blueprint

[kind estuary]

idk im just shooting

[dawn gazelle]

It's usually better to have the data relating to one thing in one place.

Otherwise you're having to go all over the place trying to find the information

If your unit data comprises of a field that dicatates what mesh it uses, then it may as well have fields that dictate the parameters of that mesh as well.

The only case one could make that you possibly shouldn't, is if there is heavily shared mesh data between multiple units so you're not having to declare the same information multiple times in your table making it easier to update them all at once rather than having to edit each individual unit. If you're getting that far in though, it may warrant exploring data assets instead of a data table.

[trim matrix]

ive started making an enemy, trying to make it look at the player, it does, but then when the player stands on the enemy, the player spins out of control. i could disable collision on the enemy but i want collision on it still bc i dont want the player going through the enemy meshes. what could i do to work around this?

[granite nacelle]

I want to know how I can bind my main menu’s play button to a sequencer/Cutscene so that whenever I press play it plays that cutscene

[kind estuary]

thats especially the case

because lets say you have 100 units and most are cubes with scale 1.0, 2.0, 1.0. Only 3 are spheres with scale 3.0,3.0,3.0
But later on you will have other units maybe like Cones or Cylinders or something

It would be better to have them reference what unit data they have

so you dont write it manually 100 times

it just gets what unit type it has, the mesh and the scale

So you could have a separate data table with the unit types, with the mesh, material and the scale

and just get it ->

could also be a class

[dawn gazelle]

I really think it depends heavily on what differentiates them and how you want to organize things as it doesn't matter for the first definition as you're going to have to give them the original data anyway when you're creating them, it mostly matters for how you want to manage changes later on and how any change needs to propegate between those units. A class may actually be better suited than a data table.

Can always use a Data Table for some kind of base values of particular units, and then use some math within your classes to then generate the values for each speciifc unit type.

Then you'd only have to have minimal data tables and everything else could be calculated rather than having to define 100s of units.

[dawn gazelle]

I'm not very familiar with level sequencers, but I imagine you can get reference to them and they have some kind of play function.

OnClick of button > Get Your Sequencer (Get Actor of Class [level sequencer]?)> Play

Alternatively, set up an event dispatcher in your widget, call it when the button is clicked. In your level blueprint create your widget > use the return value to bind to the event dispatcher an event in your level blueprint that gets your level sequence > play

[dark drum]

Data asset...

[kind estuary]

yeah i still think i will roll with your initial suggestion and set up the property of scale inside the unit data table, even if they are mostly the same.
though i have done in another game the other option, that is to have a second data table, where i had for example the data for the clothes of the character.
So you have one character data table, and in each entry you would have a TArray of names for the clothes they are using.
So like Jacket, BlackShoes, BlueHat.
This would reference clothes defined in the other Clothes Data Table, that have all the different properties for each cloth, including color, size, resistance.
With this you can have YellowHat, that is basically the same mesh as BlueHat, but just a different property (FVector Color)

[kind estuary]

I kind of prefer Data Tables 🤨

maybe its just what im used to

but its nice to have all in one file

than a bunch of separate files

data table is working for me in all games

i tried data asset and didnt get its advantages

though i heard from others that they are more customizable

[dark drum]

They can have functions. These can be great for getter type functions. Especially when you start get have a lot of data in them.

[dark drum]

The only advantage of data tables is that you can import an CSV but unless it's numbers you need to be in the editor anyway to select all the relevant assets.

[dark drum]

When working as a team, having them seperate is a lot better. People can tweak individual data assets without overriding someone else's changes. (assuming they're different DA's)

[dawn gazelle]

When you're doing "Get Data Table Row" I believe you're actually making a copy of the data of the data table in memory for the particular actor that grabbed it. Each time you do this, you're also having to do a lookup to find the particular row to get the data... On every single actor that may want to retrieve that data.

When you use a Data Asset, you're referencing the asset and all actors that reference that same asset are referencing the same data in memory. Since you're assigning a reference, there is no additional lookup required, it can just go straight to the asset and read what you want directly.

With a Data Table, all non-soft reference objects and data within the table must be loaded when you're referencing the data table. With Data Assets, only the non-soft references and data within that particular data asset would be loaded when it is referenced, (ie. you're not having to load the data for 100s of unit types if they're not actually needed)

[kind estuary]

🫡 got it 🫡

[kind estuary]

🫡

[granite nacelle]

Not sure what I'm missing the sequence wont play

[delicate torrent]

back to the issue with rotation being offset which I did fix somehow beforehand

VR widget still doesn't work

[dark drum]

It's because you go to play the sequence and then load another level. This will cause the previous level (including the level sequence you've just attempted to play) to be destroyed during the level transition.

[raw pecan]

I'm working on an Amnesia-like door system, and I figured the best way to move the door was by applying a radial force at the raycast impact location on the physics door.

To my surprise, it worked beautifully! However, there's just one small issue: when the raycast hits the middle of the door, the force applied is much greater than when it hits near the edge. I believe the best solution here is to clamp the door's angular momentum.

The whole system is made in Blueprints, so I don't have access to any C++ functions that could help with that. Is there any way to limit angular momentum in Blueprints?

any help?

[delicate torrent]

I need help does anyone know a way to fix actor being rotated around some point that's not on it? VROrigin is at Z -88, X and Y are 0

[snow halo]

im trynna make a death effect similar to GTA's where the player dies and the camera floats above him and overtime adds more relative location on the Z
this is the newest setup with my cameras
But when im dieing im not using any of these cameras
instead I create a new one

but this camera always stays stationary somewhere above the map or smth, it doesnt slowly move upwards or anything like this
I tried to do this with timers too & still not working
I even just tried to save the last position of the head

somehow it never finds the proper location to spawn this new camera that is supposed to move upwards
Also I made this system to turn my player into spagghetti when he dies

[granite nacelle]

I thought that it was because the code had no delay, or not knowing what time the sequence had finished. I tried making this code but I realized that every time I pressed play the game would spawn another sequence in the world, here's a video showing what I mean

[gentle cove]

Does this look logical the way it is structured? My attempt at a "data driven gait system"

[trim matrix]

hi, ive made this enemy that shoots at the player every so often if they are inside the range that is a sphere collision, im trying to now add the player shooting it into it, but i dont want to use destroy actor incase i want to set it to respawn later, i have it visually dissapearing. but the firing code still happens

[dark drum]

That 'Make Array' just adds 8 values that are all the same. It looks unnecessary to me.

It also seems strange that you go from Gameplay Tags to Enums, why not just use the enum directly as the input?

Then there's the set node for you're gait data, all the other data will be empty as you don't specify the struct data.

[gentle cove]

More or less playing around with different ways to achieve the gait system, the gameplay tags I was attempting to test how it plays it's role on the overall system if I add some network implementation, I definitely can go with the normal enum route as that's how it was before I had this idea. The array has 8 values of gait set seperate by integers in the array, no? I was looking for a simplified way to set the tags to the gait and back into the execution line without having many set nodes. If that makes much sense lol

All the stuck data is specified inside the structs, basically a daisy chain of relevant mapped info, I can post the structs in a but when I get home

The details panel shows the values inside the structs but that may be difficult to visualize on the structure

[dark drum]

You clear all the data with the set node. You probally want to use the set member node instead to keep the other data intact.

[dark drum]

No, each array element will be the same value as each one gets set to EGait which will be what ever was set.

[gentle cove]

The gait gets set and all data is pulled on the relevant gait, such ass speed and active set bool, it seems to work but making sense is another thing lol

[sand shore]

Yeah, each of those set nodes is also acting like a getter. It gets the current value.

The current value is only ever executed if the set node’s input exec wire is ever fired

[gentle cove]

So I have sprint that triggers the tag, the tag triggers the setting gait, the gait set pulls the data from the struct, that's basically my intended way to do it in my head

[sand shore]

I also wanna say, that Make Array setup with all those reroute nodes stacked up, it might look pretty, but it makes it impossible to tell which index goes to which getter. You can hover every pin individually to diagnose it, but it is slower.

[gentle cove]

I have the array top down but I see what you're saying stacking the pins

Like matching the layout to the left

Not saying I'm right BTW just elaborating my reasoning

[dark drum]

The fact it works is a mystery as it shouldn't. As I've mentioned, you clear all the data when you set the gait as you don't specify the struct data.

[gentle cove]

The gait is set and the data is pulled after

The struct retains the info and is set after the gait is set by an input that calls a tag

The creeping toggle and scroll adjust works as well with clamped variables pulled from a struct as well

[sand shore]

The main benefit you’ll get from tags is if you ever want to have multiple gaits blended together, like a crouch run, crouch walk, crouch encumbered.

With Tags, you can represent the entire nuance of the gait with a single GameplayTagContainer. You add a tag when you need to represent an additive trait, and you then need to remove it to withdraw that trait.

For instance, when the player presses Shift, you add the “Running” tag. You remove it when they release.

You can do this for crouching, say “Crouching” for the tag.

You stuff everything into a single tag container, and your animation setup can run through and ask “Hey, should I be Running?” “Hey should I be Crouching”

[gentle cove]

That's my plan with the tag and then guiding it to the server when I get their to have better networking by tag calls

[dark drum]

It's not, the data isn't there. No data in means no data out. You'll need to swap this to the set member node to only change the gait inside the struct.

[sand shore]

You can also just set up a buncha bools for each of these, bIsRunning, right? It’s a lot less to initially set up, but it does prevent you from doing it entirely programmatically.

[gentle cove]

The data is set by default values I'm the struxt that's why, the gait pulls the defaults

I have books toed into the struct as well

[dark drum]

Yes, its set in the defaults but at runtime you clear it with the set node.

