blueprint

[simple field]

thx for the answer i'll just keep it as it is

[maiden wadi]

This was the shader I went with that kills a lot of the moire lines. Looks really nice.

[undone bluff]

in that case you should be able to at least delete the data

properties > details

[simple field]

Ah thanks

btw any idea how to make loading a bit longer so that players can see the splash screen for at least a second? my game is too small and its so weird just seeing the loading screen pop up for 0.01 seconds

[maiden wadi]

I use CommonLoadingScreen, works well for that.

[violet spoke]

you could add depth buffer to scale grid spacing

[undone bluff]

start mining some crypto on their gpus and only launch the game when they start noticing something is off

[simple field]

Looool

is there no universal splash screen delay or something i can simply setup?

[maiden wadi]

I'm half curious what kind of teacher would be bothered by that.

[simple field]

This more of bothers me than the teacher ngl

[maiden wadi]

Splash screen, or loading screen?

[undone bluff]

I don't know about your setup

[simple field]

erm splash screen sorry, thought they're the same

[maiden wadi]

Splash screen is the thing at startup before the fullscreen app opens. Loading screen is the full screen overlay that hides your level loading.

EG Splash screen

[simple field]

Yea splash screen, when I open the game it just flickers and the game opens instantly after it

[undone bluff]

oooh

[simple field]

i have a custom one so want to see it for a second

[lusty hedge]

i want to make an enemy move towards a house. i was going to use lerp. but then i realized it wont work for different distances and multiple enemies

[maiden wadi]

Relatively sure there's not anything like that by default.

[lusty hedge]

how should i make an enemy move towards something, and then have the ability to change its target mid way through

no pathfinding is needed btw

[maiden wadi]

Behavior Trees would be simplest.

[lusty hedge]

how do i execute the actual movement though

but ill look into behavior trees 🙂

[simple field]

Ok plan B I'm gonna implement malware inside so the game opens slower

[maiden wadi]

I mean if you don't want AI, you can just use an InterpTo on tick.

[dark drum]

I would just use the nav mesh and use the AI Move To node. It's the simpliest way.

[undone bluff]

yea you will definitely not be able to delay it without artificially adding stuff to load

[lusty hedge]

my system is as simple as plants vs zombies.

but some enemies might move to different targets at different times / conditions

so mayybe behvior tree might be needed

[undone bluff]

that will def require modifying the engine source

[maiden wadi]

You could maybe find a non source thing to hook into to add a platform sleep too.

Maaaaybe

Semi curious now. 🤔

[dark drum]

Instead of having it on the splash screen, just have it as part of the main menu. Have what you want to show display for x amount of time before the menu actually shows. It seems daft over complicating things.

[undone bluff]

there ought to be at least an option to turn off the splash screen though?

I'm not seeing it

[maiden wadi]

Some people liked the 90s and waiting on things from computers. 🤷‍♂️

[craggy flicker]

Can anyone help me figure out why my Has Overlap function isn't correctly detecting if two rooms overlap? It's for a dungeon generation system, here's the general process:

• Begin Play
• User presses C for Create Dungeon
• Clear AllRooms (array of room actors)
• Enter While Current Rooms < Max Rooms AND Current Placement Attempts < Max Placement Attempts
• Generate Room Data outputs a random position vector and selected Room actor class reference
• Attempt Room Placement
  • Spawn Actor based on Room actor class reference and Position
  • Check if actor overlaps other all other Room actors that spawned in
  • If no overlap, return "valid" boolean and add new room to AllRooms actor array
• While loop condition completed, print "done"

But for some reason, my Attempt Room Placement isn't adding the created room to the AllRooms array and so the while loop only exists when max placement attempts is reached, causing a thousand rooms to spawn...

[maiden wadi]

My game is apparently too fast. I don't even see the splashscreen.

[craggy flicker]

did you apply time delta to the splash screen and some "seconds" modifier

[undone bluff]

this is about the built in splash screen

before the game instance

[craggy flicker]

oh i thought it was a custom thing my bad

[craggy flicker]

do actors spawn late in a while loop?

i remember reading something about actors spawning a frame later than the while loop

[maiden wadi]

It should be blocking.

Where are you adding them to the all rooms array?

[craggy flicker]

after attempt room placement boolean output is true

[maiden wadi]

Is that actually returning true enough?

[undone bluff]

if you are checking in the same frame it could be an issue because the overlap would not happen in the game thread

[craggy flicker]

it should since it's based on the all rooms, lemme see

[craggy flicker]

yes that's probably it, i wasn't sure if it happened in the same frame or not

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/hehmnsm2/

this is my attempt room placement function

[undone bluff]

so I'm not very knowledgable about this

but there's so many things could be an issue, for starters spawning involves memory allocation

[craggy flicker]

wait i somewhat fixed it lol

[maiden wadi]

This looks suspect

[craggy flicker]

the true/false return nodes were mixed

[faint pasture]

Start with your movement system

how do they move anyway?

[craggy flicker]

yea im unsure about the has overlap function

[maiden wadi]

I mean that loop

[craggy flicker]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/csrifm--/

[maiden wadi]

In technicality, you're making it only care about the very last room in AllRooms.

[craggy flicker]

are you saying the room a and b are switched?

[undone bluff]

from what I understood they only care if there is any overlap at all

so this'd be fine

[craggy flicker]

yea

[faint pasture]

no it won't be

[craggy flicker]

if none overlap then the valid should be true at the end of the loop

[faint pasture]

if all overlap but the last it'll be the same

[maiden wadi]

But your loop makes it only care about the very last one, not any of them before that.

[faint pasture]

either branch or use an AND

[craggy flicker]

okay I see

[maiden wadi]

You're overwriting the boolean. So at the very end, it's overwritten one last time and that is what you use.

[craggy flicker]

so the and would check the previous value of the boolean

[undone bluff]

oh shit, good catch Adriel

branch and if the return is true then set the bool

[faint pasture]

Yup either:
Branch -> set bool
or
bool = bool AND/OR condition
will work

choose the and or OR based on if you want true for any true or false for any false

[craggy flicker]

so like this

[maiden wadi]

Should just early out if it finds one.

[faint pasture]

no you're mixing both approaches

do you want to know if overlaps is ever true or ever false?

[craggy flicker]

branc -> set bool if true?

[maiden wadi]

No need for the boolean at all.

[craggy flicker]

ever false, so if the room overlaps any room then return false if it doesnt

[faint pasture]

yeah if this is in a function just early return

[craggy flicker]

oh early return the overlaps if true

[faint pasture]

Enter -> loop body -> overlap? -> true -> return true
end -> return false

That's how the more programming you do, the less code you have sometimes

[low coral]

@undone bluff I got the animation work btw, thanks

[undone bluff]

nice!

[faint pasture]

no

lose the and, lose the set, lose the bool

Your entire function:
enter -> for every other room -> does this upcoming room overlap? -> yes -> return FAILED
-> loop completed -> return SUCCESS

return bails out of the function, the loop will not continue

[craggy flicker]

oh okay i forgot the loop completed part thank you

[faint pasture]

it'll return failed if any room overlaps, otherwise it'll default to success

[undone bluff]

man I feel like a moron for not thinking of this, I hate making events to break loops

[faint pasture]

eh it's either or

some people like early return, some don't

[craggy flicker]

looks like my overlap function isnt working lol but the main attempt room placement is

seems like my horizontal overlap check is off

Cant i just check if two static mesh components overlap

[faint pasture]

sure

is a room a whole actor?

[craggy flicker]

i have two trigger boxes called Bounding Box

i mean, bounding box per room actor

so i can just get that for each room right

[faint pasture]

make sure the bounding boxes are actually triggering overlaps vs each other but that should work

Procjen is fun, I messed with it for a bit

Didn't have it quite right at this point but it's very fun

[craggy flicker]

yea i set the collision preset to trigger

should be good?

[faint pasture]

probably not, can a trigger overlap a trigger? Show the collision settings

[craggy flicker]

yea my best proc gen project was in unity, where i made a hexagonal generator with interactable placement

it had biomes, rivers, and height

[craggy flicker]

set the visibility to false

[agile prism]

General question, after seeing a video regarding 'delays bad - don't use', i am worried to use delays, and i always use timers instead, but they are a bit more annoying to set up, is it worth the hassle? are delays really that bad? What's the point of them then? TIA

[faint pasture]

What are you trying to do?

[faint pasture]

That thing is a worlddynamic and it overlaps worlddynamic so yes they should trigger overlaps vs each other

[craggy flicker]

holy shit it works

maybe i need to add a margin property or expand the trigger

[agile prism]

destroy actor after 3 seconds, similar to a despawn

[faint pasture]

That's fine, you're probably better off setting lifespan though

[agile prism]

how do I do that? is that a node?

[faint pasture]

unless you specifically want to do something before DestroyActor

[craggy flicker]

delays should typically be fine if it's not in a loop right

[faint pasture]

yeah you can set it on any actor

Delay is fine if what you actually need is an actual delay

it's when delay is used to deal with race conditions that it's gross

and probably when used for looping things too, those are better off being timers

[craggy flicker]

race conditions suck

[agile prism]

googling race conditions lol

[agile prism]

well the actor despawns after 3 seconds once it's been killed

I assume it's okay to use delay in this scenario?

