blueprint

[sudden nimbus]

there is local (actor) space and there is world space

instead, add your actor location to your forward vector and use that as the endpoint of the line

getting the forward vector from 0,0,0 to 1,1,1 makes sense as a representation of rotation, but it is not a point within your world

take that addition result and multiply that by 100 so the line is long enough to see

[tropic token]

it works yes, but now I need to understand it.. xD

[sudden nimbus]

yeah that works

[tropic token]

So there's an actor space and the world space. What can I read about it? I guess it should be somewhere in documentation..

[sudden nimbus]

think about it, if you are facing X, your actor forward vector is 1,0,0

where on the map is 1,0,0?

it's near 0,0,0 🙂

[tropic token]

yea

next to it 🙂

[sudden nimbus]

you don't want to draw the line to the middle of the map

you want to draw it out from the middle of your actor

hence you add the forward vector to the actor location

[tropic token]

what can I read to make my understanding deeper? do you have anything in mind?

besides math books.. or it's the only way? 🙂

[sudden nimbus]

Google for introduction to vectors

[tropic token]

not in relation to UE, just general, right?

[sudden nimbus]

it's not that hard to grok, you don't need to look at things like sine/cosine

and yes, it's general

there's also #game-math now for this sort of thing

vectors are incredibly intuitive

unlike quaternions

[tropic token]

thank you so much

[steady night]

hey guys need tips, im doing a "dark souls like project" and ive got the same type of death condition when u die u drop your exp at death location. now to the issue when jumping down to unreachable spot and dying it leavs the drop there how would i make it "last "ok place" or 10-seconds before death or something ideas?

[thin panther]

While very you're on the ground, you occasionally store a safe location. Store the last few of them, then when you die, iterate then and spawn the drop at the first clear one (iterating backwards)

[humble wigeon]

This also seems like a good place to start too Math for Game Developers Playlist

[steady night]

hmmm like a timer looping every 2-3 seconds storing the location ?

thats seems simple enough tbh

[thin panther]

Pretty much, but you only store it if you're touching the ground and the area is clear

[steady night]

yeah and checking "if alive"

[thin panther]

You only store a few of then as well, like an array with only 4 or 5 entries.

Then when you die, loop backwards and find the first suitable spot. You'll want to do checks to male sure it's on the floor and not obstructed

[steady night]

i could just store 1 tbh ?

[thin panther]

No

If something then obstructs that path and makes it unreachable, what are you going to do. Or something messes up and you have a location that seems like it's unobstructed on the ground, but actually isnt

[thin panther]

This is less important, it depends where you can die.

[steady night]

yeah sure, in this case its mostly related to when falling and dying if u die on a bad"spot" then u would have to figure it out really, i get what your saying but in my case only storing one and replacing it would surrfice for my style tbh

but yeah ty for the idea*

[thin panther]

This also accounts for like if your xp drops inside of a boss

If you die, and boss moves too close to last location, you want it further away

There's literally 0 reason not to.

Give yourself redundancy and backup

[steady night]

but how would i iterate back and check ? or like alawys take the one furthest away ?

the [4] one

aye u got a point there

[thin panther]

It's just an array, you can do a reverse foreach

[steady night]

yeah i get what you mean now its acctualy a good idea

"failsafe"

[thin panther]

Then take each point, trace it down to the ground, trace it in a sphere and make sure its clear

Personally I'd store anywhere from 3-5

[steady night]

yeah makes sense

how often would u save ?

each 5 sec or closer ?

[humble wigeon]

maybe consider adding an extra failsafe where if none of them are reachable you just destroy the XP drop? 🤔

[steady night]

i mean its still suppose to be "hardcore" if u die wile the xp drop its active its replaced and destroyed so dosent matter really

[thin panther]

Again, 3 - 5 seconds.

I'd also make a visualiser that draws debug spheres, and play around with what feels best

[steady night]

yeah

ty for help

[thin panther]

Np

[buoyant sentinel]

Hey there,
I am new to unreal's blueprint i am creating a basic in which i am stuck at a point. The issue is when my character walks it slides perfectly but when its sprint it doesn't matches the speed of print in sliding how to achieve that? Here attaching screenshoot's of blueprint

Move Distance's value is 750

[gentle urchin]

are you gonna slide the same distance, or longer ?

[steady night]

Is there a way to access the cameras "motion blurr settings via BP" ?

im trying to add a options setting to enable/disable motionblurr

[winter sail]

Hello there,

I am trying to set the state in my sequencer inside of the Editor, so that, by changing an Enum value in the Details of my Actor, the Sequencer instantly jumps to a predefined point (in my case the end of the animation). Is there a way to do this? This is how my BP looks like rn.

[lime cairn]

I was wondering if there's a way to override a Set function? For example to make sure when I update a variable in an Actor, it's also updated for a Component

[frosty heron]

Run time or editor?

[lime cairn]

Run time

[winter sail]

I should maybe add, that right now it stays at 0.0 even if I "Set" it to 150 or any other value

[frosty heron]

You can use rep notify then

[graceful sage]

Anyone know how I can get an array of all the names of assets in content folder in blueprints?

[frosty heron]

That function is called when ever a variable value is chabged

[lime cairn]

Right now I got this Widget logic. Arguably there's probably a better way to construct it, but right now I'm updating a variable for a widget, its child and its grandchild

[lime cairn]

Oh cool thanks

[frosty heron]

Ugh for widget?

[lime cairn]

Yeah, I generalised it as Actor but now I realise that Widgets are in their own world of logic

[frosty heron]

You would just initialise the references in the widget at parent construct I suppose

Kinda what you are doing now

[lime cairn]

I'll look into that, it's just that the parent won't always be the same class or widget type so 🤷‍♂️

[frosty heron]

As much as I despise interface for widget, that might be a valid tool then

If your parent isn't always the same class

[lime cairn]

Cool, thanks for the pointers

Maybe I should have posted in #umg but oh well, there was a certain code smell to it

[frosty heron]

@graceful sage

reminder that you can't do anything to abstract class tho like the regular blueprint

not with this method at least

[graceful sage]

okay thx ill try. I saw that method but thought by file path would give some result

[frosty heron]

I use this to edit Material Instance assets

[frosty heron]

Package Path is the file path

[graceful sage]

makes sense

I'm just wanting to make an array of a list of maps i suppose

then dynamically create buttons to select or open them

[frosty heron]

there is a perfect example for that from Lyra

snatched the code and it made my life soo much easier

it's called Common Maps

you can populate it thru UDeveloperSettings

[graceful sage]

I'm currently watching thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERgfPei-IU

[frosty heron]

Don't see how that helps to make a list of map you can change easily

Lyra does it perfectly imo

[graceful sage]

ill check it out

[frosty heron]

it creates a button in your editor, populate the button witht the list of map and you can just quickly switch

cpp tho

dip your toes now!

[graceful sage]

I'm wanting to create level selection for menus but I want to populate automically with maps in the path

[frosty heron]

Is this for player, or for your self (editor)?

[graceful sage]

player

but thats interesting

[frosty heron]

I don't think it make sense using path like that for shipped product

but maybe it works 🤷‍♂️ ? I don;'t know

instead populating it automatically using paths, I would just manually add it to an array of UWorld

for some reason it's not exposed to bp by default... but you can certainly declare the variable in cpp and expose it to bp

an array of this

[graceful sage]

It was just an idea idk. If it wouldn't work packaged thats okay I guess. Just wanted some quick way to select a map and load from main menu

very interesting, I don't have much time before I need to go to bed so I'm not getting into cpp atm lol

[frosty heron]

if the purpose is for testing in editor, I do say Lyra common map is the way to go

[graceful sage]

not sure if I did it wrong but its not printing anything

[frosty heron]

Tick recursive path

and class

[graceful sage]

i noticed it was off unfortunately still not printing

[frosty heron]

for context, Im doing it via Widget Utility Blueprint

because it's for editor time?

doesn;t make sense to get the blueprint assets at run time imo

[graceful sage]

oh I see didn't know that

[frosty heron]

assets != object I think

or maybe it is but I just misunderstand it

[graceful sage]

Ig makes sense I was hoping to create an array of names from map names in maps folder

[frosty heron]

@graceful sage hmm it works

[graceful sage]

is that just the game folder?

[frosty heron]

No, you can see BP_

but it doesn't seems to read Levels

[graceful sage]

I cant get it to print anything

but maybe I need to package the game?

[frosty heron]

well what am I thingking

the node I'm using is get Blueprint Assets

Level is not a blueprint Assets LOL

Don't know any in-built one from blueprint

[buoyant sentinel]

While sprinting will slide a bit longer as i have set roll speed.

[frosty heron]

@graceful sage I don't think you can do it in blueprint actually, the only thing I can see is get Blueprint Assets, which filter the asset to /Scripts only

I think just go with the path of less resistance by exposing an array of Level

gonna sleep, gl

[graceful sage]

same

[frosty heron]

tldr, I manage to get it by writing my own function in cpp

the only thing I can see that make use of the ARFilter in blueprint is GetBlueprint assets but it filters all the assets in the folder to "/Script/Engine")

so you can't get your level using that node

[graceful sage]

unfortunate

[normal viper]

hey guys im not really sure if this is the right place to ask and im sorry if its not
i have a probleme when i try to make the textures on low Scalability i dont see any changes even when i put it to cenimatics or any other setting
why is this happening
also i tried it in a shipped build also the same probleme

[gloomy holly]

does anyone know how i can make this get a random unit style between 1 and 2?

[gentle urchin]

Select -> Random Bool

Or int if there's several

[lunar sleet]

Can even do random bool with weight if you need more control

[gloomy holly]

for some reason inside the select node i cannot put 2 object references

[steady night]

like make it static

[hallow compass]

I would like to blend between cameras with a custom curve, and I'm seeing that the view target with blend node as a "preblended" option. is there a built in way to use a custom blend function instead of the stock blend functions?

[astral wyvern]

Is there a way to access the contraints of a physics asset in blueprints?

