blueprint

[glossy cloak]

Looks great in the widget designer.

[lunar sleet]

Is it set to fill?

Tbh idk much about screen space widgets 😅

[glossy cloak]

In UE4 I used to run into weird issues with them all the time, so I was assuming it was just being dumb.

[lunar sleet]

Do these things even have fill/auto option?

[storm shale]

How do you know it is not respecting the size box it's wrapped in? what is different than how it should be? If it's simply it being tinier that could be due to screen size cuz it gets scaled appropiately.

[glossy cloak]

It's just a veritical box in a size box with multiple widgets added to the vert box. The subwidgets are also in a size box, but only clamping verically.

[glossy cloak]

The icons and text are miles apart.

It should look like the second screenshot. I can increase/decrease the size box clamps to visually see it move further/closer together.

[storm shale]

oh lol sorry I didn't see that; I thought the icons were environment props

[glossy cloak]

So I'm pretty confident the size box is doing its job.

[glossy cloak]

Yeah, it was a bad screenshot. Still in prototype mode. lol

[lunar sleet]

So, maybe a silly question but again, do you have a fill/auto option ?

it seems to be stretching to fill the screen space

[glossy cloak]

Yeah. The sub widgets are being filled because I was intentionally clamping them with the parent widget they were nested in. But even when I turn that off, it still isn't working.

It's not filling the screen.

[lunar sleet]

Hacky suggestion but have you tried padding the f out of the right side or adding a spacer ?

[glossy cloak]

That gif is so much bigger than I thought it was.

[trail crane]

soo.. have you tried using the widget reflector?

[glossy cloak]

I haven't. I've only used it a few times and usually for debugging logic issues. I'll try it.

[lunar sleet]

I really need to start using that tbh

[trail crane]

yeah run it in the viewport, open the reflector, and just start mousing over stuff to see how the hierarchy is laid out when running

[lunar sleet]

Might work better than my usual trial and error approach😅

[trail crane]

chances are people are right tho, it looks like its filling out the parents space

since it looks like its animated, is the animation setting it to bad values

[glossy cloak]

It's insane how many more actual layers there are going on in a widget behind the scenes...

[trail crane]

yeah the widget reflector can be reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally annoying to work with

[glossy cloak]

Yeah. I thought it gave me a hint, but I don't think it's what I thought it was. I can set all of my size boxes to 0 and it's still showing up the same way.

I'll keep toying with it. :/

[storm shale]

If you want it to have a fixed size you're probs better off wrapping it in a canvas panel and just setting its size and anchors appropriately and moving on for the moment.

[glossy cloak]

Not the animation either. :/ ^ I'll try that now.

[fiery sierra]

I realized at least in my short time using ue5 that ui is harder to keep contained without a canvas panel.

So that’s a fair bet @storm shale

I had a similar issue with a server browser. I was looking at.

[glossy cloak]

I got it. Honestly I don't know how. I just cleaned up the child widgets a bit and did a single horizontal box and a size box and it's all good now.

[trail crane]

well the issue is canvas panels are pretty much the only panel that has an exact coordinate system

[glossy cloak]

I usually use a canvas panel when it's a window/menu. But when it's like a pop out UI element like this a canvas panel usually doesn't do me any good.

Much better. The child widgets were simply not repsecting the size box of the parent becuase their horizontal boxes were filling horizontally. Honestly not sure that's working as intended, but I've got it working now and I'm moving on. lol

[frank locust]

How can i do the math in my IsCorner? function to determine if a tile in the produced grid is in a corner so i can proceed to place actors at those corners within the same 2D grid execution macro using the output parameters the macro gives?

[lunar sleet]

So I was right? 🥳

Also canvas panels are fairly expensive, use overlays instead whenever able

[frail onyx]

Anyone know how i can make this camera tilting smooth instead of snappy which is how it is right now?

[trail crane]

use smaller values, or look into lerping from one value to another

[fiery sierra]

you could also use RInterp to constant

I could be wrong on that though

[frail onyx]

uh do you know how i would be able to add an interpolation/lerp into that? im not rlly sure how to go about it

[fiery sierra]

give me 2 seconds and I will write it up in my blueprints, I believe it's easy

[frail onyx]

tysm

[fiery sierra]

absolutely

[frosty heron]

If you are using spring arm you can set the camera lag

Otherwise implement your own by interp

[fiery sierra]

@frail onyx this is hopefully what you're aiming for. I wasn't able to get it to work without the event tick node, I think it requires to be checked constantly. You could probably add a boolean to check that the player is moving prior running the event tick part of the code.

also I've been learning UE5 for like 3 days, so if this is wrong feel free to tell me a better way 🙂

[frail onyx]

tysm, ill try adding that

[fiery sierra]

sure 🙂

[frail onyx]

i got it but for some reason it only works for the right tilt

when i press a to move left it also tilts right

[fiery sierra]

yea you'd need to invert it, give me a second let me add that.

[frail onyx]

ooo ok

wait i think i got it figured out

its kinda messy lol, but would this be a viable way? it seems to work so far

[fiery sierra]

if it works absolutely!

[frail onyx]

alr nice, tysm for the help again! Ur pretty good for only like 3 days lol, i've been doing it on and off for a while and still haven't got a great grip lol

[fiery sierra]

google is a big help, their fourms have a lot of information and help on it too. I promise if you have a question, someone else has had the issue to. 🙂

if you'd like you're free to add me, I won't mind helping out. I'm having fun learning it, just need an idea on what to make haha

[frail onyx]

ooo nice

sure i'd be down to

[fiery sierra]

cool

[dry hatch]

Hey friends, I've been stuck on making the save system for my game. I'm just trying to save which abilities form a data table have been unlocked in the main menu before loading into the game. Here's some screenshots lemme know if you need more context! (also the last two screen shots are my latest attempt which I'm aware is wrong I just don't know why.)

[fiery sierra]

aren't data tables read-only? I haven't messed with save game, but I remember reading that datatables are read-only.

[maiden wadi]

They are read only.

[maiden wadi]

In your SaveGame, you should save an array of Name or DataTableRowHandle properties. These can point to the RowName, or the DataTable and RowName for your datatable.

[topaz condor]

how can i build my game as is to see how it would run?

[fiery sierra]

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

I just run it as a standalone, but I'm not sure that's helpful so here's a video.

[frosty heron]

Package it

[topaz condor]

when you run it in standalone how come it runs on 2 screens?

[fiery sierra]

like it runs 2 instances?

[topaz condor]

no it stretches onto 2 screens?

[fiery sierra]

I use a laptop, so I can't help there I don't have 2 screens.

[topaz condor]

how do i set the game resolution?

project settings?

[fiery sierra]

click the 3 dots next to the play button and go to advanced settings

[topaz condor]

awesome thank you

[frosty heron]

True test is on packaging

Stand alone is meh

[topaz condor]

if i built the game, would it mess up anything in editor?

[winged holly]

is there any switch on object BP Node ? like SwitchOnName !

[brave cape]

Problem: Open Level -> Enhanced Input Fails

Anyone had this issue? I have a simple start level that creates a UIStack and pushes a Start Menu Widget, User clicks "New Game", it just does Open Level by Object Reference...

The level loads no problem, everything looks good, game mode, pawn, player controller, game state all are set but the input just doesn't work. I'm going mad here.

[maiden wadi]

No. You're cooking the game files into a new directory. Entirely separate of the editor.

[topaz condor]

thank u

[maiden wadi]

• Are you in Menu or Game input mode?
• Did you apply InputContextMappings?

[brave cape]

Hrm, I'm not in a mode that I know of. And yes, it applies the InputContextMapping...

When I load the level manually it works fine too.

[maiden wadi]

You have to be in an input mode. There's three. Menu, Game and All. AKA UIOnly, Game, and GameAndUI.

You're using CommonUI stuff, right?

[brave cape]

Yep

[maiden wadi]

And after loading into the new map, something pushes an Activated widget to screen?

[brave cape]

That's right

[maiden wadi]

That activated widget should be setting the input config to All or Game if you want Enhanced Input controls.

[brave cape]

Gotchya, let me see....

[maiden wadi]

Make sure that it is the right widget activated too.. Uh...

I think this is the command?
CommonUI.DumpActivatableWidgetTree 0 1 0 0

It should put a list of activated widgets in the output log.

[brave cape]

Oooooh, thanks!

[topaz condor]

what is build all levels used for under the build tab?

[brave cape]

I don't think that console command works, but I think you're onto something about the widget being focused.

I'm seeing "LogUIActionRouter: Display: [User 0] No focus target for leaf-most node [PlayingModal_C_0], and the widget isn't focusable - focusing the game viewport."

[glossy cloak]

I believe it builds all the lighting, navigation, geometry etc in all sublevels.

[brave cape]

Ah yeah, @maiden wadi -- Something around this focus -- Thank you for direction here!

[maiden wadi]

Focus shouldn't matter here.

[topaz condor]

i havent been able to find a tutorial on it, do you know what that means exactly lol? im trying to figure out if its something i need to be doing as im creating the game

[maiden wadi]

Focus is for inputs in the widget itself. Won't affect gameplay inputs. Only the two things I mentioned above will. If you have applied a context mapping, I'd wager you're in Menu input mode.

[brave cape]

Except I went into the level and manually did "Set Focus to Game Viewport" at the end of my input setup and got the exact same behavior.

I'll try to change the mode though

Hrm, when I set the mode to any of the three it fails as well... Wild.

[maiden wadi]

Can't help much without more info on what is happening. Where are you setting the input mode?

[brave cape]

I'm not setting it at all, and when I try to set it to anything it kills enhanced input.

[lunar sleet]

Then set it

Not having a set input mode usually causes issues

[brave cape]

Again, if I set it to any of UI, Game, or UI + Game - It makes enhanced input not work.

[lunar sleet]

Game + UI should allow both to work

[brave cape]

I appreciate that, but it's failing me here.

[lunar sleet]

Try clicking in the viewport first and see if that does it

[brave cape]

Yep, doing that.

[lunar sleet]

So does the input work after the first click?

[brave cape]

No, not if I set the input mode.

It does fine if I don't.

