blueprint

[surreal peak]

In theory even that can be done in the BehaviorTree.

The BehaviorTree would have a parallel running node for moving, so you wouldn't run into the problem that two things want to move somewhere and override eachother.

[snow halo]

Which ones are better tho? behavior trees or state trees?

[surreal peak]

StateTree is newer and more generic. You can use either, but if you are just getting started it might be easier via BehaviorTrees. Also not sure how BP extendable StateTrees are atm.

[cosmic venture]

I'm making my game and within it, I've created a pause menu to choose various options such as: objects, characters, save, exit, so far so good, but when I test it and hit start, the menu opens, but when I hit start again to close, this menu doesn't close, can you help me?

[fierce birch]

Is it set to execute when paused?

Breakpoint the branch and does it get triggered after you paused?

[fierce birch]

Behavior trees in my knowledge are more bp extendable than state trees atm

[cosmic venture]

When I start the game and press start to open the menu, it opens, but when I press start again to close it, it doesn't close.

[frosty heron]

Click the input action and print screen the detail panel

[little apex]

Thank you so much. Is there any specific reference project, tutorial, or anything else that you might be able to possibly point me to with further specifics as to how to set this functionality up?

I’d want the image upload functionality to be triggered via a widget BP during runtime. I already have a BPI set up that can, when a button in the WBP is pressed, changes the texture of the material I want to change, but I don’t know how to add the functionality that will prompt users to upload an image during runtime

[cosmic venture]

aqui te refieres?

[frosty heron]

Here where it says pressed. Clicked on the node and screen shoot the detail panel.

[surreal peak]

Sounds to me like their UI is taking the Input and the Game doesn't get the pressed event anymore.

The old InputSystem they are using (which they shouldn't use anymore......) doesn't really have a way around that.

EnhancedInput + CommonUI/CommonInput would be the way.

[frosty heron]

On holiday and can't confirm but in the old system, I think there is a bool that stops the key from getting consumed if the game is paused.

But yeah, wouldn't ever use a legacy input beyond prototyping.

[surreal peak]

Yeah but that's for Pausing/Unpausing, which in-itself is problematic (usually one sets the TimeDilation to 0.f).

What happens here is that the PauseMenu Widget is probably just consuming the input.

[frosty heron]

Can I ask if that works alright in mp?

Cuz i think you said pausing is a shit show in mp

[surreal peak]

If the Server sets it, then everything is locked.

There isn't really a Client-side Pause

[frosty heron]

0o

I will test that later. Ty

[ruby ivy]

hi how can i set parameter of material instence with blueprint node ?

[frosty heron]

Set scalar param value for floats.

Set texture param for texture2d

There is also one's for vector and color. You get the idea.

[ruby ivy]

am i need a create dynamic material instance

[frosty heron]

Yeah, as the name suggests dynamic means the material can be changed.

So if you want a door that can change in color, that door needs to use a dynamic material

Create an instance of the dynamic material and assign it to the object.

[ruby ivy]

okey i fix it thanks

[dreamy stirrup]

Does anyone out there have experience with the Menu widget in the VR Template? I’m no longer able to get it to close, it just opens another menu and I’m not sure how to best debug to find the issue. I see inside the default 'Toggle Menu' function, the menu reference is never returning valid, but I don't know why or where to look.

[surreal peak]

You might want to show the code of that ToggleMenu function

If it actively creates the Widget, then it might just not be setting the reference

[dreamy stirrup]

Ok, this is what's in the Toggle Menu function. I haven't made any changes from the default outside of changing the class in the SpawnActor

[frosty heron]

You are not keeping a reference to the bp menu you spawn btw.

So there's no way to communicate with it.

See the return value on your spawn node.

You need to assign that to a variable.

Menu reference is never set.

[dreamy stirrup]

Ok, so I need to connect the spawn return value to the menu reference setter?

[frosty heron]

Btw it helps knowing what is an actor, and what is a widget component and what is widget.

I have a feeling you are mixing up objects in your function.

[dreamy stirrup]

You kind of lost me there. Which function are you referring to?

[frosty heron]

Referring the image you posted.

If menu reference is a widget then you won't be able to shove an actor reference because they are not the same type.

[dreamy stirrup]

Ok, yeah the menu reference is a widget (I think).

[frosty heron]

Well since you are working with VR. You will have to use widget component.

Your bp menu is an actor.

A widget component can hold a widget.

You need to know what they are before you proceed imo.

Or you will just get confused.

[dreamy stirrup]

Ok, I may have been wrong. If I replace the class from BP Menu to the original template default Menu and then connect that return value to the reference it works. So maybe it is an actor?

However, when I change the Menu Reference type to BP Menu rather than type Menu it fails to compile because of the type of Close Menu. Close Menu is an even it the BP_Menu, how do I change the type this expects though?

Nevermind, I was over thinking it. I got it working properly again. Thank you for your help!

[wicked surge]

Hi, I couldn't find a Widget-specific forum, but this is a question about WidgetBlueprints...what does "bubble" and "tunnel" mean in the context of the Widget elements (please see attached screenshot)?

[timid sand]

Hi All,

Does anyone know via blueprints how to spawn a Chaos Cache Collection into a level ?

Ive seen several similar posts on the UE forums but no one has an answer. The chaos cache items wont appear under spawn actor, effect … nothing at all.

Thanks

Mikey

[surreal peak]

#umg is the blueprint widget-specific channel.

[surreal peak]

To answer the question though: UMG/Slate Widgets are building a tree-like structure, with some widgets being able to have one or more child-widgets and others being purely leaf-widgets. That's a key thing to understand.

Bubbling

This describes the flow from Leaf-Widget to Root-Widget.
The Leaf-Widget of the current FocusPath, which is usually the actively focused Widget, will get a chance to "handle" or "consume" the event, before it "bubbles up" to the parent. The parent then gets a chance before the grandparent gets a chance, etc. etc. until we are at the root widget.
If any of the widgets on the way handle/consume the event, no other widget above it will be able to react to the event anymore.

E.g. if the leaf widget reacts to LeftMouseButton being pressed and returns HANDLED, then no widget above it will get to react to the LeftMouseButton press.

It's called bubbling, because of how bubbles underwater move upwards.

Tunneling

Basically the opposite. It moves from root to leaf. The rest applies but just inverted.

It's called tunneling, because of how a tunnel goes from top to bottom through the earth.

Peeps like to choose words that somewhat represent what their thing is about without it actually being the same :D so don't get too hung up about those.

[cosmic venture]

sorry i was taking a nap

[dreamy mountain]

hey, which node would i use to update the location of a widget to match the location of the cursor? or better yet, is there a way to set the cursor to a specific image?

[kind estuary]

Does Hit events always require Simulate Physics?

Im not being able to detect hit event without Simulate Physics ticked ?

I have these objects in the world that the player goes around them, but must also detect when you collide with them

I dont need physics, just need the cube to detect if a character touches it

Using overlap is not working because the cube is blocking already

Shoul i use 2 collisions for this? One to block and another to detect character overlap?

[maiden wadi]

Hit events do not require physics, but they do require sweeping movements. Traditionally this will be a root object like a character's capsule. For example a sword being swung by animations is usually not swept and so will not cause hit events. A projectile usually has it's own movement component that moves it with a sphere or other base collision object that the movement component sweeps and so tends to trigger hit events.

[dawn gazelle]

You can search for some tutorials on cursors on youtube it's a few clicks in the preferences to set up a new cursor. From what I gather, Hardware = it uses just the base texture image you provide. Software = Uses a widget which can have additional logic and other fun stuff within the widget.

[obsidian hollow]

i have a system where an object currently being picked up changes to a translucent texture. my issue is that when dropped, it does not know what material to change back into. i tried to do this to get and store its texture when hit by the line trace, but this isnt working (simplified / isolated here cuz my nodes are a mess) what should i do?

[dawn gazelle]

You probably want to use "Element Index" from the hit results rather than the "Hit Item".

[obsidian hollow]

works perfect, thank you!!

[kind estuary]

yeah though its my character capsule that is colliding with the Cube with Collision on Block, and the Hit event is not firing.

I mean shouldnt the cube detect block collision?

[dreamy mountain]

i managed to get it; i now have a different but basic issue that i could probably work out but im not seeing it
for some reason, the cast fails

thats how i spawn the enemy, it just keeps failing for seemingly no reason

[dusky cobalt]

Try change collision settings on SpawnActor node

[dreamy mountain]

found the issue, it only triggered when i do the transition between characters

so because im possessing something that isnt a character, it fails the cast

[dawn gazelle]

Casts failing means either the thing you're feeding in isn't valid or it isn't of the type you're casting to.

[odd kiln]

Hi all !

I made a Dash with the "Set Actor Location" node to customize it as I want (distance, speed, etc..)

But I have an issue when I'm using this on a slope (up)

My Character is stuck due to the collision of the ground I guess

Any tips ?

[mental trellis]

You could use the step distance to move the character up that much and see if it still collides. If it doesn't, repeat the trace from there, taking away the distance travelled.

And repeat that until you're out of distance to move.

You'd only hit issues where there's a gap that is roughly the same size as the character.

[wise tiger]

Yoooo Kamron my man you did it!!! It works perfectly!!

[odd kiln]

So you mean while the Timeline of the "dash" function I have to spawn traces to check the Ground Impact Location and set my Character up a few each time ?

[mental trellis]

Correct

[odd kiln]

But how to know "how much" I need to move up my Character ? Because it depends on the slope angle, right ?

[mental trellis]

Use the step up distance of the character?

If it's more than that, don't dash up it?

[odd kiln]

What is the step up distance ?

The "Max Step Height" of my "Character Movement", or the "Max Simulation Time Step" ?

[little apex]

Just following up on this @surreal peak in case you had more insight to lend? I understand if not and really appreciate your help thus far.

[sweet leaf]

you probably want the Max Step Height of character movement, as that determines how much of a slope the character can walk up.

Max Simulation Time Step seems to be more related to how often (in time) unreal will check gravity related information related to the character movement.

Beat Em' Up Spawn Location Help

[hexed cloak]

Glad to hear it 🙂

[odd kiln]

So you say I have to move up the Character of my Max Step Height value ?

[sweet leaf]

From what Daekesh is saying, and i'm still newish to Unreal so take my advice with a grain of salt is

When you enable the dash, you trace out but increase the height by that Max Step Height value. If you still collide, don't follow through with the dash (as it's too high to dash over, or you could get where the trace collides I guess and just dash to the collision point)

[mental trellis]

That was a suggestion 😛 You can probably do it in a more complex way.

[wise tiger]

Sooooo guess what, I"m having a problem with the last funciton of the game

I did everything else

it's done except this

and it's this, for some reason this does not work, the text won't show the item

oh this is a older photo btw. But all I changed is that I amde a "Master_Customer" Blueprint to hold all my customers

[dawn gazelle]

How are you setting the value to your "Customer Reference" variable?

[wise tiger]

like this

[wise tiger]

oh wait sorry

I changed the Variable, it's now a object reference to "Master Custoemr" wich holds all my customers

[dawn gazelle]

How do you set its value?

It may be of type "Master Customer" but which customer is being set as the value?

[wise tiger]

it's "customer1" since it's the only one I have

for now

[dawn gazelle]

How are you setting its value?

Not asking what the value is, but what are you doing to ensure there is a value in it?

[wise tiger]

If you mean how I make sure what items he wants I use an Array with all the items in it

[dawn gazelle]

No, I am asking, you have a variable called "Customer Reference". That variable can contain reference to a specific spawned customer how do you set the value of that "Customer Reference" variable.

[lofty rapids]

what does the note say on the cast ?

[wise tiger]

oooh...I think I forgot to set it

[dawn gazelle]

Very likely to say something along the lines of already inherits from the class so cast is unnecessary.

[wise tiger]

this one?

[lofty rapids]

ok so now it's gone

[wise tiger]

oh yeah it just said that I aleardy had a refference to it

[wise tiger]

exactly this

[inland walrus]

This is making my AI (or anyone with this event) slightly look up. Like it works, It's doing the right job, just slightly looking upwards. Any ideas?

Im going to try split and not use the z axis

didn't work

[lofty rapids]

why didn't you split the target as well ?

[wise tiger]

it's because they're rotating at the actor on all 3 axis

[inland walrus]

got you, thanks

[maiden wadi]

It's because the Attack Target is higher than the center of the actor.

[inland walrus]

Splitting the target seems to have it working

[lofty rapids]

hopefully your z is at zero

[inland walrus]

Yup

[willow gate]

Hey everyone. I have a general question I wanted to put out there to all of you real programmers. I made a simple dialogue system for my game and I'm really happy with it. It just uses an actor component I can place on any actor and in that component I have a few variables: An array of strings for the dialogue, a float which gives a delay time between characters, a sound base for the dialogue sound effects, and a texture 2d for the character portrait.

