blueprint

[spice smelt]

rather than interrupting longer work to remake that thing every time i wished to make a macro so they can do the effort of placing it in the graph, chose a type, and drag out the set variable node without dealing with the loopises

[dark drum]

So it's to call in editor as opposed to runtime? Also what type of settings?

[modest saffron]

nevermind, i got it to work

[spice smelt]

so far it was mesh > hidden in game, light > cast shadows, stuff like that

[modest saffron]

just found out a multiplier to fix it

[noble quiver]

No it isn't. It's from the a project bought on the UE5 marketplace that I've made some tweaks to. I've been working on it since November and only now (without any major changes mind you) is this error occurring.

[faint pasture]

I thought macros were a literal copy/paste

what is the type of the output of that macro?

[dark drum]

I would tell them to... Lol.

However, unfortunately, you can't dynamically define the type of a cast.

You might be able to set something up in the game instance for global vars that components could read at runtime but it'll probably get messy with the use case you described.

[spice smelt]

yeah the problem is that since the inputted class is a potentially runtime changed variable, the get components by class node will always return a scene component type, not the type you passed

[spice smelt]

I would tell them to... Lol.
Me too sir/lady, me too...

alright i'll try asking them to use the power of copy-paste

again

[dark drum]

It sounds like they need to spend more time in a small test level until they've figured stuff out. Doing this level of adjust on a large level just isn't practical. I can't even fathom the reason for needing to set all static meshes to hidden in game. Having stuff not cast a shadow I can sort of get but that needs to be a design decision that needs to be settled on before mass adjusting everything in a large level.

[spice smelt]

it's not a gamedev company, it's a graphics for cinema company

0 care for performance, efficiency, or using unreal as unreal understanding it's not maya

[modest saffron]

hey guys, UE5 has a function to shoot a projectile from your camera to where mouse is pointing right?

how does one get the coordinates of first thing the projectile hits?

i just want real world coordinates of the map when I click my left mouse button

[spice smelt]

"raycast collision" are the keywords you need to search for

i don't remember the exact ue function off the top of my head

[modest saffron]

thanks

[lyric quiver]

If I have some player upgrades, with each upgrade logic stored in a custom event or a function, what is the best way to randomly pick from the upgrades and assign one to the player?

[lusty shard]

Switch on Int..

and then set the int to random in range

well, set the int to random in range first, then switch on int

[lyric quiver]

ok thanks I'll try that

[lyric quiver]

is it inclusive on the max value eg 0,5 could return 0,1,2,3,4 or 5?

[lusty shard]

if you give 0 for the min

yes

[kind willow]

Why don't my child actors inherit macros from parent actors?

[modest saffron]

I've come to realize that camera distorting the square depending on location due to camera movement

the ideal workaround is to simply disalow camera movement while button pressed

[sand yacht]

Hi, how do you separate the keywords? Is it using a space or a comma

[keen widget]

Does anyone know why after closing this error my pc close all softwere and go black then restart explorer.exe ?
This error occur after projust is open for few seconds

[modest saffron]

hey ,real quick question please

i have my camera scroll/move when my mouse is close to edges

how do I tell it not to do this, if left mouse button is pressed?

[dark drum]

That looks like a possible graphics card driver crash.

[grim sand]

Would anyone know why I am unable to dynamically set a font param from a material inside of a BP? Any other kind of param is fine, but not font params for some unknown reason

[grim sand]

Probably best to set a boolean when you press left mouse button, and then do an If branch inside of your edge scrolling logic. If the bool is false, you can edge scroll, if it is true, you cannot

[dark drum]

Can you share a screenshot of the distortion?

[modest saffron]

yeah, im having trouble setting said boolean

i'm super new, so not sure wehre I'm failing

[modest saffron]

it distorts because things further away appear smaller

[grim sand]

You can drag off wherever your left mouse button input is coming in and type in "Set (YourBooleanName)" to set the result of the boolean

[candid gorge]

How can I make my right hand track my cursor when I hold down left click?

[modest saffron]

got it!

thanks!

is that what you meant @grim sand ?

[stuck sentinel]

i want to make it rain tacos that you need to dodge how do i make the falling animation

[grim sand]

Not exactly, but this works as well 😅 I thought you had an event somewhere (like your Mouse X event) that was called Left Mouse Button. If you drag off that one and set Is Mouse Down to true when pressed, and to false when it is released, then it works more or less the same way.

[modest saffron]

man, what a mess I have here

but things are working so far

UE5 is such a deep thing to learn

on day 3 atm and loving it!

[grim sand]

This is the motto of every Unreal Engine developer, so you are doing great @modest saffron

[modest saffron]

https://streamable.com/6onov9 @grim sand

that's where I'm at atm

got camera working. i was trying a different camera approach... but I think i'll stick with this one

[grim sand]

Awesome stuff, well done!

[modest saffron]

previously, i allowed scrolling and selecting (meaning capturing rectangle increasing as i scrolled away)

but I think disallowing scrolling is better long term and way easier

[grim sand]

Yea probably that is the better user experience

[modest saffron]

even though i had it working

was a pretty cool workaround though

i used the global positioning of camera, and just added/subtracted it from the current position/starting position

that way, i could in real time accomodate for the movement of the screen

since camera moves at same rate as screen

[cobalt gulch]

Can someone pls help with fixing a collision for a tube?
Auto convex collisions seem to not work on it
And i'm not sure how to setup proper collisions

[modest saffron]

@grim sand why doesn't this work?

as the same solution as previous one?

yet this works

trying to understand logic of it

[grim sand]

Yea this should work. Are you sure that the left mouse button logic is triggering? You can use a print string or a breakpoint to check if something is executing.

[grim sand]

You could add a capsule collision through the menu I show in the screenshot. Or you can go into the Collision settings of the mesh and under Collision Complexity you can set it to Use Complex Collision as Simple.

[modest saffron]

i dont think it's triggering

just don't understand why not 😛

i think the event isn't triggering

[cobalt gulch]

ah thanks man works perfectly

[thin cradle]

is there an inkling of a chance some future unreal version will allow for making scene component BPs that have other components in their hierarchy by default, ie add child comps to a comp bp like you would to an actor bp

that'd be so very good

[modest saffron]

yeah, it's 100% not triggering the left mouse button event @grim sand

[grim sand]

I was actually reading up on this earlier and I don't think so. AFAIK the scene components purpose is only to provide a pivot point that can be moved, rotated, and scaled within the actor you are placing it. If you wanted to default add other components to that scene component, you would just make an actor, as that is what actors are for.

[thin cradle]

that works until you want that component/actor to be used inside of other actors

child actors have like a bunch of issues iirc

[grim sand]

Yea I cannot remember at the moment, but there is a something you can set in your player controller to fix this.

[grim sand]

I haven't really experienced any major issues regarding child actors in recent months. Is there something specific you are trying to do?

[keen widget]

when new empty project was created evrything is fine, is there a way to fix broken one ?

[thin panther]

child actors are fine.
child actor components are all sorts of broken

but to answer the question, no I don't think components will ever get support for subcomponents

it's a bit of a messy practice

[thin cradle]

I wanna make a bunch of components that are basically "wrappers" around existing unreal component, to abstract away/hide their setup & have that wrapper also change params on them at runtime in reaction to some gameplay events

[dark drum]

Check to make sure you've updated your graphics card drives. Its not really an issue with UE but you're machine.

[thin cradle]

I thought parenting actors in the level just created a child actor component? is it the other way around instead, child actor components spawning an actor and parenting it in the level?

[keen widget]

are u sure? 😮

[thin panther]

parenting actors like that is fine yeah.
child actor components do some dark magic internally and screw everything up.

[wild moth]

Hello,
If I cast an actor (from Hit result) into an interface and it's successful I can then assume the pointer/actor is valid and not null and implements that interface?

[dark drum]

Yea, when you get an error regarding D3D12RHI it's normally because it's lost contact with the graphics card. This is normally because of bad drivers (possibly a windows bug) or a bad graphics card.

[keen widget]

thanks!

[modest saffron]

@grim sand figured it out 🙂

since i had the left mouse button event in another blueprint, i had to remove

[grim sand]

Awesome, glad to see you managed to find the issue 😄

[trim matrix]

Good job 👍

[clever steppe]

hey, could anyone help me with a poorly-explained crash in ue4.27? sometimes it happens when triggering a niagara effect. sometimes it happens seemingly randomly. whatever it is, i've found VERY little acknowledging its existence and no solid solution, including official unreal documentation. suggestions?

[silent drift]

I assume there is an easy way for this, but how can I set the current date and time in a blueprint? E.g. the user pressed "load" game, I want to change so it says last time played to "Todays Date and Time, in local language format".

[faint pasture]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/format-text-formatting-numbers-and-dates/151374/3

Probably something along those lines

[silent drift]

Thank you! I will see if that works!

[candid gorge]

How could I make my right hand follow my cursor when I hold left click?

[manic onyx]

is your right hand a seperate mesh?

@candid gorge

[candid gorge]

No

[manic onyx]

I'm not sure then. If it was a seperate mesh, you could apply rotation while left click is held down

[candid gorge]

How can I make it a seperate mesh?

[manic onyx]

it depends on your modelling pipeline

are you first person?

[candid gorge]

It's the third person character thing

like from unreal

[manic onyx]

I'm not sure if theres a way to do it with the default. Depending on your goals, you could also make an animation where the model is "pointing" and the pawn control the rotation of the animation

[crude cradle]

Is there an Unreal engine blueprint node that normalises a degree float to be between 0 and 360?

[versed sun]

try Wrap

[candid gorge]

I want it to point at the cursor

[junior citrus]

Hey! I'm trying to rotate an object aligned to the viewport like this in blender, but using the WASD. Any idea how?

[brisk rain]

Hello! I asked the same thing yesterday but never figured out the answer. Why does my app crash half of the times I call the ad? here is the only instance where i show and load ads.