[lunar sleet]

Can you show where you’re adding the IMC and everything

[glossy cloak]

If you're using static lighting and not dynamic then you'll need to build lighting. If you're using AI with a navmesh you'll need to build navigation when you want it to update around new or moved geometry. Other than that you're all good. Just keep on working. 🙂 It's a good practice to build everything before you package your game for distribution.

[topaz condor]

got it, thank you!

[glossy cloak]

Input mode default to game at the start of the game. If you set it to UI you don't need to put a widget in to focus. If you need input from your character while your UI is open then use set input mode game and UI.

There's a good chance I missed a lot of context and that didn't help you at all but I thought I'd take that chance. Lol

[brave cape]

Haha, thanks. But CommonUI seems to flip the script on a lot of this.

[lunar sleet]

Often people miss adding the actual IMC or setting the mouse capture mode

[glossy cloak]

Oh? I'm using common UI and haven't had any issues.

[lunar sleet]

Same

[brave cape]

Setting the input mode to anything is not working for me.

[glossy cloak]

What exactly is the issue?

[lunar sleet]

#blueprint message

[brave cape]

Oh, right one sec.

What's the best way to show them, just a screen shot?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah

Win shift S

[glossy cloak]

I scrolled up

On begin play you're setting input mode to UI again on the new level and adding a widget to the screen I assume?

[brave cape]

This works, but only when I start on the level, if I Open Level into it, the enhanced input events do not fire.

[lunar sleet]

Interesting macro

Priority should be 0 btw unless you’re trying to override another IMC

[brave cape]

Also if I add to the end of this, Set Input Mode X (Game, UI, Game And UI) -- It will fail.

[glossy cloak]

Is the event even firing?

Are you manually spawning and possessing that character?

[brave cape]

Ah yeah, I was trying to see if that worked.
And yes it's all firing.

Wait a blooming second...

It was totally the priority.

OMG

I changed it to try and see if that was the issue, but never changed it back.

Wow wow wow

[glossy cloak]

Ha ha ha

We've all been there

Glad you got it sorted

[lunar sleet]

As they say show code show error

[brave cape]

I did try turning it on and off again

[glossy cloak]

Lol

[fiery sierra]

this discord is super cool, I'm glad I found it.

you all seem super kind too :3

[brave cape]

Well thanks all.

Time for me to sleep, see you all!

[fiery sierra]

I've been trying to come up with a concept because learning the engine, while fun, is boring without a goal (imo).

I think I finally have an idea I'm working on a GDD for it and getting my ideas on paper which is something I'm not use to doing so putting thoughts into words is hard lol

[lunar sleet]

You’ll prly learn better by working towards a specific goal, just try picking something you think a baby could do if it’s your first project

You’ll likely find out it’s a lot harder as you go along and it won’t seem impossible when you realize its true complexity

[fiery sierra]

I would be lying if I said my idea wasn't a little ambitious. But I taught myself COD modding with C++ and engine work. so how hard can this really be (wish me luck pls lol)

but I'm tackling 2D which i feel like may be a little easier since I won't have to worry about my blender skills or anything.

but I guess we'll see.

[lunar sleet]

Bear in mind, allegedly, the recommended approach is make GDD -> pick the engine for your game based on requirements. Though 2D is doable in UE, it is more geared towards 3D, so you may experience some additional roadblocks

[fiery sierra]

Yea I have worked with Godot a little bit, but I like UE5 and would like to use it if I can. I will definitely look into it more once I flush out some of the GDD. 🙂

So if I step away from UE5 I will probably go with Godot ^

[lunar sleet]

Duroxxigar would approve

[fiery sierra]

idk who that is but yurrr

[brave cape]

Okay, so as I was going to sleep, I realized that no the Priority thing wasn't the issue, and I wracked my head around for a while longer.

And then I had this feeling... There was some plugin that was messing me up I bet...

Uninstalled the Web Browser Widget plugin and now everything works totally fine.

I didn't even have it in use anywhere, but merely being there was messing everyhing up. Wild stuff.

[dark drum]

The reason why is because there's two channels for handling inputs, Game and then UI. Enhanced inputs only fire on the game input mode. (or game & UI)

If Game & UI inputs are enabled, the UI will always get a chance to handle the input first. If it's on handled it then gets passed to the game.

Another thing to note is that enhanced inputs don't honor the focus system meaning if you're input mode is set to game & UI and have multiple widgets with the same input action, they will all fire.

From my understanding, enhanced input support via common ui is less about allowing you to use enhanced inputs outright within your widgets but specify input actions to trigger specific behavior such as cool down effects or hold timers within your widgets using the common ui widgets. (such as the common action widget)

TLDR: Enhanced inputs don't work when in UI only input mode.

[brave cape]

Yeah, the problem was I was selecting all the modes and it was still failing. Turned out the Web Browser Widget plugin was somehow messing it all up. 🤷

[dark drum]

Yea, it might have changed how some of the inputs were being routed.

[brave cape]

I think so.

Good night again, all

[fiery sierra]

sleep well !

[dark drum]

Personally, beyond jotting down some notes (rough ideas), i think a GDD is a waste of time unless you're working on a sequel. Things change to much at the beginning so you'd be wasting you're time documenting stuff that might not even be kept.

If you're wanting a project to start while you're learning the engine, I would just start with a retro clone with a small twist and go from there. A 3d pacman isn't a bad one as you have controlling the player, spawning pills, pickups and some basic AI.

[fiery sierra]

definitely, I'm personally making a GDD because I have very poor short term memory. I'll talk about something and forget it 5 minutes later. This just gets my ideas on paper where I can back them up.

[fiery sierra]

Also I forgot the answer the second part, that's essentially what I am doing! I'm taking among us and adding a twist essentially. Same core mechanics, but overall it will feel different. Or at least that's the hope !

Not exactly retro, but definitely not too hard of a feat.

[glossy cloak]

I usually recommend starting with a single mechanic that sounds like a fun challenge. Like pulling a lever to open a door. Or an elevator. Once you've got that working, think of another one, or add a new feature. Do that until You've got yourself a small game. Then you'll probably be ready to start a new project with a pre established idea. Hopefully an idea that you can complete within the bounds of the skills you just learned and not much beyond them. You'll still learn a ton along the way, but overscoping can lead to hours of frustration and burnout and eventually quitting.

[dark drum]

It's more complex than it looks. 😉 I would go simpler.

[glossy cloak]

So multiplayer? Wince

[fiery sierra]

I have been messing with the engine a lot actually ! and I have some core stuff under my belt as well as C++ knowledge. I'm also not going in dark I've helped my boyfriend with his game design school work so I'm not super well versed in the engine, but I know my way around it a little

[dark drum]

I wasn't even concidering the multiplayer aspect.

[fiery sierra]

yup. I got multiplayer working on a 3D game but haven't tackled replication yet.

I know that's the hard part though

[glossy cloak]

Lol that's THE part.

[fiery sierra]

oh absolutely! I'm just stubborn and know I'll get something down, even if I have to make a few rough drafts

[glossy cloak]

I mean go for it. My test project was a conveyor belt that spawned boxes you could pick up and sort into bins.

Then I started an open world RPG. That was 6 years ago. Guess what I'm still working on.

[fiery sierra]

yea, luckily it's well documented so I will be able to figure it out. Just depends how many sleepless nights it will take

[fiery sierra]

yea I don't expect to have anything playable in my first few months, probably longer. This shit takes time. That's why I'm trying to get myself into communities of people who do this stuff cause help is something I've never been afraid to ask for.

[glossy cloak]

I've been working with multiplayer for a few years now. I started a new project Monday with multiplayer and I've only had to refactor about 4 times so far. I'm doing great! Lol

[fiery sierra]

It happens though ! All part of the fun !

[dark drum]

If you really want to learn the engine, doing some procedural terrain gen in BP can be good. I wouldn't recommend it for an actual release. (should be done is C++) but the stuff you'll learn just so you don't stall the game thread is wild lol.

[fiery sierra]

Yeah I'm using BP as a way to learn the engine then I wanna get into the C++ side. I prefer C++ tbh

[glossy cloak]

That's like learning to wash windows by climbing the side of a skyscraper. Lol

[fiery sierra]

Is it? I thought they were pretty Similar, perhaps we just into the C++ earlier than I thought.

[glossy cloak]

No I'm referring to the procgen comment. Lol

[fiery sierra]

Like I know at the core they're different, but I thought that the core mechanics were similar and naming.

OH

my badd

[dark drum]

Definitely, just make sure you wear a parachute. 😛 I learnt so much when I tried to do it. Class hierachy and structure, generating and storing large amounts of data and how to profile. All so useful.

[glossy cloak]

I love blueprint and only barely touch C++. But even if you're experienced with C++ I still suggest learning blueprints first since they're so core to the engine.

[fiery sierra]

Ok cool that was the plan

plus with blueprints my boyfriend can help out when he feels up to it since he's a little more experienced with them

[glossy cloak]

Yep. Blueprints are amazing for teams and designers. You can build your core functionality on c++ then expose it all to blueprint or create child classes with exposed variables for designers to use.

[fiery sierra]

That's actually really cool. That's why I really wanna make a game with UE5, it just feels more rewarding, if that makes sense.

I used Godot and stuff for small learning exercises and it wasn't that hard to get some basic stuff down. I know once you get further into development it gets harder, but I actually feel like I have to learn with UE

[glossy cloak]

I came from an engine called Stencyl which is a tiny 2d, visual scripting engine. I was blown away by the freedom I had after jumping into Unreal. Then immediately humbled by my completely lack of understanding of performance and optimization. Lol

[fiery sierra]

I hadn't even thought about performance and optimization yet. haha

[glossy cloak]

But yeah. It was a huge learning curve. But I'm smitten with it. I'm definitely an unreal fanboy. The only other engine I really want to learn is game maker. I just love the interface and the idea of knocking out simple 2d games.

Unreal feels like sweeping dust with a bulldozer when it comes to 2d games most the time.

Unless I wanted to do like a complex top down RPG or something I probably wouldn't do 2d in unreal.

