blueprint

[queen valley]

is this a button?

try adding the on mouse enter event and executing the Set User Focus node

[graceful holly]

is the mouse button, not the keyboard

[queen valley]

no I mean on UI, is it a button you are trying to click

[graceful holly]

no it's a canvas panel

[faint pasture]

because before the timeline plays, it's in a different place than at time 0 of the timeline. You are teleporting the elevator from where it started out life to where it should be at time 0 of the timeline.

[queen valley]

wouldn't hurt to make a button over it, would be a simple fix, but if you can't for some reason or don't want to try the mentioned above

[queen valley]

try this

[graceful holly]

didn't think about that, will try with a transparent image

[queen valley]

don't have to make a transparent image, just set the alpha to 0

[tropic token]

I think it can possibly work as well xD

[faint creek]

Hey man ok it works, but:
I'm using two actors: one elevator and one button to call the elevator.
If for example, after elevator's timeline go from A to B, and player fall it could able to recall the elevator using the button.
However, if the last timeline of the elevator go from A to B, and I need to call it from B to A(using the button), the elevator use the last position of the BP elevator and not the actual position, generating an instant teleport, sometimes on the wrong direction

[queen valley]

yes but if you want it to only fire once it is done, you have to add another input and plug the Finished into that input, and then plug that input into the completed, this will complete it even when it just updates

[queen valley]

yes, so set the current elevator position either at tick or when elevator finishes moving so you always have it

[faint pasture]

You want to play the timeline in reverse if the elevator is at the end state

[queen valley]

or you could do this yea

[faint creek]

the end state?

[tropic token]

hmmm, I can't debug macro? :/

[faint creek]

This is the elevator

This button script

[faint pasture]

Here's how your elevator should be set up:

ButtonPress -> is the elevator stopped? -> yes -> bElevatorIsStopped = false-> is the elevator at bottom? -> yes -> play forwards Update -> set elevator location
-> no -> play backwards Finished -> bElevatorIsStopped = true

[queen valley]

I think you can put print strings in it

[faint pasture]

get that nearly equal out of there

just check if its above or below the middle point or whatever

[queen valley]

I didn't know this node existed before he used it lol

[faint pasture]

have Finished be what "unlocks" the elevator to be activated again

do you want the elevator to be able to reverse while moving?

or once moving is it stuck moving until it finishes

[faint creek]

this yes

[faint pasture]

here you go, here's a dummy simple elevator

uses the LastDirection to choose what direction to go in when activated

[tropic token]

I'm not sure why. Something really strange is going on. My implementation calls update on timeline several times(while the delay node is working for Get Timeline length function output), then after delay it calls my completed event. All is good. But for some reason after that, it calls damn update on timeline again. Only once! xD

[faint creek]

Wow thx man
Can I also use the lerp?

[tropic token]

no matter what delay I put. I can even put 1 second, when timeline is only 0.1. it will still call update on timeline once again. Once! XD

[queen valley]

What you have to do is add two exec inputs to the macro, plug the Update into the first input, plug the Finished into the second, drag off of the first input, do your logic, drag off of the second input to completed, delay is not needed here

[tropic token]

but it should work with delay anyways, no? :/

[rapid helm]

yo lads i succeeded in doing something like this https://gyazo.com/b5a57deddb79d4d1cc5122f2456de57e.mp4

but there is a chance something like this might happen https://gyazo.com/6285b78162113a98c0c09dac7ce2109d.mp4

why?

[queen valley]

I don't know, try adding + float and some number like .5 to the timeline length, but the way I described is much better because thats what macros are for, they can have more exec pins, for example all loops are done in macros, you can double click on them and read the macros

[queen valley]

How about adding anti-aliasing next lol

[rapid helm]

hgheey d on't judge me 6 yr old pc 💔

[tropic token]

Oh, shit. I guess I'm just to stupid to understand what you mean for my usecase lol xD I will go and try to implement it though..

[queen valley]

I so wish I was able to run Unreal, but it is still compiling so I cannot really show you

[tropic token]

I will send you binaries xD

[queen valley]

best I can do is join a voice chat and explain it to you if you screen share

[tropic token]

wow, we can try to do it, if you have 5 mins xD i'm totally up to it

[queen valley]

you click on the "Inputs" node and under the inputs where you added Portal variable, you add a new exec pin

[queen valley]

sure, do you want to go in a private call or a voice chat here?

it's simple really, shouldn't take too much time to explain

[tropic token]

I sent you message in private

[rough seal]

how would you create a first person chaos motorcycle?

[faint creek]

I have the same issue

[faint creek]

This is the issue that I'm trying to fix
@faint pasture @queen valley @dark drum

[faint pasture]

That last one should work assuming A and B are correct

[faint creek]

yes perfectly

The problem is when I fuse BP elevator with BP button together

It seems Timeline go in conflict

[pine carbon]

Do repeated hit events override calls to Destroy for some reason?

<@&213101288538374145> Scammers.

(Sorry if there was someone else I'm supposed to ping.)

[weary bay]

https://tenor.com/view/bongocat-banhammer-ban-hammer-bongo-gif-18219363

[faint pasture]

Why are there multiple timelines

1 timeline

Button just tells elevator to go

[faint creek]

Because the are two actors:

• elevator (the last one)
• button( the first one, that cause the conflict)

[faint pasture]

you don't need 2 timelines

button just tells elevator to do its thing, that's it

[faint creek]

So I have to delite timeline in button?

[faint pasture]

What does the button timeline control?

[faint creek]

What I change here?

[faint pasture]

Which is button and which is elevator?

[faint creek]

This is elevator

This is the actor button that can call the elevator in case player is far from it

[faint pasture]

why does it have its own timeline

it should just tell the elevator to go

[faint creek]

How

?

[faint pasture]

add an event to the elevator that enteres the switch on direction and have button call that

button can just get actor of class elevator and call that event

that'd be the simplest

[faint creek]

So in the custom event I have to switch direction?

[faint creek]

Like this

Seems to work ahah

Two days

For figure out how to make this

[faint pasture]

The computer only ever does exactly what you tell it to do, nothing more, and nothing less

[faint creek]

Yeah its beautiful, its one year I'm studying UE

Thank you a lot man and everybody for help ;))

[trim matrix]

The problem I have got is, when I make a FPS viewmode, with character model, when I look down and upper place, The hands doesn't follow them. Is there any methods that I can implement?

[faint creek]

Also,I didn't know could possible to link custom event there ahah

[hardy ice]

Hey there, I have a problem regarding camera rotation.

Basically, I want my camera to follow my character's foot from a first-person perspective. I want the camera to follow the foot when it goes behind the player without flipping (which is what happens when I use FindLookAtRotation).

So far, I've got it working, as long as I don't rotate the character and the legs around, then it breaks.

I assume the problem is the VectorForward node, since it only works when the character isn't rotated in world space. However, I have no idea what to replace it with, and all my attempts so far have failed spectacularly, since I am not well-acquainted with Quaternions yet (I suck at math).

Any math wiz online who could help me out here?

Oh, and I've already tried Make Rot from XZ like this, but it exibits the same camera flipping behavior as Find Look At Rotation

[dreamy kindle]

Hi anyone know why my retarget isnt working by chance? thx

https://gyazo.com/02624105f2f1ceeb048c2dd6e34f0e46

its not letting me bake the Movement Set Pro anims to my custom Human Character to the right hmm

[hardy ice]

nvm, I figured smth out that works for me

[granite prawn]

Does anyone have a solution for editor slowing down from trying to show too many properties in details for a struct for example?
My current state is that i have an object, that has a TMap of other structs in it, but at a certain point its unbearable to edit because the editor lags even if im not looking at multiple values, and using EditConditions isn't doing anything to help even if i hide data in the structs

[granite prawn]

Editor Lag From Large DataSet

[knotty current]

um

if somones around helping with this would rlly help

please

im rlly struggling

[pallid ice]

is there a 'player start' in that level that might be overwriting your transform?

[knotty current]

lemme check

how do i change this or make it so that it doesnt override my transform

@pallid ice

i just deleted the player start

ugh, sadly deleting the player start did nothing

[modern cove]

What are good alternatives to While Loops? I tried to set one up such that the PLayer Character would walk from his starting location to an exact spot, but I got an Infinite Loop Error.

[pallid ice]

Did you use breakpoint to confirm, the transform is correct and the player you are trying to teleport is not null?

[knotty current]

no, i havent. how do i do that?

[pallid ice]

right click on the node and add breakpoint or press f9 when you have the node selected

compile afterwards

[knotty current]

what node should i do this for?

[faint pasture]

because you don't have a character to set the transform of
gamemode is what spawns your pawn and gives it to you, that's the thing that's dropping you at PlayerStart
either modify your gamemode to use the save system or otherwise get the moving to happen AFTER the pawn is created

you want to hook into the gamemode stuff so the dude is spawned at the correct transform to begin with, or do the teleport to saved location after spawning

GameMode is the boss

[knotty current]

But the transform happens after the level is opened

[knotty current]

I see

Ok, thanks

[faint pasture]

opening a level means everything gets nuked and you start from scratch with gamemode running the show

probably none of your code runs after the level opens, depending on what object is doing the open level call

it probably gets nuked along with the entire rest of the world

GameInstance survives but most other things don't

yeah from your code shown, the widget itself would die as soon as the level opens. Nothing after open level would run

You could move your code to GameInstance if you want that to be where you control things from

or just have GameMode default to loading the save at startup so you do the load and read every time a level opens

[knotty current]

sure, thank you

let me screenshot your response

very helpful

[faint pasture]

This is why it's usually best to have logic live somewhere and UI just kick it off

[knotty current]

once i get the save and load working, i can get to doing coop. which is gona be a pain in my ass

[knotty current]

youre right.

[faint pasture]

if the logic lived in GameInstance then it'd be no problem, the ui would just tell GameInstance to change the level and it can teleport the pawn, but you might get a frame at the StartSpot. I'd just make the gamemode know about the save system IMO.

ok we opened a level
we got a save spot? Yes -> use it
No -> use the player start

[knotty current]

wait, whats the "gamemode"

is that first person character?

or something else

[noble nymph]

Can anyone help debug my interact system

[pallid ice]

The gamemode is set in the project settings, you can make your custom one inheriting from this one.

You could indeed like Adriel sais, handle the save and load in your custom gamemode

[pallid ice]

Breakpoints + put the draw debug type on your sphere trace to something other then none

and print strings

[thin panther]

also just move that timer over to tick

a 0.01 second timer is pointless

[knotty current]

currently its set as first person i think

[noble nymph]

my thought behind it is it may be a little less taxing than a Event tick ?

[thin panther]

no

If anything it could be a little bit more. A timer is still ticking, it can't not.

