blueprint

[trim matrix]

stop telling beginner to optimize code lul

it's somewhere else then

[marsh gulch]

The character in front should be moving again but the error pops up

[trim matrix]

you sure you sent the right code

where this code from

dont crop the screenshot

[trim matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-annoyed-stöhn-oh-no-oh-nein-gif-24943313

your bug is coming from BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

im not sure where is On See Pawn since i don't know much about AI

[marsh gulch]

It's just a custom event, it's a cone in front of my character that registers if I see BP_Freeze or not

I found a new error out of nowhere
LogAIPerception: Warning: UAIPerceptionComponent::OnRegister: Perception Component is being registered with BP_ThirdPersonCharacter_C_0, they are designed to work with AAIControllers!

[gentle urchin]

Warning, not error

Still valid tho

[marsh gulch]

Yes, but the error still pops up after a few times of looking at the pawn

[gentle urchin]

Your also accessing the cast parameter after a delay

Id suggest making it its own variable

To ensure ypu cache it

I bet cast invalidates the output pin if a cast fails

So worst case you see pawn -> cast succeed -> delay starts

Then you see non-player cube (because wrong collision setup or w.e.) and cast fails.

Then the delay completes, trying to access the pin from the cast

Verify this by putting a print string in the "OnSeePawn" event chain. At the very start

If its a custom event it may not even be pawm. If its AiPerception it may already be filtered to pawn (but can still be something not being a character)

[marsh gulch]

Like this?

[gentle urchin]

Ye

Id print the displayname of the pawn pin

If thats the issue, it can tell you who's the culprit

Also... cache after cast succeed, not before

[marsh gulch]

I'll be honest, no idea what you mean by that

[frosty heron]

That retriggerable delay looks cursed

Use behaviour tree?

[gentle urchin]

Your saving the pawn variable before you know if the cast succeeds

Meaning it will be set even if the next cast fails

Making it rather useless..

[marsh gulch]

Oh so I put it here?

Also it kept registering as being seen even when it wasn't

Same issue, said that it should be moving but it's not

[gentle urchin]

Code pls

or is it the above

ah

ok

Id save BP Freeze as a var

[marsh gulch]

How do I do that?

[gentle urchin]

right click "As BP Freeze" -> promote to variable

if there's only ever just 1 BP Freeze , then this should suffice

if not, you'd want some additional logic

[marsh gulch]

Only one of them

[gentle urchin]

alright

[marsh gulch]

Do I link it to the sequence?

[gentle urchin]

yepp

connect it

and use that to get the character movement component

[marsh gulch]

Like this

[gentle urchin]

yepp

[marsh gulch]

Alrihgt let me try again

[gentle urchin]

I also think there's "Enable movement" ?

nvm

it just sets mode to none

[marsh gulch]

I don't get an error anymore thus far

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/986256574324559924.webp?size=64

[gentle urchin]

🎉

[marsh gulch]

So because it's a variable does it check everytime it pasts the variable if it's the pawn or smth?

[dim loom]

i have a good one what is the pawn even sensing start off by checking that use a print string to see whats happening. where on see pawn stick a print string after it and take the pawn blue line and stick it in ( in string ) to print out what its seeing

[gentle urchin]

You can calso draw debug line from self to target 😄

always handy

[dim loom]

wel if you dont even know what its showing of cource you dont know whats happening

[marsh gulch]

Do I enable debug lines anywhere?
Or do I just check a tutorial how to activate debug lines

[dim loom]

and yea thats another way

[gentle urchin]

It only writes to the variable if the "pawn" being sensed IS BP_Freeze

[marsh gulch]

Ohh and before that the code was like '50/50 if this stuff works or not'

[dim loom]

but what is bp freeze even is it a door a collision sphere ?

[gentle urchin]

Well, the code fired with something that wasn't BP_Freeze,

so the "As BP Freeze" pin got invalidated

While you still tried to access it after the delay

[marsh gulch]

It's a character

A character actor

[dim loom]

ok

[marsh gulch]

Also sorry but I didn't get what you meant with this, do I put a print function before casting?

[dim loom]

wel it seems its working and yea if you promote it to a var the you dont need to keep on casting. never promote the on see pawn. first always cast to what your looking for

[gentle urchin]

ok this wasnt as intuitive as my mind said

but 1st execution is yellow
2nd is orange
3rd is red

[marsh gulch]

Dw I can follow

[gentle urchin]

So Delay is started on first exec.
Cast is invalidated on second exec.
Cast is accesses in third exec

[dim loom]

squize you wright but it seems it fix the problem so

[frosty heron]

But why? 😛 just use behaviour tree and stop moving when target pawn is invalid

[gentle urchin]

BT's are a rabbit hole compared to this xD

[dim loom]

only use a behaviour tree if you intend to make a complex ai.

[marsh gulch]

I'm still learning how to use behaviour trees

Making baby steps rn

[dim loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJEvAGiw7w&list=PL4G2bSPE_8ukuajpXPlAE47Yez7EAyKMu&index=1

he has a newer video just look on his youtube page

[marsh gulch]

Alright awesome

[marsh gulch]

I'm currently following along with this one from Ali Elzoheiry:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNwKK6OwH7eW1n49TW6-FmiZhqRn97cRy&si=gnvwbIFRE-yPMVv2

[dim loom]

👍

[marsh gulch]

Is that why there needs to be a delay, because else it skips over disabling/enabling movement again cus cast only gets accessed in third exec?

[gentle urchin]

The delay acts to re-enable the movement of the target after a while

not really the way i'd do it but not my place to question it to much 😛

[marsh gulch]

Totally is, I don't know a lot yet so pulling stuff into question is the Socrates way

[marsh gulch]

Is that why if the delay is super short that it keeps switching between the two the whole time? Because it's in sequence so it goes over both?

I would say I can up the tickrate of registering the other actor couldn't I?

[gentle urchin]

What mechanic is this exactly?

Something makes the player freeze ?

[marsh gulch]

It makes the looked at actor freeze, like weeping angels/coil heads kind of deal

[gentle urchin]

not sure i catch that reference

coil heads?

weeping angels?

[marsh gulch]

Uhm let me look for an example

[marsh gulch]

SCP 173?

https://tenor.com/view/scp-173-funny-face-weird-gif-16523160

[gentle urchin]

i see

[marsh gulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ZUR_b8VKo

[gentle urchin]

so it moves when you dont look at it

[marsh gulch]

Exactly

You can clearly hear it running as example in sent video

[gentle urchin]

gotcha

I wouldnt use a delay at all

I'd register on overlap, store the variable,

and unregister on end overlap, re-enabling movement and clearing the variable

[marsh gulch]

Alright that does sound super logical, I have no idea how to register/store variables plus clearing it

[gentle urchin]

dont you already have a "sight cone"

[marsh gulch]

Yes I do have that

[marsh gulch]

The problem with not using a delay is that it keeps switching back and forth between enabling and disabling the movement

[gentle urchin]

i wouldnt use pawn sensing at all tbh

[celest lotus]

Can tell me whats going on here? Im trying to make a tetris and so im doing a line trace if the hit is false im adding local offset of 100 and if hit gets true i spawn a new block

[gentle urchin]

id create a custom sight component

using a sphere + linetrace

[marsh gulch]

Item origin?

