blueprint

[gentle urchin]

Probably already tsken/used

[main lake]

Isn't there a way to still call it Activate anyway ?

[frosty heron]

Such a bad name tbh

[main lake]

why ?

[frosty heron]

Not descriptive?

Activate what?

Also I like to add suffix for rpc

[main lake]

It's inside a component named "Ability", so in this case "Activate the ability"

[frosty heron]

Like Something_SERVER

[main lake]

oh yeah I forgot that

[frosty heron]

I mean activate ability is already more descriptive

And like squize said it's probably already taken

Can't use name that is already used

[main lake]

yeah but I don't want to put "ActivateAbility" while it's already part of the "Ability" component

[gentle urchin]

Cant you use the native Activate event then?

the default component one

removes any ambiguity

[frosty heron]

Is this GAS?

[gentle urchin]

I've stopped asking questions i don't really want to know the answer to 😛

[celest crown]

Is there a node so I can set Override Constructionscript with my Blueprint?

[dark drum]

Add a print string before the cast to check to make sure it doesn't actually trigger.

[main lake]

Isn't the native "Activate" for when the component gets activated ?

[dark drum]

yea, you can set components to not auto activate where you have to manually active them. The activated event is what happens when it's activated.

[frosty heron]

override what? the parent?

just call construction script without call to parent

[celest crown]

I have a utility blueprint where I create mesh based splines, but the spline didn't get saved unless I moved one of the points manually or tick in the box Override Constructionscript in the spline details. I basically wanted a node(s) so I could set it automatically in the blueprint.

[frosty heron]

no idea, i use minimum utility and construction script

[celest crown]

I just realized that I can set it to true in the parent spline BP and all the childs will have it set to true too :))

[main lake]

But in my case it's more to call the Ability to activate itself as my ability has these stages that it goes through. So is that ok to disable and enable the component back each time for that ?

[dark drum]

I can't see why not. When you activate the component, you do what ever you want to happen based on its stage.

[gentle urchin]

^ exactly

[frosty heron]

ye inheritance, that applies to all properties too i think

[main lake]

But there's no "Activate" event, so I suppose the "Begin Play" is the event that will be called when calling "Activate" ?

[crystal crown]

how to keep a copy of the previous value of an array

[frosty heron]

promote it as variable

[gentle urchin]

I showed you the activate delegate

OnComponentActivated

[tender epoch]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/BlueprintAPI/EditorScripting/SequencerTools/FBX/ExportLevelSequenceFBX/

I try to find that function in Actor Blueprint but cant find it, and i even have copied Export FBX function from this blueprint https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/2h-sl29g/ i am getting "One or more copied nodes could not be pasted into this graph!"

What could be causing this? Blueprint is from Actor as parent class. Any help is greatly appreciated

[pulsar vigil]

Hey guys if i want to do a currency system where do i implement it , knowing that the game might have multiple level and a title screen ? Its for single player only

Player bp like a savage ? or is there some gamestate and thing ?

Also im not confident in cpp

[frosty heron]

you don't need to dive into cpp for anything like that

[pulsar vigil]

yeah thats what i imagined but i want to know the sane and comon practice for thing like this cause until know everything is in my character bp pretty much, and i saw a lot on google but i want to ask here too

[frosty heron]

well "currency system" is rather ambiguous, I am not sure what you have in mind.
Normally a game only have 1 currency? like Gold, Credit point, etc

that can be represented by an integer or float

[pulsar vigil]

yeah sorry its only gold the simpliest possible

[frosty heron]

So you just need 1 variable for any actor that hold gold?

[pulsar vigil]

yeah, i might have a v endor or two but npc will not realy have gold either

[frosty heron]

If it's single player, it probably doesn't matter where you put (Player State, player controller)

character will have draw back if u gonna kill it at some point

[wispy cedar]

hey can you tell my mistake ?

[pulsar vigil]

ok thx for the confirmation

[crystal crown]

I hate arrays. its not like a regular variable. idk how to do that

[frosty heron]

You killed the instance after spawning the widget

your end overlap will never happend

[wispy cedar]

Ahhhhhhh

[frosty heron]

Can't escape it if you want to make a game

[wispy cedar]

Thanks

[crystal crown]

there is not enough documentation

[frosty heron]

it's widely covered, you don;t have to stay in unreal land to learn array

[gentle urchin]

right click the var is usually an option

[pulsar vigil]

i was reticent to learn array too but its too good and i love map now

[crystal crown]

im not saying i dont wanna learn but i need a teacher or sm shit

[pulsar vigil]

nah u need to try get lost pray go to sleep and rince and repeat there is enought online, trust im an idiot and i learned so much thing

[thin panther]

It's editor scripting only

So won't be available in regular actors

[crystal crown]

they only talk about getting the previous or next array element

i want to get the whole previous array

[wispy cedar]

if it would've worked i'd be flying 😂

[frosty heron]

not gonna work, condition is always true

[wispy cedar]

condition was true wait

[frosty heron]

you might as well delete w/e happend on false because it never gonna get called

[pulsar vigil]

hmm start with those video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJEFQXEsc0&list=PLSlkDq2rO1t6PkNmGURri0ET_s8whFzsg&ab_channel=MathewWadsteinTutorials and also map is scary but thats isanely good u should check too

[frosty heron]

@wispy cedar Not saying this is what you should do

don't really know the context or what you are doing but try this

[wispy cedar]

okk

[frosty heron]

you can leave the play sound

but if u want to destory the widget when player left the collision then do it on end overlap

[wispy cedar]

it's simple widget that says key collected for 3 sec and then vanish

okk

[frosty heron]

even if the character still in the collision box?

if that's the case just handle the removal inside the widget it self

On Construct -> delay 3 seconds -> Remove from parent

[wispy cedar]

No no after collecting key it vanishes

i want to display after that

[tender epoch]

so BP class should be editor scripting? imma look into that

[frosty heron]

not sure im following

[wispy cedar]

i want this WB to go away

[frosty heron]

handle the removal of the widget Inside the widget

On Construct -> Delay 3 seconds -> remove from parent

[spice shell]

Howdy! I'm making an Editor utility and want to line trace between an actor and whatever is below it in the z axis LOCALLY - everything works fine except getting Up Vector gives me world space not local - how can I get local?

[wispy cedar]

Inside the widget ??

okay lemme try

[frosty heron]

@wispy cedar reading your code tho, the fact you have WB_Level 3 key, imo you should learn inheritance.
I would handle displaying in Master widget too

[tender epoch]

got it, editorutility class

thank you

was looking for that for weeks

[wispy cedar]

I learned Refrence's today you want me to look into inheritance too?

[frosty heron]

everything about Object Oriented Programming, that's what bp is made of

[wispy cedar]

do you think it's not a good aproach by making a game directly and facing and solving all these issues one by one ?

[frosty heron]

without knowing the basic? not at all

you will end up copy pasting from tutorial and not understand what each node does

[wispy cedar]

yeah I am doing that already lol

I should look into the basics

so many ideas man so much, hands tied on this coding skill

[frosty heron]

the pain of a small dev

can't focus to learn on one thing alone

[wispy cedar]

haha

[frosty heron]

too many things to learn

[spark steppe]

having ideas is easy

a flying car in real life would be neat

great idea, hard to solve...

[gentle urchin]

just use anti gravity thrusters

easy

[wispy cedar]

if you manage to slow down the planetary rotation that might help

[gentle urchin]

I think the side effects would be to severe

for that to be viable

[wispy cedar]

i mean we can colonize other planets

flying car must be made

[crystal crown]

Is this the correct way to get previous?

