blueprint

[glossy inlet]

I also noticed 2 diffrent targets, one in my BP projectile and another for the Gamedata which is actually my Interface

[dull shell]

You will need reference to GrappleComponent

That reference will become the target

[frosty heron]

Get the one with the msg icon and use grapplingComponent as the target

[dull shell]

Also what theme are you using

[glossy inlet]

I love these!

[glossy inlet]

@frosty heron @dull shell thank you so much! I just added grapple componet to my projectile refrenced it. Now im going to ride the Dopamine high on this since is been killing me for the last few days.

[dull shell]

No problem! Happy to help

[earnest vigil]

Is there a way to rename a file at a specific directory?

Trying to get a file at a specific directory say something like “Screenshot.png” and rename it to “SomethingElse.png” using blueprints

[frosty heron]

try Utils Blueprint Library

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/FileUtils/MoveFile/

[earnest vigil]

Hmm I dont even see this node as an option

[frosty heron]

its most likely have to be enabled as a plugin

[dawn gazelle]

You use the input axis value as a multiplier for the scale of the movement.

So if your input is outputting 1.0 at full input, then you should be able to feed in that axis value directly into the add movement input node's scale value. when it's at -1 it would be the opposite direction and when the analog stick is in the center, then it should be at 0 resulting in no movement.

If it's already set up this way but not getting the response you want, then your gamepad's analog stick may not be fully analog as it should produce a smooth value from -1 to 0 to 1 depending on where it is on the axis.

[rugged sun]

How do I make this compatible?

[dawn gazelle]

The "Samurai Player" variable is currently of type "BP Exclamation", is that what you were expecting to use?

Not necessarily. Your input should already be outputting appropriate axis values that cover the axis fully.

Show your input code and I can then see what is happening.

[rugged sun]

I don't think it is.

[dawn gazelle]

Then you need to change the type of the variable to "BP Samurai", much like how you change a bool to float or integer.

[rugged sun]

so i did that but now the compiler has three issue, and I'm not certain what they are throwing a fit about.

[dawn gazelle]

You may need to disconnect and reconnect the pins that are connected into any of your "Samurai Player" variable calls.

[rugged sun]

nevermind, I figured out the issue. It was still referencing the exclamation point in "Set" Had to delete that node.

[waxen fog]

So if I have two of the same event triggering in unreal BP, is there any rhyme or reason to determine which one executes first?

[versed sun]

butwhy.gif

you could Sequence the code using only one input

[waxen fog]

This is true

[lunar sleet]

Could also use win shift S to take screenshots instead of this lol

[undone bluff]

make the screenshot a texture, put it on a monitor in engine, then screenshot that

bonus points if it's reflective and for overlaying a pixel texture to get that moire noise in

[thin panther]

evil incarnate

[wicked cairn]

anyone with knowledge on the wave function collapse plugin? 🥺

I'm actually wondering if I need to input adjacencies for ALL sides including Z and not just the X and Y

[rain swallow]

Hey, newbie here - I'm trying to attach an actor object to the hand socket on my player. The object travels 'with' the player but drifts, rotates, and flails a good distance away from the socket rather than staying in the hand. Any ideas on how I might be able to fix this?

[lunar sleet]

Turn off physics on it?

[sage lagoon]

What would be the best way to constrain the mouse controls for the player's camera to just horizontally? Basically, lock the horizontal and diagonal rotations of the camera while moving the mouse during gameplay.

[lunar sleet]

Depends, but if you just want to lock out the Z, cache the Z before rotation occurs and feed it directly into the new rotation

[sage lagoon]

Basically, I want to keep the camera from going under too far underneath the player and too far above, too. Ideally, sort of looking over the shoulder in a typical third-person perspective.

[lunar sleet]

Clamp axis

You can get current rot, split the pin, take whatever axis, clamp it, feed it back into set rot

[ionic quiver]

Hey guys, I've run into a blueprint problem I've never experienced and it has me completely stumped. I'm using a timeline to set my actor location and it does it successfully once, sometimes even multiple times, but eventually it stops setting the actor location entirely. The actor location stays static while the vector that's going into the Set Actor Location is properly being updated. Anyone have any possible idea as to what's going on?

[sage lagoon]

Something like in this image?
https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/b/0/d/b0d4f7b2b794cb0bc37399aac1b2682cffe0ad37.png

[lunar sleet]

That’s not how you should be doing that

[ionic quiver]

How should I do it?

If it fixes it I'll try anything

[lunar sleet]

You may want to feed the X and Z pins not just leave them at 0

[sage lagoon]

I wonder if Teleport might be a better way to take the player to a designated location, if that's what you mean.

[sage lagoon]

Okey-doke.

[lunar sleet]

You want fixed points and the timeline should only change a value from 0 to 1, feeding that track into a lerp where A is location A and B is location B

Assuming you want gradual change in actor’s loc

[ionic quiver]

I'm a bit confused. I'm calculating the location I want it to end, then I have a timeline going from 0 to 1, and multiplying it by that value. Then adding it to my original location. So it properly animates from the start to the end smoothly.

It does work, just after a few times for some reason the Set Actor node stops setting the actor to what is being piped in

Sometimes it works once then breaks, other times like 7 times before breaking

[ancient heath]

One question, I have this, I would like to be able to obtain the exact collision that I point to with a line trace, but I can only obtain the actor that I hit with the line trace, how can I get the exact box collision?

[lunar sleet]

You multiplying the fwd vector directly by the track value is a little weird but if the values are coming through fine yet the actor is not moving maybe you’re having a collision issue. I’d also test with Sweep checked off

[lunar sleet]

You want the box inside the actor?

[ionic quiver]

When I had the sweep off, for some reason the character fell through the ground

I have no clue why

I'll try turning it off again

[ancient heath]

Yes

Exactly

[lunar sleet]

Use the hit component pin instead

[ancient heath]

Thanks :DDD\

I never used that

[ionic quiver]

Huh... there was a restart of Unreal between before and now. So now turning off sweep works fine, and I think it fixed the problem.

So yay!? Do you know why Sweep would break it though?

Oh... you mentioned it could be coliding. I wonder if it's possible for it to have a vector down a little and collide with the ground.

[lunar sleet]

Possibly. Afaik sweep checks collision between current and new location, so maybe that’s preventing it from moving but idk

[ionic quiver]

I think that was it. That would also explain why it would fall under ground. Cause if I turned off sweep and it somehow was facing a bit down, it would go under the ground.

Cause the forward vector would make it go under

With the slight modification it now works great

So thank you so much for that. I was going crazy trying to understand what the hell is going on 😅

Next up is for me to modify this to move up / down stairs, but that's for future me 🙂

[frigid summit]

hi guys i have two markers the second one still on minimap even if i set visibilty on the enemy blueprint to hidden but it hide from the game just only the minimap i just want to hide it and show it on the death of the enemy in unreal

its still visible on minimap

[frank viper]

Ran into an interesting problem tonight.
I had too many nodes strung together off a long sequence node.
The engine detected "an infinite loop".
Game crashed.
After I did a little research I found out that the engine thinks there is an infinite loop when there is no tick rate / process or node set.
Apparently there is a way to set that.
My solution is just to break the class BP up into separate BPies.

So another reason not to make your BPies too big I guess 🙂

[obtuse mulch]

some function were calling itself prob

you can make bps very big

[frosty heron]

Infinite loop defaulted to 10000 iirc within one single frame.
So if you have that error, you are most likely doing something wrong

[frank viper]

I see thanks 🙂

I also read somewhere that it can be related to RAM available. My C drive is very full. Might be the issue too

[timber crystal]

heeeeelllooo i hope you doing well guys 😄 i need healp

This ice bullet sets my movement speed -400 when its overlap my playchar. after a delay of 3 sec i want that it set again +400 but the only thing that work is the -400 after 3 sec nothing happend WHY?

better to see

[faint pasture]

you're probably destroying the bullet, it doesn't exist 3 seconds later to set the speed back

You need to rethink your approach

[timber crystal]

ahhh ok so its because the end node of "Destroy Actor" right?

[random pulsar]

hi

i want to attach my character to the surface he walks on,i checked the node attach actor to actor but there in no normal output

i remember there is a node that i can break and get normal

whats it called?

line trace by channel and then break and get the normal

and now some hard staff ,mathematics,logic(

[native canopy]

can i use get all actors of class inside the trace? so in outside the trace will not affaect by get all actor of class

[obtuse mulch]

theres something like sphere trace by object

you can select the class to trace

[native canopy]

where i put length of array?

[frosty heron]

where ever you want

as long it's legal

but not sure how that will help you

Every hits doesnt mean only the character get hit for example

it really depend on your collision settings

[native canopy]

what i need to put in object type

[obtuse mulch]

ur get all actors of class?

[frosty heron]

w/e u need to

just stop using get all actor of class, it's beginner trap

u can use it in some scenario

not this

[obtuse mulch]

not on tick

[native canopy]

so how to get the object?

[frosty heron]

why not?

not even expensive

[native canopy]

in sphere trace

[frosty heron]

depends on how many objects

But you rarely need to get every single Object of a specific class in every tick

[obtuse mulch]

ah this

its a collisions matter

[frosty heron]

a lot of ways

[native canopy]

not spesific bp actor that print all in world around sphere

[frosty heron]

use one that fit your purpose

[frosty heron]

u can filter it by making a special collision

or u can just get every hit and cast and filter it from there

soo many ways, pick one that fit your need

[remote meteor]

dont split the struct like that reeeee

[frosty heron]

🫢

I guess using break then?

