blueprint

[gentle urchin]

so.. always trace

and let trace slip through the physics object

and use trace hit as the target location for the object

[native vector]

I will literally pay you to walk me through that lmao

I can show you what i have already

[gentle urchin]

My paypal is ******

[chilly geyser]

lol

How do I use this map in conjunction with my bool array?

[native vector]

is that a no

[gentle urchin]

It wasn't a no xD

[chilly geyser]

Pretty sure hes messing with you lol

[gentle urchin]

trying to see if i had anything i could start off from

100 frickin characters in this dumpster project

one less fit than the other

this is first person , right ?

[native vector]

LMAO yeah it is

it basically updates the location of the object every .001 seconds

[gentle urchin]

id just do it on tick

[native vector]

i thought that was a big no no

[gentle urchin]

for this, its a big yes yes

[native vector]

oh wow okay so

this is what i have now right

[gentle urchin]

this should set the location to hit result

[lunar sleet]

If your timer is 0.1 or lower, tick is more efficient

[gentle urchin]

if i ignore the timer part (since it could just as well be tick)

[copper chasm]

i think tick fearmongering is worthwhile for early learning, but as you advance you learn that there are some things where it's okay to use it

[gentle urchin]

so create a TargetLocation variable

and when you trace,

if its a hit, you store TargetLocation,

[copper chasm]

you don't, your map is what you use instead of your bool array, so instead of bools, you're checking names against the map to see if true or false

[gentle urchin]

if its not a hit, you store TraceEnd location

[copper chasm]

full refactor on that, sorry

[chilly geyser]

Its not compatible with array elements

[gentle urchin]

they're not ment to be

[chilly geyser]

So I just tick the ones I want for it on set?

[gentle urchin]

in Maps you use Add

[native vector]

what kind of variable would TargetLocation be?

[gentle urchin]

its a location, so vector

[native vector]

oh right ok

so for example, I'd break hit result after the line trace, and then set the TargetLocation variable to the location from the break hit result?

[gentle urchin]

If its a hit

[native vector]

so a branch first

with the condition being the return value of the line trace?

[copper chasm]

with maps, you'll add a value to a key on the map, screenshot only BARELY related

[copper chasm]

so like, your Prayer 1 # would be the key, and each one of those would have a value (the bool, t/f)

[gentle urchin]

simplified, but

[chilly geyser]

Mine have two bools that come out of the find lol

[gentle urchin]

now you'd just make sure that you let the trace channel slip through when you're holding an item

[gentle urchin]

yeah, lower one is if the key exist

upper one is the actual value

if key is not found, the actual value will always be defautled (false for bool)

[chilly geyser]

Okay so use bottom, thanks

[gentle urchin]

no, use top

top is the actual value

[chilly geyser]

oh

[gentle urchin]

but will always return false if the bottom is false

it may return true if bottom is true

[chilly geyser]

and then to change a value on the map, I do add?

[gentle urchin]

yeah

add replaces existing key

with new value

[chilly geyser]

TYVM! @gentle urchin @copper chasm

[gentle urchin]

I'd consider using something less typo-probable than names but

up to you

[native vector]

This ends up just keeping the object in the same place. Im using a line trae for objects, does it need to be a line trace by channel?

[chilly geyser]

Suggestion?

enum?

[gentle urchin]

gameplaytag

[gentle urchin]

Because your trace hits the object, after pickup

you could disable collision

but that could cause weird things

you can manipulate just the channel that you're tracing tho

so on pickup, set channel to ignore
on release, set channel to .. respond ? block/overlap or whatever it initially was

not sure if you can use any of the internal delegates for the collider to do this

wake/sleep/state changed perhaps?

[native vector]

wait wait

[copper chasm]

always with the gameplaytags XD

[gentle urchin]

gameplaytags or bust lol

[native vector]

does this look right? besides the absence of the event tick

[gentle urchin]

who can resist such beauty

[gentle urchin]

assuming target location is correct, yeah

[copper chasm]

I'm glad I figured out a workaround for getting all actors with tag, because they ARE good to use, and they ARE infinitely better than normal tags

[gentle urchin]

this looks alright ?

[native vector]

so theres no other way to make this work other than messing with collision?

[gentle urchin]

well....

there is

but its more code ?

you could do a multitrace

[copper chasm]

could you not get the vector length at the impact location and clamp it to that length, or something?

[gentle urchin]

untill you hit something that is not your currently held component

[copper chasm]

(i haven't been paying attention to the conversation, this is probably a stupid suggestion)

[gentle urchin]

wait

[native vector]

is there a way to specifically store just the distance between the camera and the object?

[gentle urchin]

you can add it to actors to ignore!

thats easier!

[native vector]

how so?

[gentle urchin]

whenever you pickup

you store an actor reference

and then you insert that in the actors to ignore array

at the start of the trace

so as long as it is held, it will be ignored by the trace

make sure you clear the variable once you let it go tho

[copper chasm]

I need to make a character sheet widget system now and that feels very exhausting (I despise working with ui stuff, I overcomplicate it) so I'm gonna go get some lunch before I do that, cheers all

[native vector]

The object still just stays in the same place

[gentle urchin]

Huh?

It shouldnt

[gentle urchin]

(Set held actor after the weight check)

[native vector]

oop ok

[gentle urchin]

Add drawdebug to verify

Set ir to one frame

Assuming you trace on tick

[native vector]

alright so now, the object still stays in one place but after i let it go i cant grab it again

[gentle urchin]

Resetting held actor?

Doesnt seem like it but i could be wronf

[native vector]

oh no you're right i forgot about that

so now i can keep grabbing it

but it still just stays in the same place

[copper chasm]

have you considered it may just be a very heavy piece of cheese 😐

[chilly geyser]

lol

Okay all wired up, last question is how to set this back to default

[gentle urchin]

Soo, debug draw

See whats happening with the trace

[cyan steppe]

Does anyone know how SaveGame objects are saved between starting the project?
I've watched a Mathew Wadstein tutorial over this and he can save, close the project, open it again, load and it will load values from that save.
In my case I save, close, open and the save does not load. It in fact does not exist as I have Create SaveGame object nodes if the CastTo fails and it does pop off.

Can someone shed some light on this?

I more or less copied nodes one to one for my own thing and it doesn't work, so I don't think its inherently on my side.

[dark drum]

Show you logic for loading the save and the logic for actually saving.

[dark drum]

Replace the 'Set Timer By Event' with 'Set Timer Next Tick'. If 0.001 becomes less that tick it can cause a hit to performance. Plus it can end up happening ever other tick instead of every tick.

[cyan steppe]

Shameful to admit but while cleaning it up so that it looks appropriate for the screenshot, I found the issue. My apologies and thanks nonetheless. 😓

[chilly geyser]

Happens to me often 🤣

[hazy bramble]

Im really trying to get into Unreal and someone told me to start learning by learning blueprints but how does one go about doing that?

youtube only helps so much I figured out how to get to the window for unreal but idk what to do

[dark drum]

What sort of things are you wanting to make?

[copper chasm]

not sure what you mean, set the default values of the map in the BP

[chilly geyser]

When I click a button, I want to reset back to default

Because ADD changes the value

[hazy bramble]

I want to make video games

[dark drum]

You can get the class defaults and set it with whats in that.

[gentle urchin]

default being false?

if you want everything to be false, you can simply clear it

alternatively loop its keys and values and set all values to false

[dark drum]

Such as?

[copper chasm]

so my characters are built with just about all the information I need on them stored in actor components - if I wanted to display stats for a selected character, would an instance of BP_Character be able to reference its own component information outside of itself? Idk if that makes sense

[dark drum]

outside of itself?

[copper chasm]

I want the C button to show a widget with the stats of the currently controlled character, if the widget has a reference to the character, when it pulls the component information, it will be relevant to that character, yeah?

[dark drum]

Yes, it'll be the one on the referenced actor.

[gentle urchin]

let the widget do the pulling of the data

[hazy bramble]

I want to start off with a comedic, silly, low poly multiplayer game I dont wanna do anything massive

[copper chasm]

for instance, left click char A, hit C, widget pulls the stats actor component and reads the hit points, shows on widget - if I close that, left click char B, it'll read char b's components?

