blueprint

[trim matrix]

@sand shore

see how when i look down its trying to run into the ground

i dont want pitch to be apart of the movement direction

[vagrant crag]

@sand shore It's a simple top-down shmup with only one level which lasts only about 1 minute. I only have those two levels. My main menu level has literally nothing on it, except the call to create the main meni widget and viewport on the Event BeginPlay node (im using BPs everywhere, not a single line of code). The widget has a button that calls Open Level with the game level as parameter.

My other level is the game itself, which starts setting up the camera and stuff again in the Event BeginPlay. The sounds I hear are being played by the Game Mode

[trim matrix]

damn helping two ppl at once

[vagrant crag]

And one sound fx from the player pawn

I think your problem is way more punctual than mine, RaptorGod 😂

[trim matrix]

yea lmao

[trim matrix]

got it nvm

[vagrant crag]

Cool!

[sand shore]

sorry, was afk

It was probably that you were using the control rotation directly without stripping out the yaw, right @trim matrix?

@vagrant crag I uh.

Yeah I dunno. that's not really enough info either

[vagrant crag]

What would you need? The whole project?

[sand shore]

Do you spawn your sounds with "Play Sound" nodes?

[vagrant crag]

Some with Play Sound, others with Spawn Sound

[sand shore]

yeah okay

you can do a breakpoint on the spawn/play sound nodes.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/UserGuide/Debugging/index.html

Figure out what state causes you to get your main menu with the game sounds.

Put a breakpoint on all your game sound nodes, then reproduce the issue.

[vagrant crag]

Gotcha

[sand shore]

And

if you trace it back to BeginPlay, then, why is your gameplay level being streamed into your menu level

[vagrant crag]

Why indeed lol

I'm pretty sure it's gonna head that way

[sand shore]

That's a pretty simple trip to the Levels pane, then a find-in-blueprint for streaming level

[vagrant crag]

Should I be looking at streaming levels then? Im so not using streaming right now.

[sand shore]

That's just my hunch, were you to have properly organized the game

[vagrant crag]

My Levels pane is empty except for the persistent one thats always there

[sand shore]

There's almost quite literally an infinite amount of ways you could be having game sounds in your main menu

Blueprints are turing complete

[trim matrix]

@sand shore yea

[vagrant crag]

Alright, I'll start breaking on sound nodes then. Thanks a bunch @sand shore , appreciate it

[trim matrix]

how do i fix my blueprint if it fails to follow logic? am i going to have to rebuild it completely? because that would be a total dealbreaker

trying to remove index 9 of an array results in it trying to remove index 23.....

keep running into issues like this where its just doing random crap that i did not tell it to do

i guess i need to start over in c++ and forget about blueprints

[cobalt ferry]

Perhaps your running into the scorn of pure functions @trim matrix

You’ve not posted a picture of your graph

If you got a huge chain of pures to calculate an index to remove, the moment that thing gets removed the pure is no longer valid

[halcyon trellis]

What transition rule would be appropriate for detecting if the player is turning left/right? I want to go from Idle to turning left/right and have it adjust based on how far the player turns (a little on the thumbstick to max push via turn speed variable)

current setup:

[high sapphire]

Is there a way to reference a C++ function in the Blueprint version of the class? (I have a boolean that I created in the Blueprint class that triggers an animation, and I want that boolean to be turned on/off by that function - ie, turned on at the start of the function and turned off at the end)
Is there a way for me to do that, or should I have created that variable in the C++ class itself rather than the Blueprint class?
Scratch that, ended up just creating it in the C++ class. However, now I'm running into an issue where it doesn't seem that the function that's supposed to change its value actually is - it just stays as false no matter what.

[balmy hamlet]

Is there any way to limit the angle a vector 2d can point in? Like it has to be pointed in a 90 deg cone ahead ( so 45 deg on either side of y +), and if its too far left ( -x ) it becomes the old length at 45 deg left?

[past wedge]

No matter what I do, I just can't get my vehicle to actually move around in my level, I followed a lengthy tutorial on it, by Unreal Engine themselves. I setup the input, the wheels, the physics asset, everything... except the car just won't move for some reason. And the wheels dig into the ground. Is there something I can do to fix this? I'm using 4.24

I'm not using it as AI (yet) but trying to get it to work with just controlling it as a player right now

Is the bone hierarchy correct? If so, what could I be doing wrong here?

I have the inputs setup too, but still doesn't work

please ping me if you know how to help fix it

[cunning creek]

what im doing wrong?

[tight schooner]

@high sapphire you'll probably get better answers in #cpp

[high sapphire]

Yeah, I just asked there a bit ago

[tight schooner]

@balmy hamlet use regular Clamp nodes on its individual X & Y float inputs before setting it, I guess.

@cunning creek The cast node just confirms the object reference that you're feeding it is of a certain class; in your case, MyAnimationBP. You need to give the node a reference to the object before the node can determine whether said object is a MyAnimationBP or not.

You need to feed the "object" input on that node with something

[formal blade]

Hey, I'm trying to make it so a custom collision preset will allow it to generate 'OnClicked' events when the user clicks the collider. Any idea what the requirements are in order to get that to fire? It was working before on a standard preset but not on my custom one and I can't figure out why

[balmy hamlet]

@tight schooner How would that work?

the range of possible y values changes dependent on the x value

like, (1,1) is okay at 45 deg, but 2,1 isn't ( more than 45 deg)

is there a way to get the angle of a vector and then just clamp that and reassemble it?

[tight schooner]

oh yeah, sorry, I was thinking of rotators

[warped nebula]

Hey, I've got a question, So in the editor you are able to add to an array and the that array element has its own variables that you can alter. How do I make that array in blueprints? Like I know how to make an array, but how do I make the array have multiple variables of different types? Like I want to add an element and I want that element to have a float a bool and a static mesh for example how would I go about that?

[maiden wadi]

What you're looking for is a Struct.

[tight schooner]

yeah, I was about to say https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/UserGuide/Variables/Structs/index.html

[warped nebula]

ooohh ok so blueprints have structures. Thanks guys!

[maiden wadi]

@balmy hamlet Really slow thismorning, but are you just talking about normalizing a directional vector?

No. I didn't read up above. What is your use case with the Vector2D?

[tight schooner]

@balmy hamlet I suppose fundamentally you never want X to exceed Y (or however you have your axes set up). So you want to clamp X to a range of -Y to +Y. And then use Normalize Vector2D after that... maybe?

[maiden wadi]

@formal blade For your custom collision preset to allow clicks, your custom collision settings needs to be blocking the same trace channel as the one that your player controller is using for click events.

[formal blade]

@maiden wadi Which trace channel is that?

[formal blade]

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I found out my issue, I needed to make two collision presets instead of one, because one of them was blocking the mouse clicks from getting through

[strange stream]

Whats the easiest way to make ''percentage floats''?
Like I have an ability which has a 10% chance to apply a poison effect.
This image was my original idea, but I know that won't work.. hope you understand my question.

[maiden wadi]

What is coming out of ChanceToApplyLocal?

[strange stream]

10

But I think I just realized it

[clear sierra]

Hi, I have this problem where, my bone size for a skeletal mesh, is very small , so in order to generate the physics asset i have to set the scale to 0.01 something like that.
But collision it generates is not visible, I am not sure why is it happening .

I can simulate inside the PHat, but cannot do outside the PHat, Simulate physics is disabled and collision is not visible.
anyone can guide me what could be the issue.

[formal blade]

@strange stream Wouldn't it make more sense to generate a random integer between 1 and 100?

[strange stream]

This'll work

[blazing ridge]

hello beautiful people, quick question - how can unreal be inside this while loop but not print out the print node?

[strange stream]

Yea @formal blade , this is just for prototyping, buy yea you're right

[tight schooner]

I have some vague recollection of a random bool node with a weight parameter as well...

what you're doing isn't wrong though, @strange stream. Lots of ways to make it work.

[clear sierra]

@blazing ridge can you print from somewhere else. if not, May be consolce command EnableAllScreenMessages will work.

[blazing ridge]

im getting all my other prints, and im also printing out the 2 bools, which are true

thats what confuses me

[formal blade]

Do other print strings work?

Nvm I'm blind

[blazing ridge]

yes, as stated, im printing out "AttackHitValueOK?" & "Attacking?" - both are constantly true, but im not getting the "inside while loop" print

[clear sierra]

use breakpoint

[formal blade]

Are you able to put a debug point on the 'Print string'

[tight schooner]

use a breakpoint and make sure the Loop Body is even firing in the first place. With a breakpoint you can step through the execution

@clear sierra try #legacy-physics maybe?

[clear sierra]

okay thanks @tight schooner

[blazing ridge]

apparently it instantly completes the while loop when it enters it

which would make sense, if ont of the bools got set to false somewhere else

but they arent =0

ok, so I eliminated all SET nodes on the 2 booleans, both are just bruteforce TRUE.
but still, when i enter the while loop and nodeskip, it just goes to its complete exec node

no idea whats happening here

normally now i should get an infinite loop

[tight schooner]

IDK either. Some nodes (e.g. latent nodes) behave strangely when used in conjunction with a loop.

[blazing ridge]

okay, got that. but what node? he isnt even advancing to the print string, so no nodes to make trouble there

[slender idol]

Hey guys I've got a weird issue regarding my fonts.

As you can see from some of the text, the letters sometimes become bigger or smaller than the rest of the font
this happens whenever I go to fullscreen with my game, in windowed mode everything seems fine but once I go fullscreen, some of the glyphs seem to be bigger/smaller or higher than the line height.
Is there some way to fix this? I've already wrapped my text in scale boxes

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221799467689574410/701606311690895390/unknown.png

[warped nebula]

@slender idol what letters are bigger and or smaller that you don't intend to be?

[slender idol]

@warped nebula for example the "O" in Browse For Music seems to be protruding upwards while in fullscreen. The "Q" in Quit also seems to be doing the same thing.