[manic onyx]

Is there a updatesundirection blueprint function? or do I have to make my own. I cant find any documentation on it

[thin panther]

the default sun direction is based on the rotation of the directional light iirc.
it's either that or the skylight, i don't remember

a lot of people here reccomend Ultra Dynamic Sky for their sky needs btw

[lofty rapids]

how would i cut a section out of a mesh at runtime ?

i want to use another one, to make a cut of the shape of the cube

[untold niche]

So I'm a bit confused by this, the get turn left/right node is asking for a target to be connected, yet there is no target on the node, is there any way around this without making hard references to the character?

[dark drum]

Where does the function live and where are you trying to call it from?

[untold niche]

I'm calling it from a component that's attached to the character

Ideally I'd plug in "Get Owner" but there's no Target on the node

[dark drum]

Where's the function implemented?

[untold niche]

It's just a function in-engine

[lofty rapids]

does it say infinite loop ?

[dark drum]

I'm not a fan of wrap as it misses the upper and lower bound depending on which way it wraps. Using 0-10 with an input of 11 gives one and an input of -1 would give 1.

[dark drum]

Oh it's your input axis. You'd need to get them from the pawn or controller.

[lofty rapids]

^

[brisk rain]

nvm fixed it it wasnt btw

[dark drum]

I can recommend this. I've not purchased it myself but worked with a few clients that have. It's very self contained but easy to work with. The weather system that goes with it is pretty cool as well. Massive time saver.

[topaz gazelle]

Anyone know of alternatives to regular collision? I want pawns to be "repulsed" from each other at rest but if they're all trying to move through a door-frame they can overcome that repulsion.

[cosmic kiln]

why did my camera shakes suddenly break?

i converted my project to 5.3 from 5.2, and my camera shakes are now FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR weaker

going back to 5.2 they're as they should be

did 5.3 change something about camera shakes?

actually, my shooting ones work

it's my walking and sprinting ones that broke

for no reason, values are exact same

[bleak mason]

i have a quick question! so me and my team are making a 2d character in a 3d world and hes supposed to follow a spline. the initial issue was that event begin play and event tick needed to trigger two things at once each but that got kinda solved using sequence.

but theres something else, ive made it so the character teleports to the closest point on the spline. that worked well until i connected it with the event tick, now the camera itself teleports too. please let me know if i need to screenshot anything else, i appreciate any and all help

[surreal peak]

The tick code wouldn't work though

Relatively sure it would keep teleporting you and negating any other movement or?

Why your camera moves is something hard to answer. Is the camera part of the character?

Also why do you disconnect things like your widget being added to call the other code

And what does that have to do with the camera

[bleak mason]

according to the tutorial im following if i uncheck the "teleport" option on the set world location it should let me move across the spline

[bleak mason]

its set as a spring arm, so i suppose so?

everything but the spline was done by a teammate, im trying to incorporate my part into their blueprints

[dark drum]

That's sounds like you need RVO avoidance

[topaz gazelle]

I'm not aware if pawns at rest will move with rvo.

[surreal peak]

Moving across a spline is usually done by simply keeping track of the current distance along the spline, incrementing it by some speed value (times delta time) on tick and getting the location along the spline at that distance

If the spring arm and camera are part of the character then it will also move with it

[odd kiln]

Hi all ! Does anyone know how to change the index of an object in an array please ? I don't understand the method

[surreal peak]

Not sure I understand

[odd kiln]

For example I have an array with some elements inside

I want to move the element who is at index "0" to index "3"

[surreal peak]

You can add and remove from arrays or call Set array element

Whatever was in the array slot before would be overridden though

[odd kiln]

But the "Set Array Element" is not adding the item again in the array ?

[surreal peak]

You need to also set the index 0 to nothing

[queen heron]

its setting it

[surreal peak]

Or with a temporary variable save the entry of 3 and then set slot 0 with that

Which would be a swap

Depends on what the end goal is

[odd kiln]

I tested the swap but it swaps randomly so I'm trying to set the index instead

[surreal peak]

SetArrayElement sets the index with the given value

That's all it does

[odd kiln]

it does not add the element again ?

[surreal peak]

If the value exists in slot 0 already then that wouldn't change

[queen heron]

no

only sets the existing element

[surreal peak]

In theory ,yes

But it's not exactly an add

[odd kiln]

I just want to "move" it

[queen heron]

you can do it manually

or wait, there is a swap node

[surreal peak]

What is supposed to happen with the element that is in the target slot?

[odd kiln]

I want to swap them

[queen heron]

why do you need to do it through scripting?

[odd kiln]

To resume, I have a Grid Panel, and I want that the first slot of the grid panel always be the index array "0" and the second slot index array "1"

[tame terrace]

Hi, why isn’t the cube showing in the viewport so I can look at my character

[odd kiln]

I'm doing it through scripting because I am removing and adding Grid Panel Slot dynamically

[surreal peak]

If there is no swap node then you have to do that manually

[queen heron]

there is

[surreal peak]

Take the element from the target slot and put it into some temporary variable. Then set the target with the source. And last set the source with the temporary variable

[surreal peak]

Yeah then that but they said it doesn't work for them

[odd kiln]

There is swap node but if I remove the first grid panel slot after the second panel slot it changes everything, my array numbers are weird

[queen heron]

you could show some screenshots so we can get a better view

[surreal peak]

You seem to have a setup that doesn't actually fit your example

[odd kiln]

So what I'm trying to do is to get the number of the Grid Panel slot and set it to the array to have the same number

[queen heron]

check the "Rendering" tab in the inspector

[surreal peak]

Grid Panel slots, visually, are divided onto columns and rows

[odd kiln]

yes

[surreal peak]

Not just 0 to n-1 indices

[odd kiln]

In my Uniform Grid Panel, my goal is to be able to move a grid panel slot to another

To do that I have to clear my Grid Panel and re-add each slot

[surreal peak]

You would need to convert the index from 2d to 1d for that I guess

[odd kiln]

With the correct order

[surreal peak]

Or 1d to 2d for adding

[odd kiln]

How can I do that ?

Is there a node ?

[queen heron]

unfortunately you cannot change the position of an element inside the uniform grid panel

at least not with blueprint

with blueprint you can do that by just adding

[odd kiln]

Yes that's why for changing the position I had to remove the panel slot and re-create it and that's fine

[surreal peak]

Math and no.
Array index to Rows and Cols usually is done via divide and modulo.

E.g.

RowIndex = ArrayIndex % NumCols
ColIndex = ArrayIndex / NumCols

[runic parrot]

Hi!
Any good guide for setting DeveloperSettings (?)

[odd kiln]

The problem is if I change from the first to second item or from the second to first item, they "array index" is still the same

[surreal peak]

You might also want to share code

Cause we are more or less making things up by now

[odd kiln]

Ok thank you I understand better

Yes sorry I'll try to show you some

[queen heron]

how can I possibily make two editor utility widgets communicate with each other?
Custom event method did not worked, no signal from the target utility widget
Blueprint Interface did not worked either, same issue

[runic parrot]

Use a DataAsset that holds information and both of them write on it?

You can pass info that way, but still not enable one to call the other to do some function

[surreal peak]

That conversion also works backwards.

ArrayIndex = RowIndex * NumCols + ColIndex

In case that helps

[tame terrace]

Ok I’m at project settings, engine, rendering what now?

[surreal peak]

Not sure you can, despite combining them into one or having something outside of them that can persist data

[surreal peak]

Wdym

[odd kiln]

Thanks a lot!

[queen heron]

not in the project settings dude :))

[runic parrot]

I want to store a FGameplayTagContainer that is globally available on C++, but setting the container on BP so i don't need to hardcode the values of it.

I tough the best way to do it is with developer settings

[tame terrace]

My bad, at rendering for my character I clicked on visible and unchecked hidden in game and it’s still not showing in the viewport

[surreal peak]

If you have no other object that makes more sense, sure

But that's more c++ than blueprints

[queen heron]

there's no blueprint node set up?

[surreal peak]

And there are tutorials for this on Google. Fwiw just look at an existing class in the engine

@tame terrace your video shows only an empty level with some floor

Did you even place your character?

Or press start fwiw

The character doesn't magically appear

[tame terrace]

My characters a cube I’m learning right now

[runic parrot]

I only want to use BP to set the values of the container, but still be accesible on C++.
Since it's something that i need globally on C++, i could only think on DeveloperSetting.

Any con of using that? I need to get them quite often, is getting some property from dev settings slow or costly in performance?

[surreal peak]

It's in theory fine. Just saying that it's relevant to something with more context then that would be better. E.g. if it makes sense to place it on the GameState or some component then there is no need for the dev settings

[tame terrace]

I have nodes set up in my characters blueprint. Sorry, what’s a blueprint node is that a type of node

[runic parrot]

in this particular case, it's to check if an Item has any child tag of "EquipmentType" and if so, which one

[surreal peak]

Your character should show fine if you place it into the level. And if you set you character as the default one in your GameMode then it should also spawn fine if you press play

But that's the extent of it. You won't see it in the scene otherwise

[surreal peak]

The value is only ever read, and only ever set up during design time?

[queen heron]

there's gotta be a way to call out the other EUW (editor utility widget)
the isValid node goes to false when I click the button

[runic parrot]

yes

also all of my other use cases for this are always only read and set at design time

[surreal peak]

Probably doesn't use the right world. But that node is also not really meant for non runtime I guess

[surreal peak]

Yeah then just use the dev settings

[runic parrot]

I was worried about performance, thanks a lot!

[tame terrace]

I got it, I had to click and drag my character from the content drawer I get it now, but is it apart of my player start or are they 2 different things? because their different actors in the outliner?

[surreal peak]

@tame terrace what you clicked on in your video is the player start. That's where the character would spawn if you set it as the default one and pressed play

PlayerStart is its own thing

It's not your character

It's mostly just a position

+- some collision checking

[tame terrace]

Yea, what is it for exactly? What does it do?