[gentle urchin]

if you possess char b, and set it up correctly, yeah

if you store char A's component and dont do housekeeping, nah

[chilly geyser]

Got It! Not sure if theres a better way. But this is working! Thanks again @copper chasm @gentle urchin

[copper chasm]

well, I wouldn't possess per se, I'd just set it as the ref char on click

i just don't know enough about actor components to know how that communication works lol

[gentle urchin]

this looks so weird

[dark drum]

I would avoid multiplayer if you're new to UE.

[chilly geyser]

What I do Wrong? lol

[gentle urchin]

you're clearing the entire map, and setting a variable true afterwards

is that what you want to achieve ?

[chilly geyser]

It doesnt work unless I do that

Ill double check

[gentle urchin]

If you simply want to flip its value

[vagrant quest]

does anyone know if UE5 has an inbuilt feature for disabling specific console commands?

[gentle urchin]

you can invert the current value

[copper chasm]

you can ADD the other key and set it to false just like you're setting the current one to true, it's KIND of a horse a piece

[chilly geyser]

Nah, doesnt work unless I have that on there

[gentle urchin]

do you just wanna invert the value?

[chilly geyser]

no

[gentle urchin]

if false, set true
and if true, set false?

[chilly geyser]

I need it modular, to apply to 6 buttons total

[dark drum]

If there's only ever going to be one entry in the map, you can get away with just using a single gameplay tag var. If it's set it's true for the specific gameplay tag. If it's not set to anything then it's false.

[copper chasm]

you guys and your gameplay tags 😂

[wanton radish]

hey, how can I scale down all segments of chaos fractured model with blueprints? After I break something, I want those pieces to slowly shrink. Scaling down actordoesn't work well because it scales whole actor and moves pieces from their original place

[chilly geyser]

button 0 ,toggles on, and turns off buttons 1-5
button 1, toggles on, and turns off buttons 0,2-5
ect
If the button that is toggled on, is pressed again, turn everything off

[maiden wadi]

Not working in a studio, huh?

[copper chasm]

I don't need to make things pretty for my designers, my designers are a bunch of cats

I don't disagree they are useful insofar as the least common denominator is concerned, I just laugh cause I wonder how many times a day they get suggested 😛

i think learning gas actually teaches more about UE itself than anything you can find on youtube or whatever, how to look at things specifically to ue dev

[chilly geyser]

I have different tags for different buttons, Should I not?

[maiden wadi]

Haha. I meant more the desire to avoid spending half an hour tracking down a bug just to realize someone typed TisThing32 instead of ThisThing32

[hazy bramble]

Understandable. is it still possible tho like later in future like what if i just want to make the game itself for now

[chilly geyser]

NGL took me 3 read throughs to see the difference

[hazy bramble]

I more so just want to understand the interface and know how the nodes work

[maiden wadi]

And the person who checked the data only did it twice before passing it to the poor soul who had to waste half an hour on it. 😄

[copper chasm]

there are a ton of youtube tutorials out there that I would advise finding one made by someone whose voice you can stand and going through it all with a grain of salt, taking a step back every few hours and tweaking whatever it is you made by parroting the tutorial

[gentle urchin]

You really just need a gameplaytag

[copper chasm]

it helps if you have a coding background, as blueprints are essentially just condensed blocks of code, but over time and tinkering you'll start to pick up the basics and then as you're googling for answers you'll know how to better frame your questions

[gentle urchin]

Singular

[copper chasm]

Button.ActivePrayer

[hazy bramble]

idk ive been scourging on yt for a good informational video but I cant find one. do u have any suggestions

[chilly geyser]

How Would I check if its already on If I only have 1 tag?

[gentle urchin]

if the tag is the one the button has, it's on. If its not, someone else is on (or nothing is on)

so if its someone else, or none, set it to us
if its us, then set to none

now wrap it in a function

which you just call

name it something wiisely

[copper chasm]

not really, sorry 😂 - I spent probably 2-3 months watching through various series before getting frustrated and paying 20 bucks for a course on udemy

[chilly geyser]

I took multiple on udemy lol

[copper chasm]

wait am i stupid, did you just make a tag container variable with a single tag and use that as a variable to check things against

I have been using hastag and all sorts of pain in the ass workarounds

[gentle urchin]

not even a tag container.. just a tag variable

[copper chasm]

cool, idk why i never thought to do it that way, but I'm gonna go write that on the board

[gentle urchin]

since its mutually exclusive

there can only ever be one

could've just been an int aswell, at this point

result would be the same

[chilly geyser]

🤯

[gentle urchin]

not sure if you need return variable,

[copper chasm]

i like how over the course of two hours we've come up with about 9 different solutions to this lol

[gentle urchin]

but if you do, it returns the final state of it, relative to the new buttno

[hazy bramble]

lmao is udemy worth it in your opinion? to learn unreal engine I mean

[chilly geyser]

I want to do it the right way, so I keep changing it lol

It works as is... but If I need to do it a better way to help with resorces I will

In total I have about 30 prayers, These 6 though, Only one of them can be active at one given time

[copper chasm]

There's only ever one dude whose courses I bought, Stephen Ulibarri (i think is the spelling) - I would recommend, the courses have discounts on his discord every month (cause udemy pricing is stupid) but yeah, as far as that one goes I would say anyone wanting to sit down and learn stuff would be served well, there's a newish blueprint course that actually has you build like 3 little projects in it and comes with the assets you'll need

[copper chasm]

nah man it's all good, any time anyone can learn anything it's a win, this is the job

[chilly geyser]

Hes one of the guys in the courses I took too. A couple of courses lol

[copper chasm]

i've given that man too much money this year lmao

[gentle urchin]

meanwhile im doing it for free

rip

i gotta stop that

hah

[chilly geyser]

Took me so long to be able to start to wrap my head around things and start being able to make stuff happen that I wanted to happen lol.

[chilly geyser]

lol

[copper chasm]

well, you go put out a 100 hour video series and i'll throw you 20 bucks too 😛

[gentle urchin]

I'll wrap it up in 5 minutes

[chilly geyser]

lol

[gentle urchin]

"just do this ->>>> "
check please.

heh

[copper chasm]

there's a guy on the UE forums any time I google something it's always his answer that solves it for me, I wanna put him on retainer

[gentle urchin]

Everynone?

[copper chasm]

yeah lmao

[gentle urchin]

noticed

[copper chasm]

he's in this discord haha

man i'm so mad i never thought to just try a gameplay tag as a variable

doing it in tag containers is fine but is clunky when prototyping, trying to add and remove things from the container without setting it all up

oh wait, that won't work because HasTag needs a tag container

so I do either need to use tag containers or set it up in C++ so my actor class has more gameplay tag functionality

[gentle urchin]

there is more in bp aswell iirc ?

matches tag

[dark drum]

You can just check if the tag is equal to a tag.

[gentle urchin]

not if you want to accept not exact matches aswell

[copper chasm]

okay so, I'm setting a variable to determine if a character is "in the party" - I have a tag that's literally Character.InParty. In my manager class, during an "initialize" function, I'm getting all character actors and checking if they have the tag party, and putting them into an array - if I just used the tag, it seems silly, because I could just put that tag into the container with the rest and check against the container directly

unless I'm wrong

[dark drum]

Well doing things for multiplayer and for single player can be very different. Have you followed the tutorials Epic has provided yet? If not I would start their to get an understand of where things are in the editor and what not and learn about some of the common classes.

[copper chasm]

I could make a single tag variable for my manager class too I guess and just check it against that, would save me from potentially mis-clicking in the dropdown

[gentle urchin]

sounds wise

less mistakes made is less hours wasted

[steady night]

dose "restart player at player start" dose it "restart everything even begin play nodes etc etc its not like u just teleport to that location right ?

[copper chasm]

I believe it just respawns the player pawn at the start location you specify - I don't know for sure if that means the beginplay fires all over again, I assume that it would, as the previous object is destroyed and a new one is spawned

[steady night]

i would imagain so,

[copper chasm]

If I have a custom game controller BP set in the gamemode, do I need to get playercontroller and cast to that bp every time I need to reference the playercontroller

or does the engine make that inferrence based on the gamemode

[gentle urchin]

It doesnt

But you can make a bpfl for it

Precasted

[dark drum]

It depends what you need to do. If you just need a PC then no. If you need to call specific logic on your custom PC then yea.