I'm thinking get skeletal mesh -> physics asset but then I'm not sure, I don't seem to have access to set stuff

[lunar sleet]

Probably not

[ancient moth]

How could I move a actor so it aligns with the center of the screen, but I want to keep it parallel to the screen? So i get the vetor how I far it is away from the center of the screen

[lunar sleet]

ints not object refs

you can then use switchOnInt for instance.

or you can just go directly with enum and switch on enum

[gloomy holly]

so what do i put in the a and b?

[lunar sleet]

0 and 1 or 1 and 2

you plug the random bool or rnd bool with weight into Pick A

and that'll decide which unit to spawn on each pass

[gloomy holly]

ok, so how do i reference the unit styles?

[lunar sleet]

how did you write ProduceUnit, did you copy it from some shitorial?

[gloomy holly]

like this?

[lunar sleet]

that's one way. A better way would be to directly tie to the Unit input of that ProduceUnit function

what type of var is that ?

[gloomy holly]

its a unit class

[lunar sleet]

ah right

ok sure that'll work for now, tho it won't scale up very well

[gloomy holly]

what do you mean scale up very well?

[lunar sleet]

if you end up having 10, 20, 100 units, duplicating the function that many times would not be ideal

but it works for 2 units

what you could do at that point is make an array of the spawnable classes, plug the index into the function, and just have the function extract that index from the array when spawning

ofc the select int part would need to change too but jump off that bridge when you get there

[gloomy holly]

so its just a male and female villager that gather resources and build buildings, would this type of thing effect them?

[lunar sleet]

no if it's just the 2 genders you should be fine, at least until you spawn someone with gender identity politics trait 🙃

[gloomy holly]

lol, now that is funny xD

so this building called a manor is gonna be for spawning peasants they are called and they only have a male and female model

[final berry]

Hello! Does anyone know what this means?
I'm just setting a variable on a different User Widget like I've done before, this is the first time it says w/ Broadcast

[lunar sleet]

then current code you have should work

[willow gate]

Hey all. Array manipulation question: So when you want to remove something from an array you can do so by index or by item. But can you find the index of a specific item using the same input?

[gentle urchin]

You can search it for the index, sure

And when you remove it, it returns the index removed

[steady night]

hi guys ive got alot of enemies(characters) in my project around 400, 90% are patroling by defaulty (Using the CMC) and all are loaded at the same time, its is causing a Huge Fps Drop since everyone is moving anyone got any tips on how to solve ?

[lunar sleet]

#gameplay-ai but try changing to Navmesh Walking and see if that helps (this might cause issues with the navigation tho)

there are other CMC optimizations you can make from there. Ultimately you might eventually need #mass

[steady night]

hm already have navmesh walking enabled :/

hm okey

[round gorge]

Hey guys , regarding material parameter collections, any way to save out the settings if changed using a blueprint utility widget to the source file in content browser ?

[willow gate]

I don't see any index being returned. The return value is a bool for me.

[willow gate]

Dur... Ignore me. Find

[outer forge]

Is there a way to select exec output pins by index? Something like this:

When input is 0, it executes then 0, etc

[marble tusk]

Switch on int

[outer forge]

Oh! I overlooked that, thanks a lot!

[willow gate]

Switches and select nodes are you very close friends. 😉

[modest monolith]

Do you guys know why delays are longer in standalon mode? I've set up delays for stuff to appen after x seconds but in the packaged game that stuff happens wayyyy later... why?

[lunar sleet]

They’ll also be different from one machine to another. Use better tools, delays are rarely the right choice

[eager thicket]

I want to attach a raycast to a vehicle that if hit, reduces the falling momentum of the vehicle.

The idea is that if the vehicle itself will slow down when falling from a great heigh right before it hits the ground.

What is the best way to achieve this via blueprints?

[vital cave]

You can do something similar to this. This isnt the exact same as what you need, as this was for some simple wall avoidance I made a while back. Generally you're just going to want to do a line trace down, get the location, get the difference in height, and then as that difference in height gets smaller you will apply more scale value. You can use add movement input, or add actor world offset.

[eager thicket]

Wow, this is more than I could ask for and delivered very quickly to. I'll study your solution, many thanks.

Quick question: What mechanism actually slows down the vehicle? Is it the add movement input (which is presumably opposing the direction of the raycast)?

[vital cave]

Yeaup it's the add movement input exactly. It's nice since you can isolate the Z input, which presumably when you're falling isnt being manipulated outside of gravity anyway.

[vital cave]

the direction would just be "1" in the z vector.

[vital cave]

I'm working on this myself right now. So far the biggest helps have been keeping tick rates in check for the actors and their components. Going through my ai's and setting tick rates to off or locking some of 0.0167, or even 0.032 for certain components has had a nice boost in performance. There are other things you can do related to the mesh as well, Disabling Morph Targets, Visibility Based Animation Ticks, and using Update rate optimizations. You can also try increasing the cell size of the nav mesh and making sure its static, along with making the nav agent radius larger. These really don't do as much as I would like them too, but they're a start. After fixing how everything ticked and these changes I saw around a 20-35% increase in performance but that will vary drastically. With 400 ai's though you'll almost certainly want to look towards the mass entity system, which is rough since there isn't much documentation.

[frosty heron]

Mark the asset dirty, then there should be a save node you can use

[frosty heron]

Not using cmc perhaps, it is not designed for mass but for a competitive shooters

Most advice I hear from others to use pawn movement or roll your own movement logic and #mass

[normal viper]

,

[frosty heron]

Provide pic or something

[normal viper]

oh hey man

hope u doing great

wait a sec

[normal viper]

here u go

[frosty heron]

Is your texture a power of 2?

Maybe it doesn't have any mipmaps

[normal viper]

its 4k and i downloaded it from quixel

how do i check if it has mipmaps or not

[frosty heron]

It should be auto generated if the texture is a power of 2

[normal viper]

i think i have 12 mipmaps

[frosty heron]

It's 2 k and have mips

[normal viper]

yeah i thought it was 4k

the thing is all the textures dont get to low quality at all

[frosty heron]

Not sure then, I don't think I have an issue with scalability b4

Maybe someone else knows

[normal viper]

i tried one time to cap the texture with the edit property matrix to lower the resolution of the textures
can that be the probleme ?

[frosty heron]

Don't think so

[storm solar]

When I call StartHitstun duration multiple times it only triggers on the last Event call.
(If I call it 3 times only the last trigger will run the followed up event). Is this the correct functionality?

[normal viper]

its fine
thanks tho ..

👍

[frosty heron]

Executing set timer by event before the time expired will reset the timer

[agile moss]

How do I make the player look in the direction of the mouse?

[frosty heron]

So if you keep calling it before it expire, the function will never get called

[storm solar]

ok thats what I wanted, I just wanted to make sure.
Sweet.

[agile moss]

As in if the mouse is up
Point up
A top down game

[frosty heron]

If that's not the behavior you want, you can create timer inside a UObject or component.

[faint wigeon]

im trying to make a barebones inventory system, rn trying to just keep track of what the player has. currently i need a way to have 2 empty slots that i can then basically tell the game "put this thing 'x' in the first slot if the player interacts with it". i can clarify if needed, sry im just trying to write this before i forget it

any help is appreciated

basically idk what node or thing to use for what im trying to do

[radiant wren]

What would be the best way to make the player character's hand move on to something? Like a simple "put hand here and have the hand move with the thing you've put your hand on"

there doesn't seem to be a "socket" anymore in the viewport add tab, which I thought that would be what would be the answer

[frosty heron]

There is in skeletal mesh viewer or static mesh

[radiant wren]

oh so I can't put a socket on just any actor?

[regal iris]

I want to create a system with weight lifting and want to have stats such as:
Stamina, Strength, Endurance
I know some basic ways I could implement those with structs and such but I have no clue where I should put that and how to create it for, well, flexibility

[distant grotto]

what am I doing wrong here?

nothing gets added to the array. is it the reference to self thats wrong?

I want the reference to be the specific actor in the level that this blueprint belongs to

[frosty heron]

@distant grotto the actor get destroyed anyway when you travel to other map. So not sure what you are doing here.

[distant grotto]

its supposed to store the actor in an array in the game instance, and then on begin play when that level is reopened every actor in that array is destroyed.

but I think I see what could be the issue now. The referenced actor is destroyed when cosing the level , so its reference isnt valid even if it is respawned by reopening the level?

[frosty heron]

Yes, the actors on the old level all got destroyed

Your array is practically useless

[distant grotto]

how would I make it useful though, so the actor references are still valid?

[distant grotto]

set a tag or something like that? Theres multiple instances of the same blueprint on the map, I need to store which instances should be deleted in the game instance

[agile moss]

I have a problem
My character has a function that if he falls under -1000 Z he dies and the game stops
But in the main menu level it does the same and quit the game, and he shouldn't even be there

[frosty heron]

If you need a unique identifier, go with guid

[frosty heron]

Just don't spawn the player in the main menu. Go to your main menu level, open world settings then override the player character

[distant grotto]

guid?

[agile moss]

Ah, I see it

Tysm

[round gorge]

Thx for the advise, but i'm Probably not doing this correct here..

[sacred canyon]

hows the best way to make a whole function that can be reused for multiple actors? Ive made a blueprint interface for a damage system, but what I want now is to be able to reuse some jumpthrough platform logic that I made but on other actors, and idk if interfaces would work for that too?

[fiery swallow]

Interfaces don't hold any logic, you need a BLueprintFunctionLibrary

BFL

[sacred canyon]

ah thanks, and you just put the logic in there as normal?

[agile ember]

guys, I saw usually people do walk/run by get character movement and set max walk speed, simple. But I saw this guy did that way ? can anybody understand it? Toward is a math operation, I google it but get nothing. I also dont understand that how it can change speed without set max walk speed.

[lunar sleet]

you're probably missing half the picture. That CurrentSpeed variable is prly used to change something else on tick or w/e

anyways that is very hard to read and some of that code looks redundant at best, so I would maybe not follow this random guy

[marble tusk]

Someone needs to learn that function inputs have getters

[lunar sleet]

and redirect nodes

and naming functions something that makes sense

[marble tusk]

True

[lunar sleet]

and setting the same variable to false on both true and false of the previous branch is dumb

I could go on but yeah 😄

[agile ember]

thanks, i think its for paly animation(blend space),but I should check again~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdEHJTubR4 the guy has strong accent 😂

[ancient moth]

Hi guys, would it be possible, to calculate the offset (orange vector) of the cameras/screens center?