My question is this: is there a major advantage to converting this to a data-driven system, ie: making a datatable that stores a struct with the 4 variables above, for each NPC or is it efficient enough just to create unique NPCs with their own variables and swap them out when they have follow-on dialogue through plot progression?

[hybrid lily]

Greetings 🤗 I need help understanding the difference between Enumerator and GameplayTag
I'm interested in GAS because it seems to be highly recommended for a multiplayer project with characters with different attributes, states, etc

But I'm confused because I can see different types of Tags used in different places, especially for the character's movements/locomotion/stance. I understand that GameplayTags allow in-game actions to be authorized whether the player has a tag or not, etc. So, if they're running, they can't do certain things, for example.

My problem is that, according to my research, it uses enumerations for exclusive states (an actor can only have one state at a time), as well as static and fixed options (not modifiable at runtime). GameplayTags are perfect for anything dynamic and modifiable (add/remove while running) and combinable states (Bleeding + Stunned, etc.) 👀

Could you please explain why this isn't done as an enumeration instead of GameplayTags, for example:
Enum_LifeState

• Alive
• Dead
  Enum_HealthTrend
• Worsening
• Stable
• Recovering
  Enum_ConsciousnessState
• Awake
• Sleeping
• Drowsy
• Stunned
• Comatose
• Unconscious
  Enum_CharacterPosture
• Standing
• Sitting
• Crouching
• Prone
• Hanging
• Leaning
• Kneeling
• Lying
  Enum_CharacterLocomotionMode
• Grounded
• Aerial
• Submerged

[faint creek]

Hi guys, somebody could help me to figure out why my enemies spawn at a distance like 200 or 500 if the radius is 3000?

[willow gate]

Because you're getting a random point within the radius of 3000. When you set your radius using random float in range, you're not changing the parameters in the "GetRandomReachablePointInRadius".

[faint creek]

So how can I spawn enemies from a minimum distance from the player?

[willow gate]

Well, I'm sure there are several ways to skin this cat but you could do a for loop with a break which gets a random point in radius, then checks the distance from the player and if it is too close, it loops again, until it finds a point that is farther than your min distance then breaks the loop.

[odd kiln]

If I just use the "Set Velocity" node from the "Character Movement Component" ?

[willow gate]

I'll give you a quick example to get you started in a sec.

[willow gate]

Something like this will probably work

Though a smarter person in here may have a more efficient way.

[faint creek]

wow boy thx :))
I never used "For loop with Break"

[willow gate]

It's a useful tool to have in your arsenol. 😉

[willow gate]

Do you understand what it's doing?

[faint creek]

Yes but I don't understand the break

The difference between for each loop and the loop with break

[willow gate]

So what the break does is stops the loop when the condition is met. So if you just did a for loop it would iterate until it reached the last index. So in the example above it would loop 500 times no matter what it found. A for loop with a break stops when that break execution pin is executed. So in the above example, every iteration of the loop checks a random point, measures the distance from the player, if it is too close then it loops again. If the distance is far enough away, based on the Minimum Spawn Distance variable, you can see the redirect nodes fire off the "break" in the loop, and that in turn, executes the "Completed" pin, which spawns your character based on the last found location. And actually that won't work the way I have it. It needs to be modified slightly.

[faint creek]

Cooooool, thx for the help I'm going to test it 🍻

[willow gate]

No worries. So in the modified example, it stores the location every loop and then uses that stored location for the spawn, then nullifies the location after spawning. Cheers. Hope that works for you. I have to take off for a while.

[faint creek]

Thx🫶

[odd kiln]

I got it with this method. Pretty simple. Thank you all !

[sand shore]

Is there a major advantage to converting this to a data-driven system?

It really depends on your setup. Do you give these NPCs a lot of these dialog components?

I'll say this: Data assets are lighter weight (memory, both on disk and in ram) than full Components, but what matters most is that you can understand the system and that it works well enough for the type of dialog you expect in the game.

Do you need to make deeply contextual branching path narratives for your late game? Try it out right now! Make sure it works.

Do you just need to have a sequence of text that players are probably spam-clicking through? Your setup probably works.

Something to avoid is having duplicated logic. Make a base component for dialog that has all the functionality, and then make a child of that for the specific data.

One limitation that I can see with the setup you describe is that it might be challenging to have group conversations, or conversations where the partipants do not evenly take turns. So if John has two lines in a row, then Mary says something, the George has 3 lines, and John finishes the conversation... how would you express that in your system?

Personally, I'd either choose a dialog system from the marketplace, or build off of something like Flow Graph: https://github.com/MothCocoon/FlowGraph

(This is because if I were to add dialog to one of my games, it'd tend to be deeper than just clicking through a linear text)

[willow gate]

Thanks for the detailed response. Based off of what you said, I think because of the simple nature of my game's dialogue, I'll be fine building off of my current system and won't worry about making it data driven. I have several delegate events in my base dialogue component that can help me build additional functionality for things like group conversations and also for conversation stages as the character progresses or completes tasks for an NPC.

[willow gate]

Flowgraph looks really awesome. I may have to look at implementing this to handle all my game's narrative elements.

[sand shore]

Make sure to test the most complex case you expect before you start content production on dialouge

[maiden wadi]

I'm unsure what you're saying uses enums? The short answer is that enums are terrible outside of ideals where you can define very specific small sets of exclusive states. Most of these don't look like anything to do with GAS outside of maybe the life state. They look like AnimBP helpers. And while connected, are not the same.

One example of how this is terribly muddled is the LifeState and ConsciousnessState. Why are these two different things? You cannot have any consciousness state while dead. You have to be alive for any of these to apply. So unless you need a special third life state where it does not apply to consciousness somehow LifeState is excessive when you can just put the Dead state on Consciousness.

ConsciousnessState in itself is a mess as well. You have be awake to be drowsy or stunned which implies drowsy and stunned is a substate of being awake. Comatose, Unconscious and Sleeping are the same thing, or at least Unconscious and Comatose are substates of sleeping. Things that can be cleared up by having a tag hierarchy.

HealthTrend is also not really useful outside of being a helper in an animation BP or something. You usually have something akin to HealthRegen attribute to tell you if it's going up or down or not moving. The enum is just a slightly unnecessary layer on top of that.

But the end answer is that Enums, FNames, and GameplayTags all serve the same purpose. They're named definitions that serve as state on things.
Enums cap out at 256 entries per idea and are not tiered but cannot be typoed and require their own full class to define each one.
FNames are infinite, not tiered and can be typoed, requires no extra class.
GameplayTags are infinite, tiered, and cannot be typoed, requires no extra class.

[sick sky]

looks like you copy pasted a node where it shouldnt be

[plush ledge]

hey, how can i change the static mesh of a child component? so far i didnt get very far
first screenshot is from the parent blueprint
second screenshot is from the child blueprint

it cannot be that hard can it?

never mind, i apperantly fixed it already half an hour ago, just forgot to check if the exposed varieble worked in the child

[frosty heron]

A suggestion to not use child actor component.

They r soo buggy that epic employee said avoid it

If it needs to be saved in any form, then don't use child actor.

E.g are you going to give shield to pre placed actor in the world? Then don't use child actor component.

[teal blade]

Hey guys, I'm losing my mind over here. I'm working on a project based on GASP-ALS, and I can't seem to move when inhabiting spectator pawns? I can rotate the camera and look around, but not for any amount of love or money can I get that little guy to move. Anyone else run into this?

[errant harness]

Hey all! I'm using Unreal 5.5+, and when my character moves it doesn't change the direction with the camera rotation. Here's my blueprints for camera and movement, I'm pretty new so bare with me!

[errant harness]

Are you using blueprints or code?

EDIT: I'm an idiot. What do your blueprints look like?

[chilly crane]

This isn't going to cause an "infinate loop" error is it?

[lunar sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/no-ragrets-no-regrets-fail-gif-4946750

[dawn gazelle]

Shouldn't.

[lunar sleet]

Really, you’re not gonna ask to see the rest of the code? 😃

[dawn gazelle]

Nah. If there was no delay, then there would be an infinite loop.

[lunar sleet]

What if he put this stuff inside for loops?

[dawn gazelle]

The delay would be reset.

Or discarded.

[lunar sleet]

Ah right good point 🧠

[chilly crane]

the other option would be a timer by event, but I don't plan on ever having regen disabled, it just clamps the value if it's already maxed

[dawn gazelle]

If these are both being run at the same time, then it might be beneficial to use a timer, just so they tick at the same time rather than relying on effectively two separate timers.

[chilly crane]

they're separate stats so I don't mind if they're not on the same tick, but I suppose I could put them together

[dawn gazelle]

"savings" in performance being rather negligible tho 😛

[lunar sleet]

Would look better tho 😀

[chilly crane]

also while I'm here, how do I cancel the anim to get the "interrupted" node triggered

[chilly crane]

alright, well I'll move it into 1 line 😄

[errant harness]

Any help here?

[plush ledge]

the shield is just a ability thats shields around the character in a sphere, destroys itself when all shells are broken. i think i just went a little overboard since i modelled the shield to be built out of 42 segments. each with thier own health pool. im not quite fimmiliar with arrays yet since its my 8th day learning blueprints so this was the most logical solution without breaking my head, since they are all animated with materials, timers, paramaters, etc. i decided to make 1 child shield shell to do all the code and then copy swap thier meshes to form the full shield. this was a little more scaleble for me if i wanted to do some more fancy stuff

[dawn gazelle]

If you want your player movement to take the camera rotation into account, you need to use the camera's rotation or the control rotation into account for the world direction of your "Add movement input" nodes. This example is in the Third Person Template.

[errant harness]

I could literally marry you for showing me this thank you

[soft pewter]

Bought a mac mini to port my unreal project to mac os. My play button doesn't work on mac builds for some reason. On click it just restarts the main menu instead of loading the level. Is there some mac specific settings I need to set to get this to work? My play button logic is:

The sequence is because I was later planning on tracking the number of runs but I can remove it if that is one of the causes.

Edit: Overall logic is the menu is a level with a widget that acts as the main menu. The buttons trigger various actions such as opening the level, settings menu, and credits. It works on windows but not on mac.

[frosty heron]

Do you mean maybe you can't open the level in packaged build?

You would need to include the map for packaging if that's the case.

[soft pewter]

Sorry, yes in the packaged build. In unreal editor preview in the mac I can hit play and it runs but when I build and run the .app it doesn't load the level when I hit play. I was hitting mac os build to get a the build compiled. I'll look into seeing how can specifically add the level, thanks.

[frosty heron]

Go to project settings and go to maps section. Look for include map section and add your map.

The reason your game restart to star up map is because it cannot find the map to go to.

[soft pewter]

Project > Maps & Modes, right? I see game default map is set to my main menu level? Didn't see any other relevant option. Did some googling off what you told me, could it be the packaging section with "List of maps to include in packaged build" section?

It was the packaging include section, thanks!

Out of curiosity, why do I need to do include on mac but the windows buils automatically pulls the required level when I build for it? 🤔

[steady night]

https://gyazo.com/d39c12c93ce981ae13d53090bfe19725

Can Anyone Help me understand why my aimOffset dosent work

itworks in the Anim Graph as it shoud but its not changing "in th real world"+

[gusty onyx]

Anyone familiar with state trees? I need to know how to interrupt a 'play montage' animation. I am running most anims with animBP for aimOffset etc. I just want the ability to play montages in my state tree and have them cancelled when i leave the state.

[gusty onyx]

OK, nevermind. I solved it. Kinda obvious. Just get the animBP and stop that specific montage

[astral pilot]

For this I just have to find/set the missing select cases right?

[inland walrus]

Anyone know why this isn't working?

cast is failing

[frosty heron]

Casting is just a type check.

If your cast failed then the object you are casting is not the type that you are casting into.

[inland walrus]

Fixed! I had to set owner of the sword

[inland walrus]

I have an issue where AI is damaging themselves when swinging sword, I still need them to be able to hit everyone but themselves (other ai)

[dusky cobalt]

damage only if the hit actor is not the owner of the sword

[inland walrus]

ahh nice I'll try that

[inland walrus]

How do I get owner to fit bool?

[dusky cobalt]

All you need to do is before you deal damage, check if the hit actor is not self. No idea about your architecture of things and what hits and what deals damage, but this is just main idea to fix issue where AI is damaging themselves when swinging sword. Just make check so they don't react to hiting themselves.

[wheat saffron]

i added a camera shake to the camera of the first person blueprint in the first person example project , the camera is shaking but the first person mesh is not. now when i pick up the gun it is wobbling around, how can i make the camera shake affect the gun aswell? it is attached to the camera so i dont understand the issue

[random pulsar]

how can i control tile size ?
for example i want to add collision to ground tiles,and they will be the same size as the grass,but i want them to be a lot smaller on z axis

[verbal reef]

yo, why does niagara over scale?

