blueprint

[hasty merlin]

if i hold though it still says open until i let go

[gentle urchin]

As i just said

This

If you want it to change instantly then hook up the set text logic to OnInteract instead of OnEndInteract

[hasty merlin]

liekt his?

[novel swan]

Can someone explain why this is printed 10 times?! This is a print statement I put in the construction graph of one of my actors. So it should be run once for every instance of the actor but there's only one of them placed in my world.

I can see it being printed twice. Some compilation of the actor and then again for placing it in the world. But I don't know why it's printed 10x?

[gentle urchin]

Test it

[hasty merlin]

works but new issue, trying to close the door wont activate

[queen dagger]

ok so i got this it can read which side the attack is coming in on now can i get launch character work on the opponent actor now thats the question

[hasty merlin]

youre gonna need to show your code

[gentle urchin]

Wont activate or progressbar still hidden?

[queen dagger]

lol i thought i did

[gentle urchin]

Maybe we should just leave it visible, but set to 0 percent instead

[hasty merlin]

wont activate, progress bar works and it chagnes to open and if i run again changes to closed but the actual door movement woint change after first instance

[hasty merlin]

event begin play?

[novel swan]

nothing

[hasty merlin]

im not certain about constructionscript

like put the print string on event begin play

[novel swan]

that's not the question

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like your door logic is flawed

[hasty merlin]

i mean i dont doubt it

[gentle urchin]

Dragging the actor ? Is it a parent actor ?

[gentle urchin]

Check that OnOnteractnis triggered again

Add print string or enable breakpoint on the node

Get used to debugging :p

[hasty merlin]

its only running once

[novel swan]

It's an actor with nothing in it but the print statment. All I'm doing it compiling the actor.

It doesn't matter. I can only assume it is what it is I was just curious as to what's going on in the background.

[hasty merlin]

im not certain where to go to try debugging why interact is only running once

[gentle urchin]

Chevk whats triggering the interact

Its the timer startednin StartInteract

Isnthat triggered the second time?

[gentle urchin]

Still weird behaviour. You can try printing displayname of the actor

Just to verify

[novel swan]

You try. It's the easiest thing to replicate. I want to see if it's just me.

[hasty merlin]

woudl it be because of this variable? the interaction time gets reset no?

[gentle urchin]

Off the computer so cant atm

[gentle urchin]

No

This variable is not changed during runtime

Is Interact called twice ?

[hasty merlin]

its created on true and called if false

[gentle urchin]

During debugging........

[hasty merlin]

why am i calling interact on false?

[dawn gazelle]

If there is no interaction time, then it immediately calls the interaction rather than creating a timer with 0 time that calls Interact.

[hasty merlin]

ahhh for an instant interact vs hold to interact

[gentle urchin]

A timer with <= 0 time is invalid acccording to node comment

[gentle urchin]

Yes

[novel swan]

I must have compiled twice the first time and got double the print statements. So It prints 6 times. 3 statements are printed when compiling the actor and it's not placed in the world. This is the BP_Test_C_0 and then if it's also placed in the world you get 3 additional BP_Test prints.

So the construction event is run 3 times when compiling and it's doubled if in the world. Still weird that it's run more than once.

[queen dagger]

i feel like im so close

i just need a way to apply a force to push the opponent back but i just dont know what to use to do so\

i can identify the hit and whats getting hit

[gentle urchin]

Agree, that is weird. Surprised it runs even when not in the level... shouldnt be constructed at that point

[novel swan]

It's constructed for the actor viewport no?

[queen dagger]

i feel like i should be able to use the what is getting hit and then apply a launch or something

[gentle urchin]

Could be, I guess

[novel swan]

I haven't played with this yet but you apply an impluse to it right?

[queen dagger]

i tried that but it wont allow the array reference from the line trace

[novel swan]

How realistic is your game?

Are your opponents using human skeletal meshes? You can get a hit animation from mixamo?

[queen dagger]

its just a 2d fighter so im trying to get knockback for z and x

[novel swan]

You can move your opponent back x amount and then run a lerp node to do it smoothly

[trim matrix]

.

[novel swan]

Cat is trying to tell you something

[queen dagger]

ok ok

i see that

[novel swan]

lol

[queen dagger]

and now my brain is trying to understand it lol

[hasty merlin]

interact is not getting called twice

[novel swan]

I know sometimes it's hard. You can use chat gpt sometimes to help explain things

[trim matrix]

why is it SO close lmao

it's like perfect

[gentle urchin]

Is StartInteract called twice?

[hasty merlin]

the nodes being so close together?

[trim matrix]

yea, well done

[hasty merlin]

theyre almost as close together as i am to dropping out of my school

i cannot figure out why interact is onyl runnign once

[hasty merlin]

my school advertises that they will teach us UE adn the most theyve done is "this is ue, how to import, blueprints exist, create a level"

[hasty merlin]

went and got some fresh air to clear the mind. tart interaction is getting called twice ehre

[queen dagger]

@trim matrix it works! thanks for the tips and hints not only does it work i also learned something how about that lol

[hasty merlin]

why is it getting called twice tho?

[trim matrix]

np!

[hollow karma]

np!=p

[hasty merlin]

(np!=p)==T

[visual crest]

Thank you!! That helped me immensely! What I want to do, works now thanks to you 🙂

[glossy inlet]

Do enums transend through multiple actors?

I have a setup like this

Character spawns projectile - Projectile reports Hit location to Interface - Interface triggers event in Componet - componet Spawns Actor at Location

Character can destroy Projectile, but Spawned Actor from Componet remains.

Enum be a best setup for this? this way i can load all the BP with a state of what its doing?

Basically when the character Destroys the projectile i want it to call down to destroy the Spawn actor from the Componet.

[trim sage]

how can i make a boomerang effect with my ProjectileMovement Component? I tryed using timeline, but no results 🥲

[glossy inlet]

what if you made it a homing Projectile, So when you throw it out the inital velocity sets it to fly out, but the Homing starts to move back to the player after a small delay?

Then just use the a setup to rotate your boomerrang

[raw orbit]

what would be the most convenient way to gather references to my existing audio volume actors? the level blueprint?

[lunar sleet]

Not sure, maybe get actors of class in this case? Could try #audio

[raw orbit]

maybe thats a more appropriate place to ask yeah

[glossy inlet]

Has anyone ever thought about using a Spring arm Attached to an actor for a grappling hook Constraint?

[faint pasture]

That wouldn't really work very well

[glossy inlet]

im finding this out, after a .2 delay i attached a spring arm from projectile to character, it instantly teleports a ways out and glitches around when i move.

length set to 0, all transforms 0

On to constraints i guess

[twin perch]

hullo all, so turns out i cant use a timeline node in a Blueprint component.

is their an alternative ? or do i need to go back into my character ? to use this node.

[glossy inlet]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/components-in-unreal-engine I recommend reading up on this, but your right you cannot call a timeline to a Blueprint Componet

[twin perch]

cheers

there an alternative ... i now need to make my code a heck of a lot more complicated.

[faint pasture]

Neither projectile or character will respect a constraint unless they specifically are set up to play nice with physics stuff

[glossy inlet]

how so? Seems all im getting is a refrencing issue

[glossy inlet]

any examples?

after my projectile hits, im trying to Add a constraint from the hit location to the character, so far nothing but troubles

[hasty merlin]

sorry to keep bugging you, i tihnk i ofund the issue, everytime the linetrace changes the events are unbound where as it should be when it leaves the hit actor. rebind only happens when i look at actor

and from what i can tell the issue lines within this photo

anyone able to help me fix this?

[hasty merlin]

how did you get your spaget like that?

[dawn gazelle]

Accessed None = You have an empty reference. While you may have set the type of the variable to "BP Third Person Character", that doesn't mean you've set it with a reference to a specific spawned "BP Third Person Character".

[hasty merlin]

actually its the fact that rebind is happening before unbind when i look at the door

[primal goblet]

Hey guys so im having an issue with media player and materials.

Basically, I have this little Tablet that you can bring up in the game and the screen is hooked up to a material that has a media texture and media player connected.

This enables me to play pre-animated videos for the screen whenever I want.

