blueprint

[steady night]

that did it .P

ty

[sterile spindle]

Does anyone have the BP_FirstPersonPlayerController blueprint on hand? I managed to delete it and can't remember how to remap my input system lol

[twin jacinth]

I don't but my character does it like this

[sterile spindle]

Add Mapping Context was what I needed

ty

[pulsar vigil]

Hello , i have to calculate the shortest angle between two actor to decide wich turn animation is used with a motion warping to turn an npc when my character fire the dialogue, what would be the solution ?

i found this thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56749073/getting-yaw-angle-between-two-actors-unreal-blueprints that look valuable but it doesn't seem to calculate the best path but just the delta rotation or i dont understand it completely

[lilac lance]

Dot product gives you a value between +1 and -1 for how alike are two directions

[lilac lance]

And when the directions are perpendicular the value is 0

completly opposite in direction gives a value of -1, and completly the same gives +1

[spark smelt]

Hey, so I changed the Scene root component (in CPP) of one of the actors I've placed in the world. But if a map that had that actor was loaded in the background the editor would crash.

After loading as different map I could compile the blueprint but the actors that were already placed in the world don't have the correct scene root component.

Image 1 - If I drag and drop the blueprint now, this is what it shows
Image 2 - the actor I placed before making the change to the scene component

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[pulsar vigil]

thx ill try to use it

[lilac lance]

just filter by value
test it with print string and event tick to see the values and how they change,,,, i think it is linear with respect to angle, meaning that a 45 degree angle difference would give a value of 0,5

[maiden wadi]

The issue is that dot product doesn't give direction. It gives differences. It's values mirror on both left and right side. To get a reliable direction you need to convert the target into the turner's local space, and get the delta between the current rotation and the look at toration and then use the yaw to determine if it's negative or positive.

[pulsar vigil]

i tried just to see the thing from the thread i linked for my own thing and it worked giving me the range on 180 degree with find look at. yeah @maiden wadi i find this

[gentle urchin]

And 45 dont give .5

[grand surge]

yo how to start creating gun anim with anim montage

i mean how to create key

[gentle urchin]

#cpp message f.y.i

[grand surge]

and why my key button was disable

can any one hlp me

i am creating fps game so why my key button was disabled

[silent drift]

key button disabled? I don't understand what the problem is

[lofty rapids]

wdym "key button" ?

[grand surge]

yes

see

[silent drift]

You are asking about animations in a BP chat. ASk in #animation

[grand surge]

See I Want To Create Gun Shooting Anim Montage To Make Shooting Ak47 More Relastice

seees so help

key button was disabled

i need to create new track

[silent drift]

@grand surge You are asking in #blueprint , ask in #animation

[grand surge]

is aks

ask

[frigid summit]

hi guys im trying to throw the charcter in reverse direction and in ther air if it hit obstacle but it still in its place and not throwing i dont know why i set collision to ragdoll and everything is set to simulate generate hit events but it still happening

[wise ravine]

Hey why cant I get the 'Set Max Engine Torque' node from my vehicle movement component?

[frosty heron]

Read the error, it tells you why.

[wise ravine]

The compilers just saying the node can't reference itself (the blueprint)

But when I try and input the vehicle movement it won't allow it

[frosty heron]

Sure, but read the error when you are trying to plug the bluepin to the target. That also tells you the exact problem.

[wise ravine]

hmm

I see now, I have to add the other component and redo all of my configs

idk why there's two

[odd kiln]

Hi all !

Does anyone know a tip to change my character animations related to which weapon he is using please ?

Actually I am using "Montages"

Do I have to use Animation Blueprint or can I do this with Montages as well ?

(Each weapon has a Blueprint Actor)

[gentle urchin]

We're using a blendSpace per weapon

Along with montages specific to it

[silent drift]

A "best practice" question, I think, kind off. Is this better than placing something inside of the tick-event? Since it "only" checks as often as I set the looping timer to be.

[mild bloom]

Hello, i'm rotating a turret on a vehicle through the animation blueprint by setting a rotation variable.
It currently rotates towards the mouse cursor. The problem i'm having is that it follows the mouse as fast as i can move it.

If i rotate left and right using keyboard i can use a value of degrees per second and a timeline to slow down the rotation to whatever speed i like. But i can't work out how to do this when i'd make it follow the mouse.

I''ve been trying to combine the 2 bits but at best i get it to either slowly rotate in 1 direction without stopping...at worst it becomes a helicopter.

I'm trying to get this:

to do this:

[cloud solstice]

Is anyone available to help me with a tower defense issue? I'm trying to set it so you can't build a wall which would completely block the enemy path, but I can't get the ghost to affect the pathfinding of the path tester, and not the enemies already there.
If the ghost effects the navmesh then it works on both, if it blocks but doesn't affect the navmesh then the path is always clear apparently.

[lofty rapids]

maybe try to interp ?

[mild bloom]

hmm..i'll have a look at that

[lofty rapids]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Interpolation/FInterpTo/

[tawny jackal]

Can you always depend on an oncollisionexit after an oncollisionenter?

[odd kiln]

So I have to set the blendspace in the anim blueprint right ?

So I have to get which weapon I am using (a variable) in the Anim BP ?

[sage plank]

What's a simple way to setup a blueprint such that I can destroy it N seconds after it spawned? Tick? OnBeginPlay? Any other events?

[gentle urchin]

SetLifespan

[frigid summit]

it still in same position : (

[sage plank]

wow, thats mad brilliant - thanks! I never heard of that node

is this what you had in mind?

[gentle urchin]

Yes

If this was a grenade, you can do the trace+vfx OnDestroyed

[sage plank]

it's like a VFX for a projectile

so I'll try that too

[gentle urchin]

If the system/components reside in the bullet it wont work ofc^^

For the OnDestroyed

[sage plank]

would I have to spawn them after the destroy then?

[gentle urchin]

Well the actor and its components is a frame away grom being removed so

They be gone before they can show anything

[mild bloom]

i got it to rotate smoothly with a finterp..but not quite how i want.
I'd like to set the rotation speed in degrees per second. What it also does now is slow down when it's almost aligned. I do want smooth movement, but not eased near the end of movement.

[sage plank]

right, I'm a dummy - I forgot you can't just "unparent" components in UE (like how you can unparent Game Objects in Unity)

[gentle urchin]

Finterpconst

[mild bloom]

Ah that works, thanks 🙂

Do you also happen to know how to make it not turn back and rotate the other way when it hits -180 ?

[gentle urchin]

The code seem a little strange to me tho

Wouldnt you simply want to set target rep through OnRep ?

And react to that event on clients?

[mild bloom]

You mean multicasting the rotation ?

It did function in multiplayer...although probably not the most efficient way of doing it.

[gentle urchin]

Id suggest using OnRep instead

The TargetRotation

[mild bloom]

Yeah i found that tip already in a tutorial, didn't know i could replicate it like that too so was using rpc's everywhere. I decided to just start over and maybe 'do it right' this time 🙂

and change the controls while i'm at it

This now works, except when rotating backwards -180, then it turns back the other way:

[gentle urchin]

Tick runs om client and server, fyi

Only server can set replicated varibles

[mental trellis]

Wellll they can be set by the client, but they won't get sent to teh server.

[river seal]

anyone else noticed that UI buttons fire twice when using touch?

found a fix which solves this but it introduces other issues with click/release not getting recognized properly...

[MobileSlateUI]
bTouchFallbackToMouse=false

[untold fossil]

Hello. How can I make a datatable entry for a piece of text (story) that has paragraphs? Text and string do not allow ctrl-enter to go to a new line. How does one do data driven stories?

nvm found it

[gentle urchin]

True

They're only set locally

Untill server sets it again, causing replication to happen

[hollow lagoon]

Hello ! Does anyone know what type of variable an int point is ?

