blueprint

[thin panther]

Note that a commit is not a push

A commit is local, a push is remote

[abstract blade]

You dont have to explain source control to me, it has nothing to do with this issue.

[thin panther]

It's your fix though

[abstract blade]

its not a fix

[trim matrix]

Calm down, you're both wrong

I win

[abstract blade]

its a bad workaround at best

[thin panther]

It is the fix though, because the actual solution is up to epic, and has no intention of being fixed.

So the only thing you can do is commit little and often, then devastating bugs are not so devastating

[abstract blade]

Insane take

[dim agate]

Just use a different engine then.

Really what other options do you have left?

[trim matrix]

Are you crazy?

[thin panther]

The other fix is to avoid undo like the plague.

That's the bad workaround, because it's not the sole cause of the bug, and also is not so feasible

So that lands you back with source control

[crisp geode]

guys i really need your help, every time i try to do everything my engine stops warking. What could be the problem?

[thin panther]

There's sadly a lot of things that can cause your component pointer to be lost.

[dim agate]

No, this is a problem I've had and tolerate because I do what was suggested above, but you both have set an arbitrary threshold for what is "insane" in terms of frequency of commits. So if you don't want to readjust how you use source control what can you do other than try an engine you think won't have the same issue of catastrophic loss.

[trim matrix]

Outrageous.

[thin panther]

You may want to try this tool, but I don't know if it works for this case. I only know it working for the case where it's caused by a cpp change.

https://github.com/Duroxxigar/ComponentPointerFixer

You'll need to build it from source though

[limber parcel]

just commit ur work when u close the engine, simple enough

https://tenor.com/view/branch-dog-dogs-version-control-branching-gif-18341821

[dim agate]

I'm not the one with the source control issue.

[thin panther]

We can trust the guy called source control :P

Since this sounds like a possible #multiplayer problem, you may want to consider moving that question there where the experts are 🙂

[prisma helm]

alright!

[abstract blade]

Fix for data corruption bug: Save your shit ever 5 min :D. I hope you guys dont work in UX :p

[limber parcel]

wasnt he asking how to hide the mesh?

[prisma helm]

yep I was

[thin panther]

Hey if you want a good UX why did you come to unreal :P

Have you seen our asset editors?!

[limber parcel]

i would create 2 arrays of type Actor

[abstract blade]

XD

[limber parcel]

one for FPS and one for TPS

and then put there all mesh that belong there

and just hide / show them

[thin panther]

See above about the component fixer tool btw. I don't know if it addresses this specific bug, but it's worth a shot.

[abstract blade]

Thanks! will do!

[prisma helm]

welp I think this could potentially break all the stuff I did so far and get me off course, as most of the stuff I am doing following a course I bought

[limber parcel]

🤷‍♂️

also, the FPS mesh only ever needs to be seen by the local player, maybe that helps

[prisma helm]

hmm, how can I make that instead the third person mesh is only shown to other players?

[limber parcel]

just make the FPS mesh hidden by default

[prisma helm]

rn I have set that all third person equipables and the third person character mesh have the "owner no see" option enabled

however once I switch to the gun cam, it changes owner, so the third person meshes start showing

[limber parcel]

well yeah, dont use owner no see

just use hide

[prisma helm]

this is the ADS cam, it's stored inside each weapon

[prisma helm]

how can I exactly make that it's hidden only to the first person cameras?

so the camera in the first person character and all the first person ADS gun cameras

[limber parcel]

you hide it on the client when u enter FPS, then un-hide it when u leave FPS

[prisma helm]

maybe there's a bit of misunderstanding, there is no switch between first and third person

let me show you the issue and what I mean between first and third person

this is the first person

hold up I'm having another issue

okay solved

so let me show you

[prisma helm]

this is first person

and this is third person, from the other player perspective

this is what happens when I aim, both the first person and third person gun meshes are shown

@limber parcel

(sorry for ping btw)

[limber parcel]

yeah so u want to hide the FPS model by default

and make a switch

[prisma helm]

the first person gun mesh or the third person gun mesh?

[limber parcel]

the first person mesh should be hidden by default so nobody sees it

then when you want to aim, you unhide it on the client, and hide the third person stuff

you can also hide part of a mesh by hiding the bones btw

[prisma helm]

it should always been unhidden on the client

[limber parcel]

it should not, because then u get the issue ure having now

[prisma helm]

alright so I toggled only owner see to the first person

[limber parcel]

no

[prisma helm]

and did this in event begin play

[prisma helm]

it was on before

now the first person mesh only shows in first person like it did before

now when I exit aim, this happens

ah wait I know the fix to this issue

[limber parcel]

well yeah, you need to hide it again on exiting

[prisma helm]

you mean show it

[limber parcel]

hide the FPS one and show TPS one

[prisma helm]

alright I did this when exiting aim

[limber parcel]

and the other mesh?

[prisma helm]

I did this

but now this happens

because I am showing the TPS mesh

in the BP_FirstPersonCharacter

yeah no I think you misunderstood

#multiplayer message

this is the message I sent describing the problem in detail

[limber parcel]

the only thing u really need to do related to multiplayer is to make sure this runs in client events

and u should hide that mesh by default in mesh settings, not with an event on begin play

[prisma helm]

that's what I did...

third person mesh

first person mesh

however

since the gun cam

is a different camera

on another actor

both meshes are shown

[limber parcel]

not owner no see

this

thats what ure changing with the set visibility node

[prisma helm]

but if I do that way, third person mesh will be invisibile to all the players

[limber parcel]

thats why you run it only on client

[prisma helm]

how?

[limber parcel]

click ur event

and set here client only

[frosty heron]

if it's a state which it is if it's a visibility, it can be represented with a bool variable

[prisma helm]

which event

I need to make an event

[limber parcel]

the one you use to hide/unhide shit

[prisma helm]

I don't have an event for that

[limber parcel]

well then make one

[prisma helm]

and where do I call it?

[limber parcel]

in the same place you used to hide it i guess

[prisma helm]

I don't have such place

also sorry if I am being dumb, but I'm a newbie in unreal engine

[frosty heron]

then u should totally start with single player game >_>

[limber parcel]

indeed

[frosty heron]

multiplayer is many times harder

[prisma helm]

welp I would like to finish this course, and so far I am doing good and have learnt a lot

[frosty heron]

what course

from youtube?

[prisma helm]

nope

teachable

I bought it

it has an entire community based on it

many indie games on Steam are done throught this course

[limber parcel]

guess why most games releasing in recent years are garbage 🤡

[prisma helm]

I doubt AAA games were done throught this course 💀

[limber parcel]

lol

https://tenor.com/view/munsonated-gif-26549638

[frosty heron]

wouldn't even use pure blueprint for FPS game

at most turn based game like chess

for multiplayer

[prisma helm]

fair enough

yeah I know blueprint isn't the optimal but I am learning the basics and am not aiming for a full fledged product

[frosty heron]

its not just about being optimal

some things are just not possible in bp for multiplayer

[prisma helm]

I see

[frosty heron]

The Unreal Goddess paid us a visit 😭

[limber parcel]

yeah like being unable to replicate an object class >_>

[prisma helm]

welp atp I will just continue following the course for the sake of finishing it, but for my personal experience, what should I do next?

[limber parcel]

grab that 100+ parts RPG tutorial series and finish it

[prisma helm]

oh wow

that's cool

welp I would like to do a first person shooter game

since it's my favorite genre X.X

[limber parcel]

u will learn more doing an RPG though

[prisma helm]

hm I see

that could also work

yeah fair enough

[limber parcel]

that tutorial i watched touched pretty much everything in unreal so it was quite useful imo

[prisma helm]

hmmm

maybe I have an idea to make a simple aiming system

the FP starter project doesn't have ADS at all

what if I made that when I press right mouse button, based on the weapon I have equipped, it will draw a widget?

I watched all of them, none work correctly with what I am implementing

there's always something wrong

look

[limber parcel]

that sounds cancerous

[prisma helm]

the most simple 3D aiming system

is this

it will simply switch camera

[maiden heath]

Hi guys, question is it possible in the UI to find the distance from one point to another in an image?
Like this?

[prisma helm]

however when I switch to the ADS camera

there is no Y axis movement

[limber parcel]

https://wumbo.net/formulas/distance-between-two-points-2d/

[prisma helm]

and this doesn't have the issue I had before because the camera is located inside the BP_FirstPersonCharacter

but it does not have a functioning Y axis movement

[limber parcel]

you need to toggle it in your camera i guess

[prisma helm]

no such thing exists

[prisma helm]

it gives another issue

[prisma helm]

I don't have these options

[limber parcel]

its in the spring arm

[prisma helm]

oh

so I can just add a spring arm

and it should fix the issue??

