blueprint

[main lake]

I'm trying to recreate the minecraft heart system, and was wondering how to make the hearts I add (more than 10) stack on top of the 10 hearts. Like what UI components should I use to do that ?

Here's the minecraft example where the 10 extra hearts stack on top of the 10 default hearts

[undone bluff]

add the hearts at runtime, I can't tell you which off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure you can get the setup you need using the right widget containers

otherwise you can just make sure to add every eleventh heart above the first of the last row

[main lake]

I know that I have to add those at runtime (as it's already what I'm doing with the 10 default hearts, but when I add more than 10 hearts it keeps going on the right forever and that's why I'm asking what's the UI element that makes it continue above instead of right

[undone bluff]

well, technically every eleventh and then tenth after that but you get what I mean

I think there's a bunch of options, a grid for starters, or any container where you restrict the size on the x axis

[main lake]

My sizebox already restricts the size on the x axis but it keeps going forever

[undone bluff]

I think the size box only affects how things work higher up in the hierarchy i.e. for controlling desired height/width

but yea I cannot check, not at my pc atm

you'll just need to have a look through different widgets and see which one is right for the job

super sure a grid would work

[main lake]

Where should I put the grid related to the comps I already have here ?

[undone bluff]

you put the hearts directly in the grid

[main lake]

so should I remove the size box and Horizontal box ?

[undone bluff]

it works by rows and columns so its should be straightforward

[undone bluff]

if you don't need them, you might want to keep the size box to adjust for whatever widget you'll be putting this into

[main lake]

It doesn't work properly

[undone bluff]

Your hearts need a desired size and the grid should respect that, just a matter of adjusting settings and possibly adding a size box to the hearts

[main lake]

the heart already have a sizebox

Ok kinda starting fixing it but I have an issue that I thought about which is it's adding hearts from top to bottom, so how to make it add hearts from bottom to top ?

[undone bluff]

There might be a setting you can adjust, if not you'll have to work around it

Like manually inserting them the other way around, or flipping the whole widget around, both the grid and the hearts

But that's a bit hacky

[main lake]

I don't want to instert them manually as I need that to be dynamic because I don't want to show all the hearts all the time.

[main lake]

how do you flip the grid widget around ?

[undone bluff]

Manually as in using code, you put the first heart in the last row and work backwards

[main lake]

This is smart

[placid parcel]

Having a brain fart. I am learning and trying to spawn in a pistol to the weaponsocket I created on the right hand however when I spawn the pistol in, the roation is way off. Can I get some help on this?

[gentle urchin]

Using a progressbar with a heartmask works pretty well

[gentle urchin]

Adjust the socket in the bone editor using the gun as a preview mesh

[placid parcel]

OMG, that's how to do it! I completely forgot about doing that. Thanks!

[violet inlet]

still looking for this
i think it's around my save game who must be not well set up but can't find why

[gentle urchin]

Did you creste a save game object?

That flag doesnt do much btw

[violet inlet]

yeah i did

am pretty sure my issue is around there

[gentle urchin]

Got a valid name for it?

[placid parcel]

Thanks, got it working, just needs more touch up. Appreciate it!

[violet inlet]

i think so

[gentle urchin]

Seems ok

[violet inlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYuBIFSv7KM&t=250s i was following this and trying to adapt it to UE5 and character

[gentle urchin]

Saving is virtually the same

Ue4/ue5

[violet inlet]

and i don't know if there is smth special to do in the bp save

[gentle urchin]

Nah just update the var and store the object to disc

Any logs?

[violet inlet]

sure

[gentle urchin]

😅

A host of issues

Any related to saving

Ghost pawm accessed none

So it cant update the save variable

[violet inlet]

more logs like thoses ones ?

[gentle urchin]

Reference eerors

Gotta be fixed

Shouldnt block a save directly but

[violet inlet]

you mean this
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property GhostSavedObject". Node: Branch Graph: ReplayGhost Function: Replay Ghost Blueprint: BP_ThirdPersonGameMode

[gentle urchin]

All of them

Ghost

Ghost pawn *
ghost info replay

GhostSavedObject

[violet inlet]

https://youtu.be/VYuBIFSv7KM?si=Hg1is_7c60hIRqwP&t=1405
i mean he probably have the same kind of error

there is the right time stamp i beleve

[gentle urchin]

If you havnt completed it, sure

[violet inlet]

i did

[gentle urchin]

So then unlikely

Accessed none means the variables are empty references

They reference nothing. Void

So you cant read anything from them

[violet inlet]

yeah i undestand that

[modest garden]

Can anybody tell me how to fix this blueprint error in UE5 for VR Motion Controller

[lunar sleet]

I don’t get it, did you copy paste this code from somewhere or did you go in the template and delete stuff at random?

[modest garden]

I just downloaded this project from git

Works fine in 4.27 but when converted gives these errors

Get bounds was a function till 5.1 but in 5.3 I don’t see it even in the documentation

[gentle urchin]

Probably renamed

[lunar sleet]

It’s also missing some variable so it prly wasn’t migrated properly

[quick imp]

Has anyone set an animation blueprint in a datatable and then pull it from that datatable and set it to the skeletal mesh in a character blueprint?

I'm trying to setup a characters datatable where a skin and animation can be set, then on spawn of the character. It pulls all that data and sets it. But I am having issues pulling the animation blueprint from the datatable

Maybe I'm looking right over it, but I've been stomped.

[modest garden]

Kool I’ll have a look at it again

[silent drift]

I was told here to let the actor that the projectile impacts with to decide if it should be destroyed or not. And I have noticed that, yep that is a lot better. 😄 However, how do I deal with when it impacts with a static mesh? Since I don't want to turn all my walls, floors, etc, into actors with a BP logic, just to destroy my projectiles. How would I do that in the best way?

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt you just want the projectile to decide to be destroyed instead?

Separate between overlap and hit

Hits would be blocking (walls, armored car etc) while flesh and pillows would overlap?

[silent drift]

Maybe, that's what I don't know. 😄 So let me give you an example, since I just don't know how to deal with it the best way.

I have:

1. Enemies, on impact with an enemy it does "ApplyDamage", and the enemy deals with that and does what it should.
2. I have different actors (e.g. a mirror, where I want the bullet to bounce in the angle of the mirror (I still haven't figured out how to deal with this yet)
3. I have a light actor, that should either be turned on or off when hit with a projectile
4. Normal static meshes, that should just destroy the projectile on hit

So I'm not sure how I would do this the best way to keep it in a good manner. 🙂

[gentle urchin]

You can also add tags to differentiate between two blocking hits

[silent drift]

That is what I'm doing currently

[gentle urchin]

So a mirror would be blocking, but have the tag "mirror"

[silent drift]

But it feels quite bad. Oh, interesting, tags.

[gentle urchin]

Which makes it bounce

[silent drift]

I never thought about using them for this, that might be the best way.

So I assume on "Event Hit" I compare tag? And do different things?

Or did I missunderstand the logic?

[gentle urchin]

Thats what im thinking

Havnt done such setup before but

Sounds like a reasonable approach

[silent drift]

Thanks! I will try that out and see! 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Event hit for blocking, event on overlap for ... overlaps 😄

[silent drift]

Would it be like this?

So I just do a check for if what it hit has a tag and then do different eactions?

Because if I do this approach, it will also make the system more modular when I want to add more different actions for projectiles (e.g. I don't know, create a fire)?

[gentle urchin]

Or do "switch on tag" 😄

[silent drift]

Yeah... That is better.

I was just seeing the issue with my approach.-

😄

Thansk

[gentle urchin]

If theres no tag you simply destroy

Oh wait.. you cant just switch on tag

As its an array of tags

Unless you only ever use the 0 index

And be consistent about it 😄

[silent drift]

Hmmm

Dammit. 😄

Well, then I'm back to my long case of 100 if statements I guess. 😄

I was thinking if I could do a "ENUM" and that has all tags, and then I do a swtich on that.

