#blueprint | Unreal Source | Page 538

orchid thicket Sep 27, 2020, 11:20 PM

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or

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breakable

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:20 PM

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i am working on pickacing rn

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but the rock is moveable

orchid thicket Sep 27, 2020, 11:20 PM

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oh

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:20 PM

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._.

orchid thicket Sep 27, 2020, 11:20 PM

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maybe

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disable physics for the rock

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if it moves like a ball then it has physics

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:21 PM

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it has a destruable mesh

orchid thicket Sep 27, 2020, 11:21 PM

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well

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:21 PM

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but thats not it

orchid thicket Sep 27, 2020, 11:21 PM

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yeah

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listen if u click on the rock

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look for physics

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disable physics

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:22 PM

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okay

orchid thicket Sep 27, 2020, 11:22 PM

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and it should stay where u leave it at

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:24 PM

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still moves

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wait

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i hit the arrow

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let me see

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yeah still does

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nothing enable on phyics

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its a actor

neon sorrel Sep 27, 2020, 11:25 PM

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I have a simple blueprint that random gens a number between 0-1 and if the number is about 0.85 it destroys the object, giving random spawning to objects. Problem is it loads per player it seems, and makes invisible objects to players it doesnt spawn for. Is there any way I can make it run on the server instead somehow? Its just a blueprint object in the world.

Please ping me with any replies, ty!

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:27 PM

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is this it?!

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let me test

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no

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not it

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:L

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which one would make it not be able to move

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okay im lost

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okay figured it out

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when you have destr mesh, you have to take off physics on both

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how different is a box from a capsule

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i guess not very

dapper kiln Sep 27, 2020, 11:48 PM

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I believe it's just the shape

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They both collide the same

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:51 PM

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alright heres a more advanced question

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i have my harvest fuction. Now i want to use beginplay to use this fuction right

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and use a delay

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neat pond Sep 27, 2020, 11:53 PM

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https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/9jomx5e3/
I've been trying since this morning trying to translate this blueprint (first person ) to topdowncontroller , i just want want to and being enable to disable via ( Render custom depth ) for hightlighting object

BlueprintUE

First person view outline object

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:53 PM

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i dont like how that looks

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i actually can read that code, but i dont know the problem

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any erros?

dapper kiln Sep 27, 2020, 11:57 PM

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Do I need to Unbind "Bind Event to On Destroy" if I change the target? For example If I bind my AI enemy to my player's death so he'll chase someone else. Do I have to unbind it or will binding him to someone else overwrite the original bind?

stray folio Sep 27, 2020, 11:58 PM

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maybe set prnts on both

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and see if you get more than one

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does that work for calling a collison check with this harvest node?

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o-o

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i cant get it to prnc text

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hello

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DX<

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okay so i got the prnt to work!

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but my trace is all

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wrong

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any advice?

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i got it

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kk

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Finally got that going

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Think thats a good stopping point for today

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 12:50 AM

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hello

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im currently trying to do a jumping motion similar to flappy birds and it works but every time i press start in editor mode the amount of presses it takes to jump changes, and im not sure why

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this is the logic i have for it to jump

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nvm i solved it 🙂

marble compass Sep 28, 2020, 1:58 AM

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anyone know how i can categorize areas of a terrain? i have game where the player places buildings but i only want him to be able to place buildings in certain parts of terrain, whats a possible way to achieve that?

fervent trellis Sep 28, 2020, 2:06 AM

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I have a building system that works but I'm trying to smooth it out a bit before I expand on it. I noticed that even though from my perspective I'm telling it to ignore the collision boxes it still seems to fill the variable with them when they overlap. I can't figure out what I am missing.

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flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 3:51 AM

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Wasn't able to play ur vid

inland swallow Sep 28, 2020, 4:03 AM

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this is probably the right place to ask - I am trying to have one BP set an ENUM on another BP, and I can't understand what needs to go in the object reference for the cast - or if a cast is actually necessary
the object is a book, that when used, sets a spell BP to the assigned hand.. to do this, i have to cast to the character and set the BP class,, no problem. the spell BP is set up to switch out to different particle effects on enums, but thats where my understanding just kaputs. is this even the right place to try and set that?

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 4:18 AM

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so your book has the enum and based on that you are doing the switch part of another actor's emitter

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 4:29 AM

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Hi all, I'm having an issue finding out what replaces "Get Controller" (Target is a pawn) to Cast to Player Controller from Version 4.24.2 of UE4, as I am on Version 4.25.3 and cannot find either of these.

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Sorry if this is the wrong channel. I can't read.

modern cove Sep 28, 2020, 4:34 AM

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trying to see what the best way to do this is.
I want to set up enemy encounters for my RPG. I made a tentative Data Table with indexes and enemy classes in it. What I'd like ultimately is to have it so when a battle occurs, the game picks from a list of Enemy arrangements containing 1-9 monsters each, and for that list of possible arrangement to depend on where the player (a first person character) is standing and what direction they're facing at the time of the encounter.

I was thinking some combination of arrays, structs, and data tables was in order but I'm trying to decide how.

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 4:38 AM

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this is same as "override;" in cpp right?

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by calling this event i am overriding my base class's event?

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 4:39 AM

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yea

kindred garnet Sep 28, 2020, 4:42 AM

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Hello. I'm looking to invoke the system file picker, and save the selected file in the project folder. Is this something I can do with blueprints?

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 4:49 AM

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delegate is not compatible with delegate. what does it mean

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https://i.gyazo.com/93bd4ac162d5c1b88fbc7b99d1dcb172.png

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so i've these 3 custom events. 2 have inputs and 1 doesn't

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I can't attach the event to those 2 which does have input

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https://i.gyazo.com/ffc4d3445e06dbd217c4a5e5734b2e01.gif

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 4:51 AM

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same

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its not your fault

wind kernel Sep 28, 2020, 4:52 AM

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how to get the actor/pawn to appear here ?

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dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 4:52 AM

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why not do this @weary jackal

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how to get the actor/pawn to appear here ?
@wind kernel drag the pawn bp to world

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 4:53 AM

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Fixed my problem. I was only filtering by Context Sensitive.

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Thanks.

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 4:53 AM

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No am just curious what does delegate is not compatible with delegate mean

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 4:54 AM

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delegate is the red square

wind kernel Sep 28, 2020, 4:54 AM

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@wind kernel drag the pawn bp to world
@dense mica Now I have to pawns in the game . What i need to do is visualise the character at the player start

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 4:54 AM

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the red square on the timer node is a delegate too

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it says delegates with inputs are not compatible with timer delegates

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as far as i know latent functions can not have inputs

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also outputs

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not sure tho

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@dense mica Now I have to pawns in the game . What i need to do is visualise the character at the player start
what do you mean by "visualizing"

wind kernel Sep 28, 2020, 5:01 AM

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an instance of the pawn object

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inside the player start

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 5:01 AM

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it says delegates with inputs are not compatible with timer delegates
@dense mica yea you're right. method is calling without parameters. and inside that have to define.

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:02 AM

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an instance of the pawn object
i guess i dont understand, its also an instance if you drag it

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@dense mica yea you're right. method is calling without parameters. and inside that have to define.
same rule apply for RPCs

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cant use parameters a lot in timers & rpcs

grizzled rain Sep 28, 2020, 5:05 AM

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Currently in my game I have splines that move you by the based on the direction of the closest spline point. What I'm trying to do is make a realistic way of going between splines like a branch in a river no matter the angle as long as it acts like a flowing river. And suggestions on how to achieve the effect?

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:13 AM

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@weary jackal

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what version of unreal are you on ?

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 5:13 AM

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4.22

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:14 AM

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mine is 4.25

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:14 AM

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im on 4.25

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so maybe they fixed it ?

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 5:15 AM

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no idea

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:15 AM

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which class is this @flat raft

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i tried on custom actor*, didnt work

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:15 AM

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actor

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:18 AM

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https://jumpshare.com/v/x2hyq6PI0OesD9RT2CQf

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whats wrong with us?

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:18 AM

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What version are you on?

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:18 AM

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4.25.3

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 5:20 AM

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@dense mica custom events or functions with inputs can't have timers set on them

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:20 AM

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that what i thought

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@weary jackal
before that

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 5:21 AM

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https://i.gyazo.com/ffc4d3445e06dbd217c4a5e5734b2e01.gif
@weary jackal this

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:25 AM

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📎 2020-09-27_22-23-50.mp4

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@weary jackal @dense mica

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am i doing it wrong ?

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oh shiitttzzz .. nvm 😂

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weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 5:31 AM

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Okay so i was surfing around in forums and found. When you connect delegate to event. The event becomes latent function which neither have input parameters nor return value

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:31 AM

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So for me... it will hookup

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I don't get the delegate not compatible

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But...when I run the game

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I get this error

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 5:32 AM

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It hooks up as long as you don't compile the BP? kappa

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 5:32 AM

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It hooks up as long as you don't compile the BP?
@tight schooner i see this as an absolute win

deep elbow Sep 28, 2020, 5:32 AM

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thats because it hasnt compiled yet

flat raft Sep 28, 2020, 5:32 AM

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I complied the BP, but when I ran the game it failed

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Ohh I seee... you mean when I made the var

deep elbow Sep 28, 2020, 5:33 AM

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what even is this topic, why do you want a delegate event with an input - or are you just trying to repro bugs to send to Epic

dense mica Sep 28, 2020, 5:34 AM

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he just wondered lol

deep elbow Sep 28, 2020, 5:35 AM

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mental lmao

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sry i just woke up and reading all that gave me brain worms

marble lantern Sep 28, 2020, 6:06 AM

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this question might be really dumb but i wanna force my character to look at something behind them

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and ive tried teleport set world rotation and find look at rotation

deep elbow Sep 28, 2020, 6:06 AM

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set control rotation i presume would be the next place to look

marble lantern Sep 28, 2020, 6:08 AM

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...

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@deep elbow i love and hate you at the same time

idle galleon Sep 28, 2020, 6:15 AM

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Hey!

deep elbow Sep 28, 2020, 6:29 AM

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Hey!

whole rose Sep 28, 2020, 7:03 AM

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hmm, do i see something underhill

marble compass Sep 28, 2020, 7:53 AM

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anyone know how to find if an actor does not overlap anything?

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end overlap doesn't work since actor can stop overlapping object A while still overlapping object B

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 7:54 AM

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I think there's a node that get all overlapping actors

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Collision/GetOverlappingActors/index.html

Get Overlapping Actors

marble compass Sep 28, 2020, 7:57 AM

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alright thanks, will try this

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:01 AM

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Can anyone help with triggering a event from a component? Im trying to trigger an event in the main character which this component resides in, but it keeps trying to ask for a target and I cant get the local player so im confused.

