blueprint

[crude dew]

Or should i put the condition into the transitional rule?

[dark drum]

Yes, but you'll most likely need to set the 'Trigger' type to be set to tick so it'll repeatedly check the enum you're using.

[crude dew]

I just realised that, I made a Global Task from what I understand about these is that they run every time the tree is restarted therefore updating the values from the controller State Enum ? Thanks for the replies btw! , I just got used to Behaviour Tree;s now gotta learn a new system xD

Yup that seems to work thank you!

[dark drum]

Whats this tick event inside?

[crude dew]

Its being run inside a Global Task

[dark drum]

You don't need to do that as you can get get it from the AIController when needed.

[crude dew]

So i wouldnt need to do a tick event to check the value and assign inside the State Tree?

[dark drum]

No, you can just check it in the condition directly.

[crude dew]

Ahh i see here I am checking the value inside the controller and not the one inside the tree.

[dark drum]

I've not specified a specific AIController type but you can select it here.

[crude dew]

Ye i have those in the Enter Conditions.

[dark drum]

Yea you can do the same thing in the transition conditions. No need to duplicate the data. 🙂

[crude dew]

Without the tick the tree wont move out of IDLE state when selecting ROAM in the editor for some reason.

[dark drum]

This tick is set for the 'Trigger' type on the transition.

[crude dew]

Ahh didnt see theres a tick option in the transition ! Ty!

[dark drum]

So the trigger type is when should it check the transition when in the state.

[crude dew]

Makes sense Thanks !

Works like a charm!

[dark drum]

Ideally you'd use the on event one but it's been a while and I can't remember how to do it. 😅 But as a quick overview, you can have a setter function for your state on the AI controller so when it's update it sends an event so things know they should check the state. This can save having to check on tick.

[crude dew]

Ye i,ve only recently finished a couple tutorials on it so now trying to implement it into a not tutorial thing only way to learn properly lol

Tutorials are nice but I find if you dont experiment yourself then you kinda end up in tutorial hell and cant get outside the tutorial box xD

[dark drum]

I agree, you've got to have a play and just throw some stuff down. Its the best way to see what you do and don't remember.

[crude dew]

Gonna be fun trying to implement the perception system next 😄

[dark drum]

It's been a while since I've used state trees, do you know if you can run a state tree in a state tree?

[crude dew]

I did see you can have Sublinked Trees

So i would guess that would be nice if you have in RTS Scenario, Diffeerent units but they all can wander but some can harvest, others can attack, some might only flee etc.

[dark drum]

Wonderful! I first looked into state trees not long after it got added and whilst I thought it was good, its the one thing I felt it lacked.

[crude dew]

Im glad i could be helpful to you 🙂

[dark drum]

It'll allow you to have different state trees and then a master one to pick which one it should run. Otherwise they'll get very messy. 😅

[crude dew]

ye true, Thats what i found with behaviour trees also

I know you could link other BT,s inside BT,s

[dark drum]

You can run a parallel tree as well as a task. 🤔

[crude dew]

but only recently discovered that 😄

Right time to get the enemy to smell the player XD

[dark drum]

Good luck.

[crude dew]

Thanks Oh btw , Do you know whta the Detect By Affiliation thing works I never quite understood why i have to check all 3 boxes and why i cant say "the player is Enemy" Just a thing which has bugged me for a little while and i never understood it. 🙂

in AI Sight, Sorry i should have specified.

[dark drum]

Sort of but you can't set the affiliation in BP as far as I know. Has to be done in C++. Only Nuteral works without C++.

[crude dew]

Ahh ok that explains it then thanks, Never knew it was C++thing.

[hazy ether]

When I play my project in standalone, it starts off black, and gets lighter over 15 seconds, why is the eye adaption system to janky! 😂

Anyone know why this could be?

[dark drum]

Have a play with the Exposure settings on the PP volumes. Just note that if you transition from indoor/outdoor, you might need to use different settings.

[hazy ether]

I haven't got any PP volumes...

[dark drum]

Then it'll use the default PP settings on the camera.

[hazy ether]

Ahh, yeah... I had adjusted thoes...

Why are they inverted! why on earth does a negative value mean brighter! 😡

[dark drum]

Physics! You can read about it here but meh. It goes over my head to behonest lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_value

[hazy ether]

Huh...
Odd...

[frail reef]

Thank you so much for your help yesterday. After sleeping on it and a quick google search I finally figured out that I had to create a custom parameter before I could implement this solution

And now the elevator stops once it reaches the end of its z value. Great!

Now how do I get it back down if I interact with it a second time

Probably something to do with Event ActorBeginOverlap , so I'll have to look into that later.

[sacred linden]

Hello, anyone has this problem, where everytime during packaging a project. If recent changes contain change to Structs (BP) then errors appear and you need to go and refresh nodes/ empty recompile blueprints? Is there perhaps some editor tool plugin that can do it instead?

[dark drum]

Changing a structure doesn't load everything that uses it which would be required to automatically update it. There can't really be any automated way to do as there's no way of knowing what needs doing other than you looking at it.

The best you can do is look at the reference viewer for the struct and open each one and correct as required.

Personally, I would avoid changing a BP structure once you've started using it unless you absolutely have too. Because of the aforementioned, it can cause a lot of issues and even cause some BP to corrupt.

[fleet prism]

How do I make a double jump Ability? I've watched two tutorials the first one being on how to make a double jump whare all he did was change the max jump count to two and another on how to make an ability system but I don't know how to connect this things so that you can only double jump after collecting the ability for it. what is the easiest way for me to do this?

[next hollow]

I know some plugin exists for force recompile assets for this.
But, like Patty said.
That fixes the red error, but not any actual coding/ programming error incurred.
Such as adding a struct entry, now anything that edits the struct is gonna have issues.

[flat coral]

Ok I got a bad case of "Why Collider Not Colliding?!" This is A and B

And this is the code in A. It's consistently returning "true" even though I'm definitely inside the B collider

[lofty rapids]

its built in theres a setting for it

[spark steppe]

are you spawning in it?

i think in that case it might not recognize it

[flat coral]

Yeah. What do I do about that, then?

[spark steppe]

use a method which causes a query, afaik Box/SphereOverlapActors does

and it should have a class filter

[flat coral]

Yep that works. God that's dumb.

[tropic torrent]

hey chat whats up

hoping I can fix this BPC and be free from this section of my blueprints for like

6 weeks

this isn't spawning the projectile when the function is called

supposed to replace everything here up to loop body

the launch isn't needed, so i deleted it (since there is a built in projectile movement component)

[tropic torrent]

this old version works, the function version doesn't

[tropic torrent]

does calling functions from components just not work like that?

[crimson briar]

Not sure what you are asking about here, you didn't show how you call the function.

[tropic torrent]

fixed it

didn't add bpc

[crimson briar]

Also it is a weird way of handling projectiles. Do you always have only one projectile?

[tropic torrent]

the function is a bpc

[tropic torrent]

all of this

[crimson briar]

So you add an actor component for each projectile?

[tropic torrent]

do i need one

I was using the one for now

[crimson briar]

Not really, I'm just asking trying to understand why you made it this way

[tropic torrent]

im ngl it stopped working

i didn't even do anything to it

[tropic torrent]

I have a Blueprint component for summoning and using projectiles so that when im making an ability i can just drag in the component and fill in the variables

rather than copying and pasting the same blueprints every time

why did it work once then stop working 💀

not even playing the level again goes back

okay i deleted something apparently lmao

thank god for ctrl z

its beautiful

it works for the DoT but doesn't work for the fireboll 🥲

[midnight field]

Update: It appears that the problem is related to a bone on the original model that's missing from the default mannequin, called "attach". I tried adding the bone to the mannequin and re-exporting the retargeted animation, but this doesn't appear to have worked.

Using the non-retargeted animation now has perfect root motion, but the rest of the animation doesn't play because it's on the wrong slot, hence the need for a retargeted version.

Here's the comparison:

[tropic torrent]

so the IsValid prevents it from working

[next hollow]

I'm confused.
Are you confused why its not working, because of the isvalid.
Or, are you just stating that its the issue you found, and have now fixed?

[tropic torrent]

confused why its not working

when it doesn't have the isvalid, it works until the enemy dies

when it does have the invalid, no launch no damage

[crimson briar]

Nothing is connected to the IsValid node. Weird that it didn't cause an error in compilation.

Actually not weird, since it allows NONE to be passed, nothing selected is probably just a NONE anyway

[lofty rapids]

your is valid has nothing plugged into it

[empty marten]

Hello everyone,
I have a question I am hoping someone can help me with. When making a Editor Utility Widget, is it possible to create an asset in it like a material instance and have that saved into the content browser? I'm trying to speed up my dev pipeline a little and am curious is all. If it is possible, does anyone have any documentation on the process I can learn from please? Would be appreciated 🙂

[spark steppe]

yes, there's a editor subsystem which allows it. Might be Asset Subsystem API doesn't look like it... but i'm kinda sure it was an subsystem
you might have more luck in #editor-scripting

[tropic torrent]

doesn't need an object to work, it's doing IsValid on the execution line

[tropic torrent]

It's doing it on the execution line

that works for other things normally

[lofty rapids]

hmm idk why you think that

[empty marten]

Didn't know #editor-scripting was a channel. Thank you kindly 🙂

[lofty rapids]

i don't think so

[next hollow]

Yeah, IDK what its doing it on the execution line is supposed to mean.
Not like your code can be invalid, or something crazy.
Feel free to show proof of this execution line
But, otherwise.
Yes, the issue is no input, thus it always being invalid.

[tropic torrent]

the white line

if the white line is not valid, it stops

I use it the same way for other cases and it passes valid with the object unfilled

[lofty rapids]

thats not how it works tho

the white line is always "valid"

the is valid node checks the object

not the execution flow

[tropic torrent]

then it should be working, no?

Why would it return valid in other cases, but not valid here, if in both cases the object is unfilled

I'm not concerned about my other IsValid lmaoo

[next hollow]

Send pic of your other isvalid.
Cuz, there is clearly some confusion going on.

[tropic torrent]

sure im getting it

is there an easy way to find it lol

[next hollow]

You can search all BPs, for usage of the is valid.
Right click the node, and find references.
Depending on your UE version it will have an all button, or you gotta press a little biocular icon, to the right of the search box that appears

[next hollow]

and, you know that works how?
Have you added a print string, or a breakpoint?

[tropic torrent]

movement speed went back to x2

i can double check with a print string though

sigh

one second

[next hollow]

Yeah, I was gonna say, are you sure the speed ever changed at all, or are you using a big speed value that would even be obvious?
Cuz, if you used this for making it 2x.
Are you doing this same non-working logic on the /2

[tropic torrent]

one, you're right

i attached a print to is and isn't

[tropic torrent]

two, this ability stopped working before the isvalid was even referenced, and i removed a single branch and it started working

it uses the manual method instead of the bpc though

i do still need an isvalid in it, but i need to attach it to the array element

isvalid works correctly (no errors when the enemy is dead)
separate issue, first usage of this isn't working, i think it might be the array's fault?

the array comes from this in the blueprint component

and they're not really launching but it be like that sometimes

nothing is in the normalize i know why its not launching dw

[tropic torrent]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA okay i found out whats happening but i don't know why

1st: Hit enemies, nothing happens
2nd: Hit anything, enemies from first are hit

[spare tinsel]

hi guys. does anyone know why this isnt workin? i cant really see the problem. the content inside the EventIsButtonOn on the Redlight actor never triggering.

[tropic torrent]

finally fixed but it saves no code lol

how do i get it to shut up

[last peak]

where does this code live ?

[tropic torrent]

An ability

The ability is a blueprint (actor I think)

On Event Begin Play-> Spawn Actor by Class (Ability)
Keyboard Event 1 -> Start Ability

[last peak]

WHere do you set redlight ?

[last peak]

and whats the problem right now ?
is there even any anymore ?

[tropic torrent]

It's fixed , I hope

ended up having to fix it over here with the dispatcher

[spare tinsel]

in the level. button and redlight are actors.

i found that if I add the function is active into beginplay. all the sudden the event starts working. however, this isnt sending the value of the boolean from one function to the other

[last peak]

dont put stuff in the level blueprint

[spare tinsel]

no i mean the level. theres nothing on the level blurptins

both are individual actors

with their own blueprints

[last peak]

so where do you set the variable redlight then

[spare tinsel]

button

[last peak]

i dont see you setting redlight anywhere ...

THis needs to get set or you cant use it

[spare tinsel]

i dont get it, it has an object reference

[last peak]

That doesnt help you

now the object is - Redlight

But you have no clue what specific redlight it is

if you put 2 redlights in a level you have redlight 1 and redlight 2

how does your code know which one you want to change ?

