blueprint

[gentle urchin]

You want to read the IsFalling value

You want its current state

(You might want to check that movementmode == walking instead)

[shrewd sorrel]

this one

[visual ember]

this one is for setting the value

[shrewd sorrel]

which one am i looking for

[gentle urchin]

Get

[shrewd sorrel]

sorry if im making it more difficult im new to the whole is grouned stuff

[gentle urchin]

Set is for changing
Get is for reading

[shrewd sorrel]

okay i got it

i have that part now

[visual ember]

ok, but you also need to read the nodes. if you need to READ a value, the node that SETS it is definitely not it

[shrewd sorrel]

ofc my bad

but ive added the get movement mode now

what should i add to the movement mode

[gentle urchin]

Compare its state

To what you want it to be for dashing to work

[shrewd sorrel]

should i get the current state and the compare it to the state i want set and if they are the same player can dash if they arent they cant dash

[visual ember]

IF walking AND NOT dashing THEN launch

I think this is a correct logic for your situation

can you try to implement it yourself?

[shrewd sorrel]

should it be if walking and not jumping then lauch as i dont want it to trigger if jumping

[visual ember]

let me check your screenshots quickly

ahh, I don't think we need to test for jumping. once the character is off the ground, is falling will be true

[shrewd sorrel]

thats great do i have to implement it differently now

when i do my isfalling check it grabs it from my animation blueprint

[visual ember]

animation bp? something's fishy here

[shrewd sorrel]

i have a blueprint that does all my animations i have idle walking and jumping and my jumping is just my fallling animationm so i put it under isfalling

[visual ember]

uhh, let's think about animations later

the logic we need to implement here shall be in a character

[shrewd sorrel]

the animations is all wired up they all work

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like you're working out of context

[shrewd sorrel]

wdym

[visual ember]

(side note: the "Context Sensitive" is so bs setting. as a programmer I would love it to show first the type's variables and functions and only then look elsewhere. #justcomplaining)

[shrewd sorrel]

yeah whenever i try any isfalling it always grabs from my other bps not from any character movement or movement mode

[visual ember]

you have this, now drag from the green pin and type Equal in the popup window. select enum equal

[shrewd sorrel]

done

[visual ember]

forgot IsFalling for now. let's try what I wrote earlier:
IF walking AND NOT dashing THEN launch

[shrewd sorrel]

so do i put the enum equal to walking

[visual ember]

yes

now we need IsDashing and we need to negate the value of it

so similar. grab the IsDashing, drag from its pin and type the keyword in the popup

[shrewd sorrel]

my IsDashing Boolean?

[visual ember]

well, not mine 😛

[shrewd sorrel]

do i then type negate

[visual ember]

can you just try? it will be reaaaalllyyyy helpful if you start doing this

[gentle urchin]

Couldnt agree more

[shrewd sorrel]

im trying it is all very confusing once i learn it i will understand alot morew

[visual ember]

"what can i do with this?" and you drag the pin and start tinkering

[visual ember]

trying to get you there. and deliberately avoiding giving you the answer on the plate

[shrewd sorrel]

lol my bad im trying to click on

[visual ember]

no one's bad

did negate result in anything? can you screenshot what you have?

[shrewd sorrel]

when i type negate i get x y z thingy

and a not boolean

[visual ember]

looks familiar

[visual ember]

no

leave walking alone

grab your IsDashing

and negate that

separately

and why did you SET again? does it make sense?

[shrewd sorrel]

do u mean like this

[visual ember]

exactly

IF walking AND NOT dashing THEN launch

[shrewd sorrel]

i got there eventually lol

[visual ember]

so we have both, now we need to connect them with AND

drag either walking or this NOT end

and type AND

I love the tongue twisting end and AND 😛

ok, maybe not twisting, but you get the point

[visual ember]

perfect

[gentle urchin]

Besutifull

Return and mark pure

[visual ember]

so now as long as we are walking AND not dashing, the logic can execute

[visual ember]

hold on. no one said we are in a function here 😛

[lunar sleet]

I can’t rmbr the way I do it but yeah you can add a DA at runtime

[gentle urchin]

Oh snap 😂

[shrewd sorrel]

amazing i got to there eventually lol

[visual ember]

@shrewd sorrel can you now take this and hook to your Branch right before Launch Character?

but change from False to True on the Branch output

[shrewd sorrel]

so just hook up the CanDash functionm on my branch

[visual ember]

so was that in the CanDash function? we need to make it return a value first

[shrewd sorrel]

yes it was

[visual ember]

click on this and in the details on the right add Output parameter

[shrewd sorrel]

done

[visual ember]

type boolean, which is one by default

name it accrodingly

in the same panel select Pure

[shrewd sorrel]

do i just name it anything

[visual ember]

this is for functions that do not change anything, just read the state. and as you can see, we are not changing state indeed, so safe to check that

[gentle urchin]

(I usually just have it as ReturnValue, as the funcrion name states what it is )

[visual ember]

or RetVal for people who don't like long names

[gentle urchin]

Out ;-]

[visual ember]

you go out 😛

[visual ember]

not quite

[shrewd sorrel]

god damnit lol

[visual ember]

ok. let's pause here. can you go in your head through this

and see what is happening

[shrewd sorrel]

wait did i hook it up to the wrong thig

i shouold hook it up to the branch conditon right

[visual ember]

I don't know

[shrewd sorrel]

i think thats right lol

[visual ember]

(yes)

[shrewd sorrel]

what do i then do with the spare is isdashing boolean do i just delete that

[visual ember]

it's not spare

look into your new CanDash function

you are using IsDashing there, right?

it's not going to set itself to true or false

[shrewd sorrel]

no i mean in my player character blueprint

do i have to then hook it up to something inside that script too

[visual ember]

hold on. what?

[shrewd sorrel]

i have a unused part

what should i do with that isDashing

[visual ember]

remove that. we are checking it inside CanDash

that's the whole point

[shrewd sorrel]

done

yeah thats what i meant do i remove that part

[visual ember]

we wrapped the logic in a function so now we don't have to think much

if we want to check whether we can dash

[shrewd sorrel]

thank god for that lol

[visual ember]

ok, run it and see what fails

[shrewd sorrel]

so this should work with the whole jumping thing

my dashing does not work now

[visual ember]

1st thing
this SET has to set to true

[shrewd sorrel]

already did that

[visual ember]

oh wait 🤦‍♂️

in your CanDash

[shrewd sorrel]

yes

[visual ember]

hook the result to the output xD

[shrewd sorrel]

that worked

[visual ember]

imagine I have to have your code abstracted in my brain and try to follow. sometimes it's hard to see it all 😄

[shrewd sorrel]

thank you so much it works perfectly now

[visual ember]

and I have no imagination (aphantasia)

yay

now try to understand HOW and WHY it works

like, really leave this thing behind with "yes, I know what's happening here now" feeling

[shrewd sorrel]

it works because it checks if its only walking and not dashing then its allowed to dash only if its walking

right

and it still works fine with my sprinting too

[visual ember]

you kind of repeated the walking part twice, but yes, that's the logic

[shrewd sorrel]

yeah i do that alot lol

[visual ember]

for the future. try to first think your problem through. and don't hesitate to open paint or take pen & paper to sketch it out first

[shrewd sorrel]

ofc thanks bud

[visual ember]

what you need to happen, under what conditions. what variables do you have, what you need to create. and just do quick checks on components. drag from the pin and type something that sounds correct. often you will find the variable or function is already there just to be used

[shrewd sorrel]

that makes sense

[visual ember]

it's a bit bloated, given how huge the engine is and how badly they implemented the search, but at least it gives you more than less, so it's a matter of good filtering 😄

[shrewd sorrel]

very true lol

[visual ember]

good luck on your endeavours

[shrewd sorrel]

but tbh ive done well with only strarting this project yesterday took time but i got the whole third person movement animations and thanks to your help a fully finished dashing mechanic so once i get home later im gonna work on fixing my combat animations

im yet to touch a yt tutorial

[visual ember]

great progress

[shrewd sorrel]

so thats good for me

[visual ember]

I'd suggest forcing yourself through a lengthy tutorial that just shows you the basics of the editor. you know, the sightseeing type of video that goes for 2-5 hours and just talks widely about what's available and some basics how to usue stuff

[shrewd sorrel]

i might lol

[visual ember]

it might be boring, but it's a good investment imo

the worst thing is not knowing something exist

[shrewd sorrel]

ive pretty much only been using unreal for about a month i did unity game development for about 2 years

[visual ember]

and wasting hours trying to figure something out

the more I suggest just grabbing popcorn and watching such introductory video

you just need to get shown what's available

[gentle urchin]

Oh yeah

Engine api is massive. Tons of stufd already exist

You just gotta know what its named and in which context it exists

[shrewd sorrel]

I appreciate the help from both of you tho

[gentle urchin]

Mars doing the heavy lifting

What a champ

[late gorge]

any idea why this binding is breaking?

i see both of these happen

but this one doesn't trigger

there's no unbinds of any kind anywhere

[gentle urchin]

Ai only executes on server

Would be my first guess

So you've only bound to it on the server

Also... crystals died should be an onrep variable

Not an rpc thing

[late gorge]

it's singleplayer

not mp

[gentle urchin]

So execute on all is ment to do what

With a multicast

Thats a multiplayer concept

[late gorge]

it's just singleplayer with some of the code being MP-ready (but not being used as such)

[gentle urchin]

Not easy to guess that with the context you provided. (And even then the multiplayer ready part should be revised )

[granite frost]

I have an actor component which has some variables which should only appear when another variable is set. How can I do it? I thought maybe constructor script could do that but there doesn't seems to be any in the actor component.

