blueprint

[pallid sphinx]

Base armour has 0 on all stats

[hoary junco]

there's your issue, you're pulling from the base armour blueprint which as 0 on all stats, so of course it's going to spit out 0

[pallid sphinx]

but my weapon is doing the same and isnt having that issue

[hoary junco]

are the stats of BP_BaseWeapon also all 0?

[pallid sphinx]

just fixed it, turns out giving BP_Top an ATK value of 10 in editor wasnt saving upon play so i made it perminantly 10 ATK inside its blueprint and it worked

im guessing that has something to do with the structure not being instance editable

but oh well it works now

[hoary junco]

it's because you're pulling from the base blueprint whenever you cast, you're not pulling from an instance of the blueprint in the scene

[pallid sphinx]

i tried pulling from BP_Top on its own before and it didnt change anything

[hoary junco]

what you need to do is have a variable which BP_Top changes whenever you activate it and that variable is drawn from whenever you're in game rather than drawing directly from the base blueprint

[crystal crown]

is owner no see basically same thing as set visibility?

[hoary junco]

I don't think so, pretty sure owner no see just means that whatever parent classes that class has can't see it where as visibility sets where it's visible or not at all to anything

[hoary junco]

but yeah think of it this way, if you have a word document on your desktop, then you make a copy of it in your documents folder then edit that version in documents, when you cast to a blueprint to get a value you are telling the code to pull from the original one on your desktop, so any edits made in documents won't do anything. You have to tell it to pull from the edited version by storing them as variables that the calculations pull from

[pallid sphinx]

yea that makes sense. Thanks 👍

[gray ingot]

Hi, how actually can i create seamless teleportation like in antichamber or other non-euclidean games?

[hearty lintel]

hi guys! is there anybody who can help me solve a little issue i have?
I know i can start a lobby by opening a level with the option listen

is there any way i can change that option on the current gamemode? what i would like to achieve would be having a main menu that turns into a listen server to have friends connect to it (as it became the actual lobby) and then start a game

Thank you!

[gray ingot]

I think this question belongs to #multiplayer

[hearty lintel]

sorry i posted in both sections just in case

[gray ingot]

I am not a mod, so I'm just saying)

[boreal condor]

Question Regarding viewing pawn sense lines in the level editor.

In this video tutorial you can see the "pawn sense lines" are visible in the editor.

in my editor the pawn sense lines are not visible.

I suspect this may be because of the way I have pawn sense setup Where the pawnsense is setup in BP_AI_Pyramid, and the Default_Pyramid refrences the BP_AI inthe AI Controller Class, but I am not sure

[ionic quiver]

Thanks a ton for this. Just saw it this morning. I tried to think of a mathematical way to do it but couldn't think of anything. It's a lot simpler now 🙂

[crude spruce]

Any tips on how I could visualize a 2d grid where each tile has a defined sub grid, visible on demand?

I got the coordinates, mostly curious on how to procedurally draw/show grid content

[white oxide]

What's the advantage of using a raycast for a pickup over colliders?

[thin panther]

Cheaper.

[white oxide]

Gotcha, thank you

Interesting, I thought it was the other way around

[hoary junco]

how do you grab objects similar to how it works in portal? Like when you pick something up it returns to its default rotation but if you collide it against anything it will rotate then spring back to its default when no longer colliding? I've been trying to find ways to do this for hours and it's getting on my nerves

I currently have it set up to where through a physics handle I can pick up an object with my mouse cursor and drag it around, I just don't want it to flop all over the place and instead trend towards its default position without having to completely lock the rotation

[simple field]

When I press P, my pause menu is supposed to show up and pause the game. I can still use the gameplay textbox even when game is paused, how do I fix that? Is it a blueprint issue or a UI issue?

And also I don't want players to be able to click that green button next to it

[hoary junco]

my immediate suggestion would be disabling that UI element while the pause menu is up and bringing it back when it's not

[brittle bluff]

Probably need to remove the text box widget when pause menu

Mike MW said it better

[simple field]

Ah thanks i'll try that

[simple field]

Quick question, do I do that in the textbox widget graph or in the pause menu graph? Like I don't know how to logically do that - Game paused event > Disable textbox?

or like how do I reference the textbox in my level blueprint?

[hoary junco]

never use the level blueprint 😛

[simple field]

Errrrrrrr

bit late :/

[hoary junco]

so the way you're supposed to do widgets is have an input action go to a create widget then add to viewport in order to put the widget on your screen
then use remove from parent to get rid of it

[simple field]

Yea I know but I'm not trying to remove the widget, I'm trying to disable the textbox from being edited when game is paused

[hoary junco]

that is removing the widget...

you have it added back in when the menu is closed

[simple field]

I thought I could just use Set enabled to false and then player can't edit it

[hoary junco]

nope

[brittle bluff]

Drawing a blank here, how do pull from a gameplaytag container just a single gameplay tag. My transition is a single gameplay tag structure but I'm updating to use a container. Thought of adding a bpi to extract out a single tag from the container and return it but then I have to feed in a text string of the tag I want and that seems..arduous to use.

Break gameplay container gives me an array, which then I still need to sort through (which I'd do if I use the bpi route)

[white oxide]

So I'm trying to apply force to a ball based on the position of the camera in a roll a ball game. Any idea as to why my camera refuses to move?

[faint pasture]

Just launch the game as listen

[hoary junco]

what blueprint is this sat on?

[hearty lintel]

i haven't found an option for it, do you mean i should start the initial map as listen when i launch the game?

[faint pasture]

Or launch to some nothingburger map which opens the main menu map as listen

[hearty lintel]

fair, but how do I protect it from players joining through getting the ip?

[faint pasture]

There's more to joining then just trying to connect to a listen server

[hearty lintel]

i've just tried it and i can still access it if i put the IP... i guess just not adding an option to join through IP

[faint pasture]

just don't let them connect

[hearty lintel]

would you be so kind to use 5 mins of your time to help me out whenever you want?

[brittle bluff]

If your using steam etc then create a whitelist of steamids

[hearty lintel]

i do already have the whole thing set up, i just need to fix this thing

[white oxide]

Thank you!

[faint pasture]

I've never done it, just prototyped it out and thought it was a cool way to go for a project with absolute minimal hard cuts

There is some bit of code that approves or denies a join or login request, that's where you'd put your blocking code

[hearty lintel]

alright, could you point me to what i should be searching for so i can implement it? thank you really much

[simple field]

Errr, you lied

I appreciate the help tho!

[hoary junco]

I didn't exactly lie because I've tried that method before and it hasn't stopped UI elements from functioning.. like they were still clickable just invisible but if it somehow works for you then 🤷‍♂️

[simple field]

UE is pain isnt it :D

But to be fair I'm surprised it works too

[blissful willow]

Is there not a way to assign a default Input Mapping Context to a controller without having to use Blueprint? I noticed in Epic's example they've always done it on begin play in the Character or Controller, I'm surprised there's not just a property within the class defaults that can be set so I'm wondering why it's done that way or if I'm missing something? Thanks.

[gentle urchin]

Neat! Id throw myself a bone and list out the mappings in a comment box just for safe keeping

Id hate returning to it and having to figure out which one was true north every time 😅

[ionic quiver]

True, great suggestion! 😄

[undone bluff]

well, it'd have to be an array of structs to let you set multiple mapping contexts and their priorities+options, and it'd be a property that can only be assigned in the editor that'd just grab that those values and run the function internally. Just in terms of architecture, when adding an IMC you are calling the function of a subsystem in the ULocalPlayer, the PlayerController has no business storing mapping contexts

[blissful willow]

I just meant a default value for the one you would load in with. Any others you want to change to during run time would be changed via BP understandably

[undone bluff]

right, but it's not uncommon to start with more than one mapping context

[blissful willow]

Oh interesting. Okay, thanks Scaith. Still looking into how they work and thought it was a curiosity, appreciate you humouring me 🙂

[undone bluff]

np, I have camera controls separated for example

[frigid summit]

hi guys why are my buttons dont appear in the viewport

[queen dagger]

i have a basic crouch function

i want to notify the animation sequence to crouch but im not sure what to use to notify the animation to indicate the duck

[elder pebble]

Sorry @versed sun, what is the "Target Color" node you have here coming out of the Cast?

[lofty rapids]

it's a public variable that is on the myentry bp most likely

[gentle urchin]

Is crouching is a function you can use

[elder pebble]

hmmm the only variable on the entry is "TextBlock_55" but I cant reference that it seems.

[lofty rapids]

you probably want to put a variable in the entry bp, make it public and set it on each one when you add create and add

maybe a string or text, that has or is the text you want to remove

[elder pebble]

I have them coming from a structure. looks like this:

so the Objective Name would seem like the right variable, but I cant reference that

I guess thats just the variable for CREATING the list item though...

