blueprint

[maiden wadi]

Does the StaticMesh itself, not the StaticMeshComponent, have simplified collision generated or imported for it?

[lofty rapids]

Mass × some constant

[desert flint]

hm

[lofty rapids]

Or constant / mass

You want a shorter speed when heavier so divide not multiply mf

[desert flint]

yeah, might just search up tutorials on stuff like gravity guns to try and get a better understanding, cause i cant figure this out.

[eager thicket]

dk how to get it? everything bricks, i have to shut off my computer

unless theres a way?

[lofty rapids]

The screen go black ?

[maiden wadi]

Uncertain. Can you unhook the set resolution and make sure you're getting a valid value from the print?

I can't explain why that would do that. :/ Never seen it personally or had to fix it.

[eager thicket]

yep

go black then back

[lofty rapids]

Did you get the valid s reen res or your just testing custom resolutions?

Invalid resolution can fk things up sometimes on computers in general

Is it on certain resolution or any one ?

[eager thicket]

I get resolutions from get supported resolutions

[lofty rapids]

That's why usually you need to confirm a r e s worked

[lofty rapids]

...

You would think the supported res are fine

But I like to make sure of things

[trim matrix]

hi i have this load game function in my game instance, and it works fine when used in a level the player has control of (i have a debug button on my pause menu that calls the function and a debug key input in my charcter bp that calls it) but when i try to call it from my main menu ui/level. the loading dosnt function properly it acts as tho the player is invalid, also attatching my save function thats in the instance bp the debug key input in my player bp also works fine, just i cant seem to get it to work loading from the menu, my main menu and my starting level are differnt levels/maps (theres alot of unused variables yes ik ive been testing differnt ideas on how to fix this for a few hours n im stumped atp)

sry forgot to attatch the save game bp too

[lofty rapids]

Wdym acring like ? Is there an error ?

[lofty rapids]

PUT SOME PRINT STRINGS ON THOSE IS VALID CHECK IF IT FAILING

caps was on lol

[eager thicket]

I'll OBS record

maybe itll illuminate

[trim matrix]

i have had print strings, they are now failing in my game mode in the function i overwrote,

[lofty rapids]

So what is happening it's printing invalid ?

[maiden wadi]

Print this and make sure it's what you're expecting here.

[trim matrix]

yes when laoding from the menu

[trim matrix]

it is

[maiden wadi]

Oh. I didn't look far enough.

You're loading into the other level right?

[trim matrix]

yea

[lofty rapids]

What does it actually print tho ?

[trim matrix]

but it loads at player start location not the saved player location

[maiden wadi]

This player reference won't travel. You just opened the level.

Open level means everything gets nuked to dust.

[trim matrix]

ik that was from a cast i had there i just needed to finish getting rid of, bc i had saving set up from a tutorial to start n that ofc was shit

[lofty rapids]

There's two things plugged into that which one is the problem ?

[trim matrix]

afaik its the save ref not being vaild bc the branch w the bool i added after i noticed the load button wasnt working from the menu

[maiden wadi]

Where is that boolean set?

I don't see it in the screens.

[trim matrix]

i had it in load but removed it bc it wasnt working just put it back to like base nodes i had somewhat functional

[lofty rapids]

Don't assume, break down the problem figure out which one giving you the print

So you can go from there

[trim matrix]

i am rn

its the save ref, i completely removed the branch to check the bool and it acts the same

[maiden wadi]

Where are you storing that SaveGame in the GameMode?

[trim matrix]

yes and in the instance

[maiden wadi]

Where though?

[maiden wadi]

That isn't the one in the GameMode

This one specifically.

It has to have a set node somewhere early on. But really you can probably just not use it and IsValid the one from the GameInstance you're actually pulling values out of.

[trim matrix]

just as a variable, bc pulling it from the instance makes the player fall through the map

[maiden wadi]

But the transform will be the same regardless of which pointer you pull it out of.

[marsh sonnet]

Hello! I just need to find out if a controller is plugged in on begin play, is there a plug-in or easy way to do this?

[trim matrix]

yet pulling from the instance does this

[lofty rapids]

Ok so now it's valid any errors ?

[trim matrix]

no but the player falls through the world

[maiden wadi]

Where was the character when you saved that transform?

That's not world zero is it?

[trim matrix]

i didnt save anything, i clicked new game from my menu so there shouldnt be a saved transform the spawn default pawn at transform function should be spawning the charcater at the player start actor in the level

[lofty rapids]

Check to see if that is running, something wrong in the flow of the code

Your pro ably loading a default transform

[trim matrix]

this printed

[lofty rapids]

you didn't save anything ?

Print the tranform

[trim matrix]

no i didnt save anything, i think i found the issue for that, there was stuff off event init i forgot to remove from testing fixes

ok now that i got rid of that, it seems to be working from the menu. i think lemme test it a lil more

[vagrant quest]

please clean this shit up after you make it work 😭

[mental rampart]

does anyone know what would be the cause of the fullscreen function not working (only part of the screen is filled when selected)?

[surreal peak]

If you see black bars then you might have a fixed screensize ratio set on your camera or camera manager.

[granite nacelle]

Hey I'm having a small issue where my mesh flashes in and out like as if its disappearing

[surreal peak]

Usually a matter of bounds and clipping.

[granite nacelle]

i tried clipping in the edit window, could you tell me more about bounds?

[surreal peak]

UE only renders primitives, aka meshes, when their bounds are on the screen/visible. Bounds are a box/sphere encompassing the primitive/mesh.
When seeing meshes becoming invisible even though they shouldn't it's often cause either the bounds are too small or they are placed "wrong".
You might want to check the component that holds those FP arms for that stuff

I don't think FP arms should ever even be considered invisible due to bounds, so maybe it can be disabled.

[granite nacelle]

Yup it worked out thanks, its funny how it took me 7 months to find this though💯 👌

[surreal peak]

7 months o.o

[steady night]

opening my project now takes abou 1-4 minutes, nothing wrong just alot of content, is there any tips on how to reduce this or a better way to work ? iv´e heard ppl mentioning working in a new project to save time but that feels innefective

[granite nacelle]

how many gigabytes is your project? mine is 20 and it takes from 30 to 1 min

[steady night]

61

no wait

wrong project

74*

so its nmothing strange just annoying

[granite nacelle]

Damn!! You can either check in your task manager if there's anything running in the background, sometimes there are heavy softwares that are running that puts load on your CPU or you could just look through your project and delete certain assets that you dont need but BE CAREFUL sometimes assets are connected

[steady night]

aye well 70% is not used atm yeah i think its just to manage

old PC also, due to an uppdrage tbh

[granite nacelle]

are you using a SSD?

[steady night]

ofc

[granite nacelle]

oh well since you say your CPU isn't under any load I suggest you do the 2nd option delete anything you dont need

[steady night]

aye

big issue is that im using Github to store the project

that alone creates a duplicate for 40% of the space .... zzz

but its really good to have

[granite nacelle]

🤔 you can try to change the LOD of some of the meshes or you can create a level that doesn't have much things in it, like a testing level and set it to open first when you open the project try those

[steady night]

hm aye ill think about it

[frosty heron]

AzureDevOps is free for a small team. no hard limit

I can say going full BP without a care of hard reference kills the project.

After 2 - 3 minutes, BP stops working. Right clicking just shows empty context and require the project to be restarted which takes like 3 minutes to boot.

[steady night]

hmm

do u mean ingame now or in editor ?

[frosty heron]

editor

[steady night]

oh you mena like somethimes when i try to copy/paste stuff its all grayed out

so i have to restart the engine

[frosty heron]

I can't drop any node in BP as right clicking just pop the window for 1 frame before dissapearing.

this happend about 4 minutes into editing the project on my end.

probably out of ram or something

[steady night]

hmm never had that issue tho

i usually have that i cant copy paste stuff and have to reboot but thats randomly like once a day or so

[frosty heron]

Yeah, one doesn't have it until they do.

my project kinda massive for an RPG.

everything is hard referenced, loading the editor loads the entire game.

[steady night]

ah

still on the same project ?

[frosty heron]

nahh

too painful to develop.

[steady night]

ha

yeah making new ones when its all fresh and speed it at 250% its the lifebread

[frosty heron]

Worked on that project for years.

[steady night]

bummer,

never released it i suppose ?

[frosty heron]

only early access

lost more money that I earn

[steady night]

what platform ?

[frosty heron]

itch.io

[steady night]

link ?

[frosty heron]

can't do 🙂

[patent kettle]

Has happened more than once to me, too. Really annoying

[frosty heron]

well in my case it's happend all the time 4 mins into the project.

[steady night]

but just think of all the fun u had doing it

[patent kettle]

Yeah. I have it happen a lot with Animation Blueprints, especially

[steady night]

my game devin career still has earn 0£

[patent kettle]

Seems to particularly like doing it there

[frosty heron]

well I gain experience for sure

[steady night]

but cost me hundres of thousands for sure

[frosty heron]

already?

[steady night]

yeah sure i spent 300K going to Game desiugner school for 2 years

and lets not talk about all the assets ive bought...

endless

[frosty heron]

Ahh I see, I wasted money on university too doing Game Arts and Design

such a facade, I did nothing but do research and write essays

[steady night]

yupp

[frosty heron]

self studying would have get me further

[steady night]

the only thing i learn from the 2 years was the things i did home alone with help from this channel tbh...

such a waste of time the school stuff

[steady night]

100%

but i guess thats the thing with this game devving its like i drug, cant get it out of my head never could

just a bummer that im stupid

[frosty heron]

You can always improve, don't limit your self.