[glossy cloak]

On the bright side you usually don't have to think about it. Until you do. Lol

[maiden wadi]

Unreal is really simple if you don't fight it. I find a lot of people try to learn Unreal by forcing it in their own box. Whether from designer standpoint, or hardcore coders who won't touch BP, they exist all across the spectrum there.

It's no different to any other large scale software. C++ as the low level language exists to define data structures and write functionality in. BP exists as the scripting language to block out the designs.

You can't make large scale functionality in BP, it's too slow. You shouldn't write basic game scripting in C++, you'll be too slow.

[fiery sierra]

That's what I was looking into, whether it not it's even something worth fighting. I was watching some videos by people who make 2d games in Unreal. Cause if I went for another engine it would be Godot, I just like the simplicity of the 2D stuff and C#.

[fiery sierra]

yea absolutely, even games I'm more familiar with like cod had scripting languages to handle the small things.

I haven't touched much on the C++ side (haven't really needed to yet), but I've pretty much realized both are useful from fourms and videos I've seen from people who make games.

[fiery sierra]

Ah yes. I've had my fair share of those.

[maiden wadi]

At work, our general standpoint is to write all data structures in C++. We make generic async actions, functions and whatnot in C++. And some classes require C++ bases for networking or performance. But all of the glue and gameplay design functionality exists in BP where gameplay designers can affect it easily to balance or change stuff.

[dusky cobalt]

I want to make component with system that takes Camera location, saves it and then I can access these locations.
I cannot break the code how do I easily access Camera Pawn from component? Is it possible to make the component not reliable on the owner sending reference of itself to the component? If I did all this code in Player Controller it would be easy because I can get Controlled Pawn cast to CameraPawn and access everything, but in case when it's in the component (Player Controller would be owner) I cannot easily do it? I would probably need to initialize this component from Player Controller itself? What I'm missing? Also I thought for clearity I can put all input action events in the component so the Player Controller is not so crowded with shit. I'm going into good direction or should these events still be in Player Controller? The functionality of this is very simple and short. Save locations Ctrl +F1 - F12 and then access them with F1-12.

[maiden wadi]

What actor does the component live on?

[dusky cobalt]

it would live on Player Controller

At least it was my first plan, maybe it should live on Camera Pawn? but then there are all Input Actions events which suit more for player controller than camera pawn?

[maiden wadi]

Can I ask why though? This looks very much like something that should go on the pawn.

[dusky cobalt]

Hmm, well I'm not saying no to this idea. First thought it was more like Player Controller job

[dark drum]

Whats the purpose of saving the cam locations?

[maiden wadi]

Hotkeys for RTS

[dusky cobalt]

So you can click and go to that location you saved.

[maiden wadi]

Remember that controller is generic. It can possess many different pawn types. If you have functionality for a camera pawn, don't put it on the controller.

[dark drum]

If you want it to work regardless of the pawn, then keep it in the controller. You can always use the 'GetComponentByClass' to get the camera component from the controlled pawn. (if it has one)

[dusky cobalt]

Well, that kind of solves the problem if I put this component on Camera Pawn.

but other than that is it ok to put IA Events on the Component?

[queen heron]

how do I properly offset the spline mesh along the spline without messing up the deformation when the spline has extremly bent paths?

one sec for unreal to open up
I have a particular setup that works decently, but sometimes the distance of the mesh from the spline would change and becomes tighter

[maiden wadi]

Pawns are a great example of this too. And this will be far beyond an RTS example but it's a good point. My usual goto case is a normal shooter game where you could have a character, a car, a plane, and boat. You have four separate sets of controls here that might need to wildly be different, have different names, be remapped differently. Maybe someone wants to remap boats to Q/A back forward instead of W/S. But they still want the character back forward to be W/S.

For this reason, you get a lot of inputs that are specific to each pawn. So it's best to put those inputs in that pawn itself. As why would a car need to know about a boats inputs? And why should the controller care if they're possessing a car or boat?

[maiden wadi]

And for this, yes this is perfectly fine. Code will pick them up and register them under the owning actor's InputComponent.

[dusky cobalt]

And 1 more thing, how do you usually handle the case, that for example I already use IA_LeftCtrl in Player Controller for even simple thing like setting bollean ''Left Ctrl Pressed". I need this functionality in this component, do I just take this IA_LeftCtrl again and use it?

[queen heron]

this is the setup

the float value is the offset value

[dusky cobalt]

I know these questions are simple but I don't have confidence yet to say yeah this is the way.

[dark drum]

I setup Input Actions specific for the thing they are for. You can then have different Input Context Mappings that assign the relevant keys to the actions. These keys can be the same. You can set them to consume if needed as well as setting the priority if multiple actions use the same key.

So for example, an IA_CtrlModifier and IA_StoreCamLoc. These can then be setup in different ICMs that you can add and remove as needed.

[queen heron]

this is how it looks when I bend the spline more

[dusky cobalt]

Okay, makes sense, but in this case when the game is playing I probably won't be switching ICMS because I would need another key to switch ''modes''. Like it's hard to predict that if player clicked ctrl right now it will want to save camera location or add unit to grouping. So I guess you are talking about some other situations like going to Menu and havin there other ICMs (where F1-F12 would click some buttons), and going back from menu to game would switch ICM back, right?

[dark drum]

Potentially. If the player has started a selection action, you can remove the camera input ICM so they don't interfere and then re-add the ICM when the selection action has finished.

While they use the same key, one could be handled when it's pressed and the other when it's released. This can give you some space to see what the player is doing.

[maiden wadi]

I do that with one IMC that has non remappable keys. EG Shift, ctrl, alt. Other IMCs do chorded actions with those.

[dusky cobalt]

Thank you guys.

[placid arch]

I have this setup to load all staticMesh into the scene but i'm only getting one (the first one in directory). I added a print node to check, and it seems like the loop is working fine, indicating 4 meshes

[dark drum]

A static mesh component will only display one mesh. When you call 'Set Static Mesh' you use the same component meaning you override the previous meshes sets with the last one.

[placid arch]

how do I fix this then?

[placid arch]

and also is there a documentation page that explains this

[dark drum]

What are you actually trying to do? As in whats the end goal?

[placid arch]

I have n number of meshes. I want to spawn them all in at runtime

kinda like a test.

I have 4 models now, but I want to scale it up to maybe 100

[frosty heron]

You are not spawning anything tho?

You are setting a static mesh component

[placid arch]

1 shows up at runtime... I'm not sure I understand the difference

Do I have to do seperate spawning logic too?

[frosty heron]

Sure cuz u have one static mesh component and you are just changing that static mesh

Again you don't spawn shit

At least from what you showed us

Do you want to spawn on editor or run time?

[placid arch]

It's my first time using blueprints, or unreal for the matter

[placid arch]

runtime

[frosty heron]

Sure but I'm just saying you didn't spawn anything

You can use add static mesh component

Or spawn actor from class, static mesh -> set static mesh

[maiden wadi]

Like just spawn them all in a row?

[placid arch]

I have a transform logic, based on array index. That's something I'm not too worried about

[placid arch]

I'm gonna try this, one sec

[placid arch]

I've tried what you suggested, but I can't seem to make it work. when I tried connecting add static mesh component, it just said no

[frosty heron]

You are creating a new component here with the add node

You don't hook your pre existing component

From the return value, drag and type set static mesh

[placid arch]

what should the target be then?

[frosty heron]

Self. In other word, don't need to do anything. Self is refering to the blueprint you are in and it's calling the add static mesh comp

[placid arch]

HOLY SHIT IT WORKED

Thank you so much

my collegue said he could kiss you rn (no homo)

[dense venture]

Hey I have a quick question. I'm making a projectile right now that I want to move slowly at first, then accelerate forwards. I have made a FloatCurve for it, but I don't know how to make the projectile follow that curve. My thought was to update the velocity every tick but that seems like a bruteforce and inefficient way

[hybrid ether]

Hello. Any idea how to make this more performant? I want to take some point between 30k and 20k distance so I can spawn waves?

[dusky cobalt]

Do you want to spawn them without limits? I think you could use Timer By Event and every 1/2sec spawn something in the radius. This loop will be firing without stops and very often I think.

[hybrid ether]

I want to get random spawn point in radius 20000cm -> 30000cm.

And using while loop in dedicated mmo server could be risky if I have understood right

[dusky cobalt]

You want to get 1 point only?

[thin panther]

using blueprint in an mmo is risky

[frosty heron]

hold up man

blueprint and mmo?

you might want to get some reality check

[thin panther]

you won't be making an mmo's server code in bp

you won't even be using unreal's network code, it doesn't hold up to mmo levels

you'll be making your own, with your team and funding

[dense venture]

Can anyone help? Nothing I'm trying is working. Should I not be using ProjectileMovement?

[hybrid ether]

Yup

[hybrid ether]

For simple operations with carefully coded I think its okay

[white thicket]

hlo

i just want the train straight

what is the best node to do so

it is a pawn

[dusky cobalt]

Then you don't need while loop, just find one point one time and save it in a variable so you can then use it.

[tidal tendon]

I want this zone to kill a player in 60 seconds if player dont leave the zone, but this only trigger for first player if multiple players go in zone, how can I make this work seperately for everyplayer?

Should I make it do once and make it create another copy of itself when triggered?

[final berry]

Hello! I was wondering what would be the better option performance wise to get the closest actor of a certain class within a specified range. So for example I need to get the closest of 3 actors within 700 range. For these three:
A, distance is 300
B, distance is 150
C, distance is 800
That would be B and C wouldn't even be considered

Is it better to get all actors of that class and check their distance or should I do a sphere trace with a range of 700 that hits a certain object type?

[tidal tendon]

using collision to check overlapping actors would be better than getting all actors of that class

depends on count of actors too

[final berry]

Yea fair, let's say the amount of actors to track whether they are in range of an actor is somewhere between 10 and 80, the amount of actors that need to track their distance towards those 10-80 actors are somewhere between 5 and 30

So lets take those numbers:
Min: 5 actors need to track the distance of them to 10 other actors
Max: 30 actors need to track the distance them to 80 other actors

What do you think is the best for min and for max?