[celest lotus]

hm?

its a default floor u get in basic level

i didnt changed any collision settings of anything

[marsh gulch]

There's probably a tutorial somewhere for that I assume right

[gentle urchin]

probably not

ignore making it a component

it's just two things

you can stuff it in your pawn tbh

It's a Sphere Collision component

[marsh gulch]

The block origin point is probably in the center of the tetris block instead of at the bottom

[gentle urchin]

which acts as the "detection radius"

OnOverlap -> Cast to BP_Freeze -> store in variable
On Tick -> Linetrace from self to BP_freeze ,

if successfull -> Disable movement
if failed -> Enable movement

[dim loom]

it looks like your sphere track isent at the front you could move it up

[celest lotus]

no the spehere trace is for detection where its getting hit

[marsh gulch]

Like just getting a sphere/cone object, make it no collision and then implementing this on it?

[dim loom]

yea but then its ment to stop right

[celest lotus]

yes

[dim loom]

so move it up

[dim loom]

instead of it being half way just move it too the front

[celest lotus]

move sphere trace?

[dim loom]

yea

[dim loom]

its a bit weird that you have it half way

[marsh gulch]

And then adjusting the radius of the sphere right

[celest lotus]

i didnt set it, i doing a draw debug sphere on impact point

my bad didnt specified it before

my blocks are stopping after crossing the floor

[dim loom]

i wouldent realy do it that way i would just have it stop when it hit a other actor or mesh

[marsh gulch]

I'll try it out later got class again now (UE class xd) Thanks for helping out guys

[celest lotus]

thats wt im trying to do

[celest lotus]

but the hit is getting detected very late ig, i really dont know whats happening

[dim loom]

wel am starting unreal at the moment

[gentle urchin]

This is what you need

or how i'd do it *

[marsh gulch]

Wow that was fast, that does look what I'm looking for thanks so much

[gentle urchin]

Sphere radius is whatever you wsnt it to be

[dim loom]

you can add a box colision in your actor place it at the bottom of the blocks when it over laps with the floor you can stop its movement just use the box colision event to stop its movement click on the box colision and on the detail panel scroll to the bottom and you will see events there select the on component begin overlap and when that fires stop its movement

so just fire off the code you already have you dont need to use a line trace for that @celest lotus

[gentle urchin]

Perfect. With a 10% start discount, that'll be 299 * 0.9 = 270$

/jk

[dim loom]

OOO and consol tasion costs with it thats 10 $

🤪

@celest lotus give that a try. i need to go now but let me know if you got it working

[celest lotus]

i thought about using that before trying line trace, as i said im trying to replicate tetris so it will hard since every block is of different shape and im spawning same class every time just the static mesh inside the class is getting randomized alsoo the problem i was facing was solved. I was doing the line trace in positive Z axis i.e from actor location to +100 units from actor location and thats why the the hit got detected too late, i should do -100

[celest lotus]

Thanks for ur time btw

[gentle urchin]

They might be controlled in a shape but logically they're all still individual blocks

They're just controlled together during falling

[sudden swan]

Hm Hiya, question. I think im getting the blueprint function library wrong. I made a simpel setup to assign car parts so i can open them en rotate the wheels.

Now i want to use this function in other blueprints and be able to adjust the floats in the function.

for example this float

But when calling this function in another blueprint I cant see the floar values in the details tab

When making the same function within the blueprint I see all the variables.

but when using the blueprint function library,

I cant see or edit the variables inside.

Im probably misunderstanding the blueprint function library

tl:dr I'd like to get the local variables from the blueprint function library to show up in the details panel when I call that function to my blueprint.

or some how store a function so that i can use it in other blueprints withput making all the variables again.

[formal narwhal]

shouldn't this give me 9 pixels? It gives me array length longer than 1000 if Im in the middle of the image.

Prev Position never goes beyond the pixel bounds

[wintry imp]

Tinkering with physics constraints.

Generating the constraints you see here at runtime, and then drawing a debug sphere/line using the location and forward vector, but obviously the component itself doesn't rotate or move ...

Any idea how I get the actual constraint origin & rot to visualise this?

Or any better ways I can visualise the constraints while I'm testing things?

[frosty heron]

U can't store local variable

they get destroyed when the code block ends

Do print string even work without valid world?

[chilly plover]

got a strange one: Mobility of : WaterBodyLakeComponent has to be 'Movable' if you'd like to move.

I have made it movable but it still says this message. I am basically trying to move the water along a line

[thin panther]

#1054845249945616404

this isn't a self promo channel

[little moat]

I use a different save game class and it starts working, WHAT?

[frosty heron]

What's the issue?

Wdym by different save game class. You are suppose to derive one anyway

[little moat]

The first one is in C++ and gives me "read none at X" and the second one which is a blueprint class works fine

[frosty heron]

Shouldn't be an issue but you want a bp of every cpp class anyway

[little moat]

Well I don't

It's an issue and I don't understand why, they have the same variables

[lofty rapids]

c++ and bp is great together, c++ adds that performance where you need it

[frosty heron]

Up 2 u but the wise ppl tell you that you should. I will just listen to them

Not having bp version means you have to hardcode paths

If u like pain, then...

[little moat]

Yeah I get that but I don't need a path in my SaveGame class

[frosty heron]

I would also use subsytem like they suggested

[little moat]

I don't really need a subsystem for this

Wrong channel

[astral orchid]

oh shit

my b

[frosty heron]

So where you gonna place your save game object??

[little moat]

No idea I thought it would just work like that

[frosty heron]

No, please just listen to those veterans they know what they doing

We should be humble when we don't know better

The problem now, is you travel to another level your save game ref is gone

How u gonna fetch it? It got destroyed when new world is made

[lofty rapids]

game instance

[frosty heron]

Your option is game instance or game instance subsystem

If u gonna do cpp then no brainer to use subsystem

Cuz then u don't need to clutter Ur gi

[little moat]

Well I do know why I don't need it

Because I don't switch levels

[lethal night]

Anyone have a clue why this isnt working

It runs all loops instantly without waiting for the Ai to move

[frosty heron]

Yes loop happend in one frame

[lethal night]

Should it not wait for the index to increase?

like im setting it in my BP

[frosty heron]

No it just run everything in one frame

[lethal night]

I guess its probably a mis-understanding but oh well

[frosty heron]

Ppl use delay in loop not knowing it runs in the same frame

Common misconception

[lethal night]

is that with all loops

or just forloop?

[frosty heron]

Every loop

It's just a bp macro

[lethal night]

oh funky

yeah I didn't know that

kind of annoying lmao

suppose it makes sense

[frosty heron]

Ye I had to find out as well

[lethal night]

I was trying to be intuitave and not repeat find random, move AI 4 times in a row lmao

[frosty heron]

Not even from main menu?

[little moat]

Yes but then I just override the default pawn which has everything gameplay related

[frosty heron]

No idea what u r making

But gl

[little moat]

It's not that complex but right now I just want to figure out why it isn't working with my C++ savegame

So if someone would be willing to help I would greatly appreciate it.

[lofty rapids]

did you try #cpp ?

i mean they might know more about why the c code isn't working

[tight pollen]

hi

Is it possible to disable the ability to jump in a faster way than creating a macro that blocks the jumping button?

i see this

but how can I change the variable in this function?

or something else?

[lofty rapids]

i would just use a bool but maybe there is a canjump setting idk

[frosty heron]

That variable lives in Movement Capabilities. but honestly, I wouldn't touch it.
Just block on your input and call it a day

[tight pollen]

why you wouldn't touch it?

[frosty heron]

cuz I don't know what it does and CMC is 10k long + I can't read code.

[tight pollen]

ok

[frosty heron]

things might break, is all i'm saying because if we can toggle it at our will, why dont they make an exposed function to toggle can jump

maybe it work maybe it doesn't, I dunnoe

most of the time I see people just block on input

like if u need to check for mantle and all that

[tight pollen]

I want to block the ability to jump when I run Montage

[lofty rapids]

you don't want to use a boolean ?

wdym create a macro ?

stick a boolean and branch in here before jump

[frosty heron]

Just define the rule in input imo. If condition met (do something else) otherwise jump as normal

[lofty rapids]

bp loops have to run in one tick ?

or you get infinite loop detected ?

