blueprint

[zinc jasper]

We want to save the variable obviously

[trim matrix]

do i use a cast or a get player when calling the function in the widget

[zinc jasper]

both

first you get player, then cast to your class, then drag out and get the function from it

[zinc jasper]

not there though

the bottom line

[trim matrix]

oh

[zinc jasper]

plug the final color into the function input

[trim matrix]

it says they arent compatible

[zinc jasper]

are they both Linear Color?

if you hover over it tells you what variable type it is

[trim matrix]

final color is a slate color

[zinc jasper]

make it a linear color

[zinc jasper]

look just make sure all variables are linear color

and recompile and reconnect your stuff

[trim matrix]

theyr all linear color

[zinc jasper]

then recompile and reconnect

youre almost there :D

[trim matrix]

i did 😭

[zinc jasper]

you cant make slate color if its a linear color

you have to "make linear color"

[trim matrix]

now it wont let me connect it to set brush tint color

[zinc jasper]

then convert the color

break the brush color and connect the values manually

idk, figure it out :D

development is mostly about solving these little issues as well

you're at the finish line with this function

[trim matrix]

😭 now the image isnt showing

[zinc jasper]

are the sliders changing the character color ingame though?

[trim matrix]

no

[zinc jasper]

well you need to sort out your variable types there then i guess

[trim matrix]

it just made the character black again

how can i make the texture change on the animation im playing in the menu live when changing the sliders

[zinc jasper]

idk what you mean by that

[lofty rapids]

pretty much how your trying to do it

you make a dynamic material

[zinc jasper]

well yeah this should work

[lofty rapids]

then you set the value

[zinc jasper]

i think just your variables are a bit messed up

[lofty rapids]

if it's black theres something wrong with the color most likely

[zinc jasper]

make sure youre connecting the values properly

[willow whale]

is there a way to change out your leveling data tables with a setting set up in the UI while ingame

[zinc jasper]

you cant modify data tables ingame

[zinc jasper]

idk, the setup looks fine to me. Make sure the values are all fine, test it with some other values manually

[willow whale]

dang wanted to set up a way they could adjust the games max level from inside the game

[zinc jasper]

maybe it wants 255 instead of 1 or something, im not sure. debug and test

[trim matrix]

when changing it manually it looks fine in the player bp and in the menu on the animation loop when changed manually, but when i use the menu to change it, its just black

[zinc jasper]

create a new linear color variable with some random color in the widget just for testing and plug it in the function at the end

to see if that works

when you move the sliders it should then update to that one color

[trim matrix]

nope

[zinc jasper]

but when you call the SetPlayerColor somewhere else it works?

huh

[trim matrix]

no if i change the color manually in the material it changes, but using anything w the widget makes it black

[zinc jasper]

okay go in your player bp, on begin play put the SetPlayerColor function and as input choose some random color

see if that works

[zinc jasper]

one more thing that could help you, you can use slatecolor for FinalColor like i did to also update your image properly

you can split final color and it will give you a Linear color in its output

so it's an easy conversion

[pallid inlet]

Do you know a place to list just about every nodes?

[trim matrix]

still nothing

[zinc jasper]

did you try this? #blueprint message

[trim matrix]

is it bc of this one?

[zinc jasper]

where is this?

[trim matrix]

player bp

[zinc jasper]

and is it there for a purpose?

its setting the color to black

as you can see

[zinc jasper]

just remove that and try moving the sliders in the widget

[trim matrix]

no

sliders dont change the player color

[zinc jasper]

well, you made a mistake somewhere then

idk

if youre calling the function from player BP and it works and changes the color, like you just showed

[trim matrix]

ive sent screenshots of al i have

[zinc jasper]

but calling the function from the widget doesnt work

that doesn't make sense to me

[trim matrix]

setting a color manually in the player bp works, the ui dosnt

[zinc jasper]

idk. Check everything, debug slowly

simplify it, go step by step

it can be anything, like even an accidental space character in the parameter name

[zinc jasper]

just go step by step

put print strings, debug, see node by node how it works and youll find where it breaks

its an important skill to be able to debug your nodes

see if the sliders actually fire the events, see if the Final color is being set correctly, see if your parameter names checks out in the material and in the function, check if the player character cast doesn't fail for some reason

etc

identify the precise point in the logic where it doesn't do what you want it to do

[trim matrix]

only the top one printed

[zinc jasper]

well the second one is just tied to an event that youre not calling

so of course it's not gonna fire

that's just if you wanna set the color of the sliders from somewhere else, like on a game load

[trim matrix]

oh

[zinc jasper]

this is this event, yes?

[trim matrix]

yea

[zinc jasper]

then put the print string in the beginning of that event

see if it fires when you move sliders in game

[trim matrix]

yea it does

[zinc jasper]

but the last one doesnt?

then put one after "cast failed"

see if that one fires by any chance

when you move sliders around

[trim matrix]

yea it does off cast failed

[zinc jasper]

you can also btw just run the game in another window, select the debug object and see it firing real time

but anyway

[trim matrix]

thats how i am using it

[zinc jasper]

then you select debug object

then you can see it fire

when you do stuff ingame

but print strings work too for this case :D

anyway, now you identified the problem - the casting to your player BP fails

did you cast to a different class than the one you're using as your player character?

[trim matrix]

no

[zinc jasper]

then why does the cast fail

show me the name of the BP where you made that color changing function

the player character bp youre using for the mouse

[zinc jasper]

and you're absolutely sure this one is the mouse youre playing as, yes?

[trim matrix]

yea, i dont have any others, the only other player bps have completely different names

[zinc jasper]

then I don't understand why the cast fails

try plugging "Get player pawn" into the cast instead

[trim matrix]

nope still failed

[zinc jasper]

did you mess around with the player indexes or something?

[trim matrix]

no

[zinc jasper]

and is it a single player?

[trim matrix]

yea single player

[zinc jasper]

then I have no clue lol

that shouldn't fail

[trim matrix]

idk

i have no issue casting to it in other bps

[zinc jasper]

what's the widget type? Just User Widget?

[trim matrix]

yea

[zinc jasper]

hmm

try to restart UE just for sanity check

[trim matrix]

still failing

[zinc jasper]

that's really weird

I really don't know why that would fail

[iron idol]

whats a more efficient way of checking this bool?

[slender harness]

Anyone ever have a blueprint that, even though it asks for an object reference (a specific one) and you give it, it does not take it?

[zinc jasper]

what is this abomination

[iron idol]

very kind of you

[zinc jasper]

:D

why not use for each loop?

but I mean if this works for your case... 🤷‍♂️

[iron idol]

i'm not sure of how to use it in this scenario. but the reason i'm not using it is because its picking a single target

[zinc jasper]

it would be probably better if you showed exactly what's happening in your case

[iron idol]

i dont want it to apply a status to multiple targets. i'm making sure the target is not dead before applyinh

[zinc jasper]

and what is it supposed to do?

cause you can't see much on that screenshot

[slender harness]

fair enough

[zinc jasper]

but you could also use a While loop

[iron idol]

i have 4 party members. i'm looking for it to target a single party member thats not dead at random. its a turn based game.

so it says if unit is dead pick someone else

[zinc jasper]

a random one each time?

I see

[slender harness]

would an IsValid be best there?

