blueprint

[solemn parcel]

Nah I don't unfortunately

[trim matrix]

what bp would I use to get the pawn then?

[solemn parcel]

Thanks tho !

[trim matrix]

target actor

[solemn parcel]

@trim matrix I'll enjoy that moment to ask for my lack of experience : I started the 'casting spells system' on my character BP along with a lot of other mechanics, is it fine to do it on the same BP and having tons of lines of code or it's better to make a separateBP for all of this to lighten a little that BP cost ?

Because all of this is linked to a stamina and movement systems that interact with the 'casting spell system' system, so all the variables are centralized in the char BP

[cinder shell]

@stray island nope... still nothing

[solemn parcel]

takin into account 😉

[trim matrix]

@trim matrix any idea?

[fleet cosmos]

I have a cable component and I want to set the number of segments in the blueprint, I read the api and there is a public variable called NumSegments but when I drag the pin from my cable and search for this variable it shows nothing, like there is no such a thing in cable calss.

is there any way to solve this?

[summer harness]

@solemn parcel for spells ill look into the gameplay ability system of unreal, its pretty awesome

[crimson swan]

guys, any tips on how to prevent characters from sliding when they're moving into another character

like what's a good way to go about it? have some kind of trace and if it's within distance just stop moving?

[solemn parcel]

@summer harness I'm checking into it, but isn't this only C++ ?

[summer harness]

a bit of C++ is needed, yes but its manageable 😄

[solemn parcel]

Ill check more into it

thanks for your time !

yeah only single player

[trim matrix]

mhm but how do I cast stuff to it?

what do i put into object?

ah sorry my bad

its an actor or pawn inside a nav mesh

im trying to start simple haha

i just want a cube to move to a specific point or actor, but I dont know how to get the target actor into the bp

[west beacon]

Hi, I want to give custom block id to my blocks (actors). I tried blueprint component but its single for a one actor. How can I do that?

[trim matrix]

i mean that doesnt solve anything if hardcode the numbers lol

[west beacon]

Yeah, I tried the component thing. But the values ​​of the blocks change each other and it only works in 1 block

[trim matrix]

i know that, I just dont know how to code it

is what im asking

[unborn maple]

so i added to game mode one for main menu and one for player ever since adding second game mdode and erasing the main menu everything is broke. it no longer reads just the one game mode. i even try to migrate to the new project and it doesnt read it.

[west beacon]

How can I do that? I'm just beginner who tries simple voxel game. Can u send any tutorial or doc?

[unborn maple]

is there anyway to fix issue with out having to redo the whole code

[unique falcon]

Afternoon all, sorry to stick in a random question mid-flow. Does anyone know how best to approach doing a sort of 'min' operation on a vector?

[west beacon]

I made simple games before this project.

[trim matrix]

thats all blackboard

pretty blackboards still run bp code no?

[west beacon]

Like I said, if you can send any example or doc or youtube tut, I'll be very happy for that.

[trim matrix]

just determines what order

[west beacon]

That video is not what i want

[unique falcon]

in this instance i've got a normalised velocity that i want to ensure, even if it's falling almost directly downwards, it's giving me an angle that's a minimum of 45 degrees from 0,0,-1

that's a good point

So I guess i could take the XY components and normalise them, then add 0,0,-1 and normalise it once more and that would give me a normalised vector that is representative of my object's motion through XY space, as if it was descending at an angle of 45 degrees

[deft elm]

Hey guys

im trying to let my UI show the mouse cursor when it launches

however it does not register any hovering events

before I click somewhere arbitrary in the screen

any way to make the hovering events start listening/waiting for input right away ?

[raven hollow]

@deft elm it is when your game starts?

[deft elm]

nope, more like a dialogue option

[raven hollow]

Ok

[deft elm]

any clue?

[raven hollow]

No, but I am looking in to, I will let you if I find something.

[deft elm]

thanks a bunch ❤️

that's my rig btw

[deft elm]

this is called right after

[deft elm]

mmm

so

I made a way around it

By making the widget (display notification) spawn with the HUD, instead of being added to the hud when I press N, I made it start on construct

somehow adding a widget dynamically inside our HUD doesn't allow it to capture mouse input just yet

[fleet cedar]

Hi guys. Noob questions here... I want to make my camera interact with "Camera Waypoints", a separate BP. What's the best way to have them interact? Blueprint Interfaces? Custom Trace Channels?

[jolly niche]

Does anyone have any idea why a variable made in GameInstance returns empty when referenced in GameMode? Isnt GameInstance supposed to store things globally per session?

[static charm]

if u doing multiplayer, gameinstance is one per client

[jolly niche]

It's singleplayer

[solemn parcel]

I'm having this on a debug sphere, why ?

[fossil thistle]

Trying to find create a brightness slider for a game I'm working on. Found this UE4 forum post the only issue is that we use multiple post processing volumes in our game and we stream levels. Any idea how I could adapt this solution to fit my game or should I be looking in a different direction? https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/947863/how-can-i-change-the-brightness-with-a-slider.html

[sonic cipher]

Hello, i would like to be able to save a variable so when i close and reopen the game then it load the variable

• I have a hitbox in my map, when we go trough it, it enable visibility of the button to go in the next map, thing is if i close the game, and reopen it the button will be invisible again

thanks

[fleet cedar]

What's wrong with this

[sonic cipher]

where is this bp ?

and is the sphere collision variable in the same bp ?

[fleet cedar]

Hey @sonic cipher . It's just a sphere collision in the map, and yes the sphere is in the same BP

Trying to do some camera waypoint type thing, where you can do a linetrace until you're in the spot then you can't hit it

[sonic cipher]

you did set nothing in the actor of the overlap nodes

[night citrus]

I want to make a rotation like in gmod game via physics handle, the video shows how it works in gmod and how it works in my game, I will pay who will help me, write me in pm

[fleet cedar]

Would that make it work with anything though?

[sonic cipher]

what do you want to be overlapped ? your character ?

[fleet cedar]

yes

[sonic cipher]

then do "cast to (yourcharacterbpname)" and link the object to it too

[fleet cedar]

Am I misunderstanding how this works? Seems like this would toggle it if it overlaps anything, and currently there's only one possible thing that can overlap

[sonic cipher]

i show you

[fleet cedar]

Thank you

[sonic cipher]

https://gyazo.com/b58c7d76eafa9d963d3c1608fd04623e

you have to say what is overlaped

so here it is my robot

[fleet cedar]

Thanks... I am still confused, I'll read up more on overlaps

[sonic cipher]

is it working ?

[opal sinew]

How do I use a .png with transparency? I found a crosshair online and dragged it into ue4 and then added it to my widget but it looks like this

[sour urchin]

do i need to wait completed callback if i use async load asset?

[unique hollow]

Is there any way I can set the variable of a class reference?

[neon gust]

why is my event grapg read only

graph

oh wait never mind

[worthy frost]

@neon gust #old-rules number 7 please don't post same question in multiple channels.

[orchid garden]

off the top of my head, i'd say the image that you pulled in doesn't have transparency or its in a unsupported format for the transparency.

[worthy frost]

^ image needs to be PNG and have transparency.

[spark robin]

Very diffuse question here but, Im getting a saving error when saving a blueprint using a macro from an external macro library, of which this macro contains a "cast to" node.

Is it simply not possible to use the cast to node inside of a macro library (but that its just not pointed out in the editor)?