[steady night]

yeah ofc i am

[frosty heron]

I always say I won't be able to code but I can actually take baby steps.

[steady night]

jupp i dont mind being stupid i just love doing this stuff

but i do remembere when eXi cedric said to me a few years ago

• dude youve been here to long to ask for stuff like this

made me proud 😄

[frosty heron]

motivation kept us going 🙂

[steady night]

its all about the dedication

yepp

the project im on now tbh is the first one that i have hopes on realeasing

turning out nice

however not MP thats usually whats breaking me 😛

couch co-op atleast

[frosty heron]

MP outside of simple interaction is a big gamble.

[steady night]

yupp

[frosty heron]

working on MP too but don't know how far I can take it.

as long the SP works, MP is an extra for me.

actually not many games have good Net Code. I played Final fantasy recently and it was pretty bad.

so if AAA have issues, I guess I can compromise on my end too.

[steady night]

haha sure

[jovial steeple]

Japanese net code is another level of bad tho

We dont wanna be like them

[narrow sentinel]

so got a odd issue

so i have an exception being hit their but I can't work out how cause i'm doing a is valid check but

okay so found where the issue is

[chilly thicket]

im having huge issues with the sequencer and im not sure if its a bug or im messing up.

my transform keys on my cinecam are being destroyed when i hit record or the render will come from "noshot"

[ruby sapphire]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/crash-game/2644615

[narrow swift]

thx mate

[verbal kayak]

is there any quick node where i can calculate accumulated rotation (over 360) or even better the pitch 90 limit? Or do I have to code it when it reaches the wrapover point?

[trim matrix]

💀😐im planning on it..

[unkempt plover]

Hi is it possible to create and move spline points through a line trace?

This is how im trying to do it

so I try to connect the index [0] of the cable to a point and then the other index [1] should be placed based on line trace movement.

but I don't see anywhere any spline or static mesh spline

[storm solar]

Using enhanced input system. The down face button on my gamepad will not register EI events but every other button on my game pad will.
How do I get the 'A'(xbox) or 'X' (PS) to register EI while the widget is open?
https://youtu.be/DdMjtmMqgbs

[verbal kayak]

how to get accumulated rotation?

[lofty rapids]

did you set game mode and ui ?

that might help idk

[storm solar]

yeah, it didnt work

[lofty rapids]

hmm

[storm solar]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/common-ui-is-consuming-bottom-face-button-inputs-ue-5-4/1917734?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[lofty rapids]

your using common ui ?

[storm solar]

not sure what the reply on here is saying.

yeah.

[storm solar]

I dont see anything for generic input

[lofty rapids]

i never used common ui so i only know what google says about it lol

[night forum]

I apologize if this seems like a trivial error as I am new to learning. However, I have recently added a Gaspal character to my project in Unreal Engine. Still, I am unsure how to adjust the camera settings to ensure it functions solely in First-Person Perspective (FPP). Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[dusky cobalt]

you need to spawn for example Point 0 of spline at the start and then point 1, and as you are clicking you would update the spline point 2 and then update whole spline. you got some spagetification going on because it's hard to understand what you really want. also I recommend to using some DrawDebugSphere for debuging splines and hit locations (just drawsphere at location) it will help you understand what is happening. also work on your functions so they better describe what is happening as well as NameFunction should be formated better and not so freely, also dont forget to have something that will clear your timer so the effect actually stops (drawing/getting locationor whatever you want to happen)

[dusky cobalt]

If you want to

1. Get Start Location and set there spline point 0
   and then on Event Timer you: Get Location (new/hit) and Add Spline Point (index).
2. You also need Index variable that will track the current number of points added, so each new one will be +1, basically just Index++ after GetHitLocation -> AddNewSplinePoint(index)
3. When you stop: Clear timer, clear all spline points, index = 0

This would make it so you ever have 1 spline at the moment, so it will dissapear when you stop holding button for example.
If you want spline to be 'created' then every time you Start -> Create Spline -> Add Point (index 0), StartScan -> GetLocation-> Index ++ -> AddSplinePointAtLocation etc.

[tame spear]

i was using r-tune veh plguin
so
anyone could tell me like when i packaged it it says r-tune plugin was missing so how to include it
tell me
cuz in addition assets in cocked build section have this /NNEDenoiser and this nammed folder was in my pacaged plugin foleder so means i have to add directory of my plugin here right

[forest tangle]

Hey guys, I'm completely out of ideas about a problem I'm having. I'm making a simple playtime tracking mod for a game and for some reason the playtime gets increasingly inaccurate the higher it gets. You can see the core of it in the screenshot - this is what's being executed each time the playtime is requested. The JoinTime map holds the DateTimeStructures of player joins. The Playtime map holds playtime of all players up until last request

I'm fearing this has something to do with float rounding because I really can't think of a possibility why it would become less accurate over time

[marsh sonnet]

This might not be the right spot but so many of y’all have been really helpful! Is there anyone available today to pop on a call with me and help me figure out how to fix my save and load feature? It’s overwriting the structure or not pulling the right structure.

I can give a little money through Venmo or PayPal or something! 50 an hour for the last minute help?

[dark drum]

Just share some screenshots of some of your logic.

[dark drum]

Its most likely because you're only handling total hours. If they've been playing for 59 minutes it wouldn't get saved meaning they'll lose an hour.

[forest tangle]

Wouldn't 59 minutes in total hours just be about 0.9?

[tawny hedge]

98.33

[forest tangle]

You mean 0.9833?

[tawny hedge]

98.33%

[forest tangle]

I don't understand...

[tawny hedge]

but yeah, 0.9833

[forest tangle]

So this isn't the issue here

Then what is

[dark drum]

Oh yea, sorry, i though it was returning ints for some reasons. 😅

[forest tangle]

Yea, that's the Get Hours node. Not the Get Total Hours node

[dark drum]

What the purpose of it? Just tracking how long a player has played on a server?

[forest tangle]

yep

[dark drum]

How off does it get?

[forest tangle]

Like, really off. It tends to track less then the actual playtime

Seems like it tracks less the longer your playtime gets. It's really weird

[dark drum]

Wheres the logic located and is it only called on the server?

[forest tangle]

It's server-side only. The logic executes every time the playtime is requested, i.e. command to view playtime is used, playtime needs to be saved, player disconnects

[dark drum]

Ok give me a few mins I've got an idea of what you could try.

[forest tangle]

Thought about doing it a completely different way but it would require reworking the whole mod. I may test it some time to see if it actually works

Like you could also work with the "Get Real Time Seconds" node or with timers

[marsh sonnet]

I'll try to share, it's a lot though--it's a multi-slot save system where players can only save one game per hero choice. Here's everywhere the struct is called

The only parts cut off in these screenshots are print strings, btw

[dark drum]

Something like this.

[forest tangle]

I'm basically already doing it like this. Though your logic actually wouldn't work for me since I'm also using this function when the player is not online/disconnecting. It would keep tracking playtime when the player is offline

I'm just readding the "Last Play Time Checked" variable only when the player is online. Appart from that, it's basically the same

I'm actually unsure what your take was here

Alright, I'll need to go for today. Let me hear more suggestions if you have any but I won't respond for a while

[maiden wadi]

Out of curiosity, what is this code for specifically? Looks like you're using a string ID to track how long a specific player has played?

[dark drum]

I believe the issue with what you showed is that you removed the time the player joined when you update it. If it's updated before they log off, they could have time that'll never get added they are no longer in the time joined.

In my example, I just update the values without removing them for both the time and time since it was last checked/updated.

[maiden wadi]

This also isn't really how I'd track this. Log the time they joined. When they're leaving or when you're updating log the current time. Make a timespan out of the two and add it to the saved timespan.

I think that's similar to what's being attempted above, but i'm so thrown by the hours part.

[ruby sapphire]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-character-ignores-landscape-collision-and-keeps-falling/2644774/3 please

[forest tangle]

It's simply used for a small server-side mod for a game that allows you to track how much time players have spent on your server. PlayFabIDs are simply unique player IDs the game uses

[steady night]

Hi how would i make it "Eaither -1200/-450 Or 1200/450

not random between those numbers ?

[forest tangle]

"Join Time" gets readded on player join. I didn't make this part clear, sorry

[steady night]

(Without doing branches and stuff)

[forest tangle]

This

So yeah, really no idea what could be causing the issue at this point. I've only been told that it doesn't track properly but wasn't able to reproduce anything myself

[burnt escarp]

Hey i got a problem, i'm trying to make SCP 173 but when i'm behind a wall the AI do two thing :
She move around a certain radius behind the wall
Or she just don't move

How can i fix that ? (every collision are in BlockAll status)

[shut blaze]

This stopped working when I tried to adjust the time float (with code)
Reopened the engine too
Calling this function any other way works
Can someone try to call a function with a timer or am I going nuts?

fixed it, idk how
sometimes the engine works sometimes it doesn't

[spark steppe]

you shouldn't really use call by function name to begin with

bind the function with an event delegate

[shut blaze]

I mean it's cleaner, why not?

[spark steppe]

it's not cleaner

[shut blaze]

Why?

Less wires lying around

[spark steppe]

1 wire...

[shut blaze]

With more wires it adds up

[spark steppe]

and you actually have a resolvable reference between the two

you use this node

that's one more node and wire, which you can have close

[shut blaze]

looks complicated idk

[spark steppe]

it's just a function reference

[shut blaze]

ah now ik how it works

it's not bad thx for the tip

[trim matrix]

hi, i have my loading working slightly but now when the player collects pickup items and saves then loads again the previous collected act as they havent been collecrted,i attatched the clip pickup bp and its collect function, and my save fucntion thats also in my instance

[icy gust]

So this may be a silly question but I'm hoping someone can provide some guidance as I'm not the best programmer.

