open

[sand yacht]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTGUjlN8unkK7mRHl9ij9FJ3OnbQ9bXuV
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTGUjlN8unkJrKgVE6wvAvDLMRypY-ue9

both of these playlists are from the same guy and are very, very valuable.

[jolly dirge]

sick! ill go through and start watching these before work, every bit of help is appreciated

[sand yacht]

Good luck!

[earnest vigil]

Hey, Ive got a macro that will pause and start some actors with a specific tag that works perfectly for all the actors. I added a roundabout way to "Step Forward" in time but it seems to only be working on one of the 2 different types of actors. One is a ball on a spline and the other is a little drone on a spline (The spline for this one is in the actor blueprint itself not a separate one)

The actor it is working on is the ball by the way

Nevermind it seems to be only pausing the last obj in the array

[tight pollen]

someone can help?

I want my circle to rotate, I don't know how to do it with the necessary x and y values

both variables change simultaneously

[keen ice]

I have this blueprint logic, It playes an animation if you press left MB and a differnet one if you press right MB, i wanted it to be so you cant attack a different direaction until the first one is done but what happens is, if you press left mouse button, you cant press right after that, and vise versa, you can only attack with whatever one you do first

[quartz kayak]

I don't understand why something this simple doesn't work :(

I want it so that when A is pressed (MoveLeft), the player camera is rotated -90 so that it faces left

Nothing happens at the moment when A is pressed

[finite hearth]

serious question: how much of your time is spent just aligning nodes?

I'd say 20%, easy.

[broken wadi]

I use the shortcuts to auto align as I make them

[finite hearth]

like "Q"? Or is there somebody better that I've been missing out of?

[broken wadi]

https://www.unrealdirective.com/tip/align-blueprint-nodes-shortcut

[finite hearth]

Weird feeling. I am both incredibly angry and also overjoyed to see this.

[quartz kayak]

It turns out that I needed to use Set Control Rotation not Set Actor Rotation

[proper crater]

Can anyone tell me why this emitter isn't working?

[runic terrace]

is the event firing correctly?
is the cast successful?

is the collision box far away from the actor's root component? That will cause it to play but somewhere else in the map

[proper crater]

im not sure if the event is firing correctly or if the cast is successful. Idk how to check that. But the collision box and the actor literally touch each other.

[runic terrace]

You can use print screen nodes

Connect one before the cast and one after, then try it out. If both of them show up in the screen it's either the position of the emitter or the VFX asset

[lunar sleet]

Or by using breakpoints. Debugging is 50% of game dev so you should try to learn these tools

[runic terrace]

^ That's another way, way cleaner actually

[proper crater]

did a very basic print string. I don't believe that the cast is working now.

[lunar sleet]

Put it on cast failed to know for sure

If it prints, the code fires but your cast is failing (wrong object)

[lusty elm]

i have this blueprint to move the character on click, but i'm trying to modify it to check if whatever i'm clicking on is part of the landscape, an enemy, npc, etc... What's the 'right' way to do it? rn i was playing with trying to cast to landscape and if it's successful i'd do the landscape behaviour, but i don't know if "waterfalling" casts is the best idea:

I saw that the hit actor output there can tell me what actor i'm hitting, but from there i couldn't see other way but to try to cast it to each of the different types of actors the player could click on

[runic terrace]

You can create a new trace collision type named ground and cast to that instead of visibility. Set it to blocked only on landscape.

[lusty elm]

My desired end result is for the player to be able to click on the landscape to move, but if it's an interactable object, it would only move if it's outside it's range. If that info helps

[runic terrace]

Project Settings -> Engine -> Collision

[lusty elm]

Ok, i'll give it a try, thanks 🙂

[runic terrace]

You can use interfaces to avoid "waterfalling" casts when checking for npc/interactable objects etc.

[proper crater]

I'm not triggering the print screen or the break points. I think that neither collision boxes of either objects are detecting each other.

[lusty elm]

I see, yeah i have an Inteface called interactable that i'm planning to use for chests and other stuff, wasn't sure if i should also implement it for enemy characters and NPCs? Though npcs would be static so it probably could be functionally the same as any other interactable object

I just started learning by following tutorials here and there so I have huge gaps on what certain things are used for

[runic terrace]

You could return the type of the actor you clicked on from the interface and go from there, there is no single "correct" way to do these type of systems really. Every project's needs are different and what works best for one might not work as well on other.
Experiment with interfaces, interactions systems and eventually you'll get a good idea on how to approach making them for the specific project you're working on.

[lusty elm]

Alright, thanks a lot!

[mild ibex]

This question seems to have been asked before but is there a way to get a component by name or string?

I have a system that currently works by getting a string from a large dataset that could 1 of at least 3k items. In either the same or different blueprint I have a list of a few of these items for simple testing right now. The components are most likely static mesh components with a scene as the parent.

Right now I have this BP assign tags to each item on spawn based on its name but that doesn't seem like the best method?

[runic terrace]

Why do you need it for? A building system of some sorts?

[mild ibex]

Just to convert a string term to an object reference efficiently

[quartz kayak]

Omg I'm so frustrated! I have this which is intended to smoothly turn the player's camera to the right when D is pressed. Everything works as intended except the Set Control Rotation node. The Set Control Rotation node seems to be tied to the framerate and sets the rotation x times where x is the current FPS. For example, if my FPS is 30 it will adjust the rotation 30 times?? How do I make it just update once as per the button press

[runic terrace]

Save the starting rotation beforehand and add the 90 degrees to it afterwards, don't add directly to get control rotation.

Currently each frame it rotates it updates the lerp end position

[runic terrace]

Make sure detect overlaps are turned on for both objects

and their types are also not set to ignore each other

[runic terrace]

Why not use datatables?

[mild ibex]

Because those can't be changed at Runtime

[runic terrace]

Then perhaps you can use a map variable

[stiff swift]

You can get actor of class and then it's component from it right?

[mild ibex]

I'm not quite following, at the end of my current code I'm left with a string term that will match the name of a static mesh component either on itself or another actor.

I dont want to have to loop through every single component that exists because that would be a lot.

I'm just trying to get a specific component on an actor to do stuff to Is the issue

[stiff swift]

It's been a day don't judge if you can't lol

[mild ibex]

Just not sure I understand how the map helps if I can't get a reference to the component to begin with?