[surreal peak]

It's used by the Engine to find a Transform to spawn your Character at. There can also be multiple and you could, in the future when you know more about the engine, also extend them to give them more logic, such as what team is allowed to spawn there.

[tame terrace]

Ok thanks!

[surreal peak]

You usually create a GameMode (one of multiple in a bigger game) where you set the DefaultPlayerPawnClass to your own. If you then press play it would use that and spawn it on one of the available PlayerStarts.

The GameMode also has functions one can override to further control this. E.g. something to choose a PlayerStart yourself, with the same example of a matching team one

It's very important that sooner or later you learn the GameFramework of UE. Basically the most important classes that already exist and that should be used to extend and add custom logic to

GameMode being one of them

[tame terrace]

What happens if you try to put your character on the map without a player start?

[lunar sleet]

Nothing, it just starts from there

This is a question you could have answered with one click lol

[tepid skiff]

Not sure if this is the right sub for this. I've created a datatable via datastructure to store all the information for each of my levels, which in this case are tracks for a racing game. I included a screen of the datastruct. The circle in question is where I would like to store the level. What variable type do I set that as so that I can call it later to load the proper track? (In UE4 you could call a level as a variable, but that's not a thing anymore.)

[undone sequoia]

can I somehow combine 2 types of arrays to one?

[celest tangle]

How do i change default scene root of an actor? I need to simulate physics on a static mesh component but it's not the default scene root, so then I can't use the SetActorLocation function to move the actor's mesh.

[empty mural]

I am using separate meshes for different body parts and having them follow a leader component. I have pawn collisions turned on and they are set the same as the main mesh (torso). I am not getting hits on those meshes. I was able to get hits on the head once, but haven't been able to replicate what I did. At one time, I had two head meshes and for some reason that allowed hits. When I deleted the head mesh that wasn't receiving hits, the other stopped working. Is there something I'm missing? Eventually I would like these meshes to be able to receive their own hit data and receive damage to their armor.

[strange blaze]

I am developing an app for Quest 3 using vr template. I need to take screenshots of what players see in the app with passthrough. How can I do this?

[lunar brook]

I'm playing a level sequence via blueprint, and at runtime it seems like there are somehow multiple instances of the levelsequence actor being created (I'm stopping each level sequence before running a new one) - is that expected or is there some way to clean things up? Also attached an image of the relevant blueprint section

[deft tusk]

anyone know how to set drawing distance in unreal engine 5 via blueprint

[dark drum]

Drag the static mesh onto the default scene root and replace.

[celest tangle]

it says i cant in this case:

https://i.imgur.com/qWNBBdv.png

Maybe i should add the mesh to its parent instead? since all of these actors will have a mesh anyways

That worked, ty!

[keen widget]

at complete still my empty shiped ue5 project has only complex widget
and it load my cp 30%, 500mb ram, gpu 25% vram
, is this ok?

[spark forum]

Hey all - I'm trying to get my character to be teleported inside of my closet / drawer / locker thing. On overlap, the interface will move the character inside and should rotate it based on a player reference inside the BP. Everything is working as expected but no matter what I try (hardcoding to -90 or using the reference) it will not rotate. Any ideas?

I am expecting it to rotate me relative to the player ref, which is -90. Even when I hardcode it, it does nothing.

[lunar sleet]

Char’s rotation is usually overridden by control rotation. Look for those settings on it

[spark forum]

In the character BP right?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah

[lunar sleet]

Bottom ones

[spark forum]

I guess this is where using the 3rd person template character as a "True FPS" character is biting me in the butt

[lunar sleet]

If checking/unchecking them doesn’t do the trick, try using set control rotation instead of the actor rotation/xform

Pawns/chars generally use the controller to rotate

[spark forum]

Ok this is messy but this did the trick. I'll have to find a way to make this better

You were right though - it was the controller rotation that did the trick. Now I just need to find a good way to sync up the ref in the BP to pass into the controller. At this point it always says 0 yaw for some reason

[spark forum]

Seems like there's no way (that I am currently aware of) to use that Ref_Player_Inside to control the rotation. I don't like to hardcode things so I will be revisiting this

[brazen merlin]

Maybe you could match the facing direction of the closet with the player, assuming they are setup with correct forward vectors

[spark forum]

Wow.. Ok that worked lol

So I can still at least use the ref player to do the transform and move the player inside, but for rotation here I can just easily use the closet itself

[brazen merlin]

Is it more appropriate to have the player do a 180?

[spark forum]

No because since it's an overlap trigger, if I'm not facing inside the closet, then the 180 will put me facing towards the closet, not the door

I want to always be facing towards the door once I step inside

[brazen merlin]

Some kind of "look at target" treatment sounds workable then, ie referencing the closet. Unless you want a generic look at target to influence rotation control

[spark forum]

I'm pretty new, so a lot of this is going over my head at the moment but that most recent screenshot did the trick. I will still be tightening it up a bit because if I'm looking slightly up or down and I step into the locker, it sort of quickly snaps into facing DIRECTLY out the front of the door. Might be desirable, might not be. Still fiddling around with it

Having the root (the closet) be the determining factor for the controller rotation still allows me to use something to control the player rotation without it being hardcoded - which was the goal

Appreciate the help!

[keen ore]

I'm trying respawn a weapon if the user pick up the same weapon but it isn't spawning the actor

[proven loom]

sup. in a blueprint how do i return an enum value from a pure function?

already figured it out, output variables, sorry about that

[lusty shard]

When should we put input events in the character instead of the controller?

[proven loom]

i always put my input events on the controller because it's what makes the most sense to me. imagine an RTS. you could have any number of characters but only one controller

think of the controller as an entity that's just flying around controlling stuff

and the characters are pawns in the world

[lusty shard]

interesting

Yea i am moving everything from a character event graph to controller but not sure why i have always just done it in the character.. not sure why we SHOULD do it in one place vs the other.

[empty mural]

Unless you're going to possess pawns with different ability sets or controls like cars or job classes.

[proven loom]

still not necessary. the ASC can live on the character sure but you can call methods on your actors

the controller will always have access to the pawns it owns and you can cast to the right character types, meaning you have access to the public methods

[lusty shard]

do we still have to use these nodes to enable enhanced input?

[frail onyx]

anyone know why my Spawn actor from class is not spawning my bullet into my scene?

i've watched a tutorial and everything seems to be matched up perfectly im not sure what wrong with it

[lusty shard]

did you put a breakpoint on the spawn node?

[frail onyx]

wait what does that mean?

[lunar sleet]

Select the node and hit F9

Then run the game. It should stop with a big red arrow on it

If it doesn’t, that code is not firing

[frail onyx]

yeah i checked to see if it was firing by putting a print string msg in between the ? is valid and spawn actor and it didnt print

[lunar sleet]

Is the NotValid pin firing ?

[keen ore]

I dunno why this isn't working

[lunar sleet]

Also that get all actors of class array plugged directly into a play animation looks atrocious

[lunar sleet]

Debug and find out

Print strings, breakpoints, etc

[keen ore]

Keep defaulting to true branch

[lunar sleet]

What’s the default value

[lusty shard]

Sometimes a guarenteed method is putting print strings everywhere and setting their message from beginning of the execution wire to then end "1" "2" "3" etc.. and you will find where it fails.

[keen ore]

not true

[lunar sleet]

So you told the engine “if the got weapon is not false, set it to true”.

What result are you expecting

[keen ore]

oh okay

[frail onyx]

when the plug the notvalid into the spawn actor it works but for some reason the projectile starts from 0 0 0

[lunar sleet]

Sure. You can also just step through the code

[lunar sleet]

So you’ve determined your object is not valid?

[keen ore]

what whant do if ihavent got a weapon to set true but once if got weapon to prevent me from destorying the actor

[frail onyx]

wait why is that bad? im kinda new to blueprints lol so im not rlly sure

[frail onyx]

yeah

[lunar sleet]

Then how do you expect it to find the socket location?

[frail onyx]

idk im not sure why its not valid

[lusty shard]

ah thats true too. I need to do that more but those buttons arent as inviting to me. Less familiar, have to interpret/learn them. one mis click and you have to redo i believe. No stap back. Print strings dont interrupt the test and can be retriggered.

[lunar sleet]

Idk how it let you connect an array directly to a single element but if you have more than one pump shotgun 3, that code will fail

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, you can only step back in BTs

[lunar sleet]

Probably cause you’re not setting the ref. But they key thing is you’re ignoring the fact that you’re asking an object that is null to give you a socket location out of the void and then wondering why your location defaults to 0,0,0

[frail onyx]

it seems to play the animation when i shoot, i think the way i have it is i have one blueprint for the shotgun and then i made a shotgun child blueprint and place the child blueprints into the world as multiple different shotguns i can pickup

[lunar sleet]

Is there a for each loop inside that Play Anim function ?

[frail onyx]

i dont think so no its just a play animation node

[lunar sleet]

Weird 🤷‍♂️

[frail onyx]

im pretty sure i have the reference set right its on my pump shotgun 3 bp

[lunar sleet]

Sry try rephrasing that

[lunar sleet]

And where is this code you’ve shown?

Also how did you set that ref

[keen ore]

If i don't have a weapon this fuction should equip the weapon and set got weapon to true and destory the actor. I i already have the weapon it should do anything.

[frail onyx]

uhh im not sure i've been following a tutorial for the most part of this and i have the code copied the exact same

[lunar sleet]

You need to make it do “if got weapon is false, equip and destroy actor” and set gotWeapon to True.

[frail onyx]

i think the only different i can think of is that the gun im using is a different type of child blueprint of the shotgun

instead of just one singular gun blueprint

[lunar sleet]

You need to understand what you’re doing, just copying stuff will only keep you in tutorial hell. Find out where this ref is being set and how. Don’t assume it’s good, if it returns not valid it means there’s nothing set (null pointer)

[fair stag]

Anyone can help with getting widgets to update via binds?

