blueprint

[thin panther]

Calculating the differenceand halving it is a good way of doing it

connect those x and y pins though from your current location

you want to xeep the x and y the same, in this example if the cube is not at 0 on the x and y, it will leap to there

[faint pasture]

collision

the thing is colliding with your capsule

[tropic peak]

yeah I disabled it and it works, kind of. However I started to think that my approach is probably not the best, do you think I should keep the "pick up" "put down" mechanics for items in game world on the BP_Player rather than parent of BP_InteractableIIems?

[wild crater]

@limber parcel when I read about navigation invokers online it's being said they perform worse and cause more bugs. I'm open to trying it but I feel like it should just be possible to get the full nav mesh when the level starts though... Seems weird that that would be impossible.

[faint pasture]

Yeah I think the thing doing the grabbing should handle grabbing.

[limber parcel]

did you make sure the whole level is covered by nav volume?

[wild crater]

Yea absolutely

[tropic peak]

my thoughts exactly yeah.. I'm trying to have these as separate functions. pick up, put down, destroy. I'm trying to figure out how to get a reference to the object in game world that I want to interact with and it's a little tricky.

[wild crater]

When I simulate it, the generation seems to either start from the center or the player. So it kind of looks similar to invokers. But I would expect just the whole nav mesh to generate at the start.

We've played with some settings with mixed results. But never something that always works on every map

[limber parcel]

i was having similar issues, the nav mesh always generates fresh instead of saving, so i just used nav invokers

but yeah, the invokers arent an optimal solution either

it lags a lot

but i think someone said it lags less in standalone mode

[wild crater]

Okay. When we were testing before with the normal settings it also looked like the generation starts from the player and maybe the center. I would expect it to just process the whole things. It kind of looks like invokers but that it just has the 1 or 2. Is this normal do you think?

I actually never expected to have issues with something like this in a game that has arena sized maps with max 16 agents or something like that.

[limber parcel]

did you forget turning off generating nav from invokers?

[wild crater]

The global setting you mean? No it was off, and I don't think there were any invokers on anything. Unless without us knowing there are some built in

[limber parcel]

not sure, but i think player gets an invoker by default or something

[wild crater]

Okay that's kind of what it looks like

I wonder though what the actual difference is. Because the setting is called "Generate Navigation Only Around Navigation Invokers". So I guess in a normal situation it uses them still, but there's also something else affecting the generation?

[latent saddle]

Does anyone know how "Read only" interfaces work and what i should do in order to edit again?

[tropic peak]

If I want to access BP_Player from a function within BP_Player do I still need to cast to BP_Player?

[thin panther]

no a cast is a type check. "Is this other thing I'm accessing of this more specific type"

If you're inside that object already, then this is implied, so no cast or object reference is needed

[tropic peak]

:/

[somber elbow]

@thin panther Im almost there and it works almost fine, but in the beginning of the game cube performs weird teleportation

[thin panther]

I agree with your assessment there, that would be the first thing I'm looking at too.

An easy way around this would be to only start moving it after the first jump has been made.

In fact, typically games like this only ascend the clouds when a new height is reached.

You may want to simply compare if the cube's z height is greater than the cat's, and if so, don't do anything

[somber elbow]

@thin panther

[thin panther]

Ok, that teleporting also makes sense. In this case I'd consider clamping the output to be no less than the current z value of the cloud

Meaning the cloud will only ever move up

[somber elbow]

hmm

[thin panther]

There is another alternative if you like

Attach the cloud to the character with a spring arm :P

Depends how you want to go about this

[somber elbow]

nah

i have 3 levels of background

and each level should move slower than previous one to get that background parallax effect

I also think I shouldnt cast to character but to camera

because when the camera follows the character the clouds should go lower

downwards

[thin panther]

I'd assume the character isn't moving at all, the platforms are in a game like this, so you could play infinitely

But yeah, if that's how you want it to appear, go for that one

It's possible I'm misinterpreting what you want these clouds to be

[somber elbow]

no you are right

[tropic peak]

Can I connect "Get Overlapping Actors" to event tick or that's bad practice?

[frosty heron]

profile, but that aside why do you need to do it on tick?

why can't you just check everytime the actor overlap something?

[tropic peak]

I'm trying to come up with an interaction system which is based on picking up / putting down items and using them in various "workbenches". I think my solution is pretty bad because it refreshes the array of "what it collides with" whenever I press the interaction button, and it's causing issues. I'm trying to figure o ut how to do this properly. My code is here: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/sj_6-dca/

and yeah it probably doesn't make much sense, I'm pretty new to this.

i could put it onoverlap. I mean working the array..

[dawn gazelle]

I think what most of your issue is, is that you're working with the entire array at once. So you press that interact key and several things end up happening if there are multiple "Interactable" objects around you.

Which probably looks kind of strange too.

[tropic peak]

yeah I thought of a .. thing. to detect what's in front and interact with it

[dawn gazelle]

That's what a trace would be for.
You'd also probably want a variable that contains what the player is holding.

[tropic peak]

and yeah traces would probably work best but it's still a bit confusing for me

[dawn gazelle]

So the flow would be more along the lines of....
Interact > PlayerHeldObject IsValid? TRUE > Put Down
PlayerHeldObject IsValid? FALSE> Trace (We'll get into this in a second) > Object is Pickable? TRUE > Pick Up FALSE > Interact

The trace would normally be something like a small radius sphere trace from the camera's location to a distance from the forward vector of the camera that is looking for specific objects. The hit object is the one that you're basically looking at.

[tropic peak]

the camera is isometric so I probably would want to shoot the traces from the player character

the player is rotating, the camera is not

for starters I need to remove the "Get overlapping actors" from an interaction button, detect them better (rather than capsule) and then figure out how to not get things messy while working with what's in the array

[nocturne fossil]

why doesnt thuis work xd

[dawn gazelle]

Ok based on that then you may be on the right path to begin with using overlaps.
Interact > PlayerheldObject IsValid? TRUE > Put Down
PlayerheldObject IsValid? FALSE > Get Overlapping Actors (Only index 0) > is Pickable TRUE > pick up FALSE > interact

Now the problem is that if you want your player to be able to interact with objects that you can't pick up without having to drop what they're holding. To fix this, you'd have to turn off the collisions of the player held item so it no longer registers with your overlapping actors while it is in their hand, and turn their collisions back on when they've dropped it, then you can do something like this....

Interact > GetOverlappingActors (0) > Is Pickable FALSE > Interact
is Pickable TRUE > PlayerheldObject IsValid? TRUE > Put Down FALSE > Pick up

Now the next problem you'd have is when there are several items in one place, but there's not much you can do about this other than moving the things around so they are no longer stacked.

[tropic peak]

Basically I'm trying to set up a system that sort of works like cooking in plateup/overcooked. A simplified one really. I have an interface made for interactions and every "item" in the game is a child of the main BP_InteractableObject. These can be ingredients as well as "workbenches", like an oven. If item is not pickable it should go straight to the "OnInteract" node which transfers the "signal" straight to the BP of a certain workbench where this workplace speciffic code is executed and that kinda works. However the array is populated only when "E" is pressed so when I'm holding something and I go towards a trashcan I need to press "E" for my BP's to register that there's something in front of the player, rather than detecting it all the time without any player input.

[trail kestrel]

Guys I've been stuck on this tutorial for like 2 weeks:

https://youtu.be/LG2fSYoyQko?si=4bsvZf95NpMtTnme

For whatever reason he does everything i have it set but I can't press the harvest. He is picking something I think which let's him start/pick up harvest but I can't find the blueprints in his videos on how he clicks on the crops, can someone explain thanks

[tropic peak]

But yes this is a super early iteration and I already had to re-work this twice so there's probably a lot of issues and reworks ahead.. I'm thinking about

Adding an array that's populated on "detection rod" overlapping with item in front of the player, but I'm worried that holding all this info in an Array wouldn't necessary work as I'd like it to due to multiplie array entries being possible

I gotta run and pick up the kids from kindergarten but I see you're typing something @dawn gazelle so I'll read it as soon as I get back. Appreciate your help, thank you

[dawn gazelle]

What I've described should do what you're hoping for.
Since you're accessing only index 0 of the "Get Overlapping Actors" array, then you'll only be interacting with 1 object at a time which is exactly how overcooked works. If you have too many things near each other, you have to first pick up whatever the game thinks you need to pick up and toss it then pick up the other thing near by.
I'd avoid using a "rod" as it's probably not the best way to really detect what the character may be wanting to interact with and requires a lot of precision. A box in front of the player should suffice as that can also cover things that are on a counter or on the floor for example.

It's not that you'd be so much holding all this information in an array, you're only using the "Get Overlapping Actors" array and getting the first index of it. The only thing you'd be storing is if there is an item being held by the character which wouldn't need to be an array.

[dawn gazelle]

All anyone could suggest is go over the videos again, otherwise it's just going to be people guessing what may be wrong. This creator also has their own Discord that may be able to help you.
Only guess I have is that you may not have the collision setting right if you're just trying to walk over top of them to pick them up.

[wary leaf]

Any tips to make this auto-aim type work ? I'm not sure how to use dot products especially on the Right vector... (ping me)

[faint pasture]

Start with cooking up an AimPoint

that's the location in the world you are wanting to aim at

then the gun rotation can be driven by LookAtRotation from GunLocation to AimPoint

[muted otter]

hi! I have in C++ created a BlueprintNativeEvent function on an Interface. In the C++ code I have an _Implementation to define a basic PickUp with a default behaviour. in the Blueprint, I'm trying to add the interface but when I try to pick up the item the interface function doesn't anything, unlike with C++. anyone knows how can I fix it? or what I'm doing wrong

here's how I added it

[umbral ore]

Hey all, I am using the Glow Path blueprint (found on marketplace) and the functionality is great. It is built using a spline but the one thing I am having trouble with is that I want to rotate (transform) the overall spline once it is complete and need to use the sequencer to do so. I am quite sure this needs to be fixed in the blueprint itself, but I am not familiar enough with the depth of blueprints to know how or where to make the necessary changes. Any help would be appreciated!

(can provide more screenshots if necessary, thank you!)

