blueprint

[toxic copper]

ohhhh

[remote shard]

I'm looking into the code I'm learning from, and I'm noticing that the code has managed to Cast to another blueprint that is specifically supposed to reset the entire world back to how it is originally. Is there better options for me to call a temporary save in the game besides doing this?

[toxic copper]

could it be this is needed for that event to work?

except its greyed out so i cant try it

[maiden wadi]

You need to set this up like the video. Beginplay, CreateDynamicMaterialInstance with the material specified. Populate the return into a property.

[dry scarab]

yea dyion was trynna bug fix

so ill do it like video again

[stoic ledge]

@toxic copper i think what you are attempting, is to use a built in bind to a anim statemachine function. but your concept is more of a different method. if i understood correctly u said that jumping and falling are the same ?

[maiden wadi]

Ah. Right. You have to set that to true in the BP on the Jumped event.

[iron oar]

hi guys, I have a question concerning optimization : let's say i have a data table for hundreds of NPCs, all the NPC are based of the same blueprint, how should I take care of updating the materials for each NPC ? Am-I better to create hundreds of material instances and replace the materials in my construction script of my NPC blueprint or have 1 dynamic material that update correspondingly to the current NPC ?

[maiden wadi]

@toxic copperRoughly this I think. Not in a jumpy project to test.

[dusky cobalt]

I would say that the tutorial is trying to teach you one thing, doesnt mean that it's the best, but just trust the process and learn that, it's hard to say without context and where you will use that in the future

[lethal ocean]

I'm not sure if this is the right channel for this, but I'm having optimization issues with a blueprint based endless runner project. Been following a couple tutorials to base the project off of, and they all work by spawning a specific number of platform actors, deleting each platform as the player pawn runs past it, and adding a new one at the end of the chain. This all runs around 70fps at the beginning of the game, but as the player pawn runs the fps steadily drops till its unbearable. I'm not sure where to even start looking to fix this problem, as the game is constantly deleting actors and should thereby be recovering recourses. Any thoughts?

[remote shard]

Alright, I'll do it for now

[dry scarab]

ok back at the same place now

[maiden wadi]

What about your beginplay?

[stoic ledge]

@toxic copper i misrepresented what that bind was doing ;/

[maiden wadi]

This seems correct based on your material. This doesn't work?

[dry scarab]

is this suppose to be set as anthing?

[toxic copper]

so i am indeed using this for switching flipbooks as well as some other logic. currenty "isFalling" is true regardless of if im ascending with jump or falling. i think its whenever z != 0

[dry scarab]

cos it has 0 options

[stoic ledge]

@maiden wadi in your example to @toxic copper would the apex not immeditaly be reached as the jump began?

[maiden wadi]

No. It's set in Beginplay

[dry scarab]

ok

[dry scarab]

is this suppose to be like this

[maiden wadi]

Apex is reached when character starts going towards gravity.

[maiden wadi]

This looks fine as well.

[dry scarab]

nope doesnt work

[toxic copper]

this worked, thank you!! any idea if this is better/worse than just using a Get Velocity, if Z<0

[dry scarab]

this is 5.4

[maiden wadi]

Then show me the mesh you have in the cube thing.

[toxic copper]

Also it took me forever to find the Set Notify Apex node, i didnt notice you had it connected to character moevment

[dry scarab]

i did not have the marterial set as m_color before

i chnaged that dunno if should of

[lofty rapids]

i feel like at some point you have to set the material you created

and i don't see that

[maiden wadi]

It should be specified at the CreateDynamicMaterialInstance node.

[dusky cobalt]

take this m-color material and set this to none because you are setting it in the begin play ?

[dry scarab]

i think this does it no?

[maiden wadi]

No

SourceMaterial

[lofty rapids]

i thought that you had to set material

and the dynamic instance was seperate when it was created

[dry scarab]

so somethign is setting it red

o n start

[maiden wadi]

That create will find the current MID and return it. Or if there is not one it will create a new one, set it and return it.

[stoic ledge]

@toxic copper im confused to how it actually changes 'at the apex' and not at 'event on jumped', is your problem solved?

[maiden wadi]

Click Apply here. @dry scarab

[dry scarab]

OMG IT WORKS

its very bright but i can see the hue lol

[dusky cobalt]

omg xD

[maiden wadi]

Useful to use HSV colors for random colors. 😄

[dusky cobalt]

it was working whole time lol xD

[dry scarab]

https://medal.tv/games/unreal-engine/clips/2aswE7SD2TA2vT/d1337Dm8NJsF?invite=cr-MSxSN1osMTk3ODI4MDUyLA

AMAZING

dont even needthis in my game but

im learning how to reppstuff so yea

P:D

[maiden wadi]

Slightly easier color randomizer.

[dry scarab]

so what was the issue co si dint click apply? in color thing

[maiden wadi]

H is color. S is amount of color, V is dark to light.

You didn't recompile the material. So it was showing old values. Probably without the parameter.

[dry scarab]

ahh

sorry other guy who was helping me

ahhaha

[sharp python]

When I have some spline meshes along a spline, and I change the location of a spline point, do I really have to trash all the spline meshes and regenerate them... every frame?

[maiden wadi]

Or get the current ones and move them to the new points.

[toxic copper]

sorry, i got carried away testing with it

so i think what happens is that unreal has a built in check for when a jump reaches its apex. the event "on Reached Jump Apex" seems to only work when this option "Notify Apex" is set to true

so even though the bind event is set immediately after jumping, i think thats just tying that "apex check" to the jump that called it

[maiden wadi]

There is no "at the apex". It's a state transfer. This code is ran in a ticked function. You set the NotifyApex to true, and the first time that velocity is lower than zero Z, notify it and set the boolean to false.

if (bNotifyApex && (RotateWorldToGravity(Velocity).Z < 0.f))
{
    // Just passed jump apex since now going down
    bNotifyApex = false;
    NotifyJumpApex();
}```

[atomic prairie]

Hello there! I've a blueprint for my guards path and Ild like to have an event to reset this (go back to the first point) It seems simple, but I don't understand.. I tried to set the Target to 0 but that doesn't change anything theyre still trying to reach where they were previously, can you help me?

[toxic copper]

interesting, thanks for that explanation

so its esentially the same as the get velocity < 0 version, tho im not sure what a ticked function is

[dark drum]

I'm not entirely sure what you're issue is but this is how I use the on Apex notify event to control the gravity scale of the character. It might help you in understanding how it works.

[toxic copper]

thank you, ill check this out

beautiful. my next question is was about to ask i answered on that last screenshot lol

was having issue cause "isFalling" was still true the moment i landed and wasnt changing state. is landed should hopefully solve that

[stoic ledge]

@guids 😄

[wise ravine]

How would I make an array of blueprints If I needed each blueprint to be different from the other?

[versed sun]

array of Objects

[dark drum]

You're probally looking for an array of actors.

[versed sun]

or , the closest Parent class they have in common

[wise ravine]

like this?

[stoic ledge]

looks like ur trying to next

nest*

[versed sun]

yup

[wise ravine]

cant find actors

[wise ravine]

that sounds like it might work

[versed sun]

but , if everything in the array is an Actor, use Actor

[dark drum]

it would just be 'Actor'. If the blueprints will be things placed/spawned in the level, use actor instead of object. 🙃

[wise ravine]

That works out, appreciate it both of yall

and the quick response too 😅

[trim matrix]

no problem

[dry scarab]

how do i get this variable into code and add it to my widget?

[dry scarab]

sorry for ur bank account

[dark drum]

What do you mean by add it to your widget?

[dry scarab]

like this

[trim matrix]

wut?

[dark drum]

I don't think you can. (not in BP anyway)

[dry scarab]

well his guy who made that did it

in soething

[dry scarab]

#blueprint message

[dawn gazelle]

Probably exposed it in C++, but doesn't appear to be available to blueprint.

[trim matrix]

these are all expensive lol

[wise ravine]

How am I supposed to add the actors thought? Especially if I don't have the actors in the level yet, but to use this array to randomly spawn those actors..