Pulling out my hair over this, I tried with projecting to screen and deprojecting. But I'm not sure how to do it 😅

[raw spindle]

is there any way to add an outline around a 3D widget? I just want my white UI elements not to get lost when there's something bright behind them.

[surreal peak]

In theeeeeory, a 3D widget is a UMG widget rendered onto a Mesh :D. So you could in theeeeeory also do the usual post process stuff with it.

Haven't attempted that yet though. Could you otherwise just add that outline in the widget itself?

[raw spindle]

I'm doing some manual line-drawing in a bunch of my UI elements and it would be pretty difficult to consistently do this across all of it

I'll look into post processing on the mesh

[surreal peak]

Ah I don't think that will help then :/

[golden cairn]

Could you use a Spring Arm component for this? Then you can just offset a certain X distance in front of your character and that'd effectively be your vector

[dire jasper]

Hi I'm trying to create a game mechanism where the player can write in a book using a pen, and i really dont know how to approach it so kindly suggest me some workflows or tutorials

Thank you

[raw spindle]

calculate (c-a), angle between camera forward vector and (c-a) vector, then use trig functions to calculate that your orange vector

[steady night]

@vital cave 😦 ok thanks for info, i mean this must be a common isssue kinda weird its so ill documented

[dry sleet]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/tick-optimization-toolkit

I can vouch for this plugin. We're using it in our game and have had no problems with it yet.

[steady night]

oh wow

is it easy to implement alspo +

[dry sleet]

I found it very easy to implement.

It's just a component you add to actors you want to configure.

[steady night]

oh damn! nice

[dry sleet]

Check out the documentation before you buy I suppose!

[steady night]

your using the CMC on bpcs also ?

[dry sleet]

Yes, on our NPC:s

But we found all kinds of use cases for it afterwards, too.

[steady night]

cool ill look it over would solv alot of issues!

i can imagain

tics is the devil

[dry sleet]

Like having flickering candles stop their ticking when you're a bit away, disabling emitters, etc.

[steady night]

wow seems cheap for the preformance improvement :i

😮

[dry sleet]

I got it on sale haha

But yeah I'd say it's probably worth the price, just for the sake of not having to implement your own similar system.

[steady night]

yeah

thanks ill look it over

[trim matrix]

Is there a way we can switch preview feature level at runtime using node or code in C++.

[mental trellis]

Is there a way you can not cross post?

[primal hare]

I've solved most my invalid casting errors but this one remains. I think the problem is that BP_AI_ThirdPersonCharacter_C_1 is being used in a Sequencer (which is present in the level itself) which plays when the casting is being done. Although again, it plays sometimes, sometimes fails. BP_AI_ThirdPersonCharacter_C_1 is not spawning but present in the level and being referenced for casting.

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to access BP_AI_ThirdPersonCharacter_C_1 via property K2Node_DynamicCast_AsBP_AI_Third_Person_Character, but BP_AI_ThirdPersonCharacter_C_1 is not valid (pending kill or garbage)". Node: Assign Caught Event Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Bridge Trigger RESPAWN Blueprint: BP_Bridge_Trigger_RESPAWN

What I'm doing is, have a character (with "line of sight" plugin) animated in a sequencer, it looks for the player (collision detection) as it walks along.

[pliant kayak]

whats the overhead on having a bunch of cameras in my scene if I just want to blend between them? it’s very convenient to use blend viewtarget but is it much more sensible for performance to just have a bunch of empty actors and to blend the location and rotation myself?

[maiden wadi]

If it's just a Camera, then it's just a single actor with a single component(camera) in it. As long as it's not ticking, it doesn't really cost anything. And you'll lose performance by doing the blending yourself in BP since blending between viewtargets is done in C++.

[pliant kayak]

great, thank you!

[steady night]

i got this niagara system with "user params" how do i change those via blueprint ?

how do i access the "variables"

[steady night]

ty

[pallid nest]

Hey guys, I have a widget that I am recreating multiple times with a loop in another widget. I am using an event dispatcher to create an animation once when you hover it with mouse (yellow circle in the image) which is fine. The problem I am having is that the gridPanel I am using (Wiki_Pyramid) is identifying my mouse on the right side of my screen only (my actual mouse was somewhere around the green circle in the image). I did set up these widgets with a "set render transform " and an array so I suspect is something related with this but I have no clue , any ideas?

[trim matrix]

where I should post

[whole jungle]

hey guys, if I put a Sphere Overlap component and use the Begin Overlap in one class and then make a child class, can I not call the original function and just call it empty with a new thing? I don't seem to be able to do that at first glance (like not calling Super in C++)

[frosty heron]

override it

You need to have the event in the child class

[glass blade]

how to link an anim graph ? the desired anim graph won't show up in the instance class option menu

[frosty heron]

link to where? show some picture

[glass blade]

to a different anim bp

[frosty heron]

post picture of what you want to do

[glass blade]

I just told you

[frosty heron]

I can't comperhend

[glass blade]

thanks for trying though

[frosty heron]

you will have more chance getting help if you show what you want to do

[glass blade]

i'm not exactly sure what you would want to see?

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message
This

what ever your attempt is

[glass blade]

"how to link an anim graph ? the desired anim graph won't show up in the instance class option menu"

[frosty heron]

print screen it and maybe I can give 2 cent

just show your attempt visually

what doesn't show up

[glass blade]

a desired anim graph

doesnt show up

[frosty heron]

well if you are not screen shooting it

I can't help

need to see the context

[glass blade]

you want me to screenshot a blank option menu?

[frosty heron]

sure

it will at least tell me where in the blueprint

[glass blade]

why?

[frosty heron]

or what you are attempting to access

but nvm

if that's too much effort

[glass blade]

There you go

the desired anim graph i want to link doesnt show up in the instance class option menu

[frosty heron]

Soo much better...

actual info now

@glass blade It will show up if you have an instance class that share the same Skeleton

they have to be compatible

please stop fighting and just show screen shoot next time

[glass blade]

they're using the same skeleton

ue5 manny and ue5 quinn

[frosty heron]

I got mine to show up

compatible ABP only tho

right click your Quin and create ABP out of it

and make sure what ever ABP you are in, also using Quin

[glass blade]

its using quinn

i just retargeted

still wont show up

[frosty heron]

"retargeted"

why would you need to retarget something that use the same skeleton?

it just further proof you are not using the same skeleton

if you are re-targeting it

[glass blade]

because it was using manny before

so i retargeted to quinn

[frosty heron]

well I don't know what else to say, for it to show up

you need to use the same skeleton

that's how it will show up in the Linking anim graph

[glass blade]

so quinn is not using the same skeleto as quin? not sure what you're trying to say

i just told you, i retargeted from manny to quinn

[frosty heron]

I'm saying perhaps you don't know what you are doing and don't end up using the same skeleton

it works on my end as you see

[glass blade]

what could i be doing wrong?

[frosty heron]

not using the same skeleton

on the abp you are trying to link

hence it could not find and populate the list

[glass blade]

both abp's use "ABP_Quin_Simple" and the corresponding skeleton

[frosty heron]

don't have your project, don't know what you doing

I can only tell what I do to make it work

[glass blade]

you can only help if you have the other person's project?

[frosty heron]

have I not tried to help?

don't know what else I should do

[glass blade]

🤣

[half sage]

quinn is already a child of manny iirc?

[glass blade]

yep, it should have worked without even retarget right?

but i just went ahead and retargeted to make sure

[half sage]

best i can do with limited info is to tell you to open up an ABP that DOES work and compare its settings to yours which isn't

[whole jungle]

apart from this, is there another override I am not aware of?

[frosty heron]

well if you are overriding event, that overlap, that would be the one

if you are overriding function, you can look at what you can override above the variable tab

[whole jungle]

yeah, but if I place it in the world and overlap it, it runs the parent one

[half sage]

the BP may be missing a setting such as "instance class" when I compare the two images above. and it's probably not this but maybe your ABP needs to be a child of something depend on how you're structuring stuff

[frosty heron]

even after you add this?

it still run the parent one?

[whole jungle]

yes, that's the first thing I tried

[frosty heron]

are you doing any c++?

[whole jungle]

the parent class is from C++

but the Sphere is added in BP

[half sage]

Is there an easy way to handle when a BP does not inherit and will never be called?

[frosty heron]

and the overlap event?

do you bind it on constructor or something

[whole jungle]

okay, I solved it, in a roundabout way
I just made a function and add it to the component overlap and override that one

[frosty heron]

not sure how's that related to the screen shoot

[frosty heron]

also read the warning... it seems you are using cast incorrectly

probably self is not an object that is derived from W_UserLoginButton

making the cast useless since it will never succseed

[glass blade]

ok, problem solved. Seemingly they were using the same skeleton but actually they weren't. There were 2 seperate instances of the default ue5 skeleton

[eager thicket]

how do i turn off these reflections?

[thin herald]

Hello,

I'm packaging a game project and using GUIDs. Everything works fine in the editor and during standalone simulation, but in the packed version, all GUIDs are equal to "00000000000". Do you have any idea what could be causing this? Please let me know if you need more context.

[dawn gazelle]

Some GUIDs are editor only. Would you be able to provide a screenshot of where you're utilizing a GUID?

[thin herald]

Yes i use it for 2 things at the momment. I didn't knew some GUID where editor only, that's good to know. So the first one is a actor GUID ( sorry if i dont provide the expected details at first glance, im new at this and using BP's) Could it be that i use "actor" guid for the editor actor and not the in-game actor guid or smth like that?

ah dam, i just when over the node and it state, editor only xD

[frosty heron]

just make a new variable

[thin herald]

well thank's for the help already.

[frosty heron]

for your actors

You can use GUID outside editor

[thin herald]

a new var?

[frosty heron]

it's just the Actor Guid from the actor class is editor only afaik

[thin herald]

you mean use the actor guid node to store it in a var or should i acces the guid itslef trought something else?