[lunar sleet]

#umg usually

[frail onyx]

yeah im trying my best to like implement different tutorials together which might help me learn it more

instead of just aimlessly going through 1 whole tutorial series

[ruby cobalt]

Hello. Ez one. Is there a simple way to get the sum of an array (array are all ints)

[lunar sleet]

Better to just try to make your own thing and then search for tutorials for things you get stuck on

[frail onyx]

yeah that's true the problem is i just have 0 idea rn how to start on making a new feature and like what to do

[ruby cobalt]

Anything better than a for loop?

[frail onyx]

once i understand the main concepts a bit better imma probs try and making some custom features without any help and just use the documentation or something if thats good

[silk totem]

Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work the way I expect it to?

When the key is let go the actors rotation doesn't "reset" back to where it was when the key was pressed.

[steady cove]

can I get menu controls after using a "UnPossess" node in Main Player's death? What can I add after playing the Death montages?

[summer pewter]

my montage play isn't working. the event fires when i put a breakpoint on it but the animation doesn't play. am i missing something?

[steady cove]

I've had times where I forget to add the slot group correctly in the montage and when I do it works. For example, forgetting to set the montage to the DefaultGroup.UpperBodyGroup kind of thing.

[summer pewter]

i only have one slot

defaultslot

[small wedge]

For a node saying "number of items in the array", and the array has indexes 0 and 1, is this considered 2 items or 1? (Does it count from 0 or from 1?)

[silk cosmos]

Is the completed exec firing? And is your characters rotation set to follow the control rotation?

[silk totem]

It is firing.

How would I know if the characters rotation is set to follow the control rotation?

[empty mural]

I'm having an issue where this Set Leader Pose node seems to make the target meshes ignore hits. I've tried to set collisions enable after this node, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have experience with this? Without Set Leader Pose I do get hits.

[edgy ingot]

Type show collision in console pie. Then print the components that u are hitting. If physich assets are set correctly, i dont see why there will be issue in collision

[distant hollow]

Does Set Relative Location actually (1) set, or (2) append, to a local value?
IE, if I looped through the same Set Relative Location, should it supposed to remain at the same location or drift further and further?

[edgy ingot]

It will remain on the same relative location

Doesnt append

If u want to add you will use add relative

[distant hollow]

Ah great! Tks for confirming!

[edgy ingot]

Print string your montage, see if you are actually playing a valid montage

[empty mural]

With Set Leader Pose.

Without Set Leader Pose

The second image I just made the head mesh use the same animation BP

[queen heron]

how can I duplicate a widget component inside the same UMG asset?

through blueprint

I have this tile button component ready

using the "Create Widget" node seems to create a huge lag spike if I compile the script

this setup only either replaces the previous array slot with a null or it sets the existing tile button into the next index

[celest lotus]

on component begin overlap only fires when an actor overlaps it right? It doesnt fire if I've already overlapped that actor in editor. How can I get the reference of the actor overlapped on begin play?

[queen heron]

overlapping only happens at runtime, not in editor

[silk cosmos]

You could just do a single trace on begin play in place of the overlap

[queen heron]

that single button right there is the only button that is added into the grid panel
and when I click on it to see the length of the array
the result is as expected, but getting the children count from the grid panel, result shows 1

[pallid gorge]

What would be the best method to deliver information to all non-specific entities capable of receiving it in an area? IE: I want an AI to respond to a player throwing an attack but it needs several factors to take into account to decide its action, but I want to be able to send that info to any amount of valid targets around the player. My kneejerk is to create a volume and get all actors of class in it and use interfaces at the time, but that seems more jury-rigged than I feel it should be. I essentially want something along the lines of "Get Perceived Actors" but in reverse where it returns all actors that are currently perceiving a selected one

[celest lotus]

Ik that but what i meant was The overlap event is only called when something overlaps after the begin play, if the actor is already overlapped from beginning the event wont get called unless something overlaps it again

[distant hollow]

Is there a cheaper way to do this without using a Cast?
Left/Right pointers are ChildActor with class "BP_Toolsides".

[dry sleet]

The cheaper way would be to avoid child actor components.

but casting isn't horrendously expensive

not prohibitively so, at least

in blueprint it means your memory footprint increases a little

what are these Pointers?

if you do not need them to be fully-fledged actors it would be better to make them scene components

actually I don't think you need the cast? The Set Actor Enable Collision node should exist on the base Actor class, directly from your GetChildActor call

[distant hollow]

Oh gosh, you're right! Why didn't I test this lol

Thanks bro!

[dry sleet]

no worries!

[faint pasture]

How would you stucture the base character for a SSB-style fighting game prototype? I'd like to avoid making Ability classes if possible, I'm ok with just filling out what all the moves are in the Character

[simple bronze]

Howdy,
Is it possible for a component to have a construction script like behavior? I want to set some variable values before runtime.

[faint pasture]

So far I have
Input -> Press/Unpress for Jump, Normal, Special, Block -> divving up into the Up/Down/Neutral/Side versions of them -> ???

I guess my main question is how do you interrupt moves? Use Montages for the state over time?

[queen heron]

Nice scam

Not getting my account hacked as yours did

[simple bronze]

There is a report feature.

[queen heron]

Seems like someone was faster than me

Nice 😄

[distant hollow]

Is it possible to create a function that takes in multiple inputs like such functions?

[sonic crest]

Can't we do that already? Or it just replaces resulting in 1 line?

[wanton prism]

is someone able to help it worked 5 seconds ago now its broken? Any one able to point out the flaw?

[distant hollow]

Not if it is a ownself created function, it will replace the previous line

[sonic crest]

Your casting to your FirstPerson should be on Top, after the DoOnce node.

@wanton prism

[wanton prism]

ok

[sonic crest]

Weird, will try when I get home

[sonic crest]

Did it work?

[wanton prism]

wait il check

give me a little i have something on

[sonic crest]

Also, what's your New Var supposed to be??

[wanton prism]

i was so tired it just a controler for the objective booleans

[sonic crest]

If you're not setting New Var to anything, then that will also cause problems

[wanton prism]

no it is i just didnt name it

the system it is controlling isnt breaking

[sonic crest]

Okay

The only issue is that you're using variables while no reference. So just put the cast to the first Then0 before the DoOnce node

Or put it after but make sure you create a variable from it to keep the code cleaner and keeping the casted actor in a variable

[tropic peak]

When I start my project with proper object settings (lightOn true, cast shadows true) it works just fine, but when I fiddle with these when the project is already running it usually takes 2-3 on/off clicks before it starts working. what am I missing?

[dry sleet]

It is not possible in Blueprint to my knowledge

[distant hollow]

Hmm ok

[dry sleet]

Not in Blueprint. There are some initialisation functions in C++, but if you want to keep it simple I'd just create an Init function in the component and call it myself from the construction script.

[dark drum]

Yea, you would need to jump into C++ land for that. The closest you can get is using a macro but these are only contained within the BP they are created in.

[distant hollow]

Can I insert Exec nodes in a macro?

[dark drum]

Yea, macro as pretty much for flow control so they allow multiple in and out exec pins. Macro's do have there pros and cons but might be an option for you.

[distant hollow]

I tried having an Exec but it would require an onwards exec

Which essentially makes it more like a function than a macro

[dark drum]

Functions have an out exec pin. o.O

[distant hollow]

I mean to go into the macro

And also macro can’t take multiple targets too right?

[dark drum]

oh wait, I think i miss read your initial comment, are you referring to the var inputs themselves?

[distant hollow]

Yes

Basically in each BP_Toolset there is a enum variable “Tool_Type” from a parent class and I want to set them

So instead of calling the custom function 4 times I was thinking if there is any way I can put through all the 4 child actors at one go as targets

[dark drum]

Ah ok, yea, C++ land then. You could have an input as an array, in the function you make, you might be able to just plug the array into some of the nodes (even if it doesn't look like you can) not sure if that might be a work around.

[distant hollow]

Which is out of my league 🤣

[dark drum]

This is how I set the visibility of some lights in a BP lol. The visibility node can accept an array which is convient as it saves me having to loop through them.

[sonic crest]

Why not dive into it

[distant hollow]

I mean I could do an array too, but with only 4 of them it isn’t worth the effort and wouldn’t reduce the code significantly either so ya

[sonic crest]

Or, encapsulate it in a Macro

👀

[distant hollow]

Wdym?

[dry sleet]

I was curious if it required some special work in C++ to work, but no, it seems to work for any native function. Very nice.

[sonic crest]

It's a joke, might not work

[distant hollow]

lol

[sonic crest]

My joke was, make a Macro to accept multiple inputs on the same pin, then in the macro, put that function in

[distant hollow]

Yeah only for native functions it seems

[distant hollow]

Then it would be even worse cos in the macro I have to do the child actor>set 4 times lol

[dry sleet]

come over to the dark (c++) side, we have meta=(EditCondition) and cool multi-pins

(well if you ever feel like dipping your toes I found this series the most helpful:)

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/KJ/unreal-engine-converting-blueprint-to-c

[magic crown]

Quick question! hoping you guys might know how it's done..

Palworld has a depth outline when looking at interactable foliage. How does one do this with instanced foliage like them? Or do they go down the route of doing it via making every single damn bush a single actor

[frozen perch]

Can someone explain to me timer handles better? Where can they be used and where they cannot? Are they only useable from within the actors that exist in the world? Because I could not do anything with them in a viewmodel.

[sonic crest]

A function or event can happen in X second, looping or not

[frozen perch]

I get that, but for some reason I cannot evaluate remaining/elapsed time nor clear a timer handle in a blueprint that's not in the world (like my viewmodel bp)

There simply is not a node like this in those actors event graphs

[dry sleet]

Good question... There is the concept of lightweight actor instances in Unreal (https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/zweW/light-weight-instances-ue5) that might be good for this.

Either that or they have some system to suss out which foilage instance is hovered over and quickly replace that with a unique actor.

[magic crown]

That's amazing. All of these little sneaky features UE5 has and me not finding out about it til now. lol

[dry sleet]

I don't think you can do it on a instanced mesh system as such, because it relies on depth stencils which I imagine apply to the whole system.

