blueprint

[trim matrix]

okay

in event construct?

this

[dark crow]

That Pre Construct Ref tho

And Nuh

[trim matrix]

what 😄

[dark crow]

Example

[trim matrix]

yep

I did it

lol

[narrow bear]

In other engines (Godot), these nodes would cost performance. I tend to put them in variables. This doesn't occur in Unreal?

[dawn gazelle]

Pre-Construct fires while in the editor.
Construct fires when the widget is actually created in the viewport.
Right now, you're not showing how you're setting the Player Character reference, but you're using it in both Pre-Construct and Construct.

[trim matrix]

so I need to set it in construct?

[dark crow]

You could in theory Expose the Char Variable too and pass it when you create the Widget, depends on where you have it and your preference tho

[trim matrix]

so I work this on widget, the chaarcter is inventory character

[trim matrix]

oo, it is set, lol

[dawn gazelle]

That is not set. That is just defining a variable type.

[trim matrix]

I mean the setting expose on spawn is set

lol

[dawn gazelle]

Gotcha

[dark crow]

Exposes the Variable to be Set when you call the Create Widget

So you can pass a Reference like that too

[trim matrix]

huh? 😄

[dark crow]

Lemme make example, lmao

[trim matrix]

oke

😄

[dark crow]

Calling this in the Character

So sending a Ref of myself to the Widget

Base Char in this case will have the reference Set

In the Widget

[trim matrix]

aha

I got it

but where to create this widget

when I am inside of it

lmao

[dark crow]

Well, you gotta show it on Screen somehow so you gotta Add to Viewport

That's where it would be

[trim matrix]

okay

so create widget and then add to viewport?

on which event? construct or pre construct?

[dark crow]

How are you showing the Widget on the Screen?

[maiden wadi]

@narrow bear Everything costs performance. But the benefit of saving a ref to the local player's character is so negligible that it's not worth the effort in places like UI. Take this quick test for example.

[trim matrix]

um this widget is inventory slot, I don't show it on the screen like normal

[dark crow]

You're probs better off just getting the Ref in the Widget at this point, not understanding very well it all

[narrow bear]

Nice, might have been a Godot flaw. At the time, calls like that would get really pricey. Can't remember the exact reason why it was expensive (something about walking through the inheritance tree I think), but I was forced to cache them

Glad to hear Unreal does this better 🙂

[burnt edge]

is there an easy way to make a plane face the player camera in a blueprint?
or should i just use particles

[maiden wadi]

@narrow bear I wonder if calls like that were like Unreal's GetAllActorsOfClass. In Unreal, the PlayerController call basically just goes up a chain to find the current UWorld. It stores a list of controllers, the first is always the local controller. It is functionally the same as doing GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController() in C++.

World also saves GameWorld, GameState, etc. So it has easy calls for them to return them that is practically near null on performance cost.

[earnest urchin]

Does the Is Falling check only come back true when the character has downward velocity or is it any time the character is in the air?

[dawn gazelle]

Based around movement mode being used it looks like.

[earnest urchin]

Thanks, I suppose I could have just highlighted it but I'mma jackass

[stray wagon]

is there a way to see the stacktrace of a crash on the packaged version of the game

the log just has the error with no trace

[lofty saffron]

it's crashing when you're running it locally?

[stray wagon]

yes

[lofty saffron]

link with /DEBUG and attach debugger?

[stray wagon]

Is there a way to link before starting the game? Cuz it crashes right away

[lofty saffron]

is this a BP only project? then it might not be very useful

since it will just show somewhere in the unreal code

[stray wagon]

No its not

[lofty saffron]

so build your game module with /DEBUG, just go into linker options and change it

[stray wagon]

It doesnt crash in debug lol

[lofty saffron]

can enable that for release as well

[stray wagon]

I wouldnt need help if it did 😂

Doesnt either

Only full packaged does

[lofty saffron]

but the packaged version does contain your DLL right?

my experience with unreal is pretty limited, but don't really see why it would be impossible to get debug symbols into a packaged version? does it strip symbols automatically?

[stray wagon]

AHHHH

I have the symbols

the .pdb are linked

But how do I attach VS Studio if the game crashes right away ?

I cant catch it fast enough

[lofty saffron]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/how-to-debug-an-executable-not-part-of-a-visual-studio-solution?view=vs-2019

maybe

[stray wagon]

thanks let me try

[lofty saffron]

can also try: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/configuring-automatic-debugging

[stray wagon]

@lofty saffron I tried multiple way but VS just doesnt catch the crash

It's just a dialog on an assert

I dont get it

It just does this and dont let me catch it from VS

it doesnt even have the logs tbh

[lofty saffron]

knowing the element type would atleast narrow down the search a bit

and should be possible for them to add to the assert

[stray wagon]

I have thousands of lines of code with around 50 maps everywhere it's quite a big project so it doesnt really ahah

[lofty saffron]

😦

[stray wagon]

I put a timer on the game see if I can delay the crash and attach the process

see if it cleanly attach then

[lofty saffron]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11054488/how-do-i-automate-mini-dump-creation-when-a-c-assertion-fails

[stray wagon]

hmm the game still crashes right away

So my content loading fails or smtg

it's gonna be fun to debug

You cant catch in UE btw

Well not in the packaged game, wont let you build cuz it's missing some flags nd changing it would recompile the whole engine with that flag so..

[lofty saffron]

isnt it possible to just set that stuff in your DLL?

[stray wagon]

You would need to make it a module

But isnt it ridiculous that only the packaged game fails

OMG WAIT I THINK I KNOW 1 SEC

[lofty saffron]

packaging changes how assets are handled

[stray wagon]

I found the issue

[cerulean radish]

How can i use latent action inside function?

[stray wagon]

When I updated to 4.26 I forgot to re-add the copying of the mod folder in the packaged game

So the folder was missing and it couldnt load any content at all

[upper linden]

you cant use latent action inside a function

try making a macro with that latent action

then call the macro in the function

[maiden wadi]

@cerulean radish You cannot. #blueprint message

[cerulean radish]

but what options i have then, i cant also create custom event in function

[upper linden]

just use a custom event then

[cerulean radish]

what do you mean

event instead of function?

[upper linden]

yes

do you need the function to output something ?

and do you need to call this function from another actor BP ?

[cerulean radish]

no i dont

[upper linden]

then either use macro or custom event

[cerulean radish]

so using event instead is a good practice?

[upper linden]

macro also works, it does the same thing as function, except it cant be called from another actor BP

or custom event

[cerulean radish]

i see, thx

[upper linden]

good luck

[frail oar]

hi! silly question but how do you reorder things in a list?
like hey here's an array of objects in some class defaults panel, how do i move one up to the top or something
i can't drag and there are no dropdowns or arrows or anything

[burnt edge]

is there a way to encapulate some components and reuse them in blueprints? like what if i wanted to take these components and use them in other blueprints? would i have to set this up from scratch every time? is inheritance the only way to achieve this?

[earnest tangle]

it kinda depends on what you mean specifically

[ocean radish]

@burnt edge make a child of that actor, just break it down to the parts that are gonna be used throughout, then add the extra functionality to specific, sort of a Master actor

[earnest tangle]

you can create components that inherit from those components, which then provide defaults for their values

or you can inherit from this actor to keep the same component configuration

and yeah Fooking's suggestion is pretty much a good idea too if you want to share some set of functionality but have more specialized versions of the actor

[burnt edge]

yeah i had a feeling the answer would be something like that. Maybe more specifically i mean that those 3 components are just visuals, and i can easily see situations where i wouldn't want to extend a base class that was just visuals and add core functionality in the children.

