blueprint

[gentle urchin]

keep track of your current state

either by traces, or by velocity checks, or.... both

or, the easiest way

add a cooldown to it 😄

guess you could still end up jumping mid air after said cd

[timid yarrow]

I thought about it :D

[gentle urchin]

tracking is your friend

tracing probably

trace down with the sphere radius

[timid yarrow]

I tried to add a sphere collision

but it also collides with self

[gentle urchin]

make it ignore self

[timid yarrow]

how?

[gentle urchin]

there's a node for it

or swap trace/collisionn channel

[timid yarrow]

thanks i'll try

i didn't get it to work the ignore self thing because it isn't connecting with anything that i want

and i think the tracing thing is hard to do

i just want to ignore the sphere static mesh's own collision from collision sphere

but i can't get it to work

[nimble talon]

Hi, How do i get the highest point of a projectile flight?

[gentle urchin]

either calculate it or 'walk over' the already predicted projectile path

[nimble talon]

Thanks!

[lime basin]

for some reason my casting is faling all the time and the parent class of ProjectPlayerState is a APlayerState no string gets printed at all :/

[gentle urchin]

Print display name on cast fail instead,

displayname of the playerstate variable

[lime basin]

that doesnt get printed either

[gentle urchin]

how about owner?

owning player*

[lime basin]

you want me to use get owner as object?

[gentle urchin]

get owning player as the display name object

i suspect you havnt plugged in owning player

during widget creation

[lime basin]

'Project Player State' does not inherit from 'Player Controller' ( Cast To ProjectPlayerState would always fail).

it print this for get owning player

[gentle urchin]

Only for the print, not the cast

erh

served in 4k

[lime basin]

i did it now it says playerstate_0

[gentle urchin]

so

you've got playerstate as owning player?

what?

doesnt add up

[lime basin]

im not sure

[gentle urchin]

owning player should be a playercontroller

[lime basin]

I COULD change the parent of class

[narrow pendant]

importing .csv or other formats like json / xml but without C++ and without any plugins, is it possible?

[versed sun]

there is built in .json nodes, might have to enable a plugin

[narrow pendant]

sweeeeet

thx

indeed

[versed sun]

I use the VaRest plugin tho

[narrow pendant]

I'm doing a student workshop, trying to not use any external stuff

[winged pumice]

is there a way to eset the element title in a TMap? liek with TArray

[honest bough]

What are some essential things to learn for Blueprinting? I’m looking to learn Blueprinting, but im not sure what to start learning

I’m mostly trying to obtain a good understanding of the foundations

[earnest charm]

This is a horrible way to do this, but I can't find any tutorials online. Does anyone know a better way? It is supposed to be a weighted chance.

[dim agate]

Have you done the "My First Hour in Unreal" tutorial? Also Matthew Wadstein's videos explain basically every node and you can see simple BPs where they are showcased: https://www.youtube.com/@MathewWadsteinTutorials

[honest bough]

oh thanks!

@dim agate is there any specific tutorial series he has?

matthew wadstein i mean

like does he have a certain order you're supposed to watch the videos in?

[dry sleet]

Ah, well, I think ordinarily you'd sum up all the weights, roll a float between 0 and the sum, and then pick based on that.

My brain is shut off for the moment, but I have something like that in our project, if no-one has answered before then I guess I can send a screenshot tomorrow!

[dim agate]

Not particularly. I would recommend starting off with a very simple thing you want to implement (e.g. sprint button, press button to open a door, move between different cameras, etc) and you can look up his videos when you come across nodes you don't quite understand. Again, "My First Hour", if you haven't done it, helps a lot for forming a basic understanding of how BPs work and how actors can interact with them.

[honest bough]

could you send a link to "my first hour"?

[dim agate]

My mistake, it's "Your First Hour", not "My First Hour".

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/online-learning-kit

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/3ke/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5-2/vvdk/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5-2-overview

[honest bough]

thanks

[narrow pendant]

learn.unrealengine.com and then the learning paths tab, stick to official epic courses and matthew wadstein and you'll be on track 🙂

[bleak fog]

i cannot for the life of me figure out why this splinemesh insists on deforming at the start and end of the vertical spline it is on. I tried making the spline horizontal but the same angled deformation exists there as well, so I don't think its the typical spline twisting / up vector at fault. Anyone have any clues? I have tried lot of things.. pruned most of the graph since it doesn't seem to have affect.

[honest bough]

awesome, thanks!

[wise ravine]

as much as i want to watch a 2 hour video, coud you jus show me how i would reference the couch?

please

[dry sleet]

what couch

at which point was a couch mentioned

[wise ravine]

sorry i meant to reply to this comment ^

[wise ravine]

mb lmao

[lofty rapids]

probably get actor of class, do you have many couches ?

[dry sleet]

A'ight this is one of the oldest blueprints I have that is still used in our project so I won't make any claims to its goodness, but here you have it for reference at least!

I first run CalculateProbability to get the cumulative probability of all weights, then the second function uses that for getting one by weight.

[dry sleet]

Well you probably should watch it to get a gist of the basics, but you'll want to create a variable in your BP of type BP_Couch. You do it by clicking the Add button in the BP editor (1). Then select your class, in your case BP_Couch, in my example BP_MCTransmitter (2). Then make sure it's instance exposed by clicking the eye icon (3).

[wise ravine]

just 1

[wise ravine]

I will evetually just not now

[dry sleet]

Then when you place an instance of that actor in the scene you'll get a field like that in the Details panel when selected. Use the eyedropper icon to pick your couch in the scene.

[wise ravine]

cool

is that it?

[dry sleet]

Yup

Then in your Lamp BP you can drag that variable out into the graph to get a ref to it

Top tip: Hold Ctrl while dragging it to get a Getter immediately, otherwise you get a context menu as shown.

[wise ravine]

I dont need the 'Cast to'?

[dry sleet]

You don't need that, no

The variable is already of that type

Since it only allows you to pick BP_Couches in the scene

[wise ravine]

right

[dry sleet]

Another top tip: RIght click and select Validated Get to convert that Getter into a validated node, which allows you to run code only if that variable is assigned in the scene.

If it is not, you'll get a runtime error (which might be desired sometimes, so you remember to fill the reference, but it's nice to know about this little nugget)

[wise ravine]

wow, that was the quickest and easiest to follow instructions ive ever gotten here 😅

appreciate it mate

[dry sleet]

No worries!

[wise ravine]

mind if I mention you if I get any more issues?

[dry sleet]

Sure, we'll see if I have the time

[wise ravine]

alright thanks

[narrow pendant]

I'll be that guy

now watch the video

[dim agate]

Yeah, the recommendation for the video was almost 24 hours ago by the looks of it yet it's a 2 hour video. Could have had the information you needed and moved on a while ago.

[wise ravine]

yeah if only i didn't need to sleep, go to class and have a life ;-;

[dim agate]

As long as that isn't cope for not having the patience to watch the tutorial. This isn't mean-spirited lecturing btw, just would be a shame to shoot yourself in the foot like that if it were the case. We've all done it though.

[proper vigil]

Why can't I drag in for Enum_DialogState 2 but I can for the original?

[wise ravine]

could be, but i find myself to actually enjoy watching long form content for some reason

[proper vigil]

For Michael Patterson's Dialog thing.

[earnest charm]

Did you include all of this?

Sorry if you did, but I don't understand it all

[dry sleet]

Think that's all, yes.

It's an array of structs, and the struct contains the weight for that particular element.

[earnest charm]

I'm, sorry I don't seem to understand this

[dry sleet]

Well, no worries

But that's the function

[obsidian arch]

hey all, can someone tell me what these diamond shapes mean and how to make them? cheers

[dry sleet]

It means they are references.

In essence, the data won't be copied.

It directly points at another piece of data in memory.