[obtuse mulch]

splitters unite

why use another node

its a space waster

[remote meteor]

very personal opinion, i use break, but i dont understand why FHitResult needed a native break that cannot hide unused pins

[remote meteor]

then use the arrow key to collapse it to "minimum"

[obtuse mulch]

😄

[obtuse mulch]

5 button presses instead 1

[remote meteor]

future you/your coworker will thank you for that

especially splitting a struct in a function that have multiple returns

oh god which one is a real variable

find the sus one

x100 the problem if you dont have a good naming convention for return stuffs

[obtuse mulch]

working in a team must be exhausting

i understand blizzard

the bigger the team the longer the workflow gets

[remote meteor]

that one differnt, thay have 7500 employees that "preach using level blueprints for making game"

😄

one stupid shit they did in D4, they decide to load and replicate the entire inventory of every other player you see on the screen

like

idk how to explain how that is super outrageous

[glacial lily]

when using multi sphere trace for objects it produces a lot of hits against the UE5 manny. Anyone know why?

[remote meteor]

because the PhysicsBody of the SkeletalMesh that SKM_Manny have a few different capsules, you are tracing those. Which object type / channels you are tracing?
usually you want to separate the collision object type that the Capsule and the SkeletalMesh has
depending on your game, you might not need the SkeletalMesh to have tracing capabilities

[glacial lily]

tracing for pawn

[remote meteor]

is your skeletal mesh object type set to pawn? they should be PhysicsBody by default iirc oh they are pawn by default lol, if you dont need body part detection (like headshot in CSGO or something) you could disable the collisions of the SkeletalMesh, or make them physics only

[obtuse mulch]

i have similar thing where the sphere trace is on my character when he charge through enemies and it seems to hit them 100 times

idk why is that so i put damage recieved on cooldown

maybe anyone have an idea?

cus enemy has only one collision component

[remote meteor]

if its just one capsule component that has tracing capabilities, i cant think of why it would be traced multiple times tho

[obtuse mulch]

its like it hits them every step

[remote meteor]

trace or OnActorHit?

[obtuse mulch]

trace

[glacial lily]

where is this at?

[main lake]

Is it possible to make the player still being able to press a specific keybind while having a UI menu showing up ? Like I tried to use "Set Input Mode UI And Game" but the issue it creates is the player can still move around, attack, etc... and I don't want that.

Like I just want when he presses G, it opens a UI Menu and he can click stuff in it but when pressing G again it closes the menu but with "Set Input Mode UI Only" I can't press keybinds on my keyboard, I only can use my mouse to press the close button.

[remote meteor]

against a capsule or skeletalmesh?

[glacial lily]

thanks!

[remote meteor]

there are many many ways to handle this, you could handle it in a way when the PlayerController opens a UI, it temporary disables input to the pawn, and enable back when its closed

or if utilizing Set Input Mode UI Only, you have to make a separate input in the OnKeyDown of the widgets to close(remove from parent/hide?) the widgets

both are okay.

[obtuse mulch]

capsule

[remote meteor]

then i really have no idea 🤔 without visuals

[obtuse mulch]

gotta check again

[main lake]

how to disable input to the pawn ? And will it disable the G key as it's the button to open the UI Menu

[remote meteor]

if we are going that direction, the G key that opens up the ui cannot be in the character

they need to be in the controller, since we are disabling all the inputs that bounded in the character, you have to split the ui stuffs into the controller

[main lake]

it's alerady in the controller

[native canopy]

inside trace there is 2 actors, but in print string there is like 90-100>

[frosty heron]

show code

[native canopy]

like this

[frosty heron]

That's what I thrown in

I don't see your print strings

[frosty heron]

print string the hit components

the Trace may hit anything that belongs to the player

it's ur job to filter it

[remote meteor]

simple way of temporary disabling inputs towards a the controlled pawn

[frosty heron]

instead printing the length, print the hit component

you will see what the trace hits

[main lake]

Awesome thank you 🙏

[native canopy]

that show 90-100>

[frosty heron]

again don't print length

print the hit component

see what the trace is hitting

we don't want to see number here

we want to see the hit components from the hit result

[remote meteor]

and show us what it prints

[native canopy]

this wo

[remote meteor]

probably trying to do body parts splitting, since it is tracing those, if those parts doenst have gameplay implication, you could just set them physics only, so gameplay systems dont trace them while they still have physics collision

[crude dew]

Can someone explain why my Hierarchial Instanced Mesh isnt working in construction script.

[frosty heron]

can try using Object channels and only allow Pawns

[remote meteor]

why is it disconnected?

[frosty heron]

obviously, make sure that your capsule component to be pawn, so it would only detect that

[crude dew]

I have 2 Items in the Mesh Array so I can switch between wall lights and street lamps, It works with the street lamps but not with the lamsp

I disconnected that to try something else.

I tested this and it works

but when ran through the switch I cannot seem to switch between Lamps and Lights

[random pulsar]

can someone show a example on how i can use the normal from line trace by channel?

[frosty heron]

Your mesh array values

show 'em

[crude dew]

Index 0 = Street Lamp , Index 1 = Wall Lamp

[frosty heron]

have u changed the enum in the instance that you placed in the world?

[remote meteor]

S/N: you could use a select node to determine which index to use so you dont need duplicate stuff

[native canopy]

I tes in hit actor only show the actor, its wirk fine

[remote meteor]

is your default mesh on the component already the wall lamp? lol

[crude dew]

Default Is Unknown Option

until I change the Item type to either Street Lamp, Wall Lamp

[remote meteor]

this one

[frosty heron]

he mean the static mesh component u are trying to change

[crude dew]

Ahh yes it has default of the wall lamp mesg defined >.>

doh.

[remote meteor]

because hehe

[crude dew]

I thought Set Static Mesh would automatically clear it 🙂

Thanks for that explanation it makes sense so if i clear to nothing before assignment it should work. 🙂

[remote meteor]

probably dont assign anything in the first place

[crude dew]

ye thats what i meant just leave the Static Mesh empty.

[frosty heron]

not really

[remote meteor]

since this is a construction script, the defaults should be empty, as its determined runtime/compile time

[crude dew]

Its just because i found myself using HISM Component for HISM_Fence, HISM_Torch, HISM_Lamps

so I figured might be better to have one BP that I can adjust the mesh to instead of individual ones for each item type.

[remote meteor]

you dont really need an enum in this case

[crude dew]

True

[remote meteor]

placing all the asset in the base bp also means

referencing one bp = reference all asset = bad when it comes to memory footprint and loading times

[crude dew]

I thought might make sense to have a EnvironmentBP which contains a lot (If not all of the assets Im using from different packs) would save me the work of having to try and find Oh i used Streetlamp 6 out of a 100 Street Lamp Pack or something.

I noticed that UE doesnt seem to have a "clean-up" facility or "Remove Unused Assets" or I do not know where it is.

I find it quite irritating to download a full VFX pack for 1 fire effect I like. xD

[frosty heron]

I still think of you, every time I look at my project 🐱 . What would I do without your Async Load codes

[remote meteor]

its probably okay, but i will recommend using soft reference for thus assets in the base bp

[frosty heron]

I think co-routine make the process easier and way shorter code

but I can't use it, brain too small

[remote meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/diosa-bocchi-gif-24958394

sounds gehhhhh

[crude dew]

So it would be better to have individual BP,s for each type of lamp in this example ?

[remote meteor]

usually i do something like BP_Props, then create childs like BP_City_Fence, BP_Forest_Stone etc etc

[crude dew]

I would imagine if you have 1000,s of different types of lamps referenced (So a arrya of 1000,s mesh's) would be a bad idea.

[remote meteor]

for each usecase i will have a child bp of it with the asset referenced

if one day i want to change all BP_City_Fence, i just change it on the bp, it reflects on all instances of it

[crude dew]

Ahh ok so BP_Lighting - > (Child) Bp_StreetLamp ->(Child 2 ) BP_ WallLamp

even thought essentially BPLIghting is basically an empty HISM component.

[remote meteor]

yeah

doing this way also allow possible gameplay interaction

say i want BP_Lighting to flicker, i could just call it on the base class, then the child would implement or override the base behavior etc etc

[crude dew]

true I hadnt thought of that possibilioty

Thank you for the insight.

[remote meteor]

🍝 👌

[crude dew]

Final thing, Is there any tool to use to clean up the content folder btw? I have 2 FX i want to use from a 100 FX pack

[remote meteor]

there are plugins for that, i believe

[crude dew]

Or do i have to manally delete all 98 other FX items?

[remote meteor]

usually i do it manually 😅 auditing the assets used

[crude dew]

oof xD

[versed sun]

Make a new project with the 100 fx
Migrate the 2 you want into the other project

[crude dew]

Ahh ok, That would make sense and then so you end up having 1 project "Marketplace Asset Project" and then you can take w/e you want from that?

[versed sun]

yup

select the file you want in content browser and it will auto include all dependencies

[remote meteor]

usually i look around github https://github.com/ashe23/ProjectCleaner

[crude dew]

Thanks

[crystal flax]

hey guys there once used to be a tutorial on youtube in which he taught how to do gun reloading with magzine in and out does anyone know the name of that

[modest monolith]

I have a pawn that moves and stops only when looked at. When "is rendered" gets triggered he stops. But sometimes it stops even when not looked at. In my map there's prob something that renders him. What could it be?

[versed sun]

a reflection ?

[lunar sleet]

A riddle

[limber citrus]

how can I read json files in bps?

