blueprint

[fallow fox]

It looks like if I disable occlusion culling, it's working. Can I disable the culling for an AI or for a specific animation?

[nimble igloo]

I need your help ...

I want the character when he jumps in the air through which a button is pressed until he jumps a second time
???

I need your help ...

I want the character when he jumps in the air through which a button is pressed until he jumps a second time

[tulip iris]

Quick Question:
Why doesn't the "World" variable show up in structs?

[gentle urchin]

Is there any red flags using interface to temporarily forward a tick event from another actor?

[astral estuary]

If I need a map to have two gamemodes to choose from... Do I need the levels to be duplicated? Can I override the gamemode when traveling to a map?

[trim matrix]

Does this create new references of each stat in StatsComponent? I'm modifying a value inside each struct through the UI but the updated values doesn't persist after every GetStats call, so I'm a bit confused as to why since I'm passing it by reference to my update functions.

[glacial eagle]

Yeah, that's an array that contains copies

[vague lake]

Can anyone help me i built a 2 weapon equip and swap system but i added a pistol also but character is not equipping it
I dont know why.
I can screen share if somebody can help me.

[small cloak]

hello. is it possible to read material properties (like world position offset) in a blueprint?

[undone parcel]

Hey, does anyone know how to make a character selection for a 2D Side Scroller?

How can I swap it when pressing on a Button? I know, I'm a Noob😅

Ok, thanks

[silent vortex]

I looked at using behavior trees and ai perception to move an enemy, but I can't seem to get it to work with the nav mesh (because I think doesn't work with 2D), os is there a way to incorporate patrol movement and player sensing in 2D? perhaps without using nav meshes?

[sharp vine]

Hey all
Please does anyone here have experience with AIs I’m having issues building my melee AI and j need help
Thanks in advance

[astral estuary]

#gameplay-ai ?

[sharp vine]

Thanks

[silent vortex]

thank you

[long smelt]

Hey there.

Will querying a curve on tick cause me any performance problems?

dang

think I can get away with it, using a lower tick interval?

[queen compass]

What exactly are you planning to do?

[wary tinsel]

Hey guys do someone know how to attach or snap two sockets from two different characters? Like shaking hands for example Thanksss

[faint pasture]

Don't worry about it. Make the damn thing work then if you need speed, move it to c++.

What are you trying to do?

[queen compass]

Hey, what is the difference between the Interface Call and Message? Strange enough, the official documentation does not cover that part ->-

[long smelt]

Fair enough 😂

[wary tinsel]

the call it's for the same bp if I'm not wrong, 'message' will spread to other bp too 🙂

[long smelt]

I sometimes forget that is how you're supposed to work with UE

[queen compass]

If its for the same bp, then I could just use a regular Function Call

If im not wrong

[languid lion]

Did you figure out a solution? Unreal's character movement has a built-in system for this

[wary tinsel]

generally you want to use interfaces to avoid cast, If It's for the same bp you can avoid, but of course it depends on the situation

[languid lion]

Not a 100% sure, but message does not take interface reference, call can

[faint pasture]

Interface calls local only. I don't know if there's any advantage to using the call versus the message.

[queen compass]

Isnt just a function call local only, not Interface call?

This one

[queen compass]

Hey, I have never tried it myself, but wouldn't something like AttachComponentToComponent work? You can specify the socket to attach to on the parent.

[wary tinsel]

It's what I'm doing but it won't snap on the right place. I tried to preview this in the skeletal mesh but it doesn't match 😦

[queen compass]

You tried changing the Location Rule, right?

[wary tinsel]

yes of course

It snaps in the wrong place, I give the other character an offset so he can snaps in the right place but have no idea

[narrow bear]

@wary tinsel

[faint pasture]

It all depends if you are trying to use rotation or just location. Anyway, I would either manually move the second actor to position and then attach keeping relative, or snap it to the socket and then manually move it to offset

[narrow bear]

Put that in a function library and call it a day 🙂

[wary tinsel]

cool dude thanks 😄 I wil ltry this one

[narrow bear]

Gave me enough grief when I had to do it, I put this together from a bunch of stuff I found online

😄

[astral estuary]

can I make a blueprint function with multiple returns Exec pins? (or inherit a macro from a parent blueprint? )

[wary tinsel]

i hope will work the same with actors haha 🙂

[narrow bear]

Maybe try passing the root component

[bitter tundra]

Hey folks, quick question regarding combat system components and anim montages.
I have 7 characters that I wish to be playable, they are all based on the UE4 skeleton, with that said I am a bit stuck on how to generate multiple character profiles from one component.
So my main question is, for an ability, such as “kick”, how can I set it up so that it calls the correct montage for the character chosen.
I.E. montage variations plugged in for each ability for each character and it should auto sort the montages based on the mesh used.
Any ideas? (Doing a quick multiplayer demo, and not using GAS atm, just pure Bp for demo sake)

[faint pasture]

Have the character blueprint define which montage to use for kicking

You basically just say hey character, do a kick. The character looks and says oh okay my kick montage is character B kick montage, coming right up.

That's just basic polymorphism. Just like how you would say hey gun, shoot a bullet. And the gun would have data about what it's bullet is.

You could make one character blueprint and have the child classes be data only classes, were you just swap out the mesh, swap out the montages, move some numbers around, etc.

[alpine terrace]

Anyone can tell me how I can change the auto lock or how it is called? I want the dot on the same level as the input in order to create a straight line

This looks ugly <.<

[narrow bear]

Select and press q

[alpine terrace]

You are a life saver dude!

❤️

[narrow bear]

Also try shift +w/shift+a/shift+s/shift+d @alpine terrace

[alpine terrace]

Thanks!

[bitter tundra]

Solid thought so 😁

[nimble igloo]

The attack does not work when the buttons are selected

I want to use the kick and button attack but it doesn't work please help 👆

[alpine terrace]

0,2 is quite fast what happens if you set it true the whole time?

[fossil osprey]

Hey im trying to make a widget appear on a public screen in front of everyone on a tv, anybody have an idea how to do that?

[earnest tangle]

@fossil osprey there's a widget component, have you tried using that?

[fossil osprey]

no what does that do?

[earnest tangle]

it draws a UMG widget in world space

[fossil osprey]

oh yes i just remembered but i want it to be stationary and not rotate

[earnest tangle]

As in always facing the player?

[fossil osprey]

um as in being able to look behind it but thanks for the help! i think i found what i was looking for online, thanks for mentioning widget component i totally forgot it was a thing, and it has the option to make it stationary!

[earnest tangle]

Yep it should do that by default iirc :)

[dawn gazelle]

If its set in world space it'll stay stationary.

Editor

Runtime

[astral zenith]

Hullo. I have a Blueprint best practices question: If we need to change the name of a dispatch event, any existing events added via the green + buttons in the details of the component/actor simply get a yellow warning label and silently fail. My most recent issue where this happened, I just used reference viewer to painstakingly update all the old events. Is there a best practice around updating dispatch names and having all the events in use automatically update to the new name?

[earnest tangle]

The one thing that kinda annoys me about the widget component is that it can become extremely blurry because of TAA and there just is no very good fix for it :\ (or at least I failed to find one)

But it kinda depends on exactly what you're doing with it - you might not even run into the problem in most use cases

[wary tinsel]

It's like he snaps to the pivot of the character and not to the specific location of the socket, any suggestion?

[narrow bear]

Not sure, it works great for me. I use it like this:

Not sure if the first AttachActorToActor is necessary, I think I did without too. But I found it better with

(I should clean up those lines, brrrr)

[narrow bear]

"Child" here is skeletal mesh

[wary tinsel]

really appreciate your help dude, thanks @narrow bear

[narrow bear]

👀 @icy pilot

I saw that, did you get it sorted? 😄

[cobalt temple]

Hello, I have this actor on the ground in my level. It is built in actor running on the server, and it is set to replicate. When it takes damage, I would like it to spawn a particle effect to all multiplayer clients in the most efficient way as possible. Is it best to add a particle system component and activate/unhide it into the BP, or should I call a multicast function? I'm new and self taught, thanks in advance

[icy pilot]

Yeah, dumb thinking from me caused it xD

[cobalt temple]

I'll have say 200 p_fire particle spawns active at any one time

Would this be better in visual effects or multiplayer channel?

[silent vortex]

i'm struggling here....how do I create a patrolling system for an enemy in 2d? I'm only seeing tutorials for side scroller and 3D.

[cobalt temple]

Meh ill just try both

Can you preset points in a pattern and move between them?

[deft nimbus]

Do you mean importing it as an asset? I'm just dragging the texture into the editor, that makes it usable for me

ah oh during runtime

I guess there are several ways to display an image during runtime. What exactly do you want? I'm quite new myself but I'm doing something like that, at least in terms of GUI

[bitter tundra]

Somehow I managed to get my AI characters to run the montages but not my actual playable character. Dying laughing over here(in reference to my previous help request).

[faint pasture]

Both ai and player driven characters should be calling the same event. What's the problem?

[solid summit]

Hi, I followed a tutorial on showing a widget on screen and it worked but I get an error in the message log sometimes. Any reason why?

[faint pasture]

You really ought to save that widget to a variable.

[solid summit]

Oh, I've never done that before.

[faint pasture]

And I probably wouldn't have a door reached directly into the ui, just have it call events that the player controller itself uses to show and hide the UI

Just an event enter door area and event left door area

If you're going to have more than just doors, you'll want to generalize your system a lot more but I would get this working first. A generalized system will be like show interaction prompt and hide interaction prompt

[solid summit]

Hmm okay thank you!