[limber parcel]

well i did not have to

it just works for me

just attached a camera to my mesh and set it to use control rotation

[prisma helm]

welp I get the same issue

if I add a spring arm

[prisma helm]

and the main camera works for me

it's just the additional ADS camera

[limber parcel]

ohh

[limber parcel]

did u attach the camera to your weapon?

[prisma helm]

the weapon is a separate thing

[maiden heath]

How can I give him the points in the UserWidget?

[prisma helm]

I may attach it to the first person mesh

[limber parcel]

it doesnt looks like ur camera is attached

ohh nvm it is

but to the capsule

you want to attach it to the mesh

[prisma helm]

I just tried attaching it to the first person mesh

it gives the same issue

🙃

😭

[limber parcel]

what exactly is not working?

[prisma helm]

let me show you

[limber parcel]

ok

[prisma helm]

making an ADS system based on animations is pure pain and may not work as intended

[frosty heron]

I would just have a second camera when ADS and interpolate between normal cam and ADS cam

animation is just a boolean in abp?

[prisma helm]

bru that's exactly what I am doing right now

[limber parcel]

problem is that its fake FPS

[trim matrix]

Making any not simple system is pain, and may not work as intended if you make it wrong. There is also a thing called procedural animation, for which you will still need the animation blueprint.

Nobody's gonna learn or make the system for you.

[prisma helm]

Nobody's gonna learn or make the system for you.
never said this indeed

[prisma helm]

ye that's probably what's stopping me to get an ADS system to work

[limber parcel]

try attaching the camera to your weapon instead

[frosty heron]

@prisma helm there should be a dozen of tutorials video for ADS camera

I think tutorials are fine just to see what node does what when you first started

u don't want to instant camera change as well

u want to interpolate

which isn't what u are doing with your sample

[prisma helm]

welp you see the weapon is a different actor which gets attached to the first person mesh

[frosty heron]

ADS is pretty simple imo, only a few nodes. As for the animation, it's just a boolean

[prisma helm]

the closest thing I can attach it to is the first person mesh, which is, the arms

[limber parcel]

well yeah, in that system you made, you need to adjust the camera to your weapon

or else make actual FPS models

[prisma helm]

wdym

[prisma helm]

ah yes that too I shall do

[limber parcel]

you are trying to use third person hands with FPS style weapon aim

[prisma helm]

nah those are first persons hands which I modeled

I modeled first person hands and a third person playermodel

[limber parcel]

ohh my bad then

[prisma helm]

it's fine dw :P

[prisma helm]

here you can see how it works basically

and you can also notice a smaller camera (I just made it smaller for better reference) which is the ADS one

[limber parcel]

yeah so basically the weapon needs to be aligned with the camera

or the other way around

but yeah, there should be enough tutorials for this, just grab one from youtube

[prisma helm]

you mean like this

[prisma helm]

I did but I keep always having some sort of issue D:

[limber parcel]

well yeah, but your camera moves independent from the weapon

[prisma helm]

ah you're right

[limber parcel]

so i guess u need to attach the camera to same slot as ur weapon

and give it an offset

and make it not rotate with player

[supple kiln]

Is there a way to possibly read the C++ Jump Function that is built in the engine?

[frosty heron]

for sure

[limber parcel]

you need to set up your IDE

[frosty heron]

it's open source, you can read everything that made the engine

[limber parcel]

then u can browse all the functions

[supple kiln]

Ok thanks!

[prisma helm]

I tried this but moves the weapon to a completely different location

[limber parcel]

try other location rules

[prisma helm]

just tried and does not work

[limber parcel]

you can make the weapon into a component instead of a separate actor

then u dont have to mess with attaching it manually

[prisma helm]

this would not work as there is an item system behind it, the weapon is an item

[limber parcel]

yeah i remade my inventory system like 5 times because of stuff like that xD

[prisma helm]

bro

you won't believe it

not only I just solved it

but it added some weapon sway

LMAO

I did this

[limber parcel]

by attaching it to mesh? 😛

bruh

thats cursed

but if it works, it works 😄

[prisma helm]

I hope it doesn't screw up the shooting which I am just going to implement :P

[prisma helm]

very cursed

wanna see the weapon sway?

[limber parcel]

sure

[prisma helm]

it's so weird, this is literally the meme "it's not a bug, it's a feature ✨"

[limber parcel]

yeah FPS cam looks good now but TPS is weird xD

[prisma helm]

yeah I'd call it a small weapon sway :P

[limber parcel]

also, that rocks u made look exactly like the ones i made xD

[prisma helm]

this reminds me of rising storm 2

really??? lmaoo

[limber parcel]

mine is a bit less detailed, but same concept xD

[prisma helm]

xDD

the texture looks very nice!!

[limber parcel]

its starter content

[prisma helm]

oh I see

fair enough

which kind of game are you making??

[limber parcel]

making a small survival game

the models are just placeholders until i can find an actual 3d artist xD

[prisma helm]

if you can't find one, I really recommend you try out Blockbench, it's a relatively easy to learn modeling software, for unreal I recommend that you model in generic model format and use meshes instead of cubes, you can find a lot of tutorials online that are very straightforward :P

I use blockbench for all my models

I'm also working on a survival game, except mine is focused on war elements :D

rather than surviving

[limber parcel]

mine is focused on surviving waves and exploring

about like 7d2d

[frosty heron]

Made my self a batman cave in 7d2d

[prisma helm]

that sounds very cool!!

[frosty heron]

it was soo fun with friends

the only downside is there are no players in Australia

everytime, I tag players, they just quit the game 😦

[burnt obsidian]

Im busy with making a blueprint and I want to force the lighting type by a public parameter but for some reason I cant change this? Is there some reason why this might happen?

[limber parcel]

well yeah, the graphics are kinda ancient by now xD

[frosty heron]

show your attempt

[burnt obsidian]

I want to have a moveable static mesh with this forced to surface

[frosty heron]

it is but the gameplay is like no other. We spent hours digging a tunnel to the city from our underground base

[burnt obsidian]

well its just if I type lighting type I can only "Get" but not "Set"

[limber parcel]

i played almost 200 hours in 2 weeks xD

the AI was kinda terrible though

[burnt obsidian]

Any idea what I should call or get from, I would assume I can just set this variable as what I want to have moveable/forced surface is the component coming from this

[limber parcel]

maybe ure trying to apply it to the wrong thing

[frosty heron]

I have no idea what you are trying to do

[limber parcel]

ure trying to do this on the component - try getting the object from component and do it on that

[burnt obsidian]

same story sadly

[frosty heron]

what lightmap type?

that's not something u change on runtime?

[limber parcel]

yeah i think that was his question

[burnt obsidian]

aha that might actually be it

that I should do this in construction script

[frosty heron]

are u trying to spawn at run time and u want the static mesh to be moveable by default?

nvm static mesh is already moveable by default

[burnt obsidian]

I have a parameter to set the mobility

[limber parcel]

why do you need to change the lightmap type?

[burnt obsidian]

but I want to have the object moveable but also force surface so it uses the lightmap

[limber parcel]

but why

whats the point?

[burnt obsidian]

basically our artists set stuff moveable if its for gameplay elements and keep it static if its just a regular static mesh

so the lightmap info gets used

for example a platform doesnt need realtime lighting

but still needs shadows so we force surface for that

[limber parcel]

so its for optimization basically?

[burnt obsidian]

yes we are developing for ios :p

[limber parcel]

bruh

try asking in #graphics

[burnt obsidian]

will do

[sonic pier]

For some reason this line of sight to wont work. It's always returning the value as true even if i am not looking at the 'Other' Object

[limber parcel]

or maybe #lighting channel more suited for this

[tight pollen]

hi, in game mode i have save system, if first player == Local Player Controller then load save

this is ok?

first Player Controller always will be Local Player

and rest players no

because GameMode is only on server

loads data about players first in GameMode and when a player joins, I check if he exists in the save

this is ok?

should I do it another way?

[grim peak]

Does anyone have any advice how to... Finish the animation made in sequencer. I have an WBP_UI interface with a button called Animation, but when I keep on pressing (button) it plays and restarts again. I want it to disable the button perhaps until it has finished playing the full animation then get active again(Button). In what direction should i be looking? Thanks

[thin cradle]

brand new type of bug just found : apparently references to editor only actors become wrong whenever another actor is spawned

get a reference to self returns the newly spawned actor instead of the actor the code's running on
if self is cached the variable holding it shows the right actor but for some reason using it for anything else ie print or passing the reference to something else returns the newly spawned actor instead

correction : the print is the wrong thing I'm dumb, but the wrong variable still gets passed to other actors

[ruby apex]

How to remove that sprite from TriggerBox? I want my TriggerBox to show some visuals but not the default sprite

Details panel isnt visible

For the component

[main lake]

the trigger box has no visual by default so I don't know which visual are you talking about as in your image it looks that's something you added

[ruby apex]

The trigger box can be made visible

[main lake]

yes by unchecking the property called "Hidden In Game"

[ruby apex]

But it starts showing that ugly sprite which doesnt have UPROPERTY specifier for editing it

[main lake]

which sprite are you talking about ?