[sand shore]

But this thing you’re doing where you use a tag to decide a single enum, where the enum has a 1:1 mapping to the tag, it feels like you’re doing extra work (unless you are in the midst of migrating from enums to tags, then, this is unavoidable)

[gentle cove]

It doesn't get cleared at all in runtime though, the data is retained at all times it seems on the set up

I can ditch the enums possibly with using tags directly in my struct probably

I'll post a few more pics in a little while, it's not a dead set project just a toy I'm messing with

[dark drum]

Oh wait, i bet you've set the defaults for the struct itself. This would cause a lot of confusion and mean changing the defaults in the character class would have no effect with your current setup.

[gentle cove]

Yeah it's set in the struct itself and I gave myself enough data as in min and max speeds but setting those to the CMC max speed seems to work with how it's set up, I think I have some redundancy going on though or just blatant wrong doing LOL

[dark drum]

Again, my previous statement is still true, you need to swap the set node for a set member otherwise defining the values in the character class is pointless.

[dawn gazelle]

Your "Update" event on your timeline is constantly creating new camera components. You probably only need to create a single one. You can move the add camera component node before the play of the timeline.

[dark drum]

A few other things I would probally change is having the gait as a seperate var. This will be more useful when getting the gait into the anim BP to change to the relevant animations.

You could probally just use a map where the key is a gameplay tag as well to skip the conversion to an enum.

[snow halo]

Im doing it like this now

[gentle cove]

Thanks for the feedback!

[snow halo]

I made it even more simplified but still doesnt work

not even this set world rotation works

also this timeline is always stuck at zero

[spark steppe]

it most likely isn't

you would have to set a breakpoint on the next node and check the value after a few frames

if it triggers multiple times, stuff like that can be buggy in BP Debugger

is that even your active camera?!

just adding a camera won't do anything on it's own

other than adding a camera

[dawn gazelle]

Are you getting any errors in your log when you do execute this? If you're detaching the camera component without reattaching I'm not sure it exists in the world.

[snow halo]

Ive added a print string on that timeline and it seems to always be moving the values inside

[spark steppe]

it may not even throw errors if it's connected like this!? while still being on the verge of being garbage

[snow halo]

yes, i automatically set the 3rd person camera enabled after the player dies

[spark steppe]

why do you detach it?

[snow halo]

nope, im doing a validated get on my cam too

[spark steppe]

it's a component which needs some kind of owner

[snow halo]

but i wanna detach from player orientation

I wanna move the camera upwards, and it should just fly out of the player's head or control

and just move upwards like a drone

like it's dieing soul

[spark steppe]

which you can still do while it's attached to the player

[faint pasture]

That does'nt mean you have to detach it

just set its world transform on a temporary tick (the timeline)

btw you don't want your timeline output to feed into a position delta, that's completely incorrect, it'll be framerate dependent and never end up in the same place twice

just have your timeline output a 0-1 and use that to lerp between WhereCamStarted and WhereItShouldEnd

Dead -> save where cam is -> calculate where it should go to -> timeline -> CamLocation = Lerp(Start, End, TimelineFloat)

[spark steppe]

or use set relative location

[faint pasture]

i mean sure but idk if the dead guy is falling over or what

[spark steppe]

that would be even worse i think

since the physics tick happens later and may change the actor transform

making it unpredictable

get the camera world location, save it before the timeline in a var

then set location/rotation mode for the camera component to absolute before the timeline

then use SetWorldLocation on the cam in the timeline, and add the timeline value to the z-axis of your saved location

and then stop struggling with the basics...

[snow halo]

if you mean my mesh, my mesh is falling over & turning into a spaggetti with ragdoll physics

[snow halo]

you mean something like this?

[spark steppe]

no, absolutely not

[faint pasture]

ooh i gotta see that

you are adding a new camera every single frame for the duration of that timeline

[snow halo]

I was doing that before yes

[faint pasture]

so you end up with like 500 cameras

all spawning at the same place

[spark steppe]

stacked nice above each other

[snow halo]

now im doing something more like this

[spark steppe]

that's likely closer, but just because i can't see half of it

and because it's missing half of what i've said

[snow halo]

Ik but hold on I havent finished yet

[spark steppe]

you haven't even started

you got two one things right, which is saving the location~~, and adding the timeline value to it~~

[faint pasture]

It's that simple

[snow halo]

then use SetWorldLocation on the cam in the timeline, and add the timeline value to the z-axis of your saved location

Ok so I should do an addition to the current z as I see it here

[spark steppe]

that's still affected by physics

which is why i said to set the cam component to absolute world space (there's separate nodes for location/rotation)

[faint pasture]

although 1 frame of physics error won't matter at all for this

[spark steppe]

it may cause jitter tho

[faint pasture]

yeah after it finishes it might move, dunno his design

[snow halo]

it still doesn't work btw

[spark steppe]

ofc it doesn't

[faint pasture]

let's see the float track

[snow halo]

absolute world space?

[faint pasture]

Don't worry about that for now, get a camera to move before concerning with changing component space and all that

[faint pasture]

What does that float track look like?

does it go from 0,0 to somenumber, somenumber?

[faint pasture]

2 cm isn't a lot of camera movement

[spark steppe]

maybe it's a game where you play a silverfish!?

[faint pasture]

with this current code, have the float track go from 0,0 to like 5, 2000

that means 5 seconds in the camera will be 2000cm higher

[snow halo]

I'll try 5.000

[faint pasture]

Can't see shit, fit the curve to the view

click those buttons

[faint pasture]

Looks good, it'd be way more flexible to just output a 0-1 range then set up the way I showed a few screenshots back but that'll work

[faint pasture]

0-1 range feeding the lerp like this will let you just set the end pos however you want

and yeah you'll want to change the camera to use world space before the timeline if you want it to not respond to the actor moving AFTER the timeline has ran its course

but if you wanna have the sky high camera follow a ragdoll down a mountain slope it'll work as-is

assuming cam is parented to mesh and not capsule

[snow halo]

I should change the set relative location & rotation to set world location & rotation?

[faint pasture]

Doesn't matter, as long as it matches your StartPos

Do you know the difference between relative and world?

[snow halo]

did you use set world location & rotation or relative location & rotation ?

[faint pasture]

Relative means relative to its parent. Something being at 0,0,0 RELATIVE is where its parent is

World means what it sounds like, something at 0,0,0 is at the world origin, it doesn't care where its parent is

[dawn gazelle]

I did the detach as it does seem to work and it also disables the camera boom from going around 😛

[faint pasture]

I wondered what detach does to naked components

probably jsut sets them to use world coords i guess

[dawn gazelle]

I'm thinking it moves it up in the hierarchy

[faint pasture]

Look at me, I am the captain root now

[dawn gazelle]

XD

[faint pasture]

I hate the whole component/actor thing, I've got a fun situation where actor position replication is being clobbered by component transform replication.

annoying, shoulda just been components the whole way down

[snow halo]

Im pretty sure im doing the same thing as you and it doesnt equate to anything

I think I havent exhausted the possibility to where my component hierarchy is safe from errors

Im using this 3rd_person_camera which is parented under a spring arm which is parented under a character mesh ...

I find that this is the best setup for my cameras but might be bad for when I wanna have my player die

[spark steppe]

is it the active camera?

[snow halo]

yes because im seeing my body through a 3rd person camera

I only have 2, a 1st person camera & a 3rd person camera, but ill activate it again just in case in the beginning of this event

[spark steppe]

that wont do it afaik

[spark steppe]

test with the other cam

[snow halo]

oh it works

After I added the Set Active node it works, even tho the 3rd person camera was already active (because I was seeing through it) ✅

[violet bison]

anyone know why constant force of gas not working on actors?

[snow halo]

Has anyone had this problem where specific functions or event logic only works when you put a break point on it?

[raw sleet]

My blueprints have a box collision attached. Whenever a player enters the box collision, an event should be fired. The problem is, sometimes the collision takes either too long to notice the player entering (0.1 to 1 second) or, which is even worse, it just doesn't notice the player all until the player walks right into the middle of the box. I have tried many things and it didn't work

[azure walrus]

Hey everyone, I need a bit of help with my Blueprint setup.

In my task, I’m checking whether the InteractionType of an interaction point matches the CurrentTaskTag from my ScheduleComponent using MatchesTag.
The issue is: GetInteractionType() returns multiple tags

This causes my branch to constantly flicker between True and False

Question:
How should I change my setup so this comparison works reliably and doesn’t flicker?
Is there a better way to check if the CurrentTaskTag exists within a set of tags?

[flat mauve]

Hey guys! Just doing a quick survey to see how many would be interested in this. Would you? https://youtube.com/shorts/PhUUP8D-eX8?si=5ZaiVHTmHFOlzQiN

[clear bison]

Hello, I'm fresh in learning UE5 and want to make something like heroes of might and magic but with some twisted mechanics. While learning how to code using blueprints and making camera move when mouse is near the edge of the screen i made this monster in screenshot. I don't know how to make which direction vector is chosen to my offset function. Can you help me? 🙂
I'm not new into programming, been making very small games in unity but never used blueprints. Can you recommend some good tutorial for good practices in blueprints? 🙂

[lofty rapids]

"which direction vector is chosen to my offset function" <-- it looks like it adds something based on if your in those sections. What seems to be the problem with this ?

[clear bison]

im wondering is there a way to use only one offset function and chose direction vector for it

[lofty rapids]

you may be able to set a vector variable, add the vectors together, and then put it into movement afterward

but i think what you have is fine, not much making it cleaner doing it the other way

[clear bison]

Ok thank you for help 🙂

[lofty rapids]

if you had many branches and nodes i may suggest that way, but this is just a few nodes

[maiden wadi]

Did that just a bit ago in our latest project. Then immediately turned it off locally. 😂 Edge of screen scrolling is annoying to me.

[thin ember]

Any of you lovely lot able to give a newbie some insight on how to implement this crosshair system i've been toying with for a day or 2?

[lofty rapids]

a simple crosshair is to draw it on a widget

put it in the center and show/hide the widget

[thin ember]

Im trying to implement it so that the crosshair is drawn at the end of a raytrace, but having some difficulty

i've managed to get it like 80% there, but theres a couple little bugs that im trying to get my head around

[lofty rapids]

what are the bugs ?

are you drawing with a widget ? or are you using like a decal ?