[dry scarab]

ahh ok

anyone can write me code XD

its not 100 needed but long run with 30 interactbles might be good etc etc

[dark drum]

If you want to use the array to spawn actors, make it a actor class ref instead of actor object ref.

[trim matrix]

pay.. :3

[dry scarab]

i just paid for a assert pack hahaha

[stoic ledge]

@wise ravine can u explain to me again what it is ur trying to do? load maps into an array?

[dry scarab]

btw they will have a big sale in july its there 10 year anviersely

[trim matrix]

load actors, but big ones

[wise ravine]

yes

I believe it might be better to load levels, but I don't know how to so I'm just compiling all of the objects into a blueprint

[dawn gazelle]

Untested. Needs more #inlcudes probably.

.h

UCLASS()
class YOURGAME_API UYourBlueprintFunctionLibrary : public UBlueprintFunctionLibrary
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

public:
    UFUNCTION(BlueprintPure, Category = "YourGame")
    static bool GetNetLoadOnClient(AActor* TargetActor);
}

.cpp

bool UYourBlueprintFunctionLibrary::GetNetLoadOnClient(AActor* TargetActor)
{
    return TargetActor ? TargetActor->bNetLoadOnClient : false;
}

[atomic prairie]

Anyone know how I can reset this path? I tried to set Target to 0 but it doesn't work

[versed sun]

Custom Event

[atomic prairie]

Yes but what should I put in this Reset custom event?

[dry scarab]

what ones of theses do i need

sorry nomrally a bp guy i m guessing im making new ones then naming them. h etc etc?

[dawn gazelle]

All Classes > BlueprintFunctionLibrary I think its called.

[dry scarab]

look good?

[wise ravine]

For this scenario, is casting the best option*? Can I use a BPI instead?

Or is that not necessary?

[dry scarab]

what is thisjunk xd

[versed sun]

it looks like you want to reset when Target is the length of Destinations
Target = 0 will pull the first item from array, but i thing you would want to stop moving because you are at end of array
remove the Exec wire after Set Target 0
@atomic prairie

[lofty rapids]

you got to close the editor and compile from the ide

[atomic prairie]

@versed sun Like this? This doesn't change anything for me, after being teleported the guard still wants to reach his old destination rather than restart the path again

[dry scarab]

how do i use code

in nice style in discord

[versed sun]

ahh , you want to go to each destination , then loop again ?

[atomic prairie]

Yes. There are three guards doing patrol loops. But I added an event that teleports the guards to their original spawn and I want when that's done they start their loop again with the first point

[lunar sleet]

Bro

[dry scarab]

lol what am idoing wrong

[lunar sleet]

#cpp

[midnight wadi]

are there any tricks or shortcuts to convert my blueprint to python script?

[lunar sleet]

Posting in the wrong channel 😀

[dry scarab]

i cant put into nice code

nooo

its right channel

just i cant do it nice

[lunar sleet]

Yes you can it’s ```

Followed by cpp

Now go do it in #cpp

[dry scarab]

ok ty

what does cpp mean

[lunar sleet]

Uh try #editor-scripting but beyond that idk

[lunar sleet]

C++

[dry scarab]

ahhhh ok

[midnight wadi]

ok thanks

[dusky cobalt]

= maybe

Also you might do incrementation before you check condition

Not when you are doing branch

Also on true you are not connecting exec pin

[atomic prairie]

YEs i reconnected it

[dusky cobalt]

Is it oath like with patrol points?

Path

You have 2 points ?

Start and End ?

[atomic prairie]

I've 4 target point, the guards do patrol loops

And I would like with this custom event the guards are teleported to their spawn (it works) but I want their target reset to the first of their array

[dusky cobalt]

Ok so you increment before branch, then you check if is lenght smaller than the target number, on true you use [index] of array you set, and in case of number > length you go false and reset target to 0

And on false you call event

Also use some strings so see where it finishes for debugging

Basically the problem is in the branch node, just move increase mechanics to happen before branch and not while

Also recommend to change destination to NumberOfPoints name of variable

And target maybe to CurrentPointNumber

[wise ravine]

Does calling a BPI activate the execution on the Receiver BP's end?

[spring osprey]

any idea of what is going on wrong here? it broke down because I deleted an unused asset that had nothing to do with this

[drowsy anvil]

hello, I'm trying to spawn a projectile, it only fires normally when the collision is set to "overlapall" but my code only works with "blockall", but when I have block all they only appear sometimes when I jump around, because the collision is messed up somehow?

the collision comes from the root and I only spawn them 0,5 second apart, they are small as grain and shouldnt have big collision

at some sized the bullets stayed on place and didnt move at all and start to pile up one after another, ALSO I scaled down the root in viewport for player and bullet if that messes it up? EDIT: I set it to be characterh mesh and it works now with correct sized collision

[wise ravine]

Hey what does Game State inherit from

[atomic prairie]

Thanks!

[wise ravine]

im getting an unknown value

[trim matrix]

try if set to 1

[trim matrix]

see top right

[wise ravine]

wdym? pinned messages?

[trim matrix]

in the BP, check the top right corner and you will see the parent class

[trim matrix]

where is that beginplay btw

[wise ravine]

oh

[wise ravine]

I don't get a "Get Game State Base" however

[trim matrix]

did you set the game state properly?

[wise ravine]

no I did not

do I have to set it in the game mode?

[trim matrix]

yes or else it bev the default game state (made by the engine)..

[stoic ledge]

set it in project settings

[trim matrix]

overrride the default value

or just use a game mode >>

[wise ravine]

I just did it here

[trim matrix]

does it work

[wise ravine]

Still getting an unknown value

Wait nevermind, it executed

I'm checking the results now

[trim matrix]

you have a check point thing on it lol

[wise ravine]

a breakpoint yes

Got some failed cast, going to check those out now

Everytime my train collides with the trigger box it triggers multiple times, I think that somehow results in multiple failed casts

but it still executes at least once

wdym?

[trim matrix]

ops

[trim matrix]

try setting for negative value like -1 or -5

[atomic prairie]

It's finaly works!

[wise ravine]

and I have an infinite loop now somehow..

[cyan moon]

Hey! I'm trying to analyse a video with blueprints, can I possibly do that?

like object detection and tracking

[trim matrix]

show the code

[trim matrix]

I hope so because I don't even understand what I'm talking

[trim matrix]

the overlap event gets trigger multiple times

[wise ravine]

yes

[wicked cairn]

Anyone know how to get the wave function collapse plugin to collapse/generate during runtime? 😭

Trying one last time to see if I can get an island to get generated when the level begins

[wise ravine]

I put a do once and I guess that fixed it (this time)

[wise ravine]

I'll come back to this tomorrow, appreciate the help

[spring osprey]

hi, can someone help me on this? it stopped working out of nowhere

[dawn gazelle]

This isn't necessary. You can get the owner of the component within the component.

[spring osprey]

how? ( i followed a youtube tutorial)

[dawn gazelle]

if you must have it as BP_FirstPersonCharacter reference, then on begin play you'd cast the return value to BP_FirstPersonCharacter and set the reference.

[spring osprey]

so what should I do to fix it ? im new in ue5

because what I did worked but suddenly broke

[dawn gazelle]

Part of the problem is also that you have two things named very similarly. You could be using the wrong one somewhere in your code on your character.

[spring osprey]

i noticed that after sending the message and deleted it but that was not the problem

it keeps telling me the problem is here

[dawn gazelle]

You can get the owner of the component within the component. if you must have it as BP_FirstPersonCharacter reference, then on begin play of the component you'd cast the return value to BP_FirstPersonCharacter and set the reference.

[obtuse kraken]

Hey, I need some help. Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work yet when I add a branch and event tick to the branch it does? I have defined my input action as W btw.

[dawn gazelle]

Because "pressed" only fires a single time.

[obtuse kraken]

ahhhh

[obtuse kraken]

ty so much

[spring osprey]

and how can I do that? because I literally don't understand what I have to do xd

[dawn gazelle]

In your case you'd want to cast to BP_FirstPersonCharacter. You'd connect this up to BeginPlay on the component.