[ruby apex]

Sprite

[main lake]

if you don't want it, delete it ?

[ruby apex]

If I could I did

Its added in cpp by epics

TriggerBox

And its details is invisible

Thats so stupid

[main lake]

then you will need to ask in #cpp instead of blueprint they would better help you I think

[ruby apex]

I can make it hidden in blueprint

It works

[main lake]

https://tenor.com/view/huh-meme-confused-gif-24780938

[ruby apex]

But wanted to see a better way just by editing properties

[main lake]

ask in #cpp I think

[ruby apex]

Thats 100% blueprint question bro

I know how to do it in cpp

I want to know how to do it in blueprint

[limber parcel]

why would a component added in cpp prevent you from deleting it?

[ruby apex]

Not related to my question but anyway

Epic games created a thingy called TriggerBox
TriggerBox is a hidden thingy by default (as most of triggers are intended to be invisible)
If you want your TriggerBox to be visible you'll see Collider outline and that ugly sprite
Collider can be hidden just fine (is has Details panel)
Sprite cant be hidden (no details panel)

Nvm, the problem solved - that sprite doesnt exist in release version of a game

Epics shouldve written EDITOR-ONLY on editor-only components, thats all

[limber parcel]

you can still just delete that sprite manually in construction script

[ruby apex]

Yes and that'll require using blueprint code

[limber parcel]

im sure it can be done in c++ too somehow

[ruby apex]

I've already wrote twice - I can do it in cpp (and so in bp code) just fine

The question was about details panel

[dark narwhal]

hello everyone, I have a question about a weapon swing:
what would you use to make a weapon swing lets say 90 degree and stop on a event so it can restart whenever needed.
since it goes pass a certain point, the coords go into negative and i cannot figure out how i can smoothly make this happen, i need help please

[supple flicker]

here are the bp's i have for both objects, should i move them over to the playerController?

[frank juniper]

Can anybody critique my sensitivity set up? It feels a bit erratic and not smooth movement and I'm trying to troubleshoot if my blueprints are wrong.

[hidden yacht]

@supple flicker you should have something like this on your player controller to add input mappings ( that you create beforehand)

you make IA_Interact for example and you add it to the Enhanced input local player subsystem

then when ever you press the corresponding button for that action, it will trigger the interaction event

[supple flicker]

no i its all in the actors them selfs but i have a pickup logic in the player controller

[hidden yacht]

input mappings are for the pawn you control, not for the other actors you interact with

you control your pawn to interact with the actors (E.g Flare )

[solid needle]

i dont know hwats going on with my code but for some reason I have a steam engine that builds up steam based off a "fire" value (train engine)

all works fine, but the values DONT WORK unless i use time dialiation

the values exist as they should, but dont set UNLESS i run the game as time dialation

or pause it

[hidden yacht]

when you begin overlap with the said actors, you can add the IA_INTERACT to the player controller

[solid needle]

when i play the game, doesnt work, when i breakpoint the value, and check it, ONLY THEN does the game work

some quantum mechanic shit

[supple flicker]

i dont really get it, what does the IA INTERACT do?

[hidden yacht]

the new input system ( default one as of 5.3) is based on mappings

[limber parcel]

5.2

[supple flicker]

ok so i should learn how mappings work?

[limber parcel]

yes

[supple flicker]

great, ill check it out, thanks for the help @hidden yacht, really appretiate it😁

[hidden yacht]

you add/remove Input Mapping Contexts to your controller ( you find it in file under name of IMC_Default )

[frank juniper]

Is the new input system @hidden yacht a solution to my concern?

[hidden yacht]

I never used the old system as i am new to Unreal myself. but I see you already use IA_MouseLook which is an Input Action , part of the new input system

[hidden yacht]

Every Input Mapping Context ( IMC ) is like a bag of inputs you give to your controller
the bag needs to be filled with pieces to work, these pieces are called Input_Actions. also known as "IA_ActionNameHere"

1/ You create an input action "IA_Interact" BP file, you open it and set the button that matches that action (Interact)
you can make other input actions like move, jump, crouch etc...
2/ then you make an Input Mapping Context BP file, and you add to it the above actions (can be done through nodes)
3/ You add the input context to the player controller

the advantage of this is that you can have E button do interaction in IA_Interact and have it fire grenade in IA_FireGrenade for example, that is done by adding and removing actions to the context

[faint pasture]

Why do you have world delta seconds involved?

Don't

[frank juniper]

perfect thank you

[frank juniper]

Do you think that's why the movement might not be as smooth as it could be?

[faint pasture]

Yes, as the mouse input values already will scale based on frame rate

the input values are "how far did the mouse move since last frame"

[frank juniper]

Can I share a clip with you and ask your opinion? My dev seems to think the mouse movement looks normal

I don't lol

I just want to make sure I'm not insane

[faint pasture]

Show your current code as-is right now, with the delta seconds gone

[trim matrix]

If I dont get paid enough on a commission, any bug seems normal to me.

[frank juniper]

I'm happy to pay a good commission to solve this lol

[faint pasture]

That looks fine to me but what's the rest of it, what else are you doing with those action values?

[faint pasture]

Why the hell does gravity depend on aim?

oh ok only when diving

whatever works. Anyway, this looks fine.

[frank juniper]

ok awesome thank you so much!

[glossy bolt]

hi guys can we trigger button press ?

[earnest vigil]

Ive got some logic that chooses a random actor from an array of different actors, spawns that and then gives it some data. All of the actors are birds and have the same vars but obviously I cant use a cast since it will always be a different bird. Any idea how I can set these vars in my actors without using a cast?

[lofty rapids]

wdym "will always be a different bird" ?

oh i c you have different bps ?

of birds ?

[earnest vigil]

Yes sorry haha

They are bascially idential other than their models

and names of course

[lofty rapids]

so you don't want to have to keep checking a bunch of casts ?

do they have a parent ?

[earnest vigil]

Yes since id have to have 20 different casts to check the right one

[earnest vigil]

No I dont think so

[lofty rapids]

well maybe if they had a parent class, you might be able to cast to that and put variables there

[earnest vigil]

That sounds like it might work

[queen dagger]

does this look like it should work? im trying to get that anim to play when using the abilityu

ok so it works but is infinitely looping

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to make like a little popping in effect with these objects that im spawning when i press a button?

[lofty rapids]

maybe grow the scale from 0 to 1 ?

or give it some material thats partially invisible, and then it goes to normal

[frail onyx]

do you know how i can do that from within a Widgetbp?

i tried using a timeline but i dont think i can make one in it

[lofty rapids]

your spawning actors from the widget bp ?

hmm

[frail onyx]

Yeah when i press a button it spawns in an actor

im using it for a tile builder system

[lofty rapids]

maybe call an event on the player or something ?

[frail onyx]

oh so just like move all the code into the player and just have the buttons activate a function called like spawn actor 1 ect.?

[lofty rapids]

ya if you can't do timeline in the widget

makes sense

and i would try to make it somewhat universal function

where you pass it some values

so you can spawn whatever you want

[frail onyx]

wait wdym by that?

[lofty rapids]

like instead of 5 functions, SpawnActorX

one

where you pass it some values

for instance you want to change the speed of the scaling

you can just update it in one place

[queen dagger]

ok so i want to alter the location of the spawn points of the clones in relation to the main character what node allows me to add a tranform to the characters relative local

[frail onyx]

oops i put the part in between the button press and the spawn actor into a function

this could work too though right?

i just dont know why, i have a branch that checks if a tile is selected first inside of the function and if its true i can spawn continue the code and if its false nothing happens but it doesn't work inside of the function and no matter what still spawns an actor, when i had it outside of the function it seemed to work fine

[golden kite]

Whenever I see something like this - with a lot of VERY similar nodes, I immediately think "this approach is wrong". Look for patterns in your branching and ask yourself - can this be handled in a loop? I can't actually see your nodes so I can't suggest anything further, but you will make your code more readable, maintanable and flexible if you remember to be vigilant for these kinds of anti-patterns

[lofty rapids]

it's reading data from an ini, i probably could use a loop but i just read the string

and use the string to get the value is the function

[lofty rapids]

so it's saying it's valid no matter what ?