[zinc jasper]

I would probably keep track of alive members in a separate variable

then just get a random from that

"get all actors of class" usually means you didn't do something very properly

[iron idol]

but it will obviously loop if multiple people are dead and one is alive which is not efficient

[zinc jasper]

have an array AlivePlayers, if someone dies remove them from this variable

then just get a random from that array

[iron idol]

i only have the 4 members. its just easier to grab all party members for me this way. performance isnt an issue so i just kept rolling with it.

[zinc jasper]

and you dont have to loop anything

[iron idol]

yea i figured that would be the solution. i was hoping for something more lazy haha

[zinc jasper]

this is lazy enough :D

[trim matrix]

still cant figure out why its failing 😭 💀

[zinc jasper]

just before that cast node, put a print string node there, and drag out from "get player character", find "get display name" and connect that to the print string

see what it prints when you move the sliders around

[trim matrix]

nothing prints

[zinc jasper]

I really don't know why you wouldn't be able to access the player character from there

It works fine for me

you could do a workaround and make the function in gameInstance or GameMode or something

surely you can access those from the widget

[trim matrix]

how would i do that

[zinc jasper]

before you do that - how are you creating the widget with the sliders?

are you adding it as a child to some bigger container hud widget?

and in your player controller you add it to viewport?

[trim matrix]

its its own one made when the player clicks the customize button on the main menu

then to go back to the mainmenu

[zinc jasper]

hmm okay I don't think the issue could be from this

but idk this is not usually how I do widgets

I have one main container widget and all other windows and menus are just children dragged into it

but I'm not sure if that would change anything about your issue here...

[trim matrix]

how would i do the workaround in my instance?

[zinc jasper]

do you have a custom gamemode and gameinstance BPs made and set?

[trim matrix]

yea

only instance tho

[zinc jasper]

that's fine

[trim matrix]

game mode is thirsperson

[zinc jasper]

can you see if you can access and cast into your game instance BP from that widget?

same like youre trying to do with the player character

see if that fails too or not

[trim matrix]

wont let me connect to the set color node bc its not my player

[zinc jasper]

well ofc but that's not what I asked you to do :D

just wanna know if the cast fails or not

[trim matrix]

oh

no it dosnt fail

[zinc jasper]

okay then let's offset that function through the gameinstance

it's a bit scuffed but whatever, if it works... :D

basically just create a "middleman" function in your game instance

[trim matrix]

wdym

[zinc jasper]

in your game instance create a new function, call it idk something like "SetPlayerColorGI" (for Game Instance)

give it an input of Linear color

then inside of that function, do the player character cast and call the actual SetPlayerColor function from that cast, and connect the linear color input into that

and then in your widget you call the function from Game instance instead

it's gonna do the same thing, it's just gonna go through the GameInstance function first

(this of course wouldn't be needed if the widget let you cast into player character but really I have no clue why it doesn't)

[trim matrix]

like this?

[zinc jasper]

I mean

that works but it's not exactly what I meant :D

[trim matrix]

wdym 😭

[zinc jasper]

I meant to call the function you made in the player character

[trim matrix]

oh

this?

[zinc jasper]

just in case you wanna put some more stuff in that function (which you later might), you dont have to copy paste duplicate it here as well, you know

yep

now call this game instance function instead in your widget

[zinc jasper]

yeah

does this work?

[trim matrix]

no

[zinc jasper]

😢

where does it fail?

im confused

[trim matrix]

dosnt print anything

but the colors dont change

[zinc jasper]

put print string on this cast failed too

in the GI function

does that fire by any chance?

[trim matrix]

it fails

[zinc jasper]

um

okay then the issue isn't that the widget can't get player character

so you can revert back to that

the issue really is just in you trying to cast your player character it seems

but without seeing the project I really can't tell why that would be happening. You made some mistake.. somewhere

probably

[trim matrix]

ive sent all the screenshots of it lmao

[zinc jasper]

no the screenshots are fine

I mean somewhere else

deeper in your core game logic

did you set these defaults for your projects?

[trim matrix]

yup

[zinc jasper]

okay

and you said youre using this somewhere else during the gameplay and it works fine?

[trim matrix]

in many places

[zinc jasper]

then.. why would it fail in the game instance

I am really flabbergasted lol

[trim matrix]

same

[frosty heron]

Are you even using the custom game instance

[trim matrix]

yea

[frosty heron]

Show? Also name your assets better

[trim matrix]

and i double checked a sec ago

[frosty heron]

I dunnoe, your custom gi is called game instance too

Just name it different and check again then show

[marsh pilot]

Ah yes, thank you

[trim matrix]

yea.. bc i was suggested to title it that lmao

[frosty heron]

Who did...

[trim matrix]

right here

[zinc jasper]

huh

[frosty heron]

For blueprint assets, prefix with B_

[trim matrix]

thats all ive edited

[zinc jasper]

I just suggested a testing function name, not the name for your game instance BP

:D

[trim matrix]

i havent changed anything w my game instance

been setup for saving for a few days havent messed w it since then

[zinc jasper]

I prefix with BP_ cause I'm a bad boy

[frosty heron]

That's me on my new project as well but I wish I didnt

I'm still using wbp too

Instead W

Feels old school

[frosty heron]

Add break point, learn how to debug

Analyse line by line

[zinc jasper]

I mean tbh any naming convention is fine as long as youre consistent with it and you understand it

[frosty heron]

Having standards is good, especially if you are making something public

[trim matrix]

wow alot of negativity lmao

[zinc jasper]

where negativity

just a discussion

[trim matrix]

ok lol

[frosty heron]

A healthy one

[trim matrix]

anyways

none of my other casts to my player fail, this is the only one i checked my other objects again

[dawn gazelle]

The only two reasons a cast would fail:

1. The object you're feeding in is not valid at the time the cast is being executed.
2. The object you're feeding in is not a member of, or a child of the class you're casting it to.

If you're certain that the object should be of the correct class, then the only option is that object you're feeding in isn't valid to begin with at the time the cast is being executed.

[trim matrix]

so how is my player not vaild

[dawn gazelle]

When are you executing this logic?

[trim matrix]

to change the color, in the main menu

[dawn gazelle]

Not why but when?

On Init of Game Instance?

After clicking a button?

[trim matrix]

begin play in the player bp

[dawn gazelle]

You're executing that within the Third Person Character, there's no cast here.

[trim matrix]

the cast is in the widget

[dawn gazelle]

When are you creating the widget?

When are you casting in the widget?

[trim matrix]

in the menu..

[dawn gazelle]

Where's the cast that is failing?

[trim matrix]

in the widget

[dawn gazelle]

At what point is this called? Construct?

[trim matrix]

idk ask @zinc jasper i copied their setup

[dawn gazelle]

Can you follow your execution line back and see how this gets called?

[trim matrix]

its in a custom event

[dawn gazelle]

And what calls that event?

[lunar sleet]

Like herding cats lol

[trim matrix]

ive already sent these screenshots lmao but

[frosty heron]

Don't expect people to do your homework, instead here the screen shoots, fix it.

You should ask specific question

[trim matrix]

im not expecting them to tho.. i have been asking questions along each step 💀

[dawn gazelle]

I don't see the relationship as I don't know how these last two screenshots are connected.

[trim matrix]

theyr the same bp

[frosty heron]

Breakpoints

[lunar sleet]

Btw, if people say “learn this or that” they mean to help you learn so you can figure things out yourself. If you rely on others to hold your hand every step of the way in perpetuity, you’re going to hate gamedev 😀

[dawn gazelle]

What event calls the cast?

