blueprint

[trim matrix]

everyhting should be there

[wooden cave]

im trying that

[lofty rapids]

i would print string the x, y as well make sure it's working if it doesn't work

[wooden cave]

but doesnt seem to like my spring arm target

[lofty rapids]

or even just a print string to see if the event is firing at all

[trim matrix]

show the code

[wooden cave]

im not as fast as you guys typing xD im tryna do the things yall said

[trim matrix]

alrr

But
btw, this should already be implemented in ue5 if you chose the correct template

[wooden cave]

the thing is, this is the default template xd

of the vehicle one

im just trying to look around the car bruhhh

[trim matrix]

okk

if it doesnt work just print and test it...

[wooden cave]

using print string on the local rotation, to my surprise, it does print that the axis are working

every, axis

but camera wont move

[frosty heron]

You don't want to touch the local rotation

[trim matrix]

show ur code

[frosty heron]

You want to add to your controller rotation

[wooden cave]

i cant get my spring arm if i use controller yaw input, says not compatible

[frosty heron]

Don't touch your spring arm

Just delete it

[wooden cave]

how tf im supposed to rotate around the car

if the camera works left-right shouldnt it be more easy to make it look up-down too?

[frosty heron]

We talking about the camera? By rotating the control rotation

[wooden cave]

im talking aboout the pawn of the chaos vehicle templat

im using the "backspringarm" to move camera

[frosty heron]

I never use the vehicle template. But if you want to move your camera, you should try to do what's shown by engage

But if any advice given is met with barrage of protest then it's kinda hard to help

[wooden cave]

its not protest, im just saying what i think

[thin panther]

is your spring arm or camera by any chance freezing rotation on certain axes?

[wooden cave]

but ight imma try for second time the engage bp

[thin panther]

it makes sense not using control rotation in this case.

[frosty heron]

I see, I never dealt with vehicle

[wooden cave]

well, complains to unreal devs, this was the default BP xD

[wooden cave]

ill look

[raw orbit]

would this work? im trying to make sure i output a reference to the struct instead of a copy so i can directly edit it without needing to re-add the edited copy into my library / map.

or does the node keys and values create copies to begin with? so id probably need to just have two separate arrays instead of using a map?

[thin panther]

yeah the values array is a copy

you'd be editing the originals in the values array, but not in the map

this doesn't make a lot of sense though

just use find on the map

that will return the struct for that key

[raw orbit]

but find doesnt return a reference it returns a copy, no?

[thin panther]

you aren't returning a reference to the map here anyway

[raw orbit]

what if i went the two separate arrays route

instead of a map

[thin panther]

no point

just index the map

[lofty rapids]

well if you want a free cam use a different method, this is a control thing so your turning might f'd

[prime stump]

Hey, shouldn't this rotate the manhole's Y axis from its current value (0) to -4.5 and then back to 0 again? cause its just rotating it to -4.5 but it stays there?

[versed sun]

you are lerping from Where it currently is to -4.5
Replace Lerp's A with 0

[wooden cave]

ok your bp, did kinda work and by kinda i mean now i can move the camera around the car yes but it doesnt seem to rotate well?, i dont know how to explain it its like not only moving updown left right, it seems its also sometimes rotating on itself its kinda making me feel dizzy if i look at it xD

okay, dont ask how or why, re-opening the pawn bp fixed it

with this method could i make limits to the camera so its doesnt for example: move fast/slow or change where the limits are so it doesnt clip underground?

[trim matrix]

yea

its called clamp

[true valve]

Can I take my impact point and set cursor in UI?

[wooden cave]

i really need to make the camera move slower its way too fast xD

[true valve]

Current;y not getting accurate location

[wooden cave]

ty imma look it up

[trim matrix]

divide the number

[wooden cave]

you mean the pitch/yaw input value?

[trim matrix]

yea

[lofty rapids]

or multiply by 0.2 or something

multiplication is typically faster

[trim matrix]

true

[trim matrix]

does it work now?

[wooden cave]

yup, i tried both and multiplication works a bit better

[trim matrix]

yeaa

[wooden cave]

thank you gentleman for your time, and im sorry my lack of knowledge i wanted to fix this and the tutorials/stuff on forums wasnt very straight forward

[trim matrix]

np

[wooden cave]

now i added also the collision to the camera, it wont clip through the ground so now i just gotta make it also doesnt clip through the car either

[trim matrix]

bro deleted lol

[faint pasture]

make the car collider block whatever channel it uses

[wooden cave]

wich it worked ty, only left thing is its figure out how the collider for the camera works

[faint pasture]

It just does a sphere trace from the components position to the desired position at target arm length and stops if it collides. That's where your camera ends up that frame

[wooden cave]

yeah it kinda doesnt stop, thats what im tryna figure it out now, if i move camera to the floor and keep moving the mouse, eventually the camera starts getting closer to the car, and thats what i dont like

[faint pasture]

you need to define what you want

[lofty rapids]

you can check if is colliding, then shut off the move maybe

[faint pasture]

no don't do that. What do you want?

[faint pasture]

The options are move throught the floor, not closer to the car, or not move throught the floor, but go closer to the car. Unless you want to limit the vertical pitch angle of the spring arm. What do you INTEND to have happen when you look up?

[lofty rapids]

or maybe just stop it from moving anywhere except z on collide idk but this might help

[digital valve]

I got this first image moveing the player to current piece which is working. But upon dice roll the second function will not move the pawn. Any idea why? it will tell me what the piece is and will tell keep repeating as its supposed to till 0 but it never moves the pawn

[wooden cave]

i want the camera to have a fixed lengh related to the spring arm, so its always the same lengh related to the absolute location

with that i could make another bp to control the zoom

thats what i wanna do

[faint pasture]

So when you look up, that fixed length will push it through something

[wooden cave]

that could be a problem yes

sigh why is the camera giving me this many issues xd

[faint pasture]

Because you haven't decided what you actually want.
Do you want this?

[lofty rapids]

the camera and controlls can be annoying

[faint pasture]

or this

[lofty rapids]

i'm still learning them, having issues with different things

like right now because i rotated by spring arm, i guess the rotation doesn't work anymore ?

[wooden cave]

im already doing this

[faint pasture]

OR, there's a 3rd one.
This.

[wooden cave]

the thing is, when the camera DOESNT clip through the floor, it gets closer to the car if i keep "pulling" the axis

[lofty rapids]

you may be able to clamp the target arm length ?

[trim matrix]

that's what i said lol

[faint pasture]

You have 3 options for what to do when you try to look up.
Clip through floor without changing length
Change length without clipping through floor
Limit angle spring arm can look (Camera can still pitch further up though)

[wooden cave]

im trying that one

[faint pasture]

That's what WoW has as an option

[wooden cave]

1 and 2 are the ones i dont want, so ig 3 its the one

[faint pasture]

That'll take a lot more work but it's doable

I'd probably do it like this.

Spring arm does NOT enroll with control rotation, you'll have to set its rotation on tick yourself

[trim matrix]

as i told you an hour ago?

[faint pasture]

you read control rotation and clamp the pitch

[wooden cave]

did not see your message, sorry then

[faint pasture]

camera uses full control rotation, spring arm uses clamped control rotation

spring arm does the usual collision test so it never clips, just can't look so far up that youre looking up your cars ass

[olive yarrow]

@frosty heron I RETURN! AND LOOK AT THIS 😄 lmfao

[wooden cave]

ight im getting a bit overwhelmed with info here, im gonna try everything yall said, if i try to keep up imma do mistakes

[trim matrix]

you said you were going to look at it...........

[wooden cave]

did i? well i forgot then sorry again

as i said im getting a bit overwhelmed here imma try to scroll up and take it slowly

[outer brook]

hey folks. i am searching for a specific kind of topic whose name i cannot recall.

i have seen a youtube tutorial long ago where someone created a custom blueprint actor with which you could e.g. create a wall dynamically on the map by dragging a gizmo/indicator around on the map and the BP just created the wall in an instant.

especially the part with the gizmo was interesting since i already know that BPs can be used in the map in editing-mode like via constructor and certain flags set in the properties of the BP.

it would help if someone could give me some topics or terms which i could search for to find what i seek. can anyone help?