(Please ping with responses)

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tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:06 AM

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@neon sorrel If you're in a component's BP graph, you can Get Owner and then cast to the class that has that event

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:06 AM

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Cast to the class? Or just cast to the character?

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:07 AM

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on the Death Event node, it says "target is"... something I can't quite read in the screenshot lol

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but that's the class you need to cast to

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the "target" wants a reference from that class

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:07 AM

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BP_TFPCharacter, the name of my character which these components reside in

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:07 AM

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Something I like to do is get owner --> cast --> save the reference into a variable on BeginPlay, so the component will always have that reference ready to go

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:07 AM

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I tried just using a variable with that class reference but yeah didnt work

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:08 AM

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huh.

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:08 AM

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Ohhh

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Thats probably why

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I see lmao, I tried setting the a variable without ever casting it, so it was essentially blank.

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:08 AM

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yeah. And casting just checks if a generic reference is of a specific class

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Get Owner is the key, ultimately

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:09 AM

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So basically like this?

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But on beginplay of course

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:09 AM

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yeah, and then you can use Target1 to call events/functions on the owner, or get/set variables on it, etc.

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:09 AM

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Ah perfect! Alright ill give that a shot, Thank you!

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Interesting though, When I plug that into begin play, It says target on get owner needs a connection because its not an actor. Probably because im in a component?

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:14 AM

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huhhhh... Get Owner usually pertains to components cuz components are necessarily "owned" by an actor

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:15 AM

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Yeah so thats a bit confusing since its all under that actor 🤔

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:15 AM

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is there a get owner for components node?

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Components/GetOwner/index.html

Get Owner

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sometimes UE4 has similarly-named nodes but for different "targets"

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I see that you have a Get Owner but for actors in your screenshot

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:16 AM

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Yeah looking through there now to see if theres something that pertains to components specifically

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Looks like there is one for actor component

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Trying that now

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Hmmm, seems it has its own class or something?

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tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:25 AM

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@neon sorrel Are you casting to "BP TFPCharacter"?

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:25 AM

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Yep, Should I be casting to the base character maybe instead?

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:25 AM

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your variable type also needs to be set to that

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:25 AM

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Ah that may be it

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Seems to for some reason still not trigger the event, It goes straight past it and prints out the next string, but doesnt print out the print string command in the event, so seems to be skipping it.

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:29 AM

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@neon sorrel do you also get an "Accessed None" error?

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:30 AM

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Just checked the output log yep

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:31 AM

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so that could mean it's failing the cast, and thus not setting the variable

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:31 AM

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k2node_customevent_killer

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Couldnt read that apparently

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:31 AM

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or whatever node the error is reporting that's trying to "access none"

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:31 AM

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Weird cause thats not used in that case

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hmmm

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:32 AM

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"accessed none" means a node is trying to acquire data but is getting nothing, like from an unset variable or otherwise null reference

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:33 AM

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Yeah but thats odd, it seems like that node is in a different event im calling, but that one is working fine it seems.

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I figured out thats a separate event I worked on before

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Said nothing about this one though I was trying to work on though

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Ah heres something interesting

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PIE: Error: Blueprint Runtime Error: "Attempted to access BP_TFPCharacter_C_1 via property target1, but BP_TFPCharacter_C_1 is pending kill". Blueprint:  Component_Health Function:  Execute Ubergraph Component Health Graph:  EventGraph Node:  Death Event```

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Pending kill? 🤔

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:34 AM

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that means you ran a Destroy node on it, but it's still executing stuff

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Unreal doesn't destroy "for real" until a process called "garbage collection"

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pending kill means it's marked for destruction

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and anything marked for destruction complains if further nodes are executed on it

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I guess what it's saying is the owner has been destroyed

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your BP_TFPCharacter somewhere in your game world

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:38 AM

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I think I just solved it yeah

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:38 AM

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so the reference to it in Target1 is no longer valid

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:38 AM

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I had another event before that that forced them to spectator class

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So that would have destroyed the actor yeah

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I just swapped them so this runs first and it seems to work fine

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Its interesting hearing about how unreal destroys things like that.

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:39 AM

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yeah, garbage collection is a thing. You can set the interval somewhere in project settings

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it produces a 50-100ms hitch every three minutes or so because it's taking a list of destroyed actors and clearing them from memory

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:41 AM

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I wonder if that would be much of a problem for a multiplayer game. I mean if its only for a second it wouldnt be that bad.

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:41 AM

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100ms is 1/10th of a second but anyway

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it really depends on what you're doing, how much stuff you're destroying, etc.

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I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it's an actual problem in practice

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when you do your performance profiling

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:42 AM

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I was meaning if it would lag the entire server if it does that on every client, but I think I was wrong thinking that was client based.

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Ill keep it in mind though for optimization, and you did say there was a interval somewhere too so thats handy

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:43 AM

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yeah, you can call garbage collection manually in BP script too, so

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it's possible to disable automatic GC and call it strategically

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 8:44 AM

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I can see how that can be handy yeah

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Nonetheless thank you again for the help

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 8:44 AM

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np

pale blade Sep 28, 2020, 8:52 AM

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I don't know why but switching between tabs makes the blueprint dirty
I compiled and saved everything and it becomes non-dirty (as expected). Then I switch tabs and it becomes dirty even though I didn't make any changes at all.
Also I compiled and saved everything then close UE. Then re-open it and the blueprint automatically becomes dirty on open.
Doesn't happen on other blueprints, only this one
Is something in my blueprint wrong?

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For some reason, adding this interface causes this issue.
Removing that interface fixes the issue
But none of my other interfaces causes that issue

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pale blade Sep 28, 2020, 9:29 AM

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Deleted the interface file and all the references, then remade it exactly, and then painstakingly reverted everything that was referenced
Now the issue's fixed. Makes no sense at all.
Using UE, I'm surprised actual professionals use something so buggy, how can they stand it? Not to mention it crashes so damn often seemingly at random. And basic things like deleting folders don't even work without having to do work arounds. It's literally unbelievable.

whole rose Sep 28, 2020, 9:34 AM

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Pft nobody professionally uses blueprint.

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 9:35 AM

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Aside from Epic and other triple-A studios but otherwise yeah

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Nobody uses that crap

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@pale blade Unreal Engine is probably one of the most complex publicly available pieces of software available short of Microsoft Windows so yeah, it crashes a lot and has weird bugs.

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I doubt you're gonna find an Unreal Engine alternative that matches its capability but just works at every turn

obsidian pelican Sep 28, 2020, 9:39 AM

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Can somebody tell me why the beginplay event don't trigger ?

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It triggers one time at the beginning for existing meshes. It when I spawn an actor it doesn't

simple sky Sep 28, 2020, 9:53 AM

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In a key event, you have the option to "consume input" (which is on by default).. I want to be able to control this, i.e. give the actor the change to consume it, or hand it down.. How is this accomplished?

wise raven Sep 28, 2020, 9:58 AM

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If i possess a vehicle pawn, is there a way i can still call functions of my player pawn?

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even when i have possessed another vehicle

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( pawn ) ?

earnest tangle Sep 28, 2020, 10:14 AM

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Yes, but you would need to save a reference to the player pawn somewhere

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or get it by some means

whole rose Sep 28, 2020, 10:14 AM

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or don't directly possess it

latent basin Sep 28, 2020, 10:25 AM

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Guys, do you know what are the UVs in the Calculate Tangents for mesh node? i need this to set the normals for a Procedural Mesh.

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oak cosmos Sep 28, 2020, 10:54 AM

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Hey guys, is there a way to make procedurally generated levels using Unreal Engine? Please @ me if you can. I'm new to game development and I'm just trying to start with some of the basic concepts in this game I've wanted to make for years.

tranquil steeple Sep 28, 2020, 11:09 AM

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of course you can

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UE4 is a game engine, not a toy tool, so if you think of a game idea, it will be most of the times possible to do in UE4.

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Unless you want to do a very engine-dependent specific thing that requires cutting edge and out of the box technology

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so yeah, you can make mmorpgs using unreal, but it is not realistic to do one as a starter

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and sometimes, not even as a veteran in the matter... the complexity of some of the design and technology that you might need to develop might go out of the scope of what a little studio can make

oak cosmos Sep 28, 2020, 11:19 AM

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Are there any guides I can find or read to develop a dungeon generation/level generation/landscape generation system which I can use to add enemy generation, item generation, loot generation and other systems of generation?

neon perch Sep 28, 2020, 11:30 AM

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@oak cosmos Each one of those separately is a pretty big undertaking, all of them together is quite the project. There isn't one single guide or tutorial that will guide you through everything. You'll have to put in a lot of research on individual bits and pieces and slowly get familiar with the engine, coding (if you're not already) and how to put it all together. Just putting in "procedural generation unreal engine" into google will get you started.

oak cosmos Sep 28, 2020, 11:31 AM

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I thought Unreal Engine was a visual code engine

neon perch Sep 28, 2020, 11:31 AM

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The blueprint system is a visual code system, it's still coding though.

oak cosmos Sep 28, 2020, 11:32 AM

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Well, that is fine. The reason I got this engine was for the visual.

Well, wish me luck. I probably won't get very far but we shall see! haha.

neon perch Sep 28, 2020, 11:34 AM

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Good luck! I suggest you start with one part of your idea, and break that part down further until you have something small to work on that allows you to make progress and not get discouraged.

oak cosmos Sep 28, 2020, 11:37 AM

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Well I will attempt to make randomly generating rooms and dungeons

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Since I kind of need levels to have a game

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So part 1: let's get it

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haha

mortal wharf Sep 28, 2020, 12:35 PM

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@mortal wharf I guess that's depending on what you're trying to achieve, but I assume if you're putting a bool in your save game file that when you load, you want the value that was in the save.
Yes that is what i want i just want to save and load if the value of the variable @autumn vector

pure heron Sep 28, 2020, 12:40 PM

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I can't have an ERadialImpulseFalloff variable in my struct?

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sage urchin Sep 28, 2020, 12:49 PM

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When I set a static mesh actor mobility to "Movable" the character standing on top of it flies away....... anyone knows why?

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Happens in default third person template as well.

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 12:53 PM

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Are you setting that at runtime, in the editor? What mesh are you using in the Actor's StaticMeshComponent? What are it's collisions? Default third person character?

sage urchin Sep 28, 2020, 12:53 PM

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Runtime yes playing in editor.
I just dropped a default "cube" in the level

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I pressed "H" when standing on top and he just flies away.