[frosty heron]

no, I think forget about the actor guid variable

and just make your own Guid

[thin herald]

ah but its for a save system, sure, i will try to see if i can store my own ID

[frosty heron]

Guid is just a string isn't it

[thin panther]

Save systems use the path. For such save systems, you have to go into c++.

For bp, you need some user made identifier

[thin herald]

i see thank's for the help ; )

[dawn gazelle]

If I remember right, it's a structure with 4 int32.

[dawn gazelle]

Yea as ColdSummer has recommended, all you need to do is create your own GUID Variable and populate it using the "New GUID" node.
You can do something like this in the construction script and then any placed or spawned actor can have a GUID associated to it.

Though this would also mean you need to manipulate the already placed actors in your levels to ensrure they get one assigned.

[thin herald]

sure i can do that but on level reload they will have a different GUID right? I need the GUID to delete some actor if they got registered on previous save.

but it could be that i try to do that the wrong way too.

[frosty heron]

No because if they already have valid guid, it will not assign new one. Check datura code

Well I can only think of placed actor in editor

For run time spawned actor you probably have to save the guid and other info

[thin herald]

yes i get that but that GUID need to be save then or will it be keept on level/game instance reload?

[frosty heron]

The guid will remain the same for placed actor on level

[dawn gazelle]

Dynamically spawned one you need to assign the saved GUID when spawning. This can be done by making the GUID variable exposed on spawn/instance editable.

[thin herald]

sure the dynamic ones are easy and i dont realod them on new level. THat should be easy thank's for that ; ) my concern is the static ones that shoudl keep the same GUID on game restart ect... if i make one in the construction script, i need to see how that behave with level realod ect... Will make some test but thank's.

[dark drum]

How do I get all the assets in a folder at runtime?

Edit: i found it. I had to search without the context filter.

[thin herald]

Seems to work, on editor reload the guid changes but stay the same during session and on packaged version it stays the same even after game restart. Im not sure i understand how the constructor function works with packged build tho.

[dawn gazelle]

So again for static ones, you need to manipulate them in the level, like move them around or whatever, this will then make the construction script fire which should then automatically assign them a GUID.

[thin herald]

yes i did, all good

[dawn gazelle]

Then just save and you should be good.

[thin herald]

but on editor reload the guid is changed, while in shipped game its stay the same, that's why i dont get how the construction script work with shipping

[dawn gazelle]

Did you make sure the GUID variable is instance editable/exposed on spawn?

When you do this, you're allowing an instance to have a defined value. The construction script automatically assigns that value for you. When it has done that, then when you save it, the GUID value assigned should remain permanently until you remove that actor from the scene.

[thin herald]

only instance edit

[final berry]

Hello! I have this weird issue. When pressing the key related to the input it reaches the Set Button Switch just fine. Similarly when clicking a UI button that that events calls I also get to the top Set Button Switch just fine.
However when reloading this level (as in unloading and loading different level and then from that level loading this original level again) the key doesn't work anymore, as in, I can't get to the bottomt Set Button Switch anymore. The UI button still works fine.

Is there anything that disables specific inputs? (Because other key inputs work fine (like escape and spacebar, just the keys related to this input don't anymore))

[eager thicket]

You see instanced spline mesh components: is there a way to control its collision presets?

[ancient moth]

I think I'm not fully following, could you elaborate?

[ancient moth]

No that's not possible sadly 😦

[timber basalt]

guys need help how do i make a propper check if enemy is infront right now it only wors if only one enemy is plugged in (i have 3 enemy in total)

this function is in player

[gentle urchin]

This aint right my friend

Theres plenty of good ways to figure out if they are in frontn

Collision volume is one of them

Tracing is another

Using getActorofClass here is abusive 😕 and not reliable

[raw spindle]

We have 3 vectors. The vector between the camera and the object, the camera forward vector, and the orange vector you want. Those 3 form a right triangle. We know the hypotenuse and we know the angle between the hypotenuse and the camera forward vector. That makes the orange vector the 'opposite' in sin(angle)=opp/hyp

[gentle urchin]

Unless its forever the only actor of that class ...

[timber basalt]

yea.... well how do i implement them with the other methods

[gentle urchin]

I would suggest looking up some trace tutorials

[eager thicket]

Is there a non-intrusive way to slow down the falling speed of a mesh that has other forces acting upon it (like a blueprintable car)?

The issue with add relative location is it's quite intrusive

but I'm hoping for something better

[raw spindle]

Just apply a force pushing it straight up?

[eager thicket]

yeah a force that pushes it up a bit (slows it down when falling)

[eager thicket]

if that makes sense

[raw spindle]

No I mean just do that

AddForce

[eager thicket]

ok i'll try that

[raw spindle]

Also, I can't recall if you can override gravity for specific actors, but if you can that would probably be ideal.

[final berry]

Hello, it seems like Remove All Widgets node doesn't actually delete any, is that correct?

[eager thicket]

any idea where I'd look? I typed in gravity but all i can do is enable disable

[glass sonnet]

Hello! When using offset root bone for turn in place animations (specifically in the animation sample project). Is there a way to speed up the turn in place animation?

Trying to support first person, but turning in place too fast causes the camera to pick up the player mesh slightly cause the animation is still turning. Trying to have the animation go as fast as the camera. But can't seem to find a place to even change the animation speed, does anyone know?

[raw spindle]

Only thing I see is set gravity scale, but sounds like that might not work for physics objects

[eager thicket]

D:

[raw spindle]

Can just apply an upward force, pretty easy.

[steady night]

hey i added the "water plugging to my project" changed my mind and disabled the pluggin but it increased the file size with like 30 gig

cant find where its located in the project >.<

[timber basalt]

seems to work for me what do you think ?

ty for the suggestion its much more efficient now

[gentle urchin]

Seem fine I guess, no validation or checking of hit target might give you false positives sometimes. Depends on if there are unwanted targets that respond to the same object type 'Pawn'

[vital cave]

I'm doing some more ai optimization, wrote another enemy class that is identical except that it is using floating pawn movement instead of the character movement component. The difference between 10 of said ai is less than 10 fps. I honestly figured that there would be a much more substantial difference between the two, anyone have any ideas?

[steady night]

10 fps is still alot ? how many activ actors ?

[vital cave]

I think I said it in the post it was only with 10. I'm currently converting my other 15 enemies into this class so I can test it in the wave format and see if there are more substantial gains. I'll try to run it with 30 enemies quick and update you if the gains compound.

[steady night]

ah ok

@vital cavehttps://www.unrealengine.com/id/login/api/login?client_id=43e2dea89b054198a703f6199bee6d5b&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unrealengine.com%2Fmarketplace%2Fen-US%2Fproduct%2Ftick-optimization-toolkit%3FsessionInvalidated%3Dtrue&prompt=pass_through i got this tip from someone else to handle CMC cost with tics especially

he/they use it in their proejct with 1000+ mobs with ease

[vital cave]

Yea, I guess its less of a difference for me since I rarely have more 30 enemies at a time on screen, but a 1 fps difference per actor in your case would be pretty huge. Yea I saw that video a while back, I'd like to work on my solution before I get to desperate haha. I might try to write up a simple tick handling function the parent class as well, would not be as efficient as that plug-in but would help.

[steady night]

aye ok

[vital cave]

Yea just switching to pawn movement wont be enough. The extra 20 enemies takes fps from 90-100 with 12ms frametime all the way down to 40-50 fps with 20ms frame time. Their only logic are some simple ai-move-to's and a spell cast, removing the spell cast function makes a negligble difference.

[steady night]

damn 40-50 is still good xD even if i start a new fresh project i cant get mine above 40

lolz

[vital cave]

Yea arent ya running like 100 enemies?

[steady night]

huh ?

no mines at 25-30 while playing

nope

i change it all npc stand still untill player is "close" then it activates them

went from 10 fps to 25-30

[dim halo]

does anyone know why this function isnt creating a smooth rotation

[lunar sleet]

are you just trying to rotate and face the target ?

[dim halo]

yeah but i want it to be called only at specific times

[lunar sleet]

Use built in Rotate and face bb key and Focus tasks. Adjust turn rate from the CMC

[dim halo]

thank you very much

[ancient moth]

Ohh makes sense I guess, I didn't think about it that way, thank you! 🙂

[dim halo]

i adjust the turn rate to 10 and its still being pretty abrupt using either rotate to face and focus tasks. Is there anything that might be causing this or anything else i can do?

[static sequoia]

Inside a Function called "CheckingVaultVariables" inside my "BP_ThirdPersonCharacter" I am trying to Cast to my separate "VaultCollisionV1Type" Blueprint to activate an event inside the "VaultCollisionV1Type" blueprint but I can't figure out what object reference to use. I am sure that is my only problem because if I skip it, it works but I am trying to set the Vault collision forward vector of the "VaultCollisionV1Type" Blueprint.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lunar sleet]

🤔 try messing with the use controller rotation options on the char @dim halo

[dim halo]

Alright will do thank you

[boreal crypt]

Is there a way within a blueprint to set the allowed classes for a UObject variable? I have an ActorComponent blueprint that's pretty simple, and it has a variable that I want to be set to either a Texture2D or a MaterialInterface. And it works, but I'd like to narrow the assets that show up in the list when configuring it to just those two classes. I know I can set that via a blueprint meta property in c++, but just wondering if there is an in-editor/in-blueprint way to restrict that

[lunar sleet]

Those are 2 very different types so I’d go with no

[lone garnet]

Is it possible to create a ui slot within a scene capture? I dont think you can screen space widgets in render targets but Im trying to figure out a way to have weapon customization ui. So the weapon is shown and the ui slots surround the weapon and can be interacted with. Whats the best way to go about this? Its done in so many games so surely theres a way 😆

[fickle lichen]

I have two function delegates which are implemented identically in C++, but one of them lets me create an event directly while the other one requires I bind an event to it explicitly. What's going on here?

oops, overlapping questions lol

    DECLARE_DYNAMIC_MULTICAST_DELEGATE_TwoParams(FOnSwitchSlot, int32, OldSlot, int32, NewSlot);
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintAssignable, Category = "Inventory")
    FOnSwitchSlot OnSwitchSlot;

    DECLARE_DYNAMIC_MULTICAST_DELEGATE_TwoParams(FOnPickupItem, APickupActor*, Item, int32, Slot);
    UPROPERTY(BlueprintAssignable, Category = "Inventory")
    FOnPickupItem OnPickupItem;

nvm I'm a dumbass

Forgot you need to use the details panel on the component to add the listener

[fickle lichen]

You mean in 3D?