[golden kite]

On the weapon blueprint you should just create a new local Boolean variable called something like firstUse and default it to true. Then your logic can look for that. Once the character has picked it up, and you have initalized the loadout, then you can flip that flag to false.

does that make sense?

[frail onyx]

yeah its still executing the function even if tileselected? is false

[lofty rapids]

hmm, it won't go to true if it's false

so the value you are reading is true if it goes to the true branch

something wrong with the variable i'm guessing

[frail onyx]

hmm weird it was fine before it was in a function

would i need to just put the branch outside of the function in the start?

[lofty rapids]

you could try that, for some reason the variable isn't the correct one

atleast if you changed it to false, and it's still true, you didn't actually change it

or it's reading a completely different variable

[lofty rapids]

it's basically just repeatadly reading an ini string, and getting the setion/key's value

and doing stuff with it

mostly setting variables

[frail onyx]

ok i seemed to get it to work again by putting the branch after the event is called

[lofty rapids]

it's nice to have that function because think of all the buttons you might add

to spawn stuff

you want to be able to change that in one place

[golden kite]

You might try to think about it differently. Instead of thinking "I need to find a way to simluate the user pressing all these buttons at once", think "I need all these events to fire". Let me explain.

Clicking a UI button triggers an event. When that event is triggered ("fired") then the actions associated with that event will take place.

If you have a "master" button that is supposed to trigger all the other buttons, rather than trying to simulate the user clicking all those buttons, maybe you just need to have that button fire all the events that those other buttons would fire.

An easy way to implement this is to create a function for each button's action. Then just wire up the button click event node to the corresponding function node. And then, wire up the "master" button event to execute ALL the functions.

[placid parcel]

Oh that can work! Didn't even think of that. Thanks!

[tulip echo]

QUESTION: Cannot access a variable that is stored on player controller, from game mode - what 2 do?

Context:```
• multiplayer
• goal: gameMode should keep a list of players

This happens on the game mode (GM):```
• Event OnPostLogin - add the new player controller (PC) to the "allPCs" array, then call UpdatePlayerListGM
• Function UpdatePlayerListGM - foreach loop through all PCs.
Cast to a PC object with each reference coming out from the foreach loop.
Get the "username" variable (which is replicated) from each PC.
Use that variable to populate the array "usersCurrentlyOnline".

Additional related information: The username variable is drawn by each player controller, from their game instance. Printing out the username from the player controller works. The variables are not empty.

Problem: However, the GM only gets the host's name, the client names are perceived as empty, despite definitely being printable from the player controller.

The idea is that the GM, which exists on the server ---> can grab information from the PCs (that exist on both server and on client) ---> and that the PCs grab client information ---> which can be extracted by the GM.

Question:```
Do you have ideas on how I can proceed?

Thanks for reading!

[gentle urchin]

Gamestate already holds a list , fyi
PlayerArray

An array of Playerstates? Which replicates

Playercontrollers only replicate to owner

@tulip echo

[frail onyx]

anyone know how i can use this same timeline spawning animation for each actor i have spawning in without having to make a new timeline for each actor i want to spawn in?

[echo wren]

No

[lofty rapids]

make it a function

[golden kite]

Definitely a good candidate for some refactoring.

I swear to god new devs are just not lazy enough! (https://yoast.com/developer-blog/lazy-programmers-are-good-programmers/)

[lofty rapids]

ig i could just loop over the file, there would be a bunch of if's anyway

i feel like it's better than a straight line going left to right

[frail onyx]

it doesn't let you put a timeline into a function

[lofty rapids]

oh ya, custom event ?

[frail onyx]

how can i make it only work for the return value of the spawn actor so it only does it for that specific actor instance when it is spawned in?

[lofty rapids]

you can pass values to an event

[frail onyx]

yah the problem is though that when i plug all the return values on the spawn actor nodes into the set actor scale 3d whenever i spawn a new one it scales all of them

cause the event is activating and then all of them get scaled together and not separately

[lofty rapids]

show the event, because you should be just using the one you spawn

[lofty rapids]

also you shouldn't cross exec lines like that

you got them all plugged in so when it runs, it probably does all three

[frail onyx]

how do i add the return value as a input in the event?

oh nvm i think i got it

for some reason it was putting in an actor action utility instead

yep it works perfectly now, thx sm for the help!

[queen dagger]

what node would allow me to shift the world transfrom

[lofty rapids]

you want to change all the values in the transform ? or just location maybe ?

[maiden gale]

Hello, I'm a little stuck. Is it possible to bind an even from a component? The component is attached as a child of the blueprint I'm trying to access it from. It just doesn't seem to want to work. I can't select it from the list when trying to create event.

[lofty rapids]

what are you trying to bind ?

[maiden gale]

I'm trying to bind to an event I have created within a component. I can get the bind to even node by using the component reference. The issue comes when I try to select the even in the create event node. It doesn't exist.

[lunar sleet]

oh that would make sense 😄

[stone field]

I assume you have a reference to the component available? ( not sure if this will work, I don't use a lot of components )

If it seems tricky, I might consider trying an interface as an alternative

[maiden gale]

I managed to bind to the event from another blueprint that doesn't have the component as a child. So confused haha.

[stone field]

events don't care about whose child it is. As long as you can get a ref to it, you can bind

[queen dagger]

just the x value

so clones spawn next to the character instead of on top

[lofty rapids]

split the struct

and make a new transform, or just make a new location from it

unless you need it to be a transform

but you can split the pins, split location, then change the x

[tulip echo]

Thanks, I'll look into that!

[queen dagger]

so thats the clone ability

aint the pretiest

but i want the clones to spawn right and left of the character

[queen dagger]

ahhhhh

[maiden gale]

Okay. I can definitely get a reference to it. Will try a couple more things.

[queen dagger]

and would i do that for in lue of the get world transfrom

[lofty rapids]

are you trying to offset each one of these ?

[queen dagger]

yes

[lofty rapids]

i would probably make a pure function that alters the x value

takes in the transform, outputs the adjusted

and maybe you can pass in an offset

[queen dagger]

ok

[lofty rapids]

if you want to actually just keep increasing instead of setting it absolute then you would do it differently

or use a float that you increment ig

[queen dagger]

so its almost all done thanks

few more questions can i break exec funtion lines into 3 so i can have all 3 pop up at once?

[lofty rapids]

wdym "break into 3" ?

3 consecutive ?

you can use sequence

but you can't run it in parallel i don't think

[queen dagger]

ahhh

so there will be a delay between each spawn

[lofty rapids]

if you do it fast enough there shouldn't be much of a delay

it'll run pretty quickly

unless other code is causing the delay

[queen dagger]

ok

[lofty rapids]

in which case if you moved some of it c++ it might fix it

[queen dagger]

gotcha, not on that level just yet but makes sense

now the last thing i want to add is the main character to do a unique flipbook when using each ability

that flipbook affects the main character

so how would i get that flipbook to affect the flipbook on the main character

[lofty rapids]

i don't even know what "flipbook" is

[queen dagger]

flipbook is the animation of the 2d sprite

[lunar sleet]

Try #paper-2d

[queen dagger]

well the issue is the bluepring i want the anim to play on the maincharacters component so would i need to cast to the main characters blueprint to

[lunar sleet]

Are you asking how to cast into the character ?

If you’re in an animBP graph I believe it’s try get pawn owner and cast

[queen dagger]

yes that was what the question was i just didnt know how to word it

[trim pollen]

where do i post a crash report to try and get some help?

[stone field]

maybe #ue5-general assuming you are on store version of 5.x

[trim pollen]

ok thanks

[manic haven]

What are some stupid reasons why my debug keys or other keys won't work in PIE? I'm not getting either of the strings printed

I'm sure it's probably something I checked or unchecked and don't know what it might be

[queen dagger]

so thats what imstarting with, however its not playing via the main character

[lofty rapids]

what type of bp is this in ?

[manic haven]

It's in a pawn that I've spawned into the world, also placed in the level

should I have the key somewhere else and cast to the pawn?

[lofty rapids]

did you possess it ?

[tidal merlin]

So getting a ship to float and chase my ship was fun..

[manic haven]

It's moving on it's own using AI_move_to. I can try that though

OK, that worked, I at least got the print string, but there isn't any camera attached so I can't see the animation. No worries, I'll work on figuring out the boolean issue.

Thanks for the help

[lofty rapids]

put the keys on the character, or add a camera to the pawn, but if it's an enemy you probably don't want the inputs on that

[timber crystal]

Hello my friends need an ezy implement...
Thats the bp of my enemy i want that after he gives me the DMG i fall/Launch back

Can some one step by step give me the right codes?

[undone bluff]

are you stuck on the vector math?

