blueprint

[shadow dove]

okay, doing that it doesn't play at all

[grim crypt]

Anyone have an idea why I can Get the virtual texture on an RVT Volume, but not Set it in blueprint?

[ancient heath]

I have this, the widget is built correctly, but it is not displayed on the screen, does anyone know why? I want to create it above another widget, the zorder is superior to the previous widget

[lament nebula]

Can anyone point me in the right direction here:
I want to make an actor that can generate (keep reading!) a dungeon using prefab rooms and hallways, using a sort of random walk method.

Now i got the algorithm part of that down (when to place a room or a hallway, etc.)
What im walking into is how to spawn the prefab room actors as part of the generator actor, so that when i regenerate the dungeon, all the old rooms get removed again.

Ive tried just using the spawnActor function, but that places them as part of the level hierarchy, so when i delete the generator actor, the prefab rooms are still in the level.

I could ofcourse just recursively remove the rooms again, but that feels inefficient and that that is a total hack because im just missing something obvious.

Is there a better way to do this, am i even barking up the right tree?

[hollow karma]

In my blueprint I have a soft reference to a texture. How can I load it if it is not already loaded? I thought there was a node called "Async Load Asset" but when I try to add that to my blueprint I don't see it

[tranquil wadi]

is the blueprint node "Add Tag Listener" in UE5.3 by chance? brand new and trying to follow a tutorial and seemed to have ran into this hookup.

[versed sun]

it can't be in a function

[hollow karma]

-_-

That's stupid

[versed sun]

If its got the Clock icon , it takes time
Functions are instant

[hollow karma]

How about a macro then?

[versed sun]

they work

or custom event

[hollow karma]

Hmmm. A custom event sounds perfect, but I'm uncertain how to make one

[versed sun]

right click main graph and type custom event

i use it so much i made a macro on my keyboard G keys for it

[hollow karma]

I'm there. And I've added an input parameter for the texture I need ton load. Will that accept my soft reference?

I think before I work on this further I really need to sit down get a better understand of the asset manager and how it is used.

[versed sun]

from what I understand , this is how I do it

there will be a slight pause while the texture loads ( if not already loaded) then your top code will continue

[gentle urchin]

Just do it recursively

Or have some delegate in the owning generator for when its time to pack your bag

Id just run through the lost of spawmed rooms and limit their lifespan

Optimizing it would probably involve re-using existing rooms

Passing them a new seed and letting them run

[hollow karma]

Thank you very much! That made everything work. Still think I'm going to watch this 2 hour video on the asset manager. I need to learn this more than this using cookie cutter formulas

[velvet smelt]

Correction, the metasound should be set as the sound asset.

On the component

[flat coral]

Okay I've got this pawn that I'm trying to move with physics but it doesn't move... unless I remove this SetActorRotation node. Somehow, that rotation is stopping this pawn from moving. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

[rapid root]

Hey guys, I'm trying to calculate the required Parent Transform with a target World Transform for the Child and the current Child Transform. The idea is to move the parent so the child ends up with the target world transform without changing it's relative transform. Any idea behind the logic?

[floral stump]

is it possible to place a bp actor in the level and auto attach it to the landscape?

something like this
https://youtu.be/1HEyPB_7fFM?t=180

[velvet smelt]

Add a patch component like in the video.

[floral stump]

i'm using ue4

[velvet smelt]

What version? I think they had something similar with landscape brushes. Part of the Landmass plugin

Depending on the version

[floral stump]

4.26

[velvet smelt]

Check plugins for Landmass. I take it that you're looking to manipulate the landscape? Or are you just trying to snap to the landscape?

[floral stump]

i want to snap it to the landscape

and remove all gap between mesh and landscape

[floral stump]

yes i have landmass plugin

[hollow karma]

If I trigger a custom event in a blueprint 3 times in a row very rapidly will all three event execute? I'm triggering an event in a forloop and it's acting like only the last invocation is being run.

[faint pasture]

show code

they will execute but you might have something else going on

[hollow karma]

This is the event. Give me a sec on the loop. It's a wide blueprint

[faint pasture]

yeah the async

[hollow karma]

What do you mean "the async"?

[faint pasture]

so AsyncLoadIcon is getting fired the 3 times

but the completed of the load is only running once

which makes sense

why are you calling this multiple times?

[hollow karma]

I'm trying to load the icons to display in an inventory. SO one call for each inventory entry

[faint pasture]

so this isn't being called multiple times, just once per widget or whatever?

What's the actual problem?

[hollow karma]

Yes. Once per UI widget

[faint pasture]

So what's the symptom? Only the last widget works?

[hollow karma]

The problem is that when the inventory is displayed on the final item in the inventory shows an icon. All the others are empty

[faint pasture]

You're going to have to show more code.

[hollow karma]

first, second and third parts of the function that loads the data into the display widget

[faint pasture]

those redirects make me wanna puke lol

[hollow karma]

The icon is set as the very last thing

[hollow karma]

What? I don't understand

[hollow karma]

That's what it looks like all put baack together. Sorry, but it's too wide to fit on one image that's actually readable

Well I guess the text is barely readable in that last image

If you zoom in a little

[faint pasture]

I don't see any obvious problems but I'd make a Setup event in your widget that you can just pass all the info in with

the count, the text, the texture, everything

actually I'd just pass in the DCSInventoryEntry

let the widget handle it from there

[hollow karma]

Well that wouldn't really change the issue of the async loading. I'd still have to do that

[faint pasture]

yeah but you could at least test to make sure it's on the widgets side and not anything to do with the loop

[hollow karma]

Youo mentioned a while back that the asyncloadasset is only calling executing it's completed pin once total instead of once per event. Why is that? That's the real problem for me

Well actually, the completed pin is geting run every time. I just added a print and get one completed for each item as expected

[fiery swallow]

I could of sworn using structs as a key did not work properly in blueprints regarding TMaps

I didnt actually read anything though, I just seen the Key was a struct

[hollow karma]

Are you referring to something in blueprint or is this unrelated?

[fiery swallow]

And I remember having problems with that specific thing

Yeah its probably not specific to your probkem

I just seen it and started yapping

[fiery swallow]

They will, if you called an event 3 times in the same frame that ran a for loop 10 times. The for loop would run 30 times and complete 3 times

I see that you have some return values in your foreach loop

That could be the cause of it not firing the loop as much as you expected

[hollow karma]

The loop is firing the correct number of times.

The early return is for the case when the inventory is full. It's technically not needed I suppose.

[fiery swallow]

You said it's acting like only the last one is being ran

So im co fused on your issue

[hollow karma]

It's only showing an icon for the final item in the inventory.

There are three items in the inventory. You can see the quantitiy counts. But the first two have no icon

[fiery swallow]

Are you Iooping through the item array?

The image quality was too low to see

[hollow karma]

Yes. The show inventory function first clears the display to show every inventory slot as empty. Then it loops through the items and adds them to the display one at a time

[hollow karma]

That's why I originally split up the blueprint into three images for the left middle and right sections

[fiery swallow]

The way you're looping this whole thing is super weird, I can't really see the problem. You should use print strings and print out the actual icon name to see if it's getting the right one

[hollow karma]

What's weird about it? I'll admit that I'm no Blueprint expert. I wrote this the same way I would write C++

[fiery swallow]

If I were trying to set icons in an inventory UI, I would have inventory cell store a reference to the item struct it's tracking

[hollow karma]

I added a print to the aync load item event. It's getting the correct textures

[fiery swallow]

From there I would simply pull the icon and item amount from the item struct

Your looping through the inventory but you aren't getting the actual index of the item

That part is very weird to me

It almost feels like the loop isn't necessary

[hollow karma]

I don't need the index. I just need the item itself. The for each loop should be fine for that

[fiery swallow]

I would check that the index youre getting is indeed giving you the slot you want

Doesn't seem like it's actually getting the next available slot

[hollow karma]

The fact the three items are appearing in three different slots proves that it is getting the next available slot

I know this isn't the way to do the UI in a real game, but this is only a demo UI to help me test and debug the underlying inventory plugins and also to provide a simple usage example.

Also, I'm not a UI expert by any means. My previous UI experience is purely in text mode applications

[fiery swallow]

Then the only other thing it could be based on the information you provided is you haven't loaded the ifon

Icon*

Youre using a soft reference

[lunar sleet]

You want to show others how to do UI wrong? 😀

[versed sun]

Looks like a delay in a for loop

[hollow karma]

That is why I am calling Async Load Asset on the soft references to the icons

[fiery swallow]

You might need to give them time to load before hitting the same node again

[lunar sleet]

You can’t async load something inside a function that’s meant to execute in one tick

[hollow karma]

It's being done in a custom event

[fiery swallow]

That's an event

[lunar sleet]

For each loop is a function

Are you not doing it as part of the loop? Maybe I read it wrong

[fiery swallow]

I think you just need to give the async time to finish before hitting the node again

[hollow karma]

The for each loop is triggering the event on each pass through the loop. The event has a print on it that is getting printed out three times, once for each item

[hollow karma]

I don't know what you mean by "hitting" the node

Which node, too?

[lunar sleet]

I’m not sure how to explain this better

Based on that screenshot I don’t think your async load will ever finish executing

[fiery swallow]

The async node

You need to like queue the icons you want to load

Once one finishes loading, load the next one

[hollow karma]

I've already verified that it is completing by adding a print off of it's completed pin

[lunar sleet]

Ok

[fiery swallow]

Trying to load them all on the same frame is not gonna work

[hollow karma]

That is what I'm worried about

[fiery swallow]

It wont be an issue

[hollow karma]

Why?

[fiery swallow]

Because youre hitting the same node that's already running a latent action

[lunar sleet]

Cropout Sample Project does a good job at showing how to use async nodes in succession

[hollow karma]

Please explain. What difference does that make?