[burnt edge]

what do you mean by inheriting from components? is that the same as normal bp class inheritance?

[earnest tangle]

Yes

You can create a new BP class which inherits for example from StaticMeshComponent

There's some limitations on what you can inherit from in BP's though, it's more flexible in C++

[burnt edge]

yeah makes sense. Guess you could just spawn the visuals as a separate actor if you didnt want to inherit them, just seems inelegant

[earnest tangle]

yeah personally not a huge fan of deep inheritance but that's kinda just how it works in UE

[dense tulip]

Im getting an infnite loop with this code: Why is that ?

[steep robin]

Is it calling itself with that first node?

[dense tulip]

Ok, i wasnt sure what the relation was but i bet you guys are right, calling itself

[dawn gazelle]

Well once it gets called, it calls itself, which then calls itself, which then calls itself, which then calls itself, which then calls itself, which then calls itself, etc.

[dense tulip]

Yes, i understand now that it makes an infinite loop, i'm not experienced enough to figure it out by myself but i should remember that case

[hushed pewter]

None of these guys have collision, at all.

Im spawning the ball in using the shooter whitch has no collision

And all the pegs and pieces are spawning in using a minigame controller with transform arrays and loops.

Do i need to manually set the collision stuff when spawning?

Or is there another issue stopping me

[formal grail]

hey guys sorry if this is simple but i cant seem to find the answer, how do i make my Range_1 parameter look like the one in this screenshot? I'm not sure how to get the E + 04 section

[dawn gazelle]

I believe that's portraying an overflow value like on a calculator. The value in it is probably 26640000

[tight schooner]

Yeah, e+ is exponent of 10

[formal grail]

aaah ok awesome thanks !

that did it

[tight schooner]

Also material node graph questions belong in #graphics for future reference...

Cuz it's not BP

[formal grail]

for sure will do

[tight schooner]

@hushed pewter nah it's probably collision channels or something you need to look into on your collider components

Collision doesn't explicitly need to be activated on your event graph, though you can certainly set it up that way

But otherwise with the right collision settings on your component it'll "just work"

[hushed pewter]

Ill have a look at it

[burnt edge]

how does one set a parameter on a decal material? no node for it?

[hushed pewter]

Oh im not using advanced collision

Just basic capsule and sphere

[hushed pewter]

@tight schooner By collider components do you mean my sphere collision and capsule collision

[stray island]

How can i detect where have i clicked on a mesh to add a decal or another mesh on where i have clicked?

Like i press somewhere on mouse then it should detect

The location where i pressed

[dense tulip]

Does this look better as a fix for my issue ?

[hushed pewter]

@stray island Get channel under cursor

Then break that

[stray island]

Is that in material or bp

[hushed pewter]

Then just spawn the decal ontop of that

[dawn gazelle]

Well, depending on what is in the parent BP, this bit of code won't infinite loop, but you have that branch near the start that will always return true so if you're trying to open and close a door with this function, it'll only do the "Open it" path.

[hushed pewter]

blueprint

[stray island]

Datura do u have time to check my dm

[hushed pewter]

You can use the hit actor too get what actor too apply it too

[jaunty stirrup]

My character is playing splash sound when linetraced waterMeshBody under his feet, the problem is The ocean mesh is present in the continent so water is detected and splash sound is played:

[dense tulip]

Thanks @dawn gazelle, i get what you mean ! Appreciate your input !

[tight schooner]

@hushed pewter yeah even primitive colliders should just work, as long as the collision channels the things you want to collide are set to

also have "blocking" set as the channel response

And their collision mode is also set to blocking

[frozen needle]

I have something really annoying happening and I don't know how to fix it
Basically I have cursor hidden by default. When I start the game in window or standalone, the cursor is there, and it disappears only if I click anywhere on the screen. Then, I have a widget that enables the cursor again, and I can only actually hover over buttons and click them if I click the screen again, so I need 2 clicks to activate widget button. After activated, mouse cursor is supposed to be hidden again, and I can hide it only if I once again click on the screen. What can I do to actually hide for good and show only when I really need it? The demonstration of what's going on is on the gif:
https://imgur.com/a/QlZe2QM

[earnest tangle]

Try using "Input UI only" when you display the cursor, and "Input Game Only" when you hide it. It seems show/hide cursor is in some way affected by those two and it's a bit screwy unless you manually call them

[hushed pewter]

@tight schooner But it is set too blocking lmao

Its on black all

Yet it aint blockin shite

[halcyon nova]

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something - I have a base class A and a child class B, I want to check if an actor I'm looking at is of type A.

I'm looking at a B, which is also an A? I try casting B to A but it fails. Should this type of upcasting not happen?

the example is, I want a single class "interactible" and then doors, ladders, etc as children, each with their own overridden "interact" function

but casting a door to interactible just fails outright

[tawdry surge]

They're different classes.. you could make an interactible class and make various instances. But what your doing is casting to character and expecting to get a return of actor because its the parent class

[halcyon nova]

right, but a child is still of the parent type.. right?

i.e, in C++

in C++ I would do

{
    Super::BeginPlay();

    MyClassA* test = new MyClassB();
    test ->TestMethod();

    delete test;
    test = nullptr;
}```

[earnest tangle]

Casting to a more generic class should work

[tawdry surge]

No it just inherited the stuff, its still a new class

[earnest tangle]

Eg. cast child class to parent works just fine

[halcyon nova]

uhhhh

ok maybe I'm doing something wrong - let me check again

because casting child to parent is so far no working

[earnest tangle]

Why do you need to cast the child to a parent anyway?

The child should have the parent's functionality on it without casting it

[halcyon nova]

it's a return from a hit test

oh shit which is just an actor

wow

[earnest tangle]

that should still work assuming it's the correct object

eg. the inheritance tree would be Actor->YourParent->YourChild

Assuming it's the correct object, casting it to YourParent should work

[halcyon nova]

definitely the correct object and I've printed the get class and it was printing YourChild

but casting it to the Parent was a fail

[earnest tangle]

In that case maybe you didn't actually inherit from the parent for it?

[frozen needle]

that helped, thank you

[halcyon nova]

re-started editor and it's working.. perhaps it hadn't updated the parent, I did it through reparent after opening the class

thank god

I thought I was completely forgetting how inheritance works

[earnest tangle]

If it's a C++ parent class you probably hit a hotreload related issue

[halcyon nova]

maybe so, I tend to compile through VS these days, perhaps I fat fingered the compile button

cheers

ahhh now that being said

do you then need to cast to child?

or can I just call the base function?

as type parent

e.g "Interact" which is overriden on the child

[hushed pewter]

Shit still dont collide

[earnest tangle]

Casting it to parent should be enough

[halcyon nova]

ahhhh ofcourse, you then call upstream with Base.interact

fantastic, thanks @earnest tangle

[unique harness]

do you have simulate physics turned on?

[hushed pewter]

Yep

[unique harness]

do you have separate mesh and collision components?

[halcyon nova]

complex collision on your mesh?

[hushed pewter]

Im running a projectile component on the ball

Leme try removing

Ok the pegs arent simulating physics

But when i turn it on

They start busting a move

I think i fixed it, just need too restrain its positionw ithout using contraint?

[split cliff]

why, when I rename a parent class that a blueprint is derived from, does it become impossible to reparent the blueprint to anything?

