blueprint

[slate fable]

Triggers!

[dawn gazelle]

Lerp transitions between the values defined in A and B based on the Alpha. As you're not changing the alpha (which is supposed to be a value between 0-1) and always have it at 0.1, you'll always have a value close to the A value.

[ornate trail]

this is on tick behind a boolean, the alpha in this case just controls the speed of the transition with .1 being fairly smooth. It works correctly when I use it for camera movement, the issue seems to be with the rotators

something like this for example works as intended

[gentle urchin]

Nice!

[dawn gazelle]

You're not understanding what Lerp does.
A: 0
B: 100
Alpha: 0.1
Output: 10

A: 0
B: 100
Alpha: 0.5
Output: 50

A: 50
B: 100
Alpha: 0.1
Ouptut: 55

A: 50
B: 100
Alpha: 0.5
Output: 75

You adjust the "Alpha" to transition from one value to the other.

[ornate trail]

anyway this fixed it, with a lerp rotator and shortest path. Not which ever way the player has the pitch to start with it will always even out for the ability

[ornate trail]

yes, I understand this but in my use case I'm traveling .1 of the remaining total each tick

[dawn gazelle]

Which is the wrong use case for using a lerp as you may not have smooth consistent motion.
You're better off using interpto as then you feed it the current value, and target value, a transition speed, and the amount of time since the last frame.

[ornate trail]

yeah sure, I might change it later. The transitions are looking buttery smooth right now not going to mess with it. Seen plenty of people online do it this way. You are technically correct tho

actually pretty sure I got this way of doing it from code like me

[slate fable]

Anyone got any ideas on the best way to connect these via nodes?

[turbid pecan]

Anyone know if it is possible to make it so that blocking volume blocks visibility trace but not mouse over/click?

[frosty heron]

What is "these"?

[ornate trail]

you can set the hit result under cursor to any channel you want, i.e custom object channel. I just did this in cpp but imagine you can set the channels in bp as well

[noble ledge]

Can anyone explain how this node works? What is the Notify Name?

[turbid pecan]

Idk if i clarified properly. I have a setup that's a little weird I suppose. I have an area surrounded in blocking volumes which are supposed to prevent me from going by blocking a visibility trace. However behind those I have interactables that work on hover and click but those volumes block my ability to hover or click. Which is what I am hoping to figure out

The collision stuff with blocking is necessary because you can only move X units in any direction, so that you end up getting close to the boxes but if you try to go over - the trace blocks that

[frosty heron]

Should be w.e anim notify is being triggered

[noble ledge]

So does it begin to play the montage and then once it hits the circled notify, it will call whatever is on the On Notify Begin pin and pass the name Equip of the notify?

[frosty heron]

W.e the name of the notify that is set for that anim notify.

Iirc it's something that can be overriden. If you haven't override or set it, you might get empty name

Open the anim notify and override the func for notify name

Then name it w.e make sense

[noble ledge]

How do I open the anim notify?

[frosty heron]

By opening the anim notify class you created

Somewhere in your content browser

[ornate trail]

on click you could utilize one of these with another channel that isn't blocked

[noble ledge]

I see no anim notify in the content browser

[frosty heron]

Well where do the equip one is from?

Are u using plugin or something. If you do check their folders

[noble ledge]

no

I don't even see anim notify as something I can create if I right click in content browser

[frosty heron]

You can

Keep trying 🐈

You can create both anim notify and anim notify state. That's what you used in montages

[turbid pecan]

Sorted it by adding a new trace channel in the project settings and using that for my movement block trace on controller.

You gave me this idea by pointing that node out

[mild ibex]

is there a way to programmatically create a macro that takes an incoming class, gets all the actors of said class and loops over them as if they were wildcards? The reason for this is that I want to be able to get different properites of different objects without having to code in cast nodes for every single item that could possibly be requested. If there isnt a way that's perfectly fine im just curious more or less

[ornate trail]

the incoming class could be absolutely anything or would it have some constraints or would it be like a base class? You could use something like gameplay tags to differentiate but the more you can narrow down the requirements seems the easier it would be

[mild ibex]

the incoming class would have to be an Actor Class

Im really just trying to avoid the cast node, but somehow return an object that I can use as a target for anything if that makes sense. theoretically the reference would be resolved and then passed into other things

[thin panther]

Why do you want to avoid casting

the cast node is a good node

[mild ibex]

well casting is fine, thats not an issue, but specifically casting to things is what id like to avoid

making it flexible

[thin panther]

interface then

that's your solution for class agnostic behaviour

[mild ibex]

can you add interfaces to any actor?

[thin panther]

yes

[mild ibex]

thought that only works for blueprints

[thin panther]

you implement it whereever you want

[thin panther]

what do you mean "blueprints"
everything you make here is a blueprint

even actors

unless you're in #cpp land

[mild ibex]

Thats not true, if you use an actor from the Place Actors panel you cant just add an interface

[simple spade]

I have a question. So I want the character movement to be a permanent mode. I don't ever want it to change. Like let's say swimming. Is there a way to do this?

I'm having an issue where I set the movement mode, but another component is changing it.

[thin panther]

Well you can. If the actor on that place actors panel implemented an interface

you can add any class from the place actors panel

[mild ibex]

true, but for something like a niagara actor for example

[thin panther]

you also aren't making those actors in the default categories either, so casting to do custom functionality wouldn't work either.

If you're looking for bona fide dynamic typing, a la Python, or Javascript, it doesn't exist

[flat coral]

What's the most graceful way to programmatically enable and disable collision on a pawn in BP?

[thin panther]

set collision enabled

[flat coral]

Oh that's a function! Nice!

[lofty rapids]

Why would you need to do this ? i found this in a doc for version 4

[dry sleet]

pretty sure that is redundant

[versed sun]

and doing the same thing

[flat coral]

Actually maybe worse than redundant, how does Cast handle it if you pass in None?

[dry sleet]

I've always assumed that's an error.

[thin panther]

you pass none into a cast and it will "Cast Failed"

Most of the time

[dry sleet]

Ah well!

most of the time?

[thin panther]

Yeah, I've definitely seen invalid references get through it before magically

no clue how

Saw one in an AnimBP the other day

[ornate trail]

is valid makes sure it's not about to go boom too

[dry sleet]

nasty :(

yes I suppose the Pending Delete test of IsValid might be worth that extra node

[flat coral]

How do I change the signature of the event referenced in CreateEvent?

Or, failing that, how do I set a timer for SOMETHING that has parameters I can set

[thin panther]

you don't

quite simple

[flat coral]

But I kinda have to

[thin panther]

the timer delegate expects 0 params, and that's what it gets

[flat coral]

Or at least, the alternatives are gross hacks

[thin panther]

count time in a tick event then

[flat coral]

yeah, like that

[thin panther]

counting time in a tick event isn't a gross hack

[flat coral]

It is for this.

[thin panther]

if anything what a timer does to account for low fps is a gross hack

but I digress

you don't have an option

possibly something in UE5Coro

or a delay

[crude tartan]

If you build your timer in C++ you can add parameters.

[flat coral]

I'd also call that a gross hack tbh

[slate fable]

how do you make collision boxes that interact with the floor? or a table in this case? I've got #1-20 set up with boxes. Looking to roll the dice and leave a 2 second delay before calculating the final result so that the physics has time for it to not be moving before giving a result. Maybe I've been staring at it too long because im at a loss as of the moment.

[crude tartan]

How come? Timers in C++ are built to take parameters. Or are you saying using a timer for this particular purpose is a gross hack?

[slate fable]

need to be able to add variables to it to add +1 +2 or -1 -2 to rolls aswell

[versed sun]

This is how i do it

[twin perch]

Yo i need the unreal equivlent of an empty in unity.

[flat coral]

Taking a BP project and rolling one timer in C++ just because I wish they had params is the gross hack.

[thin panther]

just make an actor then

[twin perch]

i need the vector 3 location, i want it on my character model ?

[crude tartan]

Ah yes, if everything else is in BP then it might be inconvenient just to have the one thing in C++.