[timber crystal]

So what I put together doesn't work, the damage reaches me because I have a line trace beforehand, but what exactly is missing so that my character is also thrown back?

[undone bluff]

your character is not being launched?

[lofty rapids]

your launch character barely does anything

it's set to only 50 on the z

[undone bluff]

it is a small value, yea

for reference, gravity is -980 per second

[timber crystal]

hmmm ok

[undone bluff]

(launching is an impulse, so instantaneous)

[frail onyx]

Hi does anyone know how i can make a feature for the grid system i have, where once i place an actor on the tile i selected it wont let me place another actor there?

im not exactly sure where to go about implementing that into the current system that im using

[timber crystal]

OK IT WORKS NOW!

Thanks Engage and Scaith🙂
For try to help

[undone bluff]

that should be incredibly straightforward, how are you placing the tiles?

optimally you'd be calling an attempt place function and the tile would check if that's possible and return false if not

[frail onyx]

its basically just a event that im activating when a key is pressed or a widget button, and then i check to see if its in the center of the tile i selected and it spawns the actor at that location and does a little spawn in animation with a timeline

[undone bluff]

not a fan

[frail onyx]

and then this is the whole code for setting the selected tile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAR1HoNE_E&t=288s i was following this tutorial for most of the grid system

[undone bluff]

can't you have the tile do the spawning and animation and just call that function/event

[frail onyx]

but he didnt cover anything with spawning actors in it

[frail onyx]

you mean put the spawning and the animation in the same event together?

[undone bluff]

ah so different grid setup than I imagined

[frail onyx]

i have multiple different actor types i want to spawn in so i just made the animation its own event that can be called from any spawn actor

oo ok

everything seems to work with it as far as spawning the actors and selecting the tiles, only problem is being able to spawn multiple per tile and i also wanna be able to have a different widget popup and tiles that have an actor on it

[undone bluff]

the thing is, you seem to have a system where every grid cell is an actor

and that approach makes me think of having every cell manage itself

I don't know about your game or which approach is right for it

[frail onyx]

yeah im not exactly sure, this is all the code i have for the bp_grid

its just one single actor so it doesn't affect performance too much

[undone bluff]

oh so it's just a line mesh

so you do not have any kind of object per cell?

[frail onyx]

no i dont think so

[undone bluff]

got it

[frail onyx]

it just does some calculations to see which square was hit

[undone bluff]

then yea your current approach makes sense

[frail onyx]

ok

[undone bluff]

a manager or subsystem to keep track of these things might be the right call, but without it , given that you already have a position you can simply check if there is anything there

like a linetrace from the floor straight up

[frail onyx]

wait what is the position that i use to do that?

[undone bluff]

the same position you use to spawn things

[frail onyx]

like the grid x and y location that is the center of the tile outputted?

[undone bluff]

yea, presumably if you spawn your stuff there the trace would always be able to hit it?

(otherwise you'd have to run a box collision check on the size of the tile)

[frail onyx]

did i hookup the line trace correctly? It seems to show correctly in the game when i do it so i think its good

[undone bluff]

trace some distance up, I'm not confident a 0 length trace works

[frail onyx]

and then from that i'd just make it add a branch so if it hits something then it sets a variable like IsTileOccupied to true?

[frail onyx]

ooh ok

[undone bluff]

and if it collides with the ground push it up like one unit

oh nevermind

I didn't see the higher end z location

[swift marsh]

Hi all, I'm wondering if it is possible to access the list of Landscape Streaming Proxies that live "under" the landscape actor even when they are not loaded in (outside world partition streaming distance). I have been looking at the included functions / variables in Partition Actors, various Landscape and Landscape Streaming Proxies and can't find that list. Is it in the Landscape or World Partition Subsystem somewhere? Any tips or guidance appreciated!

[frail onyx]

ok it seems to work now if i click on a spot it says tile empty and then i can spawn an object and then click to another tile and spawn an object and then if i go back to that tile it says tile occupied and wont let me spawn an object, only problem is if i select a tile and spawn an object i can spawn multiple object there until i click off the tile and then go back on it

would i just need to set tile occupied to true once i spawn the actor?

[undone bluff]

I assume you are running the check when selecting the tile

and then setting the variable

if so yea it makes sense to update it

[frail onyx]

ok yeah that worked, Tysm for the help!

[supple flicker]

hey guys I'm having problems with I'm an object, i want to be able to press Q and make the item appear in my hand but only if I have that item on me, right now I'm not sure how to equip the item

[remote belfry]

I have an int >= bool that is returning not inscope. There is no casting or anything of the type. Both int operators return "not in scope". Did some searching all I find are issues with casting and so on. None of which I am doing. This is all within a single BP. Both int vars are public as well. Any thoughts would be great as I'm sure it's my dumb fault. lol

[lofty rapids]

whats throwing the error ?

[remote belfry]

Both operators as well as the and.

[lofty rapids]

what bp is this in ? and how did you get those variables on the graph ?

[remote belfry]

It is a function in a widget. I put the variables on the graph with ctrl + drag and drop.

Clicking the button runs the function

I figured out it has to do with being in a function I pulled the nodes out of the function and it works.

[neon lion]

does a class need to be an actor to make a blueprint of it? Can i have uobject blueprints?

[thin panther]

yes

[frigid goblet]

Is there some easy(?) way for making multiple Blueprint actor mechanics that won't collide with each other? Cause what I'm going through rn is having 2 actors placed and when interacting with one, things happen on the another one too

[lunar sleet]

It shouldn’t, unless they’re both very close or you did something silly like using get actors of class

[frigid goblet]

and that's probably the answer lol (get actors of class)

What should I use as a alternative?

variable of the actor?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, you almost always want to avoid that and use proper interaction events instead (beginoverlap, on hit, etc)

[lunar sleet]

No, never that

That just gives you an empty variable

And it loads the entire class afaik

Try ActorOnBeginOverlap

You’ll need to make sure both actors colliding with each other have the right collision settings and generate overlap events is checked

[frigid goblet]

I'm trying to do a actor that has to be connected with bp_thirdpersoncharacter and events are called like that, is it possible somehow to not make it work like I had written before? (colliding with other actors)

I would do the whole actor without the bp_thirdpersonchar but I can't use that type of thing, or I'm missing something out
Cause when I was using the E button that was placed in the actor, it wasn't working

and suddenly the E button works now on other bp than thirdpersoncharacter..

[frigid goblet]

no it doesn't, it works on a widget but not actor bp

help

[main lake]

show the code that's calling "StartGenerator" plz

[celest trench]

In blueprint, is there a simple way to smoothly change a value until it reaches a desired value?
I am trying to make my progress bar UI go up smoothly to the desired value rather than just setting it immediately

[warped juniper]

Hey there!
I wanna do something like For Each Loop, but only for a SINGLE actor within the array (The last one that got added)

I can't use Get a Copy because then the interface I have set up would not work

[midnight wadi]

blueprints seem to run faster in 4.27 than in 5.3, do you people get the same results? i am testing with simple for loop that does tracing, some math and array manipulation

[spark steppe]

profile it

[midnight wadi]

@spark steppe can i do that even if its a construction script?

[foggy escarp]

Use the node start profile timer

[foggy escarp]

You can use interp float on a tick or lerp. Can't ever remember which.

[celest trench]

Okay thank you 🙂 I’ll look into those

[foggy escarp]

Sounds like you should be using find, and casting to your correct class.

[foggy escarp]

Inputs are meant to be used with a class that is owned by the controller. This includes pawns, characters, controller, widgets, etc. If you wish to use inputs in actor components, you can still do this, but you need to use the enhanced input system instead. It still only works with components owned by the controller (The components added to actors owned by controller) also it's important to consider opportunities where inputs can be blocked if you are using multiple input nodes with the same key across multiple blueprints.

[frigid goblet]

Thanks for clarifying!

[spark steppe]

is there a way to flag nodes as editor only?

guess i'll live with development only nodes

[foggy escarp]

I think all you can do is development only nodes, but it's pretty easy if you want to have ChatGPT make the function and node for you and set it to editor-only.

#if WITH_EDITOR
void AYourClassName::YourEditorOnlyFunction()
{
    // Function implementation
}
#endif

[spark steppe]

i wouldn't trust chatgpt on this 😄

[foggy escarp]

LOL. nah its more than good enough and capable of doing this.

[spark steppe]

and thanks, but this wouldn't compile

[foggy escarp]

I use it for much more complicated systems, not just functions.

[spark steppe]

well it's 6 lines and it f***ed up

😛.

void AYourClassName::YourEditorOnlyFunction()
{
#if WITH_EDITOR
    // Function implementation
#endif
}

this would work on the other hand

[foggy escarp]

You may be right, but Chat GPT works iteratively. So however you can work as you go is the best.