[lunar sleet]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Json/

Imagine Googling stuff lol

[meager igloo]

How do I get axis inputs in Blueprint?
I´m trying to make another actor to do things at the same time as the main Pawn when I hit buttons

[wicked cairn]

Anyone know if I can modify the WFC Plugin's WFC Collapse Grid Actor to have it solve itself in the blueprint based on what I put in the grid? I've got a working data asset and I'm skimming a bit through the WFC Subsystem but would like it to not randomly collapse, I want to be able to edit the result! Apologies if i explained this weird

[versed sun]

have to enable the built in plugin

[limber citrus]

I am on 4.27

doing editor utility widget

[limber citrus]

I am not sure how to use this xD

cant find it, not sure what's wrong

[lunar sleet]

What Ryck said

[limber citrus]

ah yea

it's not in 4.27

[lunar sleet]

But not available in ancient versions I don’t think

[limber citrus]

ya ya

[lunar sleet]

Should prly use the enhanced input system instead of the deprecated one

[versed sun]

there are plugins on marketplace for JSON also

i like VaRest

[meager igloo]

Yeah I should learn that later, I´m just figuring out the basic functionality for vehicle movement in my game :>

[timber crystal]

Hello my friends i still need a solution for my problem

This is my "IceBullet Projectile" Its freeze my player after he overlaps with it so on so good but...

WHHHHHHHYYYYY
It dosent set the speed back?
(After the delay)

[meager igloo]

Actually I found already how I get the input axises, now I´m just trying to figure how to set values for another pawn in the level

[lunar sleet]

You can prly use the same event in there too

[meager igloo]

I mean I´m trying to control another Pawn with the same input

oh, does that work?

I can probably just use this in there

[modest monolith]

How?

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/pharaoh-pharaoh-cat-desert-desert-cat-gif-10548910188582493426

[foggy escarp]

If you are using lumin I've found it pretty unreliable to use 'WasRecentlyRendered'

[limber parcel]

it must be a custom character class

no wait, its an AI

since it only moves when looked at

[lunar sleet]

“Lumin” hehe

[versed sun]

Lumax's brother

[limber parcel]

luxor?

[lunar sleet]

Lex Luthor ?

[modest monolith]

I'm on ue 4.27

[lunar sleet]

Ugh darn modders

[lofty rapids]

probably because you destroy actor then try to do stuff, is that sequence in the second image where the first image is running from ?

[timber crystal]

Yes 🙂

its a sequence

[lofty rapids]

I'm guessing you destroy self so the other code might not run

[timber crystal]

yes in the end i have "Destroy actor" for the first sequence

[lofty rapids]

right so the actor gets destroyed, i'm not sure it will run the rest of the sequence

[timber crystal]

so maybe i try it as first in the sequence with the freeze

thanks engage !

[lofty rapids]

looks like a ransom note but makes sense

[timber crystal]

ok it works like this without “Destroy Actor”
Do you have a recommendation on how I can do that?
So the bullet is supposed to destroy itself after being hit, how else am I supposed to do that?

[versed sun]

the Delays weren't synced, no need for 2 anyways

[lofty rapids]

ya check out what Ryck posted above, kind of shows a good way of doing it

[timber crystal]

oh sorry i dont see it

[lofty rapids]

you can't see it, or just missed it ?

[timber crystal]

missed it sorry

[lofty rapids]

it's absolutely np, idgaf about much

[timber crystal]

OK, well that works that way, but I would also like to be able to determine the time while the character is in his freeze state. Do you have any ideas about that?

[lofty rapids]

the delay doesn't do that ?

it should be the delay because your setting it to 0.0, then delay, then setting it back

[timber crystal]

the delay is on "FlipBook length" when i go it like Rycke0shae told me

[lofty rapids]

ya thats what you had it set to

[versed sun]

You can make the Delay a var , and set itto whatever you want

[lofty rapids]

but that will control the length of freeze if i understand it correctly

[versed sun]

is it a freeze animation you are playing on character ?

[timber crystal]

no its the impact

of the bullet

[versed sun]

ahh, so Play Flipbook > WalkSpeed(0) > Delay(Flipbook time) > Set Visibility of sprite=False > Delay(Additional Time) > WalkSpeed(600) > Destroy

[elder pebble]

Hello, I am struggling with a List View UI widget. I have figured out how to populate the entries using an array, but now I need to figure out how to delete a single entry based on a variable passed from a box collider. i.e. Player enters box collider of BLUE object, presses interact button, then the word Blue Object is removed from the listview. I have no idea how to "find" the Blue Object line within the listview so that I can reference it in the Remove Item node. Any help would be amazing!

[timber crystal]

@versed sun @lofty rapids

THANKS! it works now

[timber crystal]

thats it

[grim sand]

Does anyone know if there is a safe way to revert a project back to BP only after you converted it into a Cpp project?

[versed sun]

Is there anything special about Append Array, or Actor Components?
When the Component is added during gameplay, I Append each list of actors to Selectable Parts List
I add a ISM around each Actor i find, and print the Length, this works Perfect , so I know the Array is populated
Later, when I want to get something from the array , it is empty...
How?

[lofty rapids]

so your trying to get the data in special click event ? and the length is printing just fine ?

how are you getting that data thats it's empty ?

or is the length zero in special click ?

[versed sun]

the length is 0 on the Special Click print

[lofty rapids]

do you clear it anywhere ?

[versed sun]

but 5 on Begin Play

nope the only ref to the array are there

I dont know if Actor Components do anything wierd

[lofty rapids]

so add instace isn't doing anything to the array ?

so it should be unchanged

[versed sun]

correct

[lofty rapids]

and the array is just a variable in the bp ?

[versed sun]

yup

[lofty rapids]

hmm

the only thing i can think is somethings clearing it somehow

but even if you destroyed the actor, it should recreate it on begin play

[versed sun]

yah , like how a function clears Local Vars

[lofty rapids]

right but you can't have local values in an event like that ?

[versed sun]

no, all normal

[lofty rapids]

did you try rebooting ?

always a go to for weird stuff

maybe its just a bug of some sort ?

i can't see in the pic where it would clear it or why it would reset

[versed sun]

i also dont use Append array often

[lofty rapids]

i've never used it but it should work fine

as you can see it prints 5 on completed

so it worked correctly i'm guessing

[versed sun]

yes , and each ISM spawn where i want it

[lofty rapids]

somewhere i can only assume, you clear the array or something

i don't see a problem with the code but i could be missing something

[lofty rapids]

i searched online didn't find much, co pilot has an idea about it if you ask that, but i would make sure you save a backup.

[versed sun]

Found the problem, i had 2 components spawning and was reffing the wrong one 😦

Always a P.I.C.N.I.C.
Problem
In
Chair
Not
In
Computer

[gentle urchin]

😆

[nocturne basalt]

how do I simplify this?
hallo everubody! made this piece of code that is gets an elevator (cabin) up. How can I simplify timelines to no copypaste them every single time, is there a way to call existing timelines? I think I can do it through the custom event, but then how do I play an event backwards (as an example an event that brings lift up backwards is gonna bring it down )

[lofty rapids]

you could pass a few values to the event

a boole for reverse, check it and if its trun run in reverse

get the start point, and actor to change as well

[deep elbow]

this is in level blueprint? if so make it its own actor, have an exposed start and end location (look at location 3d widget)

[trim matrix]

just call an event inside of the actor(I suppose it's the cabin), then write 1 time a timeline code that wil work for all actors

[versed sun]

If you get the timeline's variable , you can do a lot with it

this is also handy

[sick sky]

i started doing my item system using data tables, but now i am considering data assets

at what point is a data table "big" and cost performance when getting a row ?

[versed sun]

Something like this can make the lift close the door , then either go up or down depending where the Up/Down timeline is, then reopen the door @nocturne basalt

[nocturne basalt]

how did you get the "timeline's variable"? also what switch does, seems to change nothing?

[lofty rapids]

it will take a different exec path depending on the value

so a switch on the enum, makes exec pins for each one and goes out the one that's selected

[versed sun]

they hide in the Variables>Components
Can also right click graph and type the name of your timeline to get it

and , the switch is like a "branch"

[nocturne basalt]

i think I'll need a few hours to comprehend all above, thanks

[versed sun]

When Close/Open finished , If it was playing Forward (just closed), it should run the Up/Down timeline
If it was playing in Reverse/Backward (door just opened), do nothing because you are done

[trim matrix]

I didn't know we could call input pins of a timeline node with a reference to it, crazy

[wicked cairn]

Hello!! I've asked this question many different ways as I progress in my game dev, but I think I've reached a point where I can't find any reliable sources so I'm turning to the discord again!

I'll try to word it as best as possible but, I'm trying to create a 100x100x3 wfc grid actor that allows me to place my 200cm meshes within the grid and have the wfc complete the rest of the grid.
This is so I can procedurally create a small island but be able to form it the way I'd like after it has been generated. This saves time so I don't have to place everything connecting individually leading up to hundreds of pieces.

An example of what I'm trying to do comes from animal crossing new horizons' terrain tiles, where they adjust accordingly as the player terraforms their island.

Any help or advice is appreciated! I'll meanwhile be trying my best to figure out how I can do this using the wave function collapse plugin unreal offers 🙇‍♀️

[lofty rapids]

what is "wfc" ?

[versed sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEUCxK5Zg8&ab_channel=cgcircuitLLC

watching now

[wicked cairn]

wave function collapse

[simple field]

Any ideas why my Pause menu does open, but doesn't close when I press the keybind (P) again?

(it's a singleplayer geography game without a character, that's why I'm using level blueprint for this)

[rare gale]

Click on your interact node (first red one) and make sure that "Execute when Paused" is checked. If not, your button press won't do anything while paused

[simple field]

You're a godsend, thank you so much

[trim matrix]

who pinged me?

[lofty rapids]

i did on accident i replied to the wrong person

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/who-pinged-me-ping-discord-up-opening-door-gif-20065356

[rare gale]

Can anyone tell me why my line trace isn't hitting the static mesh it goes straight through? It goes through multiple StaticMeshes and never registers a hit. I've been all over my level and can't get a hit to register on anything. This used to work, no idea what would have changed to do this.

[rare gale]

I have confirmed the static mesh is set up correctly to world static and collision on. FYI

[lofty rapids]

so your tracing the same channel thats block on the mesh ?