Im changing the niagara component's scale itself

getting mid point correctly

[random pulsar]

how also how can i optimize it?

[verbal reef]

line tracing correctly

ive debugged and checked all of it

[little moat]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ypahe654/

Can someone help? I'm trying to create a system where I save the npcs future locations to an array so I can calculate if they collide and if I need to set up a new course for the npcs. But I don't know how do I handle removing the previous points where they were gonna be in.

Wdym be event

I'm rusty

Should work?? I think

Why doesn't it work?

You don't see the even when accessing the child?

Ohh right you have a custom event that's in a child and you want to set it on the parent bp. Yeah it doesn't work like that

Afaik custom events are local to the blueprint

So an event dispatcher not a custom event?

Wdym by that?

Well do you have the child as a variable

https://blueprintue.com/

Use this and show me the thing that works and what doesn't

[storm solar]

For am event trigger of "On landing" if you check if the user is also falling itll return true. Why is that? Seems counterintuitive.

[hybrid lily]

Thank you very much for your feedback, it helps me a lot and I hadn't thought about the subcategories of each state. From now on I want to do everything in Gameplaytags haha

[little moat]

Help 😭

[willow gate]

Good morning smart people. So, I'm trying to set up a simple camera move system for my ARPG. I have a camera boom on my character that is a child of the Capsule Component. It doesn't us pawn control rotation or inherit pitch, yaw or roll because I want it to stay oriented in the same world rotation all the time while the character can move and rotate however they want. The code I snipped here works except that the relative direction changes when the player rotates. My brain isn't wrapping around how to fix the issue so that X is always horizontal and Y is always verticle. The camera doesn't need to move in the z or zoom at all. I've included a screenshot of the BP, the Boom/Character setup and an in-game look at the normal camera behavior.

[astral pilot]

Just had to add back the surface type in the physics settings in project settings

[sand shore]

This is a really good amount of framing for your issue here. I like that you shared relevant code, showed the attachment, and the baseline camera behavior. You haven’t shown what happens when you use your Look Input, though.

I can guess at what the behavior when you Look Input is, though.

Try using Add World Offset. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ab1gwl0maU

you wanna apply your camera inputs via Add World Offset. But then, when the camera input stops, you wanna bring that back to alignment— I wanna say Set Relative Location will work since you’re using 0,0,0 relative location. If not, you would have to use your desired offset in world space instead, using your camera boom component’s worldspace location as a base location for the worldspace offset

This will only work for the code you currently showed. It seems like you might want to have the player able to smoothly move the camera around, yeah? If that’s true, you’ll need to always compute the LookOffset relative to the Camera Boom’s worldspace location. Good news- you can simplify the class. You won’t need to Set Relative Location or keep track of moving the camera - as long as you set the camera input variables to 0

And I say that because using Triggered is a little unusual for a 2D input. If you want smooth look input, you should make use of Ongoing as well

If you use Add World Offset with Ongoing, the player will be able to pilot the camera all over the place, not just within a fixed radius of the pawn

[willow gate]

Awesome. Thank you. I'll try to implement this later when I get home. Yes I want smooth camera movement but that's actually already built in with the camera lag. It makes sense to use ongoing so thanks for that. I'll give that a whirl. As far as the camera being constrained to the radius of the pawn, I'm planning on clamping the distance anyway because I really just want the player to be able to get a little look ahead rather than be able to glide over the entire map.

[sand shore]

I encourage you to try applying World Offset to your current code before making use of Ongoing. You prolly wanna be very fast with the thumb stick

[inland walrus]

Any easy methods on stopping them overlapping and perhaps flanking around the player?

[willow gate]

Sounds good. I will try that first. Thanks so much!

[sand shore]

Nothing in gamedev is ever so trivial as that, but you could probably use EQS to find points around the player and then assign each ai a different point. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/environment-query-system-in-unreal-engine

[inland walrus]

If I wanted to search for tutorials etc to do this very thing, any idea what I'd search? I tried AI flanking

[exotic gazelle]

Hello there, im having issues with blueprints in general and i dont know how to solve this, is there any way to "rotate" the forward vector of player?
Basically in my game, the camera is independent from the player (cause the player 1 and 2 share it) and it spins around the map. So the issue that i have is that, when the camera does a 90º turn the movement of the players stays the same. Is there any way to make it spin according to the camera? I tried a lot of things and they dont work that well :(

[sand shore]

I searched Unreal ai surround eqs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OucDvXyEpw&pp=ygUWVW5yZWFsIGFpIHN1cnJvdW5kIGVxc9IHCQl-CQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

No idea if this is exactly what you want tho

[dawn gazelle]

Rather than worrying about the forward vector of the player, you would worry about the control rotation or the rotation of the camera.

There is an example of this using the control rotation in the third person example project.

[inland walrus]

This is for shooting AI, I need it for melee

[sand shore]

Nothing about this is fundamentally incompatible with melee AI

[dawn gazelle]

Only difference between melee and ranged AI is the acceptable distance.

[sand shore]

Why do you need the tutorial to be so specific to your case?

[inland walrus]

Ah okay, I will give it a try and let you guys know & mainly to make it easier, I haven't worked with EQs before so I'd be jumping in the deep end

[sand shore]

Definitely give it a try- as you’re going through the video you might pause every so often and think about what to change so it works for your project. Maybe skip ahead to the eqs part, maybe don’t try copying it step by step without watching it through once

Are you using source control? You could try the tutorial in a copy of your project if you don’t want to use source control or make a backup

Also, if you want a deeper dive into EQS, there are lots of those. Here’s one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwX1hmlsLM4&t=190s

@inland walrus

[plush ledge]

hi everyone!

im trying to figure out how i can make this shield ball roll like a hamster ball around the character. i want the ball not to roll on its Z axis when the character turns. i have already made 3 versions of this that didnt all work quite well since the ball would roll up untill the rotation axis started mixing and roll wierdly sideways/45 degrees, etc

if someone would have the time to show me an example of how i can make this work and explain me what happens i'd be very thankfull. vector math isnt my strong suit yet D:

[inland walrus]

Thanks you, I am certainly struggling. I have managed to get this but I don't know where to go from here

[wise tiger]

Does anybody know why it says "BluePotion_C"? specifically the C part

[abstract mango]

Ok I'm totally lost here ... how do I rename the Pin of the lower Blendspace in the AnimBlueprint?

I somehow must change it from "None" to "Speed" 😐

[dawn gazelle]

That's part of how display names of objects are shown. You should really use a Text type variable for display names of things. You could store it within your base item class and then use "Get Class Default" from the class reference you're using right now to retrieve the text variable.

[wise tiger]

Got it, thanks

[fair tapir]

Is there a reason why one of these have a line between the actor and component and the other doesn't?

Wondering because the ProjectileMovenent gets removed when pressing play, and I have no idea why.

[sick sky]

if the right screen is taken in the details panel while playing its probably because its simulated

simulated objects are detached from their static parent

[fair tapir]

Both are taken in the BP editor and not in playmode

[sick sky]

is one the child of the other ?

[fair tapir]

Yeah Base -> Frag

Hmm nvm that seems to explain it.

[dawn gazelle]

Scene Components vs. Actor Components. Scene Components are attached to your actor in some way and have a location within the world. Actor Components do not.

[fair tapir]

Why would that change between actors with the same component?

[dawn gazelle]

That is defintiely a good question. I think that line should always be there 😛

As to why, I see the same behavior - the line only appears with child classes that have the actor component in the parent.

[fair tapir]

Hmm alright thanks for checking that. That component just vanishes when hitting play if inherited form c++ but is fine if added in blueprints so I just started suspecting every small detail lol. Been at it for an hour or so already.

[lunar sleet]

C stands for……….Class

[wise tiger]

I fixed it aleardy. And I knew that, maybe I should've been more clear, I needed help with removing it

[lunar sleet]

Oh haha

Yeah just a quick string manipulation will do it

[wise tiger]

I just used Left Chop to remove the last 2 letters

[willow gate]

Thanks. This worked great. I just need to clamp it now to a max distance and this will work!

[thin panther]

Just to reiterate what Datura said, you really don't want your UI using strings. It prevents it from ever being localizable

[wise tiger]

Even so it works for what I need it to do , and I'm pretty sure it won't mess with anything in this specific project. And even if it does, I'll deal with it when it happens

[chrome pumice]

yo guys i followed this yt tutorial to make my character rotate with his camera up and down. but its doesnt work for multiplayer. should i update and multicast the pitch rotation of the character perma? wouldnt that overload and cause lags?

i made the variable replicated but now its only working for the sevrer and for none of the clients

[willow gate]

Hey all. I'm still working on the camera movement system, using my right thumbstick. AddWorldOffset works like a charm but I need to clamp the camera boom location to within a range of my player character so that the player can't just use the right thumbstick to explore the whole map. How would I go about doing that?

[dawn gazelle]

Base Aim Rotation is already replicated for you

[willow gate]

I've tried several different things including this latest attempt but I guess I'm just not understanding correctly how I can clamp this component to a distance from the parent actor:

[chrome pumice]

but not up and down, i wanna make the character like rotate up and down with it

[dawn gazelle]

Base Aim Rotation is both pitch and yaw.

[chrome pumice]

hm idk why but it doesnt work. i made it run the variable on the server to update the rotation on camera input, found no other solution for now

[dawn gazelle]

You don't need to replicate anything in regards to this particular node assuming you're using the control rotation correctly on your inputs. Your inputs should be using "Add Controller PItch Input" and "Add Controller Yaw Input" and then this value will automatically replicate through the pawn to all clients. Your animation blueprint would need to read this value from the pawn with the mesh and then you'd use the values to do what you'd like from it.

[chrome pumice]

ohh okay let me try this

[olive yarrow]

using blueprints only, how would you got keeping an actors component say... z+100 from the ground at all times?

I've got a line trace set up and messed with move component to but its bouncy with my dumb way. any advice?

[chrome pumice]

So its kinda working, its replicated but it kinda freaks out

does it have diffrent variables than control rotation?

if i look down he just stares up. if i look up anything above 0 works fine, just the minus variables freak out idk why xD

Omg it worked! thanks allot @dawn gazelle ❤️

the up/down movement looks a bit laggy tho, is it normal?

[surreal peak]

I guess yaw rotation is usually smoothed, Pitch being replicated extra is probably not. So you'd want to interpolate between last and current (latest replicated).

[chrome pumice]

alright thanks

i have another question and i cant really find a solution for this since months. my fps are capped on 60 which is fine i have 60hz. but every time there is a single window or pop up open it gets halved to exaclty 30 fps. as soon as i close it. (can be even the autosave popup) its back to 60 instantly. with every window opend the fps cap goes lower. i cant find anything in the internet abt this but this is really making it drop to beyond unsuable when i have 3-4 windows open or an autosave pops up

fps with the window

and the second i close

1 = 60 fps
2 = 30 fps
3 = 20 fps
4 = 15 fps

[teal nexus]

is there a built-in way to detect VRAM size (and maybe some GPU stuff, system RAM, etc.) in UE5.5 ?

or a plugin maybe ?

[patent plinth]

is addforce framerate independant if I have substeps enabled ? Cuz online ressources seem mitigated on that subject, and I still have some inconsistencies in very high FPS (300+). I asked chatgpt in my desperation and it was telling me that I need to enable "support substepping" in my meshes, which is an option I can't find.

any input would be most appreciated

[dawn gazelle]

I don't think so.

[chrome pumice]

could be plugins, every time i dont find anything in the internet is plugin related but idk which one does that

[faint python]

Is there a way to view blueprints without having unreal engine installed? I wanted to see this GASShooter example project's GA_RiflePrimary but I don't have UE on my laptop right now aha. I wasn't sure if there was a way to copy paste it onto blueprintue.com without the editor (I tried the .uasset & opening in notepad to copy already).

[lunar sleet]

No

But there’s prly a yt video or such that shows its insides

[desert glade]

I couldn't find the PlayerController after the parent reference of the player controller was lost.

I found that my HUD would also have this situation.

[lunar sleet]

Verify engine maybe

[desert glade]

I don't know what this means.This is the case for classes where the icon is not an Actor.
The reason is that I rename the name of the originally inherited C++ class, resulting in the loss of the reference.

[lunar sleet]

Go to launcher

Options

Verify engine files

[desert glade]

I promise I haven't modified the engine, but I will try this way.

[dawn gazelle]

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/stkqdy8c/
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/jg6vjwrt/
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/m2dhr6hp/

[maiden wadi]

Doesn't matter if you have or not. Sometimes data just becomes corrupted and needs fixed.

[desert glade]

The Player Controller has still not been found.

[faint python]

Ahhh I searched for "GA_Rifle_Primary" my bad haha Thanks bb

[desert glade]

I successfully modified the parent class to PlayerController by using the plugin I previously used to modify the invalid parent class of the blueprint Widget. It's so amazing.
https://github.com/PipeRift/BlueprintRetarget

[steady thicket]

How do I create this type of structure where the data type is a umap? What's the data type of a umap?