You want the UI shown in 3d space?

[gentle urchin]

Have you tuned the cmc settings ?

I assume the fps mostly drops during movement ?

[vital cave]

Yea, I've tuned quite a few of them but I'd love to hear if I missed any

[lone garnet]

@fickle lichen ideally in order to have the weapon display within an inventory, the slots for attachments would need to show in 3d space of the render target so they can draw a line to a socket and move as you rotate the gun

[gentle urchin]

whats your target enemy count ?

[modest monolith]

Does someone knows how to make localized fonts? I made it but when I swap languages the font doesn't changes

[vital cave]

Around 30 at a time maximum I'd say. I'd like performance to be fairly smooth with 50 that's the goal.

[vital cave]

Currently my maximum is set to 24 enemies spawned in at a time.

[gentle urchin]

and they just randomly walk ?

[vital cave]

Yea that's their only movement logic, they have other processes but they have almost no effect on performance.

[fickle lichen]

Can you not just use a Widget Component?

[gentle urchin]

the cmc itself is only costing a tiny part of it on my end

default settings , 36 ai characters, 1 ms for the cmc

[lone garnet]

@fickle lichen they cant show up in world space and screen looks awful. Im thinking maybe there isnt a way to do it inside a render target and it would have to be done as a mesh in front of the camera

as long as slots can be interacted with, e.g dropped onto

[fickle lichen]

wdym they can't show up in world space

[lone garnet]

I meant screen sorry

world looks awful, screen wont show

[vital cave]

It's more the actual naviagation than the char movement, I have a drone enemy with char movement, but it's logic is manually programmed using add movement input and 30 of those keeps around 110 fps. Compared to ai-move-to's 50 something

[fickle lichen]

How are you drawing the weapon in screen space?

[gentle urchin]

this is with them navigating/moving

[lone garnet]

the weapon would be a mesh in front of the scene capture 2d, then the widget components would be drawn as screen

[vital cave]

Hmmm, wonder whats different, I'll load a seperate test quick

[fickle lichen]

Why can't you also put the widget component in front of the scene capture 2d

[fickle lichen]

If you're intending on having them in 3d space

[lone garnet]

cos it doesnt show when its screen space. Only world. But world looks poopoo 😆

[vital cave]

can you try it with ai-move-to, not move to

[fickle lichen]

Is the weapon not in world?

[lone garnet]

its on a scene capture. In the world, sure but not in front of the camera. The inventory is open with a render target material showing the weapon.

if that makes sense.

[gentle urchin]

no difference

[lone garnet]

but widgets dont show in screen space on a render target mat

[vital cave]

Really? I'm about to run a test as well, how many ai's is that with?

[fickle lichen]

Is the widget not rendering to the render target alongside the weapon?

[gentle urchin]

36

[lone garnet]

yeh the widget isnt rendering when set to screen space

[fickle lichen]

What do you mean set to screen space?

Is the weapon set to screen space?

[gentle urchin]

with 72, the CMC eats < 3 ms

[lone garnet]

just the widget is screen space

[vital cave]

If you dont mind me asking where are you getting the specific component breakdown?

[fickle lichen]

In the component?

[lone garnet]

yeh

[fickle lichen]

huh

[lone garnet]

the widget shows in the world as youd expect but not in the render target material

[gentle urchin]

because its screen space

[lone garnet]

Im thinking it cant be done with a render target. But Im also not an expert. So you can feel free to say, dont do it like this.

[gentle urchin]

it doesnt exist in the world

it just projects on the screen as if it waas in the world

[lone garnet]

and it cant therefore project through a render target

[gentle urchin]

correct

you'd need to have it in World Space, for it to be projected through a material on a mesh plane

which then could show on a render target

[lone garnet]

the slots just look not great on world space, so Id rather know if theres a different way. How do games achieve this type of thing? weapon customization with dynamic slots attached seems so common. Whats the trick...

[gentle urchin]

kinda just sounds like you've got the wrong settings

they can look fine in world space

[vital cave]

Hmmm, I tried it out with no mesh or anim bp and did get results closer to yours, but not quite as quick still. I'll look into some mesh optimizations possibly and see if I can find any more ground there, I've improved cmc perforamance by about 33% over the last coupe days anyway.

[lone garnet]

Im also not sure I can interact with multiple widgets on a render target?

[gentle urchin]

you'd need to fake it somehow

but normally

you wouldnt have the widget in the render target

you'd render the capture in a widget behind the other widgets

It's quite expensive tho, mind you

[gentle urchin]

I've done 0 modifications to the AI as it is rn , 0 optimizations, no mesh removals (mesh eats up a tad more than the CMC)

[lone garnet]

I couldnt draw a link to the weapon then though could I? to like a socket.

[gentle urchin]

why not

[lone garnet]

actually I guess you could if they are still in the same location it can still draw to the weapon

[gentle urchin]

worst case you can use the HUDs draw function to force it

just need to know their screen locations

[lone garnet]

Would it generally just be better to not use a scene capture? Then just have the mesh there with the widgets in screen space. a spawned actor in front of the camera instead.

[gentle urchin]

I've seen that aswell

and generally favor that more

[lone garnet]

it seems like it would require less workarounds

[gentle urchin]

some secret room in the world, where a duplicated character stands

or weapon

or whatever you'd showcase

[lone garnet]

how does one achieve the lighting overhaul for this spawned actor room? is there a way to ignore world lighting and just use separate lighting?

[gentle urchin]

I believe there is, yes

[lone garnet]

that was always the main issue I had was the sun ruining the lighting of the actor

or night would make it harder to see it

[steady night]

when "launching character" what affects how much the push the effect will have ?

adding weight will make it push less ?

i mean when pushin hhow can i make certain units be less affected by it ?

[lone garnet]

@gentle urchin lighting channels will do it. thanks for the help. Im gonna see what I can do about getting it working decently

[vital cave]

yea, I did some more checking and using identical logic skeletal mesh vs static mesh with 30 ai's is about a 50fps difference. Will have to figure out how to fix that.

[gentle urchin]

your pc spec is also relevant ofcourse

[static sequoia]

can anyone help me with this?

[gentle urchin]

you'd need something to iidentify the object with. Usually that's a trace

[undone bluff]

launch character just adds (and if override is ticked sets) the velocity. that's it.

adding weight shouldn't make any difference

you could change the gravity or simply scale the value depending on which character it is applied to

[gentle urchin]

Velocity is affected by mass tho, isnt it

Not initially, but everything after

Hmm... perhaps not ...

[lyric basin]

got a fun one... trying to get a node (was rendered recently) to work properly for some bots. They can't move if seen and can if not seen (think scp 173 or weeping angels from dr who. but even when I turn around or go behind walls, they dont move. So trying to figure out what exactly rendered means here and if there is a better node to use

[gentle urchin]

I've not had much success with that node in general

Id probably just figure out the Dot Product for the general 'has a chance to be seen' , and then do additional checks for obscurances

Line traces comes to mind

[undone bluff]

in theory it'd increase ground friction

also initially higher mass = higher inertia so more force needed to increase velocity

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[undone bluff]

but that doesn't apply with launch character

[gentle urchin]

But we're setting velocity directly here (or adding) so

Yeah as you say it simply bypass that

[mild ibex]

is there a way to kill niagara particle effects?

Cant seem to figure out how to stop and stop showing them. I dont want to destroy them as I need to re trigger them but I want control over how long they display in BP

[inland walrus]

I'm trying to make it so that when the player collides with a box it will open the next line of dialogue. Any ideas on how?

[boreal crypt]

Are you wanting to like immediately remove all particles? Or just stop it from emitting?

[mild ibex]

immediately remove would be great.

[boreal crypt]

I am curious though, is there a reason you don't want to remove the system, and just spawn a new one the next time it needs to emit? You can call SetVisibility on the emitter to have it not be rendered, and you can use SetPaused to stop it from emitting new ones, and then starting from where it left off again, but if you are wanting them to restart anyway, you are better off just destroying it, and then respawning it the next time

[swift yarrow]

Hi everyone. I'm trying to find out how to set the position of an element on one widget to the position of the mouse on another widget.
The reason why is that the examine item in my inventory is handled through a render texture, but I want the player to be able to identify hotspots on an item with their mouse. Issue is, the item isn't actually there, so I need to use a line trace attached to a pointer attached to a 3D widget in the item renderer blueprint to adjust the position of the pointer and then translate the mouse position on the render texture border to the 3D widget. But because of the differences in size I need to resolve the differences.

[mild ibex]

problem there is that I have ~50 or so actors that would need that every time in my case

I considered it but I have performance limiters

[molten pike]

I feel like I'm not seeing something. Any help is greatly appreciated! I'm trying to get a shell to fly away from my rifle when it fires. As is the shell spawns, but is either invisible or is static. But when I pause editor play and adjust the scale value of the mesh inside the spawned BP_Shell, on hitting enter the shell is suddenly visible in the viewport and follows all the physics.

The outliner details for the BP_Shell after firing and spawning it. The mesh isn't visible and assumedly not following the physics.

Third image is after editing scale to 1.1 and hitting enter. The shell then is visible and follows the impulse and gravity. Note the edited scale reverts to 'near' the original, but not quite...

Trying to recycle the same BP_Shell instance for each firing, it's instantiated in my Gun class like this: ```void AGun::BeginPlay()
{
Super::BeginPlay();

FActorSpawnParameters SpawnParams;
SpawnParams.SpawnCollisionHandlingOverride = ESpawnActorCollisionHandlingMethod::AlwaysSpawn;
Shell = GetWorld()->SpawnActor<AActor>(ShellClass, SpawnParams);
if(Shell != nullptr){
    Shell->AttachToComponent(this->Mesh, FAttachmentTransformRules::KeepRelativeTransform, TEXT("P_ShellEject"));
}

}```

and from the gun.h: ```UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly)
TSubclassOf<AActor> ShellClass;

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
AActor* Shell;```

[cedar sparrow]

casting to your GameState and GameMode shouldn't matter because those are always loaded into memory anyways, right? Like I'm not loading it twice if I have an asset that has a hard reference to the GameMode it's for.

