blueprint

[lofty rapids]

i'm saying if the data is correct, the function isn't working, what does that look like ?

[crystal flax]

sorry i didnt get you

[gentle urchin]

Either way its a good start

We got ~30 repos by now

[sick sky]

i would hate to use it then stop because its limit to 50gb :(

[thin panther]

it isn't

[lofty rapids]

np, can be hard to figure out what people are trying to say on chat sometimes

[sick sky]

i trust you, but maybe they changed the limit since
i just want to read it from azure

[crystal flax]

thnks for understanding and i think i am able to solve it as i was trying to run print string for each and individual check and i think i find the problem let me fix it and fingre croessed

[crystal flax]

also my brain is aint braining anymore working from more then 16 hours straight

[thin panther]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/limits?view=azure-devops
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Large-file-size-in-Azure-repos/10345304?q=azure+repos
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/manage-large-files?view=azure-devops
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58128143/is-there-a-way-to-know-the-max-size-of-azure-devops-project-repo

Git LFS is is fully supported and free in Azure DevOps Services

You could also just make a repo and look :P

[lofty rapids]

ya take a break if you can, deadlines can be tough but even a quick power nap can really make this a lot more clear

[sick sky]

i didnt read the full first page, i skiped the "250gb" part, sorry

ty for your time

[crystal flax]

yeah sure thanks man

[thin panther]

np!

[broken valley]

Hello! I am trying to do a door you can open with mouse drag (amnesia style), but I am having some problems figuring out how to clamp the max closed and opened angles. I tried physics constrains, and while it works in clamping those angles, the door drifts all the time and it's very annoying. Is there a way to clamp a SM rotation angle, without using a physics constrains? Thank you!

[trim matrix]

nah never sleep, trust

[lofty rapids]

i've seen many people try to code exhausted and it's always a tough go

[trim matrix]

yea true

[lofty rapids]

even like i said a quick nap

it should give you a bit more clarity

[trim matrix]

long*

[crystal flax]

yeah i was thinking to take a realixing shower and then a heavn full nap but this thing crahsed my all dreams

[lofty rapids]

well you can show the function maybe someone might see or can help

[crystal flax]

yeha okay

[lofty rapids]

i'm just from the information gathered thinking the function isn't doing it's job

because the main menu works, and the data is saved and ready to be used

logically its how you set it to what you want in the next level i would think is the problem

[crystal flax]

so these are my laoding function and save function respectively and other are the place where i am calling those function one is my widget where i am changing the mesh or customizing the player character there is a specific button and other is begin play of my player controller

and i am using the load game slot in the loading fucntion that just not able to make it in the screenshot

[lofty rapids]

so load char is firing ?

[crystal flax]

yes it is i ran the print string and it give me positive results

[lofty rapids]

is change body mesh the same you used in the main menu ?

[crystal flax]

yes it is exact same

i mean both place one function only

can you tell me where could be the problem like all possible ways tthat can create problem or i misssed something in that way i guees i can find something

[trim matrix]

I don't think find is 100% to finds something, that's why there's a bool

[crystal flax]

yes

is data not storing properly

[trim matrix]

isn't it, load game to slot when joining a game again(not save game to slot)?

[crystal flax]

i ran the bool it gives me positive result

yeah sorry i did that only my typing error

[trim matrix]

ohh ok

[lofty rapids]

well change body mesh isn't working ?

atleast it would seem like it

if your data is correct

probably should look at that check the data and your execution is going where you expect

[lofty rapids]

and this print string is doing fine so it is looping ?

[crystal flax]

i think that is working fine bcz if that is not working fine how could i change the mesh in main menu and that is working fine i guess data is working fine

[lofty rapids]

in change body mesh, how are you getting the character ?

[crystal flax]

and i think what is not working fine is that i never told the meshe sof my character third person actor to update like it is loading but where to load i didnt give that thing like i didnt updated which face which chest and which legs should come

pc knows which one to comes as it saves and loads but my player on which mesh they have to come i guess that is not updated

and silly me never thinked that

[crystal flax]

i hava echaracter pawn for my main menu and refrence of that i am getting in change body mesh

[lofty rapids]

right but how are you getting the reference

wdym "main menu", you need it to work in the level your loading

[crystal flax]

for both level i have diffrent character

[lofty rapids]

get player character ?

or you just get actor of class ?

[crystal flax]

for main menu level i am getting the refrence of my character pawn and on that body i am changing the mesh but for my level i am not apllying on that body

[crystal flax]

i sotred it as a variable on event begin play an then i am using it

[lofty rapids]

it's a component

you probably can try get owner stuff

you put this on the character ?

[crystal flax]

I am using get all actor of class

To get a refrence and then storing that in variable and using for the rest of the logics

[versed hornet]

✝️ 😳

[crystal flax]

Why plz tell did I'd done something wrong

Shouldn't be I do this way I thought this is better then casting

[lofty rapids]

is bpc_charactercreation a component you put on your character ?

[versed hornet]

idk i haven't checked what it's about i just generally know it's inadvicable to use that command because it can be unpredictable

[crystal flax]

Yes it is a component

[lofty rapids]

and you put it on the player ?

[crystal flax]

Ohhh

[crystal flax]

The player controller not player

[lofty rapids]

so your override is using all the same stuff ?

or you said you changed the character

[crystal flax]

Mostly the same stuff and I forgot to add this thing to my main character

Everything is fine just I have not added the logic for my character mesh to get updated with new mesh comes from main menu and that is why is ma facing this issues

Thanks for your help you save the day

[dark drum]

Show how you save the data before you open the main level.

[crystal flax]

Here is all the function

Of saving and loading

[lofty rapids]

get actor of class is worse than the cast i think

[crystal flax]

Ohhh

I didn't knew that I will study about it today

[lofty rapids]

it's going to be multiplayer ?

because thats just for single player

for multiplayer idk how to do it yet

[crystal flax]

No it is for single player only

[dark drum]

I can't see it happening in your logic so I can only assume you're not loading the save game data when you load the new level.

[crystal flax]

I just digged my grave no plans to enter on it

[trim matrix]

wdym unpredictable? what else would you use?

[crystal flax]

It is loading just see I am using the component in my main player controller where on event begin play I am calling my function loading char function

[versed hornet]

idk where he uses it so idk

[trim matrix]

this node is mostly safe and behave normally...

[austere ferry]

When calling a function during the activation of a variant in Unreal Engine, writing a process to play the Sequencer within the function does not work. However, it works after restarting. Is this a bug?

[dark drum]

But I can't see anywhere where you load game from slot and store the save game object.

[crystal flax]

The loading game from slot is in the loading char function its just that It was not able to come in the screenshot

[crystal flax]

And in 3rd image I am saving it in the slot

[dark drum]

Unpredictable is probably the wrong word but you should try to avoid the get all actor of class node. Its use is normally due to laziness and/or bad actor management. When you have a fully populated level with hundreds of thousands of actors it could start to hit performance, especially if it's used a lot throughout the project.

[dark drum]

Unless I can see it, I can only assume it's not being done or is being done incorrectly. 😛

After all, the issue could be in that bit of logic.

[crystal flax]

I have shown to you but as it was working I turned off my laptop and now I am going to take a shower I feel like I won the war today

[dark drum]

Oh you fixed it? I clearly missed a comment somewhere lol. Oops.

[crystal flax]

Yeah I mentioned it just above your first messgae

I thought you want to try something new that is why I am also discussing it

[nocturne fossil]

is this okay to use or better to use nodes?

[tight pollen]

Should the skill tree be in the player's controller or in the character?

[gentle urchin]

Should it be recreated when the char dies?

[tight pollen]

because I have a dilemma, in general, a player will be able to have several characters and each of them can distributed points differently

[tight pollen]

ok

controller

[latent venture]

How does SpawnActor work? it is not apearing in my case here 😦

[dark drum]

it spawns an actor at the location you specify. You might not want to scale the location. if the current location is 1000, 1000, 50 and you're scaling it by 10, it'll be placed at 10,000, 10,000, 500 which probally isn't where you want it.

[latent venture]

i could show you that it doesn`t spawn

Also I have split the spawn transform

in order to place exactly the location i want

and it doesn`t do nothing

[trim matrix]

something is wrong because you are setting the scale are rotation as the location * Scale which is probably way to big and you don't even see it because you are inside the object

[gentle urchin]

If it executes, it spawns

[trim matrix]

the object is just to big lol

[ornate linden]

Given you're making a single player game, what's the reasons for putting logic on how the player interacts with the world in gamemode vs your playercharacter?

So far I've been putting all my ui widget generation, input events, interaction events with other actors (dialog opening, entering doors, etc), and what not all on the player character.

but I'm wondering what if anything i should actually have in the gamemode instead.

Edit: I'm thinking I should move the ui widget generation out, but the rest maybe stays

[trim matrix]

that is better

test it

[latent venture]

yep it doesn`t do it

[trim matrix]

print

[dark drum]

For single player games you can pretty much put stuff where ever you want. For interaction stuff, I handle it in an actor component that gets placed on the player character.