[surreal peak]

ULevel potentially

[steady thicket]

there's no ulevel

[dawn gazelle]

I think it's UWorld, but you probably won't be able to select it as a type in the editor - they don't want you messing up by setting it as a hard reference and then all of a sudden you have to load full levels before you're actually ready to. A trick I've used in this screenshot is to promote the "Level" pin to a variable, which lets you select the map you want to use but stores it as a soft reference.

[steady thicket]

what if its in a structure?

[dawn gazelle]

They really don't want you using references to levels within the editor. If you defined your strucutre in C++ you could create a property with the type of UWorld Soft Reference and then you should be able to select a level without much consequence. The problem again comes in when using hard references as then if that property has a level defined in it, then it would be loaded into memory when that property is loaded, and if you have a lot of them defined somewhere, then you'd be loading them all when you probably don't need to be.

[frosty heron]

As others have pointed out. Cpp declared only. Also never use hard ref for the level, use soft ref so you don't end up loading all the levels in the game when you don't even have them open.

[swift kiln]

Hey I'm working with skeletal merging and I want to create dynamic material instance from one of the meshes to merge so that I can change scalar parameter of that skeletal mesh only. The problem is that I'm getting skeletal mesh object reference and that doesn't have the option to create dynamic material instance. I can set material of the skeletal mesh asset directly, but that would end up removing the material from the slot after the game gets closed. Is there any other way to do this?

[frosty heron]

Instance like the name implied are created at run time.

So yeah they will get removed when you close the app.

You will have to save the state and recreate them when you run the game again.

[swift kiln]

That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid :d

[frosty heron]

Answer remain the same though.

[trim matrix]

How do I scroll smoothly? I can't use timeline in widget blueprint. is there another method ?

[merry sparrow]

hey guys any one knows how to spawn couple static meshs on one static mesh ?

[autumn latch]

Hi guys, i've create a chooser table associated to my ABP_Player, I created a blueprint variable of type Gameplay Tag in order to use it in the chooser table, but when I click "Bind" dropdown, nothing appears, like when it's unable to find any properties of that type.
Do you know what could be the issue? I'm using ue 5.5

[radiant wren]

Hi! I've run into a snag with my game: I'm trying to get a "Nature System" working (a thing that facilitates the distribution of trees/rocks/grass/ect and then can remove them when needed)

So due to the sheer amount it spawns I'm using Instanced Static Meshes, the counts that properly fill the map is as follows:

20k trees, 7.5k big rocks, 30k tiny rocks, and 400k grass

all of that works great, it all spawns in random locations with random scales and all that and all its data is stored in a map so that individual data from these instances can be accessed later.

Now for a bit more context this is a grid-based building game and I wanted the trees and big rocks to block construction in the tiles they're in so the player has to remove them in order to build there, and then the tiny rocks and grass should just remove themselves when the player places a structure on that tile

The issue comes in at the actual removing stage: the point of the map I've made is to take a key (the NatureObject's location) store a value which holds the ISM component that needs to have an index removed and which index in that ISM needs to be removed, I thought it would just be that simple but I realized that when you remove an index from an ISM all the indexes shift, making the map that holds all these indexes completely invalid.

So I was wondering if anyone has a work around for this? Or perhaps does anyone have a better way to go about this entirely? I guess the overall question I'm trying to ask is: how do you handle your trees and rocks when there are thousands of them, and you need to be able to pick out specific ones and remove them?

I'm currently working in UE 5.4 if it helps

[steady night]

Hey,

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/tp65nnvu/

I need some Advice

UsingTwinstick movement wher right sick rotates the character towards direction

but its verry snappy

any ideas on how i can "lerp" between current and new rotation or any other ways ?

[sand shore]

I forget- can you update a specific ISM instance transform via its index? You may be able to take the index that should be removed, and swap all of the data with the largest index’s data.

[maiden wadi]

Literally that. Lerp from current to desired rotation. You may need to save a desired look rotation from input and use tick to do your interpolation.

[radiant wren]

Yeah I'm currently messing with that avenue, it's working, it's just not very performant atm so I'm trying to see what I can do to help it

[steady night]

hmm yeah its the ticking part im unsure about but saving before mighht just do it il ltry

[sand shore]

I know that if you line trace directly at a HISM instance, the line trace results can give you its HISM index. I wonder if the same is true of overlap events.

If you can get the HISM index from the overlap events, maybe you can move away from keying off the location? I have no idea whether that's the bottleneck.

[radiant wren]

currently testing for the bottleneck, so far it's looking like this is it: (the find, to the for each, to the other find)

[sand shore]

Also, what if the primary key of your system weren't the location or the HISM index? Then, you wouldn't have to actually copy any other data - so you could do things like have tree health if you wanted.

[radiant wren]

there's one map that stores the cell as the key and the actual location as the value, and then the other map that has the actual location as the key, and the data of that specific instance as the value

[sand shore]

IDK, you might need to have two maps then, a map to get from the HISM index to the primary key, and then the primary key to the data. I guess then you'd only really have to fixup the HISM->PrimaryKey map.

[radiant wren]

yeah did this to limit the search to a single tile, wasn't sure of a better way

[sand shore]

Well, map lookups stay constant with larger data sets, but arrays end up taking longer.

I'm just guessing, but also giving you something you might want to think about.

Map<PrimaryKey, ResourceISMData>
Map<HISMindex, PrimaryKey>

[steady night]

ohh i just read it again ok ill se about the tic

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/efk-6cin/@maiden wadi

what am i doing wrong ?

[radiant wren]

Might do that if needed, rn getting the stuff that will auto delete out of the way first, then moving on to the stuff that needs to be manually removed

[sand shore]

Another option might be to split the search across multiple frames - search 1/2 the array per frame, or whatever your timeslice factor should be for your given perf. Maybe remove 1 bit of foliage per frame, and take as many frames as you need until the building is clear?

Also, #cpp might make sense for this type of system, but only if you can understand it. I think you still have a lot you can do in BP before you truly need C++.

[radiant wren]

issue there is what happens when the player is building a line of buildings, or a really large one, the player isn't gonna wanna sit through that (I'd estimate an average of 5-10 micro-foliage per tile, which if you're looking at one tile that's no issue, but once you start looking at 10, 20, 50, or 100 tiles.... well then that becomes an issue)

[radiant wren]

Oh yeah someone would need to hold my hand through that XD I don't know the first thing of traditional coding languages short of the very basics of Java

[kind estuary]

How do i calculate the intersection of my Plane and a line. I understand how to make the line though how do i extract the APlane struct from my Plane mesh?

[radiant wren]

can you right click -> split structure so we can see what that "APlane" actually is

(right click on that input pin)

[kind estuary]

I guess this can help

[kind estuary]

yes i did that

https://tenor.com/view/confused-math-what-wtf-peep-gif-6081931

[radiant wren]

ah that's just a Vector4

What it wants is where one of the corners of the plane is, and then where the corner diagonally across from that corner is

It want's the x and y coordinates of these two corners of the plane

[kind estuary]

im getting there

[radiant wren]

well wait now that I think about it... shouldn't it need two z coords too?

hmmm

[radiant wren]

I found the bottleneck, and unfortunately it's the actual act of moving the instances... a batch update does exist but it doesn't accept specific indexes :/ it has a starting point and will only go up from that starting point not skipping any

[kind estuary]

at the end of the day maybe this would have been easier with just a ray trace

[radiant wren]

couldn't say XD Never used raytrace

[kind estuary]

though this is also interesting

i meant the line trace by channel

[radiant wren]

ah

possibly ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[storm solar]

https://youtu.be/70vosF7ZecE
(UE5)Using blueprints Im having an issue with the timing and total frames an attack is active.
I have an attack animation that hits a notify trigger. This turns on an event tick in a combat blueprint that activates a line trace and to detect if it's collided with an enemy.
The problem is that the line traces start times vary. It could start at .612 seconds into the animation or as late as .621 seconds. And it could also draw 10 line traces in the attack or 7. How can I get the start time and amont of line traces to be more consistant?

[sand shore]

Oh really? Dang!

Is updating the whole set even performant?

[radiant wren]

yeah found a fix (or possibly just a bandage) for it: just add the stuff that needs to be removed to a queue and every 5 frames the first item is moved

5 frames is the fastest I could make it work without frame drops

[surreal vortex]

Someone knows how to get the current camera pos and rot with the new gameplay camera system?

[obtuse dawn]

Is there a way I can set up collision physics in widgets?

[modern horizon]

I'm trying to make it so my monster looks for players constantly, but since i'm pretty new to blueprint, i can't understand what is wrong.

i understand i can't connect the pins, but i don't know what i can do to fix it

[lunar sleet]

Delete the for loop. Add it again

[modern horizon]

Only delete and re-add it?

Oh thank you

[olive yarrow]

I'm attempting to get my 3d platforming character to "look at the mouse", but i can only find 2d tutorials and top down.

I figure i need my aim offset... but i'm at a loss on how to connect it all

[wanton lichen]

Howdy, I have a general question regarding box collision blueprints and data arrays. I'm trying to create a procedurally generated room layout whilst also using world partition at runtime in order to avoid performance drops. Any room that is spawned will be despawned as normal from the partition. The issue is with my current blueprint is that its using actor object references which don't exist and its trying to find doorways that are also nonexistent because of the world partition. My potential solution is to save room transforms and doorway transforms in a data structure array. Using this I could get those transforms and spawn in collision blueprints with arrows. The goal is to have two separate blueprints, one with the collision and potential doorways of a room and the other to have the meshes and room logic. I want to know what would be the performance impact of spawning in all of these overlap actor blueprints with no logic in them as well as keeping track of lets say 200 instances in a array with 2 doors per room and their transforms? Would get all actors of class cause a big frame drop when despawning these overlap blueprints in one instant? Is there a better way to do what I need?

Data array example holds:

(BCB)Box Collision Blueprint
BCB Transform

-Room Doors Array
Scene Component(The Door)
Scene Transform(Door Transform)

[frosty heron]

Don't ever cross pin like this.

the events are not executed simutaneousely.

don't have something that started from an event reaches out another node that belongs to another event.

[modern horizon]

I don’t understand? Can you rephrase your sentence?

[frosty heron]

I can't, that's the best I can come up with.

don't cross pin, ever.

an event is those red boxes, if that's not clear.

[modern horizon]

Yeah but I don’t understand what you tried to say

[thin panther]

don't have a pin from one event crossing over to another event

[wanton lichen]

The event begin play only fires when the character(I presume) is spawned into the world. The "lookforplayer" event would always fail to execute in time because of this. Making the branch statement always have the same outcome.

[wanton lichen]

Having both events try to fire at the same time would be near impossible.

[modern horizon]

OHHHHH

ok ok ok

[frosty heron]

The answer is to bake the data beforehand.
Right now you are FPS dependent. So the number of traces will depend on your current FPS.
If a player FPS is too low, you may even only get 1 or no traces, making them misses the enemy when they shouldn't.

you should do t.maxFps 20 if you want to target audience with 20 fps and see if the game is playable at all under those condition.

[thin panther]

even ignoring the branch issues, assuming things work perfectly and that executes a single time before the rest of begin play, the rest of the code just doesn't make sense logically

What you've said is "When we start, set a timer for every 0.3 seconds until the end of time. When that 0.3 second interval is up, check the distance to the player. Compare that to 800. Now, after we set the timer going, check a single time at the start to see if we are near the player."

[modern horizon]

theres more to the code?

[thin panther]

Yes, but the section written doesn't make sense

You're probably going to want to restructure it something like having an event that checks the player distance, if true, call a different event that does whatever it needs.

The call that on begin play and bind a timere afterwards for every 0.3 seconds.

That way you've got your check once on startup, that isn't crossing wires or discarding results from things, and then you also have it automatically checking again every 0.3 seconds

[olive yarrow]

taking a pause on trying to get the player to follow the mouse and am trying to get my reticule to rotate with the mouse position (2d platformer). any help?

[modern horizon]

i only had that to get rid of that error

[thin panther]

except now that won't ever run

You should take a look at my latest message, should guide you down a solid path

[modern horizon]

also, about this. heres my full code, it stops the timer dw

[modern horizon]

Ok.

[thin panther]

That doesn't make sense. First of all, you're never running the for loop or the get actor of class. The white pins are unconnected, meaning that object reference will be null, meaning your distance check does nothing. The immediately after setting the timer, you clear it, preventing it from ever running. Moreover that timer doesm't execute anything, because the function name is invalid.

If you still don't get timers and references after having a look at my message, I reccomend looking at the First Hour in Unreal course, which should if memory serves me correctly, take you over the fundamentals of the blueprint graph. Following that I reccomend the Blueprint Communication live training from Epic which should cover how references work, and finally MathewW's WTF is SetTimer video, to cover how timers execute, they're not the most intuitive buggers in the world.