I see screen resolution uses it, but I dont understand its structure

[maiden wadi]

It's two integers.

[hollow lagoon]

cheers !

[sharp rapids]

Is there a way to add new blueprint code to the game after it has been built? Using PAK files?

I've been looking into making the game more modding friendly,
So far, I can add new textures, Materials to the build and it works.

Unfortunately, adding Blueprint does not seem to be working this way

For e.g. I have a master blueprint packaged into the base build version of the game,
I created a child blueprint from the master BP, and packaged it into another PAK, I thought it would load after mounting the PAK, but it doesn't.

It's only blueprint that does not seem to load this way, other assets seem to work fine. (Textures, Sounds, Materials, Data Assets, etc.)

[raven geyser]

Hey, folks. I'm new here with a physics tick/packaging question!

After packaging my project for Windows, my post-physics event tick (used to get move my character's hands to the handlebars of a vehicle each frame) doesn't work as it should. In the viewport and standalone test modes, the hands stay snapped to the bars no matter what. In the packaged game, they slowly lag behind as the vehicle moves forward, and eventually catch up when the vehicle stops.

I have this set up on a Post-Physics Event Tick, as if the engine computes it at the same time as physics, the hands lag behind and jitter around a ton. This works flawlessly in-editor, but not packaged!
Could there be some packaging setting that affects physics that I'm missing? Does my Event Post Physics Tick just not work when things are packaged?

I followed a youtube tutorial to set up the Post-Physics Tick, I can link it if that'd help solve this puzzle. I was hoping to contact the video creator, but his Discord link is broken. Let me know if there's any bonus info I can give to solve this, or if there's a better place to post this question. Thanks!

[jolly oriole]

Class Reference vs Soft Class Reference. What to use and when?

I assume soft is best if you're just dealing with the data or 'idea' of a class, ie data tables, because you want to know what class you're talking about but you don't want to load all of them into memory?

vs a place where maybe you want them ready to go in memory to avoid hitches or keep memory more managed?

[maiden wadi]

I would check out the User Generate Content plugin. Not sure how up to date it currently is, but it was a great option for that not too long ago. I think it was even packaged with one of the learning examples if memory serves?

[granite frost]

Can a component keep a copy of its owner. To remove its owner from world anytime and again spawn it?

Like remove from world and add to world? Not spawn.

[cinder raven]

I'm setting up a state machine and had a few questions if someone wouldn't mind helping:
I have an enum with my different states in my character bp and anim bp and was using those states in the anim blueprint state machine to drive the animation transitions (enum == x). What is the best way to set that state enum in this scenario? If I setup bools that meet the conditions based on the character's stats (vector length, velocity etc) is there an efficient way to set that state enum without doing dozens of if branches?
When the character's "is jumping" bool is on, whats the best way to translate that change to an enumerator that can scale well when any state is set?

[sharp rapids]

It seems the example project has been taken down from Github

[maiden wadi]

SoftClass if you have a data set of classes that may not all be used. Hard reference otherwise. This turns into a very complex topic because you generally still want to load up everything you'll need to keep the game snappy and not wait on async loads constantly. Specially when it changes gameplay on slower HDDs. PrimaryDataAssets can help with this a lot too if you dig into them with C++ as they can load in bundles for different situations.

[white oxide]

How come IsPlaying is always true in this case?

[maiden wadi]

This doesn't necessarily make sense with the terminology you've used. World maintains Actors. Actors maintain Components. If an Actor is removed from the world it is destroyed, and when an actor is destroyed it's components are destroyed.

[granite frost]

I don't want to destroy the actor. I just want to remove it from the world like in case of when putting in inventory

[maiden wadi]

Because it's thread blocking. You just soft crashed your game in an infinite loop. Except it's BP so it times out.

[granite frost]

It exist in the inventory as a reference but not in the world

[thin panther]

Removing an actor from the world is destroying it

[sharp rapids]

If you're working on an Inventory system, you can try using UObject for an item instead of AActor.
They're more lightweight and do not have 'physical' presence in the world

[granite frost]

Then how do I put it in inventory? When I put it in inventory I don't want it to still exist in the world. How is this commonly done?

[white oxide]

Is there a better way to do this rather than OnTick? My goal is to change the material while the audio is playing then change it back

[granite frost]

Delegate?

[thin panther]

By destroying it

[granite frost]

Do I need to destroy it every time when picking it up and spawning it every time I put it out of inventory? Even when the player is just switching items? Won't that be quiet wasteful. Plus the changes won't be easy to maintain

[sharp rapids]

Btw, what's the use of 'Explicit Assets' and 'Explicit Blueprints' in a PrimaryAssetLabel?
afaik, It packages those specified assets into the given chunk ID, right?
I tried specifying the newly created blueprint as Explicit Blueprint, to no avail

[thin panther]

When you add something to an inventory, you destroy the item and take some loose data of it into an array, like a struct or data asset that contains a soft ref to the icon, it's stack size, it's class to respawn in the world etc

[granite frost]

What if it contains data that I don't know in advance? How would I make struct of that? Like a torch's battery, liquid inside injection, durability of an item etc?

[thin panther]

Of course you know that in advance.

How wouldn't you?

If there's a battery on the floor you know how much juice it has

It either has some, all or none

[granite frost]

I mean some scenarios where an item has a criteria that is unique to it.

[thin panther]

If I drop a sword that has 300/500 durability, then on that sword in the world it has 300/500 durability, and when i pick it up it also has 300/500 durability

[granite frost]

I will do a bit of research on this matter.

[sharp rapids]

That's when using UObject derived items are better than using an array of structs

[thin panther]

data assets ftw

[sharp rapids]

You can make child blueprints derived from a master BP and give each of them unique variables if you want

[sharp rapids]

Ofc, data assets are a must, but they contain static data, which is not going to be changed,
For something like durability, battery juice, an UObject dedicated to that item works well

[sharp rapids]

Use pooling for both the Inventory items and the actual Actors in the world so you don't waste performance in spawning and destroying them

[thin panther]

oh of course, but it's not uncommon for the uobject to hold a data asset reference for it's static data

[granite frost]

Whats pooling?

[thin panther]

(Honestly you won't lose much performance because GC, you'll gain way more by just not using bp)

[sharp rapids]

That's what I'm saying

[thin panther]

I know, I'm agreeing 🙂

[sharp rapids]

You should google it, plenty of info out there
Basically, you spawn a bunch of actors at the beginning and then just hide/show them instead of spawning/destroying

[granite frost]

Ok

I was thinking of that too

[grand surge]

This was coming when I add montage play to my blueprint see

[maiden wadi]

Pooling is a task for later after you run into spawning performance issues. Need a working system first. 😄

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt worry myself with that from the getgo

[grand surge]

When I add this the error was coming why can any one fix

[lunar sleet]

Win+ shift+S my guy

[gentle urchin]

Lovely motionblurred picture

[grand surge]

And the montage not playing

[gentle urchin]

With some reflection

[lunar sleet]

No, we don’t see, cause you cut off the most important part which addresses where the problem actually is

[sharp rapids]

Anyone?

[frigid summit]

hi guys im trying to do a slow motion here when the charcter is thrown but it still fast how to slow it more

[lunar sleet]

It’s for assets rated R 🙃 runs

[maiden wadi]

I think so. Also did you uncheck EditorOnly on the PrimaryAssetLabel entry in the project settings?