Basically my question is this:
If I have an NPC that gives a series independent but sequential quests should I pack all of that logic into one NPC blueprint or should I break it up into multiple versions of the same NPC with each having it's own individual quest logic?

I guess my concern is if would there be a performance penalty to having all of that logic stored in a singular NPC? This is a low res image but it shows the logic for a singular quest with dialogue and whatnot, so it would be similiar to this but have a branching path for each questline with about this amount amount of code.

[sand shore]

I think you should try to change your approach somehow. Having some amount of one-off, quest specific code is fine -- expected even. It's just, the way you're describing this, it sounds like a real big pain to maintain or extend.

Anyway, I think you could have two parts to this NPC - Anytime there's something that NPC needs to always be able to do, like hold a weapon, that can be part of the base NPC blueprint.

Whenever there's something the NPC is really only doing for the one quest, you could have that be implemented in a NPCScenario or NPCScriptedBehavior or whatever actor. You'd build it in such a way that the NPCScenario can take over the NPC, make it do montages, etc, or spawn the meshes it needs to for the scene to work.

[trim matrix]

removing this clear in my load function seemed to get them to stop respawning on load, but if the save function is saving the first array to another already there shouldnt be an issue?

[sand shore]

There's nothing wrong with having a few actors that help flesh out the "conveyed" state of a single NPC - like one to walk around in the world, one to stand in a menu, one to be puppeted around by sequencer...

You can do it the other way too, ofc, for example with different state tree assets/components

[icy gust]

I guess I should have mentioned this NPC doesn't really do anything except provide dialogue and assign quests so as far as behavior goes it doesn't need anything too complex. What I have layed out now is a framework for that where its pretty simple to copy and paste those functions and swap out the dialogue tables, item requirements, spawning of things ect.

But I see what you mean, this method is limiting but that's ok for my needs right now

[sand shore]

A specific suggestion: DialogueBase class that provides all the functions for following a table, and then each time you need a different class to follow a dialogue table you can derive from that.

If you're not already

[sand shore]

I'm not sure it's causing this problem for you, but I noticed that you might be losing some clip IDs each time you save (which seems to be every single time you collect a clip)

[icy gust]

I'll look into doing that, but I do have branching dialogue options that require specific event triggers depending on the conversation so I'm not sure how I would implement that into a base class. I'm more artists than programmer though so I'm already using a lot of brute force solutions which are far from the most efficient methods. My main concern is not bogging down a single NPC with lots of code if that's going to effect performance in the long run. I'm not sure why it would because it will only be checking for specific items in inventory to trigger each questline so it won't be running them all simultanously but like I said, I'm a noob to this.

[trim matrix]

i wasnt originally saving each time a clip was collected just wanted it to be able to happen quickly, but when collected the clips should be adding their ids to the session array, then when saving save to the saved array to be loaded

[sand shore]

I've got two suggestions here:

1. Change these String Arrays out so that they're String Sets: This will allow you to always add a clip ID to the container when its relevant, and no matter how many times you collect a clip ID, it's only ever in the container one time
2. When you go to save the game, I would combine the two sets, the Clips Collected Session and Clips Collected Saved into one String Set, which you then save to the SaveGame object.

I kind of don't see where you're saving the arrays to the SaveGame now that I think about it more

[sand shore]

I thought it was happening in this screenshot, but this is just wiping the previous value of the not-SaveGame ClipsCollectedSaved

[sand shore]

That second image, see how "Set Clips Collected Saved" doesn't have a target pin?

[trim matrix]

yea

[sand shore]

I think it should have a target pin, and it should be targeting the SaveGame

[trim matrix]

so the issue may be im saving to the wrong variable since im calling one from the instance bp instead of my save game bp?

[sand shore]

Yeah, I think so

[trim matrix]

now they are all respawning on load instead of staying collected

[sand shore]

I think what's happening here is that you:

1. Put a clip in the GameInstance Session container.
2. Save the game
   2a: You copy the Session container into the GameInstance SavedContainer. Edit: This loses the original contents of the GameInstance SavedContainer -- it is NOT adding both of the arrays together (you need an Append call for that).
3. You load the game
   3a: You copy the SaveGame's SavedContainer onto the GameInstance SavedContainer. Edit: This loses the original contents of the GameInstance SavedContainer -- it is NOT adding both of the arrays together (you need an Append call for that).

At this point, the clip is only in the GameInstance Session container - the SaveGame's SavedContainer was never updated, it is empty

So, if you Clear the GameInstance Session container, the clip is nowhere. If you DON'T clear it, then the clip is in the Session container

[sand shore]

The only performance consideration is to your computer as you develop the game, tbh -- unless you have every single possible quest all active and ticking at the same time, until they're completed.

And I suppose you'll always have all the assets for all the questlines loaded - but that's memory and you might be fine even after you ship

On the subject of perf: #blueprint message and some of the other pins in this channel are good resources for understanding perf

[trim matrix]

so i need to add an append and remove the clear?

[sand shore]

Removing the clear isn't required as long as you do actually save the clip collection

I see what you were doing with the clear - that idea is fine

[trim matrix]

ok so replace the add unique w an append? or replacing the setting the session container to the saved w an append

[sand shore]

So the order of the Append input matters. I think you need to swap those around so that the one with the target pin is going to the input on top

Although maybe not, what function is that in?

[trim matrix]

in the save

even w flopping the inputs they still all respawn on load

[sand shore]

Can you show me the save/load functions again, what you have now?

[sand shore]

You're taking the GameInstance CollectedSave container and assigning it to itself

[trim matrix]

so like this

[sand shore]

I think so yea

There's one other thing that might be an issue

[trim matrix]

it seems to be working 😭

[trim matrix]

uh oh hm

[sand shore]

It's possible that these two might be different

And so you might be loading from a slot that didn't exist

[trim matrix]

theyr the same i just have been testing a bunch n have forgot to replug it back in

[sand shore]

But you hadn't said much of anything about other stuff behaving unexpectedly

Ah, gotcha

[trim matrix]

the only other thing ik thats not rly working great is i have a bp that tracks the clips, like the yellow collision boxes in the clip i sent, the clips are assigned to them, and they link to my ui to display the variable of how many clips are left, im not sure it may be working better now but ik when i load in sometimes the count isnt updated, or will be buggy and count down instead, lemme check

(the count looks like its off by a few but its bc the 4 clips right outside the box collision are also linked), but it seems to be the issue left is when the player loads and they spawn inside the box collision the updating of the ui dosnt update, it stays at the default value of 0

im assuming (prolly wrongly) but would it be relating to the fact the fucniton is in the player, the player gets destroyed when opening a new level and the menu is its own level

[knotty flare]

If I may chime in - I've had issues often with player pawn starting inside a volume. Maybe you could have external management when the level loads that updates the proper clip count independently from any overlap event!

Initializing your volumes as 'toggled off' and toggling them on after the player has spawned might also work.

Apologies if I misread the BPs and you're already doing that

[sand shore]

BeginPlay may occur before you've updated the values from the SaveGame, and also BeginPlay for different actors may occur in any order.

So, if your player BeginsPlay before your clips, and your clips default to not active, then it'll be zero clips remaining in the UI

[knotty flare]

Such a valid point. Especially in replication contexts, begin play is quite unreliable.

[sand shore]

What I like to do is make a new event dispatcher in the GameInstance like On Save Loaded. Your widget could bind to that, and "On Save Loaded" is only broadcast once all the clips have had a chance to determine if they're active.

In order to actually do that properly, you need to be able to know that all the clips have definitely seen the save game - remember, you can't reliably figure this out from BeginPlay, so you'll have to come up with something different.

I think an interface, like Save Load Interface, for blueprints that need to know about the save game is useful - I think you can Get All Actors With Interface (Save Load Interface), then you can iterate over all of those, and tell them the save is loaded, and after that point you can broadcast your Save Loaded dispather

[trim matrix]

hm, that makes sense, i didnt know begin play was that unreliable for something like this lol, lemme try that n see

[knotty flare]

It's just difficult to control order of execution if all actors process OnBeginPlay, especially when that BeginPlay interacts with external actors / managers.

[sand shore]

This works for things where the order of the saved actors doesn't matter - because you give them stable IDs it doesn't matter the ordering, but the Get All Actors call has an unreliable ordering also

[trim matrix]

so inside my instance bp add an event dispatch "onsaveloaded"

then where i have the ui function being updated bind it? or do i need to add things to it inside the instance bp

[sand shore]

Keep it simple for now - no params

I think you have the right idea

[trim matrix]

not to sound stupid, but im confused form here, i think the adding the saving into it has confused me bc ive used event dispatchers before just not much. am i binding it in here? and adding the logic that handles the ui like moving it from where i had it setup to here, or do i call the dispatcher where i have the ui setup already

[knotty flare]

Thinking out loud: Maybe the Async load could help you. This way you'd know for sure that the save game is loaded before executing anything else (and doing the level transition)

Latent nodes are 🔥

[trim matrix]

how do i get broadcast?

[sand shore]

Hmm, maybe its "Call" or "Execute" in BP

[trim matrix]

this?

[sand shore]

yea

that's the last thing that the LoadGame function should do, if it managed to load the SaveGame

[sand shore]

yeah!