[rare gale]

yeah, static meshes are world static

[lofty rapids]

those two traces don't look like they hit anything tho

[rare gale]

I've tried tracing complex and not

exactly... they go right through the static mesh and a few others behind it

should be registering a hit, but nothing

[lofty rapids]

so it goes right through the mesh, is it green on the other side ? probably not

usually you'll see a red square on the hit

what is shoot object types all about anyway ?

[rare gale]

no greed or red square. The debug text is showing that no hit was registered (false) and the coords show it's running out the line (it wasn't even doing that last night before a crash)

its the type of objects I want to register a hit

[lofty rapids]

just to be sure, i would make a custom channel set it to ignore default, then set it to block on the mesh and trace on that channel

so you can see if it's just not hitting the mesh or your channels are f'd somehow

[lunar sleet]

Yeah that doesn’t look like proper collision settings

This array of things you can hit

You need to set the proper collision settings in the details pane of both actors’ relevant components

[pale mica]

Hi guys, I used the cinematic template and made a small sequencer where the parts 'slide in & out'. I want it to work when I press 2, why isn't working?

[rare gale]

what are the two actors? The one I want to hit and what?

[shell marsh]

I tried to add multiplayer to my game for almost 20 hours straight, now everything is crashing how much do I have to pay someone to fix this for me I think im going to have a heart attack

[rare gale]

Still no hit at all

[spark steppe]

i'll fix it for 500k (unless it's GTA Online)

[lunar sleet]

With a line trace there’s just the one and the collision channel itself. With overlap or actor on actor hit it’s both

What channel are you tracing on?

[simple field]

Why does changing levels break my game?
When I open both levels by itself in the studio, both work properly. When I start from the main menu and open the level using it, the game level is broken - my pause menu doesn't work, my zooming doesn't work either. And vice versa, when I start from the game level and using the pause menu I go back to main menu, the Globe that is in the main menu is missing (like in the pics I sent). Seems like a loading issue, I'm using Open Level nodes. Any ideas?

[rare gale]

I don't know how to answer that. I am tracing for objects. Where would I set a channel to trace on?

[lunar sleet]

#multiplayer but that’s usually why the first advice you get is not to “add multiplayer to a game” but design it as multiplayer from the get go

[lunar sleet]

On the node lol

[hazy jewel]

This might be a stupid question but currently working in 5.3.2 and if my attack input and dodge input are hit close to each other/overlap, my player loses the ability to do one of the inputs. Is this something where I have a setting wrong or more likely something within the blueprint?

[versed sun]

did you set your world settings? @simple field

[rare gale]

I showed the ObjectTypes in the screenshot above. It's tracing for WorldStatic and going through a StaticMesh with collision set to WorldStatic and registering no hit.

[lofty rapids]

so when you overlap you can use an input ?

[shell marsh]

I think I restart my project and just make it really fast its like 5 days of non stop work down the drain at least I can keep my assests and knowledge, good thing I stopped developing and tryed adding multiplayer when I did

[lunar sleet]

That trace doesn’t look like it’s in line with hitting anything, which object are you trying to hit, the ingot?

[hazy jewel]

Yeah, it does allow me to attack mid dodge which I am realizing might be making a bool not execute lmao

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, start with the pins in that channel

[simple field]

Nope, didn't know that existed, have you got an idea on what I should set it to? It's a singleplayer geography game with no character

[hazy jewel]

I will go see if that fixes at least the dodge side

[shell marsh]

Thank you

[rare gale]

Better shot here... #blueprint message

[lunar sleet]

That’s the one I’m referring to

[rare gale]

It goes through the giant white box that is set up as WorldStatic.

[lunar sleet]

Oh lol I didn’t see the end of it there

Did you make an actor or just placed a static mesh in the level and changed its settings?

[rare gale]

White cube is a shape dropped in from the default tools. The wall is a static mesh. Both have the correct settings on their collision. I know how this is supposed to work, it used to work, it just stopped registering hits and I'm trying to understand why.

[lunar sleet]

First, restart the engine for sanity check

Also do you have trace complex turned on?

[rare gale]

I've tried with both complex checked and unchecked. I've restarted multiple times as well. I'll try again now that I've seen the channel trace work.

[lunar sleet]

Try putting the white box in an actual actor, then change the mesh’s collision settings in there and then place it. If it still doesn’t register add a box collision. And prly keep trace complex turned off unless the mesh asset itself has collision

[rare gale]

Restart did nothing to fix this... same with complex or not... I'll try the actor route real quick, but I have other actors that are set up this way and they don't work either.

[lofty rapids]

i would try a custom channel

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, or just use Visibility

[lofty rapids]

if it doesn't work theres something f'd

[tight pollen]

Hi, I want to hide the character but keep the shadow, how can I do that?

[lunar sleet]

@rare gale actually just trace on visibility channel

[strong rover]

Is there anyone here who is familiar with Python in UE5?
I'm trying to fake key inputs to switch to one of the Editor modes (Shift and 2) with a Blueprint Utility, but my inexperience with Python is biting me in the behind.
Python plugin is active.

I tried various things, including:

class unreal.InputChord(2, true, false, false, false)```

But it claims an issue with the period between "unreal" and "InputChord", and I can't find any information on it.

Source:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/PythonAPI/class/InputChord.html#unreal.InputChord.key

[lunar sleet]

#editor-scripting

[strong rover]

Gotcha, thanks!

[trim matrix]

Execture Python Script???????????
wtf is that

[strong rover]

It's a function available in Blueprint Utility Widgets, for when you're making blueprints to help you inside the editor.
It's for Editor only, and cannot be run at gametime.

Requires the Python Plugin to be enabled & the engine to be restarted before use.

[trim matrix]

so you are basically writing some python code when it's supposed to be C++ or BP?

[strong rover]

It gives you a library to use which includes functionality that might not be (as easily) accessible in C++ or BP.

[nocturne basalt]

i've tried this, but how to make it work with OnComponentBeginOverlap? It kinda goes back and forward

[lofty rapids]

you need to put class at the beginning ?

i feel like no, but i don't use python

i would try to remove the word class

because it makes no sense if it you needed that i would be surprised

[spark steppe]

i would rather deal with making my own C++ method than dealing with python... xD

[lofty rapids]

i tried it awhile ago and i don't like the syntax

i prefer brackets

[strong rover]

That partially worked, but unfortunately then it threw up another error:

LogPython: Error:   unreal.InputChord(key: Key = 2, shift: bool = False, ctrl: bool = False, alt: bool = False, cmd: bool = False)
LogPython: Error:  ```