The bonus with a timer is it's allowed to tick multiple times a frame in order to play catch up

[noble nymph]

So remove timer just run event tick

[pallid ice]

Technically if you can avoid traces every tick

but i would put it on 0.2 depends what you do

[pallid ice]

That is the default one from the first person project start isn't it?

[knotty current]

@pallid ice what exactly do i put in the game mode/game instance? should i make an event dispatch from my widget then recieve that dispatch from the game mode/game instance in order to begin the save loading

[knotty current]

yes

[pallid ice]

Have your widget call an event dispatcher indeed like 'OnPressLoad' and 'OnPressSave' or something and handle all the logic in the gamemode

wait forget that

your widget will have to call the gamemode functions

use this in your widget and cast to the gamemode you made and call the save and load from there

[knotty current]

ok thanks

[faint pasture]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/gameplay-framework-quick-reference-in-unreal-engine

get comfy with those

[knotty current]

Thanks

[jade shell]

Hey everyone, I'm working on a points and inventory system for my game, but I'm running into an issue. When I click on the first item and hit "Buy," everything works as expected, even if I click it multiple times. However, after selecting a second or different item, it ends up adding both the first and second items to the inventory and accumulating the points for both. I've been trying to pinpoint where the problem is, but I can't seem to figure it out.

[pine carbon]

Anyone have ANY thoughts on this? I'm not even sure how to approach debugging it at this point.

[cold lion]

Having some trouble with a progress bar, I can't seem to figure it out? It is supposed to work with a Timer Component on an NPC to indicate when time is up and drain respectively but the actor input returns as none?

[granite nacelle]

Heyyy, I'm using a controller and keyboard for my main menu navigation, but for some reason the hovered sound only plays when using the mouse how can I use it with a controller?

[copper mica]

Does reverting gravity and then doing destroy fix it?

[frosty heron]

Which ironically cost more performance by people who wants to avoid tick 🐈

[dusk forge]

how do i fix this?

if enemy dies i want to get characters targeting component and remove the enemy from the array right now cast failed is printing

[dawn gazelle]

What are you feeding into the Apply Damage node as the damage causer?

[dusk forge]

oh right now nothing

i didnt know it took input

thought it was automatic

thanks @dawn gazelle

[quartz iris]

Hello... wondering if any of your blueprint gurus can help me get this final issue I have resolved so I can actually build the game I'm trying to make. It seems to be a common problem but all the solutions I've tried just don't work for me. I'm trying to drive a boat (no water physics or buoyancy being used here, just sliding the boat around for now and that's all I need). I've been pounding my head against the wall for the last 2 weeks trying to get this to work and I'm about to just give up.
The problem:

• My boat (static mesh controlled by a Pawn BP) moves forward and backward using W and S and Add Force no problem.
• My boat rotates left and right using A and D no problem.
• When the boat rotates, the forward direction of travel doesn't rotate with it so I end up strafing sideways.
  I know the issue is related to the Pawn's direction not being updated correctly and that my rotation is probably only affecting the static mesh. I have a 99% feeling it's because I've done something realllllly basic and stupid but for the life of me cannot figure it out. :/

[copper mica]

Are you able to post the code of your boat?

[quartz iris]

sure... let me clean up the spaghetti noodles I have all over the place.. one sec.. (and thanks!!!)

1 and 2 are just variables that bump the amount of force/rotation

pretty sure "?" is where I'm screwing up

[copper mica]

Is your camera locked?

[quartz iris]

Not that I'm aware of:

[copper mica]

I used the 3rd person template character, set the capsule component to SimulatePhysics, then I replicated your nodes
When I would press forward it would go forward based on where my camera was pointed.

It was a bit scuffed on my end but you could try to see if it works.

[quartz iris]

Hmm.. will do. Thanks a bunch for looking into this! Greatly appreciated!

[celest lotus]

How can we detect splines at runtime? without using "GetAllActorsOfClass" or "GetActorOfClass" Node

[dark drum]

Spline components don't have collision so you would have to check if a given actor has the component. You can use the get component by class to help.

What is the end goal?

[pallid ice]

where is your 'ActorOnClicked' happening?
cause to me it seems like you are making a new binding on your buy button everytime you click which is causing to trigger this multiple times eventually for each time you clicked on the actor.
Simplest fix for this would be to unbind from the 'buy' button at the end of your 'onclick' that is bound to your 'buy' button.

[lucid stone]

Hello,

Could someone help me with this problem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnldSYSaFOE
I'd like to make the beginning of the wall where the first click is, and the end where the 2nd click is.

Thanks in advance

[celest lotus]

Im facing a similar situation here and in my scenario, Im spawning more than 1k actors containing single spline so like 1k road splines in the world and my objective is to detect the road that is overlapping with an actor that I spawned and I figured out a way but this only works in my specific case I want to know how to handle this kind of situations in a general way.

[crude dew]

Hi, Im having a moment and forgotten how to rotate Mesh Instances from a pivot point as you can see here I have 6 walls but each wall is rotating, I thought i had to parent the HISM Component to a Scene Root and then rotate the scene root to "pivot all the walls" but it seems to be affecting each instance of the wall, Any help please?

This is the blueprint im using

[pallid ice]

i would use a ' make rot from xz ' or yz and use the direction vector as your x or y and but make sure its normalized first

z can be your world up

[dark drum]

I don't have an answer I'm afraid. I would imagine its not an easy thing to do in BP. You'd most likely need a single actor that stores the locations for the path so you can mathematically check. This would probably be better done in C++ though.

[celest lotus]

Understood, thanks for ur reply

[lucid stone]

In the BP_Wall or WallController ?

[lean elbow]

Im trying to build and simulate discgolf disc flight, with 0 experience of unreal engine basing ALL my structure/data blureprints on ChatGPT help.
How likly am I to succeed? So far my discs are accelerating faster than an F1 car, which chat GPT thought was odd..

[pallid ice]

instead of tangens

[lucid stone]

So something like this ?
But what do you mean by "z can be your world up" ?

[dark drum]

You'll get mixed results, GPT doesn't do BP very well at all. It might help you iron out the general logic but beyond that it won't help much.

[lucid stone]

thans ! it's better ! i think i just have some axis problems :

[lucid stone]

* https://youtu.be/Zx9fLSPm6t4

sorry for the file

[pallid ice]

Yeah looks like your rotation is fixed now but you need to do something with the pivot, not quite sure how that works

[lucid stone]

no problem i'll try some things, thank anyway 🙏

[lean elbow]

To be fair it helped me BUILD quite a lot, but now when im trying to run it, Im having issues 😄

[dark drum]

I use GPT to help with C++ syntax but not found any uses from a BP perspective. It likes to make up nodes/functions that don't exist. 😅

[lean elbow]

This is the part im afraid of, I have no idea how to calculate how something flies, drag, etc. I dont know how familliar with discgolf you are, but im trying to create my own 'tech disc'.

[dark drum]

All you could want to know about disc golf disc flight. 😉

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12283-022-00390-5

[lucid stone]

Please, can someone help me to solve this issue ? I have the brain imploding 🤯😵
https://youtu.be/o5JoIPLv3yQ

[dark drum]

Where you get the length between the start and end points would only work if the end point is a bigger number than the start point. This is because vector length is based on 0,0,0.

There is a Distance (vector) node that will get the distance betweeen two vectors that will work in all scenarios.

[lost sierra]

Hi all, looking for the best way to directly tie health of an objective to a buff to the players damage. Here is what I have so far, but know I'm missing something and I don't know what.

Blacksmith Buff (Happens every start of the wave) if it's between (health) then set the buff to 1.5 and play blacksmith buff. This sets the buff through an interface. The issue is that I don't know how to use this number now in the interface to apply it to the damage of the different turrets

If interfaces aren't the way to go, then I'm not sure what. This is just the best way that I knew of, and even then I don't know how I'd do it

(I have now realised I wasn't setting them to the BPI blacksmith buff, this has been fixed, but my issue still stands of not knowing where to go from here)

[lucid stone]

Thanks, but the problem is still there, there is a sort of mirror effect, and I don't know how to counter it :
https://youtu.be/C-6dpGsbow8

[dark drum]

It seems like a specific thing so interfaces aren't going to help. As a reminder, interfaces are for when you have different classes that don't share a common parent but need to have/use the same set of functions. If the functions are unique to a specific class then an interface is pointless.

In terms of you're question, if it's modifying the players damage, then just make the player apply x amount more damage. There wouldn't be any need for the turrets to even know. All they should care about it how much damage should be inflicted. (possibly damage type if you want to perform armor calculations or something similar)

[lost sierra]

ah thank you for the explanation on interfaces. When I say player damage, I mean as a whole, it would also affect turret damage. How would I do a player damage x amount more damage if I need to check the health of the objective? Sorry, this feels like something I should know. Maybe I'm just massively overthinking, but I can't for the life of me work it out

Nevermind, I was overthinking it

i've got it, thank you. The explanation of interfaces will help me out in the future

[lucid stone]

If someone as a solution please 🙏

[solemn folio]

can anybody help with this problem im having. i created a guard blueprint that is tasked with following the player wherever they go but instead of chasing the player continuously, it goes to the player's spawn point and doesnt move from there even if the player moved from their intial position. These are the guard blueprints:

the guard:

if you have a solution just reply to my post so that i get pinged

[dark drum]

As a guess, I'd say it's starting the move to before the player is spawned... Adding to that, if the player is off the nav mesh, this can result in the move to to fail which you don't handle.

[solemn folio]

i moved the player to the ground with the navmesh and the problem still persists

[brittle flint]

Hello guys I have been trying to make a wall running system for 3 days and I didn't even finish it's half can someone please teach me how to make it or if there a yt tutorial for this in third person I will be really grateful thank you

[polar tinsel]

Its because its not a continues action
On begin play, so when the level starts playing you are telling it "move to player"
You currently ONLY do this at the begin play, so only once, at the beginning.
So when the player moves it has 0 effect on the guard AI as it is not being told to do something again after begin play.
you could do it in event tick but if I were you I'd look into some basic AI videos on youtube 🙂 They helped me out a lot

[solemn folio]

i call the function after it terminates again

it worked on my other projects

[polar tinsel]

Yes
But if the AI does not reach the player if it has already moved, then its not a succes.
You could do it on fail, which would probably solve your issue

[zealous fog]

These new comment boxes are so much worse than the old ones. Is there a way to change it back in 5.5?