[modern horizon]

the white pins are unconnected? what?

[thin panther]

That is unconnected

The node will not run, and thus the for each loop will not, and thus you won't have a valid reference for the distance check

[modern horizon]

ohhhh. that part

[maiden wadi]

A function that may help you is Uhh.. I think it's called Line Plane (Origin & Normal). It's a simple math function that takes a start and end point similar to a line trace and finds a point on a plane. And you can use this on a plane at your character's location, with a plane normal in the direction that is to the right of your level orientation.

[fleet prism]

Hello, I'm looking for help on a project. I'm new to game development and UE5 as a whole. I've recently started my first game as of now. It's a 2d platformer where you swap controls over the main character and your companion unlocking new abilities and being able to unlock areas you weren't able to as one character you can as the other.

I had followed a tutorial by Cobra Code to initially set up my level after adding all the placeholder characters and animations I wanted to add the main mechanic.

I started by duplicating the main playable character as a start I then followed another tutorial on how to add the ai companion. After adding the Nav mesh bound volume and running into an error where it needed to be rebuilt I somehow fixed it. then pressing “p” so I could see where the ai could walk, nothing was showing so I expanded one of the boxes to see if it changed anything and it did.

But as I went to play test nothing happened the player has active gravity but just floats in the sky, when I disconnect the Event tick node to update animation the player gets stuck in a falling animation, and the character doesn't follow me at all

DMs would be best for communication for me

[hazy rain]

changing the player's rotation causes bizarre spasms and keeps changing other rotations for seemingly no reason. There is literally nothing in the blueprint that could be causing it, because the shown movement inputs is the only currently connected function. Trying to change the rotation via blueprints also causes this issue

[surreal peak]

I wouldn't change the rotation of the character when ejected tbh.

There is code on tick that is probably processing its rotation and additional variables in that code that you aren't modifying. And it will fight back to get that rotation corrected.

If this is a Character then it's probably the Character Movement Component that is rotating it back to what it should be or similar.

[surreal peak]

Make sure to also hook up the OnFail pin.

If your AI fails to follow you it won't retry.

One reason it could fail is that the player character is potentially invalid for at least 1 frame.

So there is no target to move to. And since the location as a fallback is 0,0,0 it might not be able to path there.

You might want to make sure you put a 1 frame delay between the fail and the retry though, so you don't end up in an infinite loop by mistake

Another thing you should do is start printing the MovementResult on Success and Fail, to ensure you get information about what is going on.

[hallow violet]

hello there, I seem to have a weird issue, my gamemode blueprint makes me unable to open my project, as it gets stuck at 75%

removing it allows me to get back in but I need the gamemode blueprint for several things, such as for example, keeping track of time

[hazy rain]

It turns out it was on the Pawn parent class. I had Use Controller Yaw checked

[surreal peak]

If your GameMode BP causes that, then there is little you can do. That's why you should ALWAYS use #source-control .

If you aren't using it, start doing so. There are pinned messages for free options.

For the problem at hand, check if you maybe have some auto saves in the saved folder for it, that could save you this time. Otherwise, be prepared to create the GameMode BP again from scratch, this time with source control setup

[faint mulch]

Hello everyone, I have this weird issue with the Game ability Sytem.
So I tried several approach to trigger an ability from an event using the Ability Triggers

I used 2 test cases, and one control ("The first one").
Out of the two, only one work. Why isn't it triggerring the ability, it's been bugging my mind

[frosty heron]

@faint mulch might have more chance posting it to the channel dedicated for Gas
#gameplay-ability-system

[faint mulch]

Thank you @frosty heron i was looking for it !

[hallow violet]

source control as github for example? I do use it, in fact it happened right after I pulled it onto another computer

[frosty heron]

you should be able to rollback to working version then.

One can quiet often have corrupted assets.

try to commit frequently as nothing is quiet safe.

[hallow violet]

Will do, still I find it really weird it happened now since all I did was add a widget and stuff to send info from gamemode to it

can I rollback only the gamemode

?*

[inland walrus]

how to check how many times the same item is in array?

[frosty heron]

you can just make a simple function that loop through an array and checks how many times the same element appear.

just a simple counting.
if (Element == TargetItem)
count++

[inland walrus]

Would count be a variable?

[frosty heron]

sure, an integer

[inland walrus]

I'm not sure that'll work for what I need it for

I'm trying to make an array for a combat manager, of all AI that my enemyAI are attacking, if there is more than 1 enemy attacking Villager01, the 2nd enemy will use a bow instead of melee

The issue is making it count how many times each Villager is being attacked

If I use a variable count, I'd need one for each villager no?

[frosty heron]

the original question was how to check the number of items in an array.

[inland walrus]

I thought that's what I'd need lol

[frosty heron]

and the answer is as simple as counting how many times the element appear in the array.

[inland walrus]

I didn't know if there was already an array node which counted how many times

[frosty heron]

Don't think so but you can make the function your self and it's fairly simple.

[inland walrus]

Should I use a map instead of an array?

[frosty heron]

the answer is depends, each have it's use.

if you need indexes then array is the answer

if you need unique key pair values then map is the tool.

[inland walrus]

Got you, thanks! I think map will do what I need then

[frosty heron]

I don't think a map is what you want here.

more context needed though.

I'm trying to make an array for a combat manager, of all AI that my enemyAI are attacking, if there is more than 1 enemy attacking Villager01, the 2nd enemy will use a bow instead of melee

You can breakdown your problem and start with checking if there is more than 1 enemy attacking the villager

If you track Actors that target the Villager with an array, then you can just get it's length.

[inland walrus]

I don't know if this helps understand what I'm going for

[frosty heron]

I think what you really want is the number of elements in the array.

length gives you that.

[inland walrus]

The thing is their will be multiple AI

Lets say with have a level with 2 different areas A & B

A) Bandit01 and Bandit02 are attacking Guard01
B) Bandit03 and Bandit04 are attacking Villager01

The length will be 4, I need it to count how many Bandits are attacking the same target (Actor variable)

Ultimate goal: As I want each bandit to do a different type of attack based on how many bandits are attacking the same target, i.e. 3 bandits attacking Guard01, Bandit01 is primary attacker and constantly meleeing player, Bandit02 will dip in and out of melee and Bandit03 will stick to ranged

[frosty heron]

make a function

For each Bandits -> Check if it's targeting the Target you are checking againts

then icnrease the count

[inland walrus]

Wouldn't that make the count also be adding A + B together?

If they're sharing the same count variable

[frosty heron]

you can seperate it as you like.

just gotta translate your condition and requirement into codes

[inland walrus]

I'll see what I can figure out

[topaz escarp]

I put breakpoints into the cmc, the controlledcharactermove is being called. But the character is still jittering wildly while trying to move and gravity behaves unpredictably. I think you may be right about NetRoles maybe?? I've no idea what that is, as I've never run into them developing the asset. One thing I did check, set actor location works as intended.

[surreal peak]

If the character gets corrected back to where it was locally when trying to move then it's the server not being in line with the client and vice versa. Since the RPC wouldn't get to the server if you aren't the owner of the pawn, it can't really be that you count as a SimProxy

[topaz escarp]

Interesting. Not the owner of the pawn... Hmmm, but I tested that, I spawned a new character and possessed it with the client, making that player controller, at least I believe, owner of the pawn?

[topaz escarp]

It's weird, because if I call any server events/multicast events on the character, they work as normal.

Like, I can still look around without any jitter, and I can spawn objects and shoot, etc.

It's only the movement component that's throwing an absolute fit.

[surreal peak]

possessed it with the client
You should say "possessed it for the client with the server"

Because Client's can't possess Pawns that are networked.

[topaz escarp]

Hmm?

Does that make a difference?

[surreal peak]

Yes, but I assume you don't fully understand what I mean.

You can't call Possesses locally.

[topaz escarp]

I just ran a server custom event that spawns a character, and runs possession using the local player controller

[surreal peak]

It has to happen on the Server.

[topaz escarp]

Yeah, yeah, sorry, I misunderstood.

I get you now,.

[surreal peak]

Yeah then it's fine. But if you say "Possess with the client" it reads as if you did it locally.

[topaz escarp]

Nah, that doesn't work, because possession is handled on the server.

[surreal peak]

You'll need to debug the CMC further then. Step through the code and see where it fails.

[topaz escarp]

It's interesting.

The CMC, is moving.

[surreal peak]

It does if the Pawn itself is also only locally spawned and not replicated down from the server.
But that's not the point here.

[topaz escarp]

Just very slowly, it's giving me a velocity, but the velocity is fluctuating wildly.

[topaz escarp]

True true

So, it's not that the cmc isn't working, it's just that it's working wrong?

I'm not sure why I'm being dragged back down to the ground, not sure how I would debug that... 😔 I'm used to fixing things that don't work...

[surreal peak]

Can the Client move at all when this happens?

Or are you rubberbanding back to where you are standing?

[topaz escarp]

@surreal peak The client does indeed move when it happens

He doesn't rubber band all the way back to where he was standing

However, if I spawn the new character and possess it, that character cannot move at all

It's locked in place exactly where it spawned

[topaz escarp]

HOWEVER, after checking a bunch of stuff, the first thing I've found is that if you disable "replicate movement" the client's movement is unnaffected by the replay.

[inland walrus]

Could this work?

[frosty heron]

hard to say the intention. Why do you have Attack Target followed by a number.
Don't make a system with fixed number, make use of arrays.

[inland walrus]

I'm trying this now, I have gotten this far but can't seem to figure out what's going on

[storm solar]

what do you mean by "bake the data beforehand?"
Also my computer is running the game at 120 - 119 fps with no dips when playing the animation.
Could this be an issue with Anim notify?

[frosty heron]

there's no issue with Anim Notify

[little agate]

please explain

[frosty heron]

by storing the data, you can simulate all the needed points, regardless of FPS.

@storm solar @little agate

[little agate]

nice

[frosty heron]

and in my case, it's just the socket location.

[little agate]

Want to see your approch too

[frosty heron]

Got ANS in my character, slice them, then for every slice, go to the time it's sliced and store the socket locations.

don't know BP solution though.

[little agate]

ah so basically you use ANS to record this data?

and actually no need for ANS to execute the attack, just loop and trace when the attack begin without depending on anim notify

[frosty heron]

I have a custom actor that takes a skeletal mesh.
When I press the bake button, it will get the animation assigned to the skeletal mesh, which will then look into the ANS inside the montage.
And for every ANS found, they get "sliced". For every slice, play the animation at the sliced time stamp, then record the sockets location to the Melee Data Array.

on high level, it's fairly simple. Just slice the ANS and record the socket locations.

[little agate]

clear now for the recording part, how you execute the data? using something like loop and delay based on the recorded timestamp?

[frosty heron]

Loop

For every slice -> fowars anim to time stamp.

Record

Repeat until all slice are recorded.

[storm solar]

is meele trace a plugin?

[frosty heron]

For playing the trace you would use begin play, tick and end of the anim notify state.

[frosty heron]

Nah, I write it my self from advices on this discord server.

I'm not sure if there's plugin out there that can address low fps issue associated with not using baked data.

Says your sword swing is real quick but your fps is low.

If it cannot even have a half swing, from last frame to current frame, how do you fill the blanks?

That's why I used baked data, so essentially I can simulate any points that are not yet processed, regardless of fps.

[frosty heron]

There are plugins for traces, but i have my doubts. You are free to try them.

My 2 cent is to test your hit trace with the lowest fps of your target, see if your system doesn't break.

[astral summit]

I was wondering, if I have a lot of Notifies in the animation, is there a way to stop them from moving so I don't accidentally change their position?

[little agate]

where you put this loop?

[frosty heron]

The script is run when a custom button is pressed.

I have it in my MeleeBakeActor.

It's just an actor that will serve to record.

[old sonnet]

does Mutable only work for meta humans?

[frosty heron]

Not sure, normally I will just add new tracks to avoid moving unintended notifies.

[little agate]

ah sorry not the recording part, the execution part in game

[frosty heron]

Begin notify, anim notify tick and end notify

[maiden pasture]

Hi everyone, I need to integrate an existing website into the game. I initially tried using the Web Browser widget that comes with Unreal, but I found it uses a very old version of Chromium (CEF), which causes some modern elements of the website to not work properly.

Has anyone managed to update the CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) manually or know of any viable ways to use a newer version of the Web Browser within Unreal?

Thanks in advance!

[little agate]

thanks man, I am still using the tick, actually this is the recording part, lol

[astral summit]

Guys
If I wanted to set conditions for functions to determine whether they would work or not,

What's the best way to do this?

Using macros for each function would make my Blueprint cluttered. Are there any other solutions?