This time it didn't like the colon on "key:"
Removing "Key:" and all the others (Shift:, Ctrl:...) would cause:
```LogPython: import unreal
unreal.InputChord(Key = 2, bool = False, bool = False, bool = False, bool = False)
LogPython: Error: SyntaxError: keyword argument repeated: bool (<string>, line 2)
LogPython: Error:   None
LogPython: Error:       ```

Finally, removing any repeats of the word "bool" after the first resulted in:
LogPython: import unreal
unreal.InputChord(Key = 2, bool = False, False, False, False)
LogPython: Error: SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument (<string>, line 2)
LogPython: Error:   unreal.InputChord(Key = 2, bool = False, False, False, False)

With the issue being on the last closing bracket :/

[lofty rapids]

well i don't think you would need all thos bool =, and key =

looks like you just pass the values like a normal function

unreal.InputChord(2,False,False,False,False)
but also 2 is not the correct type i think you want a key type which i don't know what that is

but like i said it's just a guess

[pale imp]

Does anyone know why some assets are disappearing upon packaging the game ? (yes it's in shipping and not development)

[lofty rapids]

is it a particular one, is there a common theme ? or is it random ?

[spark steppe]

check the logs if it throws an error that the asset is missing

[pale imp]

It seems random, and there's no errors

[spark steppe]

we don't know if it wasn't packaged or if there's another reason

then check the pak file

you can unpack them with some helper tool which comes with UE

[pale imp]

How do I do that ? Is it complicated or can I just search for it on yt ?

[spark steppe]

search on google

it's just one command, and if you have encryption enabled you need the key

[pale imp]

Alright i'll brb

[spark steppe]

or check the packaging log

iirc it lists all assets that get packed

[rare gale]

Visibility causes all sorts of issues since it returns an array of hits. I don't know why, but just deleting everything in my ShootObject array and resetting them fixed the whole thing. What is that all about? Is there a limit on how big that list can be? I added all the same stuff back and it worked fine.

[lunar sleet]

You can choose to ignore certain things or filter by a specific actor class but yeah. Idk what you plugged that shoot object array into

[rare gale]

Line Trace For Objects asks for a list of Object Types (worldstatic, worlddynamic, etc) so it knows what it should be allowed to hit. I had all of that set up correctly, but for some reason it wasn't working. Just by deleting the elements of that array and re-adding them it works fine. Something got borked with that list.

[pale imp]

I have the extracted file but the only thing I can find pertaining to assets is this

[tiny monolith]

In the 2nd image, I collect the totalscore with an integer in the function, but when I close and open it, the score appears on the screen, but it does not increase at all, it always remains the last score, it is not added on top and does not record, for example, I saved the number 10 and in the next round I will add 5 with my variable and make it 15 and print it on the screen, but my variable comes 0 and 0 + 5 = 5

[versed sun]

Try regular Load Game from Slot , not the Async one

and , whats inside Score Rank ?

Are you saving and loading next level too fast before the save finishes saving ?

[stark thistle]

Hi folks. I've got a PCG spline that is spawning Actors (not just static meshes) and I've got a question on it. It seems whenever the actor recompiles, it fires the construction script, but it DOESN'T completely reset the actor's position/rotation/scale. I've got my own weighted random selection that's working, but I for my meshes I need a manual per-mesh vertical offset. (Say, -5 for one mesh but -10 for another).

My problem is, every time the actor is compiled, PCG re-generates, the construction script fires, but the actor's position is NOT reset. So the offset is applied twice, thrice, etc. every time I make a change to the actor BP. I'm wanting to reset the object back to relative (0,0,0) + whatever random offset PCG gave it. (If you're familiar with web development, it'd be like getting the defaultValue for an <input>). I've tried caching the initial position in an actor variable, but that doesn't work because it seems when PCG fires it re-creates the actual actor object; it just keeps it's position.

Is there some kind of "PCG is about to re-generate" event or dispatch I can listen for, so that I can re-set my mesh offset right before PCG re-runs? It seems the Actor Destroyed event is NOT fired for an actor here, even though the constructor runs again...

[marble sky]

When an actor is destroyed, do all of it's components get destroyed with it? I'm having an issue I can't seem to identify. I have a character actor that has a 'playerstats' actor component attached to it. I have an event in my character controller that destroys actor (controlled pawn), and then spawns in a new one and possesses it. There is some logic in my character blueprint to access the 'playerstats' component attached to it. After I destroy the actor and spawn the new one, I get a blueprint ubergraph error saying that 'playerstats' component is marked for kill or destroy.

It seems like it's not actually releasing the reference to 'playerstats' and is trying to re-use it on the new character but I am not sure why.

[simple field]

Why does changing levels break my game?
When I open both levels by itself in the studio, both work properly. When I start from the main menu and open the level using it, the game level is broken - my pause menu doesn't work, my zooming doesn't work either. And vice versa, when I start from the game level and using the pause menu I go back to main menu, the Globe that is in the main menu is missing (like in the pics I sent). Seems like a loading issue, I'm using Open Level nodes. Any ideas?

[marble sky]

My character blueprint and my character controller. Oddly, the HUD widget is updating correctly after respawn.

[faint pasture]

that delay is sus

[marble sky]

I am only using it temporarily to see if it was an issue with the character not being destroyed fast enough

without it it does the same thing, just spawns faster. I even moved the 'spawn actor' action to another keybind so I can control when I do it, but on PIE exit it tells me that 'PlayerStats' is marked for trash or deletion. Specifically the get health percentage function on the playerstats component.

[lofty rapids]

i sually use the same function for damage and gain, just pass it negative

[marble sky]

yeah it will be refined once it's working, just trying to figure out why this is happening.

[faint pasture]

Why are you calling it CharacterController, is it a PlayerController?

In general this entire architecture is goofy IMO

[marble sky]

You mean on the cast? Yeah, I just named the bp 'CharacterController'

[faint pasture]

You just want a basic HUD that reflects the state of your pawn, right?

[marble sky]

Yeah, a pawn that is destroyed and re-created when it does.

[faint pasture]

What should the HUD show during the time the pawn is gone, just go away?

This is the problem

[marble sky]

No, the hud stays open.

[faint pasture]

You're saying Die, then update health

After Die, you shouldn't be accessing anything on the pawn

[lofty rapids]

also why are you get health percentage, but you don't use the returned value

[marble sky]

Oh, you're right, I see that. I need to remove the get health percentage node entirely as I am setting the health to 0

[faint pasture]

I wouldn't do ANYTHING to the pawn after the code that calls destroy actor on it

[lofty rapids]

it probably won't work

[faint pasture]

just include the "set hp bar hp to 0" in your Die code on the controller

but in general this is a spaghetti mess IMO

[lofty rapids]

or do it before you die

[faint pasture]

ya that too

[marble sky]

How so? The controller is handling the hud and the die/spawn of the character, the character is controlling it's own stats.

[marble sky]

Yeah, that was an oversight on my end.

[faint pasture]

Why isn't the character dying when their hp reaches 0? Why does the controller have any say on them dying at all?

dying should not rely on controller

the controller should notice when their pawn died, then wait a bit, then respawn

notice = bind stuff to dispatchers if you want to be clean

[lofty rapids]

i put the die on the actual health change, it's just a bool and i set it if the character is dead

in the change function

[faint pasture]

controller notices hp changed -> bound UpdateHPBar to Pawn.OnHPChanged

controller notices pawn died -> bound OnMyPawnDeath to Pawn.OnDeath

pawn doesn't need to know about controller. It just does its thing and the controller observes

[marble sky]

They are dying when the HP reaches zero. This is a first iteration, to get things working. Once I have verified they work, I will go back through and refactor them.

[faint pasture]

This architecture is way too interconnected

What will happen when you want to reuse this PlayerStats component on AI? It's tightly bound with playerness

[lofty rapids]

set the health to 0 when you die, or do it when you decrease below with clamp or something

[faint pasture]

It shoudl just be a bag of variables and functions, with dispatchers for when it's dead and such

the owning actor can hook to OnDeath and so can the controller if it wants to

Stats component doesn't need to know what it's on and certainly doesn't need to know what it's on's Controller.

StatsComponent:
float HP
float MaxHP
IncreaseHealth(float Increase)
DecreaseHealth(float Decrease)

EventDispatcher OnDeath

Pawn:
StatsComponent

StatsComponent.OnDeath -> do whatever

Controller:

MyPawn.StatsComponent.OnDeath -> do whatever

[marble sky]

I understand, and know how it's supposed to work. As I said previously, I plan to refactor/iterate over it once the concept is in place. I am not the type of developer that can sit down and iron out the architecture perfectly on the first go, I have to see the entire thing as a whole so I can figure out how to break it apart and modularize it. The call to the 'get health percentage' node was an oversight on my part that I missed trying to troubleshoot other things. I was in the process of removing it (hence why the float node was not connected anymore), and then for some reason or another moved away from it thinking it was complete.

So thank you for identifying that for me. Now that the system is functional I can go back in and refactor it to the way it's supposed to be.

[tight pollen]

someone?

[lofty rapids]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/make-an-object-invisible-but-with-shadows/281046

idk if it works but its worth a shot

[tight pollen]

thanks

I have a problem with the AI, because even though I have this option checked, the AI can still see the player through the walls

I don't know what's going on

[gentle urchin]

Swap this with a statmap, statmodify() and OnStatChanged(stat, value) delegate 😄

Ignore multiplayerness

[idle crescent]

Hey. Is there a way I can get the spline length of a spline mesh actor? Based on it's tangents and points? It's kind of lacking a lot of functions of the regular spline, really.

Also what does this mean?

[lofty rapids]

#gameplay-ai maybe

[faint pasture]

What's that got to do with seeing?

[meager igloo]

How do I control another Pawn that is not possessed at the same time as the main Pawn?

[tight pollen]

sorry, I sent the wrong thing :"D

[meager igloo]

Or how do I get inputs to the unpossessed Pawn?

I just want to set a value for a "steering" float on another Pawn, how is it this difficult

[faint pasture]

Just set it

This is for character in a vehicle like GTA right?

[meager igloo]

actually it´s for a vehicle, that consists of 2 "vehicles" for both axles, I couldn´t get it to work otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLSRprsBK8
I think the problem is I joined them in the level with constraints, and not in the Blueprint. I´m trying to make one Actor to hold everything in.

[queen dagger]

so i have a wideget that shows energy usage and i want to have abilitys use energy. would this be a good way to set energy usage?

this is the widget i just cant get it to update in game, it reads the starting amount and reflects accurately but if energy is dropped in game the ui does not update

[idle crescent]

Its strange to me spline mesh doesn't have methods like Spline does for length and position

Is this even the best channel to ask? I'm not sure.