Then if you'd want to set the "As BP_FirstPersonCharacter" from the cast into the "Connected Actor" variable.

[stoic ledge]

@signal thunder i think its ok, right? nearly the same as actor components which are uobject classes. or something like that. ;p

[dawn gazelle]

Are they actually doing something or is it just to use it to keep track of the state?

[dry scarab]

how do i get this widget node, blue on left

[dawn gazelle]

Are the variables different between them, or are they all the same? Like, using just a single class for all states?

[stoic ledge]

use a reference to self @dry scarab ?

[dry scarab]

how:P

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab if u right click the BP graph and type 'self' it will create a node to the reference of the BP you are in.

[spring osprey]

and where should I connect the ac inventory in this case? like this?

[dry scarab]

i need the reference of widget i think

[spring osprey]

because if its like that it makes the same error of accessed none trying to read property

[dawn gazelle]

On Begin Play Of The Component > Get Owner of Component > Connect to Cast to BP_FirstPersonCharacter > Set "As BP_FirstPersonCharacter" into "Connected Actor"
You would no longer require the construction script part on your BP_FirstPersonCharacter if you do this correctly.

[dry scarab]

trying to get

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab right, since you are in another BP, you need to somehow send or retrieve the widget. not sure what the best case would be for you though. if i understand what your are attempting to do anyways ;p

[dry scarab]

im creating a widget like this over any replicated things to show, me the values,

ialready have c++ code to get this work hopefully now im just attaching the widget and adding the code to widget

[spring osprey]

so u mean instead of doing it in the Bp_firstpersoncharacter I should do it in AC_Inventory?

[toxic copper]

given that by default characters use capsule components, even for 2d paper characters, and that half height cant be below capsule radius.. what's a good way to reduce capsule size below the radius while still maintaining the character's collision width while crouching?

would it be expensive to spawn a collision box to handle overlaps while crouching and delete when standing? i could also have it exist all the time, but im worried about duplicating effects if overlapping with both capsule and this collision box

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab so if the 'cube' is creating the widget, it should return its reference on creation. right click the return node and permote to variable. use that in place of that 'widget' node?

[dry scarab]

done

ahh ok

[stoic ledge]

😄

[dry scarab]

now last part before i some how make c++ code show in widget

set cube bit

[dry pecan]

ok so I need some help, for some reason my bullets destroy themsleves when they spawn via my spawn actor which shouldnt be possible as my spawn actor has no collsion mesh. the way this should work is that when the bullet hits an character, it will know what it is and apply damage

[dawn gazelle]

I answered this for you already. Set an owner (or instigator) when spawning... Check if "Other Actor" != Owner (or instigator), and destroy/apply damage if true.

[dry scarab]

mine is i cant get the set cuberep for mine

[dry pecan]

my apologies, I was extremley tired last night as it was about midnight if I recall

[dry pecan]

also I'm assuming the owner is the bullet itself?

[dawn gazelle]

By default I imagine it's "None".

[faint pasture]

Input ACTIONs fire once when you press them

input AXES fire per frame when held down

[dawn gazelle]

When spawning it.

[stoic ledge]

@Noface its another referencing issue, the variable for 'Cuberep' does not have a target node for the widget reference to point to.

[dawn gazelle]

"Spawn Actor From Class" node has an Owner input.

[dry pecan]

but wait thats not where my damage blueprint will be

[dawn gazelle]

Damage doesn't have anything to do with it

You're spawning a bullet. That bullet is colliding with something.

You want to make sure that bullet isn't colliding with the thing that spawned it.

[stoic ledge]

@Noface im guessing you're trying to plug those two nodes together

[dry scarab]

im trying to do this, my widget is called w_bp

but mine is named cuberp

[dawn gazelle]

Owner should probably be self

[dry pecan]

its being taken by something

[dawn gazelle]

is the thing it's colliding with that other thing?

[dry pecan]

it shouldnt be my bullet spawner, I never gave it the collision mesh nor does my bullet spawner have collision on

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab pull off the reference pin 'As W Bp' and type 'set cube'

[dry pecan]

do you think my bullet colllsion mesh and the object in it may be colliding with eahc other

[dawn gazelle]

Usually an object won't collide with itself.

[dry scarab]

with cont sen of it has this

[dry pecan]

seems that was the problem

but for some reason, my spawner rotates with each hit

[spring osprey]

@dawn gazelle found the problem and I fixed it. the ac_inventory i had in the bp_firstpersoncharacter disappeared due to a bug I guess and the game couldn't recognize what the I was referencing, thx for the help tho and sorry for being so dumb 💀

[dry pecan]

what could be the possible reason?

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab there needs to be an event that takes the argument 'actor' and does something, created in the Widget blueprint. it seems to me you named it 'Cuberep' or perhaps havnt created the event at all

[dry scarab]

hmm

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab or it has a differnt name

[dry pecan]

any ideas on the slow spin of my spawner?

[dry scarab]

no so far i have 0 thign in my widget

dunno how to create a event

in widget

[dawn gazelle]

Possibly the bullet colliding with it, causing it to move.

[compact fable]

Hey everyone, could someone advise me on something. (Continuing from yesterday) i have set up a player state to hold me scoring and this displays to a widget at the end of a level.
Set up a game instance for saving and loading the unlockables.

First, where would I do the unlocking? In the end of level blueprint if the total score is more than the required score to unlock? Or do it on the player state?

Second after conpleting the level and unlocking, and the player returns to the home level. How to display a widget saying what was unlocked, only displaying if something was unlocked

Help is much appreciated 🙏

[dry pecan]

is there a way to lock rotation of my sawnder?

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab in ur widget right click the graph and type 'custom' to add a custom event, and name it 'Set Cube' and go back to the Acube BP, and try again

[dawn gazelle]

I'd say check to make sure if that's actually what is happening.
Like, maybe try printing the location & rotation of the spawner on tick (set the duration to 0.016 and make sure it's logging only to the screen) then you can see if it's because the bullet is actually moving it by seeing if the value only changes when a bullet spawns

[dry pecan]

you mean from this?

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab thats the designer, top right -> grapgh

[dry scarab]

o hahha im dumb

i havnt touched this stuff since jan sorry

[dawn gazelle]

On tick of the spawner.

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab i had to check the editor to see if i was misinforming you of that

[dry scarab]

so now i just need the custom event doing something

[stoic ledge]

@compact fable tricky to answer. but if kept simple, at the end of the level if you didnt spend your pooints the player state would be lost and so would the points?

[dry pecan]

ok so I checked my rotation in my bullet obejct and from what I can tell its not rotating

[dry scarab]

i need the custom event to run c++ code i think

[dry pecan]

I did a print string text with each spawn

[dry scarab]

to then show in the widget

[dawn gazelle]

You guys are really hurting my head tonight.

try printing the location & rotation of the spawner on tick

Don't care about the bullet, the issue right now is the spawner.

[dry scarab]

op

[dry pecan]

I found the issue, its my player

[dawn gazelle]

Oh interesting

[compact fable]

yes I assume so. I was thinking maybe creating a end of level score unlockable function in the player state, then when the player finishes the level this is function is called. then set variables if stuff is unlocked and what, then when returning home, this is checked and called if stuff is unlocked

[dry pecan]

becasue of simulate phsycis and my player being set on fly mode most liekly

[stoic ledge]

@compact fable um i guess playerstate is persists. anyways, check the third post on this forum thread. i think its an ok explination. https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/what-should-i-do-in-gamemode-gamestate-and-playerstate/93584/3

[dry pecan]

what should I turn off here so my bullets cant apply force?

[dry scarab]

i think im just gonna give up

i dont need this 100 percent

was just gonna be nice lol

thanks for ru help

unless u think tis real easy to fix

i have c++ code already i just got get it print to widget now

[dawn gazelle]

@compact fable PlayerState can be set up to persist, but it doesn't do so automatically. You change levels, it gets destroyed and a new one is created.