[lofty rapids]

why can't you reference that, you get the list item object like did before or pass it, then cast to what i can only imagine is a parent class ? which you should be able to do elsewhere

i mean if you have the data in the first place, you should be able to use it to remove as well

[elder pebble]

lol yea thats my main problem, figuring out how to reference the data once its been added to the list. Anything IN the list seems to be in a black hole.

[lofty rapids]

you add the list item objects to an array ?

because you should be able to basically use that code to cast and get the name, then you would do some tests on that value and remove based on it

[elder pebble]

here is how I populate this list:

[lofty rapids]

have you tried get list items yet

i would start by getting the list and looping

maybe even just spitting out the length of the array see if it matches

[lofty rapids]

because it looks like here your casting to your bp you created, but where do you set the objective entry ?

[lofty rapids]

you add an object does init set the variables ?

[lofty rapids]

so loop through like ryck showed

get list items

see if that works

and you should be able to take each one and cast then get objective entry

get name

and see if the name is equal to or has the word in it, then remove

they were using myentry and color, you would use your bp and the objective entry, then the name

[elder pebble]

ok I need some time to parse everything you have suggested so far lol. I am super new, so I need to poke around to understand everything

but I think maybe I should have been casting to the objective data BP instead of the ListViewEntry widget...

[lofty rapids]

most likely

[elder pebble]

is there a way to "comment out" code in blueprints?

[gentle urchin]

Hmmmm

Disconnect

But i feel like there was another way?

Right click -> disable node?

[waxen quarry]

Random question. Does anyone prefer including Data when naming a data asset? ive seen it both ways tho.
UWeapon or UWeaponData

[gentle urchin]

Didnt lyra use definition?

UWeaponDefinition

For the data part, and instanve for the .. instance part

[waxen quarry]

Interesting, yeah my thoughts are putting Data at the end would be like putting 'Actor' at the end of your blueprint names.

[gentle urchin]

Feels redundant in some ways

AMyBPActor : AActor

[waxen quarry]

lol right

makes no sense, but yea answers that question. I like the idea of using Definition at the end

[elder pebble]

I hit a roadblock... My RemoveObj custom function isnt getting passed to the MainUI. The UI is created by a different blueprint, so I assumed I could use "Get All Widgets Of Class", but it is totally skipping it I think.

is this not the right way to pass a variable from a BP to a Widget?

[simple field]

Any idea how to make a reference to another widget in widget event graph? Like for making another widget disappear using a different widget's button.

[lofty rapids]

what does remove obj look like ? and there are multiple main ue widgets ?

[lofty rapids]

i keep the widgets in the hud class, so i can access them from anywhere

[elder pebble]

should only be 1 main UI widget.

[lofty rapids]

is it running ?

[brazen pulsar]

For some reason I can't cast to the trigger box in the level. What I'm hoping to do is change the camera and start a dialogue when the player overlaps with the trigger box, but the trigger box seems to have problems communicating with other bps

[elder pebble]

I think so... the Main UI is the ui where the List View is. and the list view is displayed.

[lofty rapids]

is the print text working ?

[elder pebble]

no. i never even breaks at those breakpoints

it*

[lofty rapids]

are you saying it doesn't even goto to foreach ?

so is it running ? or it seems like not

[lofty rapids]

is there a single get widget of class, if not then get 0 out of found widgets, but ig it should work with an array also

[elder pebble]

its not running, no.

[lofty rapids]

normally you would already have a reference after you created the widget you promote to variable, preferably in the hud

[elder pebble]

ok. I guess I need to build a hud class... I can google that lol

this is it going through... but it does nothing

[lofty rapids]

is the cast failing ?

[lofty rapids]

print string the main ui length

[brazen pulsar]

yep

just checked with print string, definitely failing

[lofty rapids]

i would just use a single one if you have one widget only, i would also use the original reference after you create it

[lofty rapids]

where do you set firstdethref ?

[brazen pulsar]

just default, triggerbox reference

[lofty rapids]

so are you getting accessed none error ?

[brazen pulsar]

I'm guessing yes, really it just auto fails everytime, but I think it's accessing none

[lofty rapids]

you didn't actually set the variable

setting it's type doesn't set it to anything

you need to actual put something in there

you may want get actor of class

[lofty rapids]

where do you create the widget ?

[brazen pulsar]

ok, so, get actor of class, I'm guessing put in the trigger box reference

[lofty rapids]

the class that your looking for

[lofty rapids]

then try your bind

the return value is the actor

[brazen pulsar]

it's giving me a note saying I don't need to cast, can I just use the return value on get actor as a reference for the event dispatcher?

[elder pebble]

in another blueprint. the "objective board". basically you interact with the objective board, it gives you objectives and creates the widget to show the list of your objectives

[lofty rapids]

ya you don't need to cast because it's already that class

[lofty rapids]

ok can you do get widget, not widgets <-- with an s ?

[brazen pulsar]

Well, it now definitely casts, but the dialogue still isn't starting

[lofty rapids]

check the event you bound is running

[elder pebble]

no

[brazen pulsar]

yep, definitely. It gets as far as casting the npcai, but fails casting there

wait

shit, I just realized what I screwed up

[elder pebble]

was 0 btw. so its not getting the widget

[lofty rapids]

that would make sense why it wasn't doing anything

[brazen pulsar]

working perfectly, I just forgot the 'self' reference here. Me bein stunned. thx

[shell marsh]

Im trying to use the default cmc character with my custom player controller, is this possible becauase I could not get my player to move with it for the past 3 days of trying

[lofty rapids]

are you getting any input ?

[shell marsh]

no

[lofty rapids]

did you set your player controller as the one to use ?

[frosty heron]

Ofc it's possible, have u set up the input? Are you actually using your custom controller?

Look into project template to see how to setup enhanced input

[shell marsh]

does the controller it self need input?

[lofty rapids]

i like to put the widgets references in the hud, this way you get the hud, get the reference and you can do whatever you need to it

[frosty heron]

You have to tell the computer, when I press X, something will happend

It's not going to do some magic by it self

[elder pebble]

cool. I will start there\

[frosty heron]

Yes u have to setup the Input

[shell marsh]

Can I use the IMC_Default?

[frosty heron]

Can't remember, open it and see if it have the inputs you need

[lofty rapids]

are your inputs on the character, or the controller ?

[shell marsh]

They are in this thing called imc default

so probably in a controller

[frosty heron]

Don't guess, u have to look where the input is handlee

Look inside your char and controller. They have to live inside of the two

[frosty heron]

Where is a matter of design choice

[shell marsh]

its a stack of controllers

looks like its plugged in to my character already

because Im still using the Default chacter CMC I just am trying to use a new controller

[faint pasture]

That is an input mapping context. That is used for saying "These buttons fire these events"

That way you can basically hot swap the mapping between button presses and game events

You will need at least one and some games have tons of them. Mario Party or GTA would have a bunch.

[lofty rapids]

it should be getting the player controller

and adding the context ?

if it's set in world settings

then i would guess it would attach to the new one

[frosty heron]

@shell marsh then it should be as simple as setting the custom controller in your world setting

[shell marsh]

hmm its in my world settings I feel like its somthing really random

[brazen pulsar]

new problem. I figured I'd try putting the 'change camera' component into a BTtask since that's the way I'm making the dialogue trees, got the camera saved to the game instance as a reference, but I'm guessing something is wrong with the task coding itself

[undone bluff]

the project has a default gamemode that can be overriden per level, the gamemode spawns the controller specified in it

unreal lets you set stuff in several places to give you control over scope for each setting

[shell marsh]

I tried binding my respawn to a button and pressing this and I gave me an error that might have somthing to do with it

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to access BP_GM_Framework_C_0 via property K2Node_DynamicCast_AsBP_GM_Framework, but BP_GM_Framework_C_0 is not valid (pending kill or garbage)". Node: Spawn Player Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Player Controller FW Blueprint: BP_PlayerController_FW

[eternal spruce]

Hi everyone! This might be a random question but I am trying to use the Collab viewer template as the ground work for some project I have going on at work. However when i try to use the VR button to load it into the headset, it seems to not wanna work. If I do the VR preview play button in the editor it does work but none of the rest of the stuff work. Any idea why or how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

[brazen pulsar]

nvm fixed it

[dawn gazelle]

This kind of error usually means you're using a property that isn't valid or hasn't been set. Can you show a screenshot of the code this is related to? You should be able to access it by clicking on the "Spawn Player" link in the error message itself in your log.

[elder pebble]

Putting the widgets in the HUD was amazing advice! Everything is communicating now, and its better organized. Thanks so much. And thank you @versed sun for the "Remove Entries" flow. Appreciate you both!

[undone bluff]

hell yea, that plus an interface and you can access your widgets from everywhere with just a player controller reference

[spring magnet]

Any update on this?