[runic terrace]

You can set the component reference as the value and the string as the key.

But for your use case tags might really be the best option, not knowing what's the context

[mild ibex]

Well yes, I'd do that for a list of like 10 items but this really will end up being 3k+ so manually entering the key value pair is uh, no LOL

[runic terrace]

Why do you need a list that big on runtime

Not following the reason

[mild ibex]

Well sorry, that's the dataset, I'm filtering it to get one item. Apologies, realistically the largest number of items I could run into is 254

Tags appear to work for the most part. I just wasn't sure if there was a better method.

[runic terrace]

What's this system for? Can't really come up with an idea without knowing the context

[quartz kayak]

Thanks for responding! But... I don't really understand what you mean. Do you mean that I should save the starting rotation to a variable?

[mild ibex]

For now it's just an http request to an api, filtering that json down to the string I need.

Then the intention is to find the mesh component and do stuff.

[runic terrace]

Before the timeline, yes.
Currently at the start your rotation is X and you're lerping it between X and X+90.
This inflates the X the more frames the timeline takes. Instead you should save the original rotation let's say X = 0, then lerp between 0 and 0+90. instead of X, X+90.
Values you provide to Lerp as A and B should not change.

[quartz kayak]

OMG it works!! Thank you so much

[mild ibex]

Maybe I can use get components by class and do a loop with break on the name?

Tho that still results in me doing a loop on the data LOL

[runic terrace]

You're doing a loop regardless, searching for tags also does a loop.

[mild ibex]

Right

Welp I guess there's no avoiding it, I'll keep digging into it, thankyou!

[gusty crater]

Just trying to get my inputs started. I made an "Input Mapping Context" and an action and selected the action in the mapping. then i played this on my actor for my camera and i cant seem to get any print on the string, is there somewhere else i need to do this?

[runic terrace]

Just to be clear, this is in a non-pawn Actor?

[gusty crater]

Correct, attempting an RTS game so its an actor with my camera on it

[faint pasture]

Just make the players pawn the camera thing

[gusty crater]

rogey, was following a tutorial but they use on tick to check for mouse position so just trying to convert it to the new input way xD ill move everything to the pawn, cheers

[faint pasture]

You would have to enable input on that actor, possessing a pawn does that automagically

there's really no reason to not make the player's pawn in an RTS the camera

[runic terrace]

You don't necesserily need to convert it to a pawn, calling Enable Input node will do the trick as well.

[faint pasture]

Yeah but might as well make it the pawn so it'll be auto spawned per player etc, there's really no downside

[gusty crater]

Yeah eventually id like to try make it multiplayer so ill try stick with pawn

[runic terrace]

You might want to make some singleplayer games beforehand, to make a multiplayer game the code must be structured for multiplayer from the start.
Converting it later will be a headache.

[edgy ingot]

Its almost like rewriting the whole game again

[gusty crater]

I did have a fairly far along rpg i made years ago, so have a rough idea and know what im going to be in for haha

[edgy ingot]

Its not about the idea but the architecture

You will be redoing the game again

[gusty crater]

with RTS it wont be as bad, i had an rpg with crafting, abilities, spells, attributes, armour with enhancements etc

[edgy ingot]

As a whole

[runic terrace]

Then make sure to make the game multiplayer from the start, it will save so much hustle.

[gusty crater]

rts a lot will be on local client, making it for fun nothing publishable. ill do all spawning server side etc

i just never had to deal with enhanced input system... and ive forgotten most of what i knew xD

[faint pasture]

On a small scale, an RTS is one of the easier multiplayer things to do

at least you don't need prediction or lag compensation

[gusty crater]

yeah rpg was way too big of a project especially as my first game. Was a good experience though, even have it on steam and had 10 mates have a nice pvp sesh with it xD but RTS seems much more managable for a solo new person

[faint pasture]

as long as the scale is small more like company of heroes and less like Age of Empires or Total Annihilation

[gusty crater]

not even sure where im going with it yet, sort of a city builder with slight combat and just keep chipping away once the foundation is done

just keeping the mind busy

[wanton prism]

EveryTime i run this this BP it gets even more cursed orgininaly with my horribly written code if the player hit both
sprint and croup and unpressed at same time they would just enter sprint now it is the same but there is no crouch sprint.
all of the events and fuction are shown with this if it would be very apricated if someone helped me.

[runic terrace]

Put the speed corrector on tick to see if it solves the problem, this isn't ideal but will at least pinpoint the issue

[gusty crater]

Can i add the mapping context on the pawn? or does it need to be a character? cant seem to get it to register still

[wanton prism]

found out code work fine but its was a problem with can stand I didnt have any thing in it as i haven't been able to find code or tutorial to tell me how to use Capsual height and line traceing so its broken here is the code for that onn.

[runic terrace]

You can add it

[gusty crater]

Am i doing something wrong here?

i have added the input, and trying to use W just to print a string, no feedback

[runic terrace]

The pawn needs to be possessed.

[runic terrace]

So, does it work now?

[wanton prism]

that one doesnt but the other code does that was the problem i dont know how to use traceing if you know a tutorial i would be so thankful if you sent me one.

[gusty crater]

if i use event possessed to print string, it shows its possessed

[runic terrace]

If it started working when you put it on tick try to make your functions unpure, then remove it from tick so it only gets called when needed.

[runic terrace]

then it seems like it should work, does the validity check return valid?

[gusty crater]

yeah because i run something after to move my camera, so its valid

[wanton prism]

For the capsule traceing? cause that one doesnt work

[runic terrace]

I meant the crouch sprint state etc those functions.
I'll take a look at the trace now

[runic terrace]

What does this return incorrectly

[wanton prism]

il print it and see

[runic terrace]

It may be that you can't uncrouch I think

Where is this can stand function called?

[wanton prism]

it works but then why didnt it work in my code

[gusty crater]

Is valid prints, Possessed prints, Hello wont print. This is on my player pawn. I have added IA_Test to the IMC_Default map

i have set my BP_Player pawn as the spawn in game mode

[runic terrace]

It looks like it should work, not sure why it doesn't. Try to call enable input for the actor and see if it changes anything

[gusty crater]

i think i just fixed it, had the wrong map selected xD

[wanton prism]

Ok it works but asoon as it returns false it stops allowing me to uncrouch?