Depending on the type of game, sometimes this logic might go on the player controller.

[latent venture]

One friend from this server said that I can`t spawn an actor in a construction script

is that true?

[trim matrix]

try to print something and see if it works

[latent venture]

yeah normally it would work

[trim matrix]

that is in a construction script?

[dark drum]

If it's on construction script that would be the reason. Spawn actor of class is runtime only.

[latent venture]

I mean is basically i function which I call it from The Event Graph

[dark drum]

Where do you call 'Generate Map'?

[latent venture]

In the construction Script

[dark drum]

That's the issue then as you're attempting to run it from the construction script. It doesn't matter where the function/event is. If it's called from an a construction script and the function/event calls the spawn actor of class node, it won't run.

[latent venture]

damn, do you have any idea on how I could work around it?/

[dark drum]

What's your end goal? Why are you needing to spawn an actor?

[nimble wasp]

I have an array of static meshes. I need numbers to represent them (I'm having a player send numbers to be checked against). How can I turn the meshes into numbers?

[latent venture]

i want to spawn some torches around my dungeon

[latent venture]

based on the coordonations of the room

and the exact type of room

[dark drum]

So I assume the dungeon is procedurally generated?

[latent venture]

if i Would do it in the event graph will it work?

[latent venture]

yes

[dark drum]

Call the logic on begin play, you won't be able to see it in the editor but you can have it run the logic as soon as the game starts.

[flat coral]

Is there some kind of system for going through a sequence of events of different types, where you don't know the lengths of the events just the order?
EG at level end, I want to:

1. Open a dialog, then when it's concluded
2. Open a UI where the player goes through lore they picked up, then when they click through
3. Open another dialog, then when it's concluded
4. Show the mission-finished scoreboard, then when they click through
5. Load next level

[latent venture]

but won`t it work in the function is from the event graph?

[gentle urchin]

You can have an ISM for the torches

Gives you a preview

Then on beginplay replace them with avtual torch actors

[dark drum]

It doesn't matter where it's called as long as it doesn't originate from the construction script.

[gentle urchin]

Transform already set

[agile moss]

So
Player touches "EnergyDrink"
From "EnergyDrink" cast to EnergyWidget (+20 float)
What refference do I get for the cast?

[gentle urchin]

Nah

Enrrgydrinkngrants player 20 energy

Player calls "energyChanged broadcast"

[flat coral]

What's the cleanest way to limit a character to walking-only, with CMC? It seems to make no distinction between walking and running beyond speed, but I'd want a bool controlling movement mode.

[lunar sleet]

Don’t change the speed

Fixed

[dark drum]

The only difference between walking and running is the max walk speed and how the animBP handles it.

If you set the max speed to 100, they'll only ever walk. (unless you change it yourself)

[frigid summit]

hi guys is there someone here expert in enough in blueprints that can guide me of how to create a coin spawner system i dont have enough knowlage to create it

[agile moss]

I will find an alternative 🥲

[lunar sleet]

You should watch the bp comms live training near the bottom of pins here

[agile moss]

Om

[dark drum]

Guide or make it for you?

[frigid summit]

guide

[frigid summit]

even an idea

[dark drum]

Make coin BP, use spawn actor of class to add it to the level at runtime.

If you need multiple, use a for loop and specify the desired locations on the spawn actor of class node.

[frigid summit]

ok ill try that and how i specfiy waves and spacing between them

[dark drum]

You can choose to call a function x amount of time later using the timer by event node. As for spacing them, you can probaly find a quick tutorial on spawning actors in a grid.

[faint pasture]

none of that should touch gamemode

think of gamemode as the GM

it cares about stuff like win condition etc

and it's what gives the players their pawns

[marble yew]

i have blueprint that generate noise, how do i trigger that blueprint in editor when something in that blueprint changes ?

[faint pasture]

uh

[undone bluff]

UI widgets belong in the HUD, input events belong in the player controller, interaction system belongs in a component in the controller. Opening a dialogue and entering a door are way too specific to be implemented in the character itself, but you can get away with it if the game is small enough

[faint pasture]

what do you mean by noise?

sound? or mathematical noise

[undone bluff]

as Adriel said none of this has to do with the GameMode

[marble yew]

2d noise for heightmap

it is fastnoise2 that is set up with blueprint nodes

[faint pasture]

oh ok, you probably want the construction script, it should run whenever any property changes in an instance

[ornate linden]

"UI widgets belong in the HUD"
not entirely sure what HUD means, but I'm referring to this part of it in particular if that helps

[gentle urchin]

Its a class

Every player got their own hud instance

[marble yew]

i need way to preview the noise before i can use it

[gentle urchin]

Putting UI there might be outdated, but encapsulates all ui handling to 1 class

[ornate linden]

interesting

[marble yew]

fastnoise2 has own node editor, but it sucks

[faint pasture]

you can probably do all that with the construction script and gating with bools and some bool trickery

look at how the example sky sphere BP does its construction script

you basically have a bool as a button

[marble yew]

what is that?
that bool will trigger the blueprint ?

[faint pasture]

look at the sky sphere BP

[undone bluff]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Framework/UIAndHUD/

[faint pasture]

you can make a bool basically become a "run this code at editor time" button

[undone bluff]

I'm talking about AHUD, an object that is instantiated by the gamemode

you can make your own subclass like with a controller or pawn

[gentle urchin]

Isnt it instanciated by playercontroller 😅

[marble yew]

does constructor run every time i compile BP ?

that might be good enough

[faint pasture]

and any time you modify any variable on an instance in the world, by default

[marble yew]

that sounds good, thanks

[undone bluff]

I mean yea, but it is defined in the gamemode and the gamemode instantiates the player controller so

[marble yew]

is there easy way in BP construct script to spawn plane with specified vert count and iterate over vertices to set height?

[undone bluff]

I'd like to think it's fair to say

[gentle urchin]

Not that it matters but

Youd send me looking where its not 😆

[faint pasture]

procedural mesh component

[ornate linden]

Interesting diagram.

I will stay, that I'm making a single player game in this case, so the server/client part probably isn't relevant. but I do want to make what im making in a "good" way that I can use that knowledge to making other stuff in the future that could be multiplayer hah.

[marble yew]

ok i am already using that, but i have not figured out how to set triangles in BP

[faint pasture]

You can use the HUD or not, it can go either way in a single player project

some people ignore HUD completely and just have a master widget which acts as the HUD

it's just a handy place to handle UI per player

[gentle urchin]

Easily accessible

[faint pasture]

So why is it an actor and not a subsystem

I suppose it predates subsystems

[undone bluff]

I mean it is a fair point, I was thinking about how the pawn is also instantiated by the gamemode, I guess

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

And legacy support prohibit refactoring that much , I guess

They could just make a clean 5.0 cut

But now they missed that chance

[undone bluff]

I feel like having an actor wrapped around your widgets is much nicer to work with than a big master widget

[nimble wasp]

How can I wait for input? I'm basically making "Simon". I've got an array, it picks a number from the array and I want the game to wait to see if the number the player hits matches the one gotten from the array - I want the game to wait.

[broken wadi]

Are you storing the selected random number in a variable?

[nimble wasp]

Yep.

Set it to "current number"

[broken wadi]

okay so just compare the user input to see if it matches that number

[nimble wasp]

what is the node I would use?

[broken wadi]

are they just pressing numbers on the keyboard?

[nimble wasp]

Wait for user input?

Currently, yes. ULTIMATELY, I'd love to set it up for another BP sends a number (from a button press). Each button represents a number. I cast to the BP that has the buttons and compare.

[broken wadi]

So the input changes another variable which you then compare against the selected number to see if its a match

[nimble wasp]

But how do I have the game wait? I've got this set up to on begin play. Even if I make a custom event, won't that fire immediately.

[dark drum]

The HUD class still has it's uses. If actually used, could be a good way to switch out an entire UI set. Something that (whilst not impossible) could be troublesome if not using the HUD class. It's probably an edge case not many would do though lol.

[broken wadi]

When the input happens you can call a custom event to compare the numbers

[nimble wasp]

Oh!

Dude

You rule

[lofty rapids]

i put all my widgets in the hud for easy access

[nimble wasp]

best. discord. ever.

[broken wadi]

You can do the comparision without using a custom event just have it directly on the user input event but since you mentioned it will eventually be moved elsewhere a custom event would keep things more clean and tidy since its reuseable.

[nimble wasp]

Thanks again

[gentle urchin]

For sure. I still use it

[austere ferry]

I am using variants in Unreal Engine to manage different states of a level. I want to call a specific function when a variant is activated. However, even if I write the playback process for a sequencer within the function, the sequencer does not play when switching variants. It works after restarting. Is this a bug? Please advise.😭

[lusty hedge]

i cant find the prototype materials on marketplace

anyone know the name of it?