The problem is, the media player plays the same video at the same time on EVERY Tablet opened in the game. I want to make it so it only plays on the specified Tablet but I don't know how to make a media player play on only one specific material when all the Tablets in game have the same shared material....

Any help would be VERY Appriciated

[gentle urchin]

Unbind happens first, as seen in your picture. Execution flow is left to right

Sounds like the second time aroundz you pass in a nullactor or smth
We know the original code works so just gotta keep digging.

[hasty merlin]

on initial hit of an object, it sends rebind, on second hit it runs rebind and then unbind

should unbind be running at all when it hits the door?

[hasty merlin]

is there any chance you could post all the code again so i can double check everything matches?

[glossy inlet]

Alright will Check on this.

[limber citrus]

what's the best sql database plugin to use with UE?
and are there free good stuff?

[vestal acorn]

Is there a way to show vector variables ( exposed as 3D widget ) - to show up as world location instead of relative location?

Basically my problem is, I have a few different actors, they have different anchors/pivots which are the exposed vectors, when I select a bunch I want to set the anchors for instance to 0.0.0 i.e. the origin of the map, but since its relative, the location is different for each actor

[faint pasture]

Why would a PHYSICS constraint affect the movement of 2 non-physics actors?

[hasty merlin]

I just finished going through everythign we did, mine matches exactly yours. im not certain where the issue is here. the only thing thats different is your debug key vs my enhanced input key

[dawn gazelle]

Probably not built in, but you could have another vector that exposes its position in world space using the construction script and an editor function that can set it by world location and translate it to relative.

[dawn gazelle]

Not the right kind of question to ask. How you connect to them and how you use them are all very different so there is no "best" database plugin. You'd start first with finding the database system you want to use based on your requirements of your database, then you'd find out if there is a plugin for that specific type of database. If you have multiple choices of plugins for a particular type of database system, maybe then you could ask between them which is best, but that also could be extremely subjective depending on the features provided and how it exposes the access to the database.

[hasty merlin]

anyone have any theories on why unbind is activating again in my code?

[novel goblet]

Working on a paint / cleaning blueprint in unreal. I can change the color, but I'm wondering, is there a way to like DELETE that area where I draw or make it transparent?
Currently I'm using a Brush Material that takes a texture and draws it over the static mesh's render material using the "Draw material" canvas function. I tried using a fully transparent material, but it just seems to leave it the same color as it was before.

This might be a material question so I'll ask around there too

[hasty merlin]

im referencing this

[trim matrix]

you shouldn't ask twice... #rules

[limber citrus]

I just want something to make a table into and be able to read and write from/into it, basically like a data table but in BPs

[lunar sleet]

there are data tables in bp...

idk about writing into them tho

[undone bluff]

...but why?

[vivid kayak]

U can use map + structure combo with add & remove functions

[undone bluff]

the included data tables do not support runtime editing and any plugins I've seen only add the ability to import at runtime, they're meant for easy formatting of larger amounts of related game data, especially in third party software like google sheets or excel

[vivid kayak]

Key is something unique and value is a structure

But for any changes u need to recreate ur map pair

[mellow dagger]

Hey everybody 😄 I was wondering if any of you know some ressources to be a better gamedev? What I mean by that is that so far in my learning, I've been ''cutting'' corner! For example, I now know that a state machine should use Enums State instead of multiple booleans. I tried to find a resources/video that would explain how to implement enums in a state machine but it was so far in vains :/ If some one could direct me to one, it would be greatly appreciated LD

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how i can clamp my movement distance between 2 spots?

[vivid kayak]

Clamp(float)? No connection between the question and the screen

[frail onyx]

where do i put the clamp though? i tried doing it between the multiply node and add local offset

but that just clamps the 0-1 action value i think

[vivid kayak]

U need just specify min and max

[frail onyx]

yeah i did that but that just makes my movement infinite

because the action value is -1 for down and 1 for up so any number i doesn't clamp it

its more like a clamp for the speed

[vivid kayak]

Do u wanna do?

Ur question is a clamp distance between 2 points but u said that u want to clamp movement speed

[frail onyx]

Im just trying to make it so i cant go up too far, and i cant go down too far

[frail onyx]

oh mb i meant like clamp the distance the player is able to move

[vivid kayak]

smooth movement

[vivid kayak]

If you want your cube to not go farther than its base local position by a certain distance, then you just need to keep a base vector and check the distance when you move it around

[glossy inlet]

I get the spring arm, but constraint should still work with character. If the 💊 is affected by gravity which is a physics setting.. I wouldn't see why not. I'm not sure understand. Regardless of what happens I'll find some solution to what I'm looking to do.

Which is a clamp on distance from grappling hook.

[vivid kayak]

@frail onyx For example

[frail onyx]

ok thx

[vivid kayak]

But this example won't let you move if your cube has moved beyond the maximum distance, you also need to add logic so you can shorten the distance but can't increase it

[frail onyx]

oh, do u know how i can get it to do that?

[vivid kayak]

Extrapolation

Or u can just tp ur cube to max distance if it beyond max dist

[floral stump]

why this cast fails?

[vivid kayak]

Check gamemode

[floral stump]

this is an ai character derived from the base character

and what gamemode has to do with ai?

[vivid kayak]

U answered on ur question

[floral stump]

you says i have to check game mode, you think ai should be using different game modes?

[vivid kayak]

No, if problem with AI, no

[floral stump]

yes in my image posted, i am clearly trying to cast to an AI which is failing

[vivid kayak]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Player/GetOwningPlayerPawn/

Gets the owning player pawn that's owned by the player controller assigned to this widget.

[floral stump]

i am trying to cast from a widget

i mean under a widger i want to get access to ai

[vivid kayak]

The widget shouldn't be committing any such logic at all. It should just be fed with data and that's it

The only logic it can do is cosmetic

[floral stump]

i can get access to the character from widget this is not the issue

[vivid kayak]

And even more so, it should not know who exactly owns it

[floral stump]

getting access to ai class which is placed in the level is failing

my character and ai character both are derived from mybasecharacter class

[vivid kayak]

U do not need to cast to any pawn from ur widget

Owner sends info into widget

Via interface or widget functions

[floral stump]

get all actors of class did the trick

[gentle urchin]

Only if door is different from what was trgeted before

[round spruce]

why could make set simulate physics node to false not acctually set it to false ? iam not updating the set simu phsyics anywhere else and when i untick in game manualt it stays unticked

[gentle urchin]

Show me the trace and the function after, in the character
Along with how the input is setup rm

[floral stump]

means i can get user widget in the bot class itself and update it from here?

this way i can use one widget with all ai characters?

[vivid kayak]

I don't know what and where you want to display, but the widget doesn't need to know about who owns it, it's the owner that needs to know that

[floral stump]

nice thank you very much

i were doing the other way 😄

[vivid kayak]

You can assign absolutely any owner class to this widget and it should not break the game with this

[frosty heron]

@vivid kayak he is more capable of doing that. Just a known troll

[tropic bison]

How can you test whether or not the saving works? Does simply running a standalone save, or does it not have a save location so it just doesnt save?

[gentle urchin]

set it up, save something - load something

works in PIE aswell

[tropic bison]

Im making an autosave system where it saves right before leaving the game, how can I know that this saves it, or do I have to test it with putting it on keybinds, and manually test it? Doesn't feel right. 👀

[gentle urchin]

save to disc returns a bool doesnt it

[lethal pollen]

Hi!
I have a Blueprint actor class that inherits from a C++ class. When I didn't set the root component (SetRootComponent), I got a warning in the editor saying that no root component was set and that it took a random one. To solve the problem, I added a USceneComponent and set it as root. The warning no longer appeared in the editor, but the collisions stopped working. Only when I made the mesh the root component did the collisions work again. Do you know why collisions stopped to work when I use a USceneComponent as the RootComponent? Thanks.

[blazing anchor]

Any reasons why a C++ GameMode would be selected over a BP GameMode when the default gamemode is set to the BP version? This is with a barely changed ThirdPersonCharacter tutorial

[tropic bison]

Say I had to test something manually in actual game, what do I have to do to achieve that? Create a separate executable in a separate folder?

[distant hollow]

How do you usually quit your game in the editor? Note that using Esc doesn’t technically quit game, you can use some other key or functions to go into the quit game sequence, so you can perform the Save check before that.