[fiery swallow]

If you hit a node that hasn't finish its latent action one of two things will happen.

A. The second call will be ignored
B. The previous call will be canceled

[hollow karma]

This sounds like finally getting to the core problem.

[fiery swallow]

It depends on how it was coded

[lunar sleet]

It’s like using a delay in a for loop, as previously mentioned

You’re overwriting the call

[hollow karma]

OK. So that is a problem I can understand.

It sounds like the fundamental issue is "User does not understand asset loading or the nuances of Blueprints." 😄
Time to hit the docs and tutorials again I guess.

[lunar sleet]

Eh, we’ve all been there. Esp. when it comes to how delays work. If it makes you feel better, you can technically make a custom for loop that allows you to use latent actions in it

[hollow karma]

Hmm. Cropout says it's unavailable on the Marketplalce

[lunar sleet]

Odd

Maybe it’s in the launcher library I can’t rmbr. They have a YouTube vid that skims over it too

[hollow karma]

Well I've already got a training vid on the aasset manager I want to watch. I'll hit that up first and circle back to this later. Thank you all for the help!

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to make a aiming system similar to the one shown in this video at 3:21? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6B4gH-ZGlY&t=215s

[gentle urchin]

Under the samples tab?

[hollow karma]

I mean that after adding to my library the download page has a big yellow box that says "unavailable" and there's no way to download or install it

[gentle urchin]

this one ?

got 5.2/5.3 installed?

[hollow karma]

Yes to both

[gentle urchin]

marketplace tab

[gentle urchin]

even library

[hollow karma]

I'm well aware of where it is. It says unavailable

And it is NOT in my library

[gentle urchin]

weird

our pages dont even match

and on their webpage? https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/cropout-casual-rts-game-sample-project

[hollow karma]

I'm not logged in to the website

[gentle urchin]

Redirectd to launcher anyways

[coarse condor]

Trying to get a TextRender number to go up by 1 when I press an input, what am I doing wrong?

[faint pasture]

I'm guessing that inputaction never fires

[karmic tartan]

How can I fix frame stutter / GPU hitching with world partitioning streaming in new sections? I notice this happens when trees are loaded in the distance when moving into a new section. I found this older tutorial for UE4 with World Composition, so now I'm looking for how to do this with UE5 World Partition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpTtrWpR8U

[tough badge]

Is it possible to add a timer to a struct? I want to make a dropped item despawn after 5 minutes and was curious if I could add some kind of default timer to the structure as a variable I could change on a per item basis

[fiery swallow]

1. Obtain an array of every actor you can shoot
2. filter out the ones that are too far away or are not rendered on screen
3. create a function to compare the distances of the remaining actors
4. output the actor that is closest, and that's the one to shoot.

That is what the system in the video does in that order

you can get creative with step 1 and do like a box overlap of the maximum distance you can shoot a target, that would be more efficient, and would eliminate half of step 2

[frosty heron]

Epic store is quiet broken.

[fiery swallow]

no, what you could do is set the amount of time before the item expires in the struct, and then when the item is dropped just retrieve that time and set the life span of the dropped item

if someone picks up the item then set the life span to 0 to clear it

[tough badge]

That sounds like a good way to handle it! Thank you for the help!

[viral jetty]

how can I set the player to ragdoll if he falls from certain height ? like can i get a falling velocity in third\person starter kit?

[frail onyx]

Ok noice, I kinda had an idea of the main steps of what do the, the main thing is I really struggle with like actually figuring out how to do that in BP’s and making it work, do you know how I get every thing I want to be a point that I can shoot into an array?

Also do u have any tips for getting a bit better with the basics so I can understand more stuff/how to actually put the pieces together when I’m trying to make custom features?

[fiery swallow]

A lot of the stuff I mentioned is stupidly easy to do. Half of them. There is a single node that does all of the work already. Such as "sphere overlap" node, "get all actors of class" node, and "recently rendered" node

The only difficult thing you'll have to do is make a function to determine the closest actor in the array, but I believe in unreal engine 5.3 they added a node that already does that...

So you really don't have to code anything from scratch here

You just have to connect a few nodes unreal engine already coded

[fiery swallow]

Well first you need to determine if the character is falling, there's a node already for that, then you need to line trace from the players location to the ground. If the hit result of that trace is greater then the distance you set to ragdoll, then make them ragdoll

[late lynx]

my material has a world postion offset which changes material to represent a curve in path....its working fine in pc but when deployed on phone its not working..plus it was wroking fine earlier

[lunar sleet]

Just to make sure, you closed the engine? 🙂 I often get trolled by that tho it’s usually engine updates

[cobalt lynx]

Hey,

I'm running into a curiouse issue. I have a Map Variable (Actor Class Soft Reference | Integer). On child Blueprints this map reverses it's order for some reason. We don't do anything with the variable yet but it turns over.

Any ideas?

[lyric rapids]

im trying to change the colour of a particle but its not changing it for some reason

[tidal marlin]

Do you use Particle Color Node in your Practical Material?

[silent drift]

I want to ask before I start adding some "math" to count 60 seconds to a minuter, and 60 minutes to an hour and so on. Is there a way to do this automatically? Or do I need to "reset" current seconds to 0 once it hits 60 and count up myself.

[gentle urchin]

It overflows automatically

Doesnt it

There should be a node that does that atleast

[silent drift]

Yeah, it does not at the moment at least. 😦 And I didnj't find one.

[gentle urchin]

Timespan?

Timecode might not be the correct struct

[silent drift]

Okay! I will have a look and see.

Yep! Changed to timespan and it did it automatically! 🙂 Thank you for the suggestion

Actually, hmm, how could I make sure it doesn't change 24 hours to one day? Since I would prefer it to only say 36 hours for example rather than convering 24 to days? (If you know, sorry, I'm a bit confused about this setup currently as I haven't ever looked at this before)

[elfin lagoon]

i need to get actors world location and convert it into a widget coordinates to place an icons of these actors to a minimap
is this node made exactly for this purpose, and how to use it correctly?

[gentle urchin]

You cant, so either do hours = hours + days*24) or do time in your own way^^

[silent drift]

Okay! Thanks for the answer. 🙂

[viral jetty]

thank you @fiery swallow i just set on landed function to ragdoll

[cyan surge]

Best way to hide categories that arn't relevant in blueprints?

In this example I won't need to see "Rendering" or "Replication" ever

Possible to just hide?

(For this type of actor)

[hollow bane]

if i wanted to make a branch here what would i need to do?

[gentle urchin]

Branch on class?

You could cast

You could get class and compare

You could get tags and switch on tag

[hollow bane]

so i would cast out from the output of the hitactor?

[gentle urchin]

You would cast the generic Actor to a more specific actor

If its that (or a child of that) the cast succeeds. Otherwise it fails

[hollow bane]

oh wow thank you

the get class was what i needed

!

[stuck sentinel]

last time this happened my game got corrupted

i was working on crouch animations and speed

what do i do

broo i just reloaded my game and now the same thing happeneed as last time my character mesh just dissapeared

[hollow bane]

can i bother you with another question? I do spawn a blueprint with a plane inside it at a location when my line trace branch works. but i cant figure out how to destroy it. the destroy actor doesnt work. is this the correct way?

of course i have the destroy actor after the delay usually 😄

i just saw in the outliner sometimes they get destroyed

ah had to use a do once in my blueprints

now it works

[gentle urchin]

Set Life Span

[stuck sentinel]

SOMEONE HELP

[dark drum]

What was you doing exactly?

[tranquil moon]

hi, for some reason I get an exception and have to close the engine whenever I try to set this type reference, I have tried it multiple times and with 2 different values and it happens consistently

telling rider to continue past it just leads to another exception

[stuck sentinel]

changing the max player speed from character movement

[dark drum]

You can try changing the parent class from character to actor, save and then restart the editor. When you've restarted, change the parent class back to character. Not gaurented to work but can be worth a try.

[trim matrix]

Guys, please help me. I added the weapons object on the scene, but when I play the simulate, it wasn't there.

[velvet smelt]

Show the BP for the weapons

[trim matrix]

This is the BP for the sword and the weapons in general, all the same with the fruits

[velvet smelt]

Ok, so they all share the same base class, but the fruit are showing. Visible = true, hidden in game = false. Hmmm. Give me a minute to let this coffee kick in.

[trim matrix]

Yeah, everything except the weapons is child of the weapons so it's weird that only the fruits showing

[velvet smelt]

Ok, try setting simulate physics = false.

To see if they appear.

Double check that the weapon meshes have have a collision mesh.

[trim matrix]

Well, it can't be unticked

[velvet smelt]

Can you set it to Static instead of Movable?

Or is that un-editable too?

[trim matrix]

Can't too, I clicked it many times

[velvet smelt]

Ok, so the base class is set to read-only. Ummmm....

[random pulsar]

hi guys i have an actor fruit that has some static meshes in it ,i want to make this idea :when player overlap with box collision destroy one component ''Fruit'' and then do some other logic i have it seted up with interface how can i get that component in my player without casting?

[velvet smelt]

For the weapons check their collision. Open the actual static mesh asset.

[random pulsar]

i tried with tags and print string but didnt succeeded

[trim matrix]

This one?

[velvet smelt]

So, that's the static mesh component that is holding the static mesh.
Over to the right...double click on the "Static Mesh" icon

[trim matrix]

Okay, here

Or this?

[velvet smelt]

Yes...this is the Static Mesh editor.
Click "Show" -> "Simple Collision"

[trim matrix]

Like this?

[velvet smelt]

Boom

Click Complex collision...check that as well

[trim matrix]

Here

[velvet smelt]

Ok cool. So the quick explanation would be...when you're simulating physics, it's looking for a simple collision to use from that mesh. If it's not there then...the mesh is basically a ghost flying through other objects.