I have a gamemode blueprint and can't reparent it to gamemodebase or any other class because I renamed the class it was derived from

the "parent class" dropdown has lots of entries like widgets and animation components and nothing that's actually relevant

[tight schooner]

@hushed pewter I don't think you need to simulate physics on the stuff you don't want to move. They can be static colliders

Anyway I g2g

[hushed pewter]

I tried that with static but then they wouldent collide at all

I got it working by just giving them a fuck ton of weight and locking them in one axis

Hope one day i can figure out why they fucking push inwards on themselves when alls lockede

[nova sedge]

So I'm simulating a mouse cursor on UMG, but in order to interact with UMG elements, Show Mouse Cursor must be True. Is there a way to make hte cursor invisible and still be able to interact with the UMG? I tried making a blank png for hardware cursor, but it shows a square box.

[dense tulip]

Hi guys, i am trying to get a door to toggle open and close but it seems not to work, here is what my function does:

[dense tulip]

@trim matrix there is probably a clipping distance .. and possibly not rendering inversed faces

like being inside the sphere could be clipped for being inversed

Need to show more details but seems like the camera is placed at 0,0,0 with a scale of 100

[thorn spruce]

hi i was working on an animation montage that was created from an animation sequence in one of the paragon assets. i saved it as an animation montage and linked it to a play animation montage block in blueprint, but it does not seem to trigger. if i set one of the animation montages that already exist in the paragon asset i was using it triggers without any issue. any idea what i could be doing wrong when creating the animation montage from the animation sequence?

[hard kettle]

I'm got your back. The trick is to use a scene component (basically an empty) and set it as the parent. That way you can rotate it to your heart's content. Here's an image of my setup. The boom isn't required

[dense tulip]

Is there a way to know all the Key inputs that i use in my game ?

Nevermind .. found it

[stone remnant]

Hey, I was wondering, is there any documentation on the order that events fire? Basically I'm wondering if events called from other actors trigger before tick on a component. Also, do events called on a character for instance (Axis / Action) call before or after the characters Tick?

I've been looking for a few hours and kinda coming up blank

cheers

[trim matrix]

okay but the code won't work if I remove the character reference? what to do

[trim matrix]

I did this and the errors are not showing, but I can't stil get the bush, like it is not destroying

The other big problem is that I have function and interface for interact and as I can see they don't work, I created trace channel and still doesn't work, hmm

this doesn't print anything when I am over the bush, like I don't interact with it

[dawn gazelle]

This image shouldn't really have anything to do with collecting anything as all it is doing appears to be changing the appearance of the widget --- Pre-construct is not for gameplay state related code and is only meant to update the view of the widget within the editor. Though you may not be crashing right now, having Get Player Character on Pre-Construct is probably not a good idea as I don't think that the player exists before runtime.

As far as that goes, are you actually implementing the interface you're trying to use on the bush object?

[trim matrix]

yes, it is in the item parent and in the item bush

the interface is added in the both places

[trim matrix]

and I have this too

[dawn gazelle]

Your line trace is checking for "blocking hit" but the screenshot above you have "interactables" default response set to overlap?

[trim matrix]

yep

this is what I see in the tutorial series

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGdXOcz8lrU

5:50

[dawn gazelle]

On your Interact input event, plug in your "look at target" into a print string (it should also add a "get display name" node), and then when looking at the object, press your interact key and see if you get anything printing.

[trim matrix]

I have this?

[dawn gazelle]

Put a print string node after the "interact with" and plug in "Look at target" to the output on the print string node.

[trim matrix]

okay

hmm

[dawn gazelle]

Then run the game, look at the object you're trying to interact with, press your interact button and see if you get anything printing.

[dawn gazelle]

Perfect

[trim matrix]

okay

I tested it

so bad

it doesn't print anything

the key for interact is G

I will try to change the key to N, hmm

nope, stil doesn't work 😦

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so now try putting a print string directly after your line trace (before the branch you have), and plug in the same pin you have going to the "Set Look At Target". Since you're doing this on tick, to make sure it doesn't blow up, click the little down arrow on the print string node and make sure "Print to log" is unchecked and set the duration to 1

Then try running the game, see if you get any response at all when looking at things, including your object.

[trim matrix]

okasy

same result

bruh

nothing printed

[dawn gazelle]

ok, last thing to check, just put a print string on event tick, you can leave it saying hello, and again, run the game, and see if you get any output - just don't leave it running too long (you should see immediately a string of hellos)

[trim matrix]

ok

after the code

[dawn gazelle]

yep

[trim matrix]

or before check look at?

okay

I have, interesting

hmmmmm

[dawn gazelle]

alright

so it's definitely the line trace failing you.

[trim matrix]

bruh

as I thought

so?

[dawn gazelle]

get rid of the print string on the event tick.

[trim matrix]

the trace is not done correct?

[dawn gazelle]

So on your object, you have a collider component set up, and have it set to block interactive?

[trim matrix]

huh?

or this?

[dawn gazelle]

That's the collision settings, but on the object itself it requires a collider component

[dawn gazelle]

Yea the sphere there

That is set to block interactive?

[trim matrix]

where to check it is set to block interactive or not ?

[dawn gazelle]

When you have the sphere collider selected.

[trim matrix]

yep

so I have this:

as I can see it is set to block

interactives

[dawn gazelle]

Not sure what else to say.... I just created an interactives channel myself, created a BP with a sphere collider, set it to block only interactives, then added a line trace looking for interactives, and sure enough, I was getting output

Changed nothing else on the object

[trim matrix]

okay

hmm

maybe the settings of the collision are problematic?

these are the collusion settings for the mesh

[dawn gazelle]

Shouldn't impact it.

Are you close enough to the object?

[trim matrix]

yep

I am playing around

also over it

[dawn gazelle]

Have you restarted the engine since you've had this problem?

Kinda out of ideas here @_@

[trim matrix]

yeah I did it

[novel kelp]

Hi does the widget "Is Hovered" work on mobile devices?

[slate sentinel]

on landed event doesn't seems to fire while ragdolling

how can i fix this

[halcyon nova]

is using an animation blueprint and animation notifies overkill for just animating a door? I want an open and close animation which can't be interrupted.

my plan was to run a notify from the end of the respective animations, setting a bool on my animbp that says whether or not the asset is animating or finished.

Then query that each time I try to play an open/close anim

all the tutorials I can find are "quick 5 minute tutorial using timelines" but my doors use FBX animation

[earnest tangle]

Not really sure if there's some performance implications from the notifies but it seems like it should be fairly trivial

[halcyon nova]

mhmm, I thought as much, is there a better way to determine if an animation has finished/is playing?

or perhaps a basic state machine

[earnest tangle]

Not that I know of... the animation state machine can trigger notifies as well

[halcyon nova]

ahhh good to know too

[earnest tangle]

I wouldn't worry about it too much tbh, if using notifies is easy to do then that seems like it would make sense

[halcyon nova]

would like to avoid using timers and timelines as they're almost certainly worse

so yeah I'll probably do that

[earnest tangle]

Usually if there's some simple way of doing something, it's usually good enough because it being simple it's easy to change later if needed

[halcyon nova]

just like to work out how to quote /quote proper way to do it - I've spent too many years just bodging stuff

thought you're right, getting something working is ofc the priority

[earnest tangle]

Yeah I mean there's usually no need to build "fancy architecture" in that sense of "doing it properly"

as long as it's clean and easy to understand, that's usually plenty proper :D

[halcyon nova]

cool cool

cheers again 🙂

[trim matrix]

anyone that acan help me with the problem for interacting with object?

