blueprint

[lunar sleet]

You’ll have to play around with it, and figure out what’s happening. I’ve been there. For one, I would restart the engine just in case something went terribly wrong 😀

[odd kiln]

I just did it and still 😦

[hasty merlin]

so set it and make sure nothing is connected. what about validate?

[odd kiln]

I'm trying to search.. thank you anyway for your time

[gentle urchin]

Show me

[odd kiln]

If I find the solution I'll tell you

[gentle urchin]

Not set...

Clear and invalidate

[white oxide]

How do I create a custom event with this additional pin? Like this

[gentle urchin]

Specifically.

[hasty merlin]

didnt realize it was an entire node. good to know

[odd kiln]

Create a custom event. Click on it. And on the right there is a "Inputs" and click on the "+"

[gentle urchin]

Getting there

Test it

Implementbthe functionnin the interactable, return a float > 0

[hasty merlin]

do i need to set the input to be a hold?

[gentle urchin]

Ah we also need to bind in the widget 🙂

Updaing the progressbar

[hasty merlin]

yea 🙂

[gentle urchin]

No

[hasty merlin]

perfect wanted to double check

give this float a value inside the door?

[gentle urchin]

Yes, set it to your desired time in seconds

[hasty merlin]

set it in the return node? or is it better practice/safer to use a variable?

[gentle urchin]

Also gotta validate our interactable

[gentle urchin]

If you had a parent of all class, variables are nicer

Hardcoded values are not cool

[hasty merlin]

i might swap the door over tomorrow morning to a parent and children

[hasty merlin]

isvalid node?

[hasty merlin]

in this image?

[gentle urchin]

No

Before we start the timer

[hasty merlin]

isvalid node right here?

[gentle urchin]

Earlier

[hasty merlin]

before the getinteraction time node

[gentle urchin]

Y

[limber parcel]

1 question: why are you using the interface as a variable?

[hasty merlin]

should i connect not valid to the clear?

[hasty merlin]

wdym

[limber parcel]

this

[hasty merlin]

it hold actor hit

comes from this line trace in another interface function

[limber parcel]

that seems kinda weird way to do it

at least i never used interface like this

[hasty merlin]

its grabbed and stored in the interface function then i can reference the line trace every tiem without directly connecting to it

[limber parcel]

thats how i used it in my interact

[hasty merlin]

that happens every time you hit the interact key tho right?

[limber parcel]

yes

[hasty merlin]

mine runs on a timer loop

[limber parcel]

but why?

[hasty merlin]

so i dont ahve to use collision boxes to check cause theyre iffy at best and i cant lock mouse cursor to center of screen without giving my widget epilepsy

[limber parcel]

what are u trying to achieve with this?

[hasty merlin]

i ahve different actors that need different times for interacting. im using hold to interact. im essentially trying to recreate dungeonborne

[hasty merlin]

i gotta get off and go to bed here real soon, are you goign to be online tomorrow so i might pick your brain a tad more?

[frank viper]

I solved my infinite loop error problem by removing all the custom events and call custom events in the sequence and just strung everything together a lot more spaghetti now but it works. I can run a very long long execution line through all the nodes but the moment I clean the BP up with custom events then it breaks for some reason.

[limber parcel]

try #ue4-general if you have issue with old version

[frank viper]

o.k. got it

[frank viper]

You should change the channel name then to blueprint - ue5

[limber parcel]

its just that not many people here are still using UE4, so u will have better chances of getting help with ur issue there

[frank viper]

Understood thanks 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Probably

Gotta deliver kids in kindergarden now

[hasty merlin]

santa but in like a reverse fashion? lol

have a goodnight everyone take care

[faint violet]

was such a dummy solution, I had the event tick interval set, so for continuous movement or a movement toggle, all I needed was this:

ive got a question, the custom timestep fixes the framerate process speed desync thing, but it makes the event graph choppy. is there a way to fix it?

[undone glacier]

Hi, I am attempting to make a function within one of my UI elements that zooms in and out with the mouse wheel between 25% and 150%; And While this seems to compile without any errors it seems off to me and using various resources I have been trying to check to see if it looked right. So I thought I will try here? This is my blueprint. I am very new to this so pls bear with me 😄

[queen dagger]

@trim matrix I finally got the line trace to work instead of box overlap this allows me to identify direction correct?

[silent drift]

Hello! Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but might be. Is it possible to add gameplay tags to only specific components on a actor?.

E.g.
Enemy actor

• Capsule Component (no gameplay tag)
  -- Skeletal Mesh (only add a gameplay tag to this and not to the capsule)

[gentle urchin]

If you subclass them. Yeah

[silent drift]

Subclass? (need to google this). 😄

[gentle urchin]

You'd need to do it in c++ if so

as components dont support gameplaytags by default

you could use Tags tho

[silent drift]

Ah

Yeah, I currently use tags. 🙂 But since you can't use a datatable for them (or such), it keeps being misspelled and such dumb errors. 😄 I'm considering just adding them to different components on begin play, and just call them from a datatable to avoid this.

but also feels like an unneccessary step, but I feel it might be the best solution.

Since I want my projectiles to react differently depending on jwhich component they hit on certain enemies.

I assume it's that OR make different collision setups for them when I think about it. E.g.

1. Capsule has ignore
2. Skeletal Mesh has block
3. Extra large head has overlap

Maybe that is a different solution to the issue.

Because then I could add a gameplay tag to the object, and maybe just do things if I hit the proper part of it

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like a better way !

[silent drift]

At least the less error prone. 😄

Will change it and see if it works the way I hope it does. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Yeah i hate tags

And datatable rows for not being able to be gameplaytags

[silent drift]

Yeah

I thought it was like this (i looked a tutorial, but I seem to have done something wrong).

The first image shows me adding it on begin play. The second image shows that I have different "meshes" that does different things. E.g. Block (Sending hit event), Ignore (do nothing), Overlap (use the "BeginOverlap). The third image is the projectile comparing gameplay tags on the object it hit, but that gives me false all the time even though it is added.

I very much I assume I missunderstood something with the use-case.

[elfin lagoon]

in the 5.4 i cant adjust distance for a SceneCaptureComponent2D in a Orthographic projection
Ortho Width just do nothing now, and my minimap camera remains super-close to stage
whats changed in this version? how to adjust it now?

[dark drum]

Unless you're using C++ you cant implement the gameplay tag asset interface in the blueprint. You'd need to create your own BPI to handle getting the gameplay tag container from an actor.