[tropic bison]

I think I managed to figure it out now, though not sure how good it is in technical terms

[frigid summit]

hi guys do any one know how to create spawn coin system in unreal i tried so many things

[tropic bison]

I personally use the level blueprint for that. Create an actor blueprint that will be your coin, and use level blueprint for spawning. Not sure if that is the best way to do it, but it worked for me.

[frigid summit]

yea but i want along the path it spawn coins just like in subway

[tropic bison]

I would guess you would have to play around with offset and loops? How do you imagine the spawning? In a straight line, or will there be elevation?

[frigid summit]

stright line

[dark drum]

I wouldn't say this is a very scalable approach. The level BP has a lot of limitations and anything done in it will probably need to be repeated if you create a new level. Using an actor component you put on the game state would be better.

[tropic bison]

Then I guess I would create a delay on tick event in level blueprint, create a variable that would be your offset, spawn coin and then increase offset

[tropic bison]

Yeah you are probably right, i'm also just starting out pretty much

It was just simpler for me to get my head around it this way

[frigid summit]

ok so whats the offset i can create a delay on tick but dont know what offset is

you mean the location?

[tropic bison]

Yeah

[frigid summit]

ok and how i increase it

[tropic bison]

I'm not sure if it's useful for you if I just show you the completed product in terms of learning, if that's your goal. Look at the direction where you want your coins to spawn, and then add to X/Y/Z, whichever you need.

[frigid summit]

ok ill try

[dark drum]

I would create a BP, add a spline to it. When you place it in the level, you'll then be able to manipulate the spline. The coins would then spawn a long the spline.

Add a spacing var (float) to define the space between coins. Then you get get the length of the spline and divide by the spacing var to get how many coins to spawn.

On begin play, you would then do a for loop using how many coins you want to spawn and get the position along the spline and use it to spawn actor of class (You're coin BP).

This then become a reusable BP that you can use multiple times in the same level or even in different levels.

Edit: You can check out the unreal documentation for how to use splines, it's not a bad starting point.

[gentle urchin]

Delayed tick in LevelBP isn't a very sound advice 🫣

An actor possibly with a splined version makes far more sense

[frigid summit]

thanks adding a local offset didnt work because the path is very long ill try the spline method

[dark drum]

Yea, it just delays the tick from starting not the time between ticks.

[tropic bison]

Thanks for correcting me, haven't tried it, but spline sounds easier for sure. I've tried learning programming for a long time now, and always found it hard because I was learning by trying to do perfect techniques, as soon as I dropped the idea of doing it perfectly, it was way easier to pick it up, at least in my experience. 👀

I find it useful running into problems to then later have to fix it

[gentle urchin]

It does create fixed intervals at delay rate but its not a good method for achieving it

[dark drum]

Oh yea, I forget the delay ignores additional triggers if it's already counting.

[tropic bison]

Why does widgets lose focus when pausing the game? 🤔

[hasty merlin]

morning squize heres what you requested

[woven turret]

Is anyone able to help with interpolating/lerping between two separate Post Process Settings struct variables using a single Post Process volume?
I've googled around and I'm stuck on this, the only conclusions I've come to is users saying I would need two separate Post Process Volumes and lerp the Blend Weight to accomplish this

Ideally I need to do this with a single volume

[main lake]

I have an issue with "server travel" not working properly. The Target must be a "PC Core" reference, however I'm trying to use "PC Lobby" which is a child class of "PC Core", could this work or is it mendatory to have the parent reference ? How can I get the parent of "PC Lobby" then ?

[frosty heron]

@tropic bison normally, one loads from the main menu

what reason do u want to load the save game object inside the character?

this is pretty bad design too, considering all other elements that need to be saving, requires to access your character

what if the character is destroyed for w/e reason?

You should use game instance to save/load your save game object

[frosty heron]

Who can start the game?

[main lake]

the host of the game

[frosty heron]

then why do you need server RPC?

if only the server can start the game

the start game button shouldn't even be visible to clients

[main lake]

it's not visible to clients

it's only visible to the host

[frosty heron]

then don't need server rpc

just run server travel

don't even need to pass controller

[main lake]

can I do that in the HUD class ? As that code abvoe is in the HUD Class

[frosty heron]

where ever make sense

tho I would just do it in the widget

on button click -> Server travel

why overcomplicate it

[proud delta]

Hi all, i try it physical model with tire skeleton for deform, but wheels go out from chassis,

[main lake]

it doesn't work

[proud delta]

Static wheel mesh is ok, but skeleton go out

[frosty heron]

@main lake check out online on how to execute server travel

i don't use it my self (yet)

[gentle urchin]

Looks alright

[hasty merlin]

the only difference that i can see is that you use get node twice in widget whereas im only using it once

ic ant see taht causing an issue though

[gentle urchin]

Should be fine

[main lake]

already did but doesn't work on my side

[frosty heron]

all I gotta say is keep trying 😄

I haven't used it my self, can't tell u exactly what to do

[gentle urchin]

So, is your updateHovered called twice?

[frosty heron]

@main lake u are playing as listen server yea? and you also said the start game only visible to the host

which I assumed to be listen server

[main lake]

yes

[frosty heron]

Because only server can execute server travel

well it;'s trivial then

[main lake]

? 🤔

[frosty heron]

just find out the right command

and make sure u didn't misstype

[main lake]

that's the right command and don't see any typo, so that's why I'm confused

[hasty merlin]

the updateinteractabel or update holdvalue?

[gentle urchin]

First one yes

[hasty merlin]

its only getting called once when LT changes

[gentle urchin]

Only reason it would unbind and not bind would be if its called again with invalid interrsctable

[frigid summit]

hi do you know why there is infinte loop here

[frosty heron]

you possible run a code that spawn it self (new blueprint as you name it) which spawn it self, over and over

hence infinite loop

[hasty merlin]

i did a branch check to see if bpi interactable != the alst interactable and if true it works for the widget but interacting becomes impossible

[frigid summit]

how do i solve it

[gentle urchin]

We just wanna unbind instantly because thevevent is only called if interactable changed (to null or other)

So we dont need to check that again here

[hasty merlin]

it shoudl be fine if unbind runs again right? as long as rebind is happening after? in theory anyways

[frosty heron]

breakaway the infinite chain, don't spawn something that spawn it self

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[frigid summit]

Infinite loop detected. Blueprint: NewBlueprint Function: Inputs Call Stack: show

[hasty merlin]

would this imply that the line trace is updating twice?

[lofty rapids]

when does spawn coins run ?

[gentle urchin]

Thats what it sounds like.. debug 😆

Add breakpoint and see

[frigid summit]

on event begin play

[lofty rapids]

of the type that you are spawning ?

[hasty merlin]

wdym by breakpoint? like just disconnect exec line?

[frigid summit]

yes it cause infinte loop on new blueprint

[main lake]

Found the issue, it looks like I can't test as "listen server" and had to be in "Standalone", why is that ?

[gentle urchin]

Right click node -> add breakpoint

Then play

[lofty rapids]

so like was mentioned, for each one your spawning your calling begin play and spawning more, so it's just constantly spawning and never end

[frigid summit]

oh ok than how i stop it i just want to spawn the coin multiple times

[frosty heron]

I can only make assumptions. it does make sense but I wouldn't worry about it

[lofty rapids]

what exactly are you trying to do, spawn a few coins at the beginning of game ?

[hasty merlin]

where do i add it to then? if its unbind or rebind, as soon as i look at the door it breaks

[frigid summit]

yes i tried event tick but it didnt work if this work i will expand it and make alot of coins in my endless runner game

[gentle urchin]

The 'continue'

[lofty rapids]

maybe begin play of the character ?