[woven drift]

can a line trace (or any analog of it) detect which exact object from another blueprint it collided with, for example, there is a blueprint of few parts, which are meshes, a line is traced and it gives me a name of exact part it contacted with

i have a visualisation if meeded

[tiny monolith]

has anyone used dpi scaling before

[verbal kayak]

How to destroy singular widget? I dont want to use this: Remove from parent -> garbage collect. Also I cannot use remove all widgets. Any ideas?

[lofty rapids]

you want to remove it you'll have to remove it

[verbal kayak]

xD thanks for good answer

[dark drum]

All traces provide the component that was hit and (if applicable) the hit item index.

[lofty rapids]

you could set it visibility but then you got it laying around

[verbal kayak]

yeah dont want that

I want to destroy a particular widget.

I guess you cant do that=?

[lofty rapids]

i don't see why you don't just remove from parent

[verbal kayak]

?

Well you dont see a lot of stuff

but here. let me give you an example.

[dark drum]

As engage has said, the way to destroy a widget is to remove it from it's parent and make sure it's not referenced. Then garbage collection will get it.

[verbal kayak]

yeah but, if i have already some widgets removed from parent

and not want to "destroy" them with garbage collect

[thin panther]

You don't have a choice

Don't intefere with the GC

[dark drum]

Remove from parent but keep a ref to them. You can then add them again when you need to

[verbal kayak]

yeah, but I was wanting to destroy. I know I can add them back.

[dark drum]

Yea, you just got to let it do it's thing lol.

[verbal kayak]

what is gc?

ahh

[thin panther]

garbage collector

[verbal kayak]

so essentially: You cannot destroy singular widgets. Right?

[gentle urchin]

Even destroy actor waits for the GC

[thin panther]

you cannot destroy anything without the gc's approval

[dark drum]

You remove from parent and make sure it's not referenced. That is how you destroy a singular widget.

[gentle urchin]

It cleans it up visually, but mem wise it waits for GC

[verbal kayak]

Remove from parent still has it in existence, right?

you can still access the data while remove from parent

[thin panther]

Nope

If it there are no active refs held to it, it's pending kill and thus invalid

[verbal kayak]

but if a ref has been made inside bp?

[dark drum]

Technically yes, until GC has kicked in but if it's referenced for you to get data from it, the GC won't remove it.

[verbal kayak]

kk

[dark drum]

Set ref to null (don't connect anything to it)

[verbal kayak]

I can live with that but still weird that you cant just singularly kill widgets

with refs 😄

[lofty rapids]

you want the camera to stay in the same position ? or just not on an axis ?

[dark drum]

Wait until you start using uobjects. 🙃

[lofty rapids]

what sort of camera setup you got going on ?

you could possibly get the camera location, set it to the get value, but replace the z

so every tick just set it to the x, y and a z

because there is no way to constrain it that i have found

[subtle nova]

I have a function that I want to be able to use any of the generic collision shapes (Cylinder, Sphere, Box). Is there some sort of base class I can reference, or do I have to do a Wildcard of some kind?

[sick sky]

does it cost anything to have UI collapse/hidden ?

[dark drum]

Not the act of doing it no but there is the memory to consider. While hidden, it'll still be loaded in memory.

[sick sky]

okay

[gentle urchin]

PrimitiveComponent

[worldly jewel]

Can anyone help me with some AnimNotify questions? I’m brand new to Unreal but I’m having some trouble

[lofty rapids]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[marble yew]

how to branch without condition? basically i do not want to make super long noodle of nodes

[lofty rapids]

sequence ?

it's not really a branch

but they run in order

i use it to tidy up long code

[marble yew]

that is exactly what i want, thanks

[worldly jewel]

I’ve created some AnimNotifies to trigger Events, but Im not able to bring those AnimNotifies into the Animation BP

Here’s a screenshot of what I’m trying to get

[worldly jewel]

Any ideas what im doing wrong? Is there some extra action I have to take to be able to use the AnimNotify as it’s own node in the BP?

[lofty rapids]

#animation might also have an idea

[bleak quest]

Im looking into assigning axis mappings. I want to assign something to clicking the left thumbstick down.

I am really not sure what that is called.
Does anyone have an idea?

I want my character to do this action when the left thumbstick is pressed down

[visual crest]

I am having a major brain fart here how would I go about binding this so that any object listing can hear?

Normaly I would just cast to the BP calling it and bind it that way. This one however is going to have hundreds of npcs that can call it.

[lunar sleet]

call it in the player controller

[visual crest]

elaborate?

[queen dagger]

ok sorta got an issue

[lunar sleet]

in your npcs parent class, get PC, cast, bind to PC. in your PC, call it when needed

[queen dagger]

i tried to make a second character using a child class and it sorta broke the game it removed the movement and animation component even though its still showing

[visual crest]

Oh wait if I send a message to game instance and then call from game instance that would work.

[lofty rapids]

probably just action i think its like a button
did you try these two ? idk if thats correct i never tried it

[visual crest]

though I am not sure what you are saying

[bleak quest]

Thank you. I'll test that out

[lunar sleet]

which part are you not understanding, I gave you every step

[bleak quest]

Do you know how I can do a hold action instead of just pressing it?

[visual crest]

Calling it is not the problem binding it in the listener is

[lunar sleet]

have a base class for your NPCs, bind it there

[queen dagger]

is there a revision log that i can access

[visual crest]

I have a area the detects npc killed in it that needs to listen

[lunar sleet]

if you have source control setup sure

[queen dagger]

that i do not

[lunar sleet]

by revision log are you talking about changes made to your project?

[trim matrix]

what is a revision log?

[visual crest]

The npc is the caller not the listener

[queen dagger]

yes or at least something that can reset my version to one that isnt busted

[lunar sleet]

ok, then bind it in the area?

[lunar sleet]

engine version or project version?

[lofty rapids]

#ue5-general

[lunar sleet]

regardless, follow the guide in #ue5-general on setting up source control

[visual crest]

how lol binding has to have a single target and I have multiple

[lunar sleet]

Inheritance.

[queen dagger]

project version

and i was going to do perforce but i just was lazy

[lunar sleet]

"Unless you have a time machine", you need to setup source control before you can use it

[visual crest]

then I would have to make it a child of my npc class? Thats messy

[lunar sleet]

no jeez

did you watch bp comms training?

[queen dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/dellor-rage-keyboard-smash-gif-14790846

[visual crest]

yes

[lunar sleet]

ok, take me through this again, npcs walk into an area, that kills them on contact (or detects npcs killed in it w/e). What does it need to listen to?

is it listening to NPC's death event?

[visual crest]

no if npc in area dies the kill count needs updated

[lunar sleet]

ok, I mean I think you usually want to store that stuff in game mode

[visual crest]

Ok so I do need to do send a message to game mode/instance and then call from game mode/instance

thanks

[lunar sleet]

yeah, I mean there's more than one way to do this. you could do it all in the NPC parent class, but the counter should prly be in the GM or GI

[lunar sleet]

well your death event should be on the NPC not in the GI itself

rn you're calling an event inside the GI, that's bound to another event inside the GI

it's basically overkill

nothing wrong with just casting btw, dispatchers are just another way of communicating with other bps but they are not necessary

[visual crest]

no the first is in the NPC (the one with self)

[lunar sleet]

I'm talking about Died event

Your current flow is Death (NPC) -> Died (GI) -> NPCDied (GI) - New Event bound to the NPCDied somewhere else

[visual crest]

I can't bind the event to every npc in my area

yea

It does not seem the most efficient to me either that's why I asked here. But my NPC does not have a ref to the area it is in so it can't massage or call.

And my area can't cast to them because then it have to cast to each one and then bind each one

[lunar sleet]

why not

they are overlapping no?

[visual crest]

because my npc have a ton going on in them and having a ref to some random thing that gets used once seems dumb. And this way I can use the call from game inst anywhere again if need be

[lunar sleet]

ok

[visual crest]

Thanks for your help

[glacial lily]

is it possible at all to have two widgets displayed at once when using commonUI activatable widgets

[dark drum]

In a stack or queue, no. They're designed to only display one at a time.

[ornate linden]

I'm not sure I understand what a pawn is supposed to be exactly.
When i do GetPlayerContoller into GetControlledPawn I get a pawn and i can cast that to my APlayerCharacter presumably. but I could also on that pawn do GetOwner which returns an actor, which presumably i can also cast to APlayerCharacter?
Is the pawn the representation of my APlayerCharacter class? is the owner of the pawn itself but as a different type or something?
not sure i get it

mostly trying to figure out if it's good practice to just do GetPlayerController->GetControlledPawn->CastToAPlayerCharacter and then do stuff with my APlayerCharacter, or if i should be doing a different set of steps whenever i need access to my actor

i guess its actor->pawn->character->playercharacter. so it should be fine

[queen dagger]

Ok i got it functioning

Question so far regardless of map i spawn my character, I have a stage select that leads to different stagees where i dont want it to spawn what can i do

(also set up Perforce, not doing this again lol)

[manic frost]

trying to link my max health parameter to the one in my material node. I made a code line in my widget blueprint and connected the material to a progress bar in my widget. here are my code lines, they are not working as planned and I wanted to know if there is something I missed

[frosty heron]

Controller is derived from actor

Same with pawn

[gentle urchin]

Owner of pawn is controller

If its possessed

[manic frost]

never mind, I fixed it. here is the solution

[marble yew]

how to write to log from blueprint ?