[frosty heron]

All loops run in one tick

u get infinite loop when you loop through X ammount of time

X determined in project setting

forgot the name, never bothered changing the value

Becareful with while loop

if u dont have the exit condition in the same frame, u gonna get infinite loop error

[lofty rapids]

in general when programming i avoid while loops

there are some occassions where it's necessary but i avoid it at all costs

instead of while i would use bool on tick

or something like that

[frosty heron]

different loop different usage imo

[lofty rapids]

while loops just have the possibility of stalling the app high

i just avoid it, it's a personal preference

too many times i got locked up in a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V707r4bkJOY

loops though, pain in the ass

[frosty heron]

@lofty rapids well you already licked cpp, keep going with it

[lofty rapids]

ya i generate my levels with cpp now

[frosty heron]

my first cpp code was life saver, it's really eye opening

[lofty rapids]

It's really cool i basically never used c++ before, i tried it out a couple times

[frosty heron]

I have plugin that import mesh and materials, gotta repeat the process 18 times to rename materials with each import

with c++, I can rename them in one click

[lofty rapids]

fortunately for me i can do most of the stuff in bp

[frosty heron]

even a little helps

[lofty rapids]

but having the ability to run functions made in c++ is awesome

[frosty heron]

move all your bp structs too

[lofty rapids]

i have not used a struct yet

but i will use in c

i heard also enum

but i used enum in bp no problem

but i guess it can break ?

[frosty heron]

ye I never had problem with bp enum too tho, if u gonna do some cpp, you can't get that enum in bp land

but if u declare in cpp you can access the enum in both world

[lofty rapids]

i'm just going to offload stuff to c++ if i think it would help performance, but bp is doing most of the work in project

https://streamable.com/47sfta

this is generating the level on the fly with bp

works well, but if it starts bogging down then move to c

[frosty heron]

👍

[lofty rapids]

i'm actually surprised after my loop problem that it handles it

the only part i needed c was for the actual data generation, but i technically didn't need it i just wanted to have large levels if desired and get some performance as it was breaking in bp

but i can't say it enough, huge performance difference

[frosty heron]

Ye

[chrome arch]

Is there a way to invert “Finterp to?” I am trying to move an actor to its starting position but I do not want it to slow down at the end. I would prefer it to accelerate the entire time until it hits its destination.

Or is there any other way to move an actor to a location with acceleration?

[severe tendon]

Normally where should the raytrace origin be?
Camera or Weapon?

[lofty rapids]

i'm not sure about normally, but it would be difficult to hit center from the weapon

[shut yew]

hey

im tryna change the book after something happens

and the scale is so small

yo @lofty rapids can you help me w this please?

[shut yew]

this is the socket btw

[thin panther]

the origin is in the #rules about crossposting

[severe tendon]

Ok thanks

[lofty rapids]

whats going on here ? it's tiny in the first picture i'm guessing the second is when it's open ?

[shut yew]

second is in game

third is in socket

ill try to make a vid

[lofty rapids]

hmm

idk much about sockets

[frosty heron]

you probably scale the socket

[shut yew]

i did

[frosty heron]

well then, what's the suprise?

[shut yew]

scaling doesnt change it

[frosty heron]

scaling the socket, will scale the children

[shut yew]

yea

[frosty heron]

yea , so what's the issue?

change the socket scale back to 1, 1 , 1

[shut yew]

the book still small

[frosty heron]

You want to fix your book size to begin with

[shut yew]

(in game)

[frosty heron]

Can't debug from my end

i can't even see the socket scale

In general you want the correct size for your mesh

[shut yew]

socket scale does not affect in game book size on my part

idk why

[frosty heron]

and dont touch scale off the socket

You might scale it again with code somewhere in the bp, I dunnoe

[lofty rapids]

did you try messing with the scale setting in the attach ?

[shut yew]

ya

i put keep relative

snap to target

still dont change

[lofty rapids]

did you scale the actual book ?

[shut yew]

that too

[lofty rapids]

so without calling open book

it does the same thing it's small ?

[frosty heron]

sounds like bandage after bandage

any reason why u can't get scales to be 1 : 1?

scale your book in 3d program

[lofty rapids]

just seeing if the open book function is causing it, or it's just attaching that small

[shut yew]

made it work

New problem : how do i add delay in a function

😭

[frosty heron]

you can't

[shut yew]

so how do i make a pause

there has to be a workaround

[frosty heron]

How do you even pause with delay?

[shut yew]

no i meant

[frosty heron]

Use Timer

[shut yew]

yeah you get what im saying

[sand slate]

Hey, is there a special chat here for UI or can I ask my UI question here? I have a button in my menu for adding a local player. And when the first player presses that button a small widget (with player name and option to edit player colour) needs to replace that button on exact the same spot.

How do I do this? I can create the widget when someone presses the button, but its not on the right spot. Is there a node for this?

[frosty heron]

there is #umg

[shut yew]

timer by event?

[frosty heron]

depends on what you want to do

there is timer by function too

[shut yew]

whichever one works idk

[sand slate]

Thanks, going to ask it there

[frosty heron]

local Split screen multiplayer or network multiplayer?

[frosty heron]

Neither for that purpose

[sand slate]

Local Split screen

[frosty heron]

You can use delay in Custom event, tho generally you want to avoid using delay

[frosty heron]

k, I have no idea

[frosty heron]

not gonna work

No

You can't use Function then use delay

Don't use function

call custom event

[lofty rapids]

yikes, looks infinite

[shut yew]

then what am i supposed to do

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message

[lofty rapids]

are you returning anything from the function ?

if not just use an event if you want delay

[shut yew]

that function is important tho

cant really replace it

[frigid needle]

Hi! Is there pure map/filter/reduce functions in Blueprint?

[lofty rapids]

i don't think so, theres a foreach

[frosty heron]

never heard that

[lofty rapids]

functions with callbacks that give you a new array based on the callback return value

[hard charm]

Guys, it's giving me a problem when compiling, it turns out that I want to activate a Niagora particle in a UI with activate system but when compiling the project because I have the activate sytem node included in the widget it gives me an error

Error: [AssetLog] D:\whisperofsoul_4.26\Content\CloseCombat\Blueprints\Hud\HUD_Widjet_Warrior.uasset: [Compiler] In use pin <Unnamed> no longer exists on node ActivateSystem . Please refresh node or break links to remove pin. from Source: /Game/CloseCombat/Blueprints/Hud/HUD_Widjet_Warrior.HUD_Widjet_Warrior

[lofty rapids]

looks like you ActivateSystem changed and removed a pin

delete then insert the node again

or break links like it says

right click, break link

[lunar sleet]

You can right click refresh a node btw

[lofty rapids]

much easier

[winged relic]

I have a curiosity question. Im trying to make a random enemy generator for a game im working on. When I spawn into my unreal engine world without landscapes, the enemies (zombies in this case) work just fine. But when I turn the map into a landscape (with no ground static mesh unlike the regular template map) the generator no longer works. Any idea as to why that is?

What i wonder is do I have to reference the landscape inside of the generator so it knows to spawn the zombies onto the landscape map?

welp nvm on that

it started working lol

[surreal peak]

Your Landscape was possibly not generating Nav Mesh ?

[winged relic]

thats what im thinking, is there a way to ensure it does everytime I hit play? instead of just hoping it works?

like can i make a BP to have the landscape generate the nav mesh?