[runic terrace]

Ah

[gusty crater]

both are bare blank maps so didnt realise lol

[wanton prism]

like even if i dont

[runic terrace]

bingo

[wanton prism]

How do i fix that?

[runic terrace]

You got the true and false mixed up

switch them around and check

[wanton prism]

Like this?

[runic terrace]

These

Currently it's if crouching, return false

and you can never uncrouch

You got the trace set up correctly though, it should work

[wanton prism]

ok only problem is when i get it back to true it still keeps me crouched to so you need to retap the crouch key

That i think is where it is going wrong

[runic terrace]

Because it only updates when you tap the crouch button

[wanton prism]

how do i fix that?

[runic terrace]

You can start a timer when crouch is released, continuously checking if you can stand or not. Once it's true it stands you up and stops the timer.
And pressing crouch again while the timer is running should also stop the timer.

[gusty crater]

okay next question xD Its working now, although i have to have my mouse button clicked to get any value for x and y on mouse movement

[runic terrace]

Player Controller -> Set Input Mode Game Only

[wanton prism]

with the timeline thing and mape it loop?

[gusty crater]

i have it set to game + ui

yep game only works, is there a way i can have both?

[wanton prism]

Like this?

[gusty crater]

or should i just use on tick to check mouse position and be done with it xD that was working fine before i tried to change to enhanced input

[runic terrace]

Like this

[wanton prism]

thank you

[edgy ingot]

Why dont you just use the inbuilt crouch uncrouch function from the character movement component?

[wanton prism]

doesnt work

[edgy ingot]

Wdyn

Its work

[wanton prism]

also not modifible

[edgy ingot]

And u r not using it from where i see

[runic terrace]

Built in crouch function just snaps the collision scale, doesn't allow for a smoother transition

I don't like it either

[edgy ingot]

Ohh so thats the goal

Well you can interp the scale but offsetting capsule component is not an easy feat

[wanton prism]

i making horror game so i need people to be terrified when trying toescape

[edgy ingot]

If blueprint is your only tool and you cant read the crouch source code. Look into chat history

Pattym did a smooth crouch

[wanton prism]

i tried for liek 2 weeks to learn how to use c++ in unreal idk how to do it i can code in c++

[edgy ingot]

Personally i am fine with snapping, since my crouch anim interp anyway

[runic terrace]

I think @wanton prism 's smooth crouch works already, only had problems with states

[edgy ingot]

Its just the invisible capsule comp thst snap so who cares

[wanton prism]

yeah

[runic terrace]

Technically you can just slap a spring arm with 0 length and activate linear interpolation to get a smooth feeling crouch with built-in function too, but it's not fun that way lol

[wanton prism]

yes

it isnt

[wanton prism]

It now only stays in crouching

[runic terrace]

oh, the trace might be hitting the floor, try to offset trace origin 1 cm above the feets

time should be something like 0.016 (60 times/second)

[wanton prism]

it worked before but i will try that

[runic terrace]

timer with 0 time will not run

also set it to looping

and connect this

[wanton prism]

Thank you

[wanton prism]

But it means the player will be able to enter the area way easier instead of making them be terrified

[wanton prism]

THANK YOU it works i spent like 2 days on that

[waxen fog]

Hey is there a way to stop player start from spawning a camera?

[quartz kayak]

@runic terrace Could I please enlist your help again... I'm now trying to set up the logic to actually move the character forward in the direction its facing when W is pressed. The issue is that once again it's updating the character's location based on the framerate.

I tried doing the variable thing but it's not really doing much

[runic terrace]

No, most you can do is to assign your own

[runic terrace]

Are you trying to implement basic walking/looking around?

[quartz kayak]

Yes

[runic terrace]

Use add movement input nodes for location

And add pitch input, add yaw input nodes for looking around

make sure to add a camera to your character and check use controller rotation on it

[quartz kayak]

I should specify that I'm doing it this way because I'm trying to implement a dungeon crawler esque camera and movement system!

[runic terrace]

oh now I see

so pressing W should move you for a while and sottop

[quartz kayak]

Yes! I want the character to move a fixed distance and be unable to control the camera with the mouse (for now)

A and D currently move the camera 90 degrees to the left or right

so I'm just trying to actually get the character to go forward

[runic terrace]

Makes a lot more sense with context lol

[quartz kayak]

The blueprint above works but the distance the character moves is dependent on the framerate

which ofc isn't what I want

[runic terrace]

Instead of pushing the player forwards, calculate the end position and lerp to it

[quartz kayak]

Isn't that what my blueprint already does?

I'm a complete beginner so I'm probably misunderstanding

[runic terrace]

It's the same problem you had with the rotation

You're not using the variable lol

dont add anything just connect the variable to lerp B

Lerp A* sorry

wait i got confused on mobile I'll rewrite it

The variable you save should be your current location. X = Loc
Lerp A -> X
Lerp B -> X + forwardDir * distance

dont pull directly from actor location to lerp

[quartz kayak]

I feel like we're so close though!!

[runic terrace]

try this

[waxen fog]

is there a way to set a camera without a player controller? or stop the player controller from moving the camera?

[runic terrace]

also put a gate or something so you cant spam thhe button

[runic terrace]

I'm guessing you haven't set up a gamemode

[waxen fog]

i have

im using a custom one

[runic terrace]

Do you have your own player controller & pawn set in the gamemode?

[waxen fog]

yes

[runic terrace]

And you can move the camera without implementing it?

[waxen fog]

i just want to place a camera actor in the level and use that, put when i spawn in the player it keeps creating a new camera and using that one

[quartz kayak]

i'll have a bite and then try this. thank you!

[runic terrace]

use the blend view node, it should be under either in player controller or the camera manager i dont remember exactly

set view target?

i think thats the name

[waxen fog]

i tried this, but it needs a player controller

[runic terrace]

and you have one

Get player controller

[waxen fog]

yes but when the player spawns it snaps to the controller

the location of the controller

it stops using the camera actor in the scene

[runic terrace]

unless you set the view target as that camera actor it will never use it

it will use the one in the pawn instead

if there isnt one it will spawn one in the pawn

[waxen fog]

i ended up just setting it on tick i guess when the player spawned it overrided it

[runic terrace]

Not ideal but will work. Instead on Begin Play, you can also Get player pawn and check it's validity, if not valid delay until next tick and connect into itself. If valid set the view target.
Also not ideal but at least it wont be running on tick all the time

[waxen fog]

for some reason my players rotation axis is off now. I suspect the camera has somehting to do with it. super annoying

agree on not ideal

i just want to create a test level to work on a specific mechanic

[manic mauve]

Hi all. My project is totally corrupted and the errors start with a plugin (GMC). All the BP links fail, parenting fails. I deleted the Binary, Intermediary and Saved directories, rebuilt from scratch, rolled by source code, deleted the last files in the log before it crashed. Using UE 5.3.2, Rider, Windows 10.