(Please ping on reply ❤️ )

[faint pasture]

That's ez

[night citrus]

Ok

[faint pasture]

You just gotta grab with rotation too

[night citrus]

no

the mesh should change rotation when the camera moves, take a closer look

[solemn parcel]

So i've got a projectile with these caracteristics :

Thing is, it goes through ennemis as I want to, but sometimes, randomly, the projectile just stops moving, and stays in place. I really don't understand.

mostly when, it seems like, it hits multiples targets with high velocity.

[crimson swan]

Can anybody hit me up with the keybind to automatically add an input to a custom event when you drag onto it?

like instead of manually having to add them in the event you can drag onto the receiving end and the input is generated for the output end?

[spark robin]

@crimson swan I think you will have to make that a feature request to Epic (or make an extension for it), Ive never seen anything like that in the settings menus

It does work like that for custom functions and macros (when working in the macro/function editor)

[crimson swan]

aah ok i see

thanks

[trim matrix]

how would I get the position of a pawn to use in a behaviour tree as a key?

[undone quiver]

I'm trying to detect attack collision by setting a box area collision to Query Only during a few frames of an animation. Seems to be a common way to do it. However, it isn't triggering OnBeginOverlap when it should be. I believe my collision settings are correct, so I suspect it is because my player is IN the area when I enable collision, so there is no "Begin" overlap. Could that be true, or am I chasing a red herring?

I've confirmed that the Set Collision Enabled nodes are getting hit.

Never getting the print string node here

[crimson swan]

@trim matrix with an Ai function, i forget what it's called exactly EDIT: Btttask

[undone quiver]

Collision settings for the box

Collision setting for player capsule component

Sorry @lanH. I think I buried an answer that was for you.

[crimson swan]

no worries lol his answer is he need to create a blueprint class of type BTTask

@trim matrix

[undone quiver]

I probably DID just bury my own question to the point that noone will look at it though 🙂

[trim matrix]

ah okay ty

[undone quiver]

I would prefer to check for overlapping actors directly, but I'm following a course, so I'd rather not deviate that much

[crimson swan]

quebirt try enabling the overlap for every single type and see what happens

[undone quiver]

Ok, thanks. That did it, so I just need to figure out why. Appreciate it.

[olive sedge]

can you designate levels as singleplayer only? I want a main menu with characters doing emotes and such but the game is MP so it expects some server logic here

[crimson swan]

@undone quiver change your box object type from world dynamic to pickup

aka the custom type you made

@olive sedge i'm not 100% sure on this but i think the proper way of doing it is setting up a new gamemode for the main menu

[olive sedge]

and you can set singleplayer in the game mode?

[crimson swan]

well you would be technically single player untill you connect to other people right?

[olive sedge]

hmm

[crimson swan]

also technically speaking i'm pretty sure untill you connect to a server you ARE the server. so you can do serverside logic and it should work

same as if you're doing standalone

[undone quiver]

@crimson swan Thanks. I tried that and get no collision again, but even worse, when I turned on overlap for everything, I started taking damage when I walked in to the area. I think I'm going to back up and see if I missed anything in this course. I appreciate the help.

[olive sedge]

@crimson swan my issue is.. the character spawned on the client doesn't have an AI controller and doesn't take input

[crimson swan]

how are you assigning the controller then?

[olive sedge]

I'm not.. I just spawn AI from class

on the server, it immediately has an AI Controller

[crimson swan]

when you set up a character did you set a default ai controller?

in the parameters

[olive sedge]

yes

[crimson swan]

then i'm out of ideas :/

[olive sedge]

@crimson swan https://i.imgur.com/AIKssPL.png
alriiiiight

[undone quiver]

Wow. Stupid hurts. I had done two stupid things. First I was manipulating the collisions for the mesh for some reason instead of the box area. I guess I just dragged out the wrong one and didn't pay attention. I had also changed the initial collision state for the child pawn to overlap only, so it was on when it loaded in.

I love blueprints, but it's a whole different set of mistakes compared to cpp. Forgotten semicolon becomes dragged out the wrong component.

[orchid garden]

some types of png images with transparency aren't supported by UE from what i've seen, i.e. 8 bit greyscale with transparency. it never seems to apply the transparency.

[worthy frost]

that is true actually

[unborn maple]

so this doesnt reset my ball location tho it use to before i remade the project. i copied every thing i did in the last project but seem not to want to reset back to the middle

[crimson swan]

Can anybody help me out as to why Possessing a pawn doesn't do it clientside?

[snow halo]

Hey all, I believe i know the answer to this Set Timer by Event question but just wanted to check with you all. Whether looping or not looping, a timer does not fire the event initially when time is > than zero right?

[crimson swan]

the server posseses it because it's able to move but the client doesn't so the server has to continuously sync up the client to the server and it basically skips all aover

[snow halo]

so if you want to fire the event at 0 you use the exec pin after the timer i believe. Sound correct?

[crimson swan]

Yeah that makes sense lagauche

i mean the easiest way to test is set the timer to like 5 minutes and print something

[snow halo]

cool, ya it doesn't fire the event initially if i do that

took me a second to realize... makes sense though, it's just a looping delay basically

i assumed it would fire at 0 at first

[crimson swan]

why not execute what you were going to and then run into the timer?

[snow halo]

like so?

[crimson swan]

something like this

[snow halo]

same dif i think as you are saying

i just didn't realize a timer is like a delay. I thought it would fire at 0 seconds then at 5 seconds etc etc

but it's more like a delay instead in that it doesn't call the bound event until 5s

would be a small nicety if it had a checkbox that said FireInitially?

[faint pasture]

@snow halo try a negative initial start delay

[snow halo]

oh! nice trick @faint pasture makes sense why that would work

don't think that works though hehe

[faint pasture]

I could swear I got it to work before. Anyways, you can just call the event manually before setting the timer too.

[snow halo]

any reason you and Nubbiz are suggesting to call it before rather than after the Set Timer by Event node?

should still be the same frame...

you both seem to suggest this

[faint pasture]

Well yeah, you said it doesn't fire right away. If you want it to fire right away, you can just call it

Doesn't matter the order really

[opal sinew]

Thanks!

[unborn maple]

any idea why set actor location not setting/resetting position of actor?

just trying to respawn the actor once destroyed

[crimson swan]

is the actor valid?

[unborn maple]

yes all it doin is hittin a collision box

and if it hit the collision it reset the position

[crimson swan]

try and make a print coming out of that function

see if it's even calling it because that node should work

[unborn maple]

the bool print as 1 im guessing is true

[crimson swan]

yeah 1 means it's true

[opal sinew]

So I have a damage vingette that appears when a play is below certain health. However if another player gets below this health the widget appears on all players screens. How do I do it only for the player calling the function that make the widget appear?

[crimson swan]

your create damage vignette is called on server as far as i can see

[unborn maple]

so it is getting a reference from it self but not firing to set location it just places from the location it already at

[crimson swan]

uncheck sweep

[unborn maple]

when that happen it falls thru the floor

should i be enabling physics

[crimson swan]

probably, did it move where you wanted to though?

[unborn maple]

no

it is somewhat moving now when i turn on physic but it stuttering

[crimson swan]

i honnestly haven't messed around with teleporting objects much but i don't see why you script wouldn't work

[unborn maple]

it odd it work like that b4 lol with teleport uncheck

now it just doesnt seem to want to work

i may just have to destroy actor completely and spawn a new one

[opal sinew]

I have a take damage function which is called by the player taking damage

So I am trying to get the damage vignette only visible on that player

[stray island]

Whats Enum for

Is it just a string array

[fleet cosmos]

I'm trying to change a material scalar parameter in my level blueprint but it does not work!
how can I fix the issue?