[dry sleet]

Print String or Print Text have the option to print to log enabled by default.

[marble yew]

thanks

[queen dagger]

ok question

is there a node that disables player input but would allow random inputs to be fed to an ai character

rn i have to pawns and both are seemingly linked to the same input however I want it to be random for the AiCharacter

[little coral]

Hi All,
in the above situation, the event begin play would only run once at the start of the game, event tick would run continuously and drain resource, so what sort of dispatcher should i have ?

this is the score function

building this with chatgpt, forgive the madnesss

[lofty rapids]

what are you trying to do ?

[little coral]

same thing from yesterday.

Score reaches X > move player to target point 1 & repeat that for each score threshold until final target point reached

[lofty rapids]

so begin play runs once i'm pretty sure

[little coral]

yeah

[lofty rapids]

you probably want to use a custom event for changing your score, and one for your move, and in the change your score event check if your score is equal to whatever value you want, and if it is, then fire of the move

when does the score update ?

[faint pasture]

you want score to increment 60x per second?

[old forge]

PIE: Warning: Mobility of /Game/VRTemplate/Maps/UEDPIE_0_VRTemplateMap.VRTemplateMap:PersistentLevel.Jameson_NPC_C_1 : CollisionCylinder has to be 'Movable' if you'd like to move it with CharacterMovementComponent.
LogHMD: Warning: GetPlayAreaBounds xrGetReferenceSpaceBoundsRect with reference space XR_REFERENCE_SPACE_TYPE_STAGE failed with result XR_SPACE_BOUNDS_UNAVAILABLE. Returning zero vector.
LogHMD: Warning: GetPlayAreaBounds xrGetReferenceSpaceBoundsRect with reference space XR_REFERENCE_SPACE_TYPE_STAGE failed with result XR_SPACE_BOUNDS_UNAVAILABLE. Returning zero vector.
LogHMD: Warning: GetPlayAreaBounds xrGetReferenceSpaceBoundsRect with reference space XR_REFERENCE_SPACE_TYPE_STAGE failed with result XR_SPACE_BOUNDS_UNAVAILABLE. Returning zero vector.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Jameson_NPC_C_1] Hello Adventurer
LogProfilingDebugging: Allocated a 1024 x 1024 texture for HMD canvas layer
LogSlate: Updating window title bar state: overlay mode, drag disabled, window buttons hidden, title bar hidden
LogWorld: BeginTearingDown for /Game/VRTemplate/Maps/UEDPIE_0_VRTemplateMap
LogSlate: Window 'Project3 Preview [NetMode: Standalone 0]  (64-bit/PC D3D SM6) OpenXR Oculus (1.95.0)' being destroyed
LogWorld: UWorld::CleanupWorld for VRTemplateMap, bSessionEnded=true, bCleanupResources=true
LogSlate: InvalidateAllWidgets triggered.  All widgets were invalidated
LogPlayLevel: Display: Shutting down PIE online subsystems
LogSlate: InvalidateAllWidgets triggered.  All widgets were invalidated
LogAudio: Display: Audio Device unregistered from world 'None'.
LogAudioMixer: Deinitializing Audio Bus Subsystem for audio device with ID 3
LogAudioMixer: FMixerPlatformXAudio2::StopAudioStream() called. InstanceID=3
LogAudioMixer: FMixerPlatformXAudio2::StopAudioStream() called. InstanceID=3

I have an NPC Jameson, last night he worked totally fine. I saved the project, opened it today and now he doesn't work. After I interact with him, controls are totally lost. HELP!

[faint pasture]

have you tried fixing the first error?

[little coral]

at the moment it happens on target hit

[faint pasture]

1. What class is this code in?
2. What do you want an actor of that class to actually do?

[old forge]

when I make him movable, he sinks into the chair. and it still doesnt fix it

he still breaks all of the controls even if i make him movable

[little coral]

this is happening in the level blueprint at the moment
i am not sure how to answer that question honestly.

the whole mechanic is Score = 6 , move player to target point A 10 = point B and so on

maybe i am missing something up along the way lol

[faint pasture]

what

[lofty rapids]

so thats where you want to check the score to see if it is >= something and move player accordingly

i would probably have an array or two

or an array of structs

[trim matrix]

you are getting 1 actor btw

[little coral]

i do one for the points and one for the rotations

[trim matrix]

everything seems wrong

[faint pasture]

this is for your rail shooter right?

[little coral]

yea

[old forge]

@lofty rapids i will pay you an hourly rate to help me bug fix this shit

if u hop into a zoom call with me

[faint pasture]

ok so think about it from the top down.
You want to do something when the score hits some breakpoint right?
So you need to know when the score might do that. The best place would be when the score gets added to.

BTW get this out of level BP, level bp is ass because nothing can talk to it

put this in a GameState class or make a BP which contains the points etc

[little coral]

alright will move things around and see if it makes a difference

[faint pasture]

You want to be able to make multiple levels right?

You can put most of this code in your pawn/character

just make another actor to represent the standing spots

and scatter them all over the level

[little coral]

i am using the targetpoints for that

[faint pasture]

ok so keep that same energy

put everything a target point would need in it

[trim matrix]

LMAO

[faint pasture]

presumably the score requirement

[old forge]

nah fr, this project is due on friday, and i cant work on it tmrw, i can put in maybe 3 more hours of work at this point

this fucking NPC was literally working yesterday, i saved that shit, went home, opened it up today and now it doesnt work

literally have not changed anything

[little coral]

trying now

[trim matrix]

how can it disable input / output correctly without having a player controller node connected to it?

[little coral]

blueprints save separtley

[old forge]

wtf

[trim matrix]

maybe try this @old forge cuz Idk how it would work without it

[old forge]

thats what im saying

maybe its crashing the project or something

or freezing it

[undone bluff]

no that's correct

[faint pasture]

then in the pawn/character:

Begin play -> ????? other setup????? -> get all actors of class TargetPoint -> save to an array -> call ChooseTargetPoint

ChooseTargetPoint -> loop over all target points, choose the one with the lowest MaxScore that is greater than currentscore, set it as CurrentTargetPoint, call MoveToNewTargetPoint

MoveToNewTargetPoint -> move self towards CurrentTargetPoint

Event IncrementScore -> update the score -> check if score > CurrentTargetPoint.MaxScore -> if it is, call ChooseTargetPoint

[trim matrix]

/Game/VRTemplate/Maps/UEDPIE_0_VRTemplateMap.VRTemplateMap:PersistentLevel.Jameson_NPC_C_1 : CollisionCylinder has to be 'Movable' if you'd like to move it with CharacterMovementComponent.

=

You have to change the component in his property to MOVABLE and not static or something like that...

[undone bluff]

disable input with no player controller reference given will make it no longer receive inputs from any controller

that's intended behaviour

[trim matrix]

oh okk

[trim matrix]

but this is right

[little coral]

oh i see what you mean,
Will test out this layout and see

[old forge]

hm

[old forge]

when i make him movable, he falls thru the couch hes sitting on

idk how to make him sit on it

[undone bluff]

do give enable input a controller reference though because I'm quite confident it needs it

[faint pasture]

Level BP is bad because it's not gettable from other classes, and it's not reusable in other levels. It's really for level-specific stuff, like maybe the Levelutions in battlefield.

[old forge]

the disable input is on the VRPawn though, the reference is self

[trim matrix]

mhm

[undone bluff]

vrpawn is not a controller

[old forge]

and it re enables it

does it matter though? this was the same exact blueprint i had when he did work

[lofty rapids]

thats odd it just broke

[trim matrix]

well I dont know but there's literally a input pin called Player Controller so try it and see

[old forge]

ill try that

[little coral]

so when i move to gamestate blueprint
how can i populate the array ?

[undone bluff]

I just tested and indeed enable input should just work

but I'd try anyways

[faint pasture]

begin play, get actors of class
but you can do this all in your pawn

[undone bluff]

I mean it's a few seconds to try

[old forge]

trying rn, rebooting the project rq

[little coral]

oh so not even the game state ?

[undone bluff]

also just make sure the node is actually being executed

[faint pasture]

#blueprint message

Either/or but this would be simplest

your pawn is doing the moving, it can move itself and knwo about the target points and score

[old forge]

how do you check that? with prints?