[dawn gazelle]

Interfaces in blueprint don't usually have a default implementation. If you're declaring that a blueprint implments that interface, then the blueprint ends up having its own implementation. I'm not sure if a default implementation for an interface works within C++, but if so, then you may want to implement that interface in a C++ class and not override it in blueprint.

[muted otter]

okey, thanks :)

[latent saddle]

Does anyone know what this means? i dont think i have added LOD's myself

[dawn gazelle]

It means the "Mesh" from your GET there is an "Interchange Static Mesh Lod Data Node" object but the input on the "Set Mesh" is looking for a "Static Mesh" object.

[latent saddle]

How do i change my interchange to work with it?

[dawn gazelle]

Not sure you can. That doesn't sound like a static mesh object at all.

Are you the one that created this structure?

[latent saddle]

The meshes and textures where imported but the tutorial i am following is using exactly the same

and i've rewatched the episode 3 times to check for anything i did different

It was made for unreal 4 for what i know of but i've seen people comment about it working fro ue5 aswell

i'm an artist myself so i only touched shaders its all quite new to me

i dont know whether some nodes changed

this is also where the issue occured https://youtu.be/LfjYLFHrokM?t=410

[astral wyvern]

Anyone got a resource to learn about physics related to Unreal?

Like how to properly apply torque, using vectors, etc?

[dawn gazelle]

You didn't select the right option for the variable input on the interface.

And the same goes here if this was a structure you created.

"Static Mesh" is different from "Static Mesh Lod Data Node"

And you want "Static Mesh"

[wheat zodiac]

Anyone have any idea why my blueprint interface implementations reset when I close Unreal and reopen it? It just resets to a default impl (no code)

[latent saddle]

Thanks so much i dont know how i overlooked that but it did fix the issue!

[maiden heath]

A question, I intend to ensure that my character's skeletal mesh does not overlap with his own skeletal mesh (e.g. the arm does not enter the chest), how can I do it? Because I tried giving colliders and it doesn't work.

[heady burrow]

I changed the standard pawn in my game mode for a newly created one, do I need to possess it manually? I see the camera interaction is gone

[lofty rapids]

if you set it in the override it should auto possess it, is your camera moving at all ?

are you using a camera on the pawn, or some sort of camera manager ?

[heady burrow]

no, whatever it comes with default

[heady burrow]

where is this auto-possess setting located?

[somber elbow]

@lofty rapids Hey man!

Could you please help?

[lofty rapids]

maybe, if you just post maybe someone can help

[lofty rapids]

so you want a camera on the pawn it doesn't auto come with one i think, but it's the game mode override in world settings

if you set the game mode to your game mode bp, then you set the default pawn

[fringe hound]

When capturing a photo of a scene using the scene capture component, our shadows seem to either be non-existent or just broken. Has anyone encountered this issue before?

[wary leaf]

This is what I've done — the red arrow folowing the player is the reverse of that.

Problem is, the rotation info sent to the hand/weapon point has to be in a -45 to 45(degrees) range at all angles (and what's being sent with Look At rotation is -180 to 180). I try to use dot product to remedy that where - 0.75 to 0.75 (I think ) would be -45 to 45, but I think the target has to rotate towards the player so that dot product would be constant. It's quite a mess atm. Not sure what vector I should use.

[lofty rapids]

what exactly is the problem ? what is it supposed to do, and what is it doing ?

i see some posts that you made maybe bump the most relevant ?

[somber elbow]

@lofty rapids im trying to upload

Maybe I'm doing it all wrong and I need to do it differently.

[dawn gazelle]

I'd get rid of all the branches - just have it always adjust its position based on where the character is. The clamp at the end would be useless too.

[somber elbow]

the branches let the box move only if the character moves up

[dawn gazelle]

Seems like you need it more based on the camera position then.

[somber elbow]

yeah i can make it based on the camera

but the camera behavior was based on character behavior

[lofty rapids]

it looks like because your math if you are at the actor location or close to it, it will be 0. something on the z

[dawn gazelle]

Yea I getcha. The clamp at the end won't work how you're hoping though as the value being input would always be the MAX value as that is what you're inputting for the value and the MAX, so it doesn't do anything for you.

[somber elbow]

yeah but it will cut lower z values and will prevent the box from moving down

[somber elbow]

Doesn't it mean the world coordinates?

[dawn gazelle]

To avoid the teleportation during gameplay waiting for the player to bounce for the first time, have it execute a movement immediately on begin play that adjusts itself to the correct position the one time.

[somber elbow]

the box in the scene is at -600 z , why it moves it to 0 then?

[astral wyvern]

Can someone give me some guideance on this? I'm new to Unreal, but I have an actor that's just a cylinder that the player will control. When the cylinder is laying flag on the ground (horizontally) I want to be able to make it stand up.

[lofty rapids]

well you get the player z, and subtract the box z , it will be really small and something around 0

i think thats why it teleports to 0,0,0 it actually interps

[somber elbow]

aaahhh

so is th3e only solution here to wait while the character reach 000 and only then let the box follow the player?

i mean how the first bouncing will solve that?

[lofty rapids]

so you want a parallax effect ?

[somber elbow]

yeah

[lofty rapids]

the clouds each have there own position ?

[somber elbow]

these clouds on the background (which is a separate blueprint) should move up to compensate characters jumping

yeah here is my clouds bp which generate clouds in this volume in random points

[lofty rapids]

how i have done parallax in the past, is just offset them based on where you are

you generate these clouds on the fly ?

like the level isn't prebuilt right ?

if it's in sections then you can offset them based on your height from section zero position

so they would move up and down depending on your height

[somber elbow]

yeah

i have started with the offset but wasnt able to manage it

i need this guy tright?

[lofty rapids]

i don't think so

by offset i just mean the numbers

something like cloud.z += (player z - section start z) / someScale

or -= not +

i'm not the best with maths

but just set the actor to its original starts position - the offset

not sure if it's the best way but its a way

they would be offset depending on where you were

someScale would be like your speed

[somber elbow]

im trying to understand it

[lofty rapids]

so when the player moves the clouds should move at the same time is the idea right ?

just at a different speed

[somber elbow]

yep

thats how i started

i was able to derive players speed through get velocity

but wasn able to plug somehow that idea into cloud bp

[lofty rapids]

if you make the position relative to the players position it will scroll

store the starting position in a variable

and offset the players position

so just add the players z to the cloud

this won't be great because you want to scale that down

but it will make it parallax your clouds will just be fk'd in there position

if you the actual section start, and the player z, then you have a smaller number that you can move each cloud in that section that amount

[somber elbow]

@lofty rapids

thats how i store characters location in the variable of the cloud BP

nah

now all the clouds teleported to the same location as the player

i should somehow say that cloud location = current location + (difference of player new location - player old location)

the bummer for me here is i dont know how in the same event tick i should get that difference between where the player is and where it was in the same moment . Its looks like endless cicle.

[lofty rapids]

there is more to it

but just as a base for how to move with the player

they will all be in sync and scroll

[dawn gazelle]

From what I understood, it's not so much about the player's location, it's more based on the camera location, but yea, engage's math should work for that as well, just change out character Location for the camera's location.

[subtle quarry]

anyone else had issues with triggerboxes randomly turning solid

[celest oar]

I have a bunch of saved widgets in my save game, those saved widgets are "nodes" for a skill tree, when i open the game i want my skill tree to be the same as when i closed it, wahts the best way to compare the saved widget nodes with the ones that are already in game so that i can turn them on and off? just get the name?

[somber elbow]

@lofty rapids

Right now it looks like clouds just go in the opposite direction of the character

[lofty rapids]

so there is more to it

but ya your right hmm

[subtle quarry]

nvm it was another issue

[somber elbow]

yeah i will polish it. I think the clouds should go up only if the camera goes up. and it should cross 0.5 of the distance that camera covers

[lofty rapids]

i was just showing you a basic way to get it synced with movement

theres other ways

[maiden wadi]

Could make it a lot more performant without an entire actor and tick. A simple plane in the background with some materials moved via the camera's Z would be a lot better.

[trim matrix]

idk I would just give gravity the player (for jumping), and let the tiles go down

[somber elbow]

You mean texture scrollingh via uvs?

[maiden wadi]

Yeah

[somber elbow]

i have a set of planes with transparency and prebaked textures

[tepid meteor]

Hi guys, let's say I have an animation sequence and I want to set output pose based on normalized time from this sequence, how can I do that? I saw something about blendings between two animations, but in my case I just want to control pose using variable [0-1]

[somber elbow]

@lofty rapids Im not able to get proper result. Can i somehow just get camera velocity, store it and add 0.5 of that velocity to the clouds every tick?

[lofty rapids]

you want it only when your going up ? do you want it set to a max amount where going down then up dowsn't do it again untill you hit the height that you have already been to ?

[somber elbow]

no

[lofty rapids]

maybe even something for #game-math ?

[somber elbow]

i want the clouds go up whenever the camera goes down, but it should cross half of the distance the camera goes

[lofty rapids]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/6rh2adqz/

heres a way that you can reduce the speed of the scrolling

https://streamable.com/13y4hs

[somber elbow]

Let me try

@lofty rapids what is As BP player?

i mean is it kinda object reference variable?

[lofty rapids]

i got the character and casted to the player then promoted to variable on beginplay

instead of casting each time, i just prefer to do that

[somber elbow]

Just not sure what i should plug in ther

[lofty rapids]

its a reference to you character to get the camera, idk maybe your camera is differet

you need the camera reference

so i got the player reference and grabbed the camera from that

but i got the camera and got it's world location

[somber elbow]

so i stored my camera world location in my third person BP can i use that instead

?

[lofty rapids]

sure since you update it on tick ig you can use that idk how it will work compared to just getting the location

it's actually a difficult thing to do i'm just trying different things i'm still new to unreal in a way even though i been using it a lot and figured a bunch out, i have not really done a lot with it

[somber elbow]

man

it's working exactly the way it's supposed to.

you are the genius

@lofty rapids

[lofty rapids]

as long as you just keep loaded the sections your on

do you unload bottom sections ?

because all the ticks will build up as you go

[somber elbow]

what do you mean?

it just works perfectly

[lofty rapids]

well of course it does but i'm saying you should look into like mentioned

making it more performant

and one way would be to remove the sections below so there ticks shut off

[somber elbow]

ah

yeah

i have a collision box wich destroys everything below it

just have not applied it to these clouds

but yeah overall i have one

[lofty rapids]

that should be fine then a few on tick

i do a bunch on tick

but performance is always good to look at like the mentioned texture stuff i have no idea how to do that but it's probably better performance

[somber elbow]

yeah i know, i just had no idea how to make spawning random clouds from set of clouds with only materials

[lofty rapids]

a few on tick should be fine

[somber elbow]

that node "set actor location", is there any way to make that transition smoother?