[dusky harness]

How can i spawn player character already moving? Like not putting Add Movement Input on the Tick node, this way it just spawns in place then starts walking

[uncut lark]

Probably the wrong channel, but can I just level stream, start to finish?

[halcyon nova]

me again.. how do I play a one off animation with an animbp..?

play slot animation looks like what I want

[trim matrix]

me still waiting for someone to help me cus I fight with this problem for 2 days 😦

[trim matrix]

Hello guys I have problem with interacting the object
I have function and interface for interact and as I can see they don't work, I created trace channel and still doesn't work, hmm

this doesn't print anything when I am over the bush, like I don't interact with it

[earnest tangle]

Have you checked the linetrace goes into the right direction?

[trim matrix]

yeah

I put the option on every fram

and I see the red line

and I navigate it towards the bush

and nothing again 😦

[earnest tangle]

Is it blocking on the correct channel?

and collisions enabled correctly?

[trim matrix]

not sure

[earnest tangle]

That seems correct

This is a parent class - I assume the object you're trying to interact is a child of this?

[trim matrix]

yep

the child of this class- bush item

[earnest tangle]

Doublecheck on your child class that it has the correct settings as well

[trim matrix]

which settings to check?

[earnest tangle]

collision enabled and the trace response channels

[trim matrix]

this is in the parent

this is in the child

hmm

[earnest tangle]

Odd, it seems like it should work

Maybe just try and have the sphere block on all channels and set it to query and physics for collision enabled

just as a test

and make sure it's bigger than the mesh

if that still doesn't work, increase the distance of your linetrace some more

[trim matrix]

okay

this is the size of the sphere

[earnest tangle]

yeah just make it like twice that lol

[trim matrix]

okay

hmmm

[earnest tangle]

that looks like it's hitting something at least?

[trim matrix]

yep

now it works

maybe

😄

[earnest tangle]

I wonder if it required the collisions to be set to physics and query 🤔

[trim matrix]

it works again nice

[earnest tangle]

Yeah, usually when in doubt, just set every setting to the most obvious "it should work" settings like this lol

then if/when it works you can start adjusting the settings if needed

[trim matrix]

okay

yeah it works

nice

ty man

the problem was from the size of the collusion

lmfao 😄

okay but I have other little problem

hmmm

hmm

[opaque blade]

Accept on device?

there should be a checkbox in developer settings on the device to "autoallow apks from unknown sources" or something like that

oh ok mmh

that is probably due to the fact that buildnumber is increasing and the device thinks it is a different apk 🤔 just a guess

might be worth checking if you actually "inject" the Buildnumber in your project settings to the apk version or smth

mmh seems to be no settings, so guess that isn't it. might have a higher chance in #mobile though

[gusty cypress]

when stream loading levels in editor its pretty laggy, will the packaged game run better?

[errant snow]

That is usually the case, but there are a lot of factors that can go into streaming level times.

[trim matrix]

I fixed the problem with the none reading but still doesn't get the texture when I get the bush item

it should like this:

but I got nothing

[stray island]

Any one familiar with render targets and drawing capabilities?

[bronze hull]

Why is my MACRO not working....

Comparing Actor with actor.
Actor = Compared Actor, yet it returns FALSE

[maiden wadi]

@bronze hull That check will literally never return true unless you use it on basic assets like a StaticMesh or Texture.

You're comparing an actual actor to a nulled pointer.

[dark crow]

You could Pure Cast to check if it's a certain class

It has a Success return

[maiden wadi]

If you want to know if they're the same type, you have to compare classes. Like.. Are these two things human? Right now you're asking if they're the same identical person, except the second argument is an empty chair where a human should be sitting.

[dark crow]

Not sure how valid this would be but I imagine it would work if you want to check if the Object is that Class in particular

[fervent swallow]

hello! I am having trouble when building a game. The menus work fine with the mouse in the editor, but they don't on the windows packaged project. did anyone experience something similar in the past?

[trim matrix]

anyone casted to anim notify from bp? what object would I need to connect? cant find suitable.

[trim matrix]

Ok. I have a footstep notify in animation. I want it to set 0, so silence it. I can get the footstep_animnotify cast node but I dont know what to do with the object pin.

Does not work

still dont know what to cast

It could be anywhere

but yes why not there

in anim bp?

ok but how can i change the anim notify volume?

target is foot step anim notify

this in character normal BP

A custom

[neon jungle]

Hello guys, is it possible to deactivate socket's position follow after the particule is emitted ? I'm trying to do a fire breathe but if the socket's position/rotation change after the particule is emitted it moves to fit to emitter position. Here a gif.

https://www115.zippyshare.com/v/feMsCrWw/file.html

Thanks

[trim matrix]

oh my god casting sucks everyone

anyone used the marketplace thing where u dont have to find any cast objects?

Or can someone atleast tell me how to cast to sound cues if its impossible to cast to anim notifies?

well... I made a footstep anim notify variable in my bp.. lets see 😄

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Casting doesn't suck. It's just a method of handling a variable that points to an object. It is an extremely basic programming tool to learn when dealing with Unreal. As for your exact problem, there's a forum post about how someone solved it here. However, if it were me, I would simply add a sound component to the character, create some more basic notifies in the animation instead of playsound, hook into them in the animation blueprint, and have that call a dispatcher that the character can hook into that will play the sound. Then in the character you can use that event to either play the sound or not.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/446492/how-to-stop-sounds-played-with-notify-playsound-in.html

Either way should solve your issue.

[trim matrix]

yeah im using als as a basis so .. 😦 but thanks for that forum post. Tried googling notify stuff but didnt get that.

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Here. Try this. It will be a lot simpler in the end than that post.

Go into the walking animation where you were adding the playsound animnotifies. Right click on the track and do this with a new notify.

Name it something like FootStep, or whatever.

Then go into the event graph of the animblueprint that your character uses. You should be able to right click on the graph and type in FootStep, and see that top event there.

[elder gulch]

why am i having error at this brench

[maiden wadi]

Make a new Event Dispatcher in the AnimBlueprint like in the bottom left. And call it from that event like it's doing in the center.

@trim matrix Then in the Character class that uses this animbp in their mesh, you can do this on beginplay.

[trim matrix]

and?

[maiden wadi]

And if you do these exact steps, you'll see a print spamming Hello while you're walking.

The point is that you can replace that Print with a PlaySound, or attach a sound component to the character, and replay it on triggering that event.

[trim matrix]

But I want to control the footsteps volume ...

I dont want to make a new footstep system

I only wanted to know that because there is a node called cast to Footstep_animnotify what do i put in to that object pin?

[maiden wadi]

I'm not sure that you can actually get that object in the game. At least not through C++. For the simplicity you're after, you would need to affect the CDO most likely. Which would not actually work anyhow since you'd be affecting every footstep sound in the game.

[trim matrix]

If that is impossible, I will make the soundcues own sound mix and control it over there...

[maiden wadi]

But if you do this, all you need to do is play a sound at location and change the volume. Or to mute it, just not play the sound.

Comes with a volume modifier.

[trim matrix]

yeah but then I have to add that to all animations right?

which i have about 60+

the notifies

[maiden wadi]

You have 60 animations or 60 blueprints?

[trim matrix]

60 anims

[maiden wadi]

You'd be adding those notifies to 60 animations anyhow with the playsound notify.

