blueprint

[maiden wadi]

I'm not sure I would care about the spline specifically. It's a non trivial problem with a lot of data to sort.

[fleet prism]

Hello, Is someone able to help me real quick I made a basic setup to trigger some dialogue when you walk through the trigger box and it works just fine. But what I want to know is hoe to make it trigger only once. Because right now it just triggers every time I walkthrough it

[maiden wadi]

A do once node could solve that mostly.

[narrow sentinel]

so got an odd one here so when I run my game in packaged build I get this as the roughly common usage, I've noticed though say I have chrome open as well on something a video or something I find the video is like 5 fps a second roughly

my packaged runs lovely though from what I can see

and my GPU sits nicely roughly as you see there about 40% usage

[fleet prism]

Thanks man I'm still very new to unreal so any help is appreciated. and It now works as intended thank you

[maiden wadi]

Not fully clear on the issue. A video in game runs at 5fps when you have chrome open?

[narrow sentinel]

other way around

so if I run my packaged game and i have chrome open and I'm watching something what i'm watching runs lower frames

[maiden wadi]

Is Chrome focused or the game?

[narrow sentinel]

only happens when game is focused

[maiden wadi]

And the video is in chrome?

[narrow sentinel]

which from other games I've played I've never seen chrome say chugg when playing videos in chrome

whilst the game is running and in focus

[maiden wadi]

Full screen or borderless window?

[narrow sentinel]

game is fullscreen

vsync on and 60 fps capped

[maiden wadi]

Seen the other issue, focus on chrome making the game go into low fps mode. I'm unsure if Chrome has anything like that that unreal might be triggering. Do you have any unreal games to compare test with?

[narrow sentinel]

so game appears to be running at 60 fps regardless of whats focused

just seems to be chrome that shows affects when game is focused

[maiden wadi]

Curious if swapping to borderless window helps?

[narrow sentinel]

let me try

just gonna load into another game not one of mine see what chrome does

[muted gorge]

pls help, I got a problem and I can't solve it, I'm trying to fix it for 1.5 days, I even changed engine versions. I'm getting Is Not Valid from inventory system. I tried to cast the bp first person character and i got cast failed. i promote the player char to variable, and that even made diffrence. im still getting is not valid. I'm pretty sure its giving me error because im getting None when i print it.

Im sorry if i cut yalls conv 😔

like how i can chance the variable

[maiden wadi]

Show the interface call

[muted gorge]

this? im still learning

[maiden wadi]

Your first screen has interactwith. You are calling that from somewhere

[narrow sentinel]

it does so not running fullscreen seems to resolve the issue for the chrome thing, issue is if I put the game in windowed I don't get the bar you get at top with the minimax, exit etc

[maiden wadi]

For science, what if your in full screen and not fps limited or vsync?

[muted gorge]

is this maybe

[maiden wadi]

There should be a third setting for this also. There is fullscreen, borderless windowed, and windowed.

[narrow sentinel]

difficult to see if chrome is having issue all the time but might be here and there

at the moment it seems the issue mainly shows if I have game in Vsync on, capped FPS, fullscreen

where as doing windowed for example the chrome issue goes away

[maiden wadi]

This is where it is implemented, somewhere you have a blue node calling the same interact function

[muted gorge]

hmmm

i mean i got functions but they are not implemented or nothing like that idrk

[maiden wadi]

You see the prints right?

[muted gorge]

yes

i got, is not valid output and it printed "bp inventory system is not valid"

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property K2Node_Event_Player_Character". Node: Branch Graph: IsValid Function: Execute Ubergraph Item Data Component Blueprint: ItemDataComponent

[maiden wadi]

Find the blueprint debugger window, can't help with that on phone. Right click the branch and put a breakpoint on it. Play until it pauses, then look at the blueprint debuggers call stack tab.

[muted gorge]

okay letme try

[maiden wadi]

It should tell you a list of functions that led to this, like from an overlap or button press

[muted gorge]

the branch that comes after the add to inventory function right

[maiden wadi]

Err, sorry, the is valid

Before the prints

[muted gorge]

np np lemme do it

there it is, now?

[maiden wadi]

Yeah.now you need the BP debugger window

[muted gorge]

this?

i got it from the window bar debug button

[maiden wadi]

Yep, open the callstack tab

[muted gorge]

okay

i can zoom in if you want

i mean you are on mobile

[maiden wadi]

Double click the server interact in the middle, does that open the BP?

[muted gorge]

ohhhhh

this blue node

[maiden wadi]

Yeah. 😄

[maiden wadi]

This will be your issue

[muted gorge]

wait a minute thats data component

should i make it bp_inventorysystem

[maiden wadi]

No, the argument

[muted gorge]

wait i didnt give it a player char

ohhh

[maiden wadi]

Yeah

[muted gorge]

i changed 5.2.1 to 5.5.4 for this

[maiden wadi]

Good upgrade though, nicer rendering

[muted gorge]

but slower performance for me 😔

i use 1060 6g

im stilling getting it tho wth

[maiden wadi]

You don't have to run nanite and lumen, you can run ue4 settings and not use ray tracing features

[muted gorge]

but it gave me errors on that to, when i disable nanite

but lets do not talk about that in here

hmm now, it gives me the same error, so weird

[valid vector]

Sorry for sudden jump in the middle of the conversation

But my project keep crashing on 5.5 as long as I enable nanite/Ray tracing (Which didn't happen in 5.3)
Is this engine issue or there are a quick workaround for this?
Thanks in advance!

[muted gorge]

can it be a problem about the variables, the bp first person char variable is not instance editable

no its not

[maiden wadi]

You have to get the character somehow. Is this inventory on the character?

[maiden wadi]

Uncertain, what gpu do you have? Do you have a crash log?

[muted gorge]

yes, inventory system actor component is on the first person char

[maiden wadi]

GetOwner and pass that as the character

[muted gorge]

where im putting it, there?

or the bp_inventory system

lemme try both

[maiden wadi]

Here

Pass it as the player character parameter

[muted gorge]

okay, get owner right

[valid vector]

Unfortunately the PC are in the office and I cant access the log atm

But I'm using 4080 super, other PC were already tested with 5090 and still crash tho

If I remember it right The crash log related to NaniteAuxiliaryBuffer

[maiden wadi]

Hard to say then, but yeah hardware should be more that fine. You shouldn't crash even with older gpus, but overheating is a common issue there so with the question.

[muted gorge]

this param

[maiden wadi]

If you get the crash log later, tag me with it and I can maybe help better.

[valid vector]

Awesome! thanks in advance

[muted gorge]

which one tho

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, pass GetOwner to that. You may need to cast it.

Component

[muted gorge]

okay

am i casting it before is valid or after the is valid

https://youtu.be/-cdzw9YE-MM?si=3yiO0uWqGz3VCM4q&t=1158

i was looking it from there

wait a minute

[maiden wadi]

You can replace the is valid, cast is also an it's valid.

Technically you should change the parameter type to actor, instead of casting

[muted gorge]

wait it says Get Inventory System

it does not work again and again

ok im gonna do what you said

[pulsar vigil]

Hey guys i have 2 function i have made that do the same thing and i would like to know which one is better for performance, chat gpt already answered but id like your opinion

its about one function that go throught a lot of data table row check and other one that build map to make this data table check once and then just do some map look up

chat gpt said it was far more optimised to use the second function because get data row table can be relatively more expensiv than map look up

your opinion ?
im asking cause obviously the brute first function is simplier to make and understand fast

[astral mist]

Consider these tutorials as a learning experience (either on what to do or what not to do) but don't expect fully working robust systems out of them. While he's not one of the bad creators you have to understand a lot is simplified in most videos to get a point across due to time constraints.

[astral mist]

a hash lookup is certainly going to be faster given less iterations overall... but you could benchmark otherwise if you are pressed for speed. If going through nodes is also going to prove inefficient you'll have to move this to c++

Consider a simple test scenario with the same data set and the same amount of iterations.

[muted gorge]

yeah i know, it should not maybe work, cause of my beginnerless, and i did not expect it to work properly. I'm trying to learn

[astral mist]

it should work in theory he doesn't upload bad content per se.

But always retrace your steps and double-check everything. Also consider learning simpler concepts first

First iterations won't work but you'll get a better understanding overall.

[muted gorge]

yes. I have a question, he directly added the nodes and it worked, i controlled everything. I changed versions, plus clean projects but none of that worked. My question is, he does and it work, why mine does not.

[astral mist]

I think fundamentally the issue is that once you get the same outcome they have in the video you'll probably realize the system isn't what you wanted and you'd be back on square one.

[astral mist]

You could have a tiny mistake somewhere that could break everything

[muted gorge]

its about the variables i think, he adds it without a reference

[astral mist]

I see data tables, interfaces.. nothing fundamentally wrong but rather "advanced" if you are just starting out though

[lofty rapids]

what kind of error ?

[muted gorge]

no, no. I'm not directly beginner(i think), i can make basic blueprint codes, i understand them.