[ornate linden]

hmmm.
I have my custom game mode bp set to be the used gamemode in the project settings and also on the world override thing have it set. but when im in a random blueprint and do "get game mode" and try to cast it to my game mode bp that everythings set to it always fails.
is there something else im supposed to do here?

I'm attempting to get the game mode in an actor blueprint that i place in the level a couple times

[undone bluff]

singleplayer?

[ornate linden]

That's the intention. to be singleplayer. Not sure how that's distinguished to know if i have multiplayer turned off or not

[undone bluff]

because you cannot access the gamemode on anything but the server, just wanted to make sure

are you running this on begin play?

[idle sandal]

im having a problem with trying to aim down sights in first person, i have it set up so when the weapon is equiped it calculates the aim offset for that weapon based off of the adsSocket on the weapon, and the ads target in the middle of the camera. but when i aim in its slightly down to the right. thats my calculate offset event and where it aims in compared to where the middle of the screen is. does anybody have any ideas of what might be wrong?

[ornate linden]

the logs show up each time i compiled the actor since its in its construction script to change the color of the light on the actor

but yeah when i run it i just use begin play

[undone bluff]

try to access game mode at a later time and see if it returns properly then

keep in mind startplay and startmatch on the gamemode are called after begin play

[versed sun]

Put a Print on the Gamemodes BeginPlay,. just to make sure it is loading

[undone bluff]

but that's not the issue

and gamemode should be initiated before the world

but check just in case

[ornate linden]

ah yeah, i see what you were saying before now. Yeah when i move it to begin play it works. Kinda sad that makes it so i can't view the color of the light in the editor though. is there somewhere else i should be storeing level specific variables like that? such that i can use them in the construction script and see them in the editor

[undone bluff]

ah I thought you were getting this while playing as well, yea the gamemode is not available in the editor

the colors definitely do not belong in the gamemode

[ornate linden]

just wanted a spot where i could put a level-specific variable to change lights from like orange to blue or to green or whatever per-level without changing the actor

[undone bluff]

a few ways to go about that, you can associate each of your level names in some struct/data asset with the colors and access that, perhaps in the gameinstance

I'm not sure I understand how changing the property of some actors is more work than having one gamemode per level

[versed sun]

I think you can use a SaveGame in the construction

Slot= Level name

[undone bluff]

or am I misunderstanding

[ornate linden]

the problem with the gamemode thing is i can't use it in the construction script. If I have say like a map with 100 light bulbs in it, and i want to change all of them to be green, i'd have to change it to green then play the level to look at it, as opposed to just looking in the editor. same with like luminosity and what not. just 1 place to change the values of all of the actors simultaneously.

also different blueprints of actors

cuz if it was the same actor i could just change the base color of that actor. but there's several different blueprints that could all just look at 1 variable

[undone bluff]

you can place a single manager in the level and specify your setting there, the bulbs would get actor of class it and set their values

[versed sun]

Material Parameter Collection ?

[undone bluff]

or the other way around

whatever, performance will probably not matter since it's in the construction script

[sage lagoon]

After watching this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKG7m5xawQ - I am still uncertain on how to make keyboard controls work for a dialogue cutscene. So far, under the On Key Down Function, I have this (see image). Now, I could put in the same commands as when the Next Button is clicked on, but delays can't be included on function charts when normally one second must pass before the Next Button is clickable.

So, what would be the easiest way to set the keyboard controls for a dialogue cutscene? Or will I need to copy and paste the huge dialogue trees from after the Next Button is clicked on? (See the third image.)

[versed sun]

Are all your lights the same class/Baseclass?

[subtle mist]

how can i load a level and all the things it contains during a loading screen and when it's ready it will start the game?

[ornate linden]

rn i've got 2 different actor blueprints that I manually set to have the current color in their individual blueprints. but i wanted to be able to change it in one place and have both change.

[versed sun]

this works @ornate linden

https://app.screencast.com/570JnRyChzZhJ

i always forget about this, array to single

[proper vigil]

Wasn't finding much success so far.

[queen dagger]

ok so let’s say i want to test to see if functions are working, should i duplicate the character bp and put in world and test or what would be the best way to do it

[versed sun]

Make a curve and read from that

[spring magnet]

Anyone know why Set Data Layer Instance Runtime State was deprecated and replaced with a non-functional replacement? The new Get Data Layer Manager returns nothing, and has apparently been this way since last year

[rich ferry]

Having trouble using a curve, can't seem to figure out how to access it. Anyone know the name of the node I need?

[rich ferry]

Do I have make it a variable? Kinda lame but alright

[versed sun]

yes

you could make it a Function

with a Local Variable for the curve

make it pure

[fast grove]

Alrighty, I really hope someone can help me here. I am new.. but I am trying to get a grenade to do damage when it hits the terrain or anything really. It does damage when it hits anything but the terrain at the moment. The Debug Sphere fires off, but no damage is applied. I have attached anything I thought you might need to see. Thank you.

[lofty rapids]

"terrain" ?

[fast grove]

The ground..

Just landscape in general

It fires off and deals damage if it hits an actor

or a mesh

[lofty rapids]

does the event hit fire ?

i'm guessing not

[fast grove]

I mean the debug sphere is behind the event and it fires

[lofty rapids]

so the sphere shows up at the location on the landscape ?

[fast grove]

yes

[lofty rapids]

what is impact component ?

[fast grove]

But the radial damage only shows up in debug unless it hits the pawn or if I put a floor

Thats the 2nd photo

that just handles the sound and emiter with some velocity modifiers

[lofty rapids]

does the sound play ?

[fast grove]

yes

Everything but the actual damage applying

First one, hits ground. Second one hits actor

[marsh pilot]

I'm trying to add an animation to a character. Is it possible to run an animation (inside the animation blueprint) based on a boolean inside the character blueprint?

[lofty rapids]

yep

can you show your graph in the anim bp ?

you can set a variable and set it to the variable from your player which there is probably already a cast to

[marsh pilot]

I'm just using the default manny UE5 graph. Can I just like get IsWorking from the character cast?

[lofty rapids]

i would set a boolen in the anim bp, and set it to the value of the one on your character

you can then use the boolean in a transition

thats how i run animation for if my character dies

i switch a boolean

[marsh pilot]

Ahhh gotcha thank you. Not sure why I couldn't "get" that value before

[fast grove]

Could my problem be in me using physics for the grenade instead of projectile?

[marsh pilot]

also yeah I realized I accidentally used set instead of get for the first node and their different blueprints with the same variable name so it looks like crap but I do understand it now

[visual crest]

how do I make a game pad button work like a mouse button for clicking on UI buttons?

[sage lagoon]

That kind of relates to what I shared earlier.

[sage lagoon]

Right here.

[versed sun]

try Override On Key Down

i think something like this, or close

[visual crest]

That's way to over complicated. I'd have to set it up for every UI element in my game. There has to be a way to simulate a mouse button press.

[sage lagoon]

I did, actually. Once again, here is the screenshot I have:

But then, I want the widget to go on to the next message then the next much like when the Next Button is clicked on, except when any of these buttons are pressed.

[visual crest]

How do I use this node it looks like exactly what I want. But it can only be used on a widget interaction component

[feral moon]

why i can't?? 😭

wanted to create event dispatcher

Thats what i want to call

Everything i want to do is create simple checkpoint where character will teleport when he hit spike

so there will be a lot of different checkpoints so i though event dispatcher should work for this, i tried doing this with interface but i failed too, idk what i do wrong .-.

please help me ❤️

[thin panther]

It tells you right there. You're trying to make your character reference a checkpoint reference, which doesn't work

Your character will never also be a checkpoint, so you cant plug it into something expecting a checkpoint

[twin perch]

is their no variable for Object Libaries ?

i want to store an array of them

never mind i think im going to just make data tables instead

[lunar sleet]

where are save game to slot files actually stored? docs say Saved\SaveGames but that doesn't seem to exist. Can't find anything with .sav in the project folder but it's finding saves when using the node

[versed sun]

doesn't exist? sure you are in the correct project ?

[lunar sleet]

yeah

there's no .sav files in the project folder

[versed sun]

are you in PIE ?

[versed sun]

thats where it saves mine

[tranquil moon]

how do I get the game/viewport resolution in pixels? Get Viewport Size returns 1, 1 in PIE

i have a custom cursor that I want to scale with screen size

[trim matrix]

what's PIE

[tranquil moon]

play in editor

[trim matrix]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/HUD/GetViewportSize/

might be deprecated, didn't look too much

it's ue4

[dawn gazelle]

In other words, the target is expecting a "BP Checkpoint" but you're trying to feed it a "BP Character".

[tranquil moon]

that returns 0, 0

[trim matrix]

are you sure that the player controller ref is right?