[molten pike]

Referring to the reuse of the same BP_Shell as opposed to just spawning a new one for each shot?

If so, I just didn't want to clutter my map's object tree with a million BP_Shells 😆

[fickle lichen]

What does the lifecycle of a hud actor look like?

[lunar sleet]

https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/why-edge-of-tomorrow-got-retitled-live-die-repeat/intro-import.sm.webp

[crude pike]

I'm using a BP to find out CineCameraA's position relative to ObjectA , and then setting the transforms of CineCameraB relative to ObjectB. Both objects currently have matching transforms as a way for me to effectively show the issue.

You can see in the video that CineCameraB lags behind CineCameraA. The faster CameraA moves, the greater the lag of CameraB. Is there a way to fix this? I need basically a 1:1 mapping of the transforms.

[molten pike]

Wicked, I use that movie to explain a hug part of my game story and play loop 😂

[molten pike]

huge*

but hugs are cool too

[undone bluff]

I'd actually try and profile this to compare the two methods, because I think Unreal does some stuff there internally and pooling often is not worth it

it's extra complicated because we are working with blueprints which is probably an even more significant factor

so really first thing I'd do is go with the easiest method and just see if the performance impact matters at all

[trim matrix]

On a looping spline, how can I track the total distance traveled around the spline in a loop over multiple times while knowing that at point 0 it counts distance back again from 0?

[silk cosmos]

Correct, but keep in mind that it's also important to keep casts to related classes as they create dependencies. Casting to your game mode from some random actor that could be placed in any level with any game mode might not be the best approach

[prime wave]

Hi everyone, I am trying to create a grapple hook feature, I got the trace and am trying to do a check to see if it hits a "grapple point" though, when testing, I am not getting a true outcome, can someone tell me why this doesnt work?

[silk cosmos]

You need to do a type check instead of an equation operation. You can get the hit actor class and convert to a soft class reference and then do an equation operation on your grapple point class

[dire vine]

Hi good morning ,
I just need a suggestion on whether should i do visibility/creation of the whole widget on level blueprint or the player controller

[silk cosmos]

I would move this logic to a HUD class

[dire vine]

what is prefferable?

[silk cosmos]

Between the player controller and your level blueprint? Your player controller would be better. You cant get a reference to anything stored in your level bp.

[prime wave]

Thank You! So calling a class is like any actor of that type right? I am still confused as to why doing an equation check didn't work.

[silk cosmos]

Correct. The equation operation is checking if the object reference A equals object reference B. So in this instance it isn't going to work since the actor you're comparing your hit actor with isn't a valid object reference

[steady night]

Can i make a light source ignore skeletal meshes with the light ?

[silk cosmos]

You can set a lighting channel on the light source and on your skeletal mesh

[static sequoia]

I remade the whole bp to work from inside the Separate Blueprint because it could cast to BP_Third_Person_Character but not the other way around. so it gains variable information by casting to it and doesnt require it to cast to the Separate BP anymore.

[gentle urchin]

Be sure to not edit those variables directly from the Separate Blueprint

encapsulation is key , exposing public functions that does the thing is the way to do it

(all variables should more or less by default be private, and only your desired functions should be public)

That keeps the intent very clear for both you and other developers what to call and what not to call from externally

[queen flicker]

I have run across an interesting issue and wondering if anyone has had the same thing;

I have a blackboard that fires properly, with a few simple tasks, Roam, Play a montage (aggro) when hit, then chase the player.

The chase and roam work fine, but as soon as I add the play montage, the chase player task breaks. the AI moveto node always returns 'fail'. when I unplug the montage task it fixes again. Any idea why this might be, and what the solution is?

edit: for clarification, the chase task itself fires properly, the result is always fail on the moveto node though

[graceful sage]

Are you finishing task after the montage completes?

[static sequoia]

its changing them but they are specific variables and cast to events made for the separate bp in the Bp_third_person_character. The way I have it is working out really good

Anyways I came here this time to actually ask

Does anyone know how to allow a Variable in an object blueprint change value globally throughout all instances of that said object placed in the world? Specifically just the one Boolean Variable

[gentle urchin]

you'd want to set that up through a event dispatcher in a manager class

or read them from a common object

a singleton

[static sequoia]

hmmmm

[lunar sleet]

Just so you know there is a built-in BT task MoveTo

[crude pike]

bump

[spice hazel]

Is there any way to show StaticMesh sockets in the editor viewport?

[barren tangle]

hi, is it possible to add an event dispatcher to the is falling function?

to avoid to put a check into the On Tick event

[frosty heron]

There is on landed function already

[barren tangle]

mm this one is called at the end not on the start

[frosty heron]

Look for something

Maybe on jump or what, not sure if those exist

[barren tangle]

no jump is not triggered when i fall

maybe this one

thanks for your help

[frosty heron]

Hopefully that's the answer I'm not sure my self. I thought we have bIsInAir

But for your use case that should do, maybe.

[wooden stratus]

Hi there,
I am trying to create a custom 3d camera behaviour for a prototype where the camera doesnt jump when the character does but only follows the characters Z when the distance between the characters Z and the camera Z is greater than a certain value.
I managed to solve the first problem of the camera staying fixed until the character lands on a different floor meaning the camera has to move to realling itself.
However this opened up a couple new problems with the camera not following the character properly when being launched or on double jumps.
I've descriped the issue and the code in this post on the forums but I'm kinda reaching a wall trying to figure this out.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fixed-camera-needs-to-follow-character-when-moving-out-of-frame/1974313/1

Any kind of help is appreciated

[narrow sentinel]

so for my weapon what would i do

have the input stuff on the player character

or on the weapon

I have a seperate context mapping for the weapon so just not sure where the input binding for that should go interms of on which actor ?

[stuck yoke]

Running a "Switch has Authority" node in a GameState-blueprint, can I expect this to always return as Authority on the server (listen server) and always Remote on clients?

[stone cedar]

is flip flop bad?

[thin panther]

Define bad

Bad for what?

[gentle urchin]

not bad in any way

if you dont need to be able to read the current state

[frosty heron]

bad if misused

if you need to save the state, filp flop is not for you

[mild hound]

Hey guys, does anyone knows if it is possible to create a struct/blueprint where whenever you modify one variable value, other variables in that struct/blueprint would automatically adjust their values accordingly?

For context, I want to make a struct for map generation blueprint that would contain enums referencing "types of rooms" that can generate and a float in range {0:1} that would define how much % of the map that "type of room" should generate on the map
And the goal is, whenever one float corresponding to specific enum would be modified, other floats would increase or decrease accordingly, so that sum of all floats in this object would total to 1

Haven't tried to make tools/blueprints that affect Unreal Editor yet so I'm not sure if it's possible or should I just make a simple workaround

[spark steppe]

not without cpp

for runtime code you would use a setter to modify the variable, but for editor stuff you are pretty much in a hopeless situation with BP only

[mild hound]

Suspected that might be the case

Alright, thanks for letting me know!

[gentle urchin]

Personally id probably just combine their chances

instead of modifying all entries

[mild hound]

yup, that's the "simple workaround" I meant

[gentle urchin]

also, this can be done in bp, with some editor scripting

[spark steppe]

you could make an editor utility widget tho, that could serve as editor tool to modify the data and to call the recalculation method

[gentle urchin]

^

but how'd you know which one to 'reduce'

or would you reduce all of them? sounds a bit painfull

[mild hound]

Well, seems that without doing it in C++ might be a headache

I'll just stick to the workaround of combining the chances, I've done it before for this project when I was making it in Unity as I didn't wanted to bother learning making Unity Editor modifications as I was on deadlines for college xd

[spark steppe]

well, you can certainly reduce them by the amount of room types / (sumOfAll - 1)

which should reduce them equally

hmm, if you got time look into editor utility widgets, they can be a powerful tool and your task sounds reasonable for a first "project" with them

[mild hound]

Might not be a bad idea, I should learn to make those sooner or later anyway

Alright, thanks guys for the swift answer!

[tight moon]

Hello, I've been trying for quite some time already to get some haptic feedback for a vr controller with UE5.0 using the Oculus Quest 1 and so far no success. All the setup seems to be working properly but there's just no vibration no matter what. If anyone knows why, that would be very helpful. So far no chance on any forum I've looked into, no response from UE or Meta forums...
I... haven't seen a specific vr channel here so I'm asking here since I'm just using bluerprints for that. Also idk if newcomers have the right to post images atm.

[spark steppe]

#virtual-reality @tight moon

[tight moon]

Alr haven't seen it, gonna ask there. Thanks !

[hidden swift]

Your localization in ue 5.4.3 works?

[maiden wadi]

Yes?

[hidden swift]

No

[true crypt]

Hi, i am currently trying to do a line trace for objects on the WorldStatic object type ,but the line trace detects one of my actor that has the WorldDynamic object type. Does anyone have a clue why?

[maiden wadi]

I mean... It is.. So.. Yes.

[hidden swift]

That is, no?

[candid wedge]

good day. is there a way to make third person character backwalk only?
usually advised method (turn on "controller desired rotation" and turn off "orient rotation to movement") also turns off rotation to left or right, and what i would like to do is something like attached clip from Batman: Arkham Knight, where character can walk forward, can rotate to left and right (only character head rotates), but at the same time walks backwards.

[rugged wigeon]

its just a different blendspace for the anim mostly

plus some sort of different control for the head direction

[marsh pilot]

I haven't done anything in Unreal for a while, so I'm a rather rusty. I'm working on a railroad track build system during runtime for the player, essentially a drag and drop system. When left click is pressed it should set the first node of the spline, and then the second node of the spline should follow the mouse until the left mouse button is released. I'm having trouble figuring out the logic of it

[candid wedge]

is there a way to rotate an animation in blendspace? so i can use the same walking animation but it was directed to left/right

[rugged wigeon]

It's not the animation that's rotating. She's doing the same walk left and right; and a different walk anim for going backwards. The difference is her head is looking at a fixed target.