[copper chasm]

thanks

[copper chasm]

so my widget will have a reference to the manager, which has a reference to the current character, and from there I can pull that character's info - right?

that's what my brain tells me to do, but I'm not super comfortable with the best practices of data management

i've just been establishing the manager in places i need it with "get actor of class" to set a variable

[gentle urchin]

sounds about right

manager sounds liek a controller but maybe you got something more in there

[copper chasm]

it's just a pawn really, it's a top down rpg scenario, I just use it for the camera stuff and some random communication where I need to

the widget is pulling none though, I assume it's an order of operations problem

ah yeah the widget is being set up before the active character is being set, npnp

(we don't validate our gets in this house because we're filthy heathens)

[gentle urchin]

in your manager

add a delegate for whenever character changes

let widget listen to that

[copper chasm]

oooh, delegates

[wanton radish]

hey, I really need help. My Pistol is set by default to simulate physics and I want it that way. When I use pistol in enemy class as ChildActor I have error that collision is not compatible with simulate physics.

I tried casting it to item class (so I can get item mesh easily) and disable physics for mesh, but it doesn't work.

[copper chasm]

Dr. Google says to make the static mesh of the gun the root component of the actor, although I suspect someone else may have a better suggestion as I am simply googling

[wanton radish]

It's really weird I can't do it the way I want. I wouldn't either like to make mesh root component.

[copper chasm]

Well, the child actor is looking to its parent for movement, and its parent is the gun actor and not the gun mesh, so it's looking to that for simulation, if I'm reading this right

[flat coral]

What's the "right" way check if a Name param is empty? The usual suspects are all absent

[faint pasture]

check if equal to name none?

what does make name return by default

[copper chasm]

This should work, no?

[flat coral]

What's interesting is one of those will work and the other wont

But I have no idea which

[copper chasm]

Oh, default value for name is None

[wanton radish]

I don't exactly understand what you mean. So there is enemy class that has child actor "Pistol". SKM of pistol is set to simulate physics, but in enemy class Pistol has collision disabled (so it's incompatible with physics settings). I want to disable physics simulation for pistol SKM in enemy class.

[flat coral]

Hoooold up. THEY BOTH WORK

obviously my string output formating is awful but the results are VERY clear! "none" must be some reserve word in Unreal where "None" == "" is true

[copper chasm]

I think I misunderstood your question, my apologies, hopefully someone with better understanding of physics can come through 🥲

[wanton radish]

I think this is just unreal having weird structure

[proud bridge]

Hey, is there a “mask by color” node or sth like that in material editor where i want to select certain colors in a texture?

[faint pasture]

I don't think there's a built-in one but you can just make it

Abs(R - Other.R) + Abs(G - Other.G) + Abs(B - Other.B) is one way to generate the number you care about

[proud bridge]

Figures, thnx

[past hull]

Hello,
I am trying to build a weapon selection UI. I want the corresponding box to be at opacity 1 if the is the selected weapon, and if not .5
I tried this as a binding for my background image but it won't work. any Idea why ?

[faint pasture]

What happens if current weapon isn't primary weapon?

cuz your code says to change nothing in that case

[past hull]

nothing for now because I just want to test for the secondary weapon box, wich is the one on the top

it looks like this, but it never changes

[faint pasture]

Is this all 1 widget or do you have a widget bp per slot?

[past hull]

its one widget

[faint pasture]

so there's only 2 states? Primary is selected, or secondary is selected?

You need to add what to do when false, and do the opposite for the other brush

[past hull]

yes

[faint pasture]

you'll have 2 bindings which take opposite paths and set opacity to opposite values

plus you never return anything, that might be borked.

[shrewd tiger]

Hello
So i'm making a spaceship building system for my game, and there's a really stupid thing i've done where each of the 375000 grid elements (The player can build in midair so Linetrace doesn't apply I believe...) where I for loop a 375000 element array EVERY TICK. Is there a better way? Rn it freezes the entire editor when running.

[past hull]

you were right, I was going too fast ahah ty

[faint pasture]

what are you for looping for?

[past hull]

but my icon is still blank i dont know why

[faint pasture]

This is for Space Engineers style building right?

[shrewd tiger]

Kinda

yes

[faint pasture]

First off, is it a constant grid or can there be varied grids with various orientations?

[shrewd tiger]

static grid

[faint pasture]

is it like a Minecraft grid or Space Engineers grid

[shrewd tiger]

mc grid

[faint pasture]

just have some math to convert a world space to the grid coords

how big is a grid cell?

[shrewd tiger]

100 units

[faint pasture]

So assuming you've cooked up a 3d coordinate, GridCoords = WorldCoords / 100 rounded to int

that'll get you your grid coords

now to look up what's there, you need some math to convert from grid coords to array index

that's simple

[shrewd tiger]

Thanks a lot, imma try that

stupid question in the first place 😅

[faint pasture]

You then need some math functions like:

Index = GridX + GridY * YWidth + GridZ * YWidth * ZWidth

say your grid was 100 x 100 x 100, that'd convert 30, 24, 10 into index 102430

Also, maybe consider a sparse grid. How much of this grid is meant to have anything in it?

You could have your "grid" be a map of IntVector -> thing

[shrewd tiger]

grid is 50x50x150

[faint pasture]

then it'd be super simple to see what thing is at what position

[shrewd tiger]

Yeah that makes sense

[shrewd tiger]

so this is like cocacenation not math addition?

[faint pasture]

A grid with 1 steel block at 200, 300, 20 would just look like:
Key = 200, 300 20 Value = Steel

[faint pasture]

math addition

to convert from coords to index

[shrewd tiger]

ok yeah

thx

[faint pasture]

to go the other way you'd modulo and divide

[shrewd tiger]

I'm thinking making the index a string and to do like a substring thing to reverse

[faint pasture]

uh

nah

just choose whether to represent as an array or map

array is a bit faster, map doesn't have size limits

map changes size based on how many things are in it, array is same size no matter what

[shrewd tiger]

What's the size limit for an array..?

[faint pasture]

What I mean is it doesn't have to be set in stone

[shrewd tiger]

oh ok

dynamic type thing?

[faint pasture]

you don't need a grid "size", you just have a list of locations and what's there

[shrewd tiger]

yes

[faint pasture]

Imagine a 3x3x3 with the center cell having a steel block.
Array:
None, None, None, None, Steel, None, None, None, None,

Map:
2,2,2 = Steel

[shrewd tiger]

oh yeah ok got it

I think i'll stick to arrays cos i know them better

[bold shard]

Is it possible to get all gameplay tags at runtime?

[shrewd tiger]

so this monstrosity is what i came up with

and...

It no worky

[spark steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-pokemon-shock-surprised-pikachu-gif-15357817

thats a thing btw

[shrewd tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/the-what-smile-whut-weird-stare-gif-16592004

[shrewd tiger]

ok i seem to have missed a minus somewhere

[spark steppe]

also round seems wrong

truncate or floor is more likely correct

[shrewd tiger]

ye right floor it is

[spark steppe]

probably truncate (because you have negative values)

[shrewd tiger]

Yeaaaah

ok gn thanks for all the help

[spark steppe]

even tho... snapped to grid would resolve all those issues

[copper chasm]

I figured out how to get all the members of my party, take a struct containing the data for their portrait widgets, create the portrait widgets and populate it individually with the data - I don't know how to get it to sit where I want it to sit and to position correctly, but damn I am proud of myself

[wise ravine]

how do i make a delay system where the player can't execute something until x seconds after the last input

[copper chasm]

For some reason it's creating three widgets, duplicating the first one, even though there are only two characters in the level, needs debugging

[hot fjord]

Hey everyone!
My Jump input suddenly also started triggering when releasing the space button annd I don't know why. Does anyone know what I might have done?

[copper chasm]

I remember a character named Xelthas in a MUD I used to play - can you screenshot your input action?

[hot fjord]

What is a MUD?

yeah, one moment

[copper chasm]

text based RPG, lol

[copper chasm]

did the add child during the loop and not when it was completed ^__^

[hot fjord]

the hit target are just a functional placeholder for something I'll implement

[graceful gorge]

You may have changed the input button behavior in your character Blueprint, or the input mapping.