Maybe with lerp and time line?

[lofty rapids]

possibly finterp

with finterp you can go from currentz, to destination z

with a smooth transition

maybe lerp i have only used it a couple times latent stuff is still hard for me to understand

[radiant bear]

So i have setup 2 chorded inputs one with C and LMB and other with B and LMB when i do the C+LMB only the HeavyAttack input action is triggered but when i do the B+LMB both the LMB Action and the HeavyAttackTest Action is triggered despiteall the input action having same settings any idea why that is or am i missing something here?

[pulsar vigil]

hey guys im using a set leader pose component and slave mesh are hiding or culling even if i see them on screen sometimes if camera is a little bit too close or depending of the origin point of the mesh i guess i dont realy know but how do i tweak that ?

I found it u need to toggle use parent bound on every slave mesh and main one

[inner tundra]

hello, looking for a bit off help. im pretty new to blueprints im currently trying to make physics based slide but while following my tutorial this it the msg i get

any idea on a fix

[meager acorn]

Idk why, but i have problem with Infinite loop detected

[kind estuary]

How can i set the text with different color? I think i saw something about this before. Where the text in the format text node could change color

[kind estuary]

this is rich text format it seems

[manic vessel]

Can Anyone tell me if this is possible, When I lerp a transfrom like so its all good, but i tried to lerp a constraint ref frame after the constrain is set, but It does not seem to work when i try to lerp it ? am I barking up the wrong tree

[frosty heron]

Yes if you want to change color, add emoji, etc

[inner tundra]

you able to help with my issue?

[frosty heron]

You are trying to compare the byte there

From new movement state, drag and type != then post screen shoot of the option

[frosty heron]

Not equal (enum)

Try that

[inner tundra]

omg thank you, sorry mate i was following a ue4 tut he didnt do that aha

[frosty heron]

Shouldn't be using multicast for something stateful anyway

[frosty heron]

He must have done it, otherwise it cannot be plugged in.

Gl with the system.

[inner tundra]

probs the dyslexia then, anyways ima stay on the grind. cheers pal

[frosty heron]

Enumeration is just a named integer

Useful to describe states

[inner tundra]

yeah im learning as i go. picking it up. reps will help

[frosty heron]

Show some picture for visual, what you said is hard to picture.

If you are talking about clipping, might want to edit the near plane setting

[trim matrix]

Anyone know how to turn that off

I've pressed something and now when I type it appears in red text in editor

[next hollow]

Last I recall its some random keybind, but it usually auto stops once you stop typing, or use your mouse again.
I trigger it when typing randomly.

[trim matrix]

it's bit anooying tbf haha

any ideas anyone it seems there not alot on internet for it

[raw spindle]

is there a way to track down a warning in blueprint? it only gives me:
LogScript: Script Msg called by: FlyingPawn_C /Game/UEDPIE_0_BaseMap.BaseMap:PersistentLevel.FlyingPawn_C_UAID_00155D33ED79F4F401_1256425767
LogScript: Script Msg: Attempt to take Sqrt() of negative number - returning 0.

but I have a lot of math in my blueprint and I can't seem to tell which node is causing the issue.

[next hollow]

Since its a warning, no.
Would need to add print strings to all square root nodes.

[raw spindle]

that's... unfortunate

especially since they are embedded in math expression nodes

is there a way to suppress the warning on an individual math exp node? I actually want the default sqrt(negative)=0 behavior in this case

[next hollow]

Not that I know of.

[faint pasture]

how many distance checks are you doing?

you can't have that many sqrt nodes in your BP, just look at them

[raw spindle]

uhhh

this one is a quadratic equation for determining the time to intersect a plane given the current dist/vel/pos of the ship

[faint pasture]

that'd probably be it

if you aim away from the plane you'll never intersect

[raw spindle]

oh i know where this one is, I am just trying to learn if there's a better way

yeah

[faint pasture]

there's a line plane intersection node btw

or you'll intersect in negative time

still if you're exactly parallel you never will then

[raw spindle]

yeah it works out alright because with the default sqrt(negative) and /0 behavior, it just doesn't show up

the predicted stopping distance with current thrust is on the meter left of the target (or overshoot velocity if you aren't going to stop in time)

if you aren't going to intersect it, it's just blank, which is what i want

[inner tundra]

is this called something diffrent in ue5 because i cant find it for the life of me

thats all i get

figured it out lol

[pine trellis]

Why cant I untick RENDER IN DEBTH PASS ?

is there anything else I need to do

[hardy fable]

bRenderInDepthPass is dependant on RenderInMainPass being false. uncheck that first

[pine trellis]

thanks

[weak vale]

Why do one of my blueprints execute nodes after i self destruct the actor? Im getting "error tried to access none for get physics linear velocity"
The only issue is before I try to get velocity i apply damage to self. The function "take damage" from a component has a call to an "on death" dispatcher and which is bount in my construction script to a "death" event. The death event destroys self. Yet code executes after take damage...Am i completely misunderstanding something here?
It basically goes On hit ->Take damage (call on death)->Event death->Destroy actor. But it keeps going after actor destruction.

[charred berry]

followed rope bridge tut , setup in 5.3, but while it 'was' working, restarted computer, now both bridges ( endto end) are flailing around,and char walking on bridges, falls off as planks go spastic, what setting might be off ??

@modern garden are you sure yu're not missinga static mesh or whatever you're using,to get that error?

[supple rampart]

I am trying to get a Niagara effect to spawn at the player chracter and end at the target actor. In PIE, as long as i dont rotate(lol) this works. If I rotate at all both the niagara system misses (it keeps the same exact angle it had the first time) the debug arrow also misses after I do any rotation of the player character. However, after rotating, the debug arrow and NS are no longer aligned. Any ideas? If I had hair I'd be pulling it out right now. Thanks 🙂

[faint pasture]

show it in action

it's a local space / world space thing

unless you're complaining that it doesn't update if you move or rotate after spawning

you'll have to update the target every frame for the duration i.e. tick

[supple rampart]

Nope just trying to get it to hit the right spot first

[faint pasture]

Where in the world does the character spawn?

is it at 0,0?

[supple rampart]

yea

[faint pasture]

make it spawn somewhere else

[supple rampart]

ok

100,0,0

[faint pasture]

don't subtract

just put the beam end as where you want it to be

[ivory spoke]

I have a actor with Mesh that growth (change mesh) in intervalls

[faint pasture]

assuming Absolute means world space

[supple rampart]

Ah, let me try

[ivory spoke]

the first mesh should not have a collision but after the secondmesh the player should not work through it

is there a way to change collision dynamically?

[faint pasture]

yes

just disable / enable collision on the mesh component

[supple rampart]

Without subtracting player location, the beam points in the same direction & rotation over and over no matter the player location or rotation. It just spawns on top of itself over and over.

[pulsar vigil]

i found it i had to twink the bound or toggle bound parent i dont realy know what it does but it did work found the solution on internet

[faint pasture]

Are your settings like this right now?

[supple rampart]

Yes.

here's a video of its behavior with subtraction removed. Ill do another with it back all while absolute start and end are enabled.

With subtraction back in, I can move along the X and it remains accurate. But any rotation and it misses.

[ivory spoke]

yeah, I got it

thanks 🙂

[supple rampart]

Doesn't matter where I spawn. It is accurate. Rotation along any axis breaks it.

[supple rampart]

Ok so I believe the issue is that the BeamEnd is local to the attach point of the system. Even with Absolute end checked. It's just the direction and rotation from the attach point. It's not using world space, like you said.

[earnest fog]

Is there a way to search your project for collision profile usage? I need to set up a couple custom ones the way they were in a previous version of the project, but I want to be able to find all the places they were used. I'm not sure how.

[gilded jewel]

hey all, i've been having an issue with a spawned camera and the character mesh interferring with the view. So I have simply spawned the camera actor and set it as the owner of the character then used owner no see. It works, just checking, it seems an odd way to do it would there be any foreseable issues with doing it this way ... or a better way to do this ??

[earnest fog]

Often times, the camera is a component of the actor, usually with a Spring Arm intermediary

Or, you could make it so pawns (character capsule collision) and/or physics bodies (character skeletal mesh, probably) don't block the camera trace channel.

[gilded jewel]

ok, ill have to look into that more, im not familiar with those methods.

[supple rampart]

Is it colliding with the character ?

[gilded jewel]

It does clip through the character head sometimes so i assume it is colliding , other times its just visible and obstructs the view

[earnest fog]

Np, I'm likewise not familiar with using a separate camera actor for controlling a character, though it seems like that might be the accepted method, rather than using a component. In any case, you should be able to see how the component works by making a ThirdPersonExample project (using the template from the launcher). Not 100% if it works like this in 5.0+, but in UE4, I think that's how they were doing it. I'd recommend looking there

[kind estuary]

yeah thats so nice
before i use to create an horizontal box, with the text and then the image and then whatever
this makes things 10x better

[supple rampart]

As @earnest fog suggested, check these settings in your character BP

[flat coral]

Is there a way to attach one pawn to another, so they move together?

[supple rampart]

So! Did I mention I'm a noob? I had this checked....

With that checked. Absolute Beam End changes nothing.

It's working now.

Thanks for the help!

[tribal gazelle]

I added a WaterBodyCustom but when I go into the water I don't see the underwater post process material, am I missing something?

[earnest fog]

You might want to look into the grapple component on the marketplace

.

Is there a way to search your project for collision profile usage? I need to set up a couple custom ones the way they were in a previous version of the project, but I want to be able to find all the places they were used. I'm not sure how.

[waxen fog]

Reply to this cuz I’m also curious

[devout bane]

I got a curve but I can not figure out how to read value

[dawn gazelle]

I think this is how you'd need to do it.