[stoic ledge]

@Noface the custom event should have been named 'SetCube'

[lone folio]

hello. how do i reparent a blueprint with a different c++ parent? the cpp classes dont show in the drop down box

[dry scarab]

why is ur tagging failing lol

[trim matrix]

hehe

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab sorry, because i type it out and dont select it

[compact fable]

hmmm If it persists then it would need resetting for each level so the scoring doesnt persist to the next level, but only persist back to the home level

[dry scarab]

ok

done

now to do like 1-2 more steps!

[still breach]

except what you did won't work

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab plug the taraget into 'As W BP' !

[dry scarab]

ok but now th eeven is not doign anthing

how do i tell the event do get 2 c++ code and insert it

to widget

[trim matrix]

UFUNCTION

[stoic ledge]

and exposed uproperty

'

i donno.

[dry scarab]

what is thi smagic

[trim matrix]

not the function

[dawn gazelle]

If you actually compiled what I sent, then you should just be able to call that function by its name.

[trim matrix]

the widget ref should

[dawn gazelle]

GetNet...Whatever it was

[trim matrix]

he did

[dry scarab]

cat chnaged it a bit

or editied it slighty

and then i some how adde }: and messed it all up

😛

[dawn gazelle]

GetNetLoadOnClient

It's a pure node so you don't need an execution path on it.

[trim matrix]

not sure about that tho

[trim matrix]

oh ok

[dawn gazelle]

Feed in the actor you want to check the value on. It'll pop out the value on the return value.

[dry scarab]

what actor lol

[dawn gazelle]

If you don't hook up anything or something invalid, it'll still return false.

[dry scarab]

like the said box?

or word files?

[trim matrix]

if bool = 1, write true, else, false

[dry pecan]

ok is there any way for my player to essentially not simulate collsion phsysics in flying mode?

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab umm. the ACube. is an actor

[dry scarab]

ok but this is in my widget

so i have to ref from my boxrep?

cuberep

[dawn gazelle]

Orrrr you could pass in the value from the actor itself.

[stoic ledge]

click that custom event, so its highlighted. then in the right panel scroll to the bottom and and under input click +. add the variable of actor type.

[dry pecan]

int he?

[versed sun]

in the

[dawn gazelle]

typo 😛

[trim matrix]

int'he

[dry scarab]

this panel?

oo left panel

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab

[dry pecan]

wait let me reword my question, is there any way to lock my player charcates X axis position

[dry scarab]

ok

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab

@dry scarab click the 'SetCube' Custom event, so its highlighted, in the right details panel there should be an option to add inputs.

[dry scarab]

its left detaial panel

lol

[stoic ledge]

i still have ue4 ;/ i donno if it changed

w.e

anyways, back in ur 'ACube' BP, plug in the new node 'Actor' to 'self', as u intended.

@dry scarab #blueprint message

[edgy axle]

hmm is there a way to monitor how fast certain parts of my BP are running?

[dry scarab]

ok this is done now

now i need to fix the widget

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab are you understadning?

[dry scarab]

thats not correct?

my target on set cube is not right

[dawn gazelle]

It is, but I think they're just wanting to know if you're actually following what is happening.

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab ;p

[dry scarab]

ohh

wellits 3. 24 am so

[stoic ledge]

lots of texts flying too

[dry scarab]

kinda just wanting it to work lol

its not core gameplay just a rep thing so i can always use it when i make every thign i need to rep

ease of acess thing

so whats the last 2 teps then

and thanks alot for u r help

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab Is @dawn gazelle providing you steps?

[dawn gazelle]

I helped him a lil' bit.

[dry scarab]

this even is not doing anthing

event

[dawn gazelle]

You need to code it to do something.

[dry scarab]

yes

[dawn gazelle]

What do you want it to do with that value.

[dry scarab]

display in text on widget

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so you need to get the text widget that you want to display it in and set its text value to the return value of the Get Net Load on Client.

[trim matrix]

as I said, if bool is true, set the text to be true, else, set it to false

[dry scarab]

so when said object does said thing, these vales can chnage based of the values

[stoic ledge]

have you created that display in the designer?

[dry scarab]

nope ill just create floating text lol

[stoic ledge]

so just set the variable of the "floating text" in the event graph pulling of the new custom event

@dry scarab is this an assignment needed to be complete tomorrow?

[dry scarab]

nah not at all

so u mean somthing like this , i know im doing ti wrong still sorry

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab close.

[dry scarab]

how do i grab the text from

the widget

[trim matrix]

as I said, if bool is true, set the text to be true, else, set it to false

you need to watch more tutorials manà

[dry scarab]

i know what bool is

i just dont understand where to implement it

useing that to text and the c++ i have

[trim matrix]

if you just plug the bool, it will show a 0 or 1

if bool,

true --> Set text (TRUE)
false --> Set text (FALSE)

[dry scarab]

what bool where bool

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab

[dawn gazelle]

You get the thing that can actually display it, like a "Text" field added to a widget. Not a "text" variable.

[trim matrix]

the bool from the 'Get Net Load on Client', no need to create your own bool variable

[trim matrix]

yea, normally it's Text ref -> Set text and then you put a text in it

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab

[trim matrix]

plug the condition with the return value

no need to set a boolean

[dry scarab]

ok

now i need to ref the 2 text on true chnage and and false

[dry scarab]

how i get this

[trim matrix]

by creating a text in a widget?

[stoic ledge]

#blueprint message

make sure the text block is a checked as variable.

[dry scarab]

no silly

from the designer to the grph

[trim matrix]

igtg

[dry scarab]

ty for ur help

[trim matrix]

np

[dry scarab]

enjoy synth prodcuts

😛

[dry scarab]

how i do this

we will be narnia soon

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab in the top right while the textblock is selected, theres a checkbox 'Is variable' in the details panel at the top, check it.

@dry scarab see it?

[dry scarab]

woot

now i need to turn this blue thign into a string

and chnage it in string yes?

so the branch overwrties the sting

[stoic ledge]

That textblock is more than the text itself, u need to set the text, of the text block.

[dry scarab]

ok

[dry pecan]

ok I seriously need help, what can I do so my bullets dont cause a push when they hit my player

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab #blueprint message

[brazen pike]

rather than blocking collision, use overlap. Then instead of OnHit (which im assuming you're using), use overlap

[dry scarab]

on the right lines?

oo wait red things need attaching?

xd

[dry pecan]

but wont that cause my player not interact with the bullet? I need said bullet to apply damage

[stoic ledge]

@halcyon plover something here in the mesh physics?

[brazen pike]

As long as you use overlapping collision, it will still interact

but it will be a different event, rather than "hit" it will be "begin overlap"

its easier if you add a colision box around the bullet, then remove collision entirely from the bullet mesh

[dry pecan]

oh this is what my bullet uses

[brazen pike]

okay so you are already using it, even easier

[hoary junco]

so, because I hate myself I'm looking into how save/load systems work and thanks to Datura I have one potential system saved up, but I have 2 copies of my current project file, and on the second one I want to experiment with a different kind of save system, it's one that apparently can use manager classes to keep a hold of item data, but idk how manager classes work or how to use them, does anyone know any good tutorials or resources so I can start looking into it? I've tried googling it myself but results have been kinda sparse

[little orchid]

I'm a bit confused on what to do here, I've checked the skeletal mesh, and the bone names are correct, so im not sure if im to add something to the CR BP or not

[dry pecan]

first for my collider, other for my object in my collider, maybe its because my bullets is a moving object so it will feel push my player no matter what

is there any way for my bullet oebjct to have no phsyical properties?

[brazen pike]

you're looking in the wrong section. Go to "collision"

[brazen pike]

what are you trying to do here?

[dry scarab]

o dear we borke my color for my box lol

[dry pecan]

its been fixed

[dry scarab]

why is that

[dry scarab]

we are getting 2 values , and set the text of widget to show above a box

[stoic ledge]

@dry pecan how?

[dry scarab]

if you just plug the bool, it will show a 0 or 1 (edited)
[03:35]
if bool,

true --> Set text (TRUE)
false --> Set text (FALSE)

as I said, if bool is true, set the text to be true, else, set it to false

[dry pecan]

I set PMO to none

[dry scarab]

i just dont know how to implemtn thtis

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab

as an example, u dont need that branch

[hexed cradle]

I have a question is it possible to add a rows to datatbles at runtime using blueprints ?