[faint pasture]

sure

[craggy flicker]

thank you for helping out with the dungeon gen @faint pasture @undone bluff @maiden wadi

now i need to snap it to the grid

[agile prism]

the final thing that worries me with using delay is async based on fps

[faint pasture]

Either way you're only ever doing something on the tick

timer is the same

but timer will allow multiple firings per frame if it's faster than a frame

[agile prism]

Thanks Adriel, really useful stuff 🙂

Appreciate your help

[craggy flicker]

does this seem right for creating a position that snaps to a grid based on a tile size

[faint pasture]

sure

[craggy flicker]

seems like it does

now i have to look at corridor placement

im debating on whether I should generate corridors procedurally or pre-design them, then use the rooms to snap to both ends of the corridor

[hallow compass]

there's this annoying thing in ue that makes a character capsule instantly snap to a location when going up/down small steps (stairs, micro obstacles, etc.) it makes the character movement look pretty jarring. Wondering if anyone found a simplish way to get around this, creating some sort of interpolation or ticking some magic bool?

[faint pasture]

Dig around in Character and CharacterMovementComponent, there's some mesh interpolation stuff there

[hallow compass]

no way

[faint pasture]

I mean idk if it does what you want but there is interpolation stuff

[hallow compass]

cpp side? looked for "interpolation" in the character/mov blueprint settings but nothing pops up

[maiden wadi]

Generally speaking it isn't supposed to matter. The capsule jumping around is normal. Your AnimBP usually handles this kind of complexities with stairs and such. Your "Stairs" are normally actually a flat ramp like plane collision wise, but the AnimBP does complex traces against the stair assets instead of their collisions to determine real foot placement.

[hallow compass]

stairs was just an example for "small bump in an otherwise flat walking area" that causes the capsule to snap up/down a few units. say you are walking in an uneven terrain and going up a new platform that happens to be 2cm further up than the previous one, youre gonna get a tiny bump

indeed you can use traces for feet etc in anim bp to correct the feet on uneven terrains, but thats not what im after here

[maiden wadi]

In most cases it won't matter. The AnimBP handles the look of the character, and your camera system should have some form of interpolation not to make it so jarring on the player.

[hallow compass]

unfortunately in my case it matters 🙂

[faint pasture]

Well then adapt to it if Character doesn't have this as a setting

enforce a maximum acceleration in your anim bp, or in your character class

anim bp can move the root bone or pelvis around, Character can move the skeletal mesh component around

[hallow compass]

i guess the skeletal mesh needs to be moved around to make up for the bumps yeah

so something like lerping a relative location offset on the mesh according to z changes in the capsule position?

since the mesh is parented to the capsule

[paper smelt]

When i run at a wall and keep holding W i slide untill Im off how do i just stop movement when collideing with a wall

[dire frost]

im not sure im understanding what your issue is. what do you mean by "i slide until im off"?

[maiden wadi]

They want the wall to stop them when they run against it. IE normally if you run against a wall diagonally, you'll just keep running at a diagonal.

[velvet pendant]

Should i use Projectile Movement for a boomerang?

Is there a way to add on projectile homing reach point, to return back to it?

or idk

[craggy flicker]

you could do some form of curve prediction? just a suggestion

[bitter star]

I have a Collision box moving on a loop and I want to trigger this every time the box overlaps my object. Right now it only does it once. What am I missing?

[maiden wadi]

Try PlayFromStart. If that doesn't work, make sure you're getting overlap events after the first with breakpoints or prints.

[frosty heron]

Not much context here but go reverse on end overlap

U should get a bright light when entering and dimmed light when leaving

If Ur values r correct

[bitter star]

Play from start did it.Thank you!

[maiden wadi]

Having the most wtf bug right now.

I have this testing actor that has two meshes in it.

I have this one that constructs from the first just fine. Looks good.

And then this one, identical code and hierarchy. Where the sphere sets itself at 0,0,0

Left is the first, right is the second. :/

[paper smelt]

This

[maiden wadi]

Ugh. Deferred spawning. Don't setup meshes before calling finish spawning apparently.

[finite hearth]

Is there a way to set dynamic obstacle=false at runtime? I do not see a node for it.

[velvet pendant]

he is basicly asking if you could stop his animation and movement stop when it's appropching the wall and have no room to go in that direction

[bitter star]

I have a BP with lights copied several times in my level and I want to lower them all down with a custom event. It woks on 1 with a set actor relative location but I want to do it with all at the same time. I tried a get all actors from class but it outputs an array and when I plug it in the target of the set actor relative location it still work with my 1 BP as previously but it also makes all other invisible. Should I go a different way with casting or something else?

[hardy merlin]

I've created a new InputAction and added it to the action mapping. How can I script what the action does in Blueprint?

[maiden wadi]

You're likely looking to foreach loop over them and set each one individually.

[hardy merlin]

Nvm found it. Had to search for the action name and an event was available.

[bitter star]

There's 25 instances of the same BP, do I need 25 variables (actor ref) and then get them all and plug them to the same target in?

[maiden wadi]

You can likely just GetAllActorsOfClass them.

[faint violet]

how do I do it exponentially? do I just have to do it with multiplication in blueprints, or is there another way of setting it?

[maiden wadi]

@bitter starFor example. This would move all of the point lights in your level down by 10cm every second.

[bitter star]

I'm pretty new to the foreachloop node. Tried this and it lowers one light and the other ones disappear...

[maiden wadi]

Using a timeline like that with a lerp over an alpha, you'll want two hard coded positions per moving thing. And that is difficult without storing it before hand.

[undone bluff]

I don't see any issues at a first glance but man I hate this

[maiden wadi]

Well, using relative, that should be semi okay. But you'll also want to not use the actor location as a start point, but hard code that as well.

Actually that won't really work in that way either.

Like. The issue is that you have multiple things at differing places and no fixed points as you're moving the entire actor.

[undone bluff]

oh wait setting the relative location of a root component does not sound right

[maiden wadi]

It's the same as calling SetRelativeLocation on the actor itself, since he's doing it on the root component.

[undone bluff]

I'm a few hours overdue on sleep I meant to write root

yea I can imagine it disappearing if the position gets offset every frame

[maiden wadi]

Like, you need a start point for each actor. You need to make a map of Actor to Vector or something, and use that to store their initial spots. Then you can math against that for each instance in the map.

Like uhh..

[undone bluff]

okay I did not know set relative location on an actor is relative to world origin not itself

[lunar sleet]

How would it be relative to itself?

[undone bluff]

makes sense, just thought it'd default to addworldoffset behaviour if there is no parent (other than the world)

it made sense in my head

[maiden wadi]

@bitter star So on this side of the timeline, we're gathering some initial data. We're throwing that into a map which correlates a vector for each actor.

On this side we use that map to iterate over each key in the map you stored, and move them against their starting point to a relative location 100 cm downwards.

[lunar sleet]

That won’t be frame independent iirc

[maiden wadi]

It will. It's a lerp from point a to b.

[bitter star]

How do i find the ADD, FIND and KEYS node that take multiple variable styles

[lunar sleet]

Ah right, a is not changing, mb

[maiden wadi]

You'll need to make a Map variable type. Start by making an Actor pointer type.

Go to it's properties and make it into a map

Then change the second half of it to Vector

[bitter star]

ok thank you, this is my first map haha. How do you then use is as an add, find etc. It's not a set or get?

[maiden wadi]

Find is the same as Get(a Copy) from an array. It will search the map to find a matching key to the one you input and return the value associated to that key.

Add is basically a set. It will either add that key and it's associated value if no matching key exists, and if the key does exist it'll just overwrite the associated value.

[bitter star]

I think I found it. Added "Add" Array and it let me input both types

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, should be able to see it just dragging off of the map.

Aaaahh, the beauty.

[frosty heron]

0o, what is this?

[bitter star]

Oohhh. Where did you find this?

[bitter star]

I'm getting this...LogBlueprint: Error: [AssetLog] C:\Users\playt\Desktop\Resolink34\Resolink34\Content\CE\BP_OSC_Server_Level01.uasset: [Compiler] Invalid pin connection from Array Element and Key : Actor Object Reference is not compatible with BP Light Plafond Object Reference (by ref). (You may have changed the type after the connections were made)
LogBlueprint: Error: [AssetLog] C:\Users\playt\Desktop\Resolink34\Resolink34\Content\CE\BP_OSC_Server_Level01.uasset: [Compiler] COMPILER ERROR: failed building connection with 'Actor Object Reference is not compatible with BP Light Plafond Object Reference (by ref).' at Get (a copy) generated from expanding For Each Loop

[maiden wadi]

Made it. It's a component. I place it on an actor, and I give it another actor's class, and it'll copy all staticmesh components, skeletal mesh components, and niagara components onto it's owner from the defaults of the class given.

[maiden wadi]

Show the node that has an error on it.

[maiden wadi]

Unconnect all of the pins from the find and for each loop so they both grey out, then hook them back up and recompile.

[bitter star]

Im getting this. Is the fact that my lights are a BP with multiple SM and a rect light a problem?

[maiden wadi]

Which type did you make your array from?

[bitter star]

Is this correct? Shouldnt the out exe pin of the add be connected to something?

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, this looks fine.

[bitter star]

mmmm I believe actor?

[maiden wadi]

You probably just need to unhook everything and reconnect it.Make sure all of these are grey. Start with Keys.

[bitter star]

Ok, no more errors but ir doesnt move anything

i put a print string after the set actor relative location and i get the string. But no movement :/

thank you for taking the time 🙂

[maiden wadi]

No movement at all? Even if you change the 100 to something crazy like -5000?

Just tested it with spotlights, and am getting good movement. I would make sure that the things you're trying to move have their mobility set to mobile, and also make sure that your timeline's 0-1 alpha is good

[bitter star]

Timeline alpha is good, tried -500, everything is movable...

My string ouputs hello on loop for a while

Does this help?

[maiden wadi]

Lets try a different debug method then

[bitter star]

ok

[maiden wadi]

Add this DrawDebugPoint, see if it moves as intended.