For both scenarios when an actor found a target that's valid it doesn't need to find a new one, only check if the targeted enemy is still in range (or destroyed)

Don't know if that matters for whats better?

[trim matrix]

Really? Fortnite is as big as most mmo and it does work really good in unreal

[thin panther]

Not even slightly. Fortnite isn't anywhere close to an MMO

It's also a much, much simpler game.

[trim matrix]

?

MMO is like 100 player... which is fortnite

[thin panther]

MMO is not like 100 player

[bright hamlet]

Massive Multiplayer 500+

😅

[trim matrix]

Fortnite is a simple game to reproduce?

[thin panther]

No. Simpler != simple

It is miles simpler than an MMO, but it's still an extremely difficuly game to make

[trim matrix]

😩

What game could you name that are MMO?

[thin panther]

Think of it like building a rocket is much simpler than trying to swim into space, but building a rocket ain't easy.

[thin panther]

Runescape, WoW, Star Citizen

[trim matrix]

Ok

[wise ravine]

Is there some documentation that goes into more depth explaining this flow chart? And what each stage is and does?

(question for anybody)

[thin panther]

For example, runescape can have 400 players in a server.
Even with 100 though, you're doing some networking code yourself. There is much more world state to replicate to 100 people in an RPG than there is in fortnite.

MMO's aren't feasible unless you've got a large team and millions of funding

Not for what most people think of as an mmo, at least.

[trim matrix]

You can just replicate manually what you want (i.e
Not everything)

[thin panther]

It's really not that simple

Even normal old multiplayer isn't that simple

let alone mass multiplayer

[trim matrix]

What about 2 player?

[thin panther]

no, even two player multiplayer is not simple

Unless you go somewhere that takes the hard bit away, like Core or Roblox.

[trim matrix]

Core and unreal's networking are pretty close i think

[thin panther]

Except for the huge difference that core does it for you, like uefn

Core, UEFN, and Roblox are all game makers, they take the hard bit of development away and give you nice easy things to use to build a game.

[trim matrix]

They manage sockets under the hood for you?

[thin panther]

They manage a lot more than that

[white thicket]

@thin panther how can i ease in and ease out interp to movement?

[thin panther]

Though in unreal you won't be opening sockets yourself most times

[trim matrix]

Name all of those please

[thin panther]

Why would you ping me for this

[thin panther]

No, it would take far too long.

[trim matrix]

Some

[trim matrix]

Name few of those pleasr

[white thicket]

because you are legend

[thin panther]

No, you can go look into the multiplayer functions and online subsystems yourself, it would be a great exercise.

But even with all that Unreal handles it's hard.

The game makers handle much more though, and you don't have much to worry about.

It's why a teenager can spin up a working roblox game in weeks, but it's going to take years of learning and developing to ship even a simple multiplayer title with Unreal.

[bright hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-yoda-patience-sw3-gif-21070142

“I’m giving up each third day to get a break” 🤣

[night yacht]

I am trying to make a marble rolling game similar to monkeyball, but when adding force the ball just gets faster and faster till its too fast. I feel like im missing a simple solition here on how to add a force similar to gravity where it can reach its max speed.

[wise ravine]

Use a timeline

[thin panther]

The above video is easing the movement very clearly

[wise ravine]

the train abruptly stops wdym

[white thicket]

yeah that's the problem

[thin panther]

It slows down

[white thicket]

so i need to use timeline for that

[thin panther]

If you aren't using interptoconstant, it's easing

[white thicket]

no it not it just suddenly stops

[thin panther]

if it's not enough easing, use a timeline

[thin panther]

No, it slows down

It clearly decelerates

the interp to nodes do, that's why the interp to constant nodes exist if you don't want that

as jma said if it's not enough easing, use a timeline, or move on tick and sample a float curve

[white thicket]

okay i will use a timeline

[thin panther]

make sure you cache your variables before lerping them on a timeline :P

i.e. don't plug current directly into "A"

[white thicket]

One more thing is this the best way to stop the train and then start again

just convert these to functions or events

[trim matrix]

Indeed

If anyone can help that would be awsome, In the does save game exist it passes with true but then when it does load game from slot it spits out null and the cast obvs fails

I'm bit confused on why it would spit out null object ref

[thin panther]

If it's null, the cast couldn't fail as it wouldn't execute in that screenshot

[trim matrix]

sorry before I put in the branch to debug the cast would fail

at minute I'm trying to debug why the load game from slot is returning null

[thin panther]

LoadGameFromSlot looks like there's a space on the end

[trim matrix]

nope

[cursive grove]

Hey guys, I have an issue. I am tracing spheres from one point to another, and the green ones result to a hit when they touch the tree.
The thing is I have a trace channel called Navigation, but in the tree's collision AND the tree's blueprint, I have ticked 'ignore' for this channel. The sphere trace by channel has "navigation" in it. Do these overlap?

[dark drum]

If the slot exists, it'll load it. If its not loading it then its an issue with the name or it doesn't exist. Prompt the slot name to a variable and test again. Also, remove the is valid branch. If you're already checking if the slot exists, it's not needed.

[dusky cobalt]

They BOTH need to block / overlap each other for it to work. Maybe you have other components that this sphere sees and they collide with the sphere?

[trim matrix]

well this is what I couldn't work out, the slot does exist apparently but yet returns null on the load game from slot

[dark drum]

This is pretty much my setup when ever I need to load anything and it's never once failed to do what is should.

[trim matrix]

what you using the tag thing for ?

[dark drum]

I use the tag to denote the slot name with a folder structure.

[trim matrix]

still not working for me

can't see what I'm doing wrong as I did have this all working

[dark drum]

does the cast fail?

[trim matrix]

yep

[dark drum]

Then the save game object you save to the slot isn't of the type you're trying to cast to.

[trim matrix]

thats before the cast does it stuff

[trim matrix]

well in that there the load game function out pin there is no object being returned

[dark drum]

clear all saved data for the slot and try again. The save data probally doesn't match the SGO class any more (for what ever reason) so it's unable to create the SGO from the data.

[trim matrix]

if I look in saved I see this so something must have got odd somewhere

[trim matrix]

I've deleted that save game file so see when I restart editor what happens

[dark drum]

no need to restart when deleting .sav files.

[trim matrix]

that seems to have sorted it, just gonna breakpoint to ensure

thank you for the insight as I wouldn't have thought the save file being the issue like with classes not matching

what would be better, I'm making a game thats kind of linear so it's not like in open world or anything, would I be better using level streaming rather then world partition ?

[dark drum]

I would go for level streaming if it's pretty linear. It'll give you more control regarding what is loaded and unloaded.

[trim matrix]

sweet I was thinking of that route being the best but obvs with UE5 they brought another 2 ways of doing stuff

well improved method on world composition and world partition

[dark drum]

They both have their pros and cons. World partition does most of the work for you but that's at the cost of fine control. (from my understanding) World partitions to the grid as well which isn't always desired.

[trim matrix]

so somehow I need to disable world partition so I can use level streaming

[trim matrix]

thats fairs

like it's disabled yet it's saying I need to disable it to use level streaming

[final berry]

Collision or sphere trace? 🤔 Or is that what you mean with collision? Or do you mean like a cylinder of the range and see if an other actor is inside of it?

[tidal tendon]

I mean I would put a sphere around actor to check overlaps

[trim matrix]

how do i disable world partition ?

[final berry]

Hm yea that's a good one

Would be way cheaper than have an event tick to do a sphere trace like I":m doing now 😅

Cheers

[trim matrix]

nevermind done it

[shut escarp]

just wondering is there a better way of doing this

[lament fox]

How do you make a chair that you can enter and exit? Would the chair be a pawn that you possess and the player gets destroyed?

[dark drum]

What are you trying to do?

[shut escarp]

my player can hold either a primary weapon or secondary weapon and they are held on like the back for example, and current weapon tells what they are currently holding

but i need a way of seeing which state they are in

[dark drum]

The chair would just be an actor, when you interact with it play a sitting anim and disable movement controls. When you want them to stand up, play a stand up anim and return movement controls when finished.

[dark drum]

So current weapon would be either the primary or secondary weapon?

[shut escarp]

yes if they are holding it in hands, if nothing they can potentially have a primary on their back for example

[lament fox]

What about if its a First Person game? and what if I want the chair to move

[dark drum]

Use this, you can then use a select node or a switch on int. It'll give you an int between 0 - 7 which will be all the different possible state.

[dark drum]

Talk about moving the goal posts. 😛 You can attach the character to the chair after they've sat down. They'll then move with the chair.

As for 1st or 3rd person, the method wouldn't be much different. For 1st person though you might want to have the camera change but other than that you probably still want to play an animation of sorts. (assuming you have arms and legs and not just a floating blob)

[faint pasture]

Why not just make it be a thing the character sits on

[faint creek]

Hey guys somebody knows why mi AI pawnsensing can see the player through the walls or every other objects?

[lunar sleet]

Pawn Sensing was replaced by #gameplay-ai Perception.

[pallid sphinx]

it wont let me rotate the spring arm on the Z axis at all Y is working fine and it works fine if i make the capsule or someting else move but the spring arm will only move on the X or Y axis

[faint pasture]

you sure spring arm isn't using control rotation?

[fiery sierra]

isn't pitch along the Z axis? Not Yaw

I guess I'm wrong actually now that I look at the nodes

[pallid sphinx]

its backwards in unreal

[fiery sierra]

Ah that's a bit odd

[pallid sphinx]

but everything works except turning the camera left and right

[fiery sierra]

well, yaw would be up and down in this case, so pitch is what we need to look at, can you screenshot that section a little more so I can see it.

[fiery sierra]

ty

can you breakpoint inputaxis pitch

I wanna see if it's even firing.

[ornate goblet]

I have a blueprint that uses eventbeginplay to show ui, its supposed to do it only once, after playing for 20 seconds ish, there is a blueprint that i cant delete from the explorer with the same name of this blueprint followed by "(Unloaded)" and i cant delete it, this blueprint eventually runs eventbegin play again when it randomly gets loaded in the game and after a while it deletes itself any idea why?