[copper chasm]

move it from triggered to started and see if that stops it

[hot fjord]

It did stop it

but it's weird. I havent touched anything afaik

[copper chasm]

Triggered may fire over multiple ticks, started only fires once until it stops, if I'm remembering correctly

you could also potentially throw a bool in, isjumping, set it to true on triggered, false on completed, and if it is true don't execute the code

but for a jump you probably just want it on started

[hot fjord]

Thanks man

[copper chasm]

o7

[hot fjord]

you saved me from a big headache

[faint fjord]

Is there a way to get the animation slot value?

[copper chasm]

did you try turning off context? It might be hidden hidden, or it might be kinda hidden

[frosty heron]

Try getting the param struct

If you can't, it's probably not exposed / private

[copper chasm]

Anybody got a good comprehensive ui tutorial they reference? I am struggling trying to position everything just so

[proud bridge]

Hello, what do I do for a color range?

[faint pasture]

What do you mean color range? You want WHAT to map to 1, while everything else maps to 0?

[proud bridge]

Mm i understand the wrong in the question. Got it

[flat raft]

what is a quick way to animate a value from 0 to 1, without using a timeline, or some delay hack?

linearly

[faint fjord]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't find anything useful

[dry sleet]

Without a timeline, in BP? Just add deltatime to some counter on Tick, then.

[faint fjord]

Looks like this

[copper chasm]

did you try to get the params struct off it and split the pins?

[wise ravine]

I cant figure out why I'm getting this runtime error

[frosty heron]

Don't c anything useful you can get anyway. They are just defaulted to default values.

What are you even trying to achieve here?

[faint fjord]

Yes

[copper chasm]

show the toggle bp?

[dry sleet]

One or more of the references in that array are null, I would assume.

[frosty heron]

Don't have to go that far

[copper chasm]

oh yeah i guess, I see

[wise ravine]

prolly

[copper chasm]

put in a breakpoint and see what the array has in it

[wise ravine]

yea I had an empty slot in the array without a selected object

dumb mistake, thanks anyway yall

[faint fjord]

I need to configure the start/end frame of animation tracks (sections) with a specific slot name.

[frosty heron]

Hmm not sure about the use case, if you want to edit the start and end frame you can just edit the animation assets by splitting(removing) the sections

[faint fjord]

Looks that I can't use this. I have very specific use case for virtual production needs. But anyway thank you

[glossy cloak]

Alright. Running into an odd one. I have an end overlap in a blueprint that seems to being triggered when I end a pie session while my player is inside it. It's trying to create/destroy a widget (depending on validity) at this time, which is causing engine crashes about 1/3rd of the time.

Anyone have a clue how to prevent this? I'm honestly baffled I've never run into this before.

[fiery swallow]

are you checking if the widget is valid? Also you can't really destroy a widget in blueprints, garbage collection takes care of that

what's the crash saying aswell

[glossy cloak]

Right. It's being removed from parent. If it doesn't crash I get a nice log in the message log that explains it was trying to access a widget. If it crashes, the crash log is pretty vague.

[fiery swallow]

yeah, sounds like you just need to do a validation check

"isvalid" node

if the widget was never created because you spawned inside of the overlap, that means the on overlapped event never fired which is where I'm assuming your logic to spawn the widget is happening

[glossy cloak]

I am. If it's valid, it removes it. If not, it creates a new one.

I probably just need to change how this happens.

[fiery swallow]

showing your code helps

[glossy cloak]

I didn't write the code. I'm refactoring this to be more generic and just ran into the issue.

[fiery swallow]

need a validation check on the widget you're trying to remove

[glossy cloak]

I think it's crashing on creation.

[fiery swallow]

yeah I'm pretty confused on what you're trying to do, I assumed leaving the overlap meant you would be trying to destroy the widget

[glossy cloak]

Yeah. Honestly I'm confused too. lol

I'll be back with better info once I know more. I thought I had it narrowed down, but I could be wrong.

Regardless, I'm still confused why an end overlap is triggered on terminating the game and how to prevent that.

[faint fjord]

It seems I have found the proper solution. Thanks everyone, guys!

[proper tulip]

Hi so im going to share an image and two short clips of my code, mayb esomeone can help me. I have a jump that has a delay so it can only be triggered every 4 seconds, and a sound as well that plays . I have a dash key as well that just boosts the character forward and i also want it every 4 seconds only too with a sound, i have some code setup, the jump works perfectly but i cant quite get the dash to work, anything would help

this is the jump working

Jump code that works as you can see

Dash code (currently i cant even dash)

i basically copy pasted the jump code to dash with a dash cooldown instead of jump cooldown but no work

im gonna be messin with it for a while if anyone has any ideas

[desert juniper]

why is your details panel so infuriatingly large? lol

[high iris]

Have people here figured out a way to quickly bring up the blueprint debugger? I can't seem to make that shortcut work, and I can't tell if that's normal and I'm doing something wrong with my UE editor instance.

[desert juniper]

use the debugger. Press F9 on one of the early nodes and determine what is failing

[trim matrix]

Hello anyone who could help. I need this grid of locations to always be oriented in the correct way no matter how I might rotate the actor. Almost there but you can see when I turn it they still line up the same way. What could I be doing wrong here?

[proper tulip]

because im retarted but i got it working, ill show you

firstly my input action self deleted, but it was still firing soomehow.. creepy, but.. ill show u code

[desert juniper]

Ghost code?

halloween is coming up 👻

here's ashort video on the debugger. recommend watchinnt it to see how it works, and how it can help you debug your code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7R4hOGkAzA

[jovial sinew]

How do I save across editor instances? I don't mean saving during gameplay. I have an editor utility that controls an actor spawn/despawn grid - if I save and relaunch Unreal, the created actors don't stay in the array they were cast to (i.e. using the editor utility widget to spawn/despawn actors will add or remove actors but ignore the ones that were created in the previous session).

[shut nymph]

Man has anyone used DetourCrowdAIController lately? I cannot for the LIFE of me get it to navigate. I've tried a fresh project, deleting navmesh and agents, everything

[maiden wadi]

What are you doing exactly? Using the utility to spawn actors into the level before play?

[jovial sinew]

Yes. This a slightly older gif but this is the functionality (the actors that are spawned are children of the hex grid actor now).
Not shown is when I save the scene, restart unreal, and use widget again. Using it again works, but whatever tiles existed in the previous session don't respond (because the array must not be persistent I'm guessing).

[maiden wadi]

How are you spawning these in? There is a subsystem you're supposed to use for this in utilities.

[jovial sinew]

Using a spawn actor node? I destroy/clear then resize the array based on the value and foreach spawn a tile which gets set in the array.

[maiden wadi]

Is this code in the Utility?

[jovial sinew]

The EU_HexGrid blueprint is an Editor Utility Actor.

[jovial sinew]

Unless I'm supposed to use this?

[maiden wadi]

Might me that.. Sec, I'm starting editor. But I thought it was from EditorActorSubsystem.

Yeah, this one I think.

[jovial sinew]

Okay thanks - and to be clear, the code is in a blueprint of type Editor Utility Actor but I'm not using the above - I'm just spawning it like a regular actor I guess.

[jovial sinew]

Okay so spawning via this node should persist or do I need to do something to the data (i.e. the array)?

[maiden wadi]

Unsure. I believe this spawn node will at least make the actors spawned save. I'm not sure about the array. Usually you need to transact an object when editing it via the editor.

TBF I'm used to editing data with utilities. So this is me guessing.

[ocean jackal]

hey, i just got unreal 5.4.4 today, and I was =wondering if I could get some help. I am very new to coding and would just like some guidence

[maiden wadi]

Generally just ask questions. People will usually respond if they're able. Larger learning will mostly require you to do it on your own through tutorials or blogs, and such though.

[jovial sinew]

Okay, what do you mean by transact? I'm doing this [images] currently but I feel like the array is only local to the Unreal session. I'm finding difficulty in asking the right question about that. So, thanks for the help regardless.

[ocean jackal]

tutorials dont give you the help you directly need, and start you off as a legit baby. they always say stuff like "what is coding" and "how do I get into the habits of coding" and useless stuff like that, and just take to long in general

[maiden wadi]

Sec. I think I have an example for texture updates.

[ocean jackal]

plus im saying, im a complete beginner to bluescript, and havent done much coding in my life. so i have no questions to ask because i dont know anything

how do you unbind the blocks?

nvm found it

[jovial sinew]

I know you're responding - this is the issue (plus I've swapped out the spawn actor to use the subsystem but that didn't change anything).
"Old" was the previous session. Restarting and sliding the widget makes the new three ones and ignores the previous two.