Anyone seen this failure before? If I go back into my source control, I can get the editor to load, and sometimes can open this class, but I cant set the Parent. It wont see GMC Pawn (part of GMC plugin), though I can make a new Actor BP with GMC Pawn as parent, but my original one will not show it in the list of possible parents.

[2024.01.10-05.26.52:119][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: [AssetLog] D:_\DE00\Content__Gem\Logic\Character\Movement\BP_GemBipedMovement.uasset: VerifyImport: Failed to find script package for import object 'Package /Script/GMCCore'
[2024.01.10-05.26.52:119][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: [AssetLog] D:_\DE00\Content__Gem\Logic\Character\Movement\BP_GemBipedMovement.uasset: CreateExport: Failed to load Parent for BlueprintGeneratedClass /Game/_/_Gem/Logic/Character/Movement/BP_GemBipedMovement.BP_GemBipedMovement_C.

[quartz kayak]

@runic terrace It works

[sour moat]

✋ There is only 1 actor but it prints 2 times, did I do it wrong?

[runic terrace]

No, means the function is being called twice for some reason.

[sour moat]

I used T button to trigger this function directly, still don't know why...

[runic terrace]

Try checking the length of the returned array

It still shouldn't matter though it returns right away

[sour moat]

length:1 but print 2 times

[runic terrace]

Before calling the function, try putting a do once node and see if it runs once that time

It must be the input firing twice

[faint pasture]

put a print before the trace

fires twice?

[sour moat]

still, length:1 but print 2 times

[runic terrace]

didnt put the do once inside the function, right?

do once will not work inside the function

[runic terrace]

ok how the fuck

literally unreal

[sour moat]

😂

[runic terrace]

are you sure it's the same print screen node that's firing twice?

change the text and run again

[sour moat]

1 means there is only one in the array.

[runic terrace]

Have you tried turning off and on the engine

[sour moat]

Yes I tired

[manic mauve]

Do you mean restart UE editor?

[runic terrace]

Oh

Make sure there aren't more than one actor in the scene

Both must be receiving input

so firing twice

not the same graph so do once has no effect

[sour moat]

Yes, I'm sure there is only one actor, and I used class filter(NPC), and I tried ignore myself, but still didn't work

[runic terrace]

no I mean, an extra player character

in the scene, receiving input

somehow

I cant think of another reason this may happen

in the function, print self

to see if it's the same actor that's firing twice

[sour moat]

Like this?

[runic terrace]

no, self

you can get a self reference

it points to the actor executing the code

there has to be a second player character somewhere in your scene

[runic terrace]

assuming this is inside a player character

[sour moat]

Yes the two elements printed are different. I'm checking where I called the wrong one.

[runic terrace]

bingo

delete the extra character and its fixed

unless its being spawned at runtime

[sour moat]

Thanks man, I added 2 same component(with different name) to my character, and I deleted one and it works!@runic terrace

[runic terrace]

I was only half wrong then yay

Of course, two components in the same actor is way more likely than an extra character accepting input without possession. Should've thought of it sooner

[sour moat]

Next time when I meet the same issue I will check it first😂

Still learned a lot, I'm a beginner.

[runic terrace]

who knows

I wonder why no one have any answers

[surreal peak]

Please use the #hardware channel for this

[distant hollow]

Sorry about it

[proven trench]

Hello, I need some help with file loading, using FinishRecordingOutput I save recording as Wav File, but can't figure out, how do I load it after it? The reason is I want to save it as files that can be loaded when game is launched again

[spark steppe]

you could try something like https://github.com/gtreshchev/RuntimeAudioImporter

[dapper galleon]

Hello! I need help with my enemy BP. I've got the satyr enemy type, and the zombie enemy type -- they both got completely the same setup, with "Can Deal Damage?" bool on a branch in the Overlap Box event. The code of the overlap event was literally copypasted from zombie to the satyr, but despite that, the Satyr's attack doesn't deal any damage. The boolean doesn't get changed in the main BP for some reason. The necessary events in the Anim BP activate, everything is fine on that front. Zombie's setup works perfectly and deals damage. What's going on?

[gusty crater]

I have a widget that when i hover the mouse over, i want it to spawn another widget just next to it. How can i get the location of the widget im hovering over?

I want to get the position of that little widget circled in red so that i can adjust the location of another widget i spawn in, to be next to that

[distant hollow]

Try this

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/get-position-in-widget/478549/2

[gusty crater]

Yeah i gave that a go with no luck

[distant hollow]

What about converting mouse position?

[gusty crater]

I had that originally but it just looked a little messy as you can hover over lots in a row pretty quick, so if they were always a uniform height it would look much nicer

[distant hollow]

ReftoSelf is player?

[gusty crater]

theres like a row of "cards" near the bottom of the screen, and as you hover over it shows details about it that pops up, so if you move across them and i use mouse position, its unsightly

[distant hollow]

Are the widgets movable?

[gusty crater]

Yeah theyre in a grid

so more / less can be added and they move a bit

[distant hollow]

I mean as in can you drag them around in runtime

[gusty crater]

negative

[distant hollow]

Or do they move around during runtime

If they don’t then you can consider specifying the location of the widgets during creation then save that value into an array

[gusty crater]

mmm sort of, not yet though haha

during gameplay you will unlock more then they will move

[distant hollow]

After that when hovering over the widget you can identify which one it is and retrieve the value from the array

Or if you are using a grid system then snap them to the grids

[young meteor]

Any way to control settings for Nanite meshes? Meaning the resolution seems way higher than I need. I would like it to group polygons/triangles much more aggresively.

I'm saying this because my FPS seems to have tanked after I inserted a bunch of Nanite meshes from Megascans (just over 2000 meshes in total)

Or maybe a way to confirm/debunk if this is actually what is killing the performance? (checked texture sizes/memory load. Does not seem to be bad).