[thin panther]

if you add a vector variable, you can tick a boxto give it a 3d widget

alternatively, a scene component

if you mean on the mesh itself, you want a socket

[crude tartan]

Actor Class has Transform on it by default. Just create a Blueprint that derrives from the Actor Class.

[twin perch]

so in unity when you wanted something done at a custom location you created an empty game object.

if i just use the mesh location i am not able to control easily (or i dont think) where the "bullet" will stat its path to the target .

an empty game object wouldnt have any extra stuff attached to it so you could just add a script and bam you can spawn stuff from that location.

that scene component seems like what i need though thanks.

appreciate the help btw

[formal dome]

@twin perch you also can use something called Socket, its like a bone but you can create it inside the engine, just go to the skeleton and you can add it from there

you can attach actors to it, and you can also use GetSocketLocation to get that socket location

[twin perch]

cheers, ill look into that thanks! i got stuff working for now how i want it which is cool, i used the scene component.

[formal dome]

Its always better to do it the unreal way, it makes stuff a lot easier and faster

[turbid pecan]

Another question - I have a Master game instance which has some global variables. Am I understanding this correctly when I think that this instance is loaded when the game starts, so casting to it as many times as I want from anywhere in the game any time won't be impactful in terms of memory? It will only be loaded once and then referenced in memory?

Or does it make some weird multiple mem copies on each cast which are unique

[lunar sleet]

Objects you cast to stay loaded at least until the next garbage collection

[turbid pecan]

Okay, so in this case GI is persistent for the entire life of the game until the exe is closed as far as I understand.. So it should be fine to cast to it from multiple sources then

[lunar sleet]

So if it’s frequent enough you prly won’t have to load it too often. And the GI might actually stay loaded the whole time, not sure

[turbid pecan]

Cool beans. Thanks for this

[twin shale]

Does anyone know why this Editor Function won't force the assets to need saving? The function runs fine, everything in the same channel updates as expected, but none of the actors are marked as unsaved even though their properties have changed. I have to go to each and every light and manually move it up and down or otherwise change the actor to force a save.

It's also not limited to just this function, I have the same behavior on loads of editor functions like this

[twin shale]

Figured it out. You need to call TransactObject on the actor before making changes.

[tawny patrol]

Hello! I'm trying to make a UI functionality that would allow me to move widgets (cards) with drag and drop within the container and change their order.
For example: move the yellow card to the top (image), and make the green ones "fall down" so they are still next to each other.
Do you have any idea how to even start with it? 😄

[wraith loom]

I don't know anything about widgets, but I'm pretty sure arrays automatically shift everything down when something is removed. So it might work if you remove the yellow card from an array of all the cards and append the card to the end of the array.

Anyways, I have a question. I have a for loop, and I want each iteration to perform on a different frame. So basically I want to split up a for loop into multiple frames. How would I do that?

[undone bluff]

you'd not use a for loop

you can wait a frame with a 0 second delay node

but that's really bad practice

with blueprints you're really limited on that front, what you probably need is to perform tasks async and pooling

[undone bluff]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/creating-drag-and-drop-ui-in-unreal-engine/

this should be a good reference

you can still do this while keeping the widget in its container and just focusing on rearranging the elements in it

[acoustic creek]

Hello, I have a quick question, I'm trying to make some checkpoints for a small racing game I'm creating, but whenever I spawn back at a checkpoint the car is just rotated to the checkpoint's default rotation from when I first place it in the world. I was wondering how to get the rotation of the checkpoint after I have rotated it. I tried "get actor rotation" and "get world rotation" and they didn't work.

[lunar sleet]

Show code

[tight bronze]

Hi, Anyone know how to Collide an Object with Camera Viewport Edge ?
I was playing TMNT and saw that enemy actually Collide with Camera Edge... I just wonder how to do it?
Please help me with the process and figuring out the answer

[lunar sleet]

Eh, it’s not as easy as it may seem, it involves some math. There’s some tutorials out there for side scrolling you can use to apply the logic

[acoustic creek]

The BP_Skoda is the car

[undone bluff]

here's a tip: your camera FOV is the horizontal angle of the view frustum

[versed sun]

If the camera is moving it can move some blocking volumes on the side of screen as well

[lunar sleet]

Debug to make sure the spawn rotation is passing the values you want, and also double check that the car mesh itself is not already rotated in BP_Skoda

[tight bronze]

oh, but i'm using Othor camera view... there is no FOV in it

[undone bluff]

ah, that should be even easier then

[tight bronze]

this will be no issues, because it is a feature in the gameplay

[undone bluff]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-place-actor-at-edge-of-screen-using-bp/342982/3

look at the bottom-most post

[tight bronze]

i Just dont know which nodes to use, to detect the viewport edge for object to collide

[undone bluff]

someone did your work for you

I know it's cpp and this is the blueprint channel but all you need to do is copy and paste

or copy it to blueprints, it's fairly simple

[acoustic creek]

Hi, thanks for suggesting that I debug, I completely forgot I could do that. It turns out I literally just didn't have the "Set spawn rotation" connected to the rest of the blueprints. Thank you for the help :)

[tight bronze]

Thanks a lot 👍 appreciate ur help

[devout tendon]

I am prototyping my flippers for a pinball game and I have it set up as:

How do I smooth out the roatation? Thank you in advance.

[undone bluff]

interpolate!

you'll need to that every frame for the duration of the rotation to make it smooth though

[devout tendon]

So timeline?

[undone bluff]

luckily input events trigger every frame

the ones from the enhanced input system, that is

so that's a nice and clean way to go about it

[devout tendon]

I haven't had any luck working an interpolate node in. How do I incorporate it?

[undone bluff]

ah but then you'll probably have to still rely on the timeline to put the flipper back into its original position

blueprints are quite limiting when it comes to doing something every frame

[undone bluff]

they're super self explanatory and the tooltips are concise

use one of the rinterp nodes if you use tick and deltatime

[carmine palm]

wtf is this for vectors

[undone bluff]

for timeline use lerp of type rotator maybe

though I'd probably just use a regular lerp float for the axis you need

[undone bluff]

just a regular subtraction

[carmine palm]

really? wtf lol

[undone bluff]

the return value has been changed to float

you can do that by right clicking

[carmine palm]

Looks weird to be sub

[undone bluff]

I mean you can just hover over it

[carmine palm]

I trust you obvs

😛

ah this is online screenie

Trying to check if player is rotating. Trying to figure out how to add turning animation

[undone bluff]

different engine version and uh I have some design changes going on but this is quite certainly it

[carmine palm]

ty

[undone bluff]

actually

I was trying to figure out what unreal does in this case

it refuses to compile

should've expected that

but nothing else is light green?

lo @carmine palm nevermind I know what it is

dot product

[carmine palm]

thats what I thought

[undone bluff]

I'm just baffled by the design choice lol

I can't even remember it looking like that

it was my first instinct too

but I was like "there's no way the dot product node would just be a line"

it's literally a process of multiplication and addition

[slate fable]

I changed all the cubes to square colliders thinking that would fix it, but I think I'm gonna need some expertise here Started from the bottom now we here xD

[undone bluff]

dude please tell me you're not trying to determine the value of the dices using collision boxes attached to each face

[slate fable]

they already have numbers on them lol I attached collision boxes to the static mesh of the dice on each face and am trying to assign the number opposing it. I've got a bool to decide whether or not its rolling followed by a delay for 1 second before trying to print it on the screen but i'm not having any luck with getting the boxes to detect the surface it falls onto

^ followed by plans to set up a clickable button to roll the dice. transform it to a new location to drop down a dice tower

[undone bluff]

so you are

that is a really bad approach

you can do something similarly janky but still miles better by having a scene component on each face and just checking if one of them is facing up

you can can iterate through an array, get the scene components forward vector and compare it to 0 0 1 with an error margin of your choosing

[slate fable]

fair enough. Still learning lol. Whats this with a scene component? what would the array look like? how do we get a forward vector of a specific object? I'm sorry im like brand new to trying to get these kinda things to work

[undone bluff]

a scene component is just a bare minimum component that practically has nothing except a transform

which is all we need it for

the array would just contain them all

also there's definitely some elegant mathematical solution to this

I can only think of one for a six sided die though

might be super complicated but now I'm curious

[slate fable]

the thing about doing it this way was the fact i can see visibly that it rolls fine. What is bad about using collision boxes?

