blueprint

[faint pasture]

Assuming doors aren't the only thing you interact with, you should make an Interact interface and implement it on everything you want to interact with. Or call it Activate or Use etc.

[swift dome]

How to run the print in here?

[dawn gazelle]

@swift dome You don't want to. On the widget you can create an event for the button being pressed, and that's where you'd want to run your logic.

You can create the event by selecting the button in the designer view and on the right side at the bottom, there's options for creating the events.

[swift dome]

@dawn gazelle Thank you so much, that worked!

Is there a way to share variables from blueprints

?

[dawn gazelle]

Yes, but you have to get a reference to the specific object to get the values it stores.

[unborn maple]

is shuffle array the node i want to use when wanting to spawn actor on a target point but shuffle them around so that when the game begins the player has to find them in a new spawn target point

i try to do random int in range but that just does it one at a time when i want to spawn 3 item and then shuffle them

[dawn gazelle]

@swift dome and you've already sort of done this by calling a reference to the Sample UI and calling the "Stop" button variable.

[trim matrix]

Cant seem to get character movement component to work, all I want to do is move according to local x when I press mouse down.

[olive sedge]

hello!

Any help on calculating an aim offset?

I have a pawn that is sensing another pawn and I want to aim offset the one sensing towards the one being sensed

[spark steppe]

find look at rotation?

[faint pasture]

Uhhhh, what's it doing right now? That looks like it'll always move forward.

[olive sedge]

@spark steppe sounds good

[trim matrix]

stays in place

[olive sedge]

does pawn sensing work through walls? do I have to check for LOS myself?

[dawn gazelle]

@trim matrix Simplifying what you've made on my end (though using a different named input axis), my character just continuously moves forward. Perhaps your default movement speed is set to 0 or your forward vector is pointing straight up or down?

[trim matrix]

It's really weird my setup is quite complicated. The input is governed by mouse button down and moving the mouse rotates the direction the character faces.

[dawn gazelle]

Maybe try Add Movement Input instead?

[trim matrix]

Here's a quick video of the movement

yes tried that

[dawn gazelle]

That looks like its moving to me?

[trim matrix]

because Im using add actor world offset

I need to use the movement component if I want it to replicate smoothly

[dawn gazelle]

ah gotcha

[trim matrix]

I have character movement component and a floating pawn movement

Tried adding a vector to floating pawn but that doesn't do anything

[dawn gazelle]

So I'm guessing you're setting the Movement Mode on the CMC to Flying?

[trim matrix]

yes

[dawn gazelle]

and you've set up speeds for the CMC for said movement mode?

[spark steppe]

did you try to add the movement to the actors controller?

[trim matrix]

what do you mean? do you mean inside the controller?

[dawn gazelle]

I'm not really sure what the issue could be CodeB. You shouldn't specifically need to use the CMC to move the character for replication to appear smoothly. Here's something I made fairly quickly that emulates sort of what you're looking for. Upon right-clicking, it'll move the character towards the vector that they are looking and it works over network.

[trim matrix]

yes but that uses 'pawn movement component' which doesn't work for me either 😆

All I can get to work is add world offset and add physics linear velocity which replicate in a jittery way

[dawn gazelle]

That's the same node you used in your example.

[trim matrix]

yes and that doesnt work for me

This is what I use

[dawn gazelle]

Ok that's completely different.

[trim matrix]

and I network like this (in event tick)

and the characters move in the right direction but spazz out a lot

[empty current]

hello everybody, trying to create and assign a tag to an actor when I hit it with line trace during gameplay. I am not very familiar with Arrays yet.

I must do something wrong because it does not work

(i written a tag in the ''new var'' variable ofcourse)

[wind void]

From the code, I can see if actor has tag "Mesh", assign another tag set in New Var 0

You sure the other actor has tag Mesh?

[trim matrix]

hmm so if I network via getting-setting velocity instead of position, it is still slightly jittery but far better

[empty current]

yep this one is working, its ''Mush'' not mesh, means mushroom lol osorry its a bit confusing

[wind void]

also, you aware you are erasing all tags from the actor? Basically, if it has tag "Mush", clear all it's tags and set it to a new array containing only "New Var 0"

[empty current]

oh yes

!

thats mean its working

thank you very much

becaus i can see that it is erasing

the previous tags

so it means that the problem might ber somewher else

and indee

it is form somewhere else

thatnk you very much

!!!

[dawn gazelle]

@trim matrix Have you tried comparing what a default CMC values are to the CMC present on your character? Perhaps you changed a variable on it that is causing it to not move?

[trim matrix]

I mean 'flying' only has 2 options

It doesn't help my level is very large in unreal units so I need to move at extreme speeds to account for this

[dawn gazelle]

True, flying only has 2 options under it, but the CMC as a whole has a lot of values that if changed could potentially make it impossible for a character to move.

[trim matrix]

Well I assume only in 'general settings', 'networking' and 'flying'? I don't see any other subsections

[olive sedge]

why is acceleration 0 on the server and 1 on the client (play as listen server)

[spark cliff]

https://i.imgur.com/7N2FzYF.jpeg
anyone know what the different color eye icons signify?

[dawn gazelle]

These are all the sections on my CMC. You could potentially skip the walking/running, swimming, specific ones, but everything else I'd take a peek at.

[trim matrix]

I haven't updated UE4 in a while maybe older version

[dawn gazelle]

Sorry, that one is also a custom movement one... here's a vanilla one from 4.26

[dawn gazelle]

I don't believe animations are run on the server like that. The cast also could be failing as it may be a reference the server doesn't have.

[worthy frost]

server does on listen server

it has too

[dawn gazelle]

They indicate that the variable is instance editable. This allows you to modify the variables outside of its native blueprint.

[worthy frost]

not dedicated server

(unless you turn it on)

[olive sedge]

it seems to be casting alright

@dawn gazelle this should actually be considered a bug I think?

[worthy frost]

whats a bug?

why would the server have the local players velocity

clients*

[olive sedge]

because it's a listen server

[worthy frost]

but to get speed, you get Character->Velocity->Size

[olive sedge]

so if there's a branch in there, it should be isDedicatedServer, not isServer

[worthy frost]

where is the branch>/

?

[olive sedge]

I just assume there's a branch in getCurrentAcceleration

haven't looked at the actual code yet

but I think, if the listen server is essentially a client with a host process, then it should behave like a client

[worthy frost]

but Acceleration is local

why would the server know it?

[olive sedge]

because the "server" is a client

just a listenclient

it just comes up in print string as "server"

and if you go "isServer" on the listen client, it comes back as true

but isDedicatedServer does not

[worthy frost]

acceleration is fine here

https://www.thegames.dev/snaps/FFJ3AVzTQw.mp4

server moves, acceleration updates and prints for server

(obvs client prints nothing cause its local)

[olive sedge]

huh. then it's weird it doesn't for me

but could be because the client is possessed?

[worthy frost]

eh

[olive sedge]

btw, how did you make that mp4? is there a handy tool for that?

[worthy frost]

i made the tool

it uploads to my server

[olive sedge]

I mean the actual capturing

[worthy frost]

yes i made it 😄

[olive sedge]

ah, cool

do you make that available?