[lunar sleet]

And aside from Datura and Authaer , few have that much patience 😁

[trim matrix]

and where am i relying on holding my hand? this channel is for help, that why im here lmao

[dawn gazelle]

You posted a screenshot that shows an execution path with no start, so I don't know what the fucntion/event is.

[trim matrix]

im learning 💀

[frosty heron]

Break point break point break point

[lunar sleet]

I’m referring to the negativity comment you made. They weren’t being negative, they’re trying to teach you which tools to use to debug yourself

You’re going to have a really hard time if you don’t learn that asap

[trim matrix]

lol if i felt it was negative, it was to me, i understand theyr game dev tools 💀

[lunar sleet]

Ok, learn break points so you can follow the execution path of your game and figure out what is failing and why

That. Is how you will thrive.

Like cold summer said a few hundred times 😀

[frosty heron]

If the issue is the widget not executing the function, I don't even see it get called anywhere.

[wispy kayak]

Hi, when there is a button still green, when click other button it makes the button red instead of green. How to make boolean keep true instead of false when click other buttons ?

[frosty heron]

I see set player color is being called somewhere , but don't know what that's got to do with the widget unless you showed what the func do

[trim matrix]

i added breakpoints in the widget, nothing happened

[lunar sleet]

Is it one border for all buttons?

[frosty heron]

K so you never call the functiob

Show where you call the function that you break point

[lunar sleet]

Move the breakpoint further up to the line until you find the part that does fire. In this case I would put it on ChangeColor to start

[trim matrix]

i had them further nothing broke

[frosty heron]

So where do you call change color? Show

[lunar sleet]

At the top

[trim matrix]

ive sent all the screenshots i have lol scroll up

[lunar sleet]

Using those on value changed binds

[dawn gazelle]

Put the breakpoints on these points - add a print string on to cast failed to have something to attach the breakpoint to.

[lunar sleet]

She said ChangeColor never breaks afaik

[trim matrix]

nothing i tried broke

[lunar sleet]

If that’s true then neither of the onvalue changed binds are firing

[frosty heron]

Did you move the sliders?

Change color is called when a slider is moved

Based on your code

[trim matrix]

i move the sliders and all it does is print that the cast failed

nothing broke tho

[marsh pilot]

What causes the "Object Name In Table" to be included here? I'm trying to replicate this in another project

[lunar sleet]

Wait it does print?

[frosty heron]

Huh? Where is the print?

You got no print on your code above

[trim matrix]

it prints off the failed

[lunar sleet]

Did you add one after the screenshots?

[frosty heron]

R u looking at different blueprint?

[trim matrix]

its in the screenshot i sent..... just pulled away from the other nodes, bc here u said add a print

[lunar sleet]

Ok, so your print works but your breakpoint never stops execution ?

[trim matrix]

yea

[frosty heron]

Show latest screen shoot with the break point and print string

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, try this out.... Drag off from the "Get Player Character 0" and plug it into the in string and tell us what prints.

[lunar sleet]

On a side note, if your breakpoints aren’t firing but the print is, save everything, restart Unreal

[trim matrix]

nothing when i do this

[frosty heron]

Datura already explained to you what casting does and under what condition it will fail.

[trim matrix]

and i already showed that thats not my issue afaik

[lunar sleet]

So player character is None

[dawn gazelle]

Were you getting "dsfsdffsdf" before?

[trim matrix]

the player is set to be third person character tho

[frosty heron]

Well that's the issue if it print none

[trim matrix]

since i added it yea

[frosty heron]

Player character is null at the time of accessing

[dawn gazelle]

Yea I'd restart too at this point.

[lunar sleet]

Null will print nothing btw

[trim matrix]

i did already lol 😭

why is my player null then 💀

[dawn gazelle]

Ok... Are you actually possessing a character at the time you're doing this customization?

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/that's-the-question-roger-white-a-man-in-full-that's-what-we're-trying-to-find-out-aml-ameen-gif-16696240231953587701

[trim matrix]

im using my player character

[dawn gazelle]

Are you certain that a character is spawned and is possessed by the player?

[trim matrix]

ok i completely restarted my pc, now its breaking at

[lunar sleet]

Ah we’re back in action!

[trim matrix]

unreal just being dumb and me not being much smarter isnt helping 😭

[dawn gazelle]

That's good.

[lunar sleet]

UE be doing that sometimes

Still need to figure out why player char is nullptr tho

[dawn gazelle]

Up near where the play button is, you should be able to click the green button and it'll jump to the next breakpoint.

[trim matrix]

the cast and set player color also break when i move through to the next node

[dawn gazelle]

Ok perfect 😄

So then the widget is working as expected.

Did the color change on your character?

[trim matrix]

no, it broke

[dawn gazelle]

It hit a breakpoint you mean, yes?

[trim matrix]

yea

[dawn gazelle]

resume.

the rest of the code should continue executing.

[trim matrix]

it loops back

[dawn gazelle]

remove teh breakpoints (select the nodes and hit F9)

an then resume

[trim matrix]

from all the nodes? or just the other 2

[dawn gazelle]

All

We've determined the widget is working now, your character is being retrieved and the set player color node is being called on the character.

[trim matrix]

the sliders move, the color dosnt change

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so now if you double click on the "set player color" node, you can breakpoint some parts within there, see where it stops.

[trim matrix]

hit one as soon as i hit play

[zinc jasper]

I wasn't here, but Kira's entire problem earlier was that from a widget they couldn't access "Get player character", it just returned nothing

so together we tried making a "middleman" sort of function in their gameInstance, but even in that function the "Get player character" couldn't be accessed. Even though they say they use it elsewhere in the logic and it works fine

and I have no clue why you wouldn't be able to access Player character from the game instance

[lunar sleet]

Well, restarting pc seemed to fix it

[zinc jasper]

wait it works now?

[lunar sleet]

Yeah

[trim matrix]

no 💀

[lunar sleet]

It stopped returning null after restart

[trim matrix]

some of it yea

[lunar sleet]

The player char works

[zinc jasper]

oh

so just do the thing we did earlier Kira

put the player character cast at the end of the widget logic

and call that function with that final color input

[trim matrix]

its still how we had it, but it isnt working

hitting a breakpoint in the function

[zinc jasper]

and what's the issue with that? You set up the breakpoint

just remove it

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so this at least confirms that the set player color node is indeed being called on your character. Your cast is no longer failing. Now you'll need to determine at what point things stop working. What does the rest of the Set Player Color function look like?

[zinc jasper]

I feel like this should work now

just remove the breakpoint

[trim matrix]

unrelated, all my ui is on screen now 😭 ig ill fix that later

[trim matrix]

nope, player is still black

[zinc jasper]

when youre moving the sliders?

and did you remove that one node where youre setting the character black?

[trim matrix]

no cahnge when i move the slider, when i then load into the game the player is all black

[lunar sleet]

Btw, idk what exactly that Milo Color variable is, but you usually need to do something else to change mat colors

[zinc jasper]

we did that already though

the function looks solid

[lunar sleet]

Did what

[zinc jasper]

the function

to change the material params

[lunar sleet]

I didn’t see the whole function

[trim matrix]

lol its not working 💀

[zinc jasper]

I feel like it's gonna be something stupid like you forgot the color set to black on event tick or something

[lunar sleet]

That doesn’t look right to me

[zinc jasper]

why?