And just "compare" the tag to that enum?

[gentle urchin]

Not a big fan of enum comparisons

Id just pick the 1st tag index personally

And if anything else comes up itll just have to use the second and forward

So tag[0] == reserved for projectile info

[silent drift]

Hmm, I don't think I understand that. Oh, you mean inside the actors, that the "projectile" tag always has to be at value 0.

Yeah, that might actually work.

Though I never done anything like that to be honest, how would I do that check? Sorry for the noob question, but I'm not really sure how to translate this into a BP.

[gentle urchin]

Other -> GetTags ->Get(0)-> switch on tag

Other would be the hit actor

[gentle urchin]

And then get from tags

[silent drift]

Yeah, I assume that is what you mean (bp wise), and then get 0 from that, and compare it to string values

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

And do switch om tag*

Gives you a nice branching switch

[silent drift]

?

Likie this?

Actually I assume more like this?`

Since it complains about the 0 if the asset has no tag. 😄

I don't know if I did it correct, but it seems to do the job I wanted it to do. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Yepp thats it

Perfect

[silent drift]

Thank you for the help! This logic seems way better than my previous. 😄 especially since I had to add the health component to everything and then cheat stuff. 😄 This is way cleaner!

[gentle urchin]

Id have the tag describe the function personally

Mirror/reflect/bounce

[silent drift]

Yeah, this was just an example. 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Block/destroy

[silent drift]

It will be "Damage, block, etc." to make it easier to read.

[gentle urchin]

Overlap/passthrough/

So no dmg to the mirror i take it 😄

[silent drift]

The only thing I "dislike" about tags is that they I can't make a database and read from that... I'm 100% I will missspel at somepoint and search for the bug for hours before seeing it was a spelling mistake. 😄

[gentle urchin]

You could..

Replace or inject

A gameplaytag

[silent drift]

Yeah. I litreally did the mirror and set it do have god-mode... 🙃 to fix it. 😄

[gentle urchin]

And push that with its literal name to the tag slot

[silent drift]

Yeah, I guess.

[gentle urchin]

Or use an interface and retrive a gameplaytag

I like gameplaytags . Wish they updated Tags to be a gameplaytagContainer instead

[silent drift]

Yes

I agree with that

I mean, if they did it like with the string tables and localisation it would be super easy. Just pick the database, add tags, choose in the dropdown, and done.

But that is just me since I'm worried about doing damge instead of damage, when typing to fast and not double checking. 😄

Fixed for myself. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Exactly, i dislike being prone to typos

I do them all the time so i cant be trusted

[silent drift]

Same. 😄

this is the solution. 🙂 So when it happens I get reminded of this. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Yepp!

Ignorez or implement the newly desired feature !

[silent drift]

Yep. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Id probably print the tag in the message aswell 😆

[silent drift]

True, will add that

[kind estuary]

whats the difference between int point and vector 2d, they seem to do exactly the same

[dark drum]

Use a gameplay tag and switch on gameplay tag. Problem solved. 😉

Edit: just realised someone alread suggested it lol.

[silent drift]

Yeah, I'm already looking into it. 😄

But now for a new problem... I'm trying to make my projectile bounce (so it bounce in the angle of the object it hits, e.g. if it's on a 30 degree angle, it should bounce up in or down in a 30 angle), because the built in bounce isn't consistent with it, since if I hit the object close to the top, or close to the bottom it reacts differently and that is too hard for the players to forsee. How do I actually change the speed and this? Becuase I have tried setting velocity, I have tried setting local projectile velocity, but neither of them change where the projectile goes... Anyone happen to know?

[gentle urchin]

Crossproduct

Cross of cross

[silent drift]

Sorry?

I see it in the BP, but I honestly have no clue how to use these. 😄 Is there a math paper I can read to understand it? Since I don't really get what I need to do or how. :D'

But I don't really know how to use it?

[gentle urchin]

I never recall the sequence

Adriel is good with these

[kind estuary]

CMV. tile based games are the cheapest because they dont need collision. you only need to check if the tile has units?

[gentle urchin]

Cross of x and hit normal, then cross with hitnormal again

[kind estuary]

for those who are interested the difference between these two is that int point is 2 ints, and vector 2d is 2 floats

[gentle urchin]

Yes^

[dark drum]

Yea, I use int points a lot when working with 2d grids. I don't think there's a 3 int vector though. :/

[gentle urchin]

Sort of in the name 😁

[silent drift]

Okay and how do I change the speed? Because the set velocity does nothing for me right now.

[gentle urchin]

Not exposed to bp

[dark drum]

Why do they do this to use!! lol.

[gentle urchin]

Was it correct ?

[silent drift]

I think so, but the projectile never changes speed even after setting a new velocity

Ist just "stops" instead of bounce back

[gentle urchin]

It might still be colliding

[silent drift]

So it seems the set new velocity either like that or the in local space, does nothing. 😦

Even forcing it.

E.g. Set velocity to -2000 does othing

So it seems I can't make it go in a different direction and I'm not sure why.

[kind estuary]

is this the same as this:

Or its about the same thing
In example one i get game mode and cast to get BP_Grid_Ref
In Example 2 i store it in a variable. And then use the variable.
Is this different in terms of performance or its the same
I think i will just get game mode and cast everytime i need? it spares creating variable references

[silent drift]

So I assume you change the speed of a projectile in a different way... But I'm not sure how.

Tried this, and still it does not change direction-.

[steel shadow]

Hey, I'm wondering with what can I change Enums to ? They seem to be crashing my package build ?

[gentle urchin]

What aboutmm spawning a new projectile? With some vfx on hit

[silent drift]

And destroy the old one? I mean I could but it feels super cheaty. 😄 the must be a way to change the direction. They can bounce with the Unreal code it just isn't readable enough for players where it will go. But for now I could do thay.

Just to get it working.

[silent stag]

i have turret i want to stop it when player dies but turret keep firing after this code what i miss here

[gentle urchin]

You can also set the projectile settings to bounce i guess

If you trace a nudge ahead you can know what youll hit and activate bounce accordingly

Assuming theres no existing function call

Meh hacky

[stuck sentinel]

theres this problem i keep coming over

how do i cast from widget to third person character

once i click i activate something in third person but i dont know how to cast from here

[spark steppe]

you need a reference to the player

[gentle urchin]

Get owning controller -> get pawn

[spark steppe]

if it's a single player game you can use a get player pawn node and cast that to your third person character

[kind willow]

You could try using an event dispatcher instead? Maybe it doesn't read the "is dead" properly

[spark steppe]

or what squize suggested, as long as you set the owning player for the widget correctly

[stuck sentinel]

i dont understand

where do i get owning controller

[silent stag]

it's working on other functions

[gentle urchin]

In the widget

[silent drift]

Yeah. That's what I did, but that is a bit too unreliable for my taste with the puzzles I'm doing. Since it picks the bounce spot and if the player shoots one cm too high or low, the puzzle fails.

[gentle urchin]

Ur already doing get player controller so

Just use that

Or get player character as thats what you wanted

[kind willow]

Hmm, sorry then, I don't know. You can try running the game and pressing Shift+f1 to see how the code runs. check whether the variable changes to true and whether the fioreing loops correctly

[stuck sentinel]

ok and what do i link to it

[gentle urchin]

The cast you wanted

Thirdpersonchar

Id recommend watching the pinned video about bp communication

#blueprint message

[gentle urchin]

You could look at the sourcecode for the bouncing

What if you just adjust the rotation of the bullet instead?

Wouldnt the velocity follow suit?

[silent drift]

Hmm. Need to try. That it a good point.

[shadow isle]

Hello,
I hope this is the right place to ask this.
I am new to UE5 and have an issue with my jump.