[frosty heron]

I'm confused, what do you actually want to do? also you add nothing

[crystal crown]

if i understand correctly i add a slot and set the slot item in the array elem

i need to compare the previous array to the current to see which character was added and which was removed

[shut yew]

widget not dissapearing after countdown hits 10

how do i delete a widget

from viewport

like in event graph

[crystal crown]

remove from parent

[shut yew]

hey

[crystal crown]

im pretty sure this is not how you make a countdown in general

you dont need to tick a countdown

[thin panther]

you do

[frosty heron]

Why not

[thin panther]

but it might be easier to use something like a timer

[frosty heron]

especially if you want more accurate countdown

[thin panther]

(which is still ticking internally)

[crystal crown]

i dont use a timer nor tick for my countdown

and its accurate

[frosty heron]

what do you use?

[thin panther]

you most certainly are ticking

You just don't know it

You're doing something over time, it's ticking

[crystal crown]

well the tick doesnt even matter. it can just be done more cleanly

[frosty heron]

how do you do it?

[crystal crown]

2 events

[frosty heron]

I'm interested on how you initiate the timer

without using timer or tick

[crystal crown]

by pressing a button

[frosty heron]

pressing a button doesn't explain how you initiate the timer

[crystal crown]

what are you talking about

[proper flower]

hey Humans, a quick question :
how can I create an interactable object but invisible? the best way for performance

[crystal crown]

the button calls toggle timer event

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message this

[shut yew]

how do i make a timer

[thin panther]

The event pin is where you plug the event you want to execute after the 15 seconds

[frosty heron]

I wouldn't use timer for cooldown

[shut yew]

oh ok

[frosty heron]

anything that need accuracy I will use tick

[shut yew]

and how do i use tick

i dont need accurracy tho

[frosty heron]

There is plenty of timer tutorial in youtube i reckon

[shut yew]

i followed one

and got this

so ye

[frosty heron]

watch again

that's not even complete

#blueprint message

[crystal crown]

so am i doin it right or nah

[limber citrus]

hey, what are Hyper Blueprints?

[proper flower]

someone knows an answer?

[odd kiln]

Hey all !

Data Layers seem so complicated I don't find how to load a Data Layer in Blueprint if someone can help me please

I know that normally I have to use the "Actor Data Layer" variable but it says that this class is "deprecated" ..

[trim matrix]

Hello. Anyone know how to put the connection in float - float to the bottom (change from A float to B float)? Without the need of right click? I saw a youtuber do it but unfortunately they didn't want to response unless I'm a their patron member.

[main lake]

I'm not sure to understand as both of your pins are set to float already 🤔

[trim matrix]

Well, I watching a tutorial of this dude and he can put the pin/connection from A float to B float

[main lake]

He just dragged the connection line from the top to the bottom (I just watched the at the same timer as you and he jus dragged and dropped the connection line) so I'm kinda confused by your question 🤔

[trim matrix]

Okay sorry for my wording, I just don't know how to drag it...

[main lake]

Oh, then CTRL + Left Click and drag 🙂

[trim matrix]

Thanks! Though, does it really matter for which to pin? I'm quite new to this.

[main lake]

Yes as doing A - B is different from B - A. Like for instance :
5 - 4 = 1
but
4 - 5 = -1

[trim matrix]

Oooh, I see. Before I know how to drag it, I use Right Click to break the connection like this. 😅

[main lake]

painful 😄

[trim matrix]

Right? lol, btw thanks for that.

[main lake]

Guys, Is it possible to make a whole project without ever using Casting and rather use Interfaces ?

[frosty heron]

that will be a nightmare

that advice steemed from clueless youtubers

don't avoid cast

cast to base class when possible, if you want to optimize, use soft reference

Casting and Interface are not mutually exclusive

different purpose

[main lake]

I just watched a video of someone who showed an example where he used interfaces instead of casting, and he went from 112Mb on a simple picking up actor, to around 1MB just by replacing casting by an interface 🤔

So my question would be when to use one over the other and when is it really impossible to use one over the other

[frosty heron]

because casting in Blueprint Land produce hard reference which gets loaded

you can reduce the size by using soft reference

I would just stop making a game if I can't use cast , debugging with interface as a replacement would be nightmare

[thin panther]

You cast when you have a good inheritance chain. Loading the hard ref of a proper code only base class is handy.
You use an interface when you want behaviour across a wide range of base classes. Like interaction

[main lake]

I'm not sure to understand, why would it be handy to have a hard ref of base class ?

[thin panther]

because you aren't loading assets

you can call the functions and such, and not have the overhead of loading the CDO full of assets into memory for the duration of play

[main lake]

CDO ?

[thin panther]

Class Default Object

Blueprint loads them only when needed

[main lake]

But what if you have multiple actors inheriting from the same base class, you can't use the base class on the cast if you want a precise answer of if your actor is X, so how would you do that ?

[frosty heron]

you cast away

[main lake]

But the cast costs alot in terms of memory because of the hard ref

[frosty heron]

if you care about optimization and don't want to bog down the memory, you can make the base class in cpp

[frosty heron]

only in bp land

casting to cpp class is fine

[main lake]

no thank you to C++

[frosty heron]

then you are limited to what you have, interface is not replacement for casting.
That's like cutting wood with hammer imo

you use Casting when the object derived from the same hierachy, you use interface when you want to communicate between different classes

[main lake]

can I link the video I watched here so you can tell me if it's good what he's doing or not ?

[frosty heron]

if you still want to use bp only, you can still use soft reference

[frosty heron]

Nah, I can already tell

this is common bad practice that is articulated at least weekly

If you want to reduce the size with bp only thhen use soft reference, you load things when you need to

[main lake]

I read about that but I forgot and didn't understand all the things I had to understand about it and how to preoperly use that

[proper flower]

someone can solve this dilemma?

[frosty heron]

soft ref = the address of the object
So you don't need to load the object, you simply pass the address. When you want to use the object, lets say the character mesh. You can load the address and the return value will be the character mesh. This way you don't have to load the mesh when you load your class. You load it at will, thus reducing the size and dependency

it's like 2 - 3 nodes to load soft ref, there is official epic youtube video about soft ref

[thin panther]

(it's actually the path on disk :P)

[crystal crown]

you can break connection by alt + left click

[trim matrix]

Thanks for that! I'll try to remember it.

[proper flower]

I made my material invisible so I can use it as interactable, but I need a wireframe in the editor mode in order to see boundary even when not selected, someone have an answer?

[crystal crown]

add a cube or smth to the bp that is only visible in editor and hidden in game?

[proper flower]

how

[frosty heron]

Well you can't click an invisible object

except thru wireframe

[proper flower]

I clicked it

[frosty heron]

actually there should be an option to do that

[proper flower]

it works

[frosty heron]

you clicked the wireframe right?

[proper flower]

no in the game is not visible but is interactable

is an invisible material

[frosty heron]

what is your goal right now

what do you want to do?

did you not want to select it in editor?

[proper flower]

having what I have now but with a wireframe in the editor only

[frosty heron]

without going thru wireframe mode

[proper flower]

cause in the editor my shape does not have wireframe or boundary

I want to be visible in the editor and invisible in the game

oh i can switch material at run

i think that is a solution

[frosty heron]

Dynamic material is probably more expensive

but if u want, up to you

[proper flower]

no I'm open to good performance solution

[frosty heron]

then don't create material at run time

[proper flower]

i need a simply wireframed mesh that is invisible in the game

[frosty heron]

can't u select the billboard?

[proper flower]

what do you mean?

[frosty heron]

the circle icon is the billboard

[proper flower]

yeah

[thin panther]

couldn't you also just show it in the editor and tick "Hidden in game"

[main lake]

Do you have a collision box ?