[faint pasture]

quick and dirty

[little coral]

ahhh ok

[undone bluff]

yea, that'd work

or slap a breakpoint on it (F9)

[trim matrix]

It might be something in the character properties that is wrong if setting it to moveable doesn't work as expected

[old forge]

im not gonna lie, I dont even know where my player controller is

@undone bluff so i wouldnt be able to test the thing u told me to

[undone bluff]

defined in the gamemode

no, check if enable input is being called at all

[faint pasture]

Revert back to when it worked and see what's different

you ARE using version control right?

[old forge]

nope

[faint pasture]

lesson learned

[old forge]

dont know which one to use

Git?

[faint pasture]

I like plastic but anything works

[old forge]

ill try that

[trim matrix]

is the character just in a static pose?

[old forge]

my professors are stupid as fuck, gave us a crazy project prompt, they dont know how to use Unreal at all...

[old forge]

character is in a sitting animation

enable input is getting called

confirmed @trim matrix @undone bluff

[faint pasture]

why are you disabling input anyway

then immediatly enabling it if you're lucky

[old forge]

to stop the player from spamming the butotn that makes the audio dialogue repeatedly play

[faint pasture]

just block it by some variable like CurrentPlayingDialogue or whatever

[old forge]

if i didnt disable input during the dialogue, the player could press the dialogue button again and again, and the audio will play

[old forge]

tried that, it didnt work

[faint pasture]

it would

[trim matrix]

you did it wrong probably

[faint pasture]

what happens if nothing nearby implements the interface?

just broken forever?

[old forge]

yea

[faint pasture]

yeah don't do that

just lose the disabling and check if it "works"

then figure out how to block the play dialogue bit

wait you have an interface per dialogue?

[old forge]

yes

this is what i had before, and it didnt work

[little coral]

would there be a smarter way to implement anything out of what you said inside this function before using it in the main blueprint ?

[old forge]

the COP DIALOGUE BLUEPRINT on the bottom also works for the cop NPC, its implemented exactly the same as Jameson, works perfectly, but when i talk to jameson all input is lost

[trim matrix]

the Delay is at a wrong place here...

might set the variable to false multiple time

[faint pasture]

It should be in pawn so just get self or get selfs controller

[old forge]

deleted the disable input and it still freezes all inpt

[ornate linden]

Given I'm trying to do a turn-based game experience does it make sense to have a player controller for the overworld movement and then swapping it out for a player controller for the battle portions?
also in this case I guess if I wanted an inventory which is shared in such a way that both have access to it, and also the inventory is shared between all pawns the player could control, i'd need to figure out where to put that, cuz i was planning on putting it in the controller until this point lol.

[undone bluff]

you will definitely not be swapping out player controllers

[lofty rapids]

so when does it freeze ?

[undone bluff]

though sometimes I wish I could for some bigger minigames

[undone bluff]

might be a widget consuming input?

[ornate linden]

so you just have 1 controller that has like several different components in it for the different mini-games?

[undone bluff]

regarding the inventory, I have something similar going on

there is just one player inventory which is in the controller

[old forge]

the moment i press the interact button with the NPC, it plays the dialogue audio, but all input is lost,

[undone bluff]

that is its own subclass with logic specific to the player inventory

and then I have a base inventory component for anything that can hold items

[lofty rapids]

when is it supposed to come back ?

[old forge]

its not even ever supposed to be lost, you can walk away normally when he talks and the other NPCs talk.

@lofty rapids

[lofty rapids]

so what do you do on interact ?

what does that look like ?

[old forge]

interact > NPC plays audio (interact is disabled while audio plays)

thats it

[undone bluff]

yep, you can only change the controller when completely loading a new gamemode on level change

[trim matrix]

Then why are you disabling input if you don't want that to happen?

[lofty rapids]

you say interact is disabled, how are you disabling it ?

[old forge]

input is disabled so you dont spam the interact button and continuously replay the audio

[lofty rapids]

ok so input is disabled

[undone bluff]

but!

[lofty rapids]

i imagine that would disable the controls as well

[undone bluff]

you can kinda just make your own controller, as in not inheriting from the native playercontroller class

[old forge]

like this

the buttom blueprint is for another NPC, and that NPC works as intended

only the top blueprint doesnt work

[undone bluff]

I prefer components but that is another approach

[old forge]

the other NPC is a pure copy and paste of the Jameson NPC that is broken

[lofty rapids]

for one thing you probably want to enable on completed ?

[old forge]

yea it enables it

i used a print statement, and the logic always reaches the re enable input

[lofty rapids]

if you get rid of disable input

what happens ?

[old forge]

getting rid of disable input doesnt fix it, input is still fucke dup

[lofty rapids]

ok so your input is f'd

does the event fire ?

[trim matrix]

OK, let me tell you this, there are a lot of times that you want a player to not be able to spam or do something too fast, but BOOLs are made for that, literally...

I would highly consider using them and trying to get it right with a bool (which is pretty easy), that will make you learn a lot
(it should take less than an hour, you just have to think about it a little bit)

[old forge]

yes

[marble yew]

is there button that would clean my tangle mess ?

[undone bluff]

Q straightens connections

[old forge]

i thought i did it correctly with that photo i sent earlier

[old forge]

yes it does

[marble yew]

is this the only way ?

[lofty rapids]

so when you enter your game, your whole thing is disabled ? or only when you hit interact ?

[undone bluff]

pretty much yea, there is a paid plugin that is able to arrange nodes nicely I think

[trim matrix]

it wasn't + I didn't see the event under

[marble yew]

ok ty

[old forge]

when i enter the game, input works fine, i can talk to the other NPC (which is a copy and paste of the broken one), and the interaction works as intended, i can interact > it plays audio > i can walk away or do whatever i want. but when I talk to the Jameson NPC, he plays his audio, but then all input is frozen and never comes back
@lofty rapids

[marble yew]

is there way to make full screenshot of all blueprint nodes ?

[undone bluff]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/blueprint-graph-screenshot

free

[marble yew]

ok ty

[undone bluff]

might do what you want

[old forge]

ill venmo you $20 to hop in a zoom call with me for 30 minutes to try ot fix this @lofty rapids

[lofty rapids]

and it does that even when you get rid of disable and enable input ?

[old forge]

yes

[trim matrix]

lmao, I beg use a bool

[undone bluff]

ah actually there is a link to the ue5 version in the description

[lofty rapids]

does talk do anything with input ?

[undone bluff]

you probably want that instead

but it's paid 😔

rip

[marble yew]

rip

[old forge]

talk doesnt do anything with the input

[frosty heron]

Why is player controller null?

Look at your disable and enable input

U didn't plug any player controller

[trim matrix]

it works

[old forge]

@lofty rapids

[trim matrix]

it's fine, I dont know why but it does

[frosty heron]

Prob, I don't dive to the code. Might get the first player controller if null

[undone bluff]

yea it's fine, not specifying a controller will just apply to all

docs even say so

[trim matrix]

let me hop in and show you the answer, sadly

[lofty rapids]

interesting does it do it if you talk to one then try to talk to the other ? or from the beginning and you talk to the broken one, it still breaks ?

[frosty heron]

I wouldn't disable entire controller anyway if it's my game

When talking to someone, just disable what I must

[trim matrix]

she could use a bool but it's too hard apparently

[frosty heron]

Eg the camera look, the interaction input etc

[undone bluff]

yea having a boolean to check if in dialogue is pretty much it

[frosty heron]

Bool check is fine yea

[old forge]

if i talk to the broken one first, all input is lost. and if i talk to the working one first it and then the broken one it breaks

[trim matrix]

she was setting it in a loop tho that was running multiple times

[faint pasture]

Nah, input mapping contexts

[ornate linden]

guess i'll look up what that is

[faint pasture]

Basically lets you have a stack or swap out what buttons map to what input events

easy way to have modal controls

[ornate linden]

nice

[faint pasture]

but there's no reason your controls for overworld can't just be in the pawn

putting controls in a pawn is effectively an input mapping context

[ornate linden]

oh yeah i built out a input mapping context when i switched from the old inputactions or whatever. i get it, you just make different ones of those and swap them out

neat

[lofty rapids]

how are you intereacting ?

maybe it's something in there

[old forge]

i press B on my Quest 3 controller

[lofty rapids]

so these events are triggered when you press a button ?

theres no overlap, or get closest of some kind ?

how are you running the same b press with multiple npc ?

[old forge]

yes, theres no overlap, they are far from each other

this is how the same B press works with multiple NPCs

[flat coral]

Since when do Blueprints have static functions? How do I switch this function to be an instance function?

It's copied from a function library which is probably why, but I've never seen this before

[lofty rapids]

so your running two events of the same input ?

you want to only have one

check for the interface in the loop

if not one, then try the other

because you shouldn't have two inputs of the same thing

i'm guessing the second one is disabling, not firing the interface, and not enabling

[old forge]

then how do i call the interface?