[spare tinsel]

I only have 1 red light actor. Redlight is the name of the actor. not a light.

so i am making a reference to that object actor

[last peak]

Redlight is the name of the class

/blueprint

You know you only have 1 redlight in the level

but the compiler doesnt

The very dirty way is this
Get all actors of class Redlight - get 0

This will only work if you have 1 single redlight in your level

you do the get all actors of class before you do that

And you hook up the return of your get 0 to the Is button 1on

[spare tinsel]

wouldnt this alrady be "linked" with the interface?

it is added on both

[last peak]

im not sure what you mean with that

[spare tinsel]

the bpi

[last peak]

right now your red light is 0

[spare tinsel]

is on both

[last peak]

ok?

and what should that do ?

[spare tinsel]

send the info, but it currently isnt

[last peak]

ye because redlight is NULL because you never set it .....

i just gave you the fix

[cobalt bramble]

never had this before, cant connect this? asks to find a node when trying to connect to target

[next hollow]

cube is a component, you add components to actors.
You ATTACH components, to components, which is your confusion here

[warm python]

Guys, Any tutorials I can find of Shotgun reloads??

[prime stump]

Hi, I am having an issue with my widgets.. I am creating a widget component as and when its needed to display a widget at the location of an interactable actor to indicate that it can be interacted with, I am playing a simple animation to make it fade in and fade out by changing the render opacity when entering/exiting the overlap of an interactable actor, this works absolutely fine as long as you're looking at it while it happens but if you enter the overlap, it'll fade in the widget, and then you turn the camera so the widget is now offscreen and then leave the overlap it'll call all the code to fade out except it doesn't actually fade out until you turn back around to face the object so its back on screen before it fades..

Anyone know of a way I can fix this cause it looks like shit?

Here's whats happening - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1taYnwZEF77ELQNblhQMF-Zw9Sp7stihT/view?usp=drive_link - as long as the widget is on screen it plays nice and does what its supposed to, but if its called to fade out while its offscreen it'll only do it when its back on screen.. any ideas?

[dark drum]

Its most likely down to the 'IsVisible' check you do in your remove indicator. I'm pretty sure it'll be classed as not visible if not on the screen.

[prime stump]

That check fires true every time even when its offscreen, I think thats just checking this, which stays visible until the widget component is removed so the IsVisible check will always be true

[dark drum]

Ahh ok. You could try this on the widget component.

[prime stump]

Yeah tried that too, apparently that doesn't apply to widget's in screen space

Didn't work lol

[dark drum]

I'll be honest, I'm struggling to actually see the issue in your video.

[prime stump]

watch at the end, I run through the interactable actors and it displays the widget just fine, but when i turn around at the end all of them fade out together all at once instead of when i actually left their overlaps

[prime stump]

pause around 28 secs, all of them all at once fade out

[dark drum]

Ahh ok, i had to slow the video down to notice. 😅

[prime stump]

Yeah so its only doing it because they're offscreen at the time of the fading out being called, but only actions it once they're on screen again

[dark drum]

Try using this on the widget comp. If it's not visible at all, just remove and don't bother with the animation.

[prime stump]

Unfortantely that also fires true even when its offscreen

[dark drum]

Then this one. It'll still be classed as visible through walls but should be fine for this use case.

[prime stump]

Still fires true every time lmao, I don't think they check whether they're on screen or not I think they're just checking its visibility setting which is always visible which is why these will always return true if thats the case

IsInViewport doesn't work either cause the widget's in screen space, this always returns false

[dark drum]

Last one to try.

[prime stump]

That just returns False everytime, I also tried IsRendered and thats true even when its offscreen lmao

Unless there is a way that I can explicitly check whether the widget is on screen or not then im not sure I can do it while the animation is playing through the widget, I imaging this not ticking when offscreen thing is a property of these animations that they wont play when offscreen but play later when they are which suuucks lol

There is an alternative which is to have a timeline do the fading in and out but I tried this and its causing me all sorts of problems doing it that way 😂 the problem also is that the actor component (BPC_PlayerInteraction) can't have timelines and nor can the widget itself so it will have to be ran through the pawn that owns BPC_PlayerInteraction

[dark drum]

Updating uses the 'WasRecentlyRendered' function so I'm suprised that doesn't work.

Actually that's world space. 😅

[prime stump]

For some reason everything is against screen space I dont get it 😂

[dark drum]

So after going down the rabbit hole, as far as I can tell, when the widget is offscreen, it sets the visibility to collapsed. Granted this is for a screen layer it creates to put the widget in but getting the widgets visibility should still return if its visible or not. 🤔

[dark drum]

Have you tried just printing the visibility of the widget to see what it says?

[empty marten]

Hey peeps,
When using the create asset node to create a material instance, it creates a material interface instead. Is it doing this because I don't have anything connected to the factory pin?

[prime stump]

Yeah, 'Visible' everytime lol

It obviously knows when its offscreen in someway because it knows to only play the animation when its on screen but im not sure I can detect that through any of these checks 😅

[quaint elbow]

Hi everyone
I'm doing a student project on ue5, it's my first time working on the engine. We're doing a local coop game where two players control a robot, one player controls the bottom/movement, and the other player controls the top/shooting.
The thing is, I have no clue on how to make each player control their pawns (the robot is two pawns combined), or how to assign a specific gamepad to a specific PlayerController. I tried to look for the platformUserID but I dont understand how it works

[sick sky]

Try #multiplayer since this is more of a multiplayer focused question

[full badge]

that channel is mostly for online mp tho

[sick sky]

local MP follows the MP rules

and people there knows more on how controllers are handled whern there is multiple players on a single device

since its more rare to hit this case in SP games

[oak gorge]

hello all,i have an little problem about something i want to achieve : i have created in an Asset action utility an SK To BP blueprint the bp is created from an parent i chosed (with an SK component) but now i want to assign the skeletal mesh component variable from there but that where i block, any idea how to achieve this (i'm in ue5.5.4) thanks for the helps

[hard girder]

I gots a question! So i have blue printed to chaze chacater on site

But when the player gets behind the enemy they stop completely

And then go back to searching

[prime stump]

@dark drum in case you're curious I fixed it by adding this function to detect whether the actor (where the widget is being displayed at) is on screen or not, if its not then skip animation just set opacity and if it is play anim, seems to work pretty well so far, I had to implement it both when creating the widget and when removing it

[fleet prism]

Is anyone able to tell me why this isn't working? I followed a short tutorial on how to change the material of an object in as the game is running and its not switching colors. Its supposed to go from a glowing red color to glowing green.

[lunar sleet]

The only thing I see wrong maybe is creating the dynamic mat on construction script. The latter can trigger multiple times so maybe that’s causing the issue. Realistically I’d put that on begin play so it only happens once. Otherwise just use breakpoints and see where the code is not executing.

[gentle urchin]

Pretty sure i got some snippet in c++ for this if interested

[maiden wadi]

99% sure your parameter name is not M_RedGlow_Inst

[lofty rapids]

is the create supposed to assign it ?

because i don't see where you set the mat to the new dynamic material

[maiden wadi]

Need to see the material itself. Because I'm pretty sure they didn't name the parameter in the material M_RedGlow_Inst to dictate the color.

[lofty rapids]

if you plug in the source like that it automatically sets it ?

i've always had to set the material to the new instance after

[maiden wadi]

That just gets the material that they already have specified in the primitive and creates a new instance of it.

Which clearly works. They see red. I assume or they'd be asking why they don't see the beginning color. They're asking why it's not changing.

It's not changing because they're passing the name of the material they created as the paramter name for the color.

[lofty rapids]

what are you using for perception ?

[hard girder]

The ai preception using a sight cone @lofty rapids

[lofty rapids]

and when you run behind him quickly he loses sight right ?

[prime stump]

Yeah go on, would be interested to see other ways to handle it

[lofty rapids]

are you using a BT ?

[hard girder]

@lofty rapids at this point no but im thinking it would be best to do that, i was hsving issues that the BT was constantly chasing no matter where i was

[ruby cobalt]

RepNotify.. you guys knew about this stuff?

[lofty rapids]

ok its not really necessary, can you show the code you use to make this work, show the on perception update and how your chase

[lofty rapids]

#multiplayer would know more probably

[lofty rapids]

basically when the variable changes it runs the notify, and the great thing is when a user comes online he runs that rep notify again thats my undersanding

[harsh remnant]

Hey everyone!
Quick question.

I followed a tutorial on YT about a stamina system.
Everything works except that my character keeps running even if the stamina is at 0%

[lofty rapids]

can't tell anything without code

[hard girder]

thats for the vision

[lofty rapids]

so you set the delay to 5, but it imedialtly roams ?

[hard girder]

Basically i ger behind him mid chase itll go back to roaming

[hard girder]

2 ticks ill record

[lofty rapids]

so your using pawn sensing not aiperception ?

[hard girder]

yeah just realised that my bad

[lofty rapids]

but its working thats good

so it percieved him atleast

so what i do is when percieved flip a boolean

then flip it back when to roam

[hard girder]

yeah it goes back to roaming which is good

[sharp crane]

Why do some of my maps not generate a world partition minimap even after selecting the build option?

[ruby cobalt]

i've been using bools and branches on event tick to refresh some stuff when variables changed.. RepNotify would have been soooo much cleaner..

[hard girder]

ive been thinking of moving the sight cone back a bit so if i do get up behind while roaming it will turn towards the player and keep chasing but could mess up down the line

[lofty rapids]

its great for multiplayer syncing variables

[sharp crane]

It's 50/50 whether the map works or not

[crimson briar]

RepNotify is mostly for multiplayer.
If you want it's behavior, you can easly make your own. Instead of using a Set node for the variable, make a function/event called SetMyVariable with the new value as an input.
Inside you only need to check if the new value is differnt than the previous one - if yes, set the variable to the new value and proceed with your code that depends on this variable changing.
Then you call this event/function instead of using a Set node

[lofty rapids]

i'm pretty sure what happened is he lost sight of you and then he's not still chasing a bool will fix this

then you just need to figure out when to switch it off

[ruby cobalt]

ah that's true.. but i got stuff with multiple variables that needs to be updated with all the new values whenever one of them changes

also using repnotify is 1 click to have the function built for you and already organized to be called whenever another source updates that variable

seems clean

[crimson briar]

You would still need to write the code inside the repnotify then. Using it instead of a custom event/function only saves you the time it would take to create the function/event itself

[hard girder]

So a bool for if sight loss look for x amount of seconds

[ruby cobalt]

yeah but that code would be the same no which method I use.. atm i'm using event tick + branch so the code is all around that

[lofty rapids]

when sense, cast to your player, switch the bool to true
then on tick if the bool is true chase
switch it off anytime you want, after x seconds of no success chase is fine ig

[maiden wadi]

Because you didn't tell it to stop. Without seeing code, that's about the best answer you can get. Do you have a link to the tutorial, or a point in your code where it's supposed to stop running when stamina reaches zero?

[hard girder]

Ill save tbis for later then going to be interesting, mgs style chasing lol

[gentle urchin]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/snippets/jdk5/unreal-engine-is-location-in-viewport

Pretty straight forward

[sharp crane]

Would really appreciate help on this, I tried building the minimap for the level that had an old working one and now it's bugged too

[vestal totem]

I have a widget that loads button widgets TWO levels deep. I need the buttons 2 levels deep to be able trigger an event on the top most parent widget, to control which menus to be displayed. These use a DataTable to define the text value and such for each button programmatically, rather than defining each manually.

I am successfully doing this by passing an event delegate up to the middle widget and then up to the parent.

But is there a way to have the parent widget bind to an event dispatcher, or an interface, from the button widget directly? I couldn't figure out how to bind to the calls from 2 children deep. Hence passing up through the middle widget.

Right now most of the buttons just do nothing, or tell the menu to revert back to the Main list. They'll eventually call individual handlers.

WBP_Menu - contains a CommonAnimatedSwitcher with multiple WBP_MenuList instances inside.
WBP_MenuList-contains a VerticalBox and adds WBP_MenuButton widgets inside using a category enum.
WBP_MenuButton-Populates some text and receives onclick events passed down from the WBP_MenuList-calls up through the chain to change the menu

[errant snow]

You can, assuming that you can access the widget inside the widget.
But what you’re doing right now is actually the right thing to do even though it seems a little silly and extra steps.
It makes it easier to reuse the widgets at each level, it makes it easier to change the implementation of the middle widget and it lets the events that you bind to be more contextually relevant to the event being broadcast.

[vestal totem]

Hmm. Ok.

Accessing the widget inside the widget has been the roadblock to the idea. I can only seem to get one level deep with things as they are.

Makes it feel less flexible to me, since I could hypothetically change the middle widget around and break everything. If the top and bottom could communicate more directly I could avoid that maybe.

Is it better to use an interface for this vs the delegate (I think) I used?

I use an interface to pass the I lock down but a delegate to pass the menu change up. Tried a few things and this is the last attempt.

[empty marten]

Hey peeps,
Anyone know why this Create Asset node creates a Material Interface instead of a Material Instance like its suppose to?

Other issue has risen as well

Whenever I open the interface and click save, it then dissapears from the content browser

[errant snow]

An interface wouldn’t be appropriate in this case.
It’s not less flexible because the boy thing you have to keep consistent when changing that middle widget is the dispatchers that you bound to. That’s your public API. Every else, including the widgets spawned by the middle widget, becomes an implement detail you should be able to change without the user of the middle widget knowing.
Making changes to the public API, be that dispatchers or regular functions, requires updating the users of that API.