[bitter star]

would your mimic node make everything easier? 🙂

[maiden wadi]

Haha, probably not in this case.

[bitter star]

it looks like the camera is moving lol

[hardy merlin]

Is this the channel for UI/widget questions?

I want to change the size of a widget at runtime to make a meter.

[maiden wadi]

Do you see the points moving down though?

[bitter star]

no

[bitter star]

i have a very dark scene, would they appear on top like a print string?

[maiden wadi]

Kinda. Sec

[bitter star]

Ive never used this

[maiden wadi]

They should look about like this.

[bitter star]

no points at all

[maiden wadi]

O.o

[bitter star]

Is there another way? Can't I store the ref to each BP instance (lights) in "something" then apply the transform to each at the same time?

[maiden wadi]

That's what this is doing.

You made a map that contains each light, and it's location before the timeline started. And the timeline is using that to lerp it's location.

You should definitely be seeing the points though. :/

Can you screen your current code?

[bitter star]

How do I do this?

[maiden wadi]

Just screenshot I mean

[bitter star]

yeah but where do i find the code?

[trim matrix]

the code you just write..

[bitter star]

you mean from the log?

[maiden wadi]

I mean your BP nodes. 😄

[trim matrix]

Bp, is a form of coding btw

[trim matrix]

I smell something wrong at the 'if it's == 0'
why is there 2 green thing going down?

[bitter star]

its for differetn movements. I'm sending OSC messages and depending on the value I want to trigger different timelines

[maiden wadi]

This is why you can't see the points. Need to change the color, size and duration

Size 20, color something bright, and duration 0.1

[bitter star]

duh! hhaha

yep, points move down like they shoudl

[maiden wadi]

Also you're using the wrong set node. You need to use SetActorLocation

[bitter star]

changed it

[maiden wadi]

And it needs to be on each element from the array, not on "this"

Note the target here.

[bitter star]

it works!

Dude thank you so much!!!

Now if I want them to go back up, can I use the reverse from end of the same timeline or should I have a whole separate line?

[maiden wadi]

Maybe. I think it'd work as long as you don't set the stuff from the map again, cause it'll just reverse the timeline and the alpha used, which should work in reverse automatically.

As in, don't run this stuff again, only run it when going forward. When running reverse, skip calling this and just run Reverse

That said. There's probably better ways to make it more resilient. Like coding it to raise or lower by a set amount

Such as something like this.

Then you just call it with how far you want the lights to move in whatever direction.

[bitter star]

i tried this but somehow the reverse action starts from lower than the end of the play

[maiden wadi]

Cause you don't want to call all of that again.

That said, I'd be inclined to do this.

[meager latch]

Has anyone noticed that the enhanced input system for the starter content is in the player controller instead of the character blueprint? What else can go into the player controller?

[bitter star]

This looks dope, let me try

[maiden wadi]

PlayerController is meant to be a networking hub and control handler. So it makes sense to put some of the context mapping handling there.

[meager latch]

oh i though i could put gameplay logic in there too

[frosty heron]

Controller's job is to control your pawn generally

make another blueprint to handle your gameplay logic, eg tracking quest, etc

[bitter star]

the switch on int pins in your example show 0 and 1, does that represents the int in? As in if I send the value 0 it will route to move lights thing pin 0?

[meager latch]

Most tutorials put in the the character blueprint though does it matter then?

[frosty heron]

it does, most youtube tutorial are crap anyway

they are not there to make a proper framework

just want to slap some things that seems to work and say, do this if u want X

[meager latch]

facts Ive noticed that pisses me off sometimes

[frosty heron]

they are there for views

making game takes a long time

[meager latch]

I try to dive into epic content for framework\

[frosty heron]

You work it out on your own

place things where they make sense

you can make your own Blueprint to handle specific task

[meager latch]

even the full game making tutorials do wonky stuff so its really bad practice

[frosty heron]

they are learning, just like you and me

most of them don't work in studio

and the bar is set even lower when they are on time constrain and in need to upload videos for views

Good practices thrown out of the window most of the time

[meager latch]

Yeah it just feels bad when you need to make it a realeasable game and you did it all wrong lol

[frosty heron]

YT are full of copy cat tutorials which unsuprisingly also prepetuate common myths

like avoid tick / casting

tick are expensive, etc

Anywayyy

you want to place your logic in appropriate places. Think of encapsulation

[meager latch]

yep, well just checking if anyone knew this.

[frosty heron]

if you need reference, you can probably take a look at epic's sample project

[topaz condor]

Hey guys, anyone willing to give me a set of eyes on my blueprint. New to gamedev and learning as im using unreal but stuck

i found a bug when i hold jump and run at the same time, when my character lands he runs in the falling state

[frosty heron]

@topaz condor Why do you need IsJumping?

is the default TPS template doesn't suit your need?

jumping is already implemented in CMC

[topaz condor]

i was using it so that i dont slide while in air but i guess its useless

[bitter star]

@maiden wadi Is there a way to say: if you're already at this position dont do anything? So i doesnt keep going lower and lower

[daring merlin]

I cant check it properly atm, but its probly a missing transition from your falling state in your statemachine. Cant see the transition rules but you can confirm this by looking at your state machine while playing the game and seeing the currently active state.

[frosty heron]

Don't allow sliding when falling is true

[topaz condor]

in the animation BP?

[frosty heron]

You should go to the falling state only when the character is falling

copy the TPS template for the falling in and out condition

[topaz condor]

TPS is what exactly?

[topaz condor]

if it is the transitions im not seeing anything wrong

so its if i hold the jump button, upon landing it stays in fall state until i let go of jump

[worthy jasper]

What does the transition look like from falling to idle? Sounds like some extra logic?

[worthy jasper]

Interesting

Was wondering if it was linked to your jump input and jump variable

but it’s not looking like it

[topaz condor]

keep in mind im new to ALL of this but from what i can tell the animation states all look fine to me

but i definitely could be wrong lol

[frosty heron]

I was referring to Third person shooter template

[topaz condor]

ahhh ok, anyway to bring it back into my project because i overwrote the original?

[frosty heron]

you can just make a new one

[surreal carbon]

anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on how i can chain down the player character? I want an enemy to be able to create some sort of link/chain to the player to restrict their movement and slowly pull the player to the enemy. I still want to player to be able to move and try to break free

[verbal jungle]

What happens if a sphere trace hits multiple actors at the same time?

Does it only register the first one it hits?

[frosty heron]

Ye, use MultiTrace if you want to trace multiple objects

[wanton prism]

For some reason it adds the ammo - 30 to current ammo as a positive in the current ammo - (ammo - 30)

values where ment to be fliped lol

[amber fiber]

does anyone have experience changing weapon and animations for character based on overlap of capsule collider?

I originally created two different default pawns and was going to switch the pawns in the game mode blueprint but that doesnt seem to be an easy method

[topaz condor]

so another issue im having is locking the slide so that it cant move to the left, theres also an example of the jump to fall thing i was mentioning.

[amber fiber]

@topaz condor what do u think you need to do? if a current animation is playing (floor slide) do not take new inputs from controller until animation has completed

[trim matrix]

well you should have a custom anim End jump

and just use a bool to check if your are sliding and not allowing to change the side of the player

[topaz condor]

what node is used to not allow that?

and i am using bools

[trim matrix]

you are probabably using some kind of input Actions when changing direction... You'd check for that bool there

so that if the sliding bool variable is true, you can't switch direction

[topaz condor]

something like this?

i switched falsed and true and it works, only problem is the slide uses my characters movement input and it causes it to slide in place

[meager latch]

Hey can someone give me an idea for a proper wall run? Is collision better thatn a trace?

[lunar sleet]

No idea what that means. Trace uses collision

Block specifically

[wanton prism]

add a boolean that locks the "a" key

/ your left movement

[random pulsar]

hey,can somebody explain what elements do i need to have,i want to create this idea,so when you are in level 1 there is displayed one quest as a text when you are in level 2 another text and so on.Someone told me that i need a string table ,data table and structure

is it right?

and if yes ,do i just google how to use them and then i will be able to make this?

sry for stupid quescions

[wooden iris]

hi guys!
I would like to reuse settings of my post processing volume in multiple levels, however, I can't inherit a new blueprint from it, so I don't know how to place desirable settings in the asset.
Do sharing post process settings in any form real, or, egh, unreal 😁 ?

it seems I have answered my own question))) I need to use a PostProcess actor component rather than PostProcessVolume actor 🙂

[simple field]

Does anyone know why when playing my game, on discord it shows I'm playing "the last job" whatever that is?

[maiden wadi]

StringTable is just a datatable that stores localized text entries. Your question really depends on what you need and how you are laying out your game. If you 100% always have one quest per level, then it depends on what a level is. If you're using separate map assets per level then you could probably just toss it in the level blueprint. Else if you're using the same map and using an integer or something to count the current level then you need a system to link up each level with it's data, like what objective text to display for that level, etc.

[random pulsar]

the quest will be a text variable,i made this variable in a structure.I want to display different text on different levels.im getting more or less the result now but i need to check where the player is now to display the text.So how do i check where is the player currently?

[maiden wadi]

How are you creating each level?

[random pulsar]

each level is just a simple level ,i open it by pressing a ui button ,they are named Level1,Level2,Level3 and so on

i just came with an idea to store level index in a structure but how do i use it and set it in player?

[maiden wadi]

Semi annoying problem to solve in BP only. Map/World isn't exposed fully to BP to use as a check against or you could just map each world's softptr to text.

What you could do instead, is make some sort of actor, or GameState component that houses what each level needs, and have your level's Beginplay set that in the level blueprint. Then your widget could pick it up in the binding that you have above.