[silent drift]

I made a flying sphere that is supposed to act as an enemy but for some reason though, it only sends "hit" events once I jump into it and not if it flies into me when standing on the ground. Does anyone happen to have an idea why this is happening?

It has collision and all, but for some reason it just refuses to send hit events properly.

[pulsar vigil]

@dark drum Hello i m a fan of ur tutorial and i use the interact system for my game and i know u are in the discord i hope its not bad behavior but i have one question :

The interact text u get with the bind and the bpinterface don't actualise if the object u interact with overlap with the previous one, i say that cause my interaction work fine but the text doesn't change.

is this cause i messed up somewhere ? or is it a normal thing and i need to change something from the tutorial ?

(cause i like how it work but my brain doesn't compute entirely how the bind and the bpi work and i dont realy know how to change it correctly)

[dark drum]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[pulsar vigil]

im using ur interact system and i set boolean in the event set outline state of bp actor that i interact with and it work fine but if i hit with the trace an actor interactable and i hit a second one without not hiting something interactable it take the first actor interact text, it doesn't actualise, sry i dont know how to explain it correctly

[crystal crown]

i have a Widget inside a Widget Component that is grabbing references from a ParentBP of the ChildBP where the widget lives.
How do i set that reference? I hope it makes sense. My head is about to explode.

[fossil seal]

Not sure I got you, but maybe you need "get user widget" node, for your widget component. And then cast to your widget class.

[fossil seal]

Like that.

[pastel skiff]

hey so i got a problem with me code, its very simple enemy chases you, if he comes colse to you it shuld play the anim montage, it cheses you fine and after cathing up to you waits 2 s thats good, but for some reason it wont play the montage and i dont know why, any help?

the anim montge might be the problem but i dont think so

[pastel skiff]

oh god i jsut saw its the wrong code

wait

[crystal crown]

umm setting references is so confusing to me. i think i need to validate the widget but also i need to set the parentbp reference for the widget

the widget component is on the childbp

[pastel skiff]

thas the right one

[dark drum]

Oh I get what you mean. I can remember it being an issue but I can't remember if it was fixed in the initial tutorial.

I did do a few tweaks in the double door tutorial I made that also allows it to handle hitting different components in the same actor.

It might be worth giving it a watch.

[fossil seal]

Well, that's not too hard, you can make a function in your widget, and by method I showed you above, you can access that function from your childBP, to set a reference to parentBP(Of course if ChildBP has it)!

It's hard at first, you'll get hang of it 😉 But handling references and widgets is always pain in the back 😄

[crystal crown]

what function i make in the widget?

[dark drum]

Why does the widget need the reference? What is it for?

[fossil seal]

I mean... whichever you want? Just any custom function, to pass the ParentBP reference?.. If I understood you correctly. I usually call them "Setup", and pass all kind of references, and parameters through it.

[mental trellis]

Init also a popular name.

The first parameter must be called 'bruv' (random british joke)

[fossil seal]

Like this for example, I pass a staticMesh reference here, and set it to variable in my widget, in your case that would be a ChildBP(or whatever you want). And you can cast to it freely in your ChildBP since your WIdgetComponent already have a reference to it, so casting here is fine...

[pulsar vigil]

Actualy i find a way with an event tick should not be to problematic thx for the answer if u find a solution i will took it (rn im just checking a boolean if i hit something and then change text in event tick) it might be me that fucked the tutorial too tho would not be a surprise lmao

[dark drum]

You just need to check if the new hit is the same actor or not, if not, update the interact text.

[pulsar vigil]

ah yeah that seem easy especialy since i know there is function to recheck and check current and previous hit actor but i dont realy know how to make it cause the way the bind and bpi work im absolutely lost about it lol

[crystal crown]

Like this? What do i plug in vehicle reference? I set it to the parent

[fossil seal]

You transfer a reference to a parent into "vehicleReference", now HOW you get reference to parentBP is completely different thing entirely, since I don't know what you mean by "ParentBP", I can only guess that it is the "owner" of ChildBP, so you can get easy access to parentBP by using "GetOwner" function in ChildBP, but to be 100% safe, just pass parentBP reference into ChildBP, just like you already almost did with widget, by creating a function in ChildBP called let's say "Setup" or as someone above suggest "Init", and call it in your ParentBP, and transfer "self" reference(parentBP) there into your ChildBP. 🙂

And no offense! But it seems you have problems with basic understanding on how functions, and inheritance work in unreal, try watch some youtube videos on the subject, it's relatively basic stuff, really )

[dapper galleon]

No, it is Reference to the Monster AI blueprint which is the monster's parent class

[distant hollow]

Which Boolean in your MainBP that you are trying to change? I don't see any here

[dapper galleon]

It's the "Can Deal Damage?"

[distant hollow]

This?

But you said Refto Self is not the mainBP

[dapper galleon]

I don't have a Main BP???

I dont know what Main BP you're talking about

Here, this screenshot should be better visible
ReftoSelf is MonsterAI

To clarify -- BP_Zver is a child of the class Monster_AI

[distant hollow]

So when you said "The boolean doesn't get changed in the [[[main BP]]] for some reason" what is this "main BP" you are referring to?

[dapper galleon]

Ah

Right

I dont know why I wrote "main BP" there, I think I meant to write "Monster_AI" or "enemy BP"

Yes

[distant hollow]

Ok

So the "Can Deal Damage?" boolean in Satyr doesn't change - is that what you are saying?

[dapper galleon]

yes

Even though the events in the Anim_BP fire off when needed

[topaz gazelle]

Does anyone have a better understanding of how "Get Actors in Selection Rectangle" works? I'm trying to click-drag select actors but I'm not even sure what's triggering it to be inside the rectangle.

[distant hollow]

Put a Print "CanDeal Called" and a Print "STOP Deal Called" behind these two respectively, check if they fire in the first place

[dapper galleon]

Yes, they do

[distant hollow]

Both do?

[dapper galleon]

Both do

[distant hollow]

In that case, after the two nodes, Get Display Name from the ReftoSelf, print it out, and see what you have

[crystal crown]

I got it working. Yes i might not know everything i'm doing but by just winging it so far everything has worked out. Thanks for the help

[wild pebble]

I can't manage to get the Cursor to show, while also receiving input for the mouse movement axis values.