[frail onyx]

Anyone know why my timeline keeps looping over an over when i overlap with the box collision?

im trying to make something pop up and then go away when i leave the box collision

[trim matrix]

returns 0 if there's no HUD

you must have a custom HUD

[tranquil moon]

i believe so yeah

[trim matrix]

depends of the curve I guess

[tranquil moon]

but why is the HUD relevant other than that specific functon being on it, is there no way to get the game resolution withut going through the HUD?

[frail onyx]

looping is set to off

[trim matrix]

not in BP

as I've read

[trim matrix]

show the curve

[frail onyx]

its just very simple and goes from 0 to 1

and i have to tracks, one for each object i want to move

[dawn gazelle]

You're not checking what is overlapping which could be causing the timeline to retrigger multiple times as things go out and back in to the overlap.

[trim matrix]

try with some print statements, but Datura is prob right

[frail onyx]

oh, do you know how i can do it so it detects my player?

[trim matrix]

lol

[dawn gazelle]

You can cast the "Other Actor" from the event to your character class, or check if it == get player character 0 (as an example)

[trim matrix]

i'd suggest the second option

[sage lagoon]

Can anyone help, please?

[frail onyx]

ok, i got it working now thx. Do you know how i could get it to smoothly play the disappear timeline from the point its at when i end overlap

[dawn gazelle]

Use reverse on the first timeline instead of having a separate timeline.

[trim matrix]

casting but not using the ref 💀

[frosty heron]

It's fine

Just checking if the overlapped actor is of some type

[trim matrix]

he could do an if

[frosty heron]

What would u compare it with? If and casting is not mutually exclusive

[frail onyx]

there's no way to have a separate animation for it going away though right?

[trim matrix]

if other actor = the BP character

[frail onyx]

it would just be reversing the appearing timeline animation?

[frosty heron]

Ref or class? Again this doesn't replace casting

[frail onyx]

i wanna have it like smoothly appear and then quickly disappear

[dawn gazelle]

You can, but it's a bit harder to manage as you can't use an alpha/lerp. You'd have to use an interpto and not a relative location.

[trim matrix]

.

[dawn gazelle]

That would be checking if the other actor == the BP_MyCharacter blueprint not instance

[trim matrix]

what's wrong

[trim matrix]

actor

[dawn gazelle]

Nope.

Try it 🙂

[trim matrix]

I've used it multiple time and ti worked

there's a reason why I'm saying this

[frosty heron]

N there's reason why it's wrong

I'm gonna enjoy my mccas tho so just cast instead. That was the correct approach

[frail onyx]

Would it be better to just use 2 different normal animations for what I'm trying to go for?

oh wait that would do the same thing though lmao

[trim matrix]

I guess BP is ass for that

[frosty heron]

Remember that casting is just a type check

[trim matrix]

still really bad and should be avoided at most

[frosty heron]

If overlap actor is char then do X

No

U can't avoid cast

[lunar sleet]

I wonder if async version works differently?

[frosty heron]

That youtube myth with 0 context

[trim matrix]

BRUH go #cpp

[frosty heron]

I'm talking about casting here, bp or cpp

[lunar sleet]

casting is fine at this level. If you end up having hard ref chains you can switch to interfaces as needed

[trim matrix]

yup

[frosty heron]

Interface is also not a replacement

Another misconception

U will end up unable to debug Ur game

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, just a way around some ref chains

[frosty heron]

Always cast to base class when possible

[trim matrix]

which this should be avoided in multiplayer, so how would I do it?

[frosty heron]

And Soft ref the heavy stuff

[lunar sleet]

Back to my issue tho. Async save game to slot is saving the game but I can’t find it in the folder

[frosty heron]

Does it return a bool?

For succsess

[lunar sleet]

I haven’t tested the bool itself but the load functionality is finding the save

[trim matrix]

how would that work in a multiplayer game? -plz

[frosty heron]

So u just can't find the .sav on the folder?

[lunar sleet]

Bool returns success btw

[frosty heron]

Is it editor or package?

They both stored in diff place

[lunar sleet]

PIE

[frosty heron]

Project folder, saved iirc

[lunar sleet]

Ik but nothings there

[frosty heron]

Hmm

[lunar sleet]

Im using async save and load not sure if that’s what’s causing the issue

Shouldn’t tho

[frosty heron]

Print string get saved directory

[lunar sleet]

Where? Can’t find that node with context off either

I’m in GI

[frosty heron]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Paths/GetProjectSavedDirectory/

[lunar sleet]

Oh

Pure mb

[frosty heron]

Naa

[lunar sleet]

lol it’s saving it in fricken C:\Users

[frosty heron]

I've only use blocking load for save game object but it should behave the same

[lunar sleet]

I’m assuming there’s a place I can change this setting lol

[frosty heron]

Need more context

Wat do u actually want to happend

[trim matrix]

something after

it's a test btw so I want nothing but learning

[lunar sleet]

I’ll figure out how to change the folder, thx for that function, I couldn’t figure out how to get the path @frosty heron

[frosty heron]

After wat thox atm that's just saying if overlapped with

[frosty heron]

Gl, sry I don't have a clue. At work atm

[lunar sleet]

Np

[trim matrix]

but that wouldnt work if there's multiple player controller, in a multiplayer game

[frosty heron]

Won't work in single player either

[trim matrix]

it does

[frosty heron]

U checking against player controller

Instead the pawn

Maybe u mean get player character

Controller don't technically physically exist in the world

[trim matrix]

yea

wrong thing*

[frosty heron]

It won't collide with your comp

[trim matrix]

wdym

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message

[trim matrix]

but lpayer character do

[frosty heron]

Yes just saying Ur pic won't work

[trim matrix]

does get player character work tho?

[frosty heron]

Depends on what u want to do

Dont get player character 0 in mp

[trim matrix]

if the player collide with it

[trim matrix]

yea, how would I do it then

[frosty heron]

I don't know what u want to do

U haven't tell me the rule and action you want

[trim matrix]

just that if it collide with a player, the print should work, even in a multiplayer game

[frosty heron]

Get overlapping actor, cast to char, get controller

If valid cast to your player controller

Print string on cast succsess

[trim matrix]

there's no way without a cast?

let me do it

[frosty heron]

U r casting to character not your custom character

U will always have character in a world so it's free

[trim matrix]

like this?

[frosty heron]

The same goes with your controller

Something that is inevitably loaded anyway cast away

[trim matrix]

where the get player controller should be from the player character node

[frosty heron]

That's not right

[trim matrix]

wut

[frosty heron]

I gtg work, but u can read again.

Also it's get controller not get player controller

[trim matrix]

like this

@frosty heron lmk when you are back please

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to make it so my line trace gets blocked by all the components in my actor but only one of them executes something when the line trace hits it?

the selected box collision is the one i want to trigger something when it is hit by the line trace

[trim matrix]

in the details panel for collisions

[visual crest]

how do I make a game pad button work like a mouse button for clicking on UI buttons?

[frail onyx]

wdym?

[trim matrix]

check the detail panels

[frail onyx]

yeah thats what im trying to figure out, if i select it to be ingored for every object except the box collision then it can go through the walls which i dont want to happen

[trim matrix]

there's multiple possiblity

you can even create some custom collision type as well

[dawn gazelle]

you could cast other actor to character which then makes sure it is a "character" that is overlapping, though it may not be necessarily a player's character. If you want to check if it is a specific character, you'd need to know which character it is first off in some way.

[sage lagoon]

When overriding the On Key Down function (Image #1), what is the best way to assign the buttons to the same function as the Next Button (Images #2 and #3).

(And the Next Button is the arrow button in the dialogue box in the second image.)

[dawn gazelle]

Put what you want to happen in an event, and have what you want from the OnKeyDown call that event?

[sage lagoon]

I could, though some nodes like Delay cannot be included.

[dawn gazelle]

Events can accept delays.

[sage lagoon]

This one's a function, though.

[dawn gazelle]

The function can call the event.

[sage lagoon]

Oh right! I forgot about that. Well then, I'll see about making an event as a means of tricking the function into doing what I want it to do.

[dawn gazelle]

If you want the exact same thing to happen for the OnClick too, have it call that same event too.

[frosty heron]

Instead of if, cast it to player controller. Get controller can return the ai controller too so filter it to your need

[sage lagoon]

Okay then. Thanks for the tip!

[frail onyx]

anyone know how i can make a check in this so when its fully opened its true and if not then false?

i cant exactly figure out where to properly set a boolean to make it work

actually think i got something, would it be good to check if the alpha of the track is = 1 and if so then that means its opened?

it seems to work but im not sure if that's actually a good way to do it

[dawn gazelle]

On Finished, check the direction. If forward, then it should be "fully open". If backward then it should be "fully closed".
This also means you probably want to make your own enumerator for the state, not just a bool, as it could be "fully open", "opening", "closing" or "fully closed".