[gentle urchin]

Also it seems your interface messages can just be event diapatchers from the component.. those can be directly bound in editor

[gentle urchin]

C++

EditConditionHides / EditCondition and similar meta specifiers

[late gorge]

there is no multiplayer planned in any capacity, i don't see how that's relevant

[granite frost]

Can't do it in blueprint?

[gentle urchin]

No, not in bp

[late gorge]

interface messages are calling into the actor not the component

[granite frost]

😭

[gentle urchin]

Im aware

[late gorge]

and they can't be bound in editor unless i'm making subclasses

this is a boss setup using a base AI class

with a manager actor that wakes up the AI (whereas usually the AI is automatically woken up on begin play)

so the fight doesn't start until ceonditions for it are met

[gentle urchin]

Like most boss fights / setups

Not sure why you cant still bind them at editor time in the baseclass

[late gorge]

at this point im thinking of just setting up teleporters and using the auto wakeup setup (since that's causing issues too)

but these binds need to work regardless

[late gorge]

the what?

[gentle urchin]

Event dispatchers

[late gorge]

the whole point of the manager actor is to isolate the custom code from the core code that sets up the behaviour tree

[gentle urchin]

For sure , encapsulating logic in a manager component makes sense

[late gorge]

it's an actor, not a component, but yeah...

the idea being this boss isn't vulnerable till crystals are dead... i got it to work under certain conditions

but those conditions wouldnt 100% of the time initialize properly

so 1 boss + 4 crystals, most of the time you'd end up with atleast 1 actor completely missing

https://tenor.com/view/dead-my-honest-reaction-damn-skull-skeleton-gif-15885937969029652188

[gentle urchin]

Timing issues in other words

[late gorge]

more like WP issues

[gentle urchin]

Just put crystals dead into the gamestate

[late gorge]

something seems to be unloading them for who the **** knows what reason

[gentle urchin]

Boss only cares about some crystals dead = 4

Crystals dying only needs to tell gamestate that they died

[late gorge]

why do i need game state

for all intents and purposes, the encounter manager actor is the game state

[gentle urchin]

If you're struggling with them being unloaded

[late gorge]

i don't see how changing what actor tracks the info will help

[gentle urchin]

Clearly you're in need of a more presistent actor

Is how I see it anyways

[late gorge]

im not, im using the method of spawning that doesn't have that issue

using SpawnActor has issues, preplaced and WP-managed (via component) actor don't have that issue

the WP manager component can quietly unload the actors for whatever reason (it should trigger some event when it does it, but it's not, i dont care to be fixing something like that...)

so preplaced actors can destroy the component before any initialization begins and the managed actors cannot be used with the manager actor because they don't exist as a hard reference

but spawned actors exist in the "get rekt" state where timing matters so i can't use it

even more fun is that when i did try to spawn the actors at runtime, they'd remain in the editor AFTER ending play

don't even wanna get started on that, so yeah, preplaced actor that calls the hardcoded init it is (that's the one that destroys WP manager, so stock WP unloads it afterwards)

[ancient moth]

I'm getting this error, but after refreshing the node, everything is fine, but then after a restart of the engine the error comes up again.
I even tried replacing the node, what can i do about it?

[late gorge]

the wp component-managed actors are 100% correctly loading and unloading, but i'd need to tie in their boss logic directly into their BPs

which... i guess could work?

https://tenor.com/view/frustrated-ugh-headache-gif-7532429

it's like 3000 hrs of work and now there's only some memory issues coz gotta make something into a soft ref

and this is left as like really big obvious technical problems

such a headache

[gentle urchin]

Why directly ? Also, cant you place the actors in the persistent level?

[late gorge]

you wanna be making changes to 1000+ actors by hand?

or use a DA-driven system

🤷

[shut quest]

Probably a simple one here but cant get this to work - "product name" appears as None on the created widget. Widget creates fine. Had it working yesterday jumped on today and its not working..

[late gorge]

and they are placed directly

they're just managed with a component that loads them in based on distance (and loads low cost imposter actors at higher distances)

[late gorge]

is one of them None or are all None?

[shut quest]

They are all none

Print string from the loop works as you'd expect. Its just when its passing the other widget. I would do it the longer way but I only wanted a quick list 😄

[late gorge]

that's whack, data tables should not have repeat rows

[shut quest]

Yeah im totally confused by it

Will open in C++ and have a look . I remember a bug in 4.something about this

[versed sun]

Make sure you are using Product Name correctly in the widget, look like something isn't connected

[shut quest]

Could it be that. Lemme try

all connected okay

[versed sun]

and where is that used ?

[gentle urchin]

(Bindings are a big no no)

Especially for static text like this

[shut quest]

oh really. Learn something new everyday okay ill set it instead

[gentle urchin]

Just do OnConstruct -> setText (ProductName)

[gentle urchin]

The container widget,

Does that have any preplaced product widgets ? Or is it empty?

[shut quest]

Its empty

[maiden wadi]

Oh boy. No.

You're misunderstanding how Listviews work.

[shut quest]

I know i should do it the other way but this was quick and dirty.. It WAS working last night lol

[maiden wadi]

You don't create a widget to give to the listview. You create a data object. Just a basic UObject and then give that to the listview. The listview creates it's own widgets for those objects and you override the OnUserEntry..Set.. whatever that function was and cast to your specific data object there to pull your ProductName

[maiden wadi]

This CreateWidget here shouldn't be a CreateWidget, but a ConstructObject, and instead of a widget, it should be a UObject with your RowName on it. Better yet a full DataTableRowHandle

[shut quest]

Alrighty I'll do it that way 🙂 Thanks!

[gentle urchin]

Ah listview, i missed that 😂

I thought add item was some custom thing 🤣

[shut quest]

😄

[granite frost]

How do I update the value of this index?

[gentle urchin]

Set array element

Or set by ref

Since you got a reference there

[granite frost]

thank you!

[granite frost]

Thank you so much!

[shut quest]

all working cheers guys was just more weirded out that i had it working the stupid way 😄

[maiden wadi]

😄 You can use a widget as the data object on accident. Cause widgets themselves are objects so you can store the data on them and use them the same as as a basic data object. But it's not advised since it creates a ton more objects and such than a simpler data only object.

[shut quest]

Ended up going for the uniformed grid view as it allows me to what I wanted 😄

working all fine

Might not the be right way but its just a quick cheat menu while testing

[gentle urchin]

(Input row and column directly instead of after)

Being a foreachllooop

[shut quest]

Oh yeah it is 😄 not sure why its after as well

durp

[gentle urchin]

Also

You can deduct row and column from index

Index % ItemsPerRow = row

Index / ItemsPerRow = column

Deduct... what am I, 70!?

[maiden wadi]

There is also a Tileview, that works just like the Listview, except that it uses wrapping blocks like a grid.

If you're going to have >30 things, I advise Tileview/Listview just for the runtime performance. You hit 200 widgets in a grid and you'll be paying some hefty slate Prepass costs.

[gentle urchin]

30!?

[granite frost]

uhhhh. I just found out that calling get overlapping actors also call the end overlap event? This is so weird

[maiden wadi]

GetOverlappingActors on which class?

[granite frost]

on a sphere collision

[maiden wadi]

Bit odd. It's code just populates an array.

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like something else is going on

[granite frost]

I have been stuck at it for 10 min and after making like 15 print I figured out that end overlap event was firing just after calling get overlapping event and to ensure I also made a delay to call it and it still did that

aah nevermind

I am an idiot

Forget whatever I said

[gentle urchin]

There we go

😂

Found that something else

[granite frost]

yeah

[gentle urchin]

Bugs with these ancient blocks are pretty rare

Atleast most of em... those that are buggy are mostly known to people around the block

[granite frost]

Now I feel like a really big idiot.

[gentle urchin]

CAC Im looking at you

[granite frost]

whats CAC?

[gentle urchin]

Newer systems on the other hand... might have some quirks here and there

Child actor component

[granite frost]

🤔

nvm I am gonna try to find a better approach to do it now

bye

and thanks for listening to my rubbish

[maiden wadi]

I used CACs on Atre. But they're literally just a visual actor with no real gameplay logic. Doesn't serialize with the map or savegame. 😄 They work good in that regard. Like a collection of meshes basically.

I get to swap them just by passing the correct class when gameplay state changes, which is nice.

[gentle urchin]

As long as you know/understand the quirks its usually not a problem to use them^^

[granite frost]

I have been trying to understand this overlap event and please guide me. I don't know how and when it works? As far as I see as long as the response type of both the bodies match it triggers? Then whats the role of object type?