[worthy frost]

there is something on the web, called ShareX iirc

which allows you to capture stuff and upload it

[olive sedge]

ah, right

[trim matrix]

I'm thinking my problem might be something to do with pawn possession

[scenic scroll]

i hate to be back so soon

but this blueprint is giving me trouble and i dont know why

[olive sedge]

@worthy frost https://www.dropbox.com/s/ennrx9xmv8q4tm7/JyqOmpIkbx.mp4?dl=0

[rough jay]

whats the issue its doing kv

[scenic scroll]

basically what happens is when someone activates it (which should give them a costume)
for clients: they get the costume, regardless of who activated the blueprint (but only they not the host)
for host: everyone gets the costume

i can't figure out why that would happen when it always applies the blueprint only to the overlapping component (aka the person in the activation area)

[worthy frost]

@olive sedge i don't see anything updating

like you are not using acceleration

it works fine for me on 4.26

so no idea

[olive sedge]

I'm on 4.26 too

and what do you mean updating?

[worthy frost]

well why would it print nothing on listen server is odd

[trim matrix]

is a new player controller created whenever a player enters the game?

[olive sedge]

but it does print

just prints 0.00 because it's not set

[spark cliff]

thank you @dawn gazelle my guy

[worthy frost]

@olive sedge that is what i mean, it prints 0,0,0 (nothing)

[spark cliff]

seems that the color change of the eye actually just signifies that it has a tooltip

[scenic scroll]

bump if anyone thinks they can help

[dawn gazelle]

@spark cliff No, it's so you can modify the value outside of its blueprint. For example here I have a "FirstPersonCharacter" with only the variable "BaseLookUpRate" set to have the "eye open".... When I have that actor placed in the world, I can set its value on the details but only that particular variable, none of others that are present with their "eye closed"

[scenic scroll]

so does "world context object" means it only chooses from the input object? cause i can't find any other way of checking if the object is a player controller that will allow me to plug it into a "get pawn"

but if it didn't limit it to the input then that'd explain the current bug

[spark cliff]

yes i knew that datura, add text to the tooltip field of your variable you'll see it go from yellow to green

[dawn gazelle]

Oh interesting. I never looked closely at the color change XD

@scenic scroll It probably has to do with how you're calling that multicast - similar to the shield issue you had yesterday

[scenic scroll]

But- I used the exact same code as yesterday

the only thing that is different is the actual script that gets triggered

yesterday it was a shield turning on, today is a stormtrooper outfit being equipped

[dawn gazelle]

Not entirely sure why you're double looping here either.

the overlapping actors should be the array that you want I would assume, you could then just check that the object is of a certain class within the loop.

[scenic scroll]

i was double looping because with only one loop it wouldnt let me plug it into the "get pawn" for some reason

it said it was an "actor" not a "player controller"

same reason why i can't just "get owner" and then do an "equal (class)"

i need to somehow make sure the object i'm getting is a player controller or it wont let me plug it into the get pawn

but i'm worried the "get all actors of class" might just actually be getting all actors in the level

[dawn gazelle]

don't need to get the pawn - an actor is a pawn

you can set the class filter on GetOverlappingActors to your normal player character class as well, so you're not grabbing any other type of actors it may be overlapping with.

It's also good to solidify what you're doing as using the "get component by class" isn't necessarily the best. It's better if you know exactly what it is you're setting. In this example, you would need to cast to whatever your player character class is, and find the name of the skeletal mesh component.

[scenic scroll]

thanks! that's a good workaround (probably what i should've done in the first place but oh well, I didn't think of that U-U) i'll try both those methods!

[idle gust]

I'm trying to use the ApplyRootMotionConstantForce node in a GameplayAbility to try and launch my character in a direction. I chose to try and use ApplyRootMotionConstantForce because root motion is automatically replicated.

I just discovered that for some reason, the Z direction is ignored if the character is in the walking or falling movement modes. I would rather not fuck with movement modes if possible, so I tried to find the c++ implementation of ApplyRootMotionConstantForce to find and override the movement mode check, but I can't find it or any useful documentation on it.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Or maybe a suggestion on how I can better add a simple replicated force onto a character?

[idle gust]

I finally found the c++ implementation of the node and it seems it ignores the Z input if the node is set to use gravity, which is unfortunate but I can work around it

[vital prism]

With the UE4 Character and CMC - it's very nice to have the builtin "step" system where you can go up steps and over small lumps without a loss of speed... but is there a way to make it less sudden?
As in, if a character in 3rd person goes up a 10cm step - they currently teleport up 10cm in 1 frame

I'm tempted to offset the characters mesh locally, lerping back to usual positinon after stepping, but wonder if there is a better way?

[trim matrix]

Yo does anyone know why this is returning 1, and 0 rather then just 2?

https://gyazo.com/b1a33b3cc9a61232ce3cd580ece26bdd

I have 2 tags named "cover" yet the Array Index Doesn't seem to add them

[hollow cape]

well the first index is 0, and the second would be 1

[trim matrix]

It's coming up 1 first, and then 0... Not sure why

[hollow cape]

is there more code you aren't showing that you're talking about? What do you mean it's "coming up 1 first, then 0"

[trim matrix]

https://gyazo.com/e167ad1af0241dbb0d2938e60447f8ff

The code should take in all the arrays, and compare them to see which one is closest to the character

It array comes up 1, and then 0 when I print to screen

I don't know if that changes anything, though.

[hollow cape]

when you print to screen, it can look backwards, have you checked the log

[trim matrix]

I've never used logs, I've always debugged with print to screen ( I'm a noob I know)

[hollow cape]

if you don't already, open up your output log window

printstring will (by default) also output to the log

[trim matrix]

Oh I see, it is printing 0 first, and then 1

I have no idea why this code isn't working then, I've used it multiple times in the past if you have any insight

https://answers.unrealengine.com/storage/attachments/255108-capture.png

This is the original code I copied

Context: The AI needs to know which wall is closest to him, so he can run to it and take cover

[hollow cape]

well, it looks to me like your foreach would fail every time on the first check (index 0)

you have if index != 0

the first index of that foreach will be 0

[trim matrix]

I figured it out, the first one specifically comes out false because it is being set to "cover" initially, every loop after 0 works properly

🤦‍♂️

That's what I get for copying code without first understanding it

[hollow cape]

ignore me, what I said was actually incorrect

yeah, it would continue

[left carbon]

Guys, is it possible to change material layer in runtime? Or any other way to blend two materials and change one in runtime?

[trim matrix]

The issue was that I didn't realize loop literally loops for each item... So when it return false I assumed it didn't work at all.

[hollow cape]

yep, there is a for each loop with break that could exit at a specified point, but the for each loop will loop through everything

I would be cautious using get all actors with tag as your game gets larger

may want to go with something along the lines of a multi box trace for objects/by channel or something like that to find all cover within "X" range, then loop through that

[trim matrix]

Actually sounds like it'd be a lot easier

[hollow cape]

yeah and the "get all"s aren't a good way to get references to things (though they are great for proto)

one way I've seen done is to have a few defined ranges to search at. First trace would be at 10m, if the array length == 0, then trace out to 50m, if the array length == 0, trace out to 150m, etc. That way you start small, to keep the size of the array that needs to be looped through smaller, and have a way to handle a case where there isn't anything super close

[trim matrix]

Im gonna look up some tutorials on it now

Thanks for the suggestion man

[hollow cape]

yep

gl

[tribal lava]

Guys, anyone know how to add Sign in with Google and Facebook to a UE4 Mobile Game?
All the tutorials i find are instructing to use Android Studio? If anyone has any pointers it would be a lot of help.