[dull dawn]

hi i have this code that prints these 6 numbers on the screen depending on an condition but i want to make it so that the numbers get stored in a row in a variable e.g in this case(604030105020). is there any way to do this

[outer brook]

is using an array an option?

[peak spear]

are you trying to make it a single variable?
as in "604030105020"

[dull dawn]

yes i want to later compare that with something

[peak spear]

google Concatenation

idk how blueprints work, but thats the programming term

[dull dawn]

can be an array i can combine that later too

[outer brook]

well, using an array would lead to creating a for-loop in which you "append" all elements to a string-variable.
just use the "append"-function for that

[dull dawn]

my select node only sends one value at a time when the condition is true how do i add them in order if it can be stored in an array that is fine as well

[outer brook]

this would be an example. maybe like that?

[dull dawn]

ah thats nice i made something like this pretty un optimized but kinda works

[faint pasture]

You can do that with 1 append node

add pin

[dull dawn]

which append node this one doesnt have an add list

[outer brook]

or you can also use "Format Text" function, if your array has a fixed set of elements

[outer brook]

@faint pasture refers to this

you don't need to add multiple appends, just use one and "add pins" as many as you need

[dull dawn]

oh that append i see

[outer brook]

or use "format text", with that you have more control about the structure of the outcoming string

these brackets define a new node on the "Format Text"-Function dynamically as you but them in the textfield.

you can even put text between like so: {a} is not like {b} or {c}

[dull dawn]

ooh didnt know that did want add a - in between that should help

but how do iadd more values in it

[turbid pecan]

QQ: anything can potentially be an NPC right? Like if I just stick a manny mesh into a scene I can make it into a npc I can do BP for talking to it right? (Albeit it wouldn’t be animated or anything)

There’s no special restriction or requirement as to what a npc is or can be ?

[broken wadi]

Well the term NPC stands for non player character so by definiation it should at the very least be a character. If you have a talking rock for example then its just considered an actor.

[turbid pecan]

I guess I’m going for something that has some idle animation eventually, but doesn’t interact with me in a game sense. All it can do is be clicked on, talked to and animate itself to a degree

So actor is more appropriate as a term here?

[faint pasture]

NPC is fine, that doesn't have to imply the Unreal concept of ACharacter

It all depends on your game design

[broken wadi]

Id call it an npc because its a character. A character typically has a capsule collider and movement capabilities but also in a non technical sense a character is part of a larger story whereas an actor is just something like a door that the player can open.

[turbid pecan]

Oh I see what you mean

Ok that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Yeah I was mostly going for like.. a town vendor that’s got a “sitting idle” animation, I can click on them to open a buy/sell menu and maybe another option to do “chit chat”. That’s as far as that goes.

But I was wondering if that can technically be done to any object

[faint pasture]

Character usually refers to some subclass of https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Framework/Pawn/Character/ in the context of Unreal but you can do whatever you want.

[faint pasture]

Yes that can just be an actor if you want

It might be useful to make them a YourBaseCharacter if talking to movable characters and doing inventory actions with them is meant to be a thing. In that case make "doesn't move around" the unique thing about this guy.

[turbid pecan]

For the time being I’m trying to save time by implementing what I consider priority stuff (dialogue, menus, ui) so I don’t want to spend any time animating. Just wanna stick a standing manny in the level and make it able to be interacted with for the moment

I feel like the polish such as animations and actually pretty ui can wait until the basics are down

[faint pasture]

You can ignore animations, but I'd think pretty hard about what the base classes of your game should look like

What sort of game is it?

Like, what does the player control, what do they do, and what do they interact with?

[turbid pecan]

It’s a fps dungeon crawler. The only time you get to fiddle with NPCs is in town. And really there’s only two types of them - vendor and regular. Vendors are self explanatory. Regular NPCs will just do basic stuff like trot around a given area and you can click on them to stop them and talk to them. Some might give you a quest. That’s sort of it

So eventually I was gonna make a base class for all of them

[faint pasture]

Yes

[turbid pecan]

And move the code from the shit non animated object over

[faint pasture]

I would make a base class that applies to EVERYONE

[turbid pecan]

So that I can subclass these

[faint pasture]

monsters, player char, static npcs, trotting npcs

[turbid pecan]

Yea

That is the long term goal

[faint pasture]

I'd just do it now

start like that

don't need to add animations etc

[turbid pecan]

I guess the mesh can be anything anyway

I’d save myself some time this way

(Your way I mean)

[faint pasture]

and you can just have it be empty and attach a static mesh, the only implications are that the root component is a capsule

[turbid pecan]

Sounds solid

Idm what the root is

For now anyway

[faint pasture]

root is the parent component within in actor

the scene component that all other scene components are attached to

[turbid pecan]

No but I mean I don’t mind whatever it is

Unless you think I should?

[faint pasture]

I mean if you wanted your NPCs to be stackable like blocks it might not be a good fit

[turbid pecan]

Oh heavens no

No they all need to be individual entities without any special mechanics toward one another

Enemies will just be side by side.

The fighting mechanic will be kinda like… ever play phantasy star 2 on Sega genesis?

[faint pasture]

but if capsule works for your use case then I'd just go with something like:
ACharacter
YourBaseCharacter
Subclass
Subclass
Subclass

[turbid pecan]

So like this. But imagine three 3d mannys where the mosquitos are

[faint pasture]

is there character movement walking outside of combat?

[turbid pecan]

No. It’s first person. You move east, west, north south and turn with Q/E kinda like legend of grimrock

[faint pasture]

Oh, on a grid, not smooth walking with momentum and jumping etc?

[turbid pecan]

And you don’t see enemies until the rng dings and you get a random encounter

[faint pasture]

In that case you don't need Character

[turbid pecan]

Yeah no jumping. Moving X units at a time

[faint pasture]

make your base class a subclass of Pawn

then you can do anything

[turbid pecan]

Perfect. Thanks for helping out. 🙂

[faint pasture]

Character mostly gets you 3rd-person / FPS style movement. If you don't need that, don't bother

[turbid pecan]

Yeah even the fight anims will be like idle > attack | defend | spell > idle >> dead

all from standing. They won't REALLY move

[faint pasture]

Yeah you can still do whatever animation stuff you want

[turbid pecan]

sweet

[faint pasture]

but you aren't stuck using a capsule, skeletal mesh, and 10,000 line movement component you won't be using

Pawn gets you possession by playercontrollers and aicontrollers, with aicontrollers getting you a nice modular ai system

[turbid pecan]

Just for clarity's sake - atm my player is controlled via two distinct controllers, but it itself isn't anything more special than the FP character you get in the FP starter. I assume it is totally fine to make a pawn that's distinct from the player and then use it for all monsters and npcs

just to be safe im not misunderstanding

[keen ice]

how do i get the closest player instead of player index 0

[lusty oak]

I am trying to learn how to setup a widget for when I transfer from normal gameplay to battle mode. In battle mode, the input context mapping changes and a widget comes up. I want the focus to start on the Attack button. Currently, the widget comes up ok, but there's no focus on the attack button, and when I stop playing I get an error that says "The PlayerController is not a valid local player so it can't focus the widget" Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

[true valve]

Is there anyway to use an ImpactPoint from linetrace to position a crosshair in UI

[thin panther]

yes

you can convert world location to screenspace

[true valve]

how?

I tried aall SetRender stuffs

[thin panther]

with the aptly named Convert World Location to Screen Location node

[faint pasture]

What do you mean by controller?

[true valve]

Not working

[true valve]

it's off where it should be

[turbid pecan]

Well there's the FP controller which handles EIA stuff, so I have one per game mode

And char movement code is in there

one set of movement in town one in dungeons

[thin panther]

try project world location to widget position instead then

[rotund nacelle]

I want to make an object rotate around another object. How do I go about doing this? I saw that there is a node that assigns rotation and allows you to shift the pivot point at the same time How do I find it?

[odd kiln]

Hi all

I just want a basic Cube following my "Ocean waves" if anyone can help me please

I made a "Gerstner waves" code and put it into the "World Position Offset" of my Shader.

Now in my Blueprint Actor I want that my Cube follows the height of the waves.

Anyone has an idea ?