I know this was possible in ue4, I feel like i tried everything in UE5 to make it work, but the values for the axis just remain 0.
The only way around I found is to permanently set Input mode to Game, but then I can't interact with the UI anymore, I want to be able todo both...

[dapper galleon]

I get "BP_Zver", so, what I need

[distant hollow]

Wait, which is the one having trouble? Zver or Satyr?

[dapper galleon]

Zver is Satyr
I called him satyr because that's something more recognizable for people

[distant hollow]

Oh ok

[distant hollow]

Set Input to Both UI and Game?

[distant hollow]

So both events fire

But boolean does not change

[dapper galleon]

Yeah

[distant hollow]

Connect the Print nodes earlier on behind the Set Booleans and try again

[wild pebble]

That's not working unfortunately, the Axis values will only be received while I hold the LMB, it should work without holding the LMB

[dapper galleon]

I... did?

This is how it looks rn

[verbal girder]

Hmmm, for functions with local variables, the same blueprint cannot have two functions with the same named local variable?

[distant hollow]

Sorry I mean, take out the Get Display Name, replace the first string with "CanDeal called" and second string with "CannotDeal called"

Then from ReftoSelf, Get "CanDealDamage?", append string "The Boolean is now : " and connect the Boolean result, and print this as well at the end of both paths

[crystal crown]

Now i have both physical and ui widgets 😁 woop

[dapper galleon]

Okay, so I went ham and just connected the print the boolean in the event tick of Zver's BP. And it does change. 🤔 But still, the hits don't register

Okay so the problem is definitely somewhere else

[distant hollow]

Don't use the Tick firts

Now you are supposed to be controlling the boolean by the AnimNotify so let's check things there first

[dapper galleon]

It does change

[distant hollow]

You were saying the boolean doesn't change earlier on?

[dapper galleon]

That's what I assumed?

because the hits don't register, the player isn't damaged
And the perfectly working code was copypasted

So I assumed something was wrong with the boolean

[distant hollow]

Ok so the Boolean did actually change, just that it is not dealing damage?

[dapper galleon]

I set it up like this:

[distant hollow]

Next time best to check the value before assuming

[dapper galleon]

And "Can't deal dmg" is still being printed always, even right now

The branch is always false

That's why I assumed that the boolean doesn't change
But now I set up "print" in the event tick, and it does change
I don't understand what's going on anymore

[distant hollow]

Hmm

[distant hollow]

This is on Zver?

[dapper galleon]

Yes

Look at this output 🤣

[distant hollow]

So something is always setting it to False right before your Overlap happens

Could be your AnimNotify

Or maybe search where else you are changing this boolean

[dapper galleon]

Okay, so I think the perpetrator actually was the Notifies

they weren't placed in good positions

[distant hollow]

Yep that's what I thought

[dapper galleon]

I moved them to opposite ends of the montage and the hits register, even twice

[steady night]

how can i change a "characters" root collision component to a box instead of a cylinder ?

[thin roost]

ik my cast system is stupit but i am new in the unreal , Second part of code not working pls help how can i cast to "Class"

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/978036466544422932/1194676646620451007/this.gif?ex=65b13854&is=659ec354&hm=40d5912aa11470e3e43b7ac0eb8e20a8dae91d41310aa453da3482b2d805f575&

i want to make this

(2D game)

[wintry meteor]

guys can i know is it possible if i want change image through default panel in level? like textrender we will use this.. but how bout image? is there any bp or fx to change it through level and not through runtime?

like that default panel... object name and text panel seems fine but for some reason image 2d not working... it wouldnt update any image

[echo dirge]

Ok So I finally figured it out. For anyone interested in WASD key movement, Its not the most beautiful solution but it works to change focus. As I was unable to find a way to make movement happen.
In the example I use, I have a horizontal box host all the main menu buttons on it.
You can however put all the buttons into an Array and do that instead.
I Hover over functions and create an override for OnKeyDown
I create a check for the D and A Keys for left and right and if true it goes to the MainButtonsLeft or MainButtonsRight Functions I created.
I have it do a check through the MainMenuBox (which is just a horizontal box that I turned into a variable on the Designer page)
Gets all children, adds 1 to the Active index integer I made and set focus to the next button.
On the MainButtonsLeft I just subtract 1 from the Active index and do a check for the last index.
Now when you press the A and D keys they move left and right.
To go up and down with W and S you would need to be explicit in which button to go to next or make a button array.
Hopefully this helps someone else too.

[wintry meteor]

nvm, instead of i use widget. i change it to sprite to make it changeable in level detail

[charred cobalt]

hey can pawn sensing be used to detect the player controller (its an actor)
also if someone could explain the difference between actor character and pawn it would be mega helpful

[winter tiger]

I'm having some trouble with scene components, actors and spawning a sound attached.

What I want to do is, have my actor, attach my scene component and then during runtime spawn a sound attached (then do operations on that at that time within the scene graph).

But currently, if I just spawnsound attached and cache that reference, it loses the class type. I also tried searching for the component by class after spawning it, but that also seems to lose the class even though my MS graph data is showing up in the info when I hover over it during PIE.

Am I aproaching this idea from the wrong angle? Any help is appreciated cheers!

This is the variable after caching it

[faint pasture]

Why are you trying to spawn an actor on tick?
That code is all sorts of effed up, you want the aiming reticle thing to move around based on where your mouse cursor is right?

[dark drum]

how are you spawning/creating the sound?

[winter tiger]

I was using Spawn Sound Attached

[dark drum]

Is auto destroy ticked? If it is, it'll destroy it when the sound has finished playing.

[winter tiger]

I believe it is, thing is, it's a MS graph and won't get through to my OnFinished Node until a specific Execute Trigger Parameter node in BP is executed.

So when I spawn it in, I should be able to see the AC on the actor using the Visualize3D debug, even if the voice is virtualized

[dark drum]

I'm not sure what you mean by MS Graph.

[winter tiger]

Oops sorry, MetasSound Graph

[dark drum]

Ahh ok. I've not really played with MetaSounds so I don't know for sure but try unticking auto destroy and see if they show up.