[dark drum]

You can make it work with gameplay Tags. 🙂 it's not perfect but doable. Copy the gameplay tag as name and use that as the key for the data table row.

Then you get your tag and get tag as name and plug it in

[silent drift]

That was the reason! Thank you! I created my own now to get it. 🙂

[gentle urchin]

Im doing this but it sucks

Also made an editor util to ensure row name are exactly like tag

Still its hacky, and the dt editor sucks 😅

[dark drum]

Yea, its not ideal. Proper support for gameplay tags in datatables would be cool though.

[gentle urchin]

And better dt editor

Update single cell in the grid view

And multpile cells 🙂

[dark drum]

multi cell edits would be nice, like the property matrix.

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

Hmm

Is that exposed

For editor utils 🤔

Meh prob cant read DT anyways

[dark drum]

I don't know, i've not used editor utils.

[desert flame]

Hey, how do i have get overlapping actors also consider actors that arent moving? Typically it ignores the ones standing still until they move the slightest amount.

[lusty quarry]

Certainly! When dealing with overlapping actors in Unreal Engine, it’s essential to ensure that both moving and stationary actors are correctly detected.
Collision Presets:
In the Details panel of your actors, open the Collision Presets section. Make sure that both objects are set to overlap with each other. You might need to use the “Custom” preset to achieve the desired behavior1.
BeginOverlap Event:
Instead of relying solely on the Get Overlapping Actors functionality, consider using the BeginOverlap event. This event triggers when two actors start overlapping. Within the event graph of your actor, handle the logic for detecting overlaps and responding accordingly1.
Collision Layers:
Double-check the collision layers assigned to both actors.
Ensure that the layers allow for overlap detection between the specific actors you’re interested in1.

[dark drum]

Nice GPT response there. 🙃

[dark drum]

I've used 'Get Overlapping Actors' on stationary objects without any issues. What are you doing?

[lusty quarry]

haha, but its the same right

[dark drum]

No, because 'Get overlapping actors' should work with stationary actors anyway making everything it said redundant. 😉

[lusty quarry]

is it so,😲

[desert flame]

Iunno, ive got it on a timer, rings that enable collision (for some kind of spread system), but if enabled and the person now in it doesnt move they dont get acknowlwged from the overlapping, but if they move or is bumped by something theyll suddenly get noticed.

[dark drum]

Also, using overlap events whilst they are useful, often fall short when you're spawning actors during a loading portion. Often not triggering meaning you have to use the get overlapping actors to check if it's already overlapping something when spawned.

[dark drum]

You'll need to show your code.

[zealous jolt]

Hey👋
What would be the best way of implementing Area-Damage in GAS? Like applying GA-Effects in an Area.
Is there already a system for that or do i have to implement my own?

[dark drum]

#gameplay-ability-system this might be the best place to ask but I would imagine a sphere trace to get the relevant actors and then apply the effect.

[gentle urchin]

Yepp, just custom targeting code

[gentle urchin]

i cant unsee this....

are you aware, that you can filter collision volumes with some math ?

[zealous jolt]

Thanks 😄

[desert flame]

Me?

[gentle urchin]

yes

you can also handle this far more dynamically

so that it's just a matter of parameters, to change the effects

inwards, outwards, partial circle, cone

[desert flame]

I didnt know that, whats the other method?

[dark drum]

That delay loop on begin play... 😱 Use a timer by event and set it to looping.

Also, on the get overlapping actors, assign a filter class to the class you're casting too.

[desert flame]

Yeah thats probably better.

[dark drum]

Also, you would normally want to utilise overlap begin and end events.

When the actors first loads, use the get overlapping actors node to populate an array of actors already overlapping, then use the overlap begin and end events to add new actors and remove old ones.

Then when you apply damage you can check if the array is empty or not and only apply damage if there is something to apply it too.

This also then gives you flexibility to start and stop a timer that applies the damage. If nothing is overlapping, there's no need for the timer to be running.

[sick sky]

is there a super version for interfaces event ?

when its called on child, i would like to run the same event bu on the parent

okay i found it nvm

[desert flame]

But why isnt it overlapping idle actors once enabled?

I did your optimisation suggestions though!

[dark drum]

It's hard to say. What makes you think it's not getting them?

[desert flame]

Ive tried print stringing, it wasnt picking upo anything until they moved slightly

[sick sky]

when i do a linetrace from my TPS camera, its hitting on the origin, doesnt matter where i place it

[dark drum]

Odd, I've just tested this and it picks up the player character, even if they're stood still.

[gentle urchin]

Is there a setting for it?

[dark drum]

disable the collision on the 'UseStartPoint' component.

[sick sky]

there isnt a collision

its a scene component

[dark drum]

Ahh ok, print the name of what it's hitting to see what it is.

[sick sky]

good idea

i found whats the issue, ill fix it

ty

[desert flame]

Did you have it with collision disabled then enabled it with someone idle inside?

[dark drum]

No, but I'll quickly test it.

[desert flame]

Cause i just tried the same print string you did and same result

[dark drum]

This works as well. Shows 0 when disabled and shows 1 when enabled and that's without moving the character.

[desert flame]

...ok then i got no idea why mine is like that then

Cause im setting to the exact same collision settings as that too

[lofty rapids]

is damageplayers running ?

why you use by function name, but have an event

[desert flame]

Yes it is

[lofty rapids]

i didn't know you could run events by function name ?

[desert flame]

Yeah it basically works interchangeably aslong as you spell it right.

[pulsar vigil]

~~guys i have probably a weird problem, i have a hard time understanding the way variable get instanced by instance of bp generated idk how to explain it but it make me hard to understand how structure work for example

like if i create a structure to be used by a bp_character that is an npc spawned multiple time how does that thing work~~

i asked chat gpt he got me lol

[gentle urchin]

Just make sure you spell it right 😅

[lofty rapids]

next time ask co pilot, i feel like it's better i have tried both for info and i get the best luck with co pilot when it comes to programming

[limber parcel]

which one to be exact? xD

[lofty rapids]

lol i only have the microsoft one, i don't use github

i use it very rarely

i got the preview version, it sits in windows

it just showed up one day lol

[trim matrix]

Well for the direction, you should have a bool in your BP_character that is true when he is looking at the left and false when he is looking right (to implement),

then the end point of the line trace will vary depending on the bool (true or false) so that the line trace is going to be left to the character or right
... that's how I would do it

[desert flame]

Well it works when they move, so i know its workin.