[trim matrix]

I dont want to add notifies

I just want to access the footstep_animnotify volume multiplier

make it Zero for a while

and then turn back 1

SO the best option is to edit the sound cue sound classes submix or something like that

which affects the notify

if its impossible

to cast

[maiden wadi]

🤷‍♂️

[trim matrix]

well thanks again for the insight. Im going to tackle this somehow 😄

its just very bizarre you cant access a notify bp anyway and just change one variable 😄

But I will say this once more, casting sucks. atleast in ue bps.

[maiden wadi]

Still not sure how casting applies here.

[trim matrix]

heres how it applies

what to put inside there?

[maiden wadi]

The object you want to change.

[trim matrix]

But what? nothing fits there.

[maiden wadi]

You should check out some topics on class structure and inheritance.

[trim matrix]

ok.

Been casting for a while no problems and if problems get all actors and stuff like that

but here i dont have a clue what to put there

[quaint bough]

im currently working on a biome system and i have 2 noises for temerature and humidity. yesterday i made a simple if chain (if temp > 0 && temp < 0.2 for example and after that same with humidity) but it looks so complicated and there were some ranges that had no biome at all. Today i saw this image and read something about Map or Dictionary unsure what it was, but you can give it a key and it will return value and my problem is how do i get a value from 2 keys ?

[daring lance]

@quaint bough make a Map, where the key is a Struct (temp, humidity) and the value is the biome

[quaint bough]

so i need to make 36 pins on the map?

[daring lance]

You could, but maybe a better way would be to iterate over your table somehow and insert those key-value pairs one by one

That table is going to have to live somewhere, whether it is hard coded in BP, or if its in a csv or json or whatever

[quaint bough]

im gonna try the hardcoded one first 😄

[quaint bough]

it takes longer than before but looks better nice

[karmic tree]

When i try to drop down, my character goes back to hanging. I already tried to put a delay in the hang node but i goes back anyway

[maiden wadi]

@karmic tree You should likely put movement mode as falling instead of walking. But what defines how the character grabs the ledge in the first place?

[karmic tree]

I tried that too but i doesn't work

[maiden wadi]

What triggers this code?

[karmic tree]

HeightTracer

[maiden wadi]

Show me what calls Grab Ledge.

[karmic tree]

this

I sent the wrong screenshot

[karmic tree]

It connects with this

[maiden wadi]

I presume this is running on tick?

[karmic tree]

yeah

[maiden wadi]

Initial thought is to either put a delay in ExitLedge before setting IsHanging to false. Half a second, maybe a second. Unsure. Other thought is maybe to only set that to false in the character's OnLanded event.

[karmic tree]

Fixed it by putting a little delay here

[stray island]

How do i set my first person crosshair to be free and not centered

I want the cross hair to move with my mouse + i dont want my mouse to move the player orientation

[daring lance]

Maybe use a UMG widget?

[stray island]

I got it moving only but the functionality of hitting stayed in the center

[keen raven]

Hi guys, i have 2 different assets to create a door. The door has to open when i click either on the left side or the right side, but only when i click on the right side i can open the door or close it, the left side doenst even fire the click event and i dont know why. Heres the blueprint.

and here is the viewport

the right side of the door works perfectly

could be a problem with the assets that i downloaded?

[maiden wadi]

@keen raven Put prints on the left side's onclicked. Put them before the branch and see if they run.

[keen raven]

the prints dont work either, i tried a simple blueprint just with prints instead of opening the door

the result its the same, right side shows the text, left side is not showing anything

[elder gulch]

someone pls help

[maiden wadi]

@keen raven So putting a print in the red circle, does not print?

[keen raven]

nop

not firing at all

if i put the text for the right side, its working

not firing at all for left side

[maiden wadi]

Sounds like the mesh is missing collision.

[trim matrix]

Anyone knows how to stop a line trace on hit ? I don't want it to go through walls and stuff

[maiden wadi]

@trim matrix Isn't that kind of the point of a line trace? To hit the first thing it can? What is the point of avoiding walls?

[trim matrix]

I want it to avoid breaking THROUGH walls ^^

Like, when it hits a wall, it doesn't draw that green linetrace

[maiden wadi]

That's just for debugging purposes. The trace doesn't actually continue that far. It stops at the hit location.

[trim matrix]

Well, I can kill the NPCs behind the wall, so it def go through it 😦

[maiden wadi]

It definitely doesn't. Can I see your damage logic?

[trim matrix]

Sure

[maiden wadi]

You can get the same result as the debug trace stuff by doing this. the C++ uses the same calls for it.

[trim matrix]

Oh, that's actually good to know. I'll use this method

[maiden wadi]

Was your line trace hitting the wall though? In the trace debug show?

Also I think I missed the debug point. It draws a small DrawDebugPoint at the hit location too.

[trim matrix]

Yes, I'm using 2 Line trace:
1 Linetracebychannel, for the environement
1 linetraceforobjects, for killing pawns

So maybe that's where I've got my mistake?

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. What all object types are you using in the LineTraceForObjects?

[trim matrix]

Pawn, only.

[maiden wadi]

Could be the reason. It's ignoring the wall because it's not a Pawn type. If you add the wall's collision type to the list, it'd hit the wall first.

[trim matrix]

Ohhh...

I think you've got a point, here.

However I must find a way to ignore simple meshes.

[maiden wadi]

Like small plants and such that won't stop a bullet?

[trim matrix]

No, I'd need the bullets to be stopped by simple static meshes like primitive objects. But I can set the Object Types to WorlDynamic etc., so I'll get it working

Thank you very much for your time and help!

[maiden wadi]

If you want it to be stopped but most things, you can probably just use the visibility channel in the normal LineTraceByChannel. If you wanted something slightly more complex like small plants or whatever not stopping it, you could make a third trace channel in the project settings and set it to block all by default and then disable it on your plant's collisions.

Or even avoid making the new channel and just not block visibility on those plants, either way.

[trim matrix]

Yeah I'll have to figure that out. I got it working on my walls for now.

[tired condor]

How can I trade a Skeletal Mesh with a Static Mesh?

[candid dirge]

Trade? Do you mean swap? Need more context

[trim matrix]

IS there a way to take this blueprint and make it where its in a certain area? I'm going to have block volumes where the player can't go past a certain point, so how can I keep the tents inside of the block volumes? https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/pr4_cklg/

[gritty plover]

What's the optimal way to add impulse in the direction of this rotation?

Cause I feel like I'm doing it wrong.

[maiden wadi]

If you want to add impulse with that rotator, you should be able to just convert it to a vector and then multiply it by the desired force.

[gritty plover]

With just a regular GetForwardVector?

[opaque blade]

Yeah, Getforwardvector will be the vector of that rotation yea so (0,0,0) will be X-Axis, (0,0,90) will be Y Axis

[maiden wadi]

I usually use GetRotationXVector. I think forward vector might be the same.

[opaque blade]

but for your case it is the same as ("Tire1 WS Location" - "GetActorLocation").Normalized

[gritty plover]

Thanks

[opaque blade]

Yes that is the same, I think GetForwardVector was added in a later version to make it more clear, as well as Right and Up

[iron lodge]

I'm following a book to make a program, but for some reason whenever I try to connect Save-Game Instances to other items, it will not allow it, stating that "Save Game object reference is not compatible with Save System Object reference". any idea on how to fix this?

[bright frigate]

Hi i have a quick question - I have a single player game and I have a AI attacking the player but once the player dies no more attacking because of I think the player controller index. Is there a node to fix this for single player game or do I have to keep track of the index for get player controller?