[lofty rapids]

disable nanite i got lik 10-20 fps right off the bat

[muted gorge]

it think it was like "Nanite disabled, r.nanite = 0" like this

i really dont remember

[lofty rapids]

yes i had the same problem i got the fix though

i disabled everything that had nanite

and set a setting in the ini

now the message is gone

[muted gorge]

i get 200 fps i dont need nanite (unlit)

ohh

[lofty rapids]

oh you get 200 fps ?

then it doesn't matter

i thought you were having performance issues

[muted gorge]

i mean it is unlit

[muted gorge]

not that much

im still getting 160fps with overclocked gpu

[lofty rapids]

if your gettin 150 fps or so in game then your fine lol

[muted gorge]

I wish that was my only problem

its not a problem even lmao

[lofty rapids]

what about it ? you probably want to plug the player in ? is this single or multi player ?

[muted gorge]

its multiplayer, im getting none from there

wait letme the screenshot

[lofty rapids]

so you have an interface function that takes a player character

but in the image you have nothing plugged in

so are you trying to find the correct node ?

[muted gorge]

no i was changing it

it doesnot work with a char variable too 😔

[lofty rapids]

so whats the error ?

[muted gorge]

im trying to fix it since yesterday 12pm

[muted gorge]

i get is not valid from the bp_inventory system

[lofty rapids]

when is the player character variable set ?

[muted gorge]

its not, and i dont know how to

[hearty notch]

Does anyone know if it's possible to edit a class reference's variables from the editor before creating them? like here

[muted gorge]

i mean its not set

i think

[lofty rapids]

right so thats the problem

so did you try get owner ?

you'll probably have to cast like mentioned

get owner, cast to bp third

[muted gorge]

i mean i tried but im pretty sure that i connected it to somewhere that is not belongs to

[muted gorge]

first*

[lofty rapids]

ok so first

[muted gorge]

hmmm letme try it

[lofty rapids]

just replace the variable that you plug into the function

with the get owner and the cast

the get owner alone probably won't work because it's not an actor its a specific bp

[muted gorge]

at the tutorial, he did not referenced it too

but it worked

so weird

[lofty rapids]

he must set the value at some point

maybe later in the video, or you missed it

or it could just be an error that they left out in the cuts, this stuff does happen

[muted gorge]

i watch the same video and the same part over over and over again 😭 and still

[muted gorge]

yeah im thinking about that too

[astral mist]

It must be set otherwise watch the entire video in case he mentions any mistakes (and the first comments typically)

[muted gorge]

i check that too

[astral mist]

your "is valid" is empty also in that screenshot

[lofty rapids]

ya thats a big problem lol

[astral mist]

You are introducing errors on top of errors. Maybe take a coffee break

[muted gorge]

i mean it was not, it was connected to a variable

[lofty rapids]

did the fix work ?

[astral mist]

Right now it will always fail. But that's a secondary issue to the playey character not being set :p

[muted gorge]

if you are talking about the empty is valid, than nope, but that you said im still trying

can we vc tho, i could stream

i got no mic

😔

[lofty rapids]

thats the issue for sure

it's empty

definately will fail

[astral mist]

🤷‍♂️

debug the object and watch the execution path. it'll stop there.

[lofty rapids]

seems like you missed something in the videos

or just misunderstood

i'm sure they plugged something in to that

[astral mist]

they probably meant to check if Target was valid

[muted gorge]

this is the item data actor component

[muted gorge]

not this

[muted gorge]

this is the actor comp

[astral mist]

It's a complex system for a beginner (multiplayer replicated inventory?) take it easy don't panic. You'll get there.

[muted gorge]

i have 25 days to publish

[astral mist]

And we all miss tiny details sometimes.

[lofty rapids]

yes this tho

it's empty and will always fail like mentioned

[astral mist]

Maybe start a video or two on basic debugging techniques

[muted gorge]

no i mean i was talking about the item data component

[astral mist]

watching variables, breakpoints, etc.

[lofty rapids]

i was talking about the problem with the cast failing

[icy gust]

Hey y'all this is probably pretty simple but I'm sleep deprived and just want this to work before I go to sleep. Google has failed me.

Basically I just want this function to trigger when these enemies are detected as dead. When I use On Tick for the branch it works but throws errors the whole time because the Enemies aren't spawned on Begin Play, they are spawned after another trigger so the On Tick can't find the reference until they are spawned and it doesn't like that. I feel like there's gotta be a simple answer but I'm stuck...

[astral mist]

Seems you are flying blind so to speak right now

[muted gorge]

my native language is not english, its difficult to explain

hmm

[astral mist]

your branch isn't connected at all

nothing will ever execute.

I feel the basics are being misunderstood here :p

[icy gust]

I get that

[lofty rapids]

iswhat is this, you are checking if isdead right after spawn ?

[muted gorge]

so the bp_inventory system, is valid is the problem

[icy gust]

I had the branch connected to on tick

but that doesnt work

[muted gorge]

it was the problem back when its connected

[astral mist]

spawn them on a FOR loop

[lofty rapids]

right because you checking right after spawn

[astral mist]

on completed do whatever you want. and check the spawn options

[lofty rapids]

and don't cross lines like that

[astral mist]

there's an option to always spawn as well.

[lofty rapids]

put it on tick, but check the references

don't pull from the spawn

[astral mist]

seems a loop would work fine.. with an array. but I've no context here.

[lofty rapids]

spawn like normal

but promote to variable

and use those references in the tick

[astral mist]

also but why is he repeating three times the same code? different locations or?

[icy gust]

yes different NPC's in different locations

[lofty rapids]

well they said they are spawning three things

[astral mist]

maybe step back a bit and figure out if this requires a known pattern solution

[lofty rapids]

you can do it a couple ways, the way i mentioned on tick, or use an event when one dies, check them all

[astral mist]

based on this I would have an array and loop through them. meaning I could have more than 3 or less than 3 and nothing is hard-coded

their locations are a product of a spawn point or a preset variable

[lofty rapids]

yes an array would be best, so you can have more then three and add/remove them easily

[muted gorge]

im gonna watch the video and come back

[astral mist]

as engage said you could otherwise store the return values from the spawn functions and check anywhere / anytime

also perhaps introduce event dispatchers or another communication method

[lofty rapids]

maybe a manager actor, that you can use to control this stuff

[muted gorge]

there is the uassets

[astral mist]

so your spawn manager (or whatever this is) can have a grasp of everything

[astral mist]

dang it!

[lofty rapids]

lol

[astral mist]

yes typically you can have a manager (and also consider how many of these will spawn at any given point in time to perhaps consider an object pool as well)

[lofty rapids]

this stuff is irrelevant, you have an empty is valid

[astral mist]

3 of the same class is meh.

it's already loaded and you have a finite amount. wouldn't worry about it

[lofty rapids]

does this stuff make sense ?

[icy gust]

Sort of

its kind of working now, but some reason one my NPC's is spawning and immediately dying now and I don't know why lol

[astral mist]

sleep works also.

for yourself.

[muted gorge]

what does irrelevant mean tho

[lofty rapids]

show what your doing

[astral mist]

that's irrelevant in this case

[lofty rapids]

"not connected with or relevant to something"

[muted gorge]

ohhh, okay

[lofty rapids]

it means it's pointless, not needed

because the problem is pretty obvious

once you see it lol, these things happen all the time

[astral mist]

place despair gif here.

The "is valid" nodes are required to avoid unhandled cases. Say you are given a bad reference you have to handle it or at least try not to use it.

[muted gorge]

OHHHHH

[astral mist]

Any code that assumes or works on an "open loop" principle will tend to fail eventually.

[icy gust]

So if i set event tick on the branch node, everything does work. But before the enemies are spawned it cant find them and throws these errors

[astral mist]

But. If you don't have an input object. Common sense mandates it should return this isn't a valid reference. Null and all.

[astral mist]

Same issue here except you are trying to access it.

[lofty rapids]

perfect for an: is valid node

[icy gust]

I was trying to find a way to enable the event tick only after they are spawned

[astral mist]

You have no sense of state and each code assumes too much.

[lofty rapids]

check the references are valid before you try to access them, if they are not created they won't error, once created it will check the values

[astral mist]

consider after each one spawns storing their reference onto a variable. Then check against these variables if they're valid.

[lofty rapids]

you can do this with a boolean tbh, but the isvalid is best bet

[astral mist]

I'll make a coffee I think engage is set to the same frequency.

[muted gorge]

why it has success, and mine does not

expose on spawn i think

right right right

uuu im reliefed

this feeling

[astral mist]

if the cast is failed it should also "asdasfafga"

[icy gust]

ok sorry, but what do I link to the is valid?

[muted gorge]

yup

to try it

asdjasdjashdjkahsd

[lofty rapids]

it's a different node

don't worry about it

your success is the path at the top

[muted gorge]

hmm okay

[lofty rapids]

you can right click and make pure i think

if you really want it to be exact

[muted gorge]

I LOVE ITTTT

[icy gust]

like this?