[grizzled spade]

Hello, I was wondering if anybody could help me with my fps game. I want to add an ADS/Iron sight system my project is based on pixel helmets fps template.

[thin panther]

ooh no a bp only multiplayer fps game, that sounds like pain

Don't do multiplayer as a first project or with blueprint only

both are unfeasible

That was a nice DM, but seriously. Start small.

Working with ADS and animations is a lot, and you'd benefit from doing small things and working up

If you're so insistent on doing this then, you may want to consider asking more pointed questions, like what specifically with an ADS system you're trying to do, what you've done so far, why it isn't working, and post screenshots of the code. There isn't much we can go off with that little information, or knowledge of the project

But again, you're better off starting small if you're in the course stage of learning.
(And stop DM'ing me, read the #rules)

[lunar sleet]

Fighting with ghosts in the machine? 😁

[thin panther]

Absolutely, you know it

Only the kindest of DM contact from our friend here

[lunar sleet]

I am grateful for discord’s auto DM block lol

[thin panther]

I'd turn it on if there wasn't a handful of people I sometimes talk to lol

[olive yarrow]

how i make line trace for entire anim montage?
😦

[frosty heron]

What's the goal

[agile pilot]

Can't you "Tick Enable" at montage start, Line Trace Event tck, then "TickDisable" when montage over ?

[olive yarrow]

I tried using ticks instead of visibility and for some reason that didn't work out

It staaaarts to trace but just... One frame. Goal is to trace for a period of time

[brazen merlin]

you can use montage notify states for duration-based occurences. its like notify events, but they are defined by a duration over frames

[olive yarrow]

UGH. Of course 🤦‍♂️ I'ma try that in a mooooment

[earnest fog]

I want to have a confirmation prompt (a 2D element) so I use a widget, right? And I implement it using “add to viewport”, right? But, the node says it’s client-side only and shouldn’t be used for gameplay actions.

[frosty heron]

Don't worry about it

client-side only talks about multiplayer

[olive yarrow]

okay i lied. added a notify state but now i'm stupid and dunno what next. can't find anything that seems to be related (and working) in my graph

[frosty heron]

you can run the trace in the anim notify state

[olive yarrow]

hold on whaaat?

[frosty heron]

what have you attempted soo far?

Did you not create a blueprint of Anim notify state?

[olive yarrow]

ain't gonna lie i don't know what you're asking

[frosty heron]

Create Blueprint -> Derived from Anim Notify State -> Name it ANS_MeleeTrace

open it and you will find a function that runs on tick as long the anim notify state is alive

[olive yarrow]

mine opens empty

[frosty heron]

show picture please

It will start empty

what do you expect to be inside?

[olive yarrow]

you said i'd find a function

so that

[frosty heron]

you can override the events on the left

Just post a picture everytime you reply

make it easy for both of us

[frosty heron]

What's the base class? show a picture on top right corner

[olive yarrow]

parent class is anim notify state

[frosty heron]

You want to override the tick function

do you know how to override function?

[olive yarrow]

nah

[frosty heron]

On tick runs every frame

Begin runs when the ANS is called in your montage

Ends called when the ANS ends

So if u want to run the trace every frame within the duration of the ANS, do it on Tick

[olive yarrow]

"received notify tick" ?

[frosty heron]

when you drop ANS in your montage, don't forget to use your version instead of the vanilla one

[olive yarrow]

okee dokee, got it in the montage for the duration of the swing - should i be calling something for the line traces Draw Time?

[frosty heron]

you do what you like

it's your game 😄

[olive yarrow]

I could use a snack.

But i'm not sure how to now make that trace trace after adding ANS t the montage

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/mean-girls-lohan-fetch-lindsay-tina-gey-gif-21793930

[frosty heron]

You pull out the trace node

[olive yarrow]

trace channel, complex, color?

[frosty heron]

You can figure that one out

i'm not your dad

you can put any color you like

Just a tip for weapon line Trace, you want to use capsule trace

Then probably draw a line trace at the tip of the sword backward to previous location, to compensate for low FPS users

and this is your skeletal mesh that is playing the montage. If you need reference to your character,
You can . GetMeshComp->GetOwner->CastToMyCharacter

[sturdy leaf]

hey, im pretty new to Blueprints and im trying to make my character move forward a bit (relative to mesh) after a mantle/vault animation is played and i feel like im almost there and the solution is very simple thats going over my head, here is my code before and now

the first screenshot of code works but only in one direction, so i decided to try the Get Actor Rotation and Forward Vector route but i cant but a vector to a float

and i know i can split the vector but it doesnt go any direction if i do and connect it to the Add Node EDIT:Fixed I got the rotation -> Forward Vector and Multiplied by Distance i wanted then added to actor Location

[foggy escarp]

If you need a jump function, there's already a function for that in the default movement component

[sturdy leaf]

it was for a mantle or vaulting up a wall whatever you want to call it

[foggy escarp]

Ahh, ok

[sturdy leaf]

yes, i knew it was a super simple fix, i just added and added when i shouldve multiplied then added lol

[foggy escarp]

I'd just use make vector, and set x and Y to zero. Then multiply it by the distance you need to move

Then use add location offset.

[sturdy leaf]

yeah im just folling a tutorial but had to switch to a different tutorial cuz the first one used something that i didnt want in my controller so i was just going off the second tutorial

[foggy escarp]

I see your interping it with tick, which requires your setup

[sturdy leaf]

also is there a way i can change my key to Hold Space without jumping first? i currently have the vault key to X which isnt very good in game so i want it to be space but when i try to make the key space it always jumps first, any fixes?

do i have to make the jump delay ?

[foggy escarp]

No, you could use your implementation that you have created to check if a vault is possible to decide if you should allow jump. If this is a function with a returned bool, just set thi S up before your jump input and a branch.

[remote meteor]

You would only be able to move along the x axis. Your game is side scrolling?

[sturdy leaf]

No just for that moment, i have another fuction that allows normal movement after the animation

[sturdy leaf]

uhh so in lamens terms, add a branch right after the jump input?

[foggy escarp]

Yep

[sturdy leaf]

the condition would be a "CanVault" ?

[thorny marsh]

@sturdy leaf Glad you found your answer 🙂

[sturdy leaf]

thanks

@foggy escarp would any of these work or would i have to make a new bool variable?

[foggy escarp]

I'm not sure you would need a variable because it's something that the code won't know until write after the input is pressed. I was thinking that within your function where you call your vault event, you would have a function that does the trace that attempts to find a vault able surface. You could use this to also decide if it wasn't vault able, you would jump.
Can I see your main event graph where your inputs are?

[sturdy leaf]

like the whole event graph?

[foggy escarp]

Yeah, or at least where the jump input is calling your vault.

[sturdy leaf]

does this work?

[foggy escarp]

Yeah, but where are you calling vault?

Oh nvm

[sturdy leaf]

the second screenshot or you mean something else?

[foggy escarp]

Yeah, so you have options on how to do this, but if the vualt key is meant to be adjustable, you would want to keep them separate how you have them, but you do need to select all you logic after the vault input and convert it to a function. The goal here would be to return a bool weather or not a vault should happen. This would allow you to use the function in multiple places. I would just put it right after the jump input and (Can Vault) true then nothing, if false, jump. Then the opposite for vault side.

[faint python]

I know I can just us IsValid node and connect the character ref but just curious, what is/how do I place this node? I cannot seem to find it aha.

[foggy escarp]

It's a normal variable getter, but you right click and convert to validated get.

[faint python]

Ayyyy thanks aha I don't really use blueprints so could not figure that out 😛

[sturdy leaf]

ok but would i have to do Set CanVault in the vaulting section or have its default be true or false or? cuz the vault works like any other input

[foggy escarp]

It's a good time saver

[foggy escarp]

I recomend you to copy your logic for the vault trace and convert it to a function, if you haven't worked with making functions this allows you to experiment and test while still enabling you to reconnect it the way you had it if your function is breaking things.

But basically you just need to create a boolean output parameter. And in the function branch it and return true or false depending on your trace result.

Blueprints gets much easier when you collapse things like this to functions because it allows you to simplify bigger problems into a couple small ones.