[viscid blaze]

Does the Construction Script handle Location or Location Offset a bit differently than the Event Graph or something? I have a function that runs every time the Construction Script is called. It scatters around an array of static meshes onto the landscape using a Line Trace for each one. It works great! The moment I call that function in my normal Event graph the meshes get positioned back at the world origin, but offset as if the world origin is my actors pivot (if that makes sense). The traces look exactly the same as when it's ran via the construction script, but the actors still show up offset at the origin. Anyone have any idea what could be going on?

[wide gyro]

how do i get the create chat thing miunte 1.08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NtpIcbCrkw&list=PLXBIyoKwiri1NxwGouMS5w7ziCoT7Yx7b&index=10&ab_channel=AlenLoeb
||@here||

[latent arch]

hey all so new day and im still struggling with node selection and order with this. anyone thats good at vector math can help? 😄 I have gotten this static mesh actors bounds with a raycast and ive drawn it with a debug box. the yellow vertex points ive calculated using the origin and extents. How can i now rotate them so they line up with the bounding box corners? 😄

[wide gyro]

why can i not plug self to the controler

[tribal lava]

the error is quite self explanatory?
Try using get owning controller

or get owning player, not sure which is the right one atm

[wide gyro]

and how can i change the textbox color

[willow phoenix]

Someone has a good idea what to look for (or maybe even know a tutorial) on how to connect the two nearest target points that are on different sub-levels via a spline?

https://youtu.be/CtPGyv6GGrA <- i want a smooth road over these floating rocky thingys

like a root connecting one platform with another

[viral garden]

hello all, hope you are well, anyone have any idea on how to do a Static mesh Swap?
Lets say you walk in to a volume, and switch a solid door in to a Broken Door?

[pine trellis]

morning everyone, I think I need help because this doesnt make sense, I have an elevator I want to use in multiplayer but I keep getting access none on this code when running on client mode, why would it cause an error? is there another way I need to cast?

@viral garden you need to make a box collision, and then you you overlap it just destory 1 actor and replace another in its place.

or you can make 2 meshes in 1 blueprint and on overlap, change the visibility of 1 and hide the other one

[viral garden]

thanks photon, do you know the commands for that please? is it set visibility and Actor hidden in game?

[pine trellis]

I think I have it somewhere hold on

I think something l ike this shoud work

it should work for the mesh I would think, as its just a component

[viral garden]

awesome thankyou 🙂

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch You still working on the bounding box thing?

[viscid blaze]

Can i access Level Outline Folder and/or Actor Groups via Blueprint? I am converting some randomly placed MeshComponents into StaticMeshes, and i'd like to also Group them once converted. Is that possible?

[visual vigil]

Any1 knows how to do a mesh deformation for skeletal meshes

[vital oyster]

How i can make my car have more grip on a certain material (vehicleMovement) ?

[visual vigil]

change friction??

[latent arch]

@maiden wadi hey bud, yeha still working on it. Ive tried all the combos i can think of and cant seem to get these vectors to rotate and line up with the bounding box XD

[vital oyster]

Yes

[visual vigil]

it should work then?? just use different physics material with different frcition

[burnt obsidian]

Hey I have a question; I have made this super simple Pawn actor with the floatingpawnmovement class attachted to it. I have added a custom springarm with a camera but for some reason when in playmode the camera is at 0,0,0 of the pawn location does anyone know what I need to do to actually respect the spring arm and actually use the camera I made instead of some other camera?

You can see on the left that the camera somehow moved inside the cube instead of staying in the position I gave it while my blueprint is completely empty

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch Hmm. That is a bit annoying to do with the Actor's bounds. It'd be much easier to do if you knew you had access to the component itself. But in short for the actor, you have to convert the location into the actor's local space, rotate it by the actor's rotation, then transform it back to world space.

[latent arch]

hmmi see, ive been trying some conversions but i jsut cant seem to get them the right way round lol

always end up worse than it is lol

when you say access to the component itself do you mean the Static mesh?

[burnt obsidian]

anyone has an idea ? I am banging my head on it for the whole day already

[visual vigil]

did you checked on camera to use pawn control rotation??

[burnt obsidian]

yea

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, the Static Mesh Component. If I was doing this, I'd probably just write a couple of functions that get all static meshes on an actor. If greater than 1, get the largest comparable vector between them. So like if there's two and they have local Max bounds of 100,200,100 and 200, 150, 50, the new max would be 200,200,100. Use that for a local max box extent.

[burnt obsidian]

idea would be that I could just move around with the cube and change the spring arm length etc but for some reason it wont use that custom camera I made

[worthy tendon]

You have collision problem

the spring arm is colliding with the mesh @burnt obsidian

[burnt obsidian]

the box has no collision

[visual vigil]

it must be using different camera then

how many cmaeras are there in scene

[burnt obsidian]

None

this blueprint is not even in the scene before clicking play as I call it as default pawn in the gamemode

[latent arch]

@maiden wadi is it not possible to get a local box extent from a ray hit? or am i just making things more complicated? haha usually good at that

[visual vigil]

after actor is spawned make the springarm camera the active camera

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch You could cast the hit component to a SceneComponent. So it should work with both Static and Skeletal meshes I think.

[burnt obsidian]

I've added this now but no change

[latent arch]

right now im using the primative component reference, is that a scene component or?

[burnt obsidian]

still just shows the result from before

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch Ah. My bad, local bounds is only on StaticMeshes, not SceneComponents.

[latent arch]

ahh yeah ok

thought it wasnt too bad

[visual vigil]

after u play eject from game and see where camera is

[latent arch]

ive tried aplying the world rotation of the object to the vectors but it always ends up in some strnage place ehehe

[maiden wadi]

Yeah, you'd need to transform it into the component's local space first then rotate it.

[worthy tendon]

try disabling collision test on spring arm

[latent arch]

ah ok, is that by getting the box extent and then transforming component?

[worthy tendon]

if that fixes your problem, it's definitely a collision problem. maybe you have a volume in the world that collides with camera channel. @burnt obsidian

[burnt obsidian]

@worthy tendon I tried it but nothing changed 😦

@visual vigil when I eject the camera is in the position it needs to be

[latent arch]

like this? :S

[burnt obsidian]

but my camera ingame is still the one that is like on the 0,0,0 (relative to the pawn location)

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch Inverse transform, then rotate.

Normal transform is LocalToWorld space.

[latent arch]

ahh ok so like this?

[maiden wadi]

Looks right. That'll be in local space for the component. If you need the world location you'll now need to normal transform it back into world space after the rotation.

[latent arch]

ahh ok, and then how do i aply it to my box extent so it aplies to all my vertexes? 🙂

so like that with the transforms?

[visual vigil]

it looks like ur springarm camera is not active camera then

[maiden wadi]

Do you have like an array of the vertices?

[burnt obsidian]

@visual vigil Yea I was thinking that as well but I also dont really find anything how I could make it active

[latent arch]

i have made one yes

[maiden wadi]

What location are those in, world or local?

[burnt obsidian]

Cause for some reason there is this mysterious extra camera that I cant find

[latent arch]

errr im guessing world thats why they arent working ehehe

but im not sure :S

[burnt obsidian]

I tried looking in other blueprints that link to it but I found nothing noteable

[visual vigil]

i think its setviewtarget with blend

[latent arch]

this is the simple method i used to get each corner

[maiden wadi]

Okay. Origin plus extent tells me that's in world space, so you should just need to run those through the same InverseTransform/Rotate/Transform function to get the correctly rotated points.