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maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 12:57 PM

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Yeah, just confirmed it on a few other meshes too. Let me see what that actually does.

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So.. that call shouldn't do that in itself. The SetMobility that you're calling, It basically takes the AStaticMeshActor, and gets the UStaticMeshComponent from it and calls a SetMobility on that specific component, which then if it's changing to mobile, also iterates through any of the UStaticMeshComponent's attached children and sets them all to mobile.

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tldr, sets a lot of variables to mobile, does not affect anything else around it.

sage urchin Sep 28, 2020, 1:04 PM

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In USceneComponent::SetMobility there is FComponentReregisterContext. I can see that it unregisters the component from the world in its Constructor and then re-registers it in the Deconstructor.

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Maybe it's coming from that.

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 1:06 PM

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Here is a fun one. In multiplayer, a client is not kicked off of the mesh, but the server player is. However, unchecking AlwaysCheckFloor in the CMC kicks both of them off.

whole rose Sep 28, 2020, 1:07 PM

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Looks like its penetrating for some stupid reason during the transition. You could try lifting the character up off the ground like 2cm or something and see what happens

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Like set the actor location up by 2cm then toggle the mesh, stupid hack that might work.

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 1:09 PM

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Jumping does stop it from booting the player, and I'd assume the setting I just mentioned affects it the same way for that reason. Server resets the client's position but not it's own since it has authority and doesn't think it should move.

whole rose Sep 28, 2020, 1:09 PM

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Or the cube is penetrating the ground, being lifted up to compensate and is now penetrating the player and then it moves 🤷‍♂️ lots of penetration going on.

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 1:13 PM

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It doesn't seem to kick the player off if it STARTS as movable and then gets switched back and forth.

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@sage urchin You might be able to set your mesh as movable in the level and on beginplay set it to Static, then change it to movable where you need it. That fixed it on my end for whatever reason.

sage urchin Sep 28, 2020, 1:15 PM

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Thanks but in my case all mesh actors are spawned dynamically. I will try to set it to movable once on spawn.

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And if it doesn't work then just move all players on top of it a few centimeters up facepalm

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 1:17 PM

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Might also work to create a child of StaticMeshActor that has Movable as a default and cause less stress in the end if it works.

thorny cedar Sep 28, 2020, 1:39 PM

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is there a way to show the camera vie as a vollision?

zealous sundial Sep 28, 2020, 1:59 PM

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Hey boys, simple ask

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When a for each with break is break, do we go trough complete node, or we don't ?

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Like Looping -> break -> complete or it's just looping -> break and complete is reach only if there is no break.

dawn glacier Sep 28, 2020, 2:12 PM

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Complete is called on break as well

zealous sundial Sep 28, 2020, 2:19 PM

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Thanks

proven mason Sep 28, 2020, 2:21 PM

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@proven mason Your stick input system script needs to keep track of which state it's in, which can be done with a custom enumerator variable with states like Normal and Dash and etc. And then you basically make a function or macro or otherwise graph that polls the axis inputs and situationally sets the enumerator.

You can run this graph on Tick.
@tight schooner responding to your quotes in bold; do you mean I have to place in an Event Tick node?

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I'm still learning BP so forgive me if this sounds noobish

rough plinth Sep 28, 2020, 2:32 PM

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when i try to launch my game, all i see is this (only a blackscreen)

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and couple of months ago it worked fine and i didn't touch it

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it's pretty strange

astral epoch Sep 28, 2020, 2:32 PM

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How can I prevent Unreal from complaining about "infinite loops" when said loop is intentional?
I have a while loop running, the boolean for it is changed by external forces but the engine keeps registering it as being infinite.

vestal turret Sep 28, 2020, 2:35 PM

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I've been trying to find nodes I need in the UE docs but I guess I am looking for it under wrong name.

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I want to find a node that lets me enter a string. when the string is confirmed It'll crosscheck it with database of strings and whichever it finds match it should start action belonging to corresponding string.

neon perch Sep 28, 2020, 2:46 PM

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There is no single node that will do all that. You could use a combination of arrays and enums

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For a permanent "database" that doesn't change you could use data tables

celest eagle Sep 28, 2020, 3:15 PM

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Hi, I'm just learning the editor utility blueprints and trying to make a tool that sets the seleted assets and set their collision complexity as 'use simple collision as complex' but I can only get the enum and not set it, any thoughts?

cerulean siren Sep 28, 2020, 3:19 PM

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Heya, anybody here that has experience with ALS V4? After some changes I made, the foot IK now lags behind when jumping, and I need help fixing it..

cerulean siren Sep 28, 2020, 3:34 PM

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This is what I am talking about

📎 2020-09-28_17-31-38.mp4

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I was able to make out my commit that caused this, but not the cause of the issue 😦

neat pond Sep 28, 2020, 3:52 PM

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https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/bavm2uxv/
Any clue on how i could hit Character component in my scene instead of static mesh

BlueprintUE

Highlight static mesh

cloud trellis Sep 28, 2020, 4:03 PM

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Hey so i have a player camera setup, and then a craft station. it is set as a custom actor, and in the actor i added a camera. how do i set that as the player character, until its out of the craft area, which is used by a box collision

fossil crystal Sep 28, 2020, 4:17 PM

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I made a prefab of a building with some tables in it and lighting. the prefab didnt carry over the room geometry so the shadows arnt there. is there a way to fix this?

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 4:19 PM

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@cloud trellis If the camera is part of the CraftArea actor, then you can just set view target with blend on the craft area. Then when it leaves, set it back to the character.

cloud trellis Sep 28, 2020, 4:23 PM

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@maiden wadi do u have a video example, more visual learner

maiden wadi Sep 28, 2020, 4:31 PM

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I don't really have an example.

fossil crystal Sep 28, 2020, 4:51 PM

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Having a hard time replicating these lights. I exported them as a prefab but they won’t illuminate

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📎 video0.mov

weary jackal Sep 28, 2020, 4:55 PM

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@cloud trellis https://youtu.be/83iDyza6dWc this?

YouTube

Ryan Laley

Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial – Shopkeeper Pt.1 – Shopkeeper NPC

In this series we will be creating an in-game shop with a NPC where you can spend in game currency.

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latent basin Sep 28, 2020, 5:32 PM

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hey guys, i was trying to set the normals on a procedural mesh, but for some reason, the normals are blending in the end result

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here are the blueprints

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tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 6:21 PM

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@proven mason usually for analog inputs you want to process them every frame for responsiveness, and one way to do that is by running the graph on (or calling a custom function/event from) Event Tick

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because Event Tick fires once per frame

gritty elm Sep 28, 2020, 6:27 PM

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need help

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i want to run custom event when my player have run 1km

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?

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:18 PM

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@gritty elm Make a variable that you increase every time the player moves a certain distance or for a certain time [Youd have to lookup what to use there idk for sure] And then check that variable every time the player runs and if its over your value (1km) then execute code

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:20 PM

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@gritty elm you have GOT to STOP asking the same questions in multiple channels

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:22 PM

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Also anyone know why my Controller variable gets the proper reading when its run from event possessed, but then when I later call it in another event it no longer has any value just shows up as null? Do I maybe have to call event possessed before my custom event? 🤔

Green is the value that is working well before with the event possessed and red is the same variable but returning null

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worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:23 PM

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err

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where are you setting ControllerRef?

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:24 PM

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Because the Clear Inventory PC Event is in the local players player controller

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So was told I need to set the players controller ref to properly use that

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:24 PM

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so where are you setting it?

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:25 PM

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In the on possessed function ran from event possessed

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worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:25 PM

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and what happens if its not the correct Controller?

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print a string on the cast Failed

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:26 PM

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I did, didnt print out anything.

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:26 PM

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ah

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well i know the issue

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:26 PM

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Seems the cast works there the first time, and I can print it secondly, just cant when I use my custom event

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:26 PM

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ill let you figure it out 😉

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or i can be nice and tell you?

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how much do you know about UE4 networking

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:27 PM

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I mean I would appreciate the second option? From that it seems like its something really simple I missed 😅

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:27 PM

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i want you to figure it out

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:27 PM

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Ive been learning a bit over the past week or two, so mostly still basic knowledge. Was experimenting with replication for the past few days

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:27 PM

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if i give you hints, as i feel like ytou wll learn more

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Possessed node only runs on the server

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:28 PM

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And Id rather not have the answer given to me rather would learn yeah

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:28 PM

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DeathEvent is a Run on Owning client

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:28 PM

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Ahhh hmm, that makes sense. Give me just a moment here

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:28 PM

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so think about the ControllerRef

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what would the clients version be?

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:29 PM

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Wouldnt it be player state ref?

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:29 PM

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no

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ControllerRef on the client will be null/invalid

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as you only set it on the server

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do this

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:30 PM

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Yeah I realize that, so I would have to set the clients controller ref on the client then somehow

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:30 PM

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Get Controller

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Cast to your controller

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in that Death Event

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you can't use ControllerRef here, UNLESS you replicate that property

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which is kinda pointless, casting here is cheap.

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:31 PM

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Hm yeah, I can see what you mean there if I cast to the controller in the death event thatll go to the clients controller if im not mistaken? So not running on the server.

worthy frost Sep 28, 2020, 7:32 PM

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only owning client and server has the controller, so yes

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so GetController -> Cast to your controller -> DoWhatever

neon sorrel Sep 28, 2020, 7:32 PM

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Alright ill give that a go and do some experimentation

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Thank you for the assistance!

sleek dust Sep 28, 2020, 8:43 PM

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someone know how can i make the third person character stop moving when i try to teleport it? like im falling down and im trying to teleport it back to that edge but somehow that falling speed or force is still active when i teleport it and it keeps fall of the edge

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 8:45 PM

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Anybody know a different method of getting variables to a Behavior Tree without casting? This method works but I really hate casting outside of begin play

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https://gyazo.com/b73665a42b676c3a192c644d8866ab55

Gyazo

marble compass Sep 28, 2020, 8:45 PM

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@sleek dust disable physics , teleport, enable physics ?