[old forge]

as you can see, i call the interface after the branch node

[lofty rapids]

see how you check for interface ?

if it doesn't implement, check if it implement the other one

just use one input, don't try to use a duplicate or multiples like that

[old forge]

ill try

[lofty rapids]

get overlapping actors, foreach, check if implimenets one if so fire that function, if it doesn't then check if implements the other, if so fire that function

but the way you are doing it will get tricky if you get two overlapping

[old forge]

got it

my brain is fried, im taking a 15 minute break

[lofty rapids]

and also cache the overlapping actors before you loop over them, with not many it won't matter much pure nodes run foreach one of the loop

so if you cache it, it just runs the get overlapping once, and you just pull from the array

[trim matrix]

'cache' ???

[lofty rapids]

basically, store it in memory for easy access

so promote to variable

[trim matrix]

you meant cast

[lofty rapids]

no i meant to cache the overlapping actors out of the node into a variable

[trim matrix]

there's no cache in BP

[lofty rapids]

(computing) cache: store (data) in a cache memory

but whatever the proper term

i just meant to store it in a variable instead of pulling from the function every time from the foreach

[trim matrix]

bool by default is false.

@old forge

[lofty rapids]

also that disablin enabling probably won't work very well for what you want to do

especially if you overlap something that doesn't implement the interface

then you stuck disabled

[old forge]

alright i just added a 3rd NPC that works, but now the previous working NPC doesnt work and the original 1st NPC still doesnt work

every new NPC i add @lofty rapids @trim matrix basically fucks up the previous ones and destroys input

[lofty rapids]

are you still doing multiple input events ?

[old forge]

yes, im going to try to implement what you said earlier

i just wanted to test what happened if i added a third

[lofty rapids]

ok because i'm pretty sure thats whats messing it up

it's firing off the other one as well which disables, but doesn't implement that interface

so it doesn't enable

but why are you using seperate interface ?

probably just one with the same event so whatever one you go on it just works the same

[old forge]

im just following a tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbs0xaNOeA0

[lunar sleet]

lol Gorka

That guy’s channel needs to be shutdown

[trim matrix]

TRUE

[old forge]

can you help me visualize this please

[lofty rapids]

well if you want multiple just implemenet the same interface on them, and call the function, then just set that function on that npc. so no matter what one you use if it implements that interface, call that function, it runs specific for that npc

[trim matrix]

this, I beg

[old forge]

im going to do that too cat

i need to figure out how to make engages blueprint

im very lost

[lofty rapids]

well aside from doing it the way your doing, i would just use one interface

for all npc

[old forge]

ill do that

[trim matrix]

so explain what do you want in detail?
When you come close to him, the talk function fires?

[lofty rapids]

so an interface you make a function, then in each one you override the function for that npc

so you don't have to check multiple interfaces that code will get messy

[old forge]

i have them all implementing the same interface now

[lofty rapids]

so now just use the one input

[old forge]

can u draw it out please, lol, im really lost

[lofty rapids]

so you have multiple inputs ?

[old forge]

only one

[lofty rapids]

ok

so don't disable or enable

the input

leave that out for now

[old forge]

but in the getoverlapping actors, theres a class filter, what do i put in that?

[lofty rapids]

you can just leave it

[old forge]

previously it would be one NPC

[lofty rapids]

just leave it the default

[old forge]

ok

[lofty rapids]

it will get them all

[trim matrix]

why is there 2 event tho?

[old forge]

this is what i got going on

[old forge]

went from individually making the inputs to mashing it all together

[little coral]

deep breath intensifies

[trim matrix]

if they all do the talk function, just do from the red output of the 3 'Does implement interface' and do a OR and connect it to a talk function

[lofty rapids]

you don't need all those now that they all implement the same interface

you just need the one check because they all use the same one

[trim matrix]

if 1 is implemented (we dont caare which one), it will fire

[old forge]

HOLY FUCK

IT WORKS

[old forge]

this fucking mess works @trim matrix @lofty rapids

i can talk to all of them now without input freezing

FUCKING LOVE YOU GUYS

[trim matrix]

I told you

[little coral]

so i figured the easiest way to trigger things would be to bind the score check and the whole thing to hits from the mouse instead of an event tick
on each shot it would print the hello, but would not execute the functions beyond it

[trim matrix]

🥳

[lofty rapids]

the bottom two things are just unplugged so they don't run, you don't need them

[old forge]

wdym they're unplugged

[trim matrix]

she prob knows

[old forge]

i dont know

you guys are the best things to exist on this planet @trim matrix @lofty rapids

[trim matrix]

well basically if these are 3 different interface for different npc, only 1 will work

(the one who is connected)

[lofty rapids]

they aren't doing anything anyway

the suggestion was before you switched it to the better way which is all on the same one

[old forge]

yea i just deleted them

holy fuck

this is so legendary

ive spent 6 hours fucking around today trying to fix this shit

i feel like an idiot

[trim matrix]

nahh, it's normal
that's how we learn

[old forge]

you guys are elite for helping out newbies like me

holy fuck

the dopamine is hitting me

its like crack

[little coral]

remember that mutant bear from annihilation ? i feel like it now
save meeeeeeh

[old forge]

getting this shit to work

[trim matrix]

🥳

[lofty rapids]

your saying those functions don't fire ? they should, are you not getting the data out of them ?

[little coral]

its weird if i put a print string after the sequence it does fire up, but nothing happens beyond that

even if i put it after the custom functions

[trim matrix]

if you need help again, just come here, there's always a lot of ppl that help :3

[faint pasture]

why are you triggering this off your mouse button?

kick it off when a point is scored

you presumably have some way to get points right?

[old forge]

lets fucking go

[faint pasture]

Instead of:
???? -> Points ++
do
????? -> Points++ -> Do we have enough points to move now

[little coral]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/61m6bzdx/
I have a way to get the points, but everything i tried to recall has failed, so this was the dirtiest and quickest way to ensure the thing gets updated after each score hit since score misses dont do a thing

[dense canyon]

how can i make a Plugin work in this case? i'm working on a game with multiple people in github desktop and i already copy pasted the plugin in the UE4.27/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace folder and it wont work🙏

[faint pasture]

compile them

assuming you have the source

[dense canyon]

i cant open the uproject

[faint pasture]

?

you need the c++ toolchain

and open the project up in Rider or Visual Studio 🤮

[dense canyon]

i tried enabling the plugin in a blank project and it automatically closed when i enabled it, you sure that could work?

[faint pasture]

it hasn't been rebuilt or edited to work with your current version of unreal so that's what you have to do

[dense canyon]

i see

thank you!!

[trim matrix]

c++ toolchain is the hardest thing ever

@dense canyon Is that not real?

[dense canyon]

the plugin?

[trim matrix]

I was just saying that it's hard, nothing bad, why did you skyull me?

[dense canyon]

sorry, its my way of saying im dying inside

💀

[trim matrix]

okkk

[dense canyon]

sorry for the misunderstood

🙏

[trim matrix]

all G

[vernal snow]

Howdy, been working on a weapon system similar to COD for a month now, a few iterations in on it and im starting to get a good understanding via trial and error.

Basically my end goal is to create a system where the player can go in a loadout menu, select different weapons and than different weapon parts for that with a tangible effect (Visuals & Stat changes).
So far in my iterations managed to get quite close to it, and im less looking for help on that and more looking for help on a high level overview of my current plan to see if there is any holes in it,

So the plan weapon system I have:

Interaction Interface, Family Hierarchy, Structures (And nested structures), Skeletal Mesh Components (SKM) + Static Mesh Components and Skeletal Mesh Actors.
SKM is for animation so for example the gun firing, having that bolt move forward and back.
SMC is to be cheap on it being not soo intensive.

Blueprint wise im thinking
Pick up BP, will be the Weapon Master Blueprint, has the interface and structure for all the data.
Depending on weapon type creates a certain SKM that relates to the weapon type that is added it to the player,
SKM Component that is added to the player is to handle Input connection, mapping context and calling functions to the connected weapon.
the SKM Comp which upon creation creates a related Actor Blueprint that has the stats depending on the weapon and its mods.
This Actor is attached to the Player (A Scene or would be a bone).

BP Weapon master
Basic set up for what all weapons share (weapon Data)
BP WM_FireArm
This acts as a parent to all guns, basic set up for what all fire arms share (Basic functions like shooting, aiming, reloading)
BP_WM_FA_Rifle
This one acts as a arch type, allowing a basic set up for what all rifles share (Higher Damage against Armour as an example)
BP_WM_FA_R_1*
And this is the end child.
*So, this is where i would think the Mods would have an affect on stats here, since i've been using Static / Skeletal Mesh variables as a Set type with it making an array, my previous set up had it in the array in order depending on the integer it changes the visual aspect.
I apologise for the long posting, just fairly stuck in the mud here and before i recreate a new thing base on this plan i want it to generally be in the right direction.

And videos online havent been too helpful for me personally.

[silk bay]

Heya, I'm having an issue with ragdoll enemies when they die. It's like they leave behind their physics bodies and block the player from moving where it used to be. The dead enemy also has its bodies where it dies. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!