[maiden wadi]

Eh. Honestly, I would ditch the idea that you're going to do anything quickly. Coding and software dev are very long term goals. It takes weeks to be moderately efficient with any language, and that is with prior coding experience. It takes months to get a good hold on the basic concepts of Unreal's API and legitimate years to fully grasp it if you step from BP to C++.

I'm not saying this to discourage you, on the contrary just to put you in a better mindset that this hobby/goal is a very time consuming one. You need those tutorials to immerse yourself. You need to find some multi segment tutorial that you can follow along with step by step and saturate yourself with getting used to the engine.

Most tutorials are bad. But you need to go through them to get your footing.

[maiden wadi]

But the array doesn't save between sessions, right?

[jovial sinew]

Correct

[jovial sinew]

I guess I'm asking what you meant by transacting the object - unless you're just saying colloquially "usually we don't worry about persistent reference, the utility is there to make the thing and move on."

[maiden wadi]

@jovial sinew This is Transacting the object.

• Start a new transaction
• Ready the specific object for the transation
• Modify the object's state
• End the transaction

[jovial sinew]

Gotcha, I will look into this more. Thank you!

[maiden wadi]

Note this is used for static data classes like DataAssets and UTexture2Ds. I've never used this on an instance in a level before. But it may work. 🤷‍♂️

I assume modifying level stuff does this anyhow since this is how it does undo redo stuff.

[jovial sinew]

Okay so I think that's what I'm trying to do with the array - make it static. But I know making things static can be bad practice. I'll look into what transacting is some more and go from there. Thanks for all your time.

[maiden wadi]

On a side note. How come you're not using ISMs?

[jovial sinew]

Probably because I don't know what that is

[maiden wadi]

Haha. So.. Each static mesh will cause a drawcall or more. GPU costs basically. ISMs batch this to drastically improve the speed of rendering the same mesh multiple times. Like your hexes there. They're all identical so they qualify to be ISMs.

Instead of multiple actors. You'd have a single actor with a single Instanced Static Mesh component that has multiple entries.

[jovial sinew]

Oh instanced static mesh - I'm just trying to prototype constructing a hex grid. Not quite worried about performance etc until the time comes. Also, eventually, I'd like to procedurally generate unique tiles (like grass, water, etc). If that's possible with ISMs then yeah that'll be the next step

I've a ways to go with all of this 😅

[maiden wadi]

Kind of. There's multiple ways to go about it. Materials have PerInstanceCustom data you can use to do some things like a simple texture lerp. You can also just simply have an ISM for each grid type which gets a bit more complex with the programming since you now manage multiple components, but it causes even less GPU cost due to less complex shaders.

[autumn pulsar]

Is there a way to make a drop-down menu to set a variable in UE4?

[frosty heron]

Depends on the type

There are drop down for enums, and object ref

[trim matrix]

Anyone interested in helping me with a grid spawn setup I could really use it.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/spawn-actors-grid-formation/2015599

[patent mango]

how do i replicate visibilty ?

of a mesh

[tacit cobalt]

Hey guys, I need some help with damage systems. I have made a damage system where I can destroy AI enemy (Actor Class) but I have one more Pawn (a Turret) which I cannot destroy because IDK how to cast both correctly. Can anyone please help me out ?
Here's the Code.

[gentle urchin]

Why not just apply damage to anyone ?

Anyone but instigatorz that is

Recievers can check if damage causer/instigator is the same as theirs if we're talking teams

[patent mango]

how do i change visibilty over a server

[gentle urchin]

#multiplayer

[cedar ibex]

Anyone had any idea why did the print string = 3?

My TotalFloor variable = 2 only

[mental trellis]

Binding an event like that in loop looks cursed as hell.

[gentle urchin]

after the loop is completed

the index is above the limit

so if you read it out after it's done it'll say max+1

this is because the loop increments, THEN checks if we're still within our range

you can see this if you inspect the loop macro

[visual ember]

at the point outside the loop, it might as well show -378954

[gentle urchin]

not really

the variable is retained

[visual ember]

but I guess it detects you are trying to get the value so it probably holds the whole context

[gentle urchin]

its a macro, not a function

If it werent for this, the delayed loops wouldnt work either

like this #blueprint message

were you can freely do whatever you want outside the loop

delays, timers, whatever

as long as you enter with Next, and not Exec, you're good to continue

untill it Completes

[visual ember]

given this, I wouldn't call it a guarantee. but UE isn't known for its great documentation

[gentle urchin]

the wording is misleading 😕

i know people use this to 'hack' cached variables without having to declare them in the variable list

they stay retained for entire projects..

[visual ember]

my whole point. consider any iterator/index to be a garbage outside of its intended scope. the fact that UE doesn't do that in BP ... well ... speaks for itself 😛
seems like a comment on index or the node stating to not use variable outside of the loop wouldn't hurt

[frosty heron]

You will crash accessing non existing element outside bp

[gentle urchin]

Now to figure out where i messed up during the Questsystem refactoring...

this ain't right

[visual ember]

I would feel pretty accomplished

[dire vine]

hello ,

i am attaching one actor to another while spawning on the server side and then giving possesion to player controller , that object is coming under the parent in server side only but not on client side , so do i need to again attach it to that parent on client side ?

[frosty heron]

Better luck in #multiplayer

[dire vine]

okay

[copper chasm]

why won't UE let me re-order inherited variables D:

[spark steppe]

because it's not Excel

[visual ember]

Unreal Excel

[copper chasm]

they could at the very least go to the top of whatever category they're in

I suspect if I didn't have the category already created on the child BP it would be at the top, but I do not care enough to attempt to recreate it

(yet)

[maiden wadi]

It will. You just have to tell it to do that in the widgets displaying them. Just no one has cared enough to make this a setting.

[copper chasm]

I meant in the blueprints themselves

name is inherited, I want it to be at the top, where IT SHOULD GO

I considered using the inherited name to set a new variable so I could move it, but that felt silly and like I say, I bet if it's the first entry in that category the rest will fill in under it

[maiden wadi]

I know what you meant. The slate widget displaying it picks the order. You could likely change this by changing that widget somewhere in a source build, or making an engine PR. Engine is super modifiable.

[copper chasm]

ohhhh, i see what you mean

maybe next year when all I have left to do is tinker 😛

[maiden wadi]

Yeah.. I tell myself something similar often. Next year just never seems to get here with all of the other stuff I keep learning. 😂

[copper chasm]

The agreement I made with myself was to do the prototype in BP so I don't end up in a rabbit hole, and it turns out learning tricks in BP became a rabbit hole of its own

[queen heron]

Has anyone successfully toggled actor filters within a level instance, placed inside a persistent World Partition (WP) level, during runtime?

Here’s the setup I'm working with:

PersistentLevel (WP) → LevelInstance → ActorFilters

Using the Data Layer Manager and the Superseded Data Layer Subsystem, I can only modify the data layer when simulating the level instance, but not when it's in the persistent level. Any advice on how to achieve this in the persistent level?

The end result I’m aiming for is to have random variations of the contents within level instances at the same location using Data Layer filters.

[young meteor]

What am I doing wrong? Sometimes I can edit a property directly in the property matrix with many BPs open. Other times I just get the greyed out visual when I try to click into the field and change it? (like the screenshot)

[copper chasm]

sometimes I have to just click it twice shrug

[young meteor]

As far as I can tell they must all start out with the same shared value (or perhaps "0"/unset).
Then I'm allowed to start typing

But then I would have to reset all work I already did every time I want to go in and tweak numbers. Seems stupid.

No that also aint it.
What controls whether a variable is grey or "black" here in the "pinned columns" tab? Seems to be connected.

[copper chasm]

So I have a bunch of actor components that handle character stats, is there a way to pull the variables directly off the components somehow? I'm assuming I will always need to reference the component, but I am ignorant

I could make a function to grab them and store them directly in the actor, but that seems stupid if I've already got them in the component

just saves a node when I have to pull them from other places

I GUESS I could fill out structs with pertinent information for the character inside the components

[solar phoenix]

So is there a way to do and operation in unreal engine

[visual ember]

to do...what?