[sharp rapids]

Yes.
As I said, it's fine for other types of assets, only BPs are not working.
I'm thinking it might not be possible to add new Code to the game after building.

[lunar sleet]

So how do modders do it then

[thin panther]

It's definitely possible, Epic have an article on adding UGC actors. Somewhere in the depths of the docs

There's also a UGC sample project

[frigid summit]

i hope there is channel for physics because physics is really hard in unreal like add force and and impulse all those stuff hard : (

[thin panther]

adding a force and impules are the fundamentals of any physics engine

[frigid summit]

yea

[thin panther]

but yes, there's #chaos-physics #legacy-physics and #game-math

[toxic copper]

Can someone explain the use of transform location // transform inverse location? How is this different from grabbing a location and plugging it in to an Add node? and why you would use inverse instead of just adding a negative sign to transform location// add?

I'm probably grossly misunderstanding the nodes.. the description mentions changing world location to local, or viceversa, but using some print strings, all i saw was the world location having X (or -X) added to it

[supple dome]

a meter forwards (100, 0, 0) becomes two meters upwards (0, 0, 200) for a mesh pointing up with 2 scale

[toxic copper]

not sure I follow.. between these 4, Inverse Transform Location and Subtract return the same value, while Transform Location and Add also return the same value

[supple dome]

well it doesn't do the same thing, it transforms from the local space to world and vice versa, (0,0,0) in localspace is the center of a mesh, (0,0,0) in world space is the center of the world

[toxic copper]

right! Thats why i was expecting inverse transform to change a world location to the location relative to the actor's root component

[supple dome]

btw, one of the operations it will do is adding to the ActorLocation, that makes it move from local to world

[toxic copper]

but instead of getting like -100 or whatever, it always gives me the world location modified

[supple dome]

you are doing halfway what the node does, just not taking into consideration rotation and scale

i was expecting inverse transform to change a world location to the location relative to the actor's root component
thats exactly what its doing

[regal iron]

Hello everyone, I’m following this tutorial on souls like combat and just trying to learn blueprints and. I am stuck creating a stamina bar. The bar shows up, I don’t get any errors and the stamina does decrease as the player starts moving slow but it isn’t showing? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwIOh8guNkk&list=PLQsT2_2HjEiMyHNCo1ZN5LalGz_9ffR6Y&index=2&pp=iAQB

[toxic copper]

im so sorry, i feel really dense haha.. the node only outputs the location vector, so how are the rotation and scale being factored in? Or is this what you were referring to earlier in your example of a scale of 2? since my scales are 1 its essentially the same result as an add or subtract on the location vector?

[supple dome]

lets say you want to place an object in front of a character

what is the 'front'?

[regal iron]

here is a screenshot

[supple dome]

that depends on the rotation and scale

transforming (1,0,0) from local to world will give you a vector pointing towards the front of the character, whether it is at rest (1,0,0) or eg rotated 90 degrees (0,-1,0)

[toxic copper]

I think maybe i understand (dubious lol).. because I'm using a paper actor with a root that never changes rotation or scale, it essentially works the same as add/subtract

but if i were to modify rotation/scale, then I would see a difference with add/subtract

[supple dome]

have you ever used the node "GetActorForwardVector"?

[toxic copper]

yeah, for movement input

and that's what you were referring to with "what is in front" im guessing

[supple dome]

that node is just a shortcut for the c++ code

FVector USceneComponent::GetForwardVector() const
{
    return GetComponentTransform().GetUnitAxis( EAxis::X );
} 

FORCEINLINE TVector<T> TTransform<T>::GetUnitAxis( EAxis::Type InAxis ) const
{
    if ( InAxis == EAxis::X )
    {
        return TransformVectorNoScale(TVector<T>(1.f, 0.f, 0.f));
    }
}

so its pretty common, when you need to get a position relative to a character

[sharp rapids]

That's what I'm trying to find out

[thin cloud]

I'm trying to detect chaos geometry simulated phys, but they aren't triggering overlaps. So I'm attempting to attach niagra particles to the trails and detect them instead, helpp

[sharp rapids]

Unfortunately, it's no longer available, Github link is down

[thin panther]

Are you sure?

Still up, you just haven't signed into a github account with access

Make sure the github acc is linked to epic games, and you've accepted the inv to the organization

[sharp rapids]

Huh, I thought it would tell something like that
It just shows a 404 not found page for me.
I'll try that

[lethal pollen]

Hi!

This piece of code is part of the VR Template project:

What does Is Over Hit Test Visible Widget?

I'm trying to understand, but I have no idea.

Thank you.

[thin cloud]

help find this

[odd kiln]

`Returns true if a widget under the hit result is has a visibility that makes it hit test

e.g. Slate widgets that return true for GetVisibility().IsHitTestVisible(). `

[lethal pollen]

Yes, I've read it three times. Do you really think I'm going to ask this without reading the documentation?

[odd kiln]

Sometimes it happens

[lethal pollen]

Sometimes, people don't help.

[regal iron]

I’m having a issue trying to get my stamina bar to work could someone help me understand why it wont regenerate stamina? It’s showing the widget and player character clearly loses stamina but it isn’t showing the stamina Lost or regenerating. Been at it for 2 days now😩

[lunar sleet]

show code

[odd kiln]

To what I understand it returns true if the "Target" is over a widget that is "Visible"

[regal iron]

i believe this is where its being called

im a noob bro im sorry

[lunar sleet]

people here ask things like how do you get an array's length, which means the bare minimum of right clicking the screen and typing length was not done. so expect people to make sure you did your due diligence

[lunar sleet]

are you following some tutorial?

[odd kiln]

Yes exactly I didn't want to be mean

[regal iron]

yes i am

[regal iron]

its the souls like melee tutorial

[lethal pollen]

Thank you.

[lunar sleet]

ok, wdym by "regenerating stamina doesn't work"? A widget is not updating, the variable is not changing, etc. ?

[regal iron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwIOh8guNkk

[thick pond]

got an odd question..

Is there a way to have something along the lines of the event 'On Release' working even when the mouse is no longer over the specific component? Aware that it doesnt work with that event, more curious if there is a way that does the same thing.

For context, an actor gets selected by clicking on it in-game, using the 'On Clicked' event, but by the time of release its possible the mouse is no longer over the actor

[regal iron]

The stamina depleted but doesn’t regenerate

[lunar sleet]

what regenerates it, that timeline event? also people don't have time to watch bad tutorials to troubleshoot lol

[regal iron]

If I play in editor when I jump a couple times the character becomes stamina depleted but he never regenerates it and it never shows in widget that I created, although widget is showing

[lunar sleet]

ok, do you know how to use print string and break points to debug your code?

[regal iron]

No I was just using chat gpt to troubleshoot and it said the same thing

[odd kiln]

You have to look where you are calling the "event" to "regenerate" the stamina thing

[thick pond]

chatgpt to troubleshoot
...

[odd kiln]

Do not use chat gpt, use your brain

Programming is "investigation"

[regal iron]

Is this where it’s being called in character bp?

[gentle urchin]

You should know

[regal iron]

Trust me I have been investigating for days and just needed help

[lunar sleet]

rule# 1 don't use chat GPT for UE5. It wasn't trained on it, you're likely to get better answers from a Roblox kid that's never done UE.

[regal iron]

I wasn’t sure that’s why I asked

[odd kiln]

It's ok and we will try to help you

[gentle urchin]

How would we know?