[maiden wadi]

Depends on the reason for the condition.

[olive yarrow]

I'm still havin' a teensie trouble with my Spline making character - should i be using Move Component To or something....? I feel like the sweeping may be what's getting in the issue of staying X above ground level, so i tried a capsule but no dice

Switched the relative on the trace to world, now i get waaaaay more of what i need but the Sweeping no longer stops the components movement 😮‍💨

[dawn gazelle]

within your function have your checks to see if the function should execute.
have your function return a bool true if it was allowed to execute
Call your function whenever you may expect it to exeute regardless if it will execute or not, and you can branch your logic as needed from the returned bool.

It can end up looking something like this:

[inland walrus]

can anyone see anything wrong with this array?

It works at first, but for some reason leaves 1 behind

[olive yarrow]

Ugh, i had the same type of issue with my targetlock/radar system. I should be back by my project files in a good few hours - i'll check in with you then, maybe i'll be able to help

wait nvm i have an old copy here, So i used Remove instead of Remove Index. My adding is the same as yours, we just used different removals

[inland walrus]

Ah got you, the issue is though is I need it to show duplicates, remove removes the actor completely from the array

I need it to keep track of every AI being attacked

example:
Bandit01 and Bandit02 are attacking villager01

If Bandit01 loses sight, it will remove Villager01 from the array even though Bandit02 is still attacking Villager

I just tried it using the remove instead of remove index and still same issue of it leaving 1 behind

[olive yarrow]

Heard, my radar thing has to use duplicates too ( i think i'm thinking the same way you mean it, i have many repeat actorBPs on the field), I also have a shared event that triggers if an NPC is attacked without having an attacktarget (it basically just makes them look where they got hit from, then does extra junk specific to my needs) but after a trace it could re add the scanned target to the array

Hmm... I see. I'm happy to literally just give you my code - only issue is mines versed for sci fi and robots so it'll need tweaking.

It's also messy 🙂

[inland walrus]

Sure I'd be happy to take a look on how yours works so I can fix this issue 😅

[maiden wadi]

Sounds like you need a Map, not an array.

[inland walrus]

The problem with a map is that I cant get how many of that actor there is

or minus

[olive yarrow]

Dmed it, may the omnissiah have mercy on your eyes

[maiden wadi]

It can if you make a struct with an array in it and make the target the Key of the map and the array the targetters. If you need the other direction as well you can also keep a second map that is just Targeter/Target. Then you have instant lookup of both directions. You can easily remove a targeter's target by finding the target from the targeter's map, removing it from that map and then using the found target to look up the target's targeter's in the second map and removing the targeter from that array. It's not a very complex thing to manage. Can even make some basic helper functions to manage the complexity for you. GetThingsTargetingActor, AddTargetForActor, RemoveTargetForActor, etc etc.

[violet bison]

anyone know how to change capusule size and location and then check overlap actors?
trying to make a railgun attack and then it seemed the hitbox stayed original way

[willow gate]

Hey folks. I have a noob question that my google searches have not been able to find an answer for. Is there a friction setting that I'm missing when I activate simulation on a mesh? I'm trying to move an object at the same velocity as my player but the object seems to be experiencing friction while my player is not.

[surreal peak]

Are you sure the Object isn't just hitting the floor?

[willow gate]

I think it is hitting the floor which is the problem. I'm turning on simulate physics when the player interacts with it and then attempting to match velocities so that the player is "pushing/pulling" it around, which is working great with the above code but the push actor is moving slower than the player which leads me to believe that it is experiencing ground friction as it moves around. I'm just trying to figure out how to disable any kind of friction so that I can get predictable results for this.

[surreal peak]

Does it need to move exactly with the player? Or does it have some sort of "inertia"?

[willow gate]

It does need to move exactly with the player.

[surreal peak]

Hm, I assume this is not on a flat floor or so, right?

[willow gate]

The floor I am testing on is flat but they won't always be.

[surreal peak]

Cause it would be a lot easier to just save the initial offset between Player and Object and to set the Location based on that. But if the Object has to moved up/down some slopes or so it's gonna be a problem

You'd need to check the settings of the StaticMeshComponent for any physics related settings

My current assumption is that it's not friction but just the actor hitting the floor and thus not moving forward

Or at least not always.

You could, for testing, disable gravity on the physics object and turn its collision off when you start moving it like that and see if it then moves fine (with the expectation that it might drift into the floor over time).

[willow gate]

hmmm.. That makes sense. I'll try disabling gravity real quick. Otherwise, I guess your other your other solution should work as long as I constrain my puzzle design with this actor, to flat surfaces... or I make a little line trace system that orients the object to the ground normal...

[surreal peak]

Yeah

[willow gate]

Thinking about it, that might be the cleaner solution anyway since I can control all the factors involved. Thanks man.

[obtuse dawn]

Is there a way for me to detect when a widget overlaps an image in another widget? I have two widgets currently, a main widget and a secondary widget that is used inside the main. I want to set it up so when the secondary widget overlaps an image in the primary widget, it gets the current opacity of the image and based on a threshold for the opacity, it triggers an event. Is there a way I can do that or would I need to make whole new nodes? I'm in blueprints

[steady night]

Hey did u have time to look on this =

[dusky cobalt]

I would do it other way than you have it now where you are trying to make some manager that stores who attack what and when. Simply when the ai attacks player or sets it as its target, set on the player number of enemies currently attacking, based on that number have event dispatcher that fires when this number changes and call to array of AI's based on what number currently is attacking - do this, do that or this
on start attack, get target (player), ++currentattacking call OnNumberUpdated
on target lost (get previous target(player) is valid --currentattacking call OnNumberUpdated

[crisp moon]

so what I want to do is a character has it's stats from DataTable.
but I wasn't able to use DT's values (directly, idk if this is the proper use) so I made an actor component and in the variables made a map For Adding those values to the chara but is it the best cuz I need to add them every time i started the game.
and I have a switch on name for upgrades

[dawn gazelle]

DataTables are meant for static data so they're only used to be read at runtime. It's alright to use a data table to define a particular stat's base properties, but they can't be used to store the values as they change or to otherwise save the progress of the player.

[crisp moon]

than I've to save the variable Stat map and load from it right.

[dawn gazelle]

Yes, you'd probably want to save the Map and your UpgradeHIstory array.

[crisp moon]

Thanks

[storm solar]

how do you implement async physics?
I have tick physics asynch enabled in project settings and have event async physics tick in a BPC but nothing is firing.
How to I enable it? Is it c++ code or something else?

[woeful linden]

I need my third person character to be flipped upside down and the gravity inverted (which i did), but then it cant stand on surfaces while upside down

It acts like its falling

I have no idea how to fix it

[sand shore]

I think CharacterMovement assumes that -Z is always down.

Here’s a wild idea- instead of flipping the player, can you flip the entire world? All the things?

Otherwise you might need to change CMC or replace it

Also, if this is multiplayer at all, godspeed

[woeful linden]

Whats cmc

[sand shore]

CharacterMovementComponent

[woeful linden]

Multiplayer would be way too much 😭

[sand shore]

It’s an engine class, it is what moves your player around

[woeful linden]

Is flipping the entire world actually the solution tho

[woeful linden]

I know i just didnt know the abbreviation

[sand shore]

It might be the easiest solution if you’re not a programmer. If you’ve ever heard of Kerbal Space Program, that game usually moves the entire solar system instead of the player (among other tricks). They’re working around floating point limitations, but the same concept could alleviate your falling issues

[dawn gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/planet-express-gif-12955659

[sand shore]

But my gut says that CMC isn’t super flexible with gravity and detecting a floor along the gravity vector

[woeful linden]

I hate unreal engine so much 😭 i wanna go back to working with godot

[sand shore]

And you could replace CMC but that takes a while and you’ll lose lots of dev time

[woeful linden]

Im doing this for a school project and its such a pain in the butt

[sand shore]

Having a project where you flipped the entire Unreal scene would be such a good story tho

[frosty heron]

Most likely picked the wrong kind of proj

[dawn gazelle]

If I remember right, the CMC now has a gravity direction property and it becomes a matter of properly rotating your character's capsule & modifying the control rotation.

[woeful linden]

Im making a platformer where u climb up a big tower then the gravity inverts and you have to basically do it in reverse

[woeful linden]

How do i do that

Like in that way

[broken brook]

Hello, I have a problem that I don't know how to fix, I made my game menu but the head movement that the character has stays there when you are in the menu and I don't know how to fix it, does anyone know?

[inland walrus]

Anyone know a work around for the rotation snapping? I'm using GASP, I want it to turn smoothly when it hears the player but as you can see it twitches every time I make a noise

[dawn gazelle]

Eh, it looks like all you need to do is set the Gravity Direction on the CMC to 1 on the Z axis (-1 is for normal gravity), and it just works with the default character in the sample projects.

[weak knot]

how do you create a collision that only blocks a specific pawn?
I was hoping it'd be as easy as creating a custom object channel and setting it to block on both the collider on my pawn and the other object, but unless i also set the pawn collision to block it will just be ignored

so new collision channel "Special"
Pawn->Object Response to Special is block, object type is pawn
Blocker->Object Response to Special is block, object type is special, everything else is ignored

does this only work one way, so my pawn needs to be of the special collision type instead?

[faint pasture]

What's the simplest and least annoying way to have a central data source that says "these are all the items classes that can be spawned"?

Data table with a row just being a class ref?

Data asset with an array of class refs?

[weak knot]

either should work fine, depends on your setup.
you'll probably want to use soft class references though or you'll blow up your memory if you store them all in a data table

[dawn gazelle]

Use a data asset that builds the list itself at runtime using the asset manager to find all the children of your spawnable item class.

Then you don't have to worry about populating the list yourself 🙂

[faint pasture]

Doesn't that break for packaging though?

[dawn gazelle]

You wouldn't be trying to write the data asset at run time. It still exists as an object and can hold the data for you at runtime, and anywhere that you may want to use the list, you just need to give it a reference to that data asset and you can grab the list.

[woeful linden]

Oh my god why did i not do this sooner

[dusky cobalt]

I use Data Assets with Class variable because you can really easy make arrays of what this thing should spawn, you simply assign data assets and treat them as ''items'' to spawn. Also works when you have some things that share class but are actually different.

[willow gate]

Unreal is great. It's just like learning any other engine though. They all have their quirks and their classes and methods for accomplishing things. Learning the CMC is a daunting task. 😉

[inland walrus]

bump

[olive yarrow]

Lerps! Or a time line... Or both....

Start by googling lerps for a smooth rotation you should be good

[faint pasture]

So would it fill the list at editor time? When does the asset registry get queried for all subclasses of Item to slam them into the array

[faint pasture]

RInterpTo and RInterpToConstant

[olive yarrow]

I always get those two mixed up then get all miffed when the lerp doesn't work.
Wasn't sposed to be a lerp. 🤦‍♂️

[faint pasture]

Lerp linearly interpolates between the inputs based on the 3rd

The interptos interpolate between current and target based on the time and speed and math. They use some lerp under the hood.

If you want "2/3 of the way between A and B" then you'd use a lerp. If you want "chase A over time" then you'd use an interpto. If you wanted the chase speed to be constant you'd use an interptoconstant

[storm solar]

Any idea on a solution for this?
I know async could be an option but dosen't seem to work.
I was also told to slice up the individual animations but that seems exesive.
Every released UE game has static / deterministic timing for attacks so there has to be a way to do it.

[faint pasture]

The timings probably aren't as static/ deterministic as you think

At a bare minimum, you are constrained to trace on a frame. So you will have at least one frames worth of wiggle room. And the frame rate will vary depending on the machine specs

[storm solar]

So, like in street fighter Ryu's punch wouldn't come out on frame 7 and be active for 3 frames?
Thats what Im trying to replicate.

[faint pasture]

But for your sword hit, instead of checking to see if the sword ends up inside of a collider during a frame, which is what you are doing, Trace from frame to frame to see if it hit it in between

Street fighter runs at a constant frame rate. Unreal engine does not

[storm solar]

true.

But I can just force it to 60fps could i not?

[faint pasture]

You could set it to if you wanted to, but there's various complications around that. You can avoid a lot of this tunneling behavior by tracing from frame to frame, not tracing within a frame.

Instead of asking, did the sword spend one frame inside of the person, ask, did the sword intersect the person from frame to frame.

[storm solar]

I can try that. Im just confused why unreal is so iffy on this.
My thought process is that every UE released has "frame data". Right? So wouldn't they set it up to be the same on every machine that can reasonably run it?

Like, ive had friends play Guilty gear or DMC on a potato. And id have to imagine it's counting those frames even if they're skipped.
Or like you said, I'm tunneling and maybe its like what your talking about.
Is there a good point I can start at, like should I just google "line trace between frames"? Or does royal skies have a video like that.