[zealous moth]

I'm stuck on a weird situation. I am using the gamepad to toggle between menus and for some reason, it starts at index = 1, then if i press down, it goes to 2, then up goes to 1 but then is clamped between 0 and 1 only. No idea why

well i fixed it to start at 0

but I can't understand why it is always clamped between 0 and 1

when I toggle a breakpoint, the integers for the clamp range is fine

0 to 5

but it always returns to 0 or 1

[gaunt halo]

Hi guys, currently i am trying to get my progress bar to fill up when taking a shot in my mini golf game. So far all i have got is it will show the max pwoer you hit once taken the shot, but that doesn't help knowing what power youre hitting before hand. How can i use the time held on the mouse button to fill the progress bar in real time? So for example after 2 seconds the bar would be full instead of using the balls max velocity?

[fluid compass]

How can I handle a logic re-try without creating an infinite loop?

For example: I am using getRandomLocationInNavigableRadius to get a location. But I need to make sure that location is not inside a wall, so I run a multi sphere trace and check if it hits a tree. If it does my function fails and I want to loop back and retry with a new random location

Here is what I tried and it crashes due to infinite loop.

[frosty heron]

A timer

Or maybe delay until next tick but eww, this u turn node is always cursed

But nothing will save you if the result always the same. Make sure to attempt new spawn location or call it off altogether when it isn't possible to spawn

[frosty heron]

2 seconds for full bar?

That means one second for half bar so

Power = power + (0.5 x delta time)

[hollow arch]

how can i create a text thats shows the mutiplier after i click a button

im a beginer and i dont know much

[frosty heron]

Text component -> set text

Create widget if you want to make a new floating text. It really depend what you want to do. Don't think you describe the specific

[drowsy anvil]

Hello, how do I make a different object to spawn from a destroyed object?

[frosty heron]

You save the location of the destroyed object and just spawn another object that you choose

If you are not familiar with array , now is the time to look at it.

Spawner manager, get and save to be destroyed actor class and location.
Destroy the actor
Spawn a new actor from the array list. Loop thru and check if the class is not the same as the destroyed object. If not the same , spawn on the saved location and break from the loop.

[drowsy anvil]

thanks, I'll do some googling based on this

[empty light]

Has anyone tried to recreate the animation blueprint from the new Motion Matching sample? I try to do it, to understand what exactly happens and how it works, and I'm stuck at a point, they have an Interrupt select, and it seems that the type is EPoseSearch Interrupt Mode, yet I can't find anywhere the Enumeration file with that name 😔

Also there's no variable of this particular type in the ABP of the sample character

[dim halo]

Hey guys does anyone see why this code isnt making the controlled pawn face the attack target?

[lunar sleet]

Your rotation might be overridden by one of the control rotation settings

[agile ridge]

Probably because you disabled the Z-Axis part of the rotation. If a character is spinning like they're on top of a record player, you'll need the Z-Rotation for that. X and Y will create a rotation that's more akin to a cartwheel and summersault respectively.

[dim halo]

I just searched rotation in my aic and the only thingthat came up was set control rotation from pawn and so im not sure if it was that but when i connected the z-axis it seems to be working better but sometimes it isnt exactly right

[dim halo]

it seems like this was the problem is there anyway i can ensure that the enemy doesnot turn up or down to look at the player

[agile ridge]

That's easy, just disconnect X and Y.

If you want it to turn only left and right, Z-Rotation is the only one you need.

[dim halo]

oh awesome thank you

id been thinking about rotation wrong this whole time

thank you so much

[agile ridge]

What'll help is if you think of the axes like arrows and the rotation as spinning the arrow like a lever. Y will do front and backflips, X will do cartwheels, and Z will turn left and right.

[dim halo]

yeah i definetly see that much clearer now

[earnest fog]

Is there a way to search your project for collision profile usage? I need to set up a couple custom ones the way they were in a previous version of the project, but I want to be able to find all the places they were used. I'm not sure how.

[wild pumice]

Hi all, new here. Is this the right place to ask questions on how to build a functionality I want to implement using Blueprints?

[frosty heron]

It's blueprint related, so sure

[wild pumice]

I currently have an arcade racer I'm creating. I have a track and a vehicle that has collisions and some physics. I want to be able to toggle it where my vechicle can phase through the track and fall into a track below it. Essentially changing the track the vehicle collides with and uses as the floor. I'm not really sure how this could be achieved. A basic explanation in the right direction will suffice. Thanks.

the two tracks can be treated as different tracks with different properties.

[lunar sleet]

Set collision response to channel

You can use that node to change collision at runtime as needed

[wild pumice]

Thanks! I'll definitely look into that tomorrow. At a glance it looks exactly like what I need.

[amber fiber]

Hello! I have a question. I have a blueprint that handles clicking on the screen, spawning a niagara emitter at that location, and then moving the character to that spot. If the user starts spamming the screen clicking everywhere, I want to cancel the previous emitter and spawn the new location at the location that they now clicked. Im not sure how to set that up... so here i am lol

looks like this

I want to destroy the previous spawned emitter and spawn the new one

this is the current blue print set up

[frosty heron]

Store a ref to the spawned object then do w.e you want with it.

Click , if last emitter is valid, destroy last emmiter .

Spawn a new emmiter, point your last emitter variable to the emmiter you created

[amber fiber]

sorry, im not sure what you mean by store a reference

[frosty heron]

If you are not familiar with variables and object ref, you should really start with that.

[amber fiber]

I am new to unreal engine, im not new to variables or coding. I think I understand what you mean but im just asking for a bit more detailed of an answer

[frosty heron]

Well then you would know how to set a variable?

[amber fiber]

yes I know how to set a variable

[frosty heron]

So what's the issue

Show me how you would set the Niagara reference then

[amber fiber]

I think I would want an array so I can test value 1 against value 2, if x amount of time has elapsed between them

[frosty heron]

Why do you need an array?

Also you don't need to make an array there, that's redundant. Simply get the array and add

Aside from that ,If you just need ref to the last spawned Niagara why would you need an array?

[amber fiber]

ok i think i understand

[outer fable]

hello, can someone help me with this blueprint? im new to unreal engine and something doesnt work, i managed to get the first print string but cast to VRPawn somehow fails apparently? i need to attach the VRPawn to a moving platform for the duration of the move

[frosty heron]

Print string the other actor

It's deffinitly not a vr pawn type if goodbye is not printed

@amber fiber you got it working?

[outer fable]

yes youre right, somehow it called the blueprint im working on? i plugged it like this for reference, im really new to this

[outer fable]

i fixed the collision so it doesnt collide with the blueprint itself and now i dont get any printstring to work. Collision is set to OverlapAll. is there something that needs to be set for the VRPawn actor?

[graceful sage]

Whatever the object type the vrpawn is the teleportation zone has to be set to overlap that object type

[outer fable]

VRPawns parent class is Pawn, I did set it to OverlapPawn but i didnt get any printstring

the collision box is currently set up like this

[graceful sage]

It should be pawn but idk about vr. In the collision settings there's object type

You gotta expand it

[frosty heron]

Well what does your vr pawn collisions like? What are you trying to actually overlap? A sphere? A capsule? A skeletal mesh collision? W.e it is, make sure you have a valid collision for the overlap to detect.

The teleport zone may be set to overlap pawn but if the pawn don't have a collision then there's nothing to overlap with.

[graceful sage]

The parent class doesn't necessarily determine if it will detect collision. The object type in the collision settings of the componenet does

[outer fable]

I found the problem, all meshes in vrpawn have been set to nocollision, so i fixed it to pawn and it works!! thank you all so much for your help, you really saved me here!

[tropic peak]

How can I detect if something is no longer being hit by Line Trace by Channel ?

[dark drum]

If the line trace doesn't hit anything then you know its no longer hitting said thing. If it does hit something, compare the actor its hit and see if it matches the other thing. If it doesn't then it's hitting something else.

[tropic peak]

Yes but I'm using it to highlight items with an outline. I need some kind of input when it's no longer "highlighting" the item it hits.

[frosty heron]

Same thing as above, cache the highlighted items. When the his actor on next frame is no longer the cached item. Call unhighlight or w.e

[tropic peak]

cache the highlighted items as in have them as currentHit previousHit variables to store what the ray is hitting?

[frosty heron]

You just need 1 variable

call it hitItem or what ever

but yes, you do want to store and compare. You want to check if the current hit is not equal to hitItem object

[tropic peak]

that's a little confusing when it comes to implementation.

[frosty heron]

if it's not equal you know that the trace no longer hit the Object you cached

from there you can call unhighlight or w/e you want

and reset the hit Item to null

give it a go and post your attempt.

[tropic peak]

not quite there yet.

[frosty heron]

why do you need this?

[tropic peak]

it's temporary, it will be replaced by "ignore things by tag"

[frosty heron]

but you don't need it?

[tropic peak]

maybe I don't 🙂 I'm not sure how cpu taxing raycasting is and if I can use it on "ontick" event

[frosty heron]

you are still tracing anyway

adding condition after the trace doesn't stop the trace

[tropic peak]

but yeah it makes sense that ray will detect the first thing it hits not stuff under it so yeah I don't need it

[frosty heron]

also, line trace is relatively cheap

line trace is also the cheapeast as tracing method goes

start with that

[tropic peak]

yeah I removed it

[frosty heron]

you shouldn't cache right away

im just gonna go from top of my head but I believed you should check if CurrentHitActor is valid or not

If it's valid, then you want to check if the hitActor is equal to the Current Hit Actor or not

if it's equal, then do nothing if it's not equal, you can call the UnHighlight from the CurrentHitActor then set CurrentHitActor to none.

that's not all the code but you can start with that.

[tropic peak]

I'm not sure I understand the "is valid" thing, what would be an example of something being not valid?

[frosty heron]

null ptr, when the object ref pointing to nothing in the world.

translated to, CurrentHitActor not set and refering to no instance at all.

[tropic peak]

so it's just a fail safe check before I hit anything with a line?

[frosty heron]

for our purpose it goes beyond a guard. We want to see if the object we currently hit can be highlighted, which if it did, we want to set CurrentHitActor to that object.