[solemn folio]

ok

[zealous fog]

I wanna have the classic white ones

so I can easily see its commented

who made this UI decision

I dont get it lmao

"lets make the comments harder to find and read"

like good luck seeing theres a comment here

fixed it 😎

@polar tinsel since you pointed out my comment

you can find it in editor settings

[polar tinsel]

Much love

[storm solar]

I have a common user widget called menu stack and a common activatable widget called player menu.
When I create the menu stack I have a function that pushes player menu widget to the menu stack.
When I am done with the player menu I run deactivate widget.
How do I reactivate the player menu widget and make it visible again?
I've tried to activate the player menu from player menu itself and from menu stack and nether have worked.

[dark drum]

Just repush the desired widget to the stack.

When working with activatable widgets, you have to get in the mind set that they are throw aways and should avoid storing a ref to the specific widget instance. This is because the widgets are pooled so when deactivated, they can be added to the pool and reused the next time that type of widget is requested to be pushed to the stack.

[lean elbow]

IS there any way to share or copy blueprints ? Is screenshots the only way?

[wild sage]

Would it be possible to have the EditCondition metatag in Blueprints like it was in UnrealScript?

[dark drum]

Not out the box, but there was a free plugin that exposed the meta tags to BP.

[wild sage]

what's the name?

[storm solar]

So whats the point of activation or deactivation in this context? Couldn't I just destroy all widgets of player menu so I don't end up having a bunch of them taking up space?

[dark drum]

https://github.com/rfsheffer/DetailsMetadataExtension

[dark drum]

Lets say you push a widget to a que with two other widgets in it, it'll create the widget if required and add it to the que. When the the currently visible widget is deactivated, it then activates the next one in the que making it visible.

In summary, activating an activatable widget is handled by the stack or que that it's in so it knows it's now being shown. Deactivating an activatable widget tells the stack or que its in to show the next one.

[dark drum]

Also stacks and ques manage their own pool and will set unused widgets to be GC when they feel is appropriate.

[storm solar]

gotcha

[lean elbow]

So my disc is not exactly flying as I intended.
https://i.imgur.com/NDPpnCV.gif

[solemn depot]

im trying to make a system where you can shoot targets in my game, and they will stay down untill all the targets have been shot and then they will all play the animation of coming back up. inside my target bp i need to call a variable i set up in my third person charicter bp (witch i made into a variable in my target actor's bp). however, whenever i use a variable from the third person charicter bp unreal gives me errors saying its failing to read.

the weridest thing is though, despite giving me errors, the code actualy works

[solemn depot]

nvm i found a work around

turned the event tick down to interval every 0.5 seconds instead of 0.0 to save preformance since i dont need it to be like, immediant

(this is the targets bp)

and then here is the targets anim bp

this is how it looks

[thin panther]

blueprintue.

I will however point out that few people will be willing to debug and explain gpt output you have no knowledge of. There's an element of needing to understand the fundamentals for anything you approach, "vibe coding" stops working when the ai doesn't understand, or loses context. It's not really suited for anything outside of quick personal throwaway stuff.

Anything else you want to learn the fundamentals and build the skill

[lean elbow]

I have to say tho, yes, what I have is likly ass, but I do feel im learning still tho, granted likly many basic/beginner mistakes that I would know about if I did it more.
But its fair. I can understand that. Likly my blueprint woulnt make sense ither.

[thin panther]

It's less about it being ass, but that it would be hard for someone to try and convey information without those basics being there.

You often get hallucinations that make no sense, and it can be a game of cat and mouse trying to find out what's happening :)

[barren blaze]

Can someone tell me how should I call this node I am not finding it , only enhanced Input Action is there , I want this one

Anyone please ?

[pulsar geode]

[Solved]
Hey Everyone,
I have an actor component that is attached to multiple actors that is giving me issues
The component only has one event: using the strings provided by the actor, match the string to a row name in a data table containing an Int. Compare that Int to another random Int in range. Using a branch, if the data table Int is bigger than the rng Int, do something.
On paper this works fine, but in practice something weird is going on.

I currently have the event do a print function before the branch to print the value of both the data table Int and the rng Int as well as the greater than operation outcome and multiple times it will print a true or false that doesnt match what happens.
It has printed false before then the branch has done the true operation or vice versa. I am wondering what could be causing the difference in the print vs the branch outcome?

[maiden wadi]

The printstring?

[barren blaze]

No the Input Action one

[maiden wadi]

You need to create an Input Action asset. Then right click on the graph and you can find it by the same name as the asset.

[maiden wadi]

Code would be much easier to debug than verbatim logic. My initial assumption is that you're using a pure randomization on two different executed nodes and expecting it to have the same value.

[barren blaze]

Ohkay. Got it. I remember now..I was missing this step ..

Thank you @maiden wadi

[pulsar geode]

Here is what I am looking at, the feeds to the Append are coming directly from my Data Table

[maiden wadi]

Where are the values coming from on the left?

[summer spade]

How do you do raycasting in blueprints?

For context, I made an event that spawns a static mesh behind the player and will remain there UNTIL they look at the mesh itself. I know you can achieve this through raycasting (if the line detects the specific mesh, it will trigger the event and whatnot). But it's not like UE5 has a specific node that lets you constantly have a raycast line in front of the player at all times.

I did try using the line trace by channel but it only traces in one specific spot and only does it for a short duration. What if the player doesn't look at the static mesh quickly enough? Will the line trace channel just disappear before they can look at it?

So I kinda need advice for this. Any starting point would be helpful!

[dusky cobalt]

Event tick or set timer by event with line trace

[summer spade]

right, i forgot the event tick node exists

[inland walrus]

Apologies if this is the wrong channel, does anyone know how to unmerge assets I merged via ue5? If I cant unmerge I am going to have to basically redesign a lot of a map as I included a few assets that shouldn't of been merged

[lunar sleet]

Restore from source control

[inland walrus]

That might be an issue xD

All good, turns out I accidentally backed that certain part of the map us as a BP

[pine ingot]

Any way to add a Radial Impulse to an Actor with a Character Movement component? In my experiments the Radial Impulse has no effect on a Character.

[lean elbow]

When you deal with things with simulations, is it viable to depend on physics, or do you code out the behaviour. For example aerodynamics .

[maiden wadi]

Strongly recommend at least looking into AzureDevops and GithubDesktop. They're relatively easy to use and free. Good for personal source control.

[buoyant moat]

Does anyone have a solution for the following : https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue5-4-how-to-ensure-materials-are-loaded-on-spawned-actors/1995832

I am experiencing the exact same problem 🫠

[gusty shuttle]

Question: Did any of you guys run into a problem where a Select node isn't doing it's job? Example, I set it to use Character via index. I tested it, it printed Character, yet it keeps trying to use Actor location. Any tips? It's like it's ignoring the index. Usually selects work as they normally do, it seems like it's bugged?

I breakpoint tested it, the enum is doing it's job, the Select node isn't in this case.

[maiden wadi]

Where does the enum come from?

[gusty shuttle]

Through a level sequence
Trigger event in level sequence, that event calls custom event inside an actor in the world
That actor houses a variable (enum) that connects to the index

The info gets passed through as it should, that's not the problem...unless there's something I'm missing, like some strange multiple instances or something

[maiden wadi]

Odd. :/ Normally stuff like this is the pure node mistakes with randomizations.

[gusty shuttle]

Right, that's why I'm stumped haha I never had a select node just ignore it. I might have to verify my engine or something.

I made a work around using branches but it gums things up, select nodes rock when they work

[dark drum]

I had a similar issue with some logic not using the default value set in a child widget. After 30 minutes of scratching my head and an editor restart, it began working as expected.

To clarify, I didn't change anything. Just restarted lol.

[gusty shuttle]

It be like that sometimes man. I dinked around with doing reverts and checkouts in source control and dirty nuked a file or two so I think I gummed something up in the back end. I'm doing a engine verify now, after that, hopefully when I wake up tomorrow, the Unreal Engine gods will smile upon me and auto-fix this magically haha

[zealous moth]

@dusky cobalt @buoyant moat preload them; either async or loading screen with wait

@lean elbow both. I made a physics based game and tweaked it to make it feel good.

@pine ingot I believe you need to use launch. You can get the direction by subtracting both location vectors and multiply with coefficient

[inland walrus]

Anyone know why my navmesh doesn't want to go further than a certain point?

[maiden wadi]

You either do not have walkable collision there. You don't have a navmesh bounds volume covering it. Or you have a mesh acting as a Null modifier there.

[worldly sparrow]

is there something special that needs to be done in the parent BP to spawn a geometry collection that can be changed to a different collection in the child bp?

that's my code in the parent. if i change the class to geomoetrycollectionactor it will not spawn anything from the child

that parent code though only spawns the GC in the bp being referenced in class and cannot be changed at the child level

[granite nacelle]

having a hard time changing my games UI button hovered or pressed its always black and I find myself only able to change how dark it can be, I'm using a blueprint in my widget to be able to do this dynamically

[hushed orchid]

hello, any one facing issues in installing plugin to engine after epic launcher update? i am clicking on install to engine button, popup says install complete and available to use but i cannot see the folder in marketplace folder of engine

[graceful sage]

What's the default values for the style variables

[granite nacelle]

they were set randomly after i saw the issue

the first ones alpha is set to 0 while the other two is set to 1

so I found the fix, my opacity was set to 0 all but for the alpha so that's why it was like this🤦‍♂️

[restive stag]

Behold

https://tenor.com/view/doolwind-the-office-jet-attack-move-attack-move-jet-attack-gif-8593685078102904069

[civic tiger]

Hi! I got some problem here for anybody can help.. I want when inspecting items to have a blur background and have the item on top of that background to inspect it.. I have the render texture ready, the material, the image in the widget and everything needed but I cant figure out where and how the code should be.. Ive seen some people doing it with a SceneCaptureComponent2D and puting it to character and other puting it into the item actor, but both ways seems kinda off to me and not working.. Does anybody have any more instructions on how to do it? The coding part mostly

[teal tendon]

Any Ideas on how fix this overlapping glitch. Basically there is an inspection camera that moves around the object using mouse, so does the item slot child actor. But the mesh of item ends up overlapping with the base object which does not look good. Is there a way around this .

[dark drum]

So the inspected item will be rendered in a widget? If so, you could use the blur panel and place it behind the item image in the widget.

[indigo kiln]

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve been learning Unreal Engine for a while now and have focused mainly on Blueprints so far. I've gone through:

"All Nodes You Need to Know" and "Blueprint Basic and Intermediate" from SmartPoly

The Subway Surfers course on Udemy

I’m now looking to take the next steps toward becoming an Unreal Engine developer and would love some guidance. Specifically, I’d like to know:

What are the best learning resources (courses, tutorials, or documentation) to go deeper into game development with Unreal?

Is there a structured roadmap for learning Unreal Engine professionally?

Any advice on what to focus on next to improve my skills and eventually work in game development?