[thin ember]

The "crosshair" widget i've created is created over and over and over again so eventually you just end up with a crosshair smear coming from the weapon, and the crosshair isn't quite at the end of the raytrace

drawing with a widget, tried with a decal and I couldn't see it once it got like 5m away, and drawing it on enemies was horrible 🥲

[lofty rapids]

ya i see the widget is probably better

[thin ember]

so far i've got this

[lofty rapids]

so the crosshair is in the correct place ?

[thin ember]

correct-ish

i'ts not quite landing at the impact point of the trace

[lofty rapids]

create the widget on begin play

and just set its location

don't create it after the trace every time

[thin ember]

will that not cause it to stay fixed in one spot? orr

ah okay

[lofty rapids]

well your moving it with a node i c

so that should move it

you use the reference from when you created it

instead of keep creating it

that will fix the duplicate

[thin ember]

ahhhhh

ill give that a go!

[lofty rapids]

you keep stacking widgets the performance will drop as well

i usually put my widgets in the HUD

but you could just do it on begin play of the bp your using it with

[thin ember]

i've just tried doing it on begin play and it only gets updated once, not in real time

[lofty rapids]

show the code

[thin ember]

i am exceptionally new to gamedev and blueprints

[lofty rapids]

did you put all this on begin play ?

[thin ember]

yarp

[lofty rapids]

thats not what i meant

[thin ember]

ah

[lofty rapids]

do the line trace and movement on tick like you were

but create the widget in begin play

then you right click and promote to variable

and use that reference to move it

so as not to keep creating widgets

but just moving the one you have created already

[thin ember]

so this now on begin play

like so?

[lofty rapids]

put the set position in viewport after the timeline

right click on the return value of the create widget, and promote to variable

i don't have things hooked up, but this is the basic idea

notice i created the widget, set it to a variable

and then used that variable to set position in viewport

instead of creating it on tick

[thin ember]

essentially, create it once but update it's position everytick

[lofty rapids]

exactly

[thin ember]

"Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property Crosshair Widget". Node: Set Position in Viewport Graph: EventGraph Function: Execute Ubergraph BP Weapon Component Blueprint: BP_Weapon_Component"

lemme just make sure i havn't done a silly mistake

[lofty rapids]

the variable is empty so you must not have set it before the tick runs

do you have allow tick for begin play checked ?

[thin ember]

that was it

i didn't "Set" it before trying to call it in the event tick

[lofty rapids]

that'll do it

[thin ember]

thanks for the help on that one! would you mind giving a hand to get the crosshair actually lined up on the end of the ray trace?

[lofty rapids]

use location instead of impact point

that might help

[thin ember]

okay, ill giive that a go

[lofty rapids]

oh

you want to minus half the image on both directions

[thin ember]

ahhhh ofc

[lofty rapids]

does it look like the top left is in the center ?

[thin ember]

it's looking at the origin point of the image isn't it?

[lofty rapids]

yes

[thin ember]

more or less yeah

[lofty rapids]

it's puting the x, y on that point, but the 0,0 isn't center most likely

[thin ember]

makes sense, easy way of nudging it in the right direction(s)?

[lofty rapids]

subtract half the width

subtract half the height

[thin ember]

would i do that in the Screen Position - Set position in viewport connection?

essentially at the highlighted node diversion?

That weird, it's 100x100 but i had to subtract 25 each way

interesting, thanks so much for the help!

spent 2 days googling and couldn't find anything like what you've just talked me through, but then it might be a case of it's so simple no one else needed a tut on it hahaha

[lofty rapids]

finding tutorials for very tailored issues is usually a hard time

[thin ember]

Yeaaaah, im trying to avoid tutorial hell but when you're this new it's kinda hard not to

[lofty rapids]

i just went over blueprints tutorial and that seemed to help me quite a bit

[thin ember]

now that i've done a tiny bit in blueprints it's beginning to make sense how things are done but im very much still learning how things are done etc

now to figure out a headshot system, thanks to your help getting my crosshair accurate!

[muted gorge]

what is this mean?

[lofty rapids]

is this the player start ?

it could mean it's colliding with something @muted gorge

https://www.google.com/search?q=BADsize+in+unreal

[muted gorge]

yes

it is a player start

[lofty rapids]

move it out of the collision

[muted gorge]

okay it worked

thx

[wooden socket]

Hey all. Is there a way to search a Data Table using a column (like "Category") and find associated row names in BP?

[wooden socket]

I need to create widget buttons for each entry in a subcategory.

Ex. Mechanics > Combat > Dodge.

The Subcategory of Combat is where I need to reference the DataTable to create a button for each entry widget (Dodge).

[low glade]

Hey when I cast to pcg volume everything is fine until I close the engine. After that always the node turns into a "bad cast node" and needs to be replaced by another cast to pcg volume node, anyone knows whats up?

[echo stag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOpyZ8552oA&t=429s
Is it true that we should use soft pointers almost everywhere if we point to a heavy asset?

I haven't seen almost any soft pointers in Lyra (besides lobby background) and I have no idea what should and should not be a soft ref

Example from Lyra: ExperienceDefinition --> LyraPawnData --> PawnClass --> InitialInventory (x3 Item Definitions) --> AbilitySets/WeaponBlueprints->Meshes/NiagaraSystems

All mentioned above is fully hard ref.
Would it make sense to replace anything/everything with soft pointers? I recently dug into LyraExperienceManagerComponent and see I could async load there everything my experience uses before the game actually starts (so PawnData for example) but what if I have multiple pawn data assets and only half of them is going to be used, then It would make sense to keep pawn classes inside as soft ref, then what about initial inventory, probably all of those items are gonna be used but let's say for example someone never switches to 2nd or 3rd weapon given from initial inventory and uses only the 1st one, then it would make sense to store them as soft ref and async load as well right, same for ability sets related to them?
BUT what if someone decides to never shoot their equipped weapon, all niagara systems used for decals which are hard ref by weapon bp should be soft pointers in that case too am I right?

[dark drum]

It all depends. If most of you're stuff is going to be loaded anyway (pretty common in smaller games) then there isn't much point. This said, music (audio assets) are usually good to soft ref either way as these can range from 3mb to 30mb depending on compression and you would rarely have more than 1 playing at a time.

In terms of lyra, with it being a FPS shooter template, these tend to be fast paced games so having to load/unload assets could result in hitches if it happens frequently.

If you only have a handful of weapons having them all loaded so they are ready can allow for a faster response. If you however have 100's then yea, you'll need to soft ref most of it (probably get away with just soft refing the data asset) as having all of them loaded would most likely be impractical.

[lofty rapids]

if you rebuild the bp does it do the same thing ?

possibly it's corrupt

[thin ember]

Thanks again for the help earlier @lofty rapids, managed to get a health bar and headshot system implemented now! Did a quick and dirty pass over the animation(s) handling im doing and tidied that up a bit too, think it's working a little bit better than before!

[lofty rapids]

glad i could help

i still have a bunch to learn but i like to help when i can

[thin ember]

best way to learn is help others, helps consolidate your knowledge!

[low glade]

How do I rebuild it?

[lofty rapids]

i mean create a new one and do it from scratch unfortuanately

but just put that stuff in it

see if it fails or the bp is just corrupt and it works in another bp

if you can't replicate it in another bp then it's probably corruption

which means you'll need to redo the bp

[low glade]

Well i switched it for a tag check so that works now, but when you say rebuild I could just ctrl c ctrl v the code right?

[lofty rapids]

ya, just to see if it's the bp is corrupt

or there is another reason why thats happening

create a new bp, and copy the code

[lofty rapids]

that works too

[low glade]

I see. Well im prob gonna aavoid that for now but if need be useful to know. What makes it go corrupt?

[lofty rapids]

idk much about it, but it can happen

it's something to check atleast

if your saving it, and everything works then when you re open the project its f'd that just imo seems like corruption

it's not working as expected

but there could be other reasons i'm still learning

[lofty rapids]

you have any c++ ?

[trim matrix]

does anyone know what's wrong with this code? when the player is spawning in the world it should check if a specific cutscene is playing (the cutscene is being referenced in the viewport), and when it's playing it should debug that text, but it doesn't.

[surreal peak]

Try a delay. If that works then your LevelSequence isn't yet playing when BeginPlay calls.
If you want a proper fix and the delay helps, then check if the SequencePlayer has a callback for when the Sequence starts playing, and hook your logic up with that in case it's not nyet Playing.

[trim matrix]

the sequence is not meant to play on event begin play

the event begin play should just check if the cutscene is playing

[surreal peak]

But you are checking if it's playing on BeginPlay.

[trim matrix]

i want it to debug the text whenever it plays the cutscene

[surreal peak]

So why are you expecting it to be true?

[trim matrix]

hm that's right

[surreal peak]

Then check if the SequencePlayer has a callback for Started Playing or so.

[trim matrix]

how do i check that?

[surreal peak]

The same way you found "Is Playing" you can look for something with "Bind" that sounds useful.

And if that doesn't help, probably via the API Docs

[trim matrix]

is something like this better?

[thin panther]

No, bind the play event on begin play. This self referential loop isn't what you want

[trim matrix]

bind the Delegate of on play to begin play? or you mean to connect it normally

[trim matrix]

thanks!

[low glade]

In general ? Yeah. Regarding this BP? No

[lofty rapids]

you use hot reload at all ?

[low glade]

What's that?

[lofty rapids]

"Hot Reload in Unreal Engine allows developers to recompile C++ code while the editor is running, without needing to restart the engine."

[low glade]

Like live cpp compile ?