[chilly plover]

How do you call the level blueprint instance in another blue in unreal engine?

[frosty heron]

you don't

abbandon level blueprint

[rich ferry]

You probably shouldn't be using the level BP for anything

[frosty heron]

The communication is only one way with level bp. It's a thing of the past, don't use level bp

[versed sun]

Only use the Level BP to make Tutorials

[crystal crown]

how can i do a thread safe interface call

[rich ferry]

Hopefully this is the right channel. I've been wrestling with this for a long time and thought I'd see if I could get any new insight.

My main pawn is a tank, which has a turret. The turret is its own actor that is attached via an actor component. I want to give my tank a reticle that follows the direction of the gun and, within a certain distance, comes closer to the tank if the projectile is obstructed.

Originally I did this with a spring arm and widget component, however I discovered that this causes the widget to be visible to all players, and I didn't want that. I couldn't get "only owner see" (or similar settings) to work right, I could still see other tanks' reticles no matter what. Even in cases where those settings do work right in static meshes on the turret.

So instead I tried using the HUD and translating the world location of a line trace impact point into screen location. But with this, I discovered a bug (which many discuss online) where the world-to-screen nodes do not appear to work properly. The given screen coordinates are simply wrong.

Has anyone been able to pull off this effect, or have any advice on how to get around these issues?

[wanton radish]

how does it work that my katana item weights same as my pistol item and pistol item is being throwed much further? does physics asset has some impact on that?

[steel shadow]

if your spring arm/ widget component method was working other than being visible to all players, I think you should not have the widget component initialised on start but instead spawn it on client in game and store a reference for manipulation on the client

[rich ferry]

So basically create it, but don't replicate it, to mimic the behavior of "only oner see"?

[steel shadow]

yes

[stark patio]

Does anyone know if there is a way to completely disable all events inside an actor temporarily?

[rich ferry]

If you couldn't find anything on google, I'd say probably not

[undone sequoia]

guys any idea how I can make my AI turret little bit less accurate ? as it is now? its tracking all pawns around and shooting at you when u are close enough bullets are with collisions but its still pretty accurate

[stark patio]

what method are you using to make it turn towards the pawns?

[stark patio]

ye you are most likely right, just wanted to duble check here

[undone sequoia]

just this

and its shooting at it

immediately

maybe use some finterp to?

[stark patio]

ah i see, try using something like this. This will make the turret turn towards a location at a certain speed and not instantly look at something

[rich ferry]

That's certainly a good idea, you could also add spread to the projectile so it's not pinpoint accurate

[undone sequoia]

yea thx guys!

😄 definitelly will try

another idea is how i will make my plane not to be 100% accurate when chasing me and shooting at me with front gun hah

[stark patio]

how have you coded your planes movement?

[undone sequoia]

oh boy was hard way 😄

hours

we are not using forces but normal setting actor rotation/ location

we created own gravity etc

[undone sequoia]

maybe give me more exact question and I can answer

[stark patio]

is it flying and does it use navemesh in any way?

[undone sequoia]

u asking for NPC or my plane?

[stark patio]

the plane

[undone sequoia]

because NPC plane works different than my which I move with

[stark patio]

ah sorry thought you meant the turret when you said NPC. I want to know how the NPC plane works

[undone sequoia]

here small video so u can see, its on testing map i just created NPC few hours ago, NPC plane is basically copy of my with deleted functions which it does not need

it basically has some points and randomly fly between them

for now , i need implement chasing

(and i have no animations there, my model is broken 😄

it is flying 10-20 sec to some location then choose new and turn there

[stark patio]

ah i see

hmmmmmm

[undone sequoia]

I wanted to make some distance to which it can fly but I want it to stick at one place at map

so points between it is moving are better then

imo

[lofty rapids]

instead of having the npc shoot directly at you, maybe make it jump around within a range ?

[stark patio]

I have made a nice flying chasing enemy before but in my case i didnt really need to account for how it would be turning (since i guess you want it to turn like a plane when it chases the player).....
Maybe you could try to make the npc plane move towards where the player was a bit ago and then update?

[undone sequoia]

But also I just noticed not all bullets hitting me as its not linetrace but real colliders so it already has some mistake i will add more with rinterp to

[undone sequoia]

yes my plane is turning like in reality but its still not the best , i will improve it later

yes i can do that too

[main lake]

Can "Component Actors" be spawned in the world then attached to the player or is there a specific way to do that without spawning and directly attaching it on the player ?

[undone sequoia]

yes that is way how collectibles in my game works

it get spawned and u can pick it up by attaching it at player

[main lake]

are you sure you're using "Actor Component" and not just "Actor" ?

[undone sequoia]

i will check

[undone sequoia]

I am using pawns

why do you use actor component?

[main lake]

Because I want to create an ability system, where each ability is a single "actor component" that could be attached / removed to the player so he can use it when he has it.

[undone sequoia]

and did u already try it and it didnt work or u asking i dont think there is difference

it can be picked imo same as pawn

[main lake]

I'm asking if could be spawned like a simple actor and attached to the player or is there another way to do that ?

[undone bluff]

I don't get the question

[undone sequoia]

I think u need try it then ask 😄

because function for attach is inside this blueprint

as I checked

[undone bluff]

when you add a component actor it is attached, components cannot be in the level without an actor

[undone sequoia]

he want put it on map

so you can pick up

and attach it on yourself

i think

[undone bluff]

well that's simple enough

make an item actor

which adds the component to the pawn that picks it up

if you want something to be in the world it needs to be an actor

[undone sequoia]

true

[main lake]

no, I want to give and remove an actor component from the player how should I do that ? Because usually we need to spawn an actor before doing something with it like attaching it, so is it the same with an actor component itself ?

[undone sequoia]

here i cant answer i never used actor component I think u would not see answer unless u try :/ sorry

[main lake]

so adding / removing the component directly from the player without having an actor containing it

[undone bluff]

you add the component to the actor, you can attach it to another component but it is already part of the actor

[crystal crown]

how do i call interface with thread safe

[main lake]

So that means each of my abilities must be in a "actor component" that would be in an actor first before attaching it to the player ? So there's no way to directly spawn the "actor component" directly on the player ?

[undone bluff]

no you literally just add the component to the player, that's it

[main lake]

how ?

[undone bluff]

using the add component by class node lol

[main lake]

Thank you, that's what I was looking for 😛 Because I thought you had first to spawn it in the world then attach it like how you with any actors 🙂

[undone bluff]

because an actor cannot be part of another actor

you can only attach them

if you wanted to attach a component to another you'd need to do the same

there's a distinction there

[main lake]

so attaching an actor to another actor you can't do that ?

[crystal crown]

you can

[undone bluff]

attaching and adding are not the same thing

when you attach something to something else, it will move, rotate, and scale relative to whatever it is attached to

you can attach an actor to another

and you can attach an actor component to another

[chilly plover]

what would you use instead of the level bp class?

[undone bluff]

well, technically attaching an actor attaches the root component

but you get the idea

adding is a different operation, it makes the actor component part of the actor, including any included logic

an actor cannot be added to another actor

[lofty rapids]

what are you doing ?

[undone bluff]

considering there is practically no reason to use the level bp ever this is like asking how to do things

[chilly plover]

set level defaults so I can use them in saving on a gameinstance

[undone bluff]

what are level defaults

[chilly plover]

item picked upo, enemy dead etc

[lofty rapids]

your doing that stuff in the level bp ?

[undone bluff]

I really do not follow

[lofty rapids]

hmm, i put most of my code on the player and game instance for variables

but i should probably use the controller because i'm stuck with that bp

[undone bluff]

item being picked up should be handled in your inventory and that's it

maybe in the item, but that's not a great setup

[lofty rapids]

so your setting a lot of variables ?