[tropic peak]

ok I'll try to implement this

[dusky cobalt]

Also for highlighting (if it's on hover), you might want to use built in event for every actor ''On Cursor Over'' 🙂

and then you have 2nd event On Cursor End

[tropic peak]

it's kinda like in overcooked so I'm not using the mouse cursor, but thank you 🙂

[young meteor]

Is there a way to make some blueprints and widgets work even when game is set to paused?
I can see there is an Actor Tick when paused, but it seems I still can't control or do anything even with that on.

I would like to move my camera actor around, and open menus etc. still.

[frosty heron]

why wouldn't the widget work?

[young meteor]

It might, at this point I can't even bring it up though.

Are inputs ignored when game is paused?

[frosty heron]

I don't remember doing anything special but my widget still work when the game is paused

also pausing is generally a shit show as told by a veteran. You probably want to set global time dialation to smallest possible number, that might gives you a pause effect for Game Elements (non UI)

[young meteor]

Well you have a point, I can unpause game etc. by using a menu.

[tropic peak]

oh man this is definitely not my brain day. cant' wrap my mind around this sequence

[frosty heron]

just show what you have

[tropic peak]

by doing it this way it will never reach the false output on the final branch

[frosty heron]

Use the other IsValid node

just type valid, it should come out

[tropic peak]

that one?

cool, replaced it

[frosty heron]

first you are checking if CurrentHitActor is valid or not.
Not HitActor

[dusky cobalt]

Also you are checking if the other actor == other actor

[tropic peak]

OH.

brb

[frosty heron]

step one is to check if there is current highlighted item

[tropic peak]

yeah because at first the variable is empty

[frosty heron]

It doesn't matter about first or later. We r just checking if there is currently highlighted item or not

When it happend is irrelevant

[tropic peak]

i can't figure it out. need some air, brb 5 mins

[dusky cobalt]

You need some kind of new actor that is let's say Ground or Landscape or something that does not have any interaction, so when it get's hit, everything else would get set to not highlighted for example.

So if hit actor > highlight > set Highlighted Actor
if hit landscape > unhighlight actor that was highlighted

or
get hit actor > check if the hit actor is the actor that can be highlighted > if true > set highlighted actor > highlight it
if false > unhighlight it

[eager python]

Anyone else an enjoyer of using comment boxes to plan and conceptualize things? LUL. Been doing this to plan out my room generator logic.

[frosty heron]

After countless spaghetti sessions, I am not a fan of blueprint

[tropic peak]

I do get the concept how it should work but I'm just struggling designing it in blueprints for some reason. one of these days i guess.

[frosty heron]

Systems should be done in cpp and blueprints can be used to complement it

[dusky cobalt]

@tropic peak but it's still not the best concept you can go with for selecting or not selecting

really depends how you what to build on top of it

[frosty heron]

Shouldn't need to care if it hit landscape or not

[dusky cobalt]

@tropic peak I think this would be the simpliest form

[frosty heron]

Just check if the hit actor implement the interface

[frosty heron]

Hitting a wall would still be valid hit actor

[dusky cobalt]

yeah but then wall would not implement interface

really depends what he wants..

if he has 1 actor with interface and the rest of things does not have that interface then he will only select that thing and the rest of things will trigger to deselect it

[tropic peak]

yeah I have it based on an interface

before I used overlaps to detect things but I figured it's not as precise as I'd want it to be so I'm trying to convert this to raycasts

[dusky cobalt]

So how are you shotting this ray cast anyway?

it's like on event tick 24/7 from center of screen?

[tropic peak]

and yes it's constantly checking for hits

[dusky cobalt]

so it's shooting in front of the character?

[tropic peak]

from that little cylinder you can see on the screenshot

[dusky cobalt]

okay, and I guess there will be more things than one that will implement that interface?

[tropic peak]

basically it's for all kinds of interactions in the game

[dusky cobalt]

so just check if something that was hit is implementing interface, if yes, select this, if not, deselect what was selected

[tropic peak]

Interact, Highlight, Unhighlight for now

[frosty heron]

You already got it working?

What was the issue

[dusky cobalt]

looks good?

[tropic peak]

yeah I think it's working.. I based this on the screenshot Diyon posted above to check if it'd work

[frosty heron]

Show your code?

[tropic peak]

I think it could pose some issues when there are more than one items stacked on top of each other that implement the Interact interface

I feel kinda dumb not being able to code this today, it's not like it's something extremely complex

[frosty heron]

I would call unhighlight after the true node before setting.

Also after unhighlight I will set the current hit actor to none

[dusky cobalt]

Yeah, forgot about it but you after Unhighligh set actor to nothing

[frosty heron]

What you have is mostly working but if for some reason the next tick is an actor that have the interface, you will have bug

But what diyon show is mostly 👍

[tropic peak]

yeah

[dusky cobalt]

with line trace I think you are hitting only 1 actor at once, there is no array, so it will always hit first actor from top, if you want to get items that are under then you would just move line trace down and point it to shot upward

[tropic peak]

you mean set the currentHitActor to none?

[dusky cobalt]

Yes

[tropic peak]

why does it matter?

[dusky cobalt]

Just good practice to have less bugs

[frosty heron]

From code above u may end up with multiple actors being highlighted

[dusky cobalt]

it's logical when you unhighlight something then you dont have anything highlighted

[tropic peak]

yeah..

sorry for the question but how do i actually set it to none?

[dusky cobalt]

just Set, and plug nothing

simple 😄

[tropic peak]

just that?

[dusky cobalt]

yes

[tropic peak]

🤦‍♂️

thank you

[dusky cobalt]

and you may want to change variable name to Currently Highlighted Actor or something similiar

[frosty heron]

Also this will keep calling highlight every frame, not the performance approach.

If I were you, I will check on true if the hit actor is the same as the one that I cached. That way I don't have to call 100 highlight function within a second.

[wise ravine]

Hey how do I make footsteps sfx for a first person game. All I've found is a bunch of mixed tutorials

[dusky cobalt]

also it's a good fundemental so then if you interact, you will just take Highlighted Actor variable and when you click X you will fire Interact event on this actor

[frosty heron]

They typically have a 3rd person mesh. You can just do play sound notify in the animation

Or if you have walk anim for your first person mesh, you can also play sound notify there.

A lot of ways really but the one that make most sense is to just play sound notify

[tropic peak]

that kind of thing?

[frosty heron]

show the entire image

[tropic peak]

it's not connected, just trying to plan things around and look at them to understand how it should work

[frosty heron]

I think this should work

on True, do nothing since the object is already highlighted

[tropic peak]

yeah

[frosty heron]

also before the setter, I would call unhighlight

[dusky cobalt]

What are you using btw to break the hit results that you have Out Hit Hit Actor instead of Hit Actor?

[tropic peak]

this?

[dusky cobalt]

ohh you split it here, okay

[tropic peak]

yeah

[dusky cobalt]

you can take line and break it next to it

so then you can just take Hit Actor and the rest can be hidden

[tropic peak]

ah yeah true

will use that going forward, thanks

actually I have one more question, maybe not "how to code this" but some nudge in the right direction of what am I doing wrong here, or perhaps some other nodes that I could use to achieve what i want

and what I want is when I put the item down (currently on the ground, in the future also inside a socket of a mesh - like putting something on a table)

it currently drops the item in a bizarre way despite me trying to set up the offsets

(one on the right was picked up and put down)

[dusky cobalt]

You should have event in player controller called '' Drop It "

and get location from the break hit with the location of the hit and plug it to the new actor location after detaching it.

so you need to first Set Current Hit Location after break hit basically

and then plug that vector Current Hit Location to the new Set Actor Location

[dusky cobalt]

this is in player controller?

[tropic peak]

yeah it's in pc

[dusky cobalt]

just do this then

first set current location

and then plug that to Set Actor Location

[tropic peak]

yeah

trying it now 😄

one issue with that

actually no, nevermind, I used the wrong output

it works flawlessly

thank you Diyon

man my interaction system is a damn mess, fixing one thing makes me find two more issues

[frosty heron]

its not something that can be done instantly, you will ahve to check if the object can be dropped at the locations, etc. You will have to add things on tops to make the system better.

even for seasoned dev, it may take them some time

[tropic peak]

yeah I'm not rushing this, just getting a little frustrated that things keep piling up

[dusky cobalt]

well, get used to it if you want to have nice systems they will always seem like complicated

also don't be afraid do to things in a bad way or that is a bit of spagetti, just be aware that's it's a process and it's a spagetti that will need to be changed

[tropic peak]

yeah I'm trying to cure myself from the "has to be pretty and done the right way" mentality

[mint blade]

hello guys, have a good day over there, i need a little help with my FPS game, my character can walk, run, crouch, jump, all ok, but i have 2 little problems:

1. My character can't stand up automatically after i leave a tunnel.

2. Im crouched and when release and press again the W to advance and later the Left Shift to run, my character will make sprint sound and the camera will zoom and i do not want that, i want to keep in "stealth" mode without any sound at all until he leave the tunnel and stand up.

Any idea will be very appreciate, i leave you here the blueprints and my project to check it, thanks for your time guys.

Sprint and camera zoom handle:
https://blueprintue.com/render/rb12ptgm/

Crouch and check if i have space over the character to stand up (V2):
https://blueprintue.com/render/u4h9kmob/

Handle Crouch with sound reduction:
https://blueprintue.com/render/sujzuocw/

(IsFreeAbove Function) Check free space over the player capsule to wake up:
https://blueprintue.com/render/kbj4hqcs/

Project in Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1THFKA2hs50Gk1KjxxJPGRelbGvQenRRU?usp=drive_link

[tropic peak]

that's very true. I'm seeing how I need to implement checking if there's space where I want to drop the item

also, why this kind of thing is happening?

(isCarrying = true btw)

so if it's true, why "false" is also triggered?

[hard charm]

Guys, I have a mechanic where a character puts on a spherical shield and I want the projectiles made by Niagara when they collide with the shield to stop since they fall from the sky. This is done with a handle on the Niagara particle.

Do you know how I can do that mechanic? I already have my particles collide or detect the shield but I can't get them to stop the movement of the particles

[tropic peak]

does that also include inherited interfaces from parent actors?

[trim matrix]

lol idk how to word this so i apologize in advance, but im working on a film using unreal and i wanted to add an input that when i press it it changes the lights in the scene to off and replaces them with a flashing warning/siren light, then when pressed again revert back to how it was. how would i do something like that?