So...at the top next to Reimport Base Mesh...click collision-> add/create simple box collision

Then try simulating again

I think you simulate in this window as well

[trim matrix]

Does it has to be box? Or anything, like sphere or capsule?

[velvet smelt]

It can be whatever you want really. This is just for testing.

Ideally for that shape there....you'd create 2 boxes and scale them to cover the shape of the mesh...like a cross etc

[trim matrix]

Okay, it's work but it spinning endlessly...

[velvet smelt]

Ok, in the SM editor and show the simple collision

[velvet smelt]

There you go

That green...is the collider...so if it's like a ball....well you know how balls spin

[trim matrix]

I see, so I have to make it box?

Like this?

[velvet smelt]

Yes...you can click on the collision and scale,rotate,tranlate etc

Then, add another box and scale that as well

[dark drum]

At the bottom right, click apply to auto generate collision on the mesh. Also, if you want an item to have physics, the mesh should be the root component of the BP otherwise you get weird behaviour.

[trim matrix]

I see

[trim matrix]

Like this?

[dark drum]

Yea, don't forget to save. Auto isn't always great but it can be good enough in a pinch. It's usually best to make your own collision in the 3d modelling software you use. (UCX collision)

[trim matrix]

Alright

Thanks, you two! @velvet smelt @dark drum

[velvet smelt]

Try an overlap without the branch

[random pulsar]

ok and if an ai overlaps with it?

[velvet smelt]

Does anything happen at all?

[random pulsar]

here i need to check if i overlap with the player this works now

[lofty rapids]

are you just trying to avoid casting ?

[random pulsar]

yes

[fiery swallow]

I'm going to find every video on youtube that says casting is bad and report the video

[random pulsar]

and i want to get this static mesh and delete it

in player

i dont hate cast im just triing new ways of getting references

[dim agate]

I don't think there's any problem casting to the player character if they're going to be loaded anyway.

[velvet smelt]

The character class wouldn't have that interface. So it's trying to call that function on character class. You need to cast it to the class that has the interface.

Create an empty base class that derives from character (Or use the current one) with the interface and use that as a class to cast to, if you don't want to cast directly to the Caterpillar.

[random pulsar]

i dont want now to cast at all do u hear me?Is there a way to get reference to a component?by name or tag or other thing

[thin panther]

That's a terrible way to do so

You want to cast for this instance

[lofty rapids]

get component

[thin panther]

Use the one that makes sense. Don't use another one for the sake of it

[lofty rapids]

whats so bad about casting ?

ig it can eat up memory ?

[thin panther]

But yes given a reference you can find component by class

[thin panther]

Nope not really

[random pulsar]

thanks

[fiery swallow]

literally nothing, if used improperly in big games it can overload the memory and crash the game. But the game has to be pretty darn big with a ton of assets. It does also increase the loading time of the editor as well

but it's like anything else in the editor, use it right and it's never an issue

[gentle urchin]

If you cast to end boss you're doing it wrong

[dark drum]

If casting is poorly handle, you can cause your entire project to be loaded into memory, even if some classes aren't being used. It's not a reason to avoid casting, just need to use inheritance so you can cast to lighter base classes.

[fiery swallow]

cast to BaseBossEnemy instead

[gentle urchin]

With 0 asset refs

Gg

[fiery swallow]

ikr

ez

I always explain to people the importance of a base class with empty asset references

[rigid tundra]

I have a wierd bug where the escape key is not triggering (even in the editor), i remapped the editor preferences so, that the game does not close on escape, and added the action mapping for opening the pausemenu on escape, the action itself works perfectly fine with the "P" key, wuth not the "Escape" key

i also dont have any reference for you guys, cause i dont know what to share

also in the configs there is no override for disabling the escape key or so

[lofty rapids]

well you have an escape key event of some kind ?

is it firing ?

[rigid tundra]

no

[lofty rapids]

where is the event on what bp ?

[rigid tundra]

all actions that are bound to escape are not fireiring

the only thing i have is here in the player

this mapping context works

[velvet smelt]

Print string?

[rigid tundra]

and also the "Open_Pause_Menu" works with the p key

[rigid tundra]

nope, only when pressing the p key

but not on the "Escape" key

[velvet smelt]

Ahhhhhh

The settings are the same for both keys?

[rigid tundra]

yesss

[velvet smelt]

Hmmmm idk. So currently, after reconfiguring the editor setting. Esc doesn't close PIE?

[gentle urchin]

Or soft

Soft works too

[lofty rapids]

so p works but escape isn't ? so what did you do in the project setting with escape ?

[rigid tundra]

no i dont want to close the editor with escape. i currently have the close pie on the "ä" key

[rigid tundra]

absolutely nothing

[lofty rapids]

weird that escape would be like "disabled" somehow

[fiery swallow]

the day I bring myself to make a game entirely based on soft references I will have ascended. editor loading time will reach record numbers

[rigid tundra]

yeah, i dont understand it either

this must be some project ini config

[lofty rapids]

there must be a setting or something you changed ?

[rigid tundra]

i opened all files with vs code and looked for "escape" but no results

[rigid tundra]

the thing is, its a indie project with multiple devs on it, and the dev who could have been made the mistake couldnt remember either

im gonna kill him when i found out that he did smt to the ini files

[velvet smelt]

Not recommended lol. Try ...using a Debug key input event instead of the Enhanced just to test.

[rigid tundra]

okok i test it

okay it worked, but i still wonder whats going on

i also tried the deprecated input method with the Action Mappings, and it also doesnt work

[velvet smelt]

Ok...so you currently have P/Esc on the same action. Try keeping just the Esc and remove the P for now.

[rigid tundra]

oke lemme try that

nope doesnt work either

[velvet smelt]

Ok

Can you open the input action itself. Also can you show the settings for the Escape key.

[simple echo]

Is there a way to draw a trace line of where an object with the rotating movement component will follow?
Think like a game that shows the path a thrown object will follow

[velvet smelt]

Like an Arch?

[rigid tundra]

where are settings for the escape key located? like in some ini configs?

[lofty rapids]

are you not meeting this "threshold" for some reason ?

[simple echo]

kind of

[rigid tundra]

could be, because maybe escape has a different threashold

i go look after that

[rigid tundra]

nope also not

[lofty rapids]

must of got disabled somehow is what i would imagine

[velvet smelt]

Is that the only Input Mapping context that's being used?

[velvet smelt]

Can you provide an example visual?

[rigid tundra]

no, we have mapped multiple

[random pulsar]

very strange this does not work even with casting i destroy the component but it still remain in game

[rigid tundra]

i see where you trying to go,

ill check that

[random pulsar]

the break point does work

but the static mesh component remains

[thin panther]

Destroy component can only be used in the owner of the component

[velvet smelt]

No

[quiet canopy]

Hi, I am new to UE as well as to this community. I am learning unreal engine by doing stuff. Currently I am learning how collisions work. I have a car model from blender imported to Unreal and tried various settings but one instance of car is not colliding with the other instance. I am using skeletal mesh for rendering and physics asset to define the collision. It will be really really helpful if someone helps me out? 😩 🥹

[random pulsar]

huh so the way i imagined i need a custom event in the plant to destroy it and call this event in player?is this the right way?

[thin panther]

Yes, though you may want to consider just setting it to an empty mesh

[simple echo]

Something like this?
For context, in my game, when the player clicks and drags the mouse, a boomerang is spawned in the direction they drag the mouse.
gif here:(https://gyazo.com/e2b0a525a198a2dd63db6c19c5b4be8e)

[stuck sentinel]

??

where is the camera, character mesh, camera boom

[lofty rapids]

looks like your not showing components ?

[stuck sentinel]

how

[velvet smelt]

Try the "Gear" icon

[stuck sentinel]

then

[velvet smelt]

There's a good example in Epic's free Content Samples that can break this down for you.

[velvet smelt]

Nvm...hmmm

[dark drum]

Click 'Window' at the top and click 'Components' in the list.

[stuck sentinel]

thank you

but why did it get turned off

[velvet smelt]

????

[hollow pond]

you might've accidentally closed the tab

[stuck sentinel]

maybe

[hollow pond]

happens to me all the time

[random pulsar]

what is it?

[pale anchor]

Looking for some help and probably it's just a button or a simple opion.

I have BP that should spawn a object on Line Trace Hit Location. If my BP is on 0,0,0 it's working as it should. But when I move my object in the Editor (changinge World Location) the new Component is "wandering" off. When I use a static mesh component, I can change the Transform to "World". But that's not working on "Append Sphere Box".

Here is the BP: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/8r2cvnof/
Anyone got an quick idea?

[random pulsar]

thx

[velvet smelt]

I think it's called "Simple Pickup" or something like that.

[velvet smelt]

Are you trying to apply the boolean in the same location as the Appended Sphere box?

[random pulsar]

i have a lot of actors and i cast in each of em to the player just to get a variable,is it good?if not how can i get a reference to a variable in the player in other way?

[velvet smelt]

I personally use Subsystems.

[pale anchor]

uhm... yes?

[velvet smelt]

You're setting the location for the "Append Sphere Box"....but not for the "Apply Mesh Boolean"

I would start there

[pale anchor]

I tried that.. doesn't change anything.

Thanks.

[velvet smelt]

What did calculate for the Target Transform?

[pale anchor]

so the hit location is red and the "end" location is the big sphere.

[velvet smelt]

Let me open engine and tinker. Standby.

[pale anchor]

Thank you!

[mystic edge]

Hey, do you guys know a way to smoothly blend between two cameras of two different BPs?

[grim sand]

Perhaps I will need to call in the C++ wizards to help resolve this issue, but seen as my project is BP only I am trying here first. I am running into a fatal crash error when opening a packaged build.