In BP you mainly create them by selecting the Pass-by-Reference option in a function parameter.

[obsidian arch]

gotchu, thank you sm

[wise ravine]

@dry sleet

[dry sleet]

you probably haven't filled the references on the instances in the scene

with the eyedropper

[trim matrix]

1 day later and it still doesn't work?

...

[wise ravine]

yeah lmfao 😂

we're getting there

making good progress 💪

[trim matrix]

ofcc

[wise ravine]

I will double check

i forgot the lights in the attic 💀

I'm missing one 😑

we are good !

now I'll try the actual function

it works

@dry sleet now how do i rotate the atmosphere light (change time of day) inside my couch bp?

[lunar sleet]

I know it’s long but it’s worth it. I didn’t feel like watching it either but I didn’t really understand how casting and everything worked until I did

But up to you, that’s only a small amount of effort you’ll need to put into gamedev 😀

[wise ravine]

yeah I will 100% watch it

are there videos after that, that i should watch?

(https://celdevs.com/unreal-engine-and-the-hidden-pitfalls-of-blueprints/) this looks interesting

[lunar sleet]

Yeah that’s a good read. Beyond those, you’ll need to build something and find resources when you get stuck. There’s not a whole lot of generic videos that are worth much

But there’s plenty of specific issue videos by people like Mat Wadstein

[lofty rapids]

theres a lot of tutorials on youtube

which is pretty nice if you can find a good one

[wise ravine]

My go-to youtubers right now for unreal tutorials are Mat Wadstein and Matt Aspland

both proved very helpful and highest 'success rate'

[trim matrix]

you will never learn like that...

Tutorials on YouTube are good but most of them are missing important things to talk about, like why/when should you use it properly, what is the better option (less expensive.)...

[wise ravine]

yes i agree with that, but I'm just trying to finish the project

next one I'll gladly take my time to learn all the ins and outs

[ocean gate]

I have several hundred (soon thousands) of lamp actors in my game, and they all need to check if they've been hit by a bullet actor or not. I understand that casting can be very bad for performance, since it forces the blueprint to always be loaded? Can I avoid using cast somehow and still check for bullet objects?

this is what I've got currently, it feels suboptimal

[wise ravine]

sounds similar to the issue i just had 💀

why so many lamps

[ocean gate]

the game takes place inside a huge building with many corridors

almost all corridors have lamps, and all lamps can break when they're shot at

[trim matrix]

SAME THING LOL

[flat raft]

How would I go about binding these controls? I have each section procedually generated, but now I can't think of a way to bind these. (via blueprint on creation )

[thin panther]

casting is not bad for performance btw

but just use damage

on hit the bullet applies damage to whatever you hit, and your object receives damage

Apply Damage, and Event AnyDamage respectively

[ocean gate]

I see... but why does it note that it can be bad for performance to keep the blueprint loaded when I over on the cast blueprint itself, if it has no serious impact?

[wise ravine]

Side question : How do I rotate whatever this is, but in blueprints?

[thin panther]

because it can be bad, if you have a bad setup.
Casting to something that is unloaded that contains a lot of asset references will incur a heavy memory penalty

if you use OOP as intended, and have proper code only base classes, you don't incur this penalty

[wise ravine]

I got it, but the ground is still bright

[ocean gate]

That makes sense, thanks for the explanation!

[molten yew]

How would I go about spawning a multiple objects in a forest randomly but making sure they don't spawn colliding the trees.

I have this so far

[trim matrix]

the sun?

[trim matrix]

change the ligthing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-2NiajalOU&ab_channel=GorkaGames

it might help

[quiet ridge]

I've got a blueprint that works just fine in the blueprint editor, anyone know why it doesn't do anything when placed in the world and I hit play?

[wise ravine]

i fixed it but thanks for the video

[trim matrix]

haha coconut
I don't understand lol

ok bro

[wise ravine]

Which then jelly!

[simple spade]

hey guys im stuck could anyone potentially help? so i am following a youtube tutorial, they are using first person, i have third person. in the comments there were a few alternatives people used. i cant seem to get it to work, i tried everything they said. maybe i am missing something.

[copper tree]

What's wrong with this? The only potential issue I see is that the Z value is based on whatever "self" is in this case, so if you have a hilly landscape or varied terrain it may spawn under ground

[molten yew]

It does not work. It spawns but they intersect the trees and fences I have on the map

[wise ravine]

How do i turn these on / off in an actor blueprint?

(The ambiences)

[copper tree]

Collisions set up properly for your trees/fences and whatever you're spawning?

Collision boxes and channels, that is

[molten yew]

I dont know. Got those assests off the market. How do I check?

They collide with the player

[copper tree]

Place one in editor above a fence and see if it falls through when you run Simulate

[molten yew]

Sorry it does not have physics where to I enable that?

[copper tree]

oh. It's in physics. But also, you can just check the Collision presets to see if they're compatible

[simple spade]

nvm i figured it out. i forgot to select the class in the does implement interface

[molten yew]

Oohhh. I see the issue now, I disabled the actors collision cuz I did not want the player to walk over it

Ok so now how do I attempt to spawn again if it didn't go through the first time

Is valid should work, right?

[copper tree]

Not quite sure what you're talking about

[molten yew]

So I have the collision override set to do not spawn if it is still colliding. But I still want it to attempt to spawn just with a different random location. So how would I go and loop it again. I was thinking of using the "Is valid" to see if it spawned and if not add another loop. Do you think that would work?

[quiet ridge]

Anyone know why a blueprint that works fine in the viewport doesn't work in game? 😵‍💫

[molten yew]

You have it set hidden in game

[quiet ridge]

seems to be fine there as well

[molten yew]

Sorry in the code you showed. The first block made it hidden in game

[copper tree]

Ohhh yeah I see now. Yeah, I think you could use an IsValid on the Return Value to try again and just have it loop until it works

[quiet ridge]

ahh igy, I can still see the blueprint in game too which is odd. It just doesn't perform the actions and unhide the rest

[copper tree]

Visibility and Hidden in Game are different properties, you're using different nodes to hide/unhide them in your blueprint

[quiet ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/lil-yachty-drake-gif-21712801

Thank you, greatly appreciated, I was on the verge of smashing my computer to bits haha

[copper tree]

Np! I would recommend going with Visibility in your case, Hidden in game is more of an editor thing

[lunar sleet]

It’s the opposite

Visibility hides editor side

Hidden in game only hides it at runtime

[quiet ridge]

Yup, visibility is definitely the way to go for me. I can see why hidden might be useful to some other folk though

[copper tree]

Any idea why my Random node is returning keys that have been removed by the Remove node in previous iterations of the loop? I've been looking at this for 2 hours, doing breakpoints, and can't figure out why. I can confirm that the Keys are getting removed, and the map is getting updated prior to the next Random selection.

[molten yew]

Why aren't you using the index of the loop?

[copper tree]

I want my AI spawning to be randomized among a set of points, if I did index of the loop it'd just pick the first ones every time

[molten yew]

oh i see

[spark steppe]

you are removing the wrong indexes

the random node get's called twice yielding different results

[copper tree]

Oh my god you're right

Thanks, seems obvious now but I totally didn't see that

[visual crest]

Math whizzes out there I need some help. I am trying to calculate the total spent. MY variables are "cost base of 100"(the 100 can change for each skill) "Cost Xlevel X2" (so level cost 1 100 level 2 200 level 3 400 so forth and so on) and lastly the current spent trying to get to next level.

[visual crest]

What am I doing wrong?

[frail pilot]

In the construct event of the widget blueprint I'm creating here I added a breakpoint which is never fired.
Any idea why? The blueprint is created as expected.