[chilly plover]

like I have a level which has a house in it and in the houose is an item. I pick it up and next time I load the level the item should disappear. Where do I store this logic?

[lofty rapids]

one way to handle that might be to have id's on certain items, then an array that holds all the got items id's in the game instance, after you load the level check the array includes the id and get rid of it if it does.

[frail galleon]

Where's the best channel to post about techinal animation / anim instances / locomotion stuff?

[dry sleet]

probably #animation

[undone bluff]

easy way out is adding a tag for items that have been picked up, grabbing them to save the state of that tag when the game is saved, then when loading again getting all actors with tag and destroying them

get all actors with tag is slow as hell but I'd say fine if done just once when loading in

[chilly plover]

What I basically mean is where do I put this code?

I need a default level bp

but the one built in you guys say don't use

[lofty rapids]

the player ?

[undone bluff]

game instance

[chilly plover]

so I just create another bp class?

I don't want to keep all the logic for each level on the player class

[lofty rapids]

i would put the code in the character and the variables in the instance

[chilly plover]

Because these are big levels I want to separate it

[lofty rapids]

make a function library ?

[undone bluff]

none of this logic should be level dependent

[chilly plover]

like on the game load. if level == true then load a class that has that level object

[undone bluff]

unless you have level specific events, which you can make a manager for

[undone bluff]

I still don't get for what

[chilly plover]

to set a variable to see if an item exists in the level anymore

[undone bluff]

making a variable to save for each item individually is ridiculous

if you don't want to run get all actors by tag then just get all actors of class of your base item class and check them for tags

[lofty rapids]

i have not used tags yet

[chilly plover]

Ok but where do I get the info the item is missing then?

[undone bluff]

by it having the tag on it

if you have a variable in your level bp or whatever

you'd still have to save that

I'm not even sure you'd be able to access it in blueprints

[lofty rapids]

if you set a tag on an actor in a level, when you load the level wouldn't you need to have something in the instance telling it to reset the tag ?

what i mean is wouldn't the tag reset ?

[chilly plover]

no

[lofty rapids]

thats nice to know, the tags carry over ?

[chilly plover]

It will always be the name you give it if thats what you mean

It's a way to reference something

[lofty rapids]

well i'm saying if you get the item change the tag, you'll still need to know that because it will reset when the level loads anyway

atleast thats what i would expect

[chilly plover]

I need to store the tags in an array struct and save them on game save and then load these back into a level class and do the logic

[undone bluff]

no the tags are ofc gone when the level loads and everything you do not save is gone when the game is restarted

[solemn basin]

How do I pass a reference to the widget? I have the widget as a component in the actor. I want to destroy the actor whenever a button is pressed in the widget.

[undone bluff]

they are just there to indicate that the item is not in its default state

not sure why I suggested that though, instead of a tag just store an array of references in the save game

[winged relic]

Hey, im not sure if you saw my response but, is there a way I can have the Landscape properly generate the Nav Mesh everytime? Maybe by making a blueprint that calls for it or something?

[frail galleon]

Hey? 😄

[frail galleon]

weird I don't have access to that chat

thank you wnyway!

[dry sleet]

Not even if you click the link?

Apparently discord can hide channels nowadays

[jolly cipher]

Im trying to recreate a pokemon coming out of a pokeball anim sequence but having an issue with the Set Actor Scale 3D.
On begin play I set my scale to 0.5 wait 5 secs and set to 2 ( Only for testing )
When the 2nd Actor Scale kicks in, my character just gets stuck in a Tpose,

So weird if I start at 0.5 and then set it to 1 it seems ok but if I set it to 0.3 to 1, it breaks again
This is not making any sense to me lol

[surreal peak]

Puh I don't work with that very often. Iirc it would need to block the Pawn channel in its collision settings. NavMesh should properly update in the editor by default

[surreal peak]

Always funny to see what pops up in chat when specific games get famous

😏 parent class name of that .. animal

Not sure what your issue could be though. Is this singleplayer or multiplayer?

You could try to set the AnimBP class again

Fwiw I would also suggest maybe scaling the mesh and setting the capsule size separately

Instead of scaling the actor as a whole

[jolly cipher]

Its multiplayer 🙂

[jolly cipher]

Ah interesting let me give that a try

[surreal peak]

Right so Actor scale is a strange one for multiplayer

Since it's somewhat replicated already

And since you call it on BeginPlay it might get into a strange state

I would suggest the mesh scale solution

[jolly cipher]

Ah good to know, so far mesh scale does seem to be working better 😄

[surreal peak]

Also

Keep in mind relevancy

Since you call that on BeginPlay

It will trigger for everyone getting into range or connecting late

Even if that thing is already fighting for half an hour

[jolly cipher]

Oh! I might have to rethink my logic then, I only wanted this "animation" to start when you spawn the animal .

[faint pasture]

GameState probably

[faint pasture]

Is there a writeup somewhere that goes over what exactly you get with Actor Replicates and Replicate Movement?

[surreal peak]

Yeah it's a bit tricky. An RPC might not get through directly after spawning unless reliable and I'm not sure it comes in without showing the animal with default values for a few frames.

Marking it as spawned with a replicated variable is probably better, but you would need to give it a few seconds before doing so, so it doesn't block the actual relevant players too

[surreal peak]

Maybe?

Replicates does a bunch of stuff in the background. Mostly probably ActorChannel creation and considering it for replication in general.

ReplicateMovement you can simply check. It replicates a struct iirc that holds some movement info. Mostly the transform by default

Maybe minus scale

[faint pasture]

Which one implies replicating attachment, just actor replication itself?

I've wondered about that. Like, consider an actor attached to another, with both replicated and both with replicate movement checked. You move the parent, are 2 actors worth of transforms being replicated or just the parent, with the 2nd knowing that its RELATIVE transform hasn't changed?

[surreal peak]

You'd need to check. I don't have the specifics in my head

Replication is part of the normal replicated stuff of an actor yeah

[tame terrace]

Hey, what do you guys use to screen record to send on discord?

[faint pasture]

OBS

[tame terrace]

Oh

[plush hinge]

So, I'm trying to create team colour based spawnpoints for Lyra, using this tutorial: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/XjBe/unreal-engine-lyra-team-based-spawn-points

Have set the spawn points accordingly: https://gyazo.com/91d73812f20d982caddfb91edfdca7cd

Copied the graph over, and built the local variable: https://gyazo.com/6676f7a0ab8d257302c29adc0b7cc681

And it compiles successfully. But when I play, it doesn't function right, and I get this error: https://gyazo.com/2969d8426006967330a33371656454c8

I can't figure out why it's not getting the proper Red/Blue input. Any ideas appreciated.

[tiny meteor]

hi, what is the easiest way for connected clients to detect a new player joining in Blueprint? looks like PlayerArray in Game State cannot be set to OnRep. is there some other way to detect when a client has connected and get all game states on connected clients?

[tame terrace]

how does someone turn a file from obs into a playable video to send to discord?

[plush hinge]

Record in OBS as MP4 or something, and then upload to youtube, then send link 😄

Or, if its small enough, upload to discord directly

[surreal peak]

BeginPlay of the PlayerState

Also this is a #multiplayer question

[tiny meteor]

ok thanks

[dark drum]

If you have an Nvidia card, you can use the gforce experience to record. If you have windows 11, you can then use clipcamp if you need re-encode to a smaller resolution. (720p)

[thin panther]

there's also win key, alt and r

[tiny meteor]

is your team short name the same as your player start tag? place a breakpoint on the first branch node to see if it returns true. and check if the correct DisplayAsset is being used for that experience

[plush hinge]

They are, yeah. Default Lyra ones: Red/Blue.