[pearl mason]

Quick question, I assigned a anim bp to a NPC I am working on, but the npc is stuck in tpose. I have state going right into the idle anim pose, any ideas what I should check?

[inland walrus]

This works

instead of lerps

[cloud garnet]

so I decided to take things down a step and add a sprint toggle, but when I set up the code, I can't seem to tell if it works. Any issues spotted?

changed it a bit to see if it works and string won't print

[cloud garnet]

restarted and with the print string connected it'll pring but speed won't change

i think i see an issue

is anyone there?

[cloud garnet]

Figured it out finally, was looking at the wrong value to change the move speed with.

Sorry to clog up chat.

[sand shore]

You weren't sure what was wrong, and you asked for help. That's what this server is for

And you also showed your setup.

(however, if you're feeling a little self conscious, you might want to start a thread - they're like little miniature channels)

[cloud garnet]

Ok, I'll consider it next time.

[uncut lynx]

how to attach actor to camera so only owner able to see? I have item actor(contains only static mesh) that should can be animated like player drinks, etc and vfx,sfx . But i cant set only owner see as usual static mesh. What is best approach?

[dawn gazelle]

World Direction is expecting a normalized input, meaning it's looking for values between -1.0 to 1.0 only, and it's meant to indicate where you want the movement to be going.
If you're using the Character class and the Character Movement Component, it has a Max Walk Speed setting that can augment how fast your character moves.

[dawn gazelle]

You could do it on your init of the Game Instance.
The main point really is to have something populate an array stored somewhere from the asset registry, just so you don't have to manually populate a list yourself.

[pallid ice]

try this
its in the advanced rendering section in the details panel of the component. you can always set the owner of a component at runtime if the pawn isn't the owner yet.

[dense pelican]

im trying to keep my mouse in the viewport center
but i cant figure out how?
thse settings dont seem to do anything

[tiny sigil]

folks how can i get actor facing nearest point on spline which was no extra points rather then 2 defaults so how can i get that

[pallid ice]

drag from spline component -> Find Location Closest To World Location

[tiny sigil]

ohk

[vestal moon]

Hello, any idea how could i play youtube video from link only in runtime? without having to download the video?

[mental trellis]

Use the web browser integration?

[whole plover]

Hello, does anyone know how to use this node, I can't seem to find "Movie scene property track object reference", the output of add track or find track an all is "Movie scene track object reference"

[hazy ether]

Im trying to use world space widgets for my VR game, but thw widgets arent showing my widget and are instead showing what the HMD sees!

Anyone help?

cant screenshot because Im on mobile and the uni cant use discord...

[dreamy mountain]

hey, with this, the characters overlap eachother; what do i need to set in the collision settings to make them not overlap themselves? im using add world offset to do movement, idk if thats the root of the issue

[hazy ether]

I genuinely cant figure out why this isnt working! No tutorials work, not does chatgpt! Im stumped!

[wild crystal]

Dynamic object references in for each loop
I want to collect all instance of spot lights in my scene , loop through them and change the light color.
But I also want to have the flexibility to collect instances of point lights and change their light color.
I'm using get all actors of class and a for-each loop to change spotlight color via set light color However when i change the class type to point lights,the for-each loop wont work ! . It still keeps the previous references (spot lights) hence preventing us to change the class type . How would I adapt the script to keep it flexible ?

Edit 01
I used enums and switch statements to get around this but that's such a wasteful workaround !

[pine carbon]

Are there differences in how collision is processed when a game is packaged into an exe vs run in editor?

[hazy ether]

never mind, managed to get it working! Idk what I did though 😂

[lunar sleet]

I don’t think so

[thorny forge]

Quick question, I'm trying to work out the area of a closed spline loop in 3D space. I'm coming across all kinds of complex methods for working out areas of n-sided polygons in 3D space and using the shoelace method. Is this really necessary? I thought I could simply calculate the area from the lengths of each spline segment?

I found this:
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/hvqr0e39/

Does it matter whether it's a flat spline on a 2D plane or spline oriented in any direction in 3D space?

[wild crystal]

I used enums and switch statements to get around this but that's such a wasteful workaround ?

[little agate]

You can do this maybe

[wild crystal]

neat. how did you make an array of those two types (spot and point)

[little agate]

you can make a local array of light class variable, then drag "make array" node from "setter", if you are not using it, you can remove it. I don't know how to directly make it though

[wild crystal]

thanks a bunch. will try 🙌🏼

[silent brook]

Hi all, I have a problem. playing animation of changing the scale of the object is tied to fps, for example, if 60 fps then the animation of reducing the scale is played normally. But if the fps is 5, the animation plays very slowly. what is it connected with? how to solve such problems?

[round moth]

i imagine this is one of if not the worst way to check a variable to control whether a laser pointer is on or off, but i dont know another way, any advice?

[thin panther]

why check it on tick.

At some point you do something and set that bool to a different value.

Make a function that sets the bool and then sets the visibility

call that function, instead of changing the bool

[round moth]

yeah i kinda made it weird cause i like, make the laser on begin play so im not sure how to call it in other things. kinda made it overly complicated lol. but ill use a function to make it better

[dawn gazelle]

When you create it on begin play, then promote the return value to a variable - you now have a reference to the laser that you can use wherever you like.

[round moth]

Ooh cool

[flat coral]

I'm having the weirdest issue with a projectile. Normally it's supposed to apply physics impulse to what it hits through a custom method, because generally the impulse is 0. Except every now and then, it hits with an absolutely MASSIVE impulse and rockets me across the map.

I turned the projectile damage to 1 so i can just sit in it while a stationary NPC shoots me constantly, and I'm printing out the results of OnComponentHit

MyComponent=BPI_BaseShip.BaseCollider OtherActor=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_140 OtherComp=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_140.CollisionComponent Impulse=X=0.000 Y=0.000 Z=0.000
( ... )
MyComponent=BPI_BaseShip.BaseCollider OtherActor=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_165 OtherComp=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_165.CollisionComponent Impulse=X=0.000 Y=0.000 Z=0.000
MyComponent=BPI_BaseShip.BaseCollider OtherActor=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_176 OtherComp=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_176.CollisionComponent Impulse=X=0.000 Y=0.000 Z=0.000
MyComponent=BPI_BaseShip.BaseCollider OtherActor=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_178 OtherComp=BP_HostileProjectileBase_C_178.CollisionComponent Impulse=X=76723.221 Y=36995.122 Z=18095.677

[dawn gazelle]

Any kind of frame rate lag that happens just before it sends you flying?

[flat coral]

Good question. Maybe? What would that indicate?

I fixed it with a bit of a hack, disabled the ability of these to hit pawns whatsoever and I'm just handling the "impact" with BeginOverlap

[dawn gazelle]

If I remember, If an impulse gets applied multiple times in a frame they're additive.

[flat coral]

But that can't explain why the impulse went from zero to not-zero

[dawn gazelle]

All I can think of is an example, I don't know the full explanation.... In Satisfactory (a game made in unreal engine) when the game starts saving there is a hit to the frame rate. If you happen to be using your jetpack when the game saves, even just a little tap of it, the game can end up interpreting it as a much higher value and send you flying much further. I'm not sure if they use add impulse or add force, but randomly seeing a high amount of impulse on your end sounded very similar to what I've seen in Satisfactory..

[flat coral]

My theory is there's a race condition between the physics thread and BP engine. Most of the time the BP wins and is able to handle everything programatically like it's supposed to, but every once in a while the physics has a chance to finish simulating the collision before the BP thread cleans the projectile up

[past compass]

is there an easy way to select a bunch of static meshes and turn them into a bp?

[chrome zinc]

@past compass probably not am easy way but you might be able to set up a editor utility for it.

[past compass]

yea im trying to finesse a way but isn't really working

essnetially ahve a scene i'd like to make a bp and make instances of parts of it, could do it in world but would rather not

[chrome zinc]

You can create an assembly

Select your meshes then right click>level>crate level instance. This creates a "mini level" where all the meshes will be grouped from there you might be able to make a bp out of it

After creating it try "details">convert to reusable BP

Anyone worked with a tmap<gameplay tag, Struct> with the struct being <soft ref, and array of classes> i am assuming its because the tmap>find gets a copy of the struct but i am having trouble actually setting the value of the struct because i cant get into the structs by ref. Any solutions for this?

[dusky cobalt]

Find get's you Key (gameplay tag) and then you can get Value (Struct) of that Key. To set value of struct you need to Add Value to the Found Key.

and in Maps simply Add either changes the value or adds new (if doesn't exist)

[empty iris]

You can use the built in model tools to add objects to one single BP 😉 something called mesh

[past compass]

is that like a plugin ?

[chrome zinc]

mesh components

[dusky cobalt]

Do you want these meshes to be separated after you create actor from them? or can they be as one mesh?

[chrome zinc]

tmap>values is also copys

[empty iris]

Top left drop down box click that and click modeling . You are probably in selection mode

[empty iris]

Click all the meshs you want in the level and click merge or append . It should add all objects to one blueprint

Make sure they are placed right lol

[chrome zinc]

whenever i do tmap>find and make a local variable then do "break struct" all the values are empty because its a copy. even though in another function i have tmap>add so the map has all the right values when i debug but when i try to get the array from the struct and "add array" i cannot pass that updated array back to the tmap because tmap works off copies

[past compass]

i need them just in a bp, and i'd turn some into instances and do some logic inside for doors etc

so in other words, i need them seperated still

[past compass]

ahh, this would make them all 1 tho ?

[empty iris]

Yes

[empty iris]

Probably make a shape for a door create a blueprint "actor" add static mesh set your static mesh you made for the door . Now do code for opening the door 🚪

Use a flip flop or timeliness to open the door, start small

If you need help just ping me 😉

[chrome zinc]

oh wait i solved my tmap issues, i just needed to do a second tmap>add and pass in the updated struct, i guess if you use a tmap<whatever, structs> you have set any updated values as local variables then push those back onto the tmap

[twilit jacinth]

What is this issue? Everything had been good when I was closing the project. I open it and its broken

Have the same error in second widget that doesnt even override any parent functions

[chrome zinc]

did you try to compile those BP and see if they compile??

[twilit jacinth]

Yes

First thing

[dusky cobalt]

Show screenshot of the graph, your event might been deleted? was it maybe interface?

[empty iris]

I'm new but I would dis connect small things you might think is wrong see if you can narrow it down

[twilit jacinth]

This one does override parent OnKeyDown function

[empty iris]

Do you ever create the widget again ? 🤔

[dusky cobalt]

select as many nodes everyhere as you can and click refresh nodes here and thereand then try to compile

[empty iris]

You removed the widget it's none

[twilit jacinth]

Ohhhh

[empty iris]

Try just setting visibility to collapsed or hidden

[twilit jacinth]

I had the same BPI function called SetFocus

That is already present

[empty iris]

OK then don't listen to me I'm new lol just trying to help 🙃

[twilit jacinth]

it wasnt the problem inside the BP itself, but inside implemented interface, but it didnt show that the interafce was the problem

[twilit jacinth]

thats alright, appreciate that

[empty iris]

Very strange I never seen that error tbh

[twilit jacinth]

Looks Like I have to stick much stronger with my BPI function naming conventions

[empty iris]

I'm thinking some how you want to use a widget that isn't created 🤔

It's to do with some override you did

Scam

Don't click the link it's a scam

[chrome zinc]

yea i just reported the message

[past compass]

appreicate your help man

[agile moss]

Is this a thing that structures just do? those are only 2 values why is it printing their original values (bool false ; actor "null") (on tick) Its not causing any problems just wondering

no I dont have anything set on repeat to change their values

[keen ember]

I'm looking to create some dynamic level changes based on player triggering a sequence event. I've managed to make a simple prototype by just using Timeline node on a simple static mesh. But now I want to try to reach a step closer to something professional. My reference are the collapsing arena pieces while fighting Lilith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsYkA9K-8M&t=104s

To me it almost looks like the effect of the ledge breaking apart is playing a very fine tuned animation in like Blender or Maya of each rock rubble within one actor, if that makes any sense? I'm not entirely sure if this is similar works of using the Fracture plugin? I'm looking to have not lean too much into the physics approach. But I'd love to hear some inputs on this

And please redirect me if this maybe is fitting for another channel. Since I understand it might touch on many subjects.

[chrome zinc]

@keen ember you can use fracture to create a sequence animation so it will play the same destruction every time and save calculations for physics .