Voila, the crash log:
[2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: === Critical error: === [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: Fatal error! [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: Unhandled Exception: 0xc06d007e [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff879235b0c KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction [] [2024.03.01-15.12.10:080][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7a6b2b634 SuperFunAwesomeGolf.exe!__delayLoadHelper2() [D:\a\_work\1\s\src\vctools\delayimp\delayhlp.cpp:312]

This happens immediately upon opening the packaged .exe

[versed sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW86ZGxesmc&ab_channel=MathewWadsteinTutorials

[mystic edge]

That does not work (BP_Drone is a pawn if that make a difference)

[versed sun]

player controller doesn't have a camera

try character

[mystic edge]

Target requires a player controller reference

[versed sun]

ahh, hmm

is your get actor of class Return valid ?

[mystic edge]

Yes, I moved my code into my player controller and this is the whole code of the player cnntroller (That what matters). The Possess at the end works so the get actor of class must be valid

I basicly switch between my character and that drone in my player controller

[gray hare]

Question about setting up a pawn. My pawn is a spaceship you fly first person. It has a mesh for collision and mass. I've got a couple cameras you can switch between, a bunch of thrusters that act on the mass.
I originally had a BoxComponent as my root to be the mass and a mesh under it. But you can't scale that. I switched to make the mesh the root, but you can't move or rotate it and it's not forward facing. :( Suggestions?

It was working with the mesh under the box, but I wanted to use the mesh for collision and something was awkward about that. Don't remember what as it was a few days ago.

This isn't my area of UE and I'm not sure what the philosophy on structuring this is.

best practices and what not

[elfin lagoon]

i'm working with minimap and want to show an icons in a minimap widget
i add a 2d sprite to a pawns, and use ShowOnly List for a Scene Capture Component2D (screenshot)
NPC pawns is showing in this widget correctly, but player-possesed is not showing at all, i dunno why
how to show a sprite component of the player ontrolled pawn at this scene capture?

[gray hare]

I wouldn't expected player controlled to be different.

are you treating them differently somehow?
Are you RPC'ing the data to clients? Do clients not already have all the data?

[elfin lagoon]

what do u mean?

[elfin lagoon]

which data they need?

[gray hare]

your event is RPC add to minimap

I'm just curious why this is an RPC.

The way I would do this is, on the client, in the minimap widget, iterate over all the pawns and render an arrow for each one. But I've never built a minimap, so this might not be the best way.

[elfin lagoon]

this event is called from the pawnBase class at the BeginPlay

[gray hare]

unfortunately, it looks like the interface kit I have with a minimap was temporarily free

[gray hare]

can still probably do that on clients and don't need to RPC

I can't think of any info only the server will have that's relevant to the minimap. Unless you have pawns that are hidden and clients don't know about them.

more than happy to talk through this with you though, ask away

[elfin lagoon]

i dont understand what are we talking about, actually, sorry 🙃
i just trying to understand, why is sprite componenet of the pawn is rendering, if a pawn is NPC, and dont, if a pawn is player controlled

[pale anchor]

Any luck?

[gray hare]

I got distracted by your event being named RPC, which indicates it's networked. Sorry.

you have a sprite on the pawn itself that is being rendered only on the minimap?

[elfin lagoon]

i have a minimap widget, which is rendering components from the ShowOnly List
the only component in this list is sprite, which is added to the list at Beginplay

[velvet smelt]

Like I was saying....mess around with the Transform. Here you go.

[pale anchor]

What is the location added with?

[gray hare]

have you put breakpoint to verify the offending pawn is calling that and the minimap is receiving it?

[elfin lagoon]

no

[gray hare]

breakpoints are your friend when debugging
go put a breakpoint in the minimap function that your pawns are calling and see what's happening

[pale anchor]

ah nice... gonna test it

[elfin lagoon]

ok, whats next then?

[velvet smelt]

Cool beans, I had to learn some geoscripting in the process lol

[gray hare]

did your PC pawn call it?

[drowsy steppe]

Hey guys, does anyone has an idea why when i add this component (it makes every object that have a mesh create an outline when i over them) to a bp with a character mesh it does not work? It works with other bps with meshes

[gray hare]

does your character have only one mesh component? Why get it by class and not get the component directly?

[elfin lagoon]

i think there is no way to evade it for any pawn

[gray hare]

is your game networked?

[drowsy steppe]

I'm using this for any object that has a mesh because i want any obect that has this component to highlight when i hover it with the mouse, but i'm a noob so i'm probably doing it in a wrong way

[elfin lagoon]

yes

[gray hare]

and did the breakpoint verify it got called? just because the code looks like it calls it doesn't mean it is. have to test it

is that event actually an RPC?

[drowsy steppe]

this is from the component blueprint

[elfin lagoon]

all pawns call it
all logic, placed after this at Beginplay, is executed
so its called

[gray hare]

Oh I see. Do you know that it's getting the expected character mesh and not a different mesh?

[gray hare]

did you test it? there are countless reasons why it might not be getting called or might not be getting called in the right place.

I would gate this logic in your pawn begin play behind a IsClient and then not RPC it.

[drowsy steppe]

yes it should be getting the correct charachermesh, but it could a reason if i'm wrong

[gray hare]

breakpoint, see which mesh

[elfin lagoon]

what do u mean "test it"?
event Beginplay is executed, when pawns spawn in the world
they all executes all logic, which is connected to the event, NPC pawns and PC pawns
if logic, placed after this, at the Beginplay, is executed, its not test enough?
how to test it then?

[gray hare]

put a breakpoint, when breakpoint is hit, see what's happening

[drowsy steppe]

I created another blueprint with another character mesh but it is not working, while with a simple skeletal mesh directly put in game it works

[drowsy steppe]

thanks

[elfin lagoon]

breakpoint

[gray hare]

what class is this breakpoint in?

[velvet smelt]

Try getting all mesh components or tag the ones that you want to isolate for selection.

[drowsy steppe]

this is what i get with the skeletal mesh directly put in the scene, and the other bps with meshes that work

[elfin lagoon]

in the class, which contains SceneCaptureComponent2D

[gray hare]

what's the class's name?

[gray hare]

I think I don't know enough about how you're rendering this stuff to be helpful. Sorry.

[drowsy steppe]

if you're talking to me it's not the rendering the problem, that works, the problem is it doesnn't even see the mesh on my character. but it works with other meshes, i don't understand why

[gray hare]

no, SMAYAZ and his minimap

I also don't know much about your technique and I gotta start work now. Sorry.

[drowsy steppe]

thank you very much for trying to help!

[velvet smelt]

@drowsy steppe Trying getting all mesh components from the owner

[drowsy steppe]

thanks, is this the right way? (as you can notice i'm quite novice)

[velvet smelt]

No worries. Just the "Get Components by class" will work. Instead of just getting one, run it through a "for each loop"

[drowsy steppe]

stilll not working. It sees the other meshes but not the character one

[velvet smelt]

Hmmm...there has to be some setting for the "skeletal mesh component". Let me see what I can find.

[gray hare]

is the type of mesh you're looking for not a skeletal mesh?

[drowsy steppe]

mind that it works if i just put the skeletal mesh in the scene, but it doesn't if it's a character

[drowsy steppe]

yes, i've tried with skeletal mesh specifically also but same problem, while the other skeletal meshes are seen

[pale anchor]

got it! Thank you!

[drowsy steppe]

i really appreciate it

[gray hare]

is there a setting relating to static vs dynamic meshes somewhere?

[velvet smelt]

You're welcome! Don't have too much fun.

[lunar sleet]

Nvm I thought you meant nav meshes 😅

[drowsy steppe]

i don't know, but both are working so it shouldn't be that right?

[gray hare]

so skeletal mesh works, just not if it's a character?

[drowsy steppe]

yes

[gray hare]

weird

[velvet smelt]

Hmmmmm...in the Character...what is the collision set to for the mesh?

Nvm, that shouldn't matter

[drowsy steppe]

I appreciate it anyway, thank you so much for trying to help

[queen dagger]

Hi ive been using a plugin set called pixel2d as i am not good with programming and am learning however really slowly, long story short i want an ability to use an amount of energy, play a specific flipbook and deal damage, ive been stuck on this for some time is anyone willing to help me on this?

[grizzled roost]

I'm working on a level editor.
The actor will adjust it's location based on collision when I click to spawn it.
But is there a way to not have it halfway through the floor when I'm in placement mode before I chose a location to spawn it?

[hollow karma]

That may have been the issue because it's available this morning after I turned my computer back on. What a weird limitation.

[velvet smelt]

Sorry man, I'm puzzled on this one.

[velvet smelt]

Check the relative location to the root component

[drowsy steppe]

Thank you anyway. Must be some mistake on my end

[grizzled roost]

Good catch, turns out I moved the root to -90 to adjust for the mesh's location.
I changed it back and moved the skeletal mesh instead, no difference though.
Also the same seems to happen if push the actor against a wall, so that offset definetly wasn't the problem.

[eager thicket]

I need a second opinion.

Currently I'm building my small project using almost entirely modular pieces of code that control specific parts of the gameplay. Each one is very nicely self sufficient without dependancies on other parts (meaning I can alter each part to my heart's content without worrying at all... and, I can copy paste them to other unrelated projects and they just work)

Is this something I could safely continue for most of the project? I realize I'll need to start "connecting the dots" at some point, but I'm hoping that border will be crossed later rather than sooner.

My question is basically if I play my cards smart, I just ideally have a very nice, very organized set of "modules" that I will eventually bring together in the final part of the project. This isn't a rule set in stone, just something I'm doing for like 90% of it. But I'm worried this is a terrible way to make a 1/2 man indie game or not.

[gentle urchin]

Many modules and a few core project specific actors is golden if you can manage

Project specific avtors job will be connecting the dots

[eager thicket]

Yeah I've fallen into that by accident. I have the one player actor connecting all the dots of otherwise self sufficient modules.