Fairly sure at least.

[burnt obsidian]

@visual vigil I'm trying that now but this expects me to have a seperate actor to blend towards

[latent arch]

hmm ok ill try it, do i need to do it to each output separately?

[burnt obsidian]

as its requests an actor as input

[latent arch]

can i use my array and a loop? 😄

[maiden wadi]

If your second picture are the variables that are being used to create the array, then yeah a loop should work fine.

[latent arch]

ok sweet ill have a plan and send a SS xD

ok so something like this? 😄

[visual vigil]

then maybe just select the other camera and make set active false

[burnt obsidian]

but thats the thing

I dont know of a second camera 😦

[visual vigil]

use get playercmarea to get it

[burnt obsidian]

@visual vigil I tried this now

nothing changes :\

[silent imp]

I have use controller yaw on, however the character only moves like this no matter where the camera is looking
https://gyazo.com/165a359b12cfc38d8f68b57afc8da835

[burnt obsidian]

@silent imp could you show how you set up your camera

cause what you have is exactly what I need

[silent imp]

uh

aight

nevermind, fixed

[visual vigil]

maybe ur camera field of view is too far

[burnt obsidian]

Its on default

Camera arm is 300 units away

[visual vigil]

in ur video i can see that camera is moving with player

[burnt obsidian]

Yea

But if I eject the camera is like in the preview

I also did some debugging bt printing the location of the camera I made and the active camera

And there are 2 different positions

(printing them both in the tick)

[visual vigil]

just check if other camera posiotn is same as cube postion

[worthy tendon]

something looks wrong here. I think you are Activating the root component instead of the camera component. you should also deactivate the other camera component when activating a new one.

[muted dawn]

hey does anyone know why i can't uncrouch when i press shift?

[silent imp]

how would i achieve the sort of 3rd person offset camera seen in gta and fortnite?

https://gyazo.com/ac189886940d14278c3929b48705ee3f

[pulsar basalt]

Do Actors have an AI Controller? I made an actor, got AI Controller and connected it to a Move To Location node with a target, and it isn't moving at all.

[silent imp]

the camera pitch is centered around itself, and not the characetr

[muted dawn]

i don't even remember how the gta v camera is tbh

i haven't played over a year

[frigid anvil]

Use a SpringArm @silent imp

[muted dawn]

oh lol

i forgot them

does anyone know why i can't uncrouch when i press sprint while i'm crouch

[burnt obsidian]

I tried grabbing the camera component from that but I get no results for that

[muted dawn]

i checked any branches i had

i can' seem to find the problem

[maiden wadi]

@muted dawn No one is going to be able to remotely answer that question without seeing your logic trail.

[muted dawn]

i can show blueprints

it's something with the stamina system i think

it will be 3 screenshots tho

[latent arch]

@maiden wadi Horray! thanks a lot for the help mate! 🙂

[muted dawn]

damn looks cool

[orchid garden]

try something like:

[muted dawn]

im using smooth crouch

is it the timeline?

[orchid garden]

no

[silent imp]

@frigid anvil not sure if im doing it wrong, but the spring arm still shows the same behavior as without

[muted dawn]

ok imma try

[orchid garden]

i have no idea what smooth crouch is sry

[muted dawn]

well instead of it teleporting down it goes down slowly

camera

f

[orchid garden]

but you still have a key that activates / deactivate crouch yes?

[muted dawn]

only pressed

if i press again it uncrouches

[orchid garden]

so take the part of your flipflop that fires off the uncrouch, and do a check in sprint to see if player is crouching, then fire off the part of your flipflop that uncrouches them, then begin sprinting

[muted dawn]

ok

[frigid anvil]

@silent imp Turn off Use Pawn Control Rotation in the camera settings and turn it on in the SpringArm settings.

[silent imp]

alright

[pulsar basalt]

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property CallFunc_GetAIController_ReturnValue_1" Do I need to first create an AI Controller?

[silent imp]

@frigid anvil thank you so much! works perfectly

[muted dawn]

wait

it's something to do with real move speed

when i removed that it did the same thing

[orchid garden]

removed?

[muted dawn]

unlinked it

im gonna try something else

i got into unreal yesterday

i kinda suck

[orchid garden]

didn't mean remove anything, you'd basically be duplicating the uncrouch part in the sprint for the check. you'd need a var for the branch to determine if your crouched or not, and if you are crouched it would uncrouch the player. flipflops for character movement really aren't the way to go, expecially in cases like this as a flipflop will still fire off 'uncrouch' if sprinting has switched it off.

[muted dawn]

what does stand half height do exactly

ok

that seem to cause the effect rn

it's part of it

this is the crouch

[orchid garden]

so in the sprint before anything else is done in it you'd do a branch for iscrouched, if true you could copy everything from the timeline on from your crouch routine, and attach it to the reverse, then off the capsule height link that to where it starts the sprinting stuff.
Off the false pen from the branch you'd just connect it strait to the sprinting stuff.

make sense?

[muted dawn]

yup

[orchid garden]

i know sometimes i don't say things right :/

[muted dawn]

wait do mean false?

i already have an is crouched

for the sprint set it to off?

false

ok

[orchid garden]

a branch returns true or false

[orchid garden]

yep

[muted dawn]

i had that before

i added it

[orchid garden]

you'd have to show how you've set this all up.

somethings not being put together right.

[muted dawn]

it's really big

[orchid garden]

where is the false pen going?

[muted dawn]

to the sprint

so if im crouched i cant sprint

[orchid garden]

but you want it to uncrouch then sprint

[muted dawn]

but somehow it still happens

no

i have a bug that i can't uncrouch if i press sprint button while crouched

literally

pressing ctrl does nothing

[orchid garden]

the branch is coming strait off the activation for the sprint?

[grand torrent]

Hey. I need some math help. I have a bounding box from an array of actors, which gives me an extent and a center. I want to set my camera to focus on this box, and always keep it in view, but also at a certain zoom range by offsetting the camera location. How can I do that?

[muted dawn]

yes

[orchid garden]

keypress->branch->sprint

[muted dawn]

yes

i have is crouched on the branch

wait

lemme send you

event play is there cause it wont activate the stamina system

[orchid garden]

stick the same branch check on crouched at the begining of your 'released'

[muted dawn]

ok

[orchid garden]

your 1/2 executing your stam routine

im betting something on released is causing the issue

[muted dawn]

i used this stamina system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGazvSnIBQ&t=1115s

i modified it a bit to not print

[blissful nacelle]

hello guys. I have a small problem with saving settings . i created simple widget menu with screen resolution , texture quality and other, but when i save settings , doesnt mater what kind , settings apply but i cant moove right-left, down or up with camera. i can jump, shoot, move, open and close main menu, change settings again, but i cant move camera. does anyone know what is the problem? menu was created only with widgets and simple blue prints, no c++.

[orchid garden]

damn thats abit complex, i like the simplicity of my stam system lol...

[muted dawn]

lmao

it works

90%

it might happen but for a temp fix is okay

rn i just want to add headbobbing

[blissful nacelle]

if i simply close main menu all is worcking. so problem is in saving settings. this is logic of button continue

[orchid garden]

mine uses timers for stam drain / recharge that are activated by a slate i set for the state of the player (idle, walking, jogging, running), if stam gets dropped to zero it flips the player to walking state, and they can't run again till stamina recharges a bit.