[tight schooner]

If you don't get a great answer here, maybe #umg knows more.

oh, you did lol

[slender idol]

@tight schooner I've already asked about 2-3 times and unfortunately I get swamped by the rest of the questions :/

[strange stream]

I don't understand why this doesn't work, it returns true at completely random numbers

[slender idol]

You need to save that result in a variable and then use that variable as the input for the branch

[maiden wadi]

@strange stream What is coming out of ChanceToApplyLOCAL?

[strange stream]

A value I'm choosing. Right now its at 10, but if I upgrade it to lets say 20 it needs to work accordingly

Its a percentage chance to apply a debuff

@slender idol why? This value generates randomly each time, it doesnt add to anything

[tight schooner]

are you saying you get a true result on average 50% of the time, and not 10%?

[strange stream]

I have no idea, it seems to be random completely.
I've seen 42, 98 and 7 be the result of ''True'' which makes no sense to me

[slender idol]

Whats the chance to apply local value?

[maiden wadi]

Well, seven makes sense if the value of that other variable is actually ten.

[strange stream]

Right now, 10

[warped nebula]

@slender idol I don't see it, looks normal to me

[strange stream]

Yea but not 42 and 98

[tight schooner]

is that a "pure function"?

[strange stream]

No

[slender idol]

I've had this issue before @strange stream try and put a print string on the actual random integer node and then on the true/false branch to compare the results

You ll see they sometimes are both contradictory

[strange stream]

I did

I'll set it up again

[slender idol]

you need to save the result of the random integer node in a variable

and then use THAT variable as the condition for the branch

[tight schooner]

yeah, basically any time a pure function such as Random Integer is accessed by another node, it re-executes that node and generates a new output

[warped nebula]

^

[tight schooner]

so you have to use variables to save stuff

[warped nebula]

which I think should be changed but idk about the repercussions of that

[maiden wadi]

That's the way they're intended to be used, that should definitely not be changed.

[slender idol]

@warped nebula

heres a picture of the windowed game

can you see what I mean about the specific letters I mentioned?

[maiden wadi]

If you need the variable to remain the same for multiple things, use an executed function.

[strange stream]

Wait, really?

Can it be a Local variable?

But its not a pure function

[warped nebula]

@slender idol : coorperate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures me: they are the same picture

[strange stream]

I have no idea what a pure function is

[tight schooner]

a pure function doesn't have any execution pins on the node

[warped nebula]

they legitimately look the same to me

[strange stream]

Aah, like a pure cast

[slender idol]

Okay let me draw some lines for you maybe its a bit easier then

[warped nebula]

haha ok

[maiden wadi]

@strange stream This is what they're trying to say.

What you have there works, just don't print it off or it won't be accurate.

If you need to use the random number anywhere other than the one place, it needs to be saved as a local variable and that variable needs to be used.

[slender idol]

@warped nebula Do you mind me dming you in order not to clog up the chat?

[warped nebula]

go for it

[strange stream]

Yea it works now!

[warped nebula]

ooohhh ok so it calls the function twice because you arent asking for that bariable you are asking for a random number twice. good explanation

[strange stream]

Thanks guys!

Another question!
In lets say a game like a Moba where theres 100+ characters to control with unique abilites and stats you obviously want a ''Master Character''
But I've always wondered, what do you really have in that Master and what do you have in the Child?

[tight schooner]

The master should have everything that's common to all children. I guess that's a no brainer. Common variables. Common events/functions. Common components. Children can always add more, or override existing events/functions.

[strange stream]

So like movement, keys pressed, stat variables ect?

That's what I thought, just wanted to ask in case I've misunderstood something

[tight schooner]

It's a pretty deep subject so that's all I can say generally. I'm no expert but as I become more familiar with the concept of inheritance, I design my functions/events in ways that make sense for child classes to override

play around with it is all I can suggest

[maiden wadi]

Generally, you want to do anything in the parent that multiple children classes use. You can always override and stop parent behavior for some children, but your goal is to not have twenty children with slightly modified code you have to keep track of out of a hundred classes. Just try to follow the most golden programming guideline. Do not repeat yourself. Don't go copy pasting code from one class to another when you can just put it in the parent.

[warped nebula]

you can also have children of children

so like your base class has movement and such, and then you can have melee and ranged classes if its a fixed class game

[strange stream]

Yea, just starting getting into this kind of programming lately and some of its really confusing, but I like to learn new things and suddenly things start to make sense

Cool!

[tight schooner]

Another way to reuse code but outside of a hierarchical structure is BP components. Somewhat tangential but I've been trying to use them more lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4ZjieAQKY

[past wedge]

could someone help me with my vehicle issue?

[untold pine]

is there a way to read info out of image?
Like if I have an image that has 10x10 squares & they are black & white
& in UE4 I have 10x10 squares
I need to have an black square in the image to have a specific bool true & any white one false
would like to know how do I search for something like this, what the term/idea to search for.

[strange stream]

Also, when making a multiplayer game:
When using ''get player controller(index 0)'' in different blueprints, how does it handle clients when the index is 0?

[tight schooner]

@untold pine I remember someone in this channel months ago mentioned a blueprint node that can retrieve a pixel color value out of a texture. I don't have UE4 open and my google-fu is failing me, but maybe what you want exists.

[untold pine]

hmmm, thanks I'll try to search for pixel coloring node

[tight schooner]

that said I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question completely...

[untold pine]

no no worries, getting pixel color to the bp will work for sure!

@tight schooner can it be that simple! 😂

[tight schooner]

I also remember people saying it's a very expensive operation...

dude wanted to make a first-person perspective puzzle game where you had to keep your cursor inside of certain colors in the environment

[untold pine]

Interesting, yeah I can imagine
but I think for a simple game it would be alright!

interesting idea, xD can't even imagine how to do that!

[tight schooner]

meticulous collision meshes and line tracing maybe...

(depends if the operation is really as expensive as they say...)

[warped nebula]

not sure where to ask this, but this seems as good a place as any: When I play my game i keep going from a solid 120 fps and then drops to 0 for a second and then back to 120 then back to 0 at a pulsing interval

[maiden wadi]

@strange stream The only difference with the things like GetPlayerController in mutliplayer things is whether or not you're using a dedicated server. If your player0 is also the server(Not using a dedicated server) then you don't need to change anything from usual coding. Server's player 0 is also itself, and any player0 on a client will be that client's player stuff. However, if you use Player0 on a dedicated server, it'll return the first player that connected to the server. It's mostly a conceptual difference in programming thought.

[tight schooner]

That's a killer hitch; what did you do lol @warped nebula

[maiden wadi]

@warped nebula Open up Stat Raw, do you see spikes every time the FPS drop happens?

[warped nebula]

idk, I was getting like 30 fps and then to 0 so I restarted editor

lemme try

[thorny relic]

Are you doing a lot of complicated computations on a timer?

[warped nebula]

yes large spikes on time with stat raw

[maiden wadi]

Then you're probably running something that's too heavy for your rig to handle, so it has to stop drawing frames until that calculation is done.

[warped nebula]

I don't think I'm doing any large computations on a timer

[zealous moth]

either you are:

1. loading too many things at once
2. running too many things at once
3. an infinite loop is triggered but then dissipated
4. are doing conflicting things that overload your game logic

[warped nebula]

hmm my gpu is at 40% usage

my level is basically empty

[maiden wadi]

It'll be easier to find the problem then. What's in your nearly empty level?

[warped nebula]

actually yah it happens even when I make the level empty

the only thing I had was a spline blueprint

[maiden wadi]

What's in it?

[warped nebula]

the spline bp?

cus it was happening even when I deleted it

[maiden wadi]

What about Controllers, player character, Game Mode?

[zealous moth]

gonna guess it is either the skybox or the lighting

[warped nebula]

no skybox no lighting wasnt happening before

[maiden wadi]

Does the same thing happen if you start up a new level?

[warped nebula]

lemme try

yes happening on all the levels I try to open

[maiden wadi]

Have you changed your project's game mode defaults at all?

[warped nebula]

haven't touched the. I mean they are different because I changed them when I first made the project but this issue just started

[thorny relic]

Most likely something on the player character or player controller bp

[warped nebula]

I'm pretty tired so I'll just turn my pc off and if it persists in the morning I'll bring it up again, maybe its just unreal saying go to bed lol

[thorny relic]

Or maybe some HUD code

[maiden wadi]

Well, I'd consider trying a fresh project. If it's in a brand new project, I'd start looking at things outside of the engine like Drivers, other programs running, etc

[warped nebula]

yah it's basically brand new, I reckon its's a driver or something acting up since the pc has been on awhile

[tight schooner]

Shouldn't have set garbage collection interval to every 5 seconds

[maiden wadi]

Basically brand new isn't new. Trust me. Just try a freshly started project before going crazy. Always narrow the issue down and use a hand grenade instead of a Jericho missile.

[hybrid hound]

anyone active that can possibly help?

[maiden wadi]

Just ask, we'll give a response best we can.

[maiden wadi]

Sounds like you're not doing client movement correctly. Can you show how you're moving your characters?

[drifting vortex]

Is there any way to "preview" how blueprint would look if converted to CPP? I want to learn CPP and it would be really nice if I could kludge stuff together using blueprints and then see how it would look as CPP, for education purposes.

[maiden wadi]

Not really. Blueprints coding would look incredibly different and be very hard to read if it was directly converted to CPP.

[cinder dirge]

You can actually use the nativizer to do so using this. But it looks absolutely nothing like the C++ a person would write, and is hard to read even for an experienced C++ dev

You would be far better off comparing UE4's BP templates with its C++ templates (starter projects)

They make for a nice direct comparison

So like make a BP ThirdPerson template and a C++ ThirdPerson template and have a look at how one does what the other does

[drifting vortex]

Too bad you have to make two separate projects to compare CPP and blueprint templates

[cinder dirge]

Well you can add them both to one project if you really want to

I'd recommend adding the BP content to a C++ project rather than the other way around

[silent crag]

hello, a friend of mine and I are making a vr game and we would like to know if it is possibile(and if it's not a bad practice) to generate a dungeon (we have our function, in a blueprint actor class, that takes about 1 to 25 second based on the dungeon size) asynchronous, so that the player can stay in a room waiting on the generation/spawn of the dungeon(we would like to give some options to the player, like choosing how big the dungeon will be, how many rooms, etc, and we would like to player to move around while the dungeon is generating/spawning)

[maiden wadi]

If it works, and it's not annoying to the player with jittery movements and such, I don't see why there would be a problem with it. Give them a fidget cube.