[mighty crown]

He's trying to press E and get this code to trigger but the E key press isn't even registering.

[gentle urchin]

Multiple components ?

As in several on singular actor ?

[copper chasm]

yeah, I just compartmentalized

I DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION @gentle urchin 😭

[gentle urchin]

😆

I push em all into one

While there may be other components that provides sources for stats

They all churn into the same stat manager

[copper chasm]

My brain is swiss cheese, if I keep things too compact I get super lost in the sauce

[gentle urchin]

Owning actor being the glue between them

[copper chasm]

idk if you've got any familiarity with ttrpgs, but I'm essentially turning pathfinder into code

so I've got a component for the attributes, a component for tracking hit points, a component for skills, etc

[gentle urchin]

Wish i had more knowledge than i do

[copper chasm]

well maybe someday you can try my game and get a feel for it 😄

[gentle urchin]

But its mostly just a bunch of data

Which you'd tie togrther through the owning actor

So if skills got some %stat bonus

It would trigger a delegate, allowing the stat component to pick up the changes

[copper chasm]

am I breaking anything by having the components do the math and then updating the owning actor variables appropriately?

[gentle urchin]

Nah thats fine altho there's usually no reason for the actor to have the final variables

If it needs them, it just asks the component

[copper chasm]

like, the component will know your base hp is 10 and your con bonus gives 2, and then it will tell the actor their hp is 12, so when i need to bring it up in a widget, i can just get actor hp

and not get actor get actor hp component get hp

[gentle urchin]

GetStatComponent->GetMaxHealth
Etc

[copper chasm]

yeah i'm just eliminating that first call, putting it in the component directly

[gentle urchin]

The widget dont need to care about the actor

It just needs the component

Whoever holds it is irrelevant

[copper chasm]

well it has to know who has the component, no?

[gentle urchin]

Why?

So in my case

[copper chasm]

because the widget exists outside the character, I could need to get the hp of like 5 dudes at the same time

[gentle urchin]

My widget just do
GetOwner->GetComponentByClass(StatManager)->BindToStatChanged

[copper chasm]

hmmm

[gentle urchin]

In your case bind to 5 stat managers :p

[copper chasm]

wait, the widget isn't a component on the actor, should it be?

[gentle urchin]

No

[copper chasm]

then how does it know who the owner is (sorry I am dumb I'll buy you a coffee)

OH FROM THE DELEGATE

THE COMPONENT ANNOUNCES A STAT CHANGE AND THE WIDGET IS TOLD A STAT CHANGED AND FROM THERE KNOWS WHOSE STAT WAS CHANGED

....right?

[gentle urchin]

So youd have something like...
OnSelectionChanged

Where you gave 0 to many selected actors

In your owning pawn thing..

Which lets the widget bind/unbind to new and old selection

[copper chasm]

Lemme show you an example of how my brain sees it rn - I have a little box that shows all members of the party in their own little box. Each character has a struct for the data of their portrait which they fill in with a function on beginplay (probably will change)

The portrait widget itself grabs the data (image 1) from that struct. The HUD BP (image 2) grabs everybody listed in the party and builds an array of their structs, and then the portrait container bar thing (image 3) just creates the widget from the data and throws it into a box

[summer nexus]

If my frame rate is 72 my tick only updates every 28 ms instead of 14 ms why is that? is there a setting I need to change?

[copper chasm]

I'm not really using bindings

or, I am, just not the way UE wants me to

[gentle urchin]

You could still use the struct. You just let the pawn tell you when it changes

And the owning actor*

E.g. the selected party member(s)

[copper chasm]

Game Master in image 2 is my "manager" pawn - it grabs every character with an isinparty gameplay tag at runtime and throws them in the party members struct

[gentle urchin]

That way you dont need to create a new widget every time it changes...

[copper chasm]

I see what you're talking about

I don't really have a way to change it during gameplay anyway rn but this conversation is going in my "screenshots of information from squize so I know how many coffees I need to purchase for them" on launch day

I really wish I built a debug menu to add/remove/change party member info during gameplay, but that's so out of scope for me rn I fear it would ruin my progress

[gentle urchin]

😅

Is it a multiplayer game?

[copper chasm]

well, eventually it will have local network multiplayer functionality, I just want a working prototype of a single player dungeon crawl experience before my kid is born so I can see if there's any interest

30 weeks, nbd

I'm hoping if I construct everything in the prototype cleanly enough, refactoring it all will be easier

[gentle urchin]

Thats definetly the case for me

Once ive vaguely structured a prototype, refactoring it is far easier as i now know the constraints and requirements

I think for a ttrpg or any ttg being flexible is a big pro

Doing stat adjustments, growth adjustments, calculation methods, easy to modify

[copper chasm]

honestly if i wasn't recreating an established game system I don't know this would ever actually get finished

translating into code is much easier than conjuring code from thin air

and pathfinder is way more crunchy solid math than D&D is, so there's less to calculate

[gentle urchin]

Thats neat

Thats how one of my earlier prototypes began aswell

After failing a few thin air projects

I decided to try a remake

Fixed rules, fixed x.y.z, should be straight forward!

[copper chasm]

straightforward, but tedious

[gentle urchin]

Needless to say, i never finished it 😂

Really hard work to break that habit

[copper chasm]

Can I like, import an excel spreadsheet as a data table somehow

D:

I just feel like making a 193 item enum and then a DT with 193 rows that I have to name individually

might break my spirit

[frosty heron]

Isn't there import CSV option in the DT

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

My rownames are gameplaytags 🤣

Autoconvert tag to name , life is easy then

[frosty heron]

I'm starting to abuse gameplay tags

[gentle urchin]

Wish there was native support but ih well

[frosty heron]

Switch on string is cringe

[gentle urchin]

Indeeeed

I abuse them hard..

And havnt even gotten to queries yet

Item names, stats, interactions

[frosty heron]

I haven't even start my inventory system yet 😭

[gentle urchin]

Using tags keeps it super easy to push them into my quest system

[frosty heron]

Do you think lyra inventory worth to look at?

Not sure what fragments are

[gentle urchin]

It confused me rather quickly

[frosty heron]

Will eventually need to find some sources that break it down.

[copper chasm]

Do the row names populate?

[gentle urchin]

To abstract

[frosty heron]

I never used it

[copper chasm]

oh, I'll tinker with it

[frosty heron]

You can give it ago and tell me

[gentle urchin]

But an item is basically 1 to many fragments afaik

[copper chasm]

when I'm done filling the 193 item enumeration

D:

[frosty heron]

I kinda regret using DT for my cosmetics

Should use DA but the damage is done

[gentle urchin]

Hehe i can imagine

Ive had that thought occur multiple times..

But i still end with DT everywhere 😅

[copper chasm]

what's the difference? (sorry for asking a question I could google)

[maiden wadi]

Fix up stuff to use a DA, and then make an editor utility to read the DT and create DAs into folder(s).

[gentle urchin]

Ive heard people using a DT to simply map to DA's

Map of Name/tag to DA basically

[frosty heron]

You can create assets without cpp?

That's neat

@copper chasm early reminder to not have a hard ref in your DT

[gentle urchin]

And to have asset free base class :p

[copper chasm]

I made a "thing" base class that trickles down into creature/object down down down

COMPARTMENTALIZATION

[copper chasm]

wait what

[frosty heron]

You read it

[copper chasm]

yeah but I don't understand what you mean 😂

[frosty heron]

Having a ref to the DT will load all the hard ref in it.

So if you like populate the DT with your items icons, you will end up loading all the icons in the game

Instead just loading the one you need

Knowing how to use soft ref is arguably mandatory if you are going to use DT imo

[copper chasm]

this is how my ancestry struct for the DT is build right now

I haven't really made it to anything that might bog me down, it's all data

I'll google hard/soft references for later

[hidden rampart]

Sometimes I just like to make SURE the data reaches the destination. Even if one of the cables fails or gets worn, the others will take care of it.

[gentle urchin]

(Imagine those attributes being gameplaytags)

[frosty heron]

Wtf

[gentle urchin]

Stat.Strength.Base etc

[frosty heron]

What's up with the reroute nodes

[gentle urchin]

Lolol

Multiple binds is sorta cursed to work with 😆

[hidden rampart]

joke 😄

[gentle urchin]

Been burnt by that before

[copper chasm]

There are traits I will probably make into tags, but there are only six attributes, my enum array is FINE

[gentle urchin]

"Why the f does it update twice!?"