[lunar sleet]

I don’t see any breakpoints in your screenshot

[lunar sleet]

Try #game-math

[visual crest]

I didn't even know that existed but I got it to work

Thanks 🙂

[lunar sleet]

Oh and also I don’t think you can actually use breakpoints on construct, they’re for runtime only afaik

[flat raft]

ello... Trying to figure out how to bind a button (ui) on creation. I was looking at the Lyra ui stuff, and I noticed they are binding their buttons through some modular/procedural approach.

if I were to loop though "create widget" making a few buttons, how would I bind these to actions via bp?

[frosty heron]

Use event dispatcher. Bind each one on create

Make a custom base class button for your project

[flat raft]

yea, i though of that. But how do I choose a different event for different buttons?

one button to Start Game, one to quit

[frosty heron]

By assigning different events?

[flat raft]

one to open credits

[frosty heron]

U can chose which button connected to which event

[flat raft]

hmm... i dont understand

[frosty heron]

I use loops for common stuff like inventory buttons

But u can just create the button on construct

Instead using loop

Then assign each one to its respective event

[flat raft]

yea, but that approach is no different that me manually implementing on-click on the button

can I do it on a loop?

[frosty heron]

Don't see the point but why not

If u know the order

Then you can use the index to assign respectively

Why u want loop soo much for buttons that does different function tho?

[flat raft]

that's the part i'm lost on.

[frosty heron]

Like it'd the main menu

With 4 buttons

I'm doing the same thing except without the loop for my 4 main menu buttons

[flat raft]

well, the graphics menu has alot of buttons

[frosty heron]

That's why u have custom button

Which can contain additional data

[flat raft]

i'm trying to learn the modular approach that lyra uses

[frosty heron]

I will fire up my comp maybe give u some insight

[gentle urchin]

Lyra is its own thing

In many and all ways

[flat raft]

yea, lyra hides things well

[frosty heron]

For menu I use enum a lot to represent page

[flat raft]

you dont have to fire up unreal

[frosty heron]

So Ur custom button can have an enum, expose it on spawn

[flat raft]

i was just wondering lol

[frosty heron]

Drop them to the widget u want to use and assign the enum to each button

[gentle urchin]

I tend to just hook them up direvtly

Theres not that many buttons

Even in graphics

[frosty heron]

Then u can just call one event with a switch

[gentle urchin]

Id spend more time making it procedural than just hitting them up

Yeah thats not a lot

And most require specific event calls

[frosty heron]

I create them in a loop

[gentle urchin]

Amd how much time was spent making tthat loop 😅

Amd the Enum

Amd the related events

[frosty heron]

Not much, each one have a base class too. If the option is a slider or use arrow to change values

[gentle urchin]

And hooking up the sliders

[frosty heron]

The hooking is one node away. Can't imagine doing manual labour 😛

[gentle urchin]

You'd still have to do the work

[frosty heron]

Just pass in the button and id

[gentle urchin]

😅

[flat raft]

LOL

[gentle urchin]

Somethimg gonna react to it

Switch on enum or whatever

Which then is set up manually anyways

[tacit elbow]

i was following outcastdev youtube channel locomotion series when im around part 12 my project crash and i found out that it a issue with main animationblueprint

i tried placing that single animbp in a new project, didnt work when i right click on animbp asset ,project crashes

i look up on a log it says something like this, i dont have a backup, is there way to get my progress on animbp without regoing through all of videos again

''AnimationStateMachineGraph /Game/Characters/Mannequins/Animations/ABP_Base.ABP_Base:AnimGraph.AnimGraphNode_StateMachine_0.LocomotionSM has invalid SubGraph array entry at 9''

[frosty heron]

Oh wait I didn't create it on loop for those button in main memu

[gentle urchin]

So.. unless ypu have vastly bigger option decks, youd be better off just doing the work

[frosty heron]

Just drop them to the widget and change each variable for each button

[gentle urchin]

10- 15 buttons is not enough for any brain chewing loop setup thats ment to save time

[frosty heron]

gonna look at some of the bp

[flat raft]

that's prettty nice

[gentle urchin]

Looks far better than mine , visually lol

[frosty heron]

make a base class for the button so u can handle the anim once

[gentle urchin]

You even animated it

Well that part makes sense either way

A base button class

For the project

let me fire up my old project...

[flat raft]

how are you populating the blue knob?

[gentle urchin]

"Options" ?

an array of strings or similar

[flat raft]

options array

i see i see

[frosty heron]

but yeah I lied, i didn't create it on a loop

[gentle urchin]

combo boxes got this in them anyways

using widget switcher for the main layout

then it's just the manual work

[flat raft]

ooo..

your's looks like red dead

did you try it with a controller?

[gentle urchin]

This was made like 6+ years ago, before i ever considered controller for anything

[flat raft]

i switched to common-ui to get the controller working correctly... with less work

[gentle urchin]

Yeah thats what id try today aswell

Havnt gotten to that part yet

[flat raft]

setting focus on things is soooo much work

common ui just does it

[frosty heron]

I'm still living in the past I guess

not using common ui 🥹

[flat raft]

i've been playing with common for about a month now

not everything works, but it's good enough

[gentle urchin]

i tried another project with controller/keyboard support, and it wasn't the end of the world to implement

I was lucky tho

[frosty heron]

@flat raft Make custom buttons anyway if you need exposed param. Each of my button contain tool tip and have dispatcher for event hover, clicked etc.
When hovered, I just change the display text for the tool tip

[gentle urchin]

listen for input had just become a thing

[frosty heron]

Good timing 😄

that must be a while ago

[gentle urchin]

time flies ...

smooth ui

[frosty heron]

a lot to improve

[gentle urchin]

how to post an add without posting aan add

😄

[frosty heron]

I am really bad at materials

[flat raft]

looks awesom

[frosty heron]

need to do something outside just changing color and opacity

[gentle urchin]

It goes a long way imo

[frosty heron]

true

[gentle urchin]

some click sounds and you're good to go

mine's all static lol

I'm not a UI person at all tho xD

[flat raft]

what's your cycling logic look like? (when changing res)

[frosty heron]

it depends on the style too tho, I certainly don't need fancy U.I to relive nostalgic games like FF9 😄

[flat raft]

did you go fancy, with modulus , or an if <0

[gentle urchin]

% is fancy

(Index + 1) % Options.Num()

i went for dropdown instead

[frosty heron]

i use modulus for inventory slots. Squize the one that gave me revelation

[gentle urchin]

so it's just this

[flat raft]

i used to use %, but it breaks when i go negative

[gentle urchin]

never go negative

😄

[flat raft]

lol

oh hey... how'd your quest system come out?

[gentle urchin]

it never reached released

but it turned out pretty good imo

the quest editor needs some work

and beautification perhaps (perhaps? who am i kidding)

[flat raft]

nice nice

[gentle urchin]

Should send it to some test group and get actual feedback on it

Im not very objective testing my own thing 😛

[frosty heron]

dayummmmmm

did you extend the editor?

[flat raft]

i mean.. looks pretty cool

[gentle urchin]

its just an editor widget

[frosty heron]

ohh, still cool tho

[flat raft]

you have a X and a wine glass

lol

[gentle urchin]

the details panel was a nice touch being avaliable

so i can inspect each singular uobject and get their data

and edit it too..

hourglass - time limited

retryable - 3 attempts

[flat raft]

ahh

fancy

[gentle urchin]

So if you're up for a painfull test period with no documentation, feel free to DM me lol

all features may or may not work as expected x)

weirdly enough what i probably was most satisfied about was the quest descriptions being dynamic lol

[flat raft]

you went with data assets, right ?

[gentle urchin]

ye

[dawn gazelle]

Data Assets are great.

[frosty heron]

How can I replace DT with DA?

suppose I have a collection of DA for items

[gentle urchin]

damn, all those events

[frosty heron]

how can I find the item that I want? given that in DT we can just find the row

[gentle urchin]

are those new uobjects or what ?