[proper flower]

but is a more convenient way to have a wireframe in order to fit the shape precisely where I want

[frosty heron]

he is using invisible material tho, that's the issue

[proper flower]

i can not use an invisible material

it's not a problem

[main lake]

you have a property called "Hidden In Game" that's your solution

[proper flower]

my only goal is a visible in editor /invisible in game simple shape and lightweight in performance

[thin panther]

#blueprint message

[frosty heron]

then why an invisible material on your shape?

you got me confused there

just spawn a normal cube and set hidden in game to true

[proper flower]

I thought that hidden in game means not interactable too

[crystal crown]

cuz he dont know how to add a box and hide it

[proper flower]

I'll try

[frosty heron]

well if u want it to be interactable

it can't be hidden I think

[proper flower]

it's working

hidden in game does not prevent the interaction with blueprint itself

great

[main lake]

https://tenor.com/view/adaw-awwwae-gif-25307131

[proper flower]

apologize for the confusion ,I thought that "hidden in game" would obliterate the presence of the mesh

@thin panther sorry i missed your message before xD

[crystal crown]

Can i hide some variables from the details panel?

that shouldn't be modified anyway

[tame terrace]

Hey, beginner question but why is the parts of the function not showing up when I double click?

[frosty heron]

in child classes?

set it to private

[crystal crown]

like in a component

[frosty heron]

if you set variable to private it shouldn't be readable or accessible by other than the class the variable is declared

[crystal crown]

i guess what i was asking for didnt make sense

[lofty rapids]

are you saying you put stuff in there, but it's gone now ?

wdym " the parts"

[tame terrace]

Well I made nodes connect and I collapsed them to a function so the nodes should show up after double clicking right?

[lofty rapids]

you would think so

i wonder how it just got rid of all the stuff ?

[tame terrace]

I'll just try to remake it and try again

[spark steppe]

the worst thing on this is that you use the level bp for all that stuff

at least 90% of this don't belong in the Level Blueprint

[lofty rapids]

can you even get to the level blueprint from anywhere else ?

as far as accessing those variables

[thin panther]

Nope

[fluid lagoon]

Hey all, having this weird problem with my camera pawn, it possesses fine but for some reason, the camera isnt locked facing the desk but instead at a 90 degree turn away from it, hopfully this video helps with anyone wanting to point me in the right direction 😄

[tame terrace]

That was weird but never mine it worked this time

[fluid lagoon]

I've tried doing a lot of digging online and can't seem to find anything, thought it might have been the collision of the chair but that doesn't seem to solve it

[fluid lagoon]

This happened to me too earlier today, weird bug

[stuck sentinel]

how to fix

i need to set origin to middle

[celest acorn]

Hi All, i am trying to make a camera view a section of a level once a certain objective has been completed for example, you kill a boss and a door now unlocks, as the door would be out of the player view i was trying to get it to pan a camera to the door in question so that the player would know that killing the boss unlocked the door, does anyone have any rough ideas on how to go about doing this. Thanks!

[dim agate]

You can make use of the Set View Target with Blend nodes.

[dark drum]

You need to update the origin in the 3d software you used to make the model. If blender, you need to move the model to 0,0,0 before you export or alternatively, use Send2UE.

[crystal crown]

modeling tools. xform. edit pivot

this does not the change the pivot of the imported mesh however im pretty sure

[dark drum]

As a guess, I would say the min and max values you're using are world space rotations. Just add or subtract 90 from the values your setting for the min/max.

[spark steppe]

it does

[crystal crown]

Please ask in the right channel

[sturdy mesa]

which channel would that be ..?

[crystal crown]

probably materials

[sturdy mesa]

yep thanks

[crystal crown]

How do i keep a copy of the previous value of an array? im still struggling with this...

[stuck sentinel]

hiw

how

how can i move it to the edge

anyone

[lofty rapids]

a copy of the whole array ?

[crystal crown]

yea

[lofty rapids]

what is it your trying to do ?

[crystal crown]

i need to compare ref's what is removed from the array and what is added

[wispy cedar]

you want to move that mesh ?

[stuck sentinel]

the origin

so the door can work

[wispy cedar]

you mean so it can rotate ? open and close ?

[lofty rapids]

probably so that when it rotates it pivots

[stuck sentinel]

ye

[lofty rapids]

just moved the door lol

not sure if you can move it, anything in details ?

the root component

[stuck sentinel]

when i move the origin moves with it

[lofty rapids]

ya, then you got to move it to where you want it, it's because they are children of it

it will follow it i think

[fervent breach]

is there a way to draw a debug sphere in the editor, like how Unity has draw gizmos?
I'm trying to have a modular visualization of my enemy's attack range

[harsh wasp]

RightClick -> Pivot -> Set to Center or Go to Modelling Mode-> Misc -> Pivot with the mesh selected

[lofty rapids]

do you need the difference data, or just know there is a difference ?

[lunar sleet]

Not sure, does it let you use that node in a construct graph?

[crystal crown]

i need to use the character that was added or that was removed to play animation on them

[fervent breach]

yes, but it doesn't seem to do anything, unless I am just doing something wrong?

oh... I forgot to set duration - didn't know that counted in construction...

[shut yew]

It gives me an error when i wanna change the visibility

[lofty rapids]

your reference is empty

where do you set it ?

[shut yew]

i just casted i t and promoted to a variable

[lofty rapids]

well assuming the new ones will be on the end, maybe use the length, and match the difference to the last copy

[lofty rapids]

ya it's empty, you need to actually set the reference, what are you trying to show a widget ?

[shut yew]

yea

[lofty rapids]

you need to create it, and promote to variable, on begin play or in the hud

also add to viewport or visibility won't even work

[shut yew]

yea

[lofty rapids]

well you don't need to promote to variable, but creat it and set your variable

[shut yew]

its done

[shut yew]

Thanks!

huh

still none

[lofty rapids]

when do you run the event ?

thats just a custom event, you need to run it at some point

and personally i would set visibility, then add to viewport

so it doesn't flash

[shut yew]

At event beginplay

[lofty rapids]

so you call that event on begin play ?

of your character ?

[strange blaze]

Is there any way I can map the viewport screen position to world coordinates in the editor? it sounds so simple but I can't find any source.

[shut yew]

Yeah

[lofty rapids]

and your other code is in the same bp ?

[crystal crown]

what if character 2 gets removed but there were 4 in total. i think that wont work

[shut yew]

still accesed none

book quest widget just an image

done

solved

thanks

[lofty rapids]

tough one, maybe just intercept when you add or remove ?

[crystal crown]

this is for passenger vehicle. maybe i can map the character ref to the seat index?

idk much about arrays tho

[lofty rapids]

so it's a fixed amount ?

or fixed length

or seats change

i'm guessing one item for each seat ?

[crystal crown]

maybe something like this

yes one character for the seat that was occupied

the seat lenght might change depending on how many seats there are but that shouldnt be a problem

i know maps even less than arrays tho

[lofty rapids]

i know little about maps i don't use them very often

[flat coral]

They're worth knowing about. There's things which are kind of annoying to do otherwise that a map makes really easy

[crystal crown]

yes i would like to learn more obviously

[lofty rapids]

you can however although probably a crude way to do it, possibly loop through the last copy of the array forEach the new and see if it includes that element

[cobalt gulch]

How do I move a block from one location to another location with a changeable variable that determines the speed which it moves at

[crystal crown]

i was comparing the previous to the new one but character 0 and 1 still == the same thing for some reason

[flat coral]

What a coincidence I was just looking at code that basically does this. Changing InterpSpeed changes the movement speed

[cobalt gulch]

holy shit lmao

[lofty rapids]

just foreach and see if it's included the other array, and vice versa @crystal crown

[flat coral]

you might rather have Set Actor Location instead of And Rotation

[crystal crown]

this is what i was doing but they still get though the == branch

i think mapping will be much simpler

if i knew how to do it 😛

[lofty rapids]

just do a forEach

and check if it contains

if the previous one contains the new element

never done it with actors, but i would imagine it should work

[crystal crown]

it still fires this bs

i think map is the right thing to do

[lofty rapids]

oh boy i don't know about multiplayer

but i would just do that for if it's added

[crystal crown]

i need to know specific characters to pick

[lofty rapids]

i mean the added character is the actor in the array element

but i see you need to map to seats

[cobalt gulch]

Is there any way to make it not jitter?

How can I make it so when the translation has stopped code is completed? I'm trying to make it return back to where it started

[crystal crown]

just reverse the code?