[frail onyx]

Anyone know why this isnt checking which item if an Instance of the physics cube is already slotted and if so it cant slot another one?

[undone bluff]

all of these are running overlap checks every frame (and sphere collisions are cheaper)

additionally I just feel it's more prone to bugs

[slate fable]

yea, set to an event tick i guess it would have to check every frame. i'll replace with spheres.. the thing is the fact that it isnt even spitting out a number behind the scenes

[undone bluff]

it's checking every frame either way, on physics tick, not on event tick

[slate fable]

oh

im so determined to figure something out i've been scouring tutorials all day

[undone bluff]

presumably you are just missing some simple parameter

like making sure the table generates overlap events

actually hit events

[slate fable]

i thought that would be it but i've been playing with that for the last 2 hours ish

[undone bluff]

since that's what you are using

[slate fable]

it wont let me connect the variable

[undone bluff]

which variable

[slate fable]

box collision to the event hit

^ the numbers represent; left - number on the face. right - the number on the opposite side. they are Box collision cubes

[undone bluff]

ah no this is an event called by the actor

you want the hit or overlap event from the components

you can easily get them by right clicking on the component > add event

[slate fable]

this?

[undone bluff]

yes

an event is something you subscribe to to receive an exec and payload when its called

there's no input or two way communication

[slate fable]

so how does it know which face to call on when it comes to it touching stuff? since theres 20 faces

(stuff being the surface of the table)

[undone bluff]

I hate to even suggest this because this is another expensive operation and we need to perform it on all of the colliders

first of all, as long as you have any component per face you need to have them in an array, working with all of them as seperate references is a pain

best if you sort them in so the index matches the face value -1

[devout tendon]

Tried this and it does spin it and spin it back, although it doesn't always land where it started. Hmmm...

[slate fable]

🤔

[undone bluff]

the only way you can do this with collisions

[devout tendon]

Lerp (Rotator) maybe?

[undone bluff]

is if you either have an event for every single collision (really bad)

or if you run a for loop on an array of them and get overlapping actors to check for the table

(still really bad but at least not spaghetti)

this entire approach is cursed though

[slate fable]

theres gotta be a better method 😨 to this madness!

[undone bluff]

don't use two timelines, just reverse

also probably not from start

[devout tendon]

How does one reverse?

The reverse playhead?

[undone bluff]

it's got an exec input pin for that yes

pressed > play
release > reverse

[devout tendon]

OK, but the update and finished outputs can't go to both set world actors. That's why I was using 2 timelines.

[undone bluff]

I don't get why you'd want them to

or what you need the finished output for

as is you are playing both timelines at once trying to rotate the same actor if you release too fast

[topaz fable]

Hi guys
it sounds simple, I can't figure this out.
I have a texture object variable to set my texture, then a second variable for the normal. Since they share the same name + '_n' at the end I thought I could just append it but I can't convert a string into a texture object of course. Any ideas? 🙏🏼

[gentle urchin]

Expensive in what regard? This should be dirt cheap

Well

20 comps transform updates but

Beside that its meh

[undone bluff]

the transform updates are irrelevant

[devout tendon]

So the flipper will go back to its orginal postion.

[undone bluff]

they are just attached and inherit their transform

[gentle urchin]

So wheres the expense in your estimation?

[undone bluff]

running a for loop to get overlapping actors from 20 box collisions

[gentle urchin]

It wont even show on the profiler

Its likely one of the only things happening in this game of dice

[undone bluff]

if it's the sole and only thing in your game yes you can probably get away with this, but it will be a decently measurable framedrop

[slate fable]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/d20-dice-w20-wurfel-3d-model-free-3b44541db43e4e979efec290ec706cbc <- This is the Dice Asset if you guys wanna try it yourself xD I've been korfuffled for the last 7-9 hrs

[gentle urchin]

I wont believe it untill some profiling shows me it

Theres no way (uneless you're alreadh running on a toaster) that this hurts fps in any noticeable way imo

[round grotto]

Hey guys i made a blueprint interface with a function called GetHeroPawn, implemented in the player pawn and it just returns a reference to self. Then i made a function library with a function called GetHeroPawn (again) that calls the interface function on the player pawn. Seems i can get the player pawn class from anywhere now without casting, is this reliable? is this cursed? is this overengineering?

[undone bluff]

no it probably won't in a dice game, it's just extremely inefficient and expensive code

[gentle urchin]

We wont agree on this

[frosty heron]

Why? I would just cast to the player

[round grotto]

Yea but i mean, if this works, why would you cast?

[frosty heron]

Because u use interface to interact between different types

[round grotto]

look how cute it looks

[frosty heron]

If u just getting the player pawn then cast away

[undone bluff]

there's no way you can justify running one of the most expensive blueprint nodes 20 times and having 20 movable collisions just to check the face value of a single dice

I mean getting it working is the most important thing

but we can acknowledge this sucks

[frosty heron]

@round grotto interface is not replacement for cast
Avoid tutorial that say otherwise

[round grotto]

I just wanna know if it can break and lead to bugs

[gentle urchin]

I got faith in no impact at all, to put it that way

But yes, there would be faster methods

[formal dome]

interface does casting in background

[round grotto]

What casting does it do?

[undone bluff]

you could so much with that millisecond 😔

[formal dome]

Why would you create a function library?

[gentle urchin]

Precaching rotations in a tiny tmap was also suggested

But its harder

[undone bluff]

I'm just joking around now, I would love to profile

[frosty heron]

Ye but it's not about the cast but more like the hard ref it create for bp.

Many tutorial says avoid cast and use interface instead and it claimed many victims

[slate fable]

think it would be better to try to run a cast to the table from the center of the dice? is there a way to mark each face so it'll calculate which face is on top and labeling it the number it needs to be?

[undone bluff]

but man it's 5am

[gentle urchin]

Indeed

Kids woke me up

For mth time

[round grotto]

You're right thats not needed

[formal dome]

Yes, Dev should use interface in certain cases, not to avoid casting

Cases like You have a pickable item, and that can be Health, Ammo.
Instead of checking the pickable item type and calling the Pickup() method interface should be used

[undone bluff]

you'd still need the math to find the rotations, well unless you do it manually which is quite feasible

[formal dome]

Don't create interfaces just to run away from casting, this is wrong

[formal dome]

read this

[round grotto]

Could you expand on this?

[formal dome]

Lets say you created a pickup system

And you have pickable objects

For example Ammo And Health that can be found on ground and player picks them up

[undone bluff]

interfaces are there to make things class agnostic

[round grotto]

I know how interfaces work on the surfaces, why are they worse than casting tho?

[undone bluff]

casting to a simple base class is pretty safe

small memory footprint

things that are loaded in anyways

[formal dome]

Probably you would check if that actor is ammo or health by casting it, if cast failed that means its not ammo, or health, or maybe checking the Actor tag to see if its ammo or health and then cast it and call the method

Instead you can use interfaces
Pickable actors will implement that interface and the interface will have Pickup() method
Just check the tag on that Pickable Actor, is the tag "Pickable"? if its then call the interface method Pickup()

[round grotto]

But are you saying i shouldn't use interfaces to transmit references around?

[formal dome]

Because this is not the usage of interfaces

Show me how are you calling that interface

[frosty heron]

It's not about worse or not. Different tool different purpose

[undone bluff]

well, there's times that it makes sense to do it

[formal dome]

You created an interface just to return the self actor, and created a function library that calls the interface

Like why..

[formal dome]

dude

[round grotto]

ye the function library is unnecessary

[frosty heron]

The interface is unnecessary

[formal dome]

what are you doing?