[stray island]

I think it shd be in construction script

[twilit heath]

and that material is assigned to what @fleet cosmos ?

nothing that i can see

[fleet cosmos]

to a cube

here is the level blueprint

[stray island]

Whats Enum for , i saw tutorials and it seems like a useless string array

[twilit heath]

its paired with bytes

and can be interepreted as byte as well

[stray island]

I am all after organization my work but I’m not getting the idea of enums

[tight schooner]

@stray island it's used like a boolean with more states. Or like an int but with labels for each number. So one typical use for it is to describe if a character is Jumping or Landed or Walking or Running etc... You can plug that enum variable into a Switch On Enum or a Select node and etc.

[twilit heath]

most common use-case is for managing a limited number of states

[stray island]

So its idea is to label indexes

[fleet cosmos]

@twilit heath is it possible to change material scalar param in level blueprint?

[twilit heath]

but it also makes things more human readable along the way

it is @fleet cosmos

i don't see that DMI being saved into variable, or assigned to a mesh there

so you might be changing parameters on unassigned DMI

[fleet cosmos]

I added the cube as you mentioned

[tight schooner]

If you find yourself using a series of booleans to describe multiple states that are all mutually exclusive, or you're abusing Switch On Int and want to make it human-readable before you forget what number corresponds to what concept, then it's enum time

[twilit heath]

or GameplayTag time

i usually ended up regretting not making enums of 6+ members as tags

[stray island]

Oh , So if i want to set presets Enum is good for that

[fleet cosmos]

I just want to set the scalar param after creating the DMI so i did not stored it! thanks it works now!

[stray island]

Btw how do i have presets of my bp default settings? Do i just create childs

Or theres another way

[trim matrix]

how do i get an actors location into a blackboard for the behaviour tree?

[unique harness]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/2138-blackboard-documentation

[unique harness]

create children or you can edit them if they're placed in the level

[stray island]

If i make preset inside the bp , for example preset 1 load this texture preset 2 load another texture , would the bp load all textures together in background taking memory space , or it would not load its other setting

[solemn parcel]

I'm struggling to know how can I do to have access to the CharacterMovementComponent of that specific overlapping actor. Any help ?

[unique harness]

if you make the soft references they will not load. if they are hard references they will load

[unique harness]

cast that actor to a character and if it succeeds, you can get the movement component then

[stray island]

Oh idk whats soft or hard

Whats these terms

[solemn parcel]

@unique harness Cast to character ?

[unique harness]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/879172/can-someone-explain-soft-variable-references.html

[unique harness]

yes, drag off the actor pin and type cast to character

[solemn parcel]

damn

it4s been a while I'm struggling to find a way, didn't knew CastToCharacter would take the actor if valid as a character

anyways thanks !

[unique harness]

yes, that is what casting is

[stray island]

Oh , soft , interesting, wow there’s a world of optimizations that idk about

[unique harness]

I suggest reading through this https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/CastNodes/index.html

[solemn parcel]

gonna do this

thanks

[spark robin]

Oh my god I just found like a super fundamental bug

This outputs 0!

[dawn gazelle]

as expected. -5 -(-5) = 0.

[spark robin]

Oh wait youre right

[stray island]

Can Bps browse my desktop files yet ? Or only C++

[unique harness]

quick maffs

[spark robin]

Im stupid 😄

I think I need some sleep

[unique harness]

what are you trying to do?

[stray island]

If i want to set a picture as texture through the players computer

Custom picture

[unique harness]

No, that is not built in

[stray island]

So only c++

[unique harness]

well it's not built into c++ either, you would have to write it yourself

[stray island]

Yes idm , so do u think it’s possible via bp

[unique harness]

yes it is possible but relatively difficult

[stray island]

Where do i search or study , all google results , how to import files to your project (beginner tutorial)

[unique harness]

I doubt there is a tutorial

Like I said, it's relatively difficult, therefore most people don't even attempt it

[stray island]

Or document

Any key word suggestions?

[spark robin]

Its not I who am stupid lol

[unique harness]

that's 5-(-5) not -5-(-5)

[dawn gazelle]

XD

[spark robin]

Ignore me ;-;

[dawn gazelle]

S'ok.

[unique harness]

You would likely have to search through engine code to find how epic loads an image into a texture and write your own code to do the same since you can't use editor code in a release version

[stray island]

Alright thanks

[unique harness]

I lied, Rama has that functionality in his victory plugin

[worthy frost]

Ewww

[unique harness]

(which I figured he probably did)

[stray island]

@spark robin you’re not stupid I’m an engineer and almost fell for it

[unique harness]

Why the Rama hate?

[worthy frost]

Cause I have seen a lot of his stuff and it's pretty shobby

[stray island]

Oh i heard the name Rama

Before

Idk what is it about

[worthy frost]

Rama seems like a nice guy but that victory plugin has some questionable stuff in it

[stray island]

Like what

Does he use bp or c++

[unique harness]

If you don't right questionable code, are you even a real programmer? 😛

[spark robin]

I will just put my actual issue here. This macro is supposed to calculate the distance between V1 and V2 and it appears to work correctly when all the input coordinates are positive, but not when some are negative

Can somebody tell what could be going on?

(Please ping on reply ❤️ )

[unique harness]

Is there a reason you're not just using built in vector math?

[spark robin]

Because Im working with integers for performance reasons 🙂

[solemn parcel]

So Have 4 actors BP that act has 4 different types of spells. Now I'd like each one of them to have 4 variations with different damage and effects. I thought about adding 4 different components with 4 differents effects in each of the actor BP. But I cannot find a way to reference them in an array

[spark robin]

(Im storing lots of integers)

[worthy frost]

Ints for performance ?

[unique harness]

😛

[worthy frost]

Ints are also bigger 8 bytes compared to 4 bytes for a float so you are increasing memory cost

[spark robin]

Well convenience I guess, when I well do store my data in ints I thought I would make a few functions so that I dont have to do conversions all over my code

[stray island]

Is rama stuff on market place?

[worthy frost]

You can divide or multiply ints properly also

[unique harness]

yes

[worthy frost]

Floating point or double precision is the only way for this type of stuff

[spark robin]

Thanks for the advice but I already built my library and setup my code. And I think I made the right choice for my purpose

But regardless can we focus on the question here?

Its basically Pythagoras equation

[worthy frost]

I can see what it is

[unique harness]

Is there a reason you didn't create a custom vector struct for ints? Just curious

[spark robin]

I do, its just that I split it up on the input node

[unique harness]

ah ok

find the index of 'x' and substring the first digit and second digit

[solemn parcel]

Is there a way to desactivate a component from a BP before his BeginPlay ?

[spark robin]

I really still dont understand what could be going on with my macro, does it look right to you guys?

Its also kinda weird that the output for the positive numbers are 10x higher than they should be

(Like that 4000 is supposed to be just 400)

I should have just said that I only use whole numbers, its that simple

I dont need floats, so why then use them

[unique harness]

avoiding rewriting an entire math library seems like a logical reason

[orchid garden]

you could look at the c++ source and look at the function for distance to (actors) and see how they are calculating it to get the distance between the two.

[rancid quartz]

Hello. Does anyone know of a way to find the bounds of an actor before spawning it? Or is such a thing impossible?

[tight schooner]

@spark robin There's too much custom stuff going on in your video for anyone to say where the issue lies

[spark robin]

The issue is within the macro

This gives accurate output

(I guess the purpose of the video was just to show that I do at least perform some kind of testing)

[tight schooner]

it looks okay to me...

the less consolidated way to do the same thing, AFAIK, is VectorLength(vector1 - vector2)

... but I suspect the issue lies outside of this macro

[torpid iron]

How would I set a spawning vehicle in one level and spawn with it in another?