[dapper adder]

Hello, i am making a gokart racing game where AI is racing against the player. Instead of a Win Widget when the Players drives through all the checkpoints and win i want it so that the collision box/finishline counts all the AI that has driven past the finish line and when the player drives through it shows the players position after the race: For example: "You finished 3rd!" there's apparently not a single youtube tutorial for it on the internet and was wondering if anyone could help me. Sorry for the weird explanation but hope you guys will understand. 🙂 Thanks for the help in advance.

[faint pasture]

And then a fully robust system would have the overlap area on the character, and then when something that overlaps on the interaction channel enters the area, you get all overlapping interaction actors, choose one (probably the closest) and update UI accordingly. You do the same thing when one leaves the area.

[dapper adder]

I have a checkpoint system so that the player has to drive throufg checkpoint 1 and 2 before checkpoint 3 at the finish line so maybe an array of some sort in that blueprint

[faint pasture]

Every player should have some data representing the checkpoints they have passed through. Once all checkpoints including the finish line have been passed through, you call some event the adds them to the finished race array. Then you'll have all the finishes in order.

[shrewd summit]

anybody have any idea why code won't go through a behaviour tree? The first blueprint is meant to fire off when a condition (in range) is false, and then, when (in range) is true, it's meant to do the second part (yes, i checked and "is not set" and "is set" is fine,) but even when the condition is true, it still goes into the first BP and the second one is never fired off
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/494173557291483147/824719899317239828/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/494173557291483147/824719941244158002/unknown.png

additional video to show problem

[astral estuary]

Can I force a blueprint function to be virtual/abstract? (ie a child blueprint MUST implement it?)

[bitter tundra]

That’s what I’m wondering, my abilities fire on player character, but the animations do not. However, damage functionality works across the board.

I should mention this is all network replicated

I’m dumb.
Sorted it out

[long schooner]

Hi, is there a way to spawn a blueprint actor?

[earnest tangle]

Spawn Actor

[long schooner]

can I choose a specific location or something?

[earnest tangle]

Yes, it takes a transform as one of its parameters

[long schooner]

I will look it up

thanks

[sweet swan]

I've made a function to determine the direction my character is facing and multiply the vector to determine a velocity for launching the character. The issue is the character always gets launched in the direction that it is moving rather than the direction it is looking. I would have thought the override coordinates on the launch node would have fixed this but it doesn't seem to. Anyone have any ideas how I can launch my character in the direction that he is looking even if he's moving in the opposite direction?

[faint pasture]

Is your capsule orienting to the control rotation or velocity?

[sweet swan]

control rotation

even this doesnt give it a fixed direction

[faint pasture]

Shouldn't that always launch it diagonally in X and y?

Although 100z isn't very much

[sweet swan]

Thats what I would expect but it still launches him in the direction that he is moving

[faint pasture]

Are you sure you don't have some sort of very strong air control? like it's being launched but then the velocity is being completely overridden by the character movement component? What happens if you have no movement input at all when it is launched?

[sweet swan]

if no movement input it works as expected

moves top-right aka x = 1, y = 1

I'll look into the movement component a little more and see if I can't find something there

[sweet swan]

Looks like it was default air control lol

[floral condor]

how would i go about writing a little function that rotates a propeller based on the velocity of the actor

[faint pasture]

Rotation delta per frame = frametime x velocity x somefloat

[wooden adder]

He I got a question, I am working on a school project but having issues when re spawning my charac

We are using lots of hazards in the map which take time to reset on death

the issue is that when respawning you still die to these resetting hazards

So i would like to disable collision on respawn for 1 sec or so

Anyone knows how to do this since i can,t figure it out?, I am in the voice but you can also dm me if you want to help 🙂

also my blueprint is massive so can,t really share it here

[floral condor]

can physics constraint components move? I have a lantern attached to a pawn and I want the lantern to swing around, so I put a physics constraint on the pawn, but when the pawn moves the lantern and physics constraint don't move with it

[faint pasture]

Yeah they move, did you set the constrained components?

[floral condor]

I got it all working now, except for whatever reason, when I hit play or simulate, the physics constraint rotates 90 degrees:
https://gyazo.com/666eec4a606e832161f25675c0683017

[floral condor]

nvm i got it lol i just set it to start off at a 90 degree angle🤷

[gritty plover]

Has anybody here used DoN's 3D navigation plugin before? I think I need some help.

[prisma stag]

Hello, I have a made a conveyor with multiple pins that I would like to rotate when an event is called, so I set an object array variable on begin play. But in the event, I cant setrelativelocation from the object pin on the for loop?

[mental sail]

I keep getting these strage variables in blueprints that return null values when clearly there are values in them by default. This has got to be an engine bug...

[surreal swallow]

Is it typed as an object array? It should be typed as actor or scene component or whatever your pins are

[prisma stag]

They are a staticmesh component.

[faint pasture]

Make int CurrentIndex, every time it's called, set CurrentIndex = (CurrentIndex +1)%ArraySize

[prisma stag]

? I'm just trying to rotate each pin so I was going to use a for each loop and the loop body be a addactorrelative rotation but I can't hook up the object reference from the for loop go the relativerotation

[faint pasture]

Oh I thought I were trying to rotate thru the array

Ya just foreach it

[prisma stag]

Thats what I am trying to do however when I drag off the Array Element pin there is no addrelativerotation

Or would it be better to do this?

[spark steppe]

do you want to rotate all by the same amount?

[prisma stag]

Yep. I did this but I feel this will lag the game if the player adds more conveyors.

[spark steppe]

with that approach you can't even add more pins, why not using the array and the foreach loop?

the addrelativerotation node might not show up because your array has the wrong data type

[prisma stag]

the pin amount wont change. Here is the model

[spark steppe]

ah, i see

[prisma stag]

The arrow is the way the collision pushes the actors that land on it, I am trying to get it so that the pins rotate to look as if they are moving the objects on top.

[spark steppe]

you don't actually have to rotate the pins or whatever those are called

you're probably better off to fake the movement in the material shader, by shifting the UV coordinate for the texture

[prisma stag]

Huh. I havent worked with UVs yet as I just wanted things to work then go back and make them look good, so would I make the material and then just have it "animate" in the materials event graph?

[spark steppe]

ok, that might be a bit complicated to explain then

[prisma stag]

Yea, if you have a video link I will definitely take a look and might delve into UVs a little sooner than expected.

[spark steppe]

uhm, i don't have a video link but i know that you can get this for free https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/twinmotion-materials

and then in masters directory there is M_Light_Source_Master which is a material which does something similar

and in Materials/Emissive there is ML_NeonFade which makes use of that (as iirc the master material has the fading disabled, but all the logic is inside of it)

[prisma stag]

Cool. I will look up some videos as I assume animating materials is much less process consuming then actually "animating" the components.

[spark steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7DBbDhLjY

yea, specially if you combine all the parts to one mesh, so you get way less draw calls for the same visual effect

[prisma stag]

Cool, the only problem is that my game is going to be low poly, so the pins on the conveyor are somewhat like an octagon so I don't know how that will work unless I will have to make them circular.

[spark steppe]

and if you use dynamic material instance for the material, and add a scalar parameter for the speed to the material, you can still control the speed at which the rolls appear to move

[prisma stag]

Nice. This will be handy.

[spark steppe]

well, what i described works best with a cylinder mesh, on low poly it'll look weird

there's still the option to bake the animation to the mesh

[prisma stag]

Yea. Ill have to see what I can do with that then, unless I do just make them cylindrical.

[prisma stag]

But wouldnt that cause the same processing problem with the adding rotation?

[spark steppe]

it would be considered as one mesh by unreal if you do it correct, so there would only be one object which has to be rendered, but im honestly not sure how much of performance you gain from that

[prisma stag]

I see.

[spark steppe]

you can still keep your current approach, spawn 1000 of them, and see how well it performs

[prisma stag]

Ok, will give that a try. If it comes to it, I will just have to make the pins cylindrical and do an animated material

Only added 32 and definitive performance loss.

[faint pasture]

Yeah for conveyor belt rollers, 100% absolutely, animated material

Or ISM if you need the geometry to be spinning

[onyx token]

i have a question

I'm learning unreal right now - and i got the basic 3rd person character template

(unless you guys aren't done yet)

[prisma stag]

How could I do it with a non cylindrical object with an animated mat?

[prisma stag]

No your fine.

[onyx token]

ok, so i got a third person character template
And i wanna use LineTraceByChannel to shoot Lines around my level that hit a target. When it hits the target, i want the name above the target to become visible

and since the camera always looks a little down, and that's annoying, i've decided i could make an empty (or cube or something) underneath the player camera, that only copies the X & Y location of the camera

This cube shoots the lines

but for some reason, this doesn't reposition the cube 😦

this is set to fire every tick

this should move the cube to the XY camera position every tick shouldn't it?

[prisma stag]

I believe so. Why not just add a cube in the ThirdPerson blueprint?

[onyx token]

i did

it's in the blueprint, but i can't child it as anything, because then it'd just copy all of the transforms

[prisma stag]

If you make it a child of the camera, you can then move it down, then it will move with your camera.

[onyx token]

but it would still move up and down if i move the camera up and down

i need a cube that just glides above the ground, and rotates with the cameraBoom around the Z axis

[prisma stag]

Ah I see. hm.

I havent worked with that so I dont really know sorry. Hopefully someone else will be able to respond.

[onyx token]

still thank you 😄

[trim matrix]

who here can help with a blueprint problem im having

[onyx token]

wooo i did the thing!