[cobalt gulch]

Yeah but how do i make it so it does it after

[dark narwhal]

I need solution to my annoying problem, and im sure its super simple but im sick of searching. i cant find any solution online

The problem: I have 2 kind of identical blueprint actors that i click and drag on my map and one bounce out of the ground and its capsule is right 1 pixel above the ground ( as it should)
The second one stay halfway throught the ground and do not position itself ON the ground even tho it has a capsule with collision and everything.

I keep scrolling through both BP and try to find what is different between them but i cannot figure out... please help !

[cobalt gulch]

cus right now it does it while its already going to the target loc

[flat coral]

By default it doesn't jitter. Gotta be something in the way you're using it.

[crystal crown]

well obv you need a branch or smth to check if the target location was reached

or fire a new event for the reverse when target was reached

[cobalt gulch]

How'd i do that?

[fickle flame]

can someone help me?
How do I get a reference to my level blueprint for this interface target?

[crystal crown]

do not use level blueprints.

[fickle flame]

:/

whats the point of it then

[manic onyx]

how do I make a CPP file blueprintable?

[steel shadow]

Why do you need a reference
Just have the level BP implement the interface

[fickle flame]

when i do it like this it never gets to the print statement

i got it working sending to the controller from the level blueprint like this when I reference the controller class for the target

but I can never get it working in reverse and idk how to reference the level blueprint for the target

[steel shadow]

Yeah I'm probably talking shit
Use something else instead of level blueprint

Maybe gamemode

If single player

[fickle flame]

gamemode doesnt have a event graph no?

[steel shadow]

Yes it does

[steel shadow]

Create a custom one and set that as default

[fickle flame]

this is my gamemoide class

[steel shadow]

Click the blue writing that says open full blueprint editor

[lofty rapids]

i don't think you can reference the level bp

[fickle flame]

oh i see xD

[fickle flame]

im learning this xD

official ue5 documentaion page btw

but doesnt say how to get the refrence xD

ok i found the event grpah on game mode ill code my logic here

ty all

[chilly plover]

I have a string like this text-34-65-232-text. How can I split this to get a section thats been split by -

I could split it and then split again but thats complicated and wondered if the4re was a better wya

[lofty rapids]

" to get a section thats been split by -" ?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/String/ParseIntoArray/

wdym split it again ?

[frigid summit]

hi guys im struggeling to find the easiest way for my enemy to do combos can anyone help

[dark narwhal]

Anyone can help me with my problem please? #blueprint message

[lofty rapids]

did you duplicate it, or remake yourself ?

[chilly plover]

Because my string contains date values and I want to reorder them into a new string

[lofty rapids]

what are you trying to do ?

but if you need to split, then split whats inside that i think parse into array is really the option

i've used it and it's pretty fast

[chilly plover]

I basically need an explode

[lofty rapids]

ya thats what parse into array is

it's basically the same thing

[chilly plover]

How can you get the array index in the foreach?

[lofty rapids]

show the foreach

[chilly plover]

ahg I see it

[lofty rapids]

ya it's a pin comming out of foreach

[fading rune]

Is there a way to find the transform of a single mesh in a instanced static mesh array? Say I pick index no5 in an instanced static mesh array of 9. Can I find the world transform of mesh no5?

[lofty rapids]

probably, it should be whatevers in that index

if your array is instanced static mesh, then when you get the index, you should be able to do whatever you can on an instanced static mesh

[rich ferry]

Is this how you make an explosion force for a projectile? Thought it would be straightforward but it doesn't appear to work and idk how to debug it.

[dark narwhal]

i remade, it needed to behave difrently and i had to much to delete

[steady night]

hey

how will i

how can i set the speed negative when im walking backwards :/ ?

[lofty rapids]

backwards compared to what, are you not always moving forward ?

[steady night]

well in my anim bp when im walking backwards im still getting the velocity so its getting + speed not negative *

[dark narwhal]

thats might help you

its for my 2.5d game tho

[rich ferry]

Can't get "Add Impulse" to work either...not sure how to proceed with this

[chilly plover]

Is there a function to return where a timeis pm or am?

time not date*

[fading rune]

I'm struggling to finf the correct nodes. I'll take another look.

[lofty rapids]

which part is the problem ?

[fading rune]

I can select the index and remove that instance. But I'm struggling to get the transform of that removed instance.

[lofty rapids]

what is the array type ?

the variables type

is it static mesh object references ?

i have not worked much with meshes and references but i can't get much out of an array of that kind

[fading rune]

Static mesh object reference.

Not much shows when I right click searched.

Not for static mesh array.

[lofty rapids]

ya i see what you mean

[fading rune]

It is a bit of a mystery. Ty for your help though.

[gentle urchin]

get instance transform

[fading rune]

Doesn't show. Not for static mesh object reference.

[gentle urchin]

why's there a static mesh object ref ?

shouldnt it be instanced mesh comp ref?

[fading rune]

I want to find the transform of a single mesh in a instanced static mesh array? Say I pick index no5 in an instanced static mesh array of 9. I want to find the world transform of mesh no5.

[gentle urchin]

i read the initial question yes

but there's not really an instanced static mesh array related to the ISMC

it's singular mesh, duplicated at specific transforms

take this as an example

this is a grid of meshes , made by ISMC

[fading rune]

Instance static mesh component?

[gentle urchin]

yeah

if i want to get a transform of a specific cube here

[fading rune]

Yeah

[gentle urchin]

I'd need the index, and use this node

coming from the ISMC reference

[fading rune]

Doh! Not sure why I couldn't find it.

Thanks !

[undone sequoia]

any idea how I can calculate roll for plane ? when I control it by mouse and have just X Y of screen?

now I am converting y to roll but its not best

[fading rune]

What do you want to do? So when you turn left the plane tilts left?

[drifting mango]

X is the roll axis though?

Isn't it?

[undone sequoia]

I already have it but its not good, i need some other way for roll calculation

now i do it like this

[fading rune]

You need to clamp the roll output in the x value.

[steady night]

@dark narwhalhm it dose but thats related to the camera :/?

[undone sequoia]

bro

x value does not exist in control rotation

it has just y and z

😄

thats why I need somehow make X

[shut yew]

i AM checking every time im scrolling in my inv if there's a valid class(a item)

[faint pasture]

that impulse is absolutely tiny

[undone sequoia]

there is always 0 x

[fading rune]

The return value roll.

[shut yew]

How do i detach it from my hand the

[undone sequoia]

wat

[rich ferry]

Yeah I figured that out 😅 I always forget how big they have to be to actually do something

[faint pasture]

Stop breaking rotations into axes, it'll lead you into a world of hurt

[undone sequoia]

i need 😄 it would not work without ti

whole stuff looks like this

[faint pasture]

It'll work without it. I've done full 6DOF stuff with just rotations

[drifting mango]

The axes hella suck though

[undone sequoia]

u smarter

[shut yew]

I want to detach an item from my socket everytime i scroll from the slot in my inv how do i do that

[drifting mango]

Why not just ask Adriel to help you set up the system?

[undone sequoia]

i need just 4dof

[faint pasture]

The first question I have is this. Is global Z a special direction in your setup, or are you intending for an airplane to fly semi-realistically?

[undone sequoia]

like now its fine i need somehow change roll then i can remake it to rotations

[undone sequoia]

global Z ?

[flat coral]

How do I validate a hit struct to make sure it's NOT the default?

Normally I'd do something like check if it's equal to a default struct but there's no equality method for hits. I could go through the variables and check if they're equal individually, but hits have a LOT of variables.

THIS would probably work but I think we can all agree it fucking sucks

[dawn gazelle]

You basically would have to check each value since there is no built in comparison, but why do you need to do this in the first place? If you know your hit is valid, there wouldn't be a "default" value for the hit. And yeah that JSON conversion and check does suck.

[flat coral]

(pretend that's Not Equal)

[flat coral]

Basically I'm starting with a list of hits and filtering them, and there's a chance the entire list gets filtered and the one I have at the end is the default

This is actually fine because the system to do these traces is somewhat chaotic (by design) and if I do another set of traces the next tick, odds are good it'll find a valid one and recover.