[orchid garden]

save its info in gamestate then after loading the level spawn the vehicle again?

[torpid iron]

I will try that

[spark robin]

I just realised what the issue (prob) is 😄

-X^2=-X

-X*-X=X

[dawn gazelle]

-X^2=X
eg. -5^2=25

-X * -X=X
eg. -5 * -5=25

[balmy hamlet]

Hey guys, I have an array of widgets, and I want to change the value of a text box in one of them via get (a ref). For some reason, that isn’t allowed? I can only do get (a copy), and can’t change it to a reference.

[tight schooner]

I'm pretty sure there's no performance gain from integer-based math btw (BP performance is more about function calls and other such node execution overhead) but on some level I like that you're approaching video game math in a 1990 way

[orchid garden]

are they references to the widgets? or references to the classes?

[tired cypress]

I think I usually end up using Get (a copy), doing several things, then storing it back to the array which is also an option.

[orchid garden]

thats what i was going to suggest if it was a array of references

i.e. basically...

[tired cypress]

Yep, that

[cinder shell]

good night, guys! Can I change this values of mesh in blueprint from event graph?

[marble tusk]

That's because an array of objects are themselves references. You're not storing the entire objects in the array, just references. They're different than your basic variables

At least that's the reason I found when looking it up

[drowsy mauve]

I'm lost on something and don't even know the terms of what I'm trying to do.

I've got a collision volume that is used for sepperating rooms within my game. this volume will always be in whole number units, minimum 1x1, but is often used is 2x3, 4x1, etc.
I'm trying to have sub-room volumes, that would be child blueprints? I think? that would break up this room based on its size, and these children would always be in 1x1

In the case here, if I know the units, can I just spawn an array of sub-rooms through my construction script?

[nocturne flax]

Hey, is there a way to keep mobility set to static while being able to move the actor/mesh component in the editor? The actor will not move in-game at all, but I still need to position stuff in-editor only

[frank wolf]

Hey folks! I've got a question about something that's been bugging me!
I'm trying to get my current camera location via the camera manager, and it works great! But I've realised that if you use "Set active camera with blend" and the camera is actively blending to another camera, then getting the actual location of the camera doesn't seem to work.

I'm currently attaching something to my camera and it works fine except when it starts blending to another camera, is there a better way to get the ACTUAL world location and rotation of the active camera?

[tired cypress]

If you lock the object, it stays put in the Editor. But if you don't lock it, it should still stay put unless you have Simulate Physics checked on the object and are Simulating

[icy saddle]

is there a switch/case node for Gameplay Ability Attribute?

[orchid garden]

... only took me 4 hrs to work out a color swapping material to change the paint colors on my drone... lol ... only 4 hrs...

[tired cypress]

It's always the "simple" things that can take a long time heh

[orchid garden]

it actually wasn't too simple i tried multiple methods yesterday and while they 'sorta worked' none of them gave the properly changeover.

if it would of been simple i could of done it as easy as the eye part of it 😉

[torpid iron]

How do I save a pawn into a game instance variable?

[tired cypress]

You can grab a ref to it. If it's your Player Pawn you can use the GetPlayerPawn node

[orchid garden]

worked out pretty good i think 🙂

[snow halo]

When you Unsubscribe to an event shouldn't it stop firing immediately?

[torpid iron]

Thanks, I will try that

[snow halo]

It's a bit new and experimental but this is the node that's failing me rn in this sense

[faint pasture]

@snow halo is that your own node surrounding dispatchers?

[snow halo]

it's not custom no. It's built into UE4's 4.26 new audio sync system

When i fire it, the event bound here continues to fire : /

May have figured out the issue and it's Quartz related

[tight schooner]

Looks like you already asked in #audio. Definitely a good place to ask when possible cuz UE4 devs are in there.

My game has a TimeSynth-based timing system but I'll maybe replace it with Quartz someday...

[granite barn]

I have a weird little issue.
When I use my LMB click event, it doesnt fire anything, but every other key event works, including RMB.

Is there something I've done or weird going on here?

[latent finch]

Hey everyone, quick question, I have a glide blueprint made now, but I'm wondering if there's a way to force the character to float forward while gliding

[versed stirrup]

I have this in my BT to attack the player if the AI gets within 500 range of the player, but it will not play the animation.

these are the components to it, can anyone help me out?

[tired cypress]

Sometimes this is because you have a duplicate of the Event node

Or it's bound using the Input system and that event is firing instead, etc

[tired cypress]

Yes, but not necessarily a "quick" answer 🙂

When you say "force the character to float forward", do you mean they are constantly moving forward while glide is true?

[latent finch]

yes

Like for example in spyro you floar forward and you float down

As my blueprint is right now I can jump and float slowly down in place

[tired cypress]

You will want something like this probably...

The AddActorLocalOffset node (with Sweep checked) will sweep your actor forward at a given rate

[latent finch]

ah, ok. makes sense. With that will I need to create my characters own ticks when jumping and gliding?

[tired cypress]

Well, you'll want to put in some kind of boolean for the character state like "IsJumping" and check that before you apply the above

[latent finch]

ok, I have an "is gliding" Bool

[dawn gazelle]

not directly, but you can break the gameplay ability attribute structure which gives you the name in string format, which you could then build a switch off of.

[stray island]

How do i set a maximum value for an exposed editable float

Variable*

[orchid garden]

i think you can only do that on materials @stray island

[stray island]

Yes the same way materials does but no need for slider

I want to limit a variable Just to avoid exploding the pc

[cinder shell]

I'm wondering if camera lag doesn't work if I'm rotating character with physics?

[orchid garden]

camera lag works, don't know if it a physics character will effect it differently.

[dawn gazelle]

There is value range that you can define when looking at the float:

But that doens't specifically limit you :/

[orchid garden]

well... i just learned don't install infiltrator demo on 4.25... it continually crashes at 45%.

[orchid garden]

so if i set the vvalue range to 0-1 and the float is 33349.0 it'll read it as 1?

[dawn gazelle]

Technically you'd think it would, but it doesn't seem that way when editing it directly in BP.

Only when typing in through an exposed setting like below... I have my var set to max value of 100, but I typed in 5000 and got 100 displayed.

But doing this, still prints 5000

[proud hull]

Value range is for controlling of setting up values in editor via Defaults tab. If someone puts value higher/lower than specified range, it will clamp.

[orchid garden]

well thats abit pointless then...

[worthy frost]

that is why you have a clamp node

😄

[dawn gazelle]

As Slashin8r just said... It's meant more for people to adjust in editor .

[proud hull]

More for the level designer not to screw up the setting of variables when placing them into the world and adjusting defaults.

[orchid garden]

maybe if your making a item for someone else it could be useful.

[stray island]

yes I’m doing in the editor , so it works great thanks 👍

[orchid garden]

hrm.... guess i should set those on the door i've been working on... gonna be giving it to someone else to use for their project... be nasty to go over some of the max values for it lol...

[long schooner]

hi, anyone know how to set up a menu with controller support?

[orchid garden]

seems to be a popular question lately

[long schooner]

I have an issue with the inventory, since the menu has an inventory with spawns as a child, I can't get it work with it

[long schooner]

the basics I try to find em, on youtube, but I got to a dead end

[orchid garden]

this might help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TpsulbqGOM

[long schooner]

Thanks for the help, but my issue is with the array

there are some spawning buttons, and I can't add em to the array so they can be change

[orchid garden]

oh, i don't think i've seen any tutorials on gamepad + inventory systems

[long schooner]

Thanks, but I think I will fix it later on, or maybe change it, since this inventory is a provisional one

[proud hull]

Was just about to explain the use of arrays for it, but looks like you already got the basics of gamepad ui control.