[lofty rapids]

the references, check if they are isvalid before using them

[muted gorge]

now letme add destroy actor

[lofty rapids]

kind of, but like i mentioned already promote to variable and use the variable on tick, instead of dragging from the actual spawn, but basically yes thats what i mean, just not that way

[astral mist]

this is terrible code store the Return Value onto a variable. this won't work for more than one frame.

Understand that "Return Value" won't be there for Tick to see it.

[muted gorge]

yes sirrrr

yall are the best

thanks for the your patience tho 🙏

[astral mist]

we are all learning something new every day.

[lofty rapids]

it's often the simple things that get people caught up

[muted gorge]

i got the same error and i didnt see it

he got an error*

in the video

[astral mist]

You'll trip a couple times before you consider avoiding the stone.

[lofty rapids]

this does happen more often then i would like in videos

[astral mist]

Meaning from experience you'll learn what to check and you'll most likely just see the mistakes.

[lofty rapids]

but they have cuts where it's like, this is an error, this is the fix, or they fix it at the end

[astral mist]

they are human! but thing is some videos appear to be improvised and others are well thought out

[golden kayak]

When you spawn the actor, store it as a variable. Then use that variable to check isvalid on event tick. The way you have this setup currently is funky.

[astral mist]

clearly they're often just following what they've done and going back and forth on a second screen

[muted gorge]

😔

[lofty rapids]

you get used to it, and notice the errors

[astral mist]

Yep because the reference won't be available you'll just try to access an invalid object at this point -- it'll be null for everything but one frame most likely...

[golden kayak]

Are you having trouble with the casting?

[astral mist]

I think sethithy fell asleep.

[muted gorge]

i fixed it

already

[golden kayak]

Does anyone need help who is here right now?

[astral mist]

Yep I would like help with my coffee.

[golden kayak]

Pours coffee okay, next...

[astral mist]

Double espresso though.

[astral mist]

sethithy has a logic issue but hasn't replied since.

[muted gorge]

oh no

it does not set the arry

array*

rahhh

[icy gust]

Nope!

I think I got it

[astral mist]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-woah-wait-what-shocked-what-did-you-say-gif-16673454

[icy gust]

This works, I'm not sure if its "proper" but it does work.

[astral mist]

unconventional but it should because the set is just returning the handle at this point and it does indeed exist

consider grabbing the variable as a "get" to separate the nodes though

so your "tick block" isn't directly tied to your spawn code

then of course know that this is running on every frame for no good reason :p

in fact more than once.

(tick rate defaulting to 0.0)

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-time-adventure-time-coffee-gif-1811680171640299873

[icy gust]

yeah, that's the concern now. But now that it works at all I can iterate on it

[icy gust]

right, decoupled:

[astral mist]

your Is Valid is empty.

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-dies-gif-21956120

[icy gust]

lol fixed

[fallen glade]

Is it possible to create a folder in the level using an editor blueprint?

[lofty rapids]

curious, how did you fix it ?

[icy gust]

like this, still not idea though

because the function works and doesn't throw errors, but having it on tick isn't idea

[muted gorge]

i think; you should use C++, and create a cmd.exe proccess and mkdir on the directory

[lofty rapids]

ya you could when you set isdead, check then instead like i mentioned

but this is on tick shouldn't be bad

i would run a do once after the true

so it doesn't keep setting the value

but it's not too bad

[icy gust]

but that would still be checking on tick no?

just checking a different variable

[lofty rapids]

yes it would, a boolean at the beginning would stop that

but the do once stops the setting of the variable over and over

but you could also just flip a boolean to true

like isAllDead

and then check at the beginning of tick

this will basically shut it off

but you'll always be checking the variable

[astral mist]

well the idea is to check if every reference is valid not just the first because you are trying to access a member of the class

and when I saw the pattern (repetition of 3) that's when I suggested the loop and the array it keeps things much simpler

at the moment you have to do everything 3 times

your other issue (design wise) is checking for state on tick. where you could have a manager that knows how many enemies were spawned and will get informed every time one dies - then if the total amount have died it can proceed to respawn them or whatever.

if you divide the problem into smaller sections you'll get it working in no time

the "get informed" portion could be through an event dispatcher or an interface -- just two common methods

Consider the code reusability of modularity and how hard-coding limits your productivity in general :p

[icy gust]

see I've done those things before but I don't code much and I forget how to use them every time I need to use them. Like I understand the logic of it all I think but it's the specifics of how to make everything communicate together that's tough for me to keep track of. Hence why I'm brute forcing it like this right now.

If nothing else this is a functioning proof of concept for myself and I'll refine it another day

[astral mist]

I know. Perhaps an event dispatcher would work just fine but you'll have to practice using them

[fallen glade]

I guess at some point I need to get to C++, blueprints are so limiting

[astral mist]

How about something like this? keep in mind these folders are available in dev builds only. Also haven't tested this it's pseudo code.

[astral mist]

They are meant to complement each other though.

[muted gorge]

I got another problem i dont really know why this error exists

why i got this error*

not exist*

i got L(ocal) Has Failed

i checked the Any Empty Slots Available

but it does not go through the branch

wait letme ss

[royal granite]

hi im new to game engines! does anybody know how to allow the character to turn or rotate while being restricted from moving, im trying to replicate the system in Valkyria Chronicles

[fallen glade]

That's the problem I only know one ha, I'll try that

[muted gorge]

I'm beginner too, I'm pretty sure that you could add clamp angle, and disable the walking input

but I dont know how to make that 😭

[royal granite]

ohh il look into that and give it a try, thanks!

i just started 2 days ago lol

[muted gorge]

no problem

lmao

[fallen glade]

Amaaazing, it worked thanks!

[muted gorge]

there it is

that print is just chilling

nevermind that

[icy jacinth]

How can I adjust the parameters of a MI when it's applied to the brush of an image component in a widget? Most everything I've tried is causeing the healthbar to appear distorted in the HUD

[lofty rapids]

the turnd rotate are seperate from moving

[astral mist]

Could it be related to how the texture is handled? the texture group should be set to UI

If you double click on the texture itself it probably defaulted to something else although I'm not certain that's the primary issue but that aliasing seems to be related.

[muted gorge]

engage

gushh

[astral mist]

https://tenor.com/view/sir-patrick-stewart-patrick-stewart-engage-serious-gif-12281820

[muted gorge]

system does not work again

🙏 😭

[astral mist]

Ryan is about to receive an invoice!

[icy jacinth]

Yeah, the parent Material Domain is set to User Interface 🤔

[astral mist]

But the texture group itself I mean.

It could still fall victim of different filtering

[icy jacinth]

Ah - the material is 100% procedural, no external textures used

[royal granite]

wdym?

[lofty rapids]

i mean that turning and movement are not linked unless you link them together

usually

are you using the camera to turn ?

or what are you trying to do rotate the chracter ?

[royal granite]

nope just the keys, still learning what the functions do

[lofty rapids]

so the boolean shuts it off right ? drag from fase in to the execution on the right

it will run when you can't move

[muted gorge]

engage how did you disabled the nanite

[royal granite]

drag from fase? sorry aint getting it, and yeah the boolean shuts it off

ohh false, but what should i connect it with? just to only make it rotate

[lofty rapids]

so did you disable it in the project settings ?

[muted gorge]

yup

[lofty rapids]

plug it into the rotate stuff on the rights execution

[muted gorge]

this was the error i was getting

[lofty rapids]

save a backup of your project just in case

but search NaniteEnabled == ture

in the content browser

[royal granite]

i was wrong, the character does follow the camera while pressing W

[muted gorge]

okay i found a mesh

that i used already

actor*

[lofty rapids]

so there is only

[muted gorge]

not mesh

[lofty rapids]

one ?

[muted gorge]

yes

[lofty rapids]

one thing with nanite enabled ?

[muted gorge]

yup

[lofty rapids]

did you search in all ?

ok right click and disable nanite on that thing

[muted gorge]

yes i did

nanite support right

[lofty rapids]

right click and disable it

[muted gorge]

i did

[lofty rapids]

ok

so now it doesn't come up in the search right ?

[lofty rapids]

have you ever got into your DefaultEngine.ini ?

[muted gorge]

i need apply changes

and i applied it

now im gonna check it

now it doesnt show up

[lofty rapids]

is the message still up ?

[muted gorge]

I know that file

[lofty rapids]

ok

[SystemSettings]
r.Nanite=0

[muted gorge]

do i need to restart

[lofty rapids]

close

and add that to your DefaultEngine.ini

[muted gorge]

ohhhh

okay

i did it via console

aaand its gone

thanks!

[lofty rapids]

np, that message bugged me for awhile

[muted gorge]

yeah me too

this project is my 12nd project, same game tho

🙏

[lofty rapids]

12 ?

or 2 ?