[trim matrix]

im trying to make a Titanfall 2 fangame. coding the sliding ability and the Titan is proving to be a big challenge

[unborn maple]

we cant help you if you dont post more detail

[onyx token]

while he's posting it- i've positioned my cube now

but in order to shoot rays from my cube - i need the rotation

but i can't find it 😦

I found the world location, but where's the world rotation?

[trim matrix]

is there easy way to release all keys ?

[onyx token]

ok nvm

i fixed it

i didn't know i could split the Return Value into it's XYZ components lol

and just ignore the Z value

[jovial dirge]

How would I check when something leaves a sphere trace?

[mental sail]

Is there a better / cleaner way to stop a physics simulating object (that is moving) from moving than this?

[faint pasture]

@prisma stag You do it the same way you do any other animated mat, just pan your UVs

What does your material look like anyway? Can you even tell it's moving?

[narrow kelp]

How would i get all actors in a radius when they dont have any collision?

[onyx token]

i think you can mask collisions

idk how exactly tho

[narrow kelp]

SphereOverlapActors just ignores my actors that with no collision 😦

I guess I have to make a place to register them or something

[outer fossil]

Can anyone explain why the ball is blurry when I move it around? It is a pawn, with a spring arm and a camera within the springarm.

[mystic lantern]

You probably need to have some sort of collision on them, but make it so they are only overlap

[narrow kelp]

Yeah I think you're right. Pretty lame but what can you do

[mystic lantern]

if you really wanted them to have collision you could, but alternatively you could use custom collision channels for other things

[twilit heath]

register is more code but better performance

[narrow kelp]

good point

[onyx token]

what is happening? 😶

why does this connect

i hate referencing

[wind sequoia]

😐

[onyx token]

ok i need the child of an actor. In my case the third person character, i need the camera of that.

How the fug do i get that camera into a different actor BP ?

cast doesn't work 😦

[mystic lantern]

you would probably need to cast it by getting the player controller, casting that to the thirdpersoncharacter, then pull that pin off to get the camera. its probably throwing an error because that self doesn't have a follow camera

[onyx token]

wait it's that difficult? O_o

i really gotta go down the entire tree

i thought it'd be like in unity where i just need to go "xd lmao gimme gameobject" and it does it...

[mystic lantern]

hang on

you need something to reference to cast. you cant cast something that you are trying to reference

that camera boom is something from my project. so you would grab your follow camera off of that third person character pin

[onyx token]

well i would basically have to run down the list of child objects until i arrive at what i want? O_o

[mystic lantern]

no. you cant do that

[onyx token]

i just need the camera loc...

[mystic lantern]

the node that i have plugged into my cast is what you need

just search for it

[onyx token]

so i gotta use "Get Player Character" ?

But what if it's not part of my player character next time?

[mystic lantern]

you just have to reference what you are trying to get a piece of. you can't get what you want a reference of without any reference of it and try to get it's component. it's like having a public variable in unity and not slotting it with anything and trying to use it in code

[onyx token]

oooooh ok i get it.... i think

So it's the other way round

first i gotta cast to the root object, and then choose the child

not reference the child => to the root object => to the location

but the root object => to the child => to the location

[mystic lantern]

yea. unreal works slightly strangely because sometimes things come as their base form. like if you are trying to get a specific actor, you have to get a reference to that actor, then cast it to the specific class to get the pieces of it. it makes sense once you do it enough, but it's a learning curve from unity

[onyx token]

i see...

so if i wanted to cast from let's say a cube that i got in my level

i would cast the actor - and the "object wildcard" would be the root object of that actor - and the Object Reference on the right would be the child object of the root object

oof

[mystic lantern]

the object wildcard gray pin would be the actor itself.

then you cast it to the correct type of actor that you had and get whatever components it has from the right pin

[hollow zephyr]

If I buy an asset pack off the market place, and it says it was done entirely in blueprint, do I have access to edit the blue prints?

[mystic lantern]

i've never bought anything off the marketplace, but I would assume you would have access to edit it. maybe someone else who has would have more insight.

[onyx token]

i still don't get it
So i cast to an actor. And for instance - have an actor which is just a trigger box, a cube & a particle system.

but no matter which one of these i pick

it always looks like this

[mystic lantern]

so, you need a reference object to cast to the cube fire. you could be doing a line trace, an overlap, or something. once you have a reference you cast it to cube fire. assuming the thing you cast is of type cube fire, you can access it's components from the right pin

[onyx token]

so how do i get that reference? via a variable?

[mystic lantern]

there's many ways to get a reference. its a matter of what you are doing and why you want the reference

[onyx token]

aaah okay so like this

And then i can choose it in the editor

i see

[mystic lantern]

now you are getting it

[onyx token]

phew... thanks so much for explaining it to me, that would've taken me forever if it wasn't for you

[mystic lantern]

it's a weird learning curve going from unity to unreal. however once you get the hang of the nuances you'll be on your way to creating whatever you want. glad i could help

[light garnet]

Session not found in android but it's fine in editor. Version 4.26

[late shuttle]

Actor with hierarchical mesh placed in level. No problems. Fine. We cool. Everything works as intended.

YET, if I try to spawn that EXACT SAME ACTOR instead of placing it in the level..... it crashes the game?????? Halp.

[obtuse herald]

Hierarchical instanced meshes are buggy in runtime, since there where originally meant to be used for foliage etc. If you don't need the benefits of Hierarchical instanced meshes use Instanced meshes instead, they are way more stable in runtime.

If you need the benefits then try to add the instances to the component after the actor got created, instead of spawning it with predefined instances.

[honest imp]

Could sb help me? I'm trying to do it that whenever i press f3 it shows information the speed and stuff like that. My idea was that i create a Object in the HUD and make a script whenever the button is pressed it returns "Visible" but how do i now get "Input Action Info" into the Script in HUD? I've also tried to go into the Third person Character Controller, Cast it to the FPS HUD and set the boolean to true or false but i cant cast it because i don't know which object i need to use.

[obtuse herald]

How did you cast it?

[honest imp]

Input Action f3 dragged to Cast to FPS hud and from as FPS Hud to Set INFO Visible

[obtuse herald]

And what was your object in?

[honest imp]

Thats the Problem... I dont know what to set there

[obtuse herald]

You need to save a reference of your UMG somewhere when you create it (Alternatively you can use
'Get All Widgets Of Class' to get the reference every time). With that reference you can change the values of your UMG.

[honest imp]

Sorry but i dont get it xd

I was thinking its as easy as casting the Third person Character in the FPS Hud

[brittle spade]

I'm pretty sure that it has a connection...

what more can I do?

[obtuse herald]

wait a min, i'll show you

[honest imp]

Thanks anyways i found a workaround... I just Created the Boolean in the Third person character BP and then casted The third person player in the Hud BP and it works

[honest imp]

But i have another question. How do i make it so i dont need to hold the button so it shows the info? I mean i want it toggle

[obtuse herald]

use the FlipFlop node

[honest imp]

Thanks a lot

[obtuse herald]

Are you creating your Widget inside an Object (not an Actor)?

[brittle spade]

yes

it's supposed to be an inventory manager which should make widgets derived from a c++ class

[devout lodge]

is there any solution on fixing this stupid error?

[obtuse herald]

You can't create a widget inside an UObject (Inside BP at least), because UObjects don't have a World Context.

[honest imp]

How do i toggle a Camera?

[brittle spade]

I'm aware of that, but doesn't a player controller is enough as a world context? From what I see it's not, what else should I provide so I can init it?

[honest imp]

I mean i have 2 Cameras, one for First person and the Other for Third person and it want to Disable one Camera so it uses the Camera the Player wants

[devout lodge]

here is the "SaveData" Structure which isn't being accepted

[obtuse herald]

Try to not use an Obejct for that.
You could try a Macro Library or an Actor Component instead.

[obtuse herald]

Right-click the BP asset on content browser Asset Actions -> Reload.

[devout lodge]

@obtuse herald

[obtuse herald]

Did you reload the BP or the struct?

[devout lodge]

struct

[obtuse herald]

reload the BP

[devout lodge]

but then i did the bp

and it worked

thank you!

ur the best!!!

[obtuse herald]

you're welcome

[olive ingot]

How do I get a list of all actor components of an actor? Let's say I add a lot of random actor components and I want to print out which ones the actor has.

[obtuse herald]

'GetComponentsByClass' and select 'Actor Component' as class

[trim matrix]

you have to create a custom groom component cpp with getters and setters for properties, that you can change at runtime.
did you manage to add groomassets to you chars at runtime?

[fiery siren]

I have this really weird bug where I have this interface function opening a gate in my Subscriber. Why does it detect an finfinite loop? The only possibility I see if the Subscriber array would be modified during that loop, but it does not. It simply opens a gate on all subscribers that has some small functions behind them. The DoOnce should make this only happen one time .... what could this be?

This is the receiving side. If i disconnect the gate, it all works fine, as soon as I connect it, it doesn't work anymore

[obtuse herald]

Do you call Event_Highlight somewhere?

[fiery siren]

yes, it's called when I click a button. in that moment the infinite loop gets detected

but I don't understand why >_<

[obtuse herald]

Can you show me the entire graph of the Event_Highlight event?

[fiery siren]

ah, I looked at the stack and the problem is not at this function... in reality the highlight-node is flawed, because it's sets a value on the server and the server updates the value so highlight is called again when the switch rotates to the highlight position it's already in. that shouldn't happen of course

Thank you for your help, I feel so dumb now >_<

It's a little complicated, but my controller had a function to "Fake" a received message from the server and that was the bug.