No, its too weird

How does it works?

[rugged wigeon]

Your colliders determine what types of objects they overlap with. This can be confusing when you’re doing a test with two actors of the same class overlapping with each other. But they don’t need to be the same.

[granite frost]

No, I mean when does a sphere collision detects an overlap. What things need to be set to what?

I know sphere collision and mesh are different

[visual ember]

objects have "types". then you decide with which types you want no collison, with which overlap events, with which blocking collision

[rugged wigeon]

When it overlaps with a collider of the object type it is looking for

That is set to overlap with it

[granite frost]

Is that it?

[rugged wigeon]

That’s it

[granite frost]

Is the opposite possible? Like if my sphere collision object type matches with the overlap response type of other collider will my collision still detect it?

[rugged wigeon]

Sounds like you would want to begin some logic on BeginOverlap of the other acre

Actor

[granite frost]

?

Sorry what?

I just want to know because its too hard to figure out when it will overlap?

Generate the overlap event

And when not

[visual ember]

if you are confused that much, just create a test scenario and see in action what's happening and when

will give you more knowledge and understanding than any answer you can get here

[granite frost]

Its confusing because of the scenrio I have created. I made a new collision type. And set it to ignore by default to all. Now if I set the collision response of actor mesh in the world as response to the new type as overlap and set my sphere collision object type to the new type. My sphere collision still detects it

[granite frost]

Its because of the scnerios I have created so far. Its so confusing

[rugged wigeon]

Just post some pictures

[granite frost]

What should I send pictures of when I am here trying to learn🥺

As far as I understand. If either side's response and object type matches, it would trigger.

Its getting hard to understand why its even working.

I'll smack my head around a bit more😔

[rugged wigeon]

Your actor and it’s components, and your collision settings

[granite frost]

I think I understand

Both bodies needs to overlap for the overlap event to trigger

If I can overlap it but its set to ignore me I can't detect it.

Thats the final conclusion I came to

Because the event is not triggering even when I can detect it.

But it can't detect my sphere collision

So its a mutual thing?

[gentle urchin]

Youd be hard pressed to only make one body overlap

[rugged wigeon]

Yes

[granite frost]

What? I am sorry english is not my first language. Could you type it in a more simpler way😅

[steel star]

Q: Is there any way to get a fly-camera in a blueprint editor viewport?

It is really quite awkward to create multi-actor blueprints, or even arrange components that have their own transform, with only an orbit cam

OMG its working now

nvm

[boreal scroll]

Hi everyone! I am a newbie.
I have a waiting mechanism using Event Dispatcher.
And I shoud use this waiting mechanism 2+ times
How can I make it reusible? I tried make function but it doesn't work, I have problem with event.

[visual ember]

wasn't it a default in UE5 🤔

[steel star]

i was in some weird state i guess

[visual ember]

don't drink and code

[rugged wigeon]

Event dispatchers are for when you don’t necessarily know what logic to trigger when a thing happens. You just want to be able to setup listeners for that thing.

If you have only one thing that you want to happen whenever that event occurs and you want it to happen every time you can just call custom events direcgly

Dispatchers should be a bit rare in your code

[boreal scroll]

Thank you for the answer but I am confusing
" You just want to be able to setup listeners for that thing." - Should I use Custom Event for this?

[gentle urchin]

Speaking event sounds like a useful dispatcher to me but guess it depends

But i guess direct event call might work aswell. Depends a bit on the relationship between A and B and hiw tied together they should be

If the speaking event came from something like a component, having a dispatcher unties it from the owning actor type

[boreal scroll]

What is "event souods" ?

[gentle urchin]

Sounds*

Minor typo

[visual ember]

if you have some saga (a sequence of events) going on, I would suggest making that into a "thing" and driving your logic either directly by it or indirectly by poking it about the state and making decisions based on that

[boreal scroll]

It's complicated, need time to figure it out ((

[boreal scroll]

Based on variable, right? For example variable IsSpeaking:true or false, right?

[gentle urchin]

More like SequenceID or something

[visual ember]

sounds very limited. but the answer is: whatever the state is needed to drive the logic

[gentle urchin]

Bool makes it just binary, a or b
.. is that all you ever need ?

[boreal scroll]

I want something like this
startSpeaking>WaitForEndSpeaking>DoActions>startSpeaking>WaitForEndSpeaking>DoActions
Boolean variable is possible solution, but in this case I need to use While loop for wait expected boolean state
And as far I understand using While loop is bad idea

[gentle urchin]

While loop is thread block, so yeah bad idea

[maiden wadi]

Depending on what this is for. Flowgraph maybe.

[gentle urchin]

Just a conversation it seems

With the option to do an action

So its just a question of managing exec flow

[maiden wadi]

Could also be a simple level sequencer, depending on the case.

They allow event broadcasts to do things in their graph as well.

[gentle urchin]

Do people use those for in game dialogue ?

[boreal scroll]

I need investigate this, thank you
Maybe this is solution

[gentle urchin]

Seems such overkill, but on the other side, such controls are neat

[maiden wadi]

Cinematic dialog.

Less useful for generic run of the mill NPC dialogue.

But the above looks like cinematic stuff. Someone talks for x duration. Do stuff, someone talks for x duration, do some other stuff. Very linear. Could easily be a sequencer.

[boreal scroll]

I will also investigate sequencer solution, thank you very much!

[gentle urchin]

Guess the action part makes in sequencer worthy

Can you do interrupts in sequencer aswell?

[shrewd sorrel]

this works perfectly fine but for some random reason it still only chooses the same animation instead of picking out of the random 4

[gentle urchin]

Because..

You reset it on completed

Instead of incrementing

[shrewd sorrel]

how would i change it to work

[gentle urchin]

Increment on completed

[shrewd sorrel]

increment on float or int??

[gentle urchin]

Combo = (combo + 1) % ComboCount

Int, since thats what your combo index is...

Im more fan of using sections for combos

Retains the logic inside the same montage

[shrewd sorrel]

so like this

[granite frost]

How do I make it so that an actor acts like it don't exist

I don't want to always destroy and create actors. Instead just want them to completely disappear and appear when needed

[shrewd sorrel]

i thought of that but i did seperate ones so im able to switch animations alot easier

[gentle urchin]

Remove the top increment

[shrewd sorrel]

done

now it only lets me play attack once

[gentle urchin]

On completed

Set attacking false 🙂

(Which isnt true but its how yournlogic seem to be laid up)

[shrewd sorrel]

like this

so that allows me to the combo once then i cant attack again

[gentle urchin]

Are you interrupting the montage ?

[shrewd sorrel]

its just playing the montages onto the mesh itself throug the play montage component

should i have the montages on loop?

[gentle urchin]

Nah

[shrewd sorrel]

that didnt fix it lol

[gentle urchin]

Need to see more of the logic

[shrewd sorrel]

thats the full logic atm

rn it allows me to do the combo but then after that i cant attack again so i think i just need to have a way to reset the whole script to be able to repeat it right?

[gentle urchin]

You didnt do my combo logic

AttackCounter = (AttackCoubter+1) % NumberofAttacks

This loops it

[shrewd sorrel]

so +1 then divide by number of attacks

[gentle urchin]

Modulo

Not divide

[shrewd sorrel]

so this

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

Perfect

[shrewd sorrel]

do i attach it to anything or does that work on its own

[gentle urchin]

It needs to be attached

To onCompleted

Instead of the existing increment

[shrewd sorrel]

how do i attach that as theres not white attach points

[gentle urchin]

You set AttackCounter

To its resulting value

[shrewd sorrel]

wdym

i think i did it nvm

[gentle urchin]

The output of the modulo

[shrewd sorrel]

like this

[gentle urchin]

Yepp

[shrewd sorrel]

so it should work now

[gentle urchin]

Test it

[shrewd sorrel]

perfect thank you

now to try and not break it by adding the other part of it

im adding a feature now that the attacking only works if the weapon is equipped

[gentle urchin]

Wrap canAtrack in a function

And add EquppedWeapon.IsValid

[maiden wadi]

Interrupts as in skip past part of the dialogue, or?

[gentle urchin]

Yeah, player skipping for instance

[maiden wadi]

I'd assume so. A lot of games use sequencers for cutscenes and such and you can skip through sections of them. They're basically just a movie track so I can't imagine you can't scrub to a specific part.

[gentle urchin]

Hmm fair point

[maiden wadi]

Haven't personally used them as much as I'd like. 😄 Something I need to dig more into at some point.

[gentle urchin]

But not very dynamic then i guess

Swapping ends based on player input

Unless you set them all up in the sequencer ..ugh

[maiden wadi]

Nah. Like I said above, not great for dynamic, but if it's like a linear cinematic thing then it's great. Probably due to comfort, but i'd still be inclined to use Flowgraph for control. Even if I had 100 sequencers set up and wanted to play them at varying times based on flow.

[gentle urchin]

Sounds like a neat plugin

[maiden wadi]

I like Flowgraph cause it'd let me set up stuff nicely. I can push a cinematic set of widgets up which will also block gameplay, but receive my inputs like skipping and such and I can bind that in the flow node, and then push the actual cinematic if needed.