[dry scarab]

so where do i get the bool options to pu tinto text here

[trim matrix]

y'all are overcomplicating it for no reason, he doesn't even know how it works and you are getting it more complicated

[stoic ledge]

datatables are static

[dry scarab]

i understand i have on bool true output this pin

[hexed cradle]

Wich means I can't ?

[dry scarab]

but i dont have the bool goign to the text

[dry pecan]

don't know why but my health isn't changing when I get hit. left is my damage caused by bullet, other is my BP component for health

[stoic ledge]

@hexed cradle right, u can not add rows dynamically to unreals datatable

[dawn gazelle]

Put some print strings around, see what "other actor" is, see if you're getting a response in your "On Damage Taken" event where you're manipulating the health.

[dry pecan]

I did, I even had it print out the current amount of health

[hexed cradle]

Thats quite sad I wanted to use that instead of using an array of struct

[dry scarab]

why i smy color broken now

[trim matrix]

put true and false for the text inputà

[trim matrix]

this is something else btw

[dry pecan]

is it because my apply damage doesnt know what my health variable is?

[dry scarab]

done still got this error now

the widget one is also there

[trim matrix]

go in the correct BP and show code

[dry scarab]

at top

it wasnt borken before this

weird

so its reading 0 for color material now for some reason

and its refusing to chnage color on overlap with colidder box

thats the full code

it was working now it dosnt

[stoic ledge]

@dry scarab its acessing none, why? find where the 'color material' variable is set, and determine why its being set as 'none'.

[trim matrix]

Is there a space after the Color? if so, delete it

[dry scarab]

nope

[worthy jasper]

No it doesn’t have anything to do with the parameter value

It’s your color material variable

[dry scarab]

ahhh

i think i found the issue

this got disconected some how hahaha

[worthy jasper]

That would do it 😂

[dry scarab]

yep working now

lat 1 to narnia

[main lake]

For some reason this code calls a raycast but it keeps starting from the origin of the world instead of the character, why is that ?

[worthy jasper]

Same as before. check that variable and make sure it’s getting set

[dry pecan]

odd, I even set my BP like this and it still says my HP is 100

[worthy jasper]

Yeah what’s the widget variable set too

[dry scarab]

i cant sem to set a value here or drag that widget in

[dawn gazelle]

My first guess would be that you didn't initialize your ASC with an appropriate avatar actor.

Like if it's using PlayerState or PlayerController as the avatar actor, then those would be at 0, 0, 0

[main lake]

Yeah I'm giving the ability in the player state, is it possible to keep the code in the PlayerState and still have it working ?

[dawn gazelle]

Giving the ability has nothing to do with the init of the ASC itself.

The init part is usually done within C++

[main lake]

So this ?

Like I derived from this BaseCharacter to create a blueprint character child, so is it supposed to work ?

[dawn gazelle]

In order to set up the ASC correctly, you would've needed to call InitAbilityActorInfo on the ASC somewhere.

It's basically feeding in the owner and avatar actor that it'll use.

[main lake]

How to do that ?

[dry scarab]

i cant sem to set a value here or drag that widget in, is this what u mean @worthy jasper

[worthy jasper]

That’s odd, yes you would need to set a widget there

[dawn gazelle]

Check first to see if you actually did do it somwhere.

[main lake]

But is ASC a c++ class ?

[frosty heron]

@dry scarab it's taking object ref not class

There is no instance to refer not a world

[dawn gazelle]

Technically everything before blueprints is.

UAbilitySystemComponent is defined in C++

You would've likely created something that adds the ASC to it in C++

[dry scarab]

sorry dont understand

[main lake]

You can see on the left panel I don't have any ASC class but you can it's initialized in the the WerewolfPlayerState.cpp line 21

[worthy jasper]

Hmm yeah wait are you clicking widget component on the left or did you make a variable

[frosty heron]

@dry scarab I'm just gonna guess what you want to do don't make a variable of widget component. Instead add it thru the too left of the windoe

[main lake]

And here in line 22

[frosty heron]

Add the component to the actor via the plus button

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so that's the line there.... If this is initialized in PlayerState.... "this" that you're feeding in is a reference to the PlayerState, which you wouldn't want to be the avatar actor.

[main lake]

How to get the avatar then ?

[frosty heron]

Get your pawn?

[dawn gazelle]

You need a reference to the actor that you actually want to be considered the avatar. To make it more complicated you also need to ensure this is updated whenever that changes.

[dry scarab]

u mean this

[worthy jasper]

Yes

Don’t make a variable add a component

[main lake]

I don't know how to do that 🤔 Like there's no "GetCharacter" or "GetPawn" from the "GetAvatarActorFromActorInfo"

[worthy jasper]

Then use that component as your reference

Setting the widget class you want

[dawn gazelle]

So generally speaking, you may want to use the PlayerController's OnPossess() function to then call into the playerstate to get its ASC to then update its avatar actor.

[frosty heron]

When you create a variable, you are just declaring a pointer. It can point to any component you set.

With the add button, you are actually making the component

[dry scarab]

ok

what one

[frosty heron]

Not that

The plus sign at the very top

Where the hierachy is

[dry scarab]

ahh

[dry scarab]

and what am i adding lol

[main lake]

I'm not sure to understand the last part after the "OnPosses"

[worthy jasper]

Widget component

[dry scarab]

ok done

still cant see any in widget tab

[dawn gazelle]

PlayerController has a reference to PlayerState. From PlayerState you need to get its ability system component and then call InitAbilityActorInfo().
You have the interface implemented to call GetAbilitySystemComponent on the PlayerState, so look up how you call that interface in C++ so you can get a reference to the ASC it has, then using that reference call InitAbilityActorInfo()

[frosty heron]

That's where you add component to your actor.

Skeletal mesh widget comp, w.e

[dry scarab]

so i dont need this to work?

[frosty heron]

I don't know what this is. Also you still getting the wrong one

Try to delete all the variable first related to widget comp. Compile save. Then add the component again

[frosty heron]

Top one

[dry scarab]

thats what i did before

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message

[dry scarab]

done now i add it

[obtuse kraken]

This is my movement logic. Have the issue of pressing left and forward going too fast because its combining so I added logic to slow it down when both are pressed. Now when I start adding in movement for right and forward being pressed, it doesn't slow it down. Can anyone help me? 2nd image is the logic for the right movement.

[dry scarab]

now i drag this down and plug i tin and try add wdiget and nothign works

[frosty heron]

There you go, look into the detail panel

Add your widget there

[worthy jasper]

You need to set “widget class”

[frosty heron]

Man all this stuff can be found on YouTube btw

Take like 3 mins

[main lake]

There's no "InitAbilityActorInfo()" that appears once I get the ASC

[worthy jasper]

Then plug it in to your node there

[frosty heron]

Your widget class is still set to none so I don't know what you expect

And your node not connected yet

[dawn gazelle]

You have to do it in C++

You could probably expose it though 😛

I wouldn't, but....

[dry scarab]

whre haha

sorry

[worthy jasper]

One moment

[dry scarab]

oooo

i found it

[worthy jasper]

Ok good 😄

[main lake]

But wait I'm even more confused because I already have "InitAbilityActorInfo" 🥲 line 21 on the playerstate

[dry scarab]

ok done drag and drop

and now should genrate something?

[dawn gazelle]

You do but you're initing it telling it that the actor you want to use is the PlayerState
"this" in this context is the PlayerState as you're calling the function in the PlayerState.

[worthy jasper]

Possibly

😄

[dry scarab]

ok no errors now

but i see no text at all hahaha

[main lake]

so the second "this" should be replaced with the character ?

[dawn gazelle]

No.... Because PlayerState Begin Play is not the right place to even call this. You want it updated whenever the player controller possesses a Pawn so you have a reference to the pawn they're possessing.