[zealous moth]

in the UE4 editor, there used to be a way to make all new windows appear in the same window rather than new windows; anyone know how to do it in 4.24?

[maiden wadi]

You mean like, opening an actor's blueprint and getting a new window instead of using the same one that the viewports use?

[silent crag]

is it possibile to make with blueprints or is c++ required? for async functions

[zealous moth]

no the opposite

either way, it is the same option

getting irked at the windows popping everywhere

[maiden wadi]

@zealous moth You just drag the tabs on top of each other.

[zealous moth]

i know i can do that, but there used to be an option that forced it to always pop up as a tab into the main window

[maiden wadi]

@silent crag Not a clue. There's a few marketplace things for that. Not sure how robust the default is, or how well any of those work.

@zealous moth I dunno. I don't see any settings for that. Mine all open in one window by default unless I drag them out.

[atomic prairie]

Hey, just a little question, it's possible to switch the color of an instant material with a triggerbox?

I would like to change the color of the sky, when we pass the triggerbox

[snow vortex]

how can i make this? whats the name of these actions(im not sure if they are called actions)

[maiden wadi]

@snow vortex Where did you even find that monstrosity?

[snow vortex]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/533-input-held-down?p=128391#post128391

[maiden wadi]

😂

[zealous moth]

there is literally a "held down" node that tracks the key and returns a boolean

[maiden wadi]

Oh my.. I have no.. No I have a lot of words, I just can't say them here.

[snow vortex]

i cant find it

[zealous moth]

2014 thread!!!

[maiden wadi]

Please don't do that. Don't ever run a While Loop like that.

[zealous moth]

your necromancy level is very low

[maiden wadi]

Seriously. If you want to do something like that, do this.. Give me a moment.

[snow vortex]

i just searched how to detect input is held down and found this thread i tried to find newer threads too

[maiden wadi]

This is the same thing as what you posted, but SOOO much better. Loops are meant to be ran as often as your cpu can process them. Tick runs once per frame draw. Hint, the loop will process a LOOOOT more times than that tick will and probably lead to an engine crash if left open like that.

If you're looking to find whether a key is currently pressed for another event or function, usually you do what they did before that loop and set a bool true or false.

[snow vortex]

thank you ill try that but not sure if i can im trying to implement it into the first person example

[maiden wadi]

@snow vortex What exactly are you trying to do with detecting if the button is held? Can probably help with that if I know what your end goal is.

[snow vortex]

im trying to make a machine gun

[maiden wadi]

Do you have your firing logic yet?

[snow vortex]

yeah its the first person example game

[ocean radish]

mouse button pressed, call function shoot once, then start timer to shoot with delay set as the time between shots, then on release clear timer

thats a nice simple way

[snow vortex]

i already made it but thanks anyway

added a delay

[maiden wadi]

If you want to learn about Timers, this is a pretty good way to make a rapid fire weapon.

[ocean radish]

^^ exactly the way i would handle it

[snow vortex]

whats the difference between this one and yours?

[ocean radish]

yours is relying on tick from the looks, cant be sure as i cant see

[snow vortex]

so it will cause optimization problems?

[maiden wadi]

Delays are generally also considered bad. They're not good practice. Like, if you wanted to work off of Tick, the correct way would be to.. give me a minute.

[ocean radish]

Most tutorials out there show things on tick because its easy to setup and follow, you want to get into best practice as early as possible, if you can get away without it being on tick then do it, usually a couple more steps to it but worth it in the end

[maiden wadi]

@snow vortex

That's what you'd need to do for Tick. Little less intuitive than timers and a bit longer to set up.

[snow vortex]

thanks ill try that

[light dust]

what does it mean:
arithemetic between types float 4 and float 4 are undefined
pls help

[ocean radish]

doing somthing with a material?

[light dust]

yes

[ocean radish]

prob feeding in a contant 3 into a vector 4 or somthing

[light dust]

i havent used a vector

[ocean radish]

put up a screenshot of it, its somthing to do with the maths, your feeding somthing into somthing that doesn't like it

[snow vortex]

how can i create things like this?

[maiden wadi]

@snow vortex It's a Float variable.

In the left there, that orange yellow button, that's a + by default, hover your mouse over it and click there.

It'll probably give you a red one first, which is a Boolean. Click on it, then in the top right, change the Variable Type.

[ocean radish]

@light dust Shouldnt just the alpha be going into the height not the rgba?

[snow vortex]

oh components tab was turned off but i didnt touched something

[light dust]

what do you mean with alpha

[ocean radish]

Just the A

[forest sable]

Guys, i sold my PC how do i download one ?

[light dust]

ok thx

@forest sable you wanna download a pc???

whats this

This layer has no layer info assigned yet. You must create or assign a layer info before you can paint this layer.

[ocean radish]

@light dust Yea create the info

[light dust]

id did

[light dust]

i know but when i did it the material image sayed none and it wasnt working

[ocean radish]

@light dust not sure on that one, not done a great deal with mats just some basics, to me that should be fine, might try ask in the graphics or vis fx channel see if anyone there can help with it

[light dust]

ok

[ocean radish]

@light dust one other thing that might be causing it, make sure your landscape is using your material

[zealous moth]

@maiden wadi

found it

[forest sable]

@light dust yes please I can't happen to find a legit site for downloading a PC

[marble folio]

Is there an elegant way to solve

Error: SerializedComponent archetype is not the CDO nor a default subobject of my class.

? The blueprint itself is working.. I can package the project no problem and it runs with all the functionality there. This is missing references to basic stuff like the Arrow component on a Character(the inherited one) and such... very strange

Cleaning out the project (Intermediate, Binaries) and rebuilding does not help either

This might also be a 4.25 thing 😄 as reverting back to a good known state does nothing 😄

[atomic prairie]

Hello, I would like to change the material of my Skysphere with a Triggerbox, I must call which node in my BP to change a material?

Found it!

A simply Set Material haha

[late cave]

why on earth does the Game Mode Base class have a default scene root? is it an actor? why??

[maiden wadi]

@late cave Game mode is technically an Actor. It Inherits from AInfo, which inherits from Actor. The definition of an AInfo class is "Info, the root of all information holding classes. Doesn't have any movement / collision related code. Info is the base class of an Actor that isn't meant to have a physical representation in the world, used primarily for "manager" type classes that hold settings data about the world, but might need to be an Actor for replication purposes."

[trim matrix]

can someone tell me how to not make it where my mesh is not locked to my camera like this^^

its the worlds greatest mystery to me

not locked**

might be something with my spring arm but idk

[maiden wadi]

That doesn't look like anything to do with mesh. That looks like you turned on Pitch and Roll rotations for the Pawn

[hybrid topaz]

is it possible to stream video from a rtmp server?

[trim matrix]

@maiden wadi but if i disable pitch i cant look up and down on my character,

[maiden wadi]

Yes you can, you just don't do it with the pawn. You generally do that with a camera or spring arm. You don't want the Pawn to pitch though because you're rotating the whole capsule forward instead of just a camera. If that makes sense?

[trim matrix]

alright

ill delete the spring arm

ig

[late cave]

@maiden wadi ah... "might need to be an actor for replication purposes"... and there it is... that "might" is complete bullshit 😄

@maiden wadi btw, you're truly some kind of UE4 wizard! 👍

[balmy hamlet]

Thanks everyone for your help! Great idea @tight schooner , but guess what i found as i tried to implement it:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Vector/VectorHeadingAngle/index.html

I swear that this didn't exist yesterday when i was looking for it

[modest gulch]

so I implemented wallpaper degradation in material using extensively WorldAlignedTexture and all is fine and dandy except of one detail: pattern on opposite walls is same and sometimes it is very noticeable... any advice about how to deal with that?

[covert stirrup]

Would it be bad practice to set the Event Tick Delta Seconds to a variable on Event Tick?

[strange stream]

I'm using a sort of template in UE4 and I'm getting this error from one of my actors, but I have no idea where that reference actually is.. any way I can find the blueprint a delegate is executed?

[trim matrix]

right click find references

[strange stream]

Didn't work

[trim matrix]

then click on the binocular

on the result window

its on the right of the search bar

it will search your entire code

[covert stirrup]

The reference should be self, but the dispatcher should be in that blueprint

If you turn off Contextual menu, you can technically put it in any BP you want but it then wont be referenced -- I have a feeling this is what you might have done

so this second screenshot won't work because it has no way to reference

[tight schooner]

@covert stirrup I save Delta Seconds to a variable on tick and it's been ok. Though something to be aware of is whether you have events that fire before event tick — if another event uses the variable before tick fires then potentially it's getting the previous delta rather than the current one. That said, idk offhand what the event tick firing order usually looks like or how to control it...

@modest gulch more of a #graphics question IMO

[strange stream]

I have 2 player starts which spawns Master_Character, I've made a child of Master which has the mesh, abilities and stuff.
But how can I change the players pawn to the Child Character instead of the Master Character?

Its probably easy so sorry for noob question

[modest gulch]

@tight schooner okay, tbh this server should have separate channel dedicated to materials 😉

[round idol]

Can pls someone, for the love of God tell me what's going on here?!

I've debugged it several times and those are the values I get...I just can't understand!

Tried different values, result is the same, the value passed on to the localVar is halved and keeps getting halved for each iteration of the loop after it first passes the bool

[hard charm]

who want make remake fans of soul reaver with unreal engine

[covert stirrup]

@tight schooner Thanks for the tip, I think I will avoid it, the only reason I want to do it is for tidyness sakes, so sounds like it's not worth the effort!