But what I DONT want is for it to ACT on the invalid hit, it's fine if it waits but I dont want this AI pawn to go zooming off towards 0,0,0 because it thinks that's the result of the pathfinding

[dawn gazelle]

I'm still not really following - if you have an "invalid" hit, why is it being added to the list in the first place?

[main lake]

I have an actor component called "Ability" and bound an Event to "On Component Activated" and it generated me an even with 2 parameters, and was wondering what was the boolean "Reset" for ?

[supple dome]

if Activate was called with the reset checked

[flat coral]

Because the list is the result of a pathfinding pulse like this.

[main lake]

Alright but still I don't understand what's the purpose of having that boolean 🤔 ? And why would I check it if I call Activate with that checked ? 🤔

[supple dome]

Some stuff like niagara components will just continue if its unchecked, but reset from start if its checked

its up to you to decide what it means to "reset" your component

[main lake]

That's confusing

[supple dome]

just think what happens if you activate your ability once its already activated, what would it do

[main lake]

nothing I guess ?

[supple dome]

then ignore the boolean

[dawn gazelle]

Ok assuming those are line traces, only line traces that appropriately register would be added to the multi-line trace you're probably doing giving you the array of hits. There shouldn't be any values in there that are "default".

[supple dome]

it makes sense for most stuff, ie Audio: keep playing vs restart

[main lake]

Oh wait you mean in my case ?

[supple dome]

yeah

[flat coral]

There aren't! But then I run this through a list of numerous other filters, which can potentially remove all hits from the list

[supple dome]

you can use for example, you activated a healing, and it lasts for 3 more seconds, once you "Reset" it goes back to healing for the full duration

[main lake]

In my case I use "Activate" to activate my ability and play an anim montage, and later I will add other stuff because my ability goes through all these phases

[supple dome]

(not sure about your gameplay just an example)

[flat coral]

For example, if the AI is in patrol mode, I filter hits which are more than a certain distance from the patrol zone's origin.

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so then you just check if the length of the array is 0.

[flat coral]

That finds the problem unless the problem is in the final "find" method which picks a winner from the list

And I'd kinda rather a solution which can't miss a spot

[dawn gazelle]

Oof... using find on a hit structure sounds blegh... (Unless you mean your own custom "find")

I was thinking the array find

[flat coral]

Yeah it's my own find. I use one of a few depending on the AI's current mode, but most of them are pretty simple like "find the hit that's closest to this actor I'm following"

[dawn gazelle]

So it still boils down to whether or not you had a valid hit in the first place that you want to use.
In your final "find method", it should likely check if there is any hits you want to use before choosing that winner. If there are no valid spots, that's where you'd return from your function and indicate if a valid option was picked, otherwise you'd return that it wasn't a valid pick.

[flat coral]

The reason why this is a sticking point is the first time I had a bug like this, it WAS actually the find method which was finding NOTHING and returning a default, even though its input was valid

Obviously that shouldn't happen, but like, clearly it can and I want to account for that

[spiral kite]

when throwing the knife, I want to throw it not according to the position in the world, but in the direction my camera is looking at, how can I do it?

[dawn gazelle]

And that's why it sounds like it needs to return a bool along with the value. If the bool is false, you know you can't use the value.

It shouldn't matter if there's a "default" hit value or not as you're ensuring whether or not you have a valid location to use yourself.

[flat coral]

That's still relying on the Find method to do the right thing, though. If you view it as untrustworthy, it could just lie to you

[dawn gazelle]

If I bult it, I know whether or not it's lying to me. If I was getting unpredictable results, I debug it to make sure it's not lying any more.

Computers will do exactly what you tell them to.

[flat coral]

My view of it is, I know for a fact all the programmers on this project are asshole drunks, because I'm the only programmer on this project

So I try to code defensively

[dawn gazelle]

The issue usually stems from that "exactly" part.

[flat coral]

I get what you're saying but the problem is still that Find can lie

[dawn gazelle]

Then fix your find method.

There is no "lying".

[flat coral]

Course there is! If it says the returned hit is valid, and it isn't, that's lying

[dawn gazelle]

That means you're returning from your function incorrectly. You designed this find method, no?

[flat coral]

Yeah but like we covered, I'm a drunk asshole who makes all kinds of poor decisions

Like I've literally already fucked up this exact thing once lol

Now HERE'S a funny detail. That JSON comparison method? Doesnt even work

[dawn gazelle]

Doesn't surprise me.

[flat coral]

Because hits have a "time" field

Also the normal isn't the same? Which is bizarre. These are both clearly empty default hits.

[rugged wigeon]

get a reference to the camera, and get it's forward vector. That's the direction. Multiply it by a speed to make it a velocity.

[faint pasture]

Velocity = Camera.GetForwardVector * DesiredThrowSpeed

[dim agate]

I've been experimenting with Set Mouse Position but it doesn't give me the results I want, is it not possible to set the mouse position relative to a position in world space?

[faint pasture]

show your code

the mouse is on a screen, and the world is in 3d, you need to convert

[dim agate]

Yes, that's the part I'm struggling to do, however it's enough for me that someone can confirm it is possible (didn't want to explore a dead-end), I'll try to figure out the rest, thanks.

I was using this but it caused controls to feel odd.

[flat coral]

So I've got this system to find a point a little bit above a pawn, so I can start traces from there. Thing is "above" is the wrong word, it's actually just supposed to move away from the nearest surface. And it works great... until it doesn't.

Look at these sets of traces, the magenta dot is the resulting point. It suddenly decides to put that point underneath the plane it's on, which breaks all subsequent logic because now it can't "see" any ground at all.

Anyone have any idea what's going wrong here?

oh my god the normal becomes negative on that tick. The trace must eventually hit the plane from the bottom, return a negative normal, then go WAY under the floor by adding the offset in the wrong direction

[humble matrix]

any way to check if my actors in world have the same material. There is just 1 actor class but multiple numbers in the world. Their materials are changing. I need to know if they have the same material in some point.

[wraith loom]

Before I go and make my own macro, is there a while loop node where you input n and it repeats code n times?

[foggy escarp]

The 'ForLoop' allows you to loop n times, but there's also 'DoN' which allows execution only N times.

I usually nest Do N within the 'WhileLoop' to ensure that it exits.

[frail onyx]

I just tried that and it still doesn't seem to work

[faint pasture]

thats a for loop

[tender lark]

If you had a grid of boxes made of instanced mesh, is there a way to evaluate the surrounding grid spaces and then change the mesh based on that?

[trim matrix]

Sorry for kinda out of topic but how to set up that kind of map/environment? I'm new here and wondering how to start my project

[frail onyx]

hey np, do u mean like the grid texture i have and lighting?

[trim matrix]

The structure, like that block or somekind, for testing purpose

[frail onyx]

oh ok, basically they are just individual cubes i added to my level and moved/scales around to make a little map. They each have a material that is using a texture i made and is aligned to the world space so it shares a perfect grid that is 1 meter by 1 meter. This is a tutorial i used to make the world aligned grid since it is probably too much to explain here and is probably easier to understand, the only thing i changed from the tutorial to get the grid the way i liked was make an image in photoshop that was 256x256 and put it in the texture object. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXshiA59OA&list=WL&index=30

[frosty heron]

Why event tick? And how do you set is on? Is it necessary?

[trim matrix]

Oh ok, thanks a lot!

[frosty heron]

Can just check the current material right away

[frail onyx]

np!

[dreamy elm]

Is it a bug this node (time ratio) always returning 0 for montages?

[main lake]

I have a variable of type "Input Action" in my "actor component", is it possible to take that and get an event which gives "Pressed", "Released", etc... like when we look for an event for any Action we created ?

By that I mean this kind of node (when we don't know in advance the Action that will be picked in the "Editable property"

[frosty heron]

Have you dived in to the node? With your skill you can prob figure it out

[dreamy elm]

Why my skill

[frosty heron]

You can read source code

You can just commit the material change when you step on it then?