[regal iron]

😂 okay I won’t

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like an event that should start regen

[odd kiln]

#1, you have to have an "event" that regenerates your stamina

[lunar sleet]

from your screenshot, it looks like you're calling that event on your Sequence

on BeginPlay

[odd kiln]

#2 You have to "call" this "event" when you need it

[gentle urchin]

Please use Screenshot / Win+Shift+S (Snippet) aswell

pictures of a screen is 😦

[lunar sleet]

yeah, begin play only gets called once in the beginning. and if that tutorial told you to do this stuff...maybe trash it

[regal iron]

Ok, my apologies

[regal iron]

Im just trying to learn it’s somewhat difficult to decipher thru these tutorials

[lunar sleet]

it's why they call it tutorial hell

[gentle urchin]

To be fair, the learning curve is pretty steep

if you got no prior programming experience

[regal iron]

I am knee deep in it rn!🤣

[lunar sleet]

aye, it's ok to get your feet wet in the beginning, but if you keep following those, you will start hating the engine and uninstall

[regal iron]

When you say “call” an event could you possible elaborate for me?

[lunar sleet]

right click the graph, type the name of the event

you'll see a new node that's blue instead of red

that calls it

[regal iron]

I have about 1 month

[regal iron]

So I should call it to regenerate stamina? It goes before the event?

[lunar sleet]

it goes where/when you want it to regenerate

where is your stamina depletion functionality?

[odd kiln]

The question is : "When do you want it to regenerate ?"

[regal iron]

It is a souls like stamina bar so as it is used it is depleting and then upon inactivity it is replenished

[regal iron]

When character isn’t attacking or running

[dreamy elm]

is there any OnActorClick released event?

[odd kiln]

So you have to find (in the code) where the Character finish his attack or his run

[tacit rune]

So I am fairly new (less then a week) to UE I have set up a basic dmg system with health ammo and reloads. My problem is that I tried to set up a basic health bar. Everything is working trough actor BP and an interface. The Widget should call Health and Max Health Variables and display the percent after that. My problem is with the calls for some reason for the life of me I do not know why the get Health function calls the Max health Variable and the Max health just call "0" at all times. I have attached some pictures

also the interface and everything is attached to actors as it should

[lunar sleet]

I don't think so

[lunar sleet]

oopsies

nice, good to know

[regal iron]

What does this do?

[dreamy elm]

Mouse released event

[gentle urchin]

are both events implemented ?

[thick pond]

quicky bumping this

[gentle urchin]

(also, having this as a component makes way more sense )

[lunar sleet]

more precisely, when left click is released on top of the actor

[dreamy elm]

But now i need a released event but global if it was clicked

hmm

[gentle urchin]

track the clicked actor somewhere

or as Neo suggests i gues ?

Suppose that fires even if click is pressed

[thick pond]

This wont work, as the mouse is likely no longer over the actor

[gentle urchin]

when mouse left

[lunar sleet]

reply was to jinwin

[thick pond]

mb

[gentle urchin]

but isnt that the moment you wanna know anyways ?

If someone clicks (and holds) while unhovering the actor), nothing usually happens

so you'd simply reset the click when ouse leaves

[thick pond]

here it does matter unfortunately

[lunar sleet]

you can do this but it's something you need to code yourself

[tacit rune]

yes everything works if set up the widget in the actors with local variables

[thick pond]

thingI may just do is increase the clickable collider massive, kinda crude but hey

[gentle urchin]

not sure if that confirms their implementation

[lunar sleet]

can you describe your use case @thick pond ? i'm loading up an old project to see if I have what you need

[gentle urchin]

sounds very crude indeed

Yeah im getting curious aswell

[dreamy elm]

No, i need both

I`m highling character on click

need to remove the highlight on release (anywhere)

[gentle urchin]

On release, or also on unhover?

[lunar sleet]

I'm confused, are these 2 separate issues or 2 people working on the same issue lol

[gentle urchin]

Anyhow, if only on release, then you track it somewhere

xD

Jinwin seem to have a similar issue

[thick pond]

2 seperate

[tacit rune]

can you tell me how I can check that or is it too hard trough discord?

[lunar sleet]

use case?

what are you trying to do

[thick pond]

uploading clip, one moment
god this network connection sucks

[gentle urchin]

if release anywhere but over the actor resets it, can't you just reset it on mouse leave?

[thick pond]

Basically, I have an actor that acts as a 'pivot. a clip below.
its possible the mouse is no longer over the directional collider used for the pivot to know what direction to travel in.

When clicking outside of the actor (after release, which is not picked up by the pivot) it destroys it, hence why it goes away

IN this clip, release happens a second or two before the pivot goes away for the final time

[dreamy elm]

Click event is broken as fuck

Sometimes it does not works

Do click event needs somehow a click+release idk? it does not always works

My mouse is working

[lunar sleet]

how about locking the mouse cursor in place while dragging

[gentle urchin]

damn that was two completely different uses

yet so similar

[thick pond]

is a posibility yeah, would require a rewrite of the entire pivot

[gentle urchin]

cant you just track the clicked actor/component

in like the Playercontroller

[lunar sleet]

I didn't quite understand jinwin's tbh 😅

[thick pond]

the 'part' is tracked, the pivot not exactly

[gentle urchin]

Also, you can change the actors tick group

to atleast reduce the 'drag'

i've atleast had good luck with that before

for mouse / world coordination

[gentle urchin]

sure you're not hitting anything else?

[dreamy elm]

OnHover works 100% of times

[gentle urchin]

you can do a check in the Playercontroller on tick

[dreamy elm]

On click not working

[gentle urchin]

kk

[dreamy elm]

OnOver

Are they different?

[gentle urchin]

I just trace personally

GetHitResultUnderCursor

[lunar sleet]

since you're pretty much copying UE's gizmos, if you look at what happens in editor, they lock the other axes in place

so you can still move the mouse but not the object itself

[thick pond]

here the 2 axes are also locked, only one can be moved at once for the parts

[dreamy elm]

WTF, RELEASED ALWAYS WORKS BUT CLICKED DON`T

what is unreal doing

[lunar sleet]

what about caching the initial direction on click, and using that until released?

[thick pond]

hmmm

[lunar sleet]

if I'm understanding correctly, being on top of the wrong axis on release is the issue right?

[gentle urchin]

or on no axis

[thick pond]

specifically if you are not hovering the entire gizmos anymore

[gentle urchin]

so the focused axis get no release info

[lunar sleet]

yeah, I would make the release function agnostic of what it is currently over

[dreamy elm]

Look that

[lunar sleet]

in UE, your mouse can be in Africa, so long as it's down

[dreamy elm]

Sometimes clicked show

But released always show

[thick pond]

true, but it wont recognize the release properly if not over it

[lunar sleet]

why not

[lunar sleet]

we don't know where you put these prints

[wise ravine]

Is there a way that I can use audio and particle components in my vehicle blueprint without them taking up so much memory?

[thick pond]

since the event literally wont fire if you are not over the actor

[lunar sleet]

so you just need a global mouse release

[thick pond]

yeah, probably will then. Kinda unfortunate as I was hoping to get it sorted with just the click events on Actors, but hey

[lunar sleet]

weird, maybe do a hit under cursor and see what prints for actor

[dreamy elm]

But released works, also it is "over"

[lunar sleet]

shouldn't this gizmo be a widget instead of an actor tho?

[dreamy elm]

Also "double clicks" always works somehow

[lunar sleet]

idk what you mean by "over"

[thick pond]

that was the original idea, but that started running into some other issues, which could have been bc of missing knowledge tbf

[lunar sleet]

I'd say so (use widget that is)

[dreamy elm]

begin cursor over was called but not end

for this actor

I found that issue

[lunar sleet]

does it happen every time or only once when you hit Play?