[muted gorge]

wait a minute

when i said 2

it was for inventory, i changed 2 projects for inventory

but the whole game is 12

[lofty rapids]

thats a lot of versions you have already

[muted gorge]

yes, but alot of them are not working properly

the previus one was beautiful

got dialogues etc

now starting clean again 😔

[royal granite]

i found out that Get Control Rotation turns the character towards where's the camera facing, but i cant seem to find a node that connects it on false in the branch node

[lofty rapids]

just connect this white line

[mental heart]

i have lot of part of my Ui that are pixelated in Unreal engine, i don't know where it's come from ?

• i have the Texture in 256*256
• the texture group is on Ui , compression setting on UserInterface2D
  Can someone have a idea Why it's still pixelated ? maybe the problem come from my Original Texture but i don't know how to identifie the problem

[lofty rapids]

so the texture is 256x256 ? and what is the image component size ?

make it 256x256 as well

and then does it look pixelated ?

[royal granite]

connected it but does nothing tho, its just connected on the Movement Point system

[mental heart]

yep

ah never mind i have a size box on top

the size box is 100*100

[lofty rapids]

ok disconnect that, show your rotation code

[mental heart]

so i have to export the exact size of my image ? so if my ui in UE need to be 120x120 i need to export it to 120x120 ?

[lofty rapids]

as far as if you scale it up then it will be pixelated, down not so bad but still yes

if you stretch an image from it's original pixels it will not look good

except for something like svg

scalable vector graphics

you can scale the shit out of that np

[royal granite]

im just using the default 3rd person template

[lofty rapids]

but pngs your pretty much stuck with close to the original or it looks weird

it shouldn't be too bad tho

[lofty rapids]

whats the original image look like ?

[lofty rapids]

ok so you don't have any custom rotate stuff anyway

[royal granite]

well the template has two ways of rotating tho, from forcing the character to follow the camera and following keyboard input

[lofty rapids]

if you want to scale something like this use the plugin: svg importer

and make this an svg

that should let you have a nice circle at any scale

personally i would have ai generate the file

[mental heart]

if i have other stuff that are not circle but Heart or Square or Icon, all made in illustrator does the plugin work too ?

[lofty rapids]

as far as does the plugin work, can you export as svg ?

if you can export, it should be able to import

idk much about it, but i know thats how you get scalable graphics

it's literally in the name

because this is a common problem with images

you can smooth it out like how these things upgrade the resolution of stuff with formulas

but thats a bit too much, if you can use svg just go with it

[mental heart]

i will try this with the person who make Ui in the project tomorrow ! thanks for the response and the help !

[sterile quest]

Not sure what's causing this. Not familiiar with this play-in-editor error not how to resolve it. I am able to play test in the editor but the feature I am trying to add doesn't work.

Trying to add a actor component highlight when the player looks at an object.

[mental heart]

How always wondering how do you achieve to have this angle on the node link ?

[maiden wadi]

You can edit some of the blueprint graph settings in the Engine Settings. But this specifically looks like the electic nodes plugin.

[sterile quest]

Oh gotcha. Yeah, it's electric nodes. A paid plugin

[maiden wadi]

Can you show the internals of GetStaticMeshComponents?

[royal granite]

anyone know what blueprints should i use after the false in the branch, where i can turn my character to any direction using WASD but without moving? (Turn in place)

[jagged moss]

whats the best to unlock options depending on choices?
I want to have a list related to a database. there will be multiple comboboxes menues and depending on the choices in each the choices change for the next.
If the first is A then the next will have A1 A2 A3 A4
But if the first option is B it would have B1 B2 B3 etc.

What nodes are best to make something like this?

[lofty rapids]

i think you'll need to make this from scratch because you don't have any turn logic, so what you can do is just on the false branch do your custom turn logic based on the inputs

you want it so it turns, but doesn't move is the point right ?

[royal granite]

yeah, but i cant seem to make the character turn in place using stop movement immediately as it creeps bit by bit

i just need velocity to be zero

since the character turn via keyboard (WASD) already suffices

[lofty rapids]

ya get rid of all that stuff

you just need x

so you can rotate left and right

10 * x axis

the white comming off false

[royal granite]

imma try

[lofty rapids]

https://streamable.com/yn7scs

[royal granite]

yeahh that exactly

[lofty rapids]

10 is pretty fast change that number for different speed

[royal granite]

although my bp looks different (im on 5.6)

[lofty rapids]

right click the return value, and new rotation, and split the structs

so you get x, y, and z

[royal granite]

omg i can do that? bruhhh

[lofty rapids]

yes it's great lol

you can split any struct usually

[royal granite]

finally done it!!, got that dopamine from that eureka moment, after being frustrated the whole day lmao

thanks a lot!

[icy gust]

Ok figured it out, Incase anyone else has this issue. I just put the collision onto the enemies instead of the player and that seems to work fine, I just have to destroy it when they die so it doesn't interfere with the ragdolls.

[royal granite]

new problem, im trying to set the rotation based of WASD, but so far ive only managed to make the character face where the camera is pointed at by using W

[maiden wadi]

Usually you don't set the character's rotation directly. You set it's controller's control rotation. And in this case Characters have a setting to follow their velocity instead of control rotation.

[royal granite]

ohh, so how do i make it follow it's control rotation?

[maiden wadi]

It should do that by default I think. There's some settings in the character class, one sec.

[royal granite]

im trying to make it turn in place tho

[maiden wadi]

These settings here. Control Rotation will usually be your camera's direction. Try making sure UseControllerDesiredRotation is false and OrientRotationToMovement is true, assuming your WASD moves the character in the direction you want.

[lofty rapids]

so you want w to go forward ?

and s back, a and d point left and right ?

[royal granite]

yeah that exactly

but still follows camera whenever W is pressed

so far it only responds to W following where the camera is looking at

[royal granite]

already is, its just I want it to work with no displacement

[frosty heron]

If you dont account for delta time, the rotation will not be frame dependent.

More fps = faster turn

[lofty rapids]

so i put the x axis in the compare

and add to the control rotation of

z

to point left and right

you can do the same with y

and you would point straight,left,right,backward

from control rotation

[lofty rapids]

right yes delta time

[lofty rapids]

you'll have do some math to get the in between angles

[royal granite]

il see if i can make it work, its 5 am here and i havent slept yet

thanks again

[steady night]

How do i launch unit "Away from self" ?

[faint pasture]

Normalize(Self.Location, Other.Location) is the direction pointing from self to other

that x HowStrongYouWantToYeetThem

[lofty rapids]

wdym "away" in what direction ?

[steady night]

Away from player

Based on where they are standing

[faint pasture]

You probably want to add some Z so it's a knock back + up instead of just back, so they actually leave the ground a bit and carry some speed

[lofty rapids]

https://streamable.com/j6wpvq

like this ?

[edgy marsh]

when possessing a character after character gets in the vehicle I can't control my character I can only look pitch and yaw axises

inputs are not working

[lofty rapids]

and what are you possessing here the vehicle ?

[edgy marsh]

Offroad_Pawn

[granite halo]

Is there a better way to get references from the player blueprint in the animation blueprint than doing this?

This is what I've always done to reference bools and vectors that I want to use for animations.

[edgy marsh]

I possess the character in the car, but he can only look around, but he cannot walk.

[lofty rapids]

because he in the car right ? he's sitting ?

[edgy marsh]

yes?

[lofty rapids]

why would he be walking

he should be driving

you need to possess the character again ?

the original one

if you want to move around again

[next hollow]

If its just simple variable gets, should be able to just use the property accessor or some shit in the anim graph directly.

[lofty rapids]

you don't possess anything, theres nothing plugged in where it says Exec

use the return value from the get actor of class

[edgy marsh]

this is old code

I'm already possessing it

I used to use return value of get actor of class

[astral mist]

ghost nodes. its the new trend!

[maiden wadi]

Are you certian that this is passing back a valid component here?

[sterile quest]

It wasn't being mentioned in the error log, so I didn't think it was a problem

Hmm, odd. It's not valid.

Any idea why?

[cedar ibex]

@maiden wadi Hello again, its me the guy from yesterday who ask about 5.5 Crash, here is the log

[spark steppe]

you got a lot going on in that log... but your main problem seems gpu device lost.

did the project work before? did you update video card drivers?

[cedar ibex]

Hey Ben. thanks for checking it out, for more info:

• Disabling Nanite/Ray tracing won't cause this crash anymore
• It works fine in 5.3, after upgrading to 5.5 this crash happen
• Disabling Ray tracing Nanite mode through console command also prevent the crash "r.RayTracing.Nanite.Mode 0"

[spark steppe]

this could be an driver issue, but the error you get is so generic that it's impossible to pinpoint the exact issue

[cedar ibex]

Is there are some pattern that could solve this kind of problem before?

Like downgrading to specific driver version?

[heady terrace]

I need to find the best way to do cool C++ stuff in Blueprints. Suppose in C++ I wrote UClass ClassA

1. Then in another C++ class a public uproperty TSubclassOf<ClassA> is declared, which can be filled in Blueprints with any subclass of ClassA.