[lusty shard]

One way could be to:
Make a BP_Light, then a BP_SirenLight. Place BP_Light where you want in the level. Then when a key is pressed, GetAllActorsOf BP_Light, For Each Loop, SpawnActor BP_SirenLight with location of BP_Light, Then Destroy BP_Light.

[lusty shard]

hope that helps

[inner tundra]

hi i have run into an issue with a tutoral im following, its the physics based slide. in the tut hes on ue4 so when he uses his event begin play he dragged out from a hdmi section off the graph. im at a point in the tutorial where the crouching should be working but its not and i assume this is the part off code not liking it. any help would be appricated.

so because i didnt have the hdmi section i just hooked it up like this

[dusky cobalt]

should work, yes

[dusky cobalt]

event press key Z > get all actors of class > for each call event on them to Turn Light
event press key X > get all actors of class > for each call event on them to Turn Off Light

you can also use 1 key X , and then use flip flop node that first time calls Turn On, then Turn off

[dark drum]

You might what to show the actual crouching bit. This is just you setting two variables.

[tropic peak]

can this be translated to "highligted actor == null"?

[inner tundra]

thats the crouching

[dusky cobalt]

you might want to use is Valid and just drag from Not valid

[tropic peak]

argh, forgot about it. thanks

[dark drum]

Yes but there's an 'IsValid' node that looks a little tidier. Also you can right click the variable and convert to a validated get which does the same thing.

[tropic peak]

that sorted out all of my problems, thanks guys

[dark drum]

What happens when you run this logic?

[inner tundra]

i cant crouch

[dark drum]

So you're saying nothing happens?

[inner tundra]

yeah, any ideas?

[dark drum]

How is begin crouch called?

[inner tundra]

sorry im quite new to this, do you mean the control or where begin crouch is?

the control is left cntrl

[dark drum]

Where you actually call it.

[dark drum]

No, thats the event. Unless you call it, it does nothing. I need to see where you actually call begin crouch.

[inner tundra]

ill look now

[dark drum]

There's nothing there for calling 'Begin Crouch'.

[inner tundra]

sorry mate, there you go

[dark drum]

How is 'Switch Movement State' setup?

[dark drum]

Ok so from what you've shown, at no point do you set the 'Movement State' to crouching. I would assume where you set the movement state when you press the crouch button, I would imagine, the 'walking' should be 'crouching'.

[inner tundra]

so should i swap the links? what do i do?

[dark drum]

Change the state on the node from walking to crouching.

[devout bane]

Thank you

[devout bane]

Hmm, I do not have "GetRuntimeFloatCurveValue" node. I am using 5.3

[devout bane]

So that function is not exposed to blueprint users and C++ only. I have to write a wrapper function in C++. Ridiclous that basic functions are not exposed like that, this is not only time I ran into this nonesense.

[spice shell]

Anyone run into this issue and fixed it? Using the LaunchURL Node personally, but players are reporting that Steam never 'stops' the game after the game is closed with a Launch URL node before the Quit node is called.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/game-doesnt-terminated-on-steam-when-i-open-the-chrome-browser-with-fplatformprocess-launchurl/1169966

[thin panther]

That makes sense, the game would be owning the process.

[spice shell]

That's not good 😬

[spice shell]

It also doesn't make much sense because no game would ever use the LaunchURL call if this is what happens?

[thin panther]

Most games don't to be fair. There's very few if any games open external web browsers.

Especially not just before quitting

[spice shell]

Sure, most don't, but many indies do. Loads launch feedback forms from within the game, and on quit is the best time to do so.

[thin panther]

I play a fair amount of indie titles and have never seen that in my life

That is quite odd, to be requested to fill out a form on exiting each time

Why not just allow feedback in reviews and the game's community?

Or even just a "Leave Feedback" button on the main page

[spice shell]

Cool, regardless of your experience, it still seems like a bug? An early access game or demo is the perfect place to request feedback via an external form with specific questions for the user.

A Leave Feedback button would have the same issue, it seems

[thin panther]

Definitely not a bug. Your game is launching a process. It owns the process, Closing the game process might not be closiing the launched process as it might not be a subprocess, yet the other process is owning it

Least, it doesn't seem like one

Opening a URL on exit is an incredibly rare usecase, I'd just move to having it as a button on the main menu

In general people probably want to choose that, and not have their web browser opening when they exit a game

Every feedback form I've seen in a game does it this why, through a button in a menu

Subnautica did too.

[lofty rapids]

i feel like if it popped up a browser every time i ended game i would be annoyed

[thin panther]

Me too

[spice shell]

Why would it 'own' the browser process of launching a browser URL? It would surely be using a Windows/platform API call. Do you think the problem is specifically the call being on exit game?

[thin panther]

Yes that's your issue, the process isn't ending before you exit

typically, if a process launches a process, it owns that process by default.

[spice shell]

If I launch with a button, keep the browser open, quit the game, surely I'd have the same issue?

[thin panther]

Your user is likely going to have closed that by the time it's over

otherwise yes, probably

[lofty rapids]

so the idea is if you quit the game, close the browser ?

[thin panther]

See if I'm right. Press stop on steam and see if it closes the browser

[spice shell]

So UX aside, it seems like that's an issue in itself, I don't see a reason that a random game should own a windows process that is not its own?

[thin panther]

it is it's own though, because you're launching the process

in that process

by nature it owns it

It's holding a handle to it

[lofty rapids]

oh it's closing the browser because it's a child process ?

[spice shell]

That's what I'm challenging, why is it not a standalone API call or whatever to the platform, irrelevant to the lifetime of the game process?

[thin panther]

It is, that's how windows handles things

You launch a process in a process in windows, and that process owns the other process, last time I checked

That's why you have subprocesses

Unreal engine launches the crash reporter process, it owns it

My guess is there's some floating process handle somewhere, and steam is recognizing that as the app still being open

[spice shell]

I get the theory, it still seems unreasonable to me that an OS would tie the processes together in that way unless specifically requested, but I don't know enough about how Windows works to be sure if it does or not

[lofty rapids]

the internets say CreateProc <-- will be it's own, but it's c++

[thin panther]

Yeah there are ways to have it as it's own, but it's certainly not the default, and I doubt launchURL would be either.

again, easy way to test it though

[spice shell]

Right, so back to 'bug' - why would the default function of the LaunchURL node be to create a tied process. Seems illogical.

Just asking for trouble

[thin panther]

Not bug, generally speaking it's asking for more trouble to let anyone just launch standalone processes by themselves

It makes sense that LaunchURL would be behaving in this way, it's how I'd want it to.

[spice shell]

Ok we've gone round in circles enough, I appreciate your input 😂

[thin panther]

still an easy way to test the theory though :P

If it closes the browser, the above is right, and you need to move to a more user friendly way of gathering feedback.
If it doesn't, I'm wrong, and your princess is in another castle.

FWIW I'd still consider switching methods. You're more likely to get meaningful feedback if the consumer is not annoyed by the action of giving the feedback :P

[lofty rapids]

forced feedback is kind of sketchy

[spice shell]

It doesn't seem to have hurt so far, no complaints and 196 feedback forms filled

It's not forced, they can easily close the window, it's a request

But input on the UX is appreciated, thank you both

[lofty rapids]

ig so, if it works it works, i'm not exactly a hard core gamer, i just like messing with game logic

it's just that popups are infamous for being annoying

its why they try to "block" them on websites you don't see them anymore because it's just not user friendly

[thin panther]

It's the same vibes as "subscribe to our newsletter". Everyone silently closes the popup, but everyone hates it.

I have seen things that pop up a "how are we doing" in the middle of something, or whenever I leave, and the feedback I leave there is overly harsh or unmeaningful because of that.

[digital basalt]

Can someone please help me with this:

How do I make camera stop following Head Mounted Device in collab viewer VR template Unreal Engine? So basically it should look like a static image in VR mode.

I am using Unreal Engine Version 5.2.1.

[thin panther]

But I do kind of agree with it being forced. Not forced as in the sense of "we'll shoot you if you don't hit submit", but opting to leave feedback is not my choice, the form is opened to me, like I'm a focus tester sort of thing.

On the otherhand, my feedback is constructive if there isn't pressure there. If I want to leave feedback, I'll click the feedback button, and if I don't, I won't. But if I don't want to, and the game keeps popping up a feedback form every time I close, my feedback is going to be not as nice :P

It's like leaving a review, if a game opened the review page each time I left, that would be 1* even if it's a great game.

If it's working for you though, then great, just be aware, that it isn't likely to scale well.

[trim matrix]

So for some reason I'm calling this and it's saying the actor was attached to the component but the actor still remains where it was placed

[native wigeon]

How can i check if a platform's xgame.ini has a gameplay/platform tag?

I was under the assumption it was this node, but i seem to be getting incorrect results

[limber parcel]

did you add the tag source in project settings?

[native wigeon]

I think they're just from the default .ini files, so they should be working without adding them manually there, right?

[limber parcel]

i dont think i have seen a xgame.ini in any of my projects

[native wigeon]

x being the platform name, i.e SwitchGame.ini, do you compile for any other platforms?

[limber parcel]

u should put the tags in a separate file and not the game ini, idk how that will behave

best to just use the manager to create it

[native wigeon]

Which manager?

[limber parcel]

the gameplay tag manager

[native wigeon]

this is the official way i saw in documentation in a video

[limber parcel]

create new tag source

and put your tags in that file

[native wigeon]

I do have them in a tag list, but that ui doesn't allow you adjust them on a per platform basis afaik

[limber parcel]

not sure why u would even need that

[native wigeon]

100s of reasons, hiding graphics menus on handheld consoles etc.

[native wigeon]

Does anyone else have an actual answer to this q?

[limber parcel]

i think you misunderstood how gameplay tags work

[native wigeon]

okay and i think you've never developed for consoles and heard of this tag stuff

it's all in the lyra project btw

https://youtu.be/u06GAVxyIag?t=252

[limber parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/pc-gaming-master-race-gif-9521593

you are not wrong there

[wise ravine]

Hey whats the proper way for my to make a skeleton with an animation that walks through a level. (Kind of like in this video)

It wouldn't have any intelligence or anything like that

[oak juniper]

Yo, guys, how would you SMOOTH OUT CAMERA ROTATION giving it a bit of wobbliness? so lets say i have a camera rolling sideways based on the speed (speed/max speed) but if the character hits a wall or you jiggle left and right too quickly it feels off. i cant just interpolate since i get a new value every tick. so what i want is for the camera to follow the target rotation but in a smooth and springy way. i cant find a good solution for it online.
right now i basically did a physics system, it works, but im too stupid to work with it further, i keep forgetting what im even doing.