[harsh remnant]

Here is a link from the turorial.

https://youtu.be/cj67xUcc2GQ?si=j-pfoBYnyXHJTeE2

you can also send me a private message

[maiden wadi]

Not even ten seconds in and I'm annoyed with this tutorial. "Do it on components instead of the base blueprint class".

WTF is a "base blueprint class"? Presuming you mean "instead of in the character actor class most people might normally put this logic in".

Like dude. You're making tutorials. Your words actually mean shit. Use them correctly.

Omg, he said it again. FFS. COMPONENTS ARE BLUEPRINT CLASSES TOO.

[dry monolith]

what is my best bet for getting a 3D position in screen space? e.g. if the object is on the top left of the camera view, I want to get say (0.2, 0.2)...

I see this node, however I'm not using a player controller, just a camera

[harsh remnant]

What do you suggest om how to do it?
The correct way

[maiden wadi]

Stepped away for a few. But watching through it. And while I would do this in GAS. His approach is fine. He just really needs to stop calling the Actor class "base blueprint". It's a drinking game by the time you hit 40 minutes of this.

But for your issue. What you need are some event dispatchers. In your stamina component when it's tick hits zero stamina it needs to broadcast an event dispatcher. Then your character or your sprint system can bind that on beginplay and make the sprint stop.

[maiden wadi]

I can check in a little bit. But you should still be able to use that node. You always have a player controller. What is the camera in question?

[dry monolith]

That'd be really appreciated!
The camera is just attached to an actor, sort of like a virtual photographer. So there's not actual player in the scene, its just a camera attached to an actor that is taking photos to generate a dataset.

[maiden wadi]

But you're wanting this projection based on the camera. Regardless of whether the player is actively looking through that camera?

[dry monolith]

Exactly. Pretty much the same as that node but with a camera component input rather than a player

It doesn't look like I can do it in blueprint, it's not a biggie as I can work out another solution I reckon

[maiden wadi]

I'm 90% sure that there isn't a specific node for that. But it's still doable. It's essentially some line plane frustum projections.

[dry monolith]

Hmm yeah I think so too, tbh though I have no clue how I'd do those projections

In my animation blueprint I am getting all actors of a class, and setting a referene to an actor placed in my scene. I print out the display name and it prints fine, however, in the update animation event loop it shows as undefined? Any idea why and how is best to set the reference?

I've even tried setting it in the event loop but it also just endlessly shows as undefined!

[crude dew]

Hi, I figured I would try to incorporate EQS into a State Tree (Not used EQS before) but am I missing something Im not sure how I get the resulting vector locaiton from the EQS result to go into a MoveTo node please ?

[crude dew]

I,m no pro but see if i can help 🙂 What are you trying to achieve? I can see you get all actors of Gaze Target ( A BP I assume named Gaze Target)

[maiden wadi]

You have to bind the OnFinished or whatever delegate from the Query. From that event you can grab the best location. Forget the names offhand.

[crude dew]

Have you tried the Try Get Pawn Owner in the Event Initialization ? I assume Gaze Target is the name of the BP this Anim BP is attached to ?

[dry monolith]

thanks! yeah it’s a blueprint actor

[dry monolith]

so, it’s not the owning actor, it’s just an actor placed in the world

the idea is that the metahuman will always look at this actor

[crude dew]

Thanks i,ll look to see how that works! 🙂

Well do the Find Look At Rotation node inside the actor.

[maiden wadi]

Make sure you're looking at the right BP. The editor runs a version of the AnimBP that isn't in the level for editor display. And it's usually selected by default.

[dry monolith]

yeah I thought the same thing, but it’s the same blueprint. It’ll print to the screen etc

[dry monolith]

I need a reference to the gaze point actor for that

[maiden wadi]

I mean the instance though. There's a dropdown somewhere in the top of the AnimBP that lets you pick the instance displayed for the debugger.

[dry monolith]

ahh I get you, let me see what instance i’m looking at

but still it’s odd that the blueprint cant set the reference right?

[maiden wadi]

Well if it's the editor one, then that means there is no Gaze thing to find.

[crude dew]

Something like this might work inside the actor.

[dry monolith]

Thanks for looking into it! The rotation piece I have already got setup, its just the reference setting that isn't working

Thats pretty much what I have at the moment in terms of setting the ref

[dry monolith]

I don't follow sorry. I have the object placed in the world, its there in editor when I look at the outliner during the session

[crude dew]

Also when your simulating the blueprint check you have the right one viewed as took me a while to understand you have to get the active one from the drop down

[fleet prism]

I made an blueprint that changes the material of an object from red to green and it works but theirs a small issue, Its supposed to be glowing When its red it glows but when it switches to the green its no longer glowing. Is thier like a node I could add to have to glow again or do I have to do something else?

[dry monolith]

Ohh I see now, I actually just checked and it seems like the refence is set!

that was so weird, thanks for the help and you @maiden wadi

[maiden wadi]

That color is fed into emissive, right? And your green color needs to be above 1.0 if it's not.

[crude dew]

Feels good to finally be able to help someone after asking for so much help on here on my UE Journey 🙂

[maiden wadi]

😄 It's because when you test in PIE there are two worlds.

The editor spins up a world for the AnimBP so it can spawn it and display it for you in the little display world when you're editing the animation.

And then there's also the PIE world where you've opened your level with the animation in.

In the editor world where the anim is being displayed for preview, your other actor doesn't exist but in the PIE world it does. If that helps?

[dry monolith]

Haha I appreciate the help! Yeah theres so much to the engine it's easy to get stuck

[dry monolith]

That's super helpful, and I didn't know that is how it works! TIL

[fleet prism]

I have separate materials for both emissive colors green and red. The actor itself is set to the red material by default, And in the tutorial I followed he used a lerp node to change the color and showed no other ways of doing it. So I'm not sure on how to get my desired material

[maiden wadi]

Can you open your green color here in the wheel and show your values?

[crude dew]

@maiden wadi Im being either blind or dumb I can only find an Array result from the EQS Query OnQueryFinished event. Thanks for the help

[maiden wadi]

There's a "best" or "First" result I think.

[maiden wadi]

Change your green here from 1.0 to like 20.0

[crude dew]

These are all the options I can find for the OnQueryFinished.

Im not sure why I do not see a simple "Get Best Result From Query" or something.

[fleet prism]

Still nothing

[maiden wadi]

Can you show the material being used there?

[crude dew]

@fleet prism
1 : Do you hgave a Dynamic Material Instance with a Parameter named Red_Glow?

[fleet prism]

yes

[maiden wadi]

Can you show the RedGlow material? Where the Red_Glow param is being used?

[maiden wadi]

Ah. This is my bad. I was remembering the query setting for all or single best. All you have to do if you want the best is just get index zero of the array there.

[maiden wadi]

Plug Red_Glow directly into emissive.

[crude dew]

Thanks!

[fleet prism]

Thanks that fixed it, You whuldet mind explaining real quick why exactly that was affecting it?

[maiden wadi]

A value of 1.0 is normal. It won't glow much. As you go over 1, it'll bloom brighter and brighter.

If you look at your multiply, look at the Y value on the other node. You're saying 0.012 * 20. Which is still 0.24.

Essentially the multiply was just making your green value far too small. And it was unnecessary since you want to set the color directly. So putting the color directly into the emissive is good. Another thing you could do is make a scalar multiplier and set it to some 1-50 value, and multiply the color by that and then only set the color in the 0-1 range. That would at least multiply the colors uniformly. But it's not necessary unless that's something you're after, to control the bloom manually.

[plush hornet]

Hi all, Is "detach actor" componet bugged or something? It doesn't work when I try and call it in a custom event. Only if it runs in the same event as when I call Attach to parent??

[dark drum]

Not that im aware of, what are you trying to do and whats actually happening?

[plush hornet]

Im attaching an actor to the player as part of an ability when my player is in the air. When the actor hits the ground the attached actor is detached and then destroyed. Spawning in and attaching the actor works fine but it will not detach no matter what I do. I tried making custom events in the Player charecter it doesnt work. I tried making the events in the attached actor it still doesnt work. I used a print string to test if the custom events are being called and they are being called. The only way it works is if detach actor is on the same event as attach actor. Separately it doesn't work. And weirdly enough if I try to detach and destroy it, if it is attached it will duplicate it, but if its ran off the same event no issues.

Im using GAS by the way but that shouldn't impact it surely

[dark drum]

Actors wouldn't just duplicate themselves so as a guess I'd say your spawning multiple of the desired actor and when you detatch and destroy, it's only happening on one of them.

Can you show some code for how you handle the spawning stuff and the detatching?

[plush hornet]

I figured it out. Apparently on the landed node it was calling in mulitple so I had to add a do once node, seems to have resolved it. Thanks

[dark drum]

Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this message?

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read (real) property CallFunc_GetDynamicMaterial_ReturnValue in not an UClass". Node: Set Texture Parameter Value Graph: SetIcon Function: Set Icon Blueprint: W_HB_Element

This widget is used in another place and works perfectly fine but I'm trying to use it in another widget but getting the above.

[ornate trail]

Isn't it just create dynamic but once it's created you just use the regular get material node? I don't think I've ever used get dynamic

just noticed this looks like a slate function? That might work differently then

[dark drum]

Assuming the image is using a material that node should automatically create a DMI if it needs too. Otherwise it'll just return the DMI it's already using.

I've even tried this but then it just states the DMI isn't valid. 👀

[ornate trail]

yeah it's coming back null

[dark drum]

Yea but even switching to use the DMI variable directly, I just get accessed none. Very confused. haha

[ornate trail]

makes me think the resource it null then

since the only way it can return null is if the cast fails

do an isvalid log on the icon before you pass it?

[dark drum]

Icon is an image added via the designer view.

This widget is used in another widget and it works fine in that one. 🤔 Just not sure what I'm missing.

[ornate trail]

seems to be this UObject* Resource = Brush.GetResourceObject(); can't get the resource for it

if there's no brush asset there's nothing to set

[dark drum]

Oh, switching to on initialized instead of pre construct works. 🤔

[ornate trail]

probably a timing issue, preconstruct you don't have anything to set yet

[dark drum]

Oh, 🤦‍♂️ it's because I don't add the widget to the screen until after the function gets called. 😅

Interestingly this still doesn't work. 🤣 Just gets set to white.

[ornate trail]

parameter names match? 🧐

spelling color with a u smh

[dark drum]

Yea, works fine when placed/used in another widget. 🤣

[ornate trail]

you'll find it

[dark drum]

Yea, just one of them days. 😅

[ornate trail]

tell me about it, control rig hell for me

could have used a blendspace but noooo, had to get fancy

[dark drum]

Yea control rigs are a mine field with sharp pointy objects trying to snag your feet as you walk.

[ornate trail]

truer words have never been spoken

cool when they work tho

[storm stream]

It is good to using GetAssetsbyPath and then get correct asset mesh in replacing inventory items? or its only mean to work in editor? I have a problem, in PIE everythings works, i get the item, use it and mesh is found by path then replaced, works as intended, but in shipped project i found a issue, one of my meshes on XX path cant be found (?) its new added mesh, rest of them works fine, only that one cant be found by "Get Asset Registry" (i think its the issue) How data registry works? I need somehow to register my new added mesh to it or what? or its only for development purpose, not for game.

[dark drum]

It should work but if an asset isn't directly referenced, it might not get packaged automatically. If this happens you might have to manually specify that it should be packaged. You can also run into issues with the path names so personally I would try to avoid it where possible.

Generally for items you'd have something that contains most of the data for an item in a single place such as the icon for UI, mesh/skeletal for how it should show in the world, material overrides etc... Primary Data Assets can be a good option for this and you can use the asset manager to load groups if needed.

The reason i mention this is because manually specifying a path for each item could cause massive issues if a file is renamed or a folder is moved.

[storm stream]

I using Data Asset, just i have variable name for meshes and then i search for it.

But ye, it issue with registry, my mesh is not packaged automatically, u know where i can add it manually?

[summer tendon]

hi editor utility actor can call function from editor utility widget ? how to get reference ?

[dark drum]

Yes but getting the reference would be a pain. Generally the widget would send messages to the world not the other way round.

If you need a call back to update something on the widget, you can have the widget bind to an event dispatcher.

[dark drum]

In the project settings under 'Packaging' i believe.

However, it might be better to use a soft object ref instead of a name variable for the mesh.

[dense rampart]

i'm making an enemy ai script for a turn based strategy game but it's just normal movement, is this blueprint right?

i am just shortening on what the issue could be

[surreal peak]

You are never setting the DestActor to anything. The pin is not connected.
And you have a GetAllActorsOfClass node at the start that you never use the returned array of.

[dense rampart]

DestActor?

i got the other part sorted

[surreal peak]

Ah sorry, DestTarget I think.

Names are hard to read in the image.

Oh it's BestTarget I guess.

That one. You are basically setting it to "nothing" every time.