[frosty heron]

You can do a function library that's fine

[formal dome]

Get player pawn already returns the pawn, why are you calling get hero pawn interface that returns the pawn on the pawn itself, when you already have reference to the pawn you want

[round grotto]

Keep in mind this is my objective, i want a single pure node that returns my specific player pawn

[slate hound]

to cast to the type? lol

[round grotto]

You don't understand, get player pawn returns Pawn, it doesnt return my pawn class

[frosty heron]

Cast away

[formal dome]

They are already on the hero pawn, they can call the methods they want directly

[frosty heron]

Ur player is always loaded anyway

[frosty heron]

He is doing it in function library I think and want method he can call anywhere

[formal dome]

Interfaces can be called everywhere ..

no need for function library

[round grotto]

Ok so better to make a function library that does the casting? Again, i want the single pure node for ease of use here

[frosty heron]

The end goal is to have a pure node

Like get player character

But his own instead generic one

[round grotto]

exactly

[slate hound]

the interface is unnecessary really, might as well just cast to the class since it's already getting loaded by the return

[round grotto]

why is it getting loaded by the return?

[slate hound]

by making it an output you're loading the class into memory if it wasn't already

[formal dome]

they mean its returned by GetPlayerPawn you can cast it

[gentle urchin]

Makes little sense with interface in this scenario

[round grotto]

Oh so it gets loaded even if its null?

[gentle urchin]

If you want it avaliable anywhere, stuff it in a bpfl

Yes

[frosty heron]

Bp limitation

[round grotto]

Had no idea, makes sense then

[frosty heron]

Casting to a cpp class of your character would of been next to free. Won't get it loaded to the memory

[gentle urchin]

Im sure theres more stuff to stuff in the bpfl anyways

[frosty heron]

But in your case your character is always loaded anyway so doesn't matter.

[slate hound]

ya it's a good thing to know, also having dependencies everywhere is bad, but in a library it's fine I guess

[gentle urchin]

For sure

Youd want your code to be untangled

[round grotto]

I mean i plan to use this for pawn, player controller, game mode etc. Arent those dependencies worth having around?

[undone bluff]

you just don't want to have stuff loaded into memory when you don't need to

classes that will always be around are cool

[frosty heron]

Cast to base class when possible

[slate hound]

and make base class CPP

oops wrong channel

[undone bluff]

stuff with a small footprint like actor components, interfaces, simple base classes without expensive texture and mesh dependencies

[frosty heron]

I wish I was encouraged earlier

8 years of bp only proj

[undone bluff]

same, same

[slate hound]

I have some TERRIBLE old projects laying around

[frosty heron]

Better late than never

[gentle urchin]

I think most of us do

Terrible old projects 😅

[slate hound]

there was a time I didn't understand child classes xD

[gentle urchin]

Ouf 😂

Thats an important aspect

master classes, overrides, hieriarchy

[round grotto]

I'm actually happy i'm working on a bp project so i get to chill

[frosty heron]

I'm chilling with some cpp scripts. They saved my project

Automating renaming thousands of material allowed me to move on

Also now I have a decent loading screen

My bp only project took 1.5 mins to load.

A spaghetti monster and hard ref everywhere

[undone bluff]

I still have like 50 BP enums and structs

[frosty heron]

New proj load in instant

[frosty heron]

Ooof

[undone bluff]

life at the limit

[frosty heron]

I'm Done with bp structs they made me redo hours of works

No prob with enum soo far but they said it's cursed

[undone bluff]

somehow, still nothing happened so far, and I'd just trust version control to get shit back in order

but I'm working on converting them

[frosty heron]

They are silent killer tho. Everything seems fine till I want to package

[undone bluff]

ah that's the worst

[frosty heron]

Gave up on converting them

There are like hundreds of bp I have to edit

[undone bluff]

when I had my last gamejam I packaged every hour out of paranoia

[frosty heron]

I just live with it and use 0 bp struct in new proj

[undone bluff]

same but I enjoy refactoring work to be honest

always looking to clean up and improve something

[frosty heron]

I like to hide my spaghetti under the rug 🤣

So the bp look somewhat clean

[undone bluff]

it's a longterm passion project so I have always the fact I'll still be working with this in 5 years on my mind

[frosty heron]

Share progress when you like

[undone bluff]

it's getting there 😌

hopefully in the coming months I have a bit of a vertical slice

[gentle urchin]

5 years

Dedication

Or maybe the lack off? 😂

[undone bluff]

doing it all myself even including sfx and music, literally just working on this game all day every day haha

[gentle urchin]

Tremendous amount of work

[undone bluff]

I enjoy it so much, it never gets old

doing everything gives you the variety needed to not burnout

[gentle urchin]

Yeah that makes sense

[faint pasture]

It's so easy to just have 1 file in your project with a bunch of structs and enums in it that you might as well just do that.

[faint pasture]

Mine's 8 years old, off and on

[crude tartan]

I’m interested… how do you work on it all day every day and still make a living / pay your bills?

[lunar sleet]

Sugar daddy

[undone bluff]

well, I'll only be able to keep going like this for another 1,5 years, I need to get some funding before that or I'll be forced to dedicate a serious portion of my time to freelancing

[undone bluff]

man I wish

[crude tartan]

Great you are able to follow your passion though.

[undone bluff]

yea, nothing makes me happier

I'm off to bed, see ya

[long hawk]

Any touch in my app keeps bringing up the console. Any idea why this is happening?

[frosty heron]

Yup. It takes no effort actually. I should have done that

[frozen cairn]

When my character capsule collides enemy capsule it bounces or shakes a little. how to fix that? I've tried to change collision preset but it didn't helped.

[frozen cairn]

Founded solution: I needed a custom collision preset and set Pawn to Overlap

[frigid summit]

hi i want little help with this i want a thing like 4 enimes of the same blueprint placed in a level waiting and two attacking if the first two died the others can attack can someone plz help me

[gentle urchin]

Youd want some manager triggering this

Event /npc / enemy manager

[sick sky]

since when visual scripting in UE existes ? Since creation ?

[winged totem]

Hi guys, how can i do this im UE4? i'm trying with physical animation nodes, but once i move the enemy head , then doesn't back to animation position.

[lofty rapids]

read online "Blueprints were first introduced in Unreal Engine 4"

[sick sky]

ty

[atomic saddle]

how can i use the set control rotation node without rotating the camera just the mesh ??

[lofty rapids]

based on some stuff i found on the web it looks like the base for it has been working for awhile

[sick sky]

mh

the oldest video that i found of UE thats uses BP seems to be 2015

prob not the oldest

[hollow bane]

hey people

any idea why linetrace would break my viewport?

[dim agate]

How is your camera attached to the mesh and what settings do you have for it?

[frigid summit]

yea how

[thin panther]

Quite simply, it doesn't.
Youve got something else going on there.

[short ivy]

I have a object class reference that I want to turn into a skeletal mesh object reference. How could I do that?

[trail echo]

Hoping someone can help me with something. I'm trying to rotate a billboard sprite according to a 3d vector projected onto a 2d plane (camera forward as normal). It seems to work OK if you look directly at the position of the vector until the camera points away from where the vector is, at which point the rotation of the vector isn't consistent. When the camera moves past the vector and looks away from it, the issue becomes more apparent as it starts rotating in the wrong direction with the same inconsistency.

I'm probably not being particularly clear, but here's the blueprint and some clips of the issue.

[faint pasture]

@trail echo what result do you want?

I'd say delete all that trig and do it with vector and rotation nodes without breaking them apart

If the goal is that the dude always faces camera and just spins in a circle I'd do it by combining the camera-dude rotation with a rotation that rolls over time, assuming that behaves. First make sure just adding roll forever behaves well.

[trail echo]

I should probably clarify, the intention is to put all the trig into a material later because there are going to be a lot of these things later on attached to bone sockets. As such I can't really use the rotation functions to figure this out, needs to be math.

Ideally, if we were to project the X vector of the green cuboid onto the screen and then figure out it's angle, that's the angle I want the android logo to be at. As it stands, it only works that way if you look directly towards it.

[faint pasture]

Tick:
Roll += RollSpeed x DeltaTime
RollRot = MakeRot(Roll, 0, 0)
LookRot= FindLookAtRotation
Zero out all but yaw if you want
DudeRot = CombineRotators(LookRot, RollRot)

What's the final end result supposed to look like?

[turbid pecan]

@dense mica idk if you care enough, but I moved the convo out of AI.. I have basically made the dialogue system using a single component bp, a single interface, and some clever thinking, and not only does it work as before, it's not as complex as I thought it will end up, and it also can have cycles!