Did you change "AYourCLassName"

[spark steppe]

no, i haven't even tried the code yet

i'm just to lazy to close editor to compile a custom function xD

but i know that we can't have ufunction() within editor only macro (at least not for BP exposed things)

that's why the function body must be excluded instead of the whole definition

[foggy escarp]

I've co-written at least 50 functions and probably over a thousand lines of code with it, things don;t always work the first time, but the things I'm doing are much easier for chat GPT to do in code than to do in blueprints. My GPT I made seems to help a lot and most of the time simple functions work the first try.

[spark steppe]

not denying that it can help sometimes, primary for things which are in several other code bases already so it could learn from it

just saying that it's often wrong and not the best solution for a problem

[foggy escarp]

{
    if (FSlateApplication::IsInitialized()
        && Widget != NULL && Widget->IsValidLowLevel()
        && DrawSize.X >= 1 && DrawSize.Y >= 1)
    {
        TSharedPtr<SWidget> SlateWidget(Widget->TakeWidget());
        if (!SlateWidget.IsValid()) return NULL;
        TSharedPtr<FWidgetRenderer> WidgetRenderer = MakeShareable(new FWidgetRenderer(true));
        if (!WidgetRenderer.IsValid()) return NULL;

        UTextureRenderTarget2D *TextureRenderTarget = WidgetRenderer->DrawWidget(SlateWidget.ToSharedRef(), DrawSize);
        // Creates Texture2D to store RenderTexture content
        UTexture2D *Texture = UTexture2D::CreateTransient(DrawSize.X, DrawSize.Y, PF_B8G8R8A8);
#if WITH_EDITORONLY_DATA
        Texture->MipGenSettings = TMGS_NoMipmaps;
#endif

        // Lock and copies the data between the textures
        TArray<FColor> SurfData;
        FRenderTarget *RenderTarget = TextureRenderTarget->GameThread_GetRenderTargetResource();
        RenderTarget->ReadPixels(SurfData);
        
        void* TextureData = Texture->PlatformData->Mips[0].BulkData.Lock(LOCK_READ_WRITE);
        const int32 TextureDataSize = SurfData.Num() * 4;
        FMemory::Memcpy(TextureData, SurfData.GetData(), TextureDataSize);
        Texture->PlatformData->Mips[0].BulkData.Unlock();
        Texture->UpdateResource();

        // Free resources
        SurfData.Empty();
        TextureRenderTarget->ConditionalBeginDestroy();
        SlateWidget.Reset();
        WidgetRenderer.Reset();

        return Texture;
    }
    return NULL;
}

Here's a function i made the other day that takes a screenshot of a widget including its child widgets. It worked the first try.

[spark steppe]

yea, that code is in the thumbnail renderer of unreal 😄

[foggy escarp]

probably.

[frosty heron]

I used chat gpt at the start to code. Kinda gave up on it

[foggy escarp]

Are you under the impression that Chat GPT likely copied that code? It doesn't work like that, but The way I go about it I explain exactly what inputs and outputs I want and what it's supposed to accomplish. Does very well. I wouldn't be doing a lot of what I'm doing it without it.
I'm building a runtime game creation platform based on a lot of how Unreal does things but re-created to be runtime. Runtime visual scripting, asset creations, maps, modes, player created content.

[frosty heron]

It doesn't do things well from experience and it spit too many non existence function

[spark steppe]

no, i bet the code for the thumbnail renderer in UE is better

because someone with a brain wrote it

[frosty heron]

Also it doesn't help me learn

Best way is just to dive in, read source code. Chat gpt is a broken clock atm . It may do simple things but u better off without it imo

[foggy escarp]

I never touched code before Chat GPT and blueprints. Most of my foundational systems are built from it now.

[frosty heron]

The actual programmers that know codes, discourage chat gpt. Best to listen to their advice

[spark steppe]

another way to go about it is to check what the widgetcomponent does

as it already renders a widget to a rendertarget

and it's runtime code, so you can most likely access it at runtime, too

that is what i mean by saying that chatgpt might make a hit sometimes but not in an elegant or smart way

it has no fundamental understanding about the engine

[foggy escarp]

I'm not arguing the benefits of learning how to code from its roots. If I wanted to be fluent with C++, it would be a requirement to not use something like Chat GPT and rely on it. The exact same things as blueprints. People who rely on YouTube videos to make things in blueprints will have a very hard time finding their own way. I've already spent the 4k plus hours to become fluent with Blueprints, and this is what I'm relying on, not C++. The C++ combination simply allows for more complexity.

Here's some of what I have on runtime scripting

[gray hare]

Most programmers don't write all of their code without having to look stuff up, study examples, read documentation, ask questions. Is using a chatgpt going too far? I've had people say intellisense is too much. I'm very glad I learned how to program before this tech existed, but can I say that one should absolutely learn how to program without it? I think it would be incredibly useful to try and write code without it. It's like following a tutorial and then trying to go off script. If you're like me, you'll immediately realize you didn't understand something and that struggle is where the most learning comes from.

I think chatgpt can be used to teach you things, although hard to use it for that without asking it to generate you code. If someone wants to get better at coding, I think working without chatgpt from time to time would be valuable. Or try to avoid copy/pasting. But who knows, maybe this is the next calculator.

[spark steppe]

hard to tell atm where this is heading

the things i learned the most from are those that you cant solve and spend days, weeks or months to find a solution...

[gray hare]

now, for a question I feel silly asking

My pawn's root is a SceneComponent with one child, a static mesh. The static mesh has collision and mass and I have a number of PhysicsThrusterComponent to move it around. Basing on logging, the actor doesn't seem to move at all, it's just the physics component under it. I've never done stuff quite like this before. That seems bad to me as you couldn't rely on things like GetActorLocation(). But what do you do about it?

[undone bluff]

I mean chatgpt is mildly useful for hard to Google information and if you're completely clueless about something and need a starting point for research

[gray hare]

yeah, there are some questions google is really bad at and gpt can be good for

[undone bluff]

I had no luck getting advice on solving things I couldn't figure out yet

[gray hare]

google can be rough if you don't know the right question to ask

[spark steppe]

you can make the static mesh the root component, but in my experience i would only ever recommend this for actors which you spawn at runtime

i had bad experience with that for level placed actors

[gray hare]

the problem with that is I can't transform the mesh then

[gentle urchin]

Its a bit like calculators

Should you learn the underlying logic

[undone bluff]

Simulated meshes should be the root

[gentle urchin]

Or is it ok to just know how to punch it on calculators?

[undone bluff]

The point of the root component is that its transform represents the actors transform

[foggy escarp]

The most valuable thing I feel I get from Chat GPT is in the iteration cycle. Sometimes I have absolutely no idea what is wrong or even how to do something. So at the very least, it's a more accurate and faster Google.
The other side to this is having something to talk to to encourage thinking through the problem. I can talk to it well beyond what any Redditor would be willing. It doesn't that it can get things entirely wrong sometimes. With experience, those things are understood. And if someone was already an expert, they don't need it. Just like how people who have spent enough time in Blueprints don't watch many tutorial videos on it. The vast majority of the content would be a lower level than they'd be at.

[gray hare]

how do I scale and rotate my mesh if it's the root?

[undone bluff]

You rotate the actor

They are one and the same

[gentle urchin]

And scale the actor

[gray hare]

can you do that at author time for the blueprint?

[spark steppe]

no

[gray hare]

this all makes sense and or is something I've done :P

[spark steppe]

only scale afaik

[gentle urchin]

At instance time

In editor but not in the class

[gray hare]

these are spawned at runtime, not preplaced

[gentle urchin]

So youd set their scale/rot at spawn

[gray hare]

that won't make the mesh face forward though

[undone bluff]

Yea it makes for a great rubber duck

Though I tend to explain my issues to my non programmer friends usually haha

[gentle urchin]

Guess i missed the facing issue and thought it was about thrusters

[undone bluff]

Always helps me figure things out

[gentle urchin]

It helps to judt explain it at all 😆

[gray hare]

it's been fine so far as I haven't needed to use the actor's location for anything, but I noticed it when trying to debug moving its center of mass and it felt really wrong to me.

this feels like a pretty serious problem and I can't think of any good solutions

I suppose I could reparent it at beginplay

[spark steppe]

that dude asking questions i kind of know the answer for, and i'm sitting here wondering why my physics body isn't applying setactor location -_-

[gray hare]

does that code have reasonable outputs for why it failed?

[spark steppe]

mine? i just noticed that it isn't the root component 😄

so i got the same issue as you but in reverse

you want a reliable get actor location, i want a reliable set actor location

nvm me

[tropic bison]

Trying to figure out how to set 3 different upgrades from n upgrade options, essentially picking a unique item form an array and setting upgrade1, 2 and 3 to that. What i've done doesn't work and I dont understand, any insight would be epic

[gray hare]

turn off physics, move actor, turn physics back on?