I’d really appreciate any recommendations or insights! Thanks in advance! 🙌

[civic tiger]

Im doing so but in the shake of coding and material wise something is off.. im still trying to figure it.. im getting closer and closer.. now what I have done is to manage to show the item image but I want only the item to capture not all the scene in the image. and also now as im trying to rotate the object it is rotating with the 2drender camera for some reason.. but I think that should be easier to fix.. If you have any idea tho Im open to share 😅

[lean elbow]

Im a total newbie when it comes to unreal engine but Im decent in other related fields, such as 3d modelling/texturing, my best bet is to probably just dive in to some project. I.e Laerning my doing, "I dont know how to do this, so i guess I need to learn". Likly its good to understand the underlying code of the blueprints.

[civic tiger]

I would say the same! Im also kinda newbie to this and Im doing it that way and I can say its pretty efficient

[dark drum]

If you're using a render target, you can specify that it only captures specific actors.

[teal tendon]

So this is the camera setup I have made for the inspection mode, So I just want to ask if there is way to draw or render any mesh of the item slot on top every other object when it overlaps or like in general

[upper cairn]

I'm facing an SDK issue on macOS 15.1, Unreal Engine 5.2.1 binary, is there anyone who can guide me through please, It would mean the whole world for me

[civic tiger]

You remember the node? I saw that somewhere but I lost it now

[dark drum]

You can set it on the scene capture component.

[indigo kiln]

thx

[civic tiger]

doesnt it has to do something with setting it capture only the self actor or something like that?

[frosty heron]

might want to unlearn some stuff from SmartPoly

especially how it used interface

anyway, you just gotta learn what you gotta learn. Don't worry soo much about roadmap, have a goal and learn everything that you need to acheive it.

if you are stuck on what to understand, you can always ask experience devs in this circle.

my advice is probably don't get stuck with blueprint tutorial hell

cuz a lot of those videos doesn't even have good practice.

but making mistakes or inefficient systems is part of the process

[indigo kiln]

thnk u for sharing ur advice i just hv a question for u

i got suggested start to learn C++ over BP wonder what u think?

[dark drum]

No, you can set the component to only capture specific actors, of which you can add to a list on the component.

[frosty heron]

there's no reward for going BP only. The more you know the more you can do better stuff.

So I guess it's up to your goal.

If your ultimate goal is to get hired as programmer, then you can't just use BP.

want to make Optimized games and something that is not a small scale? YOu will also need CPP

if the goal is just to re-create a small scale game then BP alone maybe enough.

[kind estuary]

in my top down game, how do i move my character behind cubes, if the cubes block the click.
they are supposed to block the click because they are obstacles. but i want to be able to click behind the cube, and move my character behind the cube.

[frosty heron]

At the end of the day, bp can only do soo much but at the same time, even if you learn C++ you still shouldn't avoid BP.
Use Both!

[indigo kiln]

well im working with a team and they are pretty busy to answer their interns and left us to learn how to become an UE developer by our selves so i reached for help

[frosty heron]

Have the cube to not block the click 😄

[dark drum]

If programming is new to you, starting with BP can be easier and in same ways make transitioning to C++ easier later on. It can also help ground you in terms of what you can and can't do from a BP perspective. Of course using C++ and BP together is the end goal.

[indigo kiln]

if u think for working with a corprate C++ is a plus then C++ it is ,thank u

[indigo kiln]

thank you

[dark drum]

Use both so you can hide important stuff from BP. 😅

One thing I sometimes do is make a quick setup in BP so i know what sort of thing I'm after and help figure out what should and shouldn't be exposed to BP. Then I can create the relevant C++ classes (and functions) and reparent.

[teal tendon]

is there a way to showcase equiped item without this collison

[dark drum]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[teal tendon]

I mean the item object is being overlapped with the object underneath it, so I want the item object to be render on top of any background object

[dark drum]

So it ignores depth and renders on top of everything else?

[teal tendon]

I mean this is the glitch

[dark drum]

Not really a glitch, just the item passes through the other mesh. There's not really any simple way to solve it. Solutions often have their pros and cons. One is to make the object ignore depth so it's always rendered on top of other meshes. This doesn't always look good though but is the simplest of the options.

The other is to move the object so it doesn't intersect.

[little agate]

hei, what are you doing here

[kind estuary]

yeah its the Visibility that needs to be ignored, visibility sounds like something that shouldnt be disabled

[frosty heron]

You can make a custom channel for the trace.

[frosty heron]

Halo, I lived here

[frosty heron]

You can check my total comments 😭

[little agate]

oh my

[civic tiger]

still dont get it man..

[civic tiger]

oh okey.. I was just looking in the detail panel and didnt found it but in the nodes I found it

now this happens..

idk why it came with a link but whatever

[dark drum]

This being what? Its usually good to provide context. 🙂

[civic tiger]

didnt underastand that

[inner minnow]

Hey guys, trying to figure out how to do possess and un possess of a vehicle properly within the Lyra Framework if that changes anything.

When I try to re-possess the original pawn player, I have no movement controls as if the controller didn't actually attach or is of the wrong class perhaps.

I first get in the vehicle via a GAS interaction that does a sphere trace and then possess the vehicle pawn:

I can drive around in the vehicle just fine without issue. The problem occurs when I try to re-gain possession of the original pawn which I store in the On Un Possess overridden event in the Player Controller:

Does anybody know what I might be doing wrong or the right way to go about this?
There's also the issue where the original pawn still tries to run in place with a floating gun and plays footsteps while driving, but that's not my primary concern atm

[storm solar]

For common UI I converted one of my widgets for item selection to a common activatable widget that is pushed onto a widget stack.
The problem is that the widget will register every button I have to intereact with it except the gamepad confirm button (face button down) Every other gamepad input is registered along with keyboard inputs. It'll also work if I add an additionl gamepad button to confirm (face button left) but will not work for the original button. Im not sure what the issue is.

I also have controller and input action data setup but I don't remember what they're used for atm.

[glass blade]

just found out that yuo cannot bind networked custom events

is that true or was i mixing things up?

more specifically run on client networked custom event

[frosty heron]

you can of course but maybe the context is not understood.

it will just bind on the machine that calls it.

if the binding never get executed on player 2 computer then, don't expect player 2 to run the function.

but apart from that RunOnClient meant to be called by server anyway.

it will run a function on the client that owned the Actor Channel

[terse tree]

Hello! Currently working on an assignment for my VR class. I’m making a cannon that moves left and right (yaw?) but only problem is that I have no idea on how to achieve it. I hope this doodle helps explain 😭

[storm solar]

google? https://youtu.be/uFr-7At2lXQ

[inland walrus]

Does anyone know why my materials aren't showing? They worked yesterday, I switch on my pc today and not showing

[knotty flare]

Do you see anything in the log related to that material? Is it possible that 'use with instanced meshes' isn't checked in the parent material?

[kind estuary]

how do i make my level unlit like in the unlit mode and keeping some other materials, like the characters, lit
All i know is the Execute command: "viewmode unlit", that does exactly what i want, but also disables the materials of characters etc...

[maiden wadi]

Sounds like a post process effect or something with stencils. If you could get both the lit and non lit data there.

[kind estuary]

is it really that complicated?

i thought this would be like turning some light off or something

i have some images in my level, they are exactly like photos

they look with so much contrast, too dark in some places, and blinding light in other places. the images are beautiful, yet in game this contrast makes them look really bad

and i tried a bunch of stuff

[maiden wadi]

Are you trying to make the entire level unlit, or just these paintings?

[kind estuary]

just these paintings

thats the right word

[terse tree]

Thx! Skimmed though the video but i found nothing I could apply to the BP 😦 . Many vids on youtube show you how to make a projectiles for guns and stuff but I don't see anything revolving around automatic motar actors + correct speed/physics for bullet arcs. Maybe i'm not looking hard enough?

[kind estuary]

i want everything else to be normal, just the paintings need to be unlit @maiden wadi

[dark drum]

On the material for the painting, connect the base colour to the emmisive would probably do what you want and set the mesh to not receive shadows.

[kind estuary]

thats what i have, but still shows darkness

ill post some screens real quick

[kind estuary]

unlit ^ viewmode

Lit viewmode

though the material is Unlit (with emissive), it doesnt matter it still does this terrible contrast

[dark drum]

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve. The images haven't helped. 😅

[high gale]

does anyone know how I can change these values with blueprints using the post process actor component?

I want to change the values of those materials but not sure what the node for it is if there is any

[dark drum]

As in the weights for the PP materials?

[high gale]

yea

I want to change the values from 1 to 0 and the other from 0 to 1 when an event is called

[kind estuary]

i just want my image to look the same as i have it as a texture, that is the same as the one seen in unlit mode

its quite frustrating

because you have a nice image

but then in the level when it receives light it gets this weird contrast
isnt there a way to disable the light for meshes?
The engine can do it, because the unlit mode is making it look exactly as i want

[knotty flare]

You can access the settings struct directly - or I think this Add/Update blendable function might work too

[maiden wadi]

Is this just a texture on a plane? Can you make the plane not receive lighting?

[knotty flare]

^ yea this. Have you tried changing the lighting channel of your static mesh component?

Should work if your directional light is only on channel 0

[kind estuary]

yes just a texture on a plane

i found that this achieves almost the same as unlit:

r.TonemapperFilm 0

though will this be packaged?

must do it in execute console command at begin play right?

[knotty flare]

Yep, or add them to DefaultEngine.ini

[high gale]

the add or update blendable is crashing my engine and I dont think it is working

yea lol I tried testing it with begin play and it crashed twice

[knotty flare]

You could also try leaving blend weight to 1 - but handle lerping material values through an MPC - if that fits your context
Probably less costly than ticking blend weights (just a guess - haven't profiled that or anything)

[storm solar]

for my common activatable widget, when i am done with it i deactivate the widget and set it to invisible. When I try to activate it again and add it to the widget stack. I need to call it twice for it to appear.

[dark drum]

what is the 'Stack Ref' bpi function doing?

[celest trench]

Hello! Is it possible to add a separate capsule to the player head and push the player capsule back if the head goes into a wall? We are trying to come up with solutions to avoid cameras clipping through walls in first person without making the player capsule enormous

If so, what would the process for this be like? I feel like applying a backwards velocity if the head clips would cause new issues and also feel strange for a player, but not sure what else to do

[sand shore]

Have you tried a spring arm component that the camera attaches to?

[celest trench]

Yeah the camera is on a spring arm, but it's a first person game so it's attached to the head still and the head is able to clip into walls if the player looks far down

[storm solar]

it's just an interface.
"sends from base stack to whatever widget is added to the stack" I think...
Removing the node doesn't change anything.
The main issue Is I have input actions that are triggered inside the widget. But they only fire every odd time the widget is called.
I think it might have to do with the menu not being in focus...
https://youtu.be/3QrFy_iV_as?t=671

[sand shore]

Oh I see, maybe you could have a specific node in the physics asset that can be setup to not sweep into walls, with a large enough radius to prevent clipping, and the boom could attach to that socket?