Why are you unable to add them to the array when spawned?

[long schooner]

here

and I tried it here but it doesn't seem to work

[proud hull]

Use a reference of button array for that foreach loop. You are directly connecting it to a hard-coded make array

[long schooner]

Nope, same issue

[proud hull]

What does list items return?

[long schooner]

getting the bp button out of there, cuz I thought It may be an issue since it is not in the main graph

[proud hull]

Nah, that doesn't matter

[long schooner]

Okay

[proud hull]

Get rid of that return node, it is messing things up being in the for loop body.

It should be on complete if anything. Essentially, you loop one time and the function ends.

As soon as a function hits a return node, it ends.

Ah, I see your problem

[long schooner]

really

?

[proud hull]

Move the list items function after you set the button array.

You can get rid of the delay node if you want too.

and the add node

Set button array > List items > foreach

[long schooner]

Okay so it works but kinda

[proud hull]

Can you show updated graphs?

[long schooner]

Sure

Now it works, it is in the array, however, I cant move between those 2 menus

maybe it is cuz I spawn it on different boxes?

[proud hull]

Shouldn't matter. You have a direct reference to the buttons, so no matter where they are, you should be able to cycle between them.

[long schooner]

Look, if I get the focus on the left buttons there is no way to move the focus to the right one and viceversa

[proud hull]

Are you trying to go left and right or something?

[long schooner]

I am trying to move it in all directions tbh

[proud hull]

I'm assuming you cycle through the button array up and down only for this instance.

Can you show how you change your button array selection index?

Not sure how you are currently doing it, but normally you have an integer variable to save the current index of the button array.

[long schooner]

I am not a programmer, I am just good enough with maths to have an idea what I am doing, but I have no idea what are you asking now

[proud hull]

If you want to go left and right between them, you need 2 separate arrays.

[long schooner]

So I guess I just didn't do it

[proud hull]

How do you currently change the selected button?

[long schooner]

So if I do a second array, I would fix the problem?

[proud hull]

Oh, wait, are you relying on built-in navigation?

[long schooner]

Well I don't exactly know, I can send you the bp that I have

[proud hull]

If so, you may need to change some things to not focusable. Or the visibility settings.

You didn't setup any input code, right?

[long schooner]

I dont think so

I am going with the default one form ue4

[proud hull]

Ok, so default nav controls.

Those are usually a pain to get working properly, but it can still work if you setup everything perfectly.

So can you show your item list widget blueprint? Specifically the hierarchy.

[proud hull]

What you want to do is check the visibility of everything that is not a button and set it to non-hit testable or whatever the setting is.

Might also need to uncheck focusable, I think it is called.

[long schooner]

What I really want is that the player can move around with the controller and press every single button

that's it

[proud hull]

This will get you to that with default nav controls.

What happens is that you have something else, non-button, that is gaining focus.

[long schooner]

Okay, let me try it

[proud hull]

Actually, you really should get rid of default nav, you already did half the work for setting up your own navigation.

[long schooner]

Did I? tbh the menu I set up is a temporary one

[proud hull]

Button arrays are for custom navigation.

[long schooner]

I gonna change it later, but since I am not a programmer, but a 3d artist I tried to make a simple one

[upper linden]

any suggestion for aim prediction? when shooting a flying target with bullets
my goal is to display a target widget in front of the flying target

[proud hull]

With default nav, you wouldn't even need arrays, it just jumps focus from one item to another.

But it is difficult to do anything other than clicking a button with default nav.

[proud hull]

Maths

[long schooner]

Yeah i figured that one out

[upper linden]

i figured that one out

[long schooner]

But rn I am really worrying about making so the player can move the focus to the items column, but I can't do it

is there a simple way of doing that?

[proud hull]

Since you already made the button arrays, you can just do your own nav, then you know it will work as you expect.

[icy saddle]

im using a widget component to display an HP bar in 3D space using the "World Space". Is there a way to make my HP bar not affected by world lighting and always be lit like when you set it to "Screen Space" ?

[proud hull]

So, in your main menu widget, override the function, onKeyDown.

Or do you have action input mappings setup in project settings?

[long schooner]

I haven't done much the code I sent you is all I have

[proud hull]

No prob, you can hard-code the input, if you don't need the players remapping keys.

[long schooner]

I don't think I would need em, I am working on a sillent hill like game, so everything is rather basic

[proud hull]

Functions on the left should have an override dropdown, select onKeyDown and you can get input for up down left right etc.

[long schooner]

Can you send me a screenshot with what you saying?

cuz the only navigation tools I am aware of are those

[proud hull]

Set all of those to Stop, which will disable the default navigation.

[long schooner]

How did you get onKeyDown function?

[proud hull]

In the widget graph.

[long schooner]

Found it

What do I do here?

[proud hull]

Get a parent node out, we will use it later.

[long schooner]

Yes

What now?

[proud hull]

Set it up like this for now. This is now back to default.

Give me a moment, gonna set it up for a screenshot.

[long schooner]

Ok

[proud hull]

Make these local variables, so you can decide which keys do what in the menu.

[long schooner]

Ok

[long schooner]

From where did you got those arrays?

[proud hull]

From the previous screenshot.

Local variables in on key down function.

[long schooner]

I thought you mean the key button

Wait I missread it, got it now

Mb

[proud hull]

Make functions to go with each key.

Now we can setup the functions to cycle through the button arrays you build.

Also, don't forget to set the default values of the local variables. The buttons you want working for each function (menuup, menudown, etc.) will go in the corresponding arrays.

Usually buttons like WASD, arrow keys, gamepad d-pad, gamepad joysticks, enter, esc, gamepad face bottom, face right, etc.

[long schooner]

I am following everything so far

[orchid garden]

blink blink

(this is all intresting but im so lost lol)

[long schooner]

I won't lie ya, I get the idea, but I can't make it on my own

Keep sending screnshots, Cuz I will got it midway through

[orchid garden]

💯 @proud hull

[proud hull]

You will need an integer variable to save the current button index. Then a function to cycle that based on number of buttons in the array.

Reverse will cycle it backwards.

[long schooner]

Okay, let me copy it

[proud hull]

More variables, another function. Renamed some variables.

[long schooner]

Ok

[proud hull]

Actually I think it should be button array in the function.

Trying to figure out best way to switch columns. Structs would be best, but don't wanna go down that path for this example.

2 columns ok with you? at least for the example?

[long schooner]

Yeah ]

[prime wyvern]

if I was to create a jetpack jump that can be activated on the ground and also in mid-air should I use Launch Character instead of jump?

[proud hull]

Easiest way to understand is to just link select nodes like this for as many columns as you want. This is pretty inefficient, but for a menu, it will be ok.

For the example, I only need the one select node.

[long schooner]

Okay

[proud hull]

Might as well make it a function of its own. Then you can add as many columns as you want in only one spot.

New Param = ButtonArray

[long schooner]

Okay

[proud hull]

MenuRight is same as left in this case since there are only 2 columns.

Confirm runs your button event, and cancel closes menu or whatever you want those to do is cool.

[long schooner]

Let me check it

[long schooner]

I am still doing the right menu

[long schooner]

My bp button only has the visual changes

[proud hull]

You have 2 button arrays now, right? One hard-coded with make array and the other generated dynamically with your item list function?

[long schooner]

Yes

[long schooner]

This is in the main menu right?

[proud hull]

Yeah, launch would work best for that.