[trail echo]

The end result should be that the debug X axis always lines up with the cuboid as it appears on the screen. The debug pertains to the rotation of the sprite if it wasn't clear. See below:

[faint pasture]

Are sprite and debug both wrong?

[trail echo]

Yes, the debug is for the sprite.

[faint pasture]

What should the end visual result be, just a sprite orbiting a 3d point?

[frigid summit]

plz help

[trail echo]

I want the orientation of the sprite to match that of the object its attached to, in this case the cuboid. I use a material parameter to rotate the billboard.

[faint pasture]

Just put them in the level to handle the first part. For the 2nd, what have you tried so far?

Can you already make the dudes attack?

[kind willow]

I'm trying to apply an impulse to an object when shot, but I can't find a way to get the hit direction from the line trace. Any tips?

please ignore the node mess

[lofty rapids]

probably the impact normal ?

honestly i'm guessing, but i would guess that has the direction you need

[kind willow]

I tried this, but it just keeps giving me 0,0,1 as print output :\

[steady night]

Hey, Need help with Scroll Box the thumbnail covers the whoel slider :/?

[short ivy]

Anyone?

[light garnet]

I spawn 30 Ai players but they get stuck with each other and don't move...

Any solution. I spawn every ai without colliding and stuck in each other

[kind willow]

Wouldn't you have to cast to the object and then extract the skeletal mesh as a component?

[kind willow]

Try setting them as dynamic obsticle, other than that I have no idea

[light garnet]

Dynamic obstacles ? How

They are character blueprint

[short ivy]

In this case I only have this class I need to work with

[pastel skiff]

i got a relly wierd problem, the input wont work at all, when i press it it shuld play a soaund but it doesnt, it works fine when i do event begin play, if try to use any other input it also does not work (the custom input i have there works in other actors too), i have this actor in my character, anyone knows what is going on here?

[kind willow]

Oh shit, we have the same pfps

[pastel skiff]

i just wanted to say that

[kind willow]

Than I don't think you can convert it to a skeletal mesh object :\

[short ivy]

If it was a object reference, how would it be?

[kind willow]

Are you sure you have input enabled on that actor?

[short ivy]

it still needs to become a skeletal mesh object reference

[pastel skiff]

what ye mean?

[light garnet]

Thanks

[kind willow]

Like this, except the flashlight would be your mesh instead

[kind willow]

like, is the actor set up to reckognize player keyboard/mouse?

if it's a pawn, the player has to posses it first, if just an actor, then you need to enable inout in it using "enable input" node

[pastel skiff]

is that what ye mean?

cus if so ye i got it

[kind willow]

Try making the player posses the pawn. If not, you can always use an interface or something to send input from player to your thing

Not sure what kind of actor you are using and for what purpose, so it's kinda hard to tell what the best solution would be

[light garnet]

Yes he is right

[pastel skiff]

im using jsut the normal actor

[kind willow]

Then enable input should have worked, hmm...

Not sure how to help you with that

[light garnet]

You should use posses node too

[kind willow]

Doesn't posses only work on pawns?

[carmine moat]

Hi everyone! I want to borrow some brain power... I also asked in Material too but here might be the better place.
My procedure follows:

1. I have a building object that consists of multiple static meshes with different Materials that does not share master material.
2. Let's say I made a function called "MF_AddRust" to just blend 2 materials in there.
3. I add the material function at the end of the material of a mesh.
4. I repeat 3 to the all the object in the scene (Imagine the scene is a lot bigger than this)

Question:
How can I avoid adding material function over and over again for each meshes?
Do I have to write python or Blueprint Editor Utility?
I appreciate any of your help!

[pastel skiff]

hey ok so the input now works but now if i press it the same inut i got in another actor doesnt work

[frigid summit]

i tried alot and still and i can make them attack but i dont have access to start attack node only the on attack started and on ended

[kind willow]

Maybe your inputs consume each other? Try setting the priority of the most important one to 999

[pastel skiff]

where do i change it?

[kind willow]

in the class settings on the left of the BP in the editor

[pastel skiff]

got it there was something called consume input and i chnged it and t works now, thnaks for the help

[wraith loom]

Why are 0 second delay nodes a bad practice?

[vague shadow]

is anyone able to help me with getting the resolution text to change to the resolution that the game is on?

[dawn gazelle]

Should just be able to hook both of these up and it should work.

[vague shadow]

will try that now, thank you

[undone bluff]

it just isn't intended behaviour and possibly unreliable, I found out there is a way to properly wait a frame in blueprints though

[vague shadow]

it works! such a simple fix 😂 thank you again!

[undone bluff]

use an array

[trail echo]

Solved this. Unlikely anyone else will benefit from the answer but just in case, the solution doesn't take into account the FOV of the camera. Getting the vector between the camera and the target works well enough. @faint pasture, appreciate the help nonetheless.

[undone bluff]

while you're at it maybe use it to populate a combo box so people can choose resolution from a drop down menu

[gentle urchin]

Shouldnt cross post + totally unrelated to bp

[golden kite]

Wouldn't you then use Event.Tick instead of a for-loop? You should be able to achieve a similar result, but the benefit would be that it's asynchronous (non-blocking) and will happen every tick (you can control the tick duration in the BP class defaults I believe). The downise (if you can call it that) is that you have to manage indices yourself (like incrementing the index and checking the limit condition), and maybe some variable scope nuances, but those are minor IMO

[gentle urchin]

Or custom forloop macro

I prefer custom as it can be re-used

You can also easily define how many elements to process per frame

[wraith loom]

Well my for loop is connected to Event Tick, so it would be easier for me to just edit my existing loop

[undone bluff]

damn what reason is there to for loop on event tick

aside from pooling

[gentle urchin]

Few

Some

But few

Tick aggregation

[undone bluff]

yea I meant that by pooling

valid use

[golden kite]

I don't understand - you have a loop connected to even tick but then you want each iteration of the loop to be on a different tick/frame? How does that work?

[wraith loom]

I'm not really looping on every tick, I'm performing a check on every tick, and if the check is true then I loop

[gentle urchin]

Switch on int 🤣

[golden kite]

I'm curious what you are referring to by "pooling" in this case?

[undone bluff]

I just accidentally misused the term it seems

[golden kite]

Ah, okay, that sounds closer to what I was thinking of then. So essentially your challenge right now is to figure out if the event tick is coinciding with a new frame? (since they're not necessarily the same thing)

[wraith loom]

No I got that solved, I'm using a Do Once node

Everythings good you guys can stop worrying about me

[golden kite]

LOL we just care.

[undone bluff]

are you sure this needs to be done every single frame though? if you are considering distributing the task over several frames that sounds like you should be using a timer

[frosty heron]

I heard 0.01 timer is soo bad that tick is prefered

[gentle urchin]

😅

[frosty heron]

There is overhead with timer that if u need something done in 0.01 u might as well use tick

[gentle urchin]

It can have unintended consequences

[undone bluff]

well yea timer will execute multiple times per tick if its rate exceeds your framerate

[gentle urchin]

^

[frosty heron]

👍

[golden kite]

Point of clarification: is 'tick" really always your framerate? I thought they were two differnt things unless you're in an AnimBP

[undone bluff]

I don't worry about 30 times per second or less timers though

[frosty heron]

Tick runs every frame and it comes with delta time. Basically the time between current frame and last frame

[golden kite]

"Actors and components are ticked once per frame, unless a minimum ticking interval is specified" - I think there's a nuance. I mean, you have to make an effort to over-ride it, but you can...

[undone bluff]

arguably a good thing in most usecases too, assures your logic will stay consistent

[frosty heron]

Ye pretty sure tick can be override

Also in behaviour tree

[frigid summit]

can someone plz helpppp 😦

[slate fable]

Back to trying to figure out the dice roll. I'm all ears if anyone has any suggestions

[lofty rapids]

maybe keep a number that says how many enemies dead

have the first two attacking when it's zero

and the second attack when it's 2

[frosty heron]

More info?

[gentle urchin]

Didnt colliders work?

[frigid summit]

its only one blueprint and i dont have access to start attack node only on attack started and on finished

[golden kite]

Really dumb quesiton and apologies for not having studied your original thread too much - is my understanding correct that you are using physics to simulate a die roll and trying to capture the RNG value from the results of the roll when the die comes to rest?