[frail onyx]

ok thanks!

[sage lagoon]

The buttons do work, but not after the first line, which is here:

So, how do I get any of the designated buttons to work when the widget first adds to viewport and the first text (from the screenshot) appears, since it will only go to the next line when I click on the arrow?

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how to make each instance of this actor do a different thing based on the level number variable which is a instance editable variable

I got this working, but i feel like there is probably a better and more easily expandable way to achieve this

[ionic quiver]

Use a select node. The input / output changes based on what you plug it into

[frail onyx]

the main end goal is to have each one open a level one i interact with it? would this work for openeing a different level based on what the level number integer is?

[ionic quiver]

Yes, just plug it into a load level instead of a string

It's a wildcard

[frail onyx]

where would i plug it into on the open level node?

[ionic quiver]

The place you specify your level

[frail onyx]

Ohhh wait, so if i open level by name i would maaake the wildcard options to name

[ionic quiver]

Or just do it by level

And specify your level

[frail onyx]

ok thanks i got it working!

[visual crest]

how do I make a game pad button work like a mouse button for clicking on UI buttons?

[sage lagoon]

Bump.

[limber parcel]

well yeah, u change input mode to UI only, then your keys wont work

[sage lagoon]

I did, actually.

Oh wait. I'm not supposed to set that?

[limber parcel]

not if you want to continue using your keyboard...

[sage lagoon]

Oh. I thought that would enable the keyboard to work. Should I replace that with a Set Input Mode to Game and UI or just remove it?

[limber parcel]

thats up to you

[sage lagoon]

Hm. It's still not working. It only works after the first line and the next arrow button is clicked on.

[sage lagoon]

Do you think I should put the first dialogue name and text under the On Down Key function? If I do that, I could just put the On Key Down function after Event Construct on the main BP of this widget.

[limber parcel]

i think you should watch more tutorials about how to make UI

[dark drum]

What are you trying to do?

[sage lagoon]

Basically, I'm trying to make a dialogue scene widget work with assigned keyboard buttons as well as the left mouse button. I've set the keyboard to work with most of the dialogue tree except for the very first line that pops up after the Event Construct. (I have a screenshot I posted a few minutes ago.)

[sage lagoon]

Unfortunately, none of the three keyboard keys work with the very first line of the cutscene.

[dark drum]

It sounds like you need to set focus to the widget when it's first added.

[sage lagoon]

The widget's IsFocused box is already checked, if that's what you mean?

[dark drum]

No, there's a node called set focus. Call it and supply the widget that needs focus. You may need to set input mode to UI as well.

[sage lagoon]

And I should do this after the Add to Viewport node on the level BP that calls this widget?

[dark drum]

Yes, otherwise the widget won't receive inputs. The first click gets consumed to give it focus so you can call those nodes to do it manually from the beginning.

[heady zephyr]

Hi everyone! I'm stuck with a problem that I'm sure it's very easy to solve, I appreciate the help.
Basically I have 3 doors, every time I launch the game I want a random door of the 3 to open.

I created a Blueprint called "DoorsController" casting every door after a Switch on Int. You can also See the logic inside one door.

When I launch the game basically nothing happens 😄 I can't get my head around it. Any help is very welcome, thank you!

[sage lagoon]

Something like this?

[dark drum]

Yea.

[sage lagoon]

And so this will enable the keyboard once the widget is added and constructed, rather than when the next button is clicked on once?

[dark drum]

Yes.

[sage lagoon]

Alright. I'll see how that works out.

[ionic quiver]

You're casting to the doors and then not doing anything. The second image isn't hooked up to anything.

[sage lagoon]

Hm. The buttons still don't work when the first dialogue message appears.

[heady zephyr]

Oh thank you! You mean there should be a node before the "Play from start?". I'm still learning, sorry for the basic questions

[ionic quiver]

Yes of course. It has to execute from something

[limber parcel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaU2Hue-ApI

[heady zephyr]

Thanks, I'm gonna look in to it 🤞

[sage lagoon]

This is the start of the On Key Down, and what you see is the second dialogue which you see after clicking on the next arrow button. Do you think I should put the first line on this tree?

[dark drum]

Add a set input mode to UI as well.

[sage lagoon]

Like this?

[dark drum]

Yea.

[sage lagoon]

Now I got this warning:

[dark drum]

Enable isfocusable in the widget settings.

[sage lagoon]

Okay. That's fixed, but the dialogue is still not responding to anything else but clicking on the arrow when it appears. Even when I set that widget to focus and its input to UI only.

Maybe I should go to blueprintUE and give you the codes?

[fast grove]

I still cant figure this out. If the grenade hits the ground.. no damage. If the grenade hits a mesh or another actor.. boom damage.. What deee fuck

Its a physics based drop from the air with a grenade. Do I need to switch to line trace and a projectile? I'm trying to get a bomb to explode on impact basically

[sage lagoon]

I'm sorry that I can't seem to explain clearly enough.

[uncut seal]

how can I use physics constraints to make a grapple system similar to that of hammond/wrecking ball from overwatch 2?

[queen dagger]

is there a way to deactivate any and all movement on the y axis?

[sage lagoon]

You mean with a mouse?

Like camera movements?

[lusty quarry]

#blueprint hello everyone, as i was learning few things in unreal i got struck on solving 1 problem, i.e i want to make an component to attach on overlap but i don't know how to take the references from each other. like example:- i have a cylinder that need to attach to a cube when it placed near the cylinder, i got to know about the event onbeginoverlap but unable to attach the cylinder to the cube, can anyone help me out with this problem

[queen dagger]

no as character movement, in making a 2d fighter and everytime i make contact it shifts the character to the side and its no longer alligned

[sage lagoon]

Oh. I'm not sure about 2D character controls, myself.

[dark drum]

Hmmm I'm not sure then.

[sage lagoon]

Still, thanks for your help.

[visual crest]

how do I make a game pad button work like a mouse button for clicking on UI buttons?

[surreal peak]

Usually the Face Bottom one is doing that already as long as you have focus on a button

[visual crest]

Thats common UI and even though I am using common UI don't want to do it that way because I can't drag and drop

it only supports clicks

[visual crest]

I need gampade button to simulate a mouse button exactly for my inventory to work.

[surreal peak]

Not sure that's a thing.

[visual crest]

I really find it stupid that there is no simulate mouse button node to begin with

[surreal peak]

Why do you need that? For drag and drop?

[visual crest]

there actualy is one for interactable 3d widgets but I can't get it to work for view port widgets

[surreal peak]

That's for VR in theory

[visual crest]

my whole UI is built around a wow style UI so every thing is drag and drop...

[surreal peak]

Only thing I can say is that Gamepad should have custom UI

And not be forced to work with a mouse driven ui

[visual crest]

I thought this be easy and the game pad to mouse movement is

[visual crest]

Who says I hate controler style UI and any gamer I ever talk to does to. Why do you think things like SKY UI exist lol for skyrim

[surreal peak]

Idk but I would dislike playing with Gamepad if it was using drag and drop

I would just want to select something in inventory cell X and then press again in cell Y and it gets moved over

[visual crest]

Is there a way to simulate a mouse button?

[visual crest]

and how would you rearrange you floating windows?

[surreal peak]

Again, mouse driven UI is not really something for gamepads

If your UI requires a mouse ,then it's not a gamepad UI

[surreal peak]

UI components handle the face bottom button on their own and everyone might do it differently

But I don't think there is a simulate mouse press

I know that some peeps move the invisible mouse cursor to the focused widget

To simulate hovers

But that's about it

[minor dew]

Guys, there's supposed to be a pink square when using SceneCapture2D component with ortho mode right? the pink square represents the ortho width.
For some reason it isn't visible anymore, even opening a blank new 5.3 project and adding a SceneCapture2D still isn't visible.
Anyone knows what's going on?

[light garnet]

How can i spawn my character with the last gun i picked

Respawn characters with guns are working but I want him to spawn with the last gun i picked up

[heavy plinth]

Hey yall. I'm having a bit of trouble with this interaction text I setup. I'm trying to make it create the interaction text widget, set the text to a specific line in the text array that I've made public on each door (and possibly any item I create the interaction monologue widget on), then have it play the animation I made in the widget which just switches the opacity on and after a short delay it's removed from the parent. The only issue is that I'm only able to get the first line of text to show.
Here's the code:

[ancient stag]

You could save what gun the player last had and what ammunition it had in the PlayerState (spawned when a PlayerController is spawned). And during your respawn function, you could check if there is a valid weapon that you can attach to your character.

[light garnet]

How can I save it. Like i pickup weapons and then ?

Create a variable ?