[pine trellis]

is the run as client mode the same as the old dedicated server mode on the older versions of unreal?

[muted dawn]

im still confused on how to add a character that is invisible to the fps camera

and have him take the bullets

[orchid garden]

i did a third person cheat for a fps camera 🙂 so i can look down and still see the body

[muted dawn]

tfps

tps template?

lemme add this dc server to faves

[burnt obsidian]

Finally found it. In the end I added in my Controller some player camera manager. After removing that it worked perfectly 😓

[orchid garden]

yeah using a third person template, i set it up so the player can zoom in / out, and if they zoom in all the way it flips to the fp camera:

[muted dawn]

i know this trick

i made everything from scratch

no fps template

it's me and one guy i met on rust on the dev team

[orchid garden]

started in tp project, but character is from scratch, not really hard to setup, this one is just in my test project.

test project is so i don't screw up the main project heh

[muted dawn]

i switched to unreal because it was easier

even though it uses c++

[worthy tendon]

should have known that. you can override camera transform in camera manager or camera modifiers.

[burnt obsidian]

but thanks for the suggestions its really appriciated!

[dim robin]

is there any chance to use "in game" things from folders inside the computer?

[muted dawn]

Yes

check your documents foldier

C:\Users(Username)\Documents\Unreal Projects

[maiden wadi]

After burning through a game in a week in the GameJam, using C++ feels awkward again. It might compute so fast, but it's so sloooow to set up.

[muted dawn]

compiling takes a lot of time

[twilit heath]

warmly recommends Ryzen 9

[maiden wadi]

Nah, it's the difference of like adding components.. In C++ you're like.. Okay.. Property, Property type.. Name.. Now the constructor, Create default subobject, setup attachment... Blueprint's just like "Add Component, rename."

[twilit heath]

when im doing custom containers

[maiden wadi]

Left out the editor closing and reopening.

[twilit heath]

im much faster in c++

[muted dawn]

i have a ryzen 3 2200g

rip

it's an apu

[maiden wadi]

Man, I love C++ don't get me wrong. Just after this week and how much I managed to get done, starting a new project with C++ just feels so clunky.

[twilit heath]

starting a new project is a PITA

you have just 2 days adding bones

without doing anything game specific

[maiden wadi]

I'm very happy with that little game though. Did it all from base classes and no marketplace content!

[orchid garden]

just get a cray to compile your game on 😄 32 processors! lol 😉

[dim robin]

what do you mean?

[maiden wadi]

Haha. To be fair I don't think I've ever had a compile time over about two minutes . And usually those are freshly rebuilt projects. Usually it's about ten seconds.

[orchid garden]

nice, my old machine, not so fast.

[muted dawn]

i got confused by your question and i thought you where asking where your project foldier was

[twilit heath]

has 700 c++ classes, takes about 80 seconds for a full rebuild

[dim robin]

eheheh nevermind.. I just need to be able to "browse" computer folders ingame, but I'm not sure it's possible with unreal..

[orchid garden]

anythings possible, if you can code in c++

i don't think people would like a game that can poke around in their folders though

people get paranoid

[muted dawn]

oh

[dim robin]

it's not a game, it's a product configurator. i would like ppl to chose their textures

[twilit heath]

most do poke around appdata to some extent

in c++ you'd use IPlatformFile for that @dim robin

if you want to try your luck guessing some nodes that will work

[dim robin]

gonna check it thanks

[twilit heath]

it should go through generic platform interface in any case

then it can adapt to any OS

[deft hawk]

So an "Event Overlap" is with collision volumes, and an "Event Hit" is.... with geometry?

[maiden wadi]

@deft hawk the type of component/actor doesn't change. Hit vs Overlap is just a setting. Hits are used on volumes that physically block other volumes, cause technically they can never overlap. Overlaps are used for literal overlapping volumes.

[dusky yacht]

guuys, does anyone know a node that lets me rescale and distort a view? i want two views but they have to ocupy half of the screen and be distorted by half of the size

like that

[deft hawk]

So hit is only ever called when an object stops another object

[maiden wadi]

A blocking volume can trigger an overlapping volume's overlap event, but the overlap cannot trigger a blocking volume's hit. You need two blocking volumes to collide to have a "hit".

[deft hawk]

Ah okay

Thanks

[latent arch]

hey @maiden wadi i have another question for you if you dont mind, If i have two vectors, in this case two vertexes. How can i work out the "line direction" between then than joins them together? 🙂

is it this? 😄

[maiden wadi]

That'll give you a normalized length 1.0 pointing vector from Point1 to Point2.

[latent arch]

ok sweet so i should be able to use it as a line direction then 🙂

now to clamp the position between those point ehe

bool check for the same coords? or is there a better method?

[maiden wadi]

Clamp it between them how?

[latent arch]

err one sec

so i want the closest point alone a line between two vertexes, but dont want the line to extend beyond them. It was carrying on to infinite length ehe

think this will work?

[orchid garden]

is there a built in fuction that will convert seconds to hh:mm:ss ?

[latent arch]

hmm not working yet back to drawing board 😄

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch Ohhh. I see what you mean.. So..

[rough wing]

How can I exclude player from time dilation?

[maiden wadi]

Wow.. there has to be a better function for that.

[orchid garden]

think i found it.... fromSeconds

[latent arch]

yeah thats what i thought lol

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch This? But this is hectic.

[latent arch]

thanks man ill try it now! yeah if math this! lol

[rough wing]

What are yall trying to do

[maiden wadi]

TLDR, if the look at from point 1 to target is not in the same direction as towards point 2, then use point 1. Else if the target is past point 2 from point 1, use point 2, else use point found.

[latent arch]

sweet! ill brb! 🙂

is the target location for the closest point definately point 2 or should it be the target location?

[muted dawn]

@orchid garden I'm working on big project that's why the stamina system is advanced

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch I'm "faaaaairly" certain what I put there is correct if you use the output of the right SelectVector. I'm going to look around for a moment though because I feel like there has to be an easier method for that. :/

[latent arch]

this is how i initially got it to work, but i had to do a function for each direction lol

ok man no worries, but yeah its a rather large lump o spaghetti that hehehe

[muted dawn]

does anyone know how to do add different camera shakes on walking and sprinting

i only have for idle

[maiden wadi]

You could make that it's own function in a BP library or something.

FindPointBetweenTwoPoints... or something.

[latent arch]

yeah going to do that i think

just gonna test your version now

ok sweet! its clamped within the two vectors, but how can we make it travel between them rather than go from 0-1? 🙂

id rather it didn't jump from one vertex to the other but travelled between them

gonna take a break but ill be back hehe

[trim matrix]

Having trouble getting 'addmovementinput' to work and I'm wondering what setting I might have changed to break it

[celest oar]

does any 1 know how to apply a force to a mesh that has simulate physics bellow a certain weigh and blend weight?

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch What I posted earlier should go between them.

Oh. I messed up with part of that actually. Forgot the other params. >.<

[muted dawn]

hey um

how do i disable backwards sprinting

i tried bools but i still kinda suck

[maiden wadi]

@latent arch Here is a fixed and slightly more readable setup of that function.

[trim matrix]

character movement component still not working at all

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Which movement mode are you using?

[trim matrix]

Flying

[maiden wadi]

That's set in the properties as default?

[trim matrix]

well yes its a bit confusing as it has 'default land movement' 'default water movement' i am moving in the air lol

I set both to flying

[maiden wadi]

Land Movement is basically anything outside of a Water Volume.