[trim matrix]

so then i have to call it again where i have the ui logic using message maybe? im guessing 😭 trying to understand

[sand shore]

Nah, you only call it at that one place

on the pawn begin play you wanna Bind Event to On Save Loaded

[sand shore]

... not like that

Pawn needs to Bind to GameInstance's OnSaveLoaded, and you want to connect the event input to a separate event

[trim matrix]

so i need to make an event that assigns the count for the ui and bind it to the save loaded

[knotty flare]

Is this what you're trying to achieve?

1. Load Save Game (collected clip IDs)
2. Initialize all clips to be visible/collidable or not (If clip ID is saved as picked up or not)
3. Update UI clip count

[trim matrix]

yes while also keeping the overlap events to update the ui count too bc im planning to have multiple room manager bps in a level since the level will be a house w a few rooms

[knotty flare]

Alright! Additional question- is the 'Load Save Game' happening before loading the level or once the level is loaded?

[sand shore]

The LoadSave function calls Open Level

[trim matrix]

beat me to it

[knotty flare]

Got ya. I think a way to keep this super simple is to guarantee the save game has finished loading before calling OpenLevel. You could try the Async load and connect the rest of your script to the Completed > output.

Your level would only load once the save game is loaded and all clips could read the Clip ID array value without fail.

To fix the player overlap thingy - I think a good failsafe would also be to make sure your clips' default state is OFF (Invisible + No collision) and only enable them if their ID is not in the save game data.

I hope that makes sense

[trim matrix]

lemme try that rq

theres no async load from slot node popping up

[knotty flare]

Are you in a function or a graph? You can't use latent nodes inside functions.

[trim matrix]

im in my load function

[knotty flare]

you'd have to convert the function to an event (Right-click the function)

[desert flint]

anyone know how to make this tutorial work for a pc game rather than a vr game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzKzrxlbsA&t=181s

[knotty flare]

Almost! But you want to use the 'Completed' output, not the empty one - the one you connected instantly fires, before the save game is done loading

[trim matrix]

ohh, i thought id have to leave that one connected then off completed reconnect the rest that makes more sense

[knotty flare]

For UI purpose, you'll probably want to disable input on 'Load game' button while this Async node does its thing to avoid spam clicking the load button

and probably later on handle the 'Success = false' output in case load game fails for some reason. But it should work for a first test!

[trim matrix]

the ui count isnt working still its doing the same thing

[knotty flare]

It's probably because nothing calls the 'Update UI' function.

Can you try having the room manager call the function once all clips have been initialized?

That or - fix the player overlap bug! Both should work

[trim matrix]

wdym, this is the begin play of the room manager bp

[unkempt plover]

What I initially thought of this timer is to be a slower tick to preview my spline mesh but the deciding factor was supposed to be the mouse button down event, so you were supposed to lock position with the mouse button event..

Thanks for that, the DrawDebugSphere was able to show me that the initial point works, and now after plugging the connection to that Add Spline Component node...

Also after doing some research on youtube and Google I was able to find a person that did **almost **exactly what im trying to do... and so this influenced me to follow it.... I found he also had posted a thread on epic forums...

So this is the way he is doing it...

so to have a for each loop it looks like it's important to have an "ADD" to array, so you need to create an array in the first place too... But im not sure where he is getting this from...

Also having something like this looks important because my static meshes even tho they are spawned every second by my timer, they don't connect to one another... So I will definitelly need to use that Set Start and End node

[unkempt plover]

but now because of this, I ended up more confused than before, so my graph is getting more confusing after trying to follow that guy's screenshot.

ok I just tested it, it works the same way as before ✅

[frosty heron]

Go easy on the crossposting

[desert flint]

i think i should use something like vinterp or changing the linear damping n stiffiness in my physics handle. but i have no clue on how to use those in my current set up.

[paper gate]

Im having some rotation math issues, that I think come down to order of operations

If I have a character constrained to a spline, and I want them to curve with that spline BUT be able to also face forward or backward on that spline how would I reconcile the 2 rotations? Because I have the character's rotation and the actual spline rotation

[desert flint]

sorry, but i usually just never get any answers from the bp channel.

[frosty heron]

You dont always get answers, especially on a system. You are not alone when in the end you end up having to figure it out your self.

As for my 2 cent, your object is lagging behind your arm.

[meager spade]

If you don't get an answer chances are your question is "too big"

[frosty heron]

I would say make the object snap to the adm for a start and as weight affect the arm speed and nothing else.

[desert flint]

thats just from me playing around with linear stiffiness and stuff.

[desert flint]

uh what?

[frosty heron]

The object weight simply interp the arm where it should be without the weight.

Thats how I would do it.

[desert flint]

i don't think you get what im saying

i don't want it to just affect the speed.

i want it to not even be able to pick up if its too heavy, but maybe be able to slightly drag

[frosty heron]

The easiest would be to just slow down the arm imo, where if the thing is heavy enough the arm only move by an inch.

[desert flint]

I don't want to fake the weight?

[frosty heron]

But sure you can do what you like, such as drag and dont have any z set but that would involve more math.

[desert flint]

this would cause SOOOO many more problems later on

[frosty heron]

No one says to fake the weight?

[desert flint]

??? dude.

[frosty heron]

Weight affect the arm speed.

Heavier item makes the arm lag behind even more

Well im just giving my 2 cent

[desert flint]

So you're saying. i can lift a 5000 pound dumbell, id just be slow and it would eventually move up over time?

this isn't how physics works

thats faked in game physics

[frosty heron]

You do move it 0.000001 cm a sec

Game fake physics all the time, as long its look beliveable. You dont seriously think unreal physich handle everything real life?

Btw object always attract each other. You can place ball a and ball b next to each other. The one with less mass will move into the one with bigger mass, just it may move 0.00001 cm a year.

[desert flint]

my game is literally relying on real physics . i want somethign that atleast works to how my game would work though.

[remote meteor]

if gravity is 0, yes

time to study gravity

[desert flint]

So, i want to make it so i can combine a variable strength and another variable object weight, and plug it into some type of node a long with the location of the object im grabbing. and it would edit the location based off the strength and object weight.

so... is there a node for gravity, where i can plug in the strength, and the object weight, and it sorts it all out like this?

[remote meteor]

default gravity is set in project settings, although each world can actually override what gravity value it uses

[dreamy kindle]

Hi does anyone know why when I create my widget event it’s returning none for get owning player controller in multiplayer? Thanks!

[frosty heron]

Client will only ever know their own controller.

aside from that widget is not replicated anyway. There shouldn't be any logic where you need to reach other player's widget, because it's not reachable.

[dreamy kindle]

Yeah, I’m trying to get the hang of juggling what should be on the server and the client and then having it all connect proper it seems like there might be a timing issue perhaps or maybe I have something completely wrong with the code

[frosty heron]

Since widget is not replicated, all the logic is handled on each machine. It's actually make everything easier if you think all the widget need to do is just to read or display a state of component.

[dreamy kindle]

Could there be timing issues with initialization like the owning player is being created before it is available?

I’m running low on ideas how to fix but I will keep trying to figure the client issue out in player controller

[frosty heron]

Why do you need to know whos widget owned by which player?

because as stated, as client, that's impossible to know anyway since only their OWN controller exist in their machine.

Listen server (player 1), player 2(client), player3 (client).

Listen server have everyone's Player controller. so PC1, PC2, PC3.
_
Player 2 only have their own Controller in their machine. The listen server's and Player 3 controller DOES NOT exist in this machine.

Player 3 only have their own controller in their machine. The listen server's and Player 2 controller DOES NOT exist in this machine.

look up exi's mp compedium and wizard tips and trick in #multiplayer

Why is showing or hiding widget is an RPC too?
Why do you need to ask, Hey server, can I open or close my widget?

you should be able to open your widget anytime, without the need to communicate to the server in like 90% of casses, but then again it depends on what sort of game you are doing.

Like I don't need to ask server to ask if I can open my inventory widget. I just do that locally.
Press I -> Toggle show my inventory widget, no asking server (RPC) or server telling client they can open/close their widget.

Unless you want the server to remotely tell the client to run a function to do something i.e close / open their widget then no RPC Is needed but hard to say what you are doing from those snippets alone.

[dreamy kindle]

Hi I am doing a Udemy course the goal is on begin play a team selection widget pops up and depending on which team you spawn at selected spawn points and so on ?

You select and turn off something seems to be wrong because I’ve had this same but twice now

I select my team and it never registers an owning player on button click event

[frosty heron]

Well which part you are stuck at? Break down your problem step by step.

Starting from having client to request server of their team selection
Then having client see the Team they are at.

[dreamy kindle]

I’m stuck at that button select event on click

[frosty heron]

Example.

Client Request if they can be in Team A. (Server RPC).
Server checks if slot is available, etc. If it is assign the player to the Team A.

Team is a replicated variable which can go to game state.

Client sees which player belong to who in the game state.

[frosty heron]

This will acomplish nothing.

[dreamy kindle]

I see

[frosty heron]

Your button click should be a request to server, hey put me in this Team

OnClick -> GetMyPC -> Server RPC -> ChangeTeam

[dreamy kindle]

So call owning player to player controller or different method the select team event is what spawns player and makes it server

[dreamy kindle]

Ya that’s about what I have just can’t get that player controller at start to register a owning player controller

[frosty heron]

Just use GetPlayerController with index 0

in this case

Client only know their own controller anyway

[dreamy kindle]

Ya that works but I heard not for multiplayer ?

Ya true

[frosty heron]

misunderstanding that been discussed

I used to think that way too because dedicated / listen.