[gentle urchin]

Gotta try it at some point

[maiden wadi]

Then I could just make data assets or keys or something that the node can take in. Spam the same node everywhere you need a new cinematic or dialogue and just change it's instance data.

I've only dabbled with it a bit, mostly with that tutorial on Atre, but I have to say that it's a gamechanger for system flow.

[gentle urchin]

So its a bunch of uobjects wrapped in custom nodes ?

Sounds very convenient if so

[tough heart]

hello

▲ Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property As Food Spawner"

im trying to make a food spawner thats spawns a actor wich is food

so im trying to give it a limit so its not inf respwaning

these pic are in the food actor *

here the food spwner bp

idk why i keep getting accesd none trying to read property as a food spawner

• it is working

so its wired tbh

[tough heart]

im trying to put a limits so the food cant respwan inf as i sadi so when i eat the food

it should -1 from the current food spawned

or the number of food

so it can spawn again

[gentle urchin]

(Making internal functions to handle the data changing (food -1) is a far cleaner approach, more in-line with general oop principles)

[tough heart]

o soo

trying to cas the function

leme try it

[gentle urchin]

Doesnt change anything else about it ofc. Just letting you know

[tough heart]

xD ok thx i guess

[gentle urchin]

Accessed none is probably a timing issue, where the reference is accessed before its set. You can remive such errors by ensuring validity of references before you access them

E.g. IsValid

Encapsulating logic makes it less cumbersome to troubleshoot or change it later on 😄

[tough heart]

oh

now i can fix it i think

thx @gentle urchin :party_manny:

[rugged wigeon]

You definitely do not want to be calling delay on tick

You would make this a lot better by making the food spawned something that is exposed on spawn to guarantee that your reference is set from the beginning

Then start a looping timer on begin play to handle the spawning of the food rather than doing it on tick

When the food is eaten or whatever it should tell the spawned to trigger an event that decrements the count and restarts the spawning timer

@tough heart

[drowsy anvil]

how do I get the node below the spring arm in UE4?

[maiden wadi]

Drag off of Spring arm. GetRelativeRotation, and then right click the purple pin and split the struct.

[drowsy anvil]

thanks 🙂

[shrewd sorrel]

idk if im doing this right but i think im in the right direction so basically if needs to attach to my attacking code by having attacking only work if the weapon is equipped i have made this can attack function to help define that

[rugged wigeon]

A function called Can Attack should return a Boolean variable that says whether or not it can attack

[shrewd sorrel]

how would i code that into my function

[rugged wigeon]

Add a return node

[shrewd sorrel]

so that is correct?

[rugged wigeon]

Drag the bool into it or add it to the outputs in the details

No you don’t have a return node

[shrewd sorrel]

i mean like without the return node

[rugged wigeon]

Ehh

[shrewd sorrel]

i have added the return mode

[rugged wigeon]

Not really. What you should probably be doing is branching off of Can Attackif you can, then you do the attack logic

Show it

[shrewd sorrel]

bet let me code that really quick

[shrewd sorrel]

okay

thats what i have rn

but if u think other way is better i can code that

[rugged wigeon]

Drag the red pin into the output node

[shrewd sorrel]

into the return node?

done that

[rugged wigeon]

Show again

[shrewd sorrel]

okies

that dosent work unless ive wired it into my combat wrong

i think branching probably is the way to do it

i think i forgot something so i added it

[rugged wigeon]

Ok so now you’ve set up this function to return a bool. I don’t think you have the logic in there that you want but it’s at least a start.

Let’s take a look at the part where you are calling it now

We will fix the function later

[shrewd sorrel]

thats the attack function

[rugged wigeon]

Pretty good

[shrewd sorrel]

i still attacks when not equipped so i think the function needs fixing

[rugged wigeon]

First of all I’m pretty sure you want to drag off of True instead of false. Because you asked if you can attack, and should only attack when you can

[shrewd sorrel]

still does the same thing

[gentle urchin]

^^^

[rugged wigeon]

Second I think you want your Can Attack function to return True if Equipped is set to True AND Attacking is set to false

So go rewrite your function to do this. You should not be setting any variables in your function. Ideally function calls don’t change anything. They just calculate stuff.

[gentle urchin]

CanAttack = Equipped AND NOT Attacking

[shrewd sorrel]

like this

[gentle urchin]

(You can drop the == true)

Ans you're missing a part...

[shrewd sorrel]

what part am i missing

[gentle urchin]

Attacking?

[shrewd sorrel]

is it the set attacking true?

[gentle urchin]

You dont want to set any variable in there

[shrewd sorrel]

how should it look

[rugged wigeon]

Equipped goes into AND

Attacking goes into NOT goes into the same AND

The AND goes into the output

Delete the set attacking node and the == node

[shrewd sorrel]

like this

[rugged wigeon]

Yeah

Looks good

[shrewd sorrel]

so that should work now

it does

thank you

[tawdry walrus]

Hi, I have a quick question.
Is a soft object reference better than a hard reference?

[lunar sleet]

Quick answer: it depends

[tawdry walrus]

What do you mean?

[lunar sleet]

Hard ref means “load the object now” soft ref means “don’t load it just yet”. But if it’s already loaded, the answer is moot

[tawdry walrus]

thanks.

[rugged wigeon]

And usually it’s already loaded

When in doubt just go hard

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-new-york-jacket-gif-20437910

I find soft refs useful for DAs

So you can iterate over them without loading everything right away

[maiden wadi]

I still can't get over the fact that interfaces are so widely popular because people won't learn linkers.

[shrewd sorrel]

how do i stop player movement when attacking

[maiden wadi]

Depending on the case, if they're primary DAs, you can just use the asset manager to get yourself a nice simple list of asset IDs.

[lunar sleet]

Yeah they’re children of a primary DA, I haven’t tried the asset mgr yet

[lunar sleet]

Linkers are cpp only?

[maiden wadi]

No, Any hard ref causes a linker, which forces the reffed class to load before the class with the hard ref. Same as any property or type.

Asset manager is nice though. Cause you get to do things like this.

[lunar sleet]

Oh I c what you mean. I thought it’s related to lnk errors 😅

[shrewd sorrel]

ive tired multiple ways in getting this to work but i phyiscally cant figure it out basically im wanting to add when the player is attacking player movement cant not be used and it moves the player forward by a set amount every time the attack is called so it looks like the attack is moving the character forward

[rugged wigeon]

In your player controller where you’re reading the inputs to apply movement, check if they are attacking and only apply the inputs if they are not

[shrewd sorrel]

okay let me try do that one first

this is my movement idk how i would set it up with this

would it just be a simple true or false branch

with attacking is its varriable

so if attacking is true do nothing but if its false then move

[rugged wigeon]

Yes

[shrewd sorrel]

im suprised i understood that

[maiden wadi]

Easier to just enable or disable the movement component probably along side the boolean set.

[rugged wigeon]

Interesting

[shrewd sorrel]

i find branching easier for me

[gentle urchin]

Ignore movement input...

[maiden wadi]

Now you don't need to branch at all regardless of what gives input to the character.

[shrewd sorrel]

okay now im wanting to add a forward force to the player when attacking so it moves the player forward

i tried the launch character one but i dont see it actually workin

but im a try it again really quick

that dosent work unles im doing it wrong

this is how i have it set

[rugged wigeon]

Ideally that’s on the montage itself as root motion

[shrewd sorrel]

i got it working for now i will be changing it after

[maiden wadi]

This too. 😄

[shrewd sorrel]

is there a way to have two animations running at the same time

[visual ember]

blend

[shrewd sorrel]

because i want to be able to keep my movement animations while also triggering the equip and sheathe animation

because it just stops my movement animatioons

[rugged wigeon]

You can set up the animation montage to only affect specific bo es

On the slot

[shrewd sorrel]

how would i do that

i have a blend for movement and montages for everything else

[rugged wigeon]

You’ll have to blend the slots in the anim graph

It’s not a blend space. It’s blending the slots.

[visual ember]

blend, not blend space

[shrewd sorrel]

oh okay how would i set up a blend

i havent used blends before

[visual ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWL4711lI60&list=PLUi8nuTUEtTvTb8Wk6cBfvw8IEFAPZYqd

enjoy

[shrewd sorrel]

thanks

[visual ember]

he's using UE4 there, but most things are the same and you mostly need to learn the basics anyway

[shrewd sorrel]

ive watched the video but i dont understand how i implement my movement always running when doing my montages because i already have what he showed set u for movement

[rugged wigeon]

The movement part is your base pose in the anim graph

You blend it with the slot to use your overrides

[visual ember]

watch whole playlist

[rugged wigeon]

And now you blend that slot with the upper body slot for the upper body only overrides

[shrewd sorrel]

is my montages my uper body slots then

thats how i have the graph set up @rugged wigeon state machine is for the movement

[rugged wigeon]

Pipe the second node into blend pose by weight or something

Then you need to specify that the second slot is for the upper body bones only

Idk the exact steps by memory

[shrewd sorrel]

the problem with my animation for drawing and putting away the weapons it moves the lower body also

[drowsy anvil]

Hello, I have this code that moves my projectile spawner on a spring arm, but whenever I hit the end of the clamp during gameplay, the arrow freaks out and moves around wildly instead of just stopping the movement going further, how do I fix this?