[tiny meteor]

well the error is saying the display asset is null, so the player you are passing in doesnt have an associated display asset, could be many reasons, you need to use a lyra experience with a teams setup

[plush hinge]

nodnods

Am digging deeper, you set me on the right path I think ^^

thanks

[frail galleon]

hey guys! I'm using ALS and want to integrate some combat montages on it. If i'm standing still they work perfectly but in some situations with a slight movement something (I guess it's the stop transitions / end transitions or stop movement events) break my montages. Is there any way to make montages work during walk/run process without being interrupted?

[chilly plover]

Whats everyones preferred saving method out of these two options:

1. Auto save on everything and you can't ever chose a different load slot
2. Have a place in the level to click save and only be able to save your progress when you interact with the save point.

[faint pasture]

Depends on the game

[opal pasture]

Is here any solution for reset timeline while doing this second animation? Trying to make a combo with RMB. For the first animation its ok, but for the sencond one if i'd like to spam it, loops and makes my character almost unmoveable - after 2seconds it can move again.

[faint pasture]

Keep that montage energy going

you don't need a timeline here

you can do it all with montages

[opal pasture]

i mean idunno how to root it with my capsule, cuz it stays in origin place either if its rooted or not. Thats my problem. At the motage its going forward but tried everything with root but still in place. Otherwise is there another option that i dont know?

can i send vid here?

[junior prairie]

if I create a new graph in a blueprint and copy and paste code from my event graph to the new graph, will the blueprint itself more or less be unaffected?

My event graph for my player is big enough that I'm getting performance drops when editing it

[opal pasture]

it looks like my capsule doesnt follow the mesh but dunno, i've made my character from blank character bp

[lofty rapids]

maybe offload some stuff to functions if you can, might make for less nodes

[junior prairie]

yeah I want to do that too, it's just a lot lol

[lusty hedge]

WHY isnt this going forward

its driving me crazy

that is the velocity in a projectile component

it just moves over a tiny tiny bit

like 0.00001

but i am multiplying it by 200

[lofty rapids]

you may want to try a higher number

[lusty hedge]

i need to redirect the velocity

i am ricocheting off of a wall

and so far. i have the rotation correct

but now i need to adjust the velocity

so you may think. well, if i have the rotation figured already. i can just move it forward! welll... idk why

it doesnt work

[distant hollow]

Where is your movement?

[lusty hedge]

the movement is in a projectile comp

that screenshot calculates where to rotate the projectile

it works

here is my attempt at redirecting the velocity

BUT

it goes up and down

[distant hollow]

Do a print screen and check what is your actual resulting velocity

You divided by 360

Chances are your value may be quite low

[lusty hedge]

yes

to normalize it and get a direction

then i multipled that by the speed

the low value isnt the issue. low values mean lower speeds. i need the velocity to be in the correct direction

[distant hollow]

So are you having a velocity issue or a direction issue?

[lusty hedge]

both

this is the set node for the velocity in the ProjectileMovement COmp built into unreal

this velocity is in charge of speed in each direction

which is why its a vector

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/kaym6d2h/

thats the blueprint

[vital acorn]

does anyone know how i can acheive a better jump for a 3d platformer because the default one feels horrible to platform with and the more i mess with it the worse it gets

[distant hollow]

So have you tried printing out the velocity value to check if it was s correct?

[lusty hedge]

its not correct. thats my issue

i cant math correctly

[inland monolith]

I'm studying Blueprint communication with dispatchers and interfaces and was wondering if there is any big difference between using a "Get Actor of Class" node or creating an Actor Reference Variable? I feel the first one is easier to use. Thanks!

[lusty hedge]

i may have found it

i fixed one thing but another problem came

its moving in worldspace i need it to move local space

[fossil linden]

short question, how i can unload streaming levels in editor?

[tame terrace]

Hi, I don't know why the result on the top left says "You have enough space" it should say "You don't have enough space" because the amount of coins in total which is 205 is split in half due to there being two backpacks so there's 102 coins in each bag. Then the greater condition has 100. And because of the not boolean it should result as if the amount of coins is not greater then it is true which is "you have enough space" and if its false then "You don't have enough space".

[chilly plover]

is it possible to make a shiney material over a blueprint like an inventory item flashing?

[lunar sleet]

Debug using breakpoints or watch value

[lunar sleet]

Idk what you mean by over a blueprint. Depending on how you make your inventory you can change the material on a timer so it looks like it’s flashing

[opaque acorn]

Hi there as we know already ; at searching section if we 2 click at an event it gonna take us there; hwever for functions it make it open. for my cause i want to know where the "Register. . " function is being used at the main graph of the BP_FluidSim however i cant able to find it. ( making it change does affect the BP functionality )
all these are from Water plugin of EPIC GAMES

🥹 pls any info so helpful

https://tenor.com/view/oliver-twist-beg-gif-10430548

[surreal carbon]

hey guys I have this issue where the camera view sort of shifts once i use debug lines or trace lines and I'm not sure why

[indigo bough]

Hey folks. Just wondering if there is any way to force categories of variables to the top, or at least closer to the top of an actor's details panel? Most of the stuff above is edited very infrequently.

I've tried putting numbers, I've tried reordering in the variables list inside the blueprint. Nothing seems to work 😦

Ahh, it seems to only happen to child classes of this actor class, not the parent class itself 🤔. It's like if you make a child class, it randomises the details panel ordering all over again

[timber basalt]

Hey guys quite new here how does Sphere Overlap Actor works in terms of detection ? so im using it for a hit meele collision to increase my enemy "stun bar" the first hit is fine but on the 2nd hit after the first hit it destroys the enemy actor entirely how do i prevent that ?

[faint pasture]

Show code

[faint pasture]

Show the part of the code where the problem is

I'm guessing your increase stagger function isn't right.

[timber basalt]

ah i figured it out now is the Heart function

[frosty heron]

The first one is beginner trap. Which can be used occasionally if you are sure there is only one instance in the world

[simple spade]

I have a question, I'm new to unreal and game development. I've watched a few tutorials but nothing really cover's the type of character movement I want. I have a reference of how I want the character to move. How can I reverse engineer that into something I can recreate? I've developed my own method but it's really janky .

[simple spade]

This is what I'm going for, if anyone knows any resources or could possibly help.

[tough siren]

Hello. I'm making a party game and I need a code to randomly select a level for my game and send all players to the selected level. How can I do it or can you send it?

[celest lotus]

Im setting actor rotation in Y axis as 180 but when im getting actor rotation the value of X and Z axis is 180 and Y is 0 why is that? Im doing to test something but I dont understand why X and Z axis' rotation is being changed. Same case happens when i set Y axis = 90, but in that case the value of Y is 90 while X and Z have 180

[surreal carbon]

yea for some reason it only appears when use trace or debug lines

[frosty heron]

Use random int in range node, followed by a switch (int)

[twilit lynx]

Im trying to use the Cursor Over/On Clicked events for when a Player cursors over/clicks a state, from a map of the USA. The state will raise and get an outlineduring Begin Cursor Over, and lower it while removing the outline on End Cursor Over. My question is if theres any easier way to do this thats just as reliable (using a trace below the cursor gave me mixed results) but wont require me to do this same code for every State. (Would be 100 Begin/End Cursor Overs, plus another 50 for the On Clicked events.

[vital acorn]

I already asked and I got no response but does anyone know how to make the third person blueprint jump better for a 3d platformer as the default one sucks for 3d platformers

[lunar sleet]

Learn how inheritance works

You should only need to write the code once

[lunar sleet]

What’s “better” ?