[sturdy leaf]

sorry if im being dumb but youre saying i put all the Vault nodes into a function and make it return node with a output of CanVault? if i got that right do i make that true?

[foggy escarp]

'CanVault' is just what I would name the output pin for the function. Once you've created the function you can create multiple return nodes which will return 'CanVault'. This sets the return pin and exits the function.

Sorry if my typing is difficult to read, I hate typing on phones.

[sturdy leaf]

no its not difficult to read im just extremely dumb when it comes to blueprints lol

[foggy escarp]

We all were at some point

[sturdy leaf]

also would the return node with CanVault have to be at the end and would it have to be set as true or false?

currently have this if this helps

[foggy escarp]

If you look at your current implementation of the vault logic if you still have it there, you should see a point at which the code is basically asking the question, "can I vault?". Where ever this is you could belasically just adapt that to return a bool within the function.

Oh. I see you aren't handling this with you current logic

Your vault trace is the relevant part here.

If the trace fails, return 'CanVault' false, if trace successful 'CanValut' true.

[sturdy leaf]

so id put it here?

out the branch?

this is first line trace after input

[foggy escarp]

Yeah, instead of using the branch in the function, simply return the boolean after setting the vectors you have. You would still need to add the branch back in after the function, but this enables you to reuse the function where you need it after jump.

[sturdy leaf]

ok lol so move branch to back after the SETs and wdym reuse? are you saying for if i want to be able to change keybinds?

[foggy escarp]

The reason why you should be converting this to a function is because it allows you to have a quick and easy way to ask the question, 'should I jump or vault'.
Now for the branch, I mean to add it back in not in the function it's self, but after the function call in the same graph of your vault input.

You want to call and stream instead? It'd be faster.

[sturdy leaf]

uhh yeah probably lol

[lunar sleet]

and that’s how a romance began

[silent stag]

Hey guys , i can't find nice aim down sight tutorial do you know any ?

[chilly plover]

How can you quickly get the current loaded slot name?

[red berry]

Anyone know why a widget with visibility of Not Hit Testable (Self & all children), still absorbs my clicks? I can't click on the UI element below that one, even though the click should go through
Edit: Figured out that for my custom drag-drop solution, setting the Image's texture in beginplay via Make SlateBrush and Set Brush would also set the visibility to visible, even though personally I think setting the texture and setting the visibility should be 2 different functions, but it does it both in one node. So I had to set visibility to non-hit testable after setting the slate brush and now it works

[frosty heron]

Be more specific

Slot name of what?

[chilly plover]

The Slot name when you put into the load game

[turbid hound]

have a little collision on component begin overlap if i put a print node on this and run in standalone it works fine if i run on listen server or client it doesnt work. i have another component set up the same in another actor and it works on all three but i need this one to work as well

[frosty heron]

That will be the name of your .sav file

U need to provide the name

Think of how you want to do your save system

Easy one is to do fixed slot

Where you assign slot name on each slot

[chilly plover]

I want to do a multiple save deature

[frosty heron]

Then do it

Nothing stopping you

Get pen and paper figure out your design

[remote meteor]

Remember you could always use widget reflector to see what the cursor is hit-testing.

[eternal totem]

Can I get a reference actor/controller/pawn to whoever the local player is whether is be the server host player or the client player? Im trying to pull location data from whoever the current player is and I'm having an issue where only the host is being stored in my actor variable on both host and client.

[kind estuary]

Im working on an isometric game.
So i set the camera to ortographic and its working.

But in the editor its still warped/perspective

is there a way to make the camera ortographic in the editor so i can see what im doing properly?

perhaps by calling a Brutility ?

[shut yew]

Journal Not Opening when input action is pressed

solved

[lunar sleet]

I think orto cam has some bugs right now

[lunar sleet]

Check with #multiplayer and show screenshots

[frosty heron]

@shut yew

[frosty heron]

In controller use islocalcontroller. In pawn use islocallycontrolled

[kind estuary]

yup it sucks cause everytime i need to check how my iso game is looking i need to press play to see the orto cam 😦

its really a pain in the orto lol

[lyric quiver]

does this symbol on the top right mean anything?

[dark drum]

Yes, it means it's a replicated variable.

[formal flicker]

can anyone help me find out why I can't find engine rotation in vehicle movement even through I am able to edit it in it's proprieties?

[tacit summit]

Hi, how do I load multiple levels at the same time? my setup is I have a loop with a list of names of the Levels I want to load,

The problem I'm having is the Load Stream Level is a latent node. It only loads one level most of the time. can anyone give me ideas as to what workaround for this? Thanks for the help.

[silent drift]

Is this really the best way to check for which type of projectile hits an enemy? (FYI, this was just my thought based on a tutorial I saw and I just want to know if there is a better way). I'm currently doing at least two casts, (and a third to see if I hit the player and deal damage to the player).

1. Cast to see if the enemy is hit by my Darkness projectile
2. If the darkness is NOT valid, I check if it is hit by my Light projectile
3. If the light is NOT valid, I check if it was the player.

I feel like there probably is a better way and I just do not know it. 😄

[dark drum]

The projectile shouldn't really need to care about what it's applying damage too. The project would just call the Apply Damage node on what it hits. What you want to recieve damage would then implement the OnTakeAnyDamage event and handle the damage. You can specify custom damage types that the projectile can specify when applying damage. The hit actor can then check this if needed to perform any calculations it needs.

[silent drift]

Okay, and there I could say "Should only hurt when hit by Light and not by darkness?" as an example?

[dark drum]

Yea, so it would be what's hit that decides if it should recieve damage.

[cyan jetty]

I want to select different units with a rectangle, these units should only be selected if they have the bolan "OwendbyPlayer" set to true. Does anyone know where I have to install the block?

code in Unit:

[toxic badge]

[Chaos Vehicles]
Hey good folks, quick question from a noob, how can I "know" when I'm in reverse gear if they have a separate index seemingly? As you can see I'm attempting a primitive reverse lights setup. Currently using point lights as placeholders for bulbs' emission later on.

[lime basin]

kinda noob question by why isnt my widget showing up

this is inside player blueprint

[oblique thistle]

Is the Add Data Table Row node bugged in UE 5.3 ?
I am trying to write to a data table using an Editor Utility Widget but I am getting this error:

LogScript: Warning: The data table type is incompatible with the RowData parameter.
EUW_Utility_C /Game/Maps/GameLevels/Office_Space.Office_Space:EUW_Utility_C_12
Function /Game/Blueprints/Framework/Utility/EUW_Utility.EUW_Utility_C:ExecuteUbergraph_EUW_Utility:0184

I am absolutely sure that the struct type I am passing is correct.

[frosty heron]

Only if you do multiplayer

[silent drift]

Thanks. Will read up on it!

[toxic badge]

Solved. Being the noob I am I forgot to do the most important thing in debugging. Print whatever I'm checking. Reverse gears are actually not "0,1" as seen in the index, but "-1,-2".

[tender epoch]

When using GLTF Exporter with Object that comes from Get Sequence with target as Start Recording, the editor crashes. It also crash when i click an random object to export. Asset list is empty, how to solve this?

I want to export animation subscene and it would be possible with that function

[kind estuary]

Just to clear things out.
An Instanced Static Mesh Component is not worth it, if the meshes are distributed along the map, and you only see 10 or 20 of them at one time. Is this correct?

In that case using just plain Static Meshes is better?

[versed sun]

not sure about Sequencer, but i think you need to use '/' and not ''
And have the .GLTF extension on the end
you can also use built in Get Directory to get your folder/file path

[gentle urchin]

If you can handle the extra drawcalls and whatnot

Not sure id call it better but

Depends on the criteria for being better is

Dont the engine auto instance these today anyways ?

[odd kiln]

Hi all ! Anyone knows how can I acces to my WPO infos of my Material in my Blueprint ?

Like for example I have Gerstner Waves to make my Ocean and I would like to access to this into Blueprint to make an actor "floating" and following the waves

[kind estuary]

not that i know

[kind estuary]

i mean more performant

because ism is good for when you have many instances on the screen

but if they are not on the screen then it doesnt matter

Like for example. You have 200 meshes on the screen, then make it ism

but if there 10.000 meshes on the game, but only 5 on the screen at all times then it doesnt matter

maybe im wrong...