[magic crown]

I wonder how they'd do it on a server though? Replacing out instances to actors on servers with ping delay would be atrocious

Because it's instant on Pal

[dry sleet]

Yeah... I guess you can do it client-side and apply correction later to prevent cheating.

But I'm not good with networking!

[sonic crest]

I guess you need to cast to that object and check with your handler?

[frozen perch]

No I mean there's literally no such node in there

[dry sleet]

This is probably pinned in some channel and is probably super common START HERE! knowledge for everyone but somehow I've been an Unreal dev for 4-5 years now and only found it yesterday:

https://www.unrealdirective.com/tips

but my god the amount of helpful stuff

[sonic crest]

Elapsed time is not there??
Try hooking an event to it?

And try again?

Try typing "time" and see if anything pops up

[frozen perch]

No there's still no way to actually read the timer here

[sonic crest]

Weird. I used Elapsed time and time remaining with Timer by Event before.

[dry sleet]

can you find it if you don't pull out from the handle?

[sonic crest]

Try that or disable sensitive

[dry sleet]

just right click and search for elapsed time

[frozen perch]

No, that's the point. Not in sensitive too

[sonic crest]

Which version of Unreal are you on?

[frozen perch]

I can only get by function name, not handle

[frozen perch]

Latest (5.3)

[sonic crest]

The last one?

[frozen perch]

5.3.2 to be exact

Yes

[dry sleet]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Time/GetTimerElapsedTimebyHandle/

[sonic crest]

I mean the last function

[frozen perch]

That's by function name, not handle

[dry sleet]

there sure seems to be a function...

[sonic crest]

This is it

[dry sleet]

and I have it

I might have missed some context to this question, though?

[frozen perch]

Try it in a UMG viewmodel

[dry sleet]

will do

[frozen perch]

Yeah I think the context is that I'm starting it off in a viewmodel

It's a plugin

[dry sleet]

Ah, gotcha

In that case I can't test it

[frozen perch]

But still it's simply a blueprint, so should be there?

[dry sleet]

But sounds plausible

[frozen perch]

Also I don't think anything should theoretically prevent timers from being ran in a viewmodel

[dry sleet]

If you can SET the timer (which you could?) then you should certainly be able to query it

[simple bronze]

Thank you 🙂

[sonic crest]

I'll test the timer in a UMG when I get home

[frozen perch]

That's not a UMG tho

It's a UMG viewmodel

[dry sleet]

Okay, I have a hunch

Is it possible the viewmodel is a UObject with no world context?

[frozen perch]

That would be the most likely explanation now that I think about it

[dry sleet]

That often means native functions with WorldContextObject UPROPERTY specifiers don't show up

And the timer manager is unique per world I believe

[frozen perch]

I think I'll just refactor my stuff to use simple progress instead of timers

[dry sleet]

It indeed has an implicit WCO which would disallow it in World-less objects

[pulsar vigil]

Hey guys is there a way to make a zone radius that get every actor placed in it ?

[dry sleet]

Does GetPlayerCharacter work, just out of curiousity?

[frozen perch]

Mystery solved

[dark drum]

If you can specify the outer of the object when it's create, you can always implement a function for starting a timer that the object can call. You would get the uobject outer and call the function from it. Possibly using a BPI. Not the cleanest of solutions but could be an option.

[frozen perch]

I honestly think I'm better off doing some refactoring to allow nice interaction between the object and UI through a viewmodel

Timer might not be the best solution here

[mild galleon]

Hello guys!
we are planing to make an RTS prototype, which should be replicated for multiplayer.
Are there any benefits to having multiple interfaces? (Performance?)
And, any other feedback to the planned structure?

thank you

[wild moth]

Does making a function return two paramters make it get called twice?

[wild moth]

The game instance shouldn't really hold things relating to a single gameplay session imo because it is consistent throughout the entire game instance (from when you open the game to when you close it)

The player controller could be something for that

because it is replicated as well, if you want to send things to update the UI to the player or something like that, you can

[mild galleon]

Thank you very much for that pointer

[limber citrus]

I can't find any widgets here when selecting, not sure what's the problem, I already created them

[spiral shell]

Hi! I have one blueprint class nested inside of another blueprint class, and I'm trying to access a variable that is inside the inner blueprint class from the outside blueprint class. Is this possible?

[sonic crest]

No

You could have that variable let's say, in the parent parent class or parent class and only use for whatever you want

I explained it poorly but hopefully you get what I mean

[queen heron]

I'm trying to call out an asset inside that utility widget, but the Each Loop does not fire as it finds no widget
how can I call out the utility widget from another utility widget?

[dry sleet]

using a Child Actor Component?

you can get the actual actor (the inner blueprint) by calling GetChildActor on the CAC reference, then casting it to the type of the inner blueprint

do null checking first, the CAC is unreliable in how it spawns its child

also, this can only reliably be done at runtime

[sudden swan]

can you copy blueprint nodes so that they get a new name instead of just duplicating them? So copy and paste as NEW variables?

[dry sleet]

not really

[sudden swan]

😭

[dry sleet]

duplicate it in the variable list instead

[sudden swan]

haha would be a nice feature

[queen heron]

you can only achieve that in the variable list

tho the renaming won't be how you expect

[sudden swan]

No thats fine tho

[dry sleet]

you can hold ctrl while pulling the variable into the graph to immediately get a Getter node. it can speed things up a little

[sudden swan]

it will just add a 0 to the end

yeah would be a nice thing to script tho.. advanced copy

[dry sleet]

It seems a rare use case... those attachment values could be placed inside a component, then mass duplication isn't needed

depends on the code of course

[sudden swan]

Ah if duplicated in the variable list you can also drag and drop ontop of the node to change it

its something

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[remote meteor]

usualy when there is duplication, you ought to think twice

😉

[sonic crest]

Hahaaa I see what you did there

[warm pulsar]

I am making another Automated test.
Testing Velocity in a Circular motion
in this test I have a CubeActor. I am trying to get the cube to move in a circular motion (Note: does not have to be a perfect circle).
The CubeActor has all the usual compenets, Static Mesh etc. I have made a BP the actor uses to move.
However I have tried a number of things in the blueprint to attempt to get the actor to move in a circle like motion.
I have tried adding force to an axis and using adding torque. this just results in the cube traveling along the axis whilst rotating.

In a way I need to add force to the direction the actor is facing. so as the direction it faces changes it will move that direction. (almost like how a vehicle would move forward)

I used this to have it moving in a perfect circle, but for the test I need to measure the objects velocity.

Thanks for any help or advice in advance

[spark steppe]

for pure methods, yes

[wild moth]

Interesting, so either make a struct to return data inside or leave it non pure

[polar sphinx]

Hi, I'm trying to use a 'get all actors of class with tag' node, which works, but when I loop through the resulting array it lists each actor twice and I have no idea why. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[dark drum]

I would assume they don't have a specific point that they would circle with you not using the relevant point of the edge of a circle equation.

However, you could get the actors forward vector, get x vector, add a value to the yaw (1 as an example). You can then use this to set the actors new rotation. Then get the forward vector again and multiply by x distance you want them to move forward and add it to their current location. Rinse and repeat.

[lunar sleet]

Show code

[humble turtle]

Hi folks. I have a full-screen Widget UI with a hotspot/button that makes a 3D actor blueprint visible (no problem!), but I would like to have another smaller UI for ONLY that actor blueprint so I can rotate the static mesh inside the actor blueprint. I have some ideas but don’t want to influence your thoughts. Can you describe how you would do this in the actor blueprint?

[undone sequoia]

guys how I can generate 20x20km map?

😄

in unreal

[stuck sentinel]

i want to make a football spawner but there is no blueprint that i can loop to just spawn the object again

[tame terrace]

Hey, does anyone know how I can import these character assets to my content drawer? Do they have to be certain file types, but I got them from turbo squid?

[queen heron]

unreal cannot accept rar files

assets need to be image types, model file types (fbx for animations included, obj for only static objects, etc)

it also appears you do not have winrar

[amber meteor]

How would I change this so the movement is based on the meshes direction rather than the world position ?

[queen heron]

if you want to rotate your character with left and right buttons, you'll need to use an Add Rotation node

[fickle flame]

Hello I'm kinda new to learning UE5. I'm trying to fill an Array in my level blueprint with Actors I've placed in my level.

I made a interface between the Actor and the Level Blueprint but the Event doesn't seem to work between them when I test printing a string when called.

Is it possible to transfer data between the actor to the level blueprint?

[mental tusk]

Hey I am just trying to get some pointers to create a system where I can place a building and have it produce a resource once it's placed. I can place it but it currently doesn't have any functionally to make anything. I am new to blueprints and have been looking at a bunch of forums and tutorials and while being great pointers they aren't really set up in the same way that I need it to work. is there any informaton you can provide?

[amber meteor]

So ive locked my charcters rotation with the camera as the effect im trying to achive is similar to a shoulder mounted bodycam. So when the player looks around the mesh turns with it, to emulate the static nature of the camera. My problem is that whilst my animations and character are facing in the right direction the movement is still facing the "true north" of teh chracter so W will bring me north even if my charcter is facing south. If that makes sense

[queen heron]

you need to get the forward vector of the control rotation if you want the character to move based on where you look with the camera

and right vector

[queen heron]

yes its possible

[fickle flame]

I made the interface and added it to both my blueprints

like this

but when i call it

it never gets to the other end and prints the bye

[queen heron]

you haven't defined the target nor you're using the "Message" type

[fickle flame]

is the target the actor blueprint?