[trim matrix]

The top disconnected node works but is laggy. In the movement input I have also tried 'add input vector' and also trying floating pawn movement instead.

[maiden wadi]

Not familiar with using AddInputVector.

[trim matrix]

I have tried print string on the input vector itself and it is facing the direction I want, and it's not like the mesh is moving but incredibly slowly. THe input is correct just not registered

Also tried 'add movement input' same thing

[odd ember]

so uh what's the issue

[trim matrix]

The 'add movement input' node just doesn't fire

I have checked the input to it is what I want

[odd ember]

well you've set the add input movement to be 0,0,0

[trim matrix]

oh yes that is just a debugging thing

That im not using currently

tried add movement input, add input vector and also adding input vector to floating pawn movement component

[muted dawn]

um

how can i fix my character from uncrouching inside a wall

[quasi frost]

OnMouseMove shifts the inner canvas by CursorDelta ``` I am trying to do a panning widget and following this that I found on the forums, however there doesn't seem to be such an event inside of the widget. Does this go by another name?

[gritty elm]

how i can detect face of cube by selecting it's face?

i want to highlight face of selected cube

[odd ember]

like inside a static mesh

[gritty elm]

just face of mesh

like left, right, up, down etc

[hollow cape]

He was talking to OverChens

[odd ember]

who

me?

[hollow cape]

Cranz, were you not responding ot OverChens question?

[odd ember]

nope

[hollow cape]

Well then nevermind

[odd ember]

I generally avoid questions that are vaguely phrased

[hollow cape]

@gritty elm afaik you'd have to have a different material slot per face in order to achieve that

lol

I still haven't learned my lesson

[odd ember]

there might be some way of doing it with the new way unreal handles static meshes and in editor functionality

but I've never used that

for brushes you'll have to dive into engine code

[hollow cape]

brushes can't really be referenced though right? Yeah it would take some custom stuff

[odd ember]

they can be referenced, but they can't be broken down

e.g. you can reference a brush volume

but getting the face of that would require a lot of custom functionality

more so if you want it to happen in game

[hollow cape]

Yeah

[orchid garden]

everytime you guys mention brushes... it makes me think of this:

[hollow cape]

geometry brushes

[odd ember]

many things are called brushes unfortunately

brush actors to be specific

[orchid garden]

my brain just goes... brushes... texture!

[hollow cape]

And unreal slaps you across the face and tells you to be more open minded

[orchid garden]

lol

it does seem to slap me alot 😉 lol

[hollow cape]

The unforgiving mistress

[olive sedge]

I have a base class Unit and classes who inherit from Unit. If I want to have funcitonality in Unit that needs to know the range, what would be the best way to do this?
Use a variable in Unit that I override in the inheriting class, use a function getRange that I override?

what's the idiomatic way to handle this?

[trim matrix]

so I ended up having to use projectile movement to move

a bit less laggy than add world offset still not perfect

[hollow cape]

you were asking about this yesterday right? Is this about making a pawn move?

[trim matrix]

yeah

[hollow cape]

just out of curiosity, and feel free to say nah I'm good it's solved, but what's the issue with floating pawn movement? As in, why are you having to use projectile movement to make this work

[trim matrix]

No idea. Have tried floating pawn and normal CMC, input is just not registered.

[hollow cape]

and you're using add input vector?

[trim matrix]

Checked 100 times that the input is what I want, also that the mesh is not just really slow and I'm not noticing

[hollow cape]

is this a pawn or a character?

[trim matrix]

Tried add input vector, add movement input and floating pawn

Character

[hollow cape]

ah so the cmc is what you want

[maiden wadi]

@olive sedge Probably use a variable in the parent class that the inheriting class can override.

[olive sedge]

@maiden wadi check. 👍🏼

[hollow cape]

@trim matrix your character is a bee or something right?

[trim matrix]

yeh wasp

now my velocity is dependent on my number of players hmmm... and i dont think its due to lag as i am multiplying by time step

Getting faster with more players

[gritty elm]

how i can select this arrow with mouse and do a drag operation at runtime?

[latent arch]

@maiden wadi thanks a lot dude, ill try the new version now 🙂

[muted dawn]

hey

does anyone know how do make the action continue after holding down a key for 1-2s?

i can't seem to find anything for this

[gritty elm]

timer events

@muted dawn when you press 1 you start timer event, and increment the integer, if integer value is 3, then you do something, but if you release the 1 key before reaching increment value to 3, you just set variable and reset timer event

[muted dawn]

ok

thx

cause i'm trying to add controller support

[gritty elm]

@muted dawn do it like this

[muted dawn]

this is how i have it

it is sprint

i need the released

wait

i'm dumb

[gritty elm]

there is another way, if you want to do in professional way, you should do this instead @muted dawn

[muted dawn]

i've seen this one

i mean if i have it pressed for more than 3s it has pressed until the stamina runs out

lemme try something

nop

but that will be actually useful

[pine trellis]

where is the correct place to put an event dispatcher at beginning of code or end of code ?

I have a custom even do I do it right after the custom event or at the end of t he entire code?

[viscid blaze]

Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing, but I'm surprised I can't find a way to duplicate/clone an existing Actor via Blueprint in the editor. Like, i want to effectively Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V the Actor via Blueprint. Is there really no way to do that?

[pine trellis]

yes @viscid blaze BP property transfer manager

is it ok to put my code at the begining of my code?

do you know where to put a dispatcher in the begining or end of code?

[viscid blaze]

Is this what you're talking about? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/property-transfer-tool I'm talking about via Blueprint. Basically "Out of all the selected Actors take this one and Duplicate it".

[pine trellis]

yeah

[viscid blaze]

I can use that in editor scripts!?

In functions/event graphs?

[pine trellis]

yeah

do you know anything about event dispatachers

[latent arch]

@maiden wadi We have liftoff! Now to finish up and tweak / optimise ehehe 🙂

thanks for all your help dude!

[maiden wadi]

Oh nice! How's it working so far?

[latent arch]

so far great! 🙂

not im just putting in some checks so it takes the shortest patch to the player but continues to wrap around the bounds if the player isnt in LOS

then just need to add up the trace lengths to get a sound path, and figure out how to extend the traces that hit the player back out beyond their tangent point to colne the sound ehehe

clone*

[viscid blaze]

I enabled the Property Transfer plugin, but i don't see any in-blueprint nodes for using it when searching for "Transfer". Any ideas? You sure you can use this in Editor Scripts?

[clever steppe]

ideas on how to do a homing projectile? i want it to steer in midair towards enemies, like a needler in halo

i know there's some kind of option for that in the projectile component, but i don't know how to use it

[viscid blaze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM3TXKI-4co&feature=youtu.be

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe Basically you set IsHomingProjectile to true, give it a valid object as a target, and set the magnitude value and give it a max speed. You'll need to mess with the magnitude and max speed to get the desired effect.

[vivid aurora]

how does one make viewmodels? (the visible arms seen in front of you holding your weapon in first person shooters)

cause i know they're not just the character holding the weapon in front of them enough for it to be shown on the camera

i can't find a single tutorial for how showing viewmodels on screen works though

not quite sure if this is a blueprint thing

sorry

i just didn't know where else it goes

[maiden wadi]

Never heard the term viewmodel. But usually it's just a camera that's attached to the rootcapsule, and a skeletalmesh attached to the camera. Skeletalmesh is usually just arms like in the FirstPerson template.