[reef forge]

I don't suppose someone could point me in the direction of any kind of guide or documentation on achieving active ragdolls similar to Gang Beasts or Human Fall Flat? Found a few things that were close but not quite what I was after digging through youtube and google yesterday, any help would be appreciated

[chrome zinc]

Like when the player dies trigger rag doll? Or what, I'm pretty sure those games use physics interaction for most everything

[reef forge]

Not quite, that part's easy. The weird, floppy physics and such while the characters are running around are what I'm after

[keen ember]

Thank you! That could be it. I'll look into it

[chrome zinc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T8LzaIq3Qs check out at 36:00 is

[chrome zinc]

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD89wWXkDjY might help

[keen ember]

The first one I clicked on when I started looking 😄 thank you so much

[chrome zinc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwbSi2R49ZY this is the other video similar to the first one but just more info about caching chaos to reuse so you dont have to calcualte the physics every time

[reef forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tDjbFXeOo

Of course the official blender video on the exact thing I need doesn't show up when I search it on youtube, but it does when I google it

[chrome zinc]

Yea youtubes search sucks because it's algorithm tries to find videos relevant to what you watch and not relevant to what you search.

[dawn gazelle]

Yea Youtube search is now like, maybe the first 3-5 videos are actually related to your search 😛

[chrome zinc]

it will even show videos completely unrelated to your seach because it would rather direct you to people you are subbed to

[wide imp]

does anyone have any idea why this happens? very annoying ive been dealing with this for hours. the gun attaches weird to the server side's arms

[lofty rapids]

#multiplayer might know better

[faint pasture]

What do you guys think about just hard reffing everything and paying the upfront load cost, assuming it's not that much memory, you can avoid a lot of hitches etc like that right?

Assuming, on average, most of your game's content will be around at any given time.

[dawn gazelle]

Just my opinion of it, but I'd imagine the only bad part is that if you have some hard ref to the thing that has all those other hard refs and that thing won't be around for a particular part of your game... I mean, something eating up a few megabytes of RAM probably isn't the worst, but if you're getting into hundreds of MBs or GBs, then you're potentially getting into having memory problems... If it's textures I think that's also bad as those I believe get loaded into VRAM which most people have less of.

[frosty heron]

My older project is bp only and hard ref everywhere

Takes 15 mins to load

And project will break after 10 mins.

[dawn gazelle]

@_@

[frosty heron]

Right clicking shows nothing

In blueprint class

After 10 minutes of editing.

Also loading the main menu == loading the entire game

It's such a shit show.

I'm not familiar with asset manager yet or how I can make use of it, but I'm going extra hard with soft ref on my current project.

[faint pasture]

Just don't use textures ™️

[dawn gazelle]

XD

[faint pasture]

This project doesn't have that big of a memory footprint, it's like if battlefield had only 1 level and 15 guns, might as well just load it all up since it'll probably all be around anyway.

more like a battlefield level with space engineers parts but yeah

[frosty heron]

Yeah small project won't matter imo.

But building RPG or game that scales

I will go extra miles to come up with loading what I need

[dusk forge]

are you guys doing behavior trees or no?

[frosty heron]

I'm using it

#gameplay-ai would know more though.

[dusk forge]

oh hi @frosty heron

[dusk forge]

checking there also

[frosty heron]

It's a pain to do async loading on my character customisation system.

As there's no guarantee what get loaded first.

And sometime a material may depend on another material.

I end up "refreshing" for every load.

[dusk forge]

context of my question

[frosty heron]

Bit of spaghetti but works

[frosty heron]

I'm still not sure about the question.

If you want to do A.I and you need state machines, then behaviour tree is a good option.

[dusk forge]

theres gaps in functionality between c++ and blueprints right?

so im not sure i get deep into trees and then i find myself needing some sort of a functionality that i cant do with trees and get stuck and cant with with some sort of a hybrid approach

[frosty heron]

Well what is the specific functionality?

If you are new to A.I and using BP, don't think too much, just learn behaviour tree.

If you want to up your self afterwards there are state trees.

[dawn gazelle]

I'm not super well versed with behavior trees, but I imagine the trees themselves aren't where you'd worry much about C++ as having the visual means of creating said trees is kind of their appeal. The tasks however... Those you coudl potentially want to dip into C++ at times, and there'd be nothing wrong with doing so imo. But again, I'm not great with BTs in general yet. 🙃

[dusk forge]

at this point hypthetically

[frosty heron]

Same here, only touched ut this year. But I do probably stick making the BT as a blueprint asset.

If there needs to be custom task in cpp then do just that

[dusk forge]

sure i think i am honestly

[frosty heron]

You will need to leap into EQS shortly.

[dusk forge]

thank you

[thorny forge]

Does anyone know a good way to use the points of a closed spline loop to generate triangles which I can calculate the area's from?

[faint pasture]

is the loop planar?

[thorny forge]

It's in 3D space, and its points are at any position in space

[faint pasture]

then there is no well defined area

[thorny forge]

I'm just completely baffled

[thorny forge]

What I read is I need to use the shoelace method, which takes each point and projects downward a 2D plane which I can calculate from

but god I have no idea where to begin

[faint pasture]

I mean you could do that, you could end up with a zero area loop if it's all vertical

what are you ACTUALLY trying to do

what's the final result

[thorny forge]

I need a calculation of the area of a spline loop. I have measurements of each segment and the spline itself is linear, not curved. So whether I have 3 sides of varying sizes or 20 sides of varying sizes

I need the area of the whole loop

the interior space

[faint pasture]

how would that ever be defined if it's not planar?

Which area is correct?

[thorny forge]

Well I don't expect people to be trying to make cubes with the spline, they will likely be more or less flat, but at varying angles because they'll be outlining paths, stairways and building foundations

[faint pasture]

if you're ok with projecting it to z then it's trivial

[thorny forge]

Sure but I don't even know how to project to the Z

[faint pasture]

choose an interior point, and sum up the areas of the triangles between 2 consecutive points and the interior point

[faint pasture]

there's a project point to plane node

or just zero out the z

345, 253, 1245 -> 345, 253, 0

bam now they're all in a plane

[thorny forge]

Right, I didn't know about the node. So back to my original question you said to sum up the triangle

I wanted to know how I would even get the triangle from the points I'm making

Thanks for telling me about the node @faint pasture

[faint pasture]

Then you make a triangle from all consecutive points and some interior point

and you sum their areas, making sure to apply a NEGATIVE area when the points go the other way

Yeah that's on the shoelace formula wiki page

point can be arbitrary

[thorny forge]

ok

I'm going dizzy

I never thought it'd be so complicated to work out the area

[thorny forge]

This is the part I'm struggling with. I already have a method for getting the centre of my points thankfully

[faint pasture]

looks like it doesn't even need to be interior

2x2 determinant is AD - BC

just follow that example and it'll work, literally just plug and chug

[thorny forge]

See this is where I'm having trouble. I can just barely undrestand this but I don't even know what a detriment is

I couldn't understand the formulas

[little agate]

interesting, base on this calculation, we can create something like bound checker in 3d space based on that shape to some z?

[faint pasture]

yeah but getting if a point is in a 2d polygon is different by a little bit

[faint pasture]

Say your spline points are 1,2 3,4 8,9 12,6

[thorny forge]

wouldn't they be more like 1,2,5 3,4, 8... since it's 3d?

[faint pasture]

no, you zeroed out z

there is no area to a 3d spline

[thorny forge]

ok

[faint pasture]

2 x Area = (1x4 - 2x3) + (3x9 - 4x8) + (8x6 - 9x12) + (12x2 - 6x1)

2 x Area = 4 - 6 + 27 - 32 + 48 - 108 + 24 - 6
Area = -49 / 2
Since you don't care about sign your net area is 24.5

[thorny forge]

Right so is this using a central point as the starting point, then sequentially multiplying the XY of each point, and subtracting them from the adjacent point?

since I'm theoretically triangulating the loop

or have I got confused

[faint pasture]

doesn't need to be central point

can be any point

just doing the math the way i showed will do it using 0,0 as the 3rd point

[thorny forge]

ohh that makes sense

right

just to be clear

2 x Area

what is the area?

in this example is the area already calculated for each triangle?

[faint pasture]

the determinant calculates the area of a parallelogram

halving it gives area of tri

summing all of them gives signed area

[thorny forge]

Ok great, thank you

I'll study what all this means in the morning and make another go at it

I really appreciate the help 🙂

[prime fulcrum]

for some reason whenever i get to the part where this code is supposed to fire it fires for the server but not the client any help would be great

[thorny forge]

Have you double checked all your variables n stuff are set to replicate?

[prime fulcrum]

I thought the variables in the game instance dont replicate?

but you may be right i will just turn them on brb

[faint pasture]

why are your variables that represent the state of the game or state of the player in GameInstance, they should be in GameState or PlayerState

[frosty heron]

Don't use Client RPC to propagate variable change...

[prime fulcrum]

this is the third iteration ive done this from the gamemode gamestate and gameinstance i was just seeing what would happen

[frosty heron]

Mark the variable replicate and set in server. It's as simple as that.

Smelling youtube tutorial

[prime fulcrum]

nah all home cooked actually

[frosty heron]

Well i know Ryan yt channel does it.

I wish he burn that mp yt video.

[prime fulcrum]

but ill set it in server and go from there then

[frosty heron]

Well it helps knowing how replication work

Read the pinned material in #multiplayer and dozen of times till it click.

[faint pasture]

GameInstance is local just like AHUD

[prime fulcrum]

fair

[prime fulcrum]

got it

[upper raven]

I'm trying to learn Flow Graph. Is there a way to show the variable on the node itself? I tried making it a pin but it doesn't display a text box

[barren tangle]

hello can you help me.
I use the enhanced input mapping with an action input AI_move. Where i have 4 keys, up down left right.
I use the function add movement input with the point generated by the AI_move.
But i move on the red direction.
My camera has a field of view of 30.
How can i calculate the vector to map my up key to the blue one?

[pallid ice]

Not sure but, did you try taking the forward or up vector of the camera (which i assume is the view i am looking through right now), break up the vector, only take the x and y components to make a new vector. normalize it and use that vector to move in the blue arrow direction, (which i assume is parallell to the ground still?)

[frosty heron]

The blue one is just an up vector of the pawn.

[barren tangle]

no the up is the red

[pallid ice]

I am assuming you are going for a type of movement like minecraft dungeons (first game that came up in my head)

[frosty heron]

If it points up from the character then it's the UP vector of the character

[barren tangle]

so i break the camera move forward vector, i normalize it and after how do i combine with the pawn vector?

[frosty heron]

You are probably mixing forward vector with up vector

[pallid ice]

am i correct with my assumption about the movement you are trying to mimic?

[barren tangle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/209623359493767169/1364252923789316136/20250422-1453-40.6009328.mp4?ex=6808ff0b&is=6807ad8b&hm=e8ccb51c6a5a10444dec5fb2bd9fb282d79076cc5ee37ee6935dff3e723a7c2b&

something like that

[pallid ice]

no combining, the reason i say break it up is that we want your pawn to move along the horizon, so just delete the Z component of your camera vector.

either that or you can project the camera forward vector with 'project onto plane' with the plane normal being 0,0,1

[frosty heron]

Now I get it after the video.. just do what uniwarrior says.

Your vector will depend on the camera

[barren tangle]

so i'm able to move up correctly but what about other direction?

[pallid ice]

take the right vector of your camera, do the same thing, eliminate the z

[barren tangle]

ok so i have to do manually all of them for each direction?

so based on my input

i need to make condition to adapt from the camera forward vector

[pallid ice]

for down and right you can just take the final results and multiply them by -1 but shouldn't your input already come with negative values?

[barren tangle]

the Action Value has all movement

i was thinking it was possible with that to do something with that directly?

[pallid ice]

kinda yes

[solar pawn]

Is there a simple way of rolling over to the next data table entry? I want to set XPToLevel based on the next consecutive entry in the DT

[pallid ice]

can you break up the action value, my unreal is still starting up and unreal 5 is not baked in yet in to my fresh memory xd

[frosty heron]

You probably want to use a curve table instead for your use case.

[barren tangle]

if i multiply i get back to the pawn vector 😄

which is normal because y or x are = 0

[pallid ice]

not sure which one is witch, but my guess multiply Y with your projected up vector, X with your projected right vector,

afther that idk what is the best practice, do people add these vectors together and normalize it or do they do add movement with both vectors

[frosty heron]

You can get all the row names in a DT. Then get every single row and store them for indexing but that's kinda nasty imo. Just use curve table for your xp to level data.

[solar pawn]

looking into curve tables now, thanks for the hint :)

[barren tangle]

yes i'm looking for the best practice to avoid to have huge code just for that.

[pallid ice]

I think if you add the vectors together after multiplying them, then normalize it your character will move consistent movement speed in all directions
while if you do it separate for both vectors your character will have the typical, i move faster when moving diagonal, thing

unless unreal handles that in the background, not sure, experiment i would say

[barren tangle]

ok thanks

i think it will be easier to split the Action Input in 2

one from the top down and one for the left and right

otherwise we need to play with branch and things like that

but i have to test if combinaison of input will works

[vestal moon]

does anyone know how to autoplay a youtube video with unreal webbrowser?

[solar pawn]

InXY is the total XP of the player, how can I return current level (in the table) based off that amount?