I'm basically trying to use things from both Spline and Spline Mesh Component.

I want to make a road that changes to fit the shape of the spline players drag, but also needs things like the length of said spline and the transform it would be on the spline based on time/distance.

[faint pasture]

That's some big "Train is a hat" energy

[faint pasture]

Why would it, just call those on the spline it's driven by

[faint pasture]

Why would it, is anything ever calling UpdateBar?

[faint pasture]

Also name your stuff a bit better. Call it ModifyChakra or something.

[queen dagger]

gotcha

i’ll check if it’s calling

[faint pasture]

You really should either use binding for the value (basically polling) or use a event dispatcher OnChakraUpdate

don't make the thing holding the Chakra value care about the UI, it should not have a reference to it, that's spaghetti.

[lofty rapids]

what is max chakra ? the percent is 0 - 1

[queen dagger]

Yes 1 max

I don’t think progress bar is calling for updates but I don’t know where to start on getting it to update the values

[lofty rapids]

run event chakra event, then update bar event ?

[white oxide]

Why is the sphere being a child of the character mesh component causing my sphere to jump? When I use the Add Angular Impulse in Degrees function?

[faint pasture]

Why is a rolling sphere actor a character?

What are you actually trying to do here?

[white oxide]

I'm trying to create a rolling ball game

[faint pasture]

Then don't use Character as your base

There's a rolling ball template, look at that

But your pawn should just be a subclass of Pawn with component layout like:

Sphere (this is your root, it's simulating physics)
Spring Arm
Camera

[white oxide]

Right I've been able to decipher that, but out of morbid curiosity do you know why the parent/child relationship would matter in my case?

[faint pasture]

Character does a lot of stuff with interpolation and such, who knows. Could have just been collision, could have been CMC shenanigans, could be anything

[white oxide]

Okay thank you

[faint pasture]

Also, why are you applying an angular impulse? Is it on tick? If so, it should be torque

[white oxide]

It's not on tick

[faint pasture]

It effectively is

IA_Move fires every frame

[white oxide]

Oh

[faint pasture]

that should be AddTorque

[white oxide]

What's the difference?

[faint pasture]

What you haev right now is framerate dependent

[white oxide]

Ahh

[faint pasture]

Impulse = Force * Time
AngularImpulse = Torque * Time

Use impulses for one-offs, like a sudden instantaneous change in angular velocity (rare), or a knockback / recoil / jump (more common)

impulses on tick are smelly, although there are certain reasons why you'd do that, my tire system does that.
I use impulses because my entire tire system is based on an impulse, the impulse that keeps the tire from penetrating the ground. So it's all impulses the whole way through.
It's not framerate dependent because my entire system is set up to be driven by impulses

If I instead had a normal force for the tire, I'd output a force so it can all be forces the whole time.

[white oxide]

I see, thank you for the information.

Definitely will keep this in mind in the future

[heavy plinth]

Hey yall. If anyone's available, I made a basic note system and I need help trying to figure out how to close my notes with the interact blueprint interface I created. This interaction input already opens the note and switches to the next page (using a widget animation) but closing it seems to be an issue.
I tried making a new variable called "NotesEnd" that is set to true after the last note is shown but it still just toggles the note to closed.

Here's the code

[faint pasture]

You never call TogglePickup if reading

You set NotesEnd but the code will never hit TogglePickup as IsReading is true

Plus this isn't very extensible, are all notes 2 pages?

[heavy plinth]

Yeah I was trying to figure that out too

[sturdy pebble]

Anyone know of a way to reparent data assets through Editor Utility? Trying to mass reparent. I see individually I can Convert to Different DataAsset Type However, I'd like to be able to map fields to new fields. C++ or BP

[heavy plinth]

They are only two pages in this way

[faint pasture]

Instead do it more like this

Interact -> if reading -> true -> if there's another page after the one you're on -> true -> show nextpage
-> false -> pickup and read -> false -> put down

that'll work for 1 page note or 100 page note and everything in between

The state of a note is:
bool IsReading
int CurrentPage
int MaxPage

when you show the note, you can switch on CurrentPage or just use it as index into an array of texts

[heavy plinth]

For the part where you say "if there's another page after the one you're on", would that be a branch where the condition currentPage is less than the maxPage?

[celest trench]

Is there such a thing as OwnerNoSee for bones? Like if I want to hide the head do I need to make it a separate component or is there any way to just OwnerNoSee the bone directly?

I know about HideBoneByName, would the best option be to make an RPC for that to only run on the owning client? But then they still wouldn't have shadows for it

[faint pasture]

You can drive HideBoneByName with IsLocallyControlled

assuming HideBoneByName does what you want it to do. Does it actually hide parts of the mesh?

[heavy plinth]

I'm a little confused on how to make new bind the notes to an array/usinf the currentPage, maxPage. Like I get how that would work but I'm not sure if I should make some dataStructure or do something with the note text component variable

This is what I have though

[faint pasture]

Start with an event called DisplayCurrentPage or UpdateText or whatever

[celest trench]

Yes it hides the head. But it also removes the shadow. Is it possible to show the shadow of a hidden bone/mesh?

[faint pasture]

that is the event that turns page int into what's on the actual page

[heavy plinth]

Do you think that would be something I'd do in the note widget blueprint?

Or in the note pickup blueprint?

[faint pasture]

Probably. I'd have the pickup talk to the widget

or have Interact be handled first by any widget on the screen, then on stuff in the world

[heavy plinth]

But then would I remake the variables in that blueprint? I have a datastructure setup but it's not being referenced anywhere

[faint pasture]

depends on how you want to approach it

E -> do we got a widget? -> yes -> interact on it
-> no -> interact in world

[heavy plinth]

I started a populate pages function in the widget that I gave up on

[faint pasture]

There's many ways to skin a cat. Go with whatever has the least hard references and is most easily made generic to support your use case.

If you're gonna have a bunch of widgets that pop up on the screen, pausing the game, and being interacted with, then you'll want to bake that in

[limber citrus]

how can I fix this?

[heavy plinth]

Yeah that's been the hard part. This is my first time dealing with unreal for a project so my ideas keep being broken parts of different solutions

[faint pasture]

I'd probably just choose one approach and commit to it. Either the item handles the Interact call, or the widget directly does. Either way, just stick to it.

[heavy plinth]

I just need to figure out how to make an array that keeps track of the number of text variables and is pointing to my text variables and setting them

[faint pasture]

make an array of type text

ShowPage -> get item CurrentPage in TextArray -> feed it into the text box or whatever

You might want TextArray to live in the item BP, depends really. The widget can just be a display interface if you want

[heavy plinth]

Yeah because I realize I'm setting it here

These variables are public so I've been able to change them from the editor

[faint pasture]

Instead do it more like this

Interact -> if reading -> true -> if Page < PageArray.LastIndex -> true -> Page++ -> Update
-> false -> pickup and read -> false -> put down

Pickup -> play anim -> Pause -> Reading = true -> Page = 0 -> Update
PutDown -> play anim -> UnPause -> Reading = false
Update -> play anim -> Widget.Text = PageArray[Page]

[faint pasture]

yeah instead of NoteText and NoteText2 just make NoteTexts as an array of text

[heavy plinth]

The thing is, I don't know how to get the animation to switch between texts programatically. Right now the showNote animation is displaying the first note text and the next note page animation just switches the opacity of note text 1 and note text 2. Would I make them both point to the noteTexts array variable and then when I switch notes have it increment?

[faint pasture]

you can fade out, swap text, fade in

or do whatever you want

[heavy plinth]

That's how I'm handling it right now

[faint pasture]

or just swap text no fade, depends

Make it robust before worrying about juice

[heavy plinth]

So I realized I would have to change the text variable to an array in the widget blueprint. When I go back to the widget and check the binding though it makes me make a new binding and a whole function gets created

I'm trying to set the note text using the array variable in the event construct because I guess that's what allows the text to populate there in the first place

Also trying to figure out how to add new text from the palette from the same event since it would have to make new ones with each index of an array

[faint pasture]

You don't need a binding

you can just set it

[heavy plinth]

I'm noticing that now. Since it's already a variable

[faint pasture]

binding just means "call this function on tick to update yourself"

[heavy plinth]

I was able to make it a public variable and get the first line of text from the array to display

This is where I'm at with it now

I think I can set maxPage int to the length of the note text array

[faint pasture]

either store the note state in the widget or item, not both

one thing should store the ints, not both

[heavy plinth]

I'm only referencing the int the pickup blueprint

When I switched the note text variable to an array it gave me a compile error in the widget blueprint because one of the pins weren't compatible when setting the text in the event construct event

[dawn gazelle]

You're getting that error as the field you're accessing isn't of type "string". Can you show what your source JSON looks like?

[heavy plinth]

I almost have it but for some reason I can't get the text to change to what's in the next line of the note text array

I made it so the max pages is equal to the length of the note array so I can just change the number of pages in the editor, I'm setting the note text to the array so it gets the default value (first line), and then I'm setting the text on page 2 to the text from the line of the current page (which is incremented when the player isReading and the currentPage is less than the maxPages and when the interact button is pressed)

I got it to open and switch pages and then close once it reaches the end of the array but I just can't get the text from the array to populate the note

I think it has something to do with the event construct in the widget blueprint maybe?

[lean scroll]

Does anyone know how to make a wall explode using a button that you interact with? I was able to get the cube to explode but I am wondering if there is a way to make it so that when the button is pressed, it makes the wall explode using a uniform fracture

This is what I have for the cube to explode but I want it to interact with the button instead of the EventBeginPlay

[dawn gazelle]

Pretty sure construct event happens at the create widget node, so it's too early to read the array as you haven't fed it in yet. Mark the array on the WP_NoteWidget as "Expose on Spawn" and "Instance Editable" then referesh the create widget node, then you should be able to directly feed in the array.

[desert juniper]

Yeah instead of setting the data on construct, make a function / event called "UpdateNote"

call that on the Event Construct, and then every time you update the game

[white oxide]

How come my torque is not being applied to my capsule component? (I'm trying to make a rolling ball game)

[faint pasture]

why do you still have a capsule

is this still a Character?

[white oxide]

Yes lol

I'll make it a pawn.

[frosty heron]

Plugin into custom event instead of event begin play and call it when ever you like

[lean scroll]

What would I need for the button blueprint then?

btw Im new to ue5

[frosty heron]

I don't even know what button blueprint in this context