[vivid aurora]

oh?

so how would i make it visible only on that camera?

or are you getting to that?

[maiden wadi]

Basically set the OwnerNoSee/OnlyOwnerSee checkboxes depending on which camera you're using.

I haven't set that up yet on this character or I'd show, just started this project.

Default is FPS so the settings are...

So that only other players see the mannequin and the player sees the arms, player won't see the mannequin while they possess that pawn.

Of course if you're not doing multiplayer you don't even need the mannequin.

Just a camera with arms attached.

[rough jay]

anyone know how to make a variable decrease then once it hits 0 increase then once its hits 100 decrease and so on

[maiden wadi]

If you want it to increase and decrease at the same rate, usually a Sine with the output through Abs.

Alternatively, a bool. If False, lower, if true raise. If above 100 set bool to false and set variable to 100. If less than 0, set to zero and set bool to true.

[clever steppe]

followed the video, but i don't see how to refer to the root component of the npc class i want to hit

this is the blueprint actor in question. i tried making a scene component called "targetlock" but that seems to not be accepted

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe You have to get it from the actor.

Drag off of the right blue pin in the Get and Get Target Lock.

[vocal elm]

Please don't laugh too hard, stupid question but, there is no difference between these two methods of making a child class, right?

[maiden wadi]

@vocal elm There should not be, but there is. I don't know what it is, but I had some serious issues with UserWidgets over that.

[rough jay]

if above 100 set false if it goes 99 wouldnt that send it true?

[maiden wadi]

@vocal elm If I create a UserWidget class in C++, and use the left one, I can't see the designer view. The right version works and lets me see the designer view. After that I stopped using the Create Child Class button. 🤷‍♂️

@rough jay Mmm. No. What is the use case for this exactly? What kind of variable and what are the increments?

[rough jay]

tried to do something like this n failed ill give it a try later prob wasnt thinking

[maiden wadi]

That'll just run SleepDecrease all the time.

[rough jay]

yeah ik i had conditions but removed

[maiden wadi]

I assume float?

[rough jay]

integer

[vocal elm]

That is so strange, the left must be a child class, and the right must be a class, inheriting from another class, (which I thought was the same thing)

Cheers for the answer, you saved me from issues down the line 🍻

[rough jay]

its suppose to be decreasing if it was above 1 and increase if less than 0 or 0and yeah not the smartest tho the bool thing you mentioned ima try that later thx

[clever steppe]

it's working! but now it's just chasing random targets amongst the enemies, some of them already dead

[rough jay]

if u cant destroy the actor cant u just destroy the stimuli drona?

[clever steppe]

i'm trying this, but it just seems to remove the homing totally

ah, no

it still happens, just seems on-and-off

[muted dawn]

is there any way to smooth this fov change?

[clever steppe]

sometimes it's perfect, sometimes it's not even on

[clever steppe]

@muted dawn you could use a timeline

[muted dawn]

i did

i went horribly bad

[clever steppe]

how so?

[muted dawn]

fov went crazy numbers

i put 90 to 100

and it didnt work

only reverse did

[maiden wadi]

Lerp them.

[muted dawn]

ok

[maiden wadi]

Make an Alpha in the timeline from 0 to 1.

Use that as the Lerp alpha.

@clever steppe How does your projectile pick it's homing target?

[clever steppe]

nooo idea, it's even picking a faraway npc when i have three others way closer to me and dead ahead

[maiden wadi]

Oh, you're using the GetActorOfClass. Hmm. What kind of functionality are you wanting? Like homing on the closest target to the player, closest to center of the aiming direction, or?

[clever steppe]

closest to the center of aiming direction

[muted dawn]

i can't seem to be able to do it

cause i suck

i just started using ue4 yesterday

[clever steppe]

@muted dawn don't be so harsh on yourself

[muted dawn]

i only understand bool

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe I'd possible just do like a massive sphere multitrace in the aim direction. Filter out all of the actors of the wrong type. Then you can collect all of their targets and find the one with the closest dot product to 1 from the aiming direction.

[muted dawn]

NVm

i am stupid

or blind

I had the fov 0

[hollow cape]

Welcome to dev

[muted dawn]

good thing it didn't take me hours

i saw it zoom in and it hit me lmao

[hollow cape]

Don't worry you'll get there. Next thing you know it you'll spend a day trying to hunt down a misplaced condition or something

[muted dawn]

yup

[clever steppe]

@maiden wadi hm, that sounds like a longer task than i can do now, is it easier to do proximity only?

[muted dawn]

i shoul propably make it use branches now

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe Just a sec. It's a pretty easy implementation.

[clever steppe]

listening

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe You basically want it to only target these characters with the TargetLock component, right?

[clever steppe]

yeah. they're the only enemies around, anyway

this is a pretty simple project, only a game jam

[muted dawn]

um

why is it fov snapping after the first time

[marble lantern]

is there a way to get a nav mesh to update in real time when stuff happens. I have a couple of enemies that I want to attack me when the door opens but they get stuck cause the nav mesh detects the door mesh

[muted dawn]

i think there is

now the code runs only once for some reason

fixed that

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe Okay. Here we go.

You can do this in the projectile. Do you follow what's going on in the function itself?

[clever steppe]

ah damn, this is the more accurate, trace solution huh

will do it now, give me a sec

i can understand it fairly well, yeah

collecting candidates and picking the closest one

[maiden wadi]

@clever steppe Oh, whoops. I messed up a part.

Got ahead of myself.

[clever steppe]

no worries

[maiden wadi]

Bottom loop should be this.

[muted dawn]

@maiden wadi

how am supposed to do this

it doesnt reveser this

[marble lantern]

put ur booleans before ite

[muted dawn]

ok

[marble lantern]

where are you keeping ur sprinting?

[muted dawn]

?

nope this broke it

i need it to change back when sprint ends

but timeline doesnt reverse and it snaps the fov

[maiden wadi]

@muted dawn Honestly. For something like this, I'd probably rely on velocity and tick personally.

[muted dawn]

for example?

i haven't used tick before

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. Give me a minute, I don't have a sprint set up on this project but I can sort of do it with normal walking speeds too.

[muted dawn]

alright

i tried flip flops too

they work but not really

the timeline doesnt reset

f

wait

reverse from end?

[thick charm]

hello

anybody free ? D;

im having an issue that i cant solve

[trim matrix]

depends how complicated

what is it

[muted dawn]

i found it

@maiden wadi Reverse from end exists

I just found out

[vivid aurora]

thanks bud!

[orchid garden]

what would you guys say is the best way to update spoil timers for items in a players inventory?

[muted dawn]

or just

i'm blind

[trim matrix]

have the display change each time you open the inventory, and also in the last 5 seconds before it spoils @orchid garden

[fleet estuary]

hello guys, quick questions. I think lol. I have a "add float" in my bluer print that adds infinitely. is there a way to make it stop at a certain value?

[muted dawn]

what are you making exactly?

Are you using a = or >/< node?

[fleet estuary]

i made a meter that goes up when im in the attenuation radius of a light. But when its time for it to go back down again, i suspect its coming down from a value over 1 (i set it to one)

lol i used none of those. im wondering how to use those 😛 im still fairly new. i just have it add.

[muted dawn]

me too lol

send a me a screenshot

how you made it

this is how i made my stamina

[fleet estuary]

i havent added a <=

[orchid garden]

well the idea is with the spoilables, to have the percent bar go down while the inventory is open, but i need to track the time passed on the spoilable items somehow, and update that to the items in the inventory. I was thinking a general timer that would update the times on spoilable items, but even that could be off on the actual timers as its updating them depending on how many items they have.