I do this all the time and it works fine

[lunar sleet]

I mean I don’t do it that way. 😅

[trim matrix]

i have no idea 😭

[zinc jasper]

let's do a little test

disconnect that orange line on parameter value

right click the parameter value and split it

[lunar sleet]

Converting 2D texture to a vector 3D or what is that doing exactly

[zinc jasper]

and write in all 1s

then run the game, move a slider and see if the character is white

[zinc jasper]

it's a linear color

[lunar sleet]

Ah

[dawn gazelle]

Nah its a LinearColor to a Vector materials use vectors for the params.

[trim matrix]

nothing changed

[lunar sleet]

10 bucks says param name issue

[zinc jasper]

youre saying its black

where are you setting it to black?

[trim matrix]

yea

[trim matrix]

its not we checked already

[lunar sleet]

Should’ve taken that action then 😀

[zinc jasper]

wherever you're running the function with the black input

get rid of that

[lunar sleet]

Yeah good question. Could be getting overridden

[trim matrix]

i did

[zinc jasper]

idk anymore

are you connecting the correct mesh to the parameter node?

[lunar sleet]

What color would 1,1,1 return

[zinc jasper]

it's gonna be something really stupid that we can't see

[zinc jasper]

white

[trim matrix]

yea

player only has one mesh

[lunar sleet]

Ok

Do this

Breakpoint on that set param node

When it drops, hover over the mesh pin

It’s a long shot tho

[zinc jasper]

and over the orange parameter value

[lunar sleet]

But also pls share latest screenshot

[lunar sleet]

aye if it’s not disconnected now

[zinc jasper]

yeah connect it back as it was

[trim matrix]

what am i looking for lol, it hit it when i moved the slider

[zinc jasper]

well, that's good

[lunar sleet]

Hover the pins and read the values

One last thing

[trim matrix]

which ones 😭

[zinc jasper]

we told you

the mesh and the param value

light blue and orange

[trim matrix]

i looked at them lol

[zinc jasper]

and?

[lunar sleet]

Are you absolutely certain the character’s material is set to your MaterialInstance and not the regular Material or something else

[trim matrix]

what am i looking for 😭

[trim matrix]

yes

[lunar sleet]

Type the words/values you see there in this chat 😀

[zinc jasper]

the values

like this

[zinc jasper]

mm this is very tense

oh a video

hm those look fine

but uh

now that I've seen this, I have a different question

that mouse on that video - is that THE actual player character?

[trim matrix]

no

[zinc jasper]

did you just drag an animation there

[trim matrix]

its an animation the player has

[zinc jasper]

🤦‍♂️

well

here's your issue lmao

[trim matrix]

im not talking ab that

when i load a level is still messed up

[zinc jasper]

because youre not setting the color on beginplay on the character after the level loads

you're just changing a variable in a different level but then not passing it to the character when it actually starts to exist

[trim matrix]

i had a node for that, but u said to delete it 😭

[zinc jasper]

but you had BLACK as input there

you need to have the variable there as input

the one that you've been setting through the widget this entire time

[trim matrix]

but the variable is in the widget how am i doing that, casting?

[zinc jasper]

i didn't realize you're trying to do this in a completely different level without the character even existing

[trim matrix]

the character is in that level tho

theyr off screen

[zinc jasper]

oh

okay

but you're trying to pass variables between levels

use gameInstance for this

[lunar sleet]

I like the mouse

[zinc jasper]

make a "PlayerColor" linear color variable in your GameInstance

in the widget, when moving the sliders, change this variable instead

then on BeginPlay of your player character, run that function and plug in the variable from the gameInstance

because GameInstance doesn't get reset when changing levels

[trim matrix]

cast to get game instance then?

[zinc jasper]

yes

[zinc jasper]

nvm yeah this is fine

if its on beginplay of the character

[trim matrix]

yea

[zinc jasper]

now you need to set that PlayerColor variable (the one from GameInstance) at the end of that slider widget logic

[lunar sleet]

Btw @zinc jasper I use create dynamic mat instance myself

[trim matrix]

here?

[zinc jasper]

yeah but that's an extra step you don't always need

this is just a single node and it works on everything that has a mat instance applied on it

I also used to use what you said but I migrated to this, it's way easier :D

[dawn gazelle]

Yea, not always necessary - only really need to if you're using a material across multiple meshes and want them to be different.

[zinc jasper]

no need to create a dynamic instance when it's already created basically

[lunar sleet]

Good to know

[zinc jasper]

no

[lunar sleet]

I only used those param nodes for Niagara so far

[zinc jasper]

here

replace the whole end after the set brush tint color with a cast to game instance and set that variable

to the Final Color value

[trim matrix]

this?

[zinc jasper]

yeah but actually connect the node :D

[trim matrix]

shit yea

[zinc jasper]

now this is not gonna change the color of the animated character in the menu, but try to change the sliders around, and then play the actual game with the character

see if the color updated

[trim matrix]

yea its updating now

[zinc jasper]

yay

🥳

and to change the menu character, you have to get a reference to its mesh

then you can run the same material parameter change thing on it and change its color as well

[trim matrix]

ty for helping glad its finally cooperating 😭

[trim matrix]

lemme try

[frosty heron]

Damn took 2 hours

[zinc jasper]

see the entire problem was that you were doing the setups in one level and expecting the result in another level, and we didn't have this information

so we could've just been guessing forever

that's why exact information when getting help is crucial

the video helped in the end

[trim matrix]

apologies i thought it was a given 😭 mb

[wispy kayak]

How to set the other button green while previous is still green?

[zinc jasper]

seems like when you're pressing any of those buttons, you're checking if any of them is green, and if it is, just make them red, making you click twice, yes?

[zinc jasper]

why so small

but I mean just set the button green after that check anyway

that's all

not sure where the issue would be

[trim matrix]

ok i cant figure this part out lol, its using the same mesh as the player character

[zinc jasper]

get a reference to it

and just apply the same logic to it

at the end of the slider widget logic

that's all

[trim matrix]

but if its using the same mesh how do i get a second reference

[zinc jasper]

huh

not sure what these two things have in common

[trim matrix]

the animation in the menu is just an animation for the player, they share the same mesh

[zinc jasper]

so?

[trim matrix]

how do i get a different reference for the animation than the player

[zinc jasper]

um

it's a completely different object

how would you NOT get a different reference?

[trim matrix]

idk 😭

[zinc jasper]

forget about the mesh and the player character

find out how to get a reference to that animation mesh

[trim matrix]

how am i getting a reference to the animation?

[zinc jasper]

the one you placed in your menu level

[zinc jasper]

that's the correct question

is it an actor?

or did you just drag an animation into the level

[trim matrix]

just dragged it in

[zinc jasper]

okay maybe make it into an actual BP actor

have the animated mesh as a component there

[trim matrix]

ok

[zinc jasper]

although... why not just use the player character itself

you can have it play animations

[trim matrix]

idk, i only had it there as a placeholder 😭

didnt get that far yet

[zinc jasper]

if you use the player character itself, then you don't have to worry about getting a reference to some random dragged in animation asset

and you can just reuse the function you already made

the one that sets the player color

[lunar sleet]

Like most problems we encounter lol

[zinc jasper]

this would be a 10 min job if we knew they were changing levels between the functions 😄

[lunar sleet]

Yeah but the first 110mins is usually spent identifying the root cause 😆

[wispy kayak]

But my bool keep set to false, I want the bool keep true whenever I click the other red button. So it only set false if I click the green button again.