[lofty rapids]

live, right

instead of close the editor, compile

i've heard this can cause corruption

[paper gate]

random question, is there a quick way to get the impact point where a player lands from a jump? Im trying to just spawn a dust effect on landing but using the capsule or mesh or a socket at the root produces inconsistent results, sometimes the effect spawns above the ground or randomly around the center of the character

[lofty rapids]

do a trace straight down from the center of the character

use the OnLanded event

[paper gate]

I am using on landed for obvious reasons, I figured just grabing the location of some other element like the root bone would work but I think the inconsistencies of when it technically hits is messing it up
I'll try the trace the thing

should be able to just make it a quick basic function, might be able to use it again later

[lofty rapids]

traceDown(actor) {
return location;
}

[spark steppe]

might also work to take the last floor location from the character movement component

[paper gate]

thats not a bad idea either, in that situation would I would just use the location pin no?

[spark steppe]

tho, i'm not 100% sure if it contains x/y or if it was just a z-height

[paper gate]

Z height should be fine for what im doing. all im trying to do is spawn a little dust particle on landing

If I need more info I can swap it out to the line trace idea

[paper gate]

well you were right lol. Its doing the correct Z location but it doesn't move with the player on the XandY axis it always spawns at the same location. Welp time for a trace I guess lol

[spark steppe]

which value did you use?

i would try this

[paper gate]

thats exactly what did

[spark steppe]

or it doesn't update for some reason, but yeah, linetrace check will be just fine either

[paper gate]

I did put it in a library function since I think I could use it for other stuff, but I dont think that would change anything since im still feeding in the character movment

[low glade]

Yeah I've used it but a long time ago

[paper gate]

got it thx for the tips

[delicate torrent]

what am I doing wrong here? I referenced the correct widget in the vehiclehud variable

[lofty rapids]

so you have two variables where do you actually set them to there values ?

[lofty rapids]

you set the correct type of variable, but you most likely didn't populate the variable with the actual reference

setting the type does not set the reference, you have to actually set the variable value after

[delicate torrent]

I just realized where I severed the thing that sets the variable in the controller bp

severed the wrong one

I put the connection back, removed the "add to vieport" and it works now

had a bit too much of a panic lol

Now to fix the binding issues

[delicate torrent]

because it still removes the text in there, when I simulate the game(and they are invisible in VR)

[lofty rapids]

no errors ?

[delicate torrent]

Nothing, lemme relaunch the engine, maybe it'll show errors

[lofty rapids]

wheres the part that shows the speed ? i don't see that code

[delicate torrent]

I forgot to bring it back in the player controller for some reason
you asking this reminded me to

[lofty rapids]

when you see accessed none on a variable it's because the variable is empty

so it's another problem with a different variable

same problem, you need to actually set the value

if it works in pie and not in another mode then it might be a timing thing

where do you set this value ? Vehicle Movement Component

[lofty rapids]

when does this run ?

[delicate torrent]

it is being set, I also used cast to but it's redundant so I removed it

[delicate torrent]

begin play

[lofty rapids]

see if your tick is set to run before begin play

theres an option

[delicate torrent]

turning off and seeing if it will fix the issue

now it does not display an error, still empty widget

[lofty rapids]

so you compile save

[delicate torrent]

did so

[lofty rapids]

and it just silently doesn't work now ?

no error ?

[delicate torrent]

not a thing in the log

[lofty rapids]

what does the update speed function look like ?

[delicate torrent]

played instead of simulate and now it shows the errors

god damn this engine

[delicate torrent]

in player controller

in widget, gear, then speed

[lofty rapids]

ok so it's not set, you set it to not tick before begin play ? and the begin play and tick are on the same bp ?

[delicate torrent]

yes

[lofty rapids]

idk why this error is happening if you set it begin play and don't tick before that

[tight venture]

Generally speaking you should be checking to see if the references you're attempting to use are valid. That would make this cleaner and you wouldn't have to play tricks with tick

[delicate torrent]

okay Put print string to it, it shows the speed and gear

and RPM gauge gets filled

but it's because the vehicle is possessed in this moment

in vr shows up too now

[lofty rapids]

the problem is the accessed none

[delicate torrent]

message log is empty

[lofty rapids]

does that error still show up ?

so when you stop it

does it show an error ?

[delicate torrent]

collision issues came back but at least now it's easy to see speed

[delicate torrent]

it didn't show any errors about the hud

now it does show warnings about physics which never showed up

[lofty rapids]

probably the error before was blocking everything from working

when you get errors like that you got to fix them

warnings not so bad, but like it says you need simulate physics and your using addimpulse

[delicate torrent]

I ignored it because the main problem was VR controls not working
Fixed those - moved onto this error

it was an error that only messes up only the gauge widget, so I didn't pay attention to it

[lofty rapids]

so take the print string out you know they are actually activating

is the speed displaying ?

[delicate torrent]

nope

even more confusing is the part that it stopped responding to inputs from the steering wheel and gearbox

[lofty rapids]

thats strange

is it throwing errors ?

[delicate torrent]

only car's skeleton warnings

which it does have enabled

if I simulate physics on each wheel it'll just disconnect

[lofty rapids]

have you tried addimpulse ?

is it working ?

two warnings isn't that bad

[delicate torrent]

I didn't even get in the vehicle blueprint, only thing that was modified is this exact car's BP, not the main one(excluding camera controls, which don't play a part in physics)

[lofty rapids]

idk any deeper then looking at the nodes, maybe debugging some errors

idk how the physics should work or the vehicle should be setup

is it #chaos-physics ? might get better help in there

atleast the errors are gone

[delicate torrent]

in a minute, must compress the videp

[lofty rapids]

https://streamable.com/

[delicate torrent]

it's still processing

[lofty rapids]

post it when it's done

it should embed write in the chat

[delicate torrent]

alright

[lofty rapids]

it could take awhile for a big video

[delicate torrent]

https://streamable.com/vzvmwv?src=player-page-share

[delicate torrent]

it's 130 MB, not that big of a video

[dark drum]

Get 'Handbrake', it allows you to re-encode the video. Often reducing the file size significantly.

[lofty rapids]

whats up with the throttle ? you said a reset might fix it ?

[delicate torrent]

USB Hub might've had an issue with the port that wheel is connected to while I was working in this session in unreal, I restarted the editor because it usually solves issues like this, it didn't

[lofty rapids]

idk enough to fix that

never used a steering wheel

is it steering ?

or the whole thing just isn't working ?

[delicate torrent]

It would work flawlessly if I was possessing the car, but in my caseit's impossible to do what I want with it
So I just basically teleport in the car, weld pawns together and pass through controls from vrpawn into vehicle using custom events for inputs

And it seems like inputs decided to not get passed through despite everything working in theory

VR turn with controller broke too

somehow

it works but now rotates with an offset again

not a single thing was changed in the pawn blueprint

[lofty rapids]

Whats the problem with possessing ? your saying the controls work if you possess it ?

[delicate torrent]

VR controls will not work if I possess the vehicle, no matter what I do and how much do I try to merge vehicle and VRPawn together it just won't work how I need it to

hands just basically fall off when you possess(even a modified) vehicle

[lofty rapids]

i c

[lofty rapids]

the steering wheel works if you possess the vehicle ?

you may be able to pass movement to the vehicle

if you don't possess the vehicle you won't have those inputs, but the code for the input should be in there probably something like add movement input and some inputs which you could just mimic in your vr pawn and pass to the car while your in it

[delicate torrent]

I passed inputs through calling a bunch of custom events in vehicle pawn through VRPawn, it worked until it didn't

Example: gear shifting and neutral, with the responding part in VRPawn

[lofty rapids]

does the gear shifting work ?

[delicate torrent]

it does

[lofty rapids]

now you just need to do the steering and throttle

just look on the vehicle for how it does that

doesn't the steering wheel have a shifter also tho ?

[delicate torrent]

believe me or not, I did, I jus thave to figure out why won't it recieve the inputs

[delicate torrent]

it has, just as paddle shifters which are separate "gear up" "Gear down" events which I didn't bind

[lofty rapids]

you might need to add context, you notice on begin play of vehicle it adds a context ?

#enhanced-input-system is a beast idk much about it

[lofty rapids]

the same enhanced inputs on the car, don't work on the pawn ? do the events actually fire ?

it's probably the context

[delicate torrent]

it adds context when you overlap the vehicle

Car calls the event in it's blueprint

[lofty rapids]

why are you adding and removing default ?

[delicate torrent]

it's vehicle default mapping context

I changed the descriptor but not the asset name(which I should)

Add vehicle related mapping context when overlapping with the vehicle

remove vehicle related mapping context when not in vehicle

as a precaution to not make car receive unvanted inputs

[lofty rapids]

is the box the whole size of the car ?

[delicate torrent]

it isn't but it's everywhere that player can be

I'm gonna just get the values and print them out again, something aint right

[lofty rapids]

you add the context but you probably have to add the events in your vr pawn

the keys will work with context

but you'll still need to run the code

meaning the context doesn't run when the keys pressed on the vehicle

[delicate torrent]

events are in the vrpawn

it did work before, idk why it won't, I added the mapping context on begin play, yet it won't work

[lofty rapids]

see if the events are firing off

when you move the steering wheel

and push the throttle

put some print strings

[delicate torrent]

did, no reaction

[lofty rapids]

ok so your context isn't working

[delicate torrent]

I am gonna try removing one of the plugins (rawinput) and see if it will change anything

since I am using a Joystick plugin that supports wheels out of the box I might find a workaround

I figured it out

thing just got confused and reassigned a different name to the steeringg wheel in the mapping context

probably because of conflicting plugins

[lofty rapids]

so you can drive the car now ?

[delicate torrent]

doesn't want to move but I have to check out if it actually does add the throttle input or not by moving the print string to another bp

[lofty rapids]

see if that event is firing

[delicate torrent]

it does fire, car doesn't move for some reason, digging deeper

worst thing is that it won't show any errors, so technically it works, but it doesn't do anything

I'm going to sleep, can't figure it out, I've lost already, so might as well

It gets steering inputs, gear changes, but, throttle doesn't get set in there for some reason, no error about it

[dark drum]

I just want to mention this can probably be simplified to a single input action and a single 'SetGear' event where you pass in an int.