[dreamy kindle]

Interesting let me try that good point on that

[frosty heron]

@dreamy kindle #multiplayer message
First pinned msg.

[dreamy kindle]

Like for this case it might work I can give it a test

[dreamy kindle]

Nice! I need to pin this somehow I was curious the logic flow details

[frosty heron]

ofc you don't want to use GetPCwithIndex with any other logic.

You just call the GetController method in the pawn to get the Controller of the pawn.

[dreamy kindle]

Player controller is weird as it handles both server and client and some things like UI are client only. I just don’t understand why owning player is not working but if get player controller 0 works and each client has their own PC I’m good

Sorry I’m new to coding a bit

[frosty heron]

you probably don't feed the reference when creating the widget

so it's null.

[dreamy kindle]

Self ?

[dreamy kindle]

Ok I will confirm
Thanks 🙏

[atomic solstice]

Sorry if obvious but why is this infinite loop bad logic? (I get a "infinite loop" error on run time)
I want my NPC's to strafe infinitely on beginplay. I troubleshooted using a delay node and it works which is even more confusing.

[desert flint]

Well that’s not to matter of what I’m doing right now

[frosty heron]

infinite loop is a bad logic because you are blocking the game thread from progressing.

you cannot have something that call it self

[atomic solstice]

If i want my NPC's to indefinitely move around upon beginplay, what would i change here?

[full badge]

what are you even trying to do

[full badge]

connect move node to event tick or a timer

[frosty heron]

use tick event

[frosty heron]

I look a bit into the code and I see it's an AI for shooting game.

you will not get any decent result like this, you need to get into Behavior Tree and EQS.

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

good place to start imo.

[atomic solstice]

oh ya not actually making AI, just practicing bps for simple stuff like moving characters and logic

[frosty heron]

understood but sometime simple doesn't cut it. Game will start to break when there is a wall or obstacles in the way.

[atomic solstice]

oh sure, just for context, I'm am environment artist working on a scene of a shooting range. I just wanted a bit of practice on basics of BP's
just wanted a simple strafe movement for the tarets

[remote meteor]

Can probably use tick and a gate

[dusky cobalt]

Don't get confused infinite loop, with event based system that you ahve right now. Nothing is wrong with that and if it's exactly what you need then all good.

[frosty heron]

it's exactly what's wrong with it. An event that call it self, will hang the thread forever.

hence infinite loop.

[dusky cobalt]

He has 2 events calling itself with a delay, it's not infinite loop, it's event-driven timers. It's a loop with delays, not infinite. It won't freeze game.

He could argueably work on a order of events like first Move and then call timer and just have it on one event OR it would be the same as ticking Loop on the node.

[frosty heron]

I would suggest to look at whats posted again.

Also the editor only throw infinite loop error after it looped for 10k times ( by default ) within the same frame.

So it the game stops and throw you thst error then something is causing infinite loop

Btw i dont even c any delay

And the timer hardly matter

It went from move to end to move again

Hence infinite loop

[dusky cobalt]

lol I didn't realize it's connected like this

just fix the flow and not make it call itself, basically go and see how Set Timer by Events are working and are supposed to be used @atomic solstice

[frosty heron]

Ye but not just that, even if you take out the timer. Its still callig event 1 to event 2 then back to event 1

Wat can he do is have event 1 and event 2.

Then on begin play just set timer that calls event 1 and event 2

He can get the effect of walking x direction for Y secpnd and Z direction for N second.

[trim matrix]

holy balls im looking at all your guys blueprints and realising how shocking mine are 😭

[dark drum]

This is your loop.

[atomic solstice]

yeah thats the point. NPC should strafe left and right randomly

[dark drum]

As a quick setup something like this would work. It might be enough for you to build on.

*Side direction is 1 by default.

It currently just flips the movement direction ever 2 seconds but you can add some variance to this. You might however get instances where the target drifts to one side. This might not actually much of an issue though.

[unkempt plover]

Hi I have some issues with this. These are supposed to be water pipes.

1. so the first problem is my bamboos don't always get attached to the right bamboo. they only attach to socket 1 and socket 4 I think
2. spline static mesh attached upwards or side ways. but they never connect with their butts straight forward properly into this water reservoir

[knotty flare]

Hi I have some issues with this. These

[outer terrace]

does Open Level not use teh default game mode for the new level by default? for some reason i loose ability of moving camera with mouse after i click this button.. but if i load the level manually it works fine

i'm not channging input mode which is why im confused

[lofty rapids]

did you create a blank level ?

[outer terrace]

no. it loads the level correctly, i just cant look around with mouse

[lofty rapids]

i think you need to set the game mode

in the world settings

[outer terrace]

its loading the 3rd person template map which has BP_ThirdPersonGameMode set to its override in world settings

if i load the map manually in the editor it works fine

[lofty rapids]

because it's possessing the pawn

[outer terrace]

its only when i click the button in my main menu UI its not loading properly

[lofty rapids]

so it possess the pawn, but the mouse move isn't working ?

[outer terrace]

correct. keyboard works fine, mouse doesnt

i even tried in level blueprint to set input mode to game only thinking it would force it to accept mouse input

but its not

[lofty rapids]

what does your override look like?

[outer terrace]

nvm.. i got it working.. weird

i just restart the editor and it works...

[void jewel]

How do you use Make Camera Tracking Focus Settings in blueprint when there's a Soft Reference? I see some old screenshots have the actor reference. I don't want it to be tied to any level

[eager thicket]

Does anyone know a good tutorial for button remapping? maybe in the context of common ui and/or enhanced input?

[silent pilot]

where should all my game progression logic be stored?

to be more specific, I'm making a game which game progression is similar to Smash

so you enter a round

and once you die you respawn

and you have a score

so where should all that logic be stored?

making players respawn, displaying "3! 2! 1!", stuff like that

[edgy field]

I'm looking into adding a sort of "loading screen" to tell players about each game mode for a few secs
but dunno if I should consider level streaming or not ? (think smth like fall guys loading screen)

[dreamy marten]

That should be the job of the Gamemode class

[maiden wadi]

@silent pilot
The issue is that there's no one place for this.

GameMode contains respawn and maybe score setting.

The actual score should live on the PlayerState because it's state for the player.

Health or such related things should be in the player's Pawn. Game mode shouldn't handle the player dying but it should listen for it or be notified from death code which usually is an ability or directly on the pawn.

The respawn display should be a widget, and should be triggered to show through something like the player's controller from the game mode.

[silent pilot]

why should the game mode not handle the player dying?

is that a really solid unreal engine general thing you do or specific for most games?

because in my game the only way to die is to get in a certain zone (collision box)

so wouldn't that be the gamemode handling it? Otherwise I've already got all the death delegates setup on the players so it's ok but just curious

[next hollow]

In my eyes
Player handles dying/ HP.
Gamemode just handles respawn/ making new character to possess

[dreamy marten]

I second that, the logic for HPs and death should be in a reusable component if you want maximum flexibility, and you would place this component on the character

But for the rest, you can manage those in the Gamemode to keep it simple, especially if you don't have a lot of things to track

[maiden wadi]

Consider for a bit, why would it? Do you need a special game mode to let the player die?

You make a Deathmath Gamemode where people die and score increments.

You make another GameMode where you have to capture the flag but people can die.

Consider where you'd rather have the logic, in the character which is reused in both of these, or the GameMode?

There is a case here where you can make a parent of the game mode, but now you're just unnecessarily linking the classes in complexity where it's not needed.

As I like to generally say. Your character has the ABILITY to die. It has the ABILITY to jump. It has the ABILITY to open it's inventory. For this reason it should be related to the character. It isn't the GameMode's ability to make the character die, or the GameMode's ability to make the character jump. How you grant said abilities is up to your game code. GAS is easy since you can literally just give a list of abilities. But in simpler games if you avoid GAS it can just be some boolean toggles or whatever.

[silent pilot]

Makes sense. Thanks!

[desert flint]

So, i want to make it so i can combine a variable strength and another variable object weight, and plug it into some type of node a long with the location of the object im grabbing. and it would edit the location based off the strength and object weight.

so... is there a node for gravity, where i can plug in the strength, and the object weight, and it sorts it all out like this? (just fyi i don't want to fake the weight too much, like i want it to have real physics, such as if its too heavy, i can drag it but not lift it, etc)

[faint pasture]

WHy not just use physics

there's a grabber component with strength as a parameter

[lofty rapids]

you can use the interpolation speed and linear/angular settings like damping based on mass

i would do something like this

mess with the values a bit

and change the mass of the different objects

once you have it set right it will feel like it has weight

and you can use that as a basis for strength

[lofty rapids]

or this lol seems easier imo, the last few times they said they were using physics handle

[faint pasture]

same thing

anyways, thats the thing you wanna use for grabbing stuff from a kinematic actor like Character

[desert flint]

so i started on this, and i was told that it doesn't do what i want, but only makes it slow down.

[desert flint]

uh, can you tell me what this component is called?

[hallow saddle]

Heyo, does anyone know of a blueprint function that can access the actor that you have currently selected in the viewport? I'm assuming something like this would be accessible in the Construction Graph or in an Editor Utility Blueprint.

[lofty rapids]

hmm, makes sense

[desert flint]

so do you think the thing the other guy said would work as actual physics? and not make it just slow down?

[lofty rapids]

idk, probably i would try it

[desert flint]

ok, what component was he talking about? and how does the setup work

[lofty rapids]

he was talking about the grabbing one, idk how to set it up

[desert flint]

@faint pasture can you tell me what component did this and how i can set t up (sorry for the ping)

[faint pasture]

grabber or handle or something of the sort

[desert flint]

oh alr

how do i use it?