[proud hull]

Yes

[long schooner]

Okay, everything still works, but still cant move between columns

so it works like it used to

[proud hull]

Did you set those navigation settings to Stop?

Select all widget components in your hierarchy and change them all at once.

[long schooner]

I dont think so

which ones?

[proud hull]

All of them

[long schooner]

Sorry, but I am a newbie, thanks for yout help

[proud hull]

We don't want anything using default nav now.

[long schooner]

Where can I change that

?

[proud hull]

It will mess with widget focus and then your main menu might not be able to capture input events.

here: #blueprint message

[long schooner]

OK, let me stop em

Do I stop everything or just the buttons

[proud hull]

Everything

[long schooner]

I can't change the root scene

[proud hull]

That is fine

[long schooner]

Done, what should I do now?

[proud hull]

Test it out. Still not working?

[long schooner]

Not working

[proud hull]

Add this to MenuLeft and see if the column name changes when trying to go left.

[long schooner]

ok

Now I cant move at al

[proud hull]

Adding the print string did that?

[long schooner]

I think so

let me delete

Well, it doesnt work at all

[proud hull]

What does your construct event look like?

[proud hull]

What I showed you, you should have just added to the end of what you had

Your Construct event, not highlight, hehe

[long schooner]

Ahh

[stray island]

Basic question how do i make event tick from another actor not my player actually work

[long schooner]

Ahhhh

[proud hull]

Whatcha mean? Event tick runs by default.

[stray island]

Hmmm

[proud hull]

Is the actor spawned in game?

[long schooner]

like this

I still get an error in the set keyboard focus

[stray island]

Yes its spawned ur right it works but i have a problem with my variable i guess

[proud hull]

This event, what does yours look like?

[true valve]

So I've a spawner and a child bp of it. I've placed the child all over the level. I added sphere radius to my character. When the radius overlaps the child spawners, they spawn ai. Currently when I overlap one of them all spawner spawns ai. What am I doing wrong?

[proud hull]

Show your overlap event please

[proud hull]

Run list items before the 2nd screenshot

Remove it from the highlight function.

After set keyboard focus, you should do something like change the text color, so you can see what is actually highlighted.

[long schooner]

Okay, let me see If I understood it

[true valve]

https://gyazo.com/3dbfe67fdf9a7669db5c571fe9c1c64f

[long schooner]

Like this?

[proud hull]

Need to see how you are spawning the AI.

[long schooner]

i have errors here

[proud hull]

Remove list items there. Put it back in construct where it originally was.

The code I showed for construct, put at the end of your current code, connect it to the completed exec pin of the foreach loop.

[long schooner]

Ok

like this?

[proud hull]

The foreach in my screenshot represents your foreach loop

[long schooner]

of the inventory spawned?

[proud hull]

Button Array 1 should be just Button Array

Unless you want it to start with inventory highlighted

That little bit of code there simply selects the first button when the menu is opened.

So whichever button you want selected, set the column accordingly.

[long schooner]

btw I still cannot move and still have an error here

[proud hull]

Show me your item list function now.

Remove that item list function there, lol.

list items*

[long schooner]

Ohh ok

[proud hull]

That was in your construct earlier

Where it needs to be

Where you have it now, every time a button gets highlighted it would generate the item list.

[long schooner]

ohh ok

I did something wrong, cuz I can't move

this thing gives me an error

[proud hull]

Because you have an empty column array.

One of your button arrays is not being filled

[long schooner]

so that one has to be the built one right?

[proud hull]

Show your item list function, you need to fill one of the arrays there.

"Button Array" filled in construct with make array node and "Button Array 1" filled in item list function.

[long schooner]

so "array 1" and "button array"

Has to be the same?

Cuz I made it as a new variable

[proud hull]

You need 2 arrays though, are those the only 2 you have?

[long schooner]

I have 3

and button array 2

[proud hull]

Ah, okay, yeah change button array over to button array 1

[long schooner]

I been doing what you asked with array 2 and array 1 didn't touch array without number

[proud hull]

I didn't think you would copy the exact variable names too when you already had some of your own, hehe

[long schooner]

Yeah, I am bad with programing so I decided to copy just in case

so whats the second array?

[proud hull]

No prob, at least we found the problem now

One array for the buttons on the right and the other for the inventory buttons.

[long schooner]

Ok

Gotcha

[proud hull]

Treat them as 2 columns of buttons

Left/Right will switch columns. Up/Down will switch buttons in a column.

[long schooner]

well I fixed where I had the diferent arrays

let me show you

[proud hull]

I'm pretty sure you had text in your buttons, so this is a simple way to make a highlight effect if you don't already have one. It just changes text color.

[proud hull]

Both look good

[long schooner]

It looks like my menu confirm is not complited

[proud hull]

You will need to run your button click event there

[long schooner]

well, it works when I press the A botton

[proud hull]

In your button you probably already have a click event setup, but you need to add a custom event also linked to it.

[long schooner]

But I cannot move around I dont get any errors

[proud hull]

Then your confirm looks like this:

You sure it isn't moving? What does your highlight function look like? Are you making any changes you can see?

[long schooner]

Wait maybe the issue is with the highlight button

[proud hull]

Also need to set it to unhighlight previous

[long schooner]

I am missing something here right?

[proud hull]

I just showed you that above, heh

Your button blueprint probably has a click event setup. Add a new custom event linked to it as well.

See here: #blueprint message

Then you can call that event in menu confirm.

[long schooner]

Ok, but do I have to do a thing for each button?

[proud hull]

That is up to you and the scope of your project.

I usually just have the click event return "self" so then the main menu widget can handle what it does.

With an event dispatcher.

[long schooner]

ohhh ok okl

[proud hull]

There are a few ways to accomplish it

[long schooner]

i have an error message here tho

[proud hull]

right click that node and refresh it

[long schooner]

thanks

[proud hull]

I forgot this part too

[long schooner]

Ok, I can't move still though

[proud hull]

Highlight function

[long schooner]

ok

[proud hull]

Can you show screenshot of yours?

[long schooner]

like this?

It doesn't work

[proud hull]

hehe

You need to make a physical change in the highlight function.

To color or something

[proud hull]

What does Start do>

?

[proud hull]

Oh wow, yeah, that is code to utilize the built-in nav that we disabled.

[long schooner]

shouldn't I be able to move tho?

[proud hull]

Run CheckFocus in the highlight function, at the end.

[long schooner]

you mean before the custom event right

?

[proud hull]

You only need to run check focus in the highlight function.

You have the physical change setup in there already. You change the style.

[proud hull]

Remove the other functions. Just check focus.

Custom Event goes in confirm function.

Or nowhere, hehe

[long schooner]

perfect

so like this?

[proud hull]

Yep

[long schooner]

I still can't move

[icy saddle]

how can I get the actor location of the owning client's character in BP?

[proud hull]

Ignore or remove reset, you had that all covered in your check focus event

[long schooner]

what?

let me show you with a gif

[proud hull]

It doesn't affect anything, you can either ignore or remove it.

[long schooner]

But the issue is that it highlights but I can't focus

https://gyazo.com/b704552772edbc2bf476d4170bafac5b

[proud hull]

I can't tell what's going on in that

[long schooner]

Like I can move the highlights with the mouse, but can't move it with the controller

the issue is with the movement of the controller, not the highlight

[proud hull]

Did you setup the local variable defaults in on key down?

[long schooner]

I am retarded xD

they dont have keys here

let me add em

[proud hull]

No problem, easy thing to miss.

Also, if you do use your Start function, you can completely get rid of the highlight function.