Switch send: I'm in position 1
Server Fake Response was: you are in position 1
Switch rotated to position 1
Switch send: I'm in position 1
[... and so on... ] ^^

strangely the loop was detected on this delay node that opened the gate to that infinite loop for whatever reason 😄

[keen terrace]

Hi all, looking for a wee bit of guidance on UI. I believe it is WidgetSwitcher I need, but the how is got me a bit confused. I think I am failing as the execution is ending before I get the chance to check which option is selected. I need a sub menu to open a show my next part of the widget/UI

to become once selected

I need to know how to update the Body Checkbox, and then activate the Body window widget

[dark crow]

WidgetSwitcher can have multiple children and the order is important

It's like an Array

First item will be Index 0
Second Index 1

So for example if you make Body Widget (not button) be the first child, then when you click Body Button you wanna get a ref of the WidgetSwitcher and SetActiveWidgetIndex to 0

[keen terrace]

@dark crow Thank you for the reply and advice. Im confused on the Index. Currently I have it set up as so, (not working of course) and I dont really know very much. Maybe if I understood the dos and donts of this part I'd understand what you mean a bit better

Excuse my ignorance please, I'm hopelessly new at this

[dark crow]

Dunno if the best way to do it like i did but it works

Lemme dig up an example

[keen terrace]

@dark crow appreciated!

[dark crow]

This is done by another BP, that's why it has the Host Menu ref :p

[keen terrace]

@dark crow Thank you! I will go play around with this and see if I can get any further

I will likely be back haha

[obtuse herald]

Yeah, unreal engine often just points it's finger at random things in an infinite loop detection.

[keen terrace]

@dark crow Do you know how I can constantly check which button has been pressed? It seems my code is running start to finish within seconds and then ending. I can get the behaviour I want only if I had a delay. So I start the game select Body, the delay is still running and once it has ended it then displays Index 1 ( which is what I want) my problem is the delay is something I dont want and the whole code only runs once and doesnt check for any other buttons pressed

I hope that makes sense

[dark crow]

If you're running the Switcher on Construct it won't work

[keen terrace]

yep thats exaclty what im doing....what do I need to look into?

[dark crow]

Do it like i did, so you have a vertical box of buttons no?

And each button represents a widget when clicked

In my example i have Singleplayer Button
Its widget location in the switcher is the first one

So OnClicked Singleplayer Button -> SetActiveWidgetIndex 0

Lookie at the screens above i sent

Shortly when i click the button it tells the widget switcher to use index 0 so the Singleplayer Widget

[golden junco]

Hey there,
I ran into a problem. I made a simple "random tree generator" blueprint. It works fine, the trees look nice, but each time I open the level they are generated from scratch and require the lightning to be rebuild. Is there a clever way to generate them at random, but also make them remember their parameters when I'm happy with them? I plan to use those mostly as a level design tool.

[keen terrace]

Currently I have 1 widget for ALL my buttons together. And 1 widget for the Body Window that pops up. Looking at your screenshot I am confused at how it looks at run time. Are all of those buttons shown at runtime

@dark crow

[dark crow]

Yeas, they are

[obtuse herald]

Just add a branch with a bool value, when the bool is true set it to false and then run the random tree generator

Make the bool value public and you got a refresh "button" in the editor ui

[dark crow]

In this case you have those right?

They're all individual buttons

[keen terrace]

yes

within their own BP

Then I have the large window in another BP

[dark crow]

You can create Event Dispatchers if you want to communicate like that iirc

You can delegate execution to the Main BP like that

I will brb 10m, will show what i mean if no one else does

[keen terrace]

@dark crow thank you, I will still be here 🙂

[golden junco]

@obtuse herald No good. Now it either generates the trees as before or keeps them totally vanilla 😦

[primal rock]

Hello guys, quick question:
Is there a messurable and noticeable performance decrease when promoting sth to a variable instead of using the ouput variables of a function/event etc.?
Especially when the code gets executed a lot?

[obtuse herald]

Use random streams. Create a random stream variable and use a 'Random Float in Range from Stream' node.

[golden junco]

Will give it a go, thanks 🙂

[obtuse herald]

Also, take a look on '(Hierarchical) Instanced Static Mesh' components, could be pretty helpful on what you're doing.

[dark crow]

@keen terrace

Made an entire Exampe for you

Inside Buttons WBP you have the buttons

What you need to do in there is call On Clicked

Create Dispatchers for Each Button

Then call them corresponding

In the Main BP i have both Buttons and Switcher BP

If i Click WBP_Buttons i can call the event in the Variables

At the bottom

Click the + on both of them

Now you can use the Switcher variable and tadaa

This the Switcher btw

[keen terrace]

@dark crow hero. I will study all of that and try again, thank you very much!!

[dark crow]

If you don't know about Event Dispatchers too much in your case the most generalized way i can put it is

I am not fit to handle this code, I'll let someone else handle it for me
In this case you're letting the Main WBP handle it all so it can communicate with the Switcher too

You notify a State Change and you can have logic somewhere else for it

So you Dispatch the Event

Event Dispatcher

[crude spruce]

how do i normalise distance between 2 vectors when i just want add the multiplier, not the difference ? like, i want knockback to be the same everytime, just use the vector diff for direction.

[obtuse herald]

what?

[crude spruce]

my knockbacks are impact point - position * force

impact point - position is different each time, i want that value to be normalized

[obtuse herald]

is the 'Normalize Vector' node what you are looking for?

[crude spruce]

i dont know, is it?

let me check

[dark crow]

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

[obtuse herald]

Yeah, probably

[crude spruce]

aah ok so where would it fit into my flow

normalise both before diff?

[obtuse herald]

after you subtract the two vectors

normalize and then multiply by force

[crude spruce]

ok thanks

will try

its barely moving my character even if i put a real high value on knockpower

from 25 to 2500 had the sameish effect

but thanks! atleast i can get reliable knockbacks

[gentle urchin]

Is there a easier way to handle data table row names than just manually typing, or using data table row handle?

i want a fixed variant, locked to a specific datatable, which lists all options just like the dt row handler does

[devout lodge]

how can I fix this weird error

[obtuse herald]

did you change the variable type?

[winged sentinel]

Hi everyone! I’m trying to make a rotational weapon sway where the arms and gun rotate instead of panning around https://youtu.be/X592aHd0M-w

[devout lodge]

no

[winged sentinel]

That video is more of an exaggeration example of what im looking for, but even though I’m adjusting rotators and such it just looks like it’s getting left behind

[devout lodge]

i just reloaded the blueprints

[obtuse herald]

try reconnecting them

[obtuse herald]

You can connect the 'Mesh2P' mesh to a spring arm.
This tutorial explains it pretty straight forward on how to set it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QykhX4gvUz8

[winged sentinel]

Thank you, I’ll try but for some reason spring arm wasn’t giving me the rotate effect and panning instead. I was kinda looking for the weapon to go ahead instead of lagging behind

Like that

[trim matrix]

i wonder if anyone can tell me how to fix my character... i have imported it and assigned the skeleton to the right one.

[golden junco]

@obtuse herald Worked like a charm, thanks man! I owe you a beer 🙂

[devout lodge]

how can i do this? do i restart the level?

[obtuse herald]

no no.. just reconnect the refrence nodes

[devout lodge]

how

you mean

this?

[obtuse herald]

yes

[devout lodge]

didnt work

theres something really strange happening

when i enter the blueprint from the content browser everything looks perfect

but when i play the level

WHAT

WTF

WTFFFF

there is only one instance

[devout lodge]

how is there 2 of them

screw this

[obtuse herald]

you have some weird things going on there

[devout lodge]

ok nvm

i restarted the whole project without saving

it turnes out it replaced the real bps with unexisted previous versions of them

and tried to access them

which resulted in this weird activity

[obtuse herald]

Ohhh

that makes sense

[devout lodge]

now everything is fine

oh

btw

i cant save the game instance

i mean

the position im in

not the level

it says failed to cast

[devout lodge]

this message is the second print string

now it shows the 1st print string

how can i fix it?

a

the character position

and the level where its in

i think i already did it

[obtuse herald]

Ok, i've worked something out.
Create a new SceneComponent inside the FirstPersonBP (We're taking that BP as an example now) and call it ArmSway. Then Attach the 'Mesh1P' component to it.

[obtuse herald]

After that, do this in the BP Graph

[winged sentinel]

Thank you, I’m going to try this right now

[zinc swift]

Hey guys I have the following problem in my Blueprint:

I get a value (float) from another blueprint (In this example float = 10 at the output of the get-node). (see picture 1)

But this value "10" does not arrive at the "SET Duration" node. (see picture 2)

What could be the reason for this? I am still relatively "inexperienced" with blueprints.

With another Blueprint I do exactly the same:

Get speed -> float to string -> print string (works).

Why does it not "forward" the float to the Duration node?

[obtuse herald]

Do you actually call the set node?

And check if your variable is set to read-only (click on the left-handed side on the variable and then you'll see the properties at the top right)

[winged sentinel]

Are those multiply rotator nodes?

[zinc swift]

I am calling the blueprint-class on the "event graph"

[obtuse herald]

It's called 'Scale Rotator'

[winged sentinel]

Ah yup thank you

[trim matrix]

Ehhhh can I set visibility hidden on widgets whilst also preventing them from taking up space?

[obtuse herald]

Yeah, it's called collapsed.