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 8:45 PM

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I need an alternative way to grab the Is Attack, and Attacker variables

marble compass Sep 28, 2020, 8:46 PM

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I used that in a sumo ball game where I had the same situation, wanted to get rid of physics forces

sleek dust Sep 28, 2020, 8:47 PM

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@sleek dust disable physics , teleport, enable physics ?
@marble compass i will try that.. but you know what object have the physics on third person character?

marble compass Sep 28, 2020, 8:48 PM

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The movement component probably, if you are using ragdoll then the mesh too

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You can click on any component and see if it has simulate physics enabled aswell

sleek dust Sep 28, 2020, 8:50 PM

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i will look about something like that

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thx

fervent trellis Sep 28, 2020, 8:52 PM

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@trim matrix Could you put that in a function on pigbp, then run that function from that event?

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 8:53 PM

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@fervent trellis That's the Behavior Tree, I'd have to cast to PigBP

fervent trellis Sep 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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Oooh my bad.

trim matrix Sep 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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@fervent trellis you just gave me a solid Idea though, ty!

mental robin Sep 28, 2020, 8:56 PM

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Why does scaling the actor in run time have no effect???????

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I have to scale all the objects seperately why can't I just scale the whole actor..tf

fervent trellis Sep 28, 2020, 9:07 PM

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Put it in the construction script

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Or set it in the BP as the default.

gritty elm Sep 28, 2020, 9:14 PM

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need help, does ue4 support ps4? how i can build game for ps4?

tight schooner Sep 28, 2020, 9:16 PM

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@gritty elm I've never gone through this process myself but you need to register as a developer with Sony, sign a bunch of NDAs and then you'll get access to software/resources/support for Playstation development

livid thorn Sep 28, 2020, 11:08 PM

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Is there a way to deactivate blueprint nodes temporarily?

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Nevermind, found it.

mental robin Sep 28, 2020, 11:39 PM

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How could I go through an array of floats in blueprints and sort them from smallest to largest value

strange stream Sep 28, 2020, 11:52 PM

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How would you start on a turn based combat system? You take a turn, then the enemy.. ect

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 12:19 AM

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someone plz recognize this bonk

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setting input to ui only means releasing the key doesnt register, so it doesnt set it back to game only

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ie I get stuck in ui only mode

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desired effect: hold key to show inventory and move mouse around, release key to close inventory back down

fierce birch Sep 29, 2020, 12:30 AM

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I have a button that you press and i want it to sink down as your overlapping it, but when you get off it comes back up, but apparently when i overlap the sphere comp that is used for the button, the button goes down, and when i get off it goes down again, any suggestions?

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wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 12:38 AM

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bill try ur 2 timeline starters yoink em down 1 slot, to play from start and reverse from end
-or it may be a need to multiply instead of adding, the z value at the end @fierce birch

crimson charm Sep 29, 2020, 12:39 AM

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trying to set up aiming while scoped and i cant figure out how to pause the idle animation in my animation blueprint while they are scoping. is this possible and how?

fierce birch Sep 29, 2020, 12:40 AM

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@wild parrot i got it, thanks for the help

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i needed to make the code cleaner

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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repost restated: after I switch to "input mode UI only"

how do I press a key to switch to "input mode Game only"?
(Inputaction seems to be game input, so releasing key pressed in game mode, won't switch back to game.)

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 1:43 AM

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Timer?

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UI event?

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 1:46 AM

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I wanna hold a button to manage inventory via ui, close back down when I release

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What do you mean UI event?

dusk wing Sep 29, 2020, 2:05 AM

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Do Data Assets not support TTuples?

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nevermind, guess this answers that. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/583650/view.html

final nacelle Sep 29, 2020, 2:15 AM

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Do you guys recommend using blue print or C++ for developing VR Games

grizzled rain Sep 29, 2020, 2:34 AM

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Can you already do C++? if so do a mix. If you can't then just learn blueprint for now

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Blueprint can do almost everything C++ can and unless you have a very very large game the performance gain isn't worth learning C++ unless you already are in it.

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Especially when starting out

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Took me years to finally start learning C++ simply because it was too complex to just start out especially with the added complexity that UE4 adds to it.

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@final nacelle

final nacelle Sep 29, 2020, 2:39 AM

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@grizzled rain sounds good, we're developing a game specifically for Oculus Quest, so performance is priority

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i was looking into a combination of the two, but the main thing that concerns me regarding blueprint is the lack of performance and scalability

grizzled rain Sep 29, 2020, 2:40 AM

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Combining them is fine

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I tried converting my old dead project to 100% C++

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It's not pretty

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A combination gives you the best of both worlds

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Make sure you make your Enums in C++ so you don't have to switch later btw. It's a struggle to switch

final nacelle Sep 29, 2020, 2:43 AM

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awesome sounds good, thank you so much!

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 3:01 AM

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Hey yall, Im trying to make an elevator where you get in the doors close and then it goes up and opens again

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the problem is the door is wacky when it opens

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:03 AM

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Wdym by wacky door

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 3:06 AM

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📎 asda_01.mp4

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:07 AM

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someone plz recognize this bonk
@wild parrot the reason you're facing this problem is because when you press the button it sets the input to ui. So it stops listening the input events in the game. So you have to set the release functionality inside your ui

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 3:22 AM

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@weary jackal what do you think?

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:23 AM

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@marble lantern you should make mechanism of door opening with timeline. Where you have to set relative location

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 3:27 AM

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weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:34 AM

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Yea

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 3:55 AM

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@weary jackal ive tried that but not really workign

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:57 AM

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Might have collisions issues when you opening

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The wall might blocking your door

golden wren Sep 29, 2020, 3:58 AM

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Try creating a start vector and an end vector variables and setting them on begin play. Then use those as the lerp A and B values and well the timeline is from 0 to 1 anyway.
And yeah also check the collisions

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 4:04 AM

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how would collision affect it?

neon sorrel Sep 29, 2020, 4:40 AM

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Don't know exactly where to put this, but I made it in blueprints so 🤷‍♂️ .

I have a ragdoll system for my player death in my game, but it seems that at least in editor when testing it crashes the game sometimes when moving the ragdoll around. Stating this error

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000518

Is this something normal with ragdolls? Have not yet tested it in packaged build beta testers are doing that tommorow.

(Please ping with any responses)

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 4:49 AM

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Alright, I'm stumped and need some help understanding this...

I have an actor that triggers on overlap to bring up a game over menu. When I use that to reset the level, I get an error because the trigger happens again. I've included the blueprint nodes I think are relevant, but let me know if you want to see something else that may help. Thanks in advance!

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This is the error - the referenced node is called in the trigger volume's OnComponentBeginOverlap event, which I think should be called only once. But it's getting called once with no error (when it should, as I start to overlap it), and once with these 2 errors, after I click the new game button.

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deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 4:56 AM

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Those two images don't match, click on the actual error message, the set location

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the problem is there is no reference to player pawn, or it cant find it - i presume you have destroyed the player pawn

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if you are sure everythign should work fine and you juist want to supress the error, plug the get player pawn into a IsValid node and only run the logic from the Valid pin

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 4:57 AM

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I did that, and I didn't think it was relevant (it's just a call to get the pawn), but here is the referenced node. I got this code from a tutorial, I didn't write this one.

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wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 4:57 AM

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@weary jackal yea I realized that almost right away, but how do I handle things "in UI" ? - handle it in a widget? any quick pointers?
(in the widget event graph I cannot get the event thing for inputs like in the controller.. so it's bugging me)

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 4:58 AM

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yeha ok, so the timeline is probably the issue, it's playing while the pawn is most liekly destroyed or in the process of getting destroyed. whenever you destroy the pawn you should stop the timeline, or run the get player pawn thru an IsValid, both will work, stopping the timeline will be better

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 4:58 AM

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I never mess with the pawn at all, idk why it wouldn't be valid

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 4:58 AM

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"better", i mean it just won't run needless stuff

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but you have a game over

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so what happens with the pawn

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 4:59 AM

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It just overlaps the component, it isn't destroyed

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I run to the actor with this code, and it triggers a "game over", but nothing happens to the pawn/character.

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unless the open level node does something behind the scenes?

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 5:01 AM

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mhmmm ok but it might be the open level, with timeline still playing somehow, can't be sure exactly, but the error is you don't have a reference to the player pawn, so something is happening somewhere that causes that reference to be lost, i don't know your project so i can't tell you exactly, but just try the two suggestions, use IsValid on the getplayerPawn or Stop the timeline when you grab the pickup

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:01 AM

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Oh wait, is it because the animation continues to play after the level is reset?

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 5:02 AM

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I think it's just a timing issue

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:02 AM

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but there's a moment when loading that no pawn exists?

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 5:02 AM

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you only have two errors from a timeline, so it's like two ticks of the timeline playing and failing to get the player pawn, so it's probably just stuff happening right before the open level

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:05 AM

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stopping the animation didn't do it... It's odd to me, because the OnComponentBeginOverlap event is called after I click on the new game button. You can see the code that fires there, and there's no code in the map that opens. So where else could this be getting called from?

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The order is overlap ... click on new game ... open level ... (before next level is open - camera still pointing at last location) overlap again ...

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 5:24 AM

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Anyone know how to default event tick to false for actors?

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I've heard before you can just make it off by default when making actors.

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 5:30 AM

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probably a project config, but you can open the blueprint class and check class defaults and set tick to be off at the start

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@chilly moon f you look at your error its not the overlap that causes the error, the end point of the error is tryign to reference the player pawn when setting location

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 5:33 AM

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yea just getting tired of having todo that everytime

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:36 AM

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@deep elbow I understand where the error is occurring. But I think the problem is less about where the error is getting thrown (of course I can just add some validity checks) -- my question is, why is this section of code getting run at all? And this section of code is the OnComponentBeginOverlap event, which I don't think should be getting called when the level loads.

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 5:36 AM

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oh, ok, then perhaps it's the collision settings on the volume, perhaps somethiong other than player is triggering it

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:37 AM

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I print out the name of the "other actor" and it's the name of my character class

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both before and after the level loads. And it's in the same spot, too (give or take a few ticks of movement as my character comes to a rest)

marble lantern Sep 29, 2020, 5:39 AM

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@golden wren sorry for not updating i did it that way and it worked

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:41 AM

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Another possibly relevant bit about this project - the game win actor is a "pickup", which I have bound to the character's OnDestroy event, to respawn (to restart the level). Is it possible that when I call OpenLevel, it first destroys the character, triggering a respawn, but the respawned pickup triggers off of the recently-destroyed character?

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 5:41 AM

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most likely, like i said the timeline is ticking and looking for a player pawn that doesnt exist, most likely because it;s destroyed

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 5:43 AM

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I added a 0.2 second delay to the respawn code, and it sorted out the problem. But this still seems like a workaround to me...