[queen heron]

the target can be anything you want

and no, not the target defined on the subtitle of the node

tho

you cannot send trigger events to the level blueprint

[fickle flame]

so Im making a jenga tower game for learning. When I make my block I wanna send a reference of that block to the level blueprint so i can fill a 3d array

idk how to do it them if I cannot do it this way

[queen heron]

there's a blueprint which you can use to store stuff

there's SaveGame which is mostly used to save the stuff before closing the game

then there was the other one which keeps the data as long as the game is still up

no saving

[fickle flame]

ok ill research these then

[queen heron]

you'll find them when you create a blueprint

use the search bar

[fickle flame]

yeah i see savegame

i dont se no saving

[queen heron]

what was that name again.....

one sec

GameInstance

that one's with no saving

[fickle flame]

ok ill look that up then because this just needs to do it on game start

I dont need the data saved

ty

[velvet pendant]

hey guys

After Pausing the game, then Unpause, Widgets are not rendered, any tips how i can redraw 'em?

[wheat zodiac]

Does anyone have any idea how to properly unload Dyanmic Level Instance which is created from Load Level Instance (by name). "Set is requesting removal" does not unload everything. the UEDPIE still exists as well as certain objects (only blueprints get nuked)

[steady night]

hey

https://gyazo.com/3f52c57b8f1301e3eb9a82e49f49927b

need advice on how i would remove "affecting nav mesh"

via BP somehow ???

i wanna disable "can ever affect navmesh" but idnno if thats possible in runtime

[amber meteor]

Like this?

[queen heron]

Yes

[amber meteor]

mm it still seems to have the same issue

[steady night]

anyone know :/

[tame terrace]

Anyone know why my transform won’t work in the level blueprint?

[steady night]

@tame terrace bro never take a picture like that take a screenshot and send xD'

[rugged sonnet]

Any idea why my BP only works on the first placed and not on the copies/instances? Thanks

[dry sleet]

You're using this node?

That is the proper way. Should work. If it doesn't, might be a PIE bug?

[dry sleet]

You need dynamic navmeshing for that.

By default the navmesh is baked at editor time and never updates during gameplay.

[remote meteor]

if those actors are spawned rather than placed in the level that loaded, it wont go away, unless ownership is set properly

[dry sleet]

Right, yes, makes sense. Spawned actors belong to the Persistent Level unless you explicitally set the ownership.

So make sure to set the owner. Don't think there's a better way.

[steady night]

@dry sleet i have that already

im not destroying the collisoon box

since that would make the children fall thru the ground

[dry sleet]

Why wouldn't you want them to fall to the ground when the table is smashed?

Anyway:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/ArtificialIntelligence/NavigationSystem/ModifyingTheNavigationMesh/ModifyingtheNavigationSystem/

I haven't used them myself but seems to me you'll want to have a NavModifier component inside your smashable object.

Hm, guess that doesn't fully answer your question...

[steady night]

well no

[dry sleet]

Yeah, idk.

[undone sequoia]

guys I am using this Rinterp to for my plane movement, but it has one problem when its getting to its destiny its slowing down and I dont want it I want whole movement same fast do you know what I mean?

with what to replace it?

[velvet pendant]

hey, how do i remove a specific widget? instead of >Remove all widget?

[dark drum]

Rinterp to constant.

[undone sequoia]

i will check

[amber meteor]

(I know this isnt the best way to do camera movment but it works in the context of the setup) Im having an issue when the mouse reaches the edge of the viewport the rotation will stop not allowing the charcter to spin 360 degrees. Any ideas how I can fix this so the player can do a full 360 when contiously looking along the YAw axes?

[dark drum]

Call remove from parent on the widget.

[velvet pendant]

dunno if that's will solve the big problem, but i'll try it @dark drum

The fact that Enemy healthbar from spawned enemy dissapairs, when i pause the game

Ty tho, gonnna try it

[dark drum]

What's the context that this sort of setup is required? What's the end goal? (Other than rotating 360)

[amber meteor]

I have a bodycam style setup where the camera is fixed to the headbone of character mounted on the side of the head mesh. If I enable player pawn rotation it allows the camera turn towards the player mesh. Breaking the effect. So i changed the movement system to rotate the mesh then the foward input is applied relative to the base aim rotation rather than the world rotation

The issue im having now is allowing the camera to move along the yaw axes and do a full 360 rotation along the yaw.

[paper matrix]

Hey guys, sorry if this is not the right section to ask this question but I need some help wrapping my head around something. In my project (a small management game), I need to trigger events on several actors each X seconds - i.e. spawning a new customer every 15 seconds or having them spend money every 3 seconds, etc. The timers are independent but, not wanting to run multiple timers concurrently, I decided to create a centralized manager that each interval launches a dispatcher for the actors to do their own thing. As I'm anticipating this will bite me in the back down the line, is there a better way to have a single timer managing everything? Or I'm just making my life harder and would be better off running an actor component on every actor that needs a timer?

[dark drum]

Why is the cursor position relevant?

[dark drum]

If you have a lot, creating a manager is normally a good idea. Plus, it gives you a single place to control the specific actors from.

[amber meteor]

This is a very good point 😅

[amber meteor]

Ah i remeber. I tried just adding the mouse input to the actors current rotation but it seems to break the movment

[dark drum]

How are you doing it?

[outer zodiac]

Are there any secret terrible costs for using BP Function Libraries for very basic convenience methods? Stuff like "GetGameState -> Cast to my subclass -> return" just to reduce common repetitions?

[tepid vine]

hey all. REALLY hope someone can help me here because im losing my mind and google isnt helping. I have made a platform loop a circle using a spline path. i want 4 of the same thing but for some reason whatever i do i only see 1. ive tried duplicating the whole thing, tried replicating the 1st one, tried using a child blue print. but niothing seems to work. anyone able to give me an idea of what im doign wrong?

[dark drum]

I can't see how you rotate the character.

[amber meteor]

So the character rotation is handled by the mouse x Which is working perfectly I can spin round in a circle if i stand still. But if i move around it seems the camera starts freaking out. Like If i press W the character spins in a circle

[paper matrix]

Thanks for the reply! They're not an awful lot - I'd say there would be 10/12 running at the same time -, but it made sense to me to have a centralized timer doing the heavy lifting. I run the dispatcher each second, increment the individual counters, and if they match the delta I run the logic. Does it sound like a good implementation? I guess I'm just wary of it getting too messy in the long run.

[dark drum]

Your logic is wrong it should be, Current yaw + (axis value * sensitivity)

[dark drum]

That sounds fine to me.

[amber meteor]

I made those changes. IT seems that pressing W still makes the character spin in a circle rather than walking direclty fowards

[dark drum]

Try Current yaw + (axis value * sensitivity * delta time)

It's probably that the value is changing too much.

[paper matrix]

Ok, thanks!

[undone sequoia]

hm my movement is not even working good with this

[amber meteor]

dont seem to be having any luck 😭

[dark drum]

What does it do when you add the delta time?

[amber meteor]

I assume its the fact Forward Vector is affecting the same thing the mouse is to move

[undone sequoia]

@dark drum check this its not helping a lot, at the start I have my initial setup with smooth movement after target ( mouse is aiming and nose with crosshair is going after this mouse circle) and I want have it constant fast but not that fast as on the end of video heh

[amber meteor]

Is there an alternative way to move the player that i should look into?

That isnt based on forward vector

[dark drum]

The play with the speed until it's as fast (or slow) as you want it.

[undone sequoia]

nothing helping in interp speed just 0

even 0.001 not making diference

when its 0 its moving fast

when something else not moving

[dapper cradle]

Hi Guys, I am using this for my menu system, the player can go back and fourth between menus using a continue button and a back button.

I noticed that the current menu is not closing when I select continue. But I can not find anything like 'remove from viewport' or 'Destroy widget'

Any ideas?

[dark drum]

Go higher, start with 8.

[undone sequoia]

oh damn true

thx lol

imma dumb

[marble yew]

I tried to use binding as way to validate text input, but it ends with infinite loop. Why?

[tame terrace]

Can someone tell me how to use the transform variable to transform my floor actor? I tried to look online

[brazen merlin]

because you want to get the Return from a function that calls itself to get it's Return

[marble yew]

oh you mean the left bottom node will execute whole binding again ?

[brazen merlin]

you should make a variable of the widget. That way you can access the variable wherever you like. Hidden is usually the setting for "removing"

[brazen merlin]

the function is calling "itself" within it's own function. You should look up "recursion" as this might be what you are trying to implement.

[tepid vine]

can someone please help me with this.. have a 5 different set ups for a spline track. i want the cylinders to go round in a circle in a loop. ive got the loop sorted out but when i play the level only 1 is there. im losing my mind trying to sort this out haha

[marble yew]

Yep i just noticed that, thanks

How do i get actual value inside binding ?

without recursion ?

[brazen merlin]

i can't give an answer, that is incredibly vague as I do not know the systems you have been making in BP. What are you trying to display?

[marble yew]

this is how blank binding looks like, where do i get value ?

just trying to remove non numerical characters and clamp them

on keypress

wont trigger on keypress

[brazen merlin]

Bindings in UMG (I suggest you ask in UMG Channel) create a function to link gameplay data to the UI/UMG

is there a confusion on the word Binding? Perhaps you want Inputs

[marble yew]

i mean this one

right bottom of image

[brazen merlin]

yes. that is not what you think

You are binding that data field (Text) to a function

[marble yew]

i think i get how it works, it is like variable binding that triggers when something reads it ?
but that probably also wont trigger on keypress 😄

[brazen merlin]

Am i confused in thinking this is off and you actually want key press events?

[marble yew]

yep i just want keypress event inside text input 😄

with ability to read and change value

input value

[brazen merlin]

well i guess this is part of it. The other part is the key press event itself then....

[marble yew]

i have no idea how to do it, maybe event tick and get type of event ?

also no idea how to get type of event

This also will not work :/
Get Input Max Players Text Has the wrong number of arguments, it needs to return 1 value and take no parameters.

So this is only way i found to get the value, but ends with recursion

can i do this binding in c++ without rewriting whole widget blueprint in c++ ?

so i did tested it with random number and binding ticks every frame

[velvet pendant]

After my SHOP WIDGET KICKS IN, Game Is set to pause, All the healthbar from the spawned enemy, becomes invizible, How i can prevent that

Anyone have any ideea?