[delicate torrent]

I will look at it in the morning,
I didn't find a single guide for H pattern shifters in the wild so I just went the easiest route(one I know would work) and it does work if events are fired at all

And idk how should I figure out the rotations of the mesh I use to visualize gear shiftinf

While takes a while, it does display each gear right because each gear has it's own rotation values

But will look at it in the morning

[dawn gazelle]

Or even just...

[dark drum]

Not a single input action (turns out it wont trigger if the action value is between -0.5 and 0.5) but you can get it down to 2 and have the values controlled by modifiers on the Input context mapping. 🙂

Neutral is a separate one.

It might give you some ideas tomorrow. 🙂

[trim matrix]

hi i have this item box blueprint to randomly give the player an item when its shot, using an enum, i have none in there as the default value, but i dont want the box to be able to give "none" i tried setting the min of the random in range to 1 instead of 0 but the same happened

[dark drum]

Remove 'None' from the pool?

[trim matrix]

nope it still does it

[maiden wadi]

It cannot, if you remove it from the array on the right of the last screenshot.

[trim matrix]

i did

[maiden wadi]

Also your randomizer is wrong. Max should be LastIndex. There is also a Random function pulling directly off of an array.

Length is one more than last index. So you may be pulling from the last index, which returns the defaulted None value.

[maiden wadi]

What is the three here?

[trim matrix]

lives

[trim matrix]

i think this was the issue

[maiden wadi]

It feels weird that it would hit the max every time that many times though. You should have only hit that rarely.

[trim matrix]

it was, i was just printing the curent powerup off event tick so i could see what the player was given

[maiden wadi]

Ah. But yeah, the array nodes are much nicer. There's a simple one and one that uses a stream, if you needed them seeded. Don't have to do the index math yourself.

[trim matrix]

ty

[topaz condor]

can anyone see why my alpha here is not resetting back to 0?

[zealous moth]

Hate to ask late at night but I'm outta ideas.
I'm doing a simple drag and drop operation from a widget to a world space actor.
The widget has a on click and drag override event and a drag handler. The issue comes with the drop event.
Apparently, the player controller doesn't see anything related to the cursor while it is in capture mode or pressed down.
When I drag something, and then release it, that release timing resolves everything previously and so the new position is unaccounted for.
I was thinking of using a tick even when I am dragging stuff and when I let go, I call an event to get the mouse position.
My issue is getting the mouse position to world space.
I tried to get several 2d vectors but they are never quite right... any ideas?

Conversely I tried attaching a widget to an actor and have that handle the drop event but it won't fire. I guess viewport widgets and actor widgets are different when it comes to drop events

[zealous moth]

If i plug this into a left mouse button event, it fires fine

if i plug this in either the mouse release event or on a drag cancelled, it will not trace but will print string further down the line somehow

Ah I see why it fails. It's all 0,0,0 because the cursor, at that time doesn't exist on screen

[boreal basin]

Where do I get ResetDefaultCMC from?:

[lunar sleet]

That is a custom function. See the Target is underneath that says where you get it from

[boreal basin]

Ah

[snow halo]

Hi I have a weird problem

sometimes if I dont keep this blueprint open

then my images will not be rendered properl

I looked it up online, someone recommended using a delay because maybe the images dont have enough time to loda

I tried to use soft references & now im back at hard references

this problem happens always

but even more so with soft referencies

[dark drum]

When using soft references you have to load them. (Load asset blocking or async load asset)

Loading assets in the editor is a little different to a game so manually opening a BP will also load the assets for the editor session.

Also, what's the point of the screenshot? Is this what works or doesn't work?

[snow halo]

yes at the moment im back to using hard references

and still get the same problem

I've also had the problem where a particular part of code would not work/execute

unless if I put breakpoints on it

and sometimes if I kept the executing blueprint open, it would work, if I kept it closed it wouldn't load the code properly

[dark drum]

Instead of the delay, swap it out for a print string. You probably aren't setting the image in the class used.

[snow halo]

This problem happens when I completely ignore it & do something else, for example if I reset my editor or if it crashes there's a good chance that it might happen again

but there's no way for me to debug it at all

because it only happens every once in a long while

[snow halo]

and when that problem occurs I dont get any print strings printed or delays or anything like that

at least so far when I tried with print strings I never seen it but its very rare error so idk how to debug this very rare error

[dark drum]

This sounds like the widget never gets created in those instances.

Either way, it can be good to double check the log as sometimes print to screens get suppressed but still show in the log.

[snow halo]

The widget does get created but it just displays a white blank image

[dark drum]

I'd lean towards the image not being set in whatever class you have assigned. That or the class isn't set.

How do you create/add the widgets?

[timid basin]

How i can fix this when i click attack Sphere duration it spawn fast

[lethal geyser]

Could you show us the code?

[delicate torrent]

it's good

I will do this after I pass the exam/defend my diploma

[silent plaza]

Hey! I’m building a simple flying AI using ProjectileMovement with homing enabled following Gorka tutorial

I want the actor (a glowing spirit) to orbit around the player, like it’s gravitating around them.

But I have two issues:

• It keeps accelerating endlessly, even with low initial speed, max speed, and homing acceleration.
• I want it to orbit at a stable distance, not rush or stick too close.

Any idea how to make this orbit motion smoother and stable? Or is there a better way than using ProjectileMovement?

Thanks!

[unique bronze]

In what context does it make sense using ActorComponent on a moving Actor, instead of using that Actors EventGraph?

[maiden wadi]

Gonna need better context. What does the actor moving have to do with an actor component?

[lofty rapids]

huh ?

[shy patrol]

I'm using projectiles for my game and once they hit a certain speed they begin skipping over frames and will miss, is there any way to prevent this or fix it

[lofty rapids]

possibly enable CCD, and/or adjust sub-stepping

[shy patrol]

I tried ccd, didnt seem to do anything, unfamiliar with sub-stepping tho

[faint pasture]

what do you mean by skipping over frames?

I'd just roll your own projectile that uses traces instead of sweeping if you really need it to handle high speeds

[lofty rapids]

sub-stepping might help ?

[faint pasture]

Depends on what the problem is

[lofty rapids]

"This involves increasing the number of physics simulations (substeps) within a single game frame"

"To handle fast-moving objects in a simulation, you can adjust sub-stepping settings to prevent tunneling (where objects pass through walls or other objects) and improve collision detection."

[faint pasture]

I know what substepping means, we don't know if tunneling is actually happening. If it's ProjectileMovementComponent it just sweeps the collider afaik, it shouldn't tunnel.

[lofty rapids]

i c

[shy patrol]

sorry I had to get a video to best show what im talking about

I also tried substepping but it didnt work from what I tried

but in the video I shoot the projectiles at about 500 speed, and then click a button to change it to 2500 and as u can see they just begin missing and skipping frames

unless I put the afterimage over the enemy it wont hit

[faint pasture]

are you using projectile movement component or what

[shy patrol]

yeah its an actor with projectile movement

using initial and max speed for the speeds

[faint pasture]

You have sweep collision on right?

[shy patrol]

yes

but the projectile hitting is based on the capsule component

[delicate torrent]

Trying to turn off the inputs on VRpawn when in car(variable is switched depending if pawn is overlapping another pawn)

[lofty rapids]

the boolean incar isn't working ?

i c you have incar is false then to the movements, it looks like if you set incar to true then the movements shouldn't work as long as it's the same variable

[delicate torrent]

yep, it should break the inputs when in car, I think I will try making a different boolean modifier just to try out

[lofty rapids]

and these are all on vrpan except for box collision ?

that boolean should work, for some reason you must not be setting it or it's a whole other variable

[delicate torrent]

first two are vrpawn other two are in vehicle

so when player is in the box - it calls the event in pawn, and it sets the boolean

[lofty rapids]

right i see that, check if the events are firing

it looks like it should work unless the events are not triggering

make sure box overlap is working

any errors ?

[delicate torrent]

doing it rn, I set it to ignore everything, but overlap pawns
generate overlap events is checked in both

[delicate torrent]

no

[lofty rapids]

its probably not firing the overlap, pretty much the only reason why it wouldn't work imo

[delicate torrent]

event's don't fire, yeah

just attached a bunch of print strings to it and nothing comes on

[woven drift]

hey people! importing heightmap from 512x512 image gives these weird ridges, image itself seems normal, how can i approach this problem?

[delicate torrent]

changed the collision type and it works

[faint pasture]

That's a resolution mismatch and edge padding

[woven drift]

ooh, so that thing
i tried setting image size exactly to 528x528 but it seems to exceed the max size and i cant import it anymore

[maiden wadi]

Lol. You have to import heightmaps the same resolution as the landscape resolution? It's too stupid to do basic UV averaging mapping?

[woven drift]

im alright with less or more resolution, the mismatch is what i wanna fix at any cost

[delicate torrent]

now to fix VR inputs not working when teleporting out of the car..

(walking not working, turning does work it seems)

[faint pasture]

why is that not 512 x 512?

[maiden wadi]

You need CommonUI for a start. And you need to modify it's CommonAnalogCursor. Requires C++ to implement easily. It'll be a buggy mess in BP.

[pulsar hazel]

tks

[dapper aspen]

anyone here good with UE4?

[dark drum]

Other than having less features it's pretty much the same as UE5.

[dapper aspen]

can we speak in dms

[dark drum]

Just ask you're questions in here. No need to DM.

[dapper aspen]

ok basically im trying to make a slight modification to an existing pak file thats compressed with oodle and uses AES key for extraction of assets and when i packed everything together with unrealpak im getting an error like this:

like upon launching the game

the file exists too so im like wtf

[dark drum]

#packaging would probably be a better place to ask.

[faint pasture]

Why not ask in the sea of thieves modding discord?