[glass adder]

I've an issue when spawning in characters

[gentle urchin]

im not seeing this issue in another random project

[thick pond]

[lunar sleet]

one of these things might help

idk how you make a widget own the capture but it might be a start 😅 and #umg might know

[gentle urchin]

Hm

Actually i can't explain why this is even working

[dreamy elm]

I fixed my problem

This fixed

[regal iron]

breakpoint has informed me, just as you guys said, it is the refresh stamina node but i dont understand why it isnt working

[lunar sleet]

yeah, had a feeling it had to do with input mode

[dreamy elm]

Works always now ;v

[thick pond]

Okay, found a solution that for prototype phase probably will suffice: Add a collision sphere, and enable it when the gizmos is moving. Release will always be captured that way

[regal iron]

that looks so cooL!

and im stuck making a stamina bar lol

[dawn gazelle]

Create a base class that uses variables for holding all the audio and particle effects but leave them empty. You then use this as the "logical" class that has all the logic you want for that actor that you can pass around everywhere, but then have a child class that has all the audio/visual variables defined but has no additional logic defined - this is the class you spawn.

You can also use soft references and async load them when necessary if you also don't want to load everything from the get-go.

[gentle urchin]

I'd prob still track it elsewhere instead , surprised that works tbh

[odd kiln]

Anyone know how can I combine 2 vectors ?

[thick pond]

I mean, its still over the actor. In the long term i'm probably gonna replace the entire gizmos with a widget instead

[odd kiln]

If I "add" them the result is weird

[gentle urchin]

what result are you after

[odd kiln]

Combine a "forward vector" and a "right vector" for the "Add Movement Input" node

[gentle urchin]

you must normalize

the result

[odd kiln]

Ok thank you

[gentle urchin]

as they'll become a vector with length of 2

[odd kiln]

Before the "+" operation ?

[gentle urchin]

after

[odd kiln]

Ok thanks a lot

[gentle urchin]

1 + 1 = 2
Add Movement expects 1

[lunar sleet]

how did it inform you of this

[wise ravine]

I will try that, great explanation

btw which node will get rid of integers and only use who numbers?

[lunar sleet]

@regal iron put a print string on Cast Failed and see if it prints

[regal iron]

when i press play it stops the in editor play immmediately. i assume because at event play it cant find that data. okay im doing it now

[lunar sleet]

does it show a big red arrow on that event when it stops?

[regal iron]

yes

[lunar sleet]

that means the code is firing

that's what breakpoints do, they tell you, hey I managed to get here

you should be concerned when it doesn't stop

[regal iron]

oh ok i misunderstood that thank you! it didnt print on cast failed tho

[odd kiln]

Even if I "Normalize" it always goes to the "right" I don't know why

[lunar sleet]

I figured it wouldn't when I realized your code went past that point

so find out what is not firing

[regal iron]

should i breakpoint all stamina related variables?

[gentle urchin]

show the code

[lunar sleet]

no need

Refresh Stamina Regeneration gets called

you know that now

now find out what in that event doesn't work as intended

you had a branch, a timeline and other stuff in there

does it get past the branch, does the timeline work, etc

[regal iron]

okay im doing so now, thanks Neo!

[gentle urchin]

isnt there a normalize2d which removes any pitch ?

[odd kiln]

Yes it is

Normalize 2D Vector

[gentle urchin]

so you should be able to use that

[odd kiln]

Still the same

Goes to the right

Maybe I have to normalize before ?

[gentle urchin]

Nono

[odd kiln]

It does not make sense I guess

[gentle urchin]

but...

[odd kiln]

Or I have to multiply them ?

[gentle urchin]

nah

Control Rot -> VetorFromX -> Cross (FVector(0,0,1))

I think ..

[odd kiln]

For the Get Forward Vector ?

[odd kiln]

Ok so the Red is Forward and the blue Right

[gentle urchin]

and combined

[odd kiln]

How did you do that ?

[gentle urchin]

is there even pitch on Control Rotation ?

[odd kiln]

No the pitch is always 0 for both nodes

[gentle urchin]

debug is ofcourse just Draw Debug X

on Tick with duration 0.0

helps visualize

If i dont normalize, this happens

[trim matrix]

How i can make when i press left button to automatcly go at infinite and dont stop at fullscreen or windowed! like i try make to dont go right when you want to select windowed and press left until you find fullscreen. like to repeat the text

[odd kiln]

Can you test your code into a "Add Movement Input" please ?

I did the same but still same issue

So maybe I have a setting that is disturbing the code

[gentle urchin]

works as expected

strafing

[odd kiln]

Ok I guess I found what the problem is

It was my "Scale" value

It can't be always positive

My bad.. sorry

Thanks a lot!

[gentle urchin]

glad you got it sorted

[trim matrix]

may you help me to :(

[gentle urchin]

modulo

for up

[trim matrix]

wdym exactly?

[gentle urchin]

Upwards:

• LeftRight = LeftRight + 1 % (Max+1)

dont use clamp

[trim matrix]

Is ok now?

[gentle urchin]

loops for infinity

assuming 3 options, 0, 1, 2

[regal iron]

i believe this is the issue @lunar sleet

[lunar sleet]

that exclamation mark is pointing to the fact that the node is not connected to anything

[lunar sleet]

so if that Macro handles the stamina regen, you need to connect it to the execution path

[trim matrix]

Is this better?

[gentle urchin]

I showed you 🙂

but modulo only works up

not down

[trim matrix]

and how i can make them work both of them?

[gentle urchin]

read my code

5 messages up

Max is how many entries you got

[trim matrix]

sould i do exactly like that?

[gentle urchin]

yes

but use your own LeftRight thing

(all those conversions seem a little crazy mind you)

[trim matrix]

i think so

wait i try do the same think

[gentle urchin]

No time to wait, gotta hit the sack!

Gl!

[trim matrix]

thanks!

[regal iron]

okay, how let me try that right now

[lunar sleet]

connect the node

[regal iron]

connect it to the branch? ive been trying to figure out where to connect it. im sorry im really a beginner in code smh

[toxic copper]

Heya, sorry for such a long delay for the reply, had to step away plus spent some time testing out what you were saying. Thanks so much for explaining it to me.

[wise ravine]

Will setting the value of a text component in my widget ui on every tick cost a lot performance wise?

[vivid quarry]

Sorry for a basic question but I am new and at my wit's end with this particular thing... how do I output the change in yaw speed? I have tried using the GetLastUpdateRotation and the GetWorldRotation but no matter what they seem to output the same value, so the delta is always 0. My ultimate goal is to output the character's turn speed in such a way that I can make it a variable that affects their sprint sped modifier. Thanks in advance

[gentle urchin]

Track last frames rotation in a var

Tick -> do current vs last calcs -> update last

[lunar sleet]

maybe watch the tutorial again for now, and see where they connected it.

[regal iron]

im watching it now its not connected.

[lunar sleet]

so they never connect this macro throughout the entire video?

[toxic copper]

I tried testing it, and I think I understand transform location better, but not so much inverse.
I made a dummy with location 0, 0, 200, scale 1,1,1, rotation 0,90,0 (forward vector 0,0,1)
I used Add, Transform Location, and Inverse Transform Location, each with a value of X:100, Y:0, Z:0

At first the results were throwing me off a lot, apparently get actor transform was having some updated values despite me setting actor location back to original, so I created a variable with beginplay to store the original transform, and there results became closer to what I expected.