This isn’t my strongest area of the engine, but should be easier than modifying the character’s movement. I guess another alternative might be implementing your own camera boom subclass?

[plush ridge]

I have a pawn with a floating pawn movement component and on a dedicated server (testing in packaged build), it's choppy for clients. I'm using add movement input and add local rotation on the server to move it around (it's not player owned or possessed). From what I understand, it has something to do with this movement component not being smoothed, predicted, or replicated the way a regular character movement component is. Is there a way to make it smooth for clients?

[glass blade]

Weird. It would not fire when it was binded however it worked just fine when i called it directly from a function

[kind estuary]

I saw a tuts with a dev obsessing about Quad overlay in translucent materials.
Is it that important? In my case i have 3 textures on top of each with translucent material. Should i optimize this. It can be quite annoying

[stone field]

"premature optimization is the root of all evil"
If they are not huge size and clearly causing problems, shouldn't be an issue.

on mobile they might be of interest on low end devices

[spark steppe]

the best general advice i can give is to not listen to general advice

as Karma said, context is important

[pine carbon]

Hi! Sorry for the delayed response, but . . . NOPE!

[humble wigeon]

Hello, I've got an unwanted behaviour with my projectile bullet. for some reason it start spawning in the wrong position,it's supposed to be in front of my turret head.
I includeed a gif and some screenshots of the projectile movement component settings just in case. But I other than checking the initial speed and velocity, I don't see what could be causing this 🤔

[pine carbon]

I did learn one thing, at least.

Enable Gravity from Blueprints does not work.

It definitely prevents Destroy from working.

What it does not do is enable gravity.

It IS able to correctly disable it though. For some freaking reason.

[arctic wren]

Hi everyone,

I’m a beginner working with the New Sandbox Motion project in Unreal Engine 5.5, and I want to switch the camera to first-person perspective. I found a tutorial for UE 5.4, but some things have changed in 5.5 (e.g., certain variables or functions in the Blueprint).

My goal is to make the first-person camera work as expected, meaning with free look, proper movement, and interaction functionality. Since I’m still learning, a detailed explanation or an updated tutorial for UE 5.5 would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!

[pine carbon]

I know this is disastrous, but I had to add a lot of checks to determine what was going on. It didn't work. Everything before and after the Destroy call happens, but no destruction is done.

This is the only logic that actually matters to work properly, and it doesn't if I have Enable Gravity turned on.

There's a bizarre permutation of interactions involved with this so I'll list them out:
If the Blueprint has Gravity Enabled on by default and it is turned off by code, gravity doesn't actually get disabled, but projectiles do get destroyed properly.
If the Blueprint has Gravity Enabled on by default and it is turned on again by code, gravity functions properly but projectiles do not get destroyed.
If the Blueprint does not have Gravity Enabled on by default and it is turned off again by code, gravity is correctly off and destruction happens as intended. This is the only case where everything works as intended.
If the Blueprint does not have Gravity Enabled on by default and is turned on by code, Gravity does not function, but projectiles do get destroyed properly.

And specifically if I have Enable Gravity on by default and disable it right before it hits the ground, THEN it disables gravity properly, but still doesn't get destroyed.

If I try to disable it AFTER Destroy, it still gets disabled, but triggers this non-crashing runtime error.

[jovial steeple]

After you disable velocity, you must also clear the physics velocity.

Gravtiy gives the physics object velocity.

But once it has velocity, it keeps its velocity

[pine carbon]

Why does that stop it from Destroying itself?

And why does the On by Default, Off at Runtime situation happen? That's the one where gravity stays on even though it shouldn't, but projectiles do get destroyed.

[jovial steeple]

Never run any code after calling DestroyActor. When destroy actor is called, the object is simply marked for destruction, and the game will remove that actor from memory soon so that the destruction process can be complete.

Garbage collection (The system that removes things from memory) only happens around once per second. This means that even after DestroyActor has been called, the actor still exists in memory in this "Destoyed" state for a small amount of time. Since the actor still exists in memory, it still is possible to run code on it, but you are not supposed to as it can be unsafe. This is what this error message is talking about. Its telling you that the actor is "pending kill or collection" and you shouldnt be running any more code on it.

[pine carbon]

I know it's a bad idea, but I wanted to try it to see if the error could give me any useful info.

Since goodness knows I haven't been able to figure anything else out with this.

[jovial steeple]

I do not know how your projectile determines when it should be destroyed.

[pine carbon]

OnHit events.

[pine carbon]

This disgusting web of nodes allowed me to discern that every node in the chain of deletion does trigger and is valid when they happen.

[jovial steeple]

You would have to show me the full on hit code as im sure there is more, disabling gravity does not disable on hit events, or actor destruction.

[pine carbon]

It doesn't disable hit events. Hit events trigger. And the destruction code triggers. But destruction doesn't. And the only variable that changes is disabling/enabling gravity.

Here ya' go.

Initialization looks like this, and yes, everything here comes in properly.

[jovial steeple]

"And the destruction code triggers." You have confirmed the DestroyActor function is getting ran?

Id imagine its not running, if the actor is not getting destroyed

[jovial steeple]

This doesnt show any inherit errors, you would need todo some simple debugging on your own.

[pine carbon]

I've confirmed that print nodes placed after it execute and no errors or warnings are thrown without trying to access elements of self afterwards.

Nothing gets removed from the scene tree at runtime either.

All physics calculations and hit events continue to function.

[jovial steeple]

If destroy actor gets ran, and the actor is not destroyed, i dont know what to tell you. Ive never ran into a situation where that happens.

[pine carbon]

Yeah, me neither.

That's why I'm so confused.

[jovial steeple]

Id imagine its nothing wrong with unreal though, and its propably a missunderstanding by you. Its best to assume its not unreals fault.

Cause 99/100, its not

[pine carbon]

Could it have something to do with spawning objects via templates?

[jovial steeple]

Im not sure what your refering to with templates

So idk

[pine carbon]

This is how spawning works.

Specifically the usage of params.Template is what could potentially be doing things.

How does that interact with components?

[jovial steeple]

I dont know ive never used that.

[pine carbon]

Lovely.

[frosty heron]

This shouldn't compile?

[pine carbon]

Well it does.

And works.

Why wouldn't it?

[frosty heron]

Hmm I guess casting to multiple types is a thing?

Never seen it though

[pine carbon]

It took me several days to even figure out how to put that together.

And now it is potentially causing an issue. I'm trying to parse through the SpawnActor source code, but it's a big freaking function.

[frosty heron]

Whats there to parse

Just look at example on how they are used.

[pine carbon]

Because that's not my problem.

I need to figure out if it has interactions with components that I didn't expect.

That's the only thing I can even think of causing this issue.

[frosty heron]

Breakpoint at your component on suspected lines then look at the call stack.

[pine carbon]

If you have a better idea, PLEASE enlighten me.

[pine carbon]

I don't even know what to look for right now. Can you do that from Blueprints?

[frosty heron]

No that's a feature IDE debugger

So rider or visual studio

[pine carbon]

Then it's not of use to me, sadly.

The actual setting of Enable Gravity and calling of Destroy is in Blueprints.

[jovial steeple]

If you build in debug editor, and breakpoint cpp code for the DestroyActor function, that might help.

Idk if you can do that without the source code though, can you?

[pine carbon]

How?

I don't think I can.

[frosty heron]

I mean rider is free

[jovial steeple]

Everyone should just use the source code

[frosty heron]

There's a process and learning but you gotta do what you gotta do i guess.

[grave apex]

Im trying to check for tags (without casting) and found this node, what do I plug into the left here?

[pine carbon]

I have Rider.

I'm using Rider to read source code right now.

My issue is that the things going wrong are in Blueprints.

To be clear, I do not actually know if the Templated SpawnActor has ANYTHING to do with the issue. It's just the only candidate I can even think of.

[frosty heron]

Override on Destroyed or w.e in your component or actor. Add breakpoint and watch the call stack to see what other functions get called prior the ondestroy

Though I don't know what your actual issue is.

[pine carbon]

It was explained in great detail earlier.

[pine carbon]

Here.

[frosty heron]

Hmm i never play with gravity so can't offer opinion.

[pine carbon]

It's the weirdest bug I've ever seen.

[frosty heron]

But if afaik with physics at least, if you simulate a component it detach from the root or something.

[pine carbon]

?

Could you elaborate on that?

[frosty heron]

So not knowing if this is your issue but take example player rag doll.

When simulate physics is enabled on the skeletal mesh component for the rag doll, the skeletal mesh detached from the root so it no longer follow the parent (capsule component)

Is there a reason to enable or disable gravity btw? What's the actual gameplay goal

[jovial steeple]

That's a interface reference, you need to take an object reference, then cast it to an interface reference.

[frosty heron]

Trying to see if maybe there's alternative in what you want.

[grave apex]

aah, what does this do specifically?

like, if my game objects had tags in a tag container variable

would it get them from this node?

if it implements the interface?

[pine carbon]

Have projectiles that do or do not use gravity.

Like one gun shoots lasers and another shoots large, heavy cannonballs.

[frosty heron]

And you are using projectile movement component?

[pine carbon]

This is the projectile Blueprint structure btw. And RadialForce does nothing, I was GOING to use that to generate an explosion right before destruction, but I have to FIX destruction first.

[pine carbon]

Nooooo . . . Should I? Does that change things?

This is literally all they are. I apply an Impulse when they BeginPlay and after that it's up to the Physics engine, and whether or not I tell it to use gravity . . . IF THAT WORKED.

[frosty heron]

Well that component handle general projectile. It has options like gravity, bounces etc.

Though I only used it to cast a fire ball in one direction atm.

[pine carbon]

The sphere does bounce currently, but only if the default setting is to have gravity enabled. Enabling it from code does not work unless it's done right before destruction. Why? No fricking idea. Despite it not working, it sure as frick stops destruction from working.

[frosty heron]

Soo, can't you just tick enable gravity by default on proejctile that have gravity and untick it for those that doesn't?

make a child out of BP_BaseProjectile then override the gravity setting in respective class.

[pine carbon]

No because there is only one projectile blueprint.

[jovial steeple]

This code I have shown is changing one object reference into another kind of object reference.

Lets say there is a object in your computers memory called SpawnedGun01. This object has many different types it can count as. It can count as an AActor, AGun, and BPI_PolyDamageable (This one is the interface).

When you have a reference to any object in memory, that reference also has an object type.