[vital acorn]

Something that feels closer to crash 4 or a 3d Mario game

[lunar sleet]

This means nothing to me. What do you need it to do that it doesn’t currently do

[vital acorn]

Follow a nice consistent curve like movement

[lunar sleet]

There are settings on the char movement component you can play with but beyond that you would likely need to build your own

[lunar sleet]

Unlikely that you’ll find anything that specific. You can use the Swimming mode in the char movement component but aside from that, you’ll need to make your own. Control Rig might be a good place to start tho, there’s decent documentation on it

[lunar sleet]

Starting with a multiplayer game is not ideal, but anyways. Make an array of levels, and use Random Array Item to pluck the level so you can send your players to it.

[prisma walrus]

Hi all, just jumping in again in hopes to get some assistance, I've got an active question on the UE forums that is currently unanswered, I've narrowed the the issue further today. The issue is that when I pause the game and by extension the Media Player, the sound seems to Stop rather than Pause, which means everytime I UnPause, the audio starts again and once it gets back to the point the VIDEO paused, the video resumes, any ideas?

Link to forum post which contains video to help illustrate the issue https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/crt-vcr-how-do-i-use-a-trigger-to-play-a-custom-movie/1673640/4

[twilit lynx]

...care to expand on that? Is there something a static mesh component can inherit that would run the Begin/End Cursor Overlap or On Clicked events?

[dark drum]

Create a base continent BP that has the logic all continent pieces would have and the create children of that BP. In the child you can change the mesh used for the static mesh but all the logic would be the same as the parent.

[half swallow]

hello! i'm currently making a mechanic for the player to gather resources, and they have a location ability to scan for resources in a radius, with markers (green arrows in picture) pointing in the directions of resource clusters.

currently, i'm able to detect the resources and get the locations, and able to draw those green arrows to each resource, which ends up being a lot of arrows.

is there a smart way to detect clusters of resources in such a way that i can use fewer green markers to still point in a good general direction?

[gloomy swift]

What's the proper way to disable/enable scene captures? For some unknown reason, only on my PC, during runtime, when there's more than one render capture going, the entire engine just freezes with no not responding and no error messages, while the VS debugger (UE source) suggests it's waiting for an update or something...

[frosty heron]

at run time?

[gloomy swift]

yes. It's the most unusual bug I've encountered so far, it's consistent but it's only reproducible on my system with an RX 6700xt gpu (my laptop with an AMD igpu doesn't even get this issue)

[frosty heron]

Render capture is very expensive

you basically render the world again for every capture

[gloomy swift]

I know what render capture does and a large part of the code I'm making is to optimize for performance

[frosty heron]

you can toggle the capture every frame

[gloomy swift]

but there's something inherent with the capture itself I think, like an engine bug, that's causing a complete engine freeze, not just an unresponsive program. GPU and CPU usage drop to idle when the engine freezes but there's no unresponsiveness detected by the OS

[frosty heron]

No idea, I have 3 render target working at the same time (used to be 8 but my fps get buthcered)

never froze

maybe it varies depending on the hardware, I have no idea but personally never got locked

[gloomy swift]

The code does disable/enable capture every frame depending on where the player is, there's also some capture on movement stuff for some additional testing. I've also been trying activate/deactivate to disable as well, online is suggesting to disable ticking which I can try

[frosty heron]

There is Capture on Movement yes

[gloomy swift]

yeah idk if anyone reading this has an AMD gpu, I bet it's something specific to the dGPU because no one I know has encoutered this issue, and they have nvidia or integrated

and the source engine debugging in VS doesn't help me figure out the issue at all, unless maybe I spend a few hours understanding the backend engine tick

[faint pasture]

Simple approach would be a minimum angle between arrows

Resource -> calc angle to -> if not near another arrow -> draw arrow

That'll naturally adapt, you'll have 1 arrow when far away then as you get closer you'll get more.

[half swallow]

ooh i like that, and with each arrow i can also assign a weight based on how many are combined into one arrow so it can get an average among the clusters

i've been doing it in a full batch of all locations and therefore struggling with pruning the arrays through multiple for loops but your idea helps a ton, tyty

[odd kiln]

Hi all !

Does anyone already tried to change the "Buoyancy" component to look at a custom "Water" Material ?

I don't really know where to start :/

Or do I have to create a buoyancy system from scratch ?

[shut yew]

how to wait until anim montage ends and then start other anim montage

[wicked magnet]

Isn't there an on completed pin on play montage?

[odd kiln]

On the "Play Montage" node you have a "On Completed" pin

[wicked magnet]

Try play montage not anim montage

[shut yew]

im in a function

should i call a custom event

[wicked magnet]

Is play montage not available in functions?

[shut yew]

ma

[wicked magnet]

Well then yeah ig custom event

[shut yew]

can i loop an anim montage in functions

[half swallow]

it works fantastic! thank you so much!

[wicked magnet]

anyone know a video or have example code of rotating an actor around their up vector? tried something like this but it's not working right

sorry for spaghetti

[shut yew]

it executes the branch instantly

I want it to execute the branch after anim ends

[wicked magnet]

then put the branch on completed?

or sumthn

[shut yew]

what how

[shut yew]

yea

\but thats in event graph

and this is in a function

[wicked magnet]

idk put a custom event that goes into the branch and call it from function maybe?

[obtuse mulch]

do it not in function then

[wicked magnet]

or that

[obtuse mulch]

functions cant have custom events

[shut yew]

cant really

[wicked magnet]

I might have read it backwards on which was where

[obtuse mulch]

no, you cant do it THIS way

[shut yew]

i really need to do it in a function

[wicked magnet]

why

[shut yew]

cause i have lots of things calling to that function

gimme a moment

ill try to make it in event graph

how do i stop autosave

so i can make a restore point

[obtuse mulch]

autosave is not on by default

but its in editor pref

[wicked magnet]

you sure? every project I've made had it

[obtuse mulch]

its never by default 🤔

[wicked magnet]

that's save on compile not autosave

[obtuse mulch]

whats autosave 😄

[wicked magnet]

the little message bottom right that saves every once in a while

[obtuse mulch]

ah its also somewhere in pref

does it actually saves your bps

[shut yew]

done

[shut yew]

now i just need to loop a montage

or set a pose from anim montage

[obtuse mulch]

check looping in montage

[wicked magnet]

it's not hard bro idk just like put a branch on completed and loop it back to the montage or sumthn

or what nibiz said

I haven't used anims much so I forgot about that lmao

[obtuse mulch]

it doesnt loop? i never used this

[shut yew]

yea

[obtuse mulch]

check this then

in montage sections

[shut yew]

what is that 🤣

done thanks

[olive yarrow]

my foot ik is out here wildin' on me. I'm using virtual bones for my feet, any suggestions? if it helps - i followed this tut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM06-K1F-is

[frosty heron]

What's this suppose to do? You don't even feed any skeletal mesh

[shut yew]

done

problem solved

[frosty heron]

Look at Unreal TPS template, it already implement foot IK

you can copy the code

[burnt obsidian]

Hi is it possible to remove a blueprint component when I added it to the level. Let's say as example I've made this blueprint that just contains a cube. is it possible for me to delete the cube in this instance but not from the blueprint

[frosty heron]

if you are talking about the component then no. Also you can't delete inherited component

[shut yew]

how to smoothen anim montage transition

[burnt obsidian]

alright

[frosty heron]

Just set the static mesh component to Null

so u don't see a cube

[obtuse mulch]

try making blend out time higher in montage

[shut yew]

like to how much

[wicked magnet]

just try out numbers. ain't gotta ask every little thing

[shut yew]

alr

doesnt really worek

work

[olive yarrow]

I'm using the basicikfootrig that the mannies already has 😦

[obtuse mulch]

try "on blend out" not on completed

[shut yew]

done

i did that

thanks alot man

@trim matrix and @obtuse mulch really helped me

[frosty heron]

I can copy it just fine, what do you have trouble with? Do you have an IK bone?

not sure what's the deal with virtual bone. never really touchhed it but as long that follows your foot, it should work

[wicked magnet]

why does my thing stop rotating after 90? disconnected x and z for test

[olive yarrow]

got rid of the virtual bones, dudeman inb the tut added uneccesary junk. howver still doin' the thriller lean. i've footb ik and bfull body ik on my characters ik (i just copied what the existing ue5 rigs use)

[turbid pecan]

Guys is there a good way to easily determine directionality using the enhanced input actions and a controller bp? So I have a EIA for strafing in town. It only defines A and D keys. My movement works well for this. All's good there, but I am trying to explicitly determine movement direction inside the controller blueprint which uses this IA.