Add: 100,0,200
Transform: 0,0,300
Inverse Transform: -200,0,-100

Tried upping the X value on add,transform,inverse transform to 250 and results were
add: 250,0,200
Transform: 0,0,450
Inverse Transform: -200,0,-250

[vivid quarry]

This is what I have but it still outputs 0. I'm sure it's something silly though, literally on day 2 here haha

[gentle urchin]

Delay

Remove it

And do the calc before storing last rot

Not after

If you want you can branch with a 'InitialRotSet' to avoid fiest frame weird values

[wise ravine]

Is there logic built in somehow that prioritizes the smaller number (in this case 30) over the larger? Because if both branchs meet are True wouldn't they compete?

or am I thinking about this wrong?

[gentle urchin]

Dont put them in a sequence

If they are exclusive

[wise ravine]

exclusive?

[gentle urchin]

If you only want one of them to trigger

[wise ravine]

yes

[gentle urchin]

So exclusive.

[wise ravine]

So what's the alternative?

[gentle urchin]

Mutual exclusivity

[wise ravine]

A gate?

[gentle urchin]

No, two branches after eachother.

< 30? -> false -> < 70?

[wise ravine]

I tried that

[gentle urchin]

Try again

[wise ravine]

oh so I should do smaller numbers first?

[gentle urchin]

Dont have to

[vivid quarry]

I removed the delay but not sure I understand what two things to run the subtract between in order to figure out yaw delta over time?

These just return 0

[gentle urchin]

But you gotta know where what triggers

[wise ravine]

Well if x<70, and the branch for x<30 is after and it is only triggered if x<70 then it will never run

[gentle urchin]

Store the rotation in a variable 'LastRotation'

[wise ravine]

bc if x<30 then it's <70

[gentle urchin]

Yes, but <30 is the significant of those two

Anywyas

You wanna check <70 if its not <30

[wise ravine]

yea thats what im doing

[gentle urchin]

Not with the sequence you're not

[wise ravine]

that doesnt rlly make sense to me

yeah i got rid of it

[gentle urchin]

Show code

[wise ravine]

works

Running this on every tick isn't gonna be performance heavy is it?

It's just setting text values and changing the color

[gentle urchin]

Based off?

[wise ravine]

the mph of a vehicle

[wise ravine]

nd nitrous

[gentle urchin]

Then its alright

[wise ravine]

okay

[gentle urchin]

Id prob just do a lerp

From full to empty

[wise ravine]

oh

[gentle urchin]

Lerp color green to red

[wise ravine]

thats what I forgot, the lerp node

[gentle urchin]

No need for the checks in that case

[wise ravine]

I cant do orange?

only 2 values?

[gentle urchin]

(Unless you need a 2 stage lerp)

Sadly theres no multi lerp

Out of the box

So you gotta make it yourself

[wise ravine]

so I'll just* do the check method then

[wise ravine]

how long would that take?

[gentle urchin]

Not long if you know your way around in ue

[wise ravine]

I have like intermediate experience

[vivid quarry]

This is what I started with before but I am just not sure where to go to get it to display what is essentially the turning / rotation / yaw speed, since whatever I would subtract from the LastRotation would just give me 0. Thanks for the tips so far I appreciate the help

[gentle urchin]

Between the tick and the set node

Delta = get last update rotation.z - LastRotation

[gentle urchin]

3* select nodes and a value check

[pulsar geode]

Hey all, I have a static mesh (the key) and a material billboard (fake glow) inside of a blueprint.
Currently the billboard clips into the static mesh depending on the camera position as shown in the image. I want the material billboard to always render behind the static mesh.
How would I go about this?

[vivid quarry]

Not understanding what to put there?

[trim matrix]

I just fixed my bug but i got a mini bug that i dont understand the sense!

When i press the left arrow its working as wanted but if i press the right arrow its just shows Fullscreen and windowed fullscreen and not the windowed to :(

[wise ravine]

value check?

[gentle urchin]

The delta calculation

[gentle urchin]

Value <= 50%

[wise ravine]

What would that do?

[gentle urchin]

Swap the lerp colors

`> 50% would be Green to Orange
<= 50 would be Orange to Red

[wise ravine]

Btw do you know any good tutorials explaining how to measure the damamge on character bones? I'm trying to make a game where you drive a patient to the hospital. And if they receive damage on their leg for example, on the Hud the skeletons leg would turn red indicating damage.

[gentle urchin]

Max+1 for up

[wise ravine]

sounds too complex, I already got a working system but I appreciate it

[trim matrix]

so i set this to 2?

[trim matrix]

or?

[floral stump]

if a blueprint bool type function doesn't return anything, will it compile?

let me show you a screen shot

[trim matrix]

are you talking to me?

[floral stump]

@spark steppe

[spark steppe]

that compiles yes

[floral stump]

ofcourse not

[floral stump]

so bp versions don't need to return if they have a return type?

[weary steppe]

Hi does anyone know why blueprint lines sometimes become faded? I've tried looking up this but couldn't find anything, I thought it was a popular question 😬

In my control rig I've got functions with all lines faded, another with only partial fade, and the last with none faded

[floral stump]

i mean not important right?

[spark steppe]

i think at least one return node is necessary (if they have a return parameter)

[floral stump]

logically it will have one return node yes

[floral stump]

but the question is we look at it according to the C++ side, not all branches are returning its type!

bool foo()
{
    if(bCondition)
    {
        return true;
    }
    
    print("Hello");
}

this will not compile since the last branch is not returning its type

so bp by default is returning something out of the box if we don't return anything?

[spark steppe]

which is one more reason to do it the same in BP

idk the rules for how BP generates the return value if there's no return node

[trim matrix]

return bCondition;

[spark steppe]

no

[trim matrix]

(unless you want to do something on false)

[spark steppe]

1.) this is example
2.) it would alter the behavior of the function

[floral stump]

i just created a native code from that bp example, now everything is clear

    UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, meta=(Category="Default", OverrideNativeName="TestType"))
    virtual void bpf__TestType__pf(/*out*/ bool& bpp__NewParam__pf);

they don't have the bool type functions

they take them as void

and body got 10 switch cases with a while loop 🤣

will never use bps if extremely don't need

[trim matrix]

someone can help?

[trim matrix]

a by 1 error prob

[trim matrix]

why are they different btw?

[lunar sleet]

your math is completely different lol

and seems a bit overcomplicated tbh

[floral stump]

consider doing these things in C++

[lunar sleet]

or don't

this is simple math

[trim matrix]

idk

[lunar sleet]

you can use a Wrap node

[trim matrix]

i found the tutorial on Google

[floral stump]

i mean game user settings

i am sure he will need more options in his menu

[trim matrix]

wrap node?

[spark steppe]

ah yes, the famous wrap...

xD

another reason to use cpp to make a working wrap

[lunar sleet]

I mean it's a tiny bit broken but workable

[spark steppe]

a tiny bit?

it totally fails it's task

[trim matrix]

but where i place it

or what to do?

[lunar sleet]

not rly, you just gotta adjust the Min or max accordingly

[spark steppe]

i think it's wrong then, too?

[lunar sleet]

updated screenshot below

might need some adjustments, testing it out

[spark steppe]

don't waste your life on it

it's not doing what one would expect it to do

[lunar sleet]

that can be applied to a big part of UE 😄

here

on a default value of 0

seems to work fine

see if that works for you @trim matrix

[trim matrix]

Games can be made entierly in BP, never say do it in C++ here

[lunar sleet]

they shouldn't though

[floral stump]

they can be ofcourse but shouldn't be 😄

[lunar sleet]

mix of both is the right way, solely one or the other is generally bad for business

[trim matrix]

Why is the min -1 btw?

[lunar sleet]

because that node is partially broken 😄

supposed to include both Min and Max values but it fails to do so

[trim matrix]

ic

[spark steppe]

what's the result with -1?

0 or 2?