Also to toggle bool the shortcut is

Set myvar = !myvar

! Is called not in bp

I mean you can do it on the overlap instead of tick

You are setting the material every frame

Sounds pretty expensive (maybe) but you can just make a function

Param would be the target material and collection of actors

[main lake]

you're trying to do that to see if blue or red wins ?

[frosty heron]

For loop get actor if material == mytargetmaterial

What r u struggling with? You don't know how to compare materials?

You can compare with materials with == node

I dunnoe , it's a pretty simple and straightforward

[main lake]

Then do that with materials, rather put a boolean variable on each tile and after each press by the user do a check of all of your actors to see what's their boolean value

[frosty heron]

You are comparing actor to material

Get the mesh component that the bp pressure pad use

[main lake]

and isntead of calling "GetAllActorsFromClass" each time, you can just create an array of those tile type, makie it editable and use the eye dropper tool to put them in the array so you can always have a reference to them

[frosty heron]

Then get the material then compare

Actor is what you placed in the world, your actor would be something like BP_pressure_pad_1 , so that's not a material. Hope you get why Ur code is failing

[main lake]

Anyone please ? ☝️

[frosty heron]

Ofc

Your are telling it, if a pad is blue. Open it

So even a single blue pad will open the door

You can make a function, especially for puzzle game

Might reuse it over and over

[lunar sleet]

Not sure, it sounds like you’re trying to define what the input action does at runtime. #enhanced-input-system is prly better for this

[raw aspen]

can anyone help me this camera rotation problem

[frosty heron]

Easily. In a function create a bool called bAllPadBlue as local variable

Then for the input you want array of actors

Go do that first and come back

[main lake]

What's the issue ?

[raw aspen]

the character is rotating but the camera is rotating too so the character is moving in circular path

both are rotating

[lunar sleet]

Continue

[raw aspen]

i fixed

[analog moat]

would some mind if i messaged them? I'm tryna make a complex system if its possible to do but i havbe no idea where i should or how i should start it, i wanted to ask for like some pointers or such so i can get like an idea on how i should go about it

[frosty heron]

Ask the community for some insight

[dreamy elm]

I found a bug lol

CurrentAnimTime is always 0

[dark narwhal]

nah i use it to change the orientation of my flipbooks when my monsters/characters moves

[frosty heron]

Is montage == anim? I don't know just guessing.

In anim bp we have remaining time ratio but that's only for animation right, not montage

[dreamy elm]

Can i get montage time

[frosty heron]

Ye

[analog moat]

fair enough, i'll try to explain my thoughts best i can, but i'm trying to design a dual progression system which bases things off the characters growth stage and experience, so the characters growth stage allots them Talent/Skill points to them but the quest they do allots them experience and levels that they can use to then boost their base stats kind of like ark creatures if that makes sense, i'm just not sure how or where i should start that system or even if thats possible

[frosty heron]

U can get active montage time

[frosty heron]

It's deff possible, but what you should do might have to depend on how well you know OOP. If you never done anything like that perhaps do something simpler and not as complex

Just the character leveling up with some talents to pick

[dreamy elm]

How?

[dreamy elm]

How?

[frosty heron]

Get anim class -> get current active montage -> get current time? If I can recall

Can't check rn, washing the dishes

[dreamy elm]

Current active montage is shared

it is a reference to a "shared" resource

i will check if i can get this time

[frosty heron]

Or maybe it's called position

If u need ratio from whole anim. Maybe current position / duration

Select node

[plush hinge]

❤️

ty

[echo wren]

when i bind a paramter of a userwidget in blueprint to a variable, does that update only when the variable changes? vs when i create a binding it make a function with a return that is called on tick, correct?

[spark steppe]

both run each tick, but getting the value from a variable isn't super bad

if you only want updates if the variable changes you want to use UMG Viewmodel... wait nevermind.

[dreamy elm]

I did, yeah unreal code was broken

[frosty heron]

Were u able to get the montage time?

[dreamy elm]

Yes

[frosty heron]

Won't say broken tho, anim != montage in my opinion

[dreamy elm]

montage is playing an animation at least

[frosty heron]

Ye

[dreamy elm]

If it was the animation time then it is fine but always 0 is a bug

[frosty heron]

The node give the ratio just fine when I used it for animation in anim bp

Mainly to see the ratio left for an anim in state machine

[dreamy elm]

bug bug bug

Just accept the fact

[frosty heron]

🤣

@dreamy elm I'm making rpg too but not up to combat yet. Do you use GAS?

[dreamy elm]

Yes, GAS

But if your game is offline i`m not sure it is good

[frosty heron]

Listen server 4 players max

Or maybe 5

[dreamy elm]

then it is good

[frosty heron]

Do I need ffastarrayserializer for small project like this?

[dreamy elm]

I wish it was cold this summer ;/

[frosty heron]

Me 2 :/

[dreamy elm]

Not sure you need it or not

[frosty heron]

It's 42 degrees atm

[dreamy elm]

Wow, where are u from?

[frosty heron]

I live in Australia

@dreamy elm last question if u don't mind. Do Gas have anything to modify the movement? Something like a grapling hook in mp setting. Is that supported or we have to route movement stuff in cmc?

[dreamy elm]

You can generate root motion but it looks advanced

there are some apply root motion nodes but i don`t have experience

Maybe that

[frosty heron]

I will take a look. Tysm

[celest sky]

Hello. I am trying to dynamically set the FOV of a SceneCapture2d object I have in a blueprint, but I am unable to connect my object reference to the set node. And as seen in the first photo, my object is a child of the SceneCapture2D object. Does anyone know the solution to this?

[frosty heron]

You are grabbing the actor not the scene capture comp

If the actor have a scene capture comp, then you get drag the comp from the actor

[celest sky]

so like this?

[frigid summit]

plz help

[fiery ridge]

yo, anyone know how to get NPC's movement component in this task?

[frosty heron]

yes but I would avoid level bp

[frosty heron]

Controlled pawn is not movement component

you can check if the Pawn have the movement component by using GetComponentByClass

[fiery ridge]

How can I stop AIMoveTo in this task

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message

[fiery ridge]

the man, the legend, thank you

[surreal peak]

Or just cast the ControlledPawn to your Base NPC/Character class.

[fiery ridge]

But what if I want this to be modular with other NPCs/classes?

[surreal peak]

You usually still have a shared base class

Even if that doesn't implement much.

If all your NPCs are at least characters, you can also just cast to character here

[fiery ridge]

You reminded me to implement children now, thanks for that 😄

[surreal peak]

Also, Pawn has a GetMovementComponent function

Would only return something valid if the Pawn or child class have one and return it there

Which Character does with its build in movement component

[fiery ridge]

is it a big deal that I made the NPC's parent class Character instead of Pawn?

[surreal peak]

No

Pawn is the parent of character

[fiery ridge]

ohhh

that makes sense

[surreal peak]

With more humanoid features

[fiery ridge]

thank you

[tranquil solar]

Hey, I am facing an issue, where I am trying to save Linear color & Bool values in the Save Game BP, I can see the values being updated when I press the save button, but it all turns to the 0, when I load these values, any help is appriciated.

[frosty heron]

show code and maybe someone can take a look at it

[tranquil solar]

Give me a min

[fervent breach]

question - so I have an enemy that shoots projectiles, and an explosive object that hurts anything caught in the explosion. The issue is, the enemy can be as far away as possible, but if their bullets are in range of the explosion, the enemy get hurt. Why is this exactly? When spawning the bullets I don't set an owner or instigator, and even added a check to the explosion to ignore anything with the Projectile tag, but it didn't change anything

[fiery ridge]

Probably because you're casting to the entire enemy instead of just the bullet

and since the bullet is maybe part of the enemy?