[gentle urchin]

Yes yes yes, stay at it

[frosty heron]

Sometime it's not worth it to scrap or refactor at some point

[gentle urchin]

Very true

[frosty heron]

Hence why I stayed with DT to certain extend

[gentle urchin]

But i suspect this is very very early

[frosty heron]

But if you are given another chance, use gameplay tags instead

[copper chasm]

I would make the backgrounds into tags but you can only ever get/have one so I figure whatever

[frosty heron]

Yeah especially if you are early into the project

[copper chasm]

traits will attach to all sorts of systems, so the tags make more sense

you can have a common sword, a common background, a common ancestry, a common feat, etc

and i'm converting the enum to a string/name for DT checking, so I can't typo it

unless i typo it between the enum and the DT, WHICH I WON'T

[frosty heron]

That doesn't sound right, unless you changed the tick time in the settings

[maiden wadi]

Not sure. Maybe. I use this that I wrote for ease. Lets me create DataAssets from BP Editor utilities.

UObject* UTarrionEditorExtensionsLibrary::CreateAndSaveNewObjectWithPackage(TSubclassOf<UObject> ObjectType, FString PackageSavePath, FString NewObjectName)
{
    if (!IsValid(ObjectType))
    {
        return nullptr;
    }
    
    UPackage* NewPackage = CreatePackage(*(PackageSavePath+NewObjectName));
    UObject* NewCreatedObject = NewObject<UObject>(NewPackage, ObjectType, FName(NewObjectName), EObjectFlags::RF_Public | EObjectFlags::RF_Standalone);

    if (GEditor->GetEditorSubsystem<UEditorAssetSubsystem>()->SaveAsset((PackageSavePath+NewObjectName), false))
    {
        return NewCreatedObject;
    }
    
    return nullptr;
}```

[gentle urchin]

Ouch!

[copper chasm]

what ouch, I made a bfl function to convert and check, it's fine 😐

[frosty heron]

Oof blueprint struct

[copper chasm]

I'm not getting into cpp for the prototype 😦

[frosty heron]

As long you know if that's a sleeping time bomb

[copper chasm]

what do you mean

why is it there if it's meant to explode

[frosty heron]

It's broken and can potentially break your project and stop you from packaging

It will never be fixed either

Most common advice by vet devs is to avoid blueprint struct and child actor components.

I found out too late and become a victim

Had to redo a lot of my work

[faint pasture]

Also it's dummy simple to just have a MyProjectTypes.h file and slam all your enums and structs and such in there

[stone field]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/12111/commits/aafcb5ccf4117b3cd57bdba4cb49cf339e1ad5f3#diff-2ddaf093d913fc61ea4c1fec7894295381054605670bca07c20c9b820f317b9dR6397

[copper chasm]

thanks, i hate it

[gentle urchin]

Ouch!

[copper chasm]

stop saying ouch D:

[gentle urchin]

Discord bugged out :p

[gentle urchin]

We should've warned you sooner

[copper chasm]

I probably won't do it, but as I'm waiting the 1.5 seconds per "add enumerator" button to populate a new entry in this damn near 200 entry list

I want to

[gentle urchin]

Werent you gonna do it in excel?

[copper chasm]

for the DT, not the enum

[gentle urchin]

Ah

I see

[copper chasm]

cause each entry has like 4 columns worth of information and i just cannot this morning

Actually the more I think about it if I did build the enum in cpp I could just copy and paste the entries 🤔

[gentle urchin]

Yes you could🫢

[copper chasm]

I have some hesitation because I’m not 100% sure how to match my other blueprint information into cpp, if that makes sense - like i know how to define a generic int variable, but I don’t know that i know how to define the “strength” int variable that already exists in the project

Which is why I want to prototype strictly in bp, to avoid side missions like figuring that out 😂

[cobalt hemlock]

I have a question that just feels like something with a simple answer that I'm not aware of. I'm primarily using Blueprints and in particular trying to get a behavior tree to, uh, behave, but it requires a little context so I wanted to make sure I was in the right place before dumping a whole bunch of stuff in everyone's laps.

Ah, seems #gameplay-ai might be better suited. I'll slither over there for now instead. Thanks!

[pearl jacinth]

guys im trying to make a task queue list kind of like in sims, when you tell the sims to wash the dishes then study then go to sleep, something like that. Would using a behavior tree be a good way to do this? im using the topdown template

[gusty shuttle]

I'd say either a behavior tree OR trigger volumes, if the NPC is in the zone and they are tasked with being there, then they can play the anim montage of them doing x thing there.

[frosty heron]

Work out a que based task system

BT can be a mean to execute it

[pearl jacinth]

hmmm okok i'll look into that

thanks !!

[gusty shuttle]

Question: Is there a good way to get absolute up vector?
I'm running a animation where my character is sliding, it's getting up vector, but the upvector changes as I have root motion enabled. Any tips or tricks?

Goal: If sliding, if I'm sliding under something and I didn't clear the length of the geometry, I want the character to crouch instead of stand, because it's still under something

I worked it out well enough, but my line trace goes sideways haha

[gentle urchin]

Fvector (0.0.1)?

Z is absolute up...

[gusty shuttle]

Hummmm

I'd have to work it into a line tace setup

Boom, there's a node for that (Thank you Epic)

Problem solved. Thanks for the rough tip @gentle urchin

[frosty heron]

Distance to?

You mean like have a ruler like tool in editor?

Never heard such thing

Totally doable in cpp but I'm not aware of anything built in

[gentle urchin]

Dont people normally make materials for that?

[barren tangle]

hi, is there a way to get the player controller that controll a pawn?

the node : Get Controller. return -1 for all pawn

[gentle urchin]

Are they controlled ?

[barren tangle]

yes they are controlled

[gentle urchin]

Possessed/owned

Sounds like they're not

GetController would reflect that

[barren tangle]

i'm inside the pawn

[gentle urchin]

Are you possessing it ?

[barren tangle]

but i can control them

with my different controller

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like not possessed

[barren tangle]

but when i print one is 0 and the others are -1

[gentle urchin]

The value doesnt make sense to me in the first place

[barren tangle]

it's the id of the controller

it should be 0 1 2 3

but i have 0 -1 -1 -1

[gentle urchin]

On server, sure

On clients, not so much

[barren tangle]

im on local

[gentle urchin]

So you have 4 local controllers ?

[barren tangle]

yes and i did that to set the color

i'm inside the pawn. i get controller, cast to my bp_controller, and get the controller id

[gentle urchin]

Not sure how you even start a session with 4 local controllers

[barren tangle]

create local player

[gentle urchin]

So gamestate have 4 playerstates ?

[barren tangle]

i don't have 4 playerstates

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt each controller get its own state ? ..

Welp. Guess someone else must chime in with some knowledge

Also more #multiplayer i believe

[barren tangle]

but like you the first idea was to use the Get Controller

like i did

[gentle urchin]

GrtController works

[frosty heron]

Local mp seems falling out of favour anyway. It do be hard to find someone that does the same thing.

[gentle urchin]

Just sounds like they dont have pawns , or are possessing those pawns atleast

Id check what createlocalplayer does

Does it include full pawn spawn and possess?

[barren tangle]

but the PC spawn the actor. so it possess it at the same time

i am able to control them

[frosty heron]

So first of all you never set the integer again

So if the incoming value is 0 - 1

You do end up with -1 forever

It should be player = player - 1

[barren tangle]

it's just a create local player function

[frosty heron]

Then feed the value to the create controller node

[barren tangle]

you are saying i should go into the controller and retrieve the pawn?

[gentle urchin]

Isnt there a getlocalplayers?

[barren tangle]

instead of going to the pawn and retrieve the controller

[frosty heron]

If your problem is with the index, the logic is flawed to begin with

You never set the player value after subtracring

So why do you expect a decrement e.g. 4, 3 , 2 , 1?

[barren tangle]

no the issue is not with the index

with that get local player, all of them are -1

[gentle urchin]

Are they correct during creation?

[barren tangle]

yes

[frosty heron]

What makes you think the index isn't the problem?