[dry scarab]

lol

[main lake]

That's hard for me to understand as I'm not a c++ guy 😄

[dawn gazelle]

What I said isn't even much to do with C++, it's just the flow of how things work.
Begin Play of the PlayerState doesn't necessarily fire when the PlayerController has possessed a pawn, so if you did it in PlayerState Begin Play, there's no guarantee that the PlayerController is possessing a pawn at the time, nor will it keep it updated as BeginPlay only fires once.

Furthermore, if your intention is to have this game multiplayer, it makes even less sense to have it in PlayerState BeginPlay as then all clients will be trying to call this function when a PlayerState begins play on their end (though I don't think it would cause any harm)

[dry scarab]

https://medal.tv/games/unreal-engine/clips/2avTFFKlG-on4D/d1337i7cHpi0?invite=cr-MSwyU3MsMTk3ODI4MDUyLA

so it shows it but text wrong and its not chnage to false

wait

am i being dumb

[main lake]

But I put it on the player state instead of the player controller or the character to keep the abilities, data, etc... after the character being destroyed to respawn him

[dawn gazelle]

...... I'm not talking about where you put the ASC I'm talking about where you init the asc That can be in a different place entirely.

[frosty heron]

I do mine on acknowledge possession for clients

[dry scarab]

@dawn gazelle was ur code doing 2 things for 2 varibles or just 1?

[dawn gazelle]

? The C++ I gave you earlier? It was just returning the value set on the actor if a valid actor value was passed in.

[dry scarab]

yay it says false wheni toggle client off

[obtuse kraken]

i fixed my issue for anyone looking to reply dont bother

[dawn gazelle]

If you don't check your refs in C++ you get hard crashes.

[main lake]

But I don't have a c++ player controller class, should I create one then ?

[frosty heron]

Thanks for not sharing

I guess

[dry scarab]

so its chnagesing this

when ticked

that works great thanks

[obtuse kraken]

lol should I do that? I dont want to break the conversation anymore

[frosty heron]

It's normally a common courtesy to at least say briefly what you do to fix your problem so others that face the same issue can benefit

[dawn gazelle]

I can't recall, but is that required? Do clients need to set it themselves too?

I have a few diferent set ups myself, but they all work in different ways XD

[dry scarab]

so all i need now is

[frosty heron]

Not sure actually, I do call it there afaik. But I might be doing it all wrong lol

[dry scarab]

replication varible as well in code

[obtuse kraken]

I had my branch statement on false continually updating my movement speed everytime I pressed forward, forcing it to be max speed even when I pressed right and forward. I had logic setup to slow it down but it wasn't applying when i did it for the right movement. TLDR, issue was the false statement updating the max movement speed even when i was pressing right

[frosty heron]

Iirc I called ability actor info both on server and client. Imma check again, I kinda do it thru tutorial hell

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah, you'll probably want one anyway at some point.

[dry scarab]

@dawn gazelle can u add a line of code for the replicate one?

😄

[dawn gazelle]

Replicates is available in blueprints

[frosty heron]

Ready compendium in #multiplayer

If you don't get it, read again 9 more times with some practices. If still stuck, do a single player game first imo

[dry scarab]

i have it all set up other than that lol

soo

i need to find replicate node

in bp

[frosty heron]

What is even replicate node

Just read compendium for multiplayer

[dry scarab]

?

[frosty heron]

All the basic resource is laid there

[dawn gazelle]

It's a variable on actors.

If you're not on an actor, then the context sensitivity will be hiding it.

[dry scarab]

ok got it

now i just need to make it work to my widget lol

[frosty heron]

Widget just read values from the owner

[steep escarp]

Hi, Is it possible to add none- static mesh object to a spline? ex : Light, Decal, Skeletal mesh

[dry scarab]

that makes 0 sence to me :d but anwyas im gonna finish for now ill work on this one tomoz

but yea its amazing

im sure it will help me in my 5 years of deving this game

instead of goign details panel and typeing rep etc etc lol

nice its even showing on client

till i click false 😛

[edgy axle]

my brain aint working rn

how can I rotate my actor so it's Up vector faces the same way as the impact normal of a line trace?

and have it only set the pitch and roll but keep the current yaw

actually I can do that second part myself

[lunar sleet]

DOT product ?

[edgy axle]

doesn't that give a float?

[lunar sleet]

It gives 0, 1 or -1

Iirc

[edgy axle]

yeah I needa rotation tho

like how much I need to rotate the actor by so that both vectors are pointing the same way

[obtuse kraken]

Anyone know why this isn't working. Im trying to rotate the entire character left or right on mouse input.

[gentle urchin]

And bind to owner delegates

[brazen pike]

Add rotation, dont set the rotation

[vivid notch]

is there a blueprint equivalent to a dictionary or a map?

[dawn gazelle]

Map

To create a map, create a variable, select its desired "Key" type, then where you would change it to an array, there's an option there for Map

Then you'll get the place to choose what variable type you want for the value.

[vivid notch]

Hmm am I doing something wrong? I dont see it

[lunar sleet]

I still think you need some form of dot product but try #game-math

[dawn gazelle]

Click on this.

[vivid notch]

It just shows these

[dawn gazelle]

That might be the variable type can't be supported as a map key.

[vivid notch]

I'm guessing it's the key type yeah

[frosty heron]

I learnt that we can have an array of function pointers 👀. They can be set in a map too, useful for attribute, delegate map

[gentle urchin]

Eh what?

Not in bp right?

[frosty heron]

Not bp

[dawn gazelle]

Oh.. There are ways...

[edgy axle]

aint that a event delegate

not a function poitner

[dawn gazelle]

Yea, but they can be made to call functions.

It's fiddly tho working with these nodes to do it.

[vivid notch]

I appreciate the effort tho

I think for my case there's prob a simpler workaround

[compact fable]

Sorry quick question, is playerstate persistent? Hoping the answer is no

[dawn gazelle]

Between levels? Not by default.

[compact fable]

thank you!

I am thinking of doing the unlockable logic there, seeing as the scoring is there and saving it to the gameinstance, that way when the player returns home and I load the game instance I can get the unlocked data

[small gyro]

I've been getting the unknown structure error when going to package lately, but it's been really inconsistent.
Last night I had a package fail with only a handful of the errors, today I didn't change anything in these files except restart my computer and all of a sudden by log is full of these errors

LogProperty: Error: FStructProperty::Serialize Loading: Property 'StructProperty /Game/Nexus/Core/Player/BasePlayer.BasePlayer_C:PullUpHero:CallFunc_Array_Get_Item'. Unknown structure.

These are all really simple functions they grab a data structure from a map or array located on the Instance

From what I've read you're supposed to be able to fix this by refreshing the nodes but this hasn't worked for me, if anything it makes the errors happen more

Any ideas?

[wise raven]

turns out even after modifying a constraint class in cpp and making the angular rotation offset exposable to bp, it does not actually modify anything

even this way doesnt do anything

[maiden wadi]

Refreshing might not fully work. Find any Array Getters in that BP. Completely disconnect them, and then reconnect the wires.

This is life with BP structs. 😄 Enjoy the ride til you move to C++ to define data types.

[small gyro]

oof that sounds like it's going to be a lot of work :/

maybe it's time I finally stopped dragging my feet and start using c++

thanks. I'll give that a try

[wise raven]

is it really not possible to modify the angular offset of a physics constraint at runtime?

[gentle urchin]

What the !?!

[dawn gazelle]

😉

Its tomfoolery within functions and connecting the delegates to the array and map wildcard nodes.

I wouldn't ever use this.

[gentle urchin]

Looks rather cursed 😂

[maiden finch]

Anyone know any guides on how to make vehicle customizations? The idea is basically an apocalyptic world where i can add turrets and armor onto a car. Rn I can rlly only find tutorials on changing colors and such. Any tips appreciated

[thin panther]

Try not to think of it like vehicle customisation. Try to think how you would do anything else.

How did the templates attach a gun to the player? They spawned it and attached it to the player.