[dapper aspen]

there isnt an official one and i own the fan one

[spice shell]

Hey folks, I'm trying to rotate an actor to face away from the surface it's on (which I can do fine) WHILE maintaining the ability to rotate the actor in its **local **Z-axis.

I can't seem to merge these two behaviours together, but separately they work fine. Primarily I can't 'merge' that local rotation with the OnTick() updated surface normal rotation in world space. Any advice?

[faint pasture]

Make rotation from ZX

Or XZ, whichever one prioritizes the Z direction

Just feed it normal as Z and current forward as X

[spice shell]

Ok interesting, thanks, let me play around with that!

[dark drum]

You could also look at the rotate around axis node.

[spice shell]

So something like store the desired local rotation and rotate the normal-based rotation BY that stored rotation each time it updates?

[dark drum]

Yea.

[faint pasture]

If normal and local use can change over time, if just do it in a 2 parter.

Tick -> update for yaw control -> update to enforce z direction.

Use CombineRotators or AddLocalRotation, whichever approach lets you just add some local yaw.

[spice shell]

The problem is that the local yaw isn't kept the next frame, because I'm setting the full rotation back to the normal value

[faint pasture]

Dont

[spice shell]

I think the crux is that I can't work out how to merge the 'saved'/current rotation which includes the local yaw changes, and the per-frame normal rotation

[faint pasture]

Tick -> update rotation to yaw around Normal -> update rotation to enforce normal preserving Forward as best it can (in case normal has changed)

[spice shell]

It's the last part that I can't work out

how do I preserve that

[faint pasture]

Make rotation from ZX

You can do the whole system with that node if you did your yaw changes by rotating x around Z before feeding makerotfromzx

How is yaw changed, is it added to per frame or just set like LookAt?

[spice shell]

Changed on input

[faint pasture]

Tick -> Z = normal -> X = rotate vector(forward, z, input x speed x delta seconds) -> rotation = MakeFromZX(Z, X)

[spice shell]

forward == -normal in this case?

[faint pasture]

The current forward vector of the thing

[spice shell]

rotate vector(forward, z, input x speed x delta seconds)
I can't quite figure this part, RotateVector() only takes a vector and a Rot right?

[faint pasture]

Rotate vector around axis I think

[spice shell]

It works 😄

What a hero

[runic phoenix]

Set it to "Play from Start" instead of Play, which plays from the current location

[spice shell]

yeah this seems to be working really nicely, really appreciate you taking the time to walk me through that!

thanks very much!

[woven drift]

ah idk, the closest range to 513 is 505-568 or smth, cant go in between
what i did was changing heightmap size to 435 and now it aligns perfectly

resolution higher than 512x cant be imported, 505 gives mismatches

[open furnace]

F shortcut key should zoom on node right?

[lofty rapids]

i know HOME will do a zoom in on a node

i don't know if F by itself is a shortcut, i don't see it doing anything

[celest trench]

I have a timeline that moves an actor along a spline. I am trying to make it so that the same timeline can be used for multiple actors even if one is already in progress. Is this possible? Would I need to use something other than a timeline? EX: timeline is actively half way through moving an actor, a new actor attempts to start on the timeline from the beginning while the current one is still going

[lofty rapids]

"if you have a Timeline inside a function and call that function multiple times, the new execution will override the previous one rather than running in parallel."

[shy pollen]

hello can someone help me i stuck

[celest trench]

Yeah that's what I've been running into. Maybe I'll add the timeline per actor instead of in the controller, that way they can be called and ran separately at the same time

[shy pollen]

im creating a pon game in unreal for local multiplayer and i created two paddles which are pawn classes and two playerstarts
now problem is i want to spawn two pawn classes which are pedals at player start using game mode blueprint

[lofty rapids]

#multiplayer is it's own thing its a lot more complicated then single player

[faint pasture]

What happens if you hit play in editor with 2 clients?

[forest tangle]

How should I implement multiple soundfonts for my instrument in my mod?
I am currently making a mod for an Unreal Engine 4 game where a piano is added that has muliple soundfonts. I have made a child blueprint of a vanilla instrument where I can set an array of tone samples. Now, I want these tone samples to be changeable while holding the instrument. A simple solution would be to make an array of samples per soundfont and then set that array to be the instrument's tone samples every time the soundfont is changed. However, I have 100+ soundfonts that I want to use and I don't think creating 100+ arrays would be the best option. Any suggestions on this? Could I make some kind of algorithm that automatically goes through all the samples and somehow saves them? I should also mention that due to me modding a game and not creating one from the ground up, I'm restricted to use blueprints only, no C++ code.

Oh and by soundfonts I just mean a collection of samples in C in different octaves

[faint pasture]

Can you make a custom struct?

[forest tangle]

Yes I can. I can use blueprints freely. Just no C++ code

[faint pasture]

SoundFont = struct
That's what I'd do

[forest tangle]

And then what? Make the items of the struct the soundfont arrays?

That will still leave me with a bunch of arrays

[faint pasture]

Yeah I'd do:
SoundFont:
array<sample> samples

Instrument:
SoundFont MySoundFont

you can have a data table of SoundFonts

[forest tangle]

You mean map by data table?

[faint pasture]

no, a data table

[forest tangle]

What's a data table?

[faint pasture]

It's a table based on a struct, each row is the struct

DT_SoundFonts:
Piano (samples)
Organ (samples)
Glockenspeil (samples)

SoundFont:
Name
SamplesArray

[forest tangle]

I guess that works but I would still need to manually add all those samples. Well, I don't think there's a better way tbh

[faint pasture]

You somehow somewhere need to manually add samples

[forest tangle]

I have actually been using maps with structures before because I didn't know of data tables. Data tables seem way more intuitive tho

[faint pasture]

As a bonus though, you can import/export data tables to CSV in excel

[faint pasture]

also you don't need to load every soundfont in the world to spawn the thing

[forest tangle]

Well, then doesn't really make a difference in my case

[faint pasture]

just need to load them as you swap to them

[faint pasture]

if you name the samples right it can make it silly easy

Either way, something somewhere needs to type a sample name a thousand times

[forest tangle]

Well, I was thinking of an algorithm which goes through the folders and then makes arrays automatically. But that would probably be a bit too much for what I'm doing

[faint pasture]

That's sorta doable

how many samples total?

[forest tangle]

128 soundfonts x 8 samples

[faint pasture]

are they already in folders in Unreal?

[forest tangle]

1024 total

[forest tangle]

Yes each soundfont has it's own folder with the 8 samples

[faint pasture]

Look into editor scripting stuff

[forest tangle]

Alright, I will

[faint pasture]

For instance this puts all subclasses of some base class into an array for my data asset

hanky shit but it works, it basically automates me filling an array up

If you can extract the folder and some elements of the sample name into strings you can probably do something

[forest tangle]

Yea there should be a way. The way I got those samples was I exported them from an .sf2 file using a script. If the naming would be a problem, I could just modify the script to export the samples with different naming

[lofty rapids]

your modding a game and you have access to blueprints that you can alter the game with ?

thats interesting

[forest tangle]

Yep, the game has a whole own SDK with custom nodes and stuff to interact with the game

[lofty rapids]

thats pretty cool

[lofty rapids]

you should cache before you loop data

if it's comming from a pure function for sure

[narrow sentinel]

Anyone had any luck with state trees before as currently I'm fighting a losing battle on simply getting mine to work just in general

[lofty rapids]

state tree like in #animation ?

[narrow sentinel]

no the newer AI thing

it used to be behavior trees but they then introduced State tress

[lofty rapids]

possibly #gameplay-ai might know about it

[steady night]

Hi, when playing in viewport everything works fine but when i build the game and play the "set game input modes" dosent seem to lineup ? anyone know a reason for this ?

[dark drum]

Where and when are you calling the set input mode nodes?

[steady night]

in editor i dont use any

thats the weird part

im just wondering why i would have to with a built game if its handled differently or something

[icy jacinth]

Any idea why my movement inputs aren't moving the pawn? Print strings conform that world direction and scale value are changing appropriately, and confirms that the correct player controller is possessing the correct pawn. IMC is added to the GAS Companion component (though, trying to add it via the enhanced input local player subsystem doesnt work either). Walk speed is appropriate and the IA_Move is set up correctly both in the IA and the IMC. This event is firing when WASD is pressed, but the pawn is not moving. IA_Look works fine, and is on the same IMC

[icy jacinth]

IMC and IA here

[lofty rapids]

any errors ?

[icy jacinth]

Nope, nothing showing up 🤔

[lofty rapids]

so the event is firing, but the add movement input isn't working ?

what game mode are you in ?

are you using a set input game node ?

possibly ui only ?

[icy jacinth]

I've only one game mode which is set as the GameMode override of this map. Elevating the player spawn results in the pawn staying static in the air. Can't figure out why one portion of the IMC (camera control) works but movement and jumping do not. What do you mean by UI only?

[lofty rapids]

chedk your character movment component

is the default land movement walking ?

and do you float in the air ? or do you drop down to the ground ?

[icy jacinth]

Default in the CMC is indeed walking - the pawn floats in the air rather than falling

[lime crow]

hi all, i have a character that can move left or right, but for a few milliseconds wile the player is turning he is not facing lft or right, essentially turning on a 360 arc, so this could cause bugs, im trying to set up some sort of global logic that checks if the player is either right or left. I know you shouldn't really compare a float, so i used a dot product, but this could still potentially cause issues if the player trys to do an action if hes facing 0.9. Any ideas on how to fix it so the player only acts if he is facing left or right? Thanks

[icy jacinth]

Gravity is enabled in the character root as well

[lofty rapids]

left or right meaning you have a camera on the side ?

[lofty rapids]

and your possessing the pawn ?

[lime crow]

camera like hollow knight or cup head

[icy jacinth]

Yep, used print strings to verify both the controller and possessed pawn

[lofty rapids]

do you have anything running on begin play ?

