blueprint

[earnest oriole]

and custom movement inputs etc

[fiery swallow]

Youre not using character movement component to move? Even if you're not using it I'd recommend clicking on the details of the component and making sure all the settings are default

And then I'd check that it's not being tampered with anywhere in code. Perhaps you used it in the past and forgot about it?

[earnest oriole]

No, i move with the code in the pickture, and use my own ia stuff. Nothing from the cmc or defualt template

[fiery swallow]

Is there any other character in your game that uses CMC?

Also maybe the crash logs can help here

[earnest oriole]

No. but it crashes with just the player and a blank map

[fiery swallow]

So we can see what happened just before the crash

Hmm, I bet if you made a new character, and transferred the code over the issue would resolve itself

[earnest oriole]

been through the logs as well. Deleted every little bit of code that could possibly be related, but it will crash with just the basic character on a blank map

Might just try to remake it in a new project as you suggest. Its not a lot of code, so should be fairly easy

[fiery swallow]

Making a new character from scratch and dropping it into a blank world also crashes the editor?

[earnest oriole]

Ive gotten quite good at simplifying bps due to this, so not all bad

[fiery swallow]

If that's the case then sounds like corruption

Unless you went and modified the CMC c++ code in some way

[earnest oriole]

Havent tried remaking it yet, but migrating just the character to a blank project didnt help. Was from 5.3 to 5.4, tho dont really think that matters

Hehe, havent been in the c++ code yet

Appriciate the time. Ill just try from a new blank project

[sour lodge]

I was in need of a help, i made that my enemy bp takes damage and dies and after that i used an spawn actor to spawn more enemies, but i'm having problem making the enemies that spawn move

[toxic copper]

im pretty new to UE so i might be misunderstanding, but if i had left target blank, it would have affected whatever blueprint these nodes were on. and if I had attached the player controller to target, it would have modified the player controller blueprint.. since the logic tied to inputs that i wanted to disable were on my character blueprint, i cast to my character and made that the target

[ashen flame]

Anyone know how to fix capsule half height that sticks under the floor? My third person animation is always stuck half way on the floor

[spring osprey]

any help on why this doesn't work?

[fiery swallow]

Why what doesn't work

[hoary junco]

so I just got blueprint assist and eletronic nodes and I'm like a kid in a candy store doing around and making all my blueprints actually look neat....

[fiery swallow]

It's most likely you're skeletal mesh that's in the floor and not the capsule?

For characters the local height of the skeletal mesh should be -90

Anything lower and it's gonna clip through the floor

[spring osprey]

the spotlight(flashlight) just doesn't work, its like stuck in the power off mode

[fiery swallow]

The quality of that image is too low to see on phone. Rip

[spring osprey]

its 2145x 867 💀

[heavy hemlock]

Generally speaking - you don't want to use delays like this.

Do you know of the secrets of DeltaTime?

But for your specific problem, you can only enter the 'true' branch of the first test if the flash light is always on.

[hoary junco]

I think you replied to the wrong person 😛

[heavy hemlock]

Ah, my bad!

But I am glad you're enjoying the electronic nodes. Great plugin that.

[hoary junco]

yeah, the autoformat of blueprint assist is great too.. I can actually read my own code now 😛

[heavy hemlock]

What I incorrectly said to Mike.

Generally speaking - using delays like this is not the best idea.

[heavy hemlock]

Ah! I haven't tried that one. I'll have to look it up.

[heavy hemlock]

That said, you can only enter the true branch after the IA_Flashlight event if the flashlight is already on.

And that's the only place that 'Flash Light Active' is set to true.

So it will always be false.

[hoary junco]

it's a tad pricy (for me at least.. £20 for a plugin isn't the kind of money I have around on a regular basis) but I can see why people love it so much

[heavy hemlock]

Ah, I've looked it up, and I can see why.

I spend quite some time tidying my nodes.

[hoary junco]

I just usually said fuck it because I could never find a way to make the nodes look neat because of how curved the lines where, so a combo of these plugins has been a godsend

[heavy hemlock]

I agree. Definitely a game changer.

[spring osprey]

and what should I do to fix It? I figured out to make the on/off work using the not boolean in the flashlight active but the battery drain event just doesn't work if I do that

[heavy hemlock]

Do you know Tick and Delta Time?

[spring osprey]

nope

[heavy hemlock]

Hey! Nice! You get to be one of the ten thousand today then.

All right. So! In a computer game, you have a bunch of objects that need to be updated. Enemies need to shoot, batteries drain, bullets fly, animations play. Every frame, all those objects in the game have to do something. That thing is called the 'Tick' - because, in a way, video games are just big expensive watches with pretentions of grandure.

If something happens over time in a video game, it happens because little bits of it happened every Tick.

Your character doesn't walk across a room, his position moves a little bit every tick to make it appear like that is happening.

[ashen flame]

I believe the height is at that exactly, bring it up a little higher?

[heavy hemlock]

In blueprints and components, you have access to the Tick function. If you right click, and type in 'Tick' it should show you an Event.

That Event will get called every frame, and you'll notice, when you put it in your graph, that it has an input called 'Delta Time'.

Delta Time is what makes Tick work, it's the time, in seconds, from the last tick.

It varies, based on the speed of your computer, and how many other objects are ticking in the scene (ticking isn't free), and a thousand other reasons. But, because every Tick function also has DeltaTime, processes that need to appear to proceed at a consistent rate (like a character walking across a room, or a battery draining) can simulate the appearance of progressing in a consistent manner.

How?

By multiplying by delta time.

If you want a character to move at 10 units per second, you multiply delta-time by 10, and add that to their position!

So, in your case, to drain a battery, you need a float value representing how much battery you have, and a float value representing the speed the battery drains per second, and then you can subtract the speed multiplied by Delta Time from the battery value per Tick, and that will make your battery drain consistently over time.

Makes sense?

[spring osprey]

yes I kinda understand something but is the problem really something about delta time? I mean, I was following a tutorial and the dude literally only did this and nothing about delta time or ticks

[heavy hemlock]

OK, sure - but the tutorial is not teaching you a good way of doing a thing.

Like... you can follow it if you want, but you would never want to create something in a game that worked like this.

[spring osprey]

I see

[heavy hemlock]

But, if you want to use that code - put the drain battery event on the branch where you turn the light on.

[tidal tendon]

Oh my bad I thought its already your character bp. The problem is your blueprint isn't disabling input as it should right?
Did you try using "get actor of class" node, and connect its output directly to disable input like this? Or you can do second one to preserve the cast to. Im sure you shouldnt connect get player controller into object of "cast to".

[heavy hemlock]

Right now, you have it on the branch where you turn the light off.

[spring osprey]

oh okay thanks

[heavy hemlock]

But I'm not kidding about the design here - this is not the way to do this at all.

Actually, looking at this a second time, I think if you switch the branch logic on the first branch back, and just set the flashlight on instead of off, it should maybe work?

But yeah, very odd design.

I wonder why the instructor chose to do it this way.

[spring osprey]

okay it works now ill take a look at those delta time things and ticks and try to add it

[dry pecan]

say, is there any way in widgets for text boxes for when I type it in I can go down a line like in a google doc?

[spring osprey]

i mean the channel is not really that big so maybe he just didn't want to make something that complicated.

[heavy hemlock]

It's less complicated to use tick.

One sec.

[heavy hemlock]

I ended up over thinking this.

But this is roughly how I'd do it.

Using a pure function does help:

[dry pecan]

so question, in my main menu level, the moment I click on a button from my main menu widget, the custom cursor I set disappears, any ideas?

[spring osprey]

I okay thank you so much for taking the time to help me

[heavy hemlock]

👍

[stoic ledge]

your custom cursor reference is being destroyed somewhere

[toxic copper]

managed to get this, ty! It was something obvious in the end, i was just having a derp moment. Certain inputs that I thought were on my character blueprint werent being disabled, and so I thought it wasn't working.

Appreciate you taking the time to provide those screenshot examples

[dry pecan]

ok now a real question , how can I remove a specific widget and not every widget?

[dawn gazelle]

Keep reference to that widget somewhere, remove it where you want using that reference, or if the logic is contained within that widget, you can have it remove itself.

[stoic ledge]

Off of the create widget functions return node, promote to variable. then if that reference != 'none', destroy.

same as Datura said

[dry pecan]

is there any way to set different game modes to different levels? I have a win level and a lose level and I need to set game modes for each

[dawn gazelle]

Each level can have its own game mode defined in its world settings.

[stoic ledge]

if i had multiple game modes, could i communicate across each of them? i guess theres only one at a time.

[dawn gazelle]

Yea, only one at a time normally exists.

If you wanted similar functionality in game modes, then you can create a base game mode and have child game modes based off of it with their own settings and custom behaviors while still retaining the functionality and properties of the base class.

[zealous moth]

can the CMC detect collisions based on several colliders?

[cosmic hill]

hello guys!

as far as im testing, these two returns the velocity of the actor in the world space

is there a way to return the local velocity of the actor?

[frosty heron]

I heard it's only to be used with the capsule comp

[dawn gazelle]

As far as I understood, it only knows about the capsule component on the character. You could extend the CMC and make it handle more colliders.

[stoic ledge]

ive been reading a bit about game modes and states, tell me if this makes sense please. A player sends a message in a game, the game mode then can either do nothing, or update the gamestate or a set of playerstates with the message the player sent?

[zealous moth]

nah it looks locked to that main capsule

nothing else

[frosty heron]

Ppl use GMC when they need diff collision shape

[zealous moth]

yeah but that's a PitA

i know, I came from there 😄

[frosty heron]

Wat about movet 2.0. I haven't touch it tho

[dry pecan]

So now that my game is finished, how do I export it out as a playable game?

[frosty heron]

But I heard it support custom collider

[frosty heron]

Package

[frosty heron]

#packaging

[cosmic hill]

it might be somewhat different in ue5? but the option is there, packaging

[dry pecan]

yeah I'm searching for the package option

[dawn gazelle]

I'm not sure exactly what you may be asking for, but this to be seems like asking how fast something is moving in relation to itself, which would always be 0.

[dry pecan]

is it pack level actors?

[zealous moth]

no

[stoic ledge]

i just thought of the platitude "dont get ahead of yourself"

[zealous moth]

@stoic ledge because there is no such thing as local velocity

there is velocity in relation to world space

[cosmic hill]

so... to try and be more clear, the velocity that that thing returns changes depending on how my character is facing the world, which means it gives a different velocity if its facing the x axis or the y axis

[zealous moth]

or sum of vectors

[cosmic hill]

hmmm

[cosmic hill]

i thought i encountered few results on this on google

that might be the reason

[frosty heron]

Local to what

In relative to what

[stoic ledge]

how do you get relative velocity?

[zealous moth]

what are you trying to do (so I can write it down and make the game faster than you)

[frosty heron]

Don't make much sense to me

[cosmic hill]

ill reformulate then, gimme a minute

because you guys have showned me that not even i know what i want now

[frosty heron]

Velocity is just how fast (unit) an object moves

[cosmic hill]

🫠

[stoic ledge]

you mean if ur facing backwards its negative?

[dawn gazelle]

hey, it's good to know what you don't know. It's the first step to knowing about something 😄

[dry pecan]

huh, guess it takes a little while for the game to package

[frosty heron]

Depend on how big the game is

[cosmic hill]

ok so, this is the velocity if i face forwards from where i spawn in the world

[zealous moth]

look into how to package efficiently on YT. You need a bit of setup to avoid packaging nonsense

[cosmic hill]

if i face to the left... you get the idea

[zealous moth]

for instance, in your settings, set the maps, the assets, etc

[stoic ledge]

its individualy placing all those little packinging foamies into the box.

[cosmic hill]

but i dont want this, i want to give me the same velocity if i go forward no matter which way im facing

[frosty heron]

It's just saying the object is moving 70 cm on the world x direction and -291 on the world y direction

[dry pecan]

maybe it was also sincve I changed the packaging location? probs not

[zealous moth]

nah

it takes about 2 mins for an 800 mb project to package

the first time it took 15 mins

subsequently it took 1-2

[cosmic hill]

thats the thing, what i need is something that i will return to me for example, 300cm if i move forward no matter which direction in the world im facing

honestly at this point i dont know if im making sense

[frosty heron]

I seen ppl grabbing the length/magnitude. Check what that gives you

[cosmic hill]

ill try it

[zealous moth]

the first gives a length of 299, the second of 302

https://www.symbolab.com/solver/vector-magnitude-calculator/\left|-291.67%2C 79.14%2C 0\right|?or=input

[dawn gazelle]

I think what you may be wanting is the "vector length"

[zealous moth]

but you are moving diagonally it seems

a unit or 2 will not be worth working on imo

expecially on a value like 300

we're talking about 0.3% difference

[cosmic hill]

the lenght of the velocity?

[zealous moth]

the length of the vector

[dawn gazelle]

It's not necessary to communicate everything through the game mode, but you could potentially use the game mode to alter what would happen with the message if you plan on having different game modes.

[zealous moth]

there are 2 types of vectors: locations which are static points and directions which is what velocity is. It has a start and end and a length which is the magnitude.

[trim matrix]

math is fun 🥳

[zealous moth]

this isn't math, it's physics

is math even related to science?

who knows?!

[trim matrix]

pretty close in my opinion

without math, you wouldn't know how to do physics at first

[stoic ledge]

i mean that in a multiplayer sense, and not across game modes, just generally.

[cosmic hill]

(wait! it was all math?!)🌍🧑‍🚀 🔫🧑‍🚀(always has been)

[stoic ledge]

physics doesnt need math.

[zealous moth]

look up the multiplayer compendium to know what is communicative between client and server

[dawn gazelle]

Still holds true, but your clients also wouldn't be able to communicate directly to the game mode as it only exists on the server.

[zealous moth]

game state would

[trim matrix]

what did you learn first then?

[zealous moth]

kid+ hole = gravity

and that's how i tuned into the matrix

[stoic ledge]

you touched the mirror

[dawn gazelle]

If the intention is to say, send a chat message to everyone in the game, regardless of where they are in relation to your player, then you would probably want to use either the gamestate or playerstate to relay that message as these are objects that are always relevant and exist on every client.

If you wanted it only for nearby players, then it may be better to use their controlled Pawn as these usually aren't always relevant.

GameMode doesn't have to be involved here, it can be, but again not necessary.

[trim matrix]

get all actors of class?

it would work here

[frosty heron]

Wut

[trim matrix]

the actor is the player

[frosty heron]

Ik but he is talking about RPC

And relevancy

[dawn gazelle]

if you're communicating over the network to others there shouldnt be a need to get multiple actors

only 1 has to do the communication

[stoic ledge]

in the case of 1 message to everyone?

[dawn gazelle]

Send through gamestate or playerstate. Everyone can receive the message on them

Example:
Player Inputs Message > Sends RPC to server on their PlayerState > server multicasts the message on that playerstate > all clients will receive that multicast

Usually easier to handle through gamestate only because you can get a single gamestate easier in UI and the like which makes it easy for the UI to bind to event dispatcher that exists on the gamestate.

[stoic ledge]

understandable.

[dawn gazelle]

Thinking on it, it's probably best to still multicast on the playerstate, then have the playerstate call to the gamestate to broadcast the message and then have the gamestate refer to the playerstate sending the message as the sender.

[stoic ledge]

if there where any conditions the game might impose on the message the player sent, that would be done in the gamestate?

[dawn gazelle]

You would probably do it on the server but it doesn't specifically matter what class you do it in. The trouble is if you have conditions like you only want certain players to hear the message, then it gets a bit more complicated as you can't just multicast that if you care about whether or not someone still receives the message even though it wouldn't necessarily be displayed by your own coding.

[obtuse kraken]

last bump for my problem then im gonna start crying

[stoic ledge]

yea, im getting tripped up on delegates now.

[stoic ledge]

just watching it looks as if when u push / pull, the physics applied on the object affects the grip, ive never done anything like that though, looks cool ;p

[faint violet]

How do I make it clamp in a circle? I want 400 max for both combined, not separate.

[maiden wadi]

IMO I'd be inclined to say don't use a physics sim object for the held one. Stuff attached to it could still simulate, but the held object should probably be kinematic.

[maiden wadi]

You project a direction by 400.

[faint violet]

this one? or wait, I could add distance to a rotation maybe

[ripe smelt]

Hey, I'm pretty new to blueprints so I was wondering if someone point me in the right direction here? I need to move a mesh (snake) through a spline (ie: Blender's curve modifier) but I'm not entirely sure where to start? This doesnt need to be runtime but rendered at sequencer. Many thanks for any help!

[obtuse kraken]

Ok I'll try that thanks

[maiden wadi]

Stepped away for a sec. But basically you have a point, a direction, and a distance you want the thing to be. You get the distance from the thing's intended location to 0,0,0. So you just need to clamp that distance at 400. Then multiply that distance with the direction from 0,0,0 you want it placed at.

What you end up with is either the original location you wanted, or a location clamped at 400.0 distance from 0,0,0

[faint violet]

ok thanks, my character look at direction setup already has a bunch of that, but I thought I didn't need rotation for this. trying to make a cursor location based look ahead

[maiden wadi]

You shouldn't need rotation so much.

@faint violet Something like this if I'm not mistaken?

[maiden wadi]

The snake body needs to match the spline, or the snake needs to move along the spline?

[obtuse kraken]

Do you think it would be a good idea to turn off the physics simulation when mouse axis event is fired, then after all the logic happens re-enable it? I want the object to have weight and some drag when moving and looking around with it.

Because turning it off completely wouldn't work for me

[faint violet]

oh thanks, I didn't know distance (Vector) existed

[maiden wadi]

What does weight and drag mean in this case? Not move with the camera perfectly, or slow down the camera?

[obtuse kraken]

Well slow down I guess, I haven't started implementing logic for that though

I assume thats how the illusion of weight is given in games like Amnesia

[maiden wadi]

Both can be done with kinematic movements fairly easily.

For heavy feeling on camera, your inputs just get multiplied by a value related to the held object's weight. EG no object is a multiplier of 1.0. Object with light weight is like 0.95 ot 0.9. Medium would be like 0.7. Heavy would be 0.5 or 0.3. Up to you to define the weights and the weight projected to 0.3-1 or so. I'd recommend a lower clamp to avoid cases where something is too heavy to turn the camera ever, unless that's intended.

The other thing is just using an interpolation on the object's movement, so that it's not always perfectly matched with the player movement but has a little bit of lag. Some time and sine effects here can give slight sway like breathing effects, etc. Just depends on the effects you're after.

[obtuse kraken]

Ok thanks for the reply, I'll try what you suggested

[tiny sigil]

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[long breach]

add a particle effect and it looks perfect for some type of avodiance

[manic vessel]

I have a scene component for each hand that the animation hand follows. and Im trying to align them with a spline component that runs the length of the bar, when grabbed. currently I have them doing this in the first picture, I have added debug arrows for each scene component to help visualize the issue, But Im trying to make them go like the second picture and finding it tricky to do so. any advice would be apreciated thanks

also this

[grim sand]

No not in your current setup. You can only do this by making one data table for helmets, one for chest armour, one for melee weapons, etc. As far as I know this is also how most games do this.

Well actually, maybe you can achieve this using Bluetility, but I doubt it would be a straightforward solution that is worth the time spent trying to achieve this

Yea, but I suppose you could make an entry into the struct called "Type" or something like that. Then on construct you can retrieve all rows, and save them into separate arrays so that in the editor you have an easier time.

Then again though, if you are working on this project solo, I am not sure what the added benefit is besides some cleanliness

Yea. I mean it sounds to me like the easiest thing to do in your specific scenario would be to just keep it as it is for in the editor. Ultimately players aren't going to see any of it

I am guessing you are overcomplicating this. LIke I said, if you are doing this project solo, you will always know where stuff is stored anyway.

The best way to do it is to have a specific data table for each equipment type. Ultimately we want data tables to be specific and to only contain data that is as closely relevant to each other as possible. We don't want a data table with helmets, chest armours, and weapons all together. Especially not if we intend to use this data separately in different places.

This would in my eyes be best practice for maintaining different data sets of items in your game, without overcomplicating the entire setup 🙂

Well, I mean the only hierarchical thing in your setup, as far as I know based on the provided info, is that all data is based on your Item Data struct. Beyond that there is no hierarchy between these different item types

You could try this. It is entirely up to you. I don't think this would be super neat when trying to retrieve the data at runtime, or at least not as neat as just having a few different data tables.

[main flume]

Hey. I have a value between 0 and 1, to lerp between my drift forces.
I want it to not go back to 0 instantly when the slip angle is lower than 20, because of drift transitions. I would prefer it to go down more slowly but it should still go up normally. I cant get it to work, any ideas?

[graceful sage]

use a timeline for the alpha i believe

[frosty heron]

OnPostEditProperty

PostEditChangeProperty*

[main flume]

timeline?

[frosty heron]

If you want to do something overtime you have to do something over time (eg. Tick) . Event completed run once

[small gyro]

I need some fresh brains/eyes on something

I've been reworking my inventory system and when I try to save certain arrays just refuse to update no matter what I try.

I've tried rebuilding the array and just adding the struct in at the right index, i've tried setarrayelem as seen here and I've tried insert but no matter what I try the data doesn't update

[frosty heron]

Break probably gives you a copy, not a ref. Just my hunch

[main flume]

thanks

[small gyro]

I've never actually thought about how the break struct works
maybe a split would be the better option

or not, same issue

[lunar sleet]

What are those pure functions plugged into?

[lunar sleet]

Are you updating a bp struct at runtime?

[small gyro]

yeah
it's part of a save function, taking a data struct with some basic values (2 ints, a name and a bool) and updating their place in the array and updating the array inside my main save data struct

all the relevant variables are set to editable

[sand bloom]

Btw if you ever run into with timelines being annoying and a bit limiting to use, there is an alternative that's nice. I no longer use timelines but use this

https://github.com/jdcook/fresh_cooked_tweens

[small gyro]

from what I can see with testing the issue seems to be the setarrayelem because changing the name entries works (I'm printing the output to a json file)

[scarlet urchin]

Everytime i start up my project i have to refresh these nodes that are used for adding the current players to the lobby list. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this??

[small gyro]

weird I guess I fixed it....for now
knowing my luck I'll break it next week somehow

[lunar sleet]

Bp structs are extremely broken when you start doing runtime edits

You can lose all the data

[small gyro]

tell me about it....
I'm transitioning my project away from relying on blueprints and more into c++ and json

[lunar sleet]

Not sure if you can. If the widgets sit on top of the viewport, then it prly can’t get a world pos

[lunar sleet]

Yeah I’d recommend switching to a cpp struct. Fairly easy to setup

[main flume]

thanks!

[sand bloom]

Np

Using some must have plugins made my life so much better

Tweens is one of them

But also electric nodes/darker nodes for nicer ui or that one auto organizing plugin for blueprints

[dreamy yacht]

Hi. Got some problem with widget animation. I've bought a "Huge Main Menu" from marketplace and everything is right except - the widgets in main menu which fly in from the bottom and stay there correctly, but only for the fist time. If I switch to another widget or start another level and then go back ( open main menu level ) then the wigdets won't fly in again and the screen is blank with only background visible. It looks like that widgets restore to their unloaded state once they are loaded for the first time.... I've found out, that widget animation is stored as "Show Base Buttons" inside W_Menu_Main ( the main menu widget ), but I cannot cast to it ( cast from another widget ) if I want to make editor load the animation again...

😦

[obtuse kraken]

omg i fixed my issue and it was stupidly simple

[lunar sleet]

Before you buy stuff on marketplace you should prly try to understand basics like bp communication

[obtuse kraken]

just had move the constraint instead of the object being held, it was lowering because the spring distance between the held object and constraint was widening causing it to behave weird

[lunar sleet]

Where is Main Menu widget being created

[dreamy yacht]

On it's own level, named LVL_MainMenu

I've found the logic now

I guess I should create "the valid check logic" in every other widget, that makes the main menu buttons to reload ?

[dreamy yacht]

I don't know if it's a correct approach, but I've removed "is valid" check and it works fine now

[dark drum]

I would leave the is valid check in. If the widget has already been created and still exists, it makes sense to reuse it instead of creating a new one.

[maiden wadi]

It's not really worth it. It's the main menu level's widget. You spend a minute on the main menu for every thirty to sixty you'll spend playing the game. Keeping it around is pointless after the user leaves the level.

But then handling widget in the game instance sucks too.

[dark drum]

True, I didn't actually pay any attention to what the actually widget was lol.

[maiden wadi]

IMO these are things you shouldn't really have to consider. I don't anymore. I just request widgets to display in their respective slots via push content to layer for player. Everything is removed at level transitions, even the slots. The slot widgets from CommonUI will cache a widget for a while and reuse it if possible but it's all refreshed at level loads.

CommonUI/CommonGame plugins really are amazing for widget handling.

[dark drum]

Yea same, common UI is nice for this type of stuff.

I made a child of the Activatable Widget that allows me to specify the input mode and if the cursor should be visible when the widget is activated lol.

[dreamy yacht]

Thanks, I'll check

[maiden wadi]

CommonUI is in the engine by default. CommonGame requires pulling it from the Lyra project.

[young meteor]

Hey
Can I increment/decrement something inside a Map like this?

Or do I need to find value, add 1 to it, and then set it/override it for the Key in the Map?

(I would input the Key ofcourse)

[maiden wadi]

I don't think map has a find by ref in BP.

[young meteor]

So I have to set it up like this then right?

[maiden wadi]

Looks about righjt.

[young meteor]

Okay. Thank you.

[dusky cobalt]

Maybe someone could help because I tried every posibility and I'm lost what I'm doing wrong.

1. I have Main UI Widget that I create in Player State.
2. In Player State i put info about resources of player
3. In Player State I have event that increases number of resources.
4. Worker is calling to Increment Resource Amount event in Player State when doing task.
5. The event is called, I can see that Added 1 resource is printed, but it doesn't get added.
   I tried to GetTeam of Worker, plug it into PlayerState etc, but it doesn't work.
   The last one is MainUI bind, it shows ''starting'' amount on the screen, but then doesn't get updated.

I tried with every possibility and I guess in the most robust way if I set everyhere index to 0 it should at least work for the first player? Anyone sees something?

The funny thing is, I have the same setup in different project but everything is in the PlayerController and it was working.

[maiden wadi]

GetPlayerState index should be 0 for starts.

That call is the same as doing GetPlayerController->PlayerState. It's just a helper that makes it one node.

What about your increment interface thing?

[dusky cobalt]

Worker is calling interface event of PlayerState

and then it adds resource based on type

the event is ''firing'' but it doesn't update properly amount?

like I can see Produced 1 Food, but if I print food amount it's still 0

[maiden wadi]

Why are you telling the client to set this replicated property?

[dusky cobalt]

Oh I was just trying things, it was Server before

doesn't change anything though ;/

[maiden wadi]

This implies that your cotton stack is zero?

If you added to 10 and it's still 10 I mean.

Not sure where that first 10 is from.

[dusky cobalt]

It's default amount

and it's showing properly on the widget

[maiden wadi]

No I mean the stack size integer

What is it's value at?

[dusky cobalt]

oh, yeah the stack is 1

I thought about this too...

it seems like I'm not ''aiming'' properly with Where exactly it is incremented?

like it hits Player State, but is this the Player State of the client that is currently seeing the widget?

[maiden wadi]

In this image. According to your prints, you incremented it and it was set to 10.

Which if the CottonStack was 1, would imply the value before was 9?

[dusky cobalt]

It should be 10 as starting and then add 1 which should be 11?

[maiden wadi]

Add a few more prints maybe. Print value before. Print the stack size and leave the other two prints.

[dusky cobalt]

Wait omg

https://tenor.com/view/tantrum-gif-12615339064861248159

the devil is in the details

[maiden wadi]

Lol Fair enough. I missed that.

[plucky ice]

Hi all, I apologize if this question isn’t allowed so just delete it if it isn’t or let me know and I will. Would anyone be willing to get on a 15-20 minute discord call (or is there a resource in this server) for me to ask some questions about the best way to lay things out?

[dusky cobalt]

thank you for help, sometimes talking to someone helps to get better view of things 😄 and i was modifying code so hard to make it work, while everything was good just this one thing ugh xd

[dusky cobalt]

You can just ask here, lots of helpfull people here

[untold ivy]

Probably a stupid question, how do I get the location of the player's head? I managed to get the NPC's head since I'm currently in the NPC's event graph, but I don't know how to access the player's head.

[plucky ice]

I've asked a couple of times and people have been extremely helpful so far, absolutely. This has been an excellent resource and I'm extremely appreciative. This more so goes beyond a specific question about a particular blueprint schematic and is more related to the overall structure of how the "game" overall should work which sometimes is easier to say than type but I'll give it a shot; it will be long.

I'm using Unreal to make a neuroscience / psychology study for people to participate in, and I'm super new to the system hence all the questions. Main questions for now will be in bold. The "game" basically works like this:

A participant will spawn in VR with a laser pointer in their hand.

1. They will need to fixate (look straight ahead at) a point in the sky for 500ms, which I was planning on implementing using the eye tracker in the Vive Pro.
   a. I don't know how to use the eye tracker or "head movement" of the VR headset as a movement input yet and I am building the functionality of the game itself not in the VR template at first because the VR template input structure confuses me.

2. Once they have done this, that point will disappear and a set of stars will randomly spawn in the sky around that point.
   a. I've already gotten the stars to randomly spawn using the Gamemode blueprint that populates a number of Star_Object blueprints on begin play.

3. One of the stars in the sky will do one of 3 things:
   a. Change brightness
   b. Play a sound
   c. Both play a sound and change brightness
   I have gotten one of the stars randomly to do each of those things using the Star_Controller blueprint by doing get all actors of class and a random array selector on event begin play. This is not how I will want to do things for two reasons - one, I need to know which star object was selected and what its location in the world was (which I guess I can do by somehow referencing the array index and world position of the random star that was selected; and two - how can I create this random selection without replacement logic from a pool of available trial types that depletes as each trial type occurs?
   I need to be able to know which of these stars was randomly selected, because we are asking the participant to select a star using the laser pointer. I have already set it up so that the laser pointer spawns a beam that will interact with the Star Object and destroy it if the beam interacts with it for more than 1 second, but this functionality is implemented at the level of each StarObject. Is this the best way to do it? How can I best cross-reference which star "changed" with which star is selected by the participant to keep track of whether their selection is correct or not? Should I do it by "levels" so each time the participant makes a selection it loads a new level and populates new stars and does it all over again, or si there an easier way?

Finally and more generally, what is the best way to "keep score" for each of the types of trial (brightness, sound, or both) in terms of correctness? If you would be so kind as to help me figure out kind of how to structure things into "trials" now that I more or less have all of the basic components I need to start creating the overall structure of the experiment itself, I would be immensely grateful. Sorry if any questions seem stupid or obvious but as I said, total newb.

[tiny sigil]

here in editor there were not any type of error msg and now i don't know what to do

[maiden wadi]

All good. 😄 Working through systems can be frustrating at times.

[maiden wadi]

The root component of a character is it's Capsule. You need to call GetMesh and try to get the bone location on that.

[untold ivy]

I know, but I have a funny feeling that because it's an older project that got updated, the actual mesh isn't actually set to be the mesh, but rather the SK_Mannequin. And while I can access the mesh, I can't access the SK_Mannequin

[maiden wadi]

You should be able to access that component off of that cast?

[plucky ice]

Here is the StarController Blueprint

[maiden wadi]

No, from the Cast node. Drag off of it and type Get SK_M

[maiden wadi]

Careful with your random. You're getting two different things there.

A pure node is ran once for each connected executed node. So you're pulling one random thing for the pointer, and a second random thing for the index.

[untold ivy]

Doesn't show up by default like the normal mesh does.

[plucky ice]

Ah man okay thank you. Is there a better node to use for what I'm trying to do?

[fiery swallow]

Usually people start with a question that directly involves the problem, followed with clues and details to help the community help you

[spice thunder]

hey when I play a level it works perfectly but when player dies and a widget pops up there's a retry button which opens level again but when it load again the retry button doesn't work

could anyone help me about that?

[maiden wadi]

It does. Scroll waaaaaay down.

[spice thunder]

and yeah even the mouse cursor doesn't hide it is still on level even when I look

[untold ivy]

Downest I can go :p

[dim loom]

why dont you use a struct its mutch better at stuff like this instead int

[maiden wadi]

Not specifically. What you have is mostly fine. It just requires knowing how pure nodes work. You should only random the index first. Then pull that instance from the array from a Get node using that index. That way the index and instance will match up.

The same with the random int after that. You'll want to plug the TrialType into the switch. Becaue right now Trial Type could be 0, and the switch could pull 2

[fiery swallow]

The simplest way if you're planning to reload the map is to just use "restart game" node in the gamemode, that'll reset everything in the level. (It does not restart the game in the eay youre thinking) Sounds like you're doing something else. Could you show your restart code

[maiden wadi]

That's really odd. :/ You don't happen to have two same named classes in the project do you? Cause you 100% should be able to pull that.

@plucky iceThe general rule with pure nodes(those without a white wire connection) is that they have to be evaluated once per execution node they're used on. If you use the same pure node four times on the same execution node, it will run once and give the same value four times. But if you run the same pure node on four different executed functions, you'll get up to four different value outputs.

[untold ivy]

Alright. This worked, but it isn't the workaround I wanted. Counterpoint, maybe it's the workaround I needed. Functions to get values seems clean. And arguably I could maybe call it for player by exposing it completely.

Sure, what is restart code? I'm relatively new to UE5

[plucky ice]

Weird, thank you!!! Would this resolve this issue?

[maiden wadi]

Maybe. 😄 Generally you can make some library functions out of it if you have a sane project structure. EG a function that takes in a character, iterates over it's skeletal and static meshes and finds the first one with a visible mesh that has the head socket. Then you don't have to care about really anything but passing the actor(doesn't even need to be character, can literally be Actor class), and the bone you're after.

[untold ivy]

baby steps :p

[maiden wadi]

I'm unsure. But also change the Trial Type part. 😄 Until you're comfortable with it. Always prefer to have a single connection to any randomization node.

[plucky ice]

Yes I just changed the trial type after I sent that as I noticed it. Thank you, that's extremely helpful! That explains some weird stuff I noticed.

[spice thunder]

yeah alr I was trying to fix but it seems it didn't work also in main menu when I open level by name the IA_look doesn't work so I have to use scope to look around but it works fine when I play in level I dropped screenshot below

[fiery swallow]

Yeah change your retry code to get game mode-> restart game.

That'll give you the same result you would've otherwise gotten with what you currently attempted

[plucky ice]

Final question for the moment; how can I pass variables around between different blueprints? Like how could I let my star_controller blueprint know which of the star_objects has been chosen?

[maiden wadi]

Isn't the star controller already doing the picking?

[spice thunder]

get game mode then where to connect return value ?

[fiery swallow]

Drag off the return value and type in restart game

[snow crag]

Hey guys. Im generating meshes along a spline. I was wondering if its possible to modify the vertex color of each spawned mesh through the blueprint?

[spice thunder]

nothing appears in that

restart player

[fiery swallow]

Type in restart, should be something like that

[spice thunder]

correct?

[fiery swallow]

There's definitely a restart game in the gamemode, unless you're using GameModeBase instead of gamemode

Try dragging off get gamemode and cast to gamemode, and then do restart game

[plucky ice]

Yes, but the star_object BP on a per-instance is what causes the star to interact with a participant’s laser pointer to “explode.” So we’re basically looking for a match or mismatch between the star the star_controller picked and the one the participant selected with the laser pointer, if that makes sense. Should I move that star - laser pointer interaction somewhere other than at the individual star level to make it easier?

[fiery swallow]

Cast to your gamemode and then do restart game

[spice thunder]

correct

done lemme try it out

[fiery swallow]

Get gamemode pure function is probably getting GameModeBaae

[spice thunder]

yes that's why it wasn't calling restart game

[spice thunder]

What should be restart game target?

[fiery swallow]

The gamemode you casted to

[maiden wadi]

No. What you have is fine. What you need is an event dispatcher in your star. When interaction finishes or whatever you call that. and when you pick the stars on beginplay you bind all of their dispatchers to an event in the star controller.

[fiery swallow]

That will restart the level

[plucky ice]

Hmmm okay. I need to read more about event dispatchers, I have come across them but am still not too familiar with them yet. Thank you very much for all the insights!

[maiden wadi]

To give you a small boost there. You'd do something like this in the Star. Then call that node in the middle when you're ready, like whenever the laser pointer thing finishes.

Once you've added this. You can go to the controller and add these selected nodes. When you call the thing in the first BP, the custom event at the top will run.

[spice thunder]

retry button isnt working

[dusky cobalt]

Not sure why, just did it like this, any tip do you have why this would help?

[fiery swallow]

Remove the open level node, and check to make sure the cast node isn't failing

[spice thunder]

thanks for the help but I fixed that issue problem was my game was still at ui only I guess

[plucky ice]

Is it sort of like this? Or am I thinking about it wrong? I'd want a boolean to take a value of true if the two match and false if they don't, then collect some information accordingly. This is the star_controller.

[plucky ice]

This is within the individual star itself.

[wicked cairn]

Anyone know how to make a randomly generated spline loop shape in the construction script, for example for an island?

[maiden wadi]

This is correct

[maiden wadi]

You don't want to bind the stars again though. You only bind them once on beginplay when you select a star. So the upper function is correct if you remove the bind part of it and put the bind part on beginplay by looping over the found stars.

[tiny sigil]

can anyone help me with this problem

[plucky ice]

Can you clarify what you mean by "You don't want to bind the stars again" ? I'm trying to understand how that Bind Event node works or what it's doing. Like this? Holy **** that worked. It will identify if the correct star is destroyed, but not an incorrect star.

[maiden wadi]

As Moxie stated, you really need to frame your issue. Like. Your camera probe is messing up, your collisions are wrong, you seem to be trying to interact with the wall and get jumpy anim stuff. It is not clear what your own perceived problem is though. What are you trying to accomplish? What is going wrong?

[maiden wadi]

Go back to what I posted previously. You should have a sequence after the get all actors. You loop over them all, bind the event to all of them. Then on the second part of the sequence you do your picking stuff.

[plucky ice]

Thank you so much, truly. You are a paragon of virtue and Unreal knowledge. To further my understanding, what is that sequence doing exactly with regard to the binding? Like what is the difference between doing it the way you suggested and the way I had it that causes your way to work?

[tiny sigil]

i'm traying to vaulting and i done line trace as you can see in video and when i reach the vaulting obj like small wall then my character was not enable to play montage

[maiden wadi]

Sequence is just a Run this line, then this line, then this line. Just a way to organize the logic flow.

Since this is a loop. You want to run it without causing the other stuff to run too. You could have done the same by deleting the sequence and plugging in the rest of the stuff to the Completed pin of the loop.

[plucky ice]

Makes sense, thank you so much again. Final question for today if that's okay. I have it reloading the level every time a "trial" is completed (just by opening current level at the end of branches). Is there some place I could store a variable that doesn't get deleted by doing that, like for instance, to export trial performance to R or another statistical software program after the fact? How should I handle keeping track of the score; within the game mode? Like at the end of both branch I can increment "total trial count" and increment conditionally based on which trial type it was, and then increment a correct or incorrect responses variable. But where should all of those variables go / at what level should I do that?

[tiny sigil]

this was the blueprinty of it

[dusky cobalt]

I think that should be stored in PlayerInstance, read a little about Game Framework Unreal

[primal peak]

Hey y’all I have a question so I’m making a game kinda like a obby sort of but I don’t know how to make the z cord kill the player instead of destroying them I already have a check point system I just don’t know how to make them die and respawn at said checkpoint

[thin cradle]

anyone knows if it's possible to set the min and max render distance of a scenecapture2D set to device depth? trying to bake a heightmap with a downward pointing scenecapture2D, using the min/max as bottom/top heights

[maiden wadi]

Realistically this is a two part issue. You should make your stuff work via SaveGames for the internal game stuff. When you finish a level it should write to a savegame that this trial got whatever rating and save locally.

For exporting it to some other software, this highly depends. It can be as simple as a string export via converting your data sets to JSon strings. It just depends on the software and requirements.

[oak fable]

hey there does anyone know how save and load the Nvidia Dlss settings
i got the plugin and installed it and also edit and moved the UI stuff to my graphic settings UI but i can't figure out how to save load that settings as they are not available in the game user settings

any idea how can i do that ?

[maiden wadi]

Normally you'd just add them to the GUS yourself. Without C++ though in BP, you have to rely on SaveGame files to save user's preferences. Save when applying in the options. Load when loading the main menu. 🤷‍♂️

[oak fable]

Seems like it

[calm flint]

Hello everyone!

I'm having an issue and have been trying to troubleshoot it all day, but to no avail.

I've made my project using c++. I've been trying to integrate common UI with my project.
Now when I try to create a widget from the controller class I get an error because apparently the player controller initialises before commonUI does, so it breaks.
Have been looking at the Cropout Sample project and they've put their menu/game widget creating inside the Game Mode class.
I've tried doing that too, but it seems like BeginPlay doesn't even fire after I press play.

I've tried most common solutions for this:

• created a GameMode class inside .cpp
• created GameMode BP based on the .cpp class
• set the GameMode BP as my overriden GameMode

weirdly enough when I put printing of a random string inside my construction string, it does print it out, but when I do the same in the BeginPlay it doesn't do anything.

Keep in mind, I'm somewhat new to this haha

[dark drum]

Instead of using the player controller, try using the HUD class instead if you're having a load order issue.

[calm flint]

I've tried moving it to the game mode, but it seems to hate me today lmao.
I'm not sure what you mean by "just use the HUD class"?

[dark drum]

In the game mode you can specify a HUD class that will be used. I would imagine this would get initialized after the common UI stuff.

[calm flint]

ahh that, yes, my brain went somewhere else.
Thank you, I'll try that.

I was mostly confused why BeginPlay won't properly override either. So weird

[maiden wadi]

What part of CommonUI? What are you getting errors for exactly?

[calm flint]

when I tried using it inside the playercontroller, it said something like "failed to load asset ../commonUI"

[maiden wadi]

Tried using what though?

[calm flint]

I just tried using create widget node.

It would work if I let the plugin to load fully, but if I initially connected to the player controller and restarted it, it'd break the player controller bp

[maiden wadi]

Oh, that issue.

I thought you were having a runtime error. 😄 Yeah some people have to change their CommonUI loading order.

[calm flint]

yeeeah.... I've opted to game mode, but for some reason my beginplay just doesn't do anything

[maiden wadi]

It's not a beginplay issue.

It's not even a code call issue. Your plugins are loading out of order.

[calm flint]

I don't know if I'm stupid or no, but even when I unload everything and just put that it displays a string, it doesn't do that.

Now, I might be missing something

[maiden wadi]

This happens when opening the editor or starting the game for the first time. All modules are loaded. CommonUI is just loaded late. So when the controlelr BP loads, it has no access to the CommonUI plugin.

[calm flint]

^ figured that one out, thats why I completely moved the logic somewhere else. I've seen the GameMode being utilised for the spawning of the widgets inside the cropout sample, but whatever I try to do with BeginPlay, it doesn't do anything.

[thin panther]

If this is multiplayer, it's because Game Mode is server only, and widgets are client only

[maiden wadi]

It isn't about the code call though. It doesn't matter where you move it. You could put the CreateWidget in every blueprint in the project and it won't matter. You have to fix the plugin loading order or make your core module require CommonUI.

[calm flint]

no, its single player

[maiden wadi]

The fact you sometimes have it and sometimes don't is a luck factor.

You should edit your UPROJECT and set CommonUI as a dependency on the primary module. Doesn't hurt to include it in the module's build.cs either.

[calm flint]

thank you for your help, I understand that, I've tried moving the plugin order yesterday, no matter what I did it still produced the same error.
Tested all the LoadingPhases too.

the only thing is that I'm using UE 5.1, I'm not sure if thats also an issue.

[maiden wadi]

What did you set the loading phase on?

[calm flint]

PreDefault.

But I tried all the options I could find.

[maiden wadi]

On the CommonUI plugin?

[calm flint]

yes, in both build.cs and uproject settings

[pulsar hazel]

Is there a way to use a scene capture 2d and save the result in a texture2d?

I am tring to convert the reder target in runtime

but it just doesnt work

even in cpp I couldn't find a solution

and in bpp there is only editor restrictewd nodes

[maiden wadi]

Are you trying to write it to a rendertarget or texture2D?

[pulsar hazel]

to a texture2d

[calm flint]

thank you for your help, I'll reiterate over different solutions and come back to you if I run into any more issues.

[maiden wadi]

You have to create one yourself. There's a UTexture2D::CreateTransient call you can use.

[maiden wadi]

It should mostly just be enough to add it to the uproject as a required plugin both on the plugins area set to enabled, and in the primary module. The primary module cannot load without it's dependencies loaded. So you force it to load before the primary module does.

[pulsar hazel]

but how can i copy the data from the rendertarget to it?

[maiden wadi]

You access the mip0 pixel data and copy it. The last parameter on that function takes a uin8 array.

[calm flint]

I'll try again! thank you.
So to reiterate I need to:

• change the LoadingPhase inside the Uproject
• change the public dependencies required inside the MyProject.build.cs? right?

[pulsar hazel]

but I could'nt find a way to acces the mip[0] data from a texture render target

[maiden wadi]

You shouldn't need to mess with loading phases. Just in the primary module's "AdditionalDependencies" add it to that list.

And then inside of that module's build.cs inside of the PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] area, you add it here as well.

[calm flint]

I'll try that, thank you.

[maiden wadi]

@pulsar hazelI would be curious to know if this works? Where RT is your UTextureRenderTarget2D*

UTexture2D* MyNewTexture = UTexture2D::CreateTransient(RT->SizeX, RT->SizeY, RT->GetFormat());
RT->UpdateTexture(MyNewTexture);```

[steady night]

https://gyazo.com/9134b20bb5a026ce8de0224da12d28ef
anyone please.. i dont get it why is the animtion freezing when im adding a static mesh to the Character O.o! ?!??!?

[trim matrix]

Anyone have any idea on this ?

I have my widget with a list item thing

I have this widget as my defualt entry thing and on construct I set the text

However it doesn't seem to be working

[lusty sphinx]

I've been experiencing this bug where some of my component's detail pane disappears, especially every time a generate my project files and build. I saw that most people suggested to reparent the class and reparent it back, but this could lead to some data loss. This issue seems to have been going on for a few years, so I'm wondering if there was another workaround that isn't too destructive?

[lunar sleet]

It generally doesn’t lead to data loss, that’s just a warning

Is it a character class? When you say disappears, does that mean it’s blank inside it ?

[lusty sphinx]

I see. Specifically, I noticed this with my Ability System Component. It still shows up in the list of components on the left, but the details panel on the right is completely empty when selecting it.

[trim matrix]

Anyone able to advise whats happening here or point me to the correct channel if this is the wrong one please

[lunar sleet]

That tends to happen with char’s CMC as part of a bug that corrupts it. Remaking the class is usually the safest way

[remote rapids]

can i get help why i got those error and how to solve them

[lunar sleet]

Start by reading the error and doing what it tells you to do

[lunar sleet]

Gonna have to clarify, what is the issue?

[remote rapids]

i am new in all of that can you help me?

[lunar sleet]

New in what? It’s saying to go to that node and either refresh it or remove it

[trim matrix]

when I add the Answer Text widget to the list it appears but the text seems to be blank

I've checked as well and I'm setting it to something valid but don't seem to be appearing

[lunar sleet]

Ask in #umg but show them the actual code that you have behind AnswerText

[trim matrix]

will do and I did futher up

[remote rapids]

i go there and i dont have notes

[lunar sleet]

Wrong blueprint

It’s ThirdPersonCharacter

Not GameMode

[remote rapids]

how to fix that?

or should i remove all of that?

[modern hound]

Hello, I added a custom Interface to my player. But its not showing up on the left.

[trim matrix]

doesn't seem very active that UI UMG channel

anyone in here have any idea ?

it's setting the text but seems it ends up being blank

[maiden wadi]

If you set text and it's blank, then you either are using global invalidation or an invalidation box and it failed to invalidate. Or you set the wrong textblock, or something set it back to blank after you set it.

[trim matrix]

I've even tried to simply bind the Text to the variable being set when the widget is created and adding

[young cedar]

Hi everyone!

I want to leave you with my to quicksave and please, feel free to criticise and give me some advice.

When the game starts I create the save game object in the game instance. I populate it with the values from the load game just after loading. If this is a new game then it is populated with safe defaults.

When any variable is modified and event is triggered that saves it into the game instance. Those variables in the game instance have RepNotify and this makes to write them to the save object in memory. If the player chooses to quicksave this memory object is saved into disk.

The process runs very smoothly, you barely notice any frame skip when saving into disk.

Now I leave you a question:

The game quicksaves with the F5 key. What should be the procedure to avoid having it trigger the shader complexity while in PIE?

[trim matrix]

Not sure what you fully mean there sorry but let me get you a screenshot

[modern hound]

anyone?

[trim matrix]

Thats what I was origanlly trying to do

[maiden wadi]

How do you create the widget?

[young cedar]

is it not the damagable?

[modern hound]

it is. But the interface is not showing up.

I need to get something like this

[maiden wadi]

This will be your issue. You don't pass widgets to a Listview. You create data Objects, and pass those to the listview. The listview manages it's children itself, and you have to use the interface to update the child widgets from the data object.

[young cedar]

you can find the interface methods on the left side,

is not there? what about those interface methods?

[modern hound]

yeah, ik. But the methods are not showing up.

[maiden wadi]

Is this in a child class?

[young cedar]

that happened to me once, they were in the parent

[maiden wadi]

Try enabling this.

[modern hound]

ah. now it works. Thanks alot mate!

[modern hound]

U too!

[trim matrix]

Ohh ? I set a default entry class widget, the answer item one and it seems happy with it and adding it

Might have to look up list see what bit I'm missing

[maiden wadi]

No, you're misunderstanding me. You don't send a newly created widget to a listview. You yourself do zero CreateWidget calls. You ConstructObject a new data object out of a class that is parented to Object that has your string on it. You then add that to the listview.

[haughty snow]

I'm looking for a better way to set up the same event graph across multiple BPs - is there something I can look into that explains this / ways to do this? I'm trying to think of what to google but I can't articulate it correctly

[supple dome]

composition

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Listviews are designed to virtualize data. And meant to work from any UObject type. So like a list of actors, or a list of data assets, or a list of textures, or a list of basic objects with data on them. In your case you need the last one with a custom class inheriting from Object.

[trim matrix]

Ohhh awsome thank you

[haughty snow]

ty! looks like what i need

[dusky cobalt]

1. I have BP_Unit with a DamageComponent where I store all stats (Health etc)
2. I have Interface with GetHealth, GetCurrentHealth etc.
3. I have Health Bar widget over unit health.

What would be the best way to get info from DamageComponent to the widget?

Currently, I have UnitReference inside Widget so I can GetAllStats by interface, but this is directed to the Actor and not the DamageComponent of the actor.
So, my only way to make it work, is to inside Actor, in interface functions just link these stats by taking reference from damage component? (picture).

Or anyone sees better idea?

and this is my widget currently

[maiden wadi]

IMO the interface is pointless given you're already using a component.

[dusky cobalt]

Hmm, do I just reference the whole component then?

[maiden wadi]

You have a reference to the actor within the widget. GetComponentByClass on it, and call functions on the component directly.

[maiden wadi]

Not sure what you mean by whole component in this case?

[dry sleet]

friendship ended with Interface, now Component is my best friend

[dusky cobalt]

instead of DamagableActor, I could link the whole Component?

[maiden wadi]

There is no whole component. There is a pointer to the component.

[dusky cobalt]

and now inside widget

does it make sense?

[maiden wadi]

Not really, you're still using the interface.

[maiden wadi]

You have the component of a type, with the functions on it. The interface is pointless here. It actually is slower to get those floats from the interface than to just call the function on the component.

[dusky cobalt]

ohh you mean like this?

[maiden wadi]

You can do this way too, but you already passed the component pointer.

Either way works. Either this on the actor pointer, or the same function call on the component pointer.

[dusky cobalt]

This is magic 😄 Thank you a lot for help !

[lusty sphinx]

wouldn't you want the interface for passing damage on collision hit? hit actor -> damageable -> takedamage?

[dusky cobalt]

can you guys confirm if I did it properly now or there is other way?

[lusty sphinx]

or is it better to do hit actor -> get component -> isvalid -> takedamage

[maiden wadi]

Depends on what you need. For the actual application of damage it still has to go to the component. The component can do everything an actor can. Put a delegate on it, find the component on the hit actor and damage it. And it'll tell it's owner it's been damaged through the delegate.

This is also a really rudimentary system. More complex stuff like GAS doesn't really need to do this because you apply damage through simply applying a GE straight to the component. The GE application does both the applying of health changes, and spawning of visual cues which should be set up to be actor independent.

[stoic ledge]

good day. could anyone explain to me instance mode and state relationships. Im trying to design a chatmanager, where a player can send a message and the server sends the message to relevant players. but im not sure where i could implement the manager

[lusty sphinx]

Not sure if this is best practice, but I think you can also add an event dispatcher for whenever health on the character is changed, and add a listener inside your widget which will call that "Get Health Bar PB"

[maiden wadi]

IMO I do this with two components. One on GameState, one on PlayerState. The UI uses the one in the PlayerState to broadcast messages through a ServerRPC which gets the gamestate component to pass that intention along. The one on GameState grabs all players and routes the available chat participents of that channel through a client RPC.

The one on GameState also serves as a buffer to save a duration of messages for new joiners to channels and whatnot.

[lusty sphinx]

so to be clear, you are recommending to instead use hit actor -> get component -> isvalid -> takedamage?

[maiden wadi]

Sure. Should be good for most cases.

[stoic ledge]

can you tell me what a case would be for the gamemode to be a part of i suppose any rpc event between players and gamestate.

[faint pasture]

Gamemode only exists on the server so probably no case really

[maiden wadi]

For player chat? None really. Unless you want to broadcast gameplay messages to all players.

[stoic ledge]

i dont understand, can a multicast be used in the gamestate?

[maiden wadi]

Yes, but you don't really use multicasts for this.

[stoic ledge]

oh, i see, i read that wrong

[maiden wadi]

I mean you could for a general chat, but it's just another channel so should maintain the same system as the rest. But in general everything should be Server/Client RPCs

[faint pasture]

Multicast for chat would presume all chat is visible to all players. If you use client RPCs you can still get the /all mechanic but also have group and private and other chats

[stoic ledge]

like if player a opens his inventory how do u pass the player or his inventory into the widget?

i think if i understand the idea. i would make a reference variable and expose on spawn.

[hallow pasture]

Hey,
I have a Pawn with a Sphere component (to detect enemies and create the range of the Unit)

I have an issue for Navigation, MoveTo etc.
This issue here is that the Sphere Size is added to the radius of the Actor/Pawn so when I do a move to there is a lot of issues. (Overlap is not well calculated because the sphere is already overlapping)

My sphere is having a custom channel for Collision

Will repost in AI its probably better in the #gameplay-ai channel

[stoic ledge]

It makes sense to use gamestates and playerstates to communicate, im a bit confused on an appropriate method to pass the message into the gamestate from the player.

[dawn gazelle]

You don't. You have to feed the reference of the actor into the widget. So like on begin play, get the widget component > get user widget > interface/cast that passes in actor reference > widget does its thing with the reference.

[dawn gazelle]

If you're currently running ont he playerstate, then all you have to do is GetGameState, use a cast or interface and then call the function you want on your custom gamestate, or use a component on the gamestate, and use GetComponentByClass and call its functions.

[stoic ledge]

@dawn gazelle i had to go to sleep yesterday. trying to get a good grasp of this concept. seems useful ;p

[stoic ledge]

i did make an interface already so thats ok then

lets see if i can get it to work ;p

[spring osprey]

you guys know a way to make this cronometre look like 02:08 instead of 2 :8?

[lofty rapids]

those are integers ?
and also is your output strings or text ?

[light garnet]

Does anyone know how to fix this

I am using Boolean for fire

When i fire blend space change

[lofty rapids]

in the conversion

do min num digits 2

in the to text nodes

[maiden wadi]

Also only need one textrender instead of three.

[spring osprey]

could you explain it like if I was a child? (im new with UE5) 💀

[dawn gazelle]

Click the down triangle on the ToText nodes. It reveals some settings on them.

[spring osprey]

aaa okay thanks

[maiden wadi]

Can also just timespan it.

[lofty rapids]

you can also use decrement the -- node

instead of subtracting and setting since your using 1

[lunar sleet]

That may be too advanced here

[spring osprey]

tried this one but it just doesn't start and looks like 3:9

[haughty snow]

If i create a 'child blueprint' then edit the event graph of the parent, that changes it for every child?

[lofty rapids]

i believe you have to make the call to the parent

but variables n stuff should be all set

for instance in your child you might see begin play, then call parent begin play

[haughty snow]

oooooo yep

i see that now ok

[lofty rapids]

if thats not there, it won't call it

[haughty snow]

ty ty

fuuuuuuck ok that's what i was lookin for

ty!

[lusty sphinx]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I was asking about getting an empty details pane for some of my components. It was suggested to just reparent the class, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I reparented this class to Actor and back to GDPlayer_State, but no matter how many times I tried, I always get this empty details pane for my Ability System Component.

[maiden wadi]

Is that a C++ added component?

[lusty sphinx]

I believe so, I'm trying to follow along the GASDocumentation from tranek.

[maiden wadi]

Haven't done that. But did you add the component in a C++ .h file?

Cause either you forgot visibility specifiers or you have a corrupted BP with a bad pointer.

[lusty sphinx]

I'm still rather new to C++ with Unreal. Is this where it is added to the class?

[maiden wadi]

UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadOnly, VisibleAnywhere)

[lusty sphinx]

Would the reason why it wasn't set that way to start with be because the class is setting all the values for the component inside the .cpp and the author wanted to avoid the user accidentally messing up the initial settings?

[maiden wadi]

Unsure. My personal rule is that component pointers are always marked like above. There are better ways to force defaults than making your blueprint look corrupted.

[lusty sphinx]

marked with "UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadOnly, VisibleAnywhere)"?

[maiden wadi]

Yeah.

The missing details panel is also a sign that your BP got corrupted. Basically it loads fine, the component actually exists and is there. But the pointer fails to load for whatever reason. Usual cause is moving the C++ files to another module or plugin and not using a redirector. So not marking them visible looks bad.

[lusty sphinx]

I see, thanks for the clarification

[maiden wadi]

Did that fix it though?

[wise ravine]

I am officially switching back to timelines. This interp stuff has caused my too many problems for my brain to handle 😂

[lusty sphinx]

Yeah, it shows up now after adding those UPROPERTY parameters

[faint pasture]

What's the core problem you're trying to solve?

You want a train to do................. what?

[spark steppe]

do what trains do

choo choo

[wise ravine]

yes 😂

[wise ravine]

basically move a set distance, but I will spawn that train in different locations in the map

[wise ravine]

at different times.. Idk if I'm explaining this well....

[faint pasture]

is the distance always the same?

[wise ravine]

yes

Game Starts > Train Move to Station > Player gets off > Train leaves (After player gets off).
Player Can call train back > Train Moves to Station > Player Gets On > Train leaves to Next Station (Repeat)

It think thats the jist of it

[spark steppe]

is it travelling in a straight line?

[faint pasture]

Timeline is fine

the problem with timeline would be if you wanted it to have varying durations

[wise ravine]

yes

[spark steppe]

there's also a component for that

https://www.youtube.com/live/3iIAcOtPJZg?si=WIAJAA1V5wyV_And&t=2206 had the wrong timestamp...

[wise ravine]

The original issue I was having with timelines is that when my game lagged, the timer on the timeline would continue during the lag, but the animation would stop.

So the animation would stop at different distances

I think the issue may have been part because of the actual node I was using to Set the Offset or Location

[faint pasture]

ew no don't add

no no no

set

adding on tick is 100% a recipe for disaster, you'll never get the same result twice

just timeline -> float -> interpolate something between A and B

that something can be a location vector, a float distance along spline (now your train can curve), anything

[vital shard]

Add? More like "Bad" amirite 👉 👉

[wise ravine]

Yes I tried Set, but that node would just teleport the train to the endpoint without showing the animation

but I can* try that again

[spark steppe]

you need to save the start and end location before you run the timeline

if you use SetLocation, they are fixed values which you interpolate/lerp on

[steel star]

what am i doing wrong here .. i need "Input Mode" to appear as a variable and it is not

[vital shard]

Yeah you'd lerp from StartLocation to EndLocation and feed that into the SetActorLocation.

[merry stump]

oh hey i need some help

i'm trying to make a 3d button on vr that when its triggered, it will change the texture of the text (it's a quiz/trivia but in 3d)

how can i make this work?

[spark steppe]

the text is what? a mesh? a widget? a 3D Text Renderer?

[merry stump]

a mesh

[spark steppe]

easiest way would be to just change the material to another

[steel star]

so setup a material, make a few material instances with different textures

assign the appropriate material instance to the static mesh comp

[vital shard]

Try showing inherited variables?

[merry stump]

i'll screenshot to visualize 1 sec

[steel star]

LOVE YOU THANKS

if blueprint read/write like didnt work for some reason it be heartbroken

[vital shard]

You're welcome. Please like and subscribe ;D

[steel star]

holy CRAP player controller has 23 inherited variables i never knew existed

[wise ravine]

isn't exactly working :/

[vital shard]

Most things have a lot of variables. Probably why the default for Show Inherited Variables is off. To not overwhelm people.

[vital shard]

What are you seeing?

[wise ravine]

Train just teleports to the world origin

[vital shard]

Makes sense. You're setting the location to 0,0,0
What you're doing when setting actor location is setting its actual world space location. So 'Train Speed' is not the thing you should be lerping to. You should lerp from 'TrainStartLocation' to 'TrainEndLocation'

[robust mural]

Hey guys, I have 2 widgets, and I try to get the canvas size using the node get size, from one widget its working fine, and returns the size correctly, but the other widget, its not returning any value

[wise ravine]

So how would I do that?

[vital shard]

One sec, I'll mock up an example in Unreal

[merry stump]

the blueprint for the button

[wise ravine]

i think I got it working

[robust mural]

the only difference is that this widget has been setted up as variable, and the other widget I passed the get size value directly from the create widget node

[kindred galleon]

What is the alternative to branch spamming? Is there a switch for boolean or do I have to go extra steps on making an enum?

[maiden wadi]

Branch is a switch for bool. It only has two states.

[kindred galleon]

like solution for this

[merry stump]

the bp for the button

[steel star]

theres switch too

also you can make multiple branches a single library function call

and just write it out, in a 100% more readable way

i mean, in C++

[kindred galleon]

💀

[maiden wadi]

There isn't really a fix for that though. They're booleans. Switches are for data types with more than two states.

[kindred galleon]

I see

[steel star]

well, there are 3 bools, make them int 0, 1, 2?

or, 1 << 0, 1 << 1, 1 << 2

[maiden wadi]

You're changing logic at that point.

[kindred galleon]

yeah exactly lol

[maiden wadi]

The point is to check one, if false, check another. If you convert the value at the start, you get a different result.

[kindred galleon]

Just wanted to figure out if there was something like a switch for bool

How many branches are too many

[steel star]

i mean it only executes 1 of 3 paths

you can switch an int, which you make imediately prior

its two nodes total still

[kindred galleon]

yes

[steel star]

just offering an alternative it doesnt have to change the logic

[robust mural]

guys Im trying to get the size of a widget but it returns no value

[maiden wadi]

Where are you calling it and what function?

[robust mural]

its a widget variable object reference

from my second widget it works fine

[steel star]

what are those small blue nodes? is that cosmetic?

is that what redirect nodes are for?

[maiden wadi]

The reroutes you mean?

[vital shard]

In case you are still having issues, here's an example. I am Lerping one vector to another. The StartLocation to EndLocation.

Since you seem not super familiar with blueprint yet it may be easier for you to use a LevelSequence to set up the movement of your train and then just play a level sequence from blueprint. As an alternative (more visual workflow) option.

[steel star]

ok yea those, didnt know the purpose thanks

[vital shard]

Woops typo in my comment box. 500 units further in X rather than 100.

[lusty sphinx]

Not too sure what you are trying to do with that event, but you can also use enums or gameplay tags, and use a switch on enums/gameplay tags.

[kindred galleon]

yeh didnt want to do that, but i guess thats the only way 😮

[steel star]

Ok so i think i still am missing one fundamental part of UE here. I have a C++ UObject derived type that i intend to use like a material/materialinstance: it defines the properties that exist, next i define blueprint classes that derive from it, setting specific (and permanent) values for those properties.

But first, is instance the right terminology here as it seems to be used in some cases but not others. Like there doesnt appear to BE blueprint class instances.

Then, I have some type that has a property i want to assign live (well, via blueprints) to one of those specific blueprint instances but here is the conundrum: if i make the property a TSoftClassPtr it lets me assign its value to any of the defined sub/inst types, great .. but what am i suppose to then DO with it when i want the actual values from that inst with none of them really -allocated-?

I THINK this is were i use classptr.Get()-ClassDefaultObj?

[vital shard]

If you were wanting to use LevelSequences instead for your trains have a look at the offical docs: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/play-cinematics-from-blueprints-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.3

[wise ravine]

ahh I see, I guess I've* seen youtubers use Timelines multiple times and I guess I never properly learnt how to use them

This should help, thank you

[vital shard]

You're welcome, good luck :D

[lusty sphinx]

Looking at how you are branching those bools, it will completely ignore the second and third bool true branches if the first one is true. Not sure if this is the intended effect you were going for, or if you know that only one of those bools will be true.

[steel star]

it was, its a classic if/elseif/elseif

[kindred galleon]

intended 👍

[steel star]

Edit: TSubclassOf actually

I wish there was a way of toggling 'disabled' on a selection of assets, to dereference them everywhere and hide them from the ui (other than the content browser) without me having to literally delete files then not lose them if later wanted.

[wise ravine]

How do I change the speed of the animation?

[vital shard]

@kindred galleon Probably not too applicable to what you're doing but might be useful to do something like this sometimes. Though normally I always go for enums.

Don't check booleans, just plug into different execution flows? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Idk, I don't care too much about how many branches I have.

[trim matrix]

by doing simple maths

[steel star]

i assume he means the actual C++ call to do it runtime

which i do not know

[vital shard]

Are you... asking how to load the soft class pointer? I'm sorry, your question confused me a bit.

[trim matrix]

ask in C++

and you could use TSubclassOf<>

[vital shard]

You can change the duration of your Timeline

[steel star]

yea i found that tsubclassof is what i actually wanted, as far as allowing me to assign known asset types to it within the editor

and how to then actually make use of it .. ie load it, access default object, or somesuch -- indeed i suppose a C++ channel q.

[spark steppe]

you should be able to get the CDO from the class

the reason it "didn't" work with the softclassptr is because you have to load the class first

so smth like SoftClassPtr.LoadSynchronous()->GetCDO() not sure about the last method name tho, barely using the cdo at all :>

may be GetDefault<SoftClassPtr.LoadSynchronous()>() 🤷

[maiden wadi]

On the other hand. I'm curious why you need a class like MaterialInstance?

[wise ravine]

actually changing the value worked 🤷‍♂️

[steel star]

Because i want to make use of the editor to specify different named versions of the type with different property values?

Its unclear to me if material and materialinstance have a different relationship than blueprint class and .. child blueprint class though.

and why the term instance is used in some of the descriptions of UObject/UProperty/UClass flags

[wise ravine]

Reverse doesn't work for some reason

[spark steppe]

because you never started it

you most likely want reverse from end

reverse reverses it from the current position, which by default is 0

unless you played the timeline forward before

[drowsy kestrel]

Hi im trying to make a fps game and for some reason when i walk the gun isnt straight how do i fix this it makes shooting look werid.

[wise ravine]

why can't I modify any data?

[spark steppe]

because it's good practice and modifying data in there can lead to undesired results

[wise ravine]

Would this be the correct way?

[wise ravine]

How do you mean 'undesired results'? I've never worked with pure functions before so I'm curious

[spark steppe]

because when you plug the result from it into two nodes it's executed twice and may lead to different results depending on the math, etc.

[wise ravine]

Oh I think I get it

[spark steppe]

just don't do it, no one with a sane mind does it 😄

it also gives away that the node doesn't modify any variables if you follow that rule, which helps reading your own "code"/spaghetti

[wise ravine]

I don't think I've ever met a sane programmer 😂

[obtuse kraken]

Send code as-well, will help people help you.

[quasi dagger]

Yo, I'm working on setting up a Multiplayer game rn and I currently have it so that each player chooses a character, their choice being saved within their game instance, and then they choose to either create or join a session (dont quite have dedicated servers working just yet) As apart of this character selection it chooses their character model and what not. It works perfectly fine solo and sets everything accordingly, issue is that when another player tries to join their session, the second player is forced into being the same character as the local player and also has absolutely no control of their character. The output log says its a replication issue but tbh I have no idea how replication really works to understand where its going wrong, help?

[faint pasture]

Why would it be straight?

You are presumably blending into a walk animation where the gun is not held straight

[faint pasture]

How is the character choice stuff getting sent to the server?

it's probably not

[quasi dagger]

Only through the game instance, It's not necessarily being manually sent

[faint pasture]

It's not getting sent at all then

the server has no clue about the clients choices

You need to send it to the server at some point through a Run on Server Event

And on the server, there won't be just one character setup in GameInstance

there'll be one per player

[quasi dagger]

So am I wrong in thinking that everyone has their own instance? or is it just a problem of the instance not sending its information to the server?

[faint pasture]

GameInstance can work but presumably you'll eventually want to be able to save this right?

just use PlayerState and SaveGames

or PlayerController

Everyone has their own instance

But if the rule is "OK now load the character setup from GameInstance"

you only have the one character setup serverside

the server goes "sure thing" and gives you the character setup (which is the hosts)

how can the server store 2 character specs (one per player) when you only have 1 place to store it?

[quasi dagger]

Just for reference, this is the error I get when the client joins the server: "[2024.05.08-06.34.29:518][187]LogNet: Actor channel failed: [UActorChannel] Actor: BP_ThirdPersonCharacterDefault_C /Game/Maps/ThirdPersonMap.ThirdPersonMap:PersistentLevel.ChildActor_GEN_VARIABLE_BP_ThirdPersonCharacterDefault_C_CAT_0, Role: 3, RemoteRole: 1 [UChannel] ChIndex: 12, Closing: 0 [UNetConnection] RemoteAddr: EOS:000232bc0f7b4988890f565620be3e4d:GameNetDriver:26, Name: IpConnection_0, Driver: GameNetDriver NetDriverEIK_0, IsServer: YES, PC: PlayerController_1, Owner: PlayerController_1, UniqueId: EIK:e38dc7f315264da2bf0f71ebba00557d|000232bc0f7b4988890f565620be3e4d"

[faint pasture]

that doesn't matter right now, your design is fundamentally not set up for multiplayer

Start with what you for sure need, which is a way to pass the character info to the server

You can still use gameinstance, it'd just be that the playercontroller or playerstate will shuttle the data to the serverside version of itself

[quasi dagger]

Alright, so after a player chooses their character, it should do a "Run on server" function and send the player's choice to their player state?

[faint pasture]

do they choose character before or after joining?

[quasi dagger]

before

[faint pasture]

Then doing it when you choose isn't correct, there's no server when you're doing the choosing

it'd be more like this:
PlayerController.BeginPlay -> is local playercontroller? -> yes -> get GameInstance -> cast to YourGameInstance -> send info in RunOnServerEvent
Recieve Info -> spawn character -> possess

assuming beginplay of the playercontroller isn't too early, that'll work for both server and client

[quasi dagger]

how do I check if its local?

[faint pasture]

right click and type local, you'll find it

[quasi dagger]

is locally controlled?

[faint pasture]

you in the pawn or playercontroller?

[quasi dagger]

ah right whoops

[faint pasture]

The pawn doesn't exist yet, or at least shouldn't

[quasi dagger]

got it

[faint pasture]

There's other ways to do this of course, especially if you're wanting to play nice with the typical GameMode flow where it chooses your pawn and spawns it for you

but the general form is the same, you need to tell the server about any data you want it to know, and the only way to do that is through run on server events

Multiplayer is really complex, you need to constantly think about which version of the pawn, playercontroller, playerstate, actor, etc your code is running in

the main gates are HasAuthority and IsLocal or IsLocallyControlled etc

[quasi dagger]

How do I make/find a runonserver event?

[faint pasture]

for a listen server / host, it both has authority AND is local or is locally controlled

a connecting client is local but does not have authority

another clients pawn or playerstate on your machine (as a client) is neither.

make an event, mark it as run on server

[quasi dagger]

Where?

[faint pasture]

@quasi daggerhttps://cedric-neukirchen.net/docs/category/multiplayer-network-compendium/
Required reading

Replicates

You'd want this to be Run On Server and Reliable

spamming your aim direction or throttle value at the server would be Run On Server and Unreliable

The only reason anything at all is happening on the server when you do it on the client in your character is because Character and CMC already has bits of this covered in C++

[quasi dagger]

Because effectively the difference between a reliable and unreliable event is just whether or not it decides to not run it to save bandwith right? and if you want it to run it no matter what is has to be reliable, right?

[faint pasture]

or waiting for acknowledgement

TCP vs UDP

[steel star]

is there a way to include arguments to the 'triggered' event on an input action type object

[faint pasture]

not really but that's the idea

[steel star]

ideally a UObject*

[faint pasture]

might have better luck in #enhanced-input-system

[wise ravine]

The train flings off into the distance very quickly (bottom arrow) when using the pure function

And this is after setting the value to .1 (the train used to be a lot faster)

[lunar sleet]

Still having problems with your trains, Choo-Choo?

[wise ravine]

Yes 😔

[faint pasture]

Why aren't you just lerping from WhereTrainWasAtTheBeginning to WhereTrainIsGoingAtTheEnd?

[lunar sleet]

Looks like a normal subway train departure to me

[faint pasture]

Where is train shouldn't come into it

Where did train start
Where should it end up

End of story

[lunar sleet]

Don’t you mean end of the line? 🙃

[wise ravine]

Because I'm stopping the train in the middle of the station so the player can get off. So train will arrive > Stop > Wait > Depart again

[thin panther]

bear in mind a pure node gets called whenever it's referenced, so your start and end location is always changing

[faint pasture]

Just have a 2nd timeline

[wise ravine]

that is what I intended yes

[faint pasture]

or swap the 2 end points and then run the timeline again

it's still WhereItStarted to WhereIt'sGoing

[wise ravine]

yes, but the start and end values need to change, hence the function

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, changing the start and end locations during a timeline is a bad idea, speaking from xp

[faint pasture]

Show the guts of that function

[quasi dagger]

I'm still having the same issue, Just did another test and got the same result

[faint pasture]

no

[thin panther]

You shouldn't be changing the points during the lerp though?
It should be "I need to move now, calculate the points and move to them." Then recalculate on the next move

Not every, time I take a step, move further away

[quasi dagger]

I implemented the code like you said

[faint pasture]

store the location at the start

[lunar sleet]

You should read the compendium and use #multiplayer

[wise ravine]

I'm using 2 diff timelines, executed by different events

[thin panther]

Otherwise your train will never stop.
You're each frame moving between current location + value.
Rather than start and end

You can't reach the end if each frame it's where it currently is, plus some amount

https://tenor.com/view/ass-motivation-cowboy-carrot-donkey-gif-11223734

^ essentially the train

[quasi dagger]

Is this not what you said to do?

[faint pasture]

Here's what your code is literally doing.

go 0% between where you are and 500 units in front of you
go 1% between where you are and 500 units in front of you
go 2% between where you are and 500 units in front of you
go 3% between where you are and 500 units in front of you
go 4% between where you are and 500 units in front of you
go 5% between where you are and 500 units in front of you

60+ times per seconds

you're literally just zooming it off into the void

[wise ravine]

the train does stop...

[faint pasture]

Instead, it should be like this:
go 0% between where you started and where you're going
go 1% between where you started and where you're going
go 2% between where you started and where you're going
go 3% between where you started and where you're going
go 4% between where you started and where you're going
go 5% between where you started and where you're going
go 6% between where you started and where you're going

[wise ravine]

sorry I'm not understanding why this is happening with the pure functoin

[thin panther]

You've just shown it specifically not doing that

[faint pasture]

just read it out literally

[faint pasture]

#blueprint message

At the end of your timeline, you're telling it to move 500 units PER FRAME

[wise ravine]

in the video the train stops once the timeline has reached its duration

[faint pasture]

yes because you finally quit making it zoom

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/the-flash-barry-allen-run-fast-gif-6144593

[faint pasture]

but your setup is completely wrong. Just change the 2 points you're interpolating between from
Where you are to 500 units in front
to
Where you STARTED to WHERE YOU WANT TO END UP

Once you're moving, you aren't where you started

[wise ravine]

Okay I'm starting to see your point, my question Is how can I set a new value for the start and end position when I'm executing the 2nd departure

[faint pasture]

Enter -> save current position -> calculate ending position -> enter timeline

[thin panther]

because every time that yellow pin is referenced the pure function is called again.
so one frame you're saying. Move me between my current location, and some amount in front.
and then next frame, you're saying Move me between my current location and some amount in front.

it's never got an end to reach, because while the timeline is running, the end moves further away. Hence the carrot and the stick

[wise ravine]

I see

Would this work instead?

[thin panther]

https://tryitands.ee

[trim matrix]

bro can't lol

[thin panther]

it's my new favourite link tbh

shamelessly stolen from someone else here, no idea who though

[wise ravine]

it does work

🙏 thank you all

[wise ravine]

probably @lofty rapids

they've posted it 4 times

[thin panther]

That name rings a bell with that link

Yeah, must have been engage

[trim matrix]

#ue5-general help

[spark steppe]

is there a node like the gate, but which requires 2 exec inputs to fire before the exit node activates?

[thin panther]

come on, you've been here long enough to know not to do stuff like this

[spark steppe]

as i have some action which relies on two events to be completed, then it should do smth, but the order in which the events fire isn't predetermined

[trim matrix]

this is a big problem tho

[thin panther]

Not big enough to break the rules, or try and summon multiple helpers at your beck and call

[wise ravine]

?

[spark steppe]

nah

[wise ravine]

why not?

[spark steppe]

because that's 3 nodes

and 2 variables

[thin panther]

https://landelare.github.io/2022/04/29/reverse-flip-flop.html
Do you mean like this?

Or something that's kinda asynchronous, that waits for both to complete

[spark steppe]

no

i'll show you in a minute

[thin panther]

ah gotcha

yeah, I'm not aware of anything like that built in.

[spark steppe]

well now it's too late anyways 😄

[sinful hinge]

Hey everyone! Any ideas why my reference is considered invalid? I don't have any error on compilation, the door blueprint is good, and when I check through the Is Visible node, it's valid, but when it's the reference, it doesn't work... Am I missing something here?

[runic coyote]

Is there a recommended section to ask a control rig related question? I'm struggling to get two separate characters (which are children from the same c++ class) with two different skeletal meshes to have the same behavior.

Long story short one of my rigs and meshes is able to follow a point in space with their hand, but the other simply... Doesn't point the right direction.. Despite virtually all elements being the same besides the specific mesh and skeleton used

Dragging my control point around in the control rig editor works just fine but in game it's toast

Sorry for the long comment

[dawn gazelle]

Because your "Door Reference" doesn't contain a reference to an actual spawned door. You probably just created a variable, set the type as "BP Door" hoping that it'll communicate with your Door blueprint, but that's not how it works.

The blue references like this can be thought of as a container. You can set the type of thing that can go in them, but they'll be empty until you set their value.

[sinful hinge]

That's exactly what I did ^^' So, I need to find a way to get the spawned door, and set it as a value for my reference ? And only then, I plug that to my Is Valid and the Control Door at the end?

I see, haven't dealt with spawned objects yet, so it should be fun to figure it out haha Thank you !

[lunar sleet]

#animation but control rig is tricky, you might not get a lot of responses

[runic coyote]

Thanks!

[indigo dome]

/Sttream

[trim matrix]

wut

[indigo dome]

i miss clicked lol my bad

[faint violet]

thanks for the help, got it working

[valid solstice]

quick question what node is this?

[junior quest]

could someone point me to why the arrows arent showing up ? Im not really sure what to check

[cursive vessel]

I'm trying to connect to a MySQL server using this plugin. https://github.com/darkgoogle/MysqlDBUnrealengine4.26

Is something wrong with my blueprint? It keeps ssaying connection is invalid

I'm able to connect normally to my MySQL database from other avenues but unable to do it from UE5

[marble tusk]

Just a Vector variable getter. They right click -> split the pin

[deep lagoon]

Need some help with AI Pawn/ AI controller movement

How can i hard stop a pawns movement to play an animation

I have a character going from a dead sprint to an animation of hitting a wall

i have the detection and triggering all set
but the character stopping is too inconsistent

[lunar sleet]

StopMovement and if you want smooth stop, enable acceleration and deceleration for paths in the CMC . Also we have #gameplay-ai

[dawn gazelle]

There is technically nothing wrong with your blueprint, but this blueprint is calling a Macro that isn't something included with Unreal. This makes it unlikley you'll find anyone here that could help you with this. If you created this Macro, then you should include the innards of it for others to dissect.

[dim halo]

If I split getforwardvector and then multiple the individual float values by a certain number, will the length differ depending on where the actor is looking:

[surreal peak]

If the individual numbers are different, yes

[dim halo]

the individual numbers would be the same

[surreal peak]

Why even multiplying them one by one then

[dim halo]

i was doing this bc i specifically want the x and the y but not the z

[surreal peak]

You can normalize the forward vector to 2d

And then you ignore the Z

[dim halo]

i see

is there a specific reason that this would be preferable or is it just simply that its less work and less complex

[surreal peak]

If your forward vector is 100% in the X Y plane, then you can also just ignore Z and multiply the whole Vector. But if it can point up or down, even slightly, then multiplying only X and Y is incorrect cause those aren't normalized to length 1

[dim halo]

i see

well you can point up and downw so thats definitely the problem

[surreal peak]

It's probably good to imagine the Vector like a 1 meter long stick on the floor. If it's flat on the floor and you multiply it by 2 it will be 2 meter long.

If you however lift the stick on one end and only multiply the part that makes up the floor plane, so x and y, the result will be less than 2 meters.

[dim halo]

so in my example would, if iget the actor location and then i would have to break it and ignore the z when adding to vector that is normalized 2d, so that the z is always 0

[surreal peak]

If you normalize the vector to 2d you can just multiply it

Don't need to break it

Cause z will be 0

[dim halo]

sorry, bc im also getting the actor location i think it would have to add the actor location to the normalized forward vector

I could be wrong and confused but wouldnt it have to look something like this

[surreal peak]

You can change the multiply node to just be a vector x float

Right click menu on the second pin lets you select that

[dim halo]

thank you

[surreal peak]

Rest seems fine if your intention is to spawn the actor at Z = 0

[dim halo]

i wasnt familiar with the normalize 2d node, so i think thats where the confusion came in

[dim halo]

yeah

the normalize to 2d vector is a great help

thank you very much for all the help

[graceful rampart]

I am applying PointDamage to my actor using ApplyPointDamage node but its returning 0 (Zero) damage does anyone has idea why it is happening like this?

Please ping me when reply.

[lunar sleet]

Show code

[somber dust]

A relatively large BP is referencing Utils Library BP_HelperFunctions. Is there any trick to find where it's referencing the helper functions? Like the node themselves?

[maiden wadi]

Kinda sounds like you're recreating DataAssets. Unsure though.

[maiden wadi]

Not sure if there's anything new recently. I always just did this by hand by searching the Library's function names inside of the BP. Super annoying, but eh.

[somber dust]

Thanks, ended up duplicating the project, nuking the whole BP_HelperFunc and looking at the error list. Quick but insanly dirty solution

[graceful rampart]

I am using this node and the value that I get is always zero

[maiden wadi]

Lol. 😂 That's one way. I'll have to remember that. Source control makes that an easy check.

[somber dust]

Yeah, I am just trying to fix some asset pack from marketplace that is a spaghetti monster, so I didn't even bother with sc.

[lament nacelle]

Hi, has anyone encounter issues in Packed Level Actor BP in ue5.4 which worked fine in ue5.2?

[somber dust]

What issues?

[lament nacelle]

i have set up some remove ISM instance in the PLA BP construction script, now in a particular PLA BP, it does not work

but in some other PLA BP, it works

while the return bool value of the Remove Instance shows success, the instance is actually not removed

[lunar sleet]

You see where it says base damage?

[graceful rampart]

I have appiled 50 value after that the return value is zero

[lunar sleet]

Show actually connected nodes

Also have you tried ApplyDamage or do you strictly need this point one

[steady night]

hey im trying to change the parent socket location

this thing is the attach actor to component wont work since the target & paren are already together... so it wont fire

ideas?

[bitter otter]

Hello, i am trying to add multiplayer to my game, however the client player seems to be stuffing up when compared to the server player, for example. Instead of scaling to be 10 times bigger, its much more. Another being, when i press the sprint input, it doesn't sprint.

Any help? 👍

[graceful rampart]

Hello, Does anyone know how to stop third person character pushing the choas vehicle? I want that character should not able to push the car.

[graceful rampart]

Here is the video of the scenario I am talking about

[dusty monolith]

how would i make a UI that you can switch through like that with arrow keys?

[maiden wadi]

In BP only you would need to handle the button classes to override OnFocusReceived/Lost, and do the same Hover/Unhover stuff.

[dusty monolith]

that would make it so i can navigate through it with the arrow keys?

[maiden wadi]

You can already navigate with arrow keys. Turn on...

Uh. I think In project settings it's called Render Focus Rule? Set that to Always.

You can see what is currently focused. If you open a menu and a button is focused, your arrow keys should already shift focus to other elements.

[young meteor]

Just spent a bunch of time finding out why my "Target" variable is not valid when I need it, because it is valid just a moment before.
Turns out I have a duplicate somehow. No wonder things are weird.
Any specific way I would have done this so I can avoid it in the future?

[plucky ice]

Quick question this morning; I am trying to use the GameInstance to store my variables persistently between level reloads and have some logic implemented to update these gameinstance variables at the end of certain events within my blueprints. I don't think I'm using this correctly though, since when I try to print the gameinstance variable "total trial count" at the start of each level it reads as zero no matter how many levels have been played. I think this has to do with the timing of how the gameinstance gets updated (once per "clicking play button") but I am not sure.

Image 1: logic within starcontroller blueprint that checks whether a star is destroyed and if it is, determines if it was the correct star or not then reloads the level. identically updates gameinstance variable at the end of each branch with trial count.
Image 2: Beginning of level logic where the GI variable should be printed and level specific variables should be updated using the values from the game instance
Image 3: Logic incrementing the game instance variables based on which trial type has been selected.

The goal is to be able to make sure I get 3 (or whatever number) of each trial type I specify by checking these level-specific variables which should update from the gameinstance and that I can stop the progression of new levels if the totaltrialcount equals some target number of trials - I'd put this logic in the spot where it opens a new level.

Thank you!

[lofty rapids]

well you update after you open level ? you may want to open level last

[plucky ice]

The way I have it laid out here I was thinking it would update as the last thing that it does before it opens a new level, does that not make sense?

[lofty rapids]

it doesn't because you load the level before you update the values

i would think it doesn't even get to the set if you load a new level

[dark drum]

You would need to learn about widget focus. Whilst Authaer mentioned OnFocusRecieced/Lost, I personally get better results with 'On Added to Focus Path' and 'On Removed from Focus Path' but it can be a bit confusing if you don't understand how the widget focus system works.

Either way should work though. This is an example of a button widget. Also, if you want to navigation to wrap so if you're on the bottom button and press down and want it to go back to the top, you'll need to setup the 'Navigation' rules on the thing that contains the buttons widgets (such as a vertical box).

There's is a #umg section if you need specifics.