[frosty heron]

ye make a reference to it

[frigid summit]

hi guys this is switching lanes logic in endless runner using chat gpt why is it not working

lane1y set to 20 and lan3y set to 480 and lane value is 2

[frosty heron]

Panning is just an offset

So all of your widget (icons or w.e in the minimap) needs to be offseted by the pan value

@night bolt

[main lake]

Because in your "Switch on Int" node you have only 1 ouput which is "Default" which means the default value of your "Lane" variable.

[frigid summit]

ok thanks i added multiple values and made the switch also on y and it worked

[night bolt]

i'll try that, thanks

[neon acorn]

Hey all, has anyone faced an issue where the enhanced input system mouse xy 2d axis doesn't work unless a mouse key is held down? This is if the mouse cursor is enabled in the player controller. There is an unresolved question in the forums so I was wondering if someone knows a workaround

[untold fossil]

Question. How deep can you go with structs? My idea is to have a HostData struct which containts a ShipData struct which contains an array of ShipPart structs. Is that acceptable? Or asking for trouble?

[frosty heron]

it's fine, just don't use BP struct

using bp struct is asking for trouble

[untold fossil]

Why not? My game is made in BP

[frosty heron]

Game can be made in bp, except the bp struct

it's the leading reason people can';t package and have their struct corrupted

been that way since forever

Declare the struct in CPP if you don't want trouble

[untold fossil]

Hmm, ok i'll look into that!

[distant elk]

Hi. Noob question: I'm making a blueprint that uses patches to deform the landscape, but I can't figure out how to set landscape paint layer weights. Any pointers? Is it even possible?

[south ravine]

New to using UE blueprints, but I'm researching a lot. I've watched tutorials which generate a wire BP using a spline mesh component. One can have a Add Spline Mesh Component node which targets self. However in those tutorials you can see that the placed BP actor does not get additional components in the outliner or details panel.

Is there a way to tell the construction script to generate those child components? Kinda like baking them into the actor. 🤔

Somewhat like when PCG framework adds HISM component to the actor and all the instances.

[surreal peak]

AddXYZComponent does add one but UE hides them by default

It's a setting in either EditorPrefs or ProjectSettings to show Construction Script Components in the Outliner

[south ravine]

🎉

thank you

perfect, it works 🙂

[final widget]

Am I just not used to it, or is using Blueprints way more fiddling and overall clunkier than coding?

[lofty rapids]

the graph gets big quickly

and it's a lot less peformant than c

i really like it so far tho, first visual programming i ever done

[final widget]

I assume you can screw up a lot less.

[lofty rapids]

you can still screw up pretty good theres a few quirks

but where it's a bit higher level a lot of stuff is abstracted

that you would normally have to mess with

once you get the flow of the nodes down it's pretty easy to work with

[sterile brook]

Too much Print String 😉

You should switch from Appending your strings to "Format Text" and use Print Text instead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO70f5SiEVA

[crude spruce]

im having the brain farts

whats it called when i want my vectors as -1, 0, 1

it was sign

[raw orbit]

if i have my games start / main menu and the actual gameplay in separate 'levels' is it still possible to contiuously play the same audio track somehow when starting a new game or whatever

[crude spruce]

My camera is set up as isometric with a 45 degree rotation.
I can get real world x,y coordinates with "convert mouse to world space"
But when i rotate the camera 90 degrees, any direction other than default, makes the world coordinates offset.

Any ideas on how i could offset the rotation of the world and apply it to the real world coordinates?

[final widget]

I feel like this shouldn't be necessary at all. Isn't there some Debug/Inspector Tooling for this?

[crude spruce]

yes you can break point and view relevant data

but it wouldnt obsolete debug logs

[lofty rapids]

i like format text

[crude spruce]

im stupid

the mouse world pos seems to be correct whatever the camera rotation is.

my problem is i convert this to a tilespace in which i draw debug boxes in and they arent aligned after the coordinates are written

[lofty rapids]

convert to a tilespace ?

you have some sort of tile system ?

[crude spruce]

pos x y / tilesize

is inside a tile

[lofty rapids]

so your x and y tile that your hovered is working ?

[gentle urchin]

There is a grid node 😅

SnapToGrid or smth

[crude spruce]

im a couple of parallell systems.
a 2d data structure
an isometric view of this data structure (so far)
current view mouse interface with data s tructure

but i am stupid so mistakes happen 😄

my problem was that the debug cube i am drawing, snaps to tile position as if the camera never rotates

[lofty rapids]

so your put a debug sphere on a tile position but it's not the one that is your mouse position to world space ?

[crude spruce]

but since i figured out what is done right i can progress

[lofty rapids]

so you fixed it ?

[crude spruce]

sort of. i really dont yet have a reason to draw debug boxes like this so its a non issue.

thanks

[untold fossil]

Hello. How can I have a multilinetrace that doesn't stop when it hits something? But instead continues for as long as I want the trace to be and then returns everything it hit along the way? My current multiline trace stops at the first thing it hits. 😦 EDIT: Figured it out, needed to use overlap instead of block

[lofty rapids]

its a non issue as long as your not actually selecting that box and it's off

i feel like it might be off i would check your x, y is ok

[gentle urchin]

Its definetly off 😅

I assume the tiles are ism instances?

If so you can ofc just grab the index of that

Or atleast its location

[lofty rapids]

the trace is weird it's from top to bottom, but the trace looks on, something weird with the maths

or how you pick the box

but a good way is to calculate the index like mentioned

but your x and y look off so it's probably maths

[lofty rapids]

can you show the maths you used for this ?

[crude spruce]

which part?

several moving parts

[lofty rapids]

where you trace, and where you set the debug box location

or rather where you set x, y

[crude spruce]

its kinda irrelevant 🙂

[split venture]

hello, i have a (hopefully) very simple to answer question yet Im dumbfounded on how to do it:
when im doing "in air" movement (moving while falling), how do disable the 'floaty' movement? I just want snappy movements. right now when i let go of a directional input, it slowly stops moving in that direction.

[lofty rapids]

well where you set x, y is whats off

[crude spruce]

yup

[gentle urchin]

Only correct at one rotation currently

Guess its an easy fix

[crude spruce]

the bp is a real mess so its hard to show anything

[split venture]

ive been trying all kinds of settings in the "character movement" settings but cant get rid of that slow deceleration effect

[crude spruce]

its equally a philosophical issue at this stage 😄

[dark drum]

air control and deceleration I believe. You might have to dynamically set the deceleration when you start falling and set it back to a default value so it doesn't affect walking. (I'm not sure if there's a separate value for just when your falling)

[lofty rapids]

actually after looking at it, it looks like on 0:10 your x and y are correct but your debug box is off, so it's most likely how your positioning that box

[crude spruce]

aye

[frank juniper]

hey brother... Any idea where can get a decent network engineer. I know answer will probably be post a job listing but rather see if any connections out there first.

[crude spruce]

😄

[lofty rapids]

how are you doing that ?

[crude spruce]

the world coordinates are correct in every rotation but the translation to tile space is off

[thin panther]

It's worth monitoring #hire-a-freelancer

There is also the salary jobs board.

[crude spruce]

i used to be a network engineer in telco

we are expensive

gl

[lofty rapids]

well one way to get the right box is use the x, y and calculate the proper index in an array

[crude spruce]

yeah, the underlying idea about what i need isnt fully understood so it was inevitable a mistake would happen

[gentle urchin]

Probably not the same type 😅

[crude spruce]

probably not but then the type he is looking for has another title 😄

[gentle urchin]

More likely they want some netcode engineer 😅

[marsh pilot]

Am a network engineer in the power industry. We are even more expensive

[gentle urchin]

Network engineer in fishfarming , in norway

Wont be more expensive than us

[crude spruce]

how high is your licence and diploma stack?

[marsh pilot]

I just have an FE lol, but when you get to PE level that's when it gets expensive

[crude spruce]

i can agree

[marsh pilot]

Well, SCADA engineer to be precise but networking is a big part of it

[crude spruce]

i was entry level thug network engineer in norway and i was paid in gold

:C

[marsh pilot]

That doesn't sound bad tbh

[crude spruce]

a joke ofcourse. but norwegian jobs pay well. probably not as well as silicon valley but close?

[marsh pilot]

Ahhh, I have no clue. I work on the opposite side of the US

[gentle urchin]

We've fallen behind sadly in many areas

[crude spruce]

just upgrade to oil network engineer

[gentle urchin]

Good engineers are paid far bettter in the US than here

[gentle urchin]

True, that boosts it quite a bit

[split venture]

i found it. its the "Falling Lateral Friction" setting

[thin panther]

Can confirm a good network engineer in the UK is worth their weight in gold too.