[dense rampart]

ok so how do i sort connecting destination?

[surreal peak]

You just want to connect the Player to it that you found the score for. Although the longer I look at the function, the worse it gets.

And then connect "BestTarget" as a Getter to "TargetActor" on the AI Move node after moving it.

[dense rampart]

ok, dw I just overhauled it to something else that's more feasible

now I am wanting to calculate the movement so that if it reaches 100 movement with each step and once it does the enemy stops moving and then the the turn switches back to the player

though I am not sure why the vectors can't subtract

[fleet prism]

Ok I asked this question in materials a while ago and no one awnsered me so Im try here. I was making a scan effect and when I was making the material to be able to see scanned objects behind walls and stuff with post processing. And I select my object and set the render custom depth to true instead of getting an outline on the object I just get theis weird green lines on my screen.

[crimson briar]

Mouse over the error to see what it is - it would tell you that the types don't match or something. Because the output is a float, you can't substract vectors and get a float. Disconnect the result and refresh the node so it goes back to a vector

[autumn pulsar]

Can I set the animation blueprint for a mesh? I'm trying to make an armor system, and wanted to swap out a mesh with another one with a new animgraph for animdynamics stuff

Additionally, I'll need empty skeletal mesh slots, can I just set those to nothing? or is there a specific thing I need to do

[next hollow]

All of those should be possibe/ yes.
You can set the anim instance, for the anim BP, and they should be fine as just empty/ null.

[autumn pulsar]

Another thing, I'm trying to make a reference of the mesh slots available on my pawn in the inventory component, and wanted to make a map with them, however it doesn't seem to accept the reference

https://i.imgur.com/ExcPTMd.png

[next hollow]

One is the component, aka what actually holds the info
One of the mesh, of what to render, in said component.
Sounds like the Map is using the mesh one, and not the component one.

[autumn pulsar]

Well I need to denote the component so I can set the mesh on it

oh I see, I had updated the the map, but didn't update the "add"

so it was asking for the wrong thing

[lofty rapids]

probably becasue a float output to subtracting two vectors doesn't make sense

A – B = (a1 – b1, a2 – b2, a3 – b3)

[dense rampart]

Oh that one subtracts ok? thank you. I am just so close to of the results I want, I am just now calculating so if the enemy move hits a number range like 100 it stops and the. It switches back to the player’s turn rinse and repeat

[lofty rapids]

it gets the distance, which is what i thought you were looking for.

[lofty rapids]

you have to subtract then get magnitude which is what this node does

most likely

or in bp it's length

[sharp grotto]

Is there someone who has experience in ynnk plugin for metahuman and non-meta characters lip sync and facial animation.
I really need help for this plugin how to use it and faced some issues.
Please message me.

Ty

[autumn pulsar]

So I'm trying to make an inventory system, and I was looking to have item stacks. I have the incoming item class, but I wasn't sure of the best approach to "match" it with my inventory. Would I be better off using an array then cycling through all of it until I find a match, or would I use a map for that?

Additionally would it be better off to grab the class?

Each item should be its own UObject type

[next hollow]

Your only real bet would be going over the loop of all items.
A Map I guess would work?
But it seems like it’s be a bit too weirdly confusing.

[autumn pulsar]

I could have a global table of all items, but that makes adding new ones a headache

[next hollow]

That table would still be an array to loop over anyway

[autumn pulsar]

yeah and if I wanted to set stack sizes an array would be better

since I can loop to find the next stack

[next hollow]

It’d be an array no matter what?
An array of item objects, or an array of stacks.
One is just an extra step to change the stack size. (Aka getting the item object)

[autumn pulsar]

Wasn't sure if "map" was a hashmap in Unreal

[next hollow]

A map is.
But there’d still be an array of the items.
That be the objects, or the stacks.

[autumn pulsar]

If I have say itemarmor and itemweapon and they both inherent from itembase, if I do a class check between itemarmor and itemweapon, would that pass?

Does calling a return node break a for loop?

Guess I'll find out

[next hollow]

Yes.
It ends the function, so sequence, loops, etc end

[autumn pulsar]

sick

[autumn pulsar]

https://i.imgur.com/1R1de7H.png will adding an item to an array like this break references if I destroy the parent object later?

I'd have the sort of "host object" that has the item information in it, and I'm wanting to "yoink" that and attach it to my player

Though it may be better to store as class references instead?

[last peak]

no

[crimson briar]

Class check is valid when going up, not sideways. A cow is an animal, a dog is an animal, cow is not a dog

[dense rampart]

okay I am nearly there but i have set this up and i did have other print strings as far as after the branch however nothing seems to be in affect

[crimson briar]

"nothing seems to be in effect" tells us nothing since we don't know what you want to happen and what is not happening. Add prints and go backwards to find the place where the execution stops behaving as it should and start from there

[dense rampart]

to have the the enemy movie with it's call function at the end, i have done a print after the branch but it doesn't seem to clicking into it. i am changing it

[lofty rapids]

so your print string on true and false but it's never true

you print on just true, just false ?

print on both, and see if either show up

[autumn pulsar]

Cool thanks

[narrow pulsar]

Has anyone figured out how to make the crouching of movement component smooth? While still being replicated for multiplayer

[north bobcat]

anyone in here know anything about saving variables in ue? It's not working for me for some reason lol

[nova rivet]

you have to make a save file blueprint and copy all the variables you want to save to it, if I remember correctly

[tepid willow]

If you mean that you need a smooth transition, then you need to make a camera modifier that would interpolate between standing and crouching position

[glass blade]

does this qualify as a latent(async) node?

[next hollow]

Latent, but not “async” in the expected context.

I think async is more like.
Jumps from the node, to a 2nd thread, to then return later.

While timers are you set, and there checked on the main thread per tick.
They also don’t return data.

[autumn pulsar]

Async will have a clock on it iirc

[jovial steeple]

That node is not latent or async.

All the node itself does is register a new timer in unreals timer manager.

This action alone is not latent, as it can be completed instantly. Thus it is useable in things like funtions.

It is also not technicly async.

However you can use that node kind of like an async task. You can also use it to get the same functionality as many latent nodes (Like Delay). This is where the confustion comes from. However, that node alone is neither latent or async.

[autumn pulsar]

The node itself isn't async or latent, but the timer it sets is

So you can accidentally screw up by having a rogue timer set a variable

[maiden wadi]

Don't use this if you can avoid it. Prefer the delegate one with a CreateEvent node instead of FunctionName

[narrow pulsar]

No yea i get that the issue is that using MC's crouch makes it move instantly to the crouch position Z level. Any interpolation I attempt to add simply makes it:
Start crouch -> snap to crouch position -> snap back up -> interpolated character/camera movement until it reaches crouch position

[narrow pulsar]

Still cant figure out how to get it to work
How it's right now in Play:
https://medal.tv/games/unreal-engine/clips/lB62x3Y8huVxWhTmH?invite=cr-MSxFMTAsMjAwNTA1NDU4&v=6

[crimson briar]

What are the values of eye height, crouched eye height and the timeline curve?

[dense rampart]

I have done a check and there is something about the controller not being valid, i have made sure the other settings such as ai possess and world and spawned is set on the enemy

[narrow pulsar]

Eye Height I set at the start of my begin play since I don't know if CMC changes the "base eye height" so I wanted to keep its default value safe, but eye height is 64 and crouched eye height is 32

The timeline:

I did find that if i use a spring arm with camera lag speed turned on it works perfectly even without a timeline but it feels hacky and kinda scared it may affect other things

I think I know what the issue is but I do not know how to fix it. The CMC Crouch moves the camera a tiny bit down (it does not move it from 64 to 32 for some reason dunno why) so what's happening is the crouch happens -> moves camera that tiny bit from crouch -> lerps the rest of the distance between that position until the 32 from "crouched eye height"

[crimson briar]

Oh, I thought you didn't include the actual crouching yet and were testing the camera on its own- since there is no code triggering the crouch on the screenshots

[narrow pulsar]

I'm using Ninja Input Plugin, it calls the crouch() from CMC

But even if I did it manually it would be the same issue

[crimson briar]

Well in this case yeah, you either use the CMC handling of crouching - I believe it has settings for changing the crouch eye level etc. Or you disable it and do your own with a timeline.

[dense rampart]

still having some trouble, from what the testing is going is that doesn't conisder the ai blueprint as valid though the class settings for the pawn are correct for it so I am not sure on the issue

[crimson briar]

DId you place an instance of the AIController into the AiController variable, or did you just create it and left it empty?

[dense rampart]

nope

it does reference it

[spring magnet]

Something is up with unreal respawning and it's driving me up the wall.
If I have 3 player starts, but I cover 2 of them with a mesh, the engine still rolls the dice and attempts to spawn the player at one of the covered ones, so 66% of the time, the player spawns, immediately gets destroyed, and the camera goes to 0,0,0. How does this make any sense?

[crimson briar]

Sigh.
A Blueprint/Class is a template for creating objects.
A variable of this type is a container for holding a pointer to once specific object spawned in the game. By default a variable is empty, meaning there is absolutely nothing there so you can't call functions on it.
To execute code on it, you need to get an instance of this type and put it inside the variable.
For instance if it was inside some AI blueprint, you would use a node called GetController (or get ai controller, I don't remember if it was named like this) - this gives you the reference to this AI controller if it has one. You can then put it into a variable for example or use right away.

Since you are iterating through the enemies you probably want to use the Array Element controller, instead of the variable AiController

You just need to cast the GetController to your aicontroller before using it

Or check if there was a Get for AiController specifically, I don't remember

[crimson briar]

It makes sense, you just assumed it works differently than it does. Player start doesn't care if it is covered or where it is, it is a simple point at which players can spawn by default. If you want more control over it, you need to add your own functionality instead of relying on this simple element.

[spring magnet]

That's fair, I'm currently in the process of just deriving from the player start and adding a check for spawn validity, and if nothing is overlapping, set the PlayerStartTag to Valid, then I'll just spawn using that Tag I suppose?

[dense rampart]

still not working

[mortal palm]

Maybe you can override Choose Player Start in the game mode?

[north bobcat]

yeah man it dont work lol

just aint happening

it just prints that string on the right picture

[crimson briar]

What is the name you use, inside the MainGameSaveFile string? ANd is it ever changed?

Also check if the file is created inside the folders. It should be inside YourProjectName/Saved/Game Saves or smth like that

[lofty rapids]

so the print string is shwing on false ?

[lofty rapids]

when you say it does reference it, you realize the image doesn't show that ?

thats just the type

you need to actually set the variable

[lofty rapids]

is the issue is it's saying "no" ?

[dense rampart]

Strange, I thought I did set it to that

[lofty rapids]

so setting the type doesn't set the value

you need to actually assign it the value

like you can have a variable that is a string, but you have to set it's value

so you can have a variable that is a bp

but you have to set its value

[summer tendon]

can i call within editor a function to game instance ? or it needs to be done on run time ? (play) ? i wanna store a value there and load another lvl and load it without "playing"

[dark drum]

No, the game instance doesn't exist until you start playing so there's nothing to call the function on.

[summer tendon]

just saw failed cast so i need to find a different approach

[dark drum]

When you say you want to load another level without playing, what do you mean by this?

[summer tendon]

i am making automatic pictures 360 per level so i have already logic to do pictures in the level and before that i have UI where i select levels which i wanna load and do the logic... after pictures in the level are done i want to move in index to another selected level load it and do pictures again so i need to store my "array of levels" and "int index"

all doing outside of play it is inside of editor utility widget

[dark drum]

If its editor utility stuff, I believe you should be able to get the level editor subsystem and call 'Load Level'. The editor widget should stay open which you can use to temporarily store the desired levels.

[summer tendon]

it is not storing i was thinking that but its not

[dark drum]

What happens to the editor widget when you load the level? Just resets?

[north bobcat]

wym this? It's just empty

[north bobcat]

it dont create in the folders

[dark drum]

That's the name of the file that gets saved to disc, if it's blank it won't create the file.

[north bobcat]

oh

so I just duplicate the variable name there?

[dark drum]

Type in what the name of the file should be. 'Game01' as an example.

[north bobcat]

this will do lol

[summer tendon]

yes resets but now i am trying to move some logic to editor utility actor and there you can actually persists values

[north bobcat]

I thought the variable name was the name that saves lol

[dark drum]

I would avoid spaces.

[north bobcat]

why

[dark drum]

Oh, ok. If thats the case, you can always use a save game object to store it in. These still work at editor time.

[last peak]

does this make sense ?

[north bobcat]

its okay I just got it a new name no spaces

just in case

[dark drum]

Some operating systems don't handle spaces in file paths very well. Sometimes gets replaces with %20 i think.

[north bobcat]

I see

It works ty

[dark drum]

It makes sense to me but i'm not sure it would for someone that doesn't already know how instances work.

[last peak]

Mhm its a confusing thing at first in object oriented programming, its also hard to properly explain haha

[dark drum]

Yea, i often tweak how I try to explain it to see what sticks better. 😅

[dark drum]

Not sure if this is better.