#blueprint message

[frosty heron]

That's got nothing to do with what I'm talking aboit

[barren tangle]

ha because i manually set the index before creating that function

[frosty heron]

Look at your function where you feed the controller id

[barren tangle]

and the issue was already there

[gentle urchin]

Hmm

CreateLocalPlayer optionally creates a playercontroller..

[frosty heron]

Have you print string and check if the value are correct?

[barren tangle]

so all of them are there, and i can control the panw. maybe they are not possessed

[barren tangle]

yes

[gentle urchin]

Its a bool input

To spawn the controller

In the dropdown

[frosty heron]

#blueprint message

Print string the value of the player int

[barren tangle]

i have 0 1 2 3 when i print the controller id

so they correctly exist.

[gentle urchin]

Have you toggled it to spawn the controller ?

[granite frost]

How do I posses and actor? The posses node is asking for a pawn but I have an actor.

[barren tangle]

you can see the player controller ID with the player number

[gentle urchin]

You only possess pawn

And below

Not actors

SetViewTarget

[granite frost]

But I want to use it to posses a television to watch channels

[granite frost]

What?

[gentle urchin]

And enable input or similar

[gentle urchin]

So you're creating the controller? With the bool input?

Confirm with pic 😆

[barren tangle]

yes

[granite frost]

I'll have to look into it thanks for the help🙏

[barren tangle]

i'm able to control all of them

but i would like to set the player collor based on the controller number

[gentle urchin]

Show me please

Let me rest

[barren tangle]

so i was assuming to be able to retrieve the controller inside the pawn controlled

[lone folio]

maybe a proxy pawn

[barren tangle]

because i don't spawn my pawn, the controller did it

[gentle urchin]

So in gamemode your pawn to spawn is null?

[barren tangle]

yes i don't spawn any actor

i only spawn the controller

so if the pawn are present for me that means the PC is created and posses the pawn

if it's true that means get controller from the pawn should give me the controller that posses the pawn..

it's the case for the 0 but not for the others

except if they are not really well possessed

[gentle urchin]

When are these printed?

Cant you grab controller id from the return reference from create local player ?

[barren tangle]

just after the create local player and on the event beging play of the pawn

here for the player

and the -1

on the even beginPlay

[gentle urchin]

Your printing your input

Not from the actually created one

So its not really validating anything

[barren tangle]

no the first one is to display : Player x :

replacing x by the input

after the x : you have the ID from the created controller

[gentle urchin]

Ah sry, i read to fast

So they match on creation

Thats good

[barren tangle]

yes but inside the pawn. it say there is no controller

[gentle urchin]

So next is checking whatever GetLocalControllerID does

And how it could return -1

I would also for kicks chevk that GetPlayerController 0 to 3 actually prints a valid playercontroller name

I assume they somehow use the same array to find its id

[barren tangle]

maybe my BP_PlayerController is not considered as a Local Player

[gentle urchin]

Going on assumptions is ofcourse not a good strategy..

[barren tangle]

i said that because the description say : This only works for local player controllers.

[maiden wadi]

Is this a pawn?

Yes, GetController.

[barren tangle]

yes it's a player character

[maiden wadi]

Controllers aren't available at beginplay except for the very rare occasion of beginplay being called late. At runtime. A Pawn's beginplay runs directly after creation, which is before it has been possessed by a controller.

For this reason there are Possessed events to use.

This said. The pawn shouldn't need to manage it's own mappings like this.

[gentle urchin]

Why didnt I think of that..

[barren tangle]

ok so my print occur before the possession

[torn kettle]

:question: The pawn shouldn't need to manage it's own mappings like this: what do you mean?
:8ball: Cannot predict now.

[barren tangle]

The pawn shouldn't need to manage it's own mappings like this: what do you mean?

[maiden wadi]

Where is this code?

[tall obsidian]

Hi everyone. I am trying to do packaging now, but the widget slider connecting with PCG graph does not work. does someone know a solution?

[barren tangle]

inside the gameMode

[maiden wadi]

Should be in the controller behind an IsLocalController check. It'll be true for local coop for all of the controllers. And if you ever decide to do online multiplayer, it'll still work fine. But won't change anything for now for local coop.

What are you doing with the switch check for the controllerID?

[barren tangle]

it's to set the color of the player based on the number of the controller

0 = red
1 = green
2 = blue
3 = yellow

because the Controller Spawn the player I was thinking to do it like that

i will try to find another way

[maiden wadi]

This is definitely not something to care about the controller ID for. Specially if you ever decide to do online multiplayer. This is basic customization stuff based on something like a team setting. Your game mode should set a team or color on the PlayerState(Cause this is state for the player). The player's pawn can then use that to set CPD or MID parameters. None of this really connects with the controller.

[rugged sonnet]

Any idea why this strange gear? I just dragged the Sun to the BP.

[lunar sleet]

Does it say anything if you hover over it ?

[copper chasm]

I finally finished the data entry for backgrounds, went to move on to feats and I think I'm going to find a new job

[gentle urchin]

Holy...

[rose wharf]

this chat can help me?
How can I export this 3D model to Unreal Engine as a skeleton for a player? How can I export it in a file that already contains a texture and parts?

[copper chasm]

idk how many common ones there are, I ought to just do the common ones for the prototype, but still, good LORD, even with gameplay tags that's a lot of clicking

[rugged sonnet]

Thanks, I had clicked the "editor only" property on the variable. my bad.

[flat coral]

What does this error mean? How do I fix this?

The function itself says "graph is not editable" but not why, or how to change that

[copper chasm]

Did you build it in C++?

You could try right click and hit Implement Event

[flat coral]

Nope, and that option wasn't present. I ended up scrapping all this. I think it's because I deleted the parent which previously declared that function

[gentle urchin]

yeah i mean tags dont make it less work, for some weird reason

just helps keep it organized, and hopefully easy to expand

[copper chasm]

yeah, there's random stuff I'm having to add as I go through my 156 backgrounds, and thank god it's adding tags

[jovial sinew]

Hey sorry if this pings you, just wanted to say thanks. Looking into transacting solved the issue. The fundamental issue I was trying to solve (and didn't know what transacting did) was marking an asset as dirty.
The parent was containing a reference to the array I was saving but wasn't being marked dirty so anytime I saved the level, Unreal thought there was nothing to save on the parent object, therefore any references within that array were forgotten the next time the session was opened.
Adding just this node fixed it:

[maiden wadi]

Nice. 😄 And for real, don't worry about pinging people. If it bothers them to be in a major discord, there are ways to mute it.

[summer nexus]

I have not done that I use UE5.4 no settings have been changed on the FPS template

[tough creek]

Is there a way to access this button/functionality within blueprints?

[barren tangle]

so i have read that first the Player controller is create. after the player state is create. the pawn is create. the controller possess the pawn.

so in my game mode i create my controller. after with the controller i get the player state (cast) and i set my color into the player state

on the posses event i call a custom function inside the pawn

to set the color

so into the game mode

i create the controller + Set the color

from the controller inside the game mode

i get the player state and i set the color

into the player controller on posses

i create the ball

and there i set my color for the ball

but the Player Ball Color is not initialized

did i miss something?

[barren tangle]

this is inside the pawn, called by the player controller on possess

[maiden wadi]

Is the playerstate valid here?

[barren tangle]

it looks like the call on the Event On Possess is called before the color into the PlayerState is correctly initialised

if i add a delay into the player controller

it works but it's not a good solution

how to be sure that everything is ready?

[maiden wadi]

Generally it shouldn't matter when you set the color. You should be able to set it in the middle of the game for all it should matter in your code, regardless of whether you make that a gameplay feature or not. So your SetColor function should also run a delegate.

[maiden wadi]

What is BP_Ball_Projectil?

[barren tangle]

it's the player ball that i will spawn with the color

the ball belong to the character

[maiden wadi]

So akin to a rocket from a rocket launcher?

I tend to pass the PlayerState as the owner of things like this. And then set the Pawn who is responsible as the Instigator.

Then in your projectile you can use those both to determine colorings. In your case you can get the instigator pawn's Playerstate and pull the color and bind it's color changed event.

[barren tangle]

are you saying that everything related to the player should be inside the state? and keep the pawn like an empty class

for example the health

will you put it into the state?

[maiden wadi]

No. Health belongs on the Pawn. Think Car vs Driver. You can possess both as your active pawn. And both have separate health.