[dawn gazelle]

Yep

[gentle urchin]

with world context, and blueprint implementation ? ^^

[frosty heron]

Oh wait, I guess I can just pick the DA from the drop down lol

[gentle urchin]

Exactly ^^ nice

[frail pilot]

What do you mean? All the debugging happens at runtime.

[dawn gazelle]

And yea, maybe I should directly add the context VIA the calling mission state.

[gentle urchin]

I skipped event triggers (for now) as i figured it would just be solved by the quest giver/updater etc

maybe that's an oversimplification on my end

there's also a silly broadcast feature in case you're on a quest with someone in a group.. I dont really like it but it is what it is

[flat raft]

@gentle urchin you're right, just manually bind the buttons. 😄

they give you a path to do it programmatically, but you'd end up setting things up else where.

so, manual labor

[gentle urchin]

^^

Sometimes you just gotta do the work hehe

I avoid it if theres smarter ways to automate it 😆

[lunar sleet]

Is it a widget’s construct or regular bp?

And where is that breakpoint you mentioned

[frigid summit]

yea i tried it didnt work

[frosty heron]

show pictures of your attempt. Explained what you are trying to do with the node you placed and what actually doesn't work

@flat raft The on-click can be binded in a loop and pointing to a single event. The only manual labor is you drop the button manually in the master widget.
All the buttons can bind to the same event, as long they have unique indentifier which you can then use in the event to differentiate what's what.

[random pulsar]

Guys i have to paint a landscape with interactable and non interactable foliage,i know how to paint it with non interactable and i tried 2 ways of spawning interactable ,but they are not setup good.What are the ways i can paint ,or spawn actor on landscape?i tried foliage actor in combination with foliage procedural volume but it crashes when i resimulate.So i tried also with pcg plugin ,it does not crash but the setup sucks.

I would like to know a lot of ways,to google each of 'em

[gentle urchin]

Which ends up in the same labour in the end 😅

[gentle urchin]

Having a spawn actor with a collision volume for visual is an option

Im sure the foliage tool already allows interactable actors but

This lets you handle the setup of that

[frigid summit]

hi do you know how to keep distance between enimes when they attack me in unreal without behavior tree

[frosty heron]

nah, I don't think that's something easy

i will struggle with that when the time comes

[frigid summit]

oh ok

[frosty heron]

you have to solve the final position somehow

probably considering the target

then choosing which location fit best from the target

also considering nearby fellow enemies

[gentle urchin]

Group manager

Shared space

Circle aroundnplayer, with a fixed "angle" or location that is theirs

Guess it wont look very natural

[random pulsar]

in construction script?

[gentle urchin]

Or just an editor callable event

Shows up as a button in the details panel when the actor is selected

[random pulsar]

nice this is the way

im so happy i found it

[gentle urchin]

Sweet

Pcg i have yet to dive into

Feels like a tool its better to learn sooner rather than later these days

[random pulsar]

yeah its a powerful tool,spend just a few hours and learned how to project actors on landscape,here is the evolution from first fry to the last

[fiery ridge]

is the Delay node frame-depended? not sure if i should go with timeline or delay

[thin panther]

A delay node cannot be replaced with a timeline, they are two completely different things

[fiery ridge]

I'm trying to figure out which one to use in which scenarios but so far it seems like Timeline has much better control overall

[gentle urchin]

Timer

Is also an option

They're all 'frame dependent' tho

[formal flicker]

.

[random pulsar]

i made the prototype level 😁

[dry sleet]

Seconding the vouch for Timer

The reason being you can cancel a timer

You can't cancel a delay

[thin panther]

Thirding the vote for a timer there

[gentle urchin]

most common reason for using a timeline is when needing curves

and some non-linear interpolation etc

[fiery ridge]

That's what I need, a timer to cancel another timer

and all need to be frame independed

[gentle urchin]

Why?

Whats it for

[dry sleet]

Timers are real-time (framerate independent), and by retaining a handle to them you can cancel them at will.

Pause and resume, too.

[fiery ridge]

I need a looping event for X amount of seconds

[dry sleet]

(and they can be set to loop)

[fiery ridge]

That's good to hear

[gentle urchin]

Thry're not really framerate independent

They execute along with the frame

And if its low enough, it simply executes multiple times in the same frame (while the world stays the same)

[dry sleet]

Nevertheless a timer set to fire every second fires every second.

[gentle urchin]

Unless you got horrible fps.

[dry sleet]

And that, I presume, is what they mean.

[gentle urchin]

Then it doesnt

[dry sleet]

Well, then you have bigger issues.

[fiery ridge]

I'm testing with low fps and it works

[gentle urchin]

0.5 fps, a second triggers twice every other second

[dry sleet]

Well who gives a shit about how timers work when you have half an FPS??

Then your game isn't working

[fiery ridge]

20 fps is my benchmark

[gentle urchin]

Half an fps was just for your 1 second timer.

[dry sleet]

Yes, yes, sub-tick timers are a bad idea, but in this case it seems to me they're after normally timed timers.

[gentle urchin]

Point was, it still executes along the next frame when it's internal time has passed or is equal to the desired timer time

I still wonder what the usecase for a frame independent timer is

And if you really need one you'd be better of finding async alternatives(I doubt they need it, hence the initial question)

[dry sleet]

Probably not a lot of use cases, hence why most people rightfully take "frame/framerate independent" to mean "fairly consistently timed across the FPS range".

[gentle urchin]

Fair

Yeah no hate for the timers. They're very usefull

Just dont wanna see those sub tick timers without people knowing the implications of it

[dry sleet]

Now I have to ask what the musical note signifies

My curiosity has been ever growing

[gentle urchin]

For me it means coro these days

[dry sleet]

dangit!

well I suppose it's akin to my usage of the saxophone emoji

[steady night]

i want want to but a timer between the widget / actor location

this will ruin the for eachj loop right

[dry sleet]

It will at least not pause the execution of the loop.

Although (unrelated), am I remembering correctly that a 0.0 Delay in a loop will cause it to delay execution until the next frame?

I seem to recall it working like that, but now that I think about it I feel uncertain.

[steady night]

well

im my case if i add the delay it only fires for 1 person

if i remove it all 1-4 gets them

[dry sleet]

Might work to use the Set Timer By Event node + the Create Event node to assign the teleport function to it.

I haven't used that in a long time so not fully remembering its ins and outs

[steady night]

it dident :/

[dry sleet]

Well how did you set it up?

[steady night]

basicly this

[dry sleet]

I was talking about this node

But then again, you probably can't use that.

Because you have no reference to the actor being teleported.

You need the event to have that as a parameter.

[steady night]

aye

[dry sleet]

Because by pulling a ref across the graph (directly from the foreach loop), you're accessing the latest output from that node as a local variable, which is why only the last actor gets teleported.

The foreach loop sets up the timers immediately, racing through all the actors. Then when the timers actually fire they all use the same input: the last variable that was "ejected" from the foreach loop.

[steady night]

yeah

so hmm

i guess i could

[dry sleet]

Seems to me like you need the actors themselves to handle their delayed teleporting.

[steady night]

yeah was my idea.

[dry sleet]

Either create a TeleportableInterface with a RequestTeleportTo function or just cast and call directly.

[steady night]

aye got it working

[dry sleet]

Very nice

[steady night]

not pretty but dose the job

[gentle urchin]

I prefer a custom macro forloop but

[pine hatch]

Hi i am using this node to get the the white pixels data from a render target which is black and theres a white point moving on it.. my question is , does anybody know how could i get location data from it?

[gentle urchin]

this looks like a new node

"new"

[dry sleet]

I don't know that node, what is the format of the output?

Do you get an array of all pixels and their colour?