[tame terrace]

Hey, 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. And 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". I tried debugging it, is there any other solution to fix this?

[versed sun]

the extra divide by 0 is bad

[manic hamlet]

I hope I understand it properly now, ive got this:
So basically I make a Delegate that another system(in my example the buff system) wants to "hook" to.
Said delegate will be called(getting damaged) whenever I want something to happen in the buff system.
Then the buff system binds a function to said delegate and - in my case- reduces the amount of stacks on the buff.

does this look correct? 😄

[frosty heron]

I can't tell if something work or not from this picture alone. Multiplayer is hard btw, you are warned

if my tool is BP only, I will never attempt doing RPG or FPS in networked environment

thhere's soo much you can't do in BP especially networking stuff

[manic hamlet]

ye thats why i explained it in the text above,i can give the other blueprint too, np 🙂
i know MP is hard but im motivated enough lol

[frosty heron]

better learn CPP then, motivation alone is not enough if you don't use the right tool

you can't even expand CMC with blueprint

soo many walls that it's not actually viable to make bp game for multiplayer

[manic hamlet]

this is the construct of "buff"

and this the bound function:

Well good thing I know c# already, "just" gotta lean c++ when we hit that wall 😄

[frosty heron]

With delegates, you want to do 2 thing. Binding will hook a function to be called and it will start "listening'.
When the delegate in the BP you binded gets called, it will run the function that you assigned, in this case SRV_OnPlayerGetDamaged

wether it work or not, I can't tell from here, you have to test.

[manic hamlet]

yoyo, it seems to work, each time i get damaged the duration of the buff is reduced by 10 🙂

just wanted to double check if i am doing it right in the first place,as we all know,just cause something "works" doesnt make it right XD

[frigid summit]

this is the spawn logic

i need them to spawn one after one

[manic hamlet]

in the future i will change it so the stacks of the buffs will get removed, but just wanted to make a "quick test" and duration rduction of the buff seemed to work 🙂

[tame terrace]

Oooh yea it worked. Awsome 🙂

[frosty heron]

Set looping to true, then do a for loop. On Completed , clear the timer

[frigid summit]

the for loop where exactly before the spawn or after it

[frosty heron]

on the timer event

delete all your spawning logic

On Begin Play -> Set Timer by event -> Set SpawnIndex to 0

On Timer Event, Get all Actor of class Trigger Box -> Get array, use SpawnIndex for the index. Then spawn

If SpawnIndex > 5 , clear and invalidate timer

[frigid summit]

ok i will try it

[manic hamlet]

ye nice, this proves i understood delegates correctly,thanks 🙂 back to work 🙂

[cyan jetty]

can anyone help me?

[frigid summit]

there is on little proplem here i use the trigger box index as spawn points in the level so if i used spawn index that cant work

it named like trigger box 5 and 6 and 7 and 8

[frosty heron]

then make an array of Int

add 5 , 6 , 7 and 8

[fast finch]

Hello!

I have a marker system in my game that i am coding, i want to make a marker visible on the edges of the screen when the player is not directly looking at the marker, like an arrow pointing in the nearest direction to the marker?

I am struggling with the math for it 😦

[ancient nimbus]

Hello hi i'm having a bit of a struggle haha. i'm doing a line trace for objects, getting the hit actor and i would like to test if the actor's parent class is one of my custom classes, but the line trace seems to only be returning static mesh actor and then, returning "actor" as the parent. Which makes sense cause the line would be colliding with the actor component, but isnt the result i'm looking for.
this is my current logic

[fast finch]

I have an umg widget i want to rotate accordingly...

[odd kiln]

I guess I need to replicate my calculations of my gerstner waves in my blueprint but I'm using a "Custom" node HLSL and I'm stuck.. :/

[frigid summit]

what is wrong here

[lunar sleet]

For starters, get actors of class crutch used with no for each loop and getting copies instead

[frosty heron]

you are doing things randomly

please actually understand what you are doing

[lunar sleet]

A smorgasbord of nodes lol

[frosty heron]

you gonna be asking question constantly and never figured out what you are doing wrong

[frigid summit]

yea

[lunar sleet]

Should prly start with “your first hour in Unreal” , BP comms live training, the basics

[frosty heron]

If you expect people to help with your problem, you gotta make effort. Most people here are willing to help showing how to catch a fish, not catch the fish for you

Here freebie

if you don't understand, then learn all the basic

1. Create a BP actor, name it BP_SpawnLocation
2. Drop the BP_SpawnLocation to the world
3. Follow the Picture to start spawning

[thin panther]

Bonus points for reroute nodes

[frigid summit]

thanks for the tip

[frosty heron]

My spaghetti is no longer a Spaghetti monster 🐈

[tame terrace]

Hey, when I’m about to rename my level this shows up, am I gonna lose anything or is it safe?

[frigid summit]

its sad though that im one year almost one year and a ahalf and cant figure out what im doing wrong

[lunar sleet]

Renaming the level can cause some serious issues.

Most other things can be fixed by fix redirectors but I’ve seen people break their project renaming their level so have source control ready

[frosty heron]

You gotta know what does what first. You don't have a clear picture of array, timers and nodes, you won't know what goes wrong in your code. Take the time to learn the tools and understand what each node does

[tiny meteor]

probably its the game/editor startup map. you need to change it in project settings. should be safe to rename, but use source control in case

[frosty heron]

Mine one was broken but I think it only happend for WP one? I am not sure. Ditched WP maps and never had the problem soo far

[lunar sleet]

Try going back to the basics we recommended so you can grasp those and build from there

[frigid summit]

i understand alot but there is alot more to go

[tame terrace]

Oh ok

[lunar sleet]

You’ll nvr really stop learning

But slowly you’ll get better at it and develop a good foundation so new things will come easier

The first part of that is important tho

[lunar sleet]

Idk, I haven’t had the issue myself more than once but I’ve collected tears here

[frigid summit]

im scared that i will be spending alot more yers in this without knowing what im doing wrong

maybe i should quit instead

[thin panther]

learning absolutely takes years. You never stop. I've been using the engine for just over 4 years, and I still find new things every day

[frosty heron]

I'm 8 years... and probably know only 5% of what you know @thin panther

im jealous of smart ppl 😭

[lunar sleet]

Have you got somewhere else to be that’s more pressing? Building something takes time and learning to make it well even more so, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Also taking that defeatist attitude will not get people rallying to your aid to boost your morale. You need to find your own will to keep going, and sometimes it’ll be harder than others. What’s important is that you keep at it, something is better than nothing. No one else can help you with that

[frosty heron]

There's a point of time, if you keep learning. Blueprint Communication can click in your brain. You know how to pass data and work with references

once you understand that, you can start doing your own thing imo. I didn't look at tutorial for my dialogue and inventory system

[lunar sleet]

Yeah having that foundation is certainly a leg up

[frosty heron]

can;'t say I am doing it efficiently or right but I can start making things work

[frigid summit]

hope i reach that

[lunar sleet]

I think it gets to feel good when you finally start being able to make basic things without wondering if it’ll work or not lol

[frigid summit]

i havent got anything harder than unreal even in the 4 years that i spent in college

[frosty heron]

yup. Just like drawing I suppose, if we keep doing it everyday, there will be a day where we can start to enjoy it

[lunar sleet]

Idk, I can’t art 😅

[lofty rapids]

i don't know anything about art, i have a friend who helps me with that stuff

[frosty heron]

same but there is the 10k hour golden rule

[ancient nimbus]

Speaking of not knowing how to pass references 😎

[lunar sleet]

College is only there for recruiters that don’t know wtf the job requires to be able to differentiate you from the other candidates.

Nowadays it’s mostly a business, not rly there to teach you much in itself. Learning a whole giant engine, mostly on your own, is much more challenging

But alas that’s more of a #industry-chat / #lounge topic

[lofty rapids]

this discord has helped me a lot

[frigid summit]

yea even if its computer sciene

[frosty heron]

The class check is soo redundant

just cast right away

[lunar sleet]

Cast

Oops beat me to it

[ancient nimbus]

But wont casting break if i"m grabbing the wrong kind of object?