[dawn gazelle]

Wrong type of object being used. Save Game Object is not the same as Save System Object. I believe you made a custom BP called Save System?

[iron lodge]

Yes I did

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, and what variable type is your "Save Game Instance" in that screenshot you have?

[dull tree]

Needhelp with moving player

[dawn gazelle]

So that should be set to Save System

[dull tree]

how can i move player when mouse border?

[iron lodge]

That fixed the problem, can't believe I missed that. Thanks!

[silver plume]

Got a quick question, working on a chest object that has a widget appear when the player collides with it. In this widget, it states how much currency the player needs to open it. The variable of how much currency is required is stored in the chest object. I want it so the widget will check the chest object it is attached to to see what it needs to display but Im running into some issues.

Ill share what I got right here

not sure how to have it dynamically check because Im trying to make this more procedural so my team and I can have random chest drops

does anyone know if any solutions I could potentially implement? Feel free to reply! Thanks!

[unkempt blade]

Is there a way in a blueprint to detect a change to a file as an event

[chrome dust]

Hello, does anybody know if there is a bug or error with 4.26 where landscape layers do not work properly? They are supposed to be different material layers but they all show up as the same default layer?

@silver plume Ok so the player needs to have a variable for his current coins

[silver plume]

he do

👍

[chrome dust]

@silver plume Then you cast in the widget and compare the two by a branch and if it is the amount then it opens

[silver plume]

nah I got that check made, I just need the widget to grab the amount needed from the chest to display lol

[chrome dust]

ah

[silver plume]

the chest has a "coin requirement" variable

and I just need the widget to grab the variable from the chest

idk how to implement that dynamically tho lol

[chrome dust]

create a bind to the text object

[silver plume]

Did that

[chrome dust]

ok

idk then what the problem is

[silver plume]

the problem Im having is

how do u get the variable from the chest to the widget

the variable is stored in the chest

and I just want the widget component to look at it and display it

thats it

I got the steps in my mind, but its not working in practice lol

[chrome dust]

Ok and the method you have is not working

hm

[silver plume]

yeah basically lol

[chrome dust]

It could be that it needs the specific actor you are interacting with

[silver plume]

cause its an object reference

[chrome dust]

It should work

I would have to try to recreate it

give me a few

[silver plume]

dw, take ur time

Visualizing like this

[chrome dust]

ok

[silver plume]

thinking maybe

[dawn gazelle]

I think this would work on your begin play of your chest.

Cast to your specific widget class of course.

[silver plume]

take the variable and put it in the root

and have the widget component grab it there

wait

nvm

Im blanking

yeah its basically actor between actor references

cause the widget itself is an actor

and the chest just displays it

hmm

[chrome dust]

weird

your chest cast is probably failing

[silver plume]

I visualized it wrong, lemme try rewording it

[chrome dust]

did you check if its properly casting

print string in the fail

Also, how are you setting the Chest Object variable

[chrome dust]

yea I know

[silver plume]

gotcha

[chrome dust]

Did you try Daturas method

do Daturas method in the event play see if it adds it to the widget

basically the reverse

[silver plume]

can try there

[chrome dust]

k

[chrome dust]

nice

[dawn gazelle]

Works 😛

[chrome dust]

beat me to it

[clever steppe]

any suggestions on how to make my widget interface have some level of lag/smoothing? like you can move the camera and the elements will trail behind your view just a little bit

[silver plume]

not sure what to call at the end @dawn gazelle

what function did u call for the end on ur pic 🤔 ?

[dawn gazelle]

drag from the "As Chest Widget" and type "set coinwhatever it is you hvae in your widget"

[silver plume]

gotcha

It works @dawn gazelle @chrome dust

Thanks again!

Appreciate the assistance

[trim matrix]

IS there a way to take this blueprint and make it where its in a certain area? I'm going to have block volumes where the player can't go past a certain point, so how can I keep the tents inside of the block volumes? https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/pr4_cklg/

[crimson swan]

Can anybody tell me what the proper way of setting text on a widget is once it's been loaded in? Because if i set some text based on variables it's always going to show 0 on construct but if i do it on tick it shows the correct numbers

[errant snow]

Generally you'd have some system for the widget to be told that the gameplay variable changed. This might be a generic event system or it could be as simple as (for example) a weapon actor making a direct call to the widget that shows its ammo count.

[crimson swan]

i see, thanks, gonna have to go implement that. I think i would have needed it anyways to update my widget on pickup so i guess it's going to fix itself in the end

[trim matrix]

yay my first

[zealous moth]

can anyone advise how to make a tick event be frame independent? I made a cannon rotate towards my cursor position however in frame heavy scenarios, it isn't fast enough.

[tight schooner]

@zealous moth Whatever calculations you're doing on tick needs to factor in World Delta Seconds -- the frametime. The tick event provides that or it can come from the Get World Delta Seconds function. At 100 fps the frametime or delta-seconds will be 0.01, for example

the nodes RInterpTo and RInterpToConstant have an input where you feed it the delta seconds

and that'll make something rotate toward a target at a framerate-independent rate

as one example way to use world delta seconds

[zealous moth]

the interp nodes were waht i needed

ty

[worthy frost]

or just multiply your rotation floats by delta time

@zealous moth

but RInterpTo and its variant makes sense here

[zealous moth]

how would that work in terms of vectors?

i mean... it is delta time...

hmm it could also work

I'll give it a shot @worthy frost 🙂

ty

[worthy frost]

well to do things at framerate independent, you multiply a value by framerate, in the case of rotation, you need to get its components