(in the specified area)

[gentle urchin]

an array of pixels, with their color data it sounds like

or pixeldata*

guess it can be way more than just colors

[dry sleet]

Then you can extract the pixel position by doing some clever modulo math

Gimme a sec and I'll find the StackOverflow thread

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47951361/finding-x-y-based-off-of-index

[gentle urchin]

% and /

[dry sleet]

Well this isn't the thread but it contains the answer :(

[gentle urchin]

% for X, / for Y

[dry sleet]

Of course, if you're only viewing a portion of the full texture you'll need to add some offsets to adjust the correct pixel position.

[gentle urchin]

for sure

offset by corresponding X and Y

Actual X = MinX + (Index % (MaxX-MinX))

Actual Y = MinY + (Index / (MaxX-MinX))

I think... 🤔

[trim matrix]

Hi! I come with a question

[random pulsar]

Guys,how do i do a caterpillar controller?,i searched in youtube and didnt find insects controller or something similar to what i want

[trim matrix]

I am thinking to add additional movements into the already existing control BP for the third person character. Unfortunately I cannot understand anything as there's no clear place for me to see where it assigned the buttons for each functions and so on. There's a lot of return value, trigger, target and yaw in the BP tho.

How do get my head around it? Do I have to remake the BP?

Sorry am very new to UE, only used Android Studio before

[random pulsar]

I would really appreciate a small guide on how can i acheave this,just the key points

[dim agate]

You want to check out the Enhanced Input System and how it works.

[random pulsar]

I want the catterpillar also to slide on surfaces,like using the mesh not the capsule,also climbing on different surfaces

Trees for example

[turbid oxide]

Try searching for how others have implemented wall climbing and iterate on their code

[trim matrix]

Thank you, that answers my question!

[random pulsar]

Is it like with physical material?

[turbid oxide]

I'm not sure but there r many vids on youtube about wall running n climbing. If u watch those and try them you'll get a feel for how it works n may be able to implement to for your case tho not 100% since yours is quite niche

Main thing would be to understand how they get the character to stick n walk on a vertical plain

[fiery ridge]

What's the best way to stop this loop/timer after let's say 2 seconds? I'm using a timeline to clear/invalidate it

[random pulsar]

Ok,i will look some vids,thanks❤️

[gentle urchin]

Track it yourself

Increment float by timer value every time it executes

When it reaches >= your target time, clear and invalidate the timer

Remove the timeline

[fiery ridge]

I have to manually you mean when it increments?

check*

[gentle urchin]

Yep

[fiery ridge]

I'm guessing I also need to use delta time ?

[gentle urchin]

Or add another timer that stops the first one

No delta time. Just add the timer value (0.05)

[fiery ridge]

I'm trying to figure out what's the most optimal way to implement this. It's between timer/timeline/delay

[gentle urchin]

Timer

[fiery ridge]

But I can take a look at the incremental float as well

[versed sun]

Or, make a 2nd Timer that just stops 1st timer
2 Sec time and non looping

[gentle urchin]

^ prob easier

[versed sun]

IF the 2 sec is what you need

[fiery ridge]

Are there disadvantages using Timeline over a Timer to invalidate it?

[versed sun]

timeline is has more things going on, kinda overkill

[gentle urchin]

Timeline has slightly more overhead id guess

[fiery ridge]

With timer, it's necessary to create a function/custom event, right?

Which means I need two

[gentle urchin]

Yes

[fiery ridge]

Alright got it, thanks

[elfin lagoon]

how to shoot a projectile to a mouse cursor direction parallel to a floor in a 3rd person perspective correctly?
when i use "Get Location under cursor" projectile flying to the floor
second case even worse, shooting to the top of screen
how to fix it?

[fiery ridge]

Check trace visibility, make sure mouse isn't colliding with something it shouldn't and vice versa

[versed sun]

make sure your Location Z are the same
the scene comp is probably ABOVE the floor

[trim matrix]

How do I set up chorded action for my movement?

Let's say I want to make upon moving forward (hold W) for 2 second, it will change the animation into another movement animation

[versed sun]

One 2nd pic, Break the Get World Location , and plug Z into Target Z

[fiery ridge]

Take a look at animation blueprint tutorial

[dim agate]

You might be mixing up chorded (holding multiple keys down at once) with held inputs.

Unless you are asking two questions?

[trim matrix]

My bad

Only one button

Holding W (which is already assigned to move forward) and I want to make the movement animation change after holding it after a bit

[trim matrix]

Will do, thank you

[fiery ridge]

It's a very basic animation thing, but a tutorial on animation bp should cover it

You just have to decide if you want to blend it

[elfin lagoon]

something isn`t right, still shooting top of the screen

[versed sun]

forgot start Z

Plug Return Value Z -> Start Z

[dim agate]

Do you also want the movement speed to change after the threshold for the new animation is passed?

[elfin lagoon]

nothing changed

[trim matrix]

Yeah that's the plan, but for now its just the animation change as I have done the skeleton work.

This is literally my day 1 on EU 😂

[steady night]

im setting the audio listner to the chracter mesh, but when i try to play music it gets access none :/?

idea s?

[elfin lagoon]

thank u anyway, i think about it and find another way
i understand, i just dont need Z in my first case, thats all
works fine this way

[versed sun]

there you go , just had to get the Z to be the same

[elfin lagoon]

yea, you right
this even more correctly
if i ignore Z, projectile is crawling at a floor
we need to set target Z from the start Z
then projectile has a right place in an air

[rugged wigeon]

You’re aware that this setup will only create one if there’s one there before it, right?

[steady night]

@rugged wigeon yeah i saw the misstake thats what was wrong

[rugged wigeon]

Do consider just playing a 2D sound as needed. Do you have a reason it needs to be an actor component?

[lofty rapids]

you run this code, then music playing is empty ?

you must not be accessing it at the right point ?

[steady night]

Yeah i found my misstake

It works now

[rancid moat]

is there no fonction that take a transform and a world vector and return the that vector in that base?

[spark steppe]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Transform/MakeRelativeTransform/

[turbid oxide]

Can some explain whats happening here: The enemies move well when i play in editor but jitter around when i play as standalone

[frosty heron]

can you provide .mp4

[turbid oxide]

The enemies use tick to update their values and timers to execute

ayt

[frosty heron]

don't feel like downloading anything just to see it

[lofty rapids]

https://streamable.com/

nice place to upload videos for temporary storage also

[turbid oxide]

sry i dont know y conversion is takin its sweet time

[turbid oxide]

there we go

[frosty heron]

ooof 2D

i know nothing about it

[turbid oxide]

XD

[frosty heron]

the A.I seems to get stuck on deciding wether to move to stand still

[turbid oxide]

tho it works well in editor

oh n it cant stand still coz theres no code for it

[frosty heron]

@turbid oxide stand alone is a pretty shit place to test

I would suggest to just package the game

and see if all is well there

[turbid oxide]

ayt lemme try that

[lethal terrace]

Can someone help me, please. I try to make a 3rd persone shooter, and i`ve problem with camera, when i zoom i want to my camera was fixed, but it jumps from shoulder to shoulder.

when i`m not in zoom, camera works well

i`m beginner in UE

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to make a camera system like the one shown at 2:20 in this video but for UE5? https://youtu.be/EPAv6BwV-ow?si=gV-isZHWoKtJGzg-

[spark steppe]

i feared oh no he is going to advert some organizing tools... and then he just mentions that he screwed them and replaced them by a google doc table 😄

[spark steppe]

you can use set view target with blend to smoothly blend between two cameras

[frail onyx]

Oh, so would I just put a new camera for each menu I have and blend from my main camera to that camera? Or would it be better to just smoothly move my main players camera?

[spark steppe]

that depends on your game

both are valid approaches under different circumstances

and setting another view target comes with a few pitfalls

e.g. the actor you blend to may need different controls setup

[smoky edge]

Hello, I have an apparently simple problem:
I have a spline component (not instance editable) and I want to assign it points.
I tried different methods but it seems to be constrantly empty.
Does someone know why?