[main lake]

I'm not sure to understand what's the purpose of "Standalone" compared to listen server

[gentle urchin]

And see how many timed it happens

Vs expected

While staring at the door it should fire once when looking at the door

Then not again untill you look away

[frigid summit]

ok ill try it on begin play of the charcter

[lofty rapids]

so it's infinite, so you don't have to worry about resetting the levels ?
if you do it on character you'll want to figure out which level your on

[frosty heron]

well I didn't care enough to pursue it

as long it work in packaged/steam

it's gucci

[frigid summit]

the infinite loop is proplem not a solution

[lofty rapids]

i'm saying it's an infinite runner

[frigid summit]

yes

[lofty rapids]

are you resetting ? and loading a new level ?

because if so you'll just need a way to determine what level it is

so you spawn properly

if that makes sense

[hasty merlin]

when i look at door, breaks, look away, breaks, look back to door, breaks and get 2 strings, unbound and rebound, look away, breaks

[frigid summit]

yes i have logic for this one sec

this is what detrmine it if it overlap with the shpere i set it to true

[gentle urchin]

Bu what happens when you

• look at it
• interact with it

[hasty merlin]

look at first time, jsut rebinds, interact at that point, not a problem works both ways, look away and abck at it. rebind then unbind and interact wont activate cause no events are bound

[lofty rapids]

i'm not really understanding, i see an event and you set the x ?

x is usually forward ? what are you using for forward ?

[gentle urchin]

So thats what you need to investigate

[hasty merlin]

if i interact the second time the door does nothing but interact still breaks

[gentle urchin]

Whats failing

[frigid summit]

its hard to understand can we just get back to the for loop proplem plz x is determine the left and right and 0 because i have lane1x and lane2x and lane3x

[gentle urchin]

Swap out the door code so it only swaps the boolean

Reduce it to minimal

[lofty rapids]

did you try on character begin play ? again this will have to be altered per restart if you have levels

[lofty rapids]

also if you die, do you re spawn the character ?

[frigid summit]

yes i tried it but the same error i get actor of class and begin the spawn on switch on int and the for loop

[inland wolf]

if i'm in my blueprint event graph, is there a way to open the "world outliner" to drag a reference to a level actor into my blueprint?

[frigid summit]

i didnt reach this part yet

[lofty rapids]

hmm, what does the begin play of the thing your spawning look like ?

[hasty merlin]

looking away and back causes it to no set the value. also added a print string before the flip flop and its not posting after look away

[lofty rapids]

on beginplay you spawn coins ?

i don't see that function

this is the item you are spawning ?

[frigid summit]

this is the function

[frigid summit]

yes

[lofty rapids]

ya so you don't want to call that function on begin play of the thing your spawning

because it will spawn, run play, spawn the next runs play, spawn this runs play

put it on the character and take it out of the item your spawning

[frigid summit]

ok ill try this

[hasty merlin]

first image runs print in widget, second one doesnt run print inside door

[frigid summit]

it worked thank you so much

[simple field]

How to make a blueprint class start on Event BeginPlay if I already used Event BeginPlay in level blueprint? Event Init doesn't seem to do the trick and Event Construct is not available either.

[hasty merlin]

where is this node going to? i know its the event dispatcher but where does the dispatcher go to?

[simple field]

Doesn't print when I run the game

[hasty merlin]

shoudl i be getting this printstring everytime the hitacctor changes? cause im not atm

[frosty heron]

where is this?

[simple field]

blueprint class

[frosty heron]

what blueprint class?

[simple field]

named gameinstance

[frosty heron]

ok well

it would be too early

game instance run before your world even spawned

afaik print string need world context

[simple field]

Ah

is there a way to call a level blueprint event from a widget blueprint?

[frosty heron]

no, level blueprint communication goes one way in bp land

in short, don't use it

99% of the time it's used for the wrong reason

well there's a way to call a custom event in a level blueprint by executing console command

but that's like 🤮 , just don't use level blueprint to make your life easier

[simple field]

what can I put my game logic in if I wanted it to start on event begin play and not in level blueprint?

[frosty heron]

depends on what it is

what's the logic about

[simple field]

Basically this, it randomly picks a country from a data table, then puts that country name into a string varibale and then when player writes something in TextBox it tests whether their input was equal to that randomly chosen country variable

[frosty heron]

you will have to figure out when to have the data ready and when to read it

it all depends on your game design

[gentle urchin]

If hitactor is valid yes

[simple field]

It's just a sequence, when you run the game, it randomly picks the country straight away and then you can keep trying countries one by one until you get it correct so once your input was equal to the correct country string you win the game

[frosty heron]

sure, so you can figure out what's to be called first, where to call it and when to read it

[hasty merlin]

only if hitactor==True okay

[hasty merlin]

why is unbind old events running on hit actor? it shoudlnt right?

[inland wolf]

I'm trying to learn about casting and have my button make a floor move when I touch the button. I'm attempting to use tags that I added to two actors in my level. Am I doing something blatantly wrong? When I touch the button, the actors don't move at all

[simple field]

Idk what that means, but I got another question, can I store my custom events in game instance and then when needed call them from level blueprint?

[lethal pollen]

Hi!

[simple field]

or is that the same case #blueprint message

[lethal pollen]

Why can't I create a custom event?

I have declared OnStop this way:```DECLARE_DYNAMIC_MULTICAST_DELEGATE(FOnStopDelegate);

UCLASS()
class TETRIS_API ATBlock : public AActor
{
GENERATED_BODY()

public:

UPROPERTY(BlueprintAssignable)
FOnStopDelegate OnStop;```

Thanks!

[simple field]

That's where the event reference is supposed to go, you have to create your custom event separately

am pretty sure

[lethal pollen]

I think it is because I'm inside a function, not in the Event Graph.

It's because and I'm trying to declare it inside a function.

Thanks.

[simple field]

ah my bad then

[gentle urchin]

If hit actor changes we need to unbind from old events

[hasty merlin]

so it needs to run on both hitactor and hit notactor

[gentle urchin]

Unbind, Yes

But only if last interractable was valid

(Which is checked inside the function)

[hasty merlin]

i ahve not a clue as to watch the issue is then

any ideas?

[gentle urchin]

Hard to say at this point

Gotta test your exact scenario on my setup to see if its an oversight

[inland wolf]

I'm attempting to use tags that I added to two actors in my level to move them. When I touch a button on my level, the actors don't move at all. How am I communicating to the level actors incorrectly?

[hasty merlin]

thank you

[distant hollow]

Did the Begin Overlap trigger at all? Try putting in a Print behind the outputs

[inland wolf]

yes it did. I added that and it registers

[lofty rapids]

your door open and closed are the same numbers btw

[inland wolf]

haha yes I realize that, but the target actor doesn't move regardless =\

[lofty rapids]

check the length of the array you get

[lofty rapids]

are you getting the print strings ?

[inland wolf]

yep!

[lofty rapids]

^

[gentle urchin]

Cant replicate it here

[pale shore]

I am doing multi-sphere trace from character. Why it is detecting only 1 hit point on chair? Shouldn't it detect multiple hit points on chair?

I am trying to calculate IK points for two hand pick.

[gentle urchin]

No it only reacts once per thing

Youd wanna trace for that I thinkn

Or have sockets for targets

[inland wolf]

thanks for this suggestion! could you explain how to do that? theres only one array so its [0]

[pale shore]

What is the other approach to calculate IK points dynamically? I am trying to calculate points dynamically at runtime.

[inland wolf]

How do I recenter the transform icon?

[pale shore]

Got that! So I was wondering if multi-sphere will detect multiple points

[lofty rapids]

when you get actors with tag, drag out from the result and get length, then print string it

it might be 0

[hasty merlin]

could you post all the photos again in a dump message? i want to go back and check everything again

[hasty merlin]

i feel like theres an issue between the old interface method and this new component method where interface is messing it up somehow and i want to check and remove anythign i dont need for the component

[hasty merlin]

cause you started with a blank project right? or did it have the interface method in it beforehand?

[hasty merlin]

thank you

[gentle urchin]

Ugh, that spam.

[hasty merlin]

i love it thank you. im going to double check EVERYTHING

[gentle urchin]

Included the bp name at the top of most pics so you know where they are ment to be

[inland wolf]

hmm i'm not sure how to do that. Just to be clear on how i'm originally doing it, It is possible to cast to an actor that isn't a blueprint but a static mesh?

[lofty rapids]

well your not casting, your just trying to get all those actors with that tag

are you trying to get static mesh with tag ?

or i'm a bit confused

[inland wolf]

oh i see. But yes, I have a static mesh placed in my level as an actor that i'm trying to get to move by pressing a button with a collision box. If theres a better way to do that i'm learnin haha

[distant hollow]

Is the BeginOverlap being triggered in the first place?