[desert flint]

wait, physics handle? but whats the actual name of the node that has strength as a parameter?

[faint pasture]

stiffness, strength, spring rate, something like that

those 5 parameters

thats what you want to play with

[neat wharf]

what is the difference between these nodes?

[next hollow]

One creates and registers.
One just registers

[neat wharf]

okay

[desert flint]

I was told that only reduces speed instead of making actual weight

[faint pasture]

the interpolation speed would, but the stiffness and damping values will 100% interact with weight

[desert flint]

Okay, so I only do stuffiness and dampening, and do I use angular or linear or both

Also should I edit anything with the camera rotation? Because the object is always going to try and move to the center of my screen

[atomic solstice]

late reply but appreciate the guidance! Got it working thanks! 👍

[desert flint]

whats the difference of angular and linear, and what does damping and stiffness do, i want to understand what im doing

because as of right now, the heaviest items are the lightest, and the lightest are the heaviest

[next hollow]

angular is rotation, linear is directions
Dampening is how quickly they stop doing stuff.
Stiffness is how much they do that, when they try to do that.

10/ 10 explanation I know. 😛

[desert flint]

Ok, I’m plugging “get mass” into all of those and it’s making it so the lighter objects are the heaviest and the heaviest are the lightest, to put it simply

[desert flint]

What can I do instead of “get mass of picked up object” > all of those nodes

Do I inverse the number… I’m confused on this subject

[faint pasture]

You don't need to plug mass into anything

picture a spring

heavy thing stretch spring far

light thing not stretch it far

just tune the parameters to where you want them and big things will be sluggish and light things will be quick

[faint pasture]

you set the target location based on camera rotation

use math to cook up the target location based on where your cam is and where it's looking + a distance

[desert flint]

Well there will be several diffeeent objects, and each object has a different weight, so I want to get the mass and adjust the stiffness and damping to the weight so it feels like I’m actually picking up a object.

[faint pasture]

stiffness and damping already take mass into account

a heavier thing will be harder to pick up and will droop more

go tie a feather to a rubber band and then a brick. The stiffness is the same, the response is dictated by the mass in relation to the stiffness

[desert flint]

I’m confused what you mean, the code wouldn’t work if I didn’t set the damping and stiffness as a number, I’m setting it as the mass so I can replicate the feeling of picking up a object with the objects weight instead of doing vintners with several different variables n stuff.

[crude spruce]

@faint pasture was it you that made the wave form collapse that you showed me like 4 years ago?

dungeon generation

[silent pilot]

Hey, in the construction script, how do I instantiate several child actors?

I want to create an actor that instantites several APlayerStart s around it

I've tried that but only one is created, although printing shows 10 executions of this

[frosty heron]

I tend to avoid construction script for anything like that.
Also child actor component is broken, better avoid that too.

[silent pilot]

oh right

what would you do then? I just want to procedurally create a circle of APlayerStart

[frosty heron]

Spawn actor at begin play soo far.

[silent pilot]

but I won't be able to visualize it when placing it on the map?

[dusky cobalt]

You can put CollisionBoxes and make them visible, then make array of them, and for each on begin play spawn what you need.

So just by placing 1 actor you are even able to move these collision boxes in different places on the map and then there would be the spawns.

[silent pilot]

okay thanks

[lofty rapids]

Maybe a custom drag component ?

That would simulate weight when you pick it up and throw it i think something like what your looking for

More back force on heavier things

Damping will work but it will have side effects

Like floating if you don't tune it when you throw things

Give your items a constant down or drag force based on weight

this might be simplest to make it harder to pick up heavier objects

[grave horizon]

Hey guys, quick question that I feel should be obvious but research and experimentaiton is blanking me here. I have the FPS character template, and want to flip the character upside down. Changing the CMC's gravity direction is no problem, but to make it feel right I also need to rotate the camera.

But given that the camera uses "Use Pawn Control Rotation", nothing I do seems to rotate the camera, so I assume it's being overridden. Is there a correct way, or a correct place, to do this? Thanks!

[lofty rapids]

single player or multiplayer ?

[lofty rapids]

you may want to try this

this works for single player

but if your doing multiplayer you just need the proper controller

[grave horizon]

This is multiplayer, but I'm comfortable adapting things in multiplayer!

I need it to be upside down but still have full control with the mouse,i f that will work

[lofty rapids]

so get the control rotatin

flip it 180 on one of the axis (i think roll)

then set it

see what happens

[lofty rapids]

it should because the mouse is usually adding to the controller, not setting it completely

the look will most likely be flipped

[silent pilot]

from the gamemode, what's the proper way of getting the map's spawnpoint?

should I just use GetActorsOfClass?

[crude spruce]

create a circle spline and add it to the blueprint and use world position at normalised splinetime for spawn location

[lofty rapids]

sure if you want multiple, do you only have one use getactor

[silent pilot]

that's very useful but I was just looking to get the position of that

[crude spruce]

but that isnt a circle

[lofty rapids]

seems legit

[silent pilot]

oh yeah but the circle was my previous question

I'm making a circle in a different piece of code now because Add Child Actor Component is broken apparently

[crude spruce]

you can add components

make the circle in the same blueprint tho

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

make one of those to test with. create it in the world and then just snag it into the bp

[grave horizon]

Apologies for the delay! Thanks for the help. It didn't actually work like that alone, but adding the control rotation worked! Now I just need to invert the horizontal controls. Thanks!

[lofty rapids]

yes exactly , get control rotation, invert roll, set control rotation

inverting is easy multiply by -1

[grave horizon]

Yep! Shouldn't be a problem. Thanks!

[faint creek]

Hi guys, is there a way to enable/disable compleatly a specific Input Action only in a specific level ?
I've found this node, but seems it's not available in ue5 anymore

[frosty heron]

that's for legacy input anyway

[lofty rapids]

a boolean isn't good enough ?

[faint creek]

Yes, but if I have two different IA with the same button, they could go in conflict maybe?

[lofty rapids]

i don't know what you mean by this ?

i'm not sure you should even do that

lol, but either way just put the boolean on both

i don't see the issue

[frosty heron]

just add condition to your input events.

E.g X key is pressed -> if (not in cinematic, not in invetory, etc) then do Y

[lofty rapids]

right a boolean with a branch is what i'm thinking

[faint creek]

@lofty rapids @frosty heron like this?

[frosty heron]

that's war crime to me. To hardcore a level name like that.

I would just have a state that checks if the input can be pressed or not.

Such as bCanUseInventory? for example.

then in the game mode which is tied to a specific map.

On begin play when the controller/character is spawned (where ever the input is), I set bCanUseInventory to false.

[lofty rapids]

i mean it should work that way

[frosty heron]

that way, my inputs doesn't need to care about a specific map or any other map.

[faint creek]

Do you have a blueprint example please?

[frosty heron]

it's handled externally by an object that is defined level specific (i.e game mode)

[frosty heron]

no, but you should be able to follow along?
it's just a boolean variable.

which get sets by the game mode if you need to disable input on specific map, since the game mode can be created for specific level.

[lofty rapids]

its the same thing basically

just seperated and used differently

[frosty heron]

not at all

[lofty rapids]

whats so different ?

[frosty heron]

My input now doesn't need to handle all the Gameplay logic of 100 maps.

Imagine your Player controller

if Lvl 1
if Lvl 2
If Lvl 3
If lvl 4

🤮

[lofty rapids]

i would juse an array

so your saying in the game mode

have a different one for each level ?

[frosty heron]

Sure, it's tied to the map.

and anytime you want to have the same effect on some map, just apply the same game mode.

[maiden wadi]

Level designer changed the map name. No idea why controls aren't working correctly. :/

[frosty heron]

instead Lvl 4 and Lvl 5 comparsion

[lofty rapids]

lol so true, but on a personal project it's not an issue

for a solo dev atleast

but i see the point it's better to just switch the boolean for that level

so the name doesn't even matter

[maiden wadi]

It's more true though. I dunno about you, but I go through so much information that I don't keep a mental map of wtf I was doing two months ago. I get an urge to clean shit up and suddenly it's not working? That's a fucknope from me.

[lofty rapids]

i tend to be able to follow the flow of code very well

but not everyone can do that

[maiden wadi]

I mean don't get me wrong. I'd keep that in mind for sure, cause it's a giant red flag. But in average cases if I wasn't worried about it.

[frosty heron]

@maiden wadi I feel defeated today, my push events have been working ok for the most part but there are times where my widget doesn't get highlighted.
Ends up with a bandaid that checks every tick. Since I am using struct, the amount of copies made is pretty upsetting.

Hope it doesn't bite me in the end.

[maiden wadi]

It's not really about following the code though. Sure you can follow the code. Why isn't this input working? Cause the map name is now changed. Easy. It's the mental effort of having to care about that. Like 80% of my actual programming is thinking through how much of it is going to bite me in the ass later.

[maiden wadi]

Push events?

[frosty heron]

sorry delegates

[maiden wadi]

What are the widgets and what is the highlight?

[frosty heron]

It updates my widget fine for the most part but some edge casses it doesn't and I can't figure out why :D.

[lofty rapids]

damn edge cases

[frosty heron]

The highlight is the item that is selected / viewed.

[lofty rapids]

so fkd

you can't replicate it ?

[frosty heron]

can consistently, but don't know how it happend exactly.

[lofty rapids]

if you can consistently, can you show it happening ?