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in any case, thank you for your help, @deep elbow. It's greatly appreciated 🙂

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 5:50 AM

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once I set input mode to ui only
how do I make a keypress (esc) return input mode to game only?
this doesnt work.

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chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 6:01 AM

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By default, you can't use the escape key in the editor, you have to change your stop key in editor preferences -> stop.
But in general, what you have there should work, given your ExitUIMode action binding is bound properly. You'll probably want to do other things at the same time, but that will change the UI mode to game-only, at least.

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 6:02 AM

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o rite tru on esc key, o then fx

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I had the 'on release' for openclose but since input gets set to ui only

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and this stuff is called from game mode..//game.. input mode game

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well.. the released part and the other key input for exit wont fire lul

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 6:03 AM

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I don't know anything about your project, but why is your game mode handling the UI?

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 6:04 AM

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its just opening it

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 6:04 AM

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I would think the controller would be a better place, since you open/close it with action mappings

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 6:04 AM

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that is the controller

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its not called from game mode

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its called while input mode is game only

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then I change it to ui only

chilly moon Sep 29, 2020, 6:06 AM

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Your controller should still get both pressed/released events

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Oh no you're right, if it's just UI mode. I use Game and UI for almost all applications.

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 6:08 AM

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if using game and ui, and you write something, hitting a bind that's used in game..

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doesnt that cause you to write + perform the bound action?

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not with input consume perhaps

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I just wanted the dude to stop turning while mouse was on screen lol

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 6:10 AM

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normally you'd handle input in controller and have a check for if the game is in UI mode and block input being sent to anything except the UI

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but if you directly reference input action mappings in the player character you could set a bool (or whatever) from the player controller to the player and say "im in UI mode now, don't parse any input or button inputs"

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or create an event dispatcher in PlayerController that can get called when game is in UI mode and then bind to that event from anythign else that needs to know if the player is looking at a UI

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 6:13 AM

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its ok

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Imma find a basic menu tutorial tomorrow and figure out how to close the menu :b

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(inb4 they all click a button <.<)

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thx ^^

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 6:14 AM

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👍🏼

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 6:15 AM

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to close the menu, assuming it's a pause menu, you just have to destroy the widget, unpause the game, and return the controls to game mode

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which can all be done in the ui code if it's for a resume button

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but for unpausing with escape make sure to mark the inputaction as ignore pause

wild parrot Sep 29, 2020, 6:17 AM

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not a pause menu, just bring up inventory overlay that can be messed with

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really just need to know why the game cant figure out Im pressing the key that I set up in the controller

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cuz it's in ui only mode

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but its legit watever Im headed to bed

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 6:32 AM

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@wild parrot

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https://i.gyazo.com/e46601bf9f6cf71a5f6f44d21931fe6f.gif

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so when i press 'Q' this white image appear. and when i release 'Q' it's gone

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:38 AM

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@trim matrix project settings .. search event tick

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:39 AM

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yea i did, couldent find it

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:39 AM

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It's there.. I did it recently. I also was getting tired of setting it 😂

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:39 AM

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D:

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It wont show up for me then

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I looked in editor settings as well and not there

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There is an option called can blueprints tick by default in the project settings although. But ive had that off for along time and it doesnt seem like its changing anything

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:43 AM

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trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:43 AM

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oh lol

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read its description

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yea thats the one i turned off awhile ago hoping it would solve this.

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:45 AM

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Doesn't do it?

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:45 AM

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no it doesnt do anything

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:45 AM

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Bummer 😂

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:45 AM

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It says it bps that dereive from AActor will always be able to tick

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So that flag wont affect it lame

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Maybe i would have to like edit the AActor in cpp and make it false by default

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I wonder if thats even a thing or if it doing that would create additional issues.

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:47 AM

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well... don't do that lol

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Create a C++ child of AActor

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and set ticking to false

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:47 AM

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Yea just a child would work also

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They just need to add that as a setting though oml

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so annoying todo that everytime

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:48 AM

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Then any Bp that inherits from that will not tick

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:48 AM

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yea

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:48 AM

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well...you do it only once per project

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:49 AM

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still sucks tho couldent press the actor button when making a Bp D:

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:49 AM

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Yea.. true

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:49 AM

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xD so either way its prob just as annoying

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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just make a custom actor class, adn then add it to the list

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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Dev Lyfe

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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so when you go to create a new bp

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you can just click a button

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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You can add things there?

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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yup

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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oh nice then thats what ill do

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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not to the main pop up

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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oh D:

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Not the common classes?

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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defaulteditor.ini

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:50 AM

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ill look there then

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:51 AM

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[/Script/UnrealEd.UnrealEdOptions]
+NewAssetDefaultClasses=(ClassName="/Script/YourModule.YourClass", AssetClass="/Script/Engine.Blueprint")```

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:51 AM

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oh thx

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 6:51 AM

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i have a grab system in my project and i'd like it to ignore the pitch axis when moving something around, so I tried going into the GrabConstraint details and setting some angular limits but they don't seem to actually be doing anything

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:51 AM

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and if you want to change the text

flat raft Sep 29, 2020, 6:51 AM

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@whole rose thanks!

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 6:51 AM

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the linear limits don't do anything either, even though i don't need them

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which makes me wonder why it's all being ignored

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 6:52 AM

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UCLASS(meta = (ShortTooltip = "The text you want to appear in the window beside the button"))
class YOURMODULE_API AYourClass : public AActor```

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 6:52 AM

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ty

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 7:27 AM

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odd Q, rich text in widgets, I do some parsing of text to check for formatting, adding a manual line break with ctrl+enter breaks formatting, anyone know what is being output, the character or how it's read, that would cause line breaks to go boo-boo, like i'm checking for the characters "<" ">" "=" and "/" - and i guess the "/" is the problems because line breaks get treated as "/r"

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 7:29 AM

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not using the built in formatting?

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 7:30 AM

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yeah using that, but putting in some extra stuff for writing the text

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explained that badly, but simplifying the built in formatting at the end-users point of view

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 7:31 AM

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there is a bug with it though, i can't remember exactly off the top of my head, but it has to do with locations of spaces

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and the tags

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 7:32 AM

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right, makes sense, i'll start looking there, i might just have to put in more formatting, worst case scenario would be to have some custom bit for the line breaks

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 7:33 AM

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i think it was something like, if there are any spaces outside of the formatting tags

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they all break

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 7:33 AM

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and this is the formatting: <regular_medium_orange>th</>is is a rich <bold_large_white>text</>

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 7:33 AM

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like if you have <SomeTag>blah</> <SomeNewTag></>

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that space

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between the </> and <SomeNewTag>

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will break it

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 7:33 AM

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yeah i wrap every character in formatting, its ugly but there arent spaces without formatting

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but perhaps the line break is what ruins that

whole rose Sep 29, 2020, 7:34 AM

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yeah if line break is outside of the tag too, same thing

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line break works inside the formatting

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but not outside it

deep elbow Sep 29, 2020, 7:34 AM

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right ok that makes sense, i wonder how to fix that, i guess i'd have to have a special character for a line break and make sure that gets wrapped in the formatting

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just as a moon shot, do you know what the internal character is for a line break, i could have sworn it was ^r or /r - if not i'll test

stone zephyr Sep 29, 2020, 8:02 AM

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what would be the best way of displaying health bars and their color in depending of the other player is an enemy or not? And also hide the health bar when the other player is behind an object?
at the current time I'm doing a line trace on tick and I get all players and check if there is a hit between them etc etc... but doing line trace on tick is not very efficient specially if I have lots of players. what would be the best way to do this?

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 8:02 AM

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ughhhhhhhh
Accessed None trying to read property HeldObject2

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4 am headache time

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 8:05 AM

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what would be the best way of displaying health bars and their color in depending of the other player is an enemy or not? And also hide the health bar when the other player is behind an object?
at the current time I'm doing a line trace on tick and I get all players and check if there is a hit between them etc etc... but doing line trace on tick is not very efficient specially if I have lots of players. what would be the best way to do this?
@stone zephyr are you making your health bar on the player's head? Or displaying it in the ui? For enemies

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 8:05 AM

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heres the first part of the relevant code

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tiny meteor Sep 29, 2020, 8:06 AM

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stone zephyr Sep 29, 2020, 8:06 AM

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I've put them abve player's head and set the mode to ui so it always faces each player

tiny meteor Sep 29, 2020, 8:06 AM

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hi, I am trying to fade in multiple materials at the same time

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however the loop re-triggers the timeline

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is there some way to make an instance of a timeline for each loop instance

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 8:07 AM

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and ive highlighted everything relevant here

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what really irks me is there are two variables set AFTER HeldObject2 and they're set just fine

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so why is HeldObject2 null

tiny meteor Sep 29, 2020, 8:08 AM

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ok, derped out, need to use timeline before the loop

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 8:10 AM

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does nobody know why this is happening

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i made sure there's nothing like one input taking two outputs

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guess i'll just restart the editor and hope that fixes it

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nope

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:)

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 8:32 AM

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im losing my mind over this

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theres another function in the same blueprint

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thats structured almost the same and works fine

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that ive disabled

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 8:55 AM

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@marble temple try adding a delay after tick

tight schooner Sep 29, 2020, 8:59 AM

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@marble temple or start with tick disabled and explicitly enable it when the conditions are ready (Set Actor Tick Enable node), or change the "tick group"... What's probably going on is the tick is being executed before the variable is being set

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"accessed none" = there's nothing in there

devout tide Sep 29, 2020, 9:03 AM

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is there a way to push another character by moving onto him without applying forces and such? Like a default movement component setting?

marble temple Sep 29, 2020, 9:06 AM

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@tight schooner i turned it into a branch to make explicitly sure it would only start executing when Holding Object is true and as soon as i picked up the object the errors came flooding in

tight schooner Sep 29, 2020, 9:07 AM

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hmm

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do you know about IsValid or "validated get"?

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you can place your Get HeldObject2 onto the graph, right click it, and "convert to validated get"

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and that'll actually prevent your BP script from executing until HeldObject2 is set with a valid reference

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without throwing "accessed none" errors

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 9:14 AM

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im having stuff spawning in my level and i dont really want that.. how to see the most recent spawned item in level.. i have about 1000 actors so its hard to me to find it..

devout tide Sep 29, 2020, 9:16 AM

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@trim matrix You can handle that from the blueprint you spawn the actors from, one way would be by having a ref to the last spawned actor.

trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 9:17 AM

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I dont know what the spawned actors are!

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so i dont know what bp is that

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there is hide temp actors in level view options but no show only temp actors..