[obtuse herald]

i meant the duration variable

[trim matrix]

Ah ofc, thanks

[zinc swift]

there is no "read-only" option on this one

[plush garden]

Hey! I am fairly new to blueprinting and have a question. I'm not only trying to learn how to script behavior, but also do it in a proper way. Up until now, I feel I made some fairly "clean" blueprints. There's probably better ways to do what I did, but I was happy with the result. However, today I feel for the first time I kind of applied a bit of a hacky solution, and wanted to write here for feedback if there would have been a better/smarter way to achieve my result.

So, I started like this:

[winged sentinel]

@obtuse herald I’ve been searching for AGES for that thank you!

[obtuse herald]

Select the variable on the left-side on your original BP

[obtuse herald]

Glad i could help

[plush garden]

It's a simple blinking ability, which has a cooldown that resets charges. I wanted to display the duration of this cooldown to the hud of the player, and now ended up with this:

Sorry, it sent my other message the moment I added the screenshot, they are unfortunately apart now. My main question is, if there would have been a simpler way to get the "value" of the delay, so I could use it elsewhere. I briefly attempted to do it with "elapsed times" but got a bit confused there.

[obtuse herald]

That's probably a good moment to give Timers a look

[zinc swift]

yeah tried a few other things now, still not taking the float of the "SPEED MQTT" node 😦

[plush garden]

I'll have a try ToyB, thank you!

[zinc swift]

what does "variable is not in scope" mean? My guess here lies my problem

[obtuse herald]

There is a rare bug where blueprint debugging can't access some variables (variable is not in scope, watch variable not updating). But if you print out the value of the duration variable, you'll see that it got set (at least that's my assumption).

[light garnet]

Anyone know how to fix failed to create session

[obtuse herald]

Try to add this to your DefaultEngine.ini '[OnlineSubsystem] DefaultPlatformService=Null'

[turbid shard]

Hello, How can I get a blackboard key value on my current task if I have set that one into another blueprint task?

[zinc swift]

I just found out that for me the "SET Duration" node always takes the DEFAULT value from my SPEED node. But why?

[light garnet]

I don't understand. Will this work in android ?

[obtuse herald]

Hoenstly i don't know if it'll work with andorid but i mean you can try

[light garnet]

Btw yesterday I created server and join

But only host go in map and other player go back in main menu. So o removed open level and used excute Console commmand

After that I am I can't join session and now I can't create session

[light garnet]

Can you explain little what I have to do

[obtuse herald]

Go in your Projects Folder

Open Config/DefaultEngine.ini

[light garnet]

Then ?

[obtuse herald]

Add '[OnlineSubsystem] DefaultPlatformService=Null' at the end

save

restart project

[prisma stag]

The material will be some sort of stone texture but not to rough where is keeps the low poly look I want. Since the the pin on my conveyor are octagonal, it looks like I will have to make them cylindrical to the the animated uv working.

[light garnet]

Ok

[half sail]

I've made a save system in which when player touches checkpoint it generates screenshot to use it as load preview. the problem is that in the moment of screenshot the game hardly freezes. In editor and standalone also. does anyone know how to avoid this freeze?

[faint pasture]

The only difference between a cylinder and an octagon is the number of faces. You just lay out the UVs cylindrically and pan a texture

[prisma stag]

Right. But I feel that will make it look wired since you won't actually see the edges moving. I will make the mat later and apply it to the pins, if in okay with it, ill keep it, if not, I'll make em cylindrical. Unless there is a way to make it look like it's moving?

[light garnet]

Where I have to add in default engine

[faint pasture]

Nah in that case just use ISM and spin em.

If you need the geometry moving

[obtuse herald]

at the end of the file

[light garnet]

Ok

[prisma stag]

I've never worked with ISMs, do you know of a tutorial by any chance?

[faint pasture]

Just Google it. I haven't either, but I know that's what you want to use if you're going to have more than a couple dozen of these meshes

[prisma stag]

Ok thanks.

[winged sentinel]

@obtuse herald i turned that bp into a full movement addition with walking stuff, I actually moved the scene actor into the middle of the arms because I realized that you use that as a parent to adjust the pivot point, and it look spectacular

[fast stag]

If I wanted to make quest system (I have one now) but with quests that are object type that doesn't have to be an actor placed in the world in order to attach it to an NPC, what type is that? or hows that done? I see dialogue systems where you just pick it from the folder that you make the dialogue objects in, but if I make an Actor type I have to place it in the world to add it to an NPC

right now I parent them under the NPC and get children or get attached

[obtuse herald]

Change it to an Soft-Reference

[fast stag]

but wouldn't it be more logical to have it as a type that can just be assigned?

[obtuse herald]

Oh wait, i missunderstand your question

you're asking how to create an object, which does not need to be placed in the world, right?

[fast stag]

yes

so its set as an exposed varriable of its type but not placed in world

this is the "dialogue" type from the dialogue plugin

[obtuse herald]

You could do this in 2 different ways:
Way 1:
-Create a new struct with data templates for your quests
-Create a new DataTable based on said struct and go create some quests
Pro: Easy to manage a lot of quests
Contra: Can't really make use of macros/functions etc.

Way 2:
-Create a new UObject (Create new BP-Class -> All Classes - > Object) with data templates for your quests
-Create a new child object based of said UObject and go create some quests
Pro: You can individually add/overwrite functions etc.
Contra: Every quest needs to be constructed somewhere in runtime to function.

[fast stag]

hmm, yeah I considered Way 1 and I think that will probably be it.

then its all in a data table... which isn't the waaarst

might even be better.

thanks for the reply. I'll think about it some more. Its not a simple task I fear

[dawn gazelle]

It looks ok, but you're not showing how you're using the Create/Save/Load nodes which is where I'd guess the issue is, as again, your code looks sensible.

Correction - I see the save above.

Shouldn't really. You're getting them, so they exist and you're getting their transforms so you should be able to recreate them no prob.

Are you creating a save game object before saving?

[astral estuary]

This is why I have trust issues

[dawn gazelle]

lol

[obtuse herald]

https://tenor.com/view/understandable-have-nice-day-have-a-great-day-have-a-good-day-nice-gif-20850110

[astral estuary]

OHHHHHHH, now it makes sense!
one is directly a controller function and the other is a gamemode function

[zinc swift]

Is it possible that my "Duration" node is not retrieving and using the current value? It seems to me that this "Duration" node is static. So that it only takes its default value once after starting and cannot change variable. How can I change this so that it always takes the updated value?

[obtuse herald]

It should work, i don't know whats going wrong there, otherwise i would tell you 😅

[zinc swift]

maybe i need to create all this in the event graph and not in Construction Script? (as i said i am a newbie with the blueprint system)

[obtuse herald]

hmm, show me your construction script

[zinc swift]

i gonna prepare the screenshot in photoshop for you (to understand it better)

[zinc swift]

at the output it gets the changing float, but the duration node variable just doesn't use it. super strange

[obtuse herald]

The construction script only gets run when you actively change something on this actor (i.e. changing position, actively changing a variable).

It does not run on every tick

and that's probably why your value is not updating correctly

[zinc swift]

Aha, I already thought something like that. Since I had tried to print my speed value and it only printed after I had moved my cube

so should i move the script over to the "event graph"?

[obtuse herald]

If you only use it in runtime, yes

[languid lion]

Would anyone know what a good method would be to create events for a first person game

where the camera is made to focus on a particular object/enemy

[obtuse herald]

Do you mean some kind of cinematic scene?

Because i'm pretty sure it would be disorientating if you force focus the camera at the enemy in FP the whole fight

[languid lion]

No, it's just a cinematic segment

like when you hold a key to focus on a point of interest

give the player a prompt, zoom the camera in a bit

when they focus on it

but you're not locked out of controlling the character entirely like in a normal cutscene

[obtuse herald]

You can use an 'Find Look at Rotation' node and zoom the FOV a bit. Use an 'FInterp To' node to smooth the transition.

There is an actual cutscene system for.. cutscenes tho.

[languid lion]

Yeah, the sequencer

[obtuse herald]

Correct, but i don't think the sequencer will be helpful in your situation

[languid lion]

The find look at is what I was thinking too, seems like the most logical thing

The idea here is to set up something reusable by the level designers

[obtuse herald]

when do you want to focus on what?

[languid lion]

need to make something for scripted events that can handle multiple use cases with the LD just toggling or tweaking some variables. I can give a few examples

[tired latch]

Hey all, how does one ignore LineTrace-hits from Actor(Self)'s HISM-instances? I still need to catch the traces to another component in the same actor so bIgnoreSelf=False doesn't work here.

[zinc swift]

when i just copy paste my script over to the event graph and plug it into "event tick" or event "BeginPlay" after I press play the actor (my cube) disappears

[obtuse herald]

You can use 'Multi Line Trace by Whatever' instead

[oak gorge]

Hello I need some help did any one know a way to make a real time capture of almost anything rendered in a 3d map, I know is maybe something with a scenecapturecomponant

[tired latch]

Cheers I'll check that out.

[obtuse herald]

Maybe there is something wrong with some other stuff which depends on the Duration variable?

[zinc swift]

even when i just put in the speed manually, it despawns on play

[agile hinge]

Could someone help me with creating a child of a bp?

first, I create this from the bp I want.
but it doesn't copy the code from it
ex:

https://i.gyazo.com/eb712873e334fd87e0749908ea07c3a2.png

https://i.gyazo.com/c6a4089d10f7e74e53843104c113db1e.png

[obtuse herald]

that thing is basically the copy of your code

you can overwrite it

[agile hinge]

oh, the tutorial im using actually is telling me to just duplicate with copy paste

not child

[dawn gazelle]

😫

[agile hinge]

[shrewd summit]

an addition to what I said yesterday, I found out my selector has a block on it, does anybody know why it could have? Observer aborts are "both" on both

[tired latch]

@obtuse herald I was actually able to do the check via GetClass->EqualClass(HISM).