[frosty heron]

it will just run the cast failed exec

[lofty rapids]

if you cast to the parent it should find if it's of that class

[lunar sleet]

Casting is your friend, ignore anyone that says otherwise until you get to a massive scale where other tools are needed and not before

[ancient nimbus]

My personal struggle with unreal is how much stuff it takes care if for you like that. I never would hav thought that woukd just work

[lofty rapids]

i recently learned about parent, child class, it's pretty sweet actually

[ancient nimbus]

Thanks homies

[lunar sleet]

OOP is great, but tbh it took learning UE for me to actually get it

Visualizing it in code was much harder

[lofty rapids]

for me the code is easy, it's just getting around UE and all the settings, configuration that's hard

[odd kiln]

Anyone knows if I can copy an HLSL code into a blueprint ? Or how to convert it ?

[silent drift]

Is this correct?

Or am I missunderstanding how to use this?

[dark drum]

That looks about right.

[silent drift]

Thanks! And is that better than casting? Just trying to figure out the difference. 🙂

Because what I did before was to check on the "Hit" event if it was hit by a projectile or not.

And now instead I apply "Damage", but that seems like i can't handle the "hit-normal" and I would need that for the knockback of my character.

[onyx token]

why does this

produce this result?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847253861403197471/1206255699659587594/UnrealEditor_S61UzZrbqY.mp4

(this is how the freelook camera rot works)

[frosty heron]

Cache the rotation for the A rotator before the timeline

[onyx token]

you mean world rotation?

[frosty heron]

You are suppose to go from point A and Point b in fixed value

If the value changed mid way u are not gonna get the same result

[onyx token]

well the idea was that i'd just lerp to 000 rotation

because the cameraParent is a child of the spring arm

[frosty heron]

You can try to use fixed values

[onyx token]

ye, i'll try world

[frosty heron]

Don't know what else to say for your timeline part

[onyx token]

ok world works perfectly lol

i should've asked way earlier, why the fuck didn't i think of "just cache it"

[frosty heron]

What did you actually do? I don't think we r in the same page. Post a pic

[onyx token]

thank you!

oh literally just

instead of relative - world rot

[frosty heron]

I have no idea what that does

Oh I get it now

[onyx token]

i press alt (freelook button)
i cache the current camera world rotation

i let go of alt
i lerp towards it

[frosty heron]

But your A value should be stored still tho

Before the timeline

[onyx token]

actually good point, yea

i mean- technically it still works because in the end it's 1 one way or another-

but for cleanliness, ye

[frosty heron]

Probably

[ancient nimbus]

i think i've poorly described my problem or misunderstood where or what to cast, but the cast is failing every time. it's still getting the static mesh instead of the root object 🫠

[frigid summit]

still wtffffffff even after you gave me a picture they are still spawning at the same time wtffffff is that

[frosty heron]

Not on my end

[frigid summit]

yea i hope someone can find a diffrent way

[frosty heron]

The last thing you want is to hope someone to solve your problem

[frigid summit]

why

[frosty heron]

Because u are not solving the problem for good

[versed sun]

you should use Wish

[frosty heron]

If someone do your homework , can you do the next one?

Try to understand it instead. Node by node

[frigid summit]

ok i tried but failed

[frosty heron]

give it few days

[frigid summit]

even chatgpt couldnt help at that

[frosty heron]

yes the only one that can help you is your self

you can ask quick question, people would be willing to help

but for tutoring and hand holding, you will need to pay someone

[frigid summit]

how much

[frosty heron]

for foundation, go for the free option and scour the internet

[frigid summit]

i will try asking in the internet if i didnt find a solution i will pay

[frosty heron]

From last pic

[silent drift]

Is there a way to get the "hit-normal" from a Apply Damage node? Beucase I need to get the hit normal to see in which direction I want to "knockback" the player, but I can only see it on event hit. And Now I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong because of this. 😄

Because right now I'm using the event hit and "casting" which actor hit it and then do different things. E.g.

1. If the enemy is hit by a player projectile it will take damage
2. If the enemy is hit by the actual player they will insteal deal damage to the player

And based on a question earlier, I "ideally" shouldn't cast when checking for which type of damage to deal. But maybe I'm just missing something.

[light glen]

hello, i am having some weird memory / googling problem, i can't seem to remember / find the shortcut to add a reroute node to an existing line

[silent drift]

Double click on the line

Unless I missunderstood what you wanted.

[dark drum]

Use which ever is most applicable. It sounds like you might need to use the point damage one if you're wanting to handle knockback. The apply damage could be used for handling generic damage whilst the point and radial could be for different projectiles.

[silent drift]

I did not know about all of these! I googled apply damage, and didn't get that point was the one I wanted.... Of-course point is the one I wanted. 😄

Again thanks!

[jovial kettle]

Someone see a float2 here and how can I turn it into float 1?

[dark drum]

No problem. 🙂

[frosty heron]

which one exactly?

[light glen]

that is probably it

[jovial kettle]

i guess the if node

[light glen]

yes 🙂 thank you

[frosty heron]

not sure whhat you mean by the if node

isn't your question about how to get one of the value from the 2 floats

[jovial kettle]

One of these nodes is a float2 and I need to turn it into float1

the output type ig

[frosty heron]

need to know the actual problematic node to even begin

[jovial kettle]

the multiply node

[frosty heron]

you can't multiply 3 floats with 2 floats

[jovial kettle]

how can I change that?

[frosty heron]

you just don't multiply 3 floats with 2 floats?

I don't know how to hide some of the values except in Mask (RGB). You can select to only expose the R the G or the B

[jovial kettle]

where?

I am new to this sry

[frosty heron]

I don't know what storm Alpha represents or it's values

[jovial kettle]

This

[frosty heron]

can;t tell, but the error is you can't multiply a 3 float with a 2 float

so your solution is either multiply 3 float with 1 float , or 3 float with 3 float

i don't know what this material does nor the result you expect from the result

are you following tutorial or something?

[lofty rapids]

materials are intense

#materials

[fast finch]

Is there a way to subtract 2 rotators?

Rot - Rot?

[frosty heron]

delta (Rotator) ?

I don't know

just suggestion

[fast finch]

thank

[thorny forge]

Hey guys just a quick one, is this working as intended or is it a bug?

I'm just telling it to spawn the fire BP at the world location of my cube component. I've also tried 'get actor location' too and it spawns in the same place. In this scene, where the fire is, that's actually world 0 on the Y axis I think. But X and Z seem to corrispond to wherever I put the overlap cube

Or maybe it's 0 on the world X axis that it's spawning on, but corresponding to the Y and Z axis

[trim matrix]

surely not a bug, your reference to the cube is probably wrong

[thorny forge]

It could be, I'm just trying to do an overlap without using a cast

just a learning experiment

[trim matrix]

just do: if, other actor == cube then...

[thorny forge]

Ah I understand

I'll test it

[trim matrix]

and why the do once node?

[thorny forge]

So it only spawns the fire once

[lofty rapids]

looks like X, Y is working but Z is f'd ? it's directly above the cube ?

[thorny forge]

Na man it's on world 0 on the Y axis I think, but for Z it's corresponding so it's like z = 260, x = 1870 but y = 0

it's weird

but like Cat said I'm probably doing it wrong

[lofty rapids]

try print it's location x,y,z after spawn

Z is usually up/down

and it looks like your x,y is correct

but z is way high

but they could be off also, but if it's directly above it that's probably the issue

[thorny forge]

good point I'll do that

Just placed a cube at the exact X and Z location of the overlap actor

but 0 on Y

the fire is kind of off that

[jovial kettle]

yeah

[lofty rapids]

looks way off, make sure the reference to cube is correct

looks like all three are f'd

well 2

one looks legit, your Y

[jovial kettle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwOln8Ckdio

[frosty heron]

check where is cube in world space.
Go to your level, select the actor that own the cube and select the cube. Make sure it;s 0,0,0

[frosty heron]

it should work for you if it work for them, so long you pull the right node

[thorny forge]

I checked and the cube is 0,0,0 and the actor itself with the cube is x1870, y1040, z260

[jovial kettle]

He used a custom node, I used the if nodes instead

so he could make the output float1 instead of 2

[thorny forge]

so it's baffling..