Not as much as some other countries, mind you, but still very expensive

[pallid sphinx]

im trying to get projectiles to spawn whilst draining a mana bar until it is at 0 and i figured this would work but it keeps returning as an infinite loop on top of that it seems loops trigger every potential loop at once instead of over time?

[raw orbit]

oh no that delay node fills me with dread

[gentle urchin]

Cant delay a while looop

Not like that anyways

The while runs repeatedly in the same frame untill condition is met

In this case :
While -> delay -> while -> delay -> while... for infinity

[boreal marlin]

what if you instead add the delay to the OnBeginPlay node of the projectile itself?

you could delay making it visible and adding velocity etc

[pallid sphinx]

because its used for things other then the player

it worked easily with the enemy because the player sensing component constantly runs the script whilst i want it to

its just about making that work when i cast the spell as the player

[boreal marlin]

i'm not quite sure what you mean, could you elaborate? what else happens once the projectile is spawned?

[lofty rapids]

i stay as far away from whiles as i can, although sometime they are necessary

[lofty rapids]

try a for loop the amount of resources, but i'm guessing you just have too many for bp to handle anyway

[lofty rapids]

after first delay resource isn't updated ?

i also try to steer away from delay because i've heard it has odd behaviour

[hollow cove]

whats the node name for dynamic casting again, i feel like i've done this before

[pallid sphinx]

Using a set timer by event is working

[lofty rapids]

timer ftw

i would expect all the timers to run at once

unless you run it again after the timer which makes sense

[gentle urchin]

Its another frame, which we never reach

[gentle urchin]

Because thats not directly blocking the execution flow

Like a delay does

[visual crest]

If I use auto wrap this is what happens and if I don't this is what happens. Changing the wrap text at value does nothing!! How do I fix this?

[hollow cove]

i hate this

[lofty rapids]

classic

what do you need them for ?

[visual crest]

its not as bad as this. And it has to be done this way because time lines can't be used in functions lol and I need it to happen in sequence and each value requires different values/inputs so can't function them either lol

[visual crest]

lol

[split venture]

https://tenor.com/view/going-to-vomit-gif-15669269131231828557

[frank juniper]

Can I chat about it with you?

[crude spruce]

no it was mostly joking banter

but if you have generic questions about network stuff just ask

[frank juniper]

lovely lol

Nah I'm looking to hire one

[crude spruce]

🙂

[crude spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/boom-bomb-explosion-iron-man-tony-stark-gif-15429820

[visual crest]

theoretically I could make a function with bools and might be able to get it to just recall itself but that would take a lot of work and debugging. That said it would add no functionality just looks so I just moved the ugly thing over into its own graph lol

[split venture]

at least its neatly organized

it could be a pile of spaghetti

[crude spruce]

orderly spagheeti is still a sphageeht

select all of it, convert to function, delete function.

😄

[split venture]

im curious to know how much that affects performance

[gentle urchin]

Inheritance , interface ?

[gentle urchin]

You can fix this tho.

[visual crest]

It works perfectly so I am not touching it. How something looks is not worth 2+ hours lol

[lofty rapids]

probably a custom event with some params

unless they are really unique throughout

[split venture]

what exactly is that staircase doing?

[gentle urchin]

Im surenit already cost you over 2h

[split venture]

im curious because im now worried i could end up making one of those in the future

[visual crest]

Its my bullet heaven end score board. It visually tallies up each stat gives it a score then at the end adds it all together then give final score/XP

[split venture]

ah you are making a shmup?!

[visual crest]

So stats like: kills, damage received, damaged healed, magic damage done, melee damage done, max combo, so on and so forth.

[split venture]

im working on a rail shooter (ie: space harrier, maze runner, etc)

[visual crest]

yep

[split venture]

i have a bullet heaven/hell planned out too. but i want to knock this out first

[gentle urchin]

Timeline -> switch on int -> DoStat()

Timeline.end -> increment int -> if int <= lastStat -> start timeline

[visual crest]

sence I have all your attantion any one know how to fix this ^

[gentle urchin]

Nobody cares about real problems

[visual crest]

lol

[faint pasture]

yo what the fuck

[gentle urchin]

Only organizational/code cleanliness ones

[visual crest]

Yea that might work. but why.. lol

[gentle urchin]

Easier to maintain, expand, read

[faint pasture]

@visual crestWhat does that chutes and ladders mess do?

[queen dagger]

Is there a way to turn of y axis movement completely for a 2d fighter game?

[faint pasture]

yes

[visual crest]

Its my bullet heaven end score board. It visually tallies up each stat, gives it a score then at the end adds it all together to give final score/XP

[faint pasture]

Why is it not just 1 timeline with variable stats?

all stats are ints or floats right?

[wild moat]

to what degree can material layers & material blend layers be controlled in a blueprint? i see some stuff for accessing parameters, but can i dynamically add layers and swap material layers during runtime?

[faint pasture]

What are these stats, stuff like ShipsKilled and BulletsFired?

[visual crest]

because some stats get added while others are - or X. Then some are just displayed with a fixed value. I would need a long string of input bools and it would take alot of debugging

[faint pasture]

Is this just for a quick and dirty prototype or a Real™️ game?

[visual crest]

I may fix founction it at a latter date right now I am working with other bugs

[split venture]

after hearing what that blueprint is used for, im now interested in learning how to do it more efficiently. i have a feeling im going to have a similar need.

[faint pasture]

You could have something like
Struct Stat:
Name/String/Tag/Whatever Stat
int Count
float ScoreImpact

CalculateScore:
for each Stat in Stats
Score += Stat.Count * Stat.ScoreImpact
DisplayName = Stat.Name

[faint pasture]

Basically if you find yourself having a bunch of variables that are really just teh same type of thing with a different name, just make it a pair of name/string/tag to float/int

[lofty rapids]

i would just make a custom event with some params

send it the thing you want to change

[faint pasture]

instead of:
float HP
float MaxHP
float HPRegen
float Mana
float MaxMana
float ManaRegen

you can instead have:
struct Stat
Name/String/Tag StatIdentifier
float CurrentStat
float MaxStat
float StatRegen

Then it's super easy to add more types of stats

[sage lagoon]

After a good night's sleep and a bit more research, I took another look at this screenshot from https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue5-on-key-down-problem/792617 (Image #1).

It was then I realized. The setting focus to UI and Game needs to be in the same group of nodes as when you set the keyboard focus. Originally, I had one of these nodes on the widget itself and one on a level BP. But now, they're both on the level BP like so. (Images #2-4)

I'm really posting this answer for anyone else who might be having trouble with anything similar to this. One could try Set User Focus instead of Set Keyboard Focus for controllers, but I'm not sure.

[hallow compass]

is there a way to change the default bp comment box color so that its not blinding white?

[sage lagoon]

As soon as you add a comment on your BP, you should see this under Details on the right side of the screen.

[hallow compass]

yeah that i know. im talking about the default setting 🙂

so that when you make a comment it doesnt default to white

over the years i realized im spending an ugly amount of time just changing each comment to black, would be nice if i could change some of the slate(?) settings or some obscure ini file to change the default away from this 1,1,1

[sage lagoon]

Okay, I found it. Open the Editor Preferences, type "comment" in the search bar, and you should see this:

[hallow compass]

oh my goodness

thank you so much!!!!!!!

[sage lagoon]

You're welcome.

[short reef]

Are there any tutorials for doing a model examine thing where the object appears or moves up to the camera and you can rotate it around and such?

[supple dome]

that seems very simple to do, just place the object near the camera with SetActorLocation, then use the mouse movement to AddLocalRotation

[marsh pilot]

How do I make it so I can play an animation based on a boolean in the NPC's state?

[lofty rapids]

so this is the animbp event graph ?

are you trying to get is working from the player character ?

[marsh pilot]

Yes to both

[lofty rapids]

what does it look like to the left of the sequence ?

[lofty rapids]

you want the info from the player character correct ?

[marsh pilot]

Correct

[gentle urchin]

Npc != Character

Your IsWorking is defined in the NPC class

Which likely is a subclass of Character

You either need to cast further down, or get some interface up and running

[marsh pilot]

That's right

[gentle urchin]

If this animBP is supposed to be shared between npc and player characters

I would suggest creating a shared baseclass

[wild moat]

like i'm looking for blueprint functions for adding layers, deleting layers, hiding layers, showing layers, swapping layer materials, stuff like that:

[marsh pilot]

So this is just a copy from the default Manny character, and this is for a city-builder so the player is just a top-down camera

[gentle urchin]

Gotcha

So no sharing 🙂

[marsh pilot]

Yeah I only have to worry about this AnimBP being part of the NPC which is a subclass of character

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

So cast to NPC

Not Character

And store the reference

[marsh pilot]

oh so just this?

Ahh okay so I think I have it. I also changed the Character type from Character object reference to NPC object reference. Thank you!