[lofty rapids]

if you cache a pure node before the foreach, you'll get a bit of performance out of that

something i read from a post on here, if you plug pure nodes into foreach they will run each time of the loop

[gentle urchin]

Or unpurify it, and run it pre loop

[spark steppe]

a bit? sometimes you get a ton of performance out of it (depending on how the pure node aquires the data)

[lofty rapids]

ya i guess also depending on how much you loop

[spark steppe]

kind of boggles my mind how there's no faster foreach loop implementation

[gentle urchin]

This requires a plugin

[lofty rapids]

looping in bp is a pain in the ass imo

[gentle urchin]

Introduce paralellFor in BP!

Ben, i assign it to you

[spark steppe]

oh my karma hits me

[gentle urchin]

yeppyepp, just airing my dissatisfaction with having to spell them

Could make a wrapper function allowing you to specify it by GTag instead

less error prone if anything

[pulsar vigil]

thx

[hasty merlin]

mornin squize

[lyric pumice]

Hey, guys! How can i switch these Static Meshes, or replace it by name reference? This screenshot is from my Inventory and i need to switch these meshes with the mesh that i catch in runtime. Anyone?

[gentle urchin]

Morning

kid's sleeping so we gotta move quick

lol

[hasty merlin]

not a problem

where we elft off

[gentle urchin]

alright

lets move to the widget

[gentle urchin]

we want to bind the "OnHoldInteracted"

and create another custom event

(To avoid these long red wires, you can instead use "Create Event" and pick the matching event from the provided list)

[hasty merlin]

this red wire shouldnt be long, i dont think ill ahve to move anything

[gentle urchin]

fair

this is a bit backwards now, but we'll move forward

Check if BPI Interactable is valid

then Set progressbar percent to be CurrentTime / MaxHoldTime

[hasty merlin]

didnt we do this in fpcharacter?

isnt it redundant?

[gentle urchin]

Well,

we're not checking during the "OnGoing" of the input action

so the broadcast is triggered regardless of initial start

[hasty merlin]

cool

this is how my percentage node is set up

should i be changing this?

[gentle urchin]

remove that

remove the binding

[hasty merlin]

binding removed

[gentle urchin]

grab PBar in the event graph, search for "Set Percent" and connect it to "Yeet"

[gentle urchin]

yupp

I guess with Enhanced input one might add input context during hover of a target etc? Havn't explored that very much yet

[hasty merlin]

input context?

[gentle urchin]

nvm that

[hasty merlin]

k

[gentle urchin]

check if it works ?

[hasty merlin]

no the percetnage is still maxed

[gentle urchin]

print value of current time and max hold time

or view them in the debugger

with a breakpoint

[hasty merlin]

no strings getting printed

[wild moth]

Does the if statement in Blueprints have evaluation order? ie, if the first check fails does it check the rest?

[lofty rapids]

branch takes a boolean

[hasty merlin]

a branch? only if you set something up to false

[wild moth]

yeah I meant branch

if it's OR branch for example, if first value is false, does it keep checking the rest?

[woven turret]

Is there any way to lerp between two Post Process Settings Struct variables, without needing to use more than one post process volume?

I've got two separate Post Process Settings Structs with pre-defined settings I need to blend between when a function is called, as I'm developing a timecycle system that smoothly blends between day and night, which includes these necessary Post Process settings

[wild moth]

if statements in c++ do for ex

[hasty merlin]

how do i see the debug in the widget when i play simulation?

[gentle urchin]

Show the prints

Verify binding

Verify broadcast

Verify valid interractable

[hasty merlin]

setup a string at everypoint?

circled gets activated on begin play but key binding doesnt do anything else

[gentle urchin]

So whats going on in the char bp

[hasty merlin]

ongoing link not working

[gentle urchin]

Isnt triggered called continously?

And started only on start?

[hasty merlin]

it is yea

[gentle urchin]

So.. swap

Triggered = started
Ongoing = triggered

[hasty merlin]

strings are going through and its printing the values

hold on

i might not ahve realized how squize time should be setup

[dark drum]

If you have a hold modifier on the input action, the ongoing is called while the button is held down.

[hasty merlin]

dont ahve a hold modifier

then im locked to a set time

squize time works now

[gentle urchin]

Squize time is set once, at the point of a starting interaction

[hasty merlin]

i was thinking 100/sec for squize as thats what i had before

[dark drum]

I don't think ongoing or cancelled will do much then so not much point using them.

[hasty merlin]

it just needs to be seconds

so it was dividing current time by 300 not 3

it wouldve taken4+ minutes to open

must be a strong as hell door

[gentle urchin]

Which is ok

Gameplay feel is real

Its ok for testing the system tho

But 5 sec is prob more appropriate

[hasty merlin]

changed it to 3 sec and it works however it starts at 100%

i need to set the current time to 0 before i interact

[gentle urchin]

You can do that during update interactable

[sand yacht]

how do i check if an interface variable is valid or not?

[gentle urchin]

Set percent to 0

[hasty merlin]

set it in ehre?

[sand yacht]

nvm found it

[gentle urchin]

In the widget

Widget does widget things

[hasty merlin]

this area then

[gentle urchin]

Ye

Set percent to 0

We're kinda lacking a few things but its getting hard do explain

[hasty merlin]

what are we missing?

[gentle urchin]

We should change the logic in the update interactable function

[hasty merlin]

ok im there

[gentle urchin]

We only wanna call the broadcast if the interactable changes

[hasty merlin]

add an isvalid before the cast?

[gentle urchin]

No lol

Im not sure how interface references work

Can we directly compare two?

Lets try.

On cast succeed, chevk if the casted interactable != AsBPIInteractanle

Connect that to a branch

[hasty merlin]

how can i do that

[gentle urchin]

Drag from the references

[hasty merlin]

a notequals bool?

[gentle urchin]

It returns a bool

But we wanna compare the variable

Vs the cast reference

The cast reference is the output pin on the Cast node

[gentle urchin]

Drag from it

Search !=

Or not equal

[hasty merlin]

wont let it connect

[gentle urchin]

Show

[gentle urchin]

Interestingn

Ok i never liked this anyways 🤣

We need to replace some stuff

[hasty merlin]

lol

[lofty rapids]

[gentle urchin]

Instead of the cast, do a branch and connect "does implement Interface"

Change the variable "AsBPIInteractable" to type Actor, and call it "FocusedInteractable"

[hasty merlin]

text object being new interacctable?

[gentle urchin]

What?

[hasty merlin]

shoudl be the same as "asBPIInteractable"

or am i wrong on that?

isnt that what sets asbpiinteractable?