Always take care to make sure the modules themselves don't fuck with connecting the dots themselves

But you say it's pretty golden. Thanks. I'll keep going ahead with this approach.

[gentle urchin]

As long as the work to keep it that way dont spiral into madness, for sure

[broken wadi]

You can have the most elegant code ever written but if the players think your game sucks then your game still sucks. So in other words its good to have modular code but keep in mind players won't ever see the code so maybe its best to ask yourself if the next thing you're working on is worth spending the extra time to make it modular or not.

[gentle urchin]

^It is a fair point, time consumption vs payoff

players never get to peek behind the curtains

[tulip night]

Hi fine folks! Quick question. I have a Blueprint Interface already in widespread use. When adding a new input variable to one of its functions, this leads to crashes and and widespread errors. What should I consider when adding new inputs? Can't I when it's already in use?

[eager thicket]

it's honestly for myself. I lose massive amounts of motivation to continue a project if I'm always freaking out about whether this change or that change will impact the whole works. Also I hate the idea of spending too much time on one project and not being able to reuse parts of it for something else.

The more elegant and modular it is, the more happy I am working on it. Bottom line.

[cyan harbor]

anyone know how i can save my level so everything is in the same place. im using the replicated building system btw

[prisma forum]

I'm creating a single-player atmospheric horror game, where there are many BP_ParentSoundTrigger objects placed around the level. When the player enters a sound trigger, it checks to see if they have completed the PrerequisiteTask (a WBP_IndividualTask class reference), and if they have it plays a certain sound. I just realized that the way I currently have it set up is probably very inefficient, as each BP_ParentSoundTrigger is casting to the player and running a for each loop each time they enter their box trigger (again, MANY sound trigger objects in the level). Can someone suggest a more performative way to set this up? I was thinking of changing to use Event Dispatchers, but I'm not sure if that will be more efficient with how many sound triggers there would be listening.

[versed sun]

Can your Completed Tasks be an Array of Classes instead ?
Then you can use Contains for the Array

[faint pasture]

That's not awful

[dark drum]

How many is many? 10, 20, a few hundred? Also how many tasks are there?

[faint pasture]

The fact that you're basing gameplay off of widgets is a bit weird

I'd say your definition of a task and the fact that you're using widget classes for tasks is strange, but the rest looks fine.

[prisma forum]

Let's assume there are ~100 sound triggers, and 20+ tasks. I suppose I could change the completed tasks array type, though I currently populate it with the widget objects to keep track of which tasks are completed. i use widget objects because the player has a task sheet populated with widget objects to show which tasks they have active/completed

[faint pasture]

I mean I'd start with task = a name

yeah use the names

[prisma forum]

true that's a good idea. I think originally I figured it'd be simpler to keep it all widget focused to avoid complication, but that's definitely the more performative route

[faint pasture]

you can still use a widget class to define things so you have a nice drop down

but the check for "is this task completed?" should be finding a name within an array of names

or even the class

anything but the object reference

[prisma forum]

The way I currently have it set up let's my designers set the prerequisite task class for each sound trigger object. Do you have a good suggestion for how to check task name against the class reference?

[faint pasture]

get class defaults, get the name

just like you're already doing for the call to Task Completed

or you can even just use the class itself as the data

just don't use an object based on that class, that seems super fragile

I'd do one of those

why does TaskCompleted use the name?

From the outside, if I'm passing a Task class to Event Complete Task, I'd expect the saved state to probably be that class

not to be some object based on that class or even a property within it

just make CompletedTasks an array of task classes and it'll be a bit better I think

[prisma forum]

The task completed event uses a Switch On Name of the compelted task name to call the next events for the story. If you have a better suggestion for this method as well I'd love to hear it, though it seems to work well and is easily understood by my designers for now

[faint pasture]

oof yeah I'd have the next event be a part of the class itself

looking at a task class should be enough to figure out what's next

[prisma forum]

How exactly would I have the event chain be a part of the class?

[faint pasture]

Task:
data Data
data Data
Task NextTask

or you could have some outer data structure that holds all that

either way the switch on name is very scary

[prisma forum]

Is there anything inherently wrong with the Switch On Name? I get that its a pretty poor choice for scalability, but our game is relatively small in scope and I want the task event system to be easily understood

[faint pasture]

I mean now if any name gets changed or misspelled you got a really hard bug to track down.
All of theses could just be within each task

Task.OnComplete

[rich ferry]

I have a bit of a puzzle with my reticle system, hopefully this is the right place to put it.

The way it works is that the turret is designed to rotate towards the point where the camera is looking, and the reticle will place itself over the point where the turret is looking (using a trace out of the muzzle). This way the user knows where their shell will go when they fire, even if the turret is not aligned with the camera at that moment. In the case that the camera's trace doesn't impact, the turret will just aim parallel to the camera.

The problem arises when the turret's trace does not impact anything, in which case I have it set up to just center the reticle in the view. However, if the camera moves in this state, the turret reticle does not follow the turret because the turret's trace has no impact point, demonstrated in the video. I was wondering if anyone has an idea for how to get the reticle to follow the motion of the turret in this state.

I tried using a spring arm instead of a trace, but I did not like the quality of the result; the reticle was always a bit off in cases where it should be centered.

[faint pasture]

Just have a maximum distance

if you don't hit, use the point at that distance

[rich ferry]

So basically, a really long spring arm?

I guess it comes down to which has the better performance

[rich ferry]

I was sort of thinking of something like, taking the rotation of the turret relative to the camera and turning that into a screen position. Somehow. But its a vague idea at best.

[faint pasture]

Start by cooking up an AimPoint

Tick:
Line trace from camera -> hit -> set DesiredAimPoint
-> didn't hit -> set DesiredAimPoint based on max distance
Rotate turret towards DesiredAimpoint
Line trace from muzzle -> hit -> set AimPoint
-> didn't hit -> set Aimpoint based on max distance
Draw something at DesiredAimPoint
Draw something at AimPoint

[rich ferry]

Btw, here's what it looks like using a spring arm, as you can see it's a bit off whereas the trace is pixel perfect

[rich ferry]

I'll try that

[random pulsar]

Guys hello.There is one mechanic i want to make but i dont know how,can you explain what resources i would check and what are the steps to make it.

The movement of a caterpillar on different surfaces,for example i am on ground,i move to the tree,and i should be able to walk on the tree

The player will move 98% of the gameplay time,so its the main mechanic that player will rarely think about but its the most important one

[rich ferry]

So you want to attach the caterpillar to what it walks on? A rudimentary version could use the "Attach Actor to Actor" node. There are almost certainly better systems out there though.

[random pulsar]

Yeah but actor attaches to actor,not to static mesh

I want to attach to static meshes,landscape and actors

[rich ferry]

I didn't think about landscape

Maybe try googling for "sticky feet" or something

[obtuse glacier]

This BP is not working as I would have expected

It's tied to my player Character class, and it works perfectly when the player does not move - if I hold the mouse button, the player turns to face the mouse

[lofty rapids]

at the end and start, as your end point most likely

[obtuse glacier]

but I've found with the print string that the degree to which the mouse coordinates changes is different depending on whether it changed because the character moved or changed because the mouse moved

over the same unit of space, it will change by 10 units if I move the mouse myself but 100 units if the character moves

[rich ferry]

I'm actually using a somewhat similar system right now

[obtuse glacier]

mouse moves (hovering over the corner to the left of the cube)

[lofty rapids]

well it would change if you move and the camera is locked on the player

because your getting under the mouse

[obtuse glacier]

Character moves (moved the character to be centered over that position)

[rich ferry]

Unfortunately I do not use the mouse-to-world node so my knowledge may not be applicable

[obtuse glacier]

would that matter when I'm using Look At with the character and the mouse's world positions?

I'm not using relative position afaik

[lofty rapids]

did you do start + end ?

as your end point, i would try that

[rich ferry]

It might be helpful to put an indicator ball at the world location to see if it's always under your mouse

Like so

The indicator has no physics or collision

[obtuse glacier]

did you make that BP Hit Indicator?

Or is that baked into unreal? Cause I can make my own it'd just be nice lol

[rich ferry]

Yep it's just a bright red sphere

[obtuse glacier]

That presumably deletes itself after some time?

[olive yarrow]

I uh... I have a sudden issue. My follow camera attached to my spring arm no longer collides with anything... probe channel has been tried on and off under all settings - collisions are correct on items, hell - camera blocking volume won't even stop it.

Anyone have any ideas wjat o

[rich ferry]

You can do it that way if you want, I sometimes did, sometimes not

[rich ferry]

Try rebooting the editor maybe? 🤷‍♂️

[olive yarrow]

lmfao but seriously i have not tried turning it off and on again. so fair suggestion. If i'm possessing something and have it set inside the level it works but these are the joys

[random pulsar]

I googled and watched some videos about sticking boots and other stuff but didnt find what i was looking for.

But mathematically ,what are the steps to make it

[rich ferry]

It's not a cure-all for sure but it can occasionally help for stuff that makes you go "wtf that was fine just a second ago"

[rich ferry]

Sorry man, I wouldn't know

[random pulsar]

Imagine you have to create this,how would you do this?

The question is to all people in the chat

[lofty rapids]

maybe some sort of custom gravity ?

[olive yarrow]

no dice but whatevs i'll just consider it a feature 😆

[lofty rapids]

can you use the normal of a line trace ?

[olive yarrow]

Esplain!

(please)

[lofty rapids]

well i'm pretty sure the hit normal of a line trace can be used to get the angle

and you could use the hit position and the normal to position a piece of your caterpillar

considering you need it to go up and be on the ground at the same time i would imagine ?

[olive yarrow]

oh oh, i'm not doing the caterpillar i'm the camera not colliding guy

[lofty rapids]

well shit, my fault

[lofty rapids]

your checking for the camera actually colliding ?