Didn't need to change Linetrace-method at all.

[plush garden]

I have a bit of a question that came to mind whilst working with blueprints now. A topic I often encounter is needing to get a reference to something. I've mostly done it by creating a variable, then setting this variable to public, then selecting/dragging an object in this public field. From here I would use a cast to.

Just now I ran into a situation where I couldn't do this, since I needed the reference to an object, from within a UI widget. So my previous method did not work. I ended up using "Get All Actors Of Class".

My question is, what are best practices when it comes to using one over the other?

[obtuse herald]

Found out that my explanation did not work exactly, so here is an example:

You of course need a system to select which actor to follow, and disable mouse input while in follow mode

[shrewd wigeon]

Newb question but.... Why won't this work correctly even with layered bone upper body slot? It will play the anim notify, just not the montage. They all use the same skeleton. I can use the State Machine to achieve the same but I really don't want to have to for every single animated thing I make...

[obtuse herald]

I use a variable for specific things, like the Players widget, or a grabbed object etc.
I try to avoid 'Get All Actors Of Class' most times, except when i need to find a reference to something less specific, when merging two different kinds of systems, or when i actually need every actor of that class for something.

Also, Custom Events/Event Dispatchers are great ways to transfer refrences without needing variables

[plush garden]

Going to look into those!

[obtuse herald]

And you can actually bind values in UMG to other values in-game, which is pretty useful

[plush garden]

Lots of terms for me to google, hehe, but appreciate the reply a lot

[trim matrix]

Can anyone help me with my project please?

[livid fox]

Does anyone here know how to get an asset from a file path in blueprints?

[obtuse herald]

never used it, but maybe this will help you: https://isaratech.com/ue4-get-assets-by-path-in-blueprints-with-the-assetregistry/

[languid lion]

Thanks! I'll give it a try

[obtuse herald]

There is actually an 'RInterp To' node which does exactly the same as my custom function, but better. Just use 'RInterp To'.

[obtuse herald]

put some more work into in

[light garnet]

I found that there is version bug Because of that you can't join session in android. Is it true and which version I should use ? I am using 4.26

[sturdy herald]

Hello!
Is there a way to order the blueprint's component by type and/or name?

[narrow kelp]

AFAIK you gotta do it by hand by parenting and unparenting

[sturdy herald]

eeeeh, shit.
Thanks for answer.

[narrow kelp]

np

[sturdy herald]

There are 2 letters from hungarian letter (ő,ű) which cant be written by the Text Renderer, but the widget can. Is it possible to solve this problem without importing new font?
The image show how is it written by text render.

[spark steppe]

is there some way to copy data from ObjectA to ObjectB if ObjectB inherits from ObjectA?

[maiden wadi]

@spark steppe Copy data in what manner? Like from an Instance of ObjectA to an instance of ObjectB?

[spark steppe]

yea, or alternatively "upgrading" objectA from classA to classB

[maiden wadi]

Well, copying from one instance to another should be easy since ClassB already has ClassAs properties. Simple function in ClassA that passes in properties, or a pointer to a ClassA, that can get the properties, then overwrite them in the ClassB instance. As for converting classes, that you cannot do. You would need to spawn a new object of type ClassB, and then copy over the properties as previously mentioned.

[spark steppe]

thanks, i was hoping for a more general approach where i dont have to do it for each property

[dawn gazelle]

Maybe easiest way would be to have a structure with the necessary variables? Then you can just pass the structure from the original to the second? Trouble is then you're always working with the structure for the values.

[maiden wadi]

Structs would likely be the better way to handle that, yeah. But in short it's just the way that C++ handles objects. Each property needs to be copied over. And you can't morph one object into another type.

[spark steppe]

thanks, but it's kinda sad 😄

[elfin hazel]

Where does "write string to file" create the file at?

[livid fox]

@obtuse herald that helped, thanks!

[dense badger]

Heya all, is there a way to spin up an array of timers? IE: I want to start up multiple timers that all call the same event at different times. It seems like I need one event per timer, but I need N timers with one event.

[narrow kelp]

@dense badger you can reuse an event with many timers

[dense badger]

It says it resets the existing timer if you call it again on the node?

[narrow kelp]

you don't have to use the same timer handle

[narrow kelp]

that event can be called by any number of timers you want to create

[dense badger]

What does it mean when it says "setting an existing timer will reset that timer"? I don't understand how BP differentiates those usages

[dawn gazelle]

The return value from the timer is the handle for the timer.

[narrow kelp]

I'm not sure what that tool tip is indicating, but what the function does is create a timer bound to the event

yeah

[dawn gazelle]

So if you overwrite the handle, then the previous timer would stop existing.

[dense badger]

What's the behavior if I don't store the handle?

[dawn gazelle]

I believe it restarts it as well.

[narrow kelp]

you dont need to store it

but it can be useful sometimes

[dense badger]

Ah ok that's what I was missing... kind of abstract that storing the handle is what manages the new instance but I guess that follows.

@narrow kelp It seems like in the case of needing multiple timers you MUST store it otherwise it will get reset each time you call it?

[narrow kelp]

no I dont think thats true

[twilit scarab]

Can anyone tell how I setup a boolean array in game instance and thenactivate it when specific ai is dead? please help i have been at this for 5 hours 5 hours!!! =/
I have created a boolean array in game instance with only one index at 0. How do I call it and check it to c if the ai is dead? thx
and when ai is dead to trigger my notification system?
PLEASE help me I'm shite at this
I am trying to make a kill mission and when u kill specific ai it triggers a mission complete message on screen
What's the best way to go about this please. Please have mercy on me someone because after 5 hours of torment I think I might just quit ue4. It constantly giving me problems

[dense badger]

I guess I will test it, but that's what the tooltip seems to imply

Otherwise how would you manage the difference between those cases?

[twilit scarab]

Basically I have a kill mission setup in the level blueprint to kill a specific ai after it's spawned in. And since you can't cast to the level BP I don't know how I get the mission to update after killing said ai to display mission complete on screen via pro horror hud

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah it overwrites it (just tested) storing the handle is what stops it from being overwritten. I'm guessing it's to make sure that you don't have a ton of timers being created without handles to properly shut them down.

[twilit scarab]

What's the best way of triggering a mission complete notification after Ai is dead bearing in mind this ai has been spawned in./ THX

Can anyone help as I am at breaking point after 5 hours of nothing

[narrow kelp]

well i stand corrected then

thats pretty interesting

[twilit scarab]

Please help me

I know it's a basic question but I'm stuck

How do I call a boolen array after it's been set?

[silent vortex]

ok I did some work on getting my enemy to move, and so far he moves! only problem is that he ignores wall collisions and he only moves in one direction.....what do I do?

this is what I got. Basically I check the direction of the arrow and move in that direction..infinitely lol

[dawn gazelle]

?

Then you change the index number depending on which index of the array you want to access. Typically loops are used with arrays as well:

[twilit scarab]

@dawn gazelle I have added the boolean array to the end od the code when the enemy ai is dead. Where abouts do I get boolean too. What BP?

[dawn gazelle]

Sorry I don't understand the questions "Where abouts do I get boolean too? What BP?"

[twilit scarab]

I don't know where or which BP i put the add array and where I use get array. I am trying to get so when a specific ai is killed the mission will update with a completion notice on screen

The enemy ai is spawned in BTW

@dawn gazelle Basically I have a kill mission setup in the level blueprint but I don't know how to finish the code to get it to complete when ai is dead

[dense badger]

@dawn gazelle I'm having a strange issue where my timers I keep adding never fire? Am I missing something?

[tired cypress]

@dense badger Timers trigger from an Event or a Function. It's likely that your trigger isn't going off.

[dense badger]

@tired cypress

Does this look right?

I never hit my breakpoint

[astral estuary]

How can I ask a vector with 3d widgets to pretty please stay in global coordinates instead of shifting arround?

[tired cypress]

I would put a Print String or something right after NewShotTimer. See if that Custom Event is ever firing

[dense badger]

Yeah it is, that first print is firing

[tired cypress]

You've got a branch in there too, might be evaluating to False

[dense badger]

I'm never hitting the breakpoint before that branch

[tired cypress]

Well you have Time linked into the Timer. Remove that, put 1 second, just to test

[dawn gazelle]

I imagine you'd want to set that the AI is dead wherever you are keeping track of the mission status. You mentioned before that you created the boolean array in the game instance, so then you'd want to set the value in game instance and probably check there if the boolean is set in order to send the message that the mission is complete.

[quiet abyss]

This is probably going to be a stupid question but It's not something I've had to do before. Both my vertical and horizontal input events both have to call the same specific function, but I don't want more than one instance of this function to run at the same time, is there anything I can do? The issue is the function runs AddActorWorldRotation and when both my horizontal and vertical input axises aren't equal to zero, the actor will rotate twice as fast and I don't want this

[dense badger]

@tired cypress Hey wow that fixed it, is it because my first value for Time = 0? It's strange that none of the non 0 values ever fire

[tired cypress]

It's because your Time is less than 1

So it ends up clearing the timer instead of firing it

[dense badger]

Yeah it's only firing once even though am calling the set timer 5 times

[dawn gazelle]

Yeah I'm getting the same behavior on my end right now too....