[river seal]

i am following a tutorial on creating menus... does anybody know the purpose of the "is valid" node in this case?

it would also work without the variable and the check...

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix You can QuitGame, but once it's close, the application closes. You'd have to start it back up yourself.

@river seal To make sure that your menu widget is valid before trying to add it to the viewport. If it's not valid, create it, set the variable and then add it to viewport.

Basically, you don't want to just keep creating and adding widgets to the viewport over top of each other.

[trim matrix]

Hey guys, i have a question. Everytime i spawn in a enemy it doesnt move

it has ai move to as well and has a navmes

[river seal]

@maiden wadi thx! so this is just to keep it clean in case for some reason the function would be called multiple times?

[tight schooner]

@covert stirrup you can use the Get Delta Seconds node instead of pull it out of Event Tick. The only reason I save it to a variable is so I can use it directly inside Math Expression nodes.

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix You're going to need to show the function that you're calling.

[river seal]

wouldn't just "remove from parent" make sure this would not happen?

[trim matrix]

@maiden wadi

[maiden wadi]

@river seal Most people program togglable menus that way and just call that when they want to show it. It's just easier to handle for many reasons. If you lose track of the menu somehow, it'll just make a new one and the old one gets garbage collected. Since UI should be set up to display information or accept input based on actors, it's no big deal if the widget gets lost and you need a new one.

@trim matrix Never used SpawnActorSimpleAI, I assume that wouldn't be the issue though. You've put prints and such in to see that the execution line is making it all of the way to the move to? If so, put some on the failed and success and see which is happening with the movement.

[river seal]

ok thx. so like almost always, many approaches possible.. 🙂 thx again

[trim matrix]

spawn actor simple ai is spawn actor from class

[maiden wadi]

Oh! Hey, it is. Man I'm slow. Been staring at blendspaces for too long today.

Uh. try the node SpawnAIFromClass instead. I don't think spawning it as an actor spawns it with an AI controller attached.

Not sure, never tried personally. I just always use SpawnAI when I need an AI. You can leave the Behavior Tree part empty.

[trim matrix]

was just about to ask about the behavior tree

it works

thanks my guy

who knew that was the cause

@maiden wadi do you have any idea why

[maiden wadi]

I dunno. Lemme see a minute.

Yeah. Pretty sure it's the controller. Spawning just an Actor version will just make the actor and no AIController. SpawnAI also creates a controller and has it possess created character. No AIController means you can't call movements on it since I'm pretty sure that despite that being called on the pawn, it actually uses the controller for that. Sure-ish anyway.

[trim matrix]

ah ok i guess

i think i get it

lol

[maiden wadi]

Do you know what Controllers are?

In short, consider the Controller as the mind and the Pawn as the body. It's a lot more complicated than that, specially when you start considering multiplayer aspects.

[keen seal]

Hey, is there a way I can control my character movement like a variable?
Best I've found is set velocity

[maiden wadi]

Really depends on how you're trying to control the character. What is your intention and why does the default movement not work?

[keen seal]

I'm trying to make a power up that makes you move faster

[maiden wadi]

There's a lot of ways to handle that. First off, multiplayer or singleplayer?

[keen seal]

sp

[maiden wadi]

Much easier then. How are you moving your character now?

[keen seal]

What do you mean?

[maiden wadi]

How are you currently moving your character forward?

[keen seal]

Is this what you mean?

[maiden wadi]

Yep. I'd probably say your easiest way to apply a speed boost would be to get your CharacterMovement component, and change your MaxWalkSpeed.

[keen seal]

oh wait lol

It is a variable

I just had to untick context sensitive

thanks anyway lmao

[latent anvil]

Hi everyone! I hope you all are safe and having a good start to your week. I have a (hopefully) quick question for anyone familiar with what I'm trying to do atm. I have a pretty basic character health system based on five separate health values for various limbs. I have some debug keys set up (nums 1-5) to subtract one health from each pool; once the total health among all five pools equals zero, I have a death screen. All that is working fine.

Currently, I am trying to create damage actor that I can interact with which will randomly damage one of my five limbs (-1 to health var), but the problem I am running into is figuring out a way to weight the random number output so that I can (eventually) differentiate weapons from each other (IE, some weapons will be better at connecting with arms, legs, chest).

I have been researching different ways to hopefully create a switch based on an integer range instead of a set int, but I haven't found anything conclusive yet.

I've set up a relatively complicated (to me, lol) 'For Each' loop which uses a 'InRange (Integer)' node who's 'Max range' input is set by a simple int array variable dictating thresholds for each of the five limbs, totalling 100 (having set the 'Random Integer in Range' max to 100), but I am not sure what the simplest way to set the 'Min' on the 'In Range (Integer)' node, or even if that is the best way to do it? Is there a simple(r) way to make a range-based switch that I can use to weight my random int?

Here is my clunky BP atm. I know I need to optimize parts of it, but I wanted to try and get this range thing worked out first

[round idol]

@latent anvil

I think this is what you want to use. Just plugin your 0-1 var and you're set 😉

Oh, I looked at ur bp and it's something else you are trying to achieve...isn't it? 😛 my bad

[latent anvil]

Thank you for the quick response! Kind of, but unless I'm mistaken that's not quite what I need. In my I have five health variables: Chest, ArmL, ArmR, LegL, and LegR. I'd like to apply a weighted range for each of my five limbs, and then compare a simple random number gen against each range. Example: Chest = 0-15, random num is 13, so chest var is damaged.

[round idol]

Are your "limbs" components?

[latent anvil]

This way I can create child damage instances which have a higher chance to damage specific limbs.

[round idol]

what are the limbs? actors?

[latent anvil]

No, they are all int variables in my character.

[round idol]

it's hard and overcomplicated if the only indicator you have is an int.

Try restructuring things, you might wanna add functionality later and doing so based on an int array will get confusing fast - for me at least

either make a struct and put inside the min and max, and whatever else you'd like to have there later

or just make them components (actor components) which act like perfect data containers which can also contain functionality

[cunning creek]

how can i print in the UI the speed variable from animationBP?

[round idol]

At least, it's how I would implement the system

[latent anvil]

I haven't worked with actor components before, but if that would be easier in the long haul I should check that out.

[round idol]

You can trust Matthew Waldstein's channel for any type of thing you know the name of and want to know how it works - he pretty much covers everything from nodes to vars https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ

[latent anvil]

Thank you for the feedback. I will need to reassess my current system and see if there is an easier way to do it that makes sense to me

I've been watching some of his vids and they are definitely helpful, thank you

[round idol]

np, hope it helps 😛

Still, if you want to insist, this is what you are looking for (I think) - there is an int version:

Now...my question: Asked before, I know, but I still didn't figure it out, it makes no sense: Can someone pls explain this to me?!

I can't "unbuff/debuff/reverse buff effects because of this and I ran out of ideas...😭

[zealous moth]

terrible question structure

[short pawn]

Hi I need help desperately. My game won't package with physics, all my spawned actor that are supposed to be ragdollaa re kinematic

[zealous moth]

you basically threw at us a bunch of nodes with no context, no variables no explanations of what you even are doing and want to do

[rain crag]

Hi all, I'm running into some weird behaviour when updating a mesh's rotation on tick after mirroring it and would appreciate any suggestion you may have (for context I'm making a VR interface that exists on one of the player's hands, I'm running into trouble when swapping which hand is which)
I've attached two videos showing the expected behaviour and what happens after swapping the hands as well as a screenshot of the nodes I'm using to update the rotation of rings over the player's hand on tick.
When swapping hands I'm simply inverting the y-axis of a scene component that acts as the parent for all of the hand's elements.

[round idol]

@zealous moth It should be irrelevant what I want to do, I threw the logic of a foreachloop which outputs values (i marked in yellow) it shouldn't, from what I know. But If it helps, I could provide context. Asked this before and got total silece, figured becuase it makes absolutely no sense...

[short pawn]

Anyone have any clue as to how to package my game and include physics?

[round idol]

I have two maps of the same type: one for stats, one for bonuses. The maps are comprised of enums with StatName(as keys) and their values. In the SS's case I'm trying to apply a penalty of 50% to the "attack" enum key - so far so good. All goes well until I want to save that "50%" - or whatever value that might be, so I can reverse the effect later, for which I add it to an extra map of "WidgetStats" since it's what the widget should also display. But the second "add" to the map halves the value

I can't even suspect another node somewhere getting in between since as far as i know, loops execute from start to finish without interruption.

[obtuse thunder]

Hey I want to make a simple audio beat tracker like the heartbeat UI from Crypt of the NecroDancer

How would I start into making this?

[round idol]

Ok, I found the "problem" but...why?!

[marble folio]

do you add to the array you are reading?

[zealous moth]

@round idol try this?

oh psh you replied after

[round idol]

@zealous moth I did man...Not working, tried everything 😛

[zealous moth]

the logic i see makes no sense unless the red is hooked up

[round idol]

but...but! @marble folio might have a point

[zealous moth]

this is from a design point of view, not bp logic

[marble folio]

Yeah writing to an array you are reading is an issue in BP

even if it is part of a map

[round idol]

lemme check thoroughly 😛 sry for being so pestering, but it just buggers my mind...

[zealous moth]

oh i get it

Acheta is right

you are rewriting the map as you are looping it

[round idol]

This is all of it, maybe I can't see something and you guys find it:

[zealous moth]

so it gets added to the end

[round idol]

ah, it's small...

[marble folio]

It is fine

Store the keys in local variable

[zealous moth]

@marble folio does that make sense? he is adding it while reading it; when you add, the new value is added at the last index. So the loop goes around twice

[marble folio]

and loop over the local variable

[round idol]

So make local for both before operating then setting - like i did with the stats one?