[fiery sierra]

I haven't run into this issue but I found this thread where they discussed possible solutions.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/event-begin-play-of-level-blueprint-fires-twice/416965/36

[dusky cobalt]

Try to fix up references in the folder and when something pops up click to delete (clean), if nothing is happening try to restart editor and do it again.

[last pier]

Hi, I got a question, I'm doing a random movement event for my AIs, but it's only succeed if the player is near the AI, I was wondering why, is there a range to AI moving or something like that ?

[ornate goblet]

@dusky cobalt thank you!

[lunar sleet]

Depends how you have your movement and your #gameplay-ai perception setup

[last pier]

well, this kind of node always return false when the player is too far i don't understand why

[lunar sleet]

Probably not on the navmesh then

[wintry rose]

Does anyone know a way to save a texture imported at runtime to a save game file? Either using c++, blueprint or a plugin?

[last pier]

I got a navmesh whitch fills all the map, maybe the node needs it in entry i'm not sure

[lunar sleet]

You can use the Visual Logger to debug.

[last pier]

I'll try it thanks

[dusky cobalt]

Question about Common UI and theoretical situation:

When I select unit, his UI with commands and abilities pop up. If I would select 20 units and** use Common Ui to push all the widgets, even if they are the same, would this cause performance issues?** I'm looking for either lazy or proper way how to handle this. If I could push 20 or more widgets there and and then I could control which one (which type to be specific if there are different types of units) is actually shown up (by then clicking in the window with selected unit, and pushing THIS unit widget up) this would fix a lot of my ''problems''.

A little bit more details: What I'm thinking right now (if not pushing widgets) is that instead of creating widget for each unit, I would create only 5 widgets basing on different types of units, then after selecting I would check which types were selected and I would display widget of let's say [0] unit of Selected Units array, with possibility to click other unit (in the selected units panel), check his type, and switch to that panel (with his skills).

The panel would have his abilities displayed, and after clicking it, it would check all units with tag and send event to use these skills for each unit, but that's for later to figure out. Now I'm thinking how to handle these widgets.

[faint creek]

Ah ok thx

[visual crest]

how would I go about getting my skel mesh from my class ref?

[lunar sleet]

The component or the asset

[final berry]

Is it me or does projectile movement and collision seem very fidgety for shooting bullets? 🤔

[lunar sleet]

It breaks easily at high velocities

[final berry]

Yea and at lower speeds it sometimes misses the target 😅 even when using the homing component making the bullet circle around it like a damn moon around a planet 😂

[visual crest]

This is a spawner and I want it to show the preview of the class its going to spawn. ATM I am manually setting it and it accord to me that I can set it in the construction so I don't have to do the extra clicks but I am not sure how to get the skell mesh asset from my class ref.

[final berry]

If anyone has suggestions on how to do damage from towers in a tower defense consistantly then im all ears😬without the obvious applying it instantly like a laser would

[mental trellis]

Projectiles?

[visual crest]

Fire it let it fly then do a traces on tick from its starting proint to where its at now and see if it hits a target

[dusky cobalt]

Just boost up velocity of the projectile so it will be better at aiming.

[mental trellis]

Or make them steer towards the target. Or use prediction to aim in front of them.

[visual crest]

and when trace hits a target stop or destroy it and have the trace do damge

[dusky cobalt]

You could try to play maybe with mass to slow it down (not sure).

[hollow cove]

look into the node "predict projectile path". the tracing from start to current position wont work for a projectile very well because youre tracing a straight line

[mental trellis]

If it's doing circles around the target, the homing force/whatever isn't strong enough.

If you want it to just hit the target every time, make the projectiles literally move towards the target every tick.

Screw straight lines and homing forces.

[lunar sleet]

I use DAs

[visual crest]

Thats true you can also do multiple traces that save were it was at and were its now and does the trace like I did for my sword

[visual crest]

Whats DAs?

[lunar sleet]

Data Assets

[visual crest]

Then I'd have to change my entire set up.. is there no way to get my skell mesh from a clas ref without spawning?

[lunar sleet]

Uh, maybe you can get class defaults idk

[dusky cobalt]

In the worst case put actor somewhere in the level outside the map and use Get Actor Of Class and then use what ever you need from there, get class defaults might work too

[visual crest]

Wont work because My AI class is a sub class of my primary class so its class defaults are rather small

[dusky cobalt]

cant you create new variable inside that class and set it with mesh?

[visual crest]

hum

[dusky cobalt]

If you are still early in your game development I would move things like units if you have a lot of them to Data Assets, you will never look back to class childs etc.

and differencies you can make up with components for example

[visual crest]

I was using data assets for stuff like Inventory items but kept runing into the problem of them having to be spawned for the stats and stuff I needed to actually work properly so I created one master inventroy BP and now just make child's of it and fill in the info for each BP in the BP and it works 10X better for all the data I need

Allso DA's data CAN NOT be changed at run time which just does not work for me.

[dusky cobalt]

Why would you change Data Asset on runtime... why not create BP_Item and put logic that consumes Data from Data Asset and then all you do is feed DA_Pickaxe and everything is handled?

[visual crest]

because to consumes Data from Data Asset the item HAS to be spawned

so its default data has to be in the BP any way which makes DA's redundant.

[dusky cobalt]

If you want to access data from Data Asset you can do it in any blueprint?

[visual crest]

unless I want to be spawning thousands of items at the start of ever instance

[storm shale]

To address this you can get the parent defaults as well, just got to the details panel and check the boxes, they are disabled by default; then u can also hide everything not connected to make it not much clutter

[visual crest]

Normaly I can acces all the data I need by just casting to my master class of which I only have two total. Item and charactor

[dusky cobalt]

You just create variable with PDA_Item and then put DA_Pickaxe into that variable and voulia you can access everything?

[visual crest]

Ah Thanks I didn't realize that. You are right. However for some reason skell mesh is not showing up in the defults

[glossy cloak]

Idk how you know what is going on with those electronic noodles. lol

[glossy cloak]

Did you add it to your primary data asset?

[dusky cobalt]

I didn't bother to separate it, you could keep it cleaner for sure.

[fiery sierra]

sorry to bother I know this is kind of off topic, but how did you get your blueprints to be square I really like it.

[dusky cobalt]

Flat Nodes plugin

[fiery sierra]

tyty 🙂

[final berry]

Right, like a set actor location kinda thing? 🤔

[mental trellis]

Something like that?

[sharp igloo]

Not sure if this helps, but You could try using the gameplay tag system for this

[trim matrix]

so i'm getting confused with saving stuff

obvs theres load and save game to and from slot

would this be the slot ?

so the slot I put in is the name the file will end up being ?

just cause I'm trying to thing how I want to save if I simply just have a global save file for everything not player related

[frosty heron]

Yes

And yes for multiple save files too

[trim matrix]

so let's say I have an options menus would I save that with a different slot name

[frosty heron]

You want separate save file for your user settings

[trim matrix]

say to the actor values ?

[frosty heron]

I have my volume and game settings as a separate save file

[frosty heron]

Not sure how this relates

What are you confused about

When you want to save your volume or display settings, just dump them into your gamesettings.sav or w.e you name it.

You can also make separate sav file for achievements and the like

So even if you can have different game save slot, they all share the same achievement

[trim matrix]

I think it's cause the way I'm thinking of it is I have multiple save game derived classes

and also multiple slots, thats prob whats messing me up

[frosty heron]

@trim matrix you can have as many slots as you have but when you are looking to load the volume settings, you are just going to load and overwrite that one file.

Think about the games you played

[trim matrix]

well this is what I'm trying to piece together in my head. I obvs don't want to accidently save slot and overwrite values I aren't meant to

which was why I was trying to in my head work out best way of doing it

[frosty heron]

How would you accidentally overwrite the files?

Like you are in menu option

You have different save game objects to use

[trim matrix]

so for instance I am using level streaming and want to do persistent across game sessions so player unlocks a door they save and when they come back it's how they left it as it was to a certain extent

or level unloads and loads it's how they left it roughly

[frosty heron]

Yeah don't see any issue with that

Just store shared stuff into another .sav

Game slot would be a different .sav file

[trim matrix]

in my head trying to work out would I have a derived save game for this useage of world persistence or use the one game settings uses ?

[frosty heron]

It can contain individual inventories, name, etc respective to game slot

[frosty heron]

Don't see why you have to do any sort of inheritance

A sound menu would have volume settings

Where and why would inheritance be of use here

Sounds a bit confusing to me

[trim matrix]

thats what i'm kind of in my head trying to work out which is best

either one derived Save Game object where literally all values being saved would live

or one for Game settings and one for world persistence and obvs the respective values would live in the respective object

[frosty heron]

Containing them to relevant data is probably more desirable

Than to just dumping everything into one .sav file

[trim matrix]

so I'd be best with roughly specific use save game objects

plus it would prob be neater

[frosty heron]

Save game file use save game object yeah

Create a class for each .sav for the data you want to save

[trim matrix]

yeah think thats what i'm going to do thank you 🙂

[analog prism]

i have a blueprint whos parent class is "Actor" and i don't know what to put for the object, i tried get objects of tag "Actor" and it failed the cast.

I'm trying to cast to the blueprint which has a parent class of "Actor"

[frosty heron]

Get the object reference of w.e you trying to cast

[analog prism]

[frosty heron]

Have you set the actor variable tho?

Unitiliazed pointer will just point at nothing

[analog prism]

i got it working

dw ab it

[frosty heron]

K

[floral stump]

what's the difference between these two samples?
why they behave not the same?

[versed sun]

first one is: Not Proning AND Not crouching
second one is : you ARE proning AND ARE crouching, NOT!!

[floral stump]

so the second one take only the crouching as ! into account right?

[versed sun]

2nd one you have to be crouching and prone at same time to make it False, else it is true

[floral stump]

if prone is already false and i changed only crouching to false, it still not working as the first one

[versed sun]

AND has to both be True for it to be True

[dusky cobalt]

it works only when these first ones are TRUE and TRUE and makes them NOT if they are both TRUE, but if any of them is false, then this is false and makes it true

[floral stump]

well i will go with the first one, use to cpp, bp is kinda strange for me 😄

[dusky cobalt]

If I have 5 Input Mapping Contexts that use the same hotkeys ASDFGZXCVB, after I switch to one, I have check to remove 4 others every time?, since I cannot promote to variable return of add maping context I cannot save it as Current Maping so I have variable to remove?