I will recommend watching Matthew blueprint communication video

That should give you idea on how to use reference and calling custom event

[lean scroll]

oops sorry. Im trying to make it so when I walk over to a cylinder and press E, the blocks nearby will explode and break

[barren dove]

anyone have any idea why my comments have gone stupid with a round border

[frosty heron]

If you don't know how to use reference , my advice will be the same. Watch Matthew wastein video on blueprint communication

[lean scroll]

okie dokie

[trim matrix]

where did that happened?

[limber citrus]

I actually want to access the "objects" not the "camera_data", I was just testing

[dawn gazelle]

So therein lies the problem - you can't connect the string to "get field" as it's a json object that contains two more fields, "location_worldframe" which contains a float array and "quaternion_xyzw_worldframe" which also contains a float array.

Something like this would allow you to print them i believe.

The tricky part is that the Get Field and ForEach loop are both wildcards. You'd need to have a float input connected to the Array Element output of the foreach to get it to be a float array first.

[limber citrus]

ah I saw ppl talking about it in the forums, will try it now hopefully it works

[dawn gazelle]

Here's an alternate if you just want to see what the object contains as a print.

[limber citrus]

yea I did this

[barren dove]

inside blueprints, all of them

[trim matrix]

what's the node

I have never seen that

[barren dove]

are you in blueprint editor right now?

[trim matrix]

no but I wanna know

[barren dove]

go into blueprint
select literally anything
press C

[trim matrix]

let me do that rq

you should use comments with 1 single line at max, not 15

use notepad for that (my suggestion)

or an array

[barren dove]

yeah that doesn't solve my problem

[trim matrix]

probably just an unreal bug, refresh the node if you can or recreate a coment

[hot lion]

Hello there, I've been searching everywhere and I'll literally go bald thinking at how simple this must be and yet i cannot find a proper way, Im looking to set an actor to a certain speed (in flight) without a 'forward' input and having a variable to change that speed. Been trying my head of all day, and so far i cannot seem to be able to manage it with velocity or vectors. Any hint really appreciated, thanks !

[trim matrix]

like a projectile?

[hot lion]

err, not really. Its more like I want my actor to enter a flight mode and then behave like a plane. So right now, if a certain velocity is reached you can enter flight mode until the speed fall bellow a treshold. Atm the actor seem to just fly a few seconds as the speed decrease (not sure why, theres no drag)

well i guess it would be similar to a self proprelled projectile if you could modify its speed on the fly, im just unsure of how projectiles are handle just yet

[undone bluff]

if you want the actor to move you need to either move it every single frame or have it physics simulated (would not recommend for flying)

the distance you move the actor every second (tick and deltatime) is that speed

the basics are the same as any other kind of movement

[hot lion]

err okay i guess, so it is inputing the distance in 'add movement input' via a vector ? or i am sinking far 😮

[undone bluff]

so you are using a pawn

and a movement component?

do you have a humanoid character you want to fly?

[hot lion]

At the moment yep. Pretty much left the thrid person scene as it.

[undone bluff]

hm, you can probably hack something together to make the cmc work like that

[hot lion]

Im thinking of faking an input and changing the max speed, now that I read what you said. Going forward send a 1 to the whole character movement process I think.

[undone bluff]

I don't think that's a good idea

you could mess with character velocity

make sure your drag is set up not to slow you down when no input is present

[coarse condor]

I'm trying to get a light to rapidly dim after a delay when releasing a key. I thought just adding a delay before the draining loop would work but it's like the delay isn't even there when I try it in game.

[undone bluff]

there is a setting for that next to regular drag I'm quite sure

[oak fable]

hey there im using Oceanology for my game and here im having a sceneCaptureComponent and it should not capture anything else then the character but i still can see the ocean here is the settings i set for it i even tried to turn of static mesh and skeletal mesh and yet it still there any idea why ?

[undone bluff]

looping blueprints is like worst practice

[coarse condor]

hmm

[undone bluff]

you can probably do what you want with a timeline

[coarse condor]

I tried doing timeline and it didn't quite work out how I wanted

I can try again though

[ionic quiver]

I'm using a launch character to launch both myself and the enemy both into the air and down into the ground. For some reason ocasionally one of us flies up higher than the other. I know ground friction is a thing so I set ground friction to 0 right before it launches so it's consistent. But still despite both actors getting the same inputs, there is ocasionally discrepency. Anyone know why this might happen or is there a better method to do this other than launch character?

[frosty heron]

There should be show only array in scene component

[oak fable]

i can't find it

[frosty heron]

Add your character actor there

[hot lion]

We're talking of the drag in the Character Movement ? Cause its 0 and i'm still loosing speed while flying for no reason.

[undone bluff]

there is another drag setting

[oak fable]

found it
but is there a hide list or something like that as i have more then one thing to show

[undone bluff]

that specifically applies drag when no input is added

[frosty heron]

@oak fable

here, w/o the background

just have w/e you want in the actor

you can do the filters etc your self, but I would keep mine simple

[oak fable]

that helped a lot thanks mate ❤️

[frosty heron]

no worries, took me a while to find my self lol

[cobalt ocean]

[undone bluff]

I wonder how this works internally

[trim matrix]

this looks so cool

[valid solstice]

Does anyone know how I can changet this to only attack when the weapon is equipped on my hand

[trim matrix]

bool check

[valid solstice]

I just dont know where to put it. This is my can attack function what should I put?

[trim matrix]

I'd suggest to think about it, you need a bool variable, and an if statement...

[valid solstice]

This Fixes it but it only lets me do one animation for the combo instead of three

[frosty heron]

the problem of following a tutorial

especially if you don't know what each node does and the point of the entire function

[main lake]

Quick question : Should I do that on server (and will it replicate to the client too) ? Or doesn't it matter ? (For Multiplayer)

[faint pasture]

Timeline

[ionic quiver]

Just bumping this as it got hidden pretty quickly, if anyone has any idea why this happens. #blueprint message

I've now even tried to set velocity of both to 0, and stop active movement before launching, and still sometimes they get out of sync

[undone bluff]

you might want to just pick a point above the character and move them there

frankly not sure what is causing this

[limber parcel]

probably characters colliding and pushing eachother

[ionic quiver]

Move them how? I'm also using this for knockback

I want a smooth movement. I originally had it with a set actor location, but I realize I want now a knockback while in the air and it just doesn't work with setting actor position

[ionic quiver]

Any suggestions how to avoid that? It's fine on the ground clearly. They're moving straight up as well, so it shouldn't colide.

I could have a separate system for knockup specifically that's on a set actor position setup

But that seems like a janky setup, not sure if that's a typical workflow for people.

[undone bluff]

I mean fundamentally all movement is just changing the transform each frame

even launch character just works off of the current velocity and gravity and drag

to decide which location to set the actor to next

[ionic quiver]

Yeah, and as things like gravity, drag, etc are all the same I was expecting it to always match. And usually it does. It's odd when it stops matching.

[undone bluff]

collisions are indeed the most likely suspect

[ionic quiver]

Yeah, you're probably right. Just not sure if there's anything I can do about it. 🤔

Probably my best course of action is for the knockup specifically I use a set actor position setup, and then in all other setup I can use the regular launch character

Cause I don't care if it's a bit off here and there

I had it that way before so I know for sure it worked correctly

[undone bluff]

you could put systems in place to correct the launch, but yea interpolating the position along the z axis until the desired height is reached, then setting the z velocity to 0, should be the best approach

actually you don't need to set it to 0 afterwards, my brain was still at the launch

[ionic quiver]

At the moment at the very end of the knockup I have it set gravity to 0.1 to slightly hang in there, and then if I do damage it sets it to 0 gravity for a brief moment to keep in the air

There's a retrigerably delay setup to eventually reset gravity back to normal if nothing is done

Or of course if anyone hits the ground

[ionic quiver]

Separating it out seems to be working well. Kind of want to figure out the collision (?) problem at some point. But happy to have it working for my usecase consistently

[ionic quiver]

Here it is all working great. So thanks again for the help @undone bluff ♥

Now it's the correct attachment lol

[undone bluff]

nice beat em up

[ionic quiver]

Thanks, slowly working on it when I have time

[undone bluff]

are you turning 3d animations into pixel flipbooks?

[ionic quiver]

Yup. That's manny and the skeleton from one of the free Unreal packs

Unreal > Blender > Aseprite > Unreal

[undone bluff]

I was considering that for a minigame (plus a lil cleanup by hand) since I already have models and animations from the main game I can reuse

[ionic quiver]

Do it, works pretty well. This is more of a test for me. Not all characters work out of the box converted

But for testing it's perfect

[main lake]

It doesn't work as pressing G doesn't fire when "Disable Input" 😬

[surreal peak]

I mean, if we ignore cheating, disabling input isn't really needed for opening a menu. It's much easier to ensure the InputMode is simply UIOnly.

And to easier handle that I would suggest a proper setup via CommonUI, where the Activatable Widget sets the InputMode utomatically

Now cheating in terms of moving when menu is open is somewhat of a redundant fight.

The opening of the UI happens via a local key press. Server has no knowledge about it. So you would need to tell the Server that the menu is open. And then nothing keeps a cheater from telling the server the menu is closed.

So I wouldn't care about that.

[smoky solstice]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make my character jump more horizontally.. I like how high it jumps but I would like it to jump further

[limber parcel]

by running faster

[frosty heron]

@smoky solstice change the Jump Z velocity in your CMC

[smoky solstice]

Thank you

[sonic crest]

Any tips?

[mental trellis]

Try another career 😛

[storm shale]

that is beautiful

and they say programming aint art

[sonic crest]

Thank you, wish it was mine

[sonic crest]

😂😂

That's some sick noodles right there

[main lake]

I did that first but it creates an issue where I can't press the input to open that UI again to close the UI. As in my case I press G to open that UI, but being in Input Mode UIOnly, I can't press G again to close it.

[meager igloo]

Probably a simple thing, but how do I make a blueprint Actor, that just falls on the ground with gravity?
I can put something inside the blueprint, but the transform doesn´t follow it in level

Could also be a Pawn

[main lake]

You have something called "Mass" I think or "Simulate Physics"

[meager igloo]

The object inside the Pawn just falls but not the Pawn itself

[surreal peak]

Yeah you gotta handle the Input in the UI then. CommonUI should support InputActions in UMG.

[smoky solstice]

I just imported a model from mixamo into my project to replace the mannequin as the player and i grabbed some animations too but i dont know how to load the animations into the model (the animations are idle and run) i figured out the idle one but im not sure how to switch between idle and run when the player runs or doesnt