[lofty rapids]

whats in the array ?

[heady burrow]

is there a way to mark a function parameter as required?

[lofty rapids]

i don't think so

[heavy sigil]

how to use an Outline Material for an Object in VR ? Post Process does not seem to work in VR.

[oak juniper]

the array has position, speed, acceleration, acceleration multiplier

[lofty rapids]

it's really hard to tell whats going on because you don't have variables with names, just pulling the indexes out makes it vague and harder to grasp

[oak juniper]

thats the thing, i want some other solution

i dont want to continue working with it

[lofty rapids]

but i'm not understand what you mean by "wobble"

you want it to bounc back and forth if you hit a wall ?

[oak juniper]

somewhat, yeah

[oak juniper]

this is to fix other problems but you can definitely describe it this way

[lofty rapids]

"in a smooth and springy way" its not smooth ?, and i don't understand springy

[oak juniper]

so if the target position goes from 1 to 0, our actuall position will get to 1,2 and then back to 0.9 and slowly stabilize on 1

[lofty rapids]

maybe a camera shake ? never tried it but if you could turn it on and off

so all your numbers are just floats

this is on just one axis ?

[oak juniper]

i want only one number to wobble so yeah

blue is target, and red is actual position

the thing is i cant interpolate between points

target is updated every tick, and the actual one needs to be responsive

[lofty rapids]

maybe #game-math

but it looks difficult i don't know how it would be possible to predict to go in straight line

[oak juniper]

thanks!

[astral wyvern]

Hi everyone, I'm working on my first unreal project to learn the engine and I'm having some trouble. I'm trying to make a cylinder character that can get up. Now, it looks like in the video. One thing I'd like to do is that when I'm trying to make it stand, I would like it to stop moving (but not rotating). Sort of getting it to snap in position. Can anyone help out?

This is my blueprint https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/azh9xjul/

[faint pasture]

why are you constraining it to the YZ plane?

#chaos-physics btw

move it there

[trim matrix]

in C++ yes

it's by default required

[astral wyvern]

I was just testing it out to see if it would help for now it helps testing

[flat coral]

Is there a version of Attach Actor to Actor which allows them to rotate independently?

[faint pasture]

you can rotate them however you want

it won't automagically rotate the child to keep its world rotation if that's what you're asking

just have minimap follow pawn set its rotation each frame

or don't attach, and have it set its location each frame

[flat coral]

I dunno why but I've been trying to avoid doing stuff per-frame. But yeah that makes sense and it's probably not expensive

[young meteor]

If I want to change an image at runtime, how do I do that?

[flat coral]

This is #umg but I think it's SetBrushFromTexture

[young meteor]

Good point. My bad.
And thank you, it was indeed.

[charred berry]

ue 5.3, BP rope bridge from youtube,works, but only small length of mesh planks-if bridge is angled say 33-45 degress, it flops all over the place,tho it works going down bridge, trying to go back up is alost impossible, SO Ive tried so many settings, what is best way to firm it up and avoid the deep swaying, up and down of bridge ?

re: at angles, and LONGER bridge plank lengths,is when it gets unstable

[odd lava]

does anyone know a way?

[ivory spoke]

Hey Guys I have two question s. The First one: I build a Item structure based on another from Marketplace with different Item types so have have Datatablets with Base Item Data and specific for the different types. Ist there an way to manage the items with "one Tool" where i can Setup 1 and IT saves to this multiple Datatablets and Link it?

The second one: is there a good Tutorial about Testing Multiplayer stuff? To Check If functions Work as expected? The Multiplayer ist optional (Coop maybe 2-4 Player)

[odd lava]

try to use world location

how do you switch camera component from 2 actor

[teal vapor]

Hi maybe someone has some insight into Post Process Volumes and Blueprint. I can't directly access depth of field values in a post process volume, so I decided to make a Blueprint where I can switch between two volumes that have different values for the depth of field. However, what I'm finding out is that the Activate/Deactivate nodes don't seem to work with actors that are Post Process Volumes. One of the volumes are only used, and the other seems to be ignored. Any ideas?

[hollow arch]

does anyone know how to make a crate opening system (like in csgo) after clicking a button.

ive watched these videos but its not smooth.... how do i make it smooth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6y0XxOEmiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDXj0UJ_4b0

[scenic osprey]

thought it might be worth asking this, cus I'm trying to learn. I'm following along with a tutorial and noticed I can access a variable in a blueprint when i'm testing the blueprint in the editor but when i'm playing it in a stand alone window i get
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property PortalRT". Node: Branch Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Portal Blueprint: BP_Portal
🤔 im not asking for a magic answer but more a point in the right direction on how to troubleshoot this, any ideas? for reference this is the tutorial i'm walking through https://youtu.be/goD3UZn7Yrg I'm going to start over though, maybe i set something up wrong. I'm just trying to understand the error better

[lofty rapids]

accessed none means whatever you are trying to access is just an empty variable usually

for instance you may have created a ref variable, but didn't actually set it's value

or the actor has been destroyed and your trying to access the reference

[scenic osprey]

that's a good tip, but i'm still confused why it works previewing it in the editor but not when its stand alone

[lofty rapids]

stuff like that

[scenic osprey]

thank you for the insite!

[lofty rapids]

i find usually with errors that are in standalone or package, you should check for load flow

for instance one thing might be loaded, or what your trying to load isn't ready yet

all the problems i have had in packaging were because of that so far

[scenic osprey]

i was just thinking of checking order of operations. then again, i'm so new at this node language i might just put this on the shelf and look for other tutorials to just practice and get my feet more wet, return when i understand a bit more

[scenic osprey]

thank you, you've given me more to ponder

[teal vapor]

Hi maybe someone has some insight into

[rapid hound]

Hey.
Can someone help me out with events.
I have a button with a custom click event.
this button is inside a widget, and this widget has another event
I want to bind the event from this button to the event from the widget, but I want to do it inside a function.
But I see only 4 options for both events, and they are:

1. Call
2. Bind
3. Unbind
4. Unbind all
   the problem is that I can not provide a ref of a one event to another.

[queen valley]

dont drag off of the delegate

drag off of the execution pin

and just call that event

aka type its name

just make the button have an on clicked event

and then call that other event

[rapid hound]

well, i kinda solved my problem by making a param (delegate) in this function.

if i understand it correctly, you can not get a reference to an event outside of an event graph window,

[queen valley]

wdym

yes you can call a function

and you can also use blueprint interface

to call an event on another blueprint

[rapid hound]

can you join me in a voice channel by any chance?

[queen valley]

if you can screen share sure

[hollow arch]

i might be stupid but I cant seem to overlay a image on a horizontal box. It always goes under it even if i put the image higher in the heirarchy section. Does anyone know how to do

[dusky cobalt]

There is Z index that you need to make it -1 so it will go behind anything else.

[hollow arch]

Thanks so much

[unborn yoke]

Hey, I just started to learn UE5 2 days ago. Learned how to create a map, added swimming animations to it (had to learn how to import an animation as the tutorial didnt say XD )and now im trying to learn day night cycle. Could anyone help with a question?

Here goes: I'm trying to update the sky so i added in BP_Sky_Sphere, however even after setting my dynamic light as source, and making sure the light affects world, it doesnt update. just have stars on the sky constantly. (i start off at night time). I tried to insert refrresh material from SkySphere in the Blueprint but not sure exactly how to loop it to check every few seconds maybe to update the sky. Have a imgur link if i can post with the blueprint.

[lofty rapids]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDocPe1HoA

[unborn yoke]

Thanks so much, ill watch this

[latent saddle]

Yo i hope someone has a solution for this, but i'm making a snapping system in order to place actors. This is inside of a static mesh blueprint class and the issue revolves around me not being able to change the pivot. These are collision boxes used as snap points but i can't change it. i now have an extra piece of box hanging underneeth of where i want it to be which can be annoying when setting up a second snappoint underneeth this structure. (i've tried importing collision boxxes or using static meshes that i turn "render invisible" but none of that helps)

[carmine scaffold]

Does anyone know what this means and what can i do to fix it

Can't save ../../../../../Documents/pinball/Content/SonicFramework/System/CharacterPawn.uasset: Graph is linked to external private object EdGraph /Game/SonicFramework/System/CharacterData/CharacterPawn.JumpGraph (InputSinkNode)

[unborn yoke]

this didnt help that much, but i did managet to set static mesh on bp skysphere based on each cycle. the transition is jarring but for a first attempt i will consider this a win 😄

[strange sequoia]

hey so im trying to figure how to get my character to lane 1 and 3 using the W key to go back to 3 and the S key to go to lane 1 lane changer bassically. its a 2.5d side scroller im pretty new to this so anything helps

[carmine scaffold]

why bother asking

[weak vale]

How do i dynamically get the owner of a widget? I want a health bar to grab info from a component that the owner of the widget implements. The owner is for now an actor but i want it to work for pawn/player etc.

[maiden wadi]

You cannot. Because widget components are terrible. This is assuming you're using a widget component with a widget in it. Your actor has to get the component and call GetUserWidgetObject, cast that to your widget, and call an initialize function that can pass Self through.

[maiden wadi]

Try to do File -> Refresh All Nodes

[carmine scaffold]

i did I even reloaded the bp and validated the assets

[maiden wadi]

Do you have two editors open?

[carmine scaffold]

nope

this only happens with my pawn

its saying i have some graph called jump but its not showing up in the search nor find results

[carmine scaffold]

you got any other ideas?

if not ill just Cut-Paste everything to another pawn

[weak vale]

I do have an interface implemented for it so would it be reasonable to use that?

[maiden wadi]

If you want. It doesn't do any good to use an interface vs just casting. You already reference the widget by placing it in the widget component.

[weak vale]

I dont think i can cast though as the owner could be anything. I was following a tutorial where the guy uses a BPI to handle health communication but was told to avoid interfaces because casts should be cheaper.