I have some blueprints to interact with an object and when I use the EnhancedInputAction for some reason my player is unable to jump (even thou I reach the print strings in the jump).
When I use a Keyboard Event with the same key "E" in this case as in the Input Action everything works fine.

One image is of my blueprint and the other is what happens when I press SPACE.

[gentle urchin]

Dont cross wires

Between exec paths

Specifically the torch and destroy

[shadow isle]

I tried separating them but it seems that the jump issue remains. As soon as I plug the IA_Interact in something the jump stops working.
When I change it for key event E it works.

My interact IA looks like this if this will help

[gentle urchin]

Almost sounds like they're overwriting eachother

[shadow isle]

When I hook them up to seperate print strings they seem to act independently.
I guess im just going to use the key pressed event and not the input action.

[gentle urchin]

You should definetly be able to use enhanced for both

Just gotta figure out whats stopping you here

Nothing in that code does it

[stuck sentinel]

yo i added headbobbing in first person but when i walk back the screen shivers when i walk front left or right it works fine

[serene wharf]

Can you send a video that shows the issue

And an image of how you implimented the camera shake

[versed sun]

https://tenor.com/view/chụpảnh-run-tay-già-shaking-camere-camera-gif-13809332

[serene wharf]

😂

[stuck sentinel]

problem is from here but idk what

this precisely

[serene wharf]

What is the" foot steps try" function doing?

[stuck sentinel]

its not the footsteps try

i removed it and same thing

[stuck sentinel]

problem is from here

this works though but i dont want this

this removed the shivering

[serene wharf]

This image shows the implimentation of you adding movement to you character when WASD is pressed

[stuck sentinel]

yes

[stuck sentinel]

this is the one i got when i made the game but i made a new one so i can add footsteps sound

[serene wharf]

But where do you play the camera shake, do you have like a "start camera shake" node somewhere

[stuck sentinel]

its not the camera shake

[serene wharf]

Becuse the movement input function does not add any camer shake

[stuck sentinel]

i tried deleting the camera shake i still get the shivering

its the movement

[versed sun]

do you have something with collision attached to the player ?

[stuck sentinel]

i think

flashlight

[versed sun]

remove collision

[stuck sentinel]

do i remove its collision

okay

[versed sun]

your are bumping into it

[serene wharf]

Smart

[versed sun]

XP

[serene wharf]

I didnt think about that lol

But yea thats a common issue

Easy to miss

[stuck sentinel]

nope

[versed sun]

😦

[stuck sentinel]

wait

[versed sun]

😐

[stuck sentinel]

nope

its the movement

i removed the ones i mad

made

i added the preset one

it works no shivering and the headbob works fine

[stuck sentinel]

so this is the issue idk wh

y

[serene wharf]

You can copy the direction calculations from the pre made one and put them into your selfmade movement

[serene wharf]

Copy these and put the vector into move forward

[stuck sentinel]

ill try

worked

thank you

[serene wharf]

Nice, good luck with your game man

[stuck sentinel]

thank you

[timid yarrow]

When I try to set rest collection in blueprint, Unreal Engine crashes. I tried a lot of ways but i couldn't solve it. Can anyone hepl me with this???

[violet inlet]

Hello There
I want to make my AI move to a location and check if the location is the same one (ich) as the one in the array
if yes go to the next array index
but it only go to the first point and stay at index 0

[gentle urchin]

The acceptance radius is prob way more than .1

More in the hood of 40

With default capsule i imagine

Do actor location - target location -> length -> absolute

Check its value

[violet inlet]

yeah i put the acceptance to 60 and fixed it

ty

[spark steppe]

the actor origin is kinda in the middle of the capsule, so it's usually the half height of the capsule above the ground (for most characters)

[violet inlet]

noted

[gentle urchin]

Isnt it also half width?

[spark steppe]

yesn't

[gentle urchin]

😅

[spark steppe]

you can reach x/y coords ignoring the width

as long as you stand above it the distance will only be the half height

unless you try to get to another actor, then their width might cause trouble

[gentle urchin]

But then its theirs + yours

[supple kiln]

Hello,
Perhaps someone would know how to identify and calculate wall ledges and wall gap sizes using traces?

[ancient nimbus]

Hey so i'm using attach Actor to Actor in my game currently. If i have a reference to an actor who was attached, should i just try and get parent if i want to reference the actor it's currently attched to?

the documentation and googling have been extremely unhelpful so far

Also there's like 700 different "get parent" functions haha 🫠

[spark steppe]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/GetAttachParentActor/
this is the one you want tho

[viscid viper]

i need some help
i have created a widged in an actor but when i try to create a drag and drop for some reason the widget not register any action from my mouse
i have set the input mode to game game and ui
anyone know what can i do to solve it ?

[onyx token]

is there a way to synch animations to anim notifies?

i have a walk animation, and a completely seperate "crosshair wobble" animation that is running on a different skeleton and different ABP

The crosshair wobble is completely different, and much less "natural" looking than the walk anim, so i can't link the two together, but i still want the crosshair wobble to kinda synch with the characters steps

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847253861403197471/1208416870789816330/UnrealEditor_quba4BsG2f.mp4

i do have notifies for left / right steps-

but what's a smart way to synch my crosshair animation to those notifies?

[spark steppe]

idk, maybe another approach where the steps/notifies send an "impulse" to your crosshair logic

smth like DecreaseAccuracy(Amount)

[onyx token]

is there a way to do that?

right now i'm doing this

[spark steppe]

and your crosshair would automatically try to interpolate to the best accuracy based on it's current value

[onyx token]

currently i'm just scaling the animation based on the player velocity

by just.... blending it with nothing

[spark steppe]

why is this even an animation blueprint?

[onyx token]

so i guess i'd have to kinda... start it up every time i get the "left foot" event?

[spark steppe]

that's some logic that could be handled in the HUD or whatever

[onyx token]

because i wanna have a more complex crosshair wobble.

and blend different animations with each other

[spark steppe]

oO

i feel like this is overengineered 😄

[onyx token]

like a breathing (the more exhausted the character is)
or a walking (the faster the character moves)

or a weight (the heavier the weapon is)

[onyx token]

well-
if i make it only in the HUD-
Then i'll have to animate it using some crazy sinewave math formula

and this way i can just quickly hop into blender, animate it however i want, and badabing badaboom

no procedural math anywhere, just quick animation

also stuff like spray patterns?
Ezpz, just make an animation

[spark steppe]

well, you can use curves if you want fancy things

not like anyone would appreciate the effort made for skeletal mesh animated crosshairs...

[onyx token]

well- animated crosshairs is important because of the nature of my game- i'm trying to make something akin to arma 2, where they have the same system

is there maybe a way to not have the crosshair animation loop - but just manually restart it every time the notify event comes in?

[spark steppe]

what happened to your RTS 😦

[onyx token]

i'm procrastinating on that by doing a lil prototype

BUT
i did do progress on it, my lil duders are now trading with each other and exchanging resources

[onyx token]

maybe i could solve it by just converting it to a montage? But there must be a way to manually start these animation nodes in the apb

[spark steppe]

honestly, i'm not going to be the one helping with a skeletal mesh crosshair system 😄

this is beyond what i can deal with here

[onyx token]

[spark steppe]

make it a control rig 😄

[gentle urchin]

Stick to the rts

We need more of em

[onyx token]

there's tons of rts'es releasing tho

[spark steppe]

yea, there's plenty of FPS shooters

[gentle urchin]

But we're waiting for yours

Not the generic ones

[onyx token]

fine

[spark steppe]

for your crosshair... maybe you want a blend space

[ancient nimbus]

WORKS PERFECTLY ty! you're a life saver!

[onyx token]

well- for the crosshair i would have a solution...

but it's super mega scuffed

like

bigtime scuffed

ok dont judge me-

[spark steppe]

too late

[onyx token]

what i could do-
is this

and on the blend node-

and then just set the alpha to 0 and 1 really quick

unless there's a way to reset an animation node

[gentle urchin]

Id just do it in the ui tbh

With some input from wherever, accumulating inaccuracy and depleting it over time so to speak

[onyx token]

is there a way to animate ui elements that doesn't... cause a headache...?