[lofty rapids]

this is after the spawn ?

[thorny forge]

Ye

yea

[frosty heron]

Using what? You can just grab one of thhe value from float2

[thorny forge]

the fire itself spawns way off

[frosty heron]

use component Mask

[lofty rapids]

i would check your reference

[thorny forge]

I just did actor location too

same thing happens

I'll keep looking into why this is happening because it seems like a bug to me

I've never had this issue before

[lofty rapids]

try a different reference

or a different cube

somethings probably messed up with cube i'm guessing

log cubes location before the spawn

and then log the data after

so you compare

[thorny forge]

Does this seem wrong to you?

ok

[frosty heron]

read it? you have the project on your hand, it's hard for us to see the missing link
Are you able to translate what you write?

[jovial kettle]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-hearts-gif-11081548

worked, thanks!!

[thorny forge]

Sorry, it's just a very simple overlap collision. Pawn ((me) overlaps the box, check if it's true, then spawn 1 fire BP from the starter content at the location of the overlapped actor (the box)

[frosty heron]

and how is it?

does it spawn in your box location?

[thorny forge]

Everything works except the fire spawns in the wrong location

[frosty heron]

Go to your fire Class

and show a picture

show the entire class*

[frosty heron]

That's not helpful, go in and print screen

[frosty heron]

I never seen this before

[thorny forge]

Me either, I'm assuming it just means multiply the scale value by the current value, because the other option is to override it

[frosty heron]

what version are you on? it doesn't exist in 5.1

open the drop down and check the options

[thorny forge]

5.3.2 currently

and if I 0 out the scale it spawns where it should

but no fire because it's zero

[lofty rapids]

what about 1.0 ?

thats what you want it on for now

[frosty heron]

override root component scale

try that

[frosty heron]

and change it back to 4 , should be fine

[thorny forge]

So weird

yea lemme try

[frosty heron]

not really

actually don't know

but try 4 anyway

[lofty rapids]

this is at 1.0 ?

[thorny forge]

Yea that was 1

now I used override and changed to 4

I think it's bugged..

[frosty heron]

nahh

read what it says

Multiply transform by scale

So your current Location X, y, z * 4

Just leave the option on default, which is override root comp scale

[thorny forge]

ohhh wow no way..

why is that the default option

lmao

[frosty heron]

I don't have 5.3 but thhe top one isn't what you use previously

you might have changed it accidentally

[thorny forge]

I promise I didn't change that dropdown to multiply manually

so ofcourse it's scalling by 4 but also offsetting from the root by 4* too

weird

thanks for helping me get to the root of this

Actually this has just made me think, in another project there was an issue like this after migrating to 5.3

I'll have to check

[fast finch]

Is there a function for 2D spaces, that works like look at? I need an angle as output

i have to vectors too

i just dont know how to calculate them

[frosty heron]

@fast finch I'm bad at math but dot product, sin cos tan, all that can be applied to 2D

[lofty rapids]

this is the default

5.3.2

[thorny forge]

See

[thin panther]

Finding my angle for rotating a 2d player to the mouse cursor was using dot product.

[fast finch]

i need it from 1 vector or 1 rotator tho...

mhhh

or m,aybe

mhhhh

[frosty heron]

2D is the same but without Z

[fast finch]

maybe acuppa is on something there

the dot product between my 2 values is GIANT

its at least 9 or 10 digits long

i know because of distance v2 that the projection is a success

but the dot product is completly insane

completly insane

i got that fancy 2D Dot going too

i am getting angry

Gonna normalize my vectors

[thorny forge]

Hey I like the clean node connections, is that a plugin you got?

[fast finch]

ya electric nodes

[thorny forge]

Very nice I like it, thankyou

what the.. I already own it

it's like finding money in my coat pocket that I forgot about

Thanks @fast finch

[trim matrix]

this is looking so ewww

I hate it

[thorny forge]

lol

[thorny forge]

I'm playing with it now, I just noticed the limitations but I think it looks cool still

[cold junco]

Hello , can someone know why , when i respawn/spawn (and possess ) a actor the speed of movement is 10 time slower

[fast finch]

I just need to calculate an angle from 2 vectors...

[cold junco]

My version of that , not as clean as you XD

[frosty heron]

you figured it out?

[fast finch]

no

[frosty heron]

use reroute nodes

[frosty heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYPRYO8QhxU&ab_channel=TheOrganicChemistryTutor
Try this

[cold junco]

ty

[lofty rapids]

maybe you set the movement somewhere ? it that code didn't run again ?

[light glen]

Hi, I am trying to convert an FName into a gameplay tag, i've been able to do it in c++ but i can't see how to do it in BP

[cold junco]

nope that is why it is so puzzling

(temporary test setup ) the only thing i did is that

[frosty heron]

well your previous character and the one you posses might have different movement speed

check their movement logic as well as the movement speed

[cold junco]

it is the same that i respawn

[lofty rapids]

what is your default walk speed in the movement ?

[lofty rapids]

i mean since you can use c++, a blueprint function library is handy in c, then you can do a lot more in bp

[light glen]

well yeah i could wrap c++, but you would expect it was already done in the engine somewhere

[cold junco]

it is a rolling ball , physic base , max walk speed is 500 cm/s

here is a video

[lofty rapids]

what does the code look like ?

as far as when you respawn n stuff

[cold junco]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798862938046464/1206287511094034513/image.png?ex=65db75ca&is=65c900ca&hm=a405752f8e9fbec420050534382f14a461cfa701586d5a3bbb733ed251d66d58&

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how i can go about modifying the blueprints from this video so each gun is different like one is a pistol that does something different one is an AR one and one is a shotgun? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8BVyNDlGQQ&t=1430s

[frigid summit]

hi guys do anyone of you know how to spawn enimes one by one i tried this but didnt work

[frigid summit]

tried it

[frosty heron]

yeah soo many mistake

not just one

[frigid summit]

yea i know

[frosty heron]

you also need to set the array at the top

not inside the timer function

Get all actor of class promote to variable

gave you the literal node, try to use that as reference

[frigid summit]

the proplem is i dont know what the main proplem is

like its just 4 freaking shere boxes

sphere

[frosty heron]

yea and it's easy to do if you are willing to learn the foundation

eg Arrays

But you are forcing your self to do something without knowing how to use the tool

you are just gonna be lost forever

[frigid summit]

is there any simple tutorial in the internet

[frosty heron]

if you want to solve it out for good, bite the bullet and just learn how to use array

read anything you can find about array

[cold junco]

find when is the problem it is on beginplay it didn't do a script when it spawn

[frigid summit]

ok i hope i dont end up asking the same question again

[frosty heron]

asking question is welcomed, ppl will try to help but they can't go through the basic for you. Read whaht you can, keep on reading until you can make a working example. Ask when you get stuck (not with something specific like how to spawn, but ask about array it self)

[frail onyx]

I have this pickup system that takes a gun model that is simulating physics from the floor, attaches it to a point i have set on my fps character and stops simulating the physics but it just instantly teleports into the spot i have set for it when i click interact to pick it up. Is there a way to have to visually and smoothly go from the ground or wherever its currently at to the point i have set for it on my player?

[frigid summit]

ok

[frosty heron]

Timeline or Interp

[frail onyx]

this the main part of the code i have for the part i mentioned, would i just put a timeline in between set simulate physics to off and attach actor to component?

[frosty heron]

You run it when you want the interpolation to hapend

[keen tinsel]

---

hey , i was wondering if theres a way i can spawn a sub level in specific locations in the persistent level ? (check image )

once a player steps into sub level 2 , the base in the first location unloads , and loads in the second location as shown in the pix

[frosty heron]

I think UE5 going to use World partition as the new standard

[olive yarrow]

He just a grumpy one don't take it personal

[crystal crown]

why is this failing? this makes 0 sense. The CharacterRef is valid

[lofty rapids]

you have something in bp player component ?

[dry sleet]

Blueprint corruption is the likely culprit.

It can happen. If the details panel of the component is empty when clicked in the BP editor it's very likely the cause.

[thin panther]

How do you know

You've hidden the rest of the code and you never check character validity

[crystal crown]

because this is in animbp and the character moves

[frosty heron]

doesn't mean your variable is properly set

print it?