So like I want to be able to use the IA Event that fires on either A or D press to somehow give me which key was pressed so I can easily say "yup, player is intending to move left" for instance

[frosty heron]

if u have foot ik you wouldn't need virtual bone

[olive yarrow]

that's exactly what i was sayin' after taking a second to think on thisb dudes tutorial 😂

[hard charm]

I have some niagara text particles and I want to add them to my character but it turns out that when I put the camera in, this particle is not rendered correctly

[frosty heron]

@olive yarrow

[trim matrix]

wait what

[wicked magnet]

he meant me prolly

[trim matrix]

lol

[olive yarrow]

yurp, that's what i have. except for the final get transform, oddly if i don't use the VB onb those specifically my character slides

[frosty heron]

if the foot planted to the ground 24/7 then it's not setup correctly yet

[olive yarrow]

yeah, i know

[frosty heron]

you probably want to check your walking/running anim as well

and see if the IK foot_l and ik foot r actually moves with the bone

If ur foot IK is not animated, then ur feet will stay planted 24/7

[olive yarrow]

animsb andb blend space have bno issues

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

the ik wiggles but does not follow

[frosty heron]

The IK logic should be added last anyway, so if it work for one anim should work for others

[frosty heron]

that's the issue

since ur IK stays in place

ur feet not gonna move

[olive yarrow]

how to tackle said issue though

[frosty heron]

If you are doing re-targeting

make sure u re-target the IK too

otherwise, if you are importing anim from 3D program, make sure to animate the Ik there. I don't know how animator does it, I'm no animator

[olive yarrow]

awh shit i overwrote the manny foot ik with my characters

oh wait i had the ik built in for the retarget so back at square one

[frosty heron]

this is the IK

[olive yarrow]

yupp

[frosty heron]

if you want to re-target manny IK you need this

@olive yarrow last tip, when you are in Control Rig. To re-target successfully. Set the IK bone translation to Globally Scalled. IT's default to NONE so you will have the same issue if you skip this step

[olive yarrow]

i'm unable to find this in my details while in the control rig

[frosty heron]

show picture

u have to select the IK control

the Sphere thingy

[simple spade]

I appreciate the response! Guess I got some reading to do!

[frosty heron]

Share whole picture

i can't see what you are selecting

[olive yarrow]

i don't visually see any sphere thing

[frosty heron]

not the window I am showing

it's Retargeting part

[olive yarrow]

i don't get esxactly the same thing

awh my hand ik is fucked

[tough creek]

I think this is mostly a math question but I'm struggling to wrap my around it and would appreciate some input:

I have an actor whose transform has a scale which is made up of either 1 or -1 in each axis. I want to create a new transform which has a scale of {1,1,1} whilst maintaining the same rotation in the world.

Is there a quick and easy node to help with this or do I need to get the math brain on?

[olive yarrow]

no dice on the globally scaled, aye carumba

[frosty heron]

The yellow square

click it

[queen heron]

why does this give me that error? 🤔

[frosty heron]

Because not the same type

[queen heron]

how?

[frosty heron]

not sure how to answer that, it is what it is

they are not the same type

it even tells you
Actor Object Reference is not compatible with Point To Look At Object Reference

[queen heron]

I'll need to figure out a different way then...

[olive yarrow]

Heard, I'll click the foot goals when I get back from work and catch back up with ya

[queen heron]

I wanted to access the custom event from that actor using the find nearest actor node

but since that ain't possible

I'll need to refresh the array

[frosty heron]

you are already selecting it (but the hand IK). do the same with the foot IK 😄

[frosty heron]

why not

[olive yarrow]

Ah yeah xD I selected the foot ik, made it global, along with both feet ik (did not edit the goals), re ran the retargwter but had same ol issue - but in time... Dang... Work...

[obtuse mulch]

you need to cast to point to look first

[frosty heron]

@queen heron Any reason why Look At Actor is not an Actor reference?

you want to be as generic as you can be in cases like this imo

[queen heron]

this works

I have a camera system where the camera rotates twice as much than the spring arm

and if its close to the actor that is set into that array node

it will focus on that

disabling that dynamic camera rotation

[frosty heron]

I dunnoe, you seems to try destroy something before setting it

do u not get error when playing in editor?

probably get accesses none though I can't debug from here

[queen heron]

when the actor was destroyed

[frosty heron]

requires look at actor to be set

[queen heron]

this node tried to access the same item

[frosty heron]

if not here then somewhere

[queen heron]

which was failing to find it so the variable which was supposed to enable the dynamic camera rotation was not being set

now after putting those two nodes there, it works as it should

normally the Find Nearest Actor node should've worked just fine without the fix

a slot would become NULL if the nearest actor is destroyed, but kinda weird that it was still looking at the same array index

[frosty heron]

btw WasActorRecently rendered is very unreliable I heard

especially for shipping

[queen heron]

I don't think I'll be doing shipping

the save system seems to be a bit broken...

[frosty heron]

well it helps to place something that is not broken

what's up with the save system?

[queen heron]

stuff wasn't being loaded

saving was working

but loading wasn't

[frosty heron]

Well, might want to debug it

nothing wrong from the engine side, I've been using it just fine since UE4

[queen heron]

when shipping, the save folder is put in a completely different directory

[frosty heron]

Yes, as it should be

[queen heron]

its not the same as the game folder

[frosty heron]

pretty sure u can change it but I don't bother

[queen heron]

and unreal engine fails to load it

[frosty heron]

In shipping it will load from App Data

So you have seperate .sav location between development and shipping

it will still load just the same tho

no issue

[queen heron]

this is the node I was using when the build was in shipping build

[frosty heron]

Yeah, that's fine

i'm using that too

there is only one node to load anyway I think

you just insert the .sav name and it will load the file

[queen heron]

my game was not finding the save file when it tried to load the progress

[frosty heron]

must have done something wrong, check if you are actually saving anything

[queen heron]

I looked up myself and the save file was there

[frosty heron]

For shipping it's at AppData

[thin panther]

then it didn't exist or you used the wrong name.

[frosty heron]

Been making different mini projects and used the save system over and over. Not once it failed me, just saying

[queen heron]

slot names in both Save and Load were the same

copy pasted

[frosty heron]

Check with Does Save Game Exist node

[queen heron]

I just said I found the save files in App Data

meaning it should've worked

my guess is it may have to do with the fact that I used Save Game for everything and not Game Instance?

or

maybe the Load Game from Slot is trying to read the save file from the wrong directory

[frosty heron]

On development the node will load from your saved Folder
On Shipping the node will load from appdata

[dark drum]

It would read the file from the same place it saves too so it wouldn't be the wrong directory.