If you can use C++, I would say make that map of level to text. Would be easier to maintain in some sort of single data asset.

[random pulsar]

i dont know c++ 😔

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. 😄 Do you have a custom GameState class already?

[random pulsar]

no

i imagined it like this

but how to store in int in what level you are

[maiden wadi]

I would go the gamestate route instead of controller. Just for the simple fact that a map's Beginplay can run before a playercontroller is ready.

GameState is always 100% ready by the time anything runs Beginplay, as GameState is the instigator of beginplay calls.

That way you can just set your integer in the level's blueprint.

[random pulsar]

ok i can make this in game state

[maiden wadi]

Do you have a custom game mode or know how to make one?

Cause you'll need a GameMode to set your custom gamestate in.

[random pulsar]

i have a custom game mode

this one or the one above?

[maiden wadi]

Depends. What is the parent of your GameMode?

If your GameMode is GameModeBase, you need GameStateBase, if you game mode is GameMode, you need GameState

[random pulsar]

ok done
something like this?

[maiden wadi]

Almost. Open your GameState. And make a function and an integer.

[maiden wadi]

Ah, yeah that'll work too. 😄

Then in your level BPs, just get game state. Cast to your game state type and set that index.

[random pulsar]

but how does the player know in what map he is?

[maiden wadi]

Each level tells them.

[random pulsar]

oh but isnt it bad to use level blueprint?

[maiden wadi]

It's bad to put an entire game's worth of logic in the level blueprint.

[random pulsar]

i heard also that level blueprint does not work in shipping,is it true?

[maiden wadi]

But you have something that correlates to each level. You could do the same thing with some actor you drop into each level, but then you're masically doing the same thing, dropping an actor into each level and setting a property on it. No different than opening the level blueprint and setting a value on the game state.

Lol? Who the fuck told you that?

[frosty heron]

a decade in Unreal, I never hear anyone suggesting that

[random pulsar]

ok then i will make it in level bp

[frosty heron]

I rather not place anything in level blueprint tho, I would just drop an actor into the world that hold the unique int. You can override that per level

[random pulsar]

@maiden wadi thanks,much appreciated

[maiden wadi]

Like, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a huge fan of using the level BP. But it has it's uses just like anything else. But people do very much abuse it. Specially professors and tutorial people who can't be assed to teach object oriented design.

[frosty heron]

Yeah, I got some stuff going on in Level Bp but not a great place for people that just started imo.
The important thing here to note is that you cannot get a ref to the level blueprint from other blueprint class. Making the communication one way

that's a deal breaker for game play logic, etc

[maiden wadi]

What you can do though is use the level script actor. 😄 That you can get from anywhere.

[random pulsar]

why it does not remove from screen?

lemme guess it does not know that playerHUD is created and its on screen?

[frosty heron]

PlayerHUD is never set

at least at the time of accessing it

you need to set PlayerHUD to an actual Hud that exist when you are playing the game

[maiden wadi]

Oh man I do not miss managing UI like that.

[coarse flame]

UE 5.2:
I have an event defined as

void BPEvent_DataReceived(const FString& recv);```
in a c++ header and without implementation in the body. How can I listen to this event in a blueprint component?

[maiden wadi]

You just implement it through the functions list.

[coarse flame]

Functions has no item. do I just add new and name it BPEvent_DataReceived?

[maiden wadi]

EG I have this BlueprintImplementableEvent here in this class. And in a BP child of it, I can either find that function in the function override list, or by right clicking in the graph and searching it.

[coarse flame]

ah you need to make a child, not a plain new BP

[frosty heron]

u just need to make a bp that derived from the cpp class that have that BIE

[coarse flame]

cannot create new Blueprint class based on...

oops

class starts off with this
UCLASS( ClassGroup=(Custom), meta=(BlueprintSpawnableComponent) )
and is a UActorComponent

I assume I need to change the meta somehow?

Blueprintable?

[maiden wadi]

@coarse flameYeah. I normally mark my components I intend to be BP classes with Abstract, Blueprintable. So that I can't add the parent C++ type, just a BP created child.

[tidal agate]

When i press compile, Note Text Widget became none

How to fix this?

[frosty heron]

do you set it in the construction script by any chance?

[tidal agate]

no

[frosty heron]

no clue then, my idea is either it is set in Construction script in bp or Constructor in cpp

so whenever u compile, despite w/e values u put in, it gets updated to the set in Construction script / constructor

[maiden wadi]

What kind of property is it?

[tidal agate]

UUserWidget

[maiden wadi]

TSubclassOf<UUserWidget> ?

[frosty heron]

Uhh

that's a pointer to a widget instance

[maiden wadi]

That's probably why. It's a pointer to an instance. And you're trying to set that in your class.

[frosty heron]

you need to point to something that exist at run time

[tidal agate]

ok

thank

[gray lantern]

What function would I use in a editor utility blue print to place actors into a level?

[maiden wadi]

As in to spawn new actors?

[gray lantern]

so that it shows in the outline in the actual level, not in runtime

to create it an put it here

as a permanent object

[maiden wadi]

Probably this.

[gray lantern]

ty

works! tyvm!

[gritty wraith]

Question - is it possible for Blueprint to make images like this? I need a circle and arcs to be drawn real-time in a widget. The rotation and size will be changing. I know how to do it in JavaScript canvas, but that's... not useful...

[frosty heron]

there is no node that I know that draw stuff from blueprint

why not just use photoshop?

import it as texture

[marble tusk]

That seems like a material thing

[rugged aurora]

I am using a findlookatrotation with rinterp to, and I would like to change the interp speed based on the amount of rotation required.

The problem is that rotating counter clockwise is a negative rotation. Is there a way to isolate the float value from the - or + so I can just use greater and smaller than operators without accounting for - and +?

[lofty rapids]

compare ?

[gritty wraith]

I thought of that but it won't be able to change size

[frosty heron]

I'm soo lost, what stopping you from making a circle in photoshop in any size

[gritty wraith]

angular size. The angle of the arc. thats what i mean by size. Left pic's arc is longer than the right one.

[lofty rapids]

you maybe be able to use compare, and if it's less then than get the absolute of it, and add the two for the distance in that direction ?

[frosty heron]

you can ask in #umg though I am not aware of any drawing function in blueprint

[versed sun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOAbAdi8f0&ab_channel=NiceShadow this might help

[rugged aurora]

thanks I will attempt to try this

[gritty wraith]

HOLY SHIT OMG BLESS YOUR SOUL

THANKS

[maiden wadi]

Kind of sounds like you just want to Abs the float.

[maiden wadi]

I didn't check that tutorial. But the basics are that you need a material that has parameters. You'll set the parameters from blueprint somewhere. What you do in the material is up to you, but judging those graphics, you can make it out of nothing but a radial and circular gradient. Radial will get you your rings, and ciruclar can mask off sections of the rings.

[rugged aurora]

what does abs do?

[maiden wadi]

Removes the negative part of a value. IE if you give it -12.32423, it will turn it into 12.32423. If you give it 12.32423, it will stay the same as 12.32423

[marble sky]

Maybe somebody can offer me some help. I am using seamless travel, and playerstate seems to be reset between level transitions? I have a playerstate that is used to store some values for a player. To save those values I use a replicate on server event to set the replicated values so it's synced on all clients. The values seem to be empty (or defaulted) between travels and I can't figure out how to get them to persist or at least re-load the previous values.

[maiden wadi]

Sec, I think that requires C++.

This is what you're looking for mostly. but it's C++ only. There are no BP hooks normally.

/** Copy properties which need to be saved in inactive PlayerState */
ENGINE_API virtual void CopyProperties(APlayerState* PlayerState);```

[marble sky]

So there is this.. is this the same thing?

[maiden wadi]

Oh, yes there is. 😄 Yeah that is called right after the one I linked. That should work for what you need.

[marble sky]

Okay, do you have any information on how to use it? It looks like it just outputs the new player state, do I just drag off it and set the values I want that way?

[maiden wadi]

This function will run on the old player state from the last level. It passes in the new player state. So you'll get properties from "this", and set them on the NewPlayerState

[rugged aurora]

thanks that appears to be what I was looking for

[marble sky]

hmm okay. So something like this?

[maiden wadi]

Yep

[marble sky]

This event appears to only be in the playerstate, so I guess I was confused how it was able to get the 'variable' if the playerstate has been wiped already.

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. 😄 It sticks around long enough for this to run.

[marble sky]

Okay, let me test that out.

[maiden wadi]

Quite literally speaking, it's destroyed right after those properties are copied.

The SeamlessTravelTo is what internally calls CopyProperties.

[marble sky]

Hmm, that didn't appear to work. The variable is still printing as empty (default value)

[maiden wadi]

Where are you testing it on?

[marble sky]

The print? It's in the game mode

[maiden wadi]

Which event?

[marble sky]

The only event I could get to work with seamless travel is Handle Starting New Player

if I set the value on the playerstate to a non-empty default value, it uses that, but if I set the variable anywhere else it wipes it once it travels

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. HandleStartingNewPlayer is called after that, so it should be set at that point.

[marble sky]

In testing it looks like OnPostLogin is ignored for seamless travel (when traveling to a new level), so the only event I could get to trigger was the Handle Starting New Player event.

So this is how I have it setup. There's a widget on the client that has a matching variable in the player state. When the user makes a selection in the widget it uses 'run on server' in bp_playerstate to set the 'replicated' variable. In the gamemode, under handlestartingnewplayer I retrieve the player state from the 'player controller' that is new and print the display name of the variable. When the user seamlessly travels, It's empty unless I set it to a default value. Before then the value is set appropriately.