[gentle urchin]

Regular linear animation?

[onyx token]

right now my crosshair drives the bullet
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847253861403197471/1208421288855474196/UnrealEditor_ObBoWXOFXp.mp4

[gentle urchin]

Hmm

[onyx token]

well-
complex animation

with proper timing and adhering to the 12 principles

[gentle urchin]

Hmm...

[onyx token]

i went with "i'll just animate it in blender" because that seemed easiest to me...

[spark steppe]

well you didn't mention that before...

for the bullet driving pattern you could probably use spline component which you scale based on the crosshair radius? 🤷

haven't dealt with smth like that before, so maybe your initial idea wasn't super bad at all if it also serves that purpose

[onyx token]

i'll try the scuffed solution and if it works, i'll just.... close my eyes and never think about it again

[gentle urchin]

This sounds like the best plan so far

You basically use the inaccuracy as an offset from the spline location

[spark steppe]

you better close the whole project and never think about it again

[onyx token]

that probably is a pretty neat solution

[gentle urchin]

I dont see this being used in the rts tho

So delete it yes

[onyx token]

rood. I will have you know good sir, i'll use the same artstyle, so once i get to making environments, i can use those models in the rts

[gentle urchin]

Dont you dare make the mouse have accuracy based on movespeed

[spark steppe]

i kinda assumed your RTS was all about cute villagers and trading and stuff

not about wobbly crosshairs and shooting bullets

[onyx token]

i actually planned on putting muskets in my rts

[spark steppe]

sounds fair, but muskets just have spread

they don't follow a pattern like an assault rifle

[onyx token]

ye this is my procrastination prototype

hey- atleast im not playing helldivers, like absolutely everyone else currently apparently

[gentle urchin]

Atleast theres that

Instead you sink hours into this crosshair animbp 😆

[onyx token]

i bet you have your adhd moments too

[spark steppe]

don't we learn the most of trial & error? 😄

[halcyon vapor]

is async loading still the same way from unreal engine 5.2 to 5.3? My usual nodes of "Async Load Asset", then casting to that asset class to then use it don't seem to work after engine update

(may be a specific issue outside of this though)

[craggy hatch]

Hello! can someone please help me with this? i want to cast to player character but it wont work.

[halcyon vapor]

use "get pawn" instead of "get pawn owner"

[craggy hatch]

failed😔

[halcyon vapor]

is the print string function printing twice or once?

[lyric rapids]

in this blueprint every time the while loop loops will the random integer function change numbers

[craggy hatch]

once

[halcyon vapor]

should yeah, you can print each number to see if it changes

[lyric rapids]

cool

[halcyon vapor]

on begin play? Or when you start playing and do that update animation event event?

[craggy hatch]

i did it at both actually

but on begin play is not responding

[halcyon vapor]

the question I'm asking is, is it failing to cast since the begin play or does the player reference somehow gets unset later in the code

Also now that I think about it, I think you are supposed to call the function "get player controller" then drag off of it and link it to a function called "get pawn" or "get controlled pawn"

[craggy hatch]

both, if i cast to player character in the begin play and then use a refrence in the update i become an error

and if i cast in the update itself it wont cast**

nah

[halcyon vapor]

can you screenshot the code again with the changes I mentioned?

[gentle urchin]

They are still the same for me atleast

[onyx token]

ok i got it to work.

If you judge me-
I do not deserve it

it is only a little bit scuffed.

[halcyon vapor]

did you change the default player character because this is very unusual

[craggy hatch]

its an camera animation blueprint

for camera shakes etc.

but procedural

[halcyon vapor]

yeah, but the player itself? Does it posses a pawn that didn't come from first person character?

[craggy hatch]

hmm, no

[halcyon vapor]

okay, I got an idea, can you drag off of that "get controlled pawn" and print the display name of that reference

I think you can drag the reference directly into the string input of the print string function

what does it say?

[halcyon vapor]

okay wtf, there is no reason why that cast is failing

[craggy hatch]

the cast just hates me ig

[halcyon vapor]

unless the event begin play doesn't execute any code, did you get that "cast failed" when you started the play?

[craggy hatch]

wait

it really hates me

[halcyon vapor]

select all nodes and refresh them?

[craggy hatch]

failed

[frosty heron]

-print string your controlled pawn

it's not BP_FirstPersonCharacter

[craggy hatch]

tried

[frosty heron]

Ye U have another instance using the same anim Instance class

[viscid viper]

anyone?

[frosty heron]

The gap is a null ptr

[peak hill]

There is a better way to do this ; in your Character class you can set the variable you made, PlayerRef, directly on the Anim Instance used by the Mesh. Then, your anim blueprint doesn't need to set the variable; it just needs to check if it is valid (as you already have). [This means you don't need to 'try get owner' way of doing it.]

[frosty heron]

Anim blueprint should reference it's owner anyway

[halcyon vapor]

what unreal engine version are you using?

[frosty heron]

using get player controller is uh... why???

Get Owner -> Get Pawn -> Cast to

[viscid viper]

5.2

[craggy hatch]

its not an player blueprint. its an camera blueprint for procedural camera animation

[frosty heron]

show me how you print the controlled pawn

[halcyon vapor]

I forgot if the drag and drop function got deprecated, does it print anything?

[frosty heron]

Not just the result

how you actually print it in anim bp

[craggy hatch]

oh

[viscid viper]

no its does not print anything

[craggy hatch]

ehhhh

sry

wait

[lyric rapids]

i dont know why im getting the infinite loop error message

[lofty rapids]

whats this second part attached to ?

[lyric rapids]

Spawn Actor

oh fuck its not connected

cause i was debugging

lol

[lofty rapids]

whats it look like connected ? are you using completed or the loop body ?

because if you add to the array in the loop, you shouldn't do that

[lyric rapids]

im using completed it just wasnt attached at tall cause i forgot to reaatach it

[leaden dock]

does this null the texture? i dunno exactly what to call to clear a brush

[viscid viper]

and it doesnt hit the breakpoint

[frosty heron]

You will get a white box tho, is that what you want?

[peak hill]

1 : The PlayerCharacter can set itself as variable in the AnimBP instance.

[frosty heron]

hmmm but I don't think is a good idea

player shouldn't even know or care about anim bp

anim bp just read everything from the owner

[leaden dock]

i can set alpha to 0 😛

[frosty heron]

Yeah or for me, I just have a translucent material. Kinda expensive but meh. That's what I did to fill out empty inventory slot

[halcyon vapor]

yeah, it may have been deprecated, you should look online for tutorials, because what I did was having checks if the mouse left click was pressed or not, and then used a function to find the cursor location etc

[peak hill]

2: The Getter for the PlayerCharacter will be valid if set by the PlayerCharacter (see step 1).

[frosty heron]

saw your stuff in other channel. I used DT with hard ref for my old game and it kinda destroyed my project :P. Had to load for 1.5 mins

[leaden dock]

yeah seems sane

[frosty heron]

After I use soft pointers, I load instantly on my new project

Cuz I don't need to load things that I don't need to load yet

[peak hill]

Why not, it's very reliable.

[frosty heron]

I would try to keep the depedency one way

[gentle urchin]

Good practice

[leaden dock]

good to know that using softptr's make sense 😛

[gentle urchin]

Softprts are awesome, mostly

[frosty heron]

in Data TAble it's compulsory lol. We would end up loading the entire items in the game instead the one we just need.
But Data Asset kinda make this soo much easier which i regreted to not use

[gentle urchin]

Just can be a tad unintuitive at times

[gentle urchin]

How so 😮 im still using dt's with soft refs all over the place...