Seen various games update the times on 100's of items but just not sure the best method of tracking the time passed on the items.

[fleet estuary]

maybe ill try that

[trim matrix]

Well personally I would have the displayed items correspond to instances of blueprints stored in the player blueprint that contain a variable to track each timer individually.

[unborn maple]

is there any good way to randomize a target point? is that thru an array?

trying to spawn 3 items but put them in random spawn locations of 3 target points.

[muted dawn]

lemme make it real quick

[orchid garden]

build a array of your random spawn points, generate a random integer based on the length of the array and spawn the item?

[unborn maple]

i try to use random int but it was spawning one at a time.

[odd ember]

@unborn maple how random do you need it

ah

that's more like procedural

[unborn maple]

so, it going to put 3 pictures on a wall, and then count down to 1 and randomize in 3 target points

[odd ember]

but but yeah, an array will work fine

since you have the locations baked in

[unborn maple]

ok.

[odd ember]

there's a lot of granularity to "random" though

so if you're looking for truly random there are more options

[unborn maple]

ah not really that far out it just going to be a small game to learn somethings.

[orchid garden]

between 1-3 there really isn't much randomization

[odd ember]

still 3^2=9 possibilities

[orchid garden]

if there are only 3 target points, its only 3

[fleet estuary]

@muted dawn Okay thank you

[muted dawn]

did it work?

[odd ember]

depends on if there are other things being spawned in

[fleet estuary]

nope lol

[trim matrix]

@unborn maple lots of ways, could just use random float in range 3 times to make a vector inside a cube that doesn't collide with anything. Might need a bit if extra logic so the spawned items don't collide

[muted dawn]

bruh

k wait

[unborn maple]

ah yeah im new so i dont know the many ways.

[odd ember]

anyway back to my personal hell that is blender

[trim matrix]

blender is my favourite

[orchid garden]

the first item spawning in only allows for 2 options for the other two items, then the third is left with the final option so its still just a 3 point randomization. yes there are 9 possibilities to how they can end up set on the walls but for the locational placement its still only 3.

[unborn maple]

so far i have this from here i just spawn them or do i need to run a for loop

[odd ember]

I was talking about possibilities though

[muted dawn]

@fleet estuary

this is integer

[trim matrix]

@unborn maple not trying to patronise, it's true there are lots of ways to approach this problem.

[unborn maple]

understood.

[odd ember]

is there an array.random function or some such

if not

[unborn maple]

no it just a random int in range node iw as using in array

[odd ember]

you need to ensure you're always using length-1 when converting to array spaces. arrays start at 0, not at 1

[orchid garden]

you could just...

[odd ember]

and length-1 should be max, 0 should be min

you don't need the whole gamemode schtick

[unborn maple]

gotcha

[odd ember]

ah yes shuffle and do array.get(0) will also work

[unborn maple]

i was thinking of shuffle but didnt know how to use it lol

[odd ember]

if you're planning to do this over larger arrays though I do recommend the int option

because shuffle takes longer to perform

[muted dawn]

oh yeah does this work with like cutscenes?

[fleet estuary]

@muted dawn that just checks right? is there a way to stop the addition once it reaches a certain number?

[muted dawn]

you are trying to make a sanity bar right?

[fleet estuary]

OMFG I FIGURED IT OUT

lol i put the <= in the wrong spot rofl

[muted dawn]

ok

[fleet estuary]

thank youi @muted dawn lol you made my day

[muted dawn]

np

i can hear my pc blasting music while im bit even wearing my headset

back to my topic

i fixed but something else broke

[orchid garden]

here's a example of how you could do it pretty easy with shuffle:

[muted dawn]

do i place the branch before or after

like i have it here

because i need it to work when my sprinting ends

[unborn maple]

gotcha.

that give me a more clearer way 😄 i appreciate the help

[muted dawn]

that sounded like something out of ace attorney

[unborn maple]

i also keep forgetting i can make variable array to i had a long make array node

[muted dawn]

collapse nodes?

my fov still doesnt change

i moved my branch infront of the timeline

the bool is working

[odd ember]

well you might not need to

[muted dawn]

i want to make my fov change when my stamina runs out but the fov doesn't reset

this is the entire script

[unborn maple]

i got it to work now just need to now make it so if that picture is spawn to not spawn it again since im getting duplicates

other than that everything good to go

[odd ember]

why do you have that boolean in the middle, that's redundant

[muted dawn]

there

[odd ember]

the boolean is still redundant

you can remove it entirely

[muted dawn]

no not that

i want the walk fov to reset back when my stamina ends

ok

im removing the the booleans tho

[odd ember]

you can always assert that you are sprinting because you are doing this logic when the player presses the sprint button

[muted dawn]

wait i remembered why i had the booleans

i want this to happen when im sprinting

[odd ember]

you are already

it only happens when you are pressing the sprint button

[muted dawn]

i mean when the stamina blueprints happen

[odd ember]

ideally that should be one system

rather than two separate functions that you reference apart

[muted dawn]

this is the part where the booleans where attached

sry if i sound stupid. it's because i'm not good at explaining things

[odd ember]

I mean the logic speaks for itself

[muted dawn]

i also have this

[odd ember]

so your boolean

then

[muted dawn]

this one?

[odd ember]

it needs to be a function

not a variable

and you dont need it when you release

[muted dawn]

like this

?

sry i'm new

[odd ember]

nope

create a function

in that function, set a boolean as a return value

you can call the function something along the lines of IsSprintAvailable

[muted dawn]

ok

[odd ember]

in the details of that function

you need to make it Pure

[muted dawn]

?

something like this

[odd ember]

nope

go into the function

[muted dawn]

the event?

fuck sry

[odd ember]

did you make a function like I said

[muted dawn]

yes the Fov Walk

[odd ember]

cool now go into it

double click it

[muted dawn]

yup

[odd ember]

click the node inside of it

the purple one with the name of the function

[muted dawn]

this one

lmao

[odd ember]

yes

so on the right

[muted dawn]

pure done

[odd ember]

cool

in the output

add a boolean

[muted dawn]

ok

i added it

[odd ember]

cool

so the place where you had the stamina

where you checked how much stamina was available

copy that into the function

[muted dawn]

what do mean by availible

you start with 0

[odd ember]

stamina?

[muted dawn]

yes

it recharges

[odd ember]

sure

but you showed some code earlier where you checked how much stamina you had

[muted dawn]

you mean disable sprinting?

[odd ember]

maybe?

I dont know your code

[muted dawn]

do i add that?

[odd ember]

show me it first

[muted dawn]

top right

[odd ember]

okay so take the stamina variable and the <= node

[muted dawn]

ok

[odd ember]

and hook that into the return node of the function

change the stamina node to a Get node instead of a Set node

[odd ember]

you forgot the <= node

[muted dawn]

oh

ok

[odd ember]

there you go

so

now you can replace anywhere you have the Sprinting boolean

with that function

[wet mountain]

How can one send a variable integer between blueprints in a level? Are you obligated to use "Cast to"?

[odd ember]

the blueprints need to communicate somehow

what are you intending to do

[wet mountain]

I want to bounce lots of integer variables between a "master" blueprint that receives input to other blueprints which only need some of the variables, so I don't send all the variables to all the blueprints, only when needed.