[winter tiger]

Ok thank you. I'll keep digging

[crystal crown]

How expensive are widget components? Can i have multiple with the same widget in a BP? I need to have multiple cuz i have some weird angles where i need to place it

[crystal crown]

Would having a widget render target to a texture be the same as using a widget component

[eager thicket]

I'm trying to attach a gun blueprint to the camera so it follows the movements of the camera. Unfortunately it doesn't. The gun won't follow the camera rotation moving up or down. Am I going about this all wrong?

I wonder if there's a much better solution than this

[faint pasture]

Why not attach actor to component? Is this inside the pawn/character?

What is GunAttachPoint?

[eager thicket]

So I have the first person controller. That controller has a "gun attach point" (scene transform) attached to the camera.

The gun is a seperate blueprint actor

[eager thicket]

I guess attach actor to component will work for a scene transform?

Strange, just tried it. the Scene Component won't connect to the parent pin of "Attach Actor to Component"

[faint pasture]

What do you mean by first person controller? What actually is the actor class?

Controller means something specific in Unreal

[eager thicket]

My bad. It's the default BP_FirstPersonCharacter blueprint

[empty needle]

Hi, is it possible to create an Event Dispatcher in a normal Actor Blueprint. And then have a UMG Bind to that Event Dispatcher?

[eager thicket]

Shouldn't have said controller.

[faint pasture]

And I'm guessing GunAttachPoint is a scene component within BP_FirstPersonCharacter?

[faint pasture]

yes

[eager thicket]

Yes. It's the "scene" here

[empty needle]

When I try to Bind it in UMG, I don't get the option to Bind it to a Event Dispatcher. It's not showing up the Event Dispatcher.

[shy matrix]

@Ben#6650 then you want to attach an actor (the gun) to a component (the scene component in your character). Use that node and snap to target. Be careful that the collision profiles of the gun should not be set to hit either the capsulecomponent and the mesh

[eager thicket]

I used snap to target, however for some reason, the gun won't match the up down rotation of the camera/gun attach point.

[shy matrix]

I struggle to understand what you mean by "doesn't match the rotation of the camera". Does it not rotate at all? Or it rotates but the mesh is oriented in a direction you don't expect?

[ancient heath]

Hello, If I have an inventory array that stores the reference of the item that is picked from the ground.

I would like to be able to cast the specific item and obtain all the properties of the item being picked, but the method I proposed in my blueprint does not work/is not correct

Within the Inventory map, the item is stored when it is picked, and the slot where it is equipped is stored in the key.

So, when you touch input 1, for example, you enter that function where you get the reference of the actor, but I don't know how to make a cast to get all the variables.

Thanks in advance

[distant canyon]

Why not just store item references in your inventory rather than object references?

[ancient heath]

I don't know why I didn't think that, thanks.

[empty needle]

When I try to bind to the EventDispatcher, it doesn't show it in the UMG when I try and bind to it.

[faint pasture]

show code

[empty needle]

I replied with the screenshots a bit earlier.

[faint pasture]

Try just type Left Mouse and see if it pops up

[unique silo]

Any ideas how i could use foliage tool on ground assets that are blueprints?

[empty needle]

I'm not sure if it's possible to bind to events through a Widget?

[dire frost]

Type bind instead of left btw

Adriel just made a small error in his sentence

[dire frost]

no just bind without the word "left" lol

[vernal willow]

I think my brain is at a daily limit. How does saving data that I want to be in a struct format work?

[dire frost]

Here ya go. Just find the delegate you made and bind to it

[empty needle]

That's the thing, I'm not seeing it in that list.

[dire frost]

Are you sure you have the right reference type?

Also did you make sure to compile when you created the delegate

[vernal willow]

All I have at the moment is a variable that is set to be an object type of "MyStruct"

[dire frost]

Why not just making a struct?

[vast lion]

Are text to speech subsystem nodes broken in 5.3? Every time I restart the editor they all throw errors

[vernal willow]

I have several fail attempts at blueprinting to get it to work but I don't know what nodes to use.

[empty needle]

Thank you, it was not the correct reference.

[vernal willow]

I have data generated at run time that I want to populate the struct

[dire frost]

The subsystem doesn't exist anymore it seemes. It probably was deprecated

[vast lion]

Well it works when I delete those nodes and re-add them

But then restarting the editor they get borked again

[dire frost]

Then make a struct variable and save your data in it?

[vernal willow]

That's what Im not sure how to do node wise

[dire frost]

Oof. Are you sure you're saving properly? If you for example make a new event, save then reload engine. Does the event stay?

[vernal willow]

I know it sounds stupid but most everything else has made sense to me, I just am at a limit today I think

[vast lion]

Yes, the event stays. My BP changes stay. Just these nodes that break every time the engine launches

[dire frost]

You'll have a "make '*your struct here'". If you have an array then use that node. If you have just one instance of that struct then simply make a variables. Reference the structure, break it, fill individual data entries, save the game

[vernal willow]

Thank you so much

Seriously

[dire frost]

Yeah that is weird. Probably the BP got corrupted in a weird way. To confirm that issue doesn't happen in a new BP?

[dire frost]

Your welcome! And uhhh maybe take a nap 😅

[faint pasture]

classic

[vast lion]

Hmm. Good question. Let me try that

[wooden arch]

Why the ragdoll does not activates? The Actor just stand still, however, toggeling something in realtime related to physics in the editor makes it trigger.

[versed sun]

Try Begin Play>Delay Until Next Tick>Rest of code

never mind

you have a a big ol 1 sec delay

[wooden arch]

Nothing happens 😦

And yes I have a PhysicsAsset

[dire frost]

Doesn't throw an error/warning? Cause you should set the collision enabled for the mesh to query and physics or physics only

Otherwise simulate physics won't do anything

[wooden arch]

Thats whats ragdoll profile does

am... this should be simple, I dont get why doesnt do anything

However, toggling something in the editor while playing it makes it react

:/

No error, here a video.

Only when I edit in runtime I got the simulation.

Only changing the collision preset in the default blueprint to Ragdoll or Pawn makes it activate, however chaging tha value in blueprint code has no effect...

Indeed physics are disabled in the capsule and in the skeletal mesh and its doing ragdoll... Am I missing something?

Any idea?

[covert bough]

Is there any way to make a macro that has 2 wildcard of different types?

[thin panther]

The point of a wildcard is that it is any type

[covert bough]

yeah, but if i have 2 input wildcards then they always turned into the same type as soon as a fill either pin

but i need them to be different types

[thin panther]

Now that seems like a bit of an oversight. Show the macro?