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i press hide temp actors and the list is getting smaller..

tiny meteor Sep 29, 2020, 9:32 AM

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when I set new time using a timeline

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it fires the update, it shouldnt do that, right?

echo scaffold Sep 29, 2020, 10:07 AM

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Got a weird one

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/653978738064621580/760441503276597298/unknown.png

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I'm trying out DLC and packaging maps separately as plugins, it all works pretty well but I want the player to obviously not be able to travel to maps they don't have placed in the game folder

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But this always seems to return true somehow, even if the plugin isn't placed where it should be

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I'm using another system which exports pictures out into the game directory and it also uses Get Project Directory, and it does place the pictures into the correct place. So I'm wondering why this isn't working here

echo scaffold Sep 29, 2020, 10:29 AM

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I made a debug text to show the directory it thinks it's finding, and it does return the correct directory and file, but it shouldn't return true for "File Exists" because I haven't placed the DLC there yet

proper vale Sep 29, 2020, 11:10 AM

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Hi!
I figure out how to attach or reattach actors(Bindings) in Level Sequence via blueprint or python or C++?
I want to optimize editing hundreds of recorded sequence

I was trying a lot of method to do it, but can't find working method

What I tryed:

Python
I was tryed to find way to attach via python(pic 1), but get this error in OutputLog

LogPython: Error: sectionConst = section.cast(unreal.MovieScene3DConstraintSection)
LogPython: Error: TypeError: MovieScene3DAttachSection: Cannot cast type 'MovieScene3DConstraintSection' to 'MovieScene3DAttachSection'
I think it happens because "section" should has MovieScene3DConstraintSection type, but I also can't cast section in Attach track to MovieScene3DConstraintSection because it has MovieScene3DAttachSection type.

2)BLUEPRINTS

I also tried to do this via blueprints

I created Editor Script, which get selected Level Sequence from Content browser, than get needed binding actor, than get add attach track and add attach section(I tried to cast section as AttachSection and ConstraintSection - both ways don't work), and then "get the section and set constraint binding ID" usint "get sequence Binding" node (pic 2)
And I tryed to do this in another way that use "Get Binding" and "Make Binding ID" nodes(pic3), but it also doesn't work and can't set new Constraint binding ID(Attach actor to another actor)

If anybody has any suggetions please help me. I figure out 1 month around this issues and can't get this to work.

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primal laurel Sep 29, 2020, 12:49 PM

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i need help regarding character movement in blueprint
I m new to Unreal and all the tutorials basically tell you to follow their steps and dont explain anything
Can someone help me

cyan surge Sep 29, 2020, 12:52 PM

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How would I check if the first element in a text variable is a space?

echo scaffold Sep 29, 2020, 1:13 PM

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@cyan surge

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Probably something like this, with the == being a space ofc

fallow path Sep 29, 2020, 1:33 PM

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@cyan surge you always need to change to a string first to do any evaluation. Also I would add a comment to the == node that tells that you compare against a whitespace so its clear whats going on. If you can programm, or have a programmer, it is also reasonable to have a function WhitespaceLiteral (or something like that) with a enum selection for "space, newline, tab"

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 1:36 PM

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Hey!

Need some advice please 🙂 So i'm trying to plan out a simple exp system for my tree cutting system. Am i right in saying that I should do something like this:

1 - create a variable in the player controller that stores exp called "WoodCuttingExp"
2 - Then in my wood cutting blueprint i get the total exp from cutting a tree down and then get the current player exp from the player controller
3 - Then add them together then & send the total to the player controller "WoodCuttingExp"

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 1:41 PM

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Really depends on your use case. Is woodcutting going to be your only XP system?

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 1:42 PM

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No. I have created a general interaction system that i will adapt to woodcutting, fishing, allsorts really

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i feel this stuff should be stored in a database if im honest but have been reading that UE's Database are read only

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 1:43 PM

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Singleplayer?

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 1:43 PM

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i would in future like to expand it out to multiplayer

humble imp Sep 29, 2020, 1:44 PM

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Hello all,
I need to download an image from url and save it to location.
How can download and save image from url in ue4? Who can help share for me the sample this? Thanks you!

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 1:47 PM

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If you wanted to keep your player controller clean, you could create an actor component inside of it to handle all of your experience stuff. Then create altering functions for it. Don't pull values from it elsewhere and then set it from somewhere else. Keep it OOP. For example, if you want to grant the player XP, make an enum for experience types and a function that takes that enum and a number. Then you can call that function from anywhere, be it a fishing, woodcutting or whatever type of XP gain. Use the correct enum, and then inside of where you're keeping the experience, that function chooses which experience value to add to via the enum and how much via the number. Then all you need is one function call with the right parameters no matter where you're using it or for what type and if you decide to expand later, you only need to change that one function by expanding the enum switch or however you do it.

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 1:50 PM

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@maiden wadi Thanks for the detailed reply 🙂 really appreciate it. By actor component do you mean an Blueprint type Actor and everything is stored in that blueprint? sorry if im being thick

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 1:52 PM

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Like the CharacterMovementComponent. A UActorComponent more or less is a UObject that attaches to actors to help them compartmentalize tasks.

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 1:53 PM

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@maiden wadi ... i literally just thought "what are am i on about im being stupid here" 😂 thanks it will be good to look into this!

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so just to be clear i've understood. in the player controller add an Actor component and then store everything i need in there?

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and all the processing is done in this actor component (so get number 2 from my exp enum which then gets current exp and adds the exp gained from the enum)

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:05 PM

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Blueprint feels so clunky after using C++ for a few weeks.

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Just made a small actor component with an AddXP function and an enum.

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west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 2:06 PM

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id love to move to C++ but im concerned It will take years to get an understanding

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:07 PM

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In the player controller, you can add it just like other components.

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earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:08 PM

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@west jasper do you have experience in any other programming languages?

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 2:08 PM

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i've used HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL but not for a few years

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:08 PM

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Honestly, start with writing some static functions in BlueprintFunctionLibraries that you can call in blueprint. You'll pick it up really fast.

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:09 PM

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Yeah, I think that's a good approach for it :)

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 2:09 PM

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I'm more of a visually creative person. I was a web coder for a long time and hated it i love creating visual stuff if that makes sense

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:09 PM

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If you know how to do PHP, you should have a basic idea of how to code stuff... the main difference is gonna be the type system

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 2:09 PM

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but im not like "oh i'll never do that"

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:10 PM

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tbh I just do everything in BP's unless I have a good reason to go into C++, despite having 20 years of experience as a programmer lol

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:11 PM

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I like the visual stuff too. But once you really start implementing real systems, C++ just simplifies a LOOOT. Fifteen nodes into a BP function, and you realize you could write this in five C++ lines.

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 2:11 PM

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i did buy a class from udemy a week ago that is supported by epic on C++

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do you suggest any lessons that are good. I like lessons where they explain, without being to "x=1*3=hello" where your stat there thinking whaaaaaat haha and they also don't just say "this is how you do it, bye" i like hands on

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:14 PM

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I'm gonna be honest, I mostly skipped the tutorial and lessons phase. I just read, a lot. Docs, forums, etc. Too many people teach things very badly and do it just for youtube views.

west jasper Sep 29, 2020, 2:16 PM

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yeh i foudn that with blueprints. I follows loads and came out the other end not actually learning anything. I did get a great course from udemy on blueprints but this guy delved right into each part and what they do and then how it worked in practice it was great as it all soaked in quick

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ill check out C++

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i always have this thing that further down the line i will need to learn it or atleast parts of it at some point

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:18 PM

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Maybe. You can honestly make a game entirely out of blueprints with some ease.

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:19 PM

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i have a bunch of child weapons that have not been spawned yet. i made an array variable in the character blueprint. i wanted to just set the default values to the weapons i wanted

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is there no way to do this

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i was just flipflopping between weapons

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is there any way to loop thru a list of possible weapns with a for loop and break

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:20 PM

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By child weapons, do you mean child actors, attached actors, or a class that inherits from a main weapon class?

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:20 PM

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child actors

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i have weapon parent

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all the actual weapons are children

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i tried some soft ref thing but could not ref the children

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maybe i didnt pick the right thing. it just said try soft ref but what i tried was not working

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:22 PM

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If it's an actual child actor, it should come with a setting that dictates what type of class that it should spawn. For the array, I'm unsure of how to fix that. The actors won't spawn until the components are created and spawned, so there's nothing to populate the array with until spawn.

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:22 PM

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ok

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i noticed the purple input on spawn actor node

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:22 PM

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if you want to get all the spawned child actors into an array, you would need to do that from BeginPlay

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:22 PM

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thought maybe i could set up a for loop to loop through a list of children

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:23 PM

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you could do that yeah

unique wyvern Sep 29, 2020, 2:23 PM

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If I do set actor location on a character, if the location is inside something, say inside a cube, will the character adjust its position or stay in the same position?

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:23 PM

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how do i get the list of children that havent been spawned

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the character is spawning them right now

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:24 PM

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you can get all the child actor components, then loop over them, then get the child actor from it

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:24 PM

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You could always make a little function that gets all child actors, and if their spawned actor is of weapon parent type, then add to array, return that array in that function and use that array where needed.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:25 PM

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so im trying to find some sort of documention of how to make a simple mechanic system for attatching parts together for a mechanic simulator im going to make what is the best way to do this?

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like in the game wrench or car mechanic sim. you can unscrew parts and detatch them from others how can one achieve this?

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:25 PM

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what about this

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just index selection

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lol

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 2:26 PM

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It's wildcard

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It will change according to the thing it's attached

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:26 PM

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ill change a integer based on input

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can i send an integer in

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like E key equals 0

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 2:27 PM

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Yea

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:27 PM

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q equals 1

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ya ya

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thanks guys

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ill let you know how it goes

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i suspect i will need a replicated event with an integer input

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:28 PM

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would you guys know how to achieve that? @near yarrow @weary jackal

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:28 PM

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sounds like a lot of animation work

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but if you werent going that route

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like just putting together legos and stuff

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:29 PM

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yeah i just want to know like what do to in blueprints to achieve it

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hmmm

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:29 PM

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could blueprint a screw static mesh turning and moving

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:29 PM

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i could probably do the unscrew/screw animation with bolts

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 2:29 PM

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Parts having certain sockets where you can attach component to

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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Sounds like just a list of dependancies. If this actor is in place, don't allow this one to be removed. IE, if any of the bolts are in place, the oil pan isn't interactable.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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the question is how to attatch a part to another and them remove them/have them snap back together

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gotchu

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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^^^

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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any good tutorials to watch for that?