[gentle urchin]

Test object yes

[hasty merlin]

and interface be the bpiinteractable?

[gentle urchin]

Remove the cast

[gentle urchin]

Yes

Thats what we wanna interact with ... so

[hasty merlin]

better to make sure than to assume

[gentle urchin]

Now change type of the variable

To Actor

[fossil crystal]

my game has 28,000 actors. how do you think itll handle

[gentle urchin]

Just fine

Bp only?

[fossil crystal]

yes

[gentle urchin]

Perfection

[gentle urchin]

Now also the variable

[hasty merlin]

tehres a lto to cahgne

[gentle urchin]

Yes

[gentle urchin]

Update delegate inputs,

Change GetInteractionText to Message

[hasty merlin]

all good to go now

i tihnk

[gentle urchin]

No

You miss targets ?

Swap to the message type

[gentle urchin]

Target is still our interractable

Ah ok

Good

[hasty merlin]

just didnt show photo lol sorry

updated in widget as well

[gentle urchin]

Show this

[gentle urchin]

Compare function input with variable

Now the == or != works 🙂

[hasty merlin]

and connect the notequal bool to another branch? or existing branch?

[gentle urchin]

Another

On false, simply return.

[gentle urchin]

This means they are the same, so we dont touch anything

If true , check if it implements interface

If true. -> Set the variable -> call the broadcast

[gentle urchin]

Perfect

Almost

You gotta connect the top Set node

To the function input

[gentle urchin]

Nice

We prob wanna remove the outer branch aswell

So it updates if the trace hits nothing aswell

[hasty merlin]

do i need the get bpiinteractable node? why not just connect the 2 sets to output

nvm

i just found out why

[gentle urchin]

😄

[ionic quiver]

I'm using Data Assets to manage character weapons. Some weapons will have specific abilities. Is there any way to create modular setups where I can just attach something to the primary data asset and it'll expose the variables directly in the data asset? Right now I'm manually adding the same variables to each one that needs a teleport ability for example. So I know there needs to be a better way.

[hasty merlin]

just did a small test, if i stop or complete the action, it doesnt reset the pbar

[gentle urchin]

Correct

So how do we fix that

We == you 😆

[hasty merlin]

lol WE need to set current time to 0 on cancel or completion

[gentle urchin]

Simplest way to do that iiis?

🥁

[hasty merlin]

a new var?

set 0

[gentle urchin]

UpdateInterractable

With 0 input

[hasty merlin]

add an input float to call on hovered interactable?

[gentle urchin]

No

[hasty merlin]

not this?

[gentle urchin]

Its already handled in the widget

Just make sure you set percent to 0 before the isvalid check

[gentle urchin]

Neat

[hasty merlin]

im not certain how to reset

i feel like im overthinking

is it a new var in update interactable?

[gentle urchin]

Simply call UpdateInteractable on Completed/Cancelled

[hasty merlin]

taht makes more sense

works perfect

what am i doing with this node?

[gentle urchin]

Delete it

[hasty merlin]

done

[gentle urchin]

Also, on interact, you may want to also call Update interactable

With 0 input

[gentle urchin]

Just maybe

If you dont have it, it will be wrong if you keep holding the interact button

While staring at the thing ?

[hasty merlin]

hard to tell atm, i can tell connecting the node refreshes it but doesnt reset to 0 atm mainly due to state of door not changing

now i need to setup the actual interaction

[gentle urchin]

For testing this specific thing

All you need to do is in the door bp

On interact

Set bool to NOT bool

Flips it

[hasty merlin]

this is the bp for opening door

[gentle urchin]

For testing all you gotta do is flip the bool

[hasty merlin]

im not follwoing

oh if i drag from the interfaces and convert to event it doesnt give the error

[lofty rapids]

also flip flop can be pain in the ass

[hasty merlin]

im goign to change a bit in the bp, i want it to open directionally dpeending on which side the player is on

[gentle urchin]

Yeah no need when you got the statebool

[lofty rapids]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-find-if-an-actor-is-in-front-or-behind-another-actor/411665

dotproduct ftw

[hasty merlin]

ill take a look at that after

[lofty rapids]

makes sense

[hasty merlin]

is tehre a better way of setting up my door open?

also not jjust for a door, were just making it only a door atm and ill expand from there

[lofty rapids]

i mean if it works ig thats what matters right

i just ran into a problem with flip flop myself, and heard it can be a pain in the ass

[hasty merlin]

i had it originally when it was bound to an overlap of character and promptbox of the actor door

it was super simple

[simple field]

Any idea why is this printing 4 times a random row? I only want it to randomly pick 1 row and then print that 1 row country name once.

[lofty rapids]

add in the body, pick a random on completed

[hasty merlin]

should i be changinig how the door opens? also it works perfectly now ty so much

[lofty rapids]

it's printing as many items are in the body because your printing in the loop body

[simple field]

Oh lovely thanks <3

[gentle urchin]

Up to you

[hasty merlin]

is there anything else we==Me need to do?

[gentle urchin]

Test it on different objects with different texts and interaction times.

See if theres a bug

See if text chanhes when door is open vs closed etc

Does it update instantly, or do you need to look away then on it again, etc

[hasty merlin]

text updates instantly, only thing i spot is percentage remains maxed if i hold the key longer

[fossil crystal]

if packing up my project into a zip for a friend. to reduce file size of the zip, the folders that are a must is just config and content?

[lofty rapids]

i just put the whole thing in a zip

i didn't know you can exclude stuff

[gentle urchin]

Guess youd have to clear it somehow

Key held time will keep increasing

[hasty merlin]

would it be call on hold interacted and leave current time to 0?

and addd it to the compelted/cancelled?

another bug, if i hhold interact and look away it still opens

[gentle urchin]

You didnt remove the branch i bet

After the trace

[hasty merlin]

this?

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[hasty merlin]

dont i need that branch?

[gentle urchin]

Would i tell you to remove it if so?

👀

[hasty merlin]

right arent we doing what happens after the branch inside the function?

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[hasty merlin]

still doing it tho

[simple field]

Quick question, I'm from Czechia and in our language we use č š ď ň and other special characters, if I'm testing whether TextBox input was same as data table row string value, will this also work with special characters? Like if I write "Cesko" in the textbox and it's correct, would it also work if I write "Česko"?

and additional question, would it be case sensitive?