[sacred canyon]

disconnected bone?

oh wait

are you sure its not just the capsule not having its collision disabled

[thorn fiber]

I am now noticing this behavior in 5.3

[ripe quarry]

this seems likely. the collision remains in the last place the enemy was alive before it ragdolls from what i see

i guess a temp fix would be to destroy the actor entirely after it ragdolls? Then you can atleast test other things without it being a hassle, then go back to it later

[silk bay]

there's also a collision where the enemy lays dead. So the capules are somehow duplicated?

[sacred canyon]

check in the physics asset if all the bones are attached to the ragdoll (if the ragdoll itself even has collision enabled) and uncheck hidden in game on the capsule to see if its that

[lunar sleet]

TLDR, if you want help, you should prly not write a blog about your journey so far. Ask a question about the specific issue you are having

There’s a bDisallowNanite flag but not sure if it’s exposed to bp

[grizzled roost]

How do I get a world reference, specifically inside a function library?
This isn't working: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ejzcck9n/

[vernal snow]

Im attempting to get across the high level overview of my plan to get the general parts laid down, im trying to ask if there is another better way to go about this since i've been going in circles because i think another method would work better

[lunar sleet]

Tbh, if whatever you are doing does the job, it’s prly fine. If it becomes an issue later you can always refactor.

[vernal snow]

Alright, Thanks

[silk bay]

hey thanks for the suggestions, the solution was to add Destroy Capsule Component. Adding a little delay helps so it falls backwards instead of straight down.

[lunar sleet]

I don’t think you have a world context in a bp function library, it exists outside of the world afaik, so idk if you can do what you want unless your function can take an input of type world object

[grizzled roost]

I can have a world context in a function library, but that code as a whole gave me plenty of errors so it doesn't work.
I'm trying to spawn an actor through a function library and apparently I need a world reference in order to do that.

[lunar sleet]

Have you tried passing a world ref from that world into the library function?

[grizzled roost]

How do I do that?

[deep void]

Does anyone know why my high res screenshot always defaults to the viewport / character, even when I set up a camera and assign it to this node? (no mater what camera I plug in its always the same)

[main lake]

Is it normal that a Flip Flop node inside a function always reset its internal value and keep always going to the A pin each time the function is getting called ?

[spark steppe]

i don't even wanna know how you got the fliplflop node in a function...

it's not supposed to be used there

[main lake]

I didn't know that

[karmic idol]

Hey all - hoping someone can help me figure out what I need to do better. I have a Pause Menu widget, a Settings Menu widget, and having problems getting back to the Game Mode when cycling between Game, Pause, Settings, and back to Pause and then Game. When I resume the game, the pause is removed and the game functions slow and some of the Enhanced Inputs (ex. shooting) become laggy and glitchy.

Any thoughts? Attached a screenshot of my BP_Player, WBP_PauseMenu, and WBP_PauseMenuSettings.

[subtle light]

does anyone know how optimized the transform struct is? is it able to internally compress or truncate the scale into a simple and tiny piece of data if it's simply (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)? need to know this before writing a bunch of functionality, which will be heavy on passing transforms around on tick, as well as replicating over UDP networking.

[haughty iron]

Pre construct is editor use on construct instead - you are setting show mouse cursor to true when going back to input mode game only, do you need the mouse on the screen during the game ? - back to pause menu blue variable pin from create widget to add to viewport isn’t connected ( make these variables as well and use an is valid check before creating the widget ) as for the lag try unhooking set input mode ui and game only and see if that helps ?

[haughty iron]

That is what a branch be for 😉

[karmic idol]

I fixed the 'Show Cursor' set as True for the Resume button. What variable should i set for the Create Widget? And thank you for your help

[haughty iron]

I’m on my phone so I can’t write properly

Should look like that

[west hare]

How can i access Level Blueprint variables from another BP?

[haughty iron]

Cast to the game mode in the level blueprint and send them over, you can use interfaces but you need to use sub levels, communication with the level blueprint is a tricky one as you can’t cast to it directly from say your game mode

[karmic idol]

Sam you guided me to the solution... In my settings event graph i didn't have the create widget blue pin connected to the add to viewport blue pin. Tyvm!

No lag after returning to game either... having the cursor enabled may have contributed.

[queen dagger]

is there a duplicate function for an anim source where it keeps all the animations as well cus i need each ai or player to have its own animsource but since they share the character pool is there a way i can just copy the enttire pool of sprites

in paper 2d

[elfin lagoon]

I’m working with Fog-of-War system for a multiplayer MOBA game, and the more i research this topic, the more i confused.
Read tons of articles already and watch tons of guides, but don’t like the result anyway.
I use Ryan Laley's RTS guide as a basis, and don’t like what i got: it barely can be adjusted to multiplayer and ends with a massive FPS drops.
I need to implement very simple feature, but with strong restrictions, i don’t need “terra incognita” map, which must be explored like in a RPG games, i need a normal vision around a pawns, and slightly darker area outside of their vision range zone, that’s all.
But strong restrictions is:
1st - system needs to be server-client oriented, to evade cheating at client side like “map-hack”,
2nd - it must have minimal impact to FPS, to keep it as high as possible.
Help me please with advices and guides, how to do it in blueprints.
Thank you.

[west hare]

Fixed it. I just moved everything out to a Actor Blueprint instance/object.

[gentle urchin]

Adriel has shared some stuff from their plugin

Seem to perform quite well

#game-math message

#blueprint message

[zealous moth]

does anyone know in BP how to access a task on an AI BT? I want to interrupt or abort the current task on an event

[elfin lagoon]

i'll check it out, thank you

[gentle urchin]

#gameplay-ai , i would've guessed you checked for interuption in thebservice related to the task 🤔

Not gotten to such a scenario yet 🫣

[zealous moth]

I was moreso wanting to use the BP instead of AI and simply abort. I am testing setting the max walk speed to 0 for a moment to simulate it

[gentle urchin]

Well sure, but ai channel would know more about how to do that. If even possible :p

[zealous moth]

it's kinda a dead channel to be fair

the setting of walk speed to 0 for a moment seemed to have worked

alternatively, unpossess for a moment as well works

[elfin lagoon]

nope, that's not what i'm looking for

[gentle urchin]

I missed the MOBA part

This would probably not work well with MOBA

Finding some plugins but a lot of seemingly not related stuff aswell.. guessing you dont want to purchase a plugin?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/gkfogofwar was what i found skimming through some posts

[lunar sleet]

If it’s like a normal function where you can give it inputs and outputs, and you’re calling said library function from a bp that exists in your world, then you should be able to pass the world ref

[grizzled roost]

Not sure what you mean but I decided to just create an actor that contained all of my necessary functions.
Works just fine, not counting the bugs I have to fix.
Thanks either way.

[elfin lagoon]

i dont want to use plugins at all in this case
i need just a brighter zone around a pawn, but using dynamic materials ends with a huge FPS drops
find a reference about using decals for this, i dont know how to, but i need to try it this way

[lunar sleet]

You get the world in the bp that calls your library function, create input field on said function, plug it in, but w/e

[grizzled roost]

I tried doing that and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, oh well.

[bitter otter]

hey, is there a way to add the character movement component to any actor, not just have it be a default on the character class, also is there a way to remove default components from a class, such as the collider for the character class?

[lunar sleet]

1. Yes. 2. No

Actually might need to be a floating pawn component

And for it to be a pawn, if you want it to actually work properly

What are you trying to do that you want to avoid using a char

[gentle urchin]

Cmc cant be added to other classes than character afaik?

[lunar sleet]

It can be added, but depending on what you’re using it for it may not work

Iirc the char’s default capsule component is important to the CMC, hence why they don’t let you remove it

[gentle urchin]

Yepp true

[elfin lagoon]

how to make two same decals do not overlap each other like this?
only one layer of same decal is needed

[thin panther]

You might be able to try making the material world aligned

[elfin lagoon]

sry, how to do it?

[mighty cosmos]

hi everybody 👋 I have a question: is there a simpler way to identify only one actor for using it in another actors Blueprint than 1) tag the one actor; 2) (in the other actors Blueprint) get all actors; 3) get copy; 4) Set new variable ?? hope it is understandable?

[gentle urchin]

Whats the relationship between these actors

[thin panther]

Using the world aligned texture, and the absolute world position nodes

[surreal peak]

I wouldn't say simple, but cleaner yeah.

I usually have a Component on the GameState called "XYZManager". That has either an Array of the Actoes or a single pointer (reference) to the one Actor.

The Actor/s can then Get the GameState and then the Component on BeginPlay and add/set themselves on the Component.

And then fwiw remove/unset on EndPlay.

Any other Actor can then get the Component via the GameState and access the Actor/s.

Not sure that's what you need though

[dark drum]

As eXi is saying, something like this.

https://youtu.be/RygVokx-mzk

[surreal peak]

Yeah I would not use an FName but an FGameplayTag for this. But something like that yeah

[elfin lagoon]

sry, i'm noob at this
my material for this decal dont have a texture, so i dont see how to use these nodes

[mental trellis]

You can add a default input for the base color parameter for previewing.