[maiden wadi]

End of which clamp? Pitch?

[versed sun]

I set my clamp to -89 , 89
probably for that reason

[lilac juniper]

Does anyone know how I can get the map name from a world asset?

[versed sun]

Try setting clamp to:

[drowsy anvil]

thanks this fixed it 🙂

[rugged wigeon]

You’re going to set it up so that the animation can only affect upper body bones. Doesn’t matter what the lower body does in the actual animation

[past imp]

Unreal engine equivalent to Unity’s Multi aim constraint?

Hello everyone. I’m trying to make an fps game with a full character, not just the hands like in the template and I’ve come across an issue with the fps camera and rotations. I want my upper body, including arms and head, to rotate toward the direction of my camera. I know that one solution might be blend spaces, but that would just be too many of them, I feel.

Are there any good tutorials on this issue? What would be the most elegant solution to this problem? Is there something similar to that Unity multi aim constraint component?
Thank you in advance 🤞🏻

[rugged wigeon]

You use a control rig and some aim nodes to point at a target point

[past imp]

I’ve seen some control rig in action, I was wondering if there might be a simpler solution 😕
Either way, do you recommend any particular video tutorial for this?

[rugged wigeon]

Control rigs are potentially very complicated. But your use case does not require much in the way of actually rigging the skeleton. You just need to set a point and call aim nodes on the head and spine bones.

[trim matrix]

Hey, does anyone know if you can rebuild a navmesh on call in blueprints?

[chilly geyser]

How to widget component always face camera for all players in multiplayer (without screen space)

[iron idol]

I have a scroll box that just blacks everything out when I scroll down. Anyone know what the problem might be?

sometimes I can see through it, so it seems like theres like a layer that gets placed over the text

[void hemlock]

How do I stop these 2 actors from overlapping when spawned?

[chilly geyser]

shadow image i think

[iron idol]

is that in details?

[chilly geyser]

Yeah its one of the options in the details panel on the scrollbox, I had the same issue with a giant dark circle that appears when scrolling

[iron idol]

Holy shit, thank you. Next beer on me. That was driving me absolutely nuts. I have no idea how, but there was actually a texture and a tint assigned to that variable.

[shrewd sorrel]

I will sort it all tommorow

[rugged wigeon]

Get the player controller and get the camera from that. Widgets shouldn’t generally replicate so it’s all local

[lunar sleet]

well if they're spawning at designated spawn points in an array, remove that point from the array each time you spawn an object

[lunar sleet]

he's gonna use get player controller 0 in a multiplayer context now hehe 😄

[void hemlock]

I have it set to spawn the actors randomly.

[lunar sleet]

ok, then after spawn, get overlapping actors, for each loop, cast to that bp, and if successful destroy self

[void hemlock]

So simple, yet so genius!!!

[chilly geyser]

Ill check it out as soon as I get back, thaks

[drowsy anvil]

how do I get a float to have a target input like in this image here? I dragged off my target and chose "set view pitch min" but it comes without it

[rugged wigeon]

That target is there because you’re setting the View Pitch Min variable of an arbitrary actor of whatever class that is

When there’s no target input that means the class instance will be setting it on itself

If you are intending to set your own internal variables then you don’t want to have the target node. If you really want to be setting data values on another actor then start with a reference to that actor, drag it out, and say set View Pitch Min.

But you generally don’t want to set values on other actors

[drowsy anvil]

thanks got it, why is it not a good idea?

[rugged wigeon]

It gets messy. Ideally things should be the only things to modify their own values. Most
Programming languages are explicit about this but blueprints don’t allow you to be strict about it

[maiden wadi]

More generic term is encapsulation. Things should be allowed to modify their own state and call methods on other classes, but should never modify state directly on another thing without the use of a method.

While not specifically logic breaking, encapsulation allows systems and things to be easier to follow. You know that something is affected by specific things instead of... from anywhere.

[drowsy anvil]

thanks makes sense

[random valve]

Anyone have any opinions on writing C++ vs scripting with BP?

[thin panther]

The officially supported opinion and the fact will be it's always better to use a mix of both, rather than treating it as one versus the other.

C++ generally for core systems and base classes, BP for BP exclusive things and quick gameplay actions. The mix is up to you though. Doing most of it through C++ and only using BP for asset referencing is equally as valid as doing everything in BP and using C++ only to declare structs, enums and expose things to BP, depending on the game of course, some games will need a heavier mix of C++, especially multiplayer ones.

[random valve]

https://tenor.com/view/big-lebowski-the-dude-your-opinion-gif-4476328

Thank you, just trying to wrap my head around things

[maiden wadi]

For me, C++ for generic systems and infrastructure, BP for gluing them together for gameplay.

[chilly geyser]

Yeah same thing was bugging me, I didn't realize it was a scroll box setting that was messing with it until later on XD

[chilly geyser]

I don't think this is going to work, the widget component and camera are already inside of the BP_ThirdPersonCharacter and I'm trying to set the widget to always face the camera. When I do it with the widget and camera vectors, it only affects the character the client controls. I.E. the other characters widgets will not rotate toward the camera

[maiden wadi]

You shouldn't be doing this anyhow. Rotating stuff to face the camera is expensive. You get 30 widgets, that is 30 things that need to be rotated to face the camera every frame.

Avoiding screenspace isn't the answer, using depth projection is. One of the reasons I really like the indicator system in Lyra.

[rugged wigeon]

I would be curious to hear more on this. Sounds like it’s just doing some sort of world space calculation to infer the size based on distance from camera? Is this built in or custom implemented in Lyra

[chilly geyser]

Trying to do depth projection made too many issues for me

[maiden wadi]

The code already exists in engine, Lyra's indicators just made use of it. Running AFK for a few, but I can dig it up after.

[chilly geyser]

Also I was going to find a way to not need to do it every frame, just when a camera is moved/rotated

[hollow cove]

Hey, i have a large planet in my games sky, 3200 scale - the scale is causing it to use 1.5ms in rendering time. Things i've tried to fix it:

• changing the material
• turning off shadows
• turning off lighting
• turning off reflections
• turning off collision
  Also i should mention it's absolutely the sphere mesh itself as checking/unchecking visible is what causes the performance drop. And I can't fake the size by making it small and bringing it closer due to volumetric clouds being behind it

[maiden wadi]

Event driven stuff is a worthy goal, but rather pointless in the end if you have any sort of consistent movement game. This would only help people who AFK and nothing on screen is moving. Because you need to update the WidgetComponent that moves, and update them all if the camera moves. Which becomes a complicated task in itself that you could end up paying even more for. What if everything on screen is moving and you're moving the camera? Without an extra check per actor, you're paying the cost twice per frame now at worst case. And you should always code for worst case.

[chilly geyser]

Let me get a video, maybe theres a solution using screen space still, I already modified it to fake/change depth perception for yourself, but distance from another person is becoming a factor

[maiden wadi]

Depth is just a distance check mostly. Component to Camera distance. But unless you have control over the container of the widget, which you don't with WidgetComponents, you have to give the owning component to the widget in the component so that it can do that itself to scale it's own contents.

[chilly geyser]

https://streamable.com/mdyv6s

How do you do distance check from yourself(the same widget on another player) to change the size of their widget on your screen though?

Without changing your own lol

[maiden wadi]

It's per widget.

You pass the component housing the widget into the widget via GetUserWidgetObject or whatever the call is. Cast it to the widget it's showing, and set some ref as Self from the widget component. Then in the widget you can distance check that widget component ref to the camera. Local camera location can always be retrieved anywhere via GetPlayerCameraManager

[chilly geyser]

That will allow a clients widget to be a different size than the same widget on a different client?

[maiden wadi]

Widgets aren't networked. They're all local only.

[chilly geyser]

Maybe I'm not explaining my problem well enough. The widget on another client should appear smaller the further away you get from them. Currently it stays the same size no matter how far you run if you look in their direction.

Meanwhile your own widget should not appear to change size

[maiden wadi]

I was mistaken on this. I swear they used to use some calls in the LocalPlayer or PlayerController that did this. But I think it's roughly the same. They just do a basic dist check it seems. Like here in Project, this is a case with the componentpoint setting. It just dist checks to the view's location to the component's location

[thin panther]

It wouldn't because widgets aren't networked. A change to a widget is only ever going to affect the client it changed on

[chilly geyser]

World space fixes it which is why I was looking for a solution there

[maiden wadi]

You're explaining it fine. You're just not understanding. You have two clients. You have a widget component on some chest actor. The chest is 200m from ClientA. It is 500m from ClientB.

On ClientA, the widget locally ticks and is scaled to match what it should be at 200m.
On ClientB, the widget locally ticks and is scaled to match what it should be at 500m.

ClientA does not care about the fact that ClientB is 500m from this actor or widget because it's doing this locally for itself.
ClientB does not care about the fact that ClientA is 200m from this actor or widget because it's doing this locally for itself.