Object reference (of type AActor): This is a pointer to a specific location in your computers memory.
Say its pointing to SpawnedGun01.
Its type is Actor, meaning with this pointer, you will be able to extrapolate all of the actor related information/functions regarding SpawnedGun01. Things like ActorLocation, or ActorRotation.

Object reference (of type BPI_PolyDamageable): This is a pointer to a specific location in your computers memory.
Say its pointing to SpawnedGun01.
Its type is BPI_PolyDamageable, meaning with this pointer, you will be able to extrapolate all of the BPI_PolyDamageable related information/funcitons regarding SpawnedGun01. Things like TryCombatDamage() function.

[pine carbon]

Everything you have seen thusfar is to prevent specifically this.

I don't want a bunch of subclassing for this project.

[frosty heron]

Is there a reason why you avoid inheritance?

how are you gonna differentiate between a laser projectile and a grenade?

[jovial steeple]

The input for this node is a Object reference (of type GameplayAssetInterface)

[pine carbon]

Mostly to see how difficult it would be tbh.

And generally to keep my projects more organized in the future, IF I can actually figure out how to do this properly.

It's been vastly more complex than I anticipated. This bug in particular seems to be something that nobody has any actual understanding of.

[frosty heron]

I think you are making your life harder by avoiding tools. You will actually repeat a lot more if you avoid basic principle of OOP

[pine carbon]

This system is an implementation of the Flyweight design pattern, hence that name in the C++ snippet.

It is a well-known and oft-used design pattern in game development intended to prevent subclassing and save memory when all that would change is instance variables. When you can actually do it correctly. Unreal's complex instancing process has made that difficult for me.

Or maybe it's something entirely different. Like I said, I have absolutely no idea why this is happening right now.

[jovial steeple]

Unreal is not designed to be used this way. It would be silly to use unreal in this manner.

[pine carbon]

Well, I'm 90% of the way there at this point.

[jovial steeple]

Most of unreals systems are designed to be extended by subclassing certian parts to.

Good luck

[frosty heron]

@pine carbon So the impulse doesn't work when the gravity is unticked?

i'm reading but it's hard to picture the actual failure without seeing

"The sphere does bounce currently, but only if the default setting is to have gravity enabled. Enabling it from code does not work unless it's done right before destruction. Why? No fricking idea. Despite it not working, it sure as frick stops destruction from working."
I mean yeah you shouldn't interact with something that is marked for destroy.

So if you can enable it with the code before you call destroy, is there an actual issue?

btw I just tested with ProjectileMovementComponent, there's no issue whatsoever and you can use gravity for it.

[pine carbon]

No the impulse does.

Destruction, and only destruction, doesn't.

[frosty heron]

with destruction too

opps HDR is on

@pine carbon I mean if above is what you after, maybe just use ProjectileMovementComponent?

[pine carbon]

I have no idea what I'm looking at above.

There is no movement.

[frosty heron]

It's a video

the character is launching a projectile

[pine carbon]

It's very short.

[pine carbon]

No they ain't. Not on my end.

[frosty heron]

@pine carbon

[pine carbon]

Could you show me the component structure for that fireball?

[frosty heron]

using sphere collision to handle the destruction

if you want gravity, it's already enable by default.

Just set the gravity scale. 0 for no gravity

and higher number for stronger gravity.

and pretty sure they can be changed at runtime with no issue.

[pine carbon]

Okay I'm not gonna bother explaining why I'm asking this until I prove it works, but what's the best way to temporarily disable physics during runtime without throwing warnings?

[pine carbon]

Oooookay. I don't really understand it all, but I do seem to have solved it.

A.) For some ungodly reason, Enable Gravity settings do not propagate through the Template field when using SpawnActor. Why? I have absolutely no clue, but a bit of disgusting nested typecasting fixed that.
B.) For whatever reason, if I have my flyweight set to have its physics disabled, and then enable physics in the construction script of my spawned projectiles that use it, that makes destruction work. I do not know why and maybe I never will, but I'll take those dubs.

I'm open to suggestions on making this abomination more legible though.

[frosty heron]

@pine carbon #cpp

[cursive drum]

i wanted to attach an actor to my character and this pops up, what does it mean

[frosty heron]

Show the node for the attachment

[cursive drum]

oh, i just found the problem

and fixed it

[arctic wren]

I’m a beginner working with the New Sandbox Motion project in Unreal Engine 5.5, and I want to switch the camera to first-person perspective. I found a tutorial for UE 5.4, but some things have changed in 5.5 (e.g., certain variables or functions in the Blueprint).

My goal is to make the first-person camera work as expected, meaning with free look, proper movement, and interaction functionality. Since I’m still learning, a detailed explanation or an updated tutorial for UE 5.5 would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!

[wispy kayak]

Hi, why I can't destory my added component?

[dawn gazelle]

Why would you bother adding a component just to destroy it immediately?
If you're trying to remove the Static Mesh Component from the Static Mesh Actor, the object you're casting may not be a static mesh actor which causes the cast to fail.

[pine carbon]

Add a typecheck print and see what you get.

[kind estuary]

what is better for performance:
A: 10 cubes merged as 1 mesh with complex collision, or
B: 10 separate cubes all with simple collision

[wispy kayak]

How can I do it with Actor variable? Its working fine when I added the component to self actor.

[dawn gazelle]

You could try just using a "Get Componnet by Class" and selecting "Static Mesh"... This'll return the first static mesh component if found on the actor, otherwise it'll return None.

[wispy kayak]

Hi, but I have array mesh to spawn to that Actor. I can't get those array.

[dawn gazelle]

Then you'd have to cast to the specific actor type you're using that has that array of components.

[wispy kayak]

I can't still destroy my static mesh components. Which part I'm doing it wrong.

[dawn gazelle]

Possibly here.
If it's a static mesh actor,it's not going to have an array of components. A static mesh actor is a very specific type of actor that is usually placed in a level to represent a single static mesh. You don't necessarily need to cast here if you want all static mesh components removed from all the actors in your array. If you want to make sure it's only for a specific actor class that you want to remove all static mesh components, then you'd have to cast to that specific actor class first.

[barren tangle]

Hello, Do we have for an array the possibility to sort the array based on a value?

in an array i have a list of actors.

each actors has it's own X location

and i want to sort those actor based on that X location

is there some node allowing me to do that easily?

[frosty heron]

@barren tangle if you are interested in sorting your own array. You can look at bubble sort.

[barren tangle]

he said it's simple but it's also considered like inefficient.

[frosty heron]

fast enough for sorting distance check

[barren tangle]

ok 🙂

[frosty heron]

ofc you can opt for another sorting algorithm

but bubble sort is by far the most beginner friendly

[barren tangle]

i was wondering if it exist some default algorithm in UE for those kind of stuff

[frosty heron]

Not really, and afterall you need to specify the rule / condition.

there's probably a plugin to sort int from lowest to highest

but I never hear anything that sort Actors based on distance check.

any programmer can do that easily though.

including you, just know how to sort the array

[barren tangle]

ok, i have already write an algorytme for that. (works) but i was wondering if i could do better or easier 🙂

that was meanly the purpose of my question if UE has tool to handle that easily

[frosty heron]

most likely not as they can't rule out the condition for the sorting

that is user specific

[barren tangle]

because you see i see that they have in a way foresee that for simple table

i guess it's sort the value there

but not with object based on a variable

lol what i did was a kind of bubble sort 😄

[boreal basin]

Is there a way to make my IA_Run have the same input layout as IA_Move? Working on a run input when the player presses the movement keys for a few seconds after the IA_Move has been triggered.

[civic tiger]

hi guys. Im breaking my head 2-3 days now trying to figure how to make this item in front of the blur background, basically trying to inspect it thats why I created a blur background just for when inspecting something. I got a Render Target and have the RT in an Image element in my UI and on my component 2d camera in my item but still cant figure out how to appear the item in front (oh and dont worry about the ZOrder in my UI its all good). Does anyone have any idea cuz its driving me crazy

[dark drum]

You could probably just get away with using Depth of Field if the items you inspect are roughly the same size and would be about the same distance from the camera.

[spark field]

why cant i find multiply float node?

[humble wigeon]

You mean this one?

[spark field]

oh oke

i cant add value to it

basically set the value of it

[civic tiger]

I think I tried that and I dont think that maters for some reason..

[spark field]

can someone help, my balls doesnt move, is there still a step in between with multiplying the float?

[storm solar]

any reason why my keyboard cannot select the button for this widget and just select the horizontal box?

[dark drum]

Make sure the horizontal box isn't focusable.

[storm solar]

there is no focus detail option

[dark drum]

Whats it's visibility? Non Hittest (Self Only)?

[storm solar]

yup

[storm solar]

https://youtu.be/eZOQ9DMonIo
Stepping back this is the base issue im having. Every alternative seems to compile more issues of button / menu navigation

[pine carbon]

Every frame?

How often do they move?

[grim sand]

How do I retrieve the pure name of an actor reference? So instead of it being W_Container_Inventory_C_0 it would be W_Container_Inventory

Is there a standard function for this?

[spark steppe]

you want the class name?

[grim sand]

Yea but without it losing its type (Widget in this case).

[spark steppe]

you can do GetClass()->GetClassName()

[grim sand]

That won't work for this node:

I need to retain all the data from the reference so that I can pass it through

Actually I don't. Hang on, I'm messing up on the logic here.

[inland walrus]

Is there a node I can use to select a random 1 of X sounds to play at location?

[dark drum]

Create an array of sounds and use the get random element node.

[spark field]

if someone could help?

[hearty moss]

make a sound cue with a random

[lean elbow]

Where can I find what a specific node returns ? What unit or measurement such as is it m/s? or cm/s.

[maiden wadi]

If a DoF won't work for you then you're mostly looking for a post process here. Bluring post process, with a stencil applied to the object to avoid bluring it.

[civic tiger]

I think I tried that too but now that I think about it I also think that I forgot to turn off the blur I had in my UI.. I will try it tmrw and if I need anything I will come again here. Thank u

[inland walrus]

Any idea why my nav mesh isn't spreading properly?

[stable shale]

Hey all, I want to download images in parallel. 9 images. I can see a sequence node but I want them to load at the same time not wait for the other to finish

[faint pasture]

all velocities in Unreal are cm/s

the Unreal unit of distance is the cm, other things are derived from that

[frosty heron]

Load with async instead blocking load

[lean elbow]

Thank you

[hollow tendon]

did u change ur pfp

[frosty heron]

Every week

[hollow tendon]

or is there someone with same user name as u?

coz i swear someone with that username helped me

in c++ chnl

and had diff pfp

[frosty heron]

I rotate pfp

[hollow tendon]

thats amazing! i am happy for u

im thanking u for ur full support

u helped me a lot

[frosty heron]

Can't help you with Json though, no experience.