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like to learn more?

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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i would search for ue4 legos

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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okay

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 2:30 PM

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i dont know if it exists

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but if you were talking about a building sim surely someone made one. maybe no tuts.

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:31 PM

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if you have a specific point where you want to attach something, you can use a scene component and a box collision for example

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you use the scene component as the position target where the attached actor is snapped into

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 2:31 PM

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https://youtu.be/HGCRK-KLs5Y

YouTube

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earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:31 PM

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and you use the box collision as a trigger for a linecast to detect when the player is pointing at it

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 2:32 PM

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See this gameplay

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You want something like this?

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:32 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT5OJ0KZCUA

YouTube

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similar to this game

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@weary jackal YES!

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:33 PM

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If you're not doing anything complex, and you're just trying to make MechanicSimulator2053, you should be able to just put a bunch of parts in place, and add certain parts to other part's array lists. If the array is empty, they can move. If it's not empty, any parts in the array need to be remove/destroyed before that part can be interacted with.

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 2:33 PM

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That was developed by @flat raft.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:33 PM

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interresting

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basically wanting to make that but with complex diesel engines

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lol

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:34 PM

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Detroit series diesel for the win.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:34 PM

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i want to have most diesels in this game

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like a mechanic sim but only diesels

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big trucks, pick ups

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tractors

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generators

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etc

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semis

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all these mechanic games only do gas engines and im like damn no cummins? or cat engines

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or duramaxs

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pffff

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:37 PM

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A lot of people get bored with Diesel. IZ kewlr when RPMZ hi bra.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:37 PM

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idk why haha in my opinion they are better in every way

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way heavier duty. more low end torque and power

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way higher fuel pressure

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most come with turbos already out of the gate

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stronger trannies usually

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sound amazing lol

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the list goes on

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xD

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:38 PM

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But the RPM gauge redlines at 3500, bored.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:39 PM

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you can build them to get up to like 4500

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but honeslty they make so much power down low you dont need more lol

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:39 PM

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BUT IT DOESN'T SPIN AS FAST

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:39 PM

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xD

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ill take a 1500hp diesel over a gasser tho

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lol

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i just love the jet engine sound over the high rp screaming

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lol

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 2:41 PM

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The reason diesels come with turbos out of the gate is because they need that to generate any kind of power without ridiculous displacement lol

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:41 PM

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yeah ik lol

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older ones didnt have any and were dogs

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lol

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 2:49 PM

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You know.. It took me forever in VS to realize to start pressing tab to finish searches for the auto complete... I really wish that UE4's blueprint editor would at least not make the search useless when you tap tab.

open sedge Sep 29, 2020, 2:50 PM

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lol

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 2:57 PM

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How do you guys go about your widget set up. Do you use a HUD class or do you just CreateWidgetOFClass, create a variable from it, then RemoveFromParent or RemoveAllWidgets to clear it up. As I understand, once you create a widget, it never gets garbage collected?

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:01 PM

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they should get GC'd if you have no more refs to it anywhere

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:02 PM

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So the question is, do I just SET the widget ref to none to null it out? @earnest tangle

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:02 PM

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That should do it yeah

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:03 PM

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okay i set everyting up

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weapon does not spawn like before

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 3:03 PM

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It can sometimes take a long time, but widgets that don't have anything pointing to them will get collected eventually. That being said, it's still often good practice to reuse them as much as you can.

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:03 PM

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i checked with print strings

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the weapons are valid

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they are spawning

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but they arent there

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lol

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ill define some absurd spot

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:04 PM

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Yeah @maiden wadi Agreed, perhaps I should just set their visibility instead? IF not needed, hide it, if needed, add it back to viewport?

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:04 PM

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i even print the name of the weapon

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each key is spawning that weapon

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wtf

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lol

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:04 PM

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@gusty shuttle I usually just save my widgets into variables in my HUD, and then either add to viewport or remove from viewport when needed

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:05 PM

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As in, you still use a HUD class in your Game Mode @earnest tangle ? Then just cast to the HUD when needed to show them?

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:06 PM

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Yeah, mostly just as a container for this logic. You could use a player controller or something for it too I guess :)

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:06 PM

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Cool cool, I'll give that a shot, thanks guys for your knowledge and suggestions

maiden wadi Sep 29, 2020, 3:07 PM

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I always liked HUD for UI. It helps to remind that UI shouldn't be replicated in any way.

sleek dust Sep 29, 2020, 3:07 PM

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does someone know how can i disable and activate player physics for third person character? i've search and not finding anything

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:08 PM

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Aye, As I've been growing my skills with Ue4, I've wanted to clean up the way I've been using widgets. Seems funky to keep making them and creating variables in different bp's

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@sleek dust When you say "player physics" what do you mean

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You can select the capsule and false Simulate Physics

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your characters capsule

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:11 PM

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dude this is weird

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 3:11 PM

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I added [child_actors] to my [grid] object and made a construction blueprint to place them ina grid pattern on top of my terrain. Can I make this setup manually editable on the viewport? (say, I select the tiles I want to enable/disable)

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near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:11 PM

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strings claim the weapons are valid and all but no where to be seen

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:12 PM

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Is "SetHiddenInGame" checked @near yarrow

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:12 PM

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they not

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all weapons worked when we went with a two slot setup

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i changed it to this

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refreshed node

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delted it just incase

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made a new one

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started my checks

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everything checks out

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but no dice

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the spawn transform is the socket we were using before

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:14 PM

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What are you trying to do?

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Spawn weapons based on a int?

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:15 PM

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ya

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should be this

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but now no guns

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lol

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homing missiles arent weapon based so they still work lol

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but any rifle i try to select by the int replicated doesnt spawn

sleek dust Sep 29, 2020, 3:16 PM

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@sleek dust When you say "player physics" what do you mean
@gusty shuttle soo i want when i fall off to teleport back the player on the last position when he was on the ground, the problem is when i fall and teleport it back have that falling force and it keep pushing it off the edge.. and i want to teleport it disable physics and enable them to stop that falling force

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i hope i explain it ok :))

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:17 PM

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@earnest tangle In your HUD class, on BeginPlay, do you create all your widgets there and promote variables there, that way they are all valid?

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:17 PM

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Yeah, if I have widgets that need to be immediately visible I do that

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I have some custom events used to toggle some other widgets, for those I do it within those using an Is Valid to check whether the widget needs to be created or not

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:18 PM

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For sure, sounds like a reasonable approtch, I'll probably do the same. Do you use "RemoveFromParent" when you want to hide it?

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:18 PM

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Yeah

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:18 PM

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Cool, and it should still be vaild even though it's been removed from parent right?

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That way I can AddToViewPort if Valid

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:19 PM

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hey guys

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:19 PM

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It should, as long as you keep a ref in your variable it should remain valid and not GC'd

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:19 PM

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omg

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:19 PM

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Sweet. easy peasy then

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:19 PM

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i know what it is

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nvm i thought it might be the valid owner check inside the weapon

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but its good

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:20 PM

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@sleek dust Sounds like you're doing some Prince of Persia Sands of Time stuff with reversing time haha. I have no clue how they did that. Or how Overwatch does that with Tracer

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Glad you figured it out @near yarrow

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:20 PM

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no dice yet

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:20 PM

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@sleek dust you would need to keep some kind of "position history" stored in your actor

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:20 PM

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the owner is valid lol

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for some reason they are spawning and are valid

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but at the same time they dont exist because the line traces dont deal the damage

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:21 PM

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If you want to disable the force from the actor, you can try setting its velocity to 0

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the physics forces act upon the velocity

onyx pawn Sep 29, 2020, 3:21 PM

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If I want to have a clickable button on interface rotate players camera sorta like these buttons what would be the best way to have on button click activated the players pawn camera rotation?

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near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:22 PM

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wait thats it

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OMG

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i had an instance editable for some dumb reason

sleek dust Sep 29, 2020, 3:22 PM

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@sleek dust Sounds like you're doing some Prince of Persia Sands of Time stuff with reversing time haha. I have no clue how they did that. Or how Overwatch does that with Tracer
@gusty shuttle no no not reverse time... soo i have an vector wich get updated every time with the player pos when player is on ground... when player is not grounded and die it get teleported back to last ground position

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:22 PM

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the instance editable isnt available on this kind of spawning for what ever reason. prob cuz you cant be sure which one it will be

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thanks for letting me think out loud guys ❤️ much love from me and my girlfriend

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:25 PM

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@sleek dust You could use a simple checkpoint system that once your player crosses it, it saves to your transform to game instance/save game and when you die it loads that transform and SetActorWorldLocation

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:27 PM

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will a "get owner to pure cast" replace the original instance editable variable of the character?

mental robin Sep 29, 2020, 3:27 PM

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How doth one store an array of static mesh 'actors' (not components) ..and spawn them at run time whenever I want to..only way I can see to get them into an array is if they're already into the level...

sleek dust Sep 29, 2020, 3:28 PM

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@gusty shuttle something like that... the problem is .. it keep falling off https://i.gyazo.com/1116e8655db1ff95fbaeb87fe970ec6b.mp4

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https://i.gyazo.com/25174d1a617b2c78d19503192c8c662f.png

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and this is the code

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:28 PM

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or should i set this variable to a pure cast of owner inside the parents construction script

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begin play maybe

onyx pawn Sep 29, 2020, 3:28 PM

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Anyone able to give pointers on my problem?

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:28 PM

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@sleek dust try setting velocity to 0 when you teleport it back to the last position

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:31 PM

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@earnest tangle When you cast to the hud, this is the proper way right? lol, I was under the impression I didn't need to get the hud via player controller haha

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earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:32 PM

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yeah that should work

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if you're doing that within your HUD BP tho you shouldn't need it

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:32 PM

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No no, im calling to view port in my game instance right now, so I can show the loading screen on loading call

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:33 PM

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Ah, it might be a good idea to use a custom event instead.. Eg. in your HUD BP you have "ShowLoadingScreen" event

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:33 PM

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@onyx pawn you want something that when you press the button it change the rotation and when you release it, it stops?
It will be based on the axis values.

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:33 PM

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you'd have the add to viewport stuff in there, so your gamemode won't need to have UI logic inside it

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:34 PM

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Aye, I would just be casting a bunch then to the HUD haha, not a problem

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@earnest tangle Pretty much this right?