2. Back in code, when I wanted to use the Blueprint Class, I would just grab TSubclassOfClassA, use GetDefaultObject() to get the UObject, then cast the returned UObject into ClassA. Easy peasy.

There is no TSubclassOf variable type in Blueprints. Closest I can find for now is Soft Class Path. How can I accept a BP class and turn it into an object in a Blueprint's Event Graph (i.e. paragraphs 1 and 2)?

Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need clarification on the question.

Given the SoftClassPath, I have tried using it to Async Load the Class or Object Asset, but Casting it to ClassA fails. No TSubclassOf<A> variable exists in Blueprints either.

[spark steppe]

you just pick an object type and make a class variable

that will also accept child classes

[heady terrace]

So I'll choose the ClassA type, and then for the ref type I choose "Soft Class Reference"?

[spark steppe]

either works

[heady terrace]

I thought I already did that? But now I need to find an equivalent BP node to 'GetDefaultObject()'?

[spark steppe]

which doesn't exist

why would you even want the CDO?

[heady terrace]

The CDO is fine because I'm not changing any values in these BP classes at runtime.

The original problem is... if I add a public ClassA Soft Object Reference to a Blueprint class, I can't assign any BP child-of-ClassA to that Soft Object Reference. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, what I should do is get rest. Sorry, I picked the wrong time to ask this question in the discord server.

[full badge]

someone has made one https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/ekzd2_78/

putting it in a function library should work

[heady terrace]

That looks very interesting! Thank you, I will have to try that tomorrow morning.

[sterile quest]

Anyone? #blueprint message

[next hollow]

With zero context. (that i've read so far)
Values can be valid, but the actual object ref is invalid.
AKA, able to get display name, but not being valid.
Since, is valid checks for null, and marked for garbage

[steady night]

yeah exactly

[royal granite]

anybody know how to make a character stay in one place, but can move into directions using WASD and Camera + W (basically turning in place), like there is an invisible cylinder wall preventing character displacement

i tried set actor velocity to 0, but i doesnt work as the characters creeps forward bit by bit ( i think i need the speed to overide and be a constant of 0)

[steady night]

hmm isent there a minimum speed value thats set to like 25 on the CMC by default ?

try setting that to 0 also

[royal granite]

where is that tho? im new to unreal and just used the 3rd person template, havent delve much into that since im not adding sprint in the game

OHHH, nvm found it in character details in viewport

thanks

hmm it still moves tho despite these

[maiden wadi]

Just got a chance to glance over this. Yeah your primary issue is here.

    - Device 0 Removed: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG```
Could be a lot of things. It's not as easy to diagnose as the DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED error, which is essentially... Try different drivers, lower your card's clock speeds, fix thermal paste, don't use a laptop without keeping it plugged in.

Hung usually means application derped. Infinite loops in shaders, etc. Since it's two different cards. I would start by making a blank level to see if it can be reproduced. If it can I would start with stuff in the project's graphic settings. Turn off some advanced features. If it cannot be, then it could still be project graphic settings, but it could also be something not cooking well from the level maybe.

It might help narrow your search in that it seems this card at least was stuck on LumenReflections and TranslucencyLightingVolume code.

[cedar ibex]

Got it!

I've tried lots of stuff in the past some just like your suggestion
Looks like easier fix for me is just turning off ray tracing nanite mode then manually fix the mesh with broken nanite shadow to keep triangle percent instead off nanite fallback, thanks for helping!

[lofty rapids]

you probably need to, like i already mentioned do a custom rotation code

[royal granite]

made my own i think, and i dont know anything of what im doing

[frosty heron]

Feed value to the delta time and interp speed.

Trying to do a tank movement (classic resident evil / dino crisis)?

Can just add rotation, why do you care where the character is looking at if you are trying to do resident evil classic movement.

[royal granite]

in valkyria chronicles, where the character is looking at is important, since they cant counter attack or intercept fire if theyre not looking at enemies

[lofty rapids]

does it work ?

[royal granite]

not yet kekw, double checking stuff

FINALLY IT WORKS, ahem

ima fine tune delta and interp

[lofty rapids]

you have no delta time in your interp

yoou don't tune delta

you usually plug in the delta time

you can use: game delta seconds

you fine tune the speed

[sterile quest]

So being marked as garbage collection would explain why the editor still play tests but the BP throws errors. However I don't quite follow the rest of what you are talking about.

Also what info are you missing that would help you help me?

[royal granite]

this?

[jagged moss]

I want an inventory system showing as a list in the UI. I made something but its not good and im sure there are better ways to do it. most my items will be in a datatable where it will have a name and information about the item. i might also add damage to weapons etc there but not entirely sure if it will be added there or elsewhere yet.
I would like the inventory to be a bit like skyrims kinda.
Im currently looking for guides on youtube, tho the one issue is that I also need to be able to add items manually through text. I did make this but before spending more time on an inventory system that is pretty bad long term. what are better options and how should I tackle this?

[lofty rapids]

yes and 100 is way too long lol

[frosty heron]

You can use that unless you want to support slow motion.

You can get the actor delta instead. Cache the value from tick and use that.

[sterile quest]

What I don't get is why does the get node for the array output the object name that it supposed to but it's stiill saying it's not valid.

I.e. Why is it always going the Not Valid route when it's getting the correct actor component?

[next hollow]

I assume you believe its valid, because the display name is correct/ a value.
But, you can get the value of something that is marked as garbage (aka, "invalid")
Before its 100% gone.
Hence that might be where the confusion is.

1. Says invalid
2. Says it has a value, so how can it be invalid, if it has a value.

[sterile quest]

Huh odd. How and why is it being marked as being garbage collected? How do I prevent this?

https://tenor.com/view/garbage-day-gif-23997532

UE5 be like
This convo is making me think of this. lol

[next hollow]

BP wise, garbage only really comes from the destroy function calls.
(destroy actor, destroy component)
Have you tried implementing the destroy function on either this component, or on the actor that has this?
To see if its firing, to verify this is the cause of your issue?
(If this project involved custom C++, you can directly mark something as garbage)

[royal granite]

actor delta? max - current speed?

[lofty rapids]

i think they mean, on event tick, set the delta to a variable, and use that

[lofty rapids]

this sort of thing is usually run on tick as well, are you running this on triggered ?

[sterile quest]

I have not added the destroy function on this BP nor the component that it's trying to reference.
Just to make sure I am on the same page, are you suggesting I do that?

[royal granite]

yeah its on triggered, i just connected it on "False"

[lofty rapids]

ok but idk how smooth that is compared to tick

i would probably use that boolean on tick

and run off the false of that

this would really smooth out the rotation imo

tick->allowMovement(branch)->false->do rotation

[next hollow]

I’m saying implement it in the override, to see if it’s being fired/ used for some reason, to verify

[sterile quest]

Gotcha. So put it in the BP where the component itself exists? Or within the BP that is trying to reference said actor component?

[royal granite]

like this?

[next hollow]

It’s an override.
So, inside of itself

[pine nebula]

Does anyone know if sync SaveGameToSlot's return value (for whether we save succesfully) is separate from writing that save file to disk?

When we quit our game after it's done saving (after it returns true), the save file actually gets corrupted (we detect it by loading save slot then casting fails) when it's either on an old device or when the device is having low computational power.
For example SaveGameToSlot returns true -> quitting on a quest 3 never corrupts it. Doing so on very old quest 2 will corrupt it if you quit quickly, even after the success. Doing so on a very old quest 2 while it's recording or on call with someone, corrupts it if you quit a bit after the success. If you wait a long time after success though, it won't corrupt.

That's making me think that the success boolean is seperate from writing to disk or something, just wanted to confirm if anyone knows that true?
If so, is there any way to detect when it's truly done saving on a sync save game to slot? I don't want to be loading game from slot while it's still writing to disk to check - and DoesSaveGameExist doesn't check whether the save is corrupted or not (since we don't know if it's corrupt until we cast it).

[frosty heron]

No, delta here means the time it takes from last frame to current frame.

Which you can get on the actor's tick function.

[sterile quest]

So inside of the actor, correct?

[royal granite]

although regardless of value in the Interp Speed, the character snaps quickly to the cardinal directions of WASD

[lofty rapids]

no i wouldn't use the same thing, create a new branch

[sterile quest]

I am working with two BPs here. That's why I am needing clarification.

[royal granite]

i tried 10, 100, 1000, to a million but it looks the same

[royal granite]

still looks like this, does it need animations or something?

[lofty rapids]

try like 0.1 in speed

and show the tick, hopefully with a new branch

[maiden wadi]

You can't override the destroyed function for this in BP. It's a C++ class that you haven't overridden. It's a StaticMeshComponent.

Can you show the full code for that debugging your're doing with the prints and checking validity?