[lunar sleet]

lol, you may have been right

it breaks after several iterations if I use only increment, and doesn't work if you start by decrementing

[modest monolith]

Hello, do you know how to make a tutorial widget like "Press F to interact" but "F" changes according to what the player chose in the key binding settings?

[lunar sleet]

uh prly CommonUI, but you'd need to have an image for every letter

some bindings you probably should not allow the user to customize IMO

[inland walrus]

Does particles have collisions? I want it so that if the player overlaps then it damages them

[trim matrix]

or just implement it, simple

[inland walrus]

but I don't want to use a box collider as its a cone shaped pipe leak

[spark steppe]

yesn't

things that they should collide with need a Collider Gametag

[trim matrix]

i try now

[inland walrus]

Is that fairly simple?

[lunar sleet]

it won't work, that node is more broken than I remembered

[spark steppe]

depends™️

for one actor, yes. just add it to the game tags

it's just a "string/name"

[inland walrus]

I'm not following

[spark steppe]

in the class defaults

just add one named Collider iirc

[inland walrus]

Right I've done that

[spark steppe]

i don't know if they fire events tho

or if you have to do it in the niagara system on collision

[trim matrix]

it only works Fullscreen and windowed

but not windowed fullscreen

[inland walrus]

So I put the tag on niagara and the gas leak bp?

[lunar sleet]

it breaks anyways after several iterations, that node is cursed ^

[spark steppe]

you put the tag on whatever the niagara particles should collide with

probably as few as possible

[inland walrus]

Okay but how do I use these tags?

[spark steppe]

???

they're just for niagara to know that it should consider the object as collider

[trim matrix]

just add one and check if it's 2 then set it to 0

[inland walrus]

how does it communicate with niagara?

Do I put the tag on that too?

[spark steppe]

no

niagara pulls all actors with the tag when it checks for collisions...

[inland walrus]

ahh okay

[trim matrix]

how to add one?

like i try from 3 to 2?

[trim matrix]

++

aaaaaa

[spark steppe]

just use modulo div....

[trim matrix]

and for down

i use --?

[trim matrix]

yup and show me

ok

[trim matrix]

why? how would that work

[inland walrus]

I've put "Collider" in the tag of the third person character and the gasleak bp but still nothing happens

[trim matrix]

now what i do?

[spark steppe]

i don't have messed much with that part of niagara yet, so i can't help you further, sorry

[spark steppe]

delete the wrap integer node and never add it again to anything

[inland walrus]

ah okay

[trim matrix]

and what i sould replace with?

[spark steppe]

did you debug print the modulo division thing that you had before?

i can't recall exactly how it behaves with negative values

might need an abs() node behind (if it spits out negative numbers)

[trim matrix]

like this?

[spark steppe]

no

[trim matrix]

i typed abs and click on absolute integer

[inland walrus]

is there a way to spawn the collision and despawn the collision in time with the emitter timing?

I'm not sure the nodes for it

[spark steppe]

idk about your niagara system and this is rather a topic for #niagara

[lunar sleet]

alright I got it

[trim matrix]

why are you telling him to use random things that he doesnt know how it works

[trim matrix]

then what to do :((

[inland walrus]

I mean just for a box collision to spawn > delay > respawn > delay > loop

[spark steppe]

he HAD modulo before

[lunar sleet]

@trim matrix this should be pretty straight forward. the print strings are for testing only

[spark steppe]

i said he should try it again and debug print it

[lunar sleet]

but yeah modulo is also viable I'm sure

[trim matrix]

THATS WHAT I WANTED

[queen dagger]

question on approching mutliplayer in blueprints

[lunar sleet]

#multiplayer

😄

[queen dagger]

lol i completely skipped that one my b

[lunar sleet]

tbh the wrap int might also have failed because I didn't cache the incremented/decremented results before printing them, but at this point I can't be bothered 😅

[trim matrix]

Bruh the up one works the Fullscreen and windowed
and the down one works for fullscreen and windowed fullscreen

whats the sense

I WANT THE 3 OF THEM

THE WINDOWED,FULLSCREEN,WINDOWED FULLSCREEN

SOMEONE

i am dying in pain

[inland walrus]

Any idea for box collision to spawn > delay > respawn > delay > loop

[lunar sleet]

guy

I gave you the math

#blueprint message

[trim matrix]

yes but you saw the video

right?

[lunar sleet]

otherwise, if you want to use the one you have, you'll need to do the other 80% of another game dev's job and debug

[trim matrix]

for what i want the blueprint for?

[lunar sleet]

what video

[spark steppe]

it's wrong tho

😄

[lunar sleet]

my math?

[trim matrix]

.

[spark steppe]

should be >=3 i think

[lunar sleet]

isn't there only 3 options?

[spark steppe]

wait

[lunar sleet]

it's index 0 to 2 no?

[spark steppe]

actually

yea it may work

[trim matrix]

0,1,2

[lunar sleet]

why are you posting this

[spark steppe]

but it's confusing to read

[lunar sleet]

guys, I tested it

lol

[spark steppe]

i would increment/decrement before the branch

[lunar sleet]

I considered it, but thought maybe it would break things

in retrospect it prly wouldn't cause you overwrite the value

still, the math works, and I made sure to increase and decrease dozens of times, to make sure it doesn't break like wrap

[trim matrix]

bro

wait

[trim matrix]

just do what he wrote

[spark steppe]

1h later we got a number wrapped between 0 and 2

[lunar sleet]

I still don't see any of the math I gave you but like I said, my solution might not be the best one. If you're going to use modulo though, you need to debug and find out why it fails

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/never-make-that-mistake-again-gif-10358406

[inland walrus]

Anyone know why the collider isn't being activated and deactivated but the particles are?

[trim matrix]

the exact think?

it will work?

[lunar sleet]

the part you need is the math. Plug the enums and everything into it and you're golden

[trim matrix]

idk

[inland walrus]

me?

[lunar sleet]

I had events and print strings so I can make sure it works

[trim matrix]

why would it suddently not?

[trim matrix]

i am afraid

[lunar sleet]

not sure what you mean

[trim matrix]

of not be the same think

that i wish to be

LMAO

[spark steppe]

you shouldn't copy paste code in your project which you don't understand anyways...

settle for something that you understand and that you can fix/adapt later

[lunar sleet]

I mean I was hoping it's legible enough to understand

[inland walrus]

Basically every 3 seconds my smoke particle will start and stop for 3 seconds. I want the collider to do the same so that when the player overlaps the collider it kills them

[spark steppe]

so maybe just go with a clamp -_-

[lunar sleet]

yeah I was gonna suggest clamp but then the options won't wrap in the HUD, which is prly fine

[trim matrix]

that would even be better in the game

you could know that there's 3 options

[lunar sleet]

I didn't think my math would be that complex 😢

ah well

[lunar sleet]

I don't understand this "I want the collider to start and stop for 3 seconds", these things don't work the same way

[trim matrix]

(it's not)

i think i made an decision

i will make the code that you give me

the entire one

[inland walrus]

I've tried this and I feel like it's getting somewhere

[lunar sleet]

I still don't know what the actual issue was but I'm glad you're making progress

[trim matrix]

can you resend the image

to completly make

[lunar sleet]

it looks more complicated than it is. remove the convert to string and print string nodes, adapt it to your code and you should be golden

[hollow galleon]

it looks more complicated than it is - So basically like all 🍝 code

also sucks to refactor

[lunar sleet]

ugh

spending alot of time on this lol

you can make this into one function with multiple return nodes and it's super simple

[spark steppe]

that node setup is your PhD thesis now

[lunar sleet]

Title: "On how to re-implement Wrap (Int) because Epic failed to do it right"

[dawn gazelle]

I dunno man... Some spaghetti, even though it looks more complicated than it is, likely is too complicated simply because its spaghetti.