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[dark drum]

Has anyone used sequences for things like dynamic cameras? I'm looking at setting up dynamic cameras for interactable but in need of inspiration lol. Not sure if sequences would even be a viable option.

[simple field]

I'm trying to pause my timer when game is paused, i'm using the Branch to tell every tick whether game is paused or not (1st Pic), then I'm getting that boolean variable reference in Level Blueprint (2nd Pic) and then I'm setting the paused boolean to true/false depending on whether game is supposed to be paused or unpaused. But it doesn't work. Any ideas? 4th pic is the error

[void bluff]

I have a blueprint for custom NPCs. I am spawning the NPCs at runtime, and want to set them up (their meshes, hair, etc) in the construction script of the blueprint. Is it possible to pass values to the blueprint before the construction script runs? Similar to passing parameters in an object's constructor? Thanks

SpawnActorDeferred, btw

[lofty rapids]

says timer ref is empty

[simple field]

I made timer ref by making new variable and then searching for Timer (my widget) in the variable types menu

is that wrong?

like this

[lofty rapids]

well it's not wrong, but that just the type

you need to actually set it to the timer ref

so you created a variable but it's still empty, you need to put something in there

[simple field]

I see, how do I make it the Timer reference though?

When I drag off the Timer ref there isn't the Timer widget I want to refer it to

[lofty rapids]

where are you running a timer ?

when you set timer, the return value is the reference

i didn't know you could pause timers like that so i'm not even sure it would work

but to start your problem is the variable is empty, thats what the error basically means

[simple field]

I saw it in a tutorial and it works there, I just don't know how to pass the variables over correctly

This is my timer widget

Bottom one is making the timer work

Top one is making sure its unpaused for time to work

That paused boolean variable is in the widget, and I'm somehow trying to pass that paused var over to Level blueprint, so that i can set paused boolean to false/true

[lofty rapids]

i would store the paused somewhere like the game instance where you can access it anywhere

[lofty rapids]

you could make the boolean public, then get a reference to the widget where you can get/set the boolean

if you create the widget in the hud class, you should be able to get hud, and get widget np from anywhere

[simple field]

Stored it in the game instance and I can't access that variable in level blueprint for some reason

[lofty rapids]

you can't get game instance in there ?

[queen dagger]

so this is a hit detection for a medium attack

im trying to add knockback on the character, my question is would i code the knockback on anydamage event and then identify the type of attack and get the knockbck data via the collision? if that makes sense lol

[simple field]

Erm I tried that and it gave a similar error as before

[lofty rapids]

what does the code look like if you click where it says branch ?

[simple field]

selected the branch node

maybe I'm an idiot and I shouldn't have used event construct

[lofty rapids]

you don't want to do that, promote it to a variable in the construct

then use that variable on tick

[lofty rapids]

ya you could probably just use begin play

idk about contruct

[simple field]

Fixed, new error now lol

oh wait lemme try cooking

[lofty rapids]

where does it goto if you click on this one where it says set?

[simple field]

I had the cast node under the InputAction by accident instead of beginplay

I fixed that, no errors now

but it's still not pausing the timer

:/

Both prints are getting fired when I open and close pause menu

So I think it's a variable issue

wouldn't it be easier to just get rid of my timer logic and use Set timer node?

[lofty rapids]

you could probably use a timer

but i can't see exactly the problem, but you should be able to set the pause variable

[lofty rapids]

your setting a variable but i don't see where you are getting the widget ?

[simple field]

This is connected to Event BeginPlay

[simple field]

this is inputaction (pressing P to open pause menu and also set boolean to paused)

[wide mirage]

How do I set the Timer for the door, to disable input spamming?

[lofty rapids]

well theres no execution going to that set node

the white lines

[simple field]

Oh my bad

fixed and timer is still running when paused

[hasty merlin]

anyone know how to lock cursor to center of screen without running set mouse pos on event tick?

[simple field]

@lofty rapids Yep it's a variable issue, I tried printing every tick (in Timer Widget BP) to see whether that paused boolean gets changed and it does not get changed - stays as false, whereas the variable in Level blueprint only gets changed when I pause and unpause the game, so they're not acting as the same variable for some reason

(the printing)

[frosty heron]

Using event track in the timeline to set a bool. Use a branch to check and call it a day

[queen dagger]

is there a node that identifies if youve taken damage and how much?

[lusty hedge]

when using an OnDrop function... how do i check to see waht its recieving ?

[dawn gazelle]

How are you applying damage in the first place?

[queen dagger]

this is the hit box and damage amount

thats the actual damage ecvent

[dawn gazelle]

So in your logic here, you'd have to figure out if any damage was applied.

That could be as simple as a comparison of how much health you had at the start of the "Any Damage" event and how much you have after you've done any calculations that may have changed it.

[queen dagger]

oh ok

so make another function seeing if damage was done

then identify amount

then apply knockback based on damage

[hasty merlin]

how can i make a line trace always be active? not just when i hit a key

[dawn gazelle]

Run it on Event Tick

[hasty merlin]

but will that spam line trace?

im looking for a solid beam that moves when i move wihtout a spam

[dawn gazelle]

The "Operation" pin is the reference to the drag and drop operation that was being dropped on the widget.

[trim matrix]

watch some tutorials to learn at least the basics...

[queen dagger]

would i make another funtion or should I just write it direct into the damageevent

[dawn gazelle]

Up to you

[gentle urchin]

Decisions, decisions...

welcome to dev life

[queen dagger]

lol this is my first attempt at it so its all new to me

[gentle urchin]

Better get used to those decisions (and watching them blowback every now and then)

[steel shadow]

you can set line trace to exist for just 1 frame so running it on tick will enable it permanently

[novel swan]

In my game I have a shield actor that the player pawn can spawn with a button press. I have a ShieldFunction in the player pawn BP that calculates how the shield should be positioned when it's spawned. I had the great idea to move this ShieldFunction to my shield actor BP. It makes sense to me, in general we want to encapsulate right?

However, in my game potentially 1000 shield actors lets say can exist. Whereas my game might have only like 24 player pawns. So I'm wondering if there's some sort of memory consideration to be had?

Let's just say ShieldFunction is 1kb of memory. Is it going to be 1kb * 1000 actors vs 1kb * 24 actors? Or does it not work that way?

Also, I'm working in VR so efficiency is a little more important in general.

[hasty merlin]

does debug mode have to be on all the time?

[steel shadow]

what is debug mode? where it says 'draw debug type' choose 'for one frame'

[hasty merlin]

yea

[trim matrix]

Hey guys, im trying to make a blueprint change the hdri background depending on player location. Whats wrong with my blueprint?

[lusty hedge]

how to a reference an instance of a componenet on the player

GEt player character node >

then what

[trim matrix]

I think you have to use a for each loop...

[queen dagger]

does that look sound?

[sage lagoon]

I got message widgets to respond to keyboard buttons, but now I have another problem. When the player is near an NPC, pressing Enter will trigger dialogue. Typing Enter, Z or Spacebar will advance to the next message. So far, so good. But then, when I type enter to close the dialogue widget, the dialogue instead goes back to the first message! So how can I break this loop, other than setting some different key to talk to someone?

[dawn gazelle]

You can do Get Component By Class or by Tag, etc.

[trim matrix]

use a for each loop with break

then break whenever you need it

[sage lagoon]

Here's what I have, right now:

So, should I replace For Each Loop with For Each Loop with Break?

[trim matrix]

yup

[trim matrix]

Like This? Still doesnt work

[sage lagoon]

Okay. Anything I should add to this?

[trim matrix]

a flip flop might do the job if you want to do something when pressing enter the first time, and then the second time of pressing enter something else happens..

[sage lagoon]

Flip flop? You mean I should swap two nodes?

[trim matrix]

get from the for each loop?

[trim matrix]

there's a node called flip flop

The FlipFlop node takes in an execution output and toggles between two execution outputs. The first time it is called, output A executes. The second time, B. Then A, then B, and so on. The node also has a boolean output allowing you to track when Output A has been called

[sage lagoon]

Okay. Where should I put this Flip Flop node?

[trim matrix]

after the if

[sage lagoon]

You mean the branch?

[trim matrix]

ye

[sage lagoon]

Okay. Here's what I have now.

[trim matrix]

on B, you can have a function that close the dialogue widget

and it should work

[sage lagoon]

Okay. Here's what I have now.

[trim matrix]

you have the ref, dont need to cast

I think

[sage lagoon]

Unreal Engine gets fussy about casting widgets when you haven't promoted them to variables.

[trim matrix]

when you create the widget, you set a variable to it, then you use that variable to delete it

no need to cast a second time

try it

[sage lagoon]

Oh. Then what would I attach to "Object" on the "Cast to" node?

[simple field]

thanks for the help 👍

[trim matrix]

np