[gentle urchin]

Ensure that theres actual points to modify

Id suggest first chevking how many points there are,

Compared to entries in the array

Then add/remove so they match

I can only assume that it doesnt auto generate missing points

[dry scaffold]

Can anyone please help me with why these retargeted anims are not working in game?
https://youtu.be/sbmyAGvayfc?si=NYTjvUhBXm6-S_3i

[smoky edge]

Do you mean in the array? If so there are 12 points

[gentle urchin]

And how many points does the spline have

GetNumberOfSplinePoints or smth

[smoky edge]

zero

I also tried this

[frigid summit]

hi guys do you know how to keep distance between enimes when they attack me in unreal

[final sparrow]

Anyone deal with Get Editor Property returning None? I'm trying to change the texture parameter of a material instance (as there are no nodes that do this without making it dynamic which I am trying to not do), but I'm unable to get the property name of the texture parameter in question

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to modify this so after a lets say 5 seconds my door will automatically close unless i already pressed my button again to close it then it wont try and close the door

[whole dove]

How can I get the total number of active touch points on a mobile device? Using enhanced input system, I can have actions that trigger for the first touch point or the second touch point individually, but is there a way to tell if there are 2 active touch points (without tracking that variable manually)?

[lofty rapids]

maybe a timer that goes off after 5 seconds and checks a boolean if the doors open or not, then closes it, but use a boolean when the player trys to close set the boolean, so the timer will check if it already been closed

[smoky edge]

Just for information, I managed to solve this by setting the spline to another existing spline first, then setting spline points to the array.

[faint pasture]

Show your code

Why is casting involved here?

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to go about detaching my camera from my player and having it smoothly move to look at a floating menu or something that i can interact with and then when i exit the menu it smoothly moves back to where is was previously on my player

[viscid viper]

hello i got a noob question
i was trying to create a simple drag and drop operation on a widget that is in an actor
however my widget dont detect any interaction from my mouse
my on mouse down never hit
does anyone know why ?

[faint pasture]

Set view target with blend

[frail onyx]

alr

[vapid plank]

Is it not possible to set a breakpoint in a blueprint macro?

[lunar sleet]

No. But you can set the breakpoint on it and step through the code

[fast finch]

good day

i am setting a rotation manually with an add

is there a way i could clamp this somehow

so that the object doesnt actually overrotate?

[lunar sleet]

Clamp axis?

[fast finch]

where would i attach that?

[viscid viper]

anyone?

[lunar sleet]

Before you plug it in

[fast finch]

this thing just adds 1

or -1

it doesnt actually look at the rotations

clamping axis wouldnt do anything

[lunar sleet]

Then use a Get and Set node with a clamp right after it

[lunar sleet]

Make sure you’re setting input to game mode and UI

[versed sun]

B is what you want to add

[lunar sleet]

Nice

[fast finch]

yee ok that worked... thanks

[viscid viper]

it is
the event doesnt hit

[frigid summit]

plz help

[versed sun]

kite them

[celest trench]

In blueprint is it possible to have an empty FName? In C++ I know you can do NAME_None. In this code I don't need to pass in a team name because no team won. How can I just pass in an empty name?

[gentle urchin]

Make literal name

[celest trench]

Awesome thank you

[small ice]

You can use the camera shake system to play a level sequence on the camera. Does anyone know if you can play a level sequence directly on the camera? I want to create a COD-style death effect where the camera quickly zooms out on your character when you die.

[lofty rapids]

if i switch the possessed pawn to a "menu" pawn, then go back to my character, why is my forward different ?

how do i reset that ? i tried just setting the rotation but it didn't work

[gentle urchin]

This looks like a strange cast chain.. why not directly possess the player pawn ? (noit that it makes much sense in the first place to me but maybe htere's reasons )

[gentle urchin]

your... forward movement? view direction? what?

[lofty rapids]

forward movement, i use it to move the character and the camera is on the side of it

it works fine normally

[gentle urchin]

and how does it work after you return to your character?

[lofty rapids]

the forward is whatever direction i was facing

when i died

[gentle urchin]

im confused

the direction the character was facing when dying?

or the camera?

[lofty rapids]

the direction the character was facing when he died

is now forward when i come back and revive it

[gentle urchin]

while you want it to be ... ?

while the expected forward was which direction?

[steel shadow]

Hello, I have child actors spawning wayyyyy off from my main actor anyone knows about this issue, ? It's only on clients

[dire frost]

do you mean like you're moving right when pressing W?

[lofty rapids]

moving forward when pressing d

[gentle urchin]

control direction ?

[lofty rapids]

???

[dire frost]

only with d?

[gentle urchin]

not sure why it would differ but

[timid yarrow]

why does delay not working?

[gentle urchin]

it probably does

[timid yarrow]

when i take it to 5000 or something it doesn't even work

[gentle urchin]

add a do once 🙂 reset by the delay

no clue what this code is, but it's probably executed multiple times

[lofty rapids]

ya actually i think it fixed it, thanks

[gentle urchin]

do once is ofc just a bandaid

[timid yarrow]

do once makes the sounds terrible

that's why i added concurrency

when i add "do once" node it works but it makes the sound terrible

is there another way to do it?

[gentle urchin]

so we're on the right track atleast 🙂

[timid yarrow]

:D

[timid yarrow]

this code plays sound on event hit and checking that if the velocity is greater than 150 on z and 300 on x and y

but they sounds like the garry's mod ragdoll sound

that's why i added delay but it doesn't work

[gentle urchin]

idk, it sounds like you're trying to work around bad sound with code , instead of fixing the sound ?

maybe that's how it's done, what do i know

[timid yarrow]

sorry

that's my problem

listen to the sounds

i think i fixed it

i used switch on int for the delay

[gentle urchin]

doesnt this effectively do the same as the do once?

it does..

[viscid viper]

anything else i might be missing?

[undone bluff]

okay using switch on integer instead of a boolean or DoOnce as a hack fix for cooldowns is a new one

your issue is that Event Hit is called every single frame

try this

[simple spade]

I have sorta a blueprint question. So I am working with the skeleton to attach an object to a socket. I can create the socket, I right click it and go to add preview asset. It adds the asset inside the mesh, but won't allow me to move it.

[faint pasture]

Why are you doing all that

[versed sun]

the Preview asset will be locked to your socket, you have to move the socket itself

[simple spade]

i tried moving the socket it dosent move the asset

i tried with a sphere as well and same thing

[fickle fog]

how can i get every piece of fractured chaos mesh when breaking

[rich ferry]

Sometimes when I compile after deleting unreferenced variables, the editor crashes. Is there any way to get the editor to "safely" delete them?

[simple spade]

this is the current blueprint if that has anything to do with it.

[dark drum]

Delete, save and then compile. It might still crash but should be gone when you restart.

[rich ferry]

Yeah that's what I've been doin, hoping there was a better way though.

[dark drum]

It's just one of those weird engine bugs. I've not had it happen for a few months. 😅

[rich ferry]

It just happened after reordering variables... 😑

[dark drum]

Do you reference the BP in question in a lot of places and change the vars from them?

[cursive bear]

Anyone out there have any experience getting Landmass materials to update at runtime?

[rich ferry]

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking lol

[dark drum]

That could be why. Changing the BP means it'll have to update the other BP's. I've been using getter and setter functions more in the last couple of months so it might help prevent it from happening.