You can use the same logic for vehicles. Just spawn the things and attach where needed

[livid flare]

Hi! I'm trying to make an AI Character follow another actor component. I tried using Pawn Sensing and it works but I don't know how to set the actual location of the other actor component. This component basically is being launched to a random location, and at end of the launch I need the AI Character to pick up the component, since it won't move anymore after being launched perhaps it doesn't need to be On Tick?
Using Get World Location, it send the following actor to his original location, any help?

[dusky cobalt]

Get Actor Location and connect it to AI Move To?

or wait, you don't even need location, you just need to connect the target actor to the AI Move To

[frosty heron]

Another bp struct victim 😔

@small gyro can you tell me what version of Unreal you are using?

[steep escarp]

Hi Everyone, I have created decal material to fake the light shadow. How can I repeat this decal along a spline? Is it possible to add other asset types other than static meshes

[maiden wadi]

Pretty much the same way you would do it with static meshes.

[small gyro]

5.21

[frosty heron]

Bp struct are error prone since its creation. One of the reason to not use bp only is bp struct.

Declare the struct in cpp and you wouldn't have to deal with the ticking time bomb

[maiden wadi]

It's dice roll every time you update the struct asset.

[frosty heron]

So like, there is a bandaid for unknown struct error but I rather you cure the core issue than applying band aid

[maiden wadi]

Mediiiic!

[dark drum]

Just don't edit them. Problem solved. 😂

[frosty heron]

There are still a couple of ppl insisting bp struct is not broken and the issue lies with the lack of experience of the user.

[maiden wadi]

Lol. No, the issue lies in their need to go buy a fucking lottery ticket because they're oozing luck.

[dark drum]

I had that weird issue where the character component in the character class clears out. Very odd, still not sure what actually causes that one.

[small gyro]

I know it's a frequent issue of just bp just breaking randomly, I wish Epic would spend less money on super fancy tech and more money on just getting the ancient issues fixed

[frosty heron]

Survivors bias

[frosty heron]

That happens to cmc too afaik

5.2 onwards tho

[dark drum]

Yea, that's what I meant lol. Thankfully, I just reparented the character which fixed the issue and I just had to reset up the CMC. I can imagine it being a pain for someone that's made a lot of edits though.

Does anyone actually know what causes the BP structs to be so buggy?

[small gyro]

fuck it I'm adding c++ 😄

witch's curse

[spark steppe]

99% their attempt to fixup all BPs which use them

save everything, edit struct and save it, restart editor without saving anything else (as it tries to fix shit)

that gets you around the majority of problems with BP structs

[dark drum]

Ahh ok, that sounds like the steps I use to fix bad BP's that have gone to 0,0,0 in the world lol. Fix the BP, save the BP but not the level, restart. BPs now back in the right place.

[spark steppe]

what was the issue in those BPs? as i had that origin problem, too

and i'm not quite convinced that i found the real culprint of it (just workarounds)

[dark drum]

Sometimes when an actors BP class has a compile error it'll revert its level instances values to default which includes the world location. Just fix the BP but don't save the level, when you reload it'll restore the original values.

I think more specifically, it's when you load the level and the BP has the compile error. (Like after a crash and some changes never saved in the BP resulting in errors

[spark steppe]

interesting, thanks

in my case i thought it was related to having a static scene root (which may cause the same issue 🤷 )

[dark drum]

Yea, I would assume on level load it doesn't apply the variable data to the instances in the level if the BP has an error.

[spark violet]

Hi! was hoping someone could help me figure out a blueprint to make my character not reload when i have a full mag?

[dark drum]

Where you check if ammo is greater than 0, add an and and also check that the current mag is less than mag max.

[spark violet]

worked perfect thank you so much!

[maiden wadi]

The main issue is that there's probably no easy backwards compatibility fix to not break existing structs. And it's such a complicated issue that the mostly working version is better than breaking old projects when most serious engine users just simply use C++.

Then there's Pattym who we're still trying to convert. 👀

[dark drum]

I'm a convert in spirit 😛

[maiden wadi]

It's pretty amusing how little you really need to do in C++. I'm getting a ways into my latest personal project and like 90% or more of it is BP. Couple C++ overrides, a couple attribute sets for GAS, Some libraries for easier statics, and then my data assets for thing definitions.

[gentle urchin]

Conversion Therapy perhaps?

[livid flare]

Yes correct thanks! I just checked on another BP and it doesn't need location, the issue I'm having is that Pawn Sensing isn't printing when I try to cast

[dark drum]

It's one of the reasons I tend to stick to BP only. When I try to do C++ I end up with issues with just the IDE alone that makes me want to pull my hair out. While I can get away with it I will lol.

[maiden wadi]

Rider or one of the VS addons help with that a ton.

[random pulsar]

hey, the trace is now just straight from capsule,how do i make the trace copy players rotation?

[rotund barn]

how can i get the variable from my other blueprint? im trying to get "score" and use it to scale a timer thats used for firing a gun.

[sharp anvil]

Can anyone find out why the level doesn't load when the sequence is finished?

[versed hornet]

check if the timed event actually fires with a print string

[sharp anvil]

Hi, the delay/timed works fine. The level is not loaded when the sequence is finished.

[versed hornet]

I think that opening level by object reference works poorly if i recall, try opening it by name

[frosty heron]

Wut

[versed hornet]

use this instead

[frosty heron]

He'll no ,that's error prone

There's a reason why they add the new node

[maiden wadi]

They do the same thing.

[sharp anvil]

The strange thing is that the blueprint works well on other levels.

[frosty heron]

I don't have issue with open level by object ref

[versed hornet]

i never had it work

[maiden wadi]

Because they do the same thing. 😂 One just resolves the soft object path to a level name.

[frosty heron]

I never have it not work

[maiden wadi]

void UGameplayStatics::OpenLevelBySoftObjectPtr(const UObject* WorldContextObject, const TSoftObjectPtr<UWorld> Level, bool bAbsolute, FString Options)
{
    const FName LevelName = FName(*FPackageName::ObjectPathToPackageName(Level.ToString()));
    UGameplayStatics::OpenLevel(WorldContextObject, LevelName, bAbsolute, Options);
}```

[frosty heron]

Yes but typing it out are error prone, also what If you want to change your level name

Have to back track ro every node that use it

[versed hornet]

testing it won't hurt

[frosty heron]

I see no reason to use open level by name ever

[sharp anvil]

I think the length/time is not called in any way. I've to use another method. That may be the problem.

[frosty heron]

There is event that get triggered for sequence

On finished or w.e

You shouldn't even use delay to begin with

That's not gonna be accurate afaik

[versed hornet]

what's wrong with delay?

[sharp anvil]

Delay works fine.

[frosty heron]

Sequence are not really tied to time like that afaik

If u alt tab etc

U gonna have miss match

[versed hornet]

hm i see

[frosty heron]

So use event on finished for sequence if u want something to run after the sequence finished

[gentle urchin]

Generally i'd say you'd want to use delegates if they exist

[sharp anvil]

Delay is used to play the media source. That is not the problem.

[frosty heron]

Nothing to do with your open level, but certainly an issue that I take if that we're my project

[dark drum]

I agree, it's what they're for.

[gentle urchin]

Is the event fired?

Or is time passed in = 0.0

Is input re-enabled? Controller is null there so i guess not

[frosty heron]

If you need any event called when inside the sequence, there is also the event track.

Doing it outside that in my experience result in mismatch (I used delay too in the past)

[frosty heron]

Print string to make sure

But again if u need to track when the sequence end, use existing delegate. Don't make a timer on your own

[gentle urchin]

Bind to sequence finished or smth?

But

Ur using current time

Its gonna be 0.0

So timer is invalid

You want total or remaining time

@sharp anvil

[versed hornet]

Why does Set Control Rotation node not work when using "Use Controller Desired Rotation" in character movement?

[dark drum]

When are you calling 'Set Control Rotation'?

[versed hornet]

it is called, that's not the problem. It's called after my attack command. I verified with a print string

Also, the control rotation gets updated, but resets next tick so the character doesn't rotate

[dark drum]

Do you set the control rotation anywhere else?

[versed hornet]

No.