[wraith loom]

you could have a counter for how many enemies are currently attacking

[undone bluff]

I used to use a custom tick interval instead of a timer for components that do nothing else, but other devs didn't like that haha

[gentle urchin]

You could also on rest do a trace from straight uo to straight down

[golden kite]

If that's the case, my obvious question would be - have you considered the reverse? Predetermining the RNG result and then simulating the roll to achieve that result? Meh as I type this that's probably MOAR work, but just a thought

[gentle urchin]

Hit face index

[slate fable]

No 😭

[undone bluff]

valid suggestion, caching physics simulations is quite doable so you could make a big table and pick from that

[lofty rapids]

i'm saying one way would be to keep a number of how many dead, so that you can attack. wdymyou have no access to start attack ? well you need to start attack somehow

[golden kite]

I can see why - if the norm is to leave the tick interval at 0 (1 / frame) then most devs might be surprised at non-standard values unless you documented it clearly.

[frosty heron]

Maybe each side can have forward vector. Then do a dot product with the up vector. See which one is closest

[gentle urchin]

Trace would work tho

And easy to implement

[frosty heron]

Trying to work it out I am interested

Just check for blocking?

[slate fable]

No worries, I'm trying to use a physics roll on a d20 to simulate a real dice roll on a table. I'll need a single dice roll then a dice roll for 2 dice at once. I want the motion of a physical roll but then on the backend calculating the result of the number shown.

[gentle urchin]

Yep

[undone bluff]

that was also my suggestion, but I can't think of a better way than using scene components

[frosty heron]

What if there is something on the top 🐱

[frigid summit]

ok i will try this if i could plus i dont have access to start attack because its combat system out of the box so i dont have control over alot of nodes

[gentle urchin]

Ill make it in <15 min at pc

[golden kite]

I wonder how it's implemented in Roll20...

[frosty heron]

But I suppose it could work

[gentle urchin]

If that was a risk, custom trace it

[frosty heron]

Many ways 🦦

[slate fable]

I used collider boxes In hopes that with a collider for each face with a delay before it calculates after it stops rolling. But I'm genuinely lost on what the blueprints would look like hooked up

[frosty heron]

Delay is almost never a solution

[gentle urchin]

^

[undone bluff]

oh shit yea face index

[gentle urchin]

Yyy

[undone bluff]

but that seems tricky

[gentle urchin]

Win win

Nah

Easy

[frosty heron]

You can probably launch the dice, then start a timer which get deactivate when velocity is 0

[gentle urchin]

Isnt there a handle

Foe when physics put it to rest

[frosty heron]

U can then do your trace thingy or collision upon timer end

Oh I don't know never touch physich stuff

That would be neat

[gentle urchin]

And its sensitivity is adjustable

So it can be pretty fast

[undone bluff]

the issue is the multiple triangles per face and assigning each to the value

[undone bluff]

oh wait

lol

I just realized the shape of the die

[gentle urchin]

You dont hit the triangle

[frosty heron]

Just loop thru the dice and assign event

[gentle urchin]

You hit the face

[frosty heron]

Don't do unnecessary work

Imagine 20 of that bind

When u can sort it in a few node

[gentle urchin]

I mean... even doing 20 - OnOverlap

[slate fable]

I wish I understood this

[gentle urchin]

Is a tiny amount of work

To have it working

Barely worth the loop

[slate fable]

It doesn't work as intended but I could be setting it up wrong

[gentle urchin]

And additional asaignment of indexes

The last on overlap is the face down side

Then its just mapping rhe correct index/value to each overlap

[slate fable]

Indexes like a data table?

Enumerators?

[gentle urchin]

No need for a data table

You just gotta figure out whicj face is down, and which face is opposit

Id just do the trace but this would also work

[frosty heron]

U wouldn't need enum for this

[frigid summit]

thats hard thats realy hard

[slate fable]

It would have to trace just the Z axis right? How do you calibrate it to be at the center of the dice doing a trace straight down and straight up?

[frosty heron]

Grind the hours. Study the basic

[gentle urchin]

Juat z

Just z

[lofty rapids]

why?

[gentle urchin]

Start = Get actor location + 0,0,100
End = start - 0,0,100

[frigid summit]

because i dont have access to start attack

[slate fable]

Start and end on hit event?

[lofty rapids]

i don't know what to say about stuff that you can't access, you somehow need to know they are dead

i wouldn't be surprised if theres a die event, or death of some sort

[frosty heron]

Shouldn't it be as simple as getting the highest z to pick the active dice?

[lofty rapids]

and without access to start attack, i mean all you need to do is run it

[frigid summit]

ok i will keep on destoyed and increass the counter

[slate fable]

Wouldn't that be just a bool? Dead?* T or F?

[frigid summit]

whats after the counter

[lofty rapids]

you need a way to call attack on the enemy so that you can actually attack

[gentle urchin]

Start and end of trace 🙂

Sorry maybe i mixed now

[lofty rapids]

you could use a bool on the enemys and loop through to get dead count, but a count of the dead would work also

[lofty rapids]

check the count, if it's == 2, then start attack of the other enemies

and maybe some sort of boolean so you don't keep doing it

[frigid summit]

thats the hard part i have trigger action node but it work only on charcters not on animes

[gentle urchin]

Manager subscribes to enemies OnDestroyed during some 'begin event'

[pastel garnet]

Hello, I am trying to make a skill tree system and would like to create a connection lines from parent to child. I would like to draw a line from the the middle edge of the node to the child. how would i go about achieveing this. please suggest alternative ways of making this is there is. thank you 😊

[gentle urchin]

You could predraw them on the bg texture

Not as dynamic but would work just fine

You could dynamically draw them on the bg texture/material

This would allow for some cool effects aswell

[pastel garnet]

The background of each slot widgets? could you explain further if you dont mind.

[gentle urchin]

I ment a background for the entire container of talents / skills

[frigid summit]

ok i find a way on action finished i can set it to idle now how do i restrict two from attacking again after idle

[arctic cloud]

Hey y'all! Currently, I'm trying to make a camera actor turn around using RInterp To and an Input Action so whenever I press the key, the camera actor should turn around, and when I release it, to go back to the original position.

Turning around works, but whenever I release the key, so it goes back to the original position, all it does it jitters half way (values printed on the side) and it stays that way.

Here's the code I'm using: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/4u0xvy3x/

[lofty rapids]

i really don't know, your using something i've never used before and it's not a built in thing.

[arctic cloud]

I think you can use a boolean and a branch. Set the boolean to whatever you want, and use a branch to check if they can or can't attack. I don't know if it works in your case though.

[gentle urchin]

You got a bg for the entire talent tree right ?

[pastel garnet]

The way I'm handling it is through this, each creature you encounter has a specific skill you can unlock by killing a specific amount to them. when you click on the creature you can see all the skill that has to do with that creature. so in a way yes.

[gentle urchin]

Oh right

This sounds like something youd wanna have dynamic

To avoid creating one texture for every enemy, and a new one for every added creature in the feature

Unless you know you can get away with 2-3 templates, ofc.

The HUD draw feels rather limited so id rather investigate how to get it done through a ui material

If you still wanna use the draw method, the position and offsets depends on the allignment of the canvas slot

Easiest is prob to just allign them center (0.5- 0.5)

[frigid summit]

here is what im working with

[gentle urchin]

So all offsets is just half size

Assuming uniform grid...

[undone bluff]

there's a function specifically for drawing lines in UMG

[gentle urchin]

Recently exposed ?

[pastel garnet]

Ill try to investigate, but i dont really care if its drawn by the on paint or if i create a tree connection widget and dynamically attach them to the end of each widget. as long as it works then i can optimise

[pastel garnet]

thats the on paint right?

[gentle urchin]

the draw works just fine ofc

[pastel garnet]

that looks sick and like what im trying to make but i just have no ideal how that is done.

https://tenor.com/view/omg-wow-oh-wow-gif-10644935457501613476

[gentle urchin]

this is just center to center tho

nodes overlap drawn lines

[pastel garnet]

are these preplaced or dynamic?