[ocean cloak]

I'm looking to seriously level up my UE5 Blueprint skills. My goal is to gain the professional knowledge needed to build complex systems independently, rather than just repeating steps from specific tutorials.

Could you please help me find the absolute best, most in-depth, and structured video course or series? (It doesn't matter which platform it's on—YouTube, Udemy, etc.)

I need a resource that explains how the whole toolset works and why we use specific techniques (like Interfaces, Casting, and Event Dispatchers), not just what to click.

[crimson briar]

I doubt you will find a course that will take you to a "pro level" whatever it is. You gain this sort of experience mostly by making systems yourself, failing, and figuring out why it failed.

[loud vessel]

Hey, I have a very weird problem.
I just installed UE5.7
and when I tried to package just a default template project, I got these errors.... (Check Image and text file)
Any idea what I may be missing?

Also, I have Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.8.3
(The lastest is 17.14.21 but I don't have it downloaded --> is it Required for whatever the fix is?)

Please @loud vessel Tag me if you know the answer, or what I should do, or need more info.

I tried to search (Youtube/Google), but either couldn't find anyone else with the same problem....
or simply didn't know exactly how to search for this particular error.

[dense rampart]

So somewhere on the blueprint I should do a begin play and-> set that variable to the ai controller? Just to be more certain

[dark drum]

With the type of error messages, id update VS.

[last peak]

you need to get the specific npc and from that specific npc you need its controller

then you set your controller variable to that

[ocean cloak]

I'm fully aware that hitting the "pro level" isn't something a single video can provide; that part is up to my own hard work, practice, and learning from failures. I just need the most reliable starting resource.

[dark drum]

Where is the code being called from? (the class)

[dark drum]

I would just learn some C++ core concepts. They apply to BP as well and can help when you want to start doing a little C++ as well.

[maiden wadi]

I'm not sure there even honestly is a resource on that. It's just pure experience.

[ocean cloak]

I need a resource that will teach me the logic and fundamentals of the entire system (e.g., Interfaces, Event Dispatchers, and Data Structures) without using the C++ programming language.

[dark drum]

To clarify I'm not saying to learn how to code c++. Everything in BP follows the same concepts as c++ so understanding the core concepts helps massively.

Hierarchy and composition for example.

[maiden wadi]

To be fair, having just BP skills is a big 😬.

BP is a scripting language and meant to bridge the gap between designers and engineers. Like even if you're going to be a non C++ tech artist, or a mission designer, or dialogue person, or etc. You still have to incorporate a lot of the other things.

If you're designing systems front to back, you're an engineer, and you NEED C++.

[dark drum]

I which BP's supported Polymorphism, i feel like being able to overload BP functions could be useful. 😅

[white parrot]

For most simple use cases you don't need C++.. you do however need to learn how to program rather than how to code

[maiden wadi]

How do you mean? You can do that unless I'm misunderstanding?

[dark drum]

I don't believe you can have multiple methods for the same function and have it call the relevant one based on the data (properties) passed in.

[maiden wadi]

Ohh. You're meaning like same name different arguments.

Yeah. The joy of everything being a name lookup mostly.

[dark drum]

Dual Classes (multiple-inheritance) could be cool as well but you can just use a component in most cases.

[dark drum]

Start with this. You don't need to worry about understanding the actual code. (You can skip the polymorphism section)

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cpp/object-oriented-programming-in-cpp/

[maiden wadi]

To be fair you can't do the class thing in C++ either with Unreal. UCLASS is specifically one class. Interfaces are a special case on that.

[dark drum]

Yea, Epics way or the highway haha.

Access Specifiers and Encapsulation is probably a big one a lot of newer individuals don't use. 🤔

[maiden wadi]

Newer. Haha.

I've seen people who've been doing this for nearly a decade who couldn't encapsulate their way out of a wet paper bag.

Getting people to fucking design actual systems and use an APIs makes you feel like that torture guy on the first episode of Alias.

[dark drum]

I don't like people touching my stuff so it all gets set as private unless I allow them to call something. 😅

I've seen a few examples where someone had a setter function so it would call an event dispatcher but the variable was still public.

I wish you could set properties as protected in BP though. Only being able to set as private can be a pain when dealing with hierarchy.

[maiden wadi]

Curious if they did that because of the reparenting tool.

Dumb reason, but I'm still curious.

[dark drum]

Who knows. Its always been that way as far as I can remember.

[narrow pulsar]

Just bp is fine for a lot of projects

Its just when the scope because complex that it really requires c++

Even for a lot of complex projects some stuff in bps is completely fine

[maiden wadi]

That's not even remotely true. You can make a basic game with BP only if you're careful. But you will be cutting corners and ignoring features that even basic C++ allows.

[lofty rapids]

i'm working on a scripting language that is inside a BFL

basically a VM exposed to blueprints

[narrow pulsar]

I mean theres games made 100% in bp that are quite complex and have a sht ton of features

[lofty rapids]

ime c++ is basically required, there are things you literally can't do in bp

and the performance gain on serious tasks is enormous

you can make a full game

[narrow pulsar]

Bright memory for example

Idk I use both but I feel like I could easily make them in bps alone its just a question of performance and replication/networking issues existing with bps

So no mp games for bps

[lofty rapids]

i mean i do multiplayer with bp rpc

i just had to expose some stuff

for like timing

so i needed a bit of c++ to expose events but thats it

it seems to run ok for now lol

what part would i need to have in c++ ?

[narrow pulsar]

For performance any loops

And i havent done much replication in bps at all

I avoided it completely because always heard bad things abr it

Abt

[lofty rapids]

its just a bit complicated to get anything to work

as far as to get one thing to work you need like four times the code

once you get an idea bout replication its actually nice to have

i've done networking in the past and this makes things very nice imo

[last peak]

After learning bp's you already know a lot of c++ without knowing it yet tho

Like polymorphism, Unreal engine is polymorph heaven

Learning Pointers and syntax is probably the hardest part after bps

[full badge]

speaking of pointers, they should add pointer supports for bp

[last peak]

ye 100%

[full badge]

being not able to pass variable reference through events is kinda pain

[last peak]

ye i mean you can just send the entire object and then directly manipulate the variable but that brings its own problems with it and is annoying

[full badge]

yeah

im just sending variable name
then set the variable through set property by name

[maiden wadi]

This game requires a source build. So it's not purely BP.

And while I will admit that the game looks very nice from the footage I've seen, from an engineering standpoint it isn't insanely complex. He leans a lot on existing features like the sequencers. It really does showcase the creator's artistic and cinematic skillset. But the programming requirements in this game is not complex.

[crude dew]

Hi, If i wanted to reevaluate a tree state on every run of the tree to check that a Enter Condition is still true how would i do this please?
The tree is shown below it is checking the Enter Condition of the Chase Node to ensure the CanSeePlayer and Chase is true to enter,

But IF the player moves out of sight then I want the tree to say CanSeePlayer is false and then return to Idle or some other branch plz. Been stuck a few hours on this so thought I,d reach out here. 🙂

This is the chase logic

Updated Tree

[jaunty solstice]

How do you get random variation for a float value in a Blueprint Actor?
Can I access the world coordinates somehow and use that as a seed value for a random multiplier?

[crude dew]

Is this what your after ?

[jaunty solstice]

Thanks. I think this might work.
How do you get the current actors location? Is that Get Local Transform or?

Also instead of Make Random Stream should I instead be using Make Random Stream From Location?
Just using regular Random Float in Range won't work because all your Blueprint actors have the same random value unless dynamically instancing at runtime.

[crude dew]

What exactly are you trying to do just make a random vector for a location in the world ?

Get Actor Location will give the Actors location in the world

[jaunty solstice]

Yep thanks!
Get Actor Location >> Make Random Stream From Location >> Random Float in Range from Stream

Correct?

[crude dew]

I think this is what you are trying to do

Ignore the GetControlled Pawn node if you are doing this inside your actor, Then you can put a Min and Max and then it will always return the same value between the min and max depending on the actors location i think.

[jaunty solstice]

Thanks!!
Had another workflow question>
When creating a BluePrint actor for a Cinematic is it necessary to copy your logic from the Construction Script to the EventGraph (Event BeginPlay)?

Or is this only necessary when making dynamic (runtime) changes from Sequencer?

[crude dew]

Ah not done any work in Cinematics/Sequencer yet so cant help with that soryr. ; (

[last peak]

what the heck are you trying to do ?

[jaunty solstice]

My solution is working. Just random float values to alter the intensity of a Blueprint light actor.

Next is some random color variation😬

[last peak]

but why do you need a stream then ?

Ah well

color should work similar

[jaunty solstice]

random values for actors manually placed

[burnt edge]

anyone know why my interface function isn't showing up in the blueprint functions list?

[dark drum]

That's not how state trees work. They don't tick like behaviour trees. Instead it traverses the tree until it finds a state it can enter and stays there until a transition is triggered.

If you want to check if the enter conditions are still true, you'd have to add a transaction that checks on tick and specify where it should go.

[dark drum]

Does the thing have the interfaces added in the class settings?

[burnt edge]

yeah

[dark drum]

Is it a child class? If so, you might need to enable show inherited properties.

[burnt edge]

It's implemented directly in this bp, not inherited.

[lost hemlock]

Hi, I spent 2 days to write a function in C++ that would serialize my render target so that I can save/load it

this is the file

But I realized my visual studio & visual studio code didn't properly expose my functions to my blueprint

I asked almost 10 people who are really experienced in C++ coding with unreal engine & vs/vsc, but nobody could understand wtf was wrong with my Visual Studio .SLN etc.

so i decided that I must do this in blueprint instead...

[thin panther]

visual studio and VSC has no bearing on what gets exposed to blueprints

UHT and UBT is doing the blueprint exposing for you

It might be more helpful to share the code than a chatlog

[lost hemlock]

wtf did I send?

lol, omg

[thin panther]

lol

that's a new one for me 🤣

[lost hemlock]

💀 sorry about that

anyway this is the code I was trying to send, lol

this is how I did it... but It worked only once at first, then it no longer worked...

I think I broke something with my source files...

[thin panther]

your header is what's important for exposing functions to unreal

send it over in #cpp

[lost hemlock]

// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.

#pragma once

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Kismet/BlueprintFunctionLibrary.h"
#include "Engine/TextureRenderTarget2D.h"
#include "Engine/Texture2D.h"
#include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"
#include "Kismet/KismetRenderingLibrary.h"
#include "GlaxFunctionLibrary.generated.h"


USTRUCT(BlueprintType)
struct FRTColorData
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "RTData")
    TArray<FColor> Colors;

    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite, Category = "RTData")
    FIntPoint Size = FIntPoint::ZeroValue;
};

UCLASS()
class TERRAVIVE_API UGlaxFunctionLibrary : public UBlueprintFunctionLibrary
{
    GENERATED_BODY()

public:

    /** Read pixels from a render target into a serializable color array. */
    UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category = "Glax|RenderTarget", meta = (WorldContext = "WorldContextObject"))
    static FRTColorData RenderTargetToColorArray(UObject* WorldContextObject, UTextureRenderTarget2D* RenderTarget);

    /** Create a transient UTexture2D from a color array. */
    UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category = "Glax|RenderTarget")
    static UTexture2D* ColorArrayToTexture2D(FRTColorData Data);

    /** Fill a render target from a color array. Returns true on success. */
    UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category = "Glax|RenderTarget", meta = (WorldContext = "WorldContextObject"))
    static bool ColorArrayToRenderTarget(UObject* WorldContextObject, FRTColorData Data, UTextureRenderTarget2D* Target);

};

oh yeah this is also the header

[lost hemlock]

i did sent it there too. ppl said it had nothing wrong to do with the code, ppl told me that the code is mostly fine

but anyway, today im planning on doing that in blueprint

[thin panther]

Do you have a link to the conversation?

ah ok it's recent

Ok, might be worth bumping the conversation, it seems people just went a bit inactive (granted now isn't it's most active time either)

[lost hemlock]

You mean you think its worth asking again there?

I think I need to try it in blueprint

Im debating it, although not sure which option would be easier at this point

[thin panther]

You should definitely ask there. Your issue isn't with the blueprint scripting language, it's an issue with C++

[narrow pulsar]

So I'm having some issues, how can you make crouch from CMC smooth instead of instantly teleporting your camera? I saw there are some guides on youtube but when I follow them they do not work at all. The screenshot results in the issue in the next video: I found out the issue is because my capsule moves down when crouching and the difference between the standing height & the crouched height is whats causing the instance snap

https://medal.tv/games/unreal-engine/clips/lB62x3Y8huVxWhTmH?invite=cr-MSxFMTAsMjAwNTA1NDU4&v=6

[prisma crag]

I'm trying to package my level (which has 3 levels, the main menu screen which is just a UI, the actual game itself called 'Terminated' and an end screen which lets the player close the game) but whenever I try to package it I keep getting this error consistently:

PackagingResults: Warning: Visual Studio 2022 compiler is not a preferred version PackagingResults: Warning: Unable to generate long package name, EndScreen. Input 'EndScreen' is not a child of an existing mount point. PackagingResults: Warning: Unable to generate long package name, Terminated. Input 'Terminated' is not a child of an existing mount point. PackagingResults: Warning: Unable to generate long package name, MainMenuMap. Input 'MainMenuMap' is not a child of an existing mount point.