[frosty heron]

Apparently we don't even need soft pointers with Data Asset

they don't get loaded in entirely like data table

[gentle urchin]

Really?

How does that work

[frosty heron]

I would ask the guys at #cpp , can't give you a good explanation

[gentle urchin]

No worries, ill investigate

Just gotta take the step

[simple sky]

I want to have a BP node (Macro, Function or some C++ code if required) that can take multiple input objects, and provide multiple "flows" (not sure that's the correct word) out of it - any suggestions if this can be done? It's to save me having a big set of bespoke "if object "==" object" branch tree for controlling the path after an event (based on an input object)

[lofty rapids]

probably a macro if you want seperate execution

[gentle urchin]

Macro

[lofty rapids]

i don't think you can do that with a function, but idk

[gentle urchin]

Function with expand enum also work

I believe

C++ made ofc

[simple sky]

But would I need "n" macro's (i.e. if have an event that may take in 3 different objects) do i have "Macro3" but if I have an event that takes in 6 different objects I need "Macro6" (i.e. the macro can't expand it's input pins or output flows automatically?)

I'd really like something like "switch on int" but allows objects to be assigned

[thin panther]

This is sounding like a custom K2 node in C++

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

Cant you grab the name of the object and do switch on string 😁

Im lazy like that

[spark steppe]

this sounds like give me an interface and put the custom logic in each class

[thin panther]

That too

It definitely screams abuse of architecture

[lofty rapids]

ya i just found a video on this, that's pretty cool

[gentle urchin]

Yeah

Altho must be c++ enum,

But.. if you can make the function. You can (and should) make the enum 🙂

[viscid viper]

i did some test the left mouse click is pressed and when checking hit result it hit the widget
but no event is activated on the widget what should i do ?

[halcyon vapor]

are all events deactivated? Or just the drag and drop one?

[jaunty solstice]

What's the secret to getting Keyboard events to trigger when in Simulate or PIE?
In an Actor Blueprint Event Graph I have the following (attached).
However in PIE, pressing 1 after giving the viewport focus, I'm not seeing my Print statement. Why?
Is it possible for Viewport shortcuts to override any Keyboard event handlers in your Blueprint?

[viscid viper]

what does that mean?
other on clicked event does register on actors in the scene

[halcyon vapor]

I mean if you make an event "initialised" on the widget you are having problems with, does it execute code like a print string function?

[viscid viper]

just a sec testing

[halcyon vapor]

in unreal engine 5 they depricated those, so you'll have to use the "enhanced input" plugin which should be on by default

[brazen pulsar]

So, I set up a very basic bp to control the sun based on the time of day. The problem is that the 'now' function is in imperial 12 hour time instead of military 24 hour time. Is there a way to convert it to that?

Or just a function for getting AM/PM

[trim matrix]

we can't see shit

[brazen pulsar]

ah sorry

[halcyon vapor]

this is the first time I ever seen a "Now" function

[trim matrix]

put all these in correct order, close and then send it again

[spark steppe]

the screenshot is fine

[trim matrix]

OK ben.

[spark steppe]

and i think you assumption is wrong, i'm pretty sure that this is 24h

[halcyon vapor]

oh are you testing it in the day?

[spark steppe]

i rather think that your math is somehow wrong

[ember lichen]

Why can’t I set my transform origin actor on my level sequence that is created in my BP? I can set the override instance data easily but it won’t let me set the origin.

[brazen pulsar]

Very possible, it's noon here, but the appearance is closer to sunset

also, better screenshot

[spark steppe]

you can create an arbitrary FDateTime yourself and test it

[halcyon vapor]

have you tried printing the "Now" values first? Just to see if you are in 24 or 12 hour format

[brazen pulsar]

I have- 12 hour 360 degrees

[viscid viper]

yes initialised functions work

[spark steppe]

just print the hours

if you convert a FDateTime to text it's formatted based on the system settings iirc

[halcyon vapor]

okay, so it is very likely the drag and drop function was deprecated then, because I vaguely remember it not working when I tried drag and dropping things

[trim matrix]

you don't even lerp? so it just change directly

[halcyon vapor]

actually wait, I have a tutorial that may help you

[halcyon vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9jK6HZvxAI

here, I'm 99% all you want is from this tutorial series

[brazen pulsar]

ok, so it's looking like it's not a problem with the time, that's in 24h, it's a problem with my math/ something to do with the light itself. I tried 6pm and 3pm and now and it all came up as a sunset

nice effect, but not what I was looking for

[jaunty solstice]

Thanks. It is enabled. But I thought capturing keyboard events 'the old way' was still working.

[halcyon vapor]

that +180 in your degree math may be the cause

also why are you multiplying the hours by 15?

[brazen pulsar]

15 degrees per hour shift in the suns position

I'll take out the 180

[halcyon vapor]

hours are 1/24 th of a day, and a circle is 360 degrees, so it should be [hours] x 360/24

so hours x 15 like you said, yeah

[brazen pulsar]

Yea, exactly

Ykno, it might be something to do with the sky atmosphere or something. I plugged in different coordinates but it's always giving me a red sky

[halcyon vapor]

try experimenting with the actor rotation then, I think you may be connecting too many pins in, and 1 of them should be left empty

apart from that, like mentioned previously, you should look into lerp functions, to make the sun rotation much smoother rather than 1 hour going by in an instant

[halcyon vapor]

yeah, then you should look into that first if your own pluged in coords are messing up

[brazen pulsar]

what's lerp?

[spark steppe]

linear interpolation

[trim matrix]

You probably don't want your sun to just move instantly, it will be noticeable and ew

[brazen pulsar]

I'll google a tutorial then

[lofty rapids]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDocPe1HoA&list=PLFYGCCDpMHmHJwhIRY6qNumAts--W8bTy&index=9

this is a tut i found awhile ago shows how to set the sun

[distant vortex]

Hi, i cant get my BPI to work. The Event in my Animation Blueprint to set the Character to "Armed" to change its animation does not trigger. i have implemented the interface in my ABP_Manny tho. and i trigger it in my third person character BP. the weapon gets picked up, visible on my character.. but my animation does not change (the variable "armed" stays false..)

[brazen pulsar]

grazi

[viscid viper]

ive been looking into it
i followed the drag video but unlike him my widget dont detected my on mouse down function in the widget

[frosty heron]

first of all, you didn't plug the right target for the interface. You are trying to run AR Armed in the character class not in the anim instance class.
Aside from that, I don't see why you want to use interface for this. Armed or not should be a state of the player and anim bp just read the state.

[brazen pulsar]

Also, it's looking like it's got more to do with the light settings. whether I plug it into pitch, roll, or yaw, 12 always produces a sunset. I'm hoping/thinking the tut engage sent will help tho, seems like it's p directly what I'm tryin to do

[lofty rapids]

It's based on a 24 hour time if i remember correctly, you would just need to figure out how to plug in the now to it

but you can adjust it

i don't know much about it, i only tried it once

[brazen pulsar]

I think it'll be perfect

thx again

[distant vortex]

thanks, i thought the variable for the character state should be inside the animation blueprint?

[frosty heron]

you can make a copy of the variable in your anim bp and do
MyAnimBpVar = MyPlayerVar
But it's not necessary most of the time. You just get the ref to the owner (player in this case)
And just read the properties from Player directly

[viscid viper]

what am i missing

[distant vortex]

from my understanding "the target for the interface" in this case is BPI_AR_Armed. isnt this triggering the interface? this should trigger the "event armed" inside the animation BP?

[frosty heron]

You are running it in your Character BP not your Character Anim Instance BP

check your target

also get the interface with the message icon

again tho, this look like a very flawed design if I can give my 2 cent. You really don't need or want interface for this

Just change state in Bp_Player and anim bp simply read the state from it's player reference

[distant vortex]

hm, i dont know how to do it, yet. i am newbie

[frosty heron]

it might help to look at some sample project or free stuff from marketplace

preferably nothing complicated like ALS

[distant vortex]

how can my animation BP read the state in my player BP if i may ask? i dont know how to communicate between BP's besides with interface or casting...? but casting is not recommended?