[lofty rapids]

what i did for a "sidecroller" is rotate him when you press the keys

so press a rotate left

d rotate right

[icy jacinth]

Good thought - there's quite a bit on begin play, but disconnecting it doesn't change anything

[lime crow]

I could do it like that so its either left or right but looks a bit unatural with no time to turn if that makes sense

[lofty rapids]

ya you could do it on a timer or something to make it more natural maybe a timeline

[snow halo]

Hi im trying to make a rock-throwing mechanism, unfortunatelly it never works

my energy variant decides the amount of throwing power I should have based on my current energy level which I get from my widget though you could say I could get this from my stat_component 📜

but anyway this is an old set up in need of an update, it was working before but now it abruptly stopped working where's before I was able to get this to work and adjust based on player energy ⚡

idk what happened 2 days ago it all went to the drain

also instead of player's head I was using an arrow that was acting as a socket starting location for the starting point of this rock, that was placed roughly on the dominant hand of the player to simulate the effect & look as if it was coming directly out of the player's throwing hand, yesterday Ive added a 3rd person mode too into the game, wheres before this was only 1st person available camera, now you can interact and every trace will come from player's head rather than player's camera which can vary depending on which camera you might be using at a particular moment, so this is why I've added this get head bone mechanism, but anyway 🫲

Ill probably change it back rn 🤔

"throw_socket_arrow", i'll change it to throw rock arrow or smth like that 🏹

this is what the energy variant looks like 🪫 🪨⚡ 🫲

what I had before was this: Negative values instead of Positive. **Negative **values worked ✅

Sometimes instead of throwing the rock forwards it would throw the rock backwards instead ❌ 👎

[crude pike]

hey 🙂 is there an "official" way of getting certain Blueprints to tick in the editor? I know you can enable "Call Function In Editor" on functions but I basically want the EventTick node to evaluate in the editor. Currently I am just running some of the nodes I need inside an Animation BP as A hacky workaround, since AnimBPs can tick in the editor but I'd rather run it directly inside an actual Blueprint actor instead if possible.

fwiw this is because I'm working on pre-rendered cine content, not a runtime game so I don't need to worry about hacky methods and performance so much. Just anything to get it working would be useful. 🙂

[lofty rapids]

it stopped working like no rock is thrown ? it goes the wrong way ? whats not working about it, does nothing seem to happen ?

whats with the loop in the "throwing mechanism" ?

[snow halo]

it spawns (bcs im spawing it) it doesnt have velocity, stays in one place then falls straight down in place without any force on any direction. ⬅️ ↖️ ⬆️ ↗️ ➡️ As for the loop, that's just a widget reference finder 🔎📩

[faint pasture]

It's not your problem here but you really should put the business logic in the other classes, not in your UI

[snow halo]

I know that should be in the stat_component, thanks for reminding me tho, i will fix that 🙏

Ok I have update about the whole throwing thing..

I made it work like this ✅ (kinda)

[faint pasture]

That's just -1 x ThrowAmount

[snow halo]

Even tho the values inside of the EnergyVariant are positive, I tried to make them all negative anyways, now he is throwing the rock forward with a 30 degree skew to the left , very annoying

that's when my energy was around 90-100%

and I fast forwarded to where my energy got to like 30-40%, the weirdest part was that when my energy got this low, the rock ended up actually going backwards again.

This effect wasn't dependent on which camera was active, same effect was observed no matter which camera I activated

it seems that even if I activate the 3rd person camera, I can still rotate the first person camera I think, but even if not activated, the rotation is stable because the player's body position will rotate anyways ( I might have to enable camera 🎦 visibility to debug it better ⚙️ ) at the moment it's hidden in game for both

[faint pasture]

what do you mean going backwards

are you moving at the time when you throw?

[signal bane]

What is a good way to assign each PC connected to a server a different ID?

Like I can have the server print out how many player controllers are connected, but I'm struggling to find a nice fluid way to say 'First connected gets ID A, second connected gets ID B' for my editor testing scenarios.

[junior quest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDqPYVyYTIQ&list=PL4G2bSPE_8unnYOwQ4Hds62TI_0WG4sW-&index=2

Im trying to follow along with this youtube vid

but when im in the main window, or i fullscreen the window, the position for the interact message is way off

[snow halo]

nope

[snow halo]

That's just -1 x ThrowAmount
if I do that then it will just cancel itself out

what I want is to get the negative values!

[faint pasture]

ThrowAmount - 2 x ThrowAmount = -1 x ThrowAmount

[snow halo]

yes

thats what seems to work & thats what im trying to get

but this system

only works when energy is high

Something fails when it goes lower

gonna put a few breakpoints here🛑

oh wait I know why it fails

Thats it right there

turns out I dont need to make any of them negative

or have this ThrowAmount - 2 x ThrowAmount = -1 x ThrowAmount

I might change/remove it right now

Simple✨

Now what I noticed is that the 1st person camera doesn't rotate while Im using the 3rd person camera as active

I thought that wouldn't be the case. But it is

[storm orbit]

You should use the player's Camera Manager - you can use it to grab whatever the player is using, regardless of the camera settings

[snow halo]

I thought of that but I wasn't exactly sure how the player camera manager worked so I kept it out of the question

is it too bad that this gives me the root component ? 😭

I'll try it anyways ✅

[storm orbit]

Nah, use the manager and call "Get Camera Rotation" and get the forward vector

don't use root

[snow halo]

it already works pretty good ✅ 🤔 ceteris paribus

[tiny tundra]

Basic Billboard question time here. I have an sprite (yes it is an actor BP) that gets spawned in my project, the idea is that you are looking at a top-down map view from a great distance and can zoom in with your mouse wheel - the sprite stays a consistent size whether you are far awar or up close. Very elementary.

Now my issue is simply that I want to click on the sprite and have something happen (just a print statement for now). Ok so I hit the OnClicked event on the Billboard - and of course nothing happens. Says I need to put some collision in there, understandable, I added a box collision although I am sure I am not doing this right (that box isn't going to "scale" with my sprite when I am zoomed very far out, I assume? Anyway I cannot get the hit to register whether I am far away or up close anyway. Doing some googling it looks like I may be missing some things, but the answers that come up seem out-of-date to the current version of Unreal anyway. Anybody have a quick and easy suggestion for this?

[snow halo]

gratias tibi ago, thanks! @storm orbit both options work

[snow halo]

Try on released event or On Begin Cursor Over

[junior quest]

make sure click events are enabled in the player controller

[tiny tundra]

sorry I am a dummy where do I find this?

[junior quest]

uh, idk, i think the default player controller is in engine content

but i dont think you should edit that

make a new one or duplicate it and edit that

then set that as your characters player controller

[tiny tundra]

this is in Project settings?

[junior quest]

the player controller blueprint

[storm orbit]

Your billboard will use the collision of the attached root (like a capsule or box, whatever the actor has).
Mouse clicks will trace on the Visibility channel. You must have that set to block on the collision mesh root in order to register for clicks

[tiny tundra]

I don't think I have one

not a BP anyway

[junior quest]

idk then

i got that guess by adding a billboard to the bp i was in and hovering on click toread the description

[tiny tundra]

no difference sadly

[storm orbit]

What is the collision preset for your actor? Also, you would need a collision object (sphere, box, capsule) above and have the billboard parented to that. Typically, if a component isnt supplying a collision shape, it looks UP the hierarchy, not down

[finite hearth]

How heavy of an operation is getting a data table?

I have the get wrapped in a pure func: GetItemDataByItemID

I've just been using the pure func because I am lazy, but should I be storing GetItemDataByItemID's output at a var?

It's not a tick call, but let's say when the player moves inventory around or uses items.

Game is multiplayer and this code is run on server. Wondering if this might be hurting server performance.

[faint pasture]

Constraint settings

Turn velocity strength down

[dawn gazelle]

I believe it really depends on how big the data table itself is and what it contains as the entire data table needs to be loaded into memory when first referencing it in blueprint.
If you have the reference to the data table in some function library, then it's not always going to be loaded, so then it would have to load in every single time you use that function.

[faint pasture]

Also your linear limit is 2 cm. That's not very far

Give it less oomph

But if it's meant to not really be an impulse, animate the linear position target with a timeline.

0,0,0 to 300,0,0 back to 0,0,0 would go out 3m and back

Make the timeline go from 0-1-0 then use the output to lerp 2 vectors

That sounds hilarious though, I'm 100% stealing it for my game

I used to do it in Garrysmod with hydraulics by yeah these vehicles are getting the boxing gloves on springs

[faint pasture]

fuck man where'd he go?

I did it for the bit and he just left the server

[boreal basin]

How do I set this one up? It looks like a function but when I tried setting it within, I can't connect them to the other parts within the Blueprint:

[faint pasture]

The left one has 2 parameters

a CharacterMovementComponent object ref and that structure

[boreal basin]

I presume I need GAS Companion if I want to make my right one the same as the left?

[faint pasture]

dunno, try add those parameters to that function

are you copying something?

[boreal basin]

I'm copying this part specifically:

[faint pasture]

Have you tried add the parameters?

[boreal basin]

I did:

[faint pasture]

so change one to a charcter movement component reference and the other to a player character movement profile

btw those are outputs, you need to add 2 inputs

[boreal basin]

Ahh

ok, that now makes alot more sense.

Ok, my mistake.

Now I gotta drag this into my function here:

[boreal basin]

In ensuring this function actually works:

[slender dagger]

anyone have any idea why my event dispatcher doesn't consistently fire?