Can't know what i don't know

[hollow tendon]

wow

why are u so kind and supportive 🥲

humanity still in hope. humans still care for fellow humans

and try to help each other

thanks

i kinda get half of what causing the issue so far

"boosters_array": [
    "boost1",
    "boost2"
  ]

this is the content of the boosters array json.

it does not match the boosters struct i guess?

[stable shale]

new to UE, is the download images a blocking load?

[frosty heron]

Not sure, can you post the node.

An async function will have a clock on the top right of the node.

[frosty heron]

What does get field return?

How would it know the type that's being parsed i wonder

[hollow tendon]

it is wildcard

i tell it what typre

someone with similar pfp to urs

is talking with me in c++ chnk

wow

ur twin

dang, ur twin is pretty good at json

[dark drum]

Have you tried rebuilding navigation? You can set it to automatically do it but this can be a pain if you move things frequently.

[dawn gazelle]

If you did a Get Field of this "bossters_array" the return type would need to be an array of strings.

[pastel apex]

question, wanted to know if it's expected for set timer by function name to silently fail when called inside a function?

i know it works on event graph

[frosty heron]

I don't think that's expected behaviour

[pastel apex]

weird

[frosty heron]

Basing it on memory that I have used and clear timer in a function by name.

[hollow tendon]

yep thats was the case

[frosty heron]

It maybe that you hit the return node in a function in unexpected way? Not sure.

[hollow tendon]

anoter person hepled me thro it, much apprceaite ur response tho

[midnight field]

How would I declare an event in C++ that is exposed to blueprint and also outputs a pointer? Here's what I've got:

UFUNCTION(BlueprintNativeEvent)
void OnTargetChanged(AActor*& NewTarget);

[sand shore]

You can drop the &

[pastel apex]

BlueprintImplementableEvent iirc

or do you want it to just be called in blueprint?

[sand shore]

Either of them should work here

[pastel apex]

yeah

[midnight field]

Wouldn't that make it an input instead?

[sand shore]

Oh, I see, well, BP won't backpropagate changes to this field anyway

You'll see something like "Reference value won't be returned" from the compiler

[frosty heron]

Err

[frosty heron]

Output in what sense? Events don't have output only function does

[pastel apex]

oh ok it worked. I just had the timer way too long

[midnight field]

Just a moment, Visual Studio decided to crap out on me. 😅

[frosty heron]

Also https://benui.ca/unreal/ufunction/

If you need to look at usages and specifier

[sand shore]

If you only need one thing to respond to this, you could try something like DECLARE_DYNAMIC_DELEGATE_RetVal and then make a BlueprintAssignable UPROPERTY of that delegate.

If you need multiple things to respond to it from the BP side, you'll have to work all the rest of that out yourself

[midnight field]

Ahh, right, I'd forgotten about those sorts of macros!

[frosty heron]

An event doesn't return any value

You are probably after functions

[midnight field]

Hm... doesn't EventTick output DeltaSeconds?

[frosty heron]

It does

But that's not return values if that's what you mean by output.

It's variable passed from the input param.

Just make a function and look at the detail tab.

There is input and output

You will see that output only possible in a function.

[inland walrus]

Is the random in range going to exclude 0 and 2 or only count 0, 1 & 2?

[thin panther]

Seems pretty easy to test.

Set it up to a print string on tick

You'll have your answer in a second

[frosty heron]

It's going to include 0 all the way to number 2

If the aim is to get a random index from the whole array

Then starts from 0 and ends with length - 1

Or in bp i think there's a last index node.

I mean what if you changes your array size, you don't want to go to every random node and fix the magic number

[midnight field]

Seems I did just get my terms backwards for events, I was looking for inputs. It's working now!

[frosty heron]

Yeah then you want to just pass a reference

MyEvent(AActor* NewTarget)

[inland walrus]

Thanks! So -1 gets all from array?

[frosty heron]

No

You are getting the element by index

And array starts with 0

[inland walrus]

So I do get in range of -1 and 2?

[frosty heron]

If you want to get a random index from the array as a whole then your start index is 0 and your last index is the last index of your array

Last index = array length - 1

Say an array of 4 elements

That's 0, 1 , 2 , 3

Hence the last element is 4 - 1 = 3

[inland walrus]

So if I put 0 is it going to get the index 0 and play it or is it going to only get the numbers inbetween the min and max?

[frosty heron]

It will get all the numbers in between the range you specify

Test it like acuppa suggest

Event tick, print string the result

[fervent jolt]

Hello. I am trying to get a AIPerception component AIStimulus's sense type (sight hearing etc) so I can send the stimulus correct sense handling function. (hence the switch.)

Currently I use a tmap to quickly set it into an enum, however for some reason it always fails and returns "Sight". I think this may have something to do with the AISense class not showing up as a variable type for blueprints (to make the tmap I had to promote the output of get sense class to a variable, possibly causing this strangeness?)

How can I bypass this issue? I tried making a function to cast instead, but still couldnt cast to the AISense classes (hearing, sight, etc).

[fervent jolt]

found a workaround. this hurt.

[dawn gazelle]

The return value from the Get Sense from Stimulus Return type is AISense, so your "Find" won't work properly since it's trying to find "AISense" rather than the actual class stored in the return value.

[fervent jolt]

ohh that makes sense. I will use the display name of the classes as the key instead

[inland walrus]

This is so strange, I have 4 NPC quest actors in the game. With 40fps, when I delete them, my FPS goes up to over 100fps, any idea why and a fix?

[dawn gazelle]

Anything on them running on timers, tick, or timelines, including any components they may have?

[inland walrus]

Yeah they do but they don't trigger unless the player overlaps

[inland walrus]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ese226wq/

The only thing I think it could be is the fact that there is a lot of exposed on spawn and instance editable maybe

[hybrid lily]

Hello 🤗 I need help with my multiplayer video game project in Unreal Engine 5.5 (Blueprint only)
I'm currently working on an interaction system
I currently have:

• A LineTraceByChanel in an Actor Component attached to my Character
• A BPI_Interactable with the "interact" function
• A 2D interaction widget (HUD) in my PlayerController

I would like to be able to achieve 5 different types of interactions:

• Interact
• Toggle
• Hold
• Repeated Press
• Hold and Release
  For this, I'm using Enhanced Input Action Mapping
  I would also like to be able to configure the parameters (press time, number of times repeated, etc.)
  And can you please tell me where to write this (I'm a beginner, 1 year of Unreal and Blueprint)
  Can you help me please? Thank you 🙏 🤠

[maiden wadi]

For real though. AI can be a lot of things. Anything from you doing something crazy on their BT, their character tick functions, their AI controller tick functions. May not even be gamethread related and you're having gpu issues or renderthread issues of some kind because of them. Can't really track that down without a before and after profile.

Might not even be something you realize doing. Like maybe they're trying to generate an insanely long path every frame, or they're dirtying navmeshes. Not code you've done yourself, but both can be very costly.

[inland walrus]

Yeah, I cant find what's wrong, it might just be a case of dealing with it.

I'm trying to think of potential work around, like maybe on spawning it in when the player overlaps a different blueprint but then I imagine the player will experience large FPS jumps.

It's not the nav as the NPC isn't on a navible area

[maiden wadi]

You can't find what's wrong because you don't have a before and after profile. You're playing darts with a blindfold on. It'll tell you exactly what your issue is.

[inland walrus]

I know, but it's at a point kind of beyond return

Even if I cut events, it still has performance issues

[noble nymph]

Anyone have an idea how to stop a Linetrace hitting through walls

[queen valley]

You probybly have wrong trace channel setup

Check if the channel is visibility in line trace node

[boreal basin]

No dice for my question?

[frosty heron]

Apart from pathing does regular bp operation tick matters?

[maiden wadi]

How do you mean?

[frosty heron]

I won't have more than 30 enemies , just checking to see if it's worth migrating earlier

I used BT with lots of services that run on tick.

Is it advised to be warry of BT ticks?

Or it depends on the operation

Like what sort of logic being run. E.g. resolving paths

[frosty heron]

You can make the same layout. Just match the layout in your input mapping context

Also expand by clicking the down arrow

[radiant kayak]

Just tried another guide and it didn't work either

After having been at this for nearly a week with no results, I may stay in here all night until I can find someone to help me with this lol

If anyone could finally help me solve this problem it would be tremendously appreciated

[chilly gazelle]

When I access an array like this in a blueprint of a different class, am I getting a copy of the array, or directly accessing that array?

[radiant kayak]

This is the BP for my camera currently

To give an idea of what I want it to do

[thin panther]

you're affecting it directly

[radiant kayak]

Really just follow the player at a distance for now, will add more function later

[maiden wadi]

Depends. BTs themselves are rarely that expensive. Specially if you are careful and make each BT as a basic intention instead of making a giant spider.

[radiant kayak]

But all I need at the moment is for anyone to help me change the default camera. At this point I'm beginning to think something is fundamentally broken in my game or level, as no tutorials are working

I have the game mode, player controller, and camera manager set up correctly as far as I can tell, but I'm not sure

It just keeps defaulting the camera to within the player character, depite having attempted to change it in multiple locations

I just brought the camera actor back in, same thing

[chilly gazelle]

Huh, alright. Array operations are the bane of my existence lol removing and adding stuff to arrays makes me rage!

[frosty heron]

Once it click its easy

It's just a container

[radiant kayak]

Are you talking about my camera issue?

[chilly gazelle]

yea i just run into a lot of issues where, for instance, a block to remove an element from an array fires and returns true, but doesn't actually remove the element cause I made a mistake somewhere else.

[radiant kayak]

Just tried changing the player controller to a new one to see if that would help, same with a camera manager, no luck

[frosty heron]

Nope

[boreal basin]

Huh, noted. Tbh I'm trying to use IA_Walk as a combo function for IA_Run in a 'Press the move key softly to walk, press the move key hard to run' sort of command.

[frosty heron]

I don't get the idea of using 2 inputs to achieved what you are aiming.

R we talking about gamepad analogue?

If that's the case you can just get the analogue scalar value. Take it with grain of salt though, I don't do consoles / controller.

[radiant kayak]

Did you happen to see it?

[boreal basin]

No I'm talking about keyboard analouge.

[frosty heron]

Yeah but I don't know if i can elaborate anything.
@radiant kayak

The instruction given to you is to use your own custom camera manager

[boreal basin]

Sorry, tryna translate gamepad control states to keyboard control states.

[frosty heron]

Override the update view function. That will be your final view.