Just as an added test, I stored the value in my gameinstance and on event beginplay of player state (since it seems to recreate the player state after seamless travel), I call the server event again and pass it the variable from the gameinstance and it prints as empty still.

wait a minute.. now it seems to be working..

Nope.. nevermind. I lose control of my character controller.

[maiden wadi]

Hard to say. I don't have a project set up with seamless travel to test on. I avoid it like the plague. 😄

[lofty rapids]

i feel like game instance should work

[marble sky]

Actually, I think my logic is wrong when the actor is spawned. I spawn the character based on the variable in the player state in the starting new player event on the game mode and possess it passing in the controller from the handle starting new player event but it's not actually taking control of it

At least not fully.

[frosty heron]

@marble sky https://cedric-neukirchen.net/docs/multiplayer-compendium/common-classes/playerstate/

[marble sky]

hmm yeah idk. It appears to be something with the replicated variable. If I remove the pin in the spawn actor of class and set the class directly to the same value the variable passes it, it works. If I use the variable value it breaks the character... sigh

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/8f3uk012/ for reference.

bahahaha omg im an idiot

Thanks for the help Authaer. I was able to get it resolved.

[maiden wadi]

Nice! On a side note, Unless you reeeeeeally need it, I strongly advise avoiding seamless travel. For UI handling alone it's a nightmare.

[astral orchid]

I'm trying to make a Selected Hero widget, where it changes its picture depending on the selected hero, updating on tick to check. It does this by getting the Selected Hero from the Player State, then running it through a data table to see which row has the same Selected Hero class.

If class matches the one in the row, then it will allow the rest of the stuff from the row to pass on and change the Image. But for some reason, the Texture2D returns as invalid.

Anyone knows what's wrong?

[marble sky]

I don't remember exactly why I had to enable it. It might've been a requirement for the epic online services plugin I am using. I don't remember though. I can try to disable it and see.

[maiden wadi]

Looks fine. Is the texture invalid or is that branch failing?

[astral orchid]

texture is invalid

tested it eariler with the IsValid node

[maiden wadi]

But the branch is running? Text is setting?

[astral orchid]

Text isn't either

[maiden wadi]

I'd assume your branch isn't finding anything then.

[astral orchid]

only the branch is, i think

nope

branch wasn't either

[maiden wadi]

That said. If you have even a minor amount of C++ ability, Data Assets would simplify your life considerably. Technically I think you can do it without C++ too, but you lose out on primary data assets.

But even being able to make a single data asset out of each hero would make handling a lot nicer. Cause then you can just pass around the data asset pointer same as you do with a data table row name or character class, and have all of the data out of that one pointer.

[south quarry]

I'm not totally getting what 'Call to Parent Function' is for... I'm seeing people often use it at the start, but isn't the Parent's code being run first anyways?

[versed sun]

i think PDA are all BP now

[astral orchid]

Ok, i figured it out. Turns out I needed the Hero Selection class variable to be replicated as well

[maiden wadi]

Parents code does not run by default.

[marble sky]

It's so you can either not run the parents function, or potentially run some of your code before the parents code runs. If you don't call it, the parents functions wont run at all.

[astral orchid]

Thanks for the help

[granite elk]

anyone know of a valid approach for identifying if an array is empty?

[marble sky]

Check if it's empty or if length is greater than 0

[spark steppe]

Is Empty

there's a node for that

or doesn't contain items, idk how the heck they named it

[granite elk]

thanks for the responses. should put me in the right direction

[astral orchid]

there should be a Get thing for the array, the integer thing should be set to zero if you want to check for array emptiness

[spark steppe]

OR

or put the not above and use a NAND

[gentle urchin]

Nand is for secret members only

Like xor

[versed sun]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-pinocchio-maybe-maybenot-gif-18872614

[stiff chasm]

Can some one explain to me what is wrong?? because to me it soudns like: My is valid, cannot determine if something is pending to kill, because it's pending to kill

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to access HitBox4 via property Victim_8_D2EBF6594537430DD1ADA5996402A8E7, but HitBox4 is pending kill". Blueprint: SpriteAction Function: Execute Ubergraph Sprite Action Graph: IsValid Node: Branch

It's like a doctor telling you that you need to see a doctor, I am stumped on how to fix this

[south quarry]

@maiden wadi I was confused because apparently when I don't have a BeginPlay node on the child, it runs the BeginPlay of the parent. If I put a BeginPlay node in, not connected to anything, then it only runs that.

[spark steppe]

that's how overrides work

[lofty rapids]

you need to run parent beginplay

it's usually in there by default tho ?

[dawn gazelle]

Where you may be accessing "HitBox4" (within SpriteAction blueprint?) you may have done so after you called to destroy the actor that contains "HitBox4".

[dark drum]

Normally but I think there's some classes that don't add it in children by default so you have to manually add it.

[south quarry]

@lofty rapids yes, that's no problem; I just didn't get why because I assumed it always ran the parent. I just happened to not be overriding it.

[dark drum]

Right click on the begin play node and select the 'Add Parent call' button. It should create an orange node. This is the logic in the parent, add it where you want it to call.

[south quarry]

yes, thanks

[stiff chasm]

but the thing that is calling it is an is valid?

Oppening the error takes me to unreals standard macros

My error is here

[dark drum]

Show where you're using the isvalid node.

[stiff chasm]

However let me relook at the flow of my code

[dawn gazelle]

I don't think that matters. Unreal doesn't like things being accessed after it's been marked for deletion - it's in the limbo state between being valid and invalid.

[stiff chasm]

the error message takes me to this Graph, where I just removed all of my is Valid,
so im not sure exactly were

[stiff chasm]

Well let me just asses the flow of code then

[gentle urchin]

Ou those nice red lines seem interesting

[marble sky]

Looks like bool values?

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[marble sky]

The upper node reminds me of a 24 pin power plug for a PC

[stiff chasm]

Whole lott of them

[marble sky]

I prob. would've turned that into a struct just to clean it up

[stiff chasm]

The code is mad old, afraid to touch whatever is going on tho 💀

[stiff chasm]

I'm thinking that too

That'll be next on my list

[lofty rapids]

i think you want the link farthest to the left ?

the function

possibly

[night bolt]

Hello, im just beginning using gameplay ability system and i have a question. Should the logic of the ability reside inside the GameplayAbility class or from there i should call stuff inside my character/controller BP?

[pale shore]

can anyone explain what is the purpose/usage of these two functions? (compose transform and invert transform), any example when to use them?

[rugged wigeon]

if you have an object that is a child of another object and is offset by 100 units on X, it'll tell you 100 units on X

rather than parent_global_pos + 100 units on x

which is the absoute location

[maiden wadi]

Depends on what you're doing. Normally abilities are meant to make your other classes more generic. No point putting the specifics to dash in a couple different character classes, or in a base character class where all of it's inheritors won't use it when you can just put it in the ability meant for dashing.

[night bolt]

Yeah i will be using it for simple stuff like sprinting, jumping, dashing and grappling

So i guess just do stuff inside the GA

[pale shore]

this is for compose transform or invert transform?

[rugged wigeon]

sprinting is typically a state, not quite an ability.

[rugged wigeon]

get relative transform

[lofty rapids]

i would imagine invert transform "inverts" the transform

[pale shore]

what mean by this compose transform function?

[maiden wadi]

But you use an ability to alter states, usually.

[rugged wigeon]

invert is for going from local space to world space.

[lofty rapids]

what version ue ?

it looks like a mutliply, i can't do that in 5.3.2

[pale shore]

does it only take local space input and convert into world space? can it also convert world space to local space?

[rugged wigeon]

I would guess that multiply transforms does some sort of cursed element by element scaling

don't do that

[pale shore]

5.2.1

[gritty wraith]

Would anyone happen to know how to calculate the mouse position with [0;0] being the center of the game window?

[pale shore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Transform/ComposeTransforms/

[rugged wigeon]

0,0 is not the center. if you need 0,0 to be the center, then you need to subtract the coordinates of the center from the actual coordinates

[maiden wadi]

@gritty wraith

[gritty wraith]

OOOOOOH. thanks

[night bolt]

just a quick question, i have made a gameplay effect for a cooldown, and set it in the relevant gameplay ability defaults section. I check for the cooldown like this but isn't it supposed to get applied at commitAbility and not fire again until the effect is applied? or is it correct how i'm doing it?

[rugged wigeon]

how can I animate a widget moving from wherever it is currently to a fixed endpoint? Seems like the animations only support relative transations?

[maiden wadi]

You can delete the initial entry and only put the end point in at the end of the animation.

[rugged wigeon]

@maiden wadi this appears to only support relative transformations though

(1000,0) -> (start_pos_x + 1000,start_pos_y_)

[night bolt]

Or to word it better, am i doing unnecessary work in the BP checking for the cooldown like that? Is there a way to let the GA take care of the cooldown by itself?

[rugged wigeon]

A cooldown is an effect that should prevent an ability from triggering; not determine when the ability ends

[night bolt]

Ok so i'm not doing extra stuff there and it is correct

[maiden wadi]

There is an entry for it in UGameplayAbility.

[night bolt]

man this GAS is so convoluted

[rugged wigeon]

you're not supposed to manually apply it

[night bolt]

If i don't apply it manually the ability never ends though, so i cannot trigger it again

[rugged wigeon]

cooldowns are not for determining when abilities end

[night bolt]

Yeah i know, it's just for preventing a trigger

How would i go to check if the cooldown is active though?

[maiden wadi]

You shouldn't need to if you use the thing I just pasted.

[night bolt]

(Or if u have some docs about it it'd be great)

[night bolt]

i already use it

[rugged wigeon]

check if it has the tag applied by the effect

[maiden wadi]

This node will trigger the cooldown. Once the GE this applies is gone, then you can use the ability again.