[main lake]

How ? What's "Common UI" ?

[marble tusk]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/common-ui-plugin-for-advanced-user-interfaces-in-unreal-engine/

[gentle urchin]

Was about to say, time to read 🙂

[hollow cove]

have you tried selecting every node and pressing q. im sure that will 100% fix it

[sonic crest]

I like them in a line better

[main lake]

So that means I have to redo all my UI stuff ? 😮

[sonic crest]

C++ does it vertically like normal
BP (meme version) does it horizontally

[sick sky]

i got the following:

• actor
  • actor component (with an interface)
    • Interface event

if i got the actor ref, and call the interface event from it, will it try to go to component ?

[hollow cove]

in the functions in the widget, go to override and its either on key press down or on preview key press down

[hollow cove]

then you want to check if the correct button is pressed then execute the logic and return handled otherwise return unhandled

[main lake]

How do you check if the correct button is pressed, because I'm not sure of what "My Geometry" and "In Key Event" means and contains ?

[hollow cove]

drag off from in key event and do somethin like this

ive never had to use my geometry so im not sure what that is

[main lake]

I don't have the node named "Key Is Action"

[hollow cove]

oh im dumb. i set up that function

obviously youll need to change it if you have multiple keys mapped to the same action

[gentle urchin]

Reparent and fix what you musy

[main lake]

musy ?

[smoky solstice]

How do I make this leaning effect when strafing?

[simple badge]

tilt the camera. set control rotation to control it

[sonic crest]

His t fell downside

[sick sky]

in BP can i get a bool to know if i am in contruct graph ?

from the contruction script i am calling an event, and i dont want to execute some stuff in this event if its called from the construction script

[versed sun]

add a bool Input to your event

[sick sky]

okay ty

[main lake]

your question is weird 🤔 Could you explain a bit more why you need that ?

[sick sky]

i changed my code so now i dont have the issue, but ill explain why i needed that:

i had an event that does stuff, and i had a breakpoint in it

i call the event from 2 places: construct script and at runtime on interaction

because of the breakpoint, each time i move the actor or compile i had a weird bug because of the breakpoint

causing sometimes the editor to crash

[main lake]

what's the "stuff" that you were doing that needed to be called in construction script and at runtime ?

[sick sky]

settings vars and textrenderer (for debug)

well now i changed that so i dont have any issue

[neon acorn]

Hey, what exactly does component activation/deactivation does?

I have an actor with 2 actor components that I made. Both of them should do something on the mouse on click events but I want to control from my player controller which component actually triggers it. I was hoping I could just deactivate one of the component and reactivate it when necessary but I see that the mouse on click event is still captured even when the component is deactivated.

What exactly does deactivation do?

P.S. I dont want to destroy and add components on the fly as I feel like its a hack, hence looking for a way to deactivate the components, else I will have to manage things with a boolean variable which again feels like a hack. Also I have the tick figured out, I think. Setting "Start with Tick Enabled" to false reliably doesn't trigger the tick event but I am not even using that here so it shouldn't matter.

Also, I am attaching a screenshot of the actor and the BP_SelectableComponent actor component. In the actor I have tried setting Auto Activate to both true and false but the OnMouseClick event triggers either way.

[smoky solstice]

is it possible to make the event tick do both these things?

[neon acorn]

Use the sequence node

[main lake]

Sequence node

or put one after another

[real notch]

Is there a delay node that doesn't throttle?

[sick sky]

wdym by "throttle"

im not english so i dont fully understand what it means here

[wicked cairn]

Hello! I'm making a 3D tilemap grid actor that allows a static mesh in each tile, and would like to know how I could change what is in each tile just by dragging the mesh from the browser to the tile on the actor (it would update in the construction script when changed)

Just trying to make an island using 3d tiles

[real notch]

Throttle as in, limit execution. If I call it twice within the delay time it ignores the second call.

I want it to not ignore the second call.

Set timer by event appears to be doing the same thing

[sick sky]

you want to reset the delay at each call ?

[real notch]

No. I want it to just delay, and nothing else

[real notch]

No throttling, and no debounce (which is what you described)

[sick sky]

then just use the "delay" node ?

[real notch]

The delay node throttles

And I just said I don't want it to 😅

[sick sky]

if you multiple time with the "delay" node, it will call the follwoing code with the delay

[real notch]

Oh cool, I'll try that thanks

[real notch]

Not true

[sick sky]

retriggerable delay does that

[real notch]

Retriggerable doesn't work for me either, that one debounces

So delay throttles and retriggerable debounces. I want just a normal delay.

[sick sky]

could you give a bit more context ? i dont see what you want

[real notch]

Idk how to be clearer. I want a delay that does not throttle

[sick sky]

"delay" is a normal delay
"retriggerable delay" restart the delay back to 0

[real notch]

Delay is not a normal delay.

That's what I have been saying

[sick sky]

i think you forgot to untick the start closed

it will never exit here

[versed sun]

just saw that

[real notch]

Guess I'll build my own delay then

[versed sun]

This should exec the first time , and ignore any other exec if within Duration time

[sonic crest]

^^

That should work

Had similar implementation and it blocks other inputs but only 1 continues

[versed sun]

or , you you want stacking delays?

[real notch]

Is that for me?

[versed sun]

yes

[real notch]

Then yes. I want an actual delay

Perform a latent action with a delay (specified in seconds). **Calling again while it is counting down will be ignored. **
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/FlowControl/Delay/

From the docs

I am not making this up

[sonic crest]

You can try that actual delay and let us know if it does what you want +

[real notch]

But it doesn't. Am I really explaining it that poorly? 😦

I want a delay. Just wait, and then do a thing. When I call delay again while it's still delaying (counting down), I want it to just add a delay and leave the first delay alone. No throtling.

[versed sun]

you you want first thing to happen and 2nd thing to happen?

[real notch]

Yes.

[versed sun]

wait, are you trying to do it in a Loop ?

[real notch]

No

You do a thing in the game, it triggers a delay, after the delay something happens. Exactly as you'd expect it to happen given that the node is called "delay"

But it doesn't just delay. It delays and throttles. Meaning I can't add another action to happen after a delay, if the previous delay has not completed yet.

What I am looking for is a delay node that only delays, and does not throttle. So I call it 50 times within the delay time, it simply executes 50 times and not just once.

[versed sun]

Is Delay going to be the same each time ?

[real notch]

Does it matter?

[versed sun]

just on the setup

[meager igloo]

How do I send input to a blueprint inside another blueprint?

[real notch]

Define input

[real notch]

Yes. But I'm already writing code for my own node so it's fine

Thanks for trying to help

[meager igloo]

How do I set a variable on the blueprint inside another blueprint

[real notch]

You need a reference to (an) instance and have the variable be writable.

[calm cargo]

How can I get a bunch of static meshes to load into memory?

[mystic edge]

Hey, How can i remove the widget from the screen when i press the button again?

[calm cargo]

promote the widget to a variable, then on B, remove the variable from the parent (and set the variable to none preferably)

u also dont need the flipflop, instead you can test if your widget variable is valid or not

[real notch]

Also consider reusing the widget and toggling its visibility instead.

[mystic edge]

All right thanks, It works now. Another question: How can I make it so that when the blueprint is opened the player can not look around anymore and he can use his mouse to interact with the blueprint?

[calm cargo]

u mean interact with the settings?

[mystic edge]

yeah

[calm cargo]

there are several things u gotta do: set the controller's input mode to UI, and show the cursor

when exiting the settings menu, set input mode back to game and hide the cursor

[mystic edge]

Its a bit bugged but you need to be able to click on the < and >

[mystic edge]

alr i will try

[calm cargo]

these are functions available to player controllers

it might not be enough to disable looking around, im not entirely sure tbh

[meager igloo]

How do I send my control inputs to another blueprint inside the Pawn blueprint?

[smoky solstice]

sorry im new to this could you please tell me how to do that?

[mystic edge]

I got this now, i can open the settings and change them but i cant close the menu...

[calm cargo]

this might be because the U pressed event isn't being called anymore, since you've disabled game input 🫠

check if that's the case, if so you can create a 'UI back' action in the project settings, and listen for it in the menu - in which case you have the menu close itself

[trim matrix]

Hi, I'm currently in school for game design and I've been learning how to use blueprints for a week or so, I had a bunch of personal stuff happen and put off an assignment till the last minute, would anyone be willing to help me figure something out? I'm kinda stuck

[meager igloo]

I have the other Blueprint as a child actor (i think), but I don´t know how set variables for it

[dark drum]

If you have questions just ask.

[real notch]

Do you mean in the hierarchy? If so, you can drag it into your blueprint editor

[dark drum]

Use the enable input node and provide the target BP you want to receive inputs.

[meager igloo]

Is there like an example picture of how this should be set up?

[hoary junco]

is there a way to limit what axes a physics object can function on? Like can you make it so when you drop something it will fall like a 2d object without having to contain it between barriers or something like that?

[calm cargo]

generally best to just ask away

[dark drum]

Just decide at what point you want to provide the input (begin play for example) and then call the node. Not much to it.

[calm cargo]

new avatar?

[real notch]

I think I'm almost done with my c++ solution. But for the sake of learning, what do you mean with the BP dolution? I am using custom events already and it still throttles.

[trim matrix]

I'm stuck on step 1 right now. I'm supposed to create a function for a guy picking up cats just using variables. Cat 1 has a value of 100, cat 2 has a value of 10, and cat 3 has a value of 1. I'm pretty sure I followed the assignment word for word but it keeps telling me I did something wrong, and at the end he doesn't pick up any cats. I'm pretty sure during step 1 he is supposed to pick up cat 2 but I'll send the screenshots of my event graph and the function.

[heavy plinth]

Hey guys, I need help trying to figure out how to update my note text for each page. Here's what I have now

[real notch]

What does that mean? Timer by event?

[real notch]

That gave me the same behaviour

[real notch]

What is the handle?

lol

Yeah but I thought you knew how to do it with just blueprints

Not because I want it to be blueprints, but because I just want to know how to

[hoary junco]

can I get some help with this?

[dry sleet]

CreateEvent, I believe it's called.

if that's what you're after

[simple badge]

https://youtu.be/QxVSBzUBnxw?t=881
Here, Watch this

[dry sleet]

pretty sure that's just a setting in the physics object, yeah

don't remember the exact name

[hoary junco]

which setting?

[main lake]

The handle is what you get in the "Return Value", save it in a variable and before creating a new timer for that thing, you need to check if that Handle is valid or not, if valid you need to cancel the existing timer first before creating a new timer

[real notch]

No that's not what I wanted, but I got it working thanks