[zinc jasper]

why not just set all to red first when any of them is clicked, and then set the one you clicked to green immediately after?

that seems easier to me than using a loop for this :D

it's basically what I'm doing here lol

to switch between three widget cards with different settings

[frosty heron]

I would totally make a generic button widget that store its state internally

That way you don't need soo much copy paste for every button

[zinc jasper]

I mean I only have 3 and this menu is still a very much work in progress, very early state

[frosty heron]

I have a lot of buttons that can be toggle on and off

[zinc jasper]

but my point was that just setting all to off and then immediately the one you just clicked to on is probably easier than looping or whatever

[frosty heron]

To set everything off, I just get all the button in the child, loop thru them and turn it off

[zinc jasper]

you could just get the container where they're in and get all children

[frosty heron]

Yea container

[zinc jasper]

yeah :D

exactly

but you don't need a complicated loop checking every single one if it's supposed to be on or off

[frosty heron]

If the menu is simple then maybe not necessary to make a generic widget

But my rpg will have toggleable buttons everywhre

In the inventory, in the menu, in the settings

[zinc jasper]

yeah, shouldn't be hard to just put all that are mutually exlusive into their own containers (or array variables perhaps)

and then just turn all of them at the same time, then turn one back on

[odd kiln]

Anyone knows how can I get the angle between my Actor Forward Vector and the "0,0,0" location on the map ?

I mean if I'm parallel to the "0,0,0" it should return "0" but if I'm upward it should return "30" for example

[zinc jasper]

which angle?

not sure I understand that

can you draw it?

[odd kiln]

The "Y" angle (pitch)

[zinc jasper]

why "actor forward vector" though?

do you mean just the angle ABC, where A = actor location, B = 0,0,0 world, and C = actor location projected on Z=0 world?

[wispy kayak]

It works but, when I want to click the green button again it wont come red

[odd kiln]

Yes

[zinc jasper]

that has nothing to do with actor forward vector though

that's what confused me

[zinc jasper]

then before the logic, do a check if you press a button - if it's already green, just turn it red, and do nothing else

if it's red when clicked, just run the existing logic you already have now

[odd kiln]

I will explain better : I'm trying to "force" the World Rotation of my Actor to "50" with the use of "Rotator from Axis and Angle" and "Set Actor Rotation" nodes.

The problem is : If my Actor is upward a little bit, it never reaches the "50" degrees angle that I want.

[zinc jasper]

what's the use case for this?

I'm just trying to understand the goal

[odd kiln]

And if I set "50" in the "Y (Pitch)" value of the "Set Actor Rotation" node, my Actor is rotating on X and Y

The goal is : When I press "A", I want my Actor to rotate downward until 50 degrees

In the Y axis

[zinc jasper]

oh I think I understand

can't you utilize relative location of a component of that actor somehow?

[odd kiln]

I don't understand why my Actor is rotating on Pitch and Roll at the same time when I set "50" on the "Set Actor Rotation" node on "Y"

I guess I can

[zinc jasper]

I actually had a problem similar to this.. I think.. if I understand correctly. Imagine you have a tall stick standing vertically and you nudge that stick at its top to any direction. Now the stick is tilted into some direction, and you want to calculate the stick to continue falling down into the same direction

I kept having issues with it rotating weirdly on other axes as well

so I just postponed the issue 😄

[odd kiln]

So I'm not the only one with that weird behavior lol

And to "resolve" this issue, I had to use the "Rotation from Axis and Angle" node and use the "Actor Right Vector"

But I need to set an "Angle" in that node, so.. I need to calculate my Angle before doing this operation

So I can change the value on the "Rotation from Axis and Angle" node

[zinc jasper]

this vector math is not intuitive for me so it's a bit hard for me. But maybe a little dirty workaround could be making a SceneComponent in the actor, then rotating the scene component to face where you want, then parenting the rest of the actor components to it and then just tilt forward with relative rotation

[odd kiln]

Based on that previous angle

But I need my Capsule Component to be the root of this Actor..

So I can't add a Scene Component in my Blueprint and parent the rest to it

[zinc jasper]

aaah it's a character

[odd kiln]

Yes sorry

[zinc jasper]

what exactly are you trying to tilt on pitch though?

cause I don't think you can do that to a player character with a capsule

[odd kiln]

I'm just trying to make something simple :

When I press "E" my character should rotate upward on the Y Axis with a maximum of 50 degrees.

And when I release "E" it should rotate downward on the Y Axis as well with a maximum of -50 degrees

(World rotation)

[zinc jasper]

by rotate upward, you mean the entire capsule should tilt/pitch up?

[odd kiln]

Yes exactly

[zinc jasper]

and you're using the default player character with the default capsule?

[odd kiln]

Yes

[zinc jasper]

afaik that's impossible

you can only tilt the camera inside the capsule on pitch

[odd kiln]

How ? It seems to be a simple rotation that I want

[zinc jasper]

because the default player character is a pre-coded thing that has its limitations

one of them being you can't change the pitch of the capsule

you can change the pitch of the camera but not the capsule

that's basically hard-coded

you'd have to use a custom player pawn for this

or you can tilt the character model/mesh inside the capsule if you want, but not the capsule itself

[odd kiln]

So that's why when I'm trying to change the Pitch to 50 it rotates with the Roll too, right ?

[zinc jasper]

idk

[odd kiln]

So the Player Class is meant to be rotated on the Z axis only ?

[zinc jasper]

capsule should only be rotated in yaw

anything else might give weird results or not work

[odd kiln]

I don't understand the logic behind this but well..

Thanks ! I will try to find another way !

[zinc jasper]

you can open the c++ code of the premade player character movement

if you wan't to understand it

:D

it's just how it works

[odd kiln]

I just don't understand why they did this

[zinc jasper]

if you need some special/extended functionality, you have to make your own or edit the code of this one

because of just how it works and calculates stuff and interacts with the world and physics

[odd kiln]

Ok I guess I should go for it

[zinc jasper]

it's what they decided

🤷‍♂️

you can rotate the camera and the mesh inside the player character

just not the capsule

(except on Z)

[odd kiln]

Yes but if I rotate the Mesh and not the whole Actor, my "Forward Actor" will not change

I will think about it.. thank you very much for the explanation !

[zinc jasper]

i mean with this default player character you shouldn't even be rotating the actor at all

since its using different nodes for input

[odd kiln]

But I wanted to use the Character class to use the "Character Movement" component

For fly; walk; swim etc..

To make it easier to use

[zinc jasper]

well, yeah, that's fine

but you have to obey the limitations

and use the proper nodes for it

[odd kiln]

Hmmm ok.. I understand

I will try to find a workaround for this rotation case with this setup

Or maybe I can use the "Add Local Rotation" node ?

[zinc jasper]

what are you trying to do though?

like I said you can't do that to a capsule

only to a camera or mesh

[odd kiln]

I already made it for the X and Z axis. Only the Y is giving me problems x)

I'm trying to make an airplane

[zinc jasper]

okay nvm I guess I'm stupid

but I think this is not gonna behave like it should lmao

[odd kiln]

Yes the only problem with the Y axis is that it makes the X axis rotating with it

[frosty heron]

Could be gimbal lock

Not that I fully understand the concept

[zinc jasper]

I think that even if you somehow figured this out, it's not gonna behave nicely

I don't think the capsule is meant to do that

[odd kiln]

It sounds like Gimbal Lock

[frosty heron]

The quaternions is your solution

[odd kiln]

So why it works with the X axis. It shouldn't work.. it should work only with the Z axis if I understand correctly

[odd kiln]

I will investigate on that. Thanks !