[lyric rapids]

I want to make it so that every time i spawn that blueprint in the blueprint waits for 0.5 seconds however if i use the simple delay method it gives me an infinite loop error message

[lunar sleet]

set timer by event

[trim matrix]

make it cleaner first, like a straight line

[distant vortex]

i will research this. thanks

[lyric rapids]

ill try that

[craggy hatch]

thx it worked

[brazen pulsar]

think I've figured it out. Now I just need to set up a convincing night sky and we're golden (also, turns out the directional light starts at about -90 since it starts up at sunrise, around 6am)

[echo wren]

i need some direction, i have used tutorials and chap gpt but can never get a good result. I have a camera that tumbles around my character using Add Control Pitch/Yaw Input and this is working good. The thing i want to do is when i press a button, i would like the physics body to attempt to match the rotation vector of the camera/controller. What nodes would help me do this? I need to like get the different in rotation and use that value to apply torque or force so it "drifts" in that direction until it matches. Slow like a spaceship.

[onyx token]

@spark steppe @gentle urchin thanks for helping me, look my crosshair works now
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847253861403197471/1208458933568802897/UnrealEditor_p6mJdK0wYw.mp4

i'll do strategy game tomorrow

havin fun right now

AND its weekend

[versed sun]

if you have a Spring Arm , you can enable the Camera Lag/ Rotation Lag

[echo wren]

I got that, the thing i am having a hard time figureing out is the different between the rotations of the two, then do i feed that to a add torque node? tried it and i get movement but its just crazy fast or not at all...

do i get the forward vector of both and then subtract? then use that as the add torque? I just cant figure out what nodes to use

[versed sun]

yah , not sure , i know i just got the slow movement using the Lag

[echo wren]

yeah camera lag, not character rotation to match the camera rotation... But thanks for the reply

back to arguing with chat gpt for hours. lol

[versed sun]

you want opposite? char slowly looks where the camera is looking?

[frosty heron]

stop asking chat gpt 😄

[echo wren]

never

[frosty heron]

they are not trained for unreal

might be right 20% of the time

[echo wren]

its trained on the internet, totally helpfull if you know how to use it

[frosty heron]

but chances are they give u some made up words just to make you feel good

[frosty heron]

not really for unreal but you do you

[echo wren]

yup. its just a word to word predictor. doesnt have any idea what its actually saying. just a new way of searching if you use it right. amazing for coding

[frosty heron]

even for coding

it just spit functions that doesn't even exist

[echo wren]

its been UNBELEIVABLY useful. way more than any forum or human, IF you know how to use it

[frosty heron]

might work for a very simple cases but deffinitly not helpful for anything intermediate imo

[lofty rapids]

imo chatgpt not a good programmer

atleast that has been my experience, and seeing people use it for things it just comes up with shitty code a lot

just like any tool if you know how to use it though, you might get some good use from it

the problem is, you don't have checks and balances, like is it good to do it that way ? will i see anything weird because of it ?

but even just for basic programs a friend of mine uses it and it just comes up with weird stuff

and atleast half the time it doesn't work at all, probably more towards 2/3

[main lake]

huh ? But the progress bar could go only from left to right or bottom to up, so in my case it needs to go first from left to right then after that go back from the left to right for the line above, so I guess it will mask the bottom hearts line again 🤔

[gentle urchin]

Two bars 🙂

[main lake]

It feels hacky 😬

It feels weird to me that there's no option on the vertical box to revert the direction of adding things to it, so instead of down it adds up

[versed sun]

Get children Array > clear children > Reverse for each loop Array and add them back ?

or something...

[main lake]

Wouldn't that just make the first element have the last index, the second element have the last index - 1, etc... ?

[versed sun]

Make new array of just new item> Append Get Children to it> Clear and re-add

[main lake]

but it doesn't solve my issue

of positionning of the hearts

[versed sun]

oh, i couldnt find OP

[gentle urchin]

Mirror it. Scale -1

[main lake]

this will add hearts to the right forever

[gentle urchin]

Id stick with the bars tbh

Fixed size extensions matching the tiled material

[main lake]

That's what I did now and yeah it works properly but it's a bit hacky, it really seems weird that Epic didn't think about an issue like this

[versed sun]

What's original question?

[main lake]

#blueprint message

[versed sun]

so
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
❤️

is what you are looking for ?

[main lake]

no the opposite

the single heart should be added on top

[versed sun]

ahh

top left?

[main lake]

yeah

[gentle urchin]

You just shift it down tho

[versed sun]

each heart is its own WBP ?

[gentle urchin]

Vertical box in horizontal box

[main lake]

yes

[gentle urchin]

Or grid

And just grid them out

[main lake]

already tried that

[gentle urchin]

Grid

Try that

[main lake]

that's what I did now but I had to mirror it so it works now

[gentle urchin]

First row is 1, second is 0

[versed sun]

Im thinking wrap box

[main lake]

no need of that, scaling the grid to -1 works properly on its own

and you can use normal indexing

[gentle urchin]

Dont need to mirror if you add them correctly 😅

Alright

Benefit of heart wbp is ofc individual controls and animations

[main lake]

yeah

[lyric rapids]

why is this giving me an infinite loop error

[main lake]

how did you do that ?

[main lake]

why do you use multiple loops in Tick ?

[frosty heron]

looks extremly cursed

[lyric rapids]

to check if certain things have already been placed for procedural generation

[versed sun]

Wrap box with 1, -1 Scale

took some damage

[lyric rapids]

it works fine like this so i dont know why it doesnt work with that extra event

[main lake]

Could you show me your hierarchy how did you set that up in terms of UI Components please ?

[main lake]

What values did you put in SizeBox please ?

[hard charm]

Can anybody help me? I'm trying to center a world object in the center of my camera so I can inspect this formula. Alright?

[versed sun]

the WB_Coin(Hearts) is 32x32 so sizebox is:

[main lake]

You're the best, thank you so much 🙏

[versed sun]

got it ? do they take damage in the direction you want ?

they might be mirrored...

[main lake]

I need to fix the blueprint part first and I will let you know in few minutes 🙂

[versed sun]

nice

[lofty rapids]

not sure what the best way to do it would be, but you can probably use your camera forward vector

[dry pecan]

so I need some help figuring out something, I'm trying to make a rail shooter game like Sin and punishment star successors in unreal, but I seem to have a character thats always in a state of falling even though they are(I'm using the third person game template). any suggestions on how I can make it so the game wont think the player is falling even while not standing on anything?

[lofty rapids]

gravity scale 0.0 ?

[dry pecan]

yes

[main lake]

I don't think it's the proper way of doing that, technically when you place the "things" you have a return value that you could check if it's valid to let you know that it has been placed

[hoary summit]

You could have a new camera just for that object that frames it dead center and switch to it on "inspection"

[lyric rapids]

no thats not whats happening im randomly selecting an element in an array and that checks whether the random number has been called already

[main lake]

There's a better way which is : after having your array with all the elements you want, you shuffle it first, then you select the index in the right order and it will give you the "randomness" thing you want 🙂

[dry pecan]

but the player character still thinks its falling, or is it something else. also what I mean by falling is that they arent going down, but the player character still plays the falling animation and glides around no hint of stoppin in any direction unless I make them move in the opposite direction

[lofty rapids]

so will you be able to jump ?