[royal granite]

uhhh

[royal granite]

tried this instead but still looks like this

i dont get it at this point, kept brute forcing everything the whole day

[lofty rapids]

well your doing a lot wrong here

[lofty rapids]

ya it seems like your randomly trying stuff

i'll see what i can come up with for a smooth rotation about the point where you press the keys

i'll try this, it's interesting

[royal granite]

well im new to the engine, and being a game dev in general

[lofty rapids]

ya your understanding of the flow of things is a bit off

you don'tt need twoo branches

[sterile quest]

Get Function

And the Set Function

https://youtu.be/EtUlqupLfRI?si=YAKnuRWw7KXJY32o
This is the tut I've been following

Only about half way through though

[sterile quest]

If there is a more streamlined way of doing object highlighting when hovered over I am open to it.

[lofty rapids]

if it's failing i'm guessing the tag is incorrect ?

or perhaps the component class is not static mesh component ?

[sterile quest]

I've tried removing the tag from the component and it failed anyways. So even without a tagged component is throws errors.

[lofty rapids]

so check if get owner fails

[sterile quest]

And it is a static mesh.

[lofty rapids]

but did you add this component ?

in the video he adds the component dynamically

[sterile quest]

It's added prior to runtime.

Where in the video does he add the component on the fly?

I haven't seen him do that yet, only about halfway through the video atm

Also the tagged Component isn't what fails

#blueprint message

You can see the errors that are created at that link

The ActorComponent BP is what's returning errors, not the actor that I tag its component.

[lofty rapids]

well when you say it fails, and you show an isvalid i assume you meant that

maybe i'm not understanding

what is failing ?

[sterile quest]

It's failing to work. lol
The Isvalid is also failing to...well be Valid.

Because of that I don't know how to make it valid.

[kind wharf]

hello, I need some refresher on some BP basics.

basically this problem.

let's say i have BP_Parent and BP_Child , BP_Parent has a function here, we're renaming some function parameter name.

while some was okay, but there are few that had this problem. normally this is kinda easy to fix, im checking whether there are preventive measures, better practices, and cleaner approach in renaming things so that we can try to avoid this problem in the future
Image

[lofty rapids]

well no shit its not working lol but i only know what i can see from this side, and theres a way to debug things, which is what i'm trying to do, and i'm confused right now lol, if the isvalid is failing thats a problem, and should be the first thing to check, as far as making it valid you debug it's easy process

[lofty rapids]

so you renamed it, and created a new pin and the other pin is invalid ? if you hover over the error it probably says that pin is no longer valid, i'm guessing you deleted one ?

renaming shouldn't be an issue, it's deleting that usually makes this error

[kind wharf]

simply renaming them

[kind wharf]

although we observed that these errors are coming from opening an unopened blueprint that references BP_Child, the one is currently opened in editor doesn't seem to have this issue

i might be wrong in this and might be exactly the points you mentioned too

[sterile quest]

It's not easy for me to figure out why it's returning as IsNotValid when it shouldn't be. I have no clue why it's doing that because all of the nodes are setup correctly.

[lofty rapids]

ok so you want to check if the get owner is valid first

which it should be

[sterile quest]

Okay. How would I go about doing that?

[lofty rapids]

ok so you don't know much about unreal yet ?

as far as what even is valid does ?

maybe you should watch a tut on blueprints

so you can better understand what i'm saying

you want to check the output of the get owner node is valid

[sterile quest]

Doubtful. I was under the impression that it checks if a object being fed into it is a valid object.

[lofty rapids]

yes, it does

and your isn't so

you need to figure out why

[sterile quest]

Okay. So maybe I know more then I realized. lol

[lofty rapids]

this is debugging 101 you'll be doing this a lot lol

[sterile quest]

And gotcha.

Yeah debugging is...not my specialty. I am an artist first, and a programmer loosely second. lol

I appreciate the help tho

[lofty rapids]

np, i can help so much though from this side of things

and ifi you don't know how to check if something isvalid then idk what to say

except watch a blueprint tut

because it's one node that you plug into execution

[sterile quest]

Using a print string node to check what's coming in from Get Owner node

[lofty rapids]

yes thats another option

[sterile quest]

That and breakpoints is about all I really know when it comes to debugging

[lofty rapids]

but isvalid is a very usefull thing you should know

and just using it is pretty simple

just put in the execution

i think you should watch basic tuts, i'll say it twice lol

like some blueprints tutorial

about execution, and functions, input output

but the point is you have a node plugged into isvalid, and a node plugged into that

the question is which one is a problem

so you know that the last one is invalid

but what about the owner

is this valid ?

[sterile quest]

Well that was fucking easier. Would help if I put the ActorComponent on the child class I want rather then the parent. I feel silly now...

[lofty rapids]

lol

[sterile quest]

This is clearly what I get for trying to do BP programming when tired....

[lofty rapids]

it's always something so silly tbh

it happens all the time, but breaks are awesome

[sterile quest]

Thanks for the help Engage, and the others involved.

[lofty rapids]

programming is funny like that, you work all day and its something so stupid lol

like, wtf really ?

[astral mist]

sadly yes. but sometimes we're just tired.

so it helps if someone else can take a look at the problem.

[lofty rapids]

yes after awhile i tend to try to come on to discord and try to get someone else to look at it

for sure a second pair of eyes is essential

[astral mist]

"isvalid" is indeed very useful and an important aspect. code shouldn't assume.

even if your entire process is highly deterministic just don't risk any assumptions.

[dusky cobalt]

also writing things out helps and often when you try to describe the problem with details you will find what you are actually missing

[spark steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/shower-time-cat-love-pet-gif-23419541

rubber duck debugging

[faint pasture]

Also something not being valid can be 100% perfectly ok

MyCurrentWeapon is not valid when I don't have a weapon

[echo wave]

Anyone familiar with how GASP is built able to answer a question? Wondering where GASP takes measure of the X & Y velocity values for interpreting the animation, when you properly normalize diagonals so that you don't move at hypotenuse speed, GASP starts moving you in unusual ways, either slowing the animation or stuttering the movement speed, wondering if anyone knows where you'd normalize GASP diagonals.

[novel aspen]

Why references in DataAsset keep reseting between editor sessions? For example when i use this DataAsset in blueprints code, icon reference is valid, but when i close and open editor again, it's no longer valid until i reopen this DataAsset

[graceful sage]

Are you changing the asset in code?

[novel aspen]

no, just reading from it, i also tried to run packaged build, references are broken there too

Primary Asset id is fine, but references in it like mesh or icon aren't

[novel aspen]

also, they don't really get lost from DataAsset, they are just like "hidden" until i reopen asset

if i open DataAsset i don't need to reference something again, it's already there, but for some reason at runtime is not valid in packaged build and after editor restart

[prime stump]

Hi, For my interaction system I am using a component that lives on my character pawn class which also handles displaying the interaction widget by creating a widget component and just displaying the widget at the location of the interactable actor once the player meets the conditions required for interaction, however I also have a widget that displays when the player is overlapping an interactable actors sphere radius which displays a widget that indicates the actor can be interacted with but I have this 'indicator' widget being handled on my BP_Interactable_Base class instead of my BPC_PlayerInteraction component where my 'interaction' widget is handled.. so I want to move this logic from the base class over to the component because that's probably where it should be really.

Right now I have a widget component that displays the 'indicator' widget when the player overlaps and stops overlapping the actors sphere radius (handled on BP_Interactable_Base), I think what I need to do instead is have the BPC_PlayerInteraction component create a widget component for every interactable actor the player is overlapping with and display the widget at the location of those actors and then destroy the correct widget component when leaving an actors sphere overlap whilst also keeping it displayed on any other actors the player is overlapping, does that sound about right or is there a simpler or better way of handling this?

[next hollow]

I love importing FAB assets. 😛

[maiden wadi]

What in the actual fluffsticks?

Did someone have a siezure with the copypaste and just roll with it?

[next hollow]

I guess? lmao

[faint pasture]

I'd put it all in one spot myself

What makes a thing interactable?

[prime stump]

I am using the pawns capsule component's overlap events to check if the actor they're overlapping implements the BPI_OnInteract interface and has a 'Interaction Overlap' tag so I can make sure the actor they're overlapping is the right overlap for interaction.. as for the conditions required for interaction that is that the player must be within the Interaction Overlap and must be facing the object via dot product checks that happen in the 'Choose Interactable Actor' function which sets a 'Current Interactable actor, this all happens on the BPC_PlayerInteraction component which handles the interaction widget being displayed/removed.