[frosty heron]

If you ask in #game-math they probably have idea.

[odd kiln]

Ok thank you !

[stiff dock]

I'm trying to make a repair system that costs more based on the durability left on the item. The clsoest I can get is going in the wrong direction. I have it as (durability/maxD)*itemPrice which gets me the exact numbers I want, just backwards, Is there a way to get it to go the right way in a simple format like that, or do I need to deep dive into math again for this? Kinda just looking for some advice and tips

I've already done ([maxD/durability]-1)*itemPrice which got it in the right direction until the item hit 50% durability, then it capped out with the clamp I have set

[dawn gazelle]

(1 - (durability/maxD)) * itemPrice
If you have an item that is worth 100G, and item max durability is 100, with durability at 100, the repair price would be 0G. (1 - (1)) * 100 = 0.
If that same item was at 50 durability, then the price would be 50G. (1 - (0.5)) * 100 = 50.
If that same item was at 25 durability, then the price would be 75G. (1 - (0.25)) * 100 = 75.

[stiff dock]

Thanks a ton for that. I've been racking my head on how to do this and all I could think of it wanting to flip the percentage somehow. You saved me a migrane

[dawn gazelle]

You were close 🙂

[summer sail]

Hello guys. How would you implement a dodge skill? I just want the character to move sideways.
I've successfully made it by changing the velocity in the character movement component, but the friction from the character movement makes it slide just a bit and stop.
On a reasonable velocity it barely moves, on an absurd value the movement works but if the character happens to be slightly off the ground it gets yeeted into space, so its not reliable.
Thoughts?

[frosty heron]

How about using root motion with montage?

[idle vigil]

while browsing the unreal forums i came across this struct bug

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/structure-variables-get-corrupted/390034

is it still a thing in 5.3 or is it fixed?

[frosty heron]

Been around for forever

Not gonna get fixed

[idle vigil]

first time im hearing of this as a newbie

[frosty heron]

To be precise bp struct

Struct declared in cpp is fine

[idle vigil]

whats the best way to not fall victim to this? other than version control obviously

[frosty heron]

Declare the struct in cpp

There are many errors associated with bp struct, some of them even corrupt silently

Tldr avoid bp struct

[idle vigil]

yeah this is scary stuff lol

[frosty heron]

And consider your self lucky for finding the bug earlier

[idle vigil]

haha yeah

[idle vigil]

so do you personally use structs declared in cpp or some other data type that can do the same job as a struct? I was using structs for my card game where i held the card info: enum of card name and an integer for card strength

[summer sail]

I've never used those. I'll look into that, thank you so much for your reply!

[frosty heron]

I used struct declared in cpp. You don't even know programming, you can make a bp struct for template. On the bp srruct asset, right click and click preview header.

Create a file in your source folder, paste the code.

Compile. Done

[idle vigil]

ok thanks

[ocean crow]

Hey all, does anyone know what causes this error? If I switch the class of the Spawn Actor from Class node to Actor, then back to the actual class I'm trying to spawn, it works for that editor session. The moment I reopen it, same error as in the screenshot.

I've tried refreshing nodes, refreshing all blueprints, compiling from source, deleting and replacing the node, deleting and replacing the function. Not a clue why the node errors.

[lunar sleet]

it's probably one of the variables you exposed on that actor

could also be bp corruption if you've got Hot Reload enabled

[light glen]

hello, is it possible to convert a struct to json in blueprint?

[lunar sleet]

I think there’s some plugins

[wispy kayak]

Hi, So I have 1 Event dispatcher from button 1. But what If I want other 3 buttons have the same event as button 1. Do I need to make manually again so I have 3 event and connect it to the first one? Or there is other way to do it?

[frosty heron]

@wispy kayak event dispatcher is a multicast delegate. Meaning it can be binded to multiple objects.

When the event gets broadcasted it will fire on everything that listen to it.

You don't need to make multiple events as long they have matching signature.

You just need to bind it

[dry sleet]

Yes! A plugin called JSONTools or something like it is built-in.

It can be fed arbitrary struct and read it back, I'm pretty sure.

(you just have to activate the plugin)

Works like this

And then readback

[inner mural]

Hi! I'm making a Wave-Editor, for this I'm using an editor utility blueprint's Slider to spawn and delete BP's in the level
I really liked how in this older example of the code you could see the BPs spawn and despawn as you scrolled through each wave
But that broke
It's still spawning and despawning the BPs as you scroll through the Waves, but now it only visually updates the level after you finish scrolling to a specific wave
Here's a video of the old version:

But here's how it looks now:

I didn't catch it when it stopped updating while you were scrolling through it, so I don't know if any of my code adjustments caused it.

But does anyone know what has any suggestions for what could fix this? Any help is deeply appreciated!
(Whoops sorry for flooding the channel! Thought the video's would be useful in illustrating the issue but they really take up a lot of space 😅 )

[wispy kayak]

Hi, so I have problem when I reopen the menu again and clear the children, the button switch opacity not working but the rest code is working fine. If I dont clear the children the new child button for switch opacity is working but the old one child is not working.

[frosty heron]

that's because what ever responsible to trigger them only use the reference to the new instance

what you want to do here, is when you clear the children you need to make sure to set the state as it was before the children get populated

go through the references too

[mortal palm]

I'm doing a line trace on a custom actor of mine but it is failing, even though I see visually the debug line going through my actor. The actor has a scene component C1, C1 has a child scene component C2, and C2 has a child dynamic mesh component C3. C3 is where the trace should happen, and C3 has collision enabled, complex as simple, BlockAll preset. In the BP, I've tried with and without Trace Complex, with and without Ignore Self (this BP is not the actor that I want to hit anyway)

[neat mason]

did you check the collision in the object viewer or in the level? Are you sure C3 has collision data?

if it doesn't have collision, you can add it in the static mesh view

[mortal palm]

it's a dynamic mesh not a static mesh, and it doesn't have simple collision data (if I add it it works), but my goal is to trace against the mesh triangles (complex collision)

[mortal palm]

Same code/mesh works (line trace hits) on 5.4 but fails on 5.5

[worthy raptor]

I am developing a multiplayer game the idea of the game is that there are players and random npcs and when the player touches the NPCs they changes their material color and follow the player around and if two players came in contact the player with highest number of NPCs absorbs the other player NPCs and the NPCs follow that player.
Now what I want is to apply the logic when two players collide the NPCs change their material to the player with the highest number of NPC and follow that player. I've tried many options but the NPCs just end up running the wrong direction, doesn't change their material or they don't follow the player.

[frosty heron]

Don't use Multicast for stateful entities
AI is Server Only

Get to change the color of a cube and sync with all players first for a start.

[worthy raptor]

I already did that the NPCs change color when they collide with player

[frosty heron]

your code shows a lack of multiplayer basic

Setting the material can be done via OnRep variable

Multicast have no place here

also the collision happend in every instance of the game, you should only care when the collision happend in Server

so need Switch has Authority on the collision

make no sense for every players (server and client) to tell the AI to move

again, AI is server Only. make sure that code only runs in server

[worthy raptor]

ok thanks i don't fully understand this is my first multiplayer game but i will try to apply what you said

[frosty heron]

I would suggest to read the pinned material in #multiplayer

If Collision Happend (On Server) -> Server Set Material (Replicated variable) -> Tell AI to move
Client On Rep Material -> Set Component Material to Material

[worthy raptor]

Ok thanks

[violet bison]

how to exclude a bone of skeletal mesh from overlap event?