[olive yarrow]

my camera nor spring arm have a on collision event D:

[lofty rapids]

is the spring working ? meaning it goes in when you hit a wall or something so you always see the character ?

[dusty flint]

Hii! quick questions, does anybody know what do i have to connect to that object?

[olive yarrow]

it definitely isn't workin, it ignore blocking volumes too... but i can't figure out why it isn't working yknow? Collision test is on...

[lofty rapids]

you need to get the game mode

[random pulsar]

Only for ground i think it will work but i have vertical objects too

What about raycasting?

[velvet smelt]

Can you screenshot your collision settings?

[random pulsar]

Every second for example

[lofty rapids]

^ @random pulsar

[olive yarrow]

you got it mr cage, for the spring arm ?

[random pulsar]

And then do something based on the type of surface

[velvet smelt]

Both if it's not too much trouble.

[random pulsar]

But again,i raycast and how do i move the player,change its possition

Ohhh this is so hard

No idea and no resouces(

[olive yarrow]

my follow camera has no collision options - what else can i provide ya?

i cranked the probe hella high just to illicit a response (no dice)

[wheat citrus]

Quick question, I want to spawn an actor (projectile) with certain parameters such as those in the first image. Problem is I need to spawn different types of projectiles depending on what weapon is selected. For this I use a data table that has the projectile type for every weapon and feed it into the spawn actor bp as shown in the second image. All projectiles will have the same parameters (may have different values) they can spawn with but there seems to be no way to feed those into the spawn acto class unless a specific projectile class is selected.

[rich ferry]

Presumably all your projectiles have a common parent?

[wheat citrus]

I think so? They will be spawned by different weapon components which are all owned by a 'Weapons' scene component

[random pulsar]

No just stick to the surface its on

[velvet smelt]

Set the ProbeSize to 12.

[wheat citrus]

Like this

[rich ferry]

My bad, I meant the projectile classes. Do they all have the same parent class?

[olive yarrow]

negative on any change

[velvet smelt]

And what are these settings:
Target Offset
Socket Offset
TargetLength

[wheat citrus]

Currently they all say Parent Class 'Actor'. Sorry if I'm not understanding correctly, I'm pretty new to UE

[olive yarrow]

all 0 good sir

[velvet smelt]

Hmmmm...what did you do? Lol

[olive yarrow]

Right? lmfao

[velvet smelt]

Is there anything in the script/blueprint that's making adjustments?

[olive yarrow]

For some reason my spring arm decided the dimensions that worked prior were no longer enough - even though i edited them 5 seconds ago to test the extreme to no avail - this time the extreme worked

tl:dr, fixed it. no idea how

thank you everyone though still 😂

[velvet smelt]

Well...there you go. Sometimes if you stare at it long enough...

[rich ferry]

Alright so what you want to do is create a new BP that holds all the logic that all of the projectile classes share, such as those variables you were talking about. Reparent the projectile classes to the new parent. Then you should make sure that the purple class pin is of the type of that parent, if you can't make it that way, then use a cast. This should allow the variables to be passed in.

Alternatively, which is what I did, you can pre-set all the values within the blueprints itself, and instead of exposing the values on spawn you just have a BP for each projectile. I have heard the data table approach is better practice though, so go ahead and keep that if you want.

[rich ferry]

The worst best feeling

[wheat citrus]

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I'll try to get it to work this way.

[flat coral]

I've got this system to face a pawn towards a target actor (the player in this case) and weirdly it seems to be able to follow horizontally but not vertically. Why can't it pitch upwards?

Adding logs, you can see that the target rotation is correct, it just.... isn't pitching up to match

[wheat citrus]

Got it working, thanks so much (:

[rich ferry]

That's actually wild my man, wtf

Type of thing that would drive me insane lmao

Try printing the output of the RInterp maybe? See what that is

[flat coral]

I mean it would just be whatever the rotation gets set to right?

[rich ferry]

Otherwise my best guess would be a world/relative mixup somewhere

[rich ferry]

Ye I'm just curious

[flat coral]

Or to put it another way, the current rotation is the output of the previous tick's rotation

[hexed cloak]

Does anyone have any idea why a ragdoll mesh would just ever so slowly slide away after setting Simulate Physics?

The mesh ragdolls to the ground correctly, but sometimes it just continues to scoot across the ground forever.

It's not every time; just random scenarios where the ragdoll mesh is on the ground scooting away like a snail lol

[flat coral]

OR IS IT. Good call logging this, something else is moving this fucking thing.

[velvet pendant]

i'm that dumb that i saved my current game that i'm working on cloud.

Like, my entire game w/ backups

[rich ferry]

Like, zionks scoob, a clue!

[lunar sleet]

Use source control

[flat coral]

This was the bitch

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to change the sensitivity of the player looking correctly? This is the system im using to look currently

[rich ferry]

Ahhhhh lmao at least it was a simple fix

[sudden spear]

You could multiply the Action value by a number between 0 and 1
(or 1+ obviously to make it more sensitive and not less ofc 🙂 )

[frail onyx]

alr thx, so if i wanted to make a settings menu or smth i could just like make a variable x sens and y sens and have them plugged into the multiply node?

[sudden spear]

Exactly 🥳

[frail onyx]

ok ty!

[sudden spear]

There are probably other ways to do that as well, like always (I just don't know them right now^^)

[soft fjord]

Trying to make this work with input action instead of begin overlap, any ideas?

[faint pasture]

Where's the input action?

[random pulsar]

He wants to run all that overlap code only if the player presses an input key and is in overlap,so i think he need an interface to handle that

[faint pasture]

interface or enable input on the actor or whatever

[coarse condor]

Sorry for getting back to this late I had something come up. Even if I replace the inputaction with a direct keyboard interaction node it still doesn't work.

[trim matrix]

that's the deprecate method

just try to print something to the screen and you will know if it works or not

[faint pasture]

is input enabled on this actor?

input doesn't just work on any old actor

[coarse condor]

Hmm- honestly I do not know. I've only been messing with blueprints for a month or so, I can look into it more. Thanks for putting me in a direction to look.

[feral moon]

Hi, i have some problems understanding how variables work. How exacly i can use Variables from one blueprint to another? 🙃 If someone can explain that to me i will be very greatful

[steel shadow]

Hello, is there a way to soft reference Actors ?

I'd want to soft reference the weapons that I use as Child Actor for example

[pine trellis]

can someone help? I am trying to change the game mode of my map but its not changing the game mode when it host , even though the listen=?Game= prints the game mode its not actually changingit in the game mode over ride as it stays with the same parent Replicated Game mode bluepriunt I created

what would cause it not to change?

[dark drum]

You would only use a soft actor reference if the actor would be loaded and unloaded at runtime. (Level streaming)

With you using a child actor componenty, you would want to make the classes you use to set the child as soft reference and resolve them when you go to use it to update the child.

[steel shadow]

I'm not sure I understood that right, I would need to cast to my main BP the soft reference ? or something like that ?

[dark drum]

Have you used soft references before?

[steel shadow]

Well I use them for textures and Skm for now,

But trying to see if I can also use them for actors in my scenario here

[dark drum]

What are you wanting to use as a soft reference exactly?

[steel shadow]

So I use Actors for my weapons, thing is I'm gonna have a lot and don't want to load all of them when loading the character, so I would like to soft reference them, as of now I soft reference the SKM and Textures Inside the weapons, but idk if that's enough. My Main Character has 400mb memory size allocation and I'm kinda starting*

[opal wraith]

hi, i'm trying to do something but i don't know how to do it, basically i want to limit the movement of an rts camera so that it won't go too far away from a procedural grid i made.

[dark drum]

So when you set the child actor, you have to specify the class. You would use a soft reference for this class. Then you would only load the class (resolve it) before you use it to update the child actor.

[steel shadow]

Oh yeah gotcha

Haven't seen the actor soft reference node 😅

[dark drum]

You can make soft actor references but it's for Actor A needing a ref to Actor B but actor B might not always be loaded. (Level streaming) to clarify, these are actors placed in the level.

If you use sublevels, you have to use soft actor references when trying to communicate with actors in different sublevels.

[steel shadow]

Ok well thanks for the detailed Info just starting on the soft actor stuff not sure I get all of it Rn, but i'll discover as I go I guess

[lofty rapids]

you know about variables in general ?

or you just don't know how to communicate between bp ?

[feral moon]

i know how variables work and what information they can posses but i dont really know how to communicate between bp as you said

[lofty rapids]

one way is when you cast you can get/set public variables

when you get the bp you get access to the public stuff

[feral moon]

how?

you mean that eye?

[thin panther]

check the pins for a live training on blueprint communication

it's a great one.
lengthy, but necessary

[feral moon]

okey i will check it

and i have another question, how can i destroy object when being overlaped and respawn it again in same position?

5s later

thats what i have rn

but don't really know what should be next xd

[feral moon]

Okey i did it another way, and it works perfectly, sometimes its worth to think a little longer to find anserw ^^

[undone bluff]

you cannot put anything after destroy actor

[undone bluff]

I'd generally recommend setting visibility and collision instead

but if it works it works

[feral moon]

i tried but it still worked

this is a double jump orb, and even if it was invisible it still give double jump

[undone bluff]

that's why I said to set the collision

you can also just set a boolean which you check after receiving the overlap event

[feral moon]

but boolean will work for every orb like this

[undone bluff]

current method isn't awful but it's an unnecessary vector to cache and you have to make sure your actor is off the map but nowhere where it'd be destroyed for being out of bounds

[undone bluff]

what do you mean by that

[feral moon]

well

thats depends how i set it up

need to think about it more

if i use one orb i still can jump from another

[undone bluff]

I think you're misunderstanding

[feral moon]

thats my main goal

[undone bluff]

every single orb is a unique instance

they do no communicate with each other in any way unless you make them

[feral moon]

but they have same blueprint

[undone bluff]

they share a class

which is basically a template

[feral moon]

so, they also have different variables?