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earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 3:37 PM

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That'd work

gusty shuttle Sep 29, 2020, 3:37 PM

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Cew

onyx pawn Sep 29, 2020, 3:43 PM

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@onyx pawn you want something that when you press the button it change the rotation and when you release it, it stops?
It will be based on the axis values.
@weary jackal yeah I just want to when I press the orbit camera button on interface it will use the orbit camera button like I was pressing the key i have bound for its action on the key board.

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 3:43 PM

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is there a reason a pure cast doesnt occur correctly on clients

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:45 PM

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https://i.gyazo.com/ab352561f218f093318947bd3abb96a5.png

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https://i.gyazo.com/a89a7ada97f69e1a4f74fcfdc25958d0.png

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Okay so this is my ui button code for moving character forward when pressed. And when released it will stop.

You can manipulate with this and have the orbit rotation thing

onyx pawn Sep 29, 2020, 3:47 PM

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thanks will give that a try 🙂 thanks

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 3:47 PM

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Also make sure the UI is 'IsFocusable' otherwise the interactions won't happen

onyx pawn Sep 29, 2020, 3:50 PM

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Where do I set if UI is focusable?

weary jackal Sep 29, 2020, 4:17 PM

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@onyx pawn in the designer window of the widget. Click on the root in the hierarchy. You'll find IsFocusable in the details panel

near yarrow Sep 29, 2020, 4:17 PM

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none of my guns work on client side

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i cant pass in the variable i was using when i spawned the weapon

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i tried casting the owner or instigator but no dice

sleek dust Sep 29, 2020, 4:29 PM

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guys, how can i detect in wich direction i move? i need to detect if im moving in x or y axis

brisk lake Sep 29, 2020, 4:29 PM

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get forward vector

sleek dust Sep 29, 2020, 4:32 PM

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yea but i think its not what i really want

opaque forum Sep 29, 2020, 4:37 PM

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Whats wrong with this?

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this fails too

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torn jolt Sep 29, 2020, 4:42 PM

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Hey guys can you create an offset of a spline in blueprint? Like I have hand drawn spline in editor and I would like to create an offset as you would in some cad software.

meager vessel Sep 29, 2020, 4:46 PM

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Hey everyone, I'm getting this output log
"LogScript: Warning: Script Msg: Attempted to access index -1 from array 'Crystals' of length 1 in '/Game/Player/InventoryComponent.InventoryComponent_C'!"
sometimes when i run my game and I want to find the spot where this happens but the log message doesn't give me enough information. Is there any way to find out more about this warning? Or an easy way to find all the array accesses?

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I know what happens here but i want to change my code so that i don't have any out of bounds accesses but can't find the correct spot

random ginkgo Sep 29, 2020, 4:48 PM

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@meager vessel It's in an Array named Crystals

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@meager vessel In InventoryComponent blueprint

meager vessel Sep 29, 2020, 4:52 PM

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@random ginkgo Inside my InventoryComponent Blueprint i'm never trying to access an index of Crystal. I never do this anywhere in this blueprint

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That's why i think this happens somewhere else

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The array is a member of my InventoryComponent and I do access it like that but not inside InventoryComponent directly

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That's why I can't find the spot where this actually happens

keen goblet Sep 29, 2020, 5:03 PM

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@meager vessel You can right-click the Crystals var (in a graph or in the BP panel) -> Find References -> click the binoculars button to search all BPs

meager vessel Sep 29, 2020, 5:05 PM

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Oh i didn't see the binocular button. Yeah that helps at least a little bit. Still have to check every single spot. I did find it already but the warning wasn't of any help sadly

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Thank you @keen goblet

random ginkgo Sep 29, 2020, 5:09 PM

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@meager vessel When does it happen?

meager vessel Sep 29, 2020, 5:17 PM

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I already fixed it @random ginkgo but thanks

keen goblet Sep 29, 2020, 5:43 PM

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@meager vessel You're welcome! Best way I've found to search for things like this, despite its clunkiness. Wish those warnings would say where the code that caused it is...

gray quarry Sep 29, 2020, 5:53 PM

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Hi everyone! I want to make a multiplayer game and I want to select my char before entering a server aand starting to play. The server hits the open level command and the variables from PC and GM reset, how can I transfer a variable from pregame to ingame? Hope I explained ok

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 5:54 PM

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If you save stuff into GameInstance you can keep them between different levels

gray quarry Sep 29, 2020, 5:55 PM

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I tried that but everyone gets the same character

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GameInstance is different for each player?

earnest tangle Sep 29, 2020, 5:58 PM

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each client has a gameinstance locally

gray quarry Sep 29, 2020, 6:00 PM

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Perfect, thanks! I did something wrong then

static mountain Sep 29, 2020, 6:18 PM

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Hello everyone, I'd like to know if there's a way for me to use the Editor Utility Widget feature to change a specific parameters in a object blueprint asset.
I tried this approach but it seems the cast is not good, any idea how I could fix it? thank you very much

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twilit heath Sep 29, 2020, 6:42 PM

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asset is not an instance of your object

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so cast to object can never work

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cast to object class would

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but im not sure BP will allow you to alter it, as it returns a const pointer

static mountain Sep 29, 2020, 6:58 PM

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thank you! It's a bummer but I think I found a workaround using an Execute Python node and a bit of code I found here:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/python-scripting/1591378-can-you-edit-a-blueprint-variable-from-python

Unreal Engine Forums

I have been digging around, but I have been unable to find anything that looks like a way to edit an Animation Blueprint directly. There are ways to create

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yep, it worked with Python 😉

craggy shadow Sep 29, 2020, 7:26 PM

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So i have a camera based turning system, but it turns to fast, what can i add to slow the turning down for the creature ?

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trim matrix Sep 29, 2020, 7:35 PM

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Hello, can anyone here help me with shading issues ? i'm trying to apply my normal map to an existing material, but I get bad results ...

ashen sparrow Sep 29, 2020, 7:45 PM

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Why can’t I expose this to be editable?

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vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:00 PM

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how do you modify collisions for an actor at runtime? I'm trying this on the collision component but it's not making a difference.

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the actor continues to be blocked by things

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:02 PM

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First you should make sure your nodes are being reacvhed with something like a debug print statement. (or some other debug)

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:02 PM

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they are

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:03 PM

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Second we must understand all other meshes/actors in the scene. I recall there being numerous different collision layers.

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:03 PM

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they're world dynamic

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and set to block all

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this is how I move the pawn/actor that I want to stop blocking sometimes

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will disabling sweep when it's meant to be ghosting help?

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:04 PM

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I recall sweeping being a "please stop me if something is in my way" try hovering "sweep" with your mouse for the tooltip. (not a very clear tooltip though)

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:04 PM

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yeah

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so it'll still have a collision event at the end

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:04 PM

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I wnder if "overlap" also counts/includes as collision.

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:04 PM

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or if it ends up inside the object

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overlap is a separate behaviour, but I want to maintain that

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changing that won't help probably

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hmm

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I would have thought setting the collision channel would do it

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:07 PM

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Hmm.

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Here's a bad theory of mine. Maybe some other nodes are re-enabling collision again immediately.

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:08 PM

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this is the first time I've modified collision at runtime, so I'd hope not

crude timber Sep 29, 2020, 8:08 PM

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Hey everyone ! Is it possible to detect an overlapping from another actor ?

I have an Actor A, I want it to trigger an action if an actor overlaps the collision box of Actor B

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:08 PM

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yeah it is

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get actor B to own the overlap event and have the overlap event connect to the collision component

crude timber Sep 29, 2020, 8:08 PM

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I'm a beginner, been searching for it but I can't find the solution

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:09 PM

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then get it to message actor A to handle the event if you want

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try typing "begin overlap" into the right-click menu in the actor with the collision box

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it should have an option that looks like "Begin Overlap Event (Collision Box)"

crude timber Sep 29, 2020, 8:10 PM

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that step is done

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I just need the actor A to detect when it happens to actor B

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:10 PM

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So [Actor B]'s job is to tell [Actor A] that an overlap is happening

crude timber Sep 29, 2020, 8:10 PM

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So [Actor B]'s job is to tell [Actor A] that an overlap is happening
exactly

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:10 PM

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I guess [Actor B] would need a reference to [actor A]

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:10 PM

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maybe if I turn off sim generates hit events at runtime

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in your hit event you have a reference to both actors

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and both components if there are any

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do casts and validity tests

winter garnet Sep 29, 2020, 8:11 PM

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Hey guys! Pretty much, when I do 'PIE', there's a ball that I think represents the default player controller or something on the scene. Do you know how can I remoev it?

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sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:11 PM

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@crude timber You could have a variable in [Actor B]'s BP reference your [Actor A] (and manually assign [A] as the default value for this variable) and have [B] tell [A] to run his the event/fucntionality you want.

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:11 PM

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also, begin overlap and hit event are two different things (exactly what I'm dealing with right now)

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a hit event is a specific thing, an overlap is something else

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hard to tell the difference

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I wouldn't have a fixed reference to actor A, that's not very flexible or scalable. just use the reference provided by the hit/overlap event. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:13 PM

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@winter garnet Check the default player controller's BP.

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:13 PM

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nope, sim generates hit events is not it for me. I'm not simulating physics in the first place.

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:13 PM

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Won't look exactly like this, but something similar should pop up if you double click any BP.

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winter garnet Sep 29, 2020, 8:14 PM

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@winter garnet Check the default player controller's BP.
@sinful zealot Oh well, pretty much I'm not using it. And that's what's weird. 😦

crude timber Sep 29, 2020, 8:14 PM

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ok thanks guys, I'll look into it a bit more 🙂

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:14 PM

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an actor with a USceneComponent root object will display that ball. just replace it with something.

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:15 PM

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@vestal plinth You could try to create a custom channel for this collision/overlapping sim and see if it works. Existing channels might have some weird things going on we are not aware of.

vestal plinth Sep 29, 2020, 8:15 PM

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like a static mesh or anything else

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@sinful zealot good call, I'll try that

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:15 PM

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@winter garnet I understand now. You are not sure about the origin of this sphere, mesh thing. Try hiding objects in youyr scene outliner 1 by 1. The ball should eventually hide and you'll be able to tell the origin.

winter garnet Sep 29, 2020, 8:17 PM

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@winter garnet I understand now. You are not sure about the origin of this sphere, mesh thing. Try hiding objects in youyr scene outliner 1 by 1. The ball should eventually hide and you'll be able to tell the origin.
@sinful zealot Believe it or not, I've already tried that. Turns outthis sphere has no fixed place. It seems it is spawning where my PC was supposed to spawn.

sinful zealot Sep 29, 2020, 8:18 PM

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A nefarious sphere indeed. Is it visible in the editor or during run-time only?