[sacred cairn]

is there a way to add gravity to an object after it leaves a sphere collision? ive been messing with a simple project to learn unreal engine and ive been trying to emulate the effect/attack in one piece called "room" and "takt" i have the room part done and i made a blueprint that uses my linetrace to target an object and remove gravity from it with the "set gravity" node but i want to see if i can add gravity to the object again after it leaves the room effect. i tried to add a set gravity node to the event end overlap node but it doesnt seem to work. is there a simple way to make this happen, or anyway at all? haha ive been struggling to figure this out. i apologize for the paragraph

[dark drum]

So you disable gravity and then want to enable it again?

[sacred cairn]

i want the objects to enable gravity when they leave the collision sphere

so yeah haha

[dark drum]

It would be the set gravity node, if it's not working you'll need to show how you tried to do.

[faint pasture]

You press X, what is the logic to determine which car you should switch control to?

[sacred cairn]

like i said im new and trying to learn so this could be VERY wrong but im tryin haha

oh man that did not send right

[faint pasture]

how do you detect it leaving the room?

It's as simple as turning on and off gravity for the thing assuming it's simulating physics

[sacred cairn]

the rooms start and end overlap event

[faint pasture]

k so do that

show your code for that

[sacred cairn]

i tried it in the overlapped component slot too

thats what i had it on originally

[chilly plover]

I am having a big issue. When pressing the E key the print string doesn't fire. Would anyone know why?

[faint pasture]

And how does that work, does it do what it should be doing?

[sacred cairn]

thats the video i tried sending

thats laggy lmao im so sorry idk why it lags

[faint pasture]

I mean the video cuts off before we can even see if gravity gets turned back on so idk how useful this video is

also why are you manually turning off gravity if the zone should be doing it

assuming the zone is that blue thing we see

[dim agate]

You're better off using the Enhanced Input System.

[faint pasture]

it looks like the zone goes away too soon

confirm that the leave zone is actually happening

[sacred cairn]

yeah the zone is the blue, i was trying to make it so i can turn gravity off for certain things and not others. its less laggy when its not full screened. but i just the objects to gain gravity when leaving the zone

[faint pasture]

ok so how do you indicate which things?

I don't see any filtering, you're turning off gravity for everything that overlaps and turning it back on for everything that ends an overlap

unless you have a custom channel for it, that could work

[sacred cairn]

i closed the zone voluntarily

[tired tartan]

My cast to object node suddenly stops working, how do I fix it?

[sacred cairn]

early because it never turned gravity back on

[faint pasture]

if you closed it before end overlap then it never turned gravity back on

confirm that the overlap events are firing

is the collision set up to even overlap to begin with?

[faint pasture]

the node is working fine, you're not casting an object of that class

show your code

[tired tartan]

despite having the same class, it just gets a cast failed

[faint pasture]

print the value of that get child component

is it a TornadoValue, whatever that is?

btw those lines crossing the screen give me the heebie jeebies

[tired tartan]

it casts that class to the object which has the same class, but despite of it, I gets cast failed

yeah

[sacred cairn]

it says gravity on and off when im inside the zone

i tried pushing the cubes at the beginning but it lagged out, they had gravity and just fell inside the zone

[faint pasture]

I don't see it printing gravity on when the cube leaves

[tired tartan]

also is it normal that it has _C at the end of the class' display name?

[faint pasture]

show collision settings for the zone and the part of the cube simulating physics

[faint pasture]

are you sure the cast is failing? Show more of the code

[fickle fog]

how can i get every piece of geometry collection when its breaking

[faint pasture]

#chaos-physics

[sacred cairn]

these settings?

[queen cave]

Posting this here as well because im not sure if this may be a more appropriate channel.

I'm trying to get a Set Percent function to update a progress bar that is in a widget that is being called by a widget switcher. No matter how I try, it will not update as long as the progress bar is within the widget switcher. Not sure that I explained that well enough, lmk if screenshots would help or a better explanation.

anyone have any ideas?

[faint pasture]

so is it printing when a cube leaves the sphere?

[tired tartan]

the target for get child component is a scene component

[sacred cairn]

for some reason it doesnt seem to detect it leaving or entering in the sphere, so to answer your question it seems like its not

[faint pasture]

that there's your problem

the cubes in the level, show the collision settings for them

not for the mesh asset, the actual instances in the level.

[tired tartan]

it starts with getting all of the actors in the level, then it gets the components of a certain class, then it get its child component which is a scene component with some variables in it, then it casts it so it can get those variables

[faint pasture]

if you're just zooming in on portions of a big pile of spaghetti we can't see shit

let us see the whole thing

I'm betting child component 0 isn't of the class you're casting to

you'd expect some failures because not every primitive will have as a child a TornadoValue

the get all actors of class is a bit sus though, what are you actually trying to make, some sort of tornado thing?

[tired tartan]

yes

[tired tartan]

which is why I set the casting node to if the child component's class name contains the string of the name of the class im trying to cast to

[faint pasture]

why are you getting all actors of class actor for this?

[sacred cairn]

i apologize if this still isnt the right settings, if these arent them how would i find the correct settings?

[faint pasture]

is that on a cube that exists in the world?

[sacred cairn]

yeah it is

[faint pasture]

generate overlap events is turned off

[tired tartan]

because get overlapping components was too expensive for a collision component that is extremely large

[faint pasture]

Is this meant to be a global wind thing?

when do you iterate over all actors in the world, begin play or tick?

[tired tartan]

no

[faint pasture]

I mean a tornado should be as simple as:
Tick -> get overlapping things (only overlap the things that should be getting wind applied to them, set up a custom collision channel if you must) -> add force to them based on math

[sacred cairn]

so i did try turning it on for all the blue cubes and it still seems to be failing to detect them

[faint pasture]

put a breakpoint on the end overlap and see if it triggers on anything

[sacred cairn]

i apologize but i just right click and add breakpoint right? how will i know if it does anything?

[faint pasture]

it'll pause

[dark drum]

Getting all actors of class (actor) followed by getting every primitive in each actor is far worse than just getting the overlapping actors.

If you have 100,000 actors in the level with 10 components each you've just hit your 1 million loop stack limit. 😉

[sacred cairn]

only seems to pause when the player leaves the zone not the cubes, which leads me to believe its the cubes collision

[faint pasture]

change this to query and physics

[tired tartan]

are you sure, because the collision component is constantly moving and changing size

[faint pasture]

you still haven't answered, WHEN are you getting all actors in the world?

if it's on tick that's horrendous

[tired tartan]

its on a timer loop for event, so it fires every 0.05 seconds

[faint pasture]

I'd expect Tick -> get overlapping components -> loop over them to be practically free for up to maybe 100 in BP and a few k in C++

[faint pasture]

OOF

yeah no

don't do that

I'd do a .25s timer to update an array of ThingsToBlowAround and then on tick add force to them

that'll be practically free.

a quarter second delay to get yeeted or stop being yote is just fine for a tornado effect

[dark drum]

Yea because the more actors you have in the level the worse it'll get. You can test with a few hundred in your level and it'll be fine but in a fully populated level with several k actors it'll be a drain.

You should look at using a custom collision channel to easily get the components you need from a sphere trace. (Or box trace)

[sacred cairn]

i switched it and still unfortunately it still has same result.

it really likes to pause in full screen huh

[tired tartan]

I also have a second system that uses Chaos geometry collections and physics fields, but it doesn't have a filter that choose which geometry collections to be affected by physics fields or not

also my cast to node was working fine a few days ago with no changes to the code

so Im gonna guess the engine was updated or something

[dark drum]

I've not seen any updates in the last few months so probably not.

[chilly plover]

Is it common when converting from 5.2 to 5.3 your texture quality is low?

[faint pasture]

probably the play in editor settings got reset

[dark drum]

From what you've shown you use the display name to determine when to cast. I personally wouldn't do this as it can be inconsistent. The only time I use the display name is for a print string.

[chilly plover]

Where do I find that?