[inland wolf]

it is

[distant hollow]

How did you confirm?

[inland wolf]

when I touch the button with my hands, I get both prints on screen

[distant hollow]

Ah the prints behind appeared?

Oh wait

Both prints?

[inland wolf]

yeah both "print strings"

[distant hollow]

Might have been that they all opened and then closed, but so fast so you don’t see it

Try disconnecting the one behind Set Is True

And see if it changes

[lofty rapids]

wdym "button with a collision box" ?

[inland wolf]

I'm wanting to touch this and then the door opens / closes

I tried making a boolean Door_Open that will represent if the door is

[distant hollow]

It sounds like you are somehow triggering it twice with one single touch

[lofty rapids]

well thats a small box, what are you using the collision for ?

[inland wolf]

when I collide with my hands, to trigger the door opening sequence

[distant hollow]

Tried this yet?

[inland wolf]

I did, when I touch the button it prints to the screen, but nothing moves

[distant hollow]

So only one print?

[inland wolf]

yes

[distant hollow]

If that’s the case, reconnect it

Then try to check the outputs of that array

Like loop and print the object display name in the array

The ones with Get Actors with Tag

See if they output the correct actors that you want moved

How did it go?

[lofty rapids]

or to start just check the length

[inland wolf]

thank you!! yes, it prints 0

[lofty rapids]

that's the problem

there is zero so it's not doing any

i'm surprised no error in the set location

but make sure you put the tag on your actor

and spell it exactly the same

[distant hollow]

So that was it

Check if there are any typos in the tags of your actors which you are trying to move

Like upper/lower case

[inland wolf]

Sorry i'm just slightly confused.

am I not using the tags correctly?

[distant hollow]

If there are no typos or extra space

Then maybe is the wrong tag

Start from the base again and search for Tags

I remember there is an actor tag instead of component tag

[lofty rapids]

are you spawning the thing in or you place it in level ?

[distant hollow]

Or something like that

[inland wolf]

it's already placed in my level

[distant hollow]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-tag-and-tag/380771

[lofty rapids]

ya i just went to actor

searched tag

and it's not component tag

it's just tag

[lofty rapids]

your putting it on the mesh, put it on the actor

self

[gentle urchin]

Tag on components works with * get component with tag

While tag om actor is.... yes you guessed it

GetActorwithTag

[twin plinth]

hi, is there any downsides of using the built-in crouch system? Actually i really like it but i dont want to rewrite again because of a stupid bug

[frosty heron]

re-write what?

I'm using the in-built crouch system

[inland wolf]

So are you saying that I need to create a blueprint actor class for just that one floor? I can't tag the static mesh that's in the level?

[twin plinth]

rewriting a crouch system from zero, sorry if i cant explain myself my english isnt so good

[frosty heron]

all good, it's also my second language

i wouldn't recommend writing a crouch system your self

especially if you need to change the capsule size when crouching

the calculations are not beginner friendly imo

and you will end up re-writing what cmc alreay do anyway

[distant hollow]

What do you mean by “static mesh in the level”? It is not an actor?

[lofty rapids]

doesn't it create an actor for you anyway ?

that you can just tag

[inland wolf]

I created a blueprint actor class with a "button" static mesh and a collision box. Then just dragged and dropped into my level

[twin plinth]

Firstly i tried that but i realised drawing a raycast isnt so accurate. When i was using godot i was using a "shape cast" but i cant find that in ue eighter. So looks like i will go with the built-in

[lofty rapids]

so ya, just tag the actor

it only says component ?

i create actor and put in level, i can change tags np

[inland wolf]

Sorry maybe i'm confused on the terminology. But i'm just trying to move this single floor thats in my level

[inland wolf]

thats what I thought I did

[lofty rapids]

so is that a component on an actor, or an actor itself ?

because i would tag that because that's what your looking for

think about it, your getting the actors with that tag, your looking for the floor

[inland wolf]

isn't it just a static mesh I dropped into my level?

[distant hollow]

Yep, tag this Actor

Not the static mesh component

[inland wolf]

ohhh hmm okay. I guess I don't know how to specifically do that

[distant hollow]

Click on the Instance and search Tags

[inland wolf]

This?

[distant hollow]

You’ll probably see an Actor Tag and Component Tag

[inland wolf]

AHH!!

[distant hollow]

Yep add to the one below

I made the same mistake before too

lol

[gentle urchin]

Let there be light

[inland wolf]

Unforunately, the floor still is not moving

[distant hollow]

Both prints still appear, right? Disconnect one of them again

[inland wolf]

Yeah I deleted the component tag and just have the actor tag now

this simple mechanism still doesn't move the floor. hmm

[distant hollow]

Recheck the array, does it return correctly this time?

[lofty rapids]

whats the length now ?

[inland wolf]

let me set that up again

[lofty rapids]

i would probably use world also, get world add/subtract it or something

not sure if it matters but idk what that actor is relative to

[inland wolf]

array prints 1

[distant hollow]

Hmm
From the array try to get element 0 (first actor) before passing it to the Target of the Set Relative
Not sure if plugging an array directly to it is the reason why it’s not working

[inland wolf]

is there a better way to just move a single 'actor' on my level without having to create a whole blueprint class?

[versed sun]

Have 1 actor that manages all other actor movement

[hasty merlin]

i ahve no idea whats going on man, is there any wway that i can quickly send you my project and have you take a look?

[simple field]

Any idea why after randomly picking an item it doesn't remove that item from the array?

[gentle urchin]

Sure

Dm dropbox link or smth

[simple field]

btw thanks the for help @frosty heron I fixed that issue I had earlier

[frosty heron]

I didn't even remember what we talked about lol

btw you probably want to cache the random result

you are calling random twice here, what you plug to row name doesn't neccessarily be the one that gets removed

[gentle urchin]

You deserve a pizza

[simple field]

ah thanks i'll try that

[frosty heron]

I treated my self with peperroni from costco this morning

[distant hollow]

Why do you need to create another blueprint class?

[distant hollow]

Have you tried this btw?

[scarlet bay]

what's the right way to throttle down blueprint execution when the actor is out of view frustrum?

[frosty heron]

what do you want to throttle down?

like reducing tick rates?

[simple field]

@frosty heron

Does this make more sense

[frosty heron]

seems like it

test away

[scarlet bay]

yes, and know when the enemy is within view, it's for a side scrolling shoot them up

[simple field]

Nope it picked same thing 2 times in a row

just tested

[frosty heron]

wdym? is the goal is not to get an element from the row, then remove the name from the array list?

[simple field]

Yes, but my game has multiple rounds and I'm using the same array every round so that it always removes that item from the array so it cant be picked again in any other rounds

thats what i meant by picking 2 times in a row

[frosty heron]

hard to tell what you want to do from this picture alone. If you run the whole function again and expect to not being able to pick the same row then you would be mistaken
because row is populated before you run the remove logic

I would recommend writing the algorithm first before breaking them into function

Custom event -> Init Row Names
Custom event -> Pick random row name ( also delete from array )

If First round, Init row names, Pick random row name

If greater than 1st round -> Pick random row name ( also delete from array )

[distant osprey]

If anyone could tell me what I am doing wrong, it would help me out a lot. I have this function to detect mouse movement and sent an Enum for that direction. The issue is, Left, Up, and Right all work correctly, but when I move the mouse downward, it processes as Up. Can anyone see what I didn't wrong in my blueprint?

[gentle urchin]

Min 350 but in range 375?

Sounds weird

[simple field]

That wasn't what I wanted to do, sorry for the confusion, me being me... forgot to remove the getting all rows of data table and override the array in every round

thanks for the help though I really appreciate it <3

[distant osprey]

min is 360, and range is to 360.

[gentle urchin]

Makes more sense lol

Didnt open the full pic , mb

[distant osprey]

lol it happens

[gentle urchin]

Could i kindly suggest doing the logic differently ?

[distant osprey]

yeah, I'm all ears

[gentle urchin]

😆

Direction = atan2(x,y) % 90

If im not mistaken

Possibly offset by 45

[distant osprey]

I understand what you mean by offset by 45, but how would I do that?