[dense badger]

Ah ok I see what's happening

If the time is ever 0 it clears and invalidates

[tired cypress]

@quiet abyss What I do is capture both input changes and then use something like a MakeRotator so that both horizontal and vertical changes are in a single variable. Then you can pass that to your AddActorWorldRotation

@dense badger Yep exactly

[dense badger]

So my use case was immediately destroying the timer lol

[silent vortex]

ok I fixed the movement a bit, but they still goes through the walls

I'm trying to figure this out, but I'm stuck

just a random clip of the enemies waltzing into narnia...

[quiet abyss]

Ah! Alright, thanks

[keen terrace]

Is there a way to clear only certain widgets? My current issue is when I press a button on my widget it is stacking with previously pressed widgets

[dense badger]

@tired cypress Ok still only ever getting a single timer to fire. Confirmed that the only call I get is the last one.

[tired cypress]

Yeah Timers will clear each other if called again using the same trigger

If you want something to keep happening, you'll want to check the Loop box in the Timer

[dense badger]

Heh we are all the way back to my original question. Can I create an array of N timers without a unique custom event for each one?

That all call the same function

I assume I can't use timers in this way based on the way they are structured.

[tired cypress]

Yeah I'm thinking no. You would need a different event for each to prevent them from clearing each other

[dense badger]

It's too bad you can't spin up timers on the fly in BP like that. Will end up having to check against a shot manifest on tick. I suppose this can bubble up to C++ at some point if it's slow.

[mental sail]

I continue to have problems with variables not being properly updated in blueprints. smh.

Is there some "cache" or "rebuilt" button or I dunno, should I just file a bug report I guess?

[mental sail]

It doesn't matter, you can see the values of the variable and the XXX is missing during runtime, it shows a value with a missing key name, the variable type is [name, linear color]

I switched from using names to using [integer, linear color] , so integer for key and it's seems to work better, or at least it's not broken yet.

So I wonder if there's an issue with using name type for map indexes?

Except that now indead of having nice names, i have to access the value using integers, which is ugly, but works

For clarification

Ideally I can probably just delete the variable, and re create it using names, until miraculously it decides to remember the proper key/values because I don't think I can handle this disparity between using names on the particle property setter and using integers on my variable... I just wonder if this is just me, or if anybody else has seen similar issues, or what's happening?

So I did just that, recreated a variable using name for key and it doesn't work, it thinks it's completely devoid of values, I duplicated the integer key variable and changed the key to use name type.

The saga continues:

After deleting the values from the var and re-adding them, I found that if the editor asks for a recompile and I recompile it will remember the value added, however it does not always ask for a recompile of the blueprint after additional values are added to the variable map, and in that case it will NOT remember any newly added values. I have to figure out a way to make the blueprint "dirty" and get it to ask me to recompile for the proper var values to show up at runtime. (the most confusing part is when the editor shows that the var has values, but at runtime the blueprint state is "outdated" and does not contain the proper var values.)

[twilit scarab]

is it possible to reference the level blueprint? and if so, how?

[steady orbit]

Can somebody help me out with something referring to delta time.

@twilit scarab https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/214248/how-do-i-get-a-reference-to-the-level-blueprint.html

[twilit scarab]

thx

[steady orbit]

Np

[twilit scarab]

how do u target a child actor pawn instead of it's parent?

[unique harness]

can you try to explain a little more in depth what you're trying to do

[outer fossil]

Can anyone explain why the ball is blurry?\

[weary prism]

anyone know why this is happening im running this on a dedicated server and this is what it tells me even though i have resized my inventory array to the correct index

[unique harness]

I would set a breakpoint inside that function when the index is -1

[weary prism]

@unique harness it only gives me this error when the client and server is built

in editor it works fine

[unique harness]

is this code on server or client?

[weary prism]

it runs on both server and client

[unique harness]

Does a certain action reproduce it or does it seem to be random?

[weary prism]

when interacting with a item it will try and add to inventory and it will say that on the server @unique harness

[unique harness]

with all items or just certain?

[weary prism]

all items

im resizing my array on begin play on the component so i dont know where i went wrong

[unique harness]

can you show that code?

[weary prism]

so itll run on both client and server

[unique harness]

where do you call Set on that array?

[weary prism]

@unique harness i basically find a null slot and set the array element there

[unique harness]

find will return -1 if the item is not found

that's the issue

[weary prism]

ok how can i find a empty index then?

cause thats basically what that was supposed to do

[unique harness]

what happens if you plug nothing into the bottom pin on the find node?

[weary prism]

it will basically give me the same error

[unique harness]

hmm ok let me think

easiest would be to keep track in a separate array

array of bools

or, you could wrap your structs in a uobject

and check for null

[weary prism]

ok ill try that

[unique harness]

or if your inventory is always "sorted" you could keep track of the next empty index with an integer

[weary prism]

gotcha

[last coral]

Setting my default pawn class to "character"- and I can't look around, move or anything when i start the game up. what am i missing?

[unique harness]

player controller class in gamemode

[last coral]

yep

set to playercontroller

do i need to extend that and make my own?

[unique harness]

yes

[last coral]

ah

Now, what am I doing there? just taking clientside input and replicating it to the server?

I was under the assumption Character's movement and replication was already all handled

[unique harness]

it is

[last coral]

So what's necessary in that custom controller class?

[unique harness]

handling mouse and keyboard input to tell the character what to do

ie move forward, move right, look up, look right

[last coral]

ah see thats what i thought was handled by default by the character class already

[heady rain]

Hello guys, i have a auto landscape material. it looks like this

i want the foliage generation to avoid sand and snow...

i tried doing some "subtraction" right before the grass node but i couldn't figure it out

i would really appreciate some help

that subtract node i have next to foliage is not doing anything i think.. although it seems to attenuate the grass amount at the snow a bit

the thing is that i'm not using layers, and whole thing is just one auto material

so i don't know how i can make grass only spawn on grass texture

since i cant "sample layer"

i have to somehow exclude high slopes, snow AND sand

so it only has grass left to spawn onto

okay i just accidentally made it work

😂

picture of happiness

[twilit scarab]

does anyone know what could be stoping the ai working properly after spawning in the ai. I am using third person shooter kit! /-

[astral estuary]

use the apostrophe key during gameplay to open the AI debugger

' that is the apostrophe, next to the enter key

@twilit scarab

[wicked magnet]

I was wondering if using Blueprints, there was a way where I could create a simple blueprint that I could drop on to actors to change their behavior? Like in Unity I would create a simple script that would disable physics on any object I dropped the script on to, and I'm looking for a similarly simple way to change the behavior of an actor using a blueprint.

I know I can cast between blueprints to change each other's behavior, but I just don't know how to easily drop a script onto an actor so it automatically changes its properties depending on what the script does.

[tight schooner]

@wicked magnet https://youtu.be/qr4ZjieAQKY

[lavish mortar]

Hello everyone! I have an issue with replication that I am hoping is a simple fix on some basic setting I am unaware of. All relevant logic is in my player controller.

Execute on Server Event: Pulls data and sets a replicated Array Variable then calls an Execute on owning client event.

Execute on Owning Client: Does something with Array.

The issue is that the Execute on Owning Client Begins before the Set replicated variable executes on the client.

Current Fix: After setting variable generate a new array for input on the Execute on Owning client event. While this works, it eliminates the whole point of a replicated variable. I know the variable is replicated because if i run the event again i get the expected output from the first attempt on the second.

Questions:
When does a variable update get sent to clients and how can I guarantee an event fires AFTER an update?
If a variable set to replicate can't be guaranteed to produce the same output on the client as the server doesn't that defeat the whole point?

[chrome dust]

Does anybody know why I cannot find the "Enable Environmental Query system" in the editor preferences in 4.26?

[barren flower]

Has anyone played with OSC? I installed the official plugin, and im not getting messages at all

[dapper kiln]

I'm working on melee and combos but I don't know a good way to set my "isSwingingSword" boolean variable back to false. My problem is I can spam the button and play the animation. I tried anim Notifies but they can get interrupted and then I can't melee at all. Ideas? YouTube says use a delay but I'm using one long montage separated into sections for each combo so waiting the montage length takes forever. 😦

[obtuse herald]

can't you just delay for the length of the section?
otherwise you could use anim notifies and set 'isSwingingSword' to false if it gets interrupted

[dapper kiln]

I can't find a way to get the length of the section. 😦 I'll see if I can use the "play montage" instead of the "play anim montage" node since it does have "on interrupted" as a pin. 🙂

[weary prism]

Anyone know how to properly debug FPS spikes in a level

basically i look at one specific location in my map and my fps drops to like 40 or 50

id like to debug it but i dont know how

[dapper kiln]

F5 when testing in game can show you some performance stuff

🤷‍♂️

[weary prism]

ok will try that

aint working

[dapper kiln]

It doesn't show you the shader screen? Make sure you are the "server" player or host

[weary prism]

oh shit im client

hold on

[obtuse herald]

First, you need to find out on what you are bottelnecking (CPU or GPU). Press Shift+L in editor viewport and that should show up:

[dapper kiln]

@obtuse herald I still get locked out of being able to attack 😦 Even with notifies and the onInterrupted. If I spam the attack button It derps out eventually and doesn't set "isSwingingSword" back to false

[dapper kiln]

Use "STAT UNIT"

[weary prism]

ok

[dapper kiln]

and STAT FPS

[obtuse herald]

activate these

[weary prism]

so im getting my normal 120 FPS here

when i look here it goes down by alot

gpu goes from 8 to 24

ms

[obtuse herald]

Looks like you are GPU bound (high ms for GPU and Draw).
First thing to check is your Shader complexity. (Press F5 in-game to activate the view)

[weary prism]

ok why is my water "bad"

[obtuse herald]

i honestly don't know that much about anim montages.
maybe the docs have something that will help you tho: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimMontage/index.html

[weary prism]

its something about the middle though since its fine everywhere else

[obtuse herald]

Yeah, some Materials in the background are pretty complex, especially for being in the background.
Maybe add some Low-LOD Materials for these. Also translucency can really slow things down.