[violet bison]

or set the collision preset for a specific bone

[lime oar]

my door still is not open and this is the code

[nimble maple]

Try visualising the line trace

See if that correctly casts

[lime oar]

i am novice i only followed the tutorial

[nimble maple]

Your first problem is the actor has tag is not connected into a branch. The second issue is your branch after the line trace is not connected into return value so it will always do the same thing.

[thin panther]

That's not what is causing the issue though

the branch is odd, but it will always execute

[nimble maple]

Yeah, what I meant.

I’m not sure if the get actor forward vector is the issue

Hence the request to see the line trace

[thin panther]

check #ue5-general

also, @lime oar, please don't crosspost your problem into multiple channels

[lime oar]

ok

[thin panther]

and yes, as Leonhardmaster points out, the second issue is your line trace is not set up correctly.

[lime oar]

i tried to fix but i don´t know if it´s correct

[thin panther]

you want to be getting the forward vector (of the follow camera)

[thin panther]

if that second point is at 1, it's good

[lime oar]

and i want to make a popup with a message of "Interact"

but i couldn´t find the interaction interface message

[nimble maple]

Print string is the thing you’re looking for

@lime oar

[lime oar]

where i connect this new branch?

the new branch is connected in actor with tag

is this correct?

what should i do now?

@thin panther

[thin panther]

You're trying to check a tag when the hit hasn't been successful

The first branch should be checking the boolean on the line trace

[lime oar]

like this?

@thin panther

[thin panther]

You still need to keep the hit actor plugged into the cast

[tawny condor]

Great beginner/intermediate tutorial explaining how to Line Trace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBhgzQ7hStA&ab_channel=UnrealDevHub

[lime oar]

like this?

the door still it´s not open

the door doesn´t open for nothing

@thin panther

[thin panther]

You're gonna need to show all of the code

[thin panther]

You still havent fixed the other issue, that being the line trace

You need to get the forward vector of the camera

[lime oar]

where do i connect the forward vector?

[thin panther]

I reccomend watching Michael Pattison's series on UE5 interaction. It's a lot more comprehensive than other's

[ebon olive]

Unreal being really weird, i never even do any modification that's related to VR and then suddenly i got this error. wtf? This is so random. Can i just delete this? will it affect anything going forward?

Now i cant move diagonal. This is so random

It was ok everything prior and then suddnely its like this?

[proud salmon]

Are there any tools/plugins that make debugging blueprints better? It's really annoying how often you get this when there are very obviously the information available.

[steep oyster]

Is there a good way to make fast mesh booleans at runtime? I'm trying to do it for multiplayer. Basically, I want to replicate the destruction physics of DRG, which are definitely not voxels because they would have to be insanely small. It's procedural mesh generation.

[dark drum]

This my series ACuppaTea was referring too. It goes over how to create a more scalable interaction system. It won't be perfect for every scenario but can be a great start. Once you've completed it, I even have a series where I show how to make different type of doors.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcwVLBaUNnHra8G8ZBUkzPNu7qDM9OmZe&si=I9S_YHO99-PHt1Y1

[lunar sleet]

I think people have done that with geometry scripting. I def wouldn’t do it in bp for a multiplayer game tho

[dark drum]

You can use a custom collision channel that's set to block by default. You can then just turn it off for door so they won't stop the trace.

[lime oar]

i need thess interact interface but it´s not showing in my blueprint

[dark drum]

That normally means it's out of scope and hasn't been calculated. Calculations are dumped when the tick ends so unless it's a value stored in a variable that persists there won't be anything to display.

[lime oar]

i am watching one of your videos right now

[dark drum]

Sorry, i meant to say custom collision channel that the line trace can use. (like the ones used for visibility and camera)

[lime oar]

@dark drum i am not finding these interfaces

[dark drum]

I guess you could but it would probally be more effort than it's worth. It's quicker to just make a new one in the project settings, set it to block by default and then on mesh you don't want it to block (as in not be an obstacle for the line trace) set it to ignore)

[dark drum]

You need to first follow the interaction system tutorial. The system used to interact with the doors is setup in those.

[lime oar]

ok

[steep oyster]

I have done that in single-player and it's still horrendous

[lunar sleet]

In terms of perf or what? And I’d do that in cpp anyways

That stuff is intensive af, you want it to be as fast as it can

[steep oyster]

Performance wise

It's quite easy to make, also with collision, but the performance is still bad

[lunar sleet]

Yeah, messing with geometry at runtime like that is expensive either way. Best you can do is optimize it and make it fast (via cpp)

[steep oyster]

Still geometry script or procedural mesh component?

[lunar sleet]

Geo script. Idk about proc mesh comp for this, haven’t tried it or heard of it being used that way

[steep oyster]

But GeoScript, even in C++, still isn't fast enough for multiplayer?

[lunar sleet]

When you create a custom channel it’ll ask you what you want it to do by default so you might not need to manually update each

[lunar sleet]

Eh… it could be but that’s something you should ask in #multiplayer . Replication and everything else comes into play

[steep oyster]

How is it in your project? Does it work well or when does it start to lag?

[lunar sleet]

I haven’t done it myself, only saw people talking about it at one point or another

[ocean current]

can anyone help me with this issue. im using the third person template on the unskinned one and have it so when i grab the ledge the character turns to the lege and grabs it. but id like to use the first person template camera like on the skinned version but when the character turns to the ledge the camera dont rotate that direction with the character. im pretty new at all this and any help would be amazing

[lunar sleet]

Look for use controller rotation settings on the character’s details panel. There should be one for the pawn (camera).

[proud salmon]

This is during a breakpoint though.

For example, if you have a structure that is broken, and that structure contains an array, you put that array into a for each loop and pull "set" the variable coming out of the array.

The break will have "no debug data", the array will have "no debug data" and the variable will have "no debug data". The only place you can "see" the data is if you mouse over the actual structure.

If you do the same thing in C++, you can watch all of the values and they'll persist.

Unless I'm just insane, I haven't had coffee yet 😂

[ocean current]

Thats exactly what i needed am i able to toggle that on and off so when i grab the ledge it turns it off

[lunar sleet]

Yep

Just grab the camera from the left panel, drag into the graph, right click search for the setting

[ocean current]

sweet found it thanks wasted so much time trying to rotate the camera its self lol

[desert moss]

Hi everyone i'm using the fps template and I'm running into an issue where my bullets do not collide due to their spawning point being inside of the mesh that I wish to hit, is there a known fix for this problem? In the linked video you can see how the objects respond find untill I get too close, at that point the couch will no longer move around when being shot. https://streamable.com/1usywe?src=player-page-share

The bullet leaves from a socket at the end of the barrel to the center of the screen

[timid yoke]

Your gun is sticking inside the couch what do yo expect. You can make your capsule wider is one way to solve this as the gun is colliding too soon or make the bullet spawn point backwards.

[desert moss]

What do you mean with make the bullet spawn point backwards

[timid yoke]

Moving the socket backwards in the skeleton editor.. otherwise the better way is to increase player capsule radius because this will also solve for any other weapons and also fix the gun sticking inside the couch. This is because the capsule is too narrow for the gun.

[ocean current]

thank you

[desert moss]

The capsule is set as the root for the player so that makes everything else scale with it

[desert moss]

could you explain why this would work

[timid yoke]

The capsule radius shoudn't scale anything, this is a separate setting in the capsule component. Just increase that till the gun is not sticking in the couch.