I've included them all in the Project Settings > List of maps to include in the packaged build and everything works on the coding side.

The build DOES package itself but the main menu doesn't take me to the game (though it works in the editor). Is there something I'm missing? If I need to add any more information please ping me and let me know

[lusty ginkgo]

Hello,
Has anyone worked with the AnamorphicLensDistortion and LensFile nodes within an EventGraph; either for an Editor Utility Widget and/or Blueprint? Specifically when working with the 3DE4 Anamorphic - Standard Degree 4 lens model.

I'm researching how to import and process existing animated anamorphic lens distortion parameter values from a txt file output from 3DEqualizer to auto assign onto an existing Lens File, rather than manually setting Lens Data Points.
If anyone who's used 3DE before, I'd be interested to know what direction was required to process this type of data into UE5.

[crude dew]

Oh ok, Thanks for the reply I thought things like Evaluators and Global Tasks would cause a re-evaluation of the enter condition but i guess once its entered the state it stays there until Finish Task is called (Which would send it back to a transitional state using (OnStateCompleted) I guess ? So if the AI Move To is called but never finishes (IE, It never reaches the player the tree will never leave the Chase state right because OnMoveFinished never triggers the Finish Task ?

Is this correct? Just thought I would write a thing to see if my understanding of the trees is correct, Once again thank you !

[dark drum]

Pretty much yea, it's why state trees can be useful for none AI related stuff too. (I think epic mentioned something about using it for a weather system)

You can always have the state fail if the move to fails as well and do something different.

[hollow drum]

Can some tell me what i am missing this is on the Event Tick chain in my playercontroller blueprint. I am making a card game and I want to click and drag the card around the screen and with this I am able to, only thing is when I first click the card to pick it up it lifts to the Z20 which is supposed to happen but it does not just lift straight up and allow me to start dragging from the spot i clicked. It repositions the card so that the point i clicked is under the mouse cursor after lifting the card. I dont want it to do the reposition part. The Return Value on the inverse Transform Location node is connected to new location pin on a Set World Location node

[dark drum]

When you first click the card you need to store an offset from its current location and the clicked location. You'd then add this offset to the new location when dragging.

[hollow drum]

@dark drum Sorry forgot to mention that is what the Relative Grab Location node in the Screenshot is

[dark drum]

I think the paths you're using to denote the maps to save is incorrect. (Unless they're in the just the content folder)

You'd normally have something like 'folder name''map name'

You can right click on the map asset and get it's path location to paste in.

[dark drum]

How do you set the relative grab location?

[hollow drum]

it allows me to start dragging from where i clicked it's just when the initial click happens the card is at 1z height and then it moves to the Z20 height and when it moves to the Z20 height the Raycast impact point is no longer directly under the mouse cursor so it repositions the entire card while at the new Zheight so that the original impact point lines back up with the mouse cursor and i dont want it to do that

this is how the Relative Grab location is set

@dark drum I rewrote that last message to better explain what my issue is

[narrow pulsar]

Has anyone managed to get a smooth camera transition working for crouching when using CMC's crouch()?

[dark drum]

Yes, the trick is to enable/disable crouch after the animation has played.

[dark drum]

You could try breaking apart the final vector and manually adjust the Z.

[narrow pulsar]

hmm I thought about this but that means there'll be a 0.3s delay between player pressing crouch & character actually crouching >.<

[dark drum]

Oh and you'd need to manually adjust the capsule half height as part of the animation.

[narrow pulsar]

hmm

I guess I could try that

Just not a big fans of delays like that since it'll be multiplayer but yea

[dark drum]

Use a timer instead. This will allow you to store the timer handle and clear it if the player tries to do the opposite before the transition has finished.

[narrow pulsar]

So basically on crouch input trigger -> set crouch variable to play the animation -> play timeline -> lerp capsule -> lerp camera -> on complete = crouch()?

[dark drum]

Pretty much.

[prisma crag]

And that would just be the level, right

[prisma crag]

I tried that and I got this error

[dark drum]

This looks like an error caused by something in the level BP. If I'm understanding it correctly, it's attempting to open the same level or something like that.

[prisma crag]

Like it's considering MainMenuMap, EndScreen and Terminated all one level?

because my intent was to have the game start at the main-menu (as its own level) and then it goes to the maingame (terminated) and end on EndScreen. The nodes I have to do that are all in different levels to eachother. (Terminated DID have a node that looped back into itself, however i removed it but got the same errors)

[maiden wadi]

I've seen this neatly handled by attaching the camera to the mesh on a "camera" bone in the skeletal mesh. Which gets moved only when like crouching or prone.

The other kind of cheap hacky way is just to use some camera interp lag from like a spring arm.

[dark drum]

Show the logic.

[narrow pulsar]

I was doing the hacky way but found some issues (camera lags a bit when moving, doesn't stop immediatelly as you stop moving, I attempted to simply turn on & off the camera lag before & after the crouch but if you're moving you notice a tiny stutter which is basically the camera "catching up" so thats a no go either.

[dark drum]

Attaching the camera isn't a bad option. However, I found that sometimes the camera might clip through objects for half a second if you're going under something during the crouch. This is because the mesh can exceed the capsule component when it instantly resizes.

If your gameplay allows it, it's definitely the simplest of options.

[prisma crag]

the first image is my MainMenu - > Terminated one

The second one is Terminated - > MainMenu (Done via a widget that appears on the player's death)

the third one is when the player beats the boss and goes from Terminated - > EndScreen.

[maiden wadi]

No I mean like. You put a bone on the mesh itself. Similar to attaching a sword to the "Hand_r" bone. Except this one just doesn't move normally except when you crouch and prone. So the animation itself drives where you want the camera. After that it's all about feelers and tests and such.

So your capsule resizes instantly, doesn't matter so much, but your animation which is already driving the character's visuals can also drive the camera's "desired location".

Would still need extra handling from the manager though. I really should look into that new gameplay camera thing.

[narrow pulsar]

So I got this working and it works really well except that when testing in multiplayer the client starts kinda spazzing out:
https://medal.tv/games/screen-capture/clips/lBBfRjce0W4QHqopj?invite=cr-MSxrMEMsMjAwNTA1NDU4&v=9

It works perfectly fine for the host though but yea

[dark drum]

Id try updating the half height on the server side.

[narrow pulsar]

will give it a test

[prisma crag]

@dark drum sorry for the ping, though this is what you meant by Logic right?

[narrow pulsar]

Nope, updating the capsule on the server messes everything up, it still looks a bit funky from the hosts POV of the client and the client the lerp doesn't work properly and its sinking into the floor when crouching for some reason lmao

I'll have to see if I can figure out a way around it

[narrow pulsar]

Was the opposite, just had to ensure it was not replicated at all and just a local thing

Since main screen was playing as listen server it was updating in the server and causing the desync

[dark drum]

Not sure to be honest. There's a few issues to consider such as anything after the load level or destroy Actor won't actually get called but I don't believe that would cause your issue.

[prisma crag]

I managed to resolve it, all I had to do was enable Generate Abstract Class and change the parent class of my level to something else, then switch it back

I don't quite get how it worked but I'm not going to complain

I do have a new problem now, where I keep getting this warning and none of my NPCs are moving in the packaged builds (though it works in editor?)

LogCrowdFollowing: Warning: Unable to find RecastNavMesh instance while trying to create UCrowdManager instance

I have a recastnavmesh in my level, though I don't know why it's not working

[tepid solar]

Hi guys. I want to access an actor from another actor. To be precise I want to access an staticMesh that I made to an actor from the player Actor. I tried to get the parent of self and then search for childComponents with a tag I set beforehand but that doesn't work.

[dark drum]

So you've spawned in an actor from the player character and what to access the static mesh of the newly spawned actor?

[tepid solar]

No the static mesh already exists in the world

[tepid solar]

obove

[tepid solar]

The world I am using is VehicleBasic. That is also the name of the parent of both actors. The actors exists separately so none is the child of the other and I need a way to trigger a function of the Sphere_blueprint from the player actor.

[dark drum]

And whats the relationship between these two actors? Will they both always exist and be preplaced in the level?

[prisma crag]

is there any way to use my player's variable on the level blueprint?

I'm trying to make a door and a key (the key is the variable on the player) but I'm not quite sure how to call it.

[tepid solar]

One is spawned at beginplay the other that needs to be accessed is always there

[white parrot]

You can pass the "key" using an interface

[prisma crag]

how would I go about doing that, if you wouldn't mind explaining?

[last peak]

First of all dont use the level blueprint
Second
Get player character - cast to bp player - get variable

and there you go

[prisma crag]

so just make the door it's own individual script?

[last peak]

yes, the level bp is complete garbage

[prisma crag]

I'm afraid I put all my door-related stuff there already

[last peak]

i mean if you are solo in a small project ok go for it but its bad practice

[prisma crag]

Yeah it's just a solo project, but I'll keep it in mind for future reference

with that in mind, is there any way to do it within there?

[last peak]

Get player character - cast to bp player - get variable

for anything else that is not your player you probably want to use a interface like Pingo said

[white parrot]

You create an interface (instead of creating aBlueprint you create a Blueprint interface). inside you define a function
"Unlock" and add a parameter that matches your key variable Actor/String however you defined it.

In your door BP, class settings -> add interface -> the interface you just created, it will be added to your functions list under the same name "Unlock".
double click to implement it, as in what happens "when you receive that key variable".

assuming you have an overlap event on your door, when the overlap event triggers you dereference OtherActor and call the "Unlock" and pass in the key variable.

[white parrot]

Eh, you better of copy-pasting it into an actual Actor

[last peak]

i just imagine a entire dungeon where he has to script every single door lmfao

https://tenor.com/view/homeup-heroes2019-homeup-quan-homeup-pmq-homeup-pmq-gif-14305544

[maiden wadi]

Composition is a wonderful thing.

[prisma crag]

I have 6 doors

granted their code is copy and paste cause this one is the only one w/ the lock gimmick

[last peak]

You are doing object oriented programming here
One Programming Rule
Do not Repeat yourself

why copy paste the crap 6 time if you could just create 1 actor

and place it 6 times in the world

[prisma crag]

Uhh?

good question

[solemn fog]

Hello! I just started learning Unreal Engine. Could anyone recommend a good Blueprint tutorial for beginners?

[maiden wadi]

To start off with. Literally anything to get used to the engine. What or how your learning matters less than getting oriented. Anything that is like a "build some game style thing" with a bunch of episodes are usually good. They'll run through a bunch of different topics.

Past that you can do more specific implementations.

Casting is not bad. Interfaces are not great. Composition is wonderful. Datatables are okay, DataAssets are better. Make systems and an API. Do not put gameplay logic in Widgets.

[solemn fog]

@maiden wadi Thanks! This is really helpful. I’ll look for a small game-style tutorial to get used to the engine first. Also good to know about DataAssets, composition and avoiding gameplay logic in Widgets — I wouldn’t have known that as a beginner.

[white parrot]

Also don't assume paid courses are inherently better than Youtube/free courses, they are usually not.

[solemn fog]

@white parrot Thanks for the information!

[prisma crag]

Would there be no alternative? I'm trying to get an already-existing boolean from my player character to serve as a condition for a branch in my level design if that helps better explain what I'm aiming to do

[last peak]

Thats exactly what you are doing with that

You get your player character - this is your current player character object with that you cast to your player - this is your specific player instance - you get its variable

[prisma crag]

OH

I'm a fool

my apologies

[last peak]

Everyone starts somwhere

[sand shore]

Level script can directly reference actors already spawned into the level. You could have the player’s pawn already in the level and possess that after the controller gets set up, to directly reference it in the level scripts.

But then if you change the possessed pawn, then the level scripts will break. Others have already indicated you might wanna avoid the level script, so I won’t lump more of that advice in.

[jovial hemlock]

Can you still launch or add impulse to a character if the mesh of that character has simulate physics set to true to make it ragdoll?

[rough pecan]

I'm having some troubles here with a weapon pickup system.
The pickup works fine and all, but I can't figure out how to get a reference to the character the weapon is attached to.
I'm destroying the weapon pickup actor, spawning a new actor, then attaching it to the Hand.
But anytime I try to get Attached Parent, Attached Actors, or anything like that it shows None or gives a nullptr.

[last peak]

Just create a new variable on your weapon actor and make it instance editable and exposed on spawn

THen on spawn actor from class you can set it to whatever it is attached to

[rough pecan]

brilliant, tysm

[tribal gazelle]

I'm trying to work out the best way to store and retrieve variables like character, mesh etc. and access them via actor components and can't seem to find anything on this. Does anyone have a specific process they do?

[last peak]

Hmm what do you mean exactly?