[rugged wigeon]

https://github.com/tranek/GASDocumentation?tab=readme-ov-file#concepts-ge-cooldown

These are the docs you should use

[rugged wigeon]

I see that there's a way you can "add section" on anims that seem to support "absolute" and "relative" values but this doesn't seem to change anything

[night bolt]

like this is what i have, if i wait the cooldown i am not able to activate it again

[rugged wigeon]

you didn't end it

you also appear to be starting the dash before committing the ability which is odd

[night bolt]

oh i see, yesterday i was trying stuff and even if i had the cooldown applied i was able to spam it

with end ability plugged in i mean

[rugged wigeon]

you also, almost certainly, want to be calling get avatar actor and not finding an actor of class

[night bolt]

will search for that, didn't know it existed

thx

and thanks for the docs

[rugged wigeon]

read the docs, you're a bit lost it seems. E.g. there's no point in sending an interface call to "dash" from the ability "dash". the logic to do this stuff should be in this ability

[night bolt]

Yeah that's why i asked for it before, it seemed a bit weird, i will move everything here then

[rugged wigeon]

what you probably want is something like a root motion ability task that calls end ability when the root motion ends

[night bolt]

alright, for now im using a free dash asset i had in my library, will keep in mind this for the future. For now im just getting acquainted with the GAS

Thanks for the help

[maiden wadi]

@night bolt This works fine. It only allows me to activate the ability every 5 seconds.

[maiden wadi]

About this. If you need more complex animations, one thing I tend to do is just make the animation track for the time I want with a repeater event. You can get the alpha of the animation from itself in the repeater, and do much more complex logic on it than normal animations allow. EG animating a widget to the screenspace of a second widget.

[west hare]

Just add screenWidth / 2 to mouseX and screenHeight / 2 to mouseY.

[night bolt]

Yeah i tried stuff yesterday and i was able to spam the ability. Now it works as intended. Might have changed something yesterday that broke everything. Thanks anyways

[rugged wigeon]

Are you suggesting something like playing "MoveRightOneUnit" repeatedly to dynamically allow "MoveRightXUnits"

What does alpha mean in this context

[maiden wadi]

The 0 to 1 of how long the animation has progressed. IE useful for lerps.

But you make an animation track like this.

You right click the green bar, properties, create a new end point.

This gives you a new event that runs on tick every time this animation is evaluated.

[rugged wigeon]

and you're doing what with that? Setting position manually on the repeater event to lerp between start and end?

[maiden wadi]

Pretty much.

[surreal carbon]

anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on how i can chain down the player character? I want an enemy to be able to create some sort of link/chain to the player to restrict their movement and slowly pull the player to the enemy. I still want to player to be able to move and try to break free

I've tried using physical constraints but I have to enable physics and character movement becomes disabled

[maiden wadi]

Requires a lot of breaking down, and implementation depends heavily on what systems you're using. EG if you're using GAS.

Use an ability blueprint tick after commiit to interpto the player's location towards the instigator's pawn.
Apply a GE or something similar to reduce movement speed if necessary.
Have a GE apply a gameplay cue that'll set up the visuals for the link.

[junior lark]

Question for anyone more well versed than I, I've set up a delay that is 390 seconds long or 6:33 Mins long, which is the exact length of an audio track.
I've played the audio track in sync with unreal, and the audio track lasts the 6:33 mins i expect, but the delay doesn't go off for around 70-50 seconds later.
Does this have something to do with framerate? or is there a diffrent method i can check when this audio has finished playing cuz this aint working lol

I've heard delays are unrelyable in a pinch, but a full minute of error feel like I could be a me issue

[surreal peak]

You'd need to share your code

[junior lark]

Thats it lol

Ive been watching it tick down, and the Audio always ends before the delay does

Even though the Audio is 390 as seen here

And i also did the math of 6:33 which gives me 393 as well

just in case

[rugged wigeon]

whats to the right of the delay?

[maiden wadi]

@junior lark Don't rely on secondary timers.

[junior lark]

The sound playing? its just a bool that Im using to check when the sound finishes

[junior lark]

Okay ill try that thanks

[maiden wadi]

As for why it's being weird. Delay is only affected by time dilation and game pause. Sounds on the other hand can play faster based on some things.

[junior lark]

I thought it would be something like that

Appreesh the optimisation tip, Ill use event handlers more often

[maiden wadi]

I learned this lesson writing timers for dialogs. 😄 It gets super complicated to predict actual durations really quickly.

[junior lark]

I can def apply this in a few other places so thanks!

[astral orchid]

For some reason, whenever the Skill 1 Widget (and all subsequent widgets that require the Character reference) try to build, it kept saying there was a runtime error.

"Accessed Non trying to read property Character"

Anyone got any ideas?

[thin panther]

Well yes, it's running on construct, and you've never set that reference anywhere in that screenshot

Your character reference is null

[astral orchid]

What should I do to fix this

Should I do a Get IsValid?

[thin panther]

no, it won't fix your issue because you've never set the reference

to fix your issue you need to actually put a reference to your character inside of that variable

[astral orchid]

So how would I do that?

[thin panther]

by getting a reference to your character and using the set node on that variable before you use it

[astral orchid]

Thanks. It helped

[maiden wadi]

Should make this in a way that you have a dynamic count of skills displayed in a SkillsHost or something. The host itself can wait for the character to be valid and then refresh it's display with all of the skills. You end up with less race conditions.

[gentle urchin]

Just bind to owning controllers pawnChanged event ^^

[random pulsar]

i have 3 abilities i open first one in first level second ability in second level and so on,the abilities that i open need to be opened all the time,i have done this but it is really trash made cuz its linked to the level

how can i make this better way

so if i start on level 2 i have 2 abilities and on level 3 3 abilities

[maiden wadi]

What do you mean when you say you open them?

Ah. Normally you handle this via a savegame.

[random pulsar]

i have them locked in player by boolean

[astral orchid]

I'm guessing you mean, for if I have a different number of skills?

[random pulsar]

and open them in game instance

[maiden wadi]

You'll grant yourself a tag or something similar in an array, and let gameplay code check against it. And each level loads the savegame to refresh it's state, and each level end saves current state to the savegame.

[astral orchid]

Maybe instead you could get from Gamemode?

so if gamemode is "this", then switch on that

[maiden wadi]

Should really avoid storing gameplay state in the game instance.

You end up with cases where you don't clear things correctly, and it just turns into a lot of upkeep to maintain that the state is accurate.

Any state that needs to persist over map loads, should normally always be put into a USaveGame instance. You can store the active savegame in your game instance, sure, but this way your game persists even if you close the application and restart at level 2 when coming back. Gameinstance will not persist this way.

Also random bonus fact for savegames. You can actually save pointers in a Savegame. 😄 Makes saving states a ton easier, though does require a minor bit of C++ to achieve.

[random pulsar]

@maiden wadi did you write this to me?im confused

[astral orchid]

he did

[maiden wadi]

Most of it, yes. You should use a SaveGame to store the state of your skills.

[random pulsar]

oh,i was confused cause there was a lot of info)

thanks

[hollow lagoon]

I may have completely lost my mind here, but this doesn't seem to make sense - Shouldn't this print 0, 1, 2, 3, Done ? Somehow it only prints 0, then stops.

[trim matrix]

no?

it should print what you said.. maybe the event is fired multiple times

[maiden wadi]

I'm failing to find a reason that would only print zero. I could see it only printing 3 and Done, but not just zero.

[hollow lagoon]

Is the inside of my for loop somehow wrong? Is this not what it should look like?

[trim matrix]

wait you created this?

[hollow lagoon]

No, it's the Standard one, but maybe I somehow messed it up

[lofty rapids]

ya your missing a connection

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. 😄

[lofty rapids]

after the assign you run it through again

[maiden wadi]

Default for reference

[trim matrix]

you changed it for sure before... because it works normally

[hollow lagoon]

Ok, yep for some reason I didn't have the 2nd assign plugged back into the branch - I don't know what I was on when I did that but thanks guys, I thought I had completely lost my mind

It's working as expected after fixing that

[trim matrix]

c++ is so must easier for that lol

[undone bluff]

words cannot express how much discomfort the blueprint for loop makes me feel

a human's innards are nicer to look at

[maiden wadi]

Lol. I started doing some of mine off of delegates. Slightly faster. Little less wieldy.

[ashen ingot]

Does anyone know how to rebuild the navmesh manually? I have a BP in the level that randomly generates the terrain at BeginPlay, but the nav mesh doesnt get updated. I have 'Dynamic' set in the project settings for it but it still doesn't update

[maiden wadi]

EG my player selection component.

DECLARE_DYNAMIC_DELEGATE_OneParam(FForEachSelectedActor, AActor*, SelectedActor);

UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
void ForEachSelectedActor(FForEachSelectedActor PredicateDelegate);

void UAuthaerPlayerInteractionComponent::ForEachSelectedActor(FForEachSelectedActor PredicateDelegate)
{
    for (AActor* SelectedActor : SelectedActors)
    {
        PredicateDelegate.ExecuteIfBound(SelectedActor);
    }
}```

[undone bluff]

smart, gonna do that too, thanks

that's how I thought the node worked until I learned the horrible truth

[maiden wadi]

I know that there's some hackery in some projects like the little city builder where they literally nudge something 0.05 on Z to make it rebuild.

[ashen ingot]

i had it working in a different project with nearly identical code and still doesnt update 😭 did some tomfoolery with calling the generation from a different BP to trigger the rebuild which worked but cant recreate it again

[ashen ingot]

thank you, was being dumb at first moving the wrong BP but have it working well enough now

[latent venture]

How could i make an array of a struct, I want each value of the struct to represent a room and to contain some characteristics about it, how could i do that? Like i have in the picture will it create each time a different struct for a room?