[desert moss]

mb, forgot about it being a property

It's a bit wonkey bit it works so thanks

[final python]

does removing a widget clear it's dispatcher bindings? I would assume so, but idk, and I am rly hoping it does haha

[dark drum]

No, the binding are still bound unless explicitly unbound or the widget is destroyed. For a widget to be destoryed (garbage collected) it has to be in no slate container (remove it from it's parent) and not be referenced anywhere.

[final python]

yea with what I have setup it is completely gone. It's like a mini game thing, everything is contained in a game widget.

[dark drum]

Just be aware that garbage collection can vary in terms of when it runs. It could be every couple of seconds or after 10 minutes.

[final python]

its like this, and there is about to be a shit ton more lol, and end game removes the current game then this game. I mean yea I could just reparent all of them to a base class that has the dispatcher in it, but I have a significant amount of mini games

[prisma forum]

I'm having an issue with some functions I use to interpolate between values not being framerate independent. I wanted to avoid having a lot of logic rely on Event Tick, so I have many functions similar to the image attached that use SetTimerByFunction name to repeatedly call interpolation until the target value is reached (I use this for floats, transforms, rotation etc in many places in my game). I figured because the interp node uses GetWorldDeltaSeconds that this would be framerate independent, but it is not, leading to some gameplay problems at higher framerates. Can anybody explain why this isn't framerate independent, and what I could do to adjust these functions to make them independent? I'd still like to avoid moving all this logic into EventTick if possible.

[dark drum]

When you go to remove the widget, just call the 'Unbind All' on the relevant event dispatcher.

[dark drum]

Simply put it's because it's not running on tick. Instead of the timer by event, use timer by event for next tick.

Alternatively, you can cache delta time and keep adding it each tick until it gets uses by the function. This would need to be done on tick.

[final python]

oh yea lmao, I was thinking of needing the reference to the actual dispatcher in the bp lol, and reparenting everything was going to probably 100% break some stuff

[valid sluice]

Does anyone have any documentation or guides on how to make a preset slider for graphics settings and have it to be modular? Something like the picture:

I have a widget for the arrow that has the hover and click events in it and I use an event dispatcher for the onClick to call it somewhere else.

I have a widget for the slot itself which is just an image with a bottom anchored border, and the setting widget itself with a text block overlayed over it.

I want to make a system where I can set how many slots spawn, and use an array of sorts to set the text based what slot you are on. Is that feasable?

[prisma forum]

wow idk how I didn't think of using SetTimerForNextTick. Do you think it will be as simple as just replacing SetTimerByFunctionName with that node?

[dark drum]

Yea, it's technically still tick but when it's finished it's done. So it's like a temporary tick lol.

[prisma forum]

thank you so much for your help!

[kind estuary]

something that has been intriguing me.
Does a Static Mesh affects performance if it is not on Screen???
I know that HISM only if it is on screen
kinda noob question though.

[dark drum]

Yes, they can still affect performance but due to frustum culling it's not usually as much.

[kind estuary]

So its fine to have 200.000 static meshes in my game as long as only 10 are on screen?

[dark drum]

That would depend as they would still take up memory, just not processed by the GPU. Why would you have that many but only 10 shown?

[eager thicket]

what's the best way to smoothly move one static mesh to another (on tick)?

[thin panther]

use a vinterpto

[kind estuary]

in like a 2d game, you see stuff from the sky. so you dont see all the objects

so i was thinking if it is worth it to make it an HISM

because no more than like 50 will be seen anyways

[lunar sleet]

I mean a bird's-eye view usually means seeing quite a lot

[kind estuary]

yes but like 50 is still very few, right?

its a tile game too

[lunar sleet]

depends on mesh complexity but yeah

but pattym's question is still valid

better to spawn things as needed than just have them all sitting in memory

[kind estuary]

so you start a map and your camera from the top. enemies are cubes

you would load them as they are needed?

but they are moving around even though they are not on screen

[lunar sleet]

for stuff that doesn't need to move, I would just store their locations and spawn them as needed. For enemy AI, it's a bit different, I think level streaming is the way to go but realistically you need to build, test, optimize in that order

[lethal mountain]

Hello, anyone experienced in EQS, I'm having issues trying to get AI to see player at height. So I use a pathing grid, which generates around context. And in this context I want to return grid around querier, BUT at player's current height. Is that doable, or is there another way to approach this? Because as it is, if my AI is below player, it doesn't see it

[visual crest]

I really need some help. I am trying to make my crafting able to use any items in chest around the player. Find and calculating them is easy but for some reason removing them just dont work https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/i3idkyc1/ this is my blueprint

[kind estuary]

How do i multiply this Byte that comes from a color

i need to work on this color. darken it kind of

[dawn gazelle]

Convert byte to int, then multiply by float?

[kind estuary]

yeah just got it now

thanks

kinda messy though

so much spagetti for just simple oparation

[steady night]

is there a way to get " Game mode UI only "?

[thin panther]

What do you mean?

You can set the input mode as UI only

[lunar sleet]

I shudder to think why you have that screenshot ready 😄

[steady night]

lol i only ever saw the "game mode only/ game mode and ui only"

thanks x)

[thin panther]

i just googled it this minute lol

just copied the first image i saw that had only the node in focus

[steady night]

@thin panther hm that locks out keyboard inputs also, any way to allow those ?, or do i have to override in the specific widget for those ?

[thin panther]

it doesn't lock out keyboard inputs

it just means only widgets receive them

[steady night]

oh

[thin panther]

game and ui means ui takes precedence, but both receive, and game only means... game only :P

[severe tendon]

So, I made this linetrace system for my shooter, the problem is that it doesnt hit the actors for some reason

Any idea why?

[thin panther]

are those objects blocking the collision channel you're tracing against?

and do they have collision?

[severe tendon]

They have a collision yes

[steady night]

hmm i have input on my character "B" which shows the widget, but it runs the "B" event on the widget at the same time how come it recieves inputs before its visible ? (its colapsed by default)

[severe tendon]

I dont think so

How can i check that?

[thin panther]

look in the objects in the world. Make sure in their collision profile, they have visibility set to block

[ocean current]

so i have another issue where when i set the controller rotation Yaw to off it breaks my look up and down and i can no longer look up or down even if i set it back to true during game play like when i leave the ledge and toggle the Yaw rotation back on

[honest arch]

how do i add my own comment bubble like this?

[empty marten]

Hover over the node with the mouse button til the small ... appears at the top left of the node, click it and the comment box will appear.

[honest arch]

oooh. thanks!

thats rly tiny

lol

[empty marten]

Yeah it is and it doesn't appear straight away. Takes a second to appear.

[honest arch]

this is good to know. i hate having to make big comment boxes for a single node

thisll make it cleaner

[empty marten]

[raw wraith]

I have a component that I'm adding during the game to my character blueprint. Because players can reconnect (and lose all knowledge of components getting added to a character blueprint) I need to add them client side to my characters when they do have it, when a player logs in the server. Any guess on how I could make that happen?

[dawn gazelle]

This seems rather convoluted. I'd break it up into smaller pieces and functions. In my examples here, it's assuming that everything is using a common inventory component, and you'd just need to input an array of inventory components to search through.
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/s0qlpsif/
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/qgkrs_5n/
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/t5l_28mr/
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/e62484qo/

This is untested, but I'm fairly certain it would work.

[dawn gazelle]

What is this component for?

[raw wraith]

Basically it's a weapon

[visual crest]

Thank you Ill try it out