[gentle urchin]

placed by code

so dynamic

[pastel garnet]

damn, that is great. are you using a canvas and then dynamically adding in each node groups?

[gentle urchin]

yeah

used an offset for the nodes

Tried to do something similar to the shield hero anime

[pastel garnet]

ahhh, i see

so here all the generated nodes are in a grid, but you then generate the lines after the grid to each of the node position

[gentle urchin]

Sorta yes

[pastel garnet]

but this one looks less of like a grid

[gentle urchin]

First iteration was grid

^That one was free placed

By coordinates

So node 1: x150 y0
Node 2: x250 y50

[pastel garnet]

Incrementing each subsequent nodes by 100 on the X and 50 on the Y?

[gentle urchin]

Grid was mostly to get the offsets right 🙂 see my textboxes up in the corner

[gentle urchin]

Whatever value you want

I typed the coords manually

Node 3 could suddenly be x-375 y-20

The only limiting factor is the nodes size/overlap

[pastel garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-gosling-critics-choice-awards-side-eye-confused-clapping-gif-14741917063569043913

overlapping with each other or overlapping the lines?

[gentle urchin]

Either is an issue in my mind

I want to avoid both cases

[pastel garnet]

to me that is tricky, maybe because i haven't even gotten there yet

https://tenor.com/view/sad-smile-person-gif-3593640814102488583

[gentle urchin]

Its just a matter of lining them up

Nothing in code checks for it

So usin pre construct helps with that

The visual verification

you cant draw on pre construct but

[royal python]

Does anybody know how to itterate through an array with a delay. I want to toggle the light intensity on a few lights, that should get activated one after another...

like this... but this is keyframed

[gentle urchin]

Custom foreachloopwait

Copy a default foreachloop
Then remove the sequence, and get the alternative execution from a secondary input

[royal python]

thx i`ll take a look 🙂

[royal python]

remove this?

[gentle urchin]

Yes

Create a new input

Execution input

Name it "Next" or something

And connect it to the "Increment loop counter"

[pastel garnet]

this is what I have been able to d, although its straight right now. Generated in a vertical box. 🥲

[gentle urchin]

Use a canvas instead 😄

So its not straight

Or atleast not forced straight

[royal python]

where do i get a secondary input?

[gentle urchin]

Create it

Add an input pin

[royal python]

you mean just add to the squence?

[gentle urchin]

Remive the sequence

Connect the branch true to loop body

[royal python]

i did

[gentle urchin]

Erh.. the assign...

Sorry. On phone

[royal python]

i did

[gentle urchin]

Then adding a new input, you connect the new input to the "increment loop counter" part

Which loops back to the branch etc

This is what mine looks like

I removed the secondary internal int

[pastel garnet]

I would like to make it dependant on its parent. each skill will have a list of child that can be activated when its unlocked. but i would like to try the canvas panel style.

[gentle urchin]

It can still depend on parent, you just gottq point it to its parent

I had a node index i used to point to 'parents'

[slate fable]

Collision boxes work now but only when the player touches the box. What would I have to do to keep that same thing with the table instead of my character?

[gentle urchin]

So draw line was between "node" and "node parent"

[gentle urchin]

Make sure you react to the correct collision channel

[slate fable]

Collision channel?

watching more youtube now ty

[royal python]

i does not want my array 😄

[gentle urchin]

The new input should be the same type as the first input

Execution or smthn

Oh nvm, it is

Second input should be a wildcard array

[royal python]

aarrrgh

got it

[gentle urchin]

Now you manually trigger "next" for it to move on

[foggy sundial]

Is there a shortcut for replacing a dead node with one that has identical parameters?

[gentle urchin]

Loop body -> do thing -> count?/delay/whatever-> Next

[undone bluff]

probably just refresh it

[foggy sundial]

nah it's dead. that function no longer exists on that object

[gentle urchin]

Dont think they got replace for nodes 😦

They barely got it for variables

[undone bluff]

I just tried it and refreshing it works

[gentle urchin]

Not if the function doesnt exist

[foggy sundial]

refreshing a function that doesn't exist makes it exist?

disappointing if there is no shortcut. one of those things that's 100x faster in text lol

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

Same with variables

[undone bluff]

ah you want to replace it with an entirely different node, not a new function with the same name

[gentle urchin]

And even replacing a variable with a function

[foggy sundial]

right. same parameters same output same name

different object

[gentle urchin]

Which i sometimes want...

[foggy sundial]

using the first output of a function?

[gentle urchin]

Im the cases i want to, its usually with the returnvalue of the function

[foggy sundial]

multi return tho

[gentle urchin]

So maybe i started with a bCanRun

But now moved it to a function CanRun()

[flat coral]

Is there a keyboard shortcut that jumps to the end of the list here? Like, obviously I'm looking to get a ref to the input var named "target" but that name also matches a LOT of things so the list is super long, and for some reason it puts local vars at the very end.

[gentle urchin]

(It helps to star thenones you frequently use)

Not what you asked but helps

[flat coral]

But for something like this, it would only favorite THAT one

[lofty rapids]

hold page down

[flat coral]

I wish I could star "Variables" as a category

[gentle urchin]

It still respects context so

It works surprisingly well for me

[lunar sleet]

Just drag it from the left panel

As for searching in context, using no spaces tends to work more effectively

I.e. getTarget

[sand slate]

Hello, I have an (easy question). Im making an landmine and it should do damage to nearby players when it explodes.

I made this an other time with a volume looking for overlap, but i see other people using (line) traces or just getting the distance to all player actors, and no doubt there are even more ways. They probably all do work, but is there a way that's best and is most often used for these kind of things?

[flat coral]

Wait what left panel?

[royal python]

it just activates the first light -.- am i doing something wrong?

[lofty rapids]

well it looks like your array element is an array ?

[flat coral]

For 100% sure the macro is the problem

[foggy sundial]

ugh lol

[lunar sleet]

Ah if this is a function then yeah just search with no spaces, it’s faster

[royal python]

switched back to single

[flat coral]

Also this is more of a PSA but never ever pipe a pure node right into a loop. The pure node gets re-run for every loop iteration.

[lofty rapids]

ya i actually read that the other day, had to change a bunch of code

[lunar sleet]

The best way is the one that works

Overlap volume is fine

[gentle urchin]

Works?

[flat coral]

It's actually a more general problem too. Like look at these two examples and ask yourself, does A == B? I'm pretty sure it does for the second one, but not the first.

[lunar sleet]

Easy to find out

[royal python]

nope :/ just affects the first light

[gentle urchin]

Calling set light several times?

[flat coral]

Also wait I meant the other macro, are you 100% sure that this list of lights is actually containing what you expect it to contain?

[lofty rapids]

check your index

[frigid summit]

can someone plz help

[flat coral]

You need #gameplay-ai

[magic vault]

Hey guys! So I am creating a climbing mechanic for my game (I used a tutorial and i'm like TOTALLY new to programming) so I was wondering how could I make it so that when you reach the edge of the top of the platform you climb up and over to the top of it?

[frigid summit]

ok i will ask there

[royal python]

i just took the array out of the macro, doesnt work neither

[royal python]

nope

[royal python]

what do you mean

sorry guys - i am a total BP Rookie 🥲

[lofty rapids]

the index comming out of the loop during the loop body

[gentle urchin]

also looks cleaner with increment int instead of assign

[royal python]

where should i put it?

[lofty rapids]

i mean just print string it and see what it says

[magic vault]

aaaaa I should probably change this into an MP4 file

[flat coral]

The other option is just to give up on the loop macro lol and instead just store the current index as a class variable and do the loop via a looping timer

[gentle urchin]

the ForEachLoopWait works on my end

[gentle urchin]

apparently i still had my code laying around

[royal python]

with this it works 🙂

but with the delaynode i wont

[gentle urchin]

only thing i can imagine is SetLight being called multiple times

[gentle urchin]

Who's calling "next" in this case

[magic vault]

Help would be much appreciated by the way, probably should've said that already

[foggy sundial]

I always knew macros were evil

broken nodes apparently don't cause compilation failure while in a macro

[undone bluff]

is the macro used?

functions are compiled as a unit, macros are just a bunch of nodes getting pasted in

[celest acorn]

hey guys, how would i make my player start with 80% health instead of spawning with the max health?