[sacred cairn]

i really feel like this should be working but it almost feels like they scripted this to not work at this point lmao

[faint pasture]

I mean that code's a mess

just rewrite it correctly IMO

[young pike]

Hello everyone! I have a small question, I don't understand why does this node not work? is there something I'm missing? I also tried using set world rotation and location and they didn't work either

The Lever mesh is set as movable

[faint pasture]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/scalability-reference-for-unreal-engine/

[faint pasture]

is your code hitting this?

[young pike]

Yes, I placed a break point

And it reached there

[faint pasture]

you sure nothing else is setting it elsewhere in the code?

[young pike]

Nope, that is the only place that sets the rotation and location of that blueprint

[dark drum]

Is the lever set to movable?

[young pike]

Yes

Here is the breakpoint

[faint pasture]

server huh

[chilly plover]

This still leaves the textures very poor

[young pike]

Yes

[faint pasture]

show your current settings

[faint pasture]

show more of the code

all of it from whatever triggers this change to the end of it

[chilly plover]

All scalability is on epic

[faint pasture]

You should use a repnotify

[young pike]

end of it

[young pike]

Hmm ill switch to a repnotify, didn't think it

Ill see if it works

[faint pasture]

Either way, My hunch is that it's only moving it on server

but, the lever and platform state is state, state should be driven by repnotify

just one bool should do it, and in the repnotify you do whatever should be the case based on that bool

then just change the bool on the server and it all Just Works™️

[dark drum]

Can use lever is probably false on the client. Which is why it wouldn't update.

[young pike]

Ohhhhhh yes that makes sense

[faint pasture]

OnRep_bIsActive -> branch on bIsActive -> do whatever (move lever, move platforms, etc)

that'll be instant, later you can worry about animating it

[dark drum]

If the server is telling the client to update the lever, why does the client need to know if it can be used before it update? Seems like a redundant check to me.

[faint pasture]

However you do it, repnotify is the key. Use that, multicasts can be completely ignored for this

[young pike]

You are both right, thank you! 😁

[simple spade]

Is there any alternative to do if moving the socket is not affecting the mesh, it ends up below the character. No matter if I move it, the actor isn't affected.

[chilly plover]

@faint pasture I just needed to restart unreal haha

[turbid pecan]

So i've seen folks suggest that stuff like global stats (things that persist between levels like quest states and stuff) should be in either the game instance or in a separate actor that can be spawned between levels as the game goes on. What's the preferred option here in a typical game?

My thinking was that the instance would be the typically correct choice for the purposes of state persistence but now I am not so sure

[dry sleet]

Nothing too wrong with GameInstance. You can make a Subsystem in C++ as an alternative.

[turbid pecan]

Hmmm... OK. Seems like i need to research more

[slim trail]

Hi all! Im having a bit of trouble with my interaction system. I have interactable NPCs that have two collision spheres. The larger one is for targeting the player and looking in their direction, and the smaller one is their interaction radius. The trouble im having though is that I can interact with the NPC if im in the Look At collision sphere rather than only the smaller interaction sphere.

I handle the interaction via an enhanced input that checks for colliding actors and triggering an interact interface. I was wondering, if there's a way to parse out collisions based on the object type of the spheres? as the larger sphere has its own collision type called "focus" which is set to ignore by default and only used for the looking mechanic

[sonic crest]

Anyone know how to make pressure plates with weights? So we can ass extra weight and detect that? Using the center of mass.

I tried with physics constraints but I couldn't figure it out

[undone bluff]

ah you're checking if the NPC is overlapping with the player? The general approach is the other way around, when the player overlaps with a trigger on the interaction actor it'd communicate to the player controller's interaction component and add itself to an array as a potential interaction, the component can then handle any sorting you might want like prioritizing interactions that are closer in location or to the center of the screen as well as displaying prompts on the hud

[slim trail]

oh the interaction prompt that I have the screenshot of is in the player character blueprint. It checks any overlapping actors with the player, and wether they have the interaction interface connected. Which then triggers whatever code I have set inside the npc

[undone bluff]

yea that works well when you're linetracing, but for overlap based interaction I'd recommend the other actor initiating

let the player know an interaction is available when they're nearby

instead of checking

[slim trail]

oh so in input, all actors in the scene check if the player is overlapping them or not?

[undone bluff]

no no, you are using collision spheres so bind to their overlap events in the NPC

you can get a reference to the player from that event

use whatever means to let it know an interaction is available (component, interface) and even pass relevant data if you need

make either actor show a prompt

if it's on the hud make the player do it

the player or the controller (preferably a component of theirs) would store a reference to the interaction and on input event you interact (the interface call you have is perfectly fine for that) if one is stored

you also need to make the interaction sign off on component end overlap ofc

[slim trail]

Ill look into that then. I think though without making too many changes to what I already have, you are right about the overlapping component inside the npc. I think i could just set it to trigger a bool wether the interaction is possible and trigger everything else on a true or false basis

[undone bluff]

Does the player ever overlap multiple interactions? What behaviour do you intend in that case?

[slim trail]

ive tested it out, and i havent had any issues, it just goes to whichever is closest automatically it seems? but it only interacts with one and i havent had issues with both fighting to have the interaction

[undone bluff]

not that I recommend this method because it's very inflexible, but you can get rid of that for loop by just grabbing the first index of the array

[slim trail]

with how im going to be setting up the npcs, i dont think im going to have to worry about overlapping actors anyway since theyre stationary and have a small radius

[undone bluff]

that's fine, the issue is that you do need the flexibility of the other method because you want only some parts of the other actor to overlap for the interaction to be available

it's not a difficult setup, just replace get overlapping actor with a reference to an actor

and let the interaction set that reference

[slim trail]

right, I got that set up so it triggers a bool on wether the player is in the interactable radius or not and so far is working!

the in radius debug on the top is specifically for if the player is in the head turn radius, and true and false is for interacit radius

[undone bluff]

I hate this but if it works for you 😅

[near rapids]

kinda a basic question, say I want my character to be able to have different weapons.
Would it be better to have a skeletal mesh component on my character and just replace its mesh when i switch the weapon or should i spawn a blueprint class of that weapon and attach it to my character?

[undone bluff]

definitely the latter method

[near rapids]

what does latter method mean 😆 ?

[undone bluff]

the second one of the two

in speech, former is the first thing mentioned and latter the second whenever you speak about a set of two things

[lunar sleet]

Btw, the fps template comes with this already

So you can build on that

[near rapids]

alright thank you for explaining, Im not familiar with the english language yet

[undone bluff]

it's definitely not basic English, very understandable not to know

[near rapids]

Would that also apply for any other objects the character could have?
For example a chestplate or a backpack?

[slim trail]

lol, sorry about that, but I will try out the get instead of the loop for the overlaping actor array. Thank you for your time and the tips :)

[undone bluff]

depends, equipment is tricky

[violet inlet]

Hey guys
do you have any idear why my "ghost system " isn"t working ? after looking it's seems that the save object is empty but i can't find why ? am following a UE4 tutorial so maybe there is some new UE5 part not included inside 🙂

[undone bluff]

usually that is indeed done by just swapping out skeletal meshes for each body part

[near rapids]

hm alright, for me the equipment wont have any further functionality and is just for cosmetic.
Except the Weapon.

[undone bluff]

I haven't done any of that myself though so I don't know the reason

no wearable equipment in my game

[violet inlet]

to add details
it's seems my value are all 0 even if am moving

[undone bluff]

have you checked if your player reference is valid?

well, it must not be empty or there would be an error, but rather make sure it's correctly assigned

[violet inlet]

it is

[undone bluff]

are you sure they return 0? if you print them right there in 'record ghost'

[violet inlet]

the print in green are my character movement

and blue record ghost

[violet inlet]

this can help too maybe

[dim halo]

does anyone know how you would delete an actor that is spawned in during the game and has multiple copies

[faint pasture]

just destroy it

[dim halo]

thanks