[hasty merlin]

if youre usign strings, i could very well be wrong on this, i beleive its case and character senesitive

[echo tulip]

hey would anyone be able to help me with an issue im having with our save/loading system?

for some reason if you load a save file, then go back to the main menu and start a new game it starts from the save, this doesnt happen if the first thing you do is start a new game

[lofty rapids]

i wouldn't expect those two strings to be equal, but how are you checking i think there is a node for case and one for non

depends on which one you use

[simple field]

so if I wanted it so users can write Česko, Cesko, cesko, česko I would have to use Not Equal, Case Insensitive for UE to think it's the same string?

[lofty rapids]

the ones with different characters will be not equal most likely

usually a string has characters, and the ones with the thing on the top are different char

so it would most likely be not equal

[hasty merlin]

would adding a does implement around here fix the look away still opening bug? i believe it would also be to the on hold interacted

nvm it doesnt work, its the audio i added in that still playing

[lofty rapids]

whats the problem ?

[hasty merlin]

when im interacting, i ahve an unlocking audio playing, if i look away while holding, the audio is still palying

do i just need to add an is valid node before the start of me palying the sound? and if false jump to the part in cancel/compelted that ends the audio?

circled is the audio nodes

is valid on triggered fixes it

[gentle urchin]

Why is char spawning sound

[hasty merlin]

also i know i dont want the audio here

[gentle urchin]

Isnt this interactables responsibility?

[hasty merlin]

i need to move it

yea but i also need to change which audio is spawned

to add this in it would be in update hold value right?

no wait

let em think it out first

[gentle urchin]

As i said. Tjis is interactables responsibility

[hasty merlin]

would it be a new fucntion in bpiInteractables called get InteractionAudio?

and then the actor will select what audio is going to get played?

[cursive wigeon]

hey, so this might be super easy but I am stuck on the logic. how do I get the spawners in range locations and spawn things at those locations. lets say 7 of them? (nodes are disconnected dw about that)

[lofty rapids]

wdym "in range ? is that what the overlapping actors is for ?

or you want ones that overlapping but within a range ?

[cursive wigeon]

I have a sphere collion atm that check for the overlapped actors

[lofty rapids]

well your checking on begin play

[cursive wigeon]

so my variable store the ovberlapped actors already

thats fine

so I have the overlapped actors stored I just dont nknow how to access each location

from that array

[lofty rapids]

foreach, get actor location ?

[cursive wigeon]

just unsure how to do that

how do I make it actually loop and store in the array?

just plug a bunch of get actor locations into the make array node?

[woeful pilot]

Does anyone have any expereince with geometry scripts? Im trying to blast or delete some small pieces of geo that show up after a boolean operation. I cant seem to figure this out, would love some help

[lofty rapids]

so you want to create an array of locations ?

out of the actors that are overlapping ?

[cursive wigeon]

yep

I then want to spawn 1 actor in each location

so plugging a bunch of get actor locations into the make array works but obvs that doesnt scale

[lofty rapids]

obviously you want to cache it, but just to show how you would do that

sort of transform the overlapping actors into a location array

i would also clear the array first as well

[cursive wigeon]

AHhh

thank you will test that

[gentle urchin]

Depends on when its gonna play

[cursive wigeon]

thank you! this worked!

[hasty merlin]

i ahve 2 audio sources, a rummage for torches and a lokcing sound for doors and chests

i might even make it so the chest plays unlokc audio first time and rummage after taht

[woeful pilot]

Does anyone have any expereince with geometry scripts? Im trying to blast or delete some small pieces of geo that show up after a boolean operation. I cant seem to figure this out, would love some help sorry to re ask

im super stuck

[hasty merlin]

when* not what lol i misread. its going to play AS im interacting

[hasty merlin]

couldnt i just use the getInteractionText and add in the audio?

[gentle urchin]

Perhaps i've been understanding this incorrectly

We should prob let the interaction item do the timer and whatnot

And instead have something like start and stop interacting ...🤔

And we're kinda back to why i like components over interfaces...

So much neater to bind stuff together

[hasty merlin]

so this worked for adding in the audio now i just ened to be able to pull which audio im using

[hasty merlin]

are you saying to add in the audio to the BP viewport and activate it when interacting?

[gentle urchin]

No

We should have gone the component approach instead of theinterface approach

[hasty merlin]

im not certain what you mean by component approach. are you talking about like on begin overlap and onbegincursorover events from objects in the bp viewport?

[gentle urchin]

No

Custom component

Which acts like an interface

[hasty merlin]

i most defs dont understand component method then

ohhhhhhhhhhh

i think i know what you mean but at this point i doubt it lol

[gentle urchin]

Its not to late , if we feel like we gain something from it

[hasty merlin]

i have the time to learn something new

[gentle urchin]

I d8nt have time atmn

But could slap it together perhaps tonight

[hasty merlin]

that would be dope, ill be on for another 12 hours roughly

quick question though as to what might make this work rn

what node can i add to choose the audio source?

[gentle urchin]

You could try and think about how we would do it

[hasty merlin]

if were going to do the component method im pretty sure im lost on what you mean

[gentle urchin]

We'd want:

• custom Interaction Component
  • StartInteract
  • EndInteract
  • OnInteractionStarted(Delegate)
  • OnInteractionCompleted(Delegate)
  • GetInteractionPercent
  • GetInteractionText

[hasty merlin]

how do i make the custom interaction component?

[cursive wigeon]

hey if I want to passs an array of classes into an actor as a var would I use a struct or somethign else?

I have a struct atm of class references but cant seem to get the array as class references out of it

this is to pass into a spawn actor of class node. basically looking to get random from array to spawn from a list randomly

[hasty merlin]

im going out to walk my dog here so just tag me or dm me when youre free and ty again squize

[lofty rapids]

you have a struct with an array inside of it ?

[crude spruce]

i want to make a copy of my instanced static mesh component as it currently is. For adding it to a clear animation. is it possible to duplicate components at runtime ?

[cursive wigeon]

no so I am passing a bunch of single actor class references into the struct atm. I guess it doesnt work like that

[lofty rapids]

you may just want an array ?

you want list of actors, or locations ?

[cursive wigeon]

yeah fair.

[crude spruce]

the new documentation is kinda bad for navigation

[cursive wigeon]

list of actors to feed into a spawn actor of class node and make the node randomly spawn from that list kinda thing

[lofty rapids]

so a list of classes ?

[cursive wigeon]

yep

i was tryna avoid a huge make array node in my actor

[gentle urchin]

You create one like you create any new class ^^

[nocturne fossil]

is there an easy wat to just paste this into blueprint into a make vector or sum instead of copying manually each value

[inland wolf]

Hello! I'm trying to learn and understand blueprint classes. Lets say I have these two static meshes that will represent door buttons. How do I need to set it up so that each button performs a separate function?
Do I need to create one blueprint with the static mesh in there, then edit each individual button in the level?