[pallid gorge]

What would be the best method to deliver information to all non-specific entities capable of receiving it in an area? IE: I want an AI to respond to a player throwing an attack but it needs several factors to take into account to decide its action, but I want to be able to send that info to any amount of valid targets around the player. My kneejerk is to create a volume and get all actors of class in it and use interfaces at the time, but that seems more jury-rigged than I feel it should be. I essentially want something along the lines of "Get Perceived Actors" but in reverse where it returns all actors that are currently perceiving a selected one

[sand spoke]

Do I use that transform thing to set the pivot?

[twin perch]

ok so i am trying to create a yellow line down my road texture, when i connect this up i get all the lines instead of just 1 line.

i asume its because its tiling ? but then again i could be totaly off

[pastel garnet]

any ideal on how I can fix this?

[marble yew]

@brazen merlin Weird, suddenly On Text Changed triggers on key press

[wicked cairn]

Hey guys! I'm trying to figure out a better way to save variables for individual items in the player's inventory! I currently have a structure that saves what Item is in the inventory slot and the Amount. But need to figure out a way for the inventory to understand what the player picked up specifically is a Rotten or High Quality, EItemType: Food

My idea is that I just have the inventory save if whether or not the Item Slot has High Quality or Rotten Food in each of it's slots.
If anyone has a better idea of a way I could do this, please let me know! I just worry I'm going to have to save more different variables for each slot in the future for each different Item Type if I do it this way.

[lunar sleet]

Maybe actor tags? 🤷‍♂️

[wicked cairn]

OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT how did i not think of this 😭

[lunar sleet]

Idk if it’ll work for this use case tho, if those vars you’re storing are not actors

[wicked cairn]

thats true, i just need the inventory to know if the food is rotten and based on if it has that tag now, I can apply food poisoning to the player if they eat it LOL

so thank you lots for your help!!! i can work with this i think

[lunar sleet]

Just make one bool Poisoned? then maybe

Or the like

Not quite scalable but yeah

[wicked cairn]

True, i could just keep the individual variables for each slot

[velvet pendant]

isin't that a bit unpractical?

[wicked cairn]

yeah thats why I was gonna use Tags instead! because then I dont have to make additional variables in the future if needed

So if the player right clicks to consume Item, itll first check the category of the item in the slot and based on the tags in the slot, it'd do A B or C etc.

I cleaned it up to use tags;

Itll go through a for each on the tags and if it has a "rotten" tag itll poison the player, if it has a "highquality" it will increase the amount of food points the player gets

[wheat zodiac]

That is what I'm using, I'm revisiting it now after some internet sleuthing. Some how I'm losing the data I'm storing it in. Because if I unload it after a delay, it unloads fine. So there must just be something goofy I'm missing. Thanks

[manic onyx]

hey guys, anyone have any idea why my server browser isnt displaying advanced sessions ?

The find sessions function isnt failing, I'm not getting the print string. But I am getting the refreshed message

[lofty rapids]

i don't think this gets any value ? what are you trying to get the value of an input ?

[lunar sleet]

Neat, glad that worked

[lusty shard]

Can you add components in construction script?

[lunar sleet]

Not sure but should be easy to find out

[lusty shard]

I have the component being added to an array but not seeing it in the level.. or the viewport

[lunar sleet]

Maybe it’s colliding with something? Is the node firing ?

[lusty shard]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-keyboard-what-is-your-problem-green-smash-gif-18195947

yea code is firing... I set scale to 10000 and they were being added.

been trying different things for like 2 hours lol

[lunar sleet]

Tbh tho

I would just add an empty static mesh directly and just change the mesh later

But ig that works too

[marsh pilot]

Trying to figure out a way to implement list of names for a city builder game of mine. What's the most effective way of doing this? I'm thinking using a string table? I really only need a 1D array

[lunar sleet]

Data Table

[marsh pilot]

Can you actually have something as simple as a string for the row structure? Seems like you need to use a struct

[limber wing]

why does this return as true for every pawn in my scene, including AI pawns?

I'm just trying to have a slightly different behavior for my player controlled pawns vs my AI controlled pawns

[silk totem]

Can Anyone tell me why this code does not rotate my character? When I look at the rotation in the details during play the rotation is correct, but the camera is always facing the same direction (it's first person perspective)

Nvm I just found it:

[digital valve]

Ui is showing so why am i getting this error?

[calm comet]

the BeginPlay node called from Which Blueprint

[vernal laurel]

Guys sorry for disturbing you but i have a question i am new in unreal and in my profilegpu my velocityparallel is very high and i get fps drop. I am trying to make a forest. My gpu is 1080 ti. Also i try to disable nanite and virtual shadow maps. Can somebody help me with this please?

[digital valve]

its in the player controller. If I call from game mode i get the same error.

[calm comet]

Has the W Hud widget compiled successfully

[digital valve]

yes

[calm comet]

can you try with another type widget , then watch is it success

[digital valve]

will do

same error with a different widget

showed up though

[calm comet]

do you mean although still error but in game is still worked ?

[digital valve]

yes

[calm comet]

maybe it might not be a programming error :v

[unkempt warren]

I might would add in the event BeginPlay "Add Tick prerequisite" as it might be trying to add it before the character exist or is valid.

Might look something like this in your BP_PlayerController

[digital valve]

Will try

[digital valve]

tried both ways and they work but same error 😮

[unkempt warren]

I would save all on your project and restart the engine completely. Might be bugged.

I literally just created that BP just to show you how it would look and even without the Tick prerequisite I had no errors.

[digital valve]

Restarted same, Tried changing to new controller, same tried changing to new game mode and new controller same, just new controller same. there may be something up with the hud itself somehwere is what i would think but it does it with other widgets too

ill try a new project tommorow

[cold breach]

Hi all, New to UE, I'm starting to work on a Top Down space shooter, where the camera is at 90' looking at the spaceship, the idea is to make the player follow the mouse and have a mouse pointer that is shown in a circumference around the player, so my question is how to arrange all this. Player is a Pawn with a Camera and a SprinArm but the mouse pointer should be a separate Pawn instantiated at begin play? Here is a drawing of what I'm trying to do:

[gray hare]

I could use a little help setting up overlaps between two actors.
I added a static mesh component to my pawn under it's root, physics enabled BoxComponent, gave it a sphere mesh and set collision to OverlapAll
On my other actor, I added a BoxComponent under its static mesh and set it to OverlapAll. I think these should be generating overlap events, but they're not.

[gray hare]

There might be an easier way to deal with the mouse, but you could
Under your ship, add a SceneComponent. Under that, offset the desired distance, add a StaticMeshComponent and make it a sphere or something. Calculate the angle from youir mouse to your ship and then rotate your SceneComponent that much.

You can replace the StaticMesh component with a screen space texture or something, however you want to draw it.

[cold breach]

@gray hare so a SceneComponent I see, I didn't know about those... Thanks, will look into it

[hollow cove]

you could get the mouse location, normalize that position, get the player root location, add the normalized mouse position multiplied by the amount you want the circumfrence to be

draw something on the ground or whatever to indicate direction

[cold breach]

@hollow cove That part is not a problem, due my newness to UE I didn't know how to arrange the player pawn in relation to the mouse pointer

[hollow cove]

i dont know what you mean

[cold breach]

@hollow cove If the arrow pointer Thing should be a separate pawn or something inside the Player Pawn hierarchy

that Ray answered that I can use SceneComponent to do that

[hollow cove]

i might still be misunderstanding, but if this is a top down game, wouldnt it make the most sense to use a widget

[cold breach]

@hollow cove I'm really new to UE, that's why my question, coming from Unity, what do you mean with a widget?

[hollow cove]

its UI, like if you wanted to add stat bars etc you'd use that

[cold breach]

@hollow cove What I mean is that I have programming experience but I don't know the UE way of doing things.

So I can Have a UI widget that will always be related to the center of the player?

[hollow cove]

yeah, youd have to feed in a variable to tell it where to be though. closest thing i have to that is a health bar that floats above my players head in worldspace and rotates to face whoever is looking at it

[cold breach]

I see, thanks. So you see that's better to use UI than any actor for this sort of thing

[hollow cove]

you can attach widgets directly to pawns

[cold breach]

Yes, that's handy I'm looking at the docs

[hollow cove]

it's 4am so my brain is lagging atm, hopefully that gets you started in a good direction

[cold breach]

@hollow cove It does, thanks for your help

[elfin lagoon]

can i call an RPC in a Game Mode from a user widget in multiplayer game?

[gray hare]

the widget is on the game mode?

did I miss the sarcasm? :P

[elfin lagoon]

i dont understand
widget is on a user's screen

[gray hare]

I apparently don't understand your question.

[elfin lagoon]

i need to call an RPC from the widget
it works, when i call an RPC in a Character, but not work, if i call an RPC in a Game Mode
i need to know, its i`m doing something wrong with this RPC, or it can not be called from Widget to Game Mode

[gray hare]

omg, I've been looking at THIS overlapped component this whole time, not the other componnent
%&#($&(#&$*(#

[gray hare]

the game mode doesn't exist on clients

[elfin lagoon]

so?

[gray hare]

clients can only call server RPCs on actors that they own, which means they are owned by something that is owned by your player controller

your player controller and its possessed pawn are common things to RPC on

so you can't call RPCs on the game mode. what do you mean by "call an RPC in a Game Mode"

[gray hare]

what is it you're trying to do exactly?

[elfin lagoon]

enable/disable spawn of AI-controlled characters clicking on specific icon

[gray hare]

I would create an actor component, AClientToServerAIComponent put it on your player controller. Write your server RPC there, where it can get the game mode and tell it what to do.

[unkempt warren]

It does this even with a brand new widget? that's odd.. Something is up with that project..