I'm new to blueprints, so I'm just learning by trial and error lol

[gentle urchin]

Gotta test it a bit

Theres a gotcha with % and negative numbers in bp

[inland wolf]

yeah I don't need to and was trying to avoid doing that. But I'm still working to figure out how to move a single "static mesh" that I placed in my level to be an actor

[distant hollow]

Do you mean a part of an actor?

If something is in your level it is either an actor or a component of that actor

[inland wolf]

so this staircase is an actor correct?

[distant hollow]

Depends on how you structured it
I wouldn’t know unless you show me the Details box

It could be an actor on its own or it could be part of another actor

[distant hollow]

Yep this is an actor

[inland wolf]

Ait, So I added a tag to it. So shouldn't this blueprint move the staircase?

[distant hollow]

Like I said, instead of plugging the output array directly to the Target, have you tried getting element 0 of the array and plug it in instead?

[inland wolf]

oh, no sorry I haven't. I'm not sure how to do that honestly =\

[distant hollow]

Drag out from the Array output, search “Get”, you should be able to find a node something like Get Array Element

[inland wolf]

hmm

[distant hollow]

Yes

[inland wolf]

still didn't work =\

[distant hollow]

Erm is there another plain Get instead of Get(a copy)?

[inland wolf]

no just these three

[distant hollow]

Ok

Print this Get and see what it returns

Just to confirm that we are getting the correct actor first

If the actor is correct, try using Add Relative Location instead of Set

[inland wolf]

should'nt it be getting all actors with "Floor_Door" as a tag?

[queen dagger]

is there a node that allows me to use an integer to specifically use a route instead of having to use a branch to a branch

[distant hollow]

It should, so let’s check

[distant hollow]

Case switch

[queen dagger]

interesting it doesnt pull up a node with that name

[distant hollow]

https://youtu.be/2Kcecffh2IY?si=VDRc7eEMu8KAiZVQ

Search for “Switch”

[inland wolf]

Still can't figure it out. Is there another easy way to just move the stair case when my hand touches the button collision box on the wall?

[distant hollow]

Can I see what’s your code like now?

[inland wolf]

it's the same. i'm not sure how to implement what you were saying =\

i'm still at the basics I guess

[queen dagger]

on the switch node is there a way I can set specific values on the int instead of it auto selecting 0,1,2,3 etc

[distant hollow]

I think you can remove the unwanted nodes?

You can edit the values

[queen dagger]

im trying to put in .3

but its just isnt working lol

unless it has to be whole values

[distant hollow]

Point 3? That’s not an Integer, that’s a Float
You can’t really use Float on a switch

[distant hollow]

Try changing this to Add Relative Location instead
And don’t forget the Get Element 0 earlier on

[distant hollow]

Integers are whole values
What exactly were you trying to achieve?

[inland wolf]

still no movement =\

[distant hollow]

Is there no Add Relative Location?

[inland wolf]

only for the blueprint class button i'm touching

[distant hollow]

Drag out from this and search again, what are the available options?

[inland wolf]

What should I search

[distant hollow]

“Add relative location”, see what turns up

Also try to print this

See which actor is being retuned at runtime

[distant hollow]

Hmm

Try printing it out first and let me know what you get

[queen dagger]

based off a certain integer i want to set a variable but the integers are not consecutive

[distant hollow]

How is the Integer derived? Any particular reasons why they are not in running order?

[distant hollow]

Try printing this and see what you get

[queen dagger]

they represent damage

so light attacks are 3, mediums 5, heavys 7

[distant hollow]

And what are the intended operations following the switch?

[queen dagger]

knockback

[distant hollow]

I see

[queen dagger]

so setting the knockback variable and then a launch character

[distant hollow]

Unless the numbers are too far apart, you can have 3-7 (starting index 3), just skip the even nodes

Or see if you are able to remove them by right clicking on them

[queen dagger]

gotcha

[inland wolf]

I really appreciate your help, but i'm still so new at learning blueprints. How print the results?

[distant hollow]

Right click, search Print, then connect the Get Element 0 to In Text

Not directly from the array

[frigid summit]

hope someone could help me with this

[inland wolf]

this?

[distant hollow]

What are you stuck with?

[distant hollow]

Wait

Print string, not Print Text

[frigid summit]

like everything i tried to do this for one week

[inland wolf]

This prints "Box153"

[distant hollow]

So how far have you gotten? Are you able to spawn one coin?

[frigid summit]

yes only one

[distant hollow]

Then something is wrong
Stay in runtime, look through the actors in your editor and see which one is “box153”

[frigid summit]

this is it

[distant hollow]

And why does it have the tag

[inland wolf]

do you know how to open the world outliner that lists all actors in the scene?

[frigid summit]

from window world oultiliner but im not sure

[distant hollow]

Just minimize the Play window

[inland wolf]

thanks

[distant hollow]

Do you have some code somewhere that is spawning a Box actor object with that tag?

[inland wolf]

I do not. I guess I could try just creating a tag on a wall right?

[distant hollow]

No, don’t complicate it

Just go to the outliner and search for Box

Does it always return “box153” or does the number change?

[inland wolf]

there is only one box153

[distant hollow]

So you found it?

[distant hollow]

What object is this on the level?

[inland wolf]

it is a "ceiling" that is above the button i'm working with

[distant hollow]

Ah ok. Remove the Actor Tag on this, you might have tagged it wrongly

Then run again to see what it returns this time

You possibly tagged the wrong actor

[verbal igloo]

guys, is just me or unreal changed something in blueprint? for example, on this screenshot, I'm disable a widget, but besides everything works in game, console gives me an error saying the widget variable is none

[inland wolf]

Can I not have one tag for multiple actors?

[distant hollow]

Are you intending to move all of them?

[inland wolf]

Yeah

[verbal igloo]

same thing here, what fixed was checking if the widget is valid before doing anything with it

I paused the development of this game for 3 months, and at that time, no errors regarding this

[surreal flax]

Hey I'm unsure if this is the place to ask but:

I'm working in 5.2.0-0+UE5 and have an issue with test builds where a music cue and most SFX don't audibly play. I can confirm that it is playing via the au.debug.Sounds 1 command and it has volume (au.debug.Sounds.Sort Volume) but it's not coming through the audio device.

Has anyone experienced this issue? Is it a known problem?

[verbal igloo]

is it a bug? or they updated it?

everytime I mess with widgets, sounds etc, it gives me an error saying it's none value

[distant hollow]

Ok what is the existing location of Box153 before running?

[verbal igloo]

if I add a branch to check if it's valid first, there is no errors

no problems before, so idk what to think

[distant hollow]

Means your reference is invalid at the point where you called this

[verbal igloo]

but I never got problems with that before

unreal would just ignore such things

[inland wolf]

Now when I touch the wall button, "Stairs" is printed in the terminal and represent the stairs right here

[verbal igloo]

what changed?

I'm using 5.3

now I need to do this

[distant hollow]

Great, now link up the Set Location, use a bigger number like 1000 instead of 100

[verbal igloo]

first check if it's valid before using it on another branch

wth

it was working just fine without checking if isvalid

also, I can't open the game on standalone mode

maybe something is broken?

[distant hollow]

If it is invalid then it would result in a null reference error

[verbal igloo]

I wasn't getting errors before

[wheat citrus]

Anyone know how to get the forward facing area of a mesh/actor (IE the red plus the blue)? I want to simulate custom drag which changes depending on how the mesh would be turned.

[inland wolf]

Prints "stairs" and does not move the stairs

[distant hollow]

Then somewhere down your work you have changed the code such that it reads that node before your widget is created

Check your code again

[verbal igloo]

I checked a really old branch on github of my project

same errors

btw

this is what I get when trying to run the game on standalone mode

and I get this error even on older branchs

it's not my project

or something I did

maybe unreal updated and changed some stuff?

[lyric pumice]

Hi, guys. When i open my Widget that contains a Render Texture 2D the objects spawn on my map???? How can i solve it?