And on top of this, if for any reason you ever support local coop, RIP world space widgets. Cause you'll have Player1 fighting over Player2, cause they're in the same world and machine unlike ClientA and ClientB who are on separate machines that only need to do it once locally.

[chilly geyser]

If there was an object in the world that I needed to do this it would be easy, but the widget is on the character itself

[maiden wadi]

Then change the chest to Client3's character.

The point is the same.

[chilly geyser]

Maybe I don't understand then, because You are basically making the same widget two different sizes at the same time on the same client

[maiden wadi]

No.

[chilly geyser]

This is what I need

[maiden wadi]

I'm making ONE widget a certain size on one machine.
I'm making a completely different widget, that just happens to be associated to the same actor on another machine a different size.

Which is what I mean when I say they're local only. Each machine has a widget for the actor. Each machine locally sets the size differently for their own widget for that actor.

Think less networking. Don't treat the widget as replicated. Think about it from a singleplayer perspective. This client has a widget for this actor, and that is all that matters.

[chilly geyser]

Alright, that makes sense, how would you code that though? anything I put in the widget affects itself

[maiden wadi]

It should affect itself, from the distance to it's owning component and the local camera.

[chilly geyser]

ah, distance from component to camera, 😅 ill try this

Thanks

🤔

Made sense before, now I feel like its going to affect both again

[lunar sleet]

try not to forget how self works

[chilly geyser]

yeah, no matter how far i run, the camera is still the same distance away from the widget

[lunar sleet]

is the camera not on the char?

[chilly geyser]

It is, but i need the widget that is on another client/character to change size

while keeping own widget same size

so I need distance from other client widget to camera

Im probably thinking about it wrong again

[lunar sleet]

or distance from this camera/char to the other actor instance

[chilly geyser]

How to refrence actor instance?

For each and remove self?

[lunar sleet]

no

you really shouldn't try going for multiplayer as your first game, esp. without having the basics down first but yeah

you can get refs by interacting with said instances, line traces are one way

get actor of class with for each loop is one of the worst ways to do this, tho it has its uses sometimes.

[chilly geyser]

Pending on what you mean by first, It's not. I'll never learn stuff about multiplayer unless I start doing it.

[lunar sleet]

if you want to learn #multiplayer start with the pins in that channel, especially the compendium.

but I'd recommend getting some more practice on UE basics first, even if you made a game in other engines.

[maiden wadi]

The owning actor needs to pass the widgetcomponent to the widget.

[rugged wigeon]

This is still going to be an adjustment on tick right? Curious why doing this is meaningfully more expensive than rotating?

[maiden wadi]

There are many other factors.

For starts, Widgetcomponents are SceneComponents. Which means that every time anything they're attached to moves, they move. Minor cost initially, but it starts hurting as you scale up to dozens or hundreds of actors on lower end platforms.

Second is that WidgetComponents do not collapse their widget hierarchy when no longer in view. This means if you have a large map, and a bunch of stuff has widget components, even a simple widget with a border and a textblock to show a name gets insanely expensive even if their widget component is stationary because of slate prepass.

We dealt with that on Red Solstice 2. We have large maps with literally hundreds of widget components. I think some of the medium sized maps had something around 500-700 of them. Lockers, pickup items, other characters, etc etc etc. Most were literally a border and a textblock. But we were paying over 2ms on a decent machine for slate prepass for it all because it was just a fuck ton of widgets.

And don't forget that CPUs are absolutely wonderful at doing work in order on simple sets of data. Ticking through hundreds of registered indicators to see if they should even be considered for display before doing the majority of the work goes a long way.

[rugged wigeon]

This seems to be a set of arguments not to have needless widget components. I guess you’re saying to only spawn the widget into screen space when needed and imply that it’s in world space by sizing dynamically.

More so than depth sizing being faster than rotation adjusting?

[maiden wadi]

More saying that something like the indicator system is far superior to widget components.

But I would bet that comparing the rotation of world space, to the depth projection of screen space. I can almost promise that depth will win. Finding distance is super cheap.

[rugged wigeon]

Ok I’ll look into it later

[soft estuary]

i have these 2 child actors exo skeleton from marketplace,Implemented them into my project but its suppose to be attached to this players mesh etc but its not.

sockets also are named right and skeleton has been set to work with it

when playing ingame the exoskeleton does not appear at all nor no errors

[warm oriole]

I'm currently recreating a lot of the stuff from the Cropout sample to learn and I've encountered a strange issue. This batch of code always returns spawn as:
Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property Spawn". Node: Placement Mode Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Player Blueprint: BP_Player

As far as I can tell my implementation of the interface and UI is almost identical to the sample's, but I'm simply expanding upon the building system for my project.

Any idea why I'd be getting this error?

[mellow pike]

Question , why would a skeleton act this way on a character?

im using a BP that overrides the default character with my own.

so im gessing the controller is not referacing my sceleten corectly ?

[maiden wadi]

Either your SpawnActor node has an invalid class input, or it's failing to spawn due to collision issues. So it's returning null and you're trying to use that right after on the PlacementMode function.

[warm oriole]

Ah it can return null if it collides with something?

I guess I've never had it happen before so I wouldn't expect that behavior

[mellow pike]

yeah if i switch to Quin it works

were do I set my skeletons 🤔

[warm oriole]

You can reparent an animation blueprint or create a child if you want to change the skeleton.

[warm oriole]

Doesn't seem like it is a collision issue as even when setting the spawn method to always spawn it still returns null. Is there a way to check if its an invalid class? I wouldn't think that's it but I guess it is possible

[maiden wadi]

Class should have an IsValid function for it. I don't think it has a macro like pointers do, but easy enough to feed it to a branch.

[warm oriole]

Yup, that's put me on the right path -- the class is invalid.

Now my next question is, what makes a class invalid?

[mellow pike]

"reparent"

had not herd of that

[warm oriole]

I'll grab a screen shot of it for ya, one minute

[maiden wadi]

Dunno. Usually just not setting it.

[warm oriole]

In your animation BP go to class settings

[warm oriole]

Yeah that's my experience in the past but it shouldn't be the case here. It seems like when the interface sends data it gets, for lack of a better term, "lost".

[marsh sonnet]

Hey vy'all! I have a data table where character names are set, they're stored in an enum--I want each character name to render as a different color in the "character name text"--how do I do that?

[maiden wadi]

Shouldn't be. How are you pulling the class?

[mellow pike]

not sure what I change that to 🤔

[warm oriole]

If your anim BP is already set to your skeleton then the animations themselves probably haven't been retargeted to your skeleton

[maiden wadi]

Plug the Enum from SDialogueInfo into the bottom of the Select. Then plug a MakeLinearColor into the top select entry. Then set them all.

[marsh sonnet]

thank you so much!!!!

[warm oriole]

Well I feel pretty stupid, in my messing with this to figure out what was going on I never set the class reference in the original event call. This helped me realize it, thank you so much!

Always something simple 🤦‍♂️

collision was still the actual issue though

[mellow pike]

!!!!!!!!!! your right, it just hit me that the idle is working ( its my own idle) its the run jump etc from quinn that is not working

now to find were I set that

[warm oriole]

Just locate the anim you want, in this case it is probably the run, and right click -> select retarget -> choose your skele

Then make sure you swap all the references in your anim BP

[frosty heron]

You can retarget entire anim blueprint to diff skeleton

At least in UE 4

Alternatively there is also anim blueprint template, should you need multiple skeletons to use the same anim blueprint.

[mellow pike]

thanks, just need to find were they hid these default clips

[marsh sonnet]

Having some issues with this solution, I think because it converts the enum to text before setting so maybe the color info is getting lost, or I need to set the color specifically somewhere--I'm very new so prob not doing the solution right

[mellow pike]

thanks that did fix the skeleton , but the retargeted clips are a bit goofy.
any recourses on ere I can edit them ?

[warm oriole]

You can check the retarget manager (I forget what its called) to ensure the bones are being mapped properly. Aside from that you'd need to change your skeleton iirc.

[mellow pike]

got it working , thanks

[soft estuary]

got it working after some tweaks

[hollow cove]

bump

[lunar sleet]

Inspect it using the modeling tools and try remeshing it if it has an excessive amount of tris. But also do proper #profiling using Insights and the like to see what exactly is causing it

[novel goblet]

Does anyone have experience with enhanced inputs in blueprints? I am struggling a bit.
I have movement working, but my main problem is a bit more complex.
I have a gameplay ability that I want to call "move" within. In order to call move I need to read the Input Action Value reference into it. (FInputActionValue&) And I'm not sure how to go about pulling that

I have access to the player character within it and the player controller etc if that helps

[frosty heron]

Wdym by move within?

[novel goblet]

What I have set up is a branch.
If skill range <= Target Distance -> return true.
Which then activates the skill
If its not true I want to tell it to move player towards location and try again.

I have a function that works with this but it needs an input action value so I know if there's anything conflicting with it.

think i got it

yeah got it theres a simple move to that works... Kinda needs some polish and other factors but for now it'll do

[frosty heron]

Yeah I don't think input is much use here, isn't that something that is evaluated every frame.