[elfin lagoon]

thank you, i'll try this way

[neon lion]

how do i set this up so that sword_run_forward is played if weapon type is 1, and mm_run_fwd is played for any other value?
also how can i extrapolate that into a variety of other integers corresponding to poses

i found an int switch node, but i can't connect its outputs to sequence players
and ive not hooked into any event so i dont think this will run

[dark crane]

Has anyone tried to implement the Dash(Evade) Functionality from the game Control?

[neon lion]

i'm sure someone has, nothing special about it. That's probably not helpful to you though, try asking for what you really mean

[dark crane]

Just trying to see the functionality of how it works.

[neon lion]

its an animation, temporarily disabling your hitbox, and a blurring effect, you've just gotta understand all the seperate parts and how to fit them togehter

[dark crane]

Thanks.

[neon lion]

do some general tutorials on udemy, learn a broad variety of stuff, and you'll eventually see how to fit things together

[neon lion]

i should use blend poses even if i'm just discretely selecting one?

[fickle granite]

this will just blend from one animation to another depending on bool

if true itll play the true pose and if false itll play the false pose

[neon lion]

i guess that'll work but it seems very obtuse for the problem

[fickle granite]

so in your case
weapon type == 1
true sword run
false normal run

[neon lion]

yes but i want to have more weapon types, 2, 3, 4, etc, with their own pose each

[fickle granite]

there is blend poses by int

honestly im not sure if you can add more poses to it

[neon lion]

hmm, that still looks pretty boolean, but its kind of missing the point, i don't want to do any blending here, i'm just cleanly selecting one pose from a set of options

[fickle granite]

you could do it throught a variable like this

and then this in the event graph

[neon lion]

that is the best idea so far, i might just do that, thank you!

what is this select node? Whats it called in the dropdown?

[fickle granite]

its a sequence player with the sequence variable set to expose as pin

[neon lion]

i mean this one

how do i get that

[fickle granite]

its called select

if you haveany other questions feel free to ask :>

[neon lion]

this is great thanks, i think i have enough to go on now!

[wild crater]

So I have a delay node, when I put in a literal value (in the node itself) it works, when I base the delay of a member variable it doesn't lol? What's up with that? (I compiled and saved yes)

[tropic peak]

Super basic programming question. Does every function needs a return node?

[wild crater]

Not in blueprints, but I'm sure there is an implicit one if you don't add one. By which I mean to say that the code after the function will be executing afterwards, whether you have one or not.

[tropic peak]

Thanks

I actually have more questions.

in this case (I'm not saying it's correct, I'm experimenting/learning) if I want to call "get random color" function from the editor by pressing the button

since it's connected in BeginPlay it's only just "initialised" for use, right?

[wild crater]

If it's not for a feature in the game but just for testing or something you can enable the function detail "call from editor" and then there's a button on the details panel of that object

[tropic peak]

yes, that's what I use

I'm trying to understand how things interact with each other

so if it's connected to BeginPlay and afterwards we get another function

will both trigger if I press the button or nothing happens and they are just initialised to be used when I "call" them?

[wild crater]

If you enable "call from editor" it will just be calling that function

imagine that it generates a graph with a button event with just that function tied to it

[tropic peak]

so when I start the project it will launch all functions?

[wild crater]

you can call a function in multiple places, it won't execute everything that's after every call of that function. Just what's after that specific function

[wild crater]

If by that you mean, if you run it that the stuff tied to BeginPlay will be executed then yes (provided there's an object of that class present in your level)

[tropic peak]

yeah. okay

[wild crater]

Why are you making events for each function here though?

[tropic peak]

just learning what events are

[wild crater]

Ah okay

[tropic peak]

what I did doesn't quite work anyway

[wild crater]

You can think of an event as something that happens and is logged to be processed later. Like if you press a key on your keyboard, your PC registers this and processes this once it gets to the part of the code that deals with input.

[tropic peak]

yeah that makes sense

[wild crater]

So you'll have events dealing with input and physics etc. Those things are being stored as events that happened and then later other systems can react to that event.

It keeps your systems separated and allows asynchronous handling of things

[tropic peak]

I'm a little uncomfortable with when stuff gets executed etc, I don't have the control over it yet

like this

[wild crater]

I would recommend you use functions wherever you can and use events to do asynchronous stuff like when you're dealing with delays and timers, that you can't do in a function. Or use events when you use event dispatchers.

[tropic peak]

basically one is supposed to set random light color, the other is other stuff

if I trigger one, both will execute

[wild crater]

It's going from left to right. Put prints in each function with the name of the function and you'll see.

Have you learned about debugging yet?

You can put a break point on a node and then follow the execution of the code step by step

[tropic peak]

no, not yet

[wild crater]

By doing that and using prints you can figure out what's going on in most cases

[tropic peak]

I will get there

[wild crater]

Definitely learn it. If you don't know what you're doing you'll lose tons of time figuring things out in ways that aren't even conclusive

[tropic peak]

I have professional experience with visual programming (Aptitude ETL) and debugging so it should be pretty straightforward

blueprints are still feel like I'm on ice and have very little control over what I'm doing

I kinda need to ask "why this is not working" question

this is my FN_GetRandomColor, array holds 6 different colors

[wild crater]

And?

[tropic peak]

and when I trigger it by the "call from editor" button nothing happens

actually hold on a sec.

I have a different question

which bugs me more

[wild crater]

right click one of those nodes and put a break point on it, see if it triggers

[tropic peak]

ok, one step at a time

the function triggers because it prints out the string

[wild crater]

But tbh, this is all super basic stuff covered in many accessible tutorials. When you are asking questions here it's better to do so after having looked for a solution online. If you're serious about Unreal, I suggest you take the time to study it properly! There's good material out there, at least for the basics.

[tropic peak]

oh yeah. that's a part of the tutorial actually

it's just a "learn by doing" part and I got stuck for a bit

ok, figured it out

so there's that another question that I had

these are the options that I have in my public Struct - I can freely adjust it in the editor and it reflects in the light changing its color and intensity

however if I press the buttons for light intensity/color that I just made

the values in the inspector don't change

is this a mistake somewhere on my part, did I not enable something or is it how unreal works?

[wild crater]

It doesn't look like they're being set though. You're just returning a random value, not setting a variable to that value

You're just telling the program "hey give me a random value from this array and print it"

Not "hey give me a random value from this array AND SET THIS VARIABLE TO THAT VALUE"

[tropic peak]

ok, makes sense

let me try

[wild crater]

I'm going back to work now haha, but best of luck!

[tropic peak]

sure, thanks for explaining things

[neon lion]

hello again, unfortunately i cant seem to figure this out

1. The select mode wont let me specify assets, i tried animpose and sequence pin tyoes without success
2. I cant seem to expose the pin on sequence players, just not seeing any such option
3. I still cant figure out how to put anything into a sequence player or the output animation pose node, and i can't seem to create a select node dragging off from the output
4. When i try creating a variable i can only get, not set it, this could be related to having a C++ class base

[remote meteor]

blend pose by int is the correct one

yes you want to have binary selection, but you will still need the blending between previous pose to the current pose

unless you want it choppy

you can set the blend time to 0

[primal crown]

Question is there anyway to have a hit event or mesh overlap without physics that runs?
I somehow need to only detect only the custom object is inside a mesh but the collider also needs to be to non static no collision?

[remote meteor]

make the collision to be query only

[fickle granite]

first add a sequence player
then set the sequence variable to expose as pin
then "get" the variable and plug it in there

[neon lion]

can you clarify the second item there?

which thing exactly do i expose as pin, and how, i cant see a way to do that for anything

[primal crown]

Huh of the object it's hitting or mesh?

[neon lion]

i don't doubt that it would work, but i dont think its the only option, dibo showed an alternate solution that i would like to experiment with, i am struggling to get it working

[fickle granite]

is there a way to add more poses than 2?

[neon lion]

wow that is very obtuse and well hidden, thank you, finally found it!

[fickle granite]

WHY WOULD IT BE IN THE RIGHT CLICK LIST AND NOT IN THE DETAILS PANNEL

thank you so much xD

[neon lion]

ill keep this one in mind thank you! for now i think the select version will work

[remote meteor]

however, talking about "correct-ness", probably the correct thing to do is to have blending between top half and bottom half.
unless you have different footworks when holding different weapons, usually that is the case.
it depends on your animation requirement

[fickle granite]

wait no use that way

[neon lion]

why so?

[neon lion]

that is something i will need to figure out, yes, but one thing at a time 😭

[fickle granite]

with this you only need this and are done, its also easily scalable

[remote meteor]

its kinda the same, just evaluated at different times during a frame

[fickle granite]

with the one i came up with alternatively you need an aditional variable and code in the event graph

[remote meteor]

use it and see if it can reach your expectation

[turbid pecan]

Hey, wanted to ask for some advice here. So I am doing something with old-school dungeon crawler movement in mind. Think titles like "Shining in the darkness" (Sega) or "Legend of grimrock". Now, I kind of have the basic principle of this down where - yeah I can map WASD to move the character a set amount to those directions, however, would this be a good way to do it or are there better ways? (See attached).

I thought that tracing to the nearest obstacle kind of solves the collision issue somewhat, but is it REALLY needed if objects in the world already adhere to the physics system of the first person template preventing me from hitting walls?

Thoughts / tips / Ideas would be appreciated.

[neon lion]

omg i loved shining in the darkness, i played that for hundreds of hours, yet never finished it. very mysterious and full of wierd surprises
i remember farming the giant kaiser crab for xp quite a lot

[fickle granite]

both will work but with the blend poses per int its less cluttered and more efficient

[fickle granite]

thank you so very much dude xD

[turbid pecan]

I must've finished that several times, it never gets boring. I have it on emu even now.

[neon lion]

oh it totally gets boring, going back to it years later i realised how frustrating, grindy and low budget it was. so many palette swaps
but at the time it was ambrosia 😛

[remote meteor]

you are doing setting location, so technically it would pass right over it unless you do "sweep" in the options
back to the question, it depends how strict you want your "grid" movement to be?

if there isnt a "grid" available, or not enough space, in the desired movement direction, do you still wants to move?