[long schooner]

Okay, let me deleted it then

and got it on the spawn

btw, should I merge bouth arrels or I should keep them separeted

[prime wyvern]

is there a node like a branch that doesn't split off into true or false?

[proud hull]

Sequence?

[prime wyvern]

i'm not sure

I'm still new

[proud hull]

Sequence does one path, then the next, then the next

[stray island]

Construction script overwriting my event tick

[long schooner]

btw, I still can't move it, I can stream you the blueprints or something

cuz there has to be an error somewhere, cuz I cant move at all in the menu

[prime wyvern]

is there a way to make it so just plays all together at the same time?

[proud hull]

I actually gotta get some sleep soon.

[long schooner]

@proud hull maybe here ?

[prime wyvern]

or is like a reroute node but splits it off

and plays together

[long schooner]

well then, if you wanna go, it's fine

[proud hull]

Sequence is kinda like a reroute node. They all will execute, but in that specific order.

[prime wyvern]

damn

I need something that just splits it in half

to allow it to go two ways

[proud hull]

You can also check out this plugin. I have not tried it yet myself. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/item/0b7079810acc409a907cd02149281724

[long schooner]

its unavailable?

[proud hull]

Oh really?

Damn, that was a freebie I grabbed a while back.

[long schooner]

it says so

[proud hull]

They must have removed it since then. I see they have a new one for $10.

Heh, thought that might help, but ah well.

[long schooner]

ohh I see, unlucky me ig xD

[proud hull]

😢

[long schooner]

Look, maybe the issue is somewhere with the controls and movement?

[stray island]

My construction script sets my static meshes on transform

And when i want to tick it for animation it wont move because its stuck with construction script transforms

[long schooner]

this?

[proud hull]

Possibly, might need up and down set to escape?

Revert them all back and test it out

I gotta sleep now. Night all.

[long schooner]

thanks for your help

it worked kinda

[icy saddle]

I have a widget component that is in "World" space (so it renders in 3D space, not screen space). How can I set the rotation of the widget?

[tight schooner]

@trim matrix savegame file (or GameUserSettings) is all that'll get written to storage AFAIK

If you're talking about inter-level data then you can use the GameInstance class, which persists in memory across level loads

@icy saddle put the widget component on your graph and then you should be able to manipulate it

[paper sky]

Good morning yall, I am trying to use particle systems to fill up a chest, my aim is to use an emitter to spread the particle system and as the particles enter the chest I want variable attached to the chest to increase.

Like every particle gets inside the chest should increase a variable by 1, until 100

is it possibe for me to make something like that ?

[teal spade]

Is there a way to access instanced level blueprints? (using the create level streaming instance node) No matter what I try, I can't communicate with them (only get the OBJ references, and load or unload, no direct comm.). Tried using interfaces, and dispatchers. None worked so far.

[fathom portal]

I'm not super familiar with instanced levels, but can you not just make them report their reference to the gameinstance/gamemode/etc so there's a list of them to easily access?

I see this node:

But it's from Rama's Victory BP library plugin

It's free, iirc

[teal spade]

when I simple print self (from the level), it only returns the name of the original level blueprint (not the one that is created by the Dynamic streaming class

and if I try to use the assigned object reference (when created, that uedpie one), the reference(level) cannot be found

haven't used Rama's. Bit worried of using plugins (maintenance reasons)

[fathom portal]

Reasonable to want to avoid plugins, but it's tough to pass up some of these plugins that do tons of stuff with a single node

[teal spade]

Guess so. The reason why I'd need this, is to break up a procedural generated map into manageable chunks. And as it's a vital component to the project, if it breaks (the plugin), then the game would become unplayable (literally).

[fathom portal]

I mean, you're right, if you update unreal engine past what the plugin handles

[teal spade]

The lame way, which I hoped to not do, is to create 100+ empty levels, and load them manually, one by one (as needed). sort of a hacky solutions (opposed to the world composition)

even referencing it as a soft ref, doesn't work

read somewhere, in an old forum thread that it is impossible to communicate with instanced maps (other than using C++)

[fathom portal]

There are a few things that blueprints simply can't do, yeah, unfortunately

I use blueprints whenever possible, then cpp when forced (Or for intensive things like proc gen)

[teal spade]

but then how'd you go about optimizing procedural levels? I've a hex grid (made up of individual actors, for mesh placement), and I already get chugging FPS with 2-3K actors (which all currently have a hexagon mesh in them).

the idea was to generate the map, save it, then load it into maps, when needed

[stray island]

Shouldnt this make the cube rotate ?

[fathom portal]

Well, you're not going to like it, but I use the voxel plugin for my current proc gen project lol

[stray island]

I forgot how tick works

But my cube isnt rotating

[fathom portal]

You're changing the variable, not anything on the component

[stray island]

Oh

[fathom portal]

Gotta tell the variable to update the component

[stray island]

But i told the component to use the variable

How i update

[fathom portal]

You've got a jar of cookies

You're adding a cookie to the jar every tick

[teal spade]

😄

[fathom portal]

But you never tell your child that there's cookies in the jar, so they never use them

[fathom portal]

Yeah lol

I knowwww

[teal spade]

won't judge, if it works, then why not

[stray island]

I invited all the childs

Now my game adds cubes

Oh wait i know what to do now

I will set the begin play as var then use it

[fathom portal]

You're now adding a new static mesh component every tick

Instead, you have to update the Z for your original static mesh

[teal spade]

Just don't understand that why event dispatcher won't work with them

[fathom portal]

Ok, my turn for a question:

[stray island]

My original static mesh doesn’t exist , it existed on begin play

Lets find a way out

[fathom portal]

Your static mesh doesn't just go away (As far as I know, someone correct me)

[stray island]

It didnt exist to go away , my actor added it

[fathom portal]

I'm unsure then, sorry

My turn:
How can I record a screenshot from the player's camera, into a variable? I'll be using it to attach it to my save system to see a screenshot of when the player saved, from the player's perspective. 10 dollar paypal/zelle bounty to get a screenshot from camera to variable

[weak grove]

heyy i have a question
i am working on a fighting game like tekken
i want to know how to rotate my character when it gets on back of the other character

the left one is ai

i want my character to look at him when he jumps over him

[stray island]

Even this not rotating the cube

[fathom portal]

Pull off the return value and click "Promote to variable":

Then reference that variable instead in event tick

I don't remember much about static meshes though

Rotating kinda defeats the purpose of "static", no?

[stray island]

Lmao

[dawn gazelle]

No, you can still move static meshes, the idea is that they don't have bones that can manipulate the shape of the mesh itself.

[fathom portal]

Ah, thanks

[weak grove]

i didnt understand

[fathom portal]

No one has an answer for you so far

[weak grove]

when i jump over to other side

i want him to rotate

[stray island]

Ohh i was supposed to set the float to add a value each tick , now it finally rotates

[weak grove]

🤔

[paper sky]

is there way I can disable this emitter when the branch is false ?

[dawn gazelle]

Promote your emitter to a variable and you can deactivate it.

[fathom portal]

^

Beat me to it

[paper sky]

lol

[paper sky]

thanks, gotta try

[stray island]

Datura remember the circular duplication u helped me with while back?

The one based on construction script

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah

[stray island]

So if i want my event tick to change its values , its not working at all

For example event tick increase the number , the tick wont communicate with construction script

Its like Construction script overwriting it

[dawn gazelle]

The construction script is only run once - when that object is created or placed in the world. Ie. If you drop an actor of the class and move it around, it'll run the construction script every time you move it.