Would just look at how top down template does it. Probably with simple move to

[novel goblet]

yeah simple move to is nav mesh based.
It KIND of works but I need to add some stuff to it or overwrite it so if it reaches the location it knows to activate the ability. but for tonight i'm happy. I can now run towards and just reclick

[frosty heron]

Might have callbacks like on move completed, not sure.

[novel goblet]

yeah i need an interrupt or something too

because it keeps trying to move on interrupt

I'll take a look at it and figure it out

[frosty heron]

Maybe use a move to instead simple move to, there should be pins you can use and have a branch that checks if the movement result is successful.

[gentle urchin]

<=m

Should be >=

You want to check that
InRange = skillrange >= targetdistance

[olive trout]

Hi yall. Been trying to set up interactive objects with screen space frames around them ala Deus Ex, using this forum post as a guide to at least help me convert a 3d bounding box into a 2d one in screen space:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/scene-actors-bounding-square-screen-space/459787/2

Followed the solutions blueprint set up pretty much to a T, which everyone in the thread agrees works but then the result I get is a 2d box that bounces around the screen instead of adheres to the object I want it to as seen in the gif (the one with the red box.) I'm super stuck on this one if anyones got any ideas?

[gentle urchin]

Im doing something akin to this for my screenspace world location widgets I think.. not exactly a box but same principle i'd think

[olive trout]

ideally I'll want it to be a widget pretty much exactly like Deus Ex instead of just debug lines, but I figure this is at least a good starting point for getting the 3d->2d bounding box data

[gentle urchin]

Looks mostly like a centered widget with bounds applied to its size

[tight moon]

I asked this in #virtual-reality so I have a little base but it ddin't work : how do I make a bp allowing me to play sound from an object while grabbing it only ?

Additionnally, with the laser I've been working on last time, I want it to react to a specific blueprint only, what do I need to do from this point ?

[atomic salmon]

@tight moonbest would be to have each object know when it is being grabbed and produce the sound when it is; regarding your line trace (laser), you can check if the Hit Actor is derived from a given class or has a tag, and react only in that case. Doing Get All Actors of Class on every tick is not very efficient.

[tight moon]

Well, here comes the dreadful question :
How do I do that 😔

[atomic salmon]

@tight moonregarding the grabbing, you start with having in each actor a boolean variable which is set to true when the actor is grabbed and to false when it is dropped. Then you check that variable and if it is set to true you use that information to play your sound.

[gentle urchin]

If they share a common base, adding the bool to the class should be fairly straight. Then casting the hit actor to the grabbable base class and updating the bool would be the next stepp

[tight moon]

For the sound I had something like this in the object blueprint. Although it wouldn't work since the input wouldn't even start. I need the sound to play only after using the actual input.

[atomic salmon]

You are setting Is Held to false on grab, so it will never go past the Branch attached to the input. It should be set to true on Grab and to false on Release/Drop

[tight moon]

So, added the OnDropped event, the variable is set to true for the grabbed and on false for the dropped. Moved back the rest to the pawn but still nothing 🤔

[atomic salmon]

@tight moonyou need to apply some basic debugging techniques to see what is happening and what is going wrong. For example, put a Breakpoint on the Branch which is called from the input and follow the code from there step by step

Do you see the output of that Print String after the branch?

[tight moon]

Well... nope, nothing happens after just pressing an input. It seems it doesn't reach the branch.

[atomic salmon]

If it never hits the branch it means your input event is not being called

Which very likely indicates that input is not set up correctly

So your first fix is to make the input work properly

[tight moon]

You mean, the variable ? There's a print right after the input and this one works.

[atomic salmon]

That's then different from the code above

If you added a Print String immediately after the input event and it prints something, then the input works. If it gets to the Branch and doesn't go past it, it means the boolean variable which controls the branch is False. You need to figure out why

[tight moon]

To be sure there's no confusion : here's how it looks like atm. The first screenshot is in the object BP, the second in the pawn, the 2 are separated (the input won't work if in the object bp). That's where I am rn, and I don't really know why would the held variable be false.

[atomic salmon]

A design principle is that inputs are handled through the player and, if non player actors need to be informed about it, they get a message from the player (like it already happens with the Grab/Release events)

[dry sleet]

PCG can be packaged just fine -- shouldn't you try to fix the packaging issues rather than resort to the drastic measure of a complete rewrite?

You can ask in #packaging or #pcg-framework for assistance if you provide more details about what doesn't work in a packaged build!

[tight moon]

Well that's the moment I get stuck : I don't know how to make the branch trigger, while making sure it only triggers when grabbing the object...

[gentle urchin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE should be a good starting place if you havnt watched it already

[tall obsidian]

thank you, I wanna try both of the possibilities.

[dark drum]

Does anyone know if it's possible to limit the gameplay tags that are shown for a variable selection to a specific .ini?

[gentle urchin]

you can apply some custom filter

    /** Returns "Categories" meta property from given handle, used for filtering by tag widget */
    GAMEPLAYTAGS_API FString GetCategoriesMetaFromPropertyHandle(TSharedPtr<class IPropertyHandle> PropertyHandle) const;

[sudden nimbus]

https://benui.ca/unreal/uproperty/#categories

[hidden rampart]

Set Array Elem literally doesn't add it. The exec only goes when the ItemObject is valid and it goes through and it prints Got Here and false aka the element is not valid , after I literally just add it.

[gentle urchin]

Set doesnt add

unless you let it SizetoFit

which you've got false

[hidden rampart]

So if you do it in a for loop you don't need to set it to true?

[gentle urchin]

seems your equipment array is empty

I usually pre-populate them, and assign a specific index per slot

[hidden rampart]

Because im copying this functionality from an already working system and its not set to true there though.

[gentle urchin]

it doesnt matter how yo do it, if the element doesnt already exist

[gentle urchin]

but then that system has a valid array entry at the specified index

you can verify this by either inspecting the array at breakpoint

or do "IsValidIndex" on the array

[hidden rampart]

ok I'll do just that. Thank you so much!

[gentle urchin]

(it wont fix you missing entry problem)

you need to resize the Items array to how many slots you have (-1)

[hidden rampart]

I checked that to true and now it's adding it

[gentle urchin]

that means if whoever equips something, specifices an invalid index, they'll get the equipment added anyways

[hidden rampart]

I just the index to zero to test it

[gentle urchin]

index 100 will also work

[hidden rampart]

So I need to do do this then. How do I do this?

[gentle urchin]

I suppose you got a NumberOfSlots variable?

[hidden rampart]

Yea I can add it

[gentle urchin]

so on beginplay or init you'd just take the empty array and resize it

to numberOfSlots

[hidden rampart]

Ok

It's weird because in this inventory system I have from a tutorial, I don't see him doing that anywhere

[gentle urchin]

well are the slots added manually to the variable?

thats another option (just tedious and not very flexible)

[hidden rampart]

In his system, there's a grid with Tiles, and each Index corresponds to a Tile

But he never actuallys sets the size of the array

[gentle urchin]

there's really only those 3 options;

• Resize with array variable
• Manually add slots to the array variable through the details panel
• Let newly added items resize the array

[hidden rampart]

yea yea this is great information, I'm writing this down

[tight moon]

So, regarding my situation... turns out I just needed to set the variable's default value to true...
That said the variable works constantly, I still don't really know how to make it grab dependant (I've seen the link for the bp video, but I don't really have the time for the 2h and I also don't have any sound on my end).

[atomic salmon]

You are basically asking someone else to do the work for you, that is not the spirit of this community. This said, look back at the logic of your code. When you grab an actor, that actor is notified about the grab so it can act on it. That is your entry point for additional logic (like playing a sound). Same for the release.

If you want the grabbed actor to be notified about something else, you can implement a similar logic as for the grab/release. e.g. player presses a button --> input event is triggered in the player --> player checks if it is holding an actor --> if yes, held actor is notified about that event

I think you may greatly benefiting from watching that blueprint communication video which was recommended to you. If you have no audio, you can watch it with automatic subtitles.

[frosty heron]

And a beginner would end up spending more than 2 hours anyway learning blueprint coms.

If watching the video once suffice, that do be a very small price to pay.

[gentle urchin]

and we all value our own time

[frosty heron]

I didn't know the video existed. Took me months before it clicks on reference and blueprint coms.