[cursive wigeon]

so I made an array in a BPC and now trying to feed it into the spawn actor. how do I intergrate this into my loop?

[lofty rapids]

what is the for loop for ?

just pull a random and plug it in

[cursive wigeon]

yeah trying with it

just unsure how to integrated into my for each

[lofty rapids]

get rid of the for loop and last index, just plug the random into the class

it should get a random for each one in the array of locations

unless you need that for some reason to spawn even more than is in the array originally

[lofty rapids]

you want a random class for each on in the array ?

or foreach one you want to spawn multiple ?

[cursive wigeon]

I want to spawn one class randomly from the given array

[lofty rapids]

so foreach one, spawn a random class ?

[cursive wigeon]

yep

I cant even make the array properly atm

rough day lol

[lofty rapids]

just remove the for loop

should be good to go

it will spawn a random class hopefully if you setup the array correctly

[cursive wigeon]

yeah so how do I make an array of class refs

[lofty rapids]

then in the details make it an array

you can even compile

and then add to the list at the bottom

[cursive wigeon]

ok perfect thank you!

[crude spruce]

is it possible to transfer the instances under a static mesh component, to a new instanced static mesh component?

[gentle urchin]

Manually, sure

[dark drum]

From instance comp to instance comp?

[gentle urchin]

Theres no existing function you can just call, if thats the question

[crude spruce]

ok

then i suppose i need to figure out how to add a component, to begin with.

something aint right with my understanding of it

[gentle urchin]

"Add Component"

[crude spruce]

i did get material issues with that

as opposed to adding instances to the existing component

ill redo it

[nocturne fossil]

any one know why im not spawning at that location on respawn, i just spawn on kill z

[gentle urchin]

Gotta select the cirrect mesh and possibly matrtial

[crude spruce]

i think i found the problem. changing custom material parameters for instances doesnt work if the component is added

i just need to figure that out

[golden kite]

Lots of ways to skin that cat. It kind of depends on how similar the two buttons are. For example, do they both react the same way when they are pressed? If they are really different in functionality, then just create a blueprint for each and code them separately. If there's a lot of overlap, then create the base blueprint first and then each one can be a child of the base blueprint. That gives you the ability to have some shared functionality between the two and still make them behave differently.

and finally, if they behave exactly the same way, but only their properties should change, then you can use editor-exposed variables on a single, shared blueprint. The level instances of your meshes can then have different properties (like, say, the colour or the door ID that they control) but the functionality / logic is exactly the same.

[inland wolf]

Thanks so much for this explanation, it really helps a lot! I just have a question diggiring further. What do I need to google/youtube to read up on the "editing the child of the base blueprint"? Like where in UE do I go into to edit that specific 'child'?

[gentle urchin]

In the child class

Any bp you create, can be the parent of a new child class

Child class inherit logic and parameters from parent, and also extend it with additional stuff

[lofty rapids]

right click, create child

[gentle urchin]

You can then edit them in the child class so the child has a different set of default values

then you can also set variables to be instance editable (in any of the classes) which allows you to specify the properties of instances dragged into your level aswell!

[golden kite]

Try this one. It seemed pretty good and short! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX-WO7li7J4

[crude spruce]

ah i fixed it

i didnt realise that my material could take a parameter text as an instance

a material instance of this, i mean.

but it doesnt help for the instances, unfortunately

[gentle urchin]

You prob need to make a new material instance

[crude spruce]

i have

[gentle urchin]

At runtime

And assign it

[lunar sleet]

You open that child blueprint and you edit away like you would any other bp

[inland wolf]

awesome, thanks so much. totally starting to understand it more

[lunar sleet]

Create Dynamic Material Instance, cache it, change its mat, set the mat to that new instance

[crude spruce]

this is the specifics that isnt working

[lofty rapids]

your using an instance of an instance ?

[crude spruce]

is there such a thing?

[lofty rapids]

idk, but why you can't just set param of the instance ?

[crude spruce]

thats what this does

[lofty rapids]

hmm

[crude spruce]

instanced static mesh components > static mesh instances > int index

mind you, all this work when the component is predefined, with the material assigned.

[gentle urchin]

How are you assigning the material

At runtime

Show the code

[crude spruce]

its in the picture

[gentle urchin]

No

[gentle urchin]

This only shows parameters set

[crude spruce]

this is a component from my added components

[spark steppe]

why does it use a vector interpolator?

[crude spruce]

apparently the only way to set custom parameters on instances

[gentle urchin]

This doesnt show runtime assignment of dynamic material instance

[spark steppe]

thats not what he wants

this is custom primitive data

[gentle urchin]

I know

[spark steppe]

which doesn't require a dynamic material instance

[crude spruce]

this is what isnt working

[gentle urchin]

Doesnt it?

[spark steppe]

no

[gentle urchin]

How does it separate between materials then?

Are you saying all use of that material share custom parameters?

[spark steppe]

the parameters are updated from the mesh instance that is rendered

[crude spruce]

its a doozy 😄

[gentle urchin]

Guess it just doesnt make sense to me

[crude spruce]

it doesnt to me either

[lofty rapids]

i just create dynamic material, set param

[gentle urchin]

Thats what id expect

[lofty rapids]

but i'm guessing your doing something different ?

[crude spruce]

im adding instances and changing them

[gentle urchin]

Custom primitive data is different,

[crude spruce]

im not adding components for each mesh

[spark steppe]

yea and you can't assign different materials to (H)ISM instances

[gentle urchin]

But the buffer gotta exist somewhere

[crude spruce]

1 component > all instances of the mesh

ive seen some people do one component per mesh 😄

[gentle urchin]

No, i still dont get why we dont need dynamic material 😅

[spark steppe]

why would you?

the parameters aren't set on the material, but get parsed from the mesh while the shader "executes"

[crude spruce]

#blueprint message

the parameters are passed differently i guess

[spark steppe]

did you test if your material works at all on a single static mesh? (without the (H)ISM stuff)

[gentle urchin]

It works on a not runtime spawned ismc

[somber dust]

Can someone please sanity check why is the Spring Arm extended on the Z Axis?
Any reason for that since the Target Arm Length is 0?

[gentle urchin]

Well there we go, now i know 😅

[crude spruce]

what is (h)ism ?