[zealous moth]

i don't thik that's the issue, it's the Add into the map

[round idol]

oh, shoot! the stat one IS the problem -.-

Add into map works just like set array elem for arrays

since it can't have duplicates

[marble folio]

Yeah if you add to the same key it replaces the original one

[zealous moth]

^ but it would be placed at a later index while the loop is going

[marble folio]

but the "Keys" is not pure so that should essentially function as local variable...

Working with Maps is strange in BP.....

[round idol]

the first add works fine but starts +index before adding to the second, so the second gets halved again...somehow

[zealous moth]

Maps should be used as references to transpose data, not as loops; what @round idol should use is a struct

[marble folio]

Store the result of the calculation...

[round idol]

lemme try store that

well, ofc that should work xD but it's weird 'cos i don't understand the logic behind it 😦

[marble folio]

my engine does not want to compile...so I cannot hop in and try it out

[round idol]

@zealous moth It's already structs within structs within structs xD

so i just slapped the map on it 😛

[zealous moth]

well then your struct structure is a mess and can be either simplified or broken down further

the logic is this

you "Add" to your map. Adding either replaces the value and places it at the end or it adds it at the end. So either way you are creating the value at the end. Now what i find odd is that you don't have an infinite loop

[marble folio]

I wish my structs were this easy....

[zealous moth]

sounds like you should struct your struct into structs

[round idol]

😂

[zealous moth]

either way, don't loop your map

ter

unless it's for readonly purposes

[trim matrix]

Use a widget to switch map but how do I hide the mouse so I can move around again

Tried doing that in new map didn't work

[marble folio]

In the player controller you can set the play mode or whatever it is called to UI only or Game only

also that set should work

Set input Mode is the node I was thinking off

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Input/SetInputModeGameOnly/index.html

[cedar glen]

I apologize for interrupting, but how to make an actor smooth movement from the player? Like impossibility to reach the actor. Now I have it like that but actor is moving discreetly noticeably

[marble folio]

Interp 🙂

[trim matrix]

that worked

looks like i don't need to set mouse cursor to hide

[marble folio]

@cedar glen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--6HvirxmUA

yeah in that case you probably do not

@cedar glen btw that cast in there is not needed

If you do it to validate the actor type it is probably fine, if you do it to validate the actor is valid..just use "Is Valid" node 🙂 (or validated get)

[round idol]

@marble folio @zealous moth Fixed it, Tyvm for your help guys, I still don't quite understand but it looks like the "multiply" node (being pure) was trying to get the value which - for some reason belonged to the next index in the array, only the value, not the enum...Weird, still don't get it to be honest. Anyway, thanks, It's fixed with local set 🙂

[marble folio]

Mysteries of BP execution order... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

also I know why it did what it did for you 😄

[round idol]

I know but it's a freakin' LOOP! It shold be linear and straightforward afaik :/ anyway, i'm no programmer, I don't know any code, BP is the only thing i know 😛

[zealous moth]

is there a way to set and reset a delay that acts like a cooldown?

[marble folio]

it is linear..but ... do you want the explanation of what is going on?

Retrigerable delay?

or just a timer?

timer gives you all the flexibility you want

[ocean radish]

@zealous moth Yea you want a timer

[marble folio]

@round idol do you want me to explain what was going on in your case?:)

[round idol]

it is linear..but ... do you want the explanation of what is going on?
@marble folio Well, It's kind of "dissapointing" idk how to say it otherwise. I thought I had this, I had understood principles of how things in BPs work, and I wasn't "affraid" to do stuff, now I'm a bit shaken xD

[marble folio]

It is fairly straightforward once you know what is going on 😄

[round idol]

4+ hrs on this bug :/

[marble folio]

not a bug 😄

lets call it a feature ... as that is what it is

[round idol]

bug for me 😛 but yea, if it's not 110% programming terms, I would indeed *like to understand what went wrong so I can avoid that kind of thinking/solution in the future 🙂

[marble folio]

Give me a second 🙂

[ripe drift]

Hi All, When trying to add a "Skeletal Mesh" in the viewport of my Player Controller BP - Parent Class (Player Controller) i can't seem to see it?, whereas in the Player Character BP based on the Parent Class (Character) it shows fine?

Am i missing something obvious here to make it show?

[bitter ingot]

why do you want your PC to have a skeletal mesh comp?

@ripe drift

[ripe drift]

Just purely for viewing and setskel mesh functions, I have it working on my sample project using playercharacter 3rd person.. but my main project the player controller uses Parent Class PC not character..

[bitter ingot]

i suggest you use a skeletal mesh variable for that

[ripe drift]

mm not sure I follow sry @bitter ingot - as all my functions i think will need to be in my playercontroller,, all working perfect on sample with 3rd person,,, was just shocked just when i tried to add mesh to the PC and wouldn't show?....

[bitter ingot]

i mean it definitly makes sense that the player controller does not represent any physical objects since it was never meant to do anything of that kind

[ripe drift]

ah ok, understand your point. Need think of some way to recreate what I've done then :). Thanks for response appreciated

[bitter ingot]

no prob mate!

[zealous moth]

@ocean radish @marble folio pardon the delay, baby crying. I have a "follow the mouse with your arms" timer function that I want to call when the player clicks but if the player doesn't click for 2 seconds, I would like the arms to relax. I play with the alpha between the IK nodes in the animation blueprint and that works fine.

What I want is the whole "if no input for 2 sec after last shot, relax" however this needs to be refreshed every click. So if I click, I dont want mid click later to relax.

does this make sense?

[ocean radish]

Yea, can do all that in a timer

[zealous moth]

in 1 timer function or on 2 timer functions?

[ocean radish]

could do it in one, you would just make counter inside the timer, and have it count down

so on the click set the timer to 2secs, on each tick of the timer take off your time value that its looping by, have the counter as a float, then a check if counter is 0 stop timer

[zealous moth]

i was thinking just that

thanks

[ocean radish]

yww

[marble folio]

Do you need the counter?

you can get elapsed time from the handle

for display.... and just let the timer run out when it needs to run out

[zealous moth]

i am not sure how to set that up

this is usually how i set up my timers:

better than ticking

[marble folio]

timer is still ticking..

[zealous moth]

yeah but not every frame

[marble folio]

also it will not run every 0.01

[zealous moth]

ah?

[marble folio]

it will run every frame... if your frame time is < 0.01

During tick the engine checks if there is a timer event waiting to be executed..if so it executes it

It is also quite messy if the timer time is < than tick time 😄

just do this to get the value of the timer so you can display it in the UI

[ocean radish]

^ didnt even know that was a thing, not done too much with timers other than the basics

[zealous moth]

hm, I'd have to divide the second by the fps and that gets me the frames timing no?

[marble folio]

yeah we had a huge argument about effectiveness of timers a while ago on a different discord 😄

[trim matrix]

Is it just me, or does the construction script run more than once? Sorry for interrupting :/

[marble folio]

looked it up and it is sort of bit more complex but sort of as it is

[zealous moth]

so that means that 1/30 is 0.03s and 1/60 is 1/0.016

is that right?

[marble folio]

@zealous moth you are overcomplicating it

[ocean radish]

@trim matrix it shouldnt, you could always do print string to check if somthing funky is going on, if you have multiple of the same actor each one will fire there own ofc

[trim matrix]

@ocean radish I only have one actor of said type, but the print string prints 3 times.

[marble folio]

@zealous moth why do you need the timer to run that fast?

for display?

[zealous moth]

no no, the animation depends on the evaluation of a vector; i don't need it on every frame, just enough to show it visually

[marble folio]

Evaluate the vector in the anim bp?

[zealous moth]

yeah, basically, check where the vector is and adjust the IK bone to match it

[marble folio]

you can do the calculation there

[ocean radish]

@trim matrix what you trying to set in the construction script, if you move the object of set properties in the editor it will fire a lot

[zealous moth]

"there"?

[marble folio]

before the IK

also look up ccdik ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LhxtNjaMOc

[trim matrix]

@ocean radish I'm adding spline mesh components dynamically, based on a certain spline's length. I'm aware that if I drag out a spline point, the construction script will fire multiple times, but if I compile the blueprint, thee construction script should only run once (from my understanding)

This fires 6 times now

[ocean radish]

@trim matrix Yea should only fire once

[trim matrix]

I just tried creating a completely fresh blueprint. The construction script fires three times

[zealous moth]

@marble folio hah, interesting but i need more control over this; there are easier nodes to use in the actor BP than the anim BP

but thanks

for instance, i need a check for certain abilities that require other use of animations and transforms

[marble folio]

In that case just do it on tick.....

otherwise it will look choppy....

it will save you trouble of calculating the frame time in the timer 😄

[zealous moth]

yeah i was considering it but i want to compare the performance

[marble folio]

a fast timer is worse than tick..trust me... 😄

[ocean radish]

@trim matrix bit of a work around you could do all the heavy lifting in a serperate function and have a branch in the construction node isLoaded? then fire the new function there and set the loaded to true, depending on what you need it to do

@trim matrix You could look at in call in editor events and functions too if you only want to call them when you press a button

[round idol]

WTF is going on today?! Anything I can do about this without breaking all structs containing that?

[ocean radish]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Editor/ScriptingAndAutomation/Blueprints/CallInEditor/index.html

[marble folio]

compile it?:D

[round idol]

How do I compile a struct? xD

[marble folio]

Save it... and check the output log

[round idol]

did...saved fine...Something's wrong today seriously

[trim matrix]

@ocean radish That could be a solution, but is this not a huge bug then?

[ocean radish]

@trim matrix Not sure, I don't know enough about how they handle it internally and what if anything else can cause it to retrigger

[zealous moth]

@round idol it is time to let go. give it a clean death and delete it and start all over. Don't frankenstein it by adding stuff and changing it into a monster. Frankenstein did not want to be a monster and neither does your struct

[ocean radish]

@trim matrix Just checked issue logs, theres a few marked bugs still marked as backlogged from couple of years ago with similar issues, so looks like theres not much to do other than work around the issue, or make it so it doesn't matter if it runs multiple times

[round idol]

@zealous moth Yep...not a solution, 6 months of work into this project man, it's quite big so I can't just start over 😛

[shut magnet]

hi i wanna ask currently i have a bunch of animation idle state while on horse(patting the horse,checking up on horse etc),i wanna do after a certain amount of time lets say 2 minutes the player on top of the horse wil do the patting animation or checking up on horse animation..how do i check after a certain amout of time to play that animation?