[undone bluff]

the same way you'd make any other array

[latent venture]

I have made this as a Blueprint struct,

[latent venture]

isn`t it different?

[undone bluff]

nope

[latent venture]

god damn

[thin panther]

Try and declare your structs in C++ though, the BP ones are hella broken.
fortunately you only really need to get Visual Studio setup, you don't really need to learn the language

[latent venture]

yeah but I need to add coordonates in that struct, but one question will I be able to use my array of that struct in anotther blueprint?

[thin panther]

That has no bearing on what I said, but yes, provided you get a reference to whatever contains this array of structs

[latent venture]

I mean I spawn all my actors in my blueprints, since its a map generation, and I want to store those coordonates in a struct, I dont se how I could do that with c++, to get all the coordonates from my blueprints and pass them into C++ in order to stack them in a struct

[maiden wadi]

A Struct is no different really than any other data type like a float or integer. If you know how to make and handle an array of those, you can do the same thing with a struct.

[thin panther]

You just declare the struct in C++ and use it as you are now in bp

You don't pass anything into C++, you're just declaring the data type

[maiden wadi]

In fact Unreal largely makes it so easy you just copy the header tool's code.

[thin panther]

Of course, if you're interested it can also serve as a great way to dip your toes in the language, but yeah, all you'd need to do is set up visual studio, and learn about the building pitfalls you need to avoid, and then you're off

[maiden wadi]

Am not so much a fan of the fact that it doesn't initialze defaults, but uses some meta thing.

[latent venture]

oh I Understand what you mean now

so you totally recomand me to delete the struct I made with BluePrint and make another one in C++

[maiden wadi]

Neat little feature though.

[latent venture]

oh I could just copy that and ppaste it in C++?

[maiden wadi]

Largely. It'd probably work.

The main thing I gripe about is that you should always initialize your properties. Numericals and pointers mostly need to be set by defaults.

EG.. Instead of this.