[gentle urchin]

same

[visual ember]

additionally, what people really need to start doing is leave their BP spaghetti mess and just think their issues on paper. first establish dry logic what has to happen, then implement it

[gentle urchin]

months of accessed none

videos i watched (youtube tutorials) always just "we fix this by doing isValid"

which is kinda true, but at the same time not. They never went into the specifics of why it would be invalid, and what that ment

[gentle urchin]

It seems to me that what we consider logical isn't as easily graspable if you're coming from outside the world of some programming language

even if the logic can the be quite literal

IF X AND Y DO Z

[visual ember]

but people live their lives making conditional thinking and decisions all the time

[gentle urchin]

they do indeed

[visual ember]

so just to the same but for the problem in code

IF I want to get on that bus THEN I have to run

it's all the same

[gentle urchin]

IF Starving THEN Eat()

[visual ember]

the discrepancy starts with state management though. when they flip the switch, there is no bLightOn, they don't think that way. it just...is, light magically happens and electricity keeps flowing 😄

[gentle urchin]

it quickly spirals 😛

[visual ember]

so I guess realizing that might be quite important. "oh, nothing is going to magically know the light is on, I need a variable for that"

[gentle urchin]

Guess there should be some entry level basics, walking through very basic things in some in-editor tutorial thing

nobody really used that feature much huh

[visual ember]

itneractive tutorial...that would be something

and you cannot use UE unless you pass

[gentle urchin]

"make this door open, by using the BP_Key, blueprint and setting op the logic for interacting with the door by using the assigned Door_Interface"

hmm seems this learning interface has been removed? 😮

this little guy

[dark drum]

What are peoples thoughts about storing actor references in a data asset at runtime? The data wouldn't need to be saved on exit or anything. I'm just trying to think of any reasons why it might not be a good idea lol.

[gentle urchin]

you break the static nature of a data asset , i guess

I do it myself currently, but I dont really like it D:

These days I usually wrap DA reference in some uobject/actor instance for that dynamic data

[visual ember]

why not just in a game state?

why tickle the demon?

[dark drum]

To make it laugh. 🙂

[dark drum]

I'm wanting to utilize the fact you can get a data asset from anywhere and possibly use DA as a way of having runtime groups of names/tags actor references. This does mean wrapping them in a uobject/actor wouldn't be suitable.

Is there a reason you don't like it? Or is it just that they're supposed to be static which makes you dislike it?

[hidden rampart]

I actually do that. It's really fun and more clear , especially when the logic I wrote actually works, it's like chef's kiss

[gentle urchin]

sounds like you'd want a subsystem really

but yes, it's just because of the static part that I dont like it

im stuffing thousands of transforms in there currently, and it just sits wrong with me 😄

but it was quick and dirty when i did it , and so it just stayed like that 😛

[dark drum]

I don't think you have access to subsystems in uobjects without world context though.

[gentle urchin]

can't you just provide world context ?

[dark drum]

I could but that would require me to do C++ lol.

[gentle urchin]

Don't let that stop you 😛

You'll be better off 😄

[dark drum]

Well I've just setup the DA method and it works pretty well haha. Now I can have named actor collections for scripted events. It works suprisingly well.

I feel like this is simpler than setting up a sub system. 🤔

[gentle urchin]

simpler but less correct

i guess

Im normally using some world manager for actor collections etc

but requires world context , as you said

[dark drum]

I guess that depends on what you're trying to achieve. It is nice that I can easily add references to the DA via the editor as well. Saves having to call some logic on begin play to do it.

I do feel like I've overlooked something big though but it all seems to work. I guess testing is required.

[gentle urchin]

huh, can you add references in-editor ?

[dark drum]

Yep, it feels wrong but so right. lol.

[gentle urchin]

xD

idk, i like doing the beginplay setup, as then I know it just works, for all my actors, regardless of streaming in/out and whatnot

[dark drum]

You can still do that for dynamically spawned items. 😛

It seems to handle level changes too. In editor, it just says the actor isn't loaded but updates when you load the level there in.

[gentle urchin]

ouf this smells bad x)

but if it works, there's a saying

[dark drum]

I guess someone could clear all the refs with a single click. 😅

[gentle urchin]

what's the grouping for btw?

is it for something like NPC type or something ?

[dark drum]

Wasn't for anything specific but it could be used for Doors, NPCs or collections that contain the actors for a scripted event.

[gentle urchin]

I s ee

OpenAllDoors

[dark drum]

So the only issue I've found so far with adding the refs via the editor is that if the actor is destroyed at runtime, it'll flag that it's unloaded instead of saying its not found. 🤔 Not sure it's even possible to portray this with just a soft object ref. Maybe dynamically adding and removing them is best.

[gentle urchin]

Yes it is! Superior

[visual ember]

this solution opens so many doors

[chrome glacier]

Hey guys, got a question. ive made a widget/menu when pressing the start button of my controller. Problem is, I cannot seem to go back to my character after making a selection. Once I'm in the UI, the inputs don't listen to the inputs of my character anymore. And within the UI, i tried giving it a ''Close Menu'' button.. But I cannot figure out how to reactivate the movement of my character. (Everything works except moving around).

First image is inside the character BP, second is inside the Widget graph. Any ideas?

[shrewd tiger]

Hi guys
Fsr my Destroy component node is not quite working - any ideas why?

The one from reset event

This is like a building system

Reset is triggered by cycling through parts

[ancient stag]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/orthographic-camera-and-multiple-window-sizes/2021809
Anybody here have a solution for this orthographic projection camera issue? When I play in a new editor window and set it to the size of a mobile portrait mode, it becomes really squished. I can’t figure out how to fix this with the current parameters.

[tight jungle]

Hey, Question:
I’m doing physics based character movement in Blueprints, and want to limit the input movement to a max speed/velocity. But allow other physics sources to affect the character freely (exceeding the max cap).

So far I have only been able to limit the velocity as a whole, which negating other sources of physics if they are in the same direction as the already capped max speed. (see image)

Any ideas?

[dark drum]

Instead of destroying the preview mesh, if the component already exists, just update the mesh it uses.

[shrewd tiger]

Oh that's smart

thanks

[young meteor]

Is it not possible to create a Widget from within a Blueprint Library Function?

[ancient stag]

At first glance it looks like it's being constructed correctly (check if return value is valid). Are you adding it to the viewport after this or have you forgotten to call "Add To Viewport"?

[tawdry walrus]

I want to make sure my information is correct,
Is casting to something that has been loaded into memory or into the game world free?

[rugged wigeon]

It’s not free but it’s not expensive

[young meteor]

I indeed forgot to add it to viewport. 😄
Still get an error in the log though.

It is now being created and shown.

[rugged wigeon]

Looks like you have something broken in your tooltip

[young meteor]

Sorry the function in the Blueprint library I'm running is called "ShowTooltip"

So it is in that function I assume. And it is "complaining" about the "Create Widget" node

Could it be the "Owning Player" part?
The rest is just variables basically.

[final berry]

Okay so I hope I can explain it correctly, but on the left is a part of my references on these actors and the sizemaps are huge. If i'm correct the way on the right should reduce the sizemaps, but I'm not 100% sure. Could someone clarify?

[visual ember]

can you show those sizemaps?

[edgy axle]

How come the Get Component Bounds for a rotated capsule is bigger than it should be? Box shape has the correct size when rotated

[final berry]

Well they are even bigger than just this part because a UI knows about the towers and the level management knows about the UI and that level management knows about stuff in other levels and so on and so on. It's a mess and not sure how to fix it so I thought start small

[maiden wadi]

This won't have anything to do with adding it to viewport, or the OwningPlayer. You have a node somewhere called SlotAsCanvasSlot

[edgy axle]

rotated box is fine

[edgy axle]

Rather than clamping the velocity, test if it is above maximum speed when doing input movement, and if it is, then just don't add more velocity from input

[maiden wadi]

You can leave the Component in the parent. Just don't specify a mesh or particle system in it.

[final berry]

I tried that, but it still knows about the mesh 🤔 I'll take another look

[maiden wadi]

Then something else in the parent links it, if you're looking at the parent's sizemap. the parent will not know about a mesh specified in the child.

[final berry]

Okay, I'll check thanks

[maiden wadi]

@final berry As a case point. I have an AnimalBase class here. Has basically nothin gin it except for a specified special AI Controller. It's a character class, so it has a skeletal mesh. But as a noted point the mesh and animbp are empty.

B_Chicken on the other hand has a skeletal mesh linker. Because that class has it specified in the MeshComponent.

[final berry]

Crystal, thanks for the clarification 🙂

[dark drum]

I believe unhooked nodes still show up in the size map. Just in case you've have left over stuff from refactoring.

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, they will. Any variables as well that have been populated.

[heady burrow]

question, it gets very verbose when I need to spawn an actor which can take different values depending on booleans or some other conditions, is for example a way to have a branch node without an execution pin?, so I can not interrupt the flow, nor create 2 different spawning boxes

Im sure many encountered this encumbrance before.

[maiden wadi]

Select probably

[tight jungle]

Thanks for the idea!
This is better then what I currently have, but not entry what i'm trying to do. This will halt my input movement when I'm above max speed, even if the speed is coming from another physics source and not the player input.

[outer brook]

Hey fellas, i have a question regarding a "coding"-style in blueprint. In the picture i provided you can see "target arm length" outputs its value with other variables into "FInterpTo". This function then outputs its value into "Target Arm Length" back again. All this happens within the exact same step for the "SET Target Arm Length" here.

My questions are: Is that a common coding style here? And am I right to assume that the value of "Target Arm Length" gets read first and set at the end after wards, e.g. in C# "targetArmLength=FInterpTo(Current, targetArmLength, DeltaTime, InterpSpeed);"?

[heady burrow]

I looked into it but didnt understand how to use it really

if its usable at all in my case