It works when i deactivate Use Controller Desired Rotation in character movement, and activate Use Controller Rotation Jaw in pawn settings, but then i don't have smooth rotation which i want from the character movement

if it doesn't work i'll just have to reinvent the wheel and write my own smooth rotation script

[tight pollen]

hi, when i Pause game then all widgets also paused, no animations etc. how can i still run animations in widget?

[versed hornet]

If you open the blueprint where your widget is, you can tick this on

should work

[dark drum]

I'm not sure what's resetting the control rotation but as far as I'm aware it should work.

[versed hornet]

for some reason it stopped working even when i deactivated it so i'll investigate 🤔

[dusky cobalt]

If you have AI on one actor, and you want to follow the 2nd one, you need to somehow tell first one to see the 2nd one. Either you can brute force it for testing, and if you have just 1 characters of class (for example, you are BP_Player, and the other is BP_Enemy), then you can get All Actors Of Class and choose BP_Player class, so the Enemy_BP (your AI), will know the ''target''. In the future you want probably other way for the Enemy (ai) to find the target, but this you can adjust.

[tight pollen]

i created widget in player controller, and there Tick Even When Paused is set to True

[dusky cobalt]

If it's only for testing, you can also make variable type of Actor, make it public and editable in editor, then you go to viewport, and in the editor panel you can actually pick the exact target, you want the AI to forgot. And you plug that variable to the Pawn.

[gentle urchin]

Or just hand pick it if they're bit placed in the level

Yeah ^

[tight pollen]

but still doesn't work

[dusky cobalt]

from Break Hit, you have ''HitActor'', you can Get Location of what ever actor was hit there

[versed hornet]

hm idk then

[random pulsar]

I just changed capsule to camera location and it worked

[dusky cobalt]

oh you wanted to make trace point where your actor is looking, sorry

[tight pollen]

someone can help?

[livid flare]

I'm using On See Pawn on AI Character, and when casting to the other pawn It doesn't work, it doesn't even print, perhaps cause is the Actor Component who is moving, the Actor itself remain at same location during the launch

[dark drum]

I've been using uobjects for settings based data (data only) but currently looking into overhauling to use data assets instead. Does anyone know what the benefits are of using data assets over uobjects for data only stuff?

[versed sun]

it is easy to see/edit the data in a DA

[dark drum]

Personally i don't see much of a difference from this aspect but I have just noticed, because that data assets are treated as objects, you can put functions into the primary asset as getters. As you can set a primary asset without having to manually construct it, it definitly makes it convientant.

[inland crystal]

You can create them in the editor without making a UFactory

You save create and save UDataAssets from blueprints easily using the Editor Subsystem thingie.

Basically it's a UObject with a generic factory, not a whole lot more.

[livid flare]

Now It's working using event dispatcher + set actor location, it works only On Tick, I just added a delay before calling the event, so the launched actor is already in the right position, but ofc now the AI Character is being teleported to the final destination, there's a way to make it walk instead?

[dark drum]

Being able to do this instead of getting the class defaults is nice which I wouldn't be able to do without first constructing the uobject which is nice.

First image is in the primary asset, the next 2 or new and old method.

[dusky cobalt]

What are you exactly trying to achieve? seems a bit like you are using something you completly don't know what is supposed to do, if you tell me what you want to happen I might help you

[warped crypt]

How is my branch running 320 times? I'm just looping through every bone in the mannequin skeleton.

there's like 150 max bones in that

ayoo what now the warning is goen

[livid flare]

This is what I have inside the AI Character, it works but I used Set Actor Location who directly teleport the Actor, there's a way to make the AI Character walk till destination, instead of being teleported?

[glass nacelle]

Hey @livid flare , I think you have AI MoveTo Node 🙂

[dusky cobalt]

Why are you not using AI Move To node?

You are literally ''seting'' AI actor to be at place of your character location. So everything works with your code

just change node to be Event Begin Start, still you can use get actors of class to get Target Actor, use AI Move To node, connect Target Actor with your Target from Return Value (Get Actor of Class), and that's it.

thats it

[livid flare]

Hey thanks, I tried already but isn't working, I guess I have some interference somewhere

[dusky cobalt]

btw you dont even have to use event tick on ai move to, it will follow the target as long as it have it

[livid flare]

Thanks, that's is what I was trying to do but isn't working, I guess I need to double check other things

[dusky cobalt]

really? show how you implemented it

[livid flare]

I know, but it doesn't work on BeginPlay, just On Tick... weird

[versed sun]

on begin play ,it might not exist yet
try Begin Play > Delay Until Next Tick > Get Actor

[livid flare]

Ok Thanks!

[dusky cobalt]

where is move to ai, im sorry?

[livid flare]

During testes I just change the Set Actor Location to Ai Move To node

same setup

[dusky cobalt]

do how you want

[livid flare]

?

[dusky cobalt]

i gave you solution, you are showing me something else, we are not one the same page, if you think better then do what you think its working

this will make ai move to your actor

[livid flare]

I did what you said, I just posted the earlier code

[dusky cobalt]

i dont need earlier code to check how you implemented my solution so i can tell you what is wrong

[livid flare]

I already tried, as I said this was my first attempt, I'll keep trying perhaps I have some mess elsewhere, thanks for your help

[unique galleon]

Hey guys, I want to create an expanding circle/torus that keeps the same thickness as the radius increases. Anyone know the best way to approach this? Splines?

[wind fable]

Check dm

[trim matrix]

I've noted that all the music stuff is handled by the GameInstance, is that a good way of doing thing?

[vivid notch]

Interesting, looks like maps are not supported in any control rig variable...

[livid flare]

If I connect directly to BeginPlay it works, I was connecting on the end of last node of the BeginPlay of default TP Character

still unclear why it wasn't working

[unique galleon]

dude is asking for money to help me, is that what can be expected here?

[trim matrix]

NO

[versed sun]

nope, what kind of circle do you want? like a mesh shape? collision?

[trim matrix]

block him

[inland crystal]

you're mapping keys to values, the key is 'where you store it' the value is 'what you store', you can't use booleans as keys because there are only two states, you can use ints, names, strings, etc as keys and almost any other type of object as value (but not other arrays or maps)

[trim matrix]

unless you are asking for doing half your game lol

[unique galleon]

im just looking to get pointed in the right direction

[unique galleon]

needs collision yes

[trim matrix]

sorry, I don't know how to do that

[livid flare]

you're a cat you do circles 🙂

[vivid notch]

Yes that is right. But in a regular blueprint it at least shows it as an option but greyed out. There are no options to make a map even for datatypes that would normally let you make a map in a none control rig blueprint.

[unique galleon]

hmm i'll try splines I guess 🤷‍♂️

[thin panther]

Yeah splines would be good. You can also probably do some things with geometry script

[unique galleon]

I'll look into it, thanks

[inland crystal]

This looks intentional -

It only allows arrays

[vivid notch]

It does indeed

[odd kiln]

Hi all, I'm using the "Event Receive Particle Data" node to get some data from my Particles collisions

Anyone knows how can I get the "Actor" ?

Which is colliding with my particle ?

[vivid notch]

Btw how did you find the source code like that? Was it with the debug symbols installed?

[thin panther]

You get the source code by ticking the sourcecode box

bear in mind that version is read only except in some fringe cases where you need to fix a compile error that Epic pushed

[inland crystal]

Generally, if you have the source code downloaded visual studio will be able to locate the source code for classes and functions in blueprints, but this was actually broken for the control rig graph and I had to search the source code for 'ControlRigGraph' and follow the trail.

[thin panther]

Yeah it's broken for a lot of things

Any K2 node won't work, for instance

Ctrl Shift F is your friend for finding things

[odd kiln]

`Niagara particles are for cosmetic purposes only, so you won’t get collision events from them.

If you want to hack it together you can use the Export data interface to export particle data to blueprint on collisions and then redo the trace in blueprint.`

Someone can help me to understand this sentence please ?

Someone from the Epic Games Staff said this, but I did not understand how to redo the trace in blueprint for each particle?

Ok maybe I will try to spawn a "sphere trace" when each particle collides with the ground ?