USTRUCT(BlueprintType)
struct FMySuperCoolStruct
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeBoolean", MakeStructureDefaultValue="False"))
    bool SomeBoolean;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeMesh", MakeStructureDefaultValue="None"))
    TObjectPtr<UStaticMesh> SomeMesh;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomePoint", MakeStructureDefaultValue="0.000000,0.000000,0.000000"))
    FVector SomePoint;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeString"))
    FString SomeString;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeFloat", MakeStructureDefaultValue="0.000000"))
    double SomeFloat;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeInteger", MakeStructureDefaultValue="0"))
    int32 SomeInteger;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeArrayOfIntegers"))
    TArray<int32> SomeArrayOfIntegers;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere, meta=(DisplayName="SomeArrayOfAStruct"))
    TArray<FGeometry> SomeArrayOfAStruct;
};```
It should look like this.
```cpp
USTRUCT(BlueprintType)
struct FMySuperCoolStruct
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    bool SomeBoolean = false;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    TObjectPtr<UStaticMesh> SomeMesh = nullptr;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    FVector SomePoint;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    FString SomeString;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    double SomeFloat = 0.0;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    int32 SomeInteger = 0;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    TArray<int32> SomeArrayOfIntegers;
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, EditAnywhere)
    TArray<FGeometry> SomeArrayOfAStruct;
};```

[latent venture]

ah ok, but do i also need to create the cpp ? or only the header is enough?

[maiden wadi]

A header file is fine.

[latent venture]

okay

[bitter star]

This works when I set the timeline on autoplay. When I remove the autoplay and try calling the custom event it doesnt do anything. Does anything look wrong?

this is for a collision sphere to grow in scale oveer time

[latent venture]

and in order to make it as an array, should i add something in there?? or just array in my blueprint?

[maiden wadi]

If Autoplay works but the event doesn't, Initially I would double check that the event is running. Prints or a debug break.

[maiden wadi]

No, you just need the struct there. You make it an array where you use it.

[latent venture]

but if I would want to use it after in another blueprint?

[maiden wadi]

Not sure I understand the question?

[latent venture]

So right now I want to stack all the rooms and the doors from a room, more exactly the coordonates of them, but after I would want to use it again

[maiden wadi]

The C++ simply declares the container. It outlines what that struct holds. After that you can use it as many times as you want, where ever you want.

[bitter star]

I'm calling the event from another BP. The string prints at the end of the switch on int and at the end but the event doesn fire

[latent venture]

when I will be in a certain room to get acces to only those doors that are in the exact room, how could I do that??

[bitter star]

I get this error

[lofty rapids]

BP collision sphere is empty

how do you set it ?

[maiden wadi]

IMO I would maybe start with something a bit more beginner friendly until you're comfortable with data structures and manipulating them. Procgen gets to be a very advanced topic really fast and you're missing out on some core fundamentals.

But to answer the question, your array of rooms should probably contain an internal array of doors for each room. Then you simply find your entry for that room in the array and pull the doors out of it.

[bitter star]

what do you mean empty?

[lofty rapids]

its an empty variable most likely

you need to set it to the sphere

[latent venture]

yeah but the thing is

if i do array, it will be the same mesh component

and it won`t allow dupplicates from what I know, and it will fuck up my thing

Am I right?

[maiden wadi]

??? Each entry in the array is different. You set different data as you like. An array is just a listed bundle of your structs. Each struct is still it's own entry. Index 2 can have three solid wood doors, and index 4 can have four solid wood doors and a giant iron door.

[bitter star]

good catch! thank you!

[latent venture]

hmm maybe i am mistaking it with the map

well I want my static meshes component to refer to an exact part of my dungeon, and I could have multimple rooms of same type, will the array allow to stack the same type of an static mesh component ?

[maiden wadi]

Map is the same as an array. It's just looked up via a key instead of index. Each entry is still unique for each key.

[latent venture]

could you seee my last question?

[bitter star]

I there a way to "group" actors with tags? ie: I have 10 actors, they're all of type A. the 5 on the left are type B and the five the right are type C. Then I could cast/call actors based on their groups.

[latent venture]

?

[maiden wadi]

Each pointer can refer to the same, or different doors.

[maiden wadi]

Depends on how you want to structure it. You could tag the actors directly via the actor tags. Which you would then need to iterate over each of them to check their tags and dump that into an array each time you need that list.

Or you can dump them into a map of FName to a struct that is an array of actors, which lets you just input that type tag, and get the list.

[bitter star]

what's the smartest way? Im not super familiar with tags, arrays and maps yet. Still learning 🙂

[latent venture]

i want to be like the same static mesh but a different door in another location

[maiden wadi]

Both have their merits. Modifying the map is semi annoying, but not bad with a setter function. Looking up the list for each type from the whole list of tagged actors is much less performant due to the needing to iterate the entire list, dump them into a second array, and then probably iterate over that array to do what you need. IMO I'd be more inclined to go the map route.

[latent venture]

it doesn`t let me to compile

the scrippt

[maiden wadi]

@bitter star Make a new structure that has an array of actors in it like so. Then make a new map of Name/YourStruct

You can add a new actor via a function like this. You can iterate over each actor, and dump them into each of their lists.

When you need the list, you just grab it via the type.

[bitter star]

Thanks again for your help, I m going to try this now

[pine mesa]

Does anyone here know how to change the FOV of a camera depending on the distance between 2 characters to keep them always on screen, like in Super Smash Bros, within the Camera Blueprint? Thanks in advance!

[latent venture]

First how do I know I created succesfully the struct?

[maiden wadi]

You'll have to post the compile error.

[latent venture]

I have this error: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details
Error MSB3073 The command "E:\EpicGames\UE_5.3\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat ProceduralGenerationEditor Win64 Development -Project="D:\facultate\UnrealEngine\ProceduralGeneration\ProceduralGeneration\ProceduralGeneration.uproject" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" exited with code 6. ProceduralGeneration C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets 44

I had this first

i pressed on my project name and compiled, and this was thee only error I had

[maiden wadi]

I would recommend checking out the camera manager. It has this override that you can use. If you get all of the actors, you can do the math here to set the location, rotation, and FOV easily in one spot each frame.

[maiden wadi]

What all have you done so far? This error isn't helpful since it's basically saying the project can't even start building.

[bitter star]

I cant find the actor list in the struct 😦

[latent venture]

Well I just added the struct script, tried to compile it and gave me only this error

generating vls files works doesn`t give me any error

when I try to recompile and reload c++ code from unreal engine 5 also gives me an error

But how could I see if it worked or not

tho

[maiden wadi]

Chances are it didn't if you can't open your editor. If you can open the editor then you can just create a new property in in any BP and see if your struct exists.

[latent venture]

i opened the editor

[spark adder]

is there a ui chat cuz i cannot find it

[maiden wadi]

I'm not familiar with that error though.

[latent venture]

ah it doesn`t find it

[maiden wadi]

#umg or #slate usually.

[spark adder]

thanks!

[latent venture]

its my first time doing something in C++ in unreal engine and its so strange

[maiden wadi]

Which?

[trim matrix]

you have to close the editor when building the game in c++

[maiden wadi]

There's also a bit of a specific setup you have to do with your VS.

[latent venture]

you mean to generate thee vls files?

[trim matrix]

vls???

what's that

[latent venture]

ah visual studio, I meant

[trim matrix]

I meant that everytime you change something in C++, you have to close the unreal editor before building it

[latent venture]

Could someeone enter voice and help me 😦

[maiden wadi]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DevelopmentSetup/VisualStudioSetup/

You're going to want to start with this.

[latent venture]

I have done that already

[trim matrix]

I never did that and my ue5 c++ works perfectly fine

[maiden wadi]

🤷‍♂️ Not sure what that error is about. I've never personally seen it.

[latent venture]

bro for you coding in c++ worked from the first try in unreal engine?

its my second time I am trying to do something and it gets me so mad

[trim matrix]

show the code

[latent venture]

1 sec i am doing an update

[trim matrix]

it took me 1 entire day of madness but I got it working... I don't remember how tho

[bitter star]

In the map, how do you find the actorslist in the struct?

[maiden wadi]

@latent venture I feel like you have a runtime not installed with that error above.

[maiden wadi]

After the find, do a Break on it.

[trim matrix]

wdym by 'a runtime not installed'

[open zenith]

I have this inside my BP_Animal, and I'm using should eat inside ABP_Animal to trigger the animation loop of eating.
Is there a cleaner way instead of using the delay node? It feels dirty.

[maiden wadi]

#blueprint message
I get the impression from this that there's a missing .NET runtime. Not 100% though.

[dark drum]

You could use a montage to trigger the animation. It has the montage completed pin.

[bitter star]

Oh I meant to create the map to start with

[open zenith]

wouldn't that mean no longer using the animal anim blueprint?

Also, can you explain if that's a better approach for some reason or just different?

[maiden wadi]

Oh. 😄 Did you create the struct with the array in it?

EG this

[dark drum]

You need to have an animBP to play montages. It just need to have a slot added to the anim graph. (If it doesn't have one already)

[open zenith]

how does it interact with the state machine tho? Does it just override whatever state the anim blueprint state machine is currently in when calling play montage or does it wait "nicely" ?

[dark drum]

It depends how you setup the slot. If it's a full body type slot (no blend by bone) it'll override whatever is playing. You can specify the blend in/out on the montage itself.

[open zenith]

seems i'll have to study more that topic. Please let me know if u got any vid recc that covers slots / blend by bone.

[latent venture]

now i don`t even know anymore where to compile it

where can i show you the code?

[bitter star]

oh no i thought it was a var. let me look into creating structs

[trim matrix]

here ig

[trim matrix]

when the editor is closed, you press the play kind of button in vs

[maiden wadi]

Right click an empty part of your content browser in the folder you'd like to put it in.

[trim matrix]

who wrote that

[latent venture]

ah me

I mean

I made a struct with Blueprints

and there is an option to translate it to C++

and did that

[trim matrix]

I think that it miss a #include

not sure tho

[latent venture]

It tells me thsi

[trim matrix]

uhhh

[latent venture]

oh never mind

now i can build it

[trim matrix]

what is procedural generation?

[latent venture]

the name of the project 🙂

[trim matrix]

the icon is weird

[latent venture]

could you enter on voice chat

so i could share you my screen 😦 ?

[trim matrix]

nop..

[latent venture]

2>------ Build started: Project: ProceduralGeneration, Configuration: Development_Editor x64 ------
2>Access is denied.
2>Using bundled DotNet SDK version: 6.0.302
When I build it or at least I try to do an action, it tells me access is denied? what is deenied exactly?

[flint oasis]

Anyone know why I could be getting this error message?

The only thing I've done since my last save is change my grid size and import a couple assets

Even tried undoing the grid change and can't even save to previous version

[dawn gazelle]

A second copy of Unreal could be open

[flint oasis]

Weird task manager had one running as a background task couldnt even see it on taskbar. Thanks 👍

[latent venture]

now it even gives me stupid errors like missing an ; which I don`t miss 😦 fuck tthis shit bro

[trim matrix]

mh

[neon jungle]

hey is it possible to manipulate a collision in a way, where u can use a system which is changing the calculated collision after a hit reaction with a other collision? like real time generation from a collision?

Because this guy is talking about a system nearly like my idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfNyXjXci08&t

yes its spanish, but has english subtitles

[ashen ingot]

does anyone know how to get the nav area? i have procedural maps and not sure how to spawn enemies/ items on valid navigable points on the terrain

[ripe tide]

Hello, is someone able to help me with my problem? Im trying to implement a Walk/Sprint/Autosprint system since like 6 hours. I got it working with Delays but not with Timers, because i can't find a way to fire what comes after the timer and keep it on a button release (because if i release the button, if i invalidate the timer it also means i need to reset the movement speed back to normal).

What im trying to do is a system that : Left Shift pressed > Sprint , Left Shift pressed for longer than 5 secs > Sprint continues without button held down, Left Shift released > sprint continues if longer than 5 secs pressed down, Left Shift released > sprint stops as usual if less than 5 secs

This is what i want to do with the Timers, but it does not work like expected

[lunar sleet]

Prly cause you’re not connecting anything to the timer event

[lunar sleet]

And also this is a really hacky way to do this, just use the #enhanced-input-system

[ripe tide]

Problem is with this as soon as i clear and invaldiate the timer on button release, i need to revert back to normal movement speed, otherwise i would still be sprinting even the player releases the shift key

(under 5 secs)

[lunar sleet]

So do that

[ripe tide]

If i do that it means the sprint stops even if its hold for longer than 5 secs and then released

[lofty rapids]

i mean i was just showing a way to figure out the long press

there may be better ways

[ripe tide]

I had the exact setup some hours ago as you recommended 😄 the problem is hard to describe, i may recreate what i had so its easier to show

[lofty rapids]

you need the walk speed to change if long press was used ?

just put a boolean at the end

[wise ravine]

Hey is there a roadmap of sorts that basically explains every concept someone should know about blueprints? Or should I just keep learning 'piece by piece' from videos and such that way?

[ripe tide]

Thank you for your help Neo and engage, i got it working. 🙂

Is there a more efficient way to get detect if the player is slower than 50 cm/s ? So that i can get rid of the W-Key depress and calculate it by pure pond movement speed?

[lofty rapids]

you only want this to work once ?

i feel like you may want to flip that boolean back at some point

but if you want the player "speed" you can get velocity, get it's length

[ripe tide]

Like this? Seems to work 😄

[lofty rapids]

are you using walk speed low somewhere ?

[ripe tide]

Will be using it for the autorun im going to do next

[warped juniper]

I'm having some issues using Switch on GameplayTag Container...The outputs aren't responding properly with multiple tags involved but not accessed.

[flint oasis]

hey guys, im having a dumb problem where I'm trying to update the platforms grid, but instead its updating my floor grid even though they are different material instances. Anyone have some insight?

first two images are pre-updating the graph, when I change to Linear Interp in the 3rd image (trying to make it to where I can change the black portion of the grid's color too), it results in the grid in the 4th image

[remote wasp]

Hi, I'm trying to use the input mode "Game and UI", and when I'm in this mode, the game lets me click & drag the pawn view around with the mouse
How can I disable this?

[high sapphire]

How would I go about being able to have Switch on Int that has ranges? I'm not against having to create a macro, I'm just out of my depth with trying to figure out the how
Ideally it'd be something like this mockup I found while trying to figure this out, since I'm using this for random generation of stuff and it's pretty clunky to have "if x is in int range, else if x is in int range" with a lot of different ranges to go through. It functions, but it makes for a cluttered mess when there's several intervals for me to test for.

Considering this is how I'm doing it currently

[lunar sleet]

I wanna say you need a map

[high sapphire]

I think maps are one of the UE blueprint things I have less confidence with 😅 so I'm not sure what I would have to do to get that to work

[craggy flicker]

Hey guys quick question, how would I mask out a box with another box? Like for example, consider the picture. I'd like to mask out the red box against the white box, so when I do a random point in box within the white box, it'll choose a point that's outside the red box but inside the white box. Can I just like, do some clamping and min maxing on the corners to get this result?

[craggy flicker]

Maybe an easier question... when I set the same scale as the debug box above, to a box using set world transform, it's massively larger

does debug draw box use a different scaling thing

[valid solstice]

I have issue where when I press the crasher it lets me dodge

[dire frost]

you know you should move the logic to cpp when your graph either looks like speghatti or a cool funky 3D effect

[high sapphire]

Unfortunately I despise writing code by hand, and am far more comfortable with blueprints than C++

[dire frost]

yep i understand that. but in this case it might be better to invest some time to learning basic C++ and transfer at least that specific logic to it. but it's your game you ultimately know what's best for you

[topaz condor]

Hey guys i was having a issue where i can spam slide on my character so now i made a cooldown check and reset function but i think im missing something because its not working... did i connect something wrong here?

[lunar sleet]

I mean the bottom right part of your screenshot is not connected at all

[topaz condor]

yea i was just testing something

not needed

[lunar sleet]

so which part is not working

and have you used breakpoints to debug?

[topaz condor]

i can still spam my slide, its not setting and resetting a cooldown

i havent used a breakpoint

[marble tusk]

If all you're doing is setting a single enum variable, then you could just use a select node. If the ranges can be figured out with math you could probably simplify it too

[lunar sleet]

try that and step through the code. See where your code stops firing as expected

[remote meteor]

you are reseting the slide immediately after starting it though

[topaz condor]

thats it, thank you! whats the best way to adjust that? just set a delay?

[remote meteor]

you can use the timer to call the function when it ends

[remote meteor]

try not to use set timer "by function name" and always use "by event", and use "create event" node to make a reference to the correct function/event to be called when the timer is finished

[sacred canyon]

Im using a timeline to rotate my player to left and right, but it always rotates towards the camera. is there a way to make it turn away from the camera instead? need to blend from this animation better, since as you can see it only works nicely from one direction https://gyazo.com/d5f9ca9859bb52064dfca310966c08ee
(when he turns away from the wall, the mesh has not rotated, but as soon as he drops then the mesh rotates)