[versed sun]

here is how i swap IMC

[dusky cobalt]

Hmm, I have Main Input Mapping (most of hotkeys) and then 2nd input mapping with 5 variations. I would need to add the Main again after clearing mapings.

[versed sun]

yup, that should work

the Clear All Mappings was the only way I saw to remove old IMC

[dusky cobalt]

I guess there is no better way. I just wanted to avoid having to copy paste 50 keys x5 if I want to change 1 mapping or after adding new one to not have to add to each mapping new input.

[native wigeon]

Why does this only work if i cast self to actor even though it derives from actor??? (its class is Character)

if not, the instigator variable just returns none

[frosty heron]

Casting is just a type check

This case you are doing redundant operation

Read the warning written in your blueprint compiler window

[native wigeon]

i know that, but it doesnt work without the cast, which is why i'm asking 😅

[frosty heron]

There is no point to cast an actor type to as actor

The cast doesn't do anything here

You must have done something wrong else where

[native wigeon]

and again, works fine with the cast, so i'm a bit confused

[frosty heron]

Yeah I guess that make sense

Since self can be anything

Self refer to the instance of the blueprint class it's in

[native wigeon]

So whats the best way to pass a "self" reference through interfaces?

[frosty heron]

Not sure tbh, I thought it is interpreted before

Never come across your error before. Maybe someone else did

[native wigeon]

i also thought i'd done this before, but maybe it wasnt an interface, and just a normal function call 🤔

[frosty heron]

Is your blueprint derived from an actor?

Or is it an object?

[native wigeon]

its derived from character, which afaik derives from actor

[frosty heron]

Yeah that's right

I have no idea then

[native wigeon]

ah.. one of those......

right click, "Refresh node", and now it works 🙃

[frosty heron]

🐱

Pretty sure I pass self as instigator many times

Not for interface sure

[native wigeon]

yeah, it seems to work fine now anyway, no clue what was happening! i'm sure this must be used a lot

[grizzled roost]

Hey this is probably really stupid but how do I get this OnComponentBeginOverlap node?
I called it 5 minutes ago and worked with it but then Unreal crashed as it usually does and I lost that progress, and now I just...can't find it?
I can only find the actor overlap node.
Am I doing something different?

[dreamy ice]

select the sphere in the components panel, scroll all the way down in your details panel and add the event

the button you are looking for will be in the events section of the details panel

[grizzled roost]

You're a live saver, thank you.

Though I'm confused how I called before simply by right clicking the even graph and searching...probably didn't even get the right component.
Eh, no matter.

[faint pasture]

AND(!Proning, !Crouching) is the same as !OR(Proning, Crouching)

turn the AND to an OR on the bottom one and it'll be equivelent

but prone and crouch should be an enum, since they are exclusive

[floral stump]

Ok Thanks, but i converted the state machine to cpp, now it works fine

[dreamy ice]

If I make my player hud by nesting user created widgets within a main hud widget, how should I pass variable through to the nested widgets? Is there a best practice for this?

[opal pulsar]

id do it with variables exposed on spawn
so you can set them when creating the widget directly

not sure if thats the best way tho

[frosty heron]

Make an init function or expose on spawn the variables if not too many. If a lot use the former or wrap the data in struct

[dreamy ice]

Is there a way to decide where I want my widgets beforehand and then construct them during the construction the of main hud?

How would I predefine that?

[dry hatch]

so the advice I had gotten before was to get a variable reference to the struct of the data table. Would that still work with what you're suggesting?

[steady thicket]

Hello everyone,
How do I add a randomizer on the left side of my switch node?

[silk cosmos]

This is not really the intended use for an enum. Why not just do a random int in range and run off of that a Do N node? It'll give you the same branches the switch node gives

[frosty heron]

You can convert int to byte I suppose

Random int in range, then convert to bytes

[dull kraken]

im learning ue bps. whats the best way to create a vehicle camera system with different inputs changing the camera view? should I use multiple cameras in different areas around the vehicle and transition them depending on the input? Would it make sense to make it within a scene component so its universal across different vehicle systems etc..

[autumn thunder]

Hi there! I have what feels like a dumb question. For some reason, this doesn't work in a packaged build. It does work in editor, both in PIE and Standalone Game modes, as well as when cooking a build via editor and launching a development client from my IDE. it only breaks if I package a build on it's own. in the log of the buidls where this fails, I get errors like this:

[2024.07.02-01.04.29:605][ 72]LogStreaming: Error: Couldn't find file for package /Game/Enemies/Fisher_00/Fisher_base_Data requested by async loading code. NameToLoad: /Game/Enemies/Fisher_00/Fisher_base_Data``` 
FS_Item is set up as a C++ base class (UFS_EnemyData, which is a UPrimaryDataAsset), and implements GetPrimaryAssetId with this: ```return FPrimaryAssetId("FS_Enemy", GetFName());```, however the class I use for my data assets is a BP child class of that.

[visual crest]

is it possible for the end of this to execute before the function is done?

[lunar sleet]

depends what's in the CallSave

or in Save DroppedItems for that matter

if there's any latent or async actions going on, yes

[visual crest]

I mean the save dropped item function

so I should not have this in a function but instead have the others exe when complete?

or does the return nod force it to finish before exicuting the rest?

[visual crest]

?

I could easily end up having a around 100 items on the ground if the player goes crazy so it might take a few mili secs to finish

[lunar sleet]

yes, the return node is supposed to make it complete the execution first, however functions usually need to finish within one tick

also, for something like this you should use cpp

[visual crest]

CPP?

[lunar sleet]

c++

it's about 10x faster, so even at 100 items you shouldn't have too much trouble

[visual crest]

So this will finish before it moves on then?

[burnt abyss]

Is there any way to detect if the mouse is being captured by a widget / button / slider / whatever? I've been banging my head against a wall for like an hour and a half trying to figure out how to detect it.
Alternatively, is there any to use the Get Mouse Position even while the mouse is being captured?

[lunar sleet]

onMouseButtonDown

[lunar sleet]

it's supposed to yeah

[visual crest]

Thanks

[deep void]

Hi Unreal fam,
Any tips for finding the location and rotation of a possessed pawn?
I have a character that possesses a drone pawn.
This doesn't work (neither does get focal location), just throws up the numbers for the character, I've tried multiple nodes and cant get any results for the possessed drone pawn 😦

[tropic token]

hey guys, I have a code like that and sometimes if I push the button, the action won't trigger, this function won't get called(I have log statement inside at first line of the function). What can be a possible reason for it to happen?

[keen widget]

did anyone know is there any ai assistant for ue5 blueprints?

[queen heron]

what variable type must I use in order to set the location of existing level instances at runtime?

[queen heron]

so you're controlling a pawn through a player character?

[queen heron]

have you gotten the enhanced input local player subsystem first?

[deep void]

yes

[queen heron]

in that case you need to get the reference of that pawn with "Get Actor Of Class"

[tropic token]

I mean. I start the game and it usually works. But sometimes it's not. So there's no pattern. Atleast I don't see it. If the subsystem got initialised ones, it should be all good, right?

[queen heron]

you need to get the enhanced input subsystem first in order for the inputs to work yes

[topaz condor]

whats the best way to put a robe on a metahuman? so that it doesnt look like its ripping down the middle when the legs move

[queen heron]

and then from that you Add Mapping Context and select the Mapping Context asset

[queen heron]

cloth simulation

you should find tutorials for it

[topaz condor]

i was praying someone wouldnt say that lol

cloth sim is a headache

[queen heron]

setting up the cloth simulation isn't as tedious as you think

[topaz condor]

ya but my asset is a skeletal mesh and it bugs out

[queen heron]

cause of the physical bodies

[topaz condor]

how can i remove them?

or just convert it to static

[deep void]

apologies, I should have included in my comment that I tried this.
It gets a valid reference to the pawn, but still provides the location data of the character

[queen heron]

you need to adjust them, not remove them

when you import a skeletal mesh, you'll be provided with a physical body asset to where the skeletal mesh is located

if you open it, you should see a nightmare of physics bodies misplaced

[queen heron]

have you then promoted the return value of Get Actor of Class into a variable?

[deep void]

yep.
Get actor of class (when drone is created) > set as variable
Drone reference > get actor location = wrong data 😦

[queen heron]

how are you setting up the nodes?

[deep void]

thanks heaps for the replies, I think I finally got it.
For some reason get actor location (of the pawn) is returning the character.
I just tried getting the world location of a component of the drone and that works perfectly.

Documentation says getactorlocation 'Returns the location of the RootComponent of this Actor'
Im guessing when the character possess something, they're still the rootcomponent.

[queen heron]

btw, controlled pawn node only applies to pawns that are controlled by an AIController

[primal hare]

I'd like to use "CAST TO" on a blueprint which is a public variable (so I can pick it). How does one go about it?

Hope I'm explaining it right, basically have the BP a pickable variable in the "Cast to"

[queen heron]

from the cast to node, you get that variable from the return value

the return value being "As (name of the blueprint)"

[primal hare]

but which BP to pick for the initial "Cast to" node

[queen heron]

you must create it if you haven't

[primal hare]

an empty basically

[queen heron]

yes

[primal hare]

oh makes sense

haha thanks!

[queen heron]

Actor type would be the best approach (in my opinion)

[topaz condor]

i know u busy helping, but do you know of any tutorials that explain bringing in a clothing skeletal mesh and adding it to a metahuman? everytime i import the skeletal mesh into the cloth dataflow it shows a metahuman body

[queen heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5OYyPHkvlE

[topaz condor]

thank u!

[vagrant cobalt]

is there a reason why set rotation does not work on Geometry collection on run time?

[tropic peak]

I'm thinking about building a daynight cycle based on "current game time (HH:MM:SS)" and timelines. would that work? any tips you could offer? I'm struggling a bit with the implementation that makes sense.