"she" is facing right when walking right and her head is being rotated to look to her left (camera forward)

[candid wedge]

and when you press the "walk back" key she's not rotates facing to camera, she still looks forward and walks back by looking forward

but is there at least a key to an idea of implementing it?

[rugged wigeon]

if you move backwards orient forwards, otherwise orient to movement

[crude pike]

Is it possible to run certain BP event graph code continuously in the editor? Sort of like the EventTick node, except in the editor so that I do not need to actually Simulate the game / PlayInEditor.

I think I've seen a hacky way around this in the past by using a custom event with "Call In Editor" enabled, and using "Set Event On Tick" or something like that to call a function. But that was a hacky way of doing it in UE4 and people have reported it to have been "patched" as of UE5, so idk if that approach will work. I'm looking for a more "official" way of doing it.

[inland walrus]

I cant figure out why this widget isn't removing from parent

[queen flicker]

yes, and the success boolean has been set to true

[graceful sage]

show?

[narrow sentinel]

anyone know where the setting is again for physical mat surface type to be allow to be accessed and read without getting warning

thats the error I'm refering to

[rustic pollen]

hi is there any module for accessing bluetooth functionalities like connect/pair a device, send data across devices etc?

[slate ledge]

is there some node equivalent for continue key-word in c++?

[thin panther]

no, but you just let the branch finish. Think about it.
You are say doing a loop through actors. You want to check if the distance is less than 500.

In that branch, if distance is less than 500, great, you continue on executing other nodes.
Otherwise it hits the false path, where there is nothing, and the loop increments

You don't need a continue keyword with the way blueprints is laid out

[queen flicker]

here you can see that as soon as I plug in the play montage task everything works up until he is required to move and he turns to face the player but wont actually move forward

I also removed the play montage task and made the montage play in the BP instead as a separate event and it has teh same outcome

[graceful sage]

show where youre playing montage

[queen flicker]

first image is the montage called in task, second image is in teh event graph of enemy BP

[graceful sage]

you need to call a dispatcher off completed pin then bind that in the task

and do the finish execute on the binded event

so when the montage is completed the task will finish execute. How you have it now it will just start playing montage then immediately finish execute

[atomic salmon]

@rustic pollen when I had to interface with external Bluetooth (BLE) devices a few years back I had to write my own plugin, these days there are some resources on the Marketplace you can look at

[queen flicker]

I will try that, thank you!

[queen flicker]

still the same outcome unfortunately

[rustic pollen]

there is something called BLE Utils V2 which is a paid plugin 😦

[final berry]

If I have an actor and I do an get actor of class for a different class and set a variable on that actor, is that a reference that pops up in the sizemap?

[graceful sage]

I believe you might need to need to make your tree go to a task when playing montage then make it go back to the other task, been a bit since ive done ai stuff but I believe thats what I had to do

[queen flicker]

gotcha, thank you for your help so far, ill try this next

[narrow sentinel]

Someone able to help with this please

[atomic salmon]

@rustic pollenthere are a couple of them at the moment. The alternative is that you work on your own implementation, but that will require C++, it cannot be done with BP's

[narrow sentinel]

I've enabled this which I believe I need to for that error to go away

but it seems the error still happens, the sounds are working like so bit confused why that error is happening yet its still able to do what it needs to do

[rustic pollen]

umm ye do u have any docs for me to look into accessing bluetooth modules from cpp itself?

[atomic salmon]

@rustic pollenaccessing Bluetooth is mostly platform specific, if you are on Windows you can check open source projects like this: https://github.com/bucienator/ble-win-cpp

If you have further questions better to move to #cpp

[narrow sentinel]

Anyone able to help with my issue please, I'm really confused what I'm doing wrong

[graceful sage]

just show your issue then someone will reply if they know

[narrow sentinel]

I've shown my issue above

but bassically i'm doing that

however I'm getting the error and I can't work out wh

why

i remeber having this issue agessss ago but I can't remeber how I fixed it

if (UCameraComponent* PlayerRetrievedCamera = UCommonFunctionLibary::GetPlayerActiveCamera(this))
    {
        FVector StartLocation = Weapon_SKL->GetSocketLocation("Muzzle");
        FVector EndLocation = StartLocation + PlayerRetrievedCamera->GetForwardVector() * WeaponRange;
        FCollisionQueryParams CollisionQueryParams;
        CollisionQueryParams.AddIgnoredActor(this);
        FCollisionResponseParams CollisionResponseParams;
        if (bAutoFire == false && CurrentAmmoRemaining > 0)
        {
            if (bIsProjectileType == false)
            {

                GetWorld()->LineTraceSingleByChannel(BulletHitResult, StartLocation, EndLocation, ECC_Projectile, CollisionQueryParams
                    , CollisionResponseParams);
                

that where the line trace is being done

#cpp anyway seen this above issue before ?

[graceful sage]

trace is probably hitting some for a second that doesnt have a phys material so probably just do a is valid check

[narrow sentinel]

i've checked it's hitting something that does have one but still seems to be off

see thing is I do same kind of thing with when player is walking and I'm not having same issue there

so something isn't quite right

[queen flicker]

replaced the task with one that plays the montage in the task itself, and you can see in the print string that the pathfinding succeeds but the character just doesnt move forward. Im gonna try a few other things, and update if I find a solution. Thanks for your time my friend

[narrow sentinel]

only difference between the footstep one and bullet impact one is one is line trace by channel and the other is line trace for objects

[queen flicker]

I AM SO DUMBBBB, I found it hahahaha

[narrow sentinel]

i found issue

[queen flicker]

I forgot to plug my movement state back in if the initial hit reaction montage got interrupted. Thats why he would turn and face the player but not actually move, his speed was getting set to 0 (idle)

[narrow sentinel]

so it wasn't on the stuff i'm hitting that has issue

I needed to in my Cpp set the return bool thing on query params

[zealous plank]

Anybody have experience altering root motion at runtime? I'm trying to use root motion for 1 montage section, disable root motion, then play another section and Launch, but launch doesn't work with root motion enabled and changing RootMotionMode just before the new montage doesn't seem to take effect in time.

[inland walrus]

bump

[hallow wyvern]

Good evening, can you please tell me if there is a function for rotating bones to a point? Looks like turning on a bone magnet

A) 4 meshes, each with three bones, the top bone “looks” in a random direction along xyz

B) 4 meshes, each upper body stretched to the appeared point of attraction,The others also straightened up slightly. (like the tentacles of an octopus reaching for a ball)

Please advise what needs to be googled, can it be created? I haven't found an elegant solution on my own.

[inland walrus]

Any idea why this isn't removing the widget off screen?

[dawn gazelle]

You shouldn't cross wires across execution paths.
This also isn't great as each overlap could cause more widgets to be created.

To portentially fix both issues, promote the return value of the create widget node to a variable. Check if the variable is valid before creating it - if it's not valid go ahead and create it. In your "Check if player has reached location" event, use the promoted variable plugged into your remove from parent node.

[inland walrus]

Sorry I have updated this since posting, the state its in it currently works so it basically means the branch isn't working

[dawn gazelle]

The branch would only fire when the overlap happens.

[inland walrus]

what about this?

I actually don't think I need branches

[dawn gazelle]

Better, but stll don't cross execution paths.

[inland walrus]

How would I reference without cross execution?

[dawn gazelle]

Promote to a variable

[inland walrus]

This one?

[dawn gazelle]

Yep

And only create the widget if the variable isn't valid.

only try to remove the widget if the widget is valid too

[inland walrus]

so branches?

Also variables like this?

[dawn gazelle]

Yes, make sure you use a "Set" coming off of the Create Widget node.
You can also convert those getters of the variable to "Validated Gets"

[deep vine]

What would be a good way to create a check date time range? EG: from October 5th to the 7th? I currently have this setup:

Or would I just have to create another similar function returning everything back to false after that date?

[versed sun]

there are quite a few functions for dealing with DateTime
I would use < and > to see if it is in range

[shut kestrel]

Hey, I want to hide an image in my Interface Widget. My problem is that the Casting Node messes up the commands for some reason.
When I use the Events in my Interface Blueprint it works fine, but not in my Thierd Person Character Blueprint. Does anyone one know a solution or a other way to handle this?

[deep vine]

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

[deep vine]

idk why but for some reason yours just isn't working.

[dawn gazelle]

The cast node doesn't do anything to it.
If your "Gear 4" is not valid, that means in the particular instance of "HUD2" you're accessing it is not valid.

[shut kestrel]

The "Gear 4" is valid on Construct. But when i execute the "Remove Gear Event" it is not valid.

[vital cave]

I ended up figuring it out, the physics asset and unset lod's were the culprit (mainly physics asset). I made a duplicate physics asset that is extremely simplified and in some cases dont use one at all (just use the capsule collision), assigning the higher quality one when I need to use ragdolls. That paired with lod's brought about a 40fps increase. Still not quite as good of performance as you were getting, but a massive increase. regardless.

[gentle urchin]

that's a solid jump for sure

mind you im running a small powerhouse so might be the rest of the diff there

[vital cave]

Yea I've got a r5 2600 and a 3060ti so

very mid range

[vital cave]

appreciate ya pointing me in the right direction, I had assumed the ai was the issue as one enemy not using it had better performance, but I neglected thats also my one enemy using a static mesh haha.

[shut kestrel]

I've checked if the "HUD2" is valid. Yea it is also valid.

[agile moss]

Why is the camera not able to look up and down

[versed sun]

maybe this on the camera

[agile moss]

That worked

thanks

[pallid nest]

I am setting up the visibility of a widget (wikilock) on and off . Im debugging with a print statement and even when the condition is meet (integer being >= 1) and my breakpoint go through the hidden node; my print string says is visible instead of hidden.
I did check the references about WikiLock and I have it only in this function. What am i doing wrong?

[inland walrus]

Any idea how to make a widget media source variable instance, what I have isn't working

[maiden wadi]

SetVisibility. Not Set Visibility.

[dawn gazelle]

Still has nothing to do with the cast itself. Either something is changing your "refernece" variable meaning its no longer pointing to the same object that has a valid "Gear 4" or within your "HUD2" something is changing "Gear 4".