Do you want to access the variables from the component

or the other way around

[tribal gazelle]

I want to store variables like character, mesh, capsule component, player controller in one place which I can access via actor components. I am doing the references in a single actor component but I am getting all sorts of problems doing it that way

[last peak]

What problems do you have with that ?

[tribal gazelle]

Spawning the player as an actor, then setting the references in an actor component on the character.

[last peak]

But what are the problems you are running into ?

[tribal gazelle]

The juggle between controller spawning first then character being spawned then controller possessing character - even if I set the references after the posses it still is not working. (well it does but the controller reference is returning none) I am just assuming there is a much better way to do it.

[last peak]

Is there a reason why you want to store the controller ref on a component ?

[tribal gazelle]

Because GetComponentByClass is how I reference the reference component (in all other components)

[last peak]

I mean im not sure if there is a better way i usually tend to store important variables that i want to access somwhere else in a component too and so far i havent encountered any problems with it

[tribal gazelle]

Ok, thank you. I haven't had problems before so it's mainly my refactor not working. I'll keep tugging along.

[crimson briar]

It is not wise to store references in a single place like this because then you risk binding everything in your game together. Which means it will be harder to reuse elements and more stuff can break when one of the things changes.

As to your problem with the references not being valid - if two actors exist in the world, you don't have a guarantee which one will be created first. So in a case where you need a reference to another actor before the current one continues - you do a small loop in begin play. Try to find the actor -> if it is valid, great / if it is not valid -> delay/timer for 1 second -> loop back to the same code looking for actor

[last peak]

Wait

[last peak]

Do you want to store all characters in one component?

Thats indeed a bad idea

[crimson briar]

I think he wants a singular component for storing references to various things so other components can easly pull from it instead of looking/getting them the other way. And yeah, it can be a bad idea depending on what exactly he wants stored there.

[sand shore]

It feels like this is adding a lot of maintenance complexity for not a lot of benefit

A lot of these references are already cached like the controller’s current pawn

[last peak]

I thought he wanted to store variables on a component so it easier for other actors to pull them

[sand shore]

But then this type of out-of-order initialization will continue to plague this cache component

[maiden wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/anvil-anvil-empires-indirect-fire-indirect-fire-mode-anvil-empires-bow-gif-17115797796374095791

[last peak]

THe one and only, the most holy god class was born into existence

providing unity in a chaotic environment

[maiden wadi]

Not even initialization as an issue. It's pure madness. Like you already know you're working with a character clearly. Just get the owner and pull the shit.

And the player controller is gonna suck. Maybe not for a VERY specific game. But playercontrollers on pawns can change. Caching it in relation to a pawn is... 😬

[last peak]

i once worked together with a guy who did create such a monster, his reasoning was "its easier to get the references this way"

He wnt super angry when i told him that this is complete trash

That garbage bp took 10 minutes to load XD

[maiden wadi]

I don't even like it when people cache references in like Beginplay a lot of the time. Extra maintenance for no gain drives me absolutely nuts.

[lean flax]

Can accessed none crash a packaged game?

[hardy merlin]

Is there a BP equivalent to Ensure? Or a plugin for that behavior?

[south obsidian]

A new day, a new problem. I have a question. How can I modify/make the doors timelapse to use physics? I mean, stop at obstacles instead of going through them, as I've been doing until now. I've tried to solve something with AI and searched YouTube, but with little success. An example is from a BP vehicle. The vehicle is running on the Vehicle Chaos System

[modern cove]

Matter of curiosity: When a game is built with Unreal Engine 5, how many CPU cores does it utilize?

[maiden wadi]

A couple by default. There's a Gamethread, and now there are two renderthreads. And then how many ever workerthreads it can use to do tasks that are parallel or async. But how actively it uses said worker threads depends on the engineer and game.

[crimson briar]

Yes it can. Blueprints have some guardrails so it doesn't crash in the editor, but there is a big chance it will in packaged game. If you have situations where you are not sure if something will be accessible, add an IsValid node or a validated get before using the variable.

[maiden wadi]

They won't crash in a cooked game either. They are guarded there as well. It just won't work.

[crimson briar]

Hmmm, I had one experience where it was not the case. But maybe you are correct and it was related to something different, not just a none reference

[dark drum]

If its an object property used in C++ it will cause a crash if not handled appropriately. If BP only, it just wont work. You can get some cross over where a property is exposed to BP and can be set but has some stuff happen in C++.

This is my experience.

[gloomy swift]

Getting this warning which is causing an error with a json function, when starting the project. Refreshing the bp code fixes the issue until project restarts.

Failed to find script package for import object 'Package /Script/JsonBlueprintUtilities'

[gloomy swift]

Changing the JsonBlueprintUtilities plugin to load on PreDefault fixes it but it's not scalable to the team... CommonUI had a similar issue a while ago and I fixed it by copying the plugin and changing the load time, but doing the same with JsonBlueprintUtilities results in unresolved externals

[errant snow]

Not that I've ever seen. A basic version is pretty trivial to write if your project has any C++. I don't think there's a solution for pure blueprint projects except for finding something on FAB that probably does way more than just provide an ensure.

[woeful mesa]

Does anyone know why my code isn't working? I have made it so that every second (dayspeed), 1 gets added to minute. When minute = 60, set minute to 0 and set hour to hour+1. I have printed them and it works, but it wont print the string "Times up" when the time is 13:30 (as hour is 13, and minute is 30)

Oh wait nevermind

[maiden wadi]

At the very least I would swap those == out for Nearly Equals. And realistically for a 'time is up' thought process, always assume it can go over with a >= check.

[woeful mesa]

Ok thank you

[normal raft]

any one know why this isnt reverting my gravity

[hardy merlin]

Hoping for something that is unmistakable as Ensure. Blueprint-only designers rarely look at the output log. I'll check FAB.

[errant snow]

I’m not aware of anything that will stop execution in blueprint the same way that ensures do in native. If that’s what you’re trying to get at. I’m not even sure there’s anything like that on FAB.
You could probably do an ensure function that routes to the message log instead so that it pops up like when blueprint encounters and skips null dereferences.

[normal raft]

nm... would help if the death impulse wasn't literally knocking him to orbit

but yeh not sure if any ones seen this little issue that you kind of run into with the CMC gravity and the Mesh Simulate physics they dont seem cohesive and at times its really counter intuitive

like stop all camera movement should be a thing

still allowing the gravity to tick

cam movement == your actual movement in planet games

I guess i could redesign the logic of the camera sync .. so it knows that the character is dead and continues to track the carcus

[tropic wolf]

I've been using things like Sphere Collision components to visualize functionality that has its own math (not using the Sphere Collision in any logic other than setting a default on Construction), in this case the landing radius for this falling actor.

In this case, the landing position will always be aligned with the landscape, so I only really need a circle shape as a visualizer instead of a sphere. I don't expect it to be completely compiled out, but is there a better way to do these visualizations that doesn't require making custom Static Meshes?

Draw Debug exists but it requires a duration, appears in play, and 0 isn't infinite

[crimson briar]

Maybe a stencil? They can be projected on the surface. Not sure if it wouldn't be a hassle to use them for simple visualization though

[tropic wolf]

yeah it's literally just for visualizing the value you change in editor

the moment you hit play, it should not be visible

I'm thinking I may need a custom lightweight component that I code in C++, without any other suggestion

[crimson briar]

I once made a grid from a tutorial that was a bunch of manually calculated triangles, very efficient etc. You could probably make your own component using this method for visualization too

[tropic wolf]

triangles for a wire mesh?

or was it "solid" with actual tris

[crimson briar]

Triangles for lines. Two long triangles make a line. You could make a semi circle with them too

It is somewhat involved to set it up. At least it was for me, as I don't know much about the actual triangles

Found the tutorial but it was for a grid, not a circle. But it will give you a hint what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4AOmT9aOEM

[tropic wolf]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/API/Editor/UnrealEd/FComponentVisualizer

found this, will need to do smth in C++

[crimson briar]

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about it lol

[tropic wolf]

https://sondreutheim.com/post/ue4_component_visualizers

[woeful mesa]

Does anyone know why I keep getting this error of infinite loop?

I'm making a day/night cycle, and i want it so that day is long, evening is short, dusk is long, night is long, dawn is short, which is why i made all of this.

However, when the time hits 24 hour (which is night begin hour), it causes the error. When i change night begin hour to 0, it crashes when the time is 21 hour.

[brisk glade]

what's the best way to have something like a timeline curve, but with a "time"/duration that is editable during runtime?

so let's say I want to always use a "ease in out" curve to interpolate a float, but the time will be different every time

something like lerp + curve asset?

[next hollow]

Could do scuffed stuff, and change the timeline speed.

[brisk glade]

how can I do that?

[next hollow]

Should just be like set speed?

Sorry.
set play rate

[brisk glade]

I can only see that for anims
is there one for blueprint timelines?

[next hollow]

Did you get the timeline?

[soft lion]

Hi I'm not sure if this is the right spot anyways, but I'm struggling so bad with a Modular Character I'm not sure why this is happening.

If I have this setup like this in the character, the Chest is the standard Character Mesh and all the other parts are just attached. If I do like this, then my player loses all movement input controls. I cannot move at all, and my breakpoint values it does not seem to recognize the Movement vector. However, I use the FGameplayTagBlueprintPropertyMap from GAS to change booleans inside my anim instance, and when I have it like this, applying the crouch tag successfully changes the boolean, so I can change animation states.

The property map

If I change it to where the Legs are the leader component and the chest is a follower, then I regain input controls and I can move again, however the property map and tags no longer function and I cannot change any animation states

I mean wtf

[brisk glade]

yeah I just found out now that you can access timelines as variables haha
thanks!

[soft lion]

When I debug I have direction vectors valid, but when they hit the AddMovementInput they're now ??? ??? vectors

When I add movement input it turns the WorldAccel value to move a direction to 0 0 0

[soft lion]

nvm something bizzarre is happening I'm reverting my source control. I went back to single mesh not modular and I get no input still

something broke weird

[crimson briar]

Do you have collisions enabled for the bodyparts on the channel that the capsule of the character uses as an object type?

Possibly the capsule collides with the bodyparts blocking the movement

[crimson briar]

And wheat follows after the part of ConvertTime you showed? SInce it happens on hour 24, this seems the most important.
Also when showing blueprints:
a) try to not separate one execution flow (event/function etc) into two screenshosts, it is very annoying to follow
b) you can use blueprintue.com for bigger blueprints

[soft lion]

I'm not sure but I'm beyond this already I've moved on to trying something different but I appreciate the response.

[woeful mesa]

I would use blueprintUE.com, but its blocked in my country now :/

Anyways, heres a video to show what is going on. You can see on the first attempt (3:45) it glitches. Then 2nd attempt it works because I change a few things, however it's not returning to the daytime speed. I'm unsure whether to just start over or not. https://youtu.be/FNVaykOUg78

[blissful moat]

Heya, I'm trying to make a weak point component for my enemies but I can't seem to make a component from anything with a collision. How do I go about this? I'm working with blueprints only

[next hollow]

You just can't in BP.
Your next best would be, use a "manager" component based off ActorComponent and make it find the spheres based on a tag in them.

[blissful moat]

That should be doable, thank you so much!

[soft lion]

So I forgot that in my game I have Data Assets that hold Character info, including their mesh. For some reason in my blueprints I then decided to put all these pieces in there with values as well as load the SoftMesh at BeginPlay, so it was giving a double mesh and idk if that had anything to do with it, but now that I went and changed my Data Asset to just have the modular pieces labeled and then async loaded and such I have no more problems

I made this init

and I can switch on this to get each piece appropriately

The chest is the leader bone and there's an assertion that the leader bone is valid when you set leader pose so I had to make a custom event cuz it async loads sometimes and only after the chest on the primary mesh is loaded and set then I can set Leader Pose

But then I can just come in this asset and label and load them all individually

[cosmic kiln]

good evening gentlemen

i need some help, i haven't asked for it here in a long ass time

is anyone available?

it is "simple" to fix i think, i'm just being stupid about it

[modern cove]

Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I'm making a 2D game that isn't the least bit graphically demanding but it would still help to know ways to utlize the power available. I generally assumed my game logic processes, even some of the longer event ticks were drops in the bucket on today's modern CPUs, but still.

[narrow pulsar]

Anyone knows how to make arms always stay on camera even as you move camera around? (First person)

[next hollow]

Attach them to the camera.

[errant snow]

https://dontasktoask.com

[cosmic kiln]

yeah yeah i get it

i fixed it myself by now anyway

[crimson briar]

Uh it is kinda hard to get a grasp of this code, too many variables and branches for things that are too similar.
I don't know where the problem is but I would suggest changing the code.

1. Make one, single, looping timer. Like a DayTick. This timer would trigger every minute - or faster, depending how often you want to check for the day change, might be every second.
2. Make an Enumarator containing the times of the day. Like Morning, Dusk, , evening etc.
3. Then in the event bound to the timer you increase the time and do your general code that should happen - sun rotation etc. After that you do a switch on the enum. On each pin of the enum you do a simple if with the time check if the time of day should change and change the enum to the next.
4. Here you can also do some other code related to the change of the day time.