[verbal igloo]

any idea?

if I'm not wrong, in the past I had errors trying to run on standalone mode, I did something and fixed it

I just don't remember what exaclty

[distant hollow]

Based on your description and screenshot, it simply means that when you run the Remove from Parent node, the starttalkwidget is invalid, simple as that

[verbal igloo]

but the error just occurs when I do something specific that uses that blueprint

why my game won't run on standalone?

just on editor viewport

[distant hollow]

Trace through your code to see if it was called prematurely by accident
Alternatively just do a validity check

[barren tangle]

Hello

I have forget the name of the node allowing me to write strings with parameters

[verbal igloo]

maybe I will clean cache

[barren tangle]

do you remember the name? where i can put variable into {}

[verbal igloo]

the error is
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

[distant hollow]

Append String

[barren tangle]

not that one

the other one

not that one

the other one when i can write a text with {} and input automatically appear on the node

[distant hollow]

Idg what you mean

“Appear on the node”?

[verbal igloo]

I will give another example

is this wrong?

because it gives me errors now, before it was working fine

[distant hollow]

Error message?

[verbal igloo]

LogPlayerController: Error: InputMode:UIOnly - Attempting to focus Non-Focusable widget SObjectWidget [Widget.cpp(954)]!

[verbal igloo]

if I add a check to see if it's valid, everything goes back to normal

[verbal igloo]

you guys are more used to blueprint than I, is this wrong? should you really add a verification? or maybe something is broken on my end?

[distant hollow]

Iirc this is not a fatal error

[barren tangle]

i remember it's format Text

[verbal igloo]

yes I know, the game never crashes, but it shows me the errors when I leave the game

[barren tangle]

you write multiple value into {} and then it's easier to write a text for debug

[distant hollow]

Never used this before, interesting

[barren tangle]

instead of 300 append 😄

[verbal igloo]

whenever I try to reference a widget or sound, an error occours

never got that before

strange

[distant hollow]

@inland wolf

[distant hollow]

Like I said you’ll probably need to check where that variable is set, maybe you tried to create an invalid widget, like file or path name changed etc

[verbal igloo]

fixed it

[distant hollow]

Test if your input mode is changed correctly when you run

[verbal igloo]

yes, the game works perfectly

but

[barren tangle]

yes it's help a lot it's easier to build text to debug

[verbal igloo]

won't run on standalone

[distant hollow]

By this code if WidgetInvetory was invalid then it would just go the False route and not trigger any change in the mode

[verbal igloo]

but I guess that's a different error

[olive yarrow]

Anybody got a link to a tutorial i can use to change locomotion states when collisions happen?
I've tried casting and such but...

[verbal igloo]

maybe permission issues idk

[verbal igloo]

but even with the errors, the game works

that's the stranger part

it's like it's trying to do it before the widget is referenced in the variable, but then tries again and it works

or something like that

idk

[distant hollow]

It would, since you are probably on Game and UI mode before this

[distant hollow]

Could be the case

Which is why I suggested relooking into the sequence of your code again

[verbal igloo]

actually I use game only

this is what happens when you leave inventory

[distant hollow]

Iono man, there could be a thousand and one reasons depending on your code somewhere else

[verbal igloo]

I think I will just add branches to check if it's valid, I'm just afraid the blueprints or something is corrupted etc

and adding branches is a lost of time

[distant hollow]

Corruption if you are using GitHub is a possibility

Especially when conflicts happen

[verbal igloo]

as I said, I don't mess with the project since 3 months ago, maybe unreal updated in the meantime

and some stuff changed

[distant hollow]

Nothing to do with Unreal seriously I doubt

[verbal igloo]

maybe it was not giving errors because it was a bug, and they fixed

[verbal igloo]

well, the engine has a few bugs

collisions for example, it won't work if your character is rotating

it won't detect the collision

and it's a bug on bug lists of 5.3

[verbal igloo]

yeah

but I just saved the project there, no conflicts

[distant hollow]

Well if you are certain what is happening to you is the bug then I’m not able to provide any insights

[verbal igloo]

or maybe it was giving those errors, but not showing when I closed the game, and I never realised

idk

I'm just afraid of continue the development if everything is corrupted lol

[distant hollow]

Maybe add a Print behind False to see if it gets triggered, likely it did

[verbal igloo]

trying to go back in time on github changes nothing, so I don't think it's my project the problem

[verbal igloo]

kk

I will check that

strange, nothing occurs and the error is there, maybe it's not in that place idk

LogPlayerController: Error: InputMode:UIOnly - Attempting to focus Non-Focusable widget SObjectWidget [Widget.cpp(954)]!

it's being set

[verbal igloo]

stuff work but there is this on console

should I ignore it?

[distant hollow]

It’s different error, the widget is non-focusable

[verbal igloo]

I think widgets and stuff aren't being initialized fast enough

or something like that

[distant hollow]

Possible

[verbal igloo]

but it's focusing later on lmao

[verbal igloo]

maybe a configuration on unreal?

[distant hollow]

Maybe set a Delay or something?
A shipping build may run different thread orders from editor.

[verbal igloo]

oh I found it

wth?

okay but what explains the errors when trying to check or deactivating other widgets?

[verbal igloo]

maybe

[distant hollow]

Case by case, you’ll need to look at the flow

[verbal igloo]

sure

did you have problems in the past regarding standalone mode?

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

I saw some people with the same problem in some foruns, but no solution

[inland wolf]

This still doesn't move the stairs, but prints "hello"

[distant hollow]

Hmmm

[lusty sphinx]

check to see if your get node is returning a valid output?

[distant hollow]

We checked that already

[dark drum]

From my understanding, you don't normally get access violations from blueprints alone. If you're getting them in a BP only project it might either be a bad engine install or possibly an engine bug.

If you look at the error logs, it should give you more information about the stack trace.

[verbal igloo]

I don't believe it's my project the problem

if I'm not wrong, I had problems with standalone mode in the past

prob something with permissions, idk

I already tried to verify unreal instalation

[distant hollow]

What is the location of the Stairs in the Outliner before and during runtime?

[verbal igloo]

it think it's a little configuration that I need to change

my graphic drivers are updated btw

[dark drum]

You'll need to check the crash logs then. There might be a corrupt file in your project which it might help identify.

[inland wolf]

How can I determine during run time? shouldn't it not change since nothing is moving it during runtime

[lusty sphinx]

it might be moving somewhere else because you are setting relative location

[distant hollow]

After triggering

[dark drum]

Is what you're trying to move set to movable?

[inland wolf]

well damn, lemme check that. Is that a setting in the details pannel?

[dark drum]

Yea. Static meshes by default are well static. (If just dragged in from the content browser)

[distant hollow]

Oh damn, that could be

[pine moth]

how can i make that if player presses buttons in order then a easter egg would happen

[dark drum]

Input action with a chord trigger on it.

[pine moth]

k thx

[inland wolf]

That makes total sense, but where do I change that setting?

actually its movable*

[lusty sphinx]

have you tried just setting the world location instead of relative?

[wheat citrus]

is there a way to project a custom mesh onto a plane? So that essentially you get the outline of the mesh from the perspective of the plane as a polygon?

[inland wolf]

THAT worked, thank you! What is the 'relative' node relative to?

like why would I want to use one versus the other (besides this time it worked lol)

[dark drum]

What it's attached to. (If it's attached to anything)

[inland wolf]

I see, so if it's not attached (where I just dragged and dropped in from the content browser), I need to use World location?

[lusty sphinx]

I've been having trouble getting my enemy character to just move forward at a constant velocity. I've also tried setting my velocity from the character movement component. This event is being called on a timer set to 0 seconds looping.

[dark drum]

Yea, although I'm surprised it's default attachment wasn't the world. 🤔

[lusty sphinx]

pretty much

[dark drum]

Timers can't have a time of 0 seconds. Use set timer by event for next tick.

[lusty sphinx]

I read somewhere that having it set to 0 makes it happen on tick. I just tried event for next tick and that doesn't work either

The custom event does work when I insert it into tick tho

[dark drum]

After the add movement input node, add the timer by event on next tick. Hook the red square to the red square on the move forward event. Then just call the event on begin play.

[distant hollow]

Same

I always thought SetRelative would be like local position or something

3am here, goodnight all

[lusty sphinx]

That worked, thanks!

[dark drum]

Is there any reason you're not just calling it on tick?

[inland wolf]

So weird, When I added the "Floor_Door" tag to another static mesh (thats movable), nothing moves when I trigger the overlap function now

[dark drum]

Are you adding the tag to the actual actor or the component inside it?