[undone bluff]

make sure that is actually the part where the issue is

because that is rather simple and looks fine to me

[spark steppe]

nah, just have to move the physics body instead of the actual actor

[undone bluff]

(though it'd be good to clean it up with a for loop)

[spark steppe]

it was pretty much the same issue that you have 😄

which is why i mentioned it as i was checking on that while you asked your question

so your question probably made me realize it sooner, thanks 😄

[gray hare]

doesn't work how? looks reasonable to me

[gray hare]

so glad I could be of service :P

[spark steppe]

take the result of your set nodes as input of your remove node

currently you pull from the random twice, which rolls 2 different random numbers

[gray hare]

oh, yeah

[tropic bison]

Finally, that worked, thanks 👌

[spark steppe]

nodes which don't have an execute pin are evaluated for each input that you connect them to

[tropic bison]

Yeah I had no idea

[spark steppe]

most people hit on that when using smth that yields random results...

[tropic bison]

Probably would have never figured it out 👀

On my own at least

[gray hare]

it's one of the bigger blueprint gotchas imo

[gray hare]

So it appears you can apply thrust to components above your physics component

attaching the thrusters to my root seems to work.

although it doesn't appear to be moving the actor, just the physics comp again...

[remote meteor]

Update kinematic from simulation

Setting in physics section

also make sure the physics simulated component is the root component if you want to move the actor's transform

[keen ravine]

Is FText localized over network?

[maiden heath]

Hello guys. I have a problem I would like to find in a "Render Texture" I would like to find/make some points (those marked A and B) which will then calculate their distance for me. I have already given the size of the Texture and I would have the position of the points in Vector variables. How can I do it?

[lunar sleet]

🤷‍♂️ try #multiplayer

[keen ravine]

Thx

[upper badger]

I'm trying to load levels through streaming. I have a "door" (a collision box, really) set up in a blueprint that runs the "Load Stream Level (by Name)" node. I made a public variable (an array of names) in the BP for the levels that I want to load using that blueprint and set it up as a for loop (see attached), but only the first level in the array is loaded when the begin overlap is triggered. Am I missing something here? Or is there a better way to load levels by streaming? (the level is not big enough for world partition)

[limber parcel]

that wouldnt make much sense now, would it?

[keen ravine]

Dont know

[limber parcel]

the localization just tells ur game what language to use

[keen ravine]

I have been making chat for game with system messages

[limber parcel]

well then just use localization as normal

[keen ravine]

I've used just string and system message were not localized

[silent drift]

If I need to do a "delay/timer" inside of a function, what is the best way to do that? I know I can't use "Delay" inside of a function (the function is from a BP Inteface, so every enemy can use it). And I don't seem to understand the "Create Timer from Function". Sorry for such a basic question, but I tried googling and they mostly gave good examples but not when used inside of a function.

[keen ravine]

Use timer 🙂

[silent drift]

Yeah, but how do does work? I seem to be to dumb. 😦

[keen ravine]

Create timer by event -> create event -> select function

It will call function after some period of time

[limber parcel]

he wants to make timer from function, not event

[keen ravine]

You always can create event for you function

[limber parcel]

good to know, never used that lol

[silent drift]

That doesn't seem to work, I get an error when I try that.

Because it can't have events inside of functions, and when I try to do Set Timer by Function Name, it seems like it never calls it.

Yeah, that's why I couldn't do it. But now instead, I call another event from the function, and there I add the logic for each enemy. 🙂

So I have a custom event "WarningPlayer", and that is called from inside the function and can have a timer.

Wellllll, one of these days I will start with C++ again (I did it years, and year, and years ago), but now I'm scared of it. 😄

[limber parcel]

actually can put timers in functions now apparently

[remote meteor]

there is always this option 🤷‍♂️

not necessary need to be timer in this case, just any other event dispatcher like widget on anim finished, something spawned, etc etc

if you need a way to check if warning is active, if its by timer, you could always save the timer handle delegate, and check if its active

[queen heron]

how could I make this work properly?
the logic I want to achieve is, I need to create a number of randomly place waypoints inside a volume using generated pcg points.
For everytime the engine picks a random point, it checks to see if there are other points near the chosen distance vector. If that randomly selected point is near other points, the selected index will be removed and the system will choose another random point and repeats the process

thing is, idk how to make those points check the distance between more than 1 selected point

[silent drift]

I thought when I set the Use Pathfinding to false it would ignore the nav-mesh and just move anywhere (it's a flying enemy), but it's not working.

[gentle urchin]

That woukd be sonethung huh 😅

[main lake]

What's the name of the node to get the player who hosts the game please ?

[silent drift]

I assume that was for me. 😄 So it's not working like that. Got it. 😄

And if so, how big can a nav-mesh be until it's starts hating on me....... Since I'm not sure what the best solution would be for solving this.

[earnest vigil]

Hello! I have some bird blueprints that all have the same variables but I need to spawn them randomly then feed information into those variables. I do not want to have to cast to each individual blueprint and am lead to believe that possibly making them all a child of one blueprint with those variables may be able to fix this issue. Any ideas on how I would go about that?

[gentle urchin]

Is it ment to be flying in 3d or 2d

[silent drift]

2D.

I use a 2.5d camera, but the game is locked on the Y axis.

[noble ledge]

Does anyone know if it is possible to duplicate a widget?

[tired whale]

Start by creating an generic bird actor class that will contain all your necessary variables, then right clic it in the content browser and create a child blueprint class.
This child will inherit from its parent all variables and events/functions that can be overriden inside itself if need be

[limber parcel]

why would that not be possible?

[noble ledge]

I can't find a node for duplicating

[limber parcel]

you just spawn a new copy

[noble ledge]

That would involve me creating a new instance of it, I want to just get a copy without having to create a new one and go through all the setup/assigning variables from obj1 to obj2

[limber parcel]

so you want to mirror it basically?

[noble ledge]

Yes

I want the same widget to appear on 2 different parent widgets

[tired whale]

create your child widget on its own then add it wherever you want in other blueprints
it'll show under "user created" in your palette

[limber parcel]

i dont think there is a way to show widget twice without actually duplicating it

maybe it can be done in c++

[earnest vigil]

Thank you. I should just be able to reparent current blueprints into the generic bird correct?

[tired whale]

yes, either through the class settings, or file/reparent blueprint
note that some stuff may not work right away and might need some cleanup though

Hey fellow blueprinters, I'm having an issue myself.
I'm having trouble finding a way to get the position of some racing AI pawns.
Right now they're all using a AI move to to another actor location.
Is there a way to query how much of the path they've travelled? I'm pulling my hair on this one

[limber parcel]

how about saving their initial distance and comparing it to current distance?

[tired whale]

distance to what? the track can make some zigs and zags depending on which one is loaded so I cannot get a direct distance to the finish line actor.

[gentle urchin]

Then they can just follow regular pathfinding? And stay elavated ^^

[gentle urchin]

Whats the track?

[limber parcel]

if you are using splines, there should be a way to get where you are on the spline

[gentle urchin]

If its a spline you can simply get their distance on the spline

Nearest point

[limber parcel]

else, u will have to come up with a custom solution

[gentle urchin]

The same can be done for players

If that were to matter

[tired whale]

Just simple pathfinding with assets blocking a single way to the objective

[tired whale]

that's where I'm hitting a bump

[limber parcel]

as squize said, get nearest point on spline

[gentle urchin]

Add a spline

[tired whale]

I've tried getting their travelled distance trough Speed*Time

[limber parcel]

i thought that blue line was a spline

[tired whale]

Nope, I drawn it myself 😅

[limber parcel]

lol

[buoyant star]

Hi 🙂 I'm attempting to make a blueprint spline for a wall atm. I followed some videos to get the basics down and I now have a spline that works out the length of the mesh and the spline and then generates the meshes accordingly across the spline and stretches the mesh slightly if it needs to. But now I'm trying to add a second mesh to the spline that is a different size, is this possible? Can I have the BP work out the mesh length of both meshes and fit them onto the spline where needed? I'm also needing to be able to select where the other mesh is placed along the spline, I can currently do this with an array (as pictured) but the BP is then trying to squeeze the larger mesh into the size of the smaller mesh (the issue also pictured). Any help with this would be super appreciated! Thanks! 🙏

[tired whale]

You'd need to update MeshLength according to the one you just spawned and not according to the wall mesh

[buoyant star]

How could I do that without breaking the mesh length of the smaller one? Do I just update the length later in the chain before the larger pieces are added?