[frosty heron]

been dumping breakpoint but it's hard to debug something that gets updated every tick.

[lofty rapids]

or when is it happening ?

[frosty heron]

well my bandaid "fixed" it but at the cost of extra steps

[lofty rapids]

i usually print string and watch like a fkn madman

[maiden wadi]

Do you have a difference between Selected and Viewed?

In my player interaction component I track a difference between selected and hovered. Cause you can use the state same in most all games from an RTS to a shooter. Sometimes in like shooters the selected thing is the same as hovered. But the update code for them is fairly simple overall for both cases. ATM I'm reworking hovered cause it was a single entity and I didn't account for selection rects. Reworking that atm into an array instead.

[frosty heron]

There is no hover, just highlighted and unhighlighted.

My issue stem from that my widget is not always 1 : 1 with the source component data since widget remove the no longer valid data after the animation is completed.
But aside from that index hardly matter because it's a complete nightmare to track. Especially when there are lots of items that get removed, the index become scrambled.

I tried using pointer to a struct but was told that I will have issues when the array get re-allocated.

Thought this kind of container would be simple enough to do but I end up with a lot of time spent + band-aid.

[faint creek]

So I have tocreate different game mode

[frosty heron]

Sure and you can re-use that game mode to any maps where you want to disable the input.

[lofty rapids]

you indexes get scrambled ? i see the menu switches to pickup, did you select something ? whats going on here i can't even tell

[frosty heron]

Nothing wrong in the video because the band-aid does the trick. I just check every tick, if nothing highlighted in the widget, iterate through my source component and force highlight on matching data.

Indexes get scrambled when things are taken out from the widget.

e.g when I am no longer within the distance of the items.

Say you have 0 ,1 ,2 ,... 10 (array)

then 4 get removed, it could be any number.

It's hard to know which index was the highlighted element.

[faint creek]

ok thx 🙂

[lofty rapids]

so when you highlight you don't set the index ?

or i'm not following ?

[frosty heron]

doing it this way.
You can re-use the same function without the need to keep compare any map.
Your controller / character is less convoluted.

And when you re-name the map, your code doesn't suddenly break.

[frosty heron]

sure I set the index, given the example above, how will you offset the new index for the now shrinked array?

[lofty rapids]

as far as offset ? which one are you looking to target ?

like when the array shrinks

which index would be the proper one ?

closest, first, last ?

[frosty heron]

that's exactly the problem.

how does one know that?

[lofty rapids]

why not just pick one ?

i don't understand, you want it to be in the same slot ?

[frosty heron]

because it needs to point to the same data

[lofty rapids]

i see so you want the slot to be the same ?

[frosty heron]

yeah dw

anyway

Im gonna keep going with this and have the bandaid

[lofty rapids]

well why not relate the selected thing with the selection

so you can just select the box not the index

[maiden wadi]

I think I'd have to see the code to follow it. Not envisioning the logic well enough in my head.

[lofty rapids]

i'm not really understanding well, just asking to figure it out

[frosty heron]

perhaps my most abomination code. I don't want to trouble you with the headache.

[lofty rapids]

but if it works, thats always good

[frosty heron]

well I am not that happy because I make a lot of copies. I don't feel any performance problem but hope it doesn't bite back.

this feels like setting something in the widget on tick

instead of just updating something when the value changes.

[lofty rapids]

i mean if you want the same slot, can't you just reference a slot and not the index

save last focused slot on switch

and then the index wouldn't even matter

[frosty heron]

Tried going that route but told to use index instead since re-allocating array apparently will screw me over.

[lofty rapids]

i'm saying both

just save curernt slot for this purpose only

when altering the array

pick the slot, and then this will give you the index ?

if it doesn't exist pick the last or first

but i don't think it really matters if you on tick, should be fine, but event driven is usually way more efficient

but i put everything on tick

lol definately feal the fps hit from it tho

[faint creek]

I was thinking, it could be also with multiple Input Map Context

I make an array, and I add a specific map for every specific level, checking it only in teh Begin Play

To run only one

@lofty rapids @frosty heron could be?

[lofty rapids]

i don't know the question ?

could be what ?

[faint creek]

this

[lofty rapids]

what about it ?

this sounds like "it could be also"

[faint creek]

yes

[lofty rapids]

it being what ? are you saying you need some variables ?

i don't understand the question

[faint creek]

No, it could works also that system, instead of different game modes or braches

[lofty rapids]

as far as either way you need to know the current map

the game mode just makes it so that specific game mode means its one of the maps that need this particular thing

you can switch context if thats what your asking ?

but you still would use the same tool to decipher the level

[willow gate]

Hey all. Are there any good tutorials/documentation for 2d vehicles? I'm trying to make a tank type vehicle for a side-scrolling game and I want the treads to follow the ground like a tank would. Any suggestions to point me in the right direction?

[lofty rapids]

is this vehicle using physics ?

#chaos-physics might know more about it

[willow gate]

No it doesn't need to use physics I suppose. So I guess that answers my question. I could easily use a line trace for the wheels on the treads to keep them in line with the ground and then maybe a spline or something for the tracks.... that would be an interesting challenge

Or maybe I'm overthinking it and there's a simpler way

[lofty rapids]

do you have an animation ?

[lofty rapids]

line traces is probably what you'll end up doing no matter how you slice it if you want them tracks on that locations

[willow gate]

No. I'll just rotate the wheels dynamically using player input.

[lofty rapids]

oh the wheels are seperate mesh ?

thats a good way to do it i guess

[willow gate]

So this will be paper2d. But yes the wheels are separate objects from the tracks in a read tank and if I want them to adhere to the ground they'd have to be separate anyway

[dusky meadow]

Hi how do i remove the decimal point using the to text function I have already been able to remove the 0 but the decimal is still there ?

[lofty rapids]

click the totext arrow down

set maximum to 0

[dusky meadow]

that just removes the number

[lofty rapids]

oh i see you want the digits after the .

[dusky meadow]

yes just without the decimal point

[lofty rapids]

substring

i don't know how to do that with text

but convert it to string

and substring

[dusky meadow]

It worked thank you

[heady burrow]

Anyone knows if its possible to re-map the right mouse button to let say middle mouse btn when you drag in the editor? My right mouse btn is semi-broken. wcyd.

I tried looking into settings and in the .ini file, couldnt find anything useful

[lofty rapids]

i would say get a new one

[old sonnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PaCeijYtAU

[heady burrow]

found it

I was looking into the keys mapping

wasnt getting anywhere

[teal tendon]

I know this is basic but in BP first person projectile, why is the bullet still genrates hit event without setting simulate physics on and set collison to query and physics.

[tepid meteor]

Hey guys, I'm trying to assign different emission values per quadrant of UV. Is there a more clever way to do that than this one? (I need X if U>0.5 && V>0.5 and Y if U>0.5 && V<0.5, 0 otherwise)

[faint pasture]

Yeah probably, you trying to do WFC?

[dusky meadow]

Hi why is am i getting duplicates from this since when i print the array at the end it has removed them ?

[crude spruce]

not yet or probably not at all.
But I'm currently looking at good ways to share grid and world data between blueprints, materials and niagara. For making very responsive fog of war and irregular circumferences for spawning enemies. Was hoping you would know any pointers.

i just made good progress on marching squares data generation in blueprint

[dusky meadow]

Anyone ?

[crude spruce]

more than 1 actor?
initializing in construct?

[dusky meadow]

This is on the level blueprint for all actors of a type I've simplified the it a bit but it still is giving me duplicates

[crude spruce]

is that remove node doing anything

[dusky meadow]

thats the annoying part when i print the array afterwards most of it is missing which would imply it is working but i get duplicates on the actors

[crude spruce]

unless i missed something i dont think you are removing from the array you are passing into the loop

not sure if you can reference the output without a variable unless you are only reading from it

[dusky meadow]

the loop is the actors and i am removing from the possible values which is the other array

[crude spruce]

you are looping Temp Setup

[dusky meadow]

yes

[crude spruce]

either way

i dont think the first remove does anything

and i dont even know what you get duplicates of 🙂

[dusky meadow]

this is the array i am setting a value on each actor in that class i do not want any duplicates

ignore the multiple 0s

thats not the issue

[crude spruce]

i get hung up on this

[full badge]

it has projectile movement component

[dusky meadow]

this is simply to remove the players box from the rest of the boxes so the player gets priority

[crude spruce]

oh its output that is removed from player box?

also i dont think using level blueprints is a good idea

not many people like it

[dusky meadow]

there are 11 boxes which are identical actors one of these has a variable saying its the player each of these gets assigned a different value from the array
Also why is it a bad idea to use level blueprints ?

[crude spruce]

i assume because you cant reuse them in the same way as actors

[desert flint]

Well I’m only applying it to the physics handle and it changes each time I pick up a item so it’s fine

[dusky meadow]

thats fine for this since i only need this for one level but i just dont understand why it isnt working when i print the array at the end most of it is missing but some of the values that have already picked are still in the array

[desert flint]

However I still don’t know how I can make it so heavier items aren’t light while light items are heavy

I know what the problem is, and I could assign variables to each object I make, but that is a lot of casting.