        DeltaMoveRot = (Target - Current).GetNormalized();
        NewRotator = CurrentRotator;
    NewRotator.Pitch += Clamp(DeltaMoveRot.Pitch, -DeltaRotSpeed , DeltaRotSpeed);
    NewRotator.Yaw += Clamp(DeltaMoveRot.Yaw, -DeltaRotSpeed , DeltaRotSpeed);
    NewRotator.Roll += Clamp(DeltaMoveRot.Roll, -DeltaRotSpeed , DeltaRotSpeed);
``` for example (pseudo code)

[tight schooner]

Yeah, the frametime (delta seconds) is a number that goes up when the framerate is low, and goes down when the framerate is high. So you tend to multiply whatever you're doing with that to compensate for changes in framerate if you're offsetting values on a per-frame basis

[gusty cypress]

When using Arrays can you do a "GET" of every index except one?

tried using for each loop but seemed to be the wrong direction

[dawn gazelle]

Like, you want to do something with all items within the array, except for one? Or you want to change the array to remove the one, or...?

[gusty cypress]

GET copy, purpose: game has multiple level names within an array, when the reset the level I load level stream index 0 from the array (the starting stage) but I need to unload all the other levels after that besides index 0 (first level)

[dawn gazelle]

Ok, so this I would think should serve the purpose.

[gusty cypress]

AHHHH yes

that if statement should work perfectly, thanks

[trim matrix]

Hi guys, how can I get location say 200 unit infront of my character?

[steep robin]

(normalized) Forward vector * 200.

[maiden wadi]

• CharacterWorldLocation

[trim matrix]

how to normalized the forward vector?

I'm trying to create overlap box 0, 100 and 200 units infront of the character

Normalise node

thx

[crimson swan]

quick question because my brain is already fried and i can't think

so i have a custom class of type UItem, and i made a child of type Item_Testitem

i have a function that needs an UItem input, i can't seem to feed it item_testitem. How do i get that done?

[paper galleon]

That's weird. It may depend on the pin you trying to feed into.
Pic?

[crimson swan]

to be specific i can't "select" it

[paper galleon]

Forward vector is already normalized

[crimson swan]

not really a blueprint but the c++ code associated to this node is

[paper galleon]

Ahhh. I see.

[maiden wadi]

It should work fine assuming that Item_TestItem does actually inherit from UItem.

[maiden wadi]

What is the error when you try to connect the pins?

[crimson swan]

nono i don't have an error, it just doesn't show up in the list

the list is blank

[paper galleon]

Yeah. It happens. Objects don't usually show up as assets. You'd have to construct new object

Only data assets behave differently

For pure classes, I mean. Not assets like meshes or textures etc.

[crimson swan]

i mean i'm using it as a data storage essentially if that's what you mean

[paper galleon]

The item is the inventory item, no?

[crimson swan]

it's part of my inventory component yeah

[paper galleon]

Is that data. Static throughout the game lifetime

[crimson swan]

ah ok i see what you mean, it should be though

[paper galleon]

Let me give you an example of my own setup

I have a DataAsset class that holds static data for each possible item in the game. Name, description, thumbnail, size. Etc

Then I have a struct to represent the item in a container. The struct contains the above DataAsset as a variable. This specifies the exact kind of item.
Other variables in the Struct include, container unique id, size in inventory, e.t.c

[crimson swan]

yeah that's pretty much what i'm going for

[paper galleon]

So for this, inherit from DataAsset or PrimaryDataAsset

Then you go to miscellaneous and select data asset and derive from the class you created for each instance of item you want to create.
Remember. This is for item data that shouldn't change throughout the game. Like a kind of database of item types

Use another class or a struct to represent it in an inventory(it'll be a variable in that class or struct. This is if you have any item data that can change during the game, you add it as a variable within said class or Struct

If not, you can use the data asset as is

[crimson swan]

i mean i THINK that's what i'm doing but at this point too tired to even try anything

i'll snip what your explained and i'll maul it over tomorrow, thanks

[olive sedge]

Guys.. How do you define a position for a UMG widget in the hud that you need everywhere without having to add it to all the different views that you have?

or am I the only one who has like views for the different stages of a match that he swaps?

[maiden wadi]

@olive sedge Not certain what you mean by position of the widget in the hud?

[olive sedge]

I have a chatbox widget that I want at a certain position in my HUD when the player wants to interact with it and have it hidden otherwise

if I just add it to viewport, it will be full screen and I have to uglily position it by hand

and size it

[maiden wadi]

Hmm. There's a few different ways to handle it. If it were me, I'd just place it inside of another panel inside of a more mainscreen widget, and that panel would be the one that resizes, and I'd have some simple movement animations set up to slide the box away when not in use or when clicking it to open it.

[olive sedge]

hm, ok.. I'll give that a try

thank you

[pastel garnet]

I think most are for beginners, so you’ll probably have to watch different tutorials on different things, and not just one big tutorial bunched together. Matt Aspland is a good person for various tasks, but if you want to explore blueprint nodes themselves use Matt Wadstein’ HTF or WTF series

[trim matrix]

how do i get to spawn an actor in front of my player in the direction its looking at?

[pastel garnet]

You can use the get forward vector node to find the direction that it is looking at, from there you can offset it and spawn it

[dull tree]

how can i get which controller click actor?

[pastel garnet]

How far do you want to spawn it exactly?

Directly infront?

[trim matrix]

100

100+ infront

[pastel garnet]

Put your component camera in the blueprint graph, drag off get world Rotation and get world Location.

Drag off get forward Vector from the get world rotation and then multiply the forward vector by a float of 100, then add them together and plug it into the spawn actor

[trim matrix]

i will try that thanks

[pastel garnet]

Actually this is much easier than what I said lol

[trim matrix]

aaahhhhh yeah for sure thanks

[dull tree]

any ideas?

[trim matrix]

not sure of how to setup the item location thing u showed

[pastel garnet]

It’s an arrow component

[pastel garnet]

You could try firing a line trace but that is bad practice

A line trace only to print out something when you hit a specific actor

[dull tree]

so no chance with event actor on clicked on actor i clicked? :/

[pastel garnet]

There probably is using user input

What is it you are trying to do exactly? @dull tree

[dull tree]

RTS game

first time

top down camera

and selecting units

[trim matrix]

@pastel garnet after i spawned it, my player dissapears and game freezes

[pastel garnet]

What are you trying to spawn in? @trim matrix

@dull tree https://youtu.be/Z7xgH8Kc8aA

You could try this, using get hit result under cursor by channel

[dull tree]

ooo

thanks

[trim matrix]

a donaut static white mech

[pastel garnet]

It shouldn’t do any of that.

Any errors?

[trim matrix]

just freezes, no errors

[pastel garnet]

That shouldn’t happen

Very weird

Try dragging the mesh into the level, does it freeze then?

[trim matrix]

nope

[pastel garnet]

That’s very weird

[spark steppe]

when making an blueprint from several selected objects out of the level. is there any easy way to add more items to it if i forgot to select one in the level?

[pastel garnet]

https://youtu.be/-aP-LRO1Vkk
Anybody know how to fire multiple linetraces like this?

[opaque blade]

yes they do it every frame during the animation

[summer bolt]

Hello 👋 I have a question is it possible to make something happen like an actor plays for example when an animation starts playing

[pastel garnet]

True, but how do you actually bend them?

[opaque blade]

You don't it is either sub-frame tracing (dividing a single movement of a frame up to multiple traces and doing some spline like interpolation of tangents - aka bezier)
Which is even more hefty cost due to so many small traces

They probably trace NewPosition - OldPosition

Here you see they trace multiple points on the blade

each giving a simple line

and due to high fps & animation it just looks fluid 🙂

so just like this @pastel garnet

The faded one is from F0, the red line between is just the trace between both locations basically change in location

[trim matrix]

@pastel garnet i had a lifespan thing connected to it from something else thats why it happened. its fixed. thanks for help

[pastel garnet]

Ah okay, that helped a lot, thanks!

[pastel garnet]

Good to hear

[summer bolt]

correcting this actor is spawned*

[lean thistle]

Is there a way to see if a users microphone is detecting any sound?

[olive sedge]

I have a button inside my widget but when I try to acces it in an event, it is none.. Any idea why?

[steep holly]

i think you need to set it as a variable, but im not to sure

[olive sedge]

it should be already set when I have it in the designer afaik

[steep holly]

idk then, that is my extent of knowledge

[olive sedge]

I have the suspicion that the widget is broken :/

[steep holly]

If your doing it in a separate blueprint have you used a cast to node?

[olive sedge]

nah, there's nothing to cast..

I'm getting None on the widget :/