[shut kestrel]

I checked if the variable is changin by adding a String Node to the Event Tick to check if "Gear4" is valid or not. But every frame it is still valid.
Maybe it has do to something with the execution itself?

[steel crag]

Hello Team, i'd like your tought on this please 🙂 ! I need to find a way to link the item that exists in my inventory to the one that gets created from it into my specific socket. How would you proceed ?

[steel crag]

Are you saying that if you don't make it editable, your reference is always found ? Because most of mine are not found

[dawn gazelle]

Didn't say that. When you create a variable of an object type, it's just an empty variable. You have to set its value to the thing you want stored in it. Casting is only checking if the contents of the object variable is of a specific type, and if so, allows you to access the variables and functions of the object at that level.

If the variable is empty, the cast will always fail. If the object within the variable isn't or doesn't inherit from the casted type, then the cast will fail.

[steel crag]

MMMH ok thanks 🌟

[pallid nest]

is the same :((

[maiden wadi]

You switched it out for the actual setter function? Not setting the variable?

[pallid nest]

It is variable, by default I set up to hidden and then the idea is to use that branch. I also tried setting the initial visibility as visible but is the same issue

[maiden wadi]

No. I mean you need to call the FUNCTION called SetVisibility. Not set the Visibility variable.

[pallid nest]

i did but is the same issue

[deep vine]

This works fine, but I don't want it to need a year each year, I want it to just require Month, Day, Hour, Minute

But when I break it I can't define those.

[maiden wadi]

Then something else is setting it back to the other setting. Nothing will stop that from setting and updating.

[pallid nest]

many thanks for your help

[deep vine]

Anyone know how to redo that without the need for the year?

[inland walrus]

How do I put line breaks in a public text variable?

[maiden wadi]

You can make it multiline in the property settings.

[inland walrus]

Where do I find this?

[maiden wadi]

Details panel. Click the arrow at the bottom of this.

[odd basin]

I'm trying to respawn my player, but each time I try to, this reference gets broken, even if I try and reset it (add and kill hud just try and get rid of the hud)

[lunar sleet]

Did you read the warning or go with “nah it’ll be fine” ?

[odd basin]

warning disapeared after compiling

was outdated

[lunar sleet]

What does KillHUD do?

[odd basin]

Removes HUD from parent

[lunar sleet]

And Add HUD?

Are you creating it again or just adding to viewport

[odd basin]

creating & adding

it visually shows up again, that's not the problem

but the reference > Get Player Controller > Get Hud seems to completely break

[lunar sleet]

Is the return value of AddHUD the hud ?

[odd basin]

yes

[lunar sleet]

So why are you not just plugging that in

[odd basin]

that doesn't work

[lunar sleet]

Meaning ?

[odd basin]

hmm wait

[cinder mirage]

Hi all. ChatGPT and Llama locally can help with blueprints really good. I was wondering if there was a way to visualize them too? So is it possible for LLMs to give out a visual output in some way?

[lunar sleet]

No they can’t

[cinder mirage]

what do you mean

[odd basin]

gotta test something, just realized I'm messing 1 part up... doubt that fixes the problem though.. 1 sec

[lunar sleet]

At least ChatGPT is pretty bad at UE, it’ll hallucinate solutions

[cinder mirage]

it works great for simple stuff like creating an FPS character and camera

as a means of learning blueprints and some of the nodes, its great

what i need is a way to visualize their output as diagrams. they don't need to be usable in UE or anything

just visually

[lunar sleet]

I’m sure there’s some dude out there that made some plugin to convert but realistically bp nodes are just text

That’s how bpUE works

[cinder mirage]

yes they're just text but its something like this 😄

[pulsar geode]

Is there an alternative way to blend two montages rather than using LayeredBlendByBone"?
Currently I have a skeletal mesh with one half (lets call it half A) activating a PlayMontage node on player input with each additional input calling PlayMontage again.
The other half (call it half B) I would like to play a separate montage.
I have gotten animation blending to work in the past by caching the animation in the default slot and then using a LayeredBlendByBone along with a separate slot.

My issue right now is when I try this on my current setup, it correctly blends the animation of half A with half B the first time; but when half A's same animation is triggered a second time through the PlayMontage node while half B's is still playing, half B's animation stops entirely. If I let both finish it works fine, but I ideally would like to be able to use PlayMontage on half A multiple times while half B is stilling running its slower animation.
Is there a way to achieve this? Am I missing something in my AnimBP?

[dawn gazelle]

You could try speaking with the creator of blueprintue.com and see if they'd be willing to help out.

[odd basin]

Alright, realized I wasn't updating the HUD Class, only the widget
BUT regardless, even trying to set that using Get Player Controller > Client Set HUD and then trying to create a new reference to the HUD Class, it fails

[cinder mirage]

Thank you

thank you so much

[inland walrus]

How do you put a border on an image in a widget blueprint? I thought it'd be padding but I cant find it

[versed sun]

you put the Image on a Border , or right click image and "Wrap with" > Border

then the image's padding will be the Border thickness

[frosty heron]

Why are you using get player controller with index in multiplayer?

Where does the function lives?

[odd basin]

Not doing anything Multiplayer

[frosty heron]

Then why do you have an rpc?

[odd basin]

And the plot thickens even further, working away on all my functions further.
The code onscreen runs on Beginplay, and sets the "As Hud player" reference just fine

But on Event Destroy it runs the code and the As Hud Player reference fails

[odd basin]

Possibly have some lingering stuff from some multiplayer testing

[inland walrus]

Anyone know why my videos keep replaying incorrectly?

each video is a different length

which is why I have made it a variable delay

[empty marten]

Hey peeps,
Dumb question time. I'm using the ball template from UE4 (now in UE5) and I got some BP code which teleports the ball if it enters like a no-go area. Problem is when I teleport the ball, the applied torque to it before being teleported is still active so the ball is still moving. This can cause the ball to instantly roll back into the no-go area. Is there a way to reset the applied torque to stop it from moving? When I teleport it, I'm referencing the player pawn and not the blueprint class at the moment.

[inland walrus]

but

[empty marten]

Are you sure your code is changing the VideoDuration variable?

[sage plank]

sanity check here:
"Add unique" is just an if() check to see if the reference I'm trying to add already exists within, right? Because I dont want duplicates in my instance array

[inland walrus]

I believe so, it is a variable for a delay

bit of a mess about though, having to find the videos exact time

[empty marten]

You should be able to get the duration of the video using GetDuration with the target being the media player. That will then return a time variable which gives you days, hours, mins, seconds and milliseconds.

from that just get the minutes / seconds, convert to seconds and then set that as the duration.

[inland walrus]

get duration has nothing to connect to

[empty marten]

Is that in the media player code?

[inland walrus]

This is the only place with the media player

[empty marten]

AddUnique does and array find and if there isn't any copies of that value which you're trying to add, it will add it to the end of the array.

Yeah so you see where you create the widget you then drag out your media player, drag from that and get the function GetDuration.

[sage plank]

epic, thanks

[empty marten]

I like using the snipping tool too much XD

[inland walrus]

Nice drawing xD

Looking like this now

[empty marten]

Good but this still might not work if the video is more than 1 minute long.

[inland walrus]

Thats all good no video will be over a minute

let me test

[empty marten]

There's no harm in shoving in a print string also to see what value you get out.

[empty marten]

You are most welcome 🙂

[inland walrus]

Nope, video doesn't play now lol it just crashed my PC

[sage plank]

F

[empty marten]

That's one powerful media player you got going there XD

[inland walrus]

xD It was because it is looping rewinds infinitely

[empty marten]

Ah yes the infinite loop issue. It has caused many a crash throughout the years lol

[inland walrus]

lool

I'm going to try this, wish me luck

actually we maybe don't want to open source on a loop

I'll loop the delay to rewind

[empty marten]

no you don't.

[inland walrus]

First video works perfect, everything after the first one is bugged

[inland walrus]

no crash though

[empty marten]

OK. So now my question is, when the screen goes black and the player is back at the start, are you loading a new level or just teleporting the player?

[inland walrus]

teleporting

This is what is happening to close the widget during the black screens

[empty marten]

Ah so now here is my question, you are removing the widget from the parent right and then when the screen fades back in, are you then creating the widget again and playing the 2nd video that way?

[inland walrus]

yeah

the media source is a variable so all videos are different lengths too

[empty marten]

right

[fiery ridge]

see if the video is still bugged in standalone mode

[empty marten]

so instead of remove from parent, try remove all widgets

[inland walrus]

it's only bugged if I overlap more than one, if I move the player start to the second one, the second one works fine

[inland walrus]

Alright

I feel like I need to add a stop video playing node of some kind somewhere but I don't know the node

[fiery ridge]

I like the grid material btw

[inland walrus]

It's less bugged but still very bugged

[empty marten]

Ooops lol

[inland walrus]

Thanks lol it's definetely not the most optimized way of doing it, but it works for now

[empty marten]

Also quick side note. This link might help you with nodes available for media players: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/BlueprintAPI/Media/MediaPlayer?application_version=4.27

I know it says 4.27 but all the nodes should still be there.

you do know btw there is a looping function in the media players

[inland walrus]

Thanks that'll be useful

Yeah it's already enabled

If this is what you're referring to ^

[empty marten]

Can i ask, each video you're trying to play are they in a playlist?

or individual videos?

[inland walrus]

individual videos

[empty marten]

dude, make a playlist

Your life, so much easier

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/using-media-playlists?application_version=4.27

you just call the playlist then set the video

[inland walrus]

What would be the difference?

would it fix the issue? xD

[empty marten]

Less code

more effecient

With the playlist, you literally just say "Play Index 1" and with the loop function on, it will just loop the video over. If you turn it off, it'll only play the video once.

[inland walrus]

Alright

I've made the playlist

[stiff notch]

Cannot construct object. any help?? I'm trying to construct an object of the type BP_Objective which is a blueprint with "actor" as its parent. the blueprint just holds a boolean and a string variable, and it's not meant to be spawned, it's just to hold information. Upon trying to create an object of this type i get this error in the beginplay function. any ideas?

This is in my gamestate blueprint