[radiant kayak]

Right, and I feel like I was able to follow each of those steps, but I'm struggling wiht the funciton on the last step

[frosty heron]

As for the view, you can write any logic you need to dictate how the camera behave

[radiant kayak]

Right, I've been trying, haven't found a guide that explains it, haven't seen any visual guides, ahve literally been tryign tof igure this out for a week

[frosty heron]

So iirc update view runs every frame. This will be what your character sees.

[radiant kayak]

Right, so what would those nodes look like?

[frosty heron]

So plugin your target camera transform, then may work

It's not about the node. The function is update view

You will need to provide the input for the final view.

Yeah

Well not really

I am not aware of a function called BlueprintUpdateCamera

Is that a function you create or override?

You need to OVerride update view function.

[radiant kayak]

Override, according to a guide given to me by another perosn here

But I'm willing to throw that guide out and try something else if you can walk me through it

I'm really at the end of my rope with this issue

[frosty heron]

You should see UpdateView function in camera manager

Override that one

I can't add anything else, that's how I do my camera.

[radiant kayak]

I appreciate it, let me check that

[frosty heron]

Also even if you found it, this doesn't make sense at all.

Why are you adding cac?

Tldr you provide w.e the update view is asking

[frosty heron]

Keyboard don't have the same functionality as controller analogue

[radiant kayak]

I'm not seeing this

[frosty heron]

You can only press and release a key

[radiant kayak]

Where specifically is it?

[frosty heron]

Do you know how to override function?

It should be in your custom camera manager

[radiant kayak]

I thought I did

But I'm not seeing "UpdateView"

[obtuse kiln]

Are while loops just completely broken in blueprint? Do they have some really low number of loops they're make before deciding they're infinite or something?

[graceful sage]

?

[frosty heron]

The number is 10k by default iirc. You can change the setting in the project setting.

[obtuse kiln]

I've never been able to use a while loop, even one that should complete in like 5 loops max, successfully
I see people saying to do them in CPP instead when I search

[frosty heron]

Nah, if used incorrectly you will be stuck either way.

For a start you know the loop run in single frame right?

[obtuse kiln]

Yeah.

[frosty heron]

With that in mind if your escape condition is not satisfied , you will be stuck in infinite loop.

[gentle urchin]

forloops work just fine in bp, but they're littered with traps

just like in c++

If there's an option, i prefer to use that instead

ForLoop is my very very last resort

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah like... Plugging in a Pure Getter function that somehow calculates the array to to use = every single iteration of the array that function is re-executed @_@

Oh WHILE loops.... I was thinking For Each XD

[gentle urchin]

Hence I havn't had to use one so far 😄

[frosty heron]

I have 0 while loop in my code base

[gentle urchin]

Actually i might be lying

I might have 1

for my path tracer

[obtuse kiln]

I've no doubt there's a better way, but in my most recent failure I was trying to find an unused save slot name.
Don't have the code in front of me, just what I settled on, but it was basically this but while a while loop and the escape with the does save game exist and a Not bool
I guess maybe it was just too slow.
Also, open to a less dumb way to do this, was just trying to quickly fix the bug my previous version had where if you overwrote a save or deleted one then all subsequent saves would also overwrite something...

[gentle urchin]

hmm, doesnt the spud return save objects already ?

[gentle urchin]

well.,.. its not a forloop... 😄

but its functionally the same lol

[frosty heron]

What is this? Goto?

👀

[gentle urchin]

yeees

im ashamed

[frosty heron]

Don't be, some people say there's a use case for it.

[gentle urchin]

not sure if there's an alternative in this case

i cant know if the loop is done untill i've done the next set of traces

and if its not done, i need to keep at it

[frosty heron]

Yeah when there's no alternative goto is fine based on what some wise people says.

[gentle urchin]

I really should clean up the code some day, but it works, and cleaning doesnt finish the game so...

[frosty heron]

Everytime i start a new project, i make everything pretty

With plenty of documentation

But I'm starting to waver now

I can feel the spaghetti is imminent

[gentle urchin]

haha yepp

starts out good, then some refactoring and extensions happen

"oh, i need to support blah"

some say multiple returns is bad practice

[frosty heron]

Good to see I'm not the only one with addonscreen debug msg

Feel so left out

Planning to upgrade to 5.4 this weekend, maybe I can say goodbye to UELog

[obtuse kiln]

Because I started with zero programming knowledge of any kind I have some serious spaghetti I have to fix at some point. I'm shocked some of it works as well as it does, looking at it now.
And I'm still prone to doing things in very bizarre ways just because I don't realize the easy, quick, correct way to do it or even how to look that correct way up.

[frosty heron]

No one can make Mona Lisa in a day.

I started with spaghetti and shitty system.

And at the present I am still stuck with spaghetti and inferior systems

[gentle urchin]

haha lol

I've been working on my superior quest system for over a year

refactoring and cleaning up never ends

was at 0.9 , almost release ready at one point

then realized my entire setup was flawed/limiting

trying to remove all assumptions of what a quest system is to someone

altho there are general rules that most quests follow, i wanna keep it open for whatever someone can come up with in whatever way they see fit

ended up scrapping my structs and introducing replicated uobjects instead

still some stuff im not super excited about (data and logic being 2 different uobjects for example)

[dark drum]

I thought it was nested if statements.

[boreal basin]

Is there a way to make a IA_Run transition from IA_Dash? Mainly when a player dashes once, the character runs instead of walks.

[cursive drum]

how to have input action with two keys that are opposite, like W for true and S for false

[gentle urchin]

some go very far to avoid nesting

i guess some rule of thumb is max 3 nests if memory serveres me

as always there's exceptions : P

[bright crane]

does event tick not work in gamemode?

[gentle urchin]

it does

[bright crane]

how do i run a blueprint every time the mouse is moved?

[dark drum]

Set up an IA to use the mouse x/y as the input key. The IA event will trigger when the mouse is moved.

[bright crane]

whats IA?

searching about it on google just keeps showing me ai tutorials

[dark drum]

Input action.

[bright crane]

thanks

[wispy kayak]

Hi, how to store my last click of struct array? So the widget will show according to that.

[bright crane]

why is this cast failing?

its an actor no?

[frosty heron]

You are checking against thingy ( please write more descriptive name ). Not actor

[dark drum]

Because the parent actor isn't a 'Thingy'.

A player controller is an actor, the sky down is an actor, the cubes are actors, the player character is an actor etc... Anything that is spawned in the world is an actor. A cast is just a way to check if an actor is a specific type of actor. If the actor isn't of the specific type then the cast will fail.

[frosty heron]

A thingy is an actor but not vice versa

[dark drum]

You can just get the last index from the array. You only need to store it if you might change it during the the first loop.

[bright crane]

so what should i put there instead?

[dark drum]

We'd need to know more about what you're doing and what parent actor is to be able to offer suggestions.

[bright crane]

i got it to work

and i think i understand how casting and classes work(debatable)

thanks for the help

[bright crane]

how do i get the screen position of the dot item

[dry sleet]

IIRC you can achieve that by something along the lines of "cached screen position" or something like that

If you search for 'cached' from the Dot getter, does that give you anything?

Should be a struct of some kind, maybe a Vector2d

GetCachedGeometry I think it might be

Might need to run it through LocalToViewport to get the actual screen position then

[spark field]

someone knows do i need to add a node inbetween add torque and the yellow node?

[boreal basin]

I'm unsure how to achieve it.

[dawn gazelle]

If your character is walking, then that means you likely have IA_Move. IA_Run and IA_Dash should likely set some kind of movement flag that your IA_Move would then be able to use to know that the character is running, and when you press IA_Run again it would set the flag false.

[boreal basin]

I do have IA_Dash activated when the move keys are pressed twice, if it helps. I plan to have it so that if the player is moving via the keys still after IA_Dash has been pressed, then the character runs.

[pulsar hazel]

newbiee question: what is the easiest way to remove the first person gun in run time (that default one that you need to 'collect' to add)

[dawn gazelle]

Essentially:
IA_Run > Set "IsRunning" to NOT IsRunning. (this will then act as a toggle)
IA_Dash > Set "IsRunning" to True + Whatever "Dash" logic you may have
IA_Move > Add Movement Input & use IsRunning value to help determine movement speed

[boreal basin]

Huh, noted. Before I start, would you need the blueprint as it is?(will share it tommorow) Only have the basic IA_Move and IA_Dash setup.

[bright crane]

yoo thanks man

[lament adder]

Hey Im building a car config. Is there any blueprint expert who could help me please?

[bright crane]

isnt there a car preset when youre making a new project?

cant you just copy paste it from there?

[lament adder]

Yes im using the variant manager templet but I need a few things in that Like I need the camera to spin when idle.

around the model

[bright crane]

idk like this?

[ionic quiver]

I would like to recreate the drawing functionality of the foliage tool. Where you can click and drag and it populates X thing with at least a certain distance between the points.

I can do a trace based on the camera but I'm a bit stumped on how to get points at least X distance apart in the area like the foliage tool. Does anyone have any info that could help point me in the right direction?

[lament adder]

Appreciate your help but that doesnt work

[bright crane]

what abt this

[lament adder]

Yea maybe if I use a spring arm instead of the templet. But any idea how do I spin the camera when idle?

This would spin every frame

like idle for 3 sec then it should spin and stops when i move the cam

[bright crane]

the way i would do it is i would create a variable that constantly goes up every second and if it reaches lets say 20 seconds then it would start rotating and everytim the player does anything the variable resets to zero

[leaden sun]

What can I use instead of BP structs? I've had endless issues with changes to structs causing my entire project to break in various weird ways, so I need an alternative which can emulate that of a struct, and be easily serialised to a Save Game - any thoughts much appreciated!

[lament adder]

I created this with some help. It works on a 3rd person character but not for the pawn im using. No idea why

[somber tide]

Anyone know of a way to have the character movement base ignore certain actors? I’m having an issue where jumping over physics objects on a moving platform breaks the character’s connection to the base platform

[dawn gazelle]

It's better to plan out what you're going to need with your structures first before you start using them. So long as you don't change the definition you'll usually be fine.
Otherwise, define your structures in C++ and you shouldn't run into problems with structures.

[leaden sun]

are C++ structures actually more reliable than the BP equivalent?

and are they more receptive to change than BP structs?

It's better to plan out what you're going to need with your structures first before you start using them. So long as you don't change the definition you'll usually be fine.
this is a very unrealistic way of building software 😄

[bright crane]

shouldnt this be the other way around?

[frigid jasper]

is there a tool for blueprints that shows me their execution time directly? (similar to how the control rig graph does it, though stilldifferent obvioulsly since that runs on it's own VM)
or is the profiler the only way to do this?

[lament adder]

I just checked it seemed right. maybe a bit confusing. so if it isnt moving it should do anything but if its moving then execute the spin function

[bright crane]

i feel like this would solve it

sry im not on my pc anymore