godfdamnit. An editor restart fixed it

[steep holly]

Lol, it is always a simple fix 😂

[pastel garnet]

Anybody know how to create a simple show widget when the player looks at it?

I've tried Event ActorBeginCursorOver but it needs the cursor to show, and I don't want that.

Like the rust structure HP system

[upbeat otter]

Is layered blend bone supposed to speed up my animations? is there a way to fix it?

oh

i figured it out

[steep holly]

how do I make a character move towards an object, like a black hole? @ me

[paper galleon]

Like to simulate gravity?

Lots of plugins but the foundation is a Addforce in the direction of the center of the blackhole actor

[trim matrix]

whats wrong here? i want it to use the text from textbox to set the variable lifespantime too

[cold raft]

From Editable TextBox you first need to call GetText(?) to get the value typed in. What you are currently doing is getting the object and trying to pass that as the value

[prisma sage]

Can anyone help me with basics? I did this and when i start the game, camera is under my vehicle, i can't zoom, only rotate around vehicle, what doesn't make any sense. Something similar worked with other asset.

[prisma stag]

https://streamable.com/seu733 Hello, in the video I have made a conveyor system that seems to work fine, however as you can see, the movement in between belts in jittery as in, you can every time that I go into the next collision box.

It is just the default movement when you load a project. I was not moving myself in the video however, and this jittering happens with any object placed on it.

Correct. I use that video as well. The conveyor works fine. However what Ive done is each block that I placed is its own conveyor and it seems that the jitering is happening in between each conveyor.

I did make an offset in between each one because if I made the collision the same size as the box placed, the collision would think they are colliding and would move. So I made them .1 cm smaller but it still does the jittering

[trim matrix]

how can I use a Timeline to print text?

I need text and numbers so converting from float is not an option

[summer bolt]

Did i miss out something or i just need some patientce

[trim matrix]

ahh its buildstring

[pastel garnet]

Anybody can help me with replicating a barricade system?

It shows for the server but not for the client

[coarse forge]

I don't know much about it.. but aren't there replication settings for variables and events in blueprint?

[pastel garnet]

Yes

But I doubt replicating variables would help

[wild crater]

Hi guys, I'm looking into the SaveGame class. I wanted to combine this with reloading the level to respawn destroyed entities. Currently I do this OnBeginPlay of the Level, this way I get to respawn my character on a checkpoint location while also reloading the level. However, as I am using a save file, the checkpoint is remembered even when I quit playing. Is there an event on quit play that I can use to erase the checkpoint save?

[pastel garnet]

That's the replication

[coarse forge]

yup

so.. you are saying the client one doesn't fire?

[pastel garnet]

I mean, it can press F to build

but the line traces or the barricades won't show for the client

just the server

[coarse forge]

sorry wish I could help

where are the line traces?

that first bp block you sent?

[pastel garnet]

Yes

2nd*

[coarse forge]

so looking at your screen shots

the boards show on the server.. but the client doesn't see boards at all?

[pastel garnet]

Yep

[coarse forge]

hmm.. so outside of linetracing... where are the boards actually being built on the client?

i see that first screenshot

[wind sequoia]

@pastel garnet When u use inputs inputs are only client so that switch has authority is useless

and so is the multicast

[pastel garnet]

right

[pastel garnet]

I don't really know

[coarse forge]

your first bp screen shot shows the board builder maybe?

[pastel garnet]

Actually yes

[coarse forge]

thats the server event?

[pastel garnet]

All are run on server

after mmmm said the multicast on client are useless

[wild crater]

bump!

[coarse forge]

look at you bumping. Is there a way to clear it manually before end game?

[wild crater]

Well I want it cleared when I stop playing. So I'm looking for an event that triggers when I stop the simulation but that doesn't trigger when I load a level

As I am using the level reload instead of reset to respawn everything (It's for prototyping)

[coarse forge]

sure.. what I'm getting at. Maybe you might want to make an event or function that clears it or resets it

then just call that right before level reload

[wild crater]

That won't work because I use load level and THEN I load my savegame for a spawn location, score, etc.

[earnest tangle]

Have you tried using the logout even in GameMode?

Not sure if that runs on level reload though

[wild crater]

So I need the savegame to persist through level loading, but not when quitting the game

[wild crater]

Didnt know that one, but it's also called when the level is reloaded

[earnest tangle]

One easy way to do it would be something like this: Put a flag in your GameInstance called "ReloadingLevel" or something, default it to false. If you reload a level, set it to true before it happens

Then you can check in your code whether the flag is set to determine if you should load the checkpoint or no

[wild crater]

Okay that should work

yea that seems to work @earnest tangle , thanks!

[uncut lark]

So Im curious about flying AI. I see UE4 doesnt support 3D navmeshes out the box, so what are the best methods to implement this?

[wild crater]

As far as I know a solution to this is using a 3D grid but this becomes really expensive really fast so they sometimes use an octree where larger area's get larger cells. However that complicates pathfinding to a degree because you can't just pick the most promising cell like you would with normal A*, you probably need some kind of bias to use the larger cells.

Alternatively you could check out the EQS system, I think you can use that to find paths as well.

[coarse forge]

What i've seen used with some bird packs are random point generation and pathing associated with that

Quick Question

1st is my Hudbp, 2nd is my progress bar widget

Does that seem correctish?

added some more stuff

[supple plank]

How would i create a loop that would spawn in an actor every second?

[coarse forge]

use tick

[supple plank]

I thought about that, do i need to make a variable and add up the seconds passed for every tick?

[coarse forge]

or.. you can cheat..

maybe use delay 1.0

not sure if that is already seconds or fps LOL

[gentle urchin]

Tick isnt every second and shouldnt be used to spawn actors ...

And setting currentpercentDone to itself doesnt change anything so its sort of a pointless set node...

For spawning actors every second you could use an event timer

[coarse forge]

hmm.. let me double check that node.. i might have made the var the same as the progress bar one

thx.. this is really what I wanted

😦

[gentle urchin]

Altho it still looks abit odd to run it on ticknin the event itself but maybe thats just my thinking

[coarse forge]

i wasn't sure how to use the timeline

[gentle urchin]

Would guess ur updating the variables externally

[coarse forge]

not really any vars.. its a progress bar

duration is the only thing changing

[gentle urchin]

Wouldnt think that would work properly but maybe im missing something

[coarse forge]

well progress bar shows LOL

just doesn't progress

😦

to debuggin i go

[gentle urchin]

Yed but i would think the progress doesnt work

The progress doesnt make sense

For this to work , in the resolution you've selected(tick) you need to update the progress with progress + tick delta

Then update the progressbar with progress / duration

[coarse forge]

K im missing this part..

[gentle urchin]

So CurrentProgress + Delta(tick) = Currentprogress.
Then CurrentProgress / Duration = SetPercent

[coarse forge]

ah

More like this

[gentle urchin]

No..

[coarse forge]

i should probably rename this

    float CurrentPercentDone;

i think thats my current progress

sorry wrong node

[gentle urchin]

But it shouldnt be updated with percent

Like... current percent done is more like TimeElapsed

So first you should update TimeElapsed then you should update percent

[coarse forge]

hmm

[minor pagoda]

Hi, can someone help me with this? Is my custon Player State, but i cant load serverside info, even i pass it from client to server to recreate an UserObject

[tough warren]

how can i print variable value in console?

[coarse forge]

print string

[tough warren]

yeah, but it doesnt update

the variable changes during runtime and it doesnt update?

[raw dew]

so i am working on a uni project and iv been fallowing some tutorials around to cuz i have no ideea how to replicate most of the stuff, i added this to create 2 teams on spawn but i cant find a way to get who is in what team so i can setup colors for each one and also make them not shoot eachoter

this is the part where i assign a team in the gamemodeBP

i made a repnotify character color variable to change to color of the mesh but im not sure where to add it in here to have team A blue and team B red

[coarse forge]

you should be able to set the var, then get the var then print string the var

[tough warren]

ok, thanks

[coarse forge]

is tick not enabled by default on widgets>?

the progress bar shows

but.. none of the breakpoints in tick hit

nothing

[lofty hound]

Does anyone know why the player character gets rotated wonky on the x axis after climbing round a cornor?