[trim matrix]

@ocean radish Appreciate your investigation. I don't understand how such bugs can go on unresolved for years D:

[round idol]

It worked after changing the culprit - some stupid enum - to a bool then back without breaking the refs afterwards. Problem is I need to reimport skill effect table, but it's fine XD

[halcyon trellis]

Bumping question:

What transition rule would be appropriate for detecting if the player is turning left/right? I want to go from Idle to turning left/right and have it adjust based on how far the player turns (a little on the thumbstick to max push via turn speed variable)
@halcyon trellis

[zealous moth]

blendspace

[marble folio]

@round idol Did you try right clicking on the struct in the content browser and under Asset Actions do "Reload"?:)

[round idol]

😮 no, will try, rerolled twice already since it crashed 😄

[warped nebula]

ok so yesterday I was getting major lagspikes from 120 to 0 that I attributed to the pc being on for awhile and being stupid, but checking the log files this morning LogAudioMixer: Error: Audio Platform Device Error: 0xE000020B: UNKNOWN (File D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Windows/AudioMixerXAudio2/Private/AudioMixerPlatformXAudio2.cpp, Line 305)

that log error in red accompanys every lag spike

anyone know what could be happening there?

[round idol]

@marble folio "User created struct cannot be safely reloaded" and that ends reloading. I can't wait for 4.25. For me at least, this version is by far the worse, and I've been around since 4.9

[marble folio]

I am on 4.25... from where I stand... be glad you are where you are 😄

[round idol]

ouch

should have stayed on 4.23, i don't even know why I upgraded project to 4.24, didn't need any feature from it...stooped!

[marble folio]

I think you should always upgrade... because the development on the old version stops the moment they release the new one... so no bug fixes nothing

Does it cause issues...sure...do they get fixed...maybe

[pearl rose]

You shouldn't always upgrade

The only reason to upgrade it's specifically for a fix or a new features

if you are not aiming one of those fix/features then you are 99% making a mistake

[round idol]

I remember once I was actually relying some gameplay elements on a bug which triggered an overlap on spawn 😂 Later found out it was a very old bug which they fixed in 4.21 or something

[pearl rose]

That can happen

[round idol]

Aaanyway...I'll leave this one out of the struct for now. Keeps crashing when saving struct - probably because of many refs to it, idk

I think 4.17 or so had a similar problem, once you saved a struct you couldn't go back and modify anything, only add, otherwise it crashed

[marble folio]

I had that on 4.24...

[round idol]

lol

[marble folio]

adding was fine, moving things inside the struct crashed the engine for me

[round idol]

yea

[pearl rose]

When your struct have a reference inside blueprint it can get tricky to modify it depending on what property this struct has

[round idol]

And what I've noticed is that the more refs to the struct, the higher the chances it will cause problems when saving/modifying it

But at least in my game, there is no way to get rid of data tables

[pearl rose]

In my personal testing it's mostly structure inside structure that break it completely

[round idol]

damn, all my structs are like that, broken into sub-structs for cosmetics, widgets, functionality etc

[pearl rose]

That won't change very soon I think. You'll have to live with those struct for a while or simply restart the table

[round idol]

It would be very hard to work with huge structs which are "unstructured" - you know, I only break what I need, so yea, guess I'll just have to deal with it

[hybrid hound]

How do you spawn the player using the level when level streaming, rather than using the player that spawns in persistent

[pearl rose]

I know a little lifehack for you @round idol if you want to untouch your struct, but that would mean a little extra work

@hybrid hound The same way you spawn any actor, by using "Spawn actor from class" and then you can use "Posses" to control it

[round idol]

@pearl rose As long as it doesn't involve code, I'm fine with trying things 😄

[pearl rose]

+without losing your data table

don't be afraid of code, blueprint still code 😉

[round idol]

well I usually backup my DTs pretty often 😄

[hybrid hound]

so i would destroy the previous player right?

[pearl rose]

So here the trick: If you get to the point where you are and need extra information inside your data table but get crash every time you try to change the struct. What you can do is create another struct (that contains what you need) and another table (link with that struct).

Now you may ask why, it's quite simple, what you can do is store the extra infos you need by the same name, so when (in your BP) you call your huge table, you can call his "children" table that has what you need

Sound good?

@hybrid hound You know it, I can't tell you if in your game your previous pawn need to be destroy. I would assume that most game would delete it. But some could need to keep a reference to re-posses it later

[pure heron]

Is there any way to query a DataTable? For example, with the DT looking like so, is there any way to select only rows that are in the Boss loot table?

[round idol]

Hm...that's actually something I've thought about in the past for other reasons, but yea, it could work in this scenario as well - heh, 😄 thanks for the tip, it's a nice workaround especially if you're just stuck with lacking structs

[pearl rose]

Good 🙂

@pure heron You can only retrieve dataTable by name, what you can do after is break the table and verify the content of Loot tables and based on that do what you need

[pure heron]

Well that's a major bummer

[pearl rose]

You can always use SQL if you need real database

[pure heron]

'Cause if I were to spawn a random item from a loot table, I would have to keep getting random rows and checking if the table matches

[pearl rose]

dataTable and database are quite different

[pure heron]

Don't suppose Unreal has any database built in and ready to use?

[pearl rose]

In your specific scenario I would say that having multiple table for each loot tables might be a very simple option

[marble folio]

Or have an array with "Possible drops" on the boss

[pearl rose]

after even if you were to look and compare over hundred of cell, it would be quit instant if you have no big data associated

[marble folio]

that links to the DT

[pure heron]

Having duplicate entries would be an issue though. If I were to add BOOSTO item to one, but the other would have BOOOSTO

[marble folio]

have Items DT...and Drop DT...

Drop DT has the boss name and an Array of Row Names for the Items DT

then you just do random on the array of row names

[pure heron]

I guess it could work that way, yeah

[marble folio]

you simulate a relational database that way

[pure heron]

I'll roll with that, thanks!

[marble folio]

if you have DT for your bosses(stores their stats for example...) that array could be in there 😄

though keeping it separate prevents the extremely large structures some others are coping with here 😄

[zealous moth]

nobody here has Maya experience, would you?

[rain crag]

@zealous moth I have some, what's up?

[zealous moth]

i will pm you

[atomic prairie]

Hey! I would like to create an animation loop in a BP Actor which repeats every 5 seconds: the mesh which scales from 0 to 1 and rotate. I made the rotation but what would be the node for the scale?

[pure heron]

Just checking, but does returning from a function inside of a foreach loop iteration actually break the loop as well, or do I need to explicitly use the foreach loop with break?

[covert stirrup]

@pearl rose @round idol very interesting read, thanks for the query and tips. I have a feeling I will hit this problem down the road and its nice to have a bit of info going into it! I don't think I will ever be putting structs in structs! Is there any particular use case why you want to?

[rain crag]

@atomic prairie Are you looking for the node to set the scale? Or manipulate it from 0 - 1? Setting would just require a "set actor scale 3D" or "set actor relative scale 3D" depending on what you're doing

[atomic prairie]

@rain crag i want the node for set the scale from0 to 1 in 5sec with a smooth transition

[cobalt slate]

Guys, what am I missing? When I use a keypress, I can add 1 to the integer each time and it adds up no problem, but when I attach it to my custom event, the print string just returns a 1 over and over(default is 0). there's 2-3 times this event gets called, but it only returns a 1 UNLESS I manually attach it to a keypress...

[cloud trellis]

Fixed the animation part, in thirdpersoncharacter how do I switch the automatic walk speed from 600 to 300. Cant find it in there

[trim matrix]

how would u guys go about toggling between levels with a menu

NVM

[sand shore]

I mean that'll work to go between two levels

[trim matrix]

Anyone know why my On clicked sound for my button doesn't play the first time i click it?

[atomic prairie]

idk show your bp

[late shuttle]

Anyone have experience with the Math Expression Node? I'm trying to do a logarithm and having trouble inputting the equation...

[rain crag]

@atomic prairie Are you trying to update the scale on tick or on an event/in a function? On tick you can just use InterpTo / Lerp nodes using the tick delta to update the alpha, on events or in macros you can use a timeline with a curve from 0-1 over 5 seconds to drive the alpha of the InterpTo / Lerp node. Personally I prefer using timelines 🤷‍♂️ timelines just can't be used in functions so that's just a constraint to consider

[atomic prairie]

@rain crag i use Event Tick, my scale animation is ''good'' now, but the reverse is complicated with that node i think

[trim matrix]

How to turn off HUD?

in blueprint.

I can set it but i cant get rid of it

[atomic prairie]

your widget?

[trim matrix]

well i set it in my map

but i want to turn my hud off anywhere when i press key for menu in map bp

or widget

[atomic prairie]

try visibility?

[trim matrix]

hmm

[atomic prairie]

when your press key set visibility to 0

[trim matrix]

like this

[rain crag]

@atomic prairie Something like this might work for you -- off the top of my head, haven't tested it

[trim matrix]

really don't know what wildcard to use

this should be the widget i need to make invis

hey this is a pretty urgent problem that i need fixing and it sounds dumb but my boss is giving me this error

[atomic prairie]

@rain crag wow it works really well, and it's much simpler haha! Thank you! But how does the Invert work?

@trim matrix yes this is for a widget

[trim matrix]

yah but i have no idea how to execute

made my canvas panel on that widget a variable

[rain crag]

@atomic prairie It's an easy way to change whether you're scaling up or scaling down -- setting the bool to true or false will change which value is used as the target of the interpolation 👍 Glad to hear it's working for you

[trim matrix]

well i'm dumb

[rough wing]

https://youtu.be/V0Pt-p4ShAM

[old badger]

blendspace

Hi guys, so i was trying to input a character from mixamo with all the animations. When starts moving, seems that takes a lot of speed, maybe reading something wrong or duplicated? Any animations missing? But I complete all the animation points.