[lofty rapids]

i use booleans on blueprints all the time to differentiate instead of seperate bps

defiantely if you want all the same stuff, just maybe some different thing

but child actors work for this as well

[dusky meadow]

okay but why isnt it removing the items from the array

[crude spruce]

which array

[lofty rapids]

cache the random

pure nodes run every time they are pulled from

two seperate randoms

[dusky meadow]

But in that case it should be taking a new random each time and removing the old one

[lofty rapids]

cache the random

[desert flint]

Is there a way to reverse the damping and stiffness variable? Because the lower the number the harder it is to pick up, but I’m being lazy and plugging “get mass” into em so I’d prefer if I can like reverse how they work

[dusky meadow]

I think it worked thank you

[desert flint]

Got a ping here but I don’t see a message

[lofty rapids]

i deleted it

[lofty rapids]

"ghost ping" lol

[desert flint]

Ah ok

[lofty rapids]

you can pick a number that is like 10000-mass

and even multiply that number by another number to scale it

[desert flint]

Sure I could put a random number on the item bp, but that’s a ton of referencing n casting

[lofty rapids]

well actually what i deleted was almost correct, you can do 1000/mass

[desert flint]

What does that mean?

Like divide 1000 by my mass?

[lofty rapids]

this means the higher the mass the smaller the number

[lofty rapids]

yes exactly, but maybe higher number like 10000

try different numbers

this will be a configuration

make it a variable like MassDivisor or something

[desert flint]

Hmm not a bad idea

But

Wouldn’t this make the heavier objects not heavy?

[lofty rapids]

you want heavier items to have smaller numbers correct ?

thats how you would do it

max/number

[desert flint]

Alright I’ll try It when I get home

[surreal wagon]

Have you guys made a "PlayerOnly" tag? Character controller behaves weird if it's not pawn

[storm solar]

What's going on here, why is my pawn target changing values when converted to a string?

[crude spruce]

i dont know if literal string is a thing but try that when comparing

[storm solar]

Does the same thing when using make string literal.

[crude spruce]

what is the value that you say is changing?

[storm solar]

In the first 2 pics pawn target changes when converted to string.
The bool should be false but the issue makes it true.

[crude spruce]

these pictures dont say much at all

[storm solar]

Picture 1 is pawn target = bp ai character.
Picture 2 is that same value converted to a string that says pawn target =bp warrior class.

[lofty rapids]

print string for validation

[crude spruce]

oh i ment more why you need them as strings or compare them at all. its difficult to understand just from the pictures. but if you only want to know why the value changes i cant help there.

[storm solar]

That was what I asked for in my original post. “Why is my pawn value changing when converted to a string?”

[crude spruce]

print them to confirm the value is different

i dont think there is any change here

you are just looking at different node links

Its unclear if you are trying to get something like comparing the instances at runtime or comparing if one instance is the same class as another. But there are more nodes for that. get object name etc.

[desert flint]

makes it so heavy objects are extremely light.

[steady wolf]

yo can anybody help me make a movement animation owrk?(i allready have the animations but they dont play when i want them to)

[mild jacinth]

is there any debugging method for determining what function destroys specific actor

a universal one

[maiden wadi]

Implement it's destroyed function, breakpoint it. Look at the callstack.

[mild jacinth]

you mean like this but how can i determine whats calling this, or it will tell me itself?

[dark drum]

You need to cache the random value. The random element node is pure so you'll end up with 2 different values. One for the set and another for the remove.

Edit: I see it was already mention. I guess I joined the party late. 😅

[maiden wadi]

At the top of the editor, drop down Debug. And look for Blueprint Debugger. Open it and change to the Callstack tab.

[lofty rapids]

and you tried a small number like 1000 ?

[lofty rapids]

you'll need to mess with the numbers but if it's doing the opposite then you didn't need to flip it ?

or is everything light maybe a smaller number

[noble shale]

Can someone help me figure out the best way to bind individiual input actions to specific array index? Like, if i use left click - it will trigger array element with index 0, if i do thumb mouse button then index 3 eyc.

[dark drum]

Make sure the input action type is a float.

In your ICM, add the input action and add an entry for each key/button. Then under modifiers add a scalar modifier and set the relevant value.

Where you implement the input action, get the action value and round it to an int and subtract 1. This will give you the index.

When setting the scalar modifiers, just be aware that the input action won't trigger if the value is less than 0.5.

[steady wolf]

yo guys how do i make a shift to sprint blueprint

[maiden wadi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG9iYYraDgw

[desert flint]

everything light is a small number and I want to reverse what it does to the stiffness and damping node, but all item weight I pick up will be random.

Sure I could make lighter numbers have a heavier mass but that affects other stuff in game

[lofty rapids]

i'm not sure what you mean, if you want heavier things to smaller numbers

then use the divide

[desert flint]

? That affects the final weight that doesn’t do what you think it does

It doesn’t do what you think it does lol

It just makes it so heavy objects are lighter than the smaller objects

[lofty rapids]

1000/250 is smaller then 1000/100

which means 1000/weight the heavier weights are smaller numbers

then you use that number to set your damping

[crude spruce]

thats a good explenation

i used this to make larger scale enemies animate slower with their scale modifier, like that

[lofty rapids]

if you need smaller number with heavier mass then thats how you do it

if it does the opposite then multiply the mass by a number and thats what you use

i thought heavier damping would be for heavier things

it's the interpolation speed that you can adjust with the divide

[spiral pond]

if i have a blueprint effect that’s activating with a custom event on component (box) overlap — but id like to set up another custom event with a different effect on that same box overlap — how would i set it up to be able to toggle off and on using effect 1 or effect 2, in the details panel when dragging and dropping the blueprint

[lofty rapids]

instance editable integer that you can switch on int

so you could have a bunch of different types

an enum would be best, but an integer is an easy goto

[spiral pond]

component overlap > branch (true) > switch on int > input activate effect 1 in slot 0 and active effect 2 in slot 1?
that seems to make sense to me

[lofty rapids]

you want to add the effect so both happen >?

or just one or the other ?

[spiral pond]

one or the other

[lofty rapids]

if you want more you can use the switch on int

if you just want the two a boolean

but idk why you have a boolean and a switch

but it doesn't matter either way

but the switch should handle depending on which integer is set on the instance run the correct code

[faint pasture]

Whoever is doing the spring/damper thing, just enforce a maximum displacement and then you don't need to care about weight, it'll just automagically work

Picture a spring, you hold one end, and you connect the other end to the thing you're grabbing. Just enforce that the spring can only stretch so much and light things will move pretty much instantly, medium things will require more pulling, and super heavy things will hit the stretch limit and not move.

You do not need to read the mass at all unless you're after some nonlinear effects but I doubt that

[cold raft]

Hey guys is there a way to preload a level and switch with SeamlessTravel almost instantly?

[frosty heron]

If you load the level first the loading should be instant.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwCD2WQ7-4U&pp=ygUUdWU1IGFzeW5jIGxvYWQgbGV2ZWw%3D

Doubt its available in bp though.

@cold raft

[noble shale]

Thx, but that's not my problem actually. My problem is not with getting required index from input action

[cold raft]

but i dont want it to be in the same level want to use gamemodes

lets see the video

[noble shale]

as example, i can get the index from IA, but i need something in the middle to connect the index i want to that Use Item event

[frosty heron]

Not sure wym

The node simply load a level w.e you give it.

[cold raft]

oh i see

thats what i was searching

thanks

[frosty heron]

But like you will end up loading two worlds, it can get very heavy.

Thats what seamless travel tackle. It move you to transition map.

Without transition map you ends up with loading 2 level at the same time. Picture big town level A and big town level B. Pray the computer can handle it.

I will just go with loading screen and load on travel but if your game small enough I guess it doesnt matter.

[cold raft]

i might just make a small transition map

thanks anyways

i could just use one persistent level and stream those levels but then i wouldnt be able to switch game modes

[crude spruce]

why do you need to switch game mode?

[cold raft]

i have some custom logic in my game modes and already setup some default controllers, i could just do it manually when i stream level but it just makes extra work

thought i can preload a level and switch to make it seem instantly, as it seems better to just use one persistant level

[crude spruce]

ah ok

[cold raft]

i can probably just spawn some custom actor with logic

[crude spruce]

any reason why you cant have the same game mode everywhere?

[cold raft]

spawning the default pawn and setting up the controllers just extra work but i ll combine all of them to one game mode

no other option i guess

[crude spruce]

👍

[noble shale]

Can someone help me understand, why do i get 0 as a result of my INT select?

[frosty heron]

Don't cross pin

If Input4 is run, that action index at the bottom is never set. Hence 0.

So tldr never ever cross pin, thats not how bp work.

[crude spruce]

wasnt it returning 3

[noble shale]

Yeah i don't think i quite understood

[frosty heron]

Also your game going to break under low fps with those melee trace.

[noble shale]

why?

will not get enough ticks to trace ?

[crude spruce]

melee tracing is hard so no stress. just bookmark that it needs to be more detailed eventually.

[frosty heron]

Yup. And faster attack would even be more of an issue.

No easy solution, I end up baking my melee trace.

[noble shale]

ok, yeah these are just placeholders, not actually focused on the combat component atm, just learning UE figuring out stuff

So i still don't get how this INT selection works. Now when i have 1 hardcoded as index, bot input actions work just fine

[noble shale]

would doing sphere trace instead of line trace be better? Like sphere is wider and you get more chances to detect hit on low fps

[frosty heron]

More chance but not 100%

Imagine if you only got 2 traces. You will have a gap in the middle.

[noble shale]

but we are talking about like what, 10-15 fps where such issue can occur? would it still be a problem on 30 fps ?

[frosty heron]

Deffinitly even 60 fps

[noble shale]

wow

[frosty heron]

Even 140 fps for fast paced game.

But yeah its no easy problem to tackle especially when you just start. Perhaps focus on something else first.

[crude spruce]

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