[weary prism]

bruh 40 FPS cause of complex dirt cant be

[dapper kiln]

@obtuse herald Thanks I think It's just the way I'm using my boolean. I'll figure it out tomorrow. I'm heading to bed. Thanks for the help. I hope you figure out your problem @weary prism I've seen people have issues like that with background models and landscape materials.

[weary prism]

unless its the fire on the tourches

[obtuse herald]

Yeah, its definently not only because of that.
Do you use moveable lights?
Do you use LOD's?

[dapper kiln]

@weary prism You can always add a new level and not have it loaded in game, then you can move things to that level and test to see if it fixes it. You can narrow it down. It's easy to move things between levels, that way you wont' screw up your level or have to delete anything

[weary prism]

im using particles that essiently react to the beat of audio but that would not be it cause looking at them makes my FPS go up 120

unless FPS behaves the opposite

[dapper kiln]

Go to the levels window and click create new, then just click something suspicious in your level and right click the new level and move selected actors to level

[weary prism]

i have a theory of why it might be doing this

ok so now its 90 FPS so those particles did have something to do with it

[obtuse herald]

you can use the GPU Profiler to exactly find out what takes how much time

[weary prism]

@obtuse herald how do you get to GPU profiler

[obtuse herald]

Start the game, open the console and start profiling with 'stat startfile'. You can stop profiling with 'stat stopfile'

the profiler will then record and save the stats to a .ue4stats file

the file will be saved in'Saved/Profiling/UnrealStats/'

[weary prism]

ok how would i use it

or view it in this case

[obtuse herald]

now, open the session frontend window

[weary prism]

done

[obtuse herald]

select the profiler, click on load and select your file

[weary prism]

ok

[obtuse herald]

huh, now you know my name btw

[weary prism]

da hell is CPU stall Sleep

it takes up 14 MS

[obtuse herald]

meaning your cpu is waiting for you gpu

so your gpu is bottelnecking

[weary prism]

ok

[obtuse herald]

in the graph view, select a position where the ms is high

[weary prism]

right here it spikes

bruh

alot of it is CPU stalls im just curious where the GPU stuff is

[obtuse herald]

Open GPU and GPU-particles on the left side

[weary prism]

yep

[obtuse herald]

every category will show you how much it spent in this frame

further on the right-side you have this window

find the render thread

[weary prism]

looks like the lights category seemed to effect it big time

lights is the yellow line

[obtuse herald]

Do you use static lightning?

[weary prism]

yes

nothing is dynamic

all preset

Finally Fixed the Fire Particle On the Tourches Were Using a Light

[obtuse herald]

Ok, thats good

anyways, if you got any more performance problems, you can use the Profiler to track it down to every single light component/Material etc.

[weary prism]

ok this is very useful thank you so much @obtuse herald

[obtuse herald]

glad i could help

[silk igloo]

can I have a little help with the "Get distance to" node

basically I want UE4 to detect 3 different distance amounts

I tried for hours but no luck

[obtuse herald]

what do you mean by that?

[silk igloo]

so basically I have a contagion distance mechanic, I want the distance below 300 to do something, the distance between 300-500 to do something and then 500-1000 do something. so just in those brackets but I cant do it

I can screenshare if needed

[obtuse herald]

you mean that?

[silk igloo]

wait lemme try that

yes that works, but im unsure how to get the audio through it, can I screen share in general to you?

[obtuse herald]

sure

[silk igloo]

@obtuse herald Thank you very much, very wise guy with ue4

[obtuse herald]

Glad I could help you 😄

[bitter iron]

whats the difference between opacity and opacity mask

its doing the same thing for me

[obtuse herald]

you mean in the material editor?

[bitter iron]

ye

[obtuse herald]

Opacity mask takes a binary value (0 or 1) for the opacity (Blend mode needs to be masked)
And opacity takes a 0-1 float value for opacity (Blend mode needs to be trancelucent)

Opacity is way more heavy in performace then opcaity mask

you can use this node for opacity mask to get a sort-of trancelucenty effect without huge performance loss

[bitter iron]

ahh

thats prob why it was behaving the same

thanks 😄

[carmine sluice]

Hi there everyone! just got a quick question about cameras. I've created a sit spot for my character to sit on chairs etc, but when in first person view (I have 3rd and 1st set up) I'd like to camera to change rotation so that its facing the same way as the body does. what would be the blueprint for this? thanks!

[obtuse herald]

Get Player controller -> Set control rotation

[carmine sluice]

Wow that easy! thanks so much! was bugging me for ages!

[undone parcel]

Hi, does anyone know how to change a characters sprite using widgets? I want to use it for a Character selection screen 🙂

[crimson saffron]

How do I properly load a level?
Every tutorial uses the load level thing but textures and shaders pop up after a while

[obtuse herald]

You can create a new Empty Level, Add a 'Name' variable in your GameInstance called 'NextMap' and create a function in your GameInstance called 'OpenCustomLevel' with 'MapName' as 'Name' Input. In that function you set 'NextMap' to 'MapName' and use a 'OpenLevel' node to open your empty level.

In the Empty Level, open the level BP. Create the begin play event and connect it to a 'Load Stram Level' node. The 'Level Name' input is your 'NextMap' variable in your game instance. Also gives your the oppertunity to add a loadingscreen widget later

[hollow meteor]

Heya! I've recently made some changes to C++ enums (renamed some, removed some, added some), and ever since that my Widget BP keeps messing up. Every time I start the editor I get these messages;

Invalid pin connection from  Array Element  and  Menu Item : Only exactly matching structures are considered compatible. (You may have changed the type after the connections were made)

I've already replaced the blocks with new ones but that doesn't seem to help.

The weird thing is - every time when I rightclick -> refresh the nodes, they are OK and the BP compiles. Then after restarting my editor, it explodes in errors again:

I feel like there's some cache somewhere, but I have no idea how to clear it :/

[obtuse herald]

Right-click the BP asset on content browser Asset Actions -> Reload.

[hollow meteor]

Eyy after reloading the message is gone 🙂 lemme check on a restart

Ah, nope 😦 I restart the editor and the message's back 😦

[earnest tangle]

You may have to just completely redo the affected nodes

[hollow meteor]

Yeah I did that 🤔

I'll go 1 level deeper (redoing the variable definitions in the assets - one of them is an enum that I changed)

[earnest tangle]

yeah the problem could also be in the widget you're spawning since the pins connect to values in it

[hollow meteor]

or well, I added a new enum, then changed the BP, then removed the old enum

[earnest tangle]

might need to check that one too

[hollow meteor]

yeah indeed, thanks 🙂 gonna try

[crimson saffron]

Its a little hard to follow on text ^^"

[hollow meteor]

@earnest tangle I've added a new (same enum type) variable to my structure, then removed the old one, then renamed the new one back to the old name, and some "missing pin" errors came up here and there - fixed those and it seems to work again now 😎 ty 🙂

[earnest tangle]

yeah it can be a bit messy when changing C++ things like that :D but good you got it working

[obtuse herald]

i'll send some pictures, do you know what a game instance is?

[crimson saffron]

I don't

[obtuse herald]

Ok, create a gameinstance with this guide while i prepare some pictures:
https://couchlearn.com/how-to-use-the-game-instance-in-unreal-engine-4/

[crimson saffron]

Done!

[obtuse herald]

Perfect, create a new Empty Level and name it Level_LoadingLevel

In your gameinstance, create a new variable with these propetries

[crimson saffron]

while you were away, I tried using load level stream but it didnt work

[obtuse herald]

Load level stream loads a new level inside your current level

anyways, create a new function in your gameinstance as well, set it up like this:

[crimson saffron]

it is inside my levels

[obtuse herald]

You want to load a new level, without your current level right?

[crimson saffron]

yes

[obtuse herald]

Ok

so it's bad when it adds a new level to your current level

[crimson saffron]

how do I fix it?

[obtuse herald]

Open the 'Level_LoadingLevel' Level, open the Level BP (In the top Ribbon under Blueprints) and set it up like this:

[obtuse herald]

If you've add it in runtime just remove the node

[crimson saffron]

oh not in runtime

[obtuse herald]

rightclick it -> remove selected

[crimson saffron]

ok done

[obtuse herald]

When you've done all that, open your level with this function now

tell me if i lost you somewhere

[crimson saffron]

sec

[obtuse herald]

(BP_MyGameInstance needs to be your created Gameinstance instead)
(You can right click on cast nodes -> 'Convert to pure cast' to remove execution pins)

[obtuse herald]

No, 'open level by name' needs to open the empty level we've created earlier

[crimson saffron]

ok

what now :o

[obtuse herald]

^

[crimson saffron]

level doesnt load

I'm stuck waiting

[obtuse herald]

did it print the string "Loading level [...]" ?

[crimson saffron]

I didnt add it since its not necessary for the script to work

[obtuse herald]

did you open the new level in your other level with this function?

or did you just pressed play in the empty level?

[crimson saffron]

ok changed it to this now

[frigid ether]

Are there any known bugs right now regarding interface calls and when they are executed too quickly? I'm doing some procedural generation and need to communicate to the generated objects, but the interface often isn't getting triggered at all

[obtuse herald]

Sorry, i used the wrong node

[crimson saffron]

ah no worries

[obtuse herald]

it needs to look like this

[crimson saffron]

it loads the level but textures still pop