[tired whale]

You could use a select based on the same bool used to chose wether to spawn a wall or a tower. Promote both meshes length to their corresponding float variable (WallLength and TowerLength), then pick a or b depending on your boolean

[tired whale]

The issue with the spline is that I need my actor to move using their movement component and not just a simple lerp, it's a race wheir each racer has its own stats of accel, max speed, etc.

[gentle urchin]

Just pathfind -> get path points -> use them to lay out a spline

[buoyant star]

Alright, I think I understand. Blueprints fry my brain 😂 But thanks for the help

[gentle urchin]

And use that for distance reference

[tired whale]

I've tried that, but perhaps did it wrong... Could you elaborate?
I'm guessing the end goal is getting position along spline, that was my original idea, but I couldn't make it work fsr

The first issue I faced was having the spline inside the pawn itself, as the spline component just moved along as the pawn started moving... So I created a simple actor with just the spline component, placed it at the race start, added the points comming from the array of PathPoints but never got the pawns to follow it instead of the default pathfinding result

[tired whale]

So, should the path finding be done in a sperate actor, containing just the spline, then passing the result to the pawn and feeding it to the AI move to ? What was I doing wrong?

[gentle urchin]

Id make the spline actor (placed at the start) pathfind to the goal. Then id get the returned pathpoints and set each spline point to its correspinding location

[tired whale]

This is what I had

Then fed the spline to my racing pawns in the AI move to

[gentle urchin]

And then the AI can (or whoevers in charge) query the AIs location vs the spline to get the current distance

[tired whale]

Oh, so I should keep the pathfinding, but just use the spline to query location along it

[gentle urchin]

The goal was getting distance inti the race right ?

I would guess for figuring out who's first etc?

To make it look more dynamic

Id probably let the AI find path point randomly spread across the width of the track

So they'd look a bit less.. linear

(Id actually make the track with a spline instead, So it's centered. )

[tired whale]

I've used turning boost to have some of the AI "drift" more and give this non-linear effect
But yes, querying who's first is my end goal here, the rest is good enough for its purpose

[gentle urchin]

Cool cool

[edgy kestrel]

hello @tired whale

[tired whale]

Sup?

[edgy kestrel]

ui

[earnest vigil]

How do I make a spawned actor a child of another?

Is there a "Set child of" node or something?

[tired whale]

How do you spawn this actor?

[earnest vigil]

Via the SpawnActor node

[tired whale]

then you can set it's class right here, just point to your child actor class

[lofty rapids]

i think what you want to do is make the parent class, then create a child of that, then when you spawn it it will be the child, i'm not sure you can just assign it as child.

[tired whale]

So how'd you go about querying pawns location against the spline? I have 0 idea on how to do it

[earnest vigil]

I may not be understanding something correctly at the moment. When I make an actor a child of another in the editor then spawn the parent and make changes to its variables it doesnt seem to reflect that when I get that variable in the childs blueprint

It seems to be reading the default

[tired whale]

The child might have overriden said variable already. Check your "class default" in the child

[lofty rapids]

why are you spawning the parent ? why not the child ?

[tired whale]

also you can show inheritted variables (which are hidden by default) here

[tired whale]

Yeah, I missed this part out, but it's way more relevant ^^

[earnest vigil]

Do I not need an instance of that parent so that I can change its variables?

I need the child to take those variables and use them

[tired whale]

In the editor, if you have created your child class actor, then spawn it

it should have all the values from the parent's variable as you've set them in the child

[earnest vigil]

I have the ability to get those vars in the child actors however when I go to set them at runtime and read them with the child actor they come back as 0

[lofty rapids]

you should be able to use the variables from the parent on the child like as if it was on it

[tired whale]

Can you give us some screenshots?

[earnest vigil]

And do need an instance of that parent in the level to edit the values at runtime?

[earnest vigil]

Yeah Ill try its a bit messy at the moment otherwise id have already sent some haha

[tired whale]

No, but how are you setting the variables at the moment?

[tired whale]

it's ok, I wont judge 😅

[earnest vigil]

I spawn the parent actor. Then set that actors variables to what I need. Then spawn the child actor using the parent. Then read the parents variables with the child

I am just doing a normal get though since I dont have a reference to the actor that I made in the scene which seems like that would be the culprit

[tired whale]

That's not really how it works. Just spawn the child, from the return node of the SpawnActorFromClass you get a ref to the child. Using this you can set any variable inside the child without ever needing to spawn the parent

[earnest vigil]

gotcha thank you

how can I change the variables of the parent class before spawning the child then?

[tired whale]

an exemple of how I've got it inside our game
I have a parent Rat class from which I have 4 children who's class I've stored in an array

[gentle urchin]

GetPointClosestTiWorldPosition

Or something along those lines

[tired whale]

Ok, gona try this now

[gentle urchin]

Then get distance at point

[lofty rapids]

you most likely don't, you spawn the child

and use it when you set the variables

[earnest vigil]

Interesting it doesnt give me access to any of the vars inside of the actor I am spawning since it doesnt know what actor is being spawned

[tired whale]

what do you mean it doesn't know? What are you putting in the class field of the SpawnActorFromClass ?

[earnest vigil]

There are 5 different types of birds in this actor array

All are children of the same class

[lofty rapids]

i wonder if you can cast to parent

and get the variables

out of the spawn

[earnest vigil]

I think I tried that already and the cast fails due to the actors not being the same

[tired whale]

from the return node, you have a reference to the child you just spawned. You can either set some variables right away (like I'm doing [here](#blueprint message )) or store them in an array to do it later on using the same order as you have in your class array

[kind geyser]

guys hi ! how can ı make filter system for enemy in widget

[earnest vigil]

I get what is happening in this screenshot I just dont understand how you were able to set the runner id.

Currently I have 5 birds all children of the BirdParent actor which has a few vars, one of which is Speed

When I pull off of that renturn value given to me from spawn actor I am not able to set that Speed value or any others at all

[gentle urchin]

Whats the ckass of "BirdArray"

[earnest vigil]

This is what is inside the BirdArray

it is an Actor ClassReference

Ohhhhhhh

gotta change that to the BirdParent

[lofty rapids]

that'll do it most likely

[tired whale]

this and make sure your variables are instance editable

in the parent, ofc

[earnest vigil]

thank you

Ill poke at this for a bit longer much appreciated

[tired whale]

you're welcome

Have fun !

[kind geyser]

pls help guys hi ! how can ı make filter system for enemy in widget

[tired whale]

Can you elaborate on what you're trying to achieve here?

atm I have no idea what you mean

[kind geyser]

Each enemy has certain features that I have predefined. When I click on the feature checkboxes, I want those who possess the selected features to light up in green, and those who do not to light up in red.

[tired whale]

Seems like I can only get info "at spline point", and not the other way around, as in find to which spline point is my actor the closest 😒

[gentle urchin]

Hold my beer

[tired whale]

Oh, I think I got it

this one?

[tired whale]

seems not, it returns a vector and not a spline point

[tired whale]

My man ! Thank you !

[earnest vigil]

@tired whale and others who helped looks like its working!

Thank you

[tired whale]

As Todd Howard puts it, it just works! You're the goat !

[gentle urchin]

🥳😂

Now you can also ensure that no car is trying to reach a location thats behind them !

[fathom bone]

I had an EUW that worked in 5.2 but gets this in 5.3, is there a notable change that might be behind it?

[buoyant star]

something kinda like this somehow? At the moment it changes all the segments of the spline rather than just the parts with the tower though 😂 I'm losing my mind

[queen heron]

so, how do I do it right?
how do I like make 1 point read every other point that has been selected, not just one?

[gentle urchin]

If you just spawned a piece. You wanna track which piece that was

[modest garden]

Does anybody know how to make a scoring system like this using blueprints

[queen heron]

notice the borders between the big numbers

and how the score gets bigger on the next boxes

[nova agate]

Hey guys! I'm new to blueprint programming and need some help. I was following a 3-year-old tutorial on YouTube where the instructor created a blueprint interface with two variables. To input values into them, he used "Get MoveForward" and "Get MoveRight." However, when I try to do the same thing, I can't find these nodes.

What can I do to achieve the same result? I need this blueprint interface to activate an animation when the character moves.

[lofty rapids]

i mean you could just make a widget and change the text of some things to display it

[lofty rapids]

what nodes are you looking for ?

[nova agate]

In the video, he used "Get MoveForward" and "Get MoveRight" and connected them to "Move Forward" and "Move Right." However, I can't find these nodes.

[nova agate]

Need a alternative for this

[lofty rapids]

those are functions

hard to tell what they return

us that ue4 ?

and your using 5 ?

[nova agate]

In video he was using ue4
i'm using ue5