Event graph of blueprint character

Seems that's lagging with speed set for 3x more

[rose spire]

Hey y'all! I have a large saving and loading system in blueprints. When I pick the item up and reload, the item is in my inventory but doesn't delete in scene. What is the easiest way to save items as deleted ?

or I guess "picked up"

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Dunno if you ever figured that one out, but it's just a warning that you're trying to move an object that's not set to Movable.

[trim matrix]

yea i figured it out

[spark steppe]

is there any way to sort an array?

[marble folio]

yes

in pure BP no...

using plugin... yes, but I just got rid of the plugin 😄

But it is just a tiny bit of c++ code to do the sorting function if you are not opposed to that @spark steppe

[spark steppe]

ok, thanks

im still at the BP part where i rule out the logic of my game, so i'll go with an ugly solution for now, and fix that when converting my BPs to c++

[marble folio]

The easy solution is to use the plugin

[spark steppe]

really dont want to mess with plugins for now 😄

[marble folio]

Just for a completenes these are my sort functions that expose array sorting to BP... https://gist.github.com/aknarts/018caee943ee5e2c489fb20b636a328d

[spark steppe]

the ugly solution is just some recursive function calling in BP

so i can work with that for now

[marble folio]

The only thing that is needed there is to replace <PROJECTNAMEINCAPITALS> with your project name in capitals and you can just drop it to the Source/ProjectName directory 🙂

[spark steppe]

thank you, i have bookmarked it for later use

[marble folio]

sure 🙂

[spark steppe]

mind if i just copycat most of it?

[marble folio]

Go for it, there is nothing that hard there 😄

[spark steppe]

thanks, saved me some time 🙂

[marble folio]

btw this plugin has these nodes in it already... https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/low-entry-extended-standard-library just if you want to take that route...

first picture bottom right is what they look like in BPs

[spark steppe]

haven't really used plugins yet, is it just installing it and its ready to use in my project?

[marble folio]

Pretty much..you might need to enable it in Plugins

[spark steppe]

gotcha, i'll give it a try

[marble folio]

Hm curious if I should put the sorting functions into the engine code 😄

[trim matrix]

@maiden wadi do you know why every time i have an issue with the nav meshes not making my ai move around?

i have level streaming on too

anyone can input if you know why mb

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Not that familiar with level streaming, but I do remember there being a general issue with the persistent level needing a Nav volume, as well as any sub levels. Or something like that.

[trim matrix]

damn really

any way to fix that

[maiden wadi]

Put a large nav volume in the persistent level. There may be a way around it, but I'm not sure.

@spark steppe Just curious, what kind of Array are you trying to sort, and in what order?

[arctic shard]

Is there any way to check if static mesh socket has already anything attached to it?

[maiden wadi]

@arctic shard You can get attached actors, but I'm not so sure about getting only the ones attached to a specific socket or bone. I could easily be wrong, but I can't find any lookups for Socket or Bone attachment location. You may need to keep a reference variable or array to keep track of the things you attach to said socket. If it's a long list then Maybe a Map. You could make an Object map, with SocketNames as values. Any time you need to see if a Socket has anything, you could iterate though the Map's values.

[marble folio]

@trim matrix what level do you have the navmesh in?

[arctic shard]

Thanks, will try working with that

[trim matrix]

@marble folio i have some in the persistent and some in the others

cause the enemies are being level streamed

well i have 1 in persisten

the rest is in the other maps

[marble folio]

The issue is that the nav mesh generation is "static" and if the level that it is generated for is not loaded than it just fails....

I switched to dynamic generation with nav invokers for that reason

[trim matrix]

will that tank performance?

@marble folio

[marble folio]

Well that kind of depends on the size of the nav invoker I guess... it will be generated when the level is streamed in

[covert stirrup]

I have been reading about BP nativization that it can be toggled on/off at will.

Is this buggy or safe to do so? I feel like if you keep turning it on / off in a project it might mess things up

[marble folio]

Fairly certain that the navmesh that is on the same level as the monsters should work though

@covert stirrup I would not turn it on globaly ... but on per BP basis...

[trim matrix]

@marble folio dynamic modefier?

[marble folio]

But there is no risk with toggling it

[trim matrix]

or just dynamic?

[covert stirrup]

thanks acheta!

yea anything global and I panic!

[marble folio]

@trim matrix not sure what you are talking about... 🙂

the project settings in the navigation section?

[trim matrix]

yes

the details panel in the recast navmesh

@marble folio

[tame pecan]

How do I make categories like these?

[marble folio]

Not sure, read up on it 😄

@tame pecan with |

[tame pecan]

?

[marble folio]

you do Parent|Child category

[trim matrix]

fair thanks for the help

[tame pecan]

How do I do that?

[marble folio]

ah

in the function details

there is Category.. just write into the dropdown

[tame pecan]

Can't find category

[marble folio]

Click on the function and in the details of it

where you set up the inputs and outputs

[tame pecan]

ah

found it

thanks

😄

[spark steppe]

@maiden wadi some custom object type (by a float value within the object)

but as i cant even login to my (linux) asset downloader right now i'll have to go for my own solution -.-

but got sidetracked anyways by another issue 😄

[marble folio]

dealing with the sorting?

[maiden wadi]

@spark steppe Plugin likely won't help you much with that anyhow. Being a single float, that'd be easy to write though.

[marble folio]

@spark steppe you did not say you are on Linux... that slightly complicates the plugin install 😄

Too many Bens here:D

@spark steppe on Linux you in general cannot install plugins from the marketplace... for the plugin I linked you would need to create "Plugins" directory in your project folder and clone the plugin source to it https://code.lowentry.com/Applications/Plugins/UE4/ExtendedStandardLibrary

Also just use the Epic Games Store to get stuff into your project... hint hint Lutris

[spark steppe]

i would like to avoid lutris at all, but it looks like the market login of the app im using to download assets is broken now

i'll just go with my custom array sort for now, i want to get some stuff done today 😄

[marble folio]

Using the java thing?

[spark steppe]

yea

[marble folio]

Never had much luck with it 😄

[spark steppe]

its not that bloated as a lutris install would be, and i've spent some time to improve it

yea, the chapter workaround is fully broken now

before it was already a luckgame to get login working, but for now it doesnt work anymore as epic seems to require the captcha on every login -.-

[worldly radish]

Hi, I am trying to make a variable that holds a TMap of StaticMeshComponents on my actor blueprint to the Materials on each component. I am using the following code to build it and it does work fine but when I am opening the actor in the Editor it shows 0 elements. Any ideas why?

auto AllComponents = GetComponentsByClass(UMeshComponent::StaticClass());
    for (auto Comp : AllComponents) {
        auto CompAsMeshComp = Cast<UMeshComponent>(Comp);
        if (CompAsMeshComp)
        {
            FMaterialToPartNameList MaterialToPartList;

            // Fill MaterialToPartList then add to dict
            auto MeshMaterials = CompAsMeshComp->GetMaterials();
            for (auto Mat : MeshMaterials) {
                FMaterialToPartName NewItem;
                NewItem.Material = Mat;

                MaterialToPartList.MatList.Add(NewItem);
            }
            this->MeshMatPartDict.Add(CompAsMeshComp->GetName(), MaterialToPartList);
        }

    }

[marble folio]

I would ask in #cpp but where is this code located?

[worldly radish]

This is in PostInitializeComponents in the Actor's parent class

I did ask there a few days ago but didn't get a response so trying here

[glacial eagle]

There's no point posting CPP code in the Blueprint channel

[worldly radish]

@glacial eagle have asked there too, sorry

[mild pine]

Hey guys. I have question regarding dismembering. I have a zombie actor thats split up in body parts for dismembering. If I want to attack the zombie I assume I should get the hit bone and hit actor and have it simulate physics? The bodyparts are set to the parents master pose upon construct; do I have to remove the mesh from master pose before simulating?

[glacial eagle]

You need to add physics constraints to the bones and "break" them

But that will only work when vertices are 100% weighted to either side of the bone

If you try to break a joint that has variable vertex weights all you'll end up with is stretched polygons

[mild pine]

Okay. All the bones have a physics constraint applied by default. It's an asset from.the MP, I hope it's setup correctly hehe

But does my approach sound okay or should I do it another way?

How would I «break» the constraint?

[glacial eagle]

So long as the physics asset has been setup properly you should be able to just simulate physics on the bones of that constraint, then apply a force/impulse to them

The impulse/force will need to be enough to overcome the constraint

Dismemberment is actually a pretty difficult topic tbh

Unless you have simple rigs and models

[mild pine]

Yeah I bet :) I'll try this out when I'm home, thanks :)

[amber grotto]

which controls are compatible with unreal engine 4

[maiden wadi]

Controls?

[amber grotto]

@maiden wadi which controls are compatible with unreal engine .. because I want to buy one

[marble folio]

He means controllers

[amber grotto]

@marble folio yes

which one do you recommend is compatible

[maiden wadi]

I'd probably say pretty much any of them are. But if you're really going for compatibility, just go Playstation or Xbox directly. Xbox already has drivers in Windows, and the Playstation software to use a Playstation controller is really easy to install, can't remember the name off the top of my head.

[amber grotto]

@maiden wadi if you can help me with the name to install it

what is the configuration in unreal to use controls

[maiden wadi]

The software for the Playstation controller, you mean?

[amber grotto]

yes

[maiden wadi]

Look up DS4Windows

[amber grotto]

at the input inputs of the UE4 it is necessary to have a specific command control, in order to configure my video game

[maiden wadi]

Can't really do much besides plug it in and see what buttons connect where.

[pure heron]

I'm having a weird issue with ConstructionScript

Enum value straight from the node is Rare, but after being saved in a variable it becomes Common. What's even weirder, is that it's not the case with every item of this kind.