[steady night]

hm im trying to check if distance between 2 points is less then do that

but i cant seem to find the formula to work with vector*

[dry pecan]

no, I'm essentially trying to make a rail shooter like sin and punishment: star successors where they can move up down left and right, but when I let go of the control keys or stick, the player character should immediatley stop as well\

[gentle urchin]

Custom movement mode

[brazen pulsar]

new problem. I'm looking at the level bp, want to tie some spawn actor events to which day the player is playing on. Got the refresh set to Q, used a print string to test if the map is picking up 'refresh' events and it is, but the actors either aren't spawning or aren't spawning in the locations I've put in

[gentle urchin]

The formula is correct for distance

[brazen pulsar]

print string test shows that the actors aren't spawning at all

[dry pecan]

custom movement mode?

[gentle urchin]

Yes. Then you wont be falling 🙂

[lofty rapids]

is it going into the switch ? and is it not 2 ?

[gentle urchin]

But also.. you can ofc just break the animbp fallloop and do your own checks

[lofty rapids]

thats why i asked about jumping, just take the fall out the animation

[dry pecan]

will this also help me try and do flying movement as well?

[brazen pulsar]

definitely 2, not sure if it's going into the switch. Put a print string between the refresh and the switch and got a response, but nothing past it

[lofty rapids]

print string the date int

see what it is why the switch won't go into 2

i would also make a reference to your game instance by promoting to variable and use that instead of crossing the lines across events

[dry pecan]

how do I make one or open it?

[lavish rain]

Hello everyone! I'm trying to figure out how to access an Array Member inside a Child Actor, through the Parent Actor's blueprint. How can I do that? (Picture included for context)

[brazen pulsar]

figured it out, turns out the 'refresh' dispatcher was behind the 'date ++' node. fixed, working perfectly

[brazen pike]

I dont think you can do it inside the details panel, but you can in blueprint

[versed sun]

Avoid Child BP
But if you use them : ChildActorComponent> Get Child Actor > Cast> Get Variable

[gentle urchin]

Yes, but flying already exist

So you dont rly need custom there. Just need to add it in the animBP

[frosty heron]

There is a local game company in Freo, wrote them a letter. I hope they accept my request for internship 😄

[brazen pike]

wtf today I did the same thing? What was the name we might have sent in applications to the same place ahah

[frosty heron]

XD, they are making this surfer games

[dry pecan]

well by flying I dont mean like a bird or a plane, but more like across the screen up down left right, no forward or backwards

[frosty heron]

it's probably the same one, they have one position open but I am not applying for the job as I am not qualified

[brazen pike]

If you could dm me the name of them I'd appreciate it ahah, I've got a bit of experience so I might be able to go for the open spot

[fiery ridge]

A good rule to remember for child bps is to make things into variables that you want to change

[frosty heron]

for sure man!

[dry pecan]

is the flying you mentioned exactly what I meant?

[gentle urchin]

Dunno, never used it

I can only assume that its relatively "up to implementation" how it works 🙂

So id think yes.

[dry pecan]

where can I find it?

[gentle urchin]

In the CMC i guess

Gotta enable the flying mode

[viscid viper]

anyone knows if i am missing something ?

[gentle urchin]

And i guess one just switches to flying mode ?

By some input method

[echo wren]

No clue really what im doing. Looking for some direction here. I have a pawn (sphere1) with a camera attached to a spring arm. The camera rotates around the object just fine with mouse movement. I am trying to get the sphere to match the rotation of the camera by applying torque (so its like a spaceship thrusters turning it). I cant seem to get the correct different in rotation from the sphere to the camera to apply torque with.
The sphere just spins like crazy

[trim matrix]

try to understand what you are doing first using print statements

[echo wren]

i cleaned up this, deleting tons of prints, to paste it so it would not be cluttered.

Just looking for what nodes you guys would use to achieve this. not "how to debug"

[lavish rain]

How would I go about doing that? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just getting started with UE5

[gentle urchin]

Currently you're getting delta rotation and multiplying it with amount

You probably wanna normalize it for the 'direction'

[fiery ridge]

It's no problem, child bps are amazing when you know how to use them. Essentially, any changes you want to make on the child BP has to be made into a variable, that's how you make changes only on the child and not the parent

[gentle urchin]

Then multiply for speed

[echo wren]

normalize, interesting thank you. I have not used this node.

[lavish rain]

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand how you did that. Do you pull the child actor from the components tab into the blueprint, then connect it to a Get Child Actor node?

[versed sun]

yes

[gentle urchin]

Normalize turns it into a vector / rotator with the length of 1 (atleast for vectors, i can only guess its the same for rotators)

[lavish rain]

And what do you cast to? I'm not getting the option to cast to ChildTestMagicCircle when I pull a node from the Get Child Actor node

[echo wren]

splendid. could be exactly what i need, but not sure. working on implimenting it now. thank you

[gentle urchin]

Atleast now you got the direction 🙂 could go fancy with a PID regulator for the dynamic thrusting 😆

[versed sun]

cast to whatever you have Child Actor Class set too

[ember lichen]

How I can play a sequence at the location of wherever my actor gets spawned? I've tried this but I can't use the level sequence that's created in my Transform Origin Actor node. Any help is appreciated!

Tried this also, but can't connect to the target because it's a different type

[echo wren]

hmm normalize i dont think is what i need. if i have a object with a rotation of 0, 10, 0. and another object 0,0,0. i want to have the second object match the first. so in this example i would need to just apply the different to torque. But when i subtract the two i dont seem to get zero when i align them manually and there is Add Torque in radians and Degrees, which one do i use? So should i be subtracting GetActorLocation and GetComponent World Loication? Seems like such a common game concept, i cant find anything relating to it

[gentle urchin]

Personally id never use torque for this

Id use rinterpto

Simply constant interpolation

[echo wren]

its a physics thing so i "think" torque is what i need. works when i manually set it. just trying to have it copy the camera now instead of manual input of the x,y,z

[lyric rapids]

how do i refrence my widget colour in blueprint

[gentle urchin]

Id suggest asking in #chaos-physics or #legacy-physics then^^

[lavish rain]

Hm... The cast works, then I break, change and make a Struct with the settings. But when I use Set Array Element, nothing changes

[versed sun]

Side note, use the Set Member in Circle_Struct node

so , you are setting a variable, then you have to update the ring visuals somehow, i assume thats a marketplace asset?

[lavish rain]

OH

THAT WAS IT!

It worked! Thank you SO MUCH

I have spent the past 4 hours trying to figure this out

Why the hell I didn't I ask for help sooner is beyond me. Thank you so very much!

[lofty rapids]

what are you doing here ? what is "widget colour" ?

[versed sun]

its UK for "widget color"

[lofty rapids]

the whole widget color ?

[gentle urchin]

Spot on 😅

[versed sun]

🙂

[dry pecan]

what are some nodes that can help my player move up and down? I got left to right so I just need to figure out how to do that

[lofty rapids]

i mean you can get location, set location, with just the z

add the axis value * strength, to the z

[dry pecan]

would that work with this?

[dire frost]

up and down? so the player isnt "walking" they're "flying", right?

if that's the case then just use the vector up and you should be gucci

[dry pecan]

yes kinda like in this game which I'm doing a homage to

[lofty rapids]

or that ya, use up vector like suggested

[dry pecan]

thank you so much 😄

[hidden pecan]

Is there any way I could extend the period the light stays on? I'm currently using a sin wave function to control the light's on/off state.

[gentle urchin]

Reduce delta coming in

Or pulserate

[hidden pecan]

Unfortunately that changes/controls the duration to both the time the light is on and off

[gentle urchin]

Yes

Ah you only want longer on time

Id probably just set up a timeline

With curve

[hidden pecan]

Im trying to have the light stay bright for 60 seconds for example and turn dark for 10

[gentle urchin]

Gives you perfect control

[hidden pecan]

Oh that's a great idea

[gentle urchin]

I get those every now and then

[hidden pecan]

What is the timeline node called btw?

[gentle urchin]

Timeline

This is in an actor right?

[hidden pecan]

Yes

[viscid viper]

anyone?

[lofty rapids]

the events just not firing ?

[viscid viper]

yep

[hidden pecan]

It's not this one is it?