Another thing I would recommend is to not use variables for the hour/minute/second because resetting them is cumbersome. Make one variable that contains your time in a single float. If you sue seconds, it will contain the number of seconds since you started counting the time. If you only need minutes, then minutes.
And make pure functions that will be called like GetHour, GetMinute, GetDay etc. Each on of them will return what you want based on the calculations from the singular SecondsPassed variable for example. If you don't know how to do it, you use a modulo operator. It gives you the rest from dividing a number by another. For example 140 % 60 would give you 20 - so if the 140 was the number of seconds, it means by doing SecondsPassed % 60 you get the current minute. And by doing SecondsPassed % 3600 you get the hour.

Of course you can still cache these numbers but having a single point that contains the time is less prone to errors than changing several variables individually.

Just a suggestion though.

[woeful mesa]

Ok I will remake it and try do it how you said. I am a bit inexperienced with blueprints (or ue5 in general), so I might be back here tomorrow. For now, thank you for the help

[crimson briar]

Remember you can just duplicate the blueprint in the content browser, so you can try an alternate version without destroying your code

[last peak]

do you have a loop in there somwhere ?

Are you reseting hour somwhere ?

MY guess whats happening is this
Firs iteration is fine

second one hour always seems to be false

so you go in you check day timer the branch is false so it does evening timer the branch is false so its doing night timer there the branch is false too so it checks again for day timer and there is the infinite

The easiest way to check this is with a breakpoint at these branches

[narrow pulsar]

I'm making the camera follow my head bone for "true fps" where I can see my feet, legs, etc... However, I don't want my camera to move when the player hit animation happens, is there anyway I can prevent it from moving? (Before you recommend attaching the camera elsewhere, I can't, I need it to be attached to the head since I have heavy body bends, if it doesn't follow the head when I look down it'll see inside my own body or even my back since my body bends forward and the camera isn't going with the head.

[last peak]

detach it during animation 🤷

[narrow pulsar]

wont work, player wont stop moving for the duration of the animation so it'll just look weird

[distant grotto]

why does get child component not return anything?

[last peak]

havent you said you want the camera to not move ?

[narrow pulsar]

I don't want the camera to "play" the hit animation if the head bobs around

[last peak]

so what should it do instead

[narrow pulsar]

Well ideally I'd figure out a way to have it follow the head without actually being attached to the head

[last peak]

Im not sure if i understand what you want to do

You dont want it attached and you dont want it to follow the attack animation but you want it to follow the head

But the head plays the attack animation

Do you want it to follow the head or not

[next hollow]

Sounds like you should add some like "head camera" bone.
So, animate the physical head, but don't animate the head camera.
Still with the body, but also not doing crazy loops, with roll or something?

[last peak]

so just lock the rotation then

if thats what he wants to do im not sure

im confused

[next hollow]

Sounds like he basically.
Wants to follow the head when looking.
but, also not follow when rolling, with a front flip sorta shit.

Locking its rotation, would still make the cameras location do a loop.
hence the idea of a head camera bone.

[crude dew]

Hi, Could someone tell me the best way to approach setting a widget component set to screen space to not be seen through world objects please.
Option 1 : I do understand that I could use a World Space widget and then update it on tick to face the camera but is this sounds expensive to do?
Option 2 : I know I could also use a line trace from the camera to the actor to test if the player can "see" the enemy and then try to do a add to viewport on a created widget at the actors location in world to screen ?
Am not sure if theres anymore ways to do this though ?

[crimson briar]

No, ticks are not "too expensive to use". Ticks are there to be used. If something needs to be updated often, tick is often a good place to do it.
Tick itself is not very expensive. The whole "don't use tick" thing is mostly misinformation.
The thing about a tick is that it has some overhead to be called - like every blueprint node has some overhead. It is veeeeeeeeeery small and usually the codee and calculations you do with them are way bigger than the nodes themselves.
If you need the tick - use it.
If you don't - disable it so it doesn't bog the tick stack or whatever it was called.

Updating the position of a few widgets won't have any performance impact on your game. Unless of course you will have 100+ of them on the screen at once. BUT then still it is not certain it will have more impact than the code itself - this is where you profile to see what is the biggest thing impacting performance.

[crude dew]

I am aiming at possibly 10 max (I doubt the player will be able to see more than 10 at 1 time through line of sight realistically

So based on that would you say Option 1 or 2 is perfectly fine? 🙂

thanks for the replyu btw!

[crimson briar]

If world space widget can achieve what you are aiming for I would use that. Option 2 if there is more you want to do with it

[crude dew]

OK thanks !

[last peak]

Is there another way that works just as well without tick? if no just use the tick

Prefer other methods over it but its not that bad to use it

[narrow pulsar]

https://medal.tv/games/unreal-engine/clips/lCmALHnCj8U-Qk_m2?invite=cr-MSxua0gsMjAwNTA1NDU4&v=11 Anyone knows a way to fix this?

[crude dew]

I tried this Rotate The widget to face the character then asked ChatGPT to advise me on Stat Slate and it roasted me lol
"2. Tick Widgets: 1094 calls per frame

This is the core issue.

No game should tick 1,094 widgets every frame.

Healthy = 10–100
Large MMO = 200–300
Your project = 1,000+

This is why Slate is exploding."

Update : Apparently the editor puts a tonne of overhead on slate, In a standalone game mode the slate is 0.02ms. I never realised this as not looked into profiling before.

This just amused me whilst testing out various things. 🙂

This is the code that caused it and I had about 10 enemies which only 3-4 of them at a time were visible (And WidgetComponent set to Automatic Tick so only tick when visible)

[dark drum]

As the capsule half height is reduced, you might need to move the skeletal mesh up or down so that it remains within the bounds of the capsule. When you call crouch/uncrouch, you might need to then reset it.

[crimson briar]

Sounds like a ton of crap. LLMs are as good as the data they have access to. I doubt it has enough data to calculate performance costs, since it is not something people document online because it is incredibly case-dependant.
Also testing performance in editor is never a good option. You can use it to roughly compare one solution to another but the actual profiling has to be done in standalone - even better, in a cooked dev package

[crude dew]

@crimson briar I just uploaded a screenshot of the profiler which is what it got it,s info from , but you are correct about it being case dependant and the LLM is only as good as the data it can scrape from online but I did learn that testing in Editor is a bad idea and didnt even consider the overheads of the Editor, So a valuable lesson learned.

[last peak]

where does these numbers come from ?

where are the 1k + calls coming from ?

[crimson briar]

It is overhead on one side, and preloading on the other. The editor keeps a lot of stuff in memory that the game itself wouldn't

[crude dew]

I do not know where the numbers come from ChatGPT spat em out at me after i sent it an image of the profiler this is the image it worked from

After testing in standalone which was suggested I got this result which looks a lot better i think.

Sorry I just realised this is the wrong place to put this, Many apologies to the mods.

I kind of went off on a tangent and the Blueprinting from Rotate Widgets fell into profiling.

[last peak]

that includes every single thing in your editor

content browser, details panel .................

if you would remove your widget you wouldnt have much less calls

Also you dont have to post your profiling in the profiling channel if we have a discussion here .... that would be pretty weird

[crude dew]

Ah ok thanks !

[dark drum]

What are the widgets for?

[crude dew]

They are for healthbars above the enemys which are using World Space so they get Occluded by the geometry in the world.

So the player can only see them when they are in view of the camera.

You can see them here.

I wanted to use screen space widgets but i figured that because im not using 100,s of them using WidgetComponents and then updating their rotations wouldnt be too expensive to do and because a lot would be culled by the camera view there wouldnt be too many active at one time, (Unless Im wrong and these widgets are still updating and rotating even when behind geometry, In which case I,ll look to deactivate them if the camera cannot see and activate upon camera visibility)

If i fly around in editor whilst it,s running i can see the widgets are still there will this mean that they are still being rendered even if the player camera cannot see them ? or are they always going to visible when you detach from the player character and fly around in editor?

[dark drum]

Yea, they'll continue to update when behind objects. I do however believe they wont tick if outside the players view.

Personally, I'd perform some sort of trace on the character and if it finds an enemy it shows the widget and hides the widget comp when no longer in range.

[narrow pulsar]

So I'm having some stutters when moving backwards, it's really weird, the replication is working flawlessly but the camera is really weirdly stuttering. What could be the cause?

(Idea is to slow down backwards movement), as for why I don't have add input, I handle that elsewhere.

[frosty heron]

If you want predicted (server auth) movement, it's impossible to do it with blueprint.

you have to work with CMC framework by having the state in the movement struct (FSavedMove).

[narrow pulsar]

oh I see, so gotta move it to c++

[frosty heron]

by packing the data in the movement struct.

doing it any other way outside CMC, you will just end up getting corrected.

[narrow pulsar]

yea that makes sense why it wasnt working, was actively fighting the server since I send my input data through cmc in c++

[frosty heron]

Client apply their movement locally, then send the info in the FSavedMove which get send to server.
Server simulate on it's end, if the movement is valid then that's all good but otherwise client will get corrected.

@narrow pulsar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17D4SzewYZ0&list=PLXJlkahwiwPmeABEhjwIALvxRSZkzoQpk&index=3

[narrow pulsar]

Thank you! Appreciate it gonna have a look

[maiden wadi]

These numbers are 100% bullshit. You don't base this kind of shit off of "good, big MMO, bad." Like how the fuck does MMO even consider into this? What if I make a 4billion player MMO that is nothing but people clicking one button on the screen.

Context is INSANELY important.

Shooters? Much less UI costs usually. UIs are simplified usually. There's not a lot going on realistically.

Adventure games it depends on the complexity, like an RPG can have a ton or be very streamlined.

Strategy games? Lol, 300-1k is kind of normal. There's a LOT of stuff going on here that requires UI presence.

[crude dew]

lol thank you for this input, Its helpful to see these problems with LLM,s this is what prompted me to also post it as I figured some more knowledgeable people than myself might be able to tell me if this is sound advice that I could use as a rough guideline for future projects or complete bs... It also told me that a good point to aim for is 2-3ms maximum for slate calls and that to keep a stable 60 fps I should aim for 16.6ms overall, Is this bs and i should just test or are these reasonable guidelines to aim for? Just wanted to clarify if possible.

Personally I would imagine testing and actually seeing the performance and checking the things manually instead of aiming for some arbitrary numbers from the LLM would be best, But am curious to know the more experienced users opinions and how far wrong/right the LLM is.

[white parrot]

Aiming for 60 fps / 16.6ms overall is correct, but i wouldn't take the advice of GPT too seriously

[maiden wadi]

Highly depends on your game. Strategy games for instance can be as low as 30fps. It's less important that things run smooth and more acceptable. Meanwhile on a shooter, 60 FPS is eeek. 60 is a good baseline though for most games to try to hit.

For slate time, Again this varies. If your game has a complex UI and the other game mechanics don't eat up gamethread time. It doesn't matter if your UI time takes 5ms of the gamethread. But there are easily games that will shit themselves if that number even goes over 1ms.

[crude dew]

Thank you both for your input, I really dont want to rely upon GPT for information on UE but in the same vein I don't like to feel like im bothering people on here all the time xD

[maiden wadi]

We live to be bothered.

[dark drum]

Just adding to this, you can move some of the calculations from the game thread to the GPU by using materials to combine UI elements instead of having multiple widget elements. This can simplify the slate tree and free up resources on the game thread. Again, use case dependent but good to keep in mind.

[maiden wadi]

Definitely one of the better ways to considerably drop prepass time too. Less elements overall.

[white parrot]

I would favor LLM that provides you with the source of it's hallucination, then you can verify it's claims at the very least.

[maiden wadi]

I haven't used it for anything other than specific C++ implementations. Fixing up classes or adding new feature sets. But the new Opus 4.5 is pretty good so far.

And as I usually mention it's worth noting that you should always customize your AI. Make sure it responds to you in the way you need it to. By default they're designed to pick up on what they think you want and frame them in a way that seems appealing. Tailor it to think that it needs to teach you. Have it explain it's answers, show it's sources, etc. It gives it a majorly different tone with the right context that makes it focus on the right things over "flatter user til it subscribes".

[sudden garnet]

Hi everyone, quick question please.. I have a variable called "Attack Radius" in the blackboard which I've manually set to be 600, but I'm unable to get this value from the blackboard into this Blueprint Task. Any ideas of what might wrong?

[maiden wadi]

I think you're looking to use a blackboard key selector. Then you can just specify the AttackRadius property directly into it I think.

[sudden garnet]

Thanks! I will try this out

[crude dew]

Not sure if this is a problem or not but you are telling AIMoveTo TargetActor AND a Destination you only need to feed it the FirstPersonCharacter as a TargetActor not both

[maiden wadi]

As a quick example.

[maiden wadi]

Less of an issue. It'll ignore the vector if there's a valid actor target.

[crude dew]

Ah ok didnt know that : )

sooo much to learn XD

[sudden garnet]

Thanks, that didn't work but maybe I need to fix something on the AiController or in the Behavior tree