[stray island]

What if i want the values of it to break and change , to make animation

Like its rotation or number or distance .. etc

Everything is stuck to its original location in construction

[paper sky]

it causes errors, I think its because when the game starts the condition returns true first so it cant find anything to deactivate

[dawn gazelle]

right click on the emitter variable plugged into the deactivate and select the "Convert to validated get" and connect the valid exec pin to the deactivate node.

[dawn gazelle]

So again, you're talking about doing something far more complicated than just spawning items in a circle or a spiral. You can move the data from the construction script and move it to a different function that you can then call whenever you like, but you also have to manage all the instanced static mesh components you're creating (probably best to store them in an array so you can destroy them all at once) and then call the function you've made to construct it again.

[paper sky]

@dawn gazelle does this seem right because it doesnt work, there are no errors but its back to phase one, one I start the emitter I cant despawn it

[dawn gazelle]

You probably don't want that on tick.

You can create events to control when the emitter is created, activated & deactivated.

[paper sky]

Yeah event tick is not really convenient but I need this to be checked all the time

[paper sky]

hmm

[dawn gazelle]

What is setting the booleans?

[fathom portal]

Side note: How do you do this:

[dawn gazelle]

Right-click on a variable and select "Convert to validated get"

[fathom portal]

Wow, learn something new every day

I always used this version

[paper sky]

its basically a drink for VR, when it is rotated downwards I want the particle to work, therefore the "liquid" to spill

then I will use the particle collisions to fill a glass or something

[fathom portal]

Well, you don't want to spawn a new emitter every time they tip the cup. You'd want to just attach an emitter to the cup, then when tipped activate it

Or do particle emitters die off when deactivated

[paper sky]

yes I thought about that but couldnt find the nodes to activate / deactivate existing components

[fathom portal]

You've got the deactivate there, just change the "true" in your branch to activate, then spawn the emitter in like a begin play

Instead of event tick

Because you currently have it set so when they tip the cup, it spawns and activates a new particle emitter once a frame every frame

[paper sky]

oof, no wonder there are so many particles spawned

[fathom portal]

Haha yeah

[paper sky]

now it makes sense, thanks

[fathom portal]

[paper sky]

its my first time working around particles didnt know the node worked like that lol

[fathom portal]

I don't know when the "auto destroy" checkbox kicks in, unsure if that destroys it when the particles stop

[paper sky]

On the forums Ive seen someone mentioned it auto destroys after a minute or something

[fathom portal]

But spawn the emitter once during begin play, uncheck "Auto Activate", then activate it in your "true" branch

And probably uncheck auto destroy if that's the case

[paper sky]

alright ill give it a try after breakfast

thanks @fathom portal @dawn gazelle

[fathom portal]

So, anyone know how to save a camera's view (Like a screenshot) into a variable?

[stray island]

Unfortunately I think its a c++ thing

[fathom portal]

I mean I do both, I don't mind doing cpp for it, I just can't find a way to do it without making a local screenshot file, which I'm trying to avoid

[stray island]

Idk if this page has anything useful

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/986757/ue4-save-slot-thumbnails.html

[fathom portal]

Yeah, they're mentioning the "create file" version, which is a last resort kinda thing, but I appreciate it

[stray island]

I’m trying to destroy my construction script

Didnt work , thought its easy

[fathom portal]

Uhhh

That makes sense

Expose that variable on spawn

Assuming you're spawning it at runtime

Also @stray island, try out snipping tool, it's built into windows and then you just control+v to paste the image here

[stray island]

I want it to destroy in game so i rewrite it as function

Alright Sorry for my annoying camera thing

[fathom portal]

I mean it doesn't bother me, I'm just trying to help you save time

[dawn gazelle]

Are you trying to make like a screenshot for a save game?

[stray island]

@fathom portal how about this

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/617529/screenshot-to-variable.html

[fathom portal]

Yes, I have the save system all fleshed out, but the fancy cherry on top would be having a screenshot of the player's view from when they made the save

[fathom portal]

I will try that in the morning, it's 1:25AM, but it looks promising. Thanks Everyone

Kind of a shame how the thirty links I've gone through all link to each other but none really answer it too well

[dawn gazelle]

Create a bool named "Can Shoot" Set it by default to true. Set it to false coming off of your false going into your reload montage. Right after your "Shoot" event, add a branch, with the "Can Shoot" bool plugged into the condition. After your last set "Current Spare Ammo" there at the bottom, set your "Can Shoot" to true.

[brittle reef]

hi everyone! im very new to UE Blueprints (my main role is 3D Environment/Prop Artist) and im following a udemy course, but on this third person course the camera is locked and i want it to be controlled by the mouse movement, i tried to fix it with the standard thirdpersonBP as an example but without sucess, can anyone show me how to do that? thanks 🙂

[dawn gazelle]

Might want to change your branch to only be > 0 rather than >= 0

[dawn gazelle]

What you have there is specifically the movement of the pawn. This is the part for the camera.

You're also subtracting ammo every time Shoot is called before checking if you should actually be able to shoot.

Yes

And plug the false into your reload.

But, you probably need another bool to check if you're reloading already

and if you aren't go ahead and reload, set reloading to true, and once done reloading, set reloading to false.

Nope. You're currently setting "Can shoot" to false when entering into your montage, so every time your checking false, it'll go set "Can shoot" to false, then go into your montage again.

I'm probably making things more complicated than it needs to be..

[brittle reef]

so im getting these errors, the tutor is using a Player Controller blueprint class instead of the actual pawn, is that what is causing it?

also he said to uncheck these options on the springarm

[dawn gazelle]

Yes. should be in your character/pawn

And I believe you need those checked.

The inherit bits at least. not sure of the others

[brittle reef]

but is there a fix for this instead of just using on the pawn? not making "his" way can cause some problems later i think

[twilit heath]

you can just connect output of getcontrolledpawn to target of both of those nodes

[dawn gazelle]

Here... this is probably better...

I didn't connect the reload to the rest of the shooting logic as most games you wouldn't fire immediately after a reload animation is finished from clicking shoot and if you're holding down the button and it's firing this event repeatedly then when the conditions are correct it will fire anyway.

[brittle reef]

@twilit heath That almost worked! i checked the 3 inherit ones and the use pawn control rotation and now the camera moves but when i move camera to top or bottom the character gets stuck, looks like the camera control is interfering on the character movement, any tips on that?

[feral ice]

in an int array can i store different data but if i want to change position [2]. How do i break the the array?

[dawn gazelle]

That's probably because you're using this to feed into your movement input. What this is saying is get the forward vector of the camera which could be pointing downwards or upwards which means your character is trying to move in that direction.

[dawn gazelle]

This is what is normally present in the third person example:

[feral ice]

i want to make a ammo list that keeps track of every guns current ammo

[solemn parcel]

I can't zoom in or out in the viewport. Any help ?

[dawn gazelle]

Set Array Elem lets you manipulate an array at an index directly.

[feral ice]

ohh thats interesting! Thanks : D

ill try that

[dawn gazelle]

Not sure if you really want to use an array for storing ammo types like that though. Hard to keep track of which # may relate to what ammo.

[brittle reef]

thank you @dawn gazelle ! i used the break rotator and make rotator and it worked perfect, thanks

[feral ice]

i have it set like this

with 5 different weapontypes

keeping track is pretty simple cuz there are not many weaponms to keep track of

xd

[dawn gazelle]

Enum would be a lot easier to follow along with.

[feral ice]

ohh

what is that called

[dawn gazelle]

You want an "Enumeration"

This a multiplayer game you're building?

[feral ice]

single

simple zombiegam

[dawn gazelle]

Even better... You can use a map for your ammo.