[thin panther]

A cast is a type check. You take an existing reference to something and ask if its of a more specific type. For example "Is this Actor reference my character"

You can't pick a bp in a drop down in the cast to, as it has no knowledge of the scene and you need to cast to a specific instance in that scene.

[bright hamlet]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Rt3cak7KNGhjhIWZtx9wCjBn7HXex-l&si=TREVXr-t28ceP8P1

This one should do some good 😊

Now about current game time is prob something you can set within this I’d assume (he shows how to set it up, with your irl time I’d think it was)

[tropic peak]

I have the game time set up, just need to tie it to a sun movement

[slow bolt]

Hellow! With a very large spline length, I noticed that the spline points twitch when the object moves along the spline. If the object does not move, the spline points do not move. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

[slow bolt]

The size of the planet here is 30000. The diameter of the spline ring is 26963260. This is a lot. The longer the splice, the stronger these twitches.

[dark drum]

I don't know the answer but if you just need a spline circle, why do you have so many points? You only need 4 to get a nice circle. If you just need a point on the circumference of a circle it'll probably better to just use the equation for it based on the radius and angle.

[glossy cloak]

Seems like you might be pushing the limits of the spline and getting some unexpected results. There also might be a better solution than a spline if you just need a mesh to orbit something. Maybe parenting the planet to a center point with an offset and rotating the center point. Though maybe not at that scale. Might not be very smooth.

[slow bolt]

Yes thank you. The fact is that I want to have a complex orbit (elliptical, incline, off-center, etc.). Therefore, the spline is ideal for me, as it exactly follows the shape of the orbit. I looked for the problem in my blueprint. It seems that it consists in the fact that I assign the planet as the center of the actor (SetActorLocation (target - Planet)) and use the defaultSceneRoot's zero coordinates as the center of rotation. It seems that I will have to rebuild the blueprint logic.

[glossy cloak]

Dang. But at least you figured it out. And yeah. I see how a spline is definitely the best way to go.

[slow bolt]

I solved the problem! I changed the order of execution of the logic so that in evenTick, first of all, assign the planet as the center of the actor, and then everything else. No more shaking. )

[primal hare]

I have a reusable BP_Text for onscreen text (widget is a public variable).

But I'd like this text to only appear if a condition has been met in another BP (BP_A, BP_B etc.). But rather than specifying a "particular BP", I'd like the BP to be a public (pickable) variable.

So when I pick a BP, it's variables become available to be used in the BP_Text.

Is this possible?

Am I correct in thinking that, "Event Dispatchers" also live inside a particular BP, so one has to reference that particular BP always to use them?

[glossy cloak]

Nice! Congrats! Glad you've got it working. On to the next challenge! Lol

[glossy cloak]

Yeah. You'll need a reference and bind to it for it to trigger a dispatcher.

As far as your text with conditions go, you could make a blueprint interface with a function called "checkTextConditions" with a bool output. Then you'd have an exposed actor variable you can eyedrop on the actor with the text and when you're ready to check the text you call that interface function on the condition actor.

On every condition actor you'd add that interface and set up the condition function.

[primal hare]

Thanks, yes now I was moving towards BP interfaces, seems to be the best solution for this

[glossy cloak]

Yep! A couple other solutions could be a case actor class called bp_conditionActor that has a function for checking. Then you're condition variable you eyedrop would be of the type bp_conditionActor. Then you can call that function to check the conditions. Then you can make children of that class with new custom functionality like components, etc.

And you can do the same similar thing with a component. Make a condition actor component and snap it into any actor you want to have conditions.

That works best for generic actor uses though. Things you can get through "get owner" like visibility, location, scale, etc. otherwise you have to start casting or using an interface and now you've just created more work for yourself.

[dense garnet]

Hi all.

Can please ask for your opinions on "Event Tick."

I am still kinda new at visual script. I heard once - during a tutorial - that "Event Tick" should be avoided as much as possible.

If you use, it have a dramatic impact on your game's performance -- any of this true? Please, I would like to ask for your opinion on this.

Thank you.

[primal hare]

thanks, time to experiment 🙂

[frosty heron]

Event tick runs every frame. It is the place to run something that needs to run or updated every frame.

Eg movement, interpolation, time, physics, etc.

It shouldn't be misused but not avoided. There are myths from tutorials that you don't need to pay attention to.

"Casting is bad" and "avoid tick" is one of the most common bullshit from tutorial.

Read pinned material for more info

[maiden wadi]

Not quite. Not if I take that question literally. You can't reference the struct in the datatable in BP. When you get it, it's by copy.

What I meant is to use FDataTableRowHandle. This is another st ruct type that has a Datatable and RowName in it. Can see them if you break it. If you save this struct, it'll allow you to simply get the Datatable's row data again on load.

[frosty heron]

try /n if you mean line break

[carmine fern]

in map details section I can change the text so here I wanna add it lines

[carmine fern]

oki lemme try it asap

[glossy cloak]

For a line break just hold shift when you press enter.

Never tried /n

[carmine fern]

I did that didnt work

[frosty heron]

Ye use shift enter then

[carmine fern]

I mean I know that but it aint working in this thing

[frosty heron]

I might have done that on rich text with some formatting.

[glossy cloak]

Where are you entering the text?

[frosty heron]

Shift enter should work, you are probably changing a string not text

[carmine fern]

I created binding in widget

[frosty heron]

My money say notedescription is a string not a text

[glossy cloak]

Oh. You could try copy pasting the text from notepad. I did that to figure out formatting for an in game book system I built

[carmine fern]

i tried and I even wrote it somewhere else and then put the space in lines but still didnt worked

heres the code

[glossy cloak]

Shift enter should work on a string as well. I believe I've done it in print string nodes.

Huh

[frosty heron]

My old game is visual novel, I've done it with shift enter

And yea it's a string iirc

[carmine fern]

I used shift enter at many places

but it aint working here idk why

code is totally diff tho I might use that code if this doesnt work

[frosty heron]

I can take a look when I'm home

[carmine fern]

alr ty

[carmine fern]

got the fix didnt know we need to switch multiline on I dropped the ss in case anyone needs in future

[frosty heron]

Sure

[carmine fern]

in details section of widget

[grave relic]

Hey I need some help, I'm having the character jump to the side. I do this by getting the actors rotation and then either adding or subtracting 45 to get the character to jump left or right with a custom jump function.

But now when the character lands the velocity when it lands is in the same direction as when it initially jumped. But I need it to be like this: If I look right I want the character to jump right, this is currently how it works. But Now I need the characters velocity to be the same as it was when it first jumped, but its new forward vector with the same speed has to go in the direction that the camera was looking when the jump was initiated. Any ideas?

[severe wagon]

Where/what do I need to look for to learn about character movement to be able to switch between walking and the default "creative mode" flying around?

I used the FPS template to have simple FPS controls of moving around (arms and guns removed) but I want to be able to hit a button to swap to the default kind of flying mode you get when in the editor.

I can't seem to find a tutorial where it just toggles between these two states.

[wraith loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8HNzXAdcGc I used this tutorial to learn how to fly. Toggling is just a matter of changing between code. For example, you could use a branch to see if you were in flying or walking mode to decide what code to use.

[severe wagon]

Thanks Byron, I'll take a look!

[harsh coral]

Heya, I am trying to pinpoint a GPU skin cache crash in Unreal thats preventing me from enabling raytracing in my project.
I created a thread already and I think I was able to pin point it...
Would anybody be able to confirm this in a fresh 5.4 project?
https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/1234406400957091840

[solemn folio]

hello everybody i am working on a first person shooter and i am currently trying to figure out the ammo system in the game but it doesnt subtract past the forst two shots. anybody can help me?(btw i am using a variable in a struct to keep track of the ammo

[queen heron]

anyone knows why I'm unable to move existing level instances in-game through blueprint?

I have the references, they are valid, it doesn't give errors after ending the simulation, yet the instances remain where they were placed manually

[solemn folio]

did you set them to movable?

[queen heron]

yes

cause unreal warned that they are static

[queen heron]

so when you reach 8 bullets, it does not subtract anymore?

[solemn folio]

yeah

[queen heron]

try having the blueprint live while running the simulation

see where it stops firing

[solemn folio]

it doest subtract from 10 to 8, it just immediately jumps to 8 in the first shot and stays that way

[queen heron]

try taking a closer inspection into your blueprint setup
make sure you're not setting the integer anywhere else at the wrong time

[solemn folio]

yep its not anywhere else

[queen heron]

is the default value of the ammo integer set to 8?

[solemn folio]

for the specific gun its set to 10

[queen heron]

does it fire only once?

or everytime you shoot?

[solemn folio]

everytime i shoot

[queen heron]

are you still able to shoot after shooting more than 10 times?

[solemn folio]

yeah i can rapid fire it if i press the shootbutton enough

[hollow cove]

there has to be a better way to draw pixel by pixel onto a render target??

[queen heron]

there might be an execution order that no longer fires the struct

did you put a branch before decrementing the ammo?

[solemn folio]

no becuz when i put the branch it suddenly doesnt fire

[queen heron]

can you show the whole node setup where the ammo is decremented?

[solemn folio]

sur

[queen heron]

when you have the blueprint window as separate and have it run live while simulating, how does it fire when you try to empty the ammo value?

does the tick stop at some of the nodes? or does it not fire in the custom event?

[solemn folio]

it does fire the node, i can tell because i set the line trace to draw, everything except for the ammo decrementation works

is it like a thing with structs?

[queen heron]

it should fire completely fine

[solemn folio]

the same thing happend when i tried to add a cooldown between the shots

everything except the cooldown worked

[queen heron]

maybe try getting the struct variable instead

[tropic peak]

Why is this "not in scope" happening?

[solemn folio]

yeah i linked the struct to the event so i didnt have to manually call it everytime i needed it in the shooting function. its basically the same.(i also did it before, same thing)

[queen heron]

and try setting the variable

instead of set member

[solemn folio]

in a struct, i can only use set member because the value is IN the struct. I tried using the set ref by var(didnt work). The ammo var is seperate from the first person character and its in the inventory array whenever i pick it

[queen heron]

grab the struct variable and have it as Set
then from the struct pin get the "make" node

[solemn folio]

oh ok

its practically the same thing, epic introduced it to make setting structs less tedious

i tried it

[queen heron]

something else is going on then

[solemn folio]

yeah

[native wigeon]

from my experience the "Set member in struct" doesnt actually update the struct ref, even though its a ref. you then need to set the struct from the output pin..