[spark steppe]

hiraidkhowtospellit instanced static mesh

[crude spruce]

hierarchial ok

[spark steppe]

guess that makes two of us

[crude spruce]

was that text for my problem description or a statement

"it works on a not runtime spawned ismc"

[gentle urchin]

It was a statement extracted from the chat above as i understood it

[crude spruce]

is construction runtime?

[gentle urchin]

It works on editor spawned ISMC, but not runtime spawned ones

[crude spruce]

hmm

[gentle urchin]

Construction is... idk both?

It fires in the editor and on spawn

So id say runtime

As its not 'persistent in the class definition'

[crude spruce]

well from my testing the changing of custom data values works at runtime and in editor.

so long as the component is already defined

like this

[gentle urchin]

yes

but if you add it at runtime, it doesnt

which is what i summarized 😛

[crude spruce]

mmm

ok

so i would need 2 components and just use those for add instance animation and remove instance animation

[visual crest]

how to get a Niagara particle location with blueprints?

[hasty merlin]

hey squize

[supple dome]

you need an export data interface in the system, and an object implementing that interface

[gentle urchin]

w.i.p

[hasty merlin]

oh wow

that looks liek a manually set array almost

im making a parent for my doors

[hasty merlin]

serious question, should i make a parent BP for interactables? and then children are door chest and torch? and then their children have the meshes?

[gentle urchin]

nah, we'll do component

[tawdry raft]

How do I see my code executing during gameplay?

[hasty merlin]

ic an still do parent door and chidlren?

[gentle urchin]

if you have several doors, sure

[hasty merlin]

cool

do i need to set the variable for each individual door? or can i use a variabel for it in the parent?

[rare pike]

Does someone know why Unreal insights would show this instead of the real blueprint function?

[crude tartan]

Inheritance is your friend here. I have a base class for all of my interactable objects. I then have a child class for doors that has just the code and variables a door needs I.e open/close animation.

[hasty merlin]

i setup this in BP_door. i just need to get that var in bpc_xdoor

[gentle urchin]

Interactables usually fits better with component/interfaces than inheritance

first example of this would be NPC's vs chests

totally unrelated classes

one is an actor, the other is a character..

[hasty merlin]

big balls

[gentle urchin]

Could probaly clean it up some

but im hoping not to spend the evening on it xD

[hasty merlin]

lets work fast then lol

[gentle urchin]

Create a new Actor Component

[gentle urchin]

in the content browser

[hasty merlin]

ahhhhhh

name for it?

[gentle urchin]

events/variables and dispatchers

[hasty merlin]

how woudl you name it?

[gentle urchin]

BPC_Interactable ?

Something that tells you what it does, when you add it to an Actor

or atleast hints about what it does

this is all in the new component

let me know when you're done 😛

[simple field]

Can you get a blueprint class reference in level blueprint?

[gentle urchin]

sure, but I'd suggest not to use level bp

[simple field]

too late :/

i wont in my next project

cos its too much of pain

[gentle urchin]

and possibly deprecated

[simple field]

I'm trying to cast to blueprint class and it's giving me a Cast failed error

[gentle urchin]

guess you'd have to show some code

[simple field]

This is connected to event beginplay

I need the blueprint class to start on event begin

but can't make actual event beginplay in there

feel free to laugh

I'm a beginner

[gentle urchin]

just seems to be redundant

its a note

that casting doesnt make sense since it's already that type

[simple field]

Yea but still it's not calling that event

[hasty merlin]

this is a text var output right?

[simple field]

even when I use the var by itself

i used that cast just to find out whether that was the issue or not

[gentle urchin]

yes

[simple field]

it's giving "Accessed none when trying to access MGI Ref"

error

[gentle urchin]

that's something else

that means the variable is nullptr

which is unrelated to cast

[simple field]

Ah

how do I make the var a reference to the blueprint class

[gentle urchin]

GetGameInstance

cast to your game instance class

[quartz dirge]

Anyone know how to get a blueprint to constantly run while in both the editor and in game?

I have a light I want to adjust using a timeline, and I've tried making an editor tick event, but it doesn't seem to react to it at all

[inland wolf]

I have a spotlight that i'm trying to change the size of a metahuman pupil when the light touches a collision sphere located at the eye.
I'm struggling with understanding how to communicate the change in pupil size when the spotlight is touching the collision sphere. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what i'm doing wrong?

[hasty merlin]

got it all

[simple field]

Can't find a node like that

[gentle urchin]

In the Interaction Widget

[hasty merlin]

except for this spot

[gentle urchin]

Replace BP_MyCharacter with whatever you char is called

[gentle urchin]

Connect GetInteractionPercent

pure function

[simple field]

This?

[gentle urchin]

mark the function "pure" in the function details

[hasty merlin]

ahhhhhhh got it. okay into widget

[brazen pulsar]

so, weirdly, I've got a character that's failing to cast to its own AI. That's not supposed to be possible, right?

[hasty merlin]

bind to update im not certain on

[gentle urchin]

the dispatcher we had in the character

couldnt recall what we named it

but its the same event

[hasty merlin]

ahhh we have onhovered and on hold

[gentle urchin]

we only need onhovered

[brazen pulsar]

What happens is, I've got the dialogue trees saved to the AI as behaviour trees, I put a task in one of them to work as a level transition, and then suddenly, the character can't find its own AI

[gentle urchin]

sounds like there's no assigned AIController?

[brazen pulsar]

like under class defaults? Yea, I thought so too, but I checked and it's assigned

[nocturne basalt]

Hello, everybody! I got uno problemo:
Was trying to make a lift. Thanks to Ryck0Swhae made it. But the 1st attached code doesn't have door opening animation. As I had added it (screenshot 2) everything broke: the lift goes down as soon as it reaches the top and animations (moving up/down n DoorClose) play at the same time.

Q: how to make timelines act one after another w/o delays? (At screenshot 2 they act at the same time)

[brazen pulsar]

unless it's getting... un-assigned somehow

Is that a thing?

[brazen pulsar]

yea

[gentle urchin]

so.. is the Actor spawned at runtime or placed in the level ?

[brazen pulsar]

Spawned- ohhhh

Oh, I see

[hasty merlin]

im missing a few nodes ehre

[gentle urchin]

we now store (and send) the interactable component itself

[hasty merlin]

these are in CBP (new component actor) or widget

[gentle urchin]

widget

we're done with the CBP

[brazen pulsar]

works perfect now, thanks!

[gentle urchin]

type is not Actor

[hasty merlin]

im missing something

[gentle urchin]

yes

change the type

to our new component type

[hasty merlin]

the new var? whats it called?