Basically I have it set up so that every time the player overlaps a point, it does a bunch of stuff with the UI. this works fine until the next set of objectives are unlocked, at which point the event just doesn't seem to fire for some reason. I've done breakpointing and print stringed it too. The exec flow is no different, buf for some reason my widget just never updates after the objectives change

[sick sky]

If by "next set of objectives are unlocked" you mean "im adding new entries in the "Active Cap Points" then yeah you aren't subscribing any new entries here, you only iterate the array once on Construct

[slender dagger]

works now. Thanks

[snow halo]

Hi I seem to be having a problem

I made a system that will prevent you from being able to run 🏃‍♂️ 💨 if your energy goes too low 💤 ⚡

this system works fine so far ✅ but there is a problem ❌ ❓

The problem with it is that if you keep your run shift button pressed you will be allowed to overide and hack this system as long as you keep running forever ⌨️ 🏃‍♂️ 💨

Even tho I have a **condition **there set up it somehow still **remains **useless 📑💩

I tried to **debug **my running conditional system with these ways:

1. ive set my energy level on begin play to be around 10, so that I can run and see on multiple occasions how the condition reacts. So now I begin with "almost" incapacitating energy

2. Ive put breakpoints on my collapsed graph here to see if it ever goes to false.
   Result: I couldn't actually get my energy low enough because this breakpoint would tick every milisecond so it would not let me gradually and progressively reduce my energy level.|| (-> But actually I can relieve that using few more print strings instead✅ )||

[broken fox]

If the condition you're talking about is the one in the collapsed graph, then it'll never stop you from running because it's only determined when you begin sprinting

[dark drum]

After you remove energy, you need to check if they still have enough energy, if not, stop running. Its usally a good idea to have individual functions for starting and stopping sprinting as they maybe required to be called in other places.

[snow halo]

Update:

Ive put a print string here, and it never fired

[dark drum]

You're timer also isn't looping so it only drains energy once.

[snow halo]

actually the drain energy waits every 2 seconds and then drains ⏲️ ✅ Im pretty sure it works ⚙️ ✅ I'll put some more print strings there too to be sure 🖨️

[broken fox]

if this isn't ticked, then no it wont work lol

[snow halo]

true but I thought this key event ticks or something, because everytime I press it with break points it brings me back to the graph every second, so it never lets me do anything, even if i keep it pressed it brings me back to the graph every single time

[broken fox]

The key event is only called as it says on the outputs, when it's pressed and when it's released

[snow halo]

good point, but I think of functions mainly as tools for cleaning up messy large chunks of code -> which I then replace with collapsed graphs, even tho they are not rly the same

[dark drum]

What Jyakhay is trying to say is that when you trigger the breakpoint it actually causes the input key to trigger the released as well, so when you play it retriggers in the pressed input. (Also you should stop using the legacy system)

[dark drum]

functions aren't for cleaning up messy code. They're for creating reusable bits of logic. You should be using them more often. It also gives additional info when profiling as BP functions shows up in the stack.

[snow halo]

do you mean this call stack?

[dark drum]

That wasn't the one I was referring too but it probably shows up in there as well. I'm referring to the profiler where it breaks down how long things take to process/calculate.

[snow halo]

is seems really strange that you can't use this profiler thing with collapsed graphs or things like macros(?)

I never used this tool I think

[dark drum]

I'm pretty sure that screenshot it from the depreciated profiler. 😅

[snow halo]

what are the benefits of enhanced 🆚 legacy ?

[dark drum]

Legacy is only there for compatibility with older projects. Enhanced Inputs allows you to create Input Actions (such as Jump) that you can then add different keys too that trigger that input action. So you can add 'Space Bar' and 'Face Button Down' to handle both keyboard and gamepad.

It also used Input Mapping Contexts which is the input actions that can trigger and by what keys. These can be added and removed at runtime meaning you can create groups of inputs based on specific modes such as say Character, Vehicle, Build Mode, Combat etc... and add/remove them as need to prevent conflicts/overrides for things that aren't needed at that time.

That's just scratching the surface. Then there's modifiers and triggers.

[patent horizon]

Hello, I am trying to implement a save game and load game with various saved data, including a fraction counter integer, checkpoints, Cubes picked up Integer, and a timer. Upon the player dying, it currently saves the checkpoint (if it has been passed through) as well as the amount of cubes picked up on player death. I am currently unsure of how to save the fraction counter integer since the function for the integer incrementing is held within another BP actor.

I have references to the widget within my player character as variables but I am unsure how I would set them within the save game to override upon respawning.

Does anyone have an idea of what I could potentially do?

BP Save Game Variables

Code logic for creating saved game and overriding data

Current code logic for loading said saved game data

[lofty rapids]

"the fraction counter integer since the function for the integer incrementing is held within another BP actor" <-- are you saying you can't get the variable value because it's in another bp ?

[severe terrace]

so , i'm downloading and loading 3D file runtime, it works fine in editor but in packaged build (shipping , dev.) mesh's rotation changes.

I'm not setting rotation of actor anywhere in any class.

[patent horizon]

A little more context the fraction counter integer is held within the fraction counter widget as a function that is then called in the BP Moving platform to be more specific

[lofty rapids]

is the fraction counter a local variable to the function ?

i would put the variable in the game instance tbh

simple solution to access it anywhere

[dark drum]

I wouldn't put it in the game instance. The load order changes in a build which could mess up your setup if not careful. I'd go for either the game state, game mode or player state depending what it is.

[patent horizon]

The only variable is the fraction numerator that is local

[dark drum]

Whats the counter for?

[patent horizon]

counter is for when the player overlaps a collision box on a moving platform the counter increases by 1

[dark drum]

Is it just a single box or multiple?

[patent horizon]

Multiple platforms

so for example I want the data to save if the player steps on 2 platforms and dies then proceeds to respawn at the most recent checkpoint. The UI would still show 2/3

[lofty rapids]

the load order does change, i was wondering that

[patent horizon]

instead of resetting back to 0 which is currently does

[dark drum]

I'd store it on the game state then if it's a global type variable. Gameplay specific variables shouldn't be stored in widgets. Instead they should read the data that is stored somewhere else.

[dark drum]

So it's like health?

[patent horizon]

in this case no since I am not saving health between save and load states

[dark drum]

Yea, the game instance is the first thing that loads in a build (of which there's only ever one instance) but in the editor, the map is usually already loaded. So if the game instance attempts to do something in the level on begin play for example, it'll fail in a build.

[patent horizon]

So theoretically I should have created the updating of the fraction counter variable within my character blueprint?

[dark drum]

I'd be tempted to store it in the player state then and then have the widget get the value from the owning players player state. It'll be easier for your save system to access the player state and store the value as well as reapplying it when loading.

[dark drum]

You could. If you have a few stats related to the player, sometimes it can be worth having a stat manager.

[patent horizon]

Hmmm ok

Appreciate the feedback!

[astral flame]

Hey does anyone know how to replace the animations that come with the pack I Purchased to make the default third person character animations?

[lofty rapids]

you have a character and you want to use the animations from the default manny ?

[astral flame]

Yes Ive tried retargetting and it wont work

I cant find this folder ABP_GenericRetarget

[lofty rapids]

maybe #animation might be able to help, but this is a difficult thing to use an animation on a different skeleton

usually the animation is made for the particular skeleton

[spice gate]

Generally, is using a child actor component the best way to equip items on players?

[faint pasture]

no

just spawn and attach

if that's what "equip item" means in your design

[spice gate]

Yeah just want it to be in a socket in the hand of the player

thanks 🙏

Wait what if I don't even spawn it, I just take it from the world and set the transform to the socket + attach it? Would that work or is it weird to do it this way

[lofty rapids]

in that theory then all your guns would be loaded i think

it might actually be faster then spawning tho

but spawning and destroy kind of clean it up

[spice gate]

Right

[faint pasture]

Yes

I actually really like it like that, I very much like the thing that you hold in your hand being the thing that was on the ground, you can have all sorts of immersive effects from that.

A wand of continuous blasting should continue to blast when thrown away in panic

If a pan stops bullets, then a dropped pan, a worn pan, and a held pan should all stop bullets.

[forest tangle]

I'm using UE4 and currently trying to use Editor Utilities. How would I make an editor utility that could put wav files into an array like the following:

This is how the waves are stored:

001_folder
- file1.wav
- file2.wav
- file3.wav
- etc.
002_folder
- file1.wav
- etc.

I would like the Editor Utility to add a data table entry per folder with all the waves of the folder in an array inside.

[spice gate]

Yes in fact I liked the idea at first too but since I have more than one item slots I eventually have to destroy the held item when I change slot

[faint pasture]

Sure, or just hide it

Or don't, put it on your back

[spice gate]

🗿

That's genius

Thanks for the ideas, time to cook

[forest tangle]

And how do I even add data table content via node without importing from a Json or CSV

Or is that just not a thing? Should I just use a map instead?

[forest tangle]

Cool, everyone just leaves the chat when I ask a question...

[lofty rapids]

could be no one knows the answer also

[faint pasture]

editor utility blueprints

I'm assuming, never done it but I'm sure it's doable.

[forest tangle]

I don't understand how I would save something using Editor Utilities

Or do you mean like creating a json file using an Editor Blueprint?

That may be doable

[faint pasture]

you can just edit the data table

if you need a hack to edit the data table from runtime, since you can't, you can use a savegame as intermediary

[forest tangle]

No I can't. Are you using UE5? I definitely don't have that node

[faint pasture]

since both editor and runtime can read/write savegames

[forest tangle]

Ohhhh

Yea that makes sense

[forest tangle]

I was using asset action utility as parent

[faint pasture]

That's for doing something to a specific selected asset

you probably could do that, thats how I fill up my data asset representing all the items in my game

[forest tangle]

Yea, this might actually be also something I need tho

Wait...

I still don't have the node

[lofty rapids]

ue4 ?

[forest tangle]

I'm on UE4. You sure this isn't a UE5 only thing? I searched the web and a lot of people also said it's not editable. Maybe they're all old posts from UE4 where this wasn't possible yet

So I actually have to make a Json string now to write to data tables...

[thin panther]

4.27 lists it as a node

[forest tangle]

No way... I'm using 4.26

[lofty rapids]

[dark drum]

How come you're using an such old version of UE? 4.26 is about 5 years old now.

[forest tangle]

I'm making a mod for a game. I don't have a choice