My BP_Interactable_Base on the other hand currently has a box overlap as the 'Interaction Overlap' and then a sphere overlap for the 'Indicator Overlap' and then just a widget component for displaying the indictor widget which i'd rather the BPC_PlayerInteraction component was doing instead so this base class wouldn't have any overlap or widget code

The player can only interact with one actor at a time so the interaction widget is only ever displayed on the 'Current Interactable Actor' and removed when its invalid (by no longer meeting interaction conditions), however the indicator widget can be displayed on multiple actors as it depends on how many actors the player is overlapping

I'm thinking I can just check for an 'Indicator Overlap' tag and use the same Handle Overlap events to detect when the player is inside the sphere overlap of an interactable

Just not sure what the best way would be to create and destroy widget components as and when needed when overlapping or stopping overlapping each actor

[faint pasture]

I'd just put it all in InteractionComponent and have it be the thing that handles it all

InteractionComponent:
Begin Play -> add overlap collider to owner:
Begin Overlap? -> Update
End Overlap? -> Update
Update -> Choose which item to select and show the widget (or hide it) using data from selecteditem
Interact -> selected item? -> interact with it

[prime stump]

Ive already got the interaction logic and widget itself being displayed correctly on the Interaction Component, but how would it work for displaying an indicator widget on all other interactable actors that the player is overlapping that aren't the 'Current Interactable Actor'?

The sphere overlap on BP_Interactable_Base (the Indicator Overlap) will be triggered before the box overlap (Interaction Overlap) but you can overlap multiple Indicator Overlap's of multiple interactable actors at one time so the indicator widget should be displayed on all of them

This is how i set Current Interactable Actor just in case

[faint pasture]

That's 4 states a thing could be in:
Not In Range
In Range
Selected
InteractedWith

If you want to show a little thing on all in range and the big thing on the one being targetted, then select the one being targetted, set it to show the targetted status thing, and the others to show the InRangeButNotSelected

I'd still do it all from the single component on the pawn though, then you can just nuke all widgets and recreate on update instead of having to tell actors to stop showing stuff

The InteractableActor doesn't need to know or care if it's in range or selected, it should just sit there until InteractedWith is called on it

[prime stump]

Yeah thats what i'm wanting to do, the interaction stuff is already happening on the component as it should be I just need to whack in the indicator logic stuff on to it as well rather than letting BP_Interactable_Base handle it

[prime stump]

So how should I go about actually setting or detecting these states? My HandleInteractionOverlapBegin/End events are hooked up to the pawn's capsule component so I can detect when I've hit anything but ideally without casting to the actual BP_Interactable_Base class, wanna avoid coupling them if I can.

Do I just need to check if OtherActor implements the interaction interface and add them into an array like I'm doing now which would determine the ones that are 'In Range', then use that array to determine when one becomes 'Selected' by the player meeting interaction requirements? (the Choose Interactable Actor function), but how should I set up the logic on my interaction component to create widget components on the pawn for every interactable actor that's 'In Range' that just displays at the location of the actor (not creating a widget component on the interactable actor directly), but then removing that widget component that is displaying at the location of the actor when the player has stopped overlapping that specific actor while keeping any other actors their overlapping still displaying? I'm not entirely sure how to set that up properly while having the interaction component do it all

I hope that makes sense 😂

[grand oasis]

Anyone have any ideas as to why my niagara systems aren't showing up? says they are spawned and set when I print to log. works in begin play. but not construct. suppose you can't add components in construct

[faint pasture]

If this is all handled in a component on the pawn it's easy.

Update -> everything you're overlapping that's interactable is at least highlighted -> choose the best one -> that's the one "selected" -> do whatever that means

You don't really need to keep track of any state besides the one selected

[glass blade]

@near bloom sry for the ping, is there an example project for the loco tips tutorial? Would be cool to explore a made project

[near bloom]

Nah. I don't know if I want to make something like that, esp. with having to keep it up to date
Its more about teaching at a high level overview than anything overly specific, but ofc I recognize the value with an example project
Will keep it in mind for the future but unlikely

The closest thing is this: https://github.com/Vaei/SimpleLocomotion

[glass blade]

[near bloom]

I use this plugin as a base for all of my locomotion plugins/systems then extend from there

There is no data asset impl there but it does do most of the other stuff including anim states

Guess I should link that repo on the wiki somewhere

[dusky cobalt]

Not sure if you got anserw but are these structs made in bp? if yes then it's probably the cause.

[tiny tundra]

how do I hide this big obtrusive icon from my BP?

[tiny tundra]

there it is

[icy gust]

Anyone ever have an issue where you Widget stops working after a few inputs? Like all the options work but it completely freeze the buttons a few inputs. the game isn't freezing just the widget

[white edge]

For Animation Blueprint, where should I post my question?

Should it be here or somewhere else?

[dusky cobalt]

#animation

[white edge]

Thanks!

I can't see that somehow, Until I clicked

[dusky cobalt]

you have to go to channels and roles at the top and set some channels visible

[white edge]

Oh right, I forgot about that hahaha

I've posted my question, thanks once again 😄

[dusky cobalt]

need probably more details about that, any video? do you mean the button stops working? like cannot be clicked? or can be clicked but doesn't do what it's supposed to do?

[icy gust]

So I've isolated the issue to clicking this button. after 2 toggles of it the whole widget stops working.

It's toggeling another widget as visible and not visible so I dont know why its affecting this widget.

[dusky cobalt]

Can you try to set the one Set Visibility to Collapsed instead of Hidden and try again?

[icy gust]

Didn't work

I have a very similar function that doesn't cause the issue

[dusky cobalt]

So it works one time and then it doesn't? Or it works 3 times and then it doesn't?

[icy gust]

it works two times, like toggle on, toggle off, broken.

[dusky cobalt]

So it's hidden at the start?

[icy gust]

It can be either

this is a pause menu, so you can open the menu then toggle the main UI visibility

[dusky cobalt]

So when the menu is up the game is paused?

[icy gust]

yes

[dusky cobalt]

In your PlayerController do you have a node that Set Input Mode UI Only or Set input mode Game and UI somewhere/

[icy gust]

I do not

[dusky cobalt]

Ok so try to Get Player Controller -> Set Input Mode UI Only after you set Hidden, and Set input mode Game and UI after you set it to Visible.

[icy gust]

Like this?

Because this didn't work

[dusky cobalt]

where are you pausing game?

also try to print boolean of IsVisible and click if maybe it returns true but it's not visible

[icy gust]

Im pausing the game from the player controller

I tried to put it there too and it didnt help

I put a break point on both set visibility nodes, they both work but after the second it still breaks

[graceful sage]

I would use a bool instead of flip flop. It can cause issues

[icy gust]

wait i think i found the problem

i think the gameplay ui is taking priority or is being set above the options menu when its made visible, therefore blocking the options buttons

Is there a way to set "layers" for widgets so the gameplay ui is always below the options menu?

[graceful sage]

Can you show a screenshot what you mean

[dusky cobalt]

you can set z-index of all widgets so they are above/below each other

[graceful sage]

^

[icy gust]

where would I find the z-index? I googled it but can't find it

[dusky cobalt]

Sorry it's Z-Order

but I think you can only set it when your main base is Canva Panel

[dusky cobalt]

i think this is your problem, i would change the way you add the Resume/Option menu, instead of adding it to viewport, get GameUI and add it as a child to some panel/border.

or you have to remove the gameplay ui before adding option menu

[frosty heron]

Often this get messy quickly.

And kinda hard to trace.

[dusky cobalt]

yeah its not solution in this case for sure

[icy gust]

How would I go about doing that?

Im not seeing GameUI anywhere

[dusky cobalt]

I would start that your GameUI or GAMEHUD widget (or whatever you call it) should be created in HUD class and not in PlayerController.
Then inside that widget I would add Panel/Border or some place and call it ResumeMenuPanel for example.
Then when you want to add/remove the ResumMenuPanel you get PlayerController->GetHud-> and here you can cast or have interface ToogleResumeMenu -> Add/Remove widget (which is just Add Child to ResumeMenuPanel on GameUI).

[vocal radish]

With Blueprint, I want to create a market place that opens when you click the e button on the computer. I want players to buy items from there and have those items spawn at a certain point. Can someone knowledgeable on this subject help me?

[fleet prism]

Hello, I was following some tutorials trying to get the result I want. basically what I'm after is once you hit the trigger box you get some narration with subtitles and it works great by itself But after that's done playing I want a door to open up in the wall. So I was told to use timelines and after watching another video on that I made an actor for my door added the timeline to it and placed it in the level whare it needs to be but now I don't know how to connect the two. and make then play out as intended.

[versed sun]

One way you can do it is to pull off the blue Return Value and look for "Asign Audio Finnished". the Event that it makes will fire when the audio ends

[jagged bramble]

Say, is it okay to have multiple save game objects in the same game instance?

[maiden wadi]

Nothing against it so much. Can be cleaner to use a subsystem for it, but can't use them in BP. :/

[spice shore]

hello there, i seem to be having an issue with collision whist using a spefic skeletal mesh asset, and im unsure how to fix it honestly

theres also a issue where the player slightly moves left on going forward, which i think is related

[crude hearth]

it prints valid in the event construct but not when i am calling the function

help i am losing it

[dusky cobalt]

show more blueprints

how do you create UI_Weapon? how does it get reference to these variables that you check if they are valid?

do you pass them when you create that UI_Weapon widget?

wait these are variables of text blocks and you cannot access them?