[verbal igloo]

UPDATE

it looks like all my problems are correlated

I will need to deep search and add isvalid to each widget and stuff on my blueprint

at least nothing is corrupted lol

strange since I never had problems with it before

[inland wolf]

using "Add actor world offset" ended up working.
Now i'm learning to smooth the movement over 1 second. Is this the correct location to place the timeline? Second picture is of my timeline sequence event track

[gentle urchin]

Note to self: Dont be lazy when putting together code, it might bite you. Unbind All was our curse and my demise. Ofcourse we want to retain the owning actors bindings.(and any other bindings we dont 'own', as a widget.)

[dire halo]

Does an in-scene reference have to be an Actor? I was hoping to be able to use a blueprint interface array to only select objects that inherit that interface

[gentle urchin]

Im sure that wont work 😅

[dire halo]

yeah it didn't 🙂

[gentle urchin]

You could make a small utility thing that does it for you tho

Grab all actors -> filter by implements interface -> display list

[dire halo]

Yeah that sounds like it could work

I might just use a base class instead

[gentle urchin]

(Such a tool could be handy regardless)

[dire halo]

yeah I agree

[gentle urchin]

Filter by inheritance and/or by interface^^

Perhaps i should dwindle something together sometime

[uncut rampart]

What reason might there be for this to fail on the very first input, yet work for every single input after it?
It's not the first time I've had something fail on only the first input either, I can't seem to find the reasoning for it

[gentle urchin]

The blue line and its direction suggests you're doing something you shouldnt

(Crossing execution paths and variables)

[uncut rampart]

Will give that a look then. Guess it matters more than I thought

[glossy cloak]

I'm trying to build a card stacking mechanic where you can stack cards on top of each other with an offset (to show the name of each card in the stack.) Ideally this is done with planes in 3d space, but I'm struggling to find a way to prevent the stack from getting so tall that my dragged cards end up underneath the stack.

I was considering just adding a rotation to each card in the stack, but I'm basing this mechanic on Stacklands and their cards seem to be perfectly flat, so I feel like I'm missing another option.

Here's an image to explain what I'm trying to do:

[gentle urchin]

Not really grasping how a 'dragged card' would end undermeath it. I see it in the pic but... wouldnt you just limit dragging under the stack?

But the rotation sounds like a good idea

[glossy cloak]

When you click to drag a card it floats up a certain amount in Z, but stacks will eventually go over that height, so the card ends up under half the stack and above the other half.

[uncut rampart]

Cleaned it up, doesn't seem to have changed things.

[glossy cloak]

It has nothing to do with positioning in the graph and everything to do with the order that references are available. If that input action gets called before the actor exists or that variable is set, then that reference won't exist.

[gentle urchin]

Id imagine the stack offset was fractional (as the cards are mostly just planes?)

[glossy cloak]

Yeah. I think I'll go this route. I was kind of hoping for an "Oh. Just change the rendering order of the cards." answer of some sort. lol

[glossy cloak]

Yeah. I could do that as well. I was worried about z fighting, but I guess even just a .01 offset will fix that...

[uncut rampart]

oh, wait yeah I think I see where my stupidity is lmao
thanks for the help

yep fixed

[glossy cloak]

Well that worked perfectly. Thanks!

[craggy flicker]

I can't seem to use a key input like G and Is Hovered for this widget.

If I use event tick and is hovering, then it fires

but not when i press G

[glossy cloak]

I assume this is inside a widget. Widgets aren't controllers so they can't receive input.

[craggy flicker]

Oh I see! Thank you

I never knew that

[gentle urchin]

(They can but you must enable it)

[craggy flicker]

how would i enable it

[gentle urchin]

Listen for Input or something like that

Been a while...

Its the node youd use to activate it.. adds a inputcomponent the widget uses

[craggy flicker]

I would have the keyboard input on the player's blueprint, but id rather keep it contained to the slot widget

[glossy cloak]

You can override the OnKeyDown/OnKeyUp functions on the widget.

[gentle urchin]

Theres those too!

[glossy cloak]

I'm not sure of another way to do it.

Other than binding to your player controller and listening for the key press there.

[gentle urchin]

Listen for input key adds an inputcomp at the top of the stack, and can grab the input before anything else

[craggy flicker]

Found a work around

[gentle urchin]

But it'd feel weird to use on a per slot basis

[craggy flicker]

now everything is contained to just the slot

[gentle urchin]

Waste of tick but alright ;p

[craggy flicker]

yeah but I can juse use a sequence modifier

[glossy cloak]

Keep in mind that that means you won't be able to use key binds.

[craggy flicker]

not necessarily

I can use the Key input and get the player controller's blueprint, then the player's settings from there

so it would be
Get Player Controller --> Cast to Blueprint --> Get Key Settings --> Was Input Key Pressed

[glossy cloak]

Not sure I follow. But I trust you'll get it sorted. : ) I haven't played with built in keybinds in Unreal before. Only used a third party option.

Ah.

[craggy flicker]

I'm only in my prototyping stage so there will be dozens of tests 🙂

[glossy cloak]

Fair enough. No point in wasting time on keybinds when you're just prototyping then. : )

[craggy flicker]

yea that comes after the foundational systems of the game lol

[pastel skiff]

hey i got an issue
i have 2 actors that are both on the screen, thay both have an action assiend to an input event, so that when i click something both of tham shuld do the action, but when i click it only one activates at a time
any way to make it so thay both activate on the same input?

[limber citrus]

client requirement

[dawn gazelle]

Input is routed through your player controller and then to the possessed pawn (if there is one).
Actors do not receive any input unless you "Enable Input" on them, however, it's usually not great to continually enable/disable input on a variety of actors. You're better off using the player controller, getting a reference to the actors you're wanting to control, and then using the input from the player controller to then call functions on the actors that need to respond to the input.

[limber citrus]

client requirement

[flat coral]

Can anyone tell me why connecting this physics constraint throws me across the map? Before I trigger overlap -> After I stop flailing around and can take a stable screenshot of where I am. You can just barely see the rainbow cube there tha'ts the AttachTarget.

[lofty rapids]

what sort of table ?

[flat coral]

Actually something's occurred to me just now. I'm pretty sure that the place it's connecting me to is 0,0,0 on this map. But why is it doing that, instead of connecting the pawn to that cube that's clearly specified?

[lofty rapids]

before you overlap it happens ?

[flat coral]

Nah I meant that first screenshot is before overlap

[lofty rapids]

i use flat files and parse the data as a "table" like a csv

[flat coral]

Actually all that other code is irrelevant. This snippet ALONE attaches me to 0,0,0 instead of the AttachTarget cube.

[spark steppe]

there may be an offset on the constraint?

like, what's the constraint attached to?

[flat coral]

The component itself? it's just attached to the root component

[hasty merlin]

how can i call a custom function from fpCharacter inside an actorBP

[iron oar]

Hi guys ! I'm trying to add/edit data of a data table from a custom tool made from Editor Utility Widget, is there anyways to do it in blueprint or I'll have to add some cpp in my tool ?

[faint pasture]

are both constrained components simulating physics?

[flat coral]

No just one

Is that a problem? The idea here is to "catch" a physics-based pawn in something like a net

[paper sinew]

Hi ! after smashing my head on the desk i have to ask here.
The thing is, I made a custom directionnal gravity in my game, and the rotation is controlled by a variable, which gets all the required updates and is then applied to my pawn.

But the problem is my 1st person camera, especially the left-right look around : normally you would plug the mouse action value in delta rotation Z (Yaw), but if i'm not in a normal Z-axis gravity this can't work anymore 🫠 I have my gravity vector, my actor rotation, but i don't know the maths to rotate around a custom axis. anyone have an idea ?

[lunar sleet]

May wanna try #game-math

[paper sinew]

i'm affraid they'd talk to me in C++

[flat coral]

Translating C++ to BP is easy for stuff like math, all the nodes have the same names

[trim matrix]

depends

[lunar sleet]

Why the assumption?

[paper sinew]

idk i'll copy paste then

[flat coral]

Okay so we're in the weird zone here. I've "fixed" the earlier issue by swapping the attach component from a box mesh to a box collider. Why did that help? No idea!