[thin panther]

Ok and how are you setting the reference

[thin panther]

Check validity

Update animation can be ran before the ref is valid

[dry sleet]

It wouldn't go past the cast if not valid though, would it?

[crystal crown]

cast is validity check

[frosty heron]

ye wouldn't past

[thin panther]

I've seen weirder happen

[dry sleet]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/LevelStreaming/LoadLevelInstance_byName/

There is the ability to create instances of levels at runtime with a specified transform.

[crystal crown]

the component has details

[keen tinsel]

appreciate it champ

[crystal crown]

Okay so if i put a delay before the character cast it indeed works. I guess my animbp is too fast

[frosty heron]

any reason to even set the component?

[thin panther]

It's almost like someone said that

🤔

[frosty heron]

you already have a ref to player

[crystal crown]

so how do i wait for init without delay

[frosty heron]

but why do u even need to set it?

[crystal crown]

cuz i use it

[frosty heron]

but u have ref to your player

so when you use it you just go player -> get component then plug w/e u want

[crystal crown]

yes cuz my other code is on comp

[frosty heron]

well I don't know what's best practice

[frosty heron]

ye so when you want to use the comp in anim bp.
Get Player-> Get Component -> Get something from the comp

also instead of delay if you want to set the component that way

[crystal crown]

that is what im doing?

[frosty heron]

Maybe do it one vent tick, if not valid try to set, if valid just keep going

[crystal crown]

no i can't im using thread safe

[frosty heron]

what's exactly not safe here?

delay is the last thing I will put

[crystal crown]

i mean i just need to grab it once

[frosty heron]

Ye so the player character ref is valid right?

[crystal crown]

ye

only with delay tho

i guess

[thin panther]

Anim BP's don't really need to cache anythin

You can get away with casting and getting

[frosty heron]

if player char ref is valid, you don't need to have a player ref component declared in your anim bp.
Simply access player then get the component from there

[jolly oriole]

yep, just grab the ref every time you need it, no point in storing it

it'll also improve readability

by a fair amount

[frosty heron]

[jolly oriole]

rather than a random value in some variable, you'll see it's clearly a component from this actor

[crystal crown]

yea you are right. kinda useless what i did

works without delay now

[jolly oriole]

and you can check if its valid on init or whenever you need to beforehand

[frosty heron]

did you not assign the anim class in the component previously?

I never recall using any delay in my anim bp, would like to know if there is something I need to keep an eye for

[crystal crown]

no there is nothing about the character nor anim class in the component

i mean just character parent class

[frosty heron]

hmm I still don't get how you fix it w/o delay

but hopefully I don't have to worry about it

[crystal crown]

i just removed everything and it works lol

[hidden yacht]

Hello guys !

I'm back with some basic implementation questions. I saw that in my Vehicle blueprint, there are functions like triggers or callbacks on the list of functions. these functions are specific to the inputs that came with the CitySampleVehicle pack, I would like to understand how are these functions mapped to the blueprint, like.. How does the blueprint see them and import them these automatically.

I am doing the same on the character blueprint, but I cannot find those input actions functions ( or triggers )

the image above shows the list of functions on the left, which includes the input actions triggers

that is in BP_vehicle file. it works as expected. Now doingthe same with character pawn BP

[undone bluff]

if they are listed there that just means they are implemented

[hidden yacht]

there is something telling the vehicle BP where to look for input triggers ?

[lusty shard]

why use a data table instead of a struct with a nested struct, if theyre pretty much the same thing?

[hidden yacht]

They also are NOT custom functions ,which is the only thing i know for now

[undone bluff]

they're just events that get called when the input action is triggered

again, the list on the left just means the blueprint is subscribed to the event

[hidden yacht]

the names match perfectly with these

[undone bluff]

yea that's how you define them

[hidden yacht]

now the question would be , how to subscripe the character BP to other inputs

[undone bluff]

and then you can implement them wherever (though there are best practices ofc)

[hidden yacht]

i want the mapped with these , for the character

[undone bluff]

that's an input mapping context

[hidden yacht]

and actions inside the folder

[undone bluff]

you need to add it to use the associated inputs

[hidden yacht]

basically I need the red nodes to show up in the character BP

[lofty rapids]

enhanced input

[undone bluff]

if you want to make ctrl key do different things for example you can swap out input mapping contexts

and have an action bound to ctrl from both implemented for different things

[hidden yacht]

that's the point of the new enhanced inputs AFAIK

[hidden yacht]

that's what i need actually, between the vehicle and the character, keys would do different things

[undone bluff]

yea you just add the mapping context and then receive the input event you define in the data assets

that's kinda it

when you enter the vehicle remove the default mapping context

add vehicle one

have another always on mapping context for menus and stuff

[hidden yacht]

I am doing all that, not working for the character

this is for the vehicle

[undone bluff]

I assume you are working with blueprints someone else made?

[hidden yacht]

that one, i made, and it works using the Vehicle BP

except it also has these

for my character

[undone bluff]

yea those are the events that get called if the corrosponding mapping context is added

[hidden yacht]

I had the third character BP inherit from a default C++ character file

i removed that inheritance and inherited from the default "character" BP

[undone bluff]

I assume you mean ACharacter

[hidden yacht]

i readded the possess/unpossess actions above, but missing the other nodes

[undone bluff]

the c++ class you inherit from if you add a new blueprint of type character

[undone bluff]

yea

[hidden yacht]

yes Acharacter

I expected it to work out of the box, it did not

[undone bluff]

this should work

are you sure that the input actions are in the mapping context you add?

and if so I'd do a bare minimum test

with just the input and nothing else going on

either you notice there's an issue with the setup somewhere and double check all the enhanced input files

or you'll know to look for an issue specific to that usecase

[hidden yacht]

wait, i'll summarize

[celest trench]

If I wanted to find a specific struct in an array of structs, does the Find node search for something that has every value accurate, or if I just entered the TeamName would it find the one with the right TeamName?

[dawn gazelle]

It finds only an exact match, so it'd need to have the exact contents you want to find.

[celest trench]

Okay thanks for the info. Another struct question, say I did find the struct, is it possible to update a single value in the struct or do I have to add a whole new struct to the array when I want to change something

[shut yew]

Im trying to make a countdown timer but i get random numbers at the end

[dawn gazelle]

You could "Get (a ref)" from the array then use a "set members in ...." to that reference and update the specific fields you want.

[ocean pier]

So just wondering if anyone knew how to do this but I'm trying to make a countdown timer for the start of my racing game and i have the ui setup but idk how to make it so you can the enemy ai and the lap timer doesn't start going while the timer is going

[shut yew]

how did you make a countdown timer

can you send the code please

[ocean pier]

I have it in the game mode

[shut yew]

No the actual code

[ocean pier]

like c++?

[shut yew]

wait

nvm

im dum

can you make more pictures

[shut yew]

that is very low res

[shut yew]

like split it in 2 parts

[shut yew]

and does it work tho

[shut yew]

like the countdown

[ocean pier]

yea I have ui count down but idk how to make it so you or anything can do anything while it counts down

[lofty rapids]

can't ?

[shut yew]

ah ok

[lofty rapids]

you can pause game maybe ?

or use a boolean

[ocean pier]

idk hwo to pause the game

[lofty rapids]

set game paused

but you could also just use a boolean, and disable the stuff you want

[celest trench]

Does the set members in node automatically update the struct? Or do I have to do something with the struct out?

[lofty rapids]

did you get a copy or ref ? that probably matters

[celest trench]

ref

[shut yew]

huh...

wait

[lofty rapids]

well it's odd that you drag from there to there, just promote to variable and use it, i usually don't like to cross lines on the execution

[ocean pier]

oh ok thanks

[dawn gazelle]

With that "Set Members In..." node selected, you should have an option on the right hand side and it lets you show the fields - select only the ones you want to update and then you can plug in the values you want.

[celest trench]

I see that 😄 I was just wondering if I have to do anything with the output or if the array value automatically updates after that?

[dawn gazelle]

If it's a "Get as Ref" then it should update the value within the array automatically.

[celest trench]

Okay awesome. Thank you so much!