To the parameter.

And set up a test texture there. I think anyway.

[dark drum]

Gameplay tags are nicer but can be a pain if you ever need to remove any lol. In one of my projects I have two being used in a level and I can't find them to remove them haha.

[surreal peak]

True, still better than typed out names.

Also allows categorizing the actors by only returning the ones based on parent tag and similar.

[mighty cosmos]

ah, cool! thx

[gentle urchin]

Categorization is great

Typed names not so much

[dark drum]

No probs, the concept shown in the video can be used for many types of managers. Whilst its a general actor manager, you can create one specific for storing specific types of actors.

I use something similar for storing all Dialogue components on my NPC's. This can be handy for fetching one to update what dialogue module an NPC should use but also for saving as all the components that have data that should be saved is stored in one place.

If you're familiar with gameplay tags, you could use that instead of the fName as eXi suggested to reduce typing errors.

[surreal peak]

To be clear. It's not only about typing errors.

But anything is better than GetAllActorsWithTag 💀

[mighty cosmos]

alright, thx!

[gentle urchin]

I just slap gameplaytag on most things these days

• ItemID
• Questdata
• Interactions
• Equip slots

[mighty cosmos]

i have to wrap my head around these concepts... 🙃

[remote meteor]

typing FName manually for these kind of stuff = waiting for human error to happen..

[gentle urchin]

Usually dont have to wait long

[remote meteor]

atleast have a function library to centralize the typing

[gentle urchin]

"Why the fudge doesnt my function work?! They are named "IAsaka" ! Wait.. did i type "lAsaka"? "

Or was it |Asaka... 🤔

GameplayTags may be typed wrong, but atleast they're consistently typed in the dropdown list :p

[remote meteor]

🤣

[rancid moat]

The only way I found to modify the collision preset is to use SetCollisionProfileName that should do exactly what I need. Issue is, it only take PriitiveComponent, which Static Mesh aren't, and I want to create an AssetActionUtility to change a mesh collision preset. Any ideas?

[surreal peak]

You want to change the default collision settings on the mesh as opposed to a Component?

[rancid moat]

I want to be able to select all of my mesh in my ContentBrowser, and click on a Scripted Asset Action to set all of them to a define Preset.
Issue is, can't pass Static Mesh to SetCollisionProfileName, and can't cast StaticMesh to PrimitiveComponent

[dark drum]

I thought static mesh component was a child of primitive component so I'm not sure why it wouldn't accept it.

[mental trellis]

It is

[rancid moat]

static mesh component are child of primitive component, static mesh aren't

I'm not trying to use component from a blueprnt, I want to directly change the information on my assets in the content browser

[spark steppe]

as cedric said, there's a collision setting on meshes, too?!

probably just a different method/name to change it

[rancid moat]

If this exist, then that's what I'm looking for, no luck so far tho, only thing I found to change preset is this single function

[surreal peak]

I would try to just select them all and go to the Property Matrix

Instead of using an Asset Action

In the Property Matrix you can probably change the Collision

[dark drum]

The property matrix is pretty handy for mass edits.

[rancid moat]

Well, no you don't have access to collision preset in the property matrix ^^

[surreal peak]

I'm not sure what the AssetActions allow to do. Relatively sure you could do this with C++ somehow

[dark drum]

Isn't this the setting you're wanting to bulk change?

[rancid moat]

Ooh ok.. it's not in "Collision" but in "StaticMesh" alright! Thanks!

I've dodge the issue.
Either I can use matrix, as you said, problem was that wasn't what was asked of me, but completly functionnal.
Other option I did is I have a AssetUtilityFunction that... dig into the entire current world, get every actor, get every mesh of said actor, check the path of those actors, and if the path is correct, change the Collision preset with SetCollisionProfileName targeting the StaticMeshComponent of the actor this time.
I'll submit both of those and call it a lunch break

[haughty iron]

Use an editor widget and the get asset tools would be how I’d do it in blueprint, just use a for each loop on the asset path for the assets you want to change ? Expose the class your searching for to a drop down widget then you can just run it from in the editor whenever you need to make changes

[quasi pike]

Hi, Is there a way to create a new array containing individual members from an existing array without for loop in Blueprints?
My original array is very large as it contains data of points in a point cloud (1 million or more). I want to make separate arrays for members like position, color?
Array(Location(FVector3f), Color(FColor))

[little coral]

this is driving me out of my mind lol its really simple, it should not be this complicated but for some reason
the game score gets incremented on a hit event
the initial score is always 0 but it does not matter what i do it will always be false

[versed sun]

show where it gets incremented

[tiny monolith]

How do I keep the size of the widget constant even when I open and close it I want it to always open in the same size

[little coral]

its incrementing properly and in the debug i can see the number

[gentle urchin]

No

[versed sun]

whats /why this ? Soft Ref ?

[gentle urchin]

Anything millions likely needs some c++ to even work

[little coral]

good catch, no idea remade the links normally but no change to function

[lofty rapids]

and initial score is set to zero ?

[little coral]

yeahp

[lofty rapids]

well i can tell you the branch will work, so print string your values

check to make sure they are what you are thinking

unless its some sort of bug, which i honestly wouldn't be extremely surprised but i doubt it

[little coral]

i think i found a bug then. because i have a score display on screen and its showing 6 while the initial keeps repeating a 0 with every shot

is there a branch alternative ?

[lofty rapids]

so if you print string the values in the scorer+ function

the top is > the bottom ?

[little coral]

yeah

they both start as 0`s

[gentle urchin]

Int vs double float?

Avoid that

[little coral]

i tried doing int64 now to see if any difference

nothing

[lofty rapids]

somethings wrong with the math, branches usually don't just fail

i see game score but you need to print both values

[gentle urchin]

Never trust debugger

[lofty rapids]

so you can see if it should go into the true or not

[gentle urchin]

Print values

[versed sun]

why Get Actor of Class?

[gentle urchin]

Print string - Append (Gamescore - Initial value)

[lofty rapids]

print before the branch, both values not after it

[little coral]

one sec

[gentle urchin]

Print before

In a single print

[lofty rapids]

format text ftw

[versed sun]

was thinking same thing

[little coral]

ok you were right

it is not updating

it remains 0

that sob lol

[lofty rapids]

sob

maybe it just doesn't want to update ?

lol no but really something f'd

[little coral]

yeah

the debugger is updating but its not passing it to the branch

[gentle urchin]

Debugger debugs at the wrong point in time

[versed sun]

100% sure you only have 1 of the actor you are Get Actor of Class-ing

[gentle urchin]

Or ypu're viewing the values in another instance

[little coral]

will see if this makes a difference

[lofty rapids]

so theres your problem, your not updating the correct value

or not comparing the correct value, one or the other

[gentle urchin]

Also... make a function in the class please

Encapsulate the logic

Dont directly edit values of other classes from the outside

[little coral]

trying but uber novice + chat gpt can make some pretty funky things go wrong from time to time

[versed sun]

theres your problem

[lofty rapids]

chatgpt not a good programmer imo

[little coral]

it is not at all

hours and hours for a simple fuction and it wont give you what you want an abomination everytime

[lofty rapids]

i would suggest co pilot if your really going to use ai for programming

altho not exactly "great" it seems to better than chatgpt for programming stuff

probably still crappy, but what little use i have had for it, it seems to do alright

[lofty rapids]

well atleast now you know not to waste your time with it

[little coral]

❤️ you guys are the best

and gals

[lofty rapids]

what is this actor you are getting ? some sort of score manager ?

[noble quiver]

Hi folks. I think this is the most appropriate to ask this.

I have a system to switch skeletal mesh assest as detailed here. One mesh I'm switching to has a clothing simulation on it, the other doesn't. When switching from the one without the simulation, to the one with the simulation, the latters clothing simulation seizes to function. Is there a way to prevent this?

[little coral]

its the main player pawn

[lofty rapids]

a better way might be gettplayer character, or get player pawn, then cast to your pawn to get the one you want

i need to use get actor of class myself in a couple places, but ig you should avoid it

it can be expensive

if it's the player pawn, then i would just cast to it on beginplay

unless your switching out the characters

or destroying the player

[gentle urchin]

Need?

[lofty rapids]

well i have a pawn as my main menu, and another as my character

[noble quiver]

Figured it out! You have to give the non simulated model the same data in the skeletal mesh editor

[lofty rapids]

i switch between possessed, but i need the other in the other one

so i used get actor of class

[gentle urchin]

Ah :p

[lofty rapids]

I'm sure i'll figure out how to avoid it, maybe just store it somewhere when i cast to it, so i can just use that reference, honestly i used it and have not thought about it

it doesn't seem to be a big performance hit, i use it just a couple times on play start, and when in the main menu

[gentle urchin]

For such a one off itd prob fine for eternity