[dusky cobalt]

It's the collision on Skeletal Mesh and CamModel, they are blocking each other. The second skeletal mesh you tried also has collision it's just smaller but if you look closely it still getting blocked. make the cam model have no collision at all or you need to make it specific so it ignores the collision settings of the skeletal mesh.

[patent wasp]

When you are in input mode game and ui for a widget, if you hold a mouse button, you can drag around and move the camera, as well as the mouse disappearing. How do you turn this feature off?

[graceful sage]

Well where you call the event

[maiden wadi]

The mouse disappearing is hiding the mouse when captured. For looking around you should set the... Controller I think to now allow look inputs.

[tawny shore]

Hey guys!
I'm new to UE5 and I'm building a main menu for my game. I've noticed people use two different methods for handling menu screens like Settings, Credits, etc.:
1.Everything in one widget.
Using something like a WidgetSwitcher to show and hide different panels.
2.Multiple widgets.
Creating a separate widget for each screen and adding/removing them from the viewport.

I'm wondering if there's any significant difference in performance between these two methods, or if it's just a matter of organization and personal preference?

[lofty rapids]

i think you can try game mode ui only node

and also show mouse cursor in the controller

[sterile trench]

Hey guys, I am in a bit of trouble
I have a GUID for each that helps identify the said actor
The GUID is stored in a structure inside an actor component and I have an object pooling system and each time I want to hide/show the actor, I use GUIDs to identify which ones are in the active pool vs the inactive pool
The problem is that the GUIDs keep changing by themselves e.g. a pool via a pool manager actor and then for each actor in the pool, I assign a GUID to their actor component and then whenever that actor says, I have hit a specific threshold, the actor component hides the actor and sends the GUID to the pool manager so it knows that the actor is now inactive and not active.
But the problem is that the GUIDs for the same actor change with each call and I cannot identify the correct actors.
Can anyone help me please?

[lofty rapids]

what GUID are you using ? a custom one, or the one built in ?

as far as are you making your own variable ?

[dusky cobalt]

Anyone knows why I cannot get Action Value when using Started and only when using Triggerd? Do I really have to block it with bool and unlocking on Completed?

[sterile trench]

The build in one, I am using the built in variable in a structure for that component and using the New Guid node to store a new GUID for that component
And thank you for the fast reply

[sterile trench]

The pool manager is storing the data inside the object pool component this way

[lofty rapids]

ok so when do you run this and create a new GUID ?

[dusky cobalt]

Switching widgets are not some heavy logic really, it's mostly personal and organizational preference. You will worry about performance when you see something is wrong. Just don't use Canvas Panel (use one per game basically).

[lofty rapids]

don't you want to use the same UID from the break in this image ?

or it's not there, i don't see it atleast

[sterile trench]

I think, because started only runs one time and tells that the action has started and triggered runs as long as the input is held so the input needs time to reach from 0 -> 1?
If you want the input only once you can use a do once and and reset it on completed from triggered and that should work 🤷
A boolean input would be better at that point
Because axis inputs are better for movement, especially with the controller where the player could have any value between 0 and 1 depending on the position of the thumbstick
You you wnat triggered with axis input, otherwise, use boolean input

[tawny shore]

Ok,thanks for the answer!

[sterile trench]

When I am warming up the pool at the start of the level
So when the level loads, it spawns all the actors and gives them a GUID and then later using that GUID, I can hide/show these actors

[lofty rapids]

ok but your saying the id is changing ?

how is that possible ?

are you running another create ? or running this code again at some point ?

[sterile trench]

I want a unique ID associated with each actor so I can identify them later in the game and use that ID to show/hide actors from the pool

[lofty rapids]

yes makes sense

[sterile trench]

I am not, I have breakpointed each node
That's why I am confused coz the GUIDs keep changing
I'll send a debug printscreen, wait

[sterile trench]

So these are all the GUID created from the code
The GUIDs aren't being created or changed from anywhere else
The stored GUID is printed when it hits the threshold
And then the GUID is returned to the pool manager so it can hide that actor
But the stored and returned GUIDs are present nowhere in the created list
And when I print the GUID on tick, it changes after a random amount of seconds

[lofty rapids]

i'm not following all this stuff, wdym is printed after a threshold ? and why is it creating so many but assigning one ?

[sterile trench]

It is creating so many coz each one is for a different platform but the one returned was never created and is not present in the "created" print strings

To explain, I am trying to create an endless runner and I need everything stored in a pool rather than spawning 100s of meshes at runtime.
When I have a loading screen, I spawn 15 actors from my object pool manager and assign their pool manager components a unique GUID and then I hide these actors, disable their collisions and add them to an array of unused actors for later use.
Then my game starts, I call an actor e.g. a platform to be shown on the screen.
The pool manager gets a platform actor from the unused actors array and then shows it on the screen.
But when a certain threshold is hit, (in my case when that platform is out of the camera frustum), I get that platform's GUID, search it in the active actor's array and then hide it again.
The problem is, the GUID that was assigned to that platform's pool component at creation is not the same when that platform returns it's GUID to the pool manager when it wants to be hidden again.
I have print strings at 3 different places in the top image, When a GUID is created (white for each platform, 15 total), when the platform returns its GUID (yellow) and when the pool manager searches the GUID to disable that actor (white at the top)
The yellow and the top white GUIDs should be the same since they are from the same actor's pool component and they are not being changed form somewhere else. But they are not the same and they are also not present in the original 15 GUIS that are being created.

[lofty rapids]

so the white is supposed to be the yellow, or vice versa ?

is the one it returns wrong, or the guid the pool searches wrong ?

[lofty rapids]

oh i see they are all different

the top two are both different

show when you get the guid on both of those

[sterile trench]

1. The original GUID created for each platform. These should be all the GUID present in the project and no other GUID should exist.
2. The GUID that the platform returned when it wanted to be hidden
3. The GUID that the pool manager got from the platform

2 and 3 should be the same coz they are the same exact things and come from the same variable that I created! But they are somehow not
And 2 and 3 should be present in the white ones coz those are the only GUIDs I created
IDK how 2 and 3 changed but they shouldn't coz I never changed them

[lofty rapids]

^

[lofty rapids]

the same variable on the same bp on the same instance ?

you only create in the manager ?

i would hope the variable would be on the manager actor that is your pool manager

and you have one

[sterile trench]

1. Creating the GUIDs. This will run 15 times coz I am spawning 15 platforms at the start
2. When it hit's the player, it prints its GUID and says to the pool manager to despawn itself
3. The pool manager getting that GUID and trying to despawn

The second and third GUIDs should be the same and should be present in the first GUID list but they're not
(sorry for the spaghetti, I am just so frustrated with this)

[sterile trench]

Second and third are the same variable on the pool component.
And that variable is being set from the list of GUIDs I create at the start

[sterile trench]

Yes, I only create GUIDs in the pool manager itself and no where else
And I have breakpointed the code so the GUIDs are being stored only the form manager itself and not being changed in the code after the fact

[sterile trench]

Each platform actor gets its own pooling component and the GUIDs being created by the manager are being stored in that component to distinguish th different actors
Later I wanted to get the component for each actor, get it's GUID and know which actor is which

The component is also useful to have different despawn delays and for each actor and not repeat the boilerplate for each actor
But this is now becoming a headache

[lofty rapids]

what is this metadata variable in #2 ?

[sterile trench]

That's the structure in which different settings for the component or that actor are being stored
in image #1, I store that metadata, including the GUIDs
in image #2, when a certain threshold is met, in this case getting hit by the player, the GUID is sent to the pool manager to despawn or hide this actor
in image #3, the pool manager tries to hide that actor based on it's GUID, but it currently cannot find that actor since it's GUID changed somewhere along the way

[lofty rapids]

i know what it's doing, you wrote about it already

or what it's supposed to do ig

[lofty rapids]

well i can tell you one problem right off the bat

the guid created is not what you see in the print string

because it's a pure node

so it runs twice, one off each line

so fix that first

[sterile trench]

It just stores data for that actor in its pool component, like the GUID
It's just to store and get data

[lofty rapids]

^

cache the guid

and then use that in the input and print string

so it's the same

then check what the guids say

every line connected new uid will create a new one

this is how pure nodes work

but after that you will see which one is wrong if there is two different ones at the top

and go from there

hopefully atleast one matches lol

[sterile trench]

Shoot, that was just for this
Otherwise, the New GUID node is just connected once

[lofty rapids]

the point is to get a correct view on whats going on

and narrow down the problem

[sterile trench]

Just quickly changed it and got the print strings after storing the values from the stored structure itself but same results

[lofty rapids]

so still neither one matches ?

[lofty rapids]

are you using the cache value to store in metadata as well ?

cache the value, and use that in your prints and storing

you have two connections

this will draw the new uid twice

not just on the print string

[sterile trench]

Yes, using the New GUID to store the GUID inside the pool component's structure and then using that stored structure everywhere.

[lofty rapids]

but comming off the break

do you see what i'm saying