Also, I made this some time ago.... probably be better as some C++ but whatever 😛

[hollow galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/die-is-not-what-i-would-choose-i-would-rather-die-jumanji-gif-15313341

[hybrid frost]

Hi, can someone explain to me how the "On Component Hit" event works? I created an axe BP and attached it to my character's hand socket. I have created a BP of the object I want to trigger this event for and added the component "Cube" to it. When I run into it with my character the event actually triggers for my character's "Capsule Component", but it won't trigger for my BP Axe, which is held in the character's hand. Why is this happening?

[trim matrix]

its good to test?

[trim matrix]

i hope i did right

[spark steppe]

no you didn't

[trim matrix]

WHAT

[spark steppe]

nothing there is using/updating your window mode

[lunar sleet]

now he comes to the rescue 😛

[spark steppe]

he told you to use window mode instead of test number

[trim matrix]

my bad

[lunar sleet]

don't worry my guy, I'll code this one for you, from start to finish. First and last time I do this for someone tho 😄

[spark steppe]

i want discord timed alerts

so that i can be remembered in 1 year to congratulate you to your wrap integer day

[hollow galleon]

int rangeSize = (max - min) + 1;
outputFactor = (val - min) %  rangeSize;
return outputFactor < 0 ?  (max + outputFactor + 1) : (min + outputFactor);

Yeah, alot more readable and cleaner but spaghetti is quicker

[inland walrus]

@lunar sleet figured it out

[trim matrix]

better?

[trim matrix]

OMG FOR ME?

THANK YOU

[hollow galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/honest-word-its-honest-work-it-aint-much-it-aint-much-but-its-honest-work-gif-13763573

[trim matrix]

does it work first

[trim matrix]

let me try

[lunar sleet]

I mean you pretty much have it, missing a couple of Set nodes, but if it works, then I don't have to do it

[spark steppe]

i wonder how the increment on a temporary conversion result works out...

since it changes the var by reference

[lunar sleet]

yeah

I think it might be like the y = x++ discussion I was having in #programmer-hangout but not sure

also why can't I find this int to enum conversion node he has

[trim matrix]

it's automatic

[lunar sleet]

It doesn't want to 😦

[spark steppe]

convert to byte first

[lunar sleet]

ah

ofc

[trim matrix]

dosent work

only fullscreen is the single option

from settings

[spark steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

[trim matrix]

that's what I thought

[spark steppe]

it's harder than the gta train mission 😄

[lunar sleet]

ok guy watch this

[spark steppe]

use Datura's function

put it in a blueprint function library

and stop finding a ugly hack

[lunar sleet]

not an ugly hack 😦

[spark steppe]

dude

[lunar sleet]

I made it pretty

[spark steppe]

this should be one node

not a whole event graph

[lunar sleet]

you can Macro it

ya?

watch

[dawn gazelle]

• My fucntion is not guaranteed to work™

[trim matrix]

it's not a hack, it's literally the way to understand how to code basic stuff by HIMSELF

[spark steppe]

then put it in a macro lib

[trim matrix]

it sould work this image?

[lunar sleet]

yes

it does work

[spark steppe]

from my understanding he doesn't even come close to getting it

[trim matrix]

true lol

bro is just asking if it works

[lunar sleet]

incremented and decremented

but Ben wants a one node solution so I guess I'm doing that now fml

[spark steppe]

Datura did post the solution

[lunar sleet]

it wasn't one node

[spark steppe]

#blueprint message

it's a function/macro

[lunar sleet]

yep, multiple nodes in a function, I can do that too

it's a matter of collapsing and moving some stuff around

mind you

I like his better tbh

anyways, that concludes my thesis

[trim matrix]

alr

so i sould use test number and window mode?

[trim matrix]

So this should be put in C++, in a BP function library, right?

variables?

[spark steppe]

btw. <#blueprint message>

2.5 hours

😄

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah - if it works right. I haven't used that in quite some time.

[lunar sleet]

the test number is a temp storage. you might not need to use it, but I haven't tested if the math holds without caching the information before altering it.

[lunar sleet]

fastest PHD ever

[spark steppe]

you aren't done yet

[lunar sleet]

no, you said Datura already won the Nobel with his formula so no point now

[spark steppe]

alright, no PHD for you

[trim matrix]

whaty's PHD

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/mcmahon-crying-he-was-special-wwe-vince-mcmahon-gif-13313547165599993551

[lunar sleet]

a doctorate

[dawn gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/award-love-me-really-love-me-the-mask-really-gif-5621422

[trim matrix]

did i do right?

[lunar sleet]

seems legit. does it work (x4) ?

[trim matrix]

what x4?

[lunar sleet]

for the 4th time

[trim matrix]

lets see?

i test rn

[lunar sleet]

you're really good at building suspense I'll give you that

implement it in your games and you've got AW2 😄

[lofty rapids]

looks like your missing a line

[trim matrix]

what line?

(the print)

[spark steppe]

now the whole thing got it's own variable 😄

i blame Neo

[lofty rapids]

the false from the top one @trim matrix, it just ends when you decrease

[lunar sleet]

the print is not needed, this is so I can show that it works

yeah, connect the 2nd row

I prly should've put the redirector on the very top line but f it

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-ok-fine-sigh-all-right-gif-22904120

[trim matrix]

wtf?

[trim matrix]

fixed it

[trim matrix]

maybe mising somthing

[trim matrix]

the Enum?

[spark steppe]

a few things according to your last screenshot

[trim matrix]

where?

[trim matrix]

the text is E... seems like an enum

[trim matrix]

maybe this is the issue?

[spark steppe]

or wait

there may be more...

[lunar sleet]

ahmagad

[spark steppe]

ok

let's start fresh DnuSmoker...

rightclick in content browser and go to blueprint => blueprint function library

Name the new asset MyFunctionLibrary

[lunar sleet]

no, it's 2 in the top row, 0 in the 3rd row

anyways, yeah just do what Ben says at this point I give up

[lofty rapids]

i c your trying to loop around this thing ?

[lunar sleet]

yeah, avoiding the cursed Wrap node

[spark steppe]

create a function in the function library

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798862938046464/1232110858151399494/image.png?ex=66284428&is=6626f2a8&hm=d3f7a2675c74edb514b8559f6b18089dc1aa8a705200de268df629d2e31e4954&

make it like this

[lunar sleet]

I think at this point you may need to give it to him in BP UE, so he can just copy paste

[spark steppe]

xD

[trim matrix]

stop helping him lol

[spark steppe]

bro

just tell us what your game is about

[trim matrix]

he doesn't know what is 1+1

[spark steppe]

we gonna make it faster than this

[lunar sleet]

Lol

game is about changing the window type

obvi

[trim matrix]

ok so i wanted to make an menu that has an option called Settings

[trim matrix]

yep

[spark steppe]

no stop

dont

[trim matrix]

so fun.

[spark steppe]

yea i'm almost tempted to open UE, create the function and copy it...

[trim matrix]

the real hard part is how to change the size of the window

[spark steppe]

so he can paste it

and we can move on

to for loops with delay nodes

[lofty rapids]

hmm

[trim matrix]

delay nodes?

[spark steppe]

nvm

[trim matrix]

but i think this is the code but i think we miss something inportant there

[spark steppe]

maybe play less fortnite 🤷

[lunar sleet]

I told you

[lunar sleet]

3rd Set node is 0 not 2

[trim matrix]

using delay nodes might help for faster code btw @trim matrix
you should consider them