[tranquil solar]

1 - Setting values to the Variable in the Save Game BP
2- Printing Values to varify the Updated Values
3- Loaded values which are just 0
4 - Print String

@frosty heron Hope this helps

[frosty heron]

I don't see the load and save bit

[tranquil solar]

@frosty heron

Right I forgot to call save game but I added it and it is still the same issue

[frosty heron]

Make sure you load the save game object , check if the array that is being saved is the right value before saving
Close program and then re-load printing the values to see if it match

make sure your load get run too. Doing print string here and there helps

[tranquil solar]

Thanks will try some more things, because I am saving one values with Mesh and Location rotation, and that is working, but I will see if its the issue while loading or something.

[remote meteor]

Apply Root Motion in GA or use Motion Warping (the animation itself must already have some RootMotion)

[shut yew]

Can't pick up potion

[fervent breach]

I'm using the spawn function to make the bullet, other than that, the explosion checks a target's tag for if they have HP. Only the enemy whose bullets hit the explosion gets hurt, all other enemies are perfectly fine. So I assume the bullets must count as children of the enemy and that somehow bypasses the check for their tag

[fiery ridge]

Have a screenshot of this? Could see how you check for tags

[fervent breach]

only things being cut off here are a Print String that just lets me know everything making it pass the check, and my custom damage event, which is linked to Other Actor

[fiery ridge]

You should use blueprint interface instead

[fervent breach]

like what?

[sharp nimbus]

anyone have ideas on how to get the colour of pixels underneath the mouse cursor? I've tried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7YbdG0p4hE&t=258s however the UE cube seems to have a too simple uv to make this work.

I've also tried getting the mouse location, Creating a Render Target 2D, and then getting the raw pixel by plugging in the mouse location xy but the colour values I get are not consistent per colour, might be affected by shaders, and this system probably won't work for different viewport resolutions.

I feel like the solution to getting the pixel colour underneath the mouse cursor should be easy but I just can't figure it out

[frigid summit]

hi guys how do i fix this

they cant just stop doing that

[ocean crow]

anyone know how to get this node?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/BlueprintAPI/SubobjectDataSubsystem/AddNewSubobject/

[fiery ridge]

Interface from explosion and make an overlap event. Then apply same interface on objects u want to be affected

[spark steppe]

you may have to drag from an SubObject Data Subsystem node

and somehow my guess is that this subsystem is editor only

[spark steppe]

is that an editor utility widget/action blueprint?

[ocean crow]

It's an actor component

[spark steppe]

well, try in an editor utility widget blueprint

if it works there then it's kinda obvious that it's editor only

because idk what exactly that subsystem does, but from a quick google search it's apparently to change blueprints in the editor

[ocean crow]

tbh idk what editor only means, im trying to add a subobject to the actor

[spark steppe]

what kind of subobject?

[ocean crow]

A cpp replicated UObject for an inventory system

[spark steppe]

then you want to construct object from class, and assign it to a variable in the blueprint (so that it doesn't get gced)

[ocean crow]

I did that, but it doesnt replicate, and I found this article online that I think is a potential fix:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/replicating-tarray-of-uobjects-cannot-get-tarray-uitemobject-to-replicate-from-within-custom-actorcomponent/1262941/2

[ocean crow]

In reference to this btw:
#multiplayer message

[spark steppe]

🤷 idk anything about replication

[solar fiber]

Hey Guys, rookie here with rookie question. I'm struggling with selection. I got my marquee selection set on my left mouse button. Now I would like to implement double click on a unit to select all units. How to approach this? Right now the left click is registering as a start of marquee selection. So it fires a message for hud to select the unit under corsor and start drawing a rectangle shape from that position. Do i have to add some kind of modifier to enhanced input action? I need to tell the IA_leftclick to cancel the marque selection if there is a following click on the same position on a pawn within the given time limit. I'm clueless. Thanks for any tips.

[gentle urchin]

Afaik uobjects dont replicate by default

For subobjects youd need to enable the option in the owning class in cpp i believe

Along with some minor tinkering in the uobject class if memory serves ...

I never used this method so not recalling the exact steps

I went for a replicated struct array instead 😅

[blissful summit]

soo i tried doing a randomisation test... and this was the result...

the bp is basically generating 2 random numbers and comparing them, if they're the same, then it stops and logs the alleged same numbers and prints the number of tries it took to get it

it says 17 == 15...

repeating the test results in it happening to other numbers too

am i doing something wrong?

otherwise this is horribly wrong

something is broken

WTF?

[gentle urchin]

you gotta cache the randoms

its pulling a random every time

so its pulling a random for the top part of the compare
then a new random for the bottom part of the compare
then a new random for the first build string
then a new random for the second build string

[blissful summit]

i see thank you

[gentle urchin]

So youd wanna do Get random int in range -> store to variable X
then again for variable Y

[frosty heron]

check how pure function work

[raw aspen]

can anyone tell me how to control the walking speed of yaw direction

i am using blend space not 1D

[restive barn]

Cant help but your character looks sick! 🔥

[raw aspen]

form mixmo not me

[proper flower]

this won't connect, why?

[halcyon vapor]

which blueprint could I use, by any blueprint/actors to get its values
I was trying to look into "global variable" but I thought maybe making a blueprint/actor that has these values and then casting from that would make the same result

The thing is, I don't know which one would be easily accessed from anywhere, I thought about using the level blueprint but that would be an extra worry to keep in mind

Anyone got any suggestilns?

[halcyon vapor]

hover over the "Target" of the function on the left and the array element of the "for each loop"

are they different?

function on the right*

[proper flower]

even if I change this

[halcyon vapor]

yeah okay, so you'd need to "cast to Pal Player State" inbetween

[proper flower]

ok

[halcyon vapor]

yup, now connect "Array element" with the "Object" of the Casting node

also, did pal world make its source blueprint code available to everyone?

[proper flower]

idk

I'm messing around

[halcyon vapor]

aaah okay

[proper flower]

I'm like a child in a big ocean at the moment

[halcyon vapor]

welcome to the Ocean I guess xD

[proper flower]

I don't know what I'm doing, trying to mod my dedicated server

but it's funny

[halcyon vapor]

glad you are enjoying this process

[proper flower]

I need more reference about palworld blueprint ,but it's difficult

I don't even know if this blueprint makes sense

idk if it's the right approach to obtain all the online player inventory

[halcyon vapor]

there are many possible approaches to anything when you code, so generally as long as it works and doesn't cause massive lag, it should be fine

[proper flower]

at the moment Im using event tick

but need a better input

[halcyon vapor]

okay yeah, that's a horrible idea xD

[proper flower]

but can't use event begin cause it won't work

i neet to know how and when access to the player info

[halcyon vapor]

which blueprint are you in?

[proper flower]

?

i'm just testing my first mod on weight

[halcyon vapor]

are you in a widget blueprint I mean?

[proper flower]

through mod actor blueprint modding

[halcyon vapor]

but is the actor linked with a menu ?

[proper flower]

i don't think

[halcyon vapor]

because widget blueprints have "on construct" instead of "on begin play"

[proper flower]

okay but how can I recognize the initializing of all player data?

cause if I send the info early is undefined

I don't use a widget

[halcyon vapor]

what you did works, but using an event tick to start it is not ideal at all
Event ticks run around 20 times per second

[proper flower]

I know

at least some basics

it's just to test it out

[halcyon vapor]

so why exactly does the event begin play not work? it starts too early?

[proper flower]

now I'm waiting a friend that have the dedicated

Idk why but doesn't work

I assume that

[halcyon vapor]

did you try to "print string" from it

[proper flower]

I can try

[halcyon vapor]

because if you can create the node, and the thing doesn't execute any code, that means the actor itself isn't present in the level

[proper flower]

someone suggested me this

but how it works?