[undone bluff]

every single instance of the orb is an entirely separate object

imagine you make two characters

they both inherit from ACharacter

but are otherwise separate

your orbs are the same

the orbs created for the game just inherit from the class you are editing

[feral moon]

oh yeah, that makes sense

thanks for explain

[undone bluff]

np

[undone bluff]

Very relevant to this. You need to get a reference to that one exact orb if you want to communicate with it

Overlap and hit events return references to the other actor involved for example

Once you have a reference, the target, you need to communicate with it and there's many ways with different up and downsides

casting is generally the first one beginners learn

it's basically takes a reference, checks if it belongs to the class you're casting to and, if so, lets you act upon it with that in mind

it creates a hard reference because now your actor needs to know all about the other actor to be able to access all its variables, functions and components

so when one is loaded into memory the other will be too, it makes whatever you cast to a dependency

another concern is being able to do communication to a variety of different classes, like a generic interact or pick up function

[feral moon]

to make a reference i need to create variable and choose Actor -> object reference?

[undone bluff]

that is a variable that can hold a reference

keep in mind that if you put like a character reference in an actor reference

you won't be able to access anything specific to the character class, all your blueprint will know is that it is an actor

[feral moon]

okey, so in my scenario if i want to make orb dissapear for 5 seconds i need a reference for each of them?

[undone bluff]

the orb disappearing and reappearing is handled by the orb

it doesn't need any reference because it is only acting on itself

[feral moon]

okeey i dont really know how it will look in blueprints, maybe i should watch that live training on blueprint communication which someone mentioned

thanks for your help, now i need a sleep xd

[frail onyx]

Anyone know if it's better to use a multi sphere trace for objects or a sphere overlap node to make something similar to the aiming system shown in this video at 3:21? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6B4gH-ZGlY&t=215s or to have a collision sphere on the player and use oncomponentbeginoverlap and oncomponentendoverlap?

[fiery swallow]

Multispheretrace and sphere overlap are will get you two entirely different results

Multi sphere trace will not even closely get you the results you're looking for

Go with the sphere overlap

I remember telling you how to do the system yesterday, if you are confused on anything feel free to @ me

[frail onyx]

ok thanks! yeah i watched a vid too to try and figure it out a bit more and he was using sphere traces so i wasn't exactly sure what was the best method

[fiery swallow]

In his video he said to get the closest shoot able actor. In that case you want a sphere overlap for objects and then compare the distances

If you want to get the actors in the general area of where you are pointing, then you would indeed need a multi sphere trace

I mightve misunderstood the goal

[peak fjord]

Hello, I don't know if this is the right channel but Is there anyway of making or finding any alternatives for “Line of Sight To” to be tied to the players camera instead of the players location? I tried using “Was Actor Recently Rendered” but it ignores culling logic and triggers through objects and walls. Any help would be much appreciated, still a noob at this engine!

[fiery swallow]

From what I remember it does nit gi through walls, it's checking if any part of that actor is visible. So if you have the slightest crack In a wall that allows the engine to render even a frame of that actor then that actor is considered to be rendered

There's no partially rendered or fully rendered

I could be wrong though I only used it once. But after a while you start to understand how things are coded

It would be weird if it only said true if the entire actor was visible

In terms of creating your own system? You could make a point system based on how many bones were visible.

I'd do a line trace for every important bone, and then for each successful trace from the camera to the bone I would add 1 point. If you could see x amount of bones then you could consider that actor rendered

Thats the only reliable and customizable way I can see you making your own system to detect whether or not someone was visible

For an actor you'd have to use sockets

[peak fjord]

Sadly it goes through walls in general for the recently rendered action. I even tested it on thick walls, thin walls, multiple in the way, it just for some od reason triggers if im just looking it its direction.

[peak fjord]

For this on the other hand definitely sounds doable and ill give it a try!

[soft flax]

So, I'm trying to figure out how to have music play once a "combat state" begins using blueprint interfaces, my main struggle right now is to have that music actually play in the world. I'm considering putting an audio component on the player itself and have an actor component change the audio depending on some different inputs but idk if that's the best way to do it

If anyone has a good forum post or youtube video about managing music in levels that would be great, cause all the stuff I've looked at is just dynamic music using metasounds or super outdated tutorials from years ago

[glossy cloak]

Anybody know an easy way to open a Steam store page within the game using the overlay? Maybe a simple plugin that can do it?

[peak fjord]

You're the best, works flawlessly! Thank you so much!

[fiery swallow]

steamcore

costs like 100 bucks I think

but it exposes the entire steam API to blueprints

saves you an enormous headache

[fiery swallow]

nah just create a World Music Manager actor, and spawn it into the world on beginplay in the gamemode.

The music manager should be responsible for:

• Holding all of the different soundtracks
• Modifying sound settings (like volume)
• Keeping track of the state of the game to play different music (like the map your in, which area you're in)
• keeping track of whether or not you've entered combat to fade out the old music and start the combat music

things of that nature

[soft flax]

I guess its time to study up on things again

Would the actor be a literal actor blueprint or is there a different blueprint I should be using for it?

[fiery swallow]

I would start by binding to the players health inside of the music manager actor, whenever the player receives damage, then combat has probably started

[soft flax]

[fiery swallow]

a literal actor that you spawn at 0,0,0

[soft flax]

ok got it

ty

[fiery swallow]

after spawning the actor in the gamemode save a reference to it, then create a BPI to interact with it. whenever an AI targets the player you could get the game mode and call the BPI "Update Music to combat"

that way the music would change even before the player took damage

I only suggest a BPI instead of casting directly to the manager is because it would be annoying to create a reference to the music manager for every object that could potentially change the song

[soft flax]

yeah that makes sense, I was planning on using a BPI anyways

thank you for the knowledge, its really helpful

[sonic pier]

how do I find out if a pawn has exited the players view with pawn sensing?

[lunar sleet]

By using #gameplay-ai perception instead of pawn sensing 😀

[hardy mango]

did they take this away? You used to be able to use == operator on structs (blueprint) (if my memory serves right) ??

5.3 - i can pull off of this struct output node - and get the == but it disconnects immediately - and i cant reconnect it

[marble tusk]

I don't recall that being a thing

[hardy mango]

i guess i'll just drill into it

no big - i just thought i remember being able to compare 2 structs

[gentle urchin]

Comparing structs requires custom code for comparing afaik.

Cant recall ever being able to == on structs

[hardy mango]

so you're saying - no my memory doest serve me right?

https://tenor.com/view/boomer-alert-speaker-alarm-gif-15124610

[gentle urchin]

You may have it from a plugin that had it

So I'm not trashing your memory just yet 😅

[hardy mango]

i am ..... damn old fats

farts

[soft estuary]

loading up a level get this and crashes

Array index out of bounds: -1 from an array of size 161```

[fiery swallow]

somewhere in your code, you tried to get an Item index from an array that didn't exist

need to check in every array that an index is valid before before trying to retrieve it

In blueprints, it often returns an error and catches it for you without crashing the editor, it almost always results in a straight up crash in c++ if you try to access an index from an array that does't exist

[soft estuary]

ty im new to unreal bp anyways its bc this ai system im guessing

[fiery swallow]

np, just be sure to check if the index is ever valid before getting it, be careful with pure functions aswell

[soft estuary]

ty good sire alot will do 🙂

[native canopy]

is vectorlength like pythagoras?

looking for the nearest vector, like AI move to

[nocturne basalt]

had this problem above, solved it, but now it moves strange. Basically I want the grid called RAILS to move sideway when the trigger is active and to it's initial position when it is not. BUT it moves not straight, not as I want it to move on only one axis. Maybe coz it takes the current position instead of initial, but I dunno how to GetInitialPositionOfAComponent. Help to make it move straight pls

problem appears only on the way back (the bottom part of the code)

[gentle urchin]

Ehh..

You gotta undo the new pos

Store initial in a variable

[nocturne basalt]

Oh thanks again, just had to figure out how to make one. You are my saviour

[sudden fern]

What is the best way to check which character the mouse is over in a text block in umg?

is there even a way to do that?

[dark drum]

Not out the box no. You can only detect when an element has been overlapped, (in the case the text box) but there's nothing to detect the specific character (or piece of the element).

[sudden fern]

Then is there a way to dynamically add buttons behind certain words so I can detect them on hover?

[stuck sentinel]

when i remove this it removed the error but if i remove it i cant crouch like what do i do

[dark drum]

I'm not sure if you would be able to with BP as I would imagine that would require getting the width of the specific letter in the given font which I don't believe you can do.

What are you trying to achieve, as in the end result?

[dark drum]

This is the similiest of all errors. You've trying to get something from an empty ref. 🙂 In this case the ref it's referring to is BP Player.

[sudden fern]

I want to make a programming based game where the player could play cards to get blocks of code
Like playing a for card gets
for(int i = 0; i<□; i++)
{
OutgoingDamage += □;
}

written on screen.

I want a way for the player to be able to click on the blanks to fill them with numbers

[stuck sentinel]

what do you mean empty

here it is

[dark drum]

As I said empty. When ever you create an object based variable, it's just an empty map with nothing written on it. You've specified what the map is supposed to take you to but until you set the variable ref, there's no instructions on how to get to it.

[stuck sentinel]

i dont understand

how come it works for walking to crouch or running to crouch but not idle to crouch

so the reference is working but for some reason from idle to crouch it isnt referencing?

it works normally but i get an error

[dark drum]

They probably don't use the BP Player var.

[stuck sentinel]

this is the idle to crouch

exactly the same as walk to crouch

first is idle to crouch second is walk to crouch

[dark drum]

Right click on the BP Player variable and find references. You could be clearing it somewhere.

[stuck sentinel]

clearing how?

[dark drum]

setting it to null.

It might also never get set.