[gentle urchin]

the one you got right there

same as in my picture

[hasty merlin]

wont connect to now

[gentle urchin]

because the dispatcher got wrong type aswell ^^

we need to change that

[hasty merlin]

ahhhhh

i have to go sof ar back to keep fixing it

im on the input area now

[gentle urchin]

this is the char ;

[hasty merlin]

should i just scrap everythign i had before?

[gentle urchin]

If that's easier

[hasty merlin]

ok

[gentle urchin]

its much of the same

[hasty merlin]

hit actor on breakhitresult wont connect to updateinteractable

[gentle urchin]

Input there is actor

[gentle urchin]

Wrong type still

[hasty merlin]

just changed it. for the input

[gentle urchin]

match the type we're trying to pass in...

[hasty merlin]

actor obj ref

for the input what do i use ehre? started and cancelled/completed?

sicne im using enhanced

[white oxide]

How come my BP_ThirdPerson game object mode is incompatible with a character object reference? I'm following a guide on how to restart the player
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/respawning-a-player-character

[gentle urchin]

sounds about right

started and completed would be my bet

cancelled probably never fires

since you dont have a condition

[inland wolf]

I have a quick question on what i'm doing wrong if anyone can lead me in the right direction.
have a spotlight that i'm trying to change the size of a metahuman pupil when the light touches a collision sphere located at the eye.
I'm struggling with understanding how to communicate the change in pupil size when the spotlight is touching the collision sphere. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[hasty merlin]

where do i get the interactable object from?

do i set it from hit actor?

[gentle urchin]

its shown in myu picture isnt it

[gentle urchin]

^

[hasty merlin]

this one is done

[gentle urchin]

nice

back to the widget

[hasty merlin]

and this one is done

[gentle urchin]

that was fast lol

still in the widget

[hasty merlin]

this one is in widget event graph?

[gentle urchin]

yepp

[visual crest]

Thank you is there a tut you know of that shows an example

[nocturne basalt]

someone? pls

[pulsar vigil]

hey guys i have a access problem trying to get a structure used in an actor component from my character bp in an AnimationBP, and im doing it like i do in other bp but it only not work here

[hasty merlin]

how do i get the interupted and progress bar added to events??

[gentle urchin]

same as always

create inputs to the event dispatchers

in the interactable component

[hasty merlin]

oh. so i need to make them into events in the widget somehow?

[gentle urchin]

widget is binding to the components event dispatchers

like we've done with the hovered interactable

[hasty merlin]

alright im lost somewhere

[gentle urchin]

go into the component

[gentle urchin]

wait, you've probably missed the bindings

yeah you have

this part

to be able to select the event, the signature must match

signature is shown on the node itself

[hasty merlin]

i see them but i cant select the event without it already existing

[gentle urchin]

you need to match the signature

So you must add the bool

and add the float

in the custom events

[gentle urchin]

your "EndInteract" event doesnt have the bool

signature doesnt match

[hasty merlin]

oh add the input into the details in botom left

[gentle urchin]

yepp

[hasty merlin]

alright got it now

whats next

[gentle urchin]

Add it to some actors you got, and try it out

there's two things you can modify currently. Interaction time + The State texts

[hasty merlin]

how do i add it to the actor? aka door

[gentle urchin]

There's no logic behind switching states beyond increments, so it goes 0, 1, 2 , and loops back to 0 (depending on number of entries)

just like any component

[hasty merlin]

oh so this wont work for my torches?

some torches start off

[gentle urchin]

It will

you can adjust the initial state

[hasty merlin]

in each individual torch though

so if it starts off, i ahve to go manually swithc it?

[gentle urchin]

you can set it on beginplay

[hasty merlin]

okay

[gentle urchin]

many options

[hasty merlin]

also i hit e on my door and the only thign that changes is the color of my test

[gentle urchin]

did you add interaction time?

[hasty merlin]

no percentage and no door opena t all

[gentle urchin]

the door opening logic doesnt excist yet

you havn't added it

[hasty merlin]

okay the progress bar works but the text color is going pink, shoudl i set that slate colour to be what i currently have?

or do i even need to ahve the slate node?>

[gentle urchin]

when is it going pink

did you set a color beside pink`?

seems pink to me

[hasty merlin]

yea do i set that to the current colour?

[gentle urchin]

If you want a different color

otherwise it'll be pink

[hasty merlin]

i dont want the colour to change

[gentle urchin]

then remove it

it was simply to visualize where to add "interaction complete effects"

[hasty merlin]

ahhhhhh

[gentle urchin]

and that it was working as intended

[hasty merlin]

so then in the end interact do i need the default color get?

its still going pink after i deleted the node

[ruby apex]

How to un-blueprint blueprint?
undo this action:

[woven turret]

Is there some way to blend between two Post Process Settings struct variables in a Blueprint, without also using two separate Post Process volumes?

[gentle urchin]

show me what you did..

[woven turret]

Stuck on this for our time and weather cycle system

[ruby apex]

I don't see any convert to instance actions

[gentle urchin]

you're still setting color and opacity

default is pink

delete it

[frosty heron]

@gentle urchin you deserve a pizza 🥹

[hasty merlin]

still only says open after interacting but progress bar works and nothing changes colour now

[gentle urchin]

xD

[hasty merlin]

how do i hook it up to opening the door?

[gentle urchin]

in the door BP

select the component

in the details panel you have all the same events

so you use those to trigger the things that should happen in the owning blueprint

doors opening, chests popping coins, whales pushing water.. idk

[gentle urchin]

yepp

This is after interaction time

just fyi

[hasty merlin]

yup

begin interact would be to play the audio of keys while opening?

and at the end of onInteract it would be to call state changed?

[gentle urchin]

Begin - once at the start
End - once at the end (wether completed or not)
Progress - every frame, with the percent completion of the Interaction progress

[gentle urchin]

possibly, yes

State updates once the interaction is complete

[hasty merlin]

to chagne the state?

so it shoudl auto do it?

[gentle urchin]

yep

[hasty merlin]

oaky bug. its not changing

still says opena fter it opens

[gentle urchin]

did you add several entries ?

to the State Texts ?

[gentle urchin]

did you remeber to update interaction text on Endinteract ?

(so it remains the same while the key is held, but updates as soon as key is released)

[gentle urchin]

In the widget

[gentle urchin]

check your "UpdateState" function

in the component

[gentle urchin]

+2..

[hasty merlin]

lul

its set to 1 now