I assume I don't need anymore with each loop

[halcyon vapor]

basically a custom event will execute code that is plugged in the red node, and if you want to execute that code, you use the blue function node

but I'm not familiar with server blueprints, so not sure the exact detail of what you are trying to achive

[proper flower]

my goal basically is to set my mod on all players based on id on join

but I don't know how to do that for now

at this moment this script iterate through all players online

but maybe it's better this way ( if it works)

[frosty heron]

Doing Multiplayer without knowing how to cast is insane

[proper flower]

I know

I'll figure it out

[halcyon vapor]

learning the hard way has its benefits, but anyways, what do you mean "set my mod on all players"?

[frosty heron]

you don't expect to make multiplayer game if you can't make single player game.
I don't know benefit of learning the hard way, I thnk it's beneficial to learn the foundation first before doing hard stuff

[proper flower]

if I use get local player, it does not work with all I suppose

If you have a good foundation guide on programming, I'll be glad to read

[halcyon vapor]

I can DM a few playlists

[proper flower]

preferably ue5 oriented on blueprint

[halcyon vapor]

ye ye

[proper flower]

thanks

[proper flower]

some people have a different approach, I become lazy on reading, I prefer learning by trial and error

at first this is bad if I know very little on a field of expertise

but the more I practice, and the more my intuition helps me

I rely on intuition and logic consequences other than schematic memory

this led me to learn to play the piano, to be a professional 3D graphic designer and dozens of other less relevant fields

btw, thanks for the help

much appreciated

[dim agate]

I don't think he's arguing "learning by doing" is wrong, rather starting with multiplayer specifically from near 0 knowledge is not a good idea.

[proper flower]

from my perspective, it's the way to pop up my intuition, self discipline, will

[frosty heron]

if you want spoiler, blueprint multiplayer is very limited

you can ask in #multiplayer for 2nd opinion

no shortcut unfortunately

[proper flower]

thanks

[halcyon vapor]

just finished spamming your DMs, enjoy

[frosty heron]

dicipline and will alone is not enough if you don't use the right tool. I mean it;s not even doable to do a sprinting mechanic in multiplayer without expanding on CMC (cpp only)

[proper flower]

will learn the necessary

[sonic pier]

hi all i am trying to make a stamina sprint system for my game i want the player to sprint as the stamina is recharging but the walk speed is just not going up! Here is the sprinting logic

[halcyon vapor]

Also, back to my quick question xD
which blueprint could I use, by any blueprint/actors to get its values
I was trying to look into "global variable" but I thought maybe making a blueprint/actor that has these values and then casting from that would make the same result

The thing is, I don't know which one would be easily accessed from anywhere, I thought about using the level blueprint but that would be an extra worry to keep in mind

Anyone got any suggestions?

[sonic pier]

increase stamina

[frosty heron]

Level blueprint is even worse, the communication is only one way

you can't even reference it from other blueprint class

what do you actually want to do?

[sonic pier]

use stamina

[halcyon vapor]

make "global variables" that any BP can just grab anytime

[dim agate]

Not quite what you asked but you should consider using Set Timer by Event and timer handles instead of delays.

[frosty heron]

Global variables of what?

Game instance might be your best bet

[halcyon vapor]

floats, integers, ecc
The main thing I want is being able to change them at anytime, and any other blueprint will have them

[frosty heron]

if you can do cpp, use SubSystem

closest BP option would be GameInstance

[halcyon vapor]

is there a function that gets the ref of GameInstance from any blueprints?

[frosty heron]

Get Game Instance

[halcyon vapor]

nice perfect then, ty

[dim agate]

"i want the player to sprint as the stamina is recharging but the walk speed is just not going up!"

You mean when it drains?

[thin umbra]

Hello, I'm wondering if someone has a solution for this:

how do I prevent the camera from switching into my character when I possess it?

I want to possess the character, but maintain a view that is custom made, and I Want it done at the beginning of the game

oh cool I found it.
I think this one does the trick

[sonic pier]

yea

[dim agate]

"Yes" to you want to sprint while stamina recharges or "yes" to you meant say "while it drains"?

[sonic pier]

while it recharges

[dim agate]

Imo you're probably better off remaking your stamina system with event timers anyway, rather than just fixing this problem.

[craggy hazel]

I have some issue with Hierarchical instanced meshes. I first want to add the Instance (red), and then Set the Static Mesh (orange) for the HISM Component. However the HISMs will stay invisible unless I call Update Transforms (green). I would expect them to show just after orange, not needing green. I particularly don't want to update the Transforms, do I have any other method of making them visible?

Solution for my case: replace HISM with ISM, and the Meshes will properly show after setting the mesh without requiring to update anything else.

[versed sun]

can you Set the mesh first , then add them?

[craggy hazel]

I could theoretically, would really prefer not to due to the Async loading that I have todo before i know the mesh.

[versed sun]

Well, i think you are adding HISM with a blank mesh
setting the mesh only sets the Variable, it doesn't DO anything

[frosty heron]

You can load the mesh way ahead?

[craggy hazel]

So it seems, that's why I'm wondering if theres another way to make it update without having to update the transform.

[versed sun]

can't you Efficient Add Unique > Async Load > Cast > Set Static Mesh > Add Instances ?

[craggy hazel]

As written above, theoretically I could, I'd need to restructure the whole System though. Anyways I found a solution that works in my case -> Replace the HISM component with a ISM component. Thanks for your help guys.

[vale pine]

Is there a way to get the number of "Child" tags of a specific tag parent? In this case, all the children of Achievements.Takedowns
I'm wanting to make a thing that says "Performed x/8 takedowns"
I know I could check each takedown box and use GetNumGameplayTagsInContainer, but I'd like the function to automatically adapt if I expand the list.

[gentle urchin]

in cpp you can mark it dirty to force a render update iirc

i vaguely recall a similar bp node but memory is fuzzy

[spiral kite]

I try to throw a knife where I look, but when I look up, it still throws it straight in front of me.

and how can I determine the maximum launch distance. I want to set the launch speed and distance separately.

[vale pine]

Multiply the forward vector by a float instead of multiplying it by a vector. The Float is your speed and the Vector is your dir.

right click the second input and turn it into a float

[spiral kite]

ok I fix it but how can I set maximum range

[sudden fern]

Hello, I am trying to create a random platformer by running an event to generate the next platform on the current platform all the way upto a given length. However I keep getting infinite loop detected after reaching a length of 38. What am I doing wrong?

[visual crest]

What is the node that detects if the last input was the controller or keyboard?

[frosty heron]

Is there even event that detect which key was pressed

[hearty barn]

I'm losing my mind there isn't a loop here why am I getting an infinite loop on the delay?

[frosty heron]

Use break point

That's most likely not even where the infinite loop take placd

Go look for cursed nodes

[gentle urchin]

that 10 ms timer tho

beware of the consequences regarding that

[visual crest]

I saw a youtube vid on how to switch UI elements on whether controller or keyboard was touched and he use some node to basically switch a bool. I just can't remeber the node he used

[frosty heron]

No idea

[hearty barn]

oh I am well aware it's a critical collision avoidance system I almost did on tick but I'm still designing the system

[gentle urchin]

sounds like a strange thing to run potentially multiple times per frame

not like the colliders will have moved inbetween anyways

[hearty barn]

it's a single raytrace that will probably be run less often once I get around to optimizing it but the ships move at pretty high speeds so it is just checking a lot for now so I don't have to tweak it for now

[lofty rapids]

your getting "infinite loop" on the delay in begin play ?

[dark drum]

What's the function that's being called for the looping timer?

[hearty barn]

yes and check for collisions

[dark drum]

Show what its doing.

[hearty barn]

it's unrelated I can unpin it and it still happens

[trim matrix]

How do i change a member of a c++ struct in blueprint without having to make a new struct?

Idk if using setter gonna work but having 10 setter in 1 struct is also annoying

[dark drum]

If you unhook the delay do you still get the infinite loop

[lofty rapids]

your getting infinite loop inside that macro ?

[hearty barn]

yes it moves to another delay elsewhere I am looking into the stack trace now to see if its something strange

[lofty rapids]

i've found inifinite loop just means it didn't finish within a certain time frame

[frosty heron]

What's wrong with set member?

[sudden fern]

No on begin play