[undone bluff]

set the health parameter to 80% lol

give us more details

[golden kite]

I was about to write that and thought to myself "now be nice" hahaha

[celest acorn]

quickly realised how much of an idiot i am lol

[royal python]

i call it in editor, by clicking

[celest acorn]

having one of those days

[flat coral]

This isn't really answering your question (I actually know almost nothing about the character movement component) but how does your trace system know the difference between reaching the top of a flat platform, and reaching the top of a thin wall?

[golden kite]

Instead of setting Health to Heatlh, set it to a number like an int or a float.

Remove that first "health" node, and you'll be left with a place to type a number i the Set node

(that is, if you want to hard-code it)

[celest acorn]

i have a max health variable tho so i just set my normal health to 80 instead of 100 which is the max health

[golden kite]

Or you can set it to 80% of the max health. That might be more flexible

[gentle urchin]

you cant use delays in editor 🙂

[celest acorn]

yh i mean for one of my levels i wanted the player to start injured so i can show the healing mechanic straight away but my mind went completely blank lol

[golden kite]

I'm guessing the problem here isn't so much that you're not setting health - I'm guessing that the other important parts of your code aren't reading that health value.

[celest acorn]

yh when i hard coded the heralth like you said it didnt do anything

[undone bluff]

make health public so you can set it on that instance

[celest acorn]

good idea

[slate fable]

tried messing with all the collision settings and no no avail it only works when it touches the player character. I need to make it spit out the number upon impact of the table

[golden kite]

I don't think your code above is actually doing anything. it's setting heatlh to itself. Kinda a noop.

[gentle urchin]

show code

[golden kite]

(Tht's no-op, not noob)

[celest acorn]

it seems to work

sets it to 80 instead of max

[undone bluff]

you are setting the health to 80, and then you take your health, which is at 80, and set its value to the value of health, which is still 80

[golden kite]

I mean, I think it would work regardless even if you got rid of that onBeginPlay bit of code. Because you're hard-coding the default

[golden kite]

But go back and test your other levels to make sure you're not setting the health for ALL the levels to 80

[slate fable]

@gentle urchin

[flat coral]

AAAAAAAAAAHH

[slate fable]

😭 @flat coral

[golden kite]

I look at that and my brain goess IMMEDIATELY to "REFACTOR REFACTOR"

Can you not loop / iterate through those?

[celest acorn]

no beacause my health is basically my current health not my max health, so on begin play im setting it to 80% of its max health

[royal python]

yaaay! -.-

[gentle urchin]

nice !

[slate fable]

@golden kite I dont know

[gentle urchin]

Lets avoid making it a loop after the work has been done xD

dl'ing the asset now

was gonna setup up the trace method

instead

[undone bluff]

you are setting health to health

[slate fable]

this is just the beginning to the nightmare i'll be getting into after getting the dice to work 🤣

[flat coral]

Wait, why colliders? Presumably the sphere is an actor, why not just check which way is up and do some vector math?

[undone bluff]

the default value is 80

anytime an instance of the character spawns

it will do so with health at 80

[slate fable]

@flat coral I have no idea how to do it and am using tutorials from the Tube to figure it all out plus the help of you wonderful folks ❤️

[magic vault]

What do you mean by this?

[dire frost]

the one thing that is consistent between every programming languages is how evil macros are lol

[flat coral]

Or even better to avoid any math, if the faces are different components, do a line trace from the center going straight up and just see which face you hit.

[foggy sundial]

but I love my beautiful c++ macros for cheat commands lol

no evil runtime errors there

[slate fable]

the faces aren't different components the dice is one static mesh and I've added colliders to try to make it work

[dire frost]

c++ macros? ew

[foggy sundial]

I ain't making a class for every single cheatcommand and I'm not hardcoding

[flat coral]

I've been messing with wayfinding via traces a LOT lately, so I'm just thinking, tracing straight forward can tell you when the vertical surface has ended, but it does NOT tell you about the presence of a horizontal surface.

[foggy sundial]

so macros it is

and blueprint is basically powered 95% by macros on the c++ end

[dire frost]

||that's one more reason why macros suck lol||

[magic vault]

omg i have no clue i'm like such a newbie to blueprints and coding in general 😭 this is for my college course and i have to do some coding as well as design and i'm so bad PFTTT

[slate fable]

@magic vault I FEEEEEL THAT minus the college

[foggy sundial]

it could be worse

you could have 5 years of experience and still feel like a noob sometimes

[lyric rapids]

why is the 2nd timeline not calling

[magic vault]

My way of thinking is booleans are friends and if i can't find a way to make booleans do everything then i'm DONE FORRRR

[slate fable]

Booleons are just a true false statement to my knowledge Bools and branches are friends

[flat coral]

Oh in that case fuck it just don't put thin walls in your game lol

[magic vault]

I'm going to change the blueprint so that you can only climb on a specific type of platform anyways so it should be fine

but I need to find out how to make the character continue their velocity over the top of the wall atleast + also rn its really floaty and i don't want that either

[gentle urchin]

sadly they all share the same face

or face ID

unless i messed up the import

Hmm

this dice doesnt make to much sense to me

what do you do if it's a split ?

these are both equally up ..

[flat coral]

This is an IRL problem, that can actually happen when rolling on an uneven surface. Gotta re-roll it in that case

[gentle urchin]

oh lol

didnt realiz

its the dice fucking up 😄

[flat coral]

(Fun fact, the unwritten rule in tabletop games is if you can balance another die on top of it and have it stay, the roll is valid)

[undone bluff]

What are the collisions like?

[slate fable]

I remapped the collision on the dice

[gentle urchin]

not good x)

but the trace method works

for all intents and purposes

[slate fable]

how did you do that? O.o

[gentle urchin]

well

most intents lol

[flat coral]

Also just be aware, if you're actually rolling the dice with physics it's very possible that you accidentally create a biased die. Most games that do this are actually just doing RandomInt(1-20) and then faking the dice animation so it lands on the already-selected number.

[gentle urchin]

Cant you just add some roll tower and begone ?

[slate fable]

I have a roll tower but idk what would be needed to simulate that

[flat coral]

Maybe? But I'd be worried that the physics system has some silent bias in object direction. Just because it's not built for this, it's built to look and feel like real physics, not to be fair like real physics.

[slate fable]

adjusting the gravity and mass etc would change the way it rolls no?

[gentle urchin]

you can make a simulation

and test it a million times

to see if there's any bias to worry about

unessesary with 1000 tracelength lol

this is with 100

[slate fable]

how does the line trace translate into calculating it as a variable that can be used on the back end?/displaying on the screen

[gentle urchin]

well

it gives you the face id

which you just map once

[slate fable]

you're a wizard! lol Now i just need to reverse engineer that and apply it to the dice ❤️

[gentle urchin]

a map, int to int

face index to value

[lyric rapids]

i dont understand why my player is glitching out from this

[slate fable]

@gentle urchin would you be cool like streaming that and walking me thru how you set that up? I'd like to learn and be able to pass the info along to others trying to do the same. because theoretically it could be applied to dice of all types rather than just a d20?

[gentle urchin]

the numbers are annoying, ill admit

if your trace hits those, its just out of the waters

[flat coral]

If you wanted to be even fancier, you could make a new component type that subclasses static mesh component but includes a single new variable, the roll result. So then you trace for a component ref, cast it to your custom component, and just grab the number from the var

[flat coral]

Why not just start the trace inside the die and go outwards instead?

[gentle urchin]

hm

that prob works?

hm na

face id is 0

another problem is the letters are rotated differently

so its not straight up doing + X in any diraction

[slate fable]

I could try findind a different dice mesh if needed

[gentle urchin]

Personally i'd probably just have plane faced dice,

with numbers set by some material or smth

[slate fable]

the int to int is how you set up what face its on?

[sage lagoon]

I'm not sure where the right place is to post this kind of question, but does anyone know of any tutorials in creating BPs for, say, turn-based RPG battles if I were to make each on widgets?

For the time being, anyway.

[lyric rapids]

idk why my blueprint is behaving like this