[covert bough]

As soon as any pin is connected, all wildcard pins are cooreced into that connected pins type

[thin panther]

Ouch yeah, seems like a big oversight, or it's not possible.

Either way, I don't know a way around that issue

[wooden arch]

Alright, I found the solution:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/simulate-physics-works-perfectly-within-editor-but-not-game/655940/8

Thanks

[covert bough]

even if one of the pins is an array of wildcards, it gets coerced into an array of that type

all i want is a simple array map macro, but apparently i cant have nice things 🙂

[remote wasp]

Hi
I'm trying to create a projectile for which I know the starting point and the landing point, but I want the projectile to travel in a parabola.
How would I be able to do that? I was looking at Predict Projectile Path, but that requires a Starting Point and a velocity, not an End Point.

[lunar sleet]

I think homing settings kind of let you do that

[eager thicket]

It seems to rotate around the mesh, but looking up and down doesn't have any effect

If I manually place the gun in the heiarchy so it's actually attached to the scene component, it will move with the camera in all directions. This is the effect I want.

[lunar sleet]

Doesn’t the template already do that for you?

[balmy kraken]

Looking for a way to guarantee a RandomReachablePoint at a radius, but not in an inner radius. Here is a hacky example I'm trying to make better:

[proper crater]

For making a reticle that fades in and out when looking at objects, is there anything wrong with this character blueprint? I can't get this to work.

Also, is it possible for an interface component to be given to a static mech like you can with an actor blueprint?

[edgy ingot]

You can pass anything as parametre in the interface if thats what you are wondering

[devout latch]

There are several ways to do that. I once did a way where I created an invisible spline and set a few points - a starting point, a point at the top of the parabola (vertex...I sound like I'm in school again) and the end point. I then created a timeline to move an actor (an arrow) along the spline.

[clever rose]

I don't know if this belongs in #animation or #blueprint so I'm posting it in both. Can somebody help me with this? I'm trying to add this aim offset to my character and it just does this. I thought it was resizing it to be absolutely massive but if that's the case I have no idea how to change it

[finite hearth]

I have a widget (CombatTextVerticalBox) that widget has a function (DisplayCombatText).

CombatTextVerticalBox is a widget component on Unit1.

I've dragged CombatTextVerticalBox into Unit1's graph, but why can't I use the CombatTextVerticalBox pin to fire off DisplayCombatText. How can I trigger DisplayCombatText?

[quaint ravine]

Hello, I have a problem that literally took me an entire afternoon. I want to make the character's view rotate following the mouse. I've tried everything, search for tutorials on YouTube, search in forums, search in official information and nothing. I'm doing the game from a top-down view and I don't know if you could help me. I'm new (I started 1 week ago).

[finite hearth]

There might be a better way, but I would do a get hit result under cursor, then set your characters rotation to that location.

[quaint ravine]

I tried to do this but since I don't know anything about blueprints I couldn't do it, apart from the fact that the main idea is for the character to go to where the mouse is.

[finite hearth]

You can break it up into smaller bits.

1: Figure our your input, maybe it's LMB
2: When LMB is pressed you want it to do something; drag off the LMB pin and plug it into one called print. Now you should get a message whenever you press LMB.
3. You probably want it to do more than say "hello", so you can right-click on the graph and find a node called "Get Hit Result Under Cursor by Channel". You can right-click on Hit Result and select "Split Struct Pin" -- this is all of the data that is collected when that function fires. Start by pulling the yellow pin from "hit result location" and putting it in your print string

Let me know when you get that far, you should see coordinates whenever you press LMB.

[quaint ravine]

okay

[finite hearth]

It woudl also be nice to understand in which class you are building this logic. I think you'll probably want PlayerController.

[quaint ravine]

I am using the input seen in project settings. I find it somewhat confusing to use the PlayerController

something like that?

[finite hearth]

Looks right at a glance, what happens when you play it?

[quaint ravine]

The coordinates of where the mouse is in X and Y appear

[finite hearth]

Radical! So now you've got some data to work with.

If you want to make your life easier, you can right click on the "hit result location" and promote to variable - give it a clear name so you know what it is; maybe "ClickedLocation"

And then connect that set pin after the left mouse but before print string.

This takes a snapshot of the data at that point in time and stores it to a variable ClickedLocation. So each time you need those coordinates, you can use the variable instead of that big chunky green node.

Once you've created it, you will see a ClickedLocation in your variables section. You can drag it into your graph.

So remind me again, did you want your actor to look at the clicked location, or move to it?

[quaint ravine]

i want the actor look at the clicked location

[finite hearth]

Okay, I use similar logic for my game. The node you are looking for is "Set Actor Rotation"

The target will be a reference to the actor you are wanting to manipulate, and the New Rotation will be the direction you want him looking. You will need some other green nodes to help calculate this - a very useful one is "Find look at Rotation".

For the Find Look at Rotation, you already know the "Target" -- that's the location that you clicked, you saved this as a variable called ClickedLocation

The "start" will be Location of the actor that you want to manipulate. Now the tricky part will be getting a reference to that actor.

How will you (the controller logic) know which actor the player wants to manipulate? There's so many on the screen, you need to tell that controller specifically which actor the player wants to rotate.

If you are building the movement logic in the actor that you want to rotate, you might be able to use the "Reference to self" node.

[quaint ravine]

something like this?

[finite hearth]

Well, you need to plug some of those nodes into the white line

If the node has a [ > then it's asking for a white pin. It's important that you plug them in the correct order, so your logic fires off at the right time. Otherwise you might try to save ClickedLocation too late in the flow, and then your code will have no idea wtf ClickedLocation is

The pins process logic left-to-right

I think the start pin on your find look at rotation might be opposite. You want the Actor to look at ClickedLocation from the actor's perspective, so the actor's location would be the start. Your clicked location would be the Target.

(note, I bolded location - that's a hint for one thing that you're missing)

[quaint ravine]

do you mean do this?

[finite hearth]

Good job on the set, that's exactly where you want it. But now figure out where set actor rotation should go. You probably don't need that print anymore, unless you want to keep it.

[quaint ravine]

uhm

idk

[finite hearth]

White pin looks good

[finite hearth]

Here's what I wrote earlier.