[trim matrix]

So apparently this is a valid reference

i'm trying to see if a level is being streamed in so I can either unload it or load it

[solemn folio]

elaborate please

[native wigeon]

for example in my own code:

i had issues with the set members not actually being set. so i had to set it again (in this case add in back into the map by the same key). Maybe its related

[solemn folio]

output pin meaning?

[remote meteor]

Because blueprint map's find returns a copy instead of a reference, set member is by reference, but technically you are setting to the copy from the find, and not the original data.

So, in blueprint, editing a map requires you to add it back to override it.

[native wigeon]

Ah that would be why!

i thought it could be relevant but i'm likely wrong then @solemn folio

[solemn folio]

oh so should i use get (a ref) rather than get (a copy)

[native wigeon]

get the "level" variable from the returned one and make sure its not "none" ?

[remote meteor]

yes you should use (a ref) if you want to modify the original data

[native wigeon]

most likely yes if you are modifiying it with the "set members in struct" node

[solemn folio]

ok

lemme try it

it now returns -2 again and again

in the first shot

[remote meteor]

with that said, the printing had an extra subtract

since you already modified it with the set member, the print subtrated again before printing it

[solemn folio]

i never knew it did that

[native wigeon]

i suppose it depends what you are doing but there are some nodes like "Draw material to render target" for example

[remote meteor]

if we write that as a code,

int ammo;
ammo -= 1
cout << ammo - 1 << endl

[native wigeon]

think about it logically, it does the "Set members in struct" first, to the ammo -1. then next it does the print node, which is printing the string of ammo -1. so you are -2

[solemn folio]

so if i remove the print it should work?

[wild sage]

why launch character not work when called outside the character class ?

[native wigeon]

what we mean is not that it is "working" or not, its that you are printing the incorrect data

[solemn folio]

Oh

[hollow cove]

i'm generating pairs of gaussian distributed random numbers and storing them in red and green channels for later use

[frosty heron]

last time I tried reading pixel data from texture, my computer froze for 4 seconds

[faint pasture]

I got you

[frosty heron]

there's probably a proper way to do it 🤷‍♂️

[native wigeon]

if you want to print the ACTUAL "ammo" you need to just change it to that

[solemn folio]

i added a branch in the start of the function which detects if it has ammo or not, if it does it shoots, but if it doesnt, it prints "Hello". The value was set at 10, but it still printed hello in the first shot

[native wigeon]

well what is your branch exactly?

[faint pasture]

Line 169

https://github.com/AdrielKinnunen/SpectrelightPlugins/blob/main/Plugins/SLTilemap/Source/SLTilemap/Private/SLTilemapLib.cpp

[native wigeon]

if ammo > 0 ?

[native wigeon]

why would you be able to shoot if ammo is = 0, though? 😅

[faint pasture]

That's a less than my guy

[solemn folio]

oh mb

[native wigeon]

oh you thought about it in a different way

why not
if ammo > 0 True: shooting, false: "hello" ?

[solemn folio]

yes

[native wigeon]

instead of checking if its less than or equal to 0

which seems.. bizzare haha

[solemn folio]

yeah my bad

but it still says -1

[native wigeon]

did you change it to this?

[solemn folio]

yeah

[native wigeon]

and its definitely just > and not >= ?

[solemn folio]

yep

[faint pasture]

Show your current code

[native wigeon]

why are you still checking if its less than 0

i dont get it

[native wigeon]

^

[solemn folio]

i mean i'll change it but the subtraction still says -1

the print

[native wigeon]

because you're letting it go to -1

which is then < 0

[faint pasture]

The computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do. No more, no less.

[native wigeon]

which is why again i'm telling you... ^

[solemn folio]

no i meant i didnt shoot it 10 times

i shot it once

[native wigeon]

okay then your ammo is 0 in the struct

[hollow cove]

thank

[solemn folio]

nope its 10

[native wigeon]

and youre letting it shoot still to -1 because your branch is bad

first change your branch

[solemn folio]

changed to less than 1

[native wigeon]

what?

if ammo > 0 True: shooting, false: "hello" ?

i'm trying to help but.........

[solemn folio]

ye sorry bout that

[native wigeon]

if you want to learn you have to listen

after this is done, you can try and debug if your ammo is actually 10. cus it seems like its 0

[solemn folio]

yea i did it but it still prints hello

[native wigeon]

are you setting the ammo to 10, but its just a get (as copy) and not by ref?

then your ammo is 0

its as simple as that

somewhere in your code, you arent setting it to 10

[native wigeon]

thats not from an array though?

[solemn folio]

no its from the pickup of the gun

[native wigeon]

then somewhere the pickup isnt setting the info right?

[solemn folio]

it gets added to the array when i pick it up

the pickup itself doesnt change anything in the struct, all of the editing is done in the player

[native wigeon]

for quick debugging just do this for now:

and you can check the ammo before shooting

[dark drum]

This is why I don't use structures for my inventory. Causes to many headaches for me.

[native wigeon]

what would you do instead?

[dark drum]

uobjects.

[native wigeon]

but you cant save uobjects?

[solemn folio]

yeah it prints 10

but also prints hello

[native wigeon]

show the code again. as much in the screenshot as possible

[dark drum]

And? You just extract the data like you would with a structure. When you load, recreate the uobject and apply the saved data.

[frosty heron]

technically you can

[native wigeon]

well for starters, your true and false are the wrong way

why cant you just change it to what i told you several times? 😭

[solemn folio]

oh right i changed the greater

[halcyon heath]

I followed this tutorial to get a blueprint to dissolve a mesh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pq2RYTG04&

However I've discovered it only works with one copy of the blueprint, is there a way I can make it work with multiple copies?
(Left working correctly, right not)

[native wigeon]

share as much of this graph as you can because idk where the left nodes are connected to

[solemn folio]

the scene or blueprints?

[native wigeon]

would you then need to cast to the different uobjects r just a general item uobject every time you load/use item/etc ?

[native wigeon]

the blueprints

[remote meteor]

introducing, Serialization 🙏

[remote meteor]

why is this empty btw, also remember to pass by reference

[native wigeon]

thats why then lol

[remote meteor]

ugh

[dark drum]

Depends how you want to set it up. I tend to use hierarchy so I store the class of the uobject (which is a child of the base item). This allows you to add variables specific to the item type. When it comes to saving, you would only extract the data that would actually change. This can be useful for keep the file sizes down.

[native wigeon]

somehow that went by me

[solemn folio]

now it goes 10 and 9

[remote meteor]

people new to these stuff should probably not use references to start with, unless familiar with it

[native wigeon]

maybe because you arent passing by ref into the function ?

[solemn folio]

i am

[native wigeon]

its not a diamond pin shape

unless you just changed it now

[native wigeon]

..

[native wigeon]

^

[remote meteor]

tell me you are clueless without telling me you are clueless

let me fire up the editor

[native wigeon]

your input into the shooting function is not pass by ref

[dark drum]

I feel like you need to do this.

[solemn folio]

i did, i just disconnected to show

[native wigeon]

i think he did that already

ah

[native wigeon]

but you need to do this anyway

[solemn folio]

ok

[native wigeon]

tick it* obviously

[radiant bear]

i get this error when i try to save and it only happens with projects i upgraded from 5.2/3 to 5.4

[solemn folio]

i set it but still it doesnt work

[native wigeon]

have you turned your pc off and and on again, i once had weird saving bugs after upgrading and i think its because the editor was like secretly running twice or something haha? worth a try

[dark drum]

This is normally caused when you have multiple instances of the same project open.

[native wigeon]

or a game instance running in standalone

[solemn folio]

is there anything i can do or should i try a new approach?

[native wigeon]

well each time i keep asking you to share more of the graph because we cant see it all, you just share the same cropped area of the graph

[native wigeon]

so we dont know exactly where some of your stuff is coming from in the second image here for example

[solemn folio]

the reason is bcuz when i zoom out too much, you cant make out whats written

[native wigeon]

show it in a few screenshots?

1 by 1

better than nothing

or edit them together in paint etc

[solemn folio]

the shooting code

[dark drum]

Move your nodes closer together. So much empty space.

[broken wadi]

use this https://blueprintue.com/

[solemn folio]

i wanted to format it better for readability

[burnt abyss]

doesn't work

[dark drum]

As far as I know, the widget needs to be in the focus path and not be consumed/handled before reaching the widget. (This is assuming input mode is set to UI or Game & UI)

[native wigeon]

tbh even though i cant read this, idk why the ammo isnt changing in the passed ref..

[burnt abyss]

It's not an issue of the mouse being consumed by something and not registering clicks where I want to, I just need to tell if it's being consumed by something. For some ungodly reason "Convert Mouse Location to World Space" and other similar functions stop getting the mouse position when it's being consumed by another widget, so I'm trying to do a work around. If there's no way to detect when the mouse is being captured though, that's where the trouble is.

[native wigeon]

i personally still just believe that "Set members in struct" acts as a copy, and by ref. cus i use it here in an event too, and set it again

[native wigeon]

Doesn't that answer your own question?

you can know if its being consumed if those nodes stop working

[solemn folio]

so what should i do

[burnt abyss]

I thought of this, I tried to compare the values to see if one was updating while the others didn't, but again, they don't update while being consumed

That's the problem

[native wigeon]

like that, but Set array element to the modified one?

thats one solution anyway

[radiant bear]

yea

i tried that but let check task manager

[solemn folio]

so you just set members in struct and set that value to set array elem

[remote meteor]

oh well what a blueprint stupid moment

its because for events, passing by reference is not passing by reference

[native wigeon]

My next suggestion was "try converting it to a function"

[dark drum]

Personally, I would move to a uobject based inventory system. Lol.

[native wigeon]

i wondered that because in the screenshot you posted the node and it doesnt have a diamond shape

functions do have the diamond shape