I'm pretty new to nodes

[viscid viper]

its just not firing

[gentle urchin]

No its just timeline

Add timeline comp or something

[lyric rapids]

why is this not working

[lofty rapids]

it should be running, but what do you expect to happen ?

[lyric rapids]

the alpha going from 0 to 1

[lofty rapids]

it most likely does

did you check the values with print string ?

it may be how your using the values, or what you expect that change to do

i wouldn't use a while on tick like that anyway, just check if it's less than and add to it on tick

not a big fan of while loops i avoid them

[lyric rapids]

it just says its 1

however its definitly not

[lofty rapids]

it probably is though if it says so

what are you doing with the value ?

[lyric rapids]

well its the colour and opacity value of my widget so it should just change

[viscid viper]

on click on actor work and get hit result under cursor does return the widget and ive tried on initialized print string it and it printed

[lofty rapids]

did you try to set the widget to focus on the mode ?

idk why it doesn't work, i have not tried drag n drop yet

[viscid viper]

i set input mode to game and ui

[lofty rapids]

right theres a pin for widget to focus

not sure it matters

but might help

[viscid viper]

i dont want focus on this single widget there are multiple ones i can drag and drop in the viewport

[hidden pecan]

It's not showing up for some reason

[random pulsar]

hi folks

[hidden pecan]

oh.

[random pulsar]

i want to bind the text with the amount of food i collected,for example i have collected 2 apples and there in the corner is written Apples: 2.How can i do this in the parent object of food so it will be easier to customize it,i mean ,there is a lot of childs

i really have no idea how to link those

[viscid viper]

its not just drag and drop the widget dont detect when i click on it

[thin panther]

you need an inventory system.
A container that holds what you've picked up and how many.
Then you can read from this in a widget, and for each entry add a new InventoryItem widget as a child of whatever, and set it's text and amount

[random pulsar]

if i only need to display the text,i dont need the object,do i still need a inventory?

[thin panther]

you do though

you need to know how many of what you're holding

that's an inventory

[random pulsar]

(

[hidden pecan]

I'm unable to add a component inside another component is there a work around to have the function of a timeline inside of an actor component?

[thin panther]

an inventory never should hold the object itself

[gentle urchin]

Thats why i asked actor 🙂

[hidden pecan]

I didn't realize but it's an actor component

[gentle urchin]

Theres a nasty hack you can use if you realllly want

[simple spade]

I'm stuck, I'm building a quest system. I'm following a tutorial. I set it up exactly as he did but when I interact with the object it's not updated. It is correctly broadcasting. One part of the video I had to do differently, I'm sure this is where my problem is.

[hidden pecan]

Any clean way to get the same functionality?

[simple spade]

The left photo is the tutorial the right photo is what I currently have

[gentle urchin]

Not sure if curves are possible as variables these days? If so its easy

[random pulsar]

i hate inventories cant understand them

[gentle urchin]

Inventory is just a container holding mainly two things:

• name/type/id of the thing in the slot
• amount

[hidden pecan]

Do you know if lights are compatible with actor blueprint or only actor component?

[gentle urchin]

Light is an actor component by itself

So it must be used inside an Actor

[hidden pecan]

Damn the more I know

There has to be some way to pull this off

[gentle urchin]

Create an actor

Put light in it

Add timeline to it

Control the light component with the timeline

Done 😁

.

[hidden pecan]

How do you add a light to an actor

[gentle urchin]

Add component isnt it ?

[simple spade]

I figured it out, for some reason the tutorial didn't say to "add quest details" so it couldn't add correctly.

[hidden pecan]

week 1 of using blueprints 😭

[gentle urchin]

Rough week i imagine !

[hidden pecan]

Yeah 😂

Made some good progress though, but still have 0 understanding of how any of this works

How long have you been using blueprints for?

[gentle urchin]

6+

Years, on a hobby basis

[hidden pecan]

holy 😳

👏

How can you add lights into an actor btw?

Without being attached to a mesh

[thin panther]

click the add component button

[hidden pecan]

I feel so dumb thank you 😂

[torn tide]

Hi everyone, I'm using Blueprint to make Http Requests using the HttpBlueprint experiemental plugin.

I can see that the Http Request node is calling my server and the response is 200.

However the event bound to OnRequestComplete isn't firing.

Anyone have any luck with making Http Requests from UE5? I could alternative use a circulate-able plugin? (it needs to be circulate-able because I will be sharing the plugin i'm making at the moment.

[faint pasture]

Win-Shift-S

[formal dome]

i think there is a plugin that adds Timeline to Actor component, i Haven't tried it

[gentle urchin]

Timeline is a component so it feels sorta anti pattern like if so

Unless its a custom type of timeline

[formal dome]

my guess is a custom type

[formal dome]

How did you bind the event?

[torn tide]

Ahhh it's got something to do with me calling the containing function from the editor details panel...

I guess binded events (or this one) don't work the same way inside editor vs during play

Just tested during play and it works fine 🙂

[floral stump]

anyone knows how to import an fbx of size 1gb without crashing the editor?

after selecting to import that fbx file, the editor directly jumps to use 30gb of memory

and stops responding

tried in Unity the same fbx file, and it imports it very smoothly but takes little longer which is not an issue since the fbx file is 1gb

[faint pasture]

why the FUCK is the fbx 1 gb?

what are you importing?

[floral stump]

it contans lots of things

it is an open world map having all the props

[faint pasture]

yeah good luck, that's crazy

try gLTF

[dire frost]

yeah that wont work. you'll want to import pieces of that map and reconstruct it in unreal

[floral stump]

it was created in unreal 4.27 and was exported as fbx file since i can't directly downgrade the 4.27 .uassets for 4.26

[faint pasture]

why are you downgrading?

[floral stump]

i am using 4.26

[dire frost]

why would you downgrade engine version?

[faint pasture]

but why

isn't 4.27 basically the Perfect™️ version of UE4?

[floral stump]

directly copy gives me an error of old asset

can't use .uassets in this case

[faint pasture]

I mean why are you stuck on 4.26?

how on earth did you end up with 4.27 assets

[floral stump]

my friend shared with me his open world map for my project

he is not using it anymore

[faint pasture]

I'd just go on 4.27 and call it a day

[floral stump]

i have not builded 4.27

[faint pasture]

then build it

[floral stump]

yeah will build it for sure tomorrow

but now i need to know why unity is able to import it and unreal not?

[faint pasture]

who knows

[dire frost]

unreal's importer suck ig 🤷‍♂️

[floral stump]

i am just shocked, i was thinking unreal is light years ahead form every angle compared to unity

i was wrong

[floral stump]

the engine starts at importer, if this suck, i will not even ask about other things

[faint pasture]

I guess you gotta use Unity now

[dire frost]

that's...what?

i guess each person looks at an engine differently idk

[floral stump]

i think unreal is opening and rendering the whole fbx before importing, that why it directly jumps to start using 30gb of memory

[undone bluff]

4.27 has no features relevant to games and was/is updated alongside 4.26 afaik?

[floral stump]

and the import is working the same as was working in ue4.0, they have not updated it if i'm not wrong

[faint pasture]

I mean if it's all the same just use 4.27 and stop tilting at windmills trying to downgrade a gig of vertices

[floral stump]

ofcourse i will not, i was just mentioning that as a option if i don't want to build 4.27

but building 4.27 is more flexible option

[undone bluff]

but yea .uasset files are not backwards compatible, they are serialized so they don't potentially crash the editor if it tries to load them

[floral stump]

yeah they will just give error of old version

and reversing them could lead us to go in deep research on them

[timid yarrow]

How do I get the latest mesh before destroying the actor then when I respawn how can i apply the mesh on to that actor?

So basically, i select a mesh with triggers and i die. when i respawn i want to respawn with that mesh

how can i do that?

[wraith loom]

You could probably tell your spawner to set a mesh variable