Some are properly rare/rare

[maiden wadi]

That's not weird. You're getting the value twice and each time it's changing it.

[pure heron]

Not sure I understand. Construction script runs only once, and the data is acquired from a datatable

Even if the CS was running multiple times, the data should be the same

[maiden wadi]

The green Enum lines coming out of the random rare weapon function. There's two of them. Each of those lines calls that node again and will end with different values. If you want to use the same values like that, don't make it a pure function or save the results like you did. If you move the bottom green line to connect up to the Set Rarity node, it'll work fine.

[past wedge]

Is it really that F'ing hard to setup vehicle physics? I have to make sure the tiniest pixel of my car's chassis doesn't touch the wheel or it seems like it will just spaz out all over the place. I still haven't fixed my vehicle issues yet and I'm really frustrated about it

[maiden wadi]

@pure heron This may help clarify what I mean

[past wedge]

If anyone can help me out it'd be much appreciated... maybe ping me or something, i'm going to bed now

[pure heron]

Ah, yeah, gotcha

[ripe moth]

What could cause elements in an array to be deleted? My array is set up like this.

[pure heron]

Right, I need to save the whole struct to a variable, and split from there

[ripe moth]

The array is used in this code

When i've ran the top picture the first element in the array gets deleted

[maiden wadi]

@pure heron That, or make that function you've created to return the struct an impure function. Either works.

[spark steppe]

i use ActorBeginCursorOver events to highlight items/players in the world, however when playing in 1st/3rd instead of topdown view the cursor is disabled as its used to rotate the camera, is there some way to generate those events somehow?

or do i have to trace the view and use custom events

[pure heron]

Aight, impure function works

Thanks!

[covert agate]

hey, does anyone know how to scale the collision of the playerbp? like the capsule? thanks.

[maiden wadi]

@spark steppe Pretty much. I tend to run my stuff like that about 20 times a second with a line trace from camera.

[spark steppe]

i think we talked about that a while ago, but i forgot whats the best attempt to call the trace only every 'n' ticks

i could save the last trace time, and compare it to the current tick time, but dunno if theres some more elegant approach

or i trace in my camera actor, and set the tick interval :> doesnt work in my case

[maiden wadi]

I run mine off of tick. Simple float that resets itself every 0.05 seconds and calls the trace function.

@ripe moth The array elements definitely shouldn't be deleting themselves. Are there any steps in particular it happens on?

[ripe moth]

https://i.gyazo.com/11ef56e9c776b5b932a9e26b5868cc63.gif

From character creation it loads the array fine

after i press continue the first time its broken

I've checked. It's not broken after the new widget is made, it gets broken in the contruction of the new widget.

[maiden wadi]

And the next widget never gets added to viewport?

[ripe moth]

No it does.

[maiden wadi]

Odd. Where are you printing them?

[ripe moth]

The widgets are setup so they inherit from a base widget. The button code is in the base widget.

The print is done in event construct

[maiden wadi]

And that is the exact same variable array as the other?

[ripe moth]

Yeah. I've tried only using one node hooked into everything in case there was anything weird going on.

[maiden wadi]

Well, if you're positive that's the same array, and you have no remove or set array elem, or remove index nodes for it anywhere, I have nothing. Class Arrays should have no reason to remove indexes without being specifically told to do so. No array should really. Even Actor arrays leave null refs if their object is destroyed I think.

[ripe moth]

Hmm

I think it has to have something to do with the way i've set it up.

Like i mentioned, all this code is in a parent class of the widgets that are spawned. So all the code is repeated for the each widget.

[spark steppe]

in java you can check if an object is instance of a specific class, is there some equivalent in BP Nodes?

fooObject instanceof barClass

or is cast to barClass the only approach?

[maiden wadi]

Use GetClass on the object and == it.

[ripe moth]

The step widgets all inherit from the DefaultStep class.

And it's in the default step class where this code is.

[spark steppe]

thanks, so i can switch on it

which is nice

[maiden wadi]

Might be irrelevant, but out of curiosity, how come you marked that as Instance Editable?

[ripe moth]

The UI?

[maiden wadi]

The array of classes.

[ripe moth]

UISteps

Uhm

no clue.

tbf.

lmao

[spark steppe]

wait, what does getclass return? the top class?

[maiden wadi]

Haha. You shouldn't need to do that unless you're modifying it in the editor, or you're also setting expose on spawn.

[ripe moth]

It should only be modified inside the parent blueprint

[spark steppe]

or something like an virtual object, which could be check against all classes in it's hierarchy

[ripe moth]

i want to make it easy and modular so you just setup the widgets you want inside the array and they spawn in the order you set them up.

[maiden wadi]

@spark steppe The actual object class. If you want to know if it's a child of another class, you can also get ClassIsChildOf Worth noting also that ClassIsChildOf also returns true when used against it's own class.

[ripe moth]

Still doesn't change anything though sadly.

[spark steppe]

thanks

[maiden wadi]

It shouldn't, I was just wondering. Seemed odd for a widget.

[ripe moth]

On another note

My children get this layout from the parent

But if i try to add anything new onto it, all that is deleted.

Which kinda makes the whole purpose of having it setup like it is gone.

https://i.gyazo.com/a66025e7e729f927e7927440448283dc.gif

[maiden wadi]

That's in the child class?

[ripe moth]

yeah

[maiden wadi]

Huh. I suppose that only Variables and Functions are carried over from parent classes in widgets. Actual widget hierarchy isn't supposed to.

[ripe moth]

huh

That's whack

[maiden wadi]

eXi made a note of that here. https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/46822-a-question-about-widget-inheritance

[ripe moth]

In that case

i guess i'll just redo the whole thing

But maybe you can help me out with something else then

If i move the array into the first menu

Do i just make the widgets inherit from that parent if i need to share the array with the widgets that comes after it?

[maiden wadi]

That should work. I mean assuming they inherit it correctly it'd just be a new copy from the parent class in each widget, so it shouldn't be changed.

I don't have much experience yet with Widget inheritance. I didn't even realize you could do it til ten minutes ago. I've been using UserWidget as a base and just nesting the different widget classes into one larger Userwidget.

[ripe moth]

Ok this inheriting stuff is really not optimal for widgets

I can't copy over buttons and backgrounds because they're "duplicates"

[maiden wadi]

You might honestly have a lot more luck creating one larger widget with a WidgetSwitcher and buttons to switch the tabs and using the smaller widgets inside of the switcher tabs.

[ripe moth]

WidgetSwitcher?

[maiden wadi]

You could set up the tabs and such on construct based on the array.

[ripe moth]

This sounds interesting

[maiden wadi]

It's a Widget Type. Pretty much designed for what you're trying to do I think.

[ripe moth]

So, like changing out the return and continue button with tabs for each widget?

[maiden wadi]

The Switcher doesn't actually have tabs. There is another widget for that though that I can't remember off the top of my head. You'd use the buttons to change tabs on the Switcher.

[ripe moth]

Kinda like tabs like this? This is from a project in another engine.

In that i just have it so you create a new widget when you hit a tab, which gets parented to the main widget.

[maiden wadi]

Or maybe there's not. I guess if you wanted tabs, you could make a Horizontal box at the top and populate it with buttons.

[ripe moth]

Yeah, but what does the WidgetSwitcher do?

[maiden wadi]

From my understanding, just hides all other widgets connected to it and displays the current one you asked it to.

Seems like it's an Array of Widgets, and the one you make it show it shows and hides the rest. You can control it in the graph with

Either a direct widget reference, or an index, likely based on which widgets were added first, in order.

[ripe moth]

Can i parent a widget to an object?

Add Child

[strange stream]

Hey does anyone here use / have used this? Currently having some issues with it, doesn't seem to work like in the previews, and the creator is impossible to get in contact with.

[zealous sundial]

Guys, from a hit result, i need to place a spawn emitter, having the rotation of the hit side (for emitting blood), how i can achieve this ? Right now, everything i try doesn't rotate the emitter as i want.

This right now provide the best result, but is far from perfection :

[spark steppe]

did you try to use the impact normal?

as rotation point at hit location

@zealous sundial

[ripe moth]

@maiden wadi Ended up doing this. Thanks.

[zealous sundial]

@spark steppe yes, and finally i manage to found the emitter spawn particule facing top. So i need to rotate like this

but have no really idea how to do, i'm fucking sucking with rotation, story of my life.

To be more clear :

On the screen, you see the emission going from head, to sky. I want come from head, to player (or inversed, no matter). It's here i'm struggeling.

Like this :

[spark steppe]

make a rotator from the impact normal and use that to rotate the particle spawner

that should face it so that it points out of the face where the hit went in

[strange stream]

Whats the easiest way do different things for each damage type (without me having to use branches equal to the amount of damage types)

[spark steppe]

switch on damage value?

[trim matrix]

whats the best way to exchange models in a blueprint

[ripe moth]

Any reason why this would create an infinite loop?

[strange stream]

I'm not after the value, but the type

[spark steppe]

well you have it there 😄

i dont get what you want

[zealous sundial]

@spark steppe yeah, but... how ? i mean, what is my reference for rotating this ? the start line of hit result ? it's on that precise point i'm struggeling 😒

[spark steppe]

the impact normal is a vector, which is relative to the face which got hit

you can convert it to a rotator to get the angles

[zealous sundial]

and break the rotator, to put my angle.

[strange stream]

I have 4 damage types.
I want to add unique Widgets when X Damage Type is applied, but I'm just wondering if theres a easy way to do that without having to do Boolean branches for each damage type

[zealous sundial]

right, i got it, thanks @spark steppe, i will try this.

[ripe moth]

Don't you already have a switch setup

[strange stream]

But no idea how to convert it

[spark steppe]

@zealous sundial kinda like this, just that instead of world cursor your object would be the particle spawner, and location the hit location

[strange stream]

How do I connect the ''Selection'' node

[ripe moth]

You need to give your damage a damage type

Just add a enum input of your damage type enum

[trim matrix]

Does anyone know how to make something like this

[strange stream]

This happened when I did that