[trim matrix]

Pattym hi buddy 👋 Is there a way to collectively put these nodes into a cluster and connect them, or should I connect approximately 300+ variants like this one by one?

[stuck sentinel]

i only have this outside the animation

[dark drum]

You'd need to provide more info about what its doing.

[stuck sentinel]

6 references to get crouching and 1 reference to initialize blueprint

[stuck sentinel]

6 like this

[trim matrix]

it's changing kitchen cabinets color but there is too much buttons and variations, doing it one by one gonna take days of work, I thought maybe there is shortcut to do it

[dark drum]

I would create a button widget that's for changing the colour. When clicked, it would fire an event dispatcher that returns the buttons assigned colour. You can then create the buttons widgets dynamically from an array of colours (that the cabinets can be) and when they are created (in the parent widget), you would bind to the event dispatcher on the button and have them all call the same function. The function would then update the cabinet colour using what gets passed through the event dispatcher.

[dark drum]

Do you have any NPC's that use the animBP?

[stuck sentinel]

i have the enemy bp

but its using abp quinn

[dark drum]

ABP Quinn is a child of ABP Manny. 😉

[stuck sentinel]

so what do i do then

[dark drum]

Thats the issue as it's not a BP Player. 😉

[trim matrix]

thank you so much for this, but I have no idea how to do that 😄

because it supposed to change this much color

[stuck sentinel]

so do i just not animate the enemy?

[dark drum]

The movement component has a is crouched var. 😉 If you use this, you don't need to cast to a specific character type BP and you can keep it generic.

[stuck sentinel]

i removed the animation from enemy my game crashed

[stuck sentinel]

i removed the crouched from the enemy bp

[hard charm]

Guys, a question to do Blueprint of the delta rotator in c++ would be to subtract 2 rotations and then normalize it.

[dark drum]

but that's not the issue. The issue is you have an ABP on an NPC that is attempting to get a var from a player character. You need to think of a more generic way you can get the data you need that both the player and NPC's can use.

[stuck sentinel]

AP?

[dark drum]

AnimBP

[stuck sentinel]

so i should do as bp player target crouching and bp enemy target crouching

?

and cast to enemy bp here?

[dark drum]

Or you could use the crouching on the character movement component as both already have that. Then you won't need to cast to anything but the character to get the component.

[stuck sentinel]

but that crouching is not the one im using

[halcyon vapor]

hi, I have an actor which I sometimes use as child actor for another actor, and I was wondering if it was possible to get/set that child actor's world transform

[dark drum]

Why not?

[stuck sentinel]

it doesnt work with timeline

[dark drum]

It can. I shared something many months on here about how to do it. 🙂 You just have to set is crouched when the timeline has finished.

[stuck sentinel]

but when i do crouch its its own seperate crouch other than the timeline

timeline in my method works because i set the capsule half height through the timeline

in crouch its in the details panel

how do i implement timeline into a setting in details

[dark drum]

From you're timeline, lerp from your normal half height to the crouched half height as specified in the component. When it's completed, call the crouch function. This will set is crouching to true and set the walk speed to the crouching walk speed.

[stuck sentinel]

yeah but what about the timeline

wait

you mean add it in the end

?

the error is gone but now i got all these

[dark drum]

Well you need to show what you're actually doing.

[silent drift]

I don't really know how to do this, how would I best make a "box" be pushed from a projectile and follow the projectile.

See the clip I added. I would like the projectile to move the box forward. if I add impulse the projectile stops where it is rather than going with the box forward.

I guess I would almost like to "attach" the projectile to the box so it just goes in the same direction.

[gentle urchin]

Attach sounds reasonable

While attached -> trace down or smth 😄

[silent drift]

How would I do that? I tried using the "attach actor to actor", but that din't really work.

Hmm,

[sudden fern]

Any Idea How to achieve this in widgets?

I have been stuck for 2 hours now

[dark drum]

If the code snippets are predetermined, you could setup with widgets how you want and put text input boxes where they are needed. You might be able to procedurally do it if you split it up into lines (string array) and then check for a specific string in the line. Then you could add a text box for normal text and input text box for where they can input something.

[sudden spear]

If the "attach actor to actor" function is successful you could call an event in that box BP which moves the box in a predefined direction.
This should work better then going the complicated route of using the bolts momentum to push the box

[sudden spear]

Or should it be physics based?
...in that case maybe there is something missing in the box's physics settings?

[silent drift]

I didn't get this working, but I might maybe try again a bit later. Maybe I did something wrong.

[silent drift]

And I feel physics might be to "uncontrollable", if I want the player to use it for puzzles?

So they box doesn't fly somewhere it shouldn't and the player can't finish the puzzle.

[drowsy steppe]

Hey guys, does someone has an idea on why my component work with skeletal meshes and object meshes that are outside of my character but not with my character mesh? they all have the same component but it's not seen in the character
(I'm getting meshes of objects that have this component and apply this yellow outline)

[sudden spear]

Yeah exactly, in that case those physics have to be tweaked a hell lot. (Given that the box's destination isn't a hole or something which would make it easier for players to aim at it you know?)

[silent drift]

Yeah, Maybe I should "just" do a timeline, so I can really control where it should go. Rather than trust physics or something like this.

I mean, I guess I could make sure as well, and make it part of the "rule-set" for the game. E.g. always have a hole to throw the box in, etc.

[sudden spear]

yep, sounds about right 🙂
...then make the curve maybe ease out to boost the players feeling of something that has been pushed (by the bolt) and slowly loses momentum because of friction).
In any way: Setting up a predefined route that the box will take upon impact may be "just" another smoking mirror, which is so common in gamedev anyway^^, but it make your life much easier 🙂

[silent drift]

Yeah for sure. 😄

[drowsy steppe]

nobody has an idea? what information can i add to help?

[dark drum]

the character mesh in the character might not have it's stencil value set to the right one to show the outline.

[drowsy steppe]

thanks, but the problem is it doesn't even see the mesh when hovering it

but i'll check

[dark drum]

it wouldn't be the mesh that detects on mouse over but the capsule. Check to make sure it's set to recieve mouse over events.

Edit: Sorry, the overlap events i think.

[drowsy steppe]

sorry i'm a noob, where can i check that? by the way the stencil has the same value of other meshes that work

[drowsy steppe]

the generate overlap events is set to on

[dark drum]

With it working for the other onces, I would assume the generate mouse over events is enabled on the player controller. Do the mouse hoover events call at all? (Add a print string to confirm)

[drowsy steppe]

no it doesn't on a character, but it does on other meshes

[frigid summit]

good afternone

[waxen wing]

Hey y'all I am running into some issues with seamless travel, in that my character pawn is not persisting from one level to another. It is being despawned and respawned I believe. Anybody know how I can correct this?

[sullen nest]

Hi there, trying to create a dash in the direction of mouse cursor within the top down template. Just trying to get functionality working before refining it (I'm very much a beginner in unreal). Right now for some reason the Line trace by channel is effecting the launch character velocity dependant on how close or far the cursor is from the character. I assumed by getting the forward vector would normalise the result and I'd be able to multiply that by a scalar to get a set distance dash. Looked all over the internet for a solution but can't really figure out whats going on here. Anyone with giant brain willing to help a newbie out haha?

[lofty rapids]

i feel like you don't need a line trace for that

just get the lookat from the player, to the current mouse position in the world ?

[sullen nest]

I'll try that thanks, been driving me crazy past two days. This is probably the first helpful bit of info I've come across. I'll report back if that fixes it, thanks so much

[lofty rapids]

are you using world partition ?

[waxen wing]

Not that I am aware of, I actually tried a different chat and I have some direction for what I am needing. Thank you!

[short reef]

Trying to do a basic push/pull mechanic, and I'm kinda making it work? But the direction isn't what I'm expecting and the object doesn't move consistantly if on the ground

[frigid goblet]

How can I make actorbeginoverlap work for every single player that is in the box and not only for one player that overlapped as a latest
Cause in my case it's: Player1 overlaps, then Player2 overlaps too and it only gets to track the Player2, so If I want to teleport the player1, it teleports player2 instead

[broken wadi]

Use OnBeginOverlap and filter the actor somehow to make sure it’s the kind you’re expecting such as a pawn then add to an array variable of pawns. Then OnEndOverlap you can remove them from the same array.

[frigid summit]

hi guys i have completed my game what channel should i post in

[tidal tendon]

Can anybody tell me why attaching a character into hand socket of other character dont work? It always attached at root of other character, not specified socket(righthand)

[lunar sleet]

Is it righthand or RightHand?

[tidal tendon]

Name is correct, RightHand

[lunar sleet]

I haven’t tried attaching 2 characters together but assuming you made sure the node fires, my guess is collision

[tidal tendon]

Also I need to attach neck bone of an actor to right hand bone of my other actor(like choking), but idk how to do that

[tiny silo]

I think you can use "weld simulated bodies" to merge them together and avoid collision - that's with the "Attach Actor to Component" logic, and there you can also specify the socket name

or you can use a physics constraint to attach them together and disable collision there if physics are relevant here?

not sure 😄

[tidal tendon]

I created a "neck" sphere in human actor in neck position, and "hand" sphere in the hand of monster actor. I can make monster actor get sphere from neck of human, but human isnt coming with the neck...

Is there any way to make actor follow attached component?

[lunar sleet]

Attach the sphere to the human neck? 😀

[tidal tendon]

I did that, but you know sphere is attached to neck so neck isnt coming with that, neck is parent

[tiny silo]

Yeah it feels like they are completely separate objects in this case, I'd attach the actor, not just the sphere component

[tidal tendon]

attaching actor not really work because I want to attach neck of the actor, not its root

[tiny silo]

that's why you can create a socket at the neck and use that socket in the attach node

[tidal tendon]

Wait, isnt "socket name" in attach node specifies parents socket?