So now ive been deviating and gotton to a point where that doesnt work out

[maiden wadi]

I didn't mean from the widget. I meant from the actor using the widget. You can't get the owner of a widget from within the widget because the widget has no idea what is holdin git.

Your actor has to tell the widget what it is. So that the widget knows. You can make it a basic Actor type pointer and pass Self

[wise ravine]

Can individuals components implement interfaces? Or is it only actors

[wet rain]

whats a node i could use to play music? Like first this song then when it is finished play the next one then onward?

[frosty heron]

Audio component

[sonic sigil]

Hey guys my nav mesh disappears (my enemies stop moving) when I package to windows, what could be happening?

[rugged sonnet]

How can I set a variable depending on my string name input? I have something like this but seems to me that from this point onward I will have to have duplicated nodes , depending if my Active Material Type is Solid or Metallic. Thanks

[lunar sleet]

What are you converting to there

And does it have to be string? Using string literals for your logic can be very error prone

[lunar sleet]

Try #gameplay-ai I think others have had that issue

[rugged sonnet]

Because the input is from a excell table

[lunar sleet]

Ah

Data tables might be better

[rugged sonnet]

Yes I have a datatable I created and imported from excell a sheet with materials

Looks like this

[lofty rapids]

"duplicated nodes" <-- are you saying because you have two sets, or the fact you need different materials ?

[trim matrix]

Could anyone point me toward a good place to read up on how to use player controllers/enhanced input? I've been a little confused on how to get everything working

[rugged sonnet]

Can I have both sets sequencial ? IF I can't then I assume the nodes from this point forward will have to start in one of those sets right?

[rugged sonnet]

youtube it.

[trim matrix]

I have

But I've had trouble following each video I found at some point or another, so I'm looking for something written and a little more comprehensive that I could maybe refer back to if I ever get lost

[lofty rapids]

you could set a variable ig, then set the variable, and plug them all into the same set ig but it looks fine to me

[rugged sonnet]

Thanks I will try that

[lofty rapids]

maybe https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/enhanced-input-in-unreal-engine

[empty light]

Hello guys, I'm a bit confused.
I work on a BlueprintThreadSafeUpdateAnimation, I need the world delta seconds, how can I get them? I guess if I understand correct ,Get Delta Seconds isn't the same thing right?

[trim matrix]

isnt there a node to get the world delta seconds?

[empty light]

It throws an error on compile, Non-thread safe function 🥲

[trim matrix]

Oh, sorry then that's about all I know lol

[empty light]

That's okay) the intention matters 💪🏻 I guess that's why probably the motion matching doesn't use thread safe update animation 😬 or they just forgot to do it that way

[trim matrix]

Thanks, I'll read through this

[hollow arch]

how to put a button on a cooldown

anyone know?

[trim matrix]

Maybe the delay node?

[viral kettle]

how do i switch from one actor to another

[hollow arch]

@trim matrix yep thanks i didnt havve the delay on for long enough lol

[lunar sleet]

This is the wrong approach

Delays don’t work the way people think

[hollow arch]

hhow to do it then

[lunar sleet]

If you’re using EIS, you can remove the mapping context and then set timer by event on looping that adds it back on. Or simply have it change a Boolean from true to false

Depending on how complex the action is

[hollow arch]

👍

[lunar sleet]

i.e. on Started -> if bCooldown is False, Set bCooldown to True -> set timer by event, create custom event ResetCooldown where bCooldown is set to False, plug the delegate pin into the timer by event delegate.

[stuck sparrow]

Hey all. For some reason, this implementation for a camera track spline is giving strange results when played in game. I can record a video if its helpful, but before I do, is there anything blatantly obviously wrong with the way I have this set up? The camera appears to jump to positions that dont appear on the spline, and is otherwise inconsistent with the spline I have set up in the level. Any ideas?

[trim matrix]

Thanks for correcting me then, I'm new to blueprints so for future reference, why is this preferable over using a delay node?

[viral kettle]

how do you add a tag during play?

[lunar sleet]

Delays don’t really stop the execution in its path, so if you spam the button you’re going to have weird results

[lunar sleet]

Iirc you need to grab the container and add tag, assuming actor tags

Gameplay tags are a bit diff

[trim matrix]

Oh i see, thanks

[viral kettle]

nevermind, I think I figured it out

[quaint ravine]

I'm attempting to control the lens parameters of a CineCameraActor (aperture and focal length) with input from a game controller, and I feel like this BP should work but it doesn't. What am I missing?

[primal crown]

have a question trying to get overlap / is overlap in some way but its from an array of procedrual mesh
First image is how its the array is created
Second is how im trying to use it i suppose

[primal crown]

does overlap not work with a plane xd?

[kindred raft]

Hi everyone 👋
I have a question regarding BPI. I created an "E" keyboard trigger in BP_FirstPerson and can't seem to call the event in LightSwitch_BP thru a BPI.

[faint pasture]

show the part of your code where you make the interface call on a light switch

we can't see what you're calling New Interaction on

[kindred raft]

oh ok wait

[lunar sleet]

Good question, can’t say I’ve tried

[stuck sparrow]

hate to spam but im going to bump this. Still havent figured it out

[primal crown]

i was trying to like generate a faces thats the side of like procedrual meshs but it seams like a 0 thic plane / face doesnt work xD witch well kinda sucks in my case lol

[faint pasture]

show where you call that on a light switch actor

before all this

show the code between pressing a key and telling a light switch something

[kindred raft]

ah ok wait

[faint pasture]

confirm that you're actually hitting the light switch

print the display name of Hit Actor

[kindred raft]

oh it's hitting the wall 😭

Thank you @faint pasture

[kindred raft]

It's working now ❤️

[dim halo]

By using this code the ai charcter is jittering when the player gets close to the ai does anyone have a simple solution for this problem: It should be mentioned that my ai is very tall as I want it to seem like a flying enemy. I am not sure if this is having an effect

I saw that it could be fixed by using an on event tick but ive been trying to avoid those as much as possible

[frosty heron]

The interp should be done every frame for smoothness

[lunar sleet]

I think you maybe need to use geometry scripting for that but idk

[hollow arch]

how can i show the money price (bacoins) to the other widgets.

[dim halo]

Got it thank you

[frosty heron]

Never use timer to replace tick. Doing something like 0.0001 is worse than just using tick.

If your frame rate too low, you will end up calling the function multiple times within a single frame.

[dim halo]

Oh ok

I’ll change

[frosty heron]

Your code looks like something that belong in behavior tree as behavior task tho.

[frosty heron]

By getting the reference to the instance of who ever owns the bacoins

I suggest to watch blueprint communication by matthew. It literary show how to grab reference from other blueprint.

[dim halo]

it is a task in a behavior tree

[frosty heron]

Then utilise the tick right away

[dim halo]

ive been trying to use behaviors trees but have been running into som complications

[frosty heron]

There is a learning curve but once you got it , you should be allright

[dim halo]

all right thank you

ive been hesitant about using event tick but would you say its generally fine for stuff like rotation?

[frosty heron]

Deffinitly

Movement, rotation, checking if currently on air. Etc

Anything that requires every frame to be computed should belong to tick.

If a youtube video said avoid tick it's because they are also still learning and they fail to understand context.

The point is don't avoid cast and tick, just don't miss use them.

[dim halo]

I see

[vagrant cobalt]

there is a weird bug that when the interface requires scrolling down it will cause this bug, it also happens on Niagara details. Does anyone know how to fix it?

[dim halo]

Im still a little confused about how to implement event tick on a behavior tree because the btt finishes before the interp can fully complete.

How do you recommend solving this

[frosty heron]

I take it back, something like locking to player or other target shouldn't belong to behavior tree

Behavior tree can define the target

Eg the actor the a.i will face for example

But the rotation can be handled in a component.

I made targeting and rotation component especially for this purpose.

Which looks like a standard practice considering I "steal" most of the code from pre existing systems

[dim halo]

hahah

[frosty heron]

Your behavior tree for A.I should take over for things like find target, shoot target, etc.

It can also set a variable to change the state of the A.I. eg use directional movement, or lock to target

Based on that property, your custom component knows if it should rotate to target or not.

I mean it really depend on your design, if you want to make your enemy feel like a turret. Eg keep rotating until it can shoot the player , then you can possibly do it in BT. But that feels like a bad and limited design to me.

I would 100% vouch for component but you can ask others for opinion.

[dim halo]

Im sorry, im slightly confused how would the component solve this problem?

[frosty heron]

The rotation behavior is not coupled to any task.

It's just what the component does for the A.I

Which can be driven by the behavior tree

But executed outside of BT

[dim halo]

oh i get it now

[frosty heron]

This way u can tell the A.I to shoot player or w.e all while the A.I "aiming" continues

[dim halo]

i could hypothetically just put it straight into the blueprint for the actor right

it would achieve the same goal as being in a component right

or am i overthinking it

[frosty heron]

You should totally use component, anytime you want to add a new A.I you don't have to copy paste for the same behavior. Simply add a rotation component.

That's just one of the benefit to use component in this case.

[dim halo]

I see

thank you so much for all the help

[wild crater]

Steam thinks our game is still running after it shuts down. This didn't used to be the case. Are there any known causes for this? I think it started happening after I added a Web Browser widget to the main menu that streams in a YT video. But this level is closed and that widget destroyed, the moment you go on and play the game.

[astral pine]

Is it ever possible to have latent actions inside Blueprint functions? Like an Http request and a response?

[frosty heron]

doesn't sound like it make sense to do it in a function

just do it in an event?

I don't think latent stuff belong to a function

[final berry]

I'm confused about a string variable. I do a for loop and within each loop I append a number to a string variable. So after 8 loops I get a string with 8 numbers. I print that and after I print I set the variable to nothing. But for some reason when I do the second loop of 8 it seems to still be intact and appends another 8 numbers and printing that variable prints a string of 16 numbers.

Does the resetting of strings not work by just setting it like this? And if that is the case how do I correctly reset a string variable to either empty or null?

[ruby apex]

How to remove this number from the world center?

Thats my scene, its still here

[dark drum]

It should work. You'll have to show your node setup to pin point the issue.